Part 1 of 2: This week [April 12 - 20, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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Part 1 of 2: This week [April 12 - 20, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: May 15, 2008)
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Aurora Picture Show Extremely Shorts (Houston, TX 77009; Deadline: April 10, 2008)
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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 27, 2008)
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Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018 (Volgograd, Russia; Deadline: April 30, 2008)
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Slack Video / Hull International Short Film Festival (Kingston upon Hull, UK; Deadline: April 07, 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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MAMC, 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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25 FPS - International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 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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10th Annual Artsfest Film Festival (harrisburg, pa, usa; Deadline: April 18, 2008)
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 15, 2008)
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Transhift08 (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: April 01, 2008)
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The 809 International New Image Art Festival (the 809 INIAF) (China; Deadline: May 01, 2008)
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UFVA Graduate Student Screening (Colorado Springs, CO, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2008)
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Aurora Picture Show Extremely Shorts (Houston, TX 77009; Deadline: April 10, 2008)
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Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018 (Volgograd, Russia; Deadline: April 30, 2008)
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Slack Video / Hull International Short Film Festival (Kingston upon Hull, UK; Deadline: April 07, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Oskar Fischinger Retrospective: Optical Poetry [April 12, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * Dyke Delicious Series 5: the Children's Hour [April 12, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 12, Hot Springs, Arkansas]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 12, London, England]
 * New Perspectives On New Asia [April 12, San Francisco, California]
 * Electric Dreams / Volcanic visions: the Cinema of Janice Findley [April 12, Seattle, Washington]
 * Live Images 4: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry By Daniel Barrow [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images 6: theda By Georgina Starr [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Media Art Matters [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Artist Talk: Sadie Benning In Conversation [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Awards Cermony and Closing Night Party [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Oskar Fischinger Retrospective: Optical Poetry [April 13, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 13, London, England]
 * Filmforum Presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond - Closing Night [April 13, Los Angeles, California]
 * Collective Sight: Collaborative Cell Phone Movie Events [April 13, New York, New York]
 * Closing Night Gala: Trading the Future By B.H. Yael [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Pop Landscapes: Michael Robinson In Person [April 14, Rochester NY]
 * Bearded Child Film Festival [April 14, Shreveport, Louisiana]
 * We Melt Away (A Walking Picture Palace of Ice) [April 15, Brooklyn, New York]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 15, Fort Worth, TX]
 * Tongues Untied [April 15, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasthakul [April 15, Seattle, Washington]
 * Beat Film Series #3 [April 16, Austin, TX]
 * Michael Robinson In Person At Mass Art Film Society [April 16, Boston, Massachusetts]
 * Sfai Film Salon: Purposeful Actions [April 16, San Francisco, California]
 * Cfmdc's Re-Generation [April 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * You Don't Remember the Time You Do: Moments In the Lives of Prisoners [April 17, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 17, Dallas, TX]
 * Media Archeology: Negativland [April 17, Houston, Texas]
 * Media Archeology: Brent Green [April 18, Houston, Texas]
 * Electromediascope [April 18, Kansas City, Missouri]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 18, London, England]
 * Art Docs Series: Smile Boston Project and the Smutty Professor [April 19, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Media Archeology: Shana Moulton and Tara Mateik [April 19, Houston, Texas]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 19, London, England]
 * Macias' Otaku Usa + Gamera (Amplified) [April 19, San Francisco, California]
 * Film/Video Work By Scott Stark [April 20, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * "Light Spill" & "Happy Monday" [April 20, Brooklyn, New York]
 * Filmforum Presents Carolee Schneemann [April 20, Los Angeles, California]
 * Collective Sight [April 20, New York, New York]
 * Essay On Camera Work [April 20, San Francisco, California]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 20, Santa Fe, NM]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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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 4: EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY BY DANIEL BARROW
  Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection
  with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man
  with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives
  of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts
  through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces
  pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they
  sleep. What he doesn't yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing
  him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his
  cataloguing efforts obsolete. Presented in partnership with Harbourfront
  Centre's World Stage. NOTE: Tickets for Daniel Barrow's performance
  Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry are now available from Harbourfront
  Centre's Box Office: www.harbourfrontcentre.com or 416.973.4000. Daniel
  Barrow is a Winnipeg-based media artist, working in performance, video
  and installation. He has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.
  Recently, Barrow has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los
  Angeles), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), and the Contemporary Art
  Gallery (Vancouver). Since 1993, Barrow has used an overhead projector
  to relay ideas and short narratives. Specifically, he creates and adapts
  comic book narratives to a "manual" form of animation by projecting,
  layering and manipulating drawings on mylar transparencies. Barrow
  variously refers to this practice as "graphic performance, live
  illustration, or manual animation."

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/
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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4/14
Rochester NY: Arc Light
http://www.croquetshows.com
8pm, The Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave

 POP LANDSCAPES: MICHAEL ROBINSON IN PERSON
  Mining the depths of popular culture has become the zeitgeist within
  media arts these days, the de facto creative means for an army of young
  talent. From the late-70s work of Dara Birnbaum to the contemporary
  circuit-bending of Cory Archangel and the video collective Paper Rad,
  our culture is repeatedly vivisected and reinterpreted. Pop will eat
  itself, to be sure, but postmodernism is surely a ruminant beast,
  continually regurgitating and digesting itself. After over 30 years of
  analysis, one would expect very little left to be said about these
  modern times, and then along comes an artist like Michael Robinson. The
  film and video work of Michael Robinson consists of equal parts
  landscape cinematography and pop culture mashup, and it is through the
  interaction between these two seemingly disparate modes of filmmaking
  that his work becomes transcendent. Milking out every drop of saccharine
  bliss from pop songs, Michael sweetens the normally doom-ridden theme of
  humanity's failure to achieve heaven on Earth in Victory Over the Sun
  (2007). And We All Shine On (2006) is interested in the harmonies and
  discordances brought out by positioning and repositioning the natural
  world around the virtual, while you don't bring me flowers (2005)
  investigates our fascination with pictorial tourism through a slideshow
  of National Geographic two-page landscape spreads. 2007's Light is
  Waiting uses a heavily manipulated, very special episode of Full House
  as fodder to launch in to an examination of our media's colonialist
  tendencies toward the exotic Other. DM. Other films to be screened
  include The General Returns From One Place to Another (2006), Tidal
  (2002), Chiquita and the Soft Escape (2003), and his most recent video,
  All Through the Night (2008) To find out more about Robinson go to
  www.poisonberries.net Hosted by Doug McLaren, Jason Middleton and
  Antonella Bonfanti Co-sponsored by University of Rochester Department of
  English and the Film and Media Studies Program Special Thanks to Jim
  Healy, Michael Neault and www.croquetshows.com

4/14
Shreveport, Louisiana: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, mini-cine, 846 Texas Avenue

 BEARDED CHILD FILM FESTIVAL
  A selection of underground and experimental short films from the Bearded
  Child Film Festival.

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4/15
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor

 WE MELT AWAY (A WALKING PICTURE PALACE OF ICE)
  Thirty years ago as part of a series of film projection pieces called
  Trespass I projected uninvited images through windows of selected houses
  and onto rooftops covered with freshly fallen snow. In the case of the
  interiors the images ran away before they could be apprehended, the
  duration of the piece lasting until someone walked into the room. The
  snow images endured for longer periods of time on sparkling feathery
  screens. Uneven accumulation creating illusions of depth and variable
  focus. My first cinematic vision was a hallucination that came after
  three days on a houseboat on the Hudson without food reading Brothers
  Karamazov when I was barely in my teens. A vision like a Jan Toorop
  symbolist painting of virgin deities encased in ice, a young boy skating
  on the frozen surface inches from their linked naked bodies. All of this
  revealed with a soaring crane shot. This program takes us into the
  glacial territory of The Snow Queen where love is mocked and infinity
  triumphs over eternity while Cyndi Lauper gives us useless hope. A child
  of snow shivers and smiles as time moves in reverse and snow ascends
  skyward. Houses collapse haunted and infirm echoing Poe and Gorey. A
  hypnotized subject half-woman half-cat suspends in memory spirals, one
  claw stuck in the scratching post of repressed sexuality. Seances and
  hymns telepathic communications between the species. Richard Pryor does
  stand up from beyond the grave. Transparent images lie down and give up
  the ghost. We see through a glass darkly. Finally we shed our body and
  move across the surface of the known world, revisiting the scenes of a
  life brought to an early stillness splashing down in oceanic oblivion...
  - MM Lunatic Princess, Mark LaPore, video, 2005, 4 mins House, Ben
  Rivers, 16mm, 2007, 6 mins Singing Biscotts, Luther Price, 2007, 16mm, 6
  mins A Hallow Kiss for Mark LaPore, Luther Price, 16mm, 2008, 4 mins The
  Mongrel Sister, Luther Price, 16mm, 2007, 7 mins Black and White Trypps
  Number Four, Ben Russell, video, 2008, 12 mins All Through the Night,
  Michael Robinson, video, 2007, 4 mins Zelienople, Darcy Shreve, video,
  2007, 4 mins Phantom, Luke Sieczek, video, 2007, 7 mins Rehearsals for
  Retirement: In Memoriam Mark LaPore, Phil Solomon, video, 2007, 11 mins
  Curated by Mark McElhatten.

4/15
Fort Worth, TX: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, 1919 Hempill

 BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
  A selection of underground and experimental films from the Bearded Child
  Film Festival.

4/15
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College

 TONGUES UNTIED
  Tongues Untied (1990, 55 min.) by MARLON RIGGS. A central work of Queer
  Cinema as experimental/personal/documentary: "Tongues Untied was
  motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America's brutalizing
  silence around matters of sexual and racial difference. Yet despite a
  concerted smear and censorship campaign, perhaps even because of it,
  this work achieved its aim. The 55-minute video documents a nationwide
  community of voices--some quietly poetic, some undeniably raw and
  angry--which together challenge society's most deeply entrenched myths
  about what it means to be black, gay, a man, and above all, human." –
  Marlon Riggs. Tongues Untied has achieved international acclaim: from
  the Berlin, London and New York Documentary Film Festivals, the National
  Black Programming Consortium and the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, as
  well as the Whitney Museum; it won the AFI Maya Deren Award for
  Independent Film & Video. In addition to producing other films, Riggs
  taught at UC Berkeley. He died of AIDS in 1994.

4/15
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
APRIL 15 - 16 and 22-23, Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:15, 9:15pm, 1515 12th Ave

 THE SHORT FILMS OF APICHATPONG WEERASTHAKUL
  APRIL 15 - 23 THE SHORT FILMS OF APICHATPONG WEERASTHAKUL "World
  cinema's premier maker of mysterious objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  is on a one-man mission to change the way we watch movies. Rich and
  strange, postmodern and prehistoric, his films foster an experience of
  serene bewilderment and –for the willing viewer – euphoric surrender.
  They are suffused with a sense of wide-open possibility that sometimes
  explodes into epiphany."–Dennis Lim, THE VILLAGE VOICE Apichatpong
  Weerasethakul (SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, TROPICAL MALADY) is a key figure
  in modern Thai film and a highly original moving-image artist. He
  studied architecture at Khon Kaen University before completing a Master
  of Fine Arts in filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of
  Chicago. Influenced by American experimental film, Weerasethakul is one
  of a small group of independent filmmakers working outside the Thai
  studio system. His video installations, shorts and feature films explore
  the genres of documentary and fiction in uniquely Thai contexts. Thai
  television, radio and comics provide story elements that may be enacted
  or embroidered by the characters that drive Weerasethakul's films. These
  two programs comprise rarely seen short works made by the acclaimed
  director over the past 14 years. Special thanks to Apichatpong
  Weerasethakul, Jed Rapfogel (Anthology Film Archives), Lee
  Chatametikool, Mark McElhatten and Isabelle Park (Jeonju International
  Film Festival). Full schedule of films with descriptions at
  nwfilmforum.org

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4/16
Austin, TX: Harry Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
7pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E. 6th Street

 BEAT FILM SERIES #3
  Alfred Leslie's The Last Clean Shirt (1964), 39 min., 16 mm. Shot in one
  long take from the back seat of a wandering convertible, the audience
  watches as the silent driver is subjected to a treatise on angst,
  delivered by his female passenger. Print courtesy of Alfred Leslie and
  the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Peter Whitehead's Wholly Communion
  (1965), 33 min., 16 mm. A documentary record of the Royal Albert Hall in
  1965 in London. While Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Corso, and others read,
  7,000 people filled the hall, and 3,000 more waited outside. Print
  courtesy of Contemporary Films, London, UK. Anthony Balch and William S.
  Burroughs's Towers Open Fire (1962), 10 min., 35 mm. A print with
  hand-colored cells, of a filmic representation of Burroughs's radical
  "cut-up" technique. Its title is taken from the phrase repeated in the
  film by Burroughs himself. Print courtesy of the British Film Institute,
  London, UK. Christopher MacLaine's The End (1953), 35 min., 16 mm. and
  Beat (1958), 4 min. 16 mm. MacLaine's early experimental short feature
  The End distractedly follows six random people through a frustratingly
  quotidian day to a preordained yet unexpected climax, capturing the
  uneasy veneer of postwar America. Beat uses similar techniques to depict
  San Francisco Beat culture. Print courtesy of Film-Maker' Cooperative of
  New York.

4/16
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8 PM, Screening Room 1, East Hall, Film Department, Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue

 MICHAEL ROBINSON IN PERSON AT MASS ART FILM SOCIETY
  YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS 8:00, 16mm, 2005 Viewed at its seams, a
  collection of National Geographic landscapes from the 1960s and 70's
  conjures an obsolete romanticism currently peddled to propagate
  entitlement and individualism from sea to shining sea; the slideshow
  deforms into a bright white distress signal. THE GENERAL RETURNS FROM
  ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER 11:00, dv, 2007 Learning to love again, with fear
  at its side, the film draws balance between the romantic and the horrid,
  shaping a concurrently skeptical and indulgent experience of the
  beautiful. A Frank O'Hara monologue (from a play of the same title)
  attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are
  stronger forces surfacing. TIDAL 6:30, 16mm, 2001 A love story told
  through the newly haunted home my parents shared for twenty-eight years.
  Second in a series of three films made during the year of my father's
  death. and we all shine on (7:00, 16mm, 2006) An ill wind is
  transmitting through the lonely night, spreading myth and deception
  along its murky path. Conjuring a vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise,
  this unworldly broadcast reveals its hidden demons via layered
  landscapes and karaoke, singing the dangers of the mediated spirit.
  LIGHT IS WAITING 11:00, dv, 2007 A very special episode of television's
  Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic
  nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family
  entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.
  CHIQUITITIA AND THE SOFT ESCAPE 10:00, 16mm, 2003 What began as an
  effort at proving nostalgia to be a purely mechanical process became an
  argument for the opposite through its assembly. Twin attempts at
  structuring images of home and loved-ones collapse in the face of the
  romantic. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 4:00, dv, 2008 A charred visitation with
  an icy language of control; there is no room for love. VICTORY OVER THE
  SUN 12:30, 16mm, 2007 Dormant sites of past World's Fairs breed an
  eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism
  and failure. For thine is the kingdom and the power and glory; nothing
  lasts forever, even cold November rain.

4/16
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street

 SFAI FILM SALON: PURPOSEFUL ACTIONS
  Shot soon after the fall of the Chinese "Gang of Four", Daniel Barnett's
  Chinese Typewriter is a filmic essay in which multiple levels of
  articulation emerge by way of image relation and disassociation, the fi
  lm weaves analogies of thought and language, symbol and gesture,
  education and politics, towards the assertion of an interior language.
  Curt Thomas's Accidental and Purposeful Actions is a contemplative study
  of the meaning emerging within and between images. Standish Lawder's
  Necrology creates a disturbing, yet transfixing transformation of the
  commute of a workday crowd. Program to include: Accidental & Purposeful
  Actions, Curt Thomas, 4 min. The Chinese Typewriter, Daniel Barnett
  1978, 28 min. Necrology, Standish Lawder, 1970, 12min. All films on 16mm
  For more information contact: email suppressed or
  (address suppressed) The SFAI Film Salon is supported by the SFAI
  Student Union and Legion of Graduate Students (LOGS)

4/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 pm, 317 Dundas Street West (use the east entrance at McCaul St.)

 CFMDC'S RE-GENERATION
  Cinematheque Ontario's THE FREE SCREEN presents CFMDC's
  Re-Generation.What better way to celebrate a big birthday than by
  throwing a party and ensuring some great gifts? To mark their 40th
  anniversary last year, the CFMDC (Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution
  Centre) commissioned seven artists to make works inspired by films that
  are significant to them as image-makers. Premieres meet archetypes from
  the avant-garde in this unique evening that pairs new films with their
  influential companion pieces. What better way to celebrate a big
  birthday than by throwing a party and ensuring some great gifts? To mark
  their 40th anniversary last year, the CFMDC (Canadian Filmmakers'
  Distribution Centre) commissioned seven artists to make works inspired
  by films that are significant to them as image-makers. Premieres meet
  archetypes from the avant-garde in this unique evening that pairs new
  films with their influential companion pieces. Adam Garnet Jones's
  Secret Weapons is an intensely personal animated film essay whose formal
  qualities speak to Mike Hoolboom's seminal, award-winning Frank's Cock
  (1993). Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof fashions a visual duet comprised of a
  16mm film, The Garden of Earthy Delights, and a self-portrait photogram
  motivated by the incomparable virtuosity of Stan Brakhage's Christ Mass
  Sex Dance (1991). Jerry Thevent's Shelley renders homage to Shelley
  Niro's work in its meditation on binding relationships between nature,
  Western ideals, and native life in Canada. Louise Bourque's use of home
  movies in Fissures (1999) triggers a promise from mother to son in Lise
  Beaudry's La Vie en pellicule. With a playful, destructive spirit, Chris
  Gehman's Rostrum Press: Materials Testing "responds to an isolated
  aspect of two films by Michael Snow: Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)
  (1972-76) and Presents(1980-81), with an additional/incidental nod to
  Snow's Wavelength (1967)" (Chris Gehman). Afghanimation by Allyson
  Mitchell celebrates Joyce Wieland's brawn and brash, and her enduring
  legacy. Crushed by Susan Justin is a miniature study of grief and
  tribute to Midi Onodera's The Basement Girl (2000). –Andréa Picard.
  Filmmakers in attendance. This is a FREE ticketed event.

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4/17
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6 pm, 164 N. State St.

 YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE TIME YOU DO: MOMENTS IN THE LIVES OF PRISONERS
  With filmmaker Laurie Jo Reynolds in person! Prison has long been a
  popular setting for motion pictures, from the oft-remade Man in the Iron
  Mask to recent Oscar-nominated hits Dead Man Walking and The Shawshank
  Redemption. Rarer is the film that examines the prison system's
  complicated impact on individuals, families, and communities. Artists
  Laurie Jo Reynolds and Robert Todd take on this challenge in a pair of
  lyrical essays on the experiences of incarcerated men and women. Weaving
  together pop cultural imagery and prison phone conversations, Reynolds'
  collage-like Space Ghost (2007) explores confinement and isolation in
  the lives of astronauts and the imprisoned. Todd's In Loving Memory
  (2005) juxtaposes the reflections of prisoners on their lives with
  haunting landscape shots of prisons around the country, in a moving
  meditation on memory and a compelling critique of the death penalty.
  Presented as part of a series of events organized by the Tamms Poetry
  Committee marking the ten-year anniversary of the Tamms supermax prison
  in Tamms, Illinois. (2005–07, various directors, USA, multiple formats,
  ca 90 min.

4/17
Dallas, TX: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, Avenue Arts Venue, 825 Exposition Ave.

 BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
  A selection of underground and experimental short films from the Bearded
  Child Film Festival.

4/17
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8 p.m., Rice University - Herring Hall, 6100 Main

 MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: NEGATIVLAND
  Thursday, April 17: It's All in Your Head FM, Negativland Herring Hall,
  Rice University, live broadcast on KTRU, 91.7 During this live
  performance of an imaginary radio show, audience members wear blindfolds
  as they listen to samples of people discussing the various facets of
  Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and other major religions, and the role of
  religion in society. The performance is narrated by the fictional radio
  host, Dr. Oslo Norway (inspired by Garrison Keillor).

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4/18
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8 p.m., Orange Show Center

 MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: BRENT GREEN
  Friday, April 18: Untitled Performance, Brent Green Orange Show Center
  for Visionary Art RAIN LOCATION: Aurora Picture Show Brent Green will
  perform a live narration to his stop animation films, while his
  three-piece orchestra performs an improvised soundtrack. "The animations
  of self-taught filmmaker Brent Green are marked by morbid topics and
  quivering imagery paired with discordant indie-rock sound tracks.
  They've gained attention in the art and film worlds for the good reason
  that they are easy to like. With an impressive cinematic sense, an
  endearing handmade esthetic defined by exposed Scotch tape, and a vision
  that is equal parts Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton, they show considerable
  promise for an artist only 27."—Art in America

4/18
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street

 ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
  The Falls (# 1 – # 42), Peter Greenaway (UK), 1980, 97 of 185 min.
  Continues April 25.

4/18
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
  Friday 18 April, 19.00 Programme 12: Marylène Negro Marylène Negro's
  work seeks to re-open the question of optical experience. At stake here
  is the manner in which things appear (light, a landscape, a face,
  movement), captured with a radical, delicate elegance. Le Pont, 4'50",
  2001 Ravalement, 5'43", 2001 Raid, 3'30", 2006 Une nuit, 3'57", 2006 Pa,
  4'55", 2007 Message, 35", 2007 Elding, 37', 2006 Programme duration 62
  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.

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