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Part 1 of 2: This week [December 12 - 20, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Critical Mass: Re-Viewing Hollis Frampton [December 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* Artifactual: Films From the Wallace Berman Collection [December 12, New York, New York]
* 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]
* Native visions: Two Documentaries On Indigenous Mexican Culture [December 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Vinyl [December 14, New York]
* Flaherty Seminar Witness Program [December 14, New York]
* Kitchen [December 14, New York]
* Architecture of the Sun [December 15, Jamaica Plain, MA]
* Space [December 15, New York]
* Horse [December 15, New York]
* #10 = Wieland/Marker/Brakhage/Cornell [December 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Life of Juanita Castro [December 16, New York]
* Harlot [December 16, New York]
* Cronica D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking In Franco's Spain, 1960 –
1975 Part iii: Clandestine Networks [December 16, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Free Form Film Series Awesome and Painful [December 16, San Francisco, California]
* The Chelsea Girls [December 17, New York]
* Kenneth Anger: Restored Prints [December 17, San Francisco, California]
* Lewis Klahr's Tales of the Forgotten Future [December 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Alfred Leslie Program [December 18, New York]
* Drunk Donkey Cinema [December 18, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Eggeling/Cavalcanti Program [December 19, New York]
* Shorts Program [December 19, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Conrad, Jacobs & Fleischner Program [December 19, New York]
* James Nares Program [December 19, New York]
* 30+ Years of Film @ International House the Janus Collection [December 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Other Cinema: New Experimental Works [December 19, San Francisco, California]
* Beryl Sokoloff Program [December 20, New York]
* Ccsf Student Film Showcase [December 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2009
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12/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8pm, 5243 N. Clark
CRITICAL MASS: RE-VIEWING HOLLIS FRAMPTON
BIRTH OF MAGELLAN Hollis Frampton's unfinished Magellan Cycle was to be
the crowning achievement of the structuralist filmmaker's career, but,
in 1984, he died before he could complete it. Planned to run 36 hours in
length and to be viewed over the course of 371 days, the cycle loosely
follows Ferdinand Magellan's five-year journey around the world. Instead
of providing a linear narrative, Frampton breaks down the voyage into a
rediscovery of the tools of perception and social integration. This
screening is part of the citywide series CRITICAL MASS: RE-VIEWING
HOLLIS FRAMPTON. Other participants include Block Cinema, Doc Films,
Conversations at the Edge, White Light Cinema, and the University of
Chicago Film Studies Center. "By the time we have got out of school, we
have learned to punch in by 8:15 in the morning, we have learned to read
'no right turn,' we have also on our own looked at 15,000 hours of
unregulated, ungoverned, undecoded images that constitute our real
education. I grew up like that - everyone grows up like that, Magellan
is a film that, like all things (since I have not had the luxury of
perfect alienation, but only the partial luxury of imperfect alienation)
comes out of an imperfect understanding of my culture. It is probably
easiest to imagine it as a project if it is understood not as a project
in drama, or in literature, nor as a project in sculpture, but as one
that subsists as a work of sculpture in time rather than space." - HF
Program to include: MATRIX (1977, 28 min., 16mm), MINDFALL I & VII
(1977-80, 36 min., 16mm), CADENZAS I & XIV (1980, 11 min., 16mm).
12/12
New York, New York: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
http://nicoleklagsbrun.com
4:30pm, 526 W. 26th Street, No. 213
ARTIFACTUAL: FILMS FROM THE WALLACE BERMAN COLLECTION
Reading by Max Blagg of works by poets of the Berman circle including
Kirby Doyle, Stuart Perkoff, and Lew Welch. & Screening of ARTIFACTUAL:
FILMS FROM THE WALLACE BERMAN COLLECTION (compiled 2007, 28 minutes,
16mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives) Featuring live music
by John Zorn, Trevor Dunn and Kenny Wollesen Introduced by Andrew
Lampert Wallace Berman only made one film in his lifetime, ALEPH. While
preserving this film, another assortment of reels was uncovered
containing many more films with footage by and of Berman. These various
8mm pieces have now been collected together and blown-up to 16mm. This
new compilation features unseen scenes of Berman in his milieu with
friends and family, including footage of a George Herms exhibition, a
motorcycle ride (perhaps shot by Dean Stockwell) and 25 more minutes of
footage related to ALEPH. Preserved with support from The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts. 8mm-to-16mm blow-up by BB Optics. Free
and open to the public
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KITCHEN
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. Tavel's heterosexual satire was
filmed in a real kitchen, with Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau playing
an unhappy couple, Jo and Mikie. The action is interrupted by various
chaotic activities: the running of a blender which drowns out the
dialogue, the continual sneezing of Sedgwick and her co-stars, a
bustling houseboy played by Rene Ricard, and photographer David McCabe,
who repeatedly strides onto the set to take photos of the actors. Note:
The hair which appears in the frame is part of the film.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
JOSEPH CORNELL, PROGRAM 1 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent.
ROSE HOBART (1939, 20 minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8
minutes, 16mm) THE MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE
CHILDREN'S PARTY (1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955,
10 minutes, 16mm) AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5
minutes, 16mm, photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8
minutes, 16mm) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL
(1957, 3 minutes, 16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled
(found) images. ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY &
CHILDREN'S PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The
others were directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and
Rudy Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
running time: ca. 100 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. An article written by Castro's
sister in 1964 inspired Tavel's script for this film, a subversive
avant-garde satire on Latin American politics in which Fidel Castro is
played by a woman, while Marie Menken stars as Juanita. The entire cast,
representing Castro's family, sits in rows of chairs grouped for a
family portrait. They all follow directions from Tavel, who sits in the
last row feeding the actors their lines, which they repeat in a mixture
of Spanish and English.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
(ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HORSE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 105 minutes, 16mm. Staged at the Factory with a
rented horse, this is a homoerotic parody of the Western genre. The
enacting of Tavel's script (followed with difficulty from cue cards held
up off-screen) takes place on a set crowded with evidence of the film's
production: mounted lights, a boom mic, assorted onlookers, and the
Factory doors and telephone all visible in the frame. The film may be
shown with either two or three reels. The 'action' occurs in Reels 1 &
3; Reel 2, a 33-minute 'documentary' shot of the horse standing in front
of the Factory doors, may be shown either in the middle or at the end of
the film. Any votes?
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jean Cocteau 1946, 93 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score by Georges Auric.
"Jean Cocteau's first full-length movie is perhaps the most sensuously
elegant of all filmed fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday
family life to the magic of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm,
with its Vermeer simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in
the Gustave Doré extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. In
Christian Bérard's makeup, Jean Marais is a magnificent Beast." –Pauline
Kael
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARLOT
by Andy Warhol 1964, 67 minutes, 16mm. Warhol's first synch-sound
feature is an underground version of the Jean Harlow story with Mario
Montez in drag as the platinum-haired Hollywood sex symbol of the 1930s.
Staged as a kind of tableau vivant on a couch at the Factory, with
Montez occupying the center of a carefully composed group of Superstars,
along with a large white cat, HARLOT was the first film Tavel worked on
with Warhol, though it was not based on one of his scripts. Instead he,
Billy Name, and Harry Fainlight improvised the off-screen conversation
that dominates the soundtrack, while on-screen the film culminates with
Montez consuming copious quantities of bananas in highly suggestive
ways.
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
2pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
WORKING WITH THE LOOP – WORKSHOP/MASTER CLASS WITH CHRISTINA BATTLE
PRESENTED BY PIFVA - PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO ASSOCIATION
Saturday, December 12 at 2pm Working with the Loop – Workshop/Master
Class with Christina Battle Presented by PIFVA - Philadelphia
Independent Film and Video Association Continually turning back upon
itself and endlessly repeating, the loop creates a unique relationship
with viewers and allows artists not only to draw attention to, but also
to sculpt time in unique ways. With a DIY approach and working within
the confines of the loop, we will consider how working at the level of
the (16mm film) frame can allow artists to manipulate time using
handmade and manipulation techniques (painting, scratching, collage).
Price TBA
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
5pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI – FRAGMENTS AND ASSEMBLAGES
Saturday, December 12 at 5pm Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi –
Fragments and Assemblages Milan-based filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and
Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for their accomplished work with
archival footage derived principally from the 1910s and 1920s.
Thoughtfully juxtaposing images, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi also
re-photograph their material, adjusting the film's speed, adding tinted
color and spare soundtracks, and reframing the image to focus on key
details. Such meticulous manipulation encourages viewers to read the
footage instead of simply watching it, so as to consider not only what
the images mean, but how. The spare and intense films of Gianikian and
Ricci Lucchi wring both irony and a strange, mournful in the images they
select, bearing witness to the ravages of time and the destructive power
of the European nations and their armies. Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 dir.
Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Italy, 1981, 16mm, 56 mins,
color and b/w In 1977, Yervant Gianikian came upon a whole store of
9.5mm films dating from the beginnings of motion pictures to 1928 -
silent movies reproduced from 35mm copies (the originals of which have
been lost). There were Enrico Guazzoni's minor works, Il canto
dell'amore trionfante and Messaline of 1923, Arnold Fanck's 1926 Der
heilige Berg starring Leni Riefensthal, and a score of other,
unidentifiable fiction and documentary films. In wanting to show all of
human behavior, Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 manages only to disclose our
most mysterious poses. Inventario Balcanico (Balkan Inventory) dir.
Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Italy, 2000,16mm, 62 mins, b/w
The accumulation of images of human and ecological disasters from the
former Yugoslavia prompted us to look for evidence of pre-existing
essential values, which could not possibly not exist. Records of life as
it was. Material for a film which celebrates life over conflict and
division. A work of analysis, based on formats no longer used, no longer
even projectable, to make indestructible the memories preserved in the
images we have found: films shot by amateurs, by travelers, by Nazi
soldiers in the Balkans. - Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi.
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
7:30pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
JIM FINN - FABRICATIONS & RECYCLING
Saturday, December 12 at 7:30pm Jim Finn - Fabrications & Recycling
Director Jim Finn in person Jim Finn is a critically acclaimed filmmaker
who uses humor and historical fiction to examine ideology, capitalism
and revolutionary art practices. Interkosmos, the first of his trilogy
of feature-length films looking at Marxist ideology, was called "a retro
gust of communist utopianism" by the Village Voice and "charming and
fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres" by Canadian filmmaker Guy
Maddin. His second feature, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
was listed by the Village Voice as one of 2007's top ten experimental
films. The Juche Idea dir. Jim Finn, US, 2008, video, 62 mins, color
Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? Jim Finn, the Busby
Berkeley of propaganda, follows a South Korean video artist in North
Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema. This is no kitsch
mockumentary, just a careful analysis of the love of cinema that is as
surreally funny as it is true. Isn't art revolutionary? - Cinevegas Film
Festival Free admission members above Internationalist level; $5
Internationalists; $6 students + seniors; $8 general admission. In
advance at TICKETWEB or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater
Box Office.
12/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: 'THE EARTH IS YOUNG' + 'ORIGINS' +
Just in time for the holidays! Michael Gitlin's The Earth Is Young is
based on a series of interviews with Young Earth Creationists, who find
evidence of a 6-day, 6,000-year-old Creation in their reading of the
geological record. These encounters are framed with depictions of the
slow work of dedicated paleontologists, pointing towards a world far
older and more complex, if no less fantastic. At times bordering on
science fiction, the hour-long piece elaborates an essay on the nature
of Science, and the physical and ideological tools with which one builds
a model of the world. ALSO: Ben Rivers' Origin of the Species engages
with a 70-year-old Scottish hermit, obsessed with "trying to really
understand" Darwin's book for many years, whilst working on small
inventions for making his life easier. PLUS implausible religious clips
from the Moody Institute, Left Behind series, Scientology, A.A. Allen,
and other kook cults. Free blood-red wine and pale-white crackers.
$6.66.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009
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12/13
Brooklyn, New York: DocTruck
www.doctruck.blogspot.com
6:00pm, 600 Vanderbilt Ave
THE THREE ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA IN A HOT, CRAMPED BASEMENT
A terrible evening in somewhat cold (not cold enough?) December.
DocTruck, a new, occasional, experimental, traveling documentary series
with more presents the stark, gloomy, spacious, kid-friendly, The Three
Rooms of Melancholia at Unnameable Books' awfully cluttered and
low-ceilinged basement, at six o'clock on a Sunday. Gin and no other
refreshment will be served. Warm gin. And snacks, but... There will
probably be chairs provided. The Three Rooms of Melancholia reveals how
the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in
Chechnya. Divided into three episodes or 'rooms,' the film is
characterized by an elegantly paced, observational style, which uses
little dialog, minimal voice-over commentary and a spare but evocative
musical score. Room No. 1, "Longing," set in a military academy in
Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg, portrays the highly regimented lives of
the young cadets, most of them from broken or dysfunctional families,
who are being trained for future roles in the Russian army. While
showing their military drills, classroom sessions, church ceremonies,
and recess period, the film briefly profiles several of the boys, whose
stories reflect the political turmoil of contemporary Russia. Room No.
2, "Breathing," filmed in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the former
Soviet republic fighting for its independence, shows the widespread
destruction wrought by the Russian shelling and bombardment, a city
where families struggle to survive in barely habitable buildings, packs
of stray dogs roam the streets, Russian military vehicles clog the
roads, soldiers monitor roadblocks, and a courageous woman attempts to
rescue orphaned or semi-orphaned children from the violence. Room No. 3,
"Remembering," filmed in the neighboring Islamic republic of Ingushetia,
focuses on children in refugee camps and in a makeshift orphanage,
including a young boy found living in a cardboard box, a 19-year-old
girl traumatized by her rape at the age of 12 by Russian soldiers, and a
roomful of children transfixed by televised images of the deadly
aftermath of the crisis in which a Moscow theater audience was held
hostage by Chechen terrorists. Unnameable Books is at 600 Vanderbilt
Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn The event is in the basement, next
to the broiler. Sunday, December 13 at 6pm
12/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION:
CONTEMPORARY FOUND FOOTAGE FILMMAKING, PART 2
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Festival of (In)appropriation:
Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking, Part 2. Whether you call it
collage, compilation, found footage, detournement, or recycled cinema,
the incorporation of previously shot materials into new artworks is a
practice that has generated novel juxtapositions of elements which have
produced new meanings and ideas that may not have been intended by the
original makers, that are, in other words "inappropriate." In this
program, we bring together a selection of recent films from around the
world that appropriate footage from diverse sources in vastly different
ways, including The Ship by Brandon Downing, The Animated Heavy-Metal
Parking Lot by Leslie Supnet, The Legend of Pwdre Ser by Dave Griffiths,
Friend Film by Colin Barton, Alone by Gerard Freixes Ribera, The Acrobat
by Chris Kennedy, Emergence by Marcin Blajecki, Outlaw by Ann
Steuernagel, That's Right by Matthew Causey, Anemic Cinema with Z
Coordinate by Jorge Sa, The Motions of Bodies by Ann Steuernagel, Asleep
at the Wheel by Mike Maryniuk, Isolating Landscapes by Heidi Phillips,
The Last Interview in Exile by McLean Fahnestock, Profanations by Oriol
Sanchez. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood
Blvd, at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The Egyptian Theatre
has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4
hours for $2 with validation.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEDY
See program notes for Dec. 11th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
by Jean Cocteau 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect
bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with
snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a
furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." –Georges Sadoul
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #1
See program notes for Dec. 10th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on
the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A
drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy
who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of
immortality."
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #2
See program notes for Dec. 10th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm. In French with no subtitles;
English synopsis available. To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative
artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology – the god of the lyre, song
and poetry – was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the
poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of
suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many
deaths."
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SPACE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. SPACE is based on a Tavel
scenario, in which various characters are supposed to recite lines from
eight unconnected scripts while Warhol's roving camera moves among them.
However, the large assembled cast – which includes Edie Sedgwick, as
well as folk singer Eric Andersen and Dorothy Dean – seems completely
uninterested in following the script, and SPACE transforms itself from a
Tavel film into an Edie Sedgwick film before our eyes.
12/13
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
11am-10pm $10 all day access, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
UNDERGROUND - EXPERIMENTAL - UNSTOPPABLE: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS!
Artists' Television Access was founded in 1984 by a group of young,
radical artists and activists committed to using video, performance, art
and education to progressing culture and community. Today, ATA continues
to provide a community venue for independent and alternative artists in
its Mission District storefront gallery. Over the past 25 years, ATA has
presented thousands of film and video screenings, performances, gallery
exhibitions and workshops. Help us get ready for another 25 years and
join us as we celebrate ATA's 25th anniversary with a day full of live
music, performances, installations, bbq, and a raffle wih great prizes!
The Lambs; Jeremy Dalmas and Friends; Young Prisms; Bare Wires; Ash
Reiter; Kacey Johansing; Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson (Electronic
& Ambient / Super 8 film); Eats Tapes; Psychic Reality; Rank/Xerox
Raffle Prizes include ATA DVD compilations and goodies from: Good
Vibrations, Landmark Theatres, Red Vic Movie House, Back to the Picture,
Therapy, Lost Weekend Video and SFMOMA.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009
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12/14
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
NATIVE VISIONS: TWO DOCUMENTARIES ON INDIGENOUS MEXICAN CULTURE
2501 Migrants: A Journey, by Yolanda Cruz and Day Two, by Dante Cerano
Reencuentros: 2501 Migrantes (Mexico/USA, 2008, 57 min.) examines the
effects of mass emigration in the Oaxacan town of Teococuilo, virtually
deserted after most of its adult indigenous population departed to look
for work in the United States or Mexico City. Yolanda Cruz's documentary
tells the story of artist Alejandro Santiago, who sets out to create a
monumental installation of 2501 life-size sculptures of all the people
who left. Because Teocucuilo, he feels, is... so empty. The program also
features Dante Cerano's award-winning video essay Día dos (Mexico, 2004,
23 min.), an idiosyncratic and irreverent take on the second day of a
P'urhepecha wedding ceremony. In person: Yolanda Cruz Curated by Jesse
Lerner and Steve Anker. | Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7,
CalArts $5]
12/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VINYL
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. An adaptation of Anthony
Burgess's novel, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, which is about as far from
Kubrick's version as possible. The misbehavior and reconditioning of the
young hoodlum Victor (Gerard Malanga) takes place in a claustrophobic
setting crammed with cast members and S&M practitioners. Though she had
a walk-on part in HORSE, VINYL marks the first significant appearance in
a Warhol film of Superstar Edie Sedgwick, who, though sitting silently
in the foreground throughout, somehow manages to steal the movie from
its ostensible stars.
12/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAHERTY SEMINAR WITNESS PROGRAM
Post-screening discussion with WITNESS! This program is a perfect
compliment to the "Witnesses, Monument, Ruins" Seminar. Since its
founding in 1992, WITNESS has empowered human rights defenders to use
video as a tool to shine a light on those most affected by human rights
violations, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful
tools of justice. FLAHERTY NYC will present and discuss recent advocacy
videos produced by WITNESS and the grassroots human rights defenders it
works with around the world, explaining how the videos are created and
how they are used. Highlighted productions will include the recent HEAR
US: ZIMBABWEAN WOMEN AFFECTED BY POLITICAL VIOLENCE SPEAK OUT (Research
and Advocacy Unit (RAU) & WITNESS, 2009); BREAK THE SILENCE (Sisters
Arab Forum & WITNESS, 2009), on discrimination against minority women in
Yemen; An Age for Justice: Elder Abuse in America' (NCOA & WITNESS 2009)
; and CRYING SUN: THE IMPACT OF WAR IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CHECHNYA
(Memorial & WITNESS, 2007), among others.
12/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KITCHEN
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. Tavel's heterosexual satire was
filmed in a real kitchen, with Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau playing
an unhappy couple, Jo and Mikie. The action is interrupted by various
chaotic activities: the running of a blender which drowns out the
dialogue, the continual sneezing of Sedgwick and her co-stars, a
bustling houseboy played by Rene Ricard, and photographer David McCabe,
who repeatedly strides onto the set to take photos of the actors. Note:
The hair which appears in the frame is part of the film.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
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12/15
Jamaica Plain, MA: Loring-Greenough House
http://lghfilm.blogspot.com
7:30pm, 12 South Street
ARCHITECTURE OF THE SUN
Tuesday Club presents the fourth monthly LGH screening! Architecture of
the Sun is a live projection duo composed of Brittany Gravely and Jenn
Pipp, who met while studying at SMFA and currently live in Boston. They
will be joined by long-time musical collaborators, the Glass Shivers.
Opening the show will be a film loop by Julianna Schley, a recent
MassArt graduate. Doors open at 7pm, at which point birthday cake will
be served (for Ms. Schley's birthday). The screening itself begins at
7:30. Admission is $4.
12/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SPACE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. SPACE is based on a Tavel
scenario, in which various characters are supposed to recite lines from
eight unconnected scripts while Warhol's roving camera moves among them.
However, the large assembled cast – which includes Edie Sedgwick, as
well as folk singer Eric Andersen and Dorothy Dean – seems completely
uninterested in following the script, and SPACE transforms itself from a
Tavel film into an Edie Sedgwick film before our eyes.
12/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HORSE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 105 minutes, 16mm. Staged at the Factory with a
rented horse, this is a homoerotic parody of the Western genre. The
enacting of Tavel's script (followed with difficulty from cue cards held
up off-screen) takes place on a set crowded with evidence of the film's
production: mounted lights, a boom mic, assorted onlookers, and the
Factory doors and telephone all visible in the frame. The film may be
shown with either two or three reels. The 'action' occurs in Reels 1 &
3; Reel 2, a 33-minute 'documentary' shot of the horse standing in front
of the Factory doors, may be shown either in the middle or at the end of
the film. Any votes?
12/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:00 PM, 1214 Queen Street West
#10 = WIELAND/MARKER/BRAKHAGE/CORNELL
Cats, Birds and the Cosmos This cinematic 24 hours starts at dawn in
Beijing in 1956 and winds up with sunrise in Ontario in 1972. In Sunday
in Peking, Chris Marker describes a day in the life of the city that he
had dreamed of since childhood. Reflecting on the exotic, the ordinary
and his own role in interpreting the place, this 16mm postcard is an
early example of the form for which Marker was to become known. By Night
With Torch and Spear, Joseph Cornell's uncanny collage of educational
films, explores the industrious nature of man and moth. Discovered after
Cornell's death and preserved by Anthology Film Archives in 1979, it is
a classic of perplexing power. Stellar (1993) is Stan Brakhage's
evocation of outer and inner space. The optical printing of Brakhage's
long time collaborator Sam Bush further animates the painted frames,
creating movement in new directions. Back on earth, Los Angeles alley
cats are the subject of Brakhage's rarely screened Night Cats from 1956.
Shot in 1972 and completed in 1986, Joyce Wieland's Birds at Sunrise is
a subtle study of birds at her backyard feeder one winter morning.
Wieland was moved by the creatures' ability to survive the extreme
elements, and communicates the feeling through her sympathetic camera
work and deft editing. Additional cosmic surprises await! Programme
Dimanche à Pekin (Sunday in Peking) Chris Marker, 1956, 22 min, 16mm ///
By Night With Torch and Spear Joseph Cornell, preserved 1979, 9 min,
16mm /// Stellar Stan Brakhage, 1993, 3 minutes, 16mm /// Night Cats
Stan Brakhage, 1956, 8 min, 16mm /// Birds at Sunrise Joyce Wieland,
1972/1986, 16mm, 10 min ***NOTE EARLIER START TIME*** @ the Art Bar,
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West Tuesday December 15, 2009 | 7:00 PM
screening, $5 Early Monthly Segments is a new monthly film series named
after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy,
vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott
Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series will feature
historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like setting at
the Gladstone Art Bar. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages
and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for
engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. Thanks to everyone at The
Gladstone Hotel and CFMDC. Contact email suppressed for
email list Website : earlymonthlysegments.org #11 = TUESDAY JANUARY 19,
2010 = TBA
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
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12/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. An article written by Castro's
sister in 1964 inspired Tavel's script for this film, a subversive
avant-garde satire on Latin American politics in which Fidel Castro is
played by a woman, while Marie Menken stars as Juanita. The entire cast,
representing Castro's family, sits in rows of chairs grouped for a
family portrait. They all follow directions from Tavel, who sits in the
last row feeding the actors their lines, which they repeat in a mixture
of Spanish and English.
12/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARLOT
by Andy Warhol 1964, 67 minutes, 16mm. Warhol's first synch-sound
feature is an underground version of the Jean Harlow story with Mario
Montez in drag as the platinum-haired Hollywood sex symbol of the 1930s.
Staged as a kind of tableau vivant on a couch at the Factory, with
Montez occupying the center of a carefully composed group of Superstars,
along with a large white cat, HARLOT was the first film Tavel worked on
with Warhol, though it was not based on one of his scripts. Instead he,
Billy Name, and Harry Fainlight improvised the off-screen conversation
that dominates the soundtrack, while on-screen the film culminates with
Montez consuming copious quantities of bananas in highly suggestive
ways.
12/16
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/cronicadunamirada.htm#emigration
7pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
CRONICA D'UNA MIRADA: CLANDESTINE FILMMAKING IN FRANCO'S SPAIN, 1960 –
1975 PART III: CLANDESTINE NETWORKS
Wednesday, December 16 at 7pm Part III: Clandestine Networks dir. Manuel
Barrios, Spain, 2004, video, 44 mins, color and b/w, Spanish w/ English
subtitles The film camera was now a political instrument. Police used
confiscated films to identify possible suspects. Therefore it was better
if credits did not appear on the prints and to interview people in
silhouette, or if possible, frame the interviewee from the neck down. A
clandestine distribution network was created where the films were given
false names, stored in private homes, catalogued into lists camouflaged
among medieval poetry texts, and later distributed to interested parties
under total secrecy and anonymity. Footage of demonstrations, strikes
and other actions was distributed by clandestine networks known as
"Volti". followed by Paris, 20 de juny de 1971 Mitin en Montreuil dir.
Anonymous, Spain, 1971, video, 106 mins, b/w, Catalan w/ English
subtitles Cronica D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco's
Spain, 1960 – 1975 Co-presented by the Department of Hispanic Studies
and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania This
six-part documentary series focuses on a generation of independent
filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to conform required them to
produce, distribute and exhibit radical films during Francisco Franco's
regime. Shooting under the pretense of amateur filmmaking, they hid
within crowds of protesters, producing works that were often highly
creative and even experimental. In order to protect the identities of
its participants, many of these films had no credits. While this body of
work represents a margin of Spanish film history, it nevertheless
contains some of the most crucial, first-hand documents of the end of
the dictatorship, revealing problems of housing and social services,
immigration, the fate of political prisoners and restrictions on
expression and free speech. These films explore an era that fought for
freedom through cinema. Curated by Marta Sanchez and Manuel Barrios.
Special thanks to Bryan Cameron and Anna Cox of the Department of
Hispanic Studies at the University Of Pennsylvania and Charlotte Nitta
Cargni. And to Michael Solomon and Toni Esposito of the Department of
Romance Languages at Penn, for their extraordinary efforts in subtitling
the short films contained in the Cronica series. On June 20, 1971, a
massive political gathering led by Dolores Ibarruri and Santiago
Carrillo took place in the village of Montreuil, near Paris. The filmed
demonstration was distributed and screened clandestinely. The film
reveals itself, now, as a tool for reflection on the political history
and the changes produced in the Spanish State by the second President of
the government. Free admission members above Internationalist level; $5
Internationalists; $6 students + seniors; $8 general admission. In
advance at TICKETWEB or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater
Box Office.
12/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM $6, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
FREE FORM FILM SERIES AWESOME AND PAINFUL
(Experimental videos and a Christmas treat) The Lost Media Archive and
the FFFF team up again to bring you a very rare screening of the
universally loathed STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. This two-hour disaster
will be preceded by: VIDEOS: Control This - Paul Baker (Austin TX)
Deuteronomy - Dewan (NY) Hulk Smash - Jared Clark and Chris Coy
(NYC,SLC) Cakestain! - Tyrone Davies (SF) Polygon Sun - Johnny Rogers
(Baltimore) Exxtra Lives - Chris coy (SLC)
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2009
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12/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE CHELSEA GIRLS
THE CHELSEA GIRLS by Andy Warhol 966, ca. 210 minutes, 16mm
double-projection. With Nico, Ondine, Marie Menken, Mary Woronov, Gerard
Malanga, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, Mario Montez, Eric
Emerson, and Brigid Berlin. BACK BY (EVEN MORE) POPULAR DEMAND! Warhol's
double-screen masterpiece – consisting of 12 unedited reels, shown
side-by-side, with only one soundtrack audible at a time – depicts the
Chelsea Hotel as a teeming hive of Superstars, junkies, prostitutes, and
generally out-sized personalities. Though most of THE CHELSEA GIRLS was
unscripted, two of the 12 reels – the sections entitled "Hannoi Hanna"
and "Their Town", and both featuring Mary Woronov among others – were
based on scripts by Tavel.
12/17
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)
KENNETH ANGER: RESTORED PRINTS
Fireworks, 1947, 15 min., 35mm ; Rabbit's Moon, 1950/1971, 16 min., 16mm
; Scorpio Rising, 1963, 29 min., 35mm ; Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1964, 3
min., 35mm . Films by Kenneth Anger, American underground cinema's dark
star, ignite the screen with occult symbolism and lush baroque
sensibilities while smashing the atoms of pop culture. The selection of
early short films in this event — a reverie of homoerotica, fetishism,
machismo, myth, and ironic spectacle — paved the way for queer cinema
and captured the attention of directors from Jean Cocteau to Martin
Scorsese. These films were recently restored at the UCLA Film and
Television Archive. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and
seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum (with no surcharge) or
online.
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