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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Alternate Cinema [May 27, Seattle, Washington]
* Alternate Cinema [May 28, Seattle, Washington]
* Alternate Cinema [May 29, Seattle, Washington]
* Newfilmmakers Short Film Program [May 30, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers [May 30, New York, New York]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Time Show" [May 30, Providence, RI]
* Alternate Cinema [May 30, Seattle, Washington]
* The Nebulae Project [May 31, Austin, TX]
* Bryan Konefsky 2001-2006 (The Konefsky Years) [May 31, New York, New York]
* Alternate Cinema [May 31, Seattle, Washington]
* Short Works By Lili White [June 2, New York, New York]
* James Tenney On Film – A Cinematic Tribute [June 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Films From the End of the World [June 3, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2007
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5/27
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
various, 1515 12th Ave
ALTERNATE CINEMA
MAY 27, Sun at 4pm ONE11 AND 103 (John Cage, Henning Lohner,
USA/Germany, 1992, 93 min) John Cage created his only feature-length
film in the year of his death. Combining randomly drifting patches of
light with one of Cage's richest musical compositions, this is a
sublime, stunning acknowledgment of time from one of the most widely
influential artists of the 20th century. MAY 27, Sun at 6:30pm ON THE
ROAD WITH JUDAS (JJ Lask, USA, 2006, 100 min) Imagine Charlie Kaufman on
crack and you might get begin to get an inkling of this dazzling
metaphysical comedy. Reality, fiction and postmodern storytelling
intertwine in this eclectic narrative about a conservative New York
businessman (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE's Aaron Ruell), his night gig as a
cutthroat computer thief, and the woman he loves. MAY 27, Sun, at 9:15pm
A WALK INTO THE SEA: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (Esther B.
Robinson, USA, 2007, 75 min) Virtually unknown today, Danny Williams
shot more than 20 films at the Warhol Factory and designed the Velvet
Underground's groundbreaking light show before mysteriously disappearing
in 1966. This intimate documentary unearths his forgotten films and
explores his love and struggles with Warhol and his legendarily
dysfunctional Factory.
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MONDAY, MAY 28, 2007
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5/28
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
various, 1515 12th Ave
ALTERNATE CINEMA
MAY 28, Mon at 4:15pm ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS (JJ Lask, USA, 2006, 100
min) Imagine Charlie Kaufman on crack and you might get begin to get an
inkling of this dazzling metaphysical comedy. Reality, fiction and
postmodern storytelling intertwine in this eclectic narrative about a
conservative New York businessman (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE's Aaron Ruell), his
night gig as a cutthroat computer thief, and the woman he loves. MAY 28,
Mon at 7pm ONE11 AND 103 (John Cage, Henning Lohner, USA/Germany, 1992,
93 min) John Cage created his only feature-length film in the year of
his death. Combining randomly drifting patches of light with one of
Cage's richest musical compositions, this is a sublime, stunning
acknowledgment of time from one of the most widely influential artists
of the 20th century. MAY 28, Mon at 9:30pm THE AERIAL (Estaban Sapir,
Argentina, 2007, 90 min) In Year X in the City Without a Voice, a
fascist media regime keeps the population forcibly silent. Plots and
counter-plots ensue in this alluring allegory that, ironically, employs
the language of silent film to salute the power of free speech. A
stunning amalgam of comic books and '20s-era science fiction.
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TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2007
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5/29
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
various, 1515 12th Ave
ALTERNATE CINEMA
MAY 29, Tues at 7pm GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL (Asger Leth, Denmark/USA,
2006, 88 min) This provocative documentary gives an unprecedented
close-up look at the chimères (ghosts), gangs of gun-toting, doped up,
nothing-to-lose thugs in Haiti's ultra-violent slum Cité Soleil,
designated by the United Nations as the most dangerous place in the
world. A tough, shocking film, but also a hauntingly intimate and
truthful one. MAY 29, Tues at 9pm I DOT THE EYE Remembrances of things
past highlight this exploration of of memory. With works depicting
messages of friendship, records of love, historical disconnects and
explorations of that all too elusive place called creativity, you'll
find yourself amused, bemused and occasionally befuddled. The Magician's
House 2006, 6 min, 16mm Deborah Stratman Der Gruß von Meiner Mutter [The
Greeting from my Mother] 2006, USA/Germany 13min, Video Director: Katja
Straub I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You Goodbye 2006,16mm
Director: Diane Bodner I'm Keith Hernandez 2006, USA 19min, Video
Director: Rob Perri Dear Bill Gates 2006, USA, 17min, Video Director:
Sarah J. Christman The Ontological Cowboy 2005, USA, 10min, 16mm
Director: Marie Losier
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2007
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5/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Camila Webster CIVIL WAR (2006, 15 minutes, Super-16mm). Victor
Verhaeghe THE DOCTOR CARES (2005, 9 minutes, mini-DV). Steve Stransman
HACK3D (2006, 21 minutes, mini-DV). Zac Nicholson LUCKY SEVENS (2006, 15
minutes, 35mm). .
5/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 PM, 32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street New York, NY 10003
NEWFILMMAKERS
NELSON, is a forty-five minute dark, gritty, real-life documentary
portrait of an openly gay man named Nelson, who is struggling with
alcoholism, drugs and the sad/love relationship he has with his
alcoholic father Jose Bermudez. The documentary was shot entirely in the
Bronx, over a pivotal period of three years by film/videomaker Jose
Antonio Vicenty (DAISY AND THE WOMEN OF THE FUTURE).
Produced/Shot/Directed by Jose Antonio Vicenty/Music and Lyrics by Dwain
McClellan Not Rated. 45 minutes. Documentary. Visit
myspace.com/nelsondocumentary Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 @ 6 PM
NewFilmmakers Night ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd
Street New York City $ 5 Cover www.NewFilmmakers.com
5/30
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, 204 South Main Street
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE TIME SHOW"
Magic Lantern Presents "The Time Show" (curated by Mike Stoltz)
Wednesday the 30th of May at 9:30pm at the Cable Car Cinema (204 South
Main Street, Providence, RI) FILMMAKERS ARLEY-ROSE TORSONE AND MATT
CARROLL IN PERSON! Time…it never stops yet always seems to be running
out. Days get longer but appear to slip away quickly. With the subject
of precious TIME in mind, now is an opportunity to get lost in an
evening of time-based films and videos that allow us to stretch out our
perceptions of when and why so many forces are at work around us. From
sped-time travel, Victorian exploits, backwards living, dizzying
repetition, time lapse, and even a head on a platter this will be a
program that's sure to have us all running in circles around the clock!
FEATURING: Condensed Movie #1 by Kent Lambert (11:00, Video, 2002),
Everywhere At Once by Alan Berliner (10:00, 16mm, 1985), New Super 8
Movie by Arley-Rose Torsone (5:00, Super 8, 2007), Go Go Go by Marie
Menken (11:30, 16mm, 1964), Time Piece (9:00, 16mm, 1965), Analogies by
Peter Rose (1977, 16mm, 14:00), A Servant of His Majesty's Royal Navy
Reads Excerpts From My Secret Life by Matt Carroll (10:00, Video, 2007)
TRT: 70:00 $5 SYNOPSIS: Condensed Movie #1 by Kent Lambert (2002) Video
11:00 "Video hacker Kent Lambert takes apart and reconstructs a terrible
time travel movie. Who knows which version has more meaning, but this
one sure has the better dialogue." -Rooftop Films Everywhere at Once by
Alan Berliner 1985 16mm 10:00 EVERYWHERE AT ONCE is a musical montage, a
synchronized symphony composed from an infinity of elements at hand:
piano chords and cable cars, cocktail jazz and broken glass, looney
tunes and telephones, elephants and xylophones, violins and vultures,
orchestras and roller coasters .... A journey in images at the speed of
sound. New Super 8 Movie by Arley-Rose Torsone 2007 super 8 5:00
Providence's own Arley-Rose makes her celluloid debut with a black and
white backward-ly projected new film that's sure to dazzle and dizzy
your eyes. Go Go Go by Marie Menken 1964 16mm, 11:30 Go Go Go is a tour
de force of rapid camera movement and single-frame activity -- films of
boats taken at the harbor in single frames, from a moving automobile, on
the streets of New York, at a body-builders convention, and at other
locations. ~ David Lewis, All Movie Guide Time Piece by Jim Henson
(1965) 16mm 9:00 Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a
philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes
touched upon in this nine-minute, experimental film, which was written,
directed, and produced by Jim Henson-and starred Jim Henson! Screened
for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in May of 1965, Time
Piece enjoyed an eighteen-month run at one Manhattan movie theater and
was nominated for an Academy Award for outstanding short subject
Analogies by Peter Rose 1977 16mm 14:00 "When Rose fills the screen with
25 images, the experience is akin to music. An image ripples across the
screen as a theme echoes across the different instruments of a full
orchestra, each image an arabesque in a Persian rug." - Noel Carroll,
The Soho Weekly News A Servant of His Majesty's Royal Navy Reads
Excerpts From My Secret Life by Matt Carroll 2007 Video 10:00 "…Matt
Carroll reading Victorian pornography in the character of an 1800s
British naval officer. Words cannot describe but to say that it was
perfect. Not an unaching side or dry eye (or seat) in the house. Matt
was reading selections from- "my secret life" by Anonymous. Originally
constituting eleven volumes, this paphian 1800s romp in its first
anonymous printing cost the gentleman buyer what would in today's money
be $6000. The book is laconic, glorious, stern, excessive, and
single-minded, in the absolute best ways of both Victoriana and
pornography." – Jacob Berendes, Fujichia.com
5/30
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
various, 1515 12th Ave
ALTERNATE CINEMA
MAY 30, Weds at 7pm REDUCED, REUSED, RECYCLED This amusing and
enlightening program features pop-art collages to filmic archeology,
including film sequences and images lifted from the safety of their
original reels and contexts, only to be reborn in unexpected landscapes.
For a Blonde... For a Brunette... For Someone... For Her... For You...
USA 2006, 6 min, video Director: Mike Olenick A Man's Gotta Do What A
Man's Gotta Do Germany, 2006, 9 min. Video Director: Harald Schleicher
Sunbeam Hunter USA, 2006, 3min, 16mm Director: Jonathan Schwartz
Waschdrang Mama USA, 2006, 2min, Video Director: Martha Colburn Asmahan
USA/Egypt, 2005, 21min, Video Director: Hisham Bizri Life and Times of
Robert Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper USA, 2006, 8min, Video Director:
Aaron Valdez Review USA, 2004, 3min, 16mm Director: Jenny Perlin The
Mendi Canada, 2006, 9min, Video Director: Steve Reinke The Astrum
Argentium USA, 2006, 6min, 16mm Director: Jon Behrens Double Lives USA,
2007, 4min, Video Director: Salise Hughes MAY 30, Wed at 9:30pm 4
ELEMENTS (Jiska Rickels, Netherlands, 2006, 89 min) A poetic visual
essay about man's uneasy relationship with fire, water, earth and air,
as seen through the experiences of firefighters in Siberia, king crab
fisherman on the Bering Sea in Alaska, German mineworkers, and Russian
cosmonauts preparing a launch to the international space station.
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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2007
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5/31
Austin, TX: Mass Gallery
10PM, 916 Springdale Road
THE NEBULAE PROJECT
Portraits of members of Austin's art community, as recorded by filmmaker
Cauleen Smith. Come out and watch the film projections, watch the stars,
and say so long to Cauleen.
5/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, Anthology Film Archives
BRYAN KONEFSKY 2001-2006 (THE KONEFSKY YEARS)
Anthology Film Archives 7:30pm, May 31, 2007 32 2nd Ave NYC 10003
212.505.5181 www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Tonight's progam will feature
short, cinematic interventions that survey Bryan Konefsky's work from
2001-2006. Konefsky's odd, little movies have been featured
internationally at venues such as the Oslo Film Institute, the European
Media Arts Festival, the Paris Underground Film Festival, VideoEx in
Switzerland, and En Zentrum de Peripherie in Germany. In New Mexico
Bryan Konefsky is the Vice President of Basement Films, the artistic
director of Experiments in Cinema and a thorn in Governor Bill
Richardson's side in terms of the burgeoning film industry in that
state. Featured works: "Chicken Delight" (TRT 22 min) is a meditation on
the United States' ongoing courtship with radioactivity. Here, the story
begins with the Food and Drug Administration's decision to serve
irradiated meat in their School Lunch Program, and ends with a story
that William S. Burroughs might have written about using radioactivity
to grow tumors as a hip, new fashion statement. In between, the
narrative winds its way through the history of radioactive paint that,
in the 1920's, young women used on their lips and fingernails, radium
suppositories that were marketed to men as an early version of Viagra,
and radioactive wristwatches that are currently being used as a
cock-ring contraceptives. "I Yam What I Yam" (TRT 17 minutes): In 1929
monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin
Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). 1929 was also the year that the
one-eyed, "strong to the finish" sailor named Popeye was first
introduced to the United States as a comic strip character. And, even
after 75 years and 234 movies, Popeye's rebel yell for the common good,
"I yam what I yam" still resonates with the hope and conviction of his
visionary colleagues. Bryan Konefsky Artistic Director, Experiments in
Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/mkr/bk/ VP, Basement Films
www.basementfilms.org
5/31
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
various, 1515 12th Ave
ALTERNATE CINEMA
MAY 31, Thurs at 7pm STRANGE CULTURE (Lynn Herschman Leeson, USA, 2006,
75min) When conceptual artist Steve Kurtz's wife died of heart failure,
suspicion fell on Kurtz because of materials he was using for an art
exhibition. Within hours, he was detained as a suspected bio-terrorist.
Lynn Herschman Leeson's brilliant documentary, STRANGE CULTURE, uses
unconventional techniques to tell this story of domestic tragedy turned
Kafkaesque nightmare. MAY 31, Thurs at 9:15pm GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
(Asger Leth, Denmark/USA, 2006, 88 min) This provocative documentary
gives an unprecedented close-up look at the chimères (ghosts), gangs of
gun-toting, doped up, nothing-to-lose thugs in Haiti's ultra-violent
slum Cité Soleil, designated by the United Nations as the most dangerous
place in the world. A tough, shocking film, but also a hauntingly
intimate and truthful one.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2007
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6/2
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 East 4th Street
SHORT WORKS BY LILI WHITE
Influenced by Renaissance art and Asian and American landscape painting,
informed by Eastern philosophy and psychological theory, White uses
repeated and stylized gestures as a mode of ritualistic format and
screen performance. Her modus operandi is an exploration on the subject
of relationships of power and repression; sometimes drawing from ancient
stories re-contextualized into meditations on the world we live in and
the ramifications of inaction and stagnation.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2007
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6/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
JAMES TENNEY ON FILM – A CINEMATIC TRIBUTE
One of the most noted American composers of the last half-century, James
Tenney left an indelible mark on those who listened to him, learned from
him, loved him. After his death last August, Cal Arts hosted a
multiple-day tribute to Tenney's music. One of the events was a film
screening organized by Cal Arts student Madison Brookshire. Tenney's
association with avant-garde film dated back over 50 years, when he
scored Stan Brakhage's first film. Tenney provided the scores for
several notable works by Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann through the
years. We're repeating this moving program in Hollywood in tribute to
this great composer and artist.
6/3
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.
FILMS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
"Death advances, and life falls away. That happens gradually and
unnoticeably for us; we gradually immerse ourselves in the nightmare of
a completely absurd existence." (Sergei Loznitsa). A monumental work of
sound design and archival research, Sergei Loznitsa's Blockade brings
the devastation of the 900-day Siege of Leningrad—a WWII battle
considered to one of the most lethal in world history, in which nearly
one million people died of starvation, disease, and cold—crashing
solidly into the present day. Through the addition of seemingly
synchronous sound to brutal and beautiful actuality footage held in
archive of the St. Petersburg Studio of Documentary Films, the harrowing
historical events become uncannily real and alive. Also screening: Brian
Frye's post-apocalypse psycho-melodrama The Anatomy of Melancholy;
Stephanie Barber's lonely late-night laundry-scape total power dead dead
dead; Vanessa Renwick's Trojan, an ambivalently beautiful ode to
destruction; and Michael Robinson's End Times elegy, The General Returns
from One Place to Another.
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