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Date: Sat Jan 31 2009 - 07:51:27 PST
This week [January 31 - February 1, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"The Disposable Film Festival presents:Red Bucket Films" by kent howie
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"Speechless" by Scott Stark
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"Right" by Scott Stark
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FUNDING:
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Experimental Television Center (Deadline: March 15, 2009)
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JOB AVAILABLE:
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Hampshire College
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Soft Science: The Human Animal (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2009)
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FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR NBFF- JAN 30 (newport beach, ca, USA; Deadline: January 30, 2009)
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2009 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: February 02, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA. USA; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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The Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, US; Deadline: April 10, 2009)
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60 x 60 WHAT IF? (new england, usa; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI ; USA; Deadline: March 26, 2009)
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Woodstock Museum 10th Annual FREE Film/Video Festival (Woodstock, NY U.S.A.; Deadline: August 05, 2009)
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Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: February 26, 2009)
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Wimbledon Film Festival 2009 (London, UK; Deadline: March 31, 2009)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 10, 2009)
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CHEESE SANDWICH FILM FESTIVAL (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: March 26, 2009)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Renderyard International Film Festival (London; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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MEDIA CITY (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Main Line Film Festival (Wayne, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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4th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 15, 2009)
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West Chester Film Festival (West Chester, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Detroit Shorts Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: March 01, 2009)
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Soft Science: The Human Animal (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2009)
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2009 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: February 02, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA. USA; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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60 x 60 WHAT IF? (new england, usa; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: February 26, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 46th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival [January 31, Chicago, Illinois]
* An Evening With Rick Prelinger and the Prelinger Archives [January 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema Strike / Stachka [January 31, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potemkin [January 31, New York, New York]
* The Disposable Film Festival Presents:Fritz Donnelly [January 31, San Francisco, California]
* Artist Talk + White Calligraphy Performance By Takahiko iimura [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* My Year In Malaya [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Bageroo, Too! [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Essential Cinema Old and New [February 1, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema October / Oktyabr [February 1, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2009
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1/31
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60640
46TH ANNUAL ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL
Chicago Filmmakers is proud to host the 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival
Tour in its final victory lap before the 2009 festival begins in March.
Shown to delighted audiences across the country, the AAFF tour is a
collection of the finest cutting-edge, independent and
artistically-inspired short films from the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival
across all genres: experimental, documentary, animation and narrative.
Since the AAFF started touring in 1964, it has presented hundreds of
influential works, including films by Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant,
Sally Cruikshank, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Brown, Ross McLaren, Paul
Winkler, James Duesing, and Jay Rosenblatt. This program is a collection
of awarded films and highlights selected from the 2008 films in
competition. In 2007, Variety magazine named the AAFF one of the "Top
Ten Festivals We Love" for its daring artistic vision. Chicago
Filmmakers will be showing program two of the tour, most of which are
Chicago premieres. A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS (IN LESS
THAN 60 SECONDS) - Chel White (Portland, OR; 2 min.) THE ANTHEM –
Apichtapong Weerasethakul (Bangkok, Thailand; 5 min.) THE DRIFT – Kelly
Sears (Glendale, CA; 9 min.) A HUNDRED FEET UNIVERSE – Naoko Tasaka
(Valencia, CA; 3 min.) SPONTANEOUS GENERATIN – Andrew Cahill
(Providence, RI; 5 min.) MY CROATIAN NOSE – Richard Dinter (Stockholm,
Sweden; 13 min.) MATES – Martin Thoburn (Ann Arbor, MI; 5.5 min.) WHITE
OUT – Jeff Scher (Brooklyn, NY; 3 min.) THE ADVENTURE – Mike Brune
(Atlanta, GA; 22 min.) ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT– Adam Keker
(San Francisco, CA; 6 min.) BRILLIANT NOISE – Semiconductor (Brighton,
United Kingdom; 6 min.) ENERGIE! – Thorsten Fleisch (Berlin, Germany; 5
min.) PORTRAIT #2: TROJAN – Vanessa Renwick (Portland, OR; 5 min.) All
screenings take place at Chicago Filmmakers unless otherwise noted.
Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60640 /
773-293-1447 / www.chicagofilmmakers.org Unless indicated otherwise,
single admission is: $8 General $7 Students with I.D. $4 CF Members
1/31
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
AN EVENING WITH RICK PRELINGER AND THE PRELINGER ARCHIVES
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present The Artist and The Archives
- An Evening with Rick Prelinger and The Prelinger Archives Archivist
Rick Prelinger accumulated perhaps the country's largest collection of
"ephemeral" works – industrial and sponsored films, home movies,
educational films and commercials, and more. Tonight Prelinger discusses
the life and work of Jamison "Jam" Handy, who produced almost 7,000
sponsored industrial and commercial films during his lifetime, including
the "Roads to Romance" series promoting tourism by car, and many more.
Select Jam Handy films from the archive will be screened after the
presentation. 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
1/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA STRIKE / STACHKA
Sergei Eisenstein 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Eisenstein's interest in the
Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which
non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating
Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping
realism by "being real."
1/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN / BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN
Sergei Eisenstein 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With English
intertitles. Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid,
super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous,
inflamed emotion.
1/31
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
THE DISPOSABLE FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS:FRITZ DONNELLY
Saturday, January 31, 2009. 8PM $6 The Disposable Film Festival
presents: Fritz Donnelly Fritz Donnelly is a "film guerilla auteur"
(Black Book Magazine). His films expound "Financial Advice" and squirm
through "Awkward Social Situations." He started airing his work on
public access with a weekly "To the Hills" show. He sold 3,000 DVDs of
his first compilation of shorts on the streets of New York City. He has
been featured on cable TV, shown in the New Museum of Contemporary Art,
at Anthology Film Archive, and text-messaged into outdoor cinemas. His
short films have been chosen as audience favorites at 10-year
retrospective programs at both San Francisco's High Concept/ Low Budget
Film Festival and in Brooklyn's Rooftop Films series. With Christina
Ewald he runs hichristina.com a space for self-expression. His films
about hustlers, dreamers, and people like you and me are at
tothehills.com. His first novel, How to Live the Good Life, is online
here: http://www.lulu.com/content/4713879. The Disposable Film Festival
was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable
video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use
video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer
screen capture software, and other readily available video capture
devices. With people everywhere posting videos online, we felt the time
was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode
of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and
documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media
can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings,
competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the
disposable genre.
1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
http://www.the8fest.com
4pm, Trash Palace - 89B Niagara Street
ARTIST TALK + WHITE CALLIGRAPHY PERFORMANCE BY TAKAHIKO IIMURA
White Calligraphy Takahiko Iimura live Super 8 performance Tokyo
1967/2009. Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese
experimental film and video, working in film since 1960 and with video
since 1970. He has been a link between the North American and Japanese
experimental media communities for over forty years, spending time and
making work in both New York and Tokyo.Iimura will discuss his use of
small-gauge film and his body of work as a whole after performing White
Calligraphy. This piece reworks a film initially made in 1967 by
writing/scratching the characters of the "Kojiki", the oldest story in
Japan, directly onto 16mm black leader (now reduced to Super 8). The
language flows by at one character per frame. Iimura handholds the Super
8 projector, varying the speed and angle at will. The result
anthropomorphizes the iconographic characters of the story, animating
language into a visual dance.
1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
http://www.the8fest.com
7pm, Trash Palace - 89B Niagara Street
MY YEAR IN MALAYA
Homemade Movies home movie history project presents My Year in Malaya.
Films shot by Harold Norris with live narration by Cathy Punter. 8mm
Toronto 1953-54 30 min. In 1953 at the age of 13 Cathy Norris (now Cathy
Punter) travelled with her family from Toronto to live in Malaya for a
year. Her father Harold recorded their time in Malaya on beautifully
preserved colour 8mm film and slides. Harold Norris was a schoolteacher
in Toronto and was sent under the post-World War II Colombo development
plan to teach at the government school in the city of Ipoh (today the
capital of the Malaysian state of Perak). Cathy has vivid memories of
what she saw in Malaya: The Sultan's court, convent school, the hustle
and bustle of street markets, British colonial officials, tin mining,
bearing Kavadis on flesh hooks at the Thaipusam religious procession,
the jungle and countryside, dhow fishing on the Straights of Malacca –
to name a few of the subjects captured in her father's films. followed
by . . .Bring Your Home Movies The second part of our screening is your
chance to bring your home movies to show (8mm, super 8). Dig through
your parent's attic or grab that orphaned reel you found at the thrift
shop. – AND – If you no longer have a working projector, come early to
our Home Movie Repair Clinic starting at 6 PM. Let us help you
one-on-one to look through your home movie collection again and give
advice on preserving your films.
1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
http://www.the8fest.com
9pm, Trash Palace - 89B Niagara Street
BAGEROO, TOO!
recent Super 8 filmmaking! An exciting collection of new small gauge
films closes out this year's screenings! Eight of these films were
selected from an international call for recent Super 8 films. Augmenting
the selection of recent work is five brand-new films commissioned by the
8 fest, and supported by Kodak Canada and Exclusive Film & Video.
Further proof of the many possibilities of small-gauge filmmaking, these
films range from evocative expressions of place to comedic entendres.
Hailing from Toronto, across Canada and from the USA, Germany & Japan,
this survey shows glimpses of the active practices of Super 8 film. All
films in Super 8! Films by Jason Halprin (Pittsburgh), Jason Ebanks
(Toronto), John Porter (Toronto), Coral Aiken (Montreal), Julie Doucette
(Moncton), Alex Rogalski (Toronto), Mario Doucette (Moncton), Alexandre
Larose (Montreal), Tanya Read (Toronto), Andrew J. Paterson (Toronto),
Rob Cruickshank (Toronto), Tomonari Nishikawa (San Francisco/Tokyo),
Adam Paradis (Boston), and Dagie Brundert (Berlin).
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2009
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2/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA OLD AND NEW
Sergei Eisenstein 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Known also as THE GENERAL LINE,
this is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed and
perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of
characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and
"overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith.
2/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA OCTOBER / OKTYABR
Sergei Eisenstein 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Eisenstein celebrates the
baroque in OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN,
disappointing contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema"
starts here.
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