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Date: Sat Jun 14 2008 - 08:10:35 PDT
This week [June 14 - 22, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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New publication: Eyes Upside Down by P. Adams Sitney
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Jayne Parker - British Artists' Films DVD series" by Jill Reading
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JOB AVAILABLE:
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The University of Arizona School of Media Arts
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Northwest Film Forum
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University of Missouri-Kansas City
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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VolcanoFilmFest (Catania, Sicily, Italy; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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Detroit Docs International Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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ICE - Iowa City Experimental (Iowa City, IA 52240; Deadline: August 15, 2008)
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ETC Artists Residency Program (Newark Valley; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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Dallas Video Festival (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: August 11, 2008)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: July 03, 2008)
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: June 16, 2008)
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abstracta, international abstract cinema exhibition (roma, italy; Deadline: June 30, 2008)
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imagine art after (London, United Kingdom; Deadline: July 01, 2008)
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Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival (Milwaukee, WI, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2008)
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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 27, 2008)
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Arrivano i Corti (italy; Deadline: June 20, 2008)
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VolcanoFilmFest (Catania, Sicily, Italy; Deadline: June 15, 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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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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AURORA (Norwich, Norfolk, UK; Deadline: June 27, 2008)
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Angelus Student Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: July 01, 2008)
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Detroit Docs International Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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ETC Artists Residency Program (Newark Valley; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Dyke Delicious Series 5: Season Finale Surprise! [June 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tony Conrad: Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective [June 14, London, England]
* Tony Takes On video: Who's Watching Who ? [June 14, London, England]
* Tony Conrad In Conversation + Dreaminimalist [June 15, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents A Tribute To the Creative Film Society [June 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Vancouver Film Experiments: New Cinema From the Western Fault [June 16, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]
* Coleen Fitzgibbon: Internal Systems [June 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Mixed Bag [June 17, jacksonville]
* Adventure Poseidon, the: the Unsinking of My Ship [June 20, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Global Undergrounds - videos By Guy Ben-Ner [June 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2008
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6/14
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 Social Hr., 8:00 Screening, 5243 N. Clark St.
DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES 5: SEASON FINALE SURPRISE!
Join us as we celebrate the last show of our fifth season of Dyke
Delicious. You never know what we have in store, but we won't disappoint
you! Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue?
Most likely!
6/14
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
10pm, Bankside, SE1 9TG
TONY CONRAD: UNPROJECTABLE: PROJECTION AND PERSPECTIVE
This major new live performance by Tony Conrad is specially conceived
for the latent sound and immense scale of the Turbine Hall. Emerging
from an installation inspired by the hum of the former power station's
one remaining generator, Conrad's sonic and visual feast will
incorporate an amplified string quartet, electric drill and motors,
phonograph arms, film projection and shadows which loom high above the
audience. This event is FREE but advance booking is recommended. Book by
telephone 020 7887 8888, email or online at www.tate.org.uk
6/14
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
7pm, Bankside, SE1 9TG
TONY TAKES ON VIDEO: WHO'S WATCHING WHO ?
Tony Conrad investigates the conditions of video production and
presentation in a series of tapes which deconstruct or re-appropriate
the techniques of TV. Exploiting the reflexive nature of the medium, he
critiques the electronic image and notions of history, theory and
authority with an irreverent sense of humour. Postmodernism was never
this much fun! Includes CONCORD ULTIMATUM (1977, 10 min excerpt),
REDRESSING DOWN (1988, 18 min), IPSO FACTO (1985, 7 min), LOOKERS (1984,
4 min excerpt), EGYPT 2000 (1986, 13 min), NO EUROPE (1990, 13 min),
ACCORDION (1981, 5 min), IN LINE (1986, 7 min). Introduced by Tony
Conrad.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2008
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6/15
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
3pm, Bankside, SE1 9TG
TONY CONRAD IN CONVERSATION + DREAMINIMALIST
Tony Conrad will discuss his radical breakthroughs in film, video, music
and performance with Branden W Joseph, Associate Professor of Modern and
Contemporary Art at Columbia University, and author of "Beyond the Dream
Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage" (Zone Books/MIT). The
discussion will include a screening of DREAMINIMALIST (2008, 25 min),
the latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of artists
(Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman). The film offers
an insightful and hilarious encounter with Conrad as he sings, dances
and remembers his youth and his association with Jack Smith. Marie
Losier will also be in attendance.
6/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO THE CREATIVE FILM SOCIETY
Co-presented by the iotaCenter. Founded in 1957, the Creative Film
Society was one of the key distribution organizations of the Los Angeles
avant-garde film movement in its time. The films screening tonight,
selected by Angie Pike, include Logos (1957) and Odds and Ends (1958) by
Jane Conger Belson Shimané, Things to Come (1953) and Obmaru (1953) by
Patricia Marx, S.W.L.A. (1971) by Rob Thompson, Now That the Buffalo's
Gone (1968) by Burton Gershfield. Plus several more to be announced!
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.
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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
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6/16
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative
http://www.afcoop.ca
7pm, CBC Radio Room, 1599 South Park Street, Halifax
VANCOUVER FILM EXPERIMENTS: NEW CINEMA FROM THE WESTERN FAULT
Ben Donoghue is currently the executive director of LIFT (Liaison of
Independent Filmmakers of Toronto). For this program, he has curated new
and recently recycled works by some of the wet-coast's most celebrated,
subtle, and secret celluloid artists. From nuanced film based textures
to digitally rendered outputs and stripped down dark noise aesthetics,
it's all here. Reinventing the Vancouver style, this program balances
the violence of the downtown eastside with an investigation of
geographies that evokes an intricate and saturated view on handmade film
and the BC landscape. Almost all Halifax premieres, these films are
likely to migrate a fault-line or two. Virtually all formats will be
crossed in the night: Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and video. The program
includes films and Videos by: Alex Mackenzie, Amanda Dawn Christie, Amy
Kazymerchyk, Amy Lockhart, Ben Donoghue, Chris Brabant, Pia Massie,
Christoph Runne, Julie Saragosa, Yun Lam Li, and Zoe Gordini Admission
is $9 or $7 for AFCOOP and/or Movie Mondays members.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008
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6/17
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
COLEEN FITZGIBBON: INTERNAL SYSTEMS
Curated by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder Between 1973 and 1976 Coleen
Fitzgibbon made some of the most rigorous abstract films to date. This
program revisits some of these early 16mm films from an artist who is
perhaps best known as one of the co-founders of the alternative arts
collective Colab. Films to be screened: Found Film Flashes (1973),
FM/TRCS (1974), Internal Systems (1975), Restoring appearances to order
in 12 minutes (1975), Document (1975-76). Coleen Fitzgibbon was active
as an experimental film artist under the pseudonym "Colen Fitzgibbon"
between the years 1973-1980. A student of Owen Land (aka "George
Landow"), Stan Brakhage, and Michael Snow, Fitzgibbon screened her work
at numerous international film festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL
5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium, Institute of Contemporary Art in London,
Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium
Film Workshop in New York. Coleen Fitzgibbon will be on hand to discuss
her work.
6/17
jacksonville: THE LAST HURRAH PICTURE SHOW
http://thelasthurrahpictureshow.wordpress.com
8:00p.m., 406 chelsea st
MIXED BAG
90minutes of short surprises from the depths of the archive to YOU
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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2008
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6/20
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Andy Warhol Museum
http://www.warhol.org/
8:00 PM, 117 Sandusky Street
ADVENTURE POSEIDON, THE: THE UNSINKING OF MY SHIP
Anne McGuire's Adventure Poseidon, The (The Unsinking of My Ship)
continues in the tradition of disaster deconstruction she first
presented in 1993's The Strain Andromeda. By reversing Ronald Neame's
1972 adventure thriller about the capsizing of a luxury ocean liner
shot-by-shot she creates what she calls a "never-ending flashback", in
the same style has her 1993 film Strain Andromeda, The.
6/20
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia Street
GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS - VIDEOS BY GUY BEN-NER
Guy Ben-Ner was born in Ramat Gam, Israel. He currently lives in New
York. Stealing Beauty (2007) was shot without permission at numerous
IKEA stores around New York, Berlin and Tel Aviv. In the movie the
Ben-Ners quite naturally inhabit idealized showroom interiors with price
tags dangling from furniture, and shoppers occasionally interrupting the
family's daily routines. Because of the hit-and-run filming, the
traditional cinematic continuity is abandoned and the changing sets are
stand-ins for their home. The narrative, however, remains linear as the
father offers life lessons on the subjects of economic exchange, meaning
of private property, ethics, and family love eventually leading to the
children's rebellious manifesto. In Berkeley's Island (1999) the first
video to address his position of "domestic artist", Guy Ben-Ner placed a
small sandy island complete with a palm tree in the middle of the
kitchen and became a shipwreck survivor living in solitude amidst
domestic life going on around him. Through existential introspection
combined with often hilarious use of resources that the kitchen set
provides ("I learned to use what the island supplied me with"),
"Berkeley's Island" depicts the home environment as an exile and
simultaneously as a place to escape from. Moby Dick (2000) adapts Herman
Melville's classic novel, a sprawling tale centered on Captain Ahab's
quest to exact revenge against the great white whale Moby-Dick. The
video features Guy and his 6-year-old daughter play-acting in their home
kitchen in ways that take to absurd extremes the aesthetic of family
home videos. Using minimal props (a rope and a pole) Ben-Ner transforms
the space into a make-believe ship – a playground for the reenactment of
the classic tale. Wild Boy (2004) tells the story of a wild child and
his educator, a story of power relations and the fantasy of bringing
somebody up after one's own image. It is the story of every parent-child
rearing, but more than that, it is a story of a director and his
child-actor, raising the question of what it means to direct a child, to
contain a child inside a fixed frame, to command him in and out of the
frame (as if it is his private room). On another level, it also raises
the possibility of looking at early cinema (the "Cinema of attractions"
as was coined by Tom Gunning), as a mute wild child that was tamed,
eventually, by language (sound, narrative). "Wild boy" is based on
several case histories, some myths, some educational manuals and is
referring to a wide range of movies, from old photos left of the
vaudeville acts by father and son, Buster and Joe Keaton, through
Truffaut's "Wild Child", to "The Kid" by Chaplin. Thanks to Postmasters
Gallery in Chelsea for lending us Guy's work www.postmastersart.com
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