From: Paul Krimmer (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 - 13:01:01 PST
its about 4-6 asa
> Hey everyone. I have some 3374 kodak black and white print stock. Does
> anyone know what the Asa of this is? Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> -Charles
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Weekly Listing <(address suppressed)-
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>> Part 1 of 2: This week [November 14 - 22, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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>> ============================
>> "le haricot bleu" by pierre villemin
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>> "Elements of TIME" by David Montgomery
>> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=403.ann
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>> NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
>> =====================
>> Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline:
>> February 17, 2010)
>> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1094.ann
>> The Lab (San Francisco, CA 94103; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
>> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1095.ann
>> Toronto Student Film Festival (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: March 22,
>> 2010)
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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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>> 2009)
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>> Free to Be..US! (Orono, ME, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2009)
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>> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
>> ==============================
>> * The Time We Killed [November 14, Houston, Texas]
>> * Los Angeles As A Character [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
>> * Immokalee, My Home [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * Perestroika: Reconstruction of A Flat [November 14, New York, New
>> York]
>> * How I Am and Speech Memory [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * Babaji, An Indian Love Story [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * The Living [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * Wondrous World of Laundry [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * Mediamodes [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * Ventana Al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films
>> [November 14, New York, New York]
>> * J. Kroot's 'it Came From Kuchar,' With George & Mike! +
>> [November 14, San Francisco, California]
>> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents D.W. Griffith In California, With
>> Talk By
>> Tom Gunning [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
>> * Dj Spooky and the Science of Terra Nova [November 15, New York,
>> New York]
>> * Blind Loves [November 15, New York, New York]
>> * Performa: Futurist Life Redux [November 16, New York]
>> * Early Monthly Segments #9 = Robert Todd In Person [November 16,
>> Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
>> * Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture From Silent
>> Cinema To
>> Avant-Garde Film [November 17, Berkeley, California]
>> * By the Waters of Boston [November 17, Jamaica Plain, MA]
>> * Orphee [November 17, Reading, Pennsylvania]
>> * The Hydroacoustic Show [November 18, Chicago, Illinois]
>> * Orange Alternative: Screening & Discussion Nov 18 & 19 [November
>> 18, New York, New York]
>> * Free Form Film Series Lay Down Tracks [November 18, San
>> Francisco, California]
>> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 18, Smithfield,
>> NC, USA]
>> * Look For Me: Animated Films By Laura Heit [November 19, Chicago,
>> Illinois]
>> * Open Screening: the West We Won [November 19, San Francisco,
>> California]
>> * Deborah Stratman: O’Er the Land [November 19, San Francisco, Cali
>> fornia]
>> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 19, Smithfield,
>> NC, USA]
>> * Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena [November 20, Philadelphia,
>> Pennsylvania]
>> * Exhibicion Luminosa [November 20, San Francisco, California]
>> * “One Day When I Was Growing Up In the ‘60s…”: A Lecture By
>> Yvonne Rainer [November 20, San Francisco, California]
>> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 20, Smithfield,
>> NC, USA]
>> * The Search: New videos By Kyle Canterbury [November 21, Chicago,
>> Illinois]
>> * Stan Brakhage Program [November 21, New York]
>> * Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena Pt. 2 [November 21,
>> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
>> * Carousel Microcinema #1: Tree Claps Hand: Gentle Films For Tough
>> Times [November 21, San Diego, California]
>> * Other Cinema: Alcatraz Anniversary [November 21, San Francisco,
>> California]
>> * Yvonne Rainer: Journeys From Berlin/1971 [November 21, San
>> Francisco, California]
>> * Tropical Vulture: Ybcalive! George Kuchar & Miguel Calderon
>> [November 21, San Francisco, California]
>> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 21, Smithfield,
>> NC, USA]
>> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour –
>> Program
>> 2 [November 22, Los Angeles, California]
>> * Text of Light [November 22, New York]
>> * Clair/Picabia/Bunuel Program [November 22, New York]
>> * Los Olvidados [November 22, New York]
>> * Yvonne Rainer: Privilege [November 22, San Francisco, California]
>>
>>
>> Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> 11/14
>> Houston, Texas: Cinema Arts Festival
>> http://www.cinemartsociety.org
>> 1pm, Rice Media Center
>>
>> THE TIME WE KILLED
>> The Time We Killed is the first feature by avant-garde filmmaker
>> Jennifer Reeves, who had been generally known for her formal
>> experimentation with optical printing and painting directly on film
>> (as
>> in the extraordinary When It Was Blue, screening Friday) and her
>> exploration of a range of topics including women's sexuality, mental
>> health and recovery, poetry, and dogs. The Time We Killed is a
>> surprising departure, a remarkably assured narrative feature. The
>> film's
>> title has a double meaning, signifying both the boredom and
>> isolation of
>> the protagonist and her country's run-up to the Iraq war. It has
>> the raw
>> intimacy of a filmed diary as it focuses on the daily life of
>> Robyn, an
>> agoraphobic writer who shuts herself in her Brooklyn apartment
>> after the
>> events of September 11, 2001. It is a visually stunning and evocative
>> meditation on Robyn's inner world filled with memories, past loves,
>> childhood visions, and life failings. The imagery is beautiful,
>> capturing the light reflecting on the East River and the nature
>> surrounding Robyn, reflecting Reeves's avant-garde experience as a
>> cinematic painter of light. The film won multiple awards at the
>> Berlin
>> Film Festival (2004), New York's Tribeca Film Festival (Best NY
>> Narrative Feature 2004), and screened at the Whitney Museum, and at
>> the
>> Rotterdam, Sundance, and New York film festivals. —MDH
>>
>> 11/14
>> Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
>> http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
>> 8:00 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado Bl.
>>
>> LOS ANGELES AS A CHARACTER
>> The 2nd annual Los Angeles as a Character screening will be
>> showcased on
>> Saturday, November 14, 2009, at the Echo Park Film Center. A
>> mixture of
>> narrative, experimental and documentary short films and videos with
>> the
>> city of Los Angeles as a peripheral or central theme, backdrop or
>> character will be shown. 10 films were chosen ranging from acclaimed
>> urban journalist Mike Sonksen's (aka, "Mike the Poet") "I Am Alive In
>> Los Angeles!!" (2008) - a vibrant look at the multi-faceted
>> character of
>> Los Angeles; "Dichotomy" (2009) - a short documentary by Laotian-
>> born
>> Van Veng reflecting the disparities between two distinct types of
>> urban
>> dwellers in downtown LA; Teenager Stephanie Cisneros' acclaimed "Echo
>> Park: A Different View" (2005) captures a specific moment in time
>> when
>> gentrification began in Echo Park; film fest favorite "Homeless in
>> Hollywood" (2009) by Hollis McLachlan follows an Australian
>> emigrant who
>> refuses to abandon his dream of acting despite having to live on the
>> streets and curator Charles Doran screens his award-winning narrative
>> "Ennui," described as "a horrific and comedic pastiche of the
>> pretensions of the art school crowd, white guilt, and the 'posthuman
>> condition." Other films include: "The New Los Angeles"(2009) – dir.
>> Will
>> O'Loughlen – a two minute field guide to making a better city, shot
>> entirely on a Flip HD Camera. "Sunset to Sunset"(2009) – dir. Kent
>> Hayward – a Super-8 mm time-lapse walk across LA starting at Sunset
>> Junction in Silverlake, down Santa Monica Blvd. to the beach. "Los
>> Angeles Through the Looking Glass"(2008) – dir. Jonathan Emrys –
>> A photo
>> essay, put into video format, attempting to characterize Los Angeles
>> from the point of view of its relationship to the motion picture
>> capitol
>> of the world, Hollywood. "Naked Slave 4 Art Infomercial #2"(2009) -
>> Johnny Naked. An infomercial soliciting the viewer to be part of
>> the Los
>> Angeles/Hollywood dream by inviting them to participate in the sale
>> of a
>> human being to be used as a personal art object/slave. "Misanthropia"
>> (2009) - Jackie McBride. A timely story (told in depressingly grainy
>> Super-8 b&w), about one man's downward spiral after being laid off
>> and
>> forced into a dispiriting temp job at the college he got his degree
>> from. More information on the films and filmmakers can be found here:
>> www.LAasaCharacter.org The Echo Park Film Center is located at:
>> 1200 N.
>> Alvarado Street, (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA 90026 Tickets are
>> $5.00 and are available on the evening of the show
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 4:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> IMMOKALEE, MY HOME
>> Immokalee, Florida, is at the heart of industrial agriculture in the
>> United States. It also has the largest population of migrant farm
>> workers in the state. These workers live in slave-like conditions:
>> some
>> are beaten, not given food or water, or not paid. Yet they continue
>> to
>> come from their homes in Mexico, Guatemala, and Haiti to earn money
>> on
>> these modern-day plantations. Visiting tomato fields, workers' homes,
>> carnivals, and churches, the documentary recounts the community's
>> struggle for farm workers' rights. What ultimately emerges is a
>> tale of
>> persistent hope for a better life. Directors Kevin T. Allen and
>> Jennifer
>> Heuson in person. World Premiere. Film precedes The Unforbidden
>> City --
>> A beer peddler bikes through the narrow alleyways of Beijing's
>> fourteenth-century neighborhood known as Source Street. As he rides,
>> collecting empties and delivering full bottles, he introduces us to
>> other area residents. The grumpy Dong Tongju works in central
>> heating.
>> Gao Li fantasizes about a life as a lady of leisure, with the time to
>> have her nails done and find just the right sofa. Old Wang
>> meticulously
>> records in his diary the banalities of each day, including the high
>> temperature. Just beyond the tightly packed warren of single-story
>> houses stands the gleaming National Grand Theater and the wide,
>> freshly
>> paved road leading out to the modern high-rises that represent the
>> future of this forever expanding city. As a steady beat of pick axes,
>> sledge hammers, and bulldozers closes in on their homes, the
>> residents
>> alternately prepare and despair for the day when Beijing's historic
>> heart has no more room for them.
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 4PM , 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> PERESTROIKA: RECONSTRUCTION OF A FLAT
>> Once the seat of the Russian Empire, the Baroque historic center of
>> St.
>> Petersburg is up for sale. Having had its architectural jewels
>> hacked up
>> into komunalka during the Communist era, the city is now experiencing
>> the wake of perestroika reforms, where communal property promises
>> capitalist-sized profits. In one flat on Marat Street, each of the
>> four
>> rooms is inhabited by a different family, all of whom share the
>> bathroom
>> and kitchen. When one owner decides to put her room on the market,
>> she
>> must also convince the others to sell. Enter the self-interested real
>> estate agents and impatient buyers, and a frenzied unraveling of the
>> already tenuous relationships ensues. As witness to the many
>> intrigues
>> involved in the sale, filmmaker Christiane Büchner brings us along
>> for a
>> sardonic ride with intractable neighbors through the cramped
>> quarters,
>> peeling-paint hallways, and water-damaged ceilings of Russia's new
>> economy, which in the end head-butts against its Byzantine past.
>> Director Christiane Büchner in person.
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 5:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> HOW I AM AND SPEECH MEMORY
>> HOW I AM"I'm like a hermit on an island," is how Patrick, an autistic
>> teenager, describes himself. Trapped in his own body, he attempts to
>> reach others with "talk written down," his own poetic prose, which
>> acts
>> as a free-form guide through this intimate portrait of a disability.
>> With a delicate hand, the filmmakers show Patrick's discomfort with
>> the
>> outer world of family and school as well as his affinity for the
>> natural
>> world. As the camera tries to reach through his disability, Patrick
>> himself reveals the limitations of language as an expression of an
>> inner
>> life. SPEECH MEMORY Father and daughter try to build a posthumous
>> portrait of the filmmaker's Korean grandfather. Born deaf in Japan
>> during its occupation of Korea, Key Jin Yun was raised learning
>> only to
>> write and sign in Japanese. After Japan's defeat in 1945, the
>> occupation
>> ended and the boy and his family returned to Korea. Through the
>> details
>> of Key Jin Yun's life, Speech Memory examines the impact of
>> immigration
>> and cultural assimilation, revealing the shifting complexities of
>> language, national identity, and memory. Filmmakers in Person
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 6:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> BABAJI, AN INDIAN LOVE STORY
>> Baba Basant Rai buried his wife nine years ago, and yet still
>> grieves.
>> Prescribing and preparing traditional remedies, Babaji, as he is
>> affectionately called, attends to the community outside Hazaribagh,
>> in
>> Jharkhand, India, curing fevers and stomach ailments as well as
>> exorcising the malevolent ghosts that walk among them. As
>> knowledgeable
>> and accomplished as he is in using the natural world to help the
>> sick,
>> Babaji was unable to save his beloved wife. Digging a grave next to
>> hers, he lies down in it and waits for death. Meanwhile, the people
>> of
>> the town depend on Babaji, who is rumored to be more than 100 years
>> old.
>> They marvel at his eccentricity and longevity, regarding him as a
>> "star"
>> and their road to possible notoriety. A portrait of one man's sorrow,
>> the film is also a window into traditional Indian culture, its beauty
>> and limitations, and how it struggles to accommodate, and resist,
>> modernity. Director Jiska Rickels in person. US PREMIERE
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 6:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> THE LIVING
>> Fed by four major rivers, Ukraine is a land of fertile steppes that
>> used
>> to be known as the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union. A Slavic culture
>> that was once the hub of Europe, 20th century Ukraine has been
>> carved up
>> and dominated successively by Russians, Austro-Hungarians, and
>> Soviets,
>> all of whom recognized its strategic value. When Stalin implemented
>> forced collectivization as part of his Five Year Plan to
>> industrialize
>> and de-privatize the USSR, he ordered Communist officials in the
>> Ukraine
>> to starve the resistant rural population. The resulting Holodomor was
>> witnessed by few outsiders; one of these, British journalist Gareth
>> Jones, left behind evidence in his personal diaries. While sharing
>> entries of these piercing, first-hand accounts, director Sergiy
>> Bukovsky
>> juxtaposes propaganda cinema of the era showing a happy, productive
>> peasant population against snippets of testimony of Holodomor
>> survivors.
>> Children at the time, these witnesses' scattered remembrances
>> slowly fit
>> together to complete a horrific chapter in Soviet history, which cost
>> the lives of 25,000 Ukrainians each day. Filmmaker in person, US
>> PREMIERE
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 8:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> WONDROUS WORLD OF LAUNDRY
>> Freshly laundered sheets, crisp tablecloths, and fluffy bath towels
>> adorn the bedrooms, dining rooms, and bath racks of Berlin's finest
>> hotels. Surprising at it seems, those clean white linens are washed,
>> dried, and pressed not at a nearby Berlin laundry but across the
>> River
>> Odra in a small town in neighboring Poland. Taking his camera to
>> Widuchowa, German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid tours the border
>> town
>> where Fliegel Textile provides 24-hour turnaround service to its
>> hotel
>> clients. By meeting some of the female employees and their
>> families, the
>> film quietly exposes how the global marketplace is affecting small-
>> town
>> eastern Europe, where labor is cheaper and life is harder. Working
>> shifts on a rotating seven-day, 24-hour schedule interferes with
>> family
>> life, so everyone, including the children, pitch in to ensure the
>> housework and the cooking get done. But nurturing relationships with
>> wives, husbands, and children requires more than paying the bills and
>> ticking off chores, and as the lure of better-paying jobs calls more
>> townspeople abroad, these workers struggle to keep their families
>> together. US PREMIERE
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: School of Visual Arts
>> http://www.mediamodes.com
>> 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., School of Visual Arts
>>
>> MEDIAMODES
>> The School of Visual Arts presents MediaModes, an interdisciplinary
>> graduate conference on critical thinking at the intersection of art
>> and
>> technology, with a keynote address by noted critic and scholar
>> Jonathan
>> Crary. The conference will be held Saturday, November 19th at the SVA
>> Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City. All events are free and
>> open
>> to the public. For more information and a schedule of events, please
>> visit www.mediamodes.com.
>>
>> 11/14
>> New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
>> http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
>> 8 PM, 66 East 4th St
>>
>> VENTANA AL SUR: AN EVENING OF ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
>> This rollicking evening of challenging, expressive and oppositional
>> Argentine cinema offers a window onto makers shredding formal
>> niceties,
>> relishing in risk and daring to access the sublime. From an achingly
>> beautiful evocation of an hourglass to a darkly humorous
>> evisceration of
>> the tenets of the stock market, this program will take us to the land
>> where summer is winter and winter is summer and render our souls
>> topsy-turvy for a bit too. For the last two summers NYC experimental
>> filmmakers Mark Street and Lynne Sachs immersed themselves in the
>> Buenos
>> Aires film community through a variety of collaborative cinematic
>> endeavors. In addition to shooting Super 8 movies with their artist
>> peers in town, Street and Sachs spent time meeting and watching the
>> works of local moving image makers – some young bucks and some vete
>> rans
>> who have been expanding the parameters of the medium since the early
>> 1960s. Tonight's artists include: Ernesto Baca, Enrique Bernacchini,
>> Macarena Gagliardi., Ruben Guzman , Narcisa Hirsch, Leandro Katz,
>> Leandro Listorti, Pablo Marin, Liliana Porter, Tomas Rautenstrauch,
>> Sergio Subeero, and Diego Trerotola. We will serve sweet dessert
>> churros
>> and other Argentine delicacies in the lobby before the show. Contact:
>> Mark Street at email suppressed or Lynne Sachs at
>> email suppressed
>>
>> 11/14
>> San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
>> http://www.othercinema.com/
>> 8:30, 992 Valencia St.
>>
>> J. KROOT’S 'IT CAME FROM KUCHAR,' WITH GEORGE & MIKE! +
>> Two legends of underground filmmaking—twin brothers George and Mike
>> Kuchar—are the subjects of Jennifer Kroot's new doc, affording a
>> hilarious and at times bittersweet intro to these Mission-based
>> kitsch-meisters. Since the '50s, when the teenaged twins wowed the
>> art
>> world with their 8mm extravaganzas, they have continued their
>> low-budget, totally idiosyncratic pursuit of cinematic expression.
>> Alongside Warhol and Anger, the Kuchar brothers were pioneering
>> members
>> of the '60s New York underground, and they've since inspired John
>> Waters, Guy Maddin, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Solondz, and thousands
>> more.
>> Director Kroot is here in the flesh to present her stars and answer
>> questions, before the show climaxes with the '65 'Sins of the
>> Fleshapoids.' Free wine, $8.
>>
>> -------------------------
>> SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
>> -------------------------
>>
>> 11/15
>> Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
>> http://www.lafilmforum.org/
>> 7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
>>
>> LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS D.W. GRIFFITH IN CALIFORNIA, WITH
>> TALK BY
>> TOM GUNNING
>> For fans of early film, and of Southern California history! We're
>> delighted to host the internationally-renowned film scholar Tom
>> Gunning,
>> who will talk about Griffith's time in California, and these
>> selected,
>> rarely screened films made in So Cal in the years before World War I.
>> All in 16mm with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
>> Films:
>> Man's Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress (1911, 17 min.); The
>> Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea (1910, 14 min.); The
>> Sands
>> of Dee (1912, 17 min); The Female of the Species (1912, 17 min) Los
>> Angeles Filmforum, at the Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado
>> Street
>> (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles CA 90026. 213-484-8846. Sunday
>> November 15,
>> 2009. 7:30 pm. General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for
>> Filmforum members.
>>
>> 11/15
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 4pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> DJ SPOOKY AND THE SCIENCE OF TERRA NOVA
>> Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek of the latest multimedia
>> creation
>> by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, whose Rebirth of a Nation redefined
>> D.W. Griffith's racist 1915 film about the American Civil War. With
>> Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctic, he turns his attention to global
>> climate
>> change, specifically its effects on the world's only uninhabited
>> landmass, Antarctica. Using sounds recorded during a visit to the
>> frozen
>> continent and images culled from AMNH archives, DJ Spooky
>> demonstrates
>> how he created Terra Nova, discussing his project with Heidi Cullen,
>> director of communications and senior research scientist at Climate
>> Central, a nonprofit foundation created to provide science-based
>> assessments of climate change and options for addressing it. Andrew
>> C.
>> Revkin, an environmental reporter for The New York Times, whose Dot
>> Earth blog examines efforts to balance human affairs with the
>> planet's
>> limits, will moderate the event.
>>
>> 11/15
>> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
>> Museum of Natural History
>> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
>> 6pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>>
>> BLIND LOVES
>> Sitting around the parlor one afternoon in their home in Levoča,
>> Slovakia, Peter and Iveta imagine an underwater world, him noodling
>> on
>> the piano, her knitting vigorously. Director Juraj Lehotský obliges
>> the
>> married couple's fantasies, rendering them in a fanciful vignette.
>> But
>> neither Peter nor Iveta can see it. They are both blind. Combining
>> moody, low-light cinematography, an artist's eye for composition,
>> and a
>> sharp ear for quotidian sounds, Blind Loves depicts the day-to-day
>> world
>> of the blind, rich in other sensory experiences. NY Premiere
>>
>> -------------------------
>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
>> -------------------------
>>
>> 11/16
>> New York: Anthology Film Archives
>> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
>> 8: 00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>>
>> PERFORMA: FUTURIST LIFE REDUX
>> FUTURIST LIFE REDUX Commissioned by Performa with SFMOMA. Co-
>> presented
>> by Performa and Anthology Film Archives for Performa 09. The only
>> officially 'Futurist' film ever made, VITA FUTURISTA (FUTURIST
>> LIFE) was
>> devised in 1916 by a committee of Futurist artists including Arnaldo
>> Ginna, Giacomo Balla, Remo Chiti, Bruno Corra, and F.T. Marinetti.
>> Comprised of eleven independent segments conceived and written by
>> different artists – with the whole film shot, edited, and generally
>> overseen by Ginna – FUTURIST LIFE directly took up several ideas
>> proposed in "The Futurist Cinema" manifesto written earlier in the
>> same
>> year, contrasting the spirit and lifestyle of the Futurist with
>> that of
>> the ordinary man in a series of humorous sketches, many of which used
>> experimental techniques such as split screens and double exposures.
>> The
>> final, 40-minute FUTURIST LIFE premiered at the Niccolini Theatre in
>> Florence in 1917, as part of a program with four sintesi (very short
>> plays) by Emilio Settimelli and Corra, and live poetry readings by
>> Settimelli and Chiti of the works of several Futurist writers. It
>> was a
>> failure with the audience, who threw stones and other objects at the
>> screen, and was generally forgotten soon after it came out. The only
>> known copy of this film was lost several decades ago, and now all
>> that
>> remain are written accounts by Ginna and the journal L'ITALIA
>> FUTURISTA,
>> as well as a few still images. Now, for the Performa 09 biennial,
>> Performa and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) have
>> joined
>> together to commission a diverse group of thirteen contemporary
>> American
>> film and video artists – Trisha Baga, Chamecki-Lerner, Martha Colbu
>> rn,
>> Ben Coonley, Lynn Hershman, George Kuchar, Shana Moulton, Shannon
>> Plumb,
>> Aida Ruilova, Matthew Silver & Shoval Zohar (The Future), and Michael
>> Smith – to create their own, 3-5 minute versions of the eleven segm
>> ents
>> in VITA FUTURISTA, re-imagining this film in relation to our own
>> future.
>> These shorts will then be compiled into one, all-new version of
>> FUTURIST
>> LIFE for the 21st century, making its New York premiere at
>> Anthology on
>> this evening. Curated by Lana Wilson (Performa) with Andrew Lampert
>> (Anthology). Special thanks to RoseLee Goldberg (Performa) and Frank
>> Smigiel (SFMOMA).
>>
>> 11/16
>> Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
>> http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
>> 7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
>>
>> EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #9 = ROBERT TODD IN PERSON
>> Robert Todd is the most prolific of filmmakers, completing forty
>> films
>> in the last ten years alone. Trained as a painter, Todd carefully
>> observes his Boston surroundings and re-presents them to us with an
>> astute sense of form. His films are works of magnification, employing
>> macro-focus lenses, and an eye for detail that bring us closer to
>> levels
>> of reality we often miss. His films can reveal the forgotten beauty
>> of
>> the natural world or the hidden stillness in busy parts of the
>> city. The
>> works in this program date from the last three years and wrestle with
>> themes such as the corporeal elements of the body; places and
>> moments of
>> passage; and the fleeting glimpses of, or hauntings by, spirit.
>> *Special
>> thanks to Ben Donoghue and LIFT for helping to make this event
>> possible*
>> Programme: Interplay, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2006, USA, 6.5 min.
>> Qualities
>> of Stone, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2006, USA, 11 min. Dig, Robert Todd,
>> 16mm,
>> 2007, USA, 3 min. Passing, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2008, USA, 4 min.
>> Antechamber, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2008, USA, 12 min. Rose, Robert Todd,
>> 16mm, 2008, USA, 9 min. Repair, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2009, USA, 15
>> min. @
>> the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West Tuesday November
>> 17,
>> 2009 | 7:30pm screening, $5 *Robert Todd's Stable will be showing
>> at a
>> LIFT screening November 21 at Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara Street (Just
>> West of Bathurst). More info at www.lift.on.ca
>> http://www.earlymonthlysegments.org
>>
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>> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009
>> --------------------------
>>
>> 11/17
>> Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
>> http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
>> 7:30 PM, 2575 Bancroft Way
>>
>> JESTERS AND GESTURES: PERFORMING YIDDISH CULTURE FROM SILENT CINEMA TO
>> AVANT-GARDE FILM
>> Films by Abraham Ravett: Everything's For You ( 1989) , 58 min., 16mm
>> ----- The March ( 1999). 25 min., 16mm--- "non-Aryan" ( 2009) 12
>> min.,
>> 16mm
>>
>> 11/17
>> Jamaica Plain, MA: JP Tuesday Club
>> http://www.loring-greenough.org
>> 7:30 pm, Loring Greenough House, 12 South St
>>
>> BY THE WATERS OF BOSTON
>> A night of film and video by Saul Levine and Adam Paradis. If you
>> like
>> challenging cinema and cozy atmosphere, we'd like to see you at the
>> third monthly film screening at the Loring-Greenough House in JP. The
>> doors open at 7pm, and the show begins at 7:30. Admission is $4.
>> Bring a
>> friend and pass it on.
>>
>> 11/17
>> Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
>> www.berksfilmmakers.org
>> 7:30 pm, Albright College
>>
>> ORPHEE
>> Orphee (1947, 95 min.) by JEAN COCTEAU In this, the second of
>> Cocteau's
>> Orpheus trilogy, Cocteau employs his unique blend of French classical
>> and surrealist/modernist mise-en-scene. The filmmaker (artist, poet,
>> novelist, playwright) described the ideal viewer of his films as one
>> "open to my dream and agree[ing] to be put to sleep and to dream it
>> with
>> me (accepting the logic by which dreams operate, which is implacable,
>> although it is not governed by our logic). I am only talking about
>> the
>> mechanics, since Orphée is not at all a dream in itself: through a
>> wealth of detail similar to that which we find in dreams, it
>> summarizes
>> my way of living and my conception of life."And in the same text :
>> "Mirrors: we watch ourselves grow old in mirrors. They bring us
>> closer
>> to death." -Jean Cocteau, The Art of Cinema
>>
>> ----------------------------
>> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> 11/18
>> Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400
>> http://gallery400.blogspot.com/2009/10/hydroacoustic-show.html
>> 7:00pm, 400 S. Peoria Street
>>
>> THE HYDROACOUSTIC SHOW
>> At 20,000 leagues below the sea everyone can hear you scream – that
>> 's
>> the nature of sound and water after all, and (maybe) that's why we
>> call
>> all those vibrations dazzling our skulls by the oceanic descriptor
>> WAVEFORMS. Just ask Alex Halsted – she was born into water, under w
>> ater,
>> knows wet and sound better than all of us combined. For the last
>> month
>> in Gallery 400 she's been humoring our earth-ears with her rhythmic
>> pulses, and now it's time to return the favor. And so, submitted
>> for her
>> approval: an aqua-opera in 7 stanzas, a capital-SEA-composition in as
>> many verses. From that silent surface (Hutton) to the scratch and
>> curl
>> of the fevered deep (Gatten); betwixt a siren-spongebob-song (Best)
>> and
>> a flicker score for the Red Sea (Holthuis); with whale chorus
>> (Clark),
>> octo-electronica (Painleve), and gurgling pop tune (Rist) – this is
>> a
>> kino-song for the best Nigerian Elephant-nosed Fish we'll ever know.
>> Here's To You, Alex. FEATURING: Study of A River by Peter Hutton
>> (16:00,
>> 16mm, 1996-97), What the Water Said Nos 4-7 by David Gatten (17:00,
>> 16mm, 2007), Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob by Masta Best (3:46,
>> video,
>> 2007), Amours de la pieuvre (Love Life of the Octopus) by Jean
>> Painleve
>> (14:00, 16mm on video, 1965), I'm a Victim of This Song by Pipilotti
>> Rist (5:06, video, 1995), Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis (15:00,
>> 35mm on video, 2004), Sound Over Water by Mary Helena Clark (6:00,
>> 16mm,
>> 2009)
>>
>> 11/18
>> New York, New York: Bluestockings & Change You Want to See
>> 7:00, Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street
>>
>> ORANGE ALTERNATIVE: SCREENING & DISCUSSION NOV 18 & 19
>> Each event will include a presentation, film/video screening, and
>> discussion. Different films will be screened each night. Wednesday,
>> November 18, 2009, 7:00 pm Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street @
>> Stanton, NY, NY Films: The Orange Alternative, 1989, Mirosław
>> Dembiński (21 min.) Dwarves go to Ukraine, 2005, Mirosław
>> Dembińskim (on the OA action in the Orange Revolution in 2004)
>> Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7:30 pm The Change You Want to See 84
>> Havemeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY Films: Major or the
>> Revolution of Dwarves, 1989, Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz (40 min.)
>> Dwarf for
>> the Mayor, 2003, Mirosław Dembiński (36 min.) (on the OA's
>> election campaign for the City Council in Warsaw) About the Orange
>> Alternative: The Orange Alternative is an underground anarchic
>> movement,
>> which was started in 1981 in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, by Waldemar
>> Fydrych aka "Major." Somewhat inspired by Provos, and strongly
>> influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, it painted absurd graffiti
>> dwarfs
>> on city walls, which became its symbol and organized massive
>> happenings
>> oftentimes with participation of thousands of people wearing dwarf
>> hats.
>> It was one of the more picturesque elements of Eastern European
>> opposition against communism. website: www.orange-alternative.org
>> Waldemar "Major" Fydrych was born in Torun, Poland on April 8, 1953.
>> Graduated in History and Art History at the University of Wroclaw.
>> Founder of the Orange Alternative. In March 1988, he was arrested for
>> distributing women's hygienic napkins in the street. Sentenced to
>> three
>> months of prison but released following public uproar.
>>
>> 11/18
>> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
>> http://www.atasite.org/
>> 8pm. $6., 992 Valencia St. at 21st
>>
>> FREE FORM FILM SERIES LAY DOWN TRACKS
>> Five American nomads "hit the road" in this sprawling 16mm
>> documentary
>> feature. A beautiful and remarkable love letter to travel. Dir:
>> Danielle
>> Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey Additional Films: Fledgeling - Tony
>> Gault,
>> Elizabeth Henry (Denver, Co) Faces on Mars - David Borengasser (San
>> Francisco) CLOSING PERFORMANCE: Live Performance by Add Oil
>>
>> 11/18
>> Smithfield, NC, USA: Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival
>> 7:30m, 109 South Third Street
>>
>> AVA GARDNER INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
>> The Third Annual Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival celebrates
>> Ava's
>> passion for the Arts and her love for Independent Films, live music,
>> parties, and so much more. November 18-21, 2009
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> 11/19
>> Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
>> http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
>> 6pm, 164 N. State St
>>
>> LOOK FOR ME: ANIMATED FILMS BY LAURA HEIT
>> Laura Heit in person! Poignant and smart, the animated films of
>> puppet
>> artist and SAIC alumna Laura Heit employ stop-motion, live action
>> puppetry, hand-drawing, and computer animation. Heit is the co-
>> director
>> of the experimental animation department at CalArts and her
>> award-winning work has screened extensively at museums and film
>> festivals around the world. This program showcases her films from the
>> last twelve years and features a special live performance of her
>> acclaimed puppet-show-in miniature, The Matchbox Shows. Films
>> include:
>> Parachute (1997), an allegory following a young woman as she leaves
>> home; Collapse (2002), a 2D computer animation tracing a single
>> tragic
>> moment; The Amazing, Mysterious and True Story of Mary Anning and Her
>> Monsters (2003), about the little-known paleontologist Mary Anning;
>> and
>> Look For Me (2005), a Channel 4 UK television commission imagining
>> one's
>> own invisibility. 1997–2005, USA, multiple formats, ca. 65 min.
>>
>> 11/19
>> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
>> http://www.atasite.org/
>> 7pm Door, 8PM $5, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
>>
>> OPEN SCREENING: THE WEST WE WON
>> 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 anyway: Enjoy 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
>>
>> 11/19
>> San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
>> http://www.sfcinematheque.org
>> 7:00 pm, SFMOMA -- 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard)
>>
>> DEBORAH STRATMAN: O’ER THE LAND
>> Deborah Stratman in-person -- [members: $7 / non-members: $10]
>> ----- A
>> committed cinematic explorer, Deborah Stratman's essayistic film work
>> resembles that of James Benning and Vanessa Renwick in its
>> examination
>> of landscape and locale as well as its poetic contemplation of
>> ideology
>> and belief. Presented as a series of patient observances of
>> competitive
>> spectacle and masculine display, her epic "O'er the Land" channels
>> the
>> dark side of the American psyche, presenting a savagely poetic
>> meditation on the contemporary culture of violence, territoriality
>> and
>> patriotism through studies of gun culture, war reenactments and
>> border
>> conflicts. Including a telling of the story of Lt. Colonel William
>> Rankin -- a USMC pilot who survived being trapped in the updrafts
>> of a
>> thunderstorm for forty-five minutes following an emergency ejection
>> at
>> 48,000 feet -- O'er the Land describes a stark and disturbing world
>> of
>> survivors and warriors. Yet against this grim backdrop, a rich, even
>> redemptive exposition of the American landscape emerges. Also
>> screening:
>> Stratman's Paranormal Trilogy ("How Among The Frozen Words", "It Will
>> Die Out in the Mind" and "The Magician's House") and her 1993 film
>> "Palimpsest."
>>
>> 11/19
>> Smithfield, NC, USA: Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival
>> http://www.myspace.com/AvaGardnerFilmFestival
>> noonish, 109 South Third Street
>>
>> AVA GARDNER INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
>> The Third Annual Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival celebrates
>> Ava's
>> passion for the Arts with Independent Films, live music, parties,
>> and so
>> much more. November 18-21, 2009
>>
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>> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
>>
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