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Part 3 of 3: This week [April 5 - 13, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
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4/12
Albuquerque, New Mexico:
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
6 pm, Southwest Film Center, University of New Mexico
OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE: OPTICAL POETRY
Program features 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films,
including Allegretto (2 versions), Composition in Blue, Motion Painting
No. 1, Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Muratti Greift Ein, Radio Dynamics,
Kreise, American March, Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Walking from
Munich to Berlin and many more. Features prints preserved by Academy
Film Archive, Center for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the
support of Film Foundation, Sony, and Cinematheque quebecoise. CVM
presents this program in association with Southwest Film Center and The
Fischinger Archive. Tickets: $5 general admission, $3 students, $4
faculty/staff, available at box office before screening.
4/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 Social Hr., 8:00 Screening, 5243 N. Clark St.
DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES 5: THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
Co-presented by Black Cat Productions Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members
(includes social hour and screening) April is our month for lesbian film
classics and this season we've got the mother of them all. The
Children's Hour (directed by William Wyler, 1961, 107 min., USA) is
adapted from the play by Lillian Hellman and was nominated for 14
Academy Awards no less. Audrey Hepburn (Karen) and Shirley MacLaine
(Martha) are best friends from college who run a private school for
young girls. Enter James Garner (Dr. Joe Cardin) who wants to marry
Karen and things start to change between the friends. When one of the
young girls sees the two women embrace, rumors start to spread until
even the women begin to question their relationship.
4/12
Hot Springs, Arkansas: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, Low Key Arts
BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
A selection of underground and experimental short films from the Bearded
Child Film Festival.
4/12
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
Saturday 12 April, 19.00 Programme 10: Philippe Garrel Garrel's dreamy,
minimalist masterpiece, The Crystal Cradle, stars his then partner Nico
as the unforgettably beautiful muse of creativity. The film also
features Anita Pallenberg, painter Frédéric Pardo, and Pierre Clémenti,
icon of the Sixties avant-garde, all accompanied by a haunting
soundtrack by Ash Ra Tempel. Le berceau de cristal de Philippe Garrel,
1976, 80', 35mm Programme duration 80 minutes 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.
4/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEW ASIA
Programmed by Sylvia Schedelbauer, here's a pair of international
artist-teams who address seismic cultural shifts centering on China and
Taiwan. Emerging SF artist Yin-Ju Chen introduces a 20-min. set of video
work-with the premiere of Transaction-lyricizing her personal cultural
anxiety. Her suite of subjective insights is broadened in collaborative
work with another OC favorite, Mr. James T. Hong: a first view of
Divided and One, on the election in Taipei. Hong presents a sneak
preview of his New History Zero (on Japanese historical revisionism),
The Coldest War and Sino-American Friendship. The evening is anchored by
the West-Coast debut of Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer's
Metropolis: Report from China, a riveting verité essay, produced by the
Pompidou, that engages with the oft overlooked human agents of China's
staggering growth.
4/12
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
ELECTRIC DREAMS / VOLCANIC VISIONS: THE CINEMA OF JANICE FINDLEY
APRIL 12, Saturday at 8pm DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE THIRD EYE CINEMA
PRESENTS ELECTRIC DREAMS / VOLCANIC VISIONS: THE CINEMA OF JANICE
FINDLEY Janice Findley's fiercely original films explore enchanted,
uncharted territory with a unique sensibility. Utilizing meticulous
stop-motion and live-action techniques, brilliant set and costume design
and beguiling musical scores by musician/composer Paul Hansen, Findley
creates a subterranean world of emotions that evoke waking dreams. By
turns menacing, inviting and funny, these adventures of the mind dare
the viewer to enter into the realm of dreams... or is it nightmares?
Findley's films have been showcased in a retrospective at MoMA in New
York, where her work is part of the permanent collection, as well as in
the hinterlands of the U.S. by a widely traveled bicycling
projectionist. This evening's program includes "Tripletime", "A Nermish
Gothic", "Beyond Kabuki", "I Am The Night" and "Faux Paw" plus Maya
Deren's "Meshes Of The Afternoon." "Equal parts illusionistic film
techniques and the filmmaker's refreshingly untethered imagination.
Imagine 'Alice in Wonderland' done by a collaboration of ...F.W. Murnau
...Maya Deren ...and Jan Svankmajer." -THE OREGONIAN
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:30 PM, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen's Quay
LIVE IMAGES 6: THEDA BY GEORGINA STARR
Georgina Starr's silent work Theda grew out of Starr's interest in the
silent cinema era actress Theda Bara. Surpassed in popularity by only
Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Bara made more than 40 films between
1914 and 1926, of which only a handful remain intact. Bara was often
cast in the role of the femme fatale, earning her the distinction of one
of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Drawing on the life and work of Bara,
as well as other forgotten silent film stars, Theda combines
reconstructions of scenes from the lost films with a narrative about a
crazed fan. In taking on the role of Bara, Starr experiments with
various performance styles and narrative techniques to consider the
cinema as a reflection of one's own life. In the spirit of the era from
which the work comes, Starr collaborates with live musicians to provide
a score for the film each time it is presented. Having presented the
work with two very different ensembles in London and New York, the
Canadian premiere of Theda will engage the long-standing improvisational
ensemble CCMC. Curated by Aki Onda. NOTE: Tickets for Georgina Starr's
performance Theda are now available from Harbourfront Centre's Box
Office three ways: ONLINE through www.imagesfestival.com or BY PHONE:
416.973.4000 Born in Leeds, UK, Georgina Starr studied at the
Rijksademie in Amsterdam, and now lives and works in London. Her art
practice, largely rooted in video, but incorporating objects, prints,
drawings and photographs, often builds its narratives from various
references and biographies in popular culture. Her work has been
exhibited internationally at Tracy Williams, Ltd. (New York), Tate
Gallery (London), nca | nichido contemporary art (Tokyo), the 49th
Venice Biennale, and Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam) among many others.
With a history extending back to the 1970s, CCMC is Canada's first and
still pre-eminent non-idiomatic free-improvisation ensemble. A
world-travelled group through various incarnations, the band settled
fourteen years ago into the form of a trio consisting of original CCMC
member Michael Snow (piano and synthesizer), along with John Oswald
(alto sax) and Paul Dutton (soundsinging and harmonica). A fixture on
Toronto's alternative music scene, the trio has issued two CDs and has
toured Canada, Europe and the U.S.A. Each of the members has achieved
renown in areas other than music, Snow and Oswald in the visual arts,
Dutton in literature.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1-5 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West
MEDIA ART MATTERS
What does the media arts landscape look like for artists across Ontario?
MEDIA ART MATTERS! combines a lively discussion on the possibilities and
challenges of media practice with a media art intervention at the Images
Festival closing party. The panel includes presentations by a diverse
group of media art advocates practicing at the boundaries of
contemporary culture. An informal discussion with the audience will
follow. Later that evening artists from across the region will converge
on 401 Richmond to combine text and light with its post- industrial
architecture in an on-the-fly collective expression. These two venues,
presented by IMAAontario, brings together artists, independent producers
and educators who believe that media art matters ... A LOT!!! Artist Run
Machines, Open Source Culture is a public think tank hosted by moderator
Clive Robertson with panelists Vera Frenkel, Richard Fung, Steve Loft,
and Caroline Seck Langill. Together with the audience, this seasoned
group of artists, academics, critics, curators and activists will bring
their uniques experiences in the media arts to bear on questions of the
sectors viability and validitation within greater social, political and
economic spheres. The audience will be challenged to interpret and
evaluate the hybrid forms of organization and action that exist in the
territory between the institution and individual practitioners. For more
info about MEDIA ART MATTERS! visit the IMAAontario website at:
http://www.imaa-ontario.ca IMAAontario gratefully acknowledges the
support of the Ontario Arts Council towards MEDIA ART MATTERS!. The
Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00 PM, Harbourfront Centre, Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queen's Quay
ARTIST TALK: SADIE BENNING IN CONVERSATION
In conjunction with her exhibition at The Power Plant, Sadie Benning
will be joined by Video Data Bank co-founder Kate Horsfield to talk
about her major new work Play Pause.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:30 PM, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen's Quay
LIVE IMAGES 4: EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY BY DANIEL BARROW
Please see description on 4/10/08 for more details.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:30 PM, 401 Richmond Street West
AWARDS CERMONY AND CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
The jury will present the awards for the festival and it's you last
chance to drink with us! Also join us for people power projectors: a
free projection event: people power projectors is a collaborative show
of light, a semi- chaotic expression of the ideals and realities to be
found within the media arts community. Using a grab bag of available
projection devices, groups from across the province will cast their
ephemeral statements onto myriad planes and textures found throughout
the party location. A political act, a collective act, an aesthetic act,
and an excuse to have some fun and be surprised. Come out and see the
dark walls come alive with the voices of those who believe that media
art matters ... A LOT!!!
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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2008
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4/13
Albuquerque, New Mexico:
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
3 pm, Southwest Film Center, University of New Mexico
OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE: OPTICAL POETRY
Program features 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films,
including Allegretto (2 versions), Composition in Blue, Motion Painting
No. 1, Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Muratti Greift Ein, Radio Dynamics,
Kreise, American March, Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Walking from
Munich to Berlin and many more. Features prints preserved by Academy
Film Archive, Center for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the
support of Film Foundation, Sony, and Cinematheque quebecoise. CVM
presents this program in association with Southwest Film Center and The
Fischinger Archive. Tickets: $5 general admission, $3 students, $4
faculty/staff, available at box office before screening.
4/13
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
Sunday 13 April, 15.00 Programme 11: Philippe Grandrieux Philippe
Grandrieux is the director of numerous documentary-essays and two
features that constitute the most advanced point of contemporary
cinematic research. This screening includes two shorts, plus La Vie
nouvelle, which explores all the ways in which we fail to understand the
world: sleep, dream, fantasy, trance, delirium, and the general
confusion of bodies and perceptions. Un Lac (excerpt, work in progress),
2008 L'Arrière-saison, 2007, 10', video La vie nouvelle, 2002, 102', 35
mm Programme duration 120' 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.
4/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND - CLOSING NIGHT
Filmforum presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond Closing Night
of a Week-Long City-Wide Screening Series with Emigholz in Person
Sullivan's Banks (Photography and Beyond 2) (1993-2000, 35mm, color, 38
min.) Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924).; Miscellanea III (Photography and Beyond 10)
(1997-2004, 35mm, 22 min.); Maillart's Bridges (Photography and Beyond
3) (2001, 35mm, 24 min.), Swiss architect Robert Maillart revolutionized
concrete-based construction. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. Sunday April 13 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
4/13
New York, New York: Collective Sight
http://www.collectivesight.org
3 pm, Columbus Circle (globe sculpture)
COLLECTIVE SIGHT: COLLABORATIVE CELL PHONE MOVIE EVENTS
You are invited to participate in Collective Sight, two collaborative
cell phone movie-making events, taking place April 13th and 20th in New
York City. Participants are asked to shoot video with their cell phones
starting at the same time at the same place. Collective Sight takes two
similar structures (in historic places) as a starting point for
exploring public space in New York City. Sunday, April 13th 3 pm: the
globe sculpture on the north side of Columbus Circle at the center of
Manhattan. Sunday, April 20th 3 pm: the World's Fair UniSphere in
Flushing Meadows, Queens. More information and a prototype video can be
seen at www.collectivesight.org. This project is done in collaboration
with Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR), as part of NPR's participation in
the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington
CLOSING NIGHT GALA: TRADING THE FUTURE BY B.H. YAEL
Given that we've known about environmental degradation for so long, why
have we not done more? Trading the Future is a video essay that
questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on
environmental urgencies. Starting with a personal memory, the fear of
the rapture, the video addresses the Christian narrative for the end of
times, and draws connections to secular apocalypticism and our eager
acceptance of a cataclysmic end. Trading the Future challenges the
philosophical and practical foundations of death, the growth of the
market place and the politics of apocalypse. At the same time, the video
proposes possible alternatives around the idea of natality, the
productivity of biodiversity and the agency of everyday activism.
Decidedly non-messianic, Trading the Future refuses to reproduce the
apocalyptic images that we have been inundated with in mass media and
movies. Thirteen chapters create a complex weave of ideas, combining
impressionistic montages, street interviews and dialogues with academics
and activists: Grace Jantzen, Valerie Langer, David Noble, Lee Quinby,
and Vandana Shiva. b.h. Yael is an independent video and installation
artist whose work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has
shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to various
educational venues. These include Fresh Blood, A Consideration of
Belonging, the Approximations series produced with Johanna Householder,
and the recent Palestine Trilogy, three videos that focus on activist
initiatives in Israel/Palestine. Yael has produced work as part of
various artist projects and collectives: Spontaneous Combustion,
blahblahblah (Reviewing Quebec), and the Hardpressed Collective. Her
most recent installation work, the fear series, have shown at the
Koffler Gallery and at Harbourfront's York Quay Gallery. She is
Professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design
in Toronto, Canada, and is a recent recipient of the Chalmers Arts
Fellowship Award. PRECEDED BY: The Garden City by Vera Brunner-Sung
Traveling to Bangalore, India from Valencia, California, Brunner-Sung's
brief essay meditates on a quote from Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man
Under Socialism—"The systems that fail are those that rely on the
permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."
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