From: Jonathan Walley (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Apr 11 2009 - 16:01:51 PDT
Just wanted to add that the Tate's expanded cinema conference is also
this week (April 17-19):
http://www.studycollection.co.uk/expanded/index.html
They've put together a terrific program of screenings, artist talks,
and scholarly presentations.
Jonathan Walley
Assistant Professor
Department of Cinema
Denison University
Granville, Ohio
email suppressed
On Apr 11, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Weekly Listing wrote:
> Part 1 of 2: This week [April 11 - 19, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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> NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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> "The Return of Ellen Love" by Violet Parks
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=378.ann
> "Whipped" by Kate Pelling
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>
> NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
> =====================
> Jewish Film Festival Zagreb (zagreb, croatia; Deadline: April 14,
> 2009)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1022.ann
> 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)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1030.ann
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> DEADLINES APPROACHING:
> ======================
> 25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb,
> Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2009)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1008.ann
> EXiS2009 (seoul, south korea; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
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> May 15, 2009)
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> Salvador Dali Museum: Double Takes (St. Petersburg, FL, USA;
> Deadline: April 24, 2009)
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> Deadline: April 15, 2009)
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> Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: April 23, 2009)
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> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
> ==============================
> * 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.
>
> ------------------------
> SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2009
> ------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------
> SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009
> ----------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------
> MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009
> ----------------------
>
> 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.
>
> -----------------------
> TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
> -----------------------
>
> 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
>
> -------------------------
> WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
> -------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ------------------------
> THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009
> ------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------
> FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009
> ----------------------
>
> 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.
>
>
> (continued in next email)
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
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