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This week [January 3 - 11, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 05, 2009)
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Urban Research (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 05, 2009)
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Cambridge International Super 8 Film festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: January 09, 2009)
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Filmaka Lincoln Grammy Competition (Los Angeles,Ca USA; Deadline: January 02, 2009)
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West Chester Film Festival (West Chester, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Experiments in Cinema V4.2 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2009)
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Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival (PDX FEST) (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: January 23, 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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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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60x60 WHAT IF? (New England, USA; Deadline: January 15, 2009)
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Lateral Movement: Art & the Moving Image (Adelaide, SA, Australia; Deadline: January 16, 2009)
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The Virtual Memory Project (Philadelphia; Deadline: January 23, 2009)
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Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 05, 2009)
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Urban Research (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 05, 2009)
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Cambridge International Super 8 Film festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: January 09, 2009)
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West Chester Film Festival (West Chester, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 4, Minneapolis, Minnesota]
* Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip: Music For Experimental Film [January 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Plan B [January 7, San Francisco, California]
* Viva Cuba [January 8, San Francisco, California]
* Tasks of the Translator [January 8, San Francisco, California]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 8, Seattle, Washington]
* The Artist and the Archives - Film Ist, Parts 1-12 [January 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Brakhage With Brakhage: Marilyn Brakhage Introducing Films By Stan
Brakhage. [January 11, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2009
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1/4
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Art of This
http://artofthis.net
8:00pm, 3506 Nicollet Avenue
CHANNELING: AN INVOCATION OF SPECTRAL BODIES AND QUEER SPIRITS
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits *a touring
film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White*
CURATORS IN PERSON! CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and
the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that
calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The
intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult
technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and
emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The
works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the
political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the
AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition
(Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow
cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents
emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns
on their own campy, poetic, sexual,humorous, and even utopian terms,
using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade
effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit http://channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour
info, and more information about the artists and works included in the
program. RUNNING ORDER: Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00,
video) Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video) Michael Robinson
- Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video) EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) -
Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video) Aay Preston-Myint - Some
Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video) Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00,
video) John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990,
24:00, video) Total Running Time: ~68 min. $3-$6 Sliding Scall Admission
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2009
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1/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
TOM VERLAINE & JIMMY RIP: MUSIC FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip:
Music For Experimental Film Innovative, influential musician Tom
Verlaine and celebrated producer/guitarist Jimmy Rip reawaken the spirit
of the avant-garde as they perform on the Cinefamily stage a series of
original musical scores for experimental silent film. Two shows, at 8 pm
and 10:15 pm General admission $18. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com
and http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at
Fairfax High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
1/7
San Francisco, California: The Lab
http://www.thelab.org
1:00pm-6:00pm, 2948 16th Street @ Capp
PLAN B
Featuring Sacha Eckes, Lauren Davies, Kathryn Kenworth, David Hamill and
Jeff Kao; Curated by Sasha Petrenko. Opening reception: Friday, January
9, 6-9pm Exhibition runs: January 7-31, 2009 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays -
Saturdays, 1-6pm Architecture is a candid reflection of mankind's
self-image. The ways in which we redesign our immediate environs can be
seen as a representation of how we wish to be viewed by others. We tear
down and build up repeatedly, making improvements to feel better, safer,
more secure; to belong or stand apart. While the individual artists in
"Plan B" vary widely in media and approach, their work uncovers common
fears and concerns. Faced with an increasingly chaotic outside world,
they react by building walls, physical and psychic, to retain a measure
of control. However, buried in this perpetual process of remodeling is a
substratum of hope and a utopic determination to re-invent self and
surroundings.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009
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1/8
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7.30pm, 992 valencia street
VIVA CUBA
Thursday, January 8, 2009. 7:30PM $6 International Answer Screening
Cuban director Juan Carlos Cremata's film tells the story of a young
girl who runs away from home because her mother plans to leave Cuba and
she doesn't want to go. Malu is from a priveleged family and her single
mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his
background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a socialist that
is proud of her family's less privileged social standing. What neither
woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and
Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave
Cuba and take her along, they decide to travel to the other side of the
island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms
that would allow it. 2005, Cuba, 80min., Spanish with English subtitles.
1/8
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street
TASKS OF THE TRANSLATOR
Note: Nathaniel Dorsky's film Winter (2008) will have its hometown debut
in this program. Tasks of the Translator San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art January 8th, 7 pm Phyllis Wattis Theater This program brings
together a selection of recent films and videos by artists who explore
the shape and structure of communication. Yto Barrada invites two
experts of the sleight of hand, a street magician and a female smuggler,
to perform their daily acts of invisibility in The Magician (2003) and
The Smuggler (2006). In Die Probe (2008), Clemens von Wedemeyer films
behind the scenes at a fictive political rally, where a political speech
is given whose ulterior motive remains unclear. Matthew Buckingham's
False Future (2007) relates an alternate founding of cinema, one nearly
lost to the historical record. Nathaniel Dorsky's film Winter (2008), a
silent essayistic portrait of this particular season in San Francisco,
will have its hometown debut in this program. Exodus (1997), an early
short film by Steve McQueen, and Filipa César's Aura (2004), round out
the films and videos on offer in this screening. Held in conjunction
with the exhibition Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection,
the program expands upon the show's central concept of the passage.
Passageworks foregrounds the contemporary artwork that traverses a
literal or conceptual space to engage with the past, an "elsewhere," or
a found object. Among a wide-ranging selection of paintings,
photographs, sculptures, drawings, and installations, exhibition
highlights include works by Tacita Dean, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre
Huyghe, Emily Jacir, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Luc Tuymans. $10
general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available
at the museum (with no surcharge) or online.
1/8
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8:15pm, 1515 12th Ave [at Pike]
CHANNELING: AN INVOCATION OF SPECTRAL BODIES AND QUEER SPIRITS
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits *a touring
film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White*
CURATORS IN PERSON! CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and
the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that
calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The
intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult
technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and
emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The
works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the
political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the
AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition
(Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow
cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents
emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns
on their own campy, poetic, sexual,humorous, and even utopian terms,
using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade
effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit http://channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour
info, and more information about the artists and works included in the
program. RUNNING ORDER: Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00,
video) Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video) Michael Robinson
- Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video) EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) -
Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video) Aay Preston-Myint - Some
Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video) Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00,
video) John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990,
24:00, video) Total Running Time: ~68 min. $6 for Film Forum Members $9
for General Admission
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
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1/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
THE ARTIST AND THE ARCHIVES - FILM IST, PARTS 1-12
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present The Artist and The Archives
- "Film Ist," parts 1-12 (Gustav Deutsch) Deutsch uses a set of
industrial, scientific, educational and silent narrative films to
explore the basic properties and abilities of cinema, providing twelve
pithy and profound answers to the question, "What is Film?" While Film
Ist 1-6 (1998) proposes the science laboratory as one birthplace of
film, the more anthropological sections 7–12 (2002) focuses on variety;
using tricks, humor and theatre, to trace a lineage back to the
innovations of Georges Méliès. General admission $10; Filmforum and
Cinefamily members free. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com and
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at Fairfax
High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2009
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1/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
BRAKHAGE WITH BRAKHAGE: MARILYN BRAKHAGE INTRODUCING FILMS BY STAN
BRAKHAGE.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Brakhage with Brakhage: Marilyn Brakhage
introducing Films by Stan Brakhage. Filmforum is delighted to open its
2009 season with a marvelous program of films by the master avant-garde
filmmaker Stan Brakhage, hosted by Marilyn Brakhage in her first
appearance in Los Angeles. Films include The Machine of Eden (1970), "He
was born. He suffered. He died" (1974), Burial Path (1978), Visions in
Meditation #4 (1990), Boulder Blues and Pearls and…(1992), Persians 1-3
(1999), Chinese Series (2003) 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.
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