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Part 1 of 2: This week [February 12 - 20, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* New/Improved/Institutional/Quality Presents: Jodie Mack [February 12, New York, New York]
* Migration/Dislocation: A Celebration of Millennium Film Journal No. 53 [February 12, New York, New York]
* Millennium Film Journal 53: Celebration & Screening [February 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Jordan/Levitt/Maas Program [February 12, New York]
* Jodie Mack Program [February 12, New York]
* Jem Cohen: Curious visions: Recent Shorts and Other Works [February 12, Washington, DC]
* Lost, Lost, Lost [February 13, Astoria, Queens, New York]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 13, Berlin, Germany]
* New Urban Observations [February 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Walden [February 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Reminisces of A Journey To Lithuania [February 13, New York]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Animating Mayhem: Collage and Painted Films By Martha Colburn [February 14, Los Angeles, California]
* The Cage We Are Tricked Into [February 14, Los Angeles, California]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
* Rio Bravo [February 15, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 16, Berlin, Germany]
* <I>Look At Our Life Now</I>, Dani Leventhal and Jesse Mclean In Person [February 16, Columbus, Ohio]
* Wasteland Utopias [February 16, Phoenix, AZ]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 17, Berlin, Germany]
* Rose Lowder's Bouquets [February 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Opening Night Party/Live video [February 17, Gainesville, Florida]
* Curated Show: Mark Toscano [February 17, Gainesville, Florida]
* Curated Show: Vanessa Renwick [February 17, Gainesville, Florida]
* The Cage We Are Tricked Into [February 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Exposed On Film: William E. Jones Artist Talk and Screening [February 17, San Francisco, California]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 18, Berlin, Germany]
* Beauty and the Beast; Histoire(S) Du CinéMa [February 18, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Forms/Forces: An Evening With Film Artist Rosalind Schneider [February 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Merry-Go-Round [February 18, Gainesville, Florida]
* Neither Here Nor there [February 18, Gainesville, Florida]
* The Program In Which... [February 18, Gainesville, Florida]
* Electromediascope [February 18, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Eniaios: Cycle Five [February 19, Astoria, Queens, New York]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 19, Berlin, Germany]
* Beauty and the Beast; Histoire(S) Du CinéMa [February 19, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Stephanie Gray: Sig(H)Ns - Super 8 Films [February 19, Brooklyn, New York]
* 35mm-Marathon [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* For the Lovers [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* Augenlicht [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [February 19, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [February 19, New York]
* Rose Lowder Program [February 19, New York]
* Sat. 2/19: Kuchar's Secret of Wendel Samson + [February 19, San Francisco, California]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 20, Berlin, Germany]
* Wrap Up After Party and Awards Ceremony [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Here and there [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* People, For A Change, and Birds [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Look/Touch [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Fred Worden: Illusions and Altercations [February 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 1 [February 20, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 2 [February 20, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 3 [February 20, New York]
* Long Live Our Love [February 20, Seattle, Washington]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011
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2/12
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue
NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY PRESENTS: JODIE MACK
7:30 PM NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY PRESENTS: JODIE MACK Film
Notes Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. The co-recipient of the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill
Award, Mack has worked with the Florida Experimental Film and Video
Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and
Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's favorite
micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Her 16mm films and music videos have
screened at a variety of venues – from backyards, basements, and
classrooms to Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center; New York's School of
Visual Arts Theater; and on tour with Ok Go. "Jodie's films come from a
marvelous, idiosyncratic world full of bright colors, perpetually
renewed handcrafted technique, and endless wordplay and song." –Roger
Beebe
2/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8/$6, 66 East 4th Street
MIGRATION/DISLOCATION: A CELEBRATION OF MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 53
In celebration of the publication of MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL #53, this
program will feature films, videos and digital works discussed in the
journal, coalescing around the connected themes of dislocation and
migration. We will screen works by Amie Siegel, Rebecca Meyers and Laura
Kraning, who are discussed in Tony Pipolo's review of the New York Film
Festival's "Views from the Avant Garde." The issue includes substantial
interviews with veteran filmmakers Peter Rose and Vincent Grenier, and
the program will include works by each of them. Tom Chomont and Gary
Beydler will be memorialized with screenings of their films, and works
by other artists discussed in the journal will also be shown.
---PROGRAM--- MY WAY (9.5 min.-2009) by AMIE SIEGEL, NIGHTSIDE (4.5
min.-2009) by REBECCA MEYERS, PIENSA EN MI (THINK OF ME) (15 min.-2009)
by ALEXANDRA CUESTA, VINELAND (10 min.-2009) by LAURA KRANING, SECONDARY
CURRENTS (16 min.-1983) by PETER ROSE, LES CHAISES (8.5 min.-2005) by
VINCENT GRENIER, PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (6 min.-1974) by GARY BEYDLER,
7362 (10 min.-1967) by PAT O'NEILL, and a work by TOM CHOMONT (To be
Announced).
2/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 pm, 66 East 4th Street
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL 53: CELEBRATION & SCREENING
The program, organized by Grahame Weinbren and Jessica Ruffin,
celebrates the publication of MFJ No. 53 "Migration/DIslocations," with
film by artists discussed, reviewed, interviewed or memorialized in the
issue. The program includes works in 16mm, analog video and digital
video, by Gary Beydler, Tom Chomont, Mounir Fatmi, Amie Siegel,
Alexandra Cuesta, Vincent Grenier, Laura Kraning, Rebecca Meyers, Pat
O'Neill, and Peter Rose. Several filmmakers and authors will be present,
and recent and past journals will be available at discounted prices.
2/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JORDAN/LEVITT/MAAS PROGRAM
Larry Jordan DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HAMFAT
ASAR (1965, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 minutes, 16mm)
THE OLD HOUSE PASSING (1966, 45 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives.) OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968, 9 minutes. New
35mm print!) "Fantastic landscapes of the mind is what make the unique
work of San Francisco animator Larry Jordan so compelling. With a taste
for nostalgic romanticism for intricate turn-of-the-century
illustrations, Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel
engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the
subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a
prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner
self." - Jackie Leger Helen Levitt IN THE STREET (1952, 12 minutes,
16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Helen Levitt's short,
lyrical documentary portrait of life in Spanish Harlem. Stealthily shot
by Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee. Willard Maas GEOGRAPHY OF THE
BODY (1943, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
"The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered,
mysterious continent." - W.M. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
2/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JODIE MACK PROGRAM
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. The co-recipient of the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill
Award, Mack has worked with the Florida Experimental Film and Video
Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and
Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's favorite
micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Her 16mm films and music videos have
screened at a variety of venues – from backyards, basements, and
classrooms to Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center; New York's School of
Visual Arts Theater; and on tour with Ok Go. "Jodie's films come from a
marvelous, idiosyncratic world full of bright colors, perpetually
renewed handcrafted technique, and endless wordplay and song." –Roger
Beebe THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT (2011, 5 minutes, 16mm) LILLY (2007, 6
minutes, 16mm) YARD WORK IS HARD WORK (2008, 28 minutes, 16mm) HARLEQUIN
AND LACE (2009, 5 minutes, 16mm, silent) POSTHASTE PERENNIAL PATTERN
(2010, 4 minutes, 16mm) RAD PLAID (2010, 6 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE
#1: SPECIAL OFFER INSIDE (2010, 4.5 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE #2: ALL
EYES ON THE SILVER SCREEN (2010, 3 minutes, 16mm x 2, b&w, silent)
UNSUBSCRIBE #3 GLITCH ENVY (2010, 6 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE #4 THE
SADDEST SONG IN THE WORLD (2010, 3 minutes, 16mm) Total running time:
ca. 75 minutes.
2/12
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
JEM COHEN: CURIOUS VISIONS: RECENT SHORTS AND OTHER WORKS
Director Jem Cohen in person A program of new shorts surveys a range of
concerns, from artists' creative processes to life lived on the streets
of contemporary America. Cohen's patient lens portrays steady labor,
scenes from the everyday, or simply hanging out, always colliding with
provocative soundscapes. Titles include Anne Truitt, Working (2009, 13
minutes), a portrait of an artist and trusted friend; Half the Battle
(2008, 12 minutes), "a reflection on the phenomenon of the touring
musician"; Night Scene New York (2009, 10 minutes), observations of
Chinatown commissioned by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas; and a
few rousing excerpts from works in progress, including a feature
recorded in Vienna, Austria. (Approximate running time 90 minutes)
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011
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2/13
Astoria, Queens, New York: Museum of the Moving Image
www.movingimage.us
3:30 pm, 35 Avenue at 37 Street
LOST, LOST, LOST
Sunday, February 13, 3:30 p.m. LOST, LOST, LOST By Jonas Mekas 1976, 180
mins. Introduced by Jonas Mekas 16mm print preserved by Anthology Film
Archives Dir. Jonas Mekas. 1976, 180 mins. Filmmaker, poet, critic,
exhibitor, distributor, and champion of avant-garde filmmaking, Jonas
Mekas is also the creator of beautiful diary films marked by a fleeting,
impressionistic style suffused at once with nostalgia and presence
in-the-moment. This epic diary chronicles his arrival in New York City
and his early years with the underground scene. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives as part of the Avant-Garde Masters Grant program
administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation and funded by
The Film Foundation. The event is free with museum admission.
2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/13
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
NEW URBAN OBSERVATIONS
Los Angeles Filmforum presents New Urban Observations Thom Andersen,
Laura Kraning, and Steven O'Day in person! These extraordinary films
continue the rich tradition of the city symphony and the experimental
and experiential films of the city, dating back to the earliest days of
film. The city itself – its people and spaces, rhythms and hustle, and
the life cycles of buildings and places – are viewed and made personal
through the superb craft and perceptive gaze of tonight's filmmakers.
London, San Francisco, Detroit, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, all seen in
their uniqueness, while all give insight into the arcs and possibilities
of all cities. The program includes two Los Angeles premieres: Jack
Cronin's ravishing look at the empty spaces of Detroit, and Laura
Kraning's immersive look at the reflections and images found at a
drive-in in the City of Industry. Also, it includes another opportunity
to see Thom Andersen's latest 16mm film, of billboards and spaces of a
lost Los Angeles, with its history still suffusing the present, after
its two sold-out screenings thus far in Los Angeles. Steven O'Day finds
the exhilarating possibilities of modern transportation in Tokyo;
Tomonari Nishikawa masterfully distills Market Street, and film, to its
essential lines; and Eva Weber allows us an intimate view of London from
on high. Curated by Adam Hyman. Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors
$6; free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase available through
Brown Paper Tickets. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/152569 The
Films: The Solitary Life of Cranes, by Eva Weber (2008, England, video,
27 min,) Part city symphony, part visual poem, 'The Solitary Life of
Cranes' explores the invisible life of a city, its patterns and hidden
secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working high above its
streets. The Solitary Life of Cranes' premiered at Britdoc Film Festival
in July 2008 where it won the Award for Best Short Film. Market Street,
by Tomonari Nishikawa (2005, US, 16mm, silent, b&w, 5 min.) All images
are shot on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco,
composing each frame on the street while filming. It was commissioned by
Exploratorium and San Francisco Arts Commission for the outdoor
screening event, A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005: An Outdoor
Centennial Celebration. Invisible City, by Jack Cronin (2006, USA, Super
8 on DV, 11 min.) Los Angeles Premiere! Invisible City was filmed in
Detroit over the course of three years. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Le
città invisibili, in which the Italian author suggests that what
constitutes a city is not so much its physical structure but the
impression it makes upon its visitors. The film is loosely organized
into four segments representing spring, summer, fall, and winter.
Vineland, by Laura Kraning (2009, USA, DV, 10.15 min.) Los Angeles
premiere! Winner of the City is Cinema Jury Award at the 2010 Ann Arbor
Film Festival. At the last drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles,
dislocated Hollywood images filled with apocalyptic angst float within
the desolate nocturnal landscape of the City of Industry. In this border
zone, re-framed and mirrored projections collide with the displaced
radio broadcast soundtrack, revealing overlapping realities at the
intersection of nostalgia and alienation. - L.K. "...A spectral quality
characterizes all the images and sounds, both those that emanate from
the screen in the night sky, and those of the surrounding cityscape.
Vineland speaks quietly and eloquently of fantasized image-making, of
the sheer presence and scale of Hollywood's imposition on the landscape,
both that of the nation and the one in our minds." - Tony Pipolo,
Millenium Film Journal Tokyo by Bicycle, by Steven O'Day (2010, USA,
video, 3 min.) Bicycling through tokyo -- at the speed of light. long
exposure photography + bicycle + neon megalopolis = bike love!!! Get Out
of the Car, by Thom Andersen (2010, 16mm film, 34 min) Direction: Thom
Andersen; camera: Madison Brookshire, Adam R. Levine; editing: Adam R.
Levine; sound: Craig Smith GET OUT OF THE CAR is a city symphony film in
16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of
music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural
landmarks. The musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey of
popular music made in Los Angeles (and a few other places) from 1941 to
1999, with an emphasis on rhythm'n'blues and jazz from the 1950s and
corridos from the 1990s. The music of Richard Berry, Johnny Otis, Leiber
and Stoller, and Los Tigres del Norte is featured prominently. "Get Out
Of The Car… is an elegiac portrait of the back patio of the city: Latin
quarters, empty spaces that had been communal spaces, a culture in
disappearance, a culture in transformation." – Cahiers du Cinéma España
Parking is now easiest at the Hollywood & Highland complex. Bring your
ticket for validation. Parking is $2 for 4 hours with validation. Enter
that complex on Highland or Hollywood. The theater is 1.5 blocks east.
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the
Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support generously provided
by American Cinematheque. Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's
longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film
and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation. 2010 is our
34th year. Memberships available, $60 single or $95 dual Contact us at
email suppressed Become a fan on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter!
2/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WALDEN
New print by Cinema Arts Inc. Special thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran
Bowen (Trackwise) and Pip Laurenson (Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68;
edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have
been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality:
situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot
ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I
shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you
sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep
a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now,
this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all." –J.M.
"I make home movies – therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home
movies." –from the soundtrack.
2/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: REMINISCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special
thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four
parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in
America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania.
The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months
in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter
Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with
home, memory, and culture." –J.M.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011
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2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/14
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
ANIMATING MAYHEM: COLLAGE AND PAINTED FILMS BY MARTHA COLBURN
Martha Colburn's handcrafted animations explode with an energy,
concentration and a rapid-fire torrent of ideas that push the medium to
its very edges. Colburn's past works have savagely lampooned pop
culture, consumerism, and middle-class attitudes to delirious fantasies,
but her most recent films bring more tragic dimensions to bear by
focusing on war and icons of American history. Always startling in her
use of disparate techniques and free association, Colburn creates films
unlike any other, and the screening spans 16 years of filmmaking with 16
films, including Dolls vs. Dictators (2010), Join the Freedom Force
(2009), Myth Labs (2008), Triumph of the Wild (2008), Skelehellavision
(2001), Spiders In Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (2000), Evil of
Dracula (1997), among others. Her work has been shown at the Centre
Pompidou, the Kitchen, the Whitney Museum, PS 1, MoMA, and numerous
major international film festivals. In person: Martha Colburn. Jack H.
Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
2/14
Los Angeles, California: DOCUMENTAL
7:30pm, Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd
THE CAGE WE ARE TRICKED INTO
Collaborators for fifteen years, filmmakers Tony Gault and Elizabeth
Henry (in person) screen a body of work that examines the human impulse
toward dualism and narcissistic command of the planet Earth. Their films
create "a cinematic poetry of paranoia as a higher state of
consciousness" (Film Threat) and "illustrate the perverse means by which
narrative shapes our consciousness" (Slant Magazine). The films include
PICTURE #4 ('93, 5m), TABERNACLE ('98, 10m,) IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
('04, 8m), HOUSESITTING ('99, 16m), THROUGH THESE TRACKLESS WATERS ('07,
12m), COUNT BACKWARDS FROM FIVE ('07, 8m), FOSSIL LIGHT ('09, 7m), CASE
HISTORIES IN PSYCHOTHERAPY ('08, 8m), FLEDGLING ('09, 7m). 7:30PM
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011
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2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/15
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www. berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
RIO BRAVO
Rio Bravo (1959, 141 min.) by HOWARD HAWKS. Jean-Luc Godard called "Rio
Bravo" "a work of extraordinary psychological insight and aesthetic
perception." The great Hitchcock film scholar, Robin Wood wrote, "If I
were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of
Hollywood, I think it would be 'Rio Bravo.'" Quentin Tarantino… told an
audience at a 2007 Cannes screening of "Rio Bravo" that he always tested
a new girlfriend "by taking her to see 'Rio Bravo' -- and she'd better
like it!" Simultaneously accepting and altering the clichés of the
classic western by infusing them with a new sensitivity and humanity,
Hawks creates one of the most delightful works in this most American of
genres. Directed by one of the masters of Hollywood filmmaking featuring
a "multi-generational grab bag of pop icons,"(A.O. Scott): Ricky Nelson,
Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Dean Martin and John Wayne.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011
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2/16
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/16
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 PM, 1871 N. High St.
LOOK AT OUR LIFE NOW, DANI LEVENTHAL AND JESSE MCLEAN IN PERSON
This program seeks to take stock of this present moment in a handful of
recent videos and films that balance the impersonal technological tenor
of the times with a complex emotional palate ranging from tenderness to
irony. Featuring: The Eternal Quarter Inch (Jesse McLean, 2008) 9 mins.,
miniDV; Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson, 2008) 5 mins., miniDV; Hearts Are
Trump Again (Dani Leventhal, 2010) 14 mins., miniDV; Magic for Beginners
(Jesse McLean, 2010) 20 mins., miniDV; Cry When It Happens (Laida
Lertxundi, 2010) 14 mins., 16mm; These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (Michael
Robinson, 2008) 13 mins., miniDV; Draft 9 (Dani Leventhal, 2003) 28
mins., miniDV; In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (Fern Silva,
2010) 13 mins., 16mm
2/16
Phoenix, AZ: Film Bar Phoenix
http://thefilmbarphx.com/Phoenix-Film/
7 & 9 PM, 815 N. 2nd Street
WASTELAND UTOPIAS
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
environments.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011
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2/17
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/17
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / 312-846-2600)
ROSE LOWDER’S BOUQUETS
Rose Lowder in person! Brimming with vibrant images of blossoms,
orchards, insects, and grasses, the works of celebrated French filmmaker
Rose Lowder buzz with life. For over thirty years, she has crafted a
body of stunning structuralist portraits of the pastoral environs around
her home in southern France. Often shot one frame at a time and composed
through elaborate, pre-designed in-camera edits, each of her films also
explores the possibilities of photographic and visual perception. Viewed
together, they offer a dynamic investigation into the rhythms and cycles
of the natural world. This evening, in her first-ever Chicago
appearance, Lowder will present a selection of old and new works,
including her on-going Bouquets series, each one-minute tributes to the
flora and fauna she films. 1979-2010, Rose Lowder, France, 16mm, ca. 90
mins plus discussion.
2/17
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
11pm, PALIMINO/BOCA FIESTA BACKYARD
OPENING NIGHT PARTY/LIVE VIDEO
PERFORMANCE BY DAN ANDERSON
2/17
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
7pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
CURATED SHOW: MARK TOSCANO
The Maltese Cross Movement (8:00/16MM/1967) Keewatin Dewdney; Logos
(2:00/16MM/1957) Jane Conger Belson Shimane; Brummer's (10:00/16MM/1967)
David Bienstock; S.W.L.A. (6:00/16MM/1971) Rob Thompson; Aether
(4:00/16MM/1972) Daina Krumins; Mirror People (5:00/16MM/1957) Kathy
Rose; Picasso (3:00/16MM/1973) Chris Langdon; King David
(9:00/16MM/1970) Robert Nelson & Mike Henderson; Turning Over
(13:00/VIDEO/1975) Morgan Fisher; SF Trips Festival--An Opening
(9:00/16MM/1967) Ben Van Meter; Dufus (8:00/16MM/1970/73) Mike
Henderson; Throbs (7:00/16mm/1972) Fred Worden
2/17
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
9pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
CURATED SHOW: VANESSA RENWICK
Toxic Shock (3:00/16MM/1983); Britton, South Dakota (9:00/16MM TO
VIDEO/2003); 9 is a secret (6:00/VIDEO/2002); Portrait #1: Cascadia
Terminal (6:00/16MM TO VIDEO/2005); Portrait #2: Trojan (5:00/35MM TO
VIDEO/2006); Portrait #3: House of Sound (11:22/35MM TO HD/2009); Hope
and Prey (22:00/3 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION)
2/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 1200 N Alvarado St. (at Sunset Blvd.)
THE CAGE WE ARE TRICKED INTO
Collaborators for fifteen years, filmmakers Tony Gault and Elizabeth
Henry (in person) screen a body of work that examines the human impulse
toward dualism and narcissistic command of the planet Earth. Their films
create "a cinematic poetry of paranoia as a higher state of
consciousness" (Film Threat) and "illustrate the perverse means by which
narrative shapes our consciousness" (Slant Magazine). The films include
PICTURE #4 ('93, 5m), TABERNACLE ('98, 10m,) IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
('04, 8m), THROUGH THESE TRACKLESS WATERS ('07, 12m), COUNT BACKWARDS
FROM FIVE ('07, 8m), FOSSIL LIGHT ('09, 7m), CASE HISTORIES IN
PSYCHOTHERAPY ('08, 8m), SUSAN'S HORSES ('10, 7m), FOUR CUBIC FEET OF
SPACE ('11, 8m).
2/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater
EXPOSED ON FILM: WILLIAM E. JONES ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING
William E. Jones has used his past experience as Larry Flint's producer
of archival DVDs for the porn industry to explore, reframe and comments
on issues of sexuality and social control, identity and politics. He
prominently exhibited Tearoom as part of the Whitney Biennial in 2008.
The artist will personally introduce, comment, and screen a body of
cinematic works ranging from The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay
Pornography, Film Montages (for Peter Roehr), Killed to other recent
films mirroring artistic approaches in photography and film as exhibited
in Exposed… $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors.
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