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Part 1 of 2: This week [August 8 - 16, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Barcelona Art Contemporari Festival BAC 10.0 (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 15, 2009)
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KINOFILM, Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, England; Deadline: September 10, 2009)
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29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 27, 2009)
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IN OUT FESTIVAL (Poland; Deadline: August 08, 2009)
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SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse 09 (Vancouver; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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Festival Film Merveilleux ( film festival of imagination & wonder) (Paris France; Deadline: August 15, 2009)
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5th Renderyard Short Film Festival (England & Spain; Deadline: September 07, 2009)
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CologneOFF (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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Magazine BLU BLUfilm Shortfest (Pleasanton, CA, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder, CO USA; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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MUSEEK (Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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FESTIVAL OF DIFFERENT CINEMAS (Paris; Deadline: August 20, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Sacrificial offerings [August 8, Brooklyn, New York]
* Going Home [August 8, New York, New York]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 8, New York, New York]
* 23five Incorporated Presents A Night of Avant-Garde Film and Sound [August 8, San Francisco, California]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 5 [August 8, San Francisco, California]
* Going Home [August 9, New York, New York]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 9, New York, New York]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 10, New York, New York]
* Mechanics of the Brain [August 11, Brooklyn, New York]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 11, New York, New York]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 12, Montreal, QC]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 12, New York, New York]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 13, Burlington, VT]
* Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [August 13, New York, New York]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 6 [August 13, San Francisco, California]
* Erik Davis On Aleister Crowley [August 13, Seattle, Washington]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 14, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Sacrificial offerings [August 14, Brooklyn, New York]
* Home Movies [August 14, Brooklyn, New York]
* Film Portrait [August 14, New York, New York]
* Cooper's Donuts / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Lollipop Generation With Rainy Monday and In Search of Margo-Go / Homo A
Go Go Film Festival [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Documentary Shorts / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Forever's Gonna Start Tonight / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 14, San Francisco, California]
* Un ÉTé Comme Les Autres [August 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Sacrificial offerings [August 15, Brooklyn, New York]
* Harry Smith Shorts [August 15, New York, New York]
* Albert Schweitzer [August 15, New York, New York]
* Film Portrait [August 15, New York, New York]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 6 [August 15, San Francisco, California]
* Experimental Shorts /Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 15, San Francisco, California]
* Slippery Mess / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 15, San Francisco, California]
* Music videos / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 15, San Francisco, California]
* Porn Shorts Showcase / Porn Shorts Showcase [August 15, San Francisco, California]
* Sacrificial offerings [August 16, Brooklyn, New York]
* Heaven and Earth Magic [August 16, New York, New York]
* Jerome Hill Shorts [August 16, New York, New York]
* Film Portrait [August 16, New York, New York]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 16, Providence, RI]
* Patent Fever: Aids, Activism and Intellectual Property / Homo A Go Go
Film Festival [August 16, San Francisco, California]
* Queer Puberty / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 16, San Francisco, California]
* Maggots and Men / Homo A Go Go Film Festival [August 16, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
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8/8
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
10:30 pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
Please come to a fascinating experiment in improvisation in video and
performance, which will be presented several times throughout the month
of August. David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill collaborated on a series of
improvised verbal duets, which they videotaped. David used the footage
to generate a video work; Ian used the transcribed text from the same
footage to generate a theater piece. Both will be presented together in
the program. Agnes de Garron also added her improvisational skills to
the film, in a star turn as the Oracular Priestess. How will Ian's play
and David's video of the same words be similar to each other or
radically different? Please come find out!
8/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
GOING HOME
by Adolfas Mekas & Pola Chapelle 1972, 60 minutes, 16mm. In addition to
REMINISCENCES, we will be screening the film Jonas Mekas's brother
Adolfas and his wife Pola Chapelle made during the same visit. "GOING
HOME is a film about childhood memories, life's hardships, and the
durability of families. In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence,
Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania.
They had left as young men, destined for a German labor camp. Now they
came home, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle, and in the
long northern summer days they sang and walked across golden fields and
feasted at crowded tables with family and friends. There are flowers for
the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and
songs." –FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE
8/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
U.S., 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to
Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. Brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas arrived
in America in 1949 as displaced persons, former prisoners of German
labor camps, exiled farmers adrift far from their native Lithuanian
village. Wanted by the Soviet police, they had been forced to leave home
years earlier, destined not to return for more than a quarter-century.
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA is the compelling document of a
family divided and their long-delayed reunion. Originally produced for
German television, REMINISCENCES presents a fast-paced flow of images
that takes us from the early-1950s immigrant-filled streets of
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the house of the filmmaker's mother in
Semeniskiai, Lithuania, and ultimately to Vienna and the company of good
friends. The soundtrack features an exquisite selection of music with
lyrical narration provided by Mekas as he reflects upon the footage. In
REMINISCENCES, Mekas manages to travel through space and time, bringing
the past into the present in a quest to reconcile a life once lived in
the old world with the reality of the new world. In the end,
REMINISCENCES is as much about moving forward as it is about going home.
Selected by the Library of Congress in 2006 for the National Film
Registry, and now screening in a brand-new 35mm print – a blow-up from
the original 16mm footage – REMINISCENCES is one of Mekas's most
accessible, profound, and acclaimed films. "Mekas, an acknowledged
master of the diaristic form, has constructed a tri-part meditation upon
the state of exile as a particular mode of consciousness and upon cinema
as a mode of self-discovery. Moving between past and present, the film
presents the record of Mekas's emigration as a displaced person from his
rural birthplace through Germany to the United States where, settling,
he discovers his vocation as a filmmaker…. [It is] exemplary both in its
complex sophistication and in the elegance and tact with which an
intense historical consciousness is articulated." –Annette Michelson
8/8
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
23FIVE INCORPORATED PRESENTS A NIGHT OF AVANT-GARDE FILM AND SOUND
Jefre Cantu is a San Francisco based artist and musician. He is a
founding member of Tarentel; and since 1995, he has recorded and toured
in the US, Europe & Japan with the group. In 2004 he began the Root
Strata label. Paul Clipson has shown his films internationally in
various galleries, festivals and performance venues. He works primarily
in film, video and works on paper. Grasslung is the project of Brooklyn
based Jonas Asher with an emphasis on subtle palettes of sound, and
minimal synthesis architecture, using mainly modular synthesizer,
polyphonic synthesizer, effects and field recordings to invoke
reflections of personal memories and melancholy atmospheres. Pulse
Emitter is the project of Portland, Oregon programming master Daryl
Groetsch and has recordings on labels such as Phaserprone, Black
Horizons, Chondritic Sound, and Gameboy. He has performed in Europe, on
the US East and West coasts, having played the No Fun Fest 2009 in
Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Swiezynski has been making films and videos since the
mid 1990s. In the words of the film scholar Arthur de Eriomé, these
works are an attempt at discovering, revealing, magnifiying and slowing
down moments of beauty and the sublime not noticeable to the naked eye.
Founded in 1993, 23five Incorporated is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the development and increased awareness of sound works in
the public arena, and to the support and education of artists working
with and discussing the medium of sound.
8/8
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 9, 2009
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8/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
GOING HOME
by Adolfas Mekas & Pola Chapelle 1972, 60 minutes, 16mm. In addition to
REMINISCENCES, we will be screening the film Jonas Mekas's brother
Adolfas and his wife Pola Chapelle made during the same visit. "GOING
HOME is a film about childhood memories, life's hardships, and the
durability of families. In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence,
Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania.
They had left as young men, destined for a German labor camp. Now they
came home, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle, and in the
long northern summer days they sang and walked across golden fields and
feasted at crowded tables with family and friends. There are flowers for
the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and
songs." –FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE
8/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas U.S., 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film
Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. Brothers
Jonas and Adolfas Mekas arrived in America in 1949 as displaced persons,
former prisoners of German labor camps, exiled farmers adrift far from
their native Lithuanian village. Wanted by the Soviet police, they had
been forced to leave home years earlier, destined not to return for more
than a quarter-century. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA is the
compelling document of a family divided and their long-delayed reunion.
Originally produced for German television, REMINISCENCES presents a
fast-paced flow of images that takes us from the early-1950s
immigrant-filled streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to the house of the
filmmaker's mother in Semeniskiai, Lithuania, and ultimately to Vienna
and the company of good friends. The soundtrack features an exquisite
selection of music with lyrical narration provided by Mekas as he
reflects upon the footage. In REMINISCENCES, Mekas manages to travel
through space and time, bringing the past into the present in a quest to
reconcile a life once lived in the old world with the reality of the new
world. In the end, REMINISCENCES is as much about moving forward as it
is about going home. Selected by the Library of Congress in 2006 for the
National Film Registry, and now screening in a brand-new 35mm print – a
blow-up from the original 16mm footage – REMINISCENCES is one of Mekas's
most accessible, profound, and acclaimed films. "Mekas, an acknowledged
master of the diaristic form, has constructed a tri-part meditation upon
the state of exile as a particular mode of consciousness and upon cinema
as a mode of self-discovery. Moving between past and present, the film
presents the record of Mekas's emigration as a displaced person from his
rural birthplace through Germany to the United States where, settling,
he discovers his vocation as a filmmaker…. [It is] exemplary both in its
complex sophistication and in the elegance and tact with which an
intense historical consciousness is articulated." –Annette Michelson
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MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
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8/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
See August 9.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2009
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8/11
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor
MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN
Mechanics of the Brain: V.I. Pudovkin, 1926, 64 mins. Presented by
Annette Michelson. The year 1926 represents a privileged moment of the
young Soviet film industry, with Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Kuleshov, Vertov,
Barnet, Room, Kozintsev and Trauberg all represented by important
work—and some, including Pudovkin, with more than one. But Mechanics of
the Brain, Pudovkin's first film, was like no other. Interrupted on this
project by work on The Mother, his extremely successful first major film
narrative, Pudovkin returned later that year to complete his documentary
on the theory and practice of Pavlovian reflexology. This film is of
especial interest in a number of ways: first, as a clear indication of
the importance of this filmmaker's primarily scientific training and
work experience, something we see in his texts on filmmaking and film
acting which were to serve as a bible for successive generations of
filmmakers, well beyond the borders of the USSR. Of more general
importance is Mechanics' role in the establishment of reflexology as the
official base of psychology and psychiatry in the USSR, and its
anti-psychoanalytic character. And of particular interest is the
show-and-tell form of the demonstrations—compelling, and, in fact,
disturbing. For the subjection of patients to Pavolvian technology and
method generates images that recall, in their strangeness, certain
aspects of Surrealist imagery—the work of Max Ernst in particular. This
film that begins as a demonstration of scientific method develops in its
appropriation of technology the aspect of a horror feature. - AM Annette
Michelson is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at New York
University. Her research addresses issues of practice and theory within
the various forms and periods of the cinematic avant-garde. She is a
founder of the journal October as well as of October Books and editor of
October: The First Decade. Professor Michelson has introduced and edited
Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov and Cinema, Censorship, and the
State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. Among her other publications are
studies of Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, S.M. Eisenstein,
Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean Renoir. She is a co-author of The Art of
Moving Shadows for the National Gallery of Art.
8/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
See August 9.
8/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: XPACE
http://www.xpace.info/
8:00, 58 Ossington Ave
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/David Hanes
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2009
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8/12
Montreal, QC: La Brique
9:00pm, 6545 Dunocher #402
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/Gabriel Dharmoo & Jeff Blouin
8/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
See August 9.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2009
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8/13
Burlington, VT: North End Studio
http://vpal.typepad.com/vermont_performing_arts_l/2009/07/august-is-looking-great-at-the-north-end-studio.html
8:00pm, 294 N. Winooski Ave.
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
8/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm & 9:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
See August 9.
8/13
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 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
8/13
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
9pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
ERIK DAVIS ON ALEISTER CROWLEY
Though he died in obscurity in 1947, the renegade magician Aleister
Crowley has come to exert an enormous influence on popular and
sub-culture alike. Join Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis and the 33 1/3
volume on Led Zeppelin IV, for a clip-heavy "performance lecture" on
occult film. Sampling rare footage, experimental shorts and documentary
clips, Davis will use cinema to trace the development of postwar magick
and Crowley's apocalyptic religion of Thelema, with special attention
given to the work of Kenneth Anger and the rise of magic in the 1960s
and 70s. Numerous obscurities will be sampled, including Curtis
Harrington's Wormwood Star, Rex Ingram's The Magician and the Jimmy Page
version of Anger's Lucifer Rising. Also included are excerpts from
Crowley: The Other Loch Ness Monster, Joe Schimmel's Christian expose
Rock 'n' Roll Sorcerers and cut-up wizard Craig Baldwin's recent Mock Up
On Mu.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
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8/14
Boston, Massachusetts: Studio 11 in The Distillery
http://www.distilleryboston.com/index.htm
8:00pm, 516 East Second 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,
Branden Terzakis
8/14
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
10:30pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
Please come to a fascinating experiment in improvisation in video and
performance, which will be presented several times throughout the month
of August. David Finkelstein and Ian W. Hill collaborated on a series of
improvised verbal duets, which they videotaped. David used the footage
to generate a video work; Ian used the transcribed text from the same
footage to generate a theater piece. Both will be presented together in
the program. Agnes de Garron also added her improvisational skills to
the film, in a star turn as the Oracular Priestess. How will Ian's play
and David's video of the same words be similar to each other or
radically different? Please come find out!
8/14
Brooklyn, New York: Rooftop Films
http://www.rooftopfilms.com
8pm, 50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St.
HOME MOVIES
Short films and video about moments in time, capturing and imagining
what it felt like to be there. OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING THE
SCREENING FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High
School Address: 50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St. (Williamsburg,
Brooklyn) Directions: L to Bedford Ave. or G to Nassau Ave. Rain: In the
event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location 8:00PM:
Doors open 8:30PM: Live music by Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
presented by Sound Fix Records 9:00PM: Film 10:30PM: Filmmaker Q & A
11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party: Open Bar at Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave. @
Driggs) Courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner Tickets: $9 at the door or online
Presented in partnership with: Cinereach, New York magazine, City
Council Member David Yassky & Automotive High School Ticketing link:
http://newyork.going.com/event-624864;Rooftop_Films_Home_Movies#
8/14
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
8/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
1pm, 992 valencia
COOPER’S DONUTS / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 14, 2009. 1PM $5 Cooper's Donuts Homo A Go Go Film
Festival In May 1959, a decade before Stonewall, Los Angeles had its own
gay riot. Cooper's Doughnuts was an all night doughnut shop on Main
Street in downtown Los Angeles, nestled between Harold's and the
Waldorf, gay bars dating back to the 1930s. Cooper's was a late-night
hangout for drag queens, butch hustlers, street queens and johns. Fifty
years after it served as a site of gay rebellion against police abuse,
COOPER'S DOUGHNUTS exists as a queer collective which aims to showcase,
document, archive and embrace queer art, performance, film and action.
We hope to share and build resources within the various queer
communities of Los Angeles and beyond. Ultimately, we seek to reinvent
the worlds we dream possible in memory of our collective histories of
resistance. The program will be inspired and influenced by the story of
Coopers Doughnuts. Films TBA Programmed by Rudy Blu, et. al
8/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
3pm, 992 valencia
LOLLIPOP GENERATION WITH RAINY MONDAY AND IN SEARCH OF MARGO-GO / HOMO A
GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 14, 2009. 3PM $5 Lollipop Generation with Rainy Monday
and In Search of Margo-go Homo A Go Go Film Festival Lollipop Generation
, G.B. Jones, Canada, 2008, TRT: 70 min Filmed piece-by-piece for over a
decade and a half, The Lollipop Generation is a loose narrative that
pays homage to the grungy, life-on-the street subculture of
writer-director G.B. Jones. Shot on grainy Super 8 with spurts of
jarring video, the fast cuts and simplistic dialogue belie the subject
matter of social deviants, hustlers and smut peddlers who revel in
defying society's norms of decency. The film follows four
mischief-making runaways who make up their own kind of childlike family.
Led by pseudo-den mother Georgie, they turn tricks, rob perverts, run
from a mysterious red van full of "horrible homos," and make every
abandoned lot and junkyard their personal playground. The sleaze starts
to feel almost conventional in this experimental hodgepodge, filled with
everyday actions of punks making porn, territorial pink-haired hookers,
bathroom blowjobs and masturbation, social commentary on streetwalkers
and, of course, a hell of a lot of lollipop licking. With cameos by
underground queer performance artists and indie musicians, including
Marcus Ewert, Vaginal Cream Davis and Jane Danger, The Lollipop
Generation has an appropriately rockin' soundtrack of songs, all with
references to sugary sweetness on a stick. Rainy Monday-Craig Goodman,
RT: 4:45 Super-8 1995 How sad can sad be? Decorative candles shed real
tears as memories melt away. In Search of: "In Search of Margo-go" -Jill
Reiter, RT: 5:00 Super8mm/16mm -1995/2009 Jill Reiter's unfinished epic
piece "In Search of Margo-go" - starring Kathleen Hanna, was filmed in
1994 on super 8 and 16mm film in NYC and SF. Developed as a feature that
was ultimately unfunded, it remains a cult mystery. Rarely screened
clips will be shown from this record of mid-nineties queerpunk/pre-new
wave resurgence history, starring luminaries from the queer underground
& riot grrrl scenes of the early nineties. © 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
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8/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
5pm, 992 valencia
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 14, 2009. 5PM $5 Documentary Shorts Homo A Go Go Film
Festival Gender? United States, 2009, Directed by Joie Rey 10min Aids
Camp, United States, 2009, Directed by Gary Fembot 25min Blush, United
States, 2009, Directed by Jen Crothers 3min Wink and Pucker ,United
States, 2009, Directed by Ami Puri 5:40min Crazy Wisdom, United States,
2009, Directed by Elizabeth Ore 10min Pinball Wizards, United States,
2009, Directed by Ali Cotterill 2:27min F2Todd, United States, 2009,
Directed by Stephanie Murphy 34:25min Small Movements, United States,
2009, Directed by Nickey Robo Like a Lady Tonga, United States, 2009,
Directed by Brian Favorite 10:33 min Programmed by Lorin Murphy
8/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 valencia
FOREVER’S GONNA START TONIGHT / HOMO A GO GO FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 14, 2009. 7PM $5 Forever's Gonna Start Tonight Homo A Go
Go Film Festival Forever's Gonna Start Tonight is a one-hour documentary
that tells the story of America's oldest working drag entertainer. The
film chronicles the life of 73 year-old Vicki from Minnesota farm boy to
carnival worker to gay icon and revolves around the community she's
created at Aunt Charlie's lounge in San Francisco. It explores the theme
that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one
to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles – social, physical,
economic and personal. Directed By: Michelle Lawler, USA, 2009, 60 min,
DVD Admission: $10 without festival day or full pass Note: this film
sold out the recent screening at Frameline at a larger theater. Please
arrive early.
8/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, 129 Spadina Ave. (down the lane) CineCycle
UN ÉTé COMME LES AUTRES
This program (and its title ,Un Été comme les autres) is based on one of
Jean-Luc Godard's least screened and most ascetic projects, Un Film
comme les autres (A Film Like Any Other). Produced in the months
immediately following the uprisings of May 1968, this two-hour film
primarily documents a group of students and workers laying in a field of
long grass (which obscures most of their bodies and faces), while their
conversations about the events of May unspool on the soundtrack. Rather
than a state of agitation or upheaval, Godard framed the French citizens
and their political aftermath as one of reflection; the summer as
stasis. Within the contemporary context, the events of 1968 and its
echoes are widely cited as the years of revolution and flux that remain
definitive for a generation. However, the next summer not only saw the
continuing circulation of Godard's film but also the release of the
debut (self-titled) album by The Stooges. The opening lyrics in the
first song of the record, titled 1969: "Well it's 1969 okay All across
the USA It's another year For me and you Another year With nothing to
do" Summer as stasis? A pause from pedagogy? The four works in this
program are presented within a chronology that mirrors the languid
progression of a summer's day: Untitled (2007) by Jordan Wolfson
(morning), Gas Station (1969) by Robert Morris (early afternoon), A & B
in Ontario (1984) by Joyce Wieland and Hollis Frampton (late afternoon)
and "O Joan, no…" (2006) by Duncan Campbell (evening) all advance a
reflective mode that is simultaneously exploratory and observational.
School is out, businesses close, the city empties and you are left to
your own devices.
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