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Date: Sat Feb 13 2010 - 11:03:44 PST
Part 1 of 2: This week [February 13 - 21, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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Videoex festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
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6th Renderyard Short Film Festival (London; Deadline: July 31, 2010)
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Odds and Ends (Portland, Oregon. USA; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
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Im:mobil Art (italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival, extend its deadline (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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International Talent Workshop - Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: March 15, 2010)
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25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2010)
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Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers (Atlanta, GA, USA; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
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Towson University Queer Film Festival (Towson, MD, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2010)
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WAMM Festival (Women and Minorities in Media Festival) (Towson, MD, USA; Deadline: March 07, 2010)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: April 02, 2010)
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Media City (Windsor ON Canada; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2010)
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Chips and Salsa Film Festival (wilmington, nc, usa; Deadline: March 15, 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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Migrating Forms (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: March 15, 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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ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 26, 2010)
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Videoex festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
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Im:mobil Art (italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival, extend its deadline (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: March 15, 2010)
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Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers (Atlanta, GA, USA; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
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Towson University Queer Film Festival (Towson, MD, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* 119 Gallery [February 13, Lowell, MA]
* Personal Cinema Series - David Baker [February 13, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Une Simple Histoire [February 13, New York]
* Guy Maddin At Tiff Cinematheque! [February 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Kristina Talking Pictures By Yvonne
Rainer [February 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 16, Berlin, Germany]
* Naomi Uman: the Ukrainian Time Machine [February 16, Brooklyn, New York]
* Perfect Lovers: George Kuchar and Tim Sullivan In Conversation [February 16, Irvine, CA]
* Film (Parkour) By Christopher May [February 16, Jamaica Plain, MA]
* #12 = Marjorie Keller's Fallen World [February 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 17, Berlin, Germany]
* O'er the Land [February 17, Seattle, Washington]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 18, Berlin, Germany]
* Long Live the Amorphous Law: videos By Sterling Ruby [February 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Dani Leventhal Program [February 18, New York]
* 75 Years In the Dark: A Partial History of Film At Sfmoma [February 18, San Francisco, California]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 19, Berlin, Germany]
* Electromediascope [February 19, Kansas City, Missouri]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 1 [February 19, New York]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 2 [February 19, New York]
* An Evening of Electroacoustic Audio-Visual Improvisations:Birgit Ulher,
Gino Robair and Bill Hsu [February 19, San Francisco, California]
* Distant [February 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 20, Berlin, Germany]
* Impossible Geometries [February 20, Brooklyn, New York]
* Flexfest 2010 [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* 4th Annual Ata Film and video Festival [February 20, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Intolerance [February 20, New York]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 3 [February 20, New York]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 4 [February 20, New York]
* Other Cinema, Sat. 2/20: Damon Packard's Nausicaa + Mu Dvd Launch + [February 20, San Francisco, California]
* Apparent Motion: Program I [February 20, San Francisco, California]
* Apparent Motion: Program ii [February 20, San Francisco, California]
* Jean-Luc Godard's ÉLoge De L’Amour [February 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Peleshian: the Beginning Followed By We, the Inhabitants, and Life [February 20, Washington, DC]
* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 21, Berlin, Germany]
* Flexfest 2010 [February 21, Gainesville, Florida]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Trio A and Lives of Performers With Yvonne
Rainer In Person [February 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Jerome Hill [February 21, New York]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 5 [February 21, New York]
* 50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema Program 6 [February 21, New York]
* Apparent Motion: Program iii [February 21, San Francisco, California]
* Apparent Motion: Program iv [February 21, San Francisco, California]
* Alexander Sokurov 's Russian Ark [February 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Peleshian: the Seasons Followed By Our Century and the End [February 21, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
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2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/13
Lowell, MA: 119 Gallery
8pm, 119 Chelmsford St
119 GALLERY
video improvisations at 119 Gallery with the duet of Kevin Frenette,
guitar and Forbes Graham, trumpet.
2/13
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - DAVID BAKER
In his second one-person program at Millennium, NYC artist David Baker
will give a magic lantern presentation with an accompanying reading from
related surrealist texts (15 min.). He will screen four digital film
works: FOLK FORMS (Iwerks Analytic) (11:42 min.-2009), SOTTO VOCE (6:00
min.-2009), EGYPT 8MM (Grisaille) (20:27 min.-2009), AB OVO (10:41
min.-2009). "The sorcery of an "inverted anthropomorphism" as it
reverberates in analogous forms will be the subject of this evening's
presentation. In prelude, a magic lantern demonstration will be given –
opals, agates, gemstones and minerals (to discern aleatoric
calligraphies played out patiently over thousands of years), then
optical illusions, anamorphosis through the prism of a dissident branch
of 1930's surrealism. With The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois as
Baedeker-resemblances, hidden recurrences, impossible scribblings in
nature will be set next to digital film works." - D.B.
2/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
by Marcel Hanoun 1958, 68 minutes, 16mm, b&w. In French with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. "Based on a true incident, the
film chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and
lodging in Paris. This is the only plot, and Hanoun has little interest
in embellishing it with background and motivation: he never even makes
it clear, for example, whether the woman is the child's mother, guardian
or companion. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a formal
stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that it
makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost Fellini-esque
by comparison." –TIME
2/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:15 PM, 317 Dundas Street West (McCaul Street entrance)
GUY MADDIN AT TIFF CINEMATHEQUE!
Please join us on February 13, 2010 when Guy Maddin introduces his films
MY WINNIPEG and THE HEART OF THE WORLD! The subject of many series and
screenings at our cinematheque and of a recent retrospective at the
Centre Pompidou in Paris, Guy Maddin, master of moth-eaten myth and
dredger of dreamworlds, triumphed this decade with the one-two salvo of
The Heart of the World and My Winnipeg. The Maddin that won the greatest
critical favour—it made Sight and Sound best of the year poll as a late
interloper—was this brilliant, chill-bitten "docu-fantasia" in which
personal memoir (unreliable, as always in the director's autobiography)
is interleaved with the history of the place that made Maddin and
remains his muse: Winnipeg. "Deeply personal, wryly funny and
fantastically cinematic" (Chicago Tribune).
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010
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2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES BY YVONNE
RAINER
Los Angeles Filmforum presents KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES Part 5 (of 8)
of Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer Retrospective At the
Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles Over
the course of our 2009-2010 seasons, Filmforum is proud to present a
full retrospective of the media works of Yvonne Rainer. One of the most
significant artists in dance and film of the last fifty years, this is
the first full retrospective of her films in Los Angeles. Please note
that Rainer will not be present at this screening Admission $10 general,
$6 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase
available through Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95589 KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES
(1976, 90 min., 16mm, color) Rainer continued her preoccupation with the
contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a
female lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a
choreographer.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2010
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2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
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2/16
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/16
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor
NAOMI UMAN: THE UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE
Light Industry presents an evening of new work by Naomi Uman, who over
the past two decades has produced one of the most accomplished bodies of
contemporary 16mm filmmaking. A hybrid of lyrical and documentary forms,
hers is a cinema equally attuned to the unique textures of small-gauge
celluloid and the subtleties of cultural difference. Selections from The
Ukrainian Time Machine: Kalendar, 2008, 16mm, 11 mins; Unnamed Film,
2008, 16mm, 55 mins; On This Day, 2008, 16mm, 4 mins; Clay, 2008, 16mm,
15 mins. Followed by a conversation with Uman and Nellie Killian.
2/16
Irvine, CA: University of California, Irvine Studio Art Department
http://studioart.arts.uci.edu/
7:30pm, McCormick Screening Room, Humanities Gateway Building, Room 1070, UC Irvine
PERFECT LOVERS: GEORGE KUCHAR AND TIM SULLIVAN IN CONVERSATION
McCormick Screening Room Humanities Gateway Building, Room 1070 UC
Irvine Admission is free and open to the public. George Kuchar With his
homemade Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, '60s,
and '70s, George Kuchar became legendary as one of the most distinctive
and outrageous American underground filmmakers. After his 1980s
transition to the video medium, he remained a master of genre
manipulation and subversion, creating dozens of brilliantly edited,
hilarious, observant, often diaristic. Kuchar's film Hold Me While I'm
Naked is one of the all time classics of DIY cinema, beloved by several
generations of fans and filmmakers, and was voted one of the 100 best
films of the 20th century by the critics of the Village Voice. Tim
Sullivan Casting himself in staged performances that often take the form
of large color photographs, film, intervention or video, Sullivan uses
pop culture, personal history, art history, and folklore as raw material
to examine issues of memory, the body, architecture, landscape and
sexuality. His most recent solo exhibition, "His Master's Voice, " is
opening at Steve Turner Gallery February 6, and will be running until
March 13. The UC Irvine Studio Art Lecture Series "Perfect Lovers"
attempts to complicate the traditional grad school lecture by pairing
artists, curators, and culture-makers in conversation with each other.
We want to offer our program and the public the vital event of seeing
artists discuss their work in a more spontaneous way; and give artists
the opportunity to share their work, interests and obsessions in
dialogue.
2/16
Jamaica Plain, MA: Loring-Greenough House
http://lghfilm.blogspot.com
8:00pm, 12 South Street
FILM (PARKOUR) BY CHRISTOPHER MAY
Christopher May's 16mm and Super-8 film work currently explores
sensually visceral qualities of cinema and their topographical
relationships with sub-cultural landscapes. His films have screened at
Yale University, the Austrian Film Museum, and MALBA - Museo de Arte
Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. Christopher is the founder of The
International Experimental Cinema Exposition, a traveling film festival
that will be visiting the ICA on February 20th. Admission is $4.
2/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
#12 = MARJORIE KELLER'S FALLEN WORLD
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #12 Marjorie Keller’s Fallen World
Experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, and cultural
worker Marjorie Keller (1950-1994) created a uniquely personal and
feminist body of work for twenty years beginning in the early 1970s.
Keller also served on the board of directors of the Collective for
Living Cinema, was the founding editor of their journal, Motion Picture
from 1984 to 1987 and was Director of the New York Filmmakers
Cooperative in the late 1980s. Writer J. Hoberman called her “an
unselfish champion of the avant-garde.” Her films deftly combine
home movie and diary styles through a potent politicized lens. Herein
(1991), Keller’s final film, charts the movement from political
activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Emma Goldman’s
autobiography, the making of films on the Lower East Side, street
prostitution & drug addiction, all inflect the sense of place, space &
history. The Fallen World (1983) is an elegy for a Newfoundland dog
named Melville and a portrait of his owner. Daughters of Chaos (1980)
“…deals simultaneously with girls becoming women and a woman
looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with
longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence,
the girl yearning for the power of her sex.” -Anne Becker
Programme: Daughters of Chaos, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1980, USA, 20
minutes The Fallen World, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1983, USA, 9 minutes
Herein, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1991, USA, 35 minutes Thanks to the
Gladstone Hotel and the New York Filmmakers Cooperative!
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010
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2/17
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/17
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
O'ER THE LAND
(Deborah Stratman, 2008, USA, 16mm, 52 min) O'er the Land is Deborah
Stratman's meditation on freedom and technological approaches to
manifest destiny. She captures the marching-band battle cries of the
country with a strong, controlled tone that proves its point but is also
extremely playful. http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/series/1138
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010
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2/18
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/18
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
LONG LIVE THE AMORPHOUS LAW: VIDEOS BY STERLING RUBY
Sterling Ruby in person! Hailed as "one of the most interesting artists
to emerge in this century" by Roberta Smith of the New York Times, Los
Angeles-based artist and SAIC alumnus Sterling Ruby is known for his
aggressive biomorphic sculptures, defaced minimalist forms, and large
spray-painted canvases. His videos are similarly charged, referencing
pornography, abstract painting, and evoking states of transience,
entropy, and transgression. In Hole (2002), workers in the back room of
a chain store surreptitiously and suggestively stuff merchandise into a
hole in a plaster wall. Transient Trilogy (2005-09) finds Ruby playing
both a drifter, who fashions talismans from the remains of an overgrown
urban wasteland, and a diva director, who belittles his beleaguered
star. For Triviality (2009), Ruby trains his lens on adult movie star
Tom Colt, stripped from porn's traditional tropes and trappings, as he
tries unsuccessfully to get himself off. Also on the program: Dihedral
(2006) and Cartographic Yard Work: Dog Behavior (2009). Co-presented by
the Video Data Bank. Visit www.vdb.org. Sterling Ruby, 2002-09, USA,
Beta SP video and DVD, ca. 65 min (plus discussion).
2/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DANI LEVENTHAL PROGRAM
81 MINUTES OR MORE WITH DANI LEVENTHAL ARTIST IN PERSON! One cannot help
but feel inspired when watching Dani Leventhal's engaging and innovative
video works. Diaries as well as documents, personal yet incredibly
profound, Leventhal's extraordinary movies appear deceptively simple on
the surface. Striking camerawork and stream-of-consciousness editing
combine in what must be some of the freshest first-person work to have
appeared in a good long while. Able to mix pathos with comedy and always
searching for a deeper truth, Leventhal's uniquely intuitive sense of
visual and formal composition leads the viewer to question how something
so obviously stitched together can come across feeling so completely
natural. Tonight's program features three different pieces that serve as
a perfect introduction to Leventhal's ever-ripening body of work. It
should go without saying that this program comes highly recommended.
DRAFT 9 2003, 28 minutes, video. Animals, living and dead, human and
otherwise, tie together this self-portrait of the artist in a broken
world. "[O]ne of the best films I saw at the entire [Rotterdam] festival
[was] Leventhal's riveting video diary, DRAFT 9. The craft of montage is
alive and well in [her] work: delicate and harrowing juxtapositions of
skinned animals, the tattooed arm of a Holocaust survivor eating donuts
in a coffee shop, neon flowers on a disco floor. In her work emerges
something that is extraordinarily immediate, both fresh and painful,
hard to watch and yet impossible not to watch." –Genevieve Yue, SENSES
OF CINEMA SKIM MILK & SOFT WAX 2008, 37 minutes, video. Father and
daughter on a trip to Israel, as if on a fact-finding mission, searching
for the elusive heart of the conflict. Meeting locals, hearing stories,
coming to grips and enjoying one another's company. A wonderfully
intense, poignant, and playful study of emotional depth and geographic
distance. 54 DAYS THIS WINTER 36 DAYS THIS SPRING FOR 18 MINUTES 2009,
16 minutes, video. A quilt-like exploration of everyday moments and the
sometimes ambiguous, continuously unfolding narratives that emerge and
recede in the normal course of trying to live one's life.
2/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94103
75 YEARS IN THE DARK: A PARTIAL HISTORY OF FILM AT SFMOMA
In 1937, Grace McCann Morley set up a screen and some chairs in the
rotunda of the War Memorial Veterans Building (SFMOMA's first home) and
showed films: D. W. Griffith, Walt Disney, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on
the Western Front, and the first ever Movietone newsreel featuring
George Bernard Shaw. She believed that film, the 20th century's very own
visual art form, should have a place in a museum of modern art. From the
beginning, it's been an eclectic and inclusive mix: high- and lowbrow;
shorts and features; fiction and documentary; studio, independent, and
artists' films; video and digital media. For our anniversary, we invited
three guest curators to explore film in the context of the history of
modern visual arts and assemble programs from three successiveeras. In
Programs 1, 2, and 3, Scott MacDonald, one of the country's foremost
film historians, looks at 1937 through 1960. Steve Anker, dean of the
School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, covers
1960 to 1985 in Programs 4 through 6 (screening in March and April).
Former SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Benjamin Weil selects from 1985 to
the present in Programs 7 through 9 (May). Some American Experiments
Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor McCay, 1914, 9 min.; Le retour à la raison,
Man Ray, 1923, 5 min.; Steamboat Willie, Ub Iwerks/Disney Studio, 1928,
5 min.; The River, Pare Lorentz, 1937, 30 min.; Ritual in Transfigured
Time, Maya Deren, 1946, 15 min.; Light Reflections, Jim Davis, 1949, 15
min.; The Bells of Atlantis, Ian Hugo, 1953, 9 min. For more
information: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1319
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010
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2/19
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
18:00 - open end, Meinblau e.V. | Pfefferberg | Christinenstr. 18/19 | D-10119 Berlin
DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2010 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
Berlin's art and media flâneurs lounge in a new art space at
Pfefferberg, Berlin. *^^* From 12 through 21 February 2010, daily from 6
pm with open end. *^^* As in the past years, for eleven days artist
curators from around the world present their selected programs. There is
a multitude of highlights to be discovered, special programs, music
programs, and of course, you will find a relaxed lounge ambience during
the days of film vibes in Berlin. Here, you will meet filmmakers and
artists in person. And without stressing for tickets, you will always
find something special, apart from the ordinary or marvellous. *^^* The
daily screenings from 6pm through late night – which will be announced
just in time, as it has been a festival tradition – will serve best eye-
and ear candies for the spontaneous film flâneurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/19
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"The film and videos in 'Shifting Frames of Reference' navigate new
narrative pathways and inventive cinematic experiences without relying
on text or dialog. Instead, framing, cinematography and editing are used
by these artists to emphasize more liminal and connotative forms of
observation and empathetic awareness at the thresholds of perception. Lu
Chunsheng and Seoungho Cho's video works examine and call into question
local experiences that ultimately have to do with how we know and
re-imagine the world, and how our bodies know and respond to both inner
and outer space. Ken Kobland and Ernie Gehr explore beauty and the
pleasure of shifting visual perceptions of places that have been
constructed and inhabited over time." -Patrick Clancy. "Precarious
Garden," Ernie Gehr (USA), 2004, 13:30 min., 16mm film. "The Curve Which
Can Cough," Lu Chunsheng (China), 2001, 8:16 min., digital video shown
on DVD. "The Square Loaded with Nuclear Power Is Going to America," Lu
Chunsheng (China), 2007, 3:51 min., digital video shown on DVD. "History
of Chemistry 1," Lu Chunsheng (China), 2004, 29:27 min., digital video
shown on DVD. "The First Man Who Bought a Juicer Bought It Not for
Drinking Juice," Lu Chunsheng (China), 2008, 37 min., digital video
shown on DVD. Additional screenings that are part of this program
were/are on February 12 and 26.
2/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: DOCUMENTS / ITINERARIES The opening program includes work by
Jos? Val del Omar, visionary filmmaker and inventor; the architect
Gabriel Blanco, best known as an animator but represented here with a
documentary film portraying the daily chores of a Spanish citizen on a
typical Sunday in the suburbs; multidisciplinary artists Benet Rossell
and Antoni Miralda; Jos? Luis Guerin, whose feature film, IN THE CITY OF
SYLVIA, recently had a theatrical run here at Anthology; and Virginia
Garc?a del Pino. Jos? Val del Omar FUEGO EN CASTILLA (1958-59, 17
minutes, 35mm) Gabriel Blanco DE PURIFICATIONE AUTOMOBILIS (1974, 16
minutes, 35mm) Antoni Miralda & Benet Rossell MISERERE (1979, 12
minutes, 35mm) Silvia Gracia & Jos? Luis Guerin SOUVENIR (1985, 5
minutes, video) Virginia Garc?a del Pino LO QUE T? DICES QUE SOY (2007,
28 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
2/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: APPROPRIATIONS / GRAND SUPER-8 This program – which
encompasses a selection of pieces shot in Super-8mm, as well as a group
of found-footage films – establishes a dialogue between filmmakers from
separate generations: those who formed part of the avant-garde film
movement in Barcelona, Madrid, and Valencia in the 1970s (led by Eugeni
Bonet, Juan Bufill, Manuel Huerga, and Eug?nia Balcells) and those
active from the late-90s on. Eug?nia Balcells FOR / AGAINST (1983, 3
minutes, video) Toni Serra MINNESOTA 1943 (1995, 7.5 minutes, video)
Jes?s P?rez-Miranda ALICE IN HOLLYWOODLAND (2006, 7 minutes, video)
David Domingo S?PER 8 (1997, 7.5 minutes, video) Marcel Pey BLOODFILM
(1975, 2.5 minutes, video) Luis Cerver? ROULETTE WHEEL (2005, 2 minutes,
video) Juan Bufill SIGNATURAS (S?NTESIS) (2008, 6.5 minutes, video) Lope
Serrano Sol I LOVE YOU BECAUSE (2007, 3 minutes, video) Maximiliano
Viale 22ARROBA (2008, 4 minutes, video) Eugeni Bonet PHOTOMATONS (1976,
3 minutes, video) David Reznak A ESCALA DEL HOMBRE (1991, 8.5 minutes,
video) Oriol S?nchez COPY SCREAM (2005, 2.5 minutes, video) Manuel
Huerga BRUTAL ARDOUR (1979, 15 minutes, video) Total running time: ca.
80 minutes.
2/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm. $6, 992 Valencia at 21st.
AN EVENING OF ELECTROACOUSTIC AUDIO-VISUAL IMPROVISATIONS:BIRGIT ULHER,
GINO ROBAIR AND BILL HSU
Friday, February 19, 2010. 8PM $6 Birgit Ulher, Gino Robair and Bill Hsu
An Evening of electroacoustic audio-visual improvisations Birgit Ulher
was born 1961 in Nuremberg. She studied the visual arts, which still
have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in
1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music.
Since then she has ?established a distinguished grammar of sounds beyond
the open trumpet? (jazzdimensions.de). She performs solo, with dancers,
working ensembles, and one-time collaborations with musicians from
around the world. She has been organising the festival of improvised
music Real Time Music Meeting for over ten years. Music performances in
Europe, USA and the Middle East, together with UNSK (Birgit Ulher /
Martin Küchen / Lise-Lott Norelius / Raymond Strid), the Trio PUT (with
Ulrich Phillipp and Roger Turner), Nordzucker (with Lars Scherzberg and
Michael Maierhof), Heiner Metzger, Jürgen Morgenstern, Martin Klapper,
Tim Hodgkinson, Dorothea Schürch, Rhodri Davies, Robyn Schulkowsky, John
Edwards, Michael Zerang, Damon Smith, Lou Mallozzi, Gino Robair, Martin
Blume, Ute Wassermann, Albert Márkos, Sven Ake Johansson, Gene Coleman,
Ernesto Rodrigues, Heddy Boubaker, Tim Perkis, Nate Wooley, Bryan
Eubanks, Tanaka, Ariel Shibolet, Christoph Schiller and Sean Meehan.
Website: http://birgit-ulher.de Gino Robair is an American composer,
improvisor, drummer, and percussionist. In his own work (as a soloist
and in improvisation ensembles), he plays prepared/modified percussion,
analog synthesizer, ebow and prepared piano, theremin, and bowed objects
(polystyrene, customized/broken cymbals, faux daxophone, metal).
Although Gino is often referred to as a jazz musician, he grew up
playing both rock and concert music. Gino Robair was an editor of
Electronic Musician magazine, and runs Rastascan Records. Website:
http://www.rastascan.com Bill Hsu works with electronics and live
animation systems. He has performed in the United States, Europe, and
Asia. He is a founding member of the Beanbender's collective, which
organized over 150 concerts of new music in the San Francisco Bay area.
He teaches and does research at San Francisco State University. Website:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~whsu/art.html
2/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 PM, Jackman Hall (317 Dundas St. W- McCaul St entrance)
DISTANT
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan rose to the front rank of
international auteurs with this lovely, wounding study of the
relationship between two cousins: Yusuf, an unemployed villager, and
Mahmut, an Istanbul photographer who has divorced his wife and just
discovered she is leaving for Canada. Reserved and artless in comparison
to Mahmut, whose apartment he moves into, the brooding Yusuf comes to
the city to look for work, for adventure, and connection; but he is more
similar to his successful and sophisticated cousin than he realizes.
Both are adrift and bereft, lost in solitude, yearning for the
unattainable. (The film's city mouse/country mouse setup recalls
Chabrol's Les Cousins.) Confronted with an unusually cold winter, the
director turned it to his advantage, masterfully employing the swirling
snow and glowering skies over the Bosporus to reflect the two men's
spiritual states. Elegant and reticent, Distant is also funny, with its
bursts of Odd Couple insights into the mutual irritation of mismatched
roommates. But its meticulous emotional register and style slowly bear
down to achieve an unforgettable portrait of loss and isolation, all the
more rending with the knowledge that Mehmet Emin Toprak, who plays
Yusuf, was killed in an auto accident the day after the film was invited
to the Cannes film festival. Winner of countless international prizes,
Distant is "beautifully made . . . each image is a thing of beauty"
(Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Rated PG
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