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This week [September 6 - 14, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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AMIA Conference (Savannah, Georgia; Deadline: October 07, 2008)
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Metafest (San Francisco; Deadline: September 10, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Silent Sound Outdoor Festival [September 6, Buffalo, New York]
* City-Wide Film School Showcase [September 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Pool Rulez [September 6, Houston, Texas]
* Wavelengths: Lost and Found [September 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths: Horizontal Boundaries [September 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* the Outfest Legacy Project Screening Series @ Ucla: More Rare Treasures
From the One National Gay & Lesbian Archives [September 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Wavelengths: James Benning's Rr [September 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths: Trips [September 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wavelengths: When It Was Blue [September 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Order of Things: Arthur Lipsett Retrospective [September 12, Antwerp]
* Electromediascope [September 12, Kansas City, Missouri]
* The Films of Dean Snider [September 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Milkbar 2008 International Live Film Festival [September 12, Oakland, CA]
* The Sound and Light Show [September 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* Best of Pxl This Festivals 13 - 16 [September 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* Milkbar 2008 International Live Film Festival [September 13, Oakland, CA]
* The Films of Dean Snider [September 13, Venice, CA]
* Milkbar 2008 International Live Film Festival [September 14, Oakland, CA]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
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9/6
Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel
http://www.squeaky.org
8:30pm, Front Park
SILENT SOUND OUTDOOR FESTIVAL
Squeaky Wheel's Silent/Sound Outdoor Festival will feature musician Don
Metz, who will perform scores to classic and new
experimental/avante-garde films by international and local artists.
Metz's compositions will utilize four guitars in a variety of ways from
melodic to percussive.
9/6
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm reception; 8:00 screening, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CITY-WIDE FILM SCHOOL SHOWCASE
This Chicago Filmmakers exclusive event will screen the most provocative
new film and video work from Chicago's most talented film students.
Undergraduate and graduate level work in film and video produced in the
2007-08 academic year coming out of schools including Columbia College,
UIC, SAIC, Loyola, DePaul, Northwestern, UC, and many more will be
juried by the Chicago Filmmakers staff in an attempt to bring Chicago's
future filmmakers from every corner of the city together to share in the
accomplishments of their peers. You won't want to miss the work of these
up-and-coming all-stars!
9/6
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
7 pm, Private Residence (in Heights)
POOL RULEZ
A/V Geeks Pool Party Screening Saturday, September 6, 7pm Location:
Provided upon ticket purchase A/V Geeks try to beat the oppressive
Houston heat by showing films about swimming and pools at an actual
swimming pool. No running. No glass bottles. No profanity. Enjoy a
synchronized swimming performance by Aquanauts of Clear Lake, refreshing
beverages, and tasty hors-oeuvres. Proceeds from the event go to help
everyone's favorite microcinema, the one-and-only Aurora Picture Show!
Tickets to this special fundraiser are $60 for non-members and $50 for
members. To purchase your tickets, click here or call the office
(713.868.2101) to purchase over the phone and avoid convenience fees.
Skip Elsheimer will be in attendance.
9/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff08.ca
6:30 pm, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario), 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS: LOST AND FOUND
A wistful serenity guides this programme through the magnificent
mysteries of artistic inspiration, the indescribable melancholy that
limns romantic love, the quiet solitude that grief commands and our
insatiable quest for knowledge. L'Atelier by Hannes
Schüpbach(Switzerland, 2007, Silent, 16 minutes/16mm). The Parable of
the Tulip Painter and the Fly by Charlotte Pryce (USA, 2008, Silent, 3
minutes/16mm). How to Conduct a Love Affair by David Gatten (USA, 2007,
Silent, 8 minutes/16mm). Sag es mir Dienstag by Astrid Ofner (Austria,
2007, 26 minutes/35mm).TZIPORAH by Abraham Ravett (USA, 2007, Silent, 7
minutes/16mm).Encyclopaedia Britannica by John Latham (United Kingdom,
1972, 6 minutes/16mm).
9/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff08.ca
9:00pm, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario), 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS: HORIZONTAL BOUNDARIES
The title of this programme refers to eminent Los Angeles artist Pat
O'Neill's shape-shifting portrait of L.A., Horizontal Boundaries. A
brazen and playful technical tour de force, the film sets the stage for
a programme rich in formal experimentation. Horizontal Boundaries by
Pat O'Neill (USA, 2008, 23 minutes/35mm). Lossless #2 by Rebecca Baron
and Douglas Goodwin(USA, 2008, 3 minutes/Video). Refraction Series by
Chris Gehman (Canada, 2008, Silent, 6 minutes/35mm). Public Domain by
Jim Jennings (USA, 2007, Silent 8 minutes/16mm). Dig by Robert Todd
(USA, 2007, 3 minutes/16mm). Optra Field III-VI by T. Marie (USA,
2007-2008, Silent, 14 minutes/Video). Garden/ing by Eriko Sonoda (Japan,
2007, 6 minutes/Video).
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
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9/7
Los Angeles, California: Outfest Legacy Project
http://www.outfest.org
7pm, he Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., 90024
THE OUTFEST LEGACY PROJECT SCREENING SERIES @ UCLA: MORE RARE TREASURES
FROM THE ONE NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN ARCHIVES
THE OUTFEST LEGACY PROJECT SCREENING SERIES @ UCLA The Outfest Legacy
Project for LGBT Film Preservation is a collaboration between Outfest
and the UCLA Film & Television Archive to preserve and restore LGBT film
and video. The UCLA Film & Television Archive will screen prints
bimonthly from this valuable and unique collection. Sunday September
7th, 7:00PM MORE RARE TREASURES FROM THE ONE NATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN
ARCHIVES The historic ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives deposited its
rare collection of film and videotape with the Outfest Legacy Project in
2007. To celebrate this important partnership, we will screen further
highlights from the varied ONE collection, including selections from
William Moritz's Robert Opel Collection (F**K YOU, SANTA CLAUS), the
Charles Pierce Collection (SCHIZO), Pat Rocco's WE WERE THERE, a steamy
student film from 1974, and an assortment from ONE's unique and original
video holdings that were recently preserved as part of the Outfest
Legacy Project's video preservation collaboration with the Bay Area
Video Coalition. Various formats, 90 min. Please Note: This screening is
18 years and older. In person: ONE Archives President Joseph Hawkins
TICKETS: *Outfest members receive $1 off tickets purchased in-person at
the box office. Please present membership card to receive discount.
Advance tickets: $10 at www.cinema.ucla.edu *All online ticket sales are
final; no refund will be given for any purchase made online. At the door
(starting one hour before show time): $9: General Admission $8: Outfest
members, students, seniors DIRECTIONS & PARKING: The Billy Wilder
Theater is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., 90024 (courtyard level of
the Hammer Museum), at the northeast corner of the intersection of
Wilshire and Westwood Blvds., just east of the 405. Parking is located
in the lot under the Hammer Museum for $3. Enter from Westwood Blvd.,
just north of Wilshire. Street parking is also available on Westwood
Blvd. and surrounding areas. INFO: 310.206.FILM / www.cinema.ucla.edu
9/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff08.ca
6:30pm, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario), 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS: JAMES BENNING'S RR
An abbreviation for "railroad," RR is the latest (and possibly the last)
16mm work by the great American independent filmmaker James Benning. RR
is a breathtaking portrait of trains traversing the American landscape;
it's also a meditation on nostalgia, the unadulterated joys of waiting,
Western over-consumption and the cinema itself. Trainspotting has never
been this rewarding! RR by James Benning (USA, 2007, 115 minutes, 16mm).
9/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff08.ca
9:30pm, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario), 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS: TRIPS
While metaphorical, temporal and suggestive trips abound in this
programme, so too do genuine trips with their attendant discoveries and
excavations. Shot in Greece, Malaysia, New York City, Mexico and Dubai,
these "trips" are one-way only. Rodakis by Olaf Nicolai (Germany, 2008,
12 minutes/35mm). Block B by Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysia/Canada,
2008, 20 minutes/35mm). MOSAIK MÉCANIQUE by Norbert Pfaffenbichler
(Austria, 2007, 9 minutes/35mm). Black and White Trypps Number Three by
Ben Russell (USA, 2007, 11 minutes/35mm). Flash in the Metropolitan by
Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer (United Kingdom, 2006, Silent, 3
minutes/16mm). Parícutin by Erika Loic (Canada, 2008, 14 minutes/16mm).
Trypps #5 (Dubai) by Ben Russell (USA/United Arab Emirates, 2008,
Silent, 3 minutes/16mm).
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
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9/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff08.ca
9:00pm, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario), 317 Dundas Street West
WAVELENGTHS: WHEN IT WAS BLUE
Vanessa O'Neill's double projection, Suspension is a gorgeous seascape
whose shimmering light and painterly beauty commands attention. It also
acts as prelude to Jennifer Reeves's formidable three-year project, When
it Was Blue, a collaboration with composer-musician Skulí Sverrisson,
who will perform the live soundtrack. Part film, part performance, part
concert, this event is simply not to be missed. Suspension by Vanessa
O'Neill (USA, 2008, Silent, 10 minutes/Dual 16mm). When it Was Blue by
Jennifer Reeves (USA/Iceland, 2008, 65 minutes/Dual 16mm).
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
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9/12
Antwerp: Muhka_media
http://www.diagonalthoughts.com
20:00, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen
ORDER OF THINGS: ARTHUR LIPSETT RETROSPECTIVE
THE ORDER OF THINGS Film program in the context of the exhibition with
the same title at MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (11th
September 2008 > 4th January 2009). Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and
María Palacios Cruz. # 12.09.2008: THE ORDER OF THINGS 1 ABOUT TIME
Arthur Lipsett retrospective Introduced by curator and filmmaker Brett
Kashmere Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett (1936-1986) is a key figure
in post-war avant-garde cinema. Through his kaleidoscopic collages of
"found" images and sounds, he configures his reluctant vision of the
'condition humaine' - a view of the world scarred by the alienating
effects of science and technology. The juxtaposition of divergent pieces
of socio-political history and popular culture of the 20th century
unfolds itself as a symbolic representation of the collective (sub)
conscience of Western society. 20:00 LOST & FOUND This program brings
together Arthur Lipsett's first, and better known, five films, produced
at the National Film Board of Canada across the 1960's. His stimulating
collage strategies, associating image and sound in both ironic and
ambiguous ways, would become a source of inspiration for filmmakers such
as Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Stan Brakhage. Very Nice, Very Nice
1961, 16mm, b&w, sound, 7' Lipsett's first film received an Academy
Award nomination in 1962. A collage of sounds and images, found as well
as shot by Lipsett himself, which reads as a sardonic interpretation of
1950's consumerism, mass media and popular culture, punctuating the
often over-looked damage left by both war and technological progress. A
Trip Down Memory Lane 1965, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12' A surrealist time
capsule combining fifty years of newsreel footage, this film constitutes
a brief, but explosive, tour of post-war technocracy. Lipsett's first
pure collage film, composed exclusively from stock image and sound from
the National Film Board archives. 21-87 1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10' A
wry comment on a machine-dominated society, filled with dystopian
symbolism. This film conveys Lipsett's concern for an increasingly
de-humanized civilization, foreshadowing his embryonic agoraphobia and
subsequent withdrawal from public life. The title would be cited more
than once in George Lucas's work, serving, for example, as Princess
Leia's cell number in Star Wars. Free Fall 1964, 16mm, b&w, sound, 9'
Using a brisk "single-framing" technique, dazzling pixilation effects,
in-camera superimpositions and syncopated rhythms, Lipsett attempts to
create a synesthesic experience through the intensification of image and
sound. The soundtrack was intended as collaboration with composer John
Cage, who withdrew from the project fearing Lipsett would attempt to
control and thereby undermine the aleatory organization of audio and
visuals. Fluxes 1968, 16mm, b&w, sound, 24' Lipsett completed this film
during a period of declining institutional support and increased
psychological stress, which would result in more pessimistic, diffuse
work. A "phantasmagoria of nothing", based on a series of creative
frictions between military motif, religious rhetoric, newsreel footage
and obscure science fiction film dialogues. ** 65', prints courtesy
National Film Board of Canada 22:30 HEAVY MAGIC IS COMING Two seldom
screened works from Arthur Lipsett's late-career, closer to the Beat
ethos of previous decades than to the acerbic collage style that made
him famous. The title of the program is borrowed from the fragmentary
notes and diagrams that Lipsett made for Strange Codes, evincing his
debilitating paranoia and isolation, as well as an urgent faith in
magic. N-Zone 1970, 16mm, b&w, sound, 43' Lipsett's most personal film
and a departure from his associative montage style. Found images are
alternated with scenes of Lipsett and his friends alone and in casual
conversation, enacting an unspoken confrontation between unbridled
individuality and social conformity. Whereas his older works shaped the
dull remains of documentary outtakes into a razor-sharp satire of Cold
War suspicion, repression and nuclear escalation, N-Zone documents a
private quest for spiritual transcendence. Strange Codes 1972, 16mm,
b&w, sound, 23' Lipsett's last completed project is both a riddle and
"an index to his other films". The artist's apartment becomes the stage
for a disjunctive, live-action self-portrait, intensified with numerous
costume changes, masks, constructed props and sets, as well as
references to his earlier films. The result is a looping concoction of
serious play and light mysticism. ** 70', prints courtesy National Film
Board of Canada & La Cinémathèque québécoise
9/12
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"Opening Networks," web-based media artworks curated by Patrick Clancy
and Gwen Widmer. Additional programs continue on Sept. 19 and 26.
Visiting Artist Mark Daggett. "Social software is any computer program
that uses technological networks like the Internet to augment the
potential of communities in the same way that a hammer amplifies the arm
that swings it. Millions of people use this software on websites like
Wikipedia, Facebook and Flickr to accomplish tasks like sharing photos,
organizing friends or documenting the world around them. Viewed in
isolation the act of uploading a single photo for others may seem
trivial and insignificant. However, a collection of simple actions can,
under the right conditions, generate complex systems with emergent
behavior. Emergence occurs when the aggregate behavior has levels of
sophistication that far exceed any one individual actor in the system.
Emergent behavior is particularly effective and visible in communities
of organisms working together, yet without a clear top-down chain of
authority." "I will show how corporations, governments, artists,
hacktivists, and gamers, among others, are using the technical nature of
networks and social software to reshape concepts including trust,
localness, presence and permanence, all of which are attributes of
community. We will examine their work using the lens of what I call
contextual communities to explore, expose and sometimes exploit the
emergent intelligence of networked communities." – Mark Daggett
9/12
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER More heard of than seen outside San Francisco,
the films of Dean Snider (1949-1994) are formally playful and richly
possessed of character. Ultra-short and often self-mocking, Snider's
abounding catalog is a bit confusing and almost always funny. Hard to
compare with any other filmmaker, Snider's subversive stance and
sardonic sense of humor enlivened his varied, quixotic films and
real-life antics. He once staged a coup in the projection booth of the
San Francisco Cinematheque, forcing a show of local films on the
audience. On another occasion, with fellow cinema-activist Steve
Schmidt, Snider literally hijacked an entire Cinematheque audience by
bus and delivered them to a screening at the No Nothing Cinema, a
now-legendary film/performance venue that he co-founded. Snider was
known to pay a dollar to viewers who attended his shows, and as a judge
at the Ann Arbor Film Festival he gave each and every festival-rejected
filmmaker $3 of his prize money, igniting debate. Indisputably important
and certainly overlooked, these films are nothing short of a revelation.
"During his relatively short lifespan, Snider produced literally
hundreds of films. Beyond filmmaking, his gadfly outbursts and
philosophical provocations helped spark controversy and stimulate
conceptual filmic border-crossings…. Film theorist Janice Crystal-Lipzin
said of Dean's films, 'Why, the titles are longer than the films!' – no
doubt referring to HEY!, a single frame of a bale of hay." -----–V. Vale
and Marian Wallace, RESEARCHPUBS.COM----- This program contains 17 of
Snider's 16mm and 35mm works, none of which are in distribution. A
limited edition DVD set of Dean's work will also be available at all
shows.--------- Organized and presented by Douglas Katelus.
9/12
Oakland, CA: The MilkBar
http://www.milkbar.org/
8 PM, installations open at 7PM, 1255 26th St. at Union
MILKBAR 2008 INTERNATIONAL LIVE FILM FESTIVAL
Featuring Live Film: new film, music and performance collaborations from
around the globe September 12th through 14th, 2008 This 4th year of the
MilkBar International Film Festival features five newly commissioned
world premier interdisciplinary works exploring the relationship of
film, music, performance and installation and international experimental
animation. We are also proud to present 3 days of great experimental
film programming including our main festival program of 15 short
films/installations; a program from the St. Petersburg, Russia Open
Cinema Festival; the first North American showing of Russian animator
Irina Evteeva (Yevteyeva)'s retrospective; experimental shorts from
Helsinki's Love and Anarchy Film Festival; and a terrific selection of
short films from emerging Turkish directors. Artists include including
Matthias Bossi, Eric Koziol, and paige starling sorvillo; Evelyn Ficarra
and Ian Winters; The League of Imaginary Scientists including George
Cremaschi, Carolina Bäckman, Emma Nordanfors, and Lucy HG; Merlin
Coleman and Katherin McInnis; Liz Allbee, Dan Plonsey, and the Daniel
Popsicle Ensemble; Astrid Almkhlaafy, Mary Armentrout, Daghan Celayir,
Cara Marisa Deleon / Kotyonok Films, Tony Gault, Aysegul Guryuksel /
Subvoid, Henry Gwiazda,Sarah Klein, Ellen Lake, Mawer, Mehmet CAN
MERTOGLU, Tatyana Moshkova, Kate Pelling,Sarah Sass / Peck-Peck Dance
Ensemble,Richard Sullivan,Laura Zaylea.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
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9/13
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale Theatre
http://nightingaletheatre.org
8:00, 1084 N Milwaukee
THE SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW
In the grand tradition of the Pyramids at Giza (home of "The Sound and
Light Show"), the London Filmmakers Co-Operative, Tony Conrad and Bruce
McClure and _____, your friends at the Nightingale Theater are bringing
a triple-header EXPANDED CINEMA show to your own Midwestern backyard. In
what promises to be a loud, flickering, and thoroughly LIVE event,
Itinerant Chicagoan Ben Russell joins forces with New Chicagoans Joe
Grimm and Lauren Carter (welcome!) for a 4-part performance involving
Multiple Projectors, Thumb-Piano Drones, Resonant Frequencies,
Stroboscopic Action, A Rubber Mask, Red Underwear and A Massive Gong!
Burn some ear candles, visit your eye doctor, and prepare to have your
senses be overwhelmed! FEATURING: Nature Illusion by Lauren Carter
(6:00, 16mm, live sound, 2007) Epiphenomenal Boogie: Light-Sound
Singularities In Patterned Time by Joe Grimm (25:00, live
triple-projector performance, 2008), The Red and the Blue Gods by Ben
Russell w/Joe Grimm (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005), The Black and the
White Gods by Ben Russell (25:00, live double-projector performance,
2008) TRT 64:00 WARNING: this show contains visuals that may be harmful
to those with epilepsy
9/13
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
BEST OF PXL THIS FESTIVALS 13 - 16
Curated by Gerry Fialka. PXL THIS is a festival that features videos
produced using the PXL 2000, a plastic toy video camera that records
sound and images directly onto audiocassettes. The PXL 2000 was
available from 1987 to 1989 from Fisher-Price. The picture is comprised
of 2,000 "pixels" as opposed to the 150,000 pixels seen on the average
TV screen, which makes for a very grainy but appealing quality. PXL THIS
organizer Gerry Fialka says, "PXL is the essential utensil of creation.
The really creative artist does a lot with nothing. PXL THIS is based on
the statements, 'It is literally possible to do more with less'
-Buckminster Fuller and 'Film will only become art when its materials
are as inexpensive as pencil and paper' -Jean Cocteau. It's a real
pencil and paper mentality. Express yourself, and don't be afraid to
break some rules. Like Cocteau said, "What one should do with the young
is to give them a portable camera and forbid them to observe any rules
except those they invent for themselves as they go along. Let them write
without being afraid of making mistakes.' But PXL THIS is for all ages."
Tonight's program features 14 shorts compiled from PXL THIS Film
Festivals spanning 2003 to 2006 and includes the following works:
Souvenir (Stephen Rose); Gestures (L.M. Sabo); Helen Possert: A WWII
Rosie (Michael Possert); Somnigraphic Traces of the Otherwise
Undocumented Friedkin Institute for Sleep Disorder Research (Struan
Ashby & Roy Parkhurst); I'm in the Mood (Bryan Konefsky); About Flowers
(Juniper Woodbury); Sleep (Doug Ing); Double-Duty Interrobang (Gerry
Fialka); Fish (Joe Frese); PXL Manifesto (Ross Craig); Babblefesto #2
(Steve Craig); A Stake to the Heart: The Last PXL Movie (Ross Craig);
Rugrat (Lisa Marr); and Zero (Eli Elliott). Total running time: 89 mins.
9/13
Oakland, CA: The MilkBar
http://www.milkbar.org/
8pm, installations open at 7PM, 1255 26th St. at Union
MILKBAR 2008 INTERNATIONAL LIVE FILM FESTIVAL
see Sept. 12th for description
9/13
Venice, CA: 7 Dudley Cinema
http://www.myspace.com/sevendudleycinema
7pm, 6:30 pre-show, 7 Dudley Ave, Sponto Gallery
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER More heard of than seen outside San Francisco,
the films of Dean Snider (1949-1994) are formally playful and richly
possessed of character. Ultra-short and often self-mocking, Snider's
abounding catalog is a bit confusing and almost always funny. Hard to
compare with any other filmmaker, Snider's subversive stance and
sardonic sense of humor enlivened his varied, quixotic films and
real-life antics. He once staged a coup in the projection booth of the
San Francisco Cinematheque, forcing a show of local films on the
audience. On another occasion, with fellow cinema-activist Steve
Schmidt, Snider literally hijacked an entire Cinematheque audience by
bus and delivered them to a screening at the No Nothing Cinema, a
now-legendary film/performance venue that he co-founded. Snider was
known to pay a dollar to viewers who attended his shows, and as a judge
at the Ann Arbor Film Festival he gave each and every festival-rejected
filmmaker $3 of his prize money, igniting debate. Indisputably important
and certainly overlooked, these films are nothing short of a revelation.
"During his relatively short lifespan, Snider produced literally
hundreds of films. Beyond filmmaking, his gadfly outbursts and
philosophical provocations helped spark controversy and stimulate
conceptual filmic border-crossings…. Film theorist Janice Crystal-Lipzin
said of Dean's films, 'Why, the titles are longer than the films!' – no
doubt referring to HEY!, a single frame of a bale of hay." -–V. Vale and
Marian Wallace, RESEARCHPUBS.COM--- This program contains 17 of Snider's
16mm and 35mm works, none of which are in distribution. A limited
edition DVD set of Dean's work will also be available at all
shows.--------- Organized and presented by Douglas Katelus.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
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9/14
Oakland, CA: The MilkBar
http://www.milkbar.org/
8pm, installations open at 7PM, 1255 26th St. at Union
MILKBAR 2008 INTERNATIONAL LIVE FILM FESTIVAL
See Sept 12th for details,
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