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Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 07:28:07 PDT
This week [April 30 - May 7, 2006] in avant garde cinema
NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Paraíso" by Felipe Guerrero
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=245.ann
"the fold" by Kim Collmer
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=246.ann
"Pod" by Kim Collmer
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=247.ann
"Silver Seeds" by Kim Collmer
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=248.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Ruckel Patzke Collaborative Project (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=530.ann
YoungCuts (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=551.ann
London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=552.ann
Mexico! (Monterrey, NL; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=553.ann
Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (Hollywood, CA 90028; Deadline: June 17, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=554.ann
Distillery (South Boston, ; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=555.ann
NoBudget VideoFilmfestival, Weimar (Weimar, Germany; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=556.ann
Lake County Film Festival (Libertyville, IL, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=557.ann
Aurora Picture Show (Houston, TX 77009; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=558.ann
Pacific Cinémathèque (Vancouver, BC Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=559.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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25 FPS (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=477.ann
Imaginaria Film Festival (Conversano, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=484.ann
Portable Cinema Series (san francisco, ca USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=494.ann
MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=498.ann
Call for filmmaking stories (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=510.ann
Perform.Media (Bloomington, IN USA; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=516.ann
theARTDISK (Chicago, IL., USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=520.ann
Zeitgeist International Film Fstival (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=522.ann
Ruckel Patzke Collaborative Project (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=530.ann
Cinematexas International Short Film Festival (Austin, Texas, USA; Deadline: June 02, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=536.ann
Reel Venus Film Festival (New York, NY USA; Deadline: May 12, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=537.ann
2006 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=539.ann
MadCat Women's International Film Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=540.ann
Artists' Television Access (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=541.ann
Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=544.ann
vBrooklyn video festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=545.ann
Experimental Film Festival in Seoul (Seoul. South Korea; Deadline: May 13, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=547.ann
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (Paris; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=548.ann
Artist' Television Access (San Francisco, ca 94110; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=549.ann
Atists' Television Access (san francisco, ca, usa; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=550.ann
YoungCuts (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 30, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=551.ann
Mexico! (Monterrey, NL; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=553.ann
Distillery (South Boston, ; Deadline: May 19, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=555.ann
NoBudget VideoFilmfestival, Weimar (Weimar, Germany; Deadline: May 15, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=556.ann
Aurora Picture Show (Houston, TX 77009; Deadline: May 01, 2006)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=558.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Fugitive Prayers: New Experimental Works [April 30, San Francisco, California]
* New Classic Documentary Films Up On Fourdocs Archive [May 1, Everywhere!]
* My Kingdom For A Horse [May 1, London, England]
* The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 1, New York, New York]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 2, New York, New York]
* The Tarnished Angels: Michael Gray In-Person [May 2, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Artfilmperformance - Synthetic Zero Event [May 3, Bronx, NY]
* Magic Lantern Presents "The Mythology Show" [May 3, Providence, RI]
* "The Cinema I Care About Is At the Level of Poetry" Films By Margaret
Tait [May 3, Stuttgart, Germany]
* Calculations: Pioneers of Computer Animation [May 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 4, New York, New York]
* "The Cinema I Care About Is At the Level of Poetry" Films By Margaret
Tait [May 4, karlsruhe, Germany]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 5, New York, New York]
* At Home and Abroad [May 6, Houston, Texas]
* 25 Letters By Grahame Weinbren [May 6, New York, New York]
* New York International Film and video Festival [May 6, New York, New York]
* Ecc and Bran Flakes Do thereoke+ [May 6, San Francisco, California]
* Artfilmperformance - Synthetic Zero Event [May 7, Bronx, NY]
* At Home and Abroad [May 7, Houston, Texas]
* Siting video: New Works From Otis College of Art and Design [May 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Rebecca Baron [May 7, Portland, Oregon]
* Aftershocks: Experimental Films, videos, and Animation From Taiwan [May 7, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006
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4/30
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
6:45pm, AMC Kabuki Theatre, 1881 Post Street at Fillmore
FUGITIVE PRAYERS: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
In this year's annual co-presentation of new experimental work with San
Francisco International Film Festival and Pacific Film Archive, nine
experimental films and videos pay homage to early cinema and its
precursors, witness the ordinary made extraordinary, and mourn tragic
events. Using elegantly constructed images –original, archival, or
animated– these visions encompass both the concrete and the abstract,
the material and the spiritual. Films include Bill Morrison's How to
Pray; Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof's fugitive l(i)ght; Stacey Steers'
Phantom Canyon; Pawel Wojtasik's Naked; Olivo Barbieri's Site
Specific_Shanghai 04; Dolissa Medina's 19: Victoria, Texas; Tomonari
Nishikawa's Market Street; Nancy Andrews' Haunted Camera; and Jos de
Putter's Passers-By. Filmmakers Dolissa Medina, Tomonari Nishikawa,
Stacey Steers In Person. ADMISSION:$11 General, $10 Seniors, Disabled,
Students (w. ID), $9 Members. Advance Tickets: www.sffs.org
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MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006
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5/1
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!
5/1
London, England: Rio Cinema
http://www.riocinema.org.uk
1pm, 107 Kingsland High street, London, E8
MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
My Kingdom for a Horse is a film screening for May Day, giving a
platform for all of those who love or hate what May Day stands for.
Films and videos about folk heroes, devils and peculiarities;
working-class idols; middle-class guilt; peoples' princes and
princesses; ethnic pride or shame of many backgrounds and persuasions.
Non-ironic films with genuine testaments to folk culture and everyday
triumph and glorious disaster. Bastard Britishness, international
visions of the sons and daughters of Albion and beyond. "The dream that
kicks the buried from their sack. And lets their trash be honoured as
the quick." A celebration of pitter-pattering industry in a
post-industrial age. Our kingdoms for horses, our days of rebellion. The
industrious flight of the bumblebee on a fresh May Day. My Kingdom for a
Horse. Not just for hippies, not just for punks, not just for the city
gent. We're all horses now, sir. No need to riot cos your beastly bray
is louder and more powerful The films, mostly documentaries, showcase a
diverse range of subjects spinning off the idea of May Day: Emie : Trail
of Pictures (14 minutes) - Following Ben Wilson as he makes his, and
our, community more special by drawing pictures on the chewing gum in
the street. A true folk hero taking on the man. Neil Needleman : Once
Upon a Time in Brooklyn (7 minutes) - Two old Brooklyn Jewish women
criticise the world and each other with charming cantankerousness.
Martin Hampton : Last of the Conductors (9 minutes) : Ding Ding, the
Routemasters leave and we all feel sick, bent out of shape by a bendy. A
true hard-working hero, hello and goodbye to a human bus service. Emma
Stoner : Alignments (21 minutes) : A trip across ancient lines, jaunting
quizzically through the English landscape. All stills and sculpted
grabbed sound, covering a moulding seaside town, maps, A-roads, men with
beards, dowsing rods. Cornish pub music, caves and a lot of rain. You
don't have to be a pagan or a druid to understand that there's summat
glorious in this filthy earth. Yoav Segal : Battle of Cable Street (7
minutes) : A straight show of protest and a thank you. An elderly
gentleman guides us through the events of the resistance to Mosley's
march through the East End. Sally Irvine : The Perils of Believing in
Round Squares (15 minutes) : The questionable psychology of RD Laing in
Kingsley Hall, a very British folkhistory psychodrama. Peter Atha :
Morris (1 minute) : Morrissey fans try to touch him. A wonderful one
minute of poetic mania for a man who embodies the romantic and the music
hall. Jean-Gabriel Periot : We are Winning Don't Forget (12 minutes) : A
perfect MayDay film. Stills of French workers become a fast collage of
anticapitalist protests, culminating in bloody death. Charlotte Ginsborg
: Stretching out the mattress (9 minutes) : An anti-war protest, yes,
but as a background for storytelling and an urban wanderer's suggestive
pictures. Nicky Magliulo : Ritual Abuse in Liphook (4 minutes) :
Geeerrrroutovit! Twitching curtains and strange religious goings on in
Surrey. The suburban drudge nagging at the glittering monument of MayDay
Tyler Coburn : Village Festival (5 minutes) : The fantastic rituals of a
plastic dancing society in a studio. "A recent and groundbreaking
ethnographic study." Except that something feels not real, and why is
that voiceover so touched? The Rabbi : Tom Dooley (4 minutes) : A folk
song, concerning the murder of Laura Foster in 1866. Tom was hung
because he refused to tell on Ann Melton, "the purtiest woman I ever
looked in the face of. She'd a-been hung too, but her neck was jist too
purty to stretch hemp." This collaboration unites The Rabbi, legendary
friend and cover star of arch MayDayite gentlemen The Libertines, and
TradArr (www.tradarr.net). God bless The Rabbi Plus live folk songs and
shanties, and May Day and anti-establishment buns and cakes.
5/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
THE DEVOTIONAL CINEMA OF NATHANIEL DORSKY
In these intimate and deeply affecting works, veteran avant-garde artist
Dorsky utilizes light and color to create films that are silent,
non-narrative and forged by seamless editing of astonishing precision.
The evening features the "Devotional Songs" Threnody… (2004, 20 min.,
16mm) and The Visitation (2002, 18 min., 16mm), as well as the
"Cinematic Song" Love's Refrain (2000–2001, 23 min., 16mm). All three
exemplify beauty through delicate framing, subtle interplays of shadow
and light, and highly expressive movement. In person: Nathaniel Dorsky
5/1
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
6 pm, AMC Loews 34th Street 312 West 34th Street
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
Video and installation artist Grahame Weinbren, the subject of the 2004
TFF documentary Frames, returns to the Tribeca Film Festival as a
filmmaker with 25 Letters, a high definition video project based on his
25 one-minute films which generate the letters of the alphabet. In this
interactive presentation, Weinbren artfully underscores his belief that
classic linear storytelling has been radically altered by our random
access to databases of information and imagery.
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TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2006
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5/2
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
noon, AMC Loews Village VII 66 3rd Ave at 11th Street
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
See May 1st listing for details. This screening is a linear presentation
of 16 of the 25 Letters.
5/2
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
THE TARNISHED ANGELS: MICHAEL GRAY IN-PERSON
The Tarnished Angels (1958, 91 min.) by DOUGLAS SIRK. The great
Hollywood auteur brings together key players (Rock Hudson, Robert Stack
and Dorothy Malone) from his previous, Written on the Wind ('56 ) for
yet another round of high, passionate melodrama. Based on Faulkner's
novel, Pylon, the story takes place in the world of dangerous stunt
flying and more dangerous love. Fassbinder much admired this
production:" I have rarely felt fear and loneliness so much as in this
film." And Falulkner, who received screen credit for the film,
considered it the best Hollywood adaptation of any of his novels.
Screenwriter and Faulkner & Film scholar, Michael Grey will introduce
the film.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2006
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5/3
Bronx, NY: Synthetic Zero
http://www.syntheticzero.com/events/
6pm, NW corner of Lincoln Ave and Bruckner Blvd, Bronx
ARTFILMPERFORMANCE - SYNTHETIC ZERO EVENT
Performances: McCloud Zicmuse - Le Ton Mité amazing one-man band of
fascinating music (Tribeca show); http://www.myspace.com/letonmite
Benoit Maubrey - Audio Ballerinas - sound/dance performance (Bronx on
Sunday) http://home.snafu.de/maubrey/; Imagination Explosion - life-size
puppetry (All three events) http://www.imaginationexplosion.com/; Yoko
Kikuchi - girl punk rock (Tribeca, possibly also Bronx events)
http://www.yokokikuchi.com/yerkamusic/; Marianna Ellenberg and Jeremy
Novak of DYMAXION - live music/multimedia performance (Tribeca only);
http://labarthe.club.fr/dymaxion/dymaxion.html. Experimental Film: Alyse
Emdur - "We Love Lloyd" - New York, NY; Chris Coleman - "Modern Times";
Dirian Lyons and Jesse Wilson - "California Excursions"; Jeremy Newman -
"Paper Cranes" - Princeton, NJ; Joon Sung - "Touch the Strings" -
Bowling Green, KY; Josh Weinstein - "Cross-Examination" - Brooklyn, NY;
Meg Duguid - "Clown" - Brooklyn, NY; Lili White - "Cloudgate" -
liliwhite.com; Luke Lamborn - "square millimeter of opportunity" -
Syracuse, NY - lucidstraw.com; Michael Betancourt - "Prima Materia" -
Des Moines, IA - michaelbetancourt.com; Myriam Thyes - "Ascension" -
Dusseldorf, Germany - thyes.com; Tristan Pfund - "Vertige" - Geneva,
Switzerland - osmose.ch; Marianna Ellenberg - "The Psychotropic Alphabet
from Z to Z" - Brooklyn, NY; Mac McKean - "Head Up" - Brooklyn, NY -
heaventree.com; Gigi Ng - "A Hand on the Doorknob of Greatness: The
Ever-Changing Form of Things" - Boston, MA; Heather Willems - New York,
NY. Art: Damali Abrams - collage - Queens, NY Mikhail Gubin - paintings
- New York, NY Nicole Miller - constructions - New York, NY Amy Sinclair
- installation - New York, NY Dmitry Gubin - paintings - New York, NY -
gubinpaint.com Rowena Dale S. Mohammed - paintings - Bronx, NY -
freewebs.com/dale_artwork Mike Saijo - paintings - New York, NY Rebecca
Hackemann - photography - New York, NY - rebecca-h.net Nora Herting -
photography - New York, NY - noreherting.net Betty T. Kao - visual art -
Brooklyn, NY Mott Haven is only 20 minutes from Union Square.
5/3
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, 204 South Main
MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS "THE MYTHOLOGY SHOW"
FILMMAKER BEN RUSSELL IN PERSON! Garbed in the finest of linens (cotton)
and bathed in radiant green flickering light (fluorescent), Magic
Lantern's Man-Behind-The-Curtain finally steps forward to reveal his own
Mad Visions of Our Collective Existence. Steeped in American folklore,
psychiatric techniques of the early 20th century, chaos theory, mask
rituals, and techniques of synaesthesia, these five 16mm films propose
an alternate mythos for the world in which we reside. In typical Magic
Lantern fashion, we've got not only Creation Myths and First Contact
Myths, but Giant Stone Head Myths and Eternally Bloody Cowboy Myths as
well. As if that weren't enough for you cineastes out there, you should
know that missing this show means missing the Rhode Island premiere of
what may well be the only 16mm structuralist Western ever made...
Featuring: Black and White Trypps Number One (6:30, 16mm, silent, 2005),
Daumë (7:00, 16mm, 2000), Black and White Trypps Number Two (8:30, 16mm,
silent, 2006), Terra Incognita (10:00, 16mm, 2002), The Twenty-One Lives
of Billy the Kid (55:00, 16mm, 2005) TRT 87:00 $5
5/3
Stuttgart, Germany: künstlerhaus stuttgart
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de
19 + 20.30, künstlerhaus stuttgart
"THE CINEMA I CARE ABOUT IS AT THE LEVEL OF POETRY" FILMS BY MARGARET
TAIT
11 films by the scottish filmmaker Maragret Tait (1919-99). Presented by
Peter Todd, filmmaker and curator, London. The films are rented by LUX,
London. Margaret Tait made 32 mostly short films between 1951 and 98.
She desribed her life's work as consisting of making film poems, and
denied suggestions that they were documentaries or diary films. Once she
said of her films that they are born "of sheer wonder and astonishment
at how much can be seen in any place that you choose --- if you really
look"
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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2006
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5/4
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/
6:00 p.m., 164 N. State St.
CALCULATIONS: PIONEERS OF COMPUTER ANIMATION
Decades before Hollywood CGI spectaculars, artists worked with computers
to create an aesthetic specific to the machine. At IBM, Bell, and in
their own home-built labs, they generated visionary spectacles from
mathematical precision--complex abstractions, stroboscopic patterns,
kinetic rhythms, and volumetric illusions. Tonight's program is a
cross-section of films by these early pioneers--from John Whitney's
stunning, analog-computer-generated CATALOG (1961, 7 min.) and the
pulsating geometry of Lillian Schwartz's ENIGMA (1972, 4 min.) to the
dense digital metaphysics of John Stehura's CYBERNETIK 5.3 (1965-69, 8
min.) and the allegorical characters of Peter Foldes' HUNGER (1973, 12
min.). Also on the program: HUMMINGBIRD (Charles Csuri, 1967 10 min.);
SUNSTONE (Ed Emshwiller, 1979, 3 min.); CALCULATED MOVEMENTS (Larry
Cuba, 1985, 6 min.); POEMFIELD NO. 5: FREE FALL (Stan VanDerBeek, 1966,
7 min.); PERMUTATIONS (John Whitney, 1968, 7 min.). [FRAY] - Tonight's
show is an instance of [FRAY], a distributed series of screenings,
discussions, student initiated projects and a conference. [FARY] traces
intersecting hyperthreads of time, screen and code-based experimental
New Media art hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's
Department of Film, Video, and New Media. 1961-1985, Canada/USA, 64 min.
16mm.
5/4
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
9 pm, Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
See May 1st listing for details. This screening is a linear presentation
of 16 of the 25 Letters.
5/4
karlsruhe, Germany: kinemathek karlsruhe
http://www.kuenstlerhaus.de
19 , Kinemathek karlsruhe
"THE CINEMA I CARE ABOUT IS AT THE LEVEL OF POETRY" FILMS BY MARGARET
TAIT
11 films by the scottish filmmaker Maragret Tait (1919-99). Presented by
Peter Todd, filmmaker and curator, London. The films are rented by LUX,
London. Margaret Tait made 32 mostly short films between 1951 and 98.
She desribed her life's work as consisting of making film poems, and
denied suggestions that they were documentaries or diary films. Once she
said of her films that they are born "of sheer wonder and astonishment
at how much can be seen in any place that you choose --- if you really
look"
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006
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5/5
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
10:45 pm, AMC Loews 34th Street 312 West 34th Street
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
See May 1st for details.
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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2006
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5/6
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 808 Aurora Street
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Curated by Mark Yzaguirre 713.868.2101, www.aurorapictureshow.org $5
general admission Free with Aurora All-Access Pass This program is a
collection of four documentaries that deal with different aspects of
American life, from personal recreation to the conduct of foreign
policy. Lauren Madow's Playground follows a few ordinary kids from New
York City who make the city their playground. The Bear Hunter by Mary
Robertson provides an intimate portrait of a Pennsylvania man who, after
decades of unsuccessful bear hunts, finally meets with success, which
turns out to not be quite what he expected. It's not my memory of it:
three recollected documents by Julia Meltzer and David Thorne is a
documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents which raises questions
about notions of disappearance and the tenuousness of historical fact in
the current climate of terror. Last, but certainly not least, Matt
McCormick's American Nutria gives us a view of the life and history of a
large rodent species that didn't plan to emigrate to America, but came
and prospered.
5/6
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://tribecafilmfestival.org
10:45 am, AMC Loews 34th Street 312 West 34th Street
25 LETTERS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
See May 1st listing for details
5/6
New York, New York: New York Film Festival
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm
10:00 PM, Village East Cinemas
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
A Dionysian Affair, the latest film from 108Films, will be screening. It
is an academically-driven piece that is well worth its 18 minutes.
Please do what you can to be present for the screening. Much
appreciation, thank you. - www.myspace.com/108films
5/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ECC AND BRAN FLAKES DO THEREOKE+
tradeMARK of the Evolution Control Committee and Otis Fodder of the Bran
Flakes team up to tell us all about the Theremin, that cult-classic
electronic instrument with the ethereal sci-fi sound. After some curious
history and expert demonstration, audience members will be invited up to
try their hand on the device in time to a pop backing-track, à la
karaoke. The two experimental musicians also take turns spinning the
most absolutely absurd artifacts in their vast vinyl collections. AND:
Believe it or not, we’re encouraging attendees to bring mobile
phones for Kristin Cato’s interactive cell-phone symphony! PLUS a
feast for eye and ear on the big screen, with glimpses of Spike Jones,
Gene Simmons, and the Punk Rock Orchestra. Bonus: The mighty Optigan!
$6.
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5/7
Bronx, NY: Synthetic Zero
http://www.syntheticzero.com/events/
7pm, NW corner of Lincoln Ave and Bruckner Blvd, Bronx
ARTFILMPERFORMANCE - SYNTHETIC ZERO EVENT
Performances: McCloud Zicmuse - Le Ton Mité amazing one-man band of
fascinating music (Tribeca show) http://www.myspace.com/letonmite;
Benoit Maubrey - Audio Ballerinas - sound/dance performance (Bronx on
Sunday) http://home.snafu.de/maubrey/; Imagination Explosion - life-size
puppetry (All three events) http://www.imaginationexplosion.com/; Yoko
Kikuchi - girl punk rock (Tribeca, possibly also Bronx events)
http://www.yokokikuchi.com/yerkamusic/; Marianna Ellenberg and Jeremy
Novak of DYMAXION - live music/multimedia performance (Tribeca only)
http://labarthe.club.fr/dymaxion/dymaxion.html. Experimental Film: Alyse
Emdur - "We Love Lloyd" - New York, NY; Chris Coleman - "Modern Times";
Dirian Lyons and Jesse Wilson - "California Excursions"; Jeremy Newman -
"Paper Cranes" - Princeton, NJ; Joon Sung - "Touch the Strings" -
Bowling Green, KY; Josh Weinstein - "Cross-Examination" - Brooklyn, NY;
Meg Duguid - "Clown" - Brooklyn, NY; Lili White - "Cloudgate" -
liliwhite.com; Luke Lamborn - "square millimeter of opportunity" -
Syracuse, NY - lucidstraw.com; Michael Betancourt - "Prima Materia" -
Des Moines, IA - michaelbetancourt.com; Myriam Thyes - "Ascension" -
Dusseldorf, Germany - thyes.com; Tristan Pfund - "Vertige" - Geneva,
Switzerland - osmose.ch; Marianna Ellenberg - "The Psychotropic Alphabet
from Z to Z" - Brooklyn, NY; Mac McKean - "Head Up" - Brooklyn, NY -
heaventree.com; Gigi Ng - "A Hand on the Doorknob of Greatness: The
Ever-Changing Form of Things" - Boston, MA; Heather Willems - New York,
NY. Art: Damali Abrams - collage - Queens, NY Mikhail Gubin - paintings
- New York, NY Nicole Miller - constructions - New York, NY Amy Sinclair
- installation - New York, NY Dmitry Gubin - paintings - New York, NY -
gubinpaint.com Rowena Dale S. Mohammed - paintings - Bronx, NY -
freewebs.com/dale_artwork Mike Saijo - paintings - New York, NY Rebecca
Hackemann - photography - New York, NY - rebecca-h.net Nora Herting -
photography - New York, NY - noreherting.net Betty T. Kao - visual art -
Brooklyn, NY
5/7
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
3pm, 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX 77009
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Curated by Mark Yzaguirre, 713.868.2101, www.aurorapictureshow.org, $5
general admission, Free with Aurora All-Access Pass, This program is a
collection of four documentaries that deal with different aspects of
American life, from personal recreation to the conduct of foreign
policy. Lauren Madow's Playground follows a few ordinary kids from New
York City who make the city their playground. The Bear Hunter by Mary
Robertson provides an intimate portrait of a Pennsylvania man who, after
decades of unsuccessful bear hunts, finally meets with success, which
turns out to not be quite what he expected. It's not my memory of it:
three recollected documents by Julia Meltzer and David Thorne is a
documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents which raises questions
about notions of disappearance and the tenuousness of historical fact in
the current climate of terror. Last, but certainly not least, Matt
McCormick's American Nutria gives us a view of the life and history of a
large rodent species that didn't plan to emigrate to America, but came
and prospered.
5/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
SITING VIDEO: NEW WORKS FROM OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
The works present a broad spectrum of approaches coming from
contemporary Los Angeles. This collection of videos spans the range of
performance to animation, meditative to political, experimental to
narrative. A complex digital program that reflects the complicated site
of our city.
5/7
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30pm, 922 SE Ankeny Street
REBECCA BARON
Cinema Project is delighted to have Rebecca Baron, a Los Angeles-based
filmmaker and professor of film and video at the California Arts
Institute, in Portland to present two evenings of film. Her most recent
piece, How Little We Know of Our Neighbours, is an experimental
documentary about Britain's Mass Observation Movement and its
relationship to contemporary issues regarding surveillance, public
self-disclosure, and privacy. Balancing conventional documentary
strategies with forms of narrative this film investigates the multiple
roles cameras have played in public space. The Idea Of North, based on
photographs taken a century ago by three polar explorers marooned on an
ice floe, presents the limitations of images and other forms of record
as a means of knowing the past. She will also be screening Humphrey
Jennings' 1939 film Spare Time.
5/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street at Third
AFTERSHOCKS: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS, VIDEOS, AND ANIMATION FROM TAIWAN
This program is part of San Francisco Cinematheque's PACIFIC RIM series.
Cinematheque presents a rare showcase of recent experimental media from
Taiwan introduced and presented by Bay Area filmmaker Anita Chang, who
has been an artist resident and Fulbright lecturer there for the past
few years. These works and their techniques reverberate with
incisiveness, sensitivity, and introspection as they speak to what
remains for a young democratic stateless nation vulnerable to the whims
of dominant global economic exploits. Shifting between the lingering and
fleeting, reconstructed and abandoned, sentiment and satire, they are
soulful reclamations in the midst of precipitous change and loss. Works
include: CHEN Chieh-Jen's Factory, Tony Chun-Hui WU's exTAIPEIit, LIN
Chun-Hua's She says, Mia CHEN's Red-Label Rice Wine, HOU Chi-Jan's
Stardust 15749001, and Nana WU's Farewell 1999. Presented in Association
with the Center for Asian American Media. ADMISSION: $8 general, $5
Cinematheque Members, Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID). Advance
Tickets: 415-978-ARTS
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