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Part 1 of 2: This week [October 3 - 11, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Roger Beebe: Films For One To Eight Projectors [October 3, Dallas, TX]
* Mary Ellen Bute [October 3, Frankfurt, Germany]
* Program 2 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 3 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 4 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 5 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Barry Jenkins’ Shorts + Medicine For Melancholy [October 3, San Francisco, California]
* Take A Day For Yourself! [October 3, Troy, NY]
* Roger Beebe: Films For One To Eight Projectors [October 4, Austin, TX]
* Touching the Sky [October 4, Brussels, Belgium]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer
Retrospective (Part 1 of 8) [October 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Program 7 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 8 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 9 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 10 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 11 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Ulrike Ottinger: the Korean Wedding Chest [October 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Bruce: Mcclure: Pie Pellicane Jesu Dominae [October 5, New York, New York]
* Ben Russell: the Complete Trypps [October 5, New York, New York]
* ExiléE [October 6, Berkeley, California]
* A Tribute To Chick Strand (1931-2009) Pt. 2 [October 6, New York, New York]
* Ben Russell: Let Each One Go Where He May [October 6, New York, New York]
* Black Narcissus (John Incledon: In Person) [October 6, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Shocked By Existence: Recent video Works By Ken Jacobs [October 6, San Francisco, California]
* Nervous Magic Lantern Performance: Towards the Depths of the Even Greater
Depression [October 7, Berkeley, California]
* Lewis Klahr: Prolix Satori [October 7, New York, New York]
* The Shining Hour – Premieres, Revivals and Surprises [October 7, New York, New York]
* Mustache Cinema Presents A George Kuchar Triple Threat [October 7, San Francisco, California]
* Book of Mirrors: Films By Joost Rekveld [October 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* [Project:Or] [October 8, Montréal]
* The Land Speaks Arabic [October 8, San Francisco, California]
* Amor, Work Done, the Hedge theater, Pitcher of Colored Light [October 8, San Francisco, California]
* Joan of Arc of Mongolia [October 9, New York, New York]
* Potter-Belmar Labs At Art Outside [October 9, Rockdale, TX]
* Early Monthly Segments, From the Notebook of…, Efpsychi, Sotiros, the
Stoas [October 9, San Francisco, California]
* Abnormals Gallery Opening [October 10, Berlin, Germany]
* The Image of Dorian Gray In the Yellow Press [October 10, New York, New York]
* Ticket of No Return [October 10, New York, New York]
* Freak Orlando [October 10, New York, New York]
* Live Cinema: Nate Boyce + John Davis + Softserve + [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Palinode, Diminished Frame, the Painting, Winged Dialogue, Plan of
Brussels, Still Light, Wingseed [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Ruskin, the Ground [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Strategies of the Medium iii: In the Dark [October 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour – Program
1 [October 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Madame X [October 11, New York, New York]
* Joan of Arc of Mongolia [October 11, New York, New York]
* Eyes Upside Down: P. Adams Sitney On Brakhage & Sonbert [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society: Dream Films 1926-1972 [October 11, Seattle, Washington]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009
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10/3
Dallas, TX: The McKinney Avenue Contemporary- The MAC
http://www.the-mac.org
5pm, 3120 McKinney
ROGER BEEBE: FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS
mutli-projector experimental shorts by Roger Beebe Renowned experimental
filmmaker Roger Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from
Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in
Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, takes to the Heartland
in September and October to present a program of his recent
mutli-projector films as part of a 6-week US tour. In his recent films,
Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as
many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type
experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema."
The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films
"The Strip Mall Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate
three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, "Money Changes Everything," and
on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space
"Last Light of a Dying Star." These films are simultaneously performance
films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the
projectors-and running from projector to projector), technological
demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and
presentation-16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital
formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. "[Beebe's
films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry
Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose
Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of
imperial America." --David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly "Beebe's
work is goofy, startling, and important." --Daniel Kraus, Wilmington
Encore
10/3
Frankfurt, Germany: Deutsches Filmmuseum
http://www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de
unknown time, unknown address
MARY ELLEN BUTE
The Mary Ellen Bute Retrospective screens tonight, Oct 3. at Deutsches
Filmmuseum, Frankfurt. Program includes all of her extant short abstract
films, and a documantary work in progress (13 minutes). Program
presented by Center for Visual Music in association with Cecile Starr
and The Women's Independent Film Exchange. 16mm prints. Introduced by
Cindy Keefer of CVM. RHYTHM IN LIGHT USA 1934, 5 min / SYNCHROMY NO. 2
USA 1935, 5 min / DADA USA 1936, 3 min / PARABOLA USA 1937, 9 min /
ESCAPE USA 1937, 5 min / SPOOK SPORT (with Animation by Norman McLaren)
USA 1939, 8 min / TARANTELLA USA 1940, 5 min / POLKA GRAPH (FUN WITH
MUSIC) USA 1947, 5 min / COLOR RHAPSODY USA 1948, 6 min / IMAGINATION
USA 1957, 3 min / NEW SENSATIONS IN SOUND USA 1949, 3 min / ABSTRONIC
USA 1952, 7 min / MOOD CONTRASTS USA 1953, 7 min
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 2
Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis, USA, 2009, 1m); Scene 32 (Shambhavi
Kaul, USA/India, 2009, 4m); What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (Erin
Espelie, USA, 2009, 7m) ; Night Side (Rebecca Myers, USA, 2009, 4.28m);
Dwarfs the Sea (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2007, 5m); Journal and Remarks
(David Gatten, USA, 2009, 15m); A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong
Weersethakul, Thailand, 2009, 16m) ; ((((( ))))) (Leslie Thornton, USA,
2009, 9m); Kempinski (Neil Beloufa,Algeria/Mali/France, 2007, 14m);
Trypps #6 (Malobi) (Ben Russell, USA/Suriname, 2008, 12m); I Know Where
I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2009, 30m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 3
A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009): Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966,
4m); Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15m); Kristallnacht (1979, 7m); Loose Ends
(1979, 25min); Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
5pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 4
Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier, Netherlands/UK, 2008, 10m); Riff (Lis Rhodes,
U.K., 2004, 18m); O'er the Land (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2009, 52m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
9:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 5
Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow, Canada/Italy, 2009, 9.40m) Bethlehem
(Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 2009, 8m,); My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, USA,
Spain 2009, 4m); If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson, USA, 2009,12m);
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2009, 6:30m); excerpt from
THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2009, 19m); Still
Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon, USA, 2009, 15m).
10/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: BARRY JENKINS’ SHORTS + MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY
The Bay Area is lucky to be the new home of Mr. Jenkins, after an
underwhelming stint in heartless Hollywood. Nominated for three
Independent Spirit Awards, the prolific Jenkins will personally premiere
six shorts (Little Brown Boy, My Josephine, Bruce, A Young Couple, One
Shot Film, and Tall Enough) before unspooling his much-lauded first
feature, Medicine. In muted tones, this compelling love story of
strolls, bikes, and one-night stands is told through the eyes of two
African-American twenty-somethings. With San Francisco having the
smallest proportional Black population of any other major American city,
their poignant drift navigates ethnic identity by illustrating how
gentrification makes it virtually impossible for urban minorities to
just "be."
10/3
Troy, NY: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
http://www.empac.rpi.edu
12-6pm daily, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street
TAKE A DAY FOR YOURSELF!
From Thursday, October 1 to Saturday, November 28, the Mezzanine of the
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at
Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute will be home to 'Take a Day for
Yourself!,' a new installation by the Brooklyn-based Danish artist Mads
Lynnerup. The genre-crossing Lynnerup has long been interested in the
everyday: His last installation was devoted to routines. But with 'Take
A Day for Yourself!,' he charts what happens when people depart from
those routines-or even disrupt them. Specifically, he's enlisted random
members of the Troy and Rensselaer communities to take an unscheduled
day off work or school or whatever else they're supposed to be doing.
Everything else is up to them. The rich and inventive uses Lynnerup's
subjects make of their ensuing 12 hours of stolen time are shown on
short videos and oversized posters that together make up a whimsical
visual guide to taking a day off in Troy-or anywhere else, while gently
tweaking some of our society's fundamental assumptions about usefulness,
leisure, and productivity. Mads Lynnerup's work incorporates video,
printmaking, sculpture and performance in an ongoing investigation of
phenomena that most of us take for granted. His subjects have included
the anti-terrorist posters on the New York subways ('If You See Anything
Interesting, Please Let Someone Know Immediately') and the daily
routines of residents of a Copenhagen neighborhood ('Routines'). He has
shown his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Mori Art
Museum in Tokyo, P.S. 1 in New York, and Warsaw's Zacheta National
Gallery of Art, and is represented in the collections of the Blanton
Museum of Art, the Miami Art Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art,
and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2009
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10/4
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, 1901 East 51 Street,
ROGER BEEBE: FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS
Roger Beebe and his traveling show of abstract films shown on eight
projectors. Roger Beebe, professor of Film and Media Studies at the
University of Florida, is on a 6-week tour with his latest projection
installation. This contemporary version of "expanded cinema," carefully
crafted and meticulously timed, will include "The Strip Mall Trilogy,"
"TB TX Dance," "Money Changes Everything," and "Last Light of a Dying
Star." A Q&A will follow the screening. -- Chale Nafus
10/4
Brussels, Belgium: Wiels / Atelier Graphoui
www.wiels.org
10:00 - 18:00, Wiels, Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
TOUCHING THE SKY
A programme of animation films and videos for children (0-99 yrs old) on
the theme of the sky which brings together works by artists and by
children themselves. With : Simon Faithfull, Oskar Fischinger, Damian
Gascoigne, Stephen Gray, Stuart Hilton, Jeanne Liotta, Len Lye, Carolina
Melis & Susanne Flender, David O'Reilly, Hiraki Sawa And works from
animation workshops by Joanna Lorho, Eric Dederen, Atelier Graphoui,
Kidscam and Caméra Etc. The videos will run continuously between 10h and
18h (spread throughout the Wiels building), and there will be screening
of 16mm works at 15h. Programme : Maria Palacios Cruz and Frédérique
Versaen
10/4
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 BODIES, OBJECTS, FILMS: AN YVONNE RAINER
RETROSPECTIVE (PART 1 OF 8)
Yvonne Rainer in person! In a discussion after the films with Lynette
Kessler, Executive Director of Dance Camera West. Over the course of our
2009-2010 seasons, Filmforum is proud to present a full retrospective of
the media works of Yvonne Rainer. One of the most significant artists in
dance and film of the last fifty years, Rainer's films "interweave the
real and fictional, the personal and political, the concrete and
abstract in imaginative, unpredictable ways." Rainer will be present
several times during the series, each with a different interlocutor, to
discuss with her varying aspects of her approaches to her art and life.
We'll start with her earliest and latest works, all connected to various
performances: Hand Movie (1966, 5:00, b&w, silent, 8mm to video);
Volleyball (Foot Film) (1967, 10:00 b&w, silent, 16mm to video); Rhode
Island Red (1968, 10:00, b&w, silent, 16mm to video); Trio Film (1968,
13:00, b&w, silent, 16mm to video); Line (1969, 10:00, b&w, silent, 16mm
to video); After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid (2002, 31 min,
video) General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum
members. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood &
Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 7
Three Ravens (Bobby Abate, USA, 2009,10m); My Way 1 (Amie Siegel, USA,
2009, 9.25m) ; I Miss (Annie Dorsen, USA, 2009, 7m); (If I Can Sing a
Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child, USA, 2009, 5m); The Inversion,
transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2008,
11m); non-Aryan (Abraham Ravett, USA, 2009, 10m); Faces by a Person
Unknown/I volti dell'Anonimo (Paolo Gioli Italy, 2009, 10.38m); Vineland
(Laura Kraning, USA, 2009, 10m); The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter (Emily
Wardill, U.K., 2008, 10.23m); Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet &
Matthias Müller, Germany, 2009,10m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 8
The Last Happy Day (Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 38m); Nothing is Over
Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008, 17m); The Exception and the Rule
(Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, U.K./India/Pakistan, 37m, color/b&w, sound).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
5:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 9
Holy Woods (Cécile Fontaine France 2008 8m.); Sahara Mosaic (Fern Silva,
USA, 2009,10m) ; Way fare (Sylvia Shedelbauer, Germany, 2009, 10m);
Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa,Thailand,Japan, 2009, 2.5m); Chromatic
Frenzy (in Chromavision 3-D) (Kerry Laitala, USA, 2009, 6m) ; Vibration
(Jack Bond & Jane Arden, U.K., 1974, 36m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
7:45pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 10
Postcard #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber, USA, 2009, 3m); Sphinx on the
Seine (Paul Clipson, USA, 2008, 9m,); Piensa En Mí (Alexandra Cuestra,
USA/Ecuador, 2009,15.06m); Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn,U.K., 2008, 7m); H(i)J
(Guillaume Cailleau, Germany, 2009, 6m); The Universe (Barry Gerson,
USA, 2009, 7m); Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier, USA, 2009, 4.40m);
Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2009, 39m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
9:45pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 11
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito, Canada, 2009, 10m);
Parallax (Christopher Becks, Canada/France/Yemen/Bangaladesh, 2009,
6.40m); Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark, USA, 2009, 6m); Physical
Changes (David Dinnell, USA, 2009, 36m); Wound Footage (Thorsten
Fleisch, Germany, 2009, 6m); Cong In Our Gregational Pom-Poms (Bruce
McClure, USA, 2009, 20m performance for three 16mm projectors).
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009
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10/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
ULRIKE OTTINGER: THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST
West Coast premiere Germany, 2008, 82 min., 35mm After the sold-out
success of her presentation of Prater at REDCAT in 2008, Ulrike
Ottinger, one of the most original figures in German cinema, is back
with Die koreanische Hochzeitstruhe, a provocative mélange of
ethnography, stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes. As if in a
modernist fairytale, Ottinger explores the "well-stocked miracle" of
Korean wedding chests and finds herself in an enchanted maze of a modern
Asian metropolis flush with mythological heroes, traditional rites,
ancestral symbolism, dreams of eternal love, and a whole lot of Western
kitsch. "Even though (or especially because) this carefully packed,
filled, and tied-up wooden chest was assembled according to the rules of
an honored tradition, it offers a remarkable insight into and overview
of modern Korean society," says Ottinger. "I was inspired to look more
closely at the old and new rituals to determine what is old in the new
and new in the old... Bon voyage into the present!" In person: Ulrike
Ottinger Curated by Bérénice Reynaud and Steve Anker.
10/5
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
7pm, 32 Second Avenue
BRUCE: MCCLURE: PIE PELLICANE JESU DOMINAE
A three-part performance for multiple projectors and guitar pedals.
10/5
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue
BEN RUSSELL: THE COMPLETE TRYPPS
BEN RUSSELL IN PERSON WITH THE NYC PREMIERE OF THE COMPLETE TRYPPS!
TRYPPS 1-6
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2009
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10/6
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
EXILéE
Introduction and Reading by Constance Lewallen Please note special
location: Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2621 Durant Avenue To mark the
publication of a new book of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's writings, Exilée
and Temps Morts: Selected Works, and in conjunction with an exhibition
of the artist's work in the BAM galleries, we present a rare screening
of Cha's installation Exilée. Meditative and complex, Exilée weaves
together Cha's personal experience, Korean history, linguistic play, and
poetic structures to allude to the experience of exile. The piece also
explores the distinguishing characteristics of its two media, Super 8mm
film and video. A video monitor is mounted in a wall onto which a film
is projected. In the differences between the rhythms of the editing, the
scale of the images, and the quality and sources of the light, as well
as the relationship between image and sound, Cha's recurring concern
with the theme of displacement emerges. Memory, another preoccupation,
is suggested by the use of repetition, fades, and afterimages, as well
as by references to the attempts to silence Korea's language and culture
during the Japanese occupation. Characteristically, the title itself
also plays with language, suggesting both an exiled person and the act
of living in exile.
10/6
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
A TRIBUTE TO CHICK STRAND (1931-2009) PT. 2
Part two- (part one at Views NYFF Walter Reade Theater on October 3)
10/6
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
9:115, 32 Second Avenue
BEN RUSSELL: LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
2009, 135 minutes, 16mm.
10/6
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
BLACK NARCISSUS (JOHN INCLEDON: IN PERSON)
Black Narcissus (1947, 100 min.) by MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER.
Showwill begin with a short pre-screen introduction by film and
literature scholar, John Incledon who will share with the audience his
compelling, Freudian reading of the film. No matter what the critical
perspective, most considerations of this film, eventually arrive at its
amazing art direction and revolutionary use of color: "In Black
Narcissus, color was used to amp up the exotic nature and "otherness" of
the Indian landscape, architecture and costume. Yet color was also used
in a new way, becoming "the emotion of the picture" (Martin Scorsese).
Used as a thematic device, color became a way of externalizing the nuns'
secret thoughts, their repressed emotions and desires. Secondly, the
sense of place achieved through a combination of phenomenal art
direction, highly expressive score and sound design is so enchanting and
palpable, that the old palace and the mountains almost become characters
themselves. So convincing were the studio sets, plaster mountains and
matte paintings, that Powell received many letters from people who had
traveled or lived in India claiming to know the exact locations of
certain scenes." - Karli Lukas, Senses of Cinema
10/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, California College of the Arts -- 1111 Eighth Street (between Hooper and Irwin)
SHOCKED BY EXISTENCE: RECENT VIDEO WORKS BY KEN JACOBS
Ken Jacobs in-person. Presented in association with Microcinema
International -- [members: $5 / non-members: $10 / CCA students &
faculty: free] ----- A program of recent short videos, some of them
animated stereographs of family and friends. These include "A Scorcher
in Italy", "Jonas Mekas in Kodachome Days", "Hot Dogs at the Met", "Bob
Fleischner Dying" and "Gravity is Tops". What Happened on 23rd Street in
1901 is an elaboration of an Edison short and "excerpt from The Sky
Socialist stratified" is a digital revisit to an 8mm feature I shot in
1963/64. "Brain Operations" is a merciless plunge into op-tickle
phenomena -- and I mean merciless. And I mean plunge. Combining 2D with
3D is so wrong (don't you think?), often resulting in an impossible and
unholy 2 and 1/2D. "Avant-garde" used to mean "naked people." Now one is
actually expected to watch this sinful cine-miscegenation with eyes
slightly crossed, as they are now while you read this. (Ken Jacobs)
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009
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10/7
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN PERFORMANCE: TOWARDS THE DEPTHS OF THE EVEN GREATER
DEPRESSION
Ken Jacobs in Person "Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found
between shots. Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get
between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new
play of appearances is possible here."—Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs has been
creating films, videos, and moving image performances for over fifty
years, often drawing on early cinema and found images. Tonight is a rare
opportunity to see a live performance of one of Jacobs's marvelous
inventions, the Nervous Magic Lantern, which uses pre-cinema technology
to create startling, mesmerizing images. Jacobs writes: "Abstraction can
offer the opportunity to meet and grapple directly with risky
situations, taking real chances instead of identifying with some
actor-proxy on a movie-set. The viewer of Nervous Magic Lantern
phenomena plunges, hovers, sinks, and rises into illusionary deep space.
The question of what we are looking at, tantalizingly suggestive as
appearances might be, becomes of less urgency than from where in space
we are viewing and where and of what consistency and shape and size is
the mass confronting us at any one moment, and when and how did it
become what a moment ago it was not. It might be best to think of what
you and others see as a group hallucination. My self-constructed
'lantern' utilizes neither film nor video." Preceded by 3-D shorts:
Opening the 19th Century: 1896 (Ken Jacobs, U.S., 1990). Jacobs draws on
Lumière Brothers footage shot from trains. (11 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm)
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs, U.S., 2006). A stereograph
documenting factory production of thread. (14 mins, Music by Rick Reed,
Color, Digital video)
10/7
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
6:45, 32 Second Avenue
LEWIS KLAHR: PROLIX SATORI
LEWIS KLAHR IN PERSON WITH PROLIX SATORI
10/7
New York, New York: Walking Picture Palace
9:15, 32 Second Avenue
THE SHINING HOUR – PREMIERES, REVIVALS AND SURPRISES
New work by Ben Rivers – Ken Jacobs –Luther Price April Simmons Caskie
and others to be announced.
10/7
San Francisco, California: Mustache Cinema
http://site.mustachecinema.com/
7PM , 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez)
MUSTACHE CINEMA PRESENTS A GEORGE KUCHAR TRIPLE THREAT
This October, Mustache honors the outrageous films of George Kuchar by
screening his underground 60s trilogy: Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966),
Eclipse Of The Sun Virgin (1967), and Knocturne (1968). Don't miss this
16mm event filled with campy melodramas, overbearing mother figures,
repressed sexual desires and B-movie worthy soundtracks. Pre-Halloween
costumes are HEAVILY encouraged. Candy and pumpkin painting for the
first 13 attendees.-------------- Wed, Oct 7th, 2009. show starts @ 7PM
FREE Admission & Mustaches! Mustache Cinema is an artist-run,
experimental film series hosted by El Rio on the first Wednesday of
every month. Our 8mm/16mm film projections present artistic alternatives
to commercial filmmaking and expose audiences to more thought provoking
cinema. Mustache is dedicated to inspiring creative discussions about
film, cultivating a friendly community and passing out fake mustaches at
every show. [email suppressed]
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009
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10/8
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm , 164 N. State St
BOOK OF MIRRORS: FILMS BY JOOST REKVELD
Joost Rekveld in person! Joost Rekveld's spectacular cinematic treatises
on the nature of light have screened around the world, including
Sundance, Rotterdam, Media City, and the Dutch Filmmuseum. Inspired by
Medieval and Renaissance theories of optics, proto-cinematic
technologies, X-ray photography, and visual music, Rekveld uses handmade
equipment to produce the optical experiments at the heart of his work's
immersive cinematic experiences. In the award-winning #11, Marey Moiré
(1999), Rekveld creates stroboscopic patterns from filaments of
intersecting lights; in #23.2, Book of Mirrors (2002) he uses
kaleidoscopes to refract light onto the film's emulsion; and in his
latest film, #37 (2009), Rekveld generates swarming tessellations from
software used to explore the organic symmetries of crystals. Also
featured is the short film, #3 (1994). 1994–2009, Netherlands, multiple
formats, ca. 75 min.
10/8
Montréal: [project:or]
http://www.project-or.net/
8pm, [pøte:tr] 6029A av. du Parc (between Bernard and Van Horne)
[PROJECT:OR]
a) A free bi-monthly creative cinematic event with finely curated short
films, live performances and installations. b) A bi-monthly zine launch.
A playful booklet for grown-ups with paper dolls, pin patterns,
vegetarian recipes and more. *********** a) Événement cinématique
bimensuel gratuit, accompagné de la présentation de programmes de courts
métrages, les performances en direct ainsi que les installations
artistiques. b) Lancement d'un micro journal divertissant pour adultes,
avec des labyrinthes, des bandes dessinées, des recettes végétariennes
et plus.
10/8
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm $6, 992 Valencia St at 21st
THE LAND SPEAKS ARABIC
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Screening "The Land Speaks Arabic" SPECIAL
GUEST SPEAKER: Richard Becker, author of the new book "Palestine, Israel
and the U.S. Empire." Becker is a noted writer and commentator on Middle
East affairs and has visited the Middle East on numerous occasions for
conferences, fact-finding delegations and humanitarian relief missions.
His book provides a sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine—from
the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist
settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog
for U.S. interests, to present-day conflicts and the prospects for a
just resolution. The narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of
Palestinian liberation. Copies of the book will be available for
purchase at the screening. "The Land Speaks Arabic" documents the late
19th century birth of Zionism and its repercussions for Palestinians.
The film is detailed with original source documents, Zionist leaders'
quotations, rare archival footage, testimonies of witnesses and
interviews with historians. All help to illustrate that the expulsion of
the indigenous Arab population from Palestine was far from an accidental
result of the 1948 war. This award-winning film shines a spotlight on
the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement. A film by
Marse Gargour, 61min., 2008.
10/8
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, San Francisco Art Institute -- 800 Chestnut (between Jones and Leavenworth)
AMOR, WORK DONE, THE HEDGE THEATER, PITCHER OF COLORED LIGHT
Robert Beavers in-person -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10] -- "My Hand
Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure: The Films of
Robert Beavers" series Program I ----- "AMOR" uses themes of cutting and
sewing as metaphors. Cloth is cut and fabric is sewn, shrubs are trimmed
and hedges form majestic garden archways and a male figure claps his
hands as if to signal a sync-cue on which there is a visual cut. Central
to this work are the complex emotions surrounding love, separation and
the metonymic twinning of objects, including that of edited image and
sutured sound. "Work Done" transports the viewer to a variety of times
and places. Old-world customs (ice blocks used for refrigeration, the
ancient craft of book binding and the preparation of pig's blood
pancakes) are juxtaposed with contemporary urban scenes. Color filters
heighten the contrast between the natural and man-made worlds. Shot in
Rome, "The Hedge Theater" is inspired by the Baroque architecture and
stone carvings of Francesco Borromini and St. Martin and the Beggar, a
painting by the Sienese artist Stefano di Giovanni (more commonly known
as il Sassetta). Beavers contrasts the sensuous softness of winter light
with the lush green growth brought by spring rains. Each shot and each
source of sound is steeped in meaning and placed within the film's
structure to build a poetic relationship between sound and image. The
program concludes with Beavers' most recent film, "Pitcher of Colored
Light", a loving portrait of his mother depicted in her Massachusetts
home and garden, shot across several seasons. ----- This long-awaited
presentation of Robert Beavers' film cycle is presented with the
generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Consulate General of Switzerland. For more
information visit sfcinematheque.org
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009
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10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOAN OF ARC OF MONGOLIA
by Ulrike Ottinger 1989, 165 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Delphine Seyrig and Irm Hermann. "[Delphine Seyrig is] a
cultivated lady anthropologist traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad,
where her companions include a renowned Yiddish tenor (Micky Katz), a
German schoolteacher (Fassbinder regular Irm Hermann), a campy all-girl
klezmer trio, and a young girl in search of adventure. When, mid-steppe,
the train is halted by Mongolian tribeswomen on ponies who kidnap the
female passengers, the journey assumes a new dimension. Visually
splendid and emotionally resonant, with knock-out musical numbers, this
is both a lesbian epic and a love story between a filmmaker and her
medium." –Leslie Camhi, VILLAGE VOICE
10/9
Rockdale, TX: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
At sundown, Apache Pass, 9112 N. FM 908
POTTER-BELMAR LABS AT ART OUTSIDE
Potter-Belmar Labs, the dynamic video art duo, will be presenting their
fortunetelling live cinema performance Fortune in a cozy tent at Art
Outside, on the second day of the festival, as soon as the sun goes
down. Art Outside is a 3-day, one-of-a-kind, community-based outdoors
celebration of Arts, created by hundreds of artists and appreciated by
thousands of participants. For more information about Potter-Belmar
Labs' performances, go to http://potterbelmar.org/work/pbl/index.html
10/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS, FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF…, EFPSYCHI, SOTIROS, THE
STOAS
Robert Beavers in-person -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10] -- "My Hand
Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure: The Films of
Robert Beavers" series Program II ---- "Early Monthly Segments", filmed
when Beavers was eighteen and nineteen years old, is a stylized work of
self-portraiture, depicting the filmmaker and his companion Gregory J.
Markopoulos in their Swiss lodgings. The film functions as a diary,
documenting the familiar with great love and transforming objects and
ordinary personal effects into a highly charged work of homoeroticism.
"From the Notebook of…" is a masterful work of structural harmony,
binary oppositions and self-reflexive form. The title refers to Leonardo
da Vinci's notebook and to the filmmaker's own written observations on
filmmaking techniques. Beavers' view of the world (in this case,
Florence) is mediated by a careful sequencing of moving mattes which
split the screen vertically, giving the effect of a page turning in a
book. Gloriously shot and edited, the film is simultaneously
introspective and engaged in understanding the world. Emblematic images
include a dove being set free, the lush green leaf of a plant and the
male form. Beavers has written on "Efpsychi": "The details of the young
actor's face -- his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. -- are set
opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens… He speaks a
single word, teleftea, meaning 'the last (one).'" "Sotiros" incorporates
narrative film devices such as intertitle cards into a metaphorical
dialogue between two male lovers, revealed largely through the luminous
depiction of everyday objects in their shared world. A color palette of
pastels and golden hues and the strains of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck
enrich the film's emotional character. "The Stoas" includes images of
the deserted industrial arcades (stoas) of Athens during siesta and the
refreshing waters of a bountiful river. Writes New York City
critic/curator Ed Halter, "An ineffable, unnamable immanence flows
through the images of "The Stoas", a kind of presence of the human soul
expressed through the sympathetic absence of the human figure." ----
This long-awaited presentation of Robert Beavers' film cycle is
presented with the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Consulate General of
Switzerland. For more information visit sfcinematheque.org
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