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hi there--
chris' advanced math skills aside -- i don't find the list weird at all.
the editor of the list co-programs Views. the editor of the list sent a "pre-selection" of titles to the 46 selectors which, included every film shown at views in the 2000's and a sprinkling of others from Wavelengths that didn't show at Views. these were the 'recommended' titles so to speak, although all selectors were invited to add their own, of course.
its been said before: Views skews way toward distinguished gentlemen from the US.
the list of selectors is mostly in this camp, with a sprinkling of women and folks outside the US.
so its not weird at all to me that the list lauds Mr. Klahr, (and not just because he voted!) and crew, because IMHO it was a pre-determined self-congratulatory exercise.
as all such lists of this ilk are...
ciao,
scott in toronto
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This week [June 5 - 13, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60
Second Hand Job Presented (Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Deadline: June 19, 2010)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1178.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* House of Sound [June 5, Detroit]
* Cap/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program
Screening [June 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Personal Cinema Series: Lili White [June 5, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 1 [June 5, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 2 [June 5, New York]
* Visionaries [June 5, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 3 [June 5, New York]
* Visionaries [June 5, New York]
* Visionaries [June 5, New York]
* What If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked - Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin
Martin [June 5, Oakland, CA]
* By Brakhage: A 16mm Film Screening [June 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rice/Richter/Sharits Program [June 6, New York]
* Visionaries [June 6, New York]
* Van Mcelwee Program 1 [June 6, New York]
* Visionaries [June 6, New York]
* Van Mcelwee Program 2 [June 6, New York]
* Visionaries [June 6, New York]
* Champion Fishermen: the Films of Jason
Halprin & Jb Mabe [June 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* The virgin's Bed [June 11, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: Jon Behrens [June 12, New York, New York]
* Visa De Censure X/New Old [June 12, New York]
* In the Shadow.../Soleil [June 12, New York]
* Stephen Connolly: Occasional Pieces and
Afflicted States [June 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Pierre Clementi Shorts Program [June 13, New York]
* Wheel of Ashes [June 13, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2010
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6/5
Detroit: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00 PM, MOCAD, 4454 Woodward Avenue
HOUSE OF SOUND
The Images Festival and MOCAD present a FREE screening: House of Sound
MOCAD and Toronto's Images Festival are thrilled to be collaborating on
an evening of short experimental films culled from recent festival
presentations, alongside classic avant-garde shorts. This salon-style
screening will highlight experimental short works by film and video
artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of the
medium in form and/or content. Whether the instigator of a melodramatic
moment, a vessel of history or the materialist marker of time, the
presence of recorded music throughout the films and videos presented in
House of Sound are all united by the role of sound as harbinger of
change. The musical selections found in these contemporary and
historical works by Keren Cytter, Maya Deren, Nelson Henricks, Laida
Lertxundi, Vanessa Renwick and Nikolai Ursin merge the popular and the
perplexing: the songs playing back into each house mark control gained,
control lost. PROGRAM Portrait #3: House of Sound ?(Vanessa
Renwick, 2010, 35mm on video, 12 minutes, USA) Scanning the now empty
intersection where a legendary Portland record store once stood among a
strip of black jazz clubs, Portrait #3: House of Sound is a testimonial
to a community space recently demolished. Behind Every Good Man?
(Nikolai Ursin, 1965, 16mm, 8 minutes, USA)? This remarkable 1965
student film is a brief encounter with a transsexual black man who
shares his experiences as a woman through snagging a "good man." Four
Seasons? (Keren Cytter, 2009, video, 14 minutes,
Germany/Israel)? A series of deadpan , forlorn exchanges between
characters begins with a brief detour into Tennessee Williams' A
Streetcar Named Desire and culminates in a fireworks show of
spontaneously combusting household objects: a record player, a Christman
tree and a plate of cake. My Tears Are Dry? (Laida Lertxundi,
2009, 16mm, 4 minutes, USA)? A Hoagy Land 45, two women, a bed,
an armchair and the beautiful outside. Failure? (Nelson Henricks,
2007, video, 7 minutes, Canada) ?Images of beauty rituals both
masculine and feminine focus on the removal of body hair. Scenes of
adolescent embarrassment are played out in adult life. Gender confusion
lurks behind the curtain. Impoverished aesthetics. Popular music. Meshes
of the Afternoon? (Maya Deren, 1943, 16mm, 15 minutes, USA)
?In 1990, Meshes of the Afternoon was selected for preservation in
the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as
being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going
into the registry in just the second year of voting.
6/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
2pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CAP/SONY PICTURES MEDIA ARTS PROGRAM SCREENING
Middle and high school students in the CAP/Sony Pictures Media Arts
Program present a slate of animation and new media works. Classes in
this after-school program are held each year at Banning's Landing
Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens
Community Service Center in Pacoima, the Watts Towers Arts Center, and
the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center. Free | Reservations:
213 237-2800.
6/5
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: LILI WHITE
This program features several new works made by the artist since her
last program at Millennium in 2007----REVERIE (20? min.-2009), CRACKED
(3? min.-2008), THE FUTURE IS YOU (9 min.-2008), S/tr:w/EET WALK (19
min.-2009), TURQUOISE BEADS (38 min.-2009)----- "My thing was always a
layered image. In 2008, concurrent fractured frames of video tape were
explored. In 2009, different public places, along with their historic
and mythic events blended into a collective dreamscape. The idea was to
evince the 'whole' of 'it,' like how ALL the facets form a diamond and
is fueled more on a 'why' rather than a 'how.' The work is located more
on the 'horizontal'-not necessarily one that is linear-but one that
stretches out in different directions, like the tentacles of an
octopus." - L.W.----- On THE FUTURE IS YOU: "Like a lithographer's
velvety mezzotint, this monochromic future of molten metal features New
York City's downtown streets after the 9/11 disaster. 'Seemingly' among
city and forest, the landscape study moves back and forth between
Nature's trees and man's canyons of steel, showing neither but both. A
chromium sound heard-doubled and abstracted-accompanying anxiety and
serenity inside us. Exploring the gradient view the focus is on small
movement like amoebas in a primordial soup; eventually stretching our
attention to the larger matrix where we all reside." - L.W.----Admission
$8/$6 members
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 1
All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR /
L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SI?CLE (1899, 1 minute, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON /
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 minutes, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN
NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 minutes, 35mm)
DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF ? L'HUILE (1907, 5
minutes, 35mm) MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU
DIABLE (1906, 18 minutes, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects,
M?li?s broke with the realistic (Lumi?re) mode of cinema and celebrated
unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 2
The films on this program are hand-tinted. THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA
CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 minutes, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN
LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 minutes, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA
F?E CARABOSSE (1906, 13 minutes, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE
VOYAGE ? TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 minutes, 35mm) Total running
time: ca. 50 minutes. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 3
All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS /
ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE
PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT
(1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS
LAMANCHE (1907, 25 minutes, 16mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE
JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 minutes, 16mm) THE
DOCTOR'S SECRET / HYDROTH?RAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. Screening as part of the series
ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
Oakland, CA: Krowswork Gallery
http://www.krowswork.com
6-9 pm, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
WHAT IF? IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED - TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS & DARRIN
MARTIN
What If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked is a total-gallery experience
in video and photography made collaborately by veteran video artists
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin. "In the Days When the Tiger
Smoked" - is the Korean equivalent of "Once Upon a Time," suggesting an
event set in a mythical time. Their juxtaposition of imagery and
narrative reveals an entangled story that spans the gulf between genders
and representations, the body and technology. the imaginative present.
Please join us at Krowswork on June 5th for the opening, from 6-9.
www.krowswork.com/whatif.html
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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
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6/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
BY BRAKHAGE: A 16MM FILM SCREENING
Filmforum opens June with a celebratory program of 16mm films by Stan
Brakhage, commemorating the release of Criterion's DVD set By Brakhage:
An Anthology, Volume Two. However, we also wish to commemorate the
continued availability of all of Stan Brakhage's films on film, the
format in which they are ideally intended to be seen. As such, tonight's
program draws its films from the contents of Criterion's DVD release,
but presented in their original 16mm. Brakhage's filmmaking is so
vividly and deeply about the textures and properties of celluloid film
and the apparatus of film projection, and this program is designed to
highlight works from this excellent DVD release that particularly
benefit from projection in their original medium. The Criterion release
is cause for celebration, but we also invite you to continue to seek out
and support the projection of films on film as much as possible.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RICE/RICHTER/SHARITS PROGRAM
Ron Rice CHUMLUM (1964, 23 minutes, 16mm) With Jack Smith, Mario Montez,
Gerard Malanga. "One of the underground's best and most influential
films." -Peter Gidal Hans Richter RHYTHMUS 21 (1921, 3 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent) "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary
is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of
contrasting opposites." -Standish Lawder EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING
TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent) Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968, 36 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. "Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani
Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu
Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color
energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay."
-P.S. "In essence there are only three flicker films of importance,
ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G- In terms of the subject
we have discussed here, it is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the
field for the structural film with a flicker base." -P. Adams Sitney
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VAN MCELWEE PROGRAM 1
Artist in Person! The previous ten-plus years have witnessed a veritable
explosion in new tools and expanded possibilities for digital image
production. No one has embraced these developments more so than St.
Louis-based artist Van McElwee, whose history with video dates back to
the analog days of the 1970s. McElwee's distinguished body of work has
been extensively exhibited worldwide and includes over 40 video shorts,
installations, and web projects. This two-program overview of pieces
from the last decade is proof positive that McElwee is an ultra-prolific
digital pioneer of the highest order. With each new work he finds yet
another way to invade his software and invent images that previously
could not have been conceived, much less seen. "An alchemy occurs when
the outer world is transformed into video: it becomes mind-stuff. I
carry this process forward, questioning the nature of reality, exploring
time and dimensionality by weaving fragments of the world into new
patterns. In this way, video can enjoy the same freedom as painting and
music; it can be something, not just about something." -V.M. Anthology
gratefully acknowledges support for this series from the Experimental
Television Center's Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by
public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York
State Council on the Arts. PROGRAM 1: DIAGONAL DRIFT (2006, 10 min)
Imagine a filmstrip of a nocturnal American landscape. The vertical
frames, as usual, represent time, but here there are horizontal frames
that represent parallel universes. This piece illustrates a diagonal
movement across that field of frames, so that worlds continuously melt
into similar worlds, always in-between realities. If these imaginary
filmstrips are cut, twisted and turned back on themselves, the image
changes abruptly. In keeping with the philosophy and the mood of the
piece, a cellular automata program (Wolframtones) was used to create
artificial mathematical melodies that constantly shift from one strange
tonal system to another. VARIFOLD (2010, 9:35) A motionless camera
stares at a city branching in time. The screen moves with half-real
forms: a cross-section of probability space. APERSPECTIVAL HOUSE (2008,
5:30 min) With Music by TOM HAMILTON This house is under construction.
Its design incorporates numerous points of view into one flowing form.
The sound is a field of musical patterns without a tonal center. "Where
today we seem to discern only shrieks and dissonance, tomorrow we will
find a new tone, a new form, a new perception." Jean Gebser Tom Hamilton
has been composing and performing for over 40 years, and his work with
electronic music originated in the late-60s era of analog synthesis.
Hamilton often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of
activity, prompting the use of "present-time listening" on the part of
both performer and listener. PROCESSION (2000, 18 min) In communal
celebrations, such as parades, the event creates a new space. A city
becomes a fantastic version of itself; a new creature that erupts in the
streets and then disappears. In Procession, awareness is given a richly
dimensional vantage point on this phenomenon. The parade's flow is
intensely modulated by editing, folded into itself again and again.
Waves of transformation surge through a fabric of recurring moments,
until the river of time swells and floods its banks. NATURELAND (2003,
14 min) Elevator music branches and flows in new directions. Unadorned
concrete structures exude layer upon layer of natural scenery. These
virtual vistas unfold in surges, accompanied by mutating Muzak.
Natureland reflects the crucial process by which we navigate the nested
realities of our programmed environment, embracing illusion and its
mechanism, weaving dissonant strands of experience into a pattern that
we can call "our world." STUPAFORM (2002, 9 min) The result of extensive
location shooting, Stupaform gathers into one moment the myriad
manifestations of the Buddhist stupa, or pagoda. Stupaform oscillates
between the inner and outer aspects of this symbol of transcendence,
distilling an essence. The actual structures become electronic
phenomena, apparitions of the stupa's inner form. The sound of a
Nepalese bell follows this vector; a physical reflection of an unstruck
vibration. RED AND BLUE ARMIES IN A FOREST (2010, 7 min) YouTube Laser
Tag footage is used to represent two armies converging in a forest. Each
group electronically monitors the movements of the other, while updating
simulations of possible encounters. A new space emerges as real and
virtual overlap. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VAN MCELWEE PROGRAM 2
VAN MCELWEE: A DECADE #2 Artist in Person! The previous ten-plus years
have witnessed a veritable explosion in new tools and expanded
possibilities for digital image production. No one has embraced these
developments more so than St. Louis-based artist Van McElwee, whose
history with video dates back to the analog days of the 1970s. McElwee's
distinguished body of work has been extensively exhibited worldwide and
includes over 40 video shorts, installations, and web projects. This
two-program overview of pieces from the last decade is proof positive
that McElwee is an ultra-prolific digital pioneer of the highest order.
With each new work he finds yet another way to invade his software and
invent images that previously could not have been conceived, much less
seen. "An alchemy occurs when the outer world is transformed into video:
it becomes mind-stuff. I carry this process forward, questioning the
nature of reality, exploring time and dimensionality by weaving
fragments of the world into new patterns. In this way, video can enjoy
the same freedom as painting and music; it can be something, not just
about something." -V.M. "McElwee's reconstructed realities capture
participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end
of a work." -TL Reid, AFTERIMAGE Anthology gratefully acknowledges
support for this series from the Experimental Television Center's
Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by public funds from the
Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the
Arts. PROGRAM 2: ALTERNITY: A FIGURE IN MANIFOLD SPACE (2008, 6:48 min)
The vanishing point of linear perspective is expanded to a plane. This
allows all of the potential events within that vanishing point to mingle
freely on the surface of the screen. Local sounds blend and shift. The
expanded horizon causes reverberating fractures in time; multiple
realities branch and flow through one another, creating a sponge-space
of possibilities. VAT (2005, 23 min) Manufactured items are ideas
materialized. Vat, created from hundreds of actual objects performs a
reversal: the artifacts emerge from a primal chaos into their ideal
forms. The objects rotate continuously (the equivalent of an arcing
camera), opening to reveal new spaces; as level upon level of impossible
forms unfold. For the soundtrack, a recording of the ocean was literally
played through all the strings of a baby grand piano. The results were
used to excite the piano's strings again and again, producing a variety
of exotic tones and colorations LIQUID CRYSTAL (2009, 15:10 min) Imagine
a fly's eye, but with each facet roaming independently through nighttime
Tokyo. These multiple perspectives are woven together at brain wave
frequencies, creating new patterns and new spaces. HELIOGOS (2001, 11
min) Three garden paths twist and turn through a labyrinth of time. The
earth orbits the sun as a camera orbits the gardens. Six years are cut
and folded as a playful edit-form spins its web. NAVIGATORS: MELTING
CHRONONS (4:30 min) The grain of time is imagined at close range,
revealing not a straight line, but turbulence, one moment melting into
another. THE CAPITOL OF THE MULTIVERSE (2009, 8:22 min) A neoclassical
form breathes and mutates, overlooking a shifting horizon. Total running
time: ca. 82 minutes. Screening as part of the series
NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIONARIES
See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010
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6/11
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8 pm, 5243 N Clark St
CHAMPION FISHERMEN: THE FILMS OF JASON HALPRIN & JB MABE
In the Fall of 2007, when both filmmakers were new to the Chicago
community they met fortuitously while watching Super 8 films in the back
room of Chicago Filmmakers. After two and a half years and numerous bar
room conversations about film aesthetics, CF is proud to present a
selection of work from two of Chicago's own. Both new and old works will
be shown, and they have promised a sort of salon with occasional
interruptions, elucidations, and exchanges on the formal concerns in
each other's work. Both Mabe and Halprin work almost exclusively in
film, and create intricate studies of visual landscapes both actual and
constructed. Additionally the physical characteristics of film grain and
color reproduction are at work in their craft, and both have extensively
explored the Super 8 and 16mm formats. Included in this program will be
excerpts from Halprin's ongoing diary project and 16mm travelogues, and
Mabe's explorations of light and space. See www.chicagofilmmakers.org
for more information.
6/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE VIRGIN'S BED
by Philippe Garrel 1969, 114 minutes, 35mm, b&w. Minimal French
dialogue; no subtitles. With Pierre Cl?menti, Zouzou, Tina Aumont, and
Jean-Pierre Kalfon. In May 1968, Garrel joined his friends on the
barricades of Paris, and LE LIT DE LA VIERGE, begun just a few months
later, echoes with that period's rebellious spirit. Cl?menti plays a
Christ reluctant to assume his earthly mission. As the Virgin Mary,
Zouzou attempts to reconcile him with his duty. But Garrel invokes the
Christian narrative only to reject a strict retelling of that story.
Made without a script and under the influence of LSD, LE LIT DE LA
VIERGE is minimally concerned with traditional religion. With an
episodic and non-chronological narrative, Garrel's film reminds us of
the contestatory attitude of the '68 generation for whom Jesus was a
hippie avant la lettre.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2010
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6/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: JON BEHRENS
For more than 30 years, Seattle-based artist Jon Behrens has worked
completely outside of the mainstream conception of what filmmaking is.
He began to make films as a teenager in the late seventies, starting
with his Grandfather's Wollensak regular 8mm camera and then moving to
16mm shortly thereafter. Since the age of 16 Behrens has made well over
100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from
documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film
experiments in which the celluloid film stock has been manipulated. Over
the years Jon has screened his films nationally and internationally, and
has been called one of the Northwest's most prolific filmmakers.----
Program: THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES (7? min.-2008),
UNDERCURRENTS (10 min.-1994), THE ASTRUM ARGENTIUM (6 min.-2006), ALL
SAINTS DAY II (5 min.-2002), STAN'S SALON (3 min-1997), FLUFFY FLUFFY
CALM CALM (10 min.-1998), ANOMALIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS (12 min.-2003),
VERNAL OBEISANCE (6 min.-2003), THE FLICKERING OF THE MIND'S EYE (10
min.-2001).----Admission $8/$6 members
6/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISA DE CENSURE X/NEW OLD
by Pierre Cl?menti 1967-75, 45 minutes, 16mm. "A distillation of the
hundreds of hours Cl?menti and his friends spent smoking dope,
performing and dropping acid, this is a mythopoeic evocation of man's
spiritual awakening. Set to a soundtrack by Clearlight Symphony, the
film's hypnotic intensity is maintained through a prismatic, iris-like
mandala superimposed at center screen - a constant visual referent and
the locus of concentration within the frame. A psychedelic overload of
images both beautiful and troubling, the film is particularly effective
in the deliberate shock of its montage: Cl?menti on stage spitting a
tarantula out of his mouth, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix in concert,
Bertolucci on the set of PARTNER seen tugging at a noose around his
neck, The Living Theatre's historic performance at the Avignon Theatre
Festival in summer 1968-" -Michael Chaiken & NEW OLD 1979, 66 minutes,
16mm. "Cl?menti followed VISA DE CENSURE NO. X with NEW OLD, described
by the director as 'the discovery of language, images, rhythm; the birth
of cinema and my own birth.' Revisiting the 15 hours of footage he shot
during his 'nomadic existence', NEW OLD covers roughly the years from
1967 to 1977, positing the counterculture of the 60s alongside that of
the late 70s, the Aquarian ethos against the mindset of punk rock."
-Michael Chaiken
6/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IN THE SHADOW.../SOLEIL
IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUE SCOUNDREL by Pierre Cl?menti 1978-85, 84
minutes, 16mm. In French with projected English subtitles. "Cl?menti's
most ambitious film was this feature-length, future-shock narrative, a
political fiction set against a Burroughs-esque landscape of drug
dealers, addicts, government control systems, and Islamic revolution.
The plot concerns the destabilization of Necro City by Islamic
insurgents who have flooded the blighted metropolis with potent strains
of heroin and hashish, with Cl?menti playing General Nutsbody, the
city's military leader. The sub-narcotic lull of the film's looping
soundtrack, the saturated-to-abstraction colors, and the double-exposure
photography give Paris's subterranean underworld a savage, no-budget
grandeur not unlike New York's high-Reagan-era Lower East Side as
depicted by Nick Zedd or Richard Kern." -Michael Chaiken & SOLEIL 1988,
16 minutes, 16mm. In French with projected English subtitles. "Part
narrative, part meditation, SOLEIL is haunted by memories past, present,
and future. The last film Cl?menti was to direct, and his personal
favorite, it begins with a reenactment of his arrest in Rome where,
alone in a cell, he suffers the slow grind of the judicial system's
wheels. As if to secure his own image for posterity, he sets himself the
task of recording his final words: 'Deafened by the song of innocence,
awaiting no fame-Who is this fragile heart beyond melancholy? Here lies
Pierre Cl?menti. The deceased was beloved, was perfect, to excess.'"
-Michael Chaiken
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SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2010
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6/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
STEPHEN CONNOLLY: OCCASIONAL PIECES AND AFFLICTED STATES
Filmforum is delighted to host the premiere screening for UK-based
filmmaker Stephen Connolly here in Los Angeles. One of the leading
strands of experimental film today utilizes observational documentary
techniques, without necessarily tying the edited film to a clear
narrative or leading character. Instead, the work investigates the
social, political and historical terrain of contemporary spaces and
landscapes through shards of space and lengthy stares. Connolly's short
films retain the sensitivity to light, rhythm, and perception that
characterize all fine experimental and documentary work.
6/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PIERRE CLEMENTI SHORTS PROGRAM
Etienne O'Leary HOMEO (1967, 38 minutes, 16mm) CHROMO SUD (1968, 21
minutes, 16mm) Canadian-born filmmaker Etienne O'Leary worked with an
intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting,
dense layering of superimposed images, and a spontaneous notebook-type
shooting style. Yet even if much of O'Leary's material was initially
'diaristic', depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he
encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during
editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized,
sometimes darkly sexual fantasias. CHROMO SUD, his most sinister work by
far, owes as much to Kenneth Anger as to Jonas Mekas, presenting the
libertarian impulses of the time in as orgiastically morbid and sadistic
a vein as Anger's SCORPIO RISING biker culture. Olivier Mosset FILM
PORNO (1968, 3 minutes, 16mm) "To understand what this FILM PORNO is or
isn't - it isn't cinema, and certainly not pornography - one would have
to go back to those revolutionary years when the act of writing,
painting, or filming couldn't be separated from the process of life,
creation, and liberation." -Frances Lengel Ange Leccia STRIDURA (1980,
13 minutes, 16mm) A future shock vision of a post-Apocalyptic, fascist
society. Starring Cl?menti in dual roles as "the rebel" and the
behind-the-scenes Ayatollah Hamenei-esque character deciding his fate
from an airtight control room. Secret chambers of power, rabid military
police, and nuclear explosions, this film is a virtual Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad compendium. Alfredo Leonardi LIBRO DI SANTI ROMA ETERNA
(BOOK OF SAINTS OF ETERNAL ROME) (1968, 14.5 minutes, 16mm) "Leonardi's
subject matter is happiness and joy, through the choice of image, and
through the editing (structuring) and through the camera movement, and
the more I see this film the more I want to see it again. [It] is in my
book of living classics." -Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE This program will
also include two selections from the vast tape collection of video
artist Michel Auder, one shot in the late 60s and one a decade later,
and both featuring Cl?menti. Total running time: ca. 120 minutes.
Screening as part of THE FILMS OF PIERRE CL?MENTI
6/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WHEEL OF ASHES
by Peter Emanuel Goldman 1968/71, 110 minutes, 35mm. With Pierre
Cl?menti, Katinka Bo, Pierre Besan?on, Judith Malina, Juliet Berto,
Stasia Gelber. Archival print courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.
Goldman, who had recently established himself as one of the leading
lights of the American underground film movement with his first feature
film, ECHOES OF SILENCE, made his second feature in France, with
Cl?menti starring as a young man adrift in Paris, searching for meaning
via sexual encounters, solitary contemplation, and an exploration of
both Western and Eastern religious traditions. Hardly seen in the U.S.,
in the 60s or since, WHEEL OF ASHES represents a fascinating
intersection of important European and American underground figures.
"There was not one of us who was not profoundly touched by this
film-perhaps the first to give a true feeling of certain quarters of
Paris." -CAHIERS DU CIN?MA Screening as part of THE FILMS OF PIERRE
CL?MENTI
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