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This week [May 23 - 31, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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imagine art after (London, United Kingdom; Deadline: July 01, 2008)
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The LAB (San Francisco; Deadline: May 21, 2008)
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"Everyone will be famous for 150 kbytes." (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2008)
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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: August 15, 2008)
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VolcanoFilmFest (Bologna, Italy; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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Wavelengths Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: June 03, 2008)
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Daily Con Issue #7 (Richmond, VA, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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Daily Con SoundCast (Richmond, VA, USA; Deadline: June 21, 2008)
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London Film Festival (London; Deadline: June 27, 2008)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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MilkBar Live Film Festival 2008 (Oakland, CA USA; Deadline: June 16, 2008)
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International Science & Film Festival (Marseille, France; Deadline: July 14, 2008)
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: June 16, 2008)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Gympie, Australia; Deadline: May 28, 2008)
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Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: May 30, 2008)
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Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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Astronomical Unit (Buffalo, NY, USA; Deadline: May 30, 2008)
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Arrivano i Corti (italy; Deadline: June 20, 2008)
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Bearded Child Film Festival (Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA; Deadline: June 06, 2008)
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VolcanoFilmFest (Bologna, Italy; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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Wavelengths Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: June 03, 2008)
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London Film Festival (London; Deadline: June 27, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Essential visual Music: Rare Classics From Cvm Archive [May 23, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* "See, Reappear +Breathe" Interactive Screening At Oddball Films [May 23, San Francisco, California]
* Fortune [May 23, Seattle WA]
* Gerry Fialka's Pxl This Fest [May 24, San Francisco, California]
* Fortune [May 24, Seattle WA]
* The Free Translators [May 24, Silver Springs, MD]
* Video Synthesis [May 25, Bayside]
* The Free Translators [May 25, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Eyes Upside Down [May 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Fortune [May 29, Oakland CA]
* Les Blank At New Nothing Cinema [May 29, San Francisco, California]
* Fortune [May 31, Los Angeles CA]
* Neighborhood Public Radio Presents Illuminated Corridor: Nova [May 31, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [May 31, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008
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5/23
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/programs-film-at-IHouse.htm
7 pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
ESSENTIAL VISUAL MUSIC: RARE CLASSICS FROM CVM ARCHIVE
From German pioneers to Light Show psychedelia to Experimental Animation
classics, rare films and preserved prints from the Collection of Center
for Visual Music. All 16mm unless noted. Films include: Oskar
Fischinger: R-1 ein Formspiel (single panel version) c. 1926-33; Hans
Fischinger: Tanz der Farben (Dance of the Colors) 1939; Charles Dockum:
Dockum Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim Museum, 1952; Charles
Dockum: Demonstration of Mobilcolor Projector and 1966 Mobilcolor
Performance Film, both 1966; Harry Smith, Early Abstractions, Film No. 3
1949; Oskar Fischinger: Muntz TV Commercial, 1952; Mary Ellen Bute:
Pastorale; John Stehura: Cibernetik 5.3, 1960-65 (digital); Jud Yalkut:
Turn, Turn, Turn, 1966; Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film,
1971; David Lebrun: Tanka, 1976; Jules Engel: Celebration, 1978; Jules
Engel: 3 Arctic Flowers, 1978, and Jules Engel: Mobiles, 1978. (16mm,
most are preserved prints).
5/23
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8:30PM, 275 Capp St
"SEE, REAPPEAR +BREATHE" INTERACTIVE SCREENING AT ODDBALL FILMS
For Immediate Release Event: "Jam Z Jammerz: See, Reappear + Breathe" ,
an Evening of Culture Jamming Interactive Cinema with Los Angeles Media
Archivist Gerry Fialka in person."See Reappear+Breathe" is a critical.
forward thinking, entertaining and subversive looks at media pranksters
and their victims amidst the electronic landscape. With rare clips of
Lenny Bruce, Ernie Kovacs, Marshall McLuhan. James Joyce and many more.
Date: Friday, May 23, 2008 at 8:30PM Venue: Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp
Street, San Francisco. Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating, RSVP Only.
RSVP: email suppressed or phone the archive at 415.558.8117 Jam Z
Jammerz: See, Reappear +Breathe Interactive Screening Live at Oddball
Films Los Angeles Curator Gerry Fialka in Person! On Friday, May 23,
2008 at 8:30PM media ecologist Gerry Fialka presents an interactive
screening of films by subversive artists and pranksters who "inflict
brand damage" to expose corporate manipulation of America's mediascape.
"See, Reappear+Breathe" probes critical forward thinking, entertaining
and subversive looks at media pranksters and their hidden effects amidst
the electronic landscape. Screening will be rare clips of Lenny Bruce,
Ernie Kovacs, Marshall McLuhan, James Joyce and more. The program takes
place at Oddball Films, 275 Capp St, San Francisco. Admission is $10,
seating is limited RSVP only to: email suppressed or 415-558-8117.
Fialka probes Marshall McLuhan's Laws of Media in correlation with
revolutionary artists (Craig Baldwin, the Barbie Liberation
Organization, Rev. Billy's Church of Stop Shopping, Billboard Liberation
Front and Bob Dobbs) providing new critical perspectives with surprise,
humor and the thrill of transgression. Join this agitprop examination of
the motives and consequences of the jammer's collaboration with the
jammee. When Sputnik went up fifty years ago, McLuhan upgraded the
global village to the global theater, and we all became actors. "Jam Z
Jammerz: See, Reappear & Breathe" (14 minutes, 2008) - As agitprop
archaeologists, Mark X Farina & Gerry Fialka's provocative video probes
how the 50's music/comedy icons John Cage (noise as music, side effects
in silence), Korla Pandit (the Hammond Organ as drum, fake identity),
Lenny Bruce (speech as jazz, grievance), Ernie Kovacs (visual effects as
Surrealism, Menippean tactic of the "fourth wall") and Lord Buckley
(narrative as living organism, elevation not put-down) laid the
groundwork for contemporary culture jammers. They reinvented Beckett's
"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," and Steve Allen's "Behind every
joke there's a grievance." Their reappearance offers new questions: -
Did the electric environment kill or save humanity? - Did television
renew the art museum? - Why did James Joyce make TV the hidden ground in
his 1939 book "Finnegans Wake" ? - Can the banality of
satellite-speed-up cause epiphanies? - What have we forgotten about
social amnesia? - Who is jamming the jammers? Rechanneling George Melies
and Marcel Duchamp, "Jam Z Jammerz" reinvigorates and mirrors how these
visionaries elevated self-irony to uncover the ambiguity and complexity
of ecstasy and numbness. "The audience is the employer." - Marshall
McLuhan. "I find TV very educational. Every time someone turns on a set
I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx. "When you are
laughing, you're learning." - Bob Dobbs. "Satire is tragedy plus time" -
Lenny Bruce. Mark X Farina is a Los Angeles based painter, filmmaker and
biker, whose work has appeared in group shows with David Hockney and Ed
Rushca. He received his BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania,
and now heads the Video Department at Otis College of Art and Design in
LA. He is a practitioner of POP, Pro Punk, Neo Goo, and Reverse
Engineering in Mixed Media Visual Arts. About Gerry Fialka Gerry Fialka
is an artist, film curator, writer, lecturer, and paramedia ecologist
who has conducted interactive workshops from UCLA to MIT, from the Ann
Arbor Film Festival to Culver City High School. Fialka gave two major
lectures at The 2001 North America James Joyce Conference at UC
Berkeley. The public interview series MESS (Media Ecology Soul Sessions)
has featured Fialka in engaging conversations with the likes of Mike
Kelley, Alexis Smith, Abraham Polonsky, Mary Woronov, Paul Krassner, Ann
Magnuson, Heather Woodbury, Norman Klein, Chris Kraus, P. Adams Sitney,
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Kristine McKenna, John Sinclair, Grace Lee
Boggs, and Firesign Theatre's Phil Proctor. Fialka's interviews have
been published in books by Mike Kelley and Sylvere Lotringer. He
graduated from The University of Michigan. "Gerry Fialka creates forums
that bring together a plurality of critical perspectives into one
multivalent conversation. " - Janine Marchessault, author of Marshal
McLuhan: Cosmic Media. For more info:
http://oddballfilm.com/resources/events_parent.html
5/23
Seattle WA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
7:30 & 9pm, Central 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.
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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2008
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5/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
GERRY FIALKA'S PXL THIS FEST
As is our wont, we are welcoming SoCal cousin Gerry Fialka with the
much-anticipated iteration of his annual toy-camera extravaganza. In
case you didn't know, Fisher-Price's PXL 2000, now 20 years old, is a
children's video camera that records on audiocassette, producing b/w
images at such a low resolution as to border on the abstract. The
lightweight ease and funky charm of this now-cult device has encouraged
an idiosyncratic aesthetic favoring personal confession and miniature
commentary. Highlights of this year's line-up include Gerry's own
Remember to Forget, Robert Sexton's Disassembly Line (on CIA
mind-control!), Theresa Hulmes' Soulgasm, Freya's They Were Only
Numbers, L.M. Sabo's Cataclysm, and 4-yr-old Donovan Selinger's Gear
Story. Doors open at 8pm for Doug Katelus on the retro-tech Optigan,
Gerry's McLuhan-esque insights into Korla Pandit, and black-and-white
finger food!
5/24
Seattle WA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
7:30 and 9pm, Central 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.
5/24
Silver Springs, MD: Pyramid Atlantic Center
http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/
7:30 pm, 8230 Georgia Avenue
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.
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SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2008
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5/25
Bayside: QCC Art Gallery, CUNY.
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/ArtGallery/Programs/Exhibits/videoSynthesis
Please see the blog for screening times, QCC Art Gallery, 222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364
VIDEO SYNTHESIS
"Video Synthesis" is an examination of the Inter-relationships of Video
Art, Performance, Experimental Film, & Vanguard Documentary. The purpose
of this exhibition is to survey, expose, and raise the awareness of
motion related art through the medium of video. The works exhibited have
all been created using a digital video camera and computer based editing
software as a means of expression and communication. It was my intention
to select a diverse array of artists that focus on various subjects and
techniques to execute their work. The show will present fragments of
traditional video art, aspects of performance based art, narrative
experimental film, and vanguard documentary. The works have been placed
in a chronological order to be viewed one after another. I feel that
each piece will add to what synthesizes fragments of a larger whole. The
chronological flow of each piece creates a perceptual module. Ryan
Seslow - Curator MAY 1st - AUGUST 31st 2008
5/25
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Small Change Screenings
http://www.smallchangescreenings.com
8 pm, 1026 arch 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.
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TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008
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5/27
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
EYES UPSIDE DOWN
An illustrated lecture by P. Adams Sitney. P. Adams Sitney will talk
about movement and perspective in three short films, by Marie Menken,
Ernie Gehr, and Stan Brakhage. He will illustrate the ways in which
these films fulfill the promise of an American aesthetic first
proclaimed by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836 and promoted in different ways
by Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Charles Olson, among others. This
program reflects the argument of his new book: Eyes Upside Down:
Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson. Films to be shown:
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken, 16mm, 1961, 4 mins "A new
sound version of this classic film. It is a beautiful experience to see
her fabulous shooting. The cutting is just as fabulous and is something
for all to study; the new score by Teiji ito is 'out of this world' with
its many leveled instrumentation. Marie says 'These animated
observations of tiles and Moorish architecture were made as a thank-you
to Kenneth for helping me to shoot on another film in Spain.' Shot in
the Alhambra in one day." - Gryphon Film Group Shift, Ernie Gehr, 16mm,
1972-74, 9 mins "For Gehr, Shift broke new ground, hence perhaps a pun
in its title. The film is his first to employ extensive montage. The
actors are all mechanical - a series of cars and trucks filmed from a
height of several stories as they perform on a three-lane city street.
Gehr isolates one or two vehicles at a time, inverting some shots, so
that a car hangs from the asphalt like a bat from a rafter, using angles
so severe the traffic often seems to be sliding off the earth, and
employing a reverse motion so abrupt that the players frequently exit
the scene as though yanked from a stage by the proverbial hook. A sparse
score of traffic noises accompanies the spastic ballet mecanique. Not
only the action but Gehr's deliberate camera movements are synced to the
music of honking horns, screeching brakes, and grinding gears. The
eight-minute film is structured as a series of obliquely comic blackout
sketches: trucks run over their shadows; cars unexpectedly reverse
direction or start up and go nowhere." - J. Hoberman Visions in
Meditation #2: Mesa Verde, Stan Brakhage, 16mm, 1989, 17 mins "This
meditation takes its visual imperatives from the occasion of Mesa Verde,
which I came to see finally as a Time rather than any such solidity as
Place. 'There is a terror here,' were the first words which came to mind
on seeing these ruins; and for two days after, during all my
photography, I was haunted by some unknown occurrence which reverberated
still in these rocks and rock-structures and environs. I can no longer
believe that the Indians abandoned this solid habitation because of
drought, lack-of-water, somesuch. (These explanations do not, anyway,
account for the fact that all memory of The Place, i.e., where it is,
was eradicated from tribal memory, leaving only legend of a Time when
such a place existed.) Midst the rhythms, then, of editing, I was
compelled to introduce images which corroborate what the rocks said, and
what the film strips seemed to say: The abandonment of Mesa Verde was an
eventuality (rather than an event), was for All Time thus, and had been
intrinsic from the first such human building." - SB
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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2008
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5/29
Oakland CA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
9pm, 21 Grand
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.
5/29
San Francisco, California: NEW NOTHING CINEMA
http://www.hi-beam.net/org/newnothing
8pm, 16 Sherman st. off Folsom between 6th and 7th
LES BLANK AT NEW NOTHING CINEMA
THURSDAY May 29th at NEW NOTHING CINEMA 2 Films by Les Blank 'IN HEAVEN
THERE IS NO BEER?' 'SPROUT WINGS AND FLY' with Les Blank in person and a
live performance by the infamous Goat Family 8pm New Nothing Cinema is
located at 16 Sherman St. off Folsom between 6th and 7th
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SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2008
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5/31
Los Angeles CA: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
tba, Materials & Applications
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.
5/31
New York, New York: Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/
8:53pm, visit illcorr.org for address | rain or shine | bring fm radio
NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC RADIO PRESENTS ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR: NOVA
Neighborhood Public Radio joins forces with The Illuminated Corridor to
relight a Manhattan civic space in a performance of watchable radio. One
of the culimating events of NPR's "American Life" exhibition at the
Whitney Biennial 2008, this Corridor explores all manner of NOVA:
heavenly event, (ir)rational inquiry, cataclysmic variable, and rumbling
imperative. Artists include: Thomas Carnacki [with W.A Davison and S.
Higgins], Nicholas Chase, Cinepimps [Alfonso Alvarez and Keith Arnold],
Steve Cossman, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, Steve Dye, Bradley Eros,
Richard Garet, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Andy Graydon, Gilbert
Guerrero and Kathleen Quillian, Rose Kallal, Adam Kendall, Killer
Banshee [Eliot Daughtry and Kriss De Jong], Lovid [Tali Hinkis & Kyle
Papidus], Bruce McClure, Katherin Mcinnis, Joel Schlemowitz, Jean-Luc
Sinclair and Bridget Batch, Hank Willis Thomas with Cause Collective,
Vortex [Satoshi Takeishi and Shoko Nagai] and others, with live,
hyper-local FM broadcast from Neighborhood Public Radio.
5/31
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative-and with many of the makers in
person-are Roger Deutsch's Act Your Age (world premiere), Martha
Colburn's Waschdrang Mama, Tony Gault's Count Backwards from Five,
Andrew Wilson's I Love U, Thorsten Fleisch's Energie!, Richard
Mitchell's Series:V2, Kurt Keppeler's Silver Cones, David Cox' Dr. Yes
4, and Eli Marias/Amos Natkin's Internal Camaraderie. ALSO pieces by Sam
Green, Ben Wood, Sylvia Schedelbauer, David Marino, Yin-Ju Chen, Shalo
P, Lauren Woods, and Killer Banshee. PLUS: Damon Packard's new Apple
cut, Roger Beebe's live-scored Tour/Tower, and DJ Onanist. *$7.
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