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This week [November 28 - December 6, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: December 10, 2009)
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DEEP LEAP MICROCINEMA - SACRED GEOMETRIES (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: November 29, 2009)
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Boston Science Fiction Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA ; Deadline: December 21, 2009)
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filmarmalade (london; Deadline: March 30, 2010)
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Chips and Salsa Film Festival (wilmington, nc, usa; Deadline: March 15, 2010)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham; Deadline: December 04, 2009)
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2010 Was the World of the Future (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: January 01, 2010)
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Woodstock Museum Film Festival (Woodstock, New York (NY) 12498; Deadline: December 31, 2009)
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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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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: December 10, 2009)
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Faux Film Festival (Portland OR, USA; Deadline: December 31, 2009)
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International film competition - "Intervideo Talent Award" (Mainz, Germany; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM, USA; Deadline: December 10, 2009)
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Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, United Kingdom; Deadline: December 26, 2009)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham; Deadline: December 04, 2009)
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2010 Was the World of the Future (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: January 01, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Altered States [November 28, Brussels, Belgium]
* James Broughton Program 1 [November 28, New York, New York]
* James Broughton Program 2 [November 28, New York, New York]
* L'age D'or [November 28, New York, New York]
* Short Film Show [November 28, Old Bridge N.J]
* Martinez: 'songs To Enemies & Deserts' [November 28, San Francisco, California]
* Ybcalive! George Kuchar & Miguel Calderon [November 28, San Francisco, California]
* Mono No Aware iii International Expanded Cinema Exhibition [November 29, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Last Mistress [December 1, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Owen Land: Dialogues [December 1, San Francisco, California]
* "The Devil's Cleavage" On 16mm, With Introduction By George Kuchar via
video. [December 2, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
* Diaries, Notes and Dreams [December 2, San Francisco, California]
* New Nippon: Contemporary Film and video From Japan [December 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Ybcalive! George Kuchar & Miguel Calderon [December 3, San Francisco, California]
* Deliver + Deliverance [December 3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Urban Image - Selected Shorts [December 4, Jersey CIty, NJ]
* Holding Patterns & Collective Memories: Elise Baldwin & Kadet Kuhne [December 4, San Francisco, California]
* Other Cinema: Animal Charm & Freddy Mcguire + Packard + [December 5, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Man Who Envied Women With Yvonne
Rainer In Person [December 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Underground New York [December 6, New York, New York]
* David Sherman's 'wasteland Utopias' + [December 6, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2009
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11/28
Brussels, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
21h, Cimatics Festival, Les Brigittines
ALTERED STATES
With the digital invading every creative enterprise and form of
expression, pencils have become pixels, dreams have turned into data.
While cinema's obsession with the "holy grail" of photorealism has
generated a blizzard of visual extravaganzas aimed at a suspension of
the distinction between representation and simulation, a generation of
DIY bricoleurs use ubiquitious "tools of vizuality" (Kevin Kelly) to
explore alternative viewings and readings of the familiar. Through
processes of transference, translation and combination, they encode,
reveal or impose layers of information and deceive expectations about
visibility and availability. Poking the surfaces of various images,
sounds and symbols, their renderings create poetic, playful and often
melancholic environments that are both alien and familiar, questioning
our relation to images and our imagination. Screening video works by
Stephen Gray, Joseph Ernst, Chirstinn Whyte & Jake Messenger, Oliver
Laric, Max Hattler, David O'Reilly, Michael Robinson, Dave Griffiths,
Jonathon Kirk, Dietmar Offenhuber, Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin, Nicolas
Provost, Bernard Gigounon and Stewart Smith. Curated by Stoffel
Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz, in collaboration with Courtisane.
11/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
DREAMWOOD (1972, 45 minutes, 16mm) "A modern day spiritual odyssey in
which a man is mysteriously compelled to leave his home and embark on a
voyage to a strange, magical island…. Heroic in concept, subtle in
execution, [this] is a beautiful film by a true master of the medium."
–David Bienstock THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 minutes, 16mm) "A
lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing,
sitting and lying down." –John Wasserman, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Total
running time: ca. 80 minutes
11/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 minutes, 35mm) THIS IS IT (1971, 10
minutes, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 minutes, 16mm) Three films by an
American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy
of living. If there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the
master of it. Total running time: ca. 55 minutes.
11/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
L'AGE D'OR
by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí 1930, 73 minutes, 35mm. In French with
no subtitles; English synopsis available. Conventional attempts at plot
synopsis wither in the face of L'ÂGE D'OR. In Buñuel's words, "The story
is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct
and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic
film performed in full surrealistic frenzy."
11/28
Old Bridge N.J: Short Film Show
1:30, 1 Old Bridge Plaza
SHORT FILM SHOW
"Old Bridge Library Hosts Local Filmmakers"(Old Bridge, NJ) - The Old
Bridge Public Library will host a free screening of short movies by
local filmmakers on Saturday, November 28 at 1:30 p.m. This event is
free and open to the public and snacks will be provided. Among the
presenters:* Marla Cukor will present "The Mas...querade," neo-noir
thriller.* Jamal Hall will present "Strivin'" in which an inner city kid
has a dream and will have to overcome some life changing obstacles in
his own home.* Brian Jude will present "The Last Days of Frank Whyte," a
film about the perils of life on the street.The Old Bridge Library is
located at 1 Old Bridge Plaza at the intersection of Route 516 and
Cottrell Road in Old Bridge. For more information, please call (732)
721-5600 ext. 5033 or visit www.oldbridgelibrary.org.
11/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
MARTINEZ: 'SONGS TO ENEMIES & DESERTS'
David Martinez returns from the Sahara to share the images and sounds
that he collected traveling through the Darfuri villages and
battlegrounds. Not only do we witness the rebels' history and
motivations, but we also enjoy the benefits of Martinez' broader
regional, continental, and global analysis, brought to bear on this
contemporary catastrophe. Co-billed is Gini Reticker's Pray the Devil
Back to Hell, chronicling the remarkable story of the courageous
Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring
peace to their shattered country. PLUS the premiere of Sahar Al-Sawaf's
Um Abdullah, an artful animated piece about her Iraqi refugee family.
11/28
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9666
2-4pm, 701 Mission Street
YBCALIVE! GEORGE KUCHAR & MIGUEL CALDERON
A conversation with George Kuchar and screening of Secrets of the Shadow
World, a video based on the recently deceased ufologist, John Keel,
which features his theories about paranormal musings. The screening is a
tribute and a rare opportunity for those interested in this subject and
author to see and hear him expound his views on film.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2009
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11/29
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
www.mononoawarefilm.com
5 PM - 11 PM SHARP, 47 Beaver Street
MONO NO AWARE III INTERNATIONAL EXPANDED CINEMA EXHIBITION
" MONO NO AWARE III " Date: Sunday, November 29th 2009 Time: 5:00pm -
11:00pm Location: Lumenhouse (47 Beaver Street) Cost: Free MONO NO AWARE
IS AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCES. TAKING
ITS NAME FROM THE JAPANESE EXPRESSION MEANING "THE PATHOS OF THINGS".
THE CONCEPT IS TO PRESENT WORK WHICH IS EPHEMERAL IN NATURE WITH AN
EMPHASIS ON THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE. RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY
HAVE ALTERED THE AUDIENCE EXPERIENCE AND CONNECTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH
THE CINEMA. WEBSITES, TELEVISION, AND EVEN CELL PHONES HAVE BECOME AN
EVERYDAY VEHICLE FOR FILM AND VIDEO. ALL OF THE WORK PRESENTED AT MONO
NO AWARE CONSISTS OF ONE PART FILM PROJECTION AND ONE PART LIVE
PERFORMANCE ELEMENT. 16MM OR SUPER 8MM FILMS ONLY, NO DIGITAL VIDEO. WE
BELIEVE THERE IS A MAGIC IN SEEING THE FILM PRINT. THERE IS A PRESENCE A
POET HAS READING HIS/HER OWN WRITING. THERE IS A FEELING THAT RESONATES
IN YOUR CHEST WHEN YOU SEE A MUSICIAN PERFORM LIVE. EACH MONO NO AWARE
PERFORMANCE IS ONE OF A KIND, SOME PARTICIPANTS HAVE GONE SO FAR AS TO
DESTROY THE FILM WORK AFTER ITS FIRST RUN AT THE EVENT. WE INVITE YOU TO
JOIN US SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29TH AT LUMENHOUSE IN BROOKLYN. THE EVENT IS
FREE TO ATTEND. THANK YOU. FOR MONO NO AWARE FILM EVENT PROGRAM 2009
PLEASE VISIT ................................WWW.MONONOAWAREFILM.COM
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
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12/1
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
THE LAST MISTRESS
The Last Mistress (2007, 104 min.) by CATHARINE BREILLAT "The first time
you see the courtesan called La Vellini [Asia Argento], she's stretched
out on a divan and wearing a smile, or perhaps a scowl. It's hard to
tell with this woman, whose lips restlessly tremble and twist with rage
and pleasure. She's dressed like the supine subject of Goya's painting
"The Clothed Maja," which, like its sister image, "The Nude Maja," was
condemned as indecent by the Spanish Inquisition. To look at the figure
on screen writhing like a pampered cat is to understand why those
paintings made some observers uneasy…. Like all the unruly women who
populate Ms. Breillat's films, La Vellini rubs hard against the grain.
She's the fly in the ointment, the stick in the eye, and it's her howls,
her spit and her fury that keep everything off kilter, disturbing the
peace, its keepers and the narrative flow. Ms. Breillat reserves her
most adoring close-ups for Mr. Aattou, a delicate beauty with feminine
pillowy lips. (She loves her boys.) But she never denies Ms. Argento,
who hurtles into her scenes, at times literally, gobbling up a lot of
space. She's playing a woman whom others deride as a creature — as if
she were a beast. In truth, La Vellini is a woman of pleasure, and Ms.
Breillat makes certain her cup runneth over, furiously."- Manhola
Dargis, New York Times
12/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
OWEN LAND: DIALOGUES
[members: $6 / non-members: $10] ----- "[F]unny, sad, touching, bizarre,
brilliant…" (Mark Toscano) ----- The renowned Owen Land (maker of the
justifiably celebrated "Remedial Reading Comprehension, On the Marriage
Broker Joke…" and "Wide Angle Saxon") returns with his long-awaited
semi-autobiographical "Dialogues", a work that finally reveals Land's
mysterious exploits after he ventured back to Los Angeles in the
mid-1980s -- a time, according to the filmmaker, "for much
soul-searching about his relationships with women (and with strippers)."
Filled with playful segments lifted or inverted from familiar films and
scored by music ripped from the dustbin of popular cultural,
"Dialogues'" episodic structure (including sequences titled "A Waist is
a Terrible Thing to Mind" and "Glass Ashtrays Cast a Terrible
Refraction") contains "events which are more speculative, or
imaginative, than literally real." For mature audiences only!
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009
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12/2
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
9PM, 250 Reily Street
"THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE" ON 16MM, WITH INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE KUCHAR VIA
VIDEO.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2ND, 2009 "THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE" by GEORGE KUCHAR
with a video introduction by George Kuchar! 16mm, 107 minutes. 1973.
9PM. at the MIDTOWN CINEMA, 250 Reily St. Harrisburg "... George
Kuchar's lovingly farcical re-creation of those (Forties and Fifties)
melodramas, THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE, is a camp parody that sometimes
directly steals from the genre, sometimes burlesques it, and often
travesties it. As you might expect, it soon begins to mock all kinds of
cinematic references, from Hitchcock to Preminger. But leave the exact
details to pedants, laughter's the thing here. Kuchar manages terribly
well in terms of imagination and inventiveness, and just plain terribly
in terms of such humdrum details of filming as using a light meter and
tape recorder. Technical ineptness aside, we end up with a marvelous
hybrid, as if Sam Fuller and Sternberg had collaborated in shooting a
script by Tennessee Williams and Russ Meyer. Which is to say that excess
is the most basic element of Kuchar's method, even when (almost
paradoxically) it's an excess of cliche ('Such language! Bite your
tongue!' 'Bite it for me ...'). "... Douglas Sirk tells us, 'Cinema is
blood, tears, violence, hate, death, and love.' Kuchar reminds us that
cinema, like life, is also bedpans, earwax, sleazy fantasy, ineptness,
compromise, and laughter." -- Chuck Kleinhans, Film Center program
12/2
San Francisco, California: Mustache Cinema
http://site.mustachecinema.com/
7PM , 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez)
DIARIES, NOTES AND DREAMS
This month at Mustache Cinema, join us for a selection of 'diary films'
where the camera becomes the pen and the celluloid the paper. These
works are personal expressions and visual sketchbooks constructed from
the filmmaker's most intimate moments. Fleeting memories and dreams are
frozen in cinematic time as honest and loving 16mm portraits presented
by Saul Levine, Su Friedrich, Michael Wallin and Stan Brakhage.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009
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12/3
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
NEW NIPPON: CONTEMPORARY FILM AND VIDEO FROM JAPAN
In a nation that is geographically isolated yet always looking outward,
rooted in ancient tradition while existing at the forefront of
technological innovation, the complexion of contemporary Japanese moving
image is like no other. This evening's program brings together work by
some of Japan's brightest emerging film and video artists. From digital
filmmaking and award-winning shorts to works that draw from the
country's rich experimental film and hand-drawn animation
traditions--"flip book" paintings, diary films, and time-based
collaborations between avant-garde artists and musicians--"New Nippon"
explores the inventive and otherworldly work of Tomonari Nishikawa, Wada
Atsushi, Maya Yonesho, Hiroshi Kondo, Stom Sogo, and many others.
Curated by SAIC graduate student Kelly Shindler. 2002–09, various
artists, Japan, multiple formats, ca. 80 min.
12/3
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9666
6-8pm, 701 Mission Street
YBCALIVE! GEORGE KUCHAR & MIGUEL CALDERON
Live Video Taping. Thu, Dec 3, 6–8 pm & Sat, Dec 5, 2-4 pm • YAAW
Lounge. As part of Miguel Caldeìron and George Kuchar's Tropical
Vulture, join live video tapings that offer gallery visitors the
opportunity to perform from scripts in progress and participate in a new
video project by George Kuchar and film students from The San Francisco
Art Institute. Also Dec. 5, 2-4pm.
12/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.
DELIVER + DELIVERANCE
Deliver by Jennifer Montgomery takes John Boorman's classic 1972 film
Deliverance and remakes it with an all-female cast. Shooting in the
Catskills of New York rather than Appalachian Georgia, the film includes
experimental filmmakers and academics (Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss,
Meredith Root, Dani Leventhal, Su Friedrich and Montgomery herself)
playing mirages of themselves -- urban artists looking to unplug in the
unspoiled wilderness. Montgomery follows John Boorman's original movie
and James Dickey's original book closely, as the gender inversion
complicates hegemonic notions of nature, power and sexual violence, all
on a stretch of river coincidentally called The Beaverkill. For
Deliver's Canadian premiere, the Images Festival is presenting
Montgomery's film in a special double feature with Boorman's original,
screening from a rare 35mm archival print! Deliver will screen at 7:00pm
followed by Deliverance at 9:00pm. Tickets are available to either film,
or both as a double feature! more information at
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2009
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12/4
Jersey CIty, NJ: Jersey City Museum
http://www.jerseycitymuseum.org
7:30PM, 350 Montgomery Street
URBAN IMAGE - SELECTED SHORTS
Selected Shorts is a showcase of short films and video works by NJ City
University distinguished alumni curated by Professor Jane Steuerwald for
Urban Image, based at the University. It will premiere in the Caroline
L. Guarini Theater on Friday evening, 7:30PM, December 4th, 2009, at the
Jersey City Museum, 350 Montgomery Street in Jersey City. Admission is
free and street parking is readily available. After party at the Iron
Monkey, 97 Greene Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302, 201.435.5756. Founded
in 2004, Urban Image provides opportunities for emerging artists and
accomplished alumni from the NJ City University Media Arts Department to
screen their work at arts venues throughout New Jersey and the
metropolitan area. Works include documentary, animation, narrative and
experimental works by Yuri Alves of Newark, NJ; Gisell Bejarano of
Paterson, NJ and Lima, Peru; Steven Dressler of Jersey City, NJ; Raul
Garcia of Jersey City, NJ; Tatiana Gonzalez of Bayonne, NJ; Michael
Krivicka of NYC; Thom MacFarlane of Bayonne, NJ; Joey Mosca of Jersey
City, NJ; Justin Strawhand of Jersey City, NJ; and Delmira Valladares of
Jersey City, NJ. www.urbanimageshowcase.org
12/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
HOLDING PATTERNS & COLLECTIVE MEMORIES: ELISE BALDWIN & KADET KUHNE
Presented in association with Overlap.org -- [members: $6 / non-members:
$10] ----- Drawing from each artist's extensive work in installation and
music composition, the live audio/video performances of Elise Baldwin
and Kadet Kuhne create unique cinematic experiences through the
application of real-time compositional techniques. With an interest in
the transmitted electronic signal (via sensors, circuitry and neurons),
Kuhne uses the medium to explore themes of communication, control and
confinement in her works "Fight or Flight" and "Infinite Delay." Equally
engaged with innovative technology, Elise Baldwin's works -- "Theatre of
Plants" and "The Body Farm" -- consider the relationships between the
natural world and the evolution of technology and themes of collective
memory and history. Also screening: "And the Sun Flowers" by Mary Helena
Clark and "Paradise Falls, New Mexico" by Christina Battle.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2009
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12/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: ANIMAL CHARM & FREDDY MCGUIRE + PACKARD +
Now based in Southern California, that sublimely goofy duo threaten to
return once again for a neo-dada shredding of the corporate-video
sensibility. Rich Bott and Jim Fetterley create absurd video mash-ups
amidst vaudeville crooning and performance-art provocation. Their act is
embedded within an ensemble of personal favorites (TV Sheriff, Damon
Packard) that reflect their sick affinities in the contempo
video-cabaret cesspool. ALSO: Anne McGuire and Wobbly coolly ascend the
stage in outrageously bewigged bathos for a seductive set of
retro-electro eclecticism, wherein Ms. McGuire morphs from Piaf to
Garland to Bjork, and beyond! Come early for 3-D Carnivorous Plants,
Scopitones, and drink specials. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009
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12/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN WITH YVONNE
RAINER IN PERSON
Los Angeles Filmforum presents THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN with Yvonne
Rainer in person, moderated by Berenice Reynaud. Part 3 of 8 of Bodies,
Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer Retrospective. Over the course of our
2009-2010 seasons, Filmforum is proud to present a full retrospective of
the media works of Yvonne Rainer. Tonight, THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN
(1985, 125 minutes, 16mm, color). Around a familiar theme--the breakup
of a marriage--Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny
account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man "who almost
knows too much about women." Discussion following between Rainer &
scholar Berenice Reynaud. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. 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.
12/6
New York, New York: Gershwin Hotel
http://www.gershwinhotel.com
7:30pm, 7 East 27 Street, New York 10016
UNDERGROUND NEW YORK
In the 1960s, filmmakers investigated new forms of production in
dialogue with radical shifts in art, music, performance and popular
culture. Following the example of the Beats, the counterculture was
alive with protest, freedom of expression and the breaking of taboos,
and from the Film-Makers' Coop to Andy Warhol's Factory, portable 16mm
cameras were bringing a whole new way of seeing to the cinema screen.
These heady days of "underground film" were captured by Gideon Bachmann
in a spirited broadcast for German television. Rarely seen today, it is
one of the few surviving documents to show aspects of New York's
independent film culture during this exhilarating period. UNDERGROUND
NEW YORK (PROTEST WOFÜR) (Gideon Bachmann, 1967, black & white, sound,
51 minutes) Shirley Clarke grows carrots on top of the Chelsea Hotel and
meets Jonas Mekas and Michelangelo Antonioni at the Film-Makers'
Distribution Center. Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag and Tuli Kupferberg
protest for peace before being shipped off to the Department of
Correction. USCO freak out in their intermedia church and Maurice Amar
stages a happening at the Movie Subscription Group. Gideon Bachmann goes
on location with Adolfas Mekas in New Jersey, George Kuchar in the
Bronx, and Carl Linder in his bedroom. Bruce Conner dances in a diner,
and Andy Warhol fakes it for television. Presented by Mark Webber, the
Gershwin's outgoing artist in residence, who is currently researching an
oral history of avant-garde cinema from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Some of those interviewed for the project will be present. FREE
ADMISSION. Arrive 7:30pm. Screening 8pm.
12/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00, 992 Valencia St.
DAVID SHERMAN’S 'WASTELAND UTOPIAS' +
SUNDAY SPECIAL! After 5 years, OC welcomes back David Sherman, a veteran
experimentalist and former curator of Total Mobile Home Microcinema, in
collaboration with partner Rebecca Barten. He returns with a grand
project indeed: Wasteland Utopias deals with the social and
environmental consequences of the urbanization of Arizona's Sonora
Desert. His double-projection piece, built from doc interviews, found
footage, and narrative tableaux, explores the magic-conceptualist
intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer
Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/scientist Wilhelm Reich. Both
operated in Southern Arizona in the late '50s—Webb building Sun City,
his colossal panoptic planned-retirement community, while Reich
conducted weather-modification experiments with Orgone Energy. ALSO: Dr.
Eva Reich on her father's UFO obsession, plus vintage Sun City
propaganda!
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