This week [May 23 - 31, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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7th International Short Film Festival "Wie wir Leben!/The Way We Live!" - Filmmmuseum Munich (Munich, Bavaria, Germany; Deadline: July 10, 2009)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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Accessibility 2009: Cross Currents (Sumter, SC USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseille, France; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 05, 2009)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2009 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna; Deadline: June 20, 2009)
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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (Sydney; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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16th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: June 15, 2009)
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: May 29, 2009)
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Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Strasbourg International Film Festival (Strasbourg, Alsace, FRANCE; Deadline: June 08, 2009)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 26, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* James Benning Presents the Chicago Premiere of Rr At Doc Films [May 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Bent Not Broken: the End of the Analog [May 23, San Francisco, California]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 4 [May 23, San Francisco, California]
* Media City Film Festival / 15th Anniversary Edition [May 23, Windsor, Ontario, Canada]
* Media City Film Festival / 15th Anniversary Edition [May 23, Windsor, Ontario, Canada]
* Media City Film Festival / 15th Anniversary Edition [May 23, Windsor, Ontario, Canada]
* In the Jungle [May 24, New York, New York]
* Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Thom andersen and Morgan Fisher [May 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Things Are Always Going Wrong [May 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Avant To Live: New Experimental Works [May 30, San Francisco, California]
* The Illuminated Corridor [May 30, oakland, ca]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Dialogues, By Owen Land [May 31, Los Angeles, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2009
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5/23
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7pm, Doc Films at Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

JAMES BENNING PRESENTS THE CHICAGO PREMIERE OF RR AT DOC FILMS
  "The film is called RR, but I like to call it 'Railroad', because RR
  sounds like a pirate movie." On Saturday May 23, 2009 at 7pm
  experimental filmmaker James Benning will present the Chicago premiere
  of his 2007 film RR at Doc Films. This event follows up on the success
  of visits by a trio of Los Angeles-based filmmakers to Doc in 2007: Thom
  Andersen, Billy Woodberry, and Charles Burnett. In the past, Doc Films
  has hosted important experimental filmmakers and artists including Stan
  Brakhage Maya Deren, and Guy Maddin. James Benning is an independent
  filmmaker and faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.
  Since 1971, he has lovingly mapped America's great natural and
  industrial landscapes on 16mm, repeatedly asserting that medium's depth
  and latitude of possibility. Garnering widespread, international praise
  on the festival circuit, RR has prompted a reconsideration of Mr.
  Benning's oeuvre in light of his declaration that this will be his last
  feature photographed in the format. "After one viewing, I feel I've
  barely scratched the surface of what seems somehow part of American
  literature," wrote Chicago film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, "akin to the
  work of writers like Carl Sandburg, Thornton Wilder, and John Dos Passos
  as well as that of American painters and musicians." A tribute to
  American freight infrastructure, an homage to the glorified vision of
  rail in the 20th Century, and an embodiment of 21st century concerns
  about consumption, this feature consists in forty-three long takes of
  trains passing through frames at varying speeds. Encompassing towns and
  cities, oceans and rivers, mountains and deserts, salt flats and
  cornfields, the whole is a magnificent portrait of America's landscapes
  that firmly secures its creator's place as one of this country's
  preeminent artists. Director James Benning will introduce the film and
  give a Q&A afterwards.

5/23
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.

BENT NOT BROKEN: THE END OF THE ANALOG
  Tonight's program turns on the uses and abuses of electronic games,
  gadgets, and gizmos. Headlining this experimental lab is the East Bay
  A/V crew Killer Banshee, with A Wake for Analog, a live performance
  reckoning with the ghosts in the machine. ALSO in person is David Cox
  with his illustrated history of video games, a fascinating overview of
  the amazing changes in this modern genre. Following is a sampling of
  Machinima, that even newer practice in which video games are hacked to
  tell new stories. PLUS The premiere of Carl Diehl's Patrolling the
  Ether, Cyrus Tabar's Tunnel Vision installation, circuit-bending shorts,
  and a goofy introduction to Negativland's Booper. Come early for
  Bassline Baseline, Nate Harrison's history of the Roland TB 303.

5/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd St

ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 4
  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 4 SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater
  Saturday, May 23, 3:00 p.m. Hunter, 1989, 36 min., 16mm Last Supper,
  1992, 52 min., 16mm Total running time: 88 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, June
  4, 7:00 p.m.

5/23
Windsor, Ontario, Canada: MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.houseoftoast.ca
6:00 PM, CAPITOL THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE, 121 University Ave. West

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL / 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
  JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU RETROSPECTIVE:"Venise n'existe pas" (11 min, S8mm
  to 16mm enlargement, 1984), "La nuit sans étoiles" (18 min, video,
  2006), "Deux fois le tour du monde" (8 min, video, 2006), "301" (18 min,
  video, 2008), "Keep in Touch" (25 min, S8mm to 16mm enlargement, 1987)

5/23
Windsor, Ontario, Canada: MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.houseoftoast.ca
7:30 PM, CAPITOL THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE, 121 University Ave. West

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL / 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 6:"Kalendar" (Naomi Uman, UA/US, 10 min, 16mm,
  2007),"Two Times 4'33"(Manon de Boer, BE, 11 min, 35mm, 2008), "Les
  Chaises" (Vincent Grenier, CA/US, 9 min, video, 2008),"Light Speed"
  (Karen Johannesen, US, 6 min, S8mm, 2007), "Greenpoint" (Jim Jennings,
  US, 8 min, 16mm, 2009), 13 short films of Helga Fanderl (DE, 28 min
  total, S8mm, 2007-08) including, "Gare d'Austerlitz" (3 min, 2008),
  "Luftparade" (Air Parade, 3 min, 2007), "Kakibaum im Winter" (Kaki Tree
  in Winter, 3 min, 2008), "Grosse Kaskade" (Big Cascade, 0.5,
  2008),"Lichttempel" (Temple of Light, 2 min, 2008), "Pfosten im Fluss"
  (Piles in a River, 1 min, 2007), "Jardin tropical im Frühling" (Tropical
  Garden in Spring, 3 min, 2007), "Wassertanz I" (Dance of Water I, 1.5
  min, 2007), "Pflanzen" (Plants, 1 min, 2007), "Zora schaukelt" (Zora
  Swinging, 1 min, 2007), Schmetterlinge (Butterflies, 3 min, 2007),
  "Kirche in Bernui" (Church in Bernui, 1.5 min, 2007), "Nach dem Feuer
  II" (After the Fire II, 3 min, 2008)

5/23
Windsor, Ontario, Canada: MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.houseoftoast.ca
9:30 PM, CAPITOL THEATRE & ARTS CENTRE, 121 University Ave. West

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL / 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM 7:"Trilogy, Kettle's Yard" (Jayne Parker, UK, 25
  min, 16mm on video, 2008), "16 – 18 – 4" (Nishikawa Tomonari, JP, 2.5
  min, 35mm, 2008), "Iris Out" (Simon Payne, UK, 10 min, video, 2008),
  "Wagnerischer Lichtung" (Henning Lundkvist, SE, 30 min, video, 2008),
  "XXX" (Bruce McClure, US, 15 min, 3 x 16mm, 2008)

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SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2009
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5/24
New York, New York: the stone
http://www.thestonenyc.com/index.html
8pm, 16 avenue c (corner of c and 2nd)

IN THE JUNGLE
  Ms. Barber will debut her new performance piece IN THE JUNGLE at The
  Stone in downtown Manhattan, Part musical, part poetic lecture, part
  video transpiration soaked performance. An unreliable narrator in a self
  imposed exile in the jungle—the sheer terror of thousands of square
  miles of rapid life and death, the superfluousness of this metaphor for
  existence—a questionable lecture on plant socio-emotionality—a symphony
  for this flora—a radio show which provides the courage and fortification
  of a direct god line to the jungle floor.
  http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php
  http://www.stephaniebarber.com/shows.html

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009
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5/27
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

RESTORING THE LOS ANGELES AVANT-GARDE: THOM ANDERSEN AND MORGAN FISHER
  Los Angeles Filmforum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Hammer
  Museum present Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Thom Andersen and
  Morgan Fisher. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed Los Angeles Plays
  Itself, Thom Andersen also produced a vital body of work in the 1960s.
  His longtime friend, filmmaker and painter Morgan Fisher, has explored
  many facets of the film medium. Both filmmakers will be in attendance
  for a discussion. Films by Los Angeles artists, presented in newly
  restored prints by the Academy Film Archive. Program curated and
  introduced by Mark Toscano. Wednesday May 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm. At the
  Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los
  Angeles, CA 90024, Phone: 310.443.7000 Admission is free, but tickets
  are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office
  one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first
  come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating,
  subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.
  Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00.
  http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/186
  http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html

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FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2009
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5/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

RESTORING THE LOS ANGELES AVANT-GARDE: THINGS ARE ALWAYS GOING WRONG
  Los Angeles Filmforum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Hammer
  Museum present Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde: Things are Always
  Going Wrong Showcasing a broad range of work made between 1963 and 1980
  by key L.A. artists. Featured works include two of Gary Beydler's moving
  recompositions of local landscapes, David Wilson's rarely seen "Stasis,"
  and Bruce Lane's masterwork "unc." Including films by Fred Worden, Chris
  Langdon, Roberta Friedman & Grahame Weinbren, Diana Wilson, and Pat
  O'Neill. All films will be shown in their original 16mm format. Films by
  Los Angeles artists, presented in newly restored prints by the Academy
  Film Archive. Program curated and introduced by Mark Toscano. Friday May
  29, 2009, at 7:30 pm. At the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum,
  10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024, Phone: 310.443.7000
  Admission is free, but tickets are required, and are available at the
  Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one
  ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members
  receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not
  accepted, RSVPs not required. Parking is available under the museum for
  $3 after 6:00. http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/186

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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
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5/30
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.

AVANT TO LIVE: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
  Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
  personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
  exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
  person—are Martha Colburn's Triumph of the Wild, Dale Hoyt's Male Glaze,
  Doug Katelus' Lost in the Flood, Shalo P's Nevermore, Roger Beebe's
  Money Changes Everything, Caspar Stracke's Zuse Strip, and Karla
  Betancourt's Bolivar and Other Interruptions. ALSO recent pieces by Tony
  Gault, James Hong / Yin-Ju Chen, Karl Lind, Richard Mitchell, et al.
  *$7.

5/30
oakland, ca: Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/
7pm - 9:30pm, middle harbor shoreline park | 7th street and middle harbor rood

THE ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR
  free | don't be late | rain or shine | fm radio essential :: read the
  faq, man http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/faq/ :: a multi-layered work
  at the intersection of oakland's history and habitat with over 30
  artists convening to illuminate this remarkable public park in sight and
  sound :: featuring work and performances by: the shallow tide (cheryl e.
  leonard and rebecca haseltinein performance with ann dentel and karen
  stackpole :: building 122 gilbert guerrero and kathleen quillian ::
  triangulation alfonso alvarez, keith arnold and kahlil karn, jen cohen,
  steven dye, ian winters and evelyn ficarra :: the subtidal goals work by
  john "b" berzins, georgie friedman, diana stasko and others knitted
  together by killer banshees and live performance by lisa k. blatt, wayne
  grim and dia felix, lee montgomery :: port radio zachary james watkins
  live mix of work by sean clute, grant finlay, chas kremenak, phog
  masheen, dallas simpson, bill thompson, biggi vinkeloe, michael zelner
  and more, since that is how these things go :: bike bike bike bike is
  best :: and really, please don't be late. gates close when parking lot
  is full :: made possible by the generous support of the east bay
  community foundation fund for artists, the san francisco foundation, the
  zellerbach family foundation and the illuminated corridor commissioning
  fund

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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009
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5/31
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, , Los Angeles CA 90028.

LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS DIALOGUES, BY OWEN LAND
  Los Angeles Filmforum presents Dialogues, by Owen Land – Los Angeles
  Premiere! Owen Land in person. A feature-length (2009, 133 minutes,
  video) self-reflexive experimental film by Apollo Jize (aka Owen Land)
  with music by Meredith Monk and many more. On one level, DIALOGUES is a
  parody of Scorpio Rising, using era-specific hit records to locate
  scenes in time; on another level, it's an interpretation of Plato's
  dialogue 'Phaedo', in which Socrates proves the doctrine of
  re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric
  belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity in the form of thirty
  "Platonic Dialogues." 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.

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