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Part 1 of 2: This week [December 4 - 13, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Urban Image - Selected Shorts [December 4, Jersey CIty, NJ]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 4, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 4, New York]
* Holding Patterns & Collective Memories: Elise Baldwin & Kadet Kuhne [December 4, San Francisco, California]
* Film Ist. (1-6) [December 5, New York]
* Film Ist. (7-12) [December 5, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 5, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 5, New York]
* 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]
* Film Ist. (1-6) [December 6, New York]
* Film Ist. (7-12) [December 6, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 6, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 6, New York]
* David Sherman's 'wasteland Utopias' + [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Passive/Aggressive [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 7, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 7, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 8, New York]
* Film Ist. A Girl and A Gun [December 8, New York]
* 11th Festival Des CinéMas DifféRents De Paris ( From December 8th To
13th) [December 8, Paris, France]
* Vertigo [December 8, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Franz Treichler Joue Dada [December 9, Paris, France]
* Let Each One Go Where He May [December 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Madatac 01 - video Art Festival - 10 To 12 December 2009 [December 10, Madrid]
* Screen Test #1 [December 10, New York]
* Seated Figures [December 10, New York]
* Presents [December 10, New York]
* Screen Test #2 [December 10, New York]
* Franz Treichler Joue Dada [December 10, Paris, France]
* Chick Strand Tribute [December 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [December 10, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* George and Mike Kuchar: Recent Preservations [December 10, San Francisco, California]
* Video Games [December 10, San Francisco, California]
* Recent 8mm Restorations: George & Mike Kuchar [December 10, San Francisco, California]
* In Person: Eve Heller [December 10, Vienna, Austria]
* The 2nd 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival [December 11, Fort Lauderdale]
* From John To Sebastian [December 11, London, England]
* From John To Sebastian [December 11, London, England]
* Hedy [December 11, New York]
* Vinyl [December 11, New York]
* An Evening With Christina Battle Co-Presented By Pifva - Philadelphia
Independent Film and video Association [December 11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Ata 25: Quarter Century of Alternative Work A Selected Screening [December 11, San Francisco, California]
* Critical Mass: Re-Viewing Hollis Frampton [December 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* Kitchen [December 12, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [December 12, New York]
* The Life of Juanita Castro [December 12, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [December 12, New York]
* Horse [December 12, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [December 12, New York]
* Harlot [December 12, New York]
* Working With the Loop – Workshop/Master Class With Christina Battle
Presented By Pifva - Philadelphia Independent Film and video
Association [December 12, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi – Fragments and Assemblages [December 12, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Jim Finn - Fabrications & Recycling [December 12, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Other Cinema: 'the Earth Is Young' + 'origins' + [December 12, San Francisco, California]
* The Three Rooms of Melancholia In A Hot, Cramped Basement [December 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Festival of (In)Appropriation:
Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking, Part 2 [December 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Hedy [December 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [December 13, New York]
* Screen Test #1 [December 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [December 13, New York]
* Screen Test #2 [December 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [December 13, New York]
* Space [December 13, New York]
* Underground - Experimental - Unstoppable: Celebrating 25 Years of
Artists' Television Access! [December 13, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
by Gustav Deutsch Austria, 2009, 93 minutes, 35mm. U.S. THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Special thanks to Martin Rauchbauer & Julia Huber
(Austrian Cultural Forum NY), Ralph McKay & Michaela Grill (Sixpack
Film), and Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg. As part of our ongoing
collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Anthology presents a
week-long run of FILM IST. a girl & a gun, the culmination of Gustav
Deutsch's breathtakingly ambitious series of found-footage works.
Scouring moving image archives throughout the world, Deutsch has
assembled a vast collection of silent-film imagery, much of it buried in
archival vaults for decades. From this incredible range of material,
Deutsch has composed a highly suggestive, quasi-narrative, but
essentially enigmatic mosaic which demonstrates both the wealth of
fascinating early-20th-century documentation bequeathed to us from the
silent era, as well as the sheer diversity of human experience reflected
through the cinema. "[FILM IST.] weaves together a stunning array of
color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific,
erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged
access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute, enabling him to
incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his
latest oeuvre. … Within [the film's] narrative construction, the
director creates a stunning vision of the natural and mythological order
of the universe, love between the sexes, and weapons of mass
destruction." –Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
12/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
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
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. (1-6)
by Gustav Deutsch 1998, 60 minutes, 35mm. The first six chapters of FILM
IST. comprise a tableau-film on the phenomenology of the cinematic
medium. The first six chapters posit the scientific laboratory as the
first birthplace of cinematography.
12/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. (7-12)
by Gustav Deutsch 2002, 93 minutes, 35mm. "While the first six sections
of my tableau film, FILM IST., are primarily concerned with the
scientific laboratory as the birthplace of the medium, the six
subsequent sections are dedicated to the variety theater and the studio
as the cradle of cinematography." –G.D.
12/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
12/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
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
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. (1-6)
by Gustav Deutsch 1998, 60 minutes, 35mm. The first six chapters of FILM
IST. comprise a tableau-film on the phenomenology of the cinematic
medium. The first six chapters posit the scientific laboratory as the
first birthplace of cinematography.
12/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. (7-12)
by Gustav Deutsch 2002, 93 minutes, 35mm. "While the first six sections
of my tableau film, FILM IST., are primarily concerned with the
scientific laboratory as the birthplace of the medium, the six
subsequent sections are dedicated to the variety theater and the studio
as the cradle of cinematography." –G.D.
12/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
12/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
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!
12/6
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
5pm, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE
Passive/Aggressive: Southern Exposure Juried Film/Video Screening of
work by Northern California Artists SOEX 2008 works by: Brian Andrews,
Marlene Angeja, Miguel Arzabe, Clark Buckner, Reece Camp, Krista
Dragomer, Rashin Fahandej, Jamil Hellu, Dana Hemenway, Darrin Martin,
Liz Miller, Doug Williams, Gordon Winiemko, Gaby Wolodarski
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=4340
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
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12/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
12/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009
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12/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
12/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN
See description for 7:00 pm on Dec. 4th.
12/8
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
2Ohrs, 21, rue de la Clef - 75005 Paris
11TH FESTIVAL DES CINéMAS DIFFéRENTS DE PARIS ( FROM DECEMBER 8TH TO
13TH)
For it's 11th year, the Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris
presents 109 pieces from 18 countries, divided between 11 international
programs, chosen from 500 entries concerning two thematic elements. The
first interrogates filmic textures in regards to digital media.
Experimental cinema has often used a structure of ways that compose it
as a subject or as a central theme of its projects. This also goes for
video art, often recognized as a strict research, in its own structures.
Experimental filmmakers and videographers have many possibilities at
their disposal and are able to create their images with the benefit of
the evolution and diversity of materials, from silver gelatin to
electronic, analogue to digital, cinema to new media. Our aim here is to
give a way of doing, a way of seeing the artists' works shown for the
profit of diversity of media and/or their hybridizing. This thematic
will take place in three séances: Paranormal Experiences, Abstractions,
and Found Footage. It will be presented in the trajectories consecrated
by Christina von Greve from Germany and Siegfried Fruhauf from Austria,
as well as the monographic screening by filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch from
Argentina, in the opening performances (Pays sans Nom), closing
(Ornamental Films), and installations (Marie Sochor, Silvi Simon, and
Neil Ira Needleman) of the festival. The second thematic sends us to
Latin America, from Mexico to the Southern Cone. This daring program
goes beyond administrative frontiers to show that the promoted ideas by
the images in movement without clichés and institute an intercultural
story between filmmakers and spectators. The artists, filmmakers, and
videographers represented attempt to reveal the hidden side of Latin
American cinema, far from the political and social diktas of their home
countries, displayed in three thematic program screenings: Incantations
of Magic Realism, Chronicle of an Announced Emergence…, and Argentinean
Kaleidoscope, as well as an homage to the memory of the French filmmaker
Raymonde Carasco with the projection of Ciguri – Tarahumaras 99 – The
Last Chaman. Furthermore, on Friday the 11th of December, the festival
gives a carte blanche to artists Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
titled "Au-delà de l'image-temps", part of their growing exposition
"Blown Up!" at Mains d'Œuvres. A workshop and two films selected by them
will be shown, along with their own film entitled Facs of Life. The 2009
festival invites you to take the distant and unknown paths, as much
plastic as geographic. Think about getting your ticket, and have a nice
trip! Angélica Cuevas Portilla and Gabrielle Reiner Festival Directors
12/8
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
VERTIGO
Vertigo (1958, 128 min.) by ALFRED HITCHCOCK. "Vertigo seems to me of
all Hitchcock's films the one nearest to perfection. Indeed its
profundity is inseparable from the perfection of form: it is a perfect
organism."- (Robin Wood). We might add that it is also (consider the
film's earlier Keatsian working title, "darkling I listen") one of
Hitchcock's most beautifully complex works embodying and critiquing the
leibestod while simultaneously offering us perhaps the greatest film
ever made about directing, acting in and watching a narrative film.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009
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12/9
Paris, France: Centre Culturel Suisse
www.ccsparis.com
8pm, 32 - 38, rue des Francs Bourgeois 75003
FRANZ TREICHLER JOUE DADA
MUSIQUE 09-10.12.09 / 20H / 7 et 10 €, réservation conseillée Franz
Treichler joue Dada Franz Treichler, fondateur du groupe suisse mythique
The Young Gods, conçoit une bande-son pour un panorama de films
expérimentaux du 20e siècle. Pour ce projet, le guitariste s'inspire des
instigateurs du Mouvement Dada (Hans Richter, Man Ray), de ceux qui s'en
réclament (Fluxus) et de cinéastes expérimentaux comme James Riddle,
Jean Painlevé, Martin Arnold ou Stan Brakhage. Avec les films : L'étoile
de mer de Man Ray (noir/blanc, 15', 1928) Black Ice de Stan Brakhage
(couleur, 2', 1994) Rythmus 21 de Hans Richter (noir/blanc, 3', 1921)
Fluxfilm n°5 de John Cavanaugh (noir/blanc, 2'30'', 1966) Fluxfilm n°6
de James Riddle (noir/blanc, 9', 1966) Delicacies of Molten Horror
Synapse de Stan Brakhage* (couleur, 8'19'', 1991) Pièce touchée de
Martin Arnold (noir/blanc, 16', 1989) Cristaux liquides de Jean Painlevé
(couleur, 5'40'', 1978) * Le titulaire des droits des films de Stan
Brakhage, permet exceptionnellement une projection de ses films avec du
son. De son vivant, tous ses films devaient rester muets.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2009
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12/10
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
Ben Russell in person! Fresh from its world premiere at the Toronto
International Film Festival, Chicago-based filmmaker and SAIC alumnus
Ben Russell's stunning feature debut is an epic road movie that draws
from documentary and ethnography to imbue its images with a sense of
mystery and enchantment. Set in contemporary Suriname (in northeastern
South America) and unfolding in 13 extended takes, the film follows two
unidentified brothers as they trek from the capital of Paramaribo to the
rainforest villages of the Maroons, descendants of African slaves who
rebelled against their Dutch captors 300 years ago. Retracing these
ancestors' footsteps, in the opposite direction villagers now take to
pursue the global enterprise of the city, Let Each One Go Where He May
charts a reverse course through urban congestion, illegal gold mines,
Maroon communities, and trance ceremonies to capture a place where
history, the supernatural, and modernity collide. 2009, Suriname/USA,
16mm, 135 min.
12/10
Madrid: Transfera Media Arts
http:/www.madatac.es
from 12 AM to 12 PM, Madrid
MADATAC 01 - VIDEO ART FESTIVAL - 10 TO 12 DECEMBER 2009
The I Edition of Madrid Open Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts
(MADATAC - MUESTRA ABIERTA DE ARTE AUDIOVISUAL CONTEMPORANEO), aims to
serve as a lighthouse for video and visual artists; helping along the
way and spotlighting artworks which challenges the conventional
cinematic narrative. With an open and inclusive approach, MADATAC will
place particular value on experimentation, innovation and risk-taking.
Prizes will be awarded to the best works from those presented to
competition and selected for the festival by the TV programme,
Transfera. Transfera is a weekly programme broadcast from Madrid
showcasing digital and video art. During the festival, there will be
daily showings of video creations, open discussions with video artists,
lectures, round-table debates, audio-visual performances and forums.
Press Contact: email suppressed
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #1
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. THURSDAY'S SCREENING INTRODUCED
BY ANDY WARHOL SCHOLAR CALLIE ANGELL! The first Warhol film Tavel
scripted, SCREEN TEST #1 stars Philip Fagan as the subject of Tavel's
off-screen examination. In the face of his tester's increasingly
suggestive and campy instructions, Fagan becomes stubbornly
unresponsive, refusing to follow Tavel's lead and falling back instead
on the appeal of his own silent good looks. Although Fagan's wooden
performance prompted Warhol and Tavel to remake the film with Mario
Montez (SCREEN TEST #2), this first version is a fascinating look into
the complexities of queer identity in the 1960s.
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SEATED FIGURES
by Michael Snow 1988, 50 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. "In SEATED
FIGURES…Michael Snow again explores the ground zero of motion pictures –
this time literally. Most simply described, the film…is a 40-minute
consideration of a landscape from the perspective of an exhaust pipe.
The artist appears to have bolted his camera, lens down, to a metal arm
extending off the back of a truck…then driven over asphalt and dirt
roads, out to the beach, along a riverbed, and through a field of
daisies. … "For all his conceptual sophistication, Snow subscribes to a
casual, all-encompassing Cage aesthetic. He's deceptively artless, a
master of the visual deadpan. … The images are distanced – accompanied
by the muffled noises of an audience watching a movie. Hence the
mysteriously inert title. SEATED FIGURES is about its audience. Not only
are we sent flying face down over the earth, but Snow reverses the
oldest concept in image-making – he juxtaposes our seated, static
figures against a constantly moving ground." –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PRESENTS
by Michael Snow 1980-81, 90 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. "PRESENTS is a
major work, even when measured by the standards of Snow's most
impressive achievements. The title is a complex, provocatively ambiguous
pun. The first section is a play based on the slipping and colliding
senses of the word 'presents', its homonyms, synonyms, and related
concepts…. In the last section, assisted by the drum beat accenting each
cut, the editing insists on the separateness of each shot and by doing
so it constructs a vast inventory of different things and events. This
extraordinary concluding montage sequence poses the most concerted and
comprehensive challenge to the discourse of presen(ts)(ce) mounted by
the film." –Stuart Liebman, MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #2
by Andy Warhol 1965, 67 minutes, 16mm. As Mario Montez auditions for the
role of Esmerelda in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, Tavel, again
off-screen, subjects the actor to a series of increasingly humiliating
improvisations. But Mario's faith in his self-created persona sustains
the illusion of his character and becomes, in the end, a triumph of
performance art.
12/10
Paris, France: Centre Culturel Suisse
www.ccsparis.com
8pm, 32 - 38, rue des Francs Bourgeois 75003
FRANZ TREICHLER JOUE DADA
MUSIQUE 09-10.12.09 / 20H / 7 et 10 €, réservation conseillée Franz
Treichler joue Dada Franz Treichler, fondateur du groupe suisse mythique
The Young Gods, conçoit une bande-son pour un panorama de films
expérimentaux du 20e siècle. Pour ce projet, le guitariste s'inspire des
instigateurs du Mouvement Dada (Hans Richter, Man Ray), de ceux qui s'en
réclament (Fluxus) et de cinéastes expérimentaux comme James Riddle,
Jean Painlevé, Martin Arnold ou Stan Brakhage. Avec les films : L'étoile
de mer de Man Ray (noir/blanc, 15', 1928) Black Ice de Stan Brakhage
(couleur, 2', 1994) Rythmus 21 de Hans Richter (noir/blanc, 3', 1921)
Fluxfilm n°5 de John Cavanaugh (noir/blanc, 2'30'', 1966) Fluxfilm n°6
de James Riddle (noir/blanc, 9', 1966) Delicacies of Molten Horror
Synapse de Stan Brakhage* (couleur, 8'19'', 1991) Pièce touchée de
Martin Arnold (noir/blanc, 16', 1989) Cristaux liquides de Jean Painlevé
(couleur, 5'40'', 1978) * Le titulaire des droits des films de Stan
Brakhage, permet exceptionnellement une projection de ses films avec du
son. De son vivant, tous ses films devaient rester muets.
12/10
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
7pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
CHICK STRAND TRIBUTE
Thursday, December 10 at 7pm Chick Strand – Image, word and first person
epistolary Born Mildred Strand (1932 - 2009), she was given the nickname
Chick by her father. Strand studied anthropology at Berkeley, and in the
early 1960s organized film happenings with Bruce Baillie. She edited
Canyon Cinema-News with Baillie and Ernest Callenbach, which became a
focal point for the West Coast independent film movement. For over
thirty years Strand made regular trips to Mexico with her second husband
Neon Park. Strand's ethnographic films are distinctive for their complex
layering of sound and image, and the juxtaposition of found footage and
sound with images she shot herself. Cartoon le Mousse dir. Chick Strand,
US, 1979, 16mm, 12 mins, b/w "Chick Strand is a prolific and
prodigiously gifted film artist who seems to break new ground with each
new work. Her recent 'found footage' works, such as Cartoon Le Mousse,
are extraordinarily beautiful, moving, visionary pieces that push this
genre into previously unexplored territory. If poetry is the art of
making evocative connections between otherwise dissimilar phenomena,
then Chick Strand is a great poet, for these films transcend their
material to create a surreal and sublime universe beyond reason." - Gene
Youngblood, author of Expanded Cinema Krystallnacht dir. Chick Strand,
US, 1979, 16mm, 8 mins, b/w Dedicated to the memory of Anne Frank, and
the tenacity of the human spirit. Soft Fiction dir. Chick Strand, US,
1979, 16mm, 55 mins, b/w Chick Strand's Soft Fiction is a personal
documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female
sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical
expressionism… Strand continues to celebrate in her brilliant,
innovative personal documentaries her theme, the reaffirmation of the
tough resilience of the human spirit. - Marsha Kinder, Film Quarterly
Coming up for Air dir. Chick Strand, US, 1986, 16mm, 26 mins, color A
"new narrative" film based on the visions of magic realism in an Anglo
context. This is a gothic mystery that explores a reckless pursuit of
interchangeable personalities and experience. The sources for this film
include night dreams, the idea of holocaust, the exoticness of the Mid
East, the sensuality of animals, the explorations of Scott in
Antarctica, and the film The Son of Amir Is Dead. Waterfall dir. Chick
Strand, US, 1967, 16mm, 3 mins, color A film poem using found film and
stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It
is a film using visual relationships to invoke a feeling of flow and
movement with Japanese Koto music. Mujer De Milfuegos dir. Chick Strand,
US, 1976, 16mm, 15 mins, color Not a personal portrait so much as an
evocation of the consciousness of women in rural parts of such countries
as Spain, Greece and Mexico where women wear black from the age 15 and
spend their entire lives giving birth, preparing food and tending to
household and farm responsibilities. A kind of heretic fantasy film, his
is an expressionistic, surrealistic portrait of a Latin American woman.
Mosori Monika dir. Chick Strand, US, 1970, 16mm, 21 mins, color In this
expressive documentary about women in the Third World, a nun tells how
the Indians lived when the missionaries arrived and what the nuns have
done to "improve" conditions, both spiritually and materially. An old
Warao Indian woman tells what she feels have been the important
experiences in her life.
12/10
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works in various media by local film and video artists and
students; makers will be present to introduce their work.
12/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7 pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard)
GEORGE AND MIKE KUCHAR: RECENT PRESERVATIONS
George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film
world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and legends in their own
time. But back in the 1950s and 1960s they were just a couple of
brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious as they
are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen short
films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelmingly prove that the Kuchars
are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world. (Anthology Film
Archives.) Join us to see four of the Kuchars' earliest works, recently
preserved by Anthology Film Archives: Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof, Tootsies
in Autumn, A Woman Distressed, and Lovers of Eternity. A reception
follows. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA and San Francisco Cinematheque members,
students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum (with no
surcharge) or online.
12/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7PM door, 8PM screening $6, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
VIDEO GAMES
A screening of work by students in the video class in Conceptual
Information Arts at San Francisco State University. Work includes
videos, performance and installation. with: Mitchell Hall, Ben
Carpenter, Sean Murphy, Elliott Edwards, Xander, Kent, Aya Koyima
Genessa Kealoha Jordan Perkins-Lewis Nic Janes Phillip Villarreal Mary
Frank Lauren Bjelde
12/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, SFMOMA -- 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard)
RECENT 8MM RESTORATIONS: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR
Mike & George Kuchar in person -- Presented in association with
Frameline -- [members: $7 / non-members: $10] ----- "George and Mike
Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of
hundreds of films and videos and legends in their own time. But back in
the '50s and '60s they were just a couple of brothers from the Bronx who
shared an 8mm camera. As delirious as they are dramatic, as colorful as
they are campy, these rarely seen short films are laugh-out-loud funny
and overwhelming prove that the Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders
of the world." (Anthology Film Archives) ----- Celebrating these
filmmakers, whose nearly five decades of filmmaking have created the
most joyously perverse and influential oeuvres of underground cinema, we
present four of their earliest work (all recently preserved by Anthology
Film Archives): "Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof", "Tootsies in Autumn", "A
Woman Distressed" and "Lovers of Eternity" (featuring filmmakers Dov
Lederberg and Jack Smith). ----- A reception at SFMOMA will immediately
follow the screening.
12/10
Vienna, Austria: Austrian Film Museum
8.30 pm, Austrian Film Museum
IN PERSON: EVE HELLER
The films of American independent filmmaker Eve Heller illuminate brief
moments that slip away from the viewer's gaze, like the clear yet
fragmented images of a dream. This effect is heightened through the use
of flickering light, multiple exposures, the grain of the emulsion
(greatly magnified by an optical printer), and occasional slow motion.
Working with found footage, Heller unleashes latent content from the
original material (Last Lost) while creating entirely new poetic
associations (Her Glacial Speed) that can also be thoroughly humorous
(Ruby Skin). Even Heller's semi-documentary, Astor Place - filmed with a
hidden camera through the mirrored windows of a café - captures this
lyrical quality. The parading passers-by seem to obey a hidden
choreography as if part of some secret production. Behind This Soft
Eclipse, on the other hand, swings back and forth between the parallel
worlds of day and night, positive and negative images, on solid ground
and underwater. Here, the filmmaker reveals herself definitively as a
magician of light. Eve Heller was born in the U.S. in 1961 and studied
at Buffalo and New York University. The child of a German mother and an
Austrian father who was forced to emigrate in 1938, she grew up
bilingual and studied both film and German literature. She received a
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from prestigious Bard College. Her
teachers included Peter Hutton, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Peggy Ahwesh
and Abigail Child. Three early works from this period (1978-82) have now
been transferred from 8mm to 35mm film and will receive their first
screenings during this show at the Filmmuseum. A joint program of
sixpackfilm and the Austrian Film Museum.
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