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This week [January 2 - 9, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Indie Fest (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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Digital Checkpoints at FLEFF 2011 (Ithaca, New York, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2011)
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synthetic zero & S0NiK Fest (Bronx, NY, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2011)
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Centrespace Gallery (Bristol, UK; Deadline: January 06, 2011)
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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Studio 27 (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: January 26, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Free Screen: From Ecstacy To Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish
Cinema: Session 1 [January 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Essential Cinema: Strike [January 6, New York]
* The Standby Program [January 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [January 8, New York]
* Essential Cinema: October [January 8, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Rr By James Benning [January 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Old and New [January 9, New York]
* Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [January 9, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011
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1/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net
7:00pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox , 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: FROM ECSTACY TO RAPTURE: 50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH
CINEMA: SESSION 1
The first installment of The Free Screen at TIFF Bell Lightbox features
From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 Years of the other Spanish Cinema, an
unprecedented retrospective of Spanish experimental cinema of the last
half century. Featuring numerous restored prints and preservation video
transfers, this important international touring programme provides a
rare overview of an alternative national cinema whose contribution to
the international avant-garde stretches far beyond the renowned legacy
of Dali and Buñuel. Presented in six programmes arranged by theme and
technique rather than chronology, and including two feature-length cult
masterworks, this series was curated by Antoni Pinent for the
Contemporary Cultural Centre in Barcelona. We give special thanks to
Gloria Vilches (CCCB) for making possible the Toronto premiere of these
films. –Andréa Picard CREDIT LINE From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 Years of
the other Spanish Cinema An Xcèntric Programme, the Cinema of the CCCB.
Produced by CCCB – Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona SEACEX –
State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation / Ministry of Culture (Spain) With the support
of ICIC / Cinematheque of Catalunya DOCUMENTS / ITINERARIES A programme
of shorts and réalités beginning with a film by José Val del Omar, a
visionary filmmaker and one of the most relevant and enigmatic figures
to emerge within the Spanish film industry. The stark but ravishing
Fuego en Castilla, which won an award at Cannes in 1961, forms part of
his unfinished Tríptico elemental de España, which both fascinated and
baffled the Francoist authorities. Other filmmakers included are the
architect Gabriel Blanco, better known as an animator but represented
here by a documentary depicting a typical Sunday for a Spanish citizen
in an outlying urban area; the multidisciplinary artists Benet Rossell
and Antoni Miralda, presenting a look at military iconography; and
celebrated filmmaker and documentarian José Luis Guerin (In the City of
Sylvia, Guest), who, after debuting with his full-length 1983 feature
Los motivos de Berta, created the short essay film Souvenir. The
programme concludes with a documentary by Virginia García del Pino about
people exercising professions having to do with death, dirt or sex.
Fuego en Castilla dir. José Val del Omar | Spain 1958-59 | 35mm | 17
min. De purificatione automobilis Dir. Gabriel Blanco | Spain 1974 |
35mm | 16 min. Miserere Dirs. Antoni Miralda and Benet Rossell | Spain
1979 | 35mm | 12 min. Souvenir Dirs. Silvia Gracia and José Luis Guerín
| Spain 1985 | Video | 5 min. Lo que tú dices que soy Dir. Virginia
García del Pino | Spain 2007 | Video | 28 min. Total running time: 78
minutes Co-presented with AluCine Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:00pm
Cinema 3
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
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1/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STRIKE
by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
available., 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm Film Notes Eisenstein's interest in
the Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which
non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating
Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping
realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only
completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011
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1/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE STANDBY PROGRAM
The Standby Program, Inc., is a non-profit media arts service
organization founded in 1983, dedicated to providing film, video, and
preservation services to artists and fellow non-profits. The program
operates out of several post-production studios located in and around
NYC. A few times a year, Standby partners with other organizations to
screen works created and preserved through the program. Anthology is
pleased to host this invaluable organization for this evening of very
special films. All things come to life when captured on film and video,
but the films in this program demonstrate a hyper-life, meticulously
created through the art of animation and archival footage manipulation.
Each filmmaker integrates the exploration of word, image, and
experience, taking us on a visual journey, sometimes frightening,
sometimes ethereal, but always very personal. For more information
regarding Standby, please visit: www.standby.org Ruth Peyser THERE WAS A
LITTLE GIRL (2009, 25 minutes, video) This film utilizes animation,
manipulated found images, and film footage to tell six stories from the
filmmaker's life. Her colorful hand-drawn images are a stark contrast to
the harrowing tales from childhood to middle-age. Klaus Lutz TITAN
(2008, 11 minutes, 16mm, silent. Courtesy of The Estate of Klaus
Lutz/Rotwand Gallery Zurich/Kinemathek Le Bon Film Basel.) This
beautiful and timeless odyssey of stop-motion, time-lapse, and layering
of images follows the late Klaus Lutz on a dream-like journey as an
astronaut, sailor, and bird, all without leaving his kitchen. Kelly
Spivey MAKE THEM JUMP (2010, 11 minutes, 16mm) Optically printed from
found footage, this experimental film uses snippets from discarded
educational films. Through time and image manipulation, we experience
themes of control, powerlessness, and isolation. Cathy Cook IMMORTAL
CUPBOARD: IN SEARCH OF LORINE NIEDECKER 2009, 73 minutes, 16mm-to-video.
An artistic film essay on Lorine Niedecker's life and poetry. Drawing on
their shared Wisconsin heritage, Cook combines original live-action
footage, archival images, and Niedecker's only audio interview to unfurl
the poet's psychological and physical landscape. Total running time: ca.
125 minutes.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
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1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
by Sergei Eisenstein With English intertitles., 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm
Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid, super-structured plot
share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous, inflamed emotion.
1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER
by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
available., 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in
OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing
contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2011
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1/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS RR BY JAMES BENNING
Los Angeles Premiere! James Benning in person! At the Spielberg Theater
at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA
90028 Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors $6; free for Filmforum
members Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142723 Chosen as one of the best
movies of its year, and its decade, RR, by James Benning finally screens
in Los Angeles. Filmforum begins its 2011 programming with this
brilliant film, merging observation and motion, present-day commerce and
the historical growth of America, in Benning's inimitable style. James
Benning will join us in person, and we hope you will as well for the
start of Filmforum's 36th year. RR (2007, 16mm, color, 115 min., sound)
Benning's last 16mm film, consisting of 43 static shots of trains
crossing through the frame, in locations throughout the United States.
The shot duration is determined by the time it takes the train to pass
through the frame.
1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW
by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
available, 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm Known also as THE GENERAL LINE, OLD
AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed
and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of
characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and
"overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith
1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
by Sergei Eisenstein In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis
available, 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm "The first time in history a man
has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned
production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white
machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a
living hell – a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.
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