From: weekly listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 20:03:07 PST
This week [March 27 - April 3, 2005] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILMS/VIDEOS:
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"NES Glitch Compilation" by Johnny Rogers
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=183.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES
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COURTisane annual festival of short film, video and new media (Location: Ghent Belgium; Deadline: March 1, 2005)
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Silent Speed Film Fest (Location: Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: July 15, 2005)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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The Film Journal (Pickerington, OH, USA; Deadline: March 31 2005)
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Moviate Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA USA; April 1 2005)
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Salina Art Center (Salina, KS USA; April 1 2005)
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Thyra Texnis (Athens,Greece; April 5 2005)
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National Queer Arts Festival (san francisco, ca USA; April 15 2005)
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Rooftop FIlms (Brooklyn, NY, USA; April 15 2005)
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SYMPHONY SPACE (New York, NY USA; April 15 2005)
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The 17th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL; April 15 2005)
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Video/Filmfestival NO BUDGET (Ohne Kohle) (Vienna/Austria Mainz/German; April 15 2005)
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This week's programs (summary):
* Open Zone: You Bring It. We Show It. [March 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Subjects and Sequences: Films By Margaret Tait (Part 2) [March 27, Leeds, UK]
* <B>The Experimentalists</B> [March 28, Moorhead, MN]
* Twin Peaks Tuesdays [March 29, Houston, Texas]
* Gary Goldberg Tribute -- Jerry Tartaglia In-Person [March 29, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Film Love 4: Act Up Fight Back: Art and Activism In the Time of Aids,
Part 1 [March 30, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Massart Film Society Joan Nidzyn [March 30, Boston, Massachusetts]
* The Screening [March 30, Brooklyn, New York]
* Electromediascope [March 30, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Structural Ethnographies: Films By Sharon Lockhart [March 30, Portland, Oregon]
* The Independents Programme 2: Metamorphosis -- A Cinema of Essences:
Nathaniel Dorsky In Person! [March 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Structural Ethnographies: Films By Sharon Lockhart [March 31, Portland, Oregon]
* Matters of Life and Death: Phantom Limb and Other New Work [March 31, San Francisco, California]
* Film Love 4 - Act Up Fight Back: Art and Activism In the Time of Aids,
Part 2 [April 1, Atlanta, Georgia]
* A Cinematic Present: Sensing the Sacred In the Real [April 1, New York, New York]
* Robots On the March! [April 2, San Francisco, California]
* Metamorphosis Festival – Cinema of Transformation: victor Erice's Dream
of Light [April 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Deborah Stratman and "Kings of the Sky" [April 3, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2005
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3/27
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
7 PM, 70 North 6th Street
OPEN ZONE: YOU BRING IT. WE SHOW IT.
Open Zone is a quarterly open screen night for new works by NYC-based
artists. Including documentary, experimental and narrative film, video
and new media, Open Zone provides a unique opportunity to view and
discuss emerging work of all kinds. Works must be under 10 minutes in
length and produced in the last 12 months. Acceptable formats include:
DVD, VHS, 16mm, S8 film. Filmmakers must bring their work to the venue
at 5 PM prior to the screening for image and sound checks. Work will be
shown on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please contact the Open Zone
Coordinator (email suppressed) with any questions.
3/27
Leeds, UK: Lumen
http://www.lumen.org.uk
6.30pm, Leeds Central Library
SUBJECTS AND SEQUENCES: FILMS BY MARGARET TAIT (PART 2)
SUBJECTS AND SEQUENCES: FILMS BY MARGARET TAIT Sunday 20 & Sunday 27
March 2005 (2 parts) | Leeds Central Library | 6.30—8pm £4.50/3.50 per
screening; £8/6 both parts 'The photographs—all 24 of them in every
second—and the recorded sounds—are the equivalent of notes, or works (or
letter sounds might be nearer it) or blobs of paint, and its a matter of
composing them so that the effect is in a sense musical—or poetic, if
thats a better word for it.' MT Margaret Tait was one of Britain's most
unique individual artist filmmakers. Over the course of forty-six years
she produced over thirty films and published five books of poetry and
short stories, while living between Orkney and Edinburgh. Lux project
curated by Peter Todd | Presented by Lumen Further information:
http://www.lumen.org.uk/events/index.html
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2005
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3/28
Moorhead, MN: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7pm, MN State University Moorehead
THE EXPERIMENTALISTS
Directors manipulate the medium and share visual delights in this series
of gorgeous 16mm contemporary avant-garde films. Films include: BUFFALO
LIFTS (Christina Battle) A peek at gentle four-legged friends in a
sumptuous wash of color, optically printed to obey the maker. NEPTUNE'S
RELEASE (Joell Hallowell and Jacalyn White) A humorous and devastating
found-footage extravaganza, complete with 50s advertisements, spiritual
audiotapes, obsolete medical films and a star-studded cast that includes
Janis Joplin, Timothy Leary and Shirley MacLaine. NEPTUNE'S RELEASEis a
study of ingenious juxtapositions. POOR WHITE TRASH GIRL (Kelly Spivey)
an animated tale of one girl's introduction to the class wars. LAST
STILL LIFE (Michele Stanley) Reality, dream and hallucination
intermingle when a single, disturbing moment becomes a continuously
looped fragment of memory. NUMERICAL ENGAGEMENTS (Chelsea Walton) This
hand-processed, optically printed love poem explores an intimate,
roaming rendezvous. Lush and colorful, the rhythm of editing resembles a
heartbeat. ***Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov for the MadCat Women's
International Film Festival.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2005
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3/29
Houston, Texas: Patio-Tronic Underground Cinema
http://www.filmbrasil.com
7:30 p.m., 2604 Dunlavy St
TWIN PEAKS TUESDAYS
Join us on the Patio behind Brasil and Mixture Contemporary every
Tuesday night at 7:30 to watch two episodes of Twin Peaks. Along with
any convivial libations from Brasil cafe we offer free popcorn, black
coffee and cherry pie. Can't make it out on Tuesdays? We show free films
as well on on Wednesdays and Thursdays; Films ranging from the obscure
to the trashy- independent and illicit. For a complete schedule or to
get on our mailing list-please visit our website
3/29
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright colloge
GARY GOLDBERG TRIBUTE -- JERRY TARTAGLIA IN-PERSON
GARY GOLDBERG, who died in 2003, was one of the most original and
engaging artists to have shown at Berks (several times). This tribute to
his genius will be screened and discussed by Berks co-founder, Jerry
Tartaglia, (internationally renowned experimental filmmaker, best known
perhaps for his landmark queer productions, A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M and Ecce
Homo and more recently working to restore and preserve the films of Jack
Smith and Gary Goldberg ). In the 1970s, in addition to his paintings
and conceptual art works that were exhibited and collected around the
world, Goldberg did a number of "guerrilla art" pieces on the streets of
Soho in New York under the moniker "Mr. Mental." He directed many of his
plays in the East Village at The Theater for the New City, La Mama, and
other venues. Tonight's program will feature films he made in the '90's
"…whose action is unsupported by dialogue. Each is a study in comic
tension and resolution. The deep contrast of the black and white image
and the unyielding camera frame define a proscenium for these theatrical
pieces. The stylized, slow moving characterizations created by Taylor
and Bill and directed by Gary Goldberg secure these films a unique place
in the experimental film form."- (J.T.): Plates (1990,11minutes, 16mm
/snd) -starring Bill Rice & Taylor Mead. Camera/sound: Jacob
Burckhardt.- "Bill serves Taylor plates." (GG); Big Baby (1993, 20
minutes 16mm /snd.) starring Bill Rice, Taylor Mead, & Hapi Phace.
camera: Mark Baumgartener. "Big Baby is baad." Can be performed with
live cap pistol (GG); Shine (2000, 33 minutes, 16mm/snd.) starring Gary
Goldberg, Jacob Burckhardt, Joe Ruck. Camera: Mark Baumgartener. "The
story of a flashlight." (G.G).
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2005
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3/30
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 pm, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
FILM LOVE 4: ACT UP FIGHT BACK: ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE TIME OF AIDS,
PART 1
The formation of the activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT
UP) was a watershed moment in political activism of the 1980s and in the
fight against AIDS. This moment of heightened activism was both
documented and buttressed by a rise in filmmaking and videomaking. Using
whatever means were available, activists and artists made documentaries,
personal video essays, public service announcements, art films, safe sex
tutorials, and portraits of those whose lives were affected. This
explosion of creative activity mirrored the defiance, the anger, and the
hope of AIDS activism. In partnership with the Emory University Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival, Frequent Small Meals will present two special
screenings of film work and historic activist videos. A March 30 show at
Eyedrum focuses on artists' films and an April 1 Emory show looks at
activist videos, but each screening will show the blurred boundaries
between art and activism which was indicative of the creative responses
to the epidemic. * From the beginning, art, graphics, and street theater
were integral parts of AIDS activism. "Stop the Church" (shown at Emory)
takes a fascinating look behind the scenes at ACT UP's most
controversial action: the December 1989 protest during Sunday mass at
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. "The Ashes Action" (shown at
Eyedrum) makes the personal highly public, as it follows a group of
protesters on their way to the White House to fling their loved ones'
ashes on the lawn. This protest, equal parts poignancy and rage, is
mirrored by this complexly structured, emotionally involving video which
uses multiple views of the event to directly involve the viewer in the
intensity of the action. * Filmmaker Jim Hubbard will be present at the
Emory screening to talk about the history of AIDS activist video, and
the ACT UP Oral History Project. We will show examples of those oral
histories featuring such figures as Larry Kramer. Jim Hubbard will also
introduce two of his own films: "Memento Mori," in which the ironically
intimate use of widescreen format explores the feelings accompanying a
loved one's death; and "Two Marches," which poetically shows the changes
in the gay community by contrasting two gay marches separated by eight
years. * In January 1990, ACT UP chapters from New York and Atlanta
joined in Atlanta for large protests at the Capitol building and at the
Centers for Disease Control. At the Emory event we will show footage
from those demonstrations, as well as looking at the media coverage. In
addition, we'll screen Matt Ebert's "Marta: Portrait of a Teen
Activist," a short spoof on an overachieving demonstrator, filmed here
in Atlanta during the protests. * "Silence = Death" was the rallying cry
of AIDS activists, and the Eyedrum screening highlights the ways in
artists and activists dealt with the matrix of societal repressions
related to AIDS. "Identities" deconstructs a video interview of a man
with AIDS, limiting itself to the silent moments between words and
creating a powerful metaphor. "They Are Lost to Vision Altogether" is a
dense, complex critique of the media's response to AIDS. "Kissing
Doesn't Kill," by the ACT UP-associated art collective Gran Fury, and
Carol Leigh's music video "Safe Sex Slut" will provide two examples of
the ways in which AIDS activists distributed safe sex information. * A
selection of short film and video pieces shown at Eyedrum will detail
film and video makers' highly personal responses to the epidemic. Carl
George's "DHPG Mon Amour," poignantly follows a couple's heroic medical
efforts to combat encroaching blindness. Lawrence Brose's 16mm film "An
Individual Desires Solution" is a "cinepoem" in which recorded phone
conversations with the filmmaker's lover combine with handprocessed
images to detail "the struggle for answers and survival." Mike
Hoolboom's "Positiv" uses a quadruple split-screen and a barrage of
images from pop culture to accompany a moving monologue about the
filmmaker's changing relationship to his body. Eyedrum program:
Identities (Nino Rodriguez, 1991) 7 minutes, video An Individual Desires
Solution (Lawrence Brose, 1986-1991) 16 minutes, 16mm They Are Lost to
Vision Altogether (Tom Kalin, 1989) 13 minutes, video DHPG Mon Amour
(Carl Michael George, 1989) 12 minutes, video Positiv (Mike Hoolboom,
1998) 10 minutes, video Kissing Doesn't Kill (Gran Fury, 1990) 2
minutes, video Safe Sex Slut (Carol Leigh a/k/a Scarlot Harlot, 1987) 3
minutes, video The Ashes Action (James Wentzy, 1995) 30 minutes, video
Frequent Small Meals is proud to present these powerful, historic film
and video works. The programs will be presented both in 16mm and in
video and are for mature audiences. Admission is free. Complete program
details for the screenings may be viewed at
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/actup_program.htm For more information
on this program please contact Andy Ditzler at
(address suppressed) The Film Love series exists to provide
access to historically and artistically important films that are largely
unavailable in consumer formats. The series is programmed and hosted by
Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Series archive is available at
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/film_love.htm
3/30
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, massachusetts college of art film department screening room 1 east hall 621 huntington avenue boston, ma 02115
MASSART FILM SOCIETY JOAN NIDZYN
March 30th Films By Joan Nidzyn Artist will be Present. I am a film
artist currently living in the suburbs of Long Island. I have been
fortunate to exhibit my films in many different venues over the past
twelve years. I have taught at Massachusetts College of Art and at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts. I love to make films the old fashion
way with a physical cut and a splice on my old steenbeck. FILM PROGRAM I
AM A CAMERA 1999 She is a camera; he is a recorded voice. The distance
between the camera and its subject is physically and metaphorically
explored as I fixate my gaze to study my husband, myself and our kitchen
appliances in the first year of marriage. "A courageous meditation on
claustrophobia and paranoia felt in the first year of a marriage."
Gerald Peary – Film Critic for the Boston Phoenix 36-365 2001 This film
was born from my coincidental travels to Miami, Florida two days after
the stalemated election for the Presidency of the United States. LILY
AND ME AND PPD 2004 This is a diary film that visually chronicles my
pregnancy, the birth of my daughter, the onset of a postpartum
depression, and my coping with being a medicated mom. PPD is a catchy
medical abbreviation used for postpartum depression. DOCUMENTING ELECTRA
(IDENTIFICATION 007) 2005 In 1998 I found my grandmother's purse, stowed
away in my families basement, unopened for 27 years. The artifacts from
her purse and ordinary documents such as her death certificate and a
drivers license piece together the framework of a life encircled by
mystery. All Shows Begin Promptly At 8 p.m. $4 Donation/Free for MassArt
Students and Staff. To change your email address, to be removed from
this list, or for any questions please email me and I will help you.
Adam Savje email suppressed Massachusetts College
of Art Film Society Film Department Screening Room 1 East HAll 621
Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Film Society Information:
617.879.7441
3/30
Brooklyn, New York: FlatFoot Fête
7PM - 10PM, Sputnik - 262 Taaffe Pl
THE SCREENING
Why catch a film in the dark when you can enjoy a film salon with other
creative minds? The Screening is a monthly series exploring the creative
process through shorts and works-in-progress. The intimacy of the
gathering allows for a loose exchange between filmmakers and an audience
of artists and creative-influencers. Always welcoming submissions.
perks: inspiration, networking, collaborative opps, news, cool energy,
FREE Screening w. Q&A on the following works: Ichiai - experimental
Emie, director trt - 8 min 30 sec Entrapped - narrative Jayson Vades,
writer-director trt - 14 min 30 sec Kiss & Tell - narrative Hollie
Harper, writer-director trt - 11 min Tuesday - narrative Andrew Baker,
writer-director trt - 3 min 15 sec Mardi Gras - narrative Pharah
Jean-Philippe, writer-director trt - 24 min Admission: FREE The
Screening Presented by FlatFoot Fête Sputnik 262 Taaffe Place - Brooklyn
www.barsputnik.com Wednesday, March 30, 2005 7pm – 10pm Queries >
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3/30
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:30 p.m., Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, Westport
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY, Guy Maddin, 2002, 75 min. Part of
Spring 2005 program, UNCANNY BODIES OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT. "Dracula, the
creature of darkness par excellence, invades the cinematic atmosphere of
Guy Maddin's contemporary synthesis of spirit photography and
phantasmagorias. His choice of actors, use of lighting and fabricated
sets resonate with a weird nostalgia while his film emulsion records the
visceral trace of the haunted scenes of his cinematic inscription."
–Patrick Clancy
3/30
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 se Ankeny
STRUCTURAL ETHNOGRAPHIES: FILMS BY SHARON LOCKHART
Sharon Lockhart in Attendance. Acclaimed artist Sharon Lockhart creates
both moving and still images that exquisitely capture the minutiae of
everyday life. Drawing from dance, structuralist cinema, anthropology,
and visual art Lockhart's work explores issues of representation,
culture, and the role of the observer. Lockhart will be on hand from Los
Angeles to introduce two of her films shot in Japan. In Goshogaoka,
Lockhart documents a girls junior high basketball team in Japan. Using
fixed camera angles and long shots, the film creates a mesmerizing sense
of action and movement that is at once choreographed and free. The title
of Lockhart's most recent piece NO is a reference to traditional
Japanese theatre and to a Japanese style of agriculture; using virtually
no cuts, this landscape film of the Japanese country side captures two
figures at work as they spread hay across a field. Sharon will also
present a slide lecture on her photographic works at Reed College on
April 1st at 4:00pm in the Psychology Auditorium.
3/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (use east entrance on McCaul Street)
THE INDEPENDENTS PROGRAMME 2: METAMORPHOSIS -- A CINEMA OF ESSENCES:
NATHANIEL DORSKY IN PERSON!
Cinematheque Ontario presents... PROGRAMME 2: METAMORPHOSIS – A CINEMA
OF ESSENCES: NATHANIEL DORSKY IN PERSON! We are thrilled to welcome San
Francisco filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, who has since the early sixties
created a personal body of work that is distinguished by its use of
silence and glorious colour cinematography, and its contemplative
observation of objects in the world (the filmmaker cites the films of
Yasujiro Ozu as a key influence in this regard). The measured rhythms of
his films are also distinctive, paced to be projected at silent speed
(18 frames per second), the perceptible brink of "the flicker threshold
of cinema's illusion." His tranquil images capture the fleeting moments
of life – qualities of sunlight, changing weather conditions, gentle
portraits of loved ones – with great depth of feeling. Dorsky's ideas on
the poetics of cinema have recently been published in an important
volume entitled Devotional Cinema (2003, Tuumba Press). THRENODY (USA
2004, 20 minutes silent, 16mm, Toronto premiere!) is "a sombre but
luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly
phenomena" (Dorsky), made in the tradition of Medieval and Early
Renaissance church music composers, who often wrote deplorations at the
death of a previous master. Shot on Kodachrome stock, the film is a work
of transformative beauty and one of Dorsky's greatest achievements.
ALAYA (USA 1976-87, 28 minutes silent, 16mm) features close-up studies
of sand, shot with striking attention to the effects of cross-lighting
and variety of scale, thus creating a "meditation on the infinite that
oscillates amazingly between plenitude and emptiness" (J. Hoberman, The
Village Voice). THE VISITATION (USA 2002, silent 18 minutes), which
along with THRENODY comprise a set entitled "Two Devotional Songs," is a
lyrical meditation on the natural world. Dorsky's elegant cinematography
reveals rays of light streaming through water from above and the moon
obscured by clouds; gentle moods are evoked by blades of blue-green
grass and the tranquil Pacific Ocean at day's end. Don't miss this
evening of cinema and discussion by one of the leading talents of
artists' filmmaking today. Tonight's presentation will also include a
reading from Nathaniel Dorsky's new book, Devotional Cinema. All
screenings in The Independents series are FREE, non-ticketed events.
Seating is made available on a first-come, first-served basis. All
screenings are restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older. For
more information, visit the Official website, www.bell.ca/cinematheque,
the year-round Box Office at Manulife Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main
floor, north entrance), or by calling the Bell Infoline at 416-968-FILM.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2005
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3/31
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 se Ankeny
STRUCTURAL ETHNOGRAPHIES: FILMS BY SHARON LOCKHART
Repeat of March 30 screening, also introduced by Sharon Lockhart.
3/31
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, 701 Mission Street (corner of Third)
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: PHANTOM LIMB AND OTHER NEW WORK
Jay Rosenblatt (The Smell of Burning Ants, Short of Breath) is best
known for emotionally riveting work crafted largely from carefully mined
and rhythmically re-printed and edited educational footage. Continuing
this tradition, his new Phantom Limb (2005) is a collection of
reflections on grief and loss triggered by the death of a child, and it
is his most personal film to date. This half-hour premiere will be
accompanied by other films about life, comedies focusing on his daughter
Ella, including I Used To Be A Filmmaker, I Like It A Lot, and Little
Tramp. Also: Worm, Friend Good, and Prayer. (Irina Leimbacher)
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2005
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4/1
Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University
http://www.emory.edu/WWW/directions.html
7:00 pm, White Hall Room 206, Emory University
FILM LOVE 4 - ACT UP FIGHT BACK: ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE TIME OF AIDS,
PART 2
The second of two screenings of artists' films and historic activist
videos. Please see March 30 entry for complete description. Emory
program: Memento Mori (Jim Hubbard, 1995) 17 minutes, 16mm Cinemascope
introduced by the filmmaker, followed by Jim Hubbard introduction to
AIDS activist video ACT UP Oral History excerpts Interview with Paul
Monette (Phil Tarley, ca. 1993) 4 minutes, video footage from January
1990 ACT UP Atlanta action (1990) video footage courtesy Jeff Graham
Marta: Portrait of a Teen Activist (Matt Ebert, 1990) 10 minutes, video
Stop the Church (Robert Hilferty, 1990) 28 minutes, video Two Marches
(Jim Hubbard, 1991) 8 minutes, 16mm Complete program details for the
screenings may be viewed at
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/actup_program.htm For more information
on this program please contact Andy Ditzler at
(address suppressed) The Film Love series exists to provide
access to historically and artistically important films that are largely
unavailable in consumer formats. The series is programmed and hosted by
Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Series archive is available at
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/film_love.htm
4/1
New York, New York: NYU Center for Religion and Media
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/media
4PM , Cinema Studies, 721 Broadway, Room 656
A CINEMATIC PRESENT: SENSING THE SACRED IN THE REAL
NATHANIEL DORSKY A CINEMATIC PRESENT: Sensing the sacred in the real
Experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky presents a selection of his
personal, meditative films, influenced by Buddhist philosophy A
discussion between the film maker and Deirdre Boyle (New School
University) will follow the screening. Moderator: Angela Zito (NYU,
Anthropology/Religious Studies) presented by Center for Religion and
Media Center for Media, Culture and History Religious Studies Program
and Cinema Studies This event is free and open to the public. Seating is
on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons with disabilities are
requested to call the Center for Religion and Media in advance at
212.998.7608 or e-mail email suppressed
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SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2005
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4/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
ROBOTS ON THE MARCH!
Setting into motion a parade of performance-enhanced presentations for
the month of April, here's a salon that celebrates the projects of
regional sculptors and media artists who work with robotics, automation,
and artificial life. Curated by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, the program is
played out around the gallery as a series of "guided viewings"
of tabletop and installation-based pieces, accented with a DIY assembly
station, single-channel videos, and a free-flowing refreshment counter.
Among the interactive exhibits are new initiatives from Kal Spelletich,
Sean Tally, Kristin Lucas, Boutique Vizique, Virgil Polit, Jack
Buffington, Liam McNamara, Joe McKay, Aimee Friberg, Michael Shiloh, XK
SAZ, and others. Bring a bot that's hot to trot for free admission!
4/2
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
8:00 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West (use east entrance on McCaul Street)
METAMORPHOSIS FESTIVAL – CINEMA OF TRANSFORMATION: VICTOR ERICE'S DREAM
OF LIGHT
Cinematheque Ontario presents DREAM OF LIGHT (EL SOL DEL MEMBRILLO).
Director: Victor Erice Spain 1992 139 minutes. Cast: Antonio López,
Maria Moreno. Beginning as an idiosyncratic documentary, then proceeding
into a kind of dreamy narrative, and finally, in a nocturnal sequence of
infinite mystery, into a meditation on mortality, this exquisite film
explores the creative process of celebrated Spanish painter Antonio
López, who, like Victor Erice, spends years on a single work of art.
Determined to capture the quality of light as it falls on a quince tree
in his back yard, López meticulously charts the traversal of the sun as
the seasons change, hoping to finish his painting before the quince
falls. His project is constantly interrupted and waylaid by visitors,
masons, the Gulf War. . . . Graceful, gracious and surprisingly funny,
DREAM is "a truly magnificent film" (Time Out). "One of the year's ten
best films. It gets better each time I see it" (Georgia Brown, The
Village Voice). – James Quandt, Senior Programmer. All Cinematheque
Ontario screenings are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman
Hall, 317 Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul Street entrance). Regular
tickets are $6 for Members; $5.50 for Student Members and Seniors; and
$10.10 for Non-Members. All screenings are restricted to individuals 18
years of age or older. For ticket information, visit the Official
website, www.bell.ca/cinematheque, the year-round Box Office at Manulife
Centre (55 Bloor Street West, main floor, north entrance), or by calling
the Bell Infoline at 416-968-FILM.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2005
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4/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd
DEBORAH STRATMAN AND "KINGS OF THE SKY"
Filmforum welcomes back Deborah Stratman as she presents the Los Angeles
premiere of her latest work. An experimental documentary about
resistance, balance and fame, Kings of the Sky follows tightrope artist
Adil Hoxur as he and his troupe tour China's Taklamakan desert amongst
the Uyghurs, a turkic Muslim people seeking religious and political
autonomy.
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