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This week [May 10 - 18, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Gympie, Australia; Deadline: May 28, 2008)
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imagine art after (London, United Kingdom; Deadline: June 01, 2008)
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Bearded Child Film Festival (Grand Rapids, Minnesota; Deadline: June 06, 2008)
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Miwaukee International Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI., USA; Deadline: May 13, 2008)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 15, 2008)
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Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: May 30, 2008)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: May 15, 2008)
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Astronomical Unit (Buffalo, NY, USA; Deadline: May 30, 2008)
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Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (Seoul, Korea; Deadline: May 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Fortune [May 10, Albuquerque, NM]
* The Free Translators [May 10, Brookline, Massachusetts]
* Dyke Delicious Series 5: Invisible Women (In Front of and Behind the
Camera) [May 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Carbuncle Back By Popular Demand [May 10, Echo Park]
* The Show Starts On the Sidewalk [May 10, San Francisco, California]
* Jesse Lerner's F Is For Phony [May 10, San Francisco, California]
* The Green Light and the Lone Rose [May 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* Fortune [May 13, Venice CA]
* Landscape Suicide & Confederation Park [May 13, jacksonville]
* The Show Starts On the Sidewalk [May 14, Santa Cruz]
* Two Nights of Touring Experimental Films & videos At 51 3rd St. In [May 14, Troy, NY]
* Fortune [May 15, Los Angeles CA]
* Rohstoff: Raw Material - Site Specific Exhibition [May 15, San Francisco, California]
* Chicago 360 V.3 [May 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Fundraiser For the Independent Collaborative Media Project (Icmp)
Presents Fou Fou Ha!, Freddy Mcguire and Torsten Kretchzmar At the
Ata. [May 16, San Francisco, California]
* The Free Translators [May 17, Buffalo, New York]
* Chicago 360 V.3 [May 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Museum of Modern Art Poprally Series Presents Pittsburgh's
Experimental Film Collective Jefferson Presents... [May 17, New York, New York]
* Notendo + Potter-Belmar [May 17, San Francisco, California]
* Tearoom - With Filmmaker William E. Jones In Person! [May 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents Noisy People: Film + Live Performance! [May 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Latent Images: Sfai Mfa Film & video Screening [May 18, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2008
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5/10
Albuquerque, NM: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8pm, Verb Collective
FORTUNE
What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What do we
need to know about the present? Live cinema performers, Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more, on tour stops throughout the
U.S. Southwest and West Coast in May 2008. Traveling by train, this pair
of itinerant fortune-tellers will probe the collective subconscious of
audiences from Albuquerque to Seattle, and on many stops in between.
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern
show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a
collective fortune-telling experience, and presenting the results in
music, sound and moving image. The Fortune tour is made possible in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
5/10
Brookline, Massachusetts: Gasp Gallery
http://www.g-a-s-p.net/
6pm, 362-4 Boylston Street
THE FREE TRANSLATORS
Reminiscent of the do-it-yourself approach of the Riot Grrrl movement,
this Spring two feminist provocateurs are taking their multimedia show
on the road. Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat are hailing from Brooklyn,
NY and Madison, WI to present "The Free Translators" touring east coast
cities and towns with a program of radical videos and performances. As
the title suggests, The Free Translators' video program is inspired by
widely accessible texts. The artists perform in many of their own
videos, sometimes enacting the news, dictating words written by the
Marquis de Sade, or excerpting from Virginia Woolf's anti-war essays. By
re-interpreting the texts for the audience, the videos explore notions
of identity and communication, re-imagining issues raised by feminist
consciousness, the quality of attention today in the midst of multiple
authorial references, and the diminished space of citizenship around the
monologue of mass media. In between video screenings, The Free
Translators present two "Live Tactical Translations," or, live
multimedia experiments inspired by 1970s feminist art and Soviet
avant-garde news troupes. Culling from their library of text, sound, and
image, alter egos Miss Reading and Miss Recognition communicate through
matching headsets and manipulate analog recordings as they educate
audiences in their unique methods of reading and comprehension.
5/10
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 Social Hr., 8:00 Screening, 5243 N. Clark St.
DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES 5: INVISIBLE WOMEN (IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE
CAMERA)
Co-presented by Black Cat Productions Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members
(includes social hour and screening) Lip (directed by Tracey Moffatt and
Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., USA): It is Hollywood's favorite role for
black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or
flippantly dismissive, the performers who play them steal every scene
they are in, and Tracy Moffatt's entertaining video collage reveals the
narrow margin Hollywood has allowed black actresses to shine in. But
shine they do. "Giving lip" is proven an art form in these scenes from
1930's cinema to present-day movies featuring a remarkable roster of
undervalued actresses and their more celebrated white costars. Women Who
Made the Movies (directed by Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon, 1992,
55 min., USA): Recounting the history of women in Hollywood, after you
watch this documentary you will be renting many of the wonderful films
these ladies created. From femme director Ida Lupino to butch Dorothy
Arzner, mark our words you will be making a list of their films to
watch.
5/10
Echo Park: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
CARBUNCLE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
SEE May 9th, 2008 Listing
5/10
San Francisco, California: Sidewalk Screenings
http://http://may2008.artintervention.org/showStartsSidewalk.php
8:30 PM, 16th St @ Florida St
THE SHOW STARTS ON THE SIDEWALK
The Show Starts on the Sidewalk features work that either documents
public intervention or is an intervention in itself. Screenings will
take place in outdoor locations in public places in San Francisco, San
Jose, and Santa Cruz. These films consider relational aesthetics,
interventions, Situationist practices, Fluxus style events and explore
the followings concepts: Intervention: An action undertaken in order to
change what is happening or might happen in another's affairs,
especially in order to prevent something undesirable In·ter·rupt (v)
1.To halt the flow of a speaker or of a speaker's utterance with a
question or remark. 2. To disturb somebody who is busy doing something,
causing him or her to stop. 3. To cause a break in the flow of something
or put a temporary stop to something. 4. To discontinue doing something
temporarily. 5. To obstruct or block a view In·ter·fer·ence (n) 1.
Involvement in something without any invitation or justification. 2.
Hindrance or obstruction that prevents a natural or desired outcome. 3.
An unwanted signal that disrupts radio, telephone, or television
reception. In·tru·sion (n)1. A disturbing of somebody's peace or privacy
by an unwelcome arrival or presence. 2. An unwelcome presence or effect
that disturbs or upsets something. In·volv·ing (adj) Holding the
attention. Alternatively, Bring Your Own Definition! Curated and
produced by Nomi Talisman and Bill Basquin
5/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
JESSE LERNER'S F IS FOR PHONY
Jesse is here in person to introduce his (and Alexandra Juhasz') new
anthology, subtitled Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing.
Pseudo-documentary, mockumentary, disinformation, speculative essay, and
avant-garde attack on journalistic orthodoxy, these genres have long and
fascinating histories; this book-and this evening-undertake a scholarly
AND comic appreciation of this transgressive cinematic strain. Lerner
holds forth before, between, and after excerpts of Spanish-American War
newsreels, Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread, Elizabeth Subrin's Shulie,
Mitchell Block's No Lies, William Karel's Dark Side of the Moon, and
Jesse's own Ruins. Come early for artist's reception, to browse the book
and to get a signed copy from this Squire of Skeptical Inquiry.
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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008
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5/13
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
THE GREEN LIGHT AND THE LONE ROSE
Curated by David Gatten 1 for sorrow 2 for joy 3 for a girl 4 for a boy
5 for silver 6 for gold 7 for a secret that's never to be told 8 is a
wish and 9 is a kiss 10 for the person who most you miss The places we
live, the spots where we go, the things we do, the songs we choose to
sing: for friends and for strangers, for the one next to you and for the
one who isn't. Ten pieces of sound and light, featuring premieres of new
works by Jessie Stead and Mike DeAngelis.
5/13
Venice CA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
7pm, 7 Dudley Cinema
FORTUNE
What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What do we
need to know about the present? Live cinema performers, Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more, on tour stops throughout the
U.S. Southwest and West Coast in May 2008. Traveling by train, this pair
of itinerant fortune-tellers will probe the collective subconscious of
audiences from Albuquerque to Seattle, and on many stops in between.
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern
show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a
collective fortune-telling experience, and presenting the results in
music, sound and moving image. The Fortune tour is made possible in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
5/13
jacksonville: THE LAST HURRAH PICTURE SHOW
http://thelasthurrahpictureshow.wordpress.com
8:00p.m., 406 chelsea st
LANDSCAPE SUICIDE & CONFEDERATION PARK
"In "Landscape Suicide" Benning continues his examination of Americana
through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and
multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette
Prott was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an
insult in 1984. Benning's distanced approach to such grisly material is
as far removed as possible from sensationalism, however. Although the
acts of murder are both bizarre and violent, Benning dwells on them only
minimally, emphasizing instead the details of psychological motivation,
which in both cases seem frighteningly mundane. Benning has created a
script which is a masterpiece of understated colloquial writing, and the
actors he employs to re-enact confessional testimony and incidents
recounted in trial transcripts perform with a flatly convincing lack of
affect reminiscent of Gary Gilmore. The two monologues are embedded in
Benning's characteristic meditations of landscape: long shots of the
Wisconsin farmlands, general stores, dirt roads and pick-up trucks, and
the carefully tended lawns, swimming pools, sprawling bungalows and
malls of the middle-class California suburb. These images are offered in
the classically spare mise-en-scene which Benning has perfected in his
work as a cinematic poet of the contemporary American environment. Here,
in his most accessible film so far, the beautiful, open vistas are dense
with the significance of the catastrophes they engendered."-anonymous
16mm 1986 95min. "In the voice-over to his most recent film,
CONFEDERATION PARK, Texas filmmaker Bill Brown makes reference to 'the
secret languages of exile,' and while this reflective, even somber film
presents a pastiche of places across Canada where Brown has lived, its
real subject is the limits of knowledge. Its long takes are accompanied
by verbal meditations on the nation's recent history, including the
separatist bombings in Quebec during the 60s, and the battle between
English and French becomes a metaphor for the filmmaker's divided mind.
Brown applies stickers with city names to a huge outdoor map of Canada,
his voice-over suggesting that 'we've found our place in the universe'
as a result of the 'Copernican revolution' - but then the stickers are
blown away by the wind. Brown implies that images are insufficient: we
need to know their history, their locations, their meaning. But
landscapes can't be fully decoded, nor past events captured on film: in
the final shot a woman sings, 'I don't know where he's headin' for,'
while a car travels in a circle." - Fred Camper, Reader 16mm 1999 30min
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
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5/14
Santa Cruz: Sidewalk Screenings
http://http://may2008.artintervention.org/showStartsSidewalk.php
8:30 PM, Cedar @ Locust St (downtown)
THE SHOW STARTS ON THE SIDEWALK
The Show Starts on the Sidewalk features work that either documents
public intervention or is an intervention in itself. Screenings will
take place in outdoor locations in public places in San Francisco, San
Jose, and Santa Cruz. These films consider relational aesthetics,
interventions, Situationist practices, Fluxus style events and explore
the followings concepts: Intervention: An action undertaken in order to
change what is happening or might happen in another's affairs,
especially in order to prevent something undesirable In·ter·rupt (v)
1.To halt the flow of a speaker or of a speaker's utterance with a
question or remark. 2. To disturb somebody who is busy doing something,
causing him or her to stop. 3. To cause a break in the flow of something
or put a temporary stop to something. 4. To discontinue doing something
temporarily. 5. To obstruct or block a view In·ter·fer·ence (n) 1.
Involvement in something without any invitation or justification. 2.
Hindrance or obstruction that prevents a natural or desired outcome. 3.
An unwanted signal that disrupts radio, telephone, or television
reception. In·tru·sion (n)1. A disturbing of somebody's peace or privacy
by an unwelcome arrival or presence. 2. An unwelcome presence or effect
that disturbs or upsets something. In·volv·ing (adj) Holding the
attention. Alternatively, Bring Your Own Definition! Curated and
produced by Nomi Talisman and Bill Basquin
5/14
Troy, NY: 51 3rd
7 pm, 51 3rd Street
TWO NIGHTS OF TOURING EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS AT 51 3RD ST. IN
TWO NIGHTS OF TOURING EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS AT 51 3RD ST. in TROY,
NY in MAY (first screening is next week) WEDNESDAY MAY 14 7PM ACTION
NEWS Experimental films and videos and music videos from Philadelphia
Fantastical video narratives, metaphysical workout videos, music videos,
and experimental animations and documentaries by Ryan Trecartin, Ted
Passon, Sarah Christman, and other artists from Philadelphia.
http://tinyurl.com/2yfeyu WEDNESDAY MAY 21 7PM THE FREE TRANSLATORS
Video screening plus special performance by Miss Reading and Miss
Recognition The Free Translators (Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat)
present a program of video screenings deliberately complicating the
textual content of our everyday lives and dedicated to the idea that
multiple translations continually unhinge single meanings.
http://tinyurl.com/yvqtdr
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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008
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5/15
Los Angeles CA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8pm, Echo Park Film Center
FORTUNE
What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What do we
need to know about the present? Live cinema performers, Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more, on tour stops throughout the
U.S. Southwest and West Coast in May 2008. Traveling by train, this pair
of itinerant fortune-tellers will probe the collective subconscious of
audiences from Albuquerque to Seattle, and on many stops in between.
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern
show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a
collective fortune-telling experience, and presenting the results in
music, sound and moving image. The Fortune tour is made possible in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
5/15
San Francisco, California: Bay Area Video Coalition
http://www.bavc.org
6pm, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2727 Mariposa Street, 2nd Floor
ROHSTOFF: RAW MATERIAL - SITE SPECIFIC EXHIBITION
Opening night of the next exhibition in BAVC's ROHSTOFF [raw material]
series, featuring site specific video by Rebeca Bollinger, Nate Boyce,
Anthony Discenza, Brook Hinton, Sade Huron and Laura Splan. (Exhibition
runs through July)
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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008
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5/16
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
CHICAGO 360 V.3
Co-presented by Split Pillow Split Pillow presents the third installment
of its decade-long project chronicling early 21st century life and
culture in the Windy City, Chicago 360. Five mini-documentaries
centering around the theme "Work in the City" provide a glimpse into
some of the jobs and workers that help define the Chicago landscape. The
world's largest button-making operation, street-side peanut vendors, the
changing image of Chicago's working class, the evolution of urban
journalism, and the ultimate selfless job of parenting come under
examination in this fascinating work. Split Pillow is a Chicago-based
non-profit motion picture production and media literacy education
company now in its sixth season of producing a full season of new works
by Chicago filmmakers primarily for Chicago audiences.
5/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
door 8pm - show 9pm, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
THE FUNDRAISER FOR THE INDEPENDENT COLLABORATIVE MEDIA PROJECT (ICMP)
PRESENTS FOU FOU HA!, FREDDY MCGUIRE AND TORSTEN KRETCHZMAR AT THE ATA.
San Francisco, CA – May 16th, 2008. A triple feature of the finest
independent performers is shown at the ATA (992 Valencia Street) on
Friday May 16th starting at 9pm. The burlesque dance spectacle FOU FOU
HA! together with the twisted lounge sound-artists FREDDY McGUIRE and
the German electro pop performer TORSTSEN KRETCHZMAR join their creative
forces to raise funds for the Independent Collaborative Media Project.
Asking for a $10 to $1000 sliding scale the audience awaits a unique
blend of intricate dance choreography, smooth vocals wrapped in
electronic sound tunes and a live video interaction "Gesamtkunstwerk"
that is topped of with a one of a kind Raffle! The proceeds will go
toward a video project that will reclaim the creative soul of the once
so avantgardistic art of the music video genre. About the Artists: Fou
Fou Ha! (www.foufouha.com) Combining buffoonery, intricate dance
choreography, mayhem, drag-queens and cheap Burbon, FOU FOU HA! is a
troupe of performers like no other. Described as a cross between
Venetian Carnival Clowns, Dr. Suess and the Cockettes, Fou Fou HA! has
been seen all over the Bay displaying edgy playfulness and
gender-bending dance antics. Freddy McGuire
(www.myspace.com/freddymcguire) FREDDY MCGUIRE is Anne McGuire,
accompanied by electronic musician Wobbly (Jon Leidecker). Together they
perform as The Freddy McGuire Show, in twisted lounge mode. Anne is
widely regarded for her video work, and has a screening at the Andy
Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh this June. Wobbly performs and releases his
anti-pop collage music quietly and occasionally internationally, and
will be opening for Matmos on the West Coast wing of their upcoming
Summer tour. Torsten Kretchzmar (www.kretchzmar.com) The German electro
pop talent Torsten Kretchzmar is best described as the love child of
Kraftwerk and Sprockets. His live multimedia show surprises the audience
with his unexpected usage of the spoken word. The synergy of hip sounds,
amazing choreography, Torsten's unique voice - all synced to stunning
video projections creates a show experience the critics enthusiastically
call "WTF was that?!" and "OMG – who gave this guy a visa to the U.S?!".
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SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008
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5/17
Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel
http://www.squeaky.org
8 pm, 712 Main Street
THE FREE TRANSLATORS
Reminiscent of the do-it-yourself approach of the Riot Grrrl movement,
this Spring two feminist provocateurs are taking their multimedia show
on the road. Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat are hailing from Brooklyn,
NY and Madison, WI to present "The Free Translators" touring east coast
cities and towns with a program of radical videos and performances. As
the title suggests, The Free Translators' video program is inspired by
widely accessible texts. The artists perform in many of their own
videos, sometimes enacting the news, dictating words written by the
Marquis de Sade, or excerpting from Virginia Woolf's anti-war essays. By
re-interpreting the texts for the audience, the videos explore notions
of identity and communication, re-imagining issues raised by feminist
consciousness, the quality of attention today in the midst of multiple
authorial references, and the diminished space of citizenship around the
monologue of mass media. In between video screenings, The Free
Translators present two "Live Tactical Translations," or, live
multimedia experiments inspired by 1970s feminist art and Soviet
avant-garde news troupes. Culling from their library of text, sound, and
image, alter egos Miss Reading and Miss Recognition communicate through
matching headsets and manipulate analog recordings as they educate
audiences in their unique methods of reading and comprehension.
5/17
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
CHICAGO 360 V.3
Co-presented by Split Pillow Split Pillow presents the third installment
of its decade-long project chronicling early 21st century life and
culture in the Windy City, Chicago 360. Five mini-documentaries
centering around the theme "Work in the City" provide a glimpse into
some of the jobs and workers that help define the Chicago landscape. The
world's largest button-making operation, street-side peanut vendors, the
changing image of Chicago's working class, the evolution of urban
journalism, and the ultimate selfless job of parenting come under
examination in this fascinating work. Split Pillow is a Chicago-based
non-profit motion picture production and media literacy education
company now in its sixth season of producing a full season of new works
by Chicago filmmakers primarily for Chicago audiences.
5/17
New York, New York: Jefferson Presents...
http://www.moma.org/calendar/poprally/upcoming.php#2
8PM, The Museum of Modern Art, Theater 3 (Celeste Bartos Theater)
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART POPRALLY SERIES PRESENTS PITTSBURGH'S
EXPERIMENTAL FILM COLLECTIVE JEFFERSON PRESENTS...
PopRally invites you to a screening of films by the experimental
Pittsburgh film collective Jefferson Presents… The artists present
all-new work in 16mm celluloid film using combinations of uncommon
vintage "analyst" projectors. A number of these special one-of-a-kind
projection performances will be accompanied by live sound by several
Pittsburgh based musicians. Appearances by established filmmakers and
newer artists—including Adam Abrams, Tony Balko, Mike Bonello, Olivia
Ciummo, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Tara Merenda, Caleb Morgan, Gordon
Nelson, Ross Nugent, Greg Pierce, Brian Dean Richmond and Rebbyro,
showcase the best of Pittsburgh's experimental film scene. Steven X.
Boyle, Nick Falwell, Samuel Gangwish, and Jim Lingo contribute sound
works.
5/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
NOTENDO + POTTER-BELMAR
In Carl Diehl's paranormal polemic on Metaphortean Phenomena, circuit-
bending, globsters, and glitches are advanced as missing links in
techno- cultural evolution. The perceived obsolescence of blurry Bigfoot
pics is reclaimed as an adaptive strategy to short-circuit saturated
surveillance- a counter-narrative of radical ambiguity! Featuring Jason
Jones' Son of Sasquatch performance, noteNdo's (also in person) live
Nintendo hacking, Jesse England's VCR-wrangling, and Gijs Gieskes, Phil
Stearns, and LoVid's electro-anomalies. The evening rounds out with the
vidsonic trips of San Antonio's Potter-Belmar Labs, improvising
cine-miasmic trajectories thru Fortean space! Come early for Leonard
Nimoy, Lori Surfer, Sam Green's plaster Bigfoot, and Jefree Anderson's
UFO update. *$8.
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SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008
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5/18
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
6:30pm & 9:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
TEAROOM - WITH FILMMAKER WILLIAM E. JONES IN PERSON!
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale are pleased to co-present an
evening with the acclaimed Los Angeles-based filmmaker William E. Jones,
who will screen his controversial new work Tearoom (1962/2007, 56 mins.,
video), which was selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial. A provocative
act of appropriation, Jones presents original 1962 police surveillance
footage of a men's bathroom with only very minor intervention. The
images are raw and powerful and the film invites exploration from a
number of perspectives: portraiture, queer history, anthropology,
sociology, documentary, voyeurism, structural film, and ever
kinesthetics. It is a rich work, both fascinating and disturbing. Jones
writes: "Tearoom consists of footage shot by the police in the course of
a crackdown on public sex in the American Midwest. In the summer of
1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men in a
restroom under the main square of the city. The cameramen hid in a
closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror.
The film they shot was used in court as evidence against the defendants,
all of whom were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried a
mandatory minimum sentence of one year in the state penitentiary. The
original surveillance footage shot by the police came into the
possession of director William E. Jones while he was researching this
case for a documentary project. The unedited scenes of ordinary men of
various races and classes meeting to have sex were so powerful that the
director decided to present the footage with a minimum of intervention.
Tearoom is a radical example of film presented 'as found' for the
purpose of circulating historical images that have otherwise been
suppressed." Jones has published a companion book Tearoom (2nd Cannons
Publications), which contains many historical texts relating to the
Mansfield cases, as well as over 100 frame enlargements from the video.
Limited copies of the book will be available for sale at the screenings.
Showing with Tearoom is a short experimental video Jones made from the
original footage: Mansfield 1962 (2006, 9 mins., video). Additional
information on Tearoom, including reviews, interviews with Jones, and
historical texts relating to the case, can be found at Jones' website:
www.williamejones.com. William E. Jones has been making work for nearly
twenty years. His films Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997) were both
highly acclaimed documentary-essay works and his recent video v.o.
(2006) has had great success on the film festival circuit and at film
venues around the world. His films and videos were the subject of a
retrospective at the Tate Modern in London in 2005. He works in the
adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox and teaches film
history at Art Center College of Design under his own name. Admission:
$7.00-10.00, sliding scale.
5/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS NOISY PEOPLE: FILM + LIVE PERFORMANCE!
Noisy People (2006, 76 minutes, video) is a feature length video
documentary by musician Tim Perkis following the tightly-knit group of
unusual sound artists and musicians from the San Francisco
improvisational music community. After the screening will be a LIVE
PERFORMANCE by a quartet of the subjects of the film -- Tom Dill, Gino
Robair, Phillip Greenlief, and Tim Perkis. Los Angeles Filmforum,
copresented with Cinefamily and NewTown, at the Silent Movie Theatre,
611 N. Fairfax Ave (South of Melrose) Park at Fairfax High School across
the street. General admission $15; $12 for Filmforum and Cinefamily
members. www.lafilmforum.org or www.silentmovietheatre.com
5/18
San Francisco, California: SFAI
3pm, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street
LATENT IMAGES: SFAI MFA FILM & VIDEO SCREENING
Part of a long history within SFAI's Film department of working beyond
the boundaries of traditional narrative and treating film and video as
fine arts, Latent Images presents the best of an exciting body of work
from eleven emerging film and video artists: Rodney O'Neal Austin
(Albert), Matthew Bonner (A Film about Idealism), Chris Kennedy (Lay
Claim to an Island), Ryota Mori (Electric Lights), Alex Musto (En
Passant and Generation's End), Vanessa O'Neill (Sanctuary), Jonathan
Sajda (Arcadia and Isabelle, Oceans Be Damned), SEO Won-Tae
(Sugar-coated Film), Rosario Sotelo (Recámara), Michiko Takahashi
(Sugar-coated Film), and Laura Zaylea (Flower Fall). Though
participating artists work from within their own perspectives and
sensibilities, they are all committed to exploring and expanding the
expressive potential of the moving image. From the lighthearted to the
sublime, from the political to the personal, these works eschew easy
categorization and, in turn, reconfigure both the ways in which meaning
is found and the ways in which we come to see.
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