This week [June 9 - 17, 2007] in avant garde cinema

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This week [June 9 - 17, 2007] in avant garde cinema

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Danger Zone (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2007)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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Detroit Docs International Film Festival (Detroit, MI USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Montevideo, Uruguay; Deadline: June 22, 2007)
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Transformer Gallery (Washington DC; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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ICE Film Festival (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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Overlap 06 - Rx Gallery (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: June 20, 2007)
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10 or Less Film Festival (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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2007 Great Lakes Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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Animated Bike -In II (Vancouver, British Columbia, C; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
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ATA Film and Video Festival (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 29, 2007)
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Artists' Television Access (San Francisco, CA US; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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Korean Focus at the 23rd International Short Film Festival Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: July 13, 2007)
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Danger Zone (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2007)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (australia; Deadline: June 15, 2007)
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The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (Montevideo, Uruguay; Deadline: June 22, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Film Love - Our Folks: Poetic Documentaries About Family [June 9, Atlanta, Georgia]
 * Bryan Konefsky Presents: What We Do For Love [June 9, New York, New York]
 * Flock of Words: New video/Performance of David Finkelstein [June 9, San Francisco, California]
 * An Evening With the Kranings [June 10, Los Angeles, California]
 * Classics of the Twenties [June 10, New York, New York]
 * George Landow/Aka Owen Land [June 10, New York, New York]
 * In Memoriam: Diane Bonder [June 10, San Francisco, California]
 * Newfilmmakers Salutes Mental Illness Docs, Mocks & More [June 13, New York, New York]
 * La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 14, BERN, SWITZERLAND]
 * Film Before Film: What Really Happened Between the Images? / Was Geschah
    Wirklich Zwischen Den Bildern? [June 14, New York, New York]
 * Paul Tschinkel/ Art/New York- Documentaries- Kiki Smith/ Louise Bourgeois [June 14, New York, New York]
 * New Maps of the New World (The Short Films of Roger Beebe) [June 14, San Francisco, California]
 * Guy Sherwin [June 15, Brussels, Belgium]
 * 13 Lakes [June 15, New York, New York]
 * Ten Skies [June 15, New York, New York]
 * Finding Normal [June 15, Portland, Oregon]
 * Malcolm Le Grice [June 16, Brussels, Belgium]
 * La Cyclo-Cinematheque [June 16, LYON, FRANCE]
 * 13 Lakes [June 16, New York, New York]
 * Ten Skies [June 16, New York, New York]
 * William Raban [June 17, Brussels, Belgium]
 * The Watermelon Woman (1996) With Director Cheryl Dunye and Producer Alex
    Juhasz In Person! [June 17, Los Angeles, California]
 * 13 Lakes [June 17, New York, New York]
 * Ten Skies [June 17, New York, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2007
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6/9
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Suite 8

 FILM LOVE - OUR FOLKS: POETIC DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT FAMILY
  The Film Love series presents the Atlanta premieres of three poetic
  short films and videos - emotional documentaries about the filmmakers'
  quests to connect with their families across the generations. ** Reading
  the Water is a brand new work by Atlanta artist Niklas Vollmer. Part
  nature film, part home movie, Reading the Water takes Vollmer and his
  three-year-old son to the coast of Maine, for a visit to Vollmer's
  marine biologist father. Gorgeous high-definition video footage
  highlights the ecosystem of the waterways, with engaging explanations of
  the wildlife by Vollmer's father. However, Vollmer turns the tables by
  including playful outtakes, false starts and wry cinematic disruptions
  that reveal the familial bonds (and occasional irritations) between the
  three generations of men. ** Ariana Gerstein's film Images of Flying and
  Falling is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mourning of
  her own grandmother. The only film imagery which she has of her
  grandmother is manipulated digitally, and juxtaposed against the witty,
  moving narration of an artist who compulsively collects postcards and
  family photographs which have been discarded by others. ** LeAnn
  Erickson's poignant short video Folk Songs explores "the old world"
  through the memories and stories of the filmmaker's grandparents, who
  left the Ukraine for the United States as teenagers in 1913. Song,
  passports, photographs, and other artifacts from the past hint at the
  richness of what was lost when they left for a new home in another
  country, and the intensity of the immigrant experience. ** program: Folk
  Songs (LeAnn Erickson, 2007), 16mm and video, 12 minutes, screened on
  digital video | Images of Flying and Falling (Ariana Gerstein, 2000),
  16mm, 25 minutes, screened on digital video | Reading the Water:
  Lectures on Home Video Ecology from the Gulf of ME (Niklas Vollmer,
  2007), digital video, 40 minutes **The Film Love series provides access
  to great but rarely-screened films, and promotes awareness of the rich
  history of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking. Film Love was voted
  Best Film Series in Atlanta 2006 by the critics of Creative Loafing.
  More information about the series is at
  http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com/

6/9
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 E 4th ST NYC 10003

 BRYAN KONEFSKY PRESENTS: WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE
  Millennium Film Workshop 8:00pm, June 9, 2007 66 E 4th ST NYC 10003
  212.673.0090 www.millenniumfilm.org On June 9 at the Millennium Film
  Workshop Konefsky will present work that will showcases a wide range of
  personal cinema produced by members of Albuquerque-based Basement Films
  and other un-dependent media artists living, working and trying to keep
  their water usage to a minimum in New Mexico. Note that some of the
  works included in this program were culled from our 2007 Experiments in
  Cinema V 2.0 festival. In addition to the regular program of visionary,
  personal work, Konefsky will screen a video produced by Steve –O (yes,
  Steve-O from the Jackass movies) from 1996 when he was enrolled in a
  video art production course taught by Bryan Konefsky at the University
  of New Mexico– It's a curiously mature work for such a "young, loud and
  snotty" pop culture icon! Bryan Konefsky Artistic Director, Experiments
  in Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/mkr/bk/ VP, Basement Films
  www.basementfilms.org

6/9
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)

 FLOCK OF WORDS: NEW VIDEO/PERFORMANCE OF DAVID FINKELSTEIN
  David Finkelstein comes to ATA to deliver an evening of video and improv
  for his West Coast premiere appearance! Working out of New York with his
  collaborators in the Lake Ivan Performance Group, Finkelstein's style of
  narrative improvisation clothed in video drag could be described as Jack
  Smith meets George Kuchar on After Effects. The resulting video is of
  course nothing you could have dreamed!  The work is founded on the
  improvising actor's art of fantasy and storytelling. Often the
  groundwork involves videotaping two actors on stage, gesturing
  and tossing brief monologues back and forth, creating a picaresque
  dreamscape.  Back at his studio console, Finkelstein then modulates and
  mutates the footage through elaborate video wizardry. The work is
  broadcast on Public Access cable and made available as single channel
  DVD releases.  Tonight's opening performance with Finkelstein, Bay Area
  Action Theater artist Jenny Schaffer, and musician Steve Sandberg
  will reveal the beginnings of the improvisational process.  Then three
  recent videos will be shown and the artist will be available afterwards
  for discussion.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2007
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6/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 AN EVENING WITH THE KRANINGS
  Filmforum presents filmmakers Blue and Laura Kraning with their recent
  documentary work, including Laura¹s observational pieces "Cortlandt
  Alley" and "American Parade" (about the 2006 Rose Parade) and Blue¹s
  "Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson," a raucous tour of
  some of America¹s cannon owners/Hunter S. Thompson lovers.

6/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES
  Fernand Léger with Dudley Murphy . BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924,
  12 minutes). Francis Picabia with René Clair . ENTR'ACTE (1924,
  22 minutes, with Erik Satie score) . Man Ray . LE RETOUR À LA
  RAISON (1923, 2 minutes) . ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13 minutes). EMAK
  BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes) . Marcel Duchamp with Man Ray. ANEMIC CINEMA
  (1926, 7 minutes).

6/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 GEORGE LANDOW/AKA OWEN LAND
  "His remarkable faculty is as maker of images .. the images he
  photographs are among the most radical, super-real and haunting the
  cinema has ever given us." -P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM. "Film is a
  complex medium, combining elements of many other media. The ideal film
  artist would be a great poet, great painter, great playwright, great
  composer, great inventor - and maybe even a great business man or woman
  (most probably a woman - all the artists of the future may be women, men
  having long given up that profession to become soldiers or mystics).
  Such a composite genius has yet to appear." -interview with George
  Landow, IMAGE FORUM, 1984. EARLY FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW . ca. 1961-62,
  ca. 15 minutes, 8mm (16mm blow-up), 18 fps. Special thanks to Cineric
  Inc. for 16mm transfer. These films are not part of the Essential
  Cinema. According to Jonas Mekas, Landow used to show these films along
  with FLEMING FALOON at early screenings before he pulled them from his
  repertoire. . FLEMING FALOON . 1963, 6 minutes, 16mm. . FILM IN WHICH
  THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC. .
  1965/66, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO FOLLIES
  . 1967, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE
  OF CLARIFIED BUTTER . 1968, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. INSTITUTIONAL
  QUALITY . 1969, 5 minutes, 16mm. REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION . 1970,
  5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? . 1972,
  13 minutes, 16mm, color and b&w, sound. THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL
  PRESENT . 1973, 6 minutes, 16mm, color and b&w, sound.

6/10
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.

 IN MEMORIAM: DIANE BONDER
  San Francisco Cinematheque is pleased to present a tribute to Diane
  Bonder and a retrospective of the late Diane Bonder's ten years of
  Super-8, 16mm and video work. Diane Bonder died last year on June 23
  after living nearly a year with pancreatic cancer. Tonight is a
  celebration of her life and work. Her narrative documentary fusions have
  been internationally exhibited and are framed with flawless lyrical
  potency. Dear Mom examines a girl's identity in relation to a
  matriarchal family and domestic fantasies. If transforms the common
  object into an emblem of an absent lover. Images of rural America in If
  You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now bring us into a struggle between
  private property and public space. In Closer to Heaven urban ghosts
  collide. I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-bye moves to
  a dance of memory and loss and You Are Not from Here expresses an
  oblique nostalgia for the pre-gentrified landscape.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2007
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6/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 NEWFILMMAKERS SALUTES MENTAL ILLNESS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE
  Dan Kowalski THE CHARACTERS (2006, 13 minutes, mini-DV). Nicole Bukowski
  THE G! TRUE TINSELTOWN TALE: DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? (2005, 20 minutes,
  mini-DV/Super-8mm). Tim Bartell FIRST DATE MELTDOWN (2005, 6 minutes,
  mini-DV). Danny Goodman WHEN WE'RE OLD AND LOVE MEANS NOTHING (2006, 14
  minutes, video). . 7:00 SHORT FILM PROGRAM. Corey Rennell LAST TO BE
  FIRST (2005, 35 minutes, mini-DV). Adam Karsten HAPPY (2006, 20 minutes,
  mini-DV). . 8:00 FEATURE PRESENTATION . Joey Huertas 330.20 (2006, 37
  minutes, video). A look at one of the most misunderstood and hated
  categories of mental illness, the Criminally Insane. Examines murderers,
  sex offenders and fire-setters, both in and out of incarceration.
  (330.20: Penal Code for a Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity verdict.). &.
  Michael Mongillo. WELCOME TO EARTH. 2005, 88 minutes, mini-DV. A group
  of friends decide to have a party when Earth welcomes "The Visitors.".

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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2007
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6/14
BERN, SWITZERLAND: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
8PM, LICHTSPIEL

 LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
  LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
  written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
  Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
  Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
  and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
  videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
  are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
  together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
  to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
  is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
  floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
  what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
  the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
  cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
  the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
  were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
  program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
  landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
  on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
  the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
  Our Mechanical Bride  by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
  archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
  resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
  monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
  themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
  destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
  fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
  2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
  geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
  migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
  borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
  landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
  72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
  video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
  visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
  prerecorded narratives. LICHTSPIEL / Kinemathek Bern Bahnstrasse 21
  CH-3008 BERN 84 rue du Général-Buat http://WWW.LICHTSPIEL.CH

6/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 FILM BEFORE FILM: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED BETWEEN THE IMAGES? / WAS GESCHAH
 WIRKLICH ZWISCHEN DEN BILDERN?
  An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the 'prehistory' of
  cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which
  led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books,
  flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms
  of early animation, and numerous other historical artifices. Working
  with these formats, early 'producers' created melodramas and comedies -
  as well as lots of pornography - anticipating most of the forms known
  today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and
  rewarding optical experience. FILM BEFORE FILM is a bewildering assault
  of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.

6/14
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Thursday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)
New York

 PAUL TSCHINKEL/ ART/NEW YORK- DOCUMENTARIES- KIKI SMITH/ LOUISE BOURGEOIS
  KIKI SMITH (28 min.-1994) This tape covers the art of one of the most
  innovative and unusual artists working today. Covered are two shows at
  the Fawbush Gallery in New York City in which she exhibits visceral,
  primal and thought provoking work. Included is an interview with KIKI
  SMITH in her Lower East Side studio where she tallks at length about her
  inspiration, her ideas and the making of her art. ALso included are
  brief interviews with her dealers Joe Fawbush and Tom Jones, and Claudia
  Gould, Director of Artists Space in Soho. LOUISE BOURGEOIS (28
  min.-1987) This video covers two of Bourgeois' sculpture shows at the
  Robert Miller Gallery. Included is a fascinating interview with this
  long-standing, highly respected member of the New York art world. Text
  is by Robert Storr, a curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of
  Modern Art.

6/14
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8 pm, 16 Sherman St. (off Folsom btw 6th & 7th)

 NEW MAPS OF THE NEW WORLD (THE SHORT FILMS OF ROGER BEEBE)
  Come celebrate Flag Day at the New Nothing Cinema with a program of
  experimental short films by Roger Beebe! Roger Beebe serves up slices of
  American pie including: a look at some of Florida's finest strip malls
  ("The Strip Mall Trilogy," 9:00, 2001), a portrait of a disused gas
  station ("S A V E," 5:30, 2006), a direct animation featuring images of
  Toni Basil xeroxed directly on 16mm film ("TB TX DANCE," 2:30, 2006), an
  exploration in dance of women and aviation in WWII ("A Woman, A Mirror,"
  15:00, 2001), and, from right here in California, a glimpse of the
  Central Coast's most overlooked power plant ("(rock/hard place)," 7:00,
  2005) and shots of every McDonald's restaurant from San Leandro to
  Richmond ("Composition in Red & Yellow," 2003, 2:30). And that's not
  all—look for surprise appearances by Tommy Hilfiger and former Laker
  Shaquille O'Neal, a roll of super 8 from an American in Paris, and more!
  Been too busy helping support our secret detention centers in Eastern
  Europe to memorize the 2nd tier of patriotic holidays? No problem—Flag
  Day is next Thursday, June 14! Show starts at 8 p.m.! Better still, it's
  FREE (although make sure you read the fine print!)! Filmmaker in
  attendance! (Did we mention he's from FLORIDA?) Come! Come! Come! 8 pm
  New Nothing Cinema 16 Sherman St. off Folsom Between 6th and 7th in San
  Francisco's lovely SOMA district

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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2007
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6/15
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
20:00, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar

 GUY SHERWIN
  Born 1948. Studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the 1960s. His
  subsequent film works, often including live elements and serial forms,
  are characterised by an enduring concern with light and time as the
  fundamentals of cinema. His piece Man With A Mirror is simply one of the
  most stunning film performances ever created; time makes every of its
  screenings an even stronger experience. Recent works include
  multi-screen projection and gallery installations, mostly in
  collaboration with Lynn Loo, who has worked oh this program with Guy
  Sherwin and will help him during the screening. Sherwin taught printing
  and processing at the London Filmmaker's Co-op (now LUX) during the
  mid-70s. His films have been widely exhibited in England and abroad, as
  part of 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head'
  Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002, 'A
  Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4. Solo shows
  include San Francisco Cinematheque, LUX London, International Film
  Festival Rotterdam, Image Forum Tokyo, Light Cone screening in Paris,
  etc. Guy Sherwin lives in London and teaches at Middlesex University,
  the University of Wolverhampton and periodically at the San Francisco
  Art Institute. Multiprojection Program (approx 80') Mobius Loops 2007 12
  mins. 3 or 5 projectors, performance, sound Interval 1974 5 mins 2
  projectors, sound Cycles #3 1972/2003 8 mins 2 projectors, sound
  Newsprint #2 1972/2003 9 mins, 2 projectors, sound Railings 1977 6 mins
  1 projector (vertical format), sound Wires 2004 3 mins 3 projectors,
  silent Bay Bridge from Embarcadero 2006 9 mins 3 projectors, silent
  Camden Road Station 2004 (1973) 10 mins 3 projectors silent Man with
  Mirror 1975(2007) 8 mins live performance (pause) Cinema Program (approx
  42') Short Film Series 1975-98 18mins silent, titles include Metronome,
  Bicycle, Tap, Eye, Portrait with Parents Canon 1977/2000 4mins sound
  Animal Studies 1998-2003 16mins silent, titles include Cat, Gnats,
  Coots, Tree Reflection Flight 1998 4mins sound

6/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 13 LAKES
  Anthology favorite James Benning has been busy lately, making films
  faster than we can show them. Hence this week of three new
  feature-length works - two films which mirror each other (the sublime 13
  LAKES and TEN SKIES) and a third which mirrors itself (ONE WAY BOOGIE
  WOOGIE/27 YEARS LATER). In BOOGIE WOOGIE, Benning contemplates the
  passage of time by remaking one of his earlier films, while 13 LAKES and
  TEN SKIES demonstrate the paradoxical experience engendered by the
  greatest works of minimalist art, their formal simplicity expanding our
  perception and amplifying our sensitivity to a multiplicity of phenomena
  we generally ignore or overlook. All three are overwhelming experiences,
  not to be missed. 13 LAKES. "Working alone, and in complete isolation,
  Benning photograph[ed] views of thirteen lakes around the western United
  States. In only thirteen static camera shots, each lasting ten minutes,
  Benning invites the spectator to an intimate contemplation of the
  natural universe. In successive scenes, the filmmaker contrasts water
  and sky, evoking the rich and varied color hues, shapes, and textures
  which are at play in nature, and which he simultaneously embeds in the
  emulsion of the celluloid film. Some images are astoundingly shimmering
  and luminous; others are more rough and turbulent, suggesting the pull
  of gravity at the edges of the film frame. Enhanced by both on-screen
  and distant sounds (random boats passing through the frame and birds
  circling overhead, as well as train whistles and gunshots heard in the
  distance), Benning's film seduces the viewer's imagination with
  suggestions of human dramas, which might surround the off-screen space.
  As such, 13 LAKES delicately straddles the dividing line between
  documentary and narrative filmmaking." -Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM
  FESTIVAL. "The compositions are often breathtaking, many of them in
  their near-abstraction resembling Rothko paintings, with thick bands of
  lake and sky separated by a thin line of land. But seen from a
  representational perspective, there's also an evocative counterpoint
  between the immediacy of the foreground, in motion and full of detail,
  and the remoteness of the receding lake and the land in the distance,
  timeless and unknowable in their stillness. Depth of space has rarely
  felt so revelatory or mysterious, so philosophically suggestive and
  poetic." -Jared Rapfogel, SENSES OF CINEMA.

6/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 TEN SKIES
  "This masterpiece by James Benning is an elaborately constructed montage
  of ten ten-minute takes, a mesmerizing study of time, light, movement,
  and moisture that traces the shifting relations between clouds and
  earth, nature and people. It had much more to say to me than most
  narrative films, though the subtly shifting patterns and textures of
  each shot provide plenty of narrative as they tell the story of our own
  perceptions." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER

6/15
Portland, Oregon: Northwest Film Center
http://www.nwfilm.org/
7pm, Whitsell Auditorium: 1219 sw park ave

 FINDING NORMAL
  Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom's (FROM THE GROUND UP, KICKING, HEART
  OF HARLEM) work reflects an ongoing concern for social issues and people
  who engage the challenges. His new film takes an unflinching look at the
  daunting difficulties in overcoming addictions and the dynamic within
  Portland's Central City Concern's recovery mentor program. With a 70%
  success rate, the program's strength lies in its ability to promote a
  strong sense of community and connectedness with peers and mentors, all
  former addicts committed to helping others as they help themselves. "The
  film is raw and real, filled with undeniable moments of pain and elation
  and human personality. It's impossible to imagine a more honest look at
  this all-too-common world." -Shawn Levy, THE OREGONIAN. (77 min) Brian
  Lindstrom, who teachers in the Film Center's Young Filmmakers artist
  residency programs, will be on hand to discuss the film and his
  experiences.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2007
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6/16
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
20:00, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar

 MALCOLM LE GRICE
  Born in 1940, Malcolm Le Grice is probably the most influential
  modernist filmmaker in British cinema. Le Grice's work has explored the
  complex relationships between the filmmaking, projecting and viewing
  processes which constitute cinema as a medium. He started out as a
  painter in London in the early 1960s and turned to filmmaking in the
  middle of the decade. From the late-sixties onwards, his multiple screen
  work was often accompanied by live performances interacting with the
  projection event. Le Grice's best and most complex work was done in the
  '70s, including such classic pieces as Threshold (1972), Berlin Horse
  (1970) and Horror Film 1 (1971). His film works, installations and
  performances have been widely shown at museums, galleries and festivals
  nationally and internationally. Group exhibitions include Une Histoire
  du Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Film as Film, Hayward
  Gallery, London; Documenta 6, Kassel; Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Modern,
  London. In addition to being a prolific filmmaker, Le Grice played an
  influential role in the critical and institutional promotion of
  avant-garde cinema in Britain. He was also a pioneer in the educational
  domain, initiating the trend towards establishing filmmaking sections in
  art colleges. He is also an inveterate polemicist: his book, Abstract
  Film and Beyond, provides both a historical and a philosophical context
  for the British and European avant-garde cinemas. Since 1997 he has
  headed the media research programme at Central St Martin's art college
  in London, accompanying his activities with critical-historical
  reflections. PROGRAM 1 (93') After Leonardo 73-07 (1973, 25'), Critical
  Moment One (2004, 1'), For the Benefit of Mr K (1995, 1'), Wier (1993,
  3'), DENISINED - SINEDENIS (2006, 3'), Joseph's Newer Coat (1998, 15'),
  Neither Here Nor There (2001, 8'), Traveling with Mark (2003, 6'),
  Cherry (2003, 2'), Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman (1998, 15') -
  Projected from Beta Horror Film 1 (1971, 14') - 16mm Performance (pause)
  PROGRAM 2 (82') Matrix 73-06 (1973, 12'), Autumn Horizon (2005, 5'),
  After Lumiere - l'arroseur arrosé (1974, 12'), Unforgettable (that's
  what you are) (2006, 5'), Waiting for Ian (2006, 3'), Digital Aberration
  (2004, 3'), Lecture to an Academy (2006, 9'), Little Dog For Roger
  (1967, 12'), Berlin Horse (1970, 9') - Projected from Beta Threshold
  (1972, 17') - 16mm Performance

6/16
LYON, FRANCE: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
6PM, GRRND GERLAND

 LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
  LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE Bill Brown is Texan. He captures history as it is
  written across the American landscape: the cold-war politics of North
  Dakota's abandoned nuclear missile silos, separatist tensions along the
  Trans-Canadian Highway,the 2000-mile border between the United States
  and Mexico. Sabine Gruffat currently lives in Détroit. Her films and
  videos, inspired by a passion for deconstructing historical narratives,
  are screened at numerous festivals worldwide. ?This summer, they are
  together in Europe touring by bicycle across borders and stopping only
  to screen their latest films and videos. Half the problem with borders
  is finding them. Some are obvious, like the borders between countries,
  floodlit and fortified; demilitarized zones where desire almost meets
  what it most desires, then, disappointed or unrequited, throws itself on
  the razor wire. Other borders we have to look for. Invisible ones we
  cross without even noticing it. The invisible borders explain a lot: why
  the places we were born feel like foreign countries; why the bodies we
  were born into feel like foreign objects. La Cyclo-Cinémathèque is a
  program of films about arbitrary delineations, eternally scarred
  landscapes, and the continuing lure of unfamiliar frontiers: meditations
  on the boundaries we have crossed, the walls we continue to build, and
  the horizons that await us. Screening Program (subtitled) : And So Sings
  Our Mechanical Bride  by Sabine Gruffat / 19 : 00 / 2005 / USA Combining
  archeological excavation and science fiction thriller, this video
  resurrects the site of an abandoned US Steel mill—now an archetypal
  monument of industrial history preserved in concrete—to investigate
  themes concerning the unfulfilled promises of industrialization and the
  destructive capabilities of evanescent ideas and imagery on
  fundamentally physical beings. The Other Side by Bill Brown / 43 : 00 /
  2006 / USA A 2000-mile journey along the U.S./Mexico border reveals a
  geography of aspiration and insecurity. While documenting the efforts of
  migrant activists to establish a network of water stations in the
  borderlands of the southwestern U.S., Brown considers the border as a
  landscape, at once physical, historical, and political. To the South Was
  72 by Sabine Gruffat / 11 :00 / 2005 / USA This experimental documentary
  video retells and disorders a prehistoric site: a location that is
  visited, preserved and endlessly repeated via prescribed routes and
  prerecorded narratives. GRRND GERLAND 40 Rue Pré-Gaudry 69007 LYON
  http://WWW.GRRRNDZERO.ORG

6/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 13 LAKES
  Dir: James Benning. "Working alone, and in complete isolation, Benning
  photograph[ed] views of thirteen lakes around the western United States.
  In only thirteen static camera shots, each lasting ten minutes, Benning
  invites the spectator to an intimate contemplation of the natural
  universe. In successive scenes, the filmmaker contrasts water and sky,
  evoking the rich and varied color hues, shapes, and textures which are
  at play in nature, and which he simultaneously embeds in the emulsion of
  the celluloid film. Some images are astoundingly shimmering and
  luminous; others are more rough and turbulent, suggesting the pull of
  gravity at the edges of the film frame. Enhanced by both on-screen and
  distant sounds (random boats passing through the frame and birds
  circling overhead, as well as train whistles and gunshots heard in the
  distance), Benning's film seduces the viewer's imagination with
  suggestions of human dramas, which might surround the off-screen space.
  As such, 13 LAKES delicately straddles the dividing line between
  documentary and narrative filmmaking." -Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM
  FESTIVAL. "The compositions are often breathtaking, many of them in
  their near-abstraction resembling Rothko paintings, with thick bands of
  lake and sky separated by a thin line of land. But seen from a
  representational perspective, there's also an evocative counterpoint
  between the immediacy of the foreground, in motion and full of detail,
  and the remoteness of the receding lake and the land in the distance,
  timeless and unknowable in their stillness. Depth of space has rarely
  felt so revelatory or mysterious, so philosophically suggestive and
  poetic." -Jared Rapfogel, SENSES OF CINEMA.

6/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 TEN SKIES
  Dir: James Benning. "This masterpiece by James Benning is an elaborately
  constructed montage of ten ten-minute takes, a mesmerizing study of
  time, light, movement, and moisture that traces the shifting relations
  between clouds and earth, nature and people. It had much more to say to
  me than most narrative films, though the subtly shifting patterns and
  textures of each shot provide plenty of narrative as they tell the story
  of our own perceptions." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER

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SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007
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6/17
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=7404&
20:00, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar

 WILLIAM RABAN
  "William Raban's multi-screen works are pure explorations of film
  material and technology, concerning the frame, the screen and the
  shutter. Through their visceral presence they transform structural
  theories into an intense audio-visual experience, whilst Take Measure
  physically breaks down the intangible space between projector and
  screen." Mark Webber William Raban (born 1948) studied painting at the
  Saint Martins School of Art and was very active in the context of the
  London Filmmakers Co-Op during the 1970s. Not known enough outside of
  England, his radical work features such powerful films as Wave
  Formations, Surface Tension and Diagonal. These stunning multi-screen
  pieces from the 1970s still impress for their formal qualities as for
  their radical and modern take on the connections between image and
  sound. They can be considered as key works (and almost definitions) of
  the expanded cinema genre. More political, less formal, William Raban's
  recent work focuses on the rapidly changing physical and social
  landscape of East London where he lives. These films will be shown in
  the second part of the programme. Program 1 (c. 60') Take Measure (1973,
  1') Surface Tension (1974-6, 15', 2 screen) Angles of Incidence (1973,
  10', 2 screen) Wave Formations (1978, 25', 3 screen) Diagonal (1973, 5',
  3 screen) All films 16mm Program 2 (75') Fergus Walking (1997, 3')
  Sundial (1992, 1') A13 (1994, 12') Island Race (1996, 28') Firestation
  (2000, 26') Civil Desobedience (2004, 3') All films shot on 16mm and
  presented on Beta SP

6/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) WITH DIRECTOR CHERYL DUNYE AND PRODUCER ALEX
 JUHASZ IN PERSON!
  In celebration of the publication of F is for Phony, the first
  book-length study of the "fake documentary" published in the US. The
  film features many notables from the lesbian and gay community
  including: Guin Turner (Go Fish), Sarah Schulman, Camille Paglia and
  highlights the photography of Zoe Leonard.

6/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 13 LAKES
  Dir: James Benning. "Working alone, and in complete isolation, Benning
  photograph[ed] views of thirteen lakes around the western United States.
  In only thirteen static camera shots, each lasting ten minutes, Benning
  invites the spectator to an intimate contemplation of the natural
  universe. In successive scenes, the filmmaker contrasts water and sky,
  evoking the rich and varied color hues, shapes, and textures which are
  at play in nature, and which he simultaneously embeds in the emulsion of
  the celluloid film. Some images are astoundingly shimmering and
  luminous; others are more rough and turbulent, suggesting the pull of
  gravity at the edges of the film frame. Enhanced by both on-screen and
  distant sounds (random boats passing through the frame and birds
  circling overhead, as well as train whistles and gunshots heard in the
  distance), Benning's film seduces the viewer's imagination with
  suggestions of human dramas, which might surround the off-screen space.
  As such, 13 LAKES delicately straddles the dividing line between
  documentary and narrative filmmaking." -Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM
  FESTIVAL. "The compositions are often breathtaking, many of them in
  their near-abstraction resembling Rothko paintings, with thick bands of
  lake and sky separated by a thin line of land. But seen from a
  representational perspective, there's also an evocative counterpoint
  between the immediacy of the foreground, in motion and full of detail,
  and the remoteness of the receding lake and the land in the distance,
  timeless and unknowable in their stillness. Depth of space has rarely
  felt so revelatory or mysterious, so philosophically suggestive and
  poetic." -Jared Rapfogel, SENSES OF CINEMA.

6/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

 TEN SKIES
  Dir: James Benning. "This masterpiece by James Benning is an elaborately
  constructed montage of ten ten-minute takes, a mesmerizing study of
  time, light, movement, and moisture that traces the shifting relations
  between clouds and earth, nature and people. It had much more to say to
  me than most narrative films, though the subtly shifting patterns and
  textures of each shot provide plenty of narrative as they tell the story
  of our own perceptions." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER

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