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Date: Sat Nov 15 2008 - 08:10:59 PST
Part 2 of 2: This week [November 15 - 23, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2008
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11/20
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State St.
THE PRESENTATION THEME: NEW & OLD FILMS BY JIM TRAINOR
Jim Trainor in person! The work of celebrated Chicago filmmaker and SAIC
professor Jim Trainor revels in the world between playfulness and
prurience with shaky, line-drawn animations of animals, humans, and
their habits. Tonight he presents two new films alongside some favorites
and obscurities. Premiering are THE PRESENTATION THEME (2008), the story
of a Peruvian POW outmaneuvered by a hematophagous priestess, and THE
LITTLE GARDEN OF HERBERT S. ZIM (2008), in which a school library's
science section comes creakily to life. Also featured: zoo denizens fail
to strike a healthy balance between impulse and rationality in THE
ANIMALS AND THEIR LIMITATIONS (1998–2004), a naturalist shares his
prizes with visiting scholars in THE SKULLS, AND THE SKULLS AND THE
BONES, AND THE BONES (2003), and a novice bicyclist pedals without
incident in SERENE VELOCITY (2004). 1998—2008, Jim Trainor, USA,
multiple formats, ca 80 min.
11/20
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
PAUL MCCARTHY AND DAMON MCCARTHY: CARIBBEAN PIRATES
Los Angeles premiere 2001–5 This multi-screen installation offers Los
Angeles audiences their first view of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the
McCarthy studio's sprawling survey of the pirate figure in American
popular culture. As originally shown in 2005 at Munich's Haus der Kunst,
the manic, typically bawdy work collaged video projections with
large-scale sculptures, props, and film sets—including a full-scale
pirate frigate and a 1970s-era houseboat. Different incarnations of this
scabrous examination of the pirate as a symbol of invasion, plunder and
depravity have since been presented at several other major European
venues to vast critical and popular acclaim. The site-specific
installation of Caribbean Pirates at REDCAT marks the first time that
this work is being shown without its related sculptural elements. In
person: Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy. Tickets $20 [students $16]
11/20
San Francisco, California: Music by the Eyeful
http://myspace.com/musicbytheeyeful
8pm, Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street
MUSIC BY THE EYEFUL : IMAGE TO SOUND : SOUND TO IMAGE
An evening with two visual music performances: Peter Nyboer's [image to
sound : sense from nonsense ] and Andy Strain / Kevin Shea Adams [sound
to image : resonant migration] ==== Peter will be creating a live laptop
performance using a handmade sound synthesizer that converts image data
to audio data, literally the sound of a pixel. Created in 2007 to reveal
the sound of images stored in the Prelinger Archive, Peter uses his
software to process images in realtime, building a visual and musical
narrative that provides new meaning.=== Andy and Kevin collaborate to
create the sound painting Resonant Migration, using an infrared-emitting
circuit attached to a trombone slide that provides source material for
digital video controllers, permitting the duo to interactively paint
with light and sound. === Price: $6 - $10 sliding scale === About Music
by the Eyeful: a small part of the Creative New Music Series tended
lovingly by Outsound Presents at the Luggage Store Gallery, Music by the
Eyeful features inventions in visual music: from musician-filmmaker
collaborations to optical instrument inventors to performative
projectionists, and experimental work that highlights the sonic
properties of visual art and the visual properties of music. Visit the
project in thatspace to learn about upcoming shows.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
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11/21
Amsterdam: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:30 PM, Muziekgebouw Grote Zaal- Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam
NOTES ON COMPOSING: 5 COLLABORATIONS IN FILM AND MUSIC
Images Festival and Continuum Contemporary Music have collaborated in
programming an event of collaborations: five Canadian filmmakers have
created new works, each scored by a Canadian or Dutch composer. The
films will be premiered in Amsterdam, with the music performed live by
Continuum's ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and
percussion, and one piece with composer/violinist Malcolm Goldstein. The
marrying of moving images and sound seems like a single discipline. In
SHIFT, the essential relationship of film and music is realigned in five
different collaborative processes resulting in five very different
works. Most of the collaborating artists had never met or worked
together – as Images Festival Artistic Director Pablo De Ocampo writes,
"these collaborations represent something of a leap in faith, or a dare
on the part of all the parties involved." The result of this engagement
– some between collaborators as far apart as Vancouver and Rotterdam, or
Winnipeg and Arnhem – reflects distance, method, temperament, and still
the individual voice. Pre-concert talk with Michel Khalifa 7:30 PM.
Christina Battle with Martin Arnold- Behind the Shadows Guy Maddin with
Richard Ayres- Glorious Clive Holden with Oscar van Dillen- 2 Cameras @
Sea Vera Frenkel with Rick Sacks- ONCE NEAR WATER: Notes from the
Scaffolding Archive Daichi Saito with Malcolm Goldstein- Trees of
Syntax, Leaves of Axis
11/21
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
7pm, Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
COLOUR FIELD FILM AND VIDEO
Colour Field Film and Video Friday 21 November – Saturday 22 November
2008 The two programmes in this series look at the myriad ways in which
'colour fields' have been explored in artists' films and videos. The
work included spans the history of experimental film and video, from
some of the earliest avant-garde films of the 1920s to contemporary
digital abstraction. Links are explored between these films and videos
and certain trends in abstract painting, from constructivist aesthetics
through to colour field painters, including Mark Rothko. The use of
colour in the works that comprise these programmes is sometimes
celebratory or playful, but always critical and direct. Curated by Simon
Payne Simon Payne is a video artist. Most recently his work has shown in
a programme entitled Aleatory Colour: Perception / Memory / Material
curated by Peter Gidal, for the Serpentine Gallery. He has a PhD from
the Royal College of Art and is a Senior Lecturer in Communication, Film
and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Programme
One: Kinetic Colour Friday 21 November 2008, 19.00 The films and videos
in this programme use colour in swathes, lines, bits, or frame-by-frame,
engaging every portion of the screen. They involve abstract paradigms
related to painterly aesthetics, weaving and digital synthesis. The
animation, flicker and modulation of fields and frames of colour create
experiences that are vivid and distinctly phenomenal. Walther Ruttmann,
Opus II-IV, Germany 1923-25, 10' Oskar Fischinger, Motion Painting
no.1,USA 1947, 11' Len Lye, Color Cry, USA 1952-53, 3' Rose Lowder,
Parcelle, France 1979, 3' Paul Sharits, Ray Gun Virus, USA 1966, 14'
Peter Donebauer, Entering, UK 1974, 8' Stephen Beck, Video Weavings, USA
1976, 9' reMI, uta zet, Austria 2001, 5' Bas van Koolwijk, Five,
Netherlands 2002, 3' Tina Frank, Chronomops, Austria 2005, 3' Simon
Payne, New Ratio, UK 2007, 2' Programme duration approx 71 min Tate
Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended For
tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888 Programme Two: Contrasting
Surfaces Saturday 22 November 2008, 19.00 This programme presents films
and videos that explore different relationships between the substance of
the recorded image and the flat coloured surface of the screen, which is
often accentuated by filters or mattes. In some of the films, such as
Ming Green and Color Aid, the subject matter itself refers to flat
surfaces of colour. In many of the other pieces the prominence of the
grain or pixels, and the use of printing processes or compositing, sets
up an interplay between the layers of the image and screen. Jennifer
Nightingale, Knitting Pattern, UK 2006, 3' Chick Strand, Anselmo, USA
1967, 4' Gregory Markopoulos, Ming Green, USA 1966, 7' Stan Brakhage,
III, IV and V (from the Roman Numerals series), USA 1979/80, 9' Richard
Serra, ColorAid, USA 1970/71, 36' George Barber, Tilt, UK 1983, 4' Nicky
Hamlyn, Telly, UK 1995, 4' Vincent Grenier, Color Study, Canada 2000, 4'
Programme duration approx 71 min Tate Modern Starr Auditorium £5 (£4
concessions), booking recommended For tickets book online or call 020
7887 8888.
11/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
PAUL MCCARTHY AND DAMON MCCARTHY: CARIBBEAN PIRATES
Los Angeles premiere 2001–5 This multi-screen installation offers Los
Angeles audiences their first view of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the
McCarthy studio's sprawling survey of the pirate figure in American
popular culture. As originally shown in 2005 at Munich's Haus der Kunst,
the manic, typically bawdy work collaged video projections with
large-scale sculptures, props, and film sets—including a full-scale
pirate frigate and a 1970s-era houseboat. Different incarnations of this
scabrous examination of the pirate as a symbol of invasion, plunder and
depravity have since been presented at several other major European
venues to vast critical and popular acclaim. The site-specific
installation of Caribbean Pirates at REDCAT marks the first time that
this work is being shown without its related sculptural elements. In
person: Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy. Tickets $20 [students $16]
11/21
Paris, France: EnsembleSouple
http://myspace.com/ensemblesouple
19:30, Point Ephémère
RADISROSE
EnsembleSouple présente RadisRose 1ère PARTIE DE SOIREE 4ème édition du
Festival de courts-métrages : "Betting on shorts" sur le thème "Money,
money, money » en présence d'un jury et avec la participation du public
(dvd à gagner) Avec la participation des Editions re:voir
(www.re-voir.com) et Potemkine dvdstore éditeur (www.potemkine.fr) 2ème
PARTIE DE SOIREE : Performance et Concerts 18h30 : Début de la soirée
Les extraits des films en compétition sont diffusés dès le 15 novembre
au bar du Point Ephémère et sur le site www.bettingonshorts.com Au
moment de l'achat de son billet, le public peut parier sur les
courts-métrages, avant leur projection. A gagner :10 dvd aux éditions
Potemkine et éditions re :voir. Si + de 10 gagnants, un tirage au sort
sera organisé. 19h30 : Projection des 17 films en compétition du
festival Betting on Shorts, More than an Eurovision Diffusion simultanée
dans 13 villes d'Europe : Athènes, Barcelone, Bucarest, Istanbul,
Londres, Maribor, Naples, Novi Sad, Paris, Poznan, Stockholm,
Thessalonique et Wiesbaden. Chaque ville réunit un jury qui délibère et
donne sa décision le soir même. 21h00 : Entracte – Délibération du jury
Composition du jury Nicole Brenez : programme le « cinéma d'avant-garde
» à la Cinémathèque Française Dominique Malet : directrice de
Cofiloisirs, organisme de crédit du cinéma Catherine Jacques :
productrice « Mandrake films » Jean-Gabriel Périot : Réalisateur -
Lauréat du Festival Bettingonshorts en 2007 Arnold Pasquier : Metteur en
scène , réalisateur SOUS RESERVE 21h30 : Carole Perdereau lit/
interprète « =Jonchée » de Anne Parian. 22h00 : Annonce du film-lauréat
- Début des concerts 1) Fabienne Audeoud, performance unique entre rap
et poésie sonore. Fabienne aka Bessie Fab, travaille régulièrement avec
le groupe de jazz « iswhat », et initie le projet « the hit » avec Hamid
Drake, Napoleon Maddox, et Cocheme'a Gastelum. www.fabienneaudeoud.com
http://www.myspace.com/fabienneaudeoud 2) « This is the hello monster !
» - Formé en 2007, This is the hello monster ! est le nom du projet
musical solo de Gérald K., multi-instrumentiste amateur, radio-artist et
song-writer ému. Il participe actuellement au projet « 6M1L » initié par
le chorégraphe Xavier Leroy, au CCN de Montpellier.
http://www.myspace.com/thisisthehellomonster 3) Florence Denou, (avec
sous réserve « Le professeur inlassable ») Déjà auteur, comédienne,
scénariste, Florence Denou se lance dans la chanson pour de bon
http://www.myspace.com/florencedenou2 Contacts Catherine Alvès –
email suppressed - 06 16 58 72 94 & Nathalie Battus –
email suppressed - 06 75 68 13 44
11/21
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8:00 pm, 992 Valencia Street
VIDEO WORKS BY WAGO KREIDER
Artists' Television Access is proud to present a program of works by
video artist Wago Kreider. Working from soundtracks appropriated from
classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, layered with lush images that
re-create their original locations, Wago Kreider creates a dream-filled
landscape of cinematic memory. The ghosts of Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak,
and Joan Crawford are conjured, their uncanny voices linking dead
celluloid to a living and breathing present. The classic films Niagara,
Vertigo, and Johnny Guitar are re-enacted in his videos Capturing Rose,
Between 2 Deaths, and Vienna in the Desert. Wago Kreider is a media
artist whose work investigates the legacy of classical Hollywood film
history, and its relation to issues of place, landscape, and authorship.
Stylistically, many of his videos explore the perceptual changes and
conceptual impact of the micro-edit, in which staccato montage rhythms
manipulate appropriated imagery like phrases in a musical composition.
He is co-curator, along with Jessica Allee, of the San Francisco based
avant-garde film and video screening series Studio 27. He teaches in the
Media Arts program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Director
in person.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
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11/22
Cape May, NJ: Urban Image Media Collective
http://www.urbanimageshowcase.org
5:30PM, NJ State Film Festival at Cape May
URBAN IMAGE SHOWCASE - OPEN CALL
Ten selected works from Open Call, a showcase of short films and video
works by New Jersey City University students and alumni curated by Urban
Image, a collective of media artists based at the University; will
screen at the New Jersey State Film Festival at Cape May, November 22nd,
2008. This will be the third consecutive year that Professor Jane
Steuerwald, Media Arts Dept., has been invited to Cape May as a guest
curator to present Urban Image. Open Call features an eclectic mix of
documentary, satire, personal narrative, experimental mixed-media, and
animation. Urban Mind by Anthony Rudick; I Am My Parents Daughter by
Martha Sandoval; On My Way and Flim Flam Man by Christina Conti; The
Mouse at the Seashore by Shawn Nadolny; I Like For You To Be Still by
Maria Larrea; Me, Myself, and What I Once Felt by Nedelka Douglass; A
Painted Sky by Maria Espinosa; Entangled Dusk by Louis Libitz; and
Subway Melodies by Michael Krivicka; will be shown on Saturday afternoon
at 5:30PM at the Beach Theater, Cape May in Theater A. Professor
Steuerwald will introduce the program and field the Q & A after the
show. Founded in the fall of 2004, Urban Image provides opportunities
for emerging artists from the NJCU Media Arts Department to screen their
work at arts venues throughout New Jersey.
11/22
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
OPEN SCREENING
Free Admission! It's that time again! Our popular Open Screenings
feature whatever walks in the door - it could be anything: insane
comedies, touching dramas, high-energy music videos, odd animation, hot
topic documentaries, neighborhood portraits, or who knows what. Join us
to showcase your work, or just come to watch. Maximum length per person
is 20 minutes, and we will screen at least one work from everyone who
brings something up to that time length. Sorry, no work will be accepted
after the program has started. Accepted formats: 16mm, BetaSP, Mini-DV,
DVD, and VHS. Nothing X-rated - sorry!
11/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
PAUL MCCARTHY AND DAMON MCCARTHY: CARIBBEAN PIRATES
Los Angeles premiere 2001–5 This multi-screen installation offers Los
Angeles audiences their first view of videos from Caribbean Pirates, the
McCarthy studio's sprawling survey of the pirate figure in American
popular culture. As originally shown in 2005 at Munich's Haus der Kunst,
the manic, typically bawdy work collaged video projections with
large-scale sculptures, props, and film sets—including a full-scale
pirate frigate and a 1970s-era houseboat. Different incarnations of this
scabrous examination of the pirate as a symbol of invasion, plunder and
depravity have since been presented at several other major European
venues to vast critical and popular acclaim. The site-specific
installation of Caribbean Pirates at REDCAT marks the first time that
this work is being shown without its related sculptural elements. In
person: Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy. Tickets $20 [students $16]
11/22
Los Angeles, California: Engineering Cinematheque
http://www.jxarchive.org/EngineCinema.html
8:00, 1636 Wilcox
UNDERWORLD CINEMA: THE LIFE AND WORK OF J.X. WILLIAMS
J. X. Williams was a legendary bottom-of-the-barrel director in the
fifties and sixties, pushed even lower by his Commie leanings. On the
skids, he drifted around the Continent making cheapo features and the
occasional nudie reeler, like the infamous porn parody "The 400 Blow
Jobs". In the late fifties, he fell in with the Chicago mob, helming a
number of shakedown films used to extort dough from debauched politicos
and celebs. Tonight, film curator and archivist Noel Lawrence will share
a few of the surviving artifacts of Williams's tawdry career. He also
will be previewing excerpts from his forthcoming documentary, "J.X.
Williams L.A." which chronicles the misadventures of the mad auteur in
Hollywood.
11/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
TREVOR PAGLEN'S THE HEAVENS ABOVE +
Mr. Paglen presents work from his current project, a series of
meditations on the night sky, the sublime, classical empiricism, and
democracy, exploring these issues through narratives and photographic
observations of 187 US reconnaissance satellites. ALSO: Jeanne Liotta's
Observando El Cielo, a marvelous time-lapse tracing of stellar movement,
with a soundtrack by Peggy Ahwesh; and Mike Welt's Miles Above, a
4-braided record of the tragic trajectory of the 2003 Columbia shuttle
crash. PLUS: Semiconductor's Brilliant Noise (from x-ray photographs of
the sun); clips from Peter Mettler's Picture of Light (on the Aurora
Borealis), Peter Kuran's Rainbow Bombs; and ambient Astronomy
educationals.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2008
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11/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS COLEEN FITZGIBBON: INTERNAL SYSTEMS
Filmforum presents Coleen Fitzgibbon: Internal Systems, with Fitzgibbon
in person! The first screening in Los Angeles of this rediscovered
avant-garde filmmaker of the 1970s. A student of Owen Land (aka "George
Landow"), Stan Brakhage, and Michael Snow Coleen Fitzgibbon made some of
the most rigorous abstract films to date. This program revisits some of
these early works from an artist who is perhaps best known as one of the
co-founders of the alternative arts collective Colab. Los Angeles
Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas.
Sunday Nov 23, 2008. 7:00 pm. General admission $10, students/seniors
$6, free for Filmforum members. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The
Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland
complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
11/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
SCOTT MACDONALD ON THE SPIRIT OF CANYON CINEMA
Scott MacDonald In Person The 1960s saw the emergence of a wide range of
approaches to cinema that offered alternatives to Hollywood commercial
filmmaking. By 1961, Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand had begun informal
screenings in the Bay Area at a mobile venue they were calling "Canyon
Cinema." Soon, Canyon began publishing the Cinemanews and in 1966 became
a distribution organization, emerging over the next forty years as the
most dependable alternative film distributor in the country. The
filmmakers who were part of Canyon and contributed to its success also
created a remarkable body of films that were widely influential and
continue to provide considerable pleasure. In celebration of his recent
book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film
Distributor, film historian Scott MacDonald presents a selection of
significant films from its vibrant early years, including Abigail
Child's Ornamentals; Gunvor Nelson's Kirsa Nicholina, My Name Is Oona
and Take Off; Anne Severson and Shelby Kennedy's Riverbody; Chick
Strand's Kristallnacht and Waterfall; and Diane Kitchen's 2004 film
Quick's Thicket. Come early to peruse a selection of vintage Cinemanews
and other artifacts from Cinematheque's archive. (Scott MacDonald and
Steve Polta)
11/23
San Francisco, California: kino21
http://www.kino21.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia
HOW WE FIGHT: PROGRAM 5: MERCENARIES
"Warheads" by Romuald Karmaker, Germany, 1992, 182 minutes CO-PRESENTED
WITH GOETHE-INSTITUT, SAN FRANCISCO PENDING CONFIRMATION. Please check
our website for updates about this remarkable film focused on German,
British and American mercenaries who have played a role in the major
global conflicts of the last fifty years.
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