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Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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UFVA Graduate Student Screening (Colorado Springs, CO, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2008)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: May 15, 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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Wimbledon Shorts 2008 (London, UK.; Deadline: April 14, 2008)
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Rubric (Denver, Colorado USA; Deadline: April 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* The Blazing World [March 25, Brooklyn, New York]
* Au Hasard Balthazar [March 25, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Sfai Film Salon: Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? [March 26, San Francisco, California]
* Cameraless Films With Curator Jodie Mack In Person! [March 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Open Screening [March 27, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Regime Change: When Governments Fall What Happens To People? [March 27, San Francisco, California]
* Films By Karn Junkinsmith: Dance Outside and Otherwise [March 27, Seattle, Washington]
* Gibson + Recoder Projector Performance [March 28, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 28, London, England]
* Global Undergrounds [March 28, San Francisco, California]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 29, London, England]
* Melinda Stone's Homesweet Homestead + [March 29, San Francisco, California]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 30, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 1: Allan
Sekula [March 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Brad [March 30, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008
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3/25
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
THE BLAZING WORLD
"A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth even
glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is
always landing." - Oscar Wilde 30/73: Coop Cinema Amsterdam, Kurt Kren,
16mm, 1973, 3 mins Swamp, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, 16mm, 1971, 6
mins Victory Over the Sun, Michael Robinson, 16mm, 2007, 12 mins
Possible Models, Jenny Perlin, 16mm, 2004, 11 mins Wildwood Flower,
Keewatin Dewdney, 16mm, 1971, 4 mins Berenice, Michael Gitlin, 16mm,
1996, 51 mins Light Industry's inaugural event brings together a group
of films that ponder the vicissitudes of utopian scheming and the search
for new ground. Juxtaposing the heady, exploratory optimism of the
Aquarian age with the more sobering observations of contemporary
artists, The Blazing World attempts to embrace the complexities inherent
in what Light Industry sets forth to support: the ongoing social
experiment in community that undergirds moving-image art-making.
Beginning on a reflexive note, Kurt Kren's rarity Coop Cinema Amsterdam
documents three weeks in the life of the legendary Dutch venue The
Electric Cinema, condensed into a frantic hallucination through
single-frame shooting. In Swamp, artist Nancy Holt attempts to navigate
her way through a grassy, muddy stretch of New Jersey wetlands, guided
only by the sights of her Bolex and Robert Smithson's verbal cues.
Michael Robinson's Victory Over the Sun revisits the abandoned sites of
World's Fairs in the service of subtle, sci-fi psychedelia, while Jenny
Perlin's hand-drawn film Possible Models compares the communitarian
dreams of Victor Gruen, architect of the first shopping mall, with his
hypercapitalist spawn: the Mall of America, Dubailand, and the "Freedom
Ship," a proposed libertarian tax-shelter-of-the-seas. Back on dry land,
Keewatin Dewdney's Wildwood Flower offers up a folk-crafted vision of
bucolic innocence that could only have emerged from 1971. Anchoring the
lineup, Michael Gitlin's Berenice provides a richly psychological
costumer set during the decay of an upstate New York utopian community
in the 1830s. Partially adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe tale of the
same name, blended with texts on phalansterist socialism by Charles
Fourier and letters from the Transcendentalist commune Brook Farm,
Berenice wends a tale of an old, weird America in search of new social
harmonies through visionary ideals. Curated by Thomas Beard and Ed
Halter. Tickets - $6, available at door.
3/25
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
au hasard Balthazar (1966, 95 min.) by ROBERT BRESSON "('Balthazar is
about a donkey in about the same way that Moby-Dick is about a whale'-
J.H.) …. heart-breaking and magnificent Au Hasard Balthazar …—the story
of a donkey's life and death in rural France—is the supreme masterpiece
by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers. Bringing together all
Bresson's highly developed ideas about acting, sound, and editing, as
well as grace, redemption, and human nature, Balthazar is understated
and majestic, sensuous and ascetic, ridiculous and sublime ….. No one
has ever made better use of close-ups, more precisely delineated
off-screen space, or so flawlessly established a dramatic rhythm.
Balthazar is predicated on an astonishing tension between formal rigor
and, as embodied by its protagonist, the random quality of life."– J.
Hoberman, Village Voice. (Ranked at the top of many critical "greatest
films of all times" lists.)
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2008
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3/26
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
SFAI FILM SALON: WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
An early film in Fassbinder's career, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
attempts to answer that very question, in a caustic retelling of the
days before Herr R.'s rampage. By all outward appearances, Herr R. is
the model of the contented middle class: a decent job, a loving family,
a normal, civil life. Fassbinder's acerbic style, with a muted color
palette and a casual approach to the acting, creates a dark picture of
the working world. It is no wonder this is a favorite of Harmony Korine,
who has long been rumored to be working on a remake, What Makes
Pistachio Nuts? Program to Include: Why Does Herr R Run Amok, Rainer
Werner Fassbinder, 1969, 95 min. 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)
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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008
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3/27
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
CAMERALESS FILMS WITH CURATOR JODIE MACK IN PERSON!
For over one hundred years, filmmakers have found ways to emancipate
themselves from advanced photographic processes and make films without
cameras—by drawing, painting, scratching, or adhering figures and
objects directly onto filmstrips. Whether produced meticulously
frame-by-frame or playfully in long strips, cameraLESS images possess an
inimitable urgency, each frame trembling as it passes through the
projector's light. Altitude Zero (Lauren Cook, 2004); 32.37 (a.k.a TB TX
Dance) (Roger Beebe, 2006); The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan
Brakhage, 1981); Kosmos (Thorsten Fleisch, 2004); Leaf (Charlotte
Taylor, 2004); Dots (Norman McLaren, 1940); Scream Tone (Jo Dery, 2002);
Zig Zag (Richard Reeves, 1993); Hand-Eye Coordination (Naomi Uman,
2002); Particles in Space (Len Lye, 1979); and 1:1 (Richard Reeves,
2001), among others. Organized by Jodie Mack. (1901–2006, various
directors, various countries, multiple formats, ca 60 min.)
3/27
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films or tapes; time permitting, all works will be
screened.
3/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 valencia st
REGIME CHANGE: WHEN GOVERNMENTS FALL WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE?
Thursday, March 27, 2008. 8PM $8 REGIME CHANGE: when governments fall
what happens to people? films by Daniel BARNETT, Jean-Gabriel PéRIOT &
Chris MARKER presented by kino21 An Anagram by Daniel Barnett An Anagram
by Daniel Barnett Even if She Had Been a Criminal… by Jean-Gabriel
Périot Even if She Had Been a Criminal… by Jean-Gabriel Périot » More
images Eût-elle été criminelle… [Even if She Had Been a Criminal…] by
Jean-Gabriel Périot, 10 min, video, 2006 (SF Premiere) France 1944.
Paris is finally liberated from Nazi occupation. De Gaulle's Free French
Forces and American troops are greeted with jubilation, and the streets
are full of private expressions of joy and public rituals of victory.
But after a bloody and brutal war victory has a dark side. Marguerite
Duras' eloquent but troubling work, The War [La douleur], gave
expression to what that victory could mean for those who fought in the
Resistance, lost loved ones, and felt betrayed by fellow countrymen. It
could mean a settling of scores, a turning of the victor, ever so
briefly, into victimizer. Orchestrating carefully combed archival
footage and various renditions of La Marseillaise, Jean-Gabriel Périot's
Even if She Had Been a Criminal… gives visual form to this
psychologically complex historical moment when joy was coupled with
hatred, long-awaited triumph with a need for scapegoats, and pride with
public humiliation. Jean-Gabriel Périot is an artist, writer and
filmmaker based in Tours, France. His shorts have won numerous awards,
and Even if She Had Been a Criminal… received the Grand Prize at the
Tampere International Film Festival and the Arie & Bozena Zweig
Innovation Award at the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival.
The Embassy by Chris Marker, 21 min. super 8mm (shown on DVD), 1971 One
of Chris Marker's few fiction films, The Embassy shows political
dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup
d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more
people fleeing the military assault-teachers, students, intellectuals,
artists, and politicians-arrive at the embassy. An anonymous cameraman
records the tense situation with his Super-8 camera, and provides a
voice-over commentary, as the Ambassador and his wife arrange to house
and feed the growing group, who monitor radio reports of the alarming
political developments-including thousands of political prisoners
detained in a stadium, and reports of executions-and glimpse activities
on the streets outside. The refuge-seekers accommodate themselves to the
makeshift living arrangements, find ways to pass the time, and engage in
often heated political debates. An Anagram by Daniel Barnett, 42 min.
video, 2007 (World premiere, DB in person) On August 19, 1991 when
Mikhail Gorbachev was nearly overthrown in an attempted coup, ABC news
sent Gary Henoch to Moscow to cover the events that followed. In the
early 1980's Henoch had been ABC's Moscow producer/cameraman. He was
astounded at the changes following the collapse of Communism. He asked
his friend, Russian scholar Harlow Robinson to join him in Russia to
document the impact of the changes in Russian society. Upon his return,
after weeks of filming interviews and street scenes in Moscow,
Yoroslavl, and Rostov Veliky, he turned the footage over to a well-known
PBS series, but the rough-cut that emerged appalled him and he pulled
the footage. Some months later I was editing an industrial that Henoch
had shot. He stopped by the editing room and we fell into a
conversation. I was impressed that such an experienced hand would show
up and ask if there was anything I needed that he failed to get. Was
there anything he could have done better? In fact there was nothing. He
was by far the best cameraman whose footage I had the honor to edit. He
told me the story of his trip to Russia and asked if I wanted to see the
material. What I saw was forty hours of footage that captured the
results of a civilization having had its belief system knocked out from
under it. Henoch saw that my passion for the footage was genuine and
offered to give it to me to do with as I pleased. Over the next eleven
years, in my spare time, and in between other jobs, I would work on the
footage, solving one structural problem after another, until I finally
became satisfied that I had caught the essence of the story. An Anagram
is an essay in changing parts. It trades in what Paul Auster calls "a
syntax of the eye, a grammar of pure kinesis." It wears the soul of
historical disappointment on its sleeve.
3/27
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7:30pm, 1515 12th Ave
FILMS BY KARN JUNKINSMITH: DANCE OUTSIDE AND OTHERWISE
THIRD EYE CINEMA PRESENTS FILMS BY KARN JUNKINSMITH: DANCE OUTSIDE AND
OTHERWISE Join us as Seattle choreographer Karn Junkinsmith presents her
slate of experimental dance films. Her dance film work began in 1990,
when she collaborated with Lena Sharpe on GIRLS FIND WAYS TO GET THERE,
a dance of three female archetypes: Joan of Arc, witch and pregnant
virgin. Her directorial debut, the whimsical DAY OFF, was produced in
association with NWFF, and was shot by Lynn Shelton (WE GO WAY BACK).
This program also includes recent efforts such as BUS STOP, in which
citizens discover shared passion for public dancing, and ALCHEMY OF THE
ORACLES, an extravaganza of bopping female bodies lacking wardrobe
control, shot by Benjamin Kasulke (WE GO WAY BACK, BRAND UPON THE
BRAIN). Several of the films will be accompanied by live music by Jeff
Junkinsmith and friends that will have you dancing in your seats.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
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3/28
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
8:00PM, Michigan Theater Screening Room, 603 East Liberty St
GIBSON + RECODER PROJECTOR PERFORMANCE
Since 2001 Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been working in
collaboration creating films, installations and light works. They will
perform two new pieces for 16mm projectors, glass and mixed media. "Both
individually and in collaboration, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder are
creating some of the most innovative and engaging light works of the
present time. I hesitate to say 'films', since their work, though it is
grounded in an understanding and application of celluloid, goes beyond a
general understanding of what film is, taking into consideration the
architecture and circumstances of the performance / viewing situation
and the physical and emotional presence of light itself. From the
inventive ways that they create images on the film strip to the use of
multiple projection that often incorporates live performance, Luis and
Sandra are two of the most vital young artists working in the field of
'expanded cinema'." - Mark Webber
3/28
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 28 March, 19.00 Programme 6: Psychedelic A programme of
mind-altering films that will astonish and inspire in equal measure.
From the earliest experiments in animation by Émile Cohl, via the
infamous erotic surrealism of Pierre Molinier, to Man Ray's radical DADA
experiments and the psychedelic work of Pierre Clémenti, these films
will leave your senses reeling. Émile Cohl, Les lunettes féeriques,
1909, 5', 35mm Man Ray, Le Retour à la raison, 1923, 2', 35 mm Pierre
Molinier, Jambes (aka Mes Jambes), France, 1964, 10', 16 mm (with Pierre
Molinier, Janine Delannoy, étienne O'Leary) Pierre Clémenti, Visa de
censure n°X, 1967, 43', 16 mm Ode Bitton, Mise au point de, 1972, 13',
35mm (with Gabriel Pomerand) Programme duration 72 minutes
3/28
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st
GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS
Friday, March 28, 2008. 8PM $6 GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS Documentaries from
Scandinavia Still from The Diver Inside Me (2003) by Phie Ambo Still
from Kiosk (2007) by Hilde Stålskjær Osen With two Scandinavian
documentaries, exploring the first and last part of life, ATA introduces
a new series, Global Undergrounds, featuring inspiring works from all
over the world. The Diver inside me (2003) by Phie Ambo 27 min. eng.
subs Sometimes the greatest happiness can make you afraid. A heavy
pregnant woman has a nightmare. A pathologist with eight children is
scared of dying. A little girl dives around the endless ocean, alone.
Meanwhile the director says goodbye to death in order to give new life.
Kiosk (2007) by Hilde Stålskjær Olsen 28 min. eng. subs In the middle of
Copenhagen there is a fenced-in institutional area where 600 people live
the last part of their lives; The City of the Old. There is a cornershop
and a church. Focusing on the kiosk we meet a wide range of people and
experience their ups and downs as they routinely drop by to buy
cigarettes and enjoy the company of others. Watch trailer Curated by
Torben Olander
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SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008
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3/29
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 29 March, 19.00 Programme 7: X With titles such as Ogres, Fuck,
and Clandestine Porn Film, this programme is not for the prudish.
Pushing back the boundaries of acceptability, these films include Man
Ray's early erotic experiments, Lionel Soukaz's 70s post-queer-punk
masterpiece, and Augustin Gimel's radical remix of pornographic
iconography. Anonymous, Film porno clandestin, c1930, 3', 16 mm Barbara
Glowczewska, Maladie d'amour, 1977, 6', 16mm Lionel Soukaz, Ixe, 1980,
45', 35 mm Yves-Marie Mahé, Fuck, 1999, 4'30, 16mm Ruth Anderwald,
Bravo !, 2000, 1'05, 2000, Super 8 Jean-Paul Nogues, Ogres, 2001, 7',
video Raphaël Gray, Rythmixxx, 2002, 7', video Augustin Gimel, Fig. 4.,
2004, 5', video Johanna Vaude, Love and Death, 2006, 6', video Programme
duration 78 minutes This programme contains adult content.
3/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
MELINDA STONE'S HOMESWEET HOMESTEAD +
Timed with the launch of her howtohomestead.org website, Melinda returns
from the wilds of her NorCal Autonomous Zone with a lively show of short
films and performances bearing on self-sufficiency and sustainable DIY
lifeways. Included in the program are her Making Chicken Dinner,
Pressing Apples, and The Humanure Cycle. ALSO Sam Sharkey's Kombucha and
You, Erik Knutzen's Self-Watering Container, and Bill Daniel's
Underground Square Dance, among other 16mm cherries. Melinda and Sam
lead the audience in singing the Natural Anthem, America the Beautiful,
and Incredible Adventures of the Primitive Creature, with plenty of free
homemade beer and wine to wet our whistles (and kazoos)!
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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008
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3/30
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 30 March, 15.00 Programme 8: Text An afternoon of films exploring
the relationships between text, sound and image. Renowned artist
Christian Boltanski's early film examines the loneliness of a
working-class mother, referring both to Anne Frank's diary, and to the
human condition under capitalism. Jean-Luc Godard offers a
characteristically intricate and thought-provoking reflection on time
and cinema's relation to history. Christian Boltanski, Essai de
reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise
Guiniou, 1971, 19', 16mm Luc Meichler, Allée des signes de Gisèle
Rapp-Meichler, 1976, 21', 16mm Gisèle Rap-Meichler, Rosa Rot, 1994/2001,
8', video Sabine Massenet, Je comprends moi aussi le langage des
oiseaux, 1999-2000, 8' Stefani de Loppinot, Calamity Jane, 2002, 10'
Marylène Negro, Ich Sterbe, 2007, 12', video Jean-Luc Godard and
Anne-Marie Miéville, Dans le noir du temps (In the Blackness of Time),
2002, 11' Programme duration 81 minutes
3/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VIDEO ARTISTS, PART 1: ALLAN
SEKULA
In conjunction with the Getty's California video exhibition, Filmforum
highlights the work of four artists whose work cries out for more
exhibition – significant pieces by fine artists of their media. Allan
Sekula in person tonight with Tsukiji (2001, 43:30, color, sound), A
Short Film for Laos (2006-2007, 45 minutes, digital video, color,
sound), Performance under Working Conditions (1973, 20 minutes, b&w
video) General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum
members, cash and check only. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
3/30
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
BRAD
Sunday, March 30, 2008. 8PM $6 Brad Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was
a U.S. documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York
City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers'
strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. "At the night of octuber 27, 2006,
my phone rang. It was a friend. Crying, he told me that a few hours
earlier they killed Brad, with his camera on his hand, filming a
barricade of the Oaxaca popular rebeliion, in Mexico. I was speechless.
What can you say of such unexpected death of a friend? That shot also
hit me. Me and many other friends who like Brad dedicate their lives to
be filming the social movements, but from another perspective, from
inside, showing what the corporate media doesn't want to see. This is
our story."
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