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This week [August 4 - 12, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Atlanta; Deadline: August 31, 2010)
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Oblo Underground Short Film Festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: August 11, 2007)
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MONO NO AWARE Film Event (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: November 09, 2007)
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ICE Film Festival (Iowa City, IA; Deadline: August 15, 2007)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2007)
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Renderyard Experimental Film & Animation Festival (london; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Cadence Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: August 15, 2007)
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Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival (Sweden; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Seguin Film & Arts Festival (Seguin, TX, USA; Deadline: August 17, 2007)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2007)
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Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL 60093 USA; Deadline: September 04, 2007)
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TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition - 2007 (Montevideo, Uruguay; Deadline: August 11, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Diamonds At Dusck [August 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Revitalization of Low Technology: A Film Workshop With Janis Crystal
Lipzin [August 4, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]
* Eye Am Women Behind the Lens Episode 11, 9:30pm - 10:30pm [August 5, New York, New York]
* Vanishing Ruins: visions of Detroit [August 7, Seattle, Washington]
* Avant-Garde Features [August 10, New York, New York]
* Home Movie Day 2007! [August 11, New York, New York]
* Urban Peasants [August 11, New York, New York]
* The Last Slide Projector [August 11, Seattle, Washington]
* Nick Zedd Retrospective [August 12, Brooklyn, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2007
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8/4
Chicago, Illinois: Diamonds At Dusk
http://www.myspace.com/diamondsatdusk
8:30, 6325 N. Lakewood (Red Line Granville Stop)
DIAMONDS AT DUSCK
An outside screening by Chicago-based, queer filmmakers, with work by
Michael Robinson, Amber Swanson, Doug Ischar, Latham Zearfoss, Marie
Martino, Lela May Klein, Becca Taylor, Madsen Minax, and Ren Velarde.
(Bring blankets, pillows, and small lawn chairs. In the event of rain,
the program will move inside.) $7; all proceeds will benefit the Actor
Slash Model documentary about Trans Musicians. FILM DESCRIPTIONS: Strip
by Marie Martino, 2006. Routine choreographies fail. Disconnection,
collision, and entanglement abound in this video about the complexities
of queer and familial love. brb (be right back) by Doug Ischar, work in
progress. This experimental film combines footage of a road trip to Palm
Springs with a vast, obsessive, and very kinky online chat between two
infatuated men. Although this is not apparent in the film itself, this
was the last conversation – in any form – that the two men ever had with
each other. A Four-Way Family Portrait by Latham Zearfoss, 2007. A film
of four visually and emotionally distinct vignettes through the
viewpoints of four archetypal family members: the wistful mother, the
distant father, the angsty daughter, and the ignored gay son. You Don't
Bring Me Flowers by Michael Robinson, 2005. Viewed at its seams, a
collection of National Geographic landscapes from the 1960's and 70's
conjures an obsolete romanticism currently peddled to propagate
entitlement and Individualism from sea to shinning sea; the slideshow
deforms into a bright white distress signal. A Different Kind of Hustle
by Lela May Klein, 2001. A 16mm documentary about the daily life of
Sarah, a mother, student, and exotic dancer living in upstate New York.
Their Bodies are Filled with a Liquid that Tends to Spread by Becca
Taylor and Madsen Minax, 2005. An animation project, made in conjunction
with Pilot TV, about a secret love affair between the captain of the
high school wrestling team and the yearbook photographer. on food film
friendship by Ren Velarde, 2007. A personal super 8 film about
masculinity, body image, and relationships. To Have, To Hold, To
Violate: The Making of Amerdoll, videos 1 – 5 by Amber Swanson, 2007.
Bizarre and funny, these videos feature the artist and the making of her
life-sized Real Doll, to whom she is now married. The couple's
forthcoming collaborative work, which includes re-enactment of cinematic
rape scenes and the tender "companionship" scenes that often precede
them, will premiere at Locust Projects in Miami during Mary 2008
8/4
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Notthatbalai Arts Festival
http://notthatbalai.blogspot.com
10:30 - 5 PM, Gudang
REVITALIZATION OF LOW TECHNOLOGY: A FILM WORKSHOP WITH JANIS CRYSTAL
LIPZIN
This will be a one day workshop in the making of a 16mm sound film
without the use of camera or sound recording devices in conjunction with
the 3rd notthatbalai arts festival, an artist-run festival in Malaysia.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2007
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8/5
New York, New York: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
9:30-10:30pm, www.mnn.org & TWC 34/RCN 82 in Manhattan
EYE AM WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS EPISODE 11, 9:30PM - 10:30PM
Women's memoir film and shorts showcase~ EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st
Sunday of the month on... Manhattan Neighborhood Network Time Warner
#34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan) & Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org
(Worldwide) Visit www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com for complete episode
rundown! Episode 11 August 5th @ 9:30pm: The work of Esther May Campbell
~ TRIPTYCH of short shorts (On Ice, In the Dark, and Mum) were written
and devised using real testimonials written by young girls and teens
posted online on the BBC's website www.bbc.co.uk/slink. Poppy Explores
grief in a lyrical short film. Sangeeta has traveled to be with her
husband in England; on arrival she discovers that he has taken a lover.
Betrayed and alone in an alien world, she struggles against barriers of
language and culture. Girl Tactics A documentary about an all girls
football team in Bristol's Southmead Estate. Delilah One day, a familiar
face from long ago walks into Pam's hair salon. It's her old schoolmate,
Debbie, who still sports the long golden hair she had as a child – and
still looks remarkably like the same Debbie who used to humiliate Pam in
the playground. The question is, will Pam still hold a grudge? Charley
Harry's Wondrous Nothing A portrait of a memory, where the past is
briefly present. Nestling in the sand dunes and long grass is a
dilapidated caravan, within which a young boy's ghost contemplates the
stars and his relationship to them. The wind blows and the sea laps at
the shore as time is gently eroded. Filmmaker Bio Esther May Campbell
worked in theater and as a photographer before moving into film and
television. With experience ranging from directing full 35mm drama
productions to digital shotting and editing herself, Esther's
captivating cinematic life affirming stories tell of lost souls, tragic
lovers, abandonned children, day dreamers and door slammers – raw
celluloid magic. Esther continues to direct soaps, is working on her
first feature, and has recently been selected to for the WOMEN IN FILM
mentoring award. Her aim is to create a unique cinematic vision, pushing
formal cinematic boundaries and bringing her own peculiar take on
contemporary characters and landscapes.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2007
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8/7
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
VANISHING RUINS: VISIONS OF DETROIT
AUGUST 7, Tues at 8pm NWFF and Third Eye Cinema present: VANISHING
RUINS: VISIONS OF DETROIT FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE! Third Eye Cinema
presents two new films capturing the tragic urban beauty of Detroit,
Michigan. The filmmakers evoke the history of a place haunted by the
ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the present using the small
gauge intimacy of Super 8mm film. I PITY THE FOOL is Brent Coughenour's
ambitious, feature-length experimental narrative investigating the clues
to a mystery both epic and accidental. In Coughenour's words, "As a city
dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps
sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered questions—combine to tell
a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives,
old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring
on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier."
The feature presentation will be preceded by Detroit-based filmmaker
Jack Cronin's sublime INVISIBLE CITY, a poetic document of fleeting and
fugitive urban space and time.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007
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8/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
AVANT-GARDE FEATURES
A monthly series, featuring gems from our collection, nuggets from
elsewhere, and focusing on that rarest of beasts, the feature-length
avant-garde film. Chris Jolly. CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS. 2000, 60
minutes, 16mm. Winner of the Best Film Award at the 8th annual New York
Underground Film Festival in 2001, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film
that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room
that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story
of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to
Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress
Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for
down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a
semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker
Chris Jolly's seminal American underground feature was made with an
antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the
film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE
stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.
Tonight's rare screening of the only print should not be missed.
Screening with: CHRIS JOLLY'S AVALANCHE OF ANIMATION (5 minutes, video).
PSYCHIC VISIONS (2.5 minutes, double-8mm). THE HORROR IN THE SWIMMIN'
HOLE (6 minutes, Super-8mm).
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2007
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8/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
1:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HOME MOVIE DAY 2007!
"There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground
opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with
accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world
to be seen again. Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance
for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one,
whip it out and show it now." -John Waters. It's back!! The 5th Annual
Home Movie Day returns for another celebration of films by you, your
parents, your grandparents, your neighbors, genuine strangers and total
weirdos. HMD 2006 was an overwhelming success with events in over 40
cities throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan. This year
promises to be bigger and better because YOU will be bringing YOUR 8mm,
Super 8mm or 16mm films to Anthology where they will be inspected and
projected for all to observe. Motion picture archivists will be on hand
to discuss film preservation and to give tips on how to save your
precious movies before it is too late. Sorry, but only films will be
screened at this event, which means NO HOME VIDEOS (however video-makers
should definitely come and see what they are missing). Screenings will
be first come, first served and we will not be able to screen more than
one or two reels per person. Whether it is the day you lost your first
tooth, an unknown cousin's graduation or Grandpa in his Cadillac, we
want to see those movies! Please contact
email suppressed for more information, or check out our
site: homemovieday.com.
8/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
URBAN PEASANTS
Dir: Ken Jacobs. We continue the Home Movie Day festivities with this
all too rarely seen film from avant-garde master and earnest appreciator
of amateur films, Ken Jacobs. Expect a few surprise reels along with
this captivating investigation of yesteryear Brooklyn. "Filmed by Stella
Weiss and family, chance-assembled by Ken Jacobs from uncut 100-foot
lengths. Alternating sound and image. Image must travel at silent speed.
Sound-to-tape precedes and follows silent image. 40 minutes film plus
ca. 12 minutes sound. My wife Flo's family as recorded by her Aunt
Stella. The title is no intended put-down but a simple statement of
fact, as I see it. Brooklyn was a place made up of many little villages;
a near-shtetl is pictured here all in the space of a storefront." -K. J.
8/11
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
3pm, 1515 12th Ave
THE LAST SLIDE PROJECTOR
AUGUST 11, Sat. at 3 PM THE LAST SLIDE PROJECTOR (Paige Sarlin, USA,
2007, BETA, 59min) A HOME MOVIE DAY MEMORIAL If you grew up before
PowerPoint, you've surely spent at least a few hours in a darkened room
as someone clicked through a carousel of slide transparencies and,
probably, bored you. But as they say, you don't know what you've got
'til it's gone. When artist/filmmaker Paige Sarlin heard that Eastman
Kodak was bowing to the digital age and halting its production of slide
projectors in 2004, she began a project that resulted in the documentary
film THE LAST SLIDE PROJECTOR. Screening followed by curated selection
of local personal slide shows.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2007
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8/12
Brooklyn, New York: BWAC
http://nickzedd.com
1 PM, 499 Van Brunt St, Red Hook
NICK ZEDD RETROSPECTIVE
Electra Elf Episode Two: MAGGOT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, 20 min Maggot Master
(Mike Amato) with his partner Red Snapper (Marguerite Van Cook) and
Super Ulcer (Lloyd Floyd) terrorize Hummerville, creating mass
claustrophobia thru the use of Replicant Tourists. Electra Elf Episode
Three: OLD MAN & THE SEA MONKEY, 28 min features Big Mike as King
Neptune whose undersea kingdom is populated by a harem of fighting
mermaids,crab-men and radioactive sea monkeys. His plan: to destroy the
world with an ozone depletion ray unless Electra Elf Rev Jen and Fluffer
stop him. Electra Elf Episode Six: In I, NAUSEUS, 28 min super-slumlords
the Bickersons enlist Bi Polar Bear to freeze out unwanted tenants and a
radioactive radiator shows up. Electra Elf Episode Seven: HELLBOUND
HEIRESSES, 28 min Icky and Bareass Hellbound embark on a coke binge and
arson spree while starving their pet chihuahua Neuter. Episode Ten: OF
LICE & MEN, 28 min Hate radio host Rush Lintball (Chuck Funk) becomes
Capt SUV and goes on a rampage, abducting community activist Randall
Black (Irving Gregory) while Michael Jackoff and Rev Al Charlatan hold a
press conference. Electra Elf Episode Fourteen: Vile Buddies, 28 min
Tantalus (Alison Gordy) a lady wrestler on a flying bat and Brenda
(Brenda Bergman) face Electra Elf in the squared circle after Fluffer is
arrested for trespassing in Gramercy Park. Electra Elf Episode 16: NO
PLAGUE LIKE HOME (28 min) attacks the 9/11 inside job, verichip
technology and TV brainwashing with the vocal talents of Vox. This
controversial episode of the acclaimed Electra Elf series is ironically
among our most beloved, especially with truth seekers. Filthy Rich, (3
min) is a new music video starring Neon Music. Tom Thumb (3 min) was
shot in Copenhagen, Denmark and stars Kajtek Zedd. Ecsatasy In Entropy
(15 min) stars Annie Sprinkle, Brenda Bergman, World Famous BOB and
Taylor Mead. Police State (18 min) a film in the permanent collection of
the Museum of Modern Art is a black comedy about police brutality
starring Nick Zedd, Rockets Redglare & Willoughby Sharp. Thrust In Me (8
min) was co-directed with R. Kern in 1984 and stars Nick Zedd in duel
roles.
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