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This week [October 31 - November 8, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI USA; Deadline: November 02, 2009)
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Free to Be..US! (Orono, ME, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2009)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Map Open Space at FLEFF 2010 (Ithaca (New York), USA; Deadline: January 15, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 31, 2010)
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One Minute Challenge (London; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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Go Short (Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, North Carolina USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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12th Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 27, 2009)
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International film competition - "Intervideo Talent Award" (Mainz, Germany; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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Beaufort International Film Festival (Beaufort, SC. USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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Tregor Film Fest (Lannion, Tregor, France; Deadline: November 20, 2009)
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FRESH: ABSTRACTIONS (Bangkok, Thailand; Deadline: November 07, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* "Los Herederos" With "A Letter To Uncle Boonmee" [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum and Afi Fest Present the Anchorage [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Rudy Burckhardt Program [November 1, New York, New York]
* Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and visual Music [November 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Performa Program 1 [November 3, New York, New York]
* Performa Program 2 [November 3, New York, New York]
* Two Lane Blacktop [November 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Morgan Fisher Films [November 4, Naples, Italy]
* Performa Program 3 [November 4, New York, New York]
* Performa Program 4 [November 4, New York, New York]
* Mustache Cinema Presents 'i Am Thankful For Hand-Made Films" [November 4, San Francisco, California]
* In Present Tense: Films of Ute Aurand [November 4, San Francisco, California]
* All Together Now: videos By Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn [November 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Videofest [November 5, Dallas, TX]
* Satellite, As Long As It Is Aiming At the Sky /A video Project By Nasrin
Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiab [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Luminous Triptych: Angelina Krahn, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
* (De)Coding [November 5, Naples, Italy]
* Mike Kuchar Program 1 [November 5, New York, New York]
* Mike Kuchar Program 2 [November 5, New York, New York]
* Silhouettes and Serenades: A Night of Acoustic Song and Improvised Film [November 5, San Francisco, California]
* Visiting Filmmaker: Robert Beavers [November 6, Columbus, Ohio]
* Videofest [November 6, Dallas, TX]
* Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film and video [November 6, Edinburgh, Scotland]
* Women's Experimental Cinema Program 1: Abigail Child [November 6, New York, New York]
* Women's Experimental Cinema Program 2: Su Friedrich [November 6, New York, New York]
* Wholphin Selections [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Running Up That Hill [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Videofest [November 7, Dallas, TX]
* Dinorah De Jesus Rodriguez At Sleepless Night [November 7, Miami Beach, FL]
* Stan Brakhage Songs 1-14 [November 7, New York, New York]
* Women's Experimental Cinema Program 3: Ericka Beckman [November 7, New York, New York]
* Women's Experimental Cinema Program 4: Peggy Ahwesh [November 7, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Wobbly's History of Sampling + Rip + [November 7, San Francisco, California]
* Videofest [November 8, Dallas, TX]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Film About A Woman Who... By Yvonne
Rainer [November 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Light Matters: Joost Rekveld In Person [November 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Stan Brakhage Program [November 8, New York, New York]
* La vie Noir [November 8, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009
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11/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
4:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
"LOS HEREDEROS" WITH "A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE"
Los Angeles Filmforum and the AFI FEST present LOS HEREDEROS directed by
Eugenio Polgovsky (2008, 90 min., Mexico, HDCAM) – Los Angeles premiere!
The "herederos" of the title —children who have "inherited" a legacy of
grinding poverty—live on the land. They plow, they harvest, they load
wood and they build walls with the bricks that they made with their
hands. They also frolic, and play and dance. LOS HEREDEROS is both
extremely intimate (the camera's point of view is like that of a tiny
creature scurrying to keep pace with the kids) and pointedly universal,
while rigorously refusing to draw conclusions. –Robert Koehler Preceded
by A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(2009, 18 min., Thailand/U.K., Digibeta) – Los Angeles premiere! Winner
of two prizes at the 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
In Apichatpong's hauntingly poetic piece—one part of his ambitious
"Primitives" project—the voices of three young men describe to an uncle
how their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
Filmforum at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas,
Los Angeles CA 90028 Note variety of time! Admission free! But you need
to get tickets through AFI. Remaining tickets will be available at the
door. Full AFI Film Festival details & tickets at www.afi.com/afifest
11/1
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 AND AFI FEST PRESENT THE ANCHORAGE
Los Angeles Filmforum and AFI FEST present THE ANCHORAGE directed by
C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom (2009, 87 min., U.S./Sweden, 35mm) U.S.
premiere! C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom in person! Winner of Locarno's
Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present Immersing the viewer in
magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and meditative film reveals
the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in harmony there: a
Rousseauesque vision of a relationship between a human being and her
environment. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has
a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours
for $2 with validation. Get your tickets starting October 16 at AFI.com
or AFI.com/AFIFEST, or by calling 1-866-AFI-FEST. You can also obtain
tickets by going to the Festival Box Office located at the Mann 6
Theatre starting on October 26th, or on the day of the screenings via
rush lines.
11/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RUDY BURCKHARDT PROGRAM
RUDY BURCKHARDT ONE FLIGHT UP (1969, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.
Paintings by Alex Katz.) Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters
program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the National
Film Preservation Foundation. THE CLIMATE OF NEW YORK (1948, 21 minutes,
16mm, b&w/color, sound. Poems by Edwin Denby, music by William
Flanagan.) Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by
the Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation
Foundation. MONTGOMERY ALABAMA (1941, 4 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.
Piano by Earl Hines.) THE DOGWOOD MAIDEN (1949, ca. 10 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent. With Elaine de Kooning, Frank Safford, and Michael Kidd.)
PARADISE ARMS (1967, 11 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Collaboration with
Neil Welliver, text by Joe Brainard.) SCATTERED SHOWERS (1999, ca. 10
minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Collaboration with and music by Tom
Burckhardt.) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
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11/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
LICHTSPIEL: CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ANIMATION AND VISUAL MUSIC
Co-presented with Center for Visual Music Los Angeles premieres | This
ravishing "play of light" explores rhythmic abstractions in the
tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The
centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld's
#37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly
beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through
crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup
also offers award winning animated shorts from around the world, most of
which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include
Spot Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten
Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi,
Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the
final film by the late CGI wizard Richard "Doc" Baily. In person: Joost
Rekveld Curated by Center for Visual Music with Steve Anker. | Jack H.
Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
11/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA PROGRAM 1
PERFORMA PROGRAM 1 The Futurist Canon Tina Cordero, Guido Martina &
Pippo Oriani SPEED / VELOCITA Italy, 1930, 13 minutes, video, b&w,
silent. One of the only Futurist films still existing, SPEED captures
the dynamics of the city, with rotating views, whistling machines,
articulated mannequins, and homages to 20th-century artists such as
Boccioni, Mondrian, L?ger, and Kandinsky, all rhythmically collaged
together by Futurist painter Oriani in collaboration with Futurist
writers Cordero and Martina. Corrado D'Errico STRAMILANO Italy, 1929, 14
minutes, video, b&w, sound. A vibrant 'city symphony' showing a day in
the life of Milan, from factories to farmers' markets, skyscrapers,
nightclubs, and beyond, with sound effects of human voices and machines.
Although not officially 'Futurist', this film is directly related to
Futurist ideas and works, such as SPEED. Anton Giulio Bragaglia THA?S
Italy, 1917, 54 minutes (incomplete), video, b&w, silent. THA?S is
considered to be the only surviving full-length Futurist film. In it,
the title character plots to seduce her best friend's crush, and the
melodramatic chain of events that ensues leads to a Futuristic final
sequence, shot against the visionary set designs of Futurist painter
Enrico Prampolini. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. –Tuesday,
November 3 at 7:00 and Monday,
11/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA PROGRAM 2
PERFOMA PROGRAM 2 Futurist-Related Performance Luca Comerio EXCELSIOR
Italy, 1914, 23 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. A grand 1881 ballet that
celebrates technology and progress through tableaux saluting
turn-of-the-century technological innovations – electricity, the
telegraph, and the Brooklyn Bridge, among them – EXCELSIOR was made into
a film over 30 years later, as the worldwide interest in Futurism was
taking off. Marcel Fabre LOVE AFOOT / AMOR PEDESTRE Italy, 1914, 10
minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. The feet of three people act out an
adulterous affair in LOVE AFOOT, the only filmed record of Futurist
'reductionist performance'. Jacques Feyder and Gaston Ravel FEET AND
HANDS / DES PIEDS ET DES MAINS France, 1915, 18 minutes, video, b&w,
silent. A mechanical ballet of feet and hands influenced by Futurist
ideas. Claude Autant-Lara A COLLECTION OF FACTS / FAIT-DIVERS France,
1923, 20 minutes, video, b&w, silent. Surrealistic short made early in
the career of Autant-Lara, who would later become one of the French
'directors of quality' attacked by the New Wave filmmakers, in which a
trio of actors (including Antonin Artaud!) jealously confront one
another, set to an avant-garde score by Arthur Honegger and others.
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. –Tuesday, November 3 at 9:00 and
Monday, November 9 at 9:00.
11/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
TWO LANE BLACKTOP
Two Lane Blacktop (1971, 102 min.) by MONTE HELLMAN Calling this movie
(depicting a cross-country race between a '55 Chevy and a '70 GTO)
"Bressonian,"as some have done, may be a bit of a stretch; it is,
however, in the race as the ultimate (i.e. purest) road movie. James
Taylor (a not so sweet, baby James) is The Driver in a role that appears
"…beyond acting… a deadpan stoned zen state of non-performance;"- (A.O.
Scott, NY Times). Dennis Wilson (of Beach Boy drummer fame) rides
shotgun and in the backseat, Laurie Bird plays The Girl. Along with the
cars, the passing American landscape and some stunning wide-screen
cinematography, the real star of the film is Warren Oates as GTO, an
alcoholic, has-been loser who might or might not have won the race but
may win the viewer's heart.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
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11/4
Naples, Italy: Independent Film Show
http://www.em-arts.org/independent-film-show-2009-edition
8 PM, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, piazza Dante
MORGAN FISHER FILMS
In the presence of Morgan Fisher. The Director and His Actor Look at
Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2) (1968, 16mm, b&w,
sound, 15 min) - Documentary Footage (1968, 16mm, colour, sound, 11 min)
- Production Stills (1970, 16mm, colour, sound 11 min) - Picture and
Sound Rushes (1973, 16mm, b&w, sound, 11 min) - Cue Rolls (1974, 16mm,
colour, sound, 5min30) - Projection Instructions (1976, 16mm, b&w,
sound, 4 min) - Standard Gauge (1984, 16mm, colour, sound, 35 min).
Curated by Stoffel Debuysere & Maria Palacios Cruz
11/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA PROGRAM 3
PERFORMA PROGRAM 3 Man and Machine Eugene Deslaw MARCH OF THE MACHINES /
LA MARCHE DES MACHINES France, 1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. With
live performance by Luciano Chessa on November 11! An abstract
mechanical symphony with a score originally written by Futurist artist
Luigi Russolo and now lost, this film will be shown with a special live
soundtrack by composer and Russolo expert Luciano Chessa (Nov. 11
screening only). Taking Deslaw's notes about the process of synching
music to images developed by Russolo for this film into consideration,
Chessa's original score will be performed with his reconstructions of
the incredible intonaromuri, or Futurist noise-intoners. Francesco Di
Cocco THE GUT OF THE CITY / IL VENTRE DELLA CITTÀ Italy, 1932, 13
minutes, 35mm, b&w, sound. A poetic, experimental, industrial
documentary. André Deed THE MECHANICAL MAN / L'UOMO MECCANICO Italy,
1921, 46 minutes (incomplete), 35mm, b&w, silent. A colossal robot runs
wild in an unstoppable crime spree in this rare fantasy-horror epic by
André Deed, protégé of George Méliès, that culminates in a wild showdown
between the evil robot and another mechanical marvel. Total running
time: ca. 70 minutes.
11/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA PROGRAM 4
PERFORMA PROGRAM 4 Trains, Trains, Trains Corrado D'Errico IMPRESSIONS
OF LIFE #1: RAILWAY STATION RHYTHMS / RITMI DI STAZIONE, IMPRESSIONI DI
VITA N. 1 Italy, 1933, 10 minutes, video, b&w, silent. Gorgeous
documentary depicting a day in the 'iron world' – a railway station – by
intermingling the repetitive motions of machines with the mechanisms of
human behavior. Henri Chomette PLAY OF REFLECTIONS AND SPEED / JEUX DES
REFLETS ET DE LA VITESSE France, 1925, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. A
beautiful montage of sped-up shots taken from moving trains and boats,
highlighting the play of light and motion through superimpositions,
upside-down camerawork, and other experimental techniques, made by
Chomette, brother of René Clair and a leader of the French 'pure cinema'
movement. Willy Otto Zielke THE STEEL BEAST / DAS STAHLTIER Germany,
1935, 75 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. Daring collage of rhythms,
abstractions, superimpositions, and wild shots of the railroad and other
machines, made by the great German photographer Zielke, that was
originally commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the
Nuremburg-Furth railroad line, and later banned by the Third Reich for
"decadent aesthetics." Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
11/4
San Francisco, California: Mustache Cinema
http://site.mustachecinema.com/
7PM , 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez)
MUSTACHE CINEMA PRESENTS 'I AM THANKFUL FOR HAND-MADE FILMS"
In the month of November, when many thanks are given, Mustache Cinema
would like to give recognition to the art of hand-made films. Filmmakers
Phil Solomon, Robert Schaller, Maia Cybelle Carpenter, David Gatten,
Jennifer Reeves, and Ken Paul Rosenthal participate in a more natural
and direct relationship with their work. Their films have been
self-processed, chemically manipulated, painted, toned, soaked in the
Atlantic Ocean and buried underground. The results of such
experimentation peel back layers of emulsion and awaken embedded
celluloid grain-- giving their pictures the bubbling textures and
rhythmic color shifts that can only come from hand-made films, which we
are thankful for. Wednesday, Nov 4th-- 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.
11/4
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)
IN PRESENT TENSE: FILMS OF UTE AURAND
Ute Aurand in-person. Presented in association with the Pacific Film
Archive -- [members: $5 / non-members: $10/ CCA students & faculty:
free] ----- Over the last thirty years, German filmmaker Ute Aurand has
been creating films drawn from her daily life, travels and friends. Made
in conversation with the work of Jonas Mekas, Margaret Tait and Marie
Menken, Aurand's films find a spontaneous interaction with the here and
now. Her signature staccato bursts of imagery share a stylistic affinity
with Mekas, but lack the Lithuanian émigré's melancholy. Instead, her
work has a decidedly joyous present tense -- the flooding imagery of the
now. This program features two early films, "Deeply Absorbed in Silent
Conversation (Schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft)" and "Thirds 1 (Terzen
1)", and a stunning new work, "Building Underground (In die Erde
gebaut)." In the latter, she follows the construction of the new wing of
Zurich's Museum Reitberg from the groundbreaking in 2004 to its opening
in 2007. Enhancing her unparalleled access to the construction site with
an attentive eye towards the meticulous labour involved, Aurand creates
a portrait that beautifully melds her seeing with her subject. Her image
bursts, like bricks and mortar, construct moving pictures out of
fragments much like the labourers build up the museum wing from under
the ground. ----- Presented with the generous support of the
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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11/5
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
ALL TOGETHER NOW: VIDEOS BY HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn in person! With a biting yet surprisingly
tender wit, Los Angeles performance and video artists Harry Dodge and
Stanya Kahn couch social critique in bizarre, hilarious, and seemingly
impromptu scenarios. Collaborating since 2001, their work has been
featured in exhibitions and film festivals the world over. "At first
glance," writes critic Jeffrey Kastner,"[their videos] seem like lo-fi
screwball sketches, thanks to their improvisational skills, Kahn's
magnetic performances, and Dodge's keen directorial hand." Can't Swallow
It, Can't Spit it Out (2006), featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial,
trails a bloody-nosed modern-day Valkyrie-cum-raconteur as she wanders
the streets of L.A. Their 2008 tour de force, All Together Now, imagines
a post-apocalyptic scenario where different clans forge their way in an
anarchic world. Also featured: Whacker (2005); Let the Good Times Roll
(2004); and Winner (2002). 2002–08, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.
11/5
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
7 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.
VIDEOFEST
The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film Center Nov.5-8,
2009 in Dallas, TX. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
will be presented thru I-Tunes.
11/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
SATELLITE, AS LONG AS IT IS AIMING AT THE SKY /A VIDEO PROJECT BY NASRIN
TABATABAI AND BABAK AFRASSIAB
Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program |
This timely video peers into the microcosm of Persian-language satellite
television stations, now numbering more than 20, that broadcast
internationally from Los Angeles. With the majority of their audiences
residing in Iran, these stations have come to produce a surplus
geography between "here" and "there," carrying highly provisional,
ambivalent political and cultural identities. The screening is followed
by a discussion with the filmmakers moderated by Norman M. Klein. In
person: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi | $10 [students $5, CalArts
free]
11/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset Blvd)
LUMINOUS TRIPTYCH: ANGELINA KRAHN, KAREN JOHANNESEN, RICK BAHTO
Working from different aesthetic and conceptual backgrounds, the films
of these three artists share an ethos of handmade, personal cinema.
Angelina Krahn utilizes a wide palette of alternative techniques in her
films, perhaps most poignantly in Stigmata Sampler, in which she sewed
into the surface of the film to cover up and obscure images of her own
body. Karen Johannesen's masterful editing and single-framing techniques
serve to embody studies into quantum mechanics, bringing to vision in
delicate landscapes a world "teeming with billions of unrealized
possibilities". Rick Bahto's in-camera edited works use the people and
places of his everyday life as the basis of studies in movement, rhythm
and duration, creating a tension between pre-determined structures and a
freedom of improvisation. This is the first time any of these films have
been seen in Los Angeles. Rick Bahto in person.
11/5
Naples, Italy: Independent Film Show
http://www.em-arts.org/independent-film-show-2009-edition
8 PM, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, piazza Dante
(DE)CODING
(DE)CODING plays with cinema's ability and potential to generate
associations, may they be intentional or not. This programme brings
together a series of films that explore the capacity of images and words
to create meaning, even when attempts are made to release them from the
constraint of narrative, or in other words from the constraint of
"making sense". Images and words can't help making meaning "before our
eyes", for we will always try to look for their sense and purpose.
Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz. 1st part : Thom
Andersen and Malcolm Brodwick — ——- (aka short line long line), US,
1966-67, colour, sound, 11' - Morgan Fisher ( ), US, 2003, 16mm,
colour/b&w, silent, 21' - John Smith Associations, UK, 1975, 16mm,
colour, sound, 7' - Robert Nelson Bleu Shut, US, 1970, 16mm, colour,
sound, 33'. 2nd part : Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma, 1970, 16mm, colour,
sound, 60'.
11/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1 Filmmaker in person! THE FAERY GARDEN (2007, 15
minutes, video) A pleasant garden turns mischievous. EPHEMERAL SEIZURE
(2009, 20 minutes, video) The 'New Age' is splashed with color.
IDENTIFIED OBJECTS (2008, 5 minutes, video) …what the hell happened in
the sky?! A DREAM OF ROSES (2008, 15 minutes, video) Red roses drip
blood amid God's pink dawn. THE VERNAL ZONE (2009, 15 minutes, video)
…the place beneath a bewitching moon! WITCHERY (2008, 15 minutes, video)
Pagan pandemonium ensues. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
11/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2 SONG OF THE SEVEN SENSES (2007, 20 minutes, video)
A vagabond's pictoral path strewn with poetry. PEEK-A-BOO (2007, 10
minutes, video) …"I see you!" TARNISHED UTOPIA (2008, 20 minutes, video)
Part the veils and sniff intoxicating blossoms. OBSESSIVE (2009, 10
minutes, video) Sweet agony too delicious to be without. CINEFEST (2009,
10 minutes, video) 'Aristocratic bums' deserve the best of everything.
THE TIGER (2009, 10 minutes, video) …one's 'softest parts' are 'scooped
out' and 'eaten alive.' Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. –Thursday,
November 5 at 9:30.
11/5
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
SILHOUETTES AND SERENADES: A NIGHT OF ACOUSTIC SONG AND IMPROVISED FILM
Live acoustic performances by Bay Area singer/songwriters Emily Jane
White, Foxtails Brigade and Steve Taylor (of Rogue Wave) w/ a debut
screening of Foxtails Brigade's "Chat With Sivan music" video by Andrew
and live improvised film projections by Luke Judd. 8pm. $6
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009
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11/6
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
VISITING FILMMAKER: ROBERT BEAVERS
"One of the most exacting minds and singular sensibilities at work in
the movies." -Village Voice. American expatriate Robert Beavers has been
making and refining his exquisite films in relative isolation in Europe
since the late 1960s. But only within the past decade has he begun to
show them more widely—and his substantial body of work has been met with
tremendous critical acclaim. "Add Robert Beavers to the pantheon. This
is an epochal event," Nathan Lee, for example, wrote in the New York Sun
on the occasion of a 2005 retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Beavers,
who was born in Massachusetts, mixes lyrical autobiography with a
precise formal beauty that displays a thoughtful command of all aspects
of filmmaking. As Susan Oxtoby of the Pacific Film Archive has aptly
noted, his films "seem to embody the ideals of the Renaissance in their
fascination with perception, psychology, literature, the natural world,
architectural space, musical phrasing, and aesthetic beauty." It's a
special honor to have Beavers introduce this rare screening in person.
You'll see four astounding, sensuous films, including his most recent
one (and his first shot in America in almost forty years). (app. 70
mins., 35mm and 16mm) Featured Films: AMOR, 1980, 35mm, 15 mins.; The
Stoas, 1991–97, 35mm, 22 mins.; The Ground, 1993–2001, 35mm, 20 mins.;
Pitcher of Colored Light, 2000–20007, 16mm, 23 mins.
11/6
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
7 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.
VIDEOFEST
Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
will be presented thru I-Tunes.
11/6
Edinburgh, Scotland: Diversions Film Festival
http://www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk
6 - 8 November, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ, Scotland, UK
DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO 6-8 NOVEMBER 2009
FILMHOUSE CINEMA, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Diversions Film Festival is back
for a second year, bringing together a diverse selection of experimental
films and videos from all over the world. Guest curated by artists,
filmmakers, critics and distributors, the programme combines films by
well-known figures, such as Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Guy
Sherwin, Rose Lowder, Matthias Muller & Christophe Girardet, Olivier
Fouchard, Ian Hugo, Pat O'Neill, Patrick Bokanowski, Margaret Tait,
Enrico Cocozza and Eino Ruutsalo, with new works by young filmmakers.
This year's special highlights include a screening of films by JEANNE
LIOTTA, who will be present to introduce and talk about her works, PLUS
a new film by Sami van Ingen - JUST ONE KISS - THE FALL OF NED KELLY -
an expansive found-footage film with a live musical accompaniment. To
coincide with an exhibition at the Dean Gallery of Modern Art ('Running
Time: Artists' Film in Scotland 1960 to Now'), Diversions and the
National Galleries of Scotland will host a Study Day on the subject on
7th November, featuring talks by artists and critics, screenings by Matt
Hulse and Dalziel & Scullion, and a panel discussion. This will be
followed by a screening of Scottish artists' film and video at
Filmhouse.
11/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 1: ABIGAIL CHILD
ABIGAIL CHILD: BEYOND GENDERED SOUND NOISE FILM, SCRATCH VIDEO, AND THE
NEW PSYCHEDELIC ACID HOUSE VULNERABILITY Presented by Melissa Ragona,
Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory, Carnegie
Mellon University; in collaboration with Abigail Child, in absentia.
George Barber TILT (1983, 5 minutes, video) George Barber ARTS COUNCIL
GB SCRATCH (1988, 1.5 minutes, video) Dara Birnbaum POP POP VIDEO
[includes GENERAL HOSPITAL, OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEED SKATING, and KOJAK/WANG]
(1980, 9 minutes, video) Elisa Ahtila ME/WE, OKAY, GRAY (1993, 3
minutes, video) Abigail Child SURFACE NOISE (Part 1 of HOW THE WORLD
WORKS) (2000, 18 minutes, 16mm) Abigail Child IF I CAN SING A SONG OF
LIGATURES (2009, 5 minutes, 16mm) Charles Atlas SON OF SAM AND DELILAH
(1991, 27 minutes, video) Kalup Linzy LOLLIPOP (2006, 4 minutes, video)
Martha Colburn DON'T KILL THE WEATHER MAN (2007, 5 minutes,
16mm-to-video) Jacob Ciocci THE PEACE TAPE (2007, 5 minutes, video)
Jacob & Jessica Ciocci THE TRANCE TAPES! (2007, 5-minute excerpt, video)
Takeshi Murata MONSTER MOVIE (2005, 4 minutes, video) Music by Ikue Mori
and Zeena Parkins. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
11/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 2: SU FRIEDRICH
SU FRIEDRICH: THEN AND NOW Marjorie Keller SHE/VA (1973, 3 minutes,
16mm) Su Friedrich GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (1981, 15 minutes, 16mm)
Leslie Thornton JENNIFER, WHERE ARE YOU? (1981, 10 minutes, 16mm) Anne
Severson (Alice Anne Parker) NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA (1971, 17 minutes,
16mm) Joyce Wieland SAILBOAT (1967, 3 minutes, 16mm) Joyce Wieland &
Hollis Frampton A & B IN ONTARIO (1984, 15 minutes, 16mm) Su Friedrich
SEEING RED (2005, 27 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
11/6
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm. $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
WHOLPHIN SELECTIONS
Join us for an evening of selected shorts from Wholphin. Program TBA.
Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's, lovingly
encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the
way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you
know, do it.
11/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
RUNNING UP THAT HILL
Curated and presented by Michael Robinson. Presented in association with
the Headlands Center for the Arts -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10]
----- Exploring states of psychological purgatory, journeys of spiritual
flux and the possibilities of transcendence found in the act of getting
lost, these episodes in the struggles and joys of the transient being
are in turns haunting, hilarious, damning and hopeful. Running Up That
Hill features Shana Moulton's desert vision quest, "Sand Saga"; Ben
Rivers' foggy portrait of pilgrimage, "The Coming Race"; Jesse McLean's
reality television meltdown "Somewhere Only We Know"; Tsuji Naoyuki's
entrancing charcoal nightmare, "Children of Shadows"; Phil Solomon's
intervention into the Grand Theft Auto netherworld, "Rehearsals for
Retirement"; an excerpt of Ryan Trecartin's miasma of cloning, adoption
and online identity, "I-Be Area"; and curator Michael Robinson's most
recent work, "If There Be Thorns."
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
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11/7
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
12 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.
VIDEOFEST
Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
will be presented thru I-Tunes.
11/7
Miami Beach, FL: sol island media works
http://www.solislandmediaworks.com
7pm to 7am, 2000 Convention Center Ave.
DINORAH DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ AT SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez will be presenting two moving image
installations entitled "o Amor" and "Ephemera" at the Miami Beach
Botanical Garden to celebrate Sleepless Night on the evening of November
7, 2009 from about 7pm until daybreak the following morning... Working
with hand-crafted found and recycled film footage, Rodriguez
orchestrates transparent realities from fragments of photographs and
films... "O Amor" is a video journey into the subconscious secrets of
the Botanical Garden itself. Filmed at this very site, "o Amor" is a
giant video projection addressing the cycle of bloom and decay in both
the natural environment and the experience of love, looped and screened
outdoors through the main window of the Garden's Administrative
Offices... "Ephemera" consists of miniscule transparent images suspended
from the branches of the Grand Poinciana tree at the entrance to the
Botanical Garden. This 3-D collage will be rendered kinetic by the
natural breezes blowing through the outdoor environment, and the
projection achieved through the use of spotlights at the base of the
tree... Dancers from Momentum Dance Company will perform an interactive
piece in collaboration with this installation, choreographed by Delma
Iles. Performance at midnight.
11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STAN BRAKHAGE SONGS 1-14
SONGS 1-14 by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 minutes, 16mm, silent. "SONG
1: Portrait of a lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in
remembering. SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG
5: A childbirth song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7:
San Francisco. SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and
substance. SONG 10: Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect,
a lyre of rain scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass
traps. SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds,
paints and crystals." –S.B. –Saturday, November 7 at 4:00.
11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 3: ERICKA BECKMAN
ERICKA BECKMAN: PERFORMING THE IMAGE With Vera Dika, Associate Professor
of Film Studies, New Jersey City University. Jack Goldstein BONE CHINA
(1974-78, 2-minute loop, video) Pat O'Neill SAUGUS SERIES (1974, 18.5
minutes, 16mm) Owen Land NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE
ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS
(1976, 10 minutes, 16mm) Vito Acconci THEME SONG (1973, 15-minute
excerpt, video) Julia Heyward MY BLUE PERIOD (1975, 15-minute excerpt,
video) Ericka Beckman YOU THE BETTER (1983, 20 minutes, 16mm) Ericka
Beckman SWITCH CENTER (2003, 12 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca.
95 minutes.
11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 4: PEGGY AHWESH
PEGGY AHWESH: ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME Jaime Iglehart TRUE STORY (2008,
15 minutes, video) Patricia Baga THERE IS NO "I" IN TRISHA, SEASON 2,
EPISODE 7 (2005/07, 4 minutes, video) Patricia Baga AB-ORIGINALS (MARY)
(2007/08, 7.5 minutes, video) Otis Turner THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
(1910, 13 minutes, video) Marie Losier PAPAL BROKEN-DANCE (2008, 6
minutes, video) Dani Leventhal 54 DAYS THIS WINTER 36 DAYS THIS SPRING
(2009, 18 minutes, video) Peggy Ahwesh THE SCARY MOVIE (1993, 10
minutes, 16mm) Katherine Bauer PSYCHO PUSSY SLAUGHTER (2008, 10 minutes,
video) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
11/7
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: WOBBLY’S HISTORY OF SAMPLING + RIP +
Jon "Wobbly" Leidecker has spliced together an hour-long historical
review of audio pastiche, revisiting the benchmarks of the practice over
the course of the last century. His assiduous survey moves through Ives,
Oliveros, Cage, Buchanan & Goodman, Pierres Henry & Schaeffer, Perrey &
Kingsley, Paik, Reich, Marclay, Oswald, et al. PLUS RiP: A Remix
Manifesto, the world's first open-source documentary about copyright and
Fair Use. Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of
intellectual property in the Information Age, mixing up the mediascape
and shattering the wall between users and producers. His doc features
mash-up master and Illegal Art exponent Girl Talk, who blends samples of
existing music into new songs. Engaging interviews with creators,
lawmakers, and consumers are interspersed with animation, collage, and
archival footage in this righteous rave-up. Come early for the brutal
plunderphonics of Muerto Zoke. $7.77.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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11/8
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
10:30 a.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.
VIDEOFEST
Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
will be presented thru I-Tunes.
11/8
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 FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... BY YVONNE
RAINER
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer
Retrospective (part 2 of 8). Over the course of our 2009-2010 seasons,
Filmforum is proud to present a full retrospective of the media works of
Yvonne Rainer. Tonight, FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... (1974, 105 mins, b&w,
16mm) Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays
with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of
a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger. (Note:
Rainer will NOT be present at this show.) Los Angeles Filmforum, at the
Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA
90028. Sunday Nov 8, 2009. 7:30 pm. 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.
11/8
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:00 pm, Billy Wilder Theatre at The Hammer Museum
LIGHT MATTERS: JOOST REKVELD IN PERSON
UCLA Film and Television Archive and Center for Visual Music present the
first West Coast retrospective of films by celebrated Dutch filmmaker
and installation artist Joost Rekveld. Rekveld, who will appear in
person, started making abstract films in 1991 after he invited Bill
Moritz and Elfriede Fischinger to come to the Netherlands to present a
day-long survey of abstract cinema. Almost twenty years later, Rekveld
pursues his fascination with human perception and the history of optics
and perspective with the aim of creating a "music for the eyes." An
important part of his filmmaking is to develop his own tools, often
inspired by the less frequented by-ways in the history of science and
technology. Films featured: #3 (1994), #23.2 Book of Mirrors (2002), #7
(1996), and #11 Marey Moiré (1999). TRT 69 minutes, 35mm/16mm. With
thanks to Celia Mercer/UCLA Animation Workshop. Tickets are $10 online,
$9 general, $8 student and seniors.
11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
ess otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
(1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD
(1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES
(1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF
WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films,
BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LA VIE NOIR
BURCKHARDT & BURCKHARDT: LA VIE NOIR by JACOB BURCKHARDT & JIM NEU 2007,
50 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; play directed by Keith McDermott;
with Mary Shultz, Black-Eyed Susan, Tony Nunziata, John Costelloe,
Agosto Machado, Chris Maresca, Deborah Auer, and Jim Neu. When eight
strangers find themselves in a high-rise bar during a storm, it seems
like a movie – even to them. That feeling grows as they discover
inter-connections that seem beyond coincidence. As the intrigue
intensifies, so does the storm, and the characters' survival may depend
on the answer to the question, "Are we in it or at it?" During the
theatrical run of LA VIE NOIR at La MaMa, the cast assembled for an
extra performance so that Jacob Burckhardt could film it. Made under
B-movie conditions, with only one long evening to complete the shoot,
the film version captures the cinematic quality of the play in more ways
than one. "Downtown ironist Jim Neu knows that the world of fedoras,
shady ladies and rain-swept sidewalks has been creeping into our
consciousness for decades." –Robert Simonson, TIME OUT NEW YORK & DUET
FOR SPIES 1993, 23 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; camera and
editing by Jacob Burckhardt. Two spies meet for a rendezvous over a
crowded city expressway. Their thoughts go back to the key debriefing of
their careers, and they find their separate memories to be strangely
identical. A story of doubt and deniability, a dark post-cold-war comedy
of individual and institutional delusions becoming one and the same. An
adaptation of a play by Jim Neu, it was shot on exotic locations around
the city. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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