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Date: Sat Mar 29 2008 - 08:57:50 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [March 29 - April 6, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008
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4/5
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm , 341 Delaware Ave.
EYES AND EARS: SOUND NEEDS IMAGE (PART II)
Co-curators Joanna Raczynska and Will Redman return with the second
installation of EYES AND EARS, a presentation of live performance of
video and film scores. The evening includes commissioned moving image
works by artists Bruce Checefsky. Sara Hornbacher, Caroline Koebel.
Hollie Lavenstein, Stephanie Maxwell, and Zach Poff. Performances by the
Open Music Ensemble, featuring Otto Muller, Josh DeScherer, Chris Reba,
Will Redman, Steve Baczkowski, J.T. Rinker, Todd Whitman, Bill Sack.
Made possible by a major grant from The New York State Music Fund.
4/5
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
TONY CONRAD - FILM/PERFORMANCE
Artist Tony Conrad In Person Special Event Tickets $15 Straight and
Narrow Saturday, April 5 at 7pm Featuring music by Terry Riley and John
Cale, Conrad's black and white flicker film is designed to make the
viewer experience a range of color effects through its carefully
modulated rhythm structure. Directed by Tony Conrad US 1970, 16mm, b/w,
10 min. followed by The Flicker One of the essential American
avant-garde films, THE FLICKER transforms Plato's cave into a
hallucinatory dream machine. Must be experienced to be believed.
Directed by Tony Conrad US 1966, 16mm, b/w, 30 min. followed by a live
musical performance by Tony Conrad (electric violin) and MV Carbon
(electric cello) Directors Marie Losier and Tony Conrad in Person
Special Event Tickets $10 Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist Sunday, April 6 at
3pm The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of
avant-garde artists (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard
Foreman), DreaMinimalist offers an insightful and hilarious encounter
with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his
association with Jack Smith. Directed by Marie Losier US 2008, 16mm,
color, 28 min. followed by Snowbeard Losier's poignant short film, a
tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, was filmed on his last day before
leaving Manhattan to relocate to San Francisco. Directed by Marie Losier
US 2008, 16mm, b/w, 3 min. Recent Video Work In Line Directed by Tony
Conrad. US 1985, video, color, 7 min. Grading Tips for Teachers Directed
by Tony Conrad. US 2001, video, color, 13 min. Tony's Oscular Pets
Directed by Tony Conrad. US 2003, video, color 5 min. Conversation II
Directed by Tony Conrad. US 2005, video, 6 min. Artist Tony Conrad In
Person Special Event Tickets $15 Short Films Sunday, April 6 at 7pm
Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals Directed by Tony
Conrad. US 1975, 16mm, B&W, sound, 10 min. excerpt of 75 min. original
4-X Attack Directed by Tony Conrad. US 1973, 16mm, B&W, silent, 2 min.
The Eye of Count Flickerstein Directed by Tony Conrad. US 1967, revised
1975, 16mm, B&W, silent, 7 min. Followed by Film Electrocution A live
performance in which raw film stock is electrically manipulated,
processed and projected.
4/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
HEATHER'S SHORT SHORTS: TRAILER TRASH!
Curated and Hosted by Heather McAdams "When I was a kid, my dad used to
project film noir and monster trailers along with our own 16mm home
movies and as a result I began to collect 16mm trailers myself. After 30
years of collecting, I am pleased to present an entire evening of my
favorites! I am especially fond of trailers with quirky titles, B-Films,
horror and music trailers from the 1940s - 1970s. This evening's show
will be non-stop action with dozens of fun TV, Movie and Theatrical
Trailers including: The Big Doll House, Amazon Women, The Hot Box,
Superchick, Foxy Brown, The Summer School Teachers, Private Duty Nurses,
Satan's Cheerleaders, Go Go Mania, Twist All Night, When the Boys Meet
the Girls, Get Yourself a College Girl, Station Six Sahara, Invasion of
the Saucer Men, The Girl in the Kremlin, The 3 Fantastic Supermen, Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf, as well as a couple of my personal favorites,
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter and Trip with the Teacher,
plus lots more! A regular laugh riot!" –Heather McAdams Curator Heather
McAdams and her always-hilarious husband Chris Ligon will be present to
introduce the show and answer all of your questions.
4/5
San Francisco, California: Electric Works Gallery
http://www.sfelectricworks.com
8 pm, 130 Eighth Street
STOP & GO
Kissing hats, elephants driving, a man who turns into the sun, and
dinosaurs roaming the countryside rarely happen in real life, but at the
stop-motion film screening called Stop & Go at the Electric Works
Gallery in April, all of this will become ordinary. Established
filmmakers and visual artists will use stop-motion techniques to tell
stories, examine visual phenomena, and make political statements in a
collection of short videos. The line-up of videos includes both local
and international artists and is curated by Bay Area artist and animator
Sarah Klein.
4/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
NATE BOYCE + WOBBLY + MURATA
In this experimental intermedia live cinema lab, we showcase two
pioneers exploring the interface between audio and video abstractions.
Boyce premieres Plasma-Wielder, a hot-rodded hybrid of analog and
digital systems enabling extreme image-processing. Later, his
collaboration with Wobbly fuses pure electronic sound-generation with
plunderphonics into a hypnotic continuum of perceptual discovery. A
selection of historical and contemporary exemplars ground this evening
of (neo-)psychedelic synthesis, including the Vasulkas, Adam Beckett,
LoVid, LSD, and a new piece by Takeshi Murata. PLUS Unarius'
Restoration! *$7.
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
12:30 and 1:30, Galleries at the 401 Richmond building
OFF SCREEN GALLERY TOUR
Join a guided tour to all of the festival installations in the 401
Galleries. They will be hosting opening receptions all day noon-five if
you want to check it out at your own pace. Gallery TPW | A Space |
Gallery 44 | Prefix ICA | Trinity Square Video | Vtape | WARC Gallery |
Wynick/Tuck Gallery | YYZ Artists' Outlet
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM II: RUPTURES RESTRUCTURED
Light Work Mood Disorder by Jennifer Reeves [USA, 2007, 2 x 16mm, 28
min] Made in collaboration with musician Anthony Burr, Light Work Mood
Disorder is a double 16mm piece composed of old educational films and
physical manipulation of the film frame. From an intricate web of thread
hand-stitched into the film, to surface treatments with a variety of
pharmaceutical substances, Reeve's film is a micro & macroscopic
exploration on themes of corporate exploitation of physical and mental
health. Western Sunburn by Karl Lemieux [Canada, 2007, video, 10 min]
Working from looped rolls of found footage, Montréal-based Lemieux
re-imagines and reframes iconographic figures from an old western with
painting, scratching, cutting and burning. Black And White Trypps Number
Four by Ben Russell [USA, 2008, 16mm, 11 min] The newest of Russell's
continuing series of psychedelic abstractions is one part experimental
film, one part stand up comedy, and one part social commentary. Using a
piece of 35mm slug featuring the American comedian Richard Pryor,
Russell concocts a visual and aural assault of physically incompatible
film gauges and historically incompatible racial stereotypes. The Boy
Who Died by John Price [Canada, 2007, 35mm, 7 min, silent] An
impressionistic study of wintry landscapes in northern Saskatchewan shot
during down time from a documentary about aboriginal youth. Framing
Price's shoot is the news of a devastating skidoo accident involving one
of the subjects of the documentary. Once by Barbra Sternberg [Canada,
2007, 16mm, 5 min] Juxtaposing silence, sound, light, and language. At
the onset of Sternberg's Once, we hear an audio excerpt from Rilke's
Ninth Elegy in darkness, which gives way to a silent film filled with
glimpses of shimmering light evoking the beauty and brevity of life.
Ever Present Going Past by Phil Hoffman [Canada, 2007, video, 8 min]
Hoffman's recent video, made in collaboration with poet Garry Shikatani.
Sunsets, gardens, footage of days past, places far and near. The world
we might love, into which we pass through some gate. A garden, the worn
azul and yellow tiles the assured passage so needed, then broken
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
10:30 PM, Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue
OFF SCREEN LAUNCH PARTY
Celebrate with us. The galleries are all open! DJ Metro Desi. FREE
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
3:00 PM, Gallery 44, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 120
TALK TO THE PIE #2: NELSON HENRICKS
Images' 2008 Spotlight Artist, Nelson Henricks is joined by fellow
artist R.M. Vaughan to talk about his recent installation work as well
as his twenty-year career in video art.
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)
FROM RUSSIA... -A CINEFANTOM SELECTION
The independent Cine Fantom movement—after three decades—is alive and
well in Moscow. Each Wednesday throughout the year, Cine Fantom holds
public screenings followed by discussions between film professionals and
the audience. Over the years, Cine Fantom has produced hundreds of
projects, which have been screened in Russia and at festivals worldwide.
In 1984, in Moscow and in Leningrad, several artists (unknown to each
other) began to screen their experimental films at home for friends.
Thus clandestine festivals were born. The filmmakers produced a body of
hilarious, satirical, minimum budget works outside the state-run studio
system. The brothers Igor and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to this first
generation of independents. This selection features mainly early black
and white films by the Aleinikov brothers. In these films, ideological
comments and critical notions are frequently masked by typical Russian
black humor. "There is an element of social comment in our films, such
as in Metastasis and there are films in which the ideas of Moscow
conceptualism are to be found, such as Tractors," commented Gleb.
Everything, however, is permeated with sharp irony, an irony reflected
two decades later, this time in color and in subtler from, in March, a
recent work by Olga Tchernysheva. (Please see our website for film
titles and further information.)
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
12:00 noon, Joseph Workman Theatre
ONE MINUTE MOVIES WORKSHOP
This hands-on workshop led by video artist Penny Lane, will guide adult
students through the basics of visual story-telling with storyboards and
in-camera editing to make 60-second PSAs or short "personal story"
narratives. This workshop is open to Workman Arts Members only. For
information please visit www.workmanarts.org or call 416 583 4339
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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008
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4/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND
Filmforum presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond Opening Night
of a Week-Long City-Wide Screening Series with Emigholz in Person
Emigholz in person tonight with Basis of Make-Up II (Photography and
Beyond 4) (1995-2000, 35mm, color, 48 min.), Miscellanea I (Photography
and Beyond 5) (1988-2001, 35mm, b&w, 20 min.), and Miscellanea II
(Photography and Beyond 6) (1988-2001, 35mm, color, 19 min.).
Miscellanea I and II, as their titles suggest, are studies done during
the filming of various other projects, "left-overs" that are assembled
here in a new and fascinating way. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the
Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. Sunday April 6,
2008. 7:00 pm. General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for
Filmforum members. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian
Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex.
Park 4 hours for $2 with validation. Advance ticket purchase now
available through Fandango through the American Cinematheque website,
www.egyptiantheatre.com
4/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
THE DREAM REVEALS THE WAKING DAY
Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert and Sylvia Schedelbauer In Person. Six
recent works which vacillate between radical introspection and
cosmological wonder, each inverting interior and exterior worlds,
finding intimacy in the cosmos, divinity in the details. Sylvia
Schedelbauer's associative collage Remote Intimacy presents a detached
personal history with the dreadful certainty of a dream. Mark Street's
Alone, Apart meanders between filmic figure and ground, wresting
strangeness from the everyday while Jeanne Liotta's Eclipse allows the
lunar eclipse to shine through emulsified noise. Abraham Ravett's
Tziporah and Karen Johannesen's Light Speed each meditate on domestic
details, hinting at the eternal within the everyday and Peggy Ahwesh's
Warm Objects uses a heat-sensing camera to look (just) beyond the skin
deep. Finally, traveling sound artists Paul Bradley and Maile Colbert
present a cinematic translation of their multi-channel installation,
Transit, an environmental work exploring spaces between memory and
emotion, between inhale and exhale. $10, general; $6, members, students,
disabled, seniors.
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:30PM, The Music Gallery, 197 John Street
LIVE IMAGES: LIGHT TRAP BY GREG POPE WITH KNURL
Oslo-based filmmaker Greg Pope's Light Trap is a performance with four
prepared 16mm projectors and a sound artist. Something of a "live punk
homage" to Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone, the work is a
voluminous and spatial sound/light sculpture, performed live and in
constant flux by factors both random and controlled. Without a screen,
seating, or a traditional beginning and end, Light Trap explores the raw
elements of cinema: the projector, the film material, the darkened room
and synchronized sound. The imagery in Light Trap begins with loops of
completely black film, a dark room filled with haze, and only the hum of
the projectors' motors. Slowly, the emulsion is whittled away on each
loop with sandpaper and an array of hand tools, allowing bursts and
streams of light to pierce through the darkness. Synchronous to the
unfolding cascade of light emanating into the room, the aberrations on
the film loops create pops, cracks, and hisses. This constant, reductive
physical process applied to the surface of the film loops results in a
slow transformation of the physical space; out of aural and visual
darkness builds a cacophonous crescendo of sound and light. After
dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded
Brighton based Super 8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986. From
this group came Loophole Cinema (London 1989)—using 16mm
multi-projection techniques, they were self-styled shadow engineers
performing numerous events around Europe until their demise in 1999.
They also produced The International Symposium of Shadows in London in
1996. Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video
installations, live art pieces and single screen film works since 1996.
He currently lives in Norway in a small wooden house and is active with
Atopia, an artists' film and video collective in Oslo. Knurl, a.k.a.
Alan Bloor, is one of the premier noise artists in Canada. Using contact
mics and scrap metal, Knurl creates incredibly powerful harsh noise. At
times reminiscent of the likes of Daniel Menche and Haters, Knurl has
released 2 efforts for Alien8 Recordings, and has appeared on the
Coalescence compilation. Other labels that have documented Knurl include
RRR, Self Abuse, Labyrinth, Entarte Kunst and Musicus Phycus. Knurl has
performed with Keiji Haino, David Kristian, Haters, Princess Dragon Mom,
MSBR and Government Alpha and collaborated live with Jim O'Rourke and
Thurston Moore.
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
PERFORMANCE BUS TOUR TO THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY AND THE AGYU
Don't miss these installations. Bus departs from the Gladstone at 1PM
sharp and returns at 6 PM. Media art events to entertain you en route!
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2:30 PM, Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 376
COPY CATS: COPYRIGHT AND APPROPRIATION IN THE MEDIA ARTS
Trinity Square Video moderates a panel of artists and legal experts as
they discuss the impending changes to Canadian copyright laws and how it
may affect media artists. With artists Johanna Householder and Jonathon
Culp, Toronto entertainment lawyer Jonathan Sommer and Laura J. Murray,
co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide.
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 3: FRAGMENTS IN FRAGMENTS
An archeological dig. Object and artifact as visual metaphor for
unearthing stories and reconciling the past. Hope by Dana Claxton
[Canada, 2007, video, 10 min] A fixed shot over a table with broken
pieces of pottery scattered about. The artist successfully reconstructs
the shards back into a bowl; starting again from scratch, she is unable
to quite make it fit on the second go around. A simple action reflects
on the difficulties of reconciliation across history and cultures.
Paterson—Lodz by Redmond Entwistle [UK, 2006, 16mm/multi-channel sound
installation, 60 min] A conceptually and formally astute work that
investigates place, culture, and politics in early 20th century
histories of Paterson, NJ and Lodz, Poland. The visual elements of the
film are composed of long sections of black leader cutting back and
forth with macro-photographed details of glass castings taken from
sidewalks in the aforementioned cities. Though the physical duration of
the film print is approximately 18 minutes, after the title credits
roll, the film is rewound, re-threaded and projected twice more for a
total of three passes through the projector. As the imagery is repeated
on screen three times, the audio for the film is ever changing. Rather
than using the fixed optical track on the film, SMPTE time code drives a
computer, which randomly selects audio for a 10-channel sound
"composition" resulting in a different mix each time the film is played.
This soundscape alternates between field recordings in the two cities
and interviews about the 1905 revolution in Lodz, the Paterson Silk
Strike of 1913, and involvement of the Jewish populations in both
cities. The resulting work, lasting the better part of an hour, is a
constantly evolving minimalist experiment in non-fiction form. In
considering the sparse imagery over three successive viewings, our
attentions are turned to an audio composition that is, both literally
and figuratively, larger than what can be contained in the film itself.
It's a story that is never fixed, pointing towards the uncertainty of
histories and memories to reconcile with each other.
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 4: WITHIN AND WITHOUT WE CONTINUE ALONG
Above and below the natural unfolds, mediated by internal and external
wanderings, wonderings. Outwardly From Earth's Center, by Rosa Barba
[Netherlands/Germany, 2006,video, 20 min] Outwardly from Earth's Centre
takes place on an island that is slowly drifting away, doomed to
disappear. The population of the island struggles to find ways to
stabilize and keep put their home. Using ropes and weights, the
fictitious inhabitants take expert advice and attempt to put a stop to
their land that is drifting away. This is Not an Anchor, This Boat is
Not an Anchor by Marianna Milhorat [Canada, 2007, 16mm, 11 min] Through
a dense mist we emerge into a foggy marshland. Slowly and achingly a
mysterious landscape is revealed. Foghorns and sharp cuts jolt the
meandering sense of place and memory, recollection of then, creating a
sense of unease and anxiety within. Isolated Landscapes by Heidi
Phillips [Canada, 2007, video, 5 min] Looking to the sea to find you
there. Distance, longings, thoughts drifting to dark places, to within,
to a heart drawn and shaded, barely beating. Echo Park by Paul Clipson
[USA, 2007, Super 8, 9 min] This beautifully crafted Super 8 film
captures the delicacy and elegance of leaves pooled with dew. Clipson's
luscious camerawork focuses on the shimmering and splattering of light
as it moves from natural to urban landscapes. Observando el Cielo by
Jeanne Liotta [USA, 2007, 16mm, 19 min] So galaxies of the Virgo cluster
glow like years… It was inner space, the universe inside time Years,
years ago Astronomers have gazed out at the compass of all existence For
years they found nothing 'Cause no one had looked
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