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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* A Quest of Origins: Films By Larry Gottheim [April 30, Los Angeles, California]
* The Soft Escape [April 30, San Francisco, California]
* Optic Nerve: Program Two [May 1, Columbus, Ohio]
* Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens Episode 9 [May 2, New York, New York]
* Nan Goldin's I'll Be You Mirror At Cinematheque Ontario [May 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Chris Kraus: Gravity + Grace, Writing + Film [May 3, New York, New York]
* Der Hang Zum Gesamtkunstwerk: Films By Die TöDliche Doris [May 3, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
* The New vision Cinema Program [May 5, New York, New York]
* Notes To A Toon Underground [May 5, San Francisco, California]
* Dispatches From Rebel Mexico [May 5, San Francisco, California]
* Catching Up With James Benning [May 6, Los Angeles, California]
* To the Beat! Scanning the Pages of Pop [May 6, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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 Buñuel'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 Buñuel 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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MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2007
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4/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
A QUEST OF ORIGINS: FILMS BY LARRY GOTTHEIM
This program surveys the trailblazing career of one of America's
foremost avant-garde masters. Best known for the cycle Elective
Affinities, a series of four feature-length films started in the early
1970s and completed in 1981, Gottheim has carried out an absorbing
exploration of the relationship of images to sound and time, examined
issues of racial, cultural and personal identity, and considered the
theme of nature in art. He is also the founder of the influential
Department of Cinema Studies at SUNY Binghamton. The program this
evening includes Mouches Volantes (Elective Affinities II, 1976, 69
min., 16mm) and other works that prefigure and develop this mode of
working with repetition and variation. In person: Larry Gottheim
4/30
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
8pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, Studio 8
THE SOFT ESCAPE
As summer quickly comes upon us, our final curated SFAI Film Salon is
devoted to films that evoke an articulate vision of places left behind.
Alumnus Henry Hills' rare films, "Porter Springs 1 & 2", draw from home
movies of summer vacations to look deeply into the shadows. This
attention to the graphic quality of light and shade is shared with the
beautiful black and white of "Florence", by fellow Alum Peter Hutton.
Complementing these older films is the work of two of the most striking
contemporary filmmakers working today. Japanese filmmaker Shiho Kano's
"Rocking Chair" is the centerpiece of her oeuvre, transforming her
apartment into a sublime vanitas. In contrast, Michael Robinson's
"Chiquitita and the Soft Escape", takes a hard look at romance,
questioning and embracing the nostalgia of youthful abandon and
seventies pop songs. We close with "Commingled Containers", one of the
most evocative of Stan Brakhage's late-period films, which extends
vision into the bubbling of a rapidly rushing stream. ---------- The
SFAI Film Salon is a weekly film screening program, organized by film
students for the entire SFAI community. Thanks very much to the SFAI
Student Union and Legion Of Graduate Students, whose support over the
year made this whole series possible. For more information email:
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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2007
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5/1
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High Street (15th & High)
OPTIC NERVE: PROGRAM TWO
Our second screening complementing the Columbus Museum of Art's Optic
Nerve exhibition reexamines avant-garde films from the 1960s that
explore the basic optical foundations of cinema, especially the flicker
created by the rapid projection of a series of still images. J. Ronald
Green, a professor in Ohio State's history of art department and film
studies program, assembled the selection of groundbreaking films by
revolutionary filmmakers Scott Bartlett, Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad,
Hollis Frampton, Peter Kubelka, and Paul Sharits. (program app. 120
mins., 35mm and 16mm)
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2007
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5/2
New York, New York: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
8-9pm, on Cable Channel Time Warner 34/RCN 83 Online streaming www.mnn.org
EYE AM: WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS EPISODE 9
Announcing EYE AM SEASON THREE: short experimental,memoir, and
documentary film and video made by women. Tune in the 1st Wednesday of
the month on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Time Warner #34/ RCN #83 (in
Manhattan) & Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide) Visit
www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com for complete episode rundown and new
TRAILERS! Episode 9: May 2nd 2007 8-9pm Featuring works by Naomi White,
Lani Sciandra, Lili White, Caroline Koebel, & NMASS Video Project.
*************************************** EA is ALWAYS seeking short films
and videos made by women that address the concept of Self & Identity to
be aired in the Summer 2007 and beyond. Please email
victoriakereszi-at-earthlink.net for submission details.
5/2
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30pm, Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
NAN GOLDIN'S I'LL BE YOU MIRROR AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR & LOS ANGELES. It is almost too painful, still,
twenty years later, to think back to the early days of HIV/AIDS and
relive the memories of that time. The fear and uncertainty, the feeling
of abandonment when society turned its back, and to know it is only by
chance that we, who survived, did not join the ranks of the departed, is
strange baggage to carry around. New York photographer Nan Goldin's film
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR documents the lives and deaths of her friends and
lovers through this period, and though it is a bleak portrait at times,
the film is ultimately life affirming – a celebration of lives well
lived, whatever the consequences. Also showing tonight is Sarah Morris's
LOS ANGELES. Rather than trying to find a complementary short for this
programme, which seemed pointless, I've gone for a complete contrast.
Those of us who love the city of angels will delight in the portrait –
those of you who don't will have all your prejudices confirmed. – Jim
Hamilton, Director of Festival Centre Programming. LOS ANGELES.
Director: Sarah Morris (USA, 2005, 26 minutes). Followed by I'LL BE YOUR
MIRROR. Director: Edmund Coulthard & Nan Goldin (USA, 1996, 50 minutes).
This is a FREE screening.
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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
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5/3
New York, New York: CUNY Graduate Center
6:30-8pm, CUNY Graduate Center Segal Theater 365 5th Ave (34th/35th Street)
CHRIS KRAUS: GRAVITY + GRACE, WRITING + FILM
Narrating clips from her rarely-seen underground films of the 80s,
writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus describes the juncture in her
theoretical fictions between performance, high theory, reportage, and
low comedy. Kraus is the author of I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Video
Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Torpor. Her
films include Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The Golden Bowl
or Repression. She is a co-editor of Semiotext(e) and is currently
Visiting Professor in the Literature Department at UC San Diego.
5/3
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: WORM
http://www.wormweb.nl
21.00, Achterhaven 148
DER HANG ZUM GESAMTKUNSTWERK: FILMS BY DIE TöDLICHE DORIS
Wolfgang Müller, founder of Die Tödliche Doris (perhaps the only
genuinely legendary, multi-avant, berlin based, media performance-super
80s, doughnut loving, art-aktionist ensembles who dissolved themselves
into an Italian white wine) and keeper of their eternal flame, will be
in attendance at WORM to spirit up Super 8 films from this virally
theatrical history of accidentally on purpose irony and tall tales of
perfectionist imperfectionism. We promise audio visual evidence of
wallpapered pasts, kids wearing swastikas in homage to Sid Vicious, and
soundless music. ***Very special*** Feel free to contact Peter Taylor
via film @ wormweb . nl for further info!
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SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2007
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5/5
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Ave. and the Bowery)
New York
THE NEW VISION CINEMA PROGRAM
Michael Park, a long-time staffer at Millennium, has put together a
lively program of mostly new work by New York-based media artists. Come
early. Refreshments will be available. "Once again., the Millennium
Fil;m Workshop will be playing host to the New Vision Cinema Series and
will be presenting a broad range of film and videos from an equally
diverse selection of film and video cineastes. Represented this time
will be works by familiar New Visionaries, Nick Zedd, Mike Kuchar,
Howard Guttenplan, Nisi Jacobs, Tim Reardon, and Kelly Sebastian, as
well as debuting works by David Finkelstein, Robert Flanagan and Susan
Al-Doghachi, Dimitry Torgovitsky, Ryan Claypool, Noe Kidder and Mark
Gallay, and Ian Dickey. Also showing will be a full-color reprise of a
collaborative effort between the show's curator, Michael Park and
Musician Martin Rev (formerly of the rock group, Suicide).
Heretofore-unannounced surprises may also be presented at this showing.
Please join us for what promises to be a most memorable event inspired
again by the Invisible Film Series concept initially conceived by
Jennifer MacMillan."- Michael Park.
5/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org
8:30pm, Castro Theater, Castro Street at Market
NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND
Music Meets Movies at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
in Distinctive Live & Onstage Events. In this unique program, musicians
will unveil world premieres of newly composed scores to historic and
contemporary animated shorts. Featuring 15 animated films made between
1912 and 2005 by six different directors, and with 11 musicians
providing live accompaniment, it's safe to file this program under "This
Will Never Happen Again." The Cameraman's Revenge The characters in this
melodrama of infidelity—which clearly influenced the Brothers Quay—are
all played by actual insects that Starewicz painstakingly manipulated.
On his way to work, Mr. Beetle ducks into The Gay Dragonfly, a burlesque
club where he meets a hot dragonfly. (Wladyslaw Starewicz, Russia 1912,
13 min.) Devil's Canyon Featuring outrageous voiceover narration,
("Montgomery was drinking famously again . . . Frederick was eating dirt
and lying about it") this short trails after majestic El Caminos,
"played" here by mechanical horses on assembly. (Kelly Sears, USA 2005,
7 min.) The Joy of Sex Remember those drawings in The Joy of Sex? Now
think of them in motion. Blech. (Kelly Sears, USA 2003, 3 min.) Crucial
Crystal New age + new metal + new music = new you. (Kelly Sears, USA
2004, 4 min.) Populi This audacious epic usually is accompanied by the
"Mars: Bringer of War" section of Holst's Planets. For this program,
Russo has asked the musicians to play something closer to Black Sabbath.
(David Russo, USA 2001, 9 min.) The Tower A man enters a tower only to
be tortured by it. Eventually, a balance of power is struck. (Emily
Hubley/Georgia Hubley, USA 1984, 11 min.) Anchoring this program are
nine silent films made between 1974 and 2005 by Jim Trainor, master of
elemental, R. Crumb-like psychedelia and morphological evolution. Many
of Trainor's films have screened at SFIFF, and The Fetishist won a 1997
Golden Gate Award. Ranging from beautiful to astonishing to grungy to
profoundly simple, Trainor's 16mm silent films never fail to amaze.
Screening: Antrozous; The Bat and the Virgin; Blood; From Microbe to
Man; Leafy, Leafy Jungle; Minor Deities; A Net; Torn Up; and Plants. The
musical lineup includes Marc Capelle, Devin Hoff (of Good for Cows),
Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) Ches Smith (of Good for Cows, Xiu Xiu and
Ceramic Dog), Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy (of Xiu Xiu), Carla
Fabrizia (of Sekar Jaya Gamelan), Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and
Gadget (of Jet Black Crayon) and avant-garde legend William Winant.
These musicians will unveil world premieres of newly composed scores to
historic and contemporary animated shorts. Notes to a Toon Underground,
Saturday, May 5, 8:30 pm at the 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.
5/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
DISPATCHES FROM REBEL MEXICO
On the occasion of Cinco de Mayo, we'll attend to the profoundly
fractured state of Mexican civil society. For years, Greg Berger has
been the OC correspondent on the front lines there, appearing in the
flesh, doing live phone hook-ups, or sending up urgent communiqués to a
constituency hungry for news on the ground. Forming the core of this
screening are his new piece on the New Zapatista Movement, a couple of
commentaries on the electoral crisis, and a sneak preview of Jill (This
Is What Democracy Looks Like) Friedberg's doc on the recent rebellion in
Oaxaca. We'll also see Friedberg's Grain of Sand, plus work from the
collective Canal Seis de Julio. Framing the program with first-person
testimony, extended Q&A, and an excerpt of her own Oaxacan report, is
artist-activist and veteran videographer Caitlin Manning.
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SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2007
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5/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
CATCHING UP WITH JAMES BENNING
THE CALIFORNIA TRILOGY, PART 1: EL VALLEY CENTRO (2000, 16mm, 90
minutes). Benning's poetic portrait of California's agricultural
landscape. General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum
members, cash and check only.
5/6
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.
TO THE BEAT! SCANNING THE PAGES OF POP
Ripped from the funny pages of collective pop memory, these films pay
unabashed, if troubled, homage to cartoon icons and "low" media forms
(many quickly receding into the distant past). Fusing images from 77
Sunset Strip comics to music by Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and Arthur
Lee, Lewis Klahr's The Two Minutes to Zero Trilogy sequentially
essentializes a heist gone horribly wrong. Ken Jacobs' Krypton is
Doomed, derived from his work on the Nervous Magic Lantern, imagines the
Superman fable as metaphor for WWII Europe. Kenneth Anger's Mouse
Heaven, shamelessly fetishizes Disney's Mickey through classic
Angeresque montage while Fred Worden's Everyday Bad Dream presents a
vertiginous encounter with an equally ubiquitous icon. shalo p's Adam is
an equally ambivalent music video mashup, while To The Beat by Thad
Povey and the Scratch Film Junkies joyously overindulges in vibrating,
rhythmic, light, color and sound.
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