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This week [September 15 - 23, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline:
November 16, 2007)
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Radar Festival (UK; Deadline: October 07, 2007)
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TOFIFEST - International Film Festival (Torun, Poland; Deadline: September
30, 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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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.; Deadline: October 01,
2007)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA, USA; Deadline: September 25,
2007)
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Artist's Television Access (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 01, 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;
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Rhythm from Wreckage! (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: October 10, 2007)
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Radar Festival (UK; Deadline: October 07, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Light Spill By Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder [September 15, Portland,
Oregon]
* New vision Cinema Series [September 16, Brooklyn, New York]
* Tie, the International Experimental Cinema Exposition - A
Retrospective [September 16, Lincoln, NE]
* Light Spill By Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder [September 16, Portland,
Oregon]
* Id Docs [September 18, San Francisco, California]
* Up the River, Easy Riders [September 18, San Francisco, California]
* Newfilmmakers Studies Urban Life and Romancedocs, Mocks & More
[September 19, New York, New York]
* A Tribute To Helen Hill [September 19, San Francisco, California]
* Guerrilla Television [September 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Eyes, Ears and Other Orifices:More Oddities From America's Foremost
16mm
Collectors [September 20, New York, New York]
* Electromediascope [September 21, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Basement Basement [September 21, London, England]
* A/V Geeks Presents:Why We're Fat
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* My Daughter the Terrorist [September 21, San Francisco, California]
* Close To Home [September 21, San Francisco, California]
* /Hot Nasty Special/: A 16mm Experimental Film Screening [September 21,
San Francisco, California]
* Sonic Oddities With Stephen Parr [September 22, New York, New York]
* On the Edge: Experimental Animation From Usc's John C. Hench Division
of
Animation & Digital Arts [September 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Eyes, Ears and Other Orifices: Carcinemagesis: A Medical Material
Mash-Up
(U.S. 20's-70') [September 23, New York, New York]
* 4 Elements [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* 4 Elements [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* Between States [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* The Manhattan Short Film Festival [September 23, Union Square Park]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007
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9/15
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
noon, Affair at the Jupiter Hotel
LIGHT SPILL BY SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER
Cinema Project will be participating in this years Affair at the Jupiter
Hotel where we will present Light Spill, an installation by Luis Recoder
and Sandra Gibson. In Light Spill, the artists use the base materials of
a cinema projector and celluloid to examine light, space, and time.
Seated in a gallery, a 16mm projector is setup without a take-up reel,
the machine spills its contents on to the floor of the gallery, slowly
accumulating throughout the run of the exhibition. Noon through seven
pm. More information available at www.cinemaproject.org and
www.affair-jupiterhotel.com.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2007
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9/16
Brooklyn, New York: new vision cinema series
9 pm, east coast aliens. 216 franklin ave.
NEW VISION CINEMA SERIES
New Vision Cinema Series Sunday, September 16, 2007. 9:00PM Continuing
in the tradition of the Invisible Film Series, the New Vision Cinema
Series presents a broad range of film and videos from an equally-diverse
selection of cineastes. Founded in 2000 by Jennifer MacMillan as the
Invisible Film Series, the New Vision Cinema Series has endeavored to
showcase the talents of some of the finest local (and sometimes, not-so-
local) independent film and video talents of the Greater New York City
area. With the departure of Ms. MacMillan from its fold (a hard act to
follow), the series has been under the sole curatorship of its former
co-curator, Michael Park. Box office opens at 8:30 PM and tickets are
$6.00 a person. Formerly these works were only viewable at the
Millennium Film Workshop and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists' Coalition
Gallery. 1. WELCOME TO NORMAL by Marianna Ellenberg (DVD, 2007, 7 min.)
2. WAVE by Ross McLaren (DVD, 2007, 3 min.) 3. LICK IT, LIKE IT by
Robert Flanagan and Suzan Al-Doghachi (DVD, 2007, 2 min.) 4. PUGSLY: A
MANHATTAN DOG STORY by Dmitry Torgovitsky (VHS, 2006, 8 min.) 5.
BLUEBIRD SEWANEE by Athena Soules (DVD, 2006, 2 1/2 min) 6. A GIRL AND A
GOLDFISH by Kelly Sebastian (DVD, 2005, 9 min) 7. THE STROKE OF LIFE by
D Devero (DVD, 2003, 16 min) 8. NAILS by William Palminteri (DVD, 2007,
5 1/2 min) 9. 407 by Ryan Claypool (DVD, 2007, 5 1/2 min) 10. INTRO by
Bill Poznanski and Janene Knox (DVD, 2006, 7 min) 11. IRENE by Tim
Reardon (DVD, 2007, 4 min) 12. KUMULIPO by Noe Kidder and Mark Gallay
(DVD, 2003, 5 min) 13. RESIST! by Michael Park (DVD, 2005, 19 min.) 14.
THRUST IN ME by Nick Zedd and Richard Kern (DVD, 1985. 8 min) 15. THE
CONNECTING WORLD by Ian Dickey (DVD, 2006, 19 1/2 min) Directions to
East Coast Aliens: Take the V or E trains to the 23rd/ Court stop in
Long Island City. Switch to the G train to Greenpoint Avenue. Take a
left at the top of the stairs leading out of the subway and walk to
Franklin Ave. Take a right down Franklin Avenue about three to four
blocks. East Coast Aliens is at 216 Franklin Avenue.
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)
9/16
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
noon-7pm, Affair at the Jupiter Hotel
LIGHT SPILL BY SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER
Cinema Project will be participating in this years Affair at the Jupiter
Hotel where we will present Light Spill, an installation by Luis Recoder
and Sandra Gibson. In Light Spill, the artists use the base materials of
a cinema projector and celluloid to examine light, space, and time.
Seated in a gallery, a 16mm projector is setup without a take-up reel,
the machine spills its contents on to the floor of the gallery, slowly
accumulating throughout the run of the exhibition. Noon through seven
pm. More information available at www.cinemaproject.org and
www.affair-jupiterhotel.com.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
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9/18
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Precita
ID DOCS
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents ID DOCS - Identity cannot be
reduced to stats on a badge. It is both personal and public, elusive and
fixed. Using a patient camera and lyrical imagery, these filmmakers
gently probe how society, biology, place, and even appliances play a
role in who we are and how we think of ourselves and others. Miriam,
Impression of Light (An Coenen, Belgium, US Premiere) chronicles an
adopted albino girl and her boyfriend as they talk about her identity
and appearance. How does it feel to be different in a world that strives
for uniformity and perfection? Benidorm (Carolin Schmitz, Germany, US
Premiere) In high tourist season eager sunbathers flock to Benidorm's
concrete coast on the Mediterranean for its endless sun and cheap
amusements. Off season, its residents are largely pensioners. Winner of
the 2006 German Short Film Prize, this documentary examines the changing
age structure of our society and its obligatory clich
)s through the lens
of this small Spanish town. The Widows' Coast (Janina Lapinskaite,
Lithuania, US Premiere) a poetic portrait of the residents of a Baltic
seacoast village whose lives are marked by painful loss. The heroes of
the film are widows who face their seemingly tragic destiny with the
strength and vitality usually reserved for the unscathed. I Am Me
(Kathrin Resetarits, Austria, US Premiere) Twin ballerinas Olga and
Anastasia can be made to dress alike and look identical. But when they
dance the part of the dying swan, their movements demonstrate two
individual personalities. Following two sets of twins, the filmmaker
explores the meaning of individuality in uncommon and everyday routine.
Come early for FREE BBQ!
9/18
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm , SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street
UP THE RIVER, EASY RIDERS
Scott Barlett's freeform documentary of a hippie commune, Greenfield,
serves as a background to this collection of films from the Bay area
Beat era. Joel Singer's Fractive Clusters kaladeiscopes the natural
world into a a thousand pieces, Wallace Berman, publisher of Semina
Culture, creates a visual tapestry of his artwork in Aleph and Guvnor
Nelson plays with loops and freedom, exploring her daughter's world in
My Name is Oona. Finally, David Brooks' Eel Creek brings us out of the
Bay Area entirely to take us fishing.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2007
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9/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS STUDIES URBAN LIFE AND ROMANCEDOCS, MOCKS & MORE
CJ Critt ANATOMY OF AN EVICTION (2006, 7 minutes, video). Cybele
Policastro HOW TO STUFF AN ARTICHOKE (2007, 18 minutes, video). Alana
Kakoyiannis COSMOPOLIS (2007, 10 minutes, video). Vivian Tse TAILOR
MADE
(2006, 15 minutes, video).
9/19
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Precita
A TRIBUTE TO HELEN HILL
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents A Tribute to HELEN HILL
Do-it-yourself and make it fun. Those were the watchwords of
experimental film artist Helen Hill. A South Carolina native and
graduate of both Harvard and CalArts, Hill had most recently been
living
in New Orleans with her husband Dr. Paul Gailiunas and their young son
Francis Pop. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in Mid-City,
the family moved to Faubourg Marigny to start again, when, on January
4,
2007, Helen was shot and killed by an intruder. She was 36 years old.
Known for her warm and funny depictions of the world around her, she
was
generous with her knowledge, sharing what she learned about handcrafted
filmmaking with students and fellow filmmakers in the sourcebook,
Recipes for Disaster: a handcrafted film cookbooklet. A meticulous
artist, she was never precious about the work, once saying, "It's fun
to
handle film as a celluloid canvas rather than as a fragile carrier of
images only to be handled by lab technicians. You can experiment and
create the most beautiful images ever." MadCat is proud to pay tribute
to this special artist and her work, with films restored by the Harvard
Film Archive, many of which were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Helen
was
working on The Florestine Collection, inspired by a collection of 100
hand-sewn dresses she found in a garbage pile in New Orleans, when she
died. The film, like her life, remains unfinished. Come early for FREE
BBQ and to pick up a new copy of Recipes for Disaster. Proceeds go to
the Frances Pop Educational Fund.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
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9/20
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
GUERRILLA TELEVISION
Co-presented by the Media Burn Independent Video Archive and the Video
Data Bank. Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Chip Lord in person! The
1970s
gave rise to a network of radical video makers who set out to create a
feisty alternative to broadcast television. Decades before the
so-called
media democratization offered by YouTube, cell phone cameras, and
hundred-channel cable, these artist-activists turned their Portapaks on
protesters, politicians, and the men-, women-, and
children-on-the-street to create startlingly candid documentaries that
aired on a system of closed-circuit, pirate, and early cable stations,
even infiltrating broadcast television itself. Hailing from seminal
guerrilla collectives Videofreex, Ant Farm, and TVTV, artists Nancy
Cain, Skip Blumberg, and Chip Lord present an overview of their
pioneering work and discuss its legacy today. ANT FARM'S DIRTY DISHES
(Ant Farm, 1971); FOUR MORE YEARS & THE WORLD'S LARGEST TV STUDIO
(TVTV,
1972, excerpt); MEDIA BURN (Ant Farm, 1975, excerpt); GREETINGS FROM
LANESVILLE: HOME OF PROBABLY THE WORLD'S SMALLEST TV STATION
(Videofreex, 1976, excerpt); FLYING MORNING GLORY (ON FIRE) (Skip
Blumberg, 1985); REPENT KRISHNA (Nancy Cain, 1989); CAMNET (Nancy Cain,
1990s, excerpt); TIME CAPSULE 1972C
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1984 (Ant Farm, 2000); NAM JUNE PAIK:
LESSONS FROM THE VIDEO MASTER (Skip Blumberg, 2007). This program is
made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council,
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General
Assembly. Various formats.
9/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
EYES, EARS AND OTHER ORIFICES:MORE ODDITIES FROM AMERICA'S FOREMOST 16MM
COLLECTORS
For many, September signals the return to school. At Anthology it means
yet another awe-inspiring weekend of orphan movies, found footage and
cheap door prizes from America's foremost 16mm film collectors. From
educational reels to medical atrocities, this year's installment
promises nothing less than a total cinematic maelstrom. The series kicks
off with a stimulating installment of Anthology's UNESSENTIAL CINEMA
series presented by Archivist Andrew Lampert. This special show will
feature a generous selection of deranged detritus up from the darkest
corners of our basement. Skip Elsheimer, the original A/V Geek, arrives
with filmstrip projector in hand for an evening of films about
nutrition, nourishment and not-so-subtle product placement. Those who
have seen Skip's shows revere his unerring ability to discover the most
delusional and delightful educational films ever foisted upon children.
Stephen Parr, of Oddball Films and the San Francisco Media Archive, has
threatened to bring a potent and confounding concoction of seedy and
questionable clips from his celluloid reservoir. There is always a touch
of class in Parr's trash and you never know what goods he will unveil.
Greg Pierce, of Pittsburgh's Orgone Archive, one-ups his previous
perilous programs with an evening's worth of medical footage that will
be as easy on the eyes as it is possibly hard on the brain. Expect a
pre-op/post-op parade of cuts, splices and almost incisions guaranteed
to burn an impression onto your retinas. . A couple years back
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA presented a memorable evening called CHOOSE YOUR OWN
ADVENTURE. Eleven films were pre-selected from Anthology's vast vaults
of unknown, unscreened and unclasssifiable goodies. The hitch is that we
only had time to watch eight of them. No information other than titles
was given to our faithful audience who then had to decide, debate and
vote on what we would screen. Totally incongruous, filled with chance
turns and rife with bizarre associations, what followed was a frantic
show loaded with hot debate, sharp comments and the overlapping
double-projection of the Reagans with the dissection of a rat. Tonight,
we return to this simple concept for yet another fateful test of our
fragile democratic process in action. Reels will be chosen from recent
donations, discoveries and dumpster dives. We can't really tell you what
else to expect, which is why you will have to be here to learn more.
This is how the game is played.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
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9/21
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.
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Patrick Clancy.
ELEGY, Joe Gibbons (USA), 1991, 11 min., video. SUICIDE, Shelly Silver
(USA), 2003, 70 min., video. Additional ALLEGORIES OF THE REAL programs
on Sept. 14 and 28.
9/21
London, England: The Lux
http://www.lux.org.uk
7.30.pm, Basement Gallery, Candid Arts, 3 Torrens St,
BASEMENT BASEMENT
A celebration of the artist run space Ayton Basement, Newcastle through
work by some of the artists who showed there. In 1976 a few month after
artists run space 2B Butler's Wharf opened in London, Ayton Basement
opened on the quayside in Newcastle Upon Tyne. 'A space run by artists
for contemporary work in video, film, and live performance'. It would
present work by Kevin Atherton, Eric Bainbridge, Paul Burwell, Nicolas
Collins, Stuart Marshall, David Critchely, Roland Miller and Shirley
Cameron, Jenny Okun, Stephen Partridge, Alison Winckle, amongst others
including the five founder members Keith Frake, Nigel Frost, David
Killen, Peter Todd, Margaret Warwick. Many of these artists would also
be active in other organisations including, London Film Makers Co-op,
London Musicians Collective, and London Video Arts. In due course Ayton
Basement would become Basement Group and move to a new venue in Spectro
Arts Workshop, and then continue to evolve with a new group of artists
taking on Basement Group which would become Projects UK and continues
today in Newcastle as Locus +. Curated by Peter Todd. Programme. Pea
Soup. Nicolas Collins. 1974-76, sound CD.. 16 mins. Recorded live at
Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic. June 1999. Nicolas Collins,
electronics, George Cremsachi, double bass. A self-stabilizing network
of circuitry nudges the pitch of audio feedback to a different resonant
frequency every time the feedback starts to build. The familiar shriek
is replaced with unstable patterns of hollow tones, a site-specific raga
reflecting the acoustical personality of the room. These architectural
melodies can be influenced by moving in the space, making other sounds,
or even by letting in a draft of cold air. Clouds. Jenny Okun. 1975,
Color, 3 Minutes. 16mm silent.This film contrasts the concepts of
relative motion and absolute motion. The speed and direction of the car
and clouds, the spiralling motion of the camera, and the stationary
factory chimneys all combine to produce the illusion of space within the
frame. Still Life. Jenny Okun. 1976, silent, colour, 6 mins, 16mm
silent. Still Life explores the transformation of an image from colour
negative to colour positive on one film stock. The still life was
painted its colour negative during filming and then the exposed film was
processed and then printed on colour negative printstock. Pedagogue.
Neil Bartlett and Stuart Marshall. 1988, 10mins, video. A short
performance to camera by solo performer/dramatist Neil Bartlett.
PEDAGOGUE explores in comic style the possible implications of Clause
28. Through Clause 28, the British Government took powers to outlaw the
'promotion of homosexuality' in education and local government. Three
Pieces Performed at the Robert Self Gallery Newcastle 1976. Peter Todd.
Reformatted from original stills in 2006 by Susi Arnott. 2.5 mins. DVD.
Three pieces presented during One Artist One Day at the short lived but
influential Newcastle branch of the Robert Self Gallery. Pieces I Never
Did. David Critchley. new expanded performance version 1979, 35 mins,
video. "Talking to camera, I described ideas that had never got beyond a
note in a sketchbook. Paradoxically, I was able to resurrect on video
these items of personal performance that had been edged out by the
structuralism of early video art, such as shouting the words "Shut Up!"
until I lost my voice, having objects thrown at me until I changed
colour, and proposing to end the piece by blowing myself up. I intended
the piece to be colourful and action packed -". Idiophonics. Stuart
b Marshall. 1971-72. re-staged performance Duration
variable. A
performance for three people with castenets, and portable foghorns. With
special thanks to Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins. Free Admission.
Basement Basement celebrates the launch of the LUXONLINE Stuart Marshall
webpages http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/stuart_marshall/index.html.
Basement Basement marks the publication of THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT
YOU From the Collective Archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and
Locus+ (1977-2007), and follows on from a number of events, exhibitiong
and documentation covering this period including the exhibitions, 'fast
and loose (my dead gallery) London 1956
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2006 and the online exhibition
2B Butler's Wharf www.studycollection.co.uk/2B/index.html. THIS WILL NOT
HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU From the Collective Archive of The Basement Group,
Projects UK and Locus+ (1977-2007) will be on sale on the night.
Presented by LUX www.lux.org.uk in association Locus +
http://www.locusplus.org.uk and The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.
http://www.starandshadow.org.uk where a version of this programme will
be presented on Weds. 26th Sept.
9/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
A/V GEEKS PRESENTS:WHY WE'RE FAT
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For series description, see notes for Thursday, September 20. . It would
be easy to blame our nation's current weight problem on the confusing
nutritional information that we are exposed to everyday. However, these
entertaining films - unearthed from the A/V Geeks archive by the one and
only Skip Elsheimer - show us over 50 years of nutritional monkeyshines
by special interest groups (namely, the dairy, bread and potato chip
lobbyists). Join us and see if you can figure out "why we're fat.".
Films include: THE MAN WHO MISSED BREAKFAST. This wartime nutrition film
urges us to get our "daily 7" - seven food groups! Can you figure out
what they are? A hint - one of the food groups is butter! . YOUR DAILY
BREAD. Made by the American Bakers Association, this film informs us
that white bread is responsible for a new breed of super athletes thanks
to mysterious "enrichment wafers" which are added during the baking
process. They identify six food groups. EAT FOR HEALTH. Young, listless
Ralph figures out that his poor diet is keeping him from all the fun. He
uses his hand and his classmates to remember to eat from the five food
groups everyday. . MORE LIFE IN LIVING. The Dairy Association teaches us
that milk will not only make us healthy, it will also make us more
attractive, less shy, thinner and bring in a bigger paycheck. This film
tells us of only two food groups!. ADVENTURES OF CHIP & DIP. This film
is brought to us courtesy of the International Potato Chip Institute.
Besides getting some nifty dip recipes, we learn that potato chips are a
"power food" - providing our body with more energy than many
vegetables!. WHY DOESN'T KATHY EAT BREAKFAST?. One of the most
confounding films in the A/V Geeks archive, this short introduces us to
Kathy as she gets ready for school. Can you figure out why she doesn't
eat breakfast?.
9/21
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street at 21st Street
MY DAUGHTER THE TERRORIST
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents My Daughter The Terrorist
(Beate Arnestad, Norway/Sri Lanka, US Premiere) The Tamils have agitated
for independence from the Sri Lankan government since 1972. LTTE, or
Tamil Tigers, is the political and military arm of the unrecognized
nation, called Tamil Eelam. Black Tigers is the suicide brigade of the
LTTE who have inspired freedom fighters such as the PLO. Two close
friends, Dharsika and Puhalchudar, are members of the Black Tigers, and
have been eating, sleeping, training, and fighting side by side for
seven years. They now strap themselves to an American-made Claymore
mine. My Daughter the Terrorist looks at what life is like inside a
guerrilla organization, and the way the world appears in the eyes of the
alleged terrorist. It's about unthinkable acts and trying to understand
people who are firmly committed to doing the unthinkable.
9/21
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street at 21st Street
CLOSE TO HOME
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents CLOSE TO HOME a series of
daring short narratives explore the psychology of families, from penis
envy and cultural clashes, to humorously hot-tempered fathers and a
meditative child content to contemplate his rural, timeless world. The
Staring Girl (Sarah Lewis, Australia, US Premiere) about a young girl
has a powerful desire to break free from the traditional and wildly
inaccurate views of what means to be female. Dream and reality collide
in this meditative story, which exposes the enormous gap between adult
expectations and children's desires. A young pig slaughterer dreams of
escaping from his suffocating life in the Italian countryside in A
Moment to Breathe (Sara Colangelo, Italy, West Coast Premiere). Starring
Francesco Calabrese, a student of Lina Wertmuller, Giancarlo Giannini,
and Alice Teghil. Boreas (Belma Bas, Turkey, SF Premiere) Living with
elderly relatives in a remote old house in the mountains, a child
reticently observes the daily routine of rustic life and glimpses the
mysteries of life and death. A poetic short film, shot on 35mm, about
childhood visions of love and death.
9/21
San Francisco, California: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7:30 p.m., Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street, Ground
Floor screening room
/HOT NASTY SPECIAL/: A 16MM EXPERIMENTAL FILM SCREENING
Canyon Cinema and the Ninth Street Independent Film Center present /hot
nasty special,/ a program of short, erotically themed works from Canyon
Cinema's historic collection of 16mm avant-garde films. Rarely screened
gems by Tom Palazzolo ("Hot Nasty"), Carolee Schneeman ("Fuses"), Carl
Linder ("Womancock"), Stephanie Beroes ("Light Sleeping"), Herbert Jean
de Grasse ("Film Watchers"), Anne Parker Severson ("Riverbody") and
Dominic Angerame ("Consume") will be presented. The body erotic is
territory that has long been transversed by avant-garde cinema, and this
program explores the borders of these sensual nether regions in both
content and form. Tom Palazzolo's "Hot Nasty" reveals the human element
through the interior of a Chicago "massage" parlor, while "Fuses"
combines low-angle sensuality with direct filmmaking, exposing the film
to nature's elements. Through representational and more poetic forms,
these films reclaim sexuality from the pornographic; they are suffused
with humanity and spiked with humor. Many films from Canyon Cinema's
collection are not available elsewhere, and so this screening is a rare
treat for those interested in experimental cinema and in seeing these
works projected on 16mm celluloid film. Canyon Cinema is an organization
of filmmakers, which supports, promotes, distributes and preserves
independent cinematic works of art. Canyon Cinema has been distributing
motion picture films from the Bay Area to exhibition venues around the
world for the past 45 years. During this time period Canyon has become
the world's premiere distributor of independently produced avant-garde
and experimental film. Our inventory includes more than 3000 motion
picture films and videotapes, and traces the history of the experimental
and avant-garde filmmaking movement from the 1930's to the present. Many
Canyon Cinema filmmakers have received Guggenheim Awards and the films
of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Chick Strand, Oskar
Fischinger, and Les Blank are included in the National Registry of Films
in the Library of Congress. ###
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
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9/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SONIC ODDITIES WITH STEPHEN PARR
For series description, see notes for Thursday, September 20. . SONIC
S JOHN C. HENCH DIVISION OF
ANIMATION & DIGITAL ARTS
Kicking off the 2007 fall season with a jolt of energy, Filmforum is
pleased to present a program of original experimental animation from the
inspired students at USC. The films and videos in this program represent
over a decade of non-mainstream animation production and bear little
resemblance to their distant cousin, the cartoon. The 19 short works
from 1998 to 2007 selected for this show range from the purely sensory,
non-representational works to the "reconstruction" of found footage and
use of time lapse. Note: Two screenings of the same show at 6 pm and 8
pm! $9 general, $6 students/seniors
9/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
EYES, EARS AND OTHER ORIFICES: CARCINEMAGESIS: A MEDICAL MATERIAL MASH-UP
(U.S. 20'S-70')
For many, September signals the return to school. At Anthology it means
yet another awe-inspiring weekend of orphan movies, found footage and
cheap door prizes from America's foremost 16mm film collectors. From
educational reels to medical atrocities, this year's installment
promises nothing less than a total cinematic maelstrom. The series kicks
off with a stimulating installment of Anthology's UNESSENTIAL CINEMA
series presented by Archivist Andrew Lampert. This special show will
feature a generous selection of deranged detritus up from the darkest
corners of our basement. Skip Elsheimer, the original A/V Geek, arrives
with filmstrip projector in hand for an evening of films about
nutrition, nourishment and not-so-subtle product placement. Those who
have seen Skip's shows revere his unerring ability to discover the most
delusional and delightful educational films ever foisted upon children.
Stephen Parr, of Oddball Films and the San Francisco Media Archive, has
threatened to bring a potent and confounding concoction of seedy and
questionable clips from his celluloid reservoir. There is always a touch
of class in Parr's trash and you never know what goods he will unveil.
Greg Pierce, of Pittsburgh's Orgone Archive, one-ups his previous
perilous programs with an evening's worth of medical footage that will
be as easy on the eyes as it is possibly hard on the brain. Expect a
pre-op/post-op parade of cuts, splices and almost incisions guaranteed
to burn an impression onto your retinas. . A couple years back
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA presented a memorable evening called CHOOSE YOUR OWN
ADVENTURE. Eleven films were pre-selected from Anthology's vast vaults
of unknown, unscreened and unclasssifiable goodies. The hitch is that we
only had time to watch eight of them. No information other than titles
was given to our faithful audience who then had to decide, debate and
vote on what we would screen. Totally incongruous, filled with chance
turns and rife with bizarre associations, what followed was a frantic
show loaded with hot debate, sharp comments and the overlapping
double-projection of the Reagans with the dissection of a rat. Tonight,
we return to this simple concept for yet another fateful test of our
fragile democratic process in action. Reels will be chosen from recent
donations, discoveries and dumpster dives. We can't really tell you what
else to expect, which is why you will have to be here to learn more.
This is how the game is played. . CARCINEMAGESIS: A MEDICAL MATERIAL
MASH-UP (U.S. 20's-70's). Brought to you by The Orgone Archive
(Pittsburgh 13, Penna.). The Orgone Archive is a motion picture archive
and exhibition outfit founded and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
since 1993 specializing in inscrutable epiphanies, toilet trims, unknown
what-have-you's, perfect industrial rolls, home movie printing tests,
corporate comedies, Warholian strikebreaking screeds, the all-around
beautiful and everything else. The current custodian of this proudly
fringe collection is none other than Greg Pierce (412.682.2338).
Carcinemagesis has been defined to be the art or science of amusing a
sick man with frivolous speculations about his disorder/predicament, and
of tampering ingeniously, till nature either kills or cures him. "It
must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and
b cure it." Orgone makes no promises with tonight's program but
ODDITIES is Stephen Parr's cinematic and
auditory collision of film
shorts, fragments, clips and reprocessed sounds. Drawing on the
cinematic stimuli explored in his last Anthology program, PSYCHOACTIVE,
Parr excavates even more cinematic mayhem from his massive film and
sound collection. Rare commercials such as MAGIC RIDE, GM's Dali-esque
Chevrolet tour with its pre-synthesizer blips and bleeps, collide with
silent scenes of sunken jetliners and audio test tones. Expect to see
and hear disturbingly entertaining reconfigurations of cinema and sound:
multiple screen projections, jar-headed GI's listening to beatnik
poetry, ethnographic devil-dancing, and sex camp trash tunes. Plus live
music/film treatments with the NYC avant-garde music group 4FiveVI.
Parr's cinematic and sound experiments began in the 70s when he
videotaped. performers as diverse as John Cage and the Ramones, later
creating unique. signature montages he screened around the world. From
Danceteria to the. Moscow Cinematheque, his burlesque dancers and female
contortionists gyrated. over teeming tornadoes and atomic disasters. His
previous programs have. explored the erotic underbelly of sex-in-cinema
(THE SUBJECT IS SEX, Parts. 1 & 2), the offbeat and bizarre (ODDITIES
BEYOND BELIEF), the pervasive. effects of propaganda (HISTORICAL
HYSTERICAL), and more. He is the director of Oddball Film+Video, a San
Francisco stock-footage company and director of the San Francisco Media
Archive, a non-profit archive.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2007
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9/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:00 and 8:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
&.
Peripheral visions have never been so prominent or so sublime. Come
behold such motion picture oddments as: NARCOSYNTHESIS! THE DOCTOR!
/H/C/C/! CINEFLUOROG! OVER CATHETER! SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY AND
APPENDECTOMY FOR TERATOMA OF OVARY AND APPENDICITIS! BRAIN DRAIN!
ECTOPIA CORDIS! and so much more. Plus! No one will leave the theater
empty handed. A dozen rusty cans' worth of giveaways unrelated to the
topic at hand to all who attend! If you do not come you will miss it and
if you regret coming you can probably have that removed for a princely
sum. Warning: Tonight's program may be unsuitable to those unable to say
"boo" to a goose.
9/23
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:00pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St @ 3rd Street
4 ELEMENTS
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents the CA Premiere of 4 ELEMENTS
by Jiska Rickels. An immense curtain of smoke suddenly rises out of the
forest, a glimmering rocket blasts through the night sky, two
mineworkers crawl like ants among gigantic machinery, fishermen haul in
traps heavy with jumbo crabs. Dutch director Jiska Rickels follows
Siberian forest fire-fighters, king crab fishermen on the Bering Sea,
German mineworkers, and Russian cosmonauts in their daily struggles with
one of the four basic elements of nature: fire, water, earth, air. The
images tell their story without words, and are accompanied by a musical
score barely distinguishable from the ambient sounds in the film. Beyond
the struggle, Rickels shows the men in tender moments, harnessing these
very same elements in their daily rituals
ON
THE EDGE: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION FROM USC
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in the shower, scrubbing each
other's backs, silently drinking coffee before heading off to work,
hoarsely singing melancholy songs around the campfire. From the darkest
depths of the mine to the lift that transports space travelers to their
shuttle, 4 ELEMENTS not only shows man's awe of nature, it shows how
they are inextricably linked.
9/23
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:00pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St @ 3rd Street
4 ELEMENTS
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents the CA Premiere of 4 ELEMENTS
by Jiska Rickels. An immense curtain of smoke suddenly rises out of the
forest, a glimmering rocket blasts through the night sky, two
mineworkers crawl like ants among gigantic machinery, fishermen haul in
traps heavy with jumbo crabs. Dutch director Jiska Rickels follows
Siberian forest fire-fighters, king crab fishermen on the Bering Sea,
German mineworkers, and Russian cosmonauts in their daily struggles with
one of the four basic elements of nature: fire, water, earth, air. The
images tell their story without words, and are accompanied by a musical
score barely distinguishable from the ambient sounds in the film. Beyond
b the struggle, Rickels shows the men in tender moments, harnessing these
very same elements in their daily rituals
in the shower, scrubbing each
other's backs, silently drinking coffee before heading off to work,
hoarsely singing melancholy songs around the campfire. From the darkest
depths of the mine to the lift that transports space travelers to their
shuttle, 4 ELEMENTS not only shows man's awe of nature, it shows how
they are inextricably linked. Co-presented with The Exploratorium
9/23
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St @ 3rd Street
BETWEEN STATES
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents the CA Premiere of Between
States Traverse the rough terrain of border control, brutal
dictatorships and the aftermath of war in tonight's innovative hybrid
documentaries. In , Stranger Comes to Town, , Jacqueline Goss re-works
Department of Homeland Security animations, combining them with the
personal stories of six immigrants crossing the U.S. border, the online
game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth. By focusing on
how identity is determined at the border, Goss examines the immigrants'
sense of self and their view of the world. Julia Meltzer and David
Thorne, whose , Speculative Archives, has traditionally focused on the
past, have turned toward the future with their new five-part video
documentary, , We Will Live to See These Things. Shot during 2005
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06 in
Damascus, each section offers a perspective on what might happen in a
place where people live among the forces of repressive regimes, a
growing conservative Islamic movement, and shifting pressures from the
United States. SF Premiere and West Coast Premiere, respectively.
Meltzer and Thorne IN PERSON.
9/23
Union Square Park: The Manhattan Short Film Festival
http://www.MSfilmfest.com
7pm, Europe, North, South and Central America
THE MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
The twelve finalists in the Manhattan Short Film Festival will have
their films screened across three continents during the last week of
September. Audiences in each cinema will be handed a voting card and ask
to vote for the film they think should win the event. Votes will be
tallied by each cinema and sent to the Festival's Headquarters in New
York City where the winner will be announced after the last film has
screened. Deadline for entries is July 31st
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