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This week [February 3 - 10, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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"Access of Evil" by Clyde Forrester
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imagine art after (London, United Kingdom; Deadline: June 01, 2008)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: March 01, 2008)
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Bearded Child Film Festival (Grand Rapids, Minnesota; Deadline: June 06, 2008)
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ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival (Tempe, AZ USA; Deadline: February 08, 2008)
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Streaming Festival (The Hague, Netherlands; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: February 15, 2008)
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Miwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI., USA; Deadline: May 13, 2008)
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Renderyard Film and Documentary Festival (London, England; Deadline: February 15, 2008)
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HDFEST (New York, New York; Deadline: March 02, 2008)
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2nd Cambridge international Super 8 Festival (Cambridge, United Kingdom; Deadline: February 16, 2008)
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Duluth Play Ground (Duluth, MN USA; Deadline: February 15, 2008)
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Main Line Film Festival (Wayne, PA USA; Deadline: March 01, 2008)
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The Show Starts on the Sidewalk (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: February 28, 2008)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 19, 2008)
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TIE (Denver, CO U.S.A.; Deadline: February 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Three Films of Jean-Pierre Melville [February 3, Eugene, Oregon]
* The Floating World of Pat O’Neill – the First of Two Nights of Films [February 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Quick Billy [February 4, San Francisco, California]
* The Floating World of Pat O’Neill – the Second of Two Nights of Films [February 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Recent Work By Luther Price, Luther Price In Person [February 6, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Ken Jacobs' Two Wrenching Departures At Cinematheque Ontario [February 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Eteam! [February 7, Chicago, Illinois]
* “Ornette: Made In America” By Shirley Clarke [February 7, Los Angeles, California]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part One Continued At
Cinematheque Ontario [February 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Arcane Project [February 8, New York, New York]
* Dyke Delicious, Series 5: Romantic Shorts Program [February 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* "Portrait of Jason" By Shirley Clarke [February 9, Los Angeles, California]
* "Imagine the Sound," By Ron Mann [February 10, Los Angeles, California]
* An Invention Without A Future: Greatest Hits of Pxl This [February 10, San Francisco, California]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part One Continued At
Cinematheque Ontario [February 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2008
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2/3
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
varied, 110 E. Broadway,
THREE FILMS OF JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
Three outstanding films by director Jean-Pierre Melville are screened.
Each is then followed by an engaging audience discussion led by former
Hollywood director Thomas Blank. This is sponsored by DIVA's The
Liveliest Art Great Directors Series. 0. 1:00 p.m. Le Cercle Rouge 0.
4:00 p.m. Le Samourai 0. 7:00 p.m. Army of Shadows Contact: Eric Ostlind
Phone: 344-3482 E-Mail: email suppressed Admission: FREE
2/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THE FLOATING WORLD OF PAT O’NEILL – THE FIRST OF TWO NIGHTS OF FILMS
Pat O'Neill is Los Angeles's true avant-garde master, creating
beautiful, moody films with floating mattes, variable film speeds,
ghostly layering, wry wit, and masterful soundtracks, all working
together to form a fractured almost-narrative, a reflection on the lost
spaces and times of our city. Tonight we'll be screening: Trouble in the
Image (1996, 35mm, color, 38 min.) Horizontal Boundaries (2005, 35mm,
color, 23 min.) Coreopsis (1998, 35mm, 9 min.)
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008
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2/4
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
QUICK BILLY
Narcotic and nocturnal, QUICK BILLY traces Baillie's elliptical thought
patterns as he struggles through a long hallucinatory illness.
Meditations from the Tibetan Book of the Dead are paired with
considerations of the American landscape in the dense superimpositions
that propel this film forward. For Baillie, it's 'A Horse Opera in Four
Reels', a claim that becomes fully realized in the gunslinging climax
which tumbles us from mediatation into a true Bardo Follies. Hard to
believe this touchstone of the American avant-garde was completed as a
MFA requirement here at SFAI. We will be also showing a selection of
Baillie's camera rolls which he used as source material for his optical
printing. ---------- The SFAI Film Salon is a weekly film screening
program, organized by film students for the entire SFAI community.
Supported by the SFAI Student Union and Legion Of Graduate Students. For
more information email: email suppressed or
email suppressed
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
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2/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
THE FLOATING WORLD OF PAT O’NEILL – THE SECOND OF TWO NIGHTS OF FILMS
Decay of Fiction (2002, 35mm, 74 min.), Pat O'Neill's brilliant,
haunting film noir set in the decaying remains of the now-demolished
Ambassador Hotel. Preceded by Squirt Gun Step Print" (1998, 35mm, 6
min.) Note change in location & time. Co-presented by CineFamily
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008
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2/6
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue Boston
RECENT WORK BY LUTHER PRICE, LUTHER PRICE IN PERSON
Mass Art Film Society Luther Price will be presenting a program of
recent 16mm films, many of which have never screened in Boston, some of
which were only recently completed and will have their first public
showing here. More details will be available soon at:
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ E-mail email suppressed with
any questions.
2/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)
KEN JACOBS' TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
TORONTO PREMIERE! TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES by director Ken Jacobs (USA,
2006, 90 minutes, video b&w). "A luminous threnody." – Mark McElhatten.
"One wouldn't expect an hour and a half of this digital manipulation to
be so captivating, but Jacobs has perfected his craft over many years,
and TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES projects a long-form symphonic power rarely
achieved by today's video-scratching VJs." – Ed Halter, The Village
Voice. In 2000, Ken Jacobs came to Cinematheque Ontario to present ONTIC
ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY (1998), one of his unforgettable
Nervous System performances, which reanimated archival footage through
hand manipulation, transforming frozen film frames into moving,
three-dimensional dioramas. Flickering and infectious, Jacobs' live
celluloid shows have become legendary, and have recently given way to an
alternative incarnation: on video. TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES is an
example of this latest expression, and forms a moving tribute to two of
the filmmaker's close friends and former collaborators, Jack Smith and
Bob Fleischner, estranged from one another for years, who died
coincidentally during the same week. Initially performed live as a
Nervous System work in 1989, TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES is a digital
recreation of this tribute to Jacobs' two beloved friends. Both baroque
and unexpectedly spare, the video is an assemblage of footage from
Jacobs' opus STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, which he had begun with Smith
almost fifty years ago (only to complete it in 2004), scenes from his
short THE WHIRLED (1961), and material from THE BARBARIAN, an MGM
Orientalist fantasy picture from 1933, used because it's "exactly the
kind of fantasy that had so enthralled Jack." Unsurprisingly, Jack
steals the show. The staccato stop-and-go footage of Jack Smith hamming
it up through the streets of New York in his junk heap costume is
haunting in its hesitation – and strangely everlasting in a powerful
work, as much about creation as it is extinction.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008
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2/7
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6pm, 164 N. State St.
ETEAM!
Franziska Lamprecht & Hajoe Moderegger in person! Since 2002, the
German-born, New York-based duo eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe
Moderegger) has undertaken a series of witty land-use experiments on
small tracts of land, purchased through eBay, in the American Southwest.
Carried out under the guise of "home improvement," each project is also
an inspired investigation into our collective fantasies about the West
and its everyday reality. Their most recent effort is a collaboration
with their neighbors in tiny Montello, Nevada ("the town that refuses to
die) to create an International Airport and transform the desolate
flyover zone into a busy hub. The duo's experiments become the raw
material for their droll videos, three of which will screen tonight: 1.1
Acre Flat Screen (2002) chronicles their first successful land bid;
Artificial Traffic Jam (2005) details their ironic efforts to improve
the value of their second plot; and International Airport Montello
(2007) explores the Montello collaboration in a stunning, three-channel
composition. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. (2002–07, USA,
multiple formats, ca 90 min.)
2/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
“ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA” BY SHIRLEY CLARKE
Ornette: Made in America (1985, 80 min., color, 35mm), Directed by
Shirley Clarke, produced by Kathelin Hoffman, Camera: Ed Lachman, music:
Ornette Coleman. For her final film, Clarke returned to the jazz scene,
making this brilliant music documentary featuring the legendary Ornette
Coleman, a toweringly innovative yet humble figure. The film serves
almost as much as a portrait of Ft. Worth, Texas, Coleman's birthplace,
to which he returns to perform his Skies of America symphony to the most
well-healed society members, and with his electric Prime Time group at
the Caravan of Dreams, replete with early zany video game effects added
by Clarke. Throw in Coleman philosophizing on his art and life, and a
boy (a figurative Coleman) wandering the streets of Ft. Worth.
Co-presented by CineFamily
2/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)
R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART ONE CONTINUED AT
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
LAMENTATIONS: A MONUMENT TO THE DEAD WORLD PART 1: THE DREAM OF THE LAST
HISTORIAN (1985, 195 minutes)."The person who experienced the end of
history in ILLUMINATED TEXTS is the protagonist referred to in the
title. Of course the protagonist is really a stand-in for the ideal
viewer for whom I'm making these films. His or her dream [is] to go out
and encounter primally those truths which animated the great non-Western
civilizations, truths concerning: the living cosmos; concrete, natural
thought; the timeless presence of the here-and-now; all matters and
bodies and substances being energies of God; the power of
non-calculative thought, of contemplation; and the naturalness of human
being" (R. Bruce Elder). SHE IS AWAY (1976, 13 minutes). "Evokes absence
through elliptical continuity and loneliness through the repetition of .
. . archetypal images" (Ian Birnie).
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008
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2/8
New York, New York: National Arts Club
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/screenings.html
8PM, 15 Gramercy Park South
ARCANE PROJECT
An evening of glass slides, magic lantern projections, and antique
technologies, in inventive combinations, with silent films and sound
recordings played on the wind-up Victrola and other musical devices.
Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz and Bradley Eros, experimental film artists
and collectors of obsolete media artifacts, present a night of uncanny
images: mysterious travels, occult iconography, bizarre creatures,
industrial detritus, and the strange and wondrous landscapes of fairy
tales, fables and myths of the artificial sublime, displayed through the
translucent exotica of hand-tinted photographs, decayed surfaces, and
the odd symbols and illustrations of the mundane made marvelous.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008
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2/9
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm social hour, 8:00 pm screening, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
DYKE DELICIOUS, SERIES 5: ROMANTIC SHORTS PROGRAM
Dyke Delicious Series 5: Romantic Shorts Program Co-presented by Black
Cat Productions Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members (includes social hour
and screening) Cuddly Dyke Special: Bring a friend and save 50% on the
2nd ticket (2 for $15) If she expects candlelight, bubbly, and
chocolates, bring her to Dyke Delicious on February 9th where we will
supply the flame, bubble maker, candies, and a collection of short films
and videos that will touch her heart and tickle her funny bone. Come
early for the social hour, where the Dyke Delicious Post Office will be
open for romantic monkey-business.
2/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
"PORTRAIT OF JASON" BY SHIRLEY CLARKE
A whimsical missive from a weathered soul, "Portrait of Jason" is simply
that: a continuous unfolding monologue from dapper, effete '60s hustler
Jason Holiday (real name: Aaron Payne,) who, with a kind face and supple
voice, regales us with the compelling saga of his broken life, from
houseboy to heretic, from militant youth to sassy gigolo. A landmark in
both queer and confessional cinema. Co-presented by CineFamily. Dir:
Shirley Clarke, 1967, 35mm, 105 min.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2008
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2/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
"IMAGINE THE SOUND," BY RON MANN
Featuring Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, and Bill Dixon
Filmforum commences an intermittent series of documentaries focusing on
avant-garde and free jazz, in part connected with the series of jazz
films being presented at the Silent Movie Theatre. Filmforum is
co-presenting ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA by Shirley Clarke on Thursday
February 7. But tonight we are delighted to present the Los Angeles
appearance of the new revival of Ron Mann's vital film about free jazz
from 1981.
2/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
AN INVENTION WITHOUT A FUTURE: GREATEST HITS OF PXL THIS
For seventeen years, the Venice CA-based PXL THIS Festival has
celebrated the astounding persistence of the Fisher Price PXL-2000
camera, a plastic video camcorder that records sound and image directly
onto audiocassettes. An invention without a future, the toy camera
seemed dead on arrival, yet has proved itself a format that refuses to
give up the ghost. Join us tonight to toast its astounding resilience as
the inimitable fest-director Gerry Fialka leads us through highlights of
his one of a kind video showcase, exploring the significance of this raw
DIY moving image art-form with fourteen amusing PXL shorts from across
the world, ranging in themes from the US involvement in Iraq as assayed
by hand gestures in L.M. Sabo's Gestures; an 8-year old's lesson from a
bee's eye-view in About Flowers; and an aesthetic exploration of
horrific dreamscapes in Struan Ashby and Roy Parkhurst's Somnigraphic
Traces of the Otherwise Undocumented Friedkin Institute for Sleep
Disorder Research, and much much more. The program begins early with an
interactive workshop on the wonders of the amazing device; prepare to be
astounded. PXL THIS Curator Gerry Fialka In Person $10, general; $6,
members, students, disabled, seniors
2/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
5:00 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)
R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART ONE CONTINUED AT
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
LAMENTATIONS: A MONUMENT TO THE DEAD WORLD (1985) PART 2: THE SUBLIME
CALCULATION (1985, 240 minutes). "LAMENTATIONS is a pair of films about
starting again, after the Apocalypse." In THE SUBLIME CALCULATION, the
Romantic "hope of regenerating civilization by re-establishing contact
with a primal nature that is outside of culture," be it by way of tribal
dances, turns out to be an illusion: "We are always within culture, and
there's no way back" (R. Bruce Elder). BARBARA IS A VISION OF LOVELINESS
(1976, 8 minutes). A female form is glimpsed amidst the abstract
black-and-white patterns of "a purely cinematic choreography" (R. Bruce
Elder).
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