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This week [May 13 - 20, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (Seoul, Korea; Deadline: May 15, 2007)
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TIE Summer Super-8 Show (Denver, CO 80218; Deadline: May 04, 2007)
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Seguin Film & Arts Festival (Seguin, TX, USA; Deadline: August 17, 2007)
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Toofy Film Fest (Boulder, CO USA; Deadline: June 01, 2007)
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10 or Less Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA, US; Deadline: May 21, 2007)
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The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Cinema (Projection in Hanover, Ontario; Deadline: May 31, 2007)
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Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: May 31, 2007)
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Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2007)
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San Diego Women Film Festival (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: June 01, 2007)
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (Seoul, Korea; Deadline: May 15, 2007)
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ATA Film and Video Festival (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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AEM Videoscreenings (Poznan, Polska; Deadline: May 25, 2007)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (SF, CA, USA; Deadline: May 21, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Newfilmmakers Short Film Program [May 16, New York, New York]
* Kings of the Sky + Deborah Stratman [May 17, Columbus, Ohio]
* Rolling Like A Stone [May 18, New York, New York]
* Sound Exposure 16/8: Machines, Voices and Light [May 18, San Francisco, California]
* Punk Rock Orchestra + World's Worst Music videos + [May 19, San Francisco, California]
* Catching Up With James Benning [May 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Bicycle Film Festival - Program 12: Super 8 Screening [May 20, New York, New York]
* Bay Area Roots, Risk & Revision: Excavations of the Recordable World [May 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2007
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5/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Dir: Marc Grant & Matthew Spiegelman. Peter Malof DEREK'S APPEAL (2005,
23 minutes, video). John Foster KYOTO NOCTURNES, PART 1: ELEGANT
SLAUGHTER (2004, 22 minutes, video). Justin Chamber CONSPIRACY (2006, 20
minutes, video). .
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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2007
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5/17
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St. (15th & High)
KINGS OF THE SKY + DEBORAH STRATMAN
Deborah Stratman, one of this year's Wexner Center Residency Award
recipients in media arts, introduces her experimental documentary Kings
of the Sky. The film follows a famed Uyghur tightrope artist, Adil
Hoxur, and his troupe as they tour the small desert towns of Western
China. Stratman chronicles not only the gravity-defying performances fo
the Uyghurs, an indigenous Turkic-speaking Muslim group who live in
China's Xinjiang province, but also their struggle for religious and
political autonomy under an increasingly oppressive Chinese government.
(68 mins., video) Stratman will also show The Magician's House, one of
the two films she's currently working on in the center's Art &
Technology studio.
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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2007
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5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 & 9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
ROLLING LIKE A STONE
Dir: Stefan Berg & Magnus Gertten. "There's no greater rock and roll
juggernaut alive today than the Rolling Stones - constantly touring,
constantly recording and always in the headlines even as the founding
members exceed retirement age. But what about those who find themselves
left in their wake? Swedish filmmakers Stefan Berg and Magnus Gertten
employ a rare treat - an 8mm amateur home movie featuring the 1965-era
Rolling Stones, fresh-faced and young during their inaugural visit to
Sweden - to form a backdrop of lives lived, loves lost and all the years
that go in between. "In 1965, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian
Jones attended an after-concert party with Swedish rock bands The
Namelosers and The Gonks, as well as teenager Mona Ovendal and her
friends. For some, the party never ends. Immortalized on a forgotten
home movie, the party-goers try, forty years later, to make sense of
these memories, and the eternal question of 'What could have been?'. "A
bittersweet meditation on aging and the salad days of youth, ROLLING
LIKE A STONE speaks volumes of truth in one thoughtful, languid hour. If
this is how documentary is done in Scandinavia, then sign me up for the
satellite dish." -Jeff Krulik, SILVERDOCS.
5/18
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.
SOUND EXPOSURE 16/8: MACHINES, VOICES AND LIGHT
"This evolution of music is paralleled by the multiplication of the
machine." (Luigi Russolo, 1913: "The Art of Noises") Join us! One night
only! Bay Area film artist, r.fox will install twenty-five
astounding16mm and 8/S8mm projectors and conduct performers in a
three-part composition of audio-visual fantasy. Sound Exposure 16/8,
using found footage, hand painted and manipulated optical and magnetic
soundtracks and live projector sound, will create an immersive tactile
cinematic experience projected onto multiple surfaces and installed in
the Ninth Street Screening Room.
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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007
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5/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
PUNK ROCK ORCHESTRA + WORLD’S WORST MUSIC VIDEOS +
Haute culture meets gutterpunk in the virtuoso performance of these
outrageous musical conceptualists, whose clashing of forms stokes the
fires of aesthetic frisson to new peaks of surprise and delight. Lifting
voice (Laurie Amat!) and bow à la classical chamber ensemble, they
punctiliously prance into covers of the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, the
Avengers, et al. Opening this audio atrocity exhibition is the curdled
crème de la crème of the World's Worst Music Videos, painstakingly
curated by Nate Malmgren, including William Shatner, Hervé Villechaize,
Bollywood rockabilly, Russian disco-dance lessons, and too much more!
PLUS a mind-bending set of bizarre novelty tunes on 16mm, featuring
Spike Jones, Desi Arnaz, Joe Cavalier, Eddie Peabody, Josie and the
Pussycats, and oodles of others. Doors at 8pm for sonic mayhem and
Butthole Surfer bootlegs. $7.
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SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2007
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5/20
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 3: SOGOBI (2002, 16mm, 90 minutes). James
Benning in person! Benning's poetic portrait of the wilderness
landscapes of California. General admission $9, students/seniors $6,
free for Filmforum members, cash and check only.
5/20
New York, New York: Bicycle Film Festival
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
5:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave
BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL - PROGRAM 12: SUPER 8 SCREENING
BICYCLE SAMBA UK 2005 | DV 2 min. Dir. Sophie Clements. Samba on
bicycles! All sounds directly from the bikes - no added or altered
sounds. YELLOW JACKET France 2005 | Animation 6 min. Dir. Bruno Collet
Bicycle racing hijinx by the beach. PUMP USA 2006 | Super 8 5 min. Dir.
Sinisa Kukic A super 8 camera mounted to various components of a fixed
gear bicycle. ERIC NG MEMORIAL RIDE USA 2006 | Super 8 3 min. Dir. Nick
Golebiewski This film follows the ride for Eric Ng whom was killed by a
drunk driver in an SUV on an off-street bike path on the West Side
Highway. BACK TO BACK SA 2002 | 16mm 4 min Dir. H'her Lenz A cycling
enthusiast builds an unusual bicycle for himself and his wife and learns
there is more to bike riding than winning races. REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
UK 2005 | 16mm 8 min. Dir. Joseph Knowles A jazz-inflected documentary
tells the story of a day in the life of a bicycle factory. EAT! SLEEP?
BIKES! USA 2007 | DV 26 min. Dir. Sasha Edge Four friends embark on a
508 mile non-stop 46 hour bike ride through Death Valley, California
climbing and descending 35,000 ft. on fixed gear bicycles. WE JUST WORK
HERE World Premiere | USA 2007 | Super-8 40 min. Dir. Brian Vernor Every
luscious shot in this film exudes love of the bicycle. This film follows
the workers of Santa Cruz Bicycles from the factory to the trails,
streets and track.
5/20
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: EXCAVATIONS OF THE RECORDABLE WORLD
In the nonfiction work presented here, digital video becomes a tool for
observation, excavation and extraction, mining both existing and
personally (often surreptitiously) taped records of everyday life for
moments of larger meaning and resonance. Brook Hinton will present the
9/11 focused Wave/Wake; an "extra-temporal" study of Union Square,
Transit; Trace Garden: Markings where found home movie footage is
presented as communication from beyond; a textual surveillance of
violent terminology, Hack; and the San Francisco premiere of a new work.
Katherin McInnis, who digitally records and transforms the archived and
seen, will screen Landscapes in Alphabetical Order,anexamination of how
moving images are coded, organized, and archived; Predictions,a
pixilated portrait of the Musée Mechanique; Suspicious Activity,
whichexplores the surveillance atmosphere of transportation tunnels
under San Francisco's financial district; Open, an examination of
dubious commerce through a crack-pipe-damaged window of an empty office
building; and elevations, a meditation on architecture, visibility, and
history at the Berlin Sony Center.Also screening by McInnis: A Clear
Story; San Quentin, CA 94964; Model Prisonerand a selection of new work.
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