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Date: Sat Jul 05 2008 - 21:52:33 PDT
This week [July 5 - 13, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL (RISC), 3rd edition (Marseille, France; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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25th Annual Olympia Film Festival CINE-X (Olympia, Washington, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2008)
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Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 7.0 (Cyprus; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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OFF: true-school underground film festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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International Science & Film Festival (Marseille, France; Deadline: July 14, 2008)
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Juried Show (san francisco; Deadline: July 30, 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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Bolzano ShorFilmFestival (Bolzano, Italy; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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zwergWERK - Oldenburg Shortfilm Days (Oldenburg, Nds., Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL (RISC), 3rd edition (Marseille, France; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: July 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology- Seattle [July 5, Seattle, Washington]
* Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind [July 7, Seattle, Washington]
* A Series of Fortunate Events [July 10, London, England]
* RomáNtico [July 10, San Francisco, California]
* Super 8 Diary: Jason Halprin [July 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* The New Talkies: Live Film Narration 2008/A Neo-Benshi Cabaret [July 12, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2008
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7/5
Seattle, Washington: The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology
http://www.ifct.org
12:30pm-2:30pm, Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
THE INT'L FEST OF CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY- SEATTLE
Celebrate the Fourth of July weekend with Foreign Film Experimental
Shorts The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology showcases a wide range of
new cutting-edge experimental films, many of which have never before
been presented in the United States. The films range from visually rich
and dynamic and though-provoking to very short 1-3 minute strikingly
intense experimental cinema. Tickets are $6, ($3 for students) The
lineup of experimental films is posted at
http://www.ifct.org/seattleexperimental.html The full festival schedule
can be found at http://www.ifct.org/seattle.html
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MONDAY, JULY 7, 2008
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7/7
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA, 2007,
Digi-BETA, 58 min) A calm, beautiful and wordless testament to fallen
rebels and radicals in American history, from colonial times to the
present. The film consists of elegantly composed images of gravesites
and public shrines. A monument to monuments and a call to arms, PROFIT
MOTIVE visits the resting places of such figures as Malcolm X, Mother
Jones, Cesar Chavez and Eugene V. Debs. Winner, Best Experimental Film,
2007, National Society Film Critics. Screen with PERFECT FILM (Ken
Jacobs, USA, 1986, 16mm, 22 min) An experimental work structured around
outtakes from TV news footage after the assassination of Malcolm X.
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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2008
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7/10
London, England: Small But Perfectly Formed
http://smabpf.blogspot.com/
7.30pm, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL
A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS
Small but perfectly Formed presents "A Series of Fortunate Events",
displaying something of the relationship between improvisation and
composition. Sally Golding (16mm multi-screen projection) Handmade 16mm
extrapolations / performances; chaotic distortions of optical,
mechanical, and photochemical processes…. John Butcher (saxophones) Mark
Wastell (tam tam and electronics) New free-improv duo Roland Ramanan
(trumpet, flute) Roberto Sassi (guitar) Tony Marsh (drums) trio
performing their own graphic scores Café Oto 18-22 Ashwin Street,
Dalston, London E8 3DL www.cafeoto.co.uk Sally Golding is a film artist,
curator, audiovisual archivist and film instructor based in Brisbane,
Australia. Her moving-image art practice is extremely broad in scope,
taking in surrealist melodrama, photochemical experimentation with
celluloid, expanded cinema performance and audiovisual installation.
Sally is most often visible as one half of Abject Leader, or one third
of OtherFilm. www.abjectleader.org www.otherfilm.org John Butcher leads
an almost scientific survey of the sonic possibilities of the saxophone
being in his studio work or in live while performing improvisation or
compositions. He has performed with countless international improvisers
and is hard to avoid in festivals across the world. John's also
performed twice this year along the film Screen Play by Christian
Marclay. www.johnbutcher.org.uk/ Much of Mark Wastell's relationship
with his chosen instrument (being cello, electronics, gong or harmonium)
is concentrated on revealing its tactile, textural and sonic
possibilities. Mark has performed with many leading musicians including
John Zorn, Keith Rowe, Lol Coxhill, Axel Dorner, Phil Minton, Max
Eastley or Steve Beresford. "Exploring the boundary between composition
and improvisation has always been the driving force for me." Roland
Ramanan, from www.emanemdisc.com/E4081.html. Roland has worked with
Peter Brotzman, Eddie Prevost, Simon Fell, Jonn Lloyd... and is a member
of the London Improviser orchestra.
7/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
ROMáNTICO
Romántico ANSWER Coalition Film Series Set in San Francisco's Mission
district, Romántico is a documentary about Mexican musician Carmelo
Muñiz Sánchez, who leaves San Francisco to return home to his beloved
wife, daughters and ailing mother after years playing in taquerías and
bars. But once Carmelo arrives home, he is confronted with the struggles
and poverty wages that led to his first border crossing. This touching
film helps to sensitize viewers to the dignity of the undocumented
workers and the hardships they face. 2005, 80min., Directed by Mark
Becker.
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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2008
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7/12
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale
http://www.nightingaletheatre.org
8 pm, 1084 N Milwaukee Ave
SUPER 8 DIARY: JASON HALPRIN
The Nightingale is pleased to present a program of Super-8mm films by
Chicago artist Jason Halprin. Halprin is one of a handful of filmmakers
who remain steadfastly committed to the small gauge format of Super-8
while the surrounding world becomes increasingly digital. Working in a
medium traditionally reserved for home-movies and avant-garde
filmmakers, Halprin fuses these two realms, taking advantage of the
intimacy and flexibility that Super-8 offers. His experimental diary
films focus on small details, unobserved moments, and subtle variations
of color, texture, and movement that often escape filmmakers working in
other formats. From the seemingly mundane activity of repotting
houseplants to the impressionistic views of the Nebraska landscape to
the telling and complex hand gestures of politicians giving stump
speeches, Halprin provides a view into a world where the little things
are seen to have as great an import as the grandiose. Films screening
include: Potted Plants II (2 min, 2003), Great Nebraska Highway (3 min,
2005), Winter Weather and My Soul Parts I & II (5 min, 2003), Small
Gauge Politics (3 min, 2004), Madison Farmer's Market (5 min, 2005) ,
Boulder Falls Falling (3 min, 2007), Harlem to Valhalla (3 min, 2007),
Brooklyn Prospect (3 min, 2007), NYC Imagine (1 min, 2004), and others.
Total running time approx. 60 min. All films are Chicago premieres.
7/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
THE NEW TALKIES: LIVE FILM NARRATION 2008/A NEO-BENSHI CABARET
Saturday, July 12, 2008. 8PM $10 The New Talkies: Live film narration
2008 a neo-benshi cabaret presented by kino21 The Kearneys talk back to
Spielberg's characters David Larsen Rodney Koeneke Tonight's program is
inspired by the work of the katsudo benshi, the Japanese artist of
cinematic narration during the silent movie era. Benshis were the
actors, writers, and orators who accompanied films live in the theater
to explain, voice and comment on the screen action. In our neo-benshi
adaptation of the format for a modern sensibility, each writer/performer
takes a film scene, mutes the dialog, then devises a new script
(sometimes with sound effects) to interpret, ventriloquize and even sing
both with and against the film. Their performances serve to subvert,
amplify and hijack the original visuals. In addition to several world
premieres from local Bay Area artists, we are delighted to have been
able to lure three performers from events in Los Angeles and Portland,
Oregon, where we participated in neo-benshi cabarets over the last year.
The bill features performances by Charles Schulz & Erika Staiti - Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Rodney Koeneke - Mary Poppins Clive Worsley -
Jeremiah Johnson Douglas & Nicole Kearney - Indiana Jones & the Temple
of Doom Cynthia Sailers - The Passion of Anna Jaime Cortez - Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner? David Larsen - Logan's Run Plus some other merriments
to be added. "Neo-benshi at its best mashes up subversive written
scripts, deft acting, and acrobatic mind-eye coordination." - Steve
Dickinson, The Poetry Center, SFSU
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