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This week [February 28 - March 8, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 15, 2009)
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ACEFEST 2009 (New York, NY United States; Deadline: May 18, 2009)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: March 07, 2009)
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25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2009)
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International Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 8.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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11th Annual Artsfest Film Festival (harrisburg, pa, usa; Deadline: March 27, 2009)
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Gate City Women's Film Festival (Greensboro NC USA; Deadline: February 28, 2009)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: March 07, 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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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI ; USA; Deadline: March 26, 2009)
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Wimbledon Film Festival 2009 (London, UK; Deadline: March 31, 2009)
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CHEESE SANDWICH FILM FESTIVAL (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 01, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [March 1, New York, New York]
* Waiting For Sancho [March 1, New York, New York]
* Ec Orpheus / OrphÉE [March 1, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema the Testament of Orpheus / Le Testament D’OrphÉE [March 1, New York, New York]
* John Latham On Www.Tank.Tv [March 1, Online]
* Ashes of American Flags [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* Nightflight: Born Again [March 1, San Francisco, California]
* Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 2 [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [March 2, New York, New York]
* Birdsong / El Cant Dels Ocells [March 3, New York, New York]
* M (1931, 105 Min.) By Fritz Lang [March 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Ben Russell: Recent Anthropologies [March 4, Columbus, Ohio]
* Jose Rodriguez-Soltero [March 4, New York, New York]
* China Town (Lucy Raven, 2008) [March 5, Columbus, Ohio]
* Maidstone [March 5, New York, New York]
* People On Sunday / Menschen Am Sonntag [March 5, New York, New York]
* Payday [March 5, New York, New York]
* <B>Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Songs</B> [March 5, San Francisco, California]
* Films By Coleen Fitzgibbon [March 6, 7:30pm]
* Coming Apart [March 6, New York, New York]
* Songwriter [March 6, New York, New York]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part iii [March 7, Los Angeles, California]
* One P.M. [March 7, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema Hugo / Jordan / Levitt / Maas [March 7, New York, New York]
* Films By Coleen Fitzgibbon [March 7, New York, New York]
* House By the Cemetery [March 7, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Tracings and Markings: A Salon Screening With David Gatten [March 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Takahiko iimura: Recent Works [March 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part iii [March 8, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
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
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. A deceptively simple, gently comical,
and often disarmingly beautiful expression of wonder and spiritual
faith, reminiscent of Rossellini's THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS, BIRDSONG
is a radiant film.
3/1
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.
3/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC ORPHEUS / ORPHÉE
Directed by Jean Cocteau 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on
the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A
drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy
who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of
immortality."
3/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS / LE TESTAMENT D’ORPHÉE
Directed by Jean Cocteau 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus
of Greek mythology – the god of the lyre, song and poetry – was
Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an
unending search for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and
martyrdom during which the poet must experience many deaths.
3/1
Online: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
All Hours, www.tank.tv
JOHN LATHAM ON WWW.TANK.TV
John Latham 22nd February - 15th March 2009 on www.tank.tv tank.tv is
extremely pleased to have the rare opportunity to present a selection of
John Latham's films: Unedited Material from the Star, Talk Mr Bard,
Speak, Britannica, Erth and more. The influence of John Latham
(1921-2006), an artist whose work includes painting, performance and
film to mention just a few, has extended far beyond the boundaries of
the art world. Interested in theoretical physics, Latham developed an
opposing cosmology which rejected the primacy of space and matter and
favour of time and event. The body of work and concepts which developed
out of this way of thinking still challenge the way we conceive of art
as event and of the place of the artist within society. Today, the
relevancy of Latham's life and oeuvre remains intact in that it points
to the contemporary necessity of bridging people, practices and ideas.
John Latham (1921 – 2006) has been associated with several national and
international artistic movements since he began showing work in the late
1940s. He is associated with the first phase of conceptual art of the
1960s, was an important contributor to the Destruction in Art Symposium
of 1966, and was a founder member of the Artist Placement Group
(1966-89). Latham's work has been exhibited internationally, including
recent solo exhibitions at Tate Britain (2005) and PS1, New York (2006).
His work has been included in numerous historic group shows and many
survey exhibitions of British Art since the 1960s including Live in Your
Head (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2000), From Blast To Freeze
(Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2003) and Art and the 60s: This was
tomorrow (Tate Britain, 2004). Flat Time House, John Latham's home and
studio, has been open to the public since October 2008 for a programme
of exhibitions and events, and as an archive and research centre.
Details of opening hours and forthcoming events can be found at
www.flattimeho.org.uk John Latham's work is represented by Lisson
Gallery and distributed by LUX. With special thanks to LUX, the Latham
Estate and Elisa Kay. www.tank.tv
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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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2009
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3/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
BRUCE CONNER’S EXPLOSIVE CINEMA: A TRIBUTE, PART 2
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
displayed a legendary 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. Surveying the filmmaker's work over a 50-year span, the program
includes A Movie (1958, 12 min.); Marilyn Times Five (1973, 14 min.);
Permian Strata (1969, 4 min.); Mea Culpa (1981, 4 min.); Looking for
Mushrooms (1967, 3 min.); Looking for Mushrooms (1996 version, 15 min.);
Report (1967, 13 min.); Television Assassination (1995, 14 min.); Take
the 5:10 to Dreamland (1977, 5 min.); Valse Triste (1977, 5 min.);
Easter Morning (2008, 10 min., DV). In person: Dennis Hopper, longtime
Conner friend and co-conspirator, and guest of honor Jean Conner
3/2
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. A
deceptively simple, gently comical, and often disarmingly beautiful
expression of wonder and spiritual faith, reminiscent of Rossellini's
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS, BIRDSONG is a radiant film.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009
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3/3
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. A
deceptively simple, gently comical, and often disarmingly beautiful
expression of wonder and spiritual faith, reminiscent of Rossellini's
THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS, BIRDSONG is a radiant film.
3/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
M (1931, 105 MIN.) BY FRITZ LANG
"… the complex analysis of urban German society offered in M, clearly
influenced by Brecht's Threepenny Opera, offers a fascinating look at
that society and what it was becoming…. As a city is terrorized by the
crimes of a deranged murderer of little girls, not only the police but
other criminals and even beggars, threatened by the panic that puts
everyone under suspicion, decide they have to help track the culprit
down to protect their own interests. Lang steadily crosscuts between the
efforts of these three separate factions, the public at large, and the
murderer himself (Peter Lorre), graphically describing each stage of the
pursuit and at the same time exposing the inner life of the city.
Arguably, no other thriller has so effectively combined exposition and
suspense with a portrait of an entire society, and M does this through a
dazzling system of visual rhymes and aural continuities, spatial leaps
and thematic repetitions, that virtually reinvents the art of movie
storytelling." – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2009
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3/4
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
BEN RUSSELL: RECENT ANTHROPOLOGIES
Ben Russell is one of the few artists working to make 16mm film relevant
to the contemporary media landscape, while playing off the varied
histories of filmmaking itself. He's made a diverse range of films that
have included a pinhole movie of Easter Island, a portrait of an
audience at a Lightning Bolt concert, and a flicker film set to a
Richard Pryor monologue. Tonight he'll show and introduce four films
shot primarily in the Maroon villages of Suriname, South America. They
represent a major strain of Russell's work that complicates traditions
of ethnographic and documentary film. In a special live double-projector
performance that closes the evening, Russell challenges the specter of
representation in its entirety, shuttling the image to the point of
total annihilation. Russell is at the Wexner Center to work on several
projects in the Art & Technology studio. (app. 90 mins., 16mm) Daumë
(2000, 7 mins., 16mm) | Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season) (codirected with
Brigid McCaffrey, 2008, 47 mins., 16mm) | Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008, 3
mins., 16mm) | Trypps #6 (Malobi) (2008, 12 mins., 16mm) | The Black and
the White Gods (2008, live performance, 20 mins.)
3/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
JOSE RODRIGUEZ-SOLTERO
Long out of circulation and recently restored by Anthology, LUPE and
JEROVI by Jose Rodriguez-Soltero are two of the most colorful and
compelling underground films of the sixties. Born in Puerto Rico in
1943, Rodriguez-Soltero made his first film, EL PECADO ORIGINAL (1964)
while a student at the University of Puerto Rico. Soon thereafter he
moved to NY where, from the mid-1960s through the 1970s, he produced
work in 8mm, 16mm, and videotape, including the films JEROVI, LUPE, and
the double-screen projection DIALOGUE WITH CHE (1968). He was also the
Editor-in-Chief of the short-lived film quarterly, MEDIUM, and taught
film and video seminars.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009
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3/5
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
CHINA TOWN (LUCY RAVEN, 2008)
Over 7,000 photographs edited together create this experimental video
that documents the global production of copper. Raven's journey begins
in the open-pit copper mines of eastern Nevada. From there, she follows
the raw material all the way to China, where it is processed, refined,
and ultimately made into electrical wire. The seemingly simple story of
copper is complicated by the economics of globalization, natural
resource conservation, and nationalism. China Town was begun while Raven
was an artist-in-residence at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in
Wendover, Utah, and was edited here at the Wexner Center in Art & Tech.
A Q & A with the director follows the screening. (52 mins., video)
3/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
MAIDSTONE
Directed by Norman Mailer 1970, 110 minutes, 35mm (March 5) & video
(March 11 & 15). With Norman Mailer, Michael McClure, Barney Rosset and
Ultra Violet. Print courtesy of the Harvard Film Archive. Shot by D.A.
Pennebaker and Ricky Leacock, Mailer's third and most ambitious film of
the 1960s, concerns the exploits of highly popular, yet esoteric, film
director Norman T. Kingsley. That MAIDSTONE was largely improvised was
made unforgettably clear when Torn, near the end of shooting,
unexpectedly attacked Mailer with a hammer, triggering an obviously
un-staged tussle that yanked the film out of its already ambiguous
semblance of fictional narrative. Torn has consistently maintained that
his action arose from conversations with his director, while Mailer
claimed otherwise. But in any case, the result was a truly extraordinary
sequence that even Mailer himself ultimately admitted had benefited the
film (though not before very nearly taking a bite out of Torn's ear…).
3/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY / MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG
Directed by Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer 1929, 74 minutes, 16mm. In
German with English subtitles. Written by Billy Wilder. Photographed by
Eugen Schüfftan & Fred Zinnemann. Shot entirely on location in late-20s
Berlin, this tale of five young people spending a typical summer Sunday
afternoon in the metropolis and surrounding countryside is a true
landmark in film history – co-directed by Siodmak and Ulmer, scripted by
Billy Wilder and photographed by the great Eugen Schüfftan, with the
help of Fred Zinnemann! Produced with little financial assistance, and
with each of the performers effectively playing themselves, it became
famous as an avant-garde precursor of poetic realism.
3/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
PAYDAY
Directed by Daryl Duke 1973, 103 minutes, 35mm "Fueled by weed, whiskey,
fistfuls of pills, and naked greed, Rip Torn spends the film wreaking
havoc and testing his luck, confident that there will always be somebody
around to clean up after him, whether it's his big dumb animal of a
driver/flunky, or an ashen-faced manager whose job entails a lot more
than negotiating contracts and dealing with promoters. Daryl Duke's
minor cult classic documents, with unblinking candor, a brief tumultuous
period in a singer's messy existence…." –Nathan Rabin, THE ONION
3/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, SFMoMA, 151 Third Street
NATHANIEL DORSKY: THREE SONGS
Nathaniel Dorsky in-person The films of Nathaniel Dorsky blend a
beauteous celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of
introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and
meditation on light, landscape, time and the motions of consciousness.
Their effulgent photography emphasizes the elemental frisson between
solidity and luminosity, between spirit and matter, while his uniquely
developed montage permits a fluid and flowing experience of time.
Dorsky's films reveal the mystery behind everyday existence, providing
intimations of eternity. The latest films of this master filmmaker (Song
and Solitude, Winter and Sarabande) continue his development of these
profound traditions.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009
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3/6
7:30pm: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
FILMS BY COLEEN FITZGIBBON
Directed by COLEEN FITZGIBBO Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Between 1973 and 1976, Coleen Fitzgibbon made some
of the most rigorous abstract films to date. This program revisits some
of these early 16mm films from an artist who is perhaps best known as
the co-founder of NY-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). A
student of Owen Land (aka "George Landow"), Stan Brakhage, and Michael
Snow, Fitzgibbon screened her work at numerous international film
festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium,
the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Anthology, the Collective
for Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop. Anthology is proud to
host Coleen Fitzgibbon, and to present this program of all new 16mm
prints, selected by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder.
3/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
COMING APART
Directed by Moses Milton Ginsberg 1969, 110 minutes, 35mm. With Sally
Kirkland. FILMMAKER MOSES MILTON GINSBERG IN PERSON ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6!
Torn gives one of his greatest performances as a psychiatrist secretly
filming his own mental breakdown in Ginsberg's classic exploration of
dark eroticism and self-referential cinematic form. Psychoanalyst Joe
Glazer, aka Glassman, rents a studio apartment where he has a variety of
sexual encounters with a series of women – all of which he films with a
hidden camera. But Joe becomes a voyeur of his own life, until, finally
encased in his own reflection, Joe ends up filming his own
disintegration. Truly ahead of its time, COMING APART remains a
visionary and transformative piece of American cinema.
3/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
SONGWRITER
Directed by Alan Rudolph 1984, 94 minutes, 35mm. With Willie Nelson,
Kris Kristofferson and Lesley Ann Warren. A vehicle for Willie Nelson
and Kris Kristofferson, who play two star country-music performers on
the road, SONGWRITER, a personal favorite of Torn's, is a rambling,
satiric comedy about two mischievous artists and their struggle to
negotiate the treacherous music industry. Incorporating songs specially
written by Nelson and Kristofferson, SONGWRITER also features Torn in an
unforgettable supporting role as an unscrupulous promoter.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009
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3/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART III
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. This three weekend
program includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and
rarely shown classic films.
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ONE P.M.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, D.A. Pennebaker & Ricky Leacock 1972, 90
minutes, video. With Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Jean-Luc Godard,
Tom Hayden, Richard Leacock and Anne Wiazemsky. Originally titled ONE
A.M. (ONE AMERICAN MOVIE), this collaboration among Pennebaker, Leacock
and Godard hoped to capture Vietnam War protests and what Godard
believed to be imminent revolution in the U.S. With the filmmakers
dispersed and a deadline looming, Pennebaker began composing the final
cut. Departing from Godard's original plans, Pennebaker admitted "I was
soon making a film of my own." The result, ONE P.M. (ONE PARALLEL
MOVIE), combines cinéma-vérité, political theater, and footage of
Jefferson Airplane, Eldridge Cleaver, and Torn articulating the attitude
of a young generation toward the American political system of the
late-60s.
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA HUGO / JORDAN / LEVITT / MAAS
Ian Hugo BELLS OF ATLANTIS (1952, 10 minutes, 16mm) Film poem, based on
Ana?s Nin's HOUSE OF INCEST, spoken by Nin, who also appears. Larry
Jordan DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 minutes, 16mm) HAMFAT ASAR (1965, 13
minutes, 16mm) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE OLD HOUSE,
PASSING (1966, 45 minutes, 16mm) Brand new print preserved by Anthology
Film Archives! OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968, 9 minutes, 35mm) Brand new
35mm print! "[Jordan's] 50-year pursuit into the subconscious mind gives
him a place in the annals of cinema as a prolific animator on a voyage
into the surreal psychology of the inner self." –Jackie Leger Helen
Levitt IN THE STREET (1952, 12 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives! Levitt's short, lyrical documentary portrait of life in
Spanish Harlem. Stealthily shot by Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee.
Willard Maas GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY (1943, 7 minutes, 16mm) Preserved
with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "The
terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered, mysterious
continent." –W.M.
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
FILMS BY COLEEN FITZGIBBON
Directed by COLEEN FITZGIBBO Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Between 1973 and 1976, Coleen Fitzgibbon made some
of the most rigorous abstract films to date. This program revisits some
of these early 16mm films from an artist who is perhaps best known as
the co-founder of NY-based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). A
student of Owen Land (aka "George Landow"), Stan Brakhage, and Michael
Snow, Fitzgibbon screened her work at numerous international film
festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium,
the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Anthology, the Collective
for Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop. Anthology is proud to
host Coleen Fitzgibbon, and to present this program of all new 16mm
prints, selected by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder.
3/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY
House by the Cemetery (1981, 82 min.) by LUCIO FULCI A ferocious and
well-crafted slasher film that only an artist with Italian giallo blood
coursing through his veins (and through this film) could have produced.
Fans of Italian horror cinema usually come to Fulci after a familiarity
with the more famous, and probably greater practitioners of the genre,
Bava and Argento. So for those of you who know the work, enjoy it, and
for those experiencing Fulci for the first time, remember, "its just a
movie". (Screening guest-curated by Italian horror connoisseur, Kevin
Vogrin)
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SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009
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3/8
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
TRACINGS AND MARKINGS: A SALON SCREENING WITH DAVID GATTEN
White Light Cinema is extremely pleased to welcome filmmaker David
Gatten for a special salon-style screening. ***** Experimental filmmaker
David Gatten has been making work that is both rigorous and intensely
beautiful for more than a decade. His films, which feel like the
products of old-world craftsmen or Renaissance artisans, combine his
diverse and eclectic interests (arcane aspects of history, literature,
printing, science, and more) with formal elements that are delicate,
mesmerizing, labor-intensive, and, almost, obsessive. He creates a
sensuous fusion of image and text that speaks to both the soul and the
mind. ***** He is best known for his on-going Byrd family series
(including The Secret History of the Dividing Line and The Great Art of
Knowing), which chronicles members of the 18th century Virginia family
and William Byrd's legendary library. In these films and others, Gatten
foregrounds writing, text, words, and printing—both in his abiding
interest in books and literature and in a broader interest in the
construction of meaning and ideas. His work investigates writing as
concrete referents and also as symbols, markings, and etchings. *****
Tonight's program focuses on this later strain in Gatten's work—the more
abstract explorations of inscription, both real and imagined, and what
even those non-decipherable marks and codes, tracings and remnants, have
to say to us. ***** Featured are four completed works and a
work-in-progress: What the Water Said, Nos. 1-3 (1997-98); Fragrant
Portals, Bright Particulars and the Edge of Space (2003); What the Water
Said, Nos. 4-6 (2007); Film for Invisible Ink Case No. 142: Abbreviation
for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] (2008); and a work-in-progress
(tentatively titled The Much-Mottled Motion of Blank Time (2009)). *****
In addition to the films, Gatten will be playing selections of poet
Wallace Stevens reciting his own work and will be reading from Charles
Darwin's Origin of the Species to complement some of the thematic
aspects of the films.
3/8
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: RECENT WORKS
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 continues this 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 John Cage Performs James Joyce (1985), Aiueonn Six Features
(1982-1994), Observer/Observed and Other Works of Video Semiology
(1976), Seeing / Hearing / Speaking (2002), I Am (Not) Seen (2003)
General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
3/8
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART III
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. This three weekend
program includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and
rarely shown classic films. Each screening: $5
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