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Part 2 of 2: This week [August 8 - 16, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2009
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8/15
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
2 pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
see August 14th for details
8/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARRY SMITH SHORTS
Total running time: 77 mins. EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes,
16mm) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the
National Film Preservation Foundation. MIRROR ANIMATIONS (extended 1979
version, 11 minutes, 35mm) BRAND NEW PRINT! LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964,
28 minutes, 16mm) OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes, 35mm)
"My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: – batiked animations made
directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective
studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as
part of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically
super-imposed photographs of actualities formed since the latter year.
All these works have been organized in specific patterns derived from
the interlocking beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha
component and should be observed together in order, or not at all, for
they are valuable works, works that will forever abide – they made me
gray." –Harry Smith
8/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
by Jerome Hill 1957, 82 minutes, 35mm. Music by Alec Wilder. Narrated by
Burgess Meredith and Fredric March In this Academy Award-winning
documentary covering the life and times of the legendary humanitarian
and philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, the camera follows the
good doctor around his hospital in French Equatorial Africa, where his
efforts helped the villagers to build and to improve their way of life.
Featuring narration by legendary actors Burgess Meredith and Fredric
March.
8/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM PORTRAIT
by Jerome Hill 1972, 81 minutes, 35mm. Undoubtedly one of the most
endearing, accessible, and deeply moving works of personal cinema, FILM
PORTRAIT has never looked as good as it does in this brand-new 35mm
print. "One of the key works in the comparatively new genre of the diary
film, the autobiographical film. …Hill leads us into a social background
that is not only uniquely American but which also is about the least
documented in cinema…: the life, the feeling, and the style of the
well-to-do American class at the beginning of the century. Specifically,
the film deals with the family of James J. Hill, the family that built
the railroads of America, and the development of Jerome Hill himself as
a Young Man and an Artist. Since the period dealt with in this film
coincides with…the development of the Avant-garde Film as a form of
cinema, FILM PORTRAIT becomes also a film about the art of cinema and a
film about the Avant-garde Film…. It's about the liberation of an artist
from the bonds of his family, his class, the fashionable art styles, and
one thousand other bonds: a liberation through cinema…." –Jonas Mekas
8/15
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 6
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 6: Released two months after John F. Kennedy's
assassination, Kubrick's classic cold war satire paints the United
States' political and military establishment as a chain of command gone
mad. With indelible performances by George C. Scott and Peter Sellers
(in three roles), Dr. Strangelove's power brokers seethe with sexual
fears, calculate "acceptable losses" in the tens of millions, fall down
drunk, involuntarily offer Nazi salutes, and imagine the adventure of a
post-nuclear-war America to come. Based on Peter George's serious
thriller Red Alert, Dr. Strangelove was nominated for four Oscars
(though it didn't win any). FILMS: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 93 min., 35mm
8/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
1pm, 992 valencia
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS /HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, August 15, 2009. 1PM $5 Experimental Shorts Homo A Go Go Film
Festival Campbell Rodeo, United States, 2009, Directed by Anna Campbell
1:57 min. Gender Poo, United States, 2009, Directed by Coco Guzman, 1:35
min. Orange Trio, United States, 2009, Directed by Lorin Murphy, 3:00
min Proportianate Respons, United States, 2009, Directed by Ariel
Federow, 1:05 min. Lavender Valley, United States, 2009, Directed by
Ariel Federow, 2:10 min 80_08, United States, 2009, Directed by Ami
Puri, 2:20 min The Leather Daddy and the Unicorn/Hardhat Required,
United States, 2009, Directed by Samara Halperin, 3:10 min. Fish
Sandwich, United States, 2009, Directed by Jimmy Robson, 8:01 min.
Environmental Disasters, United States, 2009, Directed by Lorin Murphy,
5:00 min. Auspicious: Combative, United States, 2009, Directed by
Elizabeth Ore, 8 min. Archetype Bereaved Archetype, United States, 2009,
Directed by Elizabeth Ore, 20 min. TBD, United States, 2009, Directed by
Lee Hunter, 5 min. TBD Animations, United States, 2009, Directed by Jj,
4 min. Programmed by Lorin Murphy
8/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
3pm , 992 valencia
SLIPPERY MESS / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, August 15, 2009. 3PM $5 Slippery Mess Homo A Go Go Film
Festival A subversive, lispy, hairy, hormone induced explosion of videos
and shorts that confuse, annihilate, and open up what it means to be
transgendered. Discover the cinematic vision of the "gender dysphoric"
as they slice open clinical labels, botox the boundaries, and stitch
together their own self-determined, exquisite corpse. Films TBA
Programmed by Matt Johnstone and Heather Cassils Info:
http://www.homoagogo.com/
8/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
5pm , 992 valencia
MUSIC VIDEOS / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, August 15, 2009. 5PM $5 Music Videos Homo A Go Go Film
Festival "Tonight" music by Lovers, directed by Yvette Choy.
"Craigslist" written and directed by H. Damien Luxe : One femme trolls
CL and asks, what does Very Good Looking Mean in real life, anyway?
"Fashun" Lyrics by D. Colon, Directed by Hoku Mama. Project Runt Over.
"Big Deal", music by Katastrophe, directed by Hillary Goldberg: A
creative retelling of when artist Andy Warhol was shot by the writer
Valerie Solanas. "Cotton Mouth" music by Sam Sparrow directed by Mariah
Garnet. "Lipstique" (featuring Fauxnique) music by Silencefiction,
directed by Kia Simon: "Lipstique" is part drag queen makeup tutorial
and part drag performance by Fauxnique, Peaches Christ, Kiddie,
Vinsantos, Katya Smirnoff-skyy and Hoku Mama. 'Jew Lo from the Block' ,
directed by Brynn Gelbard. A parody J.Lo but as a recovered Jewish
American Princess from Long Island-cum-faux queen in SF. TBA Programmed
by Silas Howard
8/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 valencia
PORN SHORTS SHOWCASE / PORN SHORTS SHOWCASE
Saturday, August 15, 2009. 7PM $5 Porn Shorts Showcase Porn Shorts
Showcase Presented by No Fauxxx and The Pleasure Chest 18 and up, ID
required Tour De Pants, 20 min (excerpt) directed by Luke Woodward Jaded
Consumer, directed by Rahani Lee Looking for something more... The
Mission, USA, 12 min, Directed by Redbunny and Fagbeau the Clown. Two
missionary bois cum out from the rain and into a barn. Filmed at Ida, in
Tennessee Remedes, 15 min (excerpt) Lust Hotel, USA, 12 min, directed by
Courtney Trouble A lo-fi love story Other films TBA Programmed by
Courtney Trouble Info: http://www.homoagogo.com/ © 2008 Artists'
Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009
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8/16
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
8 pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
see August 8th for details
8/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
by Harry Smith 1950-61, 66 minutes, 35mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and
Cineric, Inc. "NO. 12 can be seen as one moment – certainly the most
elaborately crafted moment – of the single alchemical film which is
Harry Smith's life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of
the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema.
"Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various
figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith's
abiding concern with auditory effects." –P. Adams Sitney
8/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JEROME HILL SHORTS
by Jerome Hill Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. A joyous collection
of shorter works that demonstrate Hill's distinctive approach to art,
life, and cinema. We are presenting these gems along with a film
portrait of Hill by his good friend, Jonas Mekas. MERRY CHRISTMAS
(1967/69, 3 minutes, 35mm) THE ARTIST'S FRIEND (ca. 1968, 5 minutes,
35mm) THE MAGIC UMBRELLA (1965, 4 minutes, 35mm) DEATH IN THE FORENOON
(1934/66, 2 minutes, 35mm) CANARIES (1969, 4 minutes, 35mm) GRANDMA
MOSES (1950, 22 minutes, 35mm) Plus: Jonas Mekas NOTES FOR JEROME (1978,
45 minutes, 16mm)
8/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM PORTRAIT
1972, 81 minutes, 35mm. Undoubtedly one of the most endearing,
accessible, and deeply moving works of personal cinema, FILM PORTRAIT
has never looked as good as it does in this brand-new 35mm print. "One
of the key works in the comparatively new genre of the diary film, the
autobiographical film. …Hill leads us into a social background that is
not only uniquely American but which also is about the least documented
in cinema…: the life, the feeling, and the style of the well-to-do
American class at the beginning of the century. Specifically, the film
deals with the family of James J. Hill, the family that built the
railroads of America, and the development of Jerome Hill himself as a
Young Man and an Artist. Since the period dealt with in this film
coincides with…the development of the Avant-garde Film as a form of
cinema, FILM PORTRAIT becomes also a film about the art of cinema and a
film about the Avant-garde Film…. It's about the liberation of an artist
from the bonds of his family, his class, the fashionable art styles, and
one thousand other bonds: a liberation through cinema…." –Jonas Mekas
8/16
Providence, RI: Waste Not Want Not
http://www.myspace.com/wastenotwantnotprovidence
8:00pm, 232 Westminster Street
COMPOSITE BODIES (EXPANDED CINEMA + MORE)
Using hand-built electronics, 16mm flicker loops, mixed-up mixers and
more, COMPOSITE BODIES is comprised primarily of two performances*
(MAZES - Joe Grimm & Ben Russell; and Mirror Phases - Lauren Carter &
Joe Grimm) in which two pairs of eyes/ears/auras combine to shape a
disparate single sound-mass with an unpredictable and undeniable life of
its own. This is cinema heard through the language of music, but these
are not duets - they are seances, incantations to summon and sustain the
unknowable. Bear witness to an evening of expanded cinematic epileptic
transcendence, light-and-noise blasts gathered on the delicate comet
trail of electrical feedback. *w/ Lichens, Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul
8/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
1pm, 992 valencia
PATENT FEVER: AIDS, ACTIVISM AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / HOMO A GO GO
FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, August 16, 2009. 1PM $5 Patent Fever: AIDS, Activism and
Intellectual Property Homo A Go Go Film Festival Screening followed by
discussion with Mike Upton (director) and Dettie Gould (Editor &
Post-production) This facilitated screening/discussion addresses the
controversy surrounding the recent Gold Rush of Pharmaceutical patents
and its impact on access to treatment for HIV/AIDS. It kicks off with a
West Coast premiere of Patent Fever, a documentary focusing on activist
campaigns in South Africa for affordable anti-retro viral treatment.
From there we consider how European and North American practices of
intellectual property are circumscribing access to knowledge, an issue
that implicates us all. Mike Upton [Director & Writer] Mike trained in
filmmaking at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, specializing
in documentary film. He is currently completing his PhD in Anthropology
with Visual Media at the University of Manchester. Mike's involvement
with AIDS activism began after losing a close friend to the disease in
1998. In 2008 he spent 5 months volunteering with the Treatment Action
Campaign in Cape Town, South Africa. Dettie Gould [Editor &
Post-production] Dettie Gould completed her MA at the University of
Central Lancashire School of Film in 2007. Dettie combines freelance
video editing with a practice-based PhD at the Chelsea College of Art,
London. Dettie's research focuses on the work of Black experimental
filmmakers, a canon to which her own video pieces have contributed.
Dettie is also interested in the capacity of video to engage excluded
groups and has worked on several youth and community media projects in
Manchester and London. Info: http://www.homoagogo.com/ © 2008 Artists'
Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, (415)
824-3890. Artists' Television Access is supported in part by Grants for
the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Christensen Fund, individual
members, donors, and volunteers.
8/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
3pm, 992 valencia
QUEER PUBERTY / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, August 16, 2009. 3PM $5 Queer Puberty Homo A Go Go Film Festival
Queer Puberty: a nostalgic wet dream of bodily ambivalence. These films
and videos explore the mythic, perpetual adolescence of queers. They
invite all of us to lock the bathroom door and take a full-length look
at our awkward, sexy bodies…forever. From bad FTM performance art to
shrinking suburban violets… From gauzy, shared periods on a separatist
hilltop to a violent cum downpour at Carrie White's prom... Crack your
voices and your Clearasil cuz it's time to get sticky, angsty, and
isolated. 2good+2be=4gotten. Shorts: MENSES, USA, 1974, 4 min, 16mm,
Directed by Barbara Hammer. Aunt Flo is paying a visit. Time for these
gay ladies to head for the hills... INDELIBLE, USA, 2003, 8 min, video,
Directed by Charles Lum. Fasten your cummerbunds. When Carrie meets LA
Tool & Die, it's going to be a bumpy night! OFF OUR BACKS, USA, 2009,
5min, Mini DV, Directed by K8 Hardy. Music video for the group MEN,
featuring Michael O'Neil, Ginger Brooks-Takahashi, and JD Samson, and a
whole lot of mannequin heads. Selection from Whispering Pines series,
USA, 2002-2008, 8 min, DVD, Directed by Shana Moulton. A character whose
interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal.
Endless Love V. 1 (Featuring Tin Man as Lionel Richie) – The Lost
Screentest, USA, 2008, 4:31 min, DVD, Directed by Tara Mateik with Lynn
Chan. A music video screen test for the Tin Woodsman as Lionel Richie
and a Diana Ross "impersonator" as Dorothy for the duet "Endless Love"
as part of Men With Missing Parts--a send up to the "fantastical
realness" in The Wizard of Oz.. Selection from sketch comedy troupe
"Pretty Thingsss," USA, c. 5 min, DVD, Directed by Michael Lucid. A
gender-blurry online sketch comedy show. Falling In Love… with Chris and
Greg, Episode 3 "Food!" USA, c. 20 min (still in production), DVD,
Directed by Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans. Chris is a radical queer
trans fag. Greg is a gay liberal cissy boy. They really don't have all
that much in common. But somehow they make it work... In this third
episode of their sitcom, the pair's conflicting body issues threaten to
tear their love apart. Also works by Jason Fritz Michael, Jen Smith, and
more! Full program TBA. Programmed by: Jen Smith, Chris Vargas, and Greg
Youmans Curator's bios: Jen Smith has just received her Masters in Fine
Arts from the University of California, Irvine. Before that, she spent a
lot of time in bands and going to shows and acting out as much as
possible. Where she still enjoys all those past times, she is
particularly skilled at the latter. Chris Vargas, along with making film
and video with radical queer, and transfeminist content, is committed to
countering the earnestness of trannys–past, present, and future. Along
with Eric Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia (2006),
as well as its forthcoming sequel, Criminal Queers (2009). With Greg
Youmans, he collaborates on the queer relationship webisode satire
Falling In Love...with Chris and Greg. Greg Youmans should be receiving
his Ph.D. right around now from the History of Consciousness program at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. He's glad to finally be
growing up. His dissertation looks at gay and lesbian activist and
experimental filmmaking of the late 1970s, in the context of the
mobilization of the religious right, the nascent moral panic around
child sexuality, and the shift of gay and lesbian politics to a liberal,
rights-based agenda. He is also a film and video maker and programmer.
Info: http://www.homoagogo.com/
8/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
5pm, 992 valencia
MAGGOTS AND MEN / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, August 16, 2009. 5PM $5 Maggots and Men Homo A Go Go Film
Festival Maggots and Men, an experimental historical narrative set in
post-revolutionary Russia, re-tells the story of the 1921 uprising of
the Kronstadt sailors with a subtext of gender anarchy. A thoughtful
homage to Soviet silent era directors and artists of the Russian
avant-garde, the film explores themes of re-invention, revolution,
community, and corruption. Directed By: Cary Cronenwett, USA, 2009
SYNOPSIS The Kronstadt sailors had a long tradition as radicals and
courageous fighters, beginning with the failed revolution of 1905 (the
subject of Battleship Potemkin). Maggots and Men recounts some of the
tragic and heroic events that occurred in March of 1921, when the
Kronstadt sailors drafted a resolution that supported the factory
workers on strike in nearby St. Petersburg. The Kronstadt sailors'
resolution unleashed a chain of events that culminated in a two-week
long battle, which after heavy losses on both sides, ended with victory
for the Bolsheviks. The film documents the Provisional Revolutionary
Committee as they transform, from cohesive to chaotic, as tensions rise
in the weeks before battle. Scenes include the strikes in Saint
Petersburg, community gardens on the island, life at the base during
peacetime, the sailors presenting their resolution to an unwelcoming
congress, and the two-week standoff between the sailors and the Red
Army. Acknowledging a long tradition of homosexuality amongst sailors,
the film has provocative sex scenes that evolve organically out of
teamwork in close quarters. Info: http://www.homoagogo.com/ © 2008
Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
94110, (415) 824-3890. Artists' Television Access is supported in part
by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The Christensen
Fund, individual members, donors, and volunteers.
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