This week [November 29 - December 7, 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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"Everyone will be famous for 150 kbytes." (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2008)
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South by Southwest Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: December 12, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Martin Arnold- Something Hidden [December 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [December 2, Bristol, UK]
* Ben Russell's Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps [December 2, London, England]
* Punto Y Raya (Dot and Line) Festival [December 2, Los Angeles, California]
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [December 2, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [December 3, Bristol, UK]
* Workshop: Film / Phenomenology With Ben Russell [December 3, London, England]
* The Free Screen - Takashi Ishida In Person [December 3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [December 4, Bristol, UK]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [December 4, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Recent and Remembered Films By Nathaniel Dorsky [December 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Urban Image Film/Video Showcase - Narratology [December 5, Jersey City, NJ]
* The Flower Thief [December 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [December 6, Glasgow, UK]
* Burroughs' Words of Advice + Flicker [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Light Spaces – New videos By Walter
Ungerer [December 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Technology, Nature and Other Matters [December 7, San Francisco, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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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

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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MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008
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12/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.

MARTIN ARNOLD- SOMETHING HIDDEN
  Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold has been known
  internationally for his scintillating explorations of the hidden and
  repressed side of Hollywood cinema—what he regards as "a cinema of
  exclusion, reduction and denial." The main portion of the program this
  evening features a "trilogy of compulsive repetition," as described by
  Dirk Schaefer—witty and obsessive reworkings of classic films and found
  footage. Through dizzying replay and interruption of the image, pièce
  touchée (1989, 16 min., 16mm, b/w) turns an innocuous scene into the
  fragment of a terrifying horror film. passage à l'acte (1993, 12 min.,
  16mm, b/w) distorts the all-American family of To Kill a Mockingbird
  into a surrealist nightmare. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998, 15
  min., 16mm, b/w) humorously suggests the sexual repression that lies at
  the core of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney vehicles. Rounding out the
  program are excerpts from Deanimated (2002), an installation that
  digitally deconstructs a classical horror movie. In person: Martin
  Arnold Tickets $9 [students $7]

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
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12/2
Bristol, UK: Spike Island
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
1830-2200, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX

12/2
London, England: no.w.here
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk
7pm, Cafe 1001, 1 Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane

BEN RUSSELL'S TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS
  no.w.here and Close-Up present a screening with Chicago based artist Ben
  Russell. Russell is an itenerant experimental filmmaker and curator who
  has shown his work at venues and festivals all over the world. His films
  range from rigorous experimental enthnographies to investigations into
  the phenomenological potential of cinema. Russell will present his
  entire TRYPPS film series plus a live film and sound performance. The
  series consists of five metaphorical works that strive towards a
  visceral, physical and phenomenological cinema for the senses. The
  starting point for each film ranges from cameraless film making, high
  contrast photography, a Richard Pryor stand-up routine and an audience
  at a Lightning Bolt gig. Films: BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER ONE (7
  min, 16mm, 2005); BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER TWO (9 min, 16mm, 2006);
  BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE (12 min, 16mm, 2007); BLACK AND
  WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER FOUR (11 min, 16mm, 2008); TRYPPS #5 (DUBAI) (3 min,
  16mm, 2008); THE BLACK AND WHITE GODS (25 min, live double-projector
  performance, 2008)

12/2
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8:00pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax Ave

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 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.
  Special guests Danielle Ye, Chris Casady and Larry Cuba! Also, some
  surprise film additions will be added to the program for this event.
  More details to come! Co-presented by Cinefamily and Los Angeles
  Filmforum.

12/2
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, 113 min.) by CRISTIAN MUNGIU. One of
  the most talked about and critically acclaimed films of 2007, winner of
  the Palm d'Or at Cannes, and a glimpse into what did (and could again)
  occur in a country where abortion was made illegal. "…a ferocious,
  unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who
  helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn't follow the action,
  it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness — alert to the
  world and insistently alive — is embodied by a young university student
  who, one wintry day in the late 1980s, helps her roommate with an
  abortion in Ceausescu's Romania when such procedures were illegal, not
  uncommon and too often fatal. It's a pitiless, violent story that in its
  telling becomes a haunting and haunted intellectual and aesthetic
  achievement. "4 Months" deserves to be seen by the largest audience
  possible, partly because it offers a welcome alternative to the coy,
  trivializing attitude toward abortion now in vogue in American fiction
  films, but largely because it marks the emergence of an important new
  talent in the Romanian writer and director Cristian Mungiu. — Manohla
  Dargis, New York Times. (in Romanian with subtitles)

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
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12/3
Bristol, UK: Spike Island
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
1830-2200, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX

12/3
London, England: no.w.here
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk
10.30am – 4.30pm, no.w.here, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG

WORKSHOP: FILM / PHENOMENOLOGY WITH BEN RUSSELL
  no.w.here present a screening and workshop with Chicago based artist Ben
  Russell. Russell is an itenerant experimental filmmaker and curator who
  has shown his work at venues and festivals all over the world. His films
  range from rigorous experimental enthnographies to investigations into
  the phenomenological potential of cinema. Russell will lead a workshop
  exploring the manipulation of sound and image through radical
  interventions in printing, processing and projection. The workshop will
  investigate theoretic and practical ideas around phenomenology in film,
  and the potential for cinema to have an immediate affect on the body and
  senses. The workshop will begin with a screening of artists work related
  to ideas of phenomenology before moving into a hands on practical
  session where participants will construct light sensitive sound
  circuits, and learn about loop contact printing with high contrast print
  stock using no.w.here's Debrie contact printer. The workshop offers a
  good introduction to experimental uses of high contrast film stock, hand
  processing, creative contact printing and creative projection. £55 full
  price / £50 concessions & no.w.here members To reserve email
  email suppressed or call 0207 7294494

12/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. West

THE FREE SCREEN - TAKASHI ISHIDA IN PERSON
  Curated and presented by Chris Gehman. For the past several months,
  renowned Japanese artist Takashi Ishida has been creating new work here
  in Toronto, following his receipt of the prestigious Goto Commemorative
  Culture Award in 2007. Initially trained as a painter, Ishida
  acknowledged the relevance of time-based arts to his work upon seeing
  films by artists such as Oskar Fischinger, Nobuhiro Aihara, and Keita
  Kurosaka. Now recognized around the world as a painter, film, video and
  installation artist and performer, Ishida is among only a handful of
  artists who might legitimately be considered heirs to the tradition of
  experimental animation inaugurated by figures such as Fischinger, Viking
  Eggeling and Len Lye, though his methods and ideas are idiosyncratically
  his own. In a series of rapturous films deeply influenced by recursive
  and fugal structures in music (especially Bach) and by the Japanese art
  of emaki (picture scroll), Ishida rigorously explores the tensions
  between perspective and flat space, rectilinear and organic form, linear
  progression and repetition. As his year-long residency in Toronto draws
  to a close, we are delighted to welcome Takashi Ishida to present a
  selected retrospective of his works on film and video (and perhaps
  something brand-new as an added bonus!). All films directed by Takashi
  Ishida. EMAKI (Japan, 1995, 8 minutes, 8mm (screening on video). EMAKI 2
  (Japan, 1996, 5 minutes, 8mm (screening on video). GESTALT (Japan, 1999,
  7 minutes, 16mm). CHAIR/SCREEN (Japan, 2002, 9 minutes, video). THREE
  RED STRIPES (Japan, 2005, 2 minutes, video, Voice: Tomomi Adachi). FILM
  OF THE SEA (Japan, 2007, 12 minutes, video, Music: Tomomi Adachi).
  EMA/EMAKI 2 (Japan, 2006, 7 minutes, 16mm). DIE KUNST DER FUGE (THE ART
  OF FUGUE) (Japan, 2001, 18 minutes, 16mm, Music: Johann Sebastian Bach).

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
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12/4
Bristol, UK: Arnolfini
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk
1830-2230, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

12/4
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College

BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works in various media by local film and video artists and
students;makers will be present to introduce their work.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
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12/5
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street

RECENT AND REMEMBERED FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY
  Nathaniel Dorsky in Person Special Event Tickets $10 Sarabande Friday
  December 5 at 7pm Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of
  the Sarabande. – N.D. Directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. US 2008, 16mm,
  color, silent, 15 min. Alaya Sand, wind, and light intermingle with the
  emulsions. The viewer is the star. - N.D. Directed by Nathaniel Dorsky.
  US 1976-1987, 16mm, color, silent, 28 min. Winter San Francisco's
  winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief
  period of shadows and renewal. - N.D. Directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. US
  2008, 16mm, color, silent, 22 min. "[HFA Director] Haden Guest and I
  were talking at dinner about how when a film is fully manifest its
  content and form are in a union of sublime narrative. When this magic
  occurs, cinema itself goes beyond a vehicle for textual communication
  and becomes a sculptural rightness which can mirror and transform the
  psyche. I can say enthusiastically that the three rarely screened films
  we have selected meet these criteria. The Marcel Carné is a story film
  whose very elements, moment to moment, are expressed by the visual
  possibilities of cinema and montage. The two most excellent films by
  Jean Grémillon, a filmmaker who began making his own personal
  experimental films with his own camera, demonstrate his passage into
  narrative form and his sense of the poignancy that occurs at the
  tableau-like moment of the cut. This program is meant for those of you
  with a hunger for the unbeatable pleasure of seeing three Academy-ratio,
  black and white films created with an exquisite craftsmanship that has
  lingered in my memory since I first saw them ten years ago." – N.D.
  Nathaniel Dorsky in Person Special Event Tickets $10 The Strange M.
  Victor Saturday December 6 at 7pm Family man Victor tries to leave
  behind his secret life of crime, only to become a murderer. When another
  man goes to prison for his crime, Victor's guilt threatens to overwhelm
  him. Directed by Jean Grémillon. With Raimu, Pierre Blanchar, Viviane
  Romance France 1938, 35mm, b/w, 97 min. French with English subtitles
  Followed by La Marie du port Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Marie
  marks Carne's return to cinema after a three year absence. Written by
  frequent collaborator Jacques Prevert, it starts French everyman Jean
  Gabin as a man who falls in love with his mistress's younger sister.
  Directed by Marcel Carné. With Jean Gabin, Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole
  Courcel France 1950, 35mm, b/w, 85 min. French with English subtitles
  Pattes blanches (White Paws) Sunday December 7 at 3pm Gremillon's
  intriguing mix of fairy tale and film noir focuses on a destitute
  aristocrat who falls in love with the local innkeeper's mistress.
  Directed by Jean Grémillon. With Suzy Delair, Arlette Thomas, Fernand
  Ledoux France 1949, 16mm, b/w, 92 min. French with English subtitles

12/5
Jersey City, NJ: Urban Image Media Collective
http://www.urbanimageshowcase.org
6:30PM, Jersey City Museum

URBAN IMAGE FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE - NARRATOLOGY
  Narratology is a showcase of short film and video by New Jersey City
  University students and alumni curated by URBAN IMAGE, a collective of
  media artists based at the University. The work is an eclectic mix of
  satire, personal narrative, experimental mixed media, anecdotes, and
  dreams. It will premiere in the Caroline L. Guarini Theater on Friday
  evening, 6:30PM, December 5th, 2008, at the Jersey City Museum, 350
  Montgomery Street in Jersey City. Admission is free and street parking
  is readily available. Catatonia by Angelita Ali is a short experimental
  piece that explores the idea that the artist is who she is because of
  the environment she lives in. Peace is unveiled through the sun and the
  grass while a darker side is shown in crooked signs, dark alleys, and
  cracked sidewalks. Influenced by video artist Bill Viola and filmmaker
  Maya Deren, she tells her story without words but in dynamic images.
  Dreaming Dali by Tomas Peralta and Malaika Burke is a narrative short
  adapted from the work of Salvador Dali. While researching his paintings,
  a girl falls asleep and becomes wrapped in a surrealist nightmare. The
  paintings come to life and terrorize her and every twist and turn takes
  her deeper and deeper into a delusional fantasy. Third Times a Charm by
  senior Anthony Rudick. Did you ever wake up with the feeling that your
  dreams and reality may have crossed paths? Or that you could not
  remember what happened last night? This quirky piece takes the viewer
  along with a young man who seems to be doomed to repeat a wake up call
  from his last nights date. Appointment by Joey Mosca. Based on one of
  the oldest stories in history, a young man encounters Death personified.
  In a panic, he runs away and believes that he has escaped. But as we all
  know, no one can ever really avoid his fate. M. I. N. D. (My Inner
  Noggin Dissected) by Sarven Tar, is about the mysteries of the human
  mind and how it can conjure up images of ones past. This is an
  exploration of the mind of the artist in which the audience moves
  through the smoke and mirrors of his life. Allegory of the Cubicle by
  Raul Garcia is a silent short that utilizes the structuralist technique
  of the extended shot to effect conflict between interior, man-made
  spaces and external, natural spaces. Chiaroscuro by Christian Romero is
  a metaphor for life. Dark to light, life to death. Where one road ends
  another one begins. The journey in between is what makes us who we are.
  This piece deals with two people at different places in their lives
  through the eyes of a close observer. One Day by senior Tatiana Gonzalez
  is a piece that explores the life of the artist as if it was in reverse
  and she could rewind time and start over again. She captures candid
  moments in her day and views them for her own curiosity. Are these
  captured moments as important as they seem as she is living through
  them? This experimental narrative explores her life in the present as
  she moves backwards through one day. Desolation by Louis Libitz is a
  haunting piece shot in the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in
  Philadelphia, PA. The viewer becomes a voyeur searching for a fleeting
  human presence. Suggestions of surveillance, incarceration, and
  isolation are enmeshed within the ominous sound design. Founded in the
  fall of 2004, URBAN IMAGE provides opportunities for emerging artists
  from the NJ City University Media Arts Department to screen their work
  at arts venues throughout New Jersey.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
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12/6
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)

THE FLOWER THIEF
  Curated and Introduced by Patrick Friel. Ron Rice's acclaimed, but
  little seen, experimental classic The Flower Thief (1960, 75 mins.,
  16mm) will be showing in a recently preserved print. Starring the
  indomitable, dough-faced underground fixture Taylor Mead ("a cross
  between a kewpie doll and Fred Astaire gone bad" – Sheldan Renan), The
  Flower Thief is a loose, Beat-inspired narrative about the hi-jinks and
  misadventures of a Wild Man caught between the absurd and the poetic.
  "In the old Hollywood days movie studios would keep a man on the set
  who, when all other sources of ideas failed, was called upon to 'cook
  up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF
  has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed
  in the field of stunt." (Ron Rice)

12/6
Glasgow, UK: CCA
http://www.arika.org.uk
1830-2245, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

12/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street

BURROUGHS' WORDS OF ADVICE + FLICKER
  In its US premiere, Lars Movin's portrait of William Burroughs follows
  the esteemed Beat writer from his European spoken-word tour back to his
  Manhattan Bunker, and finally to his Lawrence, Kansas home in his later
  years. Hilariously scabrous readings that capture Burroughs' sardonic
  wit are intercut with in-depth interviews and music by Patti Smith, as
  friends (including poet John Giorno), offer new insights into the
  author's creative legacy. Co-billed is Nik Sheehan's FLicKeR, recounting
  the history of Brion Gysin's hypnotic Dream Machine, a simple yet
  ingenious variety of strobe-light that produces a drugless high. With
  interviews from some of the counterculture's most eccentric icons--Iggy
  Pop, Genesis P-Orridge, Marianne Faithfull, and again, our man Bill
  Burroughs--this hr-plus doc limns Gysin's enlightened quest to transform
  human consciousness. With DJ Onanist.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2008
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12/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS LIGHT SPACES – NEW VIDEOS BY WALTER
UNGERER
  Ungerer is a longtime filmmaker and artist of international reputation,
  beginning with the underground film scene of NYC in the early 1960s,
  continuing through to his own experimental short films and features in
  Vermont from the late '60s to the 21st Century. In the 1990s he moved to
  video in his explorations of light, space and technology. Tonight
  includes :The Salt Shaker and the Moon" (2008), "Inalienable" (2008),
  "Such As It Is" (2007), "91 Le Grand" (2005) and more. All Los Angeles
  Premieres. Ungerer in person. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
  Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. 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.

12/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)

TECHNOLOGY, NATURE AND OTHER MATTERS
  curated and presented by Charles Boone A broad view of artists' work in
  the realm of moving images—plus, perhaps, some nice, seeming
  opposites—is explored: Material originally intended for installation
  will be presented theatrically along with documentation of various sorts
  and other provocative films and videos. Step by step, Alexandra Steele's
  One to the Forty-First Power dissolves the everyday into abstract
  worlds. Minyong Jang's The Breath details nature's stasis and tiny
  movements. In Karaoke Wrong Number, Rachel Perry Welty riffs on what her
  answering machine has to say. The images in Sarah Wylie Ammerman's
  Swallow seem to start in a doctor's examining room – perhaps we're
  actually seeing a weird kind of S/M. Also screening: Masako Tanaka's
  close-up portrait of Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Hession's Ten Attempts,
  Joshua Kanies' Chasm, recent work by David Phillips and Paul Rowley,
  Christoph Giradet, Mami Kosemura and other diverse treats. (Charles
  Boone)

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