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This week [December 8 - 16, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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"MY TORONTO" by Matt Peterson
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"CAT WATCHING A FILM" by Matt Peterson
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"Two Films on the Water--WATERSCAPE: ILLUSIONS and WATERCOLORS" by Ann Deborah Levy
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"In Pursuit of Elvis (Elvis' Sandwich)" by Kate Pelling
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"Domestic Safari" by Anders Weberg
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DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2007)
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The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 01, 2008)
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Boston Underground Film festival (Boston, Ma ; Deadline: December 14, 2007)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison; Deadline: December 31, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Peter Hutton: At Sea [December 10, Los Angeles, California]
* All Circuits On: Threeing [December 13, New York, New York]
* Crazy Rays: James Fotopoulos / Leah Gilliam [December 13, San Francisco, California]
* Crazy Rays: victor Faccinto / James June Schneider [December 13, San Francisco, California]
* Standish Lawder Program One [December 14, New York, New York]
* Special Memorial Screening For Joseph Saleh [December 14, New York, New York]
* Film Text Performance Film [December 14, marfa]
* Henri Chopin: Film Screening & Performance [December 15, Brussels]
* Of Dark and Luminous Matter [December 15, New York, New York]
* Standish Lawder Program Two [December 15, New York, New York]
* Standish Lawder Program Three [December 15, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [December 15, San Francisco, California]
* Film Text Performance Film [December 15, marfa]
* Filmforum Presents Films By Robert Nelson, Part 2 [December 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Filmforum Presents Films By Robert Nelson, Part 2 [December 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Standish Lawder Program Four [December 16, New York, New York]
* Return of the Idiot (Czech Currents: Gedeon) [December 16, New York, New York]
* The Jefferson Presents… 2007 Local Pittsburgh Film Show [December 16, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Michaela Grill - Giuseppe Ielasi [December 16, san antonio]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2007
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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.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2007
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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.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007
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12/10
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
PETER HUTTON: AT SEA
2004–07, 60 min., 16mm, color and b/w, silent Chronicle of the birth,
life and death of a colossal container ship. Hutton traveled to South
Korea three years ago to film industrial ship building in one of the
world's largest modern shipyards. In person: Peter Hutton
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2007
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12/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ALL CIRCUITS ON: THREEING
For the third installment of ALL CIRCUITS ON, we're giving the evening
over to the artist, author, and teacher Paul Ryan. Ryan spent
four-and-a-half years studying in a Catholic monastic order before going
on to work with Marshall McLuhan from 1967-68. He began experimenting
with video during this period, and this led him to theorize about the
impact it would have on art making, society, memory, relationships,
utopia, religion, and the environment. What Ryan recognized was not just
the rise of a new medium or technology, but the dawn of a new electronic
culture. Tonight's topic will be "Threeing," the yoga of relationships
Ryan developed using video during the 1970s, a "three person solution to
relational confusion." Remember the popular late-70s megahit THREE'S
COMPANY? The video world of "Threeing" could well be what that
reactionary series was reacting to, a Me-Generation rebuke of communal
thinking and living. We'll use that as a counterpoint to ground Ryan's
thinking in the context of early video and his participation in the
pioneering media collective RAINDANCE. "Our tendency is to view any
three people interacting together in classic dramatic terms, but the
structure of 'Threeing' is not a narrative structure. The three do not
interact dramatically following a story line to an ending. Rather, the
three interact recursively, following a circuit that balances
relationships. To understand the process of 'Threeing,' narrative
expectations must be abandoned." –Paul Ryan
12/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
CRAZY RAYS: JAMES FOTOPOULOS / LEAH GILLIAM
Leah Gilliam remixes the racial politics of the Planet of the Apes in
Apeshit and a free-form sense of foreboding and invasion inhabits James
Fotopoulos' ontological horror-film The Nest.
12/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9:30pm, Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
CRAZY RAYS: VICTOR FACCINTO / JAMES JUNE SCHNEIDER
James June Schneider's 1, 2, 3, Whiteout, making its US premiere, offers
up a low-fi retro-futurist romance while in Victor Faccinto's last
cut-out film, Shameless, is an underground-comix-inspired animation set
in a multidimensional space pad; a pervy, groovy, adults-only, erotic
romp.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2007
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12/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STANDISH LAWDER PROGRAM ONE
THE FILMS OF STANDISH LAWDER PGM 1 FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Anthology has
long wanted to present a comprehensive retrospective of the work of
Standish Lawder, one of the wittiest, wiliest, and most unpredictable of
American avant-garde filmmakers. Moving restlessly from structural
studies and painterly abstraction to found-footage intervention and
diaristic vignettes, Lawder's films range from the comic to the sublime
(and are often both at once). These programs will feature a
near-complete selection of the films he produced in a great burst of
creativity from the late-sixties to the mid-seventies, as well as very
special presentations, by Lawder himself, of the 3-D stereo slideshows
to which he has devoted himself in the years since. Special thanks to
Standish Lawder, Ken Jacobs, and the Academy Film Archive. All films in
this series are 16mm. "Standish Lawder is a cinematic magician, an
American original. His films are an astonishing mix of formal beauty,
structural rigor, and a probing wit. He is a high-wire performer, with
no net. Most of us want to think outside the box; Lawder invented the
box and then threw it away." –Clifford Ross PROGRAM 1: CAT FILM FOR
URSULA (1969, 4 min, color, sound) Made for Intercat '69, Pola
Chapelle's first cat film festival, where it was awarded a carton of cat
food. RAINDANCE (1972, 17 min, color, sound). Original score by Robert
Withers. The film produces an experience of meditative liberation beyond
the threshold of visual comprehension. Vision turns inward as the
rhythm, sequence and intensity of film frames stimulate the Alpha wave
frequencies of our optical cortex. ROADFILM (1970, 2 min, b/w, sound) A
scrap of old animation is looped on a home-made 16mm continuous contact
printer, then set to music. SPECIFIC GRAVITY (1969, 4 min, b/w, sound &
silent) Through time-lapse photography, a massive four-hour snowfall
covers an old movie projector in four minutes. The film's duration is
marked by a moving arrow on a chart, an early solution to the Duration
Reckoning Problem (DRP) inherent in all movies. INTOLERANCE (ABRIDGED)
(1972, 12 min, b/w, silent) Finding D. W. Griffith's famous film
intolerably long, Lawder reduced its duration of over two hours down to
ten minutes. A home-made optical printer double-printed every 26th
frame, a rate of image velocity that, while intolerably fast, still
conveys the essence of Griffith's narrative line, composition and
editing. HEADFILM (1968, 6 min, b/w, sound) Must movies move? By
optically stretching a snippet of an old Lon Chaney film, the illusion
of continuous movement is destroyed. PRIME TIME (1972, 2 min, color,
silent) Test footage for an unfinished film on Richard Nixon's
relationship with mass media. Plus, 20 minutes of stereo slide
projection from BWANA DEVIL and other 3-D projected art works. Total
running time: ca. 75 minutes.
12/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SPECIAL MEMORIAL SCREENING FOR JOSEPH SALEH
This past April, Jospeh Saleh, the film producer and co-founder of
Manhattan's Angelika Film Center, passed away. As a special tribute to a
man who made an indelible mark in New York's film scene, and was a good
friend of Anthology Film Archives, we are screening one of the films Mr.
Saleh produced, Martin Bell's powerful and groundbreaking STREETWISE.
Very special thanks to Jackie Raynal Saleh and Brian Meacham (Academy
Film Archive). STREETWISE is the striking and sobering account of the
daily lives of abandoned children in Seattle's seamy Tenderloin
district. The film was inspired by a 1983 LIFE magazine essay by Mary
Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall; McCall later served as co-producer of the
film version. Shortly after the publication of the original essay, Bell,
Mark, and McCall returned to the streets of Seattle and began
accumulating hours of footage depicting the pain and daily degradation
of the film's central figures. STREETWISE manages to convey effectively
the horrors of life on the street as they are experienced by a number of
brave and resilient, but nevertheless, vulnerable teenagers. It does so
without falsely glamorizing their dangerous exploits or elevating their
experiences to the realm of the surreal.
12/14
marfa: Ballroom Marfa
http://www.ballroommarfa.org/
7 pm, 108 East San Antonio St. PO BOX 1661 . Marfa, TX 79843
FILM TEXT PERFORMANCE FILM
film text performance film 14-15 December 2007 + 11-12 April 2008
organized by Ralph McKay "film text performance film" pairs two
seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice: filmic
performance and visual text. Program is divided in two parts:- Part 1:
"performance" Friday 14 & Saurday 15 December 2007 Liberty Hall & Goode
Crowley Theater Innovation in the realm of light and sound works. With
films by BRUCE McCLURE LUIS RECODER & SANDRA GIBSON MICHAELA GRILL
withGIUSEPPE IELASI _ _ _ Part 2: "text" Friday 11 & Saturday 12 April
2008 Goode Crowley Theater An inquiry into the visual dimension of
language. With films by DAVID GATTEN MICHAEL TRACY JULIA MELTZER and
DAVID THORNE
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2007
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12/15
Brussels: Bozar Cinema / Palais des Beaux-Arts
http://www.bozar.be
20:00, 23 rue Ravenstein
HENRI CHOPIN: FILM SCREENING & PERFORMANCE
HENRI CHOPIN Films: "Pêche de nuit" (1963), "L'énergie du sommeil"
(1965) Live concert: Henri Chopin Henri Chopin, born in Paris in 1922,
is a living legend. For nearly 50 years now and through countless
recordings and publications this founding father of aural poetry has
defended the electronic exploration of voice and body. To this end he
systematically uses microphones, tape recorders, mixing tables and
amplifiers by which he records, modifies and amplifies the aural
universe of his own voice and body, the only sources of his music.
"Chopin is the explorer of a Terra Incognita, an infra or ultra poetry
of pure energy beyond language. He is the first artist to write a
planetary poetry of spatial bodies" (Michel Giroud). Chopin holds a
central position in the history of 20th century avant-garde with his
recordings, writings, and editing work (Burroughs, Hausmann, Gysin,
Janco, members of the Lettrism and Fluxus movements and many others).
And of course with his powerful live performances… Few people know that
Chopin also (co)directed a couple of films. This exceptional evening
showcases recently restored prints of "Pêche de nuit" (1963) and
"L'énergie du sommeil" (1965). These are followed by a live concert by
Henri Chopin himself. http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7741&
12/15
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 pm, 66 East 4th st
OF DARK AND LUMINOUS MATTER
It is once again time to celebrate the darkest time of year with
sympathetic flickerings particles and waves in the form of sounds
+images by JEANNE LIOTTA and friends at Millenium Film Workshop 66 East
4th st NYC Saturday December 15 8pm OF DARK AND LUMINOUS MATTER program:
-Noctiluca (Magellan's Toys #1), 1974 , 16mm film, 4 min, silent, HOLLIS
FRAMPTON -Milk and Honey 2004 16mm film, 16 min , KATE MCCABE
-Blaecsolstis 2006, 16mm film, 6 min, TOMAS CASAS -Counterfeit Music
Video #1 (Snow Job) 1996, VHS, 3 min, ROBERT ATTANASIO interspersed with
various hymns to the void by JEANNE LIOTTA including: OBSERVANDO EL
CIELO (2007) 16mm film, 19 minutes, sound by Peggy Ahwesh Seven years of
celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and
inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod
Earth. This work is neither a metaphor nor a symbol, but is feeling
towards a fact in the midst of perception, which time flows through.
Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere in action allow the
universe to speak for itself. The Sublime is Now. Amor Fati!
12/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STANDISH LAWDER PROGRAM TWO
SCREENING ROOM WITH STANDISH LAWDER & STANLEY CAVELL 1973, 74 min,
video. In this episode of Robert Gardner's SCREENING ROOM, the
invaluable forum for independent filmmakers produced by Boston's WCVB in
the mid-to-late seventies, Lawder demonstrates the intricacies of his
home-made optical printer and presents examples of what can be achieved
by re-photographing film. Gardner, Lawder, and the renowned philosopher
and film theorist Cavell also discuss the intellectual and psychological
implications of his manipulations.
12/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STANDISH LAWDER PROGRAM THREE
PROGRAM 3: NECROLOGY (1968, 12 min, b/w, sound). Restored print courtesy
of the Academy Film Archive. A roll call of the dead, "the film is one
of the strongest and grimmest comments upon contemporary society that
cinema has produced." –Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE DANGLING PARTICIPLE
(1970, 18 min, b/w, sound). Organ music by Bruce Lieberman. Made
entirely from old classroom instructional films, the film offers a
wealth of practical advice on contemporary sexual hang-ups and where
they come from. Vincent Canby once allegedly commented, "that's the
funniest underground film I've ever seen." ELEVEN DIFFERENT HORSES
(1973, 4 min, color, sound) At the age of 14, Lawder photographed his
brother Doug chasing a horse with their father's home movie camera. Then
at age 37 he made this circular cybernetic study film from the original
footage. SIXTY SUICIDE NOTES (1972, 8 min, b/w, sound) A static camera
counts the passing of sixty people after viewing Lawder's film CORRIDOR.
Another solution to the DRP. CONSTRUCTION JOB (1969, 6 min, b/w, sound)
A compilation film, a treasure chest of bizarre and amusing footage from
the turn of the century to the present. Plus, 20 minutes of stereo slide
projection from MILE-HI MAIDEN and other 3-D projected art works. Total
running time: ca. 75 minutes.
12/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
person—are Martha Colburn's Don't Kill the Weatherman, Jesse Lerner's
TSH, Kerry Laitala's Phantogram, John Leaños' Deadtime Stories: Mother
Goose, Roger Deutsch's Mario Makes a Movie, David Cox' Dr. Yes, Vivian
Wong's Kill John Wayne, and Eli Marias/Amos Natkin's Superstar. ALSO
pieces by Yin-Ju Chen,David Marino, Sahar Alsawaf, Robbyn Leonard,
Sylvia Schedelbauer, Ben Rivers, Gibbs Chapman, and others TBA.
12/15
marfa: Ballroom Marfa
http://www.ballroommarfa.org/
7 pm, 108 East San Antonio St. PO BOX 1661 . Marfa, TX 79843
FILM TEXT PERFORMANCE FILM
film text performance film 14-15 December 2007 + 11-12 April 2008
organized by Ralph McKay "film text performance film" pairs two
seemingly disparate areas of contemporary cinematic practice: filmic
performance and visual text. Program is divided in two parts:- Part 1:
"performance" Friday 14 & Saurday 15 December 2007 Liberty Hall & Goode
Crowley Theater Innovation in the realm of light and sound works. With
films by BRUCE McCLURE LUIS RECODER & SANDRA GIBSON MICHAELA GRILL
withGIUSEPPE IELASI _ _ _ Part 2: "text" Friday 11 & Saturday 12 April
2008 Goode Crowley Theater An inquiry into the visual dimension of
language. With films by DAVID GATTEN MICHAEL TRACY JULIA MELTZER and
DAVID THORNE
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2007
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12/16
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS FILMS BY ROBERT NELSON, PART 2
Robert Nelson, an artist by background, turned to film making 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 Grateful Dead
(1967) (restored print), King David (made with Mike Henderson)
(1970/2003), Special Warning (1974/1999), More (1971/1998), Suite
California Stops and Passes Part 1 (1976/2003). $9 general, $6
students/seniors
12/16
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS FILMS BY ROBERT NELSON, PART 2
Robert Nelson, an 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 Grateful Dead
(1967) (restored print), King David (made with Mike Henderson)
(1970/2003), Special Warning (1974/1999), More (1971/1998), Suite
California Stops and Passes Part 1 (1976/2003) General admission $9,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and check only.
www.lafilmforum.org. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the
Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STANDISH LAWDER PROGRAM FOUR
PROGRAM 4: COLORFILM (1972, 3 min, color, sound) After failing to
achieve the desired sensation of color pulsing dramatically on the
screen, Lawder filmed the projector instead. REGENERATION (1980, 6 min,
b/w, sound) In REGENERATION I asked myself, what action or event is the
most impossible to reverse in time, and the answer seemed to be the act
of childbirth. So, I took footage of a delivery from an obstetrical
instructional film and reversed it?through a homemade optical printer.
CORRIDOR (1970, 20 min, b/w, sound). Music by Terry Riley. The most
notorious of Lawder's films, CORRIDOR features a long, bleak corridor
manipulated by tracking, zoom shots, changes of lighting, optical
effects and a flickering image of a naked woman. CATFILM FOR KATY AND
CYNNIE (1970, 3 min, color, silent) Made for the second Cat Film
Festival and intended to measure the patience of this audience of cat
lovers who were overly anxious to see the cats. RUNAWAY (1969, 6 min,
b/w, sound) "Lawder achieves the perfection of all his techniques in a
small six-minute film called RUNAWAY, in which he uses a few seconds of
cartoon dogs chasing a fox… He elevates the cartoon imagery to the
visual strength of an old Chinese charcoal drawing." –Jonas Mekas,
VILLAGE VOICE SUNDAY IN SOUTHBURY (1972, 7 min, b/w, sound) Unique in
Lawder's film work is this home-movieish documentary of a summer-time
gathering of friends (including Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle,
and Lawder's wife and their two girls) visiting Hans Richter, who was
both father-in-law and an important mentor to Lawder. Plus, an excerpt
from Jonas Mekas's DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES (WALDEN) (1964-1969),
offering a different perspective on the same picnic featured in Lawder's
SUNDAY IN SOUTHBURY, followed by 20 minutes of stereo slide projections
from TONGUE TOYS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, and other 3-D projected art works.
Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RETURN OF THE IDIOT (CZECH CURRENTS: GEDEON)
Drawing inspiration from the protagonist of Dostoyevsky's THE IDIOT,
RETURN OF THE IDIOT presents a serio-comic, modern-day love story.
Frantisek, recently released from a psychiatric hospital where he has
spent most of his life, tries to assimilate into mainstream society.
Through his innocence, he uncovers minor hypocrisies and lies in the
everyday dealings of his new friends and family. Funded with the award
money Gedeon received for his first film INDIAN SUMMER, the film
received eleven nominations at the Czech Film Academy Awards (winning
six), securing it an unprecedented festival run for a contemporary Czech
filmmaker. CZECH CURRENTS Anthology presents a new series showcasing
current Czech cinema, with one screening every month of an acclaimed
Czech film produced in the past decade. Curated by Irena Kovarova and
organized in cooperation with the Czech Center New York. All films in
Czech with English subtitles.
12/16
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Jefferson Presents...
http://www.geocities.com/jeffersonpresents/
8PM, 4931 Penn Ave.
THE JEFFERSON PRESENTS… 2007 LOCAL PITTSBURGH FILM SHOW
The December Jefferson Presents… experimental film program will be based
on the theme of motion analysis featuring all new work in 16mm celluloid
by Pittsburgh-based experimental filmmakers. Multiple "analyst" film
projectors will be used exclusively to project the films during this
screening. These unusual projectors were originally designed for
scientific applications and have the ability to be controlled at
different speeds and directions very precisely. The participants will
create special one-of-a-kind projection performances only viewable
tonight. The program will include new films by Adam Abrams, Tony Balko,
Mike Bonello, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Tara Merenda, Caleb Morgan,
Gordon Nelson, Ross Nugent, Greg Pierce & Rebbyro plus separate sonic
assaults by local musicians Steve Boyle, Samuel Gangwish and Jim Lingo.
12/16
san antonio: Salon Mijangos
http://salonmijangos.com/
7 pm, 1906 S. Flores St., San Antonio, Texas 78204
MICHAELA GRILL - GIUSEPPE IELASI
live audiovisual performance
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