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Date: Sat Feb 07 2009 - 16:18:17 PST
Part 2 of 2: This week [February 7 - 15, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2009
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2/11
Berlin, Germany: Urban Research
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2009/framesIndex.html
11 pm, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH SCREENING AT DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
I Pity the Fool — Brent Coughenour, 2007, 1:23:00
2/11
Berlin, Germany: Urban Research
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2009/framesIndex.html
8 pm, Galerie M, Marzahner Promenade 113, Berlin-Marzahn, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH SPECIAL SCREENING DURING DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
Cinema Returns the Gaze | carlo ghioni, TRANSPORT - 1 NOVEL - 2
ZIPZOPZAP, 2008, 0:13:00 | Christopher Ernst, Boxing the Compass, 2008,
0:45:00 | Alexander Markov, Cities in the Cities, 2003, 0:20:00
2/11
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009 |
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/11
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, 621 Huntington Ave
BOB HARRIS: FILMS & TAPES
italics Suite of Summer Evenings, Elegy, Almost Birds, Rosita, North
Shore Oahu, and other works.
2/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:30 and 8:30 pm, KAOS Network 4343 Leimert Blvd. at 43rd Place (2 blocks east of Crenshaw)
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTH MAIN BY KELLY PARKER
Los Angeles Filmforum presents SOUTH MAIN (2008, 77 minutes) by Kelly
Parker. An intimate portrait of three single African American mothers as
they struggle to raise their families and regain their lives after a
government imposed relocation and closure of their apartment complex in
South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Filmforum, at KAOS Network 4343 Leimert
Blvd.at 43rd Place. Wednesday February 11, 2009. 6:30 and 8:30 pm.
General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Street parking. Two blocks east of
Crenshaw Blvd.
2/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE
RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of Seattle's
homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in
which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner
Truth asking, "Ain't I a woman?" Jose's recitation poses a question that
most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer
outrageous fortune or to die. We're reminded that the authors of these
canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us
are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and
a musical score by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O'Neil, GREAT SPEECHES is
one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a
moving meditation on the fragility of life.
2/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
ELEMENTAL DISPOSITIONS
This program of new and recent short work by local and international
film and video artists delves into the tactile, the meditative and the
provocative. Relationships to our environs – natural, terrestrial and
constructed – are explored and re-configured, evoking and provoking
impressions that negotiate, delve into and transcend the surface.
Featuring Deborah Stratman's It Will Die Out in the Mind, Samantha
Rebello's the object which thinks us: OBJECT I, Scott Stark's
Speechless, Charlotte Pryce's The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the
Fly, Makino Takashi's Elements of Nothing (featuring the music of Jim
O'Rourke) and Diane Kitchen's Ecstatic Vessels.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2009
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2/12
Berlin, Germany: Urban Research
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2009/framesIndex.html
8 pm, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH SCREENING AT DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
Heterotopies, Places and the Psychology of Construction | Barbara
Rosenthal, I Have A New York Accent, 1988, 0:01:23 | Ross Lipman, Clean
MRF / Dirty MRF, 2008, 0:06:00 | Barbara Rosenthal, Society, 1990;
remastered 2009, 0:05:37 | Charlotte Ginsborg, The Mirroring Cure, 2006,
0:27:00 | Oliver Whitehead, H2O, 2008, 0:04:00 | Adam
Kossoff,Goldfinger's Playground, 2008, 0:04:45 | Claire Hope,Your task
will fail to be realised (I'll do what I can), 2005, 0:08:35
2/12
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/12
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
5:30pm, Arsenal 1, Potsdamer Strasse 2
LUDWIG SCHöNHERR #1
Zoom Doku Super8, 18', 1967-69 Das unbekannte Hamburg / Unknown Hamburg
16 mm, 60', 1983-88 Stupid Structures, Happy Structures: Films, an
Installation and an Exhibition by Ludwig Schönherr, Curated by Marc
Siegel Ludwig Schönherr began making photographs and paintings in the
late '50s. In the mid-'60s, his interest in the visual arts shifted to
film. From 1967-1970, a pe- riod of intense productivity in European
experimental film more generally, Schönherr made scores of short su-
per8 and 16mm films that explored specific technical, aesthetic, and
representational aspects of the medium, namely, the zoom, the use of
flickering color, and the depiction of the face. At approximately the
same time, Schönherr acquired his first black and white television and
produced a lengthy series of "electronic films" or single-frame films of
television images, interrupted by flickering color. This beautiful and
ever watchable se- ries marked the start of the artist's lifelong focus
on the ubiquity of television and popular cultural images in modern
life. Schönherr has also produced numerous single and multi-frame
photographs of television im- ages. Of his preoccupation with
television, Schönherr quipped, "Life in television is much more
interesting than real life outside." In the mid- to late '70s, over the
course of a number of visits to New York, Schönherr produced an
astounding 107 hour, super8 film, a "visual diary" that consists of
impressions of the city, its in- habitants, and its television culture.
In the mid-'80s, Schönherr made a similarly stunning portrait film of
the city of Hamburg. The sixty minute film, Unknown Ham- burg (1983-8) –
the artist's only work produced with public funds – intersperses
carefully framed shots of unfamiliar Hamburg cityscapes with silent
close-ups of ballerinas from the Hamburg Ballet, images remniscent of
Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. Alongside television and urban landscapes,
ballerinas surface again and again as the objects of Schönherr's gaze,
both in his films and photographs (in the mid-'60s Schönherr even wrote
two ballets himself). The artist's diverse production has been
accompanied by the development of ever changing, concisely articulated
theories about film, television and photography. Most of these one to
two page theo- ries address questions about the formal structures gov-
erning the organization of images in the respective me- dia. Schönherr's
interest in form and structure in both practice and theory avoids the
dry academicism and self-important humorlessness that characterizes the
thinking of many of his contemporaries in the realm of formal or
structural film. Neither stridently structural, nor purely pop,
Schönherr has forged his own path be- tween Fluxus and formal film. In
addition to pursuing his own projects, Schönherr frequently became
involved with the work of other artists and friends, such as Otto Mühl,
Nam June Paik, Jack Smith and Dieter Roth.
2/12
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6pm, 164 N. State
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: VIDEOS BY CECELIA CONDIT
Cecelia Condit in person! Since the early 1980s, Cecelia Condit has
garnered acclaim for her sweetly gruesome stories of menaced and
menacing women. Described as "feminist fairy tales," her videos set
Brothers Grimm-like parables in the suburban landscape of the American
Midwest, mixing black humor, lush photography, and eerily sing-song
soundtracks to unearth the dark fantasies lurking there. A wolf-headed
man stalks shopping women in POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983), skeletons
caress youthful skin in NOT A JEALOUS BONE (w/music by Stephen Vogel,
1987), and little girls hide away from angry mothers in OH, RAPUNZUL
(w/Dick Blau and music by Stephen Vogel, 1996/2008). Also featured,
among others, is the Chicago premiere of ANNIE LLOYD (2008), an
unflinching valentine to Condit's mother in her last years. Co-presented
by the Video Data Bank. 1983--2008, Cecelia Condit, USA, DVCAM video, ca
70 min.
2/12
Leipzig, Germany: D21
http://www.d21-leipzig.de
8 PM, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig Demmeringstraße 21
I PITY THE FOOL
U.S. filmmaker Brent Coughenour in person to present a super 8 narrative
city-poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial collapse in
the city of Detroit. I PITY THE FOOL, 2007, super 8 presented on video,
83 min. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE FOOL gradually accrues
more elements as it goes on: fragments of narrative combine with other
fragments that at first have no obvious connection. As opposed to
story-lines in many feature-length films that gradually tie up and
resolve their different threads, the focus of the film continues to
broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended and mysterious.
Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things nearly recent and
long past, the film attempts to re-capture the marginalized and
defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten tenants . . . . I
PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone interested in, among other
things, urban space, post-industrial landscapes, psycho-geography, found
objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8, experimental narrative, and radical
film form." -Luke Sieczek, Northwest Film Forum
2/12
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
CHARLIE HADEN: RAMBLING BOY - A DOCUMENTARY BY RETO CADUFF
2009, 84 min., Los Angeles premiere Long revered among the all-time
great jazz bassists, Charlie Haden has gone on to make essential
contributions to a wide spectrum of genres: avant-garde, small ensemble,
big band, world music, folk and gospel. This new documentary from
award-winning Swiss-born filmmaker Reto Caduff offers an absorbing
chronicle of Haden's life and work—as instrumentalist, composer,
bandleader, educator, political activist and family man. A member of
Ornette Coleman's incomparable quartet in the 1960s, Haden has since led
his own Quartet West and the larger Liberation Music Orchestra,
collaborating along the way with jazz giants Carla Bley, Keith Jarrett,
Pat Metheny and many others. The most recent album from the CalArts Jazz
Program founder is the Grammy-nominated Rambling Boy, a collection that
harkens back to Haden's early days playing Americana and bluegrass on
his parents' radio show Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7]
2/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in
which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner
Truth asking, "Ain't I a woman?" Jose's recitation poses a question that
most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer
outrageous fortune or to die. We're reminded that the authors of these
canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us
are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and
a musical score by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O'Neil, GREAT SPEECHES is
one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a
moving meditation on the fragility of life.
2/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7.30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NOTHING BUT A MAN
Thursday, February 12, 2009. 7:30PM $6 Nothing But a Man A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition Film Showing & Discussion commemorating Black History Month A
landmark independent film—surpressed after its initial release—Nothing
But a Man is dramatic portrayal of the struggles and hardships of Black
life in 1960's America. This quietly moving, beautiful film remains as
relevant today as it was then. Set against the rise of the civil rights
movement the film tells the story of Duff, a railroad section hand, who
is forced to confront virulent racism with Josie, a preacher's daughter.
Nothing But a Man is devastingly powerful film about the struggle for
the basic necessities of dignity and respect. Starring Ivan Dixon and
jazz great Abbey Lincoln. Music by Mary Wells, Martha and the Vandellas,
the Miracles, the Marvellettes, Stevie Wonder and others.1964, 92min.,
directed by Michael Roemer. www.ANSWERcoalition.org
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2009
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2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/13
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
7pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Strasse 2
LUDWIG SCHöNHERR #2
Program #2 Face 1 / Face 2 Super8, 9', 1968-69 New York: Ein visuelles
Arbeitstagebuch/New York: A Visual Work Diary Super8, 60', 1976-79
2/13
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Time and Event in the Still and Moving Image. The films presented in
this program employ diverse and unconventional strategies for organizing
and experiencing still images as cinematic events. All cinematic
sequences involve rapidly flashing still photographs that are magically
transformed into an illusion of organic movement. The observer's mind
and body respond to and make sense of these moving pictures as with
other visual patterns, movements and multi-sensory associations that the
body already knows. A person viewing a photograph or painting controls
the timing and duration of the event while moving around within the
image in a way that is different from the experience of time and
representational events that occur in most films. Chris Marker's La
Jetée makes use of photographic time to relate a science fiction film
about time travel. Frampton, Greenaway and Benning use non-narrative,
notational editing strategies of listing and classification. Frampton's
organizational procedure for Zorns Lemma conflates cinema's 24 frames
per second with the Roman alphabet of 24 letters. Lockhart's NO
documents hay being spread across a field while also referencing the
rasterized writing of pixels across video frames. Snow's Breakfast
appears to be a humorous and ironic allusion to modernist painting's
flattening of the picture's surface. Many of these artists use a
stationary camera and shots that range from still photographs to a
single 32-minute extended take. Once aware of the filmmaker's
organizational methods, viewers are free to explore the nuances and
progress of the story, process or game that takes place both within and
outside the frame, much in the manner that one would explore a
photograph or a real-time event. –Patrick Clancy. Vertical Features
Remake, Peter Greenaway (UK), 1978, 45 min., 16mm film shown on DVD.
Zorns Lemma, Hollis Frampton (USA), 1970, 60 min., 16mm film. Series
continues Feb. 20 and 27.
2/13
Melbourne, Australia: The Harry Shine Memorial Cinema
http://harryshine.wordpress.com
9pm, ABC Gallery, 127A Campbell St., Collingwood
OPEN SCREENING
Putting a jolt into Melbourne film culture with open screenings of new
and recent underground, experimental, strange and surprising cinema. A
hotbed of interaction between local filmmakers. Come along if you want
to be dazzled by the cutting edge of cinema or to shake your head in
dismay at what these idiots think they're doing. This month's lineup
includes films by Bill Mousoulis, Richard Tuohy, Christos Linou, Gene
Cline and Lucien Spectre. Some of the filmmakers will be there to
introduce and discuss their work. For more program details visit the
website or email: email suppressed Or join the Facebook group
"Friends of the Harry Shine Memorial Cinema" ----- If people want their
film/video screened they can submit a DVD copy up until a week before
each month's screening. See the website for more information.
2/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in
which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner
Truth asking, "Ain't I a woman?" Jose's recitation poses a question that
most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer
outrageous fortune or to die. We're reminded that the authors of these
canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us
are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and
a musical score by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O'Neil, GREAT SPEECHES is
one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a
moving meditation on the fragility of life.
2/13
Zurich, Switzerland: Kunstraum Walcheturm
http://www.walcheturm.ch/
9 pm, kanonengasse 20 8004 Zürich
I PITY THE FOOL
U.S. filmmaker Brent Coughenour in person to present a super 8 narrative
city poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial collapse in
the city of Detroit. I PITY THE FOOL, 2007, super 8 presented on video,
83 min. As a city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface.
Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered
questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing
pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies.
Fractured moments occurring on one summer day echo events from thirty
years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are
gathering. It is going to rain. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE
FOOL gradually accrues more elements as it goes on: fragments of
narrative combine with other fragments that at first have no obvious
connection. As opposed to story-lines in many feature-length films that
gradually tie up and resolve their different threads, the focus of the
film continues to broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended
and mysterious. Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things
nearly recent and long past, the film attempts to re-capture the
marginalized and defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten
tenants . . . . I PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone
interested in, among other things, urban space, post-industrial
landscapes, psycho-geography, found objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8,
experimental narrative, and radical film form." -Luke Sieczek, Northwest
Film Forum
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2009
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2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/14
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
12:00pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Strasse 2
LUDWIG SCHöNHERR #3
Program #3 New York: Ein visuelles Arbeitstagebuch / New York: A Visual
Work Diary Super 8, 720', 1976-79
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
Directed by Marcel Hanoun 1958, 68 minutes, 16mm. In French with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. "Based on a true incident, the
film chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and
lodging in Paris. … UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a
formal stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that
it makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost
Fellini-esque by comparison." –TIME
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in
which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner
Truth asking, "Ain't I a woman?" Jose's recitation poses a question that
most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer
outrageous fortune or to die. We're reminded that the authors of these
canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us
are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and
a musical score by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O'Neil, GREAT SPEECHES is
one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a
moving meditation on the fragility of life.
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2009
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2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009 - CLOSING NIGHT AND PARTY
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS BINAURAL: NEW MEDIA ART FROM THE NODAR
ARTIST RESIDENCY CENTER IN PORTUGAL
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Binaural: New Media Art from the Nodar
Artist Residency Center in Portugal. With Maile Colbert and Rui Costa in
person. All Los Angeles premieres. Binaural is a Portuguese media arts
collective that promotes the exploration and research in sound, visual
and new media arts, focusing on the crossing of media and languages and
on the articulation between artistic production and the surrounding
context, particularly through its activities in the rural space of
Nodar. Videos include "Contos do Paiva" (Martin Clarke and Alicja
Rogalska, 2007), "Souvenirs de Carmella" (Vered Dror, 2007), "Over the
Eyes" (Maile Colbert, 2007), "Nodar Flowlines : Sonzo-Paiva Conflux"
(John Grzinich, 2008) 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.
2/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
5:15 p.m., AGO's Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. W.
THE FREE SCREEN - HEINZ EMIGHOLZ'S LOOS ORNAMENTAL
The much-anticipated follow-up to Schindler's Houses, Heinz Emigholz's
international festival hit and a quick sellout in TIFF's 2007
Wavelengths programme, Loos Ornamental is the latest and thirteenth
installment in this leading German avant-garde filmmaker's critically
lauded Photography and Beyond series. Begun in 1984, this singular
undertaking, which will ultimately amount to twenty-five films on art
and design, has won Emigholz a solid place among the world's pre-eminent
artists. Meditations on the beauty of man-made works of art, his films
employ a rigorous taxonomic approach to buildings –"architecture as
autobiography," as the filmmaker calls it. Loos Ornamental comprises
twenty-seven buildings and interiors designed by Adolf Loos (1870-1933),
one of the most important and contentious pioneers of Modernist
architecture. The façades, shops, houses, apartments and monuments,
built between 1899 and 1931, are all presented in their present states,
shot in their natural surroundings, from Vienna, lower Austria, Prague,
Brno, Pilsen, Nachod, and Paris. The film thus provides a fascinating
comparative study of Loos's work which, to some degree, both
surprisingly and pleasantly deviates from the austere tenets he put
forth in his 1908 manifesto, Ornament and Crime – a turning point in
architectural theory, much discussed and debated to this present day.
Formal asceticism meets luscious materials (i.e., the innate
"ornamentation" of striated marble, of rich and undulating wood grains,
of sumptuous wall paneling), like in Vienna's famous Kärtner Bar (1908),
also known as "The American Bar," or simply, the "Loos Bar," a
shimmering jewel-box of a snug, romantic boîte.
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