From: jason livingston (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 03:59:42 PDT
hello everybody
if you're in rome (italy!) tomorrow, please come by this great show
all best
jason
ithaca, usa
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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>Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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>Visualized Film Festival (Denver; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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>Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL 60093 USA; Deadline:
>September 04, 2007)
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>Evil City Film Fest (NYC, NY USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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>TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition - 2007 (Montevideo,
>Uruguay; Deadline: August 11, 2007)
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>DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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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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>2007 Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Melbourne AU; Deadline: July 24,
>2007)
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>Cadence Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: August 15, 2007)
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>Seguin Film & Arts Festival (Seguin, TX, USA; Deadline: August 17, 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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>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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>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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>Studio 27 (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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>Evil City Film Fest (NYC, NY USA; Deadline: August 01, 2007)
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>TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition - 2007 (Montevideo,
>Uruguay; Deadline: August 11, 2007)
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>THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
>==============================
> * 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.
>
>-----------------------
>SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2007
>-----------------------
>
>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.
>
>---------------------
>SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2007
>---------------------
>
>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.
>
>---------------------
>MONDAY, JULY 16, 2007
>---------------------
>
>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.
>
>----------------------
>TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007
>----------------------
>
>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.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EradfE-AJI For more information contact
> email suppressed
>
>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
>
>------------------------
>WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007
>------------------------
>
>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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