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This week [May 5 - 13, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Andy Warhol 4: Screen Tests and Portraits of Edie [May 5, Atlanta, Georgia]
* 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]
* DanièLe Huillet: the Last Resistance Class Relations: Amerika [May 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Brand Upon the Brain! [May 7, San Francisco, California]
* Halou, Tarentel and the Greenworld [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* Optic Nerve: Program Two [May 10, Columbus, Ohio]
* Selections From Tie: the International Cinema Exposition [May 10, Columbus, Ohio]
* For Life, Against the War…Again! [May 11, New York, New York]
* For Life, Against the War [May 12, New York, New York]
* For Life, Against the War…Again! [May 12, New York, New York]
* Neil Ira Needleman Program [May 12, New York, New York]
* Gerry Fialka's Pxl This 16 [May 12, San Francisco, California]
* Catching Up With James Benning [May 13, Los Angeles, California]
* For Life, Against the War [May 13, New York, New York]
* For Life, Against the War…Again! [May 13, New York, New York]
* Bay Area Roots, Risk & Revision: Works By Lawrence Jordan [May 13, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2007
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5/5
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
ANDY WARHOL 4: SCREEN TESTS AND PORTRAITS OF EDIE
On May 4 and 5, the Film Love series continues its exploration of the
much-discussed but rarely screened films of Andy Warhol. Known for his
pop art paintings, Warhol was also a prolific portrait artist. In
conjunction with Eyedrum's large gallery show of contemporary
portraiture, "Andy Warhol 3 and 4" presents works from Warhol's two most
celebrated forays into cinematic portraiture: the sprawling Screen Test
series and his extended fascination with the mercurial superstar Edie
Sedgwick. Program for Saturday, May 5 - Screen Tests reel 17: Ingrid
Superstar; Guy: Susan Sontag; Isabel Eberstadt; Peter Goldthwait; Robert
Pincus-Witten; Louis Martinez; Ed Sanders; Henry Romney; Irving Blum.
1964-1966, 16mm, silent, 40 minutes | Beauty #2 (1965), 16mm, sound, 66
minutes featuring Edie Sedgwick | also see program for May 4
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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MONDAY, MAY 7, 2007
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5/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
DANIèLE HUILLET: THE LAST RESISTANCE CLASS RELATIONS: AMERIKA
Germany/France, 1983, 127 min, b/w, 35mm. Preceded by: En Rachâchant,
France, 1982, 7 min, b/w, 35mm. French filmmaker Danièle Huillet died
last October, putting an end to her remarkable collaboration with
Jean-Marie Straub. Working together between 1962 and 2006, the duo
completed 27 shorts and features. Self-proclaimed materialist
filmmakers, Straub-Huillet made films around the concept of "resistance:
the resistance of texts to bodies, of location to texts, of bodies to
locations" (Serge Daney). In Class Relations, the resisting body is that
of a young German bourgeois "packed off" to America by his parents for
misbehaving with a female servant; the resisting text is Franz Kafka's
unfinished novel Amerika, in which the Statue of Liberty is described as
brandishing a sword… Program introduced by Thom Andersen
5/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org
8 pm, Castro Theater, Castro Street at Market
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!
Music Meets Movies at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
in Distinctive Live & Onstage Events. Joan Chen will narrate SFIFF
favorite Guy Maddin's faux-autobiographical masterwork, which mines the
rich territories of his youth and spins them into a fantasy of familial
discontent. The film's original score will be performed live by a
13-piece ensemble, with foley artists and a "castrato" adding to the
fun. A companion piece of sorts to the exceptional silent
installation-feature Cowards Bend the Knee, the semiautobiographical
Brand upon the Brain! mines the rich territories of director Guy
Maddin's youth and spins them into a delirious fantasy of familial
discontent. At the edge of the sea stands a lighthouse, once the
location of an orphanage. There, some years ago, lived Guy and Sis, a
brother and sister under the constant observation of their mother yet
entirely ignored by their father, an ingenious inventor. When Wendy
Hale, amateur harpist and half of twin detective team the Lightbulb
Kids, arrives to investigate a mysterious regenerative nectar harvested
from the orphans, things grow ever more complicated. A love triangle
becomes a quadrangle when Wendy masquerades as her brother Chance and
goes in search of clues. A fever dream of Freudian impulses and horror
show theatrics, Maddin devours 100 years of film history whole and, like
the ersatz Guy's painting of the lighthouse, covers the screen with a
12-chapter outpouring of his various obsessions. Brand upon the Brain!
is Maddin's eighth feature-length film in nearly 20 years (he's made
some 20 shorts during this time as well), and the first to be filmed
outside his native Canada (and, therein, his first "foreign" film). At
this special screening, the film's original score will be performed live
by a 13-piece ensemble, with three onstage foley artists, a benshi-like
narrator and a "castrato" adding to the fun. SFIFF favorite Maddin
received last year's Persistence of Vision Award, and this year will be
on hand again to see his latest masterwork augmented by a particularly
gifted lineup of performers, including Joan Chen in the role of the
narrator. Brand upon the Brain! Monday, May 7, 8:00 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.
Special support for this program generously provided by the Consulate
General of Canada.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2007
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5/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org
9:30 pm, Mighty, 119 Utah Street, near 15th
HALOU, TARENTEL AND THE GREENWORLD
Music Meets Movies at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
in Distinctive Live & Onstage Events. These two beloved bands go green
for this celebratory evening in honor of the winners of this year's
Golden Gate Awards and GreenWorld contest for online video shorts. Given
both Halou's and Tarentel's penchant for incorporating original visual
backdrops to their live music performances, it's surprising that the
bands have not yet shared the same bill, an oversight that this special
event will remedy in style. Halou highlights the ethereal voice of
Rebecca Coseboom (think Hope Sandoval or Margo Timmins) amid the band's
atmospheric organic and electronic beats, and adds a layer of mind candy
with CGI and cutout animation projections. Similarly, since 2003
Tarentel has collaborated with local filmmaker/artist Paul Clipson,
including his Super 8mm films into all of their live performances.
Tarentel's thick, jam-oriented psychedelic music dovetails perfectly
with Clipson's improvised visual aesthetic. Together, Halou and Tarentel
will present contrasting and intense multimedia performances sure to
expand preconceived notions regarding the ways in which sound and image
can coalesce and clash. Between sets will be a screening of the
GreenWorld Contest–winning video, a two-minute instant classic that
addresses environmental issues with clarity, compassion and gusto.
Videos made by contest finalists will screen throughout the evening in
Mighty's side room. HALOU With this year's release of Wholeness and
Separation, Halou celebrates its first decade as one of San Francisco's
best bands. In recent years, band members have applied their remarkable
production skills to recording and remixing works by DJ Shadow, Lyrics
Born, Blackalicious, John Cale, Low, No Doubt and Frank Sinatra, and
scored a number-one Billboard hit with their remix of Rod Stewart's "Da
Ya Think I'm Sexy." The band also has scored the award-winning
independent films This Girl's Life and Quality of Life. TARENTEL Formed
in San Francisco in 1995, Tarentel has been described as everything from
"filling empty spaces with lush tapestries of sound" (Salon) to "smudged
and crumpled holograms of sun-dried wilderness" (Pitchfork Media). The
cinematic nature of Tarentel's music has worked wonders in independent
films such as Sam Green's The Weather Underground (SFIFF 2003), Carrie
Lozano's Reporter Zero and The Vice Guide to Travel. Since 2003,
Tarentel has collaborated with local filmmaker/artist Paul Clipson,
whose improvised Super 8mm films are incorporated into all of the band's
concerts. Halou, Tarentel and the GreenWorld Wednesday, May 9 at 9:30 pm
at Mighty (119 Utah Street, near 15th) Tickets: $12 general/$9 San
Francisco Film Society members Part of the 50th San Francisco
International Film Festival (Apr 26-May 10) For tickets, visit
www.sffs.org or call 925.866.9559.
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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007
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5/10
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St. (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)
5/10
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St. (15th & High)
SELECTIONS FROM TIE: THE INTERNATIONAL CINEMA EXPOSITION
Introduced by TIE founder/director Christopher May The phrase "film
festival" has become a misnomer as most contemporary festivals show some
(or most) of their selections on video. The Colorado-based TIE festival
is one of the last true *film* festivals in operation. Since 2000, TIE
has been a leading champion of artists still working in the medium of
film, with a particular focus on new and historical avant-garde cinema.
This program, specifically selected for the Wexner Center by TIE
Festival founder/director Christopher May, features an eclectic range of
short films that show the continuing vitality and beauty of celluloid.
Artists shown will be Nathaniel Dorsky, Janie Geiser, Ken Kels, Pablo
Marin, James Otis, Luther Price, Joost Rekveld, Michael Robinson, Ben
Russell, Albert Sackl, Peter Tscherkassky, and Frans Zwartjes. (program
app. 120 mins., 35mm and 16mm)
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FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007
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5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8 PM, 32 Second Avenue
FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR…AGAIN!
"In 1967, with the Vietnam War escalating wildly, an invitation was
issued to filmmakers to create works running under three minutes in
protest against the accumulating carnage. The original organizers chose
the rubric FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR, and eventually compiled sixty
films from the likes of Robert Breer, Shirley Clarke, Storm De Hirsch,
Ken Jacobs, Larry Jordan, Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek, and many others.
Now, decades later, an invitation to protest yet another war seemed
sadly urgent, inspiring the New York Film-Makers' Cooperative to ring
the clarion once '…Again.' The response was overwhelming, with
submissions from several generations of artists unified by a singular
disgust for the war in Iraq and the foreign policy that perpetuates it.
Comprised of works from the overtly angry to the formally forceful, FOR
LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR…AGAIN! boldly announces that artists can take a
stand, again and again." –Steve Seid, PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE Filmmakers:
Kevin Barry, Bosko Blagojevic, Elle Burchill, Jim Costanzo, Bradley
Eros, Jeanne Finley, Martha Gorzycki, Alfred Guzzetti, Barbara Hammer,
Ken Jacobs, Douglas Katelus, Lynn Marie Kirby, Ernie Larsen, David
Leitner, Les Leveque, Cynthia Madansky, Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, Sheri
Milner, John Muse, Martha Rosler, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jeff Silva,
Jeffrey Skoller, Mark Street, Cara Weiner, Lili White, Artemis Willis.
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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2007
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5/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR
See May 11.
5/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR…AGAIN!
See May 11.
5/12
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
NEIL IRA NEEDLEMAN PROGRAM
NEIL IRA NEEDLEMAN will be present to show and discuss a program of
recent video works. CELLULAR ACTIVITY: ANIMATION (11 min.-2004),
MEDITATION (11 min.-2007),WHAT I SAW ON OCTOBER 32, 1988 (8 min.-2006),
NO SIGNAL (15 min.-2006), SPEAKING OF YIDDISH (7 min.-2006), WE
DESPERATELY NEED MORE AMERICANS LIKE MY UNCLE MACK (8 min.-2006),
CELLULAR ACTIVITY: BECHET VIBRATO FRAGMENTS (21 min.-2006), LAST REQUEST
(12 min.-2007)."This is a fairly eclectic mix of videos, from the
formalist (the CELLULAR ACTIVITY works) to the sweetly nostalgic (UNCLE
MAX and NO SIGNAL)." On MEDITATION- "A dark omedy about crawling out of
depression with the surprising help of a dying pet." On CELLULAR
ACTIVITY: BECHET VIBRATO FRAGMENTS- "Another work in my ongoing Cellular
Activity series. These five relatively short (and silent) fragments were
inspired by the jazz great Sidney Bechet." On LAST REQUEST- "A summing
up of sorts. A sad story, really, told in voice-over. The images are
collected over the years."- Neil Ira Needleman.
5/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
GERRY FIALKA’S PXL THIS 16
As is our wont, OC hosts the latest iteration of Gerry Fialka's plucky
low-tech fest. The Pixelvision camera, in case you didn't know, is a
plastic toy that records picture and sound on an audiocassette. It
failed in the marketplace in the '80s, but in the decades since,
electronic folk artists have embraced the minimal B&W aesthetic,
creating a quirky new subculture within the field of personal cinema.
This year's edition features Michael Almereyda's Aliens, John Trubee's
Remember the Good Old Days, Eli Elliott's Burnt Popcorn 2, Robert Dobb's
Empath, and a chronology of the war in Iraq in L.M. Sabo's Gestures. But
the highlight might end up being Gerry's legendary introduction, trading
on lofty McLuhanisms, Joycean run-ons, and goofy puns. D. Cox on Korg
keyboards gilds our own Black & White (micro-)Ball.
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SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2007
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5/13
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 2: LOS (2001, 16m, 90 minutes). Benning's
poetic portrait of Los Angeles and its urban landscape. General
admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and
check only
5/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR
See May 11.
5/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FOR LIFE, AGAINST THE WAR…AGAIN!
See May 11.
5/13
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.
BAY AREA ROOTS, RISK & REVISION: WORKS BY LAWRENCE JORDAN
Lawrence Jordan has been making films since 1952. Most widely known for
his animated collage films, of which Jonas Mekas said, "His animated
(collage) films are among the most beautiful short films made today.
They are surrounded with love and poetry. His content is subtle, his
technique is perfect, his personal style unmistakable." Tonight's
screening sketches out a sampler of Jordan's films, starting with
Trumpit, a 1950s 'psychodrama' starring Stan Brakhage, with sound by
Christopher Maclaine; Pink, Swine an anti-art dada collage film set to
an early Beatles track; Waterlight the first of Jordan's
"personal/poetic documentaries" made in the 1950s aboard a merchant
marine freighter during his days as a wandering flâneur; and
Winterlight, a visual poem of the Sonoma County winter
landscape.Lawrence Jordan's four most recent films will conclude the
night: Enid's Idyll, Chateau/Poyet, Poet's Dream, and Blue Skies Beyond
the Looking Glass.
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