Part 3 of 3: This week [November 10 - 18, 2006] in avant garde cinema

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Part 3 of 3: This week [November 10 - 18, 2006] in avant garde cinema

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006
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11/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm & 9:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.

 NY THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF ROBERT FRANK'S ME & MY BROTHER
  See Nov. 10 for details.

11/15
San Francisco, California: Studio 27
http://www.studio27.org
8 p.m., 689 Bryant Street

 WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS (PERFORMING THE TRUTH/PERUSING A LIE)
  "We are So Much Better Than This" (Performing the truth/Perusing a Lie)
  Video Works by Tanja Dabo, Nir Evron, Marianna Ellenberg, Oriana Fox,
  Lala Rascic, Nisi Jacobs, Omer Krieger, Steve Reinke and Samuel Stevens.
  Curated by Marianna Ellenberg. November 15, 8:00 PM, Admission: Free.
  Studio 27, 689 Bryant Street, San Fransisco, CA. The video works in "We
  are So Much Better Than This—Performing the Truth/Perusing a Lie"
  subvert the symbiotic relationship between the script, the voice, its
  owner, and potential embodiment. A voice may be paired with a satirical
  double, as in Oriana Fox's "Consciousness, Understanding N' Trust"
  (2003), or constantly fail to synchronize, as in Lala Rascic's "Sorry
  Wrong Number"(2005). Hovering between abstract images and spectral
  bodies, the voice is never stabilized in these works, it is either
  edited to the wrong sync point or created from a falsified script. This
  screening traces the breadth and variation of the video voice, including
  the queering of popular Americana In Steve Reinke's "Anthology of
  American Folk Song" (2004), the replaying of counter-revolutionary
  voices in Hayes "SLA Screed 20" (2002) and exhausting the voice of
  cultural tourism in Dabo's "Wellcomme"(2004). Omer Krieger, FLAG
  (Israel, 2 min, 2003, video ) Produced by TV CHANNEL FLAG is a call for
  a post-national Israel, offering up the possibility of
  deterritorialization in an age of growing nationalism and religious
  fundamentalism. Is the removal of the Star of David liberating or
  oppressing, and are there only two ways to look at this possible future?
  (-Omer Krieger, 2006) Steve Reinke, Anthology of American Folk Song
  (Canada, 29 min, 2004) Another twisted Reinke journey into American
  mythology and broken dreams, including masqueraded televangelists and
  ingenious reconfigurations of popular melodies from JLO to Patty Smith.
  Marianna Ellenberg, The Psychotrophic Alphabet From Z to Z (US, 3 min,
  2004) In this mock advertisement, probing questions are culled from
  psycho-pharmaceutical websites and re-edited against the passive image
  of a woman endlessly drifting in a pastoral landscape. The trauma of a
  televisual consciousness, and the loss of a psychological self is echoed
  through the empty gaze of the patient, and the chilling authority of
  'neutral' voice over. Oriana Fox Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust
  video (US/UK, 6 min, 2003) Ventriloquism, lip-synching, and
  appropriation all play subversive roles in the post-feminist
  retro-spoof, Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust. In it I play a
  quirky cast of characters including Betty Crocker brunettes, soap-opera
  blondes, and air-head redheads as they become aware of their collective
  subjugation as women. Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screed No. 20
  (USA,15 min, 2004) is Sharon Hayes's talking-head re-creation of a video
  made by Patty Hearst and her captors after her kidnapping in 1974. She
  upbraids her parents for their wealth, accuses the American government
  of trying to kill her and declares solidarity with the revolution. (From
  a New York Times Review, January 2006) Samuel Stevens, Esperi video (UK,
  10 min, 2005) "Esperi" traces the history of Esperanto from its creation
  through to it's current status within the EU parliament where it is
  rivaled only by English as a bridging language between nations. Tanja
  Dabo Wellcome, video (Croatia, 9 min,2004) Incessantly repeating, almost
  to the point of choking, the phrase welcome in foreign languages
  addressed to all potential tourists for whom the country and its
  weakened economy crave. Lala Rascic, Sorry Wrong Number
  (Bosnia-Herzegovina, 15 min, 2006) In this video, the artist acts out
  the famous 1943 radio play, muted. The words being spoken and the
  performer are purposefully out of sync, paralleling the miscommunication
  present in the narrative of the play itself. Nisi Jacobs, From the
  Horses Mouth (I can produce-pronounce-nuclear) video (USA,11min., 2005)
  (I can produce-pronounce-nuclear) which is its generative motivating
  core, an unscripted moment during Laura Bush's delivery of an entirely
  scripted stand-up comedy routine at the 2005 White House Correspondent's
  Dinner in Washington D.C. in which, through Freudian slip, she
  substitutes 'produce' for 'pronounce'. The images contort and writhe
  through visually gagging effects intensifying the already-sick toxicity
  and hypocrisy which engulfs the room of 2,500 politicians, journalists,
  and media 'managers' who are enjoying the manufactured wit on stage,
  simultaneously implicating themselves in the nation's crimes. Nir Evron
  "One Forest" 6 min, 2006 One Forest was shot in the Bialowieza forest,
  which is the last remaining primeval forest, a unique ecological system
  that is 8000 years old. This forest exists at the juncture between
  nightmares of the past, a vision of an emmerging EU, and a limbo of a
  never-ending present.

11/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West

 THE FREE SCREEN - KHALO MATABANE IN PERSON!
  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. Khalo Matabane's first feature, CONVERSATIONS ON
  A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, has established him as an important voice in South
  African cinema with its canny combination of fictional and documentary
  elements. CONVERSATIONS begins with a series of encounters in a city
  park between Keniloe (Tony Kgoroge) and Fatima (Fatima Hersi), a
  Somalian refugee. One day Fatima tells him her story – of the terrible
  losses visited on her by war, forcing her to leave her homeland.
  Inspired by their meeting, he sets out to find her again, interviewing
  many fascinating characters along the way. CONVERSATIONS offers a
  fascinating glimpse into a South Africa that, for all its struggles in
  the post-Apartheid era, has become a refuge for exiles fleeing more
  horrific struggles in places as disparate as Uganda, the former
  Yugoslavia, and Palestinian refugee camps. "The African new wave is
  gathering force, and Khalo Matabane is the latest to join the surge...
  [his] work is intimate, political and dead smart" (Cameron Bailey,
  Toronto International Film Festival). CONVERSATIONS ON A SUNDAY
  AFTERNOON, Director: Khalo Matabane (South Africa, 2005, 80 minutes,
  video). 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.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
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11/16
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6:00 pm, 164 N. State Street

 LIGHT YEARS: THE FILMS & VIDEOS OF GUNVOR NELSON
  Gunvor Nelson in person! One of the few women to emerge from San
  Francisco's heady independent film scene of the 1960s, Swedish filmmaker
  Gunvor Nelson has produced one of the great bodies of work in
  experimental film. Her films and videos are at once intimate studies of
  life's emotional landscapes and sensual explorations of image and sound,
  built up through lush compositions and lyrical montages. Tonight, in a
  rare North American appearance, Nelson will present the first in a
  three-part overview of her work, including the Midwest premiere of her
  latest video, NEW EVIDENCE (2006, 22 min.); along with her first film,
  the visceral and brash SCHMEERGUNTZ (w/Dorothy Wiley, 1966, 15 min.);
  the lyrical MOON'S POOL (1973, 15 min.) and the stunning collage film,
  NATURAL FEATURES (1990, 16mm, 30 min.). LIGHT YEARS is co-presented by
  CATE, the Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago, and Chicago
  Filmmakers. Part two screens Friday, November 17 at the Film Studies
  Center. Part three screens Saturday, November 18 at Chicago Filmmakers.
  (1966-2006, Sweden/USA, various formats, ca. 85 min.)

11/16
Madrid: La Enana Marron
http://www.laenanamarron.org/home.htm
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004

 LUZ Y TIEMPO: HISTORIA PARCIAL DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y VIDEOARTE
 BRITANICO 1968-2006
  PROGRAMME VI GLITTERBUG Derek Jarman Video, 60 min, color y b/n, 1994

11/16
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
6:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street

 JENNI OLSON'S THE JOY OF LIFE
  The Joy of Life. 2005. USA. Directed by Jenni Olson. The landscape is
  San Francisco. Light shifts across its hills and the Golden Gate Bridge.
  The voice-over, by Harriet "Harry" Dodge, tells two heart-wrenching
  stories: the history of the Bridge as a mecca for suicides, and the
  search for love by a young woman seeking another woman. Lawrence
  Ferlinghetti reads his ode to San Francisco, "The Changing Light," and
  the opening and closing music is by poet and presumed Golden Gate
  suicide victim Weldon Kees. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
  Curator, Department of Film. Courtesy Strand Releasing and Frameline. 65
  min. New York premiere. Saturday, November 11, 8:00; Thursday, November
  16, 6:00.

11/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm & 9:30pm, 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.

 NY THEATRICAL PREMIERE OF ME & MY BROTHER BY ROBERT FRANK
  See Nov. 10 for details.

11/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia St. @ 21 St.

 OPEN SCREENING AT ATA
  See fresh perspectives and formula shattering techniques in film, video
  and music art from the Bay Area and beyond! One hour of shorts are
  accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, and the refreshments are
  darn good. $4, FREE admission for exhibitors. Door, 7:30pm, Projector:
  8pm

11/16
Somerville,MA: Doctor T
http://www.foryourhead.com
9 PM, PA's Lounge Union Square

 DOCTOR T VIDEO IMPROVISATION
  Chris Pearson, former guitarist and singer for Green Magnet School, is
  playing Thursday, November 16th at PA's Lounge in beautiful Union Sq,
  Somerville. Also playing will be psychedelic experimentalists Full Grown
  Spiders, Energy, and The Fixations. CP is on at 10PM. Image Manipulator
  Dr. T will be providing psychedelic projections and visuals for your
  head. Show starts at 9PM, tickets are $7.00 for 21+, $10 for 18+ Chris
  Pearson (10PM) http://www.myspace.com/chrispearsonmusic Full Grown
  Spiders (11PM) http://www.myspace.com/fullgrownspiders Energy (12PM)
  http://www.myspace.com/energytime Fixations (9PM)
  http://www.myspace.com/fixations Dr. T http://www.foryourhead.com/
  "Chris Pearson, former guitarist and vocalist for Green Magnet School,
  now does solo material combining the organic with the synthetic
  utilizing guitars, effects, synthesizers, and a laptop in a unique,
  primitivist, post-rock style. Surprisingly loud for one person."

11/16
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
http://students.syr.edu/thursdayscreeners/home.html
8pm, Gifford Auditorium (H.B. Crouse Building)

 TRACKS + GESTURES
  Audio Visions from Up North! This program of recent experimental film &
  cinematic video from Canada and Québec lays down tracks -- in snow, over
  celluloid, across optical fields. Music for eye & ear (hold the
  control), with tracking shots that reveal the organic thru artifice.
  Painting as conceptual coordinate and point of departure, particularly
  the gestural Automatism of Riopelle and black/white Borduas minimalism,
  where representational abstraction flows from corporeal rhythms and
  spontaneous production. We work to keep (it) warm. TRT: 65 minutes.
  Films and videos by Mitchell AKIYAMA, Deco DAWSON, Ryan DIDUCK, Kelly
  EGAN, Julien IDRAC, Brett KASHMERE, Karl LEMIEUX, Sheila & Nicholas PYE,
  and Daichi SAITO. Curated by Brett Kashmere. More info:
  http://www.m-o-s-t-r-a.com/video_dumbo/06-tracks-gestures.html

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006
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11/17
Hull, United Kingdom: Hull Film
http://www.hullfilm.co.uk/
7:30pm, Hull Screen|University of Lincoln|George Street|Hull|HU1 3BW

 DANCE MOVES
  PLAYING IN THE LIGHT PART TWO Short Film programme Friday November 17th
  7.30pm Hull Screen|University of Lincoln|George Street|Hull|HU1 3BW
  "Reappropriating the body is not merely a question of choreography, of
  which dance represents the maximum resistance, but also a question of
  sociography, of relating to others and to the world. Otherwise it's
  madness." –Paul Virilio Politics of the Very Worst Playing in the Light
  is a tour of films all about the way we see. The tour's focus on ideas
  of race and identity asks essential questions about the way the modern
  world is framed. In cinema stripped back to gesture, rhythm and motion,
  the weight of black culture, history, identity and politics are
  illuminated by the lightness and possibility of performance and dance.
  This specially selected sequence of artists' film, brings together some
  of the very best artists, choreographers, dancers and musicians working
  in this collaborative field of filmmaking. An ICO touring project
  supported by the Arts Council as part of bfi's Black World initiative.
  THE STATE OF THINGS Rosalind Nashashibi 2000|4'|UK A jumble sale set to
  an Egyptian classic love song from the 1920s. FOUR WOMEN Julie Dash
  1977|8'|US An experimental dance film that employs the use of stylised
  movements and dress to express the spirit of black womanhood from an
  embryonic stage in Africa, through a struggle she wages to survive in
  America. DELILAH Tanya Syed 1995|11'|UK Located in the darkness, a place
  of no boundaries, Delilah is a "meditation on violence", love and
  survival. STRONG WOMEN Jayne Parker 2000|15'|UK Strength displayed and
  strength employed: a portrait of trapeze artist Vicki Amedume. UNTITLED
  John Sanborn/Mary Perillo/Bill T Jones 1989|10'|US A tribute to the life
  and work of the dancer and choreographer Arnie Zane, who died of AIDS in
  1988. THREE Isaac Julien 1999|15'|UK Produced in collaboration with and
  featuring choreographers Bebe Miller and Ralph Lemon along with British
  actress Cleo Sylvestre, Three explores aspects of desire through dance
  movements and symbolically weighted images. TOTAL RUNNING TIME 65
  minutes No cert

11/17
Los Angeles, California: and Los Angeles FilmForum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

 A CENTENNIAL PROGRAM PART I: CLAIRE PARKER
  A Centennial Program honoring Two Pioneer Women Animators: Mary Ellen
  Bute and Claire Parker, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of
  their Births. Organized by Center for Visual Music (CVM) in association
  with Cecile Starr and The Women's Independent Film Exchange. Presented
  at Los Angeles FilmForum Nov. 17-18 (Two separate programs, 16mm). A
  celebration of the lives and accomplishments of pioneer experimental
  animators Mary Ellen Bute and Clare Parker, both born in 1906. Both
  studied to be painters before starting their lifetime careers in film.
  Both worked with their partners (Ted Nemeth and Alexandre Alexeieff) for
  five decades, in New York and Paris respectively. Their films continue
  to be major milestones in the history of 20th-century fine-art
  animation. Programs introduced by Cindy Keefer of CVM. Part One: Friday,
  Nov. 17 Program: Alexandre Alexeieff/Claire Parker short Experimental
  Animation films. Featuring a series of their experimental animation
  shorts (including all of their pinboard films): Night on Bald Mountain
  (1933), Sleeping Beauty (1935), En Passant (1943), The Nose (1963),
  Pictures at an Exhibition (1972), Three Moods (1980), a series of their
  Color Commercials (1952-61), plus Alexeieff at the Pinboard (1960). The
  pair created experimental animation with their pinboard (pinscreen)
  invention, and their mechanized stop-motion animation techniques which
  they called "Totalization." All 16mm prints, with short documentary
  footage on video. Part Two, Saturday Nov 18: Mary Ellen Bute Program of
  short abstract Visual Music films. For more information about the
  programs, visit http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm Prints
  courtesy Cecile Starr, The Women's Film Presevation Fund, and Yale
  University Film Study Center.

11/17
Los Angeles, California: Overtones Gallery
http://www.overtones.org
7:30, 11306 Venice Blvd

 WE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS (VIDEO SCREENING)
  "We are So Much Better Than This" (Performing the truth/Perusing a Lie)
  Video Works by Tanja Dabo, Nir Evron, Marianna Ellenberg, Oriana Fox,
  Lala Rascic, Nisi Jacobs, Omer Krieger, Steve Reinke and Samuel Stevens
  Curated by Marianna Ellenberg The video works in "We are So Much Better
  Than This—Performing the Truth/Perusing a Lie" subvert the symbiotic
  relationship between the script, the voice, its owner, and potential
  embodiment. A voice may be paired with a satirical double, as in Oriana
  Fox's "Consciousness, Understanding N' Trust" (2003), or constantly fail
  to synchronize, as in Lala Rascic's "Sorry Wrong Number"(2005). Hovering
  between abstract images and spectral bodies, the voice is never
  stabilized in these works, it is either edited to the wrong sync point
  or created from a falsified script. This screening traces the breadth
  and variation of the video voice, including the queering of popular
  Americana In Steve Reinke's "Anthology of American Folk Song" (2004),
  the replaying of counter-revolutionary voices in Hayes "SLA Screed 20"
  (2002) and exhausting the voice of cultural tourism in Dabo's
  "Wellcomme"(2004). Omer Krieger, FLAG (Israel, 2 min, 2003, video )
  Produced by TV CHANNEL FLAG is a call for a post-national Israel,
  offering up the possibility of deterritorialization in an age of growing
  nationalism and religious fundamentalism. Is the removal of the Star of
  David liberating or oppressing, and are there only two ways to look at
  this possible future? (-Omer Krieger, 2006) Steve Reinke, Anthology of
  American Folk Song (Canada, 29 min, 2004) Another twisted Reinke journey
  into American mythology and broken dreams, including masqueraded
  televangelists and ingenious reconfigurations of popular melodies from
  JLO to Patty Smith. Marianna Ellenberg, The Psychotrophic Alphabet From
  Z to Z (US, 3 min, 2004) In this mock advertisement, probing questions
  are culled from psycho-pharmaceutical websites and re-edited against the
  passive image of a woman endlessly drifting in a pastoral landscape. The
  trauma of a televisual consciousness, and the loss of a psychological
  self is echoed through the empty gaze of the patient, and the chilling
  authority of 'neutral' voice over. Oriana Fox Consciousness,
  Understanding 'N Trust video (US/UK, 6 min, 2003) Ventriloquism,
  lip-synching, and appropriation all play subversive roles in the
  post-feminist retro-spoof, Consciousness, Understanding 'N Trust. In it
  I play a quirky cast of characters including Betty Crocker brunettes,
  soap-opera blondes, and air-head redheads as they become aware of their
  collective subjugation as women. Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screed
  No. 20 (USA,15 min, 2004) is Sharon Hayes's talking-head re-creation of
  a video made by Patty Hearst and her captors after her kidnapping in
  1974. She upbraids her parents for their wealth, accuses the American
  government of trying to kill her and declares solidarity with the
  revolution. (From a New York Times Review, January 2006) Samuel Stevens,
  Esperi video (UK, 10 min, 2005) "Esperi" traces the history of Esperanto
  from its creation through to it's current status within the EU
  parliament where it is rivaled only by English as a bridging language
  between nations. Tanja Dabo Wellcome, video (Croatia, 9 min,2004)
  Incessantly repeating, almost to the point of choking, the phrase
  welcome in foreign languages addressed to all potential tourists for
  whom the country and its weakened economy crave. Lala Rascic, Sorry
  Wrong Number (Bosnia-Herzegovina, 15 min, 2006) In this video, the
  artist acts out the famous 1943 radio play, muted. The words being
  spoken and the performer are purposefully out of sync, paralleling the
  miscommunication present in the narrative of the play itself. Nisi
  Jacobs, From the Horses Mouth (I can produce-pronounce-nuclear) video
  (USA,11min., 2005) (I can produce-pronounce-nuclear) which is its
  generative motivating core, an unscripted moment during Laura Bush's
  delivery of an entirely scripted stand-up comedy routine at the 2005
  White House Correspondent's Dinner in Washington D.C. in which, through
  Freudian slip, she substitutes 'produce' for 'pronounce'. The images
  contort and writhe through visually gagging effects intensifying the
  already-sick toxicity and hypocrisy which engulfs the room of 2,500
  politicians, journalists, and media 'managers' who are enjoying the
  manufactured wit on stage, simultaneously implicating themselves in the
  nation's crimes. Nir Evron "One Forest" 6 min, 2006 One Forest was shot
  in the Bialowieza forest, which is the last remaining primeval forest, a
  unique ecological system that is 8000 years old. This forest exists at
  the juncture between nightmares of the past, a vision of an emmerging
  EU, and a limbo of a never-ending present.

11/17
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

 A CELEBRATION OF TWO PIONEER WOMEN ANIMATORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND MARY
 ELLEN BUTE
  Filmforum presents a Celebration of Two Pioneer Women Animators: Claire
  Parker and Mary Ellen Bute on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of
  their Births A Two-Evening celebration, organized by the Center for
  Visual Music Part One: Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff This
  program features a series of their animated shorts including Night on
  Bald Mountain (1933), En Passant (1943), The Nose (1963), Pictures at an
  Exhibition (1972), and a series of their Color Commercials. The pair
  created experimental animation with their pinboard (pinscreen)
  invention, and their mechanized stop-motion animation techniques which
  they called "Totalization." All 16mm prints. Note the change in time. $9
  general; $6 students/seniors. Bute-Parker Centennial organized by Center
  for Visual Music in association with Cecile Starr and The Women's
  Independent Film Exchange.

11/17
Madrid: La Enana Marron
http://www.laenanamarron.org/home.htm
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004

 LUZ Y TIEMPO: HISTORIA PARCIAL DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y VIDEOARTE
 BRITANICO 1968-2006
  PROGRAMME III: SHORT FILM SERIES,?Guy Sherwin,?16mm, b/n, muda, (a
  selection of 3 films from the series), 7 min, 1975-2004.? BLOCK,?Emily
  Richardson,?16mm, color, 11 min, 2005.? STILL LIFE,?Jenny Okun,?16mm
  (negativo), muda, color, 6 min, 1976.? SURGE,?Jan Otto Ertesvag,?16mm,
  color 1 min, 1996.? BERLIN HORSE,?Malcolm Le Grice,?16mm, color, 8 min,
  1970.? MILK AND GLASS,?Sarah Pucill,?16mm, color, 8 min, 1993.
  SPEAK,?John Latham, ?16mm, color, 11 min, 1968-69.? SAVE ME,?Stuart
  Hilton,?35mm, color, 6 min, 1992.? FERMENT,?Tim Macmillan,?35mm, color,
  5 min, 1999.? LOVE IS ALL,?Oliver Harrison. ?35mm, color, 4 min, 1999.
  RT. 60 min

11/17
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street

 ROBERT LEE'S MINIMA MORALIA
  THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT: SIX
  OF ONE, HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA, PROGRAM 3 Robert
  Lee's MINIMA MORALIA 2005, 85 minutes, video. Filmmaker in person! This
  calendar continues the 6-month screening series of Canadian artists'
  film and video organized by Anthology and The Images Festival, Toronto.
  Following our successful spotlight of Philip Hoffman in September, this
  season sees programs devoted to three Canadian media artists: the
  well-respected Barbara Sternberg, the reinvented Robert Lee and the
  emergent Leslie Peters. Each solo program will be paired with a show of
  short works by artists that navigate similar conceptual terrains. Look
  for our final spotlights on Richard Fung, Clive Holden and John Porter
  in the winter season. On Robert Lee: A man married a two-headed lady
  from the circus and went home to tell his family. His mother asked, "Is
  she pretty?" and the man answered, "Yes and no." A bit of a mythic
  recluse in the Canadian art scene, Robert Lee made a series of enigmatic
  videos before withdrawing them (and himself) from circulation before the
  turn of the millennium. Commissioned by Images and Charles Street Video
  in 2005, Lee returned to view to re-edit and remake much of his existing
  work, resulting in a piece that is at once a retrospective and a remix.
  Drawing from material spanning fifteen years, Lee's eloquent and
  enigmatic monologues will connect with all connoisseurs of life's
  casually encountered profundities ¬– the sour nights when "every song on
  the radio was the worst way I could think of to ask for what I did not
  yet know how not to want." "His latest work presents a terrain of
  revolving occurrences not unlike the architecture of sleep; not a
  restful sleep but a dreaming sleep in which the brain is active and the
  body paralyzed. In this somnambular viewing state, locations are
  confused, stories repeat and memories shift. Cadence is measured in
  pauses that Lee skillfully inserts like a seasoned comic offering the
  necessary cues for the good delivery of a joke. He creates disruptions
  by halting the passing of images in favour of black spaces, by
  suspending the voiceover to allow for silence and by tripping our recall
  through the use of familiar images. The resulting collusion of
  blackouts, confusion and overlap creates crisis in the pairing of memory
  and place." –Sarah Robayo Sheridan, C MAGAZINE Series made possible
  thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts (Media Arts Section) and the
  Canadian Consul General, New York City Special thanks to Anthology Film
  Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

11/17
San Francisco, California: Studio 27
http://studio27.org
9:00 pm, 689 Bryant Street

 ABRASIONS: ARCHITECTURE AND ACCIDENT
  An evening of avant-garde film, video, and discussion about the
  intersection of architecture, disaster and fragmentary space. Many of
  these works muse on the relationship between time and place, and
  question the significance of the human hand on the landscape. Additional
  pieces in the screening reveal an uncanny peek into the everyday
  occupation of buildings. Films and videos by: Jay Needham, Christina
  McPhee, Carl Diehl, Corner, Joe Merrell, Gustavo Almeida-Santos, Luke
  Sieczek, Scott Stark, Timothy Hutchings, Dominic Angerame, David Burns,
  Emil Hrvatin, Peter Senck, Tomonari Nishikawa, Karima Risk & Linda
  Saveholt The artists Dominic Angerame and Tomonari Nishikawa will be
  present. Admission is free!

11/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

 AS THE GREAT EARTH ROLLS ON
  Friday, November 17 at 7:30pm California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth
  Street (near Sixteenth) As The Great Earth Rolls On: A Frank O'Hara
  Birthday Tribute Bill Berkson, Julian Brolaski, Dan Fisher In Person To
  celebrate what would have been poet Frank O'Hara's 80th birthday, we
  present a mix of film and poetry in several permutations. Poet and
  essayist Bill Berkson discusses and reads from O'Hara's work. The
  American Poetry Archives at SF State contributes rare footage of the
  poet in his milieu. Theater director Mac McGinnes collages text from
  O'Hara's plays into an alternate, subversive dialog for a scene from
  Trouble in Paradise, one of O'Hara's favorite films, and Dan Fisher and
  Julian Brolaski perform it live to the film. Finally we conclude with
  The Last Clean Shirt, the poet's collaboration with artist Alfred
  Leslie.

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11/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)

 LIGHT YEARS: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY GUNVOR NELSON
  Gunvor Nelson in Person! Chicago Filmmakers, in cooperation with the
  Film Studies Center at the University of Chicago and the Department of
  Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute, is
  extremely pleased to welcome Swedish experimental film great Gunvor
  Nelson, who is on a rare and very limited North American tour. Nelson is
  a pioneer avant-garde artist, one of the few women working in the heady
  San Francisco experimental film scene of the 1960's. Tonight's program
  features Nelson's new digital video, True to Life (2006), a journey into
  plants, a confrontation between the camera (filmmaker) and a close
  thriving territory, as well as a confrontation between this closeness
  and abrupt distance. Also showing is her classic film Light Years
  (1987): "Nelson blends collage animation with highly textured
  live-action material to create a haunting evocation of her displacement
  from her native Swedish culture" (Parabola). Plus: the digital video
  Tree-Line (1998). Nelson is also presenting different programs of films
  in the Conversations at the Edge series at the Gene Siskel Film Center
  (November 16) and at the Film Studies Center at the University of
  Chicago (November 17).

11/18
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

 A CENTENNIAL PROGRAM PART II: MARY ELLEN BUTE
  A Centennial Program honoring Two Pioneer Women Animators: Mary Ellen
  Bute and Claire Parker, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of
  their Births. Organized by Center for Visual Music (CVM) in association
  with Cecile Starr and The Women's Independent Film Exchange. Presented
  at Los Angeles FilmForum Nov. 17-18 (Two separate programs, 16mm). A
  celebration of the lives and accomplishments of pioneer experimental
  animators Mary Ellen Bute and Clare Parker, both born in 1906. Both
  studied to be painters before starting their lifetime careers in film.
  Both worked with their partners (Ted Nemeth and Alexandre Alexeieff) for
  five decades, in New York and Paris respectively. Their films continue
  to be major milestones in the history of 20th-century fine-art
  animation. Programs introduced by Cindy Keefer of CVM. Part Two,
  Saturday Nov 18, 7:30 pm: Mary Ellen Bute Program of short abstract
  Visual Music films. Known for her pioneering early abstract films (some
  of which were screened regularly at Radio City Music Hall, New York in
  the 1930s), and one of the first film artists to use oscilloscopes, she
  is also known for her collaborations with Norman McLaren and Leon
  Theremin, among others. Teaming the formal rigor of Oskar Fischinger
  with the zip of a Merrie Melody, Bute's Visual Music is renowned for its
  brilliant use of color, light, and lyrical geometries. Bute also made a
  series of Visual Music films which she called "Seeing Sound" (included
  in this program). Program includes all 14 of her short abstract films,
  some rarely-screened, in 16mm prints: Rhythm in Light, 1934; Synchromy
  No. 2, 1935; Dada, 1936; Parabola, 1937; Escape, 1937; Spook Sport
  (animated by Norman McLaren), 1939; Tarantella, 1940; Polka Graph, 1947;
  Color Rhapsody, 1948; Imagination, 1948; New Sensations in Sound, 1949
  (RCA Commercial); Pastorale, 1950; Abstronic, 1952 and Mood Contrasts,
  1953. Plus a rarely-seen brief biographical clip on video. For more
  information about the films, visit
  www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Events.htm and
  www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Bute.htm Prints courtesy Cecile Starr, The
  Women's Film Preservation Fund, and Yale University Film Study Center.

11/18
Los Angeles: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.

 A CELEBRATION OF TWO PIONEER WOMEN ANIMATORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND MARY
 ELLEN BUTE
  Filmforum presents a Celebration of Two Pioneer Women Animators: Claire
  Parker and Mary Ellen Bute on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of
  their Births A Two-Evening celebration, organized by the Center for
  Visual Music Part Two: Mary Ellen Bute A pioneer of visual music and
  electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract
  animations between the 1930s to the 1950s. Set to classical music by the
  likes of Bach, Saint-Saens or Shoshtakovich, and filled with colorful
  forms, elegant design and sprightly, dance-like-rhythms, Bute's
  filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited,
  like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. Note the change
  in time. $9 general; $6 students/seniors. Bute-Parker Centennial
  organized by Center for Visual Music in association with Cecile Starr
  and The Women's Independent Film Exchange.

11/18
Madrid: La Enana Marron
http://www.laenanamarron.org/home.htm
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004

 LUZ Y TIEMPO: HISTORIA PARCIAL DEL CINE EXPERIMENTAL Y VIDEOARTE
 BRITANICO 1968-2006
  PROGRAMME I: SODASTREAM, Roderick Buchanan, Video, 1'30 min, 2001. SEA
  CHANGE, Joe King y Rosie Pedlow, Video, 5'30 min, 2004. ARBITRARY LOGIC,
  Malcolm Le Grice, Video, 5 min, 1987-89. HERMAPHRODITE BIKINI, Clio
  Barnard, Video, 5 min, 1995. DOWNSIDE UP, Tony Hill, Video, 17 min,
  1984. ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, Semiconductor, Video, 5 min, 2005.
  BLIGHT, John Smith, Video, 14 min, color, 1994-96. RT. 54 mins

11/18
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
6:30pm, 11 West 53rd Street

 BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL: THE LEGACY OF THE SHORT FILM
  The Black Maria Film Festival was named after the American birthplace of
  the motion picture-Thomas Edison's West Orange, NJ, laboratory-a
  revolving photographic studio called the Black Maria because it
  resembled a police paddy wagon. Over the last twenty-five years,
  founding director John Columbus has overseen this alternative festival,
  which embraces the diversity and passion of the cinematic short form. It
  provides many directors with their earliest exhibition opportunities and
  discovers avant-garde and idiosyncratic talents. The festival also
  provides an important, one-of-a-kind distribution outlet for short
  films, traveling each year to over seventy sites and reaching audiences
  in the farthest corners of the USA and Europe. Through the years the
  festival has championed cinema that resides on the margins of popular
  culture and in the center of artists' imaginations. All films presented
  by Columbus and the filmmakers, and from the USA, unless otherwise
  noted. Please see www.moma.org for film descriptions.Organized by Sally
  Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media; with John
  Columbus, Director, Black Maria Film Festival. Program 1 Three American
  directors discovered in the festival's first years. Mill Hunk Herald.
  1980. Tony Buba. Braddock Food Bank. 1985. Buba. Fade Out. 1998. Buba.
  Secondary Currents. 1982. Peter Rose. The Man Who Could Not See Far
  Enough. 1998. Rose. Sanctus. 1990. Barbara Hammer. Silent. Program 96
  min. Saturday, November 18, 6:30. T2

11/18
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
8:30pm, 11 West 53rd Street

 BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL: THE LEGACY OF THE SHORT FILM
  The Black Maria Film Festival was named after the American birthplace of
  the motion picture-Thomas Edison's West Orange, NJ, laboratory-a
  revolving photographic studio called the Black Maria because it
  resembled a police paddy wagon. Over the last twenty-five years,
  founding director John Columbus has overseen this alternative festival,
  which embraces the diversity and passion of the cinematic short form. It
  provides many directors with their earliest exhibition opportunities and
  discovers avant-garde and idiosyncratic talents. The festival also
  provides an important, one-of-a-kind distribution outlet for short
  films, traveling each year to over seventy sites and reaching audiences
  in the farthest corners of the USA and Europe. Through the years the
  festival has championed cinema that resides on the margins of popular
  culture and in the center of artists' imaginations. All films presented
  by Columbus and the filmmakers, and from the USA, unless otherwise
  noted. Please see www.moma.org for film descriptions.Organized by Sally
  Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media; with John
  Columbus, Director, Black Maria Film Festival. Program 2 Recent work by
  five prolific filmmakers. Viscera. 2005. Leighton Pierce. The Future Is
  behind You. 2005. Abigail Child. Phantom Limb. 2006. Jay Rosenblatt.
  Ideas of Order in Cinque Terre. 2005. Ken Kobland. A Time to Die. 2005.
  Joe Gibbons. Program 98 min. Saturday, November 18, 8:30. T2

11/18
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)

 SARAH PUCILL FILM PROGRAM
  Sarah Pucill lives and works in London, England. Her work is distributed
  through LUX, the British Film Institute and the British Council.
  Program- TAKING MY SKIN (35 min.-2006), STAGES OF MOURNING (17
  min.-2004), MILK AND GLASS (10 min.-2003), YOU BE THE MOTHER (7
  min.-1990) Sarah Pucill's 16mm films and photographs explore the
  mirroring and merging we seek in the Other; a sense of self which is
  transformative and fluid. Her work is concerned with the idea that as
  subjects we are not separate. Pucill's individual cinematic language
  emerged in the 1990's in the context of experimental film. Focusing on
  the materiality of film and the body, she creates a vivid and unsettling
  psychic world that sets up the imaginary as a potential site of
  resistance. From a processed-based approach to filmmaking, Pucill
  produces, directs, edits and often performs in her films, which range
  from 5 to 35 minutes. Her latest work, TAKING MY SKIN (2006), a
  portrayal of mother-daughter in dialogue, continues Pucill's experiments
  with the collapsing of space in front of and behind the camera. "I am
  not aware of you taking my skin" says the artist's mother to the camera
  as it zooms in on her eye as close as the lens will allow. TAKING MY
  SKIN tracks a dialogue between the artist and her mother. Sometimes the
  artist is behind the camera, sometimes the mother, sometimes both
  simultaneously behind and in front of neither. Both perform, film, and
  alternatively instruct, position and direct the other. Formally and
  thematically, the film is an exploration of closeness, of synching, and
  the threat this poses to the self.

11/18
New York, New York: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2000, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street

 OCELLUS, ORNAMENTATION AND DISPLAY SHORTS PROGRAMME
  THE IMAGES FESTIVAL (TORONTO) AND ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES PRESENT:SIX OF
  ONE, HALF-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: IMAGES FROM CANADA PROGRAM 4 OCELLUS,
  ORNAMENTATION AND DISPLAY Standing before the camera performing,
  gesticulating freedom…these are a series of Canadian idols. Robert
  Riendeau A DREAM IN KODACHROME(2005, 4 minutes, Super-8mm) In the final
  days of Kodachrome, a puppet starts to dance. (Image at left) Colin
  Campbell THE WOMAN FROM MALIBU (1976, 12 minutes, video) The first in a
  series of six tapes about a woman who lives in Southern California and
  talks about her life and the lifestyle of Los Angeles, which she
  documents in obsessive detail. This tape recounts the death of her
  husband in the Himalayas. Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby BEING
  FUCKED UP (2001, 10 minutes, video) An episodic videotape which
  incorporates simple animation and live-action sequences to create a
  portrait of the artists' lives as they struggle with addiction, gender
  identity and alienation. Donigan Cumming SHELTER(1999, 3 minutes, video)
  A conversation about marriage and horses between two unseen men. Gary
  Kibbins LIMBIC MOMENTS (2003, 20 minutes, video) Children have two
  desires: they want to be loved, and they want to be free. LIMBIC MOMENTS
  separates the two, focusing on the latter. In dialogue with experimental
  and ethnographic film, LIMBIC MOMENTS constructs an unsettling image of
  the child as the "destructive character," with no interest in being
  understood. Steve Reinke ANAL MASTURBATION + OBJECT LOSS(2001, 6
  minutes, video) The artist decides to found his own art school and
  begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words
  are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books. Barry
  Doupé A BOY ON A DOCK BLOWING HIS NOSE(2005, 15 minutes, video) A lusty
  series of vaguely articulated, quasi-human doodles and Spirographs
  animated within a bizarre netherworld of its own humid imagination. Tom
  Sherman GANNETT BURIAL (1999, 4.5 minutes, video) A burial at sea (with
  video noise). Series made possible thanks to the Canada Council for the
  Arts (Media Arts Section) and the Canadian Consul General, New York City
  Special thanks to Anthology Film Archives
  http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

11/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6pm, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd St.

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
  Films by BRAKHAGE: ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT (1958, 40 minutes) SHORT
  FILMS 1975 #1-10 (1975, 38 minutes) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
  Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
  This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
  camera. SHORT FILMS 1975 was recently preserved by Anthology, with
  special thanks to Sonic Youth and Marilyn Brakhage.

11/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia

 SKOLLER ON HONG + BLOCKADE +
  UCB film critic Jeffrey Skoller, personally explicates the major
  insights of his new book Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in
  Avant-Garde Film. He mobilizes critical concepts to frame a discussion
  about four movies—all premieres!—that narrate mid-20th century history
  through novel cinematic forms. Defending his 20-min. The De-Nazification
  of MH, James Hong will touch on issues of historical revisionism and
  political agency. Visiting from Berlin, Sylvia Schedelbauer also
  demonstrates, in her own way, a decidedly personal approach to
  historiography in the instance of her Memories, a stark encounter with
  her own family's post-war story. Hito Steyerl's November traces the
  radical passage of feminist filmmaker to Kurdish martyr. Grounding the
  program is Sergei Loznitza's truly chilling Blockade, a 50-min.
  war-footage compilation from the siege of Leningrad, uncannily
  materialized as living experience through a tour-de-force Foley
  strategy.

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