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This week [July 25 - August 2, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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FESTIVAL OF DIFFERENT CINEMAS (Paris; Deadline: August 20, 2009)
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the 8 fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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Hot Sauce & Magnolias (Southern Region, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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12th Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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2 festivals in SE Asia (Phnom Penh / Bangkok; Deadline: September 25, 2010)
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Images Festival (Toronto CANADA; Deadline: October 30, 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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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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Warren County Library Film Festival (Blairstown, NJ, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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art.tech at The Lab (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: July 29, 2009)
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Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (RECIFE - PE, Brazil; Deadline: August 01, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 4 [July 25, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Recent Films By Robert Frank [July 26, Los Angeles, California]
* California Company Town [July 26, New York, New York]
* California Company Town [July 27, New York, New York]
* California Company Town [July 28, New York, New York]
* The visual Music Meet-Up Presents the Experimental 16mm Films of MaïA
Cybelle Carpenter and Anna Geyer [July 29, San Francisco, California]
* California Company Town [July 30, New York, New York]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 5 [July 30, San Francisco, California]
* The Nude Restaurant [July 31, New York, New York]
* Live Cinema Performance: Potter-Belmar Labs W/ W ((Aa)) Ou W [August 1, Buffalo, New York]
* The Chelsea Girls [August 1, New York, New York]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 5 [August 1, San Francisco, California]
* The Chelsea Girls [August 2, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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.
7/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 5:15 pm, 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the
landscape of California towns built and abandoned by the industries that
necessitated their creation – onetime boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist,
Schmitt creates evocative, deeply felt works that consider everyday
elements of American life as cultural ritual, including a series of
cinematic investigations of the intersections of landscape with personal
memory (LAS VEGAS), with the history of the American Left (AWAKE AND
SING), and with urban development (THE WASH). "Schmitt's visually
ravishing document of the devastation and desolation of California's
abandoned industrial towns is a wholly unique meditation on natural and
man-made environs, at once languid and heartbreaking. Set against
California's beautifully diverse yet unforgiving terrain, [it] unearths
the blight of industry and the failure of utopian naivet? among
landscapes that appear ominously disinterested in human triumphs and
tragedies, desires and needs. … Schmitt's carefully assembled
juxtapositions reveal forgotten towns anew, their current states of
desolation and decrepitude now haunted by the past and haunting in their
silence. In this young and fragile experiment called America, plunderers
of nature and culture stand condemned of far-reaching abuses of the
once-authentic promise of progress." –Sean F. Diggins, SAN FRANCISCO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "Eschewing the formal structuralism of James
Benning but retaining his poetic eye, and with a voiceover that recalls
the work of Thom Andersen, Schmitt chronicles 14 California frontier
towns, integrating archival footage and personal asides with beautiful
16mm images to show the towns then and now. She has depicted the
ideology of progress and expansion, and the tangible sense of the
haunted loss of American promise." –VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
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MONDAY, JULY 27, 2009
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7/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the
landscape of California towns built and abandoned by the industries that
necessitated their creation – onetime boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist,
Schmitt creates evocative, deeply felt works that consider everyday
elements of American life as cultural ritual, including a series of
cinematic investigations of the intersections of landscape with personal
memory (LAS VEGAS), with the history of the American Left (AWAKE AND
SING), and with urban development (THE WASH). "Schmitt's visually
ravishing document of the devastation and desolation of California's
abandoned industrial towns is a wholly unique meditation on natural and
man-made environs, at once languid and heartbreaking. Set against
California's beautifully diverse yet unforgiving terrain, [it] unearths
the blight of industry and the failure of utopian naivet? among
landscapes that appear ominously disinterested in human triumphs and
tragedies, desires and needs. … Schmitt's carefully assembled
juxtapositions reveal forgotten towns anew, their current states of
desolation and decrepitude now haunted by the past and haunting in their
silence. In this young and fragile experiment called America, plunderers
of nature and culture stand condemned of far-reaching abuses of the
once-authentic promise of progress." –Sean F. Diggins, SAN FRANCISCO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "Eschewing the formal structuralism of James
Benning but retaining his poetic eye, and with a voiceover that recalls
the work of Thom Andersen, Schmitt chronicles 14 California frontier
towns, integrating archival footage and personal asides with beautiful
16mm images to show the towns then and now. She has depicted the
ideology of progress and expansion, and the tangible sense of the
haunted loss of American promise." –VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009
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7/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the
landscape of California towns built and abandoned by the industries that
necessitated their creation – onetime boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist,
Schmitt creates evocative, deeply felt works that consider everyday
elements of American life as cultural ritual, including a series of
cinematic investigations of the intersections of landscape with personal
memory (LAS VEGAS), with the history of the American Left (AWAKE AND
SING), and with urban development (THE WASH). "Schmitt's visually
ravishing document of the devastation and desolation of California's
abandoned industrial towns is a wholly unique meditation on natural and
man-made environs, at once languid and heartbreaking. Set against
California's beautifully diverse yet unforgiving terrain, [it] unearths
the blight of industry and the failure of utopian naivet? among
landscapes that appear ominously disinterested in human triumphs and
tragedies, desires and needs. … Schmitt's carefully assembled
juxtapositions reveal forgotten towns anew, their current states of
desolation and decrepitude now haunted by the past and haunting in their
silence. In this young and fragile experiment called America, plunderers
of nature and culture stand condemned of far-reaching abuses of the
once-authentic promise of progress." –Sean F. Diggins, SAN FRANCISCO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "Eschewing the formal structuralism of James
Benning but retaining his poetic eye, and with a voiceover that recalls
the work of Thom Andersen, Schmitt chronicles 14 California frontier
towns, integrating archival footage and personal asides with beautiful
16mm images to show the towns then and now. She has depicted the
ideology of progress and expansion, and the tangible sense of the
haunted loss of American promise." –VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009
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7/29
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8PM , 16 Sherman St (between 6th & 7th St. next to the park)
THE VISUAL MUSIC MEET-UP PRESENTS THE EXPERIMENTAL 16MM FILMS OF MAïA
CYBELLE CARPENTER AND ANNA GEYER
PROGRAM Maïa Cybelle Carpenter (http://www.mccarpenter.net ) 1. SANS
TITRE 16mm, 7 min. 2. NOUS (US) - Work-in-progress (2009) 16mm, 28 min.,
with live sound by Wobbly (http://www.detritus.net/wobbly) Anna Geyer
(http://www.dr-yo.com/loquat) 3. Ich bin ein junger Hupfer 16mm, 8 min.
4. ARAPADAPTOR (I Feel So) 16mmm 4 min. 5, Perhaps a surprise! 6. Live 3
projector loop set in collaboration with Mickey T
(http://drummachine.ning.com/) as audio god MORE ABOUT THE FILM ARTISTS
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter positions her work against the narrative
expectations of moving-image media. Through explorations of the material
specificity of film and video, she seeks to produce new dialogues with
philosophical and current cultural approaches to visual form. Taking
identity politics beyond overt polemics, her work often engages
audiences in multi-layered examinations of identity through spatial
experiences. Anna Geyer's recent work is primarily camera-less,
non-representational in nature, although she frequently describes her
work as, "experimental with a narrative bent". To produce material she
applies her flashlight and laser, ala Man Ray, to the caterpillars,
cicadas and seeds found in Chinese medicinal herb tea, (ARAPADAPTOR (I
Feel So)), or springs and spring-like metal shavings (Ich bin ein junger
Hupfer). Much of the original footage is further manipulated - painted
tinted and/or bleached and finally slowed through the use of an optical
printer.
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2009
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7/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm & 9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the
landscape of California towns built and abandoned by the industries that
necessitated their creation – onetime boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist,
Schmitt creates evocative, deeply felt works that consider everyday
elements of American life as cultural ritual, including a series of
cinematic investigations of the intersections of landscape with personal
memory (LAS VEGAS), with the history of the American Left (AWAKE AND
SING), and with urban development (THE WASH). "Schmitt's visually
ravishing document of the devastation and desolation of California's
abandoned industrial towns is a wholly unique meditation on natural and
man-made environs, at once languid and heartbreaking. Set against
California's beautifully diverse yet unforgiving terrain, [it] unearths
the blight of industry and the failure of utopian naivet? among
landscapes that appear ominously disinterested in human triumphs and
tragedies, desires and needs. … Schmitt's carefully assembled
juxtapositions reveal forgotten towns anew, their current states of
desolation and decrepitude now haunted by the past and haunting in their
silence. In this young and fragile experiment called America, plunderers
of nature and culture stand condemned of far-reaching abuses of the
once-authentic promise of progress." –Sean F. Diggins, SAN FRANCISCO
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "Eschewing the formal structuralism of James
Benning but retaining his poetic eye, and with a voiceover that recalls
the work of Thom Andersen, Schmitt chronicles 14 California frontier
towns, integrating archival footage and personal asides with beautiful
16mm images to show the towns then and now. She has depicted the
ideology of progress and expansion, and the tangible sense of the
haunted loss of American promise." –VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
7/30
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 5
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 5: After discovering a catalogue of U.S. government
films in a San Francisco bookstore, director Pierce Rafferty worked with
his co-directors Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader for more than five
years to assemble the collage film The Atomic Café. Bringing together
archival film clips of atomic bomb tests, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
civil defense films of the cold war, the film highlights the absurdity
of our nation's nuclear "education." At one time, it seemed, "duck and
cover" might save us from the atomic end of the world. The Family
Fallout Shelter is a lighthearted narrative short that recounts a young
boy's wish to get a nuclear fallout shelter for Christmas. English
received a Director's Guild award for the film in 1962. FILMS: The
Atomic Café, Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty, 1982, 86
min., video; The Family Fallout Shelter, Edward English, ca. 1960; 14
min., 16mm
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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009
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7/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE NUDE RESTAURANT
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by Andy Warhol 1967, 95 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Wondrous Warhol
vixen Viva dishes up a monologue of hysterically epic proportions while
co-star Taylor Mead and other nearly naked actors comically mill about
the set in this rarely screened feature from The Factory gang. Warhol
and crew supposedly rented a restaurant called The Mad Hatter and filmed
this barebones, bare-skinned comedy in just one day. While the title
aptly reflects the film's content, it was also a smart marketing move on
the part of Warhol and his assistant, Paul Morrissey, to exploit the
then-current controversy surrounding "skin flicks" and the emergence of
pornography in Times Square grindhouse theaters. Many favorite
superstars – Billy Name, Alan Midgette, Louis Waldron, Ingrid Superstar,
and someone named Electro Banana – appear in g-strings and much less….
With: Cheryl Donegan STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
2008, 21 minutes, video, color, sound. Artist Cheryl Donegan explains
this re-make of sorts: "I became fascinated with Viva's monologue in
NUDE RESTAURANT. I always think I talk too much especially when I am
nervous. It is one of the things I dislike most about myself. I was
thinking a lot about the art world and how nervous it makes me. I was
thinking about my old videos, where I never said anything and how much
people like those. So I decided to talk in a video. I'm not an actress
and I wasn't sure what to say so I decided to say what Viva had said. I
cast my 9-year-old son as Taylor Mead – Beauty and the Beast reversed.
Vintage headphones and a Nintendo DS keep us in our zones. The more I
talked – trivial, breathless, at a breakneck pace – the more it reminded
me of me getting on my own nerves. The relentless voice hooked up to a
nervous system of images, everyday jolts. It's just Mom in the kitchen,
serving up a hot dish of cool leftovers." –Friday, July 31 at 7:30.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2009
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8/1
Buffalo, New York: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8 PM, Squeaky Wheel Media Art Center, 712 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14202
LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE: POTTER-BELMAR LABS W/ W ((AA)) OU W
Live image and sound manipulation performance by San Antonio-based
Potter-Belmar Labs and Buffalo-based W ((aa)) ou w. Free, but donations
are appreciated! NOISE! SOUND! VIDEO! PROJECTIONS!
8/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE CHELSEA GIRLS
THE CHELSEA GIRLS by Andy Warhol 1966, ca. 210 minutes, 16mm
double-projection. With Nico, Ondine, Marie Menken, Mary Woronov, Gerard
Malanga, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, Mario Montez, Eric
Emerson, and Brigid Berlin. Special thanks to Kitty Cleary (MoMA).
Warhol's double-screen masterpiece – consisting of 12 unedited reels,
shown side-by-side, with only one soundtrack audible at a time – depicts
the Chelsea Hotel as a teeming hive of Superstars, junkies, prostitutes,
and generally out-sized personalities. An underground sensation upon its
release in 1966, it ultimately broke out of the underground cinema
circuit, invading a 'respectable' uptown theater and leading uptight NEW
YORK TIMES critic Bosley Crowther to declare, "now that [the]
underground has surfaced on West 57th Street and taken over a theater
with carpets…it is time for permissive adults to stop winking at their
too-precious pranks." Rarely-screened today, even in downtown theaters
like Anthology, THE CHELSEA GIRLS is an unforgettable experience.
8/1
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 5
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 5: After discovering a catalogue of U.S. government
films in a San Francisco bookstore, director Pierce Rafferty worked with
his co-directors Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader for more than five
years to assemble the collage film The Atomic Café. Bringing together
archival film clips of atomic bomb tests, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and
civil defense films of the cold war, the film highlights the absurdity
of our nation's nuclear "education." At one time, it seemed, "duck and
cover" might save us from the atomic end of the world. The Family
Fallout Shelter is a lighthearted narrative short that recounts a young
boy's wish to get a nuclear fallout shelter for Christmas. English
received a Director's Guild award for the film in 1962. FILMS: The
Atomic Café, Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty, 1982, 86
min., video; The Family Fallout Shelter, Edward English, ca. 1960; 14
min., 16mm
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009
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8/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE CHELSEA GIRLS
THE CHELSEA GIRLS by Andy Warhol 1966, ca. 210 minutes, 16mm
double-projection. With Nico, Ondine, Marie Menken, Mary Woronov, Gerard
Malanga, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, Mario Montez, Eric
Emerson, and Brigid Berlin. Special thanks to Kitty Cleary (MoMA).
Warhol's double-screen masterpiece – consisting of 12 unedited reels,
shown side-by-side, with only one soundtrack audible at a time – depicts
the Chelsea Hotel as a teeming hive of Superstars, junkies, prostitutes,
and generally out-sized personalities. An underground sensation upon its
release in 1966, it ultimately broke out of the underground cinema
circuit, invading a 'respectable' uptown theater and leading uptight NEW
YORK TIMES critic Bosley Crowther to declare, "now that [the]
underground has surfaced on West 57th Street and taken over a theater
with carpets…it is time for permissive adults to stop winking at their
too-precious pranks." Rarely-screened today, even in downtown theaters
like Anthology, THE CHELSEA GIRLS is an unforgettable experience.
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at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
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