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Date: Sat Oct 03 2009 - 07:13:02 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [October 3 - 11, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009
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10/10
Berlin, Germany: nEgoist
http://negoist.
20:00, Linienstraße 154
ABNORMALS GALLERY OPENING
The gallery opening event will be connected with the New Nude
Photography album premiere and exhibition. The exhibition will feature
works created by members of our abnormals.org community and published in
the New Nude Photography album. The event will be accompanied by music
form "Exquisite Mussels" CD album by Aline Tissot. More Info:
www.AbnormalsGallery.com
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE IMAGE OF DORIAN GRAY IN THE YELLOW PRESS
by Ulrike Ottinger 1984, 150 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Verushka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea
Blumenschein, Irm Hermann, and Magdalena Montezuma. Dorian Gray, young,
rich, handsome, and above all narcissistic, wiles away his days
attending lectures, art exhibits, and charity dinners. His life is lived
out of the public eye until the cynical head of a media conglomerate
decides to turn him into a celebrity in an unscrupulous ploy to boost
newspaper sales. Dorian soon forgets his noble pursuits as he becomes
front-page news around the world. But can Dorian handle the power of
celebrity or will it destroy him?
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TICKET OF NO RETURN
by Ulrike Ottinger 1979, 108 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, and
Eddie Constantine. A portrait of two unusual but also extremely
different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid
mask, consciously drinks herself to death. The other is a known drinker
in town. In the course of the story they try to get to know each other,
but they cannot come together. The background is Berlin, thrown open to
a grotesque kind of sightseeing (drinkers' geography) and complemented
by authentic contributions from people who live there or are visiting –
rock singers, writers, artists, taxi drivers.
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FREAK ORLANDO
by Ulrike Ottinger 1981, 126 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie
Constantine. "Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this
extravaganza of performance art and oddity by Ottinger. Actually, the
political focus is closer to that of Tod Browning's FREAKS than to
Woolf's ORLANDO, though Ottinger has taken from Woolf the notion of 'an
ideal protagonist [who] represents all the social possibilities – man
and woman – which we normally do not have.' The five episodes situate
the hero/heroine in the Freak City department store (along with her
seven dwarf shoemakers), in the Middle Ages, toward the end of the
Spanish Inquisition, in a circus (where he falls in love with Delphine
Seyrig, one of a pair of Siamese twins), and on a grand European tour
with four bunnies (during which she appears at an annual festival of
ugliness)." –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
10/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
LIVE CINEMA: NATE BOYCE + JOHN DAVIS + SOFTSERVE +
MC Cyrus Tabar welcomes three live A/V acts, forging a new fusion
between real-time audio and visual performance. Boyce's new
Messiaen-based work is framed within a heuristic review of media-art
touchstones—Breer, Kren, Kubelka, Frampton, Sharits—who resonate with
his own approach to serial, systemic composition. ALSO: Channeling
natural landscapes and the Northern Californian psychedelic imagination,
filmmaker/audio artist John Davis and koto musician Maxwell August Croy
perform a collaborative sound piece to hand-processed and solarized
Super-8 film. PLUS: Erik Wilson, aka Softserve, invokes a delirious
space in which live-generated abstractions rhyme with energized audio
gestures. $7.77.
10/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
12:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
PALINODE, DIMINISHED FRAME, THE PAINTING, WINGED DIALOGUE, PLAN OF
BRUSSELS, STILL LIGHT, WINGSEED
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 III ---- "In "Palinode" a disk-shapped
matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part
of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches musical
fragments of Wladimir Vogel's Wagadu, as the camera studies a
middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping,
meeting a young girl." (P. Adams Sitney); "There is a balance in
"Diminished Frame" between a sense of the past seen in the views of West
Berlin, filmed in black-and-white, and a sense of the present in which I
filmed myself showing how the color is being created by placing filters
in the camera's aperture." (Robert Beavers); "The Painting" uses masking
and rack focus techniques to disclose portions of The Martyrdom of Saint
Hippolytus, a fifteenth-century altarpiece. "Beavers gives a… rarefied
psychodramatic jolt, juxtaposing shots of Gregory Markopoulos, bisected
by shafts of light, with a torn photo of himself and the recurring image
of a shattered windowpane." (J. Hoberman); ""Winged Dialogue" details
with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body
animated by its soul." (Tom Chomont); "In "Plan of Brussels", Beavers
filmed himself in a hotel room… while in rapid rhythmic cutting, and
sometimes in superimposition, the phantasmagoria of people he met in
Brussels and images from the streets flood his mind." (P. Adams Sitney);
"The first half of "Still Light" explores delicate nuances of lighting,
color and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various
locales on the Greek island of Hydra… The second half was shot in the
London flat of Nigel Gosling. The two halves bring to mind any number of
structuralist binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action
and reflection, living landscape and mummified text." (Ed Halter); In
"Wingseed", Beavers draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a
Greek hillside and that of the male form. ---- 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
10/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
RUSKIN, THE GROUND
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 IV ---- "Ruskin" foregrounds Beavers'
love of literature, architecture and landscape -- the filmmaker's hand
rests on a volume of John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice and much of the
film is shot in the environs of Venice, London and the Swiss Alps.
Elegant cinematography and innovative sound construction -- Beavers'
films are as beautiful to listen to as they are to see -- build the
foundation of this ode to an earlier era. "The Ground" uses seemingly
simple components -- the sun-baked landscape of a Greek island, the blue
waters of the Aegean Sea and images of a man chiseling stone -- to
conjure the fundamental experience of holding something close to one's
heart. A repeated close up of a man pounding his bare chest, then
gesturing with hand outstretched, lends dramatic tension to the film's
expression of devotional love. ---- 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
10/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
8pm, Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the alley)
STRATEGIES OF THE MEDIUM III: IN THE DARK
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Strategies of the Medium III: In The Dark featuring a live film
performance of "the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing" by
Vancouver's Alex MacKenzie on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 8pm,
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the lane). Admission is $5.00 for
LIFT members & $8.00 for non-members. Contact LIFT at 416-588-6444 or
visit www.LIFT.on.ca for more information. In this performative
screening, LIFT continues with its medium-specific programming series to
explore work produced through chemical manipulation in the lab. Alex
MacKenzie's "the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing" is a vivid
example of the possibilities of self-sufficient filmmaking. "the wooden
lightbox: a secret art of seeing" is an exploration and reconfiguration
of cinematic apparatus and emulsion. Using the early development of
cinema as a marker for cultural, technological and economic change,
these film cycles draw from turn of the century cinematic prototypes and
long forgotten ideas surrounding the moving image and its early promise.
At the core of this approach is the use of a homebuilt hand-cranked
projector in an expanded cinema format to present a striking array of
handmade and processed emulsion. The vast potential of the film frame is
drawn out through imagery both archaic and contemporary in shape and
form. Hypnosis, panorama, motion studies, expectation, magic, the dream
world and slight of eye conspire in this intimate and immersive
framework. Alex MacKenzie has been working as a media artist for over 15
years with a focus on various models of expanded cinema and light
projection involving the handmade image. He was the founder and curator
of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!!
Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. His live media works
are presented at festivals and underground screening spaces throughout
Europe and North America -- most recently at the Rotterdam International
Film Festival, Lightcone in Paris, the WNDX festival in Winnipeg and the
Halifax Independent Film Festival. He is currently a guest teacher at
LIFT (http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/workshopschedule.html). The "Strategies
of the Medium" series is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Since 1981 LIFT has been Canada's foremost artist-run-centre for
independent filmmakers.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2009
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10/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles CA 90026
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR – PROGRAM
1
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour –
Program 1 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 exciting show mixes new experimental, animation, and documentary
work – a great way to catch up on what is happening in film & video art!
Tonight includes Dahlia (Michael Langan, 5 min); Studies in
Transfalumination (Peter Rose, 5 min.); Passages (Marie-Josee
Saint-Pierre, 24.5 min.); Reincarnation (Takeshi Kushida, 5 min.); Six
Apartments (Reynold Reynolds, 12.5 min.); Video Terraform Dance Party
(Jeremy Bailey, 12 min.); A City to Yourself (Nicole Macdonald, 24 min.)
Note change in location! 213-484-8846. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
10/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MADAME X
by Ulrike Ottinger 1988, 147 minutes, 16mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Tabea Blumenschein and Yvonne Rainer. Madame X, a harsh,
pitiless beauty, the cruel uncrowned ruler of the China Sea, launches an
appeal to all women willing to exchange their comfortable and secure but
unbearably dull lives for a world of dangers and uncertainties, free
from rules and patriarchal tyranny. A variety of women respond to her
call, but they soon find themselves swapping one kind of servitude for
another, as Madame X demands complete devotion from her shipmates, even
the ones she is enamored with. MADAME X subverts traditional modes of
narrative cinema to create a challenging and allegorical tale of female
empowerment.
10/11
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
10/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5:00 pm, California College of the Arts -- 1111 Eighth Street (between Hooper and Irwin)
EYES UPSIDE DOWN: P. ADAMS SITNEY ON BRAKHAGE & SONBERT
P. Adams Sitney in-person -- [members: $5 / non-members: $10/ CCA
students & faculty: free] ----- Writing and lecturing on film since the
early 1960s (and presently Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center
for the Arts at Princeton University), P. Adams Sitney stands as one of
avant-garde cinema's most passionate and eloquent theorists and critics.
His "Visionary Film", published in 1974, drew deeply from fields of
poetry and literature in discussing the works of Anger, Brakhage, Deren,
Markopoulos and others. The tome remains a classic of critical insight
on the field. His latest work, "Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers
and the Heritage of Emerson", examines the continued thread of
Emersonian poetics in the American avant-garde canon and incorporates
in-depth discussions of the works of many post–Visionary Film artists,
including Abigail Child, Su Friedrich, Andrew Noren and Warren Sonbert.
Appearing in-person at Cinematheque for the first time in over a decade,
Sitney will discuss his latest book, accompanied by screenings of Stan
Brakhage's "Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde" and Warren Sonbert's
"Rude Awakening."
10/11
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY: DREAM FILMS 1926-1972
ZOE BELOFF IN ATTENDANCE CO-PRESENTED BY THIRD EYE CINEMA The Coney
Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society: Dream Films 1926-1972 The members
of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society were filled with the
desire to participate in one of the great intellectual movements of the
20th century: psychiatry. Additionally, like the Amateur Cine League
(founded the same year), many members wished to tap into the power for
self expression afforded by technologies like home movie cameras that
were newly accessible to ordinary people. This screening presents a
range of their amateur films, which reveal an incredibly brave,
unapologetic exploration of their inner lives. Starting in 1926, the
Society held annual competitions in which members recreated their dreams
on film and analyzed them. Inspired by Freud's proposition in "The
Interpretation of Dreams" that in dreams, ideas and wishes are
dramatized as "mental pictures," they decided to put theory into
practice, creating films that recorded the hopes, fears and fantasies of
a changing cross section of Coney Island through the 20th century.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Freud's visit to Coney Island, the
program will be in three parts including a short, illustrated lecture
introducing the work of the Society, a screening of Coney Island (1917)
by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and nine award winning "Dream Films."
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