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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Chronicle Film/Concert [November 18, Berlin, Germany]
* Synthetic Zero Artfilmperformance Event [November 18, Brooklyn, New York]
* 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]
* Synthetic Zero [November 18, New York, New York]
* Films By Hans Michaud [November 18, San Francisco, California]
* Cinema Project Presents Micheal Robinson [November 19, Portland, Oregon]
* "Guerilla Cinema," A Lecture and Screening By Dr. Tish Stringer [November 19, San Antonio, TX]
* Extraordinary Lives [November 20, London, England]
* The All-Round Reduced Personality - Redupers [November 20, San Francisco, California]
* European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema [November 23, Los Angeles, California]
* European Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde Cinema [November 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Cinematheque Ontario Presents Shoot Shoot Shoot Programme 1 [November 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Cinematheque Ontario Presents Shoot Shoot Shoot Programme 2 [November 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2007
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11/17
Chicago, Illinois: Roots & Culture Gallery Chicago
http://www.alexanderstewart.org
7:30 pm, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave
FILMS BY ERIC PATRICK
On Saturday, November 17, Roots and Culture gallery will present a
screening of films by local filmmaker Eric Patrick. Working in the
fertile nether-region between animation and live-action filmmaking,
Patrick's films combine stop-motion, live action, photographic effects,
sound collage and performance to create unusual and compelling
narratives. Patrick will be introducing four of his experimental film
works at this screening, Stark Film (1997), Ablution (2001), Roothold
(2003) and Startle Pattern (2005.) Patrick's award-winning films have
screened extensively at festivals, museums, and on television throughout
Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas, including screenings at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Rotterdam Film Festival. A
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Patrick also worked as an animator
on Nickelodeon's Blues Clues. He currently teaches at Northwestern
University. Stark Films: A Screening of Experimental Film Work by Eric
Patrick Saturday, November 17, 2007 7:30 pm Roots & Culture gallery 1034
N. Milwaukee Ave Chicago IL Suggested donation $5 Blue Line Division
stop, south on Milwaukee Ave. www.rootsandculturecac.org
11/17
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 Los Angeles post-1945: Curtis Harrington and Kenneth Anger:
Fragment of Seeking (1946/b&w/16 min. | Scr/dir: Curtis Harrington);
Fireworks (1947/b&w/15 min. | Scr/dir: Kenneth Anger); On The Edge
(1949/b&w/6 min. | Scr/dir: Curtis Harrington; music: Charles Ivens);
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954/color/38 min. | Scr/dir: Kenneth
Anger). Contemporaries of Deren and Markopoulos and, like them,
residents of Los Angeles, Harrington and Anger pursued comparable trance
aesthetics. Harrington describes his Fragment of Seeking, as "a
cinematic portrait of the adolescent Narcissus." In the still shocking
Fireworks, Anger says he "released all the explosive pyrotechnics of a
dream." Harrington's own parents star in his film On the Edge which he
describes simply as "a man desperately attempts to avoid the
inevitability of his own Fate." Harrington appears, alongside Anais Nin,
in Anger's lush pageant of ritual and opulence Inauguration of the
Pleasure Dome; Amos Vogel describes the film as "startling…a luxuriant
and baroque oddity in the tradition of decadent art." 9:10 PM Paris in
the '20s: Jean Epstein, René Clair and Germaine Dulac: The Fall of the
House of Usher (1928/b&w/55 min./w/ English narration | Scr: Jean
Epstein, Luis Buñuel; dir: Epstein); Entr'acte (1924/b&w/14 min. | Scr:
Francis Picabia; dir: René Clair); The Seashell and the Clergyman
(1928/b&w/31 min. | Scr: Antonin Artaud; dir: Germaine Dulac). 1920s
Paris was a mélange of artists, ideas and styles other than surrealism;
dada slapstick and expressionist doom also reigned. Tonight's program
brings together examples of the era's breadth of experimental cinema.
Buñuel worked with the versatile Jean Epstein on an atmospheric and
Caligariesque adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher. Intended to
accompany an intermission during a new ballet by Francis Picabia,
Clair's Entr'acte features a cast of surrealists and fellow travelers -
Picabia, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray - in a disjointed
series of comical escapades. Germaine Dulac foreshadowed the Dalí/Buñuel
collaborations with her anarchic tale of a priest lusting af ter a
beautiful woman. Her public feud with Antonin Artaud over her
impressionistic approach to his script led to a surrealist protest.
11/17
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
ALCHEMICAL DREAMS: THE SHORT FILMS OF HARRY SMITH
A rare screening of ground-breaking films by the visionary artist Harry
Smith (1923–91), including his hand-painted Early Abstractions
(1941–57); Film No. 17: Mirror Animations (1979); and Film No. 16: Oz,
The Tin Woodman's Dream (1967, CinemaScope!).
11/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (SPIELBERG)
1981, 115 minutes, 35mm. Starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen
11/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
A FIRST QUARTER
In conjunction with his current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, Anthology Film Archives will screen the complete films and
videos of Lawrence Weiner in our Jan-March calendar. At tonight's
special preview event we will celebrate our collaboration with the
Whitney by presenting a sampling of the 29 films and videos Weiner has
produced to date. His works range from short conceptual videotapes to
feature-length narrative films influenced by the model of the Nouvelle
Vague. The event will begin with a conversation between Lawrence Weiner
and Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney
Museum. Followed by a screening of: TO AND FRO. FRO AND TO. AND TO AND
FRO. AND FRO AND TO. 1972, 1 minute, video, b&w, sound. "An ashtray is
used to demonstrate five different actions related to the work. With the
camera static, the video opens with the ashtray in the center of the
screen. A hand approaches it from above and slides the object up and
down, then back up and back down. A voice states the work, the
conditions relevant to the art. Each time an act is completed, the hand
lifts off the object, making a separation from the next 'possibility.'
The acts (or movements) are identical and mimic the language (e.g. to
and fro?) as it is spoken." –Alice Weiner & A FIRST QUARTER 1973, 85
minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. "Using the structure of a feature film as its
basic format, A FIRST QUARTER adopts the principles of Nouvelle Vague
cinema as its role model. Simultaneous realities, altered flashbacks,
plays on time and space are all components of the form and content of
the film. Because it was originally shot in video and then kinescoped to
16mm film, A FIRST QUARTER has acquired a poetic, soft look. The
dialogue consists entirely of the work as it is spoken and read, built,
enacted, written and painted by the players. As the scenarios build,
they appear as tropes, one after another." –Alice Weiner The exhibition
LAWRENCE WEINER: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE runs from November
15-February 10, 2008 at The Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison
Avenue, New York, NY 10021. The exhibition is co-organized by the
Whitney Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
11/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KITCH'S LAST MEAL
The third part of her autobiographical trilogy (with FUSES and PLUMB
LINE), KITCH'S LAST MEAL documents, among other things, the demise of
Schneemann's cat-comrade, Kitch. Presented in varying configurations and
lengths over the years, KITCH'S was shot in Super-8mm and shown
simultaneously on two projectors with one image arranged above another.
This configuration is duplicated in Anthology's preservation, and the
sound is played from CD in an attempt to keep the "live" nature of the
film intact. If you have not seen it before, KITCH'S undoubtedly stands
as one of Schneemann's most emotionally gripping and cathartic works.
"We see Kitch eating, cleaning herself, exploring her environment; and
we see Schneemann and her partner (filmmaker Anthony McCall) walking,
talking, making love, working, doing everyday chores… These activities
are punctuated by the periodic freight train traffic on the tracks which
pass behind the old farmhouse. We hear collage tapes composed of
comments by Schneemann about her work as a filmmaker and about the film
we're watching ('My film is about digestion'), discussions between
Schneemann and McCall (including his discomfort with her tape recorder:
'They'll be listening,' he complains at one point), the sounds of the
train, the radio, kitchen activities and the other recurrent aspects of
daily living, and Kitch's purring and meowing… [T]he intimate
domesticity which surrounded Kitch is reflected in Schneemann's use of
Super-8 for the third diary, and in her decision to allow the filmed
imagery to stand on its own, without the mediation of complex printing
procedures or the addition of directly applied imagery… Schneemann
devise[d] a formal procedure which adds a dialectically fruitful
dimension to the informal imagery… The interrelationship between the
three information sources in KITCH'S LAST MEAL comes to imply a
pervasive emotional or spiritual dimension behind the events. We can
feel how Schneemann's involvement in a web of domestic
interrelationships over a period of years came to infuse the various
threads of that web with increasing meaning." –Scott MacDonald
11/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
RADICAL JESTERS + BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE
To kick off our 2-week suite on culture-jamming, here's the premiere of
Tim Jackson's hour-plus celebration of contemporary cultural subversion,
a playful parade of street performers, pranksters, and
artist-provocateurs who use humor, surprise, and even confusion to
agitate against American somnambulism. Their radical tales raise
important questions about the media, advertising, public space,
surveillance, feminism, and Situationism. Featured are Guerrilla Girls,
Billboard Liberation Front, Rev. Billy, Ron English, Bread & Puppet
Theater, and the Surveillance Camera Players. PLUS a riot of recent
reality-hacking actions from Bryan Boyce, the Yes Men, Institute for
Applied Autonomy, et al. Free toast and jam.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2007
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11/18
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
9 pm, RAW Tempel - Revaler Str.99 - 10245 Berlin-Friedrichshain
CHRONICLE FILM/CONCERT
Directors Lounge and W(h)at Is Jazz present: //CHRONICLE// Raymond
Salvatore Harmon with the Chicago Underground Trio. -/- "Chronicle,"
Raymond Salvatore Harmon´s feature length performance film with the
Chicago Underground Trio, was a visual and musical highlight of
Directors Lounge 2007. Now, the Chicago Underground Trio and director
Raymond Salvatore Harmon will turn the concert film 'Chronicle' inside
out and perform a 'film concert' at the RAW Tempel. -/- Please find more
infos at: http://directorslounge.net/harmon.html -/-
http://placebokatz.blogspot.com/2007/11/chronicle-sun-nov-18th-raw-tempe
l.html -/- http://www.whatisjazz.de/ChicagoUndergroundTrio.htm -/-
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25621
11/18
Brooklyn, New York: Synthetic Zero
http://www.syntheticzero.com/events/
8pm, The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand St.
SYNTHETIC ZERO ARTFILMPERFORMANCE EVENT
The next Synthetic Zero Event will be in Williamsburg, and it will have
experimental film/video (see below), a sustainable food/cooking
demonstration by Kyle Kessler, a live multimedia performance by Pashly
(Susan Ploetz), Powerpop/New Wave music by Yoko Kikuchi, a dreamy
experimental pop orchestra by Opsvik & Jennings, and experimental
electronic music by Bryan Eubanks & Andrew Lafkas, and visual art. The
event will be free. Experimental film/video: Noe Kidder and Mark Gallay
- "White Hotel" - Brooklyn, NY Elena Tejada-Herrera - "Domestic Crimes"
Potter-Belmar Labs (Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens) - "Amelita
Destruction" - San Antonio, TX Damali Abrams - "Me" - Queens, NY Taly
and Russ Johnson - "Side Effects" - New York, NY Carolyn Lee Kane -
"Last Loft" - NYU, New York, NY Jodie Mack - "Lilly" - animation -
Chicago, IL Meg Duguid - "BACON" - Brooklyn, NY Performances: Pashly aka
Susan Ploetz - multimedia performance Kyle Kessler - cooking
performance/lecture - sustainable food Yoko Kikuchi - Powerpop /
Acoustic / New Wave - musical performance Opsvik & Jennings - dreamy
experimental pop orchestra Bryan Eubanks and Andrew Lafkas -
experimental electronic music Visual Art: Gina Fuentes Walker -
photographs on plexiglas - New York, NY Sonia Li - visual art - New
York, NY
11/18
London, England: National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
12pm, Park Row, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
HOLLIS FRAMPTON’S MAGELLAN 3: THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN II
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. In composing
his metahistory of cinema, Frampton often refers to other films and
filmic modes, quotes liberally from early cinema (specifically the paper
print collection of the Library of Congress) and explores countless
possibilities for montage and the relationship between sound and image.
11/18
London, England: National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
3pm, Park Row, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
HOLLIS FRAMPTON’S MAGELLAN 4: THE DEATH 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. Originally
intended as a 36-hour sequence in which individual titles would be shown
on specific days in a calendar of one year and four days, it was left
unfinished when Frampton died in 1984. The surviving 8 hours of
material, comprising of almost 30 individual films, will be screened
together for the first time in the UK.
11/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS TRUMPETISTICALLY, CLORA BRYANT AND MORE JAZZ FILMS
Filmforum presents Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant and more jazz Films,
in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute's Côte à Côte: Art and
Jazz in France and California. A lovely portrait of the musician Clora
Bryant, an essential player in the jazz scene of Los Angeles, along with
other short jazz films of California or French musicians as well, titles
to be announced. Clora Bryant will be present! General admission $9,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and check only
11/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA07: BEL, CHARMATZ AND CHAMBLAS
France was first exposed to the work of the Judson Dance Theater in
1973, when Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and other "representatives of
postmodern dance in America," according to LE MONDE, were invited to
perform at the Festival d'Automne in Paris. This event inspired scores
of young French dancers to travel to New York and London for training,
resulting in a wave of highly conceptual choreography emerging from
France in the 1990s. Two films showing the Judson influence are featured
in this program. Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas LES DISPARATES
(1994, 22 minutes) In 1993, Charmatz and Chamblas became the teenage
sensations of French dance with A BRAS LE CORPS, a confrontational duet
of thrilling physicality. Shortly thereafter, the two choreographers
collaborated on this film, a delightful, beautifully shot exploration of
the possibilities for fragmenting dance through editing, from bar to
boathouse and back again. & Jerome Bel VERONIQUE DOISNEAU (2004, 32
minutes) Never a star, rarely a soloist, Paris Opera Ballet dancer
Veronique Doisneau, age 41, is about to retire after a career of dancing
in the background as a corps de ballet member. On the final night of her
career, she is at long last alone onstage, in front of a huge audience.
With a humorous and moving mixture of spoken text and physical
demonstration, Doisneau performs her life's history as a dancer.
11/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILMS BY TONY CONRAD
THE FLICKER 1966, 30 minutes, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives
with funding provided by The National Film Preservation Foundation.
Mathematical and rhythmical orchestration of white and black frames.
STRAIGHT AND NARROW 1970, 10 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by The National Film
Preservation Foundation. STRAIGHT AND NARROW is a study in subjective
color and visual rhythm. Although it is printed on black-and-white film,
the hypnotic pacing of the images will cause viewers to experience a
programmed gamut of hallucinatory color effects. FILM FEEDBACK 1974, 15
minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with
funding provided by The National Film Preservation Foundation. "Made
with a film-feedback team which I directed at Antioch College. Negative
image is shot from a small rear-projection screen, the film comes out of
the camera continuously (in the dark room) and is immediately processed,
dried, and projected on the screen by the team. What are the qualities
of film that may be made visible through feedback?" –T.C. Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes.
11/18
New York, New York: Synthetic Zero
http://www.syntheticzero.com/events/
8pm, 104 Franklin St., 4th Floor
SYNTHETIC ZERO
We're going to have experimental short films, a sustainable food/cooking
demonstration by Kyle Kessler, a live multimedia performance by Pashly
(Susan Ploetz), Powerpop/New Wave music by Yoko Kikuchi, the dreamy
experimental pop orchestra of Opsvik & Jennings, and experimental
electronic music by Bryan Eubanks & Andrew Lafkas, as well as visual
art. The event will be free.
11/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (corner of Third)
FILMS BY HANS MICHAUD
Hans Michaud In Person Citing a diverse cast of major influences,
including Sharits, Breer, LaPore and Dorsky, the prolific New York
filmmaker Hans Michaud has, over twenty years, produced a body of
sublime and concentrated works of cinema entirely his own.
Simultaneously obsessive and meditative, Michaud applies a taxonomists'
rigor to both cinematography and editing, describing the city landscape
and urban experience as a locus of serenity, reflection and grace. In
his premiere West Coast screening he will present selections from The
Nicotine Series, intensely, "mindlessly and repetitively" edited works
born from the nervous wreckage of withdrawal; and The Inquiry Series,
inventories of the artist's accumulated orphan rolls. Also:
double-projection work from The MorningFilms series.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007
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11/19
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny
CINEMA PROJECT PRESENTS MICHEAL ROBINSON
Amorous Nightmares of Delay Film and Video by Michael Robinson [Artist
in Attendance] November 18th & 19th 7:30pm / 922 SE Ankeny [New American
Art Union] portland Oregon USA www.cinemaproject.org
http://poisonberries.net/ November 18th & 19th You Don't Bring Me
Flowers [2005, 8 min, 16mm color film] The General Returns From One
Place to Another [2006, 11 min] Tidal [2001, 6.5 min, 16mm color film]
And We All Shine On [2006, 7 min, 16mm color film] Light Is Waiting
[2007, 11 min, DV] Chiquitita and the Soft Escape [2003, 10 min, 16mm
color] All Through The Night [2007, 4 minutes, DV] Victory Over the Sun
[2007, 12.5 min, 16mm color film]
11/19
San Antonio, TX: UTSA New Media Studio Program
7-9pm, Buena Vista Theater, UTSA downtown campus
"GUERILLA CINEMA," A LECTURE AND SCREENING BY DR. TISH STRINGER
Dr. Tish Stringer will present an annotated history of video activism,
tactical media and citizen journalism. The evening will include clips
from Soviet film trains, Cuban newsreels, the US-based Newsreel group,
ACT UP, indymedia and others. Dr. Stringer earned her Ph. D. in
Anthropology from Rice University, specializing in Anthropology of Media
and Information, Visual Anthropology, Documentation and Ethnographic
Film, and Social Movements. She graduated with a BA from the University
of Minnesota Suma Cum Laude in Anthropology and Cultural Studies. She
has been the Assistant Director of Rice Cinema; curated Indymedia and
Ethnographic film programs; instructed in both theory and production of
media; and produced documentary video works.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2007
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11/20
London, England: Roxy Bar and Screen
http://www.roxybarandscreen.com
8pm, 128-132 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1LB
EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
Luke Fowler's "Bogman Palmjaguar" is a portrait of its namesake, a
former patient of radical psychologist R.D. Laing who now lives a
hermetic life in the Flow Country of the Scottish Highlands. Documenting
the environment of the surrounding landscape as much as its human focus,
the images are accompanied by Lee Patterson's evocative field
recordings. Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye are the subjects of Marie
Losier's diary/documentary, which pursues the pandrongynous partners at
home, visiting MoMA's Dada exhibition, and on tour with Thee Majesty and
Throbbing Gristle. BOGMAN PALMJAGUAR, Luke Fowler, UK, 2007, 30 minutes)
A BALLAD WITH GENESIS P-ORRIDGE AND LADY JAYE (Marie Losier, USA, 2007,
37 minutes). Part of The Wire 25, a month long season of music
celebrating The Wire magazine's 25th birthday.
11/20
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street
THE ALL-ROUND REDUCED PERSONALITY - REDUPERS
Helke Sander's Redupers is a fascinating portrait of a divided Berlin
(divided by politics and gender) thirty years ago. Sander plays Edda, a
news photographer trying to make ends meet for her young daughter in a
difficult, fractured society. The city she walks through mirrors her
frustration, a life lived on installments, a series of out-takes (the
English translation of "redupers"), from a stressful life. A classic of
the New German Cinema.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2007
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11/23
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
1948/color/134 min. | Scr/dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; w/
Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann Victoria
Page, an ambitious and passionate young ballerina, has been groomed by a
Diaghilev-like impresario to dance the lead in his newest ballet, but
she finds herself torn between her art and her love for a young
composer. Shot on location in the great theaters of London, Paris and
Monte Carlo, this dazzling mix of romance and realism climaxes in a
performance of The Red Shoes, a ravishing 15-minute adaptation of Hans
Christian Andersen's tragic fairytale set in a surreal landscape of
Dalíesque designs.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007
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11/24
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 Surrealist Favorites from Hollywood: Portrait of Jennie :
1948/b&w and color/86 min. | Scr: Paul Osborn and Peter Berneis; dir:
William Dieterle; w/ Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish. The
post-war surrealists were unanimous in their admiration for this 'small'
film about an unsuccessful painter obsessed with a captivating young
woman whose past and present are cloaked in mystery. Conceived as a
showcase for his protégé's (later wife) talent and beauty, Portrait is
one of producer David O. Selznick's most visually elegant and
dramatically restrained films. The film won an Academy Award for its
special effects. "A mysterious, poetic and largely misunderstood work."
– Luis Buñuel. 9:10 PM Surrealist Favorites from Hollywood: Pandora and
the Flying Dutchman : 1951/color/122 min. | Scr/dir: Albert Lewin; w/
James Mason, Ava Gardner. The legend of a seventeenth-century Dutchman
condemned to sail the seas in search of a woman whose sacrifice will
release him, is updated to Spain in the 1930s and set in a fishing
village where the winding streets bathed in moonlight and a mysterious
yacht moored in the port provide an ideal backdrop. For Albert Lewin,
the Hollywood producer, writer and director who was both a friend of the
surrealists and a collector of their art, Pandora was an aesthetic
triumph in which baroque sets, lavish costumes, paintings by Man Ray (he
was also the stills photographer), heightened colors, arresting 'modern'
shapes, and surrealist motifs coalesced into a fantasy world populated
by flawed gods and goddesses.
11/24
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:30 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dunsdas Street West
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO PRESENTS SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT PROGRAMME 1
The Sixties and Seventies were groundbreaking decades in which
independent filmmakers challenged cinematic convention. In England, much
of the innovation took place at the London Film-Makers= Co-operative, an
artist-led organization that enabled filmmakers to control every aspect
of the creative process. LFMC members conducted an investigation of
celluloid that echoed contemporary developments in painting and
sculpture. During this same period, British filmmakers also made
significant innovations in the field of "expanded cinema," creating
multi-screen projections, film environments, and live performance
pieces. The physical production of a film (its printing and processing)
became integral to its form and content as Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes,
Peter Gidal, and others explored the material and mechanics of cinema,
making radical new works that contributed to a new visual language. The
London Film-Makers= Co-operative, which was established on 13th October
1966, grew from a film society at the heart of London=s Sixties
counterculture to become Europe=s largest distributor of experimental
cinema and was recognized internationally as a major centre for
avant-garde film. – Mark Webber. SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: PROGRAMME 1. SLIDES,
Director: Annabel Nicolson (UK 1970 11 minutes silent), AT THE ACADEMY,
Director: Guy Sherwin (UK 1974 5 minutes), SHEPHERD'S BUSH, Director:
Mike Leggett (UK 1971 15 minutes), FILM NO. 1, Director: David
Crosswaite (UK 1971 10 minutes), DRESDEN DYNAMO, Director: Lis Rhodes
(UK 1971 5 minutes), VERSAILLES I & II, Director: Chris Garratt (UK 1976
11 minutes), SILVER SURFER, Director: Mike Dunford (UK 1972 15 minutes),
FOOTSTEPS, Director: Marilyn Halford (UK 1974 6 minutes).
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2007
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11/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
5:00 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dunsdas Street West
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO PRESENTS SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT PROGRAMME 2
THRESHOLD, Director: Malcolm Le Grice (UK 1972 10 minutes), SEVEN DAYS,
Director: Chris Welsby (UK 1974 20 minutes), KEY, Director: Peter Gidal
(UK 1968 10 minutes), MOMENT, Director: Stephen Dwoskin (UK 1968 12
minutes), DECK, Director: Gill Eatherley (UK 1971 13 minutes), COLOURS
OF THIS TIME, Director: William Raban (UK 1972 3 minutes silent),
ASSOCIATIONS, Director: John Smith (UK 1975 7 minutes).
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