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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Nixon White House Staff Super 8 Films [March 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Art/New York- Program # 3, Paul Tschinkel's Nam June Paik- Prisoner of
the Cathode Ray [March 3, New York, New York]
* Stoney Burke's Dvd Release Celebration! [March 3, San Francisco, California]
* Re-Defining video: Work By Kyle Canterbury [March 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Master of Fine Arts In Creative Media (Mfacm) [March 4, Hong Kong]
* Film Art Phenomena: Works By Nicky Hamlyn, Nicky Hamlyn In Person [March 4, San Francisco, California]
* Bill Morrison's theater of Decaying Memories [March 5, Los Angeles, California]
* An Evening With Award Winning Korean Film Director Bong Joon-Ho [March 5, San Francisco, California]
* Alternative visions: Nicky Hamlin: Film Art Phenomena [March 6, Berkeley, California]
* Then, Not Nauman: Conceptualists of the Early 70s [March 7, Berkeley, California]
* 70 Cm [March 7, Berlin, Germany]
* Newfilmmakers Invites You To Another Night of Movies [March 7, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Invites You To Another Night of Movies [March 7, New York, New York]
* Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens Episode 7 [March 7, New York, New York]
* "Paysages Lointains, Paysages Proches (The French Show, Pt ii)" [March 7, Providence, RI]
* For Freddie: Freddie Herko Memorial Evocation [March 7, San Francisco, California]
* 70 Cm [March 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Saul Levine: Notes From the Underground [March 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* Chantal Akerman: Là-Bas (Down there) [March 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Winter Light [March 8, Syracuse, NY]
* Aurora Picture Show Opens Exhibition At Lawndale Art Center [March 9, Houston, Texas]
* Barbara Loden: Wanda [March 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Dyke Delicious - Hard Working Women [March 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* A Social Event Archive: Ten-Year Anniversary Party [March 10, Houston, Texas]
* Anna Biller: viva [March 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Nina Menkes: Phantom Love [March 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Alan Sondheim Program [March 10, New York, New York]
* Davis + Daniel + Deutsch's Dead People + [March 10, San Francisco, California]
* Emily Tang (Tang Xiaobai): Conjugation (Dong Ci Bian Wei) [March 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Zeinabu Irene Davis: Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant [March 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Oppositional and Stigmatized Program Two: Cinema of Shock [March 11, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2007
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3/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE STAFF SUPER 8 FILMS
Rare "Home-Movies" from the Nixon Administration! An extraordinarily
rare and unique glimpse into our not-too-distant past, this program
features a selection of the more than 200 rolls of Super-8mm film shot
by several members of President Richard Nixon's staff between 1969 and
1973, including John Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. The
originals, confiscated by the FBI from Ehrlichman's office in 1973, are
now housed at the National Archives and Records Administration. The
films screening (1969-71, approx. 73 mins., silent) feature an array of
official functions and special guests to the White House - from the
mundane, to the fascinating, to the bizarre. Included are scenes from a
performance of the musical 1776; a Presidential visit to the United
Nations; various staff meetings and photo ops; Nixon visiting a
Washington Redskins football practice; activities during Armed Forces
Day; and appearances by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Indira Ghandi,
Bob Hope, and Pat Boone. 16mm preservation prints courtesy of BB Optics
(special thanks to Bill Brand) with permission from the National
Archives and Records Administration.
3/3
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
ART/NEW YORK- PROGRAM # 3, PAUL TSCHINKEL'S NAM JUNE PAIK- PRISONER OF
THE CATHODE RAY
ART/new york, a video series on contemporary art, was begun in 1979.
Paul Tschinket is the creator, producer, and director. NAM JUNE PAIK-
Prisoner of te Cathode Ray (54 min.-2000) Nam June Paiuk (1932-2006) was
the founding father of video art. For more than four decades he had
explored and exploited television technology and used it as an artist's
medium. Paik confessed that he had become the "prisoner of the cathode
ray." Over the years he created an impressive, visionary and influential
body of work that was not only shown world-wide but also greatly
influenced both commercial and artistic media. Interviews are with NAM
JUNE PAIK, art dealers' DOROTHY GOLDEEN and HOLLY SOLOMON and JOHN
HANHARDT, then the senior curator of film and media arts at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Paul Tschinkel will be present to
introduce and discuss this work. In addition we are expecting a guest
speaker.
3/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
STONEY BURKE’S DVD RELEASE CELEBRATION!
Stoney's fearless voice of liberty has given so much to the Bay Area
over the years that the SF Board of Supervisors recently declared a
Stoney Burke Day! Putting his body on the line, the epitome of free
speech in action, our favorite street comedian has railed against war
and injustice for decades now, earning for him a place in the hearts of
many citizens—and several stays in jail! Finally, the best recorded
performances of this live-improvising raconteur have been compiled into
a Greatest Hits collection, taking us through the turbulent years
between 1977–2007. Stoney opens the show with a set of political
stand-up, and then introduces each piece with an improvised comic
anecdote. Doors open at 8pm for a meet 'n' greet amidst free Nutella and
jaunty roller-rink melodies from David Cox on the mighty Korg.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007
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3/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
RE-DEFINING VIDEO: WORK BY KYLE CANTERBURY
SPECIAL REPEAT SCREENING! Due to the great response and standing room
only crowd for our first screening (and the bitter cold temperatures),
we will be doing a special repeat screening of the video work of Kyle
Canterbury. [This is a repeat of the February 3 show.] Chicago
Filmmakers is extremely pleased to present the first one-person show
(and first ever U.S. screening) of the work of Kyle Canterbury, an
extraordinarily talented new experimental video artist who lives in
Michigan. Canterbury has been making videos for only a little over a
year, and his work is already some of the most exciting and dynamic film
or video of any kind of the last decade or more. Oh, and he's only 17
years old! Canterbury has developed a palette of techniques that
emphasize the specificity and artistic potential of the video medium
unlike anyone else. He uncovers a stunning array of textures, formal
compositions, and rhythmic patterns in the normally flat video image.
Fred Camper has written: "I do not think it is too grand to declare that
Canterbury has done for video something like what Brakhage has done for
film. In his hands, after less than a year of work, this medium, which
so many have found severely limited, has become as supple, as pliable,
as sensuous, and as rhythmically various, as film was for Brakhage."
Canterbury will screen 24 short works, including 19: passage, A VIDEO,
EVODI, and Fragments from a Room (all 2006). Visit Fred Camper's website
for extensive commentary on Canterbury's work and ten of the videos
screening: www.fredcamper.com/Film/Canterbury.html
3/4
Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong
---, School of Creative Media
MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE MEDIA (MFACM)
The School of Creative Media of City University of Hong Kong invites
application to Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media (MFACM). Programme
Duration: 2-Year Full-time. Features of the programme: international and
distinguished faculty from the fields of media art and production;
trans-disciplinary approaches to artistic and cultural production; solid
training and practice in both the technology and aesthetics of media
art. Application continues until 31 March 2007. Application materials
are available at http://www.cityu.edu.hk/prospectus.
3/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission st. at 3rd st.
FILM ART PHENOMENA: WORKS BY NICKY HAMLYN, NICKY HAMLYN IN PERSON
Composing his work "in camera," the films of Nicky Hamlyn incorporate
each shooting's unique character, producing open-ended outcomes while
questioning matter and perception. Quoting from his Film Art Phenomena
(published 2003): "I see my films as arising out of an encounter between
a situation or location or subject, and a camera/production strategy. I
have been inspired partly by Robert Morris' reading of Jackson Pollock's
paintings as resulting from the interactions of horizontal canvas, paint
viscosity, stick, gravity, arm mechanics. Morris' behavioristic take on
Pollock redeems it from an expressionistic reading." Screening:
Minutiae, Hole, Not Resting, Pistrino, Water, Matrix, Penumbra, Object
Studies, and Transit of Venus, which records two consecutive passes of
Venus across the sun. (Caroline Savage)
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MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2007
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3/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
BILL MORRISON’S THEATER OF DECAYING MEMORIES
Noted for his poetic reworking of decaying archival footage, the Alpert
Award winner shows a selection of shorts, ranging from the early
Footprints (1992, 6 min., b/w and color, 16mm) to The Highwater Trilogy
(2006, 31 min., 35mm)—a collage of ancient newsreel footage of storms,
floods and icebergs. The program also includes The Film of Her (1996, 12
min., 35mm), in which archival footage is reinterpreted through
fictional elements to evoke "an unrequited celluloid romance"; Light Is
Calling (2004, 8 min, color, 35mm), widely recognized as a masterpiece;
the exhilaratingly rhythmical Outerborough (2005, 9.5 min, 35mm); Ghost
Trip (2000, 23 min, 35mm); and The Mesmerist (2003, 16 min, color,
35mm). In person: Bill Morrison $6 Student with valid ID $8 General
3/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://sffs.org
6:30, 9:45, Landmark Clay Theater, 2261 Fillmore at Clay
AN EVENING WITH AWARD WINNING KOREAN FILM DIRECTOR BONG JOON-HO
One Night Only -- Memories of Murder and Barking Dogs Never Bite The San
Francisco Film Society presents an evening with Korea's critically
acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho featuring screenings of Memories of
Murder and Barking Dogs Never Bite at Landmark's Clay Theatre on Monday,
March 5, 2007. 6:30 pm Memories of Murder -- A police investigation into
a series of brutal murders in the 1980s becomes a powerful portrait of a
repressive society. Based on Korea's first serial killer case, this
elegiac film offers a commanding sense of story and a tone balanced
neatly between grim humor and tragic helplessness. (2003, 127 min)
Director Bong will engage with the audience following the screening of
Memories, and introduce Barking Dogs; he will be in attendance for both
features. 9:45 pm Barking Dogs Never Bite -- Bong's feature debut is a
drily amusing, character-driven comedy about a lazy college lecturer
driven to distraction by a constantly yipping dog. When he takes action
against the annoying canine, a variety of friends and associates offer
their own thoughts on the matter. (2000, 106 min) Tickets are on sale
for both members and non-members at _www.sffs.org_ Separate admission
for each film, $9 – SFFS members_ $10 - student/senior_ $11 – general
Bong's latest film The Host sold out at the inaugural San Francisco
International Animation Showcase last October, was the surprise hit of
the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and is now the all-time box office
champion in Korea. The Host is being distributed in the United States by
Magnolia Pictures and is slated to open at Landmark's Embarcadero Center
Cinema on March 9.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2007
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3/6
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS: NICKY HAMLIN: FILM ART PHENOMENA
Nicky Hamlyn: Film Art Phenomena Booksigning by Nicky Hamlyn British
filmmaker Hamlyn signs his recent book Film Art Phenomena and presents
experimental films that explore shifts in perception and the beauty of
the mundane. Program includes: Panni (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K., 2005). Non
Places (Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, U.K., 1999). White Road (Nicky Hamlyn,
U.K., 1999). Cycle (Guy Sherwin, U.K., 1980). Pistrino (Nicky Hamlyn,
U.K., 2003). Slides (Annabel Nicolson, U.K., 1971). Object Studies
(Nicky Hamlyn, U.K., 2005). Black and White (Simon Payne, U.K., 2002).
Not Resting (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K., 1999)
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007
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3/7
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
THEN, NOT NAUMAN: CONCEPTUALISTS OF THE EARLY 70S
Am I Making Art Key early-'70s videoworks linger on language and offer
deadpan definitions of the state of the art. Program includes: Mouth to
Mouth (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 1975, 8 mins). I Am Making Art (John
Baldessari, 1971, 19 mins). Theme Song (Vito Acconci, 1973, 33 mins).
East Coast, West Coast (Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, 1969, 22 mins)
3/7
Berlin, Germany: Ex'N'Pop
http://www.visualosmosis.com/70cm
10 PM, Doors open at 9:30PM, Potsdamerstrasse 157, 10783 Berlin Schoeneberg
70 CM
The average westerner requires 70 centimeters of personal space in front
of them. NewYorkRioToyko e.V. and Ex'n'pop are proud to present films
exploring the domain of psychological personal space. The hour-long
program includes the works of 9 experimental filmmakers from the United
States, Israel and Germany. Personal space is often defined as the
invisible borders people build for themselves. Within these films, the
authors invite the viewer to cross and breakdown these borders, explore
the delicate line, or exclude them as outside entities. Whether
exploring a relationship to a hereditary disease, the landscape of a
deserted construction site, or the relationship of two strangers, each
work expresses the idea of simply being allowed to watch or being
invited to get involved. 70cm includes works from internationally renown
as well as up and coming artists: Diana Arce (USA), Bill Brand (USA),
Sari Carel (Israel), Joel Devalcourt (USA), Joseph Dwyer (USA), Anne
Haydock (USA), Jennifer Myers (USA), Corinna Schnitt (Germany), and
Vanessa Woods (USA).
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS INVITES YOU TO ANOTHER NIGHT OF MOVIES
Dir: Various. John Topping WHY DID YOU SAY THOSE THINGS (2006, 13
minutes, DV Cam). Tim Duquette BANGED UP (2006, 40 minutes, mini-DV).
Corey Gegner ABOUT A BEAR (2006, 7 minutes, video).
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS INVITES YOU TO ANOTHER NIGHT OF MOVIES
Dir: Various. Matthew Lancit DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN (2005, 14 minutes,
16mm). Lauryn Siegel A TRIPLET AFFAIR (2006, 16 minutes, video). &.
Elias Ganster. LOVECRACKED! THE MOVIE. 2006, 87 minutes, video. The tale
of a clueless journalist and several people he encounters. .
3/7
New York, New York: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
8-9pm, on Cable Channel Time Warner 34/RCN 83 Online streaming www.mnn.org
EYE AM: WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS EPISODE 7
Announcing EYE AM SEASON THREE: short experimental,memoir, and
documentary film and video made by women. Tune in the 1st Wednesday of
the month on Manhattan Neighborhood Network Time Warner #34/ RCN #83 (in
Manhattan) & Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide) Visit
www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com for complete episode rundown and new
TRAILERS! Episode 7: March 7th 2007 8-9pm Featuring works by Ellen Lake,
Dina Williams, Oriana Fox, Sarah Klein, Jennifer Beth Guerin, Lora
Alaniz, Caroline Koebel, Cara Marisa Deleon, Lili White, & Elizabeth
Henry. Episode 8: April 4th 2007 8-9pm Featuring works by Oriana Fox,
Victoria Kereszi, Lani Sciandra, Sally Grizzel Larson, Anne Haydock, &
Lili White. Episode 9: May 2nd 2007 8-9pm Featuring works by Naomi
White, Lani Sciandra, Lili White, Caroline Koebel, & NMASS Video
Project. *************************************** EA is ALWAYS seeking
short films and videos made by women that address the concept of Self &
Identity to be aired in the Summer 2007 and beyond. Please email
victoriakereszi-at-earthlink.net for submission details.
3/7
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street
"PAYSAGES LOINTAINS, PAYSAGES PROCHES (THE FRENCH SHOW, PT II)"
After the international success of "La Lanterne Magique" (2005's Gallic
kino-gala), vous amis at Magic Lantern are back in cahoots with the
tenth annual Providence French Film Festival to bring you "Paysages
Lointains, Paysages Proches" (that's "Landscapes Near and Far," for you
non-French speakers out there). The seven francophone films featured in
this remarkably diverse program share an increasingly global concern
with Travel and States of Passage, in which the juxtaposition of
multiple spaces (physical, emotional) is metaphorically linked to the
act of editing itself. Don't worry about printing out your boarding
pass, for that five-dollar bill is the only ticket you'll need - through
intense flickers of light and sustained long takes, this program will
take to you New York, Chicago, Avignon, Visegrad, Beijing and Beyond,
all the while posing these increasingly pertinent questions: Que se
divise ici de là? Quelle quantité de passé le présent peut-il porter?
Comprenez-vous? No? Don't worry, you will... Featuring: Jours en Fleurs
by Louise Bourque (4:30, 35mm, 2003), Un Pont sur le Drina by Xavier
Lukomski (17:00, 35mm, 2005), Surface Tension #2 by Vincent Grenier
(4:30, 16mm, 1995), Au bord du lac by Patrick Bokanowski (6:00, 16mm,
1994), Scènes de la vie française: Avignon by Rose Lowder (11:00, 16mm,
1986), Sans titre Beijing by Yann Beauvais (5:00, video, 2006), Jean
Genet in Chicago by Frederic Moffet (26:00, video, 2006) TRT 74:00 $5
3/7
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30PM, 992 Valencia St.
FOR FREDDIE: FREDDIE HERKO MEMORIAL EVOCATION
For Freddie is an installation event evoking the dramatic life and death
of Freddie Herko, an obscure artistic figure from the early 1960's.
Herko was a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater and an early
Warhol Factory character. He was a close friend of Diane Di Prima who
wrote of him in her poetry and memoirs. The installation will feature an
arrangement of documentary drawings, original music and a short
publication. A rare 16mm copy of AndyWarhol's Haircut #1, starring
Freddie Herko will be screened on March 7th at 7:30 PM. $6. Andy Warhol,
Haircut #1 (1963) B&W/Silent/33 mins Freddy Herko, Billy Name, John
Daley, James Waring The opening frames present three men standing in
this space. In the middle distance is a dark young man with dark hair:
It is Billy Linich [Name]. Nearer the camera is another man with a
faintly more Wasp look. Nearest the camera, in the extreme foreground
and brilliantly bathed by the key lamp, the most visible and conspicuous
of the three, is a very nasty-looking type posing without a shirt
[Freddy Herko]. He wears exhibitionistically tight, and very dirty,
white jeans that glare a bit in the lens... Bluntly he looks like he
knows 42nd Street... His face and body have the strungout wiriness,the
tough, undernourished gracelessness of a slum escapee who survives on
street food, on sausage sandwiches bought at greasy open-air stands, hot
dogs, Pepsis, and amphetamines... -Stephen Koch More about the artists:
Deric Carner -http://genericfun.com Roddy Schrock -
http://fundamentallysound.org
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THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007
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3/8
Berlin, Germany: Ex'N'Pop
http://www.visualosmosis.com/70cm
10 PM, Doors open at 9:30PM, Potsdamerstrasse 157, 10783 Berlin Schoeneberg
70 CM
The average westerner requires 70 centimeters of personal space in front
of them. NewYorkRioToyko e.V. and Ex'n'pop are proud to present films
exploring the domain of psychological personal space. The hour-long
program includes the works of 9 experimental filmmakers from the United
States, Israel and Germany. Personal space is often defined as the
invisible borders people build for themselves. Within these films, the
authors invite the viewer to cross and breakdown these borders, explore
the delicate line, or exclude them as outside entities. Whether
exploring a relationship to a hereditary disease, the landscape of a
deserted construction site, or the relationship of two strangers, each
work expresses the idea of simply being allowed to watch or being
invited to get involved. 70cm includes works from internationally renown
as well as up and coming artists: Diana Arce (USA), Bill Brand (USA),
Sari Carel (Israel), Joel Devalcourt (USA), Joseph Dwyer (USA), Anne
Haydock (USA), Jennifer Myers (USA), Corinna Schnitt (Germany), and
Vanessa Woods (USA).
3/8
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
SAUL LEVINE: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
SAUL LEVINE IN PERSON! "Saul Levine is the foremost dissenting filmmaker
in America," writes critic P. Adams Sitney. "With about 35 years of
consistent production behind him, and no signs of fatigue, he can show
us the shape of a life passionately and uncompromisingly devoted to
filmmaking. His works are high-energy messages of friendship, records of
sexual love and political activism, radiated by humor, prophetic anger,
loneliness and even though rarely, representing repose." Tonight, the
small-gauge master and SAIC alum presents beautifully restored 16mm
blow-ups of a selection of his intimate and incendiary 8mm "notes": NOTE
TO PATI (1969); NOTE TO COLLEEN (1974); NEW LEFT NOTE (1968-83); THE BIG
STICK/AN OLD REEL (19677-73); NOTE TO POLI (1982-3). Co-presented by
CATE and the Experimental Film Club at the University of Chicago, which
will present another selection of Levine's work on Friday, March 9.
(1968-1983, Saul Levine, USA, 16mm, ca. 90 min.).
3/8
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd st
CHANTAL AKERMAN: Là-BAS (DOWN THERE)
"It is a film about the relationship of somebody from the Diaspora to
Israel—an imaginary Israel, maybe…" (Akerman) As part of Where Did Our
Love Go? Thur-Sun Mar 8-11 Following the opening of WACK! Art and the
Feminist Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this
film series examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on women
filmmakers since.
3/8
Syracuse, NY: The Warehouse Gallery
http://www.thewarehousegallery.org
8pm, The Redhouse, 201 S. West St. (at W. Fayette St.)
WINTER LIGHT
A selection of seasonally themed experimental film and video. This
screening is part of the exhibition "Embracing Winter" at The Warehouse
Gallery. Films and videos by Arnait Women's Video Workshop, Stan
Brakhage, Thorsten Fleisch, Kurt Kren, Peter Lipskis, Guy Maddin, John
Price, Joyce Wieland, more. Curated by Brett Kashmere & Astria Suparak.
Cosponsored by Thursday Screeners, Syracuse University.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2007
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3/9
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
6:30pm, 4912 Main Street
AURORA PICTURE SHOW OPENS EXHIBITION AT LAWNDALE ART CENTER
For more information, visit www.lawndaleartcenter.org.
3/9
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
2007, 631 W. 2nd st
BARBARA LODEN: WANDA
Now in its first Los Angeles screening in 30 years, this remarkable film
was written, directed and produced by Barbara Loden—who also gave the
performance of a lifetime as its eponymous antiheroine. In Person: Marco
Joachim, Barbara Loden's son As part of Thur-Sun Mar 8-11 Where Did Our
Love Go? Following the opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this film series
examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on women filmmakers since.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007
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3/10
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm social hour; 8:00pm screening, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
DYKE DELICIOUS - HARD WORKING WOMEN
Tonight's program will feature short films about the blue collar, the
pink collar, and the white collar women who keep the world turning. From
the vintage to the brand new, from the humorous to the inspiring, these
shorts will remind you that it never really was a "man's world."
3/10
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora Street
A SOCIAL EVENT ARCHIVE: TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
In 1997, Paul Druecke, went door-to-door in Milwaukee neighborhoods
inviting people to contribute one photo from their personal collection
to his new project. This was the beginning of A Social Event Archive.
The photos were archived in the order received and presented back to the
public in exhibitions, books, and a website: ASOCIALEVENT.COM.
Word-of-mouth helped spread the invitation across the country. The
Archive holds over seven hundred photos in its collection.
3/10
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
6:30pm, 631 W. 2nd st
ANNA BILLER: VIVA
Premiered in Rotterdam, Viva sassily reworks vintage sexploitation
movies from a woman's point of view. In Person: Anna Biller As part of
Thur-Sun Mar 8-11 Where Did Our Love Go? Following the opening of WACK!
Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, this film series examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on
women filmmakers since.
3/10
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
9:30pm, 631 W. 2nd st
NINA MENKES: PHANTOM LOVE
Premiered at Sundance, this long-awaited new feature by award-winning
experimental filmmaker Nina Menkes creates a surreal atmosphere of loss
and alienation. In Person: Nina Menkes As part of Thur-Sun Mar 8-11
Where Did Our Love Go? Following the opening of WACK! Art and the
Feminist Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this
film series examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on women
filmmakers since.
3/10
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm- Saturday evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between Bowery & 2nd Avenue)
ALAN SONDHEIM PROGRAM
Since 1983 the amazingly prolific Alan Sondheim has appeared at
Millennium on a regular basis with substantial new works. This time the
multi-talented media artist has come up with a highly erotic and
controversial feature entitled CREPUSCLE (TWILIGHT) which stars the
remarkable dancer, FOOWA d'IMOBILITE, along with AZURE CARTER and ALAN
SONDHEIM. The program will include several short pieces shot in
Switzerland. "CREPUSCLE (TWILIGHT) explores the exigencies of dance,
eroticism, cultural restriction, and arousal; it was edited from over a
dozen segments in Geneva. The work tenders the null-point of language, a
point where words stutter, where the body takes over, where the cultural
tropes are transformed and lost. It's the deliberate creation of
repressed memories. It challenges the conventions of dance, turning
dance inside-out. For the three of us, it's the culmination of an erotic
element in our work that has all been lost in contemporary culture.
CREPUSCLE rides the muscle of the body and jouissance, opening a
territory which remains virtual, haunting. A number of short works with
Foofwa, shot in Geneva, Gruyeres, and the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss
Alps, will also be shown." -Alan Sondheim
3/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
DAVIS + DANIEL + DEUTSCH’S DEAD PEOPLE +
Satisfying OC's wanderlust, here's a sublime survey of works that
explore the country's southern margins, moving from West to East. Erik
(Visionary State) Davis initiates our drift with a slideshow on Leonard
Knight, Charles Manson, and other SoCal desert-rats. Prodigal son Bill
Daniel floats back to Frisco, setting up his Sail-van right here on
Valencia St., for "field" projections in the urban jungle! After
Aptos–based Enid Blader shares her tone-poem on the Salton Sea, Sabrina
Alonso shows her Mischief at 16th and Florida on the Hamms Brewery
vat-rat squat, and Jenny Stark shuttles in from Sacto with her Floods,
Ghosts, & Contamination, on turf issues in her home-state of Texas. Our
passage pauses for a moment at New Orleans, where we honor the memory of
recently-deceased Helen Hill—to whom this evening is dedicated—with a
screening of her last composition from Katrina-damaged footage,
accompanied by pieces from Thad Povey and Alfonso Alvarez. The final
stop on the Southern arc takes us to the Mason–Dixon line and Roger
Deutsch's (in person) deeply moving Dead People. $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2007
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3/11
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
5pm, 631 W. 2nd st
EMILY TANG (TANG XIAOBAI): CONJUGATION (DONG CI BIAN WEI)
Completed in 2001, Tang's masterful debut was the first underground
Chinese film to give an intimate representation of the grey months
following the June 4th massacre. As part of Thur-Sun Mar 8-11 Where Did
Our Love Go? Following the opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist
Revolution at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this film
series examines the impact of the 1970s and 1980s on women filmmakers
since.
3/11
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
7:30pm, 631 W. 2nd st
ZEINABU IRENE DAVIS: TRUMPETISTICALLY, CLORA BRYANT
A documentary about a black woman who, against all odds, became a
legendary jazz trumpet player. In Person: Zeinabu irene Davis and Clora
Bryant As part of Thur-Sun Mar 8-11 Where Did Our Love Go? Following the
opening of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this film series examines the impact of
the 1970s and 1980s on women filmmakers since.
3/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission st. at 3rd st.
OPPOSITIONAL AND STIGMATIZED PROGRAM TWO: CINEMA OF SHOCK
These films are shocking, appalling and transgress limits circumscribed
by mainstream taste, morality, and commodifiable art practices. In Kurt
Kren's 16/67: September 20th—Gunter Brus, we experience the intake and
outflow of bodily fluids, via strange camera angles and editing. Jon
Moritsugu's Mommy, Mommy, Where's My Brain? references AC/DC and Jacques
Derrida in its attack of academic film theory. In Remote, Remote, Valie
Export tortuously takes the act of self-mutilation to an extreme.
Zock-Exercises by Otto Muehl, is an "Vienna Actioniste" collaborative
project consisting of manifestos, films, and performances that,
according to Muehl, has "no dread of chaos, rather it fears forgetting
to annihilate something." Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing With One's
Own Eyes inhibits the production of illusion by depicting corpses
without explaining them or containing them within a narrative. Through
framing and editing, the audience is confronted ceaselessly with the raw
actuality of these cadavers. (Caroline Savage and Janis Crystal Lipzin)
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