This week [September 10 - 18, 2011] in avant garde cinema
R.I.P. George Kuchar, Jordan Belson. "We need a new happy guy."
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Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [September 10, New York]
* New Films By Jon Behrens [September 11, MERRICKVILLE / SYDNEY AUSTRALIA]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [September 11, New York]
* Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson (Super-8 Projections) + Bill Kouligas
(Family Battle Snake) [September 12, Berlin]
* Theatrical Premiere of Notes On Utopia By Jonas Mekas [September 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Chicago Underground Film Festival Presents: the Ones That Got Away,
Part 1 [September 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Lower East Side On the Screen -- Evolving Urban Identity: No Picnic [September 13, New York, New York]
* F O R E I G N I S S U E S Films By Women From Germany &Austria [September 14, Boston, MA]
* Room40 Presents: Jefre Cantu Ledesma & Paul Clipson + Talvihorros + Aino
Tytti [September 14, London]
* The Distilled Motion Show [September 14, Providence, RI]
* Adolfo Arrieta Program [September 15, New York, New York]
* Le Chateau De Pointilly [September 15, New York, New York]
* Electromediascope [September 16, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Rehearsals For the Everyday – Films By Beatrice Gibson [September 16, Los Angeles, California]
* The Adventures of Sylvia Couski [September 16, New York, New York]
* Tam Tam [September 16, New York, New York]
* Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Lucas Abela [September 16, Rotterdam]
* Mission Eye & Ear [September 16, San Francisco, California]
* Microscopic: An Anniversary Screening Programmed By Bradley Eros [September 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Gate Shock: New and Rare Films By Luther Price (White Lightcinema) [September 17, Chicago, IL]
* The Experiment: American Falls By Philip Solomon [September 17, New York, New York]
* Adolfo Arrieta Program [September 17, New York, New York]
* Flammes [September 17, New York, New York]
* The Adventures of Sylvia Couski [September 17, New York, New York]
* Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [September 17, Tilberg]
* Funeral Parade of Roses [September 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* The 2011 Festival of (In)Appropriation [September 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Flammes [September 18, New York, New York]
* Le Chateau De Pointilly [September 18, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
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9/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20
minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes, 16mm) THE
MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY
(1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes, 16mm)
AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes, 16mm,
photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) A
LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL (1957, 3 minutes,
16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images.
ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S
PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were
directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy
Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
running time: ca. 105 minutes.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
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9/11
MERRICKVILLE / SYDNEY AUSTRALIA: The 5th Annual Sydney Underground Film Festival
http://suff.com.au/
4:30, FACTORY THEATRE 105 VICTORIA ROAD
NEW FILMS BY JON BEHRENS
Award winning northwest filmmaker Jon Behrens will be screening two of
his most recent films at the 5th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival
in Sydney Australia. Each of the films have been programmed into two
different programs that will play on Sept 11 2011 Anatomy of the
Vertebrate Retina This film is 6th installment of what is being called
the Anomalies Cycle of films. This film is also created ...using hand
painted sections of clear 16mm film. This time I used custom made dye's
that I call Kenville dyes. By the time I did this film I was
experimenting with doing several layers of exposures onto one another at
different speeds. I also created this films sound design. 2011, 16mm,
color, sound, 6min THIS FILM WILL BE PLAYING ON SUNDAY SEPT 11TH IN THE
PROGRAM LSD FACTORY AT 5:30 PM A Meditation in Color and Light This film
is entirely made from hand painted sections of clear 16mm film, along
with hand manipulated sections of found film. The footage was then
re-photographed on a JK Optical printer I also used a variety of
different light gels, to create this cinema poem. I also created the
sound design. 2010, 16mm, color, sound, 6min THIS FILM WILL BE PLAYING
ON SUNDAY SEPT 11TH IN THE PROGRAM ANIMATION FORNICATION 4:30 PM FOR
MORE INFORMATION OF THE SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL PLEASE VISIT
THEIR WEBSITE
http://suff.com.au/
9/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
(ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
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9/12
Berlin: Westgermany
http://laborberlin.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/cantu-ledesma-clipson/
9pm, Skalitzer Straße 133
JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON (SUPER-8 PROJECTIONS) + BILL KOULIGAS
(FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE)
An evening of experimental drone music with Super 8m film projections.
9/12
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF NOTES ON UTOPIA BY JONAS MEKAS
video, 54 min 35 sec, 2003-04,admission $6, We are very, very pleased to
start the second season of our Events Series with the world premiere of
the complete "Notes on Utopia" by Jonas Mekas. This surprising work
presents Mekas' alone with his camera – and sometimes a record player or
an accordion – discussing his evolving thoughts for and against utopia.
"Four part video made in 2003 and 2004. The first two parts were
presented at the 2003 Venice Bienalle as part of the Utopian Station
project.The Utopia Station project made me rethink and try to sum-up my
thoughts on utopia, all the variations of it, including the Garden of
Eden, Paradise, social, religious, political, and poetic theories, etc.
As I am going through this process of rethinking, periodically I
videotape my thoughts on the subject." – Jonas Mekas. more info
www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433
9/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
http://www.cuff.org
8:00 pm, Beauty Bar Chicago 1444 W Chicago Ave
THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY,
PART 1
Every year the Chicago Underground Film Festival receives thousand of
film and video submissions from around the world. Many more works than
be included in our week long event. This means that even some pieces
that we really like don't end up in the final program. This month we're
pleased to share with you a few of the quality films we liked but for
whatever reason didn't end up in our final festival schedule. The
Natural, Ted Kennedy 4 minutes, ANN ARBOR, "Mans struggle with disasters
of his own making, manifested in a burning minivan. " (TK) Red Rider's
Lament, Jeremy Bessoff 18 minutes, CHICAGO, "A tragicomic Western
animation employing plastic cowboys and construction paper sets to
explore the enactment of masculinity in the Old West." (JB) Sedimenting,
Emilie Crewe 12 min, CHICAGO…VANCOUVER, "[] carries the home around as
an extension of the body, creating a temporal habitat that serves a
specific function. Collecting grapefruit skins and tiny pebbles, []
systematically arranges objects in the fashion that a bowerbird prepares
a nest. Each object is important." (EC) River, Come Back, Nina Barnett 6
min, CHICAGO, "Inspired by the Chicago River's famous current reversal
in 1887 and the state of rivers in cities throughout the world, this
animation serves as a psycho-geographical text, and an earnest request
to a river to change it's course. There is a pervading sense of longing
and urgency in the narrative, and an admission of process in moments
when the drawn meets the real, when image becomes live action." (NB) I
Give You Life,, Latham Owen Zearfoss 12 minutes, CHICAGO, "A short
experimental video that tries to re-insert the missing words from Dennis
Shepard's courtroom speech back into the re-enactment of that same
speech from the HBO film, 'The Laramie Project.' '" (LZ) Good
Housekeeping,, Emily Oscarson 18 minutes, CHICAGO, "In her apartment, a
woman obsessively cleans in an effort to live up to the standards of the
housekeeping magazines she admires. An homage to Chantal Akerman, Good
Housekeeping employs long takes as a strategy to observe how her
admiration becomes a fetish." (EO)
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
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9/13
New York, New York: The Film-Makers' Cooperative
http://film-makerscoop.com
7:30 PM, Angel Orensanz Foundation, 172 Norfolk St., New York, NY 10002
THE LOWER EAST SIDE ON THE SCREEN -- EVOLVING URBAN IDENTITY: NO PICNIC
The Film-Makers' Cooperative and The Angel Orensanz Foundation presents
the Film Series -- LOWER EAST SIDE ON THE SCREEN – EVOLVING URBAN
IDENTITY -- Curated by MM Serra -- We are pleased to invite you to this
collaborative project, conceived and developed by two nonprofit
organizations. The "LES On the Screen – Evolving Urban Identity"
screening series will take place at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. It
will kick off on September 13, 7:30 PM, with the screening of: -- PHILIP
HARTMAN'S "NO PICNIC", 1985, 84 min -- 'BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" AWARD AT
THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, 1987 -- The film will be introduced by the
director himself and actress Clare Bauman. It will be followed by Q&A.
-- Tickets $8.00 -- Cash only, on the day of the event and at the door.
-- "LES On The Screen – Evolving Urban Identity" intends to showcase
independent, underground films spanning the decades from the 1970's to
the 1990's that touch upon the subject of the urban fabric of the Lower
East Side and the Downtown counter-culture scene. -- NO PICNIC (1985) is
a grainy 16mm, black-and-white film in the purest 1980's indie cinema
style. The film delves into the dramatic change undergone by the East
Village. It will give viewers a snapshot of the different lifestyles and
the beginning of gentrification in the neighborhood during the mid
1980′s. Intelligently shot on location in the streets, it shows
the gutted buildings and decrepit clubs that shaped the East Village at
that time, when the punk rock scene had reached a legendary summit that
was about to fade away. -- It is the story of a failed musician, Macabee
Cohen (played by David Brisbin) who earns his living restocking the
supplies in the neighborhood's cigarettes machines and jukeboxes, while
on a quest to find his dream woman. Gentrification is distressingly and
increasingly apparent all around this would be hero. An intriguing
character with a mix of hipster and nerd, he stoically carries on with a
non-stopping, ironic interior monologue.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
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9/14
Boston, MA: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8:00pm, 621 Huntington Ave
F O R E I G N I S S U E S FILMS BY WOMEN FROM GERMANY &AUSTRIA
F O R E I G N I S S U E S Films by women from Germany & Austria curated
by Dagmar Kamlah September 14, 2011, 8 pm ...MassArt Film Society, 621
Huntington Ave, Boston Passagen (Passages) 2010. Germany. 12 min by Doro
Carl A topography of transit traffic: Throughout a whole year Doro Carl
filmed the elevated platform of a commuter train station from a distant
camera position. Like on a stage people of all ages and nations enter
and leave this passage way. The video installation was shown as part of
an integrative art project, which envisions more social life in an
international city. The "Academy of another city" focussed on suburban
quarters with a high percentage of migrant population and located the
exhibits along subway/rapid transit lines. Minot, North Dakota 2007.
USA. 18 min by Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky Music by Zeena
Parkins Minot, nicknamed the "Magic City," is the home of a U.S. Air
Force base and its 150 subterranean nuclear missiles. These weapons of
mass destruction, installed almost fifty years ago, are still targeted
at Russia. The film examines this troubling nuclear landscape and
residents' reactions to the forest of bombs beneath their backyards. A
room with a view in the financial district 2003. Austria/USA. 5 min by
Carola Dertnig The images of this work, made in June 2001, are talking
about several months the artist spent living in the World Trade Center
in New York, as part of an artist-in-residence program. Shot with the
photo button of a video camera, A ROOM WITH A VIEW... documents a number
of empty rooms, abandoned architectures with traces of a working
environment, punctuated by framed views of Manhattan as seen through the
windows. In a first-person off-camera narration the filmmaker comments
on her stay, reflecting the space's conditions as well as artistic
questions and broader economic structures. Prufrock back in America
2010. Germany. 8 min by Eva Heldmann Documentary impressions of a
Europeanized man returning to his old American places. Energy still
roars through the land that no longer works. An angel appears in a
parking lot. A comfortable couple squabbles over a piece of cheese.
Filmed 2008 and 2010 between Chicago and the Mississippi River. "I grow
old ... I grow old ... // I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers
rolled. // Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? // I
shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. // I have
heard the mermaids singing, each to each." (aus: T.S. Eliot, "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") Quiet Neighborhood 2011. USA. 16 min by
Dagmar Kamlah A front porch full of chimes on a beautiful fall day.
Packages of leaves waiting to be delivered, the cat finds more to chase
after. Another bell calls for donations. The orchestra goes silent when
snow covers our small world. bung zur Gelassenheit I-III (Exercise in
Placidity I-III) 2004. Germany. 7:35 min by Doro Carl Noisy traffic is
running unremittingly close to unaffectedly dozing cows. Cars slamming
on the brakes cause a twitch of the ear, but there seems to be no flight
instinct - the cow is an holy animal. Lethargic composure and hectic
activity exist side by side, but the cow seems to be imperturbable. Her
invulnerability guarantees her calmness - she is an icon. Once upon a
time 2005. Germany. 25 min by Corinna Schnitt In a living room, a camera
is slowly turning round, just about thirty centimetres above the carpet.
There is no-one to be seen. A cat suddenly appears and moments later a
second one enters the room. A dog drinks water from a fish bowl, a bird
joins the assembled company, a rabbit hops in, a goose waggles its way
among them, somewhere a pig is grubbing about, a goat, a lama, there is
no end to it. Gradually the room is filling up with more and more
animals which are sniffing at each other, startling each other or
munching on a house plant together. In an earlier work by Corinna
Schnitt, we saw all kinds of very young children sitting, lying, walking
and playing naked together in an idyllic landscape. The religious or
romantic association with a primeval world in which living creatures
would once have co-existed, also emerges from Once Upon a Time. 'A
fairytale-like story: Once upon a time when man's domesticated
companions reconquered civilised space '' (S.Himmelsbach)
9/14
London: Cafe OTO
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-clipson.shtm
8pm, 18 - 22 Ashwin street Dalston London E8 3DL
ROOM40 PRESENTS: JEFRE CANTU LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON + TALVIHORROS + AINO
TYTTI
Paul Clipson projects Super 8mm film collages to layered drones by Jefre
Cantu-Ledesma.
9/14
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30pm, Cable Car Cinema and Cafe, 204 S. Main Street
THE DISTILLED MOTION SHOW
Magic Lantern Cinema and Radon Lake Present THE DISTILLED MOTION SHOW
Curated by Mariya Nikiforova and Stefan Grabowski / Admission $5 ...
Allow your eyes to be hypnotized and your mind to be fooled into seeing
things that never were. Thousands of individually rendered frames
express movement not captured but merely implied. Some works possess a
quiet grace; some produce a wonderful malaise through erratic colors,
textures and sounds. All willfully exploit the entrancing flicker of
analog film projection. This is the third screening in the Distilled
Motion series, featuring many works previously shown at screenings in
Boston and Cambridge, with a few notable additions. FEATURING: Robert
Breer, "69" (1968); Thorsten Fleisch, "Kosmos" (2004); Flip Johnson,
"Frankenstein Cries Out!" (1977); Urs Breitenstein, "Zeil-Film" (1980);
Joshua Lewis, "Pillager" (2011); Adam Beckett, "Flesh Flows" (1974);
Lewis Klahr, "Lulu" (1996); Eric Stewart, "Fe" (2010); Sarah Biagini, "I
Swim Now" (2010); Becky James, "I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bat and
Hat" (2008); Jodie Mack, "Special Offer Inside" (2010); Aaron Zeghers,
"The Story of Thomas Edison" (2011); David Goodrich, "Word Picture
Verses" (2005); Daichi Saito, "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis" (2009) /
TRT: 73 MIN
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
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9/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ADOLFO ARRIETA PROGRAM
THE CRIME OF THE SPINNING TOP / EL CRIMEN DE LA PIRINDOLA (1965, 18
minutes, 16mm-to-video) IMITATION OF THE ANGEL / IMITACIÓN DEL ÁNGEL
(1966, 22 minutes, 16mm-to-video) THE CRIMINAL TOY / LE JOUET CRIMINEL
(1969, 37 minutes, 16mm-to-video) With Jean Marais, Florence Delay
Xavier Grandes, Michèle Moretti, Philippe Bruneau, and André Julien.
"Making use of a high-contrast b&w, evoking the spirit of amateur
cinema, and punctuated with fleeting, abrupt movement, these films set
up an unexpected counterpoint between an everyday world given over to
idleness, and a hallucinatory other-world, complicit in crime and
conspiracy. A cross between a waking dream and a sibylline drama, the
films make an impression through the lyricism of their images – a
luminous ball turning around and around, a face above water, a top
spinning on a book – and the vibrancy of the editing." –Erik Bullot
Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
9/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
LE CHATEAU DE POINTILLY
With Françoise Lebrun, Dyonis Mascolo, Xavier Grandes, and Virginie
Mascolo. An unusual voyage to the world of childhood, this film creates
an unusual ambience in which it is impossible to distinguish between
living and dreaming. A work of great poetic force, praised by Marguerite
Duras and inspired by one of the novels of the Marquis de Sade. "The
material that Arrieta employs is minimal. Admirably transparent, we
could almost say empty. We see nothing at the same time as we are
engaged in seeing. We comprehend nothing at the same time as we
comprehend everything. I believe cinema has not shined this way in a
long time." –Marguerite Duras
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
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9/16
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Lives on Hold: Searching for Agency and Identity in a Changing World.
The works included in Lives on Hold examine different cultural,
social-ecological and political instances where the socially determined
rights of agency and mobility that exist between individuals,
institutions and governments are increasingly challenged, systematized
and withheld. In recent history the actions of individuals and numerous
civil rights movements have gained critical international support for
issues of freedom in specific locations around the world and this has
led in many instances to more tolerance, cultural diversity and empathy
for alternative points of view. In the West feminists re-defined the
gendered territory of the male-dominated art world, and helped
re-contextualize what it means to be feminine from a non-male
perspective for peoples around the world. Today's pervasive and
protracted conditions of warfare, diasporas, and displacement coupled
with the ubiquity and emptiness of non-place and proliferating forms of
deterritorialization are woven into the fabric of all places and
countries. Urban street culture, gated communities and suburban "safety"
enclaves have conflicting cultural connotations and meanings depending
on differing desires, expectations and social mores. Empty nightscapes
of surveillance, remote sensing, capture and control are pervasive
topics that the news media does not discuss, but instead exploit in
their nightly theaters of attraction and fear. The borderguard accesses
and interprets the cloaked, invisible and virtual data of personal
identity information of immigrants, transients, exiles and travelers. At
another scale, a global mesh of fragmented local and regional
territories have become sites of marginalization, containment and
exclusion, where the suspended lives of refugees, migrant workers, and
disenfranchised people have been relegated to a kind of non-status with
little or no agency or volition. The video works in Lives on Hold
present examples of successful revolution and the continuing struggle
between the forces of stasis and change. They document escalating
political and cultural contention that questions limits to mobility and
cultural expression. Their works cause us to think about the
celebrations and also the losses of human potential, self-actualization
and creativity, and what it means to be human in today's worldwide
social-ecological context. The late capitalist and totalitarian forces
of commodification, containment and control are often established under
agendas of exclusivity, security and national chauvinism. If such
conditions persist, and it is likely that they will, the potential
arises for a global future where the haves and the have-nots become
increasingly segregated and controlled in what could be the most serious
cultural, ecological and social dilemma that our planet faces. –Patrick
Clancy. Lighthouse, Chi Jang Yin (China/USA), 2009, video, 16:15 min.
X-Mission, Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), 2008, video, 36:18 min. Sahara
Chronicle, Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), 2006-07, video, 51:14 min. Part
of a 3-part series on Sept. 9, 16 and 23.
9/16
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (_at_ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA 90026
REHEARSALS FOR THE EVERYDAY – FILMS BY BEATRICE GIBSON
Beatrice Gibson and George Clark in person! Los Angeles Filmforum is
thrilled to present the L.A. premieres of A Necessary Music (2008) and
The Future's Getting Old Like the Rest of Us (2010) by London-based
artist Beatrice Gibson. Collaborative and participatory, Gibson's work
borrows structures and citations from film, music, literature, and
performance to delve into the unthinking habits of ordinary lie. Curated
by Genevieve Yue.
9/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
THE ADVENTURES OF SYLVIA COUSKI
In French with projected English subtitles, 1974, 85 minutes, 16mm (LES
INTRIGUES DE SYLVIA COUSKI) With Marie-France, Michèle Moretti, Howard
Vernon, Xavier Grandes, and Severo Sarduy. This film is a musical
comedy, or maybe a fairy tale… A story as a pretext for a series of
portraits, and a series of portraits as a pretext for an invented story
in an invented city (Paris), a city of transvestites trying to relive
the Belle Époque of festivities and art. "[Arrieta's film] was made in
Paris so I thought it was French and I was surprised to see a French
film recording the world of the transvestite because this subject has
been a tabu [sic] in modern (new) French cinema. Later I found out that
Arrieta was Spanish, from Madrid, and that Paris was only one of his
stations. French or Spanish – I found Arrieta's film compelling,
informative, entertaining, and beautiful. As I said, its subject is the
Paris transvestite scene and it's depicted with the flair of Jack Smith,
the directness of Andy Warhol, and the special tenderness of Arrieta. I
salute the Poet." –Jonas Mekas
9/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TAM TAM
by Adolpho Arrietta In French with English subtitles, 1976, 85 minutes,
video With Javier Grandes, Severo Sarduy, Jonas Mekas, and Hollis
Melton. The marginal denizens of Saint-Germain-des-Prés organize a party
in honor of an unknown beauty whose arrival everyone waits for in vain.
"TAM TAM is a premonitory film. It speaks only of earthquakes, floods,
catastrophes. In one scene, Severo Sarduy, who invented his dialogue
himself, says: 'It appears that this black cloud which surrounds Neptune
is not due, as you might think, to carbon dioxide, but to the fall-out
from a giant explosion produced by an accumulation of energy.' It may be
that the earth is doomed to the same fate." –A.A.
9/16
Rotterdam: Worm
http://agenda.wormweb.nl/
8:30pm, Achterhaven 148 3024 RC Rotterdam
PAUL CLIPSON & JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA + LUCAS ABELA
"The super 8 films of Paul Clipson are lyrical, multilayered
explorations of light and movement. Mostly edited in-camera, his films
reveal the unseen rhythms, energy and sensuality of the everyday.
Clipson often performs his films with the musicians who score them, such
as Tarantel's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, one of his most frequent of
collaborators. Initially classed as a turntablist, Lucas Abela's work
rarely resembled anything in the field, early feats saw him stab vinyl
with Kruger style stylus gloves, perform deaf defying duet duels with
amplified samurai swords, etc. Over the years his turntablist roots have
become almost unrecognizable evolving into his infamous glass show;
Justice Yeldham, that re-defines the expression 'don't try this at
home'."
9/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia St.
MISSION EYE & EAR
Artists' Television Access (ATA) and San Francisco musician/curator Lisa
Mezzacappa join forces to present a new live cinema series showcasing
new work by artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Experimental
filmmakers and video artists collaborate with innovative local
composer/performers on a series of new short works that premiere at
Artists' Television Access this spring, summer and fall. The fall
edition of the series features new collaborations by Cory Wright and
Bill Basquin; Graham Connah and Kathleen Quillian; Lisa Mezzacappa/Noah
Phillips and Sylvia Schedelbauer; and the final version of a
collaboration by Randy McKean and Carl Diehl that was shown as a
work-in-progress in March. The imagery spans found footage manipulated
with modern video techniques, stop motion animation, and naturalistic
documentary, with themes ranging from Murakami-inspired psychological
noir; the metaphysical dimensions of the Victorian era; and explorations
of the natural world and cultivated cityscapes. The music, performed
live by ensembles chosen by the composers, spans sounds, forms and
genres from experimental jazz to noise to chamber music and
electro-acoustic improv, incorporating meticulous composition and
wide-open improvisation. Organized by Lisa Mezzacappa with support from
Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Program and the Subito Program
of the American Composer's Forum.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
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9/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
MICROSCOPIC: AN ANNIVERSARY SCREENING PROGRAMMED BY BRADLEY EROS
Admission $6. An homage inspired by this small gallery and micro-cinema,
in the form of a curated program of subterranean science films and other
works of molecular cinema, focused through a lens of miniature scale and
perception. Programmed by Bradley Eros. "Filming a once invisible world
with a once only imagined instrument." ~ Jean Painleve. With microscopic
works by Jean Painleve, Stephanie Wuertz, Elle Burchill, Charles & Ray
Eames, Woody Allen, & Bradley Eros and others, plus scenes from
Microcosmos, Fantastic Voyage, Powers of Ten & The Incredible Shrinking
Man. "The right eye's duty is to dive inside the telescope, while the
left eye interrogates the microscope." - Leonora Carrington more info
www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433, J/M/Z Myrtle-Broadway, L -
Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
9/17
Chicago, IL: The Nightingale
7:00pm, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
GATE SHOCK: NEW AND RARE FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE (WHITE LIGHTCINEMA)
White Light Cinema Presents Gate Shock: New and Rare Films by Luther
Price With Luther Price in Person! Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 7:00pm
...The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) White Light Cinema is
pleased to present the second program (we must like him!) of work by
acclaimed experimental filmmaker Luther Price this year - this time with
Price in person, to introduce and discuss his work. For more than
twenty-five years, Boston-area filmmaker has been creating a raw and
visceral body of work that challenges, infuriates, shocks, fascinates,
and, sometimes, soothes viewers who have think they've seen it all. His
is a gritty cinema: initially made in the intimate Super-8 format and
now mostly in 16mm. It is a handcrafted cinema, with dozens of splices
(which seem to want to fly apart at any moment), decayed and distressed
footage (buried in the ground), and hand-painted frames (which shed a
fine dust when projected). His is a scrappy cinema, which is mostly
composed from found science, educational, porn, and other orphan films.
Images are cobbled together between generous sections of leader and
sound slug. His is a fuck-you cinema, which plunges head first into
uncomfortable sexual imagery, discomforting medical footage,
heartbreaking tales of loneliness and isolation, and a disdain for
social mores. His is also a deeply moving, intimate, revelatory,
soul-searching, and profound cinema, that often passes through the
darkest dark to find some light, however faint. It is a cinema of
catharsis. Program details are still in flux, but the screening will
feature work that has never shown in Chicago before (and some that has
never shown anywhere). It will be comprised mostly of brand new work,
but may also include a few extremely rare earlier films. A finalized
list will appear on the WLC website (and updated here) approximately a
week before. Admission: $7.00 - 10.00 sliding scale.
www.whitelightcinema.com
9/17
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue at 127th St. (2 or 3 train to 125th St.)
THE EXPERIMENT: AMERICAN FALLS BY PHILIP SOLOMON
American Falls, Philip Solomon, 2010, 55m. "American Falls is a
single-channel triptych adaptation of a 55-minute, six-channel,
5.1-surround installation commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. It was inspired by a trip that I took to the capital at
the invitation of the Corcoran in 1999, where I first encountered
Frederick Church's great painting Niagara; took note of a multichannel
video installation being projected onto the walls of the Corcoran
rotunda; and went on walking tours of various monuments to the "fallen"
throughout the DC area. The architecture of the rotunda in the vicinity
of Niagara invited me to muse on creating an all-enveloping, manmade
"falls", re-imagined as a WPA/Diego Rivera cine-mural, where the
mediated images of the American Dream that I had been absorbing since
childhood would flow together into the river with the roaring turbulence
of America's failures to sustain the myths and ideals so deeply embedded
in the received iconography." - Philip Solomon.
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/theexperiment.html. **The event
will be hosted by Jessica Betz, former assistant of Philip Solomon who
performed a great deal of the chemical, optical and installation work on
American Falls. Jessica will also be present for a Q&A following the
screening.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
ADOLFO ARRIETA PROGRAM
See notes for Sept. 15, 7 pm.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAMMES
In French with English subtitles, 1978, 90 minutes, video Film Notes
With Caroline Loeb, Dyonis Mascolo, Javier Grandes, Pascal Greggory,
Isabel Garcia Lorca, Marilu Marini, Jeffrey Carey, and Paquita Paquin.
Barbara, a young girl, lives in an immense house with Louis, her
divorced father, and her governess, Anne. The little girl is frequently
assailed by nightmares, repeatedly dreaming of a fireman who comes in
through the window of her bedroom while she sleeps. Louis dismisses
Anne, believing that Barbara's terror is being provoked by the
terrifying stories she tells her… "[TAM TAM was at first] an amorous
triangle between father, daughter, and governess…and suddenly I had the
vision of the fireman. … As soon as he appeared, with the madness he
provoked, I had the impression of venturing into a very different story:
an immoral tale…" –A.A.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE ADVENTURES OF SYLVIA COUSKI
See notes for Sept. 16, 7:15 pm.
9/17
Tilberg: Incubate
http://incubate.org/2011/artist/96/Jefre+Cantu-Ledesma+&+Paul+Clipson
10:45pm, Koningsplein 250 5038 WK Tilburg, The Netherlands
JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON
Warm, melancholic ambient guitar noises (think stripped down My Bloody
Valentine and early Eluvium) will be supported by Super 8mm film visuals
by Paul Clipson.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
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9/18
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
A carnivalesque melding of documentary verité and avant-garde
psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic
journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo's Shinjuku
neighborhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag
queen fending off his/her rivals. Often cited as a major inspiration for
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Matsumoto's breakthrough film is a
visually audacious and lyrically abstract testament to the vertiginous
daring of the postwar Japanese avant-garde art and film scenes.
Matsumoto orchestrates a series of quite astonishing visual set pieces,
including actual performances by the influential Fluxus-inspired street
theater groups, the Zero Jigen and Genpei Akasegawa. Directed by Toshio
Matsumoto, Appearing in Person. With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Toyosaburo
Uchiyama Japan 1969, 35mm, b/w, 105 min.
9/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
THE 2011 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION
Dillon Rickman and Mark Toscano in person. The Festival of
(In)appropriation is back with its latest batch of contemporary short
audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose
it in "inappropriate" and inventive ways, demonstrating the range of
approaches contemporary filmmakers are taking in repurposing found
materials. Films to be screened: Lucky Strike (Shashwati Talukdar),
Interdimensional Headphase (Dillon Rickman), Camp (Peter Freund), Jive
and Tusslemuscle (Steve Cossman), The Homogenics (Gerard Freixes
Ribera), Ceibas Epilogue: The Well of Representation (Evan Meaney), The
Voyagers (Penny Lane), February 2008 & June 1967 (Mark Toscano), Avo
(Muidumbe)/Granny (Muidumbe) (Raquel Schefer), Kanye West Apologizes to
George W. Bush (Jaimz Asmundson), Self-Destruction for Eternity
(Wei-Ming Ho), Palindromia (Lab Collective), and A Reasonable Man (Brian
L. Frye).
9/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAMMES
See notes for Sept. 17, 7:15 pm.
9/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
LE CHATEAU DE POINTILLY
See notes for Sept. 15, 9 pm.
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