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This week [September 12 - 20, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Introducing the Australian International Experimental Film Festival.
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[project:or] (Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; No entry deadline)
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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Beaufort International Film Festival (Beaufort, SC. USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Gympie, Queensland, Austalia; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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Accessibility 2009: Cross Currents (Sumter, SC USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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Los Angeles as a Character (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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48th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 05, 2009)
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the 8 fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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Hot Sauce & Magnolias (Southern Region, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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2 festivals in SE Asia (Phnom Penh / Bangkok; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival (Smithfield, NC, USA; Deadline: October 12, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 12, Houston, Texas]
* The Eleventh Year [September 12, New York, New York]
* Man With A Movie Camera [September 12, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: ‘New Brow’ Underground Art + Big Daddy Roth [September 12, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents A Chick Strand Tribute Screening [September 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Man With A Movie Camera [September 13, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema the Man With the Movie Camera [September 13, New York, New York]
* Portrait of Jason [September 15, Berkeley, California]
* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 15, Ithaca, New York]
* Tuesday Club Film Night #1 [September 15, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts]
* Rr By James Benning [September 15, Seattle, Washington]
* Golan Levin [September 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Ata Open Screening [September 17, San Francisco, California]
* Electromediascope [September 18, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Metamkine At Florence Gould Hall [September 18, New York, New York]
* Excorpse Volume 1 (West Coast Premiere) [September 18, San Francisco, California]
* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 18, Terre Haute, IN]
* Other Cinema: Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? + William Burroughs + [September 19, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Trials of American Liberalism [September 20, Los Angeles, California]
* José Antonio Sistiaga: Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren [September 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
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9/12
Houston, Texas: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7 PM, Aurora Picture Show - 800 Aurora St.
47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere
showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This program
explores themes of life and death within the geography of our
surroundings, and includes films from Detroit, Montreal, San Francisco,
Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE ELEVENTH YEAR
Dziga Vertov 1928, 60 minutes, 35mm, silent. With Russian intertitles;
English synopsis available.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm, silent
9/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: ‘NEW BROW’ UNDERGROUND ART + BIG DADDY ROTH
Personally introduced by director Tanem Davidson, New Brow: Contemporary
Underground Art offers first-hand accounts from artists, galleries, and
collectors who have initiated a young and lively Pop-Surrealist
movement, thriving on the West Coast. Documenting its funky studios and
makeshift exhibition spaces, this energized feature acknowledges the
influence of oft unrecognized California subcultures, such as Kustom Kar
Kulture, underground comix, graffiti, tattoo, surf/skate, and punk
scenes. Includes interviews with Robert Williams, Ron English, Shepard
Fairey, and many more! PLUS Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink on Big
Daddy Roth, Cyrus Tabar on his ambient audio emulator, and free PBR for
the season's opening reception.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
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9/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS A CHICK STRAND TRIBUTE SCREENING
Filmmaker, artist, teacher, joyful marvel, force of life… Chick Strand
passed away on July 11, and our city and our lives won't be the same.
Tonight we'll be running a wide range of the glorious gamut of her work,
one treat from her husband, and more. Curated by filmmaker Amy Halpern.
Including ANGEL BLUE SWEET WINGS (1966, 3 min.), GUACAMOLE (1976, 18
min.), CARTOON LE MOUSSE (1979, 15 min.), BY THE LAKE (1986, 9.5 min.),
WATERFALL (1967, 3 min.), KRISTALNACHT (1979, 7 min.), ELASTICITY (1976,
25 min.), WAR ZONE by Marty Muller, aka Neon Park (1971, 3 min.) General
admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
9/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm, silent
9/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA by Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm, silent
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA / CHELOVEK S KINO-APPARATOM "Little introduction
is needed for one of the great masterpieces of world cinema, Vertov's
extraordinary meditation on then-contemporary Soviet Russian society and
the place of filmmakers within it. A kind of 'city symphony,'
cataloguing the sights and sounds of urban life, the film is structured
across a day, beginning with citizens waking up while machines are
revved up. As Vertov shows us, among the first heading off to work is
the 'man with the movie camera,' played in the film by his brother and
cameraman Mikhail Kaufman. For Vertov, the camera was a kind of
infinitely more perfect eye: it could offer details and aspects of the
world that might be missed otherwise." –FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
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9/15
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
PORTRAIT OF JASON
Described by Clarke as a response to the cinema verité works of Leacock
and Pennebaker, Portrait of Jason is a fascinating, moving depiction of
Jason Holliday, an African American gay prostitute and aspiring
nightclub performer. Filmed over twelve hours, from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., in
Clarke's apartment, Holliday's nonstop talking was interrupted only by
the reloading of the camera. Clarke described it as "the first time I
was able to give up my intense control and allow Jason and the camera to
react to each other." As the sole person on screen, Jason "performs" for
the camera, improvising and impersonating, relating stories, confessing
his sexual encounters, and ultimately revealing himself. It is a self
that may or may not relate to the stories he has told, but which comes
to "life" before the camera. In Clarke's verité exposé, there is no
truth; there is a production. "One thing I never expected was the highly
charged emotional evening that took place," she said. "How the people
behind the camera reacted that night is a very important part of what
the film is about."
9/15
Ithaca, New York: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:15 PM, Cornell Cinema - 104 Willard Straight Hall
47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere
showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This program
explores themes of a changing globalized world through personal,
existential journeys and includes films from Paris, London, Winnipeg,
and the U.S.
9/15
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club
7:00 pm, Loring-Greenough House (12 South Street, across from the Monument)
TUESDAY CLUB FILM NIGHT #1
You are cordially invited to the first of a series of film screenings
presented by the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Held at the
Loring-Greenough House every third Tuesday, the series will showcase the
work of Boston-area filmmakers and animators. The opening film will be
Andrew Landauro's sci-fi feature, CIRCUIT. Andrew is a MassArt graduate
and JP resident. He will be present to participate in the post-screening
discussion. There will be beer!! To find out more about CIRCUIT, visit
http://www.whatiscircuit.com. To learn about the Tuesday Club and the
Loring-Greenough House, go to http://www.loring-greenough.org. To
inquire about showing your own film (of any length or format) at a
future screening, email Mariya at louxor (at) runbox (dot) com.
9/15
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
RR BY JAMES BENNING
SEPTEMBER 15–16, TUESDAY–WEDNESDAY AT 8PM CO-PRESENTED BY THIRD EYE
CINEMA SEATTLE PREMIERE RR (James Benning, USA, 2008, 16mm, 111 min) In
1895, the first film audience ever reportedly ran screaming from the
theater during the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of a Train. The
audience thought that an actual oncoming train was hurtling towards
them, unfamiliar as they were with the screen and projector that
produced the moving image. Although today's moviegoers may be more
comfortable with train footage, James Benning's RR promises a unique
kind of cinematic experience for audiences. Structured around the
deceptively simple visual motif of a train crossing a series of static
shots, it presents a visually stunning portrait of the role of railroads
in American history and culture. "Benning has an incredible formal eye,
able to place his 16mm camera in the absolute perfect spot and capture
the landscape." —Daily Plastic
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
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9/17
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
GOLAN LEVIN
Golan Levin in person! Whimsical, provocative, and sublime, the work of
new media artist Golan Levin explores the possibilities of code,
screens, interactivity, and our relationship with machines. Levin
creates collaborative digital systems, resulting in performances like
Dialtones (A Telesymphony) (2001), a musical composition with sounds
generated through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the
audience's own mobile phones; software art such as The Dumpster: A
Visualization of Romantic Breakups (2005), which offers novel
perspectives on online communications; and installations like Eyecode
(2007), which generates imagery from its viewer's eyes. Levin will
discuss these works and more in an interactive screening and lecture.
Co-presented by the Department of Interactive Arts & Media, Columbia
College Chicago. 1997–2009, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.
9/17
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
Doors 7pm, Show 8, $5, 992 Valencia at 21st.
ATA OPEN SCREENING
ATA's open screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in
the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out
with us anywayEnjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the
refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and
length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance
submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max
length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All
genres. More Info: contact Matt & Richard at
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
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9/18
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Videos by Steina Vasulka. Previous program, Selected Works of Steina and
Woody Vasulka, on Sept. 11. Series continues Sept. 25. "Distant
Activities," 1972, 4:45 min., 1/2" open reel video shown on DVD. "Land
of Timoteus," 1975, 6:45 min., 1/2" open reel video shown on DVD.
"Orbital Obsessions," 1977 (remastered 1988), 24:10 min., 3/4" U-Matic
video shown on DVD. "Violin Power," 1978, 9:10 min., 1/2" open reel
video shown on DVD. "Bad," 1979, 2:04 min., 3/4" U-Matic video shown on
DVD. "Lilith," 1987, 9:10 min., 3/4" U-Matic video shown on DVD. "A So
Desu Ka," 1994, 9:30 min., S-VHS video shown on DVD. "In the Land of the
Elevator Girls," 1989, 4:14 min., S-VHS video shown on DVD. "Trevor,"
2000, 11 min., digital video shown on DVD. "Warp," 1999, 4 min., digital
video shown on DVD.
9/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 55 East 59th St. (between Madison and Park Avenues)
METAMKINE AT FLORENCE GOULD HALL
THIS SHOW IS NOT AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES. IT IS AT THE FLORENCE GOULD
HALL. CELLULE D'INTERVENTION METAMKINE Live at the French Institute
Alliance Francaise (FIAF). This event is programmed by Marie Losier and
Andy Lampert, in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives. Friday,
September 18, 2009 at 8pm Ticket Prices: TBD FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues) Anthology is
proud to partner with FIAF to bring the truly astounding projector
performance group Metamkine for a long-overdue New York City performance
at the Florence Gould Hall. Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, a trio
founded in 1987 and based in Grenoble, France, includes one musician
(J?r?me Noetinger) and two filmmakers (Christophe Auger and Xavier
Qu?rel) whose research into the relationship between image and sound has
resulted in works they refer to as live "musico-cinematic" creations.
Working with a core narrative, the three artists create a series of
impromptu situational vignettes accompanied by a live soundtrack of tape
fragments and analog synthesizer sounds. Through the use of mirrors,
multiple projectors, and ingenious on-stage editing, the group produces
and directs a stunning live film experience. No two performances are
ever the same. Metamkine truly create music for the eyes and film for
the ears! Metamkine is being presented as part of FIAF's CROSSING THE
LINE festival, a platform for vibrant new artistic practices that
engages widely diverse traditions, perspectives, and ideas through
artists working in France and New York City. Conceived, initiated, and
produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural
institutions, the third annual edition of this inter-disciplinary
contemporary arts festival further develops this focus on artists who
are transforming cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic. This
event is programmed by Marie Losier and Andy Lampert, in collaboration
with Anthology Film Archives. Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8pm Ticket
Prices: TBD FIAF, Florence Gould Hall 55 East 59th Street (Between
Madison and Park Avenues) Info: 212-355-6160 Tickets: 212-307-4100 For
more information please visit: fiaf.org
9/18
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia at 21st.
EXCORPSE VOLUME 1 (WEST COAST PREMIERE)
This program will be followed by a Q&A with participating local artists
Marty McCutcheon and Brad Wise. The first volume of a unique "Exquisite
Corpse" video art is a collaboration between 37 artists from 16
countries. The project was inspired by the classic Surrealists' drawing
method of the same name, in which a paper is folded so that each
contributor sees only a small portion of the preceding artist's work.
When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to reveal a
strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure. Using this
semi-blind, sequential method, ExCorpse participants created minute-long
video art segments in response to the final ten seconds of the previous
filmmaker's work. Each participant was then asked to incorporate these
seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they pleased, until
everyone's vision was threaded together into a final "corpse." "Only
recently, could such a pan-global, audiovisual variation of this
Surrealist exercise be produced with such ease and spontaneous
free-association," said project coordinator Kika Nicolela, an
award-winning filmmaker from São Paulo, Brazil. Nicolela facilitated the
project as viral social media experiment, following discussions in the
Video Artists Forum on Artreview.com, an international social network
for artists, curators and art critics. Berkeley-based painter and
multimedia artist Marty McCutcheon, who produced five separate pieces
for the first volume, was also the first to suggest an exquisite corpse
to Nicolela and the Forum. "This process of video exchange between
artists from around the world is very inspiring," said Brad WIse, a Bay
Area video artist, who was invited by McCutcheon to contribute. "It
illuminates the possibilities and potentials of global, collective
creativity." Wise, who describes himself as a student of Surrealism and
Salvadore Dali's "Paranoiac-critical method," has since contributed to
other video corpse projects, each with its with own themes and/or
creative "obstacles." He and McCutcheon hope that this screening at ATA
will inspire attending artists to collaborate in unique ways. ExCorpse,
v1, was produced in nine threads over the course of 2008, and it has
been screened in festivals and galleries throughout the world, including
Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, and the
US. The upcoming screening at ATA is the first time the project has been
shown in California. The project continues to grow. ExCorpse, v2, was
produced during the first half of 2009 involving 60 artists in 36
countries. Volume 2 will have its world premiere at the "V.art09"
International art fair in Värnamo, Sweden, September 11-13, and will be
screened at ATA at a later date. Participating Artists: Hélène Abram
(France), Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Romuald Beugnon (France). Caroline
Breton(France), Alexandra Buhl (Denmark), Michael Chang (Denmark), Jan
Hakon Erichsen (Norway), Alicia Felberbaum (UK), Alberto Guerreiro
(Portugal), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan), Ronee Hui
(England), Jan Kather (USA), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Christian Leduc
(Canada), Kai Lossgott (South Africa), Dellani Lima (Brazil), Mads
Ljungdahl (Denmark), Ambuja Magaji (India), Hans Manner-Jakobsen
(Denmark), Marty McCutcheon (USA), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Renata
Padovan (Brazil), Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden), Tim Pickerill (USA), John
Pirard (Belgium), Per E. Riksson (Sweden), Pedro Reis (Portugal), Pila
Rusjan (Slovenia), Joshua Sandler (USA), Zachary Sandler (USA), Simone
Stoll (Germany), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Joy
Whalen (USA), Alison Williams (South Africa), Brad Wise (USA) To read an
interview with ExCorpse members, see:
http://momente.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/exquisite-corpse-at-monkey-town-
new-york/ For more information, visit: http://www.vimeo.com/excorpse
http://www.artreview.com/profile/EXCORPSE
9/18
Terre Haute, IN: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
8 PM, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - 5500 Wabash Ave
47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a premiere
showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This program
explores themes of life and death within the geography of our
surroundings, and includes films from Detroit, Montreal, San Francisco,
Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
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9/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER? + WILLIAM BURROUGHS +
Kathy Acker was a pro-sex feminist author whose life became inextricably
blurred with her experimental fiction. The NorCal debut of Barbara
Caspar's trenchant portrait mixes testimonials of friends with archival
photos, TV interview footage, animated adaptations of her work, and
dialog with girls whom Acker inspired. Followed by: Lars Movin's Words
of Advice trails Beat writer Bill Burroughs from his European
spoken-word tour back to his Manhattan Bunker, and finally to his
Lawrence, KS home in his later years. Hilariously scabrous readings that
capture Burroughs' sardonic wit are intercut with in-depth interviews,
and music by Patti Smith, as friends such as poet John Giorno offer new
insights into the author's creative legacy. Free pencils, Dream Machine
in effect!
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
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9/20
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE TRIALS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
Profit motive and the whispering wind by John Gianvito and
American/Sandinista by Jason Blalock. Los Angeles premieres! Jason
Blalock in person Two tributes to the efforts of American progressives
past, using two very different approaches to non-fiction film, both
compelling and insightful. Profit motive and the whispering wind by John
Gianvito (2008, 58 min, 16mm to video) is a visual meditation on the
progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries,
historic plaques and markers, inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's
History of the United States. Winner of Best Experimental Film of the
Year from the National Society of Film Critics (2008).
American/Sandinista by Jason Blalock (2008, 30 min, video) tells the
story of a small group of controversial U.S. engineers who went to
Sandinista-controlled Nicaragua in the 1980s, determined to lend their
skills and labor to the revolutionary Sandinista cause. General
admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
9/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00 PM, Victoria Theater -- 2961 16th Street (at Mission and 16th)
JOSé ANTONIO SISTIAGA: ERE ERERA BALEIBU ICIK SUBUA ARUAREN
With a new score composed and performed by Savage Republic presented in
association with Cabinetic, RE/Search, the San Francisco Silent Film
Festival and the San Francisco Bay Guardian -- [center main floor --
members: $20 / non-members: $25; outer main floor & balcony -- members:
$10 / non-members: $15] ----- "Basque abstract artist José Antonio
Sistiaga painted directly onto film with homemade inks to create this
silent 1970 feature. But Sistiaga's strangely titled work… is different
from the films of Stan Brakhage, who didn't come to film from painting
and had his own rhythm. […] [I]ts combination of color and 35-millimeter
'scope (with about half an hour in black and white) yields the kind of
spectacle one associates with musicals and [science fiction] epics."
(Jonathan Rosenbaum) ----- A hand-painted masterpiece of the 1970s; a
legendary band of the 1980s. Sistiaga's rarely-screened "ere erera
baleibu icik subua aruaren" is a work of uncompromising beauty that
absolutely deserves a wider appreciation. Savage Republic, one of the
unrecognized godfathers of post-rock, formed roughly three decades ago
in the midst of the Los Angeles punk rock scene and abrubtly disbanded
in 1989. In recent years, they've reformed and their unique sound
(imagine a Middle Eastern surf band backed by the rhythm section from
Joy Division) is as compelling and inexorable as ever. For
Cinematheque's season opener, SR -- original members Ethan Port and Thom
Fuhrmann joined by Alan Waddington and Kerry Dowling -- performs a newly
commissioned score to Sistiaga's prodigious work, presented in a
stunning 35mm print from Paris.
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