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This week [May 2 - 10, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseille, France; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: July 01, 2009)
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The Flickering Light (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: May 01, 2009)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 2009)
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Tregor International Film Festival (Lannion, FRANCE; Deadline: May 18, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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ACEFEST 2009 (New York, NY United States; Deadline: May 18, 2009)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 05, 2009)
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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (Sydney; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: May 15, 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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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 2, Buffalo, New York]
* John Ashbery At the Movies [May 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* 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]
* In Praise of Independents: the Flaherty: Program 1 [May 2, Washington, DC]
* 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 3, Buffalo, New York]
* Two Films By Stephen Prina [May 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Orphans Film Symposium West [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* The Art of Fakery In Experimental & Documentary Filmmaking [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* " the Wish" Feature Film Screening/ Event [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* William E. Jones: Le Grand Mash Up [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Fast Times At Ridgemont High [May 5, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Early Monthly Segments #3 = Vera Chytlova + Len Lye [May 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Berks Area Film & video Show Filmmakers In Person [May 7, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1 [May 7, San Francisco, California]
* When It Was Blue - Introduced By Jennifer Reeves [May 8, Columbus, Ohio]
* Treasures From the American Avant-Garde [May 8, Rochester, New York]
* Sound and vision: Gendreau + Churchill + Buchla [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 2 [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* Stop & Go [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* In Praise of Independents: the Flaherty: James Benning [May 9, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
JOHN ASHBERY AT THE MOVIES
John Ashbery, this country's most celebrated living poet and a dedicated
cinephile, will be at the Harvard Film Archive on May 1st and May 2nd
for two nights of films selected and inspired by him and his work. On
May 2nd, John Ashbery and film scholar Scott MacDonald will screen and
discuss Abigail Child's MUTINY, Phil Solomon's THE EXQUISITE HOUR and
Nathaniel Dorsky's TRISTE, followed by a screening of the Val Lewton
produced 1943 film THE SEVENTH VICTIM.
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.
5/2
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
IN PRAISE OF INDEPENDENTS: THE FLAHERTY: PROGRAM 1
The Flaherty Seminar is unique in American film culture, an annual forum
for critics, students, academics, and filmmakers, focusing each year on
a particular topic. Screenings and discussions occur over an intense six
days. Named for American maverick filmmaker Robert Flaherty and now in
its fifty-fourth year, the most recent Flaherty was devoted to "The Age
of Migration." The National Gallery salutes this unique program with a
selection of films from the latest seminar. Squiggle followed by
Lefkosia and Border Saturday, May 2, 2:00 p.m. An affecting view of
traditional art and architecture in Andrah Pradesh, India, Squiggle is
also a personal essay on the filmmaker's long-awaited homecoming.
(Oliver Husain, 2005, digital beta, 21 minutes) Part of a triptych on
the European Union's ever-expanding and increasingly militarized
borders, Lefkosia records from a distance a checkpoint dividing Greek
South Cyprus and Turkish North Cyprus, silently questioning the
difficult conditions within this split nation. (Lonnie van Brummelen,
2005, 35 mm, silent, 14 minutes) Near France's Sangatte Red Cross camp,
Border secretly and dramatically films—at night with a small video
camera—refugees who seek to smuggle themselves to England. (Laura
Waddington, 2004, digital beta, 27 minutes)
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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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
TWO FILMS BY STEPHEN PRINA
Conceptual artist, musician, Harvard professor and filmmaker Stephen
Prina will appear in person following screenings of his two film, THE
WAY HE ALWAYS WANTED IT II and VINYL II.
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
5/3
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8pm, 16 Sherman St. (off folsom between 6th + 7th)
THE ART OF FAKERY IN EXPERIMENTAL & DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING
THE ART OF FAKERY IN EXPERIMENTAL & DOCUMENTARY FILM - "Compassionate
tricksters" like Karl Krogstad, Coleman Miller, (whose slyly uproarious
USO JUSTO is rooted in Ernie Kovacs and Tex Avery), Owen Land (WIDE
ANGLE SAXON), and Firesign Theater transform Picasso's axiom "art is a
lie that tells the truth." Their rascality rewrites the nature of
experimentation. "Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
-Meister Eckhardt. Media archaeologist Gerry Fialka=2 0also explores the
popularity of the mockumentary. Are they lying to tell the truth?
Discussing Alexandra Juhasz & Jessie Lerner's book F IS F OR PHONY: Fake
Documentray And Truth's Undoing, Fialka probes the fiction/documentary
divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether
documentaries deriv e from form or reception. From Bunuel's Land Without
Bread to Welles's F is For Fake to Reiner's Spinal Tap to Craig
Baldwin's faux faux Tribulation 99, fakes dismantle understandings of
identity, history, authenticity and authority. Get educated as
entertainingly as possible and discover what comes after the Internet.
"Will it be an event about a fake original or original fake?" - Peter
Greenaway. They become what they behold. presented by Gerry Fialka
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MONDAY, MAY 4, 2009
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5/4
Los Angeles, California: BFFLA- British Film Festival Los Angeles 2009
http://britishfilmfest.com
4;00 p.m., Custom Hotel - 8639 Lincoln Blvd.
" THE WISH" FEATURE FILM SCREENING/ EVENT
5/4
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
WILLIAM E. JONES: LE GRAND MASH UP
Los Angeles premieres Brilliant experimental provocateur William E.
Jones delves into his collection of embezzled French soundtracks
(Isidore Isou, Godard) and vintage gay pornography to present a heady
"mash up" of his ever-growing body of work. The program is bookended by
two Los Angeles premieres, starting with the ongoing series Discrepancy
(2008, 9:30 min., shown as a two-screen event) and ending with the
brutal melancholy of The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography
(1998, 19 min.). In-between, a series of incisive, spirited shorts
explore the gaps between images, the erotics of montage, the elusive
poetry of desiring bodies, and the banality of repression: All Male Mash
Up (2006, 29 min.), More British Sounds (2006, 8 min.), Film Montage
(For Peter Roehr) (2006, 11 min.) and Mansfield 1962 (2006, 9 min.).
Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7]
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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009
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5/5
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, 90 min.) by AMY HECKERLING. An
original and delightful take on the kids-in-high school genre by one of
the few women able to direct (in the 80's) in mainstream Hollywood. "I
find it a captivating film that can sustain repeated viewings. I would
hesitate to describe it as feminist, yet it can certainly be argued that
the presence of a female enunciator has had a decisive influence on its
qualities…. She makes it clear in the first few shots that the
hunter/hunted, looker/looked at, male/female opposition will not here be
one-sided. The young women take the initiative, discuss their sexuality
together, are active, alert and resourceful, and able to take care of
themselves even when they 'get into trouble.'"- Robin Wood, The Canadian
Forum. With Sean Penn (recently starring in Van Sant's Milk), Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and Forest Whitaker at the
start of their film acting careers.
5/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #3 = VERA CHYTLOVA + LEN LYE
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #3 = 5/5/09 = Vera Chytilová + Len Lye The third
installment of the Early Monthly Segments film series brings us one of
the pinnacles of the Czech New Wave. Vera Chytilová's first film Daisies
follows the adventures of two precocious young roommates as they careen
and cavort through life. Their response to a no good world is to resolve
to be even worse. Chytilová makes sure the visual style is as energetic
as her young (dis)ingénues—cutting wildly between film-stocks, inserting
pixilated collage sequences and propelling it all along with a bopping
soundtrack and a keen sense of humour. Unsurprisingly, the Czech censors
were not amused; the seduction of sugar daddies, sequences of unbridled
dance and wanton waste of food caused the film to be immediately banned,
as all good things are. 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 everyone at The Gladstone Hotel. Contact
email suppressed for email list #4 = June 2009 = Date TBA
– short films by Ellie Epp, Vanessa O'Neill & Rebecca Meyers
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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009
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5/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW FILMMAKERS IN PERSON
Recent juried works in various media by local area film and video
artists; makers will be present to introduce and discuss their work.
5/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, 151 3rd St
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 1
See May 2nd for description.
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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2009
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5/8
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
WHEN IT WAS BLUE - INTRODUCED BY JENNIFER REEVES
Jennifer Reeves, a Wexner Center Residency Award recipient in 2006–07,
returns to the center to present her latest film, which is shown as two
overlapping 16mm projections. The film's sold-out world premiere was one
of the most enthusiastically received screenings at the 2008 Toronto
International Film Festival. Glorious in its sense of ambition and
emotion, When It Was Blue is an epic of personal, experimental cinema
and one woman's attempt to preserve as much as possible of the troubling
beauty of two endangered things that she holds dear: the natural world
and 16mm film. The double projections weave together dense layers of
ecological imagery that Reeves shot around the globe (including Canada,
Costa Rica, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.) with found
footage and abstract, hand-painted textural elements. (68 mins., double
16mm + digital sound)
5/8
Rochester, New York: George Eastman House
http://www.eastman.org
8:00pm, Dryden Theatre - 900 East Avenue
TREASURES FROM THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE
Armed with inexpensive film equipment and the limits of their
imagination, a generation of Americans following WWII began
experimenting with cinema, pushing the boundaries and subverting
conventions. These artists created a parallel tradition to Hollywood
which redefines film as an intensely personal and political medium.
Hosted by Jeff Lambert of the National Film Presentation Foundation
(NFPF), this program of seminal films by Andy Warhol, Hollis Frampton,
Pat O'Neill, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, and Chick Strand is a rare
opportunity to see an important but often overlooked chapter in film
history. Preservation funding provided by the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, The Film Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the NFPF. This program is co-sponsored by George Eastman House's The L.
Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and the University of
Rochester's Program in Film and Media Studies and Department of Modern
Languages and Cultures. Prints courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video
Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Museum
of Modern Art, Academy Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, Anthology
Film Archive and The Film-Makers' Cooperative.
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SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2009
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5/9
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
SOUND AND VISION: GENDREAU + CHURCHILL + BUCHLA
Curated by Christine Metropoulos, OC celebrates the return of an old
acquaintance and sonic accomplice, Michael Gendreau, with an evening of
unnerving vibrations and sensory destabilization. Ezra Buchla—in a solo
detour from Gowns—uses mathematics, a very small computer, and analog
video to synthesize the aural and the optical. Joshua Churchill, known
for his site-specific sound and light performances, escalates the tone
with an abstract collage of drone, doom, and noise, feeding into
electronic-media artist Andrew Benson's complex video processes.
Gendreau releases a ground-shaking psycho-spatial-acoustic composition,
designed specifically for the space, and "expanded" to include the
ocular realm. The artists commence the event with a unique
collaboration. *8.
5/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd St
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 2
Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 2 SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater
Saturday, May 9, 3:00 p.m. Conversations in Vermont, 1969, 26 min., 16mm
Life-Raft Earth, 1969, 37 min., 16mm About Me: A Musical, 1971, 35 min.,
16mm 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). Screened again on Thursday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
5/9
San Francisco, California: The Exploratorium
http://exploratorium.edu
2:00 pm, 3601 Lyon Street
STOP & GO
Stop-Motion Techniques by Visual Artists and Filmmakers Nationally and
internationally known filmmakers and visual artists use stop-motion
techniques to tell stories, examine visual phenomena, and make political
statements in a collection of short videos, curated by Bay Area artist
and animator Sarah Klein. The line-up of videos includes intricate
paper-cutouts by sculptor Jen Stark in Papermation; comic illustrator
Lilli Carré's high-wire act of sleepy time bears, black crows, and
senior folk in For the Birds; a friendly look at one of life's little
troubles from a mouse's perspective in Squeak, Chirp, Honk by Lana Kim
and Saelee Oh. The complete list of artists includes Tommy Becker, Lilli
Carré, Meredith Holch, Lana Kim, Sarah Klein, Saelee Oh, Mel Prest,
Judith Selby, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone and Aeneas Wilder.
5/9
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2:30pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
IN PRAISE OF INDEPENDENTS: THE FLAHERTY: JAMES BENNING
James Benning's RR: Avant-garde filmmaker James Benning has been
recording his chronicles of the American landscape for forty years. His
new ode to freight trains and the vast terrains they traverse is
destined to be his final film in the handmade 16mm format. The film's
formalism belies at times "a spiritual kinship to American literature,"
writes Jonathan Rosenbaum,"evoking writers like Carl Sandburg, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, and John Dos Passos."(James Benning, 2008, 16 mm, 110
minutes)
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