This week [April 24 - May 2, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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This week [April 24 - May 2, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 " by Kristine Kotecki
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MISCELLANEOUS:
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Wanted: 16mm stock
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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CortopotereShortFilmFestival (Bergamo, Italy; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1161.ann
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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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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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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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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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