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Date: Sat Mar 20 2010 - 04:09:04 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [March 20 - 28, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010
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3/26
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
10 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: THE UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE- NAOMI UMAN (IN
PERSON)
Making the same journey, in reverse, that her own great-grandparents
made when emigrating to the US from the rural Ukraine a century earlier,
in 2006 acclaimed filmmaker Naomi Uman arrived in the tiny, rural
village of Legedzine, Ukraine where she resides today. * The Ukrainian
Time Machine, a series of films Uman made among the people in this
village, depict the rhythms and textures of a way of life not so
far-removed from what her ancestors had experienced in their time, yet
are contemporary, too, richly expressed in the immediacy of her camera's
attentions and the inclusiveness of the inhabitants. * "The films in
this cycle are small and intimate, repeating age-old stories in as few
words as possible." –Naomi Uman * program includes: KALENDAR (2008, 11
min, 16mm) A pictorial language lesson, Kalendar is comprised of twelve
chronological shots, observing seasonal details and events in the
village. *** UNNAMED FILM (2008, 55 min, 16mm) is marked by a warm and
reciprocal curiosity between filmmaker and subjects. With
non-synchronous sound, inter-titles, and spare yet intimate
cinematography, Uman depicts both the hardships and joy the villagers
experience in their daily lives. *** CODA (2008, 3 min, 16mm) Fleeting
and kinetic views of the interior and exterior spaces of a home and the
life within.
3/26
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: SEEING IN BETWEEN- FILMS BY CHICK STRAND
(PROGRAM 1), PRESENTED BY IRINA LEIMBACHER
Scholar and curator Irina Leimbacher presents the first of two programs
of films by Chick Strand (1931-2009), a "radically original pioneer in
feminist, ethnographic and compilation filmmaking". Program includes:
WATERFALL (1967, 3 min, 16mm) * KRISTALLNACHT (1979, 7 min, 16mm)* FEVER
DREAM (1979, 7 min, 16mm)* SOFT FICTION (1979, 54 min, 16mm)
3/26
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FLYING LOTUS PLAYS HEAVEN & EARTH MAGIC
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is pleased to present an original score by
Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison) performed live to Harry Smith's
1962 film Heaven and Earth Magic (66 min, 16mm). Flying Lotus' original
score will receive its world premiere in this program, created for the
48th AAFF.
3/26
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: HOW THE DARKNESS DOUBLED (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
The program includes the world premiere of GESTURINGS by Peter Herwitz
and TUSSLEMUSCLE by Steve Cossman (filmmakers in attendance). IN A YEAR
WITH 13 DEATHS (USA, 2008, 3 min, 16mm) by Jonathan Schwartz * WEDNESDAY
MORNING TWO A.M. (USA, 2009, 6 min , video) by Lewis Klahr * BERNADETTE
(Scotland, 2008, 37 min, video) by Duncan Campbell * GESTURINGS (USA,
2010, 7 min, 16mm) by Peter Herwitz * IF THERE BE THORNS (USA, 2009, 12
min, video) by Michael Robinson * ROLE (Canada, 2009, 9 min, 16mm) by
Denise Oleksijczuk * TUSSLEMUSCLE (USA, 2009, 5 min, 16mm) by Steve
Cossman
3/26
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
OPEN SCREENING
DVD, Mini-DV, Videotape, 16MM, S8MM. All works are shown on a
first-come-first-served basis. Bring films, videos and/or come as a
viewer. (Finished works only, limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per
person). Refreshments will be available. Doors open at 7pm. Screening
begins at 8pm and ends at 10:30pm. Admission by contribution.
3/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30PM, 32 Second Ave @ Second Street
COMPUTATIONAL SUBLIME:VIDEOS BY GREGG BIERMANN
"In this work Gregg Biermann has taken head-on some of the supreme
moments of classical cinema and subjected them to a dazzling
transformation in the digital domain. The results are exhilarating,
surprising tours de force. They also have a zany quality that shows the
artist to have a witty imagination. He is a prober into the hidden
corners of cinema, and a master of computer-based wizardry." -- Larry
Gottheim The development of new tools has often determined aesthetic
innovations. Consequently, I've looked to new technologies to discover
vast unspoiled frontiers no longer available to small gauge filmmakers
interested in exploring cinematic form. These works use digital
technologies to advance rigorous compositional strategies and could not
have been achieved in earlier periods. The meaning of digital technology
lies in its ability to copy, alter, mask, fragment, super-impose,
mutate, reflect, transmit and reframe. – Gregg Biermann Happy Again --
2006, 5 minutes, video, sound The signature scene from the Hollywood
musical Singin' in the Rain is split into seven layers. Each layer is
moving at a different speed and is visible equally in superimposition.
At the temporally central point all visual and audio elements coalesce
in a single frame. The result uncovers a new cinema, music and dance
that are buried within the familiar iconic sequence. The Hills Are Alive
-- 2005, 7 minutes, video, sound An iconic scene from the beloved
Hollywood musical The Sound of Music is transformed through a
contrapuntal progression of split screen effects. The resulting mosaic
reveals haunting melodies and reverberating dissonance. Spherical
Coordinates – 2005, 9 minutes, video, sound The camera moves in a
variety of ways examining the inside of a 3D animated sphere on the
inside of which a scene from "Psycho" is wrapped. Utopia Variations –
2008, 5 minutes video, sound In this piece the "over the rainbow"
sequence from The Wizard of Oz moves forward from the beginning and
backwards from the end in half second intercuts. This gradually builds
from one screen to a "25-voice" split-screen canon in which each voice
is slightly out of sync. The resulting matrix is mesmerizing,
kaleidoscopic. The Waters of Casablanca –2002, 6 minutes, video, sound A
single frame from the classic film Casablanca is transformed into six
minutes of exploding and hyperactive animation. Although the process is
entirely digital, it actually relates to the hand-made or cameraless
tradition more than most computer animation. Another Picture -- 2007, 4
minutes, video, sound Another Picture is a digital age motion study
inspired by the "chronophotographic" work of Etienne-Jules Marey. The
finale from the Hollywood classic Sunset Boulevard is split into 16
superimposed layers. Each duplicate of the scene dissolves in and out
such that it is slightly offset in time from the next. The result is
oddly static and hyperactive at the same time. High Noon Reflections –
Gregg Biermann, 2009, 12 minutes, video, sound In this piece simple
patterns intervene and the original material (an iconic passage from the
classic film High Noon) is transformed by them. Each shot from the
original material is repeated five times and this sequence is broken up
into a four part split screen, with each part of the mosaic two and one
half seconds ahead of the next. The images also reflect across their
horizontal and vertical axes in a regular pattern. The result is a
gradual yet propulsive, shifting, and hypnotic transformation of the
original sequence. Hackensack Motet – 2006, 5 minutes, video, sound
Recorded on Main Street in Hackensack, New Jersey and animated in the
same software that is responsible for 3D animated features like Shrek,
this video transforms an ordinary street scene into a kaleidoscopic
phantasmagoria with stunning depth effects. The original audio
composition has associations with early choral music and thus imbues the
otherwise worldly imagery with sacred, almost cosmic qualities New
Jersey Gradual – 2008, 17 minutes, video, sound This video consists of a
single 17-minute dolly shot of a typical feature of the suburban New
Jersey landscape: the parking lot. This shot is used as a texture on the
inside of a primitive object in a virtual 3D space. The object is a
sphere that undertakes a number of programmed rotations. The result
transforms the ordinary imagery into a hypnotic, disorienting and at
times otherworldly visual experience. Somehow the secular and the
spiritual collide in this unlikely landscape. Traffic Patterns – 2009, 9
minutes video, sound Video sequences shot on New Jersey highways from a
moving automobile are wrapped around a virtual 3D cylinder and the
virtual camera moves around inside it distorting the view and
encountering various reflective objects. This material is then subjected
to a complex editing procedure that results in a meditative rhythmic
montage.
3/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm. $6-$10, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
HÄXAN ACCOMPANIED WITH LIVE NEW SCORE BY DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN!
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Our January screening (with live music) of
Benjamin Christensen's silent masterpiece HÄXAN was such a success that
we're bringing it back -- so that all those folks who were turned away
at the door can see it in all its magnificent, loony glory! Featuring
crazed nuns, flaming witches, and a spectacularly obscene performance by
the director himself as Satan, HÄXAN is like no other film ever made: an
uncontrolled rampage of feverish, violent images, part historical
recreation, part religious satire, all hallucination. Once again,
Artists Television Access is proud to present HÄXAN in a newly butchered
version, prepared especially for these screenings by conceptual artist
Dr. Astronaut Body. Now missing over half an hour of crucial footage and
structurally reorganized for maximum impact, HÄXAN will be accompanied
by a new score performed live by the San Francisco electronica band DR.
PRISONER: THE BRAIN! Including members of The Pine Box Boys and Reagan's
Polyp, DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! is part of the same creative team that
has premiered new scores for THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU,
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAN WHO
LAUGHS, KOYAANISQATSI, and the Led Zeppelin film THE SONG REMAINS THE
SAME, all at Artists Television Access.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010
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3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: ALL THAT LIES BETWEEN US (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
program includes: GARDEN ROLL BOUNCE PARKING LOT (USA, 2009, 5 min,
16mm) by Melissa Friedling * PASSAGE BRIARE (Austria, 2009, 3 min, 16mm)
by Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) * NOTES ON THE OTHER (Spain, 2009, 13
min, video) * COFFEE FUTURES (USA/Turkey, 2009, 22 min, video) by Zeynep
Devrim Gürsel * RIHLA (Netherlands, 2010, 11 min, video) by Gerbrand
Burger * THE USE OF MOVEMENT (USA/Canada, 2009, 15 min, video) by Chris
McNamara * APRIL DAY AND NIGHT (USA, 2009, 13 min, video) by Daniel
Sheppard
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
12:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: THE MEMO BOOK - FILMS BY MATTHIAS MüLLER
A program of earlier 16mm films from German film artist Matthias Muller.
Program includes: THE MEMO BOOK (1989, 28 min) * HOME STORIES (1991, 6
min) * SLEEPY HAVEN (1993, 15 min) * ALPSEE (1994, 15 min) * SCATTERING
STARS (1994, 2 min) * PENSAO GLOBO (1997, 15 min)
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS BY PAVEL MEDVEDEV
For the past decade, acclaimed Russian documentary filmmaker Pavel
Medvedev has been depicting facets of post-Soviet life through taut
cinematography, incisive observation and deft montage. Pavel Medvedev
(b.1963, Orenburg, Russia) worked as a television director in St.
Petersburg, and since 2000, he has been working as a film director at
the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Program includes: VACATIONS
IN NOVEMBER (2002, 20 min, 35mm) * WEDDING OF SILENCE (2003, 28 min,
35mm) * ON THE THIRD PLANET OF THE SUN (2006, 31 min, 35mm) * THE UNSEEN
(2008, 28 min, video)
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: CONSTANTS TO NOTHING (FILMS IN COMPETITION)
DICK CHENEY IN A COLD DARK CELL (USA, 2009, 3 min, video) by Jim Finn *
WOUND FOOTAGE (Germany, 2009, 6 min, video) by Thorsten Fleisch * WHAT
COMES BETWEEN (Canada, 2009, 6 min, video) * GREENPOINT (USA, 2009, 8
min, 16mm) by Jim Jennings * SONGS FROM THE SHED (USA, 2008, 23 min,
video) by Melika Bass * SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST (Canada, 2008, 6 min,
16mm) * YANQUI WALKER AND THE OPTICAL REVOLUTION (USA, 2009, 33 min,
16mm) by Kathryn Ramey
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: TEHRAN HAS NO MORE POMEGRANATES
TEHRAN HAS NO MORE POMEGRANATES (directed by Massoud Bakhshi, Iran,
2007, 68 min, 35mm) - Director Bakhshi and his crew are on a mission to
make a film about their hometown, Tehran, but have hit a wall and must
explain to their overseers at the Documentary Film Center why the film
will never be completed. They decide to investigate the city's past in
order to better understand the reason for their predicament. What
follows is a sarcastic and comic narrative about Tehran's transformation
from a small village into a megapolis of increasing urban mess,
pollution, inadequate housing, class gaps and the fatal destiny of its
delicious pomegranates. *** Preceded by PIENSA EN MI (USA/Ecuador, 2009,
13 min, 16mm) by Alexandra Cuesta
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: AN EVENING WITH KENNETH ANGER
Kenneth Anger in person. Anger will be joined on stage for a
conversation with NY film critic Dennis Lim following the presentation
of four recently restored prints of 16mm films blown-up to 35mm (by the
UCLA Film and Television Archive). Program includes FIREWORKS (1947, 15
min)* RABBIT'S MOON (1950, 16 min)* SCORPIO RISING (1963, 29 min)*
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS(1964, 3 min) * Program presented with support of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
9:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: MATTER AND MEMORY (FILMS IN COMPETITION)
Program features new work by Stephen Wetzel and Daichi Saito (in
attendance). MYTH LABS (USA/Netherlands, 2008, 5 min, video) by Martha
Colburn * FROM THE ARCHIVES OF AN INVENTOR (USA, 2009, 20 min, video) by
Stephen Wetzel * BEAUTY PLUS PITY (USA/Canada, 2009, 14 min, video) by
Duke & Battersby * DROPPING FURNITURE (Austria, 2008, 5 min, video) by
Harald Hund & Paul Horn * I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING (England, 2009, 29 min,
16mm scope) by Ben Rivers * TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Canada,
2009, 10 min, 35mm) by Daichi Saito
3/27
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - TONY CONRAD
Filmmaker, video artist, musician/ composer, teacher and writer, Tony
Conrad returns to the Millennium with a wide ranging program of rarely
seen (and never) seen works and performances created between 1973 and
2008. Conrad's film THE FLICKER, is a notorious classic of the
underground cinema of the 60s. Before that he created the soundtrack for
Jack Smith's FLAMING CREATURES. In the 1970s, the premiere of his YELLOW
MOVIES Exhibition was held at Millennium. ----- Program: PUTIN'S GAS
STATION (3 min.-2003), YOUR FRIEND (10 min.-2008), BORING FILM WITH
BOWED FILM - BORING FILM (14 min.-2008), BORING FILM (Performance
work-1974), SIP TWICE SANDRY (1 min.-1983), Three audio pieces- AND YOU
WILL SEE, GOO GOO, THEY CALLED IT (7.5 min.-1973-74), TEDDY TELLS JOKES
(4 min.-1980), COME ON IN (16 min.-1986), ACROPOLIS LECTURE (7
min.-2006), ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH EXPERIENCE: INTERIM SEMESTER AT
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE (5 min.-1973) and four pieces in collaboration with Joe
Gibbons, THE PRODUCER (13 min.-2005), LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION (3
min.-1985), ON SLAVERY (13 min.-2005), I WAS JUST LEAVING (13
min.-2005).
3/27
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 3/27: SHIMOMITSU + SOFTSERVE + CYRUS + SHALO +
Consumer-grade media-tech has come into the hands of a younger
generation of abstract artists who choose to freely fuse visual and
audio expression. Certainly the Bay Area has been a hotbed for the rich
cross-fertilization and robust growth of this exciting Live A/V
synthesis. Shimomitsu—Shemoel Recalde and Joshua Roberts—stitch a crazy
quilt from both conventional instruments and new electronics,
accompanied by their own visual mix. Softserve (Erik Wilson and Mbryo)
max out on Jitter to generate their own fractal waterfall of
audio-visual Noise. In Omori, resident artist Cyrus Tabar splits his
fingers between analog and digital devices, while. Shalo the Pe
initiates the proceedings with his performance-arty Bedroom Suite. The
four acts are punctuated by pause-worthy commas of other synaesthetic
works. And of course: Dream Machine in effect! *$7.77.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010
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3/28
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: SEEING IN BETWEEN (PROGRAM 2)- FILMS BY
CHICK STRAND, PRESENTED BY IRINA LEIMBACHER
The second of two programs of films by the late Chick Strand
(1931-2009), presented by scholar and curator Irina Leimbacher, this
program features three of Chick Strand's non-fiction works. *** "To
leave out the spirit of the people presents a thin tapestry of the
culture, easy to rent, lacking in strength and depth. I want to know
really what it is like to be a breathing, talking, moving, emotional,
relating individual in the society." – Chick Strand *** Program
includes: MOSORI MONIKA * (1970, 20 min, 16mm) * ANSEMLO AND THE WOMEN
(1986, 35 min, 16mm) * FAKE FRUIT (1986, 22 min, 16mm)
3/28
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOW HERE (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
This program includes new work by Shambhavi Kaul, Jesse McLean, Laura
Kraning, and the North American premiere of a new video by Samuel
Stevens (filmmakers in attendance). * SCENE 32 (USA/India, 2009, 6 min,
video) by Shambhavi Kaul * ATLANTROPA (England, 2009, 20 min, video) by
Samuel Stevens * THE BURNING BLUE (USA, 2009, 9 min, video) by Jesse
McLean * VINELAND (USA, 2009, 10 min, video) by Laura Kraning *
PETROPOLIS (Canada, 2009, 43 min, video) by Peter Mettler
3/28
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: KENNETH ANGER- PROGRAM TWO
The second of two programs featuring the films of Kenneth Anger will
include: EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) * INAUGURATION OF THE
PLEASURE DOME * (1954, 38 min, 16mm)* INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER
(1969, 12 min, 16mm) * LUCIFER RISING (1980, 29 min, 16mm)
3/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
PRIVILEGE WITH YVONNE RAINER IN PERSON IN DISCUSSION WITH MARTIN KERSELS
Part 7 (of 8) of Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer Retrospective.
PRIVILEGE (1990, 103 minutes, 16mm, color and b&w ) Winner of the
Dramatic Filmmakers Trophy at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival. Yvonne
Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause.
Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has
fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal
economies of race, gender and class.
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