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This week [March 10 - 18, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Optophonique [Opto’ Phon’ Eek]: A Collision of video, Sound, &
Performance [March 10, Austin, TX]
* 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]
* Filmforum Presents Bill Morrison's theater of Decaying Memories – Part 2 [March 11, Los Angeles, 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]
* Through Lebanese Eyes: Recent Political Documentaries By Lebanese Women [March 11, San Francisco, California]
* Alternative visions [March 13, Berkeley, California]
* "The Imminent Failure Show" [March 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* Newfilmmakers Invites You To the Bitter End [March 14, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 14, New York, New York]
* Live Cinema Lab video Savant and Friends In Person [March 14, San Francisco, California]
* Marty Ellen Bute: Centennial [March 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 15, New York, New York]
* The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music [March 15, New York, New York]
* Nest of vipers Podcast: Secret Cinema: Tales of Forgotten Films & Movie
Palaces [March 15, world wide web]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 16, New York, New York]
* Sound Brakhage - Featuring the Work of Composer James Tenney (1934-2006) [March 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Harry Smith Program [March 17, New York, New York]
* Film #18: Mahagonny [March 17, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 17, New York, New York]
* 12th Annual Women of Color Film Festival: Festival Curators and Artists
In Person [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* Melinda Stone Presents Bill Brown [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* "The Last Refuge For the Senses, Or Noise Hippies Against All War" [March 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tales From Summer Camp: Youth video From Chicago Filmmakers Digital
Moviemaking Summer Camps [March 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Documentaries of Kazuo Hara: the Emperor's Naked Army Marches On [March 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Harry Smith Program [March 18, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 18, New York, New York]
* Film #18: Mahagonny [March 18, New York, New York]
* 2007 Phelan Awards: Alfonso Alvarez/ Melinda Stone [March 18, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007
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3/10
Austin, TX: Optophonique
http://www.cantanker.com
8pm-midnight, Salvage Vanguard Theater’s New Home, 2803 Manor Road
OPTOPHONIQUE [OPTO’ PHON’ EEK]: A COLLISION OF VIDEO, SOUND, &
PERFORMANCE
Sound, light, video, installation and performance collide to create
Optophonique [opto' phon' eek] a ONE NIGHT ONLY event presented by
Cantanker visual art magazine and hosted by Salvage Vanguard Theater in
their new arts facility. This all-encompassing sensory experience will
showcase artists, performers and musicians uniting as scientists of
synthesis. Visual artists Eric Gibbons, Allegra McCoy, Ryan Lauderdale,
Michelle Mayer, Hunter Cross, Christopher Brown, Eric Power, Travis
Nichols, William Sellari, and many others will manipulate space and time
with site-specific installations on the interior and exterior of the
space. Meanwhile, performances by Neo-Arcadia, Aux Armes, Many
Birthdays, Audio Inversions, Omega Monster Patrol, Calm Panic Party, and
other local collaborations will fuse a multiplicity of musical styles
with light and video projections. "There will be a day when a composer
will compose music with a notation that will be conceived in terms of
music and light…and that day, the artistic unity we were talking about
will probably be closer to perfection…" Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné-
inventor of the Piano Optophonique, 1925
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: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS BILL MORRISON’S THEATER OF DECAYING MEMORIES – PART 2
In collaboration with REDCAT Bill Morrison in person! In October 2002,
Filmforum screened Bill Morrison's masterwork Decasia. Morrison has been
very prolific since then, producing a wide array of shorts featuring the
rediscovery and manipulation of archival footage. Now he's the most
recent recipient of the Alpert Award, and will be in Los Angeles for two
screenings including most of his films and videos. The first show is at
REDCAT on Monday, March 5, and the second is at Filmforum on Sunday
March 11. The screenings will be entirely different, and Morrison will
be present at both! All films are West Coast premieres!
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)
3/11
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
9:30pm, 992 Valencia
THROUGH LEBANESE EYES: RECENT POLITICAL DOCUMENTARIES BY LEBANESE WOMEN
Made between 2002 and 2006, these four recent documentaries by Lebanese
women filmmakers present rare insights into contemporary Lebanon.
Recognizing that the present is a complex and selective layering of
various pasts, and that a nation is a conglomeration of often contested
perspectives and experiences, they challenge simplistic visions of
Lebanon and the Middle East. Through an engagement with a variety of
individuals or communities, often over lengthy periods, these four films
refuse complacency to eloquently offer narratives of the present that
are completely absent from U.S. media. Three of the documentaries are
U.S. premieres. Special Sneak Preview of Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and
Video by Mai Masri (2006, 76 min.) Curated by Irina Leimbacher.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007
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3/13
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS
When a Stranger Comes to Town: Recent Animations A roundup of new
animation ranges from poetic illuminations to an investigation of
immigration and a complete history of capital in five minutes or less.
Program includes: Poet's Dream (Lawrence Jordan, U.S., 2005). The Touch
(Vanessa Woods, U.S., 2006). Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist
(Sarah Jane Lapp, U.S., 2005). Stranger Comes to Town (Jacqueline Goss,
U.S., 2007). Suprematist Kapital (Yin-Ju Chen, James Hong, U.S., 2006).
El Doctor (Suzan Pitt, U.S., 2006).
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2007
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3/14
Chicago, Illinois: The Ice Capades
http://www.theicecapades.com
8:00, The Ice Factory, 526 N Ashland
"THE IMMINENT FAILURE SHOW"
DUKE AND BATTERSBY AND HECHTMAN AND TIPRE AND FLEISCHAUER IN PERSON!
Life is hard. Being a Video Artist is hard. The only people who Make It
Big are under the age of 23, but they're doing so many drugs and wearing
so much neon they'll probably all be dead by this time tomorrow. What a
drag. Success is impossible, man - it's like trying to wake up from a
bad dream that's not a dream at all (Worden). And communicating with the
masses? Why even bother… I mean, not only do you have to speak French
while topless to get your point across (Duke and Battersby), but you
have to exploit your own perfection (Fleischauer), your gallerist keeps
shooting you (Tasset), your mom keeps swearing at you (Hechtman), your
intestines keep falling out (Stoltman), and even when you take the time
to explain yourself (over and over) those damn kids on YouTube keep
dissing your costume videos (Bress). Sometimes being a Video Artist is
like going on a forever trip to nowhere (Goldberg) while a crowd of
Zombies tear you limb from limb (Peterson), but at least you've got ART,
right? You've got us too, and because we sympathize with your doomed
pursuit, here's a collection of videos that won't make you feel like a
total failure… FEATURING: Squibs by Tony Tasset (:35 loop, video, 1996),
The Fine Arts by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (4:00, video,
2001), Hardjob by Brian Bress (1:33, video, 2006), Double Sigh by Julia
Hechtman (4:00, video, 2000), Untitled Home Movie by Joe Tipre (3:00,
video, 2007), Everyday Bad Dream by Fred Worden (6:00, video, 2006), I
Spill My Guts Every Day For Nothing by Kirsten Stoltman (3:00, video,
2002), Voyage to Garbage Isle by Leif Goldberg (7:00, video, 2004),
Perfection by Eric Fleischauer (2:15, video, 2005), Over and Over by
Brian Bress (4:00, video, 2006), How to Escape Stress Boxes by Paper Rad
(4:00, video, 2006), UV/ Energy Fields by Ara Peterson (12:00, video,
2003), Perfect Nature World by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
(3:30, video, 2002), Art Needs No Explanation by Brian Frye (1:00,
video, 2007) TRT 59:00
3/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS INVITES YOU TO THE BITTER END
Dir: Various. Brian Lonano CASKET CLIMBER INSECT GOD (2006, 3 minutes,
video). Paulina Shur PORTRAIT OF A MOTHER (2006, 29 minutes, mini-DV).
Nicholas Corrao BLEACHED (2006, 25 minutes, video).
3/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Dir: Harry Smith. . Artist, Animator, Ethnographer, Alchemist - Harry
Smith (1923-1991) was all this and much more. An utterly remarkable
character who produced an eccentric, electrifying body of work, Smith's
legacy and influence continue to be felt across a wide spectrum.
Anthology and Harry go way back (he was our Artist-In-Residence) and it
has been our mission over the years to promote and preserve his myriad
achievements and undertakings in film and beyond. . At the heart of this
series is a one-week run of our brand new preservation of Smith's most
fully realized work, FILM NO. 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC. Rani Singh,
Director of the Harry Smith Archives, will be on hand to present her
recently completed documentary THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: HARRY SMITH'S
ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC. In addition, we are presenting 2
screenings of Smith's epic, the incomparable MAHAGONNY. And finally,
there will be an Essential Cinema program of Smith's short film wonders.
To learn more about Harry Smith, visit The Harry Smith Archives:
www.harrysmitharchives.com. ONE NIGHT ONLY!. HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC WITH
LIVE SLIDE & GEL PERFORMANCE!. Harry Smith. NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH
MAGIC . 1957-62, 66 minutes, 16mm. Newly preserved with support from the
National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by Cineric,
Inc. . For the opening night screening of the preserved print of HEAVEN
AND EARTH MAGIC, The Harry Smith Archives and M. Henry Jones will
present a live performance with specially designed slides, colored gels
and maskings. Smith showed the film with its special projection set-up
only once, in the late-1950s at Carnegie Hall, New York City on a
specially built projector. This show involved the use of colored gels
and slide overlays to create a vividly colored presentation that had the
strong feel of a magic lantern show with an animated shadow play at its
center. It is characteristic of Smith to have created this antiquated
form of color presentation, very much akin to the tinting and toning of
silent films, rather than naturalistic color. With the slides and gels,
HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC regains its aboriginal character as an alchemical
séance.
3/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:30, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street at Irwin Street
LIVE CINEMA LAB VIDEO SAVANT AND FRIENDS IN PERSON
"What happens when you take cinema out of the movie theater, wrench the
reel off the projector and start editing the images and sound live, in
front of the audience? LIVE CINEMA!" (Holly Willis, New Digital Cinema:
Reinventing the Moving Image) The mysterious multi-media ensemble viDEO
sAVant has travelled the world presenting its own brand of live
improvisational cinema since 1990. This will be their first Bay Area
appearance. This dynamic performance will feature a synthesis of sound
and moving images with elements produced and mixed on the spot in a
process of live interaction between projectionist and musician, yielding
fluid results, shifting and varied, never the same twice. Participants
include Charles Woodman on images, Margaret Schedel on cello and
electronics, and Yoni Wolf (of Anticon's Why?) on vocals, samples and
assorted sound makers.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007
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3/15
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
MARTY ELLEN BUTE: CENTENNIAL
A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced
over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s.
Renowned for their brilliant color, elegant design, and sprightly,
dance-like rhythms, Bute's films are at once formally rigorous and
exuberantly dynamic: high modernism meets Merrie Melodies. 2006 marked
the centennial of Bute's birth and tonight's program celebrates her
artistic accomplishments with a short survey of her career: RHYTHM IN
LIGHT (w/Melville Webber & Ted Nemeth, 1934); SYNCHROMY NO. 2 (1935);
DADA (Produced for Universal Newsreel, 1936); PARABOLA (1937); SPOOK
SPORT (w/Norman McLaren, 1939); TARANTELLA (1940); POLKA GRAPH (FUN WITH
MUSIC) (1947); COLOR RHAPSODY (1948); IMAGINATION (Produced for Steve
Allen, 1948); NEW SENSATIONS IN SOUND (RCA Commercial, 1949); PASTORALE
(1950); ABSTRONIC (1952); and MOOD CONTRASTS (1953). Organized by the
Center for Visual Music, in association with Cecile Starr and The
Women's Independent Film Exchange. (1934-1953, Marty Ellen Bute, USA,
16mm, ca. 70 min).
3/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Dir: Harry Smith. PRESERVATION PREMIERE!. Newly preserved with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by
Cineric, Inc. . A masterpiece like none other, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC is
a fever-dream collage animation of inexplicable depth and illogical
means. Beautiful to behold and bizarrely baroque, Smith toiled for years
to create the surreal images and musique concrète soundtrack
contained herein. Surprisingly, Smith never made a negative for this
milestone of underground cinema. Following nearly two years worth of
work, we are thrilled to present this pristine new copy that was made
from the earliest existing print. All attempts at a rational description
fail when compared with Smith's own explanation: "The first part depicts
the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon,
her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate
exposition of the heavenly land in terms of Israel, Montreal and the
second part depicts the return to earth from being eaten by Max Muller
on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.".
"NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's
life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest
and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema." -P. Adams
Sitney.
3/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA: HARRY SMITH'S ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
Dir: Rani Singh. NEW YORK PREMIERE! FILMMAKER IN PERSON!. Prepare for an
eclectic journey through THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA. Rani Singh's new
documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith's ANTHOLOGY OF
AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC from its initial compilation of 78rpm records from
rural Americana to its release on Folkways Records in 1952. Instrumental
in helping inspire the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the ANTHOLOGY
continues to influence modern music. An incredible set of interviewees
reveal the lasting impact of the ANTHOLOGY and the remarkable
personality of Harry Smith. After the box-set's release on CD in 1997,
Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts celebrated Smith's
idiosyncratic vision, from Nick Cave's cathartic take on spirituals to
Lou Reed's mesmerizing evocation of Blind Lemon Jefferson. The film
includes rare archival footage, performances, and interviews with Elvis
Costello, Beck, Sonic Youth, Beth Orton, Philip Glass, David Johansen,
John Cohen, Greil Marcus, and more. Join us for a wild ride through a
remarkable musical landscape. .
3/15
world wide web: KQED Interactive
http://www.kqed.org/nestofvipers
ongoing, www.kqed.org/nestofvipers
NEST OF VIPERS PODCAST: SECRET CINEMA: TALES OF FORGOTTEN FILMS & MOVIE
PALACES
NEST OF VIPERS PODCAST Cultural chitchat for know-it-alls,
ne'er-do-wells and nattering nabobs everywhere. Episode 3 of the Nest of
Vipers Podcast is out March 15! Secret Cinema: Tales of Forgotten Films
and Movie Palaces. A loving tribute to off-the-radar films, as well as a
journey into the faded balconies of single screen movie theaters. To
most well-educated cineastes, off the radar films bring to mind titles
like Eraserhead, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Sweet Smell of
Success and Detour. This week, our team of fundits dig deeper into the
celluloid closet as we discuss Mormon educational films, medical
training films, and other oddities with catchy titles like The Estrogen
Cycle of The Rat. And if that's not enough, we share our love for single
screen movie theaters, explore the rapidly changing theater going
experience, and pay homage to faded movie palaces like San Francisco's
Strand Theater, Boston's Pilgrim Theater, and more. Our guests include:
Jack Stevenson is an American film writer and print collector who moved
from San Francisco to Denmark in 1993 but remains a big fan of San
Francisco and Market Street and the Tenderloin and Tulan in particular.
His books include Fleshpot, Land of 1,000 Balconies and Addicted.
Christian Bruno co-directed the fantastic short documentary Pie Fight
'69, a classic look at San Francisco film history. He is currently
finishing a documentary about the demise of single screen movie theater
called Strand: A Natural History of Cinema. He is a dapper dresser. For
more info on his endeavors, check out www.naturalhistoryofcinema.net.
Jesse Ficks programs the Midnites For Maniacs triple bill extravaganza
at the legendary Castro Theater. He also writes about film in various
national publications. The Nest of Vipers Podcast is hosted by San
Francisco independent filmmaker Danny Plotnick (Swingers' Serenade, I'm
Not Fascinating). Like the unholy coupling of Fresh Air and The Best
Damn Sports Show, Nest of Vipers is smart, funny, and irreverent. Each
episode features the rantings, ravings and erudite patter of independent
musicians, filmmakers, writers and comedians holding court on cultural
topics of the utmost importance.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2007
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3/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
See 3/15.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007
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3/17
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
SOUND BRAKHAGE - FEATURING THE WORK OF COMPOSER JAMES TENNEY (1934-2006)
This program, presented in tribute to the late composer James Tenney,
features a selection of experimental film master Stan Brakhage's
occasional sound films. Most of Brakhages' 400 or so films were silent,
but his editing and the rhythmic structures of his films were indeed
musical. He made this literal with a handful of films over his lifetime.
Tonight we present several films with sound by or using the music of the
great modern composer, and Brakhage childhood friend, James Tenney, who
died last fall. Included are two of Brakhage's earliest films, the
psychodramas Interim (1953) and Desistfilm (1954), and two later
abstract films Christ Mass Sex Dance (1991) and "..." Reel 5 (1998).
Rounding out the program is Boulder Blues and Pearls and ... (1992),
with music by Rick Corrigan.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
Dir: Harry Smith. EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes) . MIRROR
ANIMATIONS (1957, 4 minutes) . LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes)
. OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes). All works preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: -
batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946;
optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide - they made me gray." - Harry Smith.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILM #18: MAHAGONNY
Dir: Harry Smith. Preservation work undertaken by Cineric, Inc., with
support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the
National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts,
Sony Entertainment, the National Film Preservation Foundation, The Getty
Research Institute and The Harry Smith Archives. This restoration has
been a joint project of Anthology Film Archives and the Harry Smith
Archives. Smith worked obsessively on MAHAGONNY for over ten years,
shooting it from 1970-72 and editing it from 1972-80. Based on the Kurt
Weill and Bertolt Brecht opera RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY,
the film was an epic, four-screen projection which the filmmaker
considered to be his magnum opus and described as a mathematical
analysis of Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass.". MAHAGONNY is an allegory of
contemporary life; it explores the needs and desires of man amid the
rituals of daily life in New York City. Smith's New York, like Brecht's
Mahagonny, is a place where everything is permitted and the only sin is
not having enough money. Much of the film takes place within the Chelsea
Hotel and contains invaluable portraits of important scenesters such as
Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith and Jonas Mekas. These appearances are
intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe's studio, New
York City landmarks of the era, and Smith's unique, visionary animation.
This 35mm print represents the completion of an ambitious preservation
project by Anthology Film Archives and The Harry Smith Archives. The
film was originally shown ten times at Anthology in 1980 on four 16mm
projectors with the filmmaker present at each screening. This recently
restored print is a composite of all four original 16mm masters (and the
Weill soundtrack) that have been optically printed into a single "tiled"
35mm film image.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 & 7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
See 3/15.
3/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00, California College of the Arts 1111 Eighth Street at Irwin Street
12TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL CURATORS AND ARTISTS
IN PERSON
The Berkeley-based Women of Color Film Festival provides a welcome forum
for both emerging and established artists from one of the most creative
yet continually underrepresented sectors of the film community. This
year's festival commences March 1 at UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive,
with four programs screening there over ten days (for complete program
information and screening schedule, please visit
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu). Cinematheque is honored to host the final two
programs of this years' WOCFF. Please join us at 6pm for a pre-screening
reception. 7pm—WOCFF, Program One: Revisioning Fashion Resistance to
Militarism by Kimberley Alvarenga, Take a Walk by Hsin-I Tseng, The Body
in the Park by Shi Liu, The Shooter by Jin Yoo-Kim, Migration by
Christina Battle, What Keeps Me Going by Joenel Scott, Come on Big Empty
by Kirthi Nath, Re/Camara by Rosario Sotelo, and Palpable Invisibility
of Life by Tran T. Kim-Trang. 9 pm—WOCFF, program two: Queering the
Image Game by JJ Goldberger, Rated F by Donna Lee, Girl Cleans Sink by
Sook-Yin Lee, Before Nine by Hana Abdule, Make a Move by Hanifah
Walidah, and other titles to be determined.
3/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
MELINDA STONE PRESENTS BILL BROWN
Following our strand of topographic work, in fact here's the crown
prince of the critical travelogue, Bill Brown, who's in town for a
teaching turn at USF. This review of three of his 16mm pieces will serve
as an entrée to his signature style. Mountain State, an oblique history
of West Virginia, uses historical markers as portals to the ghost
stories of the Appalachian past. Hub City, an examination of both the
real and the imagined Lubbock, Texas (Bill's hometown), meanders between
Buddy Holly, windswept prairies, and truck-stop diners. The Other Side
details the filmmaker's journey through the Southwest, navigating along
the tangled web of social forces and geographic features bound up in
immigration and national-identity issues. The entire evening is
introduced by our darling Dr. Melinda Stone, a fellow psycho-geographer
and an irrepressible game-show hostess, laden with door prizes,
perforated pastries, and concertina sing-alongs! $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
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3/18
Chicago, Illinois: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
8:00, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave
"THE LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES, OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR"
Run a female artists' collective, brew your own absinthe, attend an
anti-gentrification community board meeting, wheatpaste signs protesting
the war(s), and then lose yourself in what may very well be the Last
Refuge for the Senses. A new breed of noise/post-psychedelia has sprung
up as the only rational response to an increasingly alienating form of
global capitalism, in an increasingly violent-and-joyless politicized
existence – this new media responds with a Chaos of Sound and Light that
seeks to overwhelm you but stops before you're lost, its Kind Hippie
Heart beating out a space for you to occupy and own. From your favorite
Rhode Island filmmakers, we've got Group Trance Rituals, Direct
Dumpster-Dive Animation, History Seen Through the Eyes of Bats, Live
Soundtracks, Cut-Up Eyeballs, Single Frame Collectives, Puppet Chaos,
Analog Transcendence, and So Much More. Featuring music by Lighting
Bolt, Mystery Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs
the Suicidal Tendencies, Joe Grimm (the Wind-Up Bird), Jodi Buonanno,
and more! These nine films represent the true cinema of deliverance, the
theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love. FEATURING: Black and White
Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30, 35mm, 2007), Paranoia Trilogy
Part One: The Chemical Bath by Xander Marro (6:00, 16mm, 2001), Scream
Tone by Jo Dery (3:00, 16mm, 2002), Echoes of Bats and Men by Jo Dery
(7:00, 16mm, 2005), The Red and the Blue Gods by Ben Russell (8:00,
16mm, live sound, 2005), 01/06 by Mat Brinkman and Xander Marro (13:00,
16mm, 2006), The Great Exodus by Jo Dery (6:30, 16mm, 2005), L'Eye by
Xander Marro (2:00, 16mm, 2004), Third Annual Roggabogga Motion Picture
by Forcefield (6:30, 16mm, 2002) TRT 63:30 $5
3/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
6:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
TALES FROM SUMMER CAMP: YOUTH VIDEO FROM CHICAGO FILMMAKERS DIGITAL
MOVIEMAKING SUMMER CAMPS
We are pleased to present a selection of the outstanding work made by
the students, aged 10-18, in our 2005 and 2006 Digital Moviemaking
Summer Camps. Focused on developing creativity and imagination and using
video as an artistic medium, students created several wonderful works,
from fractured fairy tales to faux internet video blogs. Come see what
the directors of tomorrow are doing today! Admission is free.
3/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THE DOCUMENTARIES OF KAZUO HARA: THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON
Filmforum presents THE EMPEROR'S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (1987, 122 min,
16mm, color). Japanese documentarian Hara's remarkable award-winning
film, following the crusade for truth of Okuzaki Kenzo, a radical left
wing activist and also a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in
World War II.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
Dir: Harry Smith. EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes) . MIRROR
ANIMATIONS (1957, 4 minutes) . LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes)
. OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes). All works preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. "My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: -
batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946;
optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide - they made me gray." - Harry Smith.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 & 7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Dir: Harry Smith. PRESERVATION PREMIERE!. . Newly preserved with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by
Cineric, Inc. . A masterpiece like none other, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC is
a fever-dream collage animation of inexplicable depth and illogical
means. Beautiful to behold and bizarrely baroque, Smith toiled for years
to create the surreal images and musique concrète soundtrack
contained herein. Surprisingly, Smith never made a negative for this
milestone of underground cinema. Following nearly two years worth of
work, we are thrilled to present this pristine new copy that was made
from the earliest existing print. All attempts at a rational description
fail when compared with Smith's own explanation: "The first part depicts
the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon,
her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate
exposition of the heavenly land in terms of Israel, Montreal and the
second part depicts the return to earth from being eaten by Max Muller
on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.".
"NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's
life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest
and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema." -P. Adams
Sitney.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FILM #18: MAHAGONNY
Dir: Harry Smith. PRESERVATION PREMIERE!. . Newly preserved with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work by
Cineric, Inc. . A masterpiece like none other, HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC is
a fever-dream collage animation of inexplicable depth and illogical
means. Beautiful to behold and bizarrely baroque, Smith toiled for years
to create the surreal images and musique concrète soundtrack
contained herein. Surprisingly, Smith never made a negative for this
milestone of underground cinema. Following nearly two years worth of
work, we are thrilled to present this pristine new copy that was made
from the earliest existing print. All attempts at a rational description
fail when compared with Smith's own explanation: "The first part depicts
the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a valuable watermelon,
her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate
exposition of the heavenly land in terms of Israel, Montreal and the
second part depicts the return to earth from being eaten by Max Muller
on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London.".
"NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most elaborately
crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's
life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest
and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema." -P. Adams
Sitney.
3/18
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.
2007 PHELAN AWARDS: ALFONSO ALVAREZ/ MELINDA STONE
Presented in association with Film Arts Foundation and the San Francisco
Foundation Alfonso Alvarez and Melinda Stone In Person Issued
bi-annually by Film Arts Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation,
the James D. Phelan Award in Film and Video honors California-born
artists "whose body of work is non-commercial in nature, has made a
substantial contribution to the field, and merits recognition for its
creativity and innovation." Working in the proud traditions of West
Coast funk, junk, projector performance, and optical printing, Alvarez'
films—screening will be Down on the Farm, Calling All Cars, La Reina,
and the performed Night Soil—explode with color and sound, are dizzying
and effervescent visual delights. With overlapping passions for amateur
filmmaking and the organization of large-scale and participatory
film/video spectacles, Melinda Stone's work—including A Trip Down Market
1905/2005, and for a brief moment 1906; The Incredible Adventures of a
Primitive Creature and others, including the latest installment of her
How to Homestead series—investigates landscape and culture, while
cultivating a charming and personal homegrown documentary aesthetic.
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