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This week [March 27 - April 4, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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The Lab (San Francisco, CA 94103; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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CologneOFF VI - Let's Celebrate! (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: April 05, 2010)
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International Talent Workshop - Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Naomi Uman: Ukrainian Time Machine [March 29, San Francisco, California]
* Ross Lipman: Urban Ruins, Found Moments [March 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Trouble In Paradise [March 30, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Avant Cinema: Gems From the Film-Makers' Cooperative [March 31, Austin, TX]
* New York Women In Film and Television Program [March 31, New York]
* Boston Motion Graphics Festival 2010 [April 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* On the Third Planet From the Sun: the Films of Pavel Medvedev [April 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Metalking [April 1, London, England]
* Two Together: Reception [April 1, San Francisco, California]
* Cut and Run Presents: A Night of Storytelling [April 2, San Francisco, California]
* Two Together One: Stanton Kaye & Jim Mcbride [April 2, San Francisco, California]
* The Ukrainian Time Machine [April 2, Seattle, Washington]
* The Experiment 2: Portraiture [April 3, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema, 4/3: Ecc / Murnau 's Nosferatu + Copyright Criminals + [April 3, San Francisco, California]
* Two Together Two: Jim Mcbride & Stanton Kaye [April 3, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2010
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3/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Ovila Ampitheater at University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. (near Cole St.)
NAOMI UMAN: UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE
Naomi Uman in-person! Presented in association with the USF Film Studies
Program & Cinema Project: While exploring family roots in Ukraine,
American filmmaker Naomi Uman lived in Legedzine, a small village near
the center of the country, and made Ukrainian Time Machine—employing the
same diary-film style as seen in her past works Leche and Mala
Leche—about the people there. Together with friends from the Echo Park
Film Center in Los Angeles, Uman rented a van, bought a gas-powered
generator and headed out across the country. Once in a new town, they
simply asked for permission to do a screening, advertising the show over
their speaker system and inviting people one by one. Many attendees said
to Uman, "This is the way that we live; you have captured that. We
ourselves could never have made this film. We do not see these things
about ourselves as something to film, yet you have made a truly accurate
portrait of our lives." This outdoor Cinematheque screening will
recreate the unique atmosphere and exuberance of the Ukraine roadshow.
(MIKE PLANTE) Naomi Uman: Ukrainian Time Machine (2008), 100 min. Free.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010
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3/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
ROSS LIPMAN: URBAN RUINS, FOUND MOMENTS
Los Angeles premieres Known as one of the world's leading
restorationists of experimental and independent cinema, Ross Lipman is
also an accomplished filmmaker, writer and performer whose oeuvre has
taken on urban decay as a marker of modern consciousness. He visits
REDCAT with a program of his own lyrical and speculative works,
including the films 10-17-88 (1989, 11 min.) and Rhythm 06 (1994/2008, 9
min.), selections from the video cycle The Perfect Heart of Flux, and
the performance essay The Cropping of the Spectacle. "Everything that's
built crumbles in time: buildings, cultures, fortunes, and lives," says
Lipman. "The detritus of civilization tells us no less about our current
epoch than an archeological dig speaks to history. The urban ruin is
particularly compelling because it speaks of the recent past, and
reminds us that our own lives and creations will also soon pass into
dust. These film, video, and performance works explore decay in a myriad
of forms—architectural, cultural, and personal." In person: Ross Lipman
3/30
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Trouble in Paradise (1932, 83 min.) by ERNST LUBITSCH. "There is no
Hollywood movie more insouciantly amoral than Ernst Lubitsch's 1932
Trouble in Paradise. Released in the depths of the Great Depression,
Lubitsch's urbane comedy concerns a swank pair of thieves, played by
Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins, who not only live together in sin
but—after successfully fleecing Kay Francis's rich and equally charming
widow—taxi off into the sunset utterly unrepentant. … Hedonism was never
more nonchalant. … Style is substance in Lubitsch's instantly recognized
masterpiece: "As close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the
movies," the young Dwight Macdonald wrote in a little literary magazine.
Indeed, style is morality."-J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010
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3/31
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, 1901 E. 51st Street
AVANT CINEMA: GEMS FROM THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE
Avant Cinema: Gems from the Film-Makers' Cooperative brings from New
York City to Austin the group-curated program A Moveable Feast,
originally presented at the Howl! Arts Festival. Coop board members
selected titles from the collection most influential on their own
filmmaking. The Tribute is also a celebration of the Coop's move to its
new home at 475 Park Avenue South. Viet-Flakes - Carolee Schneemann,
1966 16mm, B/W, sound, 11 min. Selected by M.M. Serra. Viet-Flakes was
composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images I
collected from foreign magazines and newspapers over a five-year period.
Fragments - Mike Kuchar, 1967 16mm, color, sound, 10 min. Selected by
Jack Waters. A visual drift into the realm of electric colors, sensual
curves and dark, dank grasslands, where one is lost with himself. Angel
Blue Sweet Wings - Chick Strand, 1966 16mm, color, sound, 4 min.
Selected by Lynne Sachs. An experimental film poem in celebration of
life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and
found images. Exhibition: New York Film Festival; Arles, France Film
Festival; Canadian Women's Film Festival. Bridges-Go-Round - Shirley
Clarke, 1958 16mm, color, sound, 7 min. Selected by Donna Cameron. "By
my standards, Miss Clarke's picture, an eerie close-up of the
metropolitan bridges, is extraordinary. A film that captures the bizarre
magic of man-made spans with the movement of a lightning clap and with
the same terrible beauty." -- Howard Thompson, The New York Times Scotch
Tape - Jack Smith, 1962 16mm, color, sound, 3 min. Selected by Anne
Hanavan. With Jerry Sims, Ken Jacobs and Reese Haire. 16mm Kodachrome
shot on the rubble strewn site of the future Lincoln Center. The title
arises from the piece of scotch tape which had become wedged in the
camera gate. Commingled Containers - Stan Brakhage 1996 16mm, color,
silent, 3 min. Selected by Scott Nyerges. The entire film juxtaposes its
water surface tensions and its under-water pulsing forms of light, its
blues of water surface reflecting sky, and whites of watery turbulence,
and its sub surface world of quiet whites yellows and oranges, ending
finally on a surface shot which resolves these tones. Cartoon Le Mousse
- Chick Strand, 1979 16mm, color, sound, 12 min. Selected by Bradley
Eros. "Chick Strand is a prolific and prodigiously gifted film artist
who seems to break new ground with each new work. Her recent "found
footage" works such as Cartoon Le Mousse, are extraordinarily beautiful,
moving, visionary pieces that push this genre into previously unexplored
territory. If poetry is the art of making evocative connections between
otherwise dissimilar phenomena, then Chick Strand is a great poet, for
these films transcend their material to create a surreal and sublime
universe beyond reason." – Gene Youngblood. The Whirled - Ken Jacobs,
1961 16mm, color & B/W, sound, 4 min. Selected by Colen Fitzgibbon. The
Following four films are early images of Jack Smith:1. Saturday
Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956)2. Little Cobra Dance (1956)3. Hunch
Your Back (1963) 4. Death of P'Town (1961) Ceci N'est Pas - Jeanne
Liotta, 1997 16mm, B/W, sound, 7 min. Selected by Ghen Zando-Dennis.
Hand-developed and unedited, this roll lived in my camera from March to
May 1995: A trip to New Orleans, a train ride, the death of a dear
friend and artist. This film is the author of itself; its trace function
leaves me behind. "The cadaverous presence establishes a relation
between here and nowhere." – Maurice Blanchot. "The Phantome disturbs by
its just out of reach presence." – Bruce Witsiepe
3/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION PROGRAM
Please visit: www.nywift.org for more information. Screening as part of
the series NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION
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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2010
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4/1
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Motion Graphics Festival
http://MGFest.com
6:30 pm, Brattle Theatre
BOSTON MOTION GRAPHICS FESTIVAL 2010
April 1st through 5th, All Around the City Featuring artists such as:
The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Herzog & De Meuron, Three Legged Legs,
Jean-Paul Frenay,Yoshi Sodeoka, Alan Sondheim, Addictive TV, Warp
Records, The Crystal Method, Royksopp, Assassin's Creed 2, LucasArts,
N.A.S.A., Larry Carlson, Ken Adams, Jen Stark, Shantell Martin and more.
Featured Artists :: http://mgfest.com/10/boston/#featuredartists
Workshops & Conference :: http://mgfest.com/10/boston/#education Tickets
and Registration :: http://mgfest.com/10/boston/#tickets The Motion
Graphics Festival will soon be back in town, and from April 1st to 5th,
ready with a new wave of artists to awaken those sleeping synapses.
Witness and participate in a convergence of motion, sound and
interactivity, embrace new ideas, celebrated the inquisitive spirit, and
at evening's approach, dance. The festival debuts the 2010 schedule with
screenings by Lumen Eclipse, 'Psychedelia' and 'Somatic Death, Soma
Life' at the Brattle Theater on Thursday 1 April. We will journey down
the road set by thirteen artists exploring a new mind-manifesting
experience - challenging afresh our perceptions and pointing towards a
reawakening unhindered by the prosthetic body. Friday night's Best of
2009 screening by Stash DVD Magazine highlights 36 commercials, music
videos, virals, short films, broadcast designs and game cinematics from
top-tier studios across the world. Something will grab your attention,
setting off a chain reaction and igniting a fresh set of ideas, which
may have been lying dormant for years, uninspired to leave the confines
of its stasis. Saturday night's performance by Z.E.E. in the 2012 Lounge
at Machine features a completely integrated audio + video live
performance music set. The visuals are rendered in realtime, seamlessly
spread across 3 full-HD resolution projections, achieving a horizontal
resolution of over 4500 pixels at 30 frames per second. The entire
evening experience brought to you by Zebbler, Vermin Street and MGFest.
Boston may not be the same – but neither will you. Full Festival Info ::
http://MGFest.com
4/1
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
ON THE THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN: THE FILMS OF PAVEL MEDVEDEV
The documentaries of Pavel Medvedev are haunting portraits of some of
post-Soviet Russia's most isolated people and places. This rare
screening presents four different facets of Medvedev's remarkable
oeuvre. Vacation in November (2002) follows Russian miners in the
tundra. On a forced furlough from their regular jobs, they embark on an
annual massive reindeer slaughter to supplement their income. On the
Third Planet from the Sun (2006) studies life in the country's
resource-rich Arkhangelsk region, where inhabitants forage for scrap
metal left behind from H-bomb testing. Wedding of Silence (2003) depicts
a deaf community in St. Petersburg, juxtaposing an expressive wedding
celebration with the din of a foundry where many work. Following a
different kind of party, The Unseen (2007) captures the
behind-the-scenes dinners and rituals of the 2006 G-8 summit in St.
Petersburg, along with their corresponding impact on Russian citizens.
Russian with English subtitles. Pavel Medvedev, 2003-08, Russia, 35mm
and Beta SP video, ca. 100 min.
4/1
London, England: No.w.here
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subcat=main
10:30 - 5 pm, 316-318 Bethnal Green E2 0AG
METALKING
3. Special workshops / events 1. no.w.here presents: MetalkinG – El Kino
Up Your Ears! Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd April, 10:30 – 5pm. Open to 8
participants, £130 non-members, £90 members MetalkinG comprises Riojim
and Richarles Bronson who use 16mm projectors as both improvisational
tools, alongside electric guitar, effects and sound processing the
outcome of which is a live performance with genuine real time
collaboration between projectionist and musician, sound and images.
Riojim's film work involves heavy found footage processing, and the use
of both simple and intricate lab processes to create images. Riojim is a
member of Levox, who currently run the French Atelier MTK, based In
Grenoble. This workshop coincides with a MetalkinG performance at Café
Oto in Dalston on Saturday 3rd April at 8pm. Tickets: £6 at CAFÉ OTO, 18
- 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL Riojim will guide you
through creating loops of film through hand contact printing (flat
printing in the darkroom), hand processing using both E6 and C41 colour
positive and negative chemicals, scratch mixed black and white positive
chemistry, esoteric chemical cross processes, basic optical printing and
the use of slow and fast motion, fades and tinting and toning film using
filters, and creative expanded projection. This heavily practical
two-day workshop is suitable for both absolute beginners to film, as
well as those artists who may be interested in expanding their horizons.
The workshop will use found footage sourced from no.w.here's archive,
although you are welcome to bring your own to work with (around 2-3
meters of film for loop work) – with the caveat that due to the nature
of the workshop and processes involved this should not include footage
that is the apple of your eye. For more information please see:
http://www.filmlabs.org/index.php/labs/mtk/ http://www.vimeo.com/9268166
http://free.freedom.free.fr/ http://www.mtk.ecrandamour.org/?s=english
www.cafeoto.co.uk http://smabpf.blogspot.com www.lux.org.uk
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/index.shtm
4/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9:00pm, Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus Avenue (near Kearny), San Francisco, CA 94133
TWO TOGETHER: RECEPTION
Presented in collaboration with Jeanette Etheredge: A special reception
with guests Stanton Kaye and Jim McBride, in anticipation of their
forthcoming programs on 2-April and 3-April.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010
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4/2
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
doors 7:30, show 8 pm. $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
CUT AND RUN PRESENTS: A NIGHT OF STORYTELLING
This set of arcane short films produced by filmmakers from throughout
the world come together to acquaint us with the stories of the lost and
found, silenced, and re-imagined others; those who lie at the base of
the story but are limited in their depictment. In short, the OTHER
PEOPLE.
4/2
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. (at 3rd St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
TWO TOGETHER ONE: STANTON KAYE & JIM MCBRIDE
Presented in association with Tosca Cafe & Cabinetic, introduced by Tom
Luddy: Cinematheque proudly presents two justifiably legendary
filmmakers—Stanton Kaye and Jim McBride—and four feature films (plus a
short) in their long overdue and most welcome return to San Francisco.
Of the initial film in this first evening of double-features,
Canyon/Cinematheque's own Ernest "Chick" Callenbach instantly praised
Georg, writing that it "establishes its visual authority immediately...
produc[ing] a film image which stands squarely on its own—often of a
touching or funny kind, but always solid, demanding no concessions and
full of ironic ramifications." Something of a cause-and-effect, Georg in
a sense begat David Holzman's Diary, arguably the White Light/White Heat
of American independent cinema: limitedly distributed in its initial
release yet profoundly influential among those that saw it and
unquestionably a landmark of its era. In Jim McBride's …Diary,
filmmaking is the process. Filmmaking is the objective. Filmmaking is
the obsessive "everything" in this highly subversive and imaginative
pseudo-documentary. (JONATHAN MARLOW) Stanton Kaye: Georg (1964), 55
min. Jim McBride: David Holzman's Diary (1967), 74 min. TICKETS:
members: $6 / non-members: $10
4/2
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
THE UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE
These poetic documentary films combine personal, experimental and
non-fiction approaches to capturing life in the Ukrainian town of Uman.
Director Naomi Uman draws upon her personal experience, living with her
subjects for a long time to become integrated into a family or
community. For this collection of intimate films she returned to the
tiny village that her family fled a hundred years ago. Full of the
cinematic richness that can only be captured on film, Uman's gaze
lingers affectionately on things both beautiful and ordinary. Director
in attendance (and teaching a workshop)
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/1233
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SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2010
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4/3
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7pm-10pm, 343 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY, 10027
THE EXPERIMENT 2: PORTRAITURE
'The Experiment' is a quarterly screening event dedicated to the
relationship between experimental and documentary modes of cinema. Our
last screening explored politics of the image with works from Jem Cohen,
Deborah Stratman, and Leslie Thornton. This time around, we have
assembled a diverse collection of films and videos, from both
established and emerging artists, exploring the concept of portraiture
in film. This two-floor event will showcase works both in a traditional
theater setting as well as through gallery-style film and video
installations. A suggested donation bar will be open the entire evening.
Come for the main screening, and then check out the installations
downstairs, or vice-versa! Screenings in Cinema at 7pm and 9pm.
Installation-based film and video screens downstairs in Gallery
continuously 7pm to 10pm. Presenting Artists are Ben Rivers - Origin Of
The Species, Paolo Gioli - Filmarilyn, Albert Maysles - Orson Welles In
Spain, Stan Brakhage - I...Dreaming, Robert Todd - Stable, Kelly Spivey
- Make Them Jump, Marie Losier - Snowbeard, Seth Fragomen - Seance,
David Baker - Ab Ovo, Naren Wilks - Bridge Study, Jay Hudson - S21,
Lorenzo Gattorna - Nessun Dorma, Peter Buntaine - Bushwick, Sean Berman
- Green-Screen Self-Portrait, Greg Vanderveer - Albert Maysles.
4/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 4/3: ECC / MURNAU 'S NOSFERATU + COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS +
Performed only once before, Evolution Control Committee's radically
eclectic soundscape for FW Murnau's horror classic Nosferatu is a
meticulous mix of soundtracks from other movies (how "Other Cinema" can
you get?)! Iconic/ironic snippets from the classic tracks of The Sound
of Music, Jaws, Dr. No, Star Wars, and dozens of others are DJ'd live
from turntable, transmuted through Trademark G's magical sleight-of-hand
into an uncannily appropriate unified soundtrack! PLUS: Copyright
Criminals, a new doc by Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen, examines the
creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the ongoing
debates about artistic expression and copyright law. Showcased are many
of Hip Hop's legendary figures, like Public Enemy, De La Soul, George
Clinton, Digital Underground, DJ Spooky, Eclectic Method, and Mark
Hosler (of Negativland). PLUS an assemblage of Negativland's own
audio-visual citations. NOTE: Early doors at 7:45, CC at 8, ECC at 9.
*$7.
4/3
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. (at 3rd St.), San Francisco, CA 94103
TWO TOGETHER TWO: JIM MCBRIDE & STANTON KAYE
Presented in association with Tosca Cafe & Cabinetic: Stanton Kaye and
Jim McBride in-person! Cinematheque's cinematic pairings from these two
preeminent filmmakers continues with My Girlfriend's Wedding, Jim
McBride's vérité interview with his girlfriend about her pending
marriage to someone else. Together with its short companion piece, the
similarly themed My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law, McBride takes the
"diary film" genre and turns it inside-out. Then he inverts it again.
Thereafter, Stanton Kaye's stunning Brandy in the Wilderness tills a
similar soil for an entirely different crop, cultivating a work that
deliberately distorts the tenuous intersection between fiction and
reality. For viewers that prefer their evening's entertainment to fit
nicely within predefined definitions, beware: Brandy strays well beyond
the conventional borders of narrative or documentary filmmaking.
(JONATHAN MARLOW) Jim McBride: My Girlfriend's Wedding (1969), 60 min. »
: My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law (2008), 9 min. Stanton Kaye:
Brandy in the Wilderness (1971), 87 min. TICKETS: members: $6 /
non-members: $10
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