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Date: Sat Mar 20 2010 - 04:09:01 PDT
Part 1 of 2: This week [March 20 - 28, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 19, 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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Artists for Studio Tour Program (Chicago, IL; Deadline: April 05, 2010)
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CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: April 05, 2010)
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Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FIlm Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2010)
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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International Talent Workshop - Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: April 02, 2010)
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Animator Festival (Poznan, Poland; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Observando El Cielo By Jeanne Liotta [March 20, San Francisco, California]
* Craig Baldwin: Mock Up On Mu; Accelerated Underdevelopment & Other Cinema
Shorts [March 20, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York]
* 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]
* Accelerated Underdevelopment By Travis Wilkerson [March 21, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival - Opening Night Screening [March 23, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Taka iimura In Person [March 23, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival : A Sentimental Education, A Lux Programme [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* A Sentimental Education, A Lux Programme [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival- Let Each One Go Where He May - Ben Russell
In Person [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: "Diamond Pivot Bright" (Films In
Competition) [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Daniel Barrow - Every Time I See Your
Picture I Cry [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: "From Honey To Ashes" (Films In
Competition) [March 24, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Tomonari Nishikawa In Person [March 25, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival- Wasteland Utopias [March 25, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Matthias MüLler - (Penny W. Stamps Lecture) [March 25, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films By Nicky Hamlyn (In Person) [March 25, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: "Illuminations of the Beyond" (Films In
Competition) [March 25, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Red Grooms: Early Films [March 25, Bryn Mawr, PA ]
* Naomi Uman: the Ukrainian Time Machine [March 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* New York Archivists' Roundtable Program [March 25, New York]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: the Ukrainian Time Machine- Naomi Uman (In
Person) [March 26, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Seeing In Between- Films By Chick Strand
(Program 1), Presented By Irina Leimbacher [March 26, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Flying Lotus Plays Heaven & Earth Magic [March 26, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: How the Darkness Doubled (Films In
Competition) [March 26, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Open Screening [March 26, New York, New York]
* Computational Sublime:Videos By Gregg Biermann [March 26, New York, New York]
* HÄXan Accompanied With Live New Score By Dr. Prisoner: the Brain! [March 26, San Francisco, California]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: All That Lies Between Us (Films In
Competition) [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: the Memo Book - Films By Matthias MüLler [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films By Pavel Medvedev [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Constants To Nothing (Films In Competition) [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Tehran Has No More Pomegranates [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: An Evening With Kenneth Anger [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Matter and Memory (Films In Competition) [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Personal Cinema Series - Tony Conrad [March 27, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema, 3/27: Shimomitsu + Softserve + Cyrus + Shalo + [March 27, San Francisco, California]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Seeing In Between (Program 2)- Films By
Chick Strand, Presented By Irina Leimbacher [March 28, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Everybody Knows This Is Now Here (Films In
Competition) [March 28, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Kenneth Anger- Program Two [March 28, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Privilege With Yvonne Rainer In Person In Discussion With Martin Kersels [March 28, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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 Leaños 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!
3/20
San Francisco, California: Exploratorium
2pm, 3601 Lyon Street
OBSERVANDO EL CIELO BY JEANNE LIOTTA
Observando El Cielo by Jeann Liotta
3/20
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30, 322 UNION AVE
CRAIG BALDWIN: MOCK UP ON MU; ACCELERATED UNDERDEVELOPMENT & OTHER CINEMA
SHORTS
Mock up on Mu by Craig Baldwin. (2009, USA, 110 min, 16mm to DigiBeta).
A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig
Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length
"collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's
post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and
Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B-
(and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action
material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the
now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet
Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and
Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement").
Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the
militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual
fulfillment and leisure-time.
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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
3/21
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30, 322 UNION AVE
ACCELERATED UNDERDEVELOPMENT BY TRAVIS WILKERSON
Accelerated Underdevelopment by Travis Wilkerson (2003, USA, 55 min)
Acclaimed documentary on Santiago Alvarez, an unashamedly didactic,
partisan portrait in its subject's own style: brash intertitles,
involving music, stark images. Other Cinema Selects curated by Craig
Baldwin Key West (Coast)-ern Subcultural short works, fragments, and
experimental exercises. Thad Povey: Thine Inward-Looking Eyes. Relax;
Take a deep breath. (1993, 2 min) Sarah Christman: Dear Bill Gates; A
simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the
ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and
archival film, video and images from the internet, "Dear Bill Gates"
draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft. (2006,
17min) Sylvia Schedelbauer: Remote Intimacy; Stream of consciousness
with fictitious and found stories and a personal reference. (2008, 14
min) Davis Sherman: Tuning the Sleep Machine; "TUNING THE SLEEPING
MACHINE maintains a dreamy oscillation between visual abstraction and a
disjointedly submerged narrative of sexual menace. … [It] recalls our
shared experience of late-night television in which lambent images
emerge from the screen and turn strange as they percolate through our
half-conscious thoughts and reveries." – Paul Arthur, Film Comment
(1996, 13 min) Kelly Sears: Voice on the Line; Voice on the Line is a
collage animation made from figures cut out of archival ephemeral films
from the late 1950s. This animation mixes the history of these films
with events of this era which results in a large scale secret operation
that veers bizarrely off course. The film also reflects on current and
troubled relationships between the areas of national security, civil
liberties and telephone companies. Voice on the Line explores how
technology can be used to shape our fears, desires and how we feel
connected. (2009, 7 min). Damon Packard: Tom Jones. Tony Gault: TBD.
Discussion with Craig Baldwin to follow the screenings.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2010
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3/23
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
8 pm, Michigan Theatre
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL - OPENING NIGHT SCREENING
Opening night of the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival begins in tribute to
Chick Strand with a screening of her 1966 film Angel Blue Sweet Wings.
This program of 'films in competition' will feature several U.S. and
world premieres with several filmmakers in attendance. ANGEL BLUE SWEET
WINGS (1966, 3 min, 16mm) by Chick Strand * EL ATAQUE DE LOS ROBOTS DE
NEBULOSA-5 (Spain, 2008, 7 min, 35mm) by Chema García Ibarra * MISSED
ACHES (USA, 2009, 4 min, video) by Joanna Priestley * PHOTOGRAPH OF
JESUS (England, 2008, 5 min, video) by Laurie Hill * SLEEPING BEAR (USA,
2009, 11 min, video) by Jack Cronin * NOUS (France, 2008, 11 min, 35mm)
by Oliviers Hems * THE PLACE WHERE WE WERE (Japan, 2008, 6 min, 16mm) by
Naoyuki Tsuji * DE MOUVEMENT (Canada, 2009, 7 min, 35mm) by Richard Kerr
* FANTASY SUITE (USA, 2009, 7 min, video) by Kent Lambert * THE UNMAKING
OF 'I AM A SEX ADDICT' (USA, 2009, 8 min, video) by Caveh Zahedi *
PORTRAIT #3: HOUSE OF SOUND (USA, 2009, 11 min, video) by Vanessa
Renwick * MY TEARS ARE DRY (Spain/USA, 2009, 4 min, 16mm) by Laida
Lertxundi
3/23
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
TAKA IIMURA IN PERSON
TAKA IIMURA (Tokyo), one of the pioneers and still very active
parishioners of avant-garde media (film/video) will present, VITAL
SIGNS: THE LANGUAGE OF TECHNOLOGY (1966-1977, 88 min.), a program of
early video from America and Japan, (a considerable portion of which is
his own early work) highlighting the significant parallel developments
in media in these countries during the 1960's and 70's. Following the
introduction of the first consumer-grade video recorder, the Portapak by
Sony in the mid-1960's, artists and non-artists participated in a
fertile time of creative exploration and experimentation with the new
technology. The birthplace of video, was of special interest during the
1960's and 70's there were many instances of exchange between artists
from Japan and the U.S. Advances in the aesthetics of video were largely
inspired by the collaboration of Nam June Paik, a Korean living in New
York, and the Tokyo-based engineer Shuya Abe. Early performance works by
New York artist Joan Jonas were influenced by the work she saw on a trip
to Japan. Prominent Japanese artists such as Takahiko Iimura and Shigeko
Kubota came to the U.S. and were widely exhibited. Artists included: Nam
June Paik, Gary Hill, Toshio Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Keigo
Yamamoto, James Byrne, Takahiko Iimura, Kohel Ando, Morihiro Wada. (This
program comes out of a collaboration of the Yokohama Museum in Japan, a
team of Japanese curators and the Electronic Arts Intermix.)
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010
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3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
10 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL : A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, A LUX PROGRAMME
Benjamin Cook, Director and founder of the London-based moving-image
artists organization LUX, will present a program of film and video by
contemporary British artists. The program includes: L'EDUCATION
SENTIMENTALE (2005, 5 min, 35mm) by Jimmy Robert * BORN WINGED ANIMALS
AND HONEY GATHERERS OF THE SOUL (2005, 9 min, 16mm) by Emily Wardill *
THE MARCH OF THE BIG WHITE BARBARIANS (2005, 5 min, video) by Mark
Leckey * GEORGE (2008, 4 min, video) by Luke Fowler * DESPAIR (2009, 18
min ,video) by Stephen Sutcliffe * FLASH IN THE METROPOLITAN (2006, 3
min, 16mm) by Lucy Skaer & Rosalind Nashashibi * BACHELOR MACHINES PART
1 (2007, 30 min, 16mm) by Rosalind Nashashibi
3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
10 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, A LUX PROGRAMME
Benjamin Cook, Director and founder of the London-based moving-image
artists organization LUX, will present a program of 16mm film and video
by contemporary British artists. The program includes: L'EDUCATION
SENTIMENTALE (2005) by Jimmy Robert * BORN WINGED ANIMALS AND HONEY
GATHERERS OF THE SOUL (2005) by Emily Wardill * THE MARCH OF THE BIG
WHITE BARBARIANS (2005) by Mark Leckey * GEORGE (2008) by Luke Fowler *
DESPAIR (2009) by Stephen Sutcliffe * FLASH IN THE METROPOLITAN (2006)
by Lucy Skaer & Rosalind Nashashibi 2006 * BACHELOR MACHINES PART 1
(2007) by Rosalind Nashashibi
3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1pm, Michigan Theatre - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL- LET EACH ONE GO WHERE HE MAY - BEN RUSSELL
IN PERSON
Ben Russell will present his feature-length debut LET EACH ONE GO WHERE
HE MAY (USA/Suriname, 2009, 135 min, 16mm). Russell's feature-length
debut consists of thirteen 10-minute shots, filmed primarily with a
steadicam rig. The film follows two unidentified brothers (played by
Benjen and Monie Pansa) as they journey from the outskirts of
Paramaribo, Suriname through a busy city street, past an illegal gold
mine, through the forest and a Maroon village to the Upper Suriname
River. The brothers' near wordless journey via foot, bus, and canoe, is
a compressed echo of an epic voyage taken by their ancestors, who
escaped slavery under Dutch rule, 300 years prior.
3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: "DIAMOND PIVOT BRIGHT" (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
This program features the world premieres of new films by Robert Todd,
Luciano Zubillaga and Alexis Bravos (filmmakers in attendance). GOLDEN
HOUR (USA, 2009, 17 min, 16mm) by Robert Todd * BEYOND by Annja
Krautgasser (Austria, 2008, 6 min, video) * MUSIC FOR A MISSING FILM
(Venezuela/England, 2009, 29 min, video) by Luciano Zubillaga * A DEEP
WELL (USA, 2010, 3 min, video) by Alexis Bravos * LOST WORLD (Hungary,
2008, 20 min, 35mm) by Gyula Nemes
3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: DANIEL BARROW - EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR
PICTURE I CRY
Daniel Barrow's "manual animation" performance EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR
PICTURE I CRY combines overhead projection with video, music, and live
narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an
independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city.
In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting
personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through
the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn't yet realize is
that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he
includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete.
The garbage man is a failed artist who fears becoming subject to the
grip of something overwhelming. This animation traces his attempts to
slow down and creatively reflect, in a process of coming to terms with
his own self-loathing and fear. ****** Winnipeg-bred, Montreal-based
artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies to present written,
pictorial and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing
and collecting. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book
narratives to "manual" forms of animation by projecting, layering and
manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.
3/24
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
9:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: "FROM HONEY TO ASHES" (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
This program includes the world premiere of a new video by Jennifer
Reeder (in attendance). THE PRESENTATION THEME (USA, 2009,14 min, 16mm)
by Jim Trainor * ON A PHANTOM LIMB (USA, 2009, 36 min, video) by Nancy
Andrews * ZEPHYR (Japan, 2009, 6 min, 16mm) by Naoyuki Tsuji * SOMEWHERE
ONLY WE KNOW (USA, 2009, 5 min, video) by Jesse McLean * SEVEN SONGS
ABOUT THUNDER (USA, 2010, 20 min, video) by Jennifer Reeder
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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010
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3/25
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: TOMONARI NISHIKAWA IN PERSON
In the past decade, artist Tomonari Nishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), has
created a fascinating and exhilarating body of film, video and
installation works which embody an energetic exploration of the
mechanics of image-making, optics, human perception and elements of the
film frame. Images of the natural world, urban environs and shared
social spaces are presented anew, realized with extraordinary precision
and a joyful rigor. Works include: APOLLO (16mm, 2003) * SKETCH FILM #1
& #2 (Super 8mm, 2005) * MARKET STREET (16mm, 2005) * CLEAR BLUE SKY
(video, 2006) * BUILDING 945 (video document of installation, 2007) *
INTO THE MASS (dual 16mm, 2007) * 16-18-4 (35mm, 2008)
3/25
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
10 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL- WASTELAND UTOPIAS
World premiere of WASTELAND UTOPIAS (USA, 2010, 90 min, video) by David
Sherman; a cinematic essay tracing the intersection of visionary
developer Del Webb (Sun City) and legendary radical
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich (Orgone Energy). What on earth
could these two possibly have in common? The sunny Sonoran Desert for
one thing, a shadowy CIA Operative for another. Desert landscapes,
desert soulscapes, sex, sustainability, Emotional Plague, cloudbusting,
cosmic intervention—these and other relevancies link the 1950s with our
present moment in surprising, and seemingly prophetic, ways.*****
Preceded by WAY FARE (Germany, 2009, 5 min, video) by Sylvia
Schedelbauer.
3/25
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
5 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
MATTHIAS MüLLER - (PENNY W. STAMPS LECTURE)
Matthias Müller will present "Thieves Like Us", a lecture on his work
and screening of three recent 35mm films (co-directed by Christoph
Girardet). Films screened: MIRROR (8 min, 2003), KRISTAL (14 min, 2006)
and CONTRE-JOUR (10 min, 2009).
3/25
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Screening Room
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS BY NICKY HAMLYN (IN PERSON)
A program of 16mm films by Nicky Hamlyn (Lewes,England). Hamlyn's films
are a direct engagement with the terms of filmic representation. They
assay the relationship between film space and film frame, flicker and
movement, light and the material image. Sometimes improvisational,
always rigorously conceived, each of Hamlyn's films arise from an
encounter between a situation, location or subject and a specific camera
strategy. Within this precise formal play is the appearance of
unanticipated phenomena. Depictions of domestic interiors and landscapes
wring uncanny incidents from quotidian, even abject images, while
simultaneously probing at the capacities and limitations of the film
medium. *** Nicky Hamlyn is an artist, writer and theorist whose films
have been exhibited at numerous venues internationally. Films to be
screened: MINUTIAE (1 min, 1990) * HOLE (2 min, 1992) * MATRIX (7 min,
1999) * LUX ET UMBRA (5 min, 1999) * NOT RESTING (5 min, 1999) *
PENUMBRA (9 min, 2003) * PISTRINO (9 min, 2003) * TRANSIT OF VENUS (2
min, 2005) * OBJECT STUDIES (16 min, 2005) * PANNI (3 min, 2005) *
QUARTET (8 min, 2007) * PRO AGRI (3 min, 2008)
3/25
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
9:30 pm, Michigan Theater - Main Auditorium
48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: "ILLUMINATIONS OF THE BEYOND" (FILMS IN
COMPETITION)
TRAVELLING FIELDS (Norway, 2009, 9 min, 35mm) by Inger Lise Hansen *
BLACK RAIN (England, 2009, 3 min, video) by Semiconductor * #37
(Netherlands, 2009, 31 min, 35mm scope) by Joost Rekveld * STRAIGHT
LINES (USA, 2009, 5 min, video) by Vincent Grenier * A LETTER TO UNCLE
BOONMEE (Thailand, 2009, 17 min, video) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul *
STILL RAINING, STILL DREAMING (USA, 2009, 15 min, video) by Phil Solomon
3/25
Bryn Mawr, PA : Bryn Mawr Film Institute
www.brynmawrfilm.org
7:30 p.m., Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Avenue
RED GROOMS: EARLY FILMS
Artist Red Grooms is internationally known for his large scale
multimedia installations, like 1982's Philadelphia Cornucopia. Early in
his career, Grooms collaborated with artist Mimi Gross and others on a
number of short experimental films. On Thursday, March 25 at 7:30 pm,
Bryn Mawr Film Institute will screen three of Grooms's earliest and
rarely-seen films: Shoot the Moon (1962, co-directed with Rudy
Burckhardt), Fat Feet (1966), and Tappy Toes (1968). The hour-long
program will be followed by a question and answer session with Grooms.
The screening will be preceded by a special reception with the artist.
For more information on the film program and reception, email
email suppressed or call (610) 527-4008, x109. These events are
organized in conjunction with Bryn Mawr College's exhibition Old Masters
and Modern Muses: Red Grooms's Portraits of Artists, 1957-2009, on view
from March 25 through June 5, 2010. See www.brynmawr.edu for exhibition
information.
3/25
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
NAOMI UMAN: THE UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE
Naomi Uman in person! In 2006, experimental filmmaker Naomi Uman
retraced her great grandparents' emigration from Eastern Europe in
reverse, settling in the tiny village of Legedzine, Ukraine, where she
still lives today. The result of her adventures is the quietly
picaresque quintet of 16mm films, The Ukrainian Time Machine. In
capturing the joys and hardships of her neighbors' centuries-old way of
life--traditions that are eroding with the encroaching pressures of
modernity--Uman creates a new kind of living history, fresh with
curiosity and verve. In this evening's program, Uman will present
Unnamed Film (2008) her keen documentary about life in Legedzine,
cataloging its inhabitants' various strategies of labor and
resourcefulness necessary for survival; Kalendar (2008) a poetic
collection of shots, one for each month of an entire year; and Coda
(2008) a black-and-white epilogue encapsulating the themes of the series
as a whole. Naomi Uman, 2008, Ukraine, 16mm, ca. 70 min (plus
discussion).
3/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NEW YORK ARCHIVISTS' ROUNDTABLE PROGRAM
RARE SCREENING OF FILMS PRESERVED THROUGH THE NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION
FOUNDATION Anthology Film Archives and the Archivists' Roundtable of
Metropolitan New York are excited to present a rare, one-night screening
of films from greater New York's diverse community of archives and
museums. The screening presents a singular combination of home movies,
documentaries, educational and industrial films, and narrative
filmmaking. All the films were preserved through funding provided by the
National Film Preservation Foundation. This screening is a truly unique
opportunity to experience the diversity of the archives, museums, and
libraries that care for collections with cultural and historical
significance in Metropolitan New York. We hope you will join us for this
very special screening, a glimpse into New York's vault! The Archivists'
Roundtable of Metropolitan New York has been the primary local
membership organization for professional archivists for over thirty
years. Although membership is primarily comprised of archivists working
and living within the five boroughs, it extends as well to Nassau,
Suffolk, and Westchester counties, New Jersey, and western Connecticut.
In addition to practicing archivists, membership includes graduate
students from local universities, librarians, records managers,
historians, curators, administrators, retirees, and volunteers. For
further information about NYART, please visit: www.nycarchivists.org
Since 1997, the National Film Preservation Foundation has been funding
preservation to save America's film heritage. The NFPF is a nonprofit
organization created by the U.S. Congress to support activities that
"preserve American films and improve film access for study, education,
and exhibition." NFPF has provided funding to a diverse community of
cultural and historical organizations in Metropolitan New York.
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