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Part 1 of 2: This week [November 10 - 18, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Film Love #52: Dead Flowers [November 10, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Double vision : Berlin / Toronto [November 10, Berlin, Germany]
* The Nature of Systems [November 10, London, England]
* European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema [November 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Joel Schlemowitz - New Experimental Films and Dvd Release Party [November 10, New York, New York]
* Stan Brakhage [November 10, New York, New York]
* Kamouflage Films [November 10, New York, New York]
* Erik Davis + Isis Aquarian On Father Yod and the Source Family [November 10, San Francisco, California]
* Prelingers' Ecology of Libraries + Parr + [November 10, San Francisco, California]
* Two Stereoscopic Films By Zoe Beloff [November 10, Seattle, Washington]
* Zanzibar Films At Cinematheque Ontario [November 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Philippe Garrel's Le Lit De La vierge At Cinematheque Ontario [November 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Double vision : Berlin / Toronto [November 11, Berlin, Germany]
* Nwa [November 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Hollis Frampton's Magellan 1: the Birth of Magellan [November 11, London, England]
* Hollis Frampton's Magellan 2: the Straits of Magellan I [November 11, London, England]
* Pittsburgh Trilogy [November 11, New York, New York]
* The Text of Light [November 11, New York, New York]
* Pioneers of Bay Area Filmmaking [November 11, San Francisco, California]
* Two Works By the Speculative Archive [November 12, Los Angeles, California]
* My Name Is Albert Ayler [November 12, New York, New York]
* Performa07: An Evening With Grand Union [November 12, New York, New York]
* My Name Is Albert Ayler [November 12, New York, New York]
* The Road To Who Knows Where [November 13, London, England]
* Structuring Strategies: Gregg Biermann [November 13, Los Angeles, California]
* My Name Is Albert Ayler [November 13, New York, New York]
* Performa07: Film Work By Judson Artists [November 13, New York, New York]
* Double vision: Paris / Montreal [November 13, Paris, France]
* Double vision: Paris / Montreal [November 13, Paris, France]
* Persona [November 13, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Old Battle Axes [November 13, San Francisco, California]
* Picture This! Gallery 400 Presents "The Photography Show" [November 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* My Name Is Albert Ayler [November 14, New York, New York]
* The Face-To-Face Show [November 14, Providence]
* Lovid: Flipped Chips [November 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents Gregg Biermann & “Material Excess” [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Carolee Schneemann Program [November 15, New York, New York]
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Adaptation [November 15, New York, New York]
* Delicatrocity Exhibition: Demons/Tarantism/ Arford [November 15, San Francisco, California]
* The Films of Michael Robinson [November 15, Seattle, Washington]
* European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema [November 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Kitch's Last Meal [November 16, New York, New York]
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Adaptation [November 16, New York, New York]
* Films By Eric Patrick [November 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema [November 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Alchemical Dreams: the Short Films of Harry Smith [November 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg) [November 17, New York, New York]
* A First Quarter [November 17, New York, New York]
* Kitch's Last Meal [November 17, New York, New York]
* Radical Jesters + Blows Against the Empire [November 17, San Francisco, California]
* Hollis Frampton's Magellan 3: the Straits of Magellan ii [November 18, London, England]
* Hollis Frampton's Magellan 4: the Death of Magellan [November 18, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant and More Jazz Films [November 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Performa07: Bel, Charmatz and Chamblas [November 18, New York, New York]
* Films By Tony Conrad [November 18, New York, New York]
* Films By Hans Michaud [November 18, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007
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11/10
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
FILM LOVE #52: DEAD FLOWERS
In conjunction with the Dead Flowers gallery exhibition at Eyedrum, a
program of films on gardens, loss, and the passage of time. Curated by
Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. ** Films: Marjorie Keller, The
Answering Furrow (1985), 16mm, color, sound, 27 minutes ** Anne
Charlotte Robertson, Emily Died (1994), super-8mm, color, sound, 26
minutes (screened on VHS) ** The Answering Furrow: Owing to Virgil's
Georgics. Music: Charles Ives. Filmed in Yorktown Heights, New York; St.
Remy en Provence, France; Mantua, Rome and Brindisi, Italy; and in
Arcadia and the island of Kea in Greece. ** Emily Died: Since the early
1980s, Anne Charlotte Robertson has been making an epic diary work on
super-8 film. Emily Died is an excerpt from this work, detailing the
events of May to September 1994, as Robertson comes to terms with a
death in her family and the surrounding difficulties. This screening
represents a rare opportunity to see Robertson's brave, highly personal
film work. ** The Film Love series provides access to great but
rarely-screened films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of
experimental and avant-garde filmmaking. Film Love was voted Best Film
Series in Atlanta 2006 by the critics of Creative Loafing. More
information about the series is at http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com/
11/10
Berlin, Germany: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7 pm & 9:30 pm, Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Strasse 2
DOUBLE VISION : BERLIN / TORONTO
The Images Festival, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and Arsenal
Experimental present: DOUBLE VISION: BERLIN / TORONTO Arsenal Kino
Potsdamer Straße 2 D-10785 Berlin Telefon +49-30-26955-100
www.fdk-berlin.de/arsenal arsenal(at)fdk-berlin.de TORONTO PROGRAM 2
(Saturday 10.11., 7:00 pm, Arsenal 1) TRAVELING THRU WITH EYES CLOSED
TIGHT Christina Battle (CA 2006, 35mm, 4 min) NOTES IN ORIGIN Ellie Epp
(CA 1987, 16mm, 15 min) KITCHENER - BERLIN Phil Hoffman (CA 1990, 16mm,
34 min) DISTANCE BETWEEN HERE AND THERE Christina Battle (CA 2005, 35mm,
8 min) Followed by a Q&A with Philip Hoffman and Christina Battle For
Arsenal Experimental's „responding program" we have chosen films and
videos wich are represented by arsenal experimental in Berlin. Many of
the artists will be present for the screenings and discussions. BERLIN
PROGRAM 1 (Saturday 10.11., 9.30 pm Arsenal 2) PARADE Lothar Spree and
Detten Schleiermacher (CA/BRD 1972 12 min) SIGNAL - GERMANY ON THE AIR
Ernie Gehr (BRD/USA 1985 34 min)
11/10
London, England: BFI Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/
8:40pm, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XT
THE NATURE OF SYSTEMS
Technological systems create, fragment and transform landscapes: a long
video monitor stream, digitally mutated coastlines and strange urban
microclimates introduce fascinating artificial worlds, blurring the
boundaries between natural and constructed landscapes. Starting with
documentation of Chris Meigh-Andrews' video installation Stream Line and
passing through a variety of spellbinding single-screen film and video
environments, the programme also incorporates a presentation of Susan
Collins' most recent internet transmitted, real-time reconstruction of
Loch Faskally in Perthshire. STREAM LINE (Documentation) (Chris
Meigh-Andrews, 1991, 6 mins) BIT-SCAPES 135.1_08 (Davide Quagliola &
Chiara Horn, 2006, 3 mins) THE SOUND OF MICROCLIMATES (Semiconductor,
2004, 8 mins) SUBURBS OF THE VOID (Thomas Köner, 2004, 14 mins) TRAIN
NO. 8 (Daniel Crooks,2005, 6 mins) BIT-SCAPES 135.2_03 (Davide Quagliola
& Chiara Horn, 2006, 3 mins) UNTITLED (Rachel Reupke, 2006, 2 x 90 secs)
VOILIERS ET COQUELICOTS (Rose Lowder, 2002, 3 mins) BIT-SCAPES 135.7_13
(Davide Quagliola & Chiara Horn, 2006, 3 mins) AS WE ALL KNOW (Alix
Poscharsky, 2006, 3 mins) GLENLANDIA (Susan Collins, 2006, continuous)
11/10
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://www.lacma.org/programs/FilmSeriesSchedule.aspx
7:30 pm, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
EUROPEAN SURREALISM AND THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA
7:30 PM The Magik Lantern: Harry Smith 1957-62/b&w/66 min. | Scr/dir:
Harry Smith | Newly preserved with support from the National Film
Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by Cineric, Inc. The Harry
Smith Archives will present a live performance of the newly restored
version of Harry Smith's film Heaven and Earth Magic with specially
designed slides, colored gels and maskings. A collage film of animated
segments created from antique catalogues and elocution manuals, Smith
showed the film with its special projection set-up only once, in the
late 1950s at Carnegie Hall, New York City on a specially built
projector. This show involved the use of colored gels and slide overlays
to create a vividly colored presentation that had the strong feel of a
magic lantern show with an animated shadow play at its center. It is
characteristic of Smith to have created this antiquated form of color
presentation, very much akin to the tinting and toning of silent films,
rather than naturalistic color. With the slides and gels, Heaven and
Earth Magic regains its aboriginal character as an alchemical séance.
This reconstructed version gives a depth and vitality to the film that
has not been experienced for thirty years. 9:20 PM The Magik Lantern:
Joseph Cornell and Larry Jordan Rose Hobart (1936/b&w/17 min. | Scr/dir:
Joseph Cornell) The Children's Trilogy: Cotillion/The Midnight
Party/Children's Party (1940s/b&w and color/25 min. | Scr/dir: Joseph
Cornell) Duo Concertantes (1964/b&w/9 min. | Scr/dir. Larry Jordan)
Hamfat Asar (1965/b&w/15 min | Scr/dir: Larry Jordan) Our Lady of the
Sphere (1969/color/10 min. | Scr/dir: Larry Jordan) Joseph Cornell's
Rose Hobart, arguably the earliest found-footage film, transforms the
1931 B-picture East of Borneo - the story of a woman in pursuit of her
missing husband through a tropical jungle - into a mystical collage
blasted by Dalí upon its New York premiere. Dalí allegedly accused
Cornell of stealing the film from Dalí's own subconscious. Before he
died, Cornell handed over six unfinished films to Larry Jordan for
completion. Among them was The Children's Trilogy (Cotillion, The
Midnight Party and The Children's Party), described as "a hilarious and
touching tribute to the ecstasy of childhood - and childlike - make
believe," by Michael Joshua Rowin in Reverse Shot. In his own work,
Jordan creates transportive fantasies by animating Victorian engravings.
Duo Concertantes, Hamfat Asar and Our Lady of the Sphere date from "the
climax of Jordan's career...an exquisite space and time where reverie
and dream meet, delicately poised between nostalgia and terror," per P.
Adams Sitney
11/10
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8PM, 66 East 4th Street
JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ - NEW EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND DVD RELEASE PARTY
Joel Schlemowitz - New Experimental Films and DVD Release Party 8PM -
Saturday, November 10, 2007 Millennium Film Workshop 66 East 4th Street
New York City http://www.millenniumfilm.org/shows.html New York City
filmmaker, Joel Schlemowitz had his first one-person show at the
Millennium ten years ago. He returns with a wide-ranging program of new
and old films, multi-projection works, film loops, 35mm slides. There
are several premieres including SILO, a single camera roll shot in time
lapse, documenting the final night of Issue Project Room at their former
space inside a converted silo on the Gowanus Canal. Also premiering are
THE GLOWING WOMAN and MORNING POEM #43, poem films inspired by the
writings of Wanda Phipps. The poem films are made with low-tech contact
printing techniques, with raw color film stock exposed in the dark using
a flashlight and color filters. Other works showing, include FOREST AT
NIGHT, a double projection piece with music by Rebecca Moore, and THE
DREAM KING, A TABLEAUX FOR MAGIC LANTERN, a multi-projection piece with
16mm film loops, 35mm slides, magic lantern, and Victrola sound track. A
DVD set of 45 experimental films by the filmmaker will be available at a
discounted price for this special screening. Joel Schlemowitz teaches at
the New School and has had two previous one-person shows at the
Millennium. ***Reception to follow with DJ Eros on the Victrola***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.joelschlemowitz.com
11/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
STAN BRAKHAGE
STAN BRAKHAGE -EYES (1970, silent, 35 minutes), DEUS EX (1971, silent,
34 minutes) -THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (1971, silent, 32
minutes). The "Pittsburgh Documents" about the police, open-heart
surgery, and the morgue. The films were made with the active assistance
of Sally Dixon (provided funding and introductions) and photographer
Mike Chikiris (introductions and transportation). The decade of the
1970s was a pivotal one for the growth of avantgarde cinema in the
United States. In the 1940s, 50s, and especially the 60s, generations of
personal, experimental filmmakers had emerged largely in New York City,
Los Angeles, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. The films that they
made, however, were only rarely seen outside Manhattan and San
Francisco. This changed dramatically in 1970 and 1971 with the
unorganized, nearly simultaneous appearance of museum exhibition
programs, community film workshops, and university-related screenings in
many cities between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Pittsburgh was one
of the earliest cities to devote substantial resources to screening,
making, discussing, and supporting the making of avantgarde cinema.
Indeed, in the 1970s Pittsburgh became the "third center" of avantgarde
film in America. Starting in 1970, the Film Section of the Museum of Art
of Carnegie Institute presented ten to fifteen in-person programs with
the filmmakers each year, in addition to scores of supporting
screenings, lectures, and the sponsoring of a filmmaking organization –
Pittsburgh Film-Makers – which soon became an autonomous partner in
making Pittsburgh a magnet for film artists. Upcoming Showings: Saturday
Nov 10 6:00 PM
11/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
KAMOUFLAGE FILMS
EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS KAMouflage FILMS are the work of
artist/filmmaker Kirt Markle and his collaborator, Rosebud Pettet. These
films have been described as "reminiscent of the later work of Harry
Smith." Rosebud, Smith's close companion for 27 years, says, "Harry
would have loved these." WORLD'S FAIR (2007, 3.5 minutes) Manipulation
of long-lost footage – time travel back to the 1964 New York World's
Fair! 12 FLOWERS (2007, 3.5 minutes) Laboriously created from 12 single
frames. LOWER EAST SIDE (2007, 7.5 minutes) A heart-pounding roller
coaster ride through the lost Lower East Side. MY WORLD (2007, 5.5
minutes) A painting in light. NEW YORK #1 (2007, 10.5 minutes)
Hallucinatory visions of New York City, as seen through a Hell's Kitchen
window. GIRL U WANT (2007, 4.5 minutes) Naughty girls act up! ANIMATION
#7 (2007, 3 minutes) A hypnotic, kaleidoscopic visual carnival. THREE
(2007, 5.5 minutes) Dreamlike meditation on the city as circus,
zoological garden and Masonic temple. TIBETAN FESTIVAL (2007, 9 minutes)
A celebration of old and new Tibet in Battery Park, 2001. CONEY ISLAND
#1 (2007, 11.5 minutes) Step right up, folks! A dizzying dreamscape of
the Mermaid Parade! Plus, a couple surprises! Total running time: ca. 75
minutes. Upcoming Showings: Saturday Nov 10 8:00 PM
11/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ERIK DAVIS + ISIS AQUARIAN ON FATHER YOD AND THE SOURCE FAMILY
Attendant upon the release of Process Media's fascinating volume on the
storied SoCal commune, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho
Wa 13 and The Source Family, we welcome authors Isis Aquarian and
Electricity Aquarian, editor Jodi Wille, and ex-members of that Family
in the flesh! The group grounds a 2 hr. audio-visual survey of the life
and times of this seminal '60s/'70s countercultural force in Los Angeles
spirituality, music, and lifestyle (their famous restaurant The Source).
Literally hundreds of slides, several family home movies and 70s cable
access video clips, and numerous Ya Ho Wa 13 musical selections serve as
springboards for anecdotes, discussion, and Q&A. OC fave Erik Davis, who
wrote the book's introduction, opens the show with prefatory remarks,
framing the cult's activity within his Visionary State cosmology. *$7.77
11/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
PRELINGERS' ECOLOGY OF LIBRARIES + PARR +
Twin beacons of local enlightenment, Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger
propose a new model for understanding the importance of grassroots
collecting and conserving in their multimedia performative essay.
Through evocative photos, smart text-graphics, and an intricate
double-helix spoken-word duet, the pair advances an urgent argument at
this crucial juncture between analog and digital modes. ALSO advocating
for a vernacular cultural stewardship, Stephen Parr of the SF Media
Archive tips his hat to Raleigh's A/V Geeks and Pittsburgh's Orgone
Archives in sharing a couple of clips from the new Home Movie Day album,
consummated by the 1961 San Francisco in Cinemascope. PLUS Sarah
Christman's Dear Bill Gates, Scott Calonico's Mondo Intro (exc.), and a
section from Prelinger's Panorama Ephemera, re-tracked by Gino Robair.
Bring in your old books for pre-show potlatch, and expect to take some
"new" old ones home with you!
11/10
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th Ave
TWO STEREOSCOPIC FILMS BY ZOE BELOFF
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS: Two Stereoscopic Films
by Zoe Beloff SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE (2000, USA, 16mm,
32 min) CHARMING AUGUSTINE (USA, 16mm, 40 min) These films explore the
prehistory of cinema, not simply from the point of view of technology,
but from a psychic perspective, how the projection of images grew out of
the desire to manifest the unconscious. SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE
OTHER SIDE is based on the 1897 autobiography of Elizabeth d'Esperance,
an English medium who could conjure up full body apparitions. CHARMING
AUGUSTINE is inspired by series of photographs and texts on hysteria
published by the great insane asylum in Paris in the 1880s under the
title of the "Iconographie Photographique de la Salpetriere." "To
conjure up a time just prior to the invention of cinema I shot the films
in a stereoscopic format to suggest a different direction that cinema
might have taken. Ultimately what I wish to convey is a fragile,
spectral, what if a moment in time when the moving image was on the
brink of existence in a form not yet standardized."-Zoe Beloff
11/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas Street West (use east entrance at McCaul Street)
ZANZIBAR FILMS AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
ICI ET MAINTENANT Director: Serge Bard (France, 1968, 90 minutes). "I
had the idea to call my film ICI ET MAINTENANT, because the cinema is
exactly the contrary of the here and now. The cinema is always elsewhere
and before…It seemed important to rediscover the magic of the present,
that is the here and now. I wanted the spectator during the film to
return to himself and thus not to participate in the usual process of
identification where he is able to escape from himself" (Serge Bard).
Emblematic of the Zanzibar movement's youthful, revolutionary zeal, the
title of Bard's film ICI ET MAINTENANT is a "seize the day" clarion
call, fitting for a generation who sought to change the world. Shot in
Brittany, with Caroline de Bendern and Olivier Mosset who were lovers at
the time, and no script, the film took as its subject the idea of
"contestation." With its loose, radicalized narrative, and
hyper-aestheticized flamboyance, ICI ET MAINTENANT depicts a series of
symbolic attacks against society and an atomic factory threatened by
sketchy characters. This was the final film Bard made before decamping
for Africa and clandestinely converting to Islam, expeditiously sending
his film crew, many of whom had worked on ICI ET MAINTENANT, back to
Paris, bewildered. Saturday, November 10 7:30 p.m. For more information
visit: cinemathequeontario.ca
11/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:15 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas Street West (use east entrance at McCaul Street)
PHILIPPE GARREL'S LE LIT DE LA VIERGE AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
NEW 35MM PRINT! LE LIT DE LA VIERGE (THE VIRGIN'S BED) Director:
Philippe Garrel (France, 1968, 114 minutes). A major rediscovery at this
year's Berlin film festival, LE LIT DE LA VIERGE is Philippe Garrel's
haunting and hallucinatory fifth feature film, made when he was just
twenty-one years old. A minimalist-psychedelic retelling of the Christ
story shot in Brittany, Morocco, and Rome in black-and-white Scope, with
bleached-out mise en scènes, bewildering but also bewitching ritualistic
exchanges, entropic dialogue, and LSD-fueled performances, the film
feels like a modern miracle. The rawness of Pierre Clémenti's depiction
of the reluctant Christ figure is unnerving, even to non-believers.
VIERGE was edited by Françoise Colin, who worked on Godard's
frenetically-paced PIERROT LE FOU; she admitted she had very little to
do on the two-hour film as it consists of a mere thirty shots. Summed up
by Garrel: "I believe my point of view on the Christian myth is quite
clear in LE LIT DE LA VIERGE . . . It is a non-violent parable in which
Zouzou incarnates both Mary and Mary Magdalene while Pierre Clémenti
incarnates a discouraged Christ who throws down his arms in face of
world cruelty. In spite of its allegorical nature, the film contains a
denunciation of the police repression of 1968, which was generally well
understood by viewers at the time." Features music by Nico, Garrel's
muse, and his Zanzibar band, Les Jeunes rebelles. Saturday, November 10
9:15 p.m. for more information visit: cinemathequeontario.ca
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2007
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11/11
Berlin, Germany: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
4 pm, 5:30 pm, 7 pm, Kino Arsenal, Potsdamer Strasse 2
DOUBLE VISION : BERLIN / TORONTO
the images festival, canadian filmmakers distribution centre and arsenal
experimental present: Sunday 11.11. 4pm A panel framed by many filmic
surprises will give the distributors, festival organisors and artists
the oportunity to present their work. In addition to the Images Festival
(represented by Scott M. Berry and Pablo de Ocampo) and CFMDC (Lauren
Howes) the artists that will be present from Canada represent another
institution: Vtape, the counterpart to CFMDC in the areas of video and
new media art. The distribution- and research platform was founded by
Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak in 1980. The panel will be joined by Steven
Kovats from Transmediale, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus from arsenal
experimental and Forum expanded and Doina Popescu (Goethe-Institut,
Toronto) Sunday 11.11 5:30pm - Reception Sunday 11.11. 7pm In a second
round table discussion, to which we invite everybody to contribute, we
want to raise the question, how an International Experimental Film
Congress, as it was organised in 1989 in Toronto by filmmakers, curators
and film scholars and which left a thorough impression on both
discourses and film history, could look today, 20 years later. The
Congress in 1989 used film screenings and panels to ask what makes up
the idea of experimental film and which conditions and possibilities are
connected to it. We welcome one of the participants of the Congress 1989
to this open discussion, Doina Popescu, who has also contributed
tremendously to the history of experimental cinema (and not only that)
with her work as curator, networker and host at the Goethe Institut in
Toronto. The film programs belong in part to the „Double Vision" tour
program. „Double Vision" was organised by Images Festival (Toronto) and
the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and is supported
generously by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian Embassy
in Berlin.
11/11
Chicago, Illinois: NWA
7:30pm, 1537 N. Western Ave. #3
NWA
Ernie Gehr: "This Side of Paradise" (1991, 14min) "Behind the Scenes"
(1975, 5min) Dorothy Wiley's "Miss Jesus Fries on Grill," (1973, 12min)
Gunvor Nelson's "Take Off" (1972, 10min) Pat O'Neil's "Runs Good" (1970,
15mm) Other films might make the program, which will run about an
hour... twice as long with rambling introductions, projection
breakdowns, cigarette breaks (outside), and yelling - always with the
yelling.
11/11
London, England: National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
12pm, Park Row, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
HOLLIS FRAMPTON’S MAGELLAN 1: THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN
A screening, over two consecutive Sundays, of Hollis Frampton's
monumental film sequence Magellan, which uses Fernand Magellan's
circumnavigatory voyage as a metaphor for a meditation on the history
and language of cinema, and the phenomena of perception. The schedule of
4 x 2-hour programmes, structured by Michael Zryd (who will introduce
the first programme), is based on the 1978 version of Frampton's
"Magellan Calendar" and the last work-in-progress screenings presented
by the artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) in
January 1980.
11/11
London, England: National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
3pm, Park Row, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
HOLLIS FRAMPTON’S MAGELLAN 2: THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN I
A screening, over two consecutive Sundays, of Hollis Frampton's
monumental film sequence Magellan, which uses Fernand Magellan's
circumnavigatory voyage as a metaphor for a meditation on the history
and language of cinema, and the phenomena of perception. "A series of
shaped observations that include portraits, cadaver footage, re-stagings
of Lumière films, visits to slaughterhouses, double exposures, a field
of peaceful dairy cattle, allusions to Muybridge, electronic imagery,
industrial pictures, a state fair – a kind of capsule version of the
twentieth century that might have been placed on the Voyager spacecraft
as it soared out of the solar system to worlds unknown." (Robert Haller,
Anthology Film Archives, New York)
11/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
PITTSBURGH TRILOGY
Stan Brakhage EYES 1970, 36 minutes, 16mm, silent. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "After wishing for years to be
given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations
of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average
imagination turns into 'bogeymen'? viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers,
Politicians, etc.: – I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh
police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970 –
this opportunity largely due to the efforts of a Pittsburgh newspaper
photographer, Mike Chikiris – who was sympathetic to my film show at The
Carnegie Institute and responded to my wish as stated on that occasion –
therefore pleaded my 'cause' eloquently with Police Inspectors of his
acquaintance: my thanks to him, to Sally Dixon of The Carnegie Institute
and to the Policemen who created the situation that made this film
possible." –S.B. DEUS EX 1971, 34 minutes, 16mm, silent. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "I have been many times very ill in hospitals;
and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX in West Penn.
Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of
one incident in an emergency room of San Francisco's Mission District:
while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an
April-May 1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and the following lines from
Charles Olson's 'Cole's Island' had especially centered the experience,
'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins the poem with the
statement 'I met Death –' And then: 'He didn't bother me, or say
anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the
circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they
wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And / He
certainly was, the moment I saw him.' The film begins with this sense of
such an experience and goes on to envision the whole battle of hospital
on these grounds, thru to heart surgery seen as equivalent to Aztec
ritual sacrifice? the lengths men go to avoid so simple and straight a
relationship with Death as Charles Olson managed on/in 'Cole's Island.'"
–S.B. THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES 1971, 32 minutes, 16mm,
silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. "Stan Brakhage, entering,
with his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our
culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is
cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our
knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see
that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling
particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague
nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of others. This last
is a process that requires a witness; and what 'idea' may finally have
inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for
the camera would seem to be the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with
perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." –Hollis
Frampton Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. Upcoming Showings: Sunday
Nov 11 5:30 PM
11/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue
THE TEXT OF LIGHT
Brakhage's tour-de-force exploration of refracted light in an ashtray.
"All that is, is light." – Dun Scotus Erigena Upcoming Showings: Sunday
Nov 11 8:00 PM
11/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (corner of Third)
PIONEERS OF BAY AREA FILMMAKING
Filmmaking in the Bay Area has an explosive history and has had a far
lasting dynamic effect around the world. Explosive new forms of film
have emerged from the Bay Area community over the years to reveal
unheralded new visions of the medium and explorations into its aesthetic
properties. This program presents a sampling of experimental cinema by
artists in the Bay Area from the late 1940s and '50s. Screening: Horror
Dream and Clinic of Stumble by Sidney Peterson, Things to Come and
Obmaru by Patricia Marx, Four in the Afternoon by James Broughton, Notes
on the Port of St. Francis by Frank Stauffacher, Divertissement Rococo
and Eneri by Hy Hirsch, In Between by Stan Brakhage, Logos and Odds and
Ends by Jane Conger, and Beat by Christopher Maclaine.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2007
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11/12
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
TWO WORKS BY THE SPECULATIVE ARCHIVE
We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to
pass 2007, 47 min., DigiBeta The latest piece from the duo of Julia
Meltzer and David Thorne offers a different perspective on what might
happen in Damascus, Syria, caught between a repressive regime, a
conservative Islamic movement, and pressure from the United States.
Preceded by: Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in
which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew
exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or still to come
(2006, 32 min., DigiBeta) In person: Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER
The prophetic free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who today is seen as
one of the most important innovators in jazz, was ferociously committed
to his radical music and convinced that one day people would understand
it; as he said in his own words, "If people don't like it now, they
will." In 1962 he recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later
he was found dead in New York's East River, aged 34. Produced in Sweden,
this new documentary follows the trail of Ayler from his native town of
Cleveland by way of Sweden to New York, meeting family, friends and
close colleagues. Ayler himself guides us with his voice and music.
Seven years in the making, the film includes remarkable, newly
discovered footage of Ayler and his band. "To make Albert Ayler live
again is a daunting task for a filmmaker, because little archival
footage exists of Ayler's life and career. But through an inspired
assemblage of photos, rare films, music, audio interviews with Ayler and
extensive recently filmed interviews with family members, friends and
fellow artists, Ayler is indeed made flesh…
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA07: AN EVENING WITH GRAND UNION
In the early 1960s, a group of artists, choreographers, and musicians
held a series of performances at the Judson Church in Greenwich Village
that radically broke with the conventions of concert dance. The Judson
Dance Theater, as the group came to be known, reduced the medium to its
most essential elements, discarding drama and expressionism in favor of
pedestrian movement and improvisation, and rejecting the notion of the
performer as virtuoso in favor of "democratic" dance. The concepts
behind their groundbreaking performances had as much to do with
conversations among minimalist sculptors and musicians at the time as it
did with other dance pioneers such as Merce Cunningham and Anna Halprin,
and many visual artists – including Robert Rauschenberg, Claes
Oldenburg, and Robert Morris – were active participants in a period that
was remarkable for its fluidity between disciplines.
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER
See November 12th, 7:00pm - My Name is Albert Ayler
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2007
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11/13
London, England: Roxy Bar and Screen
http://www.roxybarandscreen.com
8pm, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB
THE ROAD TO WHO KNOWS WHERE
Two fragmented and dysfunctional road movies imagined as a series of
episodic vignettes or misty memories. Jessie Stead's "Foggy Mountains
Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains", a cryptic album of weird and
wonderful versions of Flatt & Scrugg's bluegrass standard won first
prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. "The Secret Apocalyptic Love
Diaries" of Enid Baxter Blader is a windswept folk-poem shot on a
homemade video camera. Both cast a discreet nod of recognition to Harry
Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. THE SECRET APOCALYPTIC LOVE
DIARIES (Enid Baxter Blader, USA, 2006-07, 12 minutes) FOGGY MOUNTAINS
BREAKDOWN MORE THAN NON-FOGGY MOUNTAINS (Jessie Stead, USA, 2006, 59
minutes). Part of The Wire 25, a month long season of music celebrating
The Wire magazine's 25th birthday.
11/13
Los Angeles, California: Cal Arts
http://www.calarts.edu/
7:00PM, 24700 McBean Parkway
STRUCTURING STRATEGIES: GREGG BIERMANN
"I've just enjoyed a renewed acquaintance with some of Gregg Biermann's
recent work. In this work he has taken head-on some of the supreme
moments of classical cinema and subjected them to a dazzling
transformation in the digital domain. The results are exhilarating,
surprising tours de force. They also have a zany quality that shows the
artist to have a witty imagination. He is a prober into the hidden
corners of cinema, and a master of computer-based wizardry." —Larry
Gottheim Works to be screened are: Happy Again, The Hills Are Alive,
Spherical Coordinates, The Waters of Casablanca, Cinema Study, Paradiso
and Hackensack Motet. TRT 1 hour
11/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MY NAME IS ALBERT AYLER
See November 12th, 7:00pm - My Name is Albert Ayler
11/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA07: FILM WORK BY JUDSON ARTISTS
Although few films were actually shown at the Judson Church, several
Judson artists went on to make films after the final Judson Dance
Theater evening in 1964. This program of shorts includes film and video
by Judson pioneers, as well as work by contemporary artists such as
Bruce Nauman, who share the same interest in "dance problems without
being a dancer," as Nauman put it in a 1971 interview. Bruce Nauman
DANCE OR EXERCISE ON THE PERIMETER OF A SQUARE (SQUARE DANCE) (1967-68,
10-minute loop running prior to screening) Nauman methodically paces the
sides of a square created with masking tape on the floor of his studio,
accompanied by the sounds of an unsynchronized metronome. Trisha Brown
MAN WALKING DOWN THE SIDE OF A BUILDING (1970, 2 minutes) Brown's
gravity-defying signature work, shot at 68 Wooster Street. Yvonne Rainer
HAND MOVIE (1966, 5 minutes) A single hand isolated against a gray
background enacts a sensuous dance. Elaine Summers JUDSON FRAGMENTS
(1964, 20 minutes) A vibrant montage featuring excerpts of performances
by Carolee Schneeman, Deborah Hay, and Steve Paxton, James Waring
teaching ballet class, Fred Herko raising flowers from a garbage can,
and animated films by Carol Summers, with music by Philip Corner. Bruce
Nauman PINCHNECK (1968, 2 minutes) A close-up of the artist distorting
his neck, reducing the body to an isolated part to reveal its abstract
and expressive possibilities. Robert Rauschenberg LINOLEUM (1967,
7-minute excerpt) Documentation of a performance drawing inspiration
from Happenings, shown through layers of film superimpositions. Robert
Morris & Stan Vanderbeek SITE (1964, 5 minutes) Morris plays the workman
manipulating spatial planes around Carolee Schneeman's Olympia-style
pose in this documentation of a performance at the Judson Church.
Deborah Hay GROUP I and GROUP II (1968, 8 minutes) Never-before-seen
footage of two landmark minimalist performances. Meredith Monk 16MM
EARRINGS (1980, 25 minutes) A film interpretation of a work originally
performed in 1966 at the Judson Church. Rebecca Horn UNICORN (1970, 12
minutes) A woman walks through forest and fields wearing one of Horn's
"body modifications" – a suit with a large white horn projecting
vertically from the top of her head. Markus Schinwald TEN IN LOVE (2006,
4 minutes) Austrian artist Schinwald fills a stark white environment
with unexpected gadgetry and mysterious characters interacting with each
other through movement. Philippe Decouflé LE P'TIT BAL (1994, 4 minutes)
French choreographer Decouflé drops a whimsical duet into the middle of
the French countryside, complete with cow and accordion. Total running
time: ca. 100 minutes.
11/13
Paris, France: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Les Voutes, 19, rue les frigos
DOUBLE VISION: PARIS / MONTREAL
DOUBLE VISION : Montreal / Paris (shorts program) Programs presented by
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto) and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre 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 Quebec 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. MOUVANCES, Joanna Empain
2005, video, color, sound, 4 min IMPRINT, Louise Bourque 1997, 16mm,
color, sound, 14 min 930, Alexandre Larose 2006, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10
min VERTIGE, Isabelle Hayeur 2000, video, color, sound, 12 min PHAROS,
Marie-France Giraudon 1991, video, color, sound, 20 min 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. Double Vision made possible thanks to the generous
support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the
Lightcone (Paris), Alain Thibault, Matthew Biederman and the Canada
Council for the Arts. Venue: Les Voutes 19, rue des Frigos 75013 Paris 4
euro for screening, 6 euro for both screening + performance
email suppressed
http://www.lesvoutes.org
11/13
Paris, France: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2200, Les Voutes, 19, rue les frigos
DOUBLE VISION: PARIS / MONTREAL
DOUBLE VISION : Montreal / Paris (shorts program) Programs presented by
THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (Toronto) and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre "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. Double Vision made
possible thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the
Arts. Special thanks to the Lightcone (Paris), Alain Thibault, Matthew
Biederman and the Canada Council for the Arts. Venue: Les Voutes 19, rue
des Frigos 75013 Paris 4 euro for screening, 6 euro for both screening +
performance email suppressed
http://www.lesvoutes.org
11/13
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
PERSONA
Persona (1966, 85 min.) by INGMAR BERGMAN. As many have noted on
Bergman's recent passing, for some reason his films have seemed
out-of-sync with current times and tastes. All the more
reason—especially considering the malaise of these times—to revisit a
key work by this modernist master. "Persona may be Ingmar Bergman's most
consciously crafted film; it may also be one of his most enigmatic. The
plot is a tour-de-force distillation of an agon between two women, Alma
(Bibi Andersson), a young nurse, and Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullman) her
patient, a successful actress who has withdrawn into silence…. In many
ways Persona is "about" the nature and conventions of the feature
film—most obviously because Bergman begins the film by showing the
ignition of an arc projector and the threading of a film, and ends it
with the same projector being turned off. The greatest visual shock in
all of Bergman's often startling oeuvre must be the moment near the
middle of Persona when the film rips (or seems to rip), burns, and
introduces strange material, apparently foreign to the story of the two
women."—P. Adams Sitney
11/13
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
OLD BATTLE AXES
Three rifts on the "documentary portrait" that look obliquely at
different fathers of history. Phil Hoffman's ?O,Zoo! The Making of a
Fiction Film tangentially documents the filming of Peter Greenaway's A
Zed and Two Noughts. Lonely Planet is Robert Fenz's first part of his
fascinating Meditations on Revolution series--a beautiful black & white
portrait of Havana. And Jud Yulkut's intimate portrait of a different
foundational figure, John Cage, finds him whimsically foraging for
mushrooms on Stony Point.
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