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This week [September 4 - 12, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 29, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Andrew Lampert: Contracted Cinema [September 4, Long Island City, NY]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage [September 4, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage [September 4, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage [September 5, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage [September 5, New York]
* Accordi @ Disaccordi Open Air Cinema Festival [September 7, Naples / Napoli NA - Italy]
* Ludwig [September 9, New York, New York]
* Karl May [September 10, New York, New York]
* The Invisible Forest: A Paratheatrical Work [September 10, San Francisco, California]
* Wavelengths [September 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Andrew Lampert: the Old World and This One, Too [September 11, Long Island City, NY]
* Elusive Landscape [September 11, Miami Beach, FL]
* Hitler: A Film From Germany [September 11, New York, New York]
* Sfmoma Presents <I>Mean Streets: Chip Lord, Lourdes Portillo, Konrad
Steiner, and Graham Connah</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Sfmoma Presents Gregory Pickup's <I>Pickup's Tricks</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Sfmoma Presents Ernie Gehr's <I>Cotton Candy</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Stop & Go Rides Again [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* X-Tra Vol. 13 No. 1 Launch and Charles Ludlam Screening [September 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Hitler: A Film From Germany [September 12, New York, New York]
* Astronome, A Night At the Opera By Henry Hills [September 12, New York, New York]
* Astronome, A Night At the Opera By Henry Hills [September 12, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
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9/4
Long Island City, NY: Greater New York Cinema
3pm, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
ANDREW LAMPERT: CONTRACTED CINEMA
What is it they say? Autumn means turning a new leaf, a time to move on.
Gazing back and looking forward, it strikes me that right now is a fine
occasion to retire some of my more recent pieces. But before shelving
these little films, it'd be a shame not to give you one last opportunity
to miss them. Today's show features two recent-ish Super 8 pieces for
solo projector "contracted cinema" performance. These intimate movies
must be performed live in order to be seen. My projector, my films, me
and you. That's all we really need. JACKA SPADES (2009, 34 minutes,
Super 8) Steve Dalachinsky, with the aid of Yuko Otomo and
cinematographer Andrew Lampert, is offered the chance to direct his
dream film. This is not that, but rather the result of what they shot
that day presented in real time as they filmed it. In the end, this is
always what the film was supposed to be; what Steve wanted is another
story heard on the soundtrack of the images gathered within. "I think I
always wanted to be the actor, not the director." – Steve Dalachinsky
from the soundtrack. AM I FROM BROOKLYN? (2010, 24 minutes, Super 8). A
tour-guided journey through a few Brooklyn neighborhoods known and
unknown to the filmmaker. First performed at The Poetry Project on April
23, 2010. PLUS…other surprise films! AND…Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko
Otomo will each read a couple poems! BUT WAIT… a mindboggling short film
from the SEE series by Eugene Castle! DON'T FORGET...there will be door
prizes!
9/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY EYES 1970, 36 minutes, 16mm, silent. "After
wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the
more 'mystical' occupations of our Times – some of the more obscure
Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'...
viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: – I was at last
permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final
several days of September 1970." –S.B. DEUS EX 1971, 34 minutes, 16mm,
silent. "I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all
that experience while making DEUS EX in West Penn. Hospital of
Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident
in an emergency room of San Francisco's Mission District: while waiting
for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May
1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and the following lines from Charles
Olson's 'Cole's Island' had especially centered the experience,
'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins the poem with the
statement 'I met Death –' And then: 'He didn't bother me, or say
anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the
circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they
wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And / He
certainly was, the moment I saw him.'" –S.B. THE ACT OF SEEING WITH
ONE'S OWN EYES 1971, 32 minutes, 16mm, silent. "…Brakhage, entering,
with his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our
culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is
cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our
knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see
that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling
particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague
nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of others." –Hollis
Frampton Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
9/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
SONGS 1-14 1964-65, ca. 53 minutes, 16mm, silent. "SONG 1: Portrait of a
lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4:
Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth
song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco.
SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10:
Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain
scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG
13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and
crystals." –S.B.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
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9/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
See description for September 2nd, 7PM.
9/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
THE TEXT OF LIGHT 1974, 67 minutes, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force
exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light."
–Dun Scotus Erigena
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
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9/7
Naples / Napoli NA - Italy: Movies Event
http://www.accordiedisaccordi.com
21:10, Viale del Poggio di Capodimonte / Parco del POGGIO (Colli Aminei) *HILL Park*
ACCORDI @ DISACCORDI OPEN AIR CINEMA FESTIVAL
This outdoor film festival counts this year its eleventh, will take
place from June 30th until September 7th 2010, and with the attendance
of over 40,000 viewers will screen features, documentaries, shorts,
pocket movies and music videos. The outdoor movie projections start at
9.10 pm and last until full night; open air screenings rise in the Arena
"Parco del Poggio" (Hill Park), the fabulous and picturesque site near
Capodimonte Area in Naples / Napoli NA Italy. It's a special delight in
order to enjoy cinema beneath the stars on warm summer nights in an
amphitheatre equipped with one of the widest projection screens in Italy
which rises having an artificial lake all around. These events really
make people revive the movies each night of the Festival! The admittance
price is very cheap: Euro 3.50 per day. In order to see the program go
to the official website: http://www.accordiedisaccordi.com
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
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9/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LUDWIG
LUDWIG: REQUIEM FOR A VIRGIN KING by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In German
with English subtitles, 1972, 140 minutes, 16mm Film Notes LUDWIG:
REQUIEM FOR A VIRGIN KING / LUDWIG – REQUIEM FÜR EINEN JUNGFRÄULICHEN
KÖNIG With Harry Baer, Peter Kern, Ingrid Caven, and Peter Moland.
Twenty-eight chapters from the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1866)
add up to what Syberberg calls "a summary of the Germany of the 19th
century as experienced by the Germany of 1972." Syberberg presents
Ludwig as a sort of tortured witness of future times, with culture
changing into barbarism, the Bismarckian state into totalitarianism,
Wagner into the trivial music of the thirties. "The story of the last
Bavarian King with his euphoria, his anxieties, his dreams told in a
style of an oratorio or a medieval passion. Present and past are
combined in a film of Wagnerian scenes, music of the thirties, Bavarian
legends, 'Oktoberfest' waxworks, magic lantern, still life, surrealism,
elements of silent films, guillotine, quotations from Goethe, Brecht,
Valentin, and Shakespeare." –Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
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9/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KARL MAY
KARL MAY by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In German with English subtitles,
1974, 187 minutes, 35mm Film Notes With Helmut Käutner. "The film
describes the inner world of the last great German mystic at the
beginning of the end of the fairy tale…in a kind of monologue in a
monstrous intimate play", Syberberg wrote of his film about the life of
Germany's most popular author. Karl May, a prolific and beloved writer,
wrote rousing adventure tales set in America's Wild West, which
mythologized a rustic lifestyle that appealed to German sensibilities
and may have inspired the Nazi Party. Syberberg's meditation on May
fuses theater, music, and cinema to offer a perspective on the writer as
a man who mythologized himself as an extension of his art.
9/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
THE INVISIBLE FOREST: A PARATHEATRICAL WORK
THE INVISIBLE FOREST (2008; 111 min) a film by Antero Alli (in person) A
theater director, Alex (played by the director of the film, Antero
Alli), brings a troupe of nine actors to a remote forest to engage in
paratheatrical work. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, it
refers to a range of practices, inspired by Polish theater pioneer Jerzy
Grotowski, in which the techniques of theater are used, not to create
works of art to be performed for an audience, but solely for the
personal and spiritual development of the participants. Since, in real
life, Alli is engaged in paratheatrical research, it becomes obvious
that the film's fictional story is constructed out of documentary
elements. The work they are doing is an attempt to realize French poet
and playwright Antonin Artaud's vision of an explosive, transformative
form of theater which he called the "Theater of Cruelty."
9/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival
http://tiff.net/thefestival/filmsandschedules/programmes/wavelengths
9pm, 317 Dundas St West
WAVELENGTHS
WAVELENGTHS ticket packages, the best deal at tiff, on sale now!
Wavelengths celebrates its tenth year of presenting the best in
international avant-garde film and video at the Toronto International
Film Festival with its largest selection yet. This year's line-up
includes six curated programmes featuring 36 innovative films and
videos. For complete programme details go to
http://tiff.net/thefestival/filmsandschedules/programmes/wavelengths .
Named after Michael Snow's seminal film Wavelength, Wavelengths is an
important destination for cinephiles, artists, curators and all
audiences interested in the celebration, exploration and experimentation
of film and video. Running from September 10 through 13 at the AGO's
Jackman Hall, the 2010 line-up includes works by masters such as James
Benning, Nathaniel Dorsky, Paolo Gioli, Ken Jacobs and Peter
Tscherkassky, as well as outstanding emerging artists like T. Marie,
Tomonari Nishikawa, Oliver Husain, Eriko Sonoda, Kevin Jerome Everson
and Rebecca Meyers. The Wavelengths Package is on sale now and includes
one ticket to each of the six screenings for $55 and $47 for
students/seniors (not including taxes and fees). Visit
tiff.net/thefestival for more details, or to buy online
https://tytix.tiff.net/scripts/max/10.17.40.32-2000/maxweb.exe. Contact,
Kate MacKay, email suppressed Press contact David Balzer, 416 578 2640,
email suppressed
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
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9/11
Long Island City, NY: Greater New York Cinema
3pm, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
ANDREW LAMPERT: THE OLD WORLD AND THIS ONE, TOO
Today's show features a few groupings of all new works now seeing the
light of the screen. Herein is space and time, approached from numerous
angles, encompassing friends, colleagues, ancestors and unknowns. The
present doesn't pause, it moves faster with each blink. Are These Dance
Films?: BUFFON MOVEMENT ACADEMY (2010, 3.5 minutes, Super 8, music by
Louis T. Hardin) IRINA IN A GROOVE (2010, 6 minutes, Super 8) Caroline &
Madeline, Together: CAROLINE GOLUM AS 2010, 9 minutes, video Caroline
Golum auditions to play my great great great great great Aunt in late
1700s. Siberia. MADELINE QUINN IS 2010, 9 minutes, video Madeline Quinn
gets the role of a lifetime, Gunilla, a wicked Swedish warrior with
demented desires and a plan for domination. ETKA & RIFKA: TEENAGERS OF
THE OLD WORLD 2010, 12 minutes, 16mm on video Caroline and Madeline star
in this all-inclusive attempt to make a student film. MADELINE
VICTORIOUS 2010, 5.5 minutes, video Madeline elaborates upon the
circumstances surrounding her arrival in NYC, and much more. Portraits:
DECONGESTING LEILA 2010, 4 minutes, Super 8 Starring Leila Hekmat. For
adults only. PETERMICHELLEANGELAALAN 2010, 3.5 minutes, Super 8 Precious
moments set to music, made sappier. Destiny: DOUBLE TROUBLE 2010, approx
12 minutes, X2 Super 8 DOUBLE TROUBLE is the aptly named duo of Andrew
Lampert and Fern Silva. Today features the stereo-vision premiere of a
brand new double projection piece. Not much else to say. PLUS… another
incredible short film from the SEE series by Eugene Castle! AND… yet
more surprises! BUT WAIT…even better door prizes!
9/11
Miami Beach, FL: Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc.
http://elusivelandscape.blogspot.com
8PM - 10PM, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive
ELUSIVE LANDSCAPE
Elusive Landscape will be presented at five outdoor locations across
Miami from June to October 2010. This work consists of multiple
hand-crafted 16mm films depicting the forms and colors of natural
landscapes projected directly into the landscapes themselves. These
events will be free and open to the public. Artist Dinorah de Jesús
Rodriguez brings to this project over 30 years' experience in
hand-crafted 16mm filmmaking, as well as a history of moving image
installation, including several works which have included projections in
the outdoors. Unique soundscapes for each site will be provided by
composer and sound designer Ricardo Lastre. Following the five outdoor
installations, there will be an exhibition at Diaspora Vibe Gallery
showing the films projected onto screens as well as the filmstrips
themselves, encased in light boxes, and a video documenting the entire
process of creating and exhibiting this work.
9/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In English, German,
French, and Russian with English subtitles, 1977, 429 minutes, 35mm Film
Notes HITLER – EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND With Heinz Schubert, Harry Baer,
Hellmuth Lange, Andre Heller, Peter Kern, and Amalie Syberberg. "[O]ne
of the great works of art of the 20th century and one of the greatest
films ever made." –Susan Sontag, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The final, and
certainly most ambitious, film in Syberberg's trilogy is an epic
nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying
his mythic rise, and the effect he continues to wield over Germany. In a
series of twenty-two tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use
of puppets, props, a thundering Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen
projection to evoke the origins of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany, and
the disturbing aftermath.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3 p.m., 4 Star Theatre, 2200 Clement Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS MEAN STREETS: CHIP LORD, LOURDES PORTILLO, KONRAD
STEINER, AND GRAHAM CONNAH
In this shorts program, we feature works whose protagonists race and
toggle through San Francisco's real and imagined streets. Lord's Movie
Map runs iconic car chases in Bullitt and Vertigo against each other.
Portillo's My McQueen tracks the influence that Bullitt star Steve
McQueen exerts on San Francisco's multiple identities, while Lord's
Awakening from the Twentieth Century wonders if the virtual is edging
out the actual spaces captured in these films. An excerpt of Steiner and
Connah's collaboration, Overdoing the Movies, features a mashup of chase
scenes excerpted from The Conversation, What's Up Doc, and seven other
films set in San Francisco, accompanied by a live performance of
Connah's original score. Presented in conjunction with Cinema City Out
There.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
6 p.m., Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS GREGORY PICKUP'S PICKUP'S TRICKS
Profiling Hibiscus, the splendidly sequined founder of the legendary
Cockettes, filmmaker Pickup saw his Grove Street loft transformed into
"a glitter factory" for a very San Franciscan series of revels. The film
captures Pickup's home remade as a cabaret for Hibiscus's free theater
group, the Angels of Light, and even Allen Ginsberg arrives to perform
Blake poems in drag.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
Noon, Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS ERNIE GEHR'S COTTON CANDY
Critic J. Hoberman has described Gehr's celebrated body of avant-garde
film work as "a tale of three cities": Berlin, his parents' home; New
York, where he became known for his structuralist films in the late
1960s; and San Francisco, where he lived and taught from the late 1980s
to the mid-2000s. Cotton Candy visits San Francisco's beloved Musee
Mecanique before its move from the Cliff House to Fisherman's Wharf;
relishing the proto-cinematic devices there, Gehr recaptures the dream
of cinema before it found its big screen. Gehr introduces the film and
joins us for a post-screening discussion. Presented in conjunction with
Cinema City Out There.
9/11
San Francisco, California: Intersection for the Arts
http://www.stopandgoshow.com
4pm, 7pm, 9pm, 446 Valencia Street
STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN
Screening stop-motion work by visual artists and filmmakers. Animations
by Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson, Kathy Aoki, Alessandra Ausenda,
Lizzie Black & Anna Maria Murphy, Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner,
Deborah Davidovits, Almut Determeyer, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks, Sarah
Klein, Evelien Lohbeck, Miwa Matreyek, Tucker Nichols, David O'Kane, Ara
Peterson, Mel Prest, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey, Sjors
Vervoort, Andy Vogt, Scott Wolniak.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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9/12
Los Angeles, California: X-TRA Art Quarterly
x-traonline.org
6pm-9pm, 2692 S La Cienega
X-TRA VOL. 13 NO. 1 LAUNCH AND CHARLES LUDLAM SCREENING
Bradford Nordeen, who reviewed the 'Lost films of Charles Ludlam' for
the volume, will screen Ludlam's Museum of Wax and will exhibit an
"ambient" screening - the west coast premiere - of the recently
re-discovered Gooseflesh. Zoe Crosher contributed the Artist Project to
the issue, and has a billboard project with LAXART, part of LAXART
Public Initiatives, on view on the same block as Mandrake. She will
present some of her source material from both projects, in collaboration
with curator Jenée Misraje.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In English, German,
French, and Russian with English subtitles, 1977, 429 minutes, 35mm Film
Notes HITLER – EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND With Heinz Schubert, Harry Baer,
Hellmuth Lange, Andre Heller, Peter Kern, and Amalie Syberberg. "[O]ne
of the great works of art of the 20th century and one of the greatest
films ever made." –Susan Sontag, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The final, and
certainly most ambitious, film in Syberberg's trilogy is an epic
nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying
his mythic rise, and the effect he continues to wield over Germany. In a
series of twenty-two tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use
of puppets, props, a thundering Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen
projection to evoke the origins of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany, and
the disturbing aftermath.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA BY HENRY HILLS
by Henry Hills 2010, 63 minutes, video Film Notes SPECIAL PREMIERE
SCREENING! Henry Hills returns to Anthology for the premiere of his
latest video, a feature-length documentation of the wonderfully unruly
ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, a collaborative production by
playwright/director Richard Foreman and composer John Zorn. Staged at
the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Spring 2009, ASTRONOME was, to say
the least, a fast, furious flurry of syncopated movement, metaphysical
mayhem, and voluminous hardcore music. Shooting with two cameras over
the course of six performances, Hills has concocted an amazingly
assembled, precisely framed, and altogether amusing video that most
definitely stands as a work of its own. In Hills's ASTRONOME the set,
the props, the actors, and the music all meld into a singular,
fantastically fluid ensemble production. For those not lucky enough to
have seen the show live, you thankfully now have a lot to catch up
with…. Starring: Karl Allen, Benjamin Forster, Fulya Peker, Eric Magnus,
Morgan Von Prelle Pecelli, James Peterson, and Deborah Wallace.
Featuring music by John Zorn with Joey Baron, drums; Trevor Dunn, bass;
Mike Patton, voice. Soundtrack available on Tzadik Records. With: FAILED
STATES (2008, 10 minutes, 16mm) "[It] is a study of spinning elements,
rotation as gesture both mechanized and organic…but above and beyond
this, [it] is remarkable because, among its other virtues, it combines
multiple layers of avant-garde film history and memory. The link to the
fairground, naturally, asks us to think of cinema as an 'attraction', a
non-narrative mode that provokes the senses." –Michael Sicinski Total
running time: ca. 75 minutes.
9/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA BY HENRY HILLS
SPECIAL PREMIERE SCREENING! Henry Hills returns to Anthology for the
premiere of his latest video, a feature-length documentation of the
wonderfully unruly ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, a collaborative
production by playwright/director Richard Foreman and composer John
Zorn. Staged at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Spring 2009,
ASTRONOME was, to say the least, a fast, furious flurry of syncopated
movement, metaphysical mayhem, and voluminous hardcore music. Shooting
with two cameras over the course of six performances, Hills has
concocted an amazingly assembled, precisely framed, and altogether
amusing video that most definitely stands as a work of its own. In
Hills's ASTRONOME the set, the props, the actors, and the music all meld
into a singular, fantastically fluid ensemble production. For those not
lucky enough to have seen the show live, you thankfully now have a lot
to catch up with…. Starring: Karl Allen, Benjamin Forster, Fulya Peker,
Eric Magnus, Morgan Von Prelle Pecelli, James Peterson, and Deborah
Wallace. Featuring music by John Zorn with Joey Baron, drums; Trevor
Dunn, bass; Mike Patton, voice. Soundtrack available on Tzadik Records.
With: FAILED STATES (2008, 10 minutes, 16mm) "[It] is a study of
spinning elements, rotation as gesture both mechanized and organic…but
above and beyond this, [it] is remarkable because, among its other
virtues, it combines multiple layers of avant-garde film history and
memory. The link to the fairground, naturally, asks us to think of
cinema as an 'attraction', a non-narrative mode that provokes the
senses." –Michael Sicinski Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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