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Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 10:12:33 PST
This week [January 1 - 8, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO
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"Cremains" by Chris Ohlson
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=223.ann
"the black marks become magical" by noah fox
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=221.ann
"My Heart Belongs To Data" by Mark Kenneth Woods
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=220.ann
"The Truck of Dreams" by Arun Kumar
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=75.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Imaginaria Film Festival (Conversano, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=484.ann
Microcinema International (Houston, TX, United States; Deadline: March 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=485.ann
Pioneer Theater (New York, NY; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=486.ann
The Journal of Short Film, Volume 3 (Columbus, OH; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=487.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH U.S.A.; Deadline: January 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=443.ann
Sonoma Valley Film Festival (Sonoma, CA, USA; Deadline: January 06, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=452.ann
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (Iowa City, IA USA; Deadline: January 16, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=460.ann
Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival 2006 (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: January 20, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=463.ann
Rome International Film Festival (Rome, GA USA; Deadline: January 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=467.ann
INTERVAL (2) at THE SLADE SCHOOL OF ART (UCL) (Gower Street, London WCIE 6BT; Deadline: December 31, 2005)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=473.ann
britspotting 06 - British and Irish Filmfestival Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: January 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=476.ann
$100 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Deadline: January 18, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=480.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Oskar Fischinger: Optical Etudes [January 2, New York, New York]
* The Films of British Artist Claire Fowler [January 3, Portland, Oregon]
* Immaterial Monuments: Carriage Trade and Short Fuse [January 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Immaterial Monuments: Mahagonny [January 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Monthly Open Screening #24 [January 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2006
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1/2
New York, New York: and Film Society of Lincoln Center
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
5 and 9 pm, Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th Street
OSKAR FISCHINGER: OPTICAL ETUDES
Film Society of Lincoln Center in association with Center for Visual
Music present Oskar Fischinger: Optical Etudes. A retrospective of his
films, featuring many preserved 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic
Visual Music films. January 2, 2006, 5:00 and 9:00 (program screens
twice, separate admissions) .Tickets on sale online through
www.filmlinc.com and at the box office. The program samples glimpses of
Fischinger's earliest silent endeavors before plunging headlong into his
unmistakable universe of vibratory parallel lines, comet-like spheroids
and pulsating concentric circles, favorite primal forms deployed in
one-to-one matchups with pieces by Brahms (1931's Study No. 7), Wagner
and Grieg (1933's Kreise), Mozart (1935's Muratti Privat cigarette ad),
John Phillip Sousa (1941's American March), and Johann Sebastian Bach
(1947's Motion Painting No. 1). Fischinger's technique, equally adept
at interpreting then-contemporaneous pop music, testifies to the
powerful effects that can be wrought through pure abstraction.
Biographer William Moritz wrote, "Oskar Fischinger is one of the
greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that
became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new
technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual
Music that performs in liquid time." (Greg Ford)
Program also includes: An Optical Poem, Allegretto (2 versions), Radio
Dynamics, Composition in Blue, Study No. 5 and 6, Spiritual
Constructions, R-1 Ein Formspiel and more, with many new prints struck
especially for this show. Program provided by Center for Visual Music.
Technicolor print of An Optical Poem provided thanks to Warner Brothers.
Prints preserved by the Academy Film Archive, CVM and Fischinger
Archive, with the support of Film Foundation, Sony, Deutsches Filmmuseum
and Cinematheque Quebecoise. For further information,
www.centerforvisualmusic.org or www.filmlinc.com
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2006
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1/3
Portland, Oregon: Holocene
http://holocene.org
7pm, 1001 SE Morrison
THE FILMS OF BRITISH ARTIST CLAIRE FOWLER
Portland, OR – London filmmaker, Claire Fowler will present an evening
of short films at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison, www.holocene.org). Claire
will be screening seven of her acclaimed short films as well as
providing pre and post commentary and a question and answer session.
Claire Fowler was born in the UK in 1979, and studied Fine Art at Oxford
University and the Royal College of Art in London. Her films explore the
relationship one has with the world through symbolic representations,
and the universality of narrative and the poetic. Claire has shown her
work around the UK and Germany, and is now bringing it to the US. She
also curates film screenings in the UK, writes for Filmwaves magazine,
sustains a successful film blog, and is currently concentrating on her
own short fiction and scriptwriting. Website: www.clairefowler.com Blog:
http://tenminutesolder.blogspot.com
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 2006
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1/7
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
6 pm, 24 Quincy Streeet
IMMATERIAL MONUMENTS: CARRIAGE TRADE AND SHORT FUSE
Screening on January 7 (Saturday) 6 pm Carriage Trade Directed by Warren
Sonbert US, 1971, color, 61 min. Short Fuse Directed by Warren Sonbert
US, 1992, color, 37 min.
1/7
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
8 PM, 24 Quincy Streeet
IMMATERIAL MONUMENTS: MAHAGONNY
Screening on January 7 (Saturday) 8:30 pm Mahagonny Directed by Harry
Smith US, 1970-1980, color, 141 min.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006
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1/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CineZine
http://www.super8porter.ca
7:00 pm, CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Avenue
MONTHLY OPEN SCREENING #24
Bring your films or videos, or just come to watch. 35mm, 16mm, 9.5mm,
8mm, Super 8, VHS, DVD, MiniDV. Pay what you want. The second Sunday of
every month. Presented by John Porter, Paularoid & CineCycle.
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