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Korean Focus at the 23rd International Short Film Festival Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: July 13, 2007)
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Danger Zone (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2007)
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Electrofringe 2007 (Newcastle, NSW, Australia; Deadline: May 31, 2007)
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Single Reel Film and Video Festival (Brooklyn, NY 11211; Deadline: May 30, 2007)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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Byron Bay Film Festival (Byron Bay, NSW, Australia; Deadline: October 31, 2007)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (australia; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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10 or Less Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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2007 Great Lakes Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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Animated Bike -In II (Vancouver, British Columbia, C; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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ATA Film and Video Festival (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 2, Brussels, Belgium]
* 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]
* Womenswork 2007 [June 4, Brooklyn, New York]
* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 4, Nancy, France]
* Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens Presents...Not Another's Fantasy [June 5, New York, New York]
* Docs, Mocks & More [June 6, New York, New York]
* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 6, Paris, France]
* Urban Image Showcase - Persona [June 7, Jersey City, NJ]
* Rewind: Be Kindrewind: Be Kind [June 7, New York, New York]
* Brian Libby Travelogue [June 7, Portland, Oregon]
* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 8, NANTES, FRANCE]
* Unstrap Me [June 8, New York, New York]
* Asphalt Shorts iv [June 8, San Francisco, California]
* Bryan Konefsky Presents: What We Do For Love [June 9, New York, New York]
* Flock of Words: New video/Performance of David Finkelstein [June 9, San Francisco, California]
* An Evening With the Kranings [June 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Classics of the Twenties [June 10, New York, New York]
* George Landow/Aka Owen Land [June 10, New York, New York]
* In Memoriam: Diane Bonder [June 10, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2007
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6/2
Brussels, Belgium: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
8pm, CINEMA NOVA
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
Our Mechanical Bride by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
prerecorded narratives. CINEMA NOVA Rue d'Arenberg street 3 1000
BRUSSELS http://www.nova-cinema.org
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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MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2007
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6/4
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
7:00PM, 70 North 6th Street (between Berry & Wythe)
WOMENSWORK 2007
Womenswork 2007 is an exhibition of selected shorts in film and video,
by members of the Womenswork Media Collective, a group of artists based
in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 2002, Womenswork facilitates the
production, promotion, and exhibition of independent films and
videotapes by women. The collective is dedicated to empowering,
promoting, nurturing, and mentoring women in the arts. Program to
include: I by Sonya Davidova begins with darkness and the recitation of
a Slam poem written for the piece. As the scene illuminates, various
body parts come into view along with corresponding video projections.
The notions of family and blood, the idea of an ocean's worth of
separation and the tears that result from certain emotional states all
relate to water. Terrarium by Delmira Valladares is an experimental
video incorporating performance, stop- motion animation, kinetic
editing, and a whimsical, yet affecting soundtrack. Terrarium uses the
search for a suitable habitat as a metaphor for spirituality, suggesting
that the one size fits all nature of popular culture doesn't leave much
room for choice, and that true freedom comes from rediscovering ritual.
Nutritional Apology by Michelle Mumoli is an experimental work dealing
with the obsessive culture of body image. Our society today is
infiltrated with images of beauty that are projected onto us by mass
media campaigns in an effort to indoctrinate us into becoming
attractive, healthier men and women. We are bombarded with exercise
equipment, diet regimes and eating plans that will allegedly produce
results in just minutes a day, in order to sell ourselves to others.
Restless by Melissa Polin is an experimental film that expresses the
beauty of the female body, intercut with the filmmakers struggle to
sleep. Ms. Polin explores her own sexuality through this piece
incorporating erotic and metaphoric images with a dream-like soundscape.
Memorial by Elizabeth Jane Cavanagh The filmmaker combines her video
footage or her extended family with 16MM home movie footage of her
grandparents, Super-8 footage from her mother, and readings from her
grandmothers poetry to capture life, and the way things move and change
over the years. A Mothers Loss by Nicole McNeill is an experimental
short about the loneliness a single parent feels as her children grow
old and she grows older. She reflects upon the realization that life
slowly fades. This piece, shot in Super 8 and 35mm film, includes
footage of Ms. McNeills family shot in the 1970s and 1980s. The
expressive, powerful, and sometimes dissonant piano music emphasizes the
mothers melancholy. Talias Dacha by Polina Zaitseva. As the summer
weekends begin, St. Petersburg natives rush to the train station to
escape the hectic lifestyle of the city. Thousands travel into the
forested countryside. The dacha, a Russian cultural icon, is a summer
house with gardens that allows Russians of all ages and economic classes
to get back to nature and find quiet on the lands where their ancestors
grew up. This is Natalias dacha, where life is revealed as a perfect and
unending cycle. Wherein the endless current of air is the scent of
chrysanthemums. The sound of past conversations still echoes and the
green landscape is at a standstill rich with memories. Terrorist
Activity Redux by Jane Steuerwald and Henry Baker. On December 8th, 1980
John Lennon was killed by an assassin. On March 30th, 1981, President
Ronald Reagan was shot, and on May 25th, 1981, there was an
assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. In response to these events,
and in light of the devastating rise of terrorism around the world,
video artists Henry Baker and Jane Steuerwald created a live radio
performance piece on WAER-FM in Syracuse, NY. Working with filmmaker and
Syracuse University professor, O. Charles Giordano, they combined live
call-ins, music, interviews, dramatic readings, sound effects and
narration to create a multi-layered experimental work. To mark the 25th
anniversary of the performance, Baker and Steuerwald integrated the
original sound with new film and video footage, re-investigating the
impact of terrorism in the experience of the 21st century. Terrorist
Activity Redux unites the political, the philosophical, the satirical,
the visceral, and the tumultuous in an inventive sound-image collage.
6/4
Nancy, France: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
8pm, MJC PICHON
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
Our Mechanical Bride by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
prerecorded narratives. Les Yeux de L'Ouïe MJC Pichon 7 bd recteur Senn
54000 NANCY http://www.lesyeuxdelouie.com
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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2007
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6/5
New York, New York:
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
7pm, Two Boots Pioneer Theater 155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B)
EYE AM: WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS PRESENTS...NOT ANOTHER'S FANTASY
~ Women exploring the Self through fact, fantasy, and fiction. Join us
on Tuesday, June 5th 7pm @ The Two Boots Pioneer Theater (free pizza &
beer reception to follow) www.twoboots.com/pioneer for tickets! (advance
tickets recommended) featuring film, video, animation by: ~Anna van
Someren Certain Things- Anxiety and disorientation increase as
technology is used to fine-tune personality. The gulf widens between a
mother and daughter struggling to understand medicated female identity.
~Lili White Treasure- My place is your place... — I was here. Hoover
Dam, located outside Las Vegas Nevada, was developed to supply
hydroelectricity for Arizona, Nevada and California, including the city
of Los Angeles, and its surrounding areas. Dam projects in the American
West disrupted the communal life of Native Americans and other peoples
by forcing dislocation upon families who knew no other way of life.
Destruction of their land and submersion of ancient rock art carvings of
religious and archeological interest are also by-products of these
ventures. The character in TREASURE builds a new city while searching
for water by the seaside. Eerie sound and composite images of Hoover
Dam, Las Vegas Nevada, and defunct water springs with Indian petroglyphs
present an ominous mood. ~Naomi White Daily Practice- Through the
repetition of various everyday routines, we create images of ourselves.
In the four vignettes (#4 screened tonight) that comprise Daily
Practice, the filmmaker employs video to explore issues of balance—the
earnest and healthy desires for growth versus rituals that perhaps go
too far, and instead consume our identities. Does 'practice' improve who
we are, or diminish our reality and sense of self? When do repetition
and imitation become obsession, and how do we gauge when a practice that
may have once been beneficial has become destructive? By depicting
different aspects of ritual /obsession this work investigates how the
need to change ourselves can elevate ordinary practices into
transformative spells in the drive to become something 'more.' ~Oriana
Fox Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust- Ventriloquism, lip-syncing,
and appropriation all play subversive roles in the post-feminist
retro-spoof, Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust. In it, Oriana Fox
plays a quirky cast of characters including Betty Crocker brunettes,
soap opera blonds, and airhead redheads, as they become aware of their
collective subjugation as women. The consciousness raising dialogue
comes from varied sources ranging from Laura Cottingham's feminist
documentary Not For Sale to 60s musical Bye Bye Birdie. ~Pavitra Chalam
Anamika- A reconstruction of the story of a young Devadasi brought to
New York. The filmmaker's access to her has been limited. We don't know
of her pain, happiness or her loss. This much we do know, she has been
taken to a foreign land to continue an ancient tradition. The film is a
quest is to raise questions about different women and the different
paths they choose to follow. ~Natalia Surniak Sylvia & Iga- During one
summer day at the lake, two girlfriends encounter a moment of
infatuation that tests both their relationship and illusions. From now
on nothing will be as it was imagined... Inspired by a short story from
Sylvia Plath. ~Irina Patkamian All Mine Carry With- The filmmaker
inter-cuts home movie footage shot in Russia when as a child with the
rehearsals of Chekhov's Seagull, that was staged in East Village. It's
about how working on this production in New York made the filmmaker
remember her life in Russia and understand why she is here. It combines
Video, super-8 mm, and 16mm film. ~Kristi Ryba The Fairy Tale of
Everyday Life- Intertwining embedded messages from fairy tales to
popular culture with the reality of daily life, this fairy tale depicts
the life of many women, including marriage, birth, death and the
continuation of the myth. Based on personal experience this video
addresses the idea of how we internalize embedded cultural messages and
also attempts to question and draw attention to the value of what has
been commonly recognized as women's work and the domestic sphere.
~Vanessa Woods The Touch- A meditation on Anne Sexton's poem of the same
name. The film examines melodies within spoken, written and visual
language and how they can interact. By juxtaposing text, image and
sound, the viewer is asked to contemplate disparate forms of human
response and emotion regarding language and imagery. In The Touch, the
text from the poem is first given life through single-frame animation,
then layered audio recording and finally through animated visuals that
reinterpret it. Language and image investigate feelings of
disembodiment, isolation and absence punctuated by sound and silence.
Because the subject of the poem deals specifically with the idea of
touch, the film sustains a highly tactile, textural quality wherein the
filmmaker's hand is overtly present. ~Lani Sciandra Moon of Honey- a day
in the field the microcosm of marriage cloud and sunshine ebb... and
flow tea and pee and sympathy seeds to sow. A girl a boy growing pain
growing joy Filmmaker Bio Lani Sciandra ~Maya Weimer Rendez-Vous- More
than 200,000 Koreans have been adopted internationally. Thousands of
these adoptees return to Korea every year to search for biological kin.
This is one woman's experience of meeting her birth mother. Conflating
the story of familial reunion with the trajectory of an illicit affair,
Rendez-vous presents an intimate glimpse into a widespread transnational
phenomenon. & Sneak Previews from next season with pieces by *Devorah
Hill and Annie Novak & Alexis Powell of the Meerkat Media Collective!!!
Please SPREAD THE WORD!
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*********** For more info email email suppressed
www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2007
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6/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6PM, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
DOCS, MOCKS & MORE
AJ Lambert EP - SIDE 2 (2006, 10 minutes, DV Cam). Brian Lonano
ELECTRICAL SKELETAL (2007, 6 minutes, mini-DV). Nobuyuki Miyake HANA WO
UMERU (2006, 11 minutes, mini-DV). Rachael Morrison STRIP MALL (2005, 19
minutes, DV Cam). Matthew Kreiner FOUR BOYS AND A GAME OF RISK (2006, 13
minutes, mini-DV)
6/6
Paris, France: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
8pm, CINEMA LE BARBIZON
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
Our Mechanical Bride by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
prerecorded narratives. LE BARBIZON 175ter Rue de Tolbiac 750013 PARIS
http://WWW.LEBARBIZON.ORG
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2007
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6/7
Jersey City, NJ: Jersey City Museum
6:00PM, 350 Montgomery Street
URBAN IMAGE SHOWCASE - PERSONA
PERSONA - a showcase of short films and video works by New Jersey City
University students and alumni curated by URBAN IMAGE, a collective of
media artists based at the University, will premiere on Thursday, June
7th, at 6:00 p.m., at the Jersey City Museum, 350 Montgomery Street in
Jersey City. Admission is free. Street parking is readily available.
PERSONA features memoirs, narratives, personal portraits and
experimental works that explore the mask or appearance one presents to
the world - the public or private personality of the artist – the self
as self-construed. The showcase includes documentary, satire, personal
narrative, and experimental mixed-media works. Following opening remarks
by Jane Steuerwald, an NJCU professor of media arts and program
coordinator, the screenings will begin at 6:15 p.m. A question and
answer session with the artists will follow. For further information
call Professor Steuerwald at 201.200.3414 or e-mail her at
(address suppressed) PERSONA features: I Remember by
Peter Bielunas of Bayonne, NJ. An experimental piece showcasing random
memories from the artists childhood while he lived in Poland.
Interweaving archival footage, text, and a melancholic piano sound
track, the piece is touching in its honest telling of the past. A
Floaters Journey into Self by Janine Delaney of Newark, NJ. A
self-portrait shot on digital video, this piece tells the story of the
life of the artist from birth to present through the use of narration,
fantastical childhood stories and imagination. It is meant to be a
self-exploration that uncovers the secret desires that existed under the
surface of those stories and the journey of the artist to
self-acceptance. We share in everything important to her life including
family, yoga, art, stories, and martial arts. The piece is a video
tapestry that embodies the essence of who she is. Dream by Barry Goldman
of Bayonne, NJ, is a silent film in the tradition of the early
avant-garde when all special effects were created in the camera. The two
opposing sides of Barry confront each other while the sleeping Barry
watches their battle to the death. This piece explores the opposing
realms of subconscious thought and presents the battle of the inner
self. It was shot in three passes using an Arriflex 16mm film camera and
matte box. Life as a Model Robot by Daniel Hendlowitch of East
Brunswick, NJ is a video haiku based on lyrics to The Impossibles -
Priorities Intact. It illustrates how failings and experiences have
combined to build his life and define who he is. This piece uses the
avatar of a Japanese model robot kit being built, accompanied by
overlapping audio listing various moments of his life. Life as a Model
Robot makes an effort to not only justify the pun of its name but also
to educate the audience in what it is to feel imperfect while still
remaining hopeful. The Artist in Me by Stephen Leon of Freehold, NJ is
an experimental self-portrait that explores the mind of an artist who
uses his artistic talent to storyboard the most personal memories from
his childhood and family life. Pranzo Di Domenica - Sunday Dinner - by
Louis Libitz of Syracuse, NY. Narrated by the artists father, this piece
recreates the experience of preparing a homemade meal and gathering to
eat as a family on any given Sunday. Illustrating the preparation of an
old Italian-American recipe, the artist celebrates the lost art of his
familys culinary tradition. Heritage by Yutaka Ueda of New York City.
Exploring racial memory and identity, Heritage examines the filmmakers
evolution as a Japanese immigrant now living in the U. S. as an
American. The artist employs traditional Noh theater masks to reflect on
historical events in Japanese history including the Female, the Kyogen,
the Shakki, and the Oni. The Oni is believed to play a role at times of
transition. The widespread recognition of the Oni phenomena is often
associated with turning points in history. Founded in the fall of 2004,
URBAN IMAGE provides opportunities for emerging artists from the Media
Arts Department of NJ City University to screen their work at arts
venues throughout New Jersey. PERSONA will travel to the Hoboken
Historical Museum in the fall of 2007.
6/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
REWIND: BE KINDREWIND: BE KIND
While UNESSENTIAL CINEMA programs generally focus on the many uses and
abuses of celluloid, this installment finds us digging deeper into our
copious collection of videos. From first-rate artist video to cut-rate
artless VHS dubs, Anthology has thousands of tapes in all formats that
might be forever forgotten if we didn't, you know, watch them from time
to time. Watch them we will, sometimes with the aid of the fast forward
button, and almost definitely with the tricks available to us thanks to
video projection. The picture will be re-sized, the color may be
removed, the sound might be played without any image. One never knows
exactly what will happen, but if one thing is for sure it's that
numerous rarities and whodunits will see the light of the screen after
many a long year. And that is as good a reason as any to attend.
6/7
Portland, Oregon: Northwest Film Center
http://www.nwfilm.org/
7pm, Whitsell Auditorium: 1219 sw park ave
BRIAN LIBBY TRAVELOGUE
With a background as a film and visual arts critic (WILLAMETTE WEEK) and
still photographer, Brian Libby has been on a self-described "binge" of
short filmmaking over the last few years, taking his digital camera
wherever he goes, whether around Portland or on his world travels.
Working with a variety of Portland's best short film composers—including
Eric Schopmeyer, Elias Foley and Rob Tyler—on sound design, he has
created a body of lyrical, visually intriguing and aurally stimulating
works. These include such recent pieces as ROUTE 23 (2006) a vertiginous
view from atop a double-decker bus in London, CREAMERY BIRDS (2006),
which captures a graceful flock of birds and their sinuous arabesques
swooping through the architecture of a Portland industrial setting, and
AVENUE AND INTERSTATE (2006), an observation of the lines and curves of
Portland's infrastructure animated by the camera's movement. (80 min)
Brian Libby will introduce his films.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2007
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6/8
NANTES, FRANCE: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
7pm, MIRE
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
Our Mechanical Bride by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
prerecorded narratives. MIRE La Longue Nuit du Court ESPACE 44 DE NANTES
84 rue du Général-Buat 44000 NANTES http://WWW.MCLA.ASSO.FR
6/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
UNSTRAP ME
Dir: George Kuchar. A monthly series, featuring gems from our
collection, nuggets from elsewhere, and focusing on that rarest of
beasts, the feature-length avant-garde film. From the ribald mind of
George Kuchar springs this wanton display of deceitful hearts, drunken
deluges, and demented dialogue. Starring producer/personality Walter
Gutman, a lot of strong women, a few elephants, and the state of
Florida. "This film is my longest movie in color because someone else
produced it. It has a lot of scenery and the soundtrack has a lot of
sound. I went to Cape Cod, New Jersey and Florida and got drunk in most
of those places because Walter drinks a lot and I had nothing else to do
between shooting. The drunkenness did not affect my shooting but many
people think that it did." -GK.
6/8
San Francisco, California: City|SPACE
http://www.city-space.org
8.30 pm, De Boom Street, one block off Second St between Bryant and Brannan St
ASPHALT SHORTS IV
City/Space takes you back to the cinematic city. More short urban films,
finally also showing in San Francisco. This time with films by Rebar,
Miguel Arteta, Harvey Wang, Light Surgeons, Larry Shao and many more.
Please bring friends, a chair, treats, and curiousity. FREE. Map:
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?q1=de+boom+st%2C+san+francisco%2C+ca
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2007
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6/9
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 E 4th ST NYC 10003
BRYAN KONEFSKY PRESENTS: WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE
Millennium Film Workshop 8:00pm, June 9, 2007 66 E 4th ST NYC 10003
212.673.0090 www.millenniumfilm.org On June 9 at the Millennium Film
Workshop Konefsky will present work that will showcases a wide range of
personal cinema produced by members of Albuquerque-based Basement Films
and other un-dependent media artists living, working and trying to keep
their water usage to a minimum in New Mexico. Note that some of the
works included in this program were culled from our 2007 Experiments in
Cinema V 2.0 festival. In addition to the regular program of visionary,
personal work, Konefsky will screen a video produced by Steve –O (yes,
Steve-O from the Jackass movies) from 1996 when he was enrolled in a
video art production course taught by Bryan Konefsky at the University
of New Mexico– It's a curiously mature work for such a "young, loud and
snotty" pop culture icon! Bryan Konefsky Artistic Director, Experiments
in Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/mkr/bk/ VP, Basement Films
www.basementfilms.org
6/9
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
FLOCK OF WORDS: NEW VIDEO/PERFORMANCE OF DAVID FINKELSTEIN
David Finkelstein comes to ATA to deliver an evening of video and improv
for his West Coast premiere appearance! Working out of New York with his
collaborators in the Lake Ivan Performance Group, Finkelstein's style of
narrative improvisation clothed in video drag could be described as Jack
Smith meets George Kuchar on After Effects. The resulting video is of
course nothing you could have dreamed! The work is founded on the
improvising actor's art of fantasy and storytelling. Often the
groundwork involves videotaping two actors on stage, gesturing
and tossing brief monologues back and forth, creating a picaresque
dreamscape. Back at his studio console, Finkelstein then modulates and
mutates the footage through elaborate video wizardry. The work is
broadcast on Public Access cable and made available as single channel
DVD releases. Tonight's opening performance with Finkelstein, Bay Area
Action Theater artist Jenny Schaffer, and musician Steve Sandberg
will reveal the beginnings of the improvisational process. Then three
recent videos will be shown and the artist will be available afterwards
for discussion.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2007
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6/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
AN EVENING WITH THE KRANINGS
Filmforum presents filmmakers Blue and Laura Kraning with their recent
documentary work, including Laura¹s observational pieces "Cortlandt
Alley" and "American Parade" (about the 2006 Rose Parade) and Blue¹s
"Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson," a raucous tour of
some of America¹s cannon owners/Hunter S. Thompson lovers.
6/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES
Fernand Léger with Dudley Murphy . BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924,
12 minutes). Francis Picabia with René Clair . ENTR'ACTE (1924,
22 minutes, with Erik Satie score) . Man Ray . LE RETOUR À LA
RAISON (1923, 2 minutes) . ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13 minutes). EMAK
BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes) . Marcel Duchamp with Man Ray. ANEMIC CINEMA
(1926, 7 minutes).
6/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
GEORGE LANDOW/AKA OWEN LAND
"His remarkable faculty is as maker of images .. the images he
photographs are among the most radical, super-real and haunting the
cinema has ever given us." -P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM. "Film is a
complex medium, combining elements of many other media. The ideal film
artist would be a great poet, great painter, great playwright, great
composer, great inventor - and maybe even a great business man or woman
(most probably a woman - all the artists of the future may be women, men
having long given up that profession to become soldiers or mystics).
Such a composite genius has yet to appear." -interview with George
Landow, IMAGE FORUM, 1984. EARLY FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW . ca. 1961-62,
ca. 15 minutes, 8mm (16mm blow-up), 18 fps. Special thanks to Cineric
Inc. for 16mm transfer. These films are not part of the Essential
Cinema. According to Jonas Mekas, Landow used to show these films along
with FLEMING FALOON at early screenings before he pulled them from his
repertoire. . FLEMING FALOON . 1963, 6 minutes, 16mm. . FILM IN WHICH
THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC. .
1965/66, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO FOLLIES
. 1967, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE
OF CLARIFIED BUTTER . 1968, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. INSTITUTIONAL
QUALITY . 1969, 5 minutes, 16mm. REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION . 1970,
5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? . 1972,
13 minutes, 16mm, color and b&w, sound. THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL
PRESENT . 1973, 6 minutes, 16mm, color and b&w, sound.
6/10
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.
IN MEMORIAM: DIANE BONDER
San Francisco Cinematheque is pleased to present a tribute to Diane
Bonder and a retrospective of the late Diane Bonder's ten years of
Super-8, 16mm and video work. Diane Bonder died last year on June 23
after living nearly a year with pancreatic cancer. Tonight is a
celebration of her life and work. Her narrative documentary fusions have
been internationally exhibited and are framed with flawless lyrical
potency. Dear Mom examines a girl's identity in relation to a
matriarchal family and domestic fantasies. If transforms the common
object into an emblem of an absent lover. Images of rural America in If
You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now bring us into a struggle between
private property and public space. In Closer to Heaven urban ghosts
collide. I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-bye moves to
a dance of memory and loss and You Are Not from Here expresses an
oblique nostalgia for the pre-gentrified landscape.
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