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This week [December 13 - 21, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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Los Angeles Filmforum
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Ballston Spa Film Festival (Ballston Spa, NY, USA; Deadline: January 01, 2009)
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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Cheese Sandwich Film Festival (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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"Everyone will be famous for 150 kbytes." (Naples, Italy; Deadline: December 31, 2008)
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Fargo Film Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: January 01, 2009)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 15, 2009)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (special program) (Takoma Park MD USA; Deadline: December 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Holiday Hipster Snow-Ball [December 13, Austin, TX]
* Spectral Tides: Joshua Churchill & Paul Clipson, W/ Sannhet [December 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* Peter Rose [December 13, New York, New York]
* James T. Hong's Lessons of the Blood + [December 13, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Susan Mogul's "Driving Men" [December 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Instants: Live Experimental Sound and Film By Joshua Churchill & Paul
Clipson [December 14, New York, New York]
* At Sea [December 14, San Francisco, California]
* G.B. Jones Presents the Lollipop Generation [December 16, Brooklyn, New York]
* Picture Books For Adults & the Pharaoh's Belt: Early Films By Lewis Klahr [December 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* New York(Er) Shorts [December 20, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [December 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2008
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12/13
Austin, TX: Co-Lab Gallery
http://www.colabspace.orgIf
8pm, 613 Allen St.
HOLIDAY HIPSTER SNOW-BALL
This is a free event - with donations encouraged - There will be a
raffle for two Holiday Hipster Gift Baskets - must be present to win. On
Saturday December 13th Cantanker Magazine we will host our Holiday
Hipster Snow-Ball, benefiting Cantanker ˇs community out-reach programs,
exhibitions and annual publications. This is going to be a joyous
amalgamation of all things hipster with a dash of holiday flare. Live
performances, mixed media installations and a make-your-own ornament
craft table will make this a night to remember. We are pleased to be
hosting this event at the new collaborative art space Co-Lab in East
Austin. ongoing... Jennifer Mitchell, video - Peeper. Scott Stark, video
projection - Treat/Threat. Will Sellari, photo installation with video -
Will Sellari Saves Christmas. Christopher Brown, works on paper.
Jennifer Remenchik, video projection - Electrolove. Vincent Martinez,
mixed media. Plus 8:00 - Performance by Sean Ripple, Bailout,
culminating at 9:15 pm; 8:30 - Band - Blood Thirsty Youth ; 9:30 -
Turntable performance, The Space Invader Orchestra ; 10:30 - Band - No
Mas Bodas ; 11:15 -Rap Performance - M.C. Eats; Josh Y'Barbo, screen
print, acrylic and oil on panel / paper Paul Moncus, title "Satellite
Feed" Eric Power, works on paper "Paper Creatures" and "Animated Music
Videos" Christopher Brown, mixed medium on board
12/13
Brooklyn, New York: Monkey Town
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
7:30pm, 58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
SPECTRAL TIDES: JOSHUA CHURCHILL & PAUL CLIPSON, W/ SANNHET
San Francisco based sound artist Joshua Churchill and filmmaker Paul
Clipson create hallucinatory collisions of sound, light, and image with
Super 8 film and looped and processed guitar and percussives. Their
continually evolving collaboration utilizes the element of chance as
each artist presents densely layered and textured abstract collages
within their respective mediums without premeditations on their
coalescence. Joshua Churchill plays in a number of other experimental
music projects in the Bay Area, ranging from ambient/drone to doom metal
to noise, and is also an actively exhibiting artist who works primarily
in sound and light installation and photography. Paul Clipson
collaborates with sound artists and groups in live performances,
artworks and installations, exploring aspects of memory, dreams and
moments of the everyday, with densely layered, in-camera edited studies
of figurative and abstract environments vast and small, bringing to
light subconscious preoccupations and allowing for un-thought,
unexpected elements to reveal themselves. Churchill and Clipson will be
sharing a bill with Brooklyn/Philly based experimental duo, Sannhet.
ýAdmission $8, dinner available during performance, reservations
required for seating
12/13
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 E. 4th St.
PETER ROSE
Rose will show a selection of recently completed works, several of which
are based upon his experiments with "transfalumination*" Included will
be: The Geosophist's Tears Odysseus in Ithaca Pneumenon* (a video
installation) Studies in Transfalumination* I think I shall walk forever
in the afteroon* Conflation (a video installation) E Questriations* (a
suite of video installations)
12/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JAMES T. HONG'S LESSONS OF THE BLOOD +
Now based in Berlin, the globetrotting Mr. Hong rewards his fans in
Frisco with a privileged 'sneak peek' at his feature-lengthLessons of
the Blood, a personal crusade to expose Japanese historical revisionism
of war crimes. In response to Japan's controversial erasure of
atrocities against its Asian neighbors, particularly China, James has
generated, through repeated research trips, many interview hours with
survivors, and has now wrapped this doc material in his own inimitable
polemic-cinema style. This powerful essay on historical memory, slave
labor, and biological warfare is preceded by a special screening of the
first 16mm reel of Hong's extremely rare Spear of Destiny, an allegory
on similar themes of political tyranny.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2008
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12/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS SUSAN MOGUL’S "DRIVING MEN"
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Susan Mogul's "Driving Men" (2008, 68
min). Mogul in attendance. Mogul's hilarious and heartfelt feature
length film is a multi-layered story that explores universal themes:
fathers and daughters, men and women and the choice not to have
children; it also strives to become a mirror for others. A repeat after
our sold out screening in August. 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.
12/14
New York, New York: Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
http://www.audiovisualarts.org
7 pm, 34 E 1st St, New York, NY - Subway: F,V train to 2nd Ave / 6 train to Bleecker
INSTANTS: LIVE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND AND FILM BY JOSHUA CHURCHILL & PAUL
CLIPSON
San Francisco based sound artist Joshua Churchill and filmmaker Paul
Clipson collaborate on a unique sound and film performance in which
densely layered figurative and abstract Super 8mm images merge with
looped and processed guitar and percussives, to study chance
relationships between image and sound. Admission: free/donation artist
websites: Joshua Churchill: http://joshuachurchill.com
12/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
AT SEA
curated and presented by Jennifer Blaylock "…the cruelty of the sea, its
relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me. Life had become cheap and
tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the
ooze and slime. I held on to the weather rail, close by the shrouds, and
gazed out across the desolate foaming waves to the low-lying fog-banks
that hid San Francisco and the California coast. Rain-squalls were
driving in between, and I could scarcely see the fog. And this strange
vessel, with its terrible men, pressed under by wind and sea and ever
leaping up and out, was heading away into the south-west, into the great
and lonely Pacific expanse." (Jack London, The Sea Wolf) Screening: a
triad meditation of new seafaring films, including local filmmaker
matthew swiezynski's this invisible art of memory – magic hour number 1,
Stephanie Barber's dwarfs the sea, and Peter Hutton's At Sea which
documents the birth, life and death of a forty-ton container ship,
including scenes of ship-building in South Korea and ship-breaking in
Bangladesh. (Jennifer Blaylock)
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2008
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12/16
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
8pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
G.B. JONES PRESENTS THE LOLLIPOP GENERATION
The Lollipop Generation G.B. Jones, Super-8/video, 2008, 80 mins "This
legendary, unfinished film, fifteen years in the making, about the lives
of under-aged porn stars is roughly to Queer Cinema what Orson Welles'
The Other Side of the Wind is to, well, Cinema." – Dennis Cooper
Toronto's G.B. Jones--creatrix of queer punk cult touchstones The
Troublemakers and The Yo-Yo Gang--arrives at Light Industry to present
the New York premiere of her long-awaited feature The Lollipop
Generation. A work-in-progress for over a decade, the recently completed
film tells the tale of four runaway street teens who encounter a world
of perverts, prostitutes and smut peddlers. Shot across North America
with a lo-fi visual cocktail of hairy Super-8 and fuzzed-out analog
video, Jones's be-grunged epic features a cast of underground worthies,
including Yo-Yo Gang star Jena von Brucker, filmmaker and writer Mark
Ewert, musician Jane Danger of Three Dollar Bill, indie rock hero Calvin
Johnston, Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras, Jen Smith of The Quails,
Salivation Army zinester and artist Scott Treleaven,
artist-writer-filmmaker Anonymous Boy, and legendary force of nature
Vaginal Creme Davis. Followed by a conversation between Jones and K8
Hardy. Tickets - $6, available at door. View the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeMQlzX0CbM Support for this event was
provided, in part, by the Experimental Television Center's Presentation
Funds Program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the
Arts, a public agency.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2008
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12/17
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS & THE PHARAOH'S BELT: EARLY FILMS BY LEWIS KLAHR
Introduced by University of Chicago Professor Tom Gunning. **** For its
final screening of 2008, White Light Cinema is pleased to present a
special program of early films by experimental animator Lewis Klahr.
**** PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS (1983-85), an eight film series, is
Klahr's earliest work available for screening. In a very rare
presentation, it will be shown it its original Super-8mm format-the
first time anywhere in almost a decade. **** Still one of Klahr's major
works, THE PHARAOH'S BELT (1994) was a breakthrough film, both in its
length (43 minutes) and in establishing Klahr's signature cutout
animation style. **** Over the past thirty years, Los Angeles-based
filmmaker has created a stunning body of work that easily places him at
the forefront of avant-garde artists. Moving from the intimacy of his
early Super-8 films to his current digital works (with a long sojourn in
16mm), Klahr has always taken advantage of the particular
characteristics of his various media. This appreciation of the textures
and looks of each format is not surprising, though-Klahr's meticulously
constructed films (his early found footage collage works and his more
well known cut-out animation films) all benefit from his careful
attention to small details. From the constant lookout for source
material (old magazines, comic books, diverse other printed matter,
photographs, and even occasional three-dimensional objects), the
selection of those materials for a particular project, and the
combinations and juxtapositions of those materials within a film, Klahr
exhibits an unerring eye for the telling, resonant, and evocative.
Klahr's films are works of mystery and wonder. More than any other
filmmaker working today they are psychic excavations of our shared mid
and late-twentieth century cultural memory. **** PICTURE BOOKS FOR
ADULTS (1983-85, 37 mins., Super-8mm):Deep Fishtank Birding (1983, 3
mins, b/w, sound); Enchantment (1983, 2.5 mins., color, sound); Pulls
(1985, 5 mins., color, sound); What's Going on Here, Joe? (1985, 5 mins,
color, sound); The River Sieve (1984, 5 mins., color, sound); Candy's
16! (1984, 2.5 mins., color, sound); Deep Fishtank Too (1985, 5.5 mins.,
b/w, sound); 1966 (1984, 8 mins., color, sound) **** "Picture Books For
Adults" is "my first attempt at media autobiography created over a two
year period (1983-85) in which tenderness, intimacy and the sensuality
of the Super 8 image were primary. Many of the found films are culled
from Super 8 highlight films (recently made obsolete by VHS) that were
sold out of a barrel on Canal Street like all the other construction
supplies. Included are my first finished films with strip collage
("Pulls") and cutouts ("Deep Fishtank Birding"). Introduced in the
latter is the deep sea diver that periodically appears through all
periods of my work including "The Pharaoh's Belt" and most recently
"Valise."" (Lewis Klahr) **** THE PHARAOH'S BELT (1993, 43 mins., 16mm)
- "Klahr's lost American Eden is an imaginary suburban childhood. 'The
Pharaoh's Belt' opens with the image of a Japanese monk battling several
ninjas in a forest that soon turns into the woven fabric of wall-to-wall
carpeting. A boy asleep in a biliously green frosted cake dreams of
cosmic wrestling matches. A living room sofa becomes first a pool of
water, then a flying carpet. A kitchen merges with the bottom of the sea
or, more often, outer space. The split-level universe is populated by
elegant parental silhouettes and costumed comic book heroes, as well as
a variety of advertising imps like the Jolly Green Giant who appear from
appliances like the genies summoned by Aladdin's lamp." (J. Hoberman,
Village Voice)
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2008
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12/20
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
8 p.m. (doors at 7:30 p.m.), 343 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (2 or 3 train to 125th Street)
NEW YORK(ER) SHORTS
Program 2 This screening is the second installment of an ongoing series
in the informal spirit of the artistic cooperatives of late 20th century
New York City. The evening features a collection of new and rarely
screened works by friends and founders of the experimental film and
video community. Ken Jacobs - The Scenic Route David Baker -
Subterraneans Jacob Burckhardt - Roma Seth Fragomen - Hicaz Diane Bonder
- I Remember Now... Ross McLaren - Sex without Glasses Jon Jost -
Fall(ing) Gregory Jamie - Untitled Taylor Dunne - Obar Albert Maysles -
Rare Excerpts Don't miss this special night at which many of the artists
will be present
12/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative--and with many of the makers in
person--are Martha Colburn's Myth Labs, Barbara Klutinis' Severing the
Soul, Gerry Fialka's Jammerz, Roger Beebe's TB/TX, and Devo Karaoke by
Karl Lind (flying in from Portland to perform the vocals!). ALSO: Recent
pieces by Bryan Boyce, People Like Us, Yin-Ju Chen, Richard Mitchell,
Shalo P, Pad McGlaughlin, Sylvia Schedelbauer, et al. PLUS Eli Marias'/
Amos Natkin's Daddy, a Shana Moulton performance video, and, in honor of
the late, great Bruce Conner, a clip from George Kuchar's Tempest in a
Teapot, a charmed portrait of that obsessive artist. *$7.
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