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This week [July 18 - 26, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 3 [July 18, San Francisco, California]
* The Raven [July 18, Washington, DC]
* Filmforum Presents Films By and About Robert Frank [July 19, Los Angeles, California]
* New Films By Kenneth Anger [July 19, New York, New York]
* Kenneth Anger Shorts [July 19, New York, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #5 : How It Works, Function, Form and Film [July 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* "Strike Anywhere" -- Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida [July 22, Berlin, Germany]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 4 [July 23, San Francisco, California]
* The Windmill Movie [July 24, Seattle, Washington]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 4 [July 25, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Recent Films By Robert Frank [July 26, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3:00 pm, SFMoMA: Phyllis Wattis Theater
RICHARD AVEDON FILM SERIES: PROGRAM 3
Seven Songs for Malcolm X, John Akomfrah, 1993, 52 min., 35mm; The
Intolerable Burden, Chea Prince, 2003, 56 min., video; Perfect Film, Ken
Jacobs, 1986, 22 min., 16mm
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/
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
7/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KENNETH ANGER SHORTS
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.
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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009
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7/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #5 : HOW IT WORKS, FUNCTION, FORM AND FILM
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #5 = Tuesday July 21 2009 = Ute Aurand + Gibbs
Chapman + Keewatin Dewdney How It Works, Function, Form and Film These
films offer three different approaches to quotidian mysteries that often
go unnoticed. While their styles are distinct, the works are linked by
their humour and humanity as they explore the mechanics of the world
around us. In Die Erde Gebaut (Building Under Ground) is Ute Aurand's
documentation of the expansion of Zurich's Museum Kietberg from the
initial groundbreaking in 2004 to it's opening in 2007. Aurand's camera
work and editing turn the construction site into a playground for the
eye while providing insight into how a building gets made. Push Button -
A History of Idleness and Ignorance by Gibbs Chapman is a dryly funny
exposé of how little we know about the workings of the things we use
everyday. Keewatin Dewdney's 1967 classic The Maltese Cross Movement, is
a poetic demonstration of how film works, both mechanically and
mentally. Programme In Die Erde Gebaut (Building Under Ground) / (Ute
Aurand, 2008, 40 minutes, 16mm, colour, silent) *Toronto Premiere Push
Button - A History of Idleness and Ignorance / (Gibbs Chapman, 2004, 16
minutes, 16mm, colour, sound) *Canadian Premiere The Maltese Cross
Movement / (Keewatin Dewdney, 1967, 8 minutes, 16mm colour, sound)
*Canadian Premiere of Restored Print @ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel,
1214 Queen West Tuesday July 21, 2009 | 8:00 PM screening, $5 Early
Monthly Segments is a new monthly film series named after an early film
by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and
experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris
Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series will feature historical and
contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone
Art Bar. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food
available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged
viewing and post-screening dialogue. Thanks to everyone at The Gladstone
Hotel and the CFMDC. Contact email suppressed for email
list Info : earlymonthlysegments.org #6 = Tuesday August 18 = films by
Warren Sonbert, Caroline + Frank Mouris
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009
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7/22
Berlin, Germany: Artillerie-Berlin
http://www.artillerie-projekte.org/
9PM, Exerzierstrasse 10 | 13357 Berlin
"STRIKE ANYWHERE" -- BENJ GERDES AND JENNIFER HAYASHIDA
artillerie is pleased to present "Strike Anywhere" for the first time to
a Berlin audience, following screenings at the Luleå Art Biennial in
Sweden and the Kran>>Film Space in Brussels. The latest collaborative
work by the experimental filmmaker Benj Gerdes and the poet Jennifer
Hayashida, "Strike Anywhere" is a video essay that takes as its point of
departure Swedish "Match King" Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of
financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to
late-twentieth century policies implemented by the IMF and WTO. 32:00,
English w/out subtitles. Event organised in cooperation with Art
Laboratory Berlin. Introduction by Christian de Lutz. Followed by a
discussion with the artists.
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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009
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7/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 pm, SFMoMA: Phyllis Wattis Theater
RICHARD AVEDON FILM SERIES: PROGRAM 4
In conjunction with Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, we take up
the celebrated photographer's 1964 collaboration with writer (and high
school classmate) James Baldwin, entitled Nothing Personal. Published a
year after John F. Kennedy's assassination, the resulting book
highlights the civil rights movement, protest politics of both the Left
and the Right, and American identity in that era. Avedon juxtaposes an
American Nazi Party salute with a naked Allen Ginsberg, placing between
these poles figures such as segregationist George Wallace,
scientist-turned-antinuclear-activist Linus Pauling, members of
Daughters of the American Revolution, and William Cansby, a man born
into slavery. This film series presents perspectives on these themes —
circa 1964. (Many titles were suggested by Andy Ditzler's Civil Rights
on Film series at Emory University, part of his ongoing Film Love
series.) PROGRAM 4: This program explores a multifaceted slice of the
America also captured in Avedon and Baldwin's Nothing Personal. Stars
like Sammy Davis Jr. and high-wattage politicians like Robert F. Kennedy
celebrate Christmas with students (Jingle Bells). The Republicans go for
Goldwater at their 1964 convention in San Francisco (Campaign Manager).
Timothy Leary gets married (You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You). Jazz
great Dave Lambert rehearses a new quintet, a few months before his
accidental death (Lambert and Co.). And Igor Stravinsky reflects on his
contribution to 20th-century art (A Stravinsky Portrait). FILMS: Jingle
Bells, D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 16 min., video; Campaign Manager, Richard
Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., 1964, 25 min., video; You're Nobody
Till Somebody Loves You, D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 12 min., video; Lambert
and Co., D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 15 min., video; A Stravinsky Portrait,
Richard Leacock and Rolf Lieberman, 1965, 58 min., video
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FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2009
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7/24
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
THE WINDMILL MOVIE
July 24-30 at 7 and 9pm Preceeded by Quarry (Richard P. Rogers, USA,
1970, 12 min) What do you call a documentary composed of elements of
somebody else's unfinished diary film? Homage? Portrait? Assemblage?
Case study? Richard Rogers was a NYC baby boomer, born to privilege:
Harvard-educated, he became a first-rate independent director and a
gifted film teacher. But he was also a tortured neurotic soul torn
between narrow class loyalties and broader professional goals and
political values. Though Rogers found the time to juggle multiple
relationships with the skill of a world-class Lothario, he was unable to
complete an autobiographical film he had worked on for 25 years. His
former student Alexander Olch brings together a trove of leftover
material, including extraordinary scenes of Rogers's mink-coated,
domineering mother, along with fictional sequences with Wallace Shawn as
Richard. The Windmill Movie is a heady, fascinating brew that brings
together one man's parentage, culture, education and ambition—letting
the chips fall where they may. Shown along with Richard Rogers' first
film Quarry, a black and white short made near Quincy, MA with
beautifully composed rocky landscapes and shots of young people worthy
of Robert Frank's The Americans. "It's a reconstructed depiction of a
contradictory artist and man, an act of memory preservation and
facilitation whose eloquence, largely free of pat analysis, captures the
messy, paradoxical emotions that often remain irreconcilable to the
grave." —Slant
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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2009
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7/25
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3:00 pm, SFMoMA: Phyllis Wattis Theater
RICHARD AVEDON FILM SERIES: PROGRAM 4
In conjunction with Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, we take up
the celebrated photographer's 1964 collaboration with writer (and high
school classmate) James Baldwin, entitled Nothing Personal. Published a
year after John F. Kennedy's assassination, the resulting book
highlights the civil rights movement, protest politics of both the Left
and the Right, and American identity in that era. Avedon juxtaposes an
American Nazi Party salute with a naked Allen Ginsberg, placing between
these poles figures such as segregationist George Wallace,
scientist-turned-antinuclear-activist Linus Pauling, members of
Daughters of the American Revolution, and William Cansby, a man born
into slavery. This film series presents perspectives on these themes —
circa 1964. (Many titles were suggested by Andy Ditzler's Civil Rights
on Film series at Emory University, part of his ongoing Film Love
series.) PROGRAM 4: This program explores a multifaceted slice of the
America also captured in Avedon and Baldwin's Nothing Personal. Stars
like Sammy Davis Jr. and high-wattage politicians like Robert F. Kennedy
celebrate Christmas with students (Jingle Bells). The Republicans go for
Goldwater at their 1964 convention in San Francisco (Campaign Manager).
Timothy Leary gets married (You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You). Jazz
great Dave Lambert rehearses a new quintet, a few months before his
accidental death (Lambert and Co.). And Igor Stravinsky reflects on his
contribution to 20th-century art (A Stravinsky Portrait). FILMS: Jingle
Bells, D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 16 min., video; Campaign Manager, Richard
Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., 1964, 25 min., video; You're Nobody
Till Somebody Loves You, D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 12 min., video; Lambert
and Co., D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 15 min., video; A Stravinsky Portrait,
Richard Leacock and Rolf Lieberman, 1965, 58 min., video
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SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2009
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7/26
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 RECENT FILMS BY ROBERT FRANK
Los Angeles Filmforum and MOCA present a selection of Robert Frank's
newest films, some never screened in Los Angeles. "The Present" (1996,
24 min.) is a thoughtful self-portrait in which Frank contemplates his
relationships, his daughter's death, his son's mental illness, and his
own work. In "I Remember" (1998, color, 5 min., Los Angeles Premiere),
Frank recreates his visit to the home of Alfred Stieglitz, with wife
June Leaf playing Georgia O'Keeffe, artist Jerome Sother playing Frank,
and Frank himself in the role of Stieglitz. "Paper Route" (2002, 23
min., Los Angeles Premiere) finds Frank accompanying Robert MacMillan on
his early-morning paper route in rural Nova Scotia, creating a video
portrait of the lives of ordinary people. "True Story" (2004, color and
b/w, 26 min., Los Angeles Premiere), returns to familiar themes of
memory and loss, as the artist candidly reflects on his work, his wife's
artwork, and letters written by his son, Pablo, who died in 1994.
Frank's most recent film premiered in October 2004 at the exhibition
Robert Frank Story Lines at the Tate Modern, London. Speaking in
voiceover, the artist narrates scenes shot in his homes in New York and
Nova Scotia. His rambling commentary returns to familiar themes of
memory, and the loss of friends and family members. Brief excerpts from
earlier films are shown, along with Frank's photographs, the art of his
wife, June Leaf, and extraordinarily detailed letters written by his
son, Pablo (1951- 1994). Alternately poignant, reflective, self-mocking
and angry, this candid autobiography reveals Frank's late career
preoccupations. TICKETS $10 general; $6 seniors/students; free to
Filmforum members This screening series is supported, in part, by the
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County
Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los
Angeles.
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