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This week [January 30 - February 7, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2010 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
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ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 26, 2010)
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Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FIlm Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2010)
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Media City (Windsor ON Canada; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 31, 2010)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2010)
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The Journal of Short Film Vol. 19 (Columbus, OH, United States; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Vic, Australia; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
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Crossroads (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: February 10, 2010)
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The 2010 Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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Go Short International film festival (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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IC Docs (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: March 06, 2010)
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DotFest - International Online Short Film Festival (Switzerland; Deadline: March 01, 2010)
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The International Surrealist Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Rr By James Benning [February 3, Seattle, Washington]
* The Indian Boundary Line [February 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Essential Cinema: Nanook of the North [February 5, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Man of Aran [February 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Hollis Frampton [February 6, New York]
* Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 5 [February 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Genet/Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie [February 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner [February 7, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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:
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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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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
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2/3
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
RR BY JAMES BENNING
Feb 03, 2010 (James Benning, USA, 2008, 16mm, 111 min) In 1895, the
first film audience ever reportedly ran screaming from the theater
during the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of a Train. Although today's
moviegoers may be more comfortable with train footage, James Benning's
RR promises a unique kind of cinematic experience for audiences.
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/series/1138
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010
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2/4
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
THE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE
Thomas Comerford in person! Over the last eight years, local musician
and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has been at work on a series of
quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political,
and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002;
Land Marked/Marquette, 2005). This evening, Comerford will present the
world premiere of The Indian Boundary Line (2010). The film follows, as
Comerford notes, "a road very close to my home in Chicago, Rogers
Avenue," which traces the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis boundary between the
United States and "Indian Territory." In doing so, it examines the
collision between "the vernacular landscape, with its storefronts,
short-cut footpaths and picnic tables, and the symbolic one, replete
with historical markers, statues, and fences." Through its observations
and audio-visual juxtapositions, The Indian Boundary Line meditates on
history and its relationship to the landscape, with its own shifting
boundaries, designs, uses, and inhabitants across two centuries. With
Land Marked/Marquette. Thomas Comerford, 2010, USA, DigiBeta video and
16mm, ca. 75 min (plus discussion).
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
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2/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: NANOOK OF THE NORTH
by Robert Flaherty 1922, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. The most
enduring of all Flaherty's films for its simplicity of purpose,
structure, and design. It ennobles its subjects rather than exploiting
them. Sharp and uncluttered, the film relies on a few well-developed
sequences which remain in the memory of the viewer.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
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2/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAN OF ARAN
by Robert Flaherty 1934, 76 minutes, 35mm, b&w. Flaherty's third major
film portrays the lives of a family of fisher folk on the Aran Islands
off the coast of Galway, Ireland. Flaherty selected this location and
subjects because of their isolation as the westernmost outpost of
European civilization. In addition, the daily struggle between the
islanders and the sea perfectly suited his interests and concerns. The
scenes at sea are breathtaking. "His passionate devotion to the
portrayal of human gesture and of a man's fight for his family makes the
film an incomparable account of human dignity. Better than anyone,
Flaherty knew how to show the true face of Man." –Georges Sadoul
2/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON
ZORNS LEMMA 1970, 60 minutes, 16mm, color. "A major poetic work. Created
and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex
abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and
beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it,
don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light,
possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." –Ernie Gehr
& HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes, 16mm, b&w. "Nostalgia,
beginning as an ironic look upon a personal past, creates its own filmic
time, a past and future generated by the expectations elicited by its
basic disjunctive strategy." –Annette Michelson "In nostalgia the time
it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its
two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton
plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of
his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic,
mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors
for most of Frampton's films." –P. Adams Sitney
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
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2/7
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 5
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. email suppressed; www.lafilmforum.org Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95584 Introduction by David James
(USC) Gloria, 1979, 9.5 min., sound Zorns Lemma, 1970, 60 min., sound
2/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GENET/ROBERT FRANK & ALFRED LESLIE
Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean
Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines
of prison cells and a homophobic state…a powerfully resonant work that
explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank &
Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely
spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with
Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who
offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never
finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an
incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're
raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and
one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner.
But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like
scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline.
2/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to
counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." –D.G. "Austere and
chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure, density and
rhythm."–William Moritz STOP MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A
research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." –William Moritz
Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm, color.
Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera,
embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old
78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where
suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy
was our achievement as well as breaking out of step." –K.J. Ken Jacobs &
Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up,
b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the
generous support of The Film Foundation, The National Film Preservation
Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic
narrative – no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time
for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a
man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation
and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying,
guilt-strictured and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation
with style… enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to
dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70
minutes.
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