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This week [June 30 - July 8, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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l'Alternativa2007 - Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 16, 2007)
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Lucca Film Festival (Lucca; Deadline: July 30, 2007)
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Around the Coyote Fall 2007 Arts Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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TOFIFEST - International Film Festival (Torun, Poland; Deadline: September 30, 2007)
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2007 Great Lakes Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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20thcentury (on video) (Athens, Greece; Deadline: July 27, 2007)
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Animated Bike -In II (Vancouver, British Columbia, C; Deadline: June 30, 2007)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
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Optica, International Festival of Video Art (Gijon, Asturias, Spain; Deadline: July 29, 2007)
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2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Melbourne AU; Deadline: July 24, 2007)
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Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Curta Cinema 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: July 27, 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 30, 2007)
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Detroit Docs International Film Festival (Detroit, MI USA; Deadline: August 01, 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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Cucalorus Film Festival (Wilmington, NC USA; Deadline: July 10, 2007)
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l'Alternativa2007 - Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 16, 2007)
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Lucca Film Festival (Lucca; Deadline: July 30, 2007)
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Around the Coyote Fall 2007 Arts Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: July 20, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Secret Life of…Anthology Film Archives [June 30, New York, New York]
* New York Experimental Presents: Also Starring - An Evening of
Performances [June 30, New York, New York]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War (European
Tour) [June 30, Riga, Latvia]
* New Psychedelia From David Cohen and Sandy Ding [July 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens [July 1, New York, New York]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War (European
Tour) [July 1, Vilnius, Lithuania]
* Dave Griffiths: Cue-Dot Filmworks [July 2, Norwich]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War (European
Tour) [July 3, Krakow, Poland]
* Newfilmmakers Celebrates the Fourth [July 4, New York, New York]
* From the Other Side / De L'autre CÔTÉ [July 5, New York, New York]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War (European
Tour) [July 5, Vienna, Austria]
* Film Love Presents A/V Geeks Greatest Hits! [July 6, Atlanta, Georgia]
* Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Adaptation [July 6, New York, New York]
* La Cyclo-Cinematheque [July 6, TOULOUSE, FRANCE]
* The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man [July 7, New York, New York]
* Barbara Hammer In Person [July 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Senseless [July 8, New York, New York]
* Last Refuge For the Senses Or Noise Hippies Against All War (European
Tour) [July 8, Tarcento, Italy]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2007
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6/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE SECRET LIFE OF…ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
A once-in-a-calendar opportunity to lift up the rug that is Anthology
Film Archives and take a peek at the teeming hive of creativity lying
just below the surface, thanks to the film- and video-making efforts of
AFA's staff, friends, fellow-travelers, and devotees.
6/30
New York, New York: The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
7:30 PM (Doors), 279 Church Street
NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL PRESENTS: ALSO STARRING - AN EVENING OF
PERFORMANCES
New York Experimental, The Tank's monthly experimental film and video
screening series, is pleased to present an evening of sound,
performance, film and discourse curated by Charles Curtis and Raha
Raissnia. In a rotating constellation of apparently unordered
diversions, the fleeting and the ephemeral are briefly captured in
image, thought, association and frequency. Forgoing stereotypes of style
or genre and omitting what might pass for a headlining act, Also
Starring seeks to frame the experience of the ineffable through highly
specific, individual visions. Includes performances by Charles Curtis
and Raha Raissnia, Jeff Perkins, Spencer Gerhardt, This Invitation,
Andrew Hurst, and lorenzkrafter. Raha Raissnia and Charles Curtis create
composite projections of sound and film: superimposed slides and super-8
using new, found, hand-painted and -manipulated material join with
closely-tuned sine waves in rational-number frequency ratios. Jeff
Perkins, dubbed "The Fluxus Taxi Driver" by Nam June Paik, is best known
for his "Movies for the Blind", blending recorded interviews of his taxi
passengers with spontaneous performance. Spencer Gerhardt lectures on
Constructive approaches in mathematics and art. This Invitation play
sustained, intricate musical numbers of long duration on two electric
guitars. Collage artist Andrew Hurst layers and re-orders found sound
objects. lorenzkrafter incorporates elaborate costumes and props in
multimedia theatrical scenarios. 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.
6/30
Riga, Latvia: Dirty Deal Cafe
www.dirtydeal.lv
9:00, Andrejostas 4
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR (EUROPEAN
TOUR)
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 A COLLABORATIVE
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE from drone musician Joseph Grimm filmmaker
Ben Russell and featuring recorded music by Lighting Bolt, Mystery
Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs the Suicidal
Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more! These eyes/ears represent the true
cinema of deliverance, the theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love.
FEATURING: Peace Noise, Part 1 by Joseph Grimm (10:00, performance
w/voice, violin, sine waves, 2007), 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), Black and White Trypps
Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30,16mm, 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), Peace Noise, Part Two by Joseph Grimm and Ben Russell
(20:00, performance w/projector loops and light- sensitive synthesizer,
2007) TRT 90:00 min
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SUNDAY, JULY 1, 2007
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7/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
NEW PSYCHEDELIA FROM DAVID COHEN AND SANDY DING
Recent Cal Arts graduates David Cohen and Sandy Ding, working in close
collaboration, are reinventing the tradition of optically-printed
abstract cinema with fragments of narrative, noise music, syncopated
rhythms, and infectious joy. With the history of the medium in their
blood, they have created a new psychedelic cinema for the twenty-first
century. In their recent work, what's old is new again. – Thom Andersen
Tonight we'll be screening: RUSTED SODOM by David Cohen (16mm, sound, 18
min., 2007) COYOTE by David Cohen (16mm, sound, 3 min., 2006) SACRED
SPACE by David Cohen (35mm, sound, 14 min., 2007) THE MOON by Sandy Ding
(16mm, silent, 6 min., 2006) WATER SPELL by Sandy Ding (16mm, sound, 42
min., 2007)
7/1
New York, New York: EYE AM: Women Behind the Lens
http://eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
9:30-10:30pm, Manhattan Neighborhood Network TWC 34/RCN 82 MNN.org
EYE AM: WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS
Announcing Eye Am's 4th Season SUMMER 2007~ EA now airs @ 9:30-10:30pm
the 1st Sunday of the month on... Manhattan Neighborhood Network Time
Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan) & Streaming Live Online at
www.mnn.org (Worldwide) Visit www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com for complete
episode rundown! Episode 10 July 1st @ 9:30pm: The work of Tova Beck
Friedman ~ The Portrait of An Artist as an Old(er) Woman Three
octogenarian women artists whose art informs their identity: Margaret K.
Johnson, Printmaker; Hannah Eshel, sculptor and Hava Mehutan, sculptor,
examine the development of their artistic vision and touch on the
subject of age and its effect. Their on-camera interviews are woven
together with archival films, home movies and images of their art, to
tell the story of life wrapped around art: childhood, art studies,
marriage, raising a family, and how those have affected their artisitc
development. We are given insight into creative energy and vitality that
is not hampered by age. The Altar of Her Memories At age 17, following
her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, Bracha Ghilai came to Israel to start
her life over. As part of her healing process she established a puppet
theater. Sixty years later, surrounded by her puppets Bracha recalls the
dire events of her youth. Through a mix of storytelling, puppetry and
archival photographs, we experience the anguish of her narrative while
she unlocks chapters from her painful past. Her stories range from the
heart wrenching description of her separation from her nephew Nisan, to
the powerful and poignant account of incredible power of endurance,
survival and the guilt that accompanies, it. Tova Beck Friedman is an
artist working in the mediums of video, photography and sculpture. Her
work has been widely exhibited in the US, Israel, Australia, Europe and
Japan. Her films have been screened in various places including, The
Jerusalem Cinematheque, Israel Television, Channel 10: The Center for
Jewish History in New York, Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal,
Montreal, the Athens Film Festival, In Flux Video Art Festival,
Thessaloniki, Greece and Cinematic Film, Paris.
***************************** Upcoming EA Episodes! ~August 5th @
9:30pm: The work of Esther May Campbell. ~September 2nd @ 9:30pm: The
work of Penny Lane, Sofia Hericson, Devorah Hill, Natalia Surnmiak,
Nancy Montuoristein, Kim Hall, Eliza Jane Curtis, Naomi White, and
Alexis Powell & Annie Novak of The Meerkat Media Collective. Thank you
for watching! * If you are interested in organizing an EYE AM screening
or submitting work to EA, please email email suppressed
7/1
Vilnius, Lithuania: New Style
www.arma.lt
8:30, Rinktinės Str.3
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR (EUROPEAN
TOUR)
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 A COLLABORATIVE
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE from drone musician Joseph Grimm filmmaker
Ben Russell and featuring recorded music by Lighting Bolt, Mystery
Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs the Suicidal
Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more! These eyes/ears represent the true
cinema of deliverance, the theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love.
FEATURING: Peace Noise, Part 1 by Joseph Grimm (10:00, performance
w/voice, violin, sine waves, 2007), 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), Black and White Trypps
Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30,16mm, 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), Peace Noise, Part Two by Joseph Grimm and Ben Russell
(20:00, performance w/projector loops and light- sensitive synthesizer,
2007) TRT 90:00 min
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MONDAY, JULY 2, 2007
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7/2
Norwich: Dave Griffiths
http://www.davegriffiths.info
until 21 July 2007, Anglia Square Centre
DAVE GRIFFITHS: CUE-DOT FILMWORKS
Bureau presents Dave Griffiths, 2nd - 21st July in Outpost Gallery's
'British & European Legs' at Contemporary Art Norwich 2007, Anglia
Square Shopping Centre, Norwich, UK Griffiths presents a body of
filmworks constructed from his tenderly curated database of movie
cue-dots. Gleaned over the last two years from digital TV broadcasts,
Griffiths' archive represents an ongoing restoration of those fleeting,
but critical, time signals that regulate the illusionary changeovers
between film reels. Griffiths exhibits recent films - both data-driven
and linear - plus three new interactive works that place cue-dots from
his collection into outmoded or ephemeral display devices. Archaic,
dusty machines, from childhood cinematographic toys and microfiche, are
revived to function as both expanded silent-cinema and resource for
examination of cinematic remains. From his archaeological sifting of
matinee fragments, Griffiths has created exploratory works around the
mechanical, aesthetic and narrative structures of celluloid. By November
2007 the cue-dot collection aims to be publicly accessible online as a
resource for art-historical and creative research. These top-corner
phrases of found footage provide fertile audio-visual materials with
which to spin stories about the cinematic continuum, and hint at human
commotion both onscreen and in the projectionist's booth. Their imminent
disappearance, as industrial casualty of digitisation, marks a sea
change in cinema history. Griffiths' depository of near-redundant
'cigarette burns' provides a means of remembering cinema's outgoing
physicality, and a method of enquiry into narrative and perceptual
processes. Preview: 6-9pm, Sunday 1st July 2007 Anglia Square Shopping
Centre, Norwich, (see websites for map) Opening Times: Daily, 12 - 6pm.
Admission Free. Fully Accessible. MORE ON DAVE GRIFFITHS: Dave
Griffiths' practice dwells on the physical and fictive borders of media
spaces and forms, combining a rigorous attention to barely perceptible
materials with a study of their dramatic potential. Filtered through the
languages and strategies of cinema and media art, his 'close-up epics'
playfully touch on social myths of security and perfection that surround
our visual technologies. He uses film, video and sonic material, often
arising from laborious search or unstable technical methods, to devise
encounters between apparatus and accidental, faltering or abandoned
codes. Griffiths graduated with MA Media Art at Manchester Metropolitan
University in 2004, and is represented by Bureau, Salford. Along with
Nick Jordan in 2005 he directed the 'StoryRooms' catalogue documentary
featuring artists Susan Collins, Paul Sermon, Cornelia Sollfrank and
Andrea Zapp, and co-curated 'CODEC/X: New British Video & Sound Art',
which toured internationally in 2003-2004. Griffiths lectures in video
production and film studies, and recently presented papers at Sonic Arts
Network and the Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, UK.
www.davegriffiths.info www.bureaugallery.co.uk www.norwichoutpost.org
www.contemporaryartnorwich.co.uk
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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2007
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7/3
Krakow, Poland: Klub Pod Jaszczurami
www.instytutsztuki.pl/index_start-3.html
8:00, Rynek Główny 8 (Main Square)
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR (EUROPEAN
TOUR)
FEATURING THE MAGIC CARPATHIANS! 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 A COLLABORATIVE EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE from drone
musician Joseph Grimm filmmaker Ben Russell and featuring recorded music
by Lighting Bolt, Mystery Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the
Shirelles vs the Suicidal Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more! These
eyes/ears represent the true cinema of deliverance, the theater of
Psychic Hearts and Radical Love. FEATURING: Peace Noise, Part 1 by
Joseph Grimm (10:00, performance w/voice, violin, sine waves, 2007),
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), Black and White Trypps Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30,16mm,
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), Peace Noise, Part Two by
Joseph Grimm and Ben Russell (20:00, performance w/projector loops and
light- sensitive synthesizer, 2007) TRT 90:00 min
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2007
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7/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS CELEBRATES THE FOURTH
FILMMAKERS RECEPTION. . Take a break from our films and join us for some
wine & beer to celebrate the holiday. SOME MUSIC VIDEOS (YOU DON'T SEE
ON MTV) . Jon Hirschmugl Y PENSEZ-VOUS! (2007, 8 minutes, video). Ana
Hurka-Robles WASTED LIFE: THE MUSICAL (2006, 8 minutes, video). Jon
Ermler PUMPING THE PIOUS (2006, 30 minutes, video). The Unholy Battle Of
Christian Bands. . 7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT MUSIC FILMS . Rami Fischler
THE CHANGING MAN (2006, 3 minutes, video). Australian animation.
Catherine McRae DO YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE (2006, 4 minutes, video).
Sonic Youth live at CBGB. Stephen Taylor THE END OF NEW MUSIC (2007, 50
minutes, video). The Free Speech Zone collective on their 2005 tour.
Craig Parish MORNING THEFT: SKETCHES OF SCOTTIE (2006, 35 minutes,
video). The life and times of cult musician Jeff Buckley with family
pictures and rare performance videos.
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THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2007
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7/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FROM THE OTHER SIDE / DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ
Dir: Chantal Akerman. The story is old as the hills, yet every day it
continues to unfold, every day more terribly. Sometimes poor people, in
an attempt to survive, risk their lives and leave everything behind to
live elsewhere. But they're not wanted elsewhere. And if they are wanted
it's for their labor, to do jobs that no one wants to do. In FROM THE
OTHER SIDE, elsewhere is the United States and the poor are mostly
Mexicans. Renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus between
the border towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora, where people from all over
Mexico wait in limbo before crossing over, and neighboring Douglas,
Arizona, a town ringed by mountains and desert plains. "A spare,
painterly and scrupulously unsentimental look at the plight of illegal
Mexican immigrants massed at the United States border. Both eerily
beautiful and filled with a quiet compassion." -Dave Kehr, NEW YORK
TIMES. This film is being screened in conjunction with the exhibition,
NEW ECONOMY, curated by João Ribas at Artists Space from June 15
to July 28. NEW ECONOMY looks at the nature of artistic practice in the
post-Fordist era, defined by a global information economy and the
corresponding remapping of labor. The exhibition also focuses on artists
dealing with the social conditions and redefinitions of work implicit in
this supposed emphasis on 'immaterial' production.
7/5
Vienna, Austria: Celeste Jazzkeller
www.magiclanterncinema.com/noisetour.htm
9:00, Hamburger Straße 18
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR (EUROPEAN
TOUR)
FEATURING A SOLO SET BY VANESSA ARN (PRIMORDIAL UNDERMIND)! 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 A COLLABORATIVE
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE from drone musician Joseph Grimm filmmaker
Ben Russell and featuring recorded music by Lighting Bolt, Mystery
Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs the Suicidal
Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more! These eyes/ears represent the true
cinema of deliverance, the theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love.
FEATURING: Peace Noise, Part 1 by Joseph Grimm (10:00, performance
w/voice, violin, sine waves, 2007), 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), Black and White Trypps
Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30,16mm, 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), Peace Noise, Part Two by Joseph Grimm and Ben Russell
(20:00, performance w/projector loops and light- sensitive synthesizer,
2007) TRT 90:00 min
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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2007
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7/6
Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
http://www.eyedrum.org
8:00 PM, 290 Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Suite 8
FILM LOVE PRESENTS A/V GEEKS GREATEST HITS!
"A/V Geeks: Have 18,000 films. Will travel." **Film Love presents A/V
Geeks founder Skip Elsheimer hosting an evening of selections from his
collection of over 18,000 industrial, scientific and educational films.
**A/V Geeks Greatest Hits: The AV Geeks pick from their archive films
that have really catchy/annoying songs from a variety of different
genres. Great for singing along! **Films include: Crash Bang Boom (1970)
10 min We learn about percussion instruments featuring marching bands,
dancing kids and a groovy rock band. | Malakapaladoo Skip Two (1977) 10
min A cute film for kids about using their imagination or a clay-laced,
folkmusic opus to hallucinogens? You decide. | Drugs Are Like That
(1979) 16 min An attempt to warn kids about the dangers of drugs using
Legos and a catchy song to make its point. Anita Bryant narrates! |
Shake Hands with Danger (1980) 23 min A truly inspired film that uses a
country music song to illustrate the dangers of working on heavy
equipment. Some fake gore too! | Telezonia (1974) Kids are whisked away
by a manchild in white tights, so they can sing about using the
telephone. Creepy, but not in the way that you think. | VD is for
Everybody (circa 1970) 30 sec A public service announcement that uses an
infectious song to talk about an infectious disease. **More on A/V Geeks
at http://www.avgeeks.com/ **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/
7/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
Dir: Eric Zala. An extremely rare presentation of the semi-legendary
shot-for-shot remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK made by three
12-year-olds in Mississippi. Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson
Lamb started shooting in 1982 - and didn't have a clue what they were
getting themselves into. Their production wrapped in 1989, and was
shelved and forgotten until 2003 when Eli Roth (CABIN FEVER) screened a
bootleg copy in the middle of the night at Austin's legendary Alamo
Drafthouse Cinema. The rest is history. [A feature film based on the
filmmakers' story is now in production with Dan (GHOST WORLD) Clowes
penning the script, which resulted in producer Scott Rudin and Paramount
Pictures buying the intellectual property rights to their childhood. How
weird is that?]. "Nothing short of stunning. Everything is here - the
rolling boulder, the live snakes, the heart-thudding truck sequence, and
everywhere flames, flames, flames. The boys have made a few inventive
substitutions - a puppy dog stands in for a monkey, a boat for a plane.
But even more impressive are the things they don't substitute - a
submarine, a truck on fire, a melting face, the same copy of a 1936 Life
magazine used in the original. This is not 'cute' or 'impressive
considering their age' - it is a genuine virtuoso work. The film is a
crowd-pleaser, turning all the RAIDERS action - clichéd after 20
years of imitation - into a new and genuinely startling viewing
experience. How will they do this next scene? How can they pull that
stunt off? And don't forget that these kids are literally growing up in
front of the camera. Voices deepen, hairstyles change, the hero grows
stubble, the heroine grows breasts. Though writers abuse this
phrase…it's like nothing you've seen before." -Sarah Hepola, AUSTIN
CHRONICLE.
7/6
TOULOUSE, FRANCE: LA CYCLO-CINEMATHEQUE
http://www.sabinegruffat.com/tour.html
8pm, ANNEXIA
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. ANNEXIA Lieu Commun 25 Rue d'Armagnac TOULOUSE
31500 http://WWW.LIEU-COMMUN.FR
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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2007
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7/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MEETS THE ATOM MAN
Dir: Ron Rice. "The film describes, poetically, a way of living. The
film is a protest which is violent, childish, and sincere - a protest
against an industrial world based on the cycle of production and
consumption." -Alberto Moravia, L'ESSPRESSO
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SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2007
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7/8
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
BARBARA HAMMER IN PERSON
The master filmmaker with three of her optically-printed films, in
conjunction with her receiving the Legacy Honors at next week's Outfest.
Screening: Optic Nerve (1985), Endangered (1988), Sanctus (1990).
7/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
SENSELESS
Dir: Ron Rice. "Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the
overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over
the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico.. Highly effective
cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal development of themes of
love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction." -David
Brooks. THE FLOWER THIEF . 1960, 75 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Starring Taylor
Mead. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the
National Film Preservation Foundation. "In the old Hollywood movie days
movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of
ideas failed (writers, directors), was called upon to 'cook up'
something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF has
been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed in
the field of stunt." -R.R.
7/8
Tarcento, Italy: HYBRIDA
www.hybridaspace.org
10:00, Centro Europeo di Arti e Comunicazioni Contemporanee "L. Ceschia" via julia 11
LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES OR NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST ALL WAR (EUROPEAN
TOUR)
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 A COLLABORATIVE
EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE from drone musician Joseph Grimm filmmaker
Ben Russell and featuring recorded music by Lighting Bolt, Mystery
Brinkman, Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac), the Shirelles vs the Suicidal
Tendencies, Jodi Buonanno, and more! These eyes/ears represent the true
cinema of deliverance, the theater of Psychic Hearts and Radical Love.
FEATURING: Peace Noise, Part 1 by Joseph Grimm (10:00, performance
w/voice, violin, sine waves, 2007), 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), Black and White Trypps
Number Three by Ben Russell (11:30,16mm, 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), Peace Noise, Part Two by Joseph Grimm and Ben Russell
(20:00, performance w/projector loops and light- sensitive synthesizer,
2007) TRT 90:00 min
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