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Part 1 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Colen Fitzgibbon: Your Basic Film [October 13, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* The Animation Show: Cartune Xprez Presents 2nd Xcape, A Collection of
Animated videos, With Live Performances By Jim Trainor, Caroline
Nutley, Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp [October 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* <B>Boxcar</B> [October 13, Detroit, Michigan]
* 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]
* The Best of Platform International Animation Festival [October 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Nostalgia [October 15, San Francisco, California]
* The Communal Dreamstate, Introduced By Jennifer Reeves [October 16, Columbus, Ohio]
* One Minute [October 16, Manchester, UK]
* Pulse Performace By Ray_xxxx [October 16, Montreal, Quebec]
* Still/Moving: Still Photography In the Moving Image. Part 1: Speed of
Light [October 17, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Highly Defined: New Works From the Voom Hd Lab [October 17, Berkeley, California]
* Notebook: the Films of Marie Menken [October 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Light Work Mood Disorder / He Walked Away, Jennifer Reeves and Anthony
Burr Live [October 18, Columbus, Ohio]
* Subversion: the Definitive History of Underground Cinema [October 18, London, England]
* Double vision - Experimental Shorts [October 18, Montreal, Quebec]
* Time To Dwell: Selections From the 20th Edition of Toronto's Images
Festival [October 18, New York, New York]
* Experimental Shorts Program [October 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair Film Festival [October 19, Baltimroe]
* The Crypto-Zoetropical Pursuit [October 19, Portland, Oregon]
* Joseph Cornell: Essential Cinema From Anthology Film Archives: Program
Two [October 19, San Francisco, California]
* Still/Moving: Still Photography In the Moving Image. Part 2: Pictures
Worth A Thousand Words [October 20, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Ken Jacobs: Star Spangled To Death [October 20, Brussels]
* Caroline Koebel: City Film Berlin [October 20, New York, New York]
* Lynne Sachs’ I Am Not A War Photographer [October 20, San Francisco, California]
* Ken Jacobs & Aki Onda: Nervous Magic Lantern Performance [October 21, Brussels]
* Filmforum Presents You Pick ‘Em! A Selection of Experimental Films From
Canyon Cinema [October 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Films By Stan Brakhage [October 21, New York, New York]
* Belson / Baillie / Crockwell [October 21, New York, New York]
* Experiments In High Definition [October 21, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007
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10/13
Brussels: ARGOS
http://www.argosarts.org
20:30, BOZAR Brussels
TONY CONRAD PERFORMANCE FORTY-FIVE YEARS ON THE INFINITE PLAIN
Sa 13.10.2007 // 20:30 Tony Conrad & guest musicians: Forty-five Years
on the Infinite Plain (1972-2007) Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais
des Beaux-Art entry fee: 9/7 euro organised by ARGOS (www.argosarts.org)
and BOZAR CINEMA (www.bozar.be) The influence of violinist, composer,
film and videomaker Tony Conrad (US, 1940) cannot be overestimated: he
was one of the originators of the Minimalist music movement and a key
figure in the experimental film scene in New York during the 1960s. He
was co-founder of the 'Theatre of Eternal Music' collective (with John
Cale, LaMonte Young and Angus MacLise), which developed a new musical
language counter to any existing conventions of the time, and labeled as
"dream music". Music was thus set free from the stronghold of musical
'high' culture, by putting improvisation and participation above
compositional authoritarianism, and by focusing on the aspect of
listening itself through a new use of harmonic intervals. With his
audiovisual Conrad also questions and undermines the laws of looking and
listening. In his best-known film, The Flicker (1966), he searched for a
visual equivalent of musical consonance, which resulted in a bombardment
of stroboscopic flashes, producing optical color effects in their turn.
After his collaboration with the Krautrock formation Faust during the
1970s Conrad chose to lecture full time at the media faculty of Buffalo
University. Since his work was brought back to attention in the 1990s he
is more active than ever in a wide range of areas. Created in New York
in 1972, the performance Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain seems to
be the ideal synthesis of Tony Conrad's research: his structural
approach to cinema unites with his minimal and open approach to music.
Four projectors showing a hypnotic and flashing film loop are joined by
musicians, producing continuous sound chords. The result is a suspended
audiovisual environment, which is reflective and unravels very slowly;
"very meditational and very terrific", as Conrad put it himself. This
event creates a great opportunity to live this historic performance,
never presented in Belgium, in a revised form : Forty-five Years on the
Infinite Plain. As Conrad explains himself : "In revising "Ten" to
"Forty-five", I am addressing a broader chronological perspective,
relocating to a different social allegory, and accessing the plural
tools that encompass a more contemporary "minimalism." The "subject"
that is, the viewer—is still at the center of the work; but now the
polyvalence of subjectivity is recognized in a figural usage of
heterophony and antiphony. A solo cello challenges the lead instrument,
and the audience area is divided in half. Musical figures invoke
divisiveness, over the unitary ground of the drone. There are two
distinct rhythms to follow, further dividing the subject's attention.
These elements of what would have been seen in 1972 as "confusion"
instead, i n today's heterotopia, reflect and invite access to a
subjectivity that is more "true to life," more centered on the plain
where we stand." "A work that relates to time but exists independent of
points in time refers to the obverse side of time, beyond the
possibility of measuring it with markings: duration. Yet unmeasured
duration, in principle, is a kingdom entirely at the command of the
recipient and his or her subjectivity." Diedrich Diedrichsen, Time and
Dream: Tony Conrad's Yellow Movies Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
(1972), like some other works of the psychedelic era, commingles starkly
formal abstraction with introspective romanticism. Its insistent
conflation of quasi-religious spectacle with materialist minimalism
follows a path marked out by Rothko, Cage, Andre, and many others. Today
these elements have lost their radicalism; even the political conviction
of that time, that such work could make contact, through its spiritual
insistence, "with the political real behind the culture of commodity and
spectacle" (as Diedrichsen puts it), seems problematic and thin. please
contact Stoffel Debuysere - email suppressed for more info
10/13
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
7pm, 341 Delaware Ave.
BEYOND/IN WESTERN NEW YORK MEDIA ARTIST MICHAEL SNOW AT HALLWALLS
As part of Buffalo's regional biennial Beyond/In Western New York,
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center is pleased to host an evening with
media artist Michael Snow—our first-ever visiting filmmaker (January
1975!). Snow, whose "SSHTOORRTY" (2005) is also installed at the
Albright Knox Art Gallery, returns to Hallwalls on Saturday, October 13,
2007 at 7pm to present a selection of recent works. The screening
includes the digital short "The Living Room" (2000); "Triage" (16mm
2004), a dual projection and collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Carl
Brown and composer John Kamevaar; and "REVERBERLIN" (2006), his feature
length work that integrates footage of CCMC, the free improvisation
music ensemble co-founded by Snow in 1974. In addition to Snow,
Hallwalls will also host presentations and performances by Beyond/In
media artists Stephanie Rothenberg (Oct. 4 at 8pm), Jeremy Bailey (Oct.
20 at 8pm), and Dorothea Braemer (Nov. 3 at 8pm). For more info please
visit: www.hallwalls.org/media-arts.html Seating in our intimate cinema
is limited. For advanced tickets, please call Hallwalls Media Arts
Director Carolyn Tennant at 716-854-1694 or at carolyn [at]
hallwalls.org
10/13
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series
http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/
7:30, Carpenter Center at Harvard University, 24 Quincy St., Room B04
COLEN FITZGIBBON: YOUR BASIC FILM
Balagan and Mass Art Film Society present: "Colen Fitzgibbon: Your Basic
Film" with special guests Coleen Fitzgibbon, Saul Levine, Scott
MacDonald, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder. Balagan is delighted to bring a
special retrospective screening to Boston of the rarely screened works
of Coleen Fitzgibbon. Fitzgibbon was active as an experimental film and
video artist under the pseudonym "Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years
1973-1980. A student of Owen Land (aka "George Landow") and Stan
Brakhage during her years as a film/video student at Art Institute of
Chicago (1971-73), she later attended the Whitney Museum of American
Art's Independent Study Program under Ron Clark (1973-74), studying with
international artists such as Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci,
Donald Judd, and Dennis Oppenheim. Between the years 1973-1976
Fitzgibbon made some of her most rigorous experimental work to date on
16mm and super 8 film, screening at numerous international film
festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium,
Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Anthology Film Archives,
Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop in New York.
Thanks to the caring and meticulous preservation work of Sandra Gibson
and Luis Recoder, Balagan is thrilled to be able to bring Coleen's films
back to the screen and into the contemporary dialogue of American
avant-garde film history. Also screening: "Note to Coleen" by Saul
Levine. Discussion moderated by Scott MacDonald. This event is free!
10/13
Chicago, Illinois: Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
http://www.aroundthecoyote.org/festivals/2007_fall/
6 pm, Around the Coyote Gallery, 1935 ½ W. North Ave.
THE ANIMATION SHOW: CARTUNE XPREZ PRESENTS 2ND XCAPE, A COLLECTION OF
ANIMATED VIDEOS, WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES BY JIM TRAINOR, CAROLINE NUTLEY,
SUZIE SILVER AND HILARY HARP
CARTUNE XPREZ presents 2ND XCAPE, an animated glimpse into the fantastic
universes of 7 American artists. From the ever-morphing pencil
animations of Bruce Bickford to Takeshi Murata's shimmering digital
explosions, each artist subjectively navigates an assault of visual
culture using their DIY (Do-It-Yourself) sensibilities. Follow these
videos through a landscape of shrunken technology as they escape with
visions of a strange new world. Featuring Bruce Bickford, Martha
Colburn, Adrian Freeman, Hooliganship, Shana Moulton, and Takeshi
Murata. Live Performances featuring: The Presentation Theme, by Jim
Trainor (drawings) and Caroline Nutley (music), a comic-strip slide show
with music. And AV Lodge, a collaborative project of Hilary Harp and
Suzie Silver, featuring a live-video variety show, which draws
inspiration equally from the Sonny & Cher Show and Oskar Schlemmer's
Triadic Ballet. The performance blends live video and sound with robotic
controllers and original video clips.
10/13
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
7pm, 1227 Washington Blvd.
BOXCAR
The Detroit Film Center's screening series devoted to exhibiting
experimental and documentary short film and video. This installment
features a sample of work from some of the most innovative filmmakers
presently working in the US. Program: Matt Meindl (Lollygagger)
Potter-Belmar Lab (Pandora's Bike) Ariana Gerstein (Alice Sees the
Light) Ryan Marino (Point of Beginning) Moira Tierney (You can't keep a
good snake down) Rob Tyner (October of This Year) Walter Ungerer (91 Le
Grand) @ the Detroit Film Center 1227 Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI
48226 Doors @ 7pm Films roll @ 8pm $5 general admission. $3 students and
elderly, current DFC students FREE www.detroitfilm.org 313.961.9936
10/13
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
2pm- Midnight, 631 W. 2nd St
FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS MARATHON
A quartet of award winners—from the Locarno, Tokyo, Vienna and Cannes
festivals—are questioning gender and family relationships and the place
of women in contemporary China. Each screening: $9 [students $7] Sat
Marathon: $9 for one film, $13 for two, $17 for three and $20 for all
four films 2 pm Screening Sheng Zhimin: Bliss (Fu Sheng) Hong
Kong/China, 2006, 96 min., 35mm A man receives the ashes of his ex-wife;
a young delinquent discovers love; a couple is in a crisis. In Sheng's
sensitive, multilayered drama, bliss comes in subtle yet illuminating
ways. 4:00 pm Screening Zhang Lu: Grain in Ear (Mang Zhong) China/South
Korea, 2005, 110 min., 35mm A young Korean-Chinese woman lives with her
little boy on the city outskirts, selling kimchi. Long takes and
painterly compositions suggest her complex interior life—with a twist!
7:45 pm Screening Li Yu: Dam Street (Hong Yan) China, 2005, 93 min.,
35mm A major female voice in Chinese cinema, Li deciphers the troubled
personal life of a young singer in a down-and-out Sichuan opera troupe.
9:45 pm Screening Ying Liang and Peng Shan: The Other Half (Ling Yiban)
China, 2006, 111 min., DVCAM Through frontal composition, fractured
narration and a savvy mixture of documentary and fiction, the film shows
how sexual impasse and industrial catastrophes intersect in a Sichuan
town.
10/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILMS BY BRUCE BAILLIE
Dir: Bruce Baillie. MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 21 minutes,
16mm) . QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm). Meditations on America by a
filmmaker whom Willard van Dyke once called the most American of all
contemporary filmmakers. Annette Michelson has referred to Bruce Baillie
as one of the few American political filmmakers.
10/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
EXPLOSIONS INTO COLOR: NEW ZEALAND EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1980-84
In the early 1980s a generation of filmmakers emerged in New Zealand
mixing art world sensibilities with cinema. Writing about his film MOUTH
MUSIC, director Gregor Nicholas cited references "made in the spirit of
affection and irony" to filmmakers including Carl Dreyer, Kenneth Anger
and Andy Warhol. While EXPLOSIONS INTO COLOR demonstrates the influence
of the 20th century avant-garde cinema in New Zealand, it also captures
a group of filmmakers in tune with contemporary themes of race, politics
and industrial culture. . Please note that all films are shown on video.
Original formats are noted for each title. City Group MONKEY (1978, 9
minutes, Super 8mm). City Group was an Auckland-based collective of
artists and filmmakers that emerged in the early 80s with the production
of a number of radical non-narrative films. . City Group SPRINGBOK
(1981, 15 minutes, Super 8mm). Springbok combines dance, symbolic
figures of fascism and a discordant soundtrack in an eerie and dark
meditation on racial intolerance. . Richard Von Sturmer, Charlotte
Wrightson, Derek Ward THE SEARCH FOR OTTO (1986, 16 minutes, Super 8mm).
A woman develops an obsession with a masculine figure from her dreams
who escapes into the imaginative world of an Egyptian landscape, leaving
behind a series of objects, a punching bag, an ashtray, an open book..
Gregor Nicholas MOUTH MUSIC (1981, 15 minutes, 16mm). MOUTH MUSIC opens
with a series of brilliantly lit talking heads, accompanied by music,
followed by an abstract series of images: a body builder, a woman, a
painter at work, a couple arguing. Chris Knox TURNING BROWN AND TORN IN
TWO (1983, 4 minutes, 16mm). Inspired by the strobe energy of Tony
Conrad's THE FLICKER and the direct-to-film techniques of Len Lye, Knox
mixes live-action, collage, stop-motion and animation to create films
that double as music videos. Gregor Nicholas BODYSPEAK (1983, 10
minutes, 16mm). BODYSPEAK juxtaposes elaborate dances from different
cultures (a Samoan ceremonial dance, a drum dance from the Cook Islands,
and a Tango). Fetus Productions FLICKER (1985, 4 minutes, 16mm).
Emerging in the late 1970s, Fetus Productions traversed music, art,
experimental film and fashion, and played a key role in the development
of international Industrial Culture.
10/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 pm, 992 Valencia Street
E X P A N D E D CINEMA SPECTACULAR
We're hoisting our super-wide screen for—count 'em—FOUR
double-projection performances in this ambitious celebration of cinema
in real time. Katherin McInnis and Ben Furstenberg debut a stereoscopic
psychogeographic tour of the Mission's legendary Woodward Gardens. Kerry
Laitala and Stephen Parr juxtapose 16mm Sex-Ed films—male and female—in
Human Sexual Response. Eliot Daughtry and Kriss De Jong of Killer
Banshee engage in a live twin-image audio-visual dialogue, The Effort
Was in Peril, whilst Thurston Graham conjures up sonic counterpoint.
Melinda Stone and Sam Sharkey open the show with a new bouncing-ball
sing-a-long. Come early to sip absinthe and interact with Craig
Baldwin's Robo-strobo-scope! *$7.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007
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10/14
Brussels: ARGOS
http://www.argosarts.org
18:00, ARGOS Brussels
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH TONY CONRAD
Su 14.10.2007 // 18:00 A Sunday Afternoon with Tony Conrad organised by
ARGOS (www.argosarts.org) and BOZAR Cinema (www.bozar.be) During the
last film festival in Rotterdam, Tony Conrad electrocuted a film reel,
which produced light flashes and sparks. He then developed the images in
a bucket and screened them before a baffled and highly amused audience.
Apart from lecturing at Buffalo University, New York, this filmmaker,
video maker and musician is also a brilliant pedagogue with an inspiring
sense of humour. This lecture is the perfect introduction to Tony
Conrad's work, a trajectory through over forty years of radical
creation.
10/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
CATCHING UP WITH JAMES BENNING - TEN SKIES
Ten Skies (2004, 16mm, color, sound, 109 minutes). Ten ten-minute static
shots - ten different skies, as they are affected by the landscapes and
the atmospheric/ environmental conditions below them.
10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILMS IN REAL TIME 1970-79
In the early 1970s the New Zealand art world began to blossom. During
this time a post-object art movement was emerging, wherein artists
turned their attention to performance activities. FILMS IN REAL TIME
documents a range of activities from musical performance to the rigors
of physical labor, sometimes completely raw and unedited, at other times
crafted into records of time and place. Please note that all films are
shown on video. Original formats are noted for each title. . Leon Narbey
A FILM OF REAL TIME. A LIGHT SOUND ENVIRONMENT (1970, 9 minutes, 16mm).
Philip Dadson EARTHWORKS. TEMPORARY INSTANT IN THE CONTINUUM OF
UNIVERSAL EBB AND FLOW (1971, 12 minutes, 16mm). Darcy Lange RUATORIA
PART 2 / SHEARING PEKAMA (1974, 9 minutes, video). Gray Nicol DUCK
CALLING (1978, 4 minutes, video). Andrew Drummond NGAURANGA SET. 20
DIRECTIONS IN AN ENCLOSURE (1978, 6 minutes, video). Ted Nia [NEW
DIRECTIONS IN NZ MUSIC OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1979. FROM SCRATCH - DRUMWHEEL]
(1979, 13 minutes, video). Bruce Barber WHATIPU BEACH PERFORMANCE (1973,
9 minutes, Super 8mm).
10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: EXPERIMENTS IN NEW ZEALAND ANIMATION AFTER LEN
LYE
In 2007 Len Lye stands as the pioneer, inspiration and point of
reference for animation in New Zealand. While the influence of Lye's
film work remains undisputed, SCRATCHING THE SURFACE reveals a handful
of New Zealand animators with independent visions. . All films are
presented on Beta. Original formats are noted for each title. John Henry
STRATUS (from IMAGES) (1976, 10 minutes, video). STRATUS is one-third of
a three-part videotape of elaborate abstract patterns with a jazz fusion
soundtrack by Billy Cobham. Lissa Mitchell / Pictorial Research Group
BOWL ME OVER (1995, 6 minutes, 16mm). A mini-epic South Island
travelogue/road movie and homage to artists Colin McCahon, Mina Arndt
and Rita Angus, by Wellington film maker Lissa Mitchell. Chris Knox
NOTHING'S GOING TO HAPPEN (1981, 4 minutes, 16mm). Alternative music
icon Chris Knox creates a piece of stop-motion absurdism in this music
video for his band Tall Dwarfs. Chris Knox PHIL'S DISEASE DAY 1 (1981, 2
minutes, 16mm). "I've got these pains.." Here Knox animates a stream of
consciousness for the song PHIL'S DISEASE DAY 1. Lisa Reihana WOG
FEATURES (1990, 7 minutes, 16mm). "WOG FEATURES uses animation and live
action to address racism in culture and gender.. This politicised look
at culture is almost on the edge of profanity." -Lisa Reihana . Douglas
Bagnall / Pictorial Research Group THE FIRST FILM (1992, 3 minutes,
Super 8mm). A soundtrack of crashing noise, bells, and distortion
provides the background for streams of mosaic patterns that form and
decay in startling succession. Glenn Standring LENNY MINUTE ONE (1993,
12 minutes, 16mm). "Private Eye Lenny Minute is drawn into a web of
surreal intrigue after a series of murders, leading him to confront the
woman of his dreams as the first swords are drawn in the war between the
sexes." -Glenn Standring. May Trubuhovich FELINE (1997, 6 minutes,
16mm). A remarkable piece of claymation, FELINE investigates the
possibilities of changing oneself in a world where physicality and
identity are fluid.
10/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (corner of Third)
NEW FILMS FROM CANYON CINEMA
Tonight's program includes a sampling of new films recently placed into
distribution with Canyon Cinema. All the works presented will be shown
in 16mm or 35mm format to honor Canyon Cinema's devotion to promotion of
the distribution and projection of motion picture film. Screening:
Kosmos by Thorsten Fleisch, SSHTOORRTY by Michael Snow, Hot Leatherette
by Robert Nelson, Bouquets 21-30 by Rose Lowder, Orchard by Julie
Murray, Startle Pattern by Eric Patrick, You Be Mother by Sarah Pucill,
Errata by Alexander Stewart, Ber-Lin 99/00 by Andre Lehmann.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2007
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10/15
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
THE BEST OF PLATFORM INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
This selection of highlights from the Platform Festival in Portland
Oregon offers Los Angeles animation aficionados the rare opportunity to
view the best and most daring work from a dizzying lineup.
10/15
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm , SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street
NOSTALGIA
Plays of time, place, and recollection. Hollis Frampton's Nostalgia,
complicates what we take as truth, present, past and future. The
tensions between here and there are explored in Kurt Kren's 15/67 TV .
Guy Sherwin's DaCapo is a sequence of visual and musical variations of a
departing train, while, in Bruce Baillie's All My Life, the present
moment inspires in color and song.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2007
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10/16
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7:00 PM, 1871 N. High St.
THE COMMUNAL DREAMSTATE, INTRODUCED BY JENNIFER REEVES
Jennfer Reeves, one of last year's Wexner Center Residency Award
recipients in media arts, is concluding her work at the center this
month. While she's here, the New York–based filmmaker presents an
engaging program of handpicked films alongside a few samples of her own
work. The selected films by Bruce Baillie, Su Friedrich, Matthias
Mueller, Suzan Pitt, and Joyce Weiland have influenced and inspired
Reeves by showing cinema's unique emotional and intellectual power to
create free-association through montage. In this context, Reeves also
shows her haunting hand-painted film Fear of Blushing and an excerpt
from her acclaimed feature The Time We Killed (2004). (app. 97 mins.,
16mm)
10/16
Manchester, UK:
http://www.kerrybaldry.moonfruit.com
8pm, Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK. M15 6JA
ONE MINUTE
One Minute A screening of Artists Video curated by Kerry Baldry Tuesday
16th October at 8pm Contact Theatre Oxford Road Manchester, M15 6JA U.K.
includes work by: Gordon Dawson, Steven Ball, Kerry Baldry, Erica
Scourti, Deklan Kilfeather, Steve Hawley, Lynn Loo, Philip Sanderson,
Andy Fear, David Leister, Phillip Warnell, Riccardo Iacono, Claire
Morales, Unconscious Films, Laure Prouvost, Katherine Maynell, Claudia
Digangi, Eva Rudlinger, Lilly Zinan Ding, Stuart Pound, Gordon Dawson,
Tina Keane, Nick Herbert, Hilary Jack, Martin Pickles, Mark Wigan,
Esther Johnson
10/16
Montreal, Quebec: @ Festival du Nouveau Cinema
http://www.imagesfestival.com
2100, SAT : 1195, boul. St-Laurent
PULSE PERFORMACE BY RAY_XXXX
Pulse by Ray_XXXX (Alain Thibault + Matthew Biederman, Montreal)
Digital Audio, High Definition Generative Video Synthesis Performance
Duration : 40 minutes Stereo http://www.myspace.com/ray_xxxx "Pulse" is
an audio-video performance based around the framework of an electronic
pulsation iterated through time. In contemporary culture, the pulsation
has become an essential element, namely in music. The idea of pulsation
is closely related to techno culture, where analog and digital audio
technologies have recently allowed the advent of a stable pulsation,
without the variations that a human player might introduce. "Pulse" thus
takes the language of techno culture by stressing the specific live
experience where the experiment takes priority over emotion, where
physical stimuli are paramount. The objective sought in "Pulse" will not
be to present a composed work, with a pre-established scenario, via a
traditional arc, but to produce a series of psychological states through
which the witness will be able to build his own narrative. This program
is part of the Double Vision tour (October 2007-January 2008). Double
Vision is organized by The Images Festival (Toronto) and the Canadian
Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). These programs are a part of a
touring project that is taking place in three pairs of partner cities in
Canada and Europe. Both this program of Alain Thibault and Matthew
Biederman's Pulse and the shorts program @ FNC on October 18 will be
presented in Paris, France this November. Double Vision made possible
thanks to the generous support of the Conseil des Arts du Canada.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007
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10/17
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
STILL/MOVING: STILL PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE MOVING IMAGE. PART 1: SPEED OF
LIGHT
The "motion" in motion pictures is an illusion. Films are made up of a
series of still images on a strip, cleverly manipulated during
projection to fool us into seeing motion on the screen. "Speed of Light"
is a journey through the ways in which still images uncover new ways of
seeing movement. | Time-lapse photography allows film to condense a
single day into just a few minutes, as in Jonas Mekas's charming study
of a port in the south of France and Gary Beydler's dramatic landscape
study Hand Held Day. | Beydler's delightful film Pasadena Freeway Stills
is an ingenious frame-within-a-frame masterpiece. This elegant,
influential experimental film remains highly regarded today. |
Subversive, visually wild and often hilarious, Martin Arnold's tour de
force film Pièce Touchée takes eighteen seconds from a Hollywood film
and stretches it out, turns it upside down and backwards, loops tiny
moments and turns the simplest movements of the actors into riots of
latent meaning. Guy Sherwin (using countdown film leader) and Stan
Brakhage (hand painting images of the cosmos) use hand printing and
superimposition to dazzle the eye and mind, while Rose Lowder's
"ecological cinema" makes dynamic use of overlapping imagery from
natural spaces in the south of France (see below). | Meanwhile, in his
Screen Tests, Andy Warhol turns the still portrait on its head by posing
his subjects in front of a moving camera and asking them not to move
(some play along, some don't!). | Program: Numero 4 (Pip Chodorov,
1989), super-8, color, sound, 3 minutes (screened on 16mm); At the
Academy (Guy Sherwin, 1974), 16mm, black & white, sound, 5 minutes Pièce
Touchée (Martin Arnold, 1989), 16mm, color, sound, 16 minutes; selected
Screen Tests (Andy Warhol, 1964-66), 16mm, black & white, silent, 9
minutes; Pasadena Freeway Stills (Gary Beydler, 1974), 16mm, color,
silent, 6 minutes; Cassis (Jonas Mekas, 1966), 16mm, color, sound, 4
minutes; Voiliers et Coquelicots (Sailboats and Poppies) (Rose Lowder,
2001), 16mm, color, silent, 3 minutes; Hand Held Day (Gary Beydler,
1974), 16mm, color, silent, 6 minutes; Stellar (Stan Brakhage, 1993),
16mm, color, silent, 2 minutes; Bouquets 21-30 (Rose Lowder, 2001-2005),
16mm, color, silent, 14 minutes | STILL/MOVING 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.
10/17
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
HIGHLY DEFINED: NEW WORKS FROM THE VOOM HD LAB
From Jennifer Reeves's hand-tooled optical ecstasy Light Work 1 to Fred
Barney Taylor's Atlantis, a tantalizing treatment of the Brooklyn
Bridge; from Ellen Zweig's pungent portrait of a Chinese opera star, The
Lonely Girl, to Leighton Pierce's defined dive beneath the surface, My
Person in the Water, now with deeper ridges to the roil, we can observe
the medium magnified in its particular materiality of tone and depth.
—Steve Seid as part of this event: The Lonely Girl by Ellen Zweig The
Lonely Girl is a portrait of Chinese opera star, Qian Yi. Originally
from Shanghai, she now lives in New York; she feels caught between two
cultures, not really at home in either place. In this short video, Qian
Yi prepares for a performance by putting on her makeup and costume. She
rehearses several songs from the Kunqu opera, The Peony Pavilion, in
which she sings about loneliness. In a series of interviews conducted
both in Shanghai and in New York, Qian Yi remembers her childhood and
talks about the aesthetics of her craft as an opera performer. This
video depicts what home means to an immigrant, not just the location of
home, but the home that lives inside a person's heart. www.ezweig.com
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
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10/18
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
NOTEBOOK: THE FILMS OF MARIE MENKEN
One of the most significant filmmakers of New York's underground film
scene in the 1950s and 1960s, Marie Menken inspired a generation of
filmmakers—from Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga to Kenneth Anger, Stan
Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas. Celebrated for her lyrical sensibility and
improvisational style, Menken, according to Mekas, "filmed with her
entire body, her entire nervous system," spinning her observations into
luminescent haikus of color, texture, and light. Tonight's program
includes GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957); HURRY! HURRY! (1957); DWIGHTIANA
(1959); EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961); ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER
(1961); NOTEBOOK (1962–63); GO! GO! GO! (1964); and ANDY WARHOL (1965).
(1957–65, USA, 16mm, ca 70 min)
10/18
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
8pm, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Performance Space. Bldg 386, 1850 College Road
LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER / HE WALKED AWAY, JENNIFER REEVES AND ANTHONY
BURR LIVE
Join us in the Performance Space for a unique evening of live
collaboration as Jennifer Reeves presents two new films, both featuring
dual 16mm projections with live music by Anthony Burr. In Light Work
Mood Disorder, footage from educational films is fused (and sometimes
literally sewn together) with beautifully abstract imagery created by
affixing pharmaceuticals directly to the film, resulting in a poetic
look at science, industry, medicine, and madness. He Walked Away layers
shots and outtakes from earlier Reeves films on landscape, portraiture,
and direct-on-film work in order to provide a radically new testimonial
and reflection on the development of an artist. Burr's music involves
pulsating computer loops and acoustic multitonal bass clarinet. (approx.
70 mins., 16mmX2)
10/18
London, England: Wallflower Press
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk
7.30PM, The Horse Hospital
SUBVERSION: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND CINEMA
Subversive Cinema Book Launch Horse Hospital, www.thehorsehospital.com
Sunday 18 October, 7.30PM til late Tickets £4 To mark the publication of
Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema, Wallflower
Press will be holding a gala night of film and video from the London
underground cinema club scene. With the author of the book, Duncan
Reekie, acting as MC, the night will feature optic gems from the
NO-BILITY of the NO-WAVE, rare documentary footage of the birth of the
movement, sensational live performance, kaleidoscopic visuals and
mystery guests. For more information about the book or event, please
visit www.wallflowerpress.co.uk or e-mail (address suppressed)
10/18
Montreal, Quebec: @ Festival du Nouveau Cinema
http://www.imagesfestival.com
1720, Cinema Parallele, 3536, boul. St-Laurent
DOUBLE VISION - EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Double Vision - Montréal-Paris The IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto), Canadian
Filmmakers Distribution Centre in collaboration with FNC, Montréal This
program is a collection of five film and video pieces by francophone
Canadian artists, both recent works and gems from the past. The artists
in this program explore the natural/constructed landscape and the formal
properties of the medium itself. Joanna Empain's Mouvances wanders over
a landscape as the scenery alternates and metamorphoses. Imprint by
Louise Bourque is a study of home and memory drawn from old home movie
footage. Shot in a tunnel in Québec City, Alexandre Larose's 930
juxtaposes views of both ends of the tunnel to present a passage from
light to dark and vice versa. Vertige by Isabelle Hayeur is a study of
the deserted landscape of an abandoned asbestos quarry. Closing the
program is Marie-France Giraudon's Pharos, an homage to light houses and
the terrain they inhabit. Double Vision is organized by The Images
Festival (Toronto) and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
(CFMDC). These programs are a part of a touring project that is taking
place in three pairs of partner cities in Canada and Europe. Both this
shorts program along with Alain Thibault and Matthew Biederman's Pulse
will be presented in Paris, France this November. Double Vision made
possible thanks to the generous support of the Conseil des Arts du
Canada. Mouvances Joanna Empain Canada 2005 4 minutes, video Imprint
Louise Bourque Canada | 1997 14 min., 16mm 930 Alexandre Larose Canada |
2006 10 min., 16mm Vertige Isabelle Hayeur Canada | 2006 10 min., 16mm
Pharos Marie-France Giraudon Canada | 2000 20 min., Vidéo
10/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
TIME TO DWELL: SELECTIONS FROM THE 20TH EDITION OF TORONTO'S IMAGES
FESTIVAL
Based in Toronto, the Images Festival is Canada's largest annual event
devoted exclusively to independent and experimental film, video,
installation, live performance and new media. In 2007, the festival
celebrated its 20th anniversary and deadlines for submitting work for
the 2008 edition (April 3-12) are coming up in November. This program
brings together nine artists from Canada and abroad whose work
demonstrates the range of work exhibited at this year's festival - from
hand-wrought 16mm film and found-footage video narratives to beautifully
photographed studies of landscapes both near and far. Shelley Niro TREE
(2005, 5 minutes, video, sound). Pays homage to the "Keep America
Beautiful" campaign from the early 1970s, recast with a mother-earth
figure. Ton van Zantvoort PACK (2005, 4 minutes, video, sound).
Juxtaposes the glares of a pack of wild dogs with the spiritual
stillness of the ruins in Sukhothai. Rae Staseson FOR FELIX (2007, 7
minutes, video, sound). FOR FELIX uses a single shot of a rusted swing
set to construct a narrative of longing, loss and nostalgia. Smriti
Mehra NEERANKALLU / WATERSTONE (2004, 7 minutes, video, sound). Smriti
Mehra captures the rhythmic day-to-day life in Neeranakallu, her
portrait of Bangalore's largest dhobi ghat or washermen's site. Aleesa
Cohene READY TO COPE (2006, 7 minutes, video, sound). Edited from clips
from horror and science fiction films, thrillers, self-help guides and
motivational instruction videos, READY TO COPE is an impassioned record
of collective anxiety. Katherine Jerkovic A TIME TO DWELL PART #1 (2006,
10 minutes, video, sound). A pictorial study on landscapes of the coast
that focuses its gaze on horizons and ships. Ben Rivers THE COMING RACE
(2007, 5 minutes, 16mm, sound). A hand-processed 16mm film depicting a
mass pilgrimage up a rocky mountain façade. David Dinnell MIDDEN
(2006, 20 minutes, video, sound). Shot entirely with an old,
malfunctioning security camera, MIDDEN documents the last vestiges of
open space soon to give way to encroaching suburban sprawl in rural
Ibaraki prefecture in Japan. Christina Battle THREE HOURS, FIFTEEN
MINUTES BEFORE THE HURRICANE STRUCK (2006, 5 minutes, 35mm, silent). A
collage animation based on accounts from victims of Hurricane Katrina
portraying the calm preceding the storm.
10/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: @ Imaginenative Film + Media Arts Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/event.php?id=249
1700, Al Green Theatre, Bloor & Spadina,
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM
The Images Festival in conjunction with imagineNATIVE and LIFT (the
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) is pleased to present the
Experimental Shorts Program as part of the 8th Annual imagineNATIVE Film
+ Media Arts Festival EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM @ Imaginenative Film +
Media Arts Festival Thursday, October 18 2007, 5:00PM Al Green Theatre
Admission 5$ http://www.imaginenative.org Co-presented by Images
Festival / LIFT Contact/Border: A Brief Lesson in History Dir. Spy
Dénommé-Welch, 2007, Canada, 3 min 27 sec, Beta SP Dir. Terry Haines,
2007, Canada, 4 min 7 sec, Beta SP Le Vieil Homme et la Rivère Dir.
Wapikoni Mobile Media, Steven Chilton, 2007, Canada, 5 min 6 sec, Beta
SP If You Where I Dir. James Diamond, 2007, Canada, 4 min 7 sec, Digital
Beta Baktun Dir. Alex Meraz, 2007, USA, 5 min 24 sec, Beta SP, Kalak
TOMORROW Dir. Michelle Latimer, 2007, Canada, 5 min, Digital Beta
Finding Charlie Dir. Jason Krowe, 2007, Canada, 11 min 21 sec, Beta SP
Naming/Claiming: A Brief Journey into Memory Space Dir. Spy
Dénommé-Welch, 2007, Canada, 3 min 34 sec, Beta SP Mercy Side Dir.
Travis Shilling, 2007, Canada, 23 min, Beta SP Demonstration of
Indianness #31 Dir. Adam Garnet Jones, 2006, Canada, 3 min 30 sec, Beta
SP Robin's Hood Dir. Kent Monkman, Gisèle Gordon, 2007, Canada, 6 min,
Digital Beta
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007
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10/19
Baltimroe: Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair
http://redemmas.org/bookfair/2007/section/main
11:00am to 9:00pm, 2640 St. Paul St.
MID-ATLANTIC RADICAL BOOKFAIR FILM FESTIVAL
The 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair presents Baltimore's first-ever
Radical Film Fest. Short and feature-length films with a broad focus on
subversive narratives and uncovered histories of resistance. Topics from
train-hopping and street art to radical activities in Detroit's auto
factories and squatters' rights in Amsterdam. Just $5, for a whole day
of films! 11AM-9PM on Friday, October 19. This is our first stab at an
all-day screening event, and we are still confirming some of the
following films: Who Is Bozo Texino? (Bill Daniel, 2006) Train on the
Brain (Alison Murray, 2000) Finally Got The News (Stewart Bird, Rene
Lichtman and Peter Gessner, 1970) Table, Bed, Chair (Robert Hack, 2007)
True to My Pledge: Impunity in Oaxaca (Mal de Ojo TV, 2007) Hold Fast:
Stories of maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the
S/V Pestilence (Moxie Marlinspike, 2007) Black Diamonds: Mountaintop
Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice (Catherine Pancake, 2005)
500 Years Later (Owen Alik Shahadah and M.K. Asante Jr., 2005) Sacco &
Vanzetti (Peter Miller, 2007)
10/19
Portland, Oregon: Rererato
http://www.rererato.com
7pm, Rererato Gallery NE 42nd @ Sumner
THE CRYPTO-ZOETROPICAL PURSUIT
Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, unknown or mystery animals, is a
field known for its inquiries into creatures like the Bigfoot and Loch
Ness Monster. This marginal pursuit constitutes a challenge to
established zoological authority by presenting alternative theories and
new taxonomic models. Supposing there are Bigfeet in our midst, what
sort of hidden, unknown and mystery animations exist? The artists
included in the "Crypto-Zoetropical Pursuit"screening explore previously
imperceptible sorts of moving image arts, from computer glitches to the
outer limits of image-interpolation, circuit-bent nintendos to novel
forms of audio-visual abstraction. Including works from a selection of
audio-visual anomalists such as: LoVid (NYC), Gijs Gieskes
(Netherlands), Eric Ostrowski (Seattle), noteNdo (Baltimore) Daniel
Heila (Eugene) and other local, national and international artists.
Plus! Held on the (all hallowed) eve of the 40th anniversary of the
infamous Bigfoot filmstrip (recorded on October 20th 1967 by Roger
Patterson and Bob Gimlin) this showcase will also include Jason Jones'
"Son of Sasquatch" performance, Fortean Electronics from Ryan Dunn and
Pulse Emitter, as well as the paranormal possibility spaces presented by
Universe.
10/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:00pm, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street
JOSEPH CORNELL: ESSENTIAL CINEMA FROM ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: PROGRAM
TWO
Shortly before his death in 1972, Cornell gifted his own films as well
as his extensive film collection to Anthology Film Archives. Much of
this work has been preserved by that institution and is exhibited
regularly at that venue. These programs represent two of these recurring
screenings."What Cornell's movies are is the essence of a home movie.
They deal with things very close to us, every day and everywhere. Small
things, not the big things. Not wars, not stormy emotions, dramatic
clashes or situations. His images are much simpler. [...] The boxes, the
collages, the home movies of Joseph Cornell are the invisible cathedrals
of our age. That is, they are almost invisible, as are all the best
things that man can still find today: They are almost invisible unless
you look for them." (Jonas Mekas, 1970) Screening: Mulberry Street,
Bookstalls; Vaudeville De-Luxe; By Night with Torch and Spear; New
York–Rome–Barcelona–Brussels; Children; Boys' Games, Joanne, Union Sq.;
and Cloches a travers les feuilles/ Claude Debussy.
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