This week [May 7 - 15, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (ny; Deadline: August 17, 2011)
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International Science and Film Festival (Marseilles (France); Deadline: May 20, 2011)
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INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: May 14, 2011)
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CWA Preferred Filmmaker Directory (Los Angeles, California, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2011)
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37th New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: May 20, 2011)
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Intervideo Talent Award 2011 (Mainz, RLP, Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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Ellensburg Film Festival (Ellensburg, WA, USA; Deadline: May 31, 2011)
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Festival International Film Merveilleux (Paris FRANCE; Deadline: May 09, 2011)
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Festival of (In)appropriation 2011 (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2011)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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Leith Short Film Festival 2011 (United Kingdom; Deadline: May 16, 2011)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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The Accolade Competition (La Jolla, Ca USA; Deadline: May 27, 2011)
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Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence in Portugal (Tondela - PORTUGAL; Deadline: May 13, 2011)
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Cherry Kino (Leeds, UK; Deadline: May 16, 2011)
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Mis ALT Screening Series, Screening#1: Monstrous Bodies (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 11, 2011)
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Animation on Film (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2011)
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International Science and Film Festival (Marseilles (France); Deadline: May 20, 2011)
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INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: May 14, 2011)
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BOS Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY U.S.; Deadline: May 15, 2011)
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Babel Fiche - a microfilm museum - Deadline Extended (Manchester, UK; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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37th New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: May 20, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Near and Dear: An Album of Experimental Cinema [May 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* "Alice In Wonderland" New Feature By James Fotopoulos, Artist In Person [May 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Dalibor Martinis: Data Recovery. video Works 1976 - 2011 [May 7, Dresden, Germany]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase [May 7, Los Angeles, California]
* The Urban Landscape In Cinematic Transformation [May 7, New York, New York]
* Sat. 5/7: the Essays and Arguments of James Hong [May 7, San Francisco, California]
* Fantastic Optosonic Projections: A Showcase of Sight & Sound [May 7, San Francisco, California]
* Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective (Part Two) [May 8, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane [May 11, Karlsruhe, Germany]
* Eye:Am Presents Another Experiment By Women Curated By Lili White [May 11, New York, New York]
* Angus Maclise Program [May 12, New York]
* Crossroads: Opening Night: Radical Light: Cinematheque At 50 [May 12, San Francisco, California]
* Friendly But Starving iv: An Evening of Avant-Garde and Experimental Film [May 13, Austin, TX]
* Ken Jacobs Program 1 [May 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Valentin/Vigo Program [May 13, New York]
* Time Squared [May 13, New York]
* Crossroads, Program 2: the Sublime Is Now: Films of Jeanne Liotta [May 13, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 3: the Chilling Montage of Crimson Repression! [May 13, San Francisco, California]
* Films By Jack Feldstein [May 14, New York, New York]
* The Sky Socialist [May 14, New York]
* Essential Cinema: My Hustler [May 14, New York]
* The Guests [May 14, New York]
* Jerry Tartaglia Program [May 14, New York]
* Time Squared [May 14, New York]
* Sat. 5/14: Stone + Gaar + Blader + Rudnick + [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 4: Observers Observed [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 5: Two Roads Diverged [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 6: Celebrating Robert Nelson [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 7: Apparent Motion--Celebrating the Art of Projection [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane [May 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands]
* Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry (Part One, the Classics) [May 15, Amsterdam, Netherlands]
* Ontic Antics [May 15, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Warhol/Whitney Program [May 15, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 5 [May 15, New York]
* Jerry Tartaglia Program [May 15, New York]
* Time Squared [May 15, New York]
* Crossroads, Program 8: Playback [May 15, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 9: the Realms of Transience [May 15, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads, Program 10: the Observers [May 15, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
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5/7
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Avenue
NEAR AND DEAR: AN ALBUM OF EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
Curated by Lorenzo Gattorna. These film and video makers, close friends
and celebrated figures, were selected for their commonality of embrace
with nostalgic environments. This gathering manifests recreations of
intimate memories and reflections of the natural world amidst
rejuvenated and rejected keepsakes that define these personal
testimonies. The exhibition will be an intimate encounter touching upon
intuitive as well as structured disciplines and tutelage. A communal
kinship and initiative can be found in this cross-generational dialogue
amongst moving image practitioners. Near and Dear is dedicated to Mr. E,
an avid participant of the open screenings at Millennium Film Workshop,
whose groundbreaking films on 8mm and constant concern for shared
viewings have inspired the reasoning and realization of what will take
place on this special evening. David Baker, What Was Was, USA, 2011,
digital video, color, sound, 7m. (Music by Florian Wittenburg,
http://www.florianwittenburg.com/SubpageBiography.html) Ann Deborah
Levy, Watercolors, USA, 2007, 16mm, color, silent, 13m. Phil Solomon,
What's Out Tonight is Lost, USA, 1983, 16mm, color, silent, 8m. Rebecca
Meyers, night side, USA, 2009, 16mm, color, sound, 4m. Laura Kraning,
VINELAND, USA, 2009, digital video, color, sound, 10m. Brian Frye, The
Anatomy of Melancholy, USA, 1999, 16mm, b/w, sound, 11m. Peter Buntaine,
The Absent One, 2010, USA/France, 16mm to digital video, color, sound,
6m. Lorenzo Gattorna, The Enchanted Forest, USA, 2011, 16mm to digital
video, color, sound, 7m. Thomas Campbell, A Love Supreme, USA, 1995,
16mm to digital video, b/w, sound, 16m. TRT: 82m
5/7
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
"ALICE IN WONDERLAND" NEW FEATURE BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS, ARTIST IN PERSON
2010, high-definition video, color, sound stereo. 245 drawings. 99
minutes. Tickets $6. Reservations recommended at:
info_at_microscopegallery.com. We welcome James Fotopoulos to Microscope to
present his most recent feature, an adaptation of the 1886 musical
"Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children" by Henry Saville Clark
and Walter Slaughter. Fotopoulos' "Alice in Wonderland", inspired by a
2003 Lewis Carroll daguerreotype exhibit, propels the Clark/Slaughter
musical score into the 21st century digital age. Sculptures, drawings,
text, and original music are used to explore the late 19th century's
evolution of painting, literature, and theatre into early photography
and moving pictures. The piece probes the interplay of art and science
and in exploring these ideas certain lives and themes are touched upon –
the relationship between John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll, Ruskin's
theories on drawing, Thomas Eakins' painting and his use of photography,
the burgeoning of early cinema with Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules
Marey, the notions of the amateurism and professionalism in art and the
archetype of the condemned artist. The work is presented in two acts
remaining faithful to the musical's original construction based upon
Carroll's narratives. BIO: Fotopoulos' works has been shown
internationally at many festivals and sites including the International
Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Underground Film Festival, the
Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center the Andy Warhol Museum,
the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among others. Charles Place is a dead-end
street off Myrtle Ave, btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves. J/M/Z
Myrtle/Broadway. L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433.
5/7
Dresden, Germany: Motorenhalle. Project Centre Dresden
http://www.motorenhalle.de
ongoing, Wachsbleichstr. 4a
DALIBOR MARTINIS: DATA RECOVERY. VIDEO WORKS 1976 - 2011
Dalibor Martinis (*1947) is not only a well known Croatian artist, but
also one of the pioneers of media art worldwide. As early as at the
beginning of the 1970ies he started to work with video. But other than
most of his colleagues at that time, he often reflected on the
particular conditions of the medium. For his work 'Open reel' (1976) he
wraps up his own head in tape that is just being recorded, revolves his
body around like a second reel, thereby transcending the boundaries
between documentation, technology and performance. In a comparable vein,
his work 'Dalibor Martinis talks to Dalibor Martinis' is no less than
visionary. It is set in the year 2010 in a fictitious television studio.
While the artist himself sits in a chair, in some kind of a talk show
situation, he is being interviewed by his younger self on a monitor. The
old black and white footage was shot back in the year of 1978, with the
clear intention to stage a leap in time decades later. After DM of 2010
has positively responded to the question of Alter Ego, whether he is
still alive, he explains why the biggest problem of the project did not
really consist in the question of existence, but rather in the effort to
preserve the film material itself and to keep it in a reproducible
quality � in order to be able to conduct this dialogue at all.
The film 'DM talks to DM' will assume a central position in our recent
mini-retrospective of Dalibor Martinis in the Motorenhalle. With his
recent video work 'Egyptian Odessa Stairs' (2011) Dalibor Martinis takes
up this pingpong-game with past and present again, when he combines the
famous scene from Sergej Eisenstein's 'Battleship Potemkin' with noises
recorded at the 2011 turmoils in Egypt. Martinis is investigating the
time warp, in which history reveals itself and remains true to his
analytical strategies to the medium of video as well to political
processes.
5/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
7:00 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
CalArts' School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four
special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film
Directing programs.Jack H. Skirball Series Free | Reservations
Encouraged
5/7
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7pm & 9pm, Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th Street
THE URBAN LANDSCAPE IN CINEMATIC TRANSFORMATION
"The Urban Landscape in Cinematic
Transformation"_____________________________ STORYTELLING & LOCAL
HISTORY: An avant-garde film series interweaves three threads pertinent
to the East Village, Chinatown, and Lower East Side: the urban
landscape, subcultures that inhabit them, and changes over
time._____________________________ The Urban Landscape in Cinematic
Transformation will feature films that show the changing urban landscape
and the people who inhabit it, from the late 1950s to today. The FMC
will be collaborating with The Millennium Workshop on this special focus
showcase. The four programs will take place over two days, with one
program of shorts and one feature on each day. SHORTS will be shown
Saturday, May 7th, at 7 PM and Sunday, May 8th, at 2 PM , and the
FEATURES will screen Saturday, May 7th, at 9 PM and Sunday, May 8th, at
5 PM ._____________________________ Highlights of shorts program
Saturday, May 7th, 7PM: Ken Jacobs' Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days,
using innovative digital techniques to transform Mekas into 3D
motion;Coleen Fitzgibbons's L.E.S. (Lower East Side), a fable about a
parallel Manhattan and its mammon-worshiping inhabitants; and Peter
Cramer's Coney Island, a haunting study of a once-famous amusement
park._____________________________ Feature program Saturday, May 7th, 9
PM: filmgoers can view Rachel Amodeo's What About Me, the story of a
young homeless woman who is slowly deteriorating on the streets of the
Lower East Side, including footage of the homeless shanty-town that
existed in Tompkins Square Park from 1989 to
1990._____________________________ Highlights of shorts program Sunday,
May 8th, 2PM: Shirley Clarke's Bridges-Go-Round, a classic masterpiece
of undulating man-made urban constructions; Henry Hills's Money, a
meditation on the economic problems facing New York avant-garde artists;
and Donna Cameron's Broken Bridge, a collage of deconstructed hand-drawn
images of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, using Cameron's own patented
invention, paper emulsion._____________________________ Feature program
Sunday, May 8th, 5 PM: Phillip Hartman and Doris Kornish's filmic love
letter to the Lower East Side's pre-gentrification days, No Picnic,
features the diverse, off-beat, and often insane characters representing
the various subcultures that once defined the neighborhood. Look for an
early performance by Steve Buscemi as a dead
pimp._____________________________ These programs are produced in
collaboration with the New Museum as part of the Festival of Ideas for
the New City, a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving
scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power
of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas
that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of
symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty
independent projects and public events.
5/7
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 5/7: THE ESSAYS AND ARGUMENTS OF JAMES HONG
The last of our long-lost Prodigal Sons, cine-essayist James Hong has
marched into ideological battles in China, Taiwan, Germany, and
recently, the Netherlands. Despite the distances, Mr. Hong has been
unceasingly churning out his idiosyncratic amalgam of history, ethos,
sarcasm, and rant, in an effort to critique and redress cultural
amnesia. He introduces at least five recent pieces, including End
Transmission, Submission to a Small World, A Peaceful Drowning, and The
Duck of Nature/The Duck of God. The evening is consummated with the new
closing chapter of his masterwork Lessons of the Blood. This 45-min.
section serves as a powerful platform for Hong's abiding obsession with
the Japanese atrocities in Nanking, China.
5/7
San Francisco, California: Space Gallery SF
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183803078332502
8pm-12am, 1141 Polk St
FANTASTIC OPTOSONIC PROJECTIONS: A SHOWCASE OF SIGHT & SOUND
Fantastic OptoSonic Projections is the first event of a series
celebrating cinema, music, live performance, and the ancient tradition
of "sitting around the fire" to experience each. The evening will be an
intimate storytelling environment where performer and audience exchange
inspiration with much room for improvisation and spontaneity. We present
a program of short films and musical performances intercut by good old
party time. Please join us and bring friends! Featuring Films by: Kadet
Kuhne, Wilfred Galila, Amy Harrison, Meghan O'Hara, and Paul Clipson.
Live Sound & Score by: The Family of Man, Kadet Kuhne, and A Low Cost
Affordable Heating Plan
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SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2011
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5/8
Stuttgart, Germany: Stuttgart International Animation Festival
http://www.itfs.de/en/
3 pm, Metropole 3 theatre
OPTICAL POETRY: OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE (PART TWO)
Center for Visual Music presents Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger
Retrospective – Part Two, Rare Works. A new program with films including
Studies 1, 3, 9 and 12; Pierette I, Wax Experiments, Ornament Sound,
Swiss Trip, Euthymol ad, Color Rhythm, Oklahoma Gas; 1920s Tests,
Experiments and Berlin Home Movies (newly preserved); and much more.
Plus a screening of R-1 ein Formspiel, 1993 Cinemascope recreation by
William Moritz. Program introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director, CVM. 35mm
prints for the Fischinger Retrospective were preserved by Center for
Visual Music, Academy Film Archive, EYE Film Institute Netherlands and
Fischinger Archive, with the support of Film Foundation, Sony, Deutsches
Filmmuseum Frankfurt, and The National Film Preservation Foundation.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011
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5/11
Karlsruhe, Germany: ZKM
7 pm,
JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE
Center for Visual Music presents this special program at ZKM. Born in
Chicago and raised in the Bay Area, Jordan Belson trained as a painter
before turning his attention to filmmaking after discovering the
abstract films of Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren and Hans Richter.
Since 1947, Belson has explored consciousness, transcendence, and the
nature of light itself in a visionary body of work that has been called
'cosmic cinema': brimming with vibrant color, mandalas, liquid forms and
mesmerising rhythms. Program features rarely screened films and new 16mm
preservation prints, including Caravan (1952), Séance (1959), Momentum
(1968), Allures (1961), Samadhi (1967), Chakra (1972), Light (1973),
Cycles (1974, made with Stephen Beck), and Music of the Spheres
(1977/2002). 16mm/digital. Introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director, CVM.
5/11
New York, New York: Women's Night at NEW FILMMAKERS NYC
http://http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com/
7:25 PM, Anthology Film Archives; 32 Second Avenue
EYE:AM PRESENTS ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN CURATED BY LILI WHITE
MIRROR MOVES for PRIVATE EYES; Alice Cohen; 13.42; animation /digi.
PURSUIT; Ariane Loze; 7.00; digi. STANDSTILL; Angeliki Malakasioti;
8.21; digi. SACRED; Tammy A Kinsey; 16.18; digi. CHIROS; Melanie Crean;
7.50; digi. teNtaCles of DiMenSions; Nandita Kumar;14.00; mini DV.
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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011
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5/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ANGUS MACLISE PROGRAM
"Angus MacLise was the Velvet Underground's first drummer. He withdrew
when he found out that at a paying job he had to start and stop playing
when told to. No one told Angus to stop playing. So the job of a working
musician was impossible for Angus, and taught us all a lesson about
purity of spirit. Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person." –Lou
Reed As part of DREAMWEAPON, a city-wide exhibition curated by Johan
Kugelberg and Will Cameron dedicated to mythic artist/poet/composer
Angus MacLise (1938-79), Anthology is pleased to host an evening of
films in homage to one of the most mercurial figures to emerge from the
New York underground of the 1960s and 70s. Screening this evening will
be Ira Cohen's counterculture classic, THE INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT
PAGODA (1968), showcasing the music of Angus MacLise and the Universal
Mutant Repertory Company, alongside works by Piero Heliczer and recently
discovered Portapak video taken by Marty Topp inside Cohen's Jefferson
St. loft (1971-72). The evening concludes with the worldwide premiere of
a new film by Cohen, HEAVY CANON (1968/2011), comprised of unseen 16mm
footage shot in Cohen's Mylar Chamber and scored with previously
unreleased tapes from the Angus MacLise archive. "[INVASION is] so High
'60s that you emerge from its 20-minute vision perched full-lotus on a
cloud of incense, chatting with a white rabbit and smoking a banana….
INVASION is a languidly opiated costume ball in which an assortment of
masked and painted bohos, some sporting outsize elf ears, loll about a
candlelit, Mylar-lined set, blowing soap bubbles and nibbling majoon. …
What saves INVASION from preciosity is the vague menace of Angus
MacLise's improvised pan-piping, tabla-tapping, creature-yipping score.
Although this masterpiece of Tibetan-Moroccan-Druidic trance music was
reissued on CD several years ago, it truly blossoms in conjunction with
the exotic smorgasbord served at Cohen's psychedelicatessen." –J.
Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
5/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm, SFMOMA, 151 Third Street
CROSSROADS: OPENING NIGHT: RADICAL LIGHT: CINEMATHEQUE AT 50
[Tickets: members: $5 / non-members: $10] Order advance tickets here.
[Festival Pass: members: $30/ non-members: $50] Festival Pass provides a
single admission to every screening in Crossroads Order a Festival Pass
here. curated by Steve Anker and Steve Polta Thursday, May 12 at 7pm San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street CROSSROADS opens with a
conclusion to Radical Light, a screening series presented jointly by
Cinematheque and Pacific Film Archive from Fall 2010 - Spring 2011.
Radical Light, which coincided with the PFA's publication of the same
name, celebrates the rich and varied history of experimental film and
alternative film and video in the Bay area, from 1945-2000. This opening
screening of Cinematheque's festival celebrates this history, and marks
the Fiftieth Anniversary of Cinematheque founder Bruce Baillie's
first-ever film screening, a screening which led directly to the
present-day institutions San Francisco Cinematheque and Canyon Cinema.
This screening highlights lesser-known avant-garde gems from this proud
history. SCREENING: Tung (1966) by Bruce Baillie; The White Rose (1967)
by Bruce Conner; Trekkerriff (1984/2011) (*world premiere*) by Will
Hindle; Remembrance Time (1998) by Minsu Yang; Archimedes‚ Screw (1996)
by Scott Stark; Chinatown Sketch (1998) by Timoleon Wilkins; Me & Bruce
& Art (1966) by Ben Van Meter; Flight (1997) by Greta Snider; Time Being
(1991) by Gunvor Nelson; Savings the Proof (1979) by Karen Holmes
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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011
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5/13
Austin, TX: Austin School of Film
http://austinfilmschool.org
6 pm, 1634 E. Cesar Chavez Street
FRIENDLY BUT STARVING IV: AN EVENING OF AVANT-GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM
2011 ASoF's Artist Salon & Screening Series presents a unique outdoor
exhibition of Experimental Animation and Super 8 Cinema. Witness the
talent and meet the artists at this year's Avant-Garde & Experimental
Filmmaking and Experimental Animation showcase. Hors d'oeuvres and
drinks provided. Works by: Lyndsay Bloom, Sabra Booth, Faiza Kracheni,
Meg Hanna, Kyle Mitchell and Ambar Navarro.
5/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 1
This program includes films utilizing two different 3-D methods:
Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye;
and Eternalism 3-D, which is based on a flicker effect. GLOBE (1969, 22
minutes, video, Pulfrich 3-D) Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing
tract) blossoms into 3-D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the
right eye. The found-sound is X-ratable. LOOTING FOR RODNEY (1994-95, 11
minutes, video, silent, Pulfrich 3-D) NEW YORK STREET-TROLLEYS 1900
(1999, 11 minutes, video, b&w, Eternalism 3-D) LET THERE BE
WHISTLEBLOWERS (2005, 18 minutes, video, b&w/color, Eternalism 3-D,
music by Steve Reich) DISORIENT EXPRESS (1996, 30 minutes, 35mm, b&w,
silent) In this film a strong 3-D impression is created without physical
aid. Jacobs reproduces a sequence of 1906 film shots depicting a journey
by train, optically reprinting the footage with different formal
manipulations. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
5/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VALENTIN/VIGO PROGRAM
Karl Valentin CONFIRMATION DAY / DER FIRMLING 1934, 23 minutes, 35mm,
b&w. In German with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A father
and son, celebrating the son's confirmation, go to a fancy restaurant
and drink all day. They want to order Emmentaler cheese, but can only
find Affentaler wine on the menu. How did the Affentaler, which they
think is cheese, get into the bottle? They keep on drinking away,
attracting attention and causing more and more confusion. "Valentin
plays a drunken father treating his giggly young son to lunch, and the
inspired muddle he creates out of a table, two chairs, an umbrella, and
a watch chain rivals some of Laurel and Hardy's best moments." –J.R.
Jones, CHICAGO READER & Jean Vigo ZÉRO DE CONDUITE 1935, 44 minutes,
35mm, b&w. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available. ZÉRO
DE CONDUITE, an eloquent parable of freedom versus authority, is set at
a boys' boarding school and undoubtedly echoes Vigo's own unhappy
experiences as a child. Under the pressure of various civic groups the
film was removed from screens several months after its release in 1933.
It was branded "anti-French" by censors and was not shown again in Paris
until 1945. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
5/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TIME SQUARED
IME SQUARED ca. 60 minutes. In the last number of years Ken Jacobs's
NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN performances have become a thing of legend. Space,
time, and light sculpted, expanded, and exploded. Like nothing you could
ever expect, or will see anywhere else. The performance will be preceded
by: 'a loft' (2010, 16 minutes, video) and will be followed by: THE
GREEN WAVE (2011, 5 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
5/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 2: THE SUBLIME IS NOW: FILMS OF JEANNE LIOTTA
Jeanne Liotta in person Friday, May 13 at 7pm Victoria Theatre 2961 16th
Street at Mission Sponsored by Ninkasi Brewery Jeanne Liotta, currently
teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was born and raised
in New York City, the native home of her down-to-earth yet far-reaching
speculative cinema. Her latest body of work takes place in a
constellation of mediums investigating the cosmic landscape, at a
curious intersection of art, science, and natural philosophy. Crossroads
this year presents the West Coast premiere of her highly acclaimed
Crosswalk, which, in documenting eight years of Easter processions
through Loisada NYC, documents the intersections of the spiritual and
the secular. Also screening: Observando al Cielo, a poetic exploration
of the deliriously reeling heavens, confronting art and astronomy, the 2
projector work Some Day This May No Longer Exist, Loretta, Eclipse,
Observando al Cielo and many other titles.
5/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9pm, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 3: THE CHILLING MONTAGE OF CRIMSON REPRESSION!
Curated by Steve Polta Friday, May 13 at 9pm Victoria Theatre 2961 16th
Street at Mission Anticipating the Pacific Film Archive's major
retrospective of the films of George and Mike Kuchar (June 10-25), we
tonight unearth a 1967 George Kuchar classic Eclipse of the Sun Virgin,
a morbidly hilarious full color screamfest, a teenaged dream date turned
upside-down. The Eclipse of Kuchar is preceded by an appropriately
garish congregation of equally sordid shorts, all ruminations on pop
flops and moldering Americana. SCREENING: Drifting (2010) by Malic
Amalya; 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) (2011) by Christopher Harris; The
Third Body (2007) by Peggy Ahwesh; Format (2010) by Christine Lucy
Latimer; Drunk on the Couch by Luther Price; Kindless Villain (2010) by
Janie Geiser; Boys of Summer (2009) by Alee Peoples; young, (2010) by
Dale Hoyt; Eclipse of the Sun Virgin (1967) by George Kuchar
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SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2011
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5/14
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
FILMS BY JACK FELDSTEIN
Another discovery at the Millennium's open screening program, Jack
Feldstein brings a rather unique approach and sensibility to the
Personal Cinema Series. He is an animator and script writer from Sydney,
Australia who makes what he calls Neon Films. His trademark style is the
"neonizing" that combines live action video recording with public domain
material, particularly cartoons. "Neonizing" is a complex computer
technique that renders the lines of an image to be like a neon sign.
Feldstein was a scriptwriter for many years before, as he puts it, he
woke up one morning and began making neon films. He describes his work
as deconstructionist, post modern animation that creates a stream of
consciousness narrative with a cartoon aesthetic.////////////////////
THE ECSTACY OF GARY GREEN (15 min,)///////////// THE LOSER WHO WON (19.5
min.)////////////// MANAHATTA (3 min.) and other works to be announced,
There will be a live music interlude.
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------- For more information visit
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/shows.html
5/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE SKY SOCIALIST
The films in this program involve indicated depth, with no depth
illusion. WINDOW (1964, 12 minutes, silent) & THE SKY SOCIALIST 1964-68,
140 minutes. An historic record of Lower Manhattan before it was torn
down in the name of progress, and one of Jacobs's most important,
engaging long-form works. Total running time: ca. 155 minutes
5/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MY HUSTLER
by Andy Warhol 1965, 67 minutes, 16mm, b&w MY HUSTLER is one of the
classics of gay cinema. It is the story of a sexual triangle in which Ed
Hood competes with his Fire Island neighbors, Joe Campbell and Genevieve
Charbin, for the attentions of Paul America, whom he has rented for the
weekend from "Dial-a-Hustler". The realism of the scenario is due
largely to the absence of a script and performances by actors
essentially playing themselves.
5/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE GUESTS
A program of Eternalism 3-D and Anaglyph (red/green filters) 3-D films.
THE SCENIC ROUTE (2008, 25 minutes, video, b&w/color, Eternalism 3-D) &
THE GUESTS 2008, 89 minutes, video, b&w, Anaglyph 3-D. A mesmerizing
reworking of 10 seconds from the Lumière brothers' ENTRÉE D'UNE NOCE À
L'ÉGLISE. Unforgettable in every way. Total running time: ca. 120
minutes.
5/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JERRY TARTAGLIA PROGRAM
Anthology and MIX NYC co-present this program devoted to Jerry
Tartaglia, a filmmaker who has established himself as an important
figure in the realm of avant-garde and Queer cinema, thanks to his
writings, his part in restoring and preserving the films of the great
Jack Smith, his co-founding of Berks Filmmakers in Pennsylvania (one of
the oldest existing micro-cinemas in the U.S.), and, not least, for his
own highly accomplished and deeply committed body of film work. For four
decades he has been exploring the potential inherent in experimental
cinema to open up questions relating to gay identity and culture,
producing films that are as radical socially and politically as they are
aesthetically. "Each of my films portrays some aspect of gay
consciousness, sexual representation, or self-identity. At the same
time, each film utilizes the medium's unique potential as visual
metaphor. I am not very interested in creating narrative forms, which
generally are used to show how gay people are supposed to become
lavender carbon copies of straight people. Instead, I work with short,
personal, experimental forms which explore and celebrate another kind of
conscious human identity." –Jerry Tartaglia Co-sponsored by MIX NYC,
presenter of the NY Queer Experimental Film Festival (www.mixnyc.org);
special thanks to Stephen Kent Jusick. A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M. (1988, 6
minutes, 16mm) A.I.D.S. has become a convenient excuse to desexualize
gay men and thereby destroy gay liberation. This experimentally
processed film expresses Queer anger and rage at the no-win constructs
of straight culture's refusal to acknowledge the political impact of the
disease. ECCE HOMO (1989, 6 minutes, 16mm) Interweaves images from
Genet's masterpiece, UN CHANT D'AMOUR, with images from gay male sex
films. It asks the viewer to question their role as spectator in looking
at 'pornographic' images. Is the taboo against gay sex or against seeing
gay sex? REMEMBRANCE (1990, 5 minutes, 16mm) A short remembrance of
growing up gay and looking for identifiable images on the movie screen.
The film includes images from Bette Davis's performance in ALL ABOUT EVE
and some home movies. HOLY MARY (1991, 5 minutes, 16mm) A collage film
which looks at gender, fashion, and the head of the world's largest gay
male sex club. This found-footage piece uses imagery and sounds of
Fashion experts alongside images of Pope John Paul II's first visit to
the USA. 1969 (1991, 12 minutes, 16mm) A personal recollection of a time
past, when gay identity was a source of joy rather than of mourning. The
film explores the fictional nature of personal history and the
unreliability of memory. "A fearless, aggressive film. A barbed critique
of political amnesia." –Manohla Dargis, VILLAGE VOICE IS WHAT WAS (2008,
23 minutes, video) This film began as a visual diary of a visit to the
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Around the same time I had begun to
find vernacular photographs (snapshots) of Nazi soldiers that had been
taken by their compatriots…. The contradiction between the Nazi
persecution of gay men and the visual evidence in the photographs
prompted an inquiry into the context in which sexual identity is
formulated. THE MYSTERY SCHOOL (2009, 24 minutes, 16mm) This film was
created from discarded 16mm educational films dealing with hygiene,
religion, reading skills, philosophy, history, and gay sex education.
REMAINS TO BE SEEN (2009, 5 minutes, video) Featuring Jack Smith, this
video is part of the installation SHARDS & REMAINS, which was created
for 'Live Film! Jack Smith!' at the Arsenal, Berlin, 2009. It is a
capsule summary of my experience in restoring the films of Jack Smith
for 17 years: litigation, verbal recriminations, broken friendships.
"Please – stay there and restore it!" "What a horrible story." –Jack
Smith Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
5/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TIME SQUARED
See notes for May 13, 9 pm.
5/14
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 5/14: STONE + GAAR + BLADER + RUDNICK +
Riffing off the particular sensibilities of specific spaces, Melinda
Stone enacts a live performance of her Foursquare Trolley Dolly, a
real-time audience-interactive switching of the legendary 1906 Trip Down
Market Street and her centennial version. Greg Gaar rolls in another
kind of natural history—a natural history of SF flora. In his narrative
slide-show, Greg minces few words in a provocative commentary on the
fate of native plants in our fair City. ALSO on the program are the Cali
premieres of Enid Baxter Blader's (in person) The Ord, Jeanne Liotta's
Crosswalk, Roger Deutsch's Preludes, and Doug Graves' Palms: A
Neighborhood. PLUS Michael Rudnick's Dugout on Berry St., Rich Bott's LA
Dives, Bill Brown's Chicago Corner, and Ian Sundahl's Ghost Beach in
16mm Bolex Duo-Vision! AND Ben Woods' Bartlett St. mural update!
5/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
12:00 PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 4: OBSERVERS OBSERVED
curated by Jonathan Marlow Saturday, May 14 at 12 noon Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street at Mission "Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness;
but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and
giving us back our primitive, unattached state. Yes, it can even, in the
twinkling of an eye, make something like a vagabond of the pedant and
Philistine. Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar
draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly."
(Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain) SCREENING: The Idea of North (1967,
excerpt) by Glenn Gould; Hand Held Day (1975) by Gary Beydler; The
Anthem (2006) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul; In the Cul de Sac (2010) by
Raina Kim; Dust Studies (2010) by Michael Gitlin; Imperceptihole (2010)
by Lori Felker and Robert Todd; Get Out of the Car (2010) by Thom
Andersen; Light From the Mesa (2010) by Paul Clipson
5/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2:30PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 5: TWO ROADS DIVERGED
curated by Jonathan Marlow Saturday, May 14 at 2:30pm Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street at Mission "Two roads ran apart into the woods and
sadly I could not travel both, even if I could. Down I looked, where one
bent, and then the other, suitably straight and more ideal, perhaps,
because it was grass-like and desired wear. It exceeded the interests
there. Both carried the mornings evenly, stepped into the sheets of
black where I regarded another day! Nevertheless, being able, one way
leads away and I doubted if I would return at all. I explain this with
relief, therefore, in time. Two roads ran apart into the woods and I
took that rarely traveled path and differentiated between complete."
(Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, translated from English to German and
back again) SCREENING: Conjuror's Box (2010) by Kerry Laitala; Beyond
Enchantment (2010) by Lawrence Jordan; Heliotropes (2010) by Michael
Langan; Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010) by Jodie Mack; Perchance
(2008) by Caryn Cline; February 2008 & June 1967 (2010) by Mark Toscano;
Place for Landing (2010) by Shambhavi Kaul; A Thousand Julys (2010) by
Lewis Klahr; Solar Sight (2011) by Lawrence Jordan; Alpsee (1994) by
Matthias Muller
5/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
4:30PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 6: CELEBRATING ROBERT NELSON
Saturday, May 14 at 4:30pm Victoria Theatre 2961 16th Street at Mission
Robert Nelson is a Bay Area treasure and filmmaking legend. Known for
prankster experimentalism and on-the-spot invention, the films of San
Francisco native Robert Nelson are among the defining landmarks of the
post-Beat American underground of the 1960s and 70s. Cinematheque is
proud to honor Robert Nelson with this screening of classic and
lesser-known films. [Please note: Robert Nelson's presence at this
screening is not confirmed] SCREENING: The Great Blondino (with William
C. Wiley, 1967) King David (made with Mike Henderson, 1970/re-edited
2003) Special Warning (1974/1998) The Awful Backlash (with William
Allan, 1967)
5/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:30PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 7: APPARENT MOTION--CELEBRATING THE ART OF PROJECTION
Saturday, May 14 at 8:30pm Victoria Theatre 2961 16th Street at Mission
Apparent Motion celebrates the art of live image projection‚ the
cinematic exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound
machine, an invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Working
with modified or distressed film projectors as if they were musical
instruments or with live manipulation (even mutilation) of projected
film (or even directly with the exalted beam of light itself), Alex
MacKenzie (of Vancouver BC) and the duo of Amanda Dawn Christie and Elli
Hearte fuse image and sound into profound site-specific (yet cinematic)
experiences. Also on the sound/image synesthesia tip is the East Bay
composer/video artist Kenneth Atchley, whose jpeg navigations and sine
wave compositions open the show. SCREENING: the wooden lightbox: a
secret art of seeing (2007-2011) by Alex MacKenzie;
www.alexmackenzie.com Transmissions (2010) by Amanda Dawn Christie and
Elli Hearte www.amandadawnchristic.ca turtle (2009-2011) by Kenneth
Atchley www.katch.com
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SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011
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5/15
Amsterdam, Netherlands: EYE Film Institute
http://www.eyefilm.nl
4 pm, Vondelpark
JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE
Center for Visual Music (CVM) presents this very special program,
featuring rarely screened films and new 16mm preservation prints,
including Caravan (1952), Séance (1959), Momentum (1968), Allures
(1961), Samadhi (1967), Chakra (1972), Light (1973), Cycles (1974, made
with Stephen Beck), and Music of the Spheres (1977/2002). 16mm/digital.
CVM thanks The National Film Preservation Foundation for their support
for the preservation of some of these films. Introduced by Cindy Keefer,
curator and archivist, CVM.
5/15
Amsterdam, Netherlands: EYE Film Institute
www.eyefilm.nl
7:15 pm, Vondelpark
OSKAR FISCHINGER: OPTICAL POETRY (PART ONE, THE CLASSICS)
Center for Visual Music (CVM) presents Part One of the Fischinger
Retrospective, with Fischinger's Classic Visual Music films including
Spirals, Walking from Munich to Berlin, Spiritual Constructions, Studies
2, 5, 6, 7 and 8; Kreise (two versions), Allegretto (two versions)
American March, Radio Dynamics, Motion Painting no 1. Program introduced
by Cindy Keefer, Director, CVM. 35mm prints for the Fischinger
Retrospective were preserved by Center for Visual Music, Academy Film
Archive, EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Fischinger Archive, with the
support of Film Foundation, Sony, Deutsches Filmmuseum and The National
Film Preservation Foundation.
5/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ONTIC ANTICS
A program of Eternalism 3-D and (partly) Pulfrich 3-D films. ANOTHER
OCCUPATION (2010, 15 minutes, video, b&w/color, silent, Eternalism 3-D)
& ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY; BYE, MOLLY 2005, 86 minutes,
video, b&w/color, Pulfrich 3-D (last 15 minutes only). "In the first
section of this three-part film, Jacobs radically reworks this original
sequence of Laurel and Hardy film, so that they end up flipping and
twirling around each other. The second section plays back the original
film in its entirety. The viewer suddenly realizes how movement, space,
and time have been radically transformed by Jacobs's creative vision. In
the final part of the film, the iconic images of Laurel and Hardy
struggle to resolve themselves against the prominence of the digital
pixels. The experience is further enhanced by the use of individual dark
filters creating a 3-D effect." –Jon Gartenberg Total running time: ca.
105 minutes.
5/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WARHOL/WHITNEY PROGRAM
Andy Warhol EAT (1963, 35 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) John and James
Whitney FILM EXERCISES 1-5 (1943-45, 18 minutes, 16mm) James Whitney
LAPIS (1963-66, 10 minutes, 16mm, silent) Total running time: ca. 65
minutes.
5/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 5
All the films in this program are Anaglyph 3-D. GIFT OF FIRE: NINETEEN
(OBSCURE) FRAMES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (2007, 38 minutes, video, b&w)
Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007
at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is
probably the first film in history: Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince's 1888
footage of traffic crossing Leeds Bridge. "SLOW IS BEAUTY" –RODIN (2009,
51 minutes, video) Video documentation transformed by Jacobs, who shot a
2004 re-presentation of a 2-D and 3-D shadow play originally from 1974.
AMERICA AT WAR, THE HOME FRONT: FILM OPENING (2011, 30 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 125 minutes.
5/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JERRY TARTAGLIA PROGRAM
For notes, see May 14, 7:30 pm.
5/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TIME SQUARED
See notes for May 13, 9 pm.
5/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2:30PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 8: PLAYBACK
curated by Lauren Sorensen Sunday, May 15 at 2:30pm Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street at Mission A program made up of musicality and
shape-shiftings, this nest of films and videos tie together disparate
themes and atmospheres, following a tonal thread that is both playful
and observational. Each piece in turn uses a place, artifact, musical
quality, or performance as a foundation and environment, building up to
and cohering the work's own resonance and energy. SCREENING: In the
Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (2010) by Fern Silva; The Eye And
the Ear (1944-45) by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson; Sequences (2009)
by Jae Kyung Kim; 724 14th St. (2010) by Ching Yi Tseng; Very Similar To
(2009) by Alexander Stewart with Peter Miller; Cry When It Happens/Llora
Cuando te Pase (2010) by Laida Lertxundi; Performing marmarth (2010) by
Rick Bahto; Lark's Tongue in Aspics (2010) by David Shushan; Joshua City
(2011) by Kevin T. Allen; Night Walks (2011) by George Monteleone;
Vineland (2009) by Laura Kraning; Glass Face (1975) by Gary Beydler
5/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
4:30PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 9: THE REALMS OF TRANSIENCE
curated by Steve Polta Sunday, May 15 at 4:30pm Victoria Theatre 2961
16th Street at Mission Sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing SCREENING: SHU (Blue
Hour Lullaby) (2007) by Phillip Lachenmann; Frequency Mass (2011) by
John Davis; The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel (2010) by Marcy Saude; In
the Swim (2010) by Michael Walsh; Fallen Flags (2007) by Amanda Dawn
Christie; Drifter (2010) by Timoleon Wilkins
5/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7PM, 2961 16th St
CROSSROADS, PROGRAM 10: THE OBSERVERS
curated by Jonathan Marlow Sunday, May 15 at 7:30pm Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street at Mission "As they observed the various and contrasted
figures that made up the assemblage, each man looking like a caricature
of himself, in the unsteady light that flickered over him, they came
mutually to the conclusion, that an odder society had never met, in city
or wilderness, on mountain or plain." -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Great
Carbuncle SCREENING: Trypps 7 (Badlands) (2010) by Ben Russell The
Observers (2011) by Jacqueline Goss
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