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Date: Sat Feb 20 2010 - 11:05:25 PST
Part 1 of 2: This week [February 20 - 28, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"WAKE" by Jamie Hull
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"troubadour, waar zeit gij?!" by djoozz
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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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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Wimbledon Shorts 2010 (London, Wimbledon; Deadline: April 14, 2010)
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Toronto Student Film Festival (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: March 22, 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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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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ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 26, 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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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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Directors Lounge 2010 Media Art Festival [February 20, Berlin, Germany]
* Impossible Geometries [February 20, Brooklyn, New York]
* Flexfest 2010 [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Inductive Thread [February 20, New York, New York]
* 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 �Loge 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]
* The Black Films of Aldo Tambellini [February 22, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Flexfest 2010 [February 22, Gainesville, Florida]
* Robert Gardner: 7 Fragments [February 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* John Smith [February 23, Fort Worth, TX]
* Flexfest 2010 [February 23, Gainesville, Florida]
* Kinofilm (Manchester) International Short Film Festival Closing Call For
Entries! [February 23, Manchester, UK]
* Chelsea Hotel Reception [February 23, New York]
* 29th Black Maria Film/Video Festival [February 23, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Avant Cinema: Chick Strand Tribute [February 24, Austin, TX]
* A Feast of Rose Lowder [February 24, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Visitors (Jeonju Digital Projects 2009) [February 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Ghosts In the Eye: Experimental Documentaries [February 24, New York, New York]
* Eight Films By Chris Kennedy [February 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Sonic Acts Festival [February 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands]
* Dust: videos By Moyra Davey [February 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* 75 Years In the Dark: A Partial History of Film At Sfmoma [February 25, San Francisco, California]
* Electromediascope [February 26, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Open Screening [February 26, New York, New York]
* Massillon [February 26, New York]
* Rock Prophecies: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Downtown Calling: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Darkest Americana & Elsewhere I: Films, video & Words of James Benning [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Darkest Americana & Elsewhere ii: Films, video & Words of James Benning [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 27, Los Angeles, California]
* One Minute Volume 3 [February 27, Melbourne, Australia]
* Personal Cinema Series - Cauleen Smith [February 27, New York, New York]
* Finished [February 27, New York]
* William E. Jones Shorts [February 27, New York]
* Is It Really So Strange? [February 27, New York]
* Other Cinema, 2/27: Ross Lipman & Blf's Inquiry Towards the Practice of
Secular Magic [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Unusual Heroes: John Darnielle and Lou Barlow Double Feature Noise Pop
Film Festival [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Woodstock: Now & then: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Darkest Americana & Elsewhere iii: Films, video & Words of James Benning [February 27, San Francisco, California]
* Strategies of the Medium V: Go Big Or Go Home [February 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Bj�Rn Melhus: Out of the Blue [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Tearoom [February 28, New York]
* V.O. [February 28, New York]
* Secret To A Happy Ending: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 28, San Francisco, California]
* All My Friends Are Funeral Singers: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 28, San Francisco, California]
* All My Friends Are Funeral Singers: Noise Pop Film Festival [February 28, San Francisco, California]
* Darkest Americana & Elsewhere iv: Films, video & Words of James Benning [February 28, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2010
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2/20
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 fl�neurs 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 fl�neurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/20
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
8pm, 177 Livingston Street
IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRIES
The evening will begin at 8pm with readings by Ed Park and Lynne
Tillman. Next, there will be a rare stateside presentation of Lis
Rhodes's Light Music (1975, pictured above). Rhodes's double projection
is a seminal exploration of 16mm optical sound�the on-screen abstraction
is "read" by the projector as audio�and a stone-cold classic of British
expanded cinema. The "Anti-Matter Cabaret" of Ambergris and a set by the
pop ensemble Skeletons will follow, as will DJ sets by Josh Kline and
Gary Murphy & Tim Lokiec.
2/20
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
www.flexfest.org
7 p.m./9 p.m., The Top Secret Space (22 N. Main Street)
FLEXFEST 2010
FLEXfest 2010, our biennial invitational event, opens with a pair of
screenings featuring Jacqueline Goss in person. Goss will present a
program of her work at 7 p.m. including "How to Fix the World" (2004),
"Stranger Comes to Town" (2007), and "There There Square" (2002)
followed by a program of her influences at 9 p.m. including works by
Winsor McCay, Dziga Vertov, Jenny Perlin, Owen Land/George Landow, Phil
Solomon, and others.
2/20
New York, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
8pm, 11 West Fifty-third Street
INDUCTIVE THREAD
Produced by the Brooklyn non-profit UnionDocs, this two-part program
combines short works in film, video, radio, photography, written essay,
and live performance, engaging multiple subjects and diverse aesthetic
approaches to documentary arts. The first part touches on the history of
the organization, its rotating body of participants, and their
collaborative exploration of topics from the death of payphones to the
popularity of currywurst. The second is an investigation of myth in
contemporary society, an excerpt from an ongoing project that shares
many inspirations, including the experimental laboratory of the Bauhaus
and the collection of short but revelatory essays within Roland
Barthes's classic 1957 text Mythologies. Presentations by UnionDocs
founders: Christopher Allen, Executive Director; Jesse Shapins, Kara
Oehler, and Johanna Linsley; UnionDocs programmer, Steve Holmgren, and
UnionDocs Collaborative participants.
2/20
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
4TH ANNUAL ATA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Artists' Television Access (ATA), based in San Francisco, is a
non-profit, artist-run, experimenta�l media arts gallery that has been
in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film and video
screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established
artists and a weekly cable access television program. A Selection of
works from the Festival: BREATHE (5.5 min.-2009) by SAM BARNETT, UP AND
ABOUT AGAIN (10 min.-2009) by NAARIT SUOMI-VAANANEN (Finland), PASSAGE
BRIARE (3 min.-2009) by FRIEDL VON GROLLER (Germany), PATROLLING THE
ETHER (7 min.-2009) by CARL DIEHL, ELRO (4 min.-2009) by ARIEL DIAZ,
SPECTROLOGY (11 min.-2009) by KERRY LAITALA, A POEM TO BE READ INTO A
FLASHLIGHT WITH A MICROPHONE PLACED ABOVE THE BREAST OF A PREGNANT
MOTHER (3 min.-2009) by TOMMY BECKER, TO BE REGAINED (10 min.-2009) by
ZACH IANNAZZI, THE ACROBAT (6 min.-2007) by CHRIS KENNEDY (Canada/ USA),
DESTINATION FINALE ( 9 min.-2008) by PHILLIP WIDMANN (Germany), MY TEARS
ARE DRY (4 min.-2009) by LAIDA LERTXUNDI (Spain/ USA), MYTH LABS (7.5
min.-2008) by MARTHA COLBURN (Netherlands/ USA).
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: INTOLERANCE
by D.W. Griffith 1916, 170 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Griffith's
immensely influential silent epic intercuts four parallel tales from
history (spanning Babylon, Christ's Judea, Reformation Europe, and
turn-of-the-century America) to embroider a moral tapestry on personal,
social, and political repression through the ages. The visual poetry is
overwhelming, especially in the massed crowd scenes, and the unbridled
eroticism of the Babylon harem scenes demonstrates just what Hollywood
lost when it later bowed to the Hayes code. While the (partly
self-financed) production ruined Griffith financially and baffled
audiences with its multiple plots and labyrinthine structure, it has
been enormously influential on generations of filmmakers, including
Eisenstein, who studied the film closely.
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 3
PROGRAM 3: ANIMATED EXPERIMENTS: RHYTHM, LIGHT, AND COLOR The films in
this fantastic program span very different periods in the history of
Spanish cinema, but all represent experiments in animation. The
techniques utilized are strikingly diverse, including cameraless cinema,
stop-motion, collage, and sand-on-glass animation. Josep Mestres FORMA,
COLOR Y RITMO (1956, 5 minutes, 35mm) Ferm? Marim?n BALLET BURL?N (1959,
6.5 minutes, 35mm) Joaquim Puigvert EXP. I / II (1958-59, 3 minutes,
35mm) Bego?a Vicario PREGUNTA POR M? (1996, 4 minutes, 35mm) Ton Sirera
PINTURA 63 (1963, 5.5 minutes, 35mm) Izebene O?ederra HEZURBELTZAK, UNA
FOSA COM?N (2007, 5 minutes, 35mm) Jordi Artigas RITMES CROM?TICS (1978,
5 minutes, 35mm) Isabel Herguera SPAIN LOVES YOU (1988, 5.5 minutes,
35mm) Javier Aguirre ESPECTRO SIETE (1970, 8.5 minutes, 35mm) Eugenio
Granell LLUVIA (1961, 2 minutes, video) Marcel Pi? Barba LA 72.024
MIL'L?SSIMA PART D'UN ANY (2008, 5 minutes, video) Frederic Amat DANSE
NOIRE (2006, 3.5 minutes, video) Juan Pablo Etcheverry MONOS (1997, 1.5
minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 4
PROGRAM 4: PAINTING / MOVEMENT by Jos� Antonio Sistiaga �ere erera
baleibu izik subua aruaren� 1968-70, 70 minutes, 35mm. "...ere erera
baleibu izik subua aruaren...", a set of words without any meaning,
forms the title of the first and only feature film in the history of
Spanish cinema made entirely by hand-painting directly on celluloid.
Created over 17 months, without any figurative elements or soundtrack,
the result is an astonishing masterpiece of abstract cinema.
2/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia
OTHER CINEMA, SAT. 2/20: DAMON PACKARD�S NAUSICAA + MU DVD LAUNCH +
Danger, Danger! In the flesh, all of it, the legendary Damon Packard
descends upon our Bay Area idyll with a shopping cart full of both old
and new works! The Bay Area premiere of his half-hour Nausicaa: Tales of
the Valley of the Wind composes an experimental love-letter to the
spiritual world of Hayao Miyazaki, refiguring the anime into lush
live-action scenes with period costumes, horses, swordplay, and,
er�puppets. PLUS a choice selection of his other rarely-seen shorts,
Including Blade Runner II and Roller Boogie III. Damon will additionally
christen (with complimentary champagne for all!) the launch of the DVD
edition of his tour-de-force performance in Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on
Mu, unspooling his favorite chapter and a behind-the-scenes glimpse
that's part of the disc. Co-star Kal Spelletich is also on hand with his
dynamic dueling robot, whilst keyboardist Doug Katelus works between the
gallery's kinetic-art fracas and the big-screen 16mm imagery of another
Japanese folk-meme, Gamera, the Flying Turtle. *$6.66.
2/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:00pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
APPARENT MOTION: PROGRAM I
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor: Apparent Motion
celebrates the art of live image projection�the cinematic exhibition
apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention
without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working with modified or
distressed film projectors as if they were musical instruments or with
live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected film (or even directly
with the exalted beam of light itself), the artists presented over this
weekend fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic)
experiences�dazzling light works suggesting a paradoxically concrete
form of sound/image synesthesia. Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder [New York
City, USA] (headliner) CinePimps (Alfonso Alvarez & Keith Arnold)
[Berkeley, USA] Abject Leader (Sally Golding & Joel Stern) [Brisbane,
Australia] TICKETS: members: $5 / non-members: $10 Advanced tickets can
be purchased at http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
APPARENT MOTION: PROGRAM II
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor: Apparent Motion
celebrates the art of live image projection�the cinematic exhibition
apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention
without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working with modified or
distressed film projectors as if they were musical instruments or with
live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected film (or even directly
with the exalted beam of light itself), the artists presented over this
weekend fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic)
experiences�dazzling light works suggesting a paradoxically concrete
form of sound/image synesthesia. Bruce McClure [Brooklyn, USA]
(headliner) Paul Clipson & Tarantel [San Francisco, USA] Karl Lemieux &
Hyena Hive [Montreal, Canada] TICKETS: members: $5 / non-members: $10
Advanced tickets can be purchased at http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:15 PM, Jackman Hall (317 Dundas St. W- McCaul St entrance)
JEAN-LUC GODARD'S �LOGE DE L�AMOUR
Surely one of the great films of the new century, �loge de l'amour is
pantheon Godard. Godard returns to Paris after years of shooting in
Switzerland and elsewhere; �loge has a nouvelle vague luxuriance of
nocturnal Parisian street scenes. The story of Edgar, who is struggling
to produce a work (a film? a cantata?) about the French Resistance and
Simone Weil, �loge de l'amour splits itself between two time periods,
two connected stories, and two contrasting visual approaches. The first
half, shot in lustrous, neo-nitrate black and white, turns Paris into
the capital of melancholy; its monuments, luminous and august, are
postcard icons, seeming to mock the very notion of memory. In the second
half of the film, the natural world, here evoked by the Brittany coast,
which has consistently offered respite or even succour in the
"transcendental" films of Godard's late career, is rendered as a video
conflagration of sulphurous oranges, toxic blues, and pestilential
yellows. Godard's nasty wit is apparent, particularly in an attack on
Spielberg and American cultural imperialism, but his mourning for a lost
culture (stolen paintings, the films of Bresson) and for a time of
political heroism, turns �loge into elegy. In its brooding on the
passage through life, on memory (and its impossibility), and on the
impotence of art, Godard's masterpiece has the sad, unnerving quality of
a farewell note. "A major work by one of cinema's greatest living
directors . . . �loge de l'amour suggests that Godard is still very much
a part of cinema's future" (Adrian Wood).
2/20
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2pm, 4th & Constitution Avenue NW
PELESHIAN: THE BEGINNING FOLLOWED BY WE, THE INHABITANTS, AND LIFE
The Beginning followed by We, The Inhabitants, and Life. Peleshian's
thought-provoking deliberation on the 1917 October Revolution, The
Beginning (1967) is followed by We (1969), a perceptive portrait on
Armenian identity and fate; The Inhabitants (1970), a musing on the
relationships of living things who inhabit the earth; and Life (1993), a
visual essay on the experience of human birth. (Total running time 60
minutes). Artavazd Peleshian, Armenia's distinguished cinematic poet, is
rooted in the history of his homeland yet universal in his reach. During
a long career that began in the Soviet period, Peleshian�who developed
his own distinctive style for assembling and scoring his material�has
crafted a body of iconic cinematic short essays that study the spiritual
aspects of nature, history, and human life. Similar to his friend Sergei
Paradjanov, Peleshian (b. 1938)�"a master of montage and true descendant
of Vertov and Eisenstein" (Pacific Film Archive)�is a national treasure
in Armenia and unlike any other filmmaker.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010
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2/21
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 fl�neurs 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 fl�neurs as much as for the
connoisseurs of experimental delicatessen.
2/21
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
www.flexfest.org
7 p.m./9 p.m., The Harn Museum of Art
FLEXFEST 2010
FLEX's biennial invitational continues with a pair of screenings with
Helga Fanderl in person. At 7 p.m. Fanderl will present a program of 22
of her super 8 films made between 1991 and 2009 followed at 9 p.m. by
her influences program featuring films by Peter Hutton, Robert Breer,
Joseph Cornell, Gregory Markopoulos, Stan Brakhage, Noll Brinckmann,
Peter Kubelka, and Robert Beavers.
2/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS TRIO A AND LIVES OF PERFORMERS WITH YVONNE
RAINER IN PERSON
Los Angeles Filmforum presents TRIO A and LIVES OF PERFORMERS with
Yvonne Rainer in person in discussion with Francesca Penzani Part 6 (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. Each
appearance by Rainer will feature a Q&A led by a different moderator, to
discuss with her varying aspects of her approaches to her art and life.
Tonight's Q&A will be led by Francesca Penzani, choreographer, dancer
and professor at Cal Arts. Admission $10 general, $6 students/seniors,
free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase available through
Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95590 TRIO A
(1978, 10:30, video) LIVES OF PERFORMERS (1972, 90 min, 16mm, b&w)
2/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JEROME HILL
Brand-new 35mm prints; preservation undertaken by the Museum of Modern
Art. DEATH IN THE FORENOON (1934/66, 2 minutes, 35mm, color) CANARIES
(1969, 4 minutes, 35mm, color) & FILM PORTRAIT 1971, 81 minutes, 35mm,
color. A pioneering work in autobiographical cinema; masterfully
combines actual and staged footage and painting over images. Filmmaker,
painter, and composer Jerome Hill was descended from the famous
railroad-building family and lived on the same street with F. Scott
Fitzgerald. Here he re-creates wonderfully � with old family footage �
the period and milieu of the American upper class at the beginning of
this century.
2/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 5
PROGRAM 5: INVESTIGATIONS / METACINEMA Program 5 attempts to identify
the essence of cinema � whether by explicitly reflecting on the nature
of the medium through meta-cinematographic essays, or by reducing the
film to a blank screen � and to explore the relationship between cinema
and other art forms (from dance and performance to photography and
poetry). Blanca Casas Brullet BLANC D?RANG? (2008, 5.5 minutes, video)
El?as Le?n Siminiani L?MITES (1? PERSONA) (2009, 8 minutes, video) Lluis
Rivera TRAVELLING (1972, 12 minutes, video) Isaki Lacuesta TEOR?A DE LOS
CUERPOS (2004, 5 minutes, video) Gonzalo de Pedro FIGURA (2007, 2.5
minutes, video) Jorge Cosmen IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI
(2003, 9 minutes, video) Carles Dur?n BiBiCi STORY (1969, 8 minutes,
35mm) Laida Lertxundi FARCE SENSATIONELLE! (2004, 3 minutes, 35mm) Joan
Marim?n y Jes?s Ramos IN CRESCENDO (2001, 6.5 minutes, 35mm) Antoni
Padr?s ICE CREAM (1970, 8.5 minutes, 35mm) Carles Santos LA RE MI LA�
(1979, 9 minutes, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
2/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH CINEMA PROGRAM 6
PROGRAM 6: ENRAPTURED by Iv�n Zulueta ARREBATO 1980, 105 minutes, 35mm.
In Spanish with English subtitles. The series closes with Iv?n Zulueta's
masterpiece, a cult film in Spanish cinema. Zulueta here utilizes many
of the techniques he previously developed in such short films as A MAL
GAM A, FRANK STEIN, and KINK?N, bringing together many of his life-long
obsessions. A hypnotic, mystical film, open to multiple interpretations,
ARREBATO has been unfairly overlooked outside Spain.
2/21
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
1:00pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
APPARENT MOTION: PROGRAM III
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor: Apparent Motion
celebrates the art of live image projection�the cinematic exhibition
apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention
without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working with modified or
distressed film projectors as if they were musical instruments or with
live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected film (or even directly
with the exalted beam of light itself), the artists presented over this
weekend fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic)
experiences�dazzling light works suggesting a paradoxically concrete
form of sound/image synesthesia. Karl Lemieux & Hyena Hive [Montreal,
Canada] (headliner) Keith Evans [Oakland, USA] Sandra Gibson & Luis
Recoder [New York City, USA] TICKETS: members: $5 / non-members: $10
Advanced tickets can be purchased at http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2/21
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
6:00pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
APPARENT MOTION: PROGRAM IV
presented in association with the Illuminated Corridor: Apparent Motion
celebrates the art of live image projection�the cinematic exhibition
apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention
without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working with modified or
distressed film projectors as if they were musical instruments or with
live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected film (or even directly
with the exalted beam of light itself), the artists presented over this
weekend fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic)
experiences�dazzling light works suggesting a paradoxically concrete
form of sound/image synesthesia. Abject Leader (Sally Golding & Joel
Stern) [Brisbane, Australia] (headliner) Kerry Laitala [San Francisco,
USA] & Michael Proft [San Diego, USA] Bruce McClure [Brooklyn, USA]
TICKETS: members: $5 / non-members: $10 Advanced tickets can be
purchased at http://www.sfcinematheque.org.
2/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 PM, Jackman Hall (317 Dundas St. W- McCaul St entrance)
ALEXANDER SOKUROV 'S RUSSIAN ARK
"Has to be seen to be believed. Russian Ark's mind-boggling choreography
is matched by its philosophical grace notes. It's a heady and glorious
experience" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). A triumph for Russian master
Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark is part aesthetic miracle, part
logistical feat, and part bravura display. Shot in a single long,
unedited take, the film traverses dozens of rooms in the Hermitage
Museum in St. Petersburg�the "ark of the Russian soul," according to
Sokurov, and an intricately organized space that has been traditionally
off-limits for shooting movies. Traveling a circuitous route of 1,500
metres of stairways, galleries, runabouts, and courtyards full of snow,
the film covers four centuries of Russian history with an unseen
narrator (Sokurov himself) and is populated with almost a thousand
actors and an army of costumed extras. Accompanied by the supercilious
nineteenth-century French diplomat the Marquis de Custine, who was to
Russia what Tocqueville was to America, an outsider remarking on the
country's triumphs and (more markedly) failures, the camera wends its
way through the palace's vast labyrinth, encountering assorted courtiers
and commentators, the entourages of both Peter and Catherine (the
Greats), the Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra and their family. It ends in a
great Viscontian gala, the Royal Ball of 1913, in which the camera
cranes and swoops over elaborate pageantry before miraculously
descending a grand staircase with a tidal wave of costumed aristocrats,
unaware of the imminent Bolshevik Revolution. The film that began in
pitch darkness with the narrator intoning, "I open my eyes, I see
nothing," moves from blindness to ravening and finally exhausted sight.
2/21
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4pm, 4th & Constitution Avenue NW
PELESHIAN: THE SEASONS FOLLOWED BY OUR CENTURY AND THE END
The Seasons followed by Our Century and The End. East Building
Concourse, Auditorium. The Seasons (1975), an unusual essay on the
ironies and harmonies of man and nature expressed through shepherds
working in the Armenian highlands, is followed by Our Century (1982), a
50-minute cin�-poem fabricated from archival footage on the consequences
of present-day human endeavor. The program concludes with The End
(1994), a tour de force of editing and an emblematic train ride through
the darkness. (Total running time 90 minutes). Artavazd Peleshian,
Armenia's distinguished cinematic poet, is rooted in the history of his
homeland yet universal in his reach. During a long career that began in
the Soviet period, Peleshian�who developed his own distinctive style for
assembling and scoring his material�has crafted a body of iconic
cinematic short essays that study the spiritual aspects of nature,
history, and human life. Similar to his friend Sergei Paradjanov,
Peleshian (b. 1938)�"a master of montage and true descendant of Vertov
and Eisenstein" (Pacific Film Archive)�is a national treasure in Armenia
and unlike any other filmmaker.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
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2/22
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
THE BLACK FILMS OF ALDO TAMBELLINI
Director Aldo Tambellini in Person on Monday February 22 at 7pm for a
rare screening of his BLACK FILMS. The films screening are BLACK IS,
BLACK TRIP, BLACK PLUS X, BLACK TRIP 2, BLACKOUT, BLACK TV and
MOONBLACK. Tickets are $12.
2/22
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
www.flexfest.org
7 p.m./9 p.m., The Hippodrome Theatre
FLEXFEST 2010
Night three of FLEXfest 2010 features two programs presented by Michael
Gitlin in person. At 7 p.m., Gitlin will show his latest feature, "The
Earth is Young" (2009) as well as the short "Nine Guided Tours" (2000)
followed at 9 p.m. by his influences show, featuring films by Ken
Jacobs, Arthur Lipsett, and others.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
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2/23
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 177 Livingston Street
ROBERT GARDNER: 7 FRAGMENTS
In twenty-nine completed works, surveying the daily life and rituals of
societies from every inhabited continent, Robert Gardner probes acutely
at the delicate borders that have always defined documentary film�the
porous and slippery boundaries between objective facts and their
subjective telling. He creates his films via encounters with traditional
cultures�among them the Dani of New Guinea in Dead Birds (1963), the
Hamar of Ethiopia in Rivers of Sand (1974), and the holy city of Benares
in Forest of Bliss (1986)�and the resulting works embody profound and
significant contradictions: they are at once beautiful and unsettling,
instructive and mysterious, brutally true and mythically transcendent.
In addition to his own work, Gardner has enhanced film culture more
broadly for nearly half a century as a writer, educator and patron of
other artists: two of his more significant projects have been The Film
Study Center at Harvard, and Screening Room, a long-running television
talk show that played host to figures like Hollis Frampton, Peter
Hutton, Jonas Mekas, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, and nearly a hundred
others. For this evening, Gardner will screen rarely-seen footage and
discuss seven unfinished projects that span four decades of his career,
providing a chance to explore the working process of one of the foremost
living documentarians.
2/23
Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art
7pm, 3200 Darnell Street
JOHN SMITH
John Smith is a British filmmaker living and working in London, where he
also teaches part-time as Professor of Fine Art at the University of
London. Smith has received notoriety and praise for films that are
strongly influenced by the Structural Materialist ideas that dominated
British filmmaking during his formative years. Also fascinated by the
immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, Smith has developed a
body of work that deftly subverts the boundaries between documentary and
fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing on the raw material of
everyday life, these meticulously crafted films rework and transform
reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema.
Described by Mark O'Pray of Art Monthly as, "One of the most talented
filmmakers of the postwar generation," Smith presents Real Fiction, a
selection of his short films and presentation on the ideas that have
shaped his art over the past four decades.
2/23
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX: The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
www.flexfest.org
7 p.m./9 p.m., The Harn Museum of Art
FLEXFEST 2010
FLEXfest 2010 concludes with a pair of screenings presented by Johan
Grimonprez. At 7 p.m., Grimonprez will screen his latest feature "Double
Take" (2009) followed at 9 p.m. by a curated program called
"YouTube-o-theque."
2/23
Manchester, UK: Kinofilm Manchester international Short Film Festival
www.kinofilm.org.uk
Various, manchester, UK
KINOFILM (MANCHESTER) INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING CALL FOR
ENTRIES!
The 11th Kinofilm International Short Film Festival is now closing it's
door for entries for their 2010 festival (23rd-28th Feb). Be quick and
enter your short/documentary now, closing date has been extended until
the 17th Oct!!!!!! Please find details bellow on how to enter. Any
questions please don't hesitate to shoot us an email. We look forward to
receiving your entries! ============================ KINOFILM,
Manchester International Short Film Festival. Kinofilm announces the
Call for Entries to its new European Short Film Festival in 2010. The
11th edition of the Festival will take place in Manchester from 23rd -
28th February 2010, as a European Short Film Festival and invites
submissions from all over Europe including former Eastern Europe and
Baltic States. Though the 2010 festival focuses on Europe there will be
a limited number of entries considered from non-European countries for
award-winning films or for those of outstanding merit, for a special
International showcase. Kinofilm has a unique reputation for showcasing
the best short films from around the world, whilst being renowned for
seeking out diverse, challenging and ground-breaking new film. The
festival maintains a high standard with many European & International
award-winning shorts featuring in the Festival whilst including special
programmes in low/no budget shorts, student shorts and underground
cinema, giving new and emerging filmmakers the opportunity to have their
work screened alongside the work of critically acclaimed, established
short filmmakers. Main categories include short drama, animation,
experimental, digital shorts, Documentary, Romantic Tales, Cinema
Extreme, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy & Sci-fi, Erotica, Music Videos,
Lesbian & Gay, Polish Cinema, and Bluefire (Kino's Black and Asian
section), however, the Festival welcomes shorts of any type and genre.
The festival will also feature a youth and community led film event and
welcomes submissions from those working with youth based organisations.
The festival also features a varied education and professional
development programme with seminars, forums, master classes, workshops
and networking events. The festival will be competitive with awards in 6
categories. Sidebar -New Features. New for the 2010 festival is a
sidebar of debut features from UK and European filmmakers that have
recently made the transition from short film to feature or from those
directors that have moved into features from other art forms. We are
looking for no more than 5 films so competition will be tough. There
will be a series of events involving the selected filmmakers exploring
the routes of transition. Submissions Requirements Short films should be
no longer than 25 mins (except documentaries which will be allowed up to
35 mins) and must be made within the last 18 months prior to the
festival. The festival does not have a premiere policy but there is a
small entry fee of �5.00 to submit a film, with the first deadline of
10th September . There will be an extended deadline for late submissions
to the 30th September though this will incur a higher submission fee.
Distributors, agencies and educational institutions are exempt but
should contact us first to register the exemption. Please note.
Exemptions for filmmakers that submitted to the 2007-8 festival and paid
the entry fee of �5 may be able to submit their film free (but must
provide their reference number and details of previous entry).
Submissions are open from 1st July closing on 10th October. To submit a
Film please email the Festival for the festival rules, regulations and
procedures and application form: email suppressed Kinofilm 11th
edition, European Short Film Festival, Manchester, 23rd � 28th Feb 2010
KINOFILM is funded by North West Vision & Media and supported by the
Polish Cultural Institute, Goethe-Institut, Instituto Cervantes,
Alliance fran�aise and the Dante Alighieri. Official Website:
http://www.kinofilm.org.uk Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/MIFFKINO
http://www.myspace.com/kinofilm Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kinofilm
2/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CHELSEA HOTEL RECEPTION
Perhaps no other place epitomizes the artistic bohemia of the last
century better than the Chelsea Hotel in New York. A new publication
entitled Chelsea Hotel: Ghosts of Bohemia. Harry Smith, Andy Warhol,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonas Mekas, Michel Auder appears in conjunction
with the eponymous exhibition organized by the DOX Centre for
Contemporary Art in Prague. The reception at Anthology Film Archives on
February 23 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm will celebrate the launch of this
publication while serving as a tribute to the work of Harry Smith, a
legendary filmmaker, painter, collector, and visionary. Anthology is the
largest repository of Smith's work. Co-organized by Anthology and the
Czech Center in New York, the reception will be introduced by Jonas
Mekas, Anthology founder and artistic director, and Jaroslav Anděl,
the editor of the publication and the curator of the exhibition.
2/23
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
29TH BLACK MARIA FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL
A juried national tour reflecting the imaginative work being done by
experimentaland independent film & video makers today. JOHN COLUMBUS,
the festival's founder and director, will present a selection of
prizewinners representing a wide range of styles and genres from this
year's competition. Program will include,"Is What Was" by Berks
Filmmakers co-founder, Jerry Tartaglia, who will be present to introduce
his work.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010
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2/24
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, 1901 E. 51st Street
AVANT CINEMA: CHICK STRAND TRIBUTE
"Celebrated West Coast filmmaker Chick Strand (1931-2009) passed away
this past summer, leaving behind a body of sensual and smart work
significant for its exploration of the space between documentary and
poetry, truth and fiction, and the politics and pleasure of
representation. A key figure in the development of the American
independent and avant-garde filmmaking movements, she helped co-found
the seminal film exhibition and distribution collective Canyon Cinema in
the mid-1960s. She began her own filmmaking career at the age of 34,
combining a background in photographic collage and academic training in
anthropology into a series of poetic documentaries shot in Mexico while
an ethnography student at UCLA. 'Ethnographic films' Strand once wrote,
'should be works of art, symphonies about the fabric of a people.'" -
Amy Beste, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. SCREENING: Cosas De
Mi Vida (1976) 16mm, color, sound, 25 min Expressive documentary in an
ethnographic approach about Anselmo, a Mexican Indian. It is a film
about his struggle for survival in the Third World. Orphaned at age 7,
he was the sole support of himself and his baby sister, who eventually
starved and died in his arms. The film continues with Anselmo's struggle
to live and to do something with his life other than a docile acceptance
of poverty. Totally uneducated in a formal way, he taught himself how to
play a horn and when he became a man he started his own street band. The
film was started in 1965 and finished in 1975. During the 10 years, I
saw the physical change in Anselmo's life in terms of things he could
buy to make his family at first able to survive, and during the last
years, to make them more comfortable. I felt a change in his spirit from
a proud, individualistic and graceful man into one obsessed with
possessions and role playing in order to get ahead and stay on top, but
one cannot help but admire his energy and determination to succeed, to
drag himself and is family out of the hopelessness and sameness of
poverty to give them a future. Anselmo tells his own story in English
although he does not speak the language. After he told me of his life in
Spanish, I translated it into English and taught him how to say it. �
Chick Strand, Film-Makers' Cooperative catalog Soft Fiction (1979) 16mm,
black and white, sound, 55 min "Chick Strand's Soft Fiction is a
personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of
female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous
lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about
their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and
gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. The title Soft Fiction works on
several levels. It evokes the soft line between truth and fiction that
characterizes Strand's own approach to documentary, and suggests the
idea of softcore fiction, which is appropriate to the film's erotic
content and style. It's rare to find an erotic film with a female
perspective dominating both the narrative discourse and the visual and
audio rhythms with which the film is structured. Strand continues to
celebrate in her brilliant, innovative personal documentaries her theme,
the reaffirmation of the tough resilience of the human spirit." � Marsha
Kinder, Film Quarterly, reprinted in Film-Makers' Cooperative catalog
2/24
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8PM, MassArt Film Society 621 Huntington Avenue/ Screening Room 1
A FEAST OF ROSE LOWDER
Experimental films that will nourish your soul from French Filmmaker
Rose Lowder. Curated by Tara and Gordon Nelson. Sponsored by the MassArt
Film Society, MassArt Graduate Department and the History of Art
Department. Titles include: Roulement, rouerie, aubage (1978, 15:00) /
Couleurs m�caniques (1979, 16:00) / Champ Proven�al (1979, 9:00) / Rue
Des Teinturiers (1979, 31:30) / Parcelle (1979, 3:00) / Les Tournesols
(1982, 3:00) / Impromptu (1989, 8:00)
2/24
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:30pm, Gene Siskel FIlm Center (164 N. State St.)
VISITORS (JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECTS 2009)
North American Premieres of new works by Hong Sang-soo, Naomi Kawase,
and Lav Diaz! ***** Three of Asia's most accomplished filmmakers are
featured in this program of haunting and beautiful works on loss and
memory. In Hong's LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS, a young woman visits a friend
and discovers a romantic betrayal. Kawase's KOMA is the touching story
of a man who visits a small village to honor his late grandfather.
BUTTERFLIES HAVE NO MEMORIES is Diaz's realist portrait of unemployed
Filipino mine workers whose lives of drink and idleness are confused
when a young woman returns from Canada to visit her hometown. Works
commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival for their annual
Digital Projects showcase. In Korean, Japanese, Tagalog, and English
with English subtitles. Various formats. 2009, 123 min. total, Korea,
Japan/Korea, and Philippines/Korea.
2/24
New York, New York: 92Y Tribeca
http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T-MM5FF17
8:15 pm, 200 Hudson Street
THE GHOSTS IN THE EYE: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
Hi Everyone, On February 24th at 92Y Tribeca we will have premiere of
our short experimental documentary And It Was Good. We shot this film at
the creation museum in Petersburg, Kentucky a few months after it
opened. Recently, Vanity Fair wrote an article about the museum which
you can view on our website. Please check our site to view a trailer and
full synopsis: http://anditwasgood.tumblr.com/ In conjunction with our
premiere we have programmed a night of experimental documentary films
that include both 16mm and video. Here is a full list of what will be
screening: Rudolph Burckhardt � Dwellings/ James Benning - Chicago Loop/
Matt Wolf � Boca/ Evan Meaney � Sigma Fugue/ Raquel Schefer � Granny
(Muidumbe)/ Bianca Ahmadi and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy-And It Was
Good/ Kevin T. Allen - Desamparados/ Karl J. Mendonca � Utsav Mela/
Forough Farrokhzad - The House is Black. Please view the link below to
get further information on the program and how to purchase tickets.
http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca
+Film888&productid=T-MM5FF17. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
-Bianca and Juan
2/24
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CineCycle
8pm, 129 Spadina Ave, down the alley
EIGHT FILMS BY CHRIS KENNEDY
Made over the course of six years, these recent films by Chris Kennedy
investigate how meaning is made and how the world is seen. Concentrating
either on the documents that construct a history or on the elements that
create an image, his films propose a variety of ways to re-see what is
right before our eyes. Featuring the Toronto premiere of lay claim to an
island, a film on political yearning, emancipatory architecture and
failed utopias inspired by the 1969 American Indian Occupation of
Alcatraz. "Often combining a careful concern with the apparatus and a
high degree of formal rigour with thoughtful attention to social reality
and history, Kennedy's films examine the interpenetration of a kind of
phenomenology � how the things of the world appear to consciousness �
with the material possibilities of film (multiple exposures, hand
processing, found footage, multi-frame presentations)."�- Scott
Birdwise, Canadian Film Institute. Programme: Jane's Window (2005),
4x8x3 (2003), Memo to Pic Desk (made with Anna van der Meulen, 2006),
Tape Film (2007), the acrobat (2007), Simultaneous Contrast (2008),
Tamalpais (2008�2009), lay claim to an island (2008�2009)
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