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This week [April 25 - May 3, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Handle With Care [April 26, Berkeley, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Treasures From American Film Archives iv [April 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema - George Landow, Aka Owen Lan [April 26, New York, New York]
* Clarke Shorts Program #3 [April 26, New York, New York]
* Clarke Shorts Program #4 [April 26, New York, New York]
* Lift Monthly Screening: History and Memory [April 26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Rome Burns – A Portrait of Shirley Clarke [April 27, New York, New York]
* RaphaËL Maze: Films, videos, and “Pocket Films” [April 27, New York, New York]
* Portrait of Jason [April 27, New York, New York]
* In Person: Lis Rhodes [April 27, Vienna, Austria]
* Garden Pieces. Glimpse of the Garden. [April 28, London, England]
* Clarke Shorts Program #4 [April 28, New York, New York]
* Clarke Shorts Program #1 [April 28, New York, New York]
* Marcel Proust's Time Regained [April 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* In Person: Lis Rhodes [April 28, Vienna, Austria]
* 3rd Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival [April 29, Cambridge, UK]
* The Cinema Cabaret: Live Film Narration [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcases [April 30, Los Angeles, California]
* The Black Banana & Other Shorts By Ben Hayeem [April 30, New York, New York]
* Open Screening [April 30, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 1, Buffalo, New York]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcases [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Handle With Care [May 1, San Francisco, California]
* 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 2, Buffalo, New York]
* Orphans Film Symposium West [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcases [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Ec - Peter Kubelka [May 2, New York, New York]
* The Animal In Me [May 2, Philadelphia]
* Pipe Dreams: Ptushko & Packard + [May 2, San Francisco, California]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1 [May 2, San Francisco, California]
* 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 3, Buffalo, New York]
* Orphans Film Symposium West [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009
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4/25
Buffalo, New York: Media Study - University at Buffalo, SUNY
7 p.m., Center for the Arts, Room 112, University at Buffalo North Campus
FRAMPTONIA! - "THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE" BY DAVID GATTEN
FRAMPTONIA! Everything and everyone is cordially invited to FRAMPTONIA!
Buffalo's two part screening series celebrating Hollis Frampton, a
legendary instructor in the media studies department at the University
at Buffalo. On April 24th, we will be screening the newly restored
prints of Hollis Frampton's seven part "Hapax Legomena" followed by a
presentation by Professor Michael Zryd (if you don't already know: a
renowned Frampton scholar). The next day we'll be hosting the already
iconic film's of David Gatten; he'll present his epic series "The Secret
History of the Dividing Line." An event to be sure! Both screenings are
free! Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena w/ presentation by Prof. Michael
Zryd Friday, April 24th 5 o'clock David Gatten's The Secret History of
the Dividing Line Saturday, April 25th 7 o'clock (For those who might be
traveling far distances I would love to find a place for you among the
poets or filmmakers who reside in the nickel city! Just pop-off an
e-mail outside of frameworks and we can begin to unravel your plans)
FRAMPTONIA! is generously supported by the Department of Media Study,
the Graduate Student Association, Subboard I, INC and the GSA's for
Media Study, Poetics and Visual Studies. -Ekrem Serdar -Scott Puccio
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC - PETER KUBELKA
MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm)
ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 minute, 35mm) ARNULF
RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm) UNSERE AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA
(1966, 12 minutes, 35mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 minutes, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka
is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality
above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I
would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest
filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above
all else…etcetera." –Stan Brakhage
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #2
FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME (1979, 60 minutes, 16mm) A collection of
four short experimental dance films: INITIATION, MYSTERIUM, TRANS, and
ONE-2-3.
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LENZ
Directed by Thomas Imbach 2006, 96 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges
to research the story behind Georg Buchner's novel fragment, LENZ. But
he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more
emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their
son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the
modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto, "Genius writes its own
rules". Against a background of global tourism – provided by the
authentic Zermatt locations – LENZ portrays an unconventional family and
a man swinging between euphoria and desperation.
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 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
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45pm, 32 Second Avenue
I WAS A SWISS BANKER
Directed by Thomas Imbach 2007, 75 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish
self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling money
across the border for reinvestment. But, flagged down one day by a
customs officers, Roger loses his cool and makes a run for it. Diving
headlong into Lake Constance, he catapults himself out of his life as a
banker and into a totally new universe, populated by shy mermaids in
Lara Croft gear and cunning magpie witches in helicopters. As in a Grimm
Brothers fairy tale, Roger has to pass three tests to cast off the
witches' curse and find happiness. His underwater journey through an
intoxicatingly beautiful Switzerland is enhanced by the enchanting songs
of sirens – a fable full of lust for life and love.
4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 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
4/25
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
DEPTH PERCEPTION: 3-D SPECTACULAR!
We're honored to have back those 3-D masters from Marin County, Pad
McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, premiering the latter's projection-piece
on San Andreas temblors, The City Quakes: The San Francisco Earthquakes
of 1906 & 1989, with Bob's original score. Pad has his own short piece,
Sketch Pad, a series of experiments with stereographic motion pictures,
combining 3-D video and stills. This stereoscopic extravaganza also
boasts the debut of Kerry Laitala's Chromatic Cocktail, a Kodachrome
exploration using the eye-po pping Chromadepth process, plus new spatial
initiatives! ALSO: Neighborhood flaneur David Cox with 3-D movies made
on his iPhone (believe it or not), a 3-D tour of a Viewmaster, factory a
rare Hy Hirsch piece from the '50s, and views of Burning Man, wrestling
matches, and carnivorous plants. Free Wine, 3 different glasses provided
*7.
4/25
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
1:00 pm, NGA, 4th & Constiution Ave. NW
ROBERT FRANK: RECENT FILMS
Friends and family, New York and Nova Scotia, and the artist's fixations
and fascinations shape the content of Robert Frank's films. This
selection includes work completed between 1996 and 2005. The Present
(1996, 35 mm, 24 minutes); Flamingo (1997, digital beta, 7 minutes); I
Remember (1998, digital beta, 5 minutes); Sanyu (1999, digital beta, 27
minutes); Paper Route (2002, digital beta, 23 minutes); and True Story
(2004, digital beta, 26 minutes)
4/25
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
3:30 PM, NGA, 4th & Constiution Ave. NW
FOR ROBERT
curated by Michael Shamberg A selection of poetic avant-garde works by
various artists, chosen for this program by independent curator Michael
H. Shamberg in honor of Robert Frank's photography and films: Junkopia
(Chris Marker, 6 minutes); NYC Weights and Measures (Jem Cohen, 6
minutes); p.s. beirut (Michael H. Shamberg, 7 minutes); Notes on Iceland
(Melody Owen, 5 minutes); After Writing (Mary Helena Clark, 4 minutes);
Monsanto (Paula Gaitán, 22 minutes); Nocturne (Avenue A, no lens) (Joel
Schlemowitz, 3 minutes); Ah Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 19 minutes); Summer
Cannibals (Robert Frank, 4 minutes); Run (Robert Frank, 4 minutes);
Playback (Pere Portabella, 8 minutes). (89 minutes total)
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SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2009
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4/26
Berkeley, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
http://fest09.sffs.org/
8:30pm, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way (at Bowditch)
HANDLE WITH CARE
Curated by Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher The seven artist-made films
gathered in this program vary from a cutout collage, a hand-processed
film, a puppet and costume drama, to two films with 3D imagery. Whether
a single shot recording ninety-three candles flickering on a birthday
cake or an allegorical recounting of a near-death experience, these
films remind us of the fragility of life and the power of the moving
image medium…as well as the reverse. Chromatic Cocktail (Kerry Laitala,
USA, 2008, digital video (mini-dv), color, silent, 8.5 mins): The
vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala's experiments with
chromovision leap off the screen in pulsating 3D. Experiment on
Peripheral Vision, #1 (Adele Horne and Paul VanDeCarr, USA, 2008,
digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 3 mins): In the first of a
series of experiments, a man and a woman note what they see from the
corner of their eyes. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
(Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 4 mins): Charlotte
Pryce's luminous, hand-processed film reaches across the centuries to
find inspiration in a Dutch 17th Century painting. On a Phantom Limb
(Nancy Andrews, USA 2009, digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 35
mins): An imaginative allegory draws on ink paintings, live-action, and
puppets to explore a woman who finds herself part bird after a
life-threatening occurrence. Speechless (Scott Stark, USA, 2008, 16mm,
color, sound, 13 mins): This beautiful yet uneasy weaving of imagery of
human vulvas and landscapes draws on medical 3D Viewmaster images. False
Aging (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, digital video (digibeta), color, sound,
15 mins): Longing and regret are evoked in this haunting collage-film,
crafted from the detritus of the past. Ninety-Three (Kevin Jerome
Everson, USA, 2008, digital video (dvcam), b/w, silent 3 mins): A
succinct portrait of resilience.
4/26
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 TREASURES FROM AMERICAN FILM ARCHIVES IV
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Treasures from American Film Archives IV
– Six films from the box, screened on film, in honor of its release With
Jeff Lambert, Assistant Director of the National Film Preservation
Foundation, and Mark Toscano of the Academy Film Archive in person! This
March brought the long-awaited home-video debut of 26 classics of
American experimental filmmaking in this new release from the National
Film Preservation Foundation: Treasures Iv: American Avant-Garde Film,
1947-1986, Tonight: Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970); Go! Go! Go! (Marie
Menken, 1964); Chumlum (Ron Rice, 1964); Peyote Queen (Storm De Hirsch,
1965); Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1969-70); 7362 (Pat O'Neill, 1965-67)
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.
4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA - GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAN
A selection of his short films. "His remarkable faculty is as maker of
images... the images he photographs are among the most radical,
super-real and haunting images the cinema has ever given us." –P. Adams
Sitney, VISIONARY FILM
4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #3
TEEPEE VIDEO SPACE TROUPE: THE EARLY YEARS (1971, 16 minutes, video)
This video journal is an informal time capsule of the downtown cultural
and artistic milieu in New York. Part 1 documents a party given by John
Lennon and Yoko Ono. In Parts 2 & 3, Arthur C. Clarke performs a
celestial experiment with a video camera on the roof of the Chelsea
Hotel, while influential theologian Alan Watts waits silently, creating
"an exercise in Zen." SAVAGE/LOVE (1981, 26 minutes, video) TONGUES
(1982, 20 minutes, video) A tour-de-force synthesis of theater and
video, SAVAGE/LOVE and TONGUES mark the collaboration between Clarke,
actor/director Joseph Chaikin, and playwright Sam Shepard. Through her
ingenious camera work, precise editing, and imaginative use of
electronic imaging, Clarke powerfully transforms these stage pieces into
resonant video drama.
4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #4
SKYSCRAPER (1959, 20 minutes, 16mm) This Academy Award-winning short
features a jazzy score of Beat-style poems and songs blended with the
voices of actors playing construction workers as they construct the
Tishman Building on Fifth Avenue in New York. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S
QUARREL WITH THE WORLD (1963, 55 minutes, 35mm) Print courtesy of the
Academy Film Archive. An intimate portrait of Robert Frost completed
before his death at age 88. Crosscutting his professional life as a
public figure and honored poet laureate with the private man at his home
in Vermont, this documentary achieves remarkable insight into an
American icon.
4/26
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
7 pm, 1137 Dupont St. (@ Gladstone), Toronto, ON
LIFT MONTHLY SCREENING: HISTORY AND MEMORY
In its new monthly screening series, LIFT presents a program of works on
the theme of History & Memory, with 16mm films by Garine Torossian (Girl
from Moush), Judith Doyle (Private Property/Public History), Francisca
Duran (Retrato Oficial) and Elida Schogt (A Trilogy). The LIFT monthly
screening is a new event intended to introduce filmmakers to diverse
approaches to filmmaking. During the LIFT workshop season, the last
Sunday of each month will be devoted to screening and discussing a
selection of work from the library of the CFMDC and elsewhere. This is
an excellent opportunity for filmmakers to get together, discuss the
approaches other filmmakers have taken, and develop their own ideas. The
winter/spring screenings present a diverse selection of Canadian
documentary work to complement the workshop season's focus on
documentary filmmaking. Admission by donation ($5 suggested).
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MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009
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4/27
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
ZOE BELOFF: CONJURING SPECTERS
New York artist Zoe Beloff's unique and mesmerizing films are
philosophical toys—objects with which to think. Her work has especially
borne on "phantoms," on images that are "not there," and on a
precinematic version of the virtual—created by means of a stereoscopic
Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. Shadowland Or Light From
The Other Side (2000, 32 min., 3-D 16mm, b/w), starring Kate Valk of The
Wooster Group, locates a link between Victorian spiritualism and the
birth of cinema in late-19th century "Ghost Shows," where actors
interacted with magic lantern slides and stereoscopic views. Charming
Augustine (2004, 40 min., 3-D 16mm film, b/w) is an experimental
narrative inspired by one of Charcot's most famous patients at the
Salpétrière in turn-of-the-century Paris. It explores connections
between photographic documentation of hysteria and the prehistory of
narrative film: Augustine captivates the doctors with her theatrical and
photogenic hysterical attacks and in the process becomes a star—the
"Sarah Bernhardt" of the asylum. In person: Zoe Beloff Jack H. Skirball
Series $9 [students $7]
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 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
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
RAPHAËL MAZE: FILMS, VIDEOS, AND “POCKET FILMS”
"My films and videos are situated at the crossroads of the history of
art video and experimental cinema. These two practices have explored the
possibilities of an open and wide-ranging process, playing with forms as
well as durations. I have been developing a body of work which reflects
on the very nature of these pictures. "In my films and my journeys I
like to record intuitive perception, that of visual and internal
landscapes. My filmmaking represents an experiment in intuitive
thinking, distinct from the logic of a linear thought. "Experimental
cinema and video together traverse the fields of pictorial
experimentation, bringing into play new codes and new forms of
representation. Since 2007, I have been making films with mobile phones,
in 3G+ video, a new practice I call 'pocket films', and which I have
been circulating with other artists including Edson Barrus, Yann
Beauvais, Abigail Child, Veronica Baena, and Corinne Peuchet." –R.M.
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
PORTRAIT OF JASON
Directed by Shirley Clarke 1967, 105 minutes, 35mm. A raw record of a
confessional conversation with an African-American gay hustler
recounting his life and times. A disturbing and fascinating document, it
unflinchingly observes Jason Holliday – conversing, performing,
confessing, dissolving. "The most fascinating film I've ever seen."
–Ingmar Bergman
4/27
Vienna, Austria: Austrian Film Museum
http://www.filmmuseum.at
9 pm, Austrian Film Museum
IN PERSON: LIS RHODES
Films by Lis Rhodes 1: Light Music (1975–77), Running Light (1996), A
Cold Draft (1988), RIFF (2004). Lis Rhodes is one of the principal
artists of British avangarde film after 1970. In contrast to her
contemporaries Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal or Chris Welsby, her films
have hardly been shown in Austria. After working with the London
Filmmakers' Co-op she co-founded Circles (later: Cinenova), the first
distribution company for films and videos by women. This engagement for
female representation in the art world is also reflected in her essays
and some of her films. Rhodes started out with abstract or "absolute"
films like Dresden Dynamo (1971/74), emphasizing the synaesthetic
interplay of colour, movement and sound. A highlight of her
presentations at the Film Museum will be the performance of her
legendary Expanded Cinema double projection Light Music: a dynamic light
and sound environment amplified by a smoke machine. Since the late
1970s, her films have moved towards an investigation of complex
historical, social and political processes. They deal with expulsion (in
the past and the present), the sealing-off of Europe towards immigrants,
the invasion of Iraq, violence against women, and the classification of
female identity. In these later works Lis Rhodes achieves a unique blend
of photography, Super-8- and 16mm-film, drawing, writing, and a literary
language which is fully aware of the impossibility of defining "reality"
in an unambiguous way. Her layering of these levels creates
three-dimensional pictorial spaces which correspond to her mysterious,
poeticalpolitical texts. „Only the permitted is really visible in a
culture that equates ‚real' with ‚visible'. Like most systems it has a
rational explanation for its existence. It's property. Who owns it?"
(Running Light, 1996). A joint programme of sixpackfilm and the Austrian
Film Museum.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009
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4/28
London, England: BFI Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/
6.20pm, NFT 2
GARDEN PIECES. GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN.
'Without those who love me and whom I love, these small film could not
have existed.' Marie Menken's words speak of the work of many film
makers and equally of the close relationships with the garden we
experience with Anne Charlotte Robertson in reel 80 of her five year 8mm
diary (on video), with organic and natural gardening in France in the
most recent Bouquets of Rose Lowder, and the house and garden of Robert
Beavers' mother. We end with a Navajo medicine man collecting plants.
The last of a series of three programmes curated and intorduced by Peter
Todd. Glimpse of the Garden, Marie Menken, 1957. Emily Died, Anne
Charlotte Robertson, 1997. Bouquets 21-30, Rose Lowder 2001-2005.
Pitcher of Coloured Light, Robert Beavers. 2007. The Spirit of the
Navajo, Maxine and Maryjane Tsoi 1966.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #4
SKYSCRAPER (1959, 20 minutes, 16mm) This Academy Award-winning short
features a jazzy score of Beat-style poems and songs blended with the
voices of actors playing construction workers as they construct the
Tishman Building on Fifth Avenue in New York. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S
QUARREL WITH THE WORLD (1963, 55 minutes, 35mm) Print courtesy of the
Academy Film Archive. An intimate portrait of Robert Frost completed
before his death at age 88. Crosscutting his professional life as a
public figure and honored poet laureate with the private man at his home
in Vermont, this documentary achieves remarkable insight into an
American icon.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 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."
4/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
MARCEL PROUST’S TIME REGAINED
Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999, 162 min) by RAOUL RUIZ This film,
starring Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, and John Malkovich offers
something quite different and more challenging than the treatments (e.g.
Masterpiece Theater or Merchant-Ivory) of literary classics many viewers
are used to. "Writing in the light of the Lumière brothers'
cinematographe, Proust sought to have his readers visualize temporality;
filming at the dawn of the digital era, Ruiz allows the flow of static
images through the movie projector to merge with the stream of time,
while pondering the paradox of memories fixed in emulsion. Time
Regained's characters are introduced as the dying Proust shuffles
through his collection of photos. 'Then one day,' he muses, 'everything
changes.'…. With misplaced nostalgia, contemporary filmmakers continue
to revisit those literary classics written before there were movies.
Ruiz is more creatively anachronistic. This is a 20th-century movie
about a 20th-century novel. The filmmaker attempts to approximate not
Proust's prose but rather the writer's modernist, multiple-perspective
simultaneity. People are simultaneously old and young. Marcel wanders
through the crypt after his child self. As the camera moves, statues
parade through a shifting foreground. Time Regained is a testament to
Marcel's understanding that 'the true paradises are those we lost'—which
is to say that the pleasure it provides is the involuntary memory of
cinema itself." – J. Hoberman, TheVillage Voice
4/28
Vienna, Austria: Austrian Film Museum
http://www.filmmuseum.at
9 pm, Austrian Film Museum
IN PERSON: LIS RHODES
Films by Lis Rhodes 2: Dresden Dynamo (1971), Light Reading (1979), Just
About Now (1993), Pictures on Pink Paper (1982). Lis Rhodes is one of
the principal artists of British avangarde film after 1970. In contrast
to her contemporaries Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal or Chris Welsby, her
films have hardly been shown in Austria. After working with the London
Filmmakers' Co-op she co-founded Circles (later: Cinenova), the first
distribution company for films and videos by women. This engagement for
female representation in the art world is also reflected in her essays
and some of her films. Rhodes started out with abstract or "absolute"
films like Dresden Dynamo (1971/74), emphasizing the synaesthetic
interplay of colour, movement and sound. A highlight of her
presentations at the Film Museum will be the performance of her
legendary Expanded Cinema double projection Light Music: a dynamic light
and sound environment amplified by a smoke machine. Since the late
1970s, her films have moved towards an investigation of complex
historical, social and political processes. They deal with expulsion (in
the past and the present), the sealing-off of Europe towards immigrants,
the invasion of Iraq, violence against women, and the classification of
female identity. In these later works Lis Rhodes achieves a unique blend
of photography, Super-8- and 16mm-film, drawing, writing, and a literary
language which is fully aware of the impossibility of defining "reality"
in an unambiguous way. Her layering of these levels creates
three-dimensional pictorial spaces which correspond to her mysterious,
poeticalpolitical texts. „Only the permitted is really visible in a
culture that equates ‚real' with ‚visible'. Like most systems it has a
rational explanation for its existence. It's property. Who owns it?"
(Running Light, 1996). A joint programme of sixpackfilm and the Austrian
Film Museum.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009
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4/29
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival
http://www.cambridge-super8.org
7pm, USC, Mill lane
3RD CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
With more than 60 World, International, European and UK Premieres, our
competition and panorama programmes will show the best films originated
on the brilliant Super 8 format. More than 25 filmmakers from across
Europe will join the festival for a great four days of networking and
films. All genres are represented (animation, fiction, documentaries and
experimental film), showing the diversity of our selection. Here are
some highlights; * A very special Magic Lantern opening show * Super 8
Workshop with Dagie Brundert * 4 competition screenings * 2 panorama
screenings * Premiere of David Teague's feature 'Love Suicides'
including a Q & A with the crew * Cambridge memories programme * A Dagie
Brundert retrospective * A Super 8 industry panel * Performance from the
Szeged Super 8 Acrobat Group
4/29
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
THE CINEMA CABARET: LIVE FILM NARRATION
Poets from San Francisco and Los Angeles revive the lost Japanese art of
the benshi—the on-stage narrator who in the silent movie era dispensed
commentary or on-the-sport interpretative improvisation alongside moving
pictures. The Cinema Cabaret's "neo-benshis" choose scenes from films or
TV shows, turn down the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images
with new meanings. Relying on language and sound, the resulting
interventions range from hilarious parodies to sly critiques to more
subversive interpretations. The neo-benshis this evening take on scenes
from Bollywood's Silsila (1981), the atomic noir On the Beach (1959) and
classics such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), among other
works. Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7]
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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
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4/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info., 631 W. 2nd St.
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.
4/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE BLACK BANANA & OTHER SHORTS BY BEN HAYEEM
ULTRAESSENTIAL CINEMA PRESENTS: "THE BLACK BANANA" AND OTHER SHORTS BY
BEN HAYEEM Each Anthology calendar features an Unessential Cinema
program, but this time around we've altered the series' title so as to
properly respect the unmissable, unfathomable wonder that is THE BLACK
BANANA. Born and raised in Bombay, director Ben Hayeem (1933-2004) made
a number of well-regarded films and was close with experimental film
pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early in his career he joined
the Living Theater group in New York and became the only Indian Jew to
play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a Brecht play. This
comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him down the path to
the rather incredible and risqu? happenings in THE BLACK BANANA. The
original promotional notes inform us that, "In this zany, ribald Middle
Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt against the parental
and conventional authority, represented by old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and
Texans. Avram, a hippy Hassid, Hassan, a zany Arab inventor, and Tex, a
towering, footloose Texan – all of them possessed by the spirit of the
Dybbuk – engage in an exuberant search for freedom, love, money, sex and
marriage (or escape from marriage)…. Despite its message of peace and
good will between Jew and Arab, THE BLACK BANANA has the distinction of
being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity
and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board." And if that
isn't enough, we are sweetening the bill with the addition of a couple
Hayeem shorts. We'll see you here! Benjamin Hayeem PAPILLOTE (1964, 10.5
minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) FLORA (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) &
THE BLACK BANANA 1976, 71 minutes, 16mm, color.
4/30
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films, tapes or discs; all works will be screened
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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
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5/1
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
2 p.m., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020
35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
2:00 PM Reminiscences of Administrators 3:30 PM Memories of
Distinguished Visiting Faculty 7:30 PM Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas;
Screening of The Birth of a Nation (1997) 9:00 PM Screening of Media
Works by Early Students, 1973 - 1983
5/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info., 631 W. 2nd St.
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.
5/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
http://fest09.sffs.org/
9:15pm, Sundance Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
HANDLE WITH CARE
Curated by Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher The seven artist-made films
gathered in this program vary from a cutout collage, a hand-processed
film, a puppet and costume drama, to two films with 3D imagery. Whether
a single shot recording ninety-three candles flickering on a birthday
cake or an allegorical recounting of a near-death experience, these
films remind us of the fragility of life and the power of the moving
image medium…as well as the reverse. Chromatic Cocktail (Kerry Laitala,
USA, 2008, digital video (mini-dv), color, silent, 8.5 mins): The
vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala's experiments with
chromovision leap off the screen in pulsating 3D. Experiment on
Peripheral Vision, #1 (Adele Horne and Paul VanDeCarr, USA, 2008,
digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 3 mins): In the first of a
series of experiments, a man and a woman note what they see from the
corner of their eyes. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
(Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 4 mins): Charlotte
Pryce's luminous, hand-processed film reaches across the centuries to
find inspiration in a Dutch 17th Century painting. On a Phantom Limb
(Nancy Andrews, USA 2009, digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 35
mins): An imaginative allegory draws on ink paintings, live-action, and
puppets to explore a woman who finds herself part bird after a
life-threatening occurrence. Speechless (Scott Stark, USA, 2008, 16mm,
color, sound, 13 mins): This beautiful yet uneasy weaving of imagery of
human vulvas and landscapes draws on medical 3D Viewmaster images. False
Aging (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, digital video (digibeta), color, sound,
15 mins): Longing and regret are evoked in this haunting collage-film,
crafted from the detritus of the past. Ninety-Three (Kevin Jerome
Everson, USA, 2008, digital video (dvcam), b/w, silent 3 mins): A
succinct portrait of resilience.
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SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009
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5/2
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
10 A.M., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020
35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
Saturday, May 2 10:00 AM Memories of Media Study Doctoral Students 2:00
PM Presentations by Early Media Study Creative Artists 4:30 PM Graduates
Who are Now Chairs 7:30 PM Reminiscences of the Founding Faculty Members
9:00 PM Reception
5/2
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles CA 90036
ORPHANS FILM SYMPOSIUM WEST
http://www.lafilmforum.org/OrphansWest/Program/Program.html Orphans West
Symposium Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, 2009 At the Silent Movie
Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue (at Melrose), Los Angeles, CA Presented
by Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and
the MIAP program The Orphan Film Symposium has had six incarnations
since its start in 1999 at the University of South Carolina. Founder Dan
Streible has since developed the symposium into a favorite of AMIA
members, filmmakers, and historians. The event is now held at NYU as a
project of their Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, and
draws sold out crowds from around the world (18 nations were represented
at the last symposium). For the uninitiated, "orphan" works are those
which are outside of the mainstream and often have no known origin or
copyright, or were at one point considered "lost" and without a formal
repository to preserve it. These include home movies, amateur and
educational films, industrial and sponsored films, experimental films,
and newsreels. According to Dan Streible, the founder of the Orphans
Film Symposium, 1. 2. Three dictionary connotations of orphan [are]
analogous to what film archivists mean by the label: 1) One deprived of
protection (orphans of the storm); 2) an item not developed because it
is unprofitable (an orphan drug); and 3) a discontinued model (an orphan
automobile) ... we can fairly say that in the twenty-first century, all
film (celluloid) is becoming an orphaned technology. Presenters at the
symposium speak about orphan restoration and research projects, their
processes of discovery for these films and videos, followed by
screenings of the works. Undoubtedly, latecomers to the Orphans
phenomenon are curious as to what stories and treasures the early
incarnations of the symposium uncovered. For those curious parties who
have missed some or all of the symposia, Los Angeles organizations LA
Filmforum and Cinefamily have worked with NYU and Dan Streible to
coordinate a two-day retrospective event on May 2 and 3 at the historic
Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax. The event will feature five
shows; each featuring selected presentations and screenings from all six
previous symposia. Orphans founder Dan Streible will be present along
with an amazing lineup of presenters and films. Admission is $13 per
show. For $65 you will receive a pass to all five shows in the
symposium, free soda and popcorn AND a dinner and wine reception on
Saturday night between the first and second shows! Saturday May 2,
6:00pm Selections from Orphans 1: Saving Orphan Films in the Digital Age
and Orphans 2: Documenting the 20th Century Saturday May 2, 9:30pm
Selections from Orphans 3: Listening to Orphan Films; Sound, Music,
Voice Please visit the Cinefamily site to purchase a symposium pass or
individual tickets!
5/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info.</, 631 W. 2nd St.
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.
5/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
EC - PETER KUBELKA
MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm)
ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 minute, 35mm) ARNULF
RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm) UNSERE AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA
(1966, 12 minutes, 35mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 minutes, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka
is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality
above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I
would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest
filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above
all else…etcetera." –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 55 minutes.
5/2
Philadelphia: Flickering Light Film Festival
http://www.flickeringfilms.com
7pm, 7137 Germantown Ave
THE ANIMAL IN ME
The Animal in Me: Films Featuring Characters from the Rest of the Animal
Kingdom (67 minutes) Saturday May 2nd, 7pm Sedgwick Theater, 7137
Germantown Ave (accessible by public transit–R8 and #23 bus) $5 Here You
are When You Were (Jesse Moore) Unique combination of original ambient
music and hand painted film frames rendering a dream like experience.
Five County Fair (David Ellsworth) Super 8 impressions of residents who
travel to the town of Farmville, VA to attend a county fair. God's
Critters (Bruce James) Dogs howl, cats meow and Pastor Maggie Ainslie
advises at Atonement Lutheran Church in the Fishtown neighborhood of
Philadelphia. by any other name (Rini Yun Keagy) Through found footage
re-enacting Spanish colonialism and with imagery of sloths held captive
in a zoo, by any other name quietly interrogates the historical
trajectory of the act of naming and meaning. Indigenous to South America
but named by western imperialism, sloth the animal is subtly compared to
the native peoples of the same continent. Would these slow-moving,
peaceful herbivores and subjugated peoples everywhere throughout time,
by any other name, be anything other than animal or human? Six and a
Half (Lily Amirpour) A little girl comes face to face with power and
weakness when she tries to catch a frog in a pond. Eaten (Anne Haydock)
A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf
and tinfoil. Say Yesss (Chris Thomas)The story of one bug communicating
a crush on another. Wittle Bitty (Louis Waters)Desire, cleanliness and
cats. A young, domestic man's growing obsession with the ever elusive
domestic cat. Wustenspringmaus (Jim Finn)The little known history of our
dear friend, the gerbil. God of Tears (Max Margulies and Naoko Masuda)
Blue Boy, a 200 year old child-god has a problem: he has no friends.The
planet he rules over is completely devoid of animal life. So he spends
his free time crying. What he doesn't know is that when tears fall from
his face, they jump onto another planet as rain. This rain creates moist
and succulent rainbows, which the people on the other planet then eat
and is their only form of sustenance. One day, a cat magically appears
before the eyes of the Blue Boy. He immediately befriends it, and
forgets about crying. This, of course, leads to harsh problems on the
other planet, where people begin to starve to death.
5/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
PIPE DREAMS: PTUSHKO & PACKARD +
Open sesame! Welcome to a cinematic den where fantasy—yea,
delirium—reign! Doug Katelus conjures dark angels through the Optigan,
transporting us to the ultra-rare Fairytale World of Alexander Ptushko,
a child's-eye survey of this Russian film wizard's phantasmagoric
special effects. ALSO: Andres Garcia Franco's haunting The Invention, a
marvelous descent into an exotic Mexican demimonde. AND Drew Heitzler's
Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics), a riff on the 1963 Curtis
Harrington film that uses Venice Beach as a backdrop for a surreal
dreamscape of Pynchonesque paranoia and comedic horror. PLUS Damon
Packard, Busby Berkeley, Houdini, and hallucinatory shorts. Free Wine,
Hookah in the house *$6.66.
5/2
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd St
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 1
Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1 SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater
Saturday, May 2, 2009, 3:00 p.m. Pull My Daisy, Codirected with Alfred
Leslie, 1959, 28 min., 16mm The Sin of Jesus, 1961, 40 min., 35mm O.K.
End Here, 1963, 30 min., 35mm Total running time: 98 min. $5 general;
free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free
ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Screens again on
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
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SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2009
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5/3
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
10 A.M., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020
35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
Sunday, May 3 10:00 AM Teachers and Curators Participants: Thom
Anderson, Anthony Bannon, Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Marguerite Dorrity,
Christine Downing, Arnold Dreyblatt, Seth Feldman, Barry Grant, J.
Ronald Green, Louisa Green, Brian Henderson, Kathy High, Bruce Jenkins,
Peter Lunenfeld, Jonas Mekas, Annette Michelson, John Minkowsky, Scott
Nygren, Gerald O'Grady, Robert O'Kane, Vladamir Petric, Robert Polidori,
Vibeke Sorensen, Steina, Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Alan Williams,
Andrej Zdravic
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00, 4:30, and 8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles CA 90036
ORPHANS FILM SYMPOSIUM WEST
Orphans West Symposium Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, 2009 At the
Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue (at Melrose), Los Angeles,
CA Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily, NYU Tisch School of
the Arts and the MIAP program Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily at the
Silent Movie Theatre, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
will present a retrospective of the Orphan Film Symposium – Orphans West
- at the historic Silent Movie Theatre on May 2 and 3, 2009. "Orphan"
works are those which are outside of the mainstream and often have no
known origin or copyright, or were at one point considered "lost" and
without a formal repository to preserve it. These include home movies,
amateur and educational films, industrial and sponsored films,
experimental films, and newsreels. Presenters at the symposium speak
about orphan restoration and research projects, their processes of
discovery for these films and videos, followed by screenings of the
works. The event will feature five shows; each featuring selected
presentations and screenings from all six previous symposia. Orphans
founder Dan Streible will be present along with an amazing lineup of
presenters and films. Admission is $13 per show. For $65 you will
receive a pass to all five shows in the symposium, free soda and popcorn
AND a dinner and wine reception on Saturday night between the first and
second shows! Please visit the Cinefamily site to purchase a symposium
pass or individual tickets! Sunday May 3, 2:00pm Selections from Orphans
4: On Location: Place and Region in Forgotten Films Sunday May 3, 4:30pm
Selections from Orphans 5: Science, Industry and Education Sunday May 3,
8:00pm Selections from Orphans 6: The State Los Angeles Filmforum at the
Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036.
Saturday/Sunday May 2 & 3, 2009. General admission $13 per session, $65
for weekend pass. http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/orphans.html and
www.lafilmforum.org/OrphansWest/Program To purchase tickets or symposium
passes, visit www.cinefamily.org or call 323-655-2510
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