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Part 1 of 2: This week [November 8 - 16, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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"The Philosophers Stone" by Raymond Salvatore Harmon
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"Taking Time a real time digital seascape" by Chris Welsby
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"Heaven's Breath Digital Media Installation" by Chris Welsby
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"Trees in Winter A digital media installation" by Chris Welsby
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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47th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2008)
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Around the Coyote (Chicago; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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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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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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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NY, NY USA; Deadline: November 17, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 15th Annual Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival 2008 [November 8, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival [November 8, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 8, Augusta, GA]
* Films & videos By Julie Murray [November 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* 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]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 10, Columbia, SC]
* Moving Figures: the Animated World of Robert Breer [November 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 11, Mobile, AL]
* Eye Am Screens At Anthology Film Archives [November 11, New York, New York]
* Adele Friedman In Person [November 11, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 12, Jackson, MS]
* Xperimental Eros (Expanded Edition) [November 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Xperimental Eros (Expanded Edition) [November 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Outer Ear Festival of Sound: Recent Films By Deborah Stratman [November 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* International Science & Film Festival [November 13, Marseille (FRANCE)]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 13, Mobile, AL]
* Not Tame: New Short videos [November 13, Providence, RI]
* Global Undergrounds: the Great Bear Minustwo [November 13, San Francisco, California]
* Ben Russell: Four Experimental Ethnographies [November 14, Alexandria, LA]
* Screening of Rick Schweikert's Play "Un Becoming" [November 14, Atlanta, Georgia]
* In the Land of the Headhunters By Edward Curtis [November 14, New York, New York]
* Global Undergrounds: Reality and Truth:- Spanish Documents [November 14, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles As A Character [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Moving Figures: the Animated World of Robert Breer [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers [November 15, New York, New York]
* Peace With Seals [November 15, New York, New York]
* Alone In Four Walls [November 15, New York, New York]
* Umbrella By Du Haibin [November 15, New York, New York]
* Sinking village, Recycle, the Pests - Short Films [November 15, New York, New York]
* Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer + [November 15, San Francisco, California]
* Moving Figures: the Animated World of Robert Breer – Part 3 [November 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Gandhi's Children By David Macdougall [November 16, New York, New York]
* The Lost Colony [November 16, New York, New York]
* Throw Down Your Heart (Featuring BéLa Fleck) [November 16, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
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11/8
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
http://www.annarborpolonia.org/filmfestival/home.htm
6:00 pm, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St
15TH ANNUAL ANN ARBOR POLISH FILM FESTIVAL 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. 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. 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 information
contact: http://www.annarborpolonia.org/filmfestival/home.htm or
email suppressed
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
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."
11/8
Chicago, Illinois: Nightingale Theater
http://www.nightingaletheatre.org/
8pm, 1084 N. Milwaukee
FILMS & VIDEOS BY JULIE MURRAY
Using combinations of found and original footage, Irish-born New Yorker
Julie Murray makes subtle and eloquent films that imbue banal images and
everyday sounds with an other-worldly charge, a sense of mystery and
menace. -Chris Gehman, Cinematheque Ontario. The program includes: Fl Oz
(16mm, silent, 7 min, 2003), I Began to Wish… (16mm, silent, 5 min,
2003), Micromoth (16mm, color, sound, 6 min, 2000), YSBRYD (spirit) (DV,
sound, 8 min, 2008), Detroit Park (DV, sound, 8 min, 2005), Deliquium
(16mm, color, sound, 15 min (but represents 800 years), 2003), plus
other untitled material.
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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008
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11/10
Columbia, SC: The Imperial Theatre
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
6:00pm, 937 Main Street
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."
11/10
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
MOVING FIGURES: THE ANIMATED WORLD OF ROBERT BREER
Robert Breer, one of America's foremost filmmakers for more than 50
years, pays a rare visit to Los Angeles to attend a multi-venue
celebration of his work. A close colleague of Rauschenberg, Oldenburg
and many other seminal artists of the '50s and '60s, Breer brought a
comparably imaginative and rigorous appreciation for collage and pure
form to the art of cinema. Throughout a body of more than 40
animated—and in ways anti-animated films—Breer celebrates cinema as a
unique way of seeing, and the act of drawing as an endlessly expressive
and unpredictable personal gesture. Tonight's program features 14
masterworks spanning four decades, gorgeously restored by Anthology Film
Archives for the first time on 35mm: Recreation (1956), A Man And His
Dog Out For Air (1957), Jamestown Baloos (1957), Eyewash and its
"Alternative Version" (both 1959), Blazes (1961), Fist Fight (1964), 66
(1966), 69 (1969), 70 (1970), Fuji (1974), 77 (1977), Swiss Army Knife
With Rats And Pigeons (1981) and Bang! (1986). In person: Robert
Breertickets $9 [students $7]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2008
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11/11
Mobile, AL: Capri Theatre
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:30pm, 1045 East Fairview Avenue
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."
11/11
New York, New York: Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
6pm, Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue NY, NY 10003
EYE AM SCREENS AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
6:00PM TUESDAY November 11th, 2008 EYE AM: WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS @
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (New Filmmakers Series) * 32 Second Avenue New
York, NY 10003 * (212) 505-5181 Curated by Victoria Kereszi Find full
schedule at: www.newfilmmakers.com/NewFilmmakers%20Schedule%200810.htm
Series info at: www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com Featured Filmmakers~ ~Emily
DeGruchy FRENCH LADIES (2006, 1 Minute, Video) ~Abigail Feldman THE YEAR
OF THE CORRESPONDENT (2004, 10 Minutes, 2004) ~Sarah Friedland BREATH ON
THE MIRROR (2008, 1 Minute, Video) ~Oriana Fox OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
(2003, 2 Minutes, Video) ~Victoria Kereszi FADED GLAMOUR (2008, 5
Minutes, Video) ~Lili White PROVIDING NOURISHMENT (1996, 3 Minutes,
Video) ~Vanessa Woods FIVE CENTS A PEEK (2007, 7 Minutes, Video)
~Caroline Koebel HOLE OR SPACE (2006, 3 Minutes, Video) ~Sophie Peer
TURNED ON (2006, 6 Minutes, Video) ~Oriana Fox TALE OF NARCISSUS (2003,
5 Minutes, Video) ~Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley THE WREN (2008, 4
Minutes, Video) ~Hilda Daniel NATURE NATURE (2005, 2 Minutes, Video)
~Devorah Hill I LOVE YOU (2006, 3 Minutes, Video)
11/11
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
ADELE FRIEDMAN IN PERSON
ADELE FREIDMAN (Chicago) who, over the past 25 years, has screened work
and done in-person shows at museums and experimental film venues
throughout America and Europe will be here to present a program of her
16mm films. The 10 short films presented in this show, most if them
silent and in black & white, reflect Friedman's interests ranging from
portraits to dreamscapes to landscapes, with additional films that blur
the boundaries. Program includes: Abduction (1986, 18 min.); Verdauwoo
(1989, 4 min. color); Christian and Michael (2006, 8 min.); Marietta
(2006, 5 min.); Untitiled (revenant) (2002, 10 min.); Robert's Place
(2004, 7 min.); Untitled I (1983, 7 min); Untitled II (1983, 7 min.);
Sarah and Norman (1983, 4 min.); Pauline and Patrick, Le Marais, Paris
(2008-PREMIERE, 8 min.)
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
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11/12
Jackson, MS: Milsaps College
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:00pm, Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215
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."
11/12
Los Angeles, California: Reengineering Cinematheque
http://www.enginetheater.com/
8:00, 1636 Wilcox
XPERIMENTAL EROS (EXPANDED EDITION)
Exploring realms both sacred and profane, XPERIMENTAL EROS invokes a
shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our
largest sex organ – the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage
from the world's oldest genre, our program of ardent auteurs spin
grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache. Be it tales
of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr.
Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo… nor above
deconstruction. XPERIMENTAL EROS strips bare the spectacle of sex in
cinema, poeticizing the cinematic language of the body. Jeff Krulik
"King of Porn" 1996 | Beta SP | 6 mins. Known affectionately as the
"King of Porn," Ralph Whittington retired as a curator at the US Library
of Congress in 2000 after 37 years of service. Whittington has been a
major acquirer and documentor of mainly US pornography since the 1970s.
His $100,000 collection of pornographic material, which he personally
cataloged, indexed, and cross-referenced includes more than four hundred
8mm films, seven hundred videos, 1,500 magazines, 200 books, calendars,
posters, blow-up dolls, artificial genitalia, erotic records, novelties,
records, bawdy house coins, and a selection of women's high-heeled
shoes. The Ralph Whittington collection is now owned by New York's
Museum of Sex (MoSex) and the man himself is the star of "King of Porn",
a 1996 documentary short by Jeff Krulik. Mark Street "Blue Movie" 1994 |
16mm | 5 mins. A smattering of repeated performances culled from old
porno films and hand-painted. A man bends over a body, but what we
really notice is the wall behind him. A woman stares back at the viewer
with annoyance. On the soundtrack Anais Nin declares: "but while I'm
doing this I feel I'm not living." Tom Palazzolo "Sneakin' and Peekin'"
(Made with Mark Rance) 1976 | 16mm | 15 mins. "We traveled to Indiana
back roads to see and shoot the annual Miss Nude Universe Contest held
at a "notorious" nudist camp. They wanted $15 a head at the gate so we
parked down the road and crawled through the brush. Once in, we
encountered truckers and hundreds of Sunday photographers straining for
a shot at the contestants. Afterwards we joined the quest for stray
women willing to pose. After a quick success we headed home with our
catch in the can." – Tom Palazzolo (This film also contains shots of the
Mr. Nude Trucker Contest.) Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs "The
influence of ocular light…" 2005 | 16mm | 5 mins. A found footage film
that uses an Italian sixties softporn soundtrack which is repeated two
times. Each time a sequence of images is synched to the soundtrack. It
can thus be viewed as a double projection (in a video installation) or a
single screen cinema version. The film images are illustrating acts of
ocular light perception as well as imagery with strong visual impact. It
is a kind of visual test directed towards the viewer. Lewis Klahr "Downs
are Feminine" 1993 | 16mm | 10 mins. "Lewis Klahr's DOWNS ARE FEMININE
unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and
idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and hermaphroditic
transformations. Klahr's oneric collages graft '70s porn of pallid
stubbly flesh flagrantly onto Good Housekeeping/Architectural Digest
decor (varicolored crab-orchard stone foyers, modacrylic sunbursts,
jalousie windows and orientalist metal scrollwork), interior states
where characters despoil themselves in Quaalude interludes of dreamy
couplings. In this out-of-touch realm, touching is intelligence
gathering for a carnal knowledge that will never attain its platonic
ideal. The whole atmosphere is pervaded with euphoria, a hopelessness
without despair, a contentment beyond longing. If Klahr's Yesterday's
Glue presented an after-hours club world of pining narcissists where the
mandatory sex, drugs and rock and roll was glacial if not sinister,
DOWNS ARE FEMININE presents a world that edges past despondency to
become an amoral libertine glade that is at its core abeyant but
benevolent." - Mark McElhatten Peggy Ahwesh "The Color of Love" 1994 |
16mm | 10 mins. Ahwesh subjects an apparently found pornographic film to
coloring, optical printing and general fragmentation; the source
material threatens to virtually collapse under the beautiful violence of
her filmic treatment. What emerges is a portrait at once nostalgic and
horrible: the degraded image, locked in symbiotic relation with an image
of degradation. Oscar Perez "Pacifier" 1999 | 16mm | 11 mins. Winner of
the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film at Microcinefest, director
Oscar Perez based PACIFIER on a letter he wrote to "Penthouse Forum" as
a thirteen-year old. PACIFIER offers amazing insight into the mind of an
adolescent boy. Playing like a campy condensed version of a Cinemax
softcore movie, the narration of PACIFIER stays true to Perez's youthful
writing, complete with poor grammar and misunderstood feminine anatomy.
Danny Plotnick "Swinger's Serenade" 1999 | 16mm | 22 mins. A tawdry tale
of suburban sexual malaise plus a lesson in arcane film history rolled
into one sin-tillating package! In the late 1950s and throughout the
1960s, when home movie making was at its peak, this nation's newsstands
were filled with amateur movie making magazines. The majority of the
articles contained therein focused on the technical concerns of
filmmaking. Some magazines, however, would actually provide their
subscribers with scripts to shoot-scripts on which these would-be
cineastes could hone their filmic chops. In and of itself, there was
nothing unseemly about such a service. But upon closer inspection, some
of these scripts were, to say the least, rather randy. One such script,
entitled Swingers' Serenade, was published in the July/August 1960 issue
of Better Movie Making. The script seems quite ahead of its time,
replete with lurid sexual dynamics, hints of loose sexual mores,
swinging couples, lecherous Fuller Brush salesmen, voyeuristic
suburbanites and more. The film you're about to see, Swingers' Serenade,
offers up both a history of the amateur movie magazine world and a
rendering of the original script of Swingers' Serenade, shot, to the
best of our knowledge, as the publishers of the July/August 1960 issue
of Better Movie Making had intended. George Kuchar "Web of Vice" 2006 |
Video | 50 mins. "Shot with my students at the San Francisco Art
Institute, this colorful drama with song and dance numbers (plus
burlesque acts) follows the libidinous poisoning of Vatican personnel by
an otherworldly intruder. The cast is mostly young and vibrant and the
songs staged as opulently as possible on a $400 budget. Anyone
interested in these collaborative productions will find a lot to gawk at
in this backstage romance with pagan overtures galore." – George Kuchar
NOT ON DVD
11/12
Los Angeles, California: Reengineering Cinematheque
http://www.enginetheater.com/
8:00, 1636 Wilcox
XPERIMENTAL EROS (EXPANDED EDITION)
Exploring realms both sacred and profane, XPERIMENTAL EROS invokes a
shimmering fantasia of celluloid sensuality for the pleasure of our
largest sex organ – the brain. Using exotic tropes and erotic footage
from the world's oldest genre, our program of ardent auteurs spin
grindhouse dross into arthouse gold with perverse panache. Be it tales
of sexual obsession, rejected letters to Penthouse Forum, or the Mr.
Nude Trucker Contest of 1976, no subject is taboo… nor above
deconstruction. XPERIMENTAL EROS strips bare the spectacle of sex in
cinema, poeticizing the cinematic language of the body. INCLUDES WORK
FROM GEORGE KUCHAR ("WEB OF VICE"), LEWIS KLAHR ("PONY GLASS"), DANNY
PLOTNICK ("SWINGERS SERENADE"), PEGGY AHWESH ("THE COLOR OF LOVE") AND
MUCH, MUCH, MORE....
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2008
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11/13
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
OUTER EAR FESTIVAL OF SOUND: RECENT FILMS BY DEBORAH STRATMAN
Deborah Stratman in person! The Experimental Sound Studio's Outer Ear
Festival of Sound and CATE team up to present a special preview of
award-winning filmmaker Deborah Stratman's latest film, O'ER THE LAND
(2008). Completed in part through a residency at ESS, Stratman's film
meditates on our notions of freedom in an era of elevated threat by
interweaving footage from our national pastimes—football, war
re-enactments, machine gun festivals—with the incredible story of Marine
Lt. Col William Rankin who, in 1959, was forced to eject from his
fighter jet at 47,000 feet without a pressure suit, only to be trapped
for 40 minutes in the up and down drafts of a massive thunderstorm.
Accompanied by Stratman's Paranormal Trilogy: IT WILL DIE OUT IN THE
MIND (2006), HOW AMONG THE FROZEN WORDS (2005), and THE MAGICIAN'S HOUSE
(2007). The Outer Ear Festival of Sound (November 3–22, 2008) is the
only comprehensive interdisciplinary sonic arts festival in the Midwest.
For more information, visit exsost.org. 2005—08, Deborah Stratman, USA,
16mm, ca 65 min.
11/13
Marseille (FRANCE): Association Polly Maggoo
http://www.pollymaggoo.org
4, Le Rendez-vous des Quais
INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
CALL FOR ENTRIES INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL (RISC), 3rd
edition Marseille (France), 13-16 November 2008 The Polly Maggoo
Association, organisers of the 3rd INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(RISC) which will be held in November, is calling for entries. All
genres of films are eligible (documentary, experimental, fiction or
short films, art video, animation, etc.) if their subject is directly or
indirectly related to scientific topics (including fundamental sciences,
life sciences, the environment, and social and human sciences).
Informations, regulations and entry form here :
http://www.pollymaggoo.org/doc_polly/risc-2008.html Deadline : July
2008, 15th Polly Maggoo : http://www.pollymaggoo.org
11/13
Mobile, AL: The Mobile Arts Council
http://www.southarts.org/site/c.guIYLaMRJxE/b.2821369/
7:00pm, 318 Dauphin St
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."
11/13
Providence, RI: AS220
http://as220.org
10pm, 115 Empire Street
NOT TAME: NEW SHORT VIDEOS
A program of brand new experimental short videos by local artists.
Featuring shorts by Arley Marks, Muffy Brandt, Adam Morowsky, Elizabeth
Skadden, Eli Monster, Jacob Berendes, Maralie Armstrong-Milholland and
more.Curated by Mike Stoltz.FREE ADMISSION!
11/13
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia St
GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS: THE GREAT BEAR MINUSTWO
On November 13 and 14, as part of an ongoing cinematic and cultural
exchange between ATA and the independent cinema La Enana Marron in
Madrid, Spain, ATA hosts two nights of Documentary film from Spain
sponsored by the General Consulate of Spain in San Francisco. David
Reznak, filmmaker and founder of La Enana Marron will be here in person
to present the series. Both screenings will take place at ATA, 992
Valencia Street, Doors open at 7:30pm and films will start at 8pm.
Entrance is FREE. Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 8pm LA OSA MAYOR MENOS
DOS -THE GREAT BEAR MINUS TWO by David Reznak 16mm, 98 min, colour,
2006. V.O with enghish subtitles http://www.laosamayormenosdos.com Like
the train that brings you from Madrid to Leganés (town where the film
was shot), and shows you the back shop of factories and towns, that path
that only the railroad takes; staying at the Mental Hospital becomes
like watching society behind the scene. Madness has a primitive power
for revelation: revelation that what is dreamy is to be real, that
illusion has no limits. All reality is reabsorbed by fantastic images.
This documentary has been filmed throughout a year to portrait punctual
events of each season, follow the cycles of the younger patients, the
improvement or even rehabilitation of the healthier, and irreversibility
of the eldest. Best Documentary Award at the XII Festival Internacional
de Cine Independiente de Barcelona. L' Alternativa 05, it has been said
this is one of the 5 best Spanish films of the decade. Born in Madrid in
1969. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the film department of the San
Francisco Art Institute in 1992. In 1994 David Reznak founded the
production company "Espejo Frio" from where he produces and directs six
short films selected and honoured at international film festivals, and a
long documentary. In 1996 he co-founded in Madrid the independent cinema
"El Fenakisticopio Itinerante", where experimental films on 16mm where
shown. From these projects came the collaborations with collectives of
programmers and artists like "El Ojo Atomico" in 1997 and "La Zona de
Accion Temporal" in 1998. In 1999 he co-founded and directs the
independent cinema "La Enana Marron" (http://www.laenanamarron.org),
where more than 1000 films from 36 different countries, always outside
of commercial circuits, sometimes artisan, on 35 mm, 16 mm, super-8 or
video, have been program. In collaboration with international
institutions, organizations and filmmakers, Artists' Television Access
presents Global Undergrounds, a film and video series that fosters
awareness and appreciation of the issues and aesthetics of our global
diversity. Artists' Television Access is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit,
all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media arts gallery that has been
in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video
screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established
artists and a weekly cable access television program.
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