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This week [January 23 - 31, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Strange Beauty Film Festival [January 23, Durham, NC]
* HÄXan With A Live New Score By Dr. Prisoner: the Brain! [January 23, San Francisco, California]
* Public Lighting By Mike Hoolboom (In Person) + Re-Launch of Projecting
Questions? @ 7pm [January 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 2 [January 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Now, You Can Do Anything: the Films of Chris Langdom [January 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Haitian Footage [January 26, New York]
* Carousel Microcinema #2: Phenomenology. Labor. Color. [January 27, San Diego, California]
* Up & Down & Back & Forth & Round & Round ... the 8 Fest Installations [January 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Double Take [January 28, Irvine, CA]
* La RÉGion Centrale [January 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Canadian Curiosities! [January 29, Buffalo, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Strike [January 29, New York]
* Jim Jennings Show [January 29, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
* The Invisible Forest A Film By Antero Alli (In Person) [January 29, San Francisco, California]
* Fag off! J.D.'s Homopunk Hitparade [January 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Zinger: Tales From the Funnel, Volume 1 [January 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Acadian Super 8 Now! [January 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 3 [January 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [January 30, New York]
* Essential Cinema: October [January 30, New York]
* Golden: the Polyphonic Aural Experience [January 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Another Day and Night In Japan [January 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 4 [January 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Old and New [January 31, New York]
* Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [January 31, New York]
* Guardiaregia (1985) A Film By Giovanni Sampogna [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Bagerooo, Three! Recent Super 8 Filmmaking! [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2010
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1/23
Durham, NC: Strange Beauty Film Festival
http://www.strangebeauty.org
2 pm & 8:15 pm, Manbites Dog Theater, 703 Foster St
STRANGE BEAUTY FILM FESTIVAL
Concluding day of the inaugural Strange Beauty Film Festival, showing
short films from around the world. Filmmakers include Leighton Pierce,
Jodie Mack, Jennie Thwing.
1/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM $6-$10, 992 Valencia at 21st
HÄXAN WITH A LIVE NEW SCORE BY DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN!
HÄXAN with a live new score by DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! Forget Murnau.
Forget Griffith. The greatest repository of images in all of silent film
is surely Benjamin Christensen's magnificent, loony HÄXAN, also known as
WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES. Featuring crazed nuns, flaming witches, and
a spectacularly obscene performance by the director himself as Satan,
HÄXAN is like no other film ever made: an uncontrolled rampage of
feverish, violent images, part historical recreation, part religious
satire, all hallucination. Artists Television Access is proud to present
HÄXAN in a newly butchered version, prepared especially for this
screening by conceptual artist Dr. Astronaut Body. Now missing over half
an hour of crucial footage and structurally reorganized for maximum
impact, HÄXAN will be accompanied by a new score performed live by the
San Francisco electronica band DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! Including
members of The Pine Box Boys and Reagan's Polyp, DR. PRISONER: THE
BRAIN! is part of the same creative team that has premiered new scores
for THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR.
CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, KOYAANISQATSI,
and the Led Zeppelin film THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, all at Artists
Television Access.
1/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
7pm, 129 Spadina Ave. CineCycle
PUBLIC LIGHTING BY MIKE HOOLBOOM (IN PERSON) + RE-LAUNCH OF PROJECTING
QUESTIONS? @ 7PM
Mike Hoolboom returns to Pleasure Dome with a captivating, richly
layered experimental feature exploring the "cult of personality" and the
role photographs play in creating memory. Public Lighting (76 min.,
2004) is structured in seven parts, ranging from a gay man recounting
the locations of various breakups to an homage to composer Philip Glass
and a confessional letter from an HIV-positive man to Madonna. Winner
for Best Experimental, Santa Cruz Festival, 2004; Best Director,
Pyongyang Festival, Korea, 2004; and Best Documentary, Festival du
Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, 2004. At 7pm please join us for the re-launch
of the 2009 publication Projecting Questions? a series of essays and
conversations between artists and curators about the complicated path
from the white cube to the black box. Featuring contributions by Philip
Monk, Chris Kennedy, Yann Beauvais and Mike Hoolboom.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010
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1/24
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 2
email suppressed; www.lafilmforum.org Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95580 Discussion: Erika Vogt
(artist) and Yvonne Rainer (filmmaker) Prince Ruperts Drops, 1969, 7
min., silent Critical Mass (Hapax Legomena III), 1971, 25.5 min., sound
Public Domain, 1972, 14 min., silent Matrix, 1977, 27.5 min., silent
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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010
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1/25
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
NOW, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING: THE FILMS OF CHRIS LANGDOM
The exuberant, irreverent and surprising films of Chris Langdon make a
welcome return to the screen after many years out of circulation. A
student of Pat O'Neill, Robert Nelson, and John Baldessari, Langdon was
incredibly prolific, producing a large body of work in painting,
sculpture, film, photography, and graphics. Her legendary film work,
created between 1972 and '76, is often a brash and funny mix of the
so-called high and low: one short film uses a bondage setup as a pretext
for a critique of structuralism, while a ludicrous and satirical
portrait of Picasso reveals the questionable authority of moving images.
Never ponderous or needlessly abstruse, Langdon's films are direct,
formally unique, and full of intuitive flair and wild humor; they
delight in provoking and challenging not only modes of artmaking but our
reception of art and its purported messages. The filmmaker is attending
in person.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2010
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1/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAITIAN FOOTAGE
THE HAITIAN FOOTAGE: MAYA DEREN UNEDITED Presented as part of I GET
LOST, a Danspace Project Platform A little more than a decade ago,
artist Ralph Lemon was inspired by DIVINE HORSEMEN, a film containing
extraordinary footage of Haitian Vodoun practitioners being possessed
(or 'mounted' – hence the film's title) by deities (Loa) during sacred
music/dance rituals. The footage was shot by filmmaker Maya Deren, one
of the most influential independent filmmakers to emerge during the
1940s and 50s. It was only after Deren's untimely death that her
husband, Teiji Ito, edited the film by inaccurately joining certain
music to dances/rituals. The authenticity of the film for Deren experts,
Vodoun practitioners, and anthropologists has long been questioned. For
Lemon, a major artistic research project ensued. In conjunction with
Lemon's platform, entitled I GET LOST, at Danspace Project
(danspaceproject.org), we will present a 33-minute video excerpt from
Deren's unedited footage. This will be followed by a discussion with
Lemon and other speakers to-be-announced. In light of the current
emergency in Haiti, all proceeds from this show will be donated to the
American Red Cross's HAITI RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010
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1/27
San Diego, California: Carousel Microcinema San Diego
http://carouselmicrocinema.wordpress.com/
7:00pm, QUEEN BEE CULTURAL CENTER,3925 Ohio Street San Diego, CA 92104
CAROUSEL MICROCINEMA #2: PHENOMENOLOGY. LABOR. COLOR.
Historical and contemporary works that together try to reckon with
notions of phenomenology, Labor, and Color. Amy Alexander- Unbroken
Pieces. 1995. John Baldessari- Six Colorful Inside Jobs. 1971. Brian
Bress- Status Report. 2009. Cheryl Donegan- Lieder. 2000. Kris Moyes- I
REALLY Want You To REALLY Want Me. 2009. & Cut Copy: Going Nowhere.
Meghan O'Hara- Color Film. 2008. Hadas Neuman- Fairy On A Roof. 2008.
Kori Newkirk- Bixel 2005. Ken Nordine- Selections from "Colors". 1966
Asphodel Records. Charlie Roberts- Erase. 2007. Michael Trigilio- Book
30. 2001-2004 From Untitled Book Series.
1/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
www.the8fest.com
7 pm , Fountain Enterprises, 1261 Dundas Street West, (East of Dovercourt), 12-6pm
UP & DOWN & BACK & FORTH & ROUND & ROUND ... THE 8 FEST INSTALLATIONS
Inspired by the optical toys which were the progenitors of cinema, this
exhibition presents works by six local artists that recover the
immediacy, intimacy and wonder of those early inventions. All of the
works share a sense of play, some due to their interactive nature, and
others owing to their content or optical quality. Installations by Rob
Cruickshank, Vuk Dragojevic, Alexi Manis, John Porter, Lina Rodriguez
and Alex Rogalski. Please join us for a reception on the opening night
of the installation (Wednesday Jan. 27, 7pm). - free! Open Jan. 28-31,
12-6pm.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010
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1/28
Irvine, CA: UC Irvine Film and Video Center
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/
7:30 PM, Humanities Gateway 1070, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
DOUBLE TAKE
In Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE (2009), Alfred Hitchcock's television
show and movie cameos frame the trajectory of the mass media's influence
on collective fear. Grimonprez skillfully weaves together Hollywood
films, TV ads, and cold-war news coverage to narrate a tale in which
television hijacks cinema, the Khrushchev and Nixon kitchen debate
rattles on, and sexual politics quietly take off. Followed by a Q&A and
light reception with artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. Organized by
Cole Akers, Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, UC Irvine.
1/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 PM, Jackman Hall (317 Dundas St. W- McCaul St entrance)
LA RÉGION CENTRALE
Michael Snow in person! Please join Michael Snow for a FREE screening of
his film LA RÉGION CENTRALE. Experience the work of one of Canada and
the world's greatest artists. For more info visit
http://cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=1867&GrpId=0&page=1
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
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1/29
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/canadian-curiosities/
7 pm, Rustbelt Books: 202 Allen Street (On the corner of Elmwood and Allen)
CANADIAN CURIOSITIES!
Join us for an evening of back to back Canadian delights! We will be
welcoming Prof. Michael Zryd and filmmaker Phillip Hoffman for a
cinematic extravaganza at Buffalo's love-home Rustbelt Books. Prof. Zryd
has curated a special program just for Rustbelt's cozy little space, and
Phillip Hoffman will be showing his latest work, "All Fall Down". This
will be two screenings in one evening, and Prof. Zryd will be leading a
discussion with Hoffman after the films. The line-up for the evening is
as follows: Primiti Too Taa by Ed Akerman and Colin Morton, Rat Life and
Diet in North America by Joyce Wieland, Maltese Cross Movement by
Keewatin Dewdney, So Is This by Michael Snow, All Fall Down by Phillip
Hoffman and more to be announced! *** A filmmaker of memory and
association, Professor Hoffman creates "personal" yet highly universal
works which weave and question fact and fiction in an experimental
"diarist" cinema. A filmmaker with an extensive list of productions, his
short films have won many awards, including three in 2002, A Golden Gate
Award, New Visions, from the San Francisco International Film Festival,
as well as the Gus Van Sant Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, both
for What these ashes wanted (2001). Professor Hoffman has given seminars
and production workshops continuously and presented screenings of his
films on five continents, including retrospectives at international
festivals in India, Holland and Australia, at Cinematheque Canada in
Ottawa, and at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In 2001,
Hoffman's films were featured at the Images Festival for Independent
Film and Video in Toronto, where a new book about his films was
launched; Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of
Philip Hoffman contains over 25 essays/writings by academics and
artists. See http://www.philiphoffman.ca/ for more! *** Professor Zryd
is an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies. He researches
experimental and documentary film and other forms of alternative media
in North America. His major research projects include a conceptual
reconstruction of Hollis Frampton's never-completed Magellan project
(1972-1980); an institutional study of the relationship between
experimental film and the academy in Canada and the United States
(1960s-present); and a critical examination of irony in documentary and
experimental film He has curated or co-curated Hollis Frampton Magellan
retrospectives in Toronto, New York, Karlsruhe, and London. He was Chair
of the Board of Directors of the Images Festival in 2004-05, and
President of the Film Studies Association of Canada in 2005-06. He is
currently Archivist of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SMCS)
and a member of the SCMS Board of Directors. He is the current co-chair
of the Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of SCMS and
was co-founder of the Toronto Film Seminar. Zryd teaches courses on
experimental film and media, documentary film, American cinema, film
analysis and history, methodology, and film theory and aesthetics. He
has previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, and as a
visiting instructor at Oberlin College, Bard College, SUNY Binghamton,
CUNY Brooklyn College, New York University, and the University of
Toronto. *** Canadian Curiosities is being sponsored by the
Canadian-American Studies Committee Programming Grant and the Department
of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo.
1/29
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STRIKE
by Sergei Eisenstein 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Eisenstein's interest in the
Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which
non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating
Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping
realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only
completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution.
1/29
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Jim Jennings
8 pm, Rotterdam International Film Festival
JIM JENNINGS SHOW
Jim Jennings will be having a show at the Rotterdam International Film
Festival. Eight films will be screened on January 29th and again on
February 1st. The screening on January 29th will be preceded by a
musical performance by composer Rutger Zuydervelt.
1/29
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
THE INVISIBLE FOREST A FILM BY ANTERO ALLI (IN PERSON)
Friday, January 29, 2010. 8PM $6 THE INVISIBLE FOREST A film by Antero
Alli (in Person) A theatre troupe camps out in a forest to perform their
director's vision of Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods and
spirits. During their forest experiment Alex, the director, is haunted
by disturbing dreams where Artaud appears and mocks his theatrical
ambitions. When these strange nightmares persist, Alex stops sleeping in
an attempt to regain control over his mind. Sleep-deprived and with his
sanity pushed to its limits, he seeks help from a Psychotherapist who
suggests hypnosis as a means to discover the source of his problems.
What follows is a hypnagogic journey through the internal landscape of
Alex's subconscious memories and dreams, a sojourn that leads us to a
place beyond belief, beyond words, and beyond the mind itself. (2008;
111 min. USA; Antero Alli . Super-8 film, HDV & mini-dv) trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOevXUvL3s filmography
http://www.verticalpool.com/filmography.html
1/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
11 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
FAG OFF! J.D.’S HOMOPUNK HITPARADE
curated by Kevin Hegge. A rare chance to catch the early films of
Toronto's original queer punk provocateurs: the J.Ds crew. Featured
selections include work from Bruce LaBruce and his cinema-conspirator
Candy Parker, plus an entirely new movie by J.D's co-creator G.B Jones
herself — her first film since completing her epic The Lollipop
Generation in 2008. All films in Super 8!
1/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
7pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King) Toronto, ON
ZINGER: TALES FROM THE FUNNEL, VOLUME 1
curated by Milada Kovacova. The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre, which
operated for 12 years, from 1977 to 1989, was a one-stop alternative.
The Funnel was a collective of thirty, mostly artists, who provided
16mm, 8mm and super 8, film production, distribution and exhibition
facilities, for personal film artists only. Volume One just skims the
surface of the small-gauge treasures produced at The Funnel. ZINGER:
Tales from The Funnel showcases the films of three visual artists who
sometimes make movies. All films in Super 8! Films by Lorna Mills, Dave
Anderson and Jim Anderson.
1/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
9 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
ACADIAN SUPER 8 NOW!
curated by Mario Doucette (in person!) Hailed as North America's longest
running super8 film screening, Acadie Underground has been an integral
part of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
(FICFA) since 1996. The collaboration with Galerie Sans Nom, an
artist-run centre, insures that the participants have access to
workshops, films, and cameras. Filmmakers have 48 hours to submit one
roll of edited-in-camera film. Here are a few examples of the films
screened at Acadie Underground in Moncton, New Brunswick. All films in
Super 8! Films by Christian Roy, David LeBlanc, Jule Haché, David
Gregory, Jennifer Bélanger, Julien Cadieux, Nisk Imbeault, Joseph
Teakles, Amanda Dawn Christie, Jocelyne Chaput, Tracy Lavoie, Mathieu
Saulnier & Martin Cormier and Linda Rae Dorman.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
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1/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00 pm, Pacific Design Center Silver Screen, 8687 Melrose Avenue
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 3
Los Angeles Filmforum, Khastoo Gallery, and the Art Los Angeles
Contemporary Fair are delighted to present CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a
five-screening series of films by Hollis Frampton, from January 21 to
February 7, 2010, with guest scholars and artists at each program to
discuss his works and their influence on later artists. Los Angeles, CA
90069-5730; (310) 657-0800; for information contact Khastoo Gallery or
Los Angeles Filmforum. In conjunction with the Art Los Angeles
Contemporary Fair, http://www.artlosangelesfair.com/ Free Panel
following screening: Alex Klein (artist/curatorial fellow at LACMA);
David James (USC film professor and Frampton scholar); Madison
Brookshire, Michael Ned Holte Poetic Justice (Hapax Legomena II), 1972,
31 min., silent Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena I), 1973, 36 min., sound
1/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
by Sergei Eisenstein 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With English
intertitles. Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid,
super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous,
inflamed emotion.
1/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER
by Sergei Eisenstein 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Eisenstein celebrates the
baroque in OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN,
disappointing contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema"
starts here.
1/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
7 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
GOLDEN: THE POLYPHONIC AURAL EXPERIENCE
curated by Milada Kovacova. Experimentation, audacity, and revolt will
be essential elements of Golden. This is a rehash. Expect no biases
here. There is no inclination here of picture dominating sound. Audio
plays as equal a part as the image. Golden is a random fusion of 5
filmmakers with 5 audio artists continuously rotating so that each flick
shapeshifts. Audio artists: Sym Corrigan, Ken Gregory, Darsha Hewitt,
Taimaz Moslemian and Steve Reinke. Super 8 filmmakers: Deco Dawson, John
Kneller, Nicholas Kovats, Tricia Martin and Midi Onodera. On the theme
of "Golden".
1/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
9 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
ANOTHER DAY AND NIGHT IN JAPAN
curated by Tomonari Nishikawa (in person!) This program consists of
contemporary Japanese 8mm films, including six works shot on Fujifilm's
"Single-8." It features a diverse selection from Japan's personal 8mm
filmmakers, from a hand-processed experimental film to a short narrative
with magnetic soundstripe. All films in Single or Super 8! Films by
Toshiyuki Maeda, Maya Asaba, Eriko Sonoda, Akira Mizuyoshi, Mie
Kurihara, Satoshi Yajimachi, Masaharu Oki, Kenji Onishi.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010
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1/31
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 4
Los Angeles Filmforum and Khastoo Gallery are delighted to present
CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a five-screening series of films by Hollis
Frampton, from January 21 to February 7, 2010, with guest scholars and
artists at each program to discuss his works and their influence on
later artists. A Lecture, 1968, audio & performance, 23 min. Process
Red, 1968, 3:30, silent Carrots and Peas, 1969, 5.5 min., sound Lemon,
1969, 7.30 min., silent Surface Tension, 1968, 10 min., sound
Palindrome, 1969, 22 min., silent Cadenzas I & XIV (Completed Pts The
Birth of Magellan: 14 Cadenas), 1980, 11.25 min, sound
email suppressed; www.lafilmforum.org Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95583
1/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW
by Sergei Eisenstein 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
intertitles; English synopsis available. Known also as THE GENERAL LINE,
OLD AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he
developed and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the
montage of characters in the foreground and background to conjure
meanings, and "overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith.
1/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
by Sergei Eisenstein 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm, b&w. In Russian with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. "The first time in history a man
has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned
production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white
machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a
living hell – a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.
1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
7 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
GUARDIAREGIA (1985) A FILM BY GIOVANNI SAMPOGNA
"Guardiaregia is the ancestral home of both my parents for well over
1000-years and is located about an hour drive northeast of Naples two
hours southeast of Rome. The village's name was given to us by the King
of Naples during the renaissance age – it literally means, "The Kings
Guardian" – even though the village itself is over 2000 years old. I was
born in Australia, but grew up in Guardiaregia from age 3-7 & I have
been back over a dozen times usually for 2-months or more. My dads
family farm of over 400 years is still in operation there & opens this
film. Y'arrr!!!" Originally made as Sampogna's thesis film (it remains
the longest thesis film ever completed at Ryerson), Guardiaregia is a
cinema-verite portrait of a daily agrarian life that has not changed
much in the small town's 2000-year history. Guardiaregia was quickly
transferred to video after shooting and has NEVER been shown on its
original format. This night marks the one and only chance to see this
extraordinary documentary projected on super 8 sound film! Guardiaregia
(the Kings Guardian) Giovanni Sampogna Super 8, sound on film,
Canada/Italy 1985 96 min.
1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
9 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)
BAGEROOO, THREE! RECENT SUPER 8 FILMMAKING!
An exciting collection of new small gauge films and one rarely screened
older film closes out this year's screenings! These films were selected
from an international call for recent Super 8 films. Augmenting the
selection of recent work is a new performance by local super 8
filmmaker, Peggy Anne Berton. This year we saw an increase in
submissions from Spanish-speaking countries and from filmmakers under
the age of thirty, further proof that we're just scratching the surface
of contemporary interest in small gauge filmmaking. Tonight's program
features beautiful city symphonies, celebrations of childhood, gothic
nightmares and abstractions drawn from an thoughtful attentiveness to
the natural world--sometimes in the same film! All films in Super 8!
Films by Rich Bahto (Los Angeles), Andres Victorero Rey (Ames, Spain),
Jonathan Sajda (San Francisco), Cecilia Arenada (Winnipeg), Siue Moffatt
(Toronto), Nicky Hamlyn (Lewes, UK), Gerald Saul (Regina), Ryan Hill
(Regina), Paul Clipson (San Francisco), Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Madrid),
Kevin T. Allen (Brooklyn), Brandon Fox (Boulder, CO), Helder Carvajal
(Regina) and Peggy Anne Berton with Marc St Aubin (Toronto).
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