This week [November 1 - 9, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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South by Southwest Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: December 12, 2008)
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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2008)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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MONO NO AWARE II (Brooklyn, NY. USA; Deadline: November 07, 2008)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 14, 2008)
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2nd Annual Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL USA; Deadline: November 11, 2008)
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28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 24, 2008)
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MAGA / Macon Georgia Film Festival (Macon, Georgia USA; Deadline: November 15, 2008)
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Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, OH USA; Deadline: November 30, 2008)
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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
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Post-Postcard 12 at The LAB OPEN INVITATIONAL (San Francisco, CA 94114; Deadline: November 22, 2008)
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MUSEEK (Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NY, NY USA; Deadline: November 17, 2008)
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V International Festival of Audio-visual arts VIDOLOGIA 2008 (Russia ; Deadline: November 01, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Art Docs Series - One Bad Cat: the Reverend Albert Wagner Story [November 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Detroit Docs International Film Festival 2008 [November 1, Detroit, Michigan]
* Like A Shipwreck We Die Going Into Ourselves [November 1, New York, New York]
* Erik Davis On Crowley and Zepplin [November 1, San Francisco, California]
* Detroit Docs International Film Festival 2008 [November 2, Detroit, Michigan]
* Star Spangled To Death [November 2, London, England]
* Our Most Holy Performance [November 2, London, England]
* Craig Baldwin: Culture Jammer [November 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Dimensional Bodies [November 2, San Francisco, California]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 3, Jacksonville, FLA]
* The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg [November 4, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Avant Cinema: In Honor of Conner [November 5, Austin, TX]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 5, Louisville, KY]
* Carolee Schneemann: Film & Performance [November 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 6, Cullowhee, NC]
* Alan Lambert's Ghost Stories + Solus Nyc 2008 Launch Party [November 6, New York, New York]
* Wiggwaum / Tim Thompson [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Films By Matt Mccormick [November 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 7, Charleston, SC]
* Solus Programme 1 + Dvd Launch [November 7, New York, New York]
* Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program [November 7, San Francisco, California]
* Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival [November 8, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 8, Augusta, GA]
* Solus Programme 2 [November 8, New York, New York]
* Sex, Space, and Sickness In the Jazz Age [November 8, San Francisco, California]
* Mike Kelley, Day Is Done [November 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Stephanie Maxwell visual Music [November 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Solus Programme 3 [November 9, New York, New York]
* Nice Biscotts and More: New Films By Luther Price [November 9, San Francisco, California]
* To See the Enormous Night Arise: Performaces By Gale Allen, Irene
Loughlin, Mikiki & NaufúS Ramirez-Figueroa [November 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* How We Fight Program 4: Peacekeepers/Presented By Kino21 [November 9, san francisco ca 94110]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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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

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
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.

CRAIG BALDWIN: CULTURE JAMMER
  Filmforum and the Cinefamily present Craig Baldwin: Culture Jammer.
  Craig Baldwin will appear in-person to discuss the theories and history
  of culture jamming, using favorite clips from other jammers and selected
  cuts from his filmography, including a screening of "Sonic Outlaws"
  (1995) which profiles the infamous lawsuit aimed at Negativland by
  lawyers for the rock group U2. Note change in location, time, and ticket
  prices Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax
  Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036. Sunday Nov 2, 2008. 8:00 pm. General
  admission $12, $8 for Filmforum members.
  http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at Fairfax
  High School

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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008
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11/3
Jacksonville, FLA: Florida Community College of Jacksonville
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:00pm, Kent Campus, Auditorium

BEN RUSSELL: FOUR EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES
  "Tjúba Tén" ("The Wet Season") is an experimental ethnography recorded
  in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007.
  Composed of community-generated performances, reenactments and
  extemporaneous recordings, this film functions doubly as an examination
  of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a
  historical document for the future. Whether the resultant record is
  directed toward its subjects, its temporary residents (the filmmakers),
  or its Western viewers is a question proposed via the combination of
  long takes, materialist approaches, selective subtitling and a focus on
  various forms of cultural labor. In addition to "Tjúba Tén" ("The Wet
  Season"), Russell's screenings will feature three additional
  experimental ethnographies: "Daumë," "The Red and the Blue Gods," and
  "Black and White Trypps Number Three."

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2008
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11/4
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
  The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994, 84 min.) by JERRY ARONSON.
  "You couldn't ask for a warmer profile of poet Allen Ginsberg. With "The
  Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg," filmmaker Jerry Aronson gives us the
  prophet-poet as idealist, genius, gentle teacher, loving son,
  adventurous thinker and calm center. Authorized by Ginsberg, the film
  overflows with praise-filled but smart interviews with Ginsberg's
  brother and stepmother, with writers like Norman Mailer, William
  Burroughs and Ken Kesey, with Timothy Leary and Joan Baez and Ginsberg
  himself. Plus, there is an abundance of romantic footage of Ginsberg's
  Beat-era bohemianism and his peaceful activism against the Vietnam War".
  - The Boston Globe

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008
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11/5
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7:45pm, Alamo at the Ritz, 320 E. 6th St.,

AVANT CINEMA: IN HONOR OF CONNER
  The Austin Film Society is proud to continue its Avant Cinema series
  with a career retrospective of legendary experimental filmmaker Bruce
  Conner, who passed away in July of this year. Widely considered the
  father of "found-footage" filmmaking, Conner had an enormous impact on
  mainstream image-making despite the subversive nature of his restless
  art, influencing everything from music videos to television advertising
  to internet-age "mash-ups." This retrospective will include these
  titles: A Movie (1958); Vivian (1964); Ten Second Film (1965); Breakaway
  (1966); Report (1967); The White Rose (1967); Marilyn Times Five
  (1968-73); Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1977); Mongoloid (1978); Valse
  Triste (1979); Mea Culpa (1981); Easter Morning (2008). Filmmaker
  Michelle Silva, representative of the Bruce Conner estate, will be in
  attendance for a Q&A.

11/5
Louisville, KY: Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:00pm, 501 W Main St

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008
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11/6
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: FILM & PERFORMANCE
  Carolee Schneemann in person! Since the early 1960s, legendary
  multimedia artist Carolee Schneemann has blazed a groundbreaking,
  taboo-busting path through the art world. Expressive, exuberant and
  intelligent, her work ranges from hand-made diary films and politically
  charged performances to painting, poetry, and installation, all the
  while exploring and overturning preconceived notions of sexuality,
  gender, and the body. Tonight, Schneemann will present a collection of
  recently restored films, performance videos, and new work, including the
  first two installments of her landmark Autobiographical Trilogy: FUSES
  (1964—67), in which she painted, scratched, and collaged self-shot
  footage of herself and then-partner James Tenney's erotic explorations,
  and PLUMB LINE (1971), along with the influential performance pieces
  BODY COLLAGE (1967) and AMERICANA I CHING APPLE PIE (1978—2007) and her
  latest video INFINITY KISSES—THE MOVIE (2008). Co-presented by SAIC's
  Visiting Artists Program and Department of Performance and the
  University of Chicago's Film Studies Center, which will present a second
  program of Schneemann's work on Friday, November 7. 1964—2008, Carolee
  Schneemann, USA, multiple formats, ca 80 min.

11/6
Cullowhee, NC: Western Carolina University
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:00pm, University Center Theater

11/6
New York, New York: solus film collective
www.soluscollective.org
8pm, grace space, 840 Broadway, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206

ALAN LAMBERT'S GHOST STORIES + SOLUS NYC 2008 LAUNCH PARTY
  Solus was formed in 1998 in Dublin with the dual aim of showing Irish
  short & avant-garde films abroad & international short & avant-garde
  films in Ireland. This year SOLUS celebrates its 10th anniversary with
  three nights of screenings & a DVD launch at Anthology Film Archives & a
  screening and party at the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn. For more
  info see www.gracespace.multiply.com, www.anthologyfilmarchives.org,
  www.soluscollective.org & www.moiratierney.net

11/6
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
http://www.newnothing.org
8pm, 16 Sherman St.

WIGGWAUM / TIM THOMPSON
  NEW NOTHING CINEMA -Thursday November 6th- - 8pm- WIGGWAUM / TIM
  THOMPSON- ----------------------------------- Wiggwaum and Tim Thompson
  will inaugurate a new location for the visual music meetup - New Nothing
  Cinema in San Francisco. ------------------------------------ Tim
  Thompson is a programmer and artist who creates visual and musical works
  for installations and performances. He has performed and shown
  installations at Burning Man, Villa Montalvo, Zero One Festival, Climate
  Theater, Maker Faire, and Yuri's Night. For this solo performance, Tim
  will be generating music and visuals simultaneously using a custom
  controller and software. His web site is http://timthompson.com.
  ---------------------------------------- Wiggwaum consists of two
  filmmakers, Douglas Katelus and Loren Means, along with
  multi-instrumentalist RandyLee Sutherland. The group plays live music
  while projecting their films, with Douglas on keyboards, Loren on
  electronic trombone and voice,and RandyLee on drums. They can be found
  at MySpace ( http://www.myspace.com/wiggwaum
  ----------------------------
  http://videographer.meetup.com/4/calendar/8799813/

11/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street (at Twenty-first)

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOURING PROGRAM
  Program One presented in association with KFJC89.7FM The Ann Arbor Film
  Festival is internationally recognized as a premiere showcase for
  creative, inspiring and influential films of all types: avant-garde and
  experimental, story-based narratives, documentaries and animation. As
  the longest-running film festival of its kind in North America, the AAFF
  is steeped in a rich tradition of groundbreaking cinema. In addition to
  presenting hundreds of films each year during its five-day run, AAFF
  each year curates a touring program presenting highlights of the
  festival around the world. San Francisco Cinematheque, in partnership
  with AAFF's long-term South Bay host, Foothill College's KFJC, is proud
  to present this touring program for the first time in ten years.
  Screening: Doxology by Michael Langan; My Olympic Summer by Daniel
  Robin; Yours Truly by Osbert Parker; The Green Grass of Twilight by
  Richie Sherman; Frog Jesus by Ben Peters; Bullet Proof Vest by May Lin
  Au Yung; Safari by Catherine Chalmers; America In Pictures by Georg
  Koszulinski; Crank Balls by Devin Bell; Number One by Leighton Pierce;
  Nijuman No Borei (200,000 Phantoms) by Jean Gabriel Periot; I Met the
  Walrus by Josh Raskin; Li: The Patterns of Nature by John Campbell;
  Office Suite by Robert Todd.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2008
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11/7
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
8 pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor

FILMS BY MATT MCCORMICK
  Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick comes to Light Industry, presenting a
  collection of recent works, including the brand-spanking new Light Tiger
  Eye, as well as The Problem with Machines that Communicate and clips
  from his on-going installation project Future So Bright. The Problem
  with Machines that Communicate, which made its world premiere at the
  2008 SXSW Film Festival, is an experimental narrative that examines
  three lonely characters interacting with technology in a world that
  otherwise doesn't seem to notice them. Don is a custodian who is never
  taken seriously, George is a very old man exploring the vivid detail of
  the world around him, and Hazel is an office worker who is desperate to
  engage in real conversation. But while each struggle with traditional
  forms of communication, the inadvertent by-products of their loneliness
  produces entirely new, abstract forms of communication. Features Marty
  Crandall, Elyse Sewell, and George Andrus. Future So Bright is an art
  project mapping and cataloging the abandoned relics of American western
  expansion. First exhibited at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and recently
  included in the curated portion of Art Basil Miami Beach, it is a series
  of film installations that detail and document abandoned structures in
  the American West. Captured on 16mm film and then transferred to digital
  video, the images create a visual time capsule of forgotten and
  disregarded spaces, many of which are quickly being reclaimed by nature
  or new development. Future So Bright examines the disposable mentality
  of American Western expansion and creates a catalog of abandoned relics
  that are quickly disappearing. Also on view will be recent music videos
  for bands such as The Shins, YACHT, and Sleater-Kinney, as well as other
  random and miscellaneous tidbits such as PSAs made for MTV and other
  surprises. The Problem with Machines that Communicate, 2008, 13 mins
  Light Tiger Eye, 2008, 4 mins Australia (The Shins music video), 2007, 4
  mins Afterglow (Arthur & Yu music video), 2007, 4 mins It was a Crushing
  Defeat, 2007, 7 mins fifty years later, 2006, 3 mins Future So Bright,
  work in progress, 12 mins See a Penny Pick it Up (Yacht music video),
  2007, 4 mins Past and Pending (The Shins music video), 2003, 5 mins
  Jumpers (Sleater Kinney music video), 2006, 5 mins Subconscious Art of
  Graffiti Removal, 2001, 16 mins Selection of recent commercials and
  PSAs, 2006-7, 4 mins Plus some other stuff. Tickets - $6, available at
  door.

11/7
Charleston, SC: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
8:00pm, Simons Center for the Arts, College of Charleston

11/7
New York, New York: solus film collective
www.soluscollective.org
8pm, ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: 32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003

SOLUS PROGRAMME 1 + DVD LAUNCH
  Solus Programme #1a: David Stalling & Anthony Kelly Ghost Signals and
  other short films Solus Programme #1b:New films from the collective and
  friends DVD Launch:Reception celebrating the New York launch of our
  first DVD compilation:Solus & Guests at Anthology Film Archives NYC!For
  more information about the DVD see: www.farpointrecordings.com,
  www.anthologyfilmarchives.com, www.soluscollective.org,
  www.moiratierney.net/solus.htm

11/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street (at Twenty-first)

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOURING PROGRAM
  Program Two presented in association with KFJC89.7FM The Ann Arbor Film
  Festival is internationally recognized as a premiere showcase for
  creative, inspiring and influential films of all types: avant-garde and
  experimental, story-based narratives, documentaries and animation. As
  the longest-running film festival of its kind in North America, the AAFF
  is steeped in a rich tradition of groundbreaking cinema. In addition to
  presenting hundreds of films each year during its five-day run, AAFF
  each year curates a touring program presenting highlights of the
  festival around the world. San Francisco Cinematheque, in partnership
  with AAFF's long-term South Bay host, Foothill College's KFJC, is proud
  to present this touring program for the first time in ten years.
  Screening: A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process by Chel White; The
  Anthem by Apichatpong Weerasethakul; The Drift by Kelly Sears; A Hundred
  Feet Universe by Naoko Tasaka; Spontaneous Generation by Andrew Cahill;
  My Croation Nose by Richard Dinter; Mates by Martin Thoburn; White Out
  by Jeff Scher; The Adventure by Mike Brune; On the Assassination of the
  President by Adam Keker; Brilliant Noise by Semiconductor; Energie! by
  Thorsten Fleisch; Portrait #2: Trojan by Vanessa Renwick; Observando el
  Cielo by Jeanne Liotta.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
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11/8
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Polish Film Festival
http://www.annarborpolonia.org/festival/film/
6:00 PM, 603 E Liberty St

ANN ARBOR POLISH FILM FESTIVAL
  Making the Lost and Unmade: The Films of Bruce Checefsky A special
  screening of A Woman and Circles (Kobieta i ko_a), dir. Bruce Checefsky,
  2004 (10 min., experimental) will take place at the Michigan Theater,
  Screening Room at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday November 8, 2008. Making the
  Lost and Unmade: The Films of Bruce Checefsky examines the lost and
  unmade works of four important avant-garde experimental Polish
  filmmakers: STEFAN THEMERSON, (1910 – 1988), FRANCISZKA THEMERSON (1907
  – 1988), JAN BRZEKOWSKI (1903 – 1983), and ANDRZEJ PAWLOWSKI (1925 –
  1986). The special presentation will include a screening of recent
  remakes based on the originals. The screened films will include Pharmacy
  (1930/2001) and Moment Musical (1933/2007) by Stefan and Franciszka
  Themerson; Jan Brzekowski's, A Woman and Circles (1930/2003), and
  Andrzej Pawlowski's IN NI [OTHERS] (1958/2005). A reception for the
  filmmaker will take place on Saturday, November 8, from 12 pm – 2pm at
  WORK Gallery located at 306 State Street, Ann Arbor. The exhibition is
  free and open to the public. Special gallery hours for the screenings:
  Saturday, November 8, and Sunday, November 9, from 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm.
  Contact Graham Hamilton, Director of Exhibitions, WORK,
  email suppressed or 734.216.1085 The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is
  an annual cultural event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund—Ann Arbor
  in cooperation with the Polish-American Congress Ann Arbor Chapter, the
  University of Michigan's Polish Club, and the University of Michigan.
  For more ticket information contact:
  www.annarborpolonia.org/festival/film/

11/8
Augusta, GA: The Imperial Theatre
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:30pm, 749 Broad Street

11/8
New York, New York: solus film collective
www.soluscollective.org
8pm, ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: 32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003

SOLUS PROGRAMME 2
  Solus programme #2:Vivienne Dick - Visibility Moderate + Liberty's Booty
  + Like Dawn to Dust ... if you've never seen this lady's work, get your
  booty down to Anthology asap!

11/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street

SEX, SPACE, AND SICKNESS IN THE JAZZ AGE
  The Earl of Orphan Films, Rick Prelinger has recently un-earthed a cache
  of anomalous silent hygiene films from the Twenties! Not the familiar
  SexEd and social-guidance films of the 1950s, these sometimes preachy,
  often elemental cine-tracts open onto a world of persuasion few people
  now alive can recall. These extremely rare industrial-film artifacts are
  here interpreted through the electronic compositions of Mission audio
  artist Hans Grüsel. Among the medical oddities are Personal Hygiene for
  Young Men (1918), General Personal Hygiene (1918, excerpted), If We
  Lived on the Moon (ca. 1920s), and Social Diseases of Men (ca. 1920).
  "The sex impulse is like a fiery horse. Uncontrolled, it may be
  destructive and dangerous. Controlled, the sex impulse, like the horse,
  may be a source of power and service." *$7.77.

11/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, Latvian House, 491 College St.

MIKE KELLEY, DAY IS DONE
  Mike Kelley, Day Is Done (2006, 169 min. video) Pleasure Dome is very
  excited to be presenting a rare screening of Los Angeles art star Mike
  Kelley's recently re-edited feature Day Is Done , an epic investigation
  of the mythic archetypes and carnivalesque folk culture of America. This
  self-described musical – with lyrics by Kelley himself – assembles a
  loose narrative out of thirty-one performative vignettes which the
  artist has dubbed "extracurricular activity projective reconstructions."

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2008
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11/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

STEPHANIE MAXWELL VISUAL MUSIC
  Filmforum presents Stephanie Maxwell Visual Music. Maxwell in person.
  Co-presented by iotaCenter. A retrospective of Maxwell's hand-painted
  experimental abstract animation, utilizing a variety of painting,
  marking and engraving techniques directly onto 35mm film stock. Tonight
  will feature work from 1984 through her two newest works from 2008, as
  well as a twelve-minute short documentary about Maxwell's filmmaking
  process. GA (1984, 5 mins, miniDV); Please Don't Stop (1989, 5 mins,
  miniDV); Outermost (1998, 5 mins, miniDV); Somewhere (1999, 5 mins,
  miniDV); Fragments (2000, 7 mins, miniDV); terra incognita (2001, 4 ½
  mins, miniDV); passe-partout (2002, 6 mins, miniDV); Time Streams (2003,
  5 ½ mins, miniDV); Reflecting Pool (2004, 9 mins, miniDV); Second Sight
  (2005, 5 ½ mins, miniDV); All That Remains (2006, 6 mins, miniDV);
  Runa's Spell (2007, 3 ½ mins, miniDV); Currents (2008, 6 mins, miniDV);
  End To End (2008, 4 ½ mins, miniDV); The Art Form of Stephanie Maxwell
  (2007, 12 mins, miniDV). Total Running Time: 89 minutes See more on her
  website: http://people.rit.edu/sampph

11/9
New York, New York: solus film collective
www.soluscollective.org
8pm, ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: 32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003

SOLUS PROGRAMME 3
  Solus programme #3:Pat Murphy - Anne Devlin ... a true classic & very
  rare screening - we've got the one & only master print from the Irish
  Film Archive in Dublin! not to be missed ...

11/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)

NICE BISCOTTS AND MORE: NEW FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE
  The films of Luther Price (Sodom, Clown, Bottle Can…) are among the most
  intense and visceral in all of cinema, frequently immersing viewers in
  smothering domestic nightmares and presenting teetering monuments to
  entropy and decay, locating abject horror in the mundane, beauty in the
  horrific. His recent work, based largely on repetitive assemblies of
  scavenged 16mm strips, replete with his trademark techniques of material
  distress and physical violation, continues Price's obsessional
  exploration of identity, sexuality and the extremes of bodily
  experience. This program presents a selection of this recent work, all
  completed since 2005, including Nice Biscotts, Nice Baskets, Singing
  Biscotts, Dipping Sause, Silk and more.

11/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, Latvian House, 491 College St.

TO SEE THE ENORMOUS NIGHT ARISE: PERFORMACES BY GALE ALLEN, IRENE
LOUGHLIN, MIKIKI & NAUFúS RAMIREZ-FIGUEROA
  To See The Enormous Night Arise brings forth four remarkable
  performances artists ( Gale Allen, Irene Loughlin, Mikiki & Naufús
  Ramirez-Figueroa) that seek the stars as their bodies explode, pushing
  the limits of the flesh and the forces that seek to keep them defined.

11/9
san francisco ca 94110: artists' television access
http://www.atasite.org
8pm, 992 valencia

HOW WE FIGHT PROGRAM 4: PEACEKEEPERS/PRESENTED BY KINO21
  Sunday, November 9, 2008. 8PM $6 HOW WE FIGHT Program 4: Peacekeepers
  presented by kino21 Crazy by Hedy Honigmann (Holland, 1999, 97 minutes)
  Hedy Honigmann kino21's fall series, How We Fight, presents
  international works that explore soldiering and depict the experience of
  war from the point of view of those on the ground. From Argentina,
  Russia, Iraq, Germany, France, Holland and the U.S., several of these
  films are US premieres. On Thursday, September 25 we begin with Iraqi
  Short Films, a brand new compilation of videos shot in battle by
  soldiers and militia members in Iraq. Subsequent programs include video
  diaries of the battlefield and pre- or post-combat rumination, extended
  observational portraits and interview-based works. There are depictions
  of Russian conscripts in Chechnya, PKK rebels in the mountains of Iraq,
  American veterans returned from Vietnam, and mercenaries and
  peacekeepers stationed across the globe, from Bosnia to Rwanda, from the
  Middle East to the USA. As the fourth program of our series we shift to
  the peacekeeping soldier, screening Dutch filmmaker Hedy Honigmann's
  Crazy. Known for her documentaries on Paris street musicians
  (Underground Orchestra), Peruvian taxi drivers (Metal and Melancholy)
  and Brazilian fans of the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (O
  Amor Natural), Honigmann is a master of the interview. Here she turns
  her attention to soldiers who are "peacekeepers," Dutch veterans of UN
  peacekeeping and humanitarian forces who were stationed in Korea,
  Lebanon, Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Structured primarily
  around conversations with nine former soldiers, Honigmann's film
  incorporates home videos, photo scrapbooks, news footage, letters, and
  journals. It is not easy to speak about the experience of war; about the
  trauma of witnessing brutality, massacres, and starvation; about the
  after-effects of PTSD, depression, or attempted suicide. In spite of
  this difficulty, it is Honigmann's solicitation of the soldiers' words
  and feelings that give the film its force. In particular, her request
  that they share the piece of music most vividly encapsulating their
  wartime experiences leads them to let down their verbal guard. As they,
  and in turn we, listen to this music – which ranges from Seal's "Crazy"
  to Puccini's "Turandot" and Guns 'n' Roses' "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
  — something is let loose. What words fail to express or what the
  soldiers' denial of their vulnerability suppresses, the force of the
  music eloquently conveys through sound and body language as they listen.
  A powerful testament to what it means to endure or witness the
  excruciating suffering of warfare, Honigmann's film about the futility
  of the peacekeepers is one of war's most compelling indictments. How We
  Fight: Conscripts, Mercenaries, Terrorists and Peacekeeprs is presented
  with the generous support of the Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides
  Foundation, the LEF Foundation, and Goethe Institut San Francisco.

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