From: Weekly Listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2007 - 07:16:53 PDT
This week [August 25 - September 2, 2007] in avant garde cinema
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Canyon Cinema
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Rubric (Denver; Deadline: September 15, 2007)
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Artist's Television Access (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 01, 2007)
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Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: December 01, 2007)
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CinemaJAZZ (Kansas City, MO USA; Deadline: December 01, 2007)
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The First Annual Mary Beth Cregier Memorial Photography Exhibition and Competition (Chicago, IL, US; Deadline: September 01, 2007)
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Cortopotere (Bergamo - Italia; Deadline: September 10, 2007)
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PixelPops (Airfield of Orkney, Scotland; Deadline: August 25, 2007)
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Around the Coyote: Diminutive Scale or a Multiplicity of Instances for Festival of Maps! (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 08, 2007)
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Renderyard Experimental Film & Animation Festival (london; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Trunk/The Nordic Art Video Festival (Sweden; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Takoma Park Film Festival (Takoma Park, MD, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2007)
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Three Rivers Film Festival (Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2007)
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Studio 60093 Children's Video Fest (Winnetka, IL 60093 USA; Deadline: September 04, 2007)
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Synthetic Zero Loft Events (Bronx, NY, 10454; Deadline: September 15, 2007)
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Compass (Bristol, UK.; Deadline: September 10, 2007)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2007)
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Boulder International Film Festival (boulder; Deadline: September 14, 2007)
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Rubric (Denver; Deadline: September 15, 2007)
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The First Annual Mary Beth Cregier Memorial Photography Exhibition and Competition (Chicago, IL, US; Deadline: September 01, 2007)
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Cortopotere (Bergamo - Italia; Deadline: September 10, 2007)
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PixelPops (Airfield of Orkney, Scotland; Deadline: August 25, 2007)
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Around the Coyote: Diminutive Scale or a Multiplicity of Instances for Festival of Maps! (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 08, 2007)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Sinema of Nick Zedd [August 26, Brooklyn, New York]
* Old Wave [August 26, New York, New York]
* Daughters of Joy! [August 26, Syracuse, NY]
* Sampling the Moving Image [August 27, San Antonio, TX]
* The Crystal Ballroom [August 30, Stamford, Connecticut]
* Botborg+Storm Bugs+Friends [September 1, London, England]
* Hellzapoppin' [September 1, New York, New York]
* Cinemage [September 1, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2007
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8/26
Brooklyn, New York: East Coast Aliens
http://nickzedd.com
9 PM, 216 Franklin Street off Huron (G train to Greenpoint Ave)
THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD
Underground filmmaker Nick Zedd presents a monthly series of movies from
his collection. Tonite's show begins with recent episodes of his wacky
TV series Adventures of Electra Elf starring Rev Jen, the Patron Saint
of the Uncool. By day Electra-Elf is Jennifer Swallows, a mild-mannered
reporter for Art Star Scene Magazine (A.S.S.) and Fluffer is Boobie, a
chihuahua-clothes model, but when danger calls, the two put on stylish
leotards and kick butt, taking down corrupt senators, sleazy frat-boys,
satanic cults, landlords, zombie-tourists and others in each
heart-stopping episode. A hit on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Electra
Elf features local artstars and comedians from the Open Mike scene.
"Utterly intoxicating. The closest thing we've got to, say, The
Ridiculous Theatrical Co... Costumes alone scream with genius. Ditto
special effects!" - Mark Kramer, Blacklisted Journalist To be screened:
FILTHY RICH starring Neon Music NO PLAGUE LIKE HOME starring the voice
of Vox, Rev Jen VILE BUDDIES starring Rev Jen, Alison Gordy, Brenda
Bergman OF LICE & MEN starring Chuck Funk, Rev Jen, FaceBoy, Michelle
Carlos HELLBOUND HEIRESSES starring Rev Jen, Neal Medlyn OLD MAN & THE
SEA MONKEY starring Rev Jen, Big Mike, O'Debra Twins I, NAUSEUS starring
Rev Jen Giorgio Handman $6 cheap
8/26
New York, New York: FIREFLY CINEMA
DUSK, corner of East 6th and Avenue B
OLD WAVE
Yes friends it is time to bid farewell to summer, to the very past
moving slowly away like the 20th century itself. at the August Firefly
Cinema this Sunday Aug 26 at dusk (8:30? ish) the 6th st and Ave B
Garden rain or shine. free. program: ERic Mitchell's THE WAY IT IS, OR,
EURYDICE IN THE AVENUES (1985) preceded by: Beth and Scott B.'s LETTERS
TO DAD (1979) prints from: The Donnell Media Center, NYPL "Letters To
Dad" By Beth B & Scott B. 1979, 16mm - from Super 8, sound, 15 min
Accompanied by an eerie pulsating score, nineteen men and women recite
brief speeches to "dad" against a black background. They alternately
voice feelings of subservient adulation, alienation from the world and
smug insularity. Indicative of troubled psyches, their confessional
communications proceed to darker themes of suicide and defiant martyrdom
Performers: John Ahearn, Ida Applebroog, Beth B, Scott B, Don
Christenson, Ellen Cooper, Vivienne Dick, Peter Grass, Sally Grass,
Laura Kennedy, Christof Kohlhofer, Arto Lindsay, Tom Otterness, Pat
Place, Bill Rice, Ulle Rimkus, Terry Robinson, Chiara Smith, Robert
Smith. "….the almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a 15 minute meditation
on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the
relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world…the film takes on a
musical form- like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior
cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer."
J.Hoberman, Village Voice 1979. "The Way it is, or, Eurydice in the
Avenues" By Eric Mitchell, 1985, 16mm, b&w, 80 min. The story of a group
of actors who have been rehearsing Jean Cocteau's Orpheus in New York
City's East Village. On a warm summer afternoon, the body of a young
woman is found on a grassy knoll in Tompkins Square Park. Eurydice, the
lead actress, is dead. At her funeral, the actors examine their
relationships with her in order to unravel the mystery of her demise.
Each actor is also a suspect. The actors's memories, the underworld of
Cocteau's play and the East Village milieu become inextricably entwined.
Play becomes life: seduction, betrayal, death. Final scenes underline
the tragedy of Eurydice, as well as the end of an era in the East
Village: scorched tenements, the Mudd Club, and "new wave" punk.
Performers: Boris Major, Kai Eric, Vincent Gallo, Jessica Stutchbury,
Mark Boone, Jr., Daniel Rosen, Steve Buscemi, Edwidge Belmore, Brett
Bartlett, Rockets Redglare. PROGRAMMING BY JEANNE LIOTTA
8/26
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Experimental
http://syracusefilmworks.blogspot.com
8-9:30pm, Spark Art Space, 1005 E. Fayette St. at S. Crouse Ave.
DAUGHTERS OF JOY!
Experimental video and audio about sex & American launch of Lickety
Split smut zine. Curated by Amber Goodwyn, with work by Lamathilde,
Kathleen K-R, Peter Miller, Jackie Gallant & Dayna Macleod, Pomgrenade,
Nicole Koschmann, Scott Stark, Anita Schoepp, Shana MacDonald and more.
Presented by Lickety Split, organized with the support of Syracuse
Experimental Film & Media Workshop and The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse
University. For mature audiences. Suggested $5 donation. For details
visit: . For more information contact Brett Kashmere,
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MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2007
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8/27
San Antonio, TX: New Media Studio Program UTSA
7 - 9 PM, Buena Vista Theater, UTSA Downtown Campus
SAMPLING THE MOVING IMAGE
Announcing the first of 4 fall screenings - -being held in conjunction
with this term's video art class. - - All are welcome. - -Free. - -
passage a l'acte Martin Arnold (1993 / 16mm film) / Deutschland Speiegel
- Sharon Couzon (1980 / 16mm film) / Mr. Glenn W. Turner - Heather
McAdams (1990 / 16mm film) / Cartoon le Mousse - Chick Strand (1979 /
16mm film) / Newsreel of Dreams No. 2 - Stan Vanderbeek (1969 / 16mm
film) / She Puppet - Peggy Awesh (2001 / digital video) / Uso Justo -
Scott Coleman Miller (2005 / digital video) / New Deal Solution -
Leticia Rocha & Stevan Zivadinovic (2007 / digital video)
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007
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8/30
Stamford, Connecticut: Avon Theatre Film Center
http://www.avontheater.com/special.html#aug30
5:30 p.m., Avon Theatre, 272 Bedford Street, Stamford, CT
THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM
A film by Cheryl Elsbury Cambras Synopsis: Johnny, a trucker and
part-time karaoke king, falls under suspicion for the disappearance of
his wife and the brutal murder of her friend, Agnes. Haunted by sorrow
and driven by the hope for redemption, Johnny finds himself at The
Crystal Ballroom, a place where personal demons are known to play. Agnes
arrives, searching for her killer, and finds Johnny. They will be
blinded forever in the Ballroom, unless they face their shadows. HD, 35
minutes, 2007
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2007
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9/1
London, England: The Foundry
5-11pm, The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch
BOTBORG+STORM BUGS+FRIENDS
Botborg (Brisbane, Australia) Botborg is an Australian experimental
audio/visual duo presenting improvised performances of audio visual
synaesthesia using their own custom setup of 'feedback electronics'
(affectionately named: the photosonicneurokineasthograph). You 'see'
sounds, and 'hear' colours - but all these signals are actually the
*same* signal, completely derived from device feedback. Botborg
performances fuse sound and light into intensely visceral experiences
which do not fit into the established categories of cinema or music.
TOTALLY LIVE MULTI-SENSORY BRUTALITY. http://www.botborg.com
http://www.myspace.com/botborg Neither There Nor Here Storm Bugs (Steven
Ball & Philip Sanderson) Live for the first time in 25 years, Storm Bugs
present an all-new show of audio-visual navigational circuit bending and
dis-orienteering. All around the roundabout, up and down Shoreditch High
Street, in and out the Foundry, where are you going and how did you get
there? Eschewing expectations, not to mention glitchy abstraction or the
hedonistic thrill of the feedback rush, Storm Bugs turn their attention
to the here and the now-ness, the there and the then-ness, collapsing
distance, time, direction and location into a question, a riddle, a
conundrum. http://www.stormbugs.co.uk BBBlood (London) Normally people
write.... "Tinnitus-inducing Insanity, like being vomited on by some
angry digital god. The only way to appease him is to drill holes in your
brain, record it, and play the sounds to a roomful of very small
children." I guess that would work, or you could use this: "BBBlood is
tobacco-tin red noise from the strike-a-light guvnor of east london." Or
anything that sounds cool. http://www.myspace.com/bbblood Twocsinak
(Bristol) "Twocsinak is exceptionally gifted and I think gets pretty
much totally ignored. He's a British guy who sings and writes songs and
edits audio in a very intensive manner. He made a cd on the label Wrong
Music that should be getting everybody in a lather but I don't think
anybody has noticed. Check him out!" - Drew Daniel, Matmos
http://www.myspace.com/twocsandsarah Edge Effect (Swindon) Andy Preston
(aka Edge Effect) attempts to blend high-art sensibilities with Punk
Rock's do-it-yourself ethic. Andy is a "synthesiser hacker", allowing
sounds to grow organically using a mixture of improvisation and prepared
structures to create evolving, dark-ambient textures that he uses to try
to evoke eldritch images of inner worlds of dreams and hallucinations.
http://www.myspace.com/eeffect http://www.edge-effect.co.uk/live also...
The Dagger Brothers (Bristol) http://www.myspace.com/thedaggerbrothers
Littlecreature (Southampton) + Artamonova (Bristol)
http://www.myspace.com/artamonova http://www.myspace.com/littlecreature
Company Fuck (Austria) http://www.companyfuck.com Joe Musgrove
(Australia) http://www.halftheory.com/musgrove Upstairs music provided
by disco_r.dance http://www.myspace.com/discordnce Free entry Full
details will be available at http://www.botborg.com/index.php?go=foundry
9/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 & 8:30, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
HELLZAPOPPIN'
Dir: H.C. Potter. "Rarely shown in the U.S. these days, this 1941 film
of the wildly deconstructive stage farce with Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson
is still regarded as a classic in Europe, and it lives up to its
reputation. The credit sequence establishes the wartime mood with its
vision of hell as a munitions factory (where demons preside over the
packaging of Canned Guy and Canned Gal), which is shortly revealed as a
movie soundstage, the first of many metafictional gags. Very belatedly
the movie gets around to telling a spare musical-comedy story (with
swell numbers by Martha Raye and the jazz duo of Slim Gaillard and
'Slam' Stewart, and some very acrobatic jitterbugging), but the main
bill of fare is manic nonsense that almost makes the Marx Brothers look
sober." -Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER.
9/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
CINEMAGE
Each night will include the New York premiere of two new Cinemage
pieces!. A THOUSAND LIGHTS AND NIGHTS. A HIDDEN PLACE FOR BIRDS.
CINEMAGE is Aki Onda's audio-visual project, performances of which are
composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar
improvisation. "Cinemage" means "images for cinema," or "homage for
cinema." The visual images in CINEMAGE are snapshots taken from Onda's
daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is
revealed in their accumulation - the particulars within lose
significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of
memory. The sensibility is essentially filmic. The photos are more like
moving images than stills and the style is similar to Chris Marker's LA
JETÉE. Projected on a screen, the images have the eerie
familiarity of an out-of-focus memory and evoke a feeling of
déjà vu. The music is as important as the visual images,
and not just accompaniment. On this occasion, Loren Conners and Alan
Licht play guitar in tandem with Onda's visual images. Aki Onda is a
versatile artist: an electronic musician, composer, and photographer.
Born in Japan, Onda started his career as a photographer when he was 16
years old. His first assignment was to take photographs of musicians for
magazines. Through numerous photo shoots he became acquainted with many
well-known musicians and decided to become a musician himself. Onda is
particularly known for his project, CASSETTE MEMORIES, for which he uses
field-recording sounds he recorded himself as a diary for more than
fifteen years.
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