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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Studio: Monolog [October 24, London, England]
* Hollis Frampton: Hapax Legomena [October 24, London, England]
* Human Nature [October 24, London, England]
* Experiments In Documentary Screening and Journal Release [October 24, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Prelingers + Parr + Baldwin + Stark + Katz + [October 24, San Francisco, California]
* Tribute To Chick Strand [October 24, San Francisco, California]
* Studio: My Absolution [October 25, London, England]
* The Exception and the Rule [October 25, London, England]
* Film Ist. A Girl & A Gun [October 25, London, England]
* Whirl of Confusion [October 25, London, England]
* Robert Beavers In Person [October 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Christine Panushka and Alberto Araiza: Mosca and the Meaning of Life [October 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Sun Xun: the Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation [October 27, Berkeley, California]
* Premium & Miracle - Films By Ed Ruscha [October 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Brigitte Maria Mayer: Anatomie Titus: Fall of Rome [October 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Silent Light [October 27, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Free Form Film Festival; Subjective Sanity [October 28, San Francisco, California]
* The Way South [October 29, Chicago, Illinois]
* Life As We Show It: Writing On Film [October 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Ata Open Screening [October 29, San Francisco, California]
* Hollis Frampton: Zorns Lemma & A Lecture [October 29, San Francisco, California]
* Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen's the Golem (1920) With A Live Score By
Brian Lebarton [October 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Poe's 200th Birthday Celebration [October 30, San Francisco, California]
* Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen's the Golem (1920) With A Live Score By
Brian Lebarton [October 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Other Cinema: Macias' History of Japanese Horror + Dj Onanist [October 31, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
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10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
12pm to 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
STUDIO: MONOLOG
MONOLOG (Laure Prouvost, UK-France 2009, 12 min) A new work made for the
Festival turns its attention to the viewer and the room itself. 'Come
inside, I'm going to explain a few things. Just about you and the space
we're in. It's quite warm in here, you should take off your jacket ...'
Continuous Projection. Free Admission.
10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
HOLLIS FRAMPTON: HAPAX LEGOMENA
Hollis Frampton, a key figure of the American avant-garde, was an artist
and theoretician whose practice closely resonates with contemporary
discourse. The series of seven films known as HAPAX LEGOMENA is,
alongside ZORNS LEMMA, one of his most distinguished achievements, and
will be presented in its entirety on new preservation prints. Predating
MAGELLAN, the ambitious 'metahistory' of film left unfinished by his
early death in 1984, HAPAX LEGOMENA traces Frampton's own creative
progression from photographer to filmmaker. It dissects sound/image
relationships, incorporates early explorations of video and television,
and looks forward to digital media and electronic processes. Though
notoriously rigorous, Frampton's films are infused with poetic
tendencies and erudite wit, sustaining a dialogue with the materials of
their making, and the viewer's active participation in their reception.
'Hapax legomena are, literally, 'things said once' … The title brackets
a cycle of seven films, which make up a single work composed of
detachable parts … The work is an oblique autobiography, seen in
stereoscopic focus with the phylogeny of film art as I have had to
recapitulate it during my own fitful development as a filmmaker.'
(Hollis Frampton)(NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 36 min) As a
sequence of photographs is presented and slowly burned, a narrator
recounts displaced anecdotes related to their production, shifting the
relationship between words and images. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton,
USA, 1972, 31 min) A 'film for the mind' in which the script is
displayed page by page for the viewer to read and imagine. CRITICAL MASS
(Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 16 min) Frampton's radical editing
technique disrupts and amplifies the already impassioned argument of a
quarrelling couple. TRAVELLING MATTE (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 34
min) 'The pivot upon which the whole of Hapax Legomena turns' uses early
video technology to interrogate the image. ORDINARY MATTER (Hollis
Frampton, USA, 1972, 36 min) This 'headlong dive' from the Brooklyn
Bridge to Stonehenge is a burst of exhilarated consciousness. REMOTE
CONTROL (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 29 min) 'A 'baroque' summary of
film's historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and
metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space.'
SPECIAL EFFECTS (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 11 min) Stripping away
content leaves only the frame. 'People this given space, if you will,
with images of your own devising.' HAPAX LEGOMENA has been preserved
through a major cooperative effort funded by the National Film
Preservation Foundation and undertaken by Anthology Film Archives, MoMA,
the New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program,
and project conservator Bill Brand.
10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
HUMAN NATURE
PASSAGE BRIARE (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria, 2009, 3 min) A meeting of
friends in a Paris backstreet, and an unexpected revelation. HOTEL
ROCCALBA (Josef Dabernig, Austria, 2009, 10 min) In a subtle
choreography, the occupants of a small Alpine hotel pass a lazy
afternoon. Not much happens, but all may not be as it appears. GREGOR
ALEXIS (Jana Debus, Germany, 2008, 20 min) The filmmaker's schizophrenic
brother recounts personal experiences, slipping between first and third
person. The locations chosen for this portrait – a desolate apartment
and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery – are indicative of
the condition of someone potentially as vulnerable as the insects that
collect on his windowsill. THE DISCOVERY (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2008, 4 min)
Tom's dextrous parlour game attracts unwanted attention. A stolen
moment, frozen in time, now re-animated for all to see. THE PRESENTATION
THEME (Jim Trainor, USA, 2008, 14 min) As primitive Magic Marker
drawings illustrate the myths and rituals of the ancient Moche
civilisation, a disparaging narrator describes the tormented trials of a
hapless creature amongst goblets of blood, fanged men and a sacrificial
priestess. BURNING PALACE (Mara Mattuska, Chris Haring, Austria, 2009,
32 min) This new collaboration between Mattuschka and Vienna's Liquid
Loft takes us behind the velvet curtains of the Burning Palace, whose
peculiar inhabitants have an itch they just can't scratch.
10/24
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 East 4th St
EXPERIMENTS IN DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND JOURNAL RELEASE
In celebration of the publication of Millennium Film Journal #51
"Experiments in Documentary", co-edited by Lucas Hilderbrand and Lynne
Sachs, this program will feature the works of a selection of the
filmmakers who wrote essays for this special thematic issue. These media
artists challenge the way we see (and hear) documentary. While visually
and aurally innovative, they are also socially engaged, offering
cultural critiques that cannot be reduced to a singular agenda. Through
their engagement with images and institutions, they open up new ways of
examining how we understand our world and our history. The program
charts the boundaries of experimental documentary: from an allegorical
retelling of political struggle in Chicago 1968 to a collage memoir on
body manipulation to an empathic witnessing of the Gulf Coast six months
after Katrina. Tonight's program brings together artists both showing
and discussing their films. Please join us for a post-screening party
and book signing. "Fountain" (22 min., video, excerpt) by Donigan
Cumming (present) "Clockwork: Birthday" (video documentation of
installation) by Jeanne Finley & John Muse "Vital Signs" (9 minutes,
16mm, 1991) Barbara Hammer (present) "15 Experiments on Peripheral
Vision" (10 min., 16mm, 2008) by Adele Horne "South of Ten" ( 10 min.,
35mm on tape, 2006) by Liza Johnson (present) "Jean Genet in Chicago"
(15 min, 16mm, 2006 excerpt) Frederic Moffet "Chop Off" (8 min., video,
2009) by MM Serra (present) "Hidden in Plain Sight" (10 min., video)by
Mark Street (present)
10/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: PRELINGERS + PARR + BALDWIN + STARK + KATZ +
Canny curator of the cultural memory, Rick Prelinger emerges from the
vaults with a precious cache of newly unearthed amateur films: Southern
sharecroppers, KKK parades, Japanese internees, and May Day demos. Megan
Prelinger interprets a cabinet of curiosities from their SoMA library.
Stephen Parr shares a 16mm selection from the SF Media Archive,
including an amateur monster movie and treasures disinterred from the SF
Dump. Craig Baldwin introduces an eye-popping Kodachrome travelog of a
late-colonial cross-Africa excursion. Scott Stark's 20-min. celluloid
set unveils the discovered mid-century diaries of San Francisco
families. The program is consummated with Joel Katz' compelling
cine-essay, Dear Carrie, unpacking the 20C Kodachrome chronologies of a
courageous globe-trotting matron. PLUS: Free found slides, gratis wine,
and Doug Katelus on Optigan. $7.77.
10/24
San Francisco, California: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7:30, 145 Ninth St #260
TRIBUTE TO CHICK STRAND
A Cinematic Tribute to Chick Strand Curated by Dominic Angerame
Presented by Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque in association
with the Ninth Street Independent Film Center October 24, 2009, 7:30
p.m. Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street in San
Francisco 7:30 PM, Admission $10 A reception will be held following the
screening Films presented: Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) Fever Dream
(1979) Guacamole (1976) Kristallnacht (1979) Soft Fiction (1979)
Waterfall (1967) and more.. Born Mildred in northern California and
nicknamed Chick by her father, CHICK STRAND (1931-2009) studied
anthropology at Berkeley in the 1960s, joined the free speech movement,
and experimented with photographic collage. She joined the filmmaker
Bruce Baillie and editor Ernest Callenbach to found Canyon Cinema, a
screening collective that evolved into the San Francisco Cinematheque
and the independent distributor Canyon Cinema. She enrolled on the
ethnography program at UCLA, and after graduating in 1971 taught for 24
years at Occidental College. She made nineteen films, many shot in
Mexico, while traveling with her life and creative partner, the
pop-surrealist artist Neon Park (Martin Muller, 1940-93). Her work is
held in the collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and continues to be distributed by Canyon Cinema. (Wikipedia)
"Chick Strand was one of the more renowned pioneers in the Bay Area
experimental filmmaking community. Canyon Cinema and the Cinematheque
were founded in 1961 when Strand and Bruce Baillie began to show films
in their backyard on a sheet tied between two trees. These weekly
screenings were the seeds that began to sprout when Canyon Cinema became
an official State Corporation. Out of Canyon Cinema came the Canyon
Cinema News, and the Canyon Cinematheque. The Canyon Cinematheque
branched off from Canyon Cinema around 1977 and became its own non
profit exhibition center known as the Cinematheque. Both organizations,
however, share a common thread in that the promotion of experimental
cinema is the main focus. "Chick Strand, through her example, always
championed the rights of filmmakers. She constantly insisted that
filmmakers be paid for showing their work and that they be treated
properly. The spirit of Canyon Cinema comes from her energies and she
also believed that filmmakers should organize and operate their own
exhibitions and distribution of films. Not only was she an inspiration
to those of us involved in Canyon Cinema, she was also a dedicated
teacher for more than 35 years." - Dominic Angerame, Filmmaker and
Executive Director, Canyon Cinema
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
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10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
12pm to 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
STUDIO: MY ABSOLUTION
MY ABSOLUTION (Victor Alimpiev, Russia-Netherlands, 2008, 8 min)
Alimpiev's work imbues the simplest gestures with mystery and
consequence. An actress performs a sequence of enigmatic actions towards
the nape of a second woman's neck in a performance that creates an
almost sculptural tension which is never quite released. Continuous
Projection. Free Admission.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE
ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE BABY) (Akosua Adoma Owusu, USA-Ghana, 2008, 22
min) Driven by the pulsing sounds of Afrobeat and American soul, this
spirited study of Ghanaian hair salons questions representations of
beauty and ethnicity. While teams of women weave elaborate styles,
children practice braiding on the blonde hair of white baby dolls,
surplus stock exported from the West. MY TEARS ARE DRY (Laida Lertxundi,
USA-Spain, 2009, 4 min) A song of heartache, an afternoon's repose and
the eternal promise of the blue California sky. THE EXCEPTION AND THE
RULE (Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, UK-Pakistan-India, 2009, 39 min) Shot
primarily in Karachi, The Exception and the Rule employs a variety of
strategies in negotiating consciously political themes. Avoiding
traditional documentary modes, the film frames everyday activities
within a period of civil unrest, incorporating performances to camera,
public interventions and observation. This complex work supplements
Mirza/Butler's Artangel project 'The Museum of Non Participation'.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN
FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN (Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 2009, 97 min) Taking
its cue from DW Griffith via J-L Godard, the latest instalment of the
FILM IST series is a five-act drama in which reclaimed footage is
interwoven with aphorisms from ancient Greek philosophy. Beginning with
the birth of the universe, it develops into a meditation on the timeless
themes of sex and death, exploring creation, desire and destruction by
appropriating scenes from narrative features, war reportage, nature
studies and pornography. The Earth takes shape from molten lava, and man
and woman embark upon their erotic quest. For this mesmerising epic,
Deutsch applies techniques of montage, sound and colour to resources
drawn from both conventional film archives and specialist collections
such as the Kinsey Institute and Imperial War Museum. Excavating cinema
history to tease new meanings from diverse and forgotten film material,
he proposes new perspectives on the cycle of humanity. The film's
integral score by long-term collaborators Christian Fennesz, Burkhardt
Stangl and Martin Siewert incorporates music by David Grubbs, Soap&Skin
and others.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
WHIRL OF CONFUSION
AND THE SUN FLOWERS (Mary Helena Clark, USA, 2008, 5 min) 'Notes from
the distant future and forgotten past. An ethereal flower and
disembodied voice guide you through the spaces in between.' SHOT FILM
(Greg Pope, UK-Norway, 2009, 4 min) Taking the expression 'to shoot a
film' at face value, this 35mm reel has been blasted with a shotgun.
CONTRE-JOUR (Matthias Müller, Christoph Giradet, Germany, 2009, 11 min)
My Eyes! My Eyes! Flickering out from the screen and direct to your
retina, Contre-jour is not for the optic neurotic. Take a deep breath
and try to relax as Müller and Girardet conduct their examination. FILM
FOR INVISIBLE INK CASE NO. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER (DIMINISHED
BY 1,794) (David Gatten, USA, 2008, 13 min) 'A single piece of paper, a
second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile.
Words by Charles Darwin.' WOLF'S FROTH / AMONGST OTHER THINGS (Paul
Abbott, UK, 2009, 15 min) By chance or circumstance, wolf's froth's
covert syntax refuses to be unpicked. Entangling anxious domesticity
with the spectre of aggression, it conjures a mood of underlying
discomfort and intrigue. FALSE AGING (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, 15 min)
Klahr's surreal collage journeys through lost horizons of comic book
Americana and is brought back down to earth by Drella's dream. And
nobody called, and nobody came. MOUNT SHASTA (Oliver Husain, Canada,
2008, 8 min) What is ostensibly a proposal for a film script is acted
out, without artifice, in a bare loft space as Mantler plays a plaintive
lament. A puppet show like none other that will leave you bemused,
befuddled and bewildered.
10/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, in the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
ROBERT BEAVERS IN PERSON
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles Filmforum, the Getty
Research Institute, CalArts Film/Video, and REDCAT present Robert
Beavers in Person First time in Los Angeles! At the UCLA Film &
Television Archive This presentation of work by avant-garde filmmaker
Robert Beavers represents the filmmaker's Los Angeles debut, after a
career spanning from the mid-1960s to the present day, and is organized
in conjunction with the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Including AMOR
(1980, 15 min. 35mm, color, Italy/Austria); THE STOAS (1991-97, 22 min.,
35mm, color, Greece); THE GROUND (1993-2001, 20 min., 35mm, color,
Greece); and PITCHER OF COLORED LIGHT (2007, 24 min., 16mm, United
States/Switzerland). Note change in time & location! Los Angeles
Filmforum, at UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater, in
the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. For advance
tickets and directions, please visit
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009
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10/26
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CHRISTINE PANUSHKA AND ALBERTO ARAIZA: MOSCA AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
World premiere. Mosca and the Meaning of Life is a groundbreaking
multimedia piece in which animated characters leap off the screen and
join up with a live performance crafted by award winning filmmaker and
animator Christine Panushka and theater and spoken word artist Beto
Araiza. Mosca and the Meaning of Life questions our belief systems,
customs, and social values, the truths and lies with which we live out
our lives, motivated as much by misinformation and desperation as by
hope. The program also includes The Sum of Them, Singing Sticks and
other films by Panushka, as well as an excerpt of Biting the Pillow, a
performance by Araiza. In person: Christine Panushka and Alberto Araizia
Curated by Steve Anker.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009
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10/27
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
SUN XUN: THE DARK MAGICIAN OF NEW CHINESE ANIMATION
Sun Xun in Person "When we sleep deeply, everything becomes
history."—Sun Xun In this rare U.S. presentation of his animation œuvre,
Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun will present a variety of short
films that range from a witty experiment in body art to an evocation of
China's checkered voyage toward technological and political modernity.
Critic Mathieu Borysevicz wrote, "Sun's world lies suspended in
anonymous twentieth-century eternity, a past riddled with legacies of
modernity at its most extreme, a film noir testimony to absolutism. His
flickering images crystallize into a gritty, dystopic urban overture to
revolution. . . . His aim is to scratch the surface of political
history, a history continuously conflated into myth, in order to expose
the past as being in a state of constant becoming." Sun's films combine
hand-drawn renderings and traditional materials with new media. Each
animation is made from hundreds of individual drawings that have also
been exhibited in galleries and museums in China, the U.S., and Europe.
An exhibition of Sun's work will open at Max Protetch Gallery in New
York on November 7. —Bérénice Reynaud. • Utopia in the Day (2004, 4:41
mins). Chinese words. war (2005, 2:12 mins). Lie of magician (2005, 4:14
mins). Shock of time (2006, 5:29 mins). Lie (2006, 7:20 mins). Mythos
(2006, 5:15 mins). Requiem (2007, 7:21 mins). Heroes no longer (2008,
9:04 mins). Coal Spell (2008, 7:56 mins). The New China (2008, 5:19
mins)
10/27
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
PREMIUM & MIRACLE - FILMS BY ED RUSCHA
White Light Cinema is pleased to present this extremely rare screening
of Ed Ruscha's two films, PREMIUM and MIRACLE. ***** PREMIUM (1971, 24
mins., 16mm) ***** Featuring artist Larry Bell, model Léon Bing,
designer Rudi Gernreich, and musician/comedian Tommy Smothers. Based on
the Mason Williams short story "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from
Crackers" ***** "The immediate source of PREMIUM was a photo-novel,
CRACKERS, that Ruscha made in 1969, itself deriving from a story, 'How
to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers,' written by Mason
Williams… ***** A man played by the artist Larry Bell buys a shopping
cart full of tomatoes, lettuce, and other salad foods and five
one-gallon cans of dressing. Driving to a skid row flophouse, he rents a
$2 room from the desk clerk, played by the designer Rudi Gernreich. In
the rat-infested room, he pulls back the covers of the bed and on it
very carefully prepares a huge salad, a sculptural composition of greens
that flower out symmetrically from its center and then replaces the bed
cover." (David E. James, The Most Typical Avant-Garde). We won't spoil
the rest. ***** MIRACLE (1975, 28 mins., 16mm) "Features artist Jim
Ganzer and actress Michelle Phillips in a tale about a strange day in
the life of an auto mechanic." (Harvard Film Archive) ***** These films
are Copyright Ed Ruscha, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
10/27
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
BRIGITTE MARIA MAYER: ANATOMIE TITUS: FALL OF ROME
U.S. premiere with a discussion with Peter Sellars. The Berlin-based
artist traces a via dolorosa through the modern world in a timely new
video based on Heiner Müller's excoriating 1984 adaptation of Titus
Andronicus, Shakespeare's blood-soaked revenge drama. Presented as a
triptych that is as lyrical as it is terrifying, Mayer's piece extends
Müller's parable to a global narrative of contemporary empire in which
footage shot on locations across Africa and Asia is contrasted against
highly stylized in-studio passages featuring cinema icon Jeanne Moreau
(appearing as Goth queen Tamora). Müller, the most provocative
playwright of the erstwhile East Germany, used his commentary to address
imperial violence and the fateful cycle of brutality it begets; Mayer's
Anatomie Titus reminds us that those concerns remain just as relevant
today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The screening is
followed by a discussion with the artist, renowned director Peter
Sellars and Semiotext(e) founder Sylvère Lotringer. Co-presented with
Villa Aurora and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.
10/27
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
SILENT LIGHT
Silent Light (2007,145min.) by CARLOS REYGADAS "The admirably
unpredictable Reygadas [has made] the world's first talking picture in
the medieval German plautdietsch dialect…. Silent Light is a behavioral
experiment—set in Northern Mexico's Mennonite community and cast almost
entirely with Mennonite non-actors. Everything is monumentally
deliberate, from the human interactions to the stolidly bucolic
representation of Mennonite domesticity to the extraordinary,
wide-screen landscape shots that bracket the action. Oscillating between
the sacred and profane, this elemental tale of love and betrayal is part
ethnographic documentary and part 16th-century psycho- drama with an
obvious debt to Carl Theodore Dreyer. " J. Hoberman, (Top 10 pick for
2008)
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009
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10/28
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM $6, 992 Valencia St at 21st
FREE FORM FILM FESTIVAL; SUBJECTIVE SANITY
(Program Co-Curated by the The Lost media Archive) OPENING ACT: Live
Performance by Steve Shearer A mix of ephemeral media and experimental
film that probes the depths (or grazes the surfaces) of human psyche and
surroundings. FEATURED WORKS BY: Charles Chadwick, Elizabeth Henry,
Daniel Small, Christina Corfield, Kate Gorman, Adam Paradis, and Steve
Shearer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
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10/29
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
THE WAY SOUTH
Prolific Dutch documentarian, author, and photographer Johan van der
Keuken (1938–2001) produced 55 films and nine books over the course of
his career. Influenced by Dutch realist photographers, existential and
Eastern philosophies, and abstract painting and jazz, van der Keuken's
memorable style combined political and avant-garde filmmaking traditions
with subjective expression and objective explanation. In The Way South
(1981), part of a triptych of political films examining the disparities
between the northern and southern hemispheres, van der Keuken's camera
travels from Amsterdam through Paris, the Alps, and Rome to Egypt and
documents the plights of immigrant communities—Dutch squatters, Moroccan
migrant workers, and generations of African emigrés—along the way.
Introduced by SAIC professor Daniel Eisenberg. In Dutch with English
subtitles. 1981, Netherlands, 16mm, 143 min.
10/29
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
LIFE AS WE SHOW IT: WRITING ON FILM
with Rebecca Brown, Myriam Gurba, Abdellah Taïa and Masha Tupitsyn.This
can't-miss reading celebrates the publication of an important new
anthology of writing on film: Life As We Show It, edited by Masha
Tupitsyn and Brian Pera. The dynamic cross-genre collection of short
stories, essays and poetry navigates the increasingly fine line between
lived experience and representation in contemporary American culture. It
poses this question: If movie watching has become a primary way of
assimilating the world, what kinds of movies are our lives imitating?
Four of Life's contributors are on hand to read from their inspired
work. Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books, including a recent
collection of "gonzo essays," American Romances. She is joined by Myriam
Gurba, author of Dahlia Season, which earned the Edmund White Award for
debut fiction; Abdellah Taïa, a Paris-based Moroccan writer whose
coming-of-age novella Salvation Army was published earlier this year;
and Life co-editor Masha Tupitsyn, cultural critic and author of a book
of film-based stories, Beauty Talk & Monsters. Organized by Maggie
Nelson of the CalArts MFA Writing Program and Masha Tupitsyn.
10/29
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm Door, 8PM $5, 992 Valencia St 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 Katy at email suppressed
10/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, McBean Theatre at the Exploratorium -- 3601 Lyon St. (near Marina)
HOLLIS FRAMPTON: ZORNS LEMMA & A LECTURE
Introduced by Michael Zryd. Presented in association with Cabinetic and
the Exploratorium's Cinema Arts Series -- [members: $5 / non-members:
$10] ----- In his drive to explore and catalog the possibilities and
parameters of cinematic representation, Hollis Frampton delighted in
paradox, frequently creating complex conceptual structures that pitted
the precision of language against the abstraction and excess of
photographic representation. Visiting Frampton scholar Michael Zryd of
York University, Toronto, presents two of Frampton's most significant
cinematic propositions. Taking the projected white rectangle as a
maximalist basis of all cinema, "A Lecture" evokes a profound
consideration of cinematic "aboutness" and stands as one of the cinema's
most significant challenges to a reconceptualization of the art form,
while his 1970 masterpiece, "Zorns Lemma" -- described by Peter Gidal as
"the attempt to break down the authority of language" -- leads viewers
away from logical and linguistic order into an exhilarating world of
imagery, color and light. ----- The original audio recording of A
Lecture has been preserved and made available for this event by kind
permission of the Harvard Film Archive.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
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10/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
PAUL WEGENER AND HENRIK GALEEN’S THE GOLEM (1920) WITH A LIVE SCORE BY
BRIAN LEBARTON
Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror
films in cinema history, accompanied with live music by tricked-out
ghouls under the direction of Brian LeBarton, best known as Beck's
prodigious music director. The 1920 touchstone of Expressionism tells
the Eastern European Jewish legend of the Golem—an oversize clay statue
brought to life by a Prague rabbi to do muscle work and help protect the
city's Jews. It doesn't take long, though, before the plan goes horribly
wrong... With director Paul Wegener as the Golem, cinematography by Karl
Freund (Metropolis) and amazing sets by architect Hans Poelzig.
LeBarton's costumed band, meanwhile, features analog keyboards,
electronic treatments, cello, and special guest Joey Waronker on drums
and percussion. Fri Oct 30–Sat Oct 31 | $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
10/30
San Francisco, California: kino21
http://www.kino21.org/
8pm, 2698 FOLSOM
POE'S 200TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
San Francisco bassist, bandleader and curator Lisa Mezzacappa hosts an
eclectic pre-Halloween festival of words, image and music in celebration
of Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Mezzacappa leads her versatile
ensemble of improvisers, Bait & Switch, and is joined by a lineup of
storytellers, songwriters, filmmakers, performers and musicians for a
cabaret of creepy improvised music, horror songs, projections, and
Poe-inspired films with live musical accompaniment. Bait & Switch is:
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone John
Finkbeiner, guitar Vijay Anderson, drums plus: Eureka/Malstrom, a
text/image performance mashup by Brent Cunningham and Konrad Steiner.
New Poe songs by Katy Stephan (voice, piano). Live film score by Marié
Abe, accordion & Dina Maccabee, violin (Guts and Buttons Duo). Audio
performance by James Bewley (formerly of Killing My Lobster, and New
Langton Arts).
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009
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10/31
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
PAUL WEGENER AND HENRIK GALEEN’S THE GOLEM (1920) WITH A LIVE SCORE BY
BRIAN LEBARTON
Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror
films in cinema history, accompanied with live music by tricked-out
ghouls under the direction of Brian LeBarton, best known as Beck's
prodigious music director. The 1920 touchstone of Expressionism tells
the Eastern European Jewish legend of the Golem—an oversize clay statue
brought to life by a Prague rabbi to do muscle work and help protect the
city's Jews. It doesn't take long, though, before the plan goes horribly
wrong... With director Paul Wegener as the Golem, cinematography by Karl
Freund (Metropolis) and amazing sets by architect Hans Poelzig.
LeBarton's costumed band, meanwhile, features analog keyboards,
electronic treatments, cello, and special guest Joey Waronker on drums
and percussion. Fri Oct 30–Sat Oct 31 | $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]
10/31
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: MACIAS' HISTORY OF JAPANESE HORROR + DJ ONANIST
The national editor of top J-Pop mag Otaku USA, Patrick Macias flies in
from Tokyo for this Halloween event, terrorizing us with tales of the
roots and branches of the now super-hot J-Horror phenomenon. Macias
grounds his explication in the work of Nobuo Nakagawa, considered the
grandfather of the genre. His Jigoku (Hell, 1960) is acknowledged as one
of the first gore films that broke through to popular consciousness, and
woke the world of cinema to this phantastic thematic and stylistic
vocabulary. The surreal supernatural feature draws upon the Buddhist
idea of retribution that all earthly sins must be atoned for after
death. Patrick threads his appreciation of Nakagawa through excerpts
from three of his other works, The Ceiling at Utsunomiya (1956), The
Ghost of Yotsuya (1958), and The Mansion of the Ghost Cat (1959). Come
early, in cosplay, for free hot sake, flying turtles, and the haunted
sounds of DJ Onanist. NOTE: Doors 7:30, show at 8. $6.66.
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