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Part 1 of 2: This week [March 14 - 22, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* It Came From Kuchar [March 14, Austin, TX]
* 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]
* Experimental Shorts [March 15, Austin, TX]
* 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]
* Coming Apart [March 15, New York, New York]
* Kuchars Program 5 [March 15, New York, New York]
* Kuchars Program 1 [March 15, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Pgm 2 [March 15, New York, New York]
* <B>Film/Video Works By Takahiko iimura, Program Two</B> [March 15, San Francisco, California]
* Kucgars Program 3 [March 16, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 4 [March 16, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 1 [March 17, New York, New York]
* Kuchars, Program 2 [March 17, New York, New York]
* Experimental Shorts [March 18, Austin, TX]
* The Feature [March 18, New York, New York]
* Nfpf Program 1 [March 18, New York, New York]
* Crossroads: the Films of Bruce Conner, Program One [March 18, San Francisco, California]
* It Came From Kuchar [March 19, Austin, TX]
* Experimental Shorts [March 19, Austin, TX]
* The Feature [March 19, New York, New York]
* Nfpf Program 2 [March 19, New York, New York]
* Crossroads: the Films of Bruce Conner, Program Two [March 19, San Francisco, California]
* It Came From Kuchar [March 20, Austin, TX]
* The Feature [March 20, New York, New York]
* The Presentation theme: Selections From the 2009 Florida Experimental
Film/Video Festival [March 20, Orlando, Florida]
* The Muse of Cinema Series By Kerry Laitala [March 20, San Francisco, California]
* Refracted Lens Present Figures of Speech [March 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Feature [March 21, New York, New York]
* Chris Carlsson's 'foundsf' + California Company Town + [March 21, San Francisco, California]
* The Toe Tactic [March 21, Seattle, Washington]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents A World Rattled of Habit: Films By Ben
Rivers. [March 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Lunchfilm: Film Before Food [March 22, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2009
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3/14
Austin, TX: South by Southwest Film Festival
http://sxsw.com
5pm, Alamo South Lamar 3
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
Director: Jennifer M. Kroot Cast: George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, John
Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Wayne Wang, Guy Maddin, B Ruby Rich,
Bill Griffith, Christopher Coppola. IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious
and touching documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking
twins, the Kuchar brothers. As kids in the 1950s, George and Mike Kuchar
began making no-budget epics in their Bronx neighborhood starring
friends and family with their 8mm camera. In the 1960s the Kuchars
became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene. The Kuchar
brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John
Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all
interviewed in this film). IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's
lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest
hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of
consciousness tale.
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
Austin, TX: South by Southwest Film Festival
http://sxsw.com
4:30pm, Alamo South Lamar 3
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media,
Martians and Miscommunication. 'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H.
Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing
hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated
documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. 'Dear Texas
Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy
ending. '100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first
couple weeks of starting antidepressants. 'Bigband', directed Daniel
Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection
on our society's day-to-day paradoxes. 'The Nature Between Us', directed
by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks,
sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a
tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and
style. 'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane
Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
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
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
COMING APART
Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg 1969, 110 minutes, 35mm. With Sally
Kirkland. FILMMAKER MILTON MOSES 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.
3/15
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! 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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
3/15
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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
3/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCHARS, PGM 2
A LUST FOR ECSTASY: BRAND NEW & RECENT PRESERVATIONS OF THE KUCHAR
BROTHERS! 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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
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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MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009
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3/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
KUCGARS 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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
3/16
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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009
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3/17
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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
3/17
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! 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. In 2004, with
support from the Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation
Foundation, Anthology preserved ten of their 8mm films by blowing them
up to 16mm. Today, we are proud to say we've finished the job with a
second round of preservations that include the remaining seven titles
from their early oeuvre. To celebrate the completion of this project we
will be showcasing the new preservations, reviving the older ones, and,
as a special bonus, hosting the premiere of Harvard Film Archives'
restorations of films produced by George and his students at the San
Francisco Art Institute – a veritable Kuchar-athon!
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009
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3/18
Austin, TX: South by Southwest Film Festival
http://sxsw.com
4:00pm, Alamo South Lamar 1
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
'The Idiot Stinks', directed by Helder Sun. Animation, Angst, Media,
Martians and Miscommunication. 'Turning Trick', directed by Kaja H.
Lejon. Five girls are in a park. At first it looks like they are playing
hide and seek but it quickly develops into something quite different.
'Cattle Call', directed by Matthew Rankin. A high-speed animated
documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. 'Dear Texas
Highways', directed by Shaun Roberts. A suicide note with a happy
ending. '100 MG', directed by Mike Kash. A meditation on the first
couple weeks of starting antidepressants. 'Bigband', directed Daniel
Calvo. A journey into contemporary urban world that forces a reflection
on our society's day-to-day paradoxes. 'The Nature Between Us', directed
by William Campbell. In a swirl of spray paint, sweet bike tricks,
sloppy joe's and young love, a bonkers back-alley gang stumble upon a
tiny secret world, creating a reality bending mash up of culture and
style. 'Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist', directed by Sarah Jane
Lapp. An animator's immortality project.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE FEATURE
2008, 177 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! Michel Auder
& Andrew Neel THE FEATURE Very special thanks to Michel Auder, Andrew
Neel and Ethan Palmer (SeeThink Productions). Michel Auder's epic new
film is a summation of his half-century-long career as a video artist
and diarist. In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives, and 1-minute
haikus, Auder has created a body of work that is wholly unique in the
history of the moving image. With the archive of footage Auder has
amassed over the decades providing much of the source material,
alongside new scenes shot by co-director Andrew Neel (the grandson of
painter Alice Neel), THE FEATURE represents a self-conscious and
quasi-fictional variation on the story of Auder's life.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
NFPF PROGRAM 1
Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. TREASURES IV: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE
FILM, 1947-1986 This March brings the long-awaited release of the
National Film Preservation Foundation's glorious 2-DVD box set,
TREASURES IV: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM, 1947-1986, the home-video debut
of 26 classics of American experimental filmmaking. TREASURES IV
showcases the preservation work of America's foremost avant-garde film
archives: Anthology, the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, the Museum of Modern Art, the Donnell Media
Center of the New York Public Library, and the Pacific Film Archive. To
celebrate the release, Anthology is screening, over two evenings, a
selection of pristine new prints created by these five contributing
archives. TREASURES IV is made possible through generous grants from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment
for the Arts, with additional support from Film Technology, Inc. Net
proceeds from sales will support further film preservation. A two-page
brochure with the complete line-up of films can be downloaded from the
NFPF Web site: www.filmpreservation.org/T4_brochure.pdf.
3/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
CROSSROADS: THE FILMS OF BRUCE CONNER, PROGRAM ONE
In his drive to re-present mainstream culture's visual icons of violence
and conformity, sex and death, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a master of
irony and juxtaposition. Arguably the inventor of the "found footage"
genre and the music video, Conner's films, including A MOVIE, COSMIC RAY
and MONGOLOID, are veritable x-rays of the 20th Century American mind.
REPORT and TELEVISION ASSASSINATION represent struggles to come to terms
with the cruelties of history and its mediated representation while the
chillingly meditative CROSSROADS ambivalently commemorates history's
one-way trajectory. These films and others – notably the profoundly
nostalgic VALSE TRISTE and TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND – expose and
describe collective fantasies and fears, while ultimately remaining
deeply personal, intimate and darkly elusive. Conner, famously
distrustful of art world elitism, made films that were immediately
accessible, immensely pleasurable, yet frequently highly critical (even
condemnatory) of the culture from which they grew. They represent the
thrills and spills of Conner's seventy-four years. This two-part
celebration of the work of Bruce Conner includes (nearly) every work
completed by this highly original, deeply American artist, including
rarities, recent works and other surprises. Screening: Cosmic Ray;
Easter Morning; His Eye on the Sparrow; Luke; Mea Culpa; A Movie; Take
the 5:10 to Dreamland; Television Assassination; Valse Triste; The White
Rose.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009
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3/19
Austin, TX: South by Southwest Film Festival
http://sxsw.com
1:30pm, Alamo Ritz 1
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
Director: Jennifer M. Kroot Cast: George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, John
Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Wayne Wang, Guy Maddin, B Ruby Rich,
Bill Griffith, Christopher Coppola. IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is a hilarious
and touching documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking
twins, the Kuchar brothers. As kids in the 1950s, George and Mike Kuchar
began making no-budget epics in their Bronx neighborhood starring
friends and family with their 8mm camera. In the 1960s the Kuchars
became part of Warhol's New York, underground film scene. The Kuchar
brother's films have inspired many prominent filmmakers, including John
Waters, Buck Henry, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Wayne Wang (all
interviewed in this film). IT CAME FROM KUCHAR interweaves the brother's
lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a 'greatest
hits' of Kuchar clips into a hilarious and touching stream of
consciousness tale.
3/19
Austin, TX: South by Southwest Film Festival
http://sxsw.com
5:00pm, Alamo South Lamar 1
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
See March 18.
3/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE FEATURE
2008, 177 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! Michel Auder
& Andrew Neel THE FEATURE Very special thanks to Michel Auder, Andrew
Neel and Ethan Palmer (SeeThink Productions). Michel Auder's epic new
film is a summation of his half-century-long career as a video artist
and diarist. In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives, and 1-minute
haikus, Auder has created a body of work that is wholly unique in the
history of the moving image. With the archive of footage Auder has
amassed over the decades providing much of the source material,
alongside new scenes shot by co-director Andrew Neel (the grandson of
painter Alice Neel), THE FEATURE represents a self-conscious and
quasi-fictional variation on the story of Auder's life.
3/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
NFPF PROGRAM 2
Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. Larry Gottheim FOG LINE (1970, 10
minutes, 16mm, color, silent) Print courtesy of the Reserve Film and
Video Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Saul Levine NOTE TO PATI (1969, 9 minutes, 16mm, color, silent) Bruce
Baillie HERE I AM (1962, 10 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) Chick Strand FAKE
FRUIT FACTORY (1986, 22 minutes, 16mm, color, sound) Print courtesy of
Pacific Film Archive. Jane Conger Belson Shimane ODDS & ENDS (1959, 4
minutes, 16mm, color, sound) Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Storm De Hirsch PEYOTE QUEEN (1965, 9 minutes, 16mm, color, sound) Pat
O'Neill 7362 (1967, 10 minutes, 16mm, color, sound) Print courtesy of
the Academy Film Archive. Stan Brakhage RIDDLE OF LUMEN (1972, 13
minutes, 16mm, color, silent) Print courtesy of the Academy Film
Archive.
3/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street
CROSSROADS: THE FILMS OF BRUCE CONNER, PROGRAM TWO
In his drive to re-present mainstream culture's visual icons of violence
and conformity, sex and death, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a master of
irony and juxtaposition. Arguably the inventor of the "found footage"
genre and the music video, Conner's films, including A MOVIE, COSMIC RAY
and MONGOLOID, are veritable x-rays of the 20th Century American mind.
REPORT and TELEVISION ASSASSINATION represent struggles to come to terms
with the cruelties of history and its mediated representation while the
chillingly meditative CROSSROADS ambivalently commemorates history's
one-way trajectory. These films and others – notably the profoundly
nostalgic VALSE TRISTE and TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND – expose and
describe collective fantasies and fears, while ultimately remaining
deeply personal, intimate and darkly elusive. Conner, famously
distrustful of art world elitism, made films that were immediately
accessible, immensely pleasurable, yet frequently highly critical (even
condemnatory) of the culture from which they grew. They represent the
thrills and spills of Conner's seventy-four years. This two-part
celebration of the work of Bruce Conner includes (nearly) every work
completed by this highly original, deeply American artist, including
rarities, recent works and other surprises. Screening: America Is
Waiting; Breakaway; Cosmic Ray; Crossroads; Looking For Mushrooms (Long
Version); Marilyn Times Five; Mongoloid; Report; Ten Second Film;
Vivian.
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