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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Dis-Oriented: Hong + Chen + Ligon [April 14, San Francisco, California]
* New England Filmmakers See In the Dark [April 15, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Ken Jacobs, Jean Epstein & Dwinell Grant Shorts [April 15, New York, New York]
* Grahame Weinbren: Fragments, Reworkings, Trials and Unfinished... [April 15, San Francisco, California]
* Frame By Frame: Avant-Garde Film Preservation [April 17, Berkeley, California]
* Animate! Artists – Up Close & Personal – andrew KöTting [April 18, London, England]
* Ny Experimental Presents: Gerald Marks: the Art of Stereoscopic 3-D [April 18, New York, New York]
* James Benning's Ten Skies [April 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat [April 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Media Archeology:Below Fi [April 19, Houston, Texas]
* Feedback: visual Howl & Reflexive Music [April 19, Hull, United Kingdom]
* Feedback visual Howl & Reflexive Music [April 19, Hull]
* Electromediascope [April 20, Kansas City, Missouri]
* The No Show [April 20, Manchester, England]
* Hart of London and Julie Murray Film In Charlotte, Nc [April 21, Charlotte, NC]
* For You, Peter Todd Film Works 1990-2005. [April 21, London, England]
* Jean Genet In Chicago + Space Race Myths + [April 21, San Francisco, California]
* For You, Peter Todd Film Works 1990-2005. [April 22, London, England]
* Agnostic Ceiling [April 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimex: Contemporary Experimental Films From Mexico [April 22, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007
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4/14
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
DIS-ORIENTED: HONG + CHEN + LIGON
As the first half of this season's installment of our Historical
Reversionism series, our program exploits the contradictions between and
within various and varying official histories of China, Japan, and the
US. Featured in this mortal combat between propaganda, political
fantasy, and critique, is the world premiere of 731: Two Versions of
Hell, a 27 min. master-stroke of (re)deconstruction, crafted by Goldie
awardee James Hong and collaborator Yin-Ju Chen. This ingenious
ideological puzzle takes as its subject the infamous Japanese military
lab (731) that housed experiments using Chinese prisoners as live guinea
pigs. In a telling structural move, Hong re-presents the same assembly
of shots with an altogether different soundtrack, demonstrating
ever-so-artfully (and with more than a little morbidity) the critical
principle at stake. This inquiry into the construction of History serves
as healthy response to the blatantly racist and nationalistic "war
information" films (16mm) that open the show (Why We Fight, My Japan,
Our Job in Japan). A similar service is performed by JD Ligon's Ha Ha Ha
America, an audaciously provocative skewering of assumptions about China
vs. US global supremacy and pride.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2007
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4/15
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
7:00 pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St
NEW ENGLAND FILMMAKERS SEE IN THE DARK
Freshly unearthed from the northeastern topsoil, a few resilient
experimental films slither forth from the dormancy of winter and work
their way to the warm screen of the Harvard Film Archive. The
flickering, incandescent residue of 16mm will surely awaken all the
workers, drifters, outsiders and romantics from the damp cold to see the
latest in absurdist cultural commentary, explosive poetic montage, and
tormented dream reverie. The filmmakers and the Harvard Film Archive
would like to dedicate this screening to Max Coniglio, who passed away
on February 9, 2007. April 15 (Sunday) 7 pm Blood of the Earthworm
Trailer Directed by Brittany Gravely, Appearing in Person US 2002,
video, color, 5 min. A pre-production trailer for the film—barely a
sketch of things to come. The Daily Planner Directed by Max Coniglio US
2006, 16mm, 9 min. A lazy, disorganized couch potato is miraculously
transformed into a manic, over-achieving member of the rat race after
his wife hands him a daily planner. 0106 Directed by Xander Marro and
Mat Brinkman, Xander Marro Appearing in Person US 2006, 16mm, 13 min. A
single-frame barrage of DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too
many cats, silkscreen explosions, portable cooking stoves, zine
libraries, drum kits, and more - all to the discordant squall of Marro
and Brinkman's manic sonar hearts (Rotterdam Film Festival program
notes). Porch Film: 76 Day Street #2 Directed by Paul Turano, Appearing
in Person US 2004, 16mm, 18 min. A domestic pastoral, summertime on a
back porch, the sound track a mixed tape of emotions. for them ending
Directed by Jonathan Schwartz, Appearing in Person US 2005, 16mm, 3 min.
a raised hand, the children's cheer, the distant fireworks explode like
bombs. for quiet nights and summertime and a life in the absence of war
(Jonathan Schwartz). for a winter Directed by Jonathan Schwartz,
Appearing in Person US 2007, 16mm, 3 min. for a winter (without much
snow, we can all see the evidence in the exhales). L'Eye Directed by
Xander Marro, Appearing in Person US 2006, 16mm, 3 min. Who watches the
Watchmen? Doom drones and Italian supermodels conspire to turn your
loving capitalist gaze back into your own insides. With sound by Carly
Ptak of the Baltimore noise band Nautical Almanac hearts (Rotterdam Film
Festival program notes). Blood of the Earthworm Directed by Brittany
Gravely, Appearing in Person US 2006, 16mm, color, 32 min. An
anti-climactic barrage of original footage and unoriginal extractions
from horror, science fiction, and educational films, all of which
feature contemporary maladies of civilization, such as ecological
devastation, bio-terrorism, consumerism, and government conspiracy, in
their story or subtext. New England premiere!
4/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
KEN JACOBS, JEAN EPSTEIN & DWINELL GRANT SHORTS
Jean Epstein. THE LIGHT THAT NEVER FAILS / LES FEUX DE LA MER. 1948, 20
minutes. Made for the United Nations. Dwinell Grant. COMPOSITION #2
CONTRATHEMIS. 1941, 5 minutes. "An attempt to develop visual abstract
themes and to counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." -D.G.
"Austere and chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure,
density and rhythm." -William Moritz. STOP MOTION TESTS. 1942, 3
minutes. . A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE. 1943, 3 minutes. . "Pure
solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A research into color
rhythms and perceptual phenomena." -William Moritz. Ken Jacobs. LITTLE
STABS AT HAPPINESS. 1959-63, 18 minutes. Featuring Jack Smith. .
"Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments
intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in
immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged
but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement as well
as breaking out of step." -K.J. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner. BLONDE
COBRA. 1962, 35 minutes. Featuring Jack Smith. "BLOND COBRA is an
erratic narrative - no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out
in time for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding
life, on a man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side
deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly,
self-pitying, guilt-strictured and yet triumphing - on one level - over
the situation with style… enticing us into an absurd moral posture the
better to dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" -K.J. Total running
time: ca. 90 minutes. .
4/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street at Irwin Street
GRAHAME WEINBREN: FRAGMENTS, REWORKINGS, TRIALS AND UNFINISHED...
Grahame Weinbren In Person "I am deeply anxious about the state of the
world: the deadly confluence of easy access to intrusive database
technologies, self-righteous fundamentalisms in East and West and
environmental collapse on a massive scale. This combination fills me
with apprehension on a daily basis, a sense of foreboding that I am
attempting to express in my art work, while maintaining a sense of irony
and hope." Grahame Weinbren has been making films since the early
seventies and has written and lectured internationally about cinema,
interactivity and new technology. Tonight we feature Weinbren's Frames;
Cheap Imitations Parts II & III (Madwomen and Point Point); March
Fragments (the endless middle), a farcical attempt to think about
desire, obligation and responsibility; Turner on the Tyne, a film
inspired by a JWM Turner painting, and Weinbren's work-in-progress 25+
Letters, a series of short films that investigate an array of themes
while loosely correlating to a letter of the alphabet.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007
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4/17
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30PM, 2575 Bancroft Ave. (at Bowditch)
FRAME BY FRAME: AVANT-GARDE FILM PRESERVATION
Anger Rising: The Restoration of Works by Kenneth Anger at UCLA Film and
Television Archive Ross Lipman in Person New 35mm prints of four of
Kenneth Anger's most famous films, plus an illustrated lecture by UCLA's
Lipman detailing the challenges involved in restoring them. Program
includes: Fireworks (1947). Rabbit's Moon (1971). Scorpio Rising (1963).
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965).
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007
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4/18
London, England: Roxy Bar & Screen
http://www.roxybarandscreen.com
8pm, 128-132 Borough High St, SE1 1LB
ANIMATE! ARTISTS – UP CLOSE & PERSONAL – ANDREW KöTTING
Andrew Kötting Andrew has been at the forefront of UK filmmaking since
the early eighties, and is best known for his multi-award winning
feature documentary Gallivant, and his immense short film output
including comedy-drama in Smart Alek co-written by comedian Sean Lock
and his experimental animation animate! commission Kingdom Protista. His
recent experiments have led to the web-based work Mapping Perception,
performance and exhibition in his powerful In The Wake of A Deadad
project and even a cross channel swim in his most recent short film
Offshore. Tonight's screening will include the premiere of Cette Sale
Terre, a single screen presentation of the three monitor installation
taken from This Filthy Earth originally developed for a French gallery
show. Andrew will be in conversation with Gareth Evans following the
screening. Programme: JAUNT – a journey down the Thames from Southend
Pier to Westminster DONKEYHEAD – co-directed with Andrew Lindsay, an
early experiment with computer animation KINGDOM PROTISTA – an animate!
commission SMART ALEK – black comedy co-written by and starring Sean
Lock CETTE SALE TERRE 8pm, Wednesday 18th April FREE entry
………………………………………… animate! Despite the recent sudden and sad death of
Dick Arnall, founder and driving force behind animate! the group is
launching a new monthly artist retrospective night at Roxy Bar & Screen.
Each night will focus on artists who have undertaken an animate!
commission since the scheme's inception in 1990 and will feature
screenings of their past work followed by chosen artist in conversation
with Gareth Evans. Future artists include Chris Shepherd and The
Brothers Quay. This is a rare chance to meet some of the best
filmmakers, animators and artistes working in the UK today, and to
experience their work first hand – up close and personal! animate!
www.animateonline.org Roxy Bar & Screen, London SE1
www.roxybarandscreen.com
4/18
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
7:00 PM, 279 Church Street
NY EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: GERALD MARKS: THE ART OF STEREOSCOPIC 3-D
New York Experimental, The Tank's monthly experimental film and video
screening series, is pleased to present an evening of works in
Stereoscopic 3-D by New York based artist Gerald Marks. Multimedia
artist Gerald Marks has been creating and exhibiting stereoscopic 3-D
for over thirty years. From 1978 to 1982, Marks used a stereo camera
made during the 1950s and developed a very personal style of multiple
exposure photography. At that time, he exhibited some of that work in
custom viewing devices at the Museum of Holography and various galleries
along woth some projection of this work using the then-available
projectors, which were less than satisfactory. A new custom-engineered
3-D projector for this format has become available using greatly
improved technology. The N.Y. Stereoscopic Society has acquired one and,
courtesy of the club and it's president, Greg Dinkins, Marks will
present a wide range of his best photography along with some early
images by others that he has collected over the years. New York
Experimental is The Tank's monthly experimental film and video series,
focusing on unique moving picture works from emerging and established
artists. The mission of the series is to present a wide range of work,
in regards to both content and aesthetics, from New York based,
national, and international artists, to a general audience, in a
welcoming environment. For questions about New York Experimental,
including programming and the submission process, please contact Susan
Agliata at email suppressed and visit www.thetanknyc.org.
4/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
6:30pm, Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West
JAMES BENNING'S TEN SKIES
TEN SKIES (TORONTO PREMIERE!) Director: James Benning (USA, 2004, 101
minutes, 16mm) "Old school minimalist James Benning pushes whatever
boundaries are left – his 13 LAKES and TEN SKIES are the most radical,
and awesome, films anywhere." – Mark Peranson, The Village Voice. A
companion piece to 13 LAKES, which we showed in the Fall of 2006, James
Benning's masterful TEN SKIES delivers on its title, and then some. The
film is composed of ten shots of ten minutes in length, captured in the
filmmaker's backyard.Complex and profoundly beautiful, these "found
paintings" as Benning calls them, are not simply impressionist views of
the sky above, but spring from Benning's unique worldview, which praises
the transformative experience of nature's mesmerizing forces, its
splendor and its sublime character. Inevitably charged with the chaos of
the world in which we live, Benning's work serves as a handsome reminder
of what is at stake. His cumulus clouds pack a strong punch of radical
classicism and mesmeric phenomenology, existing in defiance of the
world's injuries. Of TEN SKIES, Benning has said: "All the shots end up
with a dynamic quality. I never saw that before, I never had the
courage. It took me fifty years to look at the sky like that! I think of
my landscape works now as anti-war artworks – they're about the
antithesis of war, the kind of beauty we're destroying. TEN SKIES came
about because I'm thinking about what the opposite of war is." Don't
miss this unique chance to see a film which Jonathan Rosenbaum and many
others – we among them – have deemed a masterpiece. – Andréa Picard This
is a FREE non-ticketed event.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007
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4/19
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
SHARON LOCKHART: PINE FLAT
SHARON LOCKHART IN PERSON! Los Angeles photographer and filmmaker Sharon
Lockhart..s latest project is an exquisite, meditative portrait of youth
in Pine Flat, a small community of three hundred in the foothills of
central California..s Sierra Nevadas. Shot over the course of two years
and made up of twelve ten-minute static shots, Lockhart..s camera
captures her young subjects in repose, at play, and in the tentative
embrace of adolescent desire--telegraphing the vulnerability, bliss, and
even loneliness of childhood. At once intimate and meticulously staged,
Lockhart mines the implicit tensions between the stillness of her camera
and the ephemerality of youth, laying bare the small moments that make
up a life. (2006, Sharon Lockhart, USA, 16mm, 135 min).
4/19
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8:30 p.m., Aurora Picture Show, 800 Aurora Street, Houston, TX 77009
MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY:BELOW FI
Aurora Picture Show (Houston,TX) announces their fourth annual Media
Archeology Festival: Below-Fi. Get ready for three mindbending days of
audiovisual kinesis featuring hackers, benders, builders, and overall
enthusiasts of the analogue aesthetic. These artists invent their own
instruments of sound and light, and find new uses for technologies of
the past to create future-forward entertainment. Curated by Nick
Hallett, Aurora's Media Archeology: Below-Fi takes over Houston for
three nights from April 19-21 at three unique venues. Performances
include Bruce McClure and Ray Sweeten (Thursday, April 19 at Aurora
Picture Show, 800 Aurora St.); Dynasty Handbag and Nautical Almanac
(Friday, April 20, 8:30pm at Domy Bookstore, 1709 Westheimer); Tristan
Perich and Quintron and Miss Pussycat (Saturday, April 21, 8:30pm at The
Orange Show, 2402 Munger St.) Lighting designed by Mighty Robot.
4/19
Hull, United Kingdom: Hull Film
http://www.hullfilm.co.uk/
19.30, Hull Screen University of Lincoln George Street HU1 3BW
FEEDBACK: VISUAL HOWL & REFLEXIVE MUSIC
NOTES ON A LINE David Leister UK, 1987, sound, B&W, 12 mins, 16mm
Featuring Aleks Kolkowski (violin) and Alex Maguire (piano) recorded on
film playing live to a silent film of themselves playing. Image and
music progressively overlap until they act as one. PHASED TIME2 David
Hall UK, 1974, sound, colour, 12 mins, 16mm Systems music for film. Each
of six two minute sections of a pan around a room and with synthesiser
and organ notes are matted and superimposed upon its predecessor
producing visual and aural phase shifts. FILM FEEDBACK Tony Conrad USA,
1974, silent, colour, 14 mins, 16mm Produced from an event where the
projected image was a film of its self projected. MONITOR 1 Steve
Partridge UK, 1975, 6 mins, video Monitor 1 exploits the formal
properties of video feedback. WHAT IS SOUL? David Blandy UK, 2002, 3
mins, video David Blandy puts on a record and gives an impassioned
performance in his bedroom of What is Soul? however we only hear Ben E
King singing. VIOLIN POWER Steina Vasulka USA, 1970-78, 10 mins, video
Steina Vasulka describes this process piece as a demo on how to play
video on the violin. AVVA:ragtag Billy Roisz, Sound:Toshimaru Nakamura
Austria/Japan 2006, 5 mins video SOURCES Billy Roisz Austria 2004, 12min
video Produced from the soundchecks of eight musicians: Andréa Neumann,
Annette Krebs, Axel Dörner, Martin Siewert, Martin Brandlmayr, Otomo
Yoshihide, Rossi, Sachiko M. PERFORMANCE Pete McPartlan UK 2007 20 mins
live video & electronics This performance will utilise the electrical
processes integral to analogue video players, TVs and tape-recorders to
combine and interlock sound and vision. Programmed by Rob Gawthrop.
4/19
Hull: Hull Film
http://www.hullfilm.co.uk/
7.30pm, Hull Screen University of Lincoln | George Street | Hull | HU1 3BW
FEEDBACK VISUAL HOWL & REFLEXIVE MUSIC
Jimi Hendrix's guitar and the original title sequence in Dr Who are
probably the best known examples of the creative use of feedback. In
2004 an international array of musicians toured the UK under the
umbrella title of Feedback – Order from Noise. Included in the tour was
Toshimaru Nakamura with his No Input Mixing Desk who performed with
Billy Roisz who played live with video feedback. Coinciding with their
visit to Hull this programme brings together a number of rarely seen
works that exploit both the conceptual and expressive qualities of
feedback, plus a new live performance work by Pete McPartlan. NOTES ON A
LINE David Leister UK, 1987, sound, B&W, 12 mins, 16mm Featuring Aleks
Kolkowski (violin) and Alex Maguire (piano) recorded on film playing
live to a silent film of themselves playing. Image and music
progressively overlap until they act as one. PHASED TIME2 David Hall UK,
1974, sound, colour, 12 mins, 16mm Systems music for film. Each of six
two minute sections of a pan around a room and with synthesiser and
organ notes are matted and superimposed upon its predecessor producing
visual and aural phase shifts. FILM FEEDBACK Tony Conrad USA, 1974,
silent, colour, 14 mins, 16mm Produced from an event where the projected
image was a film of its self projected. MONITOR 1 Steve Partridge UK,
1975, 6 mins, video Monitor 1 exploits the formal properties of video
feedback. WHAT IS SOUL? David Blandy UK, 2002, 3 mins, video David
Blandy puts on a record and gives an impassioned performance in his
bedroom of What is Soul? however we only hear Ben E King singing. VIOLIN
POWER Steina Vasulka USA, 1970-78, 10 mins, video Steina Vasulka
describes this process piece as a demo on how to play video on the
violin. AVVA:ragtag Billy Roisz, Sound:Toshimaru Nakamura Austria/Japan
2006, 5 mins video SOURCES Billy Roisz Austria 2004, 12min video
Produced from the soundchecks of eight musicians: Andréa Neumann,
Annette Krebs, Axel Dörner, Martin Siewert, Martin Brandlmayr, Otomo
Yoshihide, Rossi, Sachiko M. PERFORMANCE Pete McPartlan UK 2007 20 mins
live video & electronics This performance will utilise the electrical
processes integral to analogue video players, TVs and tape-recorders to
combine and interlock sound and vision. Programmed by Rob Gawthrop.
TOTAL PROGRAMME RUNNING TIME: 1hr 34mins No cert Entry:
£5.00(£4.50*)£4.00(£3.50*)Concs *Apex tickets available up until 6.30pm
on day of performance from HullScreen www.hullscreen.co.uk
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2007
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4/20
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Being There: Experiencing Place and Non-place. Cinema, video,
installation art and new media all involve different relationships
between place and non-place. In the past most people's sense of place
and personal space was defined in terms of location, residence and
cultural traditions. Our contemporary sense of place now also includes
non-places such as airports, shopping malls, interstate highway networks
and the Internet. These non-places are familiar discontinuous scenes
marked by experiences of waiting and transition that incorporate
distancing effects of incongruity and repetition. Some of the works in
Being There emphasize place while others survey conditions of both place
and non-place. Several artists employ long constant shots, silence and
ambient sound while exploring different experiences of seeing, knowing
and immersion in relation to nature, territory and cultural space. Some
works have as much in common with photography and painting as with
filmmakng and video in that it is possible for the viewer to control and
spatialize the temporal experience while breaking through media
conditioning involving our expectations of conventional narrative
continuity and timing. These works involve exceptional ways of seeing
and revealing that which may have been unrecognizable, lost or
concealed. Some places are discovered through close observation and
spending enough time to pass through the stereotypical spectacle of
place in order to get in touch with a more expansive sensory awareness
and palpable sense of presence. Other works perform defamiliarizing,
ironic or humorous manipulations of the frame of reference that disturb
the natural, and by establishing artificial or constructed perceptions,
make it possible to actually get closer to what these places are about.
All of the works challenge what we think we know or recognize about the
geophysical, institutional and cultural aspects of particular places, so
that it is possible to experience them from fresh perspectives. –
Patrick Clancy. Untitled, Anri Sala (Albania), 2004, 7 min., video shown
on DVD. Buildings and Grounds / The Angst Archive, Ken Kobland (USA),
2003, 45:00 min., video The Paradox of the 10 Acres Square, eteam
[Franziska Lamprecht (Germany) and Hajoe Moderegger (Germany)], 2005, 50
min., video. Program continues April 27.
4/20
Manchester, England: Castlefield Gallery
http://castlefieldgallery.co.uk
wed - Sun 1-6pm, Castlefield Callery, 2 Hewitt Street, M15 4GB,
THE NO SHOW
A site-specific seeing game, live art work and curatorial project by
British artist RICCARDO IACONO combining video, installation, animation,
performance, painting and print, produced through an improvised response
to the idiosyncrasies of the gallery architecture and the exhibition
process. THE NO SHOW will also combine recycled material from Iacono's
previous work together with artworks by other artists and 'artefacts'
from previous exhibitions at CASTLEFIELD GALLERY to examine the
mechanics of the creative process, the politics of artistic authorship,
representation and re-contextualisation of artwork. Riccardo Iacono will
be present in the gallery space at scheduled periods throughout the
exhibition to continue the editing, manipulation and manoeuvring
process. Physical changes within the gallery space will be documented,
animated and played back via the video projectors and monitors with
varying complexity as the show unfolds. The exhibition runs from 20th
April to 27th May 2007. For further details visit the Castlefield
Gallery website.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2007
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4/21
Charlotte, NC: Hopscotch Cinema
8 PM, 3103 CULLMAN AVENUE
HART OF LONDON AND JULIE MURRAY FILM IN CHARLOTTE, NC
Jack Chamber's Hart of London and Julie Murray's NY by Night at the NODA
MICROCINEMA (3103 CULLMAN AVENUE) in Charlotte, NC on Saturday April
21st at 8PM. All 16mm! FREE! (but donations to the microcinema are
encouraged) http://www.nodamicrocinema.blogspot.com/
4/21
London, England: Greenwich Picturehouse
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk
2.00pm, 180 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN
FOR YOU, PETER TODD FILM WORKS 1990-2005.
Peter Todd introduces a screening of 16mm films in conjunction with his
show Outside Inside Inside Outside at The Surgery, London. 'They stay
long enough to reveal what you'd miss in passing, intimate enough to
make you linger, thoughtful enough to make you, in turn, think." Alan
Alderson-Smith – Phoenix Arts. "crafter of poetic ruminations about
ordinary life...No special effects: just a camera trained on nondescript
surroundings, made poignant by the soundtrack's medley of voices and
director's sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most
ordinary of lives." Geoff Brown - The Times. "One's own mundane circuit
is often so internalised, that it takes the visualisation of another's …
to let us see our own afresh. To be benignly jolted, calmly encouraged
to reconsider the possible immanence of awe, is one of the recurrent
effects of Todd's work in this vein." Gareth Evans - Vertigo. Programme
includes; Out, 1990. To Red, 1995. Diary, 1998. Day Out or 100' Of Film,
1998. For You, 2000. An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home,
2003. Where You Had Been, 2005. The programme concludes with works by
two film makers who Peter Todd has included in particular in curated
programmes, Aerial, Margaret Tait. 1974, Tree and Cloud (part of 'Animal
Studies; including some of their habitats'), Guy Sherwin.1998-2003. All
works on 16mm film, rt approx 70 mins. A specially commissioned essay by
Lucy Reynolds is published in conjunction with For You, supported by
Arts Council England. Outside Inside Inside Outside. A photographic
piece by Peter Todd. April 13– 29. 2007. The Surgery, 123 Evelina Road,
Nunhead, London SE15 3HB. Open Fri-Sun 12-6 or by appointment.
www.surgery123.org tel. 07906 206 166. All work distributed by LUX
www.lux.org.uk (tel. 020 7503 3980).
4/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO + SPACE RACE MYTHS +
Honored by San Francisco magazine as the "Robin Hood" of the City's
librarians, Megan Shaw Prelinger proffers a privileged preview of her
upcoming book project, Another Science Fiction: Illustrating the Space
Race, a post-Barthes interpretation of a particularly rich
media-archeological niche of early '60s aerospace advertising. Frédéric
Moffet's Jean Genet in Chicago also rewrites the Sixties, through the
restaging, with masks and archival footage, of Genet's engagement in the
protests against the '68 Democratic Convention. PLUS a slew of other
works that, too, offer alternative and aberrant readings of the received
historical record: Rodney Ascher's Triumph of Victory, Greg Sholette's
Return of the Atomic Ghosts, Scott Calonico's Mondo Ford, Geoff Adam's
Shadow of Liberty, and Aaron Valdez' Life and Times of Robert Kennedy
Starring Gary Cooper. Doc-comet Sam Green hosts, utilizing this forum
for historiographic agency to update us all on his Sarah Jacobsen Film
Fund. Come early for the spot-on pseudo-doc Dark Side of the Moon.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2007
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4/22
London, England: Riverside Studios Cinema
http://www.riversdiestudios.co.uk
3.00pm., Crsip Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
FOR YOU, PETER TODD FILM WORKS 1990-2005.
Peter Todd introduces a screening of 16mm films in conjunction with his
show Outside Inside Inside Outside at The Surgery, London. 'They stay
long enough to reveal what you'd miss in passing, intimate enough to
make you linger, thoughtful enough to make you, in turn, think." Alan
Alderson-Smith – Phoenix Arts. "crafter of poetic ruminations about
ordinary life...No special effects: just a camera trained on nondescript
surroundings, made poignant by the soundtrack's medley of voices and
director's sensitivity to the layers of emotions that shape the most
ordinary of lives." Geoff Brown - The Times. "One's own mundane circuit
is often so internalised, that it takes the visualisation of another's …
to let us see our own afresh. To be benignly jolted, calmly encouraged
to reconsider the possible immanence of awe, is one of the recurrent
effects of Todd's work in this vein." Gareth Evans - Vertigo. Programme
includes; Out, 1990. To Red, 1995. Diary, 1998. Day Out or 100' Of Film,
1998. For You, 2000. An Office Worker Thinks of Their Love, and Home,
2003. Where You Had Been, 2005. The programme concludes with works by
two film makers who Peter Todd has included in particular in curated
programmes, Aerial, Margaret Tait. 1974, Tree and Cloud (part of 'Animal
Studies; including some of their habitats'), Guy Sherwin.1998-2003. All
works on 16mm film, rt approx 70 mins. A specially commissioned essay by
Lucy Reynolds is published in conjunction with For You, supported by
Arts Council England. Outside Inside Inside Outside. A photographic
piece by Peter Todd. April 13– 29. 2007. The Surgery, 123 Evelina Road,
Nunhead, London SE15 3HB. Open Fri-Sun 12-6 or by appointment.
www.surgery123.org tel. 07906 206 166. All work distributed by LUX
www.lux.org.uk (tel. 020 7503 3980).
4/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
AGNOSTIC CEILING
Curated and introduced by Mark McElhatten. Straight from the Rotterdam
Film festival, a brilliant collection of new works including Los Angeles
premiers of films by Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Jennifer Reeves, Robert
Todd, Gyula Nemes. Including: 'Surging Sea of Humanity" by Ken Jacobs
(U.S. 2007 10 min., video); "Untitled (revised)" by Mark LaPore (U.S.
2005 6 min 16mm silent); "Black and White Trypps #3"by Ben Russell
(U.S., 2006, 11 min 30 sec., 35mm); "Light Work" by Jennifer Reeves
(U.S., 2006, 8 min with music by Anthony Burr, video); Capitalism: Child
Labor" by Ken Jacobs(U.S., n.d., 10 min with music by Rick Reed, video);
Bliss" by Robert Todd (U.S. 2007, 4 min 30 sec.); "His Eye is on the
Sparrow"by Bruce Conner (U.S., 2006, 4 min.); "Threshold of Transience
aka The Dike of Transience" by Gyula Nemes (Hungary, 2005, 13 min,
35mm); "Drive–Thru" by Gretchen Skogerson (U.S., 2006, 19 min., video)
4/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 & 9:00 pm, Studio 24/Galeria de la Raza 2857 24th Street at Bryant
EXPERIMEX: CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM MEXICO
Curated and Presented by Jorge Lorenzo Flores and Rosario Sotelo Jorge
Lorenzo Flores, José Rodríguez and Carlos Isael In Person Inspired by
the Mexperimental Cinema program curated by Jesse Lerner and Rita
Gonzales at the Guggenheim in 1998, we present a selection of
contemporary experimental films from Mexico, an eclectic mix of short
films that resist categorization, revealing the permutations of film and
video art by emerging and established Mexican filmmakers. Screening:
Habitáculos by Gabriela Santos del Olmo , Gladiator by Artemio Narro,
All Water Has a Perfect Memory by Natalia Almada, Amor es...de plástico
by A. Salomón, Untitled 4 by José Rodríguez, Mi Camotal by Carlos Isael,
asi late mi corazon de aceituna by Marisol Cortes and Pin Whole Series
Application 1: Bulb by Jorge Lorenzo Flores.
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