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This week [March 15 - 23, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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Transhift08 (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: April 01, 2008)
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Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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film sharing Low & No Budget Videofilmfestival (Mainz, RLP, Germany; Deadline: April 01, 2008)
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MFACM, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong; Deadline: March 31, 2008)
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Video Art Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: March 31, 2008)
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The 20th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 11, 2008)
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Portland Film + Video Artists Collective 007: Acts and Actions (Portland, Maine, USA; Deadline: March 15, 2008)
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FILMER LA MUSIQUE (Paris, France; Deadline: March 15, 2008)
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Rubric (Denver, Colorado USA; Deadline: April 15, 2008)
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10th Annual Artsfest Film Festival (harrisburg, pa, usa; Deadline: April 18, 2008)
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European Sound Delta (Europe; Deadline: March 15, 2008)
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Art Docs Series: Instrument [March 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 15, London, England]
* Negar Azimi Curates For Www.Tank.Tv [March 15, Online]
* Light Work, Program One: Jennifer Reeves' Live Cinema Works [March 15, San Francisco, California]
* Jennifer Reeves' Live Cinema Works + [March 15, San Francisco, California]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 16, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents Shoot Shoot Shoot: Works of the London Film-Makers’
Co-Operative, Part 2 [March 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Light Work, Program Two: Jennifer Reeves: Argument For the Immediate
Sensuous [March 16, San Francisco, California]
* Coleen Fitzgibbon: Your Basic Film [March 17, Boulder, Colorado]
* Paul Mccarthy and Damon Mccarthy, video Projections From Carribean
Pirates [March 17, Los Angeles, California]
* The video Diaries of George Kuchar: An Overview - A Presentation By Gene
Youngblood [March 18, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Light Work, Program Three: Jennifer Reeves' the Time We Killed [March 18, San Francisco, California]
* Visual Music Screening Event [March 19, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Leslie Thornton In Person At Mass Art Film Society [March 19, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Renderyard International Film Festival [March 19, London, England]
* Sfai Film Salon: Sfai At Yale, A Recap [March 19, San Francisco, California]
* Stormy Weather: George Kuchar In the Elements [March 20, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Foto/Film: Katharina Sieverding Artist Talk [March 20, San Francisco, California]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 21, London, England]
* 4'33" and Beyond [March 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance [March 21, San Francisco, California]
* Open Screening: Bring Your Movie! [March 22, Chicago, Illinois]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 22, London, England]
* New Experimental video Work By David Finkelstein [March 22, New York, New York]
* People Like Us + Chickenfish + Bryan Boyce [March 22, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents You Pick ‘Em 2! A Selection of Experimental Films From
Canyon Cinema [March 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Easter's Dead: An Evening With Film Artist Charles Chadwick [March 23, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2008
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3/15
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
ART DOCS SERIES: INSTRUMENT
Art Docs Series: Instrument A collaboration between filmmaker Jem Cohen
and Washington DC band Fugazi, Instrument (USA, 1999, 115 min.) covers
the ten-year period following the band's inception in 1987. Far from a
traditional documentary, the project is a musical document: a portrait
of musicians at work. "With no desire on my part or the band's to create
a factual career survey or any kind of promotional vehicle, the project
presented an opportunity to cut things loose. Mixing sync-sound 16mm,
Super-8, video, and a wide range of archival formats, the piece includes
concert footage, studio sessions, practice, touring, interviews, and
portraits of audience members from around the country. Piecing it
together over the course of 5 years, I thought of bringing 'dub' to
documentary—of a project where unadultered real-time performances,
abstract, rough-hewn Super-8 collages and archival artifacts would
collide and conjoin in a way that honestly represented musical
experience. The project was edited with band members and extensively
uses soundtrack elements provided by Fugazi specifically for the film."
-- Jem Cohen
3/15
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Saturday 15 March 2008, 19.00 Programme 2: Critical A programme
dedicated to the critical powers of cinema, its radical interrogation of
the nature of sounds and images, and of the ethical function of cinema's
place in the world. Including work by Maurice Lemaître, eminent member
of the provocative Lettrism movement, René Vautier, leading light of
militant filmmaking, and Michel Desrois, member of the utopian
Medvedkine Group. Jean-Pierre Lajournade, Cinéma Cinéma, 1969, 35mm
Michel Desrois, Lettre à mon ami Pol Cèbe, 1970, 17', 16mm Maurice
Lemaître, Films imaginaires, 1985, 28', 16mm René Vautier, Destruction
des archives, 10', 16mm Othello Vilgard, Lighting, 2002, 7', 16mm Ariane
Michel, The Screening, 2007, 24', video Programme duration 88 minutes
3/15
Online: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
24/7, www.tank.tv
NEGAR AZIMI CURATES FOR WWW.TANK.TV
www.tank.tv She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb 15th
March 2008 - 21st May 2008 Curated by Negar Azimi for tank.tv She
doesn't think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb. -Gang of Four The
current moment is one marked by an abundance of mega-narratives,
sweeping arm gestures, climactic dips, and ascents. How we talk about
the present is almost always wrapped up in some version of the past.
Visual culture inevitably brushes up against those histories, whether
real or imagined (for that is not the point). A selection of short
videos by Ziad Antar, Yael Bartana, Haris Epaminonda, Iman Issa, Hassan
Khan, Rosalind Nashashibi, Shahryar Nashat, Ahmet Ögüt, and The Atlas
Group reveal the weight of diverse histories in defining the current
moment—whether manifest in the form of national myth, ritual,
architecture, or pop culture. In the end, these are not static
narratives; they are dynamic, promiscuous, enigmatic. Programme Ziad
Antar – WA Shahryrar Nashat - The Regulating Line Rosalind Nashashibi -
University Library Yael Bartana – Kings of the Hill Iman Issa - Making
Places Hassan Khan – Kompressor The Atlas Group – Miraculous beginnings
and No, illness is neither here nor there Ahmet Ögüt – Cut it Out Haris
Epaminonda – Tarahi II Negar Azimi isSenior Editor at Bidoun magazine.
3/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:30 pm, 992 Valencia St/ATA
LIGHT WORK, PROGRAM ONE: JENNIFER REEVES' LIVE CINEMA WORKS
Immersive Cinema, Spring 2008. Presented in association with ATA's Other
Cinema. Jennifer Reeves In Person. Kicking off the Light Works
retrospective, Jennifer Reeves' tonight presents some of her most recent
projects—elaborate film experiences presented in richly colored and
extensively hand-manipulated 16mm celluloid. Even as filmmakers'
attentions turn towards the digital, the multi-screened and performative
works on tonight's program—Light Work Mood Disorder and He Walked
Away—eschew single strand/single screen presentation and expand on the
artists' already accomplished work with abstract visuals and direct-film
techniques, providing, in the words of Timothy Zwettler, "a big reminder
of the fragile, forgotten materiality of film for a new generation of
artists." Also screening: 1999's Darling International (co-directed by
M.M. Serra), excerpts from in-progress multi-screen works and other
surprises exclusive to the San Francisco engagement.
3/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
JENNIFER REEVES' LIVE CINEMA WORKS +
In collaboration with SF Cinematheque, OC proudly hosts NYC-based
Jennifer Reeves, with a selection of her recent projects-elaborate film
experiences rendered on richly colored, hand-manipulated 16mm celluloid.
Even as filmmakers' attentions turn towards the digital, the
multi-screen and performative works on tonight's program-Light Work Mood
Disorder and He Walked Away-expand on Reeves' already accomplished work
with abstract visuals and direct-film techniques, providing "a big
reminder of the fragile, forgotten materiality of film for a new
generation of artists." ALSO screening: Darling International
(co-directed by M.M. Serra), excerpts from works-in-progress, and other
surprises.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2008
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3/16
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
15:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Sunday 16 March, 15.00 Programme 3: Musical From the 1930s to the
present day, this selection of films explores the infinite possibilities
of the relationships between music and image. Including an FJ Ossang
film featuring industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle, and vanguard
director Philippe Grandrieux's collaboration with Marilyn Manson. Jean
Epstein, Les Berceaux, 1931, 5', 16mm Dimitri Kirsanoff, Les Berceaux,
1931, 7', 35mm Marcel Hanoun, Feria, 1961, 19', 35mm Jérôme de Missolz,
Entrées de secours, 1982, 18', 16mm (music by The Clash, PIL, Iggy Pop,
The Cramps, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Devo) Éric Duyckaerts, Kant,
2000, 6', video FJ Ossang, Silencio, 2006, 20', 35mm (music by Throbbing
Gristle) Philippe Grandrieux, Putting Holes in Happiness, France, 2007,
4', video (music by Marilyn Manson) Programme duration 71 minutes
3/16
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: WORKS OF THE LONDON FILM-MAKERS’
CO-OPERATIVE, PART 2
Experimental film highlights from this artists'-led organization from
the 1960s and 70s. Tonight featuring Annabel Nicolson, Slides (1970);
Guy Sherwin, At the Academy (1974); Mike Leggett, Shepherd's Bush
(1971); David Crosswaite, Film No.1 (1971); Lis Rhodes, Dresden Dynamo
(1971); Chris Garratt, Versailles I & II (1976); Mike Dunford, Silver
Surfer (1972); Marilyn Halford, Footsteps (1974). General admission $9,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members, cash and check only
3/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
LIGHT WORK, PROGRAM TWO: JENNIFER REEVES: ARGUMENT FOR THE IMMEDIATE
SENSUOUS
Immersive Cinema, Spring 2008. Presented in association with the MadCat
Women's International Film Festival. Jennifer Reeves In Person. Light
Work's second installment features Jennifer Reeves presenting a diverse
selection of her short film and video works. We Are Going Home, shot and
hand-processed at Philip Hoffman's legendary Independent Imaging
Retreat, is equal parts northern landscape film and somnambulist
psychodrama. Light Work I, the hyper-focus clarity of hi-definition
video collides with the translucent viscosity of hand-painted emulsion.
Chronic tells the tale of a dysfunctional Ohio teenager headed for
disaster; as an exploration of sanity and survival, Chronic is precursor
of sorts to Reeves' later The Time We Killed. Finally, daring to face
down the anxiety of influence, this program will include Stan Brakhage's
Stately Mansions Did Decree back to back with Reeves' scrappy 2001
homage/rebuttal Fear of Blushing, a hand-painted film of irrepressible
colors and corroded emulsion and The Girl's Nervy. $10, general; $6,
members, students, disabled, seniors.
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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2008
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3/17
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado at Boulder
7:30 PM, ATLAS 102
COLEEN FITZGIBBON: YOUR BASIC FILM
The University of Colorado at Boulder is delighted to bring a special
retrospective screening to Boulder of the works of Coleen Fitzgibbon.
Fitzgibbon was active as an experimental film artist under the pseudonym
"Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years 1973-1980. A student of Owen Land
(aka "George Landow"), Stan Brakhage, and Michael Snow, Fitzgibbon made
some of her most rigorous 16mm structural films, screening at numerous
international film festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at
Knokke-Heist in Belgium, Institute of Contemporary Art in London,
Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium
Film Workshop in New York. Films to be screened: Found Film Flashes
(1973), FM/TRCS (1974), Internal Systems (1975), Restoring appearances
to order in 12 minutes (1975). Coleen Fitzgibbon will be on hand to
discuss her work.
3/17
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
PAUL MCCARTHY AND DAMON MCCARTHY, VIDEO PROJECTIONS FROM CARRIBEAN
PIRATES
World theatrical premiere 2001–5, length TBA., DV This special screening
offers Los Angeles audiences the first theatrical presentation of videos
from Caribbean Pirates, the McCarthy studio's sprawling simulacrum of
"Pirattitude" across American popular culture. As first shown in 2005 at
Munich's Haus der Kunst, the manic, typically bawdy work collaged
multichannel video projections with large-scale sculptures, props, and
film sets—including a full-scale pirate frigate and a 1970s-era
houseboat. Different incarnations of this scabrous examination of the
pirate figure as a symbol of invasion, plunder and depravity have since
been presented at several other major European venues to vast critical
and popular acclaim. In person: Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy
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TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008
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3/18
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, White Hall 206, Emory University
THE VIDEO DIARIES OF GEORGE KUCHAR: AN OVERVIEW - A PRESENTATION BY GENE
YOUNGBLOOD
In the mid-1980s, the legendary underground filmmaker George Kuchar
turned to videomaking, and created what is possibly the largest single
collection of video diaries. This ongoing chronicle of the artist's life
is called "unique in film history" by the scholar Gene Youngblood. In
Kuchar's video universe, nothing is safe from the camera – George's
friendships, lusts, anxieties, fears, and bodily functions are all
addressed onscreen, often accompanied by his outrageously funny
commentary. And yet below the witty surface lie profound and moving
meditations on human existence. | Emory University and Frequent Small
Meals are proud to welcome film scholar Gene Youngblood, for an in-depth
look at Kuchar's video diaries. | Gene Youngblood has extensively
studied and written on Kuchar's video diaries, having viewed all of the
160 selections. He is currently preparing a book and website on the
diaries and has been awarded the first Creative Capital/Andy Warhol
Foundation Arts Writing Grant for his work on them. His lecture will
give an overview of the themes and the importance of Kuchar's diary
works, using clips from Youngblood's own collection. | This event is
part of The Worlds of George Kuchar, a three-night series curated by
Andy Ditzler for the Film Love series, and presented at Emory University
and at Eyedrum. The Film Love series provides access to rare but
important films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of
experimental and avant-garde film. The series is curated and hosted by
Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love was voted Best Film
Series in Atlanta by the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006. | The
Worlds of George Kuchar is presented by Frequent Small Meals and is
co-sponsored by the following Emory University organizations: the
Hightower Fund; the Race & Difference Initiative of the Strategic Plan;
the Studies in Sexualities Initiative; the Office of LGBT Life; the Art
History department; the American Studies department; the Institute of
Liberal Arts.
3/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
LIGHT WORK, PROGRAM THREE: JENNIFER REEVES' THE TIME WE KILLED
Immersive Cinema, Spring 2008 Presented in association with The Poetry
Center, San Francisco State University. Jennifer Reeves In Person.
Cinematheque concludes its whirlwind Reeves retrospective tonight with
her 2004 feature, The Time We Killed. Shot in striking high-con black
and white, The Time We Killed is an immersively captivating,
free-associative tale of an agoraphobic writer fearfully trapped in her
Brooklyn apartment on 9/11. A collaboration with poet Lisa Jarnot, who
appears on screen in nearly every frame (and whose poetry is featured),
the film is a claustrophobic exploration of contemporary subjectivity
and the relationship between internal and external reality, "a cinematic
fugue of lost lovers, found memories and televised invasions." The Time
We Killed will be preceded by one of Reeves' earliest films, Elations In
Negative. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008
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3/19
Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University
http://www.music.neu.edu/
12 to 1, West Village F20 360 Huntington Avenue
VISUAL MUSIC SCREENING EVENT
Visual Music Concert at Northeastern University, Boston Wednesday, March
19th 12 noon contact: Arthur Rishi, 617 373 2671, for further
information Northeastern University is pleased to present a concert of
mixed-media works from the new Visual Music Special Collection of the
Northeastern University Libraries. The free concert will be held on
Wednesday, March 19th at 12 noon in the West Village F 20 theatre
(campus map at www.campusmap.neu.edu) and will feature the following
works: add.value 5 more (2006) images and music by Gerhard Daurer Seek
Assistance (2005) images by Vishal Shah, music by Adam Stansbie
Navigating the Pearl System (2006) images and music by Fran Hartnett
Rupture (2005) images by Jean Detheux, music by Jean Derome All That
Remains (2006) images by Stephanie Maxwell, music by Michaela Eremiasova
Rain (2005) images by Rebecca Ruige Xu, music by Yan Jun Hua 200
Nanowebbers (2005) music and images by Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman &
Joseph Gerhardt) White Noise (2007) music and images by Dennis Miller
3/19
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
LESLIE THORNTON IN PERSON AT MASS ART FILM SOCIETY
March 19, 2008 Leslie Thornton in Person *Screening will take place at
Harvard Univeristy 24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center for the Visual
Arts, Room B-04 PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL by Leslie Thornton, video,
1984-2007, 90 min. This piece is an ongoing and ever changing sequence
of work that maps the journey of two children through artifacts from
history, culture and media amidst a backdrop of a post-apocalyptic
landscape. An exploration of the aesthetics of narrative form as well as
the politics of the image, Thornton's rigorously experimental oeuvre has
forged a unique and powerful syntax. Thornton is a Professor in Media at
Brown University and her visit is cosponsored with the CNYPG, which is
funded by NYSCA, and the Cornell Council for the Arts. "Thornton's place
in cinema history has already been assured for the sole reason that she
is the author of PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL." (Bill Krohn, Cahiers du
Cinema)
3/19
London, England: Renderyard Film Festival
http://www.renderyard.com
2pm, Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London, W10 5JJ
RENDERYARD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Renderyard International Film Festival runs from the 19th - 23rd March
2008 and is a festival for new and innovative feature films and
documentary's. The festival is held at the Westbourne Studios and the
Roxy each day in London from 12 - 5pm this year we will also be
screening the festival in Logroño Spain during April. The festival
explores International cutting edge film and documentary filmmaking. The
films that are being shown have been produced by drawing inspiration
from personal sources and influences that allow each contributor to
project their personal reflections as new visual art forms. The selected
films will be shown as part of the Renderyard Film Festival and will
also be shown on the Renderyard Film Channel in association with our
sponsor Babelgum. Each selected filmmaker's profile will be placed on
the Renderyard web site, to remain there after the Festival. One film
will be selected to receive the Renderyard International Film Award, and
Renderyard will help to produce and release the next film by the Award
winner. Places are limited at the Westborne Studios so book your tickets
today. This venue will include our Special Guests and the Renderyard
International Film Award. Please book your tickets in advance and we
will send your Festival Web Ticket. To book tickets go to
www.renderyard.com _________________ Mark Reid Renderyard - Director
3/19
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
SFAI FILM SALON: SFAI AT YALE, A RECAP
Professor Charles Boone presents this program of film & video works by
SFAI students and alum. Last November, Yale University's Art Department
hosted a showing of recent fi lm and video work by recent and current
graduates of the San Francisco Art Institute. Now the same show will be
presented right here on the SFAI campus. The program includes work by
Tomonari Nishikawa, Christina Battle, Minyong Jang, Taeko Horigome,
Joshua Kanies, Evie Mpras, David Borengasser, Freda Banks, Vanessa
O'Neill, Sarah Wylie Ammerman, Michael Mession, Alexandra Steele, and
Sharon Wasden. 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)
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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
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3/20
Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University
http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com
8:00 PM, White Hall 101, Emory University
STORMY WEATHER: GEORGE KUCHAR IN THE ELEMENTS
The American film director George Kuchar is one of the legends of
independent filmmaking. Beginning as a teenager in the 1950s with his
twin brother Mike, Kuchar directed movies which upended Hollywood
melodramas into small-scale epics, noted for their creative low-budget
effects, over-the-top plots, eye-poppingly lusty performances by their
cast of friends, and titles like "Sins of the Fleshapoids," Color Me
Shameless" and "Lust for Ecstasy." In the mid-1980s, Kuchar turned to
videomaking and produced a large body of video diary works, called
"unique in film history" by the scholar Gene Youngblood. | "Stormy
Weather" presents an evening devoted to the filmmaker's long-running
obsession with the weather. Throughout Kuchar's storied career, the
elements have loomed large. Tornados interrupt steamy affairs, and
intimate nature hikes reveal torrid urges. In the Weather Diaries, the
midwestern storms which fascinate and terrify George are matched only by
his personal turmoil and epic bouts of gastric distress. | Films and
videos: A Town Called Tempest (1963, 33 minutes, 8mm to 16mm); Wild
Night in El Reno (1977, 16mm, 6 minutes, color, sound); Rainy Season
(1987, 28 minutes, digital video); Season of Sorrow (1996, 15 minutes,
digital video); Supercell (2004, 9 minutes, digital video) | Film
descriptions can be found at
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/kuchar_home.htm | This event is part of
The Worlds of George Kuchar, a three-night series curated by Andy
Ditzler for the Film Love series, and presented at Emory University and
at Eyedrum. The Film Love series provides access to rare but important
films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of experimental and
avant-garde film. The series is curated and hosted by Andy Ditzler for
Frequent Small Meals. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by
the critics of Creative Loafing in 2006. | The Worlds of George Kuchar
is presented by Frequent Small Meals and is co-sponsored by the
following Emory University organizations: the Hightower Fund; the Race &
Difference Initiative of the Strategic Plan; the Studies in Sexualities
Initiative; the Office of LGBT Life; the Art History department; the
American Studies department; the Institute of Liberal Arts.
3/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
6:30 pm, 151 Third Street
FOTO/FILM: KATHARINA SIEVERDING ARTIST TALK
Join SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling and renowned German
artist Katharina Sieverding, who is featured in the current exhibition
In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection, for a
discussion of Sieverding's career over the last four decades. Since 1967
she has created several series of self-portraits that demonstrate an
interest in the connections between media — from film to photography,
slide projection to video. In this talk she addresses the
cinematographic impulse and relations within her photography and film
works. Free with museum admission. Koret Visitor Education Center,
SFMOMA.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2008
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3/21
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Friday 21 March, 19.00 Programme 4 : Pure A programme of films devoted
to legendary philosopher Gilles Deleuze's concept of the 'pure optical
and sound image'. Including Alberto Cavalcanti's Nothing but the Hours,
a monumental film taking the pulse of metropolitan Paris in the 1920s –
one of the very first 'City Symphonies' – and Augustin Gimel's luminous
celebrations of abstract form. Alberto Cavalcanti, Rien que les heures,
1926, 40', 35 mm Rose Lowder, Roulement, rouerie, aubage, 1978, 15',
16 mm Patrick Bokanowski, La Plage, 1991, 14', 35 mm Yves Berthier et
Jean-François Dalle, Tribologie, 1996, 5', 16 mm Augustin Gimel, 1305,
2001, 2', video Augustin Gimel, Radar, 2001, 2', video Hugo Verlinde,
Bételgeuse, 2004, 4'28, video Programme duration 83 minutes
3/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30PM, 631 West Second Street, downtown Los Angeles, In the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex
4'33" AND BEYOND
"There is no such thing as silence." John Cage John Cage broke through a
previously impassable threshold in 1952 when he first presented 4'33",
the "silent" piece that now stands as his most famous, controversial and
-- by his own estimate -- important work. For Cage, this landmark set a
standard for aleatoric music and his idea that any sound may constitute
music. Music by Cage, George Brecht, James Tenney, Antoine Beuger, Jürg
Frey, and Michael Pisaro and a film by Madison Brookshire.
3/21
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st
KOYAANISQATSI: LIFE OUT OF BALANCE
Friday, March 21, 2008. 8PM $6-$10 THE ZAG MEN presents: KOYAANISQATSI:
LIFE OUT OF BALANCE With its sweeping widescreen canvas and its
ideologically loaded montage, Godfrey Reggio's 1983 documentary
KOYAANISQATSI: LIFE OUT OF BALANCE set a new standard for politically
conscious filmmaking. If you saw it in the 1980's, chances are good that
you spent the next ten years having guilt-marbled nightmares about
public transportation and aluminum waste products. Now stripped of its
canonical – minimalist score by Philip Glass and newly retrofitted with
a noise-metal onslaught courtesy of THE ZAG MEN, KOYAANISQATSI can be
seen for what it really is, and really always was – a stream of
well-composed images with no inherent use-value. San Francisco's
premiere noise band, THE ZAG MEN, includes members of THE PINE BOX BOYS
and REAGAN'S POLYP. In the past, they have presented new scores for the
silent classics THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC,
THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU, and THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, all at
Artists Television Access.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008
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3/22
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
OPEN SCREENING: BRING YOUR MOVIE!
Open Screening Free Admission It's that time again! Our popular Open
Screenings feature whatever walks in the door - it could be anything:
insane comedies, touching dramas, high-energy music videos, odd
animation, hot topic documentaries, neighborhood portraits, or who knows
what! So, come to show or just come to watch. Suggested maximum length
per person is 15 minutes, but we will try to accommodate everything
(works will be shown from shortest to longest total length per artist).
No work accepted after the program has started! Accepted formats: 16mm,
BetaSP, Mini-DV, DVD, and VHS. Nothing x-rated - sorry!
3/22
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Saturday 22 March, 19.00 Programme 5: Political A night of revolutionary
political films, demonstrating the formal rigour of truly radical
cinema. Classic militant films by artist László Moholy-Nagy and René
Vautier are followed by Jean Genet's extraordinary appearance in a film
for Civil Rights activist Angela Davis, and the notorious S.C.U.M.
Manifesto – originally written by Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot
Andy Warhol. László Moholy-Nagy, Marseille Vieux-Port, 1929, 9', 35 mm
René Vautier, Afrique 50, 1951, 20', 16mm Carole Roussopoulos, Jean
Genet parle d'Angela Davis, 1970, 8', video Dominique Avron, Claudine
Eizykman, Guy Fihman, Jean-François Lyotard, L'Autre Scène, 1974, 6',
16mm Carole Roussopoulos et Delphine Seyrig, S. C. U. M. Manifesto,
1976, 28', video Mounir Fatmi, Embargo, 1997, 7'30, video Zoulikha
Bouabdellah, Dansons, 2003, 5', video Programme duration 84 minutes
3/22
New York, New York: Center for Remembering and Sharing
http://www.crsny.org/drupal/en/events/arts
8pm, 123 4th Avenue (between 12th and 13th), Manhattan
NEW EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO WORK BY DAVID FINKELSTEIN
New Experimental Video Works Video artist David Finkelstein, in
collaboration with performers Agnes de Garron, Allison Farrow, and
Cassie Terman. David Finkelstein's video work combines meticulously
crafted digital imagery with original music and improvised text to
explore inner reality in an elliptical and poetic manner. $12/ $10
students/seniors For more information about David Finkelstein's video
work: http://www.lakeivan.org
3/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
PEOPLE LIKE US + CHICKENFISH + BRYAN BOYCE
Among the most exciting developments in experimental film are the
audacious initiatives of artist-practitioners probing the boundaries of
visual projection, makers who manipulate the apparatus in real-time, or
opt against the single-screen rule. Here's the US premiere of Vicki
Bennett's (PLU) three-screen Work, Rest, and Play, a tour de force of
industrial-film re-purposing. Chickenfish is an Oakland-based threesome
that daisy-chains laptops into a platform for live digital imaging and
groovy sonic collage. OC fave Bryan Boyce leads the audience in the
debut of his Highway to Hell karaoke. ALSO: David Cox' 3-D "mind-
shadow", Christian Bruno/Natalija Vekic's 2-proj. duet, and Cyrus
Tabar's Iranian family slides re-mix. PLUS marvelous cross-media pieces
from Semiconductor, TV Sheriff, Craig Baldwin, et al. *$7
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SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2008
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3/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
FILMFORUM PRESENTS YOU PICK ‘EM 2! A SELECTION OF EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM
CANYON CINEMA
Rarely screened classics, curiosities, forgotten wonders chosen by our
audience! including Hand Eye Coordination, by Naomi Uman, 2002;
Womancock, by Carl Linder, 1965; Notebook, by Marie Menken; Hold Me
While I'm Naked, by George Kuchar, 1966; Some Manipulations by Jud
Yalkut, 1967; Bottle Can, by Luther Price, 1993; Dark Dark, by Abigail
Child, 2001. NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION! General admission $9; $6
students/seniors; cash and check only.
3/23
San Francisco, California: Climate Theater
http://www.climatetheater.com
7:00 pm, 285 9th St. @ the corner of Folsom
EASTER'S DEAD: AN EVENING WITH FILM ARTIST CHARLES CHADWICK
Please join us this Easter for an exciting program of the work of local
filmmaker and artist, Charles Chadwick. Chadwick is a graduate from the
San Francisco Art Institute. His films have played around the world in
galleries, microcinemas, and festivals. Currently, he works in the
realms of psychodrama and found footage. The works presented include:
The Unseen Hand (4min13sec, 16mm, sound), an educational,
phenomenological film about your local waterworks. Mirror Reflected
(3min22sec, super8, silent), about a man who enters an oppressive
warehouse and is unable to escape. Here Lie Serpents (21min24sec,
super8, sound), a depiction of what could be called ordinary gods:
masters of their own interpretations, but without other worldly deities
to define them. Vote Reagan (1min16sec, 16mm, sound), A found footage
interpretation of Ronald Reagan's strange media identity. Black and
White High School (7min11sec, 16mm, sound), a found footage exploration
of sexuality and infantilization. All About Fire (7min21sec, 16mm,
sound), a consideration of gender roles and familial identity. Stage
Fright (5min, 16mm, sound), a film about conformity and its
corresponding effects. And finally, Intermission (4min, 16mm, sound), an
ode to existential anxiety. A table will be provided for you to smash
marshmallow peeps, a pre-show collaborative sound/video performance will
possibly be occuring, and a post-show surprise Easter film will be shown
(it's super short). All this, and a Q+A with artist following the
program.
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