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This week [April 24 - May 2, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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CortopotereShortFilmFestival (Bergamo, Italy; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
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L'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2010)
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Lucca Film Festival 2010 (Lucca, Tuscany - Italy; Deadline: July 31, 2010)
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zwergWERK - Oldenburg Short Film Days (Oldenburg, Germany; Deadline: August 15, 2010)
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Experimental Media Festival (Washignton; Deadline: September 13, 2010)
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The Booking Collective Coming Out Show (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: April 23, 2010)
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Shorts & Beats Vol VI (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 05, 2010)
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36th New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival (Jersey City, NJ; Deadline: May 14, 2010)
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19th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hot Springs National Park, Ark; Deadline: May 24, 2010)
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Another Hole in the Head: Horror/Grindhouse Cinema (san francisco; Deadline: May 26, 2010)
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San Francisco Documentary Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
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Black Rock City Film Festival (Black Rock City - Burning Man; Deadline: July 15, 2010)
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13th San Francisco Independent Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 09, 2010)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Real Light ((touring this fall); Deadline: April 24, 2010)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2010)
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Contemporary Arts Center (Las Vegas, NV; Deadline: May 10, 2010)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC) (Marseille (France); Deadline: May 15, 2010)
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The Journal of Short Film Vol. 20 (Columbus, OH, United States; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Video Art Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Shorts & Beats Vol VI (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 05, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries [April 24, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Ucla Film & Television Archive, In Association With Los Angeles
Filmforum, Presents Intersections: Poetry/Film [April 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [April 24, New York]
* Closer Than they Appear - Eggleston, Huron, Smith - At Krowswork [April 24, Oakland, CA]
* Other Cinema, 4/24: Kerry Laitala & Eats Tapes + Pad Mclaughlin + [April 24, San Francisco, California]
* Barbara Hammer In Person [April 24, Seattle, Washington]
* The Ucla Film & Television Archive, In Association With Los Angeles
Filmforum, Presents Intersections: Poetry/Film [April 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimental Collisions [Short Film Program] [April 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [April 25, New York]
* Jennifer Reeves: When It Was Blue [April 26, Los Angeles, California]
* <B><I>Travel Diaries:</I></B> [April 26, New York, New York]
* Red Birds [April 26, New York]
* Red Birds [April 26, New York]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival- Nick Family Fun Day [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Announcing the Kinofilm 2010 Education Programme! [April 27, Manchester, United Kingdom]
* Red Birds [April 27, New York]
* Red Birds [April 27, New York]
* The Birds [April 27, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* <B>Visionaries</B> [April 28, New York, New York]
* <B>Visionaries</B> [April 28, New York, New York]
* <B>Visionaries</B> [April 28, New York, New York]
* Filmmakers Co-Op 4th Benefit Concert and Art Auction [April 28, New York, New York]
* The Social Factory Show [April 28, Providence, RI]
* The Social Factory Show [April 28, Providence, RI]
* Avant Cinema 3.8: Caroline Koebel [April 29, Austin, TX]
* "Times of Change" - Yaron Lapid - Petersburg Nights [April 29, Berlin, Germany]
* <B>Visionaries</B> [April 29, New York, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: “The Gods of Times Square” By Richard Sandler [April 30, New York, New York]
* Strategies of the Medium vi: Pieces of Eight [April 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Prolix Satori: An Evening With Lewis Klahr [May 1, Columbus, Ohio]
* Experimental Collisions [Short Film Program] [May 1, New York, New York]
* <B>Visionaries</B> [May 1, New York, New York]
* Experimental Collisions [Short Film Program] [May 2, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010
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4/24
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30PM, 322 Union Ave
JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ: FILM PORTRAITS AND EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
A program of films that straddle the experimental film and the
documentary. A new film by Joel Schlemowitz will also have its premiere.
Program includes: "Silo" (2007) 16mm, color, 3 min. "Teslamania" (2007)
16mm, color, 6 min. "Dame Darcy - a film portrait" (2007) 16mm, b&w, 5
min. "Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse" (2003), 16mm, b&w, 20
min. "Moving Images - the Film-Makers Cooperative relocates" (2001),
16mm, b&w/color, 14 min. All works will be shown on 16mm film.
4/24
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. at Westwood,
THE UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH LOS ANGELES
FILMFORUM, PRESENTS INTERSECTIONS: POETRY/FILM
Innovative filmmakers searching for new cinematic forms have frequently
turned to poetry as a source of inspiration and to poets themselves as
collaborators. In the 1960s and 70s, in particular, especially with
respect to the Beat poets, it became clear that poetry and avant-garde
film, both together and in parallel, had achieved a major evolution of
visual and written language which continues to fuel popular and artistic
culture today. As the UCLA campus welcomes the 2010 Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books, the Archive presents two nights of films exploring
the intersection of mid-century poets and filmmakers and the casual,
humorous and often rigorous cross-pollinization between these artists of
the page and screen. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD
(Shirley Clarke, 1963, 35mm, b/w, 52 min.) and PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS
JAMES BROUGHTON, PART ONE (John Luther Schofill, 1974-1980, 16mm, color,
40 min.)
4/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
by Jean Renoir 1939, 97 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles.
"Detested when it first appeared (for satirizing the French ruling class
on the brink of the Second World War), almost destroyed by brutal
cutting, restored in 1959 to virtually its original form, THE RULES OF
THE GAME is now universally acknowledged as a masterpiece and perhaps
Renoir's supreme achievement. In the four international critics' polls
organized every ten years (since 1952) by SIGHT AND SOUND, only two
films have been constant: one is BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and the other is
THE RULES OF THE GAME. And in the 1982 poll, THE RULES OF THE GAME had
climbed to second place. Its extreme complexity (it seems, after more
than 20 viewings, one of the cinema's few truly inexhaustible films)
makes it peculiarly difficult to write about briefly." –Robin Wood.
4/24
Oakland, CA: Krowswork Gallery
http://www.krowswork.com
6-9 pm, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR - EGGLESTON, HURON, SMITH - AT KROWSWORK
Krowswork Gallery is pleased to present Closer Than They Appear
featuring video by William Eggleston, a video installation by Sade
Huron, and photography by Ryan C. Smith. Each of these artists achieves
a startling, unsuspected intimacy through their formally conceived, yet
never unnatural, images of the everyday. Unspoken but thoroughly
integrated into this intimacy is a consideration of place and
placelessness, and of the lonely poignancy which often accompanies any
careful, deliberate looking at that which is closest to you./////////
Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday April 24th from 6
to 9. Exhibition on view through May 23rd. For more information visit
www.krowswork.com/closer.html //////// Pioneering photographer William
Eggleston made history in 1976 with the first exhibition of color
photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. A few years before
that show, though, in 1973, Eggleston had been one of the first
experimenters with the cutting-edge Sony PortaPak. The result is
Stranded in Canton, which will be continually on view at Krowswork, a
77-minute edit of over thirty hours of footage that chronicles the
unique underbelly of the strange world of privilege and deprivation in
the Mississippi Delta in the 1970s./////// Sade Huron is a Welsh-born
video and performance artist who has made the Bay Area her home since
1998. In her installation at Krowswork she presents a video shot while
driving on a highway, interspersed with footage that explores the
process of remembering and searches personal memoir. The breakdown and
deinterlacing of the video footage correspond directly to the breakdown,
and opening up, of memory./////// Photography at its core is a
transparent medium. When Ryan C. Smith takes portraits of people and
places familiar to him, a transference takes place and the viewer
becomes privy to a private dialogue that gets to the heart and breadth
of the relationship of the photographer to his subject--all captured in
a single, salient moment. Smith's photographs mostly picture friends,
lovers, and relations from the Bay Area and his native Nebraska, and
effortlessly integrate his evident devotion to them with a precise and
observant distance from them.
4/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 4/24: KERRY LAITALA & EATS TAPES + PAD MCLAUGHLIN +
We are lucky indeed to catch the mercurial Kerry Laitala between a
couple of her European engagements. The Goldie-awardee and maker behind
The Muse of Cinema brings an extraordinary new dimension to our
microcinema screen…that is, of DEPTH! This true Frisco original has
seized upon a retinal quirk, the ChromaDepth Effect, and gleefully
exploited the phenomenon with a delirious dose of Kodachrome. Kerry
presents (at least) four 3-D pieces: Afterimage: A Flicker of Life,
Chromatic Frenzy, and a pair too new to even name. This stereoscopic
spectacular is accompanied by the electronic hues of phonic faves Eats
Tapes (Marijke Jorritsma and Greg Zifcak), who rave it up in their own
righteous set. Preceding the Chromatic Cocktail serving is the high
craft of 3-D vets Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, with Pad's own debut
Strata, Bob's Day of the Dead ethnographic, and a 3-wall in-depth
immersion! *$7.77
4/24
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
BARBARA HAMMER IN PERSON
Barbara Hammer, on tour with her first book HAMMER! Making Movies Out of
Sex and Life, presents films from four decades of work in this rare
celebration at Northwest Film Forum. Holland Cotter, writing in the New
York Times, said, "The short films by Hammer are accessible, sexually
explicit, loaded with attitude and hilarious." Hammer's most recent
film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, about her survival from ovarian cancer,
won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best LGBT Short Film at the 2009
Berlin International Film Festival. Films from each decade will be
screened and Barbara will read short passages from her new book, which
will be for sale after the screening. Come see Hammer before her career
retrospectives at MoMA (NY) this fall and at The Tate Modern in winter
2010/11. Program includes: Menses, 1974, 16mm, 4 min; Optic Nerve, 1985,
16mm, 16 min; Still Point, 1989, 16mm, 9 min; Sanctus, 1990, 16mm, 19
min; A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, 2008, Beta-SP, 30 min.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010
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4/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. at Westwood,
THE UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH LOS ANGELES
FILMFORUM, PRESENTS INTERSECTIONS: POETRY/FILM
Innovative filmmakers searching for new cinematic forms have frequently
turned to poetry as a source of inspiration and to poets themselves as
collaborators. In the 1960s and 70s, in particular, especially with
respect to the Beat poets, it became clear that poetry and avant-garde
film, both together and in parallel, had achieved a major evolution of
visual and written language which continues to fuel popular and artistic
culture today. As the UCLA campus welcomes the 2010 Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books, the Archive presents two nights of films exploring
the intersection of mid-century poets and filmmakers and the casual,
humorous and often rigorous cross-pollinization between these artists of
the page and screen. VISIONS OF A CITY (Larry Jordan, 1957-1978, 16mm,
b/w, 8 min.); ADVENTURES OF JIMMY (James Broughton, 1950, 16mm, b/w, 11
min.); IN BETWEEN (Stan Brakhage, 1955, 16mm, color, 10 min.); NOTES ON
THE PORT OF ST FRANCIS (Frank Stauffacher, 1952, 16mm, b/w, 22 min.),
and more!
4/25
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts_experimental_collisions-film31278.html
9:45 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
EXPERIMENTAL COLLISIONS [SHORT FILM PROGRAM]
The 10 experimental films in this program portray locales found in both
natural and urban landscapes across three continents. A few of these
artist-filmmakers literally embed the earth (soil and mud) into the
fabric of the celluloid. Moreover, they portray these environments with
a riveting array of avant-garde techniques that range from mirror images
to extended tracking shots leading directly into the mind's eye. They
further infuse these found footage, animation, and live action
experimental films with dynamic editing rhythms that radically reshape
the viewer's perception of reality, leading to Rorschach-like
impressions. In experimental cinema, everything culminates in abstract
patterns ingrained in the landscape of the film frame. --Jon Gartenberg
Films include: • Grandmother's Eye (2010, Sweden, Jonathan Lewald), 5
min. North American Premiere. • Release (2010, US, Bill Morrison), 12
min. World Premiere. • Walkway (2009, US, Ken Jacobs), 9 min. North
American Premiere. • Lachen Verlernt (2009, Great Britain, Tal Rosner),
10 min. World Premiere. • This disk is the same as the other one (2009,
France, Jean-Jacques Palix), 9 min. North American Premiere. • Collision
of Parts (2010, US, Mark Street), 15 min. World Premiere • Berlin (2010,
Canada, Martin Laporte), 8 min. World Premiere. • The Delicate Art of
the Bludgeon (2009, France, Jean-Gabriel Periot), 4 min. North American
Premiere. • Black White Black White (2009, US, John Thompson), 15 min.
World Premiere • The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension
(2009, France, Emmanuel Lefrant), 7 min. North American Premiere.
4/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
by Jean Renoir 1939, 97 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles.
"Detested when it first appeared (for satirizing the French ruling class
on the brink of the Second World War), almost destroyed by brutal
cutting, restored in 1959 to virtually its original form, THE RULES OF
THE GAME is now universally acknowledged as a masterpiece and perhaps
Renoir's supreme achievement. In the four international critics' polls
organized every ten years (since 1952) by SIGHT AND SOUND, only two
films have been constant: one is BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and the other is
THE RULES OF THE GAME. And in the 1982 poll, THE RULES OF THE GAME had
climbed to second place. Its extreme complexity (it seems, after more
than 20 viewings, one of the cinema's few truly inexhaustible films)
makes it peculiarly difficult to write about briefly." –Robin Wood.
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MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
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4/26
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
JENNIFER REEVES: WHEN IT WAS BLUE
Los Angeles premiere 2008, 68 min., dual-projection 16mm This
double-projector performance by New York-based filmmaker Jennifer Reeves
pays rapturous homage to the endangered beauty of our blue planet.
Composed in four parts to represent the four seasons and cardinal
directions, When It Was Blue traverses the globe and its diverse
ecosystems from New Zealand to Iceland, the Americas and beyond,
rejoicing in myriad fauna and flora, mountains, forests, oceans, the
splendor of seasonal change—in short, the expanse of life as it exists
on earth. Reeves hand-paints frames and optically prints other images to
create impressionistic textures in what critic Mark Peranson calls "a
wide-ranging play on the notion of 'blue'—the color, the sensation, the
sinking realization that the natural world (and 16mm film) must be
captured as much as possible before it disappears." New York-based,
Icelandic bass player and composer Skúli Sverrisson (who is also Laurie
Anderson's music director) plays his soaring score live. In person:
Jennifer Reeves and Skúli Sverrisson
4/26
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/travelogues-film26836.html?c=y&page=1&&sortBy=title&curView=browseDetail&searchStartDate=04-20-2010&3301=170221&pageSize=15
4:00 PM, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas, 260 W. 23rd Street, between 7th & 8th Aves.
TRAVEL DIARIES:
YANQUI WALKER AND THE OPTICAL REVOLUTION (2009, Kathryn Ramey), 33 min.
New York Premiere. THE TRAVELOGUES (2009, Dustin Thompson), 49 min.
World Premiere. Co-Presented with Black Maria Film + Video Festival. The
travel diary genre provides the format for experimental filmmakers
Dustin Thompson (The Travelogues) and Kathryn Ramey (Yanqui Walker and
the Optical Revolution) to explore, in richly textured and multilayered
pictorial and audio fashion, journeys of adventure and conquest. Ramey
portrays American expansionist William Walker's ascent to the presidency
of Nicaragua in 1856. This film is densely structured. Threading
together educational film clips, expressive animation, location
photography, on-screen text, voiceover narration, and an array of
experimental filmmaking techniques, the filmmaker raises compelling
questions about visual perception and the construction of history. In
The Travelogues, Dustin Thompson creates a more personal story. He
travels with his film camera across two continents and compiles a series
of mini-narratives, suggestive of loves gained and lost. He generates
lyrical images, shot at oblique angles and developed with shifting
camera speeds; in each scene, the heightened film grain tends to move
the depiction of the natural universe toward abstraction. From the
prologue through to the epilogue of his journey, this artist travels a
fine line between real and imagined worlds. --Jon Gartenberg
4/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RED BIRDS
by Brigitte Cornand 2009, 75 minutes, video. ©Les Films du
Siamois/Centre Pompidou, 2009 U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "I've been
looking at and filming birds obsessively and with great passion for a
number of years. Since I've lived in New York, I've been dazzled by the
splendid species I see during my visits in Central Park, as well as on
the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts – the
magnificent cardinal being the foremost example. Thus, the title of my
new film: THE RED BIRDS (which has inspired Louise Bourgeois to create a
work on paper specifically for the film). "This new work is a very
personal portrayal of the relationship I've developed with my female
artist friends, whom I imagined had one day 'magically' transformed
themselves into birds. It is a vehicle for a direct expression of who
these artists are and is primarily based on their voices. The issue I
set out to explore when I began the project was how best to present
these artists whose work and lives I've documented in film and audio for
a number of years, in order to introduce their work and their universe
in an engaging manner, regardless of their age or the generation they
belong to. "Initially, the 'working title' I used for the project was
'My Beautiful Women', since all the artists featured in the film have
become friends whom I love and respect. And since I had in mind one day
to make a film solely with and about animals, I combined the two
projects into one. Thus the birds would have equal billing with the
beautiful women, each artist lending her voice to a bird that I had
selected specifically for her. "Like an artist, a bird represents a
symbol of freedom, independence, and beauty – ever elusive, birds are
essentially flights of fancy for us humans, providing us with the
ultimate metaphor for what an artist is and does. I tried to compose my
film as a tapestry wherein imagery of flowers and birds abound, and
where the human (female) activity never loses its vibrancy." –B.C. With,
in the order of their appearance: Louise Bourgeois – Cardinal; Kiki
Smith – Dove; Genevieve Cadieux – Blue Jay; Annette Messager – House
Sparrow; Carolee Schneemann – Robin; June Leaf – Song Sparrow; Nicola L
– Blackbird; Pat Steir – Mallard; Nancy Holt – Catbird; Mary Miss –
Towhee; Gloria Friedmann – Swallow; Joan Jonas – White Throated Sparrow;
Gwenn Thomas – Chickadee; Martha Rosler – Wood Pigeon.
4/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RED BIRDS
See program notes for April 26th, 7:30 pm.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
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4/27
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
Noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL- NICK FAMILY FUN DAY
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K.Now in
its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of
cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring
wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, and rarely shown classics.
The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun
Day.Curated by Elizabeth Shepherd.Funded in part with generous support
from Virginia and Austin Beutner and Nickelodeon. Program runs Feb. 26th
and 27th and the following weekend Saturday, Mar. 6th and Sunday, Mar.
7th. There is a special Nick Family Fun Day on Sunday, April 27th
4/27
Manchester, United Kingdom: Kinofilm Festival
www.kinofilm.org.uk
,
ANNOUNCING THE KINOFILM 2010 EDUCATION PROGRAMME!
Announcing the Kinofilm 2010 Education Programme! Kinofilm Festival is
returning this April with an exciting programme of films and events.
Kinofilm are offering a range of educational workshops, masterclasses
and panel discussions to suit all tastes, abilities and budgets.
Highlights include: cinematography masterclasses with Tristan Oliver
(Fantastic Mr Fox); an insight into visual effects with Red Vision
(Touching the Void) and sound and editing workshops at the award-winning
School of Sound Recording. Other events include directing workshops,
panel discussions, acting classes, screenwriting seminars, animation
masterclasses and networking events. Follow the link for full programme
details. Book now to avoid disappointment!
http://kinoeducation.eventbrite.com
4/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RED BIRDS
See program notes for April 26th, 7:30 pm.
4/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RED BIRDS
See program notes for April 26th, 7:30 pm.
4/27
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE BIRDS
The Birds (1963, 120 min.) by ALFRED HITCHCOCK This "apocalyptic poem,"
as Fellini described it, is "Hitchcock's most abstract film … and
perhaps his subtlest, still yielding new meanings and inflections after
a dozen or more viewings. As emblems of sexual tension, divine
retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human
guilt, his attacking birds acquire a metaphorical complexity and
slipperiness worthy of Melville. Tippi Hedren's lead performance is
still open to controversy, but her evident stage fright is put to
sublimely Hitchcockian uses. With Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, and
Jessica Tandy."- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010
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4/28
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/visionaries-film30282.html
8:30 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
VISIONARIES
(2010, Chuck Workman), 88 min. World Premiere. In Precious Images, his
1986 Academy Award®-winning short, director Chuck Workman assembled a
breathtaking eight-minute collage of singular images from classic
Hollywood movies. In Visionaries, Workman brings alive, in counterpoint
to the commercial film industry, the vibrant history of the American
avant-garde cinema. In engaging interviews with renowned underground
filmmakers and critics including Ken Jacobs, Robert Downey, Su
Friedrich, P. Adams Sitney, and Amy Taubin, Workman reveals how this
artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and
dreams over plot and storyline. The director skillfully intersperses
these intimate conversations with a stylistically diverse array of
extracts from experimental films of all stripes. Dating from the 1920s
to the present, avant-garde films by such pioneering artists as Man Ray,
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Sadie Benning vividly
illustrate for the general audience a qualitatively different kind of
moviegoing experience distinct from that promulgated by the commercial
cinema. Workman's documentary pays special tribute to filmmaker,
curator, and critic Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, the
organization that he founded. It is the premier American institution
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of avant-garde film culture,
assuring a long-term home for this alternative cinema right alongside
the Hollywood classics. --Jon Gartenberg
4/28
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/visionaries-film30282.html
8:30 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
VISIONARIES
(2010, Chuck Workman), 88 min. World Premiere. In Precious Images, his
1986 Academy Award®-winning short, director Chuck Workman assembled a
breathtaking eight-minute collage of singular images from classic
Hollywood movies. In Visionaries, Workman brings alive, in counterpoint
to the commercial film industry, the vibrant history of the American
avant-garde cinema. In engaging interviews with renowned underground
filmmakers and critics including Ken Jacobs, Robert Downey, Su
Friedrich, P. Adams Sitney, and Amy Taubin, Workman reveals how this
artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and
dreams over plot and storyline. The director skillfully intersperses
these intimate conversations with a stylistically diverse array of
extracts from experimental films of all stripes. Dating from the 1920s
to the present, avant-garde films by such pioneering artists as Man Ray,
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Sadie Benning vividly
illustrate for the general audience a qualitatively different kind of
moviegoing experience distinct from that promulgated by the commercial
cinema. Workman's documentary pays special tribute to filmmaker,
curator, and critic Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, the
organization that he founded. It is the premier American institution
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of avant-garde film culture,
assuring a long-term home for this alternative cinema right alongside
the Hollywood classics. --Jon Gartenberg
4/28
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/visionaries-film30282.html
8:30 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
VISIONARIES
(2010, Chuck Workman), 88 min. World Premiere. In Precious Images, his
1986 Academy Award®-winning short, director Chuck Workman assembled a
breathtaking eight-minute collage of singular images from classic
Hollywood movies. In Visionaries, Workman brings alive, in counterpoint
to the commercial film industry, the vibrant history of the American
avant-garde cinema. In engaging interviews with renowned underground
filmmakers and critics including Ken Jacobs, Robert Downey, Su
Friedrich, P. Adams Sitney, and Amy Taubin, Workman reveals how this
artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and
dreams over plot and storyline. The director skillfully intersperses
these intimate conversations with a stylistically diverse array of
extracts from experimental films of all stripes. Dating from the 1920s
to the present, avant-garde films by such pioneering artists as Man Ray,
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Sadie Benning vividly
illustrate for the general audience a qualitatively different kind of
moviegoing experience distinct from that promulgated by the commercial
cinema. Workman's documentary pays special tribute to filmmaker,
curator, and critic Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, the
organization that he founded. It is the premier American institution
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of avant-garde film culture,
assuring a long-term home for this alternative cinema right alongside
the Hollywood classics. --Jon Gartenberg
4/28
New York, New York: Filmmakers' Cooperative
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-filmmakers-cooperative-benefit-concert_166444/
7 p.m., Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette Street
FILMMAKERS CO-OP 4TH BENEFIT CONCERT AND ART AUCTION
All proceeds to benefit FMC, The Film-Makers' Cooperative is the largest
archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the
world. Tickets $40 available online and at the door. Screenings of rare
and classic experimental films accompanied by musical performances from
Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, Erik Friedlander, Text of Light: Alan
Licht & Lee Ranaldo, Transgendered Jesus. Silent art auction to follow.
4/28
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St.
THE SOCIAL FACTORY SHOW
The Social Factory Show curated by Dara Greenwald (NYC) and Paige Sarlin
(Providence) Both curators will be present for post-screening
discussion. The Social Factory Show brings together documentaries that
explore the role of women's work in the production of daily life under
capitalism in three different countries (US, Mexico, India). Employing
vastly different formal strategies, this class-conscious line-up
confronts us with a range of images and sounds that demonstrate what has
and hasn't changed over the last 40 years. This evening features an
important, but rarely screened, early collectively-made feminist film,
Woman's Film (1971), a film by Chick Strand, a central (but
under-recognized) figure in American Avant-Garde Film, and a recent
video that explores the effects of globalization by Sonali Gulati. All
of these documentaries offer complex portraits of women's work and
illustrate cinema's ability to show us how our society is produced and
re-produced. The idea of the "social factory" comes out of a group of
Italian autonomous Marxist and feminist thinkers who in the 1970's
analyzed the many forms of labor that contribute to the reproduction of
society both inside and outside of the traditional factory. The analysis
reflected on gendered divisions of labor in the social factory in that
women's work was most often unpaid and not recognized as "work." These
ideas set a framework for understanding the various forms of free labor
that maintain our social relations, our bodies, feelings, and minds.
Coming together to watch these pieces, we can reflect on the persistence
of these dynamics and what role cinema has had and continues to have in
provoking recognition through the representation of difference. TRT: 89
minutes Featuring: Nalini By Day, Nancy by Night, Sonali Gulati
India/US, 2005, 27 minutes, DVD; Fake Fruit, Chick Strand (US) 1986, 22
minutes; 16mm, color, sound; Woman's Film, Newsreel (US) 1971, 40
minutes; shot on 16mm, shown on DVD. Synopses: Nalini By Day, Nancy by
Night, Sonali Gulati India/US, 2005, 27 minutes, DVD, distributed by
Women Make Movies "In this insightful documentary, filmmaker Sonali
Gulati explores complex issues of globalization, capitalism and identity
through a witty and personal account of her journey into India's call
centers. Gulati, herself an Indian immigrant living in the US, explores
the fascinating ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to
India—including how native telemarketers take on Western names and
accents to take calls from the US, UK and Australia. A fresh
juxtaposition of animation, archival footage, live action shots and
narrative work highlight the filmmaker's presence and reveal the
performative aspects of her subjects. With fascinating observations on
how call centers affect the Indian culture and economy, Nalini by Day,
Nancy By Night, raises important questions about the complicated
consequences of globalization. " -Women Make Movies Fake Fruit, Chick
Strand (US) 1986, 22 minutes; 16mm, color, sound, distributed by Canyon
Cinema "Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache
fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo
boss, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife. The focus of the
film is on the color, music and movement involved, and the gossip which
goes on constantly, revealing what the young women think about
men."—Chick Strand Woman's Film, Newsreel (US) 1971, 40 minutes; shot on
16mm, shown on DVD, distributed by Third World Newsreel "The film was
made entirely by women in San Francisco NEWSREEL. It was a collective
effort between the women behind the camera and those in front of it. The
script itself was written from preliminary interviews with the women in
the film. Their participation, their criticism, and approval were sought
at various stages of production." -TWN "... What we see is not only
natural and spontaneous, it is thoughtful and beautiful. It is a film
which immediately evokes the sights and sounds and smells of working
class kitchens, neighborhood streets, local supermarkets, factories,
cramped living rooms, dinners cooking, diaper-washing, housecleaning,
and all the other 'points of production' and battlefronts where working
class women in America daily confront the realities of their oppression.
It is . . . a supremely optimistic statement, showing the sinews of
struggle and capturing the essential energy and collective spirit of all
working people-and especially that advanced consciousness which working
class women bring to the common struggle." -- Irwin Silber, Guardian
Sponsored by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media
of Brown University
4/28
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, 204 S. Main St.
THE SOCIAL FACTORY SHOW
curated by Dara Greenwald and Paige Sarlin. The Social Factory Show
brings together documentaries that explore the role of women's work in
the production of daily life under capitalism in three different
countries (US, Mexico, India). Employing vastly different formal
strategies, this class-conscious line-up confronts us with a range of
images and sounds that demonstrate what has and hasn't changed over the
last 40 years. This evening features an important, but rarely screened,
early collectively-made feminist film, Woman's Film (1971), a film by
Chick Strand, a central (but under-recognized) figure in American
Avant-Garde Film, and a recent video that explores the effects of
globalization by Sonali Gulati. All of these documentaries offer complex
portraits of women's work and illustrate cinema's ability to show us how
our society is produced and re-produced. Featuring: Nalini By Day, Nancy
by Night, Sonali Gulati India/US, 2005, 27 minutes, DVD; Fake Fruit,
Chick Strand (US) 1986, 22 minutes; 16mm, color, sound; Woman's Film,
Newsreel (US) 1971, 40 minutes; shot on 16mm, shown on DVD.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010
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4/29
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, 1901 E 51st St - Use Gate 2 under the giant water tower
AVANT CINEMA 3.8: CAROLINE KOEBEL
Perhaps best known to the Austin audience as "Booboo" in Spectres of the
Spectrum (1999, Dir: Craig Baldwin, DP: Bill Daniel), Caroline Koebel—a
recent transplant from Brooklyn—has been exhibiting her experimental
films and video art internationally since the early 1990s. Informed by
conceptual art, film theory and feminism, her work provokes new modes of
aesthetic and critical engagement with such subjects as early cinema,
commodity culture, and the maternal eye. Avant Cinema features Flicker
On Off, her current series re-purposing big-budget movies as a platform
to engage world affairs, including global warming, the assassination of
Benazir Bhutto, and the Haditha Massacre. Flicker On Off has been
presented at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the European
Media Art Festival, Scope Art Fair, Video Art Festival of Camagüey, and
the Festival of (In)appropriation. Also showing is a survey of titles—in
both 16mm and digital projection—selected by the filmmaker for how they
interact with Flicker On Off. Program: The Vent: Camilla (2002);
Daddyson: The Dummy Whose People Bought the Presidency (2002); Puss! The
Booted Cat (1995); All the House (Haditha Massacre) (2008); I Want To
Have Your Baby (2003-05); Sunroof (Benazir Bhutto Assassination) (2008);
g(sc)rub (2000); Inflorescentia (1997); Repeat Photography and the
Albedo Effect (2008).
4/29
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
21:00, Petersburger Platz 2, 10249 Berlin, HH 2. Etage
"TIMES OF CHANGE" - YARON LAPID - PETERSBURG NIGHTS
Yaron Lapid - "Times of Change" - Video work of London based artist
Yaron Lapid - curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr -*°*- Yaron Lapid, whose
video "Night Meter" was shown at Directors Lounge/ Urban Research 2010,
presents a programme of his recent video works at our third
"Petersburger Night". -*°*- "Research" may be just the right term to
characterize the endeavours of the London based artist of Israeli
descent. London and Israel also are the fields for his "findings" and
video investigations. The interest of the anthropologist, the
sensibility of the family annalist and the hard-boiled and distanced eye
of the war documentarist, all those labels seem somehow to match but
still not really fit for Yaron Lapid. If provoking a London call-centre
lady to reveal that she calls from New-Dehli, if watching a victim of
drug overdose, or witnessing the relocation of an elder relative from an
old retirement home to a new one, we always follow him, the filmmaker,
with awe and a deep sense of attestation, as Yaron seems to be able to
turn his humane observations into a telling snapshot of the society we
share, the social particularities of England and Israel notwithstanding.
-*°*- The mixture of shock and empathy the artist conveys, seems to
stand in the - in our times almost impossible - tradition of artists
like Weegee and Helen Levitt. With Yaron Lapid, we do not have the
feeling of following a reporter on hunt for shock, but to witness chance
encounters, the artist happens to be in, and which he follows with a
deep curiosity for the human nature. The same interest lets him follow
traces of storylines in a village founded in the 50's in Israel, or to
record radical text lines of flyers found in South-East London. -*°*- We
are most happy to host this evening with Yaron Lapid in person at
Petersburger Platz 2, Berlin-Friedrichshain, on Thursday, 29 April 2010,
at 21:00. You are very welcome to join us! -*°*- Artist Link:
http://finderandkeeper.co.uk/ -*°*- Program Details:
http://richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesYLapid.html -*°*- Directors
Lounge: http://www.directorslounge.net
4/29
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/visionaries-film30282.html
3:45 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
VISIONARIES
(2010, Chuck Workman), 88 min. World Premiere. In Precious Images, his
1986 Academy Award®-winning short, director Chuck Workman assembled a
breathtaking eight-minute collage of singular images from classic
Hollywood movies. In Visionaries, Workman brings alive, in counterpoint
to the commercial film industry, the vibrant history of the American
avant-garde cinema. In engaging interviews with renowned underground
filmmakers and critics including Ken Jacobs, Robert Downey, Su
Friedrich, P. Adams Sitney, and Amy Taubin, Workman reveals how this
artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and
dreams over plot and storyline. The director skillfully intersperses
these intimate conversations with a stylistically diverse array of
extracts from experimental films of all stripes. Dating from the 1920s
to the present, avant-garde films by such pioneering artists as Man Ray,
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Sadie Benning vividly
illustrate for the general audience a qualitatively different kind of
moviegoing experience distinct from that promulgated by the commercial
cinema. Workman's documentary pays special tribute to filmmaker,
curator, and critic Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, the
organization that he founded. It is the premier American institution
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of avant-garde film culture,
assuring a long-term home for this alternative cinema right alongside
the Hollywood classics. --Jon Gartenberg
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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010
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4/30
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: “THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE” BY RICHARD SANDLER
Millennium presents Richard Sandler's award winning New York City
documentary "The Gods of Times Square" (1999, 112mins). Filmmaker in
person! ----THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE is a documentary about a rich
culture of religionists who were drawn to the electric buzz of this
fabled human meeting ground. The film records a time in New York City
history when the place most identified with free speech and the soul of
New York, changed from a democratic, inter-racial, common ground, to a
corporate controlled soul-less theme park; Disney's renovation of the
New Amsterdam Theater started a development roll that ended with a
totally corporatized landscape. Gone now are the Mom and Pop stores,
squeezed out by a real estate gold rush. Gone too are the free spirits
who made Times Square a "speaker's corner." When Disney (and Rudolf
Giuliani) were finally done with Times Square, the place was "cleansed"
of pornography and prostitution. Amidst these fundamental changes most
of the Square's rich underbelly of colorful characters and religious
zealots stopped showing up. ----"The Gods of Times Square" has screened
at many American and international film festivals, winning best
documentary honors at the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival and the
1999 Rotterdam Film Festival.
4/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
8:00 pm, CineCycle (129 Spadina Ave., down the alley)
STRATEGIES OF THE MEDIUM VI: PIECES OF EIGHT
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers (LIFT) explores 8mm filmmaking in
Pieces of Eight, the final installment of its six-part screening series
Strategies of the Medium. Super 8 film and its predecessor, Regular 8,
were first introduced as amateur formats for home moviemaking. While
they were superceded by camcorders (and now digital video) for home use,
8mm formats were embraced by artists and independent filmmakers for
their ease of use, affordability and nostalgic quality. Today, in a
digital age in which analogue film is said to be on its way out, 8mm
film is still very much alive and kicking! This programme looks at ways
in which independent filmmakers have used these classic formats to
create startling stories and sublime images. It features works shot on
both Regular 8 and Super 8 film and finished in a variety of formats -
from purists who shoot and exhibit only on Super 8 film, to exhibition
on video, and blow-ups to 16mm and even 35mm film. Films include the
hilarious Hi, I'm Steve by Toronto's Robert Kennedy, the smart and
engaging Down on Me by Super 8 die-hard John Porter, and the lovely
Nightlight by German filmmaker Dagie Brundert. A post-screening panel
features local filmmakers discussing their passion for small-gauge
filmmaking, including John Porter, Roy Mitchell and Kika Thorne. The
Strategies of the Medium series is supported by the Canada Council.
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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010
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5/1
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
PROLIX SATORI: AN EVENING WITH LEWIS KLAHR
Any materials are fair game for use in the remarkable collage animations
of Lewis Klahr, our 2009–10 Wexner Center Residency Award recipient in
media arts. Images from mid-twentieth-century advertisements, comic
books, and other ephemeral talismans of American commerce and popular
culture are "re-animated" by Klahr to produce submerged narratives about
the emotional and dream lives of his memory-haunted characters. Klahr
often groups his short films into larger series, and his residency award
invigorated him to create a flurry of videos that inaugurate a major new
open-ended series, Prolix Satori, which Klahr foresees working on for
the rest of his career. At tonight's screening Klahr will be on hand to
unveil (at least) six new Prolix Satori animations. Wednesday Morning
Two A.M. (2009), the winner of a Tiger Award for short film at the 2010
Rotterdam Film Festival, is a twice-told tale of lost love set to songs
by 1960s' girl-group The Shangri-Las. Lethe (2009) presents an affecting
22-minute melodrama scored to a plangent symphony by Gustav Mahler.
False Aging, (2008), also part of this series, was voted one of the best
films of the decade by several participants in a recent Film Comment
poll. In addition to the Prolix Satori videos, the program features
samples of Klahr's exquisite 16mm film work, including his masterful
Daylight Moon (2002), which offers a child's view of film noir. (app.
100 mins., video and 16mm)
5/1
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts_experimental_collisions-film31278.html
9:45 PM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
EXPERIMENTAL COLLISIONS [SHORT FILM PROGRAM]
The 10 experimental films in this program portray locales found in both
natural and urban landscapes across three continents. A few of these
artist-filmmakers literally embed the earth (soil and mud) into the
fabric of the celluloid. Moreover, they portray these environments with
a riveting array of avant-garde techniques that range from mirror images
to extended tracking shots leading directly into the mind's eye. They
further infuse these found footage, animation, and live action
experimental films with dynamic editing rhythms that radically reshape
the viewer's perception of reality, leading to Rorschach-like
impressions. In experimental cinema, everything culminates in abstract
patterns ingrained in the landscape of the film frame. --Jon Gartenberg.
Films include: • Grandmother's Eye (2010, Sweden, Jonathan Lewald), 5
min. North American Premiere. • Release (2010, US, Bill Morrison), 12
min. World Premiere. • Walkway (2009, US, Ken Jacobs), 9 min. North
American Premiere. • Lachen Verlernt (2009, Great Britain, Tal Rosner),
10 min. World Premiere. • This disk is the same as the other one (2009,
France, Jean-Jacques Palix), 9 min. North American Premiere. • Collision
of Parts (2010, US, Mark Street), 15 min. World Premiere • Berlin (2010,
Canada, Martin Laporte), 8 min. World Premiere. • The Delicate Art of
the Bludgeon (2009, France, Jean-Gabriel Periot), 4 min. North American
Premiere. • Black White Black White (2009, US, John Thompson), 15 min.
World Premiere • The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension
(2009, France, Emmanuel Lefrant), 7 min. North American Premiere.
5/1
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/visionaries-film30282.html
11:30 AM, Village East Cinema, 181 Second Avenue @ 12th Street
VISIONARIES
(2010, Chuck Workman), 88 min. World Premiere. In Precious Images, his
1986 Academy Award®-winning short, director Chuck Workman assembled a
breathtaking eight-minute collage of singular images from classic
Hollywood movies. In Visionaries, Workman brings alive, in counterpoint
to the commercial film industry, the vibrant history of the American
avant-garde cinema. In engaging interviews with renowned underground
filmmakers and critics including Ken Jacobs, Robert Downey, Su
Friedrich, P. Adams Sitney, and Amy Taubin, Workman reveals how this
artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and
dreams over plot and storyline. The director skillfully intersperses
these intimate conversations with a stylistically diverse array of
extracts from experimental films of all stripes. Dating from the 1920s
to the present, avant-garde films by such pioneering artists as Man Ray,
Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Sadie Benning vividly
illustrate for the general audience a qualitatively different kind of
moviegoing experience distinct from that promulgated by the commercial
cinema. Workman's documentary pays special tribute to filmmaker,
curator, and critic Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, the
organization that he founded. It is the premier American institution
dedicated to the preservation and promotion of avant-garde film culture,
assuring a long-term home for this alternative cinema right alongside
the Hollywood classics. --Jon Gartenberg
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SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2010
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5/2
New York, New York: TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts_experimental_collisions-film31278.html
1:00 PM, Tribeca Cinemas, 54 Varick Street @ Laight Street
EXPERIMENTAL COLLISIONS [SHORT FILM PROGRAM]
The 10 experimental films in this program portray locales found in both
natural and urban landscapes across three continents. A few of these
artist-filmmakers literally embed the earth (soil and mud) into the
fabric of the celluloid. Moreover, they portray these environments with
a riveting array of avant-garde techniques that range from mirror images
to extended tracking shots leading directly into the mind's eye. They
further infuse these found footage, animation, and live action
experimental films with dynamic editing rhythms that radically reshape
the viewer's perception of reality, leading to Rorschach-like
impressions. In experimental cinema, everything culminates in abstract
patterns ingrained in the landscape of the film frame. --Jon Gartenberg.
Films include: • Grandmother's Eye (2010, Sweden, Jonathan Lewald), 5
min. North American Premiere. • Release (2010, US, Bill Morrison), 12
min. World Premiere. • Walkway (2009, US, Ken Jacobs), 9 min. North
American Premiere. • Lachen Verlernt (2009, Great Britain, Tal Rosner),
10 min. World Premiere. • This disk is the same as the other one (2009,
France, Jean-Jacques Palix), 9 min. North American Premiere. • Collision
of Parts (2010, US, Mark Street), 15 min. World Premiere • Berlin (2010,
Canada, Martin Laporte), 8 min. World Premiere. • The Delicate Art of
the Bludgeon (2009, France, Jean-Gabriel Periot), 4 min. North American
Premiere. • Black White Black White (2009, US, John Thompson), 15 min.
World Premiere • The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension
(2009, France, Emmanuel Lefrant), 7 min. North American Premiere.
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