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Date: Sat Mar 28 2009 - 23:14:22 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [March 28 - April 5, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009
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4/3
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Ear to the Ground: Art, Politics and Life. The works of the artists
included in Ear to the Ground extend documentary conventions through
performative and experimental forms of restaging, using non-actors to
play their own professional roles and presenting stories within stories.
These processes generate a bottom-up picture paralleling the practices
of gleaning, performance and market place debate that metaphorically and
actually function quite differently from the way events are framed by
global mass media. Their films and video works create an alternative
space that is more in keeping with oral and visual forms of literacy and
knowledge production that are becoming accessible across multiple
cultures and language groups. Their work represents another phase of
electronic media directed to a new global audience for art and
socio-political content outside the frame of reference provided by
electronic mass media. They also function as a critique of the methods
of communication and information dispersal of mainstream media that
tends to propagate a top-down master narrative point of view similar to
the globalized forces that these forms of media report on and from which
they are produced. This text-based model of literacy has distanced us
and places us in the midst of a special type of alienation that is
becoming inadequate for the kind of social intercourse that can respond
to the questions of "Where is the future?" and "Whose future is it?"
–Patrick Clancy. "Bamako," Abderrahmane Sissako (Mali), 2006, 118 min.,
35mm film shown on DVD, Bambara and French with English subtitles.
Program continues Apr. 10 with Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I." Shown
Mar. 27 were Cao Fei's "Whose Utopia" and Ou Ning and Cao Fei's "Meishi
Street."
4/3
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5:00pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street
TONY CONRAD: FLICKERING JEWEL, PROGRAM ONE
Window, Perspective, Shadows. Presented in association with SFAI's
Spheres of Interest Lecture Series While his work frequently bucks
against the confines of linguistic restrictions, Tony Conrad is a
prolific theorist, a stunningly witty ideologue and a captivating
lecturer. Commencing the FLICKERING JEWEL series, Conrad will present
WINDOW, PERSPECTIVE, SHADOWS: PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS REFLECTING
ON CINEMA SPACE AND THE RENAISSANCE, a discussion of his recent
installation work and his continued engagement with the entrenched
assumptions of Western art history. This presentation includes
documentation of his pieces WINDOW ENACTMENT, LAUGHING AT LEONARDO and
BRUNELLESCHI.
4/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1700, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
TALK TO THE PIE 1 : NOTES ON COMPOSING
Talk to the Pie 1: Join the filmmakers and the composers from our
opening night program for an open conversation on the process of
collaborating across mediums. A respondent from the Guild of Canadian
Film Composers will open the program moderated by Images' Director Scott
Miller Berry.
4/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
LIVE IMAGES 2 : MAKE ME STOP SMOKING
"I have been collecting worthless material for almost ten years now,
taking good care arranging it, documenting it, indexing it, and
preserving it from any possible damage… Today I possess what resembles
an archive, or let's say I possess a real archive that relates only to
me: a kind of added memory that occupies different corners of my
domestic space, despite the fact that I do not actually need it. It is
an invented memory that is exhausting me, and which I cannot liberate
myself from. For this reason, I will uncover some parts of my archive,
hoping that by making it public I can get rid of its weight. This will
be my attempt to destroy a memory that doesn't know how to erase
itself." - Rabih Mroué Merging modes of documentary practice within the
context of theatre, Make Me Stop Smoking continues Rabih Mroué's ongoing
investigation and exploration of Lebanon, largely through the wars and
political strife that has plagued the country for much of the past few
decades. Challenging both the definitions of theatre as well as video
and performance art, Mroué's work is a simple monologue accompanied by
projected photographs, images and video works. Though broadly political
in their scope, Mroué's works use the personal as a grounding point for
their narratives. Make Me Stop Smoking is constructed from material
drawn out of the artist's own personal archive of interviews,
photographs, videos and various other materials. Jumping from the
assassination of Rafik Hariri to the citizens who went missing during
the Lebanese Civil Wars to photographs of manholes and street lamps,
Mroué's performance investigates how we remember and understand events
and occurrences from the past through the lens of the present and
future. Rabih Mroué is an actor, director and playwright born in Beirut
in 1967. He studied drama at the Université Libanaise and began writing,
directing and performing in his own plays, performances and videos in
1990. His works have been shown in Beirut, Cairo, Paris, Vienna, Tunis,
Amman, Basel, Barcelona, Brussels and Berlin, and include: How Nancy
Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke, 2007; Who's Afraid of
Representation, 2005; Biokhraphia, 2002; Face A/Face B, 2001; Three
Posters, 2000; Come in Sir, we will Wait for you Outside, 1998; and
Extension 19, 1997. Since 1995, he has been writing and directing short
animated films and documentaries for Future TV in Beirut.
4/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2130, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
LIVE IMAGES 3 : IN THE ROOM 3
Incorporating electronic music, performance, drawing, and both live and
pre-recorded video, In the Room 3 weaves in and out of a dream-like
state of memory and imagination, operating in a world that subscribes to
its own internal rhythm and logic. Here seemingly simple actions take on
magical qualities: a man draws on a glass vase, fills it with ping pong
balls and milk, and stirs until the drawing disappears; a wall of
coloured tissue paper rustles with the wind from a body walking past; a
man draws faces with marker and spit as his intimate images are
simultaneously projected into the center of a room; he tells a strange
story: I see a girl's profile, and from far away, it looks like she is
wearing a beautiful pearl tiara. So I go up to her and ask her, and ask
her, "Where'd you get that tiara?" And I realize that it is not a tiara,
but her eyes, all connected, all around her head; and when she's sad she
cries from one of her eyes, and when she's very sad she cries from all
of her eyes, making herself very wet. The visual, textual and sonic
storytelling that makes up In the Room 3 grows out of an ongoing
exchange between Sung Hwan Kim and David Michael DiGregorio, whose
collaborative practice moves across disciplines to create its unique
form and structure. Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim is currently based in
New York. Previously, he lived and worked in the Netherlands over a
period of four years, during which time he was fellow at the
Rijksakademie. His In the Room series was developed in the Netherlands
and has been exhibited and performed at STEIM and Witte de With. In 2007
he was awarded the 2nd prize of the prestigious Prix de Rome for
contemporary Dutch artists and the Korean award Hermes Korea Missulsang
(Hermes Korea Prize for Contemporary Art). dogr (aka David Michael
DiGregorio) was born in Boston in 1979 and is now based in New York.
With a background in Baroque, choral gospel and electro-acoustic music,
as well as experimental 16mm filmmaking, dogr is a performing musician
and composer who sings layered and spatial songs. His upcoming album, In
Korean Wilds and Villages, is due for release on Sonig Records, Germany,
April 2009. Recent performances include Établissement d'en face
projects, Brussel, 2009; Insa Art Space, Seoul, 2007; Gallery 27,
Uiwang, Korea, 2007; De Appel, Amsterdam, 2007; STEIM, Amsterdam, 2006;
BAK, Utrecht, 2006. More at: http://www.dogr.org or
http://www.last.fm/music/dogr or http://www.myspace.com/dognap Byungjun
Kwon started his musical career in early the 90s as a singer/songwriter
and has released seven albums ranging from alternative rock to minimal
house. He creates music for records, sound tracks, fashion collections,
contemporary dance, theatre plays and interdisciplinary events. Recent
works and performances have been presented in many international venues.
He lives and works in Amsterdam. In the Room 3 is presented in
conjunction with Sung Hwan Kim's exhibition In the Room which will be on
view at Gallery TPW from April 7 to May 2.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009
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4/4
Chicago, Illinois: The NIghtingale
http://www.nightingaletheatre.org
7:00pm (doors)/8:00pm (screening), 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS; OR, THE LIGHT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
The Nightingale Presents: Nightingale First Anniversary Show and Party &
Rent-Screening for PF ***** Plus – premiere of the new Nightingale
trailer! ***** A special double-duty program: celebrating the first
anniversary of The Nightingale and a rent-screening for me (okay, we
know it's lame, but jobs are few and money is tight). This show features
several personal favorites from the many hundreds (thousands?) of works
I've been able to share with Chicago audiences over the past thirteen
years. Most of these have only shown once in town, so here is a rare
opportunity to catch up with or re-see an eclectic selection of some
strange and wonderful films and videos made over the last twenty years
or so. There may even be a few surprise bonus works! - Patrick Friel
***** Module 1: Nature Vanquished: The Kiss (1999 , 5 mins., video, UK)
John Smith and Ian Bourn. A fragile blossom.; GT Granturismo (2001, 5
mins., video, Austria) Günther and Loredana Selichar. The ultimate
splatter film transforms into Abstract Expressionism.; Naked (2005, 11
mins., video) Pawel Wojtasik. Some animals are just plain creepy. *****
Module 2: Seeing Is Believing: Clut (2007, 5 mins., video, UK) Joe
Gilmore and Paul Emery. Hard-edged abstraction for the digital age.;
Tabula Rasa (2004, 8 mins., video) Vincent Grenier. The past revealed.;
man.road.river (2004, 10 mins., video, Brazil) Marcellvs L. The journey
has just begun. ***** Module 3: Dis-Ease: letters, notes (2000, 4 mins.,
16mm) Stephanie Barber. Epistolary miniatures.; Anatomy of Melancholy
(1999, 11 mins., 16mm) Brian Frye. All the world's a stage.; I'll Walk
with God (1994, 8 mins, 16mm) Scott Stark. The stars my destination.
***** Module 4: The State of Things: The World Is All That Is the Case
(2003, 2 mins., video, Germany) Eva Teppe. Hanging in the balance.;
National Archive v. 1 (2001, 15 mins., video) Travis Wilkerson. Death
from above. ***** Module 5: The Kids Are Alright: My Name Is Paulo
Leminski (2004, 5 mins. , video, Brazil) Cezar Migliorin. Children
should be heard and not seen.; Peggy and Fred in Kansas (1987, 11 mins.,
video) Leslie Thornton. Future imperfect. ***** Admission: $10.00 (worth
every penny; and, as we said, it's a rent-screening). Very Special
Thanks to all of the artists screening!
4/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
JOURNEY FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT: SOME FILMS BY KERRY LAITALA
Note change in day, time, and location! The Echo Park Film Center and
Los Angeles Filmforum present Journey From Darkness into Light: Some
Films By Kerry Laitala This "spooktacular" program includes nine short
16mm films from visiting Bay-area filmmaker Kerry Laitala, including
Orbit (2006), Out of the Ether (2003), Awake, But Dreaming (2000),
Retrospectroscope (1997) and more. Los Angeles Filmforum and the Echo
Park Film Center, (213) 484-8846, General admission $5
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. -------------------------------------
4/4
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street
MAGIC LANTERN CINEMA PRESENTS: THE INAPPROPRIATE COVERS SHOW
Magic Lantern Cinema presents THE INAPPROPRIATE COVERS SHOW Curated by
Braxton Soderman and Justin Katko Wednesday April 8, 2009 9:30 p.m.
Cable Car Cinema 204 S. Main St. Providence, RI Admission $5 

There is a curious repertoire of cinematic engagements made possible by
formal economies of finding and obscuring, discovering and covering. The
films and videos of the Inappropriate Covers Show share no precise modus
operandi, but there is a lurching energy which unites them as they
variously splice, puncture, slice, morph, mangle, blur, clarify, invect,
interrogate, inject, and otherwise inflect the images and sounds which
they (in)appropriate. While popular rock-and-roll covers play on the
surface of our recognition, these Inappropriate Covers disfigure the
recognizable, transforming original (or stock) materials into
regenerated appendages which grope new bodies of signification. The
Inappropriate Covers Show is a roll of political negation, formal
reconfiguration, and glimpses into the beautiful—all capable of
re-ordinating the particles of thought as they fall. Its momentum is the
stuff of scattering and accretion, just as its historical frame is
severely asymmetrical (the dates are 1951, 1962, 1999, and beyond). The
Inappropriate Covers Show complements a multi-media exhibition of the
same name at Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery
(www.brown.edu/bellgallery), opening 5:30pm Friday April 10 and running
through Friday May 29, 2009. FEATURING: Isidore Isou, Excerpt from
"Traité de bave et d'eternité" (1951); Takahiko Iimura, "On Eye Rape"
(1962); Diane Nerwen, "FUH2" (2006); Matthew Suib, "COCKED" (2003);
Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, "Lossless Series" (2008); Christopher
Robbins, "The Cinema Works Again! Ponovo Radi Bioskop!" (2008); Robert
Arnold, "The Morphology of Desire" (1999); Radical Software Group,
"RSG-Black-1 (Black Hawk Down)" (2005). TRT: 78 minutes * * * * * *
Isidore Isou, Excerpt from "Traité de bave et d'eternité," 1951, b/w DVD
(originally 35mm), sound, 2:00 This sequence from Isou's 78-minute film
("Treatise of Venom and Eternity") is a recital of the Lettriste poem
"J'Interroge et j'invective" by François Dufrêne. The result is
historically unprecedented, a pure realization of hybrid film-poetry.
Dufrêne's recital is the exemplary peak of Isou's film: its syncopation
of surging elements of the purely visceral visual and sonic is
impeccably violent. Its aural and kinetic choreography is brilliantly
chaotic and truly unable to contain that which it brings into the world.
Not only is this film's influence upon the work of Stan Brakhage
severely under-acknowledged: the intensity of its poetic experimentation
has gone largely unchallenged (or noticed) in the sixty-plus years since
it first aired at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. "J'interroge et
j'invective" poème à hurler (Sept. 49) A la mémoire d'Antonin Artaud
Piètres pitres, / Totre botra botra titre ? / Totre batri ! batri ! /
Totre boutre (bis) / Totre ? butre / Vutre Katre voutre bôtre, bôtre… /
Têtre, do : Tête-Kssêtre nat doussêtre, / Kssètre nat dongsètre nat
têtre ? / Pouhkre (bis) / Empil surjoux empalex, empalex / Hogorax
pempre / yogogrex ollüngb ? / Somble règre, Kssamble Kssègre / Pohkre !
(bis) / Tègre empil jarssoux humpârux / Hugurix pïmpre yigüngrux ollüngb
? / (comme en a parte) / Kssulve nimvolve parèveulve / Krilva sèsrilve
nimvolve parèveulve / (à nouveau hurlant) / Sèsrilve pulve ? / Pêhkre
(bis) / Empil surjoux omparix pampre yungégrix ollüngb ? / Tètre, do :
tètre-Kssètre nat dongssètre / Kssètre nat / dongssètre nat tètre ? /
(comme en a parte) / Peuyple pekpe, pekpe, pekpe ! virlokff / Irtounx
velch hetchle topelfe / Yoktre lyogembounx / Bilche rlô ptyuvènrlô
pulche ! / (à nouveau hurlant) / Ptyuvènrlô vetchle / Peuyple pekpe,
pekpe, pekpe / Gluvlovs grolve (bis) / Meuvlimve ! vrümvurlimgue !
virlokff ! / Glohach ! (bis) / Glantche vampich !... / Hektre, vektre,
vektre bohrum, / Nektre cuhborm ! / Tektre jektre plektre bôrm, /
Plektre borm ! / (comme en a parte) / Mrohodohomigle miglimrov /
Vrovmigle vigle mogle, mogle vigle (bis) / Bvrohonnbohonigle / Glohach !
(bis) / (très vite) / Glantche vampich tekchtazle tropme / Kzinn tropme
/ Bogue vhabourwam bôh / Tropme, tropme hôntôn dopme / Kzounssiz ukssinn
soum drik sih (bis) / Dzriv grid dribme vivuld povribme / Hubme
paflodgue, paflodgue / Tropme, tropme hôntôndopme / Ksounssiz ukzinn
soundruk suh / Tssérap rome tnadoum vigloskobre / Tnadoum vugloskobre !
/ Tssrap nom / (comme en a parte) / Vuouvouvilx / Viuvulk vuouvulk
églamve / (à nouveau hurlant) / Puhkre ! (bis) / Glech ! Glamve ! pâhkre
! pahkre ! / Tnadoum vagliygukre ! / Glantche vampich tekchtazle /
Glohach !... (ter) François Dufrêne (First published in Ur #1, Editor
Maurice Lemaître, Paris: 1950) Takahiko Iimura, "On Eye Rape," 1962, b/w
16mm, sound, 10:00 The story goes that Iimura found an American sex-ed
film in the trash and decided to use it to protest the Japanese
censorship of sexual acts on film, particularly the covering of pubic
hair with black censoring bars. Iimura and the artist Natsuyuki
Nakanishi poked holes into the film, creating negations of their own.
The white circles thereby obscuring the footage are a figurative (and
penetrating) opposition to the black bars of official governmental
denial. Peppered throughout are frames of pornographic footage, acts of
resistance spliced into the viewer's subliminal re-education. Diane
Nerwen, "FUH2," 2006, b/w video, sound, 0:40 Hummers, the bird, and
extreme negation drive this off-road tribute to the participatory
website fuh2.com ("Fuck You and Your H2"). Nerwen uses images submitted
to the website and footage from official Hummer commercials to create
her own anti-commercial, a "cathartic rant against the (sub)urban
assault vehicle," as she puts it. In this short short, "birds" flood a
sky of sick consumption. Matthew Suib, "COCKED," 2003, color video,
sound, 10:00 "Produced during the peak of international debate regarding
the United States' initiative to invade Iraq, 'COCKED' is an anti-war
statement in the guise of a minimalist Western, borrowing dozens of
short segments from several cinema classics of the genre. 'COCKED'
expands and sustains what is usually a brief, tense, cinematic
moment—the showdown—and implodes the quintessential American mythology
of the Western by denying the redemption of its protagonists through
acts of violence." – Matthew Suib Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin,
"Lossless #5," 2008, color video, sound, 3:00 In Baron and Goodwin's
Lossless series the "materiality" of the digital becomes the source-code
for experimental execution. The artists' renditions of appropriated
films are certainly not "lossless" (i.e. a copy of the original in which
nothing is lost), but rather gainful: through various techniques of
digital disruption – compression, file-sharing, the removal of essential
digital information – the artists reveal the gain of a "new" media, full
of material forms ripe for aesthetic sleuthing. In "Lossless #5," a
water ballet crafted by the famed Bubsy Berkley is compressed into an
organic mitosis, within which we detect the spirit of a "buggy" Brakhage
ghosting about the integrated circuit. Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin,
"Lossless #3," 2008, color video, sound, 10:20 Removing key frames from
a digital version of John Ford's The Searchers, Baron and Goodwin attack
the film's temporal structuring to render a kinetic "painted desert" of
the West. The dust kicked up by the movement in the film is pure pixel,
unanchored from the photographic realism that used to constrain it.
"Truth, 24 frames a second!" is rewritten according to the odd
clock-times of digital processing, splaying movement and transition into
the void of machine temporality. In the Lossless series, the artists
themselves are the searchers, seeking to uncover differences between the
bitstream and the celluloid strip. These differences might be blurry at
our historical juncture, but Baron and Goodwin's work leads us closer to
the over-coded heart of the digital video image, dissecting its anatomy
to expose its entrancing mechanisms. Christopher Robbins, "The Cinema
Works Again! Ponovo Radi Bioskop!," 2008, color video, sound, 4:46 The
setting is Vranje, Serbia; the public cinema is broken; the films are
Bring it on, Rocky IV, and Star Wars II; the actors are Vranje's own
silver screen hopefuls. Excerpts of the films are paired against their
real-time Serbian reenactments, each denying the pure legibility of
their counterpart. A cinema of relations (social and formal) is
developed, of which this work is perhaps a preliminary demonstration.
One is left wondering not only about the obscured social realities in
which the actors are no doubt dramatically wrapped-up off-screen, but
about the status, for instance, of the montage sequences newly derived
as analogues of those in the originals. "The Cinema Works Again! Ponovo
Radi Bioskop!" is a strange and pleasurable document, refreshingly crude
and conceptually pure. Robert Arnold, "The Morphology of Desire," 1999,
color video, sound, 5:45 "The Morphology of Desire" choreographs a
winding passage through a veritable archive of romance novel covers.
Emotive storms of longing, uncertainty, and passion are swept into a
lazy tornado of color, which, as it morphs from cover to cover, even
emits weird exclamations, the sounds deforming a basic sign of living
pathos. Somewhere between the subtitles and the second, third, and
fourth dimensions, each image is bequeathed a brief dynamism, mingling
meta-fictive strangers in a vibrant plumage of narrative singularity.
Radical Software Group, "RSG-Black-1 (Black Hawk Down)," 2005, color
video, sound, 22:04 What might it look like if the only people with guns
in Mogadishu on 3 October 1993 were black? RSG-Black-1, using a
Hollywood depiction of the US raid known as Operation Gothic Serpent,
programmatically removes from the original film all sequences containing
white people. A blockbuster rendition of what Somalians refer to as "The
Day of the Rangers" becomes a day without Rangers, as the Battle of the
Black Sea is transmuted into a visceral masterpiece of Machiavellian
non-intervention. * * * * * * Magic Lantern Cinema is graciously funded
by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media at Brown
University.
4/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
BARN DANCE: MELINDA STONE'S HOMESTEAD HOE-DOWN + THE GOAT FAMILY +
Come one, come all to a down-home hootenanny of movies, tastings, song,
and dance. Howtohomestead.org provides the films and fixin's to start
the benefit night right, and before all seats are cleared for The Goat
Family, dishing up foot stomping dance tunes and joyous sing-alongs.
Melinda debuts new DIY shorts, including Spinning Out of Control, Wheat
for the People (with live music by Didimao), Maya Donelson's Graze the
Roof, Mariana Lopez' How to Make a Milk-Crate Container Bed, and more
surprises. The Goat Family, a nuevo-traditional jug band whose
influences range from Leadbelly to Nirvana to The Pogues, then rolls out
their barrel of old-timey exuberance and infectious butt-shaking. $10.
4/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street
TONY CONRAD: FLICKERING JEWEL, PROGRAM TWO
TONY CONRAD IN PERFORMANCE. Presented in association with Activating the
Medium. Elemental to Tony Conrad's oeuvre is his work as a violinist, in
which primal, enveloping drones create an oscillating ritual theater. In
1962 he co-founded the groundbreaking ensemble known as the Dream
Syndicate. Wielding a drone both aggressively confrontational and subtly
mesmerizing, he and his collaborators – including La Monte Young and
future Velvet Underground co-founders John Cale and Angus MacLise –
created some of the most revolutionary music of that (or any) decade.
Utilizing long durations, precise pitch and blistering volume, Conrad
and company forged a "Dream Music" that articulated the Big Bang of
"minimalism." With his return in the 1990s to recording, publishing and
touring, Conrad engaged an entirely new generation of listeners with his
unique and uncompromisingly antisocial, raging music. Presented as part
of the Twelfth Annual Activating the Medium Festival, Tony Conrad's
performance will be preceded by a collaborative piece by drone composer
Brendan Murray and local filmmaker/projectionist Paul Clipson.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1400, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
LIVE IMAGES 2 : MAKE ME STOP SMOKING
See listing for Friday April 3 @ 2000
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1600, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, 9 Ossington
TALK TO THE PIE 2 : AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Artists Larissa Fassler and Richard Schütz will be joined by curator
Stephanie Rogerson to discuss the deconstruction and reconstruction of
public space in their exhibition And Then There Were None.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1800, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
BEN COONLEY : TALKING POINTS AND TALKING PONIES
Ben Coonley is a Brooklyn-based video, performance and new media artist
who uses pedagogical modes of address and direct audience confrontation
to explore aspects of media culture and film history. For this event,
Coonley presents Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity
and Hybrid Media, a PowerPoint presentation that dissects and
re-contextualizes the film theory of Jean-Louis Baudry. Accompanying his
lecture will be a selection of short videos and internet curiosities.
Coonley's videos employ a unique approach to deconstructing the canons
and conventions of the avant-garde and are characterized by their use of
humour and pop culture references - from talking toy ponies to Jar Jar
Binks at Christo's Gates. Ben Coonley studied Art Semiotics at Brown
University and received an MFA from Bard College in 2002. His works have
been screened extensively at international festivals including the
International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film
Festival, Cinematexas, Pacific Film Archive, and the Robert Flaherty
Film Seminar. He has taught video and media production at Princeton and
The New School.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West
RABIH MROUE :MAKE ME STOP SMOKING
See listing for Friday April 3, 2000.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen St. West
VIDEODROME
8 p.m. Screening of Total War by Jubal Brown 9 p.m. Video Battle
featuring Bad Credit, Infinity Dose, Istvan Kantor, Jubal Brown, Rko
(v-atak), Ryan Stec, Skeeter, Smearballs, Tzii (v-atak), Nohista
(v-atak), Nwodtlem,Ouananiche, Pete OHearn, David Matton The Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to present VIDEODROME, a one-night
extravaganza of contemporary vanguard culture, an exercise in video
screening as party. The event features a program of video work from
prominent local and international producers with a strong audio-visual
link, experimental video works which function as dance music, a/v
mash-up, visual musics with an emphasis on aggression and intensity. The
video battle is based on the hip hop style DJ battle where each of the
producers throw down a clip which is then followed up by the others who
must try to up the ante and out do the previous presentation. This
battle will be lead by an MC who will encourage the audience to express
their response to the videos, the cheers and jeers of the audience will
eventually decide the winner of the battle.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2130, Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Street
LIVE IMAGES 3 : IN THE ROOM
See listing for Friday April 3, 2130
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4/5
Bretigny Sur Orgne, France: CAC Bretigny
http://cacbreitigny.com
3.00pm., Espace Jules Verne, Rue Henri Douard,
EXPANDED CINEMA FOR CORNELIUS CARDEW. THE ROOM.
Presented as part of the exhibition, Cornelius Cardew: The Freedom of
Listening. 5th April - 27th June. Ex- member of the Scratch Orchestra
and free improvisation group AMM, Keith rowe will perform an improvised
solo for prepared guitar and artists Luke Fower and Peter Todd will
present 16mm film work. This is the second presentation of an ongoing
series of collaborations under the working title The Room, by Fowler,
Rowe, and Todd and follows on from a presentation, as a part of Expanded
Cinema for Rothko weekend at Tate Modern, on 28.11.2008 during the
Rothko show at Tate Modern. Luke Fowler is a Scottish artist, has become
know for his elaborate and poetic portryals of past radical social
experiments. Keith Rowe is an English guitarist and artist widely
considered as godfather of electro-acoustic improvisation. Peter Todd is
an English artist known for his personal short films, and curated film
programmes and exhibitions.
4/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, , Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES PART 1 – PORTRAITS
Tonight we look at the range of possibilities of portraits –
biographical moments, short profiles, and pointed interviews. Going
beyond the filmmaker (we'll look at autobiographical films later), these
play with external representations to bring out key aspects of the
personalities of the subjects. Including Talking About Amy by Yurico
Murakami, McLaren's Negatives by Marie-Josee Saint Pierre (2006),
Backseat Bingo by Liz Blazer (2003), Repetition Compulsion by Ellie Lee
(1997), Conversation with Haris by Sheila Sofian (2001), The Beloved
Ones by Samantha Moore (2007), Mouseholes by Helen Hill (1999) –
portrait of grandfather, Uncle Ma'an by Sahar Alsawaf (2007), The Even
More Fun Trip by Bob Sabiston (2007) 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.
4/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street
TONY CONRAD: FLICKERING JEWEL, PROGRAM THREE
Flicker and Process Films/Works on Video. Known widely as the creator of
THE FLICKER (and thus, in 1966, a harbinger of the "structural film"
genre), Tony Conrad's 16mm films are perhaps more meaningfully
appreciated in the context of his musical explorations of duration and
the indulgences of subjective experience: "I was devoted to the
experiential excess that flickering light made accessible to 'abstract'
film." This quick, single-evening survey takes this seminal film as a
point of departure to a presentation of Conrad's later works. Following
further refinement of modulated flicker phenomena (including
ARTICULATION OF BOOLEAN ALGEBRA FOR FILM OPTICALS and STRAIGHT AND
NARROW, created with Beverly Conrad), Conrad produced a series of
process-based films and performances, which involved such treatments as
electrocution and cooking, CURRIED 7302, 7302 CREOLE and 4-X ATTACK
among them. Later video works—at times created for public access cable
in Buffalo, New York—appropriate and critique the televisual language,
explore the reflexive nature of video and attempt to short-circuit the
authoritarian power structures inherent in contemporary corporate media.
Video works to screen include REDRESSING DOWN and TONY'S OSCULAR PETS.
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1400, Workman Theatre @ Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, 1001 Queen St. W.
CROSSING OVER (UNDER YOUR SKIN) CURATED BY ARJON DUNNEWIND
Crossing Over (Under Your Skin) Curated by Arjon Dunnewind, Director,
Impakt Festival (Utrecht) Crossing Over (Under Your Skin)Fascinated by
the other, we want to crawl under his skin. To be just like him, feel
like him and look like him. Breathe his breath, taste his sperm, live
his life. Crossing Over (Under Your Skin) is a follow up to Neighbours,
which was presented as a part of the SHIFT Festival in Amsterdam and
Toronto earlier this year. That selection of work focused more
specifically on the ways in which immigration, integration and the
position of new cultural and religious values are changing Dutch
society. Features videos by Thierry Geoffroy, Heidrun Holzfeind, Julika
Rudelius and Joanna Rytel
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1600, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
TALK TO THE PIE 3 : SUNG KWAN KIM
Talk to the Pie 3: Artists Sung Hwan Kim and dogr (aka David Michael
DiGregorio) will discuss the performative impulses in their
multi-disciplinary practices. Moderated by Joe Gibbons WITH FREE PIE!
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1800, Workman Theatre @ Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, 1001 Queen St. W.
ON SCREEN 1: A HUMAN DRAWING BLOOD FROM A BOUND PRISONER, AN
ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAT DOING THE SAME
New works from: Jim Trainor, Mary Billyou, Julika Rudelius, Karø Goldt,
Mika Kiburz, Neïl Beloufa
4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2030, Workman Theatre @ Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, 1001 Queen St. W.
SPOTLIGHT ON LOUISE BOURQUE
Survey of films by Louise Bourque including the World Premiere of her
latest film "a little prayer (H-E-L-P). PROGRAM: Just Words (1991, 10
min, 16mm, Canada) Fissures (1999, 3 min, 16mm, Canada) Imprint (1997,
14 min, 16mm, Canada) Self Portrait Post Mortem (2002, 3 min, 35mm,
Canada) Jours en fleurs(2003, 4 min, 35mm, Canada) L'eclat du mal / The
Bleeding Heart of It(2005, 8 min, 35mm, Canada) Going Back Home (2000, 1
min, 35mm, Canada) a little prayer (H-E-L-P),(2009, 8 min, 35mm, Canada)
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