This week [December 10 - 18, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Writing With Light, Films and Live Performance By Takahiko iimura [December 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the General [December 10, New York, New York]
* Optronica! [December 10, San Francisco, California]
* The 49th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour – Program 2 [December 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Laurel & Hardy [December 11, New York, New York]
* 1:1 Works By Peter Buntaine and Lorenzo Gattorno [December 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Naomi Uman- the Ukrainian Time Machine: Fragments From A Diary [December 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Our Departed, 2011 [December 13, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Correspondence [December 13, New York, New York]
* Sleepless Night Stories [December 15, New York, New York]
* Film Screening: Blade Runner (Director's Cut) Ridley Scott, 1982, 117
Min., 35 Mm [December 15, Phyllis Wattis Theater]
* Sleepless Night Stories [December 16, New York, New York]
* Animals of Art A Film By Peter Sempel, Special Artist Preview [December 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Walden [December 17, New York, New York]
* Sleepless Night Stories [December 17, New York, New York]
* Avant To Live [December 17, San Francisco, California]
* Reminisces of A Journey To Lithuania [December 18, New York, New York]
* Sleepless Night Stories [December 18, New York, New York]
* Journeys From Berlin/1971 [December 18, New York, New York]
* Sleepless Night Stories [December 18, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2011
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12/10
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Plaxe (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves)
WRITING WITH LIGHT, FILMS AND LIVE PERFORMANCE BY TAKAHIKO IIMURA
We are very happy to welcome back from Tokyo Japanese master of
experimental cinema Takahiko Iimura. The show will feature the NY
premieres of several of Iimura's works on film, as well as a special
Super 8mm performance White Calligraphy, Re-read where Iimura will write
with light. Not to be missed. Program:"Eye For Eye, Ear For Ear" (NY
Premiere) featuring:Film Strips I (1967-1970/2009) 12 min, music by
Haruyuki Suzuki (2009). Film Strips II (1967-70/2009) 13 min, music by
Haruyuki Suzuki (2009). MA (Intervals). 16mm film leaders, 1977, 15 min.
WRITING WITH LIGHT: WHITE CALLIGRAPHY (NY Premiere). with two documents
of the performance:PERFORMANCE 1, WHITE CALLIGRAPHY (1967/2009, Toronto,
9min). PERFORMANCE 2, WHITE CALLIGRAPHY (1967/2005, Tokyo, 8.5 min) Live
drawing performance with Super 8mm film (NY Premiere). WHITE
CALLIGRAPHY, RE-READ (1967-present) 12 min. Takahiko Iimura has been a
pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working with
film since l960 and with video since 1970 while residing in New York and
Tokyo. He is a widely established international artist, having numerous
solo exhibitions in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, the Whitney Museum, New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York,
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, the National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris,
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid,
and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo in addition to
an artist residency at the German Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Bellagio
Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy. more info:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway Ave.
L -Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE GENERAL
by Buster Keaton 1927, 105 minutes, 35mm One of Keaton's best silent
features, setting comedy against a true Civil War story of a stolen
train and Union spies.
12/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
OPTRONICA!
GENDREAU'S PERILS OF THE PHANTOM NEEDLE + VORONINA + GOLDWAVE + Our
semi-annual Live A/V program features Michael Gendreau and Lisa Seitz,
mixing turntables, infrasonic recordings, and a structural shaker named
Electro-Seis. Opening the show is Goldwave, performing a live soundtrack
to their time-travel omnibus Tempus Fluxus. Followed by that spritely
spark of mutant microtones, Lana Voronina. Will Erokan deploys a special
speaker set-up for his Mechanical Induction, a demonstration of "sonic
programming" using the binaural-beats phenomena. PLUS Keith Sanborn's
re-discovered Soviet Theremin material, Len Lye's awesome Storm King
clip (in 16mm), and a young Michael Tilson Thomas on prepared piano!
Come early for Negativland's Booper how-to's (with free DVDs) and $2
homemade brews at our High-Art Bar. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011
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12/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
THE 49TH ANNUAL ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELING TOUR – PROGRAM 2
In person: Laida Lertxundi and Paul Gailiunas! This program of short
films includes recent experimental, narrative, documentary and animated
films selected from the most recent Ann Arbor Film Festival. Films to be
screened include Cry When It Happens by Laida Lertxundi, Berlin Tracks
18h00-20h00 by Shiloh Cinquemani, Miramare by Michaela Müller,
Atlantiques by Mati Diop, Protoparticulas by Chema García Ibarra, In the
Absence of Light Darkness Prevails by Fern Silva, and the Florestine
Collection by Helen Hill, Paul Gailiunas.
12/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: LAUREL & HARDY
"Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the movies' greatest comic duo, the
quintessential dumb and dumber odd-couple. Though critically
overshadowed by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, they were enormously
popular, and proved a major influence on Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball
& Vivian Vance, and Jackie Gleason & Art Carney, not to mention Samuel
Beckett (they were an inspiration for WAITING FOR GODOT), Roman Polanski
(who paid homage to them in his existentialist short films FAT AND LEAN
and TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE), and Ken Jacobs (whose ONTIC ANTICS
deconstructs one of their films)." –David Mulkins COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THE MUSIC BOX (1932,
30 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THEM THAR HILLS (1934,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. TIT FOR TAT (1935, 20
minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. Total running time: ca.
95 minutes.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011
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12/12
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Plaxe (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves)
1:1 WORKS BY PETER BUNTAINE AND LORENZO GATTORNO
Admission $6 We welcome New York filmmakers, collaborators, & curators
for Maysles Cinema, Peter Buntaine and Lorenzo Gattorna, to Microscope
for a rare two-person show featuring film-to-video works made by each
between 2007-2010. The program includes 4 works by each filmmaker, all
shot using a 1:1 ratio of footage shot to footage used in each work. "We
are focusing this screening on a selection of experimental
documentaries, all shot in 16mm, that engage the shared appliances and
aesthetics that have defined the first 5 years of our filmmaking
practice. We want to highlight within this common methodology the
collaborative elements of cinematography, sound design, theoretical and
technical discussion, budgetary restraint, etc. We are trying to evoke
the significant impact that a collaboration of artists can muster in its
expansion and manipulation of common threads and unique departures.The
title 1:1 defines the shooting ratio of all the films in our collections
thus far and is a testament to the challenges and chances we both
confront in our filmmaking process." — Lorenzo Gattorna and Peter
Buntaine PROGRAM: Bushwick – "Heavy Woods" Peter Buntaine, 2010,
16mm-to-video, color, sound, 4:30 min. "Tokyo Fish" Peter Buntaine,
2008, s8mm-to-video, color and b/w, silent, 8:30 min. "The Absent One"
Peter Buntaine, 2010, 16mm-to-video, color, sound, 6:30 min. "108" Peter
Buntaine, 2009, 16mm-to-video, color, sound, 8:30 min. "Fathers" Lorenzo
Gattorna, 2007, 16mm-to-video, color, sound, 7 min. "Carriage" Lorenzo
Gattorna, 2008, 16mm-to-video, color, sound, 8 min." Land of Lost
Content", Scenes of Second Chances Lorenzo Gattorna, 2009,
16mm-to-video, color, sound, 8 min. "We Only Have Weekends" Lorenzo
Gattorna, 2010, 16mm-to-video, b/w, silent, 9 min. TRT: Approx. 60
minutes. Special thanks to David Baker. more info at
www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway Ave.
L-Morgan or Jefferson stop.
12/12
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St.
NAOMI UMAN- THE UKRAINIAN TIME MACHINE: FRAGMENTS FROM A DIARY
Jack H. Skirball Series $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] Los Angeles
premiere In 2006, experimental filmmaker Naomi Uman returned to the land
her great-grandparents had left a hundred years earlier. Living among
the babushky of a tiny Ukrainian village, she discovered a lifestyle
that didn't seem to have changed much in a century, and set out to make
a series of "precise miniatures of a rural life that's fading" (Robert
Flaherty Seminar) shot in 16mm, while keeping a video diary. In Kalendar
(2008, 16mm, silent, 11 min.), a series of exquisite snapshots examine
the meanings of the months in the Ukrainian calendar. Videodiary
2-1-2006 to Present (2011, video, 83 min.) reframes the previous
elements into a larger narrative struggling with issues of identity,
gender, and her intimate connection with the history of Judaism and
global immigration. In person: Naomi Uman Curated by Steve Anker and
Bérénice Reynaud. "Like a crochet needle swiftly passing through loops
of silk and wool… Naomi Uman's camera lives amongst the people, homes
and villages she films." —Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver The Jack H.
Skirball Series is supported in part by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
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12/13
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Experimental Film/Video Series
http://www.coolidge.org/balagan/
7:30pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street
OUR DEPARTED, 2011
Please join us for our final show of 2011 as we pay homage to some of
the great filmmakers who passed away in the last year. While these
filmmakers may hold little in common with one another in terms of style,
technique, or content, they are all important and underrepresented, and
we hope that by showing their works, we can help their legacies live on.
PROGRAM: Eclipse of the Sun Virgin by George Kuchar, 1967, 9m / Fuji by
Robert Breer, 1974, 6m / No Sir, Orison by Owen Land, 1975, 3m / Twist
of Fate by Karen Aqua, 2009, 9m / Chiefs by Ricky Leacock, 1969, 18m /
Le Film à Venir by Raúl Ruiz, 1997, 9m / The Chickens by Omar Amiralay,
1977, 40m /// DJ set by Jesse Kaminsky at 7pm. Films start at 8pm.
12/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CORRESPONDENCE
Jonas Mekas & José Luis Guerín CORRESPONDENCE 2011, 78 minutes, video.
Digital technologies are changing cinema and driving it towards new
directions. In some ways they are bringing it back to its origins: a
man, a camera, and a world to explore. Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín
send video letters to each other, exploring new ways of filming, and
talking about what lies outside images: life. GUERÍN WILL BE HERE IN
PERSON TO INTRODUCE THE SCREENING!
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011
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12/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES
by Jonas Mekas 2011, 114 minutes, video Share + Film Notes "For two
hours we stroll with Jonas Mekas through New York nights, through
apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. We
meet old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith,
Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramović, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pip
Chodorov, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and we also
make many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film begins a film
with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in this situation?
Sleepy and yet wide awake at the same time, you find yourself in the
world of those exhausted from the day's exertions, the drunk, the
relaxed, the dancing, the brooding, the mourning, the pensive, the
partiers. In this film Mekas dives into a time vacuum…and it becomes
increasingly unclear whether we really did get up and go out, whether
what we're seeing are remnants of the day that we're remembering or
remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde filmmakers whose
life wrote film history." –BERLINALE 2011 "This film originated from my
readings of the ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. But unlike the Arabian
tales, my stories are all from real life, though at times they too
wander into somewhere else, beyond the everyday routine reality. "There
are some twenty-five different stories in my movie. Their protagonists
are all my good friends and I myself am an inseparable part of the
stories. The storyteller of the Arabian Nights was also part of his or
her tales. "Some of the people in the movie you'll recognize, some not.
The fact that some of them you'll recognize has no bearing on the
stories: after all, we all recognize John Wayne or Annette Bening, but
in their stories they are no longer the people we know. "The subjects of
the stories cover a wide range of emotions, geographies, personal
anxieties, anecdotes. These are not very big stories, not for the Big
Screen: these are all personal big stories… And yes, you'll also find
some provocations… But that's me, one 'me' of many. The very question
What is a story? is a provocative question." –J.M.
12/15
Phyllis Wattis Theater: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00pm, 151 3rd St.
FILM SCREENING: BLADE RUNNER (DIRECTOR'S CUT) RIDLEY SCOTT, 1982, 117
MIN., 35 MM
A landmark of the science fiction and the neo-noir genres, Blade Runner
is also awash with design objects by Dieter Rams. Introduced by Stella
Lochman, the Museum's education and public programs assistant. Lochman
will point out the objects used to create the film's futuristic
background. Set in a dystopic Los Angeles, Blade Runner stars Harrison
Ford as a retired cop fighting human-like androids. Lauded for its
design and effects, Blade Runner was nominated for Academy Awards in set
design and art direction. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with
museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the
Haas Atrium).
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2011
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12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES
See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011
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12/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
6PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves)
ANIMALS OF ART A FILM BY PETER SEMPEL, SPECIAL ARTIST PREVIEW
PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY SCREENING TIME OF 6PM. Admission $6 - Artist in
person! We warmly welcome from Hamburg film-maker and photographer Peter
Sempel, for a special preview of his newest work "Animals of Art", which
recently screened at the Kunstverein (Hamburg), Volksbuhne (Berlin), and
Kunsthalle Emdem. This feature is a visionary collage of sound and
images featuring among others Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Jonas
Mekas, Georg Baselitz, Yoshito Ohno, Peter Broetzmann, Antony & the
Johnsons, Shumann, Razorheads. ""Over 2 years I followed and explored
different worlds of art, starting and focusing more or less on German
artists, from old masters, moderns to young generation, f.e. Jonathan
Meese, Daniel Richter, Neo Rauch, Georg Baselitz, Volkmann, Bazon Brock,
Jonas Burgert, Kirchner, Runge, Degas, Goya. It also features a little
sequence with Raha Raissnia, painting in black, and Jonas Mekas telling
us about 1.000m-runnings…And, many animals, alligators, giraffes,
horses, donkeys, snakes, cats+dogs, andante….It's a big collage, like a
painting." - - P S. "Peter Sempel is my good film friend. We did two
movies together, JONAS IN THE DESERT and JONAS BY THE OCEAN. He has also
done movies on Kazuo Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lemme, and Flamenco. He has
developed a very unique, his own Sempelian form of a real life movie
musical and he is continuing filming non-stop." -- Jonas Mekas Brief
Bio: Peter Semple has been making films since 1981. He was born in
Hamburg and grew up in the Australian outback. He started making films
because of the music, especially Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and
classical music (favourite record "Berlin" by Lou Reed). He carries his
films around the world and presents at festivals, special events, in
off-cinemas, discos and all kinds of places. In Germany his films are
distributed by Silver Cine, a small company in Hamburg. More info:
www.microscopegallery.com. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. L Morgan
Ave/Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433.
12/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
12:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WALDEN
by Jonas Mekas 1969, 180 minutes, 16mm New print by Cinema Arts Inc.
Special thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran Bowen (Trackwise) and Pip
Laurenson (Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I
have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex
and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York,
seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten
seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes
diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at
your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is
to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you
get it now, or you don't get it at all." –J.M. "I make home movies –
therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home movies." –from the
soundtrack.
12/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES
See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm.
12/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
AVANT TO LIVE
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Here's an energized evening of new cinematic
efforts that champion personal expression and radical form. Constituting
the season's most exploratory programming initiative—and with many of
the makers in person—are Kelly Sears' Once It Started…, Salise Hughes'
Erasable Cities, Carl Diehl's Future Affluence, Sylvia Schedelbauer's
Sounding Glass, Roger Deutsch's Round Trip, Zach Iannazzi's Tarp,
Patrick Wilkinson's FIFA 666, Doug Katelus' Casino, Christopher Harris'
28.IV.81 Descending Figures, and Linda Scobie's Craig's Cutting-Room
Floor. PLUS recent pieces by Tommy Becker, Bryan Boyce, Karl Lind, Thad
Povey, Gibbs Chapman, et alia. Come early for artists' reception, toast
'n' jam, and free pencils!
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011
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12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
REMINISCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special
thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four
parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in
America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania.
The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months
in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter
Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with
home, memory, and culture." –J.M.
12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES
See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm.
12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971
by Yvonne Rainer 1980, 125 minutes, 16mm Film Notes With Annette
Michelson, Amy Taubin, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt,
Vernon Gabor, and Yvonne Rainer. To explore the ramifications of
terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session – in which an
American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists – to evoke the daily
experiences of power and repression. "Rainer's film questions
duplicitous rehabilitation (psychiatric care/control), the efficacy of
radicalism, and conflicted political and personal motivations. … The
collage essay technique of JOURNEYS parallels the investigation of these
conflicts on a formal level. She weaves the stories of 19th-century
Russian anarchists; the staging of identity as it occurs in therapeutic
analysis, writing a diary, or preparing a meal; and the fate of the Red
Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof gang), which exposed the precarious and
enforced nature of West German democratic freedoms in the 1970s."
–Konrad Steiner, kino21
12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES
See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm.
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