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This week [March 7 - 15, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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"I Cannot Speak Without Shaking" by Todd Herman
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"Stations (Oh, the Humanity)" by Mike Celona
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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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Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 15, 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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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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part iii [March 7, Los Angeles, California]
* 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]
* Beach Red [March 8, New York, New York]
* Ec Jennings / Kirsanoff / LÉGer & Murphy / Clair & Picabia [March 8, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema Rapt [March 8, New York, New York]
* Films By Stan Brakhage, 1977-1981 [March 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Takahiko iimura: On Time In Film [March 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Goss & Weinstein Pgm [March 9, New York, New York]
* Songwriter [March 10, New York, New York]
* Martha Colburn In Person [March 10, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Fast, Faster, Fast! [March 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Of Other Spaces - Introduced By Curator James Voorhies [March 11, Columbus, Ohio]
* Kuchars, Program 1 [March 11, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 2 [March 11, New York, New York]
* The Transcendent Show - Curated & Introduced By Ben Russell [March 11, Oberlin, OH 44074]
* <B>Encounters With Contemporary French Film</B> [March 11, San Francisco, California]
* Trace Decay [March 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Kuchars, Pgm 3 [March 12, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 4 [March 12, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen - Christian Lebrat In Person! [March 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Kuchars, Pgm 1 [March 13, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 2 [March 13, New York, New York]
* Journey From Darkness Into Light: A Spooktacular Program of Films By
Kerry Laitala [March 13, San Francisco, California]
* Born In Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) [March 14, Columbus, Ohio]
* The Lollipop Generation (G.B. Jones, 2008) [March 14, Columbus, Ohio]
* Up the Empire: Variations On An Italian theme [March 14, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 5 [March 14, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 3 [March 14, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 4 [March 14, New York, New York]
* Freddy Mcguire + Struthers & Fields + [March 14, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Film/Video Works By Takahiko iimura, Program One</B> [March 14, San Francisco, California]
* The Free Screen - Robert A. Haller In Person! [March 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Do You See What I See? New Works On vision
and Digitization By Adele Horne, Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin [March 15, Los Angeles, California]
* <B>Film/Video Works By Takahiko iimura, Program Two</B> [March 15, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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/
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
3/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
BEACH RED
1967, 105 minutes, 35mm. With Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace. Cornel
Wilde produced, directed, co-wrote, and stars in this gritty and honest
World War II tale that intercuts poignant flashbacks with intense battle
scenes to illustrate the horrors of war experienced by a squad of
Marines, and their Japanese counterparts, as they face one another on a
small island in the Pacific. With its wealth of interior monologues and
its naked sensitivity to the cruelty at the heart of war, BEACH RED is
like a low-budget, B-movie version of Terence Malick's THE THIN RED
LINE.
3/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC JENNINGS / KIRSANOFF / LÉGER & MURPHY / CLAIR & PICABIA
Humphrey Jennings LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 minutes, 35mm) Jennings's
film creates an audio landscape of Britain during the war, with images
both accompanying and conflicting with the multitude of sounds. Dimitri
Kirsanoff MÉNILMONTANT (1924-25, 38 minutes, 35mm) A melodramatic story
of an orphan girl whose seduction is avenged. Early use of hand-held
camera, montage, and superimpositions. Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy
BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm) Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives! A brief exploration of cubist form, black and white
tonalities, and various vectors through its constant, rapidly cut
movements and compositions. René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE
(1924, 22 minutes, 35mm) A masterpiece of dada, a feat of cinema magic.
Made as an intermission entertainment for the Ballet Su?dois from an
impromptu scenario by Francis Picabia. Music by Erik Satie.
3/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA RAPT
Directed by by Dimitri Kirsanoff 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm. In French with
no subtitles; English synopsis available. "RAPT is, paradoxically, both
a film which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a
work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema…. It is linked to
such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'AGE D'OR. The
radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic
musical score." –Lucy Fisher
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MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009
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3/9
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
FILMS BY STAN BRAKHAGE, 1977-1981
Films by Stan Brakhage, 1977-1981 98 minutes, 16mm Admission: $5 David
Sterritt describes Brakhage's nine–part ROMAN NUMERAL SERIES as
"exercises in pure color, motion, and shape," noting that the films
"search for the 'original vision' or ur–perception we are born with, and
can still recapture if we keep 'looking' when we close our eyes or go to
sleep." Rather than purely celebrating that untutored vision, as his
earlier films did, ROMANS views it as well with horror, however, seeing
in it the risk of seeing too much, a fright that what we've lost the
will and ability to see might be more than we can handle. Also in
program: THE DOMAIN OF THE MOMENT, @, and CREATION.
3/9
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
TAKAHIKO IIMURA: ON TIME IN FILM
Takahiko Iimura stands among the most productive and influential
experimental filmmakers of our time. During the 1960s' explosion of
underground cinema in the United States, Iimura, almost alone among his
peers in Japan, began making experimental films after reading the news
from abroad. His work explores a wide range of subjects and sources,
from poetic cinema with Dadaist and Surrealist influences and Absurdist
filmic play in the '60s through more formal and conceptual inquiries in
the '70s and later years. His sustained exploration of light, space,
time, nature and technology has since continued across multiple
media—including recent CD-ROMs and DVDs that combine film, video,
graphics, text and animation. This selection from Iimura's oeuvre
focuses mostly on his output in the '70s: 24 Frames Per Second (1975, 12
min.,); Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972, from Models, Reel 1, 11 min.); One Frame
Duration (1977, 12 min.); + & - (Plus And Minus) (1973, 26 min.); and I
Am (Not) Seen (2003, 5 min.,). In person: Takahiko Iimura Jack H.
Skirball Series $9 [students $7]
3/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
GOSS & WEINSTEIN PGM
Directed by by Jacqueline Goss/Joshua Weinstein Jacqueline Goss STRANGER
COMES TO TOWN 2007, 28 minutes, video. Six people are interviewed
anonymously about the questions and examinations used to establish
identity at the border, and about how these processes in turn affect
one's own sense of self and view of the world. & Joshua Weinstein FLYING
ON ONE ENGINE 2008, 51 minutes, video. Wheelchair-bound and diagnosed
with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, India-born, Brooklyn-based Dr.
Sharadkumar Dicksheet lives only so he can travel back to his homeland
to perform free surgeries on children with cleft lips and other
deformities. Although Dicksheet survives off social security in the
U.S., his life is drastically different in India where the eight-time
Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god. This film shows how
this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character lives two
different realities in two different countries.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009
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3/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 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.
3/10
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
MARTHA COLBURN IN PERSON
Martha Colburn (NYC) will screen a mini-retrospective of her uniquely
brilliant animated films. Born in rural PA., long-time resident of
Baltimore, primarily self-educated about film at the Baltimore Public
Library, Colburn has gone on to show her work at Sundance and Cannes
film festivals, MoMA and other prestigious museums as well as
alternative media centers, universities, clubs and small town
microcinemas throughout the world. She uses cut-and-paste animation
techniques to create collage films that are both fantastical and
stubbornly rooted in the material. Her recent films use hand-manipulated
gels and "special effects" on found footage and original animations. She
will present a body of work from 1995 - present. Her most recent films
are of a political nature. She has made a new film about Methamphetamine
and religion, and is going to premiere her latest film Triumph of the
Wild. Also on the program from 1996, My Secret Shame; I'm Gonna; 1997,
Ode to a Busdriver; Evil of Dracula; What's On?; 2005,Wrong Time Capsule
(music video for'Deerhoof'); 2006, Destiny Manifesto; Meet Me in Wichita
; from 2007, Don't Kill the Weatherman!, 2008, Myth Labs; Triumph of the
Wild. "At the moment a film is a song, a fairytale, a poem, a document,
propaganda, a mural, etc... I'm as much into reading and looking at art
as watching films…. Well, politics are kind of a surreal funhouse-a
hypnotic funhouse. I used garish colors and bursting geometrical images
to alternately shock and awe the viewer. Shock and Awe, yes. As for my
movie 'Myth Labs', I knew a lot of meth takes place in rural america so
I wanted to bring back my memories, like the colors and the people and
the attitudes."- MC
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009
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3/11
Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University
http://www.music.neu.edu/fast
12 noon, 320 Shillman Hall Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave
FAST, FASTER, FAST!
A program of mixed-media works (sound and image) that (mostly) move at a
rapid pace. Wednesday, March 11 th 12 noon Shillman Hall, room 320
Contact: Dennis Miller, 617 373 4132 or email suppressed Event website:
http://www.music.neu.edu/fast Chronomops, 2005 Tina Frank, images;
General Magic, music Nanomorphosis, 2003 Brian O'Reilly, images; Curtis
Roads, music Memory of the Tape, 2007 Damir Cucic, images; Erich Maria
Strom, music Energie!, 2007 Thorsten Fleisch, images ; Jens Thiele,
music passe-partout, 2002 Stephanie Maxwell, images; Allan Schindler,
music Motion of Light , 2004 Karl Lemieux, images; Olivier Borzeix,
music Lines of Force, 2008 Dennis Miller, music and images cNOte , 2004
Chris Hinton, images; Michael Oesterle, music Tower Bawher , 2006
Theodore Ushev, images; Georgy Sviridov, music Black Noise White Silence
, 2006 Marcel Wierckx, images and music 2BTextures , 2008 Bonnie
Mitchell, images; Elainie Lillios, music
3/11
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
OF OTHER SPACES - INTRODUCED BY CURATOR JAMES VOORHIES
This screening at the Wexner Center for the Arts is presented in
connection with the Columbus College of Art and Design's Bureau for Open
Culture and an exhibition titled Of Other Spaces currently on view at
CCAD. The show is a provocative inquiry into how spaces shape human
behavior and habit, and the featured films also examine space and place,
investigating relationships among cinematic, institutional, and urban
sites. Metropolis, Report from China (Maya Schweizer and Clemens von
Wedemeyer, 2006) In Metropolis, Report from China, the filmmakers
combine shots from China's burgeoning cities and interviews with workers
and architects to draw parallels between dehumanizing modern cities and
Fritz Lang's 1927 epic, Metropolis. (42 mins.) Will there be a sea
battle tomorrow? (Laurent Montaron, 2008) Based on experiments conducted
at the Institute of Parapsychology in Freiburg, Germany, in the early
1950s, Will there be a sea battle tomorrow? investigates the role of
scientific institutions in the study of such extrasensory realms as
clairvoyance and telepathy. (12 mins.) She Might Belong to You (Eva
Meyer and Eran Schaerf, 2007) Commissioned for the 2007 Sculpture
Project Münster in Germany, She Might Belong to You combines footage
from three films about or set in that city with original footage,
resulting in a sculptural-cinematic portrait of a place with a traumatic
past. (37 mins.)
3/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 1
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 2
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/11
Oberlin, OH 44074: Pioneer Species
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53023558433
8:00pm, West Lecture Hall, Oberlin College Science Center, 119 Woodland St.
THE TRANSCENDENT SHOW - CURATED & INTRODUCED BY BEN RUSSELL
Please join Pioneer Species and Viewing Positions: Contemporary Cinema
in Context in welcoming Chicago-based filmmaker and curator Ben Russell
to Oberlin for a screening of his mind-expanding program, The
Transcendent Show. With works by: Nathaniel Dorsky, Will Hindle, Shana
Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Ronald Nameth, Jean Rouch, and Paul Sharits.
ABOUT BEN RUSSELL: Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator,
and experimental film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces
ranging from 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East
Indian Trading Company buildings, police station basements to outdoor
punk squats, Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and the
Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art (solo). He has made
films about the assassination of Easter Island, the divining powers of
Richard Pryor, and the end of the world. A Guggenheim Fellowship
recipient in 2008, he began The Magic Lantern screening series in
Providence, Rhode Island and currently resides in Chicago. ABOUT PIONEER
SPECIES: Pioneer Species is a micro-cinema screening alternative,
independent, and experimental media every Wednesday night at various
locations in Oberlin, Ohio. ABOUT VIEWING POSITIONS: Viewing Positions:
Contemporary Cinema in Context is a series of screenings and discussions
that explore a variety of approaches to film and media practice today.
Presented by the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College, with support
from the Blanchard Fund. All events are free and open to the public.
Organized in collaboration with the students of CINE 323: Exhibition
Practices in the Media Arts.
3/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
ENCOUNTERS WITH CONTEMPORARY FRENCH FILM
Curated and presented by Sandra Davis in association with the Consulat
général de France Early French avant-garde film explored visual
abstraction, lyricism, futurism and surrealism. French filmmakers today
reveal their legacy and the influence of American counterparts in the
collective practice of "hands-on," hand-painted and direct manipulation
of surface, lyrical personal forms, echoes from French filmic
philosophic essay, as well as direct engagement with culture and
politics. Others reflect a generation moving easily between European and
North African influences, exposing internal conflicts that such meetings
imply. This program of recent works includes Patrick Bokanowski's Éclats
d'Orphée, Frédérique Devaux's K (Rêves/Berbères), Cécile Fontaine's Holy
Woods, Olivier Fouchard's Nûr: Cosmos Spiritus/Nûr Version 1, Rose
Lowder's Cote Jardin, Vivian Ostrovsky's Fone Für Follies, Marc Plas'
Peribole, Martine Rousset's Mer, Marcelle Thirache's Fenice and Jean
Painlevé's 1978 crystal-growth classic Cristaux Liquides.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2009
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3/12
Brooklyn, New York: victory to others
http://www.sashawelsh.com
8:00 pm, Triskelion Arts, 118 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor,
TRACE DECAY
Trace Decay is an experimental collaboration between choreographer Sasha
Welsh and video artist Kerrie Welsh that began with an exploration of
8mm film and VHS video footage. Trace Decay features live music by
composer J Why and performances by Laurie Berg, Cindy Chung Camins and
Cynthia St. Clair. The development of Trace Decay was supported by The
Swarthmore Project, a residency program for choreographers and dancers
sponsored by Swarthmore College in Swarthmore PA; excerpts have been
shown RAW Material at Dance New Amsterdam, and Body Blend at Dixon
Place. Tickets: $15 ($12 students, seniors) Box Office:
www.brownpapertickets.com Reservations/ Contact:
email suppressed Trains: L train to Bedford Avenue or G train to
Nassau
3/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PGM 3
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 4
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
8:30 p.m., AGO's Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. W.
THE FREE SCREEN - CHRISTIAN LEBRAT IN PERSON!
Based in Paris, Christian Lebrat is an internationally acclaimed artist
with a career spanning over thirty years. He is a filmmaker, video and
performance artist and photographer, as well as a publisher, curator and
writer. In 1985 he founded Paris Expérimental
(www.paris-experimental.asso.fr), a publishing company entirely devoted
to theoretical and historical texts on avant-garde and experimental
cinema. Since 1976 he has created over twenty experimental films,
videos, and film performances, along with a formidable body of
photographic work. Lebrat's films actively explore the "between" nature
of the cinematic image, in particular the way the image is a co-creation
of human perception and projected light. Intricate rhythms emerge
through the viewer's perception of variations between successive film
frames, and nuanced vibrations appear between juxtaposed bands of
coloured light. The colour field paintings of Mark Rothko and the
metrical films of Peter Kubelka have been key influences in Lebrat's
development of a unique cinematic form that deeply elucidates affective
aspects of human perception.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009
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3/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PGM 1
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 2
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/13
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street @21st.
JOURNEY FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT: A SPOOKTACULAR PROGRAM OF FILMS BY
KERRY LAITALA
Journey from Darkness Into Light: A Spooktacular Program of Films by
Kerry Laitala A Fragment from a Lost Film- 16mm, 3 minutes, silent-
1992Introduction to a walking anachronism "Orbit"- 16mm, 9 minutes,
hand-made soundtrack-2006 Candy apple light emissions create a series of
photic stimulating events that tickle the retinas. "Orbit" takes one
into the realm of the mistake…. a playful pulsation of mis-registered
images made when a lab accidentally split the film from 16mm to regular
8. This format was then reconstituted on the optical printer making the
colors and contrast further blow out into the atmosphere. Kodachrome
color fields create tremulous vibrations whose flickerings hypnotize.
The Kodachrome Series, of which "Orbit" is a part, deals directly with
chromatic motion studies and creates an illusion of frozen light fields;
holding light captive and exploring the phenomenon of retinal
afterimage. The soundtrack is comprised of the flutterings of optical
noise reverberating to the splices of the film that is intermixed with
hand drawn extensions of the visual plane onto the soundtrack area. By
combining a series of abstract shapes with permanent marker, the rhythm
and tempo of the image is directly enhanced through this mark making
process. The fanciful sputterings crackle and snap, tickling the
tympanum of the eardrums. We enter through the oval window, while the
Gravitron spins eternally. "OUT OF THE ETHER"- 16MM, 11 Minutes,
sound"Out of the Ether" is a hand crafted 16mm film composed on the
optical printer and toned to bring out pulsating hues of oozing greens
and yellows. "Out of the Ether" poses the following questions: "What do
we leave behind? Are institutional forces using our hysteria to reap the
benefits of possible infection? Whose environment could we possibly be
affecting? What unseen forces would unscrupulous beings want to use to
infiltrate our bodies and perhaps our consciousness? Who is the enemy?
"Out of the Ether" unleashes upon an unsuspecting audience septic
musings about fear in the guise of microbial menace and mayhem.
"Retrospectroscope"- 16mm, 5 minutes, silent, 1997 The
"Retrospectroscope" apparatus has gone through many incarnations; its
presence belies the processes that have created it. As a pre-cinematic
device, it traces an evolutionary trajectory, encircling the viewer in a
procession of flickering fantasies of fragmented lyricism. The
"Retrospectroscope" is a reinvention that simulates the illusion of the
analysis of motion to recall early mysteries of the quest for this very
discovery now taken for granted. The Muses of Cinema" represented by the
female figures on the disk, have emerged from a dark Neoclassical past.
Streams of images revolve around, in an attempt to harness notions of a
cinematic prehistory tracing past motions and gestures to burn their
dance on the surface of the retinas. This film known as the
"Retrospectroscope", was described in the San Francisco Bay Guardian as
"A spinning flashing UFO/roulette wheel of Athenian proportions."
Sponsored By The Princess Grace Foundation-1996 "Hallowed"-16mm, 11
minutes, color, sound - 2002"Hallowed" is a 16mm film that portrays a
mystical voyage made back in time by an unconscious woman in the throes
of a cataleptic state. She finds herself in Plato's cave where
flickering flames incite a prehistoric cinematic reverie evoking an
experience of magical proportions. Her internal state is evoked through
a chromatically textural metamorphosis that plays across her visage as
she transcends the pain inflicted from an unknown source. Flames of
purification melt away layers of trauma, and send the dislocated psyche
back into the realm of the present as an integrated self. "Hallowed"
evokes a transcendent state that could only be traversed and negotiated
through the ritual contemplation of the elusive pictograms and archaic
petroglyphs on the cave wall, as the realm of cinema becomes an antidote
for the emptiness of earthly existence. "Secure the Shadow...'Ere the
Substance Fade"- 16mm, color, sound- 9 minutes 1997"Secure the Shadow"
is a meditation on disintegration and mortality. The film utilizes
antique Medical stereoscopic images from the Victorian era, which are
simultaneously disturbing and beautiful. The filmmaker's intention is to
reveal universal truths about the overwhelming quality of disease to
render us ultimately mute, immobilized within a corporeal shell that has
succumbed to imminent forces beyond our control. The filmmaker also
wants the film to address the myth that dignity is automatically
restored upon the visage when facing death. In analyzing the original
function of the stereoscopic images, the filmmaker intends to expose
their classificatory nature. These anonymous subjects were reduced to
paradigms of pathology, embalmed in time within their exterior presence.
By re-photographing them on the optical printer and placing them in a
mythical home, the filmmaker endeavors to re-animate these visages to
ensnare them, or allow them to roam free on the surface of celluloid.
Absence transforms to presence as the latent image reveals the manifest
content, the slippery territories in between unraveling like the threads
joining the crazy quilt that connects images together. An anachronistic
Victorian sensibility places the images in a chimerical, historical
context that embodies the film with a mind that is paradoxical and alien
to our modern day perspective. The title "Secure the Shadow...'Ere the
Substance Fade, let nature imitate what nature has made", comes from a
Nineteenth century post mortem photographer who advertised his services.
This reference speaks about the function of photography as a
democratizing medium that assists in the process of mourning and serves
as a physical reminder of loss. Sponsored By The Princess Grace
Foundation-1996 "The Adventure Parade"- 16mm Black, White & Blue,
Silent, 5 minutes- 2000"The Adventure Parade" is a hand processed film
that deals with the nature of using found images self-reflexively
calling attention to the re-framing imprint of the filmmaker serving to
reveal the duplicitous nature of the material. The inherent violence
that is hinted at lies beyond the threshold of understanding, and only
offers clues of past interventions." "Conquered"- 16mm, B&W & Color, 15
minutes, sound, 2000 Filmed entirely at the Akademie Schloss Solitude,
"Conquered" comes from the depths of a submerged self. The filmmaker
incorporated her own imagery with found material from German industrial
films, most notably a film about a youth prison. These images were fused
with images from a film brought from the U.S. entitled "The Epic of
Everest" summarizing an attempt to reach the mountain's summit by George
Mallory and Sandy Irvine in 1924. Mallory's body was just recently
discovered below the North face. Killed after a fall, his innards were
subsequently eaten out by Goraks. Amidst the controversy of whether
Mallory made the summit or not, the filmmaker's intent in using the
Everest imagery was to describe a feeling of a frozen landscape as
emotional state. As she was awestruck at its extreme beauty and chill,
she felt that it perfectly portrayed an immobilized, catatonic state
analogous to the darkness, and the snow covered quietude. As matter
becomes transformed into a morass of material incoherence, the filmmaker
wants the viewer to become lost in the imagery, and to feel as though
he/she is dangling precariously over the edge of a precipice. She merged
the materials: celluloid base with alchemically, manipulated surface and
found a way to crack the emulsion to yield a fragile, encumbered palate-
a veritable testament to the forces of organic catalysts in motion.
Sponsored by the Akademie Schloss Solitude and Hakan Warn Transfixed-
16mm, 8 minutes, sound 2005, Sound Collaboration with David Shea
Bridging the gap between past and present, a series of thought pictures
transcribe moments of Cautionary pleasure submerged in undulating
illusions of liquefied light and shadow. Commissioned by the 34th
International Film Festival Rotterdam "Little Bassy Velvet"- An Expanded
Cinema, Projector Performance Piece - 16mm film loops, 35mm slides and
the sleight of hand…9 minutes-2008"A whimsical, expanded cinema piece
that exists somewhere between a light spill and a conjuring act, "Little
Bassy Velvet" teases the retinas and immerses them in a sea of squirmy,
silvery halides…." Total Running Time: 1 Hour, 25 minutes Then Laitala
will return for the next Friday's Screening MARCH 20TH @ ATA- at 8pm
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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009
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3/14
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
4:15 pm, 1871 N. High St.
BORN IN FLAMES (LIZZIE BORDEN, 1983)
Lizzie Borden's futuristic feminist drama follows the actions of the
Women's Army, a powerful underground faction of female vigilantes formed
to combat the rampant oppression of women in the director's vision of an
alternate America. (80 mins., 16mm)
3/14
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
8:45 pm, 1871 N. High St.
THE LOLLIPOP GENERATION (G.B. JONES, 2008)
"This legendary, unfinished film, fifteen years in the making,... is
roughly to Queer Cinema what Orson Welles' The Other Side of Midnight is
to, well, Cinema."—Dennis Cooper The Torontonian G. B. Jones has been
called the "matriarch of queercore" for her work in film, music, zines,
and art. Since 1992, she has been traveling North America with a Super-8
camera filming footage for The Lollipop Generation, a lost relic of
underground cinema finally unearthed. The gritty and sweet DIY fable
follows a young runaway girl who meets up with a cast of perverts,
hustlers, playground dwellers, and lollipop lovers creating a
never-never land of queeruptions. Featuring appearances by a rogues'
gallery of gay and indie rock musicians and artists including Vaginal
Davis and Calvin Johnson. (70 mins., video)
3/14
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th St.
UP THE EMPIRE: VARIATIONS ON AN ITALIAN THEME
Video Works by PETER CRAMER and JACK WATERS with MARC ARTHUR. NEW YORK
PREMIERES. PROGRAM INCLUDES: L'HOMO VENEZIA (9 min) 2006 - CRAMER &
ARTHUR. Theatrical studies created for a new opus "Pestilence" during
their residency at The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy. Elements
from SPETTACOLO PROVOLONE -WATERS & CRAMER with DANCETUBE, A
Surreallity-Based Theatrical Intervention, THREE TABLEAUX MOON, CAVE,(10
min.), TWIN BIRTH CURTAIN (3 min.)- JOURNALISTS IN DISGUISE (GIORNALISTI
EN MASCHERA) -WATERS & CRAMER, (30 min.) Interviews & Performances at
the 2001 Venice Biennial vernissage featuring Mary McFadden, Special
Prize winners Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (Canada), and other
attendees. NYC Premiere TWO GENTLEMEN OF LUCCA (SIGNORE DUE DI LUCCA (4
min.) 2008 - CRAMER & WATERS. NYC Premiere. This short premiered@ the
Lucca Film Festival as part of a longer curatorial compilation titled 20
Puccini in honor of the composers birthday celebration. BIOS: Since 1981
Peter Cramer and Jack Waters have been partners in a wide variety of
performing, visual and media arts projects. They were a catalytic force
behind POOL, a dance/performance collective in the early 80's.
Co-directors of ABC NO RIO from 1983 to 1988, which included the NAKED
EYE CINEMA, a venue for experimental film. They founded and direct
Allied Productions,Inc. a non profit whose 28 year history includes
producing exhibition projects encompassing art, performance, film,
music, workshops for individual, group and collective artists in Europe
and United States. Major activities include 1996 founding of NYC queer
public "art " garden Petit Versailles and subsequent free public
programming since 2001. Marc Arthur has contributed to a variety of art
and community development projects in the East Village and abroad. As a
artist he developed performance pieces at LaMama Etc, The Living Theater
and Dixon Place. Marc has also worked with the Amigos De Las Americas
program to implement AIDS and other sexual safety information to small
impoverished farming communities in northern Brazil through theatrical
productions.
3/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 5
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 3
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PROGRAM 4
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! MARCH 11-17 George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of
the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and
legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a
couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious
as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen
short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelming proof that the
Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world.
3/14
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
FREDDY MCGUIRE + STRUTHERS & FIELDS +
On the occasion of our 25th Birthday, OC is pleased to present the
fabulous duo of Anne McGuire and Wobbly as local cabaret revisionists
Freddy (rhymes with "seedy") McGuire, with sonic pastiche and costume
changes galore. These electro-retro superstars introduce a set of
delirious Soundies, Scopitones, and musical clips before making way for
Struthers & Fields (née Animal Charm) with brand new material after a
six-year hiatus.. With a nod to Rod McKuen, they bathe in the adult
contemporary beach jazz sound that made them regulars on the Toe Ring
Circuit. PLUS Korla Pandit, Sammy Davis, Jr., Betty Boop, Tuxedo Moon,
Modernaires, Liberace, and Hawaiian music. Free champagne and popcorn!
*$7.77.
3/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:00pm, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street
FILM/VIDEO WORKS BY TAKAHIKO IIMURA, PROGRAM ONE
TAKAHIKO IIMURA IN-PERSON. Presented in association with the San
Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Takahiko Iimura's
earliest films, including Kuzu (Junk), Ai (Love) and A Dance Party in
the Kingdom of Lilliput No. 1, were largely inspired by the work of the
1920s French surrealists and were produced in relative isolation in
Japan. Created using 8mm cameras or abandoned and distressed found
footage, they retain the intimacy of the home movie and a taboo-breaking
joyousness, exploring abstraction and eroticism with charming candor and
a whimsical sense of the absurd. These early films are screened with a
sampling of video works from the 1970s and '80s which investigate the
temporal and spatial paradoxes of presence and absence inherent in the
electronic medium, including A Chair, Blinking, Time Tunnel, Man and
Woman, Visual Logic (and Illogic) , Double Portrait and I Love You.
3/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 p.m., AGO's Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. W.
THE FREE SCREEN - ROBERT A. HALLER IN PERSON!
CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHIC MOTION STUDIES (Director: Étienne Jules Marey, 1887,
approx. 40 seconds, 16mm, b&w, silent). ELECTROLYSIS OF METALS
(Director: Charles Urban, 1910, approx. 30 seconds, 16mm, b&w, silent).
ANNABELLE THE DANCER (Director: Thomas Edison Studio, 1894, approx. 30
seconds, 16mm, silent, colour, tinted). LE SPECTRE ROUGE (THE RED
SPECTRE) (Director: Segundo de Chomon, 1907, approx. 7 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent). THE PAINTED LADY (Director: D.W. Griffith, 1912, 15
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent). LA FOLIE DU DOCTEUR TUBE (Director: Abel
Gance, 1915, approx. 10 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent). JEUX DES REFLETS ET
DE LA VITESSE (Director: Henri Chomette, 1926, approx. 6 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent). WILDFIRE (Director: Amy Greenfield, 2002, 11 minutes,
35mm, b&w, sound). Motion pictures were invented to serve objective
scientific inquiry, not to be an art or an entertainment business. Yet
cinema as a window on subjective vision emerged almost immediately, a
story of accident and inspiration. This programme traces some of the
early steps in the trajectory of cinema since 1887. Annabelle the Dancer
was initially exhibited on the peep-show Kinetoscope. It is notable for
its hand-coloured imagery of Annabelle Moore performing in what appears
to be a black void, utterly alone, in a movement with no obvious
beginning or end, a dream from another time. Le Spectre rouge is a hand
painted Pathé film by the immensely talented Segundo de Chomon, who here
has a magician summon three women who revolt against his paternalism.
The Gance film was made with mirrors and has often been cited as the
first experimental film from France. Subjective vision is also the
primary quality of the Chomette film, about which he wrote: "The cinema
is not limited to the representative mode. It can create, and has
already created a sort of rhythm. . . . Thanks to this rhythm the cinema
can draw fresh strength from itself, which forgoing the logic of facts
and the reality of objects, may beget a series of unknown visions,
inconceivable outside the union of lens and film." Greenfield's Wildfire
is another "series of unknown visions" that begins and ends with footage
from Annabelle, but is completely different in structure – its imagery
organized by thousands of cuts and superimpositions to make a storm of
flashes of flesh and light, colour and movement. – Robert A. Haller
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SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2009
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3/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? NEW WORKS ON VISION
AND DIGITIZATION BY ADELE HORNE, REBECCA BARON & DOUG GOODWIN
Adele Horne, Rebecca Baron, and Doug Goodwin in person! Several Los
Angeles premieres! Adele Horne's new short works investigate realms of
vision and interpretation of visual phenomena in delightful ways. With
The Lossless Series, Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin look into the small
and large changes done to film images through digitization, compression,
and digital manipulation, and by extension raise questions of the
potential of the de- and re-construction of all images from/of the past.
Includes 15 Experiments on Peripheral Vision by Adele Horne and Paul
VanDeCarr (2008), The Image World by Adele Horne (2006), Quiero Ver by
Adele Horne (2008), and The Lossless Series #1- #5 by Rebecca Baron and
Douglas Goodwin (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.
3/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
FILM/VIDEO WORKS BY TAKAHIKO IIMURA, PROGRAM TWO
Iimura is perhaps best known for his work exploring the temporality of
cinema – the various ways the film viewer's elemental sense of time can
be "played" by the filmmaker. Frequently using the most basic of film
elements – white light, black leader and the projection environment,
Iimura's work in this area is among the most abstract and elemental in
all of cinema, postulating time and the interval as ground for deeply
engaging cinematic experience. Screening: 2 MINUTES 46 SECONDS 16 FRAMES
and TIMED 1, 2, 3 (both from the series MODELS, REEL 1), 24 FRAMES PER
SECOND, ONE FRAME DURATION, + & - and the video I AM (NOT) SEEN.
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