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Part 2 of 2: This week [October 25 - November 2, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008
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10/29
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E. 51st Street)
AVANT CINEMA 2.1: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM ROMANIA
Q&A with filmmaker Sergiu Lupse following the screening. AFS and
Artslink Artist Residency present the work of visiting
artist-in-residence Sergiu Lupse. Lupse's degree is in Film and
Photography, and he holds a Masters degree in Experimental Film. His
portfolio includes TV commercials, 10 short films, many of which have
screened at festivals in Europe and US and a product catalog for Vichy.
In his films, he uses visual stimuli in the form of colors or sound and
music to pinpoint or accelerate emotions and feelings that the character
might be experiencing. Nature: Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse,
2002, DV, 2 min 51 sec. A man gets lost walking through the woods, so he
climbs a tree to see where he is. He falls unconscious to the ground. He
becomes a traveler through the underworld, , a ghost. He takes another
road through the forest and images from his past surface, revealing a
way out. Labyrinth - Black & White: Written and directed by Sergiu
Lupse, 2002, DV, B&W, 4 min 9 sec. After intensive years inside a
factory a man isolates himself from the world. Hidden away, his only tie
to the outside world is his TV. Unaware of the fact that the TV is
turning him into a simple spectator, depriving him of all emotions, the
man becomes a prisoner inside his own body. An image keeps repeating on
his TV, and something inside him snaps. To escape this, he knows there's
only one thing left to do. Utopia: Directed by Sergiu Lupse, 2003, DV,
color, 22 sec. A snail steps into a fantastic world, finding a way out
of his shell. Relativ (Relative): Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse,
music by Vlad Tanasescu, 2004, DV, color, 2 min 48 sec. Two cops are
called to the location of a possible crime scene. The setting is a
labyrinth-like building, a surreal environment, created only to mislead,
to confuse. They choose to investigate nonetheless. They split to cover
more ground. As they search the place, they get lost and end up facing
their own monsters - each other. Time Lapse: Written and directed by
Sergiu Lupse, 2004, DV, color, 2 min 16 sec. An old man, lost in a big
world where everything moves two times faster than he does, a man
reaches for freedom, hoping time will be on his side. Through his broken
watch he stops time and escapes back to the world he grew up in, a world
he knew and didn't fear. Trace and Shadow (Thesis): Written and directed
by Sergiu Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, 2005, DV, color, 6 min 29 sec.
In a world revolving around the idea of movement, Friedrich is still.
Connected to a server, lost inside the bowels of a dead society, he is
running THE DREAM, a semi-conscious program that awakes his spirit. He
becomes trapped inside the program and even as he struggles to escape,
the machine begins to feed on his essence. Stains: Written and directed
by Sergiu Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, 2005, DV, color, 4 min 25 sec.
A photographic display of some of the human "taboo items" (stains) and a
dictionary of sin (offenders). Glow: Written and directed by Sergiu
Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, VFX by Sergiu Lupse and Octavian Ureche,
2006, color, B&W, DV, 14 min 24 sec. L601 lives in a utopian society
which recycles unprintable books. Everyone works in the Library in
shifts. When L601 finds that he can see images inside the white pages he
begins to build his own reality, memories appearing out of the depths of
his mind, memories buried for a good reason. Excerpt: Written and
directed by Sergiu Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, VFX by Sergiu Lupse,
2007, color, B&W, DV, 5 min 3 sec. A woman wakes up in the middle of the
night from a nightmare. As she remembers the day before she realizes
that she's trapped inside her memories. Getting out is the hardest part.
IHNM - I Have No Mouth: Written and directed by Sergiu Lupse, music by
Vlad Tanasescu, 2008, color, DV, 2 min 34 sec. A man finds himself
inexorably drawn by the TV screen. A force is compelling him to get
closer and interact with the screen. He manages to get inside the TV set
and to his misfortune meets the one who was calling him. Breath: Written
and directed by Sergiu Lupse, music by Vlad Tanasescu, VFX by Sergiu
Lupse and Vlad Tanasescu, 2008, color, HD, 7 min 47 sec. In the
aftermath of a car accident, a grieving Barbie has just buried her
husband Ken. Following up on her flashback memories she discovers the
reason for the accident. She returns to the site of the accident and
makes a comforting discovery. She meets a stranger that has been waiting
for her.
10/29
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
7:00 pm, 1515 Broadway & The Detroit Film Theatre
DETROIT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Detroit Docs is pleased to announce our 2008 Festival. Wednesday October
29th - November 2nd Venues: 1515 Broadway (Across from the Detroit Opera
House) & The Detroit Film Theatre (located at the DIA)
10/29
Ithaca, New York: Cornell Cinema
http://www-cinema.slife.cornell.edu/
7 pm, Willard Straight Hall
ESSENTIAL VISUAL MUSIC: RARE CLASSICS FROM CVM ARCHIVE
Cornell Cinema in association with CVM presents Essential Visual Music:
Rare Classics, the third program in its current Visual Music series.
From German pioneers to Light Show psychedelia to Experimental Animation
classics, the program features rare and preserved prints from the Center
for Visual Music. Includes films by Oskar and Hans Fischinger, Charles
Dockum, Jules Engel, Mary Ellen Bute, light show films and more. 16mm.
Films include: Oskar Fischinger, R-1 ein Formspiel (16mm single panel
version, recreation); Hans Fischinger, Tanz der Farben; Charles Dockum,
1952 Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim; Charles Dockum, 1966
Mobilcolor Documentary and 1966 Mobilcolor Performance films; Oskar
Fischinger, Muntz TV Commercial; Mary Ellen Bute, Mood Contrasts; John
Stehura, Cibernetik 5.3 (digital); Jud Yalkut, Turn, Turn, Turn; Single
Wing Turquoise Bird light show film; Jules Engel, Celebration; Jules
Engel, 3 Arctic Flowers and Jules Engel, Mobiles. Most are new
preservation prints, all from the collection of CVM. Thanks to the
National Film Preservation Foundation and the NEA for their support for
the preservation of these films. Program curated by CVM. For additional
program info and review, see
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/VMEssenClassics.htm and for
ticket/location info visit Cornell Cinema's site at
http://cinema.cornell.edu/schedule-latefall08.html
10/29
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org/
8 pm, 512 W. 19th Street
WHEN IT WAS BLUE, DOUBLE PROJECTION FILM BY JENNIFER REEVES (2008)
W H E N I T W A S B L U E 2008, Dual-Projection 16mm film, b&w / color,
67-68 min approx. Image / Editing / Sound by JENNIFER REEVES Music by
SKÚLI SVERRISSON *** Live Music by SKÚLI SVERRISSON, ANTHONY BURR,
EYVIND KANG Wednesday, October 29, 8 PM Thursday, October 30, 8 PM
Reeves's captivating tour de force explodes all preconceptions about
both experimental and environmental film. When It Was Blue is a frenetic
double-projection montage structured in four parts representing the
directions of the compass and the seasons; this is a serious,
eye-popping work that examines the beauty still present in our
endangered world, as seen by a talented artist. Reeves spanned the globe
(including Vancouver Harbour), then hand-painted her 16 mm images,
resulting in a wide-ranging play on the notion of "blue" — the colour,
the sensation, the sinking realization that the natural world (and 16 mm
film) must be captured as much as possible before it disappears. The
screening will be accompanied by haunting music from a band led by
Icelandic composer Skuli Sverrisson, who wrote the score, and should be
a can't-miss event. Take that, Godfrey Reggio. -Mark Peranson, The Globe
and Mail
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
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10/30
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
SEMICONDUCTOR
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt in person! UK artist-duo Semiconductor's
stunning digital animations render our physical world in a constant
state of flux. Since 1999, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have used
digital technologies to create what The Wire calls "experimental
meta-science fiction" to meditate on the hidden processes around
us—sound waves, magnetic fields, tectonic plates, and
micro-environments. The pair began their career in the UK electronic
music scene, and their work has continued to straddle science, music,
and high art, with music videos for Múm and Dat Politics, installations
at the Hirshhorn and the Venice Biennale, and a residency at NASA's
Space Sciences Laboratory. Tonight's program surveys their career,
including the giddily gorgeous glitch of A–Z OF NOISE (1999) and 200
NANOWEBBERS (2005), the elegant urbanscapes of THE SOUND OF
MICROCLIMATES (2004), and an astonishing trip into the data archives of
solar astronomy in BRILLIANT NOISE (2006). Also featured are MAGNETIC
MOVIE (2007), DO YOU THINK SCIENCE…(2006), ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
(2005), GREEN GRASS OF TUNNEL (2002), and RETROPOLIS (1999). 1999—2007,
Semiconductor, UK, multiple formats, ca 60 min.
10/30
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
7:00 pm, 1515 Broadway & The Detroit Film Theatre
DETROIT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Detroit Docs is pleased to announce our 2008 Festival. Wednesday October
29th - November 2nd Venues: 1515 Broadway (Across from the Detroit Opera
House) & The Detroit Film Theatre (located at the DIA)
10/30
Montreal: Cinémathèque québécoise / Hors champ
http://www.horschamp.qc.ca
8:30, 335 De Maisonneuve Ouest
TIME AND PLACE : THE FILMS OF ERNIE GEHR
The Web Journal Hors champ (www.horschamp.qc.ca) is proud to present
three evenings of screeningd and discussions with experimental film
master Ernie Gehr. The screenings will be held at the Cinémathèque
québécoise in Montreal on October 30-31st and 1st of November. Gehr will
also give a Master class on October 31st. Thursday, 30 October, 8:30pm
Wait, Serene Velocity, Eureka, Mirage Friday 31st October, 4pm Master
Class w/ Ernie Gehr Early cinema and the avant-garde Friday 31st of
October, 8:30pm Shift, Thsi Side of Paradise, Side/Walk/Shuttle
Saturday, November 1, 9pm Rear Window, Signal - Germany on the Air,
Passage For more information, visit Hors champ's website
(www.horschamp.qc.ca), or contact (address suppressed)
10/30
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org/
8 pm, 512 W. 19th Street
WHEN IT WAS BLUE, DOUBLE PROJECTION FILM BY JENNIFER REEVES (2008)
W H E N I T W A S B L U E 2008, Dual-Projection 16mm film, b&w / color,
67-68 min approx. Image / Editing / Sound by JENNIFER REEVES Music by
SKÚLI SVERRISSON *** Live Music by SKÚLI SVERRISSON, ANTHONY BURR,
EYVIND KANG Wednesday, October 29, 8 PM Thursday, October 30, 8 PM
Reeves's captivating tour de force explodes all preconceptions about
both experimental and environmental film. When It Was Blue is a frenetic
double-projection montage structured in four parts representing the
directions of the compass and the seasons; this is a serious,
eye-popping work that examines the beauty still present in our
endangered world, as seen by a talented artist. Reeves spanned the globe
(including Vancouver Harbour), then hand-painted her 16 mm images,
resulting in a wide-ranging play on the notion of "blue" — the colour,
the sensation, the sinking realization that the natural world (and 16 mm
film) must be captured as much as possible before it disappears. The
screening will be accompanied by haunting music from a band led by
Icelandic composer Skuli Sverrisson, who wrote the score, and should be
a can't-miss event. Take that, Godfrey Reggio. -Mark Peranson, The Globe
and Mail
10/30
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films, tapes or dvd's; all works will be screened.
10/30
San Francisco, California: kino21
http://www.kino21.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia
HOW WE FIGHT: PROGRAM 3: TERRORISTS
"Notes of a Kurdish Rebel" by Stefano Savona, France, 2005, 78 minutes
"November" by Hito Steyerl, Germany, 2004, 25 minutes The third program
consists of two works that portray those labeled as "terrorists" -- in
this case rebel fighters in the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party). Stefano
Savona's Notes of a Kurdish Rebel follows a group of young, idealistic
fighters in the mountains of Northern Iraq as they prepare to cross into
Turkey, while Hito Steyerl's "November" is a thought-provoking essay on
the role of the revolutionary gesture as embodied by her friend Andrea
Wolf. Both films are complex depictions of the desire to take arms
against state oppression, and both suggest the central role of women as
fighters in this revolutionary armed struggle.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008
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10/31
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
5:30 pm, 1515 Broadway & The Detroit Film Theatre
DETROIT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Detroit Docs is pleased to announce our 2008 Festival. Wednesday October
29th - November 2nd Venues: 1515 Broadway (Across from the Detroit Opera
House) & The Detroit Film Theatre (located at the DIA)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2008
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11/1
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ART DOCS SERIES - ONE BAD CAT: THE REVEREND ALBERT WAGNER STORY
Awarded "Best Documentary" at the Santa Barbara International Film
Festival and "Audience Choice Award for Best Film" at the Cleveland
International Film Festival, One Bad Cat (Dir. Thomas Miller, 80 min.,
2007, USA) is the story of Reverend Albert Wagner and his continuous
journey for self-redemption from his past exploits. While constantly
struggling with his own demons, Albert seeks to change the condition of
the Black experience in the United States by using his ministry and his
art as tools to reach the Black community. He hopes to encourage
African-Americans to live up to their potential without focusing on past
racial injustices. In his 80's and seriously ill with congestive heart
failure, arthritis, and diabetes, Albert remains dedicated to being an
active artist and the main breadwinner for a large portion of his
family. Through the use of intimate vérité scenes and candid interviews
of Albert, his family members, and art patrons, the documentary explores
whether a driving passion coupled with a divine intervention can really
redeem a man with many past indiscretions. Further, the film explores
Albert's past of growing up in a segregated south and how those
experiences shape his often-controversial messages and "lessons" on race
and religion. By examining the community that purchases "visionary" or
"outsider" art the documentary investigates how racism in American has
not only effected one man, but how it continues to affect our society at
large. Punctuating the film, Albert's paintings and sculptures
illustrate not only scenes from Albert's history, but lend a unique lens
to how he views the world.
11/1
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
9:00 am, 1515 Broadway & The Detroit Film Theatre
DETROIT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Detroit Docs is pleased to announce our 2008 Festival. Wednesday October
29th - November 2nd Venues: 1515 Broadway (Across from the Detroit Opera
House) & The Detroit Film Theatre (located at the DIA)
11/1
New York, New York: Martos Gallery
http://martosgallery.com
11AM-6PM Tues-Sat, 540 West 29th Street
LIKE A SHIPWRECK WE DIE GOING INTO OURSELVES
An exhibition featuring the video work "Autopsy, September 25th"
consisting of footage from an actual autopsy. The video transcends the
usual assumptions that surround autopsies by revealing an uncommon
beauty in visceral imagery. In addition, still images on digital
displays slowly change over time, creating meditative moments as the
viewer moves through the gallery space. The components of the exhibition
come together to open an investigation into the complex processes of
which life, death and the nature of human identity are a part. The work
references the tradition, beginning in the Renaissance, of the
investigation into the body's interior, most notably in the works of
Vesalius, DaVinci and Rembrandt, and later in contemporary works of Stan
Brakhage, Francis Bacon and Andres Serrano.
11/1
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ERIK DAVIS ON CROWLEY AND ZEPPLIN
On All Soul's Day, we're hosting that ghostly Gnostic master Erik Davis,
following up on his 33 1/3 commentary on Led Zeppelin's fourth album.
Erik essays out on the immense influence of Aleister Crowley on
contemporary pop- and subculture, specifically tracing that irresistible
Thelemite force through the creative work of Kenneth Anger and Led
Zeppelin. Among the elements folded into his provocative
'performative-lecture' are Sir Richard Bishop's God Damn Religion,
Curtis Harrington's Wormwood Star, Malcolm Leigh's Legend of the
Witches, and the Jimmy Page version of Anger's Lucifer Rising. ALSO
excerpts from Crowley: The Other Loch Ness Monster, Joe Schimmel's Rock
'n' Roll Sorcerers, and Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu. Free wine and
séance, with Doug Katelus on the electro-gothic Optigan. *$9.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2008
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11/2
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Film Center
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
10:00 am, 1515 Broadway & The Detroit Film Theatre
DETROIT DOCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008
Detroit Docs is pleased to announce our 2008 Festival. Wednesday October
29th - November 2nd Venues: 1515 Broadway (Across from the Detroit Opera
House) & The Detroit Film Theatre (located at the DIA)
11/2
London, England: Chisengale Gallery
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk
2pm to 10pm, 64 Chisenhale Rd, E3 5QZ
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
A FREE screening of STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, Ken Jacobs' episodic
indictment of American politics, religion, war, racism and stupidity,
timed to coincide with the US election and the end of the Bush regime.
Starring Jack Smith, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Minnie Mouse, Al
Jolson and a cast of thousands. Jacobs' extraordinary epic combines
whole found films, documentaries, newsreels, musicals and cartoons with
improvised performances by the legendary Jack Smith and Jerry Sims.
Together they picture a dangerously sold-out America where racial and
religious prejudice, the monopolization of wealth and an addiction to
war are opposed by Beat generation irreverence. STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH
will be shown with several intermissions. Some refreshments available,
or bring a packed lunch and a cushion! Presented by Whitechapel at
Chisenhale, in collaboration with Mark Webber and tank.tv. A portfolio
of 20 works by Ken Jacobs is currently online at www.tank.tv.
11/2
London, England: Small But Perfectly Formed
http://smabpf.blogspot.com/
7pm, Exmouth Market church hall, London, EC1R 4OE
OUR MOST HOLY PERFORMANCE
SUNDAY 2nd NOVEMBER- doors open 7.00pm, -£6 --- Dirk De Bruyn (16mm
multi-projection) Filmmaker from Australia presents Plagiarism a
multi-screen film and sound poetry presentation addressing issues of
traumatic effect/affect. -- Phil Durrant (Software, synthesizers and
computer) Mathias Forge (trombone) Samantha Rebello (flute) First
meeting of these improvisers -- Lynn Loo & Guy Sherwin (16mm
multi-projection) Live performance of Cycles #3 & Newsprint #2, recently
revisited pieces. ---------- HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH HALL Exmouth Market
Tube: Farrington, Angel / Bus: 19, 38, 341 ---------- Dirk De Bruyn was
a founding member and past president of MIMA (Experimenta), he's been
involved with Fringe Network and been a member of the Melbourne Super 8
Film Group. De Bruyn's materialist film practice is a representation of
traumatised space, depicting a person consumed by a body of pain in
which slowly something is remembered. In this performance he enlists the
strategies of experimental film and punk, invoking notions of Artaud's
"cruel" performance. --- Phil Durrant approaches the computer like an
acoustic instrument, with all the flexibility and precision that this
implies He has been awarded various Arts Council grants to research and
develop his use of electronics. He has played with Derek Bailey, Evan
Parker, Grooverider, John Zorn, MIMEO...
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mdurrant.html Mathias Forge and
Samantha Rebello use a wide variety of extended techniques to explore
the textural capacities of their instruments. Focusing on the fragile
physicality of the sounds and on their environment they keep a strong
sense of musicality in their improvisations.
www.creativesourcesrec.com/artists/m_forge.html
http://objectwhichthinksus.blogspot.com/ --- Cycles #3, A hand-made film
for two 16mm projectors. The image of a circle pulsates at varying rates
accompanied by rhythmic sounds. This is a recent colour version that
uses two basic colours that have the effect of inducing additional
colours in the eye of the beholder. Newsprint #2, a projector
performance for two projectionists and two optical soundtracks. All the
images and sounds in the film originate from newspaper stuck directly
onto the film. The performance is an interplay between the two screens
and their accompanying sounds.
11/2
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
DIMENSIONAL BODIES
Johunna Grayson and Greta Snider In Person Dimensional Bodies, a
collaborative project of landscape gardener and photographer Johunna
Grayson and filmmaker Greta Snider, is a collection of intimate and
erotically charged stereoscopic slideshow portraits. Using spoken
narrative and environmental soundscape to illuminate an array of
subjects (including a farmer, a social worker, a veteran, an athlete and
a robot-maker), the portraits focus on issues of aging, addiction,
vitality, sexual identity and other concerns of the physical body. The
stereoscopic aspect of the projection puts additional emphasis on the
physical experience of viewing, accentuating the physiology of image
processing and creating a sense of physical self-consciousness in the
viewer and thus the perfect environment for experiencing the portraits.
(Greta Snider)
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