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This week [September 8 - 16, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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New Film/Video: non-feature:
"W4th Street Transfer" by Mike Celona
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"Imagination" by Eric Leiser
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Sand Hill Berries Film Festival (NY, NY. USA; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Compass of Resistance International Film Festival (Bristol, England, UK; Deadline: September 26, 2007)
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Signal & Noise (Vancouver, BC, Canada; Deadline: November 01, 2007)
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Rhythm from Wreckage! (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: October 10, 2007)
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Boston Underground Film festival (Boston, Ma ; Deadline: December 14, 2007)
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Renderyard Film and Documentary Festival (London, England; Deadline: February 15, 2008)
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Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: November 16, 2007)
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TOFIFEST - International Film Festival (Torun, Poland; Deadline: September 30, 2007)
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Visualized Film Festival (Denver; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Synthetic Zero Loft Events (Bronx, NY, 10454; Deadline: September 15, 2007)
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Compass (Bristol, UK.; Deadline: September 10, 2007)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2007)
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Boulder International Film Festival (boulder; Deadline: September 14, 2007)
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Rubric (Denver; Deadline: September 15, 2007)
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Artist's Television Access (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Cortopotere (Bergamo - Italia; Deadline: September 10, 2007)
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Sand Hill Berries Film Festival (NY, NY. USA; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Compass of Resistance International Film Festival (Bristol, England, UK; Deadline: September 26, 2007)
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Rhythm from Wreckage! (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: October 10, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Night of the Living Zedd [September 8, New York, New York]
* Wavelengths Programme 2: Winds of Change? [September 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths Programme 3: Cross Worlds [September 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Accordi @ Disaccordi Open Air Cinema Festival [September 9, Naples / Napoli, Na, Italy]
* Truth and Reconciliation: Truth [September 9, Sausalito]
* Wavelengths Programme 4: In the Space of Time [September 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths Programme 5: Schindler's Houses [September 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths Programme 6: Pour Vos Beaux Yeux [September 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Spellbound [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Newfilmmakers Presents Some Alternative views About Our Worlddocs, Mocks
& More [September 12, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Short Film Program [September 12, New York, New York]
* Frame By Frame [September 12, San Francisco, California]
* Tommy's Chicago: Newly Preserved Films By Tom Palazzolo 1967–1976 [September 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* Truth and Reconciliation: Reconciliation [September 13, San Francisco, California]
* Electromediascope [September 14, Kansas City, Missouri]
* All Circuits On: the Birth of An Industry [September 14, New York, New York]
* At the Margins [September 14, San Francisco, California]
* Tie, the International Experimental Cinema Exposition - A Retrospective [September 16, Lincoln, NE]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2007
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9/8
New York, New York: Pioneer Theater
http://www.twoboots.com/pioneer/
11 PM, East 3rd Street between Avenues A and B
NIGHT OF THE LIVING ZEDD
MISTAKES HAPEN (Premiere) starring Shecky Beagleman, Steph Sabelli
L.E.S. PSA starring Rev Jen, Master Lee 3 min FILTHY RICH starring Neon
Music 3 min NO PLAGUE LIKE HOME 28 min VILE BUDDIES starring Rev Jen,
Alison Gordy, Brenda Bergman 28 min OF LICE & MEN starring Joey Gay,
Chuck Funk, Rev Jen, Michelle Carlos 28 min HELLBOUND HEIRESSES starring
Rev Jen, Neal Medlyn 28 min. Commissioned by the Pioneer Theatre to
commemorate the Howl Festival, Mistakes Hapen is a new movie by Nick
Zedd starring Faceboy, Alison Gordy, Steph Sabelli and Shecky Beagleman.
In addition, a mini retrospective of the best episodes of cult TV series
Electra Elf will be screened. By day Electra-Elf is Jennifer Swallows, a
mild-mannered reporter for Art Star Scene Magazine (A.S.S.) and Fluffer
is Boobie, a chihuahua-clothes model, but when danger calls, the two put
on stylish leotards and kick butt, taking down corrupt senators, sleazy
frat-boys, satanic cults, landlords, zombie-tourists and others in each
heart-stopping episode. A hit on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Electra
Elf features local artstars and comedians from the Open Mike scene.
"Utterly intoxicating. The closest thing we've got to, say, The
Ridiculous Theatrical Co... Costumes alone scream with genius. Ditto
special effects!" - Mark Kramer, Blacklisted Journalist Note: ALL FILMS
TO BE SHOWN HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NYUFF & CUFF!
Tickets for public screenings: $10.00 adults, $6.50 members. Other
prices as listed.
9/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.tiff07.ca
7:45 PM, Varsity 7
WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME 2: WINDS OF CHANGE?
The three films in this programme serve as potent reminders of endlessly
renewed trespasses, of the cycles of violence, injustice, complacency
and greed that ever entrap us. Far from didactic, this selection gathers
lyrical, visual meditations on issues – such as racism and hegemony –
that are too often subsumed into the showy découpages that have become
our daily news. Avant-garde political filmmaking responds with resolve,
conviction, innovation and, ultimately, faith to the shaky ground on
which we toddle. The "Change" of the programme's title also refers to a
great loss suffered by the avant-garde community, the death last year of
Danièle Huillet, who with her partner Jean-Marie Straub was responsible
for some of the world's greatest filmic works of art. Their final work
is an unsigned cinétract commissioned last year in celebration of
Roberto Rossellini's centenary. Only in their hands would a tribute to
his Europa 51 yield an indictment against the endemic race and class
strife plaguing modern-day France, with its forsaken banlieues. Europa
2005, 27 Octobre is a digital-video protest leaflet commemorating the
deaths of two teenaged boys who lost their lives fleeing the brutal hand
of the French police. Employing the barest of means, it provides a
sustained time and place for remembrance.Legendary underground filmmaker
Ken Jacobs has also turned to video, creating flickering worlds out of
nineteenth-century stereoscopic images. His Capitalism: Slavery is a
haunting and mesmeric rondo of cotton-picking slaves; frozen in history,
yet awakened through art.Profit motive and the whispering wind by John
Gianvito is an astonishingly elegant and elegiac chronicle of the
history of the progressive movement in America that is told through its
cemeteries, plaques and monuments, its symbolic and physical landscape.
Propelling us on this journey is a wind of change that summons and
gathers the images that lend voice to those who have disappeared from
cultural memory. Working in a materialist mode in the tradition of
Straub-Huillet, Gianvito has crafted a beautiful landscape film that
pays homage to those who fought for their beliefs, one whose underlying
force and tensions are compelled by the perfidious acts committed by the
current government of the United States.
9/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.tiff07.ca
9:45 PM, Varsity 7
WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME 3: CROSS WORLDS
Our place in the world can seem utterly, even devastatingly precarious.
A sense of being at home helps to combat the rootlessness, uncertainty
and anxieties that make up the human condition. Yet feeling at home (or
adrift) in the world is possible anywhere – from one's backyard to far
beyond. This collection of 16mm films highlights the remarkable
elasticity of this universal theme. Daïchi Saïto stays close to home
with All That Rises, a striking collaboration with violinist Malcolm
Goldstein, with whom he shares an alleyway in Montreal. The dense and
luminous hand-processed and printed footage combines with extemporized
violin to form a unique tribute to the duo's neighbourhood. In Cross
Worlds, Cécile Fontaine conflates professional and amateur travel
footage, creating an energized criss-crossing of rigorously worked
material. With The Acrobat, a compelling consideration of human
aspiration, gravity and politics, Chris Kennedy combines archival
footage and poetic text to question our footing in the world: is it ever
permissible to stumble or fall? Echo by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof boldly
explores homesickness and cultural yearning through visual imagery, song
and text. In this atypical self-portrait, the artist has created a
photogram of her body that acts as a travelling matte through the
countryside of her native land as she mouths an old Polish immigrant's
song; the original recording pierces like an arrow through the distance
of time. Like Echo, The Butterfly in Winter is a poignant personal
document offering impressionistic glimpses of beauty. It concludes the
trilogy Here It Is Very Nice at the Moment, begun by Ute Aurand and
Maria Lang in 1981. A fast-moving yet serene portrait, the film depicts
Lang at home, lovingly tending to her ninety-six-year-old mother. Every
day is the same and every day is different, as the rituals of waking,
washing and eating are filled with physical and emotional truth. From
diary to love letter, we move to Enrico Mandirola's sensual Monica, a
multilingual and border-crossing search for that same profound truth of
existence. Muddy and mysterious, Monica comes into being just as it
begins to slip away.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2007
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9/9
Naples / Napoli, Na, Italy: Movies Event
http://www.accordiedisaccordi.com
09:10pm, Parco del POGGIO - Viale del Poggio di Capodimonte
ACCORDI @ DISACCORDI OPEN AIR CINEMA FESTIVAL
The Open-air Film Festival, held yearly for at least two months,
showcases the best of European and International Cinema. This Outdoor
Film Festival counts this year its eighth, will take place from June
29th until September 9th 2007, and with the attendance of over 30,000
viewers screens features, documentaries, shorts, pocket movies and music
videos. The projections start at 9.10 pm and last until full night; open
air screenings rise in Arena * Parco del POGGIO * (HILL Park), the
fabulous and picturesque site near the Capodimonte Area in Naples /
Napoli NA Italy. It's a special delight in order to enjoy cinema beneath
the stars on warm summer nights in an amphiteatre equipped with one of
the widest projection screens in Italy, which rises up having an
artificial lake all around. These events really make people revive the
movies each night of the Festival! The admittance price is very cheap:
Euro 3.50 per day. Details of films shown as part of the screening
programs will be released and available for this Open-air Film Festival
at the end of June 2007 on the official website.
http://www.accordiedisaccordi.com
9/9
Sausalito: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:00pm, Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: TRUTH
2005 Headlands alumnus Jeanne C. Finley and partner John Muse's Lost
(with John Muse) combines an excerpt from the audio diary of an Army
Chaplain serving in Iraq, who must reconcile his soldiers' justifiable
shooting of an Iraqi man with the dismal reality that the dead man's
widow and children now face, with a serene and foggy landscape symbolic
of its narrator's clouded perspective. 2007 Headlands Artist in
Residence Magnus Bärtås' series of short documentaries, Who is...?
reenact their subjects' eclectic biographies in large and small detail,
their histories translated from memory by the filmmaker from
conversations many years earlier. 2004 Headlands alumnus Ramin Bahrani's
2005 feature Man Push Cart tells the story of a Pakistani coffee-cart
vendor in New York City, played by an actor whose own biography overlaps
substantially with the fictional narrative. (Anuradha Vikram, Headlands
Center for the Arts)
9/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.tiff07.ca
7:15 PM, Varsity 7
WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME 4: IN THE SPACE OF TIME
In this "space of time," works of pure cinema draw inspiration from life
– from art, objects, nature and emotions. Leading British avant-garde
filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn is known for evoking the beauty in the everyday.
His Quartet comprises four variations on the same twenty shots of a
room, all beautiful "still lives." In the first two sections of the
film, each shot contains an element of the subsequent shot, forming a
necklace of images. These are strung together through a studied and
sensual accumulation of time and space, both on the screen and in the
imaginary. Thereafter, a release from structure compels us from
contemplation toward memory and recreation. As a filmmaker, painter and
expert in textile art, Hannes Schüpbach is intimately attentive to the
ineffable yet physical act of creation. His Erzählung is a graceful
portrait of Cesare Ferronato, an eighty-year-old Italian sculptor living
and working in Zurich. Filmed in Zurich and Montelicciano, Italy, in
2006, Erzählung displays Schüpbach's signature style – subtlety,
layering, silence, cadence, photographic beauty – as it observes a life
devoted to the artistic process. With Schüpbach as sensitive witness,
the work harbours an inspiring meeting of two artists, and just as wax
and stone are sculpted, so too is time. Quotidian moments of shared joy
and companionship hold the potential for greatness. Punctuated with an
effective use of black frames, this silent film bespeaks a mystery that
hovers within and between the images, between the sculptor and those
with whom he shares his life, and between film and sculpture as artistic
forms. As works in both media come to completion, a triumphant sense of
human endeavour lingers beyond this tale. The programme draws to a close
with gone by Karø Goldt, who describes the work as "a farewell film."
Using experimental photographic prints as her source material, the
artist extracts the essence of things, mining their unique colours and
their ephemeral impressions. The billowing softness of gone is created
through animating a photograph of an arum flower and, together with a
wistful musical score, the video stages a beautiful evanescence. The end
approaches, but memory promises to endure.
9/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.tiff07.ca
9:45 PM, Varsity 1
WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME 5: SCHINDLER'S HOUSES
In Thailand, a Royal Anthem honouring the King is played before all film
screenings and is therefore an integral part of the experience of going
to the cinema. With characteristic joy and narrative experimentation,
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand's brightest cinematic export,
fashions his own pre-film anthem: a five-minute feel-good, ritualistic
blessing meant to ensure the main attraction's success. Lighthearted yet
precisely constructed, The Anthem is a delightfully offbeat celebration
of cinema for its collective experience as much as its temporal movement
in space, or in other words, for its external as well as internal
architecture. The latest feature film by Heinz Emigholz, Schindler's
Houses is the twelfth work in this leading German avant-garde
filmmaker's ongoing and critically lauded Photography and Beyond series.
Begun in 1984, this singular series, which will ultimately amount to
twenty-five films on art and design, has garnered Emigholz a solid place
among the world's greatest aesthetes. Emigholz employs the tools of
filmmaking to meditate on the physical beauty of man-made works of art,
namely buildings. Employing a taxonomic approach to an architectural
body of work – "architecture as autobiography," as Emigholz calls it –
Schindler's Houses presents us with just that: forty houses built in and
around Los Angeles by Austro-American architect Rudolf M. Schindler
between 1931 and 1952. Following an esteemed (and precarious) tutelage
with Frank Lloyd Wright, Schindler went on to become one of the key
figures in twentieth-century Modernist American architecture, using
California as his muse and developing a personal artistic vocabulary
which embraced heterogeneity. Introducing each Schindler dwelling with a
title card and the date on which it was filmed (all in May 2006), the
film embodies structural precision. Emigholz's camera is as resolutely
still as his eye is exacting, serving up one gorgeous image after the
next. The sound is rich with life, even in its silences. As Schindler's
buildings are presented in their current states, an underlying theme of
urban decay lends a prescient tone to the film, making it one of the
most contemporary and compelling portraits of Los Angeles yet seen.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2007
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9/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://www.tiff07.ca
9:30 PM, Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME 6: POUR VOS BEAUX YEUX
The title of Henri Storck's rarely seen Surrealist tale Pour vos beaux
yeux – recently rediscovered and restored by La Cinémathèque française –
sets the agenda for this programme of (un)earthly delights. The works
gathered here rely on chance and experimentation to come into being,
taunting normal viewing experiences and blurring reality – playfully,
exquisitely and daringly. Before working alongside Joris Ivens and
becoming one of the world's pre-eminent documentarians, Storck dabbled
in Surrealism with many of his European avant-garde confreres of the
twenties and thirties. His 1929 Pour vos beaux yeux (made in
collaboration with painter Félix Labisse) tells the tale of a young
dandy who tries to send a glass eye through the mail, to no avail.
Optical fascination is also the theme of Pip Chodorov's op
art-influenced Faux Mouvements, whose spirals recall Marcel Duchamp's
Anemic Cinema and refer to the ubiquitous shape of film reels endlessly
unspooling. The film's trippy sensations, created by simultaneous
forward and backward motion, remind us of cinema's inherent propensity
for the magic of illusion. The powers of alchemy flaunt their allure in
Chris Kennedy's Tape Film. Cycling through five different film stocks
and a variety of processing methods, this portrait of the artist at play
tremors between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. In John
Price's otherworldly ecp 2D: sun, a home-movie snippet is transformed
into a bold colour frieze. Shot with a hand-wound twenties 35mm camera
and processed by hand, the resulting footage yields colour from another
realm. Charlotte Pryce's Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3, three
miniatures composed of heliographic plant studies both observed and
imagined, evokes the fairytale enchantment of the forest. Like
marginalia come to life, the illuminated plants exist somewhere between
reality and our imagination. Papillon by Olivier Fouchard is a whimsical
pop art resurrection of two-dimensional images – butterflies, letters
and other shapes – that are embroidered onto film leader. The programme
concludes with an in situ projector performance by Bruce McClure.
Created with two modified 16mm projectors fitted with punched metal
plate inserts, patterned film loops and guitar pedals, Evertwo
Circumflicksrent…Page 298 is a feverish excursion into flickering light
and intense reverberating sound – from which there may be no desire to
return.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
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9/11
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street
SPELLBOUND
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents SPELLBOUND -- Phantoms of the
dearly departed, female contortionists, history brought to life, and
fruit turned into preserves right before your very eyes! Spend an
evening with the undulating specters of Kerry Laitala with her
multi-projection performance Hocus Pocus ABRACADABRA , live poetry
readings, the roller-coaster sensations of life in 1980s Marin County,
live music by Amber Asylum, some circus circus, and more. Featuring THE
MARKET (Ana Husman, Croatia, US Premiere) A stop-motion homage to
locally grown produce and tight-knit communities. The ladies of this
Croatian market gregariously share the art of growing the perfect piece
of fruit and how to prepare traditional preserves. But do not dare cross
the unspoken boundary and handle the goods—these jolly ladies mean
business. Gracie Bucciarelli presents the World Premiere of JUST BECAUSE
YOU CAN part of a series titled, The Public Land Portrait Series. Plus
more so much more.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
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9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS PRESENTS SOME ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ABOUT OUR WORLDDOCS, MOCKS
& MORE
Alex Harder WE HEAR SIRENS (2006, 3 minutes, video). Images from 9/11.
&. Gary Null. GULF WAR SYNDROME - KILLING OUR OWN. 2007, 113 minutes,
video. The US sent soldiers to Iraq - little did these soldiers know
that their own government would inflict greater harm upon them than the
enemy by exposing them to deadly chemicals, depleted uranium and
radiation, all causing severe and often irreversible health problems and
death while the government denies it all.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Frank Craven GROUND ZERO (2006, 28 minutes, video). Was it a Reichstag
fire? An alternative view of 9/11.
9/12
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street
FRAME BY FRAME
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents FRAME BY FRAME - Animators are
meticulous artists many of whom work one frame at a time. With such
complete control over their medium these filmmakers are able to bring
more perfectly to life the world's of their imagination. This program
takes viewers through delicately painted glass, painstaking clay-mation,
spare pencil-drawings, hand-manipulated sand, and innovative digital
imagery for tales of imperfect love, unfulfilled dreams, righteous
resistance, and the ironies of existence. VIOLETA (Marc Riba and Anna
Solanas, Spain, CA Premiere) occupies a dreary blood-soaked world,
fishing day and night in the murky waters that somehow team with fish.
LOVESICK (Spela Cadez, Slovenia/Germany, US Premiere) is a clay-mation
love story between a boy with leaky tear ducts and a girl whose body is
on backwards. THE MALL ON TOP OF MY HOUSE (Aditi Chitre, India, US
Premiere) portrays coastal Bombay, where fishing communities got buried
under rubble to make way for progress. One fisherman who lives under the
rubble emerges to cross the city, navigating blaring horns, monumental
malls and signs that tell him where he can and cannot step. THE
GAURANTEE (Jesse Epstein, US, West Coast Premiere), a documentary drawn
before our eyes, tells of a dancer with perfect form but a jutting
proboscis that gets in the way of his career.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2007
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9/13
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
TOMMY’S CHICAGO: NEWLY PRESERVED FILMS BY TOM PALAZZOLO 1967–1976
Co-presented by Chicago Filmmakers. Tom Palazzolo in person! For over
four decades, Chicago legend and SAIC alum Tom Palazzolo ("Tommy
Chicago") has documented the unorthodox rituals of the Windy City with
genuine affection and wonder. From frantic deli owners to the unveiling
of the Picasso sculpture, Palazzolo's work is suffused with mischievous
humor and an uncanny eye for the surreal. Tonight's screening features
seven newly preserved prints of Palazzolo's early films: LOVE IT / LEAVE
IT (1967); THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE (1967); O (1967); TATTOOED LADY
(1967); JERRY'S (1976); AMERICA'S IN REAL TROUBLE (1967); and HE (1967).
Prints preserved by Chicago Filmmakers with funding from the Avant-Garde
Masters program and the National Film Preservation Foundation. (USA,
16mm, ca 75 min)
9/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: RECONCILIATION
In the films featured tonight, fabrication and nonfiction collide, meld
and intertwine to confront truth, reality and expression. 1999 Headlands
alumnus Aline Mayer's S'Aline's Solution expresses with haunting
complexity the agony and affirmation of an abortion. Roger Deutsch's
Mario Makes a Movie is the story of a developmentally disabled man who
learns how to use a movie camera. Deutsch's film mimics the style of
personal documentary leaving the viewer to question, "Who really is
Mario?" In The Stillness in the Room, current Headlands MFA Awardee,
Vanessa Woods, evokes the poetry of death, mourning and decay in the
visual imagery of Queen Victoria's "weeping veil" and by putting the
celluloid itself through a process of decay. Todd Herman's Forbidden
Acts explores the limits that social institutions attempt to impose on
the expression of the body, sexuality and disability. Who is Bozo
Texino? by 1999 Headlands alumnus Bill Daniel, explores the truths of
vagabond subculture and reveals the romantic appeal of wanderlust in
American society.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2007
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9/14
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
ALLEGORIES OF THE REAL. Our everyday lives, whether grounded in nature
or technology, are inscribed as cycles of life and death within the
natural world. Our sense of personal identity, understanding of others
and potential for development are based on our opportunities and life
experiences as well as observations of many things including the world
of animals and nature, other social communities, media culture and
fantastic journeys into imagined realities. Many of these aspects of
reality simultaneously combine mythic drama with everyday life. The
artists in Allegories of the Real explore ordinary and extreme cases of
individual experiences in terms of madness, transgression and coping
with loss. Through personal diaries, dark humor, irony and reflective
monologues, these works affirm what it means to be human at the
threshold of life, transformation and mortality. – Patrick Clancy.
ARTCIRQ, Natar Ungalaaq (Nunavut), Guillaume Saladin (Canada), 2001, 51
min., video shown on DVD. MOTHER ON TRIAL: GATHERING VOICES IN THE
THEATER OF ATTRACTION, Kristine Diekman (USA), 2006, 12 min., video. THE
PRESENT, Robert Frank (USA/ Switzerland), 1996, 24 min., video. TRUE
STORY, Robert Frank (USA/ Switzerland), 2004, 26 min., video.
9/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
ALL CIRCUITS ON: THE BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY
What on earth did people do before there was TV? Tonight's sophomore
installment of ALL CIRCUITS ON attempts to answer this burning question
with a panoramic presentation of videos, performances and fun-filled
facts. . Engineer/Filmmaker/Philosopher Park Doing will be on hand to
tell us the true story of early TV; how it was created, contested and
co-opted. You may not know that in 1928 the first live drama broadcast,
a three-camera production called THE QUEEN'S MESSENGER, was received on
a General Electric Octagon set in Schenectady, New York. In 1931, the
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) broadcast experimental signals from
the Empire State Building, featuring a familiar cartoon character, Felix
the Cat. Prof. Doing, whose forthcoming book from the MIT Press is
titled VELVET REVOLUTION AT THE SYNCHROTRON, will shine a light on the
story behind and technology involved in these nascent broadcasts. He
will even have some of it on hand for a show-and-tell demonstration. You
haven't seen anything till you've witnessed a functioning Mechanical TV,
or the films that Doing has made with this odd and wonderful device.
This talk will be presented alongside a staged re-telling of TV's
origins by TVTV and, well, one of the best uses of the medium thus far,
THE GONG SHOW. ALL CIRCUITS ON is a new Anthology series produced in
close collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the
world's leading nonprofit resources for video and media art since 1971.
Together we are revisiting our roots, combining forces and bringing our
archives together to increase the potential for rarely-screened works
from the early days of video exploration (which is to say pre-1979).
Anthology gratefully acknowledges the support of this series from the
Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds, which is supported
by public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New
York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks to Sherry Miller Hocking.
Organized by Rebecca Cleman (EAI) & Andrew Lampert (Anthology). Works to
be screened include: TVTV. BIRTH OF AN INDUSTRY. 1977, 18 minutes,
video. Directed by Harold Ramis; written by Frank Cavestany, Hudson
Marquez, Harold Ramis, Michael Shamberg, and Willie Walker. A fictional,
at times satirical portrayal of the rise of television and the death of
radio, rooting the story in a greater American mythology. The historic
figures of Philo Farnsworth, Edward Armstrong, and David Sarnoff are
reduced to archetypes in a stand-off between the little man and Big
Media. By now, we know who wins. Tony Labat & Bruce Pollack. BRUCE AND
TONY ON "THE GONG SHOW". 1978, 28 minutes, video. Tony Labat and his
frequent collaborator Bruce Pollack created an appropriately absurd
performance for their appearance on the popular American variety/talent
show. In a line-up that includes a man singing "God Bless America"
through his nostrils and a woman who bends herself into a pretzel, Bruce
and Tony manage to present a performance so absurd it defies ridicule.
See it to believe it.
9/14
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street at 21st Street
AT THE MARGINS
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents AT THE MARGINS Exiles,
migrants, the homeless, and the oppressed move from the margins to take
center stage in these surprisingly hopeful docs. Twelve women strip
themselves naked on the streets of Manipur in protest. A young woman has
been on a fast demanding justice; she is forcibly nose-fed and kept
under arrest by the government for more than six years. Tales from the
Margins (Kavita Joshi, India, US Premiere) explores why the women of
Manipur, a state in northeastern India, using their bodies both as their
last weapon and a battlefield. Niko (Lesya Kalynska, Ukraine, West Coast
Premiere) follows a former freedom fighter with the Georgian National
Liberation Movement who now struggles for daily survival as an illegal
immigrant in New York City. Through sculpting and painting, he finds
another kind of freedom in the creative process. Ãgtux (Tania Anaya,
Brazil, US Premiere)is the Maxakali Indian word for telling stories.
These native Brazilians have rich traditions of art and music and once
roamed the breadth of Brazil from the mining state of Minas Gerais to
Bahia on the northeast coast. Now reduced to merely 1,200 in number,
they live in misery on a tiny reservation in the Valley of Mucuri. Using
experimental documentary techniques and animation, this film restores
the Maxakali to their former glories.
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9/16
Lincoln, NE: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.com/tour_show_12.htm
Prog-1: 1:30PM Prog-2: 4:30 PM, Ross Media Arts Center
TIE, THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION - A RETROSPECTIVE
Since 2000, the internationally-based TIE festival has been a leading
champion of artists still working in the medium of film, with a
particular focus on both new and historical avant-garde cinema. TIE
returns to UNL with two new programs specifically selected for The Ross
by TIE founder/director Christopher May. The exhibition features an
eclectic range of experimental films that illuminate the continuing
vitality and beauty of celluloid, while subtle and at times obvious
philosophical and thematic curatorial gestures conduct the flow of the
programs.Program 1: Pan of the Landscape (Christopher Becks, 11 min.,
Canada, 16mm, 2005) Vom Innen; von aussen (Albert Sackl, 20 min.,
Austria,16mm, 2006) Peng Peng (Dietmar Brehm, 7 min., Austria, 16mm,
2006) The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson,
11 min., U.S., 16mm, 2006) Living (Frans Zwartjes, 15 min., Netherlands,
16mm, 1971) Fourth Watch (9 min., Janie Geiser, U.S., 16mm, 2000) Outer
Space (10 min., Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 35mm,
1999)____________________________________________Program 2: Fuses
(Carolee Schneemann, 25 min., U.S., 16mm, 1965) Blow Job (Andy Warhol,
35 min., U.S., 16mm, 1963) Silk (Luther Price, U.S., 16mm, 2007) Meat
Packing House (Eduardo Darino, 17 min., Uruguay, 16mm, 1981)
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