From: Weekly Listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2007 - 09:39:38 PST
This week [December 1 - 9, 2007] in avant garde cinema
To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, send an
email to (address suppressed)-beam.net.
Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings,
jobs, items for sale, etc.) at:
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
===========================
"Domestic Safari" by Anders Weberg
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=323.ann
"travelling" by pavlou
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=324.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
=====================
Cyprus International Short Film Festival (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: January 30, 2008)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=809.ann
DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=810.ann
The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 01, 2008)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=811.ann
HDFEST (New York, New York; Deadline: March 02, 2008)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=812.ann
New York Underground Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: January 15, 2008)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=813.ann
britspotting - British/Irish Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 15, 2008)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=814.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
======================
CinemaJAZZ (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: December 01, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=774.ann
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: December 01, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=779.ann
Boston Underground Film festival (Boston, Ma ; Deadline: December 14, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=784.ann
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison; Deadline: December 31, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=790.ann
Fargo Film Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=799.ann
Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: December 15, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=800.ann
Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival (PDX Fest) (Portland, Oregon USA; Deadline: December 14, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=801.ann
Faux Film Festival (Portland, OR; Deadline: December 31, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=802.ann
Magmart Festival (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=807.ann
DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2007)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=810.ann
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
Also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
==============================
* "The Cinema of the Unusual": Jud Yalkut Films 1965-1972 [December 1, New York, New York]
* Ny Experimental Presents: Collaborative Music video Workshop [December 1, New York, New York]
* Negativland's Our Favorite Things + [December 1, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Films By Robert Nelson, Part 1 [December 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Eye Am Women Behind the Lens Episode 13 [December 2, New York, New York]
* Master of Arts In Media Cultures (Mamc) [December 3, Hong Kong]
* The Cinema Cabaret:Neo-Benshi Live Film Narration [December 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Shoot Shoot Shoot [December 3, San Francisco, California]
* Heavy Magic Is Coming: Arthur Lipsett's Last Films, Curated By Brett
Kashmere [December 4, Paris, France]
* Lost & Found: the Films of Arthur Lipsett, Curated By Brett Kashmere [December 4, Paris, France]
* Blade Runner [December 4, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Cfmdc 40th Anniversary Screening At Cinematheque Ontario [December 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Michaela Grill - Giuseppe Ielasi [December 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [December 6, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Joseph Cornell: Collaborations and Cinematic Influences [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology Experimental Film Program [December 7, London, England]
* Brakhage Documentary By Jim Shedden [December 7, New York, New York]
* Joseph Cornell: Essential Cinema From Anthology Film Archives: Program
Two [December 7, San Francisco, California]
* Toneburst 5 [December 8, Austin, TX]
* Wonderers and their Shadows On Film [December 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Films of Stan Brakhage [December 8, New York, New York]
* Green + Mark Brecke + James Hong + Ben Wood [December 8, San Francisco, California]
* Film Love #53: Openings [December 9, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Filmforum Presents the Documentaries of Jessica Yu [December 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Travel So Far: Ellen Zweig's China Tapes [December 9, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
--------------------------
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2007
--------------------------
12/1
New York, New York: PS1/MOMA and Filmmakers Cooperative
http://www.ps1.org
4 p.m., 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave., Long Island City, New York
"THE CINEMA OF THE UNUSUAL": JUD YALKUT FILMS 1965-1972
PS1/MOMA and the New York Filmmakers Cooperative present the second
program in "The Cinema of the Unusual" series with "Jud Yalkut Films
1965-1972" on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 4 pm at PS1/MOMA
Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avnue in Long
Island City, New York. The program, all projected on film, subtitled
"Favorites & Lesser Known Treasures" includes: "Us Down by the
Riverside" and "Turn Turn Turn" (both featured in the Whitney's "Summer
of Love"; "Diffraction Film", "Le Parc"; "D.M.T."; "Moondial Fim" with
Aldo Tambellini; "P+A-I(K)" with Nam June Paik; "China Cat Sunflower"
with the Grateful Dead"; and "Planes" for Trisha Brown with Simone
Forti. The filmmaker will be present. (718) 784-2084 or www.ps1.org.
12/1
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org/film
3:00 PM, 279 Church Street
NY EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: COLLABORATIVE MUSIC VIDEO WORKSHOP
This collaborative workshop will empower media makers to create their
own music videos to music from independent electronic musicians. Emma
Sterling and Dan Monceaux will provide and discuss examples of
experimental approaches to the music video form (no 'band-in-a-room'
clips here) and get you thinking outside the square. Follow-up
production consultation included. Session will run approximately 3
hours. In the past few years Dan Monceax and Emma Sterling have been
working on a number of experimental audiovisual works. Their 16 minute
experimental documentary short 'A Shift in Perception', shot entirely on
Super8 film is currently completing a successful international film
festival and gallery circuit, including screenings in over thirty
countries. The film has won awards in Australia, the USA, the UK,
France, Mexico and Canada (including four for 'Best Film') and has
toured the USA with the prestigious Black Maria Film & Video Festival.
Supported by the Southern Australian Youth Arts Board and the Southern
Australian Film Corporation respectively, Dan and Emma attended IDFA
last November where 'A Shift in Perception' enjoyed its international.
The two recently completed a month long artists' residency at Squeaky
Wheel, Buffalo, New York in October, where they tinkered with
experimental image making, animation and VJing. After launching a new
body of work entitled 'Supermarket' with Dan Monceaux at the end of the
residency, the pair will be performing the audio-visual work at venues
across Canada and the USA until mid December. For more information about
the artists please visit: http://www.danimations.com.au.
12/1
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEGATIVLAND’S OUR FAVORITE THINGS +
Comes now the launch of Negativland's DVD/CD project, co-produced by
Other Cinema Digital and Seeland Records. The albums were created in
collaboration with 18 makers from all over the US (and one a cappella
group from Detroit). Famous mixes like Gimme the Mermaid, No Business,
Time Zones, Guns, Christianity Is Stupid, Drink It Up, Truth in
Advertising, and U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For serve as
audio ground for new visual collages from the likes of Tim Maloney,
Harold Boihem, Mike Cousino, RRoom, and James Gladman. Some band members
will be in attendance for a short LIVE performance on "boopers," their
homemade feedback oscillators. PLUS the debut of Kembrew McLeod's
Freedom of Expression, a critical doc on intellectual property issues in
the contemporary corporate mediascape.*$7.
------------------------
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2007
------------------------
12/2
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
FILMFORUM PRESENTS FILMS BY ROBERT NELSON, PART 1
Filmforum presents Films by Robert Nelson, part 1. Robert Nelson, and
artist by background, turned to filmmaking in the 1960s, and his short
films, characterized by their free-spirited humor, unexpected twists,
and inspired setups, were among the most circulated of the American
underground. Tonight's films include Oh Dem Watermelons (1965), Plastic
Haircut (1963), Hot Leatherette (1967), Deep Westurn (1974), The Great
Blondino (1967). Newly restored prints courtesy of the Academy Film
Archives. NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION! General admission $9,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and check only
12/2
New York, New York: Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
9:30-10:30pm, www.mnn.org & TWC 34/RCN 82 in Manhattan
EYE AM WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS EPISODE 13
Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens is a short film series showcasing women's
memoir spanning across all genres of film and video. EA airs @
9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on... Manhattan Neighborhood
Network Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan)& Streaming Live Online
at www.mnn.org (Worldwide) Tune in December 2nd for the work of Giovanna
Chesler, Naiti Gámez, Kim Khielhofner, & Margie Schnibbe Visit
www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com for Episode Breakdown, Filmmaker Bios, and
Submission info.
------------------------
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007
------------------------
12/3
Hong Kong: School of Creative Media
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm
---, City University of Hong Kong
MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDIA CULTURES (MAMC)
The School of Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong invites
application to Master of Arts in Media Cultures (MAMC). Programme
Duration: 2-Year Part-time OR 1-Year Full-time. Features of the
programme: advanced training in media and cultural studies, with an
emphasis on digital culture (not a production-centered programme);
strong interdisciplinary; curricular emphases: "Media Theory and
History" and "Analysis and Methods of Institutional Practices"; highly
relevant to the new secondary liberal studies curriculum. Application
continues until 31 March 2008. Application materials are available at
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/prospectus.
12/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
THE CINEMA CABARET:NEO-BENSHI LIVE FILM NARRATION
Poets from Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York gather at REDCAT to
offer a fresh take on the Japanese tradition of "benshi"—a writer or
actor who provides live narration and commentary alongside silent films.
$15 [students $12]
12/3
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT
The SFAI Film Salon and SFAI Film Department present Shoot Shoot Shoot
British Experimental Film from the '60s and '70s Monday, December 3,
2007 Program 1: 7:30 Program 2: 9:00 In the 1960s and 1970's, the London
Film-makers Co-operative emerged as the center of the British avant
garde film movement, one which fostered creative and ground breaking
investigations into the expansions of cinematic form. Echoing
contemporary developments in painting and sculpture, the work of LFMC
members, offered radical explorations of the film structure and the
celluloid material. Presented in two programs, Shoot Shoot Shoot is an
exciting selection of key works from this period, including films by
artists Lis Rhodes, Malcom LeGrice and Peter Gidal, among others. The
program, presented by LUX and curated by Mark Weber, comes to SFAI as
part of an international tour, a longer version of which was also
presented at the London Tate Modern, Gateshead Baltic, Basel Kunsthalle,
Barcelona Fundaçio Antoní Tapies, Athens Desté Foundation, Tokyo Image
Forum and the Melbourne International Film Festival. The SFAI Film Salon
is a regular screening series, sponsored by the SFAI Student Union &
LOGS. For more information contact: email suppressed or
email suppressed
-------------------------
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
-------------------------
12/4
Paris, France: Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts
http://www.ensba.fr
6pm, 14 rue Bonaparte
HEAVY MAGIC IS COMING: ARTHUR LIPSETT'S LAST FILMS, CURATED BY BRETT
KASHMERE
Celebrated for a handful of remarkable films that circled the globe
throughout the 1960s, Arthur Lipsett also authored two works that have
seldom screened anywhere. Recalling the Beat ethos of previous decades,
N-Zone (1970) and Strange Codes (1972) have more in common with the
rambling dramaturgy of the American underground cinema of Adolfas Mekas,
Ron Rice, Taylor Mead, Ken Jacobs and Jack Smith, than the acerbic
collage style for which Lipsett was famous. Languid, theatrical,
self-conscious, and semi-autobiographical, these last films were crafted
during a time of declining institutional support and advancing mental
illness. "Heavy Magic is Coming" culls its title from the fragmentary
notes and diagrams for Strange Codes, evincing Lipsett's late-career,
debilitating paranoia, and an urgent faith in magic. FILMS include:
N-ZONE (1970, 16mm, b&w, 43 min); STRANGE CODES (1972, 16mm, b&w, 23
min). TRT: 70 minutes, prints courtesy National Film Board of Canada and
La Cinematheque quebecoise. Presented in collaboration with Light Cone.
More info: http://www.brettkashmere.com/arthur_lipsett.html
12/4
Paris, France: Scratch Projections
http://www.hi-beam.net/org/scratch/scr.html
8:30pm, Cinema Action Christine, 4 rue Christine
LOST & FOUND: THE FILMS OF ARTHUR LIPSETT, CURATED BY BRETT KASHMERE
Arthur Lipsett recognized cinema's ability to reveal the ugly side of
life, the things we don't want to acknowledge: the refuse. By pursuing
truth within the everyday, Lipsett also discovered beauty in the basic
and the absurd. Utilizing found materials in concert with self-shot
photos and footage, his films transform the fragmentary nature of refuse
into a unified material vision. This program brings together Lipsett's
first five celluloid compositions, produced at the National Film Board
of Canada across the 1960s. These films, which represent the primary arc
of his artistic evolution, exemplify how pictures and sounds can be
fused in a synthetic yet sincerely personal form. FILMS include: VERY
NICE, VERY NICE (1961, 16mm, b&w, 7 min); A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE (1965,
16mm, b&w, 12 min); 21-87 (1964, 16mm, b&w, 10 min); FREE FALL (1964,
16mm, b&w, 9 min); FLUXES (1968, 16mm, b&w, 24 min). Prints courtesy
National Film Board of Canada. More info:
http://www.brettkashmere.com/arthur_lipsett.html
12/4
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
BLADE RUNNER
Blade Runner (1982, 117 min.) by RIDLEY SCOTT. A loose adaptation of
Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? "…the most
remarkably and densely imagined and visualized SF film since 2001: A
Space Odyssey, a hauntingly erotic meditation on the difference between
the human and the nonhuman. Set in a grungy LA of the 21st century
characterized by nearly constant rain and a good many Chinese
restaurants—yielding textures worthy of Welles or Sternberg—the plot
involves a former cop (Harrison Ford) hired to track down and kill a
series of androids. The results are largely a triumph of production
design, but as in Forbidden Planet and 2001, it's often hard to
determine where production design leaves off and direction begins."
—Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
---------------------------
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007
---------------------------
12/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Jackman Hall, 317 Dunsdas Street West
CFMDC 40TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
Over the past forty years, the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre
(CFMDC) has amassed a world-recognized and coveted collection of
experimental short films on 16mm, representing seminal Canadian and
international artists. The four films gathered here exemplify certain
influential strands of filmmaking – experimental, hybrid and conceptual
– which enrich the CFMDC catalogue. The programme title is a nod to the
CFMDC's accrual of such important works over time, as much as it
references the formal aspects of these works, which all foreground, in
radically differing ways, film's unique temporal language. David Rimmer,
perhaps Canada's second most important experimental filmmaker after
Michael Snow, provides us with a playful, extended snapshot of Hero's
Pizza parlour in NYC circa 1971, while Rose Lowder conflates iconic
public squares in Paris to create her impressionistic and flickering
tableau, SCÈNES DE LA VIE FRANÇAISE: PARIS. Capturing light effects in a
living room, Michael Snow's STANDARD TIME was lauded by Manny Farber in
Artforum, who wrote: "A joyously spiritual little film, it contains both
his singular stoicism and the germinal ideas of his other films, each
one like a thesis, proposing a particular relationship between image,
time and space." Taking Snow's conceptual rigour to another level, Mike
Hoolboom's Guy Debord and Warhol inspired WHITE MUSEUM is a virtually
imageless and infinitely witty meditation on cinema. – Andréa Picard.
REAL ITALIAN PIZZA, Director: David Rimmer (Canada 1971 13 minutes
16mm), SCÈNES DE LA VIE FRANÇAISE: PARIS, Director: Rose Lowder (1986
France 26 minutes 16mm silent), STANDARD TIME, Director: Michael Snow,
(Canada 1967 8 minutes 16mm), WHITE MUSEUM, Director: Mike Hoolboom
(Canada 1986 32 minutes 16mm).
--------------------------
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2007
--------------------------
12/6
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA 90026
MICHAELA GRILL - GIUSEPPE IELASI
live audiovisual performance
12/6
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works in various media by local film and video artists and
students; makers will be present to introduce their work.
12/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
6:30pm, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street
JOSEPH CORNELL: COLLABORATIONS AND CINEMATIC INFLUENCES
While Cornell's best known films are collages of pre-existing material
produced in relative privacy, Cornell briefly collaborated with
filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt and Lawrence Jordan, deeply
influencing the work of each of these significant artists. This program
presents a sampling of this collaborative work with a selection of
recent works continuing Cornell's fascinations with film, the found
object and the magic of the everyday. Screening: Two films by Lawrence
Jordan: Cornell, 1965, a rare film portrait of the artist and Our Lady
of the Sphere; Centuries of June and Wonder Ring by Stan Brakhage (and
Cornell's response to the latter, GniR RednoW); What Mozart Saw on
Mulberry Street by Rudy Burckhardt (assembled from footage shot for
Cornell's Mulberry Street); The Secret Story by Janie Geiser; flower,
the boy, the librarian by Stephanie Barber; What Makes Day and Night by
Jeanne Liotta; Her Fragrant Emulsion by Lewis Klahr; Oona's Veil by
Brian Frye; and Cornell's own Rose Hobart.
------------------------
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2007
------------------------
12/7
London, England: Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology at The Horse Hospital
http://ifct.org/london07.html
9pm, Colonnade, Bloomsbury
INT'L FEST OF CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAM
The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology will present an experimental
film program at the world renowned Horse Hospital December 7th starting
at 8pm. Screenings will include a highlighted "Best Of" series of
Experimental Films and Experimental Animation from the IFCT 2007 Touring
Events. Participating experimental Films originate from countries
including Brazil, Canada, Germany, & France. The films to be screened
also represent a wide variety of innovative creation techniques. Tickets
are £7 (and £5 for members and concessions) More information is at
http://www.thehorsehospital.com/archives/000521.html#more
12/7
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Fiday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)
New York
BRAKHAGE DOCUMENTARY BY JIM SHEDDEN
BRAKHAGE (75 min.-(1999) This film was first shown at Millennium on May
21st, 1999. It was part of a weekend program with Stan Brakhage who
appeared on May 22nd to show and discuss a new program of his films.
"Stan Brakhage is a ...legend, possibly the most important filmmaker of
the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. Since
1952, when he was nineteen, Brakhage has created over 300 films, ranging
from lengths of several seconds to several hours, and has constantly and
consistently redefined the shape of film art. Using excerpts from
Brakhage's films and films of other avant-garde filmmakers, interviews
with Brakhage, his friends, family, colleagues, and critics, and
archival footage of Brakhage spanning the past thity five years, Jim
Shedden's portrait, BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the
filmmaker's genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic
personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travellers, and the influence his
work has had on generations of other creators.
12/7
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.
--------------------------
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2007
--------------------------
12/8
Austin, TX: Toneburst
8pm, Ceremony Hall, 4100 Red River
TONEBURST 5
Toneburst is an experimental sound and visual showcase that is performed
2-3 times a year and is entirely devoted to presenting the best unheard
or underexposed musicians, video/film artists from the fertile Austin
underground scene (and sometimes from elsewhere as well). The current
show will be presenting Tom Grzinich, Josh Ronsen (aka
Brekekekekkoaxkoax), Keith Manlove and ex-L.A. resident, now full time
Austinite Greg Headley. Rick Reed will be doing double duty by
performing both a solo set (a soundtrack to a video by Ken Jacobs), and
appearing in the first ever live performance of the group S.I.R.S.I.T
(Sometimes it Rains Spacemen in Texas), which features not only Reed,
but the incredible talents of Brent Fariss, Cory Allen and Josh Russell.
There will also be a video presentation by another former Californian,
now Austin resident, Scott Stark, using multiple video projectors that
should be worth the price of admission by itself. And also look for a
very special guest appearance by long time Houston noise musician,
Carlos Pozo (who also performs under the name Pechuga). Expect throbbing
lights, both harsh and soothing electronic sounds, weird noises, bizarre
sights and as always, have your bags packed, we're going on a trip!
12/8
Los Angeles, California: BETALEVEL
http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/9429
8 PM, 963 N. Hill Street, in alley on left side of Full House
WONDERERS AND THEIR SHADOWS ON FILM
Experimental Film in Chinatown, Los Angeles Live music by Tony Cantor,
Mark So, Tashi Wada and Douglas Waddle! For directions, go to:
http://betalevel.com/directions/ Madison Brookshire - OPENING - 25 min.
16mm Sandy Ding - WATER SPELL - 42 min. 16mm Laida Lertxundi - FOOTNOTES
TO A HOUSE OF LOVE - 13 min. 16mm Mary Beth Reed - MOONSTREAMS - 10 min.
16mm For stills and more, go to:
http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/9429 Madison Brookshire - OPENING
- Using everyday images of overlooked spaces, OPENING reveals the city
in the landscape and the landscape in the city. Recorded sounds,
silences and long tones play over a mosaic of off-ramps, power lines and
alleyways. Mark So, Tashi Wada and Douglas Wadle will accompany OPENING.
Sandy Ding - Water Spell - "A journey from realism to a supersensory
realm, slipping under the surface and between molecules at a
micropscopic scale. Channeling the subconscious, Water Spell is both
odyssey and invocation; a ritual of transformation and retinal blast.
The film releases the energy locked within its frames through flickering
pulsations of light." - Mark Webber Laida Lertxundi - Footnotes to A
House of Love - A series of shots in a California desert landscape in
which there is a play between on frame and off frame sound. There is an
effort to create the space of a story, without a story, by the use of
real time/diegetic sound. The film is laboriously honoring play. Love is
felt as a force that remains almost off the frame and determines the
arrangement of the figures in the landscape. This film was made with:
Sandy Ding, Eliza Douglas, Laura Merando, Sally Oviatt, Lucas Quigly and
Laura Steenberge. With music by: Leslie Gore, Ari Up, The Kinks, The
Shangri-Las, Henry Flynt, Laura Steenberge and The Crystals. "Laida
Lertxundi's Footnotes to a House of Love, also set in southern
California, was in some ways the aftermath to the apocalyptic buildup of
SpaceDisco-One. The desert, so often a stand-in for other places
imagined by Hollywood, here is barren and bright, set to the tune of
Leslie Gore and the Kinks playing through an intrepid little tape deck.
The tinny sound carries through a broken-down house, a house without
walls and whose door falls down the moment someone tries to open it.
People drift by and a couple makes love on a sheet laid out in the sand;
it's not clear where the house ends and the desert begins. The music
plays in most of the film like a radio signal, a relic of another time,
now gone. The film is pervaded with the sense of something having
happened, though we're given only brief glimpses of what came after." -
Genevieve Yue, Senses of Cinema "Laida Lertxundi's Footnotes to a House
of Love is the type of thing you hope for at a festival: something
remarkable by someone you've never heard of. Not much happens in the
film – much to its credit. A young couple inhabits a dilapidated house
in the California desert. They read, play the cello, piss, but mostly
just walk about. Their actions, however, are entirely peripheral to the
film. Footnotes is most centrally about the presence of place, the house
and the desert beyond, and the possibilities they seem to invite.
Narratives and relationships are only just hinted at and seemingly
swallowed up by the surroundings. There is a subtle mysteriousness to
the place that could easily have made it a site for terror, or at least
danger, but this is constantly leavened by a gentle, disarming
playfulness and teasing." - Patrick Friel, Senses of Cinema Mary Beth
Reed - Moonstreams - "Mary Beth builds up a surface tension that seems
quite rocky and solid. This surface gradually begins to crumble and a
bubbling of dusty gold begins, like a geyser, to break up this tension.
The surface of paints and rhythms begins to flow with the water and
everything inside of the body of work begins spilling out until
electrical creative charges accompany the liquid gold and rock.
Suddenly, out of this storm comes a red and yellow explosion of warmth
and creativity, spilling out over the body like a lava flow." - Courtney
Hoskins
12/8
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)
New York
FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE
Most of the films in this program were premiered at Millennium, SEXUAL
MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (3 min.-1971), SEXUAL MEDITATION:HOTEL (5.5
min.-1972), AFTERMATH (8 min.-1981), MURDER PSALM (16.5 min.-1981),
DANTE QUARTET (6.5 min.-1987), PERSIANS #6-12 (18 min.-2000), PERSIAN
SERIES #13-18 (11 min.-2001). This screening includes some of most
extraordinary works created by Stan Brakhage during his amazingly
prolific caeeer. On MURDER PSALM- Brakhage quoting Dostoyevsky (Diary of
a Writer) "In my novel, THE DEVILS I attempted to depict the complex and
heterogenous motives which may prompt even the purest of heart and most
naive people to take part in an absolutely monstous crime." On
AFTERMATH- "The raw meat of the mind's imagination, the pounding blood
of it, attempting to erase (rather than assimilate) a televised movie of
ferocious popular appeal...a life versus death struggle played out in
the purely visual (anti-numerical) area of thought."-S.B. These shows on
December 7th and 8th celebrate the publication of a special issue of the
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL #47/48, entitled BRAKHAGE AT THE MILLENNIUM. The
screenings and the publication pay tribute to the artist who passed away
in 2003.
12/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
GREEN + MARK BRECKE + JAMES HONG + BEN WOOD
Our good neighbor Sam is eager to share his plans and progress on his
long-form Esperanto-obsessed essay Universal Language. In his
media-heavy lecture-demo, the erstwhile maker of Weather Underground and
Rainbow Man, along with producer Carrie Lozano, anchor a 40-min.
feedback session on the major talking-points of his utopia project,
towards developing its salient issues and aesthetic concerns. Resonant
with Sam's theme of international cooperation, Brecke returns to home
base after African photo assignments to launch his new book
Darfur/Darfur and answer questions about facts on the ground and in
world councils. Mr. Hong is circling back too, from Jerusalem, to
premiere here his half-hr. political commentary, This Shall Be a Sign,
on the architectural threat to the native Palestinian population. Ben
Wood, by way of SFAI and MIT, also comes back to deliver a daring
video-essay on the shameful erasure of Diego Rivera's Rockefeller Center
mural, engaging with Rivera's family and former colleagues at the
eventual site of Man at the Crossroads in Mexico City. *$7.
------------------------
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2007
------------------------
12/9
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
7:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
FILM LOVE #53: OPENINGS
A gathering of Atlanta's finest improvisational musicians perform to
silent experimental films. | The Atlanta Fourth Ward Improvisational
Ensemble, led by Roger Ruzow, will perform newly created live
soundtracks to short experimental films by local, national and
international filmmakers. The film imagery ranges from abstract,
hand-drawn animation to video "circuit-bending" to the grandeur of
Madison Brookshire's landscape film Opening. | NOTE EARLY START TIME: 7
PM! | Musicians: Roger Ruzow, Jeff Crompton, Ben Gettys, Ben Davis,
Chris Case, Keith Leslie, Rob Mallard | Program: Oliver Smith (Atlanta,
GA)videoFeed (2007), digital video, 6 minutes; Colorful imagery from
circuit-bent video hardware. Peter Snowdon (Brussels, Belgium) tree
stain man (hommage to stan) (2007), super-8mm and digital video
(screened on DVD), 4 minutes WORLD PREMIERE; "An experimental round
dance in three movements, composed using footage of trees taken in
Oxford in spring 2001. My first ever roll of Kodachrome 40. A homage to
the life-in-work of Stan Brakhage." Chris Lynn (Washington, DC) London 4
– Clouds and the Docklands (2006), digital video, 6 minutes London 5 –
Unknown Year (2007), super-8mm (screened on DVD), 4 minutes; Two
portraits of the city. The grain and color of the super-8 film image
contrasts with the digital video clarity of a rainy London day. Hugo
Ball Room (San Francisco, CA) Suite for Face (excerpts), 10 minutes,
digital video; Video clips "processed from scenes in feature films in
which an actor or actress emotes wordlessly, using facial expressions
and posture to represent the evolution of a feeling, a realization, or a
breakdown. The videos are intended to provide a context for improvising
musicians to interpret in solo or small-group settings." Maryam Kashani
(Austin, TX) things lovely and dangerous still: a silent film for
trumpet and drums (2006), 16mm, 12 minutes; A portrait in 16mm film,
made by a filmmaker/DJ, and inspired by the poetry of June Jordan
Caroline Koebel (Buffalo, NY) Sea Lion (2007), 16mm, 3 minutes; "This
hand processed Super 8 film marvels at the beauty of the movement of the
sea lion. It reflects the fascination of the filmmaker's two-year-old
son with this animal new to his world." Caroline Koebel hole or space
(2006), 16mm, 3 minutes; "Pricks, gaps, dots, openings, hole or space
takes its cue from contortionists of the early screen in spiraling out
from conceptions of the body as whole. The film uses early cinema and
avant-garde classics as its compositional notes." Madison Brookshire
(Los Angeles, CA) Opening, 2007, 16mm, 25 minutes; This aptly titled
work is a quiet but grand record of the contemporary American landscape.
Robbie Land(Atlanta, GA) Greencameraless, 2007, 16mm, 6 minutes WORLD
PREMIERE; A recent work by the Atlanta film artist shows an inner
landscape - a portrait in green, visual layers created by working
directly on the filmstrip without a camera. | "Openings" 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 seen films, and
to explore the history of experimental filmmaking. It was voted
Atlanta's Best Film Series by the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006.
More information on Frequent Small Meals music, film, and art events can
be found at www.frequentsmallmeals.com
12/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE DOCUMENTARIES OF JESSICA YU
Filmforum presents The Documentaries of Jessica Yu. Jessica Yu is one of
the leading documentary filmmakers working in America today. On the
opening weekend of her new documentary Protagonist, Filmforum is
delighted to look back at Yu's earlier award-winning documentary work:
Sour Death Balls (1993), the Academy-Award winning Breathing Lessons:
The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996), and In the Realms of the
Unreal (2004). Discussion with Jessica Yu to be confirmed. General
admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and
check only.
12/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (corner of Third)
TRAVEL SO FAR: ELLEN ZWEIG'S CHINA TAPES
Ellen Zweig In Person Ellen Zweig's HEAP forms a series of portraits of
Westerners who have studied, imagined, loved and misunderstood China.
The five videos in the collection use documentary and narrative
strategies, emerging as metaphoric explorations of the multiple
misunderstandings and rare moments of connection across cultures. With
footage shot in China and images of an invented China, the power of our
imagination to travel beyond truth and fiction becomes palpable. In one
portrait, (the origin of bitterness) Joseph Rock, reflections of
personal remembrances surface from implausible sources, while some
mysteries remain unsolved. In another, a surplus of landscape, collages
landscape views to a polygraph interview with filmmaker Leslie Thornton.
The HEAP series also includes (tongue tongue stone) G.W. Leibnitz;
(flick flight flimsy) Ernest Fenollosa, and (unsolved) Robert van Gulik.
Also on this program: Zweig's precarious, which provides a bridge
between Zweig's HEAP and her relationship with her father.
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker:
http://www.hi-beam.net
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.