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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Video Vortex: Responses To Youtube [October 6, Brussels]
* Views From the Avant Garde: From the Canyons To the Stars [October 6, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Peter Hutton [October 6, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Unending [October 6, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Ken Jacobs & Rick Reed [October 6, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Stranger Than A Strange Land [October 6, New York, New York]
* Kfc Collective Walk-In and Bike-In Guerrilla Outdoor Cinema [October 6, San Francisco, California]
* Kill Yr Idols + [October 6, San Francisco, California]
* Catching Up With James Benning [October 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Views From the Avant Garde: House Next Door [October 7, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Helga Fanderl [October 7, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Ernie Gehr [October 7, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Bits and Pieces (Make Up To Break Up) [October 7, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Robert Beavers [October 7, New York, New York]
* Views From the Avant Garde: Memories [October 7, New York, New York]
* James Benning: Casting A Glance, 2007, 80 Min., 16mm [October 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Films By Michael Robinson [October 8, New York, New York]
* Foggy Mountains Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains [October 8, New York, New York]
* Films By Phil Solomon [October 9, New York, New York]
* Mark Lapore Tribute Program [October 9, New York, New York]
* Morvern Callar [October 9, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 4th Annual Eerie Horror Film Festival [October 10, Erie, Pa.]
* Tsai Ming-Liang: the Wayward Cloud (Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun) [October 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Newfilmmakers and the Black Documentary Collective Present New Films By
Bdc Members, Followed By A Special Program of New Urban Films [October 10, New York, New York]
* "Things I Should Tell You Before It's Too Late" [October 10, New York, New York]
* Dim. : Length X Width X Depth [October 10, New York, New York]
* The Elated Anguish Show-- Filmmaker Michael Robinson In Person! [October 10, Providence, RI]
* 2nd Ata Film and video Festival Opening Party [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Eyes and Ears Supernova With Magnificent Forest Release [October 10, Seattle, Washington]
* A Darkness Swallowed [October 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Wu Wenguang: Fuck Cinema [October 11, Los Angeles, California]
* 25th Anniversary Celebration - Launch of National Art, Activism and
Analysis (Aaa) Tour [October 11, New York, New York]
* New York Experimental Presents: Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry: Selected
Works [October 11, New York, New York]
* Crazy Rays: Ed and Peter Emshwiller [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* Crazy Rays: Max Almy / Roddy Bogawa [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* 2nd Ata Film and video Festival [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* Queer Night! 2 Feature Films! In New Chinese Cinema Screening Series [October 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Free Radicals: the Films of Len Lye [October 12, New York, New York]
* Joseph Cornell: Essential Cinema From Anthology Film Archives: Program
One [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* 2nd Ata Film and video Festival [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* Tony Conrad Performance Forty-Five Years On the Infinite Plain [October 13, Brussels]
* Beyond/In Western New York Media Artist Michael Snow At Hallwalls [October 13, Buffalo, New York]
* Festival Award Winners Marathon [October 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Films By Bruce Baillie [October 13, New York, New York]
* Explosions Into Color: New Zealand Experimental Film 1980-84 [October 13, New York, New York]
* E X P A N D E D Cinema Spectacular [October 13, San Francisco, California]
* A Sunday Afternoon With Tony Conrad [October 14, Brussels]
* Catching Up With James Benning - Ten Skies [October 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Films In Real Time 1970-79 [October 14, New York, New York]
* Scratching the Surface: Experiments In New Zealand Animation After Len
Lye [October 14, New York, New York]
* New Films From Canyon Cinema [October 14, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2007
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10/6
Brussels: ARGOS
http://www.argosarts.org
11:00, BOZAR Brussels
VIDEO VORTEX: RESPONSES TO YOUTUBE
Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube Fri 05.10.2007 // 11:00 - 19:00 Argos
Brussels Over the past years the moving image has claimed an
increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of
technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to
record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as well.
With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of social
actors, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has
arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used?
How do artists and activists react to the popularity of YouTube and
other 'user-generated-content' websites? What is the impact of the
availability of massive on-line images and sound databases on aesthetics
and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an art form and experience,
influenced by the development of widely spreading internet practices?
What does YouTube tell us about the state of art in visual culture? And
how does the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach
some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass
media and the strong grip of media conglomerates? with Nora Barry, Johan
Grimonprez, Peter Horvath, Lev Manovich, Ana Kronschnabl & Tomas
Rawlings, Adrian Miles, Simon Ruschmeyer, Keith Sanborn, Peter
Westenberg moderated by Geert Lovink. Co-production with Institute of
Network Cultures + screenings, curated by Keith Sanborn a.o. in the
context of the Argos project OPEN ARCHIVE #1 more info:
www.argosarts.org or contact Stoffel Debuysere (www.argosarts.org)
10/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
12:15, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: FROM THE CANYONS TO THE STARS
All That Rises Daichi Saito | The Coming Race Ben Rivers | Surging Sea
of Humanity Ken Jacobs | Black and White Trypps Number Three Ben Russell
| Energie! Thorsten Fleisch | North Shore Fred Worden | Armoire Vincent
Grenier | Finestra davanti ad un albero (dedicato a Fox Talbot) Paolo
Gioli | Transit of Venus Nicky Hamlyn | Observando el Cielo Jeanne
Liotta
10/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
3pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: PETER HUTTON
At Sea
10/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
5pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: UNENDING
The Hyrcynium Wood Ben Rivers | Nymph Ken Jacobs | Anonimatografo Paolo
Gioli | What the Water Said 4-6 David Gatten | How to Conduct a Love
Affair David Gatten | Tziporah Abraham Ravett | Phantom Luke Sieczek |
In Memoriam Mark LaPore: Untitled (for David Gatten) Mark LaPore & Phil
Solomon | Rehearsals for Retirement Phil Solomon | Last Days In a Lonely
Place Phil Solomon
10/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: KEN JACOBS & RICK REED
Dreams That Money Can't Buy | Capitalism: Child Labor
10/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: STRANGER THAN A STRANGE LAND
Warm Objects Peggy Ahwesh | Notes from a Bastard Child Fern Silva | The
Mongrel Sister Luther Price | Victory Over the Sun Michael Robinson |
Stranger Comes to Town Jacqueline Goss | Light Is Waiting Michael
Robinson | SpaceDisco-One Damon Packard
10/6
San Francisco, California: KFC Collective Guerrilla Outdoor Screenings
http://www.myspace.com/guerrillascreening
7:30pm, Lucca Delicatessen parking lot; on Valencia Street, between 22nd and 23rd.
KFC COLLECTIVE WALK-IN AND BIKE-IN GUERRILLA OUTDOOR CINEMA
KFC Collective, Guerrilla Outdoor Screening October 6th, Lucca Parking
Lot at Valencia between 22nd and 23rd, Mission District, San Francisco
7:30pm, Free Come celebrate DIY with another outdoor screening by local
filmmakers. Come see the best of local experimental, documentary and
narrative shorts with your favorite guerrilla screening peeps: "Lot 63,
Grave C", by Sam Green (2006) 10 mins "Two Four", by Veronica Majano
(2006) 3 mins Vicki Marlane documentary (trailer) by Michelle Lawler
(2007) 9 mins "Leftovers" by Chelsea Walton(2007) 1min dvd "Hush," by
Mike Seely, 5 minutes. (2003) "The Chessmen," by Ken Kokka,(2004) 18 min
"Parking Day," by Rebar (2007) Seeing as this is in early October, we
are almost guaranteed that this screening will be hotter than a
mid-August Mojave Drive in, but bring an arctic parka just in case (this
is SF afterall!). Also bring a friend, a dog, some beer, hot cider,
popcorn, chairs, cookies, vegan pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, or
anything to share with your fellow DIY screening squatters. We're
reclaiming public space for art, for community, and the greater DIY
good, one film and one parking lot at a time...
10/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
KILL YR IDOLS +
Angelique Bosio's energized doc Llik Your Idols showcases the Cinema of
Transgression amidst NYC's downtown punk scene of the early 80's. The
69-min. survey features Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, Richard
Hell, Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore, Jack Sargeant, Jarboe, and many
others, plus clips of banned underground movies. ALSO fierce sets of
shorts from Kern, Zedd, and Leg, and no-wave performances from the likes
of James Chance, Judy Nylon, and Tuxedo Moon.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2007
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10/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
CATCHING UP WITH JAMES BENNING
13 Lakes (2004, 16mm, color, sound, 135 minutes). A static shot of 13
large American lakes, each shot lasting the same amount of time, each
shot a stunning portrait unto itself, but all together amounting to a
profound meditation on America and its landscape.
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
12:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: HOUSE NEXT DOOR
Old Dark House Ben Rivers | We the People Ben Rivers | Detroit Block
Julie Murray | Frontier Step Gretchen Skogerson | Dedication Peggy
Ahwesh | House Ben Rivers | Footnotes to a House of Love Laida Lertxundi
| Office Suite Robert Todd | Prague Winter Jim Jennings | Electricity
Henry Hills | Recordando El Ayer Alexandra Cuesta | Tahousse Olivier
Fouchard & Mahine Rouhi
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
2:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: HELGA FANDERL
Tombs | Broadway | Drawing Cobblestones | Gulf House | Leaden Waves |
Shadows on a Red Wall | Skating | Warrior's Market | Louie | Glaciers |
Reflections | Courtyard | Gray Heron | Three Midtown Sketches | Tents on
a Canal | Carp Swimming in Color | Green Balloon | Carousel Throwing the
Net | Under the Water Lilies
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
4pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: ERNIE GEHR
Shadow | Cinematic Fertilizer 1 | Cinematic Fertilizer 2 | 10th Avenue
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
6:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: BITS AND PIECES (MAKE UP TO BREAK UP)
Antigenic Drift Lewis Klahr | Hide Christoph Girardet & Matthius Müller
| The Counter Girl Trilogy Courtney Hoskins | Volto sorpreso al buio
(Face Caught in the Dark) Paolo Gioli | Beirut Outtakes Peggy Ahwesh |
For Them Ending Jonathan Schwartz | For a Winter Jonathan Schwartz |
Sunbeam Hunter Jonathan Schwartz | A Logic Sore Jonathan Schwartz | The
Wedding Present Jonathan Schwartz | 40 Years Jonathan Schwartz | The
Film of a Thousand and One Nights and a Night (Vol. 2) Scott Puccio |
Hanky Panky January 1902 Ken Jacobs | Recreation Robert Breer
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
8:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: ROBERT BEAVERS
Pitcher of Colored Light Robert Beavers | Eniaios IV "Nefeli Photos,"
reel 2 Gregory Markopoulos
10/7
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
9:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: MEMORIES
Respite Harun Farocki | The Rabbit Hunters Pedro Costa | Correspondences
Eugène Green
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2007
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10/8
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
JAMES BENNING: CASTING A GLANCE, 2007, 80 MIN., 16MM
"Between May 2005 and January 2007 I made 16 trips to the Spiral Jetty,
Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork located on the Great Salt Lake,
Utah. casting a glance maps the Jetty back onto its 37-year history..."
James Benning In person: James Benning
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILMS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
Dir: Michael Robinson. THE GENERAL RETURNS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER
(2006, 11 minutes, 16mm, film-to-video, color, sound). Learning to love
again, with fear at its side, the film draws a balance between the
romantic and the horrid, shaping a concurrently skeptical and indulgent
experience of the beautiful. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of
the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but
there are stronger forces surfacing. AND WE ALL SHINE ON (2006, 7
minutes, 16mm, color, sound). An ill wind is transmitting through the
lonely night, spreading deception and myth along its murky path. YOU
DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS (2005, 8 minutes, 16mm, color, sound). Viewed at
its seams, a collection of National Geographic landscapes from the 60's
and 70's conjures an obsolete romanticism currently peddled to propagate
entitlement and individualism from sea to shining sea; the slideshow
deforms into a bright white distress signal. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
(2004, 11 minutes, DV, sound). Designed as a loop. An exercise in
possession and repetition, enacted across nine summer landscapes.
CHIQUITITA AND THE SOFT ESCAPE (2003, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound).
Twin attempts at structuring images of home and loved-ones break down in
the face of the romantic. .
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FOGGY MOUNTAINS BREAKDOWN MORE THAN NON-FOGGY MOUNTAINS
Dir: Jessie Stead. FOGGY MOUNTAINS is a structural motion picture but it
also samples tendencies from other popular genres such as road movies
and music videos. The structure in question is a cinematic catalogue
containing nine variations of the 1949 bluegrass instrumental 'Foggy
Mountain Breakdown'. Thus a thread is pulled through the random
landscape by this American sonic icon, as it relentlessly mutates
through the decades. With the conflicting definitions of the word
"breakdown" itself, (and a band of famous and non-famous musicians
called The Foggy Mountains Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains Band)
an old-fashioned, absurdo-epic journey begins to prove the motion
picture's lone hypothesis: that foggy mountains breakdown more than
non-foggy mountains. Plus, other works to be announced.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007
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10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILMS BY PHIL SOLOMON
Dir: PHIL SOLOMON. The master of captured reverie and tender alchemy
returns to New York for his first solo show in many years. WHAT'S OUT
TONIGHT IS LOST (1983, 8 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 16fps). THE
SECRET GARDEN (1988, 23 minutes, 16mm, color, silent). THE EXQUISITE
HOUR (1989, revised 1994, 14 minutes, 16mm, color, sound). REMAINS TO BE
SEEN (1989, revised 1994, 17.5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound). TWILIGHT
PSALM II: WALKING DISTANCE (1999, 15 minutes, 16mm). Inspired by Kiefer
and Ryder, dedicated to Stan Brakhage.
10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
MARK LAPORE TRIBUTE PROGRAM
With special guests and additional films to be announced. A DEPRESSION
IN THE BAY OF BENGAL (1996, 28 minutes, 16mm, color, sound). THE FIVE
BAD ELEMENTS (1997, 32 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound). LUNATIC PRINCESS
(2005, 4 minutes, DV, b&w, sound).
10/9
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
MORVERN CALLAR
Morvern Callar (2002, 97 min.) by LYNNE RAMSAY. "A powerful reflection
on life and self-discovery features an exceptional performance by
Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown), as a woman who turns a tragedy into
an opportunity to remake her life. Morvern Callar (Morton) wakes up one
morning in her Scottish flat to find that her boyfriend has committed
suicide. Her life is forever changed when she takes the manuscript for
his new novel, changes the author's name to her own and sends it to
publishers. Empowered, yet restless and disconnected, Morvern then
embarks with a friend on a road trip to Spain."—Glenn Kenny, Premiere.
"This is a mesmeric, startling and sometimes baffling movie from Lynne
Ramsay, the follow-up to her magnificent debut Ratcatcher; it
undoubtedly announces Ramsay as one of the most distinctive talents in
British cinema, and certainly one of the very few with the conviction to
be taken seriously as an auteur, in the highest and most fully
unapologetic sense of the word."—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007
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10/10
Erie, Pa.: Eerie Horror Film Festival
http://www.eeriehorrorfest.com
Varies, 13 W. 10th St.
4TH ANNUAL EERIE HORROR FILM FESTIVAL
Five days in celebration of horror, science fiction and suspense in
film, print and technology, featuring celebrity guests, thousands of
fans and awards for best movies, screenplays and video games! Join
Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog/Escape From New York), Dee Wallace Stone (ET,
The Howling), Tom Savini (Grindhouse, From Dusk Till Dawn), James Duval
(Donnie Darko, May), Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead, Devil's Rejects) and
many, many more October 10 - 14, 2007 @ The Erie Playhouse and Avalon
Hotel in Erie, Pa. (USA). See website for more details!
10/10
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
TSAI MING-LIANG: THE WAYWARD CLOUD (TIAN BIAN YI DUO YUN)
Taiwan, 2005, 112 min., 35mm In drought-stricken Taipei, the feverish,
sensual and emotional journey of a two-bit porn actor and a young woman
toward an unexpected amour fou unfolds against a droll and surreal
background. As part of four day screening series New Chinese Cinema:
The Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Piggy, Little Moth and Others Oct.
10-13 Pan-Chinese cinema is coming of age now, with an explosion of
genres, formats, themes and talents. Exploring new and exhilarating
artistic paths or alternative sexualities, the films bear witness to the
tremendous changes experienced by Chinese society.
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS AND THE BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE PRESENT NEW FILMS BY
BDC MEMBERS, FOLLOWED BY A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF NEW URBAN FILMS
NEWFILMMAKERS / BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE PROGRAM. Founded by veteran
filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, the BDC provides people of African descent
working in the documentary film and video field with the opportunity to
meet socially; network professionally; promote each others' work and
exchange ideas in order to generate productions. For more information,
please visit www.bdcny.net. . 8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM.
Naima Lowe BIRTHMARKS (2007, 30 minutes, 16mm). An experimental
non-fiction film which tells the story of the scars on Lowe's father's
back, received at the hands of the Newark Police in 1967, and the ways
that fathers and daughters create beauty out of trauma, and art out of
living. . 8:45 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION. Carl Ford. REAL WITH
ME. 2006, 83 minutes, 35mm. A post-9/11 satirical coming-of-age story
about a man who strives for stardom, only to lose love.
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
"THINGS I SHOULD TELL YOU BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE"
"The world is blue like an orange." - Paul Eluard. Two programs of film
and video. Expect work by Ben Rivers, Paolo Gioli, Ariana Hamidi, Steve
Polta, Helga Fanderl, Luther Price, Peter Herwitz and others.
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
DIM. : LENGTH X WIDTH X DEPTH
("Time will catch on fire and you will be sorry"). "Outside everything
is mortal and everything is outside." -Paul Eluard. Two programs of film
and video. Expect work by Ben Rivers, Paolo Gioli, Ariana Hamidi, Steve
Polta, Helga Fanderl, Luther Price, Peter Herwitz and others.
10/10
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street
THE ELATED ANGUISH SHOW-- FILMMAKER MICHAEL ROBINSON IN PERSON!
Please join Magic Lantern Cinema in welcoming Chicago-based filmmaker
Michael Robinson for a screening of recent work on film and video. Amy
Beste of Chicago's Conversations at the Edge sees Robinson's work as, "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." Robinson writes,
"For me, these films all make attempts at turning loss, heartache,
failure, et cetera, into something beautiful and exciting;" hence the
title: THE ELATED ANGUISH SHOW. Including: You Don't Bring Me Flowers,
The General Returns from One Place to Another, Tidal, And We All Shine
On, Light is Waiting, Chiquitita and the Soft Escape, Victory Over the
Sun + more!
10/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7.30pm, 992 Valencia St
2ND ATA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL OPENING PARTY
The 2nd ATA Film and Video Festival Opening Night Party will feature an
eclectic music selection by dj_spaceinvader & Niles of mk2 reality
enhancement, and will premiere local filmmaker Paul Clipson's new super
8 film "Illuminations" with live musical score by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Party from 7.30pm to 10pm, film premiere at 8.30pm (aprox. duration 30
min). Tickets are $5 at the door.
10/10
Seattle, Washington: Eyes and Ears Collective
http://www.endsound.com/erico
8:00 PM, 1515 12th Avenu
EYES AND EARS SUPERNOVA WITH MAGNIFICENT FOREST RELEASE
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 8pm Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle,
Washington 98112 $8.50 General / $5 NWFF Members Special Live
Presentation EYES AND EARS SUPERNOVA Prepare for opti-sonic crucifixion
when noisemeisters Arcachnid Arcade and Garek Druss team up with free
improvisers Walrus Machine to take over Northwest Film Forum for this
evening of live music and film. Brand-new work by Seattle film
experimenters Rachel LordKenaga, Steve Demas, Eric Ostrowski, Doug Lane,
Chris Ando, Jon Behrens, R.K. Adams, Katherine Scharhon, and Reed
O'Beirne will be brought to life by this live sonic feast. Bring
earplugs, and open your eyes! Followed by: ERIC OSTROWSKI DVD/CD
RELEASE— MAGNIFICENT FOREST Join us in the lounge afterwards to
celebrate Eric Ostrowski's new DVD/CD release MAGNIFICENT FOREST.
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10/11
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
A DARKNESS SWALLOWED
Betzy Bromberg in person! For twenty years, Betzy Bromberg walked the
line between experimental filmmaking and Hollywood, where she worked as
a special effects supervisor and cameraperson on blockbusters like THE
TERMINATOR (1984), THE ABYSS (1989), and STRANGE DAYS (1995), while also
crafting her own visually striking, politically-charged films. Currently
the director of the Film and Video Program at CalArts, Bromberg's latest
project, a DARKNESS SWALLOWED, reflects this tightrope in its mastery of
form and subject. Six years in the making, the film maps the physical
traces of memory through familiar and otherworldly micro-scapes of
gnarled roots and ligaments, sinewy tissues and webs, and explosions of
light, expressionistic scoring, and sound design. The final result,
according to Holly Willis of the LA Times, contains "images that, once
seen, will stay with you forever." (2006, Betzy Bromberg, USA, 16mm, 78
min)
10/11
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
WU WENGUANG: FUCK CINEMA
China, 2006, 170 min., MiniDV Shot in cinema vérité, a pungent yet
moving indictment of how cinema is affecting—and sometimes
destroying—the lives of ordinary people in China. A must-see! Preceded
by: Jia Zhangke: Ten Years (China, 2007, 8 min., 35mm) Program is part
of four day screening series New Chinese Cinema: The Unofficial Stories
of Tang Tang, Piggy, Little Moth and Others Oct. 10-13 Pan-Chinese
cinema is coming of age now, with an explosion of genres, formats,
themes and talents. Exploring new and exhilarating artistic paths or
alternative sexualities, the films bear witness to the tremendous
changes experienced by Chinese society.
10/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - LAUNCH OF NATIONAL ART, ACTIVISM AND
ANALYSIS (AAA) TOUR
PAPER TIGER TELEVISION (PTTV) - a volunteer collective with a mission to
"smash the myths of the information industry" - launched in 1981 through
the collaborative efforts of artists, activists and scholars. This
internationally distributed public access cable show, an innovator in
the video art movement, developed its own unique style by combining
politics, performance and live broadcasts. Questioning the powerful grip
of corporate influence on media content, PTTV became a forerunner of the
media reform movement and helped spur the global development of
independent and alternative media. For 25 years, PTTV has provided a
much-needed critical look at our social condition by covering issues
that are misrepresented or ignored by the mainstream. To celebrate
PPTV's 25th anniversary, there will be a special screening on October 11
of the new film PAPER TIGER READS PAPER TIGER TELEVISION, followed on
October 15-16 by four curated programs of PPTV's most seminal work.
WORLD PREMIERE! EVENING HOSTED BY AMY GOODMAN, BILL TABB AND JOAN
BRADERMAN. PAPER TIGER READS PAPER TIGER TELEVISION. 2007, 45 minutes,
digital video. PAPER TIGER TELEVISION's groundbreaking, fun, funky,
hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media has
influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world.
This jubilant mosaic of archival footage, hand-crafted animations, and
video shorts features interviews with media critics and historians as
well as current and past Tigers, including Dee Dee Halleck, Jesse Drew,
George Stoney, Dierdre Boyle and Mary Feaster. Evening includes opening
reception, music, video installation, and performance.
10/11
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
7:30pm, 279 CHURCH STREET
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: TONY GAULT AND ELIZABETH HENRY: SELECTED
WORKS
New York Experimental, The Tank's monthly experimental film, video, and
live media performance series, is pleased to present an evening of works
from filmmakers Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry. Utilizing evocative
color saturation and optically printed imagery, Gault and Henry's
experimental films deconstruct a predominantly dualistic worldview and
explore the wonder in our complex relationship to nature. The filmmakers
will be present for a Q & A after the screening. Screening Program: Not
Too Much Remember, Gault, 16mm, 11 min, 2003; Tabernacle, Gault, 16mm,
10 min, 1998; A Good Strong Roof, Gault, Super 8 on MiniDV, 6 min, 2004;
It Could Happen to You, Henry, 16mm on MiniDV, 8 min, 2004; Hats Can Be
A Scary Thing, Gault 16mm, 4 min, 1992; Housesitting, Gault, 16mm, 16
min, 1999; Through These Trackless Waters, Henry, 16mm on MiniDV, 12
min, 2007. About the Filmmakers: Gault's films have won awards at film
festivals around the world including Black Maria, Ann Arbor,
Cinematexas, U.S. Super 8, Aspen Shorts and the New Orleans Film
Festival. He teaches film production and studies at the University of
Denver. He is currently working on a film about language and how it
influences our perception of reality. He also hopes to be selected for
President Bush's manned Mars expedition. Elizabeth Henry is a filmmaker
and writer. She teaches film production and studies at the University of
Denver. Her previous films have screened in many film festivals
including Ann Arbor, New York Underground, MadCat and have won awards at
Black Maria, Humboldt International and the Sarah Lawrence X-Fest. About
New York Experimental: New York Experimental is The Tank's monthly
experimental film/video/live media performance series, focusing on
unique moving picture works from emerging and established artists. The
mission of the series is to present a wide range of work, in regards to
both content and aesthetics, from New York based, national, and
international artists, to a general audience in a welcoming environment.
For questions and information requests regarding New York Experimental
please contact Susan Agliata at (address suppressed)
10/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
CRAZY RAYS: ED AND PETER EMSHWILLER
Ed Emshwiller won five Hugo awards for his science fiction magazine
covers and involved notable science fiction authors in his moving image
work. Carol is a short portrait of Emshwiller's wife, an award-winning
science fiction writer. Image, Flesh and Voice, a feature-length
experimental work, weaves together conversations by New Wave science
fiction authors, including Damon Knight, Harlan Ellison, Keith Laumer,
Gordon Dickson, James Blish and many others talking about society,
politics and philosophy with carefully shot near-abstract monochrome
images; Shot by the Emshwillers' then-11-year-old son Peter, Jr. Star
Trek is an all-kid remake of the legendary TV show—complete with Ed
himself as an alien monster.
10/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9:30pm, Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
CRAZY RAYS: MAX ALMY / RODDY BOGAWA
Combining an early-80s New Wave androgynous flair and a plugged-in
proto-cyberpunk sensibility, Almy's delirious data-trip, Leaving the
20th Century, remains one of the most formidable experimental videos of
its decade. For his 16mm feature, Junk, Roddy Bogawa turns to a later
set of musical influences: the post-apocalyptic tendencies of post-punk
noise.
10/11
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia St
2ND ATA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
San Francisco, CA. Artists' Television Access' 2nd annual ATA Film and
Video Festival celebrates experimental films and filmmakers with a party
and the showcasing of 34 short, original, independent and underground
films by local, national, and international artists. This year's 26
short films include the surreal "Silly Boy Slap Party" by Guy Maddin,
the wordless and miraculous "Paradise Drift" by Martin Hansen, the 4000
hand-made collage animation "Phantom Canyon" by Stacy Steers, and "The
Apollos", a student documentary about the 1981 Oakland Tech High School
class that fought successfully to make Martin Luther King Day a holiday.
In addition to the screenings, during the month of October the work of 8
experimental video artists will be on display in the ATA store-front
window. ATA, 992 Valencia and 21st Streets (SF, CA). Wed. October 10th,
Thursday the 11th, and Friday the 12th doors open at 7.30pm every night.
Screenings start at 8pm. Opening night party from 7.30pm to 10pm, film
premiere at 8.30pm (aprox. duration 30 min). Tickets are $5 for the
Opening Party and $7-$10 for the screenings. Thursday, October 11, 2007:
"Auteur Space" For(r)est In The Des(s)ert (Luiso Berdejo); Their
Circumstances(JiHyun Ahn); I Am The Eggman (Sam Barnett); False
Friends(Sylvia Schedelbauer); Paradise Drift (Martin Hansen).
"Reelpolitik" The Apollos (Nick Parker & Jazmin Jones); To Watch After
The White House Press Briefing, Or With The Apathetic (Mack McFarland);
Marmot(Olga Chernysheva); Tetescha Us (Stefanie Wuschitz); La Parabolica
(Xavi Sala); The Severe Illness of Men (Aleinikov Brothers).
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