This week [January 17 - 25, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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Renderyard International Film Festival (London; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Artist and the Archives - "Phantom of the Operator" [January 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Under A Shipwrecked Moon [January 17, San Francisco, California]
* "Crawford" A Documentary Film By David Modigliani [January 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Films of Stan Brakhage, 1963-1970 [January 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Manhatta and Other Restored Treasures [January 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Landscape Suicide [January 20, Brooklyn, New York]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 20, Phoenix, AZ]
* White Heart - the Rare Masterpiece By Daniel Barnett [January 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Avant-Garde Silent Films - "The Man With the Movie Camera" [January 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential visual Music: Rare Classics [January 21, Los Angeles, California]
* The Soft Revolution [January 22, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Good Evening, Folks: We're the Pine Box Boys [January 23, San Francisco, California]
* The Artist and the Archives - Short Films By Bill Morrison [January 24, Los Angeles, California]
* The Free Screen - Palace of Pleasure & Exploding Plastic Inevitable [January 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Techniques For Interactive Cinema [January 24, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 25, Houston, Texas]
* I Wanted Every Day To Last Forever [January 25, San Francisco, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2009
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1/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.

THE ARTIST AND THE ARCHIVES - "PHANTOM OF THE OPERATOR"
  Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present The Artist and The Archives
  - Phantom of the Operator (Caroline Martel, 2004) Martel takes
  overlooked artifacts of cinema history—one hundred industrial,
  advertising and scientific management films produced in North America
  between 1903 and 1989—and turns them into a dreamlike montage
  documentary. She also resurrects from the past an arcane electronic
  musical instrument: the ondes Martenot, adding to the mood set by the
  voice of award-winning actor Pascale Montpetit. 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

1/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)

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. $5 Admission

1/17
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia street

UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON
  saturday, January 17, 2009. 8PM $6 UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON Directed by
  Antero Alli (in person) "...where "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" triumphs is
  Alli's extraordinary dream and hallucination sequences which take the
  imagination into new and daring realms that few artists could ever
  aspire to conceive..." -- PHIL HALL. FILMTHEAT.COM The power of a
  long-buried family secret is unleashed when the extreme rituals of a
  self-made shamanic punk rocker catapult him into the spirit realm in
  search of his father, a ship captain who drowned at sea. This ship
  captain's mother was a Finnish sorceress whose powers were passed onto
  the punk rocker grandson, powers that are tested when the grandfather
  unexpectedly collapses into a coma. His consciousness drifts though a
  series of dreams, memories and visions of his first love, the sorceress,
  who beckons him to join her in the Great Beyond in this surreal fable of
  true love, giant hedgehogs and the mystical depths of family bonds.
  Antero Alli (in petrson), Super-8 film &DV, 2003; 96 min. 2-minute
  teaser http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/UASMFV.html the movie site
  http://www.verticalpool.com/moon.html filmography
  http://www.verticalpool.com/filmography.html

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2009
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1/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

"CRAWFORD" A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY DAVID MODIGLIANI
  Los Angeles Filmforum presents "Crawford" A Documentary Film by David
  Modigliani – The Farewell Tour. "Crawford" (2008, 74 min) is an
  extraordinary documentary by first-time filmmaker David Modigliani,
  provides a unique perspective on the Bush presidency: through the eyes
  of the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas. 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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MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009
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1/19
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.

FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE, 1963-1970
  Films of Stan Brakhage, 1963-70 89 minutes, 16mm Admission: $5 MOTHLIGHT
  is a collage of found material taped to clear leader. The rigor and
  cruelty of the cinematic frame is here celebrated and condemned as
  powerfully and importantly as Kubelka's ARNULF RAINER. Though his
  shortest film, Brakhage considered EYE MYTH his version of an epic. With
  each frame handpainted, he hoped to capture the intermediate state
  between wakefulness and sleep. THE WEIR–FALCON SAGA renders
  indeterminate whether its imagery is objective or subjective, dream or
  memory, fear or fact. Also in program: FIRE OF WATERS, PASHT, THE
  HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN, and THE MOTH, and THE MACHINE OF EDEN.

1/19
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.

MANHATTA AND OTHER RESTORED TREASURES
  Archivist, curator and filmmaker Bruce Posner is on hand to attend to a
  collection of preserved vintage films and beautifully restored
  prints—all in 35mm. Its crown jewel is a digital restoration of Paul
  Strand and Charles Sheeler's Manhatta (1920, 12 min.), "a radical modern
  masterpiece... one of the first American avant-garde films and a
  forerunner of the 'city symphony' films," according to Posner. The
  program also includes Dudley Murphy's Soul of the Cypress (1920, 11
  min.), with its original Debussy recording; Fernand Léger and Murphy's
  classic Ballet Mécanique (1923–24, 16 min.); Rudy Burckhardt's rarely
  seen Haiti (1938, 16 min.); Francis Lee's 1941 (1941, 4 min.); Maya
  Deren's haunting Meditation on Violence (1948, 13 min.); Francis
  Thompson's jazzy N.Y., N.Y. (1957, 15 min.); Confession (1990, 9 min.),
  the remarkable and moving fragment of Sergei Paradjanov's last
  unfinished project; and Posner's own Sappho and Jerry: Parts I–III
  (1977–78, 7 min.), completed in CinemaScope. In person: Bruce Posner The
  2K digital restoration of Manhatta was performed by Lowry Digital under
  the supervision of Posner for Anthology Film Archives, British Film
  Institute, The Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, National
  Gallery of Art, and Nederlands Filmmuseum. Jack H. Skirball Series $9
  [students $7]

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2009
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1/20
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor

LANDSCAPE SUICIDE
  Landscape Suicide James Benning, 16mm, 1986, 95 mins Introduced by Peter
  Hutton "All of James Benning's features can be regarded as shotgun
  marriages in which he attempts to wed his distinctive formal talents and
  interests--framing midwestern landscapes with beauty and nostalgia,
  using ambiguous offscreen sounds to create narrative expectations--with
  an intellectual or social rationale. Landscape Suicide (1986) was almost
  certainly his most successful and interesting foray in this direction
  since One Way Boogie Woogie (1977). Delving into two murder
  cases--Bernadette Protti's seemingly unmotivated stabbing murder of
  another teenage girl in a California suburb in 1984, and Ed Gein's even
  more gratuitous mass slayings and mutilations in rural Wisconsin in the
  late 50s--Benning uses actors to re-create part of the killers' court
  testimonies and juxtaposes them with the commonplace settings where
  these crimes took place. Boldly eschewing the specious psychological
  rhetoric that usually accompanies accounts of such crimes, he creates an
  open forum for the spectator to contemplate the mysterious vacancy of
  these people and these places, and their relationships to each other.
  The performances of both actors, Rhonda Bell and Elian Sacker, are
  extraordinary achievements, and the chilling, evocative landscapes have
  their own stories to tell; the fusion of the two creates gaps that not
  even the film's confusing title can fill, but the space opened up is at
  once powerful and provocative." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
  Tickets - $7, available at door.

1/20
Phoenix, AZ: Soul Invictus
http://www.soulinvictus.com
8:00pm, 1022 NW Grand Ave

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009
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1/21
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)

WHITE HEART - THE RARE MASTERPIECE BY DANIEL BARNETT
  White Light Cinema and The Nightingale are pleased to present a rare
  screening of Daniel Barnett's little-seen 1975 masterpiece WHITE HEART,
  showing in an original reversal print. Barnett's film is infrequently
  screened and is not well known, to the general film-going audience or to
  most experimental film aficionados alike. **** It is one of those
  'famous' films that practically no one knows about. But its advocates
  are passionate about it (mostly other filmmakers—it's greatly admired by
  Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, and Saul Levine, for example). ****
  "Daniel Barnett is a leading experimental filmmaker who develops complex
  metaphors in his films out of rephotography and other post-production
  techniques. […] White Heart is his longest and most ambitious work.
  'Barnett's film consists of many disparate images, chosen for their
  strong sensual qualities, coupled with a labyrinthine and equally
  sensual soundtrack. After establishing the basic images, Barnett begins
  to interweave them, exaggerating certain qualities (color, texture)
  during printing. A mundane shot of a man jerkily spraying down an empty
  lot is adjusted so his shirt becomes a brilliant red glare. A super
  close-up of a fingertip holding a match is contrasty enough so every
  particle of sweat glistens in the lens. Concurrent sounds are similarly
  exaggerated and contribute to the sensual wash.... Shots are joined so
  that each moment resonates differently in time.' (Steve Anker, in
  Visions). White Heart takes off from a series of Wittgensteinian
  monologues which illustrate, as Konrad Steiner writes in Cinematograph
  (1985), 'the huge difference in the quality of knowledge we have about
  the experience of others, and that which we have about our own.' It goes
  on to investigate meaning, in a manner which Steiner likens to the
  painter Cezanne: '[The film has a] chaotic livelihood, [a] sense of
  gathering meanings right before my eyes. In this way the film is ABOUT
  the genesis of meaning.... [Cezanne's] still lifes and landscapes depict
  a threshold of vision or perhaps an ur-vision, before the objects of
  that vision have been fully assimilated into the familiar, expected
  appearances through the action of the eye-mind. Likewise, Barnett's film
  depicts a threshold of meaning. We are presented with a weave of sound
  and image not committed to a precisely rigid message....'" (Pacific Film
  Archive) **** WHITE HEART (1975, 53 minutes, vintage 16mm reversal
  print, color, sound): Directed by Daniel Barnett. **** Daniel Barnett
  studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught
  filmmaking at SUNY Binghamton and at Massachusetts College of Art, and
  the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to being an experimental
  film and video maker, he has worked professionally as a film editor and
  optical printing specialist and was the Executive Producer for
  Educational Projects at bePictures. He recently published the book
  Movement as Meaning: In Experimental Film.

1/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.

AVANT-GARDE SILENT FILMS - "THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA"
  Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present Avant-Garde Silent Films -
  The Man With The Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) A kaleidoscope of
  visual possibilities, a feast of energy and ideas, Dziga Vertov's
  everything-including-the-kitchen-sink picture-poem teems with life,
  craft and innovation. With live musical accompaniment TBA. Los Angeles
  Filmforum at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los
  Angeles, 90036. Wednesday January 21, 2009. 8:00 pm. General admission
  $14; Filmforum and Cinefamily members $10.
  http://www.silentmovietheatre.com and http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com.
  Parking across the street at Fairfax High School. Cinefamily:
  323-655-2510

1/21
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 pm, Billy Wilder Theatre at The Hammer Museum

ESSENTIAL VISUAL MUSIC: RARE CLASSICS
  UCLA Film and Television Archive, The Hammer Museum and Center for
  Visual Music (CVM)are pleased to present a new program of rarely
  screened films from the CVM collection, at The Billy Wilder Theatre at
  The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles on January 21. This evening features a
  range of works, from experiments by German film pioneers to light show
  psychedelia, and highlights the evolving technology and artistic
  sophistication of visual music and experimental animation. This new
  program curated by CVM includes little-seen films by Oskar Fischinger,
  Jules Engel, Charles Dockum, Mary Ellen Bute, John Stehura, David
  Lebrun, and Sixties Light Show films by Jud Yalkut/USCO and The Single
  Wing Turquoise Bird. Several of the works in the show were designed to
  be used in performance contexts, light shows and other expanded forms of
  cinema, often with independent musical accompaniment, such as the 35mm
  'recreation' film of Oskar Fischinger's multiple-projector film
  performances from the mid-1920s. A number of the films were made in
  Southern California, including early experiments in computer graphics
  from UCLA in the 1960s and Cal Arts in the 1970s. Many of the prints in
  this show represent recent preservation work by CVM. The program will be
  presented by archivist/curator Cindy Keefer of CVM, and a Q&A will
  follow the screening with filmmakers Michael Scroggins, David Lebrun and
  Peter Mays. FREE Admission! 16mm/35mm. Funding for the preservation of
  many of the films was provided, in part, by the National Film
  Preservation Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Jules
  Engel Preservation Project, Deutsches Filmmuseum and private donors.
  Komposition in Blau was preserved by The Academy Film Archive. Mood
  Contrasts screened courtesy Cecile Starr. Full title list and Film Notes
  at UCLA Calendar site: www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendar.aspx --AND
  on CVM's Event site: www.centerforvisualmusic.org/VMEssenClassics.htm
  --- The Billy Wilder Theatre is on the Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum,
  10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. 310-206-8013.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2009
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1/22
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
7pm, 1 East Hastings

THE SOFT REVOLUTION
  THE SOFT REVOLUTION: AN INTERACTIVE CINEMATIC INSTALLATION. Cineworks
  Independent Filmmakers Society is excited to present The Soft
  Revolution, an interactive cinematic installation by Vancouver-based
  media artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts. The Soft Revolution
  explores cinematic narrative form in a highly abstracted, tangential
  way. Just as the phenomenon of persistence of vision allows the human
  brain to perceived a series of rapidly presented still images as fluid
  motion–one might suggest an analogous phenomenon that we will call the
  persistence of narrative. In such a scenario, despite continuous
  digression, little exposition and a structure that engages the chaotic
  nature of the I-Ching, scenes accumulate meaning and ultimately story,
  through a continuity of theme, character and the common referent of the
  aforementioned Taoist philosophical text. Just as we look for
  representational elements within the abstract [faces in clouds,
  astrological figures], mankind's desire to understand causal situations
  in terms of narrative is deeply ingrained. The Soft Revolution explores
  this nexus between reverie and story. Created by independent media
  artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts, The Soft Revolution is a
  three-channel video installation. When participants interact with the
  work by making narrative choices on the control consoles, a simple local
  network of computers running on a combination of purpose built hardware
  and software translates and transmits their decisions to installation
  screens. The Soft Revolution is an action, a performance, and will never
  be read the same way twice. Though not explicitly about the technology
  behind the scenes, the improvisatory nature of The Soft Revolution is an
  innovative exploration of cinematic forms because it shifts the weight
  of narrative framing squarely to the particular interacting participant.
  The Soft Revolution// Opening 22 January 2009, 7-9 pm, artists in
  attendance// 23, 24, 28-30 January 2009, 1-5pm// Interurban Gallery [1
  East Hastings]

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2009
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1/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia street

GOOD EVENING, FOLKS: WE'RE THE PINE BOX BOYS
  Friday, January 23, 2009. 8PM $6 GOOD EVENING, FOLKS: WE'RE THE PINE BOX
  BOYS They're one of San Francisco's worst-kept secrets. They're
  internationally popular for their blood-soaked,
  country-punk-bluegrass-metal songs of murder and misery. You've seen
  them live, and you danced so hard you sprained your ankle. And now
  they've got a movie. Artists Television Access is proud to host the
  world premiere screening of GOOD EVENING, FOLKS: WE'RE THE PINE BOX
  BOYS, a concert film shot at San Francisco's Cafe du Nord. Directed by
  longtime band associate Dr. Astronaut Body, starring The Pine Box Boys
  with two guest musicians (including Yoon-Ki Chai and Greta Boesel), and
  featuring 16 of their wildest, bloodiest songs, GOOD EVENING is a
  gritty, low-rez, hi-fi,
  so-close-to-the-stage-you-can-smell-the-singer's-beard musical
  experience. And here it is, loud as hell and grainy like wheat bread,
  for the first public screening anywhere in the world. A BENEFIT FOR
  ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS "Good Evening, Folks: We're The Pine Box
  Boys" 88 minutes / directed by Dr. Astronaut Body

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2009
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1/24
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.

THE ARTIST AND THE ARCHIVES - SHORT FILMS BY BILL MORRISON
  Los Angeles Filmforum and Cinfamily present The Artist and The Archives
  - Bill Morrison Shorts The forgotten becomes unforgettable in the
  exquisite 35mm shorts of justly celebrated filmmaker Bill Morrison,
  known for his groundbreaking feature Decasia. Resisting the lures of
  kitsch, nostalgia and winking sarcasm, Morrison's found footage films
  could be described as seances or invocations, playing on the idea of the
  motion picture as a kind of spiritual lost-and-found. Films include
  Light Is Calling, The Mesmerist, The Highwater Trilogy, The Film of Her,
  and Outerborough. 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

1/24
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
8:45 p.m., AGO's Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. W.

THE FREE SCREEN - PALACE OF PLEASURE & EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE
  The first film produced by the McMaster Film Board (the seed of the
  Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre), John Hofsess's Palace of
  Pleasure was greeted as a watershed event in experimental and
  underground circles when it was released in the Sixties. It was praised
  by everyone from avant-garde filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas to Roger
  Ebert, and hailed as a "vital part of the new cinema" by Gene Youngblood
  of the Los Angeles Free Press. Key to the emergence of experimental work
  in Ontario, Palace is explosively energetic, employing a barrage of
  techniques and approaches – multiple screen projection,
  superimpositions, hyper kinetic editing, kaleidoscopic effects – in its
  elaborate twin indictment of sensation-seeking Sixties youth culture and
  American imperialism. Hofsess, who went on to become the film critic for
  Maclean's, welds various elements together with both a comprehensive
  knowledge of avant-garde cinema and a desire to provoke. The film pushes
  as many buttons as it can, cross-cutting between a fairly graphic (for
  the period) sexual encounter, civil strife and war (ultimately, it's
  more about Thanatos than Eros), Velvet Underground tunes, lengthy
  psychedelic jams, and Leonard Cohen poems. (Palace's cast, incidentally,
  includes a young David Cronenberg.) Hofsess went on to make the
  notorious feature Columbus of Sex, now lost, which became one of the
  most scandalous censorship events of the era. Palace is Hofsess's only
  extant film, restored and presented here because of the painstaking work
  done by Ryerson PhD candidate Stephen Broomer, who will introduce and
  talk about the film tonight in its first public screening since 1968.
  Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable is Ronald Nameth's legendary
  and seminal record of a series of live performances involving pop art
  icon Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, members from Warhol's Factory
  and poet Gerard Malanga. An avant-garde document that is perfectly
  simpatico with Palace, the film collapses a series of different shows
  into a groundbreaking visual and sonic trip. "An experience, not an
  idea. . . . [T]he ethos of the entire pop life-style seems to be
  synthesized in Nameth's dazzling kinesthetic master-piece" (Gene
  Youngblood, Expanded Cinema).

1/24
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
10am, The Interurban [1 East Hastings]

TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTIVE CINEMA
  TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTIVE CINEMA: INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP FOR INDEPENDENT
  MEDIA ARTISTS. Technological advances are now enabling approaches to
  cinema previously unimaginable. Interactive movies, video mixing and
  even video games are forcing filmmakers and audiences alike to redefine
  the ways in which they engage in cinema. This workshop will investigate
  various techniques and theories that might be employed in the creation
  of an interactive cinema, be that narrative, experimental or something
  in between. In conjunction with Cineworks's presentation of The Soft
  Revolution, an interactive cinematic installation, this workshop offers
  an opportunity for those interested in interactive techniques to engage
  with artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts in an intimate
  environment of exchange. Techniques for Interactive Cinema// 24 January
  2009// Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]// Cost is $35 for
  members/$50 for non-members// Registration: Please call 604.685.3841 or
  send an electronic message to Leanne at (address suppressed) Registration
  Deadline: 21 January 2009 Instructors: Brian Johnson's current field of
  work challenges the traditional parameters of filmmaking by inviting
  immediacy and improvisation into the cinematic experience. He is a
  member of the Truth Channel–an ongoing collective of artists working in
  the emerging forms of multimedia and performed cinema. Anthony Roberts
  is a writer/director, composer and teacher. He has worked on a number of
  groundbreaking film and multimedia projects whose concerns range from
  interactivity to improvisation to surrealist collage. In 1990 he formed
  The Truth Channel with filmmaker Bill Mullan–an experimental multimedia
  group that has co-produced over two-dozen installations/performances.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2009
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1/25
Houston, Texas: Domy Books Houston
http://www.domystore.com
8:30pm, 1709 Westheimer

1/25
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia street

I WANTED EVERY DAY TO LAST FOREVER
  Sunday, January 25, 2009. 8PM $6 i wanted every day to last forever
  short films by irwin swirnoff (2003-present) Collection of short films
  shot on super 8 by local film-maker and kusf dj and co-music director
  irwin swirnoff. Irwin's films daydream into the sky & sun, finding small
  moments in the everyday that leave lasting impressions and allowing the
  viewer to drift in and out of their own memories, desires, longing and
  the pleasure that can come from being present in the everyday. His deep
  love of music has lead to collaborations with musicians who have created
  original score's for his work, including Tomo Yasuda (Tussle, Coconut,
  Hey Willpower) and Preston Swirnoff (The Shining Path, Monosov/Swirnoff,
  Habitat Sound Sysytem). Opening musical set by mira cook.
  www.myspace.com/miracook

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