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"Machina Mystica" by Aaron F. Ross
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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The 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: December 12, 2010)
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Appropriation Alliance Critical Remix Festival (Fresno, CA, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
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European Media Art Festival (Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
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"Close To My Heart" in CologneOFF 2011 (online and offline festivals; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Personal Cinema Series: Joey Huertas [December 11, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Maya Deren Program [December 11, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 5 [December 11, New York]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 2 [December 11, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 1 [December 11, New York]
* Que Faire ? Art, Film, Politique / What Is To Be Done ? Art, Film,
Politics [December 11, Paris, France]
* Elise Baldwin + Vanessa O’Neill + Thomas Carnacki + [December 11, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour: video Program
One [December 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 1 [December 12, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 6 [December 12, New York]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 2 [December 12, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 2 [December 12, New York]
* Structures of Experience: Interpreting the Built Environment Through Film
and video (Part I) [December 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Duncan Reekie: Live [December 15, London, England]
* Carolee Schneeman Program [December 16, New York, New York]
* Works By Nathaniel Dorsky [December 16, San Francisco, California]
* Nathaniel Dorsky: Winter Light [December 16, San Francisco, California]
* Early Monthly Segments #23 [December 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Experiment - Part Four [December 17, New York, New York]
* Hart of London [December 17, New York, New York]
* Andy Warhol's Face & the Velvet Underground In Boston [December 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Personal Cinema Series: Noe Kidder [December 18, New York, New York]
* Joseph Cornell Program 1 [December 18, New York, New York]
* Joseph Cornell Program 2 [December 18, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [December 18, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010
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12/11
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Admission $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: JOEY HUERTAS
Joey Huertas' films consist of personal revelatory confessions recorded
by unconventional means (surveillance equipment, microfilm, archives,
journals, and toys) and read much like the entries found in a hidden
personal diary. The films take many forms, including physical stories
arranged by peculiar/imagined biographies, collections of found
photographs, drawings and compositions from text journals. The filmmaker
is also a clinical social worker.------------PROGRAM: ...IN THE UPPER
ROOM (5 min.) "A film that uses propaganda techniques established by the
Institute of Propaganda Analysis to deliver a faux true-crime narrative
based on the terrifying reality of hate-group organizations." -J.H.---
GIRLSTORIES CASE-STUDY FILM TRILOGY: MISSING GREEN (10 min.), NICE
PEOPLE (26 min.) and HOMEWRECKA (32 min.) "Explicit in emotional subject
matter, the films reveal a diversity of problems adolecsent females have
in society when faced with misunderstood mental health issues. Clinical
depression, body image disorders and battered syndrome are study points
visited by the filmmaker."- J.H.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAYA DEREN PROGRAM
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by
Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959. AT LAND 1944, 15
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander
Hammid. A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA 1945, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
1946, 15 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with
Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and
Frank Westbrook. Total running time: ca. 50 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 5
Lou Castel CONVERGENCES 2005, 35 minutes, video. Throughout a single
day, apparently parallel actions lead us by accident to the same place,
time, image. The diagonally-divided screen slowly recomposes, the two
possible tracks of the same day lived by the same person (or perhaps
two?) finally converge as in a cul-de-sac. & Lou Castel REVOYANT 2005,
87 minutes, video. To re-watch: first of all, for yourself. Images from
the past, shot and left aside, all gathered on the same screen, the same
surface, each of them telling a different story. Is it possible to
rediscover them, to let them be part of your present again? This video
is one of the few examples of multi-screen cinema that lets the screens
'dialogue' with each other. Total running time: ca. 125 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 2
On Saturday, this program will be introduced by Michael Kerbel, Director
of the Yale University Film Study Center, and on Sunday by a Yale
faculty member or guest speaker TBD. THE BOY WHO SAW THROUGH (1956, 23
minutes, 35mm) Directed by legendary documentary filmmaker George Stoney
(ALL MY BABIES), this film was Bute's first endeavor producing live
action. Ted Nemeth was executive producer and director of photography.
Based on a short story and set in Victorian New York, the film stars
13-year-old Ronnie (Christopher) Walken. The film was restored at
Cineric Inc., with funding from a NFPF Basic Grant. TIME PIECE (1965, 9
minutes, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.) Jim Henson
runs, jumps, and flies in this Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Subject
film that uses most of Ted Nemeth's clever cinematography and special
effects. RAMA (1970, 16 minutes, 16mm. Print courtesy of the
Film-Makers' Cooperative.) A cinematic tone poem about a mythological
sea goddess. Special filters were developed by cinematographer Nemeth to
create the look of a watercolor painting. Sugar Cain stars and recites
her lyrical musings. OUT OF THE CRADLE, ENDLESSLY ROCKING: PASSAGES FROM
THE ODYSSEY OF WALT WHITMAN (1980-83, 15 minutes, 16mm) Principal
photography had been completed and completion funds were being sought at
the time of Bute's death in 1983. Never-before-seen, these excerpts are
presented as a fitting tribute to the filmmakers' collaborative legacy.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 8th, 7 PM.
12/11
Paris, France: le peuple qui manque
http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org
December 11-19, 2010, Centre Pompidou / Palais de Tokyo / Beaux-Arts de Paris/ Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers / Espace Khiasma
QUE FAIRE ? ART, FILM, POLITIQUE / WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? ART, FILM,
POLITICS
From the 11th to the 19th December 2010, the French curatorial platform
le peuple qui manque presents screenings and international symposium
about new critical and political strategies in contemporary art and more
specifically in artists films and videos.
http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/quefaire
12/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
ELISE BALDWIN + VANESSA O’NEILL + THOMAS CARNACKI +
Let the dead speak! Programmed by Christine Metropoulos, the fifth
vignette in our Dead Media suite offers a night of innovation through
excavation, repurposing, and reanimation. We begin with a nod to
pre-cinema as Thomas Carnacki (Greg Scharpen and cohorts) intones its
miscellanea and machines amidst a shadow-puppet theater, to invoke a
decidedly visual symphony. We enter the realm of cinema, as
hand-processing maven Vanessa O'Neill re-registers the projection
experience with her multiple-16mm paean of layered and reworked film, to
live sound by Kent Long. And we extend beyond cinema, as Elise Baldwin
conjures a Chimera, from her series of turntable performances
incorporating miniature dioramas on vinyl, live video, sound, lighting,
and archival imagery. Arrive at 8pm for divinatory drink specials and
other delicious atrocities! $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010
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12/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: VIDEO PROGRAM
ONE
Here's your chance to see the latest and greatest in independent short
film work from around the world, as we present highlights from the 48th
Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2010. Filmforum will host two shows of three,
this second night including works on video. This program presents
memorable and award-winning short films from artists around the world.
Included are stunning new works by established experimental makers Lewis
Klahr, Semiconductor and Inger Lise Hansen. Emerging Spanish maker Chema
Garcia Ibarra's narrative portrait reveals a story both funny and
tragic. Acclaimed animators Joanna Priestley and David O'Reilly's share
their latest, dynamic creations. Films by Stephen Wetzel, Duke &
Battersby and Kent Lambert offer provocative visions through sampling,
song and hybrid styles that defy classification.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 10th, 7:30 PM.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 6
Lou Castel OUR TONGUES ARE MOVING 2001, 80 minutes, video. With Castel,
Carolina Contreras, Nadine Naous, and Christelle Mari. Around a table
outside a café three women and one man are sitting. The place is not a
set for a fiction, and the actors are not the characters of any story.
As in a cut-out space-time, the people's gestures, dialogues, and
intentions are subjected to a concern that completely destroys any
attempt to construct something, even the project of making a film. & Lou
Castel FIN? 2005, 40 minutes, video. With Castel, Fabienne Duszynski,
and Sahiri Quarzell. A domestic improvisation on the process of making a
video. "Through a plot and an editing made in the camera, this is a
first humorous approach to the act of appropriation of non-existent
images." –L.C. Total running time: ca. 125 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 2
See notes for Dec. 11, 7:30 PM.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 2
See notes for Dec. 8, 9:30 PM.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2010
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12/14
Los Angeles, California: Woodbury University Hollywood Exhibitions
http://wuho.org/
8PM, 6518 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
STRUCTURES OF EXPERIENCE: INTERPRETING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT THROUGH FILM
AND VIDEO (PART I)
This two-part screening series of experimental documentaries takes
architecture and the urban landscape as a theme. Programmed by filmmaker
Vera Brunner-Sung, Part I brings together work by contemporary
filmmakers Alexandra Cuesta, Taylor Greeson and Seth Stewart, Taylor
Lane, Rachel Reupke, Scott Stark, and Vera Brunner-Sung. Intimate,
strange, and funny, this first screening reveals individuals navigating
the architectural underpinnings of the unfamiliar. Whether exploring a
labyrinthine corporate hotel, contemplating the monumental urbanism of
Beijing, or witnessing a bomb blast in Lebanon, they are united in the
ability to evoke a psychology of place from the materials and structures
of their surroundings. Brunner-Sung brings together these works to offer
compelling considerations of the political, personal and aesthetic
resonance of the landscapes we traverse, as well as to enrich her own
creative interests in these themes. The films: NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR
(Rachel Reupke, digital video, 9:00, 2007); HOTEL CARTOGRAPH (Scott
Stark, 16mm, 12:00, 1983); PLACES CHANGE (Taylor Lane, digital video,
5:30, 2009); WAYWARD PILGRIMS (Taylor Greeson and Seth Stewart, super-8
on digital video, 6:30, 2007); BEIRUT 2.14.05 (Alexandra Cuesta, 16mm,
8:00, 2008); THE GARDEN CITY (Vera Brunner-Sung, 16mm, 13:30, 2007).
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010
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12/15
London, England: Scattershot film Club
http://www.duncanreekie.co.uk
8.30pm, Ryans Bar, 181 Church Street, London, N16 0UL
DUNCAN REEKIE: LIVE
Over the last 20 years Duncan Reekie has produced a kaleidoscopic array
of film, video and performance works ranging from experimental narrative
to scratch animation, found footage montage and spoken word mash up. His
work is subversive, brave and often deeply moving. His charismatic
presence and wry humour make his live performances really good.This
programme brings together some of his most influential work including
:DESTROY ALL MOBSTERS (1993),England My Frankenstein(1998),THE CHAMP
(1996) and THE KING IN DARKNESS (2008) - £3 admission £2 conx - Ryans
Bar - Next to the Stoke Newington Town Hall bus stop, 10 minutes from
Angel on the 73 and N73. Stoke Newington High St. is 10 minutes walk
away - with an Overground stop and buslinks to Shoreditch, London Bridge
and Waterloo.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2010
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12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 2nd Ave.
CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN PROGRAM
7:30 PM CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN – BOOK RELEASE EVENT! Film Notes Filmmaker in
person! To celebrate the publication of CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: AN
EPISTOLARY HISTORY OF CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN AND HER CIRCLE, edited by
Kristine Stiles and released by Duke University Press this fall, we will
be screening a single-evening selection of Schneemann's work, including
several of her seminal films from the 60s and 70s, as well as premieres
of two brand-new video works, ASK THE GODDESS and MYSTERIES OF THE
PUSSIES. Schneemann will be here in person to introduce the films and
discuss her work. FUSES (1964-67, 30 minutes, 16mm, silent. Preserved by
Anthology with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.) "[A] notorious
masterpiece, a silent celebration in color of heterosexual love making,
the film unifies erotic energies within a domestic environment through
cutting, super-imposition and layering of abstract impressions scratched
into the celluloid itself." –THE GUARDIAN MEAT JOY (1964/2008, 10.5
minutes, 16mm-to-video) Preserved by Electronic Arts Intermix through
the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and
administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. "MEAT JOY is
an erotic rite – excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as
material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic,
ropes, brushes, paper scrap. … This video was converted from original
film footage of three 1964 performances of MEAT JOY at its first staged
performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison
Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City." –C.S. KITCH'S LAST MEAL
(1973-78, 15-minute extract, Super8mm-to-video. Preserved by Anthology
with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.) The
third part of her autobiographical trilogy (including FUSES and PLUMB
LINE), KITCH'S documents, among other things, the demise of Schneemann's
cat comrade, Kitch. Presented in varying configurations and lengths over
the years, it was shot in Super-8mm and shown simultaneously on two
projectors with one image arranged above another. Here we will be
screening an excerpt from the DVD transfer that was created as part of
Anthology's preservation of the film. "Domestic imagery filmed weekly
for three years in a country house where my partner and myself are
observed by our 19-year-old cat in the normal routine of domestic
intimacy and our work as artists. … The ordinariness of the activities
of the couple in association with the disjunctive sound builds towards a
disconcerting invisibility – beyond what is here manifest." –C.S. ASK
THE GODDESS (1991/2010, ca. 7 minutes, video) A document of a
provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience
by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have
submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprise an
iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, including images of
animal attributes. Schneemann spontaneously reacts to the questions by
channeling cogent answers triggered by the unpredictable images, as well
as finding herself physically activated in instances where she turns
into a howling wolf or crawls across the projection area squealing like
a pig. MYSTERIES OF THE PUSSIES (1998/2010, ca. 7 minutes, video) This
charming and funny piece presents a spontaneous physical and verbal
interaction between Schneemann and the very beautiful librarian from
Pori Art Museum, Finland. Spoken in both English and Finnish, their
dialogue examines a collage of feminist issues contrasted within slide
projections of amorous cats. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
12/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m., 151 Third Street
WORKS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY
Nathaniel Dorsky, filmmaker 7:00 p.m. Dorsky has spent a lifetime
exploring the expressive potential of Kodachrome film and has created
some of the medium's most significant and moving works. Sadly, the
development of Kodachrome will cease in December 2010. The artist
describes Compline, his final Kodachrome film, as "the last of the
canonical hours, the final act in a cycle." Aubade and Pastourelle are
Dorsky's first works shot on color negative film; inspired by the
troubadour tradition, they impart the poetics of loss and new
beginnings. Winter is a Kodachrome ode to the uniqueness of the San
Francisco season. (Vanessa O'Neill and Steve Polta) $10 general; $7
SFMOMA and SF Cinematheque members, students, and seniors.
12/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm, SFMoMA, 151 Third Street
NATHANIEL DORSKY: WINTER LIGHT
A filmmaker since age ten, Nathaniel Dorsky has spent a lifetime
exploring the expressive photographic potentials of Kodachrome film. In
this exploration he has created some of the medium's most significant
and moving color film works. Sadly, the development of Kodachrome will
cease in December 2010. As if in observance, Compline, Dorsky's final
Kodachrome film, is described as "a night devotion or prayer, the last
of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle." His most recent
works, the "sister films" Aubade and Pastourelle, represent a turning
point for the artist—his first works shot on color negative film. Each
inspired by the troubadour tradition of courtship songs, these films
impart the poetics of loss and new beginnings. Finally, 2008's Winter
(also shot on Kodachrome) is an ode to the uniqueness of the San
Francisco season: "fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of
shadows and renewal." (Vanessa O'Neill and Steve Polta)
12/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 AND 10:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #23
WILL MUNRO'S FAVOURITES! Jean Genet, Barbara Hammer, Jerry Tartaglia,
Janis Cole/Holly Dale, Tom Chomont and special surprises! A fundraiser
for the Will Munro Fund for Queer + Trans people with cancer Early
Monthly Segments is paying tribute to Will Munro, Toronto's catalyst of
queer and underground cultures who died this past May after living two
years with cancer. With a keen eye focused on her/histories of queer
cultures, Will loved sharing music, film + art through his multitude of
interests and non-stop energy, including his own artistic practices,
many dance nights and co-ownership of restaurant/club The Beaver. Will
is dearly missed. We will be sharing a program of some of Will's
favourite films including Jean Genet's seminal Un Chant d'amour (Will
named his legendary Vaseline club night from Genet's "The Thief's
Journal") as well as the rarely screened Ecce Homo by Jerry Tartaglia
which uses Genet's film to explore the criminalization of gay sexuality
at the height of AIDS hysteria. Barbara Hammer's Dyketactics and Janis
Cole + Holly Dale's Minimum Charge, No Cover screened at Vaseline
numerous times over the years. Two films by Tom Chomont (who sadly also
passed away this summer) selected by EMS compliment Will's favourites
and present lush superimposed scenes of lusty exploration. Programme: Un
Chant d'amour, Jean Genet, 1950, 16mm, France, 26 minutes, silent, B&W
Ecce Homo, Jerry Tartaglia, 1991, 16mm, USA, 7 minutes, colour
Dyketactics, Barbara Hammer, 1974, 16mm, USA, 4 minutes, colour Minimum
Charge, No Cover, Janis Cole + Holly Dale, 1976, 16mm, Canada, 11
minutes, colour Oblivion, Tom Chomont, 1969, 16mm, USA, 6 minutes,
colour, silent Razorhead, Tom Chomont, 1981, 16mm, USA, 4 minutes,
colour, silent ** AND OTHER SURPRISES! ** FOLLOWED BY ARTIST RUN CENTRE
HOLIDAY PARTY ** $5-10 suggested donation *All proceeds donated to the
Will Munro Fund for Queer + Trans people with cancer* Early Monthly
Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert
Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation
found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate
MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde
films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar. In this relaxed
context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to
encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening
dialogue. Thanks to Barbara Hammer + CFMDC + Lightcone + the Gladstone
Hotel. Contact email suppressed for email list!
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010
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12/17
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:30pm - 10:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (2/3 train to 125th Street)
THE EXPERIMENT - PART FOUR
The Experiment is a quarterly screening series that charts the
convergence of documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking. This
year's final showcase takes a much broader focus than previous
screenings that concerned politics, portraiture and personal
ethnography, and casts a long look at cinematic history. When did these
two genres emerge, and what is their relationship in the context of
cinematic history? This 'retrospective' exhibition encounters several
stylistic and technical revolutions in the development of documentary
and avant-garde filmmaking. These include: the city symphony, abstract
expressionism, surrealist science, structuralism, diarist cinema,
optical printing, computer generated imagery, double exposure, digital
distortion and time-lapse photography. Please join us for an informal
evening celebrating the radical forms of avant-garde and documentary
cinema. Theater (8pm - 9:15pm) Daybreak Express, D A Pennebaker, 1953,
16mm, color, sound, 5m. Lights, Marie Menken, 1964-66, 16mm, color,
silent, 7m. The Love Life of an Octopus, Jean Painleve, 1967, Betacam,
color, sound, 14m. Canyon, Jon Jost, 1970, video, color, silent, 6m. Not
The First Time, Hollis Frampton, 1976, 16mm, color, silent, 5m. Nice
Biscotts #2, Luther Price, 2005, 16mm, color, sound, 10m. Light is
Waiting, Michael Robinson, 2007, digital video, color, sound, 11m. The
Third Body, Peggy Ahwesh, 2009, video, color, sound, 9m. Albert and
David Maysles appearing on The David Letterman Show. Gallery (ongoing
projections throughout the event) Louis Lumiere, selected short films.
Thomas Edison, selected short films.
12/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 2nd Ave.
HART OF LONDON
by Jack & Olga Chambers 1970, 79 minutes, 16mm "A sprawling, ambitious
film that combines newsreel footage of disasters, urban and nature
imagery, and footage evoking the cycles of life and death. It is one of
those rare films that succeeds precisely because of its sprawl; raw and
open-ended almost to the point of anticipating the postmodern rejection
of 'master narratives', it cannot be reduced to a simple summary, and
changes on you from one viewing to the next." –Fred Camper
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2010
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12/18
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
ANDY WARHOL'S FACE & THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON
Andy Warhol's Face & The Velvet Underground in Boston *** Two New
Preservations! *** Presented in Memory of Callie Angell *** Andy
Warhol's filmography continues to produce unknown and barely-known films
as films are slowly preserved and released. FACE is one of those
barely-known titles – it was publicly shown but little seen before
Warhol withdrew all of his films from distribution. Starring the
magnetic Edie Sedgwick, who comes closest to being a muse for Warhol of
all the Factory regulars, FACE is an extreme example of Warhol's
interest in portraiture: the film is a nearly 70 minute extended
"close-up" of Sedgwick as she performs a variety of mundane tasks,
converses with an off-screen Chuck Wein, and just is herself. *** Also
showing is another newly preserved film, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN
BOSTON, featuring the band in concert. *** This program is presented in
memory of Callie Angell (1948-2010). Angell was a film curator, writer,
researcher, and project director. She worked at Anthology Film Archives
and the Whitney Museum in New York City and for the past ten years was
the director of the Andy Warhol Film Project, where she was preparing a
two-volume catalog raisonée on Warhol's films (volume one, on the Screen
Tests, was published in 2008; volume two was nearing completion). Angell
has become the foremost expert on Warhol's films and was a tireless
champion of his work. *** FACE (1965, 66 mins., 16mm, new preservation
print) "Featuring two fixed-frame shots of Warhol's socialite superstar
Edie Sedgwick, FACE (1965, USA, 66 min.) captures what the singer and
poet Patti Smith described as Sedgwick's ability to radiate
'intelligence, speed, and being connected with the moment.'" (MoMA) ***
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, 33 mins., 16mm, new preservation
print) "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, USA, 33 min.), which
Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety
of filmmaking techniques—sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning
shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of
light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off—that mirror the kinesthetic
experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights,
whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal
use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound of The Velvet Underground."
(MoMA) *** Admission: $7.00-10.00 sliding scale
12/18
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Admission $8/$6 for members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: NOE KIDDER
Noe Kidder was raised in Upstate New York and Kauai, Hawaii. She studied
film with Tatsu Aoki at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her
work is known for its unusual combinations of animation, puppetry,
projection, and performance. The work of Maya Deren and Janie Geiser
among others have inspired her.----PROGRAM---- MY FATHER WAS A GANGSTER
(3 min. 2010) A stand in self-portrait. Total displacement and complete
familiarity. Picture postcards flashing in the size of little stamps.
The past of our city suffocates and puzzles. What is cheapest and
easiest is me. --- HOLLYWOOD SONGBOOK (40 min. 2010) A film-music
collaboration with Jessica Goldring, Darren Chase and Bill Solomon of
EXILKABARETT. Song cycle by Hanns Eisler, poems by Bertolt Brecht,
glorious B&W reversal plus X film and the fresh waters of Spring. ---
HOLY BLOOD (40min, 2010) A long term project co-directed with Los
Angeles artist Brian Getnick. The first narrative experiment. A small
town theater, fragmented and self-imploding.
12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 2nd Ave.
JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20
minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes, 16mm) THE
MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY
(1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes, 16mm)
AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes, 16mm,
photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) A
LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL (1957, 3 minutes,
16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images.
ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S
PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were
directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy
Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
running time: ca. 100 minutes.
12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15, 32 2nd Ave.
JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
(ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
person—are Deborah Stratman's It Will Die Out in the Mind, Roger Beebe's
Beginnings, David Cox' Time Ghosts, Greg Zifcak's Life Forms, and Kelly
Sears' The Body Besieged. PLUS recent pieces by Kerry Laitala, Richard
Mitchell, Bryan Boyce, Martha Colburn, Molly Hankwitz, Salise Hughes,
and others TBA. Come early for artists' reception, Laitala's peep-show
installations, and the Dream Machine!
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