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Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 12:12:12 PDT
This week [September 22 - 30, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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New Film/Video: non-feature:
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"A Junky's Christmas" by Bryan Konefsky
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=313.ann
"Chicken Delight" by Bryan Konefsky
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=314.ann
"I Yam What I Yam" by Bryan Konefsky
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"W4th Street Transfer" by Mike Celona
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=312.ann
"Imagination" by Eric Leiser
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=101.ann
The Collected Writings of Takahiko iimura
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=93.ann
JOB AVAILABLE:
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University of Colorado
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=28.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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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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Experiments in Cinema V 3.0 (Albuquerque, New Mexico USA; Deadline: January 15, 2008)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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; Deadline: September 26, 2007)
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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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TOFIFEST - International Film Festival (Torun, Poland; Deadline: September 30, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* O Sangue (The Blood) As Part of Four Day Screening Series Still Lives:
the Films of Pedro Costa [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Casa De Lava (Down To Earth) A Film By Pedro Costa [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Colossal Youth (Juventude Em Marcha) A Film By Pedro Costa [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Sonic Oddities With Stephen Parr [September 22, New York, New York]
* Herold's Bachelorette, 34 + S. Silver's …Looking For + [September 22, San Francisco, California]
* 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]
* Drugstore Cowboy & Towers Open Fire [September 25, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* A Hand Made Tale [September 25, San Francisco, California]
* Believe In It! Gallery 400 Presents "The False Advertising Show" [September 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Newfilmmakers / Digital Film Academy [September 26, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Short Film Program [September 26, New York, New York]
* Basement Basement [September 26, Newcastle Upon Tyne]
* So Loud, It's Silent [September 26, San Francisco, California]
* Nothing Compares 2 U: Films & videos By Michael Robinson [September 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Dimensions De La Lumiere: L'oeuvre De vincent Grenier [September 27, Montreal, Canada]
* Films By Kurt Kren [September 27, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Electromediascope [September 28, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Film Love #47: Art/Space - Artists In the Urban Space [September 29, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Brutallo's Fairytales, Re-Tuned [September 29, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Border Crossings, Part 1 [September 30, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
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9/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
2pm, 631 W. 2nd St
O SANGUE (THE BLOOD) AS PART OF FOUR DAY SCREENING SERIES STILL LIVES:
THE FILMS OF PEDRO COSTA
O Sangue (The Blood) Portugal, 1989, 95 min., b/w, 35mm "Shot in
splendid black-and-white, this prodigious debut film, bursting with
visual and narrative ideas, homages, and a desperate romanticism, is a
thrilling movie for cinephiles." James Quandt As part of four day
screening series Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa Sept 19-22 This
first comprehensive retrospective in North America of work by the
Portuguese filmmaker invites spectators to discover a major auteur of
contemporary cinema. In person: Pedro Costa
9/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
4pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CASA DE LAVA (DOWN TO EARTH) A FILM BY PEDRO COSTA
Casa de Lava (Down to Earth) Portugal/France/Germany, 1995, 110 min.,
35mm Mariana, a nurse from Lisbon, travels to Cape Verde, at the foot of
the Mount Fogo volcano, to bring back an immigrant worker in a comatose
state. Preceded by: Tarrafal (Portugal, 2007, 16 min., Beta SP) As part
of four day screening series Still Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa Sept.
19-22 This first comprehensive retrospective in North America of work by
the Portuguese filmmaker invites spectators to discover a major auteur
of contemporary cinema. In person: Pedro Costa
9/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
COLOSSAL YOUTH (JUVENTUDE EM MARCHA) A FILM BY PEDRO COSTA
Colossal Youth (Juventude em marcha) Portugal, 2006, 154 min., 35mm In
this astonishing sequel to In Vanda's Room, fictional and documentary
sequences alternate, all held together by the commanding presence of
Ventura, who wanders from one encounter to another and from one
temporality into another.As part of four day screening series Still
Lives: The Films of Pedro Costa This first comprehensive retrospective
in North America of work by the Portuguese filmmaker invites spectators
to discover a major auteur of contemporary cinema. In person: Pedro
Costa
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
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.
9/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
HEROLD’S BACHELORETTE, 34 + S. SILVER’S …LOOKING FOR +
Guest-curated by Sylvia Schedelbauer, a Berlin DAAD grantee, this group
show features four works by women on issues of personal choice,
identity, and meaning: The premiere of Kara Herold's much-anticipated
essay centers on societal pressures to marry. Shelly Silver's What I'm
Looking For is an exquisite exploration of desire and control. Katja
Straub's Greeting from my Mother weaves a rapturous fabric of memory and
analysis on Christian acculturation and the ideology of the family.
Sneak Preview: Hito Steyerl's Lovely Andrea follows her quest for a
bondage-session photo from her past, in an inquiry about autonomy and
power in visual culture. PLUS Yin-Ju Chen's Waking Terror. Come early to
toast Kara in person and savor a rare glimpse of the obscure 1933 Alice
in Wonderland. *$7.
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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
ON THE EDGE: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION FROM USC’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
cure it." Orgone makes no promises with tonight's program but….
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—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
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 2005–06 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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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
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9/25
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
DRUGSTORE COWBOY & TOWERS OPEN FIRE
Drugstore Cowboy (1989. 104 min.) by GUS VAN SANT "offers a cool-eyed
vision of young addicts adrift during the twilight of the
counterculture. Both in its delineation of character and in its
evocation of an era when drug taking still carried an aura of hipness,
the film rings deeply true…. The way of life portrayed in the film is
jarring in its abrupt changes of rhythms, as the somnolent lulls of
consumption are broken by ferocious spasms of violence and paranoia. The
film takes us so deeply into this shabby, transient world that we feel
its texture—both its scary thrills and its bleak, fatalistic
uncertainty."—Stephen Holden, The New York Times; Towers Open Fire (16
min. 1963) by WILLIAM BURROUGHS & ANTHONY BALCH "is an assault on linear
narrative and good taste, and brings together readings by Burroughs,
unrelated film sequences, and the pervasive image of Brion Gysin's
prototype Dreamachine—inducer of hallucinations and mental
stimulation."—Tate Modern (program notes)
9/25
San Francisco, California: MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Precita
A HAND MADE TALE
11th Annual MadCat Film Festival presents A HAND MADE TALE. While media
made from ones and zeros continues to conquer the world, these artists
continue to explore the tactile medium of celluloid. Stories of
disappearing rural communities, fragile filial relations, modern
alchemists, and life's ineffable moments are revealed as if in
bas-relief by these virtuoso filmmakers who use optical-printing,
hand-processing, bleaching, and scratch-on-film techniques to share
worlds rarified and unsung. MadCat presents the Bay Area Premiere of
award-winning filmmaker Deborah Stratman's The Magician's House, a
letter to an alchemist-filmmaker friend and homage to the vanishing art
of celluloid. Laska Jimsen's Miss Rose Fletcher: A Natural History
(World Premiere) combines interviews and archival research with the
lyricism of experimental film processes to investigate the histories of
several generations of residents living in Oregon's once idyllic
Willamette Valley. Penny McCann's Lake Ontario (in my head) (US
Premiere) employs grainy Super-8 imagery, optically printed 16mm
footage, and an atmospheric soundtrack to evoke the calming effect of a
hypnotic horizon. Plus more! Come early for FREE BBQ at 6:30pm.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007
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9/26
Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400
http://gallery400.aa.uic.edu
7:00pm, 400 S. Peoria
BELIEVE IN IT! GALLERY 400 PRESENTS "THE FALSE ADVERTISING SHOW"
The television has been blaring picture static for days (Brakhage), that
neon billboard outside your apartment window will never stop flickering
( Murphy), and there's a sad polar bear (McCormick) sitting next to that
strange lady you just saw on TV ( Cuevas). Your prescription bottle is
empty (LeVeque), you still don't have a Jacuzzi (Elliot), and it's clear
to everyone that your teeth/figure/hair aren't white/curvy/soft enough (
Kubelka). You need a better life for sure, and these 10 films/videos are
here to help you find one. Through their consistent misuse of misused
media, these works reveal the truth of advertising as the truth of
fiction. Presented in conjunction with the "Carol Jackson " exhibition
at Gallery 400, this show is one you'll want to TiVo for sure (if only
you could…). FEATURING : Sky Blue Water Light Sign by JJ Murphy (9:00,
16mm, 1972), What's On? by Martha Colburn (2:00, 16mm, 1997), Television
Delivers People by Richard Serra (5:47, video, 1973), Delicacies of
Molten Horror Synapse by Stan Brakhage (10:00, 16mm, 1991), La Tombola
by Ximena Cuevas (7:00, video, 2001), Poetry and Truth/ Dichtung und
Wahrheit by Peter Kubelka (13:00, 16mm, 2003), pulse pharma phantasm by
Les LeVeque (6:17, video, 2002), Landscape Annihilates Consciousness by
Sterling Ruby (11:40, video, 2002), Sincerely, Joe P Bear by Matt
McCormick (5:00, 16mm, 1999), The Boy in the Air by Lynn Elliot (2:00,
video, 2006) + An Assortment of Television Commercials TRT 75 :00 -FREE-
9/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS / DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY
NEWFILMMAKERS AND THE DIGITAL FILM ACADEMY PRESENT FILMS FROM THE
ACADEMY'S STUDENTS AS WELL AS SOME OTHER VERY INNOVATIVE SHORTS AND A
NEW COMEDY FEATURE FILM. . New Filmmakers presents an evening of
independent films from Digital Film Academy in New York.
9/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Sean Spence LUCIDITY (2006, 4 minutes, video). Tara Samuel FIND (2006, 9
minutes, 16mm). Kelvin Bias UNKNOWN SHORES (2006, 12 minutes, video).
Arden Rhine INSIDE CHARLIE (2006, 12 minutes, video). Rebecca Gwynne
ZOE'S DAY (2006, 10 minutes, 16mm). Aimee Gillette KEITH CAFFERTY -
PHARMACIST (2006, 12 minutes, 16mm). .
9/26
Newcastle Upon Tyne: The Star and Shadow Cinema
http://www.starandshadow.org.uk
7.30.pm, Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, NE1 2NP.
BASEMENT BASEMENT
Admission: £4, £3 concessions (annual membership £1). 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 and presented 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. Three image 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
Marshall. 1971-72. re-staged performance Duration – variable. A
performance for three people with castenets, and portable foghorns. With
special thanks to Nicolas Collins and Alvin Lucier. Basement Basement
celebrates the launch of the LUXONLINE Stuart Marshall webpages
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/stuart_marshall/index.html. Basement
Basement also 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 – 2006 and the online exhibition
2B Butler's Wharf www.studycollection.co.uk/2B/index.html. Presented by
in association with LUX www.lux.org.uk and in association with Locus +
http://www.locusplus.org.uk.
9/26
San Francisco, California: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Precita
SO LOUD, IT'S SILENT
Continuing our long-running tradition, the 11th Annual MadCat Women's
International Film Festival presents a series of silent 16mm films set
to live music performed by local musicians, including bands TARTUFI and
SILIAN RAIL. Lisa Danker's PHOTO-SYNTHESIS reveals what transpires when
the insects and flora of the forest encounters a filmmaker and her bag
of tools. Kristina Kotov's VENICE eulogizes the water city's San Michele
Cemetery, where the dead may only rest for 12 years. Carolyn Macartney
documents the construction of a high-rise outside her apartment window
in the time-lapsed THERE GOES THE VIEW. I REMINISCE by Veronica Majano
uses archival images and a golden oldie, to explore San Francisco's
Mission District. Lana Z Caplan's 6 short videos about film, in 3 acts
(a love story) — single frames of 16mm film, found footage, discarded
bits of leader, and burning celluloid are strung together for a story of
sex and love. PLUS MORE. Doors open at 630pm for Free BBQ. Dress warmly
– shows go on RAIN OR SHINE!
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
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9/27
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
NOTHING COMPARES 2 U: FILMS & VIDEOS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
Michael Robinson in person! The films and videos of Michael Robinson are
a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often
optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old
movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song–scored
cine-ballads that are at once cynical and sincere. In tonight's program,
the sitcom-perfect world of "Full House" devours itself in the demonic
LIGHT IS WAITING (2007); National Geographic centerfolds unfurl into
oblivion in YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS (2005); and a radio tunes in
karaoke transmissions from beyond in the elegiac AND WE ALL SHINE ON
(2006). A multiple prize-winner in festivals across North America and
Europe, Robinson will also premiere two new pieces: VICTORY OVER THE SUN
(2007) and an as-of-yet untitled video. Also screening: THE GENERAL
RETURNS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER (2006); TIDAL (2001); and CHIQUITITA
AND THE SOFT ESCAPE (2003). (2001–07, USA, various formats, ca 75 min)
9/27
Montreal, Canada: Double Negative Collective
9:15 p.m., Cinema Parallele (Ex-Centris), 3536 Blvd. St-Laurent
DIMENSIONS DE LA LUMIERE: L'OEUVRE DE VINCENT GRENIER
First time in 16 years, Quebecois artist Vincent Grenier makes his
long-awaited return with a solo programme that includes his early 16mm
films and recent digital video works not previously shown in Montreal.
At this rare occasion, witness the passage the rigorous formalist has
taken, moving through the phenomenological exploration of light and
reaching unique cinematic expressions of cultural dimension. Grenier
lives and works in the U.S. where he teaches cinema at Binghamton
University, NY. Artist in attendance. PROGRAM : Puits de lumiere / Light
Shaft (16mm, 8min., n/b, muet, 1975) Closer Outside (16mm, 10min.,
couleur, muet, 1981) Intérieur Interiors (To A.K.) (16mm, 15min., n/b,
muet, 1978) World in Focus (16mm, 20min., couleur, muet, 1976) This, and
This (DV, 10:30min., couleur, stéréo, 2006) Surface Tension II (16mm,
4min., couleur, mono, 1995) North Sourthernly (DV, 6min., couleur,
stéréo, 2005) Time's Wake (Once Removed) (16mm, 14min., n/b & couleur,
muet, 1987) Admission: $7.50 Info. 514 847 2206
9/27
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
FILMS BY KURT KREN
A sampling of works by KURT KREN, the great Austrian experimental
filmmaker offering a rare appolonian/dionysian vision that shatters
filmic illusion and offers the viewer the ecstasy, profundity and wit of
cinema (frames in sequence) experience. Program will include selections
(all of them relatively short films) from his "action" works: 6/64 Mama
and Papa; 7/64 Leda and the Swan; 8/64 Ana; 9/64 O Tannenbaum; 10/65
Self-Mutilation; 10b/65 Silver-Action Brus; 10c/65 Brus Wishes His
Christmas on You; 13/67 Sinus Beta; 16/6720 September; as well as from
his "structural" works: 1/57 Experiment with Synthetic Sound [Test];
2/60 Heads from the Szondi-Test; 3/60 Trees in Autumn; 5/62 People
Looking out of the Window, Trash, etc.; 15/67 TV; 20/68 Schatzi; 31/75
Asylum; 36/78 Tree again.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
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9/28
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. THE
PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, The Brothers Quay (UK), 2005, 99 min., 35mm
film shown on video. Additional ALLEGORIES OF THE REAL programs on Sept.
14 and 21.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007
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9/29
Atlanta, Georgia: Frequent Small Meals
http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com
8:00 PM, 425 Peachtree Hills Ave, on the terrace beside the Davis Waldron gallery
FILM LOVE #47: ART/SPACE - ARTISTS IN THE URBAN SPACE
ART/SPACE is an evening of films and videos on artists working in urban
spaces, from abandoned houses and buildings to subway trains. Bring lawn
chairs, blankets, coolers, and enjoy an autumn evening of films in a
dynamic outdoor location! **In "Splitting" and "Bingo/Ninths," artist
Gordon Matta-Clark makes large-scale cuts in the walls and floors of
houses, to stunning effect. **Filmed in the early days of hip-hop,
Manfred Kirchheimer's "Stations of the Elevated" combines the music of
jazz legend Charles Mingus with vintage 1980 footage of graffiti art on
the traveling subway trains of New York. **Meanwhile in 2007 Atlanta, a
group of artists named Public and Private give acoustic music
performances in carefully chosen abandoned spaces, highlighting the
fleeting beauty of our rapidly changing city. **Filmmaker Blake Williams
provides a newly created, poetic video portrait of Atlanta. Program:
Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (1974), 11 minutes (super-8 film,
projected on DVD); Gordon Matta-Clark, Bingo/Ninths (1974), 10 minutes
(super-8 film, projected on DVD); Public and Private, performances in
near-inaccessible environs, private and public spaces (2006-2007),
digital video excerpts of Atlanta performances; Blake Williams, new
video on Atlanta spaces (2007); Manfred Kirchheimer, Stations of the
Elevated (1980), 45 minutes (16mm film, projected on DVD) **ART/SPACE is
a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by Andy Ditzler for Frequent
Small Meals. Film Love exists to provide access to great but
rarely-screened films, and to promote awareness of the rich history of
experimental and avant-garde film. Film Love was voted Best Film Series
in Atlanta by the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006.
9/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
BRUTALLO’S FAIRYTALES, RE-TUNED
Guided by Christine Metropoulos and Mr. Sloumberfugex of Brutallo.com,
we go over the river and down through the dense woods of the fabled
imagination of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Our fantastic
escapade is sonically paced by equally animated electronic musicians:
Mad Hatter Hans Grusel falls down the rabbit's hole with Alice in
Wonderland, while the terrific (and sometimes terrifying) twosome
Tarantism wreak havoc with Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. With his eerie
soundscapes, audio- and video-editing wizard Loachfillet wolfs down
Little Red Riding Hood; KRoB lurks through the forest with Hansel and
Gretel ; Bran(…)Pos rhapsodizes to Rapunzel; and deft soundscapist
HeadBoggle crowns King Midas. *$8. Come in your favorite fairy-tale
costume to receive a dollar discount!
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
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9/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS BORDER CROSSINGS, PART 1
Cinematic looks at the border between the United States and Mexico.
Featuring "Feral" by Louis Hock (2004, video, 4:40 min.); "El Mojado" by
Danny Lyon (1974, 14 min.); "Crossings" by Robert Fenz (2006, 16mm, 5
min.) and "The Other Side" by Bill Brown (2006, 16mm, 44 min.).
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