This week [August 15 - 23, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Heritage Chutzpah" by Neil Needleman
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"Apartment with a view" by Ljiljana Mihaljevic
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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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The Flickering Light Film Screening Series (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: September 07, 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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KINOFILM, Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, England; Deadline: September 10, 2009)
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CAMBOFEST: Film, Video & Animation Festival of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Meteor Shower [August 16, El Rito, NM]
* City of Angles: J.X. Williams' L.A. + O'er the Land [August 16, Los Angeles, California]
* 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]
* Time Machine [August 16, Olympia, WA]
* 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]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 18, Baltimore, MD]
* Promised Lands [August 18, Brooklyn, New York]
* Time Machine [August 18, Seattle, Washington]
* Time Machine [August 18, Seattle, Washington]
* Early Monthly Segments #6 : Time Travels [August 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Time Machine [August 19, Bellingham, WA]
* Tie At Modbo [August 19, Colorado Springs, CO]
* Composite Bodies (Expanded Cinema + More) [August 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 7 [August 20, San Francisco, California]
* Sacrificial offerings [August 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 7 [August 22, San Francisco, California]
* Time Machine [August 22, San Francisco, California]
* Sacrificial offerings [August 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena (Sections 1 Through 3) [August 23, Washington, DC]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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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
  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!

8/15
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,

8/16
El Rito, NM: TIE
http://experimentalcinema.org/elrito.htm
dusk, 1179 Hwy. 554

METEOR SHOWER
  Part 1: Recortes (Sergio Subero, 2009, Argentina, Super-8, 4min, silent)
  Los árboles se mueven, Sergio. Sí, Christian (Sergio Subero & Christian
  Nunclares, 2008, Argentina, Super-8, 4min, silent) Salta (Leandro
  Listorti, 2008, Argentina, Super-8, 4min, silent) Home Movie (Sergio
  Brauer, 2008, Argentina, Super-8, 6min, silent) Part 2: Sin título
  (Focus) (Pablo Marín, 2008, Argentina, Super-8, 4min, silent) Sin título
  (Snoopy) (Pablo Marín, 2009, Argentina, Super-8, 4min, silent) Sin
  título (Parte tres) (Pablo Marín, 2009, Argentina, Super-8, 4min,
  silent) Part 3: Collide-A-Scope (Gregory Godhard, 2009, Australia, 16mm,
  silent, 3min) The Crossing (Timoleon Wilkins, 2007, USA, 16mm, silent,
  6min) Plus: a few surprises from Jesse's corner

8/16
Los Angeles, California: AT&T Center
5:00pm - 6:30pm, 1150 Olive

CITY OF ANGLES: J.X. WILLIAMS' L.A. + O'ER THE LAND
  Los Angeles premiere. New documentary featurettte, "J.X. Williams' L.A."
  at the DFFLA (Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles) on Sunday August 16th.
  Here's a trailer for the film:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TuV_f1joHg. Film will be screened
  alongside Deborash Stratman's "O'er The Land" which premiered at
  Sundance earlier this year:
  http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/oer_the_land. You
  can purchase tickets to to the show here:
  http://downtownla.bside.com/2009/films/jxwilliamsla_downtownla2009.

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
Olympia, WA: Olympia Film Society
http://www.olympiafilmsociety.org/
7:30pm, 206 5th AVENUE SE, Olympia WA 98501

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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MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2009
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8/17
Brooklyn, New York: Triple Canopy & the Film Society at the Gowanus Studio Space
http://www.gowanusstudio.org/home.php
8:00pm, 119 8th Street

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009
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8/18
Baltimore, MD: Hexagon
http://hexagonspace.com/
8:00pm, 1825 North Charles Street

8/18
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor

PROMISED LANDS
  Promised Lands: Susan Sontag, 1974, 87 mins. Susan Sontag's third
  directorial effort and her only documentary, Promised Lands scrutinizes
  the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict and the growing divisions within
  Jewish thought over the question of Palestinian sovereignty. Shot in
  Israel during the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom
  Kippur War, Promised Lands is undoubtedly one of Sontag's most incisive
  examinations of contemporary Jewish consciousness, and she considered it
  her most personal film. Sontag structures the film as an antiphony
  between two sets of images. The first consists of observational
  sequences detailing moments from modern Israel: desert landscapes,
  patrols of roadside soldiers, old men and women at the Wailing Wall,
  Israeli grocery stores and movie theaters, the Jerusalem War Cemetery, a
  military psychiatric ward, and a wax museum depicting the official
  history of the state. Intercut throughout are conversations with two
  intellectuals: writer Yoram Kaniuk, a supporter of Palestinian rights
  who sees Israel shifting from its socialist roots to an American-style
  commercial culture, and physicist Yuval Ne'eman, who argues for the
  endemic nature of Arab anti-Semitism. Though the film grants no direct
  access to Arab or Palestinian voices, its clear elaboration of the
  debate prompted Israeli censors to ban its initial release, claiming it
  would be "damaging to the country's morale." Stateside, Stanley Kaufman
  praised the film's Hegelian nature, writing that it presents "not a
  struggle between truth and falsehood but between two opposing, partial
  truths." A Film Desk release. Tickets - $7, available at door.

8/18
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)

TIME MACHINE
  Third Eye Cinema And Northwest Film Forum Present A Special live event
  with Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat set the
  dials and push the levers while guiding you through the fourth
  dimension! Our machine will be carried on the breezes of parallel
  universes to return you to your rightful futures and pasts. Riding
  frequency waves of sight and sound, Sabine Gruffat will navigate by the
  red, green and blue stars of electronic constellations. Watch and learn
  about Real-Time Rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as she steers you
  through the sensory drone of the digital and analog hyperspace. Dropping
  out of the temporal flux and onto the lonely highway, Bill Brown will
  take you on a guided tour of memory's roadside attractions. Brown will
  pilot the machine toward the irretrievable past and the inaccessible
  future by way of scratchy records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides,
  narrating the interspatial monuments of our extemporary voyage.

8/18
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8PM, 1515 12th Ave.

TIME MACHINE
  Time tourists unite! Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown (in person) travel
  across time and space with an evening of video performance, spoken word,
  scratchy records, and 35mm slides. Ride frequency waves of sight and
  sound with Sabine Gruffat as she navigates by the red, green and blue
  stars of electronic constellations. Watch and learn about Real-Time
  Rendering, Quartz, and Max patches as she steers you through the sensory
  drone of the digital and analog hyperspace. Drop out of the temporal
  flux and onto the lonely highway with Bill Brown as he takes you on a
  guided tour of memory's roadside attractions. Brown will read reports of
  his travels as he presents a slide show of images from the irretrievable
  past and the inaccessible future. BIOGRAPHIES Bill Brown is a filmmaker
  from Lubbock, Texas. His films have screened at film festivals,
  galleries, and museums around the world, including the Sundance Film
  Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He
  also publishes the long-running travel zine, "Dream Whip." He works as
  an assistant professor of film and video at the University of Wisconsin
  in Madison. Sabine Gruffat is a media artist living and working in
  Madison, WI. Her films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide
  including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in
  Croatia and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the PDX Film Festival in
  Portland OR, The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and The Gramercy
  Theater in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been
  shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General and
  Hudson Franklin in New York, Brissot-Linz Gallery in Paris, the
  Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil.

8/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #6 : TIME TRAVELS
  Time Travels "Carriage Trade … is about travel, transportation,
  anthropological investigation: 4 continents, 4 organized religions,
  customs; about time with its 6 years in the making and cast of
  thousands; about how the same people age and grow and even change
  apartments over 6 years." –Warren Sonbert The elegant and elegiac
  Carriage Trade anchors this very fitting August program on travel with
  three diverse films each exploring spaces and places through montage,
  time lapse and, in Lelouch's case, high speed cinema vérité through the
  early morning streets of Paris. Lelouch's C'était un rendezvous has been
  somewhat of a legend amongst car racing enthusiasts and filmmakers [how
  many films can you say that about!?] for its thrilling high speed
  nine-minute single-take adrenalin rush. Coney by Caroline and Frank
  Mouris is filled with their customary cut-up animation–this time with a
  year-round time lapse portrait of Coney Island with a mesmerizing
  calliope-induced soundtrack–all shot through a lovely pink 'cotton
  candy' filter. Programme: Carriage Trade, Warren Sonbert, 1971, 61
  minutes, 16mm, colour, silent //// Coney, Caroline & Frank Mouris, 1975,
  5 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound //// C'était un rendezvous, Claude
  Lelouch, 1975, 8 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound//// @ the Art Bar,
  Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West Tuesday August 18, 2009 8:00pm
  screening, 5$ donation 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 Toronto, Canada. In this
  relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to
  encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening
  dialogue. The Gladstone Hotel is located at 1214 Queen St West. The Art
  Bar is the eastern-most door of the Hotel. Thanks to everyone at The
  Gladstone Hotel and the artists who make the work we show. For more
  info, or to join our email list, email earlymonthlysegments (@)
  gmail.com.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009
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8/19
Bellingham, WA: Pickford Film Center
http://www.pickfordcinema.org/pickford/
8:30pm, 1416 Cornwall Avenue

TIME MACHINE
  Time tourists unite! Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat set the dials and
  push the levers while guiding you through the fourth dimension! Our
  machine will be carried on the breezes of parallel universes to return
  you to your rightful futures and pasts. Riding frequency waves of sight
  and sound, Sabine Gruffat will navigate by the red, green and blue stars
  of electronic constellations. Watch and learn about Real–Time Rendering,
  Quartz, and Max patches as she steers you through the sensory drone of
  the digital and analog hyperspace. Dropping out of the temporal flux and
  onto the lonely highway, Bill Brown will take you on a guided tour of
  memory's roadside attractions. Brown will pilot the machine toward the
  irretrievable past and the inaccessible future by way of scratchy
  records and the hazy glow of 35mm slides, narrating the interspatial
  monuments of our extemporary voyage. BILL BROWN: Reading, slide
  projection, digital video, and records. SABINE GRUFFAT: Real–time
  rendered audiovisual performance with analog video mixer and game
  controller.

8/19
Colorado Springs, CO: TIE at Modbo
http://experimentalcinema.org/modbo.htm
7pm, Modbo (17c E. Bijou St.)

TIE AT MODBO
  Join us for the following films that illuminate the continuing vitality
  of experimental cinema with 8mm and Super-8 films. Special guests, Pablo
  Marín (Argentina) and Christopher May will be present to introduce and
  answer questions. Part I: Manual casero para detectives en pequeña
  escala (cap. 1-3) (2009, Argentina, Regular-8mm, sound on CD) Part II:
  Untitled Trilogy: Sin título (Focus) (2008, Argentina, Super-8, silent)
  Sin título (Snoopy) (2009, Argentina, Super-8, silent) Sin título (Parte
  tres) (2009, Argentina, Super-8, silent) Part III: Untitled Film (Jesse
  Kennedy, 2009, USA, Super-8, silent) Teen Branches (Christopher May,
  2009, USA, Super-8, outside sound) Untitled Insect Film (Jesse Kennedy,
  2009, USA, Super-8, silent) Cat and Bird (Noah Stout, USA, Super-8,
  silent) Film (Parkour) (Christopher May, 2009, Austria, Super-8, outside
  sound)

8/19
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Nerve
http://www.myspace.com/onartandperformancevenue
8:00pm, 1825 North Charles Street

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2009
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8/20
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 7
  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 7: Featuring celebrated scientist and Avedon subject
  Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate for chemistry and recipient of the 1962
  Nobel Peace Prize for his antinuclear activism, Bound by the Wind tracks
  the long international movement to institute a nuclear test ban treaty.
  Originally distributed as an activist piece for test-ban organizers in
  the 1990s, the documentary highlights global and local communities that
  continue to suffer the effects of being downwind of these world-changing
  experiments. FILMS: Bound by the Wind, David L. Brown, 1992, 88 min.,
  video

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2009
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8/22
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
10:30 pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,

8/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3:00 pm, SFMOMA: Phyllis Wattis Theater

8/22
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st), San Francisco, CA 94110

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2009
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8/23
Brooklyn, New York: Lake Ivan Performance Group
http://www.lakeivan.org
2 pm, The Brick 575 Metropolitan Avenue,

SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS
see August 22nd for details

8/23
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue NW

HOLLIS FRAMPTON'S HAPAX LEGOMENA (SECTIONS 1 THROUGH 3)
  One of the towering figures of the American avant-garde movement of the
  1960s, Hollis Frampton (1936–1984)—theoretician, photographer,
  raconteur, and friend of many visual artists—completed his seven-part
  meditation Hapax Legomena ("words or things appearing once") in 1972. It
  was restored this year under the supervision of New York University
  professor Bill Brand, through the cooperation of the National Film
  Preservation Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives,
  and New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program.

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