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Metafest (San Francisco; Deadline: September 10, 2008)
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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Filmforum Presents the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, Part 1 [September 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Nick Zedd Retrospective Part One [September 14, New York, New York]
* Milkbar 2008 International Live Film Festival [September 14, Oakland, CA]
* I Can See You Just Fine/New Works By Jimmy Robson [September 14, san francisco ca 94110]
* Rough Cuts:American Maverick – the Life and Times of Pete Mccloskey [September 15, san francisco ca 94110]
* Tie Retrospective: Colgate Edition [September 16, Hamilton Village]
* Erika Suderburg Double Feature [September 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Benefit Screening For Dominic Angerame [September 17, San Francisco, California]
* Code-Switchers [September 17, San Francisco, California]
* Glitch: Creative Problem Creating [September 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* A Clown Underground: Taylor Mead In Person [September 18, San Francisco, California]
* Openscreening [September 18, san francisco ca 94110]
* The Order of Things: De/Coding, Poetics of Collage [September 19, Antwerp]
* Electromediascope [September 19, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Tank.Tv Screenings At Tate Modern [September 19, London, England]
* Ken Jacobs: [September 19, London, England]
* A Clown Underground: Taylor Mead In Person [September 19, San Francisco, California]
* Madcat Looks Back: 8 Greats From the Festival Archives [September 19, san francisco ca 94110]
* Visual Music At Expressions Gallery [September 20, Berkeley, California]
* Basement Basement. [September 20, Bristol]
* The Short Films of Kirthi Nath [September 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tie Retrospective: the Shivering Eyelash [September 20, TIE Retrospective: The Shivering Eyelash]
* Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite - 30th Anniversary Screening [September 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, Part 2 [September 21, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
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.
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
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 46TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR, PART 1
The AAFF Tour is a program of many of the finest cutting-edge, creative
and artfully-crafted independent films from the most recent festival.
Tonight includes animated masterpiece "Yours Truly" by Osbert Parker;
"Safari" by Catherine Chalmers, "Doxology" by Michael Langan, "Number
One" by Leighton Pierce," and many more. The full program can be found
at: http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
9/14
New York, New York: Gene Frankel Theater
http://nickzedd.com
8 PM, 24 Bond Street btw Lafayette & Bowery
NICK ZEDD RETROSPECTIVE PART ONE
Gene Frankel presents an historic series of retrospective screenings of
the influential underground filmmaker Nick Zedd, surveying his vast
ouvre for a new generation of cinephiles and thrill seekers. Featuring
bravura performances by such notables as Rev Jen, Casandra Stark, Shecky
Beagleman, Faceboy, Jon Vomit and Nick Zedd. ELECTRA ELF: GOIN TO THE
CHAPEL (2007) MISTAKES HAPEN (2007) LORD OF THE COCKRINGS (2001) THUS
SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA (2001) I of K9 (2001) WHY DO YOU EXIST (1998) KISS ME
GOODBYE (1986) GO TO HELL (1986) THE BOGUS MAN (1980) price: $10 cheap
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,
9/14
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
8 pm, 992 valencia
I CAN SEE YOU JUST FINE/NEW WORKS BY JIMMY ROBSON
Sunday, September 14, 2008. 8 pm , doors at 7:30 pm $6 I Can See You
Just Fine New Works by Jimmy Robson "I Just Saw a Scary Movie" by Jimmy
Robson Who do we become when we watch a movie? Television? Sometimes
when we sit down at the end of a hard day and watch a story unfold, we
go a little too far into the life of another... This program features
two new videos about characters and personas that are guilty of "TMI".
The desperate people that appear in these movies are just waiting for
the right moment to spill the beans to us. Each member of the audience
becomes an enabler: we are implicated in these layered stories often by
lending an ear to the characters in the videos who know that we are out
there watching them. Touching upon the horror genre, these two videos
also explore off-screen violence, questioning how terror both threatens
and preserves the very screen upon which these movies appear. "The Face
of Susan White" This video tells the story of a woman who is struggling
to change. After watching a mysterious green fluid disrupt a morning
news cast, Susan White finds she has a new power: the distance between
herself and the outside world is suddenly abolished. Given this new
perspective, Susan discovers that she is now able to transform her life.
But when a figure from her past confronts her, everything is placed into
jeopardy. 30 minutes, DV. WORLD PREMIER! "I Just Saw a Scary Movie" A
fortune teller and her grandson become obsessed with a mysterious and
morbid character, Jeff, who posts videos of himself on youtube. The
story is told through a series ambiguous testimonials given by the
family about their new obsession. Finally, when Jeff is given the chance
to speak for himself and come clean, the story threatens to
self-destruct. 22 minutes, DV.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Extremetalkshow
http://www.myspace.com/100sofdismemberedhandbags
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
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9/15
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
7:30 pm, 992 valencia
ROUGH CUTS:AMERICAN MAVERICK – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PETE MCCLOSKEY
Monday, September 15, 2008. 7:30PM $6 Rough Cuts: American Maverick –
The Life and Times of Pete McCloskey Rough Cuts is a series of
work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced every other
month by The LAB. Each evening one rough cut of a feature-length
documentary will be screened, followed by a moderated conversation about
the film led by guests who are either accomplished filmmakers or
established film professionals. Please RSVP to email suppressed
by Monday, September 15 at noon. for info www.thelab.org/roughcuts
American Maverick – The Life and Times of Pete McCloskey Produced and
Directed by Rob Caughlan At a time when the word "maverick" is
increasingly heard this political season, it might be worth considering
the life of Pete McCloskey—environmental crusader, politician, marine
veteran, gadfly. As a presidential candidate, he led the charge to
impeach President Nixon—before Watergate. As a Republican congressman,
he co-founded the first Earth Day and co-authored the Endangered Species
Act. And at age 78, he came out of retirement to wage one more
unexpected, brave campaign. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Paul
Newman, American Maverick - The Life and Times of Pete McCloskey offers
an unexpected portrait of a true American character. Moderators -
Michael Wilson and Natalie Zimmerman Michael Wilson and Natalie
Zimmerman recently formed Social Satisfaction Media and made their first
feature-length documentary, "Silhouette City," which premiered at the
Miami International Film Festival. Wilson and Zimmerman's other projects
have included performance new media, installation and photography, and
they have exhibited/performed at festival, museums, galleries and art
centers throughout the world. They are currently artists in residence at
the Headlands Center for the Arts.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
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9/16
Hamilton Village: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.org
Evening, Colgate University
TIE RETROSPECTIVE: COLGATE EDITION
Like all TIE exhibitions, the TIE Retrospective: Colgate Edition,
remains dedicated to celluloid works in their true format, from the
latest contemporary works to archival films from the rich history of
experimental cinema. Uniquely curated and presented for Colgate
University by TIE founder/director Christopher May, the program feature
an eclectic range of TIE festival selections that illuminate the
continuing vitality and beauty of celluloid, while subtle and at times
obvious philosophical and thematic curatorial gestures conduct the flow
of the programs. This edition includes 16mm films from Brakhage,
Robinson, Dorsky and Sackl among others.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
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9/17
Los Angeles, California: 7 DUDLEY CINEMA, Los Angeles
www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema
7 & 9 PM, SPONTO Gallery, 7 Dudley Ave, Venice
ERIKA SUDERBURG DOUBLE FEATURE
7 DUDLEY CINEMA - films & live events at SPONTO Gallery, 7 Dudley Ave,
Venice, 310-306-7330, free admission WED, Sept 17. DECLINE AND FALL
('07, 80m) at 7pm Erika Suderburg's (in person) experimental documentary
about aerial bombing, reconstruction, mass protest, and monumentality.
Spanning h istorical and present day images from Rome, Yucatsán, Berlin
and Los Angeles her work examines empire; its artifacts, structures and
collapse. Through archival footage of the bombing, aerial reconnaissance
and rebuilding of WWII Berlin, contemporary footage of a 2.8 million
person peace march in Rome at the start of the present war, a
neighborhood candlelight vigil in Los Angeles, and astronomical events
in and around Chichén Itz á in Yucatán, Mexico Decline and Fall
decomposes the macro and micro movements of destruction, memorialization
and everyday life. SOMATOGRAPHY ('00, 70m) at 9pm Suderburg's
experimental documentary that examines the nature of storytelling in
relation to queer and leftist Los Angeles. City, sexuality and politics
serve as volatile sites of memory, history and defi nition which in turn
interrogate the amnesiac constructions that we fabricate in order to
navigate our internal and external environs. Through the nesting of
categories and chosen topics, overlappings, frissions and "leads" to new
stories, SOMATOGRAPHY speaks to the connective and disparate nature of
"city" as defined through myriad voices, fanciful reconstructions, and
uncanny connections.
9/17
San Francisco, California: Varnish Gallery
http://ww.cinemod.net
8:30, 77 Natoma Street, San Francisco
BENEFIT SCREENING FOR DOMINIC ANGERAME
Hi All....I will be having a benefit film screening on Weds Sept 17,2008
at 8:30 pm. It will be at the Varnish Gallery 77 Natoma St between First
and Second Sts. This benefit is to help fund my travel expenses to show
films in Cuba in December....for more information please see
www.cinemod.net Thanks
9/17
San Francisco, California: The LAB
http://www.thelab.org
1:00 PM, 2948 16th Street @ Capp
CODE-SWITCHERS
Code-Switchers Print E-mail Jurors: Steve Dye and Stephanie Syjuco
Featuring: Facundo Arganaraz and Nicole Anne Crescenzi, Tim Armstrong,
Taha Belal, Terry Berlier, Jan Blythe, Lauren Dicioccio, Claudio
Dicochea, Mark Edwards, Ariel Goldberg, Jason Hanasik, Carrie Hott, I,
Daughter of Kong (Anjali Sundaram and Amy Hicks), Ace Lehner, Jennifer
Little, Sarah Lockhart, Yuki Maruyama, Naomi McCavitt, Klea McKenna,
Ranu Mukherjee, Claire Nereim and Julie Cloutier, Kit Rosenberg, Karen
Ruenitz, Eric Sidner, Julia Kim Smith and David Beaudouin, James Pitt,
Anna Tsouhlarakis, Adrian Van Allen, Melissa Wyman, Eiko Yamamoto, and
Aygul Idiyatullina. Exhibition runs: Sept 17 - Oct 11, 2008 Opening
reception: Friday, September 19, 6-9 PM featuring live music by I,
Daughter of Kong Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, 1-6 PM Performance evening:
Thursday, October 2nd, 8 PM: featuring an internet play directed by Mark
Edwards, a morse code music performance by Sarah Lockhart with Aurora
Josephson and Suki O'Kane (SL Morse – "No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre"),
and a video screening showing the work of Aygul Idiyatullina. How are
contemporary artists dealing with issues of cultural complexity,
multiple allegiances, and hybrid forms? How are they communicating these
ideas and addressing their audience? Using the metaphor of
"code-switching," a linguistic term referring to the use of more than
one language within a single conversation, this juried exhibition
investigates a variety of approaches to cultural and material
bilingualisms, (mis)translations, appropriations, and the purposeful
misuse of "proper" communication codes.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
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9/18
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
GLITCH: CREATIVE PROBLEM CREATING
Curator Jon Satrom in person! What happens when the creative
roadblocks—errors, glitches, accidents— become the building blocks in
the art-making process? This program highlights artists who
intentionally create problems by corrupting data, hacking signals, and
manipulating the medium, often to the point of challenging its own
display. Curated by new media artist and SAIC faculty member Jon Satrom,
tonight's problem-ridden program gathers together films, videos,
corrupted data, hacked TV broadcasts, interactive DVDs, and modified
GameBoy tools that revel in failure, rejoice in errors, and celebrate
the happy accident. Works include: 486 SHORT VIDEOS (LoVid, 2008); ATARI
NOISE (Arcangel Constantini, 2000); BLINQ (Billy Roisz 2002); ENTER THE
DEVIL (reMI, 2000); gameboy_ultraF_uk, (Corby & Baily, 2001); LINE
(Siebren Versteeg (2000); MY%DESKTOP (JODI, 2002); SUICIDE SOLUTION
(Brody Condon, 2004); THE WEBSITE IS DOWN (Josh Weinberg, 2008); TIEDOE
(Karl Klomp & Totek, 2008); among others. 1966 - 2008, various
directors, various countries, multiple formats, ca 90.
9/18
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=7951
7:30pm, 701 Mission St
A CLOWN UNDERGROUND: TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON
TAYLOR MEAD: A CLOWN UNDERGROUND Thu, Sep 18, Fri, Sep 19 & Sun, Sep 21,
7:30 pm Taylor Mead in person Sep 18 & 19 Performer and poet Taylor Mead
has starred in over 100 films and is a central figure in the history of
underground cinema. Though best known for the films he made with Andy
Warhol (including Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant), Mead has
appeared in things as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Rip Torn's staging
of Hamlet and Midnight Cowboy. Now over 80 years old, Mead's work has a
mature innocence, and a celebration of (and longing for) peace and joy
that is missing from so much contemporary art today. His performances
often bring to mind Chaplin's "tramp" character. He now spends much of
his time writing, doing poetry readings and feeding stray animals. Mead
will make his first San Francisco appearance in decades. Thu, Sep 18,
7:30 pm THE FLOWER THIEF BY RON RICE "In Ron Rice's baggy-pantsed
beatnik artifact, Warhol superstar in training Mead traipses with elfin
glee through a lost San Francisco of smoke-stuffed North Beach cafés,
oceanside fairgrounds, and collapsed post-industrial ruins. Boinging
along an improvised picaresque up and down the city's hills, Mead teases
playground schoolkids, gets abducted by cowboys in the park, and has a
tea party on a pile of rubble with a potbellied bathing beauty."
-Village Voice (1960, 75 min, 16mm). Screening will be followed by a
discussion and poetry reading with Mead. "The purest expression of the
Beat sensibility in cinema." - P. Adams Sitney Fri, Sep 19, 7:30 pm
LONESOME COWBOYS BY ANDY WARHOL Long before Brokeback Mountain there was
Lonesome Cowboys, a homoerotic satire of the Western with a hilarious,
raunchy co-starring role by Mead. Shot on location at a ranch in Arizona
used previously for John Wayne movies, Warhol edited the film while
recuperating from his gunshot wound. Also starring Viva and Joe
Dallesandro. (1967-68, 109 min, 16mm) Followed by discussion with Mead.
Sun, Sep 21, 7:30 pm EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD BY WILLIAM A. KIRKLEY If you
enjoyed any of the other Mead screenings, you won't want to miss this
poignant documentary, which offers many insights into the life of this
underground superstar. The film follows Mead through his eccentric daily
life, and examines the complete history of his film and performance
work. Narrated by Steve Buscemi. (2005, 98 min, digital video)
9/18
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
8pm, 992 valencia
OPENSCREENING
ATA's open screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in
the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out
with us anywayEnjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the
refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and
length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance
submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max
length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All
genres. More Info: contact Matt & Richard at
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
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9/19
Antwerp: Muhka_media
http://www.diagonalthoughts.com
20:00, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen
THE ORDER OF THINGS: DE/CODING, POETICS OF COLLAGE
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. # 19.09.2008: THE ORDER OF THINGS 2 DE/CODING
Poetics of Collage A series of films in which found footage - submitted
to various realignments, interruptions and interpolations - has been
reorganized in a poetical form. How can putting together fragments of
the world create new meanings, new ways of thinking, looking and
listening? For what purposes were these images originally created and
constructed, and what new vitality, force and desire might erupt by
deconstructing them? How to connect elements distant in time and space,
in an attempt to take a grasp on the world we live in, dig below and
behind the surface, in search of the unspoken, the suppressed, the
innate? 20:00 Abigail Child Surface Noise 2000, 16mm, colour, sound, 18'
Abigail Child's complex audiovisual sonatas investigate, interrogate and
interpret contemporary social realities; mainly the construction of
gender identity and behaviour in public and private spaces. Deploying a
number of strategies – vertical montage, asymptotic convergence, sound
and noise juxtapositions – she recycles meaning out of the informational
chaos and dismantles predetermined notions and narratives, drawing the
attention to what happens in the margins, the gazes, poses and gestures
we ourselves are hardly aware of. The sound montage was created in
collaboration with New York musicians Zeena Parkins, Christian Marclay,
Shelley Hirsch and Jim Black. Alan Berliner Everywhere at once 1985,
16mm, colour, sound, 10' A musical montage, a synchronised symphony
composed from an infinity of elements taken from Berliner's own personal
archive of cultural artefacts and residues: piano cords and cable cars,
cocktail jazz and broken glass, loony tunes and telephones, elephants
and xylophones, violins and vultures, orchestras and roller coasters… A
journey in images at the rhythm of sound. With this sort of "bricolage",
Berliner attempts to bridge a wide range of poetic horizons: the actual
with the possible, pre-history with science fiction, magic with science
fact, the medium with the message. Frank & Caroline Mouris Frank Film
1973, 35mm, colour, sound, 9' Frank Mouris's animated autobiography
composed of more than 11.000 images collected from magazines and
catalogues, which shift and mutate across the screen as Mouris recites a
list of words beginning with the letter 'f'. The words bounce off the
images and generate an associative flow of memories, which Mouris
recounts on a second track, interwoven with the recitation. The result
is an obsessive and mesmerizing collage, which film critic Andrew Sarris
described as "a nine-minute evocation or America's exhilarating
everythingness". This film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short
Film in 1973. Bruce Conner A Movie 1958, 16mm, b&w, sound, 12' The debut
film of Bruce Conner, recently deceased, and an undeniable cornerstone
in the art of collage filmmaking. Inspired by the surrealist poetry of
zapping, the aesthetics of film trailers and the use of archive material
in the Marx Brothers comedy Duck Soup, Conner spent many years working
in what he would call a "universal film", the world reflected in a
compendium of symbolic images from newsreel, fiction films, educational
material and softcore porno. As Patricia Mellencamp has pointed out,
it's "a history of cinema as catastophe" that "becomes the history of
Western culture or the United States - a history of colonial conquest by
technology, resolutely linking, sex, death, and cinema - questioning our
very desire for cinema." Chick Strand Loose Ends 1979, 16mm, b&w, sound,
25' A collage film about the process of internalizing the information
that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media
in all forms. These fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all,
sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, speed through
our senses in large numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream
and reality. Chick Strand leads us to a state of psychological entropy
tending toward a uniform inertness … an insensitive lack of involvement
in the 'condition humaine' and our own humanity. William Farley Tribute
1986, 16mm, b&w, sound, 7' An affirmative vision of life and death, in
memory of the artist's brother, built entirely out of archive images
from the 1950's and 1960's – a ship launching, a tree falling, a woman
dancing, …, impersonal subjects that become icons and metaphors for our
most personal thoughts. Image after image emerge from darkness,
reminding us of the purity and conflict that are always part of our
collective experience of existence. The Music is by David Byrne. ** 81'
22:30 Simon Pummell Bodysong 2003, 35mm, colour, sound, 83' Simon
Pummell's first feature film is an epic story of love, sex, violence,
death and dreams: the story of human life, told by means of an
impressive collage of images from around the world and across 100 years
of cinema history. A seemingly endless succession of fragments of silent
films, newsreels, documentaries and home movies serves as a meditation
on the micro and macroscopical order of people's lives. The hypnotic
soundtrack is by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. An interactive version of
this work is available on www.bodysong.com. ** 83'
9/19
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 artwork curated by Patrick Clancy and Gwen
Widmer. Additional programs on Sept. 12 and 26. Visiting Artist Jon
Phillips on Sept. 19. "The myth of sole authorship is perpetuated
throughout contemporary culture. With the mass popularization of remix
culture through YouTube videos, inexpensive media production software,
and cheap broadband, anyone can chop audio samples, blend multiple
sources of video, globally broadcast mixes, and more easily access and
create works collaboratively. But what is so broad about the band, and
who or what is in the band? And, if no content in these broad pipes is
new, is there some proximity of originality between works so that some
may be considered more original than others? How does this play out in
the global and art economies? While not rehashing obvious connections to
the previous art histories of collage, appropriation and now remix, this
program will actively analyze the state of remix culture and mashups and
question whether they are sustainable cultural software that has the
potential to run continuously, evolve, and further expand into the
mainstream of contemporary art. Videos will be shown from the vast
Internet archive collection, YouTube, and other sources from around the
world. Also, the implications of copyright law and piracy on the state
of art as commodity and a critical look at future sustainable models of
intellectual property that are being rapidly constructed around content
industries will be explored, including my Fabricatorz.com." – Jon
Phillips
9/19
London, England: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
19.00, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9JE, UK.
TANK.TV SCREENINGS AT TATE MODERN
www.tank.tv at Tate Modern 19th - 21st September 2008 tank.tv has the
pleasure of holding a weekend of screenings from its 2008 Guest Curators
Programme in Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium. www.tank.tv invited some of
the world's foremost curators of artist's film and video to create
exhibitions exclusively for its online platform. Four of these shows
have been re-thought and re-constructed specifically for screening at
Tate Modern. Join us after the screenings for wonderful cakes kindly
provided by Patisserie Valerie and drinks generously supplied by Kirin
and Firefly. Tickets are on sale now and available to book via Tate's
website: http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/15464.htm
Ken Jacobs, 'Return to the Scene of the Crime'. Friday 19 September
2008, 19.00 In a contemporary riff on one of his landmark works, the
influential experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs uses new technology to
both interrogate and arouse a theatrical tableau, shot in 1905, based on
Hogarth's Southwark Fair. The antique film print is probed, exploded and
reconstituted in the digital domain with radical ingenuity and
infectious wit. This extraordinary new work teaches us how to see.
Screening curated by Mark Webber. 'The Young and Evil', Curated by
Stuart Comer. Saturday 20 September 2008, 19.00 Reconsidering the
historical contours and shifting relationships of sex and community in
the digital age, a range of artists has been invited to select two
works: one contemporary video shown to be shown online, and one
historical film to be screened in the cinema. Selectors include AA
Bronson, Drew Daniel, William E Jones, Daria Martin, Carlos Motta,
Henrik Olesen, Karol Radziszewski, Emily Roysdon, Bruce Yonemoto and
Akram Zaatari. 'She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb',
curated by Negar Azimi. Sunday 21 September 2008, 15.00 'She doesn't
think so but she's dressed for the h-bomb' explores the weight of
diverse histories in defining the current moment - whether manifest in
the form of national myth, ritual, architecture or pop culture. Works
by: Ziad Antar, Shahryrar Nashat, Rosalind Nashashibi, Yael Bartana,
Iman Issa, Hassan Khan, The Atlas Group, Ahmet Ogut and Haris
Epaminonda. 'The Whole World', Curated by Ian White Sunday 21 September
2008, 17.00 Online 'The Whole World' is an ongoing open archive to which
anyone can contribute - an uncensored list of lists inaugurated by
considering it as a formal and political device. Originally selected and
submitted works are reorganized and augmented into this single programme
including works by Claude Chuzel, Hollis Frampton, Dalia Neis, Uriel
Orlow, Michael Robinson and Valerie Tevere.
9/19
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
7pm, Bankside, SE1 9TG
KEN JACOBS:
"The heartwarming story of a boy who didn't know it's wrong to steal.
Running off with the pig seemed like a good idea at the time." RETURN TO
THE SCENE OF THE CRIME (Ken Jacobs, 2008, 92 min) In a contemporary riff
on one of his landmark works, the influential experimental filmmaker Ken
Jacobs uses new technology to both interrogate and arouse a theatrical
tableau, shot in 1905, based on Hogarth's Southwark Fair. The antique
film print is probed, exploded and reconstituted in the digital domain
with radical ingenuity and infectious wit. This extraordinary new work
teaches us how to see. /// Join us after the screenings for wonderful
cakes kindly provided by Patisserie Valerie and drinks generously
supplied by Kirin and Firefly /// Curated by Mark Webber. A
retrospective of Ken Jacobs' work will be online at www.tank.tv from 1
October to 30 November 2008.
9/19
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=7951
7:30pm, 701 Mission St
A CLOWN UNDERGROUND: TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON
TAYLOR MEAD: A CLOWN UNDERGROUND Thu, Sep 18, Fri, Sep 19 & Sun, Sep 21,
7:30 pm Taylor Mead in person Sep 18 & 19 Performer and poet Taylor Mead
has starred in over 100 films and is a central figure in the history of
underground cinema. Though best known for the films he made with Andy
Warhol (including Lonesome Cowboys and Nude Restaurant), Mead has
appeared in things as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Rip Torn's staging
of Hamlet and Midnight Cowboy. Now over 80 years old, Mead's work has a
mature innocence, and a celebration of (and longing for) peace and joy
that is missing from so much contemporary art today. His performances
often bring to mind Chaplin's "tramp" character. He now spends much of
his time writing, doing poetry readings and feeding stray animals. Mead
will make his first San Francisco appearance in decades........... Thu,
Sep 18, 7:30 pm THE FLOWER THIEF BY RON RICE "In Ron Rice's
baggy-pantsed beatnik artifact, Warhol superstar in training Mead
traipses with elfin glee through a lost San Francisco of smoke-stuffed
North Beach cafés, oceanside fairgrounds, and collapsed post-industrial
ruins. Boinging along an improvised picaresque up and down the city's
hills, Mead teases playground schoolkids, gets abducted by cowboys in
the park, and has a tea party on a pile of rubble with a potbellied
bathing beauty." -Village Voice (1960, 75 min, 16mm). Screening will be
followed by a discussion and poetry reading with Mead............. Fri,
Sep 19, 7:30 pm LONESOME COWBOYS BY ANDY WARHOL Long before Brokeback
Mountain there was Lonesome Cowboys, a homoerotic satire of the Western
with a hilarious, raunchy co-starring role by Mead. Shot on location at
a ranch in Arizona used previously for John Wayne movies, Warhol edited
the film while recuperating from his gunshot wound. Also starring Viva
and Joe Dallesandro. (1967-68, 109 min, 16mm) Followed by discussion
with Mead........ Sun, Sep 21, 7:30 pm EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD BY WILLIAM
A. KIRKLEY If you enjoyed any of the other Mead screenings, you won't
want to miss this poignant documentary, which offers many insights into
the life of this underground superstar. The film follows Mead through
his eccentric daily life, and examines the complete history of his film
and performance work. Narrated by Steve Buscemi. (2005, 98 min, digital
video)
9/19
san francisco ca 94110: MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
http://www.atasite.org
7:30pm, 992 valencia
MADCAT LOOKS BACK: 8 GREATS FROM THE FESTIVAL ARCHIVES
Orbit Kerry Laitala 2006 - 7 min - Color - 16mm - US Filmmaker in Person
Candy-apple light emissions tickle the retinas in this playful pulsation
of mis-registered images created when a lab accidentally split the film
from 16mm to regular 8. (screened at MadCat in 2006) Winter Return
Chelsea Walton 2006 - 1 min - Color - mini-DV - US - Filmmaker in Person
A moody stop-motion peek at a city. (screened at MadCat in 2006)
Contemplating the City (Contemplando La Ciudad) Angela Reginato 2005 -
3:30 min - B/W - 16mm - US/MX Perfectly, without affect, a girl sings
along with a pop tune, transporting herself through space and time to
Mexico City circa 1978. (screened at MadCat in 2005) Late Diane Cheklich
2003 - 7:38 min - B/W - 16mm - US A collage of eerie, high-contrast
shots of seedy hotels and Dial-A-Savior billboards flicker by as
late-night radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and
hope to lost souls. (screened at MadCat in 2004) Hotel City Phoebe Tooke
2004 - 16 min - B/W - 16mm - US - Filmmaker in Person Four tenants
living in SRO (single residence occupancy) hotels struggle to improve
their lot. Through the Central City SRO Collaborative, they fight
alongside other tenants and community members for better, safer
conditions as well as address larger issues facing their neighborhoods.
(screened at MadCat in 2004) Historia del Desierto Celia Galan Julve
2002 - 6 min - Color - Beta - UK Spanish with English subtitles Set
against the Chihuahua desert, artful stop-motion action illustrates the
brutal crimes of the fictitious Rosita Guzm·n, a.k.a. La Mocha, who
keeps her pursuers guessing for more than forty years. (screened at
MadCat in 2003) Vessel Wrestling Lisa Yu 2001 - 13 min - Color - 16mm -
US Jello, clay and human hair are the elements of this domestic space
gone awry. Hairballs have a mind of their own and humans melt into light
fixtures only to ooze out of the walls in erotic delight. (screened at
MadCat in 2002) Sorry, Brenda Samara Halperin 2000 - 3 min - B/W- 16mm -
US - Filmmaker in Person Using scenes from Beverly Hills 90210 shot on
Super-8 off a television monitor and optically printed to 16mm, the
filmmaker arranges a love affair between two unlikely characters.
(screened at MadCat in 2001)
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
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9/20
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://expressionsgallery.org
7pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue, (near Ashby BART Station)
VISUAL MUSIC AT EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
Expressions Gallery's Visual Music series presents ExoTV: Enigmatic
Vision, Improvised electro-acoustic music with kinetic ambient
animations by Mika Pontecorvo (Flute, Live electronic processing/Max
MSP) and Adriane Pontecorvo (Cello). 7:00 PM, Saturday, September 20 at
Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, (Near Ashby BART
Station). Free; 510-644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org Contact: Loren
Means, email suppressed The performance will include excerpts from
movements entitled BLIPVERT/SUBVERT (Due), CHOREO (Qua), and a full
performance of the movement AQUA (Tre). These are early results of a
Kinetic Ambient Fiction Engine Architecture (KAFEA) being
designed/developed by Mika with Neal Elzenga. The performance utilizes
source imagery from the artwork of Artist/Writer Professor Meg Schoerke
of San Francisco State University. The KAFEA system is a follow-on from
Pontecorvo and Elzenga's earlier generative meta-design concepts
entitled 'Arties', first presented at the AISB'99 Symposium on Creative
Evolutionary Systems in Edinburgh, UK in 1999 and refined for the
Generative Arts '99 Conference in Milan that same year. Mika studied
composition with and worked as an assistant under the electronic music
pioneer Vladimir Ussachevsky. Mika's other work includes Research and
Development in artificial intelligence, virtual environments, and
interactive media. Most recently this research has focused on the
application of simulated evolutionary systems and other Complex Adaptive
Systems (CAS) concepts to design, arts, and product ideation. Adriane's
Cello work began with performing live improvised film scores in an
arabic-jazz-psychedelic fusion band in 2004. She has performed in a
number of noise and experimental rock units since that time. They are
both currently members of the experimental ensembles Cartoon Justice and
Theory Garden. Their work can be found at the following websites:
http://myspace.com/cartoonjustice http://myspace.com/theorygarden
http://myspace.com/dcr0 http://myspace.com/mikasf or for more info
email: email suppressed
9/20
Bristol: Arnolfini
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk
3.00pm, 16 Narrow Quay
BASEMENT BASEMENT.
Tickets £3/£2 concs. & Spike Associates. A celebration of the artist run
space Ayton Basement, Newcastle through work by some of the artists who
showed there. In 1976 a few month after artists run space 2B Butler's
Wharf opened in London, Ayton Basement opened on the quayside in
Newcastle Upon Tyne. 'A space run by artists for contemporary work in
video, film, and live performance'. It would present work by Eric
Bainbridge, Paul Burwell, Nicolas Collins, Stuart Marshall, David
Critchely, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron, Jenny Okun, Alison
Winckle, amongst others. Many of these artists would also be active in
other organisations including, London Film Makers Co-op, London
Musicians Collective, and London Video Arts. In due course Ayton
Basement would become Basement Group and move to a new venue in Spectro
Arts Workshop, and then continue to evolve with a new group of artists
taking on Basement Group which would become Projects UK and continues
today in Newcastle as Locus +. Curated and presented by Peter Todd a
founding member. Programme. PEA SOUP. NICOLAS COLLINS. 1974-76, sound
CD.16 mins. Recorded live at Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic. June 1999.
Nicolas Collins, electronics, George Cremsachi, double bass. A
self-stabilizing network of circuitry nudges the pitch of audio feedback
to a different resonant frequency every time the feedback starts to
build. The familiar shriek is replaced with unstable patterns of hollow
tones, a site-specific raga reflecting the acoustical personality of the
room. These architectural melodies can be influenced by moving in the
space, making other sounds, or even by letting in a draft of cold air.
CLOUDS. JENNY OKUN. 1975, Colour, 3 Minutes. 16mm silent.This film
contrasts the concepts of relative motion and absolute motion. The speed
and direction of the car and clouds, the spiralling motion of the
camera, and the stationary factory chimneys all combine to produce the
illusion of space within the frame. STILL LIFE. JENNY OKUN. 1976,
silent, colour, 6 mins, 16mm silent. Still Life explores the
transformation of an image from colour negative to colour positive on
one film stock. The still life was painted its colour negative during
filming and then the exposed film was processed and then printed on
colour negative printstock. PEDAGOGUE. NEIL BARTLETT and STUART
MARSHALL. 1988, 10mins, video. A short performance to camera by solo
performer/dramatist Neil Bartlett. Pedagogue explores in comic style the
possible implications of Clause 28. Through Clause 28, the British
Government took powers to outlaw the 'promotion of homosexuality' in
education and local government. THREE PIECES PERFORMED AT THE ROBERT
SELF GALLERY NEWCASTLE. PETER TODD. Reformatted from original stills in
2006 by Susi Arnott. 2.5 mins. DVD. Three pieces presented during One
Artist One Day at the short lived but influential Newcastle branch of
the Robert Self Gallery. PIECES I NEVER DID. DAVID CRITCHLEY. 1979, 35
mins, DVD. "Talking to camera, I described ideas that had never got
beyond a note in a sketchbook. Paradoxically, I was able to resurrect on
video these items of personal performance that had been edged out by the
structuralism of early video art, such as shouting the words "Shut Up!"
until I lost my voice, having objects thrown at me until I changed
colour, and proposing to end the piece by blowing myself up. I intended
the piece to be colourful and action packed -". IDIOPHONICS. STUART
MARSHALL. 1971-72. re-staged performance. Duration variable. A
performance for three people with castenets, and portable foghorns. With
special thanks to Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins. Basement Basement
corresponded the publication of THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU From
the Collective Archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+
(1977-2007), and follows on from a number of events, exhibitions and
documentation covering this period including the exhibitions, 'fast and
loose (my dead gallery) London 1956 – 2006 at The Fieldgate Gallery and
the online exhibition 2B Butler's Wharf
www.studycollection.co.uk/2B/index.html. Basement Basement was first
presented at Candid Arts London by LUX on 21st Sept. 2007. Subsequent
presentations have been at The Star and Shadow Cinema Newcastle and the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008. Supported by Spike Island
Associates Prgramme.
9/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
THE SHORT FILMS OF KIRTHI NATH
With Filmmaker Kirthi Nath in Person! Co-Presented by 3rd I. Kirthi Nath
is an award winning South Asian filmmaker, writer, educator and curator.
As an artist, her body of inspired creative work fluidly straddles
genres, occupying a fertile hybrid landscape of cultural poetics,
experimentalism, and hybrid narrative. Tactile and dreamlike, her work
explores female subjectivity, memory, desire, and racial and sexual
identities. Nath's films have shown in several festivals and events
including a solo show at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Moondance
International Women's Festival, San Francisco Asian American Film
Festival, Berkeley Women of Color Festival and Ladyfest (Olympia,
Scotland, Bay Area and Texas). As an educator, Kirthi teaches video at
the Bay Area Video Coalition to marginalized youth communities and is
constantly exploring multiple ways of empowering young people to become
both producer and audience; to understand genre and go beyond it.
Screening this evening are the short films Embrace It (2007); Come On,
Big Empty (2006); Letting Go (2005); By the By (2004); The To Do List
Confession (2001); Incarnation (1999); 2:38 (1999); and Yours (1999).
Total running time: 57 mins. Q & A with the filmmaker to follow the
program. About 3rd I: From art-house classics to documentary films, from
innovative and experimental visions to next-level Bollywood, 3rd I is
committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through
independent film. The group, who's national chapter is based out of San
Francisco, showcases films from and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, the Maldives and the global South Asian
Diaspora.
9/20
TIE Retrospective: The Shivering Eyelash: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.org
8:PM, Aurora Picture Show
TIE RETROSPECTIVE: THE SHIVERING EYELASH
X-Ray Film I - The Alimentary System (Fleisch Archive, 1936, 16mm,
silent, 11 min., 22fps, Germany) This is the first of several of Prof.
Robert Janker's x-ray films. The filmmaker was a pioneer of x-ray
cinematography. The film was first featured in a TIE-2005 festival
program that showcased educational films that were made during the Third
Reich in Germany. Un Chant D'Amour (Jean Genet, 1950, 16mm, silent,
23min., 24fps, France) One of the most memorable avant-garde films ever
made, Un Chant D'Amour is also one of the most controversial. Made by
the famed writer, Jean Genet, it features uncensored, sensual,
jail-house scenes. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the
thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a
most unusual kind of communication. Spectator(Frans Zwartjes, 1970,
16mm, optical sound, 11min., 24fps, Netherlands) Hidden safely behind
his camera, the photographer can't get enough of what the glamorous
model, with her long eye lashes, has to offer him. The Secret
Cinema(Paul Bartel, 1968, 16mm, optical sound, 30min., 24fps, USA) The
Secret Cinema is a black-comic tale of a woman whose fears that her life
is being filmed for the entertainment of her friends turn out to be
true. The film presaged the sardonic tone of most of the maker's later
work (Eating Raoul), though he would mostly abandon The Secret Cinema's
experimental aspects in favor of linear narratives with perverse
touches.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
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9/21
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
MICHELLE CITRON'S DAUGHTER RITE - 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
With Michelle Citron in Person! White Light Cinema and The Nightingale
are pleased to co-present a special screening of Michelle Citron's
feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978, 53 mins., 16mm), in its 30th
anniversary year. Daughter Rite is of the key films from the 1970s
alternative film scene – a time when feminism, theory, progressive
politics, queer issues, and a general sense of questioning of
experimental, documentary, and narrative norms were all being felt.
Daughter Rite combines many of these concerns to create a fascinating
and influential hybrid, a genre-bending film that remains a vibrant and
timely exploration of reality and fiction 30 years after it was made.
"Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct
cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth
couldn't always be found in front of a camera lens. Scandalous in its
day for bending the rules of representation to enlighten its audience
about filmmaking, Daughter Rite has a lot to teach folks hooked on
reality TV, too. Citron's documentary inquiries into feminism, women in
the trades, and feminist approaches to media representation are time
capsules that merit re-opening." (B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks:
Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement). Michelle Citron is
an award-winning media artist whose work includes Daughter Rite and What
You Take For Granted… (films), and As American As Apple Pie, Cocktails &
Appetizers, and Mixed Greens (CD-ROMs). She is the author of the
prize-winning book, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, and she's
received grants from the NEA, NEH, and Illinois Arts Council. She is
Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College,
Chicago. Admission: $7.00-10.00, sliding scale.
9/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 46TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR, PART 2
The AAFF Tour is a program of many of the finest cutting-edge, creative
and artfully-crafted independent films from the most recent festival.
Tonight includes "The Anthem" by world-renowned director Apichtapong
Weerasethakul, "The Drift" by Kelly Sears, "My Croatian Nose" by Richard
Dinter, "A Hundred Feet Universe" by Naoko Tasaka, and many more. The
full program can be found at: http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour. General
admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The
Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland
complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
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