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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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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: August 15, 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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ICE - Iowa City Experimental (Iowa City, IA 52240; Deadline: August 15, 2008)
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Dallas Video Festival (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: August 11, 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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* Super 8 Diary: Jason Halprin [July 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* "The Rape of Europa" July 11-12-13 [July 12, Eugene, Oregon]
* The Films of Stan Vanderbeek July 11 - 20 [July 12, New York, New York]
* The New Talkies: Live Film Narration 2008/A Neo-Benshi Cabaret [July 12, San Francisco, California]
* Films [July 12, San Francisco, California]
* Films By Michael Wallin [July 12, San Francisco, California]
* "The Rape of Europa" July 11-12-13 [July 13, Eugene, Oregon]
* Leslie Singer's Three On A Match [July 17, San Francisco, California]
* The Perfect Show [July 17, Seattle, Washington]
* Club Sandwich + Canyon Cinema Present A Night of 16mm Experimental Silent
Films.. [July 18, San Francisco, California]
* A Slice of Blood and Honey: Experimental Cinema From Macedonia [July 18, Seattle, Washington]
* Visual Music At Expressions Gallery [July 19, Berkeley, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
7:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
"THE RAPE OF EUROPA" JULY 11-12-13
The DIVA Center will screen the award winning documentary "The Rape of
Europa" at 7PM on July 11th and 12th and at 1PM on Sunday, July 13th.
University of Oregon Art and Law Professor Dom Vetri will host the
Saturday evening screening. The film tells the story of the systematic
theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art
treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. Admission:
$6. Information: 344-3482.
7/12
New York, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org/
11am, 12.30pm, 2pm, more..., 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
THE FILMS OF STAN VANDERBEEK JULY 11 - 20
DAILY Wed Sun, except Fridays (see end of schedule for special Friday
schedule). 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm: Vanderbeekiana: What, Who, How (1957, 8
min); Science Friction (1959, 9 min); Ala Mode (1960, 5 min); Mankinda
(1957, 10 min); Breathdeath (1964, 15 min); Poem Field no. 2, with Ken
Knowlton (1966, 6 min); See, Saw, Seems (1967, 10 min); Panels for the
Walls of the World (1967, 8 min); Oh (1968, 10 min); Symmetricks (1971,
7 min); Total running time: 88 min. 3.30pm: Cold War Dreams Achoo Mr.
Keroochev (1959, 1 Ύ min); Astral Man (1957, 2 Ό min); Black and Whites,
Days and Nights (1960, 5 min); Snapshots of the City (1961, 5 min);
Skullduggery (1960, 5 min); Summit (1963, 12 min); Total running time:
31 min. 4pm: Super-Imposition Wheels no. 1 (1958, 5 min); Wheels no. 2
(1959, 5 min); Dance of the Lonely Spoons (1959, 5 min); Found Film no.
1 (1968/70, 6min); The History of Motion in Motion (10 min); The Human
Face is a Monument (9 ½ min); Super-Imposition (1968, 17 min); Total
running time: 41 min. 5pm: Cybernetic Space Phenomenon no. 1 (1965, 7
min); Man and His World (1967, 1 min); Spherical Space no. 1 (1967, 5
min); Poem Field no. 1, with Ken Knowlton (1966, 4 min); Poem Field no.
7 with Ken Knowlton, soundtrack by John Cage (1968, 4 min); Will (1968,
4 min); Film Form no. 1 (1970, 10 min); Who Ho Ray No. 1 (1966-1972, 8
min); Total running time: 43 min. FRIDAYS: 1pm 6pm VanDerBeekiana
program 6 6.30pm Cold War Dreams program 6.30-7.30pm
Super-Imposition program 7.30 8.30 Cybernetic Space program
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
7/12
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8pm, 16 Sherman St.
FILMS
Come on down for an informal film screening at New Nothing Cinema that
I'm throwing together for a few wonderful out of town
filmmakers...should be a good time. Bring some booze, I will supply the
ice. with a large variety of movies including works from, Michael
Rudnick Bryan Konefsky Dean Snider Rock Ross Paul Clipson Tomanari
Nishikawa and many more.... fun and good times for all.
7/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm, 379 Highland (at Holly Park in Bernal Heights)
FILMS BY MICHAEL WALLIN
Free! FILMS BY MICHAEL WALLIN: TO HOLD A HEART and other films As part
of its activity to support Bay Area filmmakers and arts organizations,
The Metro Theatre Center Foundation will be presenting a series of
screening events with filmmakers and their subjects present. The series,
"Up Close and Personal--An Evening With..." continues on Saturday, July
12th, at the home theater space of Executive Director, Ron Merk.
METROSPACE, a screening and performance space, carved out of Ron's
enormous, high-ceiling former garage space, features state of the art
video projection, Dolby 5.1 surround sound, a stage, lighting and sound,
in a wonderful intimate atmosphere. The guest of honor will be renowned
Bay Area filmmaker, Michael Wallin. Michael and several surprise guests
(some of the people in his films) will be present. The event will begin
at 7PM with a reception, with a screening at 8PM. There is no charge to
attend the event, but donations will be gratefully accepted the night of
the event, to help defray the costs of running the venue and the event.
Three films, each chosen personally by Michael, will be presented.
"These three films, DECODINGS (1988), BLACK SHEEP BOY (1995, color, 37
min.) and TO HOLD A HEART (2005), spanning a 17 year period, form a sort
of psycho-sexual trilogy. They reflect a shift in my creative focus from
the more formal concerns of prior films toward the personal and
psychological. Sexuality has always fascinated me in terms of its
visceral pull, the conjunction of fantasy and reality, and what
constitutes for each of us, whether gay or straight, male or female, a
sort of ideal, often elusive, other. And what that process is by which
desire and infatuation morph into love, that sublime mix of the physical
and emotional. This exploration has paralleled and been further fueled
by a career shift from filmmaker jack-of-all-trades to psychotherapist.
So the force and influence exerted by our past histories, both family
and socio/cultural. These themes are explored in these 3
"autobiographical" works, first in the foundfootage/collage film
DECODINGS, second in the poetic, more narratively oblique film BLACK
SHEEP BOY and lastly in the very direct and straightforward tale told in
TO HOLD A HEART." (Michael Wallin) "Michael Wallin's DECODINGS is a
profoundly moving, allegorical search for identity from the documents of
collective memory, in this case found footage from the '40s and '50s...
The search for self ends in aching poignancy with stills of a boy and
his mother at the kitchen table, catching the moment that marks the
dawning of anguish and loss; desire becomes imprinted on that which was
long ago." (Manohla Dargis, THE VILLAGE VOICE) "BLACK SHEEP BOY is one
of the best shorts making the '95 gay film fest circuit, having artistic
links to experimental classics such as Jean Genet's UN CHANT D'AMOUR and
Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS." (SF Weekly) "TO HOLD A HEART beautifully
presents a story that is familiar but is told so delicately that it
comes alive in a very personal, fresh way. Quite an accomplishment." (Bo
Smith, Curator: Film/Video, Boston Museum of Fine Art) "TO HOLD A HEART
is told with quiet wit and is alert to all aspects of a familiar
longing...A beautiful work..." (Carl Bogner, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee & Curator: Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival) There will be a brief
Q&A after each film, and a chance to continue questions one on one with
Michael Wallin and some of his co-conspirators at the end of the
evening.
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SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2008
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7/13
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
1 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
"THE RAPE OF EUROPA" JULY 11-12-13
The DIVA Center will screen the award winning documentary "The Rape of
Europa" at 1PM on Sunday, July 13th. The film tells the story of the
systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of
Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War.
Admission: $6. Information: 344-3482.
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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008
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7/17
San Francisco, California: Camerawork Gallery
http://www.sfcamerawork.org
6pm, 657 Mission @ 3rd Street, 2nd floor
LESLIE SINGER'S THREE ON A MATCH
Leslie Singer's never before seen 1994 video of Kevin Killian's play
Three on a Match, shot at San Francisco's short-lived gallery/
performance space Kiki, screened in conjunction with the exhibition
Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding at Ratio 3 (www.ratio3.org). $5
Public, $2 Students/Seniors, Free for Camerawork Members
7/17
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
THE PERFECT SHOW
JULY 17, Thursday at 8pm DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE! THIRD EYE CINEMA
PRESENTS THE PERFECT SHOW: The Films Of Karl Krogstad (Director,
Country, Year, Format) "THE PERFECT SHOW is Karl Krogstad's example of
the most direct and unconventional expression possible and it's darned
close to perfect! The program includes five new short films plus a lot
of 'fillers.' The fillers aren't really films, but the songs of birds.
And when these birds sing you can almost smell the tail feathers. The
show lasts about one hour and is like a feather that actually falls like
a coin, to land on its edge. They are strange." Karl Krogstad
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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2008
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7/18
San Francisco, California: + Club Sandwich
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2659426042_9de8caa113_o.jpg
8pm potluck, 9pm showtime, Golden Gate Park Horseshoe Pit
CLUB SANDWICH + CANYON CINEMA PRESENT A NIGHT OF 16MM EXPERIMENTAL SILENT
FILMS..
..with live improvised musical scores by EXTRA LIFE (www. myspace.
com/extralifetheband)+ NAT BALDWIN (www. myspace. com/natbaldwin) -
Friday, July 18 at 8pm (potluck first + movies start at sundown) - The
Horseshoe Pit in Golden Gate Park [enter from Stanyan + Hayes, walk a
bit and go up first set of stairs on your right / call 510.378.0628 if
you get lost] - Films by - James Otis - Saul Levine - Chuck Hudina -
Peter Hutton - Owen Land - Jud Yalkut - Robert Huot - David Rimmer -
Kurt Kren - Greta Snider ++++++Movie Junkfood Potluck (bring your
favorite snacks!) - www.clubsandwichbayarea.com - - -
www.canyoncinema.com
7/18
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
A SLICE OF BLOOD AND HONEY: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA FROM MACEDONIA
JULY 18-19, Friday-Saturday at 8pm A SLICE OF BLOOD AND HONEY:
Experimental Cinema From Macedonia Macedonia (a breakaway nation from
Yugoslavia) is a small, mountainous country in South Eastern Europe.
Against the struggles of economic hardship, ethnic tensions, and bitter
Balkan politics, it has a flourishing youth culture. Artists are
reacting to the genre films and contemporary art movements from the
western world while at the same time commenting on their own culture as
it moves from a provincial, socialist state to one with all the
trappings of a cosmopolitan member of the European Union. With this
program, we'll be showcasing some of the short films and documentaries
coming from students, experimental filmmakers and visual artists. Films
include a documentary about Skopje's underground radio station as it
saved from being taken off the air by party-loving and outspoken
protestors, a Svankmayer inspired animation featuring a clay homunculus
pursued by nails, and a short sci-fi film about a woman's attempt to
escape from imprisonment at the hands of a maleficent medical staff.
This program is supported by a grant from CEC ArtsLink.
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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2008
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7/19
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://expressionsgallery.org
7pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue, (near Ashby BART Station)
VISUAL MUSIC AT EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
Expressions Gallery presents prize-winning filmmaker Melanie Hofmann
with composer Steve Capper in a program of abstract videos with
electronic soundtracks. When: 7-9 pm, July 19, 2008 What: Movies: Visual
Music at Expressions Gallery Who: Melanie Hofmann and Steve Capper
Where: Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703 (near
the Ashby BART Station) Admission: Free Public Info: 510-644-4930,
email suppressed www.expressionsgallery.org Contact: Loren
Means, email suppressed Melanie Hofmann graduated with a BFA in
Textiles from the California College of the Arts in 1996. Her home and
studio are located in Berkeley. She had the privilege of attending one
of the original Bay Area "Free" Schools, Pinel, in the Sixties. At Pinel
and later living in Berkeley as a teenager, she was immersed in the
Psychedelic culture of the era. This influence has manifested itself in
her digital video work that will be featured at a screening on July 19,
from 7 - 8 pm at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley. One of the films in
that show, "Obsession" recently won a prize at the Twin Rivers Media
Festival. Some of her digital video work can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/51352468. Melanie started out using digital
technology to do the design process for her printed textiles. She uses
the scanner extensively in her digital work, scanning in such things as
leaves, flowers, crystals, and photographs which are then transformed in
Photoshop. Melanie's projected artwork was featured in the Shotgun
Players performance of Arabian Night in the spring of 2005. In other
media, Melanie has received awards from the Taegu International Textile
Design competition and from Manhattan Arts International. Her work in
textiles, ceramics, and photography can be purchased at
http://www.cafepress.com/melhof. Steve Capper, a musician, has
collaborated with Melanie on a number of projects. He composes his
pieces while viewing the work. He played keyboard, drums, and guitar as
part of the punk rock/reggae music scene in London in the Seventies, and
wrote songs in these genres. He got his first synthesizer in the early
Nineties. He uses a Roland Fantom 6 synthesizer for composing as well as
live performance.
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