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Part 1 of 2: This week [April 11 - 19, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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"The Return of Ellen Love" by Violet Parks
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"Whipped" by Kate Pelling
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Jewish Film Festival Zagreb (zagreb, croatia; Deadline: April 14, 2009)
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LA SHORTS FEST (Hollywood, CA, United States; Deadline: May 08, 2009)
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Art By Chance (Istanbul/TURKEY; Deadline: April 10, 2009)
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Festival Film Merveilleux ( film festival of imagination & wonder) (Paris France; Deadline: August 15, 2009)
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5th Renderyard Short Film Festival (England & Spain; Deadline: September 07, 2009)
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Without Borders: Conjunction (Orono, ME USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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Arkansas Underground Film Festival (Hot Springs, AR, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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Salvador Dali Museum: Double Takes (St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2009)
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16th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: June 15, 2009)
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25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2009)
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EXiS2009 (seoul, south korea; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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Jewish Film Festival Zagreb (zagreb, croatia; Deadline: April 14, 2009)
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Arkansas Underground Film Festival (Hot Springs, AR, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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Salvador Dali Museum: Double Takes (St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2009)
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H2O: Film on Water; Juried VIDEO Exhibition 2009 (VT and NH, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 2009 visual Music Marathon [April 11, New York, New York]
* The Chelsea [April 11, New York, New York]
* Film #23 [April 11, New York, New York]
* The Chelsea Girls [April 11, New York, New York]
* Xy Chromosome: Lynne Sachs & Mark Street's Garden of Verses [April 11, San Francisco, California]
* The Chelsea Girls [April 12, New York, New York]
* Film #23 [April 12, New York, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum and Cinefamily Present Animated Documentaries Part
2 – Rendering the Facts [April 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Flaherty Nyc [April 13, New York, New York]
* An Evening With Ben Russell: Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps [April 14, Keene, NH]
* Garden Pieces [April 14, London, England]
* Double visions: A Quarterly Film & Photography Lecture Discussion Series [April 14, New York, New York]
* Reel Venus Film Festival Presents: Double visions [April 14, New York, New York]
* April 14th - 'night of Women's Film' @ Anthology Film Archives [April 14, New York, New York]
* The Trouble With Harry [April 14, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps [April 15, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Two Film By Michael Snow [April 15, Columbus, Ohio]
* Margaret Tait [April 15, London, England]
* Migrating Forms Presents: Owen Land's Dialogues [April 15, New York, New York]
* Stoney Program 2: the Police Films [April 15, New York, New York]
* <B>Treasures iv: American Avant-Garde Film</B> [April 15, San Francisco, California]
* Recent Anthropologies [April 16, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Only You (Shorts Progam) [April 16, New York, New York]
* Karthik Pandian's Darkroom [April 16, New York, New York]
* Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix' City of Production [April 16, New York, New York]
* Alex Ross Perry's Impolex [April 16, New York, New York]
* Amie Siegel's Ddr/Ddr [April 16, New York, New York]
* Alejandro Adams' Canary [April 16, New York, New York]
* The Joshua Light Show and Silver Apples [April 17, Houston, Texas]
* Lucy Raven's Chinatown [April 17, New York, New York]
* Living Large (Shorts Program) [April 17, New York, New York]
* Sharon Lockhart's Goshagaoka [April 17, New York, New York]
* Land and Sea (Shorts Program) [April 17, New York, New York]
* Nikolaus Geyrhalter's 7915km [April 17, New York, New York]
* Void For Film Programmed By Bradley Eros [April 17, New York, New York]
* Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps Trypps [April 17, Providence, RI]
* Maximal Art: the Origins and Aesthetics of West Coast Light Shows [April 18, Houston, Texas]
* Tube Time! [April 18, New York, New York]
* Oksana Bulgakowa's the Facotry of Gestures [April 18, New York, New York]
* Lee Anne Schmitt's California Company Town Lee Anne Schmitt [April 18, New York, New York]
* E-Flux video Rental [April 18, New York, New York]
* Temporary Positions (Shorts Program) [April 18, New York, New York]
* E-Flux Presents Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's Khiam [April 18, New York, New York]
* Silent Traditions (Shorts Program) [April 18, New York, New York]
* Erin Cosgrove's What Manner of Person Art Thou? [April 18, New York, New York]
* Mixed and Maxed (Shorts Program) [April 18, New York, New York]
* Jessica Oreck's Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo [April 18, New York, New York]
* Conjurer visit (Shorts Program) [April 18, New York, New York]
* Recombinant Music: Girl Talk In *Rip* - A Remix Manifesto [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Common Ground: Four Films [April 19, Los Angeles, California]
* John Smith's Hotel Diaries 1–8 [April 19, New York, New York]
* 16beaver Presents An Open Screening [April 19, New York, New York]
* Steve Reinke's Final Thoughts, Series One [April 19, New York, New York]
* Bidoun Presents Paviz Kimiavi's Moghollha (The Mongols) [April 19, New York, New York]
* Mature Audiences (Shorts Program) [April 19, New York, New York]
* Barry Doupe's Ponytail [April 19, New York, New York]
* Day By Day (Shorts Program) [April 19, New York, New York]
* Michael Gitlin's the Earth Is Young [April 19, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2009
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4/11
New York, New York: School of Visual Arts/NOrtheastern University
http://www.2009vmm.neu.edu
10 am - 10 pm, 333 West 23 Street, New York
2009 VISUAL MUSIC MARATHON
The Visual Music Marathon is a 12-hour festival showcasing 120 works by
contemporary digital artists and composers from around the world. The
event offers an encyclopedic look into the burgeoning practice of visual
music, which combines animation and musical composition. The roots of
the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular
harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century; the current art
form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the
20th century. The Visual Music Marathon presents a remarkable array of
artistic strategies and sensibilities. Some of the selected works
consist of abstract visual interpretations of pieces of music, while
others apply structural concepts of music to create moving images, or
explore the overlap between visual and musical languages. The artists
make use of a range of media and technologies, including found footage,
hand-drawn animation, stop-motion photography, digitally processed
video, computer-generated imagery, and paintings made directly on film.
Works include audio tracks ranging from computer-generated scores, to
sampled sounds from nature, to both classical and contemporary musical
compositions.
4/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE CHELSEA
Directed by Doris Chase 1993, 67 minutes, video. A video documentary by
the recently-deceased sculptor and experimental filmmaker, and long-time
Chelsea resident, Doris Chase, THE CHELSEA combines music, paintings,
passages of literature, and interviews to depict the Chelsea as a
fulcrum between art and society. "It's an experience a bit like peering
through uncurtained windows at dusk. Chase puts this personal account
together, not of fame or fortunes made or missed in the Chelsea, but of
how creative people live together." –Karen Jaehne
4/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
FILM #23
Directed by Harry Smith c. 1980s, 23.5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Lab
work by Cineric, Inc. Preserved with support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts. HARRY SMITH PROGRAM PRESERVATION
PREMIERE! In addition to the works listed below, this program will
feature some unedited footage of an interview with Smith undertaken by
P. Adams Sitney and Jonas Mekas, as well as a dip into Smith's unique
treasure trove of audio recordings made in the city during the 1970s and
80s.
4/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE CHELSEA GIRLS
Directed by Andy Warhol 1966, ca. 210 minutes, 16mm double-projection.
With Nico, Ondine, Marie Menken, Mary Woronov, Gerard Malanga,
International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, Mario Montez, Eric Emerson, and
Brigid Berlin. Indisputably the holy grail of the Chelsea Hotel on film,
Warhol's double-screen masterpiece – consisting of 12 unedited reels,
shown side-by-side, with only one soundtrack audible at a time – depicts
the Hotel as a teeming hive of Superstars, junkies, prostitutes, and
generally out-sized personalities. An underground sensation upon its
release in 1966, it ultimately broke out of the underground cinema
circuit, invading a 'respectable' uptown theater and leading uptight NEW
YORK TIMES critic Bosley Crowther to declare, "now that [the]
underground has surfaced on West 57th Street and taken over a theater
with carpets…it is time for permissive adults to stop winking at their
too-precious pranks." Rarely-screened today, even in downtown theaters
like Anthology, THE CHELSEA GIRLS is an unforgettable experience.
4/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
XY CHROMOSOME: LYNNE SACHS & MARK STREET'S GARDEN OF VERSES
From archival snips of an educational film on the weather to cine-poems
in full blossom, New York film "avant-gardeners" Sachs and Street
cultivate an evening of cinematic seeds and mordant vines. Ten short
films, both single and double screen, reap audio-visual crops from the
fertile soil of the filmmakers' florid imaginations. In this mulch of
visual ruminations on nature's topsy-turvy shakeup of our lives, they
ponder a city child's tentative excavation of the urban forest, winter
wheat, and the great American deluge of the 21st Century (so far).
Agricultural relics and small works of farm-cycle literature are
provided free.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009
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4/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE CHELSEA GIRLS
Directed by Andy Warhol 1966, ca. 210 minutes, 16mm double-projection.
With Nico, Ondine, Marie Menken, Mary Woronov, Gerard Malanga,
International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, Mario Montez, Eric Emerson, and
Brigid Berlin. Indisputably the holy grail of the Chelsea Hotel on film,
Warhol's double-screen masterpiece – consisting of 12 unedited reels,
shown side-by-side, with only one soundtrack audible at a time – depicts
the Hotel as a teeming hive of Superstars, junkies, prostitutes, and
generally out-sized personalities. An underground sensation upon its
release in 1966, it ultimately broke out of the underground cinema
circuit, invading a 'respectable' uptown theater and leading uptight NEW
YORK TIMES critic Bosley Crowther to declare, "now that [the]
underground has surfaced on West 57th Street and taken over a theater
with carpets…it is time for permissive adults to stop winking at their
too-precious pranks." Rarely-screened today, even in downtown theaters
like Anthology, THE CHELSEA GIRLS is an unforgettable experience.
4/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
FILM #23
Directed by Harry Smith Recently rediscovered and restored, this late
film is as curious and mannered in form and structure as the work to
which it is related, Smith's 4-projector opus MAHAGONNY. Composed of
footage shot for that project (including portraits, string figures, and
sand animation), FILM #23 is actually much closer in technique and
nature to the earlier LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964), for which Smith
printed two separate rolls of film on top of each other to create
dramatic new image compositions and deeper resonances. Much of the
footage was shot in the Chelsea Hotel where Smith was for many years a
fixture. FILM #23 seems to have had few if any public screenings, and
prior to its preservation only one print was known to exist. Anthology
used the original picture and sound elements from our collection for
this preservation.
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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009
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4/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles CA 90036
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM AND CINEFAMILY PRESENT ANIMATED DOCUMENTARIES PART
2 – RENDERING THE FACTS
Note change in day, time, and location! Tonight we screen an
entertaining assortment of films where the animation serves as visual
reportage, representing "the facts." From the winsome or rough tales of
the loss of virginity in Never Like the First Time (Jonas Odell, 2005)
to the bouncy remixed score of sweetpea growers in England in Success
with Sweetpeas (Samantha Moore, 2006) these films draw upon interviews
and historical events. We'll also be including such works as the "Men in
Black" segment of the Oscar-nominated documentary Operation Homecoming:
Writing the Wartime Experience (Richard Robbins, 2007), The Velvet
Tigress (Jennifer Sachs, 2001) which looks at a 1930s murderess, Shay's
Rebellion – America's First Civil War (R.J. Cutler, 2004, animation by
Bill Plympton), His Mother's Voice (Dennis Tupicoff, 1997), and the
original animated documentary, The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor
McKay (1916), which also raises the question of where documentary meets
propaganda. And more! General admission $12, with discount for Filmforum
and Cinefamily members. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com and
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at Fairfax
High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
4/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
FLAHERTY NYC
Now you can experience the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar right here in
New York City. Founded in 1955, The Flaherty Seminar is an annual event
that explores non-fiction cinema through screenings and discussion in a
retreat-like setting. Titled THE AGE OF MIGRATION, the 2008 Seminar
focused on identity and migration in its various forms. The films
presented through Flaherty NYC further the discussions which began in
June 2008.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
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4/14
Keene, NH: Keene State College
7:00, Putnam Lecture Hall, Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond
AN EVENING WITH BEN RUSSELL: TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS
Itinerant media artist and curator BEN RUSSELL returns to New England
for a special presentation that promises to annihilate your physical
self entirely. Featuring a full set of 16mm films from his TRYPPS series
and culminating in a live double-projector performance (with
light-sensitive electronics! flicker loops! a human skull!) that will
send your optic nerves reeling, this is New Modernist Neo-Psychedelic
Ethnographic Filmmaking at its finest. From spraypaint transcendence to
dead tree deliverance, Lightning Bolt freak-outs to Richard Pryor
seances, and the ecstatic capitalism of Dubai to the funereal rites of
Surinamese Marooons, this is one screening that will stay with you for
ever and ever and ever. FEATURING: Black and White Trypps Number One
(6:30, 16mm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00, 16mm,
2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007), Black
and White Trypps Number Four (11:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai)
(3:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #6 (Malobi) (12:00, 16mm, 2009), The Black
and the White Gods (20:00, live performance, 2008) TRT 70:00 WARNING:
This show contains visuals that may be harmful to those with epilepsy.
4/14
London, England: BFI Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/
6.20pm, NFT 2
GARDEN PIECES
GARDEN PIECES. From flowers to trees, backyards to gardeners' gardens,
this the first of a series of three programmes of archive and artists'
films presents a rare opportunity to see, experience and reflect on the
garden. With works from Kenneth Anger, Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund,
Bruce Baillie, Robert Beavers, Stan Brakhage, Rose Lowder, Marie Menken,
Percy Smith, John Smith & Ian Bourn, and Margaret Tait amongst others.
Garden Pieces. The shape of flowers- filmed in 1910 by Percy Smith, and
in 1999 by John Smith & Ian Bourn- cradle this programme. In between we
study a pigeon in a tree, see a garden from the viewpoint of a cat,
experience the fountains of the Villa D'Este, are taught How To Dig,
feel flora and nature projected on to the screen direct in Mothlight,
realise the Japanese concept of time/space through the zen garden of
Ryoan-Ji, and more. Birth of a Flower, Percy E Smith, 1910. All My Life,
Bruce Baillie, 1966. Flight, Guy Sherwin, 1988. Elegy, Anthea Kennedy &
Ian Wiblin, 2001. Eaux D'Artifice, Kenneth Anger, 1954. How To Dig, Jack
Ellitt, 1941. For You, Peter Todd, 2000. Garden Pieces, Margaret Tait,
1998. Mothlight, Stan Brakhage, 1963. Alice in Wonderland, Percy Stow &
Cecil Hepworth, 1903. MA: Space/Time in the Garen of Ryona-Ji, Takahiko
Iimura, 1989. The Kiss, John Smith & Ian Bourn, 1999.
4/14
New York, New York: Reel Venus Film Festival
http://www.reelvenus.com
7:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave
DOUBLE VISIONS: A QUARTERLY FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE DISCUSSION SERIES
Reel Venus Film Festival presents its inaugural launch of DOUBLE VISIONS
| A Quarterly Film & Photography Lecture/Discussion Series featuring
emerging and established women directors, photographers and multimedia
producers Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM Double Visions is a
presentation and forum for women film/video directors, photographers and
digital multimedia producers whose work is based in documentary,
photojournalism, social documentary and digital storytelling to engage
in dialogue and exchange information centered on creative process and
the development and investigation of contemporary social issues that
have impact on our lives, as well as inspire the public at large to
engage, connect and make changes in their environments and communities.
FIRST LECTURE SERIES THEME Witness/Observation PANEL DISCUSSION TOPIC
Urban Tales of Heroes and Survivors PANEL PARTICIPANTS Katrina's
Children | LAURA BELSEY, Director Purple Hearts – Back From Iraq | NINA
BERMAN, Photographer The Raw File | BRENDA ANN KENNEALLY, Photographer
The Raw File | LAURA LO FORTI, Multimedia Producer I Am Sean Bell –
black boys speak | STACEY MUHAMMAD, Director CURATED BY Melissa Fowler
Anthology Film Archives Maya Deren Theater 32 2nd Avenue, NYC 10003 212
505 5181 Single/Adult $8 Student/Senior $6 AFA Member $6 Additional
Information email suppressed 212 714 8375
4/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
REEL VENUS FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: DOUBLE VISIONS
A Quarterly Film and Photography Lecture/Discussion Series DOUBLE
VISIONS will feature film clips/digital slideshow presentations followed
by in-depth discussions and Q&As among emerging and prominent women
directors, digital photojournalists, social documentarians, and
multimedia producers. For more information, please visit:
www.reelvenus.com
4/14
New York, New York: Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
6-9pm, Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue NY, NY 10003
APRIL 14TH - 'NIGHT OF WOMEN'S FILM' @ ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
April 14th - 'Night of Women's Film' @ Anthology Film Archives 6:00pm-
Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens A cable tv series and traveling festival
showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video.
Tonight's short films feature women confronting their identity and the
notion of Other. Featuring films by Sarah Klein, Ruth Hererra, Zulma
Aguiar, Oriana Fox, & Diana Arce. 7:00pm - Death Jewel Video This
program of shorts features film and video gems which emerged from
encounters with death and dying. Included in the program are: CLOSER TO
HEAVEN by Diane Bonder (2003, 15minutes) and WHAT I LOVE ABOUT DYING by
Silas Howard (2006, 20 minutes) 8:00pm - SITTIN' ON A MILLION (2008, 26
minutes) presents these stories in all their contradictory glory,
alongside vintage erotica, reenactments, and street performances asks us
to consider the role of memory and imagination in creating history, and
reminds us about all those ordinary, extraordinary people erased from
the official record. Film by Penny Lane & Annmarie Lanesey
www.mamefaye.com
4/14
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
The Trouble with Harry (1955, 99 min.) by ALFRED HITCHCOCK. "Whether it
was because American audiences failed to appreciate the film's British
style of humor or because the film lacked a big name actor, The Trouble
with Harry was not a success when it was first released in the United
States. By contrast, the film fared remarkably well in Europe,
particularly in France, where it enjoyed an unbroken run of eighteen
months. This was one of the five films for which Hitchcock bought back
the rights and so was unavailable for three decades (the others included
Rear Window and Vertigo). When The Trouble with Harry was re-released in
1984, it was judged far more favorably than previously. Whilst it may
not be held in the same esteem as some of Hitchcock's other work, it
remains one of his most popular films, and is certainly one of the most
enjoyable examples of black comedy in American cinema." - James Travers
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
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4/15
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8:00, Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department in screening room 1, 621 Huntington Ave.
TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS
Itinerant media artist and curator BEN RUSSELL returns to New England
for a special presentation that promises to annihilate your physical
self entirely. Featuring a full set of 16mm films from his TRYPPS series
and culminating in a LIVE double-projector performance (with
light-sensitive electronics! flicker loops! a human skull!) that will
send your optic nerves reeling, this is New Modernist Neo-Psychedelic
Ethnographic Filmmaking at its finest. From spraypaint transcendence to
dead tree deliverance, Lightning Bolt freak-outs to Richard Pryor
seances, and the ecstatic capitalism of Dubai to the funereal rites of
Surinamese Marooons, this is one screening that will stay with you for
ever and ever and ever. FEATURING: Black and White Trypps Number One
(6:30, 16mm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00, 16mm,
2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007), Black
and White Trypps Number Four (11:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai)
(3:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #6 (Malobi) (12:00, 16mm, 2008), The Black
and the White Gods (20:00, live performance, 2009) TRT 70:00 WARNING:
This show contains visuals that may be harmful to those with epilepsy.
4/15
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
TWO FILM BY MICHAEL SNOW
Introduced by Michael Snow Canadian artist Michael Snow is one of the
most renowned and influential of all avant-garde filmmakers—and a
Renaissance man for the 20th century and beyond who has worked in
painting, sculpture, and music as well as film. Tonight he introduces a
provocative pairing of two of his classics. The landmark (aka Back and
Forth) (1968–69) is one of his most sculptural films, which uses the
camera as a perpetual motion machine to examine a classroom and its
activities through a series of panning shots of varying velocities. So
Is This (1982) unspools its imagery in the form of text—one word at a
time—to create a new kind of concrete poetry and film language. Village
Voice critic J. Hoberman wrote that the resulting film "parlays an
elegantly simple concept into an unpredictably, cumulatively rich
experience." (app. 100 mins., 16mm)
4/15
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
18.30pm, Bankside
MARGARET TAIT
This special programme marks ten years since the death of acclaimed
Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait (11.11.1918-16.4.1999) and brings
together her first film made on her native Orkney, A Portrait of Ga
(1952) and her last film also made on Orkney, Garden Pieces (1998). Also
featured is one of her rarely screened longer works, On The Mountain
(1974) which has at its centre the changes to Rose Street, Edinburgh
where she had a base for many years and features within it her earlier
film Rose Street (1956). Happy Bees (1955) filmed from child height, is
of her nieces and nephews. The programme opens with images from an
unfinished work and a fleeting image of Margaret herself filmed in 1995
by the visiting filmmaker Ute Aurand. In The Leaden Echo and the Golden
Echo (1955) she matches images to her own reading of the poem by Gerard
Manley Hopkins. To resonate with these works a selection of Margaret
Tait's poems will be read by the writer Ali Smith. Video Poems for the
90s (Unfinished).* A Portrait of Ga. The Leaden Echo and the Golden
Echo. Happy Bees. On the Mountain (Rose Street). Garden Pieces. 'A
writer whose openness of mind, voice and structure all come from the
Beats maybe, and Whitman crossed with MacDiarmid, but then cut their own
original (and crucially female) path. A unique and underrated filmmaker,
nobody like her. Born of the Italian neo-realists, formed of her own
Scottish pragmatism, optimism, generosity and experimental spirit, and a
clear forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late
twentieth century. A clear example of, and pioneer of, the poetic
tradition, the experimental tradition, the democratic tradition, in the
best of risk-taking Scottish cinema.' Ali Smith. With Ute Aurand.
Special thanks to Alex Pirie. Introduced and curated by Peter Todd.
4/15
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
MIGRATING FORMS PRESENTS: OWEN LAND'S DIALOGUES
"On one level, Dialogues is a parody of Scorpio Rising, using
era-specific hit records to locate scenes in time and mood; on another
level, it's an interpretation of Plato's dialogue 'Phaedo,' in which
Socrates proves the doctrine of re-incarnation; on still another level,
it is a polemic for the Tantric belief in the sacredness of male-female
polarity. With music by Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Patti
Smith, The Byrds, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Genesis, The Human League,
et. al. Rated R: Restricted to audiences with a knowledge of Art
History." --Owen Land
4/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
STONEY PROGRAM 2: THE POLICE FILMS
THE CRY FOR HELP (1962, 30 minutes, 16mm-to-video) BOOKED FOR
SAFEKEEPING (1961, 31 minutes, 16mm-to-video) To foster cooperation
between police and mental health professionals, the National Association
of Chiefs of Police and the Louisiana Association for Mental Health
sponsored in 1960 a series of training films that convey aspects of law
enforcement unfamiliar to most citizens (such as suicide prevention, and
subduing violent mental patients). The need for a greater understanding
of the problems shown will be discussed with representatives of the
police and medical professions.
4/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
TREASURES IV: AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM
Curated and presented by Jeff Lambert (NFPF) The San Francisco-based
non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation was created in 1997 by
the US Congress to facilitate the preservation of the nation's film
heritage. Through the administration of federally and privately funded
programs, nearly 1,500 films of all genres have been preserved and made
accessible to the public, including dozens of restorations funded by
NFPF's Avant-Garde Masters Grant. Without the NFPF and its extraordinary
support of film preservation efforts by such institutions as the Academy
Film Archives, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Modern Art and the
Pacific Film Archive, countless films might be lost forever. In March
2009, NFPF will release the latest in its Treasures from American Film
Archives DVD series – a two-disc, 312 minute Treasures IV: American
Avant-Garde Film, 1947–1986. Tonight's program, in recognition of the
home video debut of twenty-six classics of American experimental
filmmaking, includes screenings of several recently restored works
included on this momentous set: Storm De Hirsch's PEYOTE QUEEN, Ken
Jacobs' LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS, Marie Menken's GO! GO! GO!, Pat
O'Neill's 7362, Ron Rice's CHUMLUM (with a soundtrack by Tony Conrad),
Paul Sharits' BAD BURNS and Andy Warhol's MARIO BANANA (NO. 1) .
Treasures IV will be available for sale at the screening. The net
proceeds of these sales support further film preservation efforts.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009
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4/16
Boston, Massachusetts: Balagan and Film Study Center at Harvard University
http://www.balaganfilms.com/russell.html
7:00, Carpenter Center Lecture Hall, Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street
RECENT ANTHROPOLOGIES
The maker of a diverse range of films and videos that have included a
pinhole film of Easter Island, a portrait of an audience at a Lightning
Bolt concert and a flicker film set to a Richard Pryor monologue, Ben
Russell is one of the few artists that is working to make 16mm relevant
to the contemporary media landscape (while playing off the varied
histories of filmmaking itself). Featuring three 16mm films shot
primarily in the Maroon villages of Suriname, South America, two films
recorded in the sci-fi capitalist emirate of Dubai, and one 35mm film
made in the sweatier spaces of Providence, RI, this program will focus
on a major strain of Russell's work that complicates traditions of
ethnographic and documentary film. FEATURING: Workers Leaving the
Factory (Dubai) (8:00, 16mm, 2008), Daumë (6:00, 16mm, 2000), Trypps #5
(Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, 2008), Tjüba Tën/ The Wet Season (co-directed with
Brigid McCaffrey, 47:00, 16mm, 2008), Black and White Trypps Number
Three (11:00, 35mm, 2007), Trypps #6 (Malobi) (12:00, 16mm, 2009) TRT
87:00
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
ONLY YOU (SHORTS PROGAM)
The Citizens Kevin Jerome Everson, Eros c'est Lamour Bradley Eros, All
Through The Night Michael Robinson, Annie Lloyd Cecelia Condit, Telethon
Kevin Jerome Everson, Passing Robert Todd
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
10:30/11:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
KARTHIK PANDIAN'S DARKROOM
An hour-long psychedelic soundscape scored with minimal techno by
composer Eric D. Clark.
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
LAURENT GUTIERREZ AND VALERIE PORTEFAIX' CITY OF PRODUCTION
Environmental engineering and burgeoning capitalism in a factory town in
China's Pearl River Delta.
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
7:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
ALEX ROSS PERRY'S IMPOLEX
At the close of World War II, the United States launched Operation
Paperclip, a mission to locate and bring back to America information and
specimens of the Germany V-2 rocket, at the time the most sophisticated
long range weapon in the world. The Initiative for the Monitoring and
Protection of Liquid Energy Explosives, the IMPOLEX, sends Tyrone S. on
the final mission to retrieve the final two rockets. Impolex is an
unjustifiable blend of the bare-bones realism of John Ford's WWII
documentaries and the glorious stupidity of Abbot and Costello.
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
AMIE SIEGEL'S DDR/DDR
"Siegel's concern with cultural memory, identity, and the cinematic
portrayal of place centers on the former East German state,
investigating Stasi surveillance, filmmaking, collective therapy, and
'Indian hobbyists.'" (Jason Edward Kaufman)
4/16
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
9:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
ALEJANDRO ADAMS' CANARY
Darkly comic sci-fi centered on the employees and corporate culture of a
Silicon Valley organ redistribution company.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009
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4/17
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:00 pm, Museum of Fine Arts 1001 Bissonnet St
THE JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW AND SILVER APPLES
The Joshua Light Show and Silver Apples The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, 1001 Bissonnet Tickets $10 in advance and $12 at the door;
Aurora members $10 To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's
historic landing, the legendary Joshua Light Show teams up with
pioneering electronic-rock band Silver Apples for a multimedia
spectacular featuring the Houston premiere of Silver Apples' 1969
composition, Mune Toon. An early pioneer of "liquid light" shows, The
Joshua Light Show is best known for the psychedelic projections it
provided at New York's Fillmore East during the late 1960s. Using
colored oils and a battery of lighting effects, the Joshua Light Show
performed with the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Jimi
Hendrix, amongst others, firmly rooting itself in the visual culture of
the time. The lightshow is now reinterpreted for our digital age,
directed by multimedia artist Josh White, and featuring video artists
Bec Stupak, Brock Monroe, and Seth Kirby. While the centerpiece of the
original Joshua Light Show was an overhead projector and a transparent
container filled with colored oil and water, the performance at Media
Archeology utilizes VJ hardware, in addition to a number of modified
analog techniques, including live "liquid light." Formed in 1967 by
Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor, the band Silver Apples made rock music
with electronic oscillators instead of electric guitars, creating an
individual, minimalist style that anticipated 1970s Krautrock and the
electronic dance and indie rock of the 1990s . As a special tribute to
Houston and NASA, Silver Apples (currently the solo project of Simeon
Coxe) will perform the experimental work, Mune Toon, originally
commissioned by the city of New York as part of its official celebration
of Apollo 11's world-changing mission. At the moment that Neil Armstrong
stepped onto the moon's surface, crowds in Central Park were treated to
a live performance by Silver Apples. Their free-form-rock electronic
instrumental was scheduled for only 16.8 minutes, but went well into the
morning. Silver Apples favorites such as "Oscillations" and "Misty
Mountain" will top off the night. Appearing together for the first time
in Houston, Silver Apples and the Joshua Light Show create a
history-making performance you won't want to miss.
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
LUCY RAVEN'S CHINATOWN
An experimental photographic animation detailing the globalized
production and trade of copper wire.
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
LIVING LARGE (SHORTS PROGRAM)
Developer Karthik Pandian, Resonance Karel De Cock, 12 Explosions Johann
Lurf, Dogs of Straw Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong, Great Man and Cinema
Jim Finn, The Unseen Pavel Medvedev
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
7:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
SHARON LOCKHART'S GOSHAGAOKA
A structuralist rendering of a girl's basketball practice in suburban
Japan (2000).
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
LAND AND SEA (SHORTS PROGRAM)
The Diving Women of Jeju-do Barbara Hammer, Unnamed Film (from Ukrainian
Time Machine series) Naomi Uman
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
9:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER'S 7915KM
Examining the physical and cultural landscape left in the wake of the
world's longest drag race, 7915km up Africa.
4/17
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
9:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
VOID FOR FILM PROGRAMMED BY BRADLEY EROS
A 7-hour marathon of imageless cinema and performance. "A range of works
beyond abstraction, from the filmless to the projectorless, all without
images. Zero degree cinema, past and present." (BE) Ten new, live or
rare works by: Baker, Brand, Eros, Fitzgibbon, Gibson/Recoder, Jacobs,
McCall, Perkins, Sanborn, Seven. Plus ten classics.
4/17
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
MIDNIGHT, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St.
TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS TRYPPS
Global Art Nomad and Magic Lantern Founder/ Golden Boy BEN RUSSELL
returns to the Biggest Little for a special stroke-of-midnight
presentation that promises to annihilate your physical self entirely.
Featuring a full set of 16mm films from his TRYPPS series and
culminating in a LIVE double-projector performance (with light-sensitive
electronics! flicker loops! a human skull!) that will send your optic
nerves reeling, this is New Modernist Neo-Psychedelic Ethnographic
Filmmaking at its finest. From spraypaint transcendence to dead tree
deliverance, Lightning Bolt freak-outs to Richard Pryor seances, and the
ecstatic capitalism of Dubai to the funereal rites of Surinamese
Marooons, this is one screening that will stay with you for ever and
ever and ever. FEATURING: Black and White Trypps Number One (6:30, 16mm,
2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00, 16mm, 2006), Black and
White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007), Black and White Trypps
Number Four (11:00, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, 2008),
Trypps #6 (Malobi) (12:00, 16mm, 2009), The Black and the White Gods
(20:00, live performance, 2008) TRT 70:00 WARNING: This show contains
visuals that may be harmful to those with epilepsy.
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