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This week [October 11 - 19, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 14, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* "Seasons With Stan" - An Evening With Phil Solomon - Filmmaker Phil
Solomon In Person! [October 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Essential Cinema: Belson / Baillie / Crockwell [October 11, New York, New York]
* Three Decades [October 11, New York, New York]
* Christian Divine's Protest-Ploitation + the People Next Door [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* Odds and Ends "United State of Mind" @ Taepei Biennial [October 11, Taepei, Taiwan]
* A Lower World: Excesses and Extremes In Film and video [October 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* We Are All Made of Stars: videos By Laurel Nakadate (In Person) [October 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Moira Tierney & the Solus Collective In Estonia & Lithuania [October 11, parnu, estonia]
* Filmforum Presents Holly Would If She Could: Artists’ Responses To
Hollywood [October 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Three Decades Program 2 [October 12, New York, New York]
* Remembering Mark Lapore [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* Artist Talks With Michael Bell-Smith & Laurel Nakadate [October 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Ryan Trecartin I-Be Area [October 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Election 2004 Double Feature: Half of the People and C Red Blue J [October 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* Nina Paley's First Animated Feature! Sita Sings the Blues [October 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Audio VÉRitÉ Presents: Malcolm Goldstein Live [October 15, New York, New York]
* You Can't Get there From Here (Redux) [October 16, Calgary, Alberta; CANADA]
* Joanie 4 Jackie: the Lady Glitterati of the New Movie Uprising [October 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Phil Solomon: Twilight Psalms and Other Films [October 16, Columbus, Ohio]
* Decampment [October 16, New York, New York]
* Jonas Mekas Presents Flux Party [October 17, London, England]
* Stom Sogo [October 17, Paris, France]
* Bruce Conner, the Last Magician of the 20th Century [October 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Tv + Smokin' Out the Evil-Doers [October 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Reverberations # 2: Bradley Eros [October 18, London, England]
* Melinda Stone + Natalie Jeremijenko + [October 18, San Francisco, California]
* Home Movie Day At Cinematheque Ontario [October 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Moira Tierney & the Solus Collective In Estonia & Lithuania [October 18, vilnius, lithuania]
* Workshop: Cinema Povera & Collage Composition With Bradley Eros [October 19, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents the Familial Avant-Garde – An Evening With Ted Lyman &
John Cannizzaro. [October 19, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 PM , 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BELSON / BAILLIE / CROCKWELL
Jordan Belson ALLURES (1961, 9 minutes, 16mm) RE-ENTRY (1964, 6 minutes,
16mm) PHENOMENA (1965, 16 minutes, 16mm) SAMADHI (1967, 6 minutes, 16mm)
COSMOS (1969, 7 minutes, 16mm) WORLD (1970, 6 minutes, 16mm) "Our
greatest abstract film poet: he has found how to combine the vision of
the outer and the inner eye." –Gene Youngblood Bruce Baillie CASTRO
STREET (1966, 10 minutes, 16mm) ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 minutes, 16mm)
VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 minutes, 16mm) Songs and poems of
everyday reality. Douglass Crockwell GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE (1964, 8
minutes, 16mm) "The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on
various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at
times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful."
–D.C. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
10/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 PM , 32 Second Avenue
THREE DECADES
Renate Sami LIANE BIRNBERG'S STUDIO AND THE STORY OF HER FATHER DAVID
BARUCH BIRNBERG / LIANE BIRNBERGS WERKSTATT UND DIE GESCHICHTE IHRES
VATERS DAVID BARUCH BIRNBERG (2007, 38 minutes, MiniDV) Milena Gierke
GRASSES / GRÄSER (2000, 3 min, S-8mm, color, silent) TOWARDS / ENTGEGEN
(1999, 3 min, S-8mm, color, silent) BAUHAUS / BAU AM HAUS (2002, 3 min,
S-8mm, color, silent) MEMBRANE / MEMBRAN (2000, 3 min, S-8mm, color,
silent) UN PARAPLUIE POUR L'AMOUR OÙ LOTUS DE MONT PELLIER (2005, 3 min,
S-8mm, color, silent) FRANCE VS. BRASIL IN NEW YORK (1998, 3 min, S-8mm,
color, silent) Ute Aurand, Ulrike Pfeiffer OH! THE FOUR SEASONS / OH!
DIE VIER JAHRESZEITEN (1988, 20 min, 16mm)
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
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 PM , 32 Second Avenue
THREE DECADES PROGRAM 2
Ute Aurand A WALK / SPAZIERGANG (2008, 4 min, 16mm, silent) IN THE PARK
/ IM PARK (2008, 6 min, 16mm, silent) ZUOZ (2008, 2 min, 16mm, silent)
Three new films, shown as a tryptich. Milena Gierke STILLED LIFE /
STILLESLEBEN (2001, 30 min, S-8mm, color, silent) Renate Sami FILMDIARY
1975-1985 / FILMTAGEBUCH 1975-1985 (2005, 38 min, MiniDV) Total running
time: ca. 85 minutes.
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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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
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10/13
Brooklyn, New York: Monkey Town
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
8pm, 58 N 3rd St.
ELECTION 2004 DOUBLE FEATURE: HALF OF THE PEOPLE AND C RED BLUE J
ELECTION 2004 DOUBLE FEATURE HALF OF THE PEOPLE and C RED BLUE J an
evening of politics and art from 2004 to put this year's antics in
context 8pm (one screening) From the proceeds of the screening, a
donation will be made in Sarah Palin's name to the Planned Parenthood
MInnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota Action Fund
http://www.plannedparenthoodadvocate.org/ HALF OF THE PEOPLE ARE STONED
AND THE OTHER HALF ARE WAITING FOR THE NEXT ELECTION *A line written by
Paul Simon for Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971). A screening of
activism-oriented video, performance documentation, and new media from
2004 Curated by Nick Hallett As the race to the White House consumes our
nation's collective attention, let's take a look back to the 2004
election and celebrate the unique spirit of that year when the art world
in New York and across the country took up the mantle of this country's
great activist tradition. Many artists who make political work do so
regardless of their calendars, but the high stakes of '04 yielded
contexts for agit-prop art and performance unseen since the late 1960s.
Initiatives like Downtown for Democracy and the Imagine Festival united
New York's artist communities against the Bush administration as the RNC
rolled into town. The Internet matured as a critical venue for
countercultural action in attempts to revise standard models of protest.
Audiences and critics, eager to experience their own distaste for the
current state of affairs distilled into forms of art and entertainment,
gave greater voice to explicitly political work. Guerrilla theater
filled the streets at every opportunity for nose-thumbing, resulting in
countless arrests, while cellphone cameras rolled to create a new kind
of folk-documentary. Culture and politics collided in vivid and
memorable fashion. This collection of work from four years ago offers
itself as something of a time capsule, although not enough time has
passed for true nostalgia to set in. The 2008 election is playing itself
out very differently than its predecessor. Without a concrete enemy to
inspire rage, Americans--artists included--seem to be placing their
faith in the system and its candidates. But how different is our
country's situation? Aren't we even worse off than four years ago? ASCII
Bush, Yoshi Sodeoka, 2-channel video installation, 2004 I Need a
Contingency Plan, Taylor Mac, video document of Live Patriot Acts:
Patriots Gone Wiiild!, 2004 Campaign Spots, Guy Richards Smit/John
Pilson/Lou Fernandez, video, 2004 March for Women's Lives, April 25
2004, Pink Bloque/Blithe Riley/Dara Greenwald, video, 2004 Keanu Reeves
for President, Laura Parnes, video, 2004 Folk Music and Documentary,
Seth Price, video, 2004 2304 Is a Beer Drinking Year, Jen Liu, video,
2004 KerryRocks.net, Cory Arcangel/Jonah Peretti, video download, 2004
The President of the United States, James Tigger! Ferguson, from Live
Patriot Acts: Patriots Gone Wiiild!, 2004 Arnold's Ass, Laura Parnes,
video, 2004 Big Screen Version, Aaron Valdez, video, 2004 Play the Game,
Imaginary Company/Peter Glantz/Ben Jones, television advertisement, 2004
Fuck the Vote, Carbon Defense League, video, 2004 See the Elephant!
(excerpt), Ryan Junell, multi-channel installation mixed to video, 2004
(includes document of musical work Ringing for Healing by Pauline
Oliveros) Jamming: By the Waters of Babylon (excerpt), Saul Levine, 16mm
transferred to video, 2004 Listen (excerpt), Aldo Tambellini, video,
2004-05 White Man, Suicide, video document of live performance shot by
Punkcast/Joly MacFie, 2004 Vote for Bush or Burn in Hell, Laura Parnes,
video, 2004 TXTMob, Institute for Applied Autonomy, video, 2004 A World
With No Bush, Julie Atlas Muz, from Live Patriot Acts: Patriots Gone
Wiiild!, 2004 Up Came Oil!, The Yes Men/Patrick Lichty, computer
animation and video, 2004 Libber, Wynne Greenwood, video/performance,
2004 Total Running Time: 80 mins followed by C RED BLUE J directed by
Chris Sollars C RED BLUE J is an experimental documentary feature that
illustrates the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential
election as it is manifested in one family. Director Chris Sollars, an
artist living and working in San Francisco sets out to try and bridge
the political gaps in his own family between a younger sister who works
for the Bush Administration, a Born Again Christian father, and Lesbian
mother. C RED BLUE J is pieced together through an archive of family
super-8 films, photos, interviews, and art videos. The story
personalizes the political division of the 2004 Presidential campaign as
the Gay Marriage Vote is tactically used to split the Nation's vote and
the director's family. C RED BLUE J puts a face to the name of the
opposition and reconstructs the lack of communication within a family
and the nation. Featuring music by John Dwyer (Coachwhips), Hisham
Bharoocha (Soft Circle), and Fuckwolf "Christopher Sollars wants to
figure out why his family is so politically divided—he's an arty San
Francisco liberal and his mom's a lesbian, while his dad's a born-again
Christian and his sister is a Dubya cheerleader working for the
Department of Energy. Using home movies, photos, interviews with his
family, old political ads, and footage from the 2004 election, Sollars
assembles a collage film that attempts to locate connections between
American political scandals and his family's dysfunction. (His parents'
divorce, for instance, is discussed amid footage of Iran-Contra.)
Mondale ads didn't accomplish anything in 1984; what makes Sollars think
they'll work any better now?" (Mark Athitakis) Nick Hallett is a
musician and curator interested in the intersection of music and
multimedia. He has programmed at The Kitchen, Netmage, Aurora Picture
Show, All Tomorrow's Parties, Artists's Television Access, Pacific Film
Archive, Ocularis, Monkey Town, Issue Project Room, New York Underground
Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago Underground Film Festival,
Mass Art Film Society, and Secret Project Robot among others. His music
series, Darmstadt, hosted with Zach Layton, was included in the New York
Times's "Best of New Music 2007." He originated the band Plantains,
which from 2000 to 2003 performed as a live multimedia outfit,
incorporating electronic music and video. Nick enjoys singing music of
several varieties, namely experimental contemporary art song of his and
other's doing, and has appeared recently at The Kitchen and Joe's Pub. A
note about this benefit: The typically blue state of Minnesota has been
classified as a toss-up in the upcoming election. The Action Fund is
doing grassroots organizing to educate Midwestern voters about the
McCain/Palin ticket's anti-choice policies, which could directly affect
which way it swings on November 4. Nearly one million bucks has been
raised for Planned Parenthood via this popular (and truly unofficial)
campaign and we think helping out the Minnesotans who are doing this
important work is especially necessary to make sure the state upholds
its liberal roots. Plus Sarah Palin will get a card in the mail
notifying her of the donation. ELECTION 2004 DOUBLE FEATURE Monday,
October 13 at 8pm Monkey Town 58 N 3rd St. Brooklyn, New York 11211
tickets $8 to $20 sliding scale benefit for Planned Parenthood Action
Fund of Minnesota and the Dakotas http://www.monkeytownhq.com L to
Bedford
10/13
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
NINA PALEY’S FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE! SITA SINGS THE BLUES
Los Angeles premiere 2008, 82 min., 35mm In her first feature-length
film, comic strip artist–turned–filmmaker Nina Paley juxtaposes multiple
narrative and visual styles to create a highly entertaining and
affecting vision of the Ramayana—the ancient Sanskrit epic and essential
fixture of the Hindu canon. Musical numbers choreographed to the
1920s-era jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw spin off an astonishing
whirlwind of flying monkeys, evil monsters, gods, goddesses, warriors,
sages, and winged eyeballs. The film spans continents and millennia in
parallel stories of two wives being unfairly dumped, one in the American
autobiographical present, the other in the mythical Indian past. Three
hilarious Indonesian shadow puppets narrate both the ancient tragedy and
modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the epic.
Program co-presented with Irene Kotlarz/Platform International Animation
Festival, sponsored by DUCK Studios, Los Angeles and introduced by
Maureen Selwood of the CalArts Program in Experimental Animation. In
person: Nina Paley.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008
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10/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 PM , 32 Second Avenue
AUDIO VÉRITÉ PRESENTS: MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN LIVE
Thierry Collins ESPACE OUVERT: PORTRAITS DE MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN 2007-08,
79 minutes, video. We are thrilled to host the New York City premiere of
a new documentary about virtuoso violinist-composer-improviser Malcolm
Goldstein. A musician of extraordinary sensitivity who was a primary
voice in the Judson Church scene as well as the Tone Roads Ensemble
alongside composers/performers James Tenney and Philip Corner, it has
rightly been said that Goldstein has reinvented and extended our
traditional notion of the violin. Thierry Collins's fantastic feature
debut follows Goldstein as he glides between rehearsals, performance and
everyday activities, in the process revealing his utterly distinctive
approach to listening, sound and music. As visually captivating as it is
sonically rich, ESPACE OUVERT is an eye- and ear-opening look at one of
our most gifted musical thinkers. We are extremely fortunate that
Malcolm Goldstein will be on-hand to present a unique acoustic solo
violin performance after the screening. Solo performances from Goldstein
in New York City are scarce, and this event is surely not to be missed.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
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10/16
Calgary, Alberta; CANADA: Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
http://www.csif.org
8pm, CSIF Sofa Cinema - Bldg. J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW T3E 7L4
YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE (REDUX)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 - 8pm The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
(CSIF) & Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (MST) presents
performance artist Liss Platt: You Can't Get There From Here (Redux)
Liss Platt "performs" the projection of a short film by continuously
peddling a custom-built bicycle to power a 16mm projector. It is a short
experimental documentary and kinetic scrapbook about being sixteen.
Following the performance, viewers will be able to try pedaling the
custom-built bicycle for themselves. FREE ADMISSION For more information
on CSIF: www.csif.org For more information on MST Festival:
www.mstfestival.org
10/16
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
JOANIE 4 JACKIE: THE LADY GLITTERATI OF THE NEW MOVIE UPRISING
"Joanie 4 Jackie knows that the best lady-made film and video art
belongs not only in a gallery, but also in the bedrooms of girls all
over America." In 1995, multimedia artist Miranda July began inviting
DIY women filmmakers to submit work in return for a "chainletter," or a
compilation tape with the filmmaker's work plus that of nine others.
Thirteen years and hundreds of movies later, the Joanie 4 Jackie lo-fi
feminist experiment in alternative film distribution is still going
strong, now under the care of video artist Jacqueline Goss and Bard
College. Tonight's program surveys J4J's history, with works by July,
Tammy Rae Carland, Naomi Uman, Dulcie Clarkson, Eileen Maxson, C. Ryder
Cooley, Zoey Kroll, Sativa Peterson, Vanessa Renwick and Sarah Hanssen,
along with a new documentary about the project by July and Shauna
McGarry, who also curated this evening's program. 1983–2003, various
directors, USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min.
10/16
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
PHIL SOLOMON: TWILIGHT PSALMS AND OTHER FILMS
Included in tonight's program are two transfixing episodes from Phil
Solomon's ongoing series of films called the Twilight Psalms, a personal
"secret" history of the 20th century with each title derived from an
episode of The Twilight Zone. Among the other films screening are the
elegiac companion films The Exquisite Hour (1989/1994) and Remains to Be
Seen (1989/1994). Stan Brakhage listed the latter as one of the ten
greatest films of all time in Sight & Sound's famous critics' poll.
(approx. 80 mins., 16mm) Program contents: Remains to Be Seen, The
Exquisite Hour, Nocturne (1980/89), Twilight Psalm I: The Lateness of
the Hour (2003), Twilight Psalm II: Night of the Meek, Yes, I Said Yes,
I Will, Yes (1999).
10/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 and 11:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
DECAMPMENT
DECAMPMENT is the new 40-minute silent-experimental-horror film from
Detroit's undying isolationists, ADULT. The soundtrack, performed live
by ADULT. during the screening, is a mutation of instrumental film music
and more ADULT.-like irregularities. DECAMPMENT was written, produced
and directed by ADULT. in early 2008 and follows a woman's
transmigration from her 'normal' life into a new society of deceit.
Filmed entirely in Michigan, the film explores ADULT.'s obsession with
an often overlooked and distinctive aesthetic that they call 'midwestern
horror.' DECAMPMENT, which premiered May 9th, 2008 at the Detroit
Institute of Arts, is now ready to tour on a limited scale. This film is
not available online or as a DVD, and there are no plans for a 'proper'
release at this time. The only way to see DECAMPMENT is in a theater
with ADULT. performing the soundtrack live.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008
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10/17
London, England: Rio Cinema
www.riocinema.org.uk
11:15pm til late, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, E8 2PB
JONAS MEKAS PRESENTS FLUX PARTY
Legendary artist-filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents FLUX PARTY featuring the
complete FLUXUS FILM ANTHOLOGY as assembled by George Maciunas, rare
Fluxus audio and surprises. Includes films by Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik,
Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Robert Watts, John Cale,
Chieko Shiomi, Paul Sharits and Ben Vautier. This special late night
screening takes place on the big screen of East London's splendid art
deco picture palace. Jonas Mekas will be in attendance to discuss Fluxus
and his friend and fellow Lithuanian emigre George Maciunas. Drinks and
Flux Cakes will be served.
10/17
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8pm, La Clef, 21 rue de la Clef
STOM SOGO
The CJC is proud to invite Stom Sogo for his first screening in Paris.
Stom received the "Best Experimental Film Award" in 2000 from the New
York Underground Festival. In 2002 the Village Voice named one of his
films among the ten best of the year. "Playing around in my life full of
chaos, I hope to find a poetry in there. Illusion or delusion will come
out to bloom flowers in each reality. (This images were what I saw in my
last 5 years of staying in Osaka Japan.) I am quite happy to be able to
show my work to the people in paris; the center of film culture. My
works are private cinema, like a baby starts to speak and dreams; but I
hope something in here will cure somebody. I thank you very much for
viewing them." - Stom Sogo
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2008
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10/18
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
BRUCE CONNER, THE LAST MAGICIAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
October 18 – 19 Program One Saturday October 18 at 7pm COSMIC RAY
Channeling the "black magic" of Ray Charles' music, Conner used occult
symbols and mysterious images to create this nocturnal and raucous
masterpiece. US 1961, 16mm, b/w, 4 min. MEA CULPA In his first
collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from
educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music
from their pioneering "sampling" album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(1981). US 1981, 16mm, b/w, 5 min. A MOVIE The ultimate found footage
film, A MOVIE summarizes—and critiques— the history of modern cinema in
just 12 minutes. US 1958, 16mm, b/w, 12 min. MARILYN TIMES FIVE Conner's
response to structural cinema is at turns hilarious and sad,
appropriating the strained performance of Marilyn Monroe imitator Arline
Hunter. US 1968-73, 16mm, b/w, 14 min. VIVIAN An ecstatic portrait of
actress Vivian Kurtz that features footage of a 1964 Conner exhibition
and couches a humorous critique of the art market. US 1964, 16mm, b/w, 4
min. TEN SECOND FILM Conner created a ten second scandal with this very
short film, commissioned by the New York Film Festival as a "trailer"
and promptly rejected for being simply "too fast." US 1965, 16mm, b/w,
silent, 10 sec. TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND An oneiric, autobiographic
chapter in Conner's cinema with a mysterious, evocative soundtrack by
Patrick Gleeson. US 1977, 16mm, color, 5 min. VALSE TRISTE A lyrical
companion piece to 5:10, this poetic found-footage memoir counts as one
of Conner's most intimate films. US 1979, 16mm, color, 5 min. LOOKING
FOR MUSHROOMS Conner returned to his first color footage of travels in
Mexico and his early years in San Francisco, radically slowing down the
original material—by adding five frames per shot—to craft a spellbinding
and hypnotic superimposition of two worlds. US 1996, 16mm, b/w, 15 min.
Program Two Sunday October 19 at 3pm REPORT Haunted by JFK's
assassination Conner obsessively filmed television coverage of the
killing, funeral and miscellaneous contemporary programming, repurposing
the footage into both a sorrowful portrait of a lost hero—NB: Conner's
use of blank "leader"—and a blistering critique of postwar consumerism.
US 1967, 16mm, b/w, 13 min. CROSSROADS Conner followed his fascination
with the atomic bomb to an absolutely brilliant furthest extreme,
"expanding" 27 different shots of the 1946 Bikini Atoll a-bomb test
footage into a mesmerizing two-part epic that juxtaposes the enhanced
"realism" of Patrick Gleeson's sound track in the first half against the
hallucinatory trance music of Terry Riley that closes the film. US 1976,
35mm, b/w, 36 min. TELEVISION ASSASSINATION Originally part of a
sculpture in which the footage was projected onto a decrepit television
set, Conner's film offers a frightening meditation on the televisual
spectacle of JFK's assassination. US 1963-95, 16mm, b/w, 14 min. Program
Three Sunday October 19 at 7pm COSMIC RAY Channeling the "black magic"
of Ray Charles' music, Conner used occult symbols and mysterious images
to create this nocturnal and raucous masterpiece. US 1961, 16mm, b/w, 4
min. THE WHITE ROSE An elegiac musical documentary capturing the slow
removal of Jay de Fayo's iconic "painting" The White Rose from the San
Francisco loft from which she had been evicted. US 1967, 16mm, b/w, 7
min. BREAKAWAY Shot at multiple speeds (and forwards and backwards),
Conner's dance film uses incredible rapid-fire montage to deliver a
beautifully frenzied response to Maya Deren's motion studies. US 1966,
16mm, b/w, 5 min. PERMIAN STRATA US 1969, 16mm, b/w, 4 min. Conner's
mordant gem discovers wonderfully strange and subversive subtexts at
work within an obscure 1940s Biblical film. MONGOLOID A hilarious
"educational" film that features a pulsing DEVO soundtrack. US 1978,
16mm, b/w, 4 min. AMERICA IS WAITING Working again with Byrne and Eno,
Conner's early music video offers a satire of patriotism and national
security. US 1981, 16mm, b/w, 4 min. MEA CULPA In his first
collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from
educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music
from their pioneering "sampling" album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
(1981). US 1981, 16mm, b/w, 5 min. LUKE For his first video work Conner
slowed down 8mm footage shot in 1967 on the set of Cool Hand Luke into a
meditation on the cinema and landscape that uses a beautiful Patrick
Gleeson soundtrack. US 2004, video, color, 22 min. HIS EYE IS ON THE
SPARROW Conner distilled footage from his unfinished documentary on the
gospel group The Soul Stirrers into a collage accompaniment to the
group's version of the classic spiritual His Eye Is On the Sparrow. US
2006, video, b/w and color, 4 min. EASTER MORNING US 2008, video, color,
10 min. Conner's exquisite final work is a step-printed reinterpretation
of footage from his 1966 unreleased film, EASTER MORNING RAGA that
further reveals his abiding interest in the psychedelic as an alternate
way of seeing.
10/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
PAPER TIGER READS PAPER TIGER TV + SMOKIN' OUT THE EVIL-DOERS
An early innovator in video art and public access television of the
early 80's, Paper Tiger TV developed a unique, handmade, irreverent
aesthetic that experimented with the television medium combining art,
academics, politics, performance and live television. PTTV, founded on
the ideal that freedom of speech through access to the means of
communication is essential in a democratic society, regularly exposed
the hidden agenda of the mainstream media and questioned the powerful
grip of corporate influence on media content to become the first
nationally disseminated public access television program. Over the
years, thousands have enjoyed the intelligent, irreverent,
ultra-low-budget antics of PTTV. PTTV produced Paper Tiger Reads Paper
Tiger Television (47 min., 2007) not only out of love and respect for
its history of creating radical critiques of mass culture and politics,
but from a desire to continue supporting and providing innovative
leadership for documentary filmmakers, artists, media literacy educators
and social justice media movements around the world. The jubilant mosaic
of archival footage, hand-crafted animations, video shorts and
interviews with media critics, historians and current and past Tigers,
including Dee Dee Halleck, George Stoney and Dierdre Boyle is designed
to be a catalyst for conversations on new directions in creative use of
the media. Also screening this evening will be a 56-minute, 2004 episode
of PPTV titled Smokin' Out the Evil-Doers: Unconventional TV Exposes the
RNC. As the GOP staked an opportunistic claim for the symbolic prize of
New York City, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to say NO! From
the Bushville poor to the defenders of proletariat-hero Johnny Cash and
from the rock concert thunder of an uber-immigrant action hero to
harlequin high jinks with down-home delegates, Smoking Out the
Evil-Doers documents a dynamic week of civil action, police repression
and creative resistance. A collectively-produced and non-corporate
account by the NoRNC Video Collective, with representatives from Deep
Dish TV, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York City Grassroots Media,
NYC IMC Video, Paper Tiger TV, The Video Activist Network, and hundreds
of other activists and independent media makers.
10/18
London, England: no.w.here
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/
2pm - 5pm, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG, UK
REVERBERATIONS # 2: BRADLEY EROS
The second event in the series will centre around the work of American
artist Bradley Eros. Simultaneously making, researching, programming,
writing, and performing, Bradley Eros has been an enigmatic catalyst in
the New York experimental film scene for over two decades. His oracular
and multi-faceted practice challenges what can be done with and known
about film through artisanal investigations of its material and
apparatus. Taking its cue from Camden Arts Centre's Wallace Berman
exhibition, Eros will locate his work within a set of interconnecting
references that centre around the philosophy of arte povera – a process
of open-ended experimentation using existing and found materials. Over
the course of the afternoon Eros will unfold and examine the use of
found and discarded materials in his work, as it relates to ideas of
quotation, detournement, parody, deconstruction, homage, and artists'
such as Berman and Joseph Cornell. The format of the event itself will
take on these ideas though a cumulative and fluid interaction of
performed works, dialogue, screenings and audio-visual reference points.
Alongside Eros' expanded performances, films by Cornell and Berman will
also be shown. Bradley Eros' work has taken the form of printed matter,
films, para-cinema performances and radical curatorial projects which
revolve around ideas of alchemy, illusion, mysticism, the ephemeral and
unfixed nature of film, cinema povera, and technology as an extension of
the mind. From 1998 to 2004 he co-curated the Robert Beck Memorial
Cinema, a weekly programme that took a broad and experimental
perspective on the moving image. His films and performances have been
shown at the Whitney Biennial (2004), The American Century (at the
Whitney Museum, NY), The New York Film Festival, The London Film
Festival, MoMA (NY), Pacific Film Archives (San Francisco), Anthology
Film Archives (NY), Školská 28 (Prague), Arsenal Cinema (Berlin) and
Lightcone (Paris). Alongside Jeanne Liotta he has recently conducted
some of the first in-depth research into the film work of Joseph
Cornell.
10/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
MELINDA STONE + NATALIE JEREMIJENKO +
USF force-of-nature Melinda Stone and her How-to-Homestead posse
disseminate rich folk wisdom and new-fangled experiments on contemporary
urban homesteading by way of video, sing-a-longs, and dandelion wine.
The centerpiece is Maya Donelson's Graze the Roof, demonstrating her
local, sustainable, Do-It-Ourselves approach to food sovereignty, via
her rooftop gardening project on top of the Tenderloin's Glide Memorial
Church. In the show's second half, NYU luminary Natalie Jeremijenko
presents pieces from her Environmental Health Clinic (such as her Urban
Space Station), a living critique of dominant medical and environmental
models. Please join guest-curator Andrew Wilson in collectively
re-imagining our relationship to natural systems in an urban context.
10/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
12:00 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. West
HOME MOVIE DAY AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
"Saving our film heritage should not be limited only to commercially
produced films. Home movies do not just capture the important private
moments of our family's lives, but they are historical and cultural
documents as well. Consider Abraham Zapruder's 8mm film that recorded
the assassination of President Kennedy or Nickolas Muray's famously
vibrant color footage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera shot with his 16mm
camera. Imagine how different our view of history would be without these
precious films. Home Movie Day is a celebration of these films and the
people who shot them. I urge anyone with an interest in learning more
about how to care for and preserve their own personal memories to join
in the festivities being offered in their community." - Martin Scorsese.
Now in its 6th year, Home Movie Day is an annual, worldwide celebration
of amateur films and filmmaking. Curated by the Film Reference Library,
this programme offers an intriguing selection of local home movies and
the opportunity to meet with archivists and learn about film
preservation. Home movie submissions are being accepted until October
3rd. Call 416-967-1517 for details about this free event and programme
updates, or go to filmreferencelibrary.ca.
10/18
vilnius, lithuania: solus film collective
http://www.soluscollective.org
7pm, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre Konstitucijos pr. 3, 906 kab., LT-09601 Vilnius
MOIRA TIERNEY & THE SOLUS COLLECTIVE IN ESTONIA & LITHUANIA
Moira Tierney presents a programme of her own work as well as a
programme of films and videos by the SOLUS collective: expect a mixture
of the above along with some of her shorts from the last ten years or
so! phone (85) 2112377 / fax (85) 2112502 / email: email suppressed
www.mekas.lt
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2008
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10/19
London, England: no.w.here
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/
3pm - 9pm, no.w.here, 316–318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 OAG, UK
WORKSHOP: CINEMA POVERA & COLLAGE COMPOSITION WITH BRADLEY EROS
The Workshop will reveal a theory & practice of cinema povera by
creating hybrid forms using found and discarded materials; and will
emphasize methods and techniques as well as a philosophy of collage
composition as they relate to found-footage film, photomontage,
assemblage, appropriation and cut-ups. This will include elements of
quotation, homage, critique, parody, deconstruction and detournment,
with inspirations as they relate to Wallace Berman and Joseph Cornell
and other collage artists of the 20th century. A practical knowledge of
filmmaking is not expected or required. Places are extremely limited, so
book early to avoid disappointment.
10/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE FAMILIAL AVANT-GARDE – AN EVENING WITH TED LYMAN &
JOHN CANNIZZARO.
Vermont-based avant-garde filmmaker Lyman comes to Los Angeles with
award-winning works old and new, along with his former pupil, LA-based
filmmaker Cannizzaro, with his latest. Including "Testament of the
Rabbit" (Lyman, 1989), "Fla.Me." (Lyman, 1982), "Land of the Dead"
(Cannizzaro, 2008) and more. 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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