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This week [November 25 - December 3, 2006] in avant garde cinema
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Deadline: December 29, 2006)
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EYE AM: Women Behind the Lens (MNN.org-Manhattan Neighborhood Network) (NY, NY, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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Streaming Festival {The Hague} (The Hague. Netherlands; Deadline: January 14, 2007)
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MEDIA CITY (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: November 24, 2006)
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Images Contre Nature (Marseille, France; Deadline: March 01, 2007)
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BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: March 15, 2007)
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Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: November 30, 2006)
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Chicago Motions Graphics Festival 2007 (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 08, 2006)
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Davis Feminist Film Festival (Davis, California; Deadline: January 01, 2007)
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PEC Independent Film Championship (Colorado Springs, CO; Deadline: November 30, 2006)
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Lake County Film Festival (Libertyville, IL, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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Method Fest (El Segundo CA; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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MONTELLY FILM FESTIVAL (Lausanne /switzerland; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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offcuts (london, UK; Deadline: December 25, 2006)
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Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Asbury Shorts of New York 2007 (New York, NY USA; Deadline: December 20, 2006)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Single Reel Film & Video Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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Experimenta 2007 (Bangalore, India; Deadline: December 15, 2006)
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Reel Shorts (Saratoga Springs, NY. U.S.A.; Deadline: December 07, 2006)
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Durango Independent Film Festival (Durango, Colorado, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2006)
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Starting from Scratch (Amsterdam; Deadline: December 10, 2006)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Deadline: December 29, 2006)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [November 25, Madrid]
* Kaiju! Giant Monsters Attack!! [November 25, San Francisco, California]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [November 26, Madrid]
* Chick Strand At 75 [November 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Juliet of the Spirits [November 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* “Six Less Than Ten: One More Than Three” [November 28, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Norman Mclaren Restored! [November 29, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen - Lift 25th Anniversary Screenings! [November 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Wpa\C Experimental Media Series 2 - Silver Wings [November 29, Washington, DC]
* Daylight Moon & the Sunset Strip: Recent Films By Lewis Klahr [November 30, Chicago, Illinois]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [November 30, Madrid]
* Norman Mclaren Restored! [November 30, New York, New York]
* America @ War: Richard Kerr X 3 [November 30, Syracuse, NY]
* You Only Live Twice - Crime, Collage, and City Films By Lewis Klahr [December 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [December 1, Madrid]
* La Commune By Peter Watkins [December 2, Baltimore, MD]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [December 2, Madrid]
* Phil Weisman/ Bob Fleischner Program [December 2, New York, New York]
* Prelinger's Industrial and Institutional Films: A Field Guide + [December 2, San Francisco, California]
* Luz Y Tiempo: Historia Parcial Del Cine Experimental Y videoarte
Britanico 1968-2006 [December 3, Madrid]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2006
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21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME VI: GLITTERBUG, Derek Jarman, Video, 60 min, color
y b/n, 1994
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
A mutant subculture growing out of post-war Japanese monster movies has
finally taken hold in America —with a vengeance! Our wise-crackin'
expert on Japanese popular culture Patrick ("Tiger on Beat") Macias
faces off with Australian enthusiast David Cox in a clip-happy
celebration of this bizarre rubber fetish. Macias, in town to tout his
new tome Otaku in U.S.A., comes fully loaded with over two hours of
carefully selected battle scenes, to flood the imaginations of the most
spectacle-craving kaijuphiles. Certainly the figure of Godzilla is a
featured topic—including his legendary 1954 debut—but this discourse on
colossal creatures additionally covers Mothra, Gamera, Gigan, Rodan,
Hedorah, King Ghidora, and legions more. As a special bonus, Macias
smuggles in the shiny new Ultraman box-set, sharing favorite moments of
hilarity and destruction between shots of sake at the geisha bar.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2006
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20.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME 1: 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. Running time:
54 mins. Curated by David Reznak and Riccardo Iacono.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
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8pm, 631 W. 2nd Street
"Still making films after all these years," proudly claims the longtime
Angeleno filmmaker, and a local celebration of her inimitable career is
long overdue. Coinciding with Strand's 75th birthday, this program
highlights the multiple facets of her rich and captivating work. She has
explored experimental forms that seem at first
contradictory—solarization, trance film, ethnographic documentary,
found-footage film. Yet she has combined, mixed and overlaid these forms
with her unmistakable signature: camerawork that is at once sensuous and
rigorous, and a splendid lyricism. The program features Waterfall (1967,
3 min., 16mm); Mujer de Milfuegos (1976, 15 min., 16mm); Kristallnacht
(1979, 7 min., 16mm); Fake Fruit (1986, 22 min, 16mm); and Artificial
Paradise (1986, 12:30 min., 16mm).
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2006
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7:30, Albright College
Juliet of the Spirits (1965, 137 min.) by FEDERICO FELLINI –"Considered
the anima (the female counterpart) to the animus of Fellini's 8 1/2,
Fellini's first color film ventures deeply into the surreal as it
explores the repressed desires of a bourgeois housewife. Giulietta
Masina [Fellini's wife] stars as a middle-aged woman haunted by
hallucinations from her past and subconscious. While her husband
philanders, the woman consults clairvoyants and mediums and escapes into
a world of the imagination drawn from the "spirits" of her past, present
and future…. A lavish and baroque visual spectacle."- Harvard Film
Archive (Italian with English subtitles)
9:00pm, 1131 Howe Street
"Six Less Than Ten: One More Than Three" Free Experimental Film
Screening Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street Tuesday, November 28,
9:00pm Emerging film artists Chris Brabant and Amanda Dawn Christie will
be presenting four new experimental works on film, which engage in
handmade processes and optical effects using the abandoned technologies
of the capitalist entertainment industry. This evening of
multi-projector super8 work, 16mm optical printing effects, and
experimental work on 35mm, will be followed by a Q and A with the
artists and a reception. Chris Brabant moved to Vancouver in 2004, from
Milwaukee, where he finished his BFA in film. His film work uses optical
printing, hand-processing, and sound manipulation in order to explore
themes of unknowing intentions brought forth through the reworking of
the material. Amanda Dawn Christie moved to Vancouver in 2004, from
Halifax where she had been serving as chair on the board of the Atlantic
Filmmakers Cooperative. Her film work involves hand-processing, and
optical printing effects while exploring issues of identity as related
to region, religion, and family. New films by Brabant include,
"Inearth", which is a 35mm color film, reanimating landscape through
optical abstraction to the point that nature loses its context in a
dance of vivacious color. Brabant's latest experimental work is "Silent
Autonomy" which is an expanded cinema piece for three super 8
projectors, primary colors, black and white film, and silent moments of
contemplation. New films by Christie include "3Part Harmony: Composition
in RGB#1" which is a color separation dance film based on the 1930s
three strip Technicolor process, shot entirely on black and white film,
then recombined into full color through optical printing. Her latest
film, "Fallen Flags", is a layered tapestry of trains, tracks, and
underwater images, evoking the realms of death, fear, and distraction.
Both Brabant and Christie serve on the board of directors of the
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, and all four films were
created using resources available at Cineworks. Cineworks was founded 26
years ago to aid in the production and exhibition of independent film in
Vancouver. Experimental filmmaking in Vancouver has a long and rich
tradition of hand-made films using optical printing, contact printing,
and hand-processing to explore various themes through abstract imagistic
expression. Brabant and Christie, while relatively new to Vancouver, are
continuing this tradition both through their art films, and through
their continued effort to preserve and maintain analogue film equipment
which is no longer used in today's digital age of production. They have
chosen to screen their latest films at the Pacific Cinematheque due to
the historical origins of this venue as a space for film practices that
fall beyond the limits of the mainstream.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006
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6:00pm, 11 West 53rd Street
A set of new 35mm prints featuring the pioneering works of master
animator Norman McLaren (b. Scotland, 1914-1987) has been arranged by
the National Film Board in Canada, where the artist spent his forty-year
career. This eleven-film program, presented on the occasion of a new DVD
set of McLaren's complete works, emphasizes the imagination, vitality,
and astonishing versatility of the artist's animation. The program
includes Opening Speech, Stars and Stripes, Hen Hop, Begone Dull Care, A
Chairy Tale, Lines Horizontal, Blinkity Blank, La Merle, Neighbors,
Synchromy, and Pas de Deux. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
Curator, Department of Film. 75 min. New York premiere. Wednesday,
November 29, 6:00; Thursday, November 30, 8:30.
6:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
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. LIFT 25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENINGS! These two
programmes of brand-new films were commissioned by the Liaison of
Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) to commemorate this
indispensable organization's 25th (silver!) anniversary. The project
comprises twenty short films, four film-based performances and two
installations, some of which will be presented at the parties following
the screenings (see details below). At a time when the imminent "death
of film" has been announced repeatedly for more than two decades, LIFT
and its members defiantly set out to show that film is not only a viable
medium of production, but also an important audio-visual art form. With
"Film is Dead . . . Long Live Film!," LIFT sets out to reconfirm film's
status as a personal art form at a time when commercial production is
moving increasingly into the digital realm, while the art world
dismisses it as old hat. Please note: All running times are estimated.
Join us after both screenings for parties at Supermarket (268 Augusta
Ave. just south of College St.) at 9 pm, which will include additional
film performances. Presented in cooperation with LIFT. LIFT PROGRAMME 2:
LONG LIVE FILM! HOROSCOPE, Director: Brenda Goldstein (Canada 2006, 5
min. 16mm), FALLS, Director: John Price (Canada, 2006, 5 min. 35mm),
GENE'S FILM, Director: Peter Stinson (Canada, 2006, 4 min. 16mm), COW
TOWN SKI BOYS, Director: Benny Zenga (Canada, 2006, 5 min. Super-8),
ROBOT LOVE, Director: Mishann Lau (Canada, 2006, 10 min. 35mm), THE
INTERIORS OF DESIRE, Director: Eric Plummer (Canada, 2006, 3 min. 35mm),
STARDUST, Directors: bill bissett & Pete Dako (Canada, 2006, 5 min.
video), BRAID, Director: Bunmi Adeoye (Canada, 2006, 5 min. 16mm), LAKE
ONTARIO (IN MY HEAD), Director: Penny McCann (Canada, 2006, 5 min.
16mm), SHADOW TRACING, Director: James Loran Gillespie (Canada, 2006, 5
min. 35mm), ECHOES, Director: Richard Reeves (Canada, 2006, 3 min.
35mm). 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.
7:00 pm, Corcoran Gallery of Art Auditorium, 500 17th Street, NW
Night 3 – Silver Wings - Wed, November 29 Juried submissions from Open
Call by Peggy Parsons (Head Curator, Department of Films, National
Gallery of Art) & Paul Roth (Curator of Photography & Media Arts,
Corcoran Gallery of Art) Featuring: Qingjing Jing – Peng Hung-Chi – NY
Reel – Lynn Cazabon – Baltimore Super-8 Mom – David Ellsworth – Michigan
Out of Step – Lynn Marie Kirby – CA 27/12 – Karla Carballar – NY Saida –
Graciela Fuentes – NY Feeding – Leslie Furlong – Baltimore Threnody –
Janis Crystal Lipzin – CA East Whist and Starry Noes, Mix #1 – Cynthia
Lovett – NY Elaine Drive – Robbie Land – Atlanta Stop Motion Studies –
Series 13 – David Crawford – Sweden Ultimate Reality – Jimmy Joe Roche –
Baltimore You, Starbucks – Jennifer Levonian – Philadelphia Life and
Times of RFK – Aaron Valdez - Iowa Total running time: 80:00 min.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006
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6:00 pm, 164 N. State St.
Lewis Klahr in person! Lewis Klahr is "one of the most evocative,
accessible, and culturally aware experimental filmmakers alive and
working" (Michael Atkinson, Village Voice). For almost thirty years,
Klahr has reconfigured the detritus of postwar America into skip-beat
riffs and dreamy meditations on the deferred promises of consumer
culture. Tonight, Klahr presents two of his most recent multi-film
series: the enigmatic and abstract DAYLIGHT MOON (A QUARTET) (VALISE
[2004, 14 min.], HARD GREEN [2004, 5 min.], SOFT TICKET [2004, 7 min.],
DAYLIGHT MOON [2002, 14 min.]), and a thrice-told, fast-paced crime
drama drawn from the pages of the comic "77 Sunset Strip," THREE MINUTES
TO ZERO TRILOGY (TWO DAYS TO ZERO [2004, 23 min.], TWO HOURS TO ZERO
[2004, 9 min.], TWO MINUTES TO ZERO [2003, 1 min.]). (2002-04, USA, ca.
90 min., 16mm).
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists' film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME VI: GLITTERBUG, Derek Jarman, Video, 60 min, color
y b/n, 1994.
8:30, 11 West 53rd Street
A set of new 35mm prints featuring the pioneering works of master
animator Norman McLaren (b. Scotland, 1914-1987) has been arranged by
the National Film Board in Canada, where the artist spent his forty-year
career. This eleven-film program, presented on the occasion of a new DVD
set of McLaren's complete works, emphasizes the imagination, vitality,
and astonishing versatility of the artist's animation. The program
includes Opening Speech, Stars and Stripes, Hen Hop, Begone Dull Care, A
Chairy Tale, Lines Horizontal, Blinkity Blank, La Merle, Neighbors,
Synchromy, and Pas de Deux. Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior
Curator, Department of Film. 75 min. New York premiere. Wednesday,
November 29, 6:00; Thursday, November 30, 8:30.
8pm, Syracuse University, Gifford Auditorium (H.B. Crouse Building)
The Montreal-based filmmaker, visual artist and professor Richard Kerr
has been an important presence in Canadian avant-garde cinema for nearly
three decades. Bart Testa writes, "Kerr's films evidence the
profound influence photography has played in his understanding of
filmmaking. They document local realities and survey the American
landscape as it has been portrayed in a tradition of American
photography that descends from Walker Evans through Robert Frank to
Larry Clark. At the same time, his films explore American culture,
sometimes dealing with Beat themes... The idea of nature is at the heart
of many of Kerr's works, and he has explored this theme from many
vantage-points, proposing, across his oeuvre, an opposition between
pristine nature and nature as corrupted by civilization." This
program brings together three films that strike upon themes of war,
desolation, apocalyptic melancholy and American imperialism: (1) LE
BOMBARDEMENT LE PORT DES PERLES (Richard Kerr, 2005, 35mm transferred to
DV, colour, 8 minutes) A reworking of the trailer for the movie "Pearl
Harbor," using both handmade and digital techniques. Formally, "Le
bombardement le port des perles" explores collage and found sound as
voice-over. (2) THE LAST DAYS OF CONTRITION (Richard Kerr, 1988, 16mm,
b&w, 35 minutes) "The Last Days of Contrition" is an exploration of the
Canadian and American landscapes, and the relationship between the two.
The narrative deals with a journey through timeless, vacant American
landscapes (baseball stadiums, Venice Beach, Mojave Desert, and a US
Missile Base). The photographic strategy is influenced by a
consciousness of light, a quintessential characteristic of American
photography. CRUEL RHYTHM (Richard Kerr, 1991, 16mm, b&w / colour, 45
minutes) The second chapter in Kerr's journey through post-Frank,
post-industrial, Gulf War America. Picking up from the ashes of "Last
Days of Contrition," "Cruel Rhythm" concerns personal fear through the
manipulation of media newspeak and jingoistic public imagery. America
without the dream, apocalyptic America in which Marines pray for war and
recite poetry to their rifles, a nation of moral absentees consuming
simulated experience, absently tracking on moving sidewalks off-screen
into the New World Order. TRT: 90 minutes. Richard Kerr will be present
at the screening to talk about his work.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2006
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8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
Lewis Klahr in Person! In this special program, which has only been
presented twice before, Klahr has assembled a moody and atmospheric
selection of his own films, found films, and music clips to investigate
the nature of the city, especially as a site for crime and melodrama.
Several of Klahr's animated films highlight the program. Prolix Satori
is a section of a work-in-progress crime animation. The Aperture of
Ghostings trilogy (Elsa Kirk, Catherine Street, and Creased Robe Smile,
1999-2001) is an enigmatic trio of films made from early 1960's
photographic contact sheets of female models Klahr found. A Failed
Cardigan Maneuver (1999): "Children in a garden of outsize fruit
dream of food and love, then grow up to have unhappy office affairs in
the glamorous Manhattan of the late 1950's" (J. Hoberman). Engram
Sepals (2000): The dead body remembers. The Tibetan book of the dead
meets film noir. An elliptical narrative of adultery and corporate
espionage set to a score by Morton Feldman. Also included are several
camera rolls and unreleased films photographed by Klahr: The Flatiron
Building (1998), Unedited NYC Street Roll (1997), and Union Square
(1997). Anonymous Home Movie (circa 1960's) was found in a NYC thrift
store on 10th Street and First Avenue. Two audio clips compliment
Klahr's amazing use of music in his films: Frank Sinatra sings The
September of My Years and Nancy Sinatra sings You Only Live Twice (End
Title). The program will also include additional animated films by
Klahr, titles TBA. Klahr is also presenting a different program in the
Conversations at the Edge series at the Gene Siskel Film Center on
November 31.
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists' film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME IV. THE ART OF SEEING AND THROWING: THE VIDEOGAMES
OF RICCARDO IACONO. 1. Pea Video, video, color, 2 min, 2006. 2.
P-Sample1, video, color, 2' 45 min, 2006. 3. P Process (Green), video,
color, 2' 20 min, 2006. 4. Seeing and Gaming After Sun Tzu, video,
color, 8' 40 min, 2006. 5. Maggie Blinks, video, color, 7' 30 min, 2006.
6. Intermission, video, color, 8' 40 min, 2006. 7. Party Animal, video,
color, 12 min, 2006. 8. Sweet Sorrow, video, color, 4'47 min, 2006. 9.
Lookout, video, color, 5 min, 2006. 10. Zetlander, video, color, 2' 55
min, 2006. 11. Kinky, video, color, 1' 45 min, 2006. 12. Whitechapel,
video, color, 4 min, 2006. 13. A Lecture In Throwing A Pea, video,
color, 1 min, 2006. 14. The Playing Field, video, color, 3' 30 min,
2006. 15. Odd Socks, video, color, 3' 31 min, 2006. Running time: 70
mins .
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2006
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6:00 PM, St. John's Church 27th and St. Paul
Join us for the Baltimore premiere of director Peter Watkins '
iconoclastic masterpiece of documentary reenactment, La Commune, which
retells the story of the Paris Commune of 1871. Watkins, whose
film-making career spans over 4 decades, is famous for his unorthodox
techniques of filmmaking, including his use of non-professional actors
with a real connection to the subject matter(in La Commune, most of the
Communards are portrayed by altermondialist activists), his creative use
of anachronism and meta-narration(in La Commune he interpolates
television journalists into the historical context to better address
issues of revolutionary representation) and his non-commercially-
dictated approach to film length(La Commune clocks in at just over five
and a half hours, which is why were serving up vegan dinner halfway
through, and inviting everyone to bring something more comfortable than
the chairs we'll provide - think couches, pillows, lawn chairs...)
21.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME II: THE WEATHER, George Barber, video, 2 min, 1996;
I AM, David Blandy, video, 2 min, 2004; PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE LAND OF
MILK AND HONEY, AL+AL, video, 6 min, 2004; SUNDIAL William Raban, video,
1'30 min, 1992; 1001 COLOURS ANDY NEVER THOUGHT OF, George Barber,
video, 4 min, 1984; DO YOU LOVE ME? Alnoor Dewshi, video, color, 2'47
min, 2001; EAD THE BALL, Simon Richardson, video, color, 4 min, 2001;
WORST CASE SCENARIO, John Smith, video, 18 min, 2004; FRAMES, Annabel
Nicolson, 16mm, 6 min, color, muda, 1971-72; FROM MEMORY, Riccardo
Iacono. 16mm, color, mudo, 15 min, 1994-2003; Total running time: 62
min. (Curated by David Reznak and Riccardo iacono)
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
THE FUGITIVE CHEF (37 min.-2006), KLADNO* (20 min.-2005) by PHIL
WEISMAN, MAX'S SHIRT (5 min.-1975), CURTAIN CALL (5.5 min.-1976), A TIRE
FILM (6.5 min.-1976), PARADISE (3 min.-1978) by BOB FLEISCHNER. Phil
Weisman will be having his first program at Millennium. A filmmaker,
teacher and founding member lof the Coll;ective for Living Cinema, he
will present a quartet of films by Bob Fleischner as well as premiere
two of his own. "Although I tend to, at times while working, have a
running dialogue with the films I have known and loved, it is Bob's
mid-70's films that are particularly moving to me, several having a
profound effect on the making of THE FUGITIVE CHEF. I'd like to honor
the man whose work is rarely screened and add a complementary set of
works of my own. Think of this as a two-person show with Bob in
absentia."- POW On the FUGITIVE CHEF-"The death of the
filmmaker Bob Fleischner, my childhood friend Jeff Tenzer and my father
Marc Weisman, all in 1989 hastened an already made decision to leave the
avant-garde community and seek respite elsewhere. The resolution didn't
alter my desire to work at filmmaking or even attempt, or occasionally
to alter its known forms; it simply restated it within a different
context. THE FUGITIVE CHEF is a fractured personal documentary (with
other genres thrown in) shot mostly in Brooklyn and at the MacDowell
Colony."- POW.
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
Indubitably the world's leading expert on industrial films, Mr. Rick
Prelinger graces our gallery once again with selections from this new
encyclopedia published by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Drawing from a life spent slaving in the archives, Rick's commentary
provides fascinating historical context for these magnificent
educational-film artifacts. Projected in both video and 16mm, his
program does justice to this relatively new branch of film archaeology,
while also providing for a richly engaging cinema experience. Among the
recovered specimens are Your Name Here; Why Not Live?; A Is for Atom;
Once Upon a Honeymoon; and Ask Me, Don't Tell Me. PLUS Megan
Prelinger-Shaw's Cabinet of Curiosities.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006
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20.30, La Enana Marron, Sale de Cine Independiente, Travesia San Mateo 8, bajo dche, Madrid 28004
A selection of British artists' film and video produced between
1968-2006. PROGRAMME V: TRAFFIC, Roderick Buchanan, video, 2 min, 2001;
THE KISS, John Smith, video, 5 min, color, 1999; THE RUMOUR OF TRUE
THINGS, Paul Bush, video, 25 min, 1996; THE NIGHTINGALE, Grace Ndiritu,
video, 7 min, 2004; THE DEFENESTRASCOPE, Steven Ball, video, 6 min,
2003; BIOGENESIS, William Latham, video, 6 min, 1993. running time 51
min. (curated by David Reznak and Riccardo iacono).
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