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Date: Sat Aug 09 2008 - 07:34:11 PDT
This week [August 9 - 17, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Insect Clutched Stick" by Garth Simmons
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"Data Stream" by Mike Celona
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"I Just Saw A Scary Movie" by Jimmy Robson
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"Last visions before dreaming" by Nicholas Fiorentini
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"Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect" by Caroline Koebel
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"Grand Central/Central Terminal" by Caroline Koebel
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL (Marseille, France; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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2nd Annual Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL USA; Deadline: November 11, 2008)
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28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 24, 2008)
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Ticket Booth video entries at The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 06, 2008)
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The Citizen Jane Film Festival (Columbia, MO, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2008)
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MAGA / Macon Georgia Film Festival (Macon, Georgia USA; Deadline: November 15, 2008)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Streaming Festival (The Hague, Netherlands; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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Renderyard Short Film Festival (London; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: August 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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25th Annual Olympia Film Festival CINE-X (Olympia, Washington, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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Ava Gardner Film Festival (Smithfield, NC, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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OCULI: an experimental film showcase (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder; Deadline: August 22, 2008)
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Ticket Booth video entries at The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 06, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 2nd Annual, Free For All Film Festival [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Dog Star Man By Stan Brakhage [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Mock Up On Mu [August 15, Seattle, Washington]
* Visual Music At Expressions Gallery [August 16, Berkeley, California]
* Grizzly Road [August 16, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents North American Premiere of Susan Mogul's "Driving Men" [August 17, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2008
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8/14
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8pm, 16 Sherman St.
2ND ANNUAL, FREE FOR ALL FILM FESTIVAL
+++2nd Annual Free For All Film Festival+++ ___curated by Zoe Blank___
with film/video works by__ Claire Armstrong, Zoe Blank, Nelson Brazill,
Kent Brown, Douglas Katelus, Daniel Kennedy, Joe McKay, Danny Plotnick,
Michael Rudnick, Rock Ross, Robert Toy, Vanessa Woods, William Yarbrough
----8pm New Nothing Cinema 16 Sherman St. off folsom between 6th and
7th----
8/14
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/film/
7:30, 701 Mission St. (3rd/Mission)
DOG STAR MAN BY STAN BRAKHAGE
Thu, Aug 14, 7:30 pm DOG STAR MAN BY STAN BRAKHAGE Rarely screened yet
widely recognized as one of the key works of experimental film, Dog Star
Man is a multi-layered, psychedelic epic about a man climbing a snowy
mountain. Deeply personal in inspiration, Dog Star Man has a cosmic
scope and a hero of mythic proportions, comparable to other twentieth
century modernist classics such as James Joyce's Ulysses. (1961–64,
16mm, 78 min, silent)
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2008
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8/15
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
MOCK UP ON MU
AUGUST 15 - 16, Friday - Saturday at 8pm DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!
RECEPTION **** THIRD EYE CINEMA PRESENTS MOCK UP ON MU (Craig Baldwin,
US, 2008, 114 min) Notorious Bay Area "kino-renegade" Craig Baldwin tops
his earlier found-footage operas SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM and SONIC
OUTLAWS with this highly anticipated new work, a rapid-fire pulp
serial–cum–political take on California's major industries: the
military, entertainment and religion. Hitting upon everything from
Satanism to Scientology, the Beats to the jets (propulsion, that is),
Baldwin revs up his characteristic stock footage remixes with
live-action scenes of his own, adding an over-the-top pulp flair to the
proceedings. Arising with demonic force from the detritus of the
twentieth century, the film surveys "the repurposing of the popular
imagination in postwar California," according to Baldwin, tracing the
"simultaneous rise and convergence of New Age religious cults, the
military/aerospace industrial complex and modern-day myths from Disney
to certain sci-fi overlords."
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2008
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8/16
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://www.expressionsgallery.org
7pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue, (near Ashby BART Station)
VISUAL MUSIC AT EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
Sylvia Pengilly has always been fascinated by the correlation between
what the ear hears and what the eye sees. Because of this, many of her
works integrate both musical and visual elements. Mathematics and
physics, including Chaos Theory, Quantum Mechanics, and Superstrings,
are of particular interest, and frequently provide the basis for her
works, which have been presented at several festivals, including many
SEAMUS National Conferences, the "Not Still Art" Festival in New York,
and ICMC. She is professor emeritus of the College of Music at Loyola
University, New Orleans, where she taught theory and composition for
many years, also founded and directed the electronic music composition
studio. Program: 1. Elemental Chaos (6:10, 1992) an experimental video
inspired by the mathematics of Chaos theory. 2. DarkPlaces (7:00,1995) a
video of a performance work in which the image of the
performer/protagonist appears as a silhouette, sometimes stenciled from
graphics, and at other times from videotape images. 3. Patterns of
Organic Energy (5:46, 2004) a music/video work in which the sounds used
for the music were derived directly from keyframes of the video, thus
creating an intimate link between video and audio. 4. The Outer Edge of
Possibility (11:10, 2005) a collaboration between Sylvia (video) and
Michael Rhoades (music). 5. Unperceived Dimensions (6:55, 2006). Just
beyond our perception lie unperceived realms of both sight and sound. 6.
Release! (11:13, 2007). created by extracting visual segments of the
waveforms, processing and animating them, then synchronizing them with
the music they represent.
8/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st 94110
GRIZZLY ROAD
Saturday, August 16, 2008. 8PM $6 Grizzly Road Directed by Sabrina
Alonso (in person) It is estimated that 10,000 grizzly bears once roamed
the Golden State. But in just 30 short years, the California Grizzly was
on the brink of extinction, and in 1908, the last wild grizzly was
recorded to have been shot. The call of Manifest Destiny for westward
expansion sealed the great Grizzly Bear's Fate…and with it, an eternal
mythologizing of its past. Historical figures like Grizzly Adams and
William Randolph Hearst directly shaped our views of the grizzly bear,
and so did the "inevitable" expansion of the United States. Monarch, a
grizzly bear captured by Hearst sat in in captivity for 22 years.
Shortly after Monarch's demise as the last known living grizzly in
California, Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe, was discovered in
Oroville. The destiny of both intersected in Golden Gate Park, where
their own extinction was witnessed and recorded…foreshadowing modern
man's future collision course with his manufactured landscape. "Grizzly
Road" is a feature documentary exploring the California Grizzly's
unfortunate fate with Manifest Destiny. By exploring the historical
treatment of the bear, our own subsequent landscape of the future is
revealed. Directed by Sabrina Alonso, "Grizzly Road" is a visual essay
using the landscape of California with archival photographs, and
paintings and film footage from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The
music is originally scored by Lauren Wooley as well as additional music
from Corner Tour and the Darklings.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2008
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8/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, American Film Institute Mark Goodson Screening Room, 2021 N. Western Ave.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF SUSAN MOGUL'S "DRIVING MEN"
Filmforum hosts world-renowned video artist Susan Mogul with the North
American Premiere of Driving Men. (2008, 68 min.) There will be a free
wine and cake reception in honor of Mogul's birthday after the
screening. Mogul's hilarious and poignant feature length film appears to
be a personal story, yet it explores universal issues: the relationships
between fathers and daughters, men and women, politics, sex, love, and
Jewishness. For reservations, email the name & number in your party to
(address suppressed) $9 general; $6 students/seniors
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