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This week [November 22 - 30, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
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The European Independent Film Festival (Paris, France; Deadline: December 15, 2008)
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MEDIA CITY (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Main Line Film Festival (Wayne, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 15, 2009)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 02, 2008)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (special program) (Takoma Park MD USA; Deadline: December 15, 2008)
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28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: December 01, 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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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
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Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: November 28, 2008)
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Migrating Forms (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2008)
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South by Southwest Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: December 12, 2008)
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Media Artists (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: December 05, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Urban Image Showcase - Open Call [November 22, Cape May, NJ]
* Open Screening [November 22, Chicago, Illinois]
* Paul Mccarthy and Damon Mccarthy: Caribbean Pirates [November 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Underworld Cinema: the Life and Work of J.X. Williams [November 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Trevor Paglen's the Heavens Above + [November 22, San Francisco, California]
* Punto Y Raya (Dot and Line) Festival [November 22, San Jose, California]
* Filmforum Presents Coleen Fitzgibbon: Internal Systems [November 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Scott Macdonald On the Spirit of Canyon Cinema [November 23, San Francisco, California]
* How We Fight: Program 5: Mercenaries [November 23, San Francisco, California]
* Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder- Film Projection Performances [November 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Punto Y Raya (Dot and Line) Festival [November 24, San Francisco, California]
* Drawn To Life: Reanimating the Animate [November 25, Brussels]
* Joyce Wieland's Reason Over Passion At Cinematheque Ontario [November 26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Surrealism On Film [November 27, Calgary, Alberta; CANADA]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [November 29, London, England]
* Brecke's they Turned Our Desert Into Fire [November 29, San Francisco, California]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [November 30, London, England]
* Dark House [November 30, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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.
11/22
San Jose, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7:30pm, Prairie Willow House, 943 Willow Glen Way
PUNTO Y RAYA (DOT AND LINE) FESTIVAL
The Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) festival is the brainchild of
Barcelona-based group mad-actions. The program has a clear curatorial
vision - that of pure abstraction in its most basic form, to "reveal the
limitations and achievements of our representation systems." Submission
requirements are very specific regarding the use of dimension,
perspective, volume and color. The result is a series of films "built up
entirely from dots and lines as ends in themselves." The festival's
goals are clearly in line with iotaCenter's mission to promote the art
of abstraction. We have partnered with mad-actions to bring this
visionary program to the west coast.
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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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008
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11/24
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER- FILM PROJECTION PERFORMANCES
New York artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder present their sublime
and mesmerizing double 16mm projection performance, Untitled, recently
featured at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The duo's work exploits
the physical qualities of the medium in creating profoundly moving
aesthetic and philosophical experiences. "The planular drift of the
projected frame alters its course, bending here, defracting
there—keystoning its way through the darkness of a cinematic abyss," as
the artists have put it. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of
American Art , P.S.1, MoMA and The Kitchen in New York; the ICA and the
Barbican in London; the Viennale; Kunst-Werke in Berlin; the Palais des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels; La Casa Encendida in Madrid; and Image Forum in
Tokyo. In person: Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder Tickets $9 [students
$7]
11/24
San Francisco, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8:00pm, New Nothing Cinema, 16 Sherman St
PUNTO Y RAYA (DOT AND LINE) FESTIVAL
WEST COAST TOUR DATES, CO-PRESENTED BY MAD-ACTIONS AND THE IOTACENTER
The Punto y Raya (Dot and Line) festival is the brainchild of
Barcelona-based group mad-actions. The program has a clear curatorial
vision - that of pure abstraction in its most basic form, to "reveal the
limitations and achievements of our representation systems." Submission
requirements are very specific regarding the use of dimension,
perspective, volume and color. The result is a series of films "built up
entirely from dots and lines as ends in themselves." The festival's
goals are clearly in line with iotaCenter's mission to promote the art
of abstraction. We have partnered with mad-actions to bring this
visionary program to the west coast. The US leg of the program will
begin on November 13 in Seattle, continuing to Vancouver, Eugene, San
Jose, San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles on December 2. The show's
final tour date in Los Angeles will be exhibited by Cinefamily at the
Silent Movie Theatre, with programming partner Los Angeles Filmforum
co-presenting this show. The touring program will feature both finalists
and award-winning films from the official competition; thirteen films
with a total running time of 65:00. Circle by Laurie Gibbs (2006, 3:14)
Rayas Blancas y Rojas (White and Red Lines) by Calpurnio (2007, 5:00)
Symmetry by Aleksandra Dulic and Kenneth Newby (2007, 2:00) Mecanismo by
Joaquin [Kino] Gil (2007, 5:00) Esmolades (Sharp) by Albert Callejo Amat
(2007, 4:40) TaMura (MuraTa) by Katsuyuki Hattori (2005-07, 8:00) Loop
12/06 by Astrid Hagenguth (2007, 4:00) Puddle Jumper by Chris Casady
(2007, 2:10) Study for TestTest and Retinal Burn by Thomas Bey and
William Bailey (2007, 4:34) Velocity by Iconish and Foraudiofans (2002,
6:20) Asperity by Tom Jobbins (2007, 1:58) Terra Incognita by Danielle
Ye (2003, 6:30) Mercurius by Bret Battey (2005, 6:10) Details on each
screening are included below.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008
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11/25
Brussels: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
20:00, Belgradostraat 120
DRAWN TO LIFE: REANIMATING THE ANIMATE
"animate … v.t…. [< L. animatus, pp. of animare, to make alive, fill
with breath < anima, air, soul]. l. to give life to; bring to life. 2.
to make gay, energetic, or spirited. 3. to inspire. 4. to give motion
to; put into action: as, the breeze animated the leaves." We all know:
animation is a form of cinema. And yet, one could argue that all cinema
is in fact animation, and furthermore that life itself – anima – can be
understood as cinema. Our existence, inscribed in perception,
imagination and memory, is constantly animated, deformed, edited. The
question is whether and how we can ourselves give form to our own
experiences. Certainly, the incessant flow of images in which our daily
lives are submerged seems to leave little room for analysis and
intervention. Its intention is that of synthesis, of a continuous
illusion of life. The world is thus objectivized, but inevitably
doubled, devoid of its soul, "deanimated". The artists and filmmakers in
this program attempt to revitalize perception, offering an alternative
or counterweight to the ways in which technological interfaces determine
our relation to the world. At the crossroads between cinematographic
codes and genres, these films and videos seek to dismantle the common a
priori assumptions on animation film and its limitations. Fragments of
collective and individual memories are redrawn, with pencils and pixels,
light, movement and (algo)rhythms, in search of new possible relations
between world and representation, image and subject, dream and data, the
aesthetical and the political. Animation as re-animation. With works by
Stephen Andrews, Robert Breer, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Sky
David, Dirk de Bruyn, Kota Ezawa, Paul Glabicki, Stuart Hilton, Jonathan
Hodgson, Ken Jacobs, Cathy Joritz, Jonathon Kirk, LEV, Frank & Caroline
Mouris, Dietmar Offenhuber, Jenny Perlin, Josh Raskin, Bob Sabiston,
Carolee Schneemann and Karl Tebbe. Maison des Cultures Saint-Gilles,
Brussels. 25 & 27 November 2008 Film and video program in the context of
'SE JETER À L'EAU', an event organised by Atelier Graphoui. Curated by
Stoffel Debuysere and María Palacios Cruz, in cooperation with
Courtisane. more info: www.diagonalthoughts.com
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008
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11/26
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. West
JOYCE WIELAND'S REASON OVER PASSION AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
REASON OVER PASSION. Director: Joyce Wieland (Canada, 1969, 80 minutes,
16mm). Artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland undertakes a
playful, penetrating cinematic exploration of the landscape and
mindscape of Canada, coast to coast. Basing its title on Pierre Elliot
Trudeau's maxim, Reason Over Passion is organized around the unfurling
of the Canadian flag, a cross-Canada train trip, a French lesson, and
the national anthem. Wieland weaves these elements together into a
rigorous, occasionally somber, extraordinary visual travelogue through
the soul of post-Centennial Canada, recasting Northrop Frye's compelling
Canadian question: where is here? "With its many eccentricities, it's a
glyph of Wieland's artistic personality; a lyric tempered by an
aggressive and visionary patriotism mixed with ironic self-parody. It is
a film to be seen many times" (P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture). – Susan
Oxtoby and Jim Sheddan.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2008
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11/27
Calgary, Alberta; CANADA: Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
http://www.csif.org
7pm, CSIF Sofa Cinema - Bldg. J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW T3E 7L4
SURREALISM ON FILM
The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) presents:
Surrealism on Film November 27-29, 2008 A three day festival of short
surrealist films. In celebration of the 80th Anniversary of Un Andalou
by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñeul, the CSIF will exhibit the classic film
Un Chien Andalou, along with contemporary films by local, national and
international filmmakers. Each night of screenings will present a series
of films along with performances and other surreal happenings. November
27 @ 7pm - The CSIF Sofa Cinema featuring a co-presentation of surreal
sounds with CJSW radio on Paula Fayerman's Noise program at 9:30pm
November 28 @ 7pm - The CSIF Sofa Cinema November 29 @ 7pm - The Plaza
Theatre (Kensington) featuring a poetry reading by experimental poet
Christian Bök and the screening of Un Chien Andalou. Tickets available
for pre-buy! Call 205 4747 or swing by the CSIF offices to pick up your
tickets now! $8 CSIF Members, Students, Seniors $10 General Admission
The CSIF SOFA CINEMA Building J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW Calgary, AB
(403) 205 4747 www.csif.org The PLAZA THEATRE 1133 Kensington Rd. NW
Calgary, AB www.theplaza.ca
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008
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11/29
London, England: BFI Southbank and IMAX/ICA
http://www.arika.org.uk
1400-2330, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1; BFI IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk SE1; ICA, The Mall SW1Y
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION FESTIVAL ON TOUR 2008
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION A step across the border between sound & vision
Featuring live immersive performances and film screenings from:- Live
Performances KEN JACOBS & ERIC LA CASA / KEITH ROWE / ANDREW LAMPERT /
BRUCE MCCLURE / GREG POPE / and more... Film Programme HOLLIS FRAMPTON /
JEANNE LIOTTA / PAUL SHARITS / PETER KUBELKA / WALTER RUTTMANN / and
more... Your eyes see what, 10 or 15 images a second? That's 10Hz. Your
ears can hear 15,000 Hz. Surely there must be something interesting in
this incongruity? Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading
festivals of music, sound, film and image. It's about exploring the
different ways we navigate the borders, disparities and similarities
between what we hear and what we see. Involving some of the great
experimental artists, musicians and filmmakers of our time, and some of
the not too distant future. The programme features film being developed
as it's projected, 3D celestial pulsations, visual harmonics,
audio/video feedback loops, celluloid manhandled with sandpaper and much
more besides.... For more info, clips, sound and images take a look at
the tour site www.arika.org.uk
11/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
BRECKE'S THEY TURNED OUR DESERT INTO FIRE
OC vet Mark Brecke brings it all back home with the Bay Area debut of
his award-winning documentary, They Turned Our Desert Into Fire. Mark
started this long-term project right here in our gallery with a
spoken-word slideshow. After two more W-I-P iterations, he finally
returns with the finished feature, on the human disaster in Darfur,
Sudan. Brecke brought his pictures of the war back to the US, stirring
debate on an Amtrak trip to the US Capitol, there to in fact mount his
powerful photographs! Documentation of this geo-political journey frames
interviews with Africa experts, politicians, and critics of genocide in
this inspiring essay, exquisitely edited by Jason Mitchell (also in
person). A portion of the $7 admission goes to Doctors Without Borders.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008
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11/30
London, England: BFI Southbank and IMAX/ICA
http://www.arika.org.uk
1230-2300, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1; BFI IMAX, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk SE1; ICA, The Mall SW1Y
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION FESTIVAL ON TOUR 2008
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION A step across the border between sound & vision
Featuring live immersive performances and film screenings from:- Live
Performances KEN JACOBS & ERIC LA CASA / KEITH ROWE / ANDREW LAMPERT /
BRUCE MCCLURE / GREG POPE / and more... Film Programme HOLLIS FRAMPTON /
JEANNE LIOTTA / PAUL SHARITS / PETER KUBELKA / WALTER RUTTMANN / and
more... Your eyes see what, 10 or 15 images a second? That's 10Hz. Your
ears can hear 15,000 Hz. Surely there must be something interesting in
this incongruity? Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading
festivals of music, sound, film and image. It's about exploring the
different ways we navigate the borders, disparities and similarities
between what we hear and what we see. Involving some of the great
experimental artists, musicians and filmmakers of our time, and some of
the not too distant future. The programme features film being developed
as it's projected, 3D celestial pulsations, visual harmonics,
audio/video feedback loops, celluloid manhandled with sandpaper and much
more besides.... For more info, clips, sound and images take a look at
the tour site www.arika.org.uk
11/30
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
DARK HOUSE
curated and presented by Jessica Allee and Wago Kreider Tonight's
program offers shifting perspectives on the privacy of domestic space
and its relation to the transience and decay of modern urban
architecture. In these works, discreet moments from the past, capturing
the city's excitement and vitality, are momentarily recovered and
irrevocably lost. Memories of intimate, everyday routines are rendered
in solitude while the flickering facades of buildings reverberate in a
dust-enshrouded and dilapidated present. In Ben Rivers' House, crumbling
interiors, peeling walls and shattered windows are reoccupied by the
history of horror cinema. Robert Todd's Office Suite captures the
ambience and daily rhythms of the filmmakers' workspace. Arianne
Olthaar's Binnenverblijven (Zoo Enclosures) is a disturbing meditation
on the primate "bathroom architecture" once popular in European zoos,
while Michaela Grill and Martin Siewert's Cityscapes, a lush
fragmentation and optical dissection of archival imagery from the
Austrian Film Museum, captures the ephemeral, fleeting nature of a
city's swiftly passing architecture. Additional films on the
disintegration of urban space to be announced. (Jessica Allee and Wago
Krieder)
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