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This week [August 16 - 24, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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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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Streaming Festival (The Hague, Netherlands; Deadline: September 01, 2008)
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OCULI: an experimental film showcase (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Sylvia Pengilly In Person [August 16, Berkeley, California]
* 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]
* Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps (Films/Performance By Ben Russell) [August 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps (Films/Performance By Ben Russell) [August 21, San Francisco, California]
* Shutdown:The Rise and Fall of Direct Action To Stop the War [August 22, San Francisco, California]
* Strange Light/Paul Clipson-Jefre Cantu-Ledesma-Jim Haynes [August 23, san Francisco]
* Andy Warhol's "Eating Too Fast" & "Mario Banana (No. 1)" [August 24, Chicago, Illinois]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2008
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8/16
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://www.expressionsgallery.org/
7-9pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue,
SYLVIA PENGILLY IN PERSON
Expressions Gallery presents a personal appearance by distinguished
video artist and electronic musician Sylvia Pengilly showing and talking
about her abstract animations. When: 7-9 pm, Saturday, August 16, 2008;
Admission: Free Where: Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley,
CA 94703 (near the Ashby BART Station) Public Info: 510-644-4930,
email suppressed www.expressionsgallery.org Contact: Loren
Means, email suppressed
--------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2008
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8/19
Los Angeles, California: Cinefamily + Cinemad
http://www.cinefamily.org
8:00, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS (FILMS/PERFORMANCE BY BEN RUSSELL)
Blasting out of Chicago, experimental filmmaker Ben Russell makes
vibrant, "tryppy" films as emotional as they are beautiful to sink tour
eyes into. His BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS subjects range from elliptical
trees in high contrast to a crowd at a Lightning Bolt show to a Richard
Pryor performance blown out visually. Russell will also perform THE
BLACK AND THE WHITE GODS, a 16mm double-projection live performance
involving film loops, mixer feedback, a delay pedal, and a homemade
light-sensitive synthesizer. WARNING: This show contains visuals that
may be harmful to those with epilepsy. FEATURING: Black and White Trypps
Number One (6:30, 16mm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00,
16mm, 2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007),
Black and White Trypps Number Four (11:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5
(Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, 2008), The Red and the Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm,
2005), The Black and the White Gods (20:00, mixed formats, 2008) TRT
70:00, $12/$8 for Cinefamily members
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2008
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8/21
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
http://newnothing.wordpress.com/
7:30pm, 16 Sherman St.
TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS (FILMS/PERFORMANCE BY BEN RUSSELL)
Blasting out of Chicago, experimental filmmaker Ben Russell makes
vibrant, "tryppy" films as emotional as they are beautiful to sink tour
eyes into. His BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS subjects range from elliptical
trees in high contrast to a crowd at a Lightning Bolt show to a Richard
Pryor performance blown out visually. Russell will also perform THE
BLACK AND THE WHITE GODS, a 16mm double-projection live performance
involving film loops, mixer feedback, a delay pedal, and a homemade
light-sensitive synthesizer. WARNING: This show contains visuals that
may be harmful to those with epilepsy. FEATURING: Black and White Trypps
Number One (6:30, 16mm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00,
16mm, 2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007),
Black and White Trypps Number Four (11:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5
(Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, 2008), The Red and the Blue Gods (8:00, 16mm,
2005), The Black and the White Gods (20:00, mixed formats, 2008) TRT
70:00
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2008
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8/22
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st 94110
SHUTDOWN:THE RISE AND FALL OF DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR
Friday, August 22, 2008. 8PM $6 SHUTDOWN: The Rise and Fall of Direct
Action to Stop the War In the winter of 2003, as the US was building up
to attack Iraq, people around the world responded with a series of the
largest protests in history. In San Francisco, the response to the US's
illegal and brutal attack was a mass uprising that forced the police to
declare the financial district "shut down" the day after the war
started. Orchestrated by Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW), 20,000
people clogged the streets of downtown San Francisco with everything
from brass bands and bicycles to mourning mothers and large-scale
lockdowns, stopping business as usual. But neither the uprising nor DASW
outlasted the occupation. Created by organizers from within DASW,
SHUTDOWN goes behind the scenes for a look at some of the difficulties
and pitfalls of mass organizing, direct action and building a movement
that lasts. 45 mins. Directed by Beca Lafore, Helia Rasti & Jonathan
Stribling-Uss Plus two shorts
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2008
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8/23
san Francisco: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
STRANGE LIGHT/PAUL CLIPSON-JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA-JIM HAYNES
Saturday, August 23, 2008. 8PM $6-$10 STRANGE LIGHT Paul Clipson-Jefre
Cantu-Ledesma-Jim Haynes Jim Haynes and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma perform live
to two new Super 8mm films by S.F. filmmaker Paul Clipson, including
figurative and abstract footage filmed over the summer in Moscow , St.
Petersburg and Paris. » More images STRANGE LIGHT Jim Haynes and Jefre
Cantu-Ledesma perform live to two new Super 8mm films by S.F. filmmaker
Paul Clipson, including figurative and abstract footage filmed over the
summer in Moscow , St. Petersburg and Paris. "San Francisco-based
composer and multimedia installation artist Jim Haynes quite vividly
describes his methodology as one of "rust"; to rust, that is, as a verb.
Certainly the sonic equivalents to rust, decay and dereliction are at
the heart of his sound art...The overall effect might make one think of
some vast industrial zone slipping slowly into the organic processes of
a primeval swamp, or of oceans rising slowly and gently in a gray,
destructive - yet oddly alluring - haze." -Dusted Magazine Jefre
Cantu-Ledesma is a founding member of the band Tarentel and has been
releasing long form work using string and wind instruments under his own
name for the last few years. His work has been described by Aquarius
records as everything from " stretched out and darkly glistening deep
resonant tones" to " glowing tongues of distorted flame." Paul Clipson's
Super 8mm films are shot and largely edited "in-camera", in an
improvised manner that brings to light subconscious preoccupations in
the hope of allowing for un-thought, unexpected visual elements to
reveal themselves. He works in Super 8mm, 16mm and video, often in
collaboration with experimental music and sound artists, exhibiting his
work in live performance, screenings and installation.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2008
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8/24
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
ANDY WARHOL'S "EATING TOO FAST" & "MARIO BANANA (NO. 1)"
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale are pleased to be presenting one
of the very few public screenings of EATING TOO FAST to date. This is a
rare opportunity to see Warhol re-interpreting one of his own classic
films. EATING TOO FAST (1966, 66 mins., 16mm, sound, black and white) by
Andy Warhol. "EATING TOO FAST, also called BLOW JOB NO. 2, is an ironic
remake, with sound, of Warhol's 1964 minimalist classic; it is also a
stunningly beautiful portrait film. Art critic and writer Gregory
Battcock faces the camera in close-up, determined, it seems, to show
little response to the sex act taking place below the frame. For most of
the first reel, there is no camera movement, no dialogue, and little
perceptible action, until a phone call prompts a humorous downward pan.
Battcock's animation during this phone conversation is in stark contrast
to the resignation with which he returns to the tedium of sex. The
unclimactic second reel contains many pans and other camera movements,
suggesting that this film may have been intended for double-screen
projection." (Callie Angell). Preceded by: MARIO BANANA (NO. 1) (1964, 4
mins., 16mm, silent, color) by Andy Warhol. "Mario Montez, the
well-known drag performer who also appeared in many Jack Smith films,
suggestively eats a banana in close-up. MARIO BANANA, which won an award
at the 1965 Los Angeles Film Festival, is an important precursor to
HARLOT, in which Montez elaborates on this performance." (Callie
Angell). Admission: $7.00 - $10.00, sliding scale. For more information
on The Nightingale, visit www.nightingaletheatre.org
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