This week [June 25 - July 3, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Pantheon International Xperimental film & Animation Festival 10.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, US; Deadline: July 08, 2011)
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OFF // Oblò Film Festival (Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; Deadline: July 01, 2011)
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Basement Media Fest (cambridge, ma, usa; Deadline: July 16, 2011)
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VIDEOHOLICA (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2011)
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Punto y Raya Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 04, 2011)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2011)
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Dallas VideoFest (Dallas, Texas USA; Deadline: June 28, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Onion City - NicoláS Pereda's All Things Were Now Overtaken By Silence +
Shorts [June 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City - Shorts Program 3 [June 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City - Shorts Program 4 [June 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Essential Cinema: Baillie/Crockwell Program [June 25, New York]
* Recent Work By Rick Bahto and Casey anderson [June 25, San Francisco, California]
* Minority Report: Representing Gays, Lesbians and the Sexual ‘Other’ In
Sexploitation Films Lecture & Screening: Eric Schaefer In Person! [June 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Onion City - Madison Brookshire's Color Series [June 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City - Shorts Program 5 [June 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City - Shorts Program 6 [June 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City - James Fotopoulos' Alice In Wonderland [June 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Train Keeps A Rollin’ – the Return of James Benning's Rr [June 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Quick Billy [June 26, New York]
* Super 8 Films By Rachelle Rahme [June 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: the Food Show -- A Cinematic Potluck [June 29, Providence, RI]
* Michael Brynntrup - Meself, Myself and Iself - Directors Lounge Screening [June 30, Berlin, Germany]
* "Best" of Flexfest 2011 Presented By Microscope Gallery With Uniondocs [July 2, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program [July 2, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Dog Star Man [July 3, New York]
* Clear Cut: Experiments From the Emerald City [July 3, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2011
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6/25
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
4:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - NICOLáS PEREDA’S ALL THINGS WERE NOW OVERTAKEN BY SILENCE +
SHORTS
All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (2009, 61 min., Video,
Mexico/Canada) by Nicolás Pereda /// "Nicolás Pereda's stunning and
spacious black and white feature is a film within a film, in which a
crew sets up for and shoots a performance by actress, director,
performance artist and political activist Jesusa Rodriguez. Amidst a
sparsely lit set, she recites the poem Primero sueño (First I Dream) by
the 17th century Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz while the crew
works in fits and starts, positioning and repositioning the lighting and
camera in take after take. A meditation on the concept of silence within
filmmaking, Pereda's film moves at a languorous pace. The film almost
completely resists an image, favoring a deep, atmospheric blackout with
brief glimpses of light punctuating this emptiness to illustrate a body,
a lamp, or the architecture of the room. Echoing this visual
relationship between dark and light, Primero sueño – Sor Juana's most
well-known work – is heard in flashes, as a poetic rupture during the
banal back-and-forth of the crew as they film Rodriguez. Sor Juana's
poem is composed of a dream-like narrative, which can very generally be
described as chronicling a soul's search for knowledge. The film
embodies not only a formal manifestation of these concepts, but a more
engaged relationship through the context of Sor Juana's history and the
extensive feminist and political overtones that characterize the work of
Jesusa Rodriguez. Pereda's narrative functions much as the poem: a
baroque, poetic account that fluidly moves between the ethereal and the
earthly. Using Sor Juana's narrative and its frequent references to
silence, both literal and metaphorical, Pereda's film is an exploration
of silence as an aesthetic, intellectual and narrative construct."
(Images festival) /// Preceded by: Monologue (2010, 2 min., Video,
Ireland) by Maximilian Le Cain & Untitled (2010, 15 min., Video, France)
by Neil Beloufa.
6/25
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Mastering Bambi (2011, 13 min., Video, The Netherlands) by Persijn
Broersen and Margit Lukács /// A Thousand Julys (2010, 7 min., Video,
US) by Lewis Klahr /// Tempts I (2011, 7 min., Video, US) by Kyle
Canterbury /// A Reasonable Man (2011, 15 min., Video, US) by Brian Frye
/// Janiceps (2010, 7 min., Video, France) by Augustin Gimel /// #25
(2011, 2 min., Video, US) by Jake Barningham; western (2011, 3 min.,
Video, US) by Jake Barningham; night, day (2011, 7 min., Video, US) by
Jake Barningham; trees (2011, 2 min., Video, US) by Jake Barningham; and
houses (2011, 3 min., Video, US) by Jake Barningham; color copy (2011, 3
min., Video, US) by Jake Barningham /// Sorry (Part One) (2010, 8 min.,
16mm, US) by Luther Price /// Shelley Winters (2010, 8 min., 16mm, US)
by Luther Price
6/25
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
9:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - SHORTS PROGRAM 4
Focus on the Family (2011, 7 min., Video, US) by Lennon Batchelor ///
sense+innocence (2010, 4 min., Video, Germany) by Nicolaas Schmidt ///
Once Mars Is Colonized (2010, 13 min., Video, France) by Pierre Yves
Clouin /// All That Sheltering Emptiness (2010, 7 min., 16mm, US) by
Gina Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore /// We Would See a Sign
(2009, 13 min., Video, US) by Michael A. Morris /// While You Were
Sleeping (2010, 10 min., Video, US) by Mary Helena Clark /// Forged Ways
(2010, 15 min., Video, US/Ethiopia) by Ephraim Asili /// Pigs (2010, 8
min., Video, US) by Pawel Wojtasik
6/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BAILLIE/CROCKWELL PROGRAM
Bruce Baillie MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 minutes, 16mm) CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 minutes,
16mm) ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 minutes, 16mm) VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968,
10 minutes, 16mm) Meditations on America by a filmmaker whom Willard van
Dyke once called the most American of all contemporary filmmakers.
Annette Michelson has referred to Bruce Baillie as one of the few
American political filmmakers. Douglass Crockwell GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE
(1964, 8 minutes, 16mm) "The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures
on various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at
times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful."
–D.C. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
6/25
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia Street
RECENT WORK BY RICK BAHTO AND CASEY ANDERSON
$6. Los Angeles-based artists Rick Bahto and Casey Anderson present
recent performance work across multiple media. Bahto will present his
works You're Already Dead for several readers and Super 8 film loop
(realized by Lauren Sorensen, to whom the work is dedicated), two Super
8 films Lebensraum and For Pablo Valencia, and the indeterminate Bouquet
(for Casey Anderson). Anderson will present his works possible dust for
multiple radios and THE ARGUMENT for 2 speakers.
6/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
7 pm, CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave.
MINORITY REPORT: REPRESENTING GAYS, LESBIANS AND THE SEXUAL ‘OTHER’ IN
SEXPLOITATION FILMS LECTURE & SCREENING: ERIC SCHAEFER IN PERSON!
"Softcore sexploitation movies of the 1960s and '70s tend to be
recognized for their overwhelmingly heterosexual orientation, from the
first 'nudie-cuties' in the early '60s to the teen sex comedies of the
late '70s that closed out the cycle. But for many years they explored
alternatives to normative heterosexuality. Sexploitation films offered
up a parade of predatory lesbians, bewildered bisexuals, lonely sidewalk
cowboys, and others living on society's sexual margins. Using images and
film clips from movies such as Suburbia Confidential (1966), She-Man
(1967), All the Way Down (1968), Therese and Isabelle (1968), The
Meatrack (1970) and others, this presentation will offer an overview of
the ways sexploitation movies dealt with sexual minorities from the
mid-1960s through the early 1970s—a time when mainstream Hollywood was
only beginning to gingerly approach the theme. While often framing queer
identities as pathological, some films offered surprisingly sympathetic
portrayals of individuals who, at the time, were forced to suppress
their sexuality or live their lives in the shadows." (Eric Schaefer)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011
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6/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
2:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - MADISON BROOKSHIRE'S COLOR SERIES
Color Series (2010, 74 min., 16mm, US) by Madison Brookshire /// "A
series of 6 films that form one work. Each film fades between colors.
They are made without a camera, using only the lights of the printing
process at the lab. The fades are slow enough that they engage the
viewer in a dialogue about the border between the work and his or her
own perception of it. The subject of the work is duration and color is
the medium through which we experience it. The converse is also true:
the subject is color and duration is the medium. The effect is a direct
experience of time and vision." (Migrating Forms festival)
6/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
3:45pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - SHORTS PROGRAM 5
To Touch (2010, 15 min., 16mm, US) by JB Mabe /// To Turn (2010, 7 min.,
16mm, US) by JB Mabe /// moonalphabet (2010, 2 min., Video, Turkey) by
Yoel Meranda; highway keying (2010, 3 min., Video, Turkey) by Yoel
Meranda; highway screening (2010, 2 min., Video, Turkey) by Yoel
Meranda; a dream of horses (2010, 1 min., Video, Turkey) by Yoel
Meranda; anitkabir (2011, 4 min., Video, Turkey) by Yoel Meranda ///
Controller (2010, 2 min., Video, Canada) by Ed Janzen /// Slow Action
(2010, 45 min., 16mm widescreen, UK) by Ben Rivers
6/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
6:30pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - SHORTS PROGRAM 6
Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, 10 min., 16mm, Japan/US) by Tomonari Nishikawa
/// Tokyo – Ebisu (2010, 5 min., 16mm, Japan/US) by Tomonari Nishikawa
/// Relocation (2011, 23 min., Video, Belgium) by Pieter Geenen ///
010101 (2009, 1 min., Video, US) by T. Marie /// In the Absence of
Light, Darkness Prevails (2010, 14 min., Video, US/Brazil) by Fern Silva
/// Hotel Nightclub (2011, 3 min., Video, The Netherlands) by Arianne
Olthaar /// Tableaux Vivants (2011, 11 min., Video, US) by Vincent
Grenier /// Cry When It Happens (2010, 14 min., 16mm, Spain/US) by Laida
Lertxundi
6/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:30pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY - JAMES FOTOPOULOS' ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Alice in Wonderland (2010, 99 min., Video, US) by James Fotopoulos ///
An adaptation of the 1886 musical Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for
Children by Henry Saville Clark and Walter Slaughter. James Fotopoulos'
feature length film Alice in Wonderland, inspired by a 2003 Lewis
Carroll photography 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. (JF)
6/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
THE TRAIN KEEPS A ROLLIN’ – THE RETURN OF JAMES BENNING’S RR
James Benning in person! Six months after the sold-out Los Angeles
premiere of James Benning's marvelous film RR, we're bringing it back!
If you missed it the first time, now is your chance! Chosen as one of
the best movies of its year, and its decade, RR, by James Benning.
merges observation and motion, present-day commerce and the historical
growth of America, in Benning's inimitable style. James Benning will
join us in person, and we hope you will as well. (2007, 16mm, color, 115
min., sound)
6/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: QUICK BILLY
by Bruce Baillie 1971, 73 minutes, 16mm Bruce Baillie's journey through
"the dark wood encountered in the middle of life's journey" (Dante),
with references to Bardo Thodol. A major work from one of the great
poets of cinema
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MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011
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6/27
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
SUPER 8 FILMS BY RACHELLE RAHME
Aprooximately 50 minutes. Admission $6. Bushwick-based artist Rachelle
Rahme joins us for a night of her Super-8 films shot in NYC, California,
Maryland, and Lebanon. Rahme writes of her work: "...I attempt to create
a narrative using a free style, utilizing montage, sequence, and rhythm.
The films I am showing tonight represent a naturalistic period in my
work, naturally lit and structured in camera. I seek a visualization of
the discordance I feel in my surroundings and by imposing narrative,
seek a redemption from infinite Time. The camerawork is influenced by
interests in eye-tracking and surrealism. Creating the work relies on an
embodied understanding of the optics and camera mechanics, and as my arm
folds over my chest and heart while I film, so my films tonight
represent a short circuit between the emotions and intellect." -RR
Rachelle Rahme is a filmmaker, musician, dj, artist and writer working
and living in Brooklyn, NY. As a filmmaker she works primarily with
Super-8. She is a founding member of the Optipus Group, a collective of
NY film & video makers that most recently performed at the BOS Film
Festival, curated by Microscope. She has also exhibited, screened or
performed in at Anthology Film Archives, The Stone, Participant Inc,
West Nile, Sunset Strip MonoNoAware, Issue Project Room, Watty & Meg and
others. She received her BFA in Film & Television from Tisch School of
the Arts and has been shooting Super 8 and 16mm film since 2004. J/M/Z -
Mytle/Broadway Ave (nearest subway).
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011
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6/29
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
8:30PM (sunset), Ajay Land Co. Bldg., 295 Harris Ave
MAGIC LANTERN CINEMA PRESENTS: THE FOOD SHOW -- A CINEMATIC POTLUCK
Who's hungry? As a way of celebrating the onset of summer and testing
out our new projector, Magic Lantern Cinema is hosting a cinematic
potluck: an outdoor screening featuring all manner of glorious
foodstuffs, both edible and virtual. With a veritable banquet of 16mm
films about vegetables, meats, and grains, the eating habits of animals,
the food industry, transgressive uses of custard, and other delectable
topics, we'll have more than enough to chew on – but we'll be bringing
our favorite summer dishes to share with you as well! So make sure to
bring your appetite, as well as something to sit on and some food to
pass around. The screen lights up after the sun goes down. ******
FEATURING: Larry Gottheim, "Corn" (1970), D.W. Griffith, "A Corner in
Wheat" (1909), Vivian Ostrovsky, "Eat" (1988), Joyce Wieland, "Catfood"
(1968), Stan Brakhage, "The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels"
(1999), Suzan Pitt, "Asparagus" (1979), Kurt Kren, "9/64: O Tannenbaum"
(1964), Eduardo Darino, "Meat Packing House" (1981), Owen Land, "No Sir,
Orison!" (1975) TRT: 102 MIN ******
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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011
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6/30
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte
MICHAEL BRYNNTRUP - MESELF, MYSELF AND ISELF - DIRECTORS LOUNGE SCREENING
Directors Lounge Screening -°*°- Michael Brynntrup - „meSelf, mySelf and
iSelf" - film and video works -°*°- Michael Brynntrup is an artist and
filmmaker who has been probing the limits of independent, personal and
experimental film since the 80's. Very early in his art career, he
started off with Super-8 films, but soon experimented with multiple
projections and collaborations with other artists. With „Jesus, der
Film" his collaboration took the form of a „cadavre exquisite", the
joint product of a number of directors who only saw part of the work of
their collegues, but who all were asked to have Brynntrup play the main
character, Jesus. The resulting feature-long film became a legend, while
little later, Brynntrup also became a well known director in the
gay-and-lesbian cinema movement. His goal, however, always was to not
become monopolized by a certain scene, and thus, since his start, he has
strived for a diversity of themes and genres in his work. Still, we can
find the repeated and ongoing questions of the identity of the self, the
question, how the rolls we play in society are being defined by gender
and sexual orientation, and how the mirror of the other, and the mirror
of death influences our lives. (curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr) -°*°-
http://directorslounge.net -°*°-
http://www.brynntrup.de/ -°*°-
http://www.z-bar.de
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SATURDAY, JULY 2, 2011
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7/2
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
"BEST" OF FLEXFEST 2011 PRESENTED BY MICROSCOPE GALLERY WITH UNIONDOCS
Approx. 70 minute program. Admission $6. Reservations recommended:
info_at_microscopegallery.com. Roger Beebe, Artist Director of the Florida
Experimental Film/Video Festival, visits Microscope Gallery with films &
video selections from this year's festival. Beebe's international
mini-tour most recently included a program presented in May in Berlin.
The impressive line-up of emerging and established artists includes:
Steve Cossman, Sam Green, Christopher Harris, Zach Iannazzi, Georg
Koszulinski, Penny Lane, Katherine McInnis, Jesse McLean, Steve Reinke,
Vanessa Renwick, and Richard Tuohy, PROGRAM: Hadley Grass, Zach Iannazzi
(3:00/16mm,/2009/San Francisco, California) Utopia, Part 3:The World¹s
Biggest Shopping Mall, Sam Green (13:09/DV/2009/Brooklyn, New York)
Iron-Wood, Richard Tuohy (7:00/16mm/2009/Australia) The Voyagers, Penny
Lane (16:30/DV/2010/Claryville, New York) Horizon Line, Katherin McInnis
(1:00/HDV/2009/Brooklyn, New York) Somewhere Only We Know, Jesse McLean
(5:15/DV/2009/Chicago, Illinois) Beaver Skull Magick, Steve Reinke
(5:53/DV/2010/Canada/Netherlands/Chicago) Tusslemuscle, Steve Cossman
(5:00/16mm/2009/Brooklyn, New York) Portrait #2: Trojan, Vanessa Renwick
(5:00/35MM to DV/2006/Portland, Oregon) White House, Georg Koszulinski
(8:00/DV/2009/Gainesville, Florida) 28.IV.81(Bedouin Sparks),
Christopher Harris (2:49/16mm/Jan. 2009/Orlando, Florida). more info:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z – Myrtle/Broadway
Ave. (nearest). L – Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. G to Broadway
(Union) walk one block to J Lorimer/Broadway, get off at
Myrtle/Broadway. B54 Bus Myrtle/Willoughby stop.
7/2
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. DESISTFILM (1954, 7
minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, sound) THE WONDER RING (1955, 4 minutes, 16mm) FLESH OF MORNING
(1956, 25 minutes, 16mm, b&w) DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE (1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 minutes, 16mm) Films made
during the early, "psychodramatic" period of one of modern cinema's
greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound.
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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SUNDAY, JULY 3, 2011
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7/3
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DOG STAR MAN
by Stan Brakhage 1961-64, 74 minutes, 16mm A masterwork in which all of
Brakhage's techniques achieve a complex synthesis to produce one of
cinema's supreme epic poems. "The film breathes and is an organic and
surging thing… it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in
every variation of color." –Michael McClure, ARTFORUM
7/3
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CLEAR CUT: EXPERIMENTS FROM THE EMERALD CITY
Even today, the Northwest remains an outpost of lumberjacks, fishermen,
and pioneers. This shorts program delivers the region's pioneering
spirit with nine short films, curated by Northwest Film Forum's program
director Adam Sekuler, that offer a glimpse into the experimental
practices of filmmakers from the Emerald City of Seattle, WA. Carving
out new territory in the timberland of cinema these films explore
juxtapositions of place and space, past and present, personal and
impersonal, literal and figurative, and, as with all great cinema, the
intentional and unintentional. All works in this program are on digital
video. C.W. Winter TIME LAPSE MOTION PICTURE NO. 4 (SEATTLE) (2011, 6
minutes) A subtle shift of pixels in a hotel room is the ultimate in
subtle examination of space and time. Commissioned by Northwest Film
Forum. Britta Johnson CRASHING WAVES (2010, 7 minutes) Castaways perform
strange tasks on a deserted shore. Are they gods, or have they been
driven mad by their predicament? Luke Sieczek SPACE, THE AIR, THE RIVER,
THE LEAF (2009, 12 minutes) Using a mixture of interpretive strategies –
from documentary observation, expressionistic abstraction,
improvisational music, and dance – this film explores the passage of
water as it undergoes a series of natural filtering processes. Serge
Gregory WHEN HERONS DREAM (2009, 11 minutes) Imagines the perspective of
a great blue heron as it moves through the seasons and a Northwest
landscape shaped by water. Karn Junkinsmith & Adam Sekuler INTERPRETIVE
SITE: HANFORD REACH (2011, 7 minutes) Gretchen Burger UNWRAPPING (2010,
9 minutes) Drawing on nine years of boxing training, UNWRAPPING is an
exploration of how memory and emotion manifest to shape the body's
alignment and movement. Alexandra Roxo THE HEART IS WHAT REMAINS (2009,
13 minutes) Two lovers meet and experience the birth, life, and death of
love. Curtis Taylor CHURCH WEATHER (2009, 10 minutes) Exploring
contemplation and perception, CHURCH WEATHER follows a woman on her way
home, who hears the radio broadcast of a sacred choir, triggering her
repressed awareness of the connected, hidden mechanics of all things.
Drew Christie THE MAN WHO SHOT THE MAN WHO SHOT LINCOLN (2010, 5
minutes) An animated interpretation of the strange life of Boston
Corbett. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
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