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Part 1 of 2: This week [February 23 - March 2, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* "We Do Not Remember, We Rewrite History" An Evening With Brett Kashmere [February 23, Buffalo, New York]
* Super-8 “B-Movie” Horror: Beach Beast [February 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Happening Now At the Film-Makers’ Coop [February 23, New York, New York]
* Package Deals and Scandinavia House Present Sigur Ros's "Heima" [February 23, New York, New York]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three [February 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The 8 Fest [February 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Distributed Memory: Live Music and Projected Images [February 24, San Francisco, California]
* Tik///Tik - Xrin Arms - Nero's Day At Disneyland [February 24, San Francisco, California]
* Ulrike Ottinger, Prater [February 25, Los Angeles, California]
* The Inventing Space of Cinema [February 25, New York, New York]
* The Walking Picture Palace: Crooked Fireworks [February 26, Columbus, Ohio]
* The Night of the Hunter [February 26, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Brent Coughenour In Person At Mass Art Film Society [February 27, Boston, Massachusetts]
* A Tribute To Mark Lapore (1952-2005) [February 27, Columbus, Ohio]
* Spiral Jetty [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Transient visions of Southeast Asia [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Programme 1 At Cinematheque Ontario [February 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Prisoners of War [February 28, Chicago, Illinois]
* Mitchell Rose, the Mitch Show [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Open Screeening [February 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Id Docs - Experimental Documentaries [February 28, Santa Cruz]
* Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Programme 2 At Cinematheque Ontario [February 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Hop On Down! Golden Age Presents "The Leap (Year) Show" [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
* Week Long Run of "Phantom Love" [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
* Meadowlark With Filmmaker Taylor Greeson In Person! [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
* Electromediascope [February 29, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Open Screening [February 29, New York, New York]
* Wesley Willis's Joy Rides [February 29, San Francisco, California]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
Cinematheque Ontario [February 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Zwischen | Stadt | Raum ... In-Between-City-Space [March 1, Berlin, Germany]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Vincent Grenier Program [March 1, New York, New York]
* You Weren't there: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* Such Hawks, Such Hounds [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* You Weren't there: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* Prelinger + Steal This Film + Cult Jams [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
Cinematheque Ontario [March 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Stan Brakhage: the Text of Light [March 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents Shoot Shoot Shoot: Works of the London Film-Makers’
Co-Operative, Part 1 [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Close At Hand [March 2, San Francisco, California]
* Homegrown Obsessions [March 2, San Francisco, California]
* R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
Cineamtheque Ontario [March 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008
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2/23
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm , 341 Delaware Ave.
"WE DO NOT REMEMBER, WE REWRITE HISTORY" AN EVENING WITH BRETT KASHMERE
Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera
movies, the Canadian filmmaker Brett Kashmere explores the intersection
of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the
politics of representation. His work, which has screened internationally
at the London Film Festival, Made in Video: International Video Art
Festival in Copenhagen, New York's Anthology Film Archives, the Kassel
Documentary Festival in Germany, and The Images Festival in Toronto,
combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade
equipment, and materialist aesthetics. His most recently completed
film-essay, Valery's Ankle, explores the spectacle of hockey violence in
North American media. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that VALERY'S
ANKLE "may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of
sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas." Preceded by
UNFINISHED PASSAGES, about which Kashmere writes: "Small monument to my
great-grandfather, prairie homesteader and giver of consciousness.
Internalized history lesson for the birth of a province - in honour of
100 years since Saskatchewan's named independence - and light reflection
on cinema's unreeling history, coterminously." Valery's Ankle (2006,33
minutes, digital video, color) In September 1972 Canadian hockey pros
faced the amateur Soviets for the first time ever. Canada's victory in
this famous Cold War showdown, thanks to a last-minute winning goal, has
become the most celebrated Canadian story of all time. But the games
were also marked by extreme acts of violence that are only
subconsciously remembered. Team Canada's performance throughout the
series and Bobby Clarke's two-handed slash of rival Russian star Valery
Kharlamov's ankle, in particular, signal a "glitch" in the production of
Canadian nationalism, identity, and masculinity. This fracture disrupts
Canadian self-identification as polite, peaceful and sportsmanlike and
enacts a shadow identity as frustrated, aggressive and vengeful.
Preceded by: unfinished passages (2005,17 minutes, digital video, b&w)
2/23
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
SUPER-8 “B-MOVIE” HORROR: BEACH BEAST
Beach Beast (directed by Bill Storz, USA, 1991, 115 min.), recalls the
efforts of children in their imitation of the perceived adult world.
Language in their mouths is always too big, it doesn't fit them anymore
then their parents shoes, they use it like costume jewelry, creatively
and not in search of truth. In Beach Beast language is as much an object
as what is being filmed. Out of place with what is happening and
insincere (as a ray of light or a laugh), it remains a part of the film
(alongside any other) rather than a narrative over it or about it. The
result is a kind of constellation of unfamiliar faces, places, phrases
and scenarios that in it's silliness and tenderness manages to be less
linear (in the sense that it captures the beauty of a moment, qualities
of light, the strangeness of words) than many attempts at non-narrative
film. – Jesse Kennedy, TIE
2/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Now in its third year, this audience favorite offers a world of
sparkling cinematic delights with three weekends of inspired animation,
exhilarating live-action and rarely-shown films from more than 15
countries. Film lovers of all ages are invited to take this eye-opening
journey around the globe—and revel in a treasure trove of unforgettable
stories.
2/23
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
Doors 7, Program 8, 66 E. 4th St.
HAPPENING NOW AT THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOP
Rally on behalf of the Film-Makers' Cooperative at a Winter Benefit
Screening and Silent Auction at the Millennium Film Workshop. The
evening will feature a program curated by Caroline Koebel of historic
and contemporary works recently inducted into the world-famous FMC
collection with in-person appearances by many of the artists. Beirut
Outtakes by Peggy Ahwesh, Faux Movements (Wrong Moves) by Pip Chodorov,
Capitalism: Slavery by Ken Jacobs, Description of a Struggle by Bosko
Blagojevic, The Small Ones by Lynne Sachs, 1/3 (One Over Three) by
Chiaki Watanabe, Carnalavare by Flavia Souza, The Glowing Woman by Joel
Schlemowitz, Meet Me In Wichita by Martha Colburn, Backcomb by Sarah
Pucill, the recent digital preservation of Jud Yalkut's 1967 Kusama's
Self-Obliteration, and a newly acquired print of Mike Kuchar's Tone
Poem. Partake in Two Boots Pizza, refreshments, and hand-screened FMC
t-shirts. Tickets: $10-$25 sliding scale
2/23
New York, New York: Scandinavia House
http://scandinaviahouse.org/programs.html#films
7pm, 58 Park Avenue at 38th St
PACKAGE DEALS AND SCANDINAVIA HOUSE PRESENT SIGUR ROS'S "HEIMA"
Directed by Dean DeBlois, "Heima"—which translates as both "at home" and
"homeland"—chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Rós, Iceland's
biggest musical export after Björk, played in their native Iceland in
the summer of 2006. The film provides unique insights into one of the
world's most fascinating and inscrutable bands captured live while
exploring their natural habitat—the mysterious, otherworldly landscape
of Iceland—like never before. They played in deserted fish factories,
outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened
caves, and the huge, horseshoe-shaped Ásbyrgi Canyon (formed, legend has
it, by the hoofprint of Odin's six-legged horse Sleipnir). Material from
all four of the band's albums is featured, including many rare and
notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the
previously unreleased Guitardjamm filmed inside a derelict herring oil
tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of Vaka shot
at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and
first-time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as "Staralfur,"
"Agaetis Byrjun," and "Von." Loosely following a documentary format,
"Heima" serves as an alternative primer for Iceland the country, which
is revealed as less a stag party destination-du-jour than a desolate,
magical place where humans have little right to trespass. The question
of the way Sigur Rós's music relates to, and is influenced by, their
environment has been reduced to a journalistic cliché about glacial
majesty and fire and ice, but there is no doubt that the band is
inextricably linked to the land in which they were forged. 91 min.
Reception sponsored by Reyka Vodka. Arrive early to see Sigur Rós music
videos on the big screen starting at 6:30 pm.
2/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:15 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)
R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART THREE
PART THREE: EXULTATIONS (IN LIGHT OF THE GREAT GIVING)."To be
resurrected is to be reunited with the body. Hence the EXULTATIONS
region of THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD attempts to reconstruct the flesh
(out of the pixels of computer image process) and to reanimate it." – R.
Bruce Elder. FLESH ANGELS (1990, 110 minutes). "The latest image
technology and exotic new computer mathematics like fractals and
cellular automata rhym[ed] . . . with Dante's medieval cosmology . . . a
heady blend of the high-tech and the antique . . . that dazzles the eye"
(Bart Testa).
2/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The 8 Fest
http://satanmacnuggit.com
7 & 9 pm, Trash Palace
THE 8 FEST
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23 7 PM ORPHAN FILMS & BRING YOUR HOME MOVIES ( Home
Movie Repair Clinic 6 PM ) Homemade Movies home movie history project
presents – ORPHAN FILMS A screening of long lost "orphaned" films. Local
collectors Grant Heaps & Ian Phillips are on a quest to find, preserve
and re-present all the forgotten home movies that end washed-up on the
shores of goodwills, auctions and dumpsters. From: impromptu wrestling
at a 'cognac party', to a man saving a chair from a gas station fire, to
the set (in Barrie) of "The Littlest Hobo", to cottage life on the
Toronto Islands in 1934, we offer strangely compelling portraits of
everyday life from the 1930's to 70's! followed by . . . BRING YOUR HOME
MOVIES The second part of our screening is your chance to bring your
home movies to show (8mm, super 8). Dig through your parent's attic or
grab that orphaned reel you found at the thrift shop. – AND – If you no
longer have a working projector, come early to our HOME MOVIE REPAIR
CLINIC starting at 6 PM. Let us help you one-on-one to look through your
home movie collection again and give advice on preserving your films. 9
PM BAGEROO – the art of simply super 8 Two decades ago, rumours
circulated among filmmakers that super 8 film stock was to be
discontinued by Kodak. Images – numerous and proliferating – of the
demolition of Kodak's plants invade the evening news these days; and
this phenomenon parallels Kodak's game plan as they shift from analogue
to digital. So the future of super 8 film stock remains as shaky as it
has been for the last two decades. But there are pockets in North
America – such as Vancouver, Milwaukee, Saskatoon and Ottawa, just to
name a few – where filmmakers continue to build an artistic practice
working in super 8. "the 8 fest" will endeavor to provide Toronto with
an exhibition platform dedicated solely to small-gauge celluloid.
"BAGEROO - the art of simply super 8" brings to the big screen a
selection of RECENT WORK and a few older pieces. JOHN PORTER (aka the
"Godfather of Super 8" to many) delights with a new condensed ritual in
a small bowling alley; TANYA READ premieres a new work hot from the lab;
and archival gems from ADRIAN GöLLNER, CLIFFORD CAINES and others will
be brought to you for your viewing pleasure!
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008
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2/24
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Now in its third year, this audience favorite offers a world of
sparkling cinematic delights with three weekends of inspired animation,
exhilarating live-action and rarely-shown films from more than 15
countries. Film lovers of all ages are invited to take this eye-opening
journey around the globe—and revel in a treasure trove of unforgettable
stories.
2/24
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
DISTRIBUTED MEMORY: LIVE MUSIC AND PROJECTED IMAGES
Distributed Memory, originally presented at the Getty Center, features
commissioned pieces supported in part by Montalvo Arts Center, pairs
filmmakers and composers in the creation of collaborative real-time
cinematic works from the recomposition of found and new materials. This
evening is the second in a two-part series curated by Julie Lazar (the
first will be presented at Montalvo Arts Center on February 8). In
Rotary Wobble and Horizontal Boundaries, Pat O'Neill's formalized
contemplations of urban and natural environments are merged with
electronic musician Carl Stone's live digital scores. Janie Geiser and
Tom Recchion's fusion of live performance, re-photography and collage
animation, Magnetic Sleep, reinterprets the formal melodramatic
traditions of Man Ray and Maya Deren. Presented in association with
Montalvo Arts Center. Janie Geiser, Pat O'Neill, Tom Recchion, and Carl
Stone In Person. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.
2/24
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st
TIK///TIK - XRIN ARMS - NERO'S DAY AT DISNEYLAND
Sunday, February 24, 2008. 8PM $6 tik///tik - xrin arms - nero's day at
disneyland Presented by Club Sandwich *tik///tik* This resident of the
Greater Los Angeles Area uses analog synths and digital samplers to
throw tantrums that fulfill harsh noise fantasies and pop star
nightmares. http://www.myspace.com/tikyoutik *xrin arms* Xrin Arms has
been breaking fingers, leaving his morning manhood on couches, drawing
blood and mentally bashing minds all over the country for the past few
years. Recently Xrin Arms decided to not even have a set home and live
his life traveling to where ever, when ever. Missing Xrin Arms in yr
city is like a car without a stearing wheel.
http://www.myspace.com/xrinarmsmotherfucker *nero's day at disneyland*
Nero's Day At Disneyland is a bizarre mix of baroque, techno, noise and
punk from oakland california. Working himself into a petulent frenzy he
mashes and claws at his keyboards like a rabid dog as people either back
up in horror or inch forward in curiosity.
http://www.myspace.com/nerosdayatdisneland
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008
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2/25
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
ULRIKE OTTINGER, PRATER
West Coast premiere Austria/Germany, 2007, 107 min., 35mm One of the
most singular and provocative voices in German cinema is on hand for a
screening of her latest extravaganza, Prater. Part loving documentary
(including rare archival footage) and part updated version of Alice in
Wonderland (with übermodel Veruschka as Barbarella), this film recounts
the tales of generations of carnival workers at Vienna's famous Prater
amusement park. Ottinger introduces a fascinating cast of characters:
descendents of the "man without a torso," grandchildren of imperial
huntsmen who now run a first-class restaurant, and a fix-it man who
diligently repairs illusion devices, among many others. Texts by Nobel
Prize-winning authors Elfriede Jelinek and Elias Canetti, satirist Erich
Kästner and legendary director Josef von Sternberg wittily dissect the
meaning of the Prater, its status as a site of technological innovation,
and its role as a cultural medium. In person: Ulrike Ottinger
2/25
New York, New York: Collective : Unconscious
http://www.weird.org/
7:30PM, 279 Church St. (btw. Franklin & White)
THE INVENTING SPACE OF CINEMA
THE INVENTING SPACE OF CINEMA, part of Jewels and Gems from the
Film-Makers' Coop, is a screening curated by Caroline Koebel of 16mm
films by Lana Lin, Barbara Hammer and Barbara Klutinis, Janie Geiser,
Leslie Thornton, Joyce Wieland, Storm De Hirsch, Babette Mangolte, Marie
Menken, Marjorie Keller, and Maya Deren. Filmmakers Lana Lin and Barbara
Hammer will be present to discuss their work. Maya Deren's first film
experiment Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) ignited the American
avant-garde film movement at mid-century, and for decades now has been
screened continuously in cinema studies classrooms. At one point the
film's protagonist (played by Deren) strides in a space that only cinema
makes possible: close-ups show the woman's alternating feet against
sand, grass, pavement, and rug, creating the effect that she actually
exists simultaneously in these ordinarily disjointed environs. Of this
sequence, Deren has written, "It was like a crack letting the light of
another world gleam through. I kept saying to myself, 'The walls of this
room are solid except right there…There's a door...I've got to get it
open because through there I can go to someplace instead of leaving here
by the same way that I came in.'" In a like-spirited displacement, The
Inventing Space of Cinema re-posits Meshes of the Afternoon within a
frame of works—including live action, animation, and re-purposed
footage—that use experimental means and investigatory techniques to pose
questions about objective and subjective space, gendered spatiality, and
filmic architectonics. The frame is intended to open a necessary
entrance to Meshes, one enabling the pre-canon film's flux and
indeterminacy to sneak past into the present.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
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2/26
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE: CROOKED FIREWORKS
Curated and Introduced by Mark McElhatten "Crooked fireworks though
wiped off in an instant Leave behind a heaven that will never be without
scars" —Saito Fumi McElhatten's work for venues such as the New York
Film Festival's annual Views from the Avant Garde showcase and the
International Film Festival Rotterdam have helped to renew interest in
the vital art form of experimental cinema. Tonight he presents "Crooked
Fireworks," a special edition of The Walking Picture Palace, his nomadic
ongoing series. The program consists of: Lunatic Princess, Mark LaPore;
Black and White Trypps Number Three, Ben Russell; Observando el cielo,
Jeanne Liotta; After Writing, Mary Helena Clark; House, Ben Rivers; How
to Conduct a Love Affair, David Gatten; Singing Biscotts, Luther Price;
A Hallow Kiss for Mark LaPore, Luther Price; The Mongrel Sister, Luther
Price; All Through the Night, Michael Robinson; Zelienople, Darcy
Shreve; Phantom, Luke Sieczek; and Rehearsals for Retirement, Phil
Solomon.
2/26
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berksfilmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
The Night of the Hunter (1955, 93 min.) by CHARLES LAUGHTON. "Laughton's
only directorial effort, and the mind boggles to ponder what kind of
auteur career the man might've had come the '60s. As it is, Hunter is a
paroxysm of stylistic excess, so un-tempered by reality or taste that
even its stiff-limbed child performances feel like bad dreams…. The
affect is mega-noir, of course, mated with scripter James Agee's
gushingly folkloric voice, Stanley Cortez's Teutonic cinematography, and
twisted around the hot core of Presbyterian outrage." –Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
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2/27
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, screening room 1 in East Hall in the Film Department @ The Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue
BRENT COUGHENOUR IN PERSON AT MASS ART FILM SOCIETY
I PITY THE FOOL by Brent Coughenour, video, 2007, 85 min. Midwest
filmmaker Brent Coughenour, currently touring the east coast, will
present a screening of his most recent film, I PITY THE FOOL, a
narrative city-poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial
collapse in the city of Detroit. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY
THE FOOL gradually accrues more elements as it goes on: fragments of
narrative combine with other fragments that at first have no obvious
connection. As opposed to story-lines in many feature-length films that
gradually tie up and resolve their different threads, the focus of the
film continues to broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended
and mysterious. Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things
nearly recent and long past, the film attempts to re-capture the
marginalized and defiantly minor histories of its forgotten tenants."
-Luke Sieczek, Northwest Film Forum
2/27
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
A TRIBUTE TO MARK LAPORE (1952-2005)
Curated and Introduced by Mark McElhatten Although deeply influenced by
the practices of the Lumière brothers, Andy Warhol, and Robert Bresson,
Mark LaPore expanded the tradition of experimental documentary
filmmaking, conducting profoundly cinematic, highly distilled personal
investigations into the nature of cultural flux and reverie. He shot
extensively in rural Sudan, Sri Lanka, New York, Myanmar, India, and
Idaho. Tonight's program will feature Untitled (Camera Rolls) (2005),
The Sleepers (1989),The Five Bad Elements (1998),A Depression in the Bay
on Bengal (1996). (approx. 90 mins., 16mm)
2/27
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street
SPIRAL JETTY
This evening was conceived as a complement to the screening of James
Benning's exquisite portrait of Spiral Jetty at Pacific Film Archives
(casting a glance, Feb 26, 7:30 pm). We will be showing Smithson's
original documentation of the building of Spiral Jetty, a poetic
evocation of the construction and erosion of the earthwork sculpture, as
well as a short collaboration between Smithson and fellow artist Nancy
Holt (Swamp). The screening ends with 8-1/2 x 11, an early work by
Benning, which uses a hitch-hiking hook-up to create circular patterns
around a loose narrative structure. --- All films shown on 16mm. For
more information contact: email suppressed or
(address suppressed) The SFAI Film Salon is supported by the SFAI
Student Union and Legion of Graduate Students (LOGS)
2/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st
TRANSIENT VISIONS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
Wednesday, February 27, 2008. 8PM $6 Transient Visions of Southeast Asia
video by Cade Bursell, Kiye Simon Luang, and Amie Siegel presented by
kino21 all that nature provides by Cade Bursell all that nature provides
by Cade Bursell Kiye Simon Luang's Ephemeral Island Kiye Simon Luang's
Ephemeral Island Pasang Naik (The Tide) by Amie Seigel Pasang Naik (The
Tide) by Amie Seigel » More images In either proclaiming or lamenting
the world's interconnectedness under global capitalism, it has become
almost a cliché to see "sameness" everywhere we look. Tonight's three
short films gently take us elsewhere. Cade Bursell's all that nature
provides (2006) looks at the art practices of Luang Por Chaoren, the
Abbot of Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand. Here, an outline of a leaf
becomes a song, the patterns of fallen tree limbs translate into chants,
and rocks yield color for abstract paintings that map the history of the
sites from which they were gathered. While the monastery is also
internationally known for its effective drug detox program (originally
developed for opium addicts who were considered parias in Thai culture),
Bursell's half-hour film focuses on the creative practices which
(literally) draw on nature's patterns and material and transform them,
sometimes in an almost John Cage-like manner, into sounds and images.
Cade Bursell is a former Bay Area resident and teacher whose
experimental shorts include Skate, and Test Sites. She is currently
teaching at the University of Illinois at Carbondale. Bay Area Premiere.
Kiye Simon Luang's The Ephemeral Island (2005) is a quiet evocation of
joy -- the joy brought by the temporary islands that emerge in the midst
of Mekong River during winter season. Luang simply observes this liminal
space between two shores and two countries (Laos and Thailand) and the
elation that converges there for a brief moment. A young videomaker who
lives and works in Marseilles, France, Luang is working on a long
project on his family history in Laos, and The Ephemeral Island was shot
during a research trip for the longer piece. The images, raw and shot
without forethought, embody the sense of wonder of those moments when we
are simply and wholly caught up in what we see. US premiere. Amie
Siegel's earlier Pasang Naik (The Tide, 1997) is a kind of
anti-travelogue of sequence of single shot scenes, filmed in Cambodia,
Indonesia and Thailand. Scott Stark, writes that the film "subtly
affirms the distinction between looking -- gathering visual information
-- and seeing -- applying meaning to that information. Each scene is a
single shot, 20 or 30 seconds long, focusing on something that caught
Siegel's eye: light refracting through a window, a ring dangling from
the ear of a dancer, the shadow of a tree as it wavers across a noisy
street. Locations are never revealed, and actions are never explained,
making it impossible to exoticize, iconize or inform the imagery with
any cultural bias. Instead an indisputable truth emerges: This happened
here. Like so. Here is proof." Amie Siegel has made a number of
non-fiction and experimental films and installations including The
Sleepers, the feature length Empathy, and German People. She is
currently a Robert Fulton Fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard
University.
2/27
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)
SHORTS BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: PROGRAMME 1 AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
The Free Screen is delighted to present two shorts programmes, including
a clutch of Toronto premieres, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the
most lauded young talents in contemporary world cinema. Since our Film
Now spotlight on him in Fall of 2005, the Thai filmmaker has gone on to
make his greatest film yet, the sublime, diaphanous SYNDROMES AND A
CENTURY (screened in our Fall 2007 season), in addition to a number of
short films, videos, and installations, which have garnered prizes and
accolades internationally. Defying narrative convention in the most
inconceivable and blissful ways, Weerasethakul is at the forefront of
cinema's avant-garde. (He has, on many occasions, cited San
Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie as a seminal
influence.) Engaged in a radicalized practice, he has consistently used
the short film format as a means of plenary expression, despite his
sustained critical success in feature filmmaking. – Andréa Picard.
Programme One: THE ANTHEM (2006, 5 minutes, 35mm); WINDOWS (1999, 17
minutes, BetaSP); MALEE AND THE BOY (1999, 27 minutes, BetaSP); LIKE THE
RELENTLESS FURY OF THE POUNDING WAVES (1995, 30 minutes, BetaSP);
THIRDWORLD (1997, 17 minutes, BetaSP).
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008
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2/28
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 164 N. State St.
PRISONERS OF WAR
Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi in person! Milan-based
filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for
their haunting archival films. Assembled from rare early 20th-century
footage, the duo slow down and hand-tint the original film to emphasize
the fleeting expressions and gestures from a time long since passed. In
the mid-90s, the couple began an extraordinary trilogy on World War I,
beginning with Prisoners of War. Comprised of military footage shot by
cameramen in Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (much of it
for propaganda purposes), the film centers on the ordeals of fallen
soldiers, child POWs, and civilian refugees. "One of the last scenes
depicting a mass grave," writes curator Kathy Geritz, "is a troubling
reminder that the beginning of the century does not look so different
from its closing." Presented with the assistance of Northwestern
University's Department of French and Italian in conjunction with the
symposium, Archives of Cinema / Memories of War. (1995, Yervant
Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy, 16mm, 67 min.)
2/28
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
MITCHELL ROSE, THE MITCH SHOW
In a delightful film and performance mash-up, Mitchell Rose combines a
selection of his award-winning comic short films with original
performance pieces that feature choreographed audience participation.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Rose toured his distinctive dance
performance works across North America, Europe and Asia. His films
include Elevator World, a computer-animated look at a utopian world of
elevator riding, and the faux–scientific investigation Case Studies from
the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders.
2/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
OPEN SCREEENING
Bring your own films or tapes; time permitting, all works will be
screened.
2/28
Santa Cruz: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, UC Santa Cruz Communications 150 (Studio C)
ID DOCS - EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both personal and
public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and lyrical imagery,
these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology, place, and even
appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of ourselves and
others. This program features Miriam, Impression of Light about an
adopted albino girl who discusses how it feels to be different in a
world that strives for uniformity and perfection? Also screening, Lost
Without You a quirky documentary about girls obsessions with their cell
phones and I Am Me which explores the unique bond between identical
twins. Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov
2/28
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)
SHORTS BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: PROGRAMME 2 AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
The Free Screen is delighted to present two shorts programmes, including
a clutch of Toronto premieres, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the
most lauded young talents in contemporary world cinema. Since our Film
Now spotlight on him in Fall of 2005, the Thai filmmaker has gone on to
make his greatest film yet, the sublime, diaphanous SYNDROMES AND A
CENTURY (screened in our Fall 2007 season), in addition to a number of
short films, videos, and installations, which have garnered prizes and
accolades internationally. Defying narrative convention in the most
inconceivable and blissful ways, Weerasethakul is at the forefront of
cinema's avant-garde. (He has, on many occasions, cited San
Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie as a seminal
influence.) Engaged in a radicalized practice, he has consistently used
the short film format as a means of plenary expression, despite his
sustained critical success in feature filmmaking. – Andréa Picard.
Programme Two: THE ANTHEM (2006, 5 minutes, 35mm); 0116643225059 (1994,
5 minutes, BetaSP); GHOST OF ASIA (2005, 9 minutes, BetaSP); MY MOTHER'S
GARDEN (2007, 7 minutes, BetaSP), WORLDLY DESIRES (2005, 40 minutes,
BetaSP).
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008
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2/29
Chicago, Illinois: GOLDEN AGE
http://www.goldenagestore.com
7:30pm, 1500 W 17th Street
HOP ON DOWN! GOLDEN AGE PRESENTS "THE LEAP (YEAR) SHOW"
In celebration of Greeks who won't get hitched in intercalary years, of
the "Ladies' Privilege", of the Gregorian calendar that extends our
collective lives by one day for every 1460 lived, and of all y'all
birthday leaplings, Ben Russell and your pals at GOLDEN AGE are proud to
present an evening of Experimental Films Featuring Things That Leap.
We're talking FROGS and TOADS, of course - so hop on down to Pilsen and
check out our kino-swamp of frame-fluttering frogs, animatronic
amphibians, pixellated pipas, and truly terrifying toads. Don't miss out
- this is the sort of batrachian magic that only occurs once every four
years... FEATURING: Frogland by Ladislaw Starewicz (8:00, 35mm on video,
1922); A Frog on the Swing by Robert Breer (5:00, 16mm, 1989); Habitat
Batrachian by Rose Lowder (8:30, 16mm, 2006); Cane Toads by Mark Lewis
(65:00, video, 1988) TRT 86:30 $4
2/29
Chicago, Illinois: Facets Cinematheque
http://www.facets.org/cinematheque
7pm, 1517 W Fullerton Ave
WEEK LONG RUN OF "PHANTOM LOVE"
A memorably surreal psychodrama, Nina Menkes' (The Bloody Child,
Magdalena Viraga) Phantom Love is a striking evocation of female
dreamscape in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating, just
beneath the surface. The lead character is Lulu Marina Shoif: a very
beautiful, but angry and isolated woman, who lives alone, and works in a
casino in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Lulu's relationship with her much
younger lover is charged but emotionally disconnected and Lulu's younger
sister, Nitzan (Juliette Marquis, This Girl's Life), is in the midst of
a psychotic breakdown, caused in part by prescription medication. Lulu
feels emotionally invaded by her mother, who wants to come to town and
stay with her in order to try and help the younger sister -- but this
feels like a further intense invasion, and Lulu refuses. Phantom Love
positions an alienated woman against a harsh, inhospitable landscape --
this time, within a family. Structured like Chinese boxes, with each
scene opening onto another, Phantom Love is a powerful erotic-fantasy
that explores a woman's sexuality through her dreams. Directed by Nina
Menkes, U.S.A., 2007, 35mm, 87 mins.
2/29
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
MEADOWLARK WITH FILMMAKER TAYLOR GREESON IN PERSON!
Meadowlark With filmmaker Taylor Greeson in person! Co-presented by
Chicago Cinema Forum In Billings, Montana during the summer of 1993, 12
year-old Taylor Greeson was ordained in the Mormon faith, lost his
virginity to a much older man, and suffered the murder of his brother.
Meadowlark (USA, 2007, 77 min.), a stirring autobiographical doc and
debut feature from the recent CAL Arts grad, is a quiet excavation of
those events through memory and landscape. Using the vast Montana
wilderness and heaps of candid family photographs, Greeson recounts the
story as he remembers it, set against present-day footage of the story's
locations and cast of characters. As Greeson conducts interviews,
examines evidence a decade old, and reveals the story detail-by-detail,
what is most remarkable is his transcendent calm. The patient craft of
the movie allows the audience to experience, unmitigated by
sensationalism, one person's path to forgiveness. The film culminates in
a conversation between Greeson and the man who murdered his brother. Q &
A to follow. Screening to be accompanied by recent work from Chicago
visual artists, including the series' headquarters by Celeste Neuhaus
and What's Under Your Bed? by Karen Tisel.
2/29
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Life and Art: Stories from the Borderland. "Me and You and Everyone We
Know," Miranda July (USA), 2005, 90 min., digital video shown on DVD.
Program also included "Absolute Wilson by Katharina Otto-Bernstein shown
on February 15 and "In A Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian" by
Don Bernier on February 22. "Katharina Otto-Bernstein's and Don
Bernier's documentaries and Miranda July's fictional film explore the
creative lives and delicate balance that is maintained between the art
and life of three very different artists. Through their films we enter
into the everyday reality of these individuals and learn how the unique
circumstances of their worlds and day-to-day activities provide sources
of inspiration and self-discovery for their art-in-life and life-in-art
experiences. We witness their successes, failures, struggles and
survival strategies to realize projects and communicate with others
within situations in which their private worlds and the worlds of art
and culture overlap. Miranda July's fictional characters are in part
autobiographical reflections, but also creative personae of an artist
and the people with whom she interacts. Their life experiences and
profound responses to basic human conditions become manifestations of
art in everyday life." –Patrick Clancy.
2/29
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)
OPEN SCREENING
DVD, MINI-DV, Videotape, 16MM, S8MM. All works are shown on a
first-come-first-served basis. Bring films, videos or come as a viewer.
(Finished works only, limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per person).
Refreshments are available. Doors open at 7pm. Screening begins at 8pm
and ends at 10:30pm. Admission by contribution.
2/29
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
9:15, 992 valencia st
WESLEY WILLIS'S JOY RIDES
Friday, February 29, 2008. 9:15PM $8 Wesley Willis's Joy Rides Noise Pop
Festival Q&A with Jello Biafra and director Chris Bagley following
screening. WESLEY WILLIS'S JOY RIDES, a beautifully crafted portrait of
the self- proclaimed rock 'n' roll star and "Chicago City Artist",
Wesley Willis. Despite impossible odds, Chicago native, Wesley Willis
became an underground rock icon, revered artist and hero to many before
his untimely death in 2003. Through his force of personality and his
artistic talents, Wesley's music and art attracted people from all walks
of life. This film follows the prolific artist on his journey from
obscurity to fame. Tickets:
http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=22702
2/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)
R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART THREE CONTINUED AT
CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
PART THREE: EXULTATIONS (IN LIGHT OF THE GREAT GIVING). "To be
resurrected is to be reunited with the body. Hence the EXULTATIONS
region of THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD attempts to reconstruct the flesh
(out of the pixels of computer image process) and to reanimate it." – R.
Bruce Elder. NEWTON AND ME (1990, 110 minutes). Though he engineered the
mechanical universe of modern science, Newton was also committed to
alchemical and apocalyptic speculation, hoping to transform the self and
redeem history. Elder revisits this ambivalent legacy in his own quest
for a more harmonious cosmology.
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