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Date: Sun Feb 05 2006 - 07:52:22 PST
This week [February 5 - 12, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: April 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=499.ann
Toofy Film Fest 2006 (Boulder, CO USA; Deadline: July 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=500.ann
straight8 SF (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=501.ann
Woodstock Film Festival (Woodstock, NY ; Deadline: July 10, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=502.ann
Silverlake Film Fest - Lost Weekend (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: March 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=503.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Solstice Film Festiestival (St. Paul, MN USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=347.ann
Her Shorts: 1st Annual Women’s International Video Festival and Symposium (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=472.ann
WAVES Asian/Asian-American Film Festival (Iowa City; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=474.ann
The Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=482.ann
Rio Cinema (London, England; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=483.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
Festival Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=489.ann
Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=490.ann
ten minutes older (London, UK; Deadline: February 28, 2006)
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the Play Ground (Duluth, Minnesota, USA; Deadline: February 18, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=493.ann
straight8 SF (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=501.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* <I>Camp</I>: the Factory Responds To Sontag [February 5, San Francisco, California]
* Student Film Award Showcase [February 6, Boulder, Colorado]
* The Imagination of Disaster [February 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* How To Be A Canadian [February 6, Houston, Texas]
* Britta SjöGren "In This Short Life" [February 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Margaret Tait Homage. [February 6, Mumbai India]
* The Women's Film Preservation Fund [February 7, Berkeley, California]
* New Classic Documentary Films Up On Fourdocs Archive [February 7, Everywhere!]
* The Free Screen: Rick Raxlen Carte Blanche [February 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Directors Lounge [February 9, Berlin, Germany]
* Of A Feather [February 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Urban Research On Film [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* Directors Lounge [February 10, Berlin, Germany]
* Immi Fest 2006 [February 10, Eugene, Oregon]
* Immi Fest ii - 2006 February 10-11-12 [February 10, Eugene, Oregon]
* Electromediascope [February 10, Kansas City, Missouri]
* The Ninth Annual Activating the Medium Festival [February 10, San Francisco, California]
* Urban Research On Film [February 11, Berlin, Germany]
* Directors Lounge [February 11, Berlin, Germany]
* Immi Fest 2006 [February 11, Eugene, Oregon]
* Jon Jost Program(S) [February 11, New York, New York]
* The Ninth Annual Activating the Medium Festival [February 11, San Francisco, California]
* Directors Lounge [February 12, Berlin, Germany]
* Saint Etienne Presents Two Films About London [February 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Immi Fest 2006 [February 12, IMMI Fest 2006]
* Visual Noises: Sound Films By Stan Brakhage [February 12, San Francisco, California]
* Monthly Open Screening #25 [February 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2006
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2/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm and 9pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
CAMP: THE FACTORY RESPONDS TO SONTAG
Susan Sontag wrote "Notes on Camp" in 1964, which put performance of
identity on the road to high culture. Warhol's 1965 rejoinder, Camp
features Mario Montez, Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, Tally Brown,
Jack Smith, and others in a variety show format put on in the foil
festooned Factory. Malanga emcees and recites poetry, Tally Brown
imitates Yma Sumac, Paul Swan dances, and Smith's over-the-top
minimalism is just short of a refusal to perform that implies camp is
not a pose or a praxis, but a way of life. Also screening is the short
compilation of Screen Tests, Four of Andy Warhol's Most Beautiful Women.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2006
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2/6
Boulder, Colorado: First Person Cinema
http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/ifs
7:30 pm, University of Colorado at Boulder Sibell Wolle Fine Arts room N-141
STUDENT FILM AWARD SHOWCASE
WINNERS OF THE GRILLO AND GOLDFARB AWARDS The Grillo Awards are designed
to encourage excellence in filmmaking and help defray some of the
expenses required to pursue a degree in film production. A total of up
to $17,000, combined Goldfarb and Grillo funds, will be distributed each
year to four tiers of production students. Final recipients and
individual award amounts will be determined each semester (including
summer semester session) by in-class student votes and a panel of judges
made up of CU Film Studies faculty and a Grillo family member. The award
winning films will be shown one night only. The Grillo Awards are drawn
from a University of Colorado Foundation fund set up in the early 90's
by the founder and former chair of the CU Film Studies Program, Virgil
Grillo (1938-1994), whose dedication and vision helped shepherd Film
Studies from its modest beginnings in the 1970's to an undergraduate
degree program boasting some 600 majors. Goldfarb awards are given by
the Goldfarb Foundation and Peter Goldfarb, President. Screening made
possible by ACE fees. Various shorts presented in digital format, full
award show is estimated to last 120 mins.
2/6
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
THE IMAGINATION OF DISASTER
The environment was increasingly unstable… For Susan Sontag, the
imagination of disaster was all about sci-fi movies and "the peculiar
beauties to be found in wreaking havoc, making a mess." No stranger to
danger, Ocularis melts down those metaphors with a rubble-rousing
program of film and video. From Kevin Everson's split screen tale of
love and loss at the hands of the elements, to Bobby Abate's pixilated
stream of pornographic catastrophe, these experiments are all too
relevant in a new age of American anxiety, cold rags to our hurricane
fevers. Work to be screened: Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, For
Dead Bodies, Edison Manufacturing Company, 1900, 52 seconds; From
Pompeii to Xenia, Kevin Everson, 2003, 4 min; Burn, Reynold Reynolds and
Patrick Jolley, 2001, 10 min; American Dreams #3, Moira Tierney, 2002, 5
min; Come Softly, Bobby Abate, 1999, 11 min; Rescue Parables,
HalfLifers, 1994, 4 min; Strange Weather, Peggy Ahwesh and Margie
Strosser, 1993, 50 min.
2/6
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30pm doors open, 9pm screening, Aurora @ Clark's, 314 Main Street near Preston
HOW TO BE A CANADIAN
Guest Curator Astria Suparak with Brett Kashmere The second largest
country in the world, Canada houses a population less than California's
34 million. The birthplace of You Can't Do That on Television, Tom
Green, and the inspiration for American Pie, Canada has been a chief
exporter of adolescent gross-out comedy for two decades. No MTV,
Madonna, Mister Roger's Neighborhood or melting pot, but Much Music,
Alanis Morissette, Mr. Dressup's tickle trunk and government-mandated
Multiculturalism. Works by Brett Kashmere, Jake Kennedy, Shari Boyle,
Jubal Brown, Daniel Barrow, Jon Sasaki, Dorion Berg, Jim Munroe, Jeremy
Bailey, Daniel Cockburn, Paige Gratland, and Tom Sherman.
2/6
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
BRITTA SJöGREN "IN THIS SHORT LIFE"
Los Angeles premiere USA, 2004, 96 min., 16mm Shot with non-professional
actors (including the filmmaker herself) in the intimate black-and-white
palette of older home movies, In This Short Life works the blurry margin
between documentary and fiction. The film follows four mysteriously
intertwined lives in Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles: an elderly woman
ambivalently embarking on an affair; a mentally unstable man being
evicted from his home; a frustrated actor waiting for his breakthrough;
and a young female artist forced by a much-desired yet
inconveniently-timed pregnancy to reassess the priorities in her life…
In person: Britta Sjögren
2/6
Mumbai India: MIFF
http://www.miffindia.org
10.00 am, Mumbai International Film Festival
MARGARET TAIT HOMAGE.
The part two of the touring programme Subjects and Sequences A Margaret
Tait of newly restored 16mm prints of the Orcadian film poet Margaret
Tait visits MIFF 2006. Details of the programme can be found on the
festival website or at www.lux.org.uk/margarettait.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2006
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2/7
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30 PM, 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
THE WOMEN'S FILM PRESERVATION FUND
Storm de Hirsh and Maya Deren Since the early sixties, Storm de Hirsh
has been a germinal figure in the New American Cinema. Her film work
developed innovative techniques of etching and painting blended with
images of natural landscapes and experiments with the cinematic process.
Her film sketches or "cine poems" The Reticule of Love (mid-1960s, 4
mins) and Aristotle (c. 1970, 3 mins) are restored and blown up from
Super 8. (Silent, Color, Courtesy Filmmakers Collective.) Considered the
"mother" of the American avant-garde, Maya Deren was a groundbreaking
filmmaker, writer, and theorist who fought for the recognition of film
as an art form. She spent many years of her short life researching
Haitian voodoo religion, and her last film, Divine Horsemen: The Living
Gods of Haiti (1947–51, 60 mins, B&W, Courtesy Tavia Ito), is a
cinematic document of that study (she also wrote a book on the subject).
After languishing unfinished for years, Divine Horsemen was edited into
a whole after Deren's death by her widower Teiji Ito and his wife Cherel
Ito. • (Total running time: 67 mins, 16mm)
2/7
Everywhere!: FourDocs
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs
Always, www.channel4.com/fourdocs
NEW CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS UP ON FOURDOCS ARCHIVE
We're very excited at FourDocs (www.channel4.com/fourdocs) to have just
added some more brilliant classic documentaries to the FourDocs Archive
on the site. The new batch reflects the very best of British documentary
filmmaking heritage, in particular. We're hoping you'll all be inspired
by them, especially the examples there of the 'Free Cinema' movement of
the 1950s. Look out for Lindsay Anderson's 'O Dreamland', a pioneering
film in its time, now maybe a requiem for the dreamlike and democratic
world of once-thriving seaside entertainment complexes. Anderson's
poetic documentary style followed in the footsteps of Humphrey Jennings,
who you can also see films by on the site in our archive. 'Free Cinema'
was about taking a new naturalistic and unscripted look at England, and
so Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz contributed the celebratory 'Momma
Don't Allow,' a remarkable observation of the wildness of youth,
especially working class 'Teds'. 'We are the Lambeth Boys', by Karel
Reisz, does a similar thing, putting the spotlight on a 50s youth club,
and includes some amazing dancing scenes. A lost world of London
innocence, maybe, but not so innocent as 'One Potato, Two Potato', a
document of children's street games. A twee world of bombed out streets
where children could play safely and everyone knew each other - it
really did exist. Like all these 1950s films, part of its beguiling
charm for us now lies in its presentation of a quaint British society
about to change very very quickly. If it seems like a world away, check
out 'Housing Problems' for even more of a shock, with its graphic scenes
of 1930s London slums. 'A Visit to Peek Frean&Co's Biscuit Works' from
1906 is on the surface, a promotional film, but also a brilliantly
visual world of mechanics and industrial movements. Early documentary
cinema that will make you stunned considering when it was made. John
Schlesinger's 'Terminus', about Waterloo station, is an an example of
the movement away from 'Free Cinema' and towards the 'anthropological'
TV documentary of the 70s and 80s. And to take you right up to date, and
if your head is spinning from all these earnest social matters, there's
Molly Dineen's iconic 'Geri', about the former Spice Girl's desperate
attempts at regaining her place in the public eye. And this is all in
addition to everything else on FourDocs - four minute docs from all over
the world, education guides, and a chance to win a camera and your own
Adobe editing system. From biscuit men to Spice Girls - it's all in the
FourDocs documentary archive right now, and for free. Go to
www.channel4.com/fourdocs and enjoy!
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2006
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2/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West
THE FREE SCREEN: RICK RAXLEN CARTE BLANCHE
Cinematheque Ontario presents THE FREE SCREEN (formerly The
Independents). The Free Screen is your window on the vast and rewarding,
but often overlooked, world of unconventional, non-commercial cinema –
those films and videos made by committed artists working outside of
mainstream channels of production and distribution. These artists prefer
to work free from the restrictive aesthetic conventions and commercial
concerns of the movie business, a position which allows them to explore
the possibilities of the art of cinema to the fullest. The Free Screen
presents work by artists engaged in fields ranging from avant-garde film
and animation to hybrid documentaries, essay films and video art, often
with the artists in attendance to present their work. – Chris Gehman,
Programmer, The Free Screen. RICK RAXLEN CARTE BLANCHE Victoria-based
filmmaker Rick Raxlen has created a large body of work in a range of
genres, including experimental films, animation, and dramas. (Following
the commercial failure of his 1988 dramatic feature, HORSES IN WINTER,
Raxlen memorably vowed to "stop trying to make meaningful feature films
with government help and start making meaningless short films with
government help.") During the past decade, Raxlen has been very
productive, completing several playful, bristling animations that, seen
together, form an ongoing autobiographical excavation of memories from
his early life. Some of these draw directly on family experiences, such
as the bitter memory of six weeks spent at summer camp while his parents
frolicked across Europe, recounted in FISH DON'T TALK. Others use found
films and graphics – redrawn, recomposed, decomposed and looped – to
explore the media landscape of another time. The delightful, bouncing
THE GEOMETRY OF BEWARE, for example, subjects sections from an old Mutt
and Jeff cartoon to a multitude of variations. For this programme,
Raxlen will introduce a selection of his recent work alongside a few of
his favourite short films, which range from Arthur Lipsett to early
studio cartoons. Tonight's programme include the following films,
directed by Raxlen: JAFFA GATE (Canada 1982 5 minutes 16mm); FISH DON'T
TALK (Canada 2004 11 minutes video); ACADEMY STRIPPER (Canada 2005 2
minutes video); DEADPAN (Canada 2001 7 minutes 16mm); THE GEOMETRY OF
BEWARE (Canada 1998 7 minutes 16mm); RIX PIX NIX HIX (Canada 2004 4
minutes video); and SEA HORSES AND FLYING FISH (Canada 2003 1 minute
16mm; Hugo Ball poem performed by Christian Bök). Raxlen's programme
also includes Arthur Lipsett's 21-87 (Canada 1964 9.5 minutes b&w 16mm),
Gilbert Taggart's THE LITTLE FOREST (Canada 2002 7 minutes 16mm), and a
selection of vintage cartoons from the Twenties and Thirties.
Co-presented by the Toronto Animated Image Society. Please note: All
screenings in this series are FREE, non-ticketed events. Programming
suggestions and submissions are welcome. All Cinematheque Ontario
screenings are held at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317
Dundas St. West, Toronto (McCaul Street entrance). All screenings are
restricted to individuals 18 years of age or older, unless noted
otherwise. 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 call
416-968-FILM.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006
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2/9
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 6:00 pm, open end, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
Experimental film, video, new media, a festival from artists for
artists. Directors Lounge started as an experiment, a relaxed space for
filmmakers, videoartists and everybody interested in experimental forms
of cinema and videoart, during The Berlin International Film Festival.
Directors Lounge functioned as a hideaway, a meeting point and also as a
starting point for new creative collaborations. -/- Special programs:
NoMasala, experimental short films from India; Forming Motion: Animated
Artistic Experiments curated by Kim Collmer; Intimate Journey curated by
Lynn Loo; Words about moving movies, a lecture by Cosima Reif;
electronic painting – videos and installations, curated by Daniela
Butsch; View05 Weather Report Finnish Videoart, compiled by AV-arkki;
Yunnan Arts University, class Xiang Weixing, curated by Daniela Butsch;
CANDELA ! Cuban side-tracks curated by Kristin Bergaust; An evening with
aE3, Multimedia-artist aE3 from Nantes; urban research curated by Klaus
W. Eisenlohr;
2/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/february/edge.html
6:00 p.m., Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State
OF A FEATHER
A bright spot in the long months before spring's winged migration,
curators Cecelia Condit and Carl Bogner have collected bird films and
videos from around the globe in a program at once swooping and
earthbound, wild and caged, THE CANARIES (Jerome Hill, 1968, 4 min.);
VOGELS (Gerben Kruk, 2003, 1 min.); DISPERSE (Paul Dickinson, 2004, 15
min.); WHY NOT A SPARROW (Cecelia Condit, 2002 – 2005, 12 min.); THE
WALKING PIGEON (Guido van der Werve, 2001, 2 min.); CHICK RUNNING (Sam
Easterson, 2004, 2 min.); PARROT SUITE #1(Anne Walsh, 2002, 5 min.); 9
IS A SECRET (Vanessa Renwick, 2002, 6 min.); OF A FEATHER (Rob Yeo,
2005, 10 min.). 16mm and miniDV. 57 min. Cecelia Condit in person! Paul
Dickinson in person!
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2006
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2/10
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6:30 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
reading surfaces -- Roger Warren Beebe, The Strip Mall Trilogy, 2001,
USA, 9:15, DVD -/- Rebecca Baron, How Little We Know of Our Neighbours,
Mass Observation Movement, 2005, USA, 48:00, DVD -/- Diane Bonder, If
You Lived Here You Would Be Home By Now, 2001, USA, 15:00, VHS -/- Sonja
Lillebaek Christensen, On a Slow Boat to China, 2005, Dänemark,18:00, DV
-/- extra: Virginie Laganière, Transit 2004, Canada, 2:02, DVD, European
Premiere
2/10
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 6:00 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
see February 9, 2006 for details
2/10
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
8:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
IMMI FEST 2006
The Second Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image art
(IMMI Fest II - 2006) runs February 10, 11, and 12 at the DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway in Eugene. Audiences will experience free improv music
and progressive video art melded together for maximum spontaneity and
simultaneous sensory pleasure. The festival showcases both local and
northwest musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and
viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. Host artists are the
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/Eugene and the JiRCs VJ collective of
Eugene. Highlights include Friday evening acoustic improv and
experimental short works, Saturday live improvised soundtrack for a
classic silent film. Also late night electro-pop-DIY-noise oriented
showcases both nights. Workshops, discussions, and demonstrations
continue throughout the weekend. The festival wraps up Sunday with a
final resounding squonk! As the IMP Orchestra (consisting of host
musicians, guests and master class participants) comes together and lets
it all loose to the flickering brilliance of the JiRCs VJ collective.
Workshop information: 342-3019 or (address suppressed) Event
information: www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm. DIVA Center: 344-3482.
2/10
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
8:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
IMMI FEST II - 2006 FEBRUARY 10-11-12
The Second Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image art
(IMMI Fest II - 2006) runs February 10, 11, and 12 at the DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway in Eugene. Audiences will experience free improv music
and progressive video art melded together for maximum spontaneity and
simultaneous sensory pleasure. The festival showcases both local and
northwest musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and
viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. Host artists are the
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/Eugene and the JiRCs VJ collective of
Eugene. Highlights include Friday evening acoustic improv and
experimental short works, Saturday live improvised soundtrack for a
classic silent film. Also late night electro-pop-DIY-noise oriented
showcases both nights. Workshops, discussions, and demonstrations
continue throughout the weekend. The festival wraps up Sunday with a
final resounding squonk! As the IMP Orchestra (consisting of host
musicians, guests and master class participants) comes together and lets
it all loose to the flickering brilliance of the JiRCs VJ collective.
Workshop information: 342-3019 or (address suppressed) Event
information: www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm. DIVA Center: 344-3482.
See program and workshop details online at
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm Contact Info: Event
Coordinator: Daniel Heila E-mail: email suppressed Phone:
541-342-3019 DIVA Center Phone: 541-344-3482
2/10
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 .m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Love and Obsession presents a series of works by artists and filmmakers
who combine elements of documentary and fictional techniques while
expressing the psychological and cultural dimensions of the lives of a
variety of real and invented characters. Seduction, rejection, control,
jealousy and revenge are explored as the boundaries between love,
obsession and desire become blurred in these often ironically
tragicomedic human stories. Laurence Attali's Trilogy of Love takes
place in Senegal, Africa and traces the mystical links between different
cultural traditions of love, marriage and spiritual and political
practices. Real musicians, artists and people are themselves while
playing fictional characters in these films that explore cross-cultural
differences and common, shared aspects of life and traditions in a
search for self-realization, communication and understanding. –Patrick
Clancy. La Trilogie des Amours (Trilogy of Love), 3 films by Laurence
Attali (France/Senegal), 76 min., 35mm films shown on Beta SP. Meme le
vent… (Even the Wind…),1999, 18 min., French and Wolof with English
subtitles. Baobab, 2000, 25 min., French and Wolof with English
subtitles. Le Déchaussé (The Unshod Man), 2003, 33 min., French with
English subtitles.
2/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chesnut St
THE NINTH ANNUAL ACTIVATING THE MEDIUM FESTIVAL
San Francisco Cinematheque co-presents three programs this year with
Activating the Medium, an annual trans-disciplinary festival of
international sound art presented by 23five Incorporated, showcasing
sound, film/video, and live performance. The Movement of People Working
by Phill Niblock, (un)commonsounds by Xabier Erkizia and Dimitris
Kariofilis, la danse des fous by Joachim Montessuis, and the sound/film
performance I.C. You by Laetitia Sonami and Sue Costabile.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2006
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2/11
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
12pm midnight show, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
URBAN RESEARCH ON FILM
Special Program at Directors Longe 2006 curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr --
reading surfaces -- where is memory? -- Steven Ball, Metalogue 2003, GB,
26:47, DVCam German Premiere -/- Roddy Bogawa, I Was Born But..., 2004,
USA, 90:00, 16mm European Premiere
2/11
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 6:00 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
see February 9, 2006 for details
2/11
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
10:00 AM - 11:00PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
IMMI FEST 2006
The Second Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image art
(IMMI Fest II - 2006) runs February 10, 11, and 12 at the DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway in Eugene. Audiences will experience free improv music
and progressive video art melded together for maximum spontaneity and
simultaneous sensory pleasure. The festival showcases both local and
northwest musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and
viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. Host artists are the
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/Eugene and the JiRCs VJ collective of
Eugene. Highlights include Friday evening acoustic improv and
experimental short works, Saturday live improvised soundtrack for a
classic silent film. Also late night electro-pop-DIY-noise oriented
showcases both nights. Workshops, discussions, and demonstrations
continue throughout the weekend. The festival wraps up Sunday with a
final resounding squonk! As the IMP Orchestra (consisting of host
musicians, guests and master class participants) comes together and lets
it all loose to the flickering brilliance of the JiRCs VJ collective.
Workshop information: 342-3019 or (address suppressed) Event
information: www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm. DIVA Center: 344-3482.
2/11
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm-Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
JON JOST PROGRAM(S)
PASSAGES (60 min-1996-2006), DHARMA DO AS DHARMA DOES (17 min.-2002),
TANTI AUGURI (5 min.-2002), A VIEW OF MOUNT BAKER FROM PORT ANGELES (for
HOKUSAI (4 min.-2004) That most independent of independent filmmakers,
Jon Jost makes a rare NYC appearance to show and discuss his latest
feature along with related short works. Jost has had an extraordinarily
prolific career beginning in the 1960s. Controversial and outspoken,
living and working in many countries, he has managed to produce a wide
range of features and short pieces that balance formal explorations with
emotional resonance. His work covers many different cinema approaches
from essay to documentary to neo-realism to diary. Jon Jost on his new
work, recently shown at the Rottetrdam Film Festival- "PASSAGES is a
'meditation,' composed of material shot since 1996 on digital video, and
subsequently worked on in video software. Made primarily of images of
nature, this is an elegiac work, almost completely abstract, but
orchestrated in a manner akin to symphonic music, with movements which
surge, subside, reappear, shift and re-combine, and carry with them the
residue of emotional content, exactly as does music. Shown in Rotterdam
in the context of a program on 'film and drugs' which explored in
particular 1960-1970's underground cinema in this context, PASSAGES is
an extension and bringing-into-control many of the esthetic and
technical experiments of the so-called 'psychedelic' cinema.
2/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chesnut St
THE NINTH ANNUAL ACTIVATING THE MEDIUM FESTIVAL
San Francisco Cinematheque co-presents three programs this year with
Activating the Medium, an annual trans-disciplinary festival of
international sound art presented by 23five Incorporated, showcasing
sound, film/video, and live performance. Celebration of a Revolution by
Leif Elggren; Waiting 2006 8:0 by Michael 9; Speaker Swinging 1987 by
Gordon Monahan and the sound/video performance Ilios, by Dimitris
Kariofilis.
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2/12
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
from 4:00 pm, Directors Lounge, Karl-Marx-Allee 137
DIRECTORS LOUNGE
see February 9, 2006 for details
2/12
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
7 PM, 70 North 6th Street
SAINT ETIENNE PRESENTS TWO FILMS ABOUT LONDON
Please join Ocularis, Plexifilm, Savoy Jazz, and Saint Etienne for a
special presentation of Finisterre: A Film About London as well as an
advance screening of What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?, with Q&A and
DJ sets by Saint Etienne between and after each screening. Finisterre: A
Film About London by Paul Kelly and Kieran Evans - 7 PM Presented and
scored by Saint Etienne, the film takes us on a journey from the suburbs
into the heart of the city over an imaginary 24 hours. Along the way we
hear from characters that have influenced or been a part of the Saint
Etienne story. Finisterre features the observations and reminiscences of
Lawrence from Felt/Denim, Mark Perry, the editor of original punk
fanzine Sniffin' Glue, as well as Vic Godard from Subway Sect and artist
Julian Opie, folk singer Vashti Bunyan, London-centric author Shena
Mackay, and Nick Sanderson from Earl Brutus. Through the interviews and
imagery we see London from an insider's perspective. The result is a
hymn to London, and an extraordinary record of the city today. Digitally
shot and edited, Finisterre evolved alongside the Saint Etienne album of
the same name. Initially conceived as a way of channelling the money
allocated for music videos into something more substantial, it became in
every sense an independent production. Its development is unique: early
sequences were projected as visuals behind the band during their latest
tour, while the film played recently to cinema audiences in London and
Tokyo. What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? - 9 PM "The group's second
collaboration with the director Paul Kelly, after the London elegy
Finisterre. Concentrating on the Lea Valley, the east-London ghostland
of derelict industrial estates that once dealt in plastic, petrol and
printing, through which a teenage paperboy dreamily wanders, Mervyn Day?
is potently evocative. Like an Iain Sinclair book, we see ugly, ordinary
London through Kelly's eyes, until its strange beauty begins to surface.
It is set on 7 July, the day after the Olympic announcement that will
mean development erasing this zone. Radio-news fragments about the
London bombings serve as an evil counterpoint. To this visual hymn to
the dream-London of their songs, Saint Etienne add melancholy flutes,
guitar pulses and choral harmonies. It's a triumphant cross-media
performance. At its finish, the band are cheered as if they've played
their greatest hits. The piece's impact is proven at the interval bar,
where everyone talks urgently about their own slice of London. A primal
sense of place has been awoken." - Nick Hasted, The Independent, on a
screening at Barbican in London
2/12
IMMI Fest 2006: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
11:00 AM - 11:00 PM, DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway
IMMI FEST 2006
The Second Annual Festival of Improvised Music and Moving Image art
(IMMI Fest II - 2006) runs February 10, 11, and 12 at the DIVA Center
110 W. Broadway in Eugene. Audiences will experience free improv music
and progressive video art melded together for maximum spontaneity and
simultaneous sensory pleasure. The festival showcases both local and
northwest musicians and media artists in an intimate listening and
viewing environment for optimal audience exposure. Host artists are the
Knotty Ensemble of Vancouver, BC/Eugene and the JiRCs VJ collective of
Eugene. Highlights include Friday evening acoustic improv and
experimental short works, Saturday live improvised soundtrack for a
classic silent film. Also late night electro-pop-DIY-noise oriented
showcases both nights. Workshops, discussions, and demonstrations
continue throughout the weekend. The festival wraps up Sunday with a
final resounding squonk! As the IMP Orchestra (consisting of host
musicians, guests and master class participants) comes together and lets
it all loose to the flickering brilliance of the JiRCs VJ collective.
Workshop information: 342-3019 or (address suppressed) Event
information: www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm. DIVA Center: 344-3482.
2/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St
VISUAL NOISES: SOUND FILMS BY STAN BRAKHAGE
In his development of myriad radical cinematic languages over his long
filmmaking career, Stan Brakhage frequently promoted a profound
aesthetics which frequently positioned intense silences as ground for
his complex and subtle visual compositions. In his interest in
non-verbal expression, he was greatly inspired by music and his rare
forays into sound filmmaking stand as some of the most unique
sound/image statements in the history of cinema. Tonight's program
presents a survey of this work, including Boulder Blues and Pearls and…,
Fire of Waters, Christ Mass Sex Dance, Crack Glass Eulogy, Kindering,
"…" (Reel 5), and Passage Through (A Ritual).
2/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: CineZine
http://www.super8porter.ca
7:00 pm, CineCycle, behind 129 Spadina Avenue
MONTHLY OPEN SCREENING #25
See January 8 for details
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