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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Hart of London and Julie Murray Film In Charlotte, Nc [April 21, Charlotte, NC]
* For You, Peter Todd Film Works 1990-2005. [April 21, London, England]
* Jean Genet In Chicago + Space Race Myths + [April 21, San Francisco, California]
* For You, Peter Todd Film Works 1990-2005. [April 22, London, England]
* Agnostic Ceiling [April 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimex: Contemporary Experimental Film From Mexico [April 22, San Francisco, California]
* The Intimate Distance: A Tribute To Mark Lapore Guest Curator: Mark
Mcelhatten [April 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Frame By Frame: Avant-Garde Film Preservation [April 24, Berkeley, California]
* Optic Nerve / Ernie Gehr [April 24, Columbus, Ohio]
* Newfilmmakers Premieres Beef Docs, Mocks & More [April 25, New York, New York]
* Short Film Program [April 25, New York, New York]
* The Images Festival (Toronto) and Anthology Film Archives Present: Six of
One, Half-Dozen of the Other: Images From Canadaprogram 4ocellus,
Ornamentation and Display [April 25, New York, New York]
* Retinal Reverb [April 25, Portland, Oregon]
* Recent Works By John Price At Cinematheque Ontario [April 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Pistolary! Films and videos By Peggy Ahwesh [April 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Images Festival (Toronto) and Anthology Film Archives Present:Six of
One, Half-Dozen of the Other: Images From Canada [April 26, New York, New York]
* Electromediascope [April 27, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Avant-Garde Features [April 27, New York, New York]
* The Phantom Carriage With Jonathan Richman [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Visual Music Marathon [April 28, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Peterson/Nelson [April 28, New York, New York]
* Invitationals [April 28, Portland, Oregon]
* Tv Sheriff Dvd Launch + Lambert + Plu + [April 28, San Francisco, California]
* A Evening With Larry Gottheim [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Oppositional and Stigmatized Program Four: Blasphemy [April 29, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2007
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4/21
Charlotte, NC: Hopscotch Cinema
8 PM, 3103 CULLMAN AVENUE
HART OF LONDON AND JULIE MURRAY FILM IN CHARLOTTE, NC
Jack Chamber's Hart of London and Julie Murray's NY by Night at the NODA
MICROCINEMA (3103 CULLMAN AVENUE) in Charlotte, NC on Saturday April
21st at 8PM. All 16mm! FREE! (but donations to the microcinema are
encouraged) http://www.nodamicrocinema.blogspot.com/
4/21
London, England: Greenwich Picturehouse
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk
2.00pm, 180 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN
FOR YOU, PETER TODD FILM WORKS 1990-2005.
Peter Todd introduces a screening of 16mm films in conjunction with his
show Outside Inside Inside Outside at The Surgery, London. 'They stay
long enough to reveal what you'd miss in passing, intimate enough to
make you linger, thoughtful enough to make you, in turn, think." Alan
Alderson-Smith – Phoenix Arts. "crafter of poetic ruminations about
ordinary life...No special effects: just a camera trained on nondescript
surroundings, made poignant by the soundtrack's medley of voices and
director's sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most
ordinary of lives." Geoff Brown - The Times. "One's own mundane circuit
is often so internalised, that it takes the visualisation of another's …
to let us see our own afresh. To be benignly jolted, calmly encouraged
to reconsider the possible immanence of awe, is one of the recurrent
effects of Todd's work in this vein." Gareth Evans - Vertigo. Programme
includes; Out, 1990. To Red, 1995. Diary, 1998. Day Out or 100' Of Film,
1998. For You, 2000. An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home,
2003. Where You Had Been, 2005. The programme concludes with works by
two film makers who Peter Todd has included in particular in curated
programmes, Aerial, Margaret Tait. 1974, Tree and Cloud (part of 'Animal
Studies; including some of their habitats'), Guy Sherwin.1998-2003. All
works on 16mm film, rt approx 70 mins. A specially commissioned essay by
Lucy Reynolds is published in conjunction with For You, supported by
Arts Council England. Outside Inside Inside Outside. A photographic
piece by Peter Todd. April 13– 29. 2007. The Surgery, 123 Evelina Road,
Nunhead, London SE15 3HB. Open Fri-Sun 12-6 or by appointment.
www.surgery123.org tel. 07906 206 166. All work distributed by LUX
www.lux.org.uk (tel. 020 7503 3980).
4/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO + SPACE RACE MYTHS +
Honored by San Francisco magazine as the "Robin Hood" of the City's
librarians, Megan Shaw Prelinger proffers a privileged preview of her
upcoming book project, Another Science Fiction: Illustrating the Space
Race, a post-Barthes interpretation of a particularly rich
media-archeological niche of early '60s aerospace advertising. Frédéric
Moffet's Jean Genet in Chicago also rewrites the Sixties, through the
restaging, with masks and archival footage, of Genet's engagement in the
protests against the '68 Democratic Convention. PLUS a slew of other
works that, too, offer alternative and aberrant readings of the received
historical record: Rodney Ascher's Triumph of Victory, Greg Sholette's
Return of the Atomic Ghosts, Scott Calonico's Mondo Ford, Geoff Adam's
Shadow of Liberty, and Aaron Valdez' Life and Times of Robert Kennedy
Starring Gary Cooper. Doc-comet Sam Green hosts, utilizing this forum
for historiographic agency to update us all on his Sarah Jacobsen Film
Fund. Come early for the spot-on pseudo-doc Dark Side of the Moon.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2007
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4/22
London, England: Riverside Studios Cinema
http://www.riversdiestudios.co.uk
3.00pm., Crsip Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
FOR YOU, PETER TODD FILM WORKS 1990-2005.
Peter Todd introduces a screening of 16mm films in conjunction with his
show Outside Inside Inside Outside at The Surgery, London. 'They stay
long enough to reveal what you'd miss in passing, intimate enough to
make you linger, thoughtful enough to make you, in turn, think." Alan
Alderson-Smith – Phoenix Arts. "crafter of poetic ruminations about
ordinary life...No special effects: just a camera trained on nondescript
surroundings, made poignant by the soundtrack's medley of voices and
director's sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most
ordinary of lives." Geoff Brown - The Times. "One's own mundane circuit
is often so internalised, that it takes the visualisation of another's …
to let us see our own afresh. To be benignly jolted, calmly encouraged
to reconsider the possible immanence of awe, is one of the recurrent
effects of Todd's work in this vein." Gareth Evans - Vertigo. Programme
includes; Out, 1990. To Red, 1995. Diary, 1998. Day Out or 100' Of Film,
1998. For You, 2000. An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home,
2003. Where You Had Been, 2005. The programme concludes with works by
two film makers who Peter Todd has included in particular in curated
programmes, Aerial, Margaret Tait. 1974, Tree and Cloud (part of 'Animal
Studies; including some of their habitats'), Guy Sherwin.1998-2003. All
works on 16mm film, rt approx 70 mins. A specially commissioned essay by
Lucy Reynolds is published in conjunction with For You, supported by
Arts Council England. Outside Inside Inside Outside. A photographic
piece by Peter Todd. April 13– 29. 2007. The Surgery, 123 Evelina Road,
Nunhead, London SE15 3HB. Open Fri-Sun 12-6 or by appointment.
www.surgery123.org tel. 07906 206 166. All work distributed by LUX
www.lux.org.uk (tel. 020 7503 3980).
4/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
AGNOSTIC CEILING
Curated and introduced by Mark McElhatten. Straight from the Rotterdam
Film festival, a brilliant collection of new works including Los Angeles
premiers of films by Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Jennifer Reeves, Robert
Todd, Gyula Nemes. Including: 'Surging Sea of Humanity" by Ken Jacobs
(U.S. 2007 10 min., video); "Untitled (revised)" by Mark LaPore (U.S.
2005 6 min 16mm silent); "Black and White Trypps #3"by Ben Russell
(U.S., 2006, 11 min 30 sec., 35mm); "Light Work" by Jennifer Reeves
(U.S., 2006, 8 min with music by Anthony Burr, video); Capitalism: Child
Labor" by Ken Jacobs(U.S., n.d., 10 min with music by Rick Reed, video);
Bliss" by Robert Todd (U.S. 2007, 4 min 30 sec.); "His Eye is on the
Sparrow"by Bruce Conner (U.S., 2006, 4 min.); "Threshold of Transience
aka The Dike of Transience" by Gyula Nemes (Hungary, 2005, 13 min,
35mm); "Drive–Thru" by Gretchen Skogerson (U.S., 2006, 19 min., video)
4/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 at 7 and 9 pm, 2857 24th Street (at Bryant)
EXPERIMEX: CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM MEXICO
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 at 7 and 9 pm (this program will screen twice) at
Gallería de la Raza / Studio 24 2857 24th Street (at Bryant) SAN
FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE, in association with Gallería de la Raza,
presents... EXPERIMEX: CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM MEXICO
curated and presented by Jorge Lorenzo Flores and Rosario Sotelo
Throughout its history, Mexico has a long tradition of cinematic
experimentation. Examples of this tradition include the early objective
documentary films from the Mexican Revolution, the "Nuevo Cine" (New
Cinema) of the sixties, the "superocheros" ("super-8-ers") of the
seventies and eighties, and the rise of video in the eighties and
nineties. Continuing this tradition, and drawing inspiration from the
"Mexperimental Cinema" series curated in 1998 by Jesse Lerner and Rita
González for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, we present a selection of
contemporary experimental films that one way or another deal with the
country "south of the border". Including work by emerging and
established artists of a wide array of origins (Mexicans,
Mexican-Americans, Americans, and foreigners residing in Mexico), this
eclectic mix of short films resists categorization and reveals
permutations of the art of the moving image in a variety of forms,
challenging the pre-fabricated, traditional narrative formulas so
imbedded in the film and TV industries in the country. Screening: ALL
WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY by Natalia Almada (www.altamurafilms.com) ASI
LATE MI CORAZON DE ACEITUNA by Marisol Cortes PIN WHOLE SERIES
APPLICATION 1: BULB by Jorge Lorenzo Flores MAIZ by Carlos Isael T.S.H.
by Jesse Lerner MONDRIAN SPROCKETS by Steve McIntyre GLADIATOR by
Artemio Narro UNTITLED 4 by José Rodríguez AMOR ES... DE PLASTICO and
CUANDO CALIENTA EL SOL by Alfredo Salomón HABITACULOS by Gabriela Santos
del Olmo SPECTRA by Rosario Sotelo APPEARING IN PERSON: Jorge Lorenzo
Flores, José Rodriguez, Carlos Isael Music provided by DJ Pedrogas for
information on Gallería de la Raza/ Studio 24, please see:
www.galeriadelaraza.org ADMISSION: $8 general admission $6 Cinematheque
members, seniors, students (w.ID)
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MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2007
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4/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
THE INTIMATE DISTANCE: A TRIBUTE TO MARK LAPORE GUEST CURATOR: MARK
MCELHATTEN
Mark McElhatten, co-founder and co-curator of the New York Film
Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde series, is on hand to present a
selection of rarely shown works by Mark LaPore, the daring experimental
documentarian who died in 2005. "LaPore, though deeply influenced by the
practices of the Lumičre brothers, Andy Warhol and Robert Bresson,
expanded a tradition of experimental documentary filmmaking practiced by
Calvacanti, Wright, Rouch, Gardner, the Macdougals, Hutton and Gehr,
conducting profoundly cinematic, highly distilled personal
investigations into the nature of cultural flux and reverie," notes
McElhatten. "This particular program, The Intimate Distance, spirals in
time from 2005 to 1989 and back to 2005 to reveal some of the
tributaries and hidden resonances within a body of work that
continuously revisited ideas and locations to mine for deeper meaning."
In person: Mark McElhatten
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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2007
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4/24
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Ave. (at Bowditch)
FRAME BY FRAME: AVANT-GARDE FILM PRESERVATION
Academy Film Archive: Recent Preservations Mark Toscano in Person
Preservationist Toscano presents abstractions, conceptual pieces, and
dryly humorous films, all preserved in the past year at the Academy.
Program includes: Film Exercise #5 (John & James Whitney, 1944). The
Assignation (Curtis Harrington, 1952). Documentary Footage (Morgan
Fisher, 1968). Runs Good (Pat O'Neill, 1970). Four Corners (Diana
Wilson, 1978). Future Perfect (Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren, c.
1976). Brummer's (David Bienstock, 1967). Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage,
1980).
4/24
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St. (15th & High)
OPTIC NERVE / ERNIE GEHR
J. Hoberman has called avant-garde master Ernie Gehr's body of work
"among the most impressive in American film." In this program, Gehr will
be on hand to present personally selected titles from his filmography
that deal with issues of perception as seen through the mediating lens
of film and video, including a new 35mm restoration of his landmark 1970
film Serene Velocity. This is the first of two screenings that branch
out from the Columbus Museum of Art's current op art exhibition, Optic
Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s. (approx. 90 mins., 35mm, 16mm, and
video)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007
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4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS PREMIERES BEEF DOCS, MOCKS & MORE
Seth Bernstein THE ONE I LOVE (2006, 29 minutes, video). Corey Ziemniak
THE LOVE WITHIN (2006, 14 minutes, 35mm). Vincent Duvell MEET JOHNNY
DEPP (2006, 14 minutes, video).
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Dir: Various. Clea Stone TRANSCEND (2006, 5 minutes, video). . Ian
Kennedy I'M SERIOUS, SHE'S A BITCH (2006, 5 minutes, video). . George
Carrara CHARLOTTE'S FRIDGE (2006, 17 minutes, 16mm). . Michael Jortner
ORPHAN (2006, 19 minutes, video). . Todd Goings SECRETS OF THE MYSTIC
ORACLE (2006, 7 minutes, video).
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX OF
ONE, HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADAPROGRAM 4OCELLUS,
ORNAMENTATION AND DISPLAY
Dir: Jeffrey Arsenault. This season concludes the 8-month screening
series of Canadian artists' film and video organized by Anthology and
The Images Festival, Toronto. Many of the works screened will be New
York City and U.S. premieres while others have rarely screened in New
York since they were first produced. To celebrate the occasion, a
monograph featuring essays, stills, descriptions and interviews has been
published and will be freely available. Following a series of successful
programs, this calendar sees our final two shorts programs, LEARNING BY
HAND and OF GARDENS AND DREAMS, featuring works by Jack Chambers,
Gariné Torossian, Vera Frenkel, Judith Norris, Christina Battle,
Daichi Saito and Sarah Abbott, among others. The Images Festival is
Canada's largest annual event devoted exclusively to independent and
experimental film, video, installation, live performance and new media.
Images' mandate is to present and promote excellence in independent
film, video and other time-based media; to expand the definitions of
media art and art in general; and to increase audiences for this work.
The 20th edition of the Images Festival runs April 5-14, 2007, in
Toronto, Canada. For more information on Images and how to submit
projects to the 2008 edition please visit: www.imagesfestival.com.
Organized by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy and Jeremy Rigsby (The Images
Festival) and Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives). This series is
generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts
Section and the Canadian Consulate General of New York City. PROGRAM 1:
LEARNING BY HAND. Hand-processed, hand-drawn or just plain handsome.
Processes of seeing as a tactile art. Christopher Chong MUSIC MIGHT HAVE
DECEIVED US (2000, 6 minutes, 16mm). "Chong brings queer chops into new
sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire." -Mike Hoolboom.
Michelle Kasprzak "trace 1.1" (2001, 5 minutes, video). Kasprzak
attempts to re-perform past actions that took place on the desktop of
her computer by drawing a maze-like landscape on the screen. Vera
Frenkel THIS IS YOUR MESSIAH SPEAKING (1990, 12 minutes, video). In
tracing the relationship between consumerism and cult practice, several
threads from handwriting to American Sign Language to the disembodied
voice of the 'Messiah' are used to disclose the bond between romance,
consumerism and messianism. Carl Brown & Rose Lowder TWO PICTURES (1999,
12 minutes, 16mm). Canada's king of visual alchemy teams up with
France's mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of
cinematic abstraction. Sarah Abbott THE LIGHT IN OUR LIZARD BELLIES
(1999, 8 minutes, 16mm). Through a single dancer, editing, and effects
in exposure caused by hand-processing, THE LIGHT IN OUR LIZARD BELLIES
reflects the intensities that discombobulate us as we go through change
and face parts of ourselves previously denied or unknown. Judith Norris
RED BUFFALO SKYDIVE (2000, 4 minutes, video). Based on video footage
Norris shot of a young buffalo belonging to the Hochunk Nation in
Wisconsin, RED BUFFALO SKYDIVE opens up an apparently radical
disjunction of image and narration, leaving the viewer to discover or
create connections. Daichi Saito CHIASMUS (2003, 8 minutes, 16mm). Film
as a metaphor for the breathing body, the medium inter-crossing the
fragmented and abstract images of the body in movement. Christina Battle
"following the line of the web" (2005, 3 minutes, 16mm). Creating an
intricate visual map, photograms provide an opportunity to travel
through the space of a spider's web. Rick Raxlen GEOMETRY OF BEWARE
(1998, 7 minutes, 16mm). One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff
from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies
and pen and ink drawings. . Steven Woloshen THE BABBLE ON PALMS (2001, 4
minutes, 35mm). A peace offering in a post-terror world. Total running:
ca. 75 minutes.
4/25
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Department of Kick Ass
http://www.odoka.org
9, AudioCinema 226 SE Madison
RETINAL REVERB
Vanessa Renwick presents 'the Yodeling Lesson" installation. Bicycle
powered installation starring Moe Bowstern of Xtra Tuff zine. Part of a
big installation show open Thursday thru Sunday 12-6pm Opening night
party 8-1a.m. on the 25th.
4/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30pm, Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
RECENT WORKS BY JOHN PRICE AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT: RECENT WORKS BY JOHN PRICE John Price is one of
Canada's most gifted and versatile independent filmmakers. While
creating an oeuvre of diaristic musings and exterior explorations, Price
has both taught cinematography and been the cinematographer on a wide
range of projects, including for dance and opera. Price's mastery of the
medium is apparent at once, whether it be his own work or a
collaboration. We've asked John Price, whose films have screened in
festivals throughout the world, to assemble this unique programme of new
unseen works especially for tonight's screening. – Andréa Picard. The
programme will focus primarily on hand developed diary material shot
between 2005 and 2007. In that sense, the starting point for making all
of these pictures was an unscripted moment that presented itself while a
loaded camera was in my hands. Often there are questions in my head
about the nature of experience that inspires the looking: questions
about power, violent behavior, social hierarchy, the seeming
arbitrariness of one's physical and social situation at birth. How do a
fishing camp in a remote corner of Newfoundland, a duck hunting camp in
Quebec, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp on the outskirts of Berlin, an
aluminum recycling facility in China, a small town in northern
Saskatchewan, and my seven-day-old baby daughter interrelate? Is it
possible to create a coherent screening with such disparate material? At
the moment I am less interested in 'finishing' work than in exploring
the process of how the dialogue between the photographic texture of the
material and the subject of the frame can communicate something
essential about humanity. The work for this screening will be presented
in various states of completion and from a wide array of subject matter.
Much of it will have been blown up to 35mm for exhibition. The process
of blowing up material is the editing; it is a decisive and expedient
way to create work that places emphasis on the specificity of the hand
developed material while distilling moments from the raw camera rolls. –
John Price. INTERMITTENT MOVEMENT (Canada, 2006, 12 minutes, 35mm
cinemascope, colour/b&w) UNTITLED (Canada, 2007, 6 minutes, 35mm,
colour/b&w) THE CAMP SERIES (Canada, 2007, 20-30 minutes, 35mm, b&w)
MAKING PICTURES #2 (Canada, 2007, 5 minutes, 35mm, b&w) THE BOY WHO DIED
(Canada, 2007, 8 minutes, 35mm) ROLLS (Canada, 2000-2007, 12 minutes, 16
& 35mm colour/b&w). This evening's programme will be introduced by John
Price.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2007
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4/26
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
PISTOLARY! FILMS AND VIDEOS BY PEGGY AHWESH
PEGGY AHWESH IN PERSON! Since the early 1980s, Peggy Ahwesh has created
"a kind of renegade arte povera ethnography of the everyday." Drawing
from horror films, psychoanalysis, and the writings of Bataille, her
films and videos are sublime studies of culturally complex subjects:
sexual pleasure, relationships, and notions of the self. The young
Martina plays baby and mother in MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE (1989); rotting
emulsion censors 70s skin in THE COLOR OF LOVE (1994); and Laura Croft
gains subjectivity in SHE PUPPET (2001). Also on the program: NOCTURNE
(1998); 73 SUSPECT WORDS & HEAVEN'S GATE (2000); and additional rarities
from Ahwesh's personal collection. Co-presented by CATE and the Video
Data Bank in conjunction with VDB's release of her 3-disk DVD anthology,
"Pistolary! Films and Videos by Peggy Ahwesh." (1989-2001, Peggy Ahwesh,
USA, various formats, ca. 85 min).
4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT:SIX OF
ONE, HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA
See April 25
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2007
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4/27
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
6:30 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Being There: Experiencing Place and Non-place. Cinema, video,
installation art and new media all involve different relationships
between place and non-place. In the past most people's sense of place
and personal space was defined in terms of location, residence and
cultural traditions. Our contemporary sense of place now also includes
non-places such as airports, shopping malls, interstate highway networks
and the Internet. These non-places are familiar discontinuous scenes
marked by experiences of waiting and transition that incorporate
distancing effects of incongruity and repetition. Some of the works in
Being There emphasize place while others survey conditions of both place
and non-place. Several artists employ long constant shots, silence and
ambient sound while exploring different experiences of seeing, knowing
and immersion in relation to nature, territory and cultural space. Some
works have as much in common with photography and painting as with
filmmakng and video in that it is possible for the viewer to control and
spatialize the temporal experience while breaking through media
conditioning involving our expectations of conventional narrative
continuity and timing. These works involve exceptional ways of seeing
and revealing that which may have been unrecognizable, lost or
concealed. Some places are discovered through close observation and
spending enough time to pass through the stereotypical spectacle of
place in order to get in touch with a more expansive sensory awareness
and palpable sense of presence. Other works perform defamiliarizing,
ironic or humorous manipulations of the frame of reference that disturb
the natural, and by establishing artificial or constructed perceptions,
make it possible to actually get closer to what these places are about.
All of the works challenge what we think we know or recognize about the
geophysical, institutional and cultural aspects of particular places, so
that it is possible to experience them from fresh perspectives. –
Patrick Clancy. 13 Lakes, James Benning (USA), 2004, 133 min., 16mm film
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
AVANT-GARDE FEATURES
A monthly series, featuring gems from our collection, nuggets from
elsewhere, and focusing on that rarest of beasts, the feature-length
avant-garde film. Joyce Wieland. LA RAISON AVANT LA PASSION. 1968-69, 80
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. "Joyce Wieland's rarely screened 1969
masterpiece is a neglected landmark of avant-garde film. Taking the form
of a cross-country trip on the Trans-Canada Highway, a mostly two-lane
road that snakes through forests and mountain ranges, it affords views
very different from those offered by U.S. interstates. The sameness of a
road trip - the way all windshield views begin to look alike - is
modified by a feeling of openness, as Wieland joins images not to fuse
two parts of the land but to suggest the unseen spaces between them.
Superimposed on the landscapes are anagrams of the phrase 'la raison
avant la passion,' taken from a speech by Canada's former prime minister
Pierre Trudeau. But the poetic quality of the landscapes seems to argue
for passion over reason, as does Wieland's playful rearranging of the
letters. At the same time, the systematic way the letters are shifted
suggests a rational method, and the film is sincere enough to take the
prime minister seriously." -Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER. "LA RAISON
AVANT LA PASSION is Joyce Wieland's major film so far. With its many
eccentricities, it is a glyph of her artistic personality; a lyric
vision tempered by an aggressive form and a visionary patriotism mixed
with ironic self-parody. It is a film to be seen many times." -P. Adams
Sitney, FILM CULTURE.
4/27
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org
7pm, Castro Theater, Castro Street at Market
THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE WITH JONATHAN RICHMAN
Music Meets Movies at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
in Distinctive Live & Onstage Events. Death's wheels are driven by the
last sinner to die before year's end in master Swedish director Victor
Sjöström's surrealistic silent film classic, which rides again with a
new score composed and performed live by local music icon Jonathan
Richman. One of the most highly regarded films of the silent era, Victor
Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage rides again with a new score composed
and presented live by local icon Jonathan Richman. Based on Selma
Lagerlöf's rendition of a Swedish folktale, this moody, surrealistic
spooker takes its title from Death's favorite mode of transportation,
which must be driven by the last sinner to die before year's end.
Sjöström both directs and stars in the film, fashioning a supernatural
morality tale replete with atmospheric lighting and superimposition
effects that were ahead of their time in 1921 and still chill today. He
plays David Holm, a belligerent drunkard who must contend with past
misdeeds of pettiness and alcoholism as he gathers the souls of the
dead. Will he roam the roads forever as a ghostly driver or achieve
salvation beyond Death's spectre? This suspenseful, visually arresting
classic was shot by masterful cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and will be
screened in a gorgeous new 35mm print specially created for world cinema
distributor Janus Films's 50-year anniversary. Just as special is
beloved singer/songwriter Richman's wildly imaginative score, which he
will perform live in the suitably majestic Castro Theatre as Sjöström's
dark tale unfolds in all its silent glory. Richman, who led seminal '70s
band the Modern Lovers and serenaded Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz in
There's Something About Mary, selected The Phantom Carriage from a
number of silent-era contenders for its timeless themes: No bad deed
goes unpunished, and Death has a wicked sense of humor. The Phantom
Carriage with Jonathan Richman Friday, April 27 at 7:00 pm Castro
Theatre Tickets: $20 general/$15 San Francisco Film Society members Part
of the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 26 – May
10) For tickets, visit www.sffs.org or call 925.866.9559. The 50th San
Francisco International Film Festival (April 26 – May 10) features
several special film programs with live musical accompaniment at the
historic Castro Theatre. From iconic rocker Jonathan Richman debuting an
original score for a 1921 silent Swedish classic to a 13-piece ensemble
performing to Guy Maddin's latest avant-garde feature narrated live by
Joan Chen, the International seeks to let audiences experience film in
new ways.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2007
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4/28
Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University
10am to 10pm, 120 Forsyth Street
VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON
Northeastern University is pleased to present the first-ever Visual
Music Marathon, a 12-hour screening of time-based art works that reflect
the convergence of musical composition and animated images, as part of
this year's Boston Cyberarts Festival. The Marathon will be held on
Saturday, April 28 from 10am to 10pm, in the University's Raytheon
Amphitheater, located in the Egan Research Center on Forsyth Street.
"Visual music is an interdisciplinary artistic genre with roots dating
back hundreds of years," says Northeastern professor Dennis Miller, the
event's artistic director and principal curator. "The emergence of film
and video in the 20th century allowed this genre to reach its full
potential, with Walt Disney's Fantasia serving as a groundbreaking
example. The artworks we are screening all take a modern perspective on
this idea." Northeastern received over 300 artist submissions for the
Marathon, representing works from 34 different countries, and selected
64 of those for screening. The second six hours of programming will
include works by invited artists, historic works on film, live video
performances, and works provided by the two principal guest curators,
Larry Cuba of the Iota Center, Los Angeles, and Bruce Wands of the New
York Digital Salon and School of Visual Arts. All new works presented at
the Marathon will be included in a special permanent collection that
will be housed in Northeastern's Snell Library. For an hour-by-hour
schedule and preview of works to be shown at the event, visit
www.music.neu.edu/vmm/schedule.html. A complete listing of all events at
the Boston Cyberarts Festival is found at www.bostoncyberarts.org.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
PETERSON/NELSON
Sidney Peterson. THE POTTED PSALM (1946, 19 minutes). THE PETRIFIED DOG
(1948, 19 minutes). MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR (1949, 21 minutes).
THE LEAD SHOES (1949, 17 minutes). "These images are meant to play not
on our rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within
us." -Sidney Peterson. Robert Nelson. BLEU SHUT. 1970, 33 minutes.
"Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing,
pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all
somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and
technology. What's happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things
unsaid." -Leo Regan. .
4/28
Portland, Oregon: Oregon Department of Kick Ass
http://www.odoka.org
9, Hollywod Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
INVITATIONALS
"Border Crossing", a new short by Vanesa Renwick, will be slugging it
out in the PDX Invitationals.
4/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
TV SHERIFF DVD LAUNCH + LAMBERT + PLU +
Roaring out of the LA underground in 2001, the "video band" TV Sheriff
and the Trailbuddies have pioneered a new mode of scratch video, both
producing and performing wildly energized mash-ups of popular TV
entertainment that take tour-de-force VJ'ing to a new level of
media-crazed performance art. Headed by editorial sharpshooter Davy
Force, they make mincemeat out of the mediocrity that is broadcast
television, creating rhythmic collages from appropriated clips of the
most absurd telecast tropes. Tonight OCD will demo their debut
digital-video disc as the major component of this found-footage show.
Co-billed is a set of shorts by master-of-irony Kent Lambert whose canny
composites also take American pop culture to task, though in a more
cerebral way. PLUS: PLU, PHO, EBN, Animal Charm, Damon Packard, and
Scott Miller's cult classic Uso Justo. Doors open at 8pm for free beer,
Pop Tarts, and VHS tapes.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2007
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4/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
A EVENING WITH LARRY GOTTHEIM
Surveying the trailblazing career of one of America's foremost
avant-garde masters. Featuring "Tree of Knowledge – Elective Affinities
IV" (1981, 16 mm, 58 min.) and "Machete/Gillette ... Mama" (1989, 16mm,
45 min.) General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum
members, cash and check only.
4/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission st. at 3rd st.
OPPOSITIONAL AND STIGMATIZED PROGRAM FOUR: BLASPHEMY
Targeting and skewering bourgeois complacency, religious hypocrisy,
patriarchal authority and European moral conventions, these two films
continue to challenge and confront the audience. Irreligious and
scandalous, Luis Buńuel's L'Age D'Or attacks the Church, the State, the
family, not simply to shock for shock's sake but also to argue the case
for the surrealist belief in giving our unconscious irrational desires
free reign. As Buńuel states: "It is love that brings about the
transition from pessimism to action: Love, denounced in the bourgeois
demonology as the root of all evil. For love demands the sacrifice of
every other value: status, family and honor." Although La Coquille et le
clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) by Germaine Dulac, is often
regarded as the first Surrealist film and is based on Antonin Artaud's
scenario, it was Dulac's passion for "films made according to the rules
of visual music" that ignited Artaud's narrative about a clergyman
struggling against his own eroticism and desire. Banned in England in
1929, the film was declared "apparently meaningless, but if it has any
meaning it is doubtless objectionable."
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