From: Weekly Listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 10:24:36 PDT
Part 1 of 2: This week [April 18 - 26, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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5th Renderyard Short Film Festival (England & Spain; Deadline: September 07, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1026.ann
Without Borders: Conjunction (Orono, ME USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1027.ann
Arkansas Underground Film Festival (Hot Springs, AR, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1028.ann
Salvador Dali Museum: Double Takes (St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1029.ann
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
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1031.ann
Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1032.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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ACEFEST 2009 (New York, NY United States; Deadline: May 18, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1006.ann
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)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1017.ann
Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1021.ann
LA SHORTS FEST (Hollywood, CA, United States; Deadline: May 08, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1023.ann
Without Borders: Conjunction (Orono, ME USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1027.ann
Arkansas Underground Film Festival (Hot Springs, AR, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1028.ann
Salvador Dali Museum: Double Takes (St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2009)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1029.ann
Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: April 23, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Shadow Fields: Expanded Cinema & Sound [April 19, San Francisco, California]
* Garden Pieces. Trees Plants Flowers Lives. [April 20, London, England]
* Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity [April 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Mounir Fatmi On Www.Tank.Tv, Until April 30th. [April 21, London, England]
* The Naked Kiss [April 21, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* The Naked Kiss [April 21, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Local Color [April 21, Seattle, Washington]
* Early Monthly Segments #2 = Mary Ellen Bute + Hollis Frampton [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Afs Avant Cinema 2.6: Lunchfilm [April 22, Austin, TX]
* Clarke Shorts Program #1 [April 22, New York, New York]
* Stoney Program 3: A Love Affair With New York [April 22, New York, New York]
* The Cool World [April 22, New York, New York]
* The International Expermimental Cinema Exposition [April 22, Vienna]
* The Connection [April 23, New York, New York]
* The Eye In Motion: Hidden In Plain Sight, and Other Films [April 23, New York, New York]
* Rome Burns – A Portrait of Shirley Clarke [April 23, New York, New York]
* The International Experimental Cinema Exposition [April 23, Vienna]
* Framptonia! - Hapax Legomena By Hollis Frampton W/ Prof. Michael Zryd [April 24, Buffalo, New York]
* Portrait of Jason [April 24, New York, New York]
* Well Done [April 24, New York, New York]
* Happiness Is A Warm Gun [April 24, New York, New York]
* The International Experimental Cinema Exposition [April 24, Vienna]
* Framptonia! - "The Secret History of the Dividing Line" By David Gatten [April 25, Buffalo, New York]
* Ec - Peter Kubelka [April 25, New York, New York]
* Clarke Shorts Program #2 [April 25, New York, New York]
* Lenz [April 25, New York, New York]
* The Cool World [April 25, New York, New York]
* I Was A Swiss Banker [April 25, New York, New York]
* The Connection [April 25, New York, New York]
* Depth Perception: 3-D Spectacular! [April 25, San Francisco, California]
* Robert Frank: Recent Films [April 25, Washington, DC]
* For Robert [April 25, Washington, DC]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Treasures From American Film Archives iv [April 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Lift Monthly Screening: History and Memory [April 26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2009
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4/18
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:00 pm, Museum of Fine Arts 1001 Bissonnet St
MAXIMAL ART: THE ORIGINS AND AESTHETICS OF WEST COAST LIGHT SHOWS
8 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2009 Maximal Art: The Origins and Aesthetics
of West Coast Light Shows Presentation by Robin Oppenheimer, followed by
a special screening of Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with
The Velvet Underground by Ronald Nameth. The Museum of Fine Art,
Houston, 1001 Bissonnet Tickets $10 in advance and $12 at the door;
Aurora members $10 _ Robin Oppenheimer's presentation will trace the
historical origins and aesthetics of light shows on the West Coast –
from Vietnam war protests to attempts by artists of the 60s to blend the
"new" twentieth century communications media technologies – photography,
film, audio, projectors. The presentation will feature rare documentary
footage. Robin Oppenheimer is an internationally recognized media arts
consultant, historian, curator, writer, and educator who has worked in
the field since 1980. She is a professor at the University of
Washington. Ms. Oppenheimer was the first
Media-Arts-Historian-in-Residence at Bellevue Art Museum, near Seattle
(2000-2). As Manager of the Seattle Art Museum's Open Studio Project
(1997-2000), she oversaw Web production and literacy training for almost
60 Seattle artists and arts organizations. She is also a former
Executive Director of 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle (1989-95), and
IMAGE Film/Video Center in Atlanta (1984-8), where she directed the
Atlanta Film & Video Festival. About the Curator Bree Edwards,
Co-Founder of Be Johnny: Video, Art & Design is an independent curator
based in Los Angeles. Edwards has held the positions of Program Manager
at the Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston and
Curator of Public Programs at the Asheville Museum of Art. Ticket
Information Tickets to each individual show are $10 in advance and $12
at the door. Aurora members can purchase tickets for $10 at any time.
Tickets are available online at www.aurorapictureshow.org or by
contacting Aurora at 713.868.2101. About Aurora Picture Show Founded in
1998, the Aurora Picture Show is the only facility of its kind in the
Southwest. Art in America has called it "one of the most interesting and
unusual new spaces in Houston." Originally housed in a 1924 converted
church building in the Heights, Aurora supports non-commercial
independent and artist-made film, video and new media artists through
fifty programs a year, an Aurora Video Library that is open to the
public five days a week, and a DVD Label that is distributed nationally.
Aurora Picture Show is funded by its stellar membership, Houston
Endowment, Inc, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the
Brown Foundation,Inc., Oshman Foundation, Nightingale Code Foundation,
Texas Commission on the Arts, The City of Houston through the Houston
Arts Alliance, and National Endowment for the Arts. Aurora Picture Show
is a proud member of Fresh Arts Coalition www.fresharts.org. _
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
10:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
TUBE TIME!
Annual web found footage tournament. Teams headed by Michelle Collins
(Best Week Ever!), Ben Coonley (artist), Ed Halter (Light Industry), and
Joe Mande (comedian) square off with the freakiest videos as decided by
audience applause. Hosted by Gabe Liedman.
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
12:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
OKSANA BULGAKOWA'S THE FACOTRY OF GESTURES
A study of evolving body language in Soviet cinema throughout the 20th
century.
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
3:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
LEE ANNE SCHMITT'S CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN LEE ANNE SCHMITT
A series of portraits juxtaposing the histories and mythologies
California towns with their deteriorating present state.
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
3:15, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL
Video art by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Michel Auder,
Wilson Diaz, Jakup Ferri, Jorge Macchi, Diego Perrone, Jozef Robakowski,
Corinna Schnitt, Superflex
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
4:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
TEMPORARY POSITIONS (SHORTS PROGRAM)
sutro Jeanne Liotta, Riverbed Robert Todd, Jerk Stom Sogo, My Temporary
Visiting Position from the Sunset Terrace Bar Carlo Zanni, Horizontal
Boundaries Pat O'Neil
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
5:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
E-FLUX PRESENTS JOANA HADJITHOMAS AND KHALIL JOREIGE'S KHIAM
A metaphysical reflection on the persistence of humanity in a cruel
South Lebanese detention camp (2000).
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
5:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
SILENT TRADITIONS (SHORTS PROGRAM)
The Last Silent Movie Susan Hiller, Without Books Life Would Have Been
Very Poor Eva Linder, zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom) Phil Collins
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:15, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
ERIN COSGROVE'S WHAT MANNER OF PERSON ART THOU?
"The twisted tale of Elijah Yoder and Enoch Troyer; two anachronistic
believers who dispense violent justice on those they deem to be
evildoers." (EC)
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
7:15, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
MIXED AND MAXED (SHORTS PROGRAM)
The Peace Tape Jacob Ciocci, Edge TV with Animal Charm Animal Charm,
Condensed Movie #2 Kent Lambert, Oh, That's Wonderful Aaron Valdez,
Motor Post Motor Band Disband Erika Vogt, Still Untitled Oliver Laric,
0% Down Josephine Meckseper, False Adaptation Phillip Gerson
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
JESSICA ORECK'S BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
A lyrical, anthropological look at the historical and cultural basis for
Japan's love of insects.
4/18
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
CONJURER VISIT (SHORTS PROGRAM)
Sand Saga Shana Moulton, the visit and the play Stephanie Barber,
Somethings Gonna Soon EMR, Black Oval White Sabine Gruffat,
Transmissions Grey Gersten, The Ancient Set Steve Claydon, Untitled RPG
JD Walsh, What If? Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns, Untitled
(super-8s) Jacob Ciocci & Shana Moulton
4/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
RECOMBINANT MUSIC: GIRL TALK IN *RIP* - A REMIX MANIFESTO
Created over a period of six years, RiP features the collaborative work
of hundreds of people who have contributed to this, the world's first
open-source documentary, about copyright and Remix Culture. Web activist
and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of intellectual property in
the Information Age, mixing up the mediascape and shattering the wall
between users and producers. Gaylor's doc features artists like mash-up
master and Illegal Art exponent Girl Talk, who blends samples of
existing music into new songs. Engaging interviews with additional
creators, lawmakers, companies, and consumers are interspersed with
animation, collage, and archival footage in this righteous rave-up.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2009
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4/19
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 COMMON GROUND: FOUR FILMS
Four young film-makers celebrate the commonplace and the contingent.
They lead us to notice anew what we might miss in our everyday
surroundings. All filmmakers will be present. Includes Common Ground
(2008, World Premiere) by Vera Brunner-Sung; For a Brighter Day (2005)
by Haeyong Moon; Motor Post Motor Band Disband (2007-09) by Erika Vogt;
My Tears Are Dry (2009, World Premiere) by Laida Lertxundi. 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.
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
1:15, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
JOHN SMITH'S HOTEL DIARIES 1–8
Shot over six years, John Smith documents global turmoil from a series
of sterile, comfortable hotel rooms.
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
2:30, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
16BEAVER PRESENTS AN OPEN SCREENING
Organized by 16beaver, the collective—and audience members—show films
related to topic of occupation. Free admission.
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
3:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
STEVE REINKE'S FINAL THOUGHTS, SERIES ONE
A series of nine episodes, covering everything from the pain of Susan
Sontag to the life of a teen PA.
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
4:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
BIDOUN PRESENTS PAVIZ KIMIAVI'S MOGHOLLHA (THE MONGOLS)
A leftfield satire and sharp commentary on the expanding presence of
cinema and television in Iran (1973).
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
4:45, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
MATURE AUDIENCES (SHORTS PROGRAM)
My Happy Family Nina Schwanse, Carol Anne is Dead Michael Robinson,
Boy/Analysis Steve Reinke, Infinite Doors Takeshi Murata, The House That
Herman Built Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace, Somewhere only we know
Jesse McLean, Court TV Unknown Eileen Maxson, Silverplay Stom Sogo,
Novel City Leslie Thornton, Crazy and Freaky Jesse Hulcher, Carol Anne
is Dead Michael Robinson, Boy/Analysis Steve Reinke
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
BARRY DOUPE'S PONYTAIL
"A series of entropic scenarios held together by an attraction to
failure and its spectacle." (BD)
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
6:15, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
DAY BY DAY (SHORTS PROGRAM)
Origin of the Species Ben Rivers, A Necessary Music Beatrice Gibson,
Minot, North Dakota Angelika Brudniak,& Cynthia Madansky, Kalendar Naomi
Uman
4/19
New York, New York: Migrating Forms
http://migratingforms.org
8:00, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd ave, NY, NY 10003
MICHAEL GITLIN'S THE EARTH IS YOUNG
"The Earth Is Young takes as its starting point a series of interviews
conducted with Young Earth Creationists, who find evidence of a six-day,
six-thousand-year old creation in their reading of the fossil and
geological record. Bordering on a kind of science-fiction film, The
Earth Is Young is an essay about the nature of science, and about the
tools, both physical and ideological, with which one builds a model of
the world." (MG)
4/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia Street
SHADOW FIELDS: EXPANDED CINEMA & SOUND
The Parasitic Fantasy Band, a duo from New Zealand, perform
multiple-16mm/8mm film/sound expanded cinema experiences and L.A. based
Metal Rouge plays to new films by filmmaker Paul Clipson. The Parasitic
Fantasy BandThe Parasitic Fantasy Band are an expanded cinemaesque live
16mm/8mm film/sound performance duo from New Zealand, deep in the south
Pacific ocean.Between Eve Gordon, Sam Hamilton, multiple film
projectors, flexible mirrors, objects, organic materials, gongs and
electronics emerges an ecstatic engagement of the senses, the space
around you and the inhabitants sharing that space with you with the
possibility of stepping into a new ephemeral territory of existence and
explorative perception, exotically alien and fun yet fundamentally
familiar. The Parasitic Fantasy Band have performed their modified
multi-screen 16mm works, structuralist light refractions, phasing
optical illusions, ecstatic colour tapestries, pseudo-anthropologic
mystic fictional direct film story telling, kinetic alchemical rhythms,
hypnotic flicker dreams, trapeze interventions with narratives
blueprinted from the life cycles of migrating sea birds…. At venues as
diverse as cinema houses to scummy city service alleyways, art galleries
and museums to outside in the Outback desert of Australia. They have
recently produced a short experimental 35mm film (Blue Tide, Black
Water) that has successfully toured multiple film festivals in the
states having received a couple of awards. But its without a doubt their
live performances and dynamic live screens that are were its at for the
Parasitic Fantast Band where they try to open up the possibilities of
cinema as an active, energetic and truly experiential platform for
engaging with people, minds and imaginations with live instrumentation,
activations and interventions, droning resonating strings on projectors,
textural electronics, computational story telling and forest field
recordings hand collected from the Amazon jungles of South America.
www.parasiticfantasyband.org.nz/ Metal Rouge Métal Rouge was formed in
2006 by Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott in Auckland, New Zealand with
no aim but to open themselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running
through the underbelly of popular music like a vein of pure lightning.
Birthed from the rich history of New Zealand underground music they
began to mould a sound comprised equally of the forward motion of
ecstatic jazz and the drugged stasis of NYC loft minimalism circa '66.
Using electric guitar, voice and amplified santur as their primary
instruments, they forged a new vocabulary of spiritual drone dub.
Relocating to Los Angeles late 2006, they toured the states, adding lap
steel and pedal steel to their arsenal. Related projects include Yek Koo
(Helga solo), Nest (Andrew & Nigel Wright), Golden krone (Andrew & Rohan
Evans) and Huzun (Andrew & Tim Coster). Métal Rouge have releases on
Root Strata, Not Not Fun, Stunned and their own Seymour Records imprint.
Their new LP 'Republican Trees' is forthcoming on Digitalis.
http://www.helgafassonaki.net/metalrouge.htm Paul Clipson is a San
Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists. His
2009 film SHINX ON THE SEINE premiered at last year's ATA Film & Video
Festival and recently screened in Rotterdam.
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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2009
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4/20
London, England: BFI Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/
8.40pm, NFT 2
GARDEN PIECES. TREES PLANTS FLOWERS LIVES.
A portrait of the darden, designed in Potsdam-Bornim in 1910 by gardener
and philosopher of nature Karl Poerster, and filmed at monthly intervals
to show how it changes over the year, provides a core for a programme in
which to experience landscapes including the Hudsonriver (USA), Mont
Ventoux (France), and fleeting views of flowers in daily life: in an
Orkney garden, a London back garden, in Mexico, and also a plane tree
viewed from a window. With masterpieces of 16mm film-making from Bruce
Baillie and Margaret Tait. Tronco Luxurioso, Olivier Bougnot 1992.
L'Arbre Bleu, Marcelle Thirache 2001. Landscape (for Manon), Peter
Hutton 1986/87. The Flower Fairy, Pathe Freres cir.1911-13. Im Garten,
Ute Aurand & Baerbel Freund 2002. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Stan
Brakhage 1981. An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home Peter
Todd 2003. Portrait of Ga Margaret Tait 1952. Fur Frau Foerster, Ute
Aurand & Baerbel Freund 2002. Valentin de las Sierras, Bruce Baillie
1967. Quiproquo, Rose Lowder 1992.
4/20
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
JOANNA PRIESTLEY: FIGHTING GRAVITY
Los Angeles premiere Dubbed "the queen of independent animation" by Bill
Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches (2009, 4
min.), a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can't-miss
program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems
representing the range of the artist's techniques: Voices (1985, 4
min.), Grown Up (1993, 7 min.), All My Relations (1990, 5 min.),
Streetcar Named Perspire (2007, 6:30 min.), Utopia Parkway (1997, 5
min.), Candyjam (1988, 7 min.), She-Bop (1988, 8 min.), Pro and Con
(1993, 9 min.), and Dew Line (2005, 4:30 min.). Mentored by Jules Engel
at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19 award-winning films about
subjects such as varied as relationships, plants, magic, menopause,
abstraction and prison. Retrospectives of her work have been presented
at The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and American
Cinematheque, among other venues. In person: Joanna Priestley Jack H.
Skirball Series $9 [students $7]
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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2009
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4/21
London, England: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
All, www.tank.tv
MOUNIR FATMI ON WWW.TANK.TV, UNTIL APRIL 30TH.
mounir fatmi Hard Head 8th - 30th April 2009 on www.tank.tv "For me,
identity is the worst heritage you can receive." mounir fatmi tank.tv is
pleased to present the exhibition Hard Head from mounir fatmi: 'The
Machinery', 'Feast, Tribute to William Burroughs', 'Man with no Horse,
movement 03', 'The Others are the Others', 'The Lost Ones',
'Commerciale', 'May God forgive me', 'Embargo' and 'Manipulations'.
mounir fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to
free the viewer from their preconceptions of politics and religion, and
allows them to contemplate these and other subjects in new ways. His
videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light
our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events
of our world, and serve to both clarify the origins and symptoms of
global issues, as well as speak to those whose lives are affected by
specific events. Born in 1970 in Tangier and currently living and
working in Paris mounir fatmi's work has been exhibited internationally
at venues such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern,
London, the Studio Museum Harlem, New York and the Mori Art Museum in
Tokyo, Japan. He has also participated in a range of biennials and
triennials including the Gwangju Biennial, Korea, the Sharjah Biennial
and the 52nd Venice Biennale. www.tank.tv www.mounirfatmi.com Exhibition
generously funded by Paris Calling. With special thanks to Heure
Exquise! Hard Head, a DVD compilation of work by mounir fatmi is
available from lowave.
4/21
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE NAKED KISS
The Naked Kiss (1964, 90 min.) by SAMUEL FULLER. "Speaking of being
ahead of the curve, noir films stood out among their dated
contemporaries like pure hip-hop. And Sam Fuller's fizzy, wigged-out
masterpiece The Naked Kiss drops it from frame one, with Constance
Towers purse-smacking a P.O.V. shot, brandishing a seltzer bottle and
upbraiding her pimp, essentially demanding "What, you slipped? Fell?
Landed on her dick?" Fuller's fierce prologue is only an appetizer for
the depths he sinks to when his reformed ho tries to hoist up her
stockings and reach for anonymity in the rural wild. The Naked Kiss
grows positively feral as Towers uncovers the town's perverse, thriving
criminal underbelly and comes to the conclusion that even being a
two-bit, big-city tramp is more noble than living anywhere that has a
Main Street. It's Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical."- Eric
Henderson, Slant
4/21
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE NAKED KISS
The Naked Kiss (1964, 90 min.) by SAMUEL FULLER. "Speaking of being
ahead of the curve, noir films stood out among their dated
contemporaries like pure hip-hop. And Sam Fuller's fizzy, wigged-out
masterpiece The Naked Kiss drops it from frame one, with Constance
Towers purse-smacking a P.O.V. shot, brandishing a seltzer bottle and
upbraiding her pimp, essentially demanding "What, you slipped? Fell?
Landed on her dick?" Fuller's fierce prologue is only an appetizer for
the depths he sinks to when his reformed ho tries to hoist up her
stockings and reach for anonymity in the rural wild. The Naked Kiss
grows positively feral as Towers uncovers the town's perverse, thriving
criminal underbelly and comes to the conclusion that even being a
two-bit, big-city tramp is more noble than living anywhere that has a
Main Street. It's Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical."- Eric
Henderson, Slant
4/21
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
LOCAL COLOR
APRIL 21, TUESDAY AT 8PM Third Eye Cinema presents Local Color Culling
from a mass of locally made shorts Third Eye Cinema this quarter
highlights the works of the numerous local filmmakers working in the
short experimental and avant-garde areas of cinema. This program
includes films by Joel Schlemowitz, Salise Hughes, Jon Behrens, Steve
Demas, Luke Sieczek, Malic Amalya, Eliane Lima, and others.
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #2 = MARY ELLEN BUTE + HOLLIS FRAMPTON
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #2 = 4/21/09 = Mary Ellen Bute + Hollis Frampton
The second installment of the Early Monthly Segments film series
features the only live action feature film by the legendary pioneer of
American abstract filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute. In Passages from James
Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Bute transforms Joyce's language into cinema in
a truly oneiric film style. Surreal and dense with allusion the work
echoes the novel's nearly impenetrable vertically compressed structure,
while remaining true to its wit and uncanny beauty. With Passages from
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Bute was the first to adapt a work of
James Joyce to film and was honored for this project at the Cannes Film
Festival in 1965 as best debut. – Notes adapted from Greylodge.org
Programme: Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 16mm, 1965, 92
mins, B&W Directed by Mary Ellen Bute, Screenplay by Mary Manning
Cinematography by Ted Nemeth, Music by Elliot Kaplan Print courtesy the
archives of York University's Sound and Moving Image Library Screened
with: Gloria!, Hollis Frampton, 16mm, 1979, 9 minutes @ the Art Bar,
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St West Tuesday April 21, 2009, 7:30pm
screening, $5 Early Monthly Segments is a new monthly film series named
after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy,
vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott
Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series will feature
historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like setting at
the Gladstone Art Bar. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages
and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for
engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. Thanks to Kathy Elder at
York University's Sound & Moving Image Library, everyone at the CFMDC +
The Gladstone Hotel. Contact email suppressed for email
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009
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4/22
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, Austin Studios Screening Room (1901 E 51st Street)
AFS AVANT CINEMA 2.6: LUNCHFILM
Truly independent films are made from the gut. Just feed a filmmaker and
they are inspired to work. The Lunchfilm concept is basic: a filmmaker
is taken out to lunch, in trade they made a short film for the cost of
the lunch. Rules and inspirations are written out on a napkin contract.
At times poetically real, at times languidly artistic, Lunchfilms offer
a variety of stunning tastes. Films by: Tom Barndt, Richard Bott, Martha
Colburn, Sean Conway, David Fenster and David Nordstrom, Jim Finn, Mike
Gibisser, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brent Green, Sam Green, Braden King, Lee
Lynch and Naomi Uman, Nicholas McCarthy, Ricardo Rivera, Ben Russell,
Kelly Sears, Sarah Soquel Morhaim, Jennifer Shainin and Randy Walker.
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #1
DANCE IN THE SUN (1953, 6 minutes, 16mm) IN PARIS PARKS (1954, 13
minutes, 16mm) BULLFIGHT (1955, 9 minutes, 16mm) MOMENT IN LOVE (1956,
11 minutes, 16mm) BRUSSELS LOOPS (1957, 22 minutes, 16mm)
BRIDGES-GO-ROUND (1958, 7 minutes, 16mm) Recently preserved print! Total
running time: ca. 70 minutes. Clarke's early films reflect her interest
in dance, and in capturing the motion and rhythms of dance on film. But
while some are explicitly dance films, others, especially IN PARIS PARKS
and BRIDGES-GO-ROUND, expand the concept considerably. As Clarke
characterized her approach, "I concern myself, whether I'm working with
dancers or actors, at all times, with the choreography of what is
happening on the screen: its designs, its rhythms, its movements, all
elements of dance but also all elements of life – for me this is the
dance that exists on film, not dance as it exists on the stage."
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
STONEY PROGRAM 3: A LOVE AFFAIR WITH NEW YORK
SHEPHERD OF THE NIGHT FLOCK (1975, 56 minutes, 16mm) HOW TO LOOK AT A
CITY (1963, 28 minutes, 16mm) A sampling of the more than two-dozen
films made by Stoney, along with collaborators, celebrating New York
City. Urbanologist Gene Raskin demonstrates what "makes it work" in a
film from the Channel 13 series, METROPOLIS, CREATOR OR DESTROYER. In
SHEPHERD, Jazz Vespers parishioners from St. Peter's Lutheran Church
parade across the city. Spokespersons for historical preservation will
be present to address current challenges.
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE COOL WORLD
Directed by Shirley Clarke 1964, 105 minutes, 16mm. "THE COOL
WORLD…look[s] as radical today as [it] did in the 60s. The first fiction
feature to be shot entirely on location in Harlem, THE COOL WORLD was
adapted by Clarke and her frequent collaborator Carl Lee from Warren
Miller's novel about a black teenager who gets caught up in a culture of
gangs and guns. Shot verite style with the light-weight equipment that
had just come on the market, it seems as much a documentary of
inner-city life just before Black Power as it does a fictional
coming-of-age story." –Amy Taubin, VILLAGE VOICE
4/22
Vienna: Austrian Filmmuseum
http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1236066401628&reserve-mode=active
9 p.m., Augustinerstrasse 1
THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERMIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition Masterpieces of New
American Avant-garde Film April 22 to 24, 2009 In contrast to their
canonized predecessors like Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage,
Andy Warhol and Michael Snow, the younger generations of American
experimental cinema are virtually unknown in Europe. Yet this
independent film movement continues unabated. Notwithstanding the
current "digital standard", innovative work with film is undergoing a
renaissance in America. This revival manifests itself not only in the
captivating works of new artists who have broken onto the scene, but
also in new festivals and film-cultural initiatives, in critical
reception (particularly among young online writers) and in the art
world, where film projections are again playing a paradoxical
"avant-garde role" vis-à-vis the omnipresence of video installations.
Founded ten years ago, Christopher May's "travelling festival" TIE -The
International Experimental Cinema Exposition has been an ideal platform
for these new generations of filmmakers (as well as for rediscoveries
from previous decades). After several enthusiastically received events
in North and South America, TIE is making ist first guest appearance in
Europe, at the invitation of the Film Museum. Christopher May will
personally introduce four curated programmes with a total of 45 works.
These include films by several important artists who have yet to be
discovered in Europe, such as Deco Dawson, Brian Frye, David Gatten,
Janie Geiser, Jeanne Liotta, Luther Price, Luis Recoder and Scott Stark
- "films that illuminate the continuing vitality and beauty of
celluloid."
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THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2009
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4/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE CONNECTION
Directed by Shirley Clarke 1962, 110 minutes, 35mm. Preservation print
courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funded by
The Film Foundation. "Clarke's first feature, made after several
avant-garde shorts and before her better-known THE COOL WORLD and
PORTRAIT OF JASON. Based on Jack Gelber's play about a group of junkies
hanging out in a New York loft waiting for their fix, THE CONNECTION is
part Beat narrative, part interrogation of documentary form, part
portrait of a subculture. Noted for Clarke's innovative
camera-choreography, it was banned for its obscenity but won the
Critic's Prize at Cannes." –Irina Leimbacher, SF
4/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE EYE IN MOTION: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, AND OTHER FILMS
In addition to screening HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, his hour-long cinematic
evocation of the global urban milieu, New York filmmaker Mark Street
will discuss other works that excavate the poetry of city-inspired
observations. This program as a whole ranges from Chantal Akerman's
observational glimpses of a crumbling Eastern-European metropolis to
Chris Marker and Joris Ivens's whimsical film essay on an ignored
Chilean port city. Oskar Fischinger MÜNCHEN-BERLIN WANDERUNG (1927, 10
minutes) Chantal Akerman D'EST (excerpt) (1993) Joris Ivens …A
VALPARAÍSO (excerpt) (1963) (with text by Chris Marker) Mark Street
GUIDING FICTIONS (2002, 5 minutes) & Mark Street HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
2008, 62 minutes, video. Street's new film is inspired by the tradition
of cinematic city symphonies and is made up of footage shot in four
cities: Santiago de Chile; Hanoi, Vietnam; Dakar, Senegal; and
Marseille, France. Vignettes from each city are juxtaposed, pulling the
viewer from place to place, forming connections only to have them
disappear just as quickly. Historical details (involving Salvador
Allende and Ho Chi Minh, among others), quotes from writers such as
Miriama Ba and Charles Baudelaire, laconic captions, music, and
expressionistic sound design offer contrasting contexts in which to view
these images. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT offers a dynamic way of viewing
street life in these locales, encouraging us to think about how we
apprehend a place visually and conceptually. "This is brilliant
filmmaking, at once engaging and challenging, partisan and universal."
–Howard Feinstein, INDIEWIRE
4/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
ROME BURNS – A PORTRAIT OF SHIRLEY CLARKE
Directed by Noël Burch & André S. Labarthe 1970, 54 minutes, video "Part
of the CINEASTES DE NOTRE TEMPS series, this memorable documentary is an
opportunity to see Clarke holding court, sharing her bold cinematic
ideas and opinions on filmmaking with a congregation including such
luminaries as director Jacques Rivette, writer and artist Jean-Jacques
Lebel and Yoko Ono. Shot in January 1968 and co-directed by Noel Burch
and Andre S. Labarthe, footage of this nature featuring Clarke at such a
crucial time in her development is scarce to say the least." –EDINBURGH
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
4/23
Vienna: Austrian Filmmuseum
http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1236066401628&reserve-mode=active
7 p.m., 9:15 p.m., Augustinerstrasse 1
THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION
See April 22 for details.
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