Part 2 of 2: This week [October 1 - 9, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011
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10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
1:15pm, Walter Reade Theate
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST
Klaus Wyborny, Germany, 2010, 80m Filmmaker in person!
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
11:15am, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Between Gold: Jonathan Schwartz, U.S., 2011, 10m 42s; Tin Pressed: Dani
Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 6m 23s; Fifteen an Hour: Kevin Jerome Everson,
U.S., 2011, 6m; Tableaux Vivants: Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 10m 20s;
Curious Light: Charlotte Pryce, U.S., 2011, 4m 12s; Forms Are Not
Self-Subsistent Substances: Samantha Rebello, U.K., 2010, 22m; The
Matter Propounded, of its Possibility or Impossibility, treated in four
Parts: David Gatten, U.S., 2011, 13m; from Jhana and the Rats of James
Olds: Miniatures : Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 2m; Degas: Stephanie
Barber, U.S., 2011, 58s; The Eclipse: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 33s;
ransom notes: Kelly Egan, Canada, 2011, 4m; Conjuror's Box : Kerry
Laitala, U.S., 2011, 4m.
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 3: IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR
See notes for October 5, 9:00 pm.
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 1
See notes for October 4, 7:30 pm.
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 6: HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY / LEBEN – BRD 1990, 83
minutes, 16mm. "A mordantly comic montage of short scenes taken from 32
instructional classes, as well as therapy and test sessions. The film
alternates between two kinds of activity: simulations and exercises
carried out by human beings (learning about everything from child care
to striptease to war to sales techniques to auto safety) and products
being tested without visible human intervention. … The thin line
separating socialization from indoctrination is repeatedly traversed –
and the implication is that while diverse appliances are being tested
for human use, humans are being trained and tested so they can aspire to
the performance level of appliances." –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO
READER
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IN COMPARISON
IN COMPARISON / ZUM VERGLEICH 2009, 61 minutes, 16mm. For his most
recent film, Farocki observes the process of manufacturing bricks, in
various cultures, and across different modes and scales of production.
"For IN COMPARISON, I wanted to make a film about concomitance, and
about contemporary production on a range of different technical levels.
So I looked for an object that had not changed too much in the past few
thousand years. This could have been a shoe or a knife, but a brick
becomes part of a building and therefore part of our environment. So the
brick appears as something of a poetic object. I follow its mode of
creation and use in Africa, India, and Europe." –H.F.
10/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 9
THE APPEARANCE / DER AUFTRITT 1996, 40 minutes, video. "Farocki once
again takes us into the world of advertising. An advertising agency has
to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by
the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted,
'Eyedentity', is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously
express both the company's dynamism and its reliability! A fascinating,
dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is
dramatized to win that lucrative contract." –Jörg Becker & THE INTERVIEW
/ DIE BEWERBUNG 1997, 58 minutes, video. "In the summer of 1996, we
filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for
a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been
retrained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and
mid-level managers – all of them are supposed to learn how to market and
sell themselves, a skill to which the term 'self management' is applied.
The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to
hang a social identity." –H.F.
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
1:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS ONION
Passage Upon the Plume: Fern Silva, U.S., 2011, 6m 46s; Shayne's
Rectangle : Dani Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 5m 4s; Line Describing Your Mom:
Michael Robinson, U.S., 2011, 5m 50s; Gossip: Bobby Abate, U.S., 2011,
8m 19s; from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: Tatum's Ghost: Stephanie
Barber, U.S., 2011, 3m 45s The Death of the Gorilla: Peter Mays, U.S.,
1966, 16m (new restoration by the Academy Film Archive); By foot-candle
light: Mary Helena Clark, U.S., 2011, 9m; A Lax Riddle Unit: Laida
Lertxundi, Spain, 2011, 6m; Sounding Glass: Sylvia Schedelbauer,
Germany, 2011, 7m; The Evil Eyes: Bobby Abate, U.S., 2010, 18m.
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
11am, Walter Reade Theate
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEAN-MARIE STRAUB
Lothringen! co-directed with Danièle Huillet France, 1994, 20m Un
héritier France/South Korea, 2011, 20m L'Inconsolable France, 2011, 15m
Schakale und Araber Switzerland, 2011, 11m
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
4:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: VOLUPTUOUS SLEEP
Betzy Bromberg, U.S., 2011, 95m FIlmmaker in person!
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
4pm, Walter Reade Theate
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: DANIEL EISENBERG: THE UNSTABLE OBJECT
Less and Less / Toujours moins Luc Moullet, France, 2010, 14m The
Unstable Object U.S./Germany/Turkey, 2011, 69m Daniel Eisenberg in
person!
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
6:45pm, Walter Reade Theate
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: KEVIN JEROME EVERSON
Quality Control U.S., 2011, 70m 42s The Prichard U.S., 2011, 11m 18s
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
7:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEROME HILER & NATHANIEL DORSKY
Words of Mercury: Jerome Hiler, U.S., 2011, 25m; The Return: Nathaniel
Dorsky, U.S., 2011, 27m. Both filmmakers in person!
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
9:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JOHN ZORN: A FILM IN 15 SCENES
15 scenes: 254 shots Gobolux, U.S., 2011, 15m Well Then There Now Lewis
Klahr, U.S., 2011, 19m 30s Bare Room Joey Izzo, U.S., 2011, 31m 33s
arcana Henry Hills, U.S./Austria, 2011, 33m John Zorn and all filmmakers
in person at October 8 screening!
10/8
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
9:45pm, Walter Reade Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: GEORGE KUCHAR
Lingo of the Lost: U.S., 2010, 37m 45s. Empire of Evil: U.S., 2011, 50m
10/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
WEBMASTERS/WEBSLAVES
RIP IN PIECES AMERICA + DEAR BILL + DEAR STEVE + ANONYMOUS + A program
on the politics of social media: Dominic Gagnon's Rip in Pieces is a
riveting compilation of "extremist" videos removed from YouTube (for
ideological, not sexual content). ALSO: Still making headlines, Steve
Jobs is the addressee in Herman Asselberghs' Dear Steve, a trenchant
analysis of the "new hegemony" of new media, whilst we witness the
disassembly of one of Jobs' laptops! AND Sarah Christman's Dear Bill,
emailed to—you guessed it—Bill Gates, taken to task for his
less-than-accessible archival empire. PLUS Greg Berger's inspirational
interview with a Cairo blogger/activist, Egypt: How We Did It; Julian
Assange in a WikiLeaks infomercial; and an open letter from the
hactivist group, Anonymous. Come early for cheap spiked coffee and
Andrew Wilson's Global Countdown.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011
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10/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
DREAM STATES: THE AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1940S AND 1950S
This program launches LA Filmforum's screening series Alternative
Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980. The series
will feature over 24 shows between now and May 2012. Alternative
Projections is Filmforum's exploration of the community of filmmakers,
artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and
presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in
the postwar era. This program includes Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya
Deren (1943), Juliet by Man Ray (ca.1940), Salvador Dali sequence from
Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), Fireworks by Kenneth Anger (1947), On the
Edge by Curtis Harrington (1949/2003), Psyche (Du sang, de la volupté et
de la mort, part 1) by Gregory Markopoulos (1947), House of Cards by
Joseph Vogel (1947), and What is a Man? By Sara Kathryn Arledge (1958).
10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 6: HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
See notes for October 7, 7 pm.
10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CREATORS OF THE SHOPPING WORLDS
THE CREATORS OF THE SHOPPING WORLDS / DIE SCHÖPFER DER EINKAUFSWELTEN
2001, 72 minutes, video. "Everyone is familiar with this experience [of
shopping] and knows what a mall looks like. This self-evident phenomenon
is, however, the result of a highly complex process. The designing of
shopping malls is overseen by an army of planners, managers and
scientists. … Farocki shows how mall producers look at malls when they
want to find out, for example, how passers-by move, where they stop and
where they reach for an article. He adds these images to the everyday
ones – and gives them a magical charge." –Antje Ehmann
10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 11
WHAT'S UP? / WAS IST LOS? 1991, 60 minutes, 16mm. "How a look can be
turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is
shown in an exemplary fashion in WHAT'S UP? in a motif depicting a
postcard of a painting by Titian in an eye-mark recorder. Elsewhere
topographical test images of the human brain record stimulus-response
patterns during visual trials by measuring brainwaves (calibration
curves). Research on the effectiveness of advertising investigates the
question of what advertisements affect what regions of the brain, what
scenes 'work' – images for an 'inward' colonization of the human body,
at once a commodity and a market." –Jörg Becker & RESPITE / AUFSCHUB
2007, 40 minutes, video, silent. Resurrects footage shot by Rudolf
Breslauer, an inmate of a Dutch transit camp for Jews during WWII. The
images we see of incoming and outgoing trains, prisoners being
processed, and daily camp life are set to Farocki's silent intertitle
commentary.
10/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 12
PRISON IMAGES / GEFÄNGNISBILDER 2000, 60 minutes, video. "A film
composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and
documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at
the new control technologies, at personal identification devices,
electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices. The cinema has
always been attracted to prisons." –H.F. & NOTHING VENTURED / NICHT OHNE
RISIKO 2004, 50 minutes, video. The film follows the negotiations
between a mid-sized company and a venture capital firm as the company
looks for capital to start production on its invention. Farocki limits
himself to observing events without comment. It's a microscopic look at
one cell of today's economy, an ethnographic portrait of a commonplace
business dealing.
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
12pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE SOUL AND THE STEM
Señora con Flores / Woman with Flowers: Chick Strand; Jan Villa: Natasha
Mendonca; The Sole of the Foot: Robert Fenz; Correspondence: Robert Fenz
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
1pm, Walter Reade Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: VIRGIN SPRINGS
Baptismal Sticks and Stones: April Simmons, U.S., 2011, 6m 50s; Devil's
Gate: Laura Kraning, U.S., 2011, 20m; Twice Removed: Leslie Thornton,
U.S., 2011, 9m ; Ricky: Janie Geiser, U.S., 2011, 11m; Silent Springs :
Erin Espelie, U.S., 2011, 12m 57s; Gazette: Eléonore de Montesquiou,
Russia/Estonia, 2009, 4m 12s; Kudzu Vine: Josh Gibson, U.S., 2011,
19.52m.
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
2:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEROME HILER & NATHANIEL DORSKY
Words of Mercury: Jerome Hiler, U.S., 2011, 25m; The Return: Nathaniel
Dorsky, U.S., 2011, 27m. Both filmmakers in person!
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
3:30pm, Walter Reade Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE PETTIFOGGER
Lewis Klahr, U.S., 2011, 65m Filmmaker in person October 9 screening!
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
5:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: LADDERS AND TRACKS
Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 Shiloh Cinquemani, U.S./Germany, 2011, 2m 7s
(k)now (t)here Hey–Yeun Jang, U.S., 2011, 8m 50s Subway: Angela
Ferraiolo, U.S., 2011, 7m 40s; Village, silenced: Deborah Stratman,
U.S., 2011, 4m 56s; Snakes and Ladders: Katherin McInnis, U.S., 2011,
3m; Longhorn Tremolo: Scott Stark, U.S., 2010, 16m; Landfill 16:
Jennifer Reeves, U.S., 2011, 8m 52s; Barren: Katherin McInnis, U.S.,
2010, 2m; Back View: Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 17m; The Toy Sun: Ken
Kobland, U.S., 2011, 33m
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
6pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JOHN ZORN: A FILM IN 15 SCENES
15 scenes: 254 shots Gobolux, U.S., 2011, 15m Well Then There Now Lewis
Klahr, U.S., 2011, 19m 30s Bare Room Joey Izzo, U.S., 2011, 31m 33s
arcana Henry Hills, U.S./Austria, 2011, 33m
10/9
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
8:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater
VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE RED AND THE BLACK
River Rites: Ben Russell, U.S./Suriname, 2011, 11m 30s; Shadow, Seed,
Spagyric : David Baker, U.S., 2011, 5m 12s; Peril of the Antilles : Fern
Silva, U.S., 2011, 5.51m; A Preface to Red: Jonathan Schwartz,
U.S./Turkey, 2010, 6m; Protocol: Lina Rodriguez, Canada/Colombia, 2011,
1m 15s; Imperceptihole: Lori Felker & Robert Todd, U.S., 2011, 14m 37s;
LIGHT LICKS: BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON: I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK: Saul
Levine, U.S., 2011, 12m; Third Law: N Kedzie Blvd.: Mike Gibisser, U.S.,
2011, 7m 10s; Slow Burn: Jesse Cain, U.S., 2011, 19m 46s.
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