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Home is something I carry with me (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2009)
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Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (RECIFE - PE, Brazil; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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48th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 05, 2009)
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International Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 8.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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IN OUT FESTIVAL (Poland; Deadline: August 08, 2009)
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Festival Film Merveilleux ( film festival of imagination & wonder) (Paris France; Deadline: August 15, 2009)
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WPA Experimental Media Series 2009 (Washington DC; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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Images Festival (Toronto CANADA; Deadline: July 15, 2009)
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Make the Trailer of Unfaithful (new york; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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Warren County Library Film Festival (Blairstown, NJ, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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Home is something I carry with me (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Sign Rhymes At Golden Age [July 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Essential Cinema- Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will [July 11, New York, New York]
* Manhatta: New Digital-To-Film Restoration [July 11, Washington, DC]
* Essential Cinema- Rossellini: Flowers of St. Francis [July 12, New York, New York]
* Kevin Jerome Everson [July 16, Buffalo, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Paul Sharits' S:Tream:S:S:Ection:S:Ection:S:S:Ectioned [July 16, New York, New York]
* 9th Annual T-10 video Festival [July 16, Oakland, CA]
* Roger Beebe, New Maps of the New World [July 17, Berlin, Germany]
* Jim Davis Program [July 17, New York, New York]
* The 9th Annual T-10 video Festival [July 17, Oakland, CA]
* British Documentary Movement [July 17, Washington, DC]
* Of Heaven and Earth: A Tribute To Tom Chomont [July 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Jim Davis Program [July 18, New York, New York]
* New Films By Kenneth Anger [July 18, New York, New York]
* The Raven [July 18, Washington, DC]
* Filmforum Presents Films By and About Robert Frank [July 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema- Kenneth Anger Program [July 19, New York, New York]
* New Films By Kenneth Anger [July 19, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009
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7/11
Chicago, Illinois: Golden Age
http://www.shopgoldenage.com
6pm-9pm, 1744 W 18th St
SIGN RHYMES AT GOLDEN AGE
Please join us for a screening of Sign Rhymes by Norwegian artist
Marianne Hurum. There will be snacks and beer and good people! Sign
Rhymes is a short video of still images and voiceover that takes its
starting point in Pilsen, Chicago. Marianne Hurum will be present. clip
of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfnylvS7Iwo Saturday, July 11th
6-9 pm Golden Age 1744 W. 18th Street Chicago, IL 60608 312 850 2574
email suppressed www.mariannehurum.info www.shopgoldenage.com
7/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 8:30, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA- RIEFENSTAHL'S TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL by Leni Riefenstahl 1934-35, 106 minutes, 35mm.
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL / TRIUMPH DES WILLENS "TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, the
official Nazi record of the 1934 Nuremberg Party rally, commissioned by
Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, is one of the most
controversial contributions to film history because of its subject
matter – her insistence that the film is solely a work of art and not
propaganda; and the presentation of the subject matter – the
manipulation of reality in this 'documentary' record. The contributions
to the art of film this work has to offer are closely tied to the
controversies. TRIUMPH OF THE WILL is a masterpiece of style and
editing, which in turn are the very techniques used to manipulate
reality and create emotionally effective propaganda." –Marie Saeli
–Saturday, July 11 at 6:00 & 8:30.
7/11
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
3:30pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
MANHATTA: NEW DIGITAL-TO-FILM RESTORATION
Manhatta: New Digital-to-Film Restoration, followed by N.Y., N.Y. and
other early New York scenes Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's
avant-garde short from the early 1920s, followed by other early shorts
on New York and discussion with Bruce Posner and Charles Brock.
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SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2009
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7/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 8:00, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA- ROSSELLINI: FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS
FRANCESCO, GIULIARE DI DIO / THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS by Roberto
Rossellini 1949, 85 minutes, 35mm. In Italian with no subtitles; English
synopsis available. 1949, 85 minutes, 35mm. In Italian with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. Francesco (i.e., St. Francis of
Assisi) comes back to Santa Maria degli Angeli from Rome, journeying
with his friars through the rain. When they are driven out of a hut, he
begs the brothers' forgiveness for abusing their obedience. While the
monks are finishing the chapel, Brother Ginepro arrives naked again and
confesses that the previous night he was tempted by the Devil. Later,
Brother Ginepro cuts the foot off a pig to feed a sick brother. That
evening, Francesco meets a leper and kisses him. Brother Ginepro
receives Francesco's permission to preach and arrives at the camp of
Nicolaio, the tyrant of Viterbo, whose cruelty he overcomes with his
perfect humility. Francesco teaches Brother Leone that bearing injuries
and blows is an example of perfect joy. Francesco sends his brothers out
to preach far and wide. "The man spoke to birds. You should see this
film." -Joshua Ahlers –Sunday, July 12 at 6:00 & 8:00.
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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009
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7/16
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm, 341 Delaware Ave.
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
Kevin Jerome Everson, Hallwalls Artists-in-Residence Project 2009-10
media artist, will screen recent films and videos on Thursday July 16th
at 8pm. For the month of July, Everson will be in Buffalo shooting films
for a new project, ERIE, set around the Great Lake. The screening will
be followed by a question and answer session with the artist. (Please
note: OLD CAT and THE CITIZENS will be screened on 16mm, while the other
works will be shown on digital video.) OLD CAT (2009, 16mm, 11:25, black
and white, silent) will eventually and pleasantly get to a
destination... LEAD (2009, 16mm, 3:00, black and white) is a story of an
early 20th Century Robin Hood... COMPANY LINE (2009, 30:00, black and
white, color) is a film about one of the first predominately Black
neighborhoods in Mansfield Ohio. The title, Company Line, refers to the
name historically used by residents to describe their neighborhood,
located on the north side of town close to the old steel mill. The
Company Line began during the post-war migration of Blacks from the
south to the north in the late forties. The neighborhood was purchased
in the early seventies and its residents were scattered throughout
Mansfield. City employees and former residents of the Company Line
narrate the film... HOME (2008, super-8, 1:30, black and white) is about
disappointment in northern Ohio... UNDEFEATED (2008, 16mm, 1:30, black
and white) is about mobility and immobility, or just trying to stay
warm... THE CITIZENS (2009, 16mm, 5:45, color and black/white) includes
Mohammad Ali talking about life, Althea Gibson returning home as a
champion, Fidel Castro playing baseball and three gentlemen being
escorting into court all under the watchful eye of the media... THE
REVEREND E. RANDALL T. OSBORN, FIRST COUSIN (2007, 16mm, 3:30 minutes,
black and white) is about the art of the cut-away... NORTH (2007, HD,
1:30 minutes, color) is about trying to find one's way... THE WILBUR
(2008, 16mm, 1:30, color) apartment building is overtaken with grief...
SECOND AND LEE (2008, 16mm, 3:00, black and white) is a cautionary tale
about when not to run... IKE (2008, 16mm, 2:30, black and white) is
about a person showing their special gift - if pushed... PLAYING DEAD
(2008, 16mm, 1:30, color) is a film about lying still to stay alive...
SOMETHING ELSE (2007, 16mm, 2:00, color) is a film about the found
footage as subject matter and Miss Black Roanoke, Virginia 1971
expressing her thoughts about the upcoming Miss Black Virginia 1971
Pageant... NINETY-THREE (2008, 16mm, 3:00, black and white, silent) is a
wonderful age to celebrate.
7/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PAUL SHARITS' S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED by Paul Sharits 1968-70, 41
minutes, 16mm, color. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap
dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my
son Christopher." –P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive
scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The
film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really
recognized." –Michael Snow "A scratch is generally considered a negative
factor, which distracts from and eliminates the illusion by cutting away
at the emulsion base of the film itself. But in S:S:S:S:S:S, Sharits
makes a scratch a positive factor in its additive and subtractive
relationship to the recorded film illusion. And, at the same time, he
uses the scratch to emphasize the linearity of the film material and its
passage through the projector...." –Regina Cornwell, ARTFORUM –Thursday,
July 16 at 7:30.
7/16
Oakland, CA: 21 Grand
http://21grand.org
8.00pm, 416 25th St (at Broadway)
9TH ANNUAL T-10 VIDEO FESTIVAL
two nights celebrating short videos Presented by 21 Grand and Killer
Banshee Studios. An hour of videos under 10 minutes long each night,
followed by a 30 minute feature on a local, accomplished and often
under-recognized video artist. This year's featured artists: David Cox
on Thursday July 16 & Bulk Foodveyor on Friday July 17. The 9th Annual
T-10 Video Festival examines the growing collision in the space prior
occupied separately by cinemagraphic and video traditions. A popular
forum in the East Bay for local artists working in video since 2000,
T-10 began shortly after 21 Grand first opened its doors. As the
cultural landscape has shifted so has T-10, redefining its purpose each
year, while remaining focused on short form works. Including
experimental documentary, narrative shorts, animations and expanded
media works, this year's entries mark a shift from the low-resolution
immediacy that used to separate video from film. Hi-res digital cameras
and low cost editing equipment have enabled more ways to produce
independent work than ever before, and have collapsed film and video
into the same media space. These tools allow independent artists to
provide an important counterbalance to the dominance of mass production
in the ecosystem of media experience. Some media works do not need to
have an audience of millions; some belong to an audience measured by the
size of a small room, that care passionately about seeing something
different. At a time when the means of production has never been more
accessible, the ability to be heard or seen has has become increasingly
hard. Recent closures, including the Parkway & Cerrito theaters, limit
access to screenings of independent, experimental and locally produced
work. YouTube offers vast amounts of work, but no context within which
to view it. T-10 provides a forum that connects local audiences with
local and national artists and producers, offering a survey of current
practices in independent media production. David Cox is an award-winning
filmaker with a background in animation and videogames. He lives in the
Bay Area and teaches at City College of San Francisco and DeVry
University. Experimental video artist, Bulk Foodveyor (Philip R.
Bonner), creates media based theater using physical assemblage with a
bizarre satirical humor. In 2008, Bulk Foodveyor was an Artist in
Residence at the SFdump. Plus videos on Thursday from: Anne Leslie
Selcer, Ronnie Cramer, Desciple, Michael Trigilio, Anna Whitehead, Sarah
Matik, Rebekah May, Raymond Yeh, Alfred Hernandez & Amy Green &
Stephanie Sheriff and videos on Friday from: Rebecca Najdowski, Michael
Goodier, Tricia Lawless Murray, Corrine Bot, Samara Halperin, Hilary
Harp & Suzie Silver, Tony Coleman & Sean Levon Nash, Katie Krohn, Eve
Edelson, Antero Alli, Magnetic Stripper, & Ian Winters Veteran festival
participants Killer Banshee return this year as co-organizers of T-10
with 21 Grand. Killer Banshee is a media arts and technology practice
shared by Kriss De Jong and Eliot K Daughtry. Known for their live video
performances, they have presented work locally and nationally in spaces
ranging from ATA to the Bowery Poetry Club. As part of the Illuminated
Corridor, they have presented in various public locations including the
2008 Whitney Biennial. Please check the websites for highlights, full
artist list and schedule: Killer Banshee Studios, Oakland, CA ::
killerbanshee.com/t-10/ 21 Grand, 416 25th St. [at Broadway] Oakland, CA
94612 :: 21grand.org 21 AT 21grand DOT org :: 51044grand
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FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009
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7/17
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte
ROGER BEEBE, NEW MAPS OF THE NEW WORLD
Filmmaker Roger Beebe will be presenting a program of his short films
and videos as part of the Directors' Lounge screening series. His films
and videos attempt to marry experimental forms with a documentary
interest in a cinema as a means of engaging with pressing issues in our
everyday lives. If the works are diverse in subject matter—covering such
disparate topics as women in the Air Force in World War II, the origin
of Shaquille O'Neal's last name, and the horrors (and beauties) of
suburban sprawl—and are equally diverse in format—with work in both film
(16mm, super 8mm, regular 8mm) and video—they are united by their use of
an ironizing poetics to cast a sidelong glance on some often overlooked
realities of 20th and 21st Century Americana. *°°* *°°*
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ *°°*
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/films/fall07tour.html
7/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
JIM DAVIS PROGRAM
JIM DAVIS'S RED DANCES et al. by JIM DAVIS All films in this program are
silent. Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. RED DANCES (1971, 10
minutes, 16mm) LIKE A BREEZE (1954, 10 minutes, 16mm)
PENNSYLVANIA/CHICAGO/ILLINOIS (1957-59, 10 minutes, 16mm) VARIATIONS ON
A THEME (1957, 10 minutes, 16mm) SEA RHYTHMS (1971, 10 minutes, 16mm)
All films in this program are silent. Total running time: ca. 55
minutes. ? RED DANCES is a previously unknown and un-catalogued color
music film by Jim Davis (1901-74) that was discovered last year in
Anthology's holdings. Never shown before, RED DANCES was filmed in 1960
and then re-edited in 1971, and is one of the last films Davis made
before his death three years later. Davis often re-edited films he had
made previously, or used out-takes from earlier projects to make
substantially new films. The source of this film is not clear, but what
matters is that it is one of the most sophisticated and formally
powerful of all his works, its skeins of color filaments echoing (almost
certainly unintentionally) Viking Eggeling's 1924 black-and-white
SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE. Davis film scholar Robert Haller will introduce
each of these screenings. The immaculate restoration of RED DANCES was
done by Cineric, Inc., Anthology's New York-based preservation partner.
-Friday, July 17 at 7:30 and Saturday, July 18 at 5:00. Upcoming
Showings: * Saturday Jul 18 5:00 PM * Friday Jul 17 7:30 PM
7/17
Oakland, CA: 21 Grand
http://21grand.org
8.00pm, 416 25th St (at Broadway)
THE 9TH ANNUAL T-10 VIDEO FESTIVAL
Presented by 21 Grand and Killer Banshee Studios. An hour of videos
under 10 minutes long each night, followed by a 30 minute feature on a
local, accomplished and often under-recognized video artist. This year's
featured artists: Bulk Foodveyor on Friday July 17 & David Cox on
Thursday July 16. David Cox is an award-winning filmaker with a
background in animation and videogames. He lives in the Bay Area and
teaches at City College of San Francisco and DeVry University.
Experimental video artist, Bulk Foodveyor (Philip R. Bonner), creates
media based theater using physical assemblage with a bizarre satirical
humor. In 2008, Bulk Foodveyor was an Artist in Residence at the SFdump.
Plus videos on Thursday from: Anne Leslie Selcer, Ronnie Cramer,
Desciple, Michael Trigilio, Anna Whitehead, Sarah Matik, Rebekah May,
Raymond Yeh, Alfred Hernandez & Amy Green & Stephanie Sheriff and videos
on Friday from: Rebecca Najdowski, Michael Goodier, Tricia Lawless
Murray, Corrine Bot, Samara Halperin, Hilary Harp & Suzie Silver, Tony
Coleman & Sean Levon Nash, Katie Krohn, Eve Edelson, Antero Alli,
Magnetic Stripper, & Ian Winters. Veteran festival participants Killer
Banshee return this year as co-organizers of T-10 with 21 Grand. Please
check the websites for highlights, full artist list and schedule: Killer
Banshee Studios, Oakland, CA :: killerbanshee.com/t-10/ 21 Grand, 416
25th St. [at Broadway] Oakland, CA 94612 :: 21grand.org :: 21 AT 21grand
DOT org :: 51044grand
7/17
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
3pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
BRITISH DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT
From Britain's pioneering documentary movement of the 1930s and 1940s,
these shorts combined propaganda, poetry, and modernist ideas to inspire
a war-weary nation.
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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2009
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7/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:00 pm, REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd Street
OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: A TRIBUTE TO TOM CHOMONT
Outfest and Los Angeles Filmforum present OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: A Tribute
to Tom Chomont Outfest Legacy Project Restoration World Premiere REDCAT:
Roy and Edna Disney/CALARTS Theatre at Walt Disney Concert Hall 631 W.
2nd Street, Downtown, 90012 Major Cross Streets: Hope (Entrance on 2nd
Street) Tickets: $13 / $9 Outfest members www.outfest.org Since 1961,
Tom Chomont – avant-garde master, New York provocateur, leather
fetishist, HIV survivor – has created over 60 experimental films that
capture the beauty of everyday encounters and illuminate the
transcendental possibilities of the physical world. While his early
impressionistic film portraits of friends and lovers evoke the erotic
lyricism and trance-like rhythms of early Kenneth Anger and Gregory
Markopoulos, his later videos, raw and hard edged, use similar montage
techniques to mine darker territories of ritual and sadomasochism. These
meditative and formally innovative films are at once intimate and
intense, otherworldly memory poems of a daring and examined life. This
year Platinum and the Outfest Legacy Project pay tribute to Chomont's
pioneering aesthetic with a special screening that include nine newly
restored early films and a selection of later film and video work.
Created from 1967-1971, the restored 16mm works document a significant
historical moment when sexual liberation and homoerotic experimentation
defined American avant-garde film. JABBOK (1967, 16mm, 3 min.,) MIRROR
GARDEN (1967, 16mm, 4 min.) PHASES OF THE MOON: THE PARAPSYCHOLOGY OF
EVERYDAY LIFE (1968, 16mm, 5 min.) EPILOGUE/SIAM (Paired Films) (1968,
16mm, 6 min.) OBLIVION (1969, 16mm, 4 min.) OPHELIA/THE CAT LADY (Paired
Films) (1969, 16mm, 3 min.) LOVE OBJECTS (1971, 16mm, 11 min.) THE
HEAVENS/EARTH (Paired Films) (1977/1978, 16mm, 4 and 5 min.) RAZOR HEAD
(1984, 16mm, 4 min.) SLASH PORTRAIT FOR CLARK (1994, video, 7 min.)
SADISTIC SELF PORTRAIT (1994, video, 4 min.) [SELF] [PORTRAIT] (with
Mike Hoolboom) (2000, video, 4 min.) Preserved by the UCLA Film &
Television Archive for The Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film
Preservation and though the Avant-Garde Master program funded by The
Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation
Foundation.
7/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
JIM DAVIS PROGRAM
JIM DAVIS'S RED DANCES et al. by JIM DAVIS All films in this program are
silent. Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. RED DANCES (1971, 10
minutes, 16mm) LIKE A BREEZE (1954, 10 minutes, 16mm)
PENNSYLVANIA/CHICAGO/ILLINOIS (1957-59, 10 minutes, 16mm) VARIATIONS ON
A THEME (1957, 10 minutes, 16mm) SEA RHYTHMS (1971, 10 minutes, 16mm)
All films in this program are silent. Total running time: ca. 55
minutes. ? RED DANCES is a previously unknown and un-catalogued color
music film by Jim Davis (1901-74) that was discovered last year in
Anthology's holdings. Never shown before, RED DANCES was filmed in 1960
and then re-edited in 1971, and is one of the last films Davis made
before his death three years later. Davis often re-edited films he had
made previously, or used out-takes from earlier projects to make
substantially new films. The source of this film is not clear, but what
matters is that it is one of the most sophisticated and formally
powerful of all his works, its skeins of color filaments echoing (almost
certainly unintentionally) Viking Eggeling's 1924 black-and-white
SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE. Davis film scholar Robert Haller will introduce
each of these screenings. The immaculate restoration of RED DANCES was
done by Cineric, Inc., Anthology's New York-based preservation partner.
-Friday, July 17 at 7:30 and Saturday, July 18 at 5:00. Upcoming
Showings: * Saturday Jul 18 5:00 PM * Friday Jul 17 7:30 PM
7/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER
NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER by Kenneth Anger THE MAN WE WANT TO HANG
(2002, 15 minutes, video) FOREPLAY (2008, 7 minutes, video) MY SURFING
LUCIFER (2008, 5 minutes, video) ELLIOTT'S SUICIDE (2007, 15 minutes,
video) MOUSE HEAVEN (2005, 12 minutes, video) ICH WILL! (2008, 35
minutes, video) BR NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER This program features ten
recent films by Kenneth Anger, six of which have yet to be screened in
New York. Together they reveal dimensions of Anger's ironic art and
personality that have often been overlooked in his past work, which has
ranged from the operatic (INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME) to the
dream-like (FIREWORKS), from pop/fetish rites of passage (SCORPIO
RISING) to symphonic studies of the movement of liquids and classical
figures (EAUX D'ARTIFICE). Anger's cinema is multifaceted,
self-conscious in the best sense, and wide-ranging in its meaning. These
new works include a film documenting the art of Aleister Crowley, an
essay on Mickey Mouse that the Disney Company surely would not endorse,
a surveillance film, and a stunning relic of the Nazis' attempts to
raise a generation of soldiers for the Fuhrer. Additional Note: A highly
unusual installation of Anger's early films is currently on view at
P.S.1, through September 14. The exhibition is reminiscent of the early
presentation of films at Carnival fair grounds at the beginning of the
20th century, but Anger writes that the intent was to suggest "a kind of
Ali Baba Cave…with things flickering in the dark." Insofar as many of
Anger's films are like dreams this installation is another way to
encounter the enduring and singular poetry of his cinema. –Robert Haller
THE MAN WE WANT TO HANG (2002, 15 minutes, video) FOREPLAY (2008, 7
minutes, video) MY SURFING LUCIFER (2008, 5 minutes, video) ELLIOTT'S
SUICIDE (2007, 15 minutes, video) MOUSE HEAVEN (2005, 12 minutes, video)
ICH WILL! (2008, 35 minutes, video) BRUSH OF BAPHOMET (2009, 7 minutes,
video) I'LL BE WATCHING YOU (2007, 5 minutes, video) DEATH (2009, 1
minute, video) UNIFORM ATTRACTION (work in progress) (2009, 18 minutes,
video) Total running time: ca. 120 minutes. –Saturday and Sunday, July
18 & 19 at 7:30 each night. Plus: ESSENTIAL CINEMA Kenneth Anger
FIREWORKS (1947, 20 minutes, 35mm) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 minutes,
35mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 minutes) Poetry, psychodrama and the
occult meet in these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the
American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. –Sunday,
July 19 at 5:30. Upcoming Showings: * Saturday Jul 18 7:30 PM * Sunday
Jul 19 7:30 PM
7/18
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
1pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
THE RAVEN
The Raven followed by La Chute de la maison Usher Philip Carli on piano
Vignettes from Edgar Allen Poe's life and from his popular love poem The
Raven followed by La Chute de la maison Usher, early French
avant-gardist Jean Epstein's mix of motifs from several Poe tales.
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SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2009
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7/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
FILMFORUM PRESENTS FILMS BY AND ABOUT ROBERT FRANK
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank's landmark
publication, The Americans, and in conjunction with MOCA's exhibition
From the Permanent Collection: Robert Frank's "The Americans", MOCA
collaborates with Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum to present a rare
series of films by and about the renowned photographer and filmmaker.
This series is curated by Adam Hyman. Tonight, Los Angeles Filmforum and
MOCA present a selection of films by and about Robert Frank. "Fire in
the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank" (1986, color, 28 min.) looks at
four decades of Frank's life and career and includes interviews with
such collaborators as Allen Ginsberg and Jonas Mekas. "O. K. End Here"
(1963, b/w, 30 min.), Frank's portrait of a New York City couple
spending an intimate Sunday together, was honored with the grand prize
at the 1963 Bergamo Film Festival. "Flamingo" (1997, 7 min.) is Frank's
video diary of the construction of a new foundation for his house in a
remote area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In "Sanyu" (1999, 27 min.),
Frank memorializes his friend Sanyu (1901–1964), an important Chinese
artist who died in anonymity in Paris. In this film portrait, Frank
creates a requiem that includes dramatic and documentary scenes set in
Paris, and a chronicle of his trip to Taipei to attend Sotheby's auction
of the paintings Sanyu left him.
7/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA- KENNETH ANGER PROGRAM
Kenneth Anger Pgm FIREWORKS (1947, 20 minutes, 35mm) RABBIT'S MOON
(1950-70, 15 minutes, 35mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 minutes) Poetry,
psychodrama and the occult meet in these timeless works by one of the
pioneers of the American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 70
minutes. –Sunday, July 19 at 5:30. Upcoming Showings: * Sunday Jul 19
5:30 PM
7/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER
NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER by Kenneth Anger THE MAN WE WANT TO HANG
(2002, 15 minutes, video) FOREPLAY (2008, 7 minutes, video) MY SURFING
LUCIFER (2008, 5 minutes, video) ELLIOTT'S SUICIDE (2007, 15 minutes,
video) MOUSE HEAVEN (2005, 12 minutes, video) ICH WILL! (2008, 35
minutes, video) BR NEW FILMS BY KENNETH ANGER This program features ten
recent films by Kenneth Anger, six of which have yet to be screened in
New York. Together they reveal dimensions of Anger's ironic art and
personality that have often been overlooked in his past work, which has
ranged from the operatic (INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME) to the
dream-like (FIREWORKS), from pop/fetish rites of passage (SCORPIO
RISING) to symphonic studies of the movement of liquids and classical
figures (EAUX D'ARTIFICE). Anger's cinema is multifaceted,
self-conscious in the best sense, and wide-ranging in its meaning. These
new works include a film documenting the art of Aleister Crowley, an
essay on Mickey Mouse that the Disney Company surely would not endorse,
a surveillance film, and a stunning relic of the Nazis' attempts to
raise a generation of soldiers for the Fuhrer. Additional Note: A highly
unusual installation of Anger's early films is currently on view at
P.S.1, through September 14. The exhibition is reminiscent of the early
presentation of films at Carnival fair grounds at the beginning of the
20th century, but Anger writes that the intent was to suggest "a kind of
Ali Baba Cave…with things flickering in the dark." Insofar as many of
Anger's films are like dreams this installation is another way to
encounter the enduring and singular poetry of his cinema. –Robert Haller
THE MAN WE WANT TO HANG (2002, 15 minutes, video) FOREPLAY (2008, 7
minutes, video) MY SURFING LUCIFER (2008, 5 minutes, video) ELLIOTT'S
SUICIDE (2007, 15 minutes, video) MOUSE HEAVEN (2005, 12 minutes, video)
ICH WILL! (2008, 35 minutes, video) BRUSH OF BAPHOMET (2009, 7 minutes,
video) I'LL BE WATCHING YOU (2007, 5 minutes, video) DEATH (2009, 1
minute, video) UNIFORM ATTRACTION (work in progress) (2009, 18 minutes,
video) Total running time: ca. 120 minutes. –Saturday and Sunday, July
18 & 19 at 7:30 each night. Plus: ESSENTIAL CINEMA Kenneth Anger
FIREWORKS (1947, 20 minutes, 35mm) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 minutes,
35mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 minutes) Poetry, psychodrama and the
occult meet in these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the
American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. –Sunday,
July 19 at 5:30. Upcoming Showings: * Saturday Jul 18 7:30 PM * Sunday
Jul 19 7:30 PM
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