From: Gene Youngblood (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2008 - 14:17:22 PST
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> 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)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=916.ann
> The European Independent Film Festival (Paris, France; Deadline: December
> 15, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=958.ann
> Takoma Park Film Festival (special program) (Takoma Park MD USA; Deadline:
> December 15, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=963.ann
> 4th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: February
> 13, 2009)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=964.ann
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> DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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> "Everyone will be famous for 150 kbytes." (Naples, Italy; Deadline:
> December 31, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=880.ann
> 28th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline:
> December 01, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=916.ann
> Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, OH USA; Deadline:
> November 30, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=927.ann
> Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=936.ann
> Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=943.ann
> Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: January 02, 2009)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=952.ann
> Migrating Forms (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=953.ann
> South by Southwest Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: December 12, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=954.ann
> Fargo Film Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: January 01, 2009)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=955.ann
> Media Artists (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: December 05, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=957.ann
> The European Independent Film Festival (Paris, France; Deadline: December
> 15, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=958.ann
> $100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 02, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=962.ann
> Takoma Park Film Festival (special program) (Takoma Park MD USA; Deadline:
> December 15, 2008)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=963.ann
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> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
> ==============================
> * 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.
>
> ---------------------------
> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008
> ---------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> -------------------------
> SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008
> -------------------------
>
> 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)
>
> ------------------------
> MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008
> ------------------------
>
> 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]
>
> -------------------------
> TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
> -------------------------
>
> 12/2
> Bristol, UK: Spike Island
> http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
> 1830-2200, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX
>
> 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
>
> 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)
>
> ---------------------------
> WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
> ---------------------------
>
> 12/3
> Bristol, UK: Spike Island
> http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/
> 1830-2200, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX
>
> 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
>
> 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).
>
> --------------------------
> THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
> --------------------------
>
> 12/4
> Bristol, UK: Arnolfini
> http://www.arnolfini.org.uk
> 1830-2230, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> ------------------------
> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
> ------------------------
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
> ------------------------
>
> 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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