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This week [April 19 - 27, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Next Shorts 1 - Luke Fowler X 3 [April 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* 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]
* Ghosting the Image [April 21, Gent, BELGIUM]
* An Evening With Carolee Schneemann [April 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Next Shorts 1 – Luke Fowler X3 [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Next Shorts 2 – After Communism [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Way We Were (Or: What Happened To Us?) [April 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Playtime [April 22, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* The Man Who Crossed the Sahara and Mr. Edison's Ear [April 22, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Magic Lantern Presents:"The Story Show" With Stephanie Barber [April 22, providence, ri]
* Beat Film Series #4 [April 23, Austin, TX]
* Stephanie Barber In Person [April 23, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Sfai Film Salon: New Left Notes [April 23, San Francisco, California]
* Next Shorts 2 – After Communism [April 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Daniel Barrow Live Animation Performance: Every Time I See Your Picture I
Cry [April 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* Open Screening [April 24, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Electromediascope [April 25, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 25, London, England]
* The Man Who Crossed the Sahara / Mr. Edison's Ear [April 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Next Shorts 3 – Mapping Identity [April 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Madcat Women's International Film Festival 2008 Tour Presents “Id Docs” [April 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Lucha Libre + Rock'n'roll Made In Mexico [April 26, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 2: Steve Fagin [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Shine On: Films By Michael Robinson [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Ghost In the Reel Change [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Next Shorts 3 – Mapping Identity [April 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008
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4/19
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
ART DOCS SERIES: SMILE BOSTON PROJECT AND THE SMUTTY PROFESSOR
In the summer of 2003, Bren Bataclan began leaving paintings of his
colorful characters for people to take all over the Boston area on park
benches, in subway stations, schoolyards, and other public locations. To
each painting Bataclan attached a note that read, "This painting is
yours to keep if you promise to smile at random people more often."
Smile Boston Project (directed by David Tamés, 20 min., 2007, USA)
covers the project from its inception in the summer of 2003 through the
spring of 2007, examining Bataclan's influences, his goals, and the
reactions of the people who have found, purchased, and critiqued his
paintings. One of America's best known low-budget "underground"
filmmakers, George Kuchar is also famous for his outrageously campy
collaborations with his students at the San Francisco Art Institute.
During the making of one of his sci-fi dramas, "The Planet of the
Vamps", student Marc Rokoff took it upon himself to actually document
the insanity that takes place in Kuchar's class. Edited by Kuchar, The
Smutty Professor (40 min., 2003, USA), is a "lively record of the
production class in action as it tackles the teleplay with a minuscule
budget and scanty costuming. It's a behind-the-scenes exposé of creative
desperation and unbridled youth tackling the passions of dramatic
exposition and erotic excess with kindergarten kinship."—Kuchar Also
screening is That Which Sustains (directed by Tamir Elterman, 6 min.,
2007, USA)
4/19
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8 p.m., DiverseWorks Artspace
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY: SHANA MOULTON AND TARA MATEIK
Saturday, April 19: Putting the Balls Away, Tara Mateik DiverseWorks Art
Space In 'Putting the Balls Away,' Tara Mateik reenacts the legendary
'Battle of the Sexes,' Billie Jean King's 1973 defeat of the former
Wimbledon men's champion, Bobby Riggs. By playing both roles in a video
version of the match, and reviving remarks by sports commentators Howard
Cosell and Rosie Casals, Mateik recalls the controversy sparked by the
most watched televised sporting event of the era. Saturday, April 19:
Cynthia's Moment, Shana Moulton DiverseWorks Art Space Shana Moulton
will play her character, Cynthia, the fictional protagonist in her
Whispering Pines series of videos. Moulton will bring Cynthia and her
strange world to life through an innovative use of sets, props, costume
and projected video. Combining live-action and projected video, Moulton
describes her performance as presenting "a series of home-made and found
orthopedic devices, cosmetics and belief systems." Moulton's
presentation will at different points approximate a personal growth
workshop, dance recital, instructional video and fairytale.
4/19
London, England: Tate
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Saturday 19 April, 19.00 Programme 13: Ange Leccia and Dominique
Gonzalez Foerster Ange Leccia and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, major
figures on the international contemporary art scene, both address cinema
in their work. Gonzalez-Foerster produces films, installations and
performances that stage the unfolding of psychological and emotional
dramas. Leccia deploys video projections in architectural interventions
and arrangements, to relay stories of personal and public dramas. Ange
Leccia, Stridura, 1980, 13', 16mm Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Plages,
2001, 15', 35mm Ange Leccia, True Romance, 2004, 5', video Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Atomic Park, 2004, 9', 35mm Ange Leccia, Perfect Day,
2007, 67', video Programme duration 110' 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.
4/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
MACIAS' OTAKU USA + GAMERA (AMPLIFIED)
Here's the national editor of Otaku USA, Patrick Macias, with his
outrageous sub-cultural survey, taking us on a breathless wild ride
through Weird Tokyo. With 3 books behind him, Patrick's become the main
agent for interpreting Japanese youth genres like anime, manga, and cult
films, and his years of trans-Pacific travel have generated a veritable
encyclopedia of bizarre fan-boy obsessions. Among the features of the
feverish J-Pop imagination are the maid cafes of Akihabara,
action-figure fetish cults (both erotic and warrior), costume
role-playing, and delinquent bikers, revealed in all their exotic detail
through Macias' anecdote-rich live narration. Consummating the program
is a monstrous sample of old-school exploitation, the incredible last
reel of Gamera, the Invincible, in glorious 16mm B/W, with live
soundtrack "enhancement" by Hans Grusel-san and the Anti-Ear. Free robot
model kits and magazines, too! *$8.
4/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: HOT DOCS Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://hotdocsaudience.bside.com/2008/films/category/Next/page/2
9:15pm, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 1 - LUKE FOWLER X 3
NEXT SHORTS 1 – Luke Fowler x3 Co-presented with Images Festival
Pilgrimage From Scattered Points D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2006 / 45 min
Filmmaker Luke Fowler depicts the Scratch Orchestra's composer Cornelius
Cardew in action, resonating in a brilliant, impressionistic visual
landscape. Sound and image unite to form a hypnotic and freely
associating current, which reaches far into the subjective sphere of
experimental film. Bogman Palmjaguar D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2007 / 30 min
The reclusive life of Bogman Palmjaguar, a one-time patient of
iconoclast "anti-psychiatry" psychotherapist R.D. Laing. Evocative field
recordings, landscape imagery and personal narrative are meticulously
interwoven to produce a portrait not only of a man who desperately
sought refuge but of the surrounding environment in which he seeks
solace. What You See Is Where You're At D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2001 / 28
min A disturbing collage of found and archived recordings constructs a
profile of renegade psychotherapist R. D. Laing's "anti-psychiatry"
movement. In 1965, a community of 20 people-anti-psychiatry leaders,
including Laing himself, and their former "patients"-move in together.
Over the next five years, they collectively explore the definitions of
madness. The film re-appraises the culture of oppressive psychiatry and
multinational pharmaceutical companies.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008
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4/20
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Experiments in Cinema
http://www.basementfilms.org/
1pm, Guild Cinema
FILM/VIDEO WORK BY SCOTT STARK
Guest artist and legendary experimentalist, Scott Stark will present a
program of his film/video work. 16mm films: Air (1986), I'll Walk with
God (1994), Angel Beach (2001). Video: Chop (2003), To Love or To Die
(2003), Shape Shift (2004), More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
(2006).
4/20
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:00PM, 322 Union Avenue
"LIGHT SPILL" & "HAPPY MONDAY"
UnionDocs presents an installation of experimental film works by artists
Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Andrew Filippone Jr. Two films will be
featured: Gibson and Recoder's Light Spill and Filippone's Happy Monday.
Both works use traditional materials of cinema – namely, film and a
light source – to explore space, light, and time. For Sandra Gibson and
Luis Recoder's Light Spill, the content of their film is secondary to
the conceptual exploration of their chosen medium. As the film runs, the
projector spews the contents onto the floor, allowing a pile to
accumulate throughout the exhibition. As the artists point out, their
work "recasts the light mechanics of a peculiar estrangement of the
medium. The art of cinema, yes, but more timely: the becoming cinema of
art. That is the coming attraction." In Happy Monday, Andrew Filippone
Jr. returns to his first film project – a failed and unfinished
decade-old narrative short – and recasts the abandoned 16mm film
negative into something he calls a "documentary film object." He
arranges the negative into a vague human body shape and presents it on a
large light box over which audiences linger. The frozen moments from the
unfinished short film are "entombed" in the frames of the negative, he
says, expressing both the failure of the original project and a critique
of his younger filmmaker self. Gibson and Recoder have shown work at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1 MoMA, The Kitchen, Barbican Art
Gallery (London), KW (Berlin), TENT (Rotterdam), Palais des Beaux-Arts
(Brussels), and Image Forum (Tokyo). Filippone's films have screened at
d>art03 at the 50th Sydney Film Festival, Videomedeja, AIM IV: Art in
Motion, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Hot Springs
Documentary Film Festival, and on PBS. The exhibit opens at 7PM. There
is a suggested donation of $8.
4/20
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Filmforum presents Carolee Schneemann in person with Kitch's Last Meal
(1973-78, 54 minutes, Super 8, color, dual projection, separate sound;
New restoration of original film reels/separate sound; Screening format
to be determined.) Schneemann's cat, Kitch, which was featured in works
such as Fuses, was a major figure in Schneemann's work for almost twenty
years. The film documents the routines of daily life whilst time passes,
a relationship winds down and death closes in: filming and recording
stopped when the elderly cat died. Schneemann will also be at REDCAT on
April 21 and UCLA Film & Television Archive on April 25. Los Angeles
Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas.
Sunday April 20 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
4/20
New York, New York: Collective Sight
http://www.collectivesight.org
3 pm, Unisphere, Flushing Meadows, Queens
COLLECTIVE SIGHT
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. Take part in one or both events! Basic
instruction in cell phone operation/video file transfer will be
provided. The videos will be combined into a single piece, and all
participants receive digital copy and cinematographer credit. 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.
4/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
ESSAY ON CAMERA WORK
Kwame Braun and Chris Kennedy In Person. Tonight's films divulge the
buried undercurrents of institutional manipulation, emotional experience
and the social politics imbedded within documentary images and image
making. Kwame Braun's experimental video essay, passing girl:
riverside—An Essay on Camera Work, unfolds the complexities of emotion
and politics entwined within a simple moment between a young girl and a
man with a video camera. Memo to Pic Desk, by Chris Kennedy and Anna van
der Meulen, takes an idiosyncratic look at the theatricality of vintage
news photography using typewritten materials from the archives of the
Toronto Daily to disclose how moral codes, delinquency, and freewill are
pulled into an altered coherence. Harun Farocki's Respite resurrects
archival footage from 1941 that documents the life of inmates at the
Dutch transit camp for Jews in Westerbork, Holland. Shot by an inmate of
the camp at the command of an SS officer, the hidden politics of the
images create a visual tension of conflicted interests. Farocki, in an
ode to silent film, has inserted inter-titles with detailed descriptions
of the images as well as his own ruminations on the psychologically
complex footage. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.
4/20
Santa Fe, NM: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, Meow Wolf, 2nd & Cerrillos
BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
A selection of underground and experimental films from the Bearded Child
Film Festival.
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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2008
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4/21
Gent, BELGIUM: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
23:00, Sphinx Cinema, Vooruit Arts Centre
GHOSTING THE IMAGE
cycled images call attention to themselves as 'images', as products of
the cinema and broadcasting industry, as part of the endless stream of
information, entertainment and persuasion that constitutes the
media-saturated environment of modern life. The film and video works
featured in the programme 'Ghosting the Image' disrupt the usual
rhetoric of the media spectacle, characterized by stability and
linearity, and turn it against itself. By destabilizing dominant
narrative structures and exploring the limits of representation, these
works reveal how time, perception and memory are organised. By
dismantling the illusion, these films and videos unmask the ambiguity
and vulnerability of images, revealing what is being systematically
ignored, repressed or left out. As if for a moment the veil of our eyes
was lifted, only to find a world of images staring back at us. with
works by Martin Arnold, Stan Brakhage, Abigail Child, Morgan Fisher,
Nina Fonoroff, Brian Frye, Ken Jacobs, Cathy Joritz, Lewis Klahr, Peter
Kubelka, Owen Land, Maurice Lemaître, Saul Levine, Arthur Lipsett,
Matthias Müller, Pere Portabella, Luther Price, Vanessa Renwick, David
Rimmer, Robert Ryang, Keith Sanborn, Kirk Tougas, Peter Tscherkassky,
Naomi Uman Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz for the
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium (21-27 April 2008). A selection of
these films will also be shown at WORM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (8-9
May 2008). more info: www.courtisane.be www.wormweb.nl
www.diagonalthoughts.com programme: 1. Thu 24.04 22:30 (Cinema Sphinx)
// LATE NIGHT TALES Peter Tscherkassky Outer Space AT, 1999, 10', 35mm,
b/w, sound Pere Portabella Vampir Cuadecuc ES, 1970, 67', 35mm, b/w,
sound 2. Fri 25.04 22:30 (Cinema Sphinx) // DISSONANT RESONANCE Ken
Jacobs Perfect Film US, 1986, 22', 16mm, b/w, sound Arthur Lipsett
Fluxes CA, 1968, 23', 16mm, b/w, sound Abigail Child Mercy US, 1989,
10', 16mm, colour, sound Peter Kubelka Unsere Afrikareise AT, 1966, 13',
16mm, colour, sound Stan Brakhage Murder Psalm US, 1981, 17', 16mm,
colour, silent 3. Sa 26.04 15:00 (Cinema Sphinx) // REMEDIAL RESPONSE
Luther Price Jellyfish Sandwich US, 1994, 17', S8mm, colour, sound Naomi
Uman Removed US, 1999, 6', 16mm, colour, sound Cathy Joritz Negative Man
DE/US, 1985, 3′, 16mm, b/w, sound Owen Land Fleming Faloon US,
1963, 7', 16mm, colour, sound Maurice Lemaître Un Navet FR, 1976, 31',
16mm, colour, sound 4. Sa 26.04 16:30 (Cinema Sphinx) // STORIES UNTOLD
Robert Ryang Shining US, 2005, 2', video, colour, sound Matthias Muller
Home Stories DE, 1990, 6', 16mm, colour, sound Luther Price The Mongrel
Sister US, 2007, 7', 16mm, colour, sound Martin Arnold Alone. Life
Wastes Andy Hardy AT, 1998, 15', 16mm, b&w, sound Nina Fonoroff Some
Phases of an Empire 1984, 9', S8mm, colour, sound Ken Jacobs The
Doctor's Dream US, 1978, 25', 16mm, b/w, sound Maurice Lemaitre The Song
of Rio Jim FR, 1978, 6', 16 mm, b/w, sound 5. Sa 26.04 19:30 (Artcentre
Vooruit) // TIME AFTER TIME Saul Levine The Big Stick / An Old Reel US,
1973, 11', 16mm, b/w, silent David Rimmer Bricolage CA, 1984, 11', 16mm,
colour & b/w, sound Keith Sanborn Operation Double Trouble US, 2003,
10', video, colour, sound Kirk Tougas The Politics of Perception CA,
1973, 33', 16mm,colour, sound 6. Su 26.04 18:00 (Cinema Sphinx) //
GLANCING BACK Vanessa Renwick Britton, South Dakota US, 2003, 9', 16mm
to video, b/w, sound Brian Frye Oona's Veil US, 2000, 8', 16mm, b/w,
sound Lewis Klahr Her Fragrant Emulsion US, 1987, 10', 16mm, colour,
sound Morgan Fisher Standard Gauge US, 1984, 35', 16mm, colour, sound
4/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
AN EVENING WITH CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Carolee Schneemann has never ceased to cross mediums and boundaries to
make work that resonates with raw poetic power. From her collaged war or
diary films and provocative performances to her photos, paintings and
installations, Schneemann's varied and distinctly feminist creations
deconstruct our ingrained preconceptions and everyday assumptions. In
words, images and actions, her art is deeply personal, sharply critical,
intensely expressive, and always innovative. This special evening with
Schneemann features a collection of some of the most highly charged
political statements, erotic episodes and domestic disturbances ever
seen in American avant-garde cinema. The program includes Fuses (1965–7,
29 min., 16mm, silent), Viet-Flakes (1965, 11 min., 16mm), Plumb Line
(1968–71, 18 min., 16mm), and Devour (2003–4, 7:52 min., video). In
person: Carolee Schneemann
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: HOT DOCS Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
7:15 PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 1 – LUKE FOWLER X3
NEXT SHORTS 1 – Luke Fowler x3 Co-presented with Images Festival
Pilgrimage From Scattered Points D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2006 / 45 min
Filmmaker Luke Fowler depicts the Scratch Orchestra's composer Cornelius
Cardew in action, resonating in a brilliant, impressionistic visual
landscape. Sound and image unite to form a hypnotic and freely
associating current, which reaches far into the subjective sphere of
experimental film. Bogman Palmjaguar D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2007 / 30 min
The reclusive life of Bogman Palmjaguar, a one-time patient of
iconoclast "anti-psychiatry" psychotherapist R.D. Laing. Evocative field
recordings, landscape imagery and personal narrative are meticulously
interwoven to produce a portrait not only of a man who desperately
sought refuge but of the surrounding environment in which he seeks
solace. What You See Is Where You're At D: Luke Fowler / UK / 2001 / 28
min A disturbing collage of found and archived recordings constructs a
profile of renegade psychotherapist R. D. Laing's "anti-psychiatry"
movement. In 1965, a community of 20 people-anti-psychiatry leaders,
including Laing himself, and their former "patients"-move in together.
Over the next five years, they collectively explore the definitions of
madness. The film re-appraises the culture of oppressive psychiatry and
multinational pharmaceutical companies.
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: HOT DOCS Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
9:45PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 2 – AFTER COMMUNISM
NEXT SHORTS 2 – After Communism Co-presented with Images Festival Rosa's
Letters - Telling a Story D: Pia Rönicke / Denmark / 2006 / 44 min
Rosa's Letters - Telling a Story centres on the letters of Rosa
Luxemburg (1870-1919), pioneering Polish socialist, philosopher and
revolutionary. But rather than simply documenting the life of a
historical personality, artist Pia Rönicke appropriates the letters in a
deliberately subjective manner. A fascinating transformation takes place
as intimate letters become publicly accessible, historical documents.
Screening with: Alles wird wieder gut D: Frédéric Moser Philippe
Schwinger / Germany / 2006 / 20 min In his 1917 "Farewell Letter to
Swiss Workers," Lenin lauds the "proletarian revolution that is
beginning in Europe." His words take on modern relevance, raising
questions of social utopias in this layered observation of village life
in an East German community. The Head / Der Kopf D: Deimantas
Narkevicius / Lithuania / 2007 / 13 min In 1970s Vilnius, Lithuania,
sculptor Lew Kerbel unveils his 40-ton bust of Karl Marx to a crowd of
more than 250,000 people. Only 20 years later, the nation's revolution
stamps out all traces of social realism in the country. Within just a
few days, almost all of the monuments from the Soviet era are torn down.
Sculptor and filmmaker Narkevicius revisits people's reactions to the
massive monument, both then and now. Sand Quarry D: Raphaël Grisey /
Germany / 2006 / 6 min Inspired by the search for a Lenin statue that
was moved in the wake of German political shifts, the video explores an
urban environment for traces of a leftwing resistance, revolutions and
revolutionaries.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2008
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4/22
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
THE WAY WE WERE (OR: WHAT HAPPENED TO US?)
Bush being handed a cute dog from a child and promptly dropping it on
its back, or banging his head as he enters a helicopter. Oh, our
bumbling President...was it ever funny? We laughed, but certainly
nothing about anything relating to Bush II seems amusing anymore. And a
decades old cartoon, Trouble in Baghdad, in which a friendly genie is
imprisoned? Well. Images of war fill David White's Blue Christmas, set
to songs by Nat King Cole ("It wouldn't be make believe if you believed
in me") and images from a sun-filled Yuletide in Sacramento. Was that
what my town looked like? ("I went back to Ohio...") And love? My Love
by Michel Auder, with text by Niki de Saint Phalle. Remembering an
affair. Remembering how we used to get along together. As a couple. Or
as many people: ethnicities, nationalities. Litany of Happy People,
Karpo Godina's portrait of a bloc. And a film itself, as an object
identified with a moment. This May will be the 5th anniversary of a 35th
anniversary. Jacques Monory's Ex, projected at Ocularis 60 months ago
for the occasion, who was there then and who will see it again? We
remember not the reason for the screening, but where we were at when we
screened it. Bush strides across the White House lawn, looks back, and
spits on the grass. You wrote your own epitaph. Blue Christmas, David
White, 16mm, 197?, 15 mins My Love, Michel Auder, video, 1978, 6 mins
Trouble in Baghdad, 16mm, 1963, 7 mins Ex, Jacques Monory, 16mm, 1968, 4
mins Litany of Happy People, Karpo Godina, video, 1972, 15 mins +
assorted television clips. Curated by Jacob Perlin.
4/22
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
PLAYTIME
Playtime (1967, 124 min.) by JACQUES TATI. A modernist comic
masterpiece, shot in 70mm, on one of the most elaborate (and expensive)
sets in European film history, starring the director (as the inimitable
Mr. Hulot), his cast, and most of all the mise-en-scene (every detail
Tati's from start to finish.) François Truffaut wrote that Playtime was
"a film that comes from another planet, where they make films
differently." Jonathan Rosenbaum suggests that the film "…directs us to
look around at the world we live in (the one we keep building), then at
each other, and to see how funny that relationship is and how many
brilliant possibilities we still have in a shopping-mall world that
perpetually suggests otherwise; to look and see that there are many
possibilities and that the play between them, activated by the dance of
our gaze, can become a kind of comic ballet, one that we both observe
and perform." "[When] I started getting excited about movies, it was
foreign films, [including]…all of Jacques Tati's films."- David Lynch
4/22
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
7:00 PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
THE MAN WHO CROSSED THE SAHARA AND MR. EDISON'S EAR
The Man Who Crossed the Sahara World Premiere D: Korbett Matthews Canada
53 min Filmmaker Frank Cole is consumed by thoughts of death. Driven to
cross the "white man's grave" - the Sahara - alone, Cole's haunting
black and white footage sublimely evokes his epic, and ultimately
tragic, journey. Screening with: Mr. Edison's Ear World Premiere D:
Francisca Duran Canada 32 min A fascinating and playful exploration of
the magic of the phonograph and its brilliant deaf creator.
4/22
providence, ri: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, The Cable Car Cinema 204 S. Main Street, Providence, RI
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS:"THE STORY SHOW" WITH STEPHANIE BARBER
Tuesday April 22, 2008 9:30 pm MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS: "THE STORY SHOW"
with Stephanie Barber The Cable Car Cinema 204 S. Main Street,
Providence, RI $5 Admission www.magiclanterncinema.com
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2008
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4/23
Austin, TX: Harry Ransom Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
7pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E. 6th Street
BEAT FILM SERIES #4
Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963), 29 min., 35 mm. At a motorcycle
gang's party, all the women are asked to leave. The result a wild
montage of bad party behavior is an early homoerotic icon. Print
courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funded by
The Film Foundation. Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), 3 min., 35 mm. This
shorter Anger piece features a young man lovingly washing his custom
car, raising questions of material priorities while simultaneously
celebrating them. Print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Preservation funded by The Film Foundation. Roger Corman's Bucket of
Blood (1959), 66 min., 35mm. The only Beatsploitation film in the
series, this camp classic tells the story of a nerdy busboy in a
coffeehouse whose works transform him into an art star. Print courtesy
of Swank Motion Pictures.
4/23
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, Screening Room 1, East Hall in the Film Department, Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue
STEPHANIE BARBER IN PERSON
Mass Art Film Society Wednesday April 23 at 8pm Stephanie Barber in
Person FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN (1996 16mm 6 min.) THEY INVENTED
MACHINES (1997 16mm 7 min) SHIPFILM (1998 16mm 3 min.) LETTERS, NOTES
(1997 16mm 6 min.) DOGS (2000 16mm 15 min.) TOTAL POWER, DEAD DEAD DEAD
(2005 16mm 3 min) CATALOG (2005 16 mm 11 min.) DWARFS THE SEA (2007 mini
dv 7 min) THE VISIT AND THE PLAY (2008 mini dv 8 min) THE INVERSION,
TRANSCRIPTION, EVENING TRACK AND ATTRACTOR (2008 mini dv 13 min) For
more information visit: http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
4/23
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
SFAI FILM SALON: NEW LEFT NOTES
Taking a personal and experimental documentary form, Lin+Lam's
Unidentified Vietnam 18 interrogates the troubled relationships of truth
and history, our position to a hidden and unknown past, and the present
shadows of government interventions. Bridging a formal radicalism with
the fervent energies of an activist commitment, Saul Levine's New Left
Note is an assertive, kaleidoscopic portrait of social and political
movements. In Ernie Gehr's This Side of Paradise the ground seems to
reflect both past and future, an in-between of loss and possibility.
Program to include (all on 16mm): This Side of Paradise, Ernie Gehr,
1991, 14 min. Unidentified Vietnam no. 18, Lin+Lam, 2007, 30 min. New
Left Note, Saul Levine, 1982, 28 min. 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)
4/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
4:15PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 2 – AFTER COMMUNISM
NEXT SHORTS 2 – After Communism Co-presented with Images Festival Rosa's
Letters - Telling a Story D: Pia Rönicke / Denmark / 2006 / 44 min
Rosa's Letters - Telling a Story centres on the letters of Rosa
Luxemburg (1870-1919), pioneering Polish socialist, philosopher and
revolutionary. But rather than simply documenting the life of a
historical personality, artist Pia Rönicke appropriates the letters in a
deliberately subjective manner. A fascinating transformation takes place
as intimate letters become publicly accessible, historical documents.
Alles wird wieder gut D: Frédéric Moser Philippe Schwinger / Germany /
2006 / 20 min In his 1917 "Farewell Letter to Swiss Workers," Lenin
lauds the "proletarian revolution that is beginning in Europe." His
words take on modern relevance, raising questions of social utopias in
this layered observation of village life in an East German community.
The Head / Der Kopf D: Deimantas Narkevicius / Lithuania / 2007 / 13 min
In 1970s Vilnius, Lithuania, sculptor Lew Kerbel unveils his 40-ton bust
of Karl Marx to a crowd of more than 250,000 people. Only 20 years
later, the nation's revolution stamps out all traces of social realism
in the country. Within just a few days, almost all of the monuments from
the Soviet era are torn down. Sculptor and filmmaker Narkevicius
revisits people's reactions to the massive monument, both then and now.
Sand Quarry D: Raphaël Grisey / Germany / 2006 / 6 min Inspired by the
search for a Lenin statue that was moved in the wake of German political
shifts, the video explores an urban environment for traces of a leftwing
resistance, revolutions and revolutionaries.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008
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4/24
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
DANIEL BARROW LIVE ANIMATION PERFORMANCE: EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I
CRY
The overhead projector takes center stage in Winnipeg artist Daniel
Barrow's darkly whimsical "manual animation" performances. Layering and
drawing directly on a series of Mylar transparencies, Barrow combines
his projected illustrations with video, original music, and live
narration to spin gothic tales of beauty and despair. His newest
performance, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry, chronicles the story
of a trash collector with a vision to create a kind of independent
yearbook for his city, reconstructing each resident's history from the
refuse he collects. His cataloging efforts are derailed, however, when a
lunatic begins to hunt down and kill the subject of each entry in his
book, forcing the collector to look inward and examine his own story.
(2008, Daniel Barrow, Canada, multiple formats, ca 60 min.)
4/24
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films or tapes; time permitting, all works will be
screened.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
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4/25
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
The Falls (# 43 – # 92), Peter Greenaway (UK), 1980, 88 of 185 min.
Continued from April 18.
4/25
London, England: Tate
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Friday 25 April, 19.00 Programme 14: Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle
Huillet The rigorous, stimulating films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle
Huillet have provoked strong reactions since their debut in 1965.
Valuing the soundtrack as much as the visual image, they favour direct
sound. Most of their films are based on pre-existing works of art. This
screening includes two recent films: a short political pamphlet, and an
adaptation of thepoet Joachim Gasquet's account of discussions about
painting with Paul Cézanne. Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet, Europa
2005 – 27 Octobre, 2005, 12', video Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle
Huillet, Une visite au Louvre, 2004, 64', 35mm Programme duration 76'
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.
4/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
1:30PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
THE MAN WHO CROSSED THE SAHARA / MR. EDISON'S EAR
The Man Who Crossed the Sahara World Premiere D: Korbett Matthews Canada
53 min Filmmaker Frank Cole is consumed by thoughts of death. Driven to
cross the "white man's grave" - the Sahara - alone, Cole's haunting
black and white footage sublimely evokes his epic, and ultimately
tragic, journey. Screening with: Mr. Edison's Ear World Premiere D:
Francisca Duran Canada 32 min A fascinating and playful exploration of
the magic of the phonograph and its brilliant deaf creator.
4/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
9:30PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 3 – MAPPING IDENTITY
NEXT SHORTS 3 – Mapping Identity Co-presented with Images Festival
Lovely Andrea D: Hito Steyerl / Austria / 2007 / 30 min A filmmaker
searches for an old photo spread of herself as a Japanese "rope bondage"
model and turns up a universal critique of identity and censorship. Cock
Fight Song D:Lilibeth Cuenca / Denmark / 2006 / 3 min Lilibeth Cuenca
explores the national sport of her native Philippines, cockfighting.
Blending the pop music persona of a half-plucked dancing cock with
bloody documentary footage of real fights and betting, she critiques
male domination and macho culture. Je suis une bombe D: Elodie Pong /
Switzerland / 2006 / 6 min An erotic dancing panda bear is a woman's
alter ego and a filmmaker's commentary on sexuality and persona.
Perfect/Growing Older (Dis)gracefully D: Esra Ersen / UK / 2006 / 23 min
Struck by the radical transformation currently taking place in Liverpool
in the run-up to being a European Capital of Culture, Ersen becomes an
urban planner of sorts by transferring those methods from city to
person. By performing a makeover on a long standing resident of
Liverpool, the filmmaker provokes questions on how urban processes
affect the people who experience them firsthand. Time Flies D: Frédéric
Moser, Philippe Schwinger /Germany / 2006 / 4 min Based on Monica
Lewinsky, the character of Amanda Cook is presented in a five-minute
portrait. Wandering around an empty theatre, she wonders if, after
hosting a TV show, designing a handbag collection, searching for God and
"dallying" with the President, she can ever marry a normal man?
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008
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4/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
MADCAT WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008 TOUR PRESENTS “ID DOCS”
Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov MadCat is a highly acclaimed festival that
exhibits independent and experimental films and videos directed by women
from around the globe. The Festival emphasizes work that is inventive
and visionary. MadCat takes place each September in the Bay Area, and
each winter and spring MadCat tours to over 20 museums, universities,
art houses and microcinemas. Screening this evening is the program ID
DOCS: Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both
personal and public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and
lyrical imagery, these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology,
place, and even appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of
ourselves and others. Screening are the short films The Widows' Coast
(25 min., Lithuania) by Janina Lapinskaite; The Market (9.5 min.,
Croatia) by Ana Husman; Lost Without You (5.5 min., Australia) by Fiona
McGee; Benidorm (19 min., Germany) by Carolin Schmitz; Portraits &
Testimonies #3: Cris Sequeira, 1 min., USA) by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson;
Miriam, Impression of Light (11.5 min., Belgium) by An Coenen; and I Am
Me (30 min., Austria) by Kathrin Resetarits.
4/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
LUCHA LIBRE + ROCK'N'ROLL MADE IN MEXICO
In person, Gustavo Vazquez galvanizes our gallery with his new 50-min.
doc on Mexican wrestling, Que Viva La Lucha! Gustavo returned to Tijuana
many times over the years to capture these surreal scenes of extreme
theater in the sports arena. The masks, costumes, and characters often
draw on mythological figures like Robin Hood, or comic-book heroes like
Spiderman, or even corrupt politicians, cops, and other villains. In the
show's second half we premiere Lance Miccio's hr.-plus overview of the
particular historical arc of Mexican Rock-including visits with legends
Fito de la Parra, Javier Batiz, and Lalo Toral-from the innocent '50s,
through the oppressive ban from '71 to '85, to the electronic present.
Piñata! *$8.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2008
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4/27
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VIDEO ARTISTS, PART 2: STEVE FAGIN
In conjunction with the Getty's California video exhibition, Filmforum
highlights the work of four artists whose work cries out for more
exhibition – significant pieces by fine artists of their media. Steve
Fagin in person tonight with Oliver Kahn (2003, 55 min) and Zero Degrees
Latitude (1993, 60 min), introduced by curator Rita Gonzales. Los
Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las
Palmas. Sunday April 27, 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
4/27
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
SHINE ON: FILMS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
Michael Robinson In Person. Since 2000, Michael Robinson has created a
body of work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated
experience, a cinema of ambivalent melancholy and existential danger.
The General Returns from One Place to Another pits a cynical Frank
O'Hara monologue against an ominous vibrating landscape. And We All
Shine On is a machine-eyed vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise. Light
Is Waiting, in which a Full House episode "devours itself from the
inside out," excavates a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.
Frequently working with abjected imagery—forgotten television,
mid-century magazines—and overly familiar pop songs, Robinson's work
flirts with a resigned pessimism, yet dares to find hope in the very
heart of despair. Also screening: Tidal, Victory Over the Sun, You Don't
Bring Me Flowers, Chiquitita and the Soft Escape and All Through the
Night. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.
4/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
GHOST IN THE REEL CHANGE
Sunday, April 27, 2008. 8PM $6 GHOST in the REEL CHANGE EYE-FULL FILMS
and ATA present: A night of experimental films with live music by GHOST
IN THE HOUSE and REEL CHANGE. Featuring: Tom Nunn – homemade
instruments, Karen Stackpole – gongs, percussion, Kyle Bruckmann – oboe,
English horn, David Michalak – lap steel, Andrew Voigt – saxophones and
Ann Dental - cello This show will open with a candlelit set of music by
GHOST IN THE HOUSE. Then, REEL CHANGE and GHOST IN THE HOUSE will
perform live soundtracks for Death of a Hollywood Extra (1928), Ghosts
Before Breakfast (1928) and a set of films by David Michalak including:
Reaching For The Trigger, Regenbogen, See What You See and others. David
Michalak is celebrating over 30 years of filmmaking and plays "avant"
lap steel guitar. He formed REEL CHANGE to perform soundtracks for his
films in 1999 with Andrew Voigt (ROVA co-founder) and Tom Nunn
(instrument builder, Tom Waits etc.) GHOST IN THE HOUSE was formed in
2004 with "The Gongwoman" Karen Stackpole, Kyle Bruckmann and Tom Nunn
to perform movie music without the movies. Tonight's show combines the 2
groups for maximum effect. www.edgetonerecords.com/ghostinthehouse.html
www.eye-fullfilms.com/
4/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
4:45PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 3 – MAPPING IDENTITY
NEXT SHORTS 3 – Mapping Identity Co-presented with Images Festival
Lovely Andrea D: Hito Steyerl / Austria / 2007 / 30 min A filmmaker
searches for an old photo spread of herself as a Japanese "rope bondage"
model and turns up a universal critique of identity and censorship. Cock
Fight Song D:Lilibeth Cuenca / Denmark / 2006 / 3 min Lilibeth Cuenca
explores the national sport of her native Philippines, cockfighting.
Blending the pop music persona of a half-plucked dancing cock with
bloody documentary footage of real fights and betting, she critiques
male domination and macho culture. Je suis une bombe D: Elodie Pong /
Switzerland / 2006 / 6 min An erotic dancing panda bear is a woman's
alter ego and a filmmaker's commentary on sexuality and persona.
Perfect/Growing Older (Dis)gracefully D: Esra Ersen / UK / 2006 / 23 min
Struck by the radical transformation currently taking place in Liverpool
in the run-up to being a European Capital of Culture, Ersen becomes an
urban planner of sorts by transferring those methods from city to
person. By performing a makeover on a long standing resident of
Liverpool, the filmmaker provokes questions on how urban processes
affect the people who experience them firsthand. Time Flies D: Frédéric
Moser, Philippe Schwinger /Germany / 2006 / 4 min Based on Monica
Lewinsky, the character of Amanda Cook is presented in a five-minute
portrait. Wandering around an empty theatre, she wonders if, after
hosting a TV show, designing a handbag collection, searching for God and
"dallying" with the President, she can ever marry a normal man?
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