This week [November 26 - December 4, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Strange Beauty Film Festival 2012 (Durham, North Carolina USA; Deadline: December 15, 2011)
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Faux Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 31, 2011)
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Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 26, 2011)
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Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, Ca USA; Deadline: December 16, 2011)
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Periwinkle Cinema _at_ ATA (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Essential Cinema: Grant, Jacobs & Fleischner Program [November 26, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son [November 26, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Genet/Frank & Leslie Program [November 26, New York, New York]
* Sex Trafficing [November 26, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 1 [November 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 2 [November 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 3 [November 27, New York, New York]
* Beat [November 29, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Ann Arbor Film Festival Retrospective Screening Series #3 [November 30, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* The Free Screen: Loop Collective [November 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Journal and Remarks- Films By David Gatten [December 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Journal and Remarks- Films By David Gatten [December 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* "Working With Words" - A Lecture By David Gatten [December 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 4th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema SoiréE [December 1, Fort Lauderdale, FL]
* Essential Cinema: Peter Kubelka Program [December 1, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Une Simple Histoire [December 1, New York, New York]
* Luminous Earth: the Films of Robbie Land [December 1, Seattle, Washington]
* De Anza Experimental Film Exhibition [December 2, Cupertino, CA]
* Owen Land Program 1 [December 2, New York, New York]
* Owen Land Program 2 [December 2, New York, New York]
* Carolee Schneemann At Eli Ridgway Gallery [December 2, San Francisco, California]
* Frequency Spectrums: Works With Sound and Film [December 2, San Francisco, California]
* Mono No Aware V [December 3, Brooklyn, New York]
* Someplace I Don't Belong [December 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Insight Film Festival [December 3, Manchester, England]
* 3rd Insight Film Festival 2011 [December 3, Manchester]
* Owen Land Program 1 [December 3, New York, New York]
* Owen Land Dialogues [December 3, New York, New York]
* Wallace Berman's Underground [December 3, Pasadena, CA]
* Incredibly Strange Music [December 3, San Francisco, California]
* Community visionaries: visual Communications and the Dawn of Asian
Pacific American Cinema [December 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rapt [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 1 [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 2 [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 3 [December 4, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
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11/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GRANT, JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to
counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." –D.G. "Austere and
chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure, density and
rhythm."–William Moritz STOP MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A
research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." –William Moritz
Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm, color.
Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera,
embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old
78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where
suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy
was our achievement as well as breaking out of step." –K.J. Ken Jacobs &
Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up,
b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the
generous support of The Film Foundation, The National Film Preservation
Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic
narrative – no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time
for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a
man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation
and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying,
guilt-strictured and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation
with style… enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to
dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70
minutes.
11/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON
by Ken Jacobs 1969, 115 minutes, 16mm An absolute masterpiece from one
of the most inspiring innovators of modern cinema. "Original 1905 film
shot and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer, rescued via a paper
print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is
most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie,
almost as a side effect, coming into being." –K.J.
11/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GENET/FRANK & LESLIE PROGRAM
Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean
Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines
of prison cells and a homophobic state… a powerfully resonant work that
explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank &
Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely
spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with
Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who
offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never
finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an
incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're
raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and
one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner.
But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like
scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline. Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes.
11/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
SEX TRAFFICING
MIMI CHAKAROVA'S THE PRICE OF SEX Introduced by photo-essayist Mark
Brecke, UCB luminary Mimi Chakarova is here in person to present this
unprecedented and compelling inquiry into a dark side of immigration.
Feature-length, The Price of Sex sheds light on the underground criminal
network trafficking Eastern European women, forced into prostitution
abroad. Traveling from her home country through Greece, Turkey, to
Dubai, Bulgarian-born photo-journalist Chakarova caps years of
painstaking on-the-ground reporting—even posing as a prostitute to
gather her material—filming undercover with extraordinary access.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011
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11/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 1
All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR /
L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE (1899, 1 minute, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON /
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 minutes, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN
NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 minutes, 35mm)
DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L'HUILE (1907, 5
minutes, 35mm) MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU
DIABLE (1906, 18 minutes, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects,
Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated
unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes.
11/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 2
The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. THE CASCADE OF
FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 minutes, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT /
UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 minutes, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA
FÉE CARABOSSE (1906, 13 minutes, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE
VOYAGE À TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 minutes, 35mm) Total running
time: ca. 50 minutes.
11/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 3
All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS /
ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE
PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT
(1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA
MANCHE (1907, 25 minutes, 16mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN
OU LES MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 minutes, 16mm) THE DOCTOR'S
SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 minutes, 16mm) Total
running time: ca. 55 minutes.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011
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11/29
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BEAT
a screening featuring works by and about that group of artists who
shared a sensibility called Beat: Howl; (2010, 84 min) by ROB EPSTEIN &
JEFFREY FRIEDMAN with James Franco as Allen Ginsberg ; also a selection
of key Beat films: A Movie (1958,12 min.) by BRUCE CONNER; Pull My
Daisy; (28 min.1959) by ROBERT FRANK & ALFRED LESLIE -with narration by
Jack Kerouac; Towers Open Fire (16 min. 1963) by WILLIAM BURROUGHS &
ANTHONY BALCH; The End (1953, 35 min) by CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
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11/30
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater
ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING SERIES #3
Curated by David Gatten. Filmmaker David Gatten (Boulder, CO) selects
and introduces influential films from AAFF's exhibition history.
Gatten's been attending AAFF for more than two decades as a filmmaker,
visiting professor and 2007 festival juror. Program includes: Time Out
for Sport by Paul Winkler (1996, 18 min); Filter Beds by Guy Sherwin
(1998, 9 min); If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed
of Light in Water by Julie Murray (1997, 17 min); Devotio Moderna by
Michele Fleming (1993, 9 min); Landscape With the Fall of Icarus by
Christopher Sullivan (1994, 24 min). All films presented on 16mm.
11/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
tiff.net
7:00pm, 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: LOOP COLLECTIVE
FREE EVENT! This retrospective spotlights some of the finest work
produced by the Toronto-based avant-garde filmmaking collective.Founded
at Ryerson University in 1996, the Loop Collective is a group of
independent media artists dedicated to exploring the roots of
experimental cinema by creating a dialogue with other art disciplines.
Programming and producing works for presentation in both traditional and
non-traditional spaces, Loop seeks to promote critical engagement with
experimental film and video by cultivating relations among different
artistic communities.Since Loop's inception, TIFF Cinematheque's The
Free Screen (formerly The Independents) has played a significant role in
shaping the aesthetic developments and preoccupations of its members.
This programme, consisting of only a fraction of the works produced by
the collective since the group's founding, features several works that
are in direct dialogue with one another, as well as with the other films
and filmmakers that Loop members encountered at The Free Screen and
Loop's own events. —Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011
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12/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Studies and Observation Group
7:30 pm, 327 Braun Ct
JOURNAL AND REMARKS- FILMS BY DAVID GATTEN
An evening of films by David Gatten (Boulder,CO). Gatten will present a
program of his films and a reading of poems by Wallace Stevens, Michael
Drayton and Jorie Graham. Program includes the 16mm films HARDWOOD
PROCESS (1996); SHRIMP BOAT LOG (2006/2010); JOURNAL AND REMARKS (2009);
FILM FOR INVISIBLE INK, CASE NO.142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER
[DIMINISHED BY 1,794] (2008); HOW TO CONDUCT A LOVE AFFAIR (2007); and
SO SURE OF NOWHERE BUYING TIMES TO COME (2010). This program is Studies
and Observation no. 4, which concludes the fall 2011 screening series
organized by the Studies and Observation Group; co-presented by the Ann
Arbor Film Festival.
12/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Studies and Observation Group
7:30 pm, 327 Braun Ct
JOURNAL AND REMARKS- FILMS BY DAVID GATTEN
An evening of films by David Gatten (Boulder,CO). Gatten will present a
program of his films and a reading of poems by Wallace Stevens, Michael
Drayton and Jorie Graham. Program includes the 16mm films HARDWOOD
PROCESS (1996); SHRIMP BOAT LOG (2006/2010); JOURNAL AND REMARKS (2009);
FILM FOR INVISIBLE INK, CASE NO.142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER
[DIMINISHED BY 1,794] (2008); HOW TO CONDUCT A LOVE AFFAIR (2007); and
SO SURE OF NOWHERE BUYING TIMES TO COME (2010). This program is Studies
and Observation no. 4, which concludes the fall 2011 screening series
organized by the Studies and Observation Group; co-presented by the Ann
Arbor Film Festival.
12/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
6pm, Ann Arbor District Library
"WORKING WITH WORDS" - A LECTURE BY DAVID GATTEN
Filmmaker David Gatten will discuss his use of historical documents,
"out- dated" instructional texts, and rare books as both inspiration and
image in his filmmaking practice. Over the last fifteen years Gatten's
work has explored the intersection of the printed word and the moving
image, while investigating the shifting vocabularies of experience and
representation within intimate spaces and historical documents. Through
traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional
film processes (boiling old books), the films trace the contours of both
private lives and public histories, combining elements of philosophy,
biography and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative
structures. David Gatten (b.1971, Ann Arbor) lives in the Rocky
Mountains near Boulder, CO and is currently Visiting Professor and
Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence in the Program in the Arts of the
Moving Image at Duke University.
12/1
Fort Lauderdale, FL: 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225485190848394
7:30 p.m., 810 NE 4th Avenue
4TH ANNUAL 1:1 SUPER 8 CINEMA SOIRéE
The 4th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée | December 1, 2011 Screening _at_
IWAN The Bubble 810 NE 4th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 Doors _at_ 6:30
pm | Screening _at_ 7:30 pm | $5 @ Door Wrap Party @ Poor House 110 SW 3rd
Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 11 p.m. - 4 a.m. | Music | Cheap Drinks |
No Cover Established in 2006, the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is an annual
South Florida event celebrating the use of super 8 film. Local
filmmakers and artists gleefully take part in this distinct event,
loading their cameras with 3m20s of film, nervously creating their
masterpieces. The 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is distinct in that none of
the films are viewed by the filmmakers before the screening.
Participants are not allowed to preview or edit their films. No matter
what imperfections, happy accidents, or planned technical attributes
occur, what's shot in-camera is what's shown. There is no opportunity to
make changes. Each participant gets one chance, one reel, and one take,
premiering the films at a one night collective screening. Sound is done
separately, most often designed, edited, and mixed after filming. It's
then played back live at the screening as a type of dual sync system.
Other sound options for participants include projecting the film silent
or adding live audio, which in-turn, adds a performative element. Many
of these characteristics lead to some exciting and refreshing films.
It's also a rare opportunity for a public viewing and a chance to see
super 8 projected in it's original format. Contact Info: Shane Eason,
1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée Director 1to1super8filmfestival_at_gmail.com |
954.762.5246 The 4th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée acknowledges
support from: IWAN The Bubble, Poor House, Black Iron Films, One Take
Super 8 Event, FAU SCMS, Kodak & PAC Lab Inc.
12/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM
MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm,
b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1
minute, 35mm, color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm, b&w) UNSERE
AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA (1966, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) PAUSE
(1977, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of
the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this
time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to
say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker – which is to say,
simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera." –Stan
Brakhage Total running time: ca. 55 minutes.
12/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
by Marcel Hanoun In French with no subtitles; English synopsis
available, 1958, 68 minutes, 16mm "Based on a true incident, the film
chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and
lodging in Paris. This is the only plot, and Hanoun has little interest
in embellishing it with background and motivation: he never even makes
it clear, for example, whether the woman is the child's mother, guardian
or companion. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a formal
stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that it
makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost Fellini-esque
by comparison." –TIME
12/1
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th ave
LUMINOUS EARTH: THE FILMS OF ROBBIE LAND
Robbie Land's 16mm films provide a personal vision of the southeast
United States, re-imagining our familiar surroundings, both natural and
man-made. His unusual methods include pasting plant life and other items
directly on to the filmstrip to painstakingly create vibrant, colorful
and haunting imagery. Program includes: Precipice—An unconventional
dance film that achieves a pointillist study of motion; Old Florida Salt
Marsh—Combining video footage cut, glued and taped directly to the
celluloid; Micanopy Winter Wonderland—Featuring an antique jukebox
converted into a diorama; Betty Creek—A portrait of the plant life
located in the Appalachian Mountains; Bioluminescence—Uses direct
application, time-exposure and micro-cinematography to magnify the
beauty of nighttime phenomenon.
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/1959
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
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12/2
Cupertino, CA: De Anza College
7:30 pm, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.
DE ANZA EXPERIMENTAL FILM EXHIBITION
The De Anza College Experimental Film Exhibition is a showcase of
experimental cinema created by San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers, as
well as, filmmakers from around the world. This exhibition will present
a filmmaking genre that is rarely screened in the South Bay and offers
the community a wonderful opportunity to see and learn more about this
ground-breaking genre of film and video art. Experimental films and
video are more akin to other fine art forms, such as poetry and
painting. The genre is often concerned with the most fundamental aspects
of cinema, such as its formal structure, capacity for meaning, and
singular elements such as color and light. As a practice, cinematic
experiments can be traced to the very beginnings of film as an art form;
experimental cinema continues to attract an international following in
the worlds of fine art, academia and cinema itself. The event is free to
the public, and is happening at De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek
Blvd., Cupertino, CA, on Dec. 2 at 7:30 pm, in the Advanced Technology
wing, lecture hall AT120. Please bring $2 for parking in Lot A. For more
information, email infiltration834_at_gmail.com.
12/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND PROGRAM 1
This screening is part of: ROBERT BREER AND OWEN LAND Film Notes "His
remarkable faculty is as maker of images.... [T]he images he photographs
are among the most radical, super-real and haunting images the cinema
has ever given us." –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM "Film is a complex
medium, combining elements of many other media. The ideal film artist
would be a great poet, great painter, great playwright, great composer,
great inventor – and maybe even a great business man or woman (most
probably a woman – all the artists of the future may be women, men
having long given up that profession to become soldiers or mystics).
Such a composite genius has yet to appear." –George Landow, IMAGE FORUM
EARLY FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW (ca. 1961-62, ca. 15 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm
blow-up. Preserved with support from Cineric, Inc.) These films are not
part of the Essential Cinema. According to Jonas Mekas, Landow used to
show these films along with FLEMING FALOON at early screenings before he
pulled them from his repertoire. They seem to be studies for FLEMING
FALOON, more raw, less concise, messy split-screens, and footage
re-filmed off the screen. Talking heads (including Mike Wallace and film
historian Richard Kraft) blur, stretch, fade; what Jonas says is a
festering arm wound that Landow had at the time is shot at various
blurry exposures. FLEMING FALOON (1963, 6 minutes, 16mm) FILM IN WHICH
THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC.
(1965-66, 5 minutes, 16mm, silent) DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO FOLLIES (1967,
7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF
CLARIFIED BUTTER (1968, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w) INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY
(1969, 5 minutes, 16mm) REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (1970, 5 minutes,
16mm) WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (1972, 13 minutes, 16mm) THANK YOU
JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT (1973, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total running
time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND PROGRAM 2
A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD
LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1974, 11.5 minutes, 16mm) NO
SIR, ORISON! (1975, 3 minutes, 16mm) WIDE ANGLE SAXON (1975, 22 minutes,
16mm) NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS
AND NASALS A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm)
ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS
RELATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED?
(1979, 17.5 minutes, 16mm) NOLI ME TANGERE (1984, 6 minutes, video) THE
BOX THEORY (1984, 15.5 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95
minutes.
12/2
San Francisco, California: Eli Ridgway Gallery
http://www.eliridgway.com
8:00 pm, 172 Minna Street
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN AT ELI RIDGWAY GALLERY
Eli Ridgway Gallery, in collaboration with the Stanford University Dept.
of Art & Art History, is pleased to host a special evening with Carolee
Schneemann. This is a rare west coast appearance by the
internationally-renowned artist. Schneemann will introduce a program of
her films and videos, including an extended excerpt from her rarely-seen
epic Kitch's Last Meal (1973-76). Program total running time is 70 min,
with reception to follow. Free Admission; suggested 5$ donation. |||
Schneemann appears at Eli Ridgway Gallery in celebration of the recently
published Millennium Film Journal #54: "Focus on Carolee Schneemann,"
edited by Kenneth White (Ph.D. candidate, Stanford Art & Art History).
Copies of the journal will be available at the gallery for sale (8$).
||| About Carolee Schneemann: Schneemann works at the juncture of
sexuality and politics. She focuses upon taboos and the suppressed in
cultures, and strives to position the body of the artist in dynamic
relationship with the social body. Her work in film, video, photography,
paint, and performance has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of
Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art,
New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the New Museum of
Contemporary Art; among many other institutions. Her writing is
published widely, including Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History
of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle (ed. Kristine Stiles, Duke
University Press, 2010) and Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews,
Projects (MIT Press, 2002). ||| About Millennium Film Journal: Founded
in New York in 1978, the Millennium Film Journal intends to fulfill the
need for more substantial discourse on independent, avant-garde cinema.
Issue #54 debuts a new design, but continues the journal's tradition of
publishing diverse writing forms, including artist pages,
collage-essays, interviews, and articles.
12/2
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street $6-10
FREQUENCY SPECTRUMS: WORKS WITH SOUND AND FILM
An evening of sound, Super 8 and 16mm film performances. JOHN DAVIS AND
PAUL CLIPSON / TASHI WADA AND MADISON BROOKSHIRE / BEN BRACKEN AND JOHN
DAVIS / Passage: a new work in sound and light for two 16mm projectors
by Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada. Benjamin Bracken & John Davis
present transient vibrations revealed through sound and film. Paul
Clipson screens new films shot in Berlin, Zagreb, Lisbon and Geneva to
soundscapes by sound artist John Davis.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
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12/3
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://www.mononoawarefilm.com
6 PM - 11 PM, 92 Wythe Avenue at the corner of North 11th street & Wythe
MONO NO AWARE V
MONO NO AWARE is an international exhibition of contemporary artists and
filmmakers whose work incorporates Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered
light projections as part of a live performance or installation. No
digital projections are presented; film and projected light only. We
believe there is magic in seeing a film print projected, a presence a
poet has when reading their own work, a feeling that resonates in your
chest when seeing music performed live. For these reasons we encourage
live projections with live additional audio, visual and performative
elements. Participating artists include: Lindsay Mcintyre, Edward Merton
Casey, Monica Baptista, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens, Joey
Huertas aka Jane Public, Patricia Ordonez, Morgan Nance, Luke Munn, Eric
Ostrowski, Jodie Mack, Jasa Baka, Julia Thomas, Tyr Jami, Alex Mallis,
Hunter Simpson, Theodore Rex King, Jordan Stone, Alex Cunningham and
Amanda Long. It will be a wonderful evening filled with live musical
performances, dance, poetry, installation, multiple-projections and
audience participation! That means YOU! There is NO FEE TO ATTEND, so
invite your friends ! Various snacks / drinks / treats will be available
from our sponsors: Adobe software will raffle a new version of CS5.5 and
Flash !!! ADOBE, KODAK, DIJIFI, PAC-LAB, RAW REVOLUTION, IZZE, ROUTE 11
CHIPS, REEDS GINGER BREW, DAVID LYNCH'S ORGANIC COFFEE, EMERGEN-C,
LARABAR This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts
Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc (BAC) and by the
participants of MNA filmmaking workshops. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mono No Aware is a sponsored
project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Contributions for the purposes of Mono No Aware must be made payable to
Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
The full program is listed on our website in the GALLERY includes bios
and synopsis for each presentation.
12/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
SOMEPLACE I DON'T BELONG
A not-to-be-missed night of Italian Futurist ponderings, poignant
portraits, animated evocations, intimate glimpses of shrimp, and much
more. This collection of film and video includes work by Scott Stark,
Janie Geiser, Matt Wolf, Allison Schulnik, Ben Coonley, Ely Kim, Keith
Wilson, and John Davis, plus a few surprises. Highlights include Scott
Stark's award-winning 16mm film "Speechless" (a mesmerizing and
provocative meditation featuring animated 3D photographs taken from a
set of ViewMaster 3D reels that accompanied a medical textbook entitled
"The Clitoris"), Janie Geiser's haunting 16mm film "The Fourth Watch"
(which was named by Film Comment as one of the top 10 experimental films
of 2000-2010), Matt Wolf's cell phone-only mini-opus "Boca"
(commissioned by Filmmaker Magazine with music by Owen Pallett/Final
Fantasy), and Allison Schulnik's breathtaking stop-motion animation
"Mound." Program compiled by John Palmer. Admission helps support Echo
Park Film Center and the featured artists. Stick around after the
screening for libations, treats, and lively discussions. $5 at the door
- seating is limited. SHOW SITE:
http://someplaceidontbelong.tumblr.com/
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/188411011243935/
12/3
Manchester, England: Insight Film Festival
http://www.insightfestival.co.uk
11am- 11pm, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL
The Insight Festival brings together films and audiences from around the
world for a weekend spectacular of screenings, discussion and debate.
Filmmakers of all faiths and none present work from around the world,
exploring and challenging aspects of religion and belief. TICKETS
Weekend Pass - £9.00/£6.00 (Concessions) Day Pass - £5.00/£3.50
(Concessions) Festival Lecture - £3.00/£1.50 (Concessions)
www.insightfestival.co.uk/tickets Festival highlights… The Insight
Festival Lecture The first Insight Festival Lecture will be given by
critically acclaimed author and screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce
(Millions, 24 hour Party People). Frank has worked with everyone from
Michael Winterbottom to Danny Boyle, and will be discussing his approach
to his work in the lecture titled 'Special Effect: The joy and pain of
having a counter cultural set of beliefs'. Film Programme The 3rd
Insight Festival 2011 received a record number of submissions, and with
entries open internationally for the first time, this year's screenings
are more exciting than ever. Insight announce animation, documentary and
drama from across the globe. Full listings at
www.insightfestival.co.uk/films Workshops BBC writersroom will host a
free session about screenwriting with a chance to meet BBC writer and
producer Henry Swindell. Join them for a workshop which focuses on
championing writers from across the north of England. This event is
FREE.
12/3
Manchester: Insight Film Festival
http://www.insightfestival.co,uk
11am, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
3RD INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL 2011
3rd Insight Film Festival 2011 Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December Zion Arts
Centre Manchester www.insightfestival.co.uk 0161 232 6084 The Insight
Festival brings together films and audiences from around the world for a
weekend spectacular of screenings, discussion and debate. Filmmakers of
all faiths and none present work from around the world, exploring and
challenging aspects of religion and belief. TICKETS Weekend Pass -
£9.00/£6.00 (Concessions) Day Pass - £5.00/£3.50 (Concessions) Festival
Lecture - £3.00/£1.50 (Concessions) www.insightfestival.co.uk/tickets
Festival highlights… The Insight Festival Lecture The first Insight
Festival Lecture will be given by critically acclaimed author and
screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, 24 hour Party People).
Frank has worked with everyone from Michael Winterbottom to Danny Boyle,
and will be discussing his approach to his work in the lecture titled
'Special Effect: The joy and pain of having a counter cultural set of
beliefs'. Film Programme The 3rd Insight Festival 2011 received a record
number of submissions, and with entries open internationally for the
first time, this year's screenings are more exciting than ever. Insight
announce animation, documentary and drama from across the globe. Full
listings at www.insightfestival.co.uk/films Workshops BBC writersroom
will host a free session about screenwriting with a chance to meet BBC
writer and producer Henry Swindell. Join them for a workshop which
focuses on championing writers from across the north of England. This
event is FREE.
12/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 2 , 6:45.
12/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND DIALOGUES
DIALOGUES, OR A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MIND 2007-09, 120 minutes,
video. Land's final film – the first he had produced in more than 20
years – consists of an episodic series of short films informed by his
study of folklore, myth, history, and the theology of all major
religions, including Gnosticism and cabala. With a healthy dose of irony
and a proudly irreverent attitude toward all kinds of orthodoxies, Land
readily applies the structure of the Platonic dialogue to explore themes
of reincarnation, art criticism, and Tantra. "On one level, DIALOGUES is
a parody of SCORPIO RISING, using era-specific hit records to locate
scenes in time and mood; on another level, it's an interpretation of
Plato's dialogue 'Phaedo', in which Socrates proves the doctrine of
re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric
belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity. With music by Meredith
Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Patti Smith, The Byrds, Phil Collins,
Alice Cooper, Genesis, The Human League, et al. Rated R: Restricted to
audiences with a knowledge of Art History." –O.L.
12/3
Pasadena, CA: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Ave
WALLACE BERMAN’S UNDERGROUND
In the mid-1960's, Wallace Berman inspired and communed with a
close-knit circle of actors and artists, who screened their underground
films domestically among a group of Topanga Canyon bohemians. These
films were influenced by Berman's spiritualist and radically amateur
concepts of art, that nevertheless thrived in the intersection among
art, Hollywood, and the institutions of the semi-commercial underground.
Films to be screened include: Aleph by Wallace Berman (1956-66),
Breakaway by Bruce Conner (1966), First Film by Russ Tamblyn (c. 1966),
Rio Reel by Russ Tamblyn (c. 1968), A Dance Film Inspired by the Music
of Jim Morrison by Toni Basil (1968), and Selections from Topanga Rose
by George Herms (1960s). In person: Toni Basil, Tosh Berman, George
Herms, Russ Tamblyn (schedules permitting)
12/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC
DALE HOYT'S BRAILLE + WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE + Dale introduces
this deadpan video about his father's career at Muzak, revealing some of
the machinations behind what became known as "elevator music." Preceded
by a clip from The Joy of Easy Listening, from none other than the BBC.
ALSO British in origin is Matthew Bate's What the Future Sounded Like, a
look at the early analog synthesizer scene in '60s England, with clips
of Hawkwind and Roxy Music-era Brian Eno!! Keith Sanborn's Russian
research has unearthed a rare Esfir Shub clip of the revolutionary
Theremin, followed by John Roy's work-in-progress on the avant-garde
hobo Harry Partch, Bitter Music. In 16mm, surreal post-war Soundies
initiate a mini-review of the music-on-film genres: the campiest
Scopitones, as well as The World's Worst Music Videos! Free beer AND
free vinyl!!
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011
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12/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00pm, the Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main Street
COMMUNITY VISIONARIES: VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS AND THE DAWN OF ASIAN
PACIFIC AMERICAN CINEMA
This program highlights the documentary-focused early years of Visual
Communications (VC), an organization created by a group of visionary
Asian American filmmakers, educators, and activists from UCLA's
EthnoCommunications program. In person: Alan Kondo, Duana Kubo, Robert
Nakamura, Eddie Wong! Films to be screened include Manzanar by Robert
Nakamura (1971), Wong Sinsaang directed by Eddie Wong (1971), City City
by Duane Kubo & Donna Deitch (1974), I Told You So by Alan Kondo (1974),
and Cruisin' J-Town by Duane Kubo (1975).
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RAPT
by Dimitri Kirsanoff In French with no subtitles, English synopsis
available, 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm "RAPT is, paradoxically, both a film
which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a work
which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that paradox can
be resolved by an understanding of the film's complex utilization of
music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this respect it is
reminiscent of the part-talkie genre…. It is linked to such abstract and
hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'?GE D'OR. The radical nature of
RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic musical score. In
making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the composers Honegger
and Hoerce." –Lucy Fisher
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2
minutes, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2
minutes) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14
minutes) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959,
3 minutes) BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes,
16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes) 69 (1969,
4.5 minutes) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program
were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. 70 (1970, 5 minutes) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9
minutes) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 minutes)
SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes) BANG (1986, 10
minutes) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 3
HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY'S HOMAGE TO NEW YORK (1960, 9.5 minutes, 16mm,
b&w) INNER AND OUTER SPACE (1960, 4 minutes, 16mm) HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE
(1962, 8 minutes, 16mm) PBL NO. 2 (1968, 1 minute, 16mm) RUBBER CEMENT
(1975, 10 minutes, 16mm) LMNO (1978, 9.5 minutes, 16mm) T. Z. (1979, 8.5
minutes, 16mm) TRIAL BALLOONS (1982, 5.5 minutes, 16mm) A FROG ON THE
SWING (1988, 5 minutes, 16mm) SPARKILL AVE! (1993, 5 minutes, 16mm) TIME
FLIES (1997, 13.5 minutes, 16mm) ATOZ (2000, 5 minutes, 16mm) WHAT GOES
UP (2000, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
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