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Experimental Response Cinema |
Experimental Response Cinema is an Austin, Texas-based collective of avant garde film and video artists, devoted to bringing local, national and international experimental films to Austin screens. We strive to show all media (16mm and 8mm film, digital video, and others) in its original format, under the best possible screening conditions.
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Time: 7:30-9:00PM
Date: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Location: 29th Street Ballroom at Spiderhouse
2906 Fruth Street, Austin, TX
Admission: $7 general/$5 students with ID
Experimental Response Cinema and 29th Street Ballroom host Galveston-based animator and filmmaker KELLY SEARS, whose internationally-exhibited collage films are culled from discarded periodicals, books, archives, and orphan cinema. Drawing on experimental, documentary and narrative practices and featuring both analog and digital animation techniques, her films harness images of the past to reflect on the present. She is a current resident at the Galveston Artist Residency and a 2009-2011 fellow at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her films have screened widely, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Film Fest, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, and Anthology Film Archives. The approximately one-hour program will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Caroline Koebel with Kelly Sears. http://www.kellysears.com/
Films include: Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise, Imprinted, Cover Me Alpha, Voice on the Line, The Body Besieged, Jean, The Believers, He Hates to be Second, The Drift, Angels Chant Like Witches, Devil's Canyon, and Charles and Christopher.
Avant Erotica (Feb. 15, 2012)
Films and Videos by Jeanne Liotta (Feb. 24, 2012)
16mm Films in response to Dubforms (Feb. 29, 2012)
Orbit! Films about our solar system (April 30, 2012)
February 15, 2012, 7:30pm
29th Street Ballroom at Spiderhouse
2906 Fruth Street, Austin, TX
$7 general/$5 students and seniors
A post-Valentine’s Day program of avant garde films and videos exploring notions
of genderbending, desire, sensuality, love and lust. The works visually critique,
subvert or glorify the original content, or in many cases, do all three. Included
are works by Texas artists Lyndsay Bloom, Scott Stark, Jason Cortlund and Julia
Halperin, plus others by Naomi Uman, Jeanne Liotta, Peggy Ahwesh, Matthias Müller,
Lewis Klahr, Bryan Konefsky, Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, and Clint Enns. See
the ERC blog for
details.
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February 24, 2012, 7pm
Arthouse at the Jones Center
700 Congress Ave., Austin, TX
FREE!
Jeanne Liotta in person! ERC presents a screening of avant garde film and video by New York artist Jeanne Liotta. Liotta will present a selection of various works in 16mm film and video in which appear transmissions of energetic and material such as landscape, abstraction, the historical archive, science, natural philosophy, and the virtual sublime. These are “playful, chaotic, intuitive miniature essays into the transitory perceptions of time space sometimes called reality.” Works to include:
Sweet Dreams
Sutro
What Makes Day and Night
Science's Ten Most Beautiful Experiments: #2 Galileo's
Eclipse
Observando el Cielo
Hymn to the Void
and others tba.
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Feb. 29, 2012, 6:30pm
UT-Austin Art Building, Room 1.102 (directions)
Austin, TX
ERC and the UT-Austin Visual Arts Center co-present an evening of 16mm experimental films, in conjunction with the VAC's current exhibition Dubforms by artist Justin Boyd. ERC's Scott Stark will introduce the program and lead a Q&A afterwards. More info here.
Films to be screened include:
Symphonie Diagonale (Viktor Eggeling / 1924 / bw / 8min)
Early Abstractions (Harry Smith / 1946 - 1952 / color / 23min)
Symmetricks (Stan Vanderbeek / 1972 / bw / 7min)
Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr / 1970 / color / 23min)
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April 30, 2012, 9:00 pm
Fusebox Festival Hub
1100 E 5th St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
Experimental Response Cinema and Austin's Fusebox Festival present an other-worldly program of short, avant-garde films about our solar system. Starting at the sun, hopping from planet to planet from innermost Mercury to the distant reaches of Pluto, and finding along the way moons, asteroids and comets, each celestial body is represented by a short video by a different filmmaker, dealing with the science of outer space through creative and emotional storytelling and visual poetry. Some or all of the original source material in each piece comes from NASA footage, reinterpreted by the artist to make a unique extra-terrestrial portrait.
Filmmakers include: Brent Hoff, Ben Coonley, Jessica Oreck, Mike Plante, Brian Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Jacqueline Goss & Michael Gitlin, Kelly Sears, Bill Brown, Travis Wilkerson, and Deborah Stratman. The works in this program were originally commissioned by Rooftop Films and Cinemad.
Look at the Sun (Brent Hoff | San Francisco, CA | 5 min.)
For thousands of years, humanity has watched the sun with a mixture of fear
and awe, believing without knowing why, that our lives depend on its mysterious
undulations. The sun has changed, our sense of wonder has not. Now more than
ever, we must look at the sun.
Mercury (Ben Coonley | Brooklyn, NY | 6 min.)
A mercurial cine-opera set to visuals gathered by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
Lyrics composed in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).
Venus (Jessica Oreck | New York, NY | 5 min.)
Jessica explores the inner-workings of our sister planet. Examining the atmospheric
composition of Venus, this piece, narrated by Jackie Reynal, exposes a reminder
of what could happen on Earth.
Copernicus Resurrected [Earth] (Mike Plante | Los Angeles, CA | 5 min.)
A short note about Earth and a gentleman of our times.
I Seen the Moon (Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky | Brooklyn, NY
| 4 min.)
Signs of life for this man may very well exist on the Moon.
No Message Received [Mars] (Mark Elijah Rosenberg | Brooklyn, NY | 9
min.)
A little robot born on Mars. The introverted scientist who created it. A meta-fictional
re-telling of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, discovering a story about outcast
people and forgotten technology, about wondrous things struggling for attention
in busy worlds.
...These Blazeing Starrs! [Comets] (Deborah Stratman | Chicago, IL |
14 min.)
Since comets have been recorded, they've augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval
and end times. This will be a little film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs
and their historic ties to divination." ...These Blazeing Starrs! Threaten
the World with Famine, Plague, & Warrs..." Du Bartas, De cometis (1665)
Jupiter Elicius (Kelly Sears | Houston, TX | 4 min.)
A haunted meteorologist dreams of storms that are both closer and further away
than he thought. His unshakable bravado is undone through fast winds and high
pressure systems and a sense of duty.
Scan Platform Problems (Close To You) [Saturn] (Jacqueline Goss and
Michael Gitlin | Tivoli, NY)
The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, put back together again.
Neptune Calling! (Poseidan | Austin, TX)
Neptune, in a true display of his personality, prank calls the other planets.
Uranus (Bill Brown | Lubbock, Texas | 8 min.)
It is 2003. A spaceman takes a trip to Uranus. He is fleeing from the Earth
in the month before a big, rich country invades a little country of little consequence
for mysterious reasons.
Pluto Declaration (Travis Wilkerson | Denver, CO | 5 min.)
Restore the classical definition of planet!
Requiem for progress (Re-Entry) (Travis Wilkerson | Denver, CO | 6 min.)
A triptych for the age of austerity, as mournful and mysterious as deep space
itself. Meant to be screened by 1 projector, 3, 9, 33, or (ideally) 99 projectors
at once.
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