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Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL 60093 USA; Deadline: September 04, 2007)
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20thcentury (on video) (Athens, Greece; Deadline: July 27, 2007)
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Optica, International Festival of Video Art (Gijon, Asturias, Spain; Deadline: July 29, 2007)
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l'Alternativa2007 - Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 16, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Brig [July 14, New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits Program [July 14, New York, New York]
* The Connection [July 14, New York, New York]
* Harry Smith Program [July 14, New York, New York]
* Kfc Walk-In and Bike-In Guerrilla Outdoor Cinema [July 14, San Francisco, California]
* Music By the Eyeful: Michalak, Santomieri, Hsu and Marsh [July 14, San Francisco, California]
* The Brig [July 15, New York, New York]
* No 12: Heaven and Earth Magic [July 15, New York, New York]
* Flaming Creatures [July 15, New York, New York]
* Researchers' Tales With David Curtis. [July 16, London, England]
* The Films of Barbara Ireland [July 16, Seattle, Washington]
* Tuesday Night At the Town Hall [July 17, London, England]
* Transcendental Cinema: the Occult Films of Raymond Salvatore Harmon [July 17, San Francisco, California]
* Open video Projects Screening: Better Homes [July 17, rome, italy]
* Newfilmmakers and the Black Documentary Collective Present New Films By
the Bdc's Members As Well As Short Films and An Exciting New Feature
By African-American Filmmakersnewfilmmakers / Black Documentary
Collective Program [July 18, New York, New York]
* Wavelength [July 18, New York, New York]
* Newfilmmakers Short Film Program [July 18, New York, New York]
* Danger Zone [July 20, San Francisco, California]
* Terra Incognita iii [July 20, San Francisco, California]
* Incite and Other A/V Experimentalists [July 21, Eugene, Oregon]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2007
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7/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 & 9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE BRIG
Dir: Jonas Mekas. For series description, see notes for Thursday, July
12. . Followed by: Storm De Hirsch. NEWSREEL: JONAS IN THE BRIG. 1964, 5
minutes, 16mm. Preserved with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts. See notes for Thursday, July 12.
7/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED. 1968-70, 41 minutes, 16mm,
color. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the
National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap dissolve from
'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my son
Christopher." -P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive
scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The
film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really
recognized." -Michael Snow. "A scratch is generally considered a
negative factor, which distracts from and eliminates the illusion by
cutting away at the emulsion base of the film itself. But in
S:S:S:S:S:S, Sharits makes a scratch a positive factor in its additive
and subtractive relationship to the recorded film illusion. And, at the
same time, he uses the scratch to emphasize the linearity of the film
material and its passage through the projector.." -Regina Cornwell,
ARTFORUM. N:O:T:H:I:N:G . 1968, 36 minutes, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani
Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu
Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color. .
"In essence there are only three flicker films of importance, ARNULF
RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G… In terms of the subject we have
discussed here, it is Sharits's N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the field for
the structural film with a flicker base." -P. Adams Sitney.
7/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE CONNECTION
Dir: Shirley Clarke. See notes for Friday, July 13.
7/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. MIRROR ANIMATIONS (extended 1979 version, 11 minutes, 16mm)
BRAND NEW PRINT!. LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes, 16mm). OZ,
THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes, 35mm). "My cinematic excreta
is of four varieties: - batiked animations made directly on film between
1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around
1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical
labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide - they made me gray." -Harry Smith. To
learn more about Harry Smith, visit the Harry Smith Archives at
www.harrysmitharchives.com.
7/14
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
9pm, 275 Capp Street
KFC WALK-IN AND BIKE-IN GUERRILLA OUTDOOR CINEMA
This Saturday evening our friends at the KFC Collective will be
screening some new work. Our non profit entity the San Francisco Media
Archive will be screening a 20 minute film : "Latino:: A Cultural
Conflict" in that program. Don't let the title scare you off it's an B+W
independent film that provides a rare glimpse of Mission youth in 1971.
Hope to see you there. Here's the details: Please join us for the next
installment of the... KFC walk-in and bike-in GUERRILLA OUTDOOR CINEMA:
Saturday, July 14, 9pm. parking lot of Lucca delicatessen on Valencia
Street, very near 22nd. Bring a neighbor or a friend. All are welcome!
The films: "Contemplating the City (Contemplando La Ciudad)," Angela
Reginato. "Hazel and David," by Nomi Talisman. "Do the Math," by Mary
Guzman. "Commercial Break," by Annie Danger and Billay Tania. "Midge,"
by Christian Bruno. "Night in Tunisia," by Steve Yamane. "The Lone
Monarch" [trailer/excerpt] Sabrina Alonso. "Chango," by Richard Clark.
"Loneliness," by Richard Clark. "Cultural Conflict, " presented by San
Francisco Media Archives. KFC...reclaiming public space for art, one
parking lot at a time.
7/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 922 Valencia Street
MUSIC BY THE EYEFUL: MICHALAK, SANTOMIERI, HSU AND MARSH
music by the eyeful presents a night of films by David Michalak and
stories narrated by Dean Santomieri, with live music by Dean and
violinist Angela Hsu. Special guest Bob Marsh will read the DADA poem
"Seahorses and Flying Fish" by Hugo Ball with Man Ray's Return to Reason
projected. --About the Artists -- David Michalak is celebrating over 35
years of independent filmmaking as well as performing in his bands REEL
CHANGE, Ghost in the House and the duo, Doctor Bob. This performance
will feature The Spoken Word and other films that borrow their dialogue
from phone messages, "How To", Instructional or other spoken word
recordings. As Robert Taylor (Tribune) writes: "The Spoken Word" is an
ingenious and often hilarious 22 minute satire of one family's addiction
to the platitudes of canned advice. Mom is lip-synching ideas from "How
To Give A Perfect Dinner Party." Dad is going through the agony of "How
To Quit Smoking Without Will Power" while Bobby is in his room buried
under punk rock albums, taping a confession from "The Drug Scene and
Youth." In 20 years we may look back at "Shirley MacLaine's Inner
Workout" with similar amusement." www.eye-fullfilms.com/ -- Dean
Santomieri is a writer, musician and video-maker. His performances
usually include narration, electro-acoustic music, and video. His video
Twin, a send up of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, was screened in festivals
around the world. Angela Hsu is an orchestral, chamber and freelance
musician, who is now involved in avant-garde, experimental and
improvisatory musics. Dean Santomieri will present stories and videos
based on his dreams, with music by Dean and violinist Angela Hsu.
www.foundrysite.com/santomieri/ -- Bob Marsh is a well seasoned
improviser whose work has involved shaping sounds words images ideas. He
currently leads or directs String Theory, a string ensemble focusing on
textures and microtonics; the Che Guevarra Memorial Marching (and
Stationary) Accordion Band, structured and free improv for six to
fifteen accordions; Robot Martians, electronics and processed voice; the
Out of the Blue Chamber Ensemble, a mixture of reeds and strings; Opera
Viva, voiced physical theater; the Quintessentials, a quintet
specializing in interpreting graphic compositions based on alterations
to the Michelin Road Guide to France; and the Illuminated Orchestra,
structured improves for large ensemble.
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/marsh.html www.myspace.com/theearthshakes
www.myspace.com/bobisadoctor -- About Music by the Eyeful
(www.illuminatedcorridor.com/eyeful.html) This is the fourth in a
spontaneous series of concerts featuring inventions in visual audio ,
exploring the moving boundaries between music, film, optics, graphics,
loops and reels, guest curated by Suki O'Kane, musician and curator of
The Illuminated Corridor. -- About the Corridor --
(www.illuminatedcorridor.com) The Illuminated Corridor is a next step in
outdoor cinema: a nomadic public art installation that creates
site-specific illumination of public space, drawing on local traditions
of film and live music. Launched in the Summer of 2005 by a
collaboration of over 60 Bay Area filmmakers, media artists, sound
artists and musicians, the Illuminated Corridor catalyzes new work,
showcases diverse collaborations between performative projectionists and
performing artists, and covers a vast territory of film and music
genres.
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SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007
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7/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 & 9:15, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
THE BRIG
Dir: Jonas Mekas. For series description, see notes for Thursday, July
12. . Followed by: Storm De Hirsch. NEWSREEL: JONAS IN THE BRIG. 1964, 5
minutes, 16mm. Preserved with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts. See notes for Thursday, July 12.
7/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NO 12: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
Dir: Harry Smith. "NO. 12 can be seen as one moment - certainly the most
elaborately crafted moment - of the single alchemical film which is
Harry Smith's life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of
the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema.
"Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various
figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith's
abiding concern with auditory effects." -P. Adams Sitney.
7/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
FLAMING CREATURES
Dir: Jack Smith. Jack Smith "graced the anarchic liberation of new
American cinema with a graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of
formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a
high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a
treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous
filmmakers." -FILM CULTURE. . Also showing: Jack Smith. SCOTCH TAPE.
1962, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Junkyard musical.
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MONDAY, JULY 16, 2007
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7/16
London, England: BFI National Library
http://www.bfi.org.uk/library
6.15 pm., BFI National Library Reading Room, 21 Stephen Street, W1T 1LN.
RESEARCHERS' TALES WITH DAVID CURTIS.
We are pleased to welcome David Curtis founder of the British Artists'
Film & Video Study Collection - to the BFI National Library to talk
about the research for his recently published book A History of Artists'
Film and Video in Britain (BFI, 2007) and the accompanying film season
at BFI Southbank. Researchers' Tales is an occasional series of informal
discussions for library members where leading writers and historians in
film, television, artists' film and the moving image reflect on past and
future work. Places are free to individual library members, however
prior booking is essential as places are limited. To book a place,
please call the Reading Room Librarian Sarah Currant on tel. 020 7957
4824 or use the BFI National Library contact form at
www.bfi.org.uk/help/contact
7/16
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
THE FILMS OF BARBARA IRELAND
JULY 16, Mon at 8 PM THIRD EYE CINEMA AND NWFF PRESENT THE FILMS OF
BARBARA IRELAND Seattle filmmaker Barbara Ireland began making films at
the age of eight. Eventually earning a degree from New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts, her films range from a lyrical documentary on
the early-80s punk scene, to Fellini-esque B&W shorts, to exotic Sky
Cries Mary music videos, to documentaries on the Cirque du Soleil and
bipolar creativity. Her film SECRETS. a surrealistic journey into one
woman's subconscious, won the Juries Choice award from the New York
University Film Festival as well as awards from the Ann Arbor and Malta
International Film Festivals.
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TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007
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7/17
London, England: Independent film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EradfE-AJI
7 pm - 9 pm, WAC Performing Arts and Media College Hampstead Town Hall Centre 213 Haverstock Hill
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE TOWN HALL
Film premiere "The Cut" limited number of seats.
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7/17
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
http://raymondharmon.com
8pm, 16 Sherman Street
TRANSCENDENTAL CINEMA: THE OCCULT FILMS OF RAYMOND SALVATORE HARMON
Tuesday July 17th at 8PM featuring YHVH and TREE OF KNOWLEDGE/TREE OF
LIFE as well as a selection of rare and esoteric trance inducing
experiences for the third ear & eye! "Harmon has crafted a spellbinding
visual grammar that thoroughly yet unobtrusively soaks these rich sounds
into the rods and cones..." - Signal to Noise This lecture will consist
of a demonstration of the practical use of occult film as a tool for
ritual/magickal practice. The lecture and screening are free admission.
Altered states of conscious welcome.
7/17
rome, italy: open video projects
http://www.openvideoprojects.org
9.30 pm, via degli angeli, 34
OPEN VIDEO PROJECTS SCREENING: BETTER HOMES
OPEN VIDEO PROJECTS Open Video Projects is a screening series and video
archive based in Rome, Italy. Screenings are assembled from an archive
of material that has been amassed over the past two years through an
international open call, or in collaboration with local artists and
curators. Open Video Projects is a project programmed and curated by
artists, filmmakers, writers and curators: Lorenzo Benedetti, Sarra
Brill, Andrew Cappetta, Adrienne Drake, Irene Di Maggio, Lexi
Eberspacher, Lorenzo Gigotti, Jason Livingston, Giuliano Lombardo,
Kristen Lorello, Nero Magazine, Vincenzo Mistretta, and Jack Riccobono.
OVP trailers courtesy Suzy Cho. Jason Livingston and Open Video Projects
present Better Homes "Watch. Watch this wall respond to me. You Hear it?
Watch this one. Watch this wall respond to me. Watch. See this wall
respond to me because I'm looking at it this way. Now watch this wall
come and bother me because I'm looking at it." - from Tabula Rasa Better
Homesborrows its name from the ever-popular U.S. magazine dedicated to
consumer-friendly transformation of domestic space. A titular
connection, granted, but the program's invitation to read landscape is
more than a nominal gesture. Consider the physicality of the stones
beside you and the screen before you. Regarding our relationship to the
world we inhabit: do landscapes figure our movement? Are we contained by
institutional architecture? We should not be surprised that we still –
tired of body discourse, tongues dragging on the ground, stretch it out
and dance! or watch until moved – that we still struggle to speak lived
experience to development. On Behalf Of The Lynx Dara Greenwald (USA)
(Excerpt from video installation, 2007, loop), The Two Boys: Jason
Livingston (USA) (Video, 1999, 9 min.), Plasma Theory in Five Minutes
Penny Lane (USA) (Video, 2007, 5 min.), Strange Attractors Michael
Wechsler (USA) (Video, 2007, 8 min), Stores Franklin Miller (USA)
(16mm transferred to video, 1973, 6:20min.), Tabula Rasa Vincent Grenier
(USA/CAN) (Video, 1993-2004, 7.5 min), Only Just Begun Jennett Thomas
(UK) (Video, 2007, 5 min). * For more information about the artists and
filmmakers, please consult the site www.openvideoprojects.org
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007
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7/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS AND THE BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE PRESENT NEW FILMS BY
THE BDC'S MEMBERS AS WELL AS SHORT FILMS AND AN EXCITING NEW FEATURE BY
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILMMAKERSNEWFILMMAKERS / BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE
PROGRAM
Founded by veteran filmmaker St. Clair Bourne, the BDC provides people
of African descent working in the documentary film and video field with
the opportunity to meet socially; network professionally; promote each
others' work and exchange ideas in order to generate productions. For
more information, please visit www.bdcny.net.
7/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
WAVELENGTH
Dir: Michael Snow. "WAVELENGTH is without precedent in the purity of its
confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between
illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first
post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those
higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It
has rightly been described as a 'triumph of contemplative cinema.'"
-Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS, 1968.
7/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ndlela Nkobi TRIED TO … (2006, 7 minutes, video). Pooja Kumar 1001
AUDITIONS (2006, 22 minutes, 16mm). Piotr Kajstura WHEN THEY COULD FLY
(2006, 28 minutes, 16mm).
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FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2007
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7/20
San Francisco, California: Studio 27
http://www.studio27.org
9 p.m., 689 Bryant Street (at 5th Street)
DANGER ZONE
Studio 27 presents Danger Zone, a program of twelve short experimental
films and videos that address boundaries of conformity or danger in both
public and personal spaces. The screening includes works made using a
variety of imaging techniques, from abstract pieces created with high
voltage electricity or digital processes to found footage films. Danger
Zone provides a night of cinema diversity, ranging from documentary to
fiction, and from the meditative to the frenetic.The filmmaker Roger
Deutsch will be present. Curated by Tomonari Nishikawa.Films
screened:Some Call It Home by Roger Deutsch, 2006, 5 mins., video, USA.
A delicate framing of the view of a residential house from a short
distance creates an exquisite space-time that holds a sense of the past
and present of the site, and expresses Deutsch's special bond to the
scene. Santa Fe de Bagota, Dia De La Independencia by Juan Recaman,
2001, 5 mins., video, Columbia/USA. Recaman mixes day and night footage
of the Independence Day celebration in Columbia, in both color and black
and white, to reveal the hidden danger in daily life.Two Thousand Walls
by Peter Snowdon, 2006, 6 mins., video, Belgium. Beautiful,
impressionist painting-like visuals with the voices of a family
conversation, and a baby's shout in the distance. Snowdon changes the
brightness of the background color, and shows worry and hope in the
future of the family.Viseric Fulcrum by Lori Hepner, 2005, 2 mins.,
video, USA. The slight difference between two oval images, or a third
image that viewers might see by crossing their eyes, shows Hepner's
interest in creating a complex sense of dimension on the screen.It Could
Happen To You by Elizabeth Henry, 2004, 8 mins., video, USA.Henry
discloses the mystery of the human mind by juxtaposing found footage of
talking heads expressing love and separation, close observations of
human activity, a science lab, and the beauty of the universe. The Train
That (Never) Left by Sturla Brandth Grovlen, 2006, 6 mins., video,
Norway. Using montage technique with stunning cinematography, and
drawing attention to closed spaces built up by the walls and the edges
of the screen, Grovlen produces a uniquely cinematic time and space.
Being There by Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, 2006, 6 mins., video,
Sweeden. Six different cities are combined into a virtual urban
landscape using complex editing of video images and computer generated
sounds. This piece suggests the cyber-network systems that connect
cities.Count Backwards From Five by Tony Gault, 2007, 8 mins., video,
USA. Through organic, dream-like visuals, and a phone conversation,
Gault reveals the close relationships between friends and families, the
enjoyment of life, and the sadness of approaching death.Other Turbans by
Darrin Martin, 2007, 12 mins., video, USA. Other Turbans is a reflection
on the fear and difficulty that the filmmaker experienced during the
recovery process of his head operation and complications that he might
continue to have in the future.Silent Screen by Sang Nam, 2004, 4 mins.,
video, USA. Two different textures divided by edges within the same
screen frame - one has more distinguished patterns, and the other a
blurred reflection. Nam creates a theatrical space within the screen,
with motion in natural flow, and sudden change.El Hijo Y El Libro (The
Boy and the Book) by Rafael, 2004, 6 mins., Spain. Playing with the
shooting session and the editing process, black and red images with
sound effects produce nightmare-like confusions, ceasing the Kid's
perspective, and revealing the structure of grown-ups.Energie! by
Thorsten Fleisch, 2007, 5 mins., Germany. Fleisch takes the viewer on an
optic journey through a flickering space where the pleasure of 2D/3D
illusions reveal the complexity of retina perception and its connection
to the nervous system.Free Admission!
7/20
San Francisco, California: New Langton Arts
http://www.newlangtonarts.org
4pm-10-m, 1246 Folsom Street
TERRA INCOGNITA III
New Langton Arts and San Francisco Cinematheque present Terra Incognita
III, six hours of shorts by local and international artists exploring
the multiple facets of landscape, including work by Alfonso Alvarez,
Bill Baldewicz, Freda Banks, David Borengasser, Brook Hinton, Peter
Hutton, Jun Jalbuena, Joshua Kanies, Chris Kennedy, Peter Max Lawrence,
Beca Lafore, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Katherin McInnis, Tomonari Nishikawa,
Vanessa O'Neill, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Laura Rodriquez, Margaret Schedel,
Vanessa Woods, Won-Tae Seo, Charles Woodman, and David Yun. PROGRAM:
4:00 - 6:30pm Terra Incognita III, curated by San Francisco Cinematheque
6:30 - 7:00pm Peter Hutton (New York Portrait, and Part III, In Titan's
Goblet) 7:30 - 10:00pm Terra Incognita III, curated by San Francisco
Cinematheque TERRA INCOGNITA III Katherin McInnis landscapes in
alphabetical order (2003, 1 minute) McInnis' film is made with stills
from the Prelinger Archives films after searching the keyword
"landscape" (in alphabetical order by film title). The soundtrack is
composed from the digital image files processed as sound files. Alfonso
Alvarez Down On The Farm (2003, 6:30 minutes) Shot at the Film Farm, a
hand processing film workshop amid the rolling flatlands west of
Toronto, Canada, Down on the Farm depicts a local farmer harvesting hay
from dawn to dusk. Joshua Kanies Chasm (2007, 8 minutes) In Chasm,
Kanies takes a discerning look at the residual effects of human
consumption. As an avid nature enthusiast and mountain climber, Kanies'
current motion picture work focuses on using personal and poetic
documentary as a tool for exploration, environmental education, and
conservation. David Borengasser and Freda Banks Faces on Mars (2007, 7
minutes) Using extreme close ups and enlarged film grain, Faces on Mars
is a psychological narrative from the points of view of a woman driver
and her male passenger. The physical distance between them reflects an
emotional distance, with landscapes and a radio broadcast filling the
gap as bold saturated colors shift mood and time. David Yun A Taste of
Home (2007, 7:29 minutes) A Taste of Home is an excavation of a suburban
landscape. Thematically, Yun's work often explores the feelings of
isolation that plague modern society and the misunderstandings that
arise from our lack of personal, familial, and cross-cultural
communication. Janis Crystal Lipzin Cracks Between the Stones (2004, 11
minutes) Cracks Between the Stones asks viewers to reconsider the expert
speculation and interpretation of the architectural remains of earlier
cultures. The visuals were composed from many hours of footage shot over
a 10-year period at remote Amer-Indian sites, in the European Arctic
area, Stonehenge (Britain), and contemporary North American urban sites.
Bill Baldewicz West Wind Quartet (2007, 8 minutes) Utilizing primarily
regular 8mm unslit film to create a four screen affect, the imagery of
West Wind Quartet traces atmospheric progress along the California
coast, through San Francisco, the East Bay and across states to Nevada
and the Four Corners. Laura Rodriquez Flower Fall (2007, 4:30 minutes) A
hand-processed Ektachrome single-frame animation, Flower Fall is a
meditation on vibration and color, inspired by the chakra system. From
self-love sing-a-longs to empowering 'queer girl magic movies' to
luminous meditations on nature, Rodriguez's films and videos are about
transformation and healing. Charles Woodman and Margaret Schedel Horse
Farm Mixer (2006, 8minutes) Slow, sensual and languorous, Horse Farm
Mixer is a serial scan of a horse farm. Vanessa O'Neill August (2007
4:30 minutes) Hand-processed and hand-worked, August explores how the
end of a season evokes transient imprints and reverberations of memory.
Passing (2007, 1:20 minutes) Passing is a short film that explores the
idea of passing (passing time, passing histories, and passing away). To
create the film, self-portraits of the filmmaker taken in an abandoned
home were used as a stage to re-inhabit and reinvent through single
frame animation. Mark making, collage and sound engender a new history
in the spaces of a vanishing home. Vanessa Woods What the Water Saw
(2006, 2:34 minutes) What the Water Saw explores a mystery at the depths
of the sea. The film is structured to mimic the ocean's moods, creating
a varied psychological space for the viewer. Equally important, the
visual construction of the film moves between form and formlessness.
What the Water Saw combines negative and positive black and white
footage with densely painted 35mm film. Ken Paul Rosenthal Arcs of
Texture (2006, 6 minutes) Rosenthal's films are poetic meditations on
urban space, the natural world, and human gesture, and often employ
hand-processing, bacterial manipulations, re-photography and multiple
projection set-ups. In Arcs of Texture, the face of the city is rendered
as a light-infused intersection of people, glass, and concrete. Chris
Kennedy The Acrobat (2007, 16 minutes) A consideration of the
relationship between gravity and politics--the necessity of rising up,
but also, perhaps, the significance of allowing oneself to fall. Brook
Hinton A Trip Down Third Street Before the Unknown: Scenic Highlights
from the SFMuni T-Line (2007, 8 minutes) Hinton's film is a silent
meditation on public space in contemporary life based on San Francisco
Muni's new and controversial "T-Line". Hinton's work addresses the
emotional reality of existence in our speed of light cacophony, seeking
to counter and subvert the status quo on behalf of forgotten corners of
private and cultural life. Won-Tae Seo Tower Crane (2006, 8 minutes)
Basing the film's structure on the direction and rhythm of movement of a
tower crane, Seo depicts the nature of cinematic space, representing
three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional screen. Peter Max Lawrence de
Young (2007, 8 minutes) De Young is an architectural and textural tour
of the de Young Museum and grounds in San Francisco. Tomonari Nishikawa
Sketch Film #3 (2006, 3 minutes) Inspired by the idea of using a super 8
camera as one would a sketchbook, Nishikawa takes single-frame shots,
edits in camera, and processes the film by hand. In Sketch Film #3,
Nishikawa captured abstracted shapes and movements, and manipulated the
imagery to create a sense of depth. Jun Jalbuena, in collaboration with
Beca Lafore Walking Through The Landscape of Other People's Eyes (2007,
30 - 60 minutes) audio/live performance Jalbuena and Lafore question and
explore the functional dynamic of a landscape in art, defining a
landscape as material to walk through and inhabit. Utilizing twenty
hours of interviews comprised of activists in San Francisco discussing
the complexities and problems of group dynamics, the filmmakers present
an arrangement of recordings as a conversation between two people. Peter
Hutton New York Portrait, Part III (1990, 15 minutes) "New York
Portrait, Part III takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton's
ongoing exploration of rural landscape. The high angle of observation,
frequent in Hutton's previous New York films here seems to carry a sense
of withdrawal, a distance matched by compassion..." - Tom Gunning, Art
History Professor University of Chicago In Titan's Goblet (1991, 10
minutes) This film refers to a landscape painting by Thomas Cole circa
1833. It is intended as an homage to Cole, who is regarded as the father
of the Hudson River School of painting.
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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007
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7/21
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
8pm, 110 w.broadway @ olive st
INCITE AND OTHER A/V EXPERIMENTALISTS
Incite/ is the Hamburg-based experimental audiovisual electronics duo of
Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier. Incite/ plays bone-dry minimal
electronics, fragmented slomo grooves and broken rhythmic arrangements
in sync with abstract grayscale videos. The program opens with
audio-visual excursions by Rejouissance and Clocks Ticking Backwards (on
tour from NYC) in collaboration with vidsonic sorcery of Eugene's JiRCs.
$5 general, $3 students/members
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