This week [June 16 - 24, 2007] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO:
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"No Plague Like Home" by Nick Zedd
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FUNDING:
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Sheffield Independent Film (Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Danger Zone (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2007)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Montevideo, Uruguay; Deadline: June 22, 2007)
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Transformer Gallery (Washington DC; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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ICE Film Festival (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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Overlap 06 - Rx Gallery (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: June 20, 2007)
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Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC USA; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
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l'Alternativa2007 - Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 16, 2007)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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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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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Montevideo, Uruguay; Deadline: June 22, 2007)
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Transformer Gallery (Washington DC; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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Overlap 06 - Rx Gallery (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: June 20, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=750.ann
Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC USA; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=751.ann
l'Alternativa2007 - Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 16, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Malcolm Le Grice [June 16, Brussels, Belgium]
* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 16, LYON, FRANCE]
* 13 Lakes [June 16, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 16, New York, New York]
* William Raban [June 17, Brussels, Belgium]
* The Watermelon Woman (1996) With Director Cheryl Dunye and Producer Alex
Juhasz In Person! [June 17, Los Angeles, California]
* 13 Lakes [June 17, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 17, New York, New York]
* No Frame Cinema: Open Screening [June 17, San Francisco, California]
* 13 Lakes [June 18, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 18, New York, New York]
* 13 Lakes [June 19, New York, New York]
* From the Other Side / De L'autre CÔTÉ [June 19, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 19, New York, New York]
* Lighthouse [June 20, London, England]
* Tremblant Film Festival [June 20, Mont-Tremblant, Canada]
* Docs, Mocks & More [June 20, New York, New York]
* 13 Lakes [June 20, New York, New York]
* The Legend of God's Gun [June 20, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 20, New York, New York]
* 13 Lakes [June 21, New York, New York]
* Steve K. Featuring D. Charles Speer [June 21, New York, New York]
* Ten Skies [June 21, New York, New York]
* Rev.99 [June 22, New York, New York]
* Born In Flames [June 22, San Francisco, California]
* Christopher Maclaine [June 23, New York, New York]
* Rice/Richter/Sharits [June 23, New York, New York]
* Filmforum Presents F Is For Phony [June 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [June 24, New York, New York]
* Diaries, Notes & Sketches (Walden) [June 24, New York, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2007
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6/16
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
20:00, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar

MALCOLM LE GRICE
  Born in 1940, Malcolm Le Grice is probably the most influential
  modernist filmmaker in British cinema. Le Grice's work has explored the
  complex relationships between the filmmaking, projecting and viewing
  processes which constitute cinema as a medium. He started out as a
  painter in London in the early 1960s and turned to filmmaking in the
  middle of the decade. From the late-sixties onwards, his multiple screen
  work was often accompanied by live performances interacting with the
  projection event. Le Grice's best and most complex work was done in the
  '70s, including such classic pieces as Threshold (1972), Berlin Horse
  (1970) and Horror Film 1 (1971). His film works, installations and
  performances have been widely shown at museums, galleries and festivals
  nationally and internationally. Group exhibitions include Une Histoire
  du Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Film as Film, Hayward
  Gallery, London; Documenta 6, Kassel; Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Modern,
  London. In addition to being a prolific filmmaker, Le Grice played an
  influential role in the critical and institutional promotion of
  avant-garde cinema in Britain. He was also a pioneer in the educational
  domain, initiating the trend towards establishing filmmaking sections in
  art colleges. He is also an inveterate polemicist: his book, Abstract
  Film and Beyond, provides both a historical and a philosophical context
  for the British and European avant-garde cinemas. Since 1997 he has
  headed the media research programme at Central St Martin's art college
  in London, accompanying his activities with critical-historical
  reflections. PROGRAM 1 (93') After Leonardo 73-07 (1973, 25'), Critical
  Moment One (2004, 1'), For the Benefit of Mr K (1995, 1'), Wier (1993,
  3'), DENISINED - SINEDENIS (2006, 3'), Joseph's Newer Coat (1998, 15'),
  Neither Here Nor There (2001, 8'), Traveling with Mark (2003, 6'),
  Cherry (2003, 2'), Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman (1998, 15') -
  Projected from Beta Horror Film 1 (1971, 14') - 16mm Performance (pause)
  PROGRAM 2 (82') Matrix 73-06 (1973, 12'), Autumn Horizon (2005, 5'),
  After Lumiere - l'arroseur arrosé (1974, 12'), Unforgettable (that's
  what you are) (2006, 5'), Waiting for Ian (2006, 3'), Digital Aberration
  (2004, 3'), Lecture to an Academy (2006, 9'), Little Dog For Roger
  (1967, 12'), Berlin Horse (1970, 9') - Projected from Beta Threshold
  (1972, 17') - 16mm Performance

6/16
LYON, FRANCE: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
6PM, GRRND GERLAND

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. GRRND GERLAND 40 Rue Pré-Gaudry 69007 LYON
  http://WWW.GRRRNDZERO.ORG

6/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

13 LAKES
  Dir: James Benning. "Working alone, and in complete isolation, Benning
  photograph[ed] views of thirteen lakes around the western United States.
  In only thirteen static camera shots, each lasting ten minutes, Benning
  invites the spectator to an intimate contemplation of the natural
  universe. In successive scenes, the filmmaker contrasts water and sky,
  evoking the rich and varied color hues, shapes, and textures which are
  at play in nature, and which he simultaneously embeds in the emulsion of
  the celluloid film. Some images are astoundingly shimmering and
  luminous; others are more rough and turbulent, suggesting the pull of
  gravity at the edges of the film frame. Enhanced by both on-screen and
  distant sounds (random boats passing through the frame and birds
  circling overhead, as well as train whistles and gunshots heard in the
  distance), Benning's film seduces the viewer's imagination with
  suggestions of human dramas, which might surround the off-screen space.
  As such, 13 LAKES delicately straddles the dividing line between
  documentary and narrative filmmaking." -Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM
  FESTIVAL. "The compositions are often breathtaking, many of them in
  their near-abstraction resembling Rothko paintings, with thick bands of
  lake and sky separated by a thin line of land. But seen from a
  representational perspective, there's also an evocative counterpoint
  between the immediacy of the foreground, in motion and full of detail,
  and the remoteness of the receding lake and the land in the distance,
  timeless and unknowable in their stillness. Depth of space has rarely
  felt so revelatory or mysterious, so philosophically suggestive and
  poetic." -Jared Rapfogel, SENSES OF CINEMA.

6/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

TEN SKIES
  Dir: James Benning. "This masterpiece by James Benning is an elaborately
  constructed montage of ten ten-minute takes, a mesmerizing study of
  time, light, movement, and moisture that traces the shifting relations
  between clouds and earth, nature and people. It had much more to say to
  me than most narrative films, though the subtly shifting patterns and
  textures of each shot provide plenty of narrative as they tell the story
  of our own perceptions." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER

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SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007
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6/17
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
20:00, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar

WILLIAM RABAN
  "William Raban's multi-screen works are pure explorations of film
  material and technology, concerning the frame, the screen and the
  shutter. Through their visceral presence they transform structural
  theories into an intense audio-visual experience, whilst Take Measure
  physically breaks down the intangible space between projector and
  screen." Mark Webber William Raban (born 1948) studied painting at the
  Saint Martins School of Art and was very active in the context of the
  London Filmmakers Co-Op during the 1970s. Not known enough outside of
  England, his radical work features such powerful films as Wave
  Formations, Surface Tension and Diagonal. These stunning multi-screen
  pieces from the 1970s still impress for their formal qualities as for
  their radical and modern take on the connections between image and
  sound. They can be considered as key works (and almost definitions) of
  the expanded cinema genre. More political, less formal, William Raban's
  recent work focuses on the rapidly changing physical and social
  landscape of East London where he lives. These films will be shown in
  the second part of the programme. Program 1 (c. 60') Take Measure (1973,
  1') Surface Tension (1974-6, 15', 2 screen) Angles of Incidence (1973,
  10', 2 screen) Wave Formations (1978, 25', 3 screen) Diagonal (1973, 5',
  3 screen) All films 16mm Program 2 (75') Fergus Walking (1997, 3')
  Sundial (1992, 1') A13 (1994, 12') Island Race (1996, 28') Firestation
  (2000, 26') Civil Desobedience (2004, 3') All films shot on 16mm and
  presented on Beta SP

6/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) WITH DIRECTOR CHERYL DUNYE AND PRODUCER ALEX
JUHASZ IN PERSON!
  In celebration of the publication of F is for Phony, the first
  book-length study of the "fake documentary" published in the US. The
  film features many notables from the lesbian and gay community
  including: Guin Turner (Go Fish), Sarah Schulman, Camille Paglia and
  highlights the photography of Zoe Leonard.

6/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, 145 Ninth Street

NO FRAME CINEMA: OPEN SCREENING
  Free for Cinematheque Members and those with a film screening. $6 All
  others. Tonight San Francisco Cinematheque opens our screen to all
  citizens of the world for this newly resumed Cinematheque tradition.
  Bring your innovative new and in-progress experimental works between 6
  and 7 pm. First come, first screened. Once we have received two hours of
  film we will cut submissions. We encourage you to bring films under ten
  minutes in duration. 16mm, super-8, DVD, miniDV and VHS formats only.
  (Jenn Blaylock)

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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2007
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6/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

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TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2007
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6/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

FROM THE OTHER SIDE / DE L'AUTRE C&OCIRC;T&EACUTE;
  Dir: Chantal Akerman. The story is old as the hills, yet every day it
  continues to unfold, every day more terribly. Sometimes poor people, in
  an attempt to survive, risk their lives and leave everything behind to
  live elsewhere. But they're not wanted elsewhere. And if they are wanted
  it's for their labor, to do jobs that no one wants to do. In FROM THE
  OTHER SIDE, elsewhere is the United States and the poor are mostly
  Mexicans. Renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus between
  the border towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora, where people from all over
  Mexico wait in limbo before crossing over, and neighboring Douglas,
  Arizona, a town ringed by mountains and desert plains. "A spare,
  painterly and scrupulously unsentimental look at the plight of illegal
  Mexican immigrants massed at the United States border. Both eerily
  beautiful and filled with a quiet compassion." -Dave Kehr, NEW YORK
  TIMES. This film is being screened in conjunction with the exhibition,
  NEW ECONOMY, curated by João Ribas at Artists Space from June 15
  to July 28. NEW ECONOMY looks at the nature of artistic practice in the
  post-Fordist era, defined by a global information economy and the
  corresponding remapping of labor. The exhibition also focuses on artists
  dealing with the social conditions and redefinitions of work implicit in
  this supposed emphasis on 'immaterial' production.

6/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2007
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6/20
London, England: House Projects
http://www.houseprojects.net
12-8pm, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

LIGHTHOUSE
  20 - 24th June, 12 - 8pm a caravan cinema screening film and video works
  by Eloise Calandre / Declan Clarke / Miriam de Burca / Simon Faithfull /
  Tom Flanagan / Michael Fortune / Mark Garry + Karl Burke / Stephen
  Gunning / Lizzie Hughes / Jochen Kuhn / Jonas Mekas / John O'Connell
  Launch Wed 20th June, 6-8pm Curated by David Beattie and Chris
  Fite-Wassilak for more information see www.houseprojects.net

6/20
Mont-Tremblant, Canada: Tremblant Film Festival
http://www.tremblantfilmfestival.org
all day, Mont-Tremblant Resort, Quebec, Canada

TREMBLANT FILM FESTIVAL
  The second edition of the Tremblant Film Festival will take place from
  June 20-24 at the Mont-Tremblant Resort. Mixing movies and nature, this
  event is a true escape from reality.

6/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

DOCS, MOCKS & MORE
  Nathan Hayashigawa VANISH (2005, 14 minutes, 16mm). Derek Boyle WHY THE
  GOWN (2006, 16 minutes, mini-DV). Deron Albright THE LEGEND OF BLACK TOM
  (2005, 16 minutes, mini-DV). Shachar Langlev JOHN & JUNE (2006, 10
  minutes, mini-DV). Seth Camillo GRAVITY (2006, 4 minutes, video)

6/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

THE LEGEND OF GOD'S GUN
  Dir: Mike Bruce. A new kind of western seen through the eyes of dirty
  rock-n-roll hipsters inspired by the films of Sergio Leone and Ennio
  Morricone. It is a story of lust, greed, debauchery, revenge, mysticism
  and demented love, featuring an original soundtrack by Spindrift.

6/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2007
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6/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

6/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

STEVE K. FEATURING D. CHARLES SPEER
  PERSONAL ARCHIVE is a regular Anthology series where we invite someone
  who basically has a lot of good stuff to present a selection from their
  collection. This usually ends up being a remarkable hodgepodge of
  hard-to-see and technically (legally?) unavailable bits and pieces from
  movies, TV shows, "reality," etc. Tonight delivers us a rare and
  personal unveiling of culture-snoop Steve K.'s clip reel from the
  "golden age of VHS.". Expect the best of hard-boozing TV movies,
  forgotten late-70s films so forgotten they were actually made in the
  early-80s, never-before-screened interviews with country and western and
  dub-music all-stars, gangland street portraits and, without fail, David
  Lynch's first appearance on Jay Leno. A former editor at Grand Royal
  Magazine, Steve Knezevich is a graduate of the USC School of
  Cinema-Studies and holds an MFA from the CalArts Writing program. The
  evening will conclude with the now sound of D. Charles Speer. As Steve
  K. so eloquently puts it, "Set your phasers to fun.". For more info on
  tonight's music please check: www.myspace.com/dcharlesspeer.

6/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2007
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6/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

REV.99
  99 Hooker's multimedia collective performs by processing sounds and
  images live. They call their riveting collage IMPROVISED TV.
  Snake-handlers, surgically-altered commercials, re-animated film
  classics from Brakhage to Busby Berkeley, video games, scrubbed pop
  stars and Sudoku patterns are but a few of the ingredients. Computers,
  switchers, mixers, and cameras enable the ensemble to have fun wrestling
  with the wretched excess of information they call home. "Bruce Conner
  meets VJ culture." Get out of the house and watch some TV! Also
  featuring Donald O'Finn, Brother Russell Scholl, Kathy Coogan, Jim
  Pletcher and others.

6/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
10:30pm, 3117 16th Street

BORN IN FLAMES
  In her 1983 classic indie polemic on racism, sexism and socialism,
  director Lizzie Borden definitely has her own ax to wield—and grind. On
  the tenth anniversary of the United States' Social Democratic War of
  Liberation, the government celebrates "the most peaceful revolution the
  world has known," while the citizenry of New York City becomes
  increasingly angry and agitated. In this alternate America, government
  oppression and violence against women is rampant, and the feminist
  response is increasingly potent. Embedded within the radical feminist
  underground, Born in Flames follows the activities of the Women's Army,
  a powerful but loosely organized faction of female vigilantes and
  counterrevolutionaries, and two pirate radio programs trying to awaken
  the sisterhood and shake up the system. Three female reporters
  (including a young Kathryn Bigelow) for the government's Socialist Youth
  Review newspaper play intelligent counterpoint to the antiestablishment
  activities, but when the outspoken Black leader of the Women's Army dies
  in police custody, a united front emerges to take direct action and
  potentially dangerous measures. A futuristic feminist drama shot 25
  years ago in vérité documentary style, Born in Flames defies the borders
  of time and politics—here, the past is still very much the present, the
  revolution still the reality. An inspiration to director Jamie Babbit's
  Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Borden is the godmother of cinematic
  insurrection. And with eerily prescient pre-9/11 images of the World
  Trade Center bookending her film, she may just be the much needed
  prophet of our time.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2007
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6/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
  "The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He
  was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who
  later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years
  were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield,
  California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most
  significant work to come out of the beat period." -J.J. Murphy. THE MAN
  WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957, 14 minutes, 16mm). BEAT (1958, 6 minutes,
  16mm). SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5 minutes, 16mm). THE END (1953, 35 minutes,
  16mm). "Six stories of people on the last day of their lives… His
  conceit is that his characters have reached the end of their personal
  ropes the day before a nuclear holocaust." -Fred Camper.

6/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

RICE/RICHTER/SHARITS
  Ron Rice . CHUMLUM . 1964, 23 minutes, 16mm. With Jack Smith, Mario
  Montez, Gerard Malanga. "One of the underground's best and most
  influential films." -Peter Gidal. Hans Richter. RHYTHMUS 21 . 1921, 3
  minutes. . "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is
  elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of
  contrasting opposites." -Standish Lawder. ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER / TWO PENNY
  MAGIC (1929, 2 minutes). ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH /
  EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS (1929, 9 minutes). Paul Sharits .
  N:O:T:H:I:N:G . 1968, 36 minutes. Newly preserved print! Preservation
  supported by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Based in part on
  the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey toward the
  center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and motion
  generated rather than illustrated/time-color. . "In essence there are
  only three flicker films of importance, ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and
  N:O:T:H:I:N:G… In terms of the subject we have discussed here, it is
  Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the field for the structural film with
  a flicker base." -P. Adams Sitney. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G . 1969, 12 minutes.
  Newly preserved print!. Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears
  on soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala. "Merges violence
  with purity." -P. Adams Sitney. "Surrealist tour de force." -Parker
  Tyler.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2007
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6/24
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

FILMFORUM PRESENTS F IS FOR PHONY
  In celebration of the publication of F is for Phony, the first
  book-length study of the "fake documentary" published in the US,
  co-editors Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner present a selection of
  films including Luis Buñuel's "Land without Bread/Tierra sin pan"
  (1932), Mitchell W. Block's "No Lies" (1972), Marlon Fuentes' "Bontoc
  Eulogy" (1995) and other surprises.

6/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
  Dir: Jonas Mekas. "The film consists of four parts. The first part
  contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The
  second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in
  Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor
  camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, Hermann
  Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home,
  memory, and culture." -J.M. .

6/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES (WALDEN)
  Dir: Jonas Mekas. Film diaries. Living in New York in the 60s. "They
  tell me, I should be always searching; but I'm only celebrating what I
  see." -from the soundtrack. "I make home movies - therefore I live. I
  live - therefore I make home movies." -from the soundtrack. .

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