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This week [March 6 - 14, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Orientations" by Ismail Bahri
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"The Journal of Short Film Volume 17" by Matt Swift
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University of Oklahoma
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1940's Bell and Howell Filmo 8 motion picture projector
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silver spring/Takoma Park (silver spring, Md, USA; Deadline: April 02, 2010)
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INVIDEO (Milano - Italy; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 04, 2010)
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Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: April 15, 2010)
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Real Light ((touring this fall); Deadline: April 24, 2010)
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Animator Festival (Poznan, Poland; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2010)
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The Lab (San Francisco, CA 94103; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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Toronto Student Film Festival (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: March 22, 2010)
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filmarmalade (london; Deadline: March 30, 2010)
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Chips and Salsa Film Festival (wilmington, nc, usa; Deadline: March 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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CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: April 05, 2010)
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International Talent Workshop - Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 6, Los Angeles, California]
* The Room + A Grammar For Listening Parts 1 + 2. [March 6, Madrid]
* Personal Cinema Series - Mark Street [March 6, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Hugo/Jordan/Levitt/Maas Program [March 6, New York]
* Gary Goldberg Program 1 [March 6, New York]
* Gary Goldberg Program 2 [March 6, New York]
* Other Cinema, 3/6: Cinema Abattoir's Cinemas, Heaviness [March 6, San Francisco, California]
* Le Cinema, L’Apesanteur (Cinemas, Heaviness): CinéMa Abattoir [March 6, San Francisco, California]
* The Black Maria: Selections From the Festival [March 6, Washington, DC]
* Let Each One Go Where He May [March 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Artavazd Peleshian On 35mm! [March 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son [March 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Jennings/Kirsanoff/Leger & Murphy/Clair & Picabia
Program [March 7, New York]
* Wendy and Lucy [March 9, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Tiff Cinematheque Presents: Le Fond De L'air Est Rouge (Pg) [March 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Newtown, Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum Present Blast Phemy 2: A
Midweek Music/Media Mashup Featuring Text of Light (Including Lee
Ranaldo From Sonic Youth, Ulrich Krieger, and Alan Licht); and
Parallel With the Band Languis [March 10, Los Angeles, California]
* The Blindness Series [March 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Collaborative Dreams [March 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Who Was Walther Ruttmann? A Presentation
By Stefan Droessler, Director of the Munich Film Museum With A
Screening of Berlin: Symphony of A City (1927) [March 12, Los Angeles, California]
* In Search of Lorine Niedecker : Film and Talk [March 12, San Francisco, California]
* Ben Russell: Let Each One Go Where He May [March 12, San Francisco, California]
* Tiff Cinematheque Presents: Everyone Else (14a) [March 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* 29th Annual Black Maria Film and video Festival [March 13, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema, 3/13: the Yes Men Fix the World + Cult-Jams [March 13, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents David Finkelstein: Marvelous Discourse [March 14, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010
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3/6
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K.Now in
its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of
cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring
wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, and rarely shown classics.
The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun
Day.Curated by Elizabeth Shepherd.Funded in part with generous support
from Virginia and Austin Beutner and Nickelodeon. Program runs Feb. 26th
and 27th and the following weekend Saturday, Mar. 6th and Sunday, Mar.
7th. There is a special Nick Family Fun Day on Sunday, April 27th
3/6
Madrid: La Casa Encendida
22.00 pm, Ronda Valencia, 2
THE ROOM + A GRAMMAR FOR LISTENING PARTS 1 + 2.
The Room is an ongoing series of live collaborations between three
artists with 16mm films from Luke Fowler and Peter Todd and live guitar
improvisations by Keith Rowe. The first installment was performed at
Tate Modern in London in 28th Novmber 2008. The room is cumulative with
new films presented each time it is performed. The filmed rooms are
unpopulated, yet they harbour residues of human activity. Hidden
frequencies are unearthed; radio static and random broadcasts dialled
in; fleeting movements of light captured. + Two films by Luke Fowler
which are collaborations with two prominent specialists in sound
artists,Lee Patterson and Enric House, recording natural and urban
environments.
3/6
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - MARK STREET
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT (60 min.-2008), TRAILER TRASH (5 min.-2009)
"HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT is inspired by the tradition of cinematic city
symphonies and its made up of footage shot in four cities: Santiago,
Chile, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dakar, Senegal and Marseille, France. Vignettes
from each place are juxtaposed so that the viewer is pulled from place
to place, picking up the pieces, making the connections only to have
them disappear just as quickly. Historical details (about Salvador
Allende and Ho Chi Minh, among others), quotes from writing (by Miriama
Ba and Charles Baudelaire and others), laconic captions, scored music,
and expressionist sound design, offer contrasting contexts in which to
view these images. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT offers a dynamic way of viewing
street life in these locales, encouraging us to think about how we
apprehend a place visually and conceptually."- M.S. On TRAILER TRASH: "A
skewed take on film detritus: 35mm movie trailers rescued from the trash
and affected by hand and digitally holding up a fun-house mirror to the
industry of expectations."- M.S.
3/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HUGO/JORDAN/LEVITT/MAAS PROGRAM
Ian Hugo BELLS OF ATLANTIS (1952, 10 minutes, 16mm, color) Film poem,
based on Ana?s Nin's HOUSE OF INCEST, spoken by Nin, who also appears.
Larry Jordan DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HAMFAT
ASAR (1965, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 minutes, 16mm,
color) THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING (1966, 45 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Brand new
print – preserved by Anthology Film Archives! OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE
(1968, 9 minutes, 35mm, color) Brand new 35mm print! "With a taste for
nostalgic romanticism…Jordan creates a magical universe of work using
old steel engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit
into the subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as
a prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner
self." –Jackie Leger Helen Levitt IN THE STREET (1952, 12 minutes, 16mm,
b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Levitt's short, lyrical
documentary portrait of life in Spanish Harlem. Stealthily shot by
Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee. Willard Maas GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY
(1943, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved with support from The National
Film Preservation Foundation.) "The terrors and splendors of the human
body as the undiscovered, mysterious continent." –W.M. Total running
time: ca. 115 minutes.
3/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GARY GOLDBERG PROGRAM 1
PLATES (1990, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) With Bill Rice & Taylor Mead;
camera/sound by Jacob Burckhardt. "Bill serves Taylor plates." –G.G.
"Not to be missed." –Amy Taubin, VILLAGE VOICE MESMER (1991, 10 minutes,
16mm, sound) With Bill Rice & Taylor Mead; camera/sound by Jacob
Burckhardt. "Hypnotizing. An inward journey of outer mannerisms that
remains indelible." –George Kuchar USHER (1991, 11 minutes, 16mm,
silent) With Bill Rice & Taylor Mead; camera by Mark Baumgartener. "Bill
plays a blind usher in an old movie theater. Taylor is a bag lady who
comes to see the show." –G.G. BIG BABY (1993, 20 minutes, 16mm, sound)
With Bill Rice, Taylor Mead, and Hapi Phace; camera by Mark
Baumgartener. Can be performed with live cap pistol. "Big Baby is baad."
–G.G. DANCE (1993, 18 minutes, 16mm, sound) With Bill Rice & Taylor
Mead; camera by Mark Baumgartener. "Two aged vaudevillians in an
abandoned theater." –G.G. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. Screening
as part of the series SIX FILMS BY GARY GOLDBERG
3/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GARY GOLDBERG PROGRAM 2
HEARTS (1993, 24 minutes, 16mm, sound) With Bill Rice, Taylor Mead, and
Scott Heron; camera by Mark Baumgartener. "Bill proposes to Taylor, with
disastrous results." –G.G. Plus: SHINE (2002, 33 minutes, 16mm, sound)
One of the last films he made before his death, SHINE finds Goldberg
confronting a flashlight. Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. Screening
as part of the series SIX FILMS BY GARY GOLDBERG
3/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia
OTHER CINEMA, 3/6: CINEMA ABATTOIR’S CINEMAS, HEAVINESS
Emerging from the vault of Montreal's occult film society Cinema
Abattoir (Slaughterhouse), Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt presents Le cinema,
l'apesanteur, a program that exposes the latent image, the one situated
inside the menacing Spiral itself. Satanism, Nature, Love, and Mysticism
are all motoring against the clear-image (Death). The perforations and
fragmentation never become Symbol, and never were. Instead, if looking
long enough without ever blinking, its essence is emanating. It is in
this breathing-space (the Spiral) that the Light merges, maybe
in-between the frames? Look into my eyes! each of these films whispers:
François Miron's Kick That Habit Man (1989), Jean-Claude Labrecque's
Essai à la Mille (1970), Alexandre Larose's Brouillard (2009),
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt's Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2010), Serge de Cotret's
Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), Solomon Nagler's The Sex of Self-Hatred
(2004), Karl Lemieux' Mouvement de Lumière (2004), Étienne O'Leary's
Chromo Sud (1968). Co-produced with Christine Metropoulos and SF
Cinematheque, *$9.99.
3/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia St. (at 21st St.), San Francisco, CA 94110
LE CINEMA, L’APESANTEUR (CINEMAS, HEAVINESS): CINéMA ABATTOIR
presented in association with Other Cinema, curated & presented by
Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt of Cinéma Abattoir: Toward the Abîme-Cinéma, Le
cinema, l'apesanteur (Cinemas, Heaviness) exposes the latent image, the
one situated inside the anticipated and menacing Spiral itself.
Satanism, Nature, Love and Mysticism are all motoring against the
opacity of the clear-image (Death). The perforations and fragmentation
never become Symbol, and never were. Instead, if looking long enough
without ever blinking, its essence (neither visibility nor transparency,
but Light) is, and always was, emanating. It is in this breathing space
(the Spiral) that the Light merges, not in the film, but maybe
in-between the frames? (Look into my eyes! that each films whisper, Look
into my eyes!). (PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT) Francois Miron: Kick That
Habit Man (1989) 3 min. Jean-Claude Labrecque: Essai à la mille (1970),
7 min. Alexandre Larose: Brouillard (2009), 3 min. Pierre-Luc
Vaillancourt: Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2008-2010), ? min. Serge de Cotret:
Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), 10 min. Solomon Nagler: The Sex of
Self-Hatred (2004), 9 min. Karl Lemieux: Mouvement de Lumière (2004), 8
min. Étienne O'Leary: Chromo Sud (1968), 21 min. TICKETS: members: $5 /
non-members: $10
3/6
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
3pm, 4th & Constitution Avenue NW
THE BLACK MARIA: SELECTIONS FROM THE FESTIVAL
Named for Thomas Edison's pioneering New Jersey film studio, this
renowned festival competition is now in its 29th year. A selection of
the festival's best new cutting-edge documentary and experimental shorts
is culled from the December 2009 judging. (Total running time 120
minutes)
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SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2010
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3/7
Brooklyn, New York: BAM Rose Cinemas
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1957
2:00pm, 30 Lafayette Avenue
LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
"Russell, a researcher, curator, and performer as well as a filmmaker,
has done something nearly maddening: he's made a masterpiece that
refuses to just be one… Instead, Russell has initiated a project that
taps into the tremulous, potentially self-consuming energy that
characterizes a truly open art." —Cinemascope Chicago-based filmmaker
Ben Russell's brilliantly rigorous debut feature, solely comprised of 13
ten-minute shots, portrays contemporary Saramaccan life as two brothers
venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through
rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River. Their journey
reflects the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from
slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years earlier. 135:00, 16mm, in
Saramaccan with English subtitles.
3/7
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series
http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/
2PM, Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
ARTAVAZD PELESHIAN ON 35MM!
This is a UNIQUE CHANCE TO SEE MASTERPIECES of ARMENIAN CINEMA on 35mmv.
Please spread the word and come to the show! Discovered to the world by
the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard who became his first and most
ardent supporter, Armenian Filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian is considered as
one of the most important filmmakers of our time, he received the Scam
Prize for Television for his whole work in 2000. Artavazd Peleshian is
also an inventor of "distance montage". Artavazd Peleshian: "Distance
Montage and the effects that it creates evolve like a sphere. It's not
linear, it's spherical. It's in continuous motion. If I find the system,
if I construct it correctly, it will go, it evolves, and two processes
will occur: you will go from the beginning of the film to the end and
there will be a mirror effect; you will also go the other way. Central
elements may never meet each other... Eisenstein's montage was linear,
like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film.
It's like when a light is turned on and light is generated around the
lamp. In distance montage when the two ends are excited, the whole thing
glows…" Among films featured are: Beginning 10min, 1967; We 30min, 1969;
Inhabitatns 10min, 1970; Seasons 29min, 1975; Our Century 50min, 1982
Suggested donation: $5
3/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K.Now in
its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of
cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring
wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, and rarely shown classics.
The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun
Day.Curated by Elizabeth Shepherd.Funded in part with generous support
from Virginia and Austin Beutner and Nickelodeon. Program runs Feb. 26th
and 27th and the following weekend Saturday, Mar. 6th and Sunday, Mar.
7th. There is a special Nick Family Fun Day on Sunday, April 27th
3/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON
by Ken Jacobs 1969, 115 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color, silent. An absolute
masterpiece from one of the most inspiring innovators of modern cinema.
"Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer,
rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library
of Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with
a new movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being." –K.J.
Screening as part of ESSENTIAL CINEMA
3/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JENNINGS/KIRSANOFF/LEGER & MURPHY/CLAIR & PICABIA
PROGRAM
Humphrey Jennings LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w)
Jennings's film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio
landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and
conflicting with the multitude of sounds. From the film's introduction:
"I have been listening to Britain. I have heard the sound of her life by
day and by night…. In the great sound picture that is here presented,
you too will hear that heart beating. For blended together in one great
symphony is the music of Britain at war. The evening hymn of the lark,
the roar of the Spitfires, the dancers in the great ballroom at
Blackpool, the clank of machinery and shunting trains." Dimitri
Kirsanoff M?NILMONTANT (1924-25, 38 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) A
melodramatic story of an orphan girl whose seduction is avenged. Early
use of hand-held camera, montage, and superimpositions. Fernand L?ger &
Dudley Murphy BALLET M?CANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent)
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives! A brief exploration of cubist
form, black and white tonalities, and various vectors through its
constant, rapidly cut movements and compositions. Many of the film's
forms and compositions are reflected in – or themselves reflect – forms
and compositions in L?ger's famous cubist paintings from the period.
Ren? Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) A
masterpiece of dada, a feat of cinema magic. Made as an intermission
entertainment for the Ballet Su?dois from an impromptu scenario by
Francis Picabia. Music by Erik Satie. Total program time: ca. 105
minutes.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010
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3/9
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
WENDY AND LUCY
Wendy and Lucy (2008, 80 min.) by KELLY REICHARDT "A pitch-perfect
triumph… In the space of a few years, Ms. Reichardt…has become one of
the most interesting young American filmmakers. Her latest follows Wendy
(Ms. Williams), a girlish woman with watchful eyes and a hesitant smile,
who, with her mutt, Lucy, is on her way to a new life in Alaska with too
little money when she runs into trouble in Oregon. With uninflected
realism, an attentive camera and no weeping strings, Ms. Reichardt makes
palpably, tragically real what it means to be struggling at the very
edge of the economic abyss."- Manohla Dargis, New York Times. Describing
Michell William's performance, "What may emerge as the best performance
of the year. Among the loveliest films at Cannes." - Amy Taubin, Film
Comment
3/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Cinematheque
http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=1796
7:00 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St. West, McCaul St. entrance)
TIFF CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS: LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE (PG)
"One of the most towering and extraordinary films to grace the screen!
Staggering in its depth and scope…. A monumental political elegy to a
not-so-distant era. An event of major importance." (Phil Hall, Film
Threat) A colossal achievement, Le Fond de l'air est rouge is Chris
Marker's montage masterpiece charting the ups and downs of the New Left
(le rouge), from the revolutionary movements of 1967—the year Che
Guevara died—through to 1977, when the film was initially completed.
Since then, Le Fond has been worked and reworked, or "re-actualized" as
Marker calls it, into its present version from 1993, with the enigmatic
English title, A Grin Without a Cat. A heady cross between journalism
and journal, suffused with wit and worry, the film gives a subjective
and at times idiosyncratic history lesson, chronicling the struggles,
utopian dreams, revolts, disillusionment, tragedies, and hope that
intermittently fuelled the upheavals during the decade marked by May
'68, including the residual anger about Vietnam, the leftist
insurgencies in the Soviet Bloc, and the ousting of Salvador Allende in
Chile. Divided into two halves—"Fragile Hands" and "Severed Hands"—the
film retools images of the world and famous passages from the cinema
with "a genius for poetic aphorism and the documentary equivalent of the
bon mot…. More impressionist than analytical, [Le Fond de l'air est
rouge] is a grand immersion"(J. Hoberman, The Village Voice). "[I]t
reconfirms Marker as one of the most serious-minded and artistically
gifted filmmakers in France, or anywhere else" (David Sterritt,
Christian Science Monitor). —Andréa Picard || Pricing: Members: $5.90 |
Students/Seniors/Child/Youth: $5.90 | Non-members: $10.14
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010
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3/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm and 10:15 pm, Cinefamily, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
NEWTOWN, CINEFAMILY AND LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENT BLAST PHEMY 2: A
MIDWEEK MUSIC/MEDIA MASHUP FEATURING TEXT OF LIGHT (INCLUDING LEE RANALDO
FROM SONIC YOUTH, ULRICH KRIEGER, AND ALAN LICHT); AND PARALLEL WITH THE
BAND LANGUIS
Join Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, collaborating live with
saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and guitarist Alan Licht, as he goes to the
blasphemous extreme with live scores to the films of Stan Brakhage and
other mid-century American cinema avant-gardists. According to Licht,
Text of Light "does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan
Brakhage. Rather, it uses the films as a further element for
improvisation, almost as [another] performer. While Brakhage intended
for these films to be screened silently as films...[here] they are
juxtaposed with the music, in a kind of real-time performance,
mixed-media collage." But the evening doesn't stop there! The night also
includes a screening of Parallel, an animation tour-de-force by
mediamaker Huckleberry Lain, featuring music by Argentinean-born,
L.A.-based electronic duo Languis. $17 general; $13 for Cinefamily,
Newtown, and Filmforum members
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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010
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3/11
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
THE BLINDNESS SERIES
Tran, T. Kim-Trang in person! The Blindness Series is Los Angeles-based
artist Tran, T. Kim-Trang's expansive, 14-years-in-the-making tour de
force on vision and its metaphors. Comprised of eight videos, the series
draws upon notions of blindness to explore broader political and
cultural themes of identity, sexuality, society, and technology. This
evening, to celebrate the Video Data Bank's release of The Blindness
Series in a new DVD box-set, Tran will present five works from the
cycle, including a provocative documentary on hysterical blindness and
the Cambodian civil war (ekleipsis, 1998), an essay on cosmetic eyelid
surgery (operculum, 1993), and a meditation on the phenomenon of word
blindness (alexia, 2000). "We are invited to approach these works with
all our senses," writes scholar Laura Marks. "The Blindness Series
crankily, and finally tenderly, gives us our eyes back." Co-presented by
the Video Data Bank. Visit www.vdb.org. Tran, T. Kim-Trang, 1992-2006,
USA, Beta SP video, ca. 82 min (plus discussion).
3/11
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.)
COLLABORATIVE DREAMS
New York artist David Finkelstein will visit Los Angeles to present his
video work, dramatic, hallucinatory explorations of the inner landscape.
His videos are based on completely improvised dialogues, in which two
actors explore their inner visions in a process that Finkelstein
compares to a collaborative form of dreaming. These dialogues are then
transformed into dynamic, complex, and meticulously crafted compositions
of original music, words, and visual images. Works to be screened will
include Two Distinct Courses of Action (2007) featuring Cassie Terman,
and Reproductive Technology (2008) with Allison Farrow, as well as
several shorter videos. Finkelstein has been making theater since 1982,
and video since 2000. His work has been screened at numerous festivals
and venues, winning 9 awards. FILMMAKER DAVID FINKLESTEIN IN ATTENDANCE!
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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010
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3/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS WHO WAS WALTHER RUTTMANN? A PRESENTATION
BY STEFAN DROESSLER, DIRECTOR OF THE MUNICH FILM MUSEUM WITH A SCREENING
OF BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A CITY (1927)
Tonight we're delighted to host Stefan Droessler of the Munich Film
Museum, which has an ongoing program of restoration of film works and
issuing exemplary DVD editions through the Edition Filmmuseum label.
Droessler will present the issues and process involved in their
restoration of pioneering film work of Walther Ruttmann, followed by a
presentation of the classic poetic documentary masterwork Berlin:
Symphony of a City. The presentation will include photos, scans of
paintings, and his short films OPUS I-IV, and will last about 60-80
minutes, followed by intermission and the screening of Berlin, which is
65 minutes.
3/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm. $8, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
IN SEARCH OF LORINE NIEDECKER : FILM AND TALK
Director Cathy Cook and Poet Jonathan Skinner in Person Immortal
Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, 73 min, video (2009) by Cathy
Cook Plus a talk Particular Attention: Lorine Niedecker's Natural
Histories by Jonathan Skinner In her subjective exploration of the poet
Lorine Niedecker (1903 - 1970), Immortal Cupboard, Cathy Cook weaves an
elaborate document from Niedecker's biography, literary associations
(with poets Cid Corman and Louis Zukofsky) and her midwestern environs.
The threads of nature, history, ecology, gender, domesticity, work,
culture, family and social politics create a testament to "the
extraordinary works of this very private poet that some literary critics
have described as the 20th century's Emily Dickinson." (CC) Since 1982
Cathy Cook has been creating films, videos, and installations She has
exhibited her award-winning work extensively in both solo and group
shows including screenings at MOMA and the Whitney Museum; her media
works are in the permanent collections of the Donnell Library (NYC),
Princeton University, National Library of Australia (Canberra), and the
NYU Film Library, among others. She is Associate Professor of Film/Video
in Visual Arts at The University of Maryland- Baltimore County (UMBC),
teaching film/video production, animation, writing and aesthetics.
Jonathan Skinner edits the journal Ecopoetics, which features
creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. Skinner's
poetry collections include With Naked Foot (2009) and Political Cactus
Poems (2005). His essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine
Niedecker appeared recently in volumes published by the National Poetry
Foundation and by University of Iowa Press. He teaches in the
Environmental Studies program at Bates College in Central Maine, where
he makes his home.
3/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. (at 3rd St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
BEN RUSSELL: LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY
Ben Russell in-person! After innumerable shorter works, Ben Russell's
debut feature expands the themes of his celebrated Trypps series to
remarkable new territories. Let Each One... painstakingly follows two
brothers on a journey throughout Suriname, retracing the post-slavery
migration of their ancestors across the country. Russell's compelling
configuration of thirteen largely uninterrupted (and beautifully
photographed) 16mm sequences allows for an astonishing combination of
documentary and narrative filmmaking essentially unparalleled in
contemporary American-made cinema. "Like a Rouchian ethno-fiction, the
film leads the viewer not only on an extraordinary quest but also into
an inquiry on representation and the camera's transformative powers."
(Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival) (JONATHAN MARLOW)
Ben Russell: Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), 135 min. TICKETS:
members: $6 / non-members: $10
3/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Cinematheque
http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=1796
7:00 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St. West, McCaul St. entrance)
TIFF CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS: EVERYONE ELSE (14A)
"The most impressive film in the Berlin competition, Ade's remarkable
second feature… come[s] close to feeling like a defining portrait of an
entire upper-middle-class generation — a movie that does for the '00s
what Richard Yates did for the 1950s." (Scott Foundas, LA Weekly) Winner
of the Grand Jury and Best Actress awards at last year's Berlin Film
Festival, as well as the Best Director and FIPRESCI awards at the Buenos
Aires International Film Festival, Everyone Else is rightly being hailed
as the quintessential couple film of its generation. Like a contemporary
Voyage to Italy, the film charts the febrile ups and downs of a young
couple vacationing on the island of Sardinia. Chris (Lars Eidinger) is a
lanky, slightly effeminate, pensive architect frustrated by his lack of
success, while Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr whose incredible elasticity and
belle laide looks have been met with Liv Ullman comparisons), is a music
publicist with enough explosive energy to fuel the entire island.
Gitti's quirky and unsophisticated demeanor—she spends most of the film
in either a bikini or satiny, salmon short shorts—challenges Chris's
sense of self and his upper middle-class ideals. When they run into
Hans, a gregarious and self-assured architect friend of Chris's, raw
vulnerabilities and ebbing displays of shame, ridicule, uncertainty and
hurt reach their volcanic peak. Exquisitely shot by Bernhard Keller
(Longing), Everyone Else confirms Ade's extraordinary talent and daring,
which transcend clichés and expectations to produce results that are, at
times, gut-wrenching, astonishing and painfully real. "Aided by actors
who are fearless in exploring their own bodies and minds, a seemingly
simple story is turned into an emotional tour de force that may be
unparalleled in recent cinema" (Mark Peranson). With fewer North
American distributors taking chances on European cinema, this limited
run of one of the best films from 2009 is certainly not to be missed.
—Andréa Picard || March 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM, March 13, 2010 at 9:15 PM,
March 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM || Members: $7.08 |
Students/Seniors/Child/Youth: $7.08 | Non-members: $11.56
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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2010
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3/13
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
29TH ANNUAL BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
A selection of award-winning independent films and videos from the 2010
festival. Festival director and co-founder, JOHN COLUMBUS will be
present to introduce and discuss the works shown. Black Maria, one of
the most well known festivals of new film and video in the United
States, organizes a travelling showcase tour of 40 or more works
exhibiting at more than 50 host institutions. Each program presents a
different selection of work and is introduced by the festival's
director.
3/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 3/13: THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD + CULT-JAMS
A benefit event, this sneak preview of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno's
new feature is a TRUE screwball comedy about two gonzo political
activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their
way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most
outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to Bhopal to New York City, armed
with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze
raucous humor out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the
planet. Brüno meets Michael Moore in this gut-busting wake-up call that
proves a little imagination can go a long way towards vanquishing the
Cult of Greed. PLUS now-rare glimpses of earlier Yes Men iterations:
Portland actions, Barbie Liberation Organization, ®™ark; and more
culture-jamming from their predecessors (Joey Skaggs), and from those
they've inspired (host Bryan Boyce, Institute of AppIied Autonomy, et
al.) Portion of proceeds go the defense of the Mission's own Pirate Cat
Radio, whose founder, Monkey, will be present for a community update.
*$7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2010
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3/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS DAVID FINKELSTEIN: MARVELOUS DISCOURSE
Filmforum is delighted to host David Finkelstein, visiting from New
York, whose exuberant videos explore both the limits of video and of
performance, in ongoing dialogue with the viewer's perceptions. He is
the founder of the Lake Ivan Performance Group. www.lakeivan.org In
these wholly improvised pieces, performer/director David Finkelstein and
performers Ian W. Hill, Cassie Terman, and James Martin and Agnes de
Garron take the viewer on a journey into an inner landscape of
surprising and poetic juxtapositions of words and images. The results
are both ironically humorous and emotionally resonant. Multiple layers
of overlaid imagery and text help the viewer to make sense of the
complex sound track, which consists of two simultaneous monologues plus
music, by bringing out the emotional and musical threads which run
through the piece, while highlighting key phrases of text.
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