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Part 1 of 2: This week [April 10 - 18, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* It Came From Kuchar [April 10, New York]
* Kuchar Brothers Program 1 [April 10, New York]
* Kuchar Brothers Program 2 [April 10, New York]
* Other Cinema, 4/10: Sachs' With Wind In Our Hair + House of Science + [April 10, San Francisco, California]
* Seeing Sound: Mary Ellen Bute Retrospective [April 10, Seattle, Washington]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Julie Murray: Slight Movements [April 11, Los Angeles, California]
* It Came From Kuchar [April 11, New York]
* Kuchar Brothers Program 3 [April 11, New York]
* Kuchar Brothers Program 4 [April 11, New York]
* Unessential Cinema: Depraved Youth [April 11, New York]
* States of Belonging: 10 Short Films By Lynne Sachs [April 11, San Francisco, California]
* Dreamy Daytime Brunch [April 11, San Francisco, California]
* Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane [April 11, Seattle, Washington]
* East Coast Premiere of Two New Films By Nathaniel Dorsky [April 12, New York, New York]
* It Came From Kuchar [April 12, New York]
* #14 = 4/12/10 = Ellie Epp In Person! [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Lynne Sachs Retrospective: States of Belonging, Program Three [April 13, Berkeley, California]
* It Came From Kuchar [April 13, New York]
* Black Girl [April 13, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Lynne Sachs Retrospective: States of Belonging: Program 4 [April 14, Berkeley, California]
* Newtown, Los Angeles Filmforum & Cinefamily Present: Blast Phemy! #3 - A
Mid-Week Music/Media Mashup! [April 14, Los Angeles, California]
* It Came From Kuchar [April 14, New York]
* Scott Nyerges: A video Retrospective [April 14, Purchase, NY]
* States of Belonging Program iv: A Lynne Sachs Retrospective [April 14, San Francisco, California]
* Ryan Trecartin: New Work [April 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* It Came From Kuchar [April 15, New York]
* Open Screening [April 15, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Open Screening [April 15, San Francisco, California]
* Thundercrack! [April 16, New York]
* The Life of the World To Come the Mountain Goats In Solo and Duo
Performance [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 1 [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Thundercrack! [April 17, New York]
* George Kuchar Shorts Program [April 17, New York]
* Secrets of the Shadow World [April 17, New York]
* Other Cinema, 4/17: Cump's California Is An Island + Denning + Bravos + [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 2 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 3 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 4 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 5 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Stephanie Barber: Little Presents [April 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Mike Kuchar Program 1 [April 18, New York]
* Mike Kuchar Program 2 [April 18, New York]
* Secrets of the Shadow World [April 18, New York]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 6 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 7 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 8 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2010
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4/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3, 5 and 7 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR by Jennifer M. Kroot 2009, 86 minutes, video.
Distributed by IndiePix; special thanks to Jennifer Kroot, Krysanne
Katsoolis (Cactus 3), and Michael Tuckman (mTuckman media). NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! There's no shortage of definitive documentaries
about the key figures of commercial cinema: filmmakers from Orson Welles
and John Ford to Val Lewton and Howard Hawks have all been treated to
in-depth studies of their lives and careers. In a perfect world, we'd
also have docs devoted to filmmakers like Ron Rice, Curtis Harrington,
Owen Land, and the Kuchar brothers. But wait, the world just got a
little more perfect (and not a moment too soon) thanks to Jennifer M.
Kroot and her lavish, hilarious, and luminary-filled feature IT CAME
FROM KUCHAR. Precocious twin brothers George and Mike Kuchar were raised
in the Bronx, where they began making ultra-low-budget, feverishly
inventive movies as kids in the mid-50s. Whether working in film or
video, together or alone, the world-renowned Kuchars are rightfully
revered for their ribald humor, over-the-top ingenuity, incredible
camera work, and prolific output. IT CAME FROM KUCHAR is bursting with
hysterical and touching footage of the Kuchars at work and play,
overflowing with eye-popping excerpts from countless films, and
abounding with commentary from Kuchar devotees including John Waters,
Buck Henry, Guy Maddin, and Anthology's own Andrew Lampert. In short, IT
CAME FROM KUCHAR is the Kuchar documentary we've all been dreaming of.
Now it's time for Hollywood to come through with a big-budget bio-pic…
"Gleefully piles on everything anyone could want in a documentary on the
fabulous Kuchar brothers, whose deliriously campy zero-budget melodramas
enlivened many otherwise somber evenings of 60s underground cinema.
Critics and aficionados seek to distill the essence of the twins' work,
while clips from the films in question unspool in a fever dream of
compelling non sequiturs. Meanwhile, George and Mike Kuchar themselves
hold forth unstoppably. A must-see for filmmakers of all persuasions."
–Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY
4/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KUCHAR BROTHERS PROGRAM 1
KUCHAR 8MM PROGRAM 1 All films preserved with support from the National
Film Preservation Foundation. TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN (1963, 15 minutes,
8mm-to-16mm, sound on CD) Mike's cautionary tale about past-their-prime
thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. MOUNTAIN
VACATIONS (1962, 15 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, silent) Also known as CATSKILL
COOL CATS, this mysterious reel has never appeared in any Kuchar
filmography. George recalls that this vacation destination was the
easiest place to reach by bus from the Bronx. THE NAKED AND THE NUDE
(1957, 36 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound on CD) The oldest surviving Kuchar
mini-epic. "Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own
boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd
Thorner sing the title song. You'll come out whistling from both ends."
–G.K. A REEL OF HOME MOVIES (1959-1961, 25 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, silent)
An eclectic compilation of home movies and early cinematic experiments.
"From the age of 12 onward until 17 (the restless years) the Kuchar
brothers lived life to the fullest and tasted the spices of the lower
class, the sugar of the bourgeoisie and the kasha of the jet set. At
this time their films were seldom longer than four minutes." –G.K. Total
running time: ca.
4/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KUCHAR BROTHERS PROGRAM 2
KUCHAR 8MM PROGRAM 2 All films preserved with support from the National
Film Preservation Foundation. PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1961, 14 minutes,
8mm-to-16mm, sound on CD) The salacious short that caused the Kuchars'
banishment from meetings of the New York Eight Millimeter Motion Picture
Club. "It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation
of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them
sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A
film for young and old to enjoy." –G.K. LUST FOR ECSTASY: A DRAMA OF
OBSESSIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF SENSATIONALISM (1963, 52 minutes,
8mm-to-16mm, sound on CD) My most ambitious attempt since my last film….
I wrote many of the pungent scenes on the D train, and when I arrived on
the set I ripped them up and let my emotional whims make chopped meat
out of the performances and the story…. Yes, LUST FOR ECSTASY is my
subconscious, my own naked lusts that sweep across the screen in 8mm and
color with full fidelity sound." –G.K. LOVERS OF ETERNITY (1964, 36
minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound on CD) The last 8mm Kuchar production is an
all-too-tragic tale in which we find underground icon Jack Smith,
experimental filmmaker Dov Lederberg, and one giant cockroach
intermingling in the squalor of the Lower East Side. Total running time:
ca. 105 minutes.
4/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 4/10: SACHS' WITH WIND IN OUR HAIR + HOUSE OF SCIENCE +
Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar, yet blended
with the realities of contemporary Latin America, here's the world debut
of With the Wind in Our Hair, Lynne Sachs' (in person) experimental
narrative about four girls discovering themselves through a fascination
with the trains that pass by their house. A magic-realist tale of
early-teen anticipation and disappointment, the 42-min. lyric is
circumscribed by a period of profound Argentine sociopolitical unrest.
Shot with 16mm, Super 8mm, and Regular 8mm film and video, the rites of
passage proceed from train tracks to sidewalks, into costume stores,
kitchens, and into backyards in the heart of today's Buenos Aires. PLUS:
In her House of Science: A Museum of False Facts (1991), Sachs suggests
that the mind/body split so characteristic of Western thought is
particularly troubling for women, who may feel themselves moving between
the territories of the film's title—private, public, and idealized
space—without wholly inhabiting any of them. Conceptions of Woman are
explored through home movies, personal reminiscences, staged scenes,
found-footage and voice-over. ALSO Lynne's Atalanta: 32 Years Later;
Noa, Noa; and Photograph of Wind.
4/10
Seattle, Washington: at Northwest Film Forum
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
8 pm, at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave
SEEING SOUND: MARY ELLEN BUTE RETROSPECTIVE
Presented at Northwest Film Forum and The Sprocket Society's Visual
Music: Sensory Cinema 1920s-70s special series, in association with
Center for Visual Music and Cecile Starr. 16mm prints. Program
introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center For Visual Music.
This retrospective program features Bute's pioneering abstract
animations, from Rhythm in Light (1934) to later works such as Mood
Contrasts (1956), an early use of oscilloscope patterns. The program
will be preceded by a short, work-in-progress documentary on Bute, made
by Cecile Starr with Kit Basquin and Larry Mollot (on video). American
filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is an important and often
overlooked pioneer of visual music and electronic art. Beginning in the
1930s, Bute produced short films which translated music — often
classical music by the likes of Bach and Shostakovich — into
choreographed shapes, ever-changing lights and shadows, brilliant
colorful forms, and elegant design. Critic and curator Ed Halter has
called her films "a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies."
Although little-known today, many of her films reached wide audiences at
the time through screenings before feature films at Radio City Music
Hall and movie theaters around the country. Series website is at
http://sensorycinema.org/
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SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010
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4/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS JULIE MURRAY: SLIGHT MOVEMENTS
One of the highlights of 2004 for us was our evening with Julie Murray,
thrilling us with the delicate experiments and natural wonders of her
films and videos, astonishing at every turn. They sustain with a
meticulous interweaving of found and original footage and dynamic
cinematic manipulations. And then she charms the hell out of us with her
expertise and Irish brogue. Filmforum is delighted to host again one of
the finest filmmakers of today with works new and old, including DETROIT
PARK (2004, digital video, 6 mins), ELEMENTS (2008, 16mm, sound, 7
mins), YSBRYD (2008, digital video, 8 mins), MICROMOTH. (2000, 16mm,
sound, 6 mins), CONSCIOUS (1993, 16mm, silent, 9 mins), DELIQUIUM (2004,
16mm, sound, 15 mins (but represents 8oo years)), and more.
4/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3, 5, 7 and 9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
See description for April 10th, 7:00 pm.
4/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KUCHAR BROTHERS PROGRAM 3
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde
Masters program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the
National Film Preservation Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc.
THE THIEF & THE STRIPPER (1959, 25 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) Dares to
lay bare the naked carcass of a generation gone mad with moral decay.
BORN OF THE WIND (1962, 24 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) "A tender and
realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has
restored to life… 2,000 years as a mummy couldn't quench her thirst for
love!" –G.K. A TOWN CALLED TEMPEST (1963, 33 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm,
sound) Rarely has the cinema equaled such a spectacle! Seldom have
movies probed so deeply into the rotten core of hypocrisy and weakness!
SYLVIA'S PROMISE (ca. 1962, 9 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) Love comes in
all sizes, but in this case love needs to diet! Sylvia makes a promise,
but can she keep it? Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
4/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KUCHAR BROTHERS PROGRAM 4
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde
Masters program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the
National Film Preservation Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc. A
WOMAN DISTRESSED (1962, 12 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) Pre-dating SHOCK
CORRIDOR, the Kuchars bring us this tantalizing tale of the inner
workings of a very, very insane asylum. NIGHT OF THE BOMB (1962, 18
minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) Teenage lust and deranged delinquence
combine to create a cautionary tale for the ages. The Chernobyl of
Comedy! THE CONFESSIONS OF BABETTE (1963, 15 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm,
sound) An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar in which Babette tells all,
leaving no turgid stone unturned. ANITA NEEDS ME (1963, 16 minutes,
8mm-to-16mm, sound) "All the horrors and guilt of the human mind
exposed! It reaches deep into the workings of a woman's cravings. Your
emotions will be squeezed." –G.K. I WAS A TEENAGE RUMPOT (1960, 10
minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) George and Mike here stumbled upon
something big: their names were Arline, Edie, and Harry. A documentary
about people like you and me, people with a zest for life. THE SLASHER
(1958, 21 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, sound) An insane, deformed killer stalks
the grounds of a resort house, bringing sudden violence to those of easy
virtue and godlessness. Total running time: ca. 95 min
4/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA: DEPRAVED YOUTH
ZAMPANO'S PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS: DEPRAVED YOUTH 1953-1974 A few years back
Albert Steg, a film collector from Cambridge, MA, left his first career
teaching writing and English literature to not-so-troubled teens for the
greener pastures of film preservation and archiving. Today, he is on the
Board of Directors of the Center for Home Movies and freelances
developing FileMaker Pro management solutions for people who like to
organize things. And this evening he will be at Anthology to host a
special edition of his wonderfully raucous 'Zampano's Playhouse' series.
Albert's shows always include the very best of his ever-growing
collection of educational, industrial, ephemeral, and 'blue' movies.
DEPRAVED YOUTH 1953-1974 is a roughly chronological program featuring
short films originally intended for school audiences. Bedeviled
educators have long enlisted frugal filmmakers to help them tame the
unruly spirit of adolescence, in the process leaving behind a remarkably
rich, often cruel, occasionally hysterical visual record of fears and
strategies for confronting them. Tonight's screening readily
demonstrates the philosophical transition from a 1950s "straighten up
and fly right" ethos to a groovier, more sympathetic late-60s approach
that attempted to reveal the inner life of the perennially "troubled
teen." Poor teenagers…will they ever be understood? And if the
assortment of tantalizing titles listed below isn't enough, the program
will be further enlivened with period advertisements and quirky shorts!
VANDALISM (1953, 10 minutes, 16mm) Sid Davis lays bare the threat of
anti-social youths. POSTURE HABITS (1963, 10 minutes, 16mm) If only they
stood up straight, that would be a start. A CHILD WHO CHEATS (ca. 1968,
9 minutes, 16mm) The apple never falls far from the tree. VERBAL AND
NON-VERBAL RESPONSES (1968, 7 minutes, 16mm) Teachers learn how to
modulate their tone for greater effectiveness. CAUGHT IN A RIP-OFF
(1974, 16 minutes, 16mm) A first-person narrative of wounded cynicism
and shame. LOPSIDELAND (1971, 5 minutes, 16mm) In California, not even
the camera stands up straight. THE DAY THAT SANG AND CRIED (1969, 27
minutes, 16mm) Find out why, in this cheesy but surprisingly evocative
"coming-of-age" film. Total running time: 90 minutes.
4/11
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8 PM, 275 Capp St.
STATES OF BELONGING: 10 SHORT FILMS BY LYNNE SACHS
Oddball Films and the San Francisco Cinematheque present States of
Belonging: Program Two. Part of a retrospective series of the New York
filmmaker's work, tonight's program highlights 10 films created between
1986 and 2010. In the words of curator Stephen Parr, "Lynne Sachs short
works reverberate with the distilled quality of poetic moments. >From
her early work in 16mm film in the 1980s through her later works
utilizing the immediacy of videotape, the texture of 8mm film and
expanded pallet of digital editing techniques, Sachs' works celebrate
the ordinary and the profound, mapping and defining unmined territories
of the human psyche. Elegantly fusing her varied influences of
literature, painting and collage into a inviting yet deep and personal
space these shorts bristle with the feeling of newly discovered modes of
perception and expressions of movement in time." Films include: Still
Life With Woman and Four Objects (1986); Drawn and Quartered (1986)
Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning (1987); Window Work (
2001); The Small Ones (. 2006); Atalanta (2006); Georgic for a Forgotten
Planet (2008); Cuadro por Cuardo en Montevideo (with Mark Street, 2009);
XY Chromosome Project (2006-2009); Task of the Translator (2010)
4/11
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
11AM-6PM $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
DREAMY DAYTIME BRUNCH
A.T.A. Gallery presents a dreamy daytime event in cooperation with Om
Shan Tea House and S.P.A.Z. With live electronics and various 4D
phantasmagoria, the program will include performances by: Nommo Ogo,
Craig Baldwin, Harro versus Laskfar Vortok, and weiRdos. Awesome organic
vegan cuisine and various fine teas provided by Om Shan Tea House. With
DJ sets by: Fluorescent Grey, Oshan, Anesthetist, and Muerto Zoke.
4/11
Seattle, Washington: at Northwest Film Forum
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
8 pm, at Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave
JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE
Part of Northwest Film Forum/Sprocket Society's Visual Music: Sensory
Cinema 1920s-1970s special series. Presented in association with Center
for Visual Music. Introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center For
Visual Music A very special program featuring rarely-seen works,
including Allures (1961), Samadhi (1967), a newly-preserved print of
Chakra (1972), Light (1973), Music of the Spheres (1977/2002), Epilogue
(2005), and a very rare, little-seen 1952 film. 16mm/video. Filmmaker
and artist Jordan Belson has created some of the most moving, ethereal
works of visual music. After seeing the films of Oskar Fischinger,
Norman McLaren and Hans Richter at the Art in Cinema series, he was
inspired to make what have been called "cinematic paintings." From
1957-59, Belson collaborated with composer Henry Jacobs on the historic
Vortex Concerts, which combined the latest electronic music with moving
visual abstractions projected on the dome of Morrison Planetarium in San
Francisco. Belson then began making what would become an astonishing
body of over 30 abstract films that are, as curator Cindy Keefer has
described, "richly woven with cosmological imagery, exploring
consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself." He also
produced special effects for the film The Right Stuff (1983), and
continues making fine art and films today. Series website for Visual
Music special series at NWFF is at http://sensorycinema.org/. For more
about Belson visit CVM's research pages at
www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson
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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010
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4/12
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
7:00 PM, Museum of Modern Art
EAST COAST PREMIERE OF TWO NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY
Nathaniel Dorsky will be presenting two new films at New York's Museum
of Modern Art on Monday, April 12th at 7:00 PM (this is part of their
Modern Mondays program). The films screened then will be: Sarabande
(2008, 15 minutes), Compline (2009, 19 minutes, East Coast Premiere),
Aubade (2010, 12 minutes, East Coast Premiere), and Winter (2008, 22
minutes)
4/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 & 9 pm, 32 Second Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
See program notes for April 10th, 7:00 screening.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8pm, the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West
#14 = 4/12/10 = ELLIE EPP IN PERSON!
We're extremely excited to be able to host filmmaker Ellie Epp in person
to present her films. These four films are classic touchstones of
Canadian filmmaking, with a formal beauty that enhances their sense of
landscape, vision and place. From trapline, her stunning portrait of an
indoor swimming pool (inspired in part by her own immersion in the
London Experimental Film Congress of 1972) to bright and dark, an
alchemical look at her trip south to San Diego where she now lives, her
films resonate with an exacting elegance. "…Close attention is intensely
active. Receiving a touch is as active as giving it - sometimes more
active, more skilled and more consequential. Erotic attention isn't an
empty bowl touch is poured or pushed into; it is more like a living
antenna with a million fibers actively searching the space of the touch
for its shape and meaning." – Ellie Epp. Programme: trapline, Ellie Epp,
16mm, 1976, Canada, 18 min. current, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1986, Canada, 3
min. notes in origin, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1987, Canada, 15 min. bright and
dark, Ellie Epp, 16mm, 1996, Canada/USA, 3 min. @ the Art Bar, Gladstone
Hotel | 1214 Queen St West Monday April 12, 2010 8:00pm screening, $5
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TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010
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4/13
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 pm, 2575 Bancroft Way Between College and Telegraph
LYNNE SACHS RETROSPECTIVE: STATES OF BELONGING, PROGRAM THREE
"Dotted Lines: Women Filmmakers Connect the Past and the Present"
Curated by Kathy Geritz Lynne Sachs has been making films for
twenty-five years, shifting between short, lyrical works and longer
experimental documentaries, all distinguished by her beautiful
camerawork and poetic associations. Her most recent film, The Last Happy
Day, is a portrait of a distant cousin, Sandor Lenard, whose life was
shaped by war and marked by his unusual pursuits. A Jewish doctor living
in Hungary, he fled the Nazis in 1938, relocating to Italy. After he
later moved to Brazil, he translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin. His
story is revealed through letters and interviews, punctuated by scenes
from Winnie the Pooh acted out by Sachs' children and their friends.
Which Way Is East, made fifteen years earlier, chronicles Sachs's trip
to Vietnam to visit her sister Dana; the pair traveled together from Ho
Chi Minh City to Hanoi. Impressionistic yet keenly observed, the film
reveals details of life during and after the Vietnam War, interspersed
with Vietnamese proverbs and voice-over remarks by both Lynne and Dana
as well as Vietnamese friends. Both films are part of a larger series, I
Am Not a War Photographer, and along with the short cine-poem Tornado,
they provide unique perspectives on the personal impact of war.(Kathy
Gertiz) Which Way is East (1994); The Last Happy Day (2009); Tornado
(2001)
4/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 & 9 pm, 32 Second Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
See program notes for April 10th, 7:00 screening
4/13
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BLACK GIRL
Black Girl (1966, 65min.) by OUSMANE SEMBENE "Africa's foremost
filmmaker. Osmane Sembène (1923-2007), directed not only the first
African feature film, but also the continent's first color movie and the
first shot in an indigenous language… by the early 60s, was recognized
as a major African novelist. But pushing forty, and realizing that
literature had a limited audience in Africa, he went back to (film)
school, with his efforts winning awards at festivals around the world
and bringing international attention to sub-Saharan African cinema. In
his nine features he was not only a sharp critic of the internal
problems of modern Africa, but also a passionate advocate of African
pride and autonomy. …In Black Girl Diouana finds her pleasant
babysitting chores for a French family in Dakar topped by an invitation
to accompany them back to France; but once there, she finds she's just
"the black girl." Based on an actual event, Sembène's first feature
combines the semi-doc technique of neo-realism with the simple,
freewheeling style of the early New Wave in an unsparing attack on
neo-colonial exploitation that put African cinema on the map. With
Sembène himself as a schoolteacher." – program notes by Karen Cooper,
Director, Film Forum (NYC). Albright Prof., Mary Jane Androne, PhD, who
recently participated in a Fulbright Seminar in Dakar, will give a short
introduction to the film. (French with English titles)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
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4/14
Berkeley, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, SF Cinematheque at California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street (near 16th)
LYNNE SACHS RETROSPECTIVE: STATES OF BELONGING: PROGRAM 4
The Last Happy Day and Investigations of a Flame Curated by Steve Polta
A frequent theme in Sachs' work is the aftermath of war and its
lingering effects on multi-generational families. Investigation of a
Flame is a work of poetic investigative journalism which explores a 1968
Vietnam War protest in suburban Baltimore. Blending archival footage of
the event, period reportage and contemporary interviews with
participants Daniel and Philip Berrigan, the film examines the
resonances of the act over the succeeding decades. A more personal work,
2009's The Last Happy Day portrays a distant cousin of Sachs, Sandor
Lenard. A Jewish writer and doctor, Lenard fled the Nazis and, post-war,
worked with the US Army to identify human remains. Later, while living
in self-imposed exile in the Brazilian jungle, Lenard achieved brief
fame for translating Winnie the Pooh into Latin. Incorporating excerpts
from Lenard's later letters to his estranged family, and on-screen
performances by her own children, the film stands as a moving tribute to
quiet heroism. Also screening: Sachs' 2007 "collaborative update" of
Chris Marker's 1972 short Three Cheers for the Whale. (Steve Polta) The
Last Happy Day (16mm on video, 38 min. 2009); Investigation of a Flame
(45 min. color and B&W, 2001); Three Cheers for the Whale by Chris Mark
in collaboration with Lynne Sachs (17 minutes / color, english version,
2007)
4/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Cinefamily, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
NEWTOWN, LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM & CINEFAMILY PRESENT: BLAST PHEMY! #3 - A
MID-WEEK MUSIC/MEDIA MASHUP!
Our third show in the ongoing Blast Phemy! series features outstanding
musical soloists performing new, cutting-edge works seamlessly melded
with a spectrum of media styles, including video montage, 3D animation
and multi-projector 8mm film! We've got a collaboration between 8mm
gunslinger Rick Bahto (who's exhibited at venues like MoMA, the San
Francisco Cinematheque and Director's Lounge in Berlin) and
composer/performer Luciano Chessa (who's an expert at both the
Vietnamese dan bau and the musical saw.) Another of the evening's
collaborations is a meeting of the minds between video artist Anne Bray
and postminimalist composer Eve Beglarian, with a live performance by
harpist Susie Allen -- and finally, we also have a live collision
between animation and banjo(!), delivered by psychedelic specialist Jim
Ovelmen.
4/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 & 9 pm, 32 Second Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
See program notes for April 10th, 7:00 screening
4/14
Purchase, NY: SUNY - Purchase
www.nyerges.com/video
5:30 p.m., Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road
SCOTT NYERGES: A VIDEO RETROSPECTIVE
Brooklyn-based experimental filmmaker Scott Nyerges will present a
collection of his short videos and hand-painted film stills, followed by
informal discussion. He'll premier his newest video, "Filmpiece for
Bartlett," a tribute to the late filmmaker Scott Bartlett ("Off/On",
"Serpent"). Works to be shown include "Autumnal," "Flow" and "Polar."
Scott draws inspiration from American avant-garde masters Stan Brakhage,
Jordan Belson and Scott Bartlett. His work has screened at festivals
including Tribeca, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, and won awards at Cinematexas
and the Black Maria Film Festival. Videos can seen streamed on his
website: www.nyerges.com/video. The screening is free and open to the
public. Wednesday, April 14. 5:30 p.m. The Neuberger Study.
http://www.neuberger.org/plan_a_visit.php
4/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth St. (near 16th St. & Wisconsin St.), San Francisco, CA
STATES OF BELONGING PROGRAM IV: A LYNNE SACHS RETROSPECTIVE
**States of Belonging is a four-part retrospective of the filmmakers
work, presented as an earnest collaboration between San Francisco
Cinematheque, the Pacific Film Archive, ATA's Other Cinema and Oddball
Film + Video. For more information on the series, visit
http://www.sfcinematheque.org.** A frequent theme in Sachs' work is the
aftermath of war and its lingering effects on multi-generational
families. Investigation of a Flame is a work of poetic investigative
journalism that explores a 1968 Vietnam War protest in suburban
Baltimore. Blending archival footage of the event, period reportage and
contemporary interviews with participants Daniel and Philip Berrigan,
the film examines the resonances of the act over the succeeding decades.
A more personal work, The Last Happy Day portrays a distant cousin of
Sachs, Sandor Lenard. A Jewish writer and doctor, Lenard fled the Nazis
and, post-war, worked with the U.S. Army to identify human remains.
Later, while living in self-imposed exile in the Brazilian jungle,
Lenard achieved brief fame for translating Winnie the Pooh into Latin.
Incorporating excerpts from Lenard's later letters to his estranged
family and on-screen performances by Sachs' own children, the film
stands as a moving tribute to quiet heroism. Also screening: Sachs'
"collaborative update" on Chris Marker's Three Cheers for the Whale.
(STEVE POLTA) Lynne Sachs: Investigation of a Flame (2001), 43 min. » :
The Last Happy Day (2009), 38 min. Chris Marker & Mario Ruspoli (with
Lynne Sachs): Three Cheers for the Whale (1972, revised 2007), 17 min.
TICKETS: members: $5 / non-members: $10 / CCA Students, Faculty & Staff:
Free
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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010
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4/15
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.
RYAN TRECARTIN: NEW WORK
Ryan Trecartin in person! Both in form and function, Ryan Trecartin's
video practice advances understandings of post-millennial technology,
narrative, and identity, while also propelling these matters as
expressive mediums. His work depicts worlds where consumer culture and
interactive systems are amplified to absurd or nihilistic proportions
and characters circuitously strive to find agency and meaning in their
lives. The combination of assaultive, nearly impenetrable avant-garde
logics and equally outlandish virtuoso uses of color, form, drama, and
montage produces a sublime, stream-of-consciousness effect that feels
bewilderingly true to life. This evening, as part of a special two-part
presentation organized by CATE and SAIC's Visiting Artists Program,
Trecartin will introduce two pieces from his latest series, Trill-ogy
Comp (2009-10): Sibling Topics (section a) (2009) and P.opular S.ky
(section ish) (2009). Co-presented by SAIC's Visiting Artists Program.
Visit www.saic.edu/vap. Trecartin will give an overview of his practice
on April 14 at 6p.m. in the SAIC Columbus Auditorium. Ryan Trecartin,
2009, USA, HDCAM video, ca. 90 min.
4/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 & 9 pm, 32 Second Avenue
IT CAME FROM KUCHAR
See program notes for April 10th, 7:00 screening
4/15
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films or tapes; all works will be screened.
4/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm Door, 8PM $5, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
OPEN SCREENING
ATA's openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in
the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out
with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people,
the refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title
and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week
advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good.
Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm
All genres. More Info: contact Katy at email suppressed
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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010
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4/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
THUNDERCRACK!
by Curt McDowell 1975, 152 minutes, video. Written by and featuring
George Kuchar. ULTRA-RARE SCREENINGS OF THE COMPLETE VERSION! "Witness
if you dare, the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film,
complete with four men, three women, and a gorilla. Ecstasy so great
that all heaven and hell becomes just one big old Shangri-La! … With the
initial setup of an atmospheric gothic horror tale – dark stormy night
breakdown featuring a creepy old house on the hill – it quickly turns
into a bawdy, graphic, and darkly comic orgy. Dead drunk, horny, and
delirious Marion Eaton commands the screen as one of cinema's weirdest
female characters, while George Kuchar falls madly in love with a
gorilla. … The most dialogue you will ever see in porn and the most porn
you will ever see in a melodrama, THUNDERCRACK! is a volatile marriage
of genres, fluid sexuality, and depraved perversion." –D.A. Johnston,
FRAMELINE
4/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm and 9pm, $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME THE MOUNTAIN GOATS IN SOLO AND DUO
PERFORMANCE
A FILM BY RIAN JOHNSON The Mountain Goats in solo and duo performance at
Pomona College. In this film by Rian Johnson (Brick, the Brothers
Bloom), John Darnielle performs "The Life of the World to Come" on piano
and guitar. Shot in the same building where, as an eight-year-old piano
student and new transplant to Claremont, he performed Bach minuets for
the state examiner, "The Life of the World to Come" takes the songs from
the album and restores them to their raw original states: skin, blood,
and bone. TRT 51 minutes. film clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ-zZJu6LKI For more information about
the Mountain Goats, please see: http://www.mountain-goats.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mountain-Goats/17314008126
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/115150-get-holy-an-interview-with-j
ohn-darnielle/
4/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00 pm, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 1
OPENING NIGHT: LAWRENCE JORDAN - MOMENTS OF ILLUMINATION The opening
night of Crossroads presents the opportunity for a pair of firsts: the
"sneak preview" of Kathryn Golden and Ashley James' "Moments of
Illumination," a fascinating documentary about legendary filmmaker
Lawrence Jordan. The film is followed by the premiere of Lawrence
Jordan's stunning, just-completed animated film, "Cosmic Alchemy!"
Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Film Society.
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