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This week [February 21 - March 1, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NYC, NY; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Ways of Hearing: An Audio-Visual Amalgamation (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 27, 2009)
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Cheese Sandwich Film Festival (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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Detroit Shorts Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: March 01, 2009)
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Euganea Movie Movement 2009 (Monselice/Este - ITALY; Deadline: March 13, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Flex Fest Competition Program Three: People? [February 21, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Competition Program Four: Politics As (Un)Usual [February 21, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Competition Program Five: the Adult Party [February 21, Gainesville, FL]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part I [February 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema the Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc [February 21, New York, New York]
* Alfred Leslie Program 3 [February 21, New York, New York]
* Ventana Al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films [February 21, New York, New York]
* Flex Fest Competition Program Six: the Country and the City [February 22, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Competition Program Seven: Looking [February 22, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Competition Program Eight: Dysfunction Junction, Funny and Not [February 22, Gainesville, FL]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part I [February 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Ec the Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc [February 22, New York, New York]
* The Cedar Bar [February 22, New York, New York]
* Ec the Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc [February 22, New York, New York]
* The Text of Light (1974, Stan Brakhage) [February 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Deborah Stratman: America's Haunted Spirits [February 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania (1972, Jonas Mekas) [February 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* Flex Fest Presents- the Juche Idea [February 24, Gainesville, FL]
* Paranoid Park [February 24, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Flex Fest Presents- O'er the Land and A Film Far Beyond A God [February 25, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Presents- the Exiles [February 25, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Presents- Small Change Presents Action News [February 25, Gainesville, FL]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [February 25, New York, New York]
* <B>Episodes of Anomie</B> [February 25, San Francisco, California]
* Mock Up On Mu (Craig Baldwin, 2008) [February 26, Columbus, Ohio]
* Flex Fest Presents- the Pool [February 26, Gainesville, FL]
* Flex Fest Presents- Best of Festival Program [February 26, Gainesville, FL]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [February 26, New York, New York]
* Open Screening [February 26, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Of All the Things [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Largo Captures A Nocturnal Music Culture That's La's Unique Creation, and
A Fine Corrective To It's Tinseltown Image [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Ken Jacobs X 3: Old and New [February 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Electromediascope [February 27, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [February 27, New York, New York]
* A Year With andre Williams [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Gogol Bordello Non-Stop: A Gypsy-Punk Documentary [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Electric Schematic: Recent Works By Uic Alumni [February 28, Chicago, Illinois]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part ii [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 1 [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [February 28, New York, New York]
* Waiting For Sancho [February 28, New York, New York]
* Seven Signs: Music, Myth and the American South [February 28, San Francisco, California]
* I Need That Record: the Death (Or Possible Survival) of the Independent
Record Store [February 28, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Takahiko iimura: 60s Experiments and Early
Conceptual videos [March 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part ii [March 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Ashes of American Flags [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* Nightflight: Born Again [March 1, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2009
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2/21
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
4:30 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM THREE: PEOPLE?
Kevin Everson HOME 2008, 1:32, USA, miniDV. Warren Cockerham BETWEEN THE
SHEETS 2008, 6:15, USA, miniDV. Mischa Leinkauf THANKS ANYWAY 2006,
6:30, Germany, Digibeta. Jesse McLean THE ETERNAL QUARTER INCH 2008,
9:00, USA, miniDV. Ben Russell B&W TRYPPS #3 2007, 12:00, USA, 35mm. Jem
Cohen SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT 2007, 7:37, USA, miniDV. Salise Hughes
SHINY THINGS 2007, 5:10, USA, miniDV. Penny Lane and Annmarie Lanesey
SITTIN' ON A MILLION 2008, 26:30, USA, miniDV. Lenka Clayton and James
Price PEOPLE IN ORDER #1: AGE 2006, 3:00, UK, DVD.
2/21
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
7 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM FOUR: POLITICS AS (UN)USUAL
Vanessa Renwick PORTRAIT #2: TROJAN 2007, 5:00, USA, miniDV. Lenka
Clayton and James Price CONVERSATION 2006, 8:00, UK, miniDV. John Smith
DIRTY PICTURES 2007, 14:00, UK, miniDV. Kevin Everson PLAYING DEAD 2008,
1:30, USA, miniDV. Lauren Cook FOR ILSE 2007, 3:40, USA, 16mm. Martha
Colburn DON'T KILL THE WEATHERMAN! 2007, 5:00, USA, miniDV. Georg
Koszulinski FRAGMENTS FROM AN ENDLESS WAR 2008, 5:34, USA, miniDV. Paul
Turano I COVERED MY EYES 2008, 29:53, USA, miniDV.
2/21
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
9 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM FIVE: THE ADULT PARTY
Nana Swiczinsky LEZZIE FLICK 2008, 7:00, Austria, miniDV. Jonathan
Schwartz SUNBEAM HUNTER 2006, 3:00, USA, 16mm. Jim Trainor THE
PRESENTATION THEME 2008, 14:00, USA, 16mm. Scott Stark SPEECHLESS 2008,
13:00, USA, 16mm. Zachary Innazzi TO BE REGAINED 2008, 10:00, USA, 16mm.
Hito Steyerl LOVELY ANDREA 2007, 30:00, miniDV.
2/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL PART I
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films. Each screening: $5
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC / LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer 1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. No
English intertitles; English synopsis available. Although renowned for
its spare acts, lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's
masterpiece reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face, and
a landscape of history as individual as the lines on that face. It
continues to haunt the cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the
years go by.
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ALFRED LESLIE PROGRAM 3
Directed by Alfred Leslie Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. SONGS OF
THE BLUE-FOOTED BOOBIES 2008, 11 minutes, video. Music videos for
hipsters! In these short collages, three of Frank O'Hara's poems meet
their match with Leslie superimposing cabaret music and film clips. The
real zinger here is FANTASY, in which O'Hara's text combines with (a
very sexy) Hedy Lamarr and Ukelele Ike's definitive version of PAPER
MOON. EINSTEIN'S SECRET 2008, 11 minutes, video. In this highly
inventive work, Leslie layers a visual track of drawings and frames from
his graphic novella ATTACKED BY THE HEART with a text track of three
poems by Frank O'Hara streamed as subtitles. The soundtrack includes
found music and snippets of vintage movie dialogue. EINSTEIN'S SECRET is
also the title of a 1958 collage by Leslie. A STRANGER CALLS AT
MIDNIGHT?? 2008, 30 minutes, video. Subtitled "A Self-interview, of
Sorts", this brand new piece offers a unique view of Leslie's creative
practice, told in his own words. A pioneering post-modernist, the artist
here offers the back-story to several of his films, including PULL MY
DAISY.
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
VENTANA AL SUR: AN EVENING OF ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. Curated by Mark Street and Lynne
Sachs. This rollicking evening of challenging, expressive and
oppositional Argentine cinema offers a window onto artists shredding
formal niceties, relishing in risk and daring to access the sublime.
From an achingly beautiful evocation of a field of flowers to a darkly
humorous evisceration of the tenets of the stock market, this program
will take us to the land where summer is winter and winter is summer and
render our souls topsy-turvy for a bit as well. Last summer NYC
experimental filmmakers Mark Street and Lynne Sachs immersed themselves
in the Buenos Aires film community through a variety of collaborative
cinematic endeavors, meeting and watching the works of local
moving-image makers – some young bucks as well as some veterans who have
been expanding the parameters of the medium since the early-1960s. We
will be serving Yerba Mate tea in a communal gourd and sweet dessert
churros in the lobby before the show.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2009
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2/22
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
2:30 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM SIX: THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY
Eric Ostrowski BUMBLEBEE 2007, 2:00, USA, 16mm. Andre Silva ICHTHYOPOLIS
2008, 9:22, USA, miniDV. Eve Gordon and Sam Hamilton BLUE TIDE, BLACK
WATER 2008, 9:20, New Zealand, 35mm. Paul Clipson SPHINX ON THE SEINE
2008, 9:00, USA, Super 8mm. Robert Todd DIG 2007, 2:30, USA, 16mm. Tony
Balko LAMPANG BOUQUET 2007, 3:00, USA, 16mm. Kang Min Kim THE NIGHT WOOD
2008, 3:49, South Korea, miniDV. Francien van Everdingen NOOK AND CRANNY
2007, 3:00, Netherlands, 16mm. Naomi Uman KALENDAR 2007, 10:00, USA,
16mm. Scott Nyerges AUTUMNAL 2008, 6:00, USA, miniDV. Christopher Harris
THE SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) 2007, 8:00, USA 16mm.
2/22
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
7 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM SEVEN: LOOKING
Adele Horne QUIERO VER 2008, 6:00, USA, Digibeta. Scott Ross YOU WILL BE
OUTDATED SOON 2008, 3:24, USA, miniDV. Sami van Ingen THE SEQUENT OF
HANNAH AVE 2006, 5:00, Canada, 35mm. Clint Enns THE DEATH OF NATURAL
LANGUAGE 2007, 2:54, Canada, DVD. Pip Chodorov FAUX MOVEMENTS 2007,
12:00, France, 16mm. Jan Machacek IN THE MIX 2008, 4:00, Austria,
miniDV. Lori Felker MILLIMETERS 2008, 3:10, USA, 16mm. Tomonari
Nishikawa 16-18-4 2008, 2:30, Japan, 35mm. Daichi Saito ALL THAT RISES
2007, 7:00, Canada, 16mm. Ryan Garret THINGS TO REMEMBER 2008, 21:14,
USA, miniDv.
2/22
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
9 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST COMPETITION PROGRAM EIGHT: DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION, FUNNY AND NOT
Lenka Clayton and James Price PEOPLE IN ORDER #4: HOME 2006, 3:00, UK,
miniDV. Heidi Schwegler and Scott Tebeau UTOPIA SIGHS 2007, 5:00, USA,
miniDV. Paul Tarrango PAUL AND THE BADGER- EPISODE 3 2006, 14:00, UK,
miniDV. Jason Keener and Jeremiah Ledbetter HALLELUJAH! GORILLA REVIVAL
2008, 5:00, USA, miniDV. Penny Lane SHE USED TO SEE HIM MOST WEEKENDS
2007, 4:00, USA, miniDV. Sylvia Schedelbauer FALSE FRIENDS 2007, 4:45,
Germany, BetaSP. Don Hertzfeldt I AM SO PROUD OF YOU 2008, 22:00, USA,
35mm. Lenka Clayton and James Price PEOPLE IN ORDER #2: BIRTH 2006,
3:00, UK, miniDV.
2/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART I
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films. Each screening: $5
2/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC / LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC
1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. No English intertitles; English
synopsis available. Feb 22 6:00 PM
2/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE CEDAR BAR
Directed by Alfred Leslie 2001, 82 minutes, video. "An extraordinary
epic of impeccably grafted found footage set to Leslie's early-50s play,
based on actual overheard conversations in the infamous Cedar
Bar,…drunken think tank of the most important artists, writers, critics
and curators of the day: Willem de Kooning, Clement Greenberg, Barnett
Newman, et al.
2/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC / LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer 1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. No
English intertitles; English synopsis available.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
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2/23
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
THE TEXT OF LIGHT (1974, STAN BRAKHAGE)
The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, 1974) 71 minutes, 16mm Admission: $5
Brakhage's first wholly abstract film, laboriously filmed in single
frame exposures as beams of light play through a crystal ashtray.
Shooting with a macro lens, the camera was so close to the object that
no shapes or clues were left that the viewers could use to orient
themselves. Instead of an ashtray, then, the flashes of illumination
seem to emanate from the mechanisms of Brakhage's camera itself. 'That
light travels over the ground, that it pools – that there is a pool of
luminescence which is very ephemeral, and which takes a relaxing of
Western muscles in the eyes in order to be aware of.'
2/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
DEBORAH STRATMAN: AMERICA'S HAUNTED SPIRITS
Los Angeles premiere The Chicago-based filmmaker and artist has garnered
much acclaim for her luscious camerawork and compelling themes; her
original explorations of inner city Chicago, Chinese Turkestan, rural
Iceland and American suburbia; and her "fascinating formalism" (Bright
Lights Film Journal). She introduces an idiosyncratic mix of films that
break the boundaries between experimental essays and incisive
documentaries, including Stratman latest, O'er the Land (2008, 52
minutes, 16mm). Fresh off premieres at Sundance and Rotterdam, the new
work is "a meditation on the milieu of elevated threat, addressing
national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and
the possibility of personal transcendence," Stratman says. O'er the Land
is preceded by The Paranormal Trilogy, comprising How Among the Frozen
Words She Found Some Odd Ones (2005, 0:40 min., video), It Will Die Out
In The Mind (2006, 3:40 min., video), and The Magician's House (2007,
5:40 min., 16mm). In person: Deborah Stratman
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009
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2/24
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972, JONAS MEKAS)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972, Jonas Mekas) 88 minutes,
16mm Admission: $5 A three–part collation of materials related to Jonas
Mekas' return to his home village of Semeniskiai in Lithuania.
Tellingly, the filmmaker only devotes a crucial third of the film to the
trip itself, offering only '100 glimpses of Lithuania.' The rest
consists of two passages, one sketching aspects of daily life in the (at
the time) poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg where he lived
shortly after immigrating, and the other a visit with friend and fellow
filmmaker Peter Kubelka at his own home in Vienna.
2/24
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
7 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- THE JUCHE IDEA
Jimm Finn THE JUCHE IDEA 2008, 62:00, USA, BetaSP.
2/24
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
PARANOID PARK
Paranoid Park (2007, 85 min.) by GUS VAN SANT "Paranoid Park is a
swooping skateboarding free zone where young men learn to fly. It's also
the title of Gus Van Sant's most recent film, a haunting, voluptuously
beautiful portrait of a teenage boy who, after being suddenly caught in
midflight, falls to earth. Like most of Mr. Van Sant's films Paranoid
Park is about bodies at rest and in motion, and about longing, beauty,
youth and death, and as such as much about the artist as his subject. It
is a modestly scaled triumph without a false or wasted moment." –Manohla
Dargis, The New York Times
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009
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2/25
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
4:30 PM, 25 SE 2ND Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- O'ER THE LAND AND A FILM FAR BEYOND A GOD
Deborah Stratman O'ER THE LAND 2008, 52:00, USA, 16mm. Wael Noureddine A
FILM FAR BEYOND A GOD 2008, 41:00, France, miniDV.
2/25
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
7 PM, 25 SE 2ND Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- THE EXILES
Kent Mackenzie THE EXILES 1961, 72:00, USA, 35mm.
2/25
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
9 PM, 25 SE 2nd Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- SMALL CHANGE PRESENTS ACTION NEWS
Small Change/Various Artists ACTION NEWS 2008, 85:00, USA, miniDV.
Fantastical deteriorating video narratives, metaphysical workout videos,
music videos, and experimental animations and documentaries by
Philadelphia artists Small Change.
2/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Directed by Albert Serra 2008, 98 minutes, 35mm. In Catalan and Hebrew
with English subtitles. FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Very special thanks to Haden Guest & Rebecca Meyer
(Harvard Film Archive), Richard Suchenski (Yale), Mark Peranson, and
Mathilde Trichet (Capricci Films). Last fall Anthology presented Catalan
filmmaker Albert Serra's idiosyncratic, minimalist DON QUIXOTE
adaptation, HONOR DE CAVALLERIA (QUIXOTIC), one of the most striking
films in recent memory. Now Serra has turned his unique vision on
another well-known story, the biblical tale of the Three Magi and their
journey to pay tribute to the newly-born child Jesus, once again
transforming this highly familiar narrative into an appreciation of the
human body, a study of figures in a landscape (this time shot in
gorgeous black-and-white), and an experiment in cinematic duration.
Anthology is once again thrilled to debut a new work by this immensely
talented artist, this time with Albert Serra joining us in person, to
introduce and discuss the film!
2/25
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Artists Televison Access, 992 Valencia Street
EPISODES OF ANOMIE
In response to the ceaselessness of the contemporary media deluge, many
are merely subsumed. Some daring artists find ways to surf the
transmitted waves and carve out spaces of connection and tranquility
within the barrage in order to send out messages of hope. Hold Me Now
continues Michael Robinson's project of exploring the poetics of loss
and the dangers of mediated experience: daring to find emotion in the
cold world of pop songs and televisual melodrama, he squeezes
sentimentality from the mundane, prompting an agonizing response between
pain and laughter. Equally maudlin, Eli Marias and Amos Natkin's Daddy
—a bathetic scene of holiday domesticity recalling the familial
nightmares of Luther Price—features an answering machine-bound dead beat
dad baring his soul on a cold Christmas morning. Drawing on similar
sources of pop-cultural pabulum Fred Worden's When World's Collude plays
like a structural re-edit of Baywatch, complete with jet skiing blondes,
hi-speed chases and gratuitous explosions. Finally, David Gatten and
Jessie Stead's sublimely intermittent epic Today! plays as episodes in
an open-ended and wide-eyed adventure series, accumulating meaning even
as it becomes increasingly mysterious. Just added: a reprise screening
of Luther Price's nature documentary/tv melodrama mash-up The Mongrel
Sister!
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
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2/26
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
MOCK UP ON MU (CRAIG BALDWIN, 2008)
Bay area cine-collagist Craig Baldwin's latest work combines existing
and newly created footage to trace California's postwar subcultures of
rocket pioneers, followers of alternative religions, and Beats. In his
typically audacious style, Baldwin interweaves the lives of L. Ron
Hubbard (sci-fi writer and founder of Scientology), Jack Parsons
(founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab and occult spiritualist), and
Marjorie Cameron (mother of the New Age movement) to present a
speculative farce about the militarization and corporatization of our
daily lives. (110 mins., video)
2/26
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
7 PM, 25 SE 2ND Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- THE POOL
Chris Smith THE POOL 2008, 98:00, USA, 35mm.
2/26
Gainesville, FL: FLEX, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
http://flexfest.org
9 PM, 25 SE 2ND Place/ The Hippodrome State Theatre
FLEX FEST PRESENTS- BEST OF FESTIVAL PROGRAM
FLEX re-presents the films that received awards in the competitive
programs for those who missed them or for those who want to watch them
one more time.
2/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Directed by Albert Serra 2008, 98 minutes, 35mm. In Catalan and Hebrew
with English subtitles. FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Very special thanks to Haden Guest & Rebecca Meyer
(Harvard Film Archive), Richard Suchenski (Yale), Mark Peranson, and
Mathilde Trichet (Capricci Films). Last fall Anthology presented Catalan
filmmaker Albert Serra's idiosyncratic, minimalist DON QUIXOTE
adaptation, HONOR DE CAVALLERIA (QUIXOTIC), one of the most striking
films in recent memory. Now Serra has turned his unique vision on
another well-known story, the biblical tale of the Three Magi and their
journey to pay tribute to the newly-born child Jesus, once again
transforming this highly familiar narrative into an appreciation of the
human body, a study of figures in a landscape (this time shot in
gorgeous black-and-white), and an experiment in cinematic duration.
Anthology is once again thrilled to debut a new work by this immensely
talented artist, this time with Albert Serra joining us in person, to
introduce and discuss the film!
2/26
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films, tapes or discs; all works will be screened.
2/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 Valencia Street
OF ALL THE THINGS
Thursday, February 26, 2009. 7PM $9 Of All the Things Noise Pop Film
Festival » More images Dennis Lambert was one of the most successful and
diverse songwriter/producers of the '70s and '80s, with hits like "Ain't
No Woman Like The One I've Got", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Don't Pull Your
Love", "Baby Come Back", "One Tin Soldier" and "Nightshift". He had
chart-toppers in almost every genre of music -- at one point four of his
songs were simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a feat
previously accomplished only by The Beatles. That was then. Today, he's
a 60-year-old family man selling real estate in Florida. But it turns
out his obscure 1972 solo album is huge… in the Philippines. A Filipino
concert promoter has been begging Dennis to tour for decades, and in
2007 (thirty-five years after the release of his album) he finally
agreed. Directed by Jody Lambert,83 min. ticket link -
http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31437
2/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
9pm, 992 Valencia Street
LARGO CAPTURES A NOCTURNAL MUSIC CULTURE THAT'S LA'S UNIQUE CREATION, AND
A FINE CORRECTIVE TO IT'S TINSELTOWN IMAGE
Thursday, February 26, 2009. 9PM $9 Largo Noise Pop Film Festival Largo
Captures a nocturnal music culture that's LA's unique creation, and a
fine corrective to it's Tinseltown image. An intimate club nestled away
on a busy Hollywood street, Largo has garnered a reputation among
performers and fans alike as a place where what's on stage truly
matters. This respect for the artists and their work carries over in
this film by club owner Mark Flanagan and filmmaker Andrew van Baal.
Circumventing flashy MTV-style lensing or editing, Largo places its
focus squarely on the musicians and comedians onstage—no self-important
interviews or backstage antics here —allowing the performances to truly
shine through. Featuring: Aimee Mann, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple,
Grant-Lee Phillips, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis,
Fred Armisen and more. Directed by Mark Flanagan and Andrew van Baal, 87
min. ticket link -
http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31363 photos and
trailer - http://largofilm.com/festivals/
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
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2/27
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
KEN JACOBS X 3: OLD AND NEW
White Light Cinema presents three rare short works by the great
experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. This program, admittedly a
hodge-podge, features two of his lesser-known 16mm films and a stunning
recent digital video. ***** WINDOW (1964, 12 mins., 16mm, color,
silent). "The moving camera shapes the screen image with great
purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to
wheel about the exterior scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes
apart and slapping them together, contracting and expanding in
concurrence with camera movements to impart a terrific apparent-motion
to the complex of the object-forms pictured on the horizontal-vertical
screen, its axis steadied by the audience's sense of gravity. The
camera's movements in being transferred to objects tend also to be
greatly magnified (instead of the camera the adjacent building turns).
About four years of studying the window-complex preceded the afternoon
of actual shooting (a true instance of cinematic action-painting). The
film exists as it came out of the camera barring one mechanically
necessary mid-reel splice." (KJ) ***** GLOBE (1971, 22 mins, 16mm,
color, sound on cassette). (Previously titled: EXCERPT FROM THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION) - "Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms
into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye.
(Keeping both eyes open, of course. As with all stereo experiences,
center seats are best. Space will deepen as one views further from the
screen.) The found-sound is X-ratable (not for children or Nancy Reagan)
but is important to the film's perfect balance (GLOBE is symmetrical) of
divine and profane." (KJ) ***** KRYPTON IS DOOMED (2005, 34 mins.,
video, sound, color). This work is derived from one of my Nervous Magic
Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated
projector and use neither film nor video. Highly stroboscopic and
hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in otherworldly spaces
and plays of near-abstraction and suggestive imagery. In Krypton Is
Doomed, the audio accompaniment to the shifting visuals is an
installment of a Superman radio play — the first ever broadcast, in
1940. (KJ) ***** Admission: $7-10.00 sliding scale.
2/27
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. Ten Skies, James
Benning (USA), 2004, 101 min., 16mm film. Previous series programs on
February 13 and February 20.
2/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Directed by Albert Serra 2008, 98 minutes, 35mm. In Catalan and Hebrew
with English subtitles. FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Very special thanks to Haden Guest & Rebecca Meyer
(Harvard Film Archive), Richard Suchenski (Yale), Mark Peranson, and
Mathilde Trichet (Capricci Films). Last fall Anthology presented Catalan
filmmaker Albert Serra's idiosyncratic, minimalist DON QUIXOTE
adaptation, HONOR DE CAVALLERIA (QUIXOTIC), one of the most striking
films in recent memory. Now Serra has turned his unique vision on
another well-known story, the biblical tale of the Three Magi and their
journey to pay tribute to the newly-born child Jesus, once again
transforming this highly familiar narrative into an appreciation of the
human body, a study of figures in a landscape (this time shot in
gorgeous black-and-white), and an experiment in cinematic duration.
Anthology is once again thrilled to debut a new work by this immensely
talented artist, this time with Albert Serra joining us in person, to
introduce and discuss the film!
2/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 Valencia Street
A YEAR WITH ANDRE WILLIAMS
Friday, February 27, 2009. 7PM $9 Agile Mobile Hostile: A Year with
Andre Williams Noise Pop Film Festival Andre Williams has recorded hit
records, written hit songs and worked with legends of the industry:
Berry Gordy, Ike Turner and Stevie Wonder to name just a few. Andre has
also struggled throughout his life with addiction, poverty, homelessness
and the legal system. Throughout his 72 years, Andre has never stopped
driving his creative visions forward, regardless of cost or con-
sequence. The consequences turn out to be severe as his addictive
history catches up with him. His decisions become a choice between life
and death. A Documentary by Tricia Todd and Eric Matthies, 87 min.
ticket link - http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31308
2/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
9pm, 992 Valencia Street
GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP: A GYPSY-PUNK DOCUMENTARY
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop: A Gypsy-Punk documentary Noise Pop Film
Festival Friday, February 27, 2009. 9PM $9 From the birth of a New York
City downtown Ruso-disco phenomena, known as the Bulgarian Bar, to a
non-stop touring marathon, with his band Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hütz
takes us deep into his artistic foundation. The story unfolds from 2001
to 2006, following Gogol's steps from underground legends to
international attention. Directed by Margarita Jimeno, 87 min. ticket
link - http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31312
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009
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2/28
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., Chicago, Illinois 60640
ELECTRIC SCHEMATIC: RECENT WORKS BY UIC ALUMNI
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 8 PM ELECTRIC SCHEMATIC: recent work by UIC alumni
Selected Artists in Person! The UIC School of Art and Design's Moving
Image program teaches creative and alternate approaches to both
experimental and documentary filmmaking. Students are taught by some of
the most renowned artists working today – Jennifer Montgomery, Ben
Russell, Jennifer Reeder, Deborah Stratman – and create work that is
unique, exciting, and not often seen by anyone. Tonight we drag this
well kept secret into the open. DRIFTING – Malic Amalya (2009) -
PREMIERE IT'S NOT QUITE THE WAY – Rick Gribenas (2008, 13 min.) -
PREMIERE CAROL ANN IS DEAD – Michael Robinson (2008, 5 min.)
CONSERVATION – Ian Harnarine (2007, 9 min.) NORTH AND SOUTH – Luis
Sanchez (2008, 60 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
2/28
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART II
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
include visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films. Each screening: $5
2/28
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30pm, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
BRUCE CONNER'S EXPLOSIVE CINEMA: A TRIBUTE, PART 1
Influential maestro of found-footage, Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was often
described as the father of MTV-style editing--his reply:"Don't blame
me!" An artist of explosive intensity and enigmatic allure, Conner was
legendary for his multivalent mastery of assemblage, drawing, collage
and film. At once voluptuous and razor-edged, Conner's compact,
cinematic bombs are an inspired mix of heartfelt meditation and
tragicomic political satire. The Archive, REDCAT, and Los Angeles
Filmforum team up in this two-night memorial tribute encompassing
Conner's major body of film work over the past 50 years. Longtime friend
and co-conspirator Dennis Hopper will be on hand both nights to
introduce the programs, along with guest of honor, Jean Conner. Program
curated by Timoleon Wilkins, Michelle Silva and Steve Anker. FREE
ADMISSION! In person: Dennis Hopper, Jean Conner. COSMIC RAY(1961); A
MOVIE(1958); THE WHITE ROSE(1967); BREAKAWAY(1966); VIVIAN(1964); TEN
SECOND FILM(1965); MONGOLOID(1978); AMERICA IS WAITING(1982);
CROSSROADS(1976); EASTER MORNING(2008)
2/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
BIRDSONG / EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Directed by Albert Serra 2008, 98 minutes, 35mm. In Catalan and Hebrew
with English subtitles. FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Very special thanks to Haden Guest & Rebecca Meyer
(Harvard Film Archive), Richard Suchenski (Yale), Mark Peranson, and
Mathilde Trichet (Capricci Films). Last fall Anthology presented Catalan
filmmaker Albert Serra's idiosyncratic, minimalist DON QUIXOTE
adaptation, HONOR DE CAVALLERIA (QUIXOTIC), one of the most striking
films in recent memory. Now Serra has turned his unique vision on
another well-known story, the biblical tale of the Three Magi and their
journey to pay tribute to the newly-born child Jesus, once again
transforming this highly familiar narrative into an appreciation of the
human body, a study of figures in a landscape (this time shot in
gorgeous black-and-white), and an experiment in cinematic duration.
Anthology is once again thrilled to debut a new work by this immensely
talented artist, this time with Albert Serra joining us in person, to
introduce and discuss the film!
2/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
WAITING FOR SANCHO
Directed by Mark Peranson 2008, 105 minutes, video. Filmed over five
days in the Canary Islands, this is a kind of experimental "making of"
BIRDSONG. Entirely improvised, based on a 30-page outline, BIRDSONG saw
the crew traverse scorching deserts, climb the highest mountain in
Spain, and hike through rocky plains in an environment of barely
controlled anarchy. Given unfettered access to shoot anything and
everything as long as he didn't step in front of the camera, CINEMASCOPE
MAGAZINE founding editor Mark Peranson (who appears in BIRDSONG in the
role of Joseph) has created an intimate, dignified, and humorous tracing
of the interplay between Albert Serra, his nonprofessional actors, and
his dedicated crew. The result is an immersive, intimate look into the
process and elements of filmmaking.
2/28
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
2pm, 992 Valencia Street
SEVEN SIGNS: MUSIC, MYTH AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Saturday, February 28, 2009. 2PM $9 Seven Signs: Music, Myth and the
American South Noise Pop Film Festival SEVEN SIGNS focuses on the music,
mythology and faith that persist, despite heavy modernization, in the
American South. The documentary also marks the directorial debut for
J.D. Wilkes, from the Legendary Shack Shakers, lauded by ALARM magazine
as "the closest thing there is to the Ambassador of Genuine, Traditional
Southern Culture." Wilkes also contributes to the chilling SEVEN SIGNS
soundtrack...alongside the rawest talent The Delta and Appalachia have
to offer. With these strong southern roots, the filmmaker has made a
profound, empathetic statement that celebrates the eccentricities and
traditions of an increasingly marginalized area of America. Directed by
J.D. Wilkes, 54 min. ticket link -
http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31316 trailer -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETOr8szr34
2/28
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
4 pm, 992 Valencia Street
I NEED THAT RECORD: THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT
RECORD STORE
Saturday, February 28, 2009. 4PM $9 I Need That Record: The Death (Or
Possible Survival) Of The Independent Record Store Noise Pop Film
Festival I Need That Record explores the reasons why over 3,000
independently owned record shops have closed in the past decade through
interviews with Ian MacKaye, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt
(Minutemen), Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), Patterson Hood (Drive-By
Truckers), Glenn Branca, Chris Frantz (Talking Heads), Lenny Kaye (Patti
Smith Group), Bryan Poole (Of Montreal), punk writer Legs McNeil,
philosopher Noam Chomsky, and plenty of indie record store workers from
across the country. "I Need That Record" tells the story of our
connection to independent record stores and the importance of
independent thought and culture. Directed by Brendan Toller, (77 min.)
ticket link - http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31314
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SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2009
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3/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS TAKAHIKO IIMURA: 60S EXPERIMENTS AND EARLY
CONCEPTUAL VIDEOS
Takahiko Iimura in person! Japanese artist Takahiko Iimura is considered
one of the most influential and important experimental filmmakers of our
time. His work explores wide range of experiments from poetic cinema
with Dadaist and Surrealist influence and Absurdist filmic play in the
1960's through more formal and conceptual investigations in the 1970's
and later. Tonight is part of a ten-day multi-venue retrospective
celebration of Iimura's work, including shows at REDCAT, UCLA Film &
Television Archive, USC, and UC Irvine. Takahiko Iimura will be in
person at ALL screenings. Full information on the Filmforum website. The
series was organized by Adam Hyman of Los Angeles Filmforum. Tonight
includes Kuzu (Junk) (1962), Ai (Love) (1962), On Eye Rape (1962), A
Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput No. 1 (1964), Onan (1963), and
Early Conceptual Videos (1970-1977) General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The Egyptian Theatre
has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4
hours for $2 with validation.
3/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART II
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
include visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films.
3/1
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
2 pm, 992 Valencia Street
ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS
Sunday, March 1, 2009. 2PM $9 Ashes of American Flags Noise Pop Film
Festival A concert film capturing Wilco as they travel through the
American South. The Wilco concert film, Ashes of American Flags,
captures Wilco as they travel through the American South, playing small
historic venues to diehard fans and sharing, in interviews, their
perspectives on one another and the changing American landscape.
Beautifully shot, edited and mixed, this music film takes viewers on the
road with these veteran travelers. Filmed in 2008 by Brendan Canty
(Fugazi) and Christoph Green, creators of the Burn To Shine series. 88
min.
3/1
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
4pm, 992 Valencia Street
NIGHTFLIGHT: BORN AGAIN
Sunday, March 1, 2009. 4PM $9 NIGHTFLIGHT: BORN AGAIN Noise Pop Film
Festival Nightflight was the ultimate 1980's counter-culture music and
variety program. From 1981 to 1988 It provided 8 hours of off-the-wall
television every Friday and Saturday night. Nightflight wa a daring mix
of rock concert films, independent movies, the latest music videos from
around the world, bloopers, video art, interviews and cult classics, all
mixed with the weird the wild and the wonderful. Nightflight: BORN AGAIN
is a special journey back to the video vaults to showcase the unique mix
of the visually exciting, musically innovative and culturally subversive
programming that made up Nightflight. Featuring interviews with: B.B.
King, Frank Zappa, Devo, Ozzie Osbourne, Boy George, Freddie Mercury,
Grace Jones, Kiss, Lou Reed, Simon Le Bon and many more! Directed by
Stuart Samuels, (90 min.) ticket link -
http://noisepop.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=31315
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