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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
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Experiments in Cinema V4.2 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2009)
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Post-Postcard 12 at The LAB OPEN INVITATIONAL (San Francisco, CA 94114; Deadline: November 22, 2008)
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H2O: Film on Water; Juried VIDEO Exhibition 2009 (VT and NH, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2009)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2008)
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Videologia (Russia; Deadline: October 20, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Films of Dean Snider [September 27, Braddock, Pennsylvania]
* Xy Chromosome Project #3 By Lynne Sachs & Mark Street [September 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Chicago's Own: Aijo [September 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Powers of Three: the Films of Robert Schaller [September 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tuareg - Bruce Checefsky [September 27, Cleveland, OHIO]
* Green/Lozano + Deutsch + Mcinnis + Rivers + [September 27, San Francisco, California]
* Films of Dean Snider [September 28, Braddock, Pennsylvania]
* Hidden In Plain Sight Directed By Mark Street [September 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Filmforum Presents "Mock Up On Mu," By Craig Baldwin [September 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Meet the Filmmakers [September 29, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Eyes Without A Face [September 30, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Ken Jacobs On Www.Tank.Tv [October 1, All]
* Bam Rose Presents the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour: Program One [October 1, Brooklyn, New York]
* Visiting Filmmaker: Phil Solomon [October 1, Columbus, Ohio]
* Meet the Filmmakers [October 1, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* 15 Years of the Chicago Underground Film Festival [October 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Walking Picture Palace Nathaniel Dorsky – Pgm 1 [October 2, New York, New York]
* Ata Film & video Festival 2008: Opening Night/ Mock Up On Mu [October 2, san francisco ca 94110]
* 5th Annual Reel Venus Film Festival [October 3, New York, New York]
* Oakland Art Day [October 3, Oakland, CA]
* Ata Film & video Festival 2008: Program 1 [October 3, san francisco ca 94110]
* Razzle Dazzle: the Lost World [October 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tea and Sympathy: Provocative New Work In video, Photos, and Dioramas, By
Peter Pizzi [October 4, East Boston, MA 02128]
* The Warmth of the Sun [October 4, New York, New York]
* Andrew Noren [October 4, New York, New York]
* Nathaniel Dorsky [October 4, New York, New York]
* Bruce Conner Tribute [October 4, New York, New York]
* Ata Film & video Festival [October 4, San Francisco, California]
* Odds and Ends Volume 5 "The Rose City Revue" [October 4, Seattle, Washington]
* Meet the Filmmakers [October 4, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Stop & Go [October 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Time of the Signs [October 5, New York, New York]
* Craig Baldwin [October 5, New York, New York]
* Still Wave [October 5, New York, New York]
* James Benning [October 5, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
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9/27
Braddock, Pennsylvania: "mobile" New Nothing Cinema
after dark... , 1212 Maple Way, Braddock PA (in the empty lot next door)
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. email me for more info, email suppressed
9/27
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7 PM, 322 Union Ave. ( Williamsburg)
XY CHROMOSOME PROJECT #3 BY LYNNE SACHS & MARK STREET
"Garden of Verses: An Evening of Cinematic Seeds & Mordant Vines" 10
Short Films by Mark Street & Lynne Sachs From archival snips of an
educational film on the weather to cine poems in full blossom, New York
film "avant-gardeners" Mark Street and Lynne Sachs create their 3rd XY
CHROMOSOME PROJECT for Union Docs Bodega Series. This program of 10
short films on both single and double screen gleans audio-visual crops
from the dust of the filmmakers' fertile and fallow imaginations. In
this avalanche of visual ruminations on nature's topsy-turvy shakeup of
our lives, Street and Sachs ponder a city child's tentative excavation
of the urban forest, winter wheat, and the great American deluge of the
21st Century (so far). (72 minutes)
9/27
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
CHICAGO'S OWN: AIJO
With Filmmakers Hart Ginsburg and Dave Schmudde in Person! Aijo, (Dir.
Hart Ginsburg & Dave Schmudde, 48 min., 2006) meaning love in Japanese,
looks at this often-ignored necessity. The film begins its mysterious
rollercoaster journey with the filmmaker searching for the meaning of
love; from the subway in Tokyo to a beach in Chicago. Combining various
elements of film and documentary, Aijo creates a unique and
unforgettable cinematic experience. Michael Eschenbach, of the Somewhat
North of Boston Film Festival, writes, "Aijo allows people to have their
own personal catharsis right on camera. It seems very simplistic by
design but it gets deeper and deeper as you go."
9/27
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale
http://www.nightingaletheatre.org
8 pm, 1084 N Milwaukee Ave.
POWERS OF THREE: THE FILMS OF ROBERT SCHALLER
A luminal adventure in handmade emulsions, homemade pinhole cameras,
dance, and rhythm. The work of Robert Schaller is an exploration of the
possibilities inherent in the scientific principles of light, lenses,
and silver-halide emulsion that make film work along with a new
relationship between filmmaker and instrument. His unique approach
produces films that pulsate and crackle with a living surface that has
been chemically treated to reflect the world as it feels, not as it
appears. Featuring a trio of triple-projection pieces, along with
several other works, this program gives us a glimpse into a practice
that denies any division exists between art and science, experiment and
past time, or invention and chance. Originally from Seattle, WA,
Schaller worked at a bio-chemistry laboratory in Germany before pursing
an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has
taught courses at CU-Boulder, the San Francisco Art Institute, the
Toussaint L'Ouverture School of Arts and Social Justice in South
Florida, and in 2003 he founded the Handmade Film Institute in order to
extend and explore the possibilities of film as an artistic medium. In
2008 the Institute hosted a weeklong Film Camp at its home base in Ward,
CO, and initiated a Wilderness Filmmaking Expedition in the Mt. Zirkel
Wilderness area near Steamboat Springs, CO. In addition to his
experimental work, Schaller makes documentary film, composes music, and
collaborates with other artists such as dancers and kite makers. PROGRAM
DETAILS: Triangle (16mm x 3, B+W silent, 3 min, 2008)/ If Not One and
One (16mm x 3, color sound, 15 min, 1999)/ Triptych (16mm x 3, B+W
silent, 3 min, 1996)/ Walk (16mm x 2, color silent, 5 min, 2003)/ To The
Beach (16mm color sound, 10 min, 1998)/ Phrase (16mm Black and White
silent, 8 min, 2007)/ My Life As A Bee (2002 color silent, 6 min)/
Mountain Home (2007 16mm color silent, 10 min)/ TRT 60:00
9/27
Cleveland, OHIO: Cleveland Cinematheque
http://www.cia.edu/cinematheque.html
5:15 pm, The Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Bulevard
TUAREG - BRUCE CHECEFSKY
TUAREG USA, 2008, Bruce Checefsky Bruce Checefsky's 7-min. Tuareg (USA,
2008, DVD), the latest visually-stunning, b&w, abstract photogram-film
by the director of CIA's Reinberger Galleries. Show Times Sep 27 (Sat) -
5:15PM Sep 28 (Sun) - 4:45PM
9/27
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
GREEN/LOZANO + DEUTSCH + MCINNIS + RIVERS +
Ever committed to artist-projects around "sense of place" we're
featuring Sam Green and Carrie Lozano, who present The Biggest Shopping
Mall in the World, an incredible journey to an eerily empty Chinese
architectural White Elephant. ALSO: Katherin McInnis' Disaster Drills, a
scale-shifting short on the Bay Area Floodwater Model, Salise Hughes'
(in person) reworking of the New Orleans' Katrina residue, Enid Blader's
personal commentary on the early Imperial Valley flood, and Roger
Deutsch's own fluid montage of personal road movies. PLUS Laida
Lertxundi's (in person) 16mm Footnotes to a House of Love, Andrew
Wilson's Transcendent Power and the Mirrored Rhombus Prism, and the West
Coast premiere of Ben Rivers' Ah, Liberty!, a sublime cine-poem on
living close to nature.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
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9/28
Braddock, Pennsylvania: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave
FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER More heard of than seen on this coast, or
outside San Francisco in general, 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-------- --------Organized and presented
by Douglas Katelus.
9/28
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7 PM, 322 Union Ave. ( Williamsburg)
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT DIRECTED BY MARK STREET
In Hidden in Plain Sight, Mark Street travels to four different
continents-Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. Searching in urban
landscapes (Dakar, Hanoi, Marseille, and Santiago), he uncovers traces
of the leftist political figures Ho Chi Minh and Salvador Allende.
Interspersing his own filmed images of these locales with captions
containing historical details and writings by political and literary
figures, the film is a meditation on perception. Mark structures his
film in the first-person, placing himself squarely in the center of the
journey. He takes refuge behind the lens, which observes the smallest
details and rituals in these locales, and he intercuts scenes of daily
life between the four continents. Throughout the film, he incorporates
captions that reveal his own tentative emotional and physical
relationship to his surrounding environments. These visual observations
are underscored with a richly textured sound design, incorporating an
amalgam of local urban noises, a soulful original score, and voices from
the past including Allende's radio speech as his presidential palace was
being attacked in 1973. Hidden in Plain Sight is a poignant meditation
on discovering his own position within a more global historical and
geographical continuum. (63 min.) " Provocative. . . . Engaging. . . .
Street leaves us with the very real sense that you take your
possibilities and limitations with you wherever you go." -Los Angeles
Times " [A] sweet and powerful look into the future of narrative cinema.
Considering the current trend of exploring the documentary nature of
scripted film [Street] is in the right place at the right time. Look for
him in the future." -Ron Wilkinson
9/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS "MOCK UP ON MU," BY CRAIG BALDWIN
Mock Up On Mu (2008, 109 min., color and b/w), by Craig Baldwin, is a
frenzied collage narrative using B-movies, self-help infomercials, pulp
serials, aerospace promo films and otherworldly footage shot by Baldwin
to spin an allegorical yarn of subterranean cults, government secrecy,
and the co-opting of utopian visions by the military. (Note: Baldwin
will not be present at this screening.) 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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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
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9/29
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
6pm, Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, entrance through the Pacific
MEET THE FILMMAKERS
MEET THE FILMMAKERS CINEMATIC SALONS WITH VISITING FILM ARTISTS In its
14th year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Meet The
Filmmakers is about the realization of ideas and the revelation of
process. These informal and insightful panel discussions with filmmakers
attending the festival provide a rare opportunity for the festival
audience to engage in meaningful dialogue with the creative visionaries
of modern cinema. AT THE CROSSROADS: Cinematic Representations of Art,
Activism and Spirituality 29 September 2008, 6pm Cineworks Studio [1131
Howe, entrance through the Pacific Cinematheque] Some would say these
are end times, that the dawning of a new age closely waits. How are our
cultural articulations–art, activism and spirituality–responding to
these unsettled modern times? How has cinema represented or facilitated
these actions? What and how do moving images contribute to these burning
conversations? Panelists: Yun Lam Li [The Structure of
Coincidence]Annette Mangaard [General Idea: Art, AIDS, and the fin de
siècle], Velcrow Ripper [Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action], Jeff
Chiba Stearns [Yellow Sticky Notes]
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
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9/30
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
EYES WITHOUT A FACE
By GEORGES FRANJU. After his daughter is mutilated in a car accident,
her doctor father murders young girls in a desperate attempt to graft a
new face onto his daughter in this "masterpiece of poetic horror and
tactful, tactile brutality…. On the one hand, Eyes Without a Face is a
mad-scientist fairy tale in the tradition of Professor Cyclops or Island
of Lost Souls; on the other, it's one of the three movies (along with
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, (both 1960)
that created the modern slasher-shocker…. Eyes Without a Face is
enriched by free-floating allusions to then-recent European history. It
takes no stretch of the imagination to hear the hounds of"night and fog"
or see the coldly psychopathic Génessier as a Nazi scientist.—J
Hoberman, Village Voice (IN FRENCH WITH SUBTITLES)
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2008
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10/1
All: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
All, Online
KEN JACOBS ON WWW.TANK.TV
www.tank.tv Ken Jacobs Curated by Mark Webber 1st October - 30th
November 2008 Ken Jacobs (b.1933) has been active as a filmmaker,
performer and teacher for the past five decades. Rigorous and dedicated,
his work is characterised by a keen eye for formal composition and a
fierce political consciousness. As a central figure of the generation
that defined independent filmmaking during the post-War era, Jacobs
contributed to the liberation of cinema from technical and ideological
conventions. Beginning in the 1950s, he developed an 'urban guerrilla
cinema' out of poverty and desperation, shooting improvised routines on
city streets. The early works 'Star Spangled to Death', 'Little Stabs at
Happiness' and 'Blonde Cobra' feature a nascent Jack Smith, years before
the renegade artist produced his own films. Having lived in New York all
his life, the changing character of t he city has been a strong presence
throughout Jacobs' work, from his manipulation of vintage street scenes
in 'New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903', through to the diaristic video
'Circling Zero: We See Absence', which observes the aftermath of the
attack on the World Trade Center, a few blocks away from Jacobs' home.
'The Sky Socialist' was shot in a deserted neighbourhood (long since
decommissioned) below the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1960s, and 'Perfect
Film' uses raw television news reports on the assassination of Malcolm
X. Found or archival footage is a source for much of Jacobs' work. In
'Star Spangled to Death', entire appropriated films contribute to an
accumulative denunciation of American politics, religion, war and
racism, whereas an analytical approach to reclaiming cinema's past was
originated in 'Tom, Tom the Pipers' Son' by re-filming selected details
of a theatrical production dating from 1905. This same footage has
lately been digitally excavated in 'Return to the Scene of the Crime'.
The technique of unlocking aspects of film material that would otherwise
pass unnoticed is the essence of the live Nervous System pieces that
Jacobs has performed with two adapted projectors since the mid-1970s.
Repetition and pulsing flicker teases frozen images into impossible
depth and perpetual motion (demonstrated in New York Street Trolleys
1900), a process further developed by the Eternalism system of editing
used in many recent videos. The previously ephemeral live performances
'Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy; Bye Molly! ' and 'Two Wrenching
Departures' are amongst the works that take on new life in their digital
form. A contemporary of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Jonas Mekas, Ken
Jacobs is one of the true innovators of the moving image, who continues
his radical practice in the present. Though his images frequently depict
bygone eras, the works are resolutely contemporary, displaying a
vitality and ingenuity that is rarely matched. The exhibition at tank.tv
presents a portfolio of 20 works covering 50 years of Ken Jacobs'
artistic production from 1957 to the present day. Curated by Mark
Webber. Programme on www.tank.tv The Whirled, 1956-63 Star Spangled To
Death, 1957-59/2004 Little Stabs At Happiness, 1958-63 Blonde Cobra,
1959-63 The Sky Socialist, 1964-65 Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son, 1969-71
The Doctor's Dream, 1978 Perfect Film, 1985 Flo Rounds A Corner, 1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900, 1999 Circling Zero: We See Absence, 2002
Krypton Is Doomed, 2005 Let There Be Whistleblowers, 2005 Ontic Antics
Starring Laurel And Hardy; Bye, Molly!, 2005 The Surging Sea Of
Humanity, 2006 Capitalism: Child Labor, 2006 New York Ghetto Fishmarket
1903, 2006 Two Wrenching Departures, 2006 Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World,
2006 Return To The Scene Of The Crime, 2008 Ask Ken! For the duration of
the online show, tank.tv offers a unique opportunity for discussion with
Ken Jacobs in an extended Q+A session. Email your questions to the
artist at (address suppressed) A regularly updated transcript of the dialogue
will be online at www.tank.tv/askken Events See www.tank.tv for a range
of events being held in conjunction with the tank.tv exhibition.
10/1
Brooklyn, New York: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:00 pm, 30 Lafayette Ave
BAM ROSE PRESENTS THE 46TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: PROGRAM ONE
The AAFF Tour is a program of adventurous, creative and risk-taking
independent short films from the most recent festival. Program One
includes "Safari" by New York-based Catherine Chalmers, "Doxology" by
Michael Langan, "Number One" by Leighton Pierce, and many more.
Executive Director of the AAFF, Donald Harrison, will be in attendance
and introduce the program. Full program details can be found at:
http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour. General admission $11, students/seniors
$7.50, $7 for BAM members.
10/1
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
VISITING FILMMAKER: PHIL SOLOMON
Phil Solomon travels from Boulder, Colorado to make a special appearance
to present the trilogy of his recent Grand Theft Auto digital videos
(plus a prologue), including a preview of Still Raining, Still Dreaming
(2008), made from the blockbuster hi-def game Grand Theft Auto IV. As an
introduction to Solomon's film work, we'll also be showing one of his
most acclaimed films, Twilight Psalm II: Walking Distance (1999), and
the night may have other surprises and glimpses at works-in-progress in
store. (approx. 90 mins., video & 16mm)
10/1
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
7pm, Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, entrance through the Pacific Cinematheque]
MEET THE FILMMAKERS
MEET THE FILMMAKERS CINEMATIC SALONS WITH VISITING FILM ARTISTS In its
14th year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Meet The
Filmmakers is about the realization of ideas and the revelation of
process. These informal and insightful panel discussions with filmmakers
attending the festival provide a rare opportunity for the festival
audience to engage in meaningful dialogue with the creative visionaries
of modern cinema. b>DANA CLAXTON IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE HOOLBOOM 01
October 2008, 7pm Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, entrance through the
Pacific Cinematheque] Praised for his interviews with filmmakers, Mike
Hoolboom will talk with Dana Claxton, celebrated film and video artist.
The Globe and Mail, reviewing Hoolboom's recent book of conversations
with film artists says, "his interview style is unmatchable ... everyone
should read Mike Hoolboom's Practical Dreamers." Claxton is showing her
recent work Hope in this year's festival, a poignant film that considers
geo-politics, earth democracy, as well as the possibilities of
reconciliation.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008
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10/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
15 YEARS OF THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Festival director Bryan Wendorf in person! Filmmakers in person! Roger
Ebert once said of the Chicago Underground Film Festival, "What you get
for your money is not just admission to the films, but admission to a
subculture." For 15 years, CUFF has exhibited the vibrant media emerging
from Chicago's schools, production houses, music and performance scenes,
and occasionally, from out-of-the-blue. Tonight's program, co-curated by
CUFF co-founder and Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf, charts the
festival's history through the city's own, from Jennifer Reeder's 1996
riot grrrl call-to-arms, CLIT-O-MATIC: THE ADVENTURES OF WHITE TRASH
GIRL (1995) and James Fotopoulos' transgressive experimentation,
DROWNING (2001) to Jim Finn's Marxist-inspired history of the gerbil,
WÜSTINSPRINGMAUS (2002) and Ben Russell's transcendent concert film,
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS #3 (2007). Also featured: VELVET WELK (Darren
Hacker, 1996), WHEELS OF FURY (Dan and Paul Dinello w/Amy Sedaris,
1998), STUFFING (Animal Charm, 1998), DÉPART (Thomas Comerford, 2000),
BOUNCING IN THE CORNER #36DDD (Dara Greenwald, 1999), RECEIVER (Jon
Leone, 2001), I AM A CONJUROR (Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, 2003),
and SECURITY ANTHEM (Kent Lambert, 2003). CUFF presents a second
retrospective program on Friday, October 3 at the Nightingale. Visit
cuff.org for details. 1995—2007, various directors, USA, multiple
formats, ca 90 min.
10/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE NATHANIEL DORSKY – PGM 1
Consummate filmmaker and author of DEVOTIONAL CINEMA, Dorsky returns to
the New York Film Festival this year on Saturday October 4th at Views
from the Avant Garde
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/avantgarde.html with the
premieres of two new films, WINTER (2007) and SARABANDE (2008). On the
occasion of his return and his visiting semester at Princeton, we
present this selection from his oeuvre. Dorsky will be here in person to
present all three programs on October 2, 6 and 9. PROGRAM 1: INGREEN
(1964, 12 minutes, 16mm, color, sound) "The first of three films
depicting the emergence from adolescence." N.D. PNEUMA (1977-1983, 28
minutes, 16mm, color, silent) "In Stoic philosophy 'pneuma' is the
'soul' or fiery wind permeating the body, and at death survives the body
but as impersonal energy. The images in this film come from an extensive
collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being
exposed, and sometimes rephotographed in closer format." N.D. TRISTE
(1974-1996, 18.5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent) "TRISTE is an indication
of the level of cinema language that I have been working towards. The
images are as much pure-energy objects as representation of verbal
understanding and the screen itself is transformed into a 'speaking'
character." N.D.
10/2
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
8pm, 992 valencia
ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2008: OPENING NIGHT/ MOCK UP ON MU
Return to: ATA Film & Video Festival 2008: Opening Night Thursday,
October 2, 2008. Doors 7:30pm, Film 8:00pm, $10 Mock Up On Mu Craig
Baldwin - 2008, 114 minutes, San Francisco A radical hybrid of spy,
sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu
cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly)
true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers,
alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets,
industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with
newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical
trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons
(Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi
author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and
"mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into
a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate
take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.
Director/Writer/Producer: Craig Baldwin Camera: Bill Daniel Editor:
Sylvia Schedelbauer Music: Trip Tech Cast: Damon Packard, Michelle
Silva, Stoney Burke and Kal Spelletich Born in Oakland, California, and
a graduate of San Francisco State, underground artist Craig Baldwin is a
filmmaker and the cuartor/force of nature behind San Francisco's
legendary Other Cinema. His films include Tribulation 99, Spectres of
the Spectrum, and the Negativland documentary Sonic Outlaws. Some of the
seminal texts in the culture jamming" movement, all are concerned with
seizing popular imagery, whether found in stock footage, advertising or
other forms of expression, and manipulating them to other ends. His work
has screened internationally. Last updated 09/06/2008.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008
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10/3
New York, New York: Reel Venus Film Festival
http://www.reelvenus.com
7:00 PM, 32 2nd Ave
5TH ANNUAL REEL VENUS FILM FESTIVAL
Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave, NYC October 3 & 4, 2008 An Eclectic
Showcase of Short Films by Women Directors and Multimedia Makers The
fifth annual installation of Reel Venus Film Festival brings together
contemporary short works of 20 artists consisting of emerging and
established women filmmakers/video artists, animators and multimedia
producers whose work will illustrate broad social commentaries on the
status of family dynamics and aging, the hidden worlds of homelessness
in NYC, mental illness in America's prisons and mobile technology and
it's profound impact on intimacy, relationships and communications in
our daily lives. Experimental work examines the parallel and surreal
worlds of dreams, romance, synchronized swimming and perspectives from
the worlds of crane operators. Festival is CURATED by MELISSA FOWLER
10/3
Oakland, CA: Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/
7:14pm, 199 Kahn's Alley
OAKLAND ART DAY
Performative projection with live music relights the Kahn's Alley
entrance to Oakland's City Hall Plaza as a culmination of Oakland Arts
Day. This Corridor will unfold in three movements: pardee, a meditation
on the former wetmore pardee building (now the dalziel city
administration building) which housed over 50 artists' studios from the
early 70s through the mid 90s; rotunda, a contrapuntal exploration of
the current identity of the site; and ewords, a new anthem drawn from
the momentum of Oakland's public-private cultural investment
initiatives. == with performances by many, roster expanding, but please
expect: keith arnold, big city orchestra, cj borosque with lords of
outland, thomas carnacki, george chen, jen cohen, dyemark, phillip
greenlief's large ensemble, killer banshee, lucio menegon, mike
missiaen, patrice scanlon, sl morse, neighborhood public radio, lexa
walsh & the oakland jingle orchestra
10/3
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
8pm, 992 valencia
ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2008: PROGRAM 1
Friday, October 3, 2008. Doors 7:30pm, Films 8pm, $10 ATA Film & Video
Festival 2008: Program 1 PROGRAM Why Was I Born Marlon Gonzalez - 2008,
17'26, 35mm, Super16, Super8, San Francisco Kogel Vogel Federico
Campanale - 2007, 5'30, film, Amsterdam Vivid Dreams Jim Granato - 2008,
4'30, Super8, San Francisco Ants (Ants Ants Ants) Clare Samuel - 2007,
2'41, HD, Canada Case Histories in Psychotherapy Tony Gault - 2008,
8'15, 16mm, Glenwood Springs, CO The Quiet Storm Jibz Cameron (Dynasty
Handbag) and Hedia Maron - 2007, 9'16, miniDV, Brooklyn, NY Sunshine Bob
Christian Simmons - 2006, 3'30, DV, San Rafael, CA Martha's Party
Marthaxiv - 2007, 4'55, DV, San Francisco Mr. Gary on the Feedback Show
Lise Swenson & Richard Schimpf - 2007, 12'30, HD, San Francisco
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2008
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10/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
RAZZLE DAZZLE: THE LOST WORLD
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (Dir. Ken Jacobs, 91 min., 2007) "is an
early Edison shot cut off at its head and tail and along its four sides
from the continuity of events like any camera-shot from a bygone day;
no, like any camera-shot, immediately producing an abstraction. This
abstraction pictures a great spinning maypole-like device lined with
young passengers dipping and lifting as it circles through space. They
look out - from their place at the start of the 20th century - with a
remarkable variety of expressions, giddy to pensive. We observe them but
of course they see nothing of this, our America, hopelessly gone to rot,
its mountaintops leveled for extraction of coal, rivers and air
polluted, crisscrossed everywhere with property-lines; they don't see
its prisons or the corporations leaning in from their off-shore
tax-bases to see what more they can take. Early stereopticon images also
appear, digitally manipulated to reveal their depths. A digital shadow
falls upon the scene and yet, grim as things get, as our crimes and
failures then and now commingle, the movie proceeds with a
cubist/abstract-expressionist zest." –Ken Jacobs
10/4
East Boston, MA 02128: Atlantic Works Gallery
http://atlanticworks.org
6pm-9pm, 80 Border Street, top floor
TEA AND SYMPATHY: PROVOCATIVE NEW WORK IN VIDEO, PHOTOS, AND DIORAMAS, BY
PETER PIZZI
In the 1956 film, "Tea and Sympathy," the unconventional hero,
ill-at-ease with the other boy's talk of girls and sports, is deemed a
"sissy." Taking his cue from the innuendo-laced film, Pizzi has mounted
a media play land which touches on themes of sexuality and identity with
innocence and/or perversion. Via eight video viewing boxes, "Tea and
Sympathy" guests will partake of the voyeuristic thrills of a peep show.
Pizzi's show also includes hands-on erotic puzzles; teasing, doll-sized
dioramas; and photography of masked nude models, suggesting both
exposure and anonymity. Continuing with the theme, Pizzi has set up an
installation resembling a gay sex club back room in which one can view
his latest short film, "Sucker." Peter Pizzi is a filmmaker,
photographer, and installation artist. His films have shown at venues
which include The Directors' Guild in Los Angeles, The Anthology Film
Archive in New York City, and the London Historical Film Society.
Locally, his short films have screened at the Coolidge Corner Theatre,
The Brattle Theatre, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This show
contains works and images that may not be suitable for all audiences,
discretion advised. Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4th, 6-9 pm
Third Thursday Reception: October 16th, 6-9 pm Show Dates: October
4th-25th, 2008 Atlantic Works Gallery 80 Border St, top floor East
Boston, MA 02128 T access and ample parking
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
THE WARMTH OF THE SUN
Dove Coup: Ben Rivers | Whispers: Ernie Gehr | Les Chaises: Vincent
Grenier | Obar: Taylor Dunne | After Writing: Mary Helena Clark |
Origins of the Species: Ben Rivers | Film for Invisible Ink, case no.
142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter [diminished by 1,794]: David Gatten |
ELEMENTs: Julie Murray | False Friends: Sylvia Schedelbauer | Hold Me
Now: Michael Robinson | And the Sun Flowers: Mary Helena Clark | False
Aging: Lewis Klahr
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3:30pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
ANDREW NOREN
Aberration of Starlight
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
6:30, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
NATHANIEL DORSKY
Winter | Sarabande
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
8:45pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
BRUCE CONNER TRIBUTE
A MOVIE | THE WHITE ROSE | BREAKAWAY | VIVIAN | TEN SECOND FILM | REPORT
| LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS | TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND | VALSE TRISTE |
EASTER MORNING
10/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
Now in its third year, the ATA Fest presents contemporary, cutting-edge
shorts from around the world. Beauty abounds in this consummating
program, an ensemble set to marvelous visions and radical
subjectivities...and spiked with Somnambulant Ghouls! Curated by Isabel
Fondevila and Shae Green (in person), tonight's program features Kerry
Laitala's Retrospectroscope, John Davis' What for What, Carl Diehl's
Nocturnal Emissions, and Mack McFarland's In Search of a Mystic Bartone.
ALSO: provocative pieces by Daya Cahen, Neil Ira Needleman, Esther Maria
Probst, Mike Rollo, Douglas Schultz, and Telemach Wiesinger. PLUS window
installations, gallery loops, and delicious libations at the bar!
Complete program at www.atasite.org. A portion of the $10 admission goes
to support our feisty sister-organization.
10/4
Seattle, Washington: Odds and Ends Screening Series
http://oddsandendspdx.blogspot.com/
5 PM, 1515 12th Ave 98122
ODDS AND ENDS VOLUME 5 "THE ROSE CITY REVUE"
Portland Oregon's very own Odds and Ends screening series is very happy
to announce that we have been invited to program a recent survey of
Portland made films and videos at the Northwest Film Forum's upcoming
Local Sightings Film Festival. Odds and Ends Volume 5 "The Rose City
Revue" will make it's world premiere on Oct 4th and is a Fall Harvests
worth of Portland made goodies, featuring works by: Melody Owen, John
Bacone, Cat Tyc, Rob Tyler, Grace Carter (world premiere), Peter Hermes,
Liz Haley, Dicky Dahl, Ron Gassaway, Jeremy Bird, Chris Larson, Ice
Cream Truck Face, Lars Larsen, Carl Diehl, Stephani Simak + Adam Keller,
Carl Diehl, Karl Lind and more! complete show program up soon!
Date/Time: October 4th, 5pm Location: Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 329-2629 The Odds and Ends screening series is
the brainchild of filmmaker, videographer and curator Karl Lind and will
be two years old in November of this year.
10/4
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
2pm, Cineworks Studio [1131 Howe, entrance through the Pacific Cinematheque]
MEET THE FILMMAKERS
MEET THE FILMMAKERS CINEMATIC SALONS WITH VISITING FILM ARTISTS In its
14th year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Meet The
Filmmakers is about the realization of ideas and the revelation of
process. These informal and insightful panel discussions with filmmakers
attending the festival provide a rare opportunity for the festival
audience to engage in meaningful dialogue with the creative visionaries
of modern cinema. BUILDING AN ARC 04 October 2008, 2pm Cineworks Studio
[1131 Howe, entrance through the Pacific Cinematheque] Every great
documentary starts with an idea. But where do you go from there? Where
will the story go? How will it end? These are often the tough questions
that financiers and broadcasters want to know before they greenlight
your project. These selected filmmakers discuss how they uncovered a
story arc, the creative processes they went through in making their
featured documentaries, the hurdles involved, and the unexpected
surprises they uncovered as they made their films. Panelists: Scott
Smith [As Slow as Possible], Ryan Knighton [As Slow As Possible], John
Walker [Passage] and Nik Sheehan [FLicKeR] Moderator: Lynn Booth
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2008
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10/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
STOP & GO
Filmforum presents Stop & Go, work by established filmmakers and visual
artists who use stop-motion techniques to tell stories, examine visual
phenomena, and make political statements. These animators breathe new
life into magazine cutouts, homemade drawings, everyday objects, and
even the body itself. The results are humorous, poignant, and marvelous.
Includes filmmakers from around the world, new work and a few classics.
General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
10/5
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
TIME OF THE SIGNS
1859: Fred Worden | Train of Thought: Jim Jennings | New York Lantern:
Ernie Gehr | After Marks: Fern Silva | Nocturne [Avenue A, no lens]:
Joel Schlemowitz | Novel City: Leslie Thornton | Trypps #5 (Dubai): Ben
Russell | Today! (excerpts #28, #19): Jessie Stead & David Gatten | Ah
Liberty! : Ben Rivers
10/5
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
CRAIG BALDWIN
The Diptherians Episode Two: The Rhythm That Forgets Itself: Lewis Klahr
| Tattoo Step: Michael Maryniuk | Mock up on Mu: Craig Baldwin
10/5
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
6pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
STILL WAVE
America is Waiting: Bruce Conner | Dig: Robert Todd | Right: Scott Stark
| 16-18-4: Tomonari Nishikawa | The Acrobat: Chris Kennedy |
Nightparking: Gretchen Skogerson | The Scenic Route: Ken Jacobs|
Phantogram: Kerry Laitala | When Worlds Collude: Fred Worden |
Horizontal Boundaries: Pat O'Neill
10/5
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
9pm, Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
JAMES BENNING
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