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This week [March 13 - 21, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: April 15, 2010)
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Toronto Student Film Festival (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: March 22, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Stan Brakhage Symposium [March 13, Boulder, Colorado]
* 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]
* The Stan Brakhage Symposium [March 14, Boulder, Colorado]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents David Finkelstein: Marvelous Discourse [March 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Travelogue Screening [March 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* Cesaree & L'homme Atlantique [March 15, New York]
* Destroy, She Said [March 15, New York]
* Paul Turano and Matt Mcwilliams [March 16, Jamaica Plain, MA]
* Nathalie Granger [March 16, New York]
* Le Navire Night [March 16, New York]
* #13 = 3/16/10 = 1st Year Anniversary = Robert Beavers [March 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Courtisane Festival 2010 [March 17, Gent]
* David O'reilly Artist In Focus // Courtisane Festival [March 17, Ghent, Belgium]
* Les Enfants [March 17, New York]
* India Song [March 17, New York]
* Night vision - Courtisane Festival [March 18, Ghent, Belgium]
* The Truck [March 18, New York]
* Agatha [March 18, New York]
* Openscreening [March 18, San Francisco, California]
* Surface Tension - Courtisane Festival [March 19, Ghent, Belgium]
* Collaborative Dreams: Improvisation-Based videos By David Finkelstein [March 19, San Francisco, California]
* Collaborative Dreams Improvisation-Based videos By David Finkelstein [March 19, San Francisco, California]
* Pbl Live Cinema Performance At Chicago Filmmakers [March 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Morgan Fisher Artist In Focus - Courtisane Festival [March 20, Ghent, Belgium]
* Personal Cinema Series - Nicky Hamlyn [March 20, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the General [March 20, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Rapt [March 20, New York]
* Time(Lapse) [March 20, Oakland, CA]
* Other Cinema, 3/20: Extreme Animation W/ Paper Rad, N. Boyce, M.
Colburn + [March 20, San Francisco, California]
* Baby Matinee - Courtisane Festival [March 21, Ghent, Belgium]
* David Gatten Artist In Focus Part I - Courtisane Festival [March 21, Ghent, Belgium]
* David Gatten Artist In Focus Part ii - Courtisane Festival [March 21, Ghent, Belgium]
* Essential Cinema: the General [March 21, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Peter Kubelka Program [March 21, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2010
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3/13
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/brakhage/symposium_6.shtml
10am+, University of Colorado College of Arts
THE STAN BRAKHAGE SYMPOSIUM
The Stan Brakhage Symposium, already a tradition in the not very
traditional world of avant-garde filmmaking, will again be hosted this
year by the University of Colorado at Boulder. In a weekend dedicated to
the exploration of new ideas in cinema art, guest curator Ed Halter will
explore the role of repetition/reuse/and the remake in contemporary
artists' works, and CU faculty professors Christina Battle and Jennifer
Peterson will investigate the relationship of the amateur and the
Avant-Garde. Presenters will include Ed Halter, art historian David
Joselit, Andy Lampert, Annette Michelson, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Phil
Solomon, and Elisabeth Subrin. In an extension of one of Brakhage's
particular interests, there will also be a program of home movies from
the collection of the Academy Film Archive presented by Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences archivist Lynne Kirste, as well as a
number of short-works programs (films, videos, and performances).
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. Br�no 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
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/brakhage/symposium_6.shtml
11am+, University of Colorado College of Arts
THE STAN BRAKHAGE SYMPOSIUM
The Stan Brakhage Symposium, already a tradition in the not very
traditional world of avant-garde filmmaking, will again be hosted this
year by the University of Colorado at Boulder. In a weekend dedicated to
the exploration of new ideas in cinema art, guest curator Ed Halter will
explore the role of repetition/reuse/and the remake in contemporary
artists' works, and CU faculty professors Christina Battle and Jennifer
Peterson will investigate the relationship of the amateur and the
Avant-Garde. Presenters will include Ed Halter, art historian David
Joselit, Andy Lampert, Annette Michelson, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Phil
Solomon, and Elisabeth Subrin. In an extension of one of Brakhage's
particular interests, there will also be a program of home movies from
the collection of the Academy Film Archive presented by Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences archivist Lynne Kirste, as well as a
number of short-works programs (films, videos, and performances).
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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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010
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3/15
Chicago, Illinois: Experimental Film Club
http://experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com/
4:15pm, 112 S. Michigan Ave., Room 1307
TRAVELOGUE SCREENING
EFS is proud to present a series of six Travelogue films for the second
public screening! All films are in beautiful 16mm. Films start at 4:15.
Films to be shown: Anselmo and the Women (Chick Strand), Lesser Antilles
(Robert Fulton), Looking for Mushrooms (Bruce Conner), Munich-Berlin
Wanderung (Oskar Fischinger), Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka), and
Valentin de las Sierras (Bruce Baillie).
3/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CESAREE & L'HOMME ATLANTIQUE
by Marguerite Duras C?SAR?E (1978, 12 minutes, 35mm) The stories of
C?sar?e, a city in Palestine, and B?r?nice, queen of the Jews, are told
with Duras's own voice against the backdrop of still and moving images
of Parisian monuments. & L'HOMME ATLANTIQUE 1981, 45 minutes, 35mm. In
French with English subtitles. Made using outtakes from AGATHA, this
film explores writing and the image's disappearance. "I think the
darkness is in all my films, buried, beneath the image�. I have only
tried to reach the film's deep flow." �Marguerite Duras Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes. Screening part of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON
FILM
3/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DESTROY, SHE SAID
by Marguerite Duras 1969, 100 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Catherine Sellers and Michel Lonsdale. Five people
isolated in a hotel become enmeshed in a ritualistic game. Duras's
second film as a director is a psychodrama based on her own play,
written in the wake of the events in Paris in May 1968. Many of the
elements typical of Duras's elliptical and often cinematic literature,
such as her preoccupation with disjunctive experiences of space, place,
and time, are skillfully translated to the screen. Screening as part of
the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010
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3/16
Jamaica Plain, MA: Loring-Greenough Film
http://lghfilm.blogspot.com
7:00 pm, 12 South St
PAUL TURANO AND MATT MCWILLIAMS
For our seventh screening we are happy to present the films of
Roslindale-based filmmaker Paul Turano and his former student at
Emerson, Matt McWilliams. Join us for drinks and snacks around 7 pm;
screening begins at 7:30. If you can, please support our venue with a $4
donation. Visit the blog for more info and stills!
3/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NATHALIE GRANGER
by Marguerite Duras 1972, 85 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jeanne Moreau, Lucia Bose, and G�rard Depardieu. An
oblique and electrifying look at family and society, NATHALIE GRANGER
chronicles an afternoon in the benumbed lives of two women in their home
on the outskirts of Paris. One is having trouble with her daughter,
Nathalie, whose violent temper is making her unfit for public school. A
sense of foreboding arises as they listen to radio reports of two
teenagers who have murdered a child. Enter G?rard Depardieu as a
traveling salesman, pathetic and somehow sinister, who is determined to
sell the ladies of the house a washing machine they don't need.
Screening as part of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
3/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LE NAVIRE NIGHT
by Marguerite Duras 1979, 95 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, and Mathieu Carri�re.
Duras employs the ostensible film-within-a-film format, used so cleverly
in THE TRUCK, to tell of an extraordinary love affair conducted entirely
by telephone. The voices of Duras and filmmaker Beno?t Jacquot provide
the dialogue and narrate the movements of the actors. It's a bold
directorial intervention, part Kabuki, part Sacha Guitry, pure Duras.
Screening as part of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
3/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30pm, the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West
#13 = 3/16/10 = 1ST YEAR ANNIVERSARY = ROBERT BEAVERS
In celebration of a year's worth of programming we are delighted to
present an evening of films by Robert Beavers, the artist from whom we
borrowed our name. None of Beavers films are distributed in North
America, so this is a rare opportunity to view these works. Early
Monthly Segments is composed of a series of short films and fragments
shot between 1967 and 1970. These films lay the foundation for Beavers'
film practice over the subsequent decades in terms of structure and
technique as well as content. The physical nature of the camera, its
optical elements and the nature of the filmstrip itself are as much a
part of the work as its images of places, autobiographical elements and
portraits. In The Painting, Beavers juxtaposes shots of Martyrdom of
Saint Hippolytus altarpiece, by an unidentified Flemish artist with an
intersection in Bern and images of Gregory Markopoulos and himself. He
describes the film as using "the theme of tearing as an emblem of
intense emotion" to illustrate "the unity of destruction and unity."
This could also serve as a description of the filmmaking process in
which images are taken apart then reconstructed in the process of
editing. Pitcher of Colored Light, Beavers' most recent film is a
portrait of his mother and her surroundings. This film shows remarkable
refinement in its construction, the structure and logic combined
seamlessly with the photography and subject of the film. "Pitcher
alights on various motifs (sun-dappled grass, household ceramics, a cat
on a couch, silvery hair) only to pan, fade, lurch, or glide off subject
in a continuous act of readjusted attention�. Beavers' mesh of images
are impelled by emotional, not just formal, necessity." Nathan Lee
(Village Voice) Programme Early Monthly Segments (1968-2002,16mm, color,
silent, 33 minutes) The Painting (1972/1999, 16mm, color, sound 13
minutes) Pitcher of Colored Light (2007, 16mm, color, sound, 23 minutes)
Canadian Premiere!
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
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3/17
Gent: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
20:00, various locations
COURTISANE FESTIVAL 2010
The 2010 edition of the Courtisane festival will take place from March
17th till 21st, on several locations in Gent. As always, Courtisane 2010
will present a broad selection of recent Belgian and international film
and video works, bringing together an exciting mix of up and coming
young talent and established names. On top of that, two thematic
evenings will be filled with performances, installations and screenings.
Thursday 18th March will be devoted to 'Night Vision', exploring the
dynamics between visibility and invisibility, light and darkness, seeing
the night and seeing in the night, with among others Paul Clipson &
William Fowler Collins, Phantom Limb & Earth's Hypnagogia,
Disinformation and Pieter Geenen. 'Surface Tension', on Friday 19th
March, has Dominique Petitgand, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler & David
Cunningham and Paul Abbott with Seymour Wright & Ross Lambert
investigating the folds and fissures between perception and conscience,
experience and meaning. This year we have three "Artists in Focus":
David O'Reilly, rising star in the animation community, Morgan Fisher,
whose work sits between avant-garde cinema, film industry and
contemporary art, and David Gatten, who explores the intersection of the
printed word and the moving image. 'Digest Sound', the exhibition,
focuses on the sometimes successful, sometimes failing marriage between
communication and technology, featuring work by Matt O'dell, Barry Hale
& Joe Banks. The limits of communication will also be subject of the
programme 'Vital Signs', with films and videos by Katarina Zdjelar, Gary
Hill, David Gatten and many others. Our friends from KRAAK will also
present a series of concerts during the festival. The complete program
will soon be online on www.courtisane.be. For a more extensive preview,
see the blog www.diagonalthoughts.com
3/17
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
8 PM, SPHINX Cinema, Sint-Michielshelling 3
DAVID O'REILLY ARTIST IN FOCUS // COURTISANE FESTIVAL
David O'Reilly (EI,1985) is without a doubt one of the rising stars in
the animation firmament. Based in Berlin, he evenly divides his valuable
energy between commercial work (for, among others, music acts such as U2
and M.I.A.) and utterly personal experimentations which recklessly
exploit the potential of 3D computer animation. He regards this medium
as a Pandora box which was just recently opened and still needs to be
examined. His work primarily explores the creative free zones where the
pixels on the screen swing between abstraction and representation,
between artifact and image, resulting in a highly original universe that
brings together an outspoken artificial form with an emotional impact.
"We should forget everything about the idea of right or wrong, of beauty
and ugliness, and focus on the idea of coherence." His "turbodrama"
Please Say Something was awarded a Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2009.
David didn't reveal a lot about his plans for this evening: "I realized
I will be playing a lot of stuff which doesn't have a known origin, some
early animation and strange found things i've collected over the years,
I dont even know the creator myself �". We're really curious!
3/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LES ENFANTS
by Marguerite Duras 1985, 94 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. A marvelous piece of absurdist cinema that is, on one level
at least, Duras's most entertaining and accessible work, LES ENFANTS
concerns a seven-year-old boy, Ernesto, who is portrayed by a
forty-year-old man (Axel Bougousslavsky). In his child's wisdom, Ernesto
decides to quit school, since knowledge can count for nothing in a
meaningless world. Within the effectively stark framework which Duras
has established throughout her oeuvre, rarely have the nuances of
character been given such free play, nor the human condition been
decried with such warm, sad humor. With: Jean-Marie Straub & Dani?le
Huillet EN RACH?CHANT (1982, 7 minutes, 35mm, in French with English
subtitles) In Straub & Huillet's highly-condensed version of the same
Duras story (AH! ERNESTO) that the writer adapted herself for LES
ENFANTS, a seven-year-old boy declares that he no longer wishes to go to
school since "all he is taught there is things he doesn't know."
Screening as part of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
3/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
INDIA SONG
by Marguerite Duras 1975, 120 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale, and Mathieu Carri�re.
In her best-known film, Duras effectively evokes the colonial India of
the thirties, contrasting the indolent life of the colonialists with the
squalor and suffering that lie just outside their gates and
consciousness � though her camera never ventures from the abodes of the
wealthy, and the film was in fact shot in Paris. The story concerns a
beautiful woman, suffering from what Duras has called "colonial
sickness", who lives in a private desolation which none can enter. With
its offscreen voices, a kind of distant dialogue counterpointed by image
and music, INDIA SONG portrays what Richard Roud called an "India of the
soul." Saturday, March 13 at 6:30 and Wednesday, March 17 at 9:15.
Screening as part of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010
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3/18
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
8 PM, Vooruit Arts Centre, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
NIGHT VISION - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
The night is not a black mass that blinds our sight. It's not a
substance, but an event, pure depth that surrounds and swallows us,
infiltrating us through our senses. In the dark hours when we must
sharpen our eyes and ears, when night comes to life, nothing seems what
it is. This programme presents a series of performances, films and an
installation which attempt to capture this event in all its obscurity,
somewhere between light and darkness, visible and invisible, seeing the
night and seeing in the night. With Disinformation, Pieter Geenen, Paul
Clipson & William Fowler Collins, Phantom Limb & Earth's Hypnagogia,
Jeanne Liotta, Deborah Stratman.
3/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE TRUCK
by Marguerite Duras 1977, 80 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Marguerite Duras and G�rard Depardieu. In the
time-honored French tradition of L'?GE D'OR and RULES OF THE GAME,
Duras's LE CAMION inspired fisticuffs between its supporters and
detractors. Duras stars, along with G?rard Depardieu, a truck, and a
landscape. The two sit around a table and essentially conjure up the
truck and the desolately beautiful landscape as she reads him a
screenplay for a film in which he plays a truck driver who picks up a
female hitchhiker. "Pialat is a painter. Truffaut is a novelist. Bergman
is a musician. Duras is silence." � G?rard Depardieu Screening as part
of the series MARGUERITE DURAS ON FILM
3/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
AGATHA
by Marguerite Duras 1981, 90 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Yann Andr�a and Bulle Ogier. "A crystalline expression
of Duras's central themes � memory, desire, lost or forbidden love �
AGATHA stars Duras's companion Yann Andr?a and Bulle Ogier as brother
and sister. They arrange to rendezvous in the H?tel des Roches Noires in
the seaside village of Trouville because the hotel reminds them of the
house they grew up in. There, engulfed by an expanse of sea and sky
which turns into a confluence of memory, they wander through the ch?teau
of endless windows and mirrors and empty rooms, finally confronting
their incestuous desires. Among Duras's most radical experiments, AGATHA
not only separates image and text, but also concludes with a bravura,
sustained use of black frame over which the denouement of the tale is
narrated." �James Quandt Screening as part of the series MARGUERITE
DURAS ON FILM
3/18
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7 door, 8 show, $5, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
OPENSCREENING
ATA's openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in
the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out
with us anywayEnjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the
refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and
length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance
submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max
length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All
genres. More Info: contact Katy at email suppressed
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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
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3/19
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
8 PM, Vooruit Arts Centre, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23
SURFACE TENSION - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
What happens when, before our eyes and ears, an event unfolds in time
without simple representation, causality or possibility of
identification ? We are thrown back upon ourselves, upon the power of
our imagination to create mental images. The real is brought back to the
possible. In this series of works, most points of reference and
information have been reduced to the minimum, as if the outside was
folded inside. It's up to us to break through the surface, to put our
imagination to work, to search for connections, to discover what it all
can mean... With Dominique Petitgand, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler & David
Cunningham, Paul Abbott, Seymour Wright & Ross Lambert, Lis Rhodes.
3/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
COLLABORATIVE DREAMS: IMPROVISATION-BASED VIDEOS BY DAVID FINKELSTEIN
Tonight New York artist David Finkelstein will present his video work,
dramatic, hallucinatory explorations of the inner landscape, at Artist
Television Access. His videos are based on completely improvised
dialogues, in which two actors explore their inner visions in a process
which 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 Terrifying Blankness (2008) 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. "The throughline is one of
emotions, of moods and energy. These pieces are filled with ideas; you
don't stop thinking while you're watching, but the intellect doesn't run
the show. If you get inside the feelings of these films, they make
sense." --Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer
3/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
COLLABORATIVE DREAMS IMPROVISATION-BASED VIDEOS BY DAVID FINKELSTEIN
Tonight New York artist David Finkelstein will present his video work,
dramatic, hallucinatory explorations of the inner landscape, at Artist
Television Access. His videos are based on completely improvised
dialogues, in which two actors explore their inner visions in a process
which 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 Terrifying Blankness (2008) 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. "The throughline is one of emotions, of
moods and energy. These pieces are filled with ideas; you don't stop
thinking while you're watching, but the intellect doesn't run the show.
If you get inside the feelings of these films, they make sense.
--Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer
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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010
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3/20
Chicago, Illinois: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8 PM, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N Clark Street
PBL LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE AT CHICAGO FILMMAKERS
Potter-Belmar Labs (Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens) will perform
Live Cinema, a mix of moving image and sound composed and projected on
the spot, from their laptops to your pleasure receptors.
3/20
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
8 PM, Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3,
MORGAN FISHER ARTIST IN FOCUS - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
Morgan Fisher (US, 1942) examines and deconstructs with wry humour the
machinery of cinema in his 16mm films, operating within the unlikely
triangle of avantgarde cinema, film industry and contemporary art, only
possible in a city like Los Angeles. Fisher's films are an exploration
of the film apparatus and its physical material, as well as of
moviemaking production methods: from film's standard gauge (35mm) to the
use of production stills, the narrative role of inserts and the
invisible importance of the projectionist. "One thing my films tend to
do is examine a property or quality of a film in a radical way," he
says. "Being radical is a modest form of being extreme. They each
examine an axiom of cinema and say, 'What if?'". During the Courtisane
Festival, Morgan Fisher will present a selection of short films directed
between 1968 and 1976, most of which will be screened in Belgium for the
first time. Two of his later works, Standard Gauge and ( ) will be
screened during his master class at HISK on Tuesday 23rd. Courtisane has
also given carte blanche to Fisher, who will present a selection of
films by other filmmakers. ////////// PART 1 The Director and His Actor
Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2) US, 1968,
16mm, b&w, sound, 15' Documentary Footage US, 1968, 16mm, colour, sound,
11' Phi Phenomenon US, 1968, 16mm, b&w, silent, 11' Production Stills
US, 1970, 16mm, colour, sound, 11' Picture and Sound Rushes US, 1973,
16mm, b&w, sound, 11' Cue Rolls US, 1974, 16mm, colour, sound, 5'30"
Projection Instructions US, 1976, 16mm, b&w, sound, 4' PART 2: CARTE
BLANCHE TO MORGAN FISHER Compiled by Morgan Fisher Love Hospital Trailer
Chris Langdon, US, ca.1975, 16mm, color, sound, 3' The Last Interview
With P. Passolini Chris Langdon, US, 1975, 16mm, b/w, sound, 6min' Kiss
of Death Klaus Wyborny, DE, 1974, Super 8 on video, colour, silent, 4'
Unsere Afrikareise Peter Kubelka, AT, 1966, 16mm, colour, sound, 13' ---
------- (AKA Short Line Long Line) Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick, US,
1966-67, 16mm, colour, sound, 11' Ein Bild Harun Farocki, DE, 1983,
16mm, colour, sound, 25' Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs Begleit musik
zu einer Lichtspielscene Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, DE/FR,
1972, 16mm on video, colour, sound, 17' EXTRA: MORGAN FISHER MASTERCLASS
TUE 23.03 14:00 - 17:30, Free HISK, in collaboration with KASK Charles
De Kerckhovelaan 187a, 9000 Gent info: www.kask.be / www.hisk.edu
registration: email suppressed
3/20
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - NICKY HAMLYN
A program of 16mm films: PENUMBRA (9 min.-2003). PISTRINO (9 min.-2003),
TRANSIT OF VENUS (2 min.-2005), OBJECT STUDIES (16min.-2005), PANNI (3
min.-2005), QUARTET (8 min.-2007), FOUR TORONTO FILMS (18 min.-2007),
PRO AGRI (3 min.-2008), POWER HUB (5 min.-2009). ---The British
independent filmmaker will be present to show and discuss his first
program at the Millennium. He was a workshop organizer at the London
Filmmakers' Coop and a founder and regular contributor to the Coop's
magazine, Undercut. He is a teacher of film and an author of the book,
Film Art Phenomena, published by the British Film Institute. "Hamlyn's
mostly silent films are concentrated, focused on the relationship
between camera and place, maker and materials. Subtle shifts in focus,
single-frame sequences, or time-lapse photography alter perception of a
tree, a wall, a garden trellis, a shadow, or a reflection. Space is
alternately flattened and expanded. The gap in a fence, the opening
between two sheets hanging on a laundry line re-frame the outdoors, and
nature in close-up becomes abstract and intensely colored, surprising us
with its patterns, variability, and the sheer beauty of the mundane." -
Excerpt from Program Notes, LIFT, Toronto, Canada.
3/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE GENERAL
by Buster Keaton 1927, 105 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. With Buster
Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavendar, Jim Farley, and Joseph Keaton. One
of Keaton's best silent features, setting comedy against a true Civil
War story of a stolen train and Union spies. Screening part of ESSENTIAL
CINEMA
3/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RAPT
by Dimitri Kirsanoff 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm, b&w. In French with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. Based on a novel by C.F. Ramuz,
RAPT tells the story of ethnic, cultural, and religious tensions that
divide a group of Swiss villagers. Besides its extraordinary visual
sense, the film is known for its inspired use of sound. "RAPT is,
paradoxically, both a film which looks back anachronistically toward the
silent era and a work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema.
Part of that paradox can be resolved by an understanding of the film's
complex utilization of music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in
this respect it is reminiscent of the part-talkie genre�. It is linked
to such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'?GE D'OR.
The radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a
cinematic musical score. In making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely
with the composers Honegger and Hoerce." �Lucy Fisher Screening as part
of ESSENTIAL CINEMA
3/20
Oakland, CA: Krowswork Gallery
http://www.krowswork.com
6-9 pm, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
TIME(LAPSE)
Krowswork Gallery, a new video and photography gallery in Oakland, CA,
is pleased to present Time(Lapse), an exhibition featuring video and
photography by Drone Dungeon, Katja Mater, Kim Miskowicz, and Liena
Vayzman. Each of these artists is exploring image degradation through
manipulated or natural cycles of time, echoing yet ultimately breaking
with the sequential and linear clarity charted by photographer Eadweard
Muybridge's famous "Motion Studies" in favor of a restructuring of
narrative and an emphasis on the complexity of the whole. Join us for a
reception for the artists on March 20th, from 6-9. Krowswork is located
at 480 23rd Street, side entrance, Oakland, CA 94612, between Telegraph
and Broadway. Exhibition is on view through April 18th.
3/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 3/20: EXTREME ANIMATION W/ PAPER RAD, N. BOYCE, M.
COLBURN +
SAT. 3/20: EXTREME ANIMATION w/ PAPER RAD, N. BOYCE, M. COLBURN + This
eye-popping orgy of high-energy pixilation showcases some of the most
aggressively ingenious graphic masters in the States today. Shalo Pe
steps in as guest emcee to introduce the torrent of tropes, trips,
tricks, and tits that reflect the manic obsessions of underground
collage, scratch-video, and neo-psychedelic compositors. An absurdly
dazzling 20-miin. set (including a cameo by Shana Moulton) of Jacob
(Paper Rad) Ciocci's West Coast premieres provides the post-Pop anchor
for the program, while our kinky Queen of Quirk Martha Colburn commences
the show with the Bay Area debut of her two new works, Electric
Literature, and Triumph of the Wild Pt. II. Nate Boyce premieres his
sublimely abstrakt Polygon, John Jota Lea�os contributes his kinetic
cult-fave Los ABCs, Kelly Sears shares He Hates to Be Second, and Shalo
himself pitches in with a piece specially made for the occasion. PLUS
other flickering pix from Semiconductor, TV Sheriff, Thomas Helman, and
a chestnut from Cory McAbee! Come early for a spectacular sampling of
Colburn's light-show collaborations with Deerhoof!
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SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2010
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3/21
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
11 AM, SPHINX Cinema, Sint-Michielshelling 3
BABY MATINEE - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
AVANT-GARDE FOR KIDS !!!! Once again Courtisane sets out to prove the
playfulness, beauty and accessibility for all ages of works often
considered too radical and obscure for the adult viewer. Following the
success of the first Baby Matinee in 2009, Courtisane has compiled a new
screening programme of artists' films and videos suitable for children
from 0 to 99 years old. Baby Matinee intends to engage children with
experimental film and contemporary art, offering an alternative to
mainstream children's entertainment. During the second part of the
programme, children will get a taste of an "expanded cinema" experience
: a live soundtrack by Ghent collective Kapotski, formed by the trio
Jonas Nachtergaele, Ruben Nachtergaele and Kurt Stockman. Kapotski (from
the Dutch word for broken "kapot") are known for their reappropriation
of unexpected technologies and artifacts � such as toys or prehistoric
household appliances � for the creation of music. Completely improvised,
their performances are guided by the joy of playing. A film screening
where dancing is encouraged ! With films by Christopher Harris, Rose
Lowder, Jonas Mekas, John Price, Joost Rekveld, Jiri Trnka and Harry
Smith.
3/21
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
2 PM, Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3,
DAVID GATTEN ARTIST IN FOCUS PART I - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
For the past fifteen years American filmmaker David Gatten (US, 1971)
has conducted a conscientious filmic investigation of the intersections
between text and image, representation and abstraction, the emotional
and the intellectual. Using traditional research methods as well as
experimental film processes, he delves into the annals of private lives
and public histories, in search for a cinematographic synthesis of
biography, philosophy and poetry. His silent, handmade and rigorously
structured films betray a certain influence of avant-garde filmmakers
such as Stan Brakhage and Hollis Frampton, but at the same time reveal a
strong personal identity, driven both by theoretical and spiritual
considerations. Based on the writings of the same title from the library
of William Byrd's family in 18th-century Virginia, the series Secret
History of the Dividing Line forms the core of his oeuvre. The handsome
results of his search are, in his own words, "bookish films about
letters and libraries and lovers and ghosts that are filled with words,
some of which you can read." (David Gatten) The first four episodes of
the 9-part Secret History of the Dividing Line will be screened for the
first time in Belgium as part of the thematic programme Vital Signs.
Gatten's first film Hardwood Process (1996) is also included in Vital
Signs, whereas his recent work Journal & Remarks (2009) will be screened
in the competition programme. At the invitation of Courtisane, David
Gatten has prepared a selection of works and filmmakers that have been
important to his practice.////////PART 1//////// Secret History of the
Dividing Line US, 2002, 16mm, b&w, silent, 20' The Great Art of Knowing
US, 2004, 16mm, b&w, silent, 37' Moxon's Mechanic Exercises, or, The
Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing US, 1999, 16mm,
b&w, silent (18 fps), 26' The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost & Found US,
2001, 16mm, b&w, silent (18 fps), 24'
3/21
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
3:30 PM, Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3,
DAVID GATTEN ARTIST IN FOCUS PART II - COURTISANE FESTIVAL
Essential Influences, emotional landscapes and memories of those who
came before us. Compiled by David Gatten "I had read all about the films
before I ever saw any of them. By the time I did see them they had taken
up permanent residence in my imagination. And when I saw them, I
understood anew what it means to witness moving images: the images move
- and the images are deeply moving. Hindle, Brakhage, Solomon, Fleming
and Frampton: three different generations of American avant garde
filmmakers, five very different approaches to that thing we call Cinema,
but all films by filmmakers with a profound faith in the capacity of
images to move us: aesthetically, emotionally, intellectually. The works
of these five artists have intensely affected my own conception of the
moving image and my own practice as a filmmaker. Frampton and Hindle
were gone before I knew who they were but I was lucky enough to spend
six years in conversation and correspondence with Brakhage. I went to
graduate school to study with Fleming and learn from her just as she had
learned from Hindle. Solomon I met by great good chance while in school
and after several years of long-distance study and mentoring he has
become a dearest friend and Colorado neighbor. This program of five
films is a way for me - now fifteen years into my own filmmaking
practice - to look back at the artists and works that shaped my vision
during crucial and formative years - and continue to inspire me and
expand my idea of what is possible in the art of the moving image".
Billabong Will Hindle, US, 1969, 16mm, colour, sound, 9' Creation Stan
Brakhage, US, 1979, 16mm, colour, silent, 17' The Snowman Phil Solomon,
US, 1995, 16mm, colour, sound, 8' Left-Handed Memories Michele Fleming,
US, 1989, 16mm, colour, sound, 15' Gloria! Hollis Frampton, US, 1979,
16mm, colour, sound, 9'
3/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE GENERAL
by Buster Keaton 1927, 105 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. With Buster
Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavendar, Jim Farley, and Joseph Keaton. One
of Keaton's best silent features, setting comedy against a true Civil
War story of a stolen train and Union spies. Screening part of ESSENTIAL
CINEMA
3/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM
MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm,
b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1
minute, 35mm, color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm, b&w) UNSERE
AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA (1966, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) PAUSE
(1977, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of
the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this
time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to
say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker � which is to say,
simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera." �Stan
Brakhage
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