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This week [April 9 - 16, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 28, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Michael Snow: La RéGion Centrale [April 9, Leeds, UK]
* The Compendium 2 [April 9, Leeds, UK]
* Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults [April 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Recalibrate: Michelle Dizon's video Works [April 9, San Francisco, California]
* Performance Film [April 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Takahiko iimura: Performance Films [April 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Slack video Presents [April 10, Hull]
* Au Hasard Balthazar [April 11, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* The Immoral Majority: Works By Laura Parnes [April 12, Berkeley, California]
* Canadian Premiere of Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat! [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Free Screen! Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Image X Sound: the Short Films of Tatsu Aoki [April 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* Gregg Biermann Program [April 13, North Adams]
* First-Person In A Globalized World: Irina Leimbacher [April 13, Portland, Oregon]
* Opening Night Gala: Mike Hoolboom's Fascination [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Experimental Documentary [April 14, Atlanta, Georgia]
* A Cinema of Physics and Perception - Week 3: Pure Sonic Information [April 14, Evanston, IL]
* Tracing Memory Tracking Family--Film Series [April 14, Richmond, VA]
* "Tracing Memory--Tracking Family" [April 14, Richmond, VA]
* International Shorts Program 1: Stranger To Strangers [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Live Images 1: Mpld [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* "Cure For the Cable Guy" [April 14, ohio]
* "Cure For the Cable Guy" [April 14, ohio]
* Darwin Vs. the Creationists [April 15, San Francisco, California]
* Loud Meat [April 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 2: Willing Spirits [April 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 3: On Earth, As It Is. [April 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Live Images 2: Winnipeg Babysitter [April 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Allen Ross' the Grandfather Trilogy and Missing Allen: the Man Who Became
A Camera [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Experimenta India At the Images Festival Program 1: Retrospective [April 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 4: Light Comes Through My Kitchen Window [April 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2006
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4/9
Leeds, UK: Lumen
http://www.lumen.org.uk
1.30pm, Leeds City Art Gallery
MICHAEL SNOW: LA RéGION CENTRALE
A rare chance to experience one of the most talked about films in the
history of experimental cinema. Made using a specially designed machine
capable of rotating the camera in all directions from a central point,
La Région Centrale is a multi-dimensional study of the landscape
surrounding a desolate mountaintop in Quebec. Through a series of tilts
and turns of various speeds, the environment is continually re-framed
and increasingly disoriented. La Région Centrale is a cosmic and unified
meditation on space and time, and a definitive metaphor on vision. Film:
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1970-1, 180 mins, 16mm, sound)
4/9
Leeds, UK: Lumen
http://www.lumen.org.uk
7pm, Leeds City Art Gallery
THE COMPENDIUM 2
The second installment of The Compendium screenings, bringing together
new artists films and videos from around the world. Loosely collected
into two short programmes, tonights installment moves from pure
abstraction into modern impressions of our pastoral landscape. Traveling
from the depth of the screen, to the surface of the filmstrip – across
rural Russia, and down the Tyne River towards the sea. Featuring work by
Ian Helliwell, Fred Worden, Freya, Wenhua Shi, Philip Sanderson,
Samantha Rebello, Arash T Riahi, Ben Rivers, Mat Fleming, Christo
Wallers and Masha Godovannaya.
4/9
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film & Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
7:00 pm, James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall
OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE VAULTS
The Archive recently partnered with Outfest to create the Outfest Legacy
Project, dedicated to preserving lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) independent films. In conjunction with this project, a symposium,
Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults, has been organized to bring together
filmmakers and moving image archivists to discuss the challenges in
insuring the survival and accessibility of independent LGBT cinema. The
night before the symposium, we will screen two prints from the Legacy
Collection to highlight both the Project and the symposium. Sunday April
9 2006, 7:00PM ( Free Admission ) QUEENS AT HEART SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE
BATHS Monday April 10 2006, 1:00PM ( Free Admission ) LEGACY PROJECT
SYMPOSIUM: "OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE VAULTS" "Insuring the Survival
of LGBT Cinema: Preservation Challenges and Strategies" 1:15-2:30 p.m.
"Access Challenges: Public Resources for LGBT Moving Image Research"
2:50-4:20 p.m. "The Outfest Legacy Collection at UCLA" 4:20-5 p.m. The
"Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults" symposium is sponsored by: Outfest,
the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Research and Study Center, and the
Association of Moving Image Archivists LGBT Interest Group. The
symposium is funded with a grant from the UCLA Center for Community
Partnerships. Royce Hall, Room 314, UCLA For more information, please
call 310.206.5389 or visit www.cinema.ucla.edu.
4/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street
RECALIBRATE: MICHELLE DIZON'S VIDEO WORKS
This program is part of San Francisco Cinematheque's PACIFIC RIM series.
Experimental video artist Michelle Dizon joins us from Los Angeles for
her first solo screening. Working with home movies shot in California
and the Philippines, low-end video, numerous found images from the web
and other films, and carefully culled and original texts, Dizon
articulates a compelling political and aesthetic vision that constantly
questions the status quo of language, images, and the power embedded in
them. In our current context of globalization and war, pieces such as
Calibrate; Département des Arts de l'Islam; We, the Undersigned, Girls
of Hiroshima; and her newest piece, The Great Wall compel us to re-think
representational and political practices. We will also screen earlier,
more intimate, works including My Child, Anak andA Family Sick. Michelle
Dizon in Person. This program is presented in Association with the
Center for Asian American Media and Artists' Television Access.
ADMISSION: $8 general, $5 Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled,
Students (w. ID) advance tickets: 415-978-ARTS
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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2006
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4/10
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8pm, at Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th St.
PERFORMANCE FILM
It's Today. "Performance Films" by Taka iimura April 10(Monday) 8pm., at
Ocularis Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211,
http://www.ocularis.net 1) "Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata
which includes - "Anma"(The Masseurs)(1963)+"Rose Colored Dance" (1965)
totally 33min. "Anma (The Masseur)" is a representative and historical
work by the creator of Butoh dance, a modern dance of Japan, Tatsumi
Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The film is realized not only
as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura,
that is meant to be a choreography of film. Another Cine Dance, "Rose
Colored Dance" by Tatsumi Hijikata, is also a classic of Butoh.
Choreographed and performed in 1965 by Hijikata with guest dancer, Kazuo
Ohno among others, the film is the only document of this historical
performance. "Through these films, it became clear that the Black Butoh
dance created by Tatsumi Hijikata is closer to the neo-dada movement
taking over the provocative, cynical and absurd forms rather than the
German expressionist dance usually connected." - Nicolas Villodre,
curator of Cinematheque Francaise, Paris 2) "Fluxus Replayed" 1991, B&W,
30minutes Camera: Phill Niblock, and Takahiko iimura This is document of
Fluxus performance in New York, 1991, reproduced by S.E.M Ensemble and
the member of Fluxus the historical performances, even an origin of
art-performance, in early1960s with the works of the artists: Yoko Ono,
Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Allison Knowles, Ben
Patterson, Jackson Mac Low and Emett Williams. 3) "JOHN CAGE PERFORMS
JAMES JOYCE " 1985, 15min., color A private voice performance by John
Cage, Avante-garde composer of 20th century, realizing his "Writing For
The Fifth Time Through Finnegans Wake" taken from"Finnegans Wake" by
James Joyce using I-Chin chance–operation in three ways: reading,
singing, and whispering. Above films's DVDs are available at the door.
4/10
Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.ocularis.net
8 PM, 70 North 6th Street
TAKAHIKO IIMURA: PERFORMANCE FILMS
"Iimura is a significant and singular filmmaker, but also one of the
most important conceptual artists working in any medium." – Malcolm Le
Grice Takahiko Iimura, a key figure in the cultivation of avant-garde
film in Japan and one of its greatest proponents stateside, presents his
recordings of several remarkable performances. Cine Dance: The Butoh of
Tatsumi Hijikata (1963/5, 33 min) "Through these films, it became clear
that the Black Butoh dance created by Tatsumi Hijikata is closer to the
neo-dada movement taking over the provocative, cynical and absurd forms
rather than the German expressionist dance usually connected." - Nicolas
Villodre, curator of Cinematheque Francaise, Paris Fluxus Replayed
(1991, 30 min) A document of Fluxus performance in New York, 1991, in
which S.E.M. Ensemble (Director Petr Kotik) and the members of Fluxus
reenact key works by Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George
Brecht, Allison Knowles, Ben Patterson, Jackson Mac Low and Emmett
Williams. John Cage Performs James Joyce (1985, 15 min) A private
performance by John Cage realizing his Writing for the Fifth Time
Through Finnegan's Wake in three ways: reading, singing and whispering.
4/10
Hull: Slack Video
http:// www.slackvideo.org
7pm, Lamp, 2 Norfolk Street
SLACK VIDEO PRESENTS
Slack Video Presents : An evening of short films for your viewing
pleasure 7:00pm - midnight. Free entry. 9pm - 11pm : New narrative and
experimental short film works from local, national and international
artists, filmmakers and students. Featuring volume 1 of works from
'theparlour' 7.30pm - 8.30pm : A Screening of 'Mark Thomas - 'Live' from
undercurrents news network, films start at 7.30 Food Available till 8.30
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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2006
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4/11
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, 95 min.) by ROBERT BRESSON. How can a film
centered on the life and death of a donkey (Balthazar) in rural France
emerge as one of the most lauded film masterpieces of all time?
"Bresson's greatest film and one of the masterpieces of the 20th century
- Molly Haskell; "Absolutely magnificent… one of the most significant
events of the cinema- Jean-Luc Godard; "This is the story of a donkey
somewhat the way that Moby Dick is about a whale…. Heart-breaking and
magnificent… the supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of
20th-century filmmakers. – J. Hoberman. Similar plaudits from
cinephiles, filmmakers and critics continue to be heard: we invite you
to come and see why. (French with English subtitles)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006
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4/12
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way (@ Bowditch)
THE IMMORAL MAJORITY: WORKS BY LAURA PARNES
Bay Area Premiere! Artist in Person During the rank rise of the Reagan
era, the ever-transgressive Kathy Acker penned one of her most notorious
novels, Blood and Guts in High School. The story followed the hardcore
rearing of punked-out Janie as she waged war with the forces of social
indoctrination. Now Laura Parnes, a New York–based artist, has adapted
much of this subversive saga in a spare style she calls "Brechtian MTV."
In Blood and Guts in High School (2006, 30 mins), Janie (played by
Stephanie Vella) rails against institutionalized idiocy in a vivid
setting punctured by the Jonestown Massacre, the Iranian hostage crisis,
the Moral Majority, and other historical hoodoo. Parnes's earlier
Hollywood Inferno: Episode One (2001, 38 mins) chucks urbanity for the
candy-colored suburbs of SoCal. Her Dante, Sandy, is taken under the
tutelage of a modern-day Virgil, a screenwriter who does deep readings
of Star Wars. Sandy's career path leads her through a tormented
landscape of perky Catholic models, lecherous Furbies, and Insane Clown
Posse wannabes. The principal sin in this ring of Hell is voyeurism,
experienced through the ever-present peephole.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. West
CANADIAN PREMIERE OF SHARON LOCKHART’S PINE FLAT!
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,
Free Screen programmer. CANADIAN PREMIERE OF SHARON LOCKHART'S PINE
FLAT! "[A]n exquisitely crafted, penetrating, and intimate portrait of
rural American childhood. . . . Alternately ticklish, amusing,
comforting, and haunting, PINE FLAT rewards the patient and open-minded
viewer with a remarkable journey through a beautiful mountain landscape
and the poignant moments of childhood" (Shari Frilot). The subject of a
Cinematheque Ontario series in 2000, Sharon Lockhart is an
internationally renowned photographer and filmmaker whose work balances
on a knife's edge between documentary and staged event. Lockhart's
latest comes to us fresh from its screening at the Berlin film festival.
Shot over the course of almost three years in a small rural community in
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, PINE FLAT (USA, 2005, 138 minutes,
16mm) observes the local children, alone or in small groups, in a series
of precisely framed tableaux – no adults appear in the film! The visual
frame is often complicated by the use of off-screen sound, and, as usual
in Lockhart's work, the degree of intervention by the filmmaker is
unclear. Are the children simply carrying on as they would on an
ordinary day, or have they been instructed to perform their quotidian
activities in a particular manner? The questions raised by PINE FLAT get
to the heart of cinematic representation, and Lockhart's thoughtful
probing extends even to the film's built-in intermission, during which
many find it hard to leave the theatre! Co-presented by the Images
Festival, April 13 - 22, 2006. 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. 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.
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Cinematheque Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street W.
THE FREE SCREEN! SHARON LOCKHART'S PINE FLAT
Free screening! The subject of a Cinematheque Ontario series in 2000,
Sharon Lockhart is an internationally renowned photographer and
filmmaker whose work balances on a knife's edge between documentary and
staged event. Lockhart's latest, Pine Flat, comes to us fresh from its
premiere at this year's Sundance Festival. Shot over the course of
almost three years in a small rural community in the foothills of the
Sierra Nevada, the film's subjects are the local children, who are
filmed alone or in small groups in a series of precisely framed tableaux
— no adults appear in the film! The questions raised by Pine Flat get to
the heart of cinematic representation, and Lockhart's thoughtful probing
extends even to the film's built-in intermission, during which many find
it hard to leave the theatre! — Chris Gehman
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2006
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4/13
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
IMAGE X SOUND: THE SHORT FILMS OF TATSU AOKI
Tatsu Aoki in person! In celebration of acclaimed Chicago musician and
filmmaker (and School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty member),
Tatsu Aoki's 25th year making films, CATE and the 11th Annual Chicago
Asian American Showcase present a two-part retrospective of his
extraordinary short diary films. Aoki began keeping a daily film diary
of his life in the mid 1970s. "I carried Super 8 cameras everywhere I
went and my house was surrounded by 13 different cameras. Some cameras
were on tripods, some with time-exposure, time-lapse, broken cameras,
hand cranked cameras…My life was on the roll and on the reel." Today,
this body of work spans 25 years, archives hundreds of hours, stretches
thousands upon thousands of feet (on Super 8, 16mm, and DV), and
constitutes over a dozen films. Tonight's screening is the second half
of the retrospective (part one screens earlier this week as part of the
Showcase) and features the premiere of Aoki's latest work TRAVELING
SPIRITS (2006, 15 min.) along with: DECADES PASSED (2003, 25 min.);
SHAPE (1996, 8 min.); and DISCOVERY (1991, 28 min.). Tatsu Aoki,
1991-2006, USA, 76 min. Super 8 and16mm.
4/13
North Adams: Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
7:00 PM, 375 Church St., Bowman 101
GREGG BIERMANN PROGRAM
Gregg Biermann in Person Screening and discussion of various short works
from 2002-2006 that employ a variety of computer animation and video
techniques in surprisingly unusal ways. Works to be screened are: Happy
Again, Spherical Coordinates,The Hills Are Alive,The Waters of
Casablanca, Cinema Study, Paradiso, and Hackensack Motet. TRT:61
minutes. Contact David Langston: email suppressed www.greggbiermann.com
4/13
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street
FIRST-PERSON IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: IRINA LEIMBACHER
FIRST-PERSON IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: IRINA LEIMBACHER For the final
installment in our Critical Cinemas series, we are excited to have Irina
Leimbacher, Artistsic Director of the San Francisco Cinematheque, in
Portland to present a two-part program of first person essay films and
videos. How does globalization affect the very idea and articulation of
self? How can the spatial, temporal, and rhetorical elasticity of film
language be used to give form to complex, multi-layered performances of
the first-person? These two screenings explore a gamut of approaches to
and experiences of self, starting with Kidlat Tahimik's now classic
feature-length essay Perfumed Nightmare and continuing with six short
films by multi-cultural and diasporic filmmakers. Exuberant, witty, and
politically astute, Perfumed Nightmare moves from Tahimik's childhood
village, where Voice of America, movies and space travel transform his
lively imagination, to Paris and Bavaria where he tastes some of the
fruits of capitalism alongside an American bubble gum entrepreneur. For
Susan Sontag, writing when the film first came out, it "reminds one that
invention, insolence, enchantment—even innocence—are still available on
film." Perfumed Nightmare by Kidlat Tahimik [Philippines, 1978, 16mm,
b&w, 91 min]
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00pm, Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
OPENING NIGHT GALA: MIKE HOOLBOOM'S FASCINATION
FASCINATION (Mike Hoolboom, Canada 80 min. video 2006) "My name? I
thought everybody knew. My name is Art Star." Colin Campbell's death in
2001 left a hole in Toronto's art community. Campbell was a pioneer in
the budding field of video art who created a series of hilarious
personae throughout his thirty-year career: merging the worlds of
performance art and video. It seems appropriate for Mike Hoolboom to
take on the role of chronicler of Campbell's legacy. A longtime champion
of fringe filmmaking, Hoolboom brings his unique perspective to bear on
his portrait of the artist. For Hoolboom, Campbell's death also
coincides with the passing of an era, when the image itself is
imploding. We are in an era of mourning pictures, when media can only
represent what is lost. Fascination contains interviews and cameos with
dozens of Canadian artists whose paths crossed with Campbell's. Combined
with his customary use of appropriated footage and subjective
voice-over, Hoolboom presents us with a deeply affecting biography of a
fallen star. $15/$12 students, members and seniors
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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2006
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4/14
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 pm, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Suite 8
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
Two films that combine traditional documentary with elements of
experimental cinema. Niklas Vollmer's Happy Crying Nursing Home (2005,
29 minutes) captures the enveloping void of fatherhood. Vollmer charts
the feelings of loneliness, jealousy and tenderness, the bitter, complex
cocktail of despair and love that define his relationships to his child,
his partner - and his camera. Happy Crying Nursing Home also engages
with experimental film history, and the ecstatic, romantic vision of
parenting in films like Stan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving. Laura
Kissel's Cabin Field (2006, 39 minutes) is a poetic look at the history
and present of a mile-long stretch of farmland in Crisp County, Georgia.
Cabin Field combines the recollections of those who have lived for
decades on this land with archival film images of rural Georgia, weaving
a portrait of place as a palimpsest - multifaceted, complex, ever
changing. Cabin Field received the Jury Citation award at the 2006 Black
Maria film festival.
4/14
Evanston, IL: Block Cinema
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/block-cinema/index.html
8 pm, Pick-Laudati Auditorium at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive
A CINEMA OF PHYSICS AND PERCEPTION - WEEK 3: PURE SONIC INFORMATION
Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka, 1958/1960, Austria, 7 min., 16mm),
Reverberation (Ernie Gehr, 1969/1986, U.S., 23 min., 16mm), Shift (Ernie
Gehr, 1972-4, U.S., 9 min., 16mm), Prelude (Michael Snow, 2000, Canada,
3 min., 35mm), Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1961-66, Austria, 12.5
min., 16mm), Passage a l'acte (Martin Arnold, 1993, Austria, 12 min.,
16mm). Sound is motion. Every sound we hear originates from the
vibration of an object, which results in waves that are propagated
through the particles of a given medium. These waves trigger a chain
reaction in our ears, creating electrochemical impulses our brain
interprets. These films make this everyday process palpable, while also
complicating it. WARNING: Arnulf Rainer contains flickering and strobe
effects. Those who become dizzy or disoriented from such effects, as
well as those suffering from photosensitive epilepsy, may be at risk.
Guest speaker: Music Technology Professor Gary Kendall, Northwestern
University.
4/14
Richmond, VA: ADA Gallery
http://www.adagallery.com/
8pm, 228 W. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23220
TRACING MEMORY TRACKING FAMILY--FILM SERIES
"Tracing Memory- Tracking Family", a compilation of work by the
following filmmakers: Liana Dragoman LeAnn Erickson Sonali Gulati Huixia
Lu Marina Petrovskia Program RT: approximately 60 minutes Program order:
"Name I call Myself", Sonali Gulati, 4:40 Using a single shot aesthetic,
Name I call Myself is a piece that documents the filmmaker's search for
self-knowledge and identity through the tracing of her name. "Memory",
Huixia Lu, 5 minutes Memory is an experimental 16mm film about a woman
who recalls her life stages from childhood through young adulthood that
have brought her to the loneliness of her marriage. As past emotions
interplay with her present life, she realizes that her existence is
becoming only memory. "essential things", LeAnn Erickson, 7 minutes In
an age of phone calls and email, written letters still occupy a space
allowing for the exploration of lose, memory, and time as feelings and
thoughts are shared with another. essential things is a collection of
'letters' that could not be sent. Fleeting images combine with a
disparate soundscape to document the artist's separation from her family
over a 4 month period. "Where is there room?", Sonali Gulati, Byron
Karabatsos, Antonio Paez, 8 minutes Where is there room? is an
experimental narrative about a daughter's conflicted feelings of grief
and release surrounding her mother's death. The film draws on the role
of childhood memories in shaping the complexities of this familial
relationship. "arriving__departing", Liana Dragoman, 8 minutes "To
return home again, to complete the story, is an impossibility". In
arriving__departing a stable notion of home is confronted by a spilled
and fractured narrative. The spaces that emerge speak of the
relationship between two sisters and a mother and the filmmaker's
process of redefining 'family'. "hours, minutes, seconds, frame", LeAnn
Erickson, 6 minutes I'm sleeping, dreaming, and the time passes...hours,
minutes, seconds... Utilizing a dreamscape of images, text, and sounds,
the artist contemplates issues of memory, time, and healing surrounding
the anniversary of her mother's death. "Confession", Marina Petrovskia,
19 minutes Most families have skeletons in their closets that are never
spoken of. This filmmaker's family is no exception. "Confession"
documents a conversation between the filmmaker and her ailing aunt. As
the aunt confesses her participation with the Nazis during World War II,
the filmmaker feels compelled to confess her role in its revelation.
4/14
Richmond, VA: ADA Gallery
http://www.sonalifilm.com
6pm and 8pm, 228 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA
"TRACING MEMORY--TRACKING FAMILY"
"TRACING MEMORY--TRACKING FAMILY" a compilation of
autobiographical/personal films by the following filmmakers: Liana
Dragoman, LeAnn Erickson, Sonali Gulati, Byron Karabatsos, Huixia Lu,
Antonio Paez, & Marina Petrovskia WHERE: ADA Gallery, 228 W. Broad
Street, Richmond, VA WHEN: Friday, April 14th 2006 2 screenings at 6pm
and 8pm respectively
4/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 1: STRANGER TO STRANGERS
Pay what you can! Exported and abandoned, dropped off and displaced, an
assortment of exotic characters embody the projected fantasies of their
unlikely surroundings. Their refusal to adapt or resolve or otherwise
become unambiguous affirms the impossibility — the undesirability — of
belonging anywhere. Which is just as well. Like the man said: if we
could really see ourselves as others do, we would vanish. Includes work
by Steve Reinke (Canada), Bobby Abate (USA), Barry Doupe (Canada), Lamia
Joreige (Lebanon), Goran Devic (Croatia).
4/14
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
LIVE IMAGES 1: MPLD
$10/8 Gill Arnó's mpld project is one of the more unusual
re-appropriations of photo technology. Using two decaying slide
projectors that he prepares with stroboscopic bulbs and contact
microphones, Arnó causes us to re-examine the nostalgic nature of his
imagery. He collects discarded slides from thrift stores, alters each
one with masking tape and projects two at a time in a flickering rhythm.
The images phase into each other, creating a stunning, almost three
dimensional visual phenomenon. Combined with the amplified and processed
mechanical sounds of the projectors, Lapse Phasing draws the viewer into
an almost transcendent space. The critical notions of the day may say
that photography is a step towards the grave, but Arnó's project finds
the image very much alive, re-animated in an ecstatic visual dance.
4/14
ohio:
http://stevehofstetter.com/
see dates, see dates & locations
"CURE FOR THE CABLE GUY"
My friend, Steve Hofstetter, is a comedian that's getting a ton of
attention right now. His new album, "Cure for the Cable Guy" addresses
the trend of easy comedy in America, and he's already been featured by
the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Even though it's the first week of his first album, it climbed all the
way to ..32 on itunes, which is unheard of for a debut by a comedian. I
think you'd really enjoy his material - in addition to Larry the Cable
Guy, the album is also an intelligent and hysterical look at false
patriotism, body image issues, religious fervor, and more. Bret Love
from the Atlanta Journal Constitution called him "a younger, edgier
Seinfeld if he was influenced by the late Bill Hicks. Hofstetter's
biggest following is on the internet, where he has half a million
friends on facebook and myspace combined." Anyway, if you want to check
him out, he's at http://stevehofstetter.com/ Thanks in advance! Li
Schussel email suppressed
4/14
ohio:
http://stevehofstetter.com/
see dates, see dates & locations
"CURE FOR THE CABLE GUY"
My friend, Steve Hofstetter, is a comedian that's getting a ton of
attention right now. His new album, "Cure for the Cable Guy" addresses
the trend of easy comedy in America, and he's already been featured by
the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Even though it's the first week of his first album, it climbed all the
way to ..32 on itunes, which is unheard of for a debut by a comedian. I
think you'd really enjoy his material - in addition to Larry the Cable
Guy, the album is also an intelligent and hysterical look at false
patriotism, body image issues, religious fervor, and more. Bret Love
from the Atlanta Journal Constitution called him "a younger, edgier
Seinfeld if he was influenced by the late Bill Hicks. Hofstetter's
biggest following is on the internet, where he has half a million
friends on facebook and myspace combined." Anyway, if you want to check
him out, he's at http://stevehofstetter.com/ Thanks in advance! Li
Schussel email suppressed
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SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006
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4/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
DARWIN VS. THE CREATIONISTS
It is certainly too bad when our academic institutions are threatened by
retrograde superstition…as if some forces in our society were
afraid to accept the fact that humans are also part of the animal
kingdom. Around the time of the Scopes trial, Max Fleischer turned his
considerable talents from Betty Boop and Popeye to advancing an
enlightened view of human development. Here’s the premiere revival
of his legendary 1923 masterwork, Evolution, a courageous cinematic
initiative, that in fact includes stop-motion dinosaur footage from
Willis O’Brien, projected in gloriously tinted 16mm, with musical
accompaniment by David Cox! We open with a newsreel from that infamous
“Monkey Trial,” plus a Joseph Campbell clip on genesis myths
and—believe it or not—a crackpot Fundamentalist screed, The
Evolution Conspiracy. PLUS a collection-plate of assorted religious
anomalies, including Pat Robertson, Satanic backward-masking, and a
sneak peek at Tom Borden’s new doc on Christian wrestling, Taking
Satan to the Mat!! A portion of the proceeds goes to the ACLU.
4/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
11:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
LOUD MEAT
works by Daniel Borins (Canada), Wael Shawky (Egypt), LisaNa Macias-Red
Bear (USA) and Jubal Brown (Canada).
4/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 2: WILLING SPIRITS
Pay what you can! Films of loss, expectation, and the simple joys of
other people. With work by Diane Bonder (USA), John Creson & Adam Rosen
(Canada), Francesco Gagliardi (Italy), Sami van Ingen (Finland), Dianne
Ouellette (Canada), Helen Haig-Brown (Canada) and Mary J. Daniel
(Canada).
4/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 3: ON EARTH, AS IT IS.
The world, disillusioned. The view without the vista, sites without
sightseeing. Geography at odds with its own reflection and all the more
exquisite for the scorn in the stare. Includes work by Joanna Empain
(Canada), Michael Robinson (USA), Marcellvs L. (Brazil), Robert Todd
(USA), Kolkata (USA), John Price (Canada).
4/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
LIVE IMAGES 2: WINNIPEG BABYSITTER
$10/8 For the past two years, Daniel Barrow has been researching,
compiling and archiving a history of independently produced television
in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the late '70s and throughout the '80's,
Winnipeg experienced a "golden age" of public access television. Anyone
with a dream, concept or exhibitionist politic would be endowed with
airtime and professional production services. Winnipeg Babysitter traces
this and other unique vignettes from a brief synapse in broadcasting
history when Winnipeg cable companies were mandated to provide public
access as a condition of their broadcasting license. Barrow will be
present to provide a magic lantern commentary, tracing the history of
public access television in Manitoba, and describing the various and
outrageous biographies of cult classics (that subsequently become urban
legends when the Winnipeg public access paradigm was axed in the '90s).
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SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2006
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4/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm and 8:50pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
ALLEN ROSS' THE GRANDFATHER TRILOGY AND MISSING ALLEN: THE MAN WHO BECAME
A CAMERA
This program is part of San Francisco Cinematheque's RECENT AVANT-GARDE
PRESERVATIONS series. The 7:30 pm program contains Allen Ross' The
Grandfather Trilogy, which is described in the filmmaker's own words as
"a radical approach to portraiture" and plays as a "long sustained
accident" and a "record of a divinely shadowed presence." Made between
1979 and 1981, consisting of Papa, Thanksgiving 1979, and Buriels, the
trilogy is a unique, unsettling, and moving document of
intergenerational relationships. Through frequent use of disorienting
camera angles, lingering images of stasis and uncomfortable breaks in
conversation, The Grandfather Trilogy embodies the troubled yet
ultimately close relationship between the filmmaker and his subject,
allowing them their own space and time while reflecting on the intimate,
yet intrusive, process of documentation. The 8:50 pm program contains
Missing Allen by filmmaker Christian Bauer. Allen Ross, experimental
filmmaker, co-founder of Chicago Filmmakers, and cinematographer for
numerous television documentaries, vanished in 1995. After his
disappearance, his friend and fellow documentary filmmaker Bauer decides
to try to find him, or at least understand what happened. Although the
deeper questions raised by this unsettling documentary are never
answered, Missing Allen is a haunting investigation into America's dark
side of religious cults and fringe groups, a tribute to Ross as a person
and filmmaker, and a reflection on how little we sometimes know each
other. It features interviews with Chicago filmmakers Tom Palazzolo,
Bill Stamets, and others. This program is presented in Association with
Chicago Filmmakers. ADMISSION: $8 general, $5 Cinematheque Members,
Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID), advance tickets: 415-978-ARTS
4/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
EXPERIMENTA INDIA AT THE IMAGES FESTIVAL PROGRAM 1: RETROSPECTIVE
$10/8 Curated by Shai Heredia. In the late 60's and early 70's, a small
group of radical film artists made use of found footage, animation and
stylized montage to develop an alternative syntax for the state funded
documentary films made through The Films Division of India. By
recontextualizing these films within a context of experimental film
ethnography, this program celebrates the works of these visionary
filmmakers and recognizes the only modern Indian movement of
experimentation with film form in India - Shai Heredia
4/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00pm, Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 4: LIGHT COMES THROUGH MY KITCHEN WINDOW
Beauty is not far from you. Around the home, around the yard, across the
street in the park. These are domestic portraits; the quotidian quoted
and captured. Work by Hans Michaud (USA), Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
(Canada), Nicky Hamlyn (UK), Madalena Miranda (Portugal), Rachel
Echenberg (Canada).
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