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Date: Sat Oct 04 2008 - 07:09:49 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [October 4 - 12, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008
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10/10
Dundee, Scotland: Arika
http://www.arika.org.uk
all day, Dundee Contemporary Arts
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION
Kill Your Timid Notion A step across the border between sound and image
A festival of experiment sound-film/ music-image Dundee Contemporary
Arts 10-12 Oct 08 LOADS OF INFO AT: WWW.ARIKA.ORG.UK Your eyes see what,
like 10 or 15 images a second; that's 10Hz. Your ears can hear 15,000
Hz. Surely there must be something interesting in this incongruity. Now
in it's 6th edition, KYTN is one of Europe's leading festivals of sound
and image. It's all about exploring the many different ways we navigate
the borders, disparities and similarities between what we hear and what
we see. It involves some of the great experimental artists, musicians
and filmmakers of our time, and some of the not too distant future also.
It features some hard as nails experimental work, but it's an experience
any right minded person should enjoy, be confounded by, have an opinion
about at least. features: sine wave charcoal drawing, blindfolded
listening, visual harmonics, optical sound, video-radio-guitar feedback,
the Tay bridge, a sonic photograph of a Dalmatian fishing village, tiny
rice paper flags, set theory... What's not to love? Experimental film/
sound performances: Francisco Lopez Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjorgeengen &
Philipp Wachsmann Benedict Drew & Sachiko M Malcolm Le Grice & Keith
Rowe Luke Fowler & Lee Patterson Guy Sherwin L'Anticoncept (Gil Wolman)
Raha Raissnia & Charles Curtis Declarative Mode (Paul Sharits) Aileen
Campbell Seth Cluett installations: Felix Hess: it's in the air Paul
Sharits: Epileptic Seizure Comparison Film Programmes: Bleu Shut:
Saturday, 13:30, Cinema 1 Bleu Shut: Robert Nelson, 1970, USA Events
Saturday, 14:15, Cinema 1 Dripping Water: Joyce Wieland, 1969, Canada
Fill: David Askevold, 1970, USA Bags: Benedict Drew, 2007, UK Micro 1:
Takehisa Kosugi, Japan Rubber Band: David Askevold, 1971, USA Balloons,
Benedict Drew, 2008, UK My Wretched Heart is Still Aglow: Juneau
Projects, 2004, UK Corne de Brume: Körner Union, 2007, Switzerland
Zorn's Lemma Saturday, 15:30, Cinema 1 Zorn's Lemma: Hollis Frampton,
1970, USA Sets Saturday, 17:00, Cinema 1 P (60 seconds): Christof
Migone, 2006, Canada Twenty Five Sam Woodyards: Graham Dolphin, 2007, UK
Surround (360 objects): Christof Migone, 2006, Canada A-B-C-D-E-F=1-36:
Ryszard Wasko, 1974, Poland (nostalgia): Hollis Frampton, 1971, USA
Mosaik Mécanique: Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2007, Austria L'Anticoncept
Saturday, 19:00, Gallery 2 L'Anticoncept: Gil Wolman, 1952, France The
Last Clean Shirt Sunday, 13:30, Cinema 1 The Last Clean Shirt: Alfred
Leslie & Frank O'Hara, 1964, USA Sonic Landscapes Sunday, 14:30, Cinema
1 21/87: Arthur Lipsett, 1963, Canada Presque rien ou Le lever du jour
au bord de la mer: Luc Ferrari, 1967-70, France 15/67 TV: Kurt Kren,
1967, Austria Weekend: Walter Ruttman, 1930, Germany Dimanche: Edmond
Bernhard, 1963, Belgium Feedback Sunday, 16:15 Cinema 1 Light Lick: Get
it While you Can: Saul Levine, 2003, USA Lenseless: John Du Cane, 1971,
UK Sympathetic Magic (stone): John Butcher, 2006, UK Available Light:
Yellow – Red: Luis Recoder, 1999, USA Unstable Contact: Toshiya Tsunoda,
2004, Japan Tails: Paul Sharits, 1976, USA Declarative Mode Sunday,
19:00, Gallery 2 Declarative Mode: Paul Sharits, USA Talks, workshops,
etc and so on... tickets: £10/ day, £25 for everything Buy them at:
www.dca.og.uk // +44 (0) 1382 909 900
10/10
San Antonio: UTSA New Media Program
7pm, UTSA Downtown Campus, Buena Vista Building (Aula Canaria Room)
ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR AT UTSA
The oldest experimental film festival in the States is coming to San
Antonio! Two different programs on two different nights... Beginning in
July 2008 and continuing through January 2009, the Ann Arbor Film
Festival will tour the globe visiting theaters, art house cinemas,
museums, universities and microcinemas. The AAFF tour is a collection of
the finest cutting-edge, independent and artistically-inspired short
films from the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival across all genres:
experimental, documentary, animation and narrative.
10/10
parnu, estonia: solus film collective
http://www.soluscollective.org
7pm, artist house, parnu
MOIRA TIERNEY & THE SOLUS COLLECTIVE IN ESTONIA & LITHUANIA
ESTONIA: Friday October 10th, 19:00 Artist House Parnu Moira Tierney
presents a programme of new films and videos by the Dublin-based SOLUS
Collective: A sampling of SOLUS DVD #1 combined with a sneak preview of
our next extravaganza (coming up at Anthology Film Archives in New York
in November): Malian medicine men, suicidal lobsters, poetry as Gaeilge,
Coupe-Decale, Stom Sogo's New York Diaries, American Dreams #4,
abstracted Arabic meditations, sean-nos singers, Dublin's premier Afro
Sports Metal combo, Belfast hip-hop, drowning houses ... www.mekas.lt
For more information see: www.moiratierney.net/solus.htm
www.soluscollective.org Screenings and workshop sponsored by the Irish
Arts Council
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008
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10/11
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
"SEASONS WITH STAN" - AN EVENING WITH PHIL SOLOMON - FILMMAKER PHIL
SOLOMON IN PERSON!
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale are extremely excited to host
Boulder, Colorado-based filmmaker Phil Solomon, who will be presenting a
very special program about his collaborations and friendship with Stan
Brakhage. In addition to films Solomon and Brakhage made together and a
few solo-Brakhage films, Solomon will also be sharing some tantalizing
rarities. ******* Solomon's program tonight is presented in the spirit
of Brakhage's legendary salon screenings, where a small group would
gather in an intimate space to share in a love for film and in honor of
the city where Brakhage spent a large part of his life teaching - at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ******* The program will include
(with other unannounced items): Seasons... (1998, 16 mins., 16mm) by
Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage; Concrescence (1996, 3 mins., 16mm) by
Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage; Rocket Boy vs Brakhage (1973-1988, 30
mins., 16mm on digital video) by Phil Solomon; Chartres Series (1994, 9
mins., 16mm) by Stan Brakhage; and Stellar (1993, 3 mins., 16mm) by Stan
Brakhage. ***** Plus rare footage of Brakhage at work: Painting downtown
(mini dv) and Editing Elementary Phrases with clips (mini dv). And even
rarer footage and audio of Brakhage: Audio of Stan singing as boy
soprano (disc); Audio of Brakhage at Binghamton, circa 1973 (mini dv);
Video clip compilation from the Sunday salons (mini dv); and Home video
excerpts (mini dv)
10/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
CHRISTIAN DIVINE'S PROTEST-PLOITATION + THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
Having moved from the East Bay to LA, our cinematic soul-mate Christian
Divine was positioned to grasp Holllywood product as an object of
serious Cultural Study. Divine deconstructed Preminger's Skidoo at his
last OC outing; tonight's lecture-demo digs up the dead bodies around
several infamous youth films, all made in 1970, which he has grouped
under the rubric "Protest-ploitation": Ice, Zabriskie Point, The
Revolutionary, Getting Straight, Revolutions Per Minute, The Strawberry
Statement, and The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. His
contextualization of this curious faux-political subgenre sheds light on
the needs of the industry to appropriate the politics of the day.
Christian's anecdotes and scintillating analysis is followed by a
complete 16mm screening of David Greene's mind-blowing psychedelic
melodrama, The People.
10/11
Taepei, Taiwan: Odds and Ends Screening Series
http://oddsandendspdx.blogspot.com/
7:30 PM, Taepei, Taiwan
ODDS AND ENDS "UNITED STATE OF MIND" @ TAEPEI BIENNIAL
Odds and Ends Volume 4 "United State of Mind" programmed by
galleryHomeland film and video curator Karl Lind TRT: 34 mins. * many
thanks go out to galleryHomeland Director Paul Middendorf for
introducing Odds and Ends to the Urban Nomad Film Festival and vice
versa! Please join us for a very special edition of the Odds and Ends
screening series which will be presented by the Urban Nomad Film
Festival on Oct 11th at the Taepei Biennial. In This edition we we
present a tasty sampling of films and videos made by a smattering of
artists hailing from the good old USA (except for one German citizen
currently living in Texas: Katja Straub) who each present us with their
own colorfully diverse vision of life, liberty and the pursuit of
pursuing happiness. Program: 1. TO REMEMBER THAT OUR SKIES ARE THE SAME
SKIES by Chris Larson 2 min 30 sec. 2008 Portland, OR. USA Synoposis: on
distance. on environment. on here. on heat. on commonality. on heart. on
there. Bio: Chris Lael Larson is an multi-disciplinary artist, musician
and graphic designer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, USA.
website www.natural-lightning.com 2. Night Falls by John Bacone, 1 min.
Portland, OR. USA 2006 Synopsis: a triumphant struggle against motor
vehicles. Bio: John Bacone is a sculptor and filmmaker living in
Portland, Oregon. 3. Brave New Girl by Holly Andres and Grace Carter 2.5
min. Portland, OR. USA Synopsis: BRAVE NEW GIRL examines what it means
to be female in our culture as defined by the media. With its saturated
colors and super 8mm nostalgia, the film puts the heroine in a confined
space and tempts her with artificial confections. What does it mean to
consume an identity? What effects might it have on girls and women?
These are some of the questions the viewer is left to ponder when this
short whirlwind of consumption is over. Bio: Holly Andres approaches her
art in a multidisciplinary manner, and works in film, photography,
sculpture and installation. In collaboration with performer/filmmaker
Grace Carter, Andres created the short films DANDELION, BRAVE NEW GIRL
and their newest narrative, NORA. Their work has been featured in the NW
Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the
Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film
Festival, the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and the
Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres teaches video production and
foundation art classes at PSU and the Art Institute of Portland. website
www.hollyandres.com Bio: Grace Carter has been working in theatre arts
and filmmaking for the past six years in Portland, OR. She Co-founded
the critically acclaimed defunct theatre and collaborated as a producer,
director and actor on several stage performances. Grace's films have
been screened at several regional festivals including the 32nd annual
Northwest Film and Video Festival, The PDX Fest and the Oregon Biennial
at the Portland Art Museum. Grace has also worked as an actor on many
film projects the most recent "Paranoid Park," a new feature by Gus Van
Sant. website www.gracecarterfilms.com 4. Taco Day, music video for Mr.
Len featuring Jean Grae directed by Chioke Nassor, 3min 45 sec. 2001 NY,
NY USA. Bio: Chioke Nassor is a filmmaker, philanthropist and all around
good guy. He recently completed an animated short film adaptation of the
McSweeney's story "Things I realized in 2002" by Sarah Manguso. website
www.chiokenassor.com 5. The White Bunny by Katja Straub, Germany 2006
6.5 min. synopsis: Transformation in a train compartment. "The White
Bunny" explores the conscious and sub-conscious longings of the human
mind, told through the story of a woman, an injured boy, a small girl in
a red dress, and a white bunny. A tale of four strangers as they travel
together on a visual exploration of pain, love, memory, and the loss of
innocence. The woman's trauma reveals itself through the haunting form
of a German nursery rhyme and we follow her into her past. Bio: Katja
Straub is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose films have screened in
numerous festivals around the world including the Images Festival in
Toronto, the Viper Basel in Switzerland and the Museum of Modern Art in
New York. Her short film "All White People Are French" received the
Special Jury Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin in
2005. website www.rocketfilm.de 6. Test Anthem by Michael Paulus 3 min
30 sec. Portland, OR. USA Synopsis: 198 national anthems from the
world's countries arranged in a vertical, symmetrical stack. Played for
the duration with bell curve as defined parameter with demarcation line
representing point of departure to the - unattainable? The longest –
Uraguay's begins and ends the audio with a nice, loping intro. The
shortest anthem from Qatar comes in a mere 36 seconds and is sandwiched
directly in the middle with most others as most anthems come in at a
minute or less. I was curious to see if at the apex, beyond the expected
dissonant sounds on the sides of the curve, there might be almost a
pure, white nose. Static. It comes close though. Based on government
tests (atomic blasts, plane military test crashes) we are taken through
a test – this time with themes closer to the human condition: want,
desire, and spiritual transcendence if you will. The parameters are
already set though. Could be construed as ultimately fatalistic and
pessimistic. That's possible. Bio: Michael Paulus is an artist living in
Portland Oregon. The marriage of science and art play prominently in his
work, often times creating objects that are inherently misguided or
dysfunctional in design. A parody of types on the sometimes absolute
efficiency and logic that we come to expect from tools and technology.
The figures in his moving image work are usually 'specimens' to be
observed and usually find themselves in absurd situations they are ill
adept to comprehend. In his static work often times there is an
interchange between object and viewer. Sometimes testing the perceptions
of the viewer and often times using an established medium or tool/design
and tweaking it a bit to put it in a critical context Website:
http://michaelpaulus.com/ 7. Weathergirl 1 By Liz Haley Portland, OR.
USA 2008 4 min. synopsis: weathergirl 1 explores relationships between
patterns of organic energy, new scientific discoveries, human emotional
experience and the weather. bio: liz haley is a conceptual artist using
installation, photography, video and performance to investigate
connection, trust, urban-rural, future-past, quantum physics and love.
her work has been widely shown, including exhibits in new york, portland
tba festival and the miami museum of contemporary art. website
www.lizhaley.com 8. Timor Mortis by Sare Rane, 4.5 min Portland, OR. USA
Synopsis: A dance for sea and air inspired by and created for the song
Timor Mortis by Rio En Medio. Bio: Sare Rane is originally from the high
desert of northern New Mexico but now makes her home in Portland,
Oregon. She began making videos three years ago with a desire to capture
the unexpected poetry of the world we live in. She has degrees in
Theater and Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara. website
www.onehorseproductions.blogspot.com 9. Phototrope by Randy Wakerlin 1
min. 2007, Portland, OR. USA Synopsis: Multi-Cam Pixelation Bio: Randall
Davis Wakerlin holds a BA in Film/Animation from Hampshire College, (MA)
and an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the
Arts, (CA). Wakerlin's film figure 1: Scar (detail) won Best Animation
awards in both the Pacific Coast Film Festival (Del Mar, CA) and the
Seattle Underground Film Festival (Seattle, WA) in 2000 and has been
widely screened around the U.S. His most recent work In Good Spirits
features live action documentary footage of the Hilltribe cultures of
Northern Thailand with animated segments of Hilltribe textiles. Recent
projects include various short animation pieces such as Twenty-Six, a
documentation of one year of Mr. Wakerlin's life, and collaborations
with Portland, OR composer Matt Marble and Emily Stone entitled Chroma
where Wakerlin's animation was projected behind dancers in a performance
based on the color orange at Gallery 500 (Portland, OR). He is currently
collaborating with Los Angeles composer Nicholas Chase creating an
interactive work for video and solo piano entitled Star Trenching. Mr.
Wakerlin resides in Portland, Oregon where he is working with animators
Chel White and David Daniels at Bent Image Lab and teaches animation at
Pacific University. website www.secondaday.com 10. John Bacone "Support
your library" 1 min. 2007 Portland, OR. USA synopsis: Borrowed Library
video = fun 11. American Make-Over by Ron Gassaway (1min41sec) 2008
Portland, OR. USA Evolving the advanced science of rose-colored glasses,
American Make-Over aspires to provoke a playful public revolution with
paint and plexiglass. Ron Mason Gassaway was born in Portland, Oregon in
1969. He has worked for nearly 20 years as a commercial artist and is
currently a returning student at Portland State University, furthering
his skills as a fine artist through film making, installation work,
performance and 2D art. 12. Gates of Steel Karaoke Music Video by Karl
Lind 4 min 20 sec. 2008 Portland, OR. USA Synopsis: The Gates of Steel
Karaoke Music Video allows viewers to become part of the action and sing
along with a zany tail that illustrates the beginning of the end for all
of mankind. Audience participation is highly encouraged! Bio: Karl Lind
is a filmmaker and the curator of the Odds and Ends screening series, he
currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His short films and videos have
screened at various venues around the Earth, Including: Dallas Video
Festival, PDX Film Festival, Other Cinema and Rotterdam International
Film Festival. website www.inthecanllc.com
10/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
1–6pm , Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave
A LOWER WORLD: EXCESSES AND EXTREMES IN FILM AND VIDEO
Pleasure Dome's first gallery exhibition. Opening October 11, 1–6pm
Laurel Nakadate & Michael Bell-Smith (in Person) Media Works: Monster
Movie, Takeshi Murata, 2005, 4 min., single-channel video on monitor,
looped playback with headphones Up and Away, Michael Bell-Smith, 2006, 7
min., single-channel video projected, looped playback with sound The
American Desert (for Chuck Jones), Mungo Thomson, 2002, 34 min.,
single-channel video projected, looped playback with sound Untitled
(Working Title Kids & Dogs), Nathalie Djurberg, 2007, 33 min.,
two-channel video on LCD monitors, looped playback with headphones
Journey to the Lower World, Marcus Coates, 2004, 30 min., single-channel
video on monitor, looped playback with headphones Killing Friends,
Julian Hoeber, 2001, 31 min. single-channel video on LCD monitor, looped
playback with headphones accompanied with a set of Polaroid photographs
Beg for Your Life, Laurel Nakadate, 2006, 13 min. single-channel video
on LCD monitor, looped playback with headphones Where You'll Find Me,
Laurel Nakadate, 2005, 4 min. single-channel video on LCD monitor,
looped playback with headphones
10/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8 pm, Latvian House, 491 College St.
WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS: VIDEOS BY LAUREL NAKADATE (IN PERSON)
Videos by Laurel Nakadate (in Person) Nakadate's video work is about
adventure and risk. Part documentary, part make-believe, she meets
strange men in their worlds and weaves complex, sexual narratives that
straddle a thin line between tragedy and comedy. Programme: Oops 2000, 4
min. video Happy Birthday 2000, 5 min. video Lessons 1 – 10 2001, 2 min.
video Greater New York 2005, 5 min. video Stories 2005, 13 min. video
Love Hotels 2004, 3 min. video Where You'll Find Me 2005, 4 min. video
Beg For Your Life 2006: 13 min. video I Want to be the One Who Walks in
the Sun 2006, 15 min. video Say You Love Me 2007, 3 min. video
10/11
parnu, estonia: solus film collective
http://www.soluscollective.org
11am, Non Grata School House, 16 Sur Posti
MOIRA TIERNEY & THE SOLUS COLLECTIVE IN ESTONIA & LITHUANIA
Moira Tierney will conduct a workshop/talk on collective organization in
the digital age: ORGANIZE DIGITAL, SCREEN ANALOG. This will deal with
her experience as founder member of the SOLUS Collective, which is
Dublin - based but has an international membership; much of the
organizing is done online. Solus arose out of a common passion for
Super-8mm and has grown to include work shot and/or screened on
Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, analog and digital video and traditional and
computer generated animation. Special emphasis will be placed on recent
screening experiences in Marseille, where the DVDs for the screening
disappeared in the French postal system ... and had to be uploaded in
Dublin at full video resolution and downloaded in Marseille; the same
screening featured a 20 minute silent black and white Super-8mm film by
Stom Sogo, for which a projector had to be sourced in Marseille the week
before the screening.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2008
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10/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS HOLLY WOULD IF SHE COULD: ARTISTS’ RESPONSES TO
HOLLYWOOD
Filmforum presents Holly Would If She Could: Artists' Responses to
Hollywood as part of LA Freewaves. A show of new video work that
revisits, deconstructs, and dances with films and locations from
Hollywood's filmic history, including "I Yam What I Yam (Bryan
Konefsky), "Boulevard" by Peter Horvath, and :Murder and UFOs" by Bryan
Macdonald. 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.
10/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
REMEMBERING MARK LAPORE
Mark LaPore (1952–2005) was an uncanny observer, a profound wanderer and
explorer. His work in film applied a fascinated observational patience,
akin to that of Lumière and Warhol, to deeply explore the tangled
relationships between ethnography and individual subjectivity while
elaborating a complex philosophy of visual ethics. In anticipation of a
larger screening series commemorating his work and relationships, we
present The Sleepers,A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, The Five Bad
Elements and The Glass System, four films—variously based on encounters
and experiences in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Calcutta and New York—which reveal
uncanny similarities between cultures as well as profound, possibly
irreconcilable differences.
10/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
2pm, Pixel Gallery, 156 Augusta Ave.
ARTIST TALKS WITH MICHAEL BELL-SMITH & LAUREL NAKADATE
Join us for talks by two very different but equally exciting young
American artists with work in the A Lower World show at Pixel Gallery,
Michael Bell-Smith (Up and Away) and Laurel Nakadate (Beg for Your Life
& Where You'll Find Me).
10/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, Latvian House, 491 College St.
RYAN TRECARTIN I-BE AREA
Canadian Premiere of I-Be Area. With whip-smart wit and a candy-coloured
whirlwind of camp theatrics, cyber-slang and dumpster drag, Trecartin
captures the manic energy of a generation of brains fried by computers
and the internet, running on the fumes of their own verbal diarrhea.
Fusing queer performance hysterics with hallucinatory, rapid-fire
digital manipulation of every surface and sound, Trecartin creates a
cracked parallel universe only slightly more surreal and fast-paced than
the one we inhabit now.
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