Part 1 of 2: This week [February 23 - March 2, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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Part 1 of 2: This week [February 23 - March 2, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * "We Do Not Remember, We Rewrite History" An Evening With Brett Kashmere [February 23, Buffalo, New York]
 * Super-8 “B-Movie” Horror: Beach Beast [February 23, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 23, Los Angeles, California]
 * Happening Now At the Film-Makers’ Coop [February 23, New York, New York]
 * Package Deals and Scandinavia House Present Sigur Ros's "Heima" [February 23, New York, New York]
 * R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three [February 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * The 8 Fest [February 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Redcat International Children's Film Festival [February 24, Los Angeles, California]
 * Distributed Memory: Live Music and Projected Images [February 24, San Francisco, California]
 * Tik///Tik - Xrin Arms - Nero's Day At Disneyland [February 24, San Francisco, California]
 * Ulrike Ottinger, Prater [February 25, Los Angeles, California]
 * The Inventing Space of Cinema [February 25, New York, New York]
 * The Walking Picture Palace: Crooked Fireworks [February 26, Columbus, Ohio]
 * The Night of the Hunter [February 26, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * Brent Coughenour In Person At Mass Art Film Society [February 27, Boston, Massachusetts]
 * A Tribute To Mark Lapore (1952-2005) [February 27, Columbus, Ohio]
 * Spiral Jetty [February 27, San Francisco, California]
 * Transient visions of Southeast Asia [February 27, San Francisco, California]
 * Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Programme 1 At Cinematheque Ontario [February 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Prisoners of War [February 28, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Mitchell Rose, the Mitch Show [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
 * Open Screeening [February 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * Id Docs - Experimental Documentaries [February 28, Santa Cruz]
 * Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Programme 2 At Cinematheque Ontario [February 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Hop On Down! Golden Age Presents "The Leap (Year) Show" [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Week Long Run of "Phantom Love" [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Meadowlark With Filmmaker Taylor Greeson In Person! [February 29, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Electromediascope [February 29, Kansas City, Missouri]
 * Open Screening [February 29, New York, New York]
 * Wesley Willis's Joy Rides [February 29, San Francisco, California]
 * R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
    Cinematheque Ontario [February 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Zwischen | Stadt | Raum ... In-Between-City-Space [March 1, Berlin, Germany]
 * Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 1, Los Angeles, California]
 * Vincent Grenier Program [March 1, New York, New York]
 * You Weren't there: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 [March 1, San Francisco, California]
 * Such Hawks, Such Hounds [March 1, San Francisco, California]
 * You Weren't there: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984 [March 1, San Francisco, California]
 * Prelinger + Steal This Film + Cult Jams [March 1, San Francisco, California]
 * R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
    Cinematheque Ontario [March 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Stan Brakhage: the Text of Light [March 2, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Filmforum Presents Shoot Shoot Shoot: Works of the London Film-Makers’
    Co-Operative, Part 1 [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
 * Redcat International Children's Film Festival [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
 * Close At Hand [March 2, San Francisco, California]
 * Homegrown Obsessions [March 2, San Francisco, California]
 * R. Bruce Elder's the Book of All the Dead: Part Three Continued At
    Cineamtheque Ontario [March 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008
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2/23
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm , 341 Delaware Ave.

 "WE DO NOT REMEMBER, WE REWRITE HISTORY" AN EVENING WITH BRETT KASHMERE
  Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera
  movies, the Canadian filmmaker Brett Kashmere explores the intersection
  of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the
  politics of representation. His work, which has screened internationally
  at the London Film Festival, Made in Video: International Video Art
  Festival in Copenhagen, New York's Anthology Film Archives, the Kassel
  Documentary Festival in Germany, and The Images Festival in Toronto,
  combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade
  equipment, and materialist aesthetics. His most recently completed
  film-essay, Valery's Ankle, explores the spectacle of hockey violence in
  North American media. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that VALERY'S
  ANKLE "may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of
  sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas." Preceded by
  UNFINISHED PASSAGES, about which Kashmere writes: "Small monument to my
  great-grandfather, prairie homesteader and giver of consciousness.
  Internalized history lesson for the birth of a province - in honour of
  100 years since Saskatchewan's named independence - and light reflection
  on cinema's unreeling history, coterminously." Valery's Ankle (2006,33
  minutes, digital video, color) In September 1972 Canadian hockey pros
  faced the amateur Soviets for the first time ever. Canada's victory in
  this famous Cold War showdown, thanks to a last-minute winning goal, has
  become the most celebrated Canadian story of all time. But the games
  were also marked by extreme acts of violence that are only
  subconsciously remembered. Team Canada's performance throughout the
  series and Bobby Clarke's two-handed slash of rival Russian star Valery
  Kharlamov's ankle, in particular, signal a "glitch" in the production of
  Canadian nationalism, identity, and masculinity. This fracture disrupts
  Canadian self-identification as polite, peaceful and sportsmanlike and
  enacts a shadow identity as frustrated, aggressive and vengeful.
  Preceded by: unfinished passages (2005,17 minutes, digital video, b&w)

2/23
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.

 SUPER-8 “B-MOVIE” HORROR: BEACH BEAST
  Beach Beast (directed by Bill Storz, USA, 1991, 115 min.), recalls the
  efforts of children in their imitation of the perceived adult world.
  Language in their mouths is always too big, it doesn't fit them anymore
  then their parents shoes, they use it like costume jewelry, creatively
  and not in search of truth. In Beach Beast language is as much an object
  as what is being filmed. Out of place with what is happening and
  insincere (as a ray of light or a laugh), it remains a part of the film
  (alongside any other) rather than a narrative over it or about it. The
  result is a kind of constellation of unfamiliar faces, places, phrases
  and scenarios that in it's silliness and tenderness manages to be less
  linear (in the sense that it captures the beauty of a moment, qualities
  of light, the strangeness of words) than many attempts at non-narrative
  film. – Jesse Kennedy, TIE

2/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
  Now in its third year, this audience favorite offers a world of
  sparkling cinematic delights with three weekends of inspired animation,
  exhilarating live-action and rarely-shown films from more than 15
  countries. Film lovers of all ages are invited to take this eye-opening
  journey around the globe—and revel in a treasure trove of unforgettable
  stories.

2/23
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
Doors 7, Program 8, 66 E. 4th St.

 HAPPENING NOW AT THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOP
  Rally on behalf of the Film-Makers' Cooperative at a Winter Benefit
  Screening and Silent Auction at the Millennium Film Workshop. The
  evening will feature a program curated by Caroline Koebel of historic
  and contemporary works recently inducted into the world-famous FMC
  collection with in-person appearances by many of the artists. Beirut
  Outtakes by Peggy Ahwesh, Faux Movements (Wrong Moves) by Pip Chodorov,
  Capitalism: Slavery by Ken Jacobs, Description of a Struggle by Bosko
  Blagojevic, The Small Ones by Lynne Sachs, 1/3 (One Over Three) by
  Chiaki Watanabe, Carnalavare by Flavia Souza, The Glowing Woman by Joel
  Schlemowitz, Meet Me In Wichita by Martha Colburn, Backcomb by Sarah
  Pucill, the recent digital preservation of Jud Yalkut's 1967 Kusama's
  Self-Obliteration, and a newly acquired print of Mike Kuchar's Tone
  Poem. Partake in Two Boots Pizza, refreshments, and hand-screened FMC
  t-shirts. Tickets: $10-$25 sliding scale

2/23
New York, New York: Scandinavia House
http://scandinaviahouse.org/programs.html#films
7pm, 58 Park Avenue at 38th St

 PACKAGE DEALS AND SCANDINAVIA HOUSE PRESENT SIGUR ROS'S "HEIMA"
  Directed by Dean DeBlois, "Heima"—which translates as both "at home" and
  "homeland"—chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Rós, Iceland's
  biggest musical export after Björk, played in their native Iceland in
  the summer of 2006. The film provides unique insights into one of the
  world's most fascinating and inscrutable bands captured live while
  exploring their natural habitat—the mysterious, otherworldly landscape
  of Iceland—like never before. They played in deserted fish factories,
  outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened
  caves, and the huge, horseshoe-shaped Ásbyrgi Canyon (formed, legend has
  it, by the hoofprint of Odin's six-legged horse Sleipnir). Material from
  all four of the band's albums is featured, including many rare and
  notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the
  previously unreleased Guitardjamm filmed inside a derelict herring oil
  tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of Vaka shot
  at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and
  first-time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as "Staralfur,"
  "Agaetis Byrjun," and "Von." Loosely following a documentary format,
  "Heima" serves as an alternative primer for Iceland the country, which
  is revealed as less a stag party destination-du-jour than a desolate,
  magical place where humans have little right to trespass. The question
  of the way Sigur Rós's music relates to, and is influenced by, their
  environment has been reduced to a journalistic cliché about glacial
  majesty and fire and ice, but there is no doubt that the band is
  inextricably linked to the land in which they were forged. 91 min.
  Reception sponsored by Reyka Vodka. Arrive early to see Sigur Rós music
  videos on the big screen starting at 6:30 pm.

2/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:15 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)

 R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART THREE
  PART THREE: EXULTATIONS (IN LIGHT OF THE GREAT GIVING)."To be
  resurrected is to be reunited with the body. Hence the EXULTATIONS
  region of THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD attempts to reconstruct the flesh
  (out of the pixels of computer image process) and to reanimate it." – R.
  Bruce Elder. FLESH ANGELS (1990, 110 minutes). "The latest image
  technology and exotic new computer mathematics like fractals and
  cellular automata rhym[ed] . . . with Dante's medieval cosmology . . . a
  heady blend of the high-tech and the antique . . . that dazzles the eye"
  (Bart Testa).

2/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The 8 Fest
http://satanmacnuggit.com
7 & 9 pm, Trash Palace

 THE 8 FEST
  SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23 7 PM ORPHAN FILMS & BRING YOUR HOME MOVIES ( Home
  Movie Repair Clinic 6 PM ) Homemade Movies home movie history project
  presents – ORPHAN FILMS A screening of long lost "orphaned" films. Local
  collectors Grant Heaps & Ian Phillips are on a quest to find, preserve
  and re-present all the forgotten home movies that end washed-up on the
  shores of goodwills, auctions and dumpsters. From: impromptu wrestling
  at a 'cognac party', to a man saving a chair from a gas station fire, to
  the set (in Barrie) of "The Littlest Hobo", to cottage life on the
  Toronto Islands in 1934, we offer strangely compelling portraits of
  everyday life from the 1930's to 70's! followed by . . . BRING YOUR HOME
  MOVIES The second part of our screening is your chance to bring your
  home movies to show (8mm, super 8). Dig through your parent's attic or
  grab that orphaned reel you found at the thrift shop. – AND – If you no
  longer have a working projector, come early to our HOME MOVIE REPAIR
  CLINIC starting at 6 PM. Let us help you one-on-one to look through your
  home movie collection again and give advice on preserving your films. 9
  PM BAGEROO – the art of simply super 8 Two decades ago, rumours
  circulated among filmmakers that super 8 film stock was to be
  discontinued by Kodak. Images – numerous and proliferating – of the
  demolition of Kodak's plants invade the evening news these days; and
  this phenomenon parallels Kodak's game plan as they shift from analogue
  to digital. So the future of super 8 film stock remains as shaky as it
  has been for the last two decades. But there are pockets in North
  America – such as Vancouver, Milwaukee, Saskatoon and Ottawa, just to
  name a few – where filmmakers continue to build an artistic practice
  working in super 8. "the 8 fest" will endeavor to provide Toronto with
  an exhibition platform dedicated solely to small-gauge celluloid.
  "BAGEROO - the art of simply super 8" brings to the big screen a
  selection of RECENT WORK and a few older pieces. JOHN PORTER (aka the
  "Godfather of Super 8" to many) delights with a new condensed ritual in
  a small bowling alley; TANYA READ premieres a new work hot from the lab;
  and archival gems from ADRIAN GöLLNER, CLIFFORD CAINES and others will
  be brought to you for your viewing pleasure!

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008
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2/24
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
  Now in its third year, this audience favorite offers a world of
  sparkling cinematic delights with three weekends of inspired animation,
  exhilarating live-action and rarely-shown films from more than 15
  countries. Film lovers of all ages are invited to take this eye-opening
  journey around the globe—and revel in a treasure trove of unforgettable
  stories.

2/24
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA

  DISTRIBUTED MEMORY: LIVE MUSIC AND PROJECTED IMAGES
  Distributed Memory, originally presented at the Getty Center, features
  commissioned pieces supported in part by Montalvo Arts Center, pairs
  filmmakers and composers in the creation of collaborative real-time
  cinematic works from the recomposition of found and new materials. This
  evening is the second in a two-part series curated by Julie Lazar (the
  first will be presented at Montalvo Arts Center on February 8). In
  Rotary Wobble and Horizontal Boundaries, Pat O'Neill's formalized
  contemplations of urban and natural environments are merged with
  electronic musician Carl Stone's live digital scores. Janie Geiser and
  Tom Recchion's fusion of live performance, re-photography and collage
  animation, Magnetic Sleep, reinterprets the formal melodramatic
  traditions of Man Ray and Maya Deren. Presented in association with
  Montalvo Arts Center. Janie Geiser, Pat O'Neill, Tom Recchion, and Carl
  Stone In Person. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.

2/24
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st

 TIK///TIK - XRIN ARMS - NERO'S DAY AT DISNEYLAND
  Sunday, February 24, 2008. 8PM $6 tik///tik - xrin arms - nero's day at
  disneyland Presented by Club Sandwich *tik///tik* This resident of the
  Greater Los Angeles Area uses analog synths and digital samplers to
  throw tantrums that fulfill harsh noise fantasies and pop star
  nightmares. http://www.myspace.com/tikyoutik *xrin arms* Xrin Arms has
  been breaking fingers, leaving his morning manhood on couches, drawing
  blood and mentally bashing minds all over the country for the past few
  years. Recently Xrin Arms decided to not even have a set home and live
  his life traveling to where ever, when ever. Missing Xrin Arms in yr
  city is like a car without a stearing wheel.
  http://www.myspace.com/xrinarmsmotherfucker *nero's day at disneyland*
  Nero's Day At Disneyland is a bizarre mix of baroque, techno, noise and
  punk from oakland california. Working himself into a petulent frenzy he
  mashes and claws at his keyboards like a rabid dog as people either back
  up in horror or inch forward in curiosity.
  http://www.myspace.com/nerosdayatdisneland

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008
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2/25
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 ULRIKE OTTINGER, PRATER
  West Coast premiere Austria/Germany, 2007, 107 min., 35mm One of the
  most singular and provocative voices in German cinema is on hand for a
  screening of her latest extravaganza, Prater. Part loving documentary
  (including rare archival footage) and part updated version of Alice in
  Wonderland (with übermodel Veruschka as Barbarella), this film recounts
  the tales of generations of carnival workers at Vienna's famous Prater
  amusement park. Ottinger introduces a fascinating cast of characters:
  descendents of the "man without a torso," grandchildren of imperial
  huntsmen who now run a first-class restaurant, and a fix-it man who
  diligently repairs illusion devices, among many others. Texts by Nobel
  Prize-winning authors Elfriede Jelinek and Elias Canetti, satirist Erich
  Kästner and legendary director Josef von Sternberg wittily dissect the
  meaning of the Prater, its status as a site of technological innovation,
  and its role as a cultural medium. In person: Ulrike Ottinger

2/25
New York, New York: Collective : Unconscious
http://www.weird.org/
7:30PM, 279 Church St. (btw. Franklin & White)

 THE INVENTING SPACE OF CINEMA
  THE INVENTING SPACE OF CINEMA, part of Jewels and Gems from the
  Film-Makers' Coop, is a screening curated by Caroline Koebel of 16mm
  films by Lana Lin, Barbara Hammer and Barbara Klutinis, Janie Geiser,
  Leslie Thornton, Joyce Wieland, Storm De Hirsch, Babette Mangolte, Marie
  Menken, Marjorie Keller, and Maya Deren. Filmmakers Lana Lin and Barbara
  Hammer will be present to discuss their work. Maya Deren's first film
  experiment Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) ignited the American
  avant-garde film movement at mid-century, and for decades now has been
  screened continuously in cinema studies classrooms. At one point the
  film's protagonist (played by Deren) strides in a space that only cinema
  makes possible: close-ups show the woman's alternating feet against
  sand, grass, pavement, and rug, creating the effect that she actually
  exists simultaneously in these ordinarily disjointed environs. Of this
  sequence, Deren has written, "It was like a crack letting the light of
  another world gleam through. I kept saying to myself, 'The walls of this
  room are solid except right there…There's a door...I've got to get it
  open because through there I can go to someplace instead of leaving here
  by the same way that I came in.'" In a like-spirited displacement, The
  Inventing Space of Cinema re-posits Meshes of the Afternoon within a
  frame of works—including live action, animation, and re-purposed
  footage—that use experimental means and investigatory techniques to pose
  questions about objective and subjective space, gendered spatiality, and
  filmic architectonics. The frame is intended to open a necessary
  entrance to Meshes, one enabling the pre-canon film's flux and
  indeterminacy to sneak past into the present.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
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2/26
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.

 THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE: CROOKED FIREWORKS
  Curated and Introduced by Mark McElhatten "Crooked fireworks though
  wiped off in an instant Leave behind a heaven that will never be without
  scars" —Saito Fumi McElhatten's work for venues such as the New York
  Film Festival's annual Views from the Avant Garde showcase and the
  International Film Festival Rotterdam have helped to renew interest in
  the vital art form of experimental cinema. Tonight he presents "Crooked
  Fireworks," a special edition of The Walking Picture Palace, his nomadic
  ongoing series. The program consists of: Lunatic Princess, Mark LaPore;
  Black and White Trypps Number Three, Ben Russell; Observando el cielo,
  Jeanne Liotta; After Writing, Mary Helena Clark; House, Ben Rivers; How
  to Conduct a Love Affair, David Gatten; Singing Biscotts, Luther Price;
  A Hallow Kiss for Mark LaPore, Luther Price; The Mongrel Sister, Luther
  Price; All Through the Night, Michael Robinson; Zelienople, Darcy
  Shreve; Phantom, Luke Sieczek; and Rehearsals for Retirement, Phil
  Solomon.

2/26
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berksfilmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College

 THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
  The Night of the Hunter (1955, 93 min.) by CHARLES LAUGHTON. "Laughton's
  only directorial effort, and the mind boggles to ponder what kind of
  auteur career the man might've had come the '60s. As it is, Hunter is a
  paroxysm of stylistic excess, so un-tempered by reality or taste that
  even its stiff-limbed child performances feel like bad dreams…. The
  affect is mega-noir, of course, mated with scripter James Agee's
  gushingly folkloric voice, Stanley Cortez's Teutonic cinematography, and
  twisted around the hot core of Presbyterian outrage." –Michael Atkinson,
  Village Voice

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
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2/27
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, screening room 1 in East Hall in the Film Department @ The Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue

 BRENT COUGHENOUR IN PERSON AT MASS ART FILM SOCIETY
  I PITY THE FOOL by Brent Coughenour, video, 2007, 85 min. Midwest
  filmmaker Brent Coughenour, currently touring the east coast, will
  present a screening of his most recent film, I PITY THE FOOL, a
  narrative city-poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial
  collapse in the city of Detroit. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY
  THE FOOL gradually accrues more elements as it goes on: fragments of
  narrative combine with other fragments that at first have no obvious
  connection. As opposed to story-lines in many feature-length films that
  gradually tie up and resolve their different threads, the focus of the
  film continues to broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended
  and mysterious. Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things
  nearly recent and long past, the film attempts to re-capture the
  marginalized and defiantly minor histories of its forgotten tenants."
  -Luke Sieczek, Northwest Film Forum

2/27
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.

 A TRIBUTE TO MARK LAPORE (1952-2005)
  Curated and Introduced by Mark McElhatten Although deeply influenced by
  the practices of the Lumière brothers, Andy Warhol, and Robert Bresson,
  Mark LaPore expanded the tradition of experimental documentary
  filmmaking, conducting profoundly cinematic, highly distilled personal
  investigations into the nature of cultural flux and reverie. He shot
  extensively in rural Sudan, Sri Lanka, New York, Myanmar, India, and
  Idaho. Tonight's program will feature Untitled (Camera Rolls) (2005),
  The Sleepers (1989),The Five Bad Elements (1998),A Depression in the Bay
  on Bengal (1996). (approx. 90 mins., 16mm)

2/27
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street

 SPIRAL JETTY
  This evening was conceived as a complement to the screening of James
  Benning's exquisite portrait of Spiral Jetty at Pacific Film Archives
  (casting a glance, Feb 26, 7:30 pm). We will be showing Smithson's
  original documentation of the building of Spiral Jetty, a poetic
  evocation of the construction and erosion of the earthwork sculpture, as
  well as a short collaboration between Smithson and fellow artist Nancy
  Holt (Swamp). The screening ends with 8-1/2 x 11, an early work by
  Benning, which uses a hitch-hiking hook-up to create circular patterns
  around a loose narrative structure. --- All films shown on 16mm. For
  more information contact: email suppressed or
  (address suppressed) The SFAI Film Salon is supported by the SFAI
  Student Union and Legion of Graduate Students (LOGS)

2/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st

 TRANSIENT VISIONS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
  Wednesday, February 27, 2008. 8PM $6 Transient Visions of Southeast Asia
  video by Cade Bursell, Kiye Simon Luang, and Amie Siegel presented by
  kino21 all that nature provides by Cade Bursell all that nature provides
  by Cade Bursell Kiye Simon Luang's Ephemeral Island Kiye Simon Luang's
  Ephemeral Island Pasang Naik (The Tide) by Amie Seigel Pasang Naik (The
  Tide) by Amie Seigel » More images In either proclaiming or lamenting
  the world's interconnectedness under global capitalism, it has become
  almost a cliché to see "sameness" everywhere we look. Tonight's three
  short films gently take us elsewhere. Cade Bursell's all that nature
  provides (2006) looks at the art practices of Luang Por Chaoren, the
  Abbot of Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand. Here, an outline of a leaf
  becomes a song, the patterns of fallen tree limbs translate into chants,
  and rocks yield color for abstract paintings that map the history of the
  sites from which they were gathered. While the monastery is also
  internationally known for its effective drug detox program (originally
  developed for opium addicts who were considered parias in Thai culture),
  Bursell's half-hour film focuses on the creative practices which
  (literally) draw on nature's patterns and material and transform them,
  sometimes in an almost John Cage-like manner, into sounds and images.
  Cade Bursell is a former Bay Area resident and teacher whose
  experimental shorts include Skate, and Test Sites. She is currently
  teaching at the University of Illinois at Carbondale. Bay Area Premiere.
  Kiye Simon Luang's The Ephemeral Island (2005) is a quiet evocation of
  joy -- the joy brought by the temporary islands that emerge in the midst
  of Mekong River during winter season. Luang simply observes this liminal
  space between two shores and two countries (Laos and Thailand) and the
  elation that converges there for a brief moment. A young videomaker who
  lives and works in Marseilles, France, Luang is working on a long
  project on his family history in Laos, and The Ephemeral Island was shot
  during a research trip for the longer piece. The images, raw and shot
  without forethought, embody the sense of wonder of those moments when we
  are simply and wholly caught up in what we see. US premiere. Amie
  Siegel's earlier Pasang Naik (The Tide, 1997) is a kind of
  anti-travelogue of sequence of single shot scenes, filmed in Cambodia,
  Indonesia and Thailand. Scott Stark, writes that the film "subtly
  affirms the distinction between looking -- gathering visual information
  -- and seeing -- applying meaning to that information. Each scene is a
  single shot, 20 or 30 seconds long, focusing on something that caught
  Siegel's eye: light refracting through a window, a ring dangling from
  the ear of a dancer, the shadow of a tree as it wavers across a noisy
  street. Locations are never revealed, and actions are never explained,
  making it impossible to exoticize, iconize or inform the imagery with
  any cultural bias. Instead an indisputable truth emerges: This happened
  here. Like so. Here is proof." Amie Siegel has made a number of
  non-fiction and experimental films and installations including The
  Sleepers, the feature length Empathy, and German People. She is
  currently a Robert Fulton Fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard
  University.

2/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)

 SHORTS BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: PROGRAMME 1 AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
  The Free Screen is delighted to present two shorts programmes, including
  a clutch of Toronto premieres, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the
  most lauded young talents in contemporary world cinema. Since our Film
  Now spotlight on him in Fall of 2005, the Thai filmmaker has gone on to
  make his greatest film yet, the sublime, diaphanous SYNDROMES AND A
  CENTURY (screened in our Fall 2007 season), in addition to a number of
  short films, videos, and installations, which have garnered prizes and
  accolades internationally. Defying narrative convention in the most
  inconceivable and blissful ways, Weerasethakul is at the forefront of
  cinema's avant-garde. (He has, on many occasions, cited San
  Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie as a seminal
  influence.) Engaged in a radicalized practice, he has consistently used
  the short film format as a means of plenary expression, despite his
  sustained critical success in feature filmmaking. – Andréa Picard.
  Programme One: THE ANTHEM (2006, 5 minutes, 35mm); WINDOWS (1999, 17
  minutes, BetaSP); MALEE AND THE BOY (1999, 27 minutes, BetaSP); LIKE THE
  RELENTLESS FURY OF THE POUNDING WAVES (1995, 30 minutes, BetaSP);
  THIRDWORLD (1997, 17 minutes, BetaSP).

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008
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2/28
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 164 N. State St.

 PRISONERS OF WAR
  Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi in person! Milan-based
  filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for
  their haunting archival films. Assembled from rare early 20th-century
  footage, the duo slow down and hand-tint the original film to emphasize
  the fleeting expressions and gestures from a time long since passed. In
  the mid-90s, the couple began an extraordinary trilogy on World War I,
  beginning with Prisoners of War. Comprised of military footage shot by
  cameramen in Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (much of it
  for propaganda purposes), the film centers on the ordeals of fallen
  soldiers, child POWs, and civilian refugees. "One of the last scenes
  depicting a mass grave," writes curator Kathy Geritz, "is a troubling
  reminder that the beginning of the century does not look so different
  from its closing." Presented with the assistance of Northwestern
  University's Department of French and Italian in conjunction with the
  symposium, Archives of Cinema / Memories of War. (1995, Yervant
  Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy, 16mm, 67 min.)

2/28
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 MITCHELL ROSE, THE MITCH SHOW
  In a delightful film and performance mash-up, Mitchell Rose combines a
  selection of his award-winning comic short films with original
  performance pieces that feature choreographed audience participation.
  Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Rose toured his distinctive dance
  performance works across North America, Europe and Asia. His films
  include Elevator World, a computer-animated look at a utopian world of
  elevator riding, and the faux–scientific investigation Case Studies from
  the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders.

2/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College

 OPEN SCREEENING
  Bring your own films or tapes; time permitting, all works will be
  screened.

2/28
Santa Cruz: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
7:30 pm, UC Santa Cruz Communications 150 (Studio C)

 ID DOCS - EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
  Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both personal and
  public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and lyrical imagery,
  these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology, place, and even
  appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of ourselves and
  others. This program features Miriam, Impression of Light about an
  adopted albino girl who discusses how it feels to be different in a
  world that strives for uniformity and perfection? Also screening, Lost
  Without You a quirky documentary about girls obsessions with their cell
  phones and I Am Me which explores the unique bond between identical
  twins. Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov

2/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)

 SHORTS BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL: PROGRAMME 2 AT CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
  The Free Screen is delighted to present two shorts programmes, including
  a clutch of Toronto premieres, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the
  most lauded young talents in contemporary world cinema. Since our Film
  Now spotlight on him in Fall of 2005, the Thai filmmaker has gone on to
  make his greatest film yet, the sublime, diaphanous SYNDROMES AND A
  CENTURY (screened in our Fall 2007 season), in addition to a number of
  short films, videos, and installations, which have garnered prizes and
  accolades internationally. Defying narrative convention in the most
  inconceivable and blissful ways, Weerasethakul is at the forefront of
  cinema's avant-garde. (He has, on many occasions, cited San
  Francisco-based experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie as a seminal
  influence.) Engaged in a radicalized practice, he has consistently used
  the short film format as a means of plenary expression, despite his
  sustained critical success in feature filmmaking. – Andréa Picard.
  Programme Two: THE ANTHEM (2006, 5 minutes, 35mm); 0116643225059 (1994,
  5 minutes, BetaSP); GHOST OF ASIA (2005, 9 minutes, BetaSP); MY MOTHER'S
  GARDEN (2007, 7 minutes, BetaSP), WORLDLY DESIRES (2005, 40 minutes,
  BetaSP).

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008
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2/29
Chicago, Illinois: GOLDEN AGE
http://www.goldenagestore.com
7:30pm, 1500 W 17th Street

 HOP ON DOWN! GOLDEN AGE PRESENTS "THE LEAP (YEAR) SHOW"
  In celebration of Greeks who won't get hitched in intercalary years, of
  the "Ladies' Privilege", of the Gregorian calendar that extends our
  collective lives by one day for every 1460 lived, and of all y'all
  birthday leaplings, Ben Russell and your pals at GOLDEN AGE are proud to
  present an evening of Experimental Films Featuring Things That Leap.
  We're talking FROGS and TOADS, of course - so hop on down to Pilsen and
  check out our kino-swamp of frame-fluttering frogs, animatronic
  amphibians, pixellated pipas, and truly terrifying toads. Don't miss out
  - this is the sort of batrachian magic that only occurs once every four
  years... FEATURING: Frogland by Ladislaw Starewicz (8:00, 35mm on video,
  1922); A Frog on the Swing by Robert Breer (5:00, 16mm, 1989); Habitat
  Batrachian by Rose Lowder (8:30, 16mm, 2006); Cane Toads by Mark Lewis
  (65:00, video, 1988) TRT 86:30 $4

2/29
Chicago, Illinois: Facets Cinematheque
http://www.facets.org/cinematheque
7pm, 1517 W Fullerton Ave

 WEEK LONG RUN OF "PHANTOM LOVE"
  A memorably surreal psychodrama, Nina Menkes' (The Bloody Child,
  Magdalena Viraga) Phantom Love is a striking evocation of female
  dreamscape in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating, just
  beneath the surface. The lead character is Lulu Marina Shoif: a very
  beautiful, but angry and isolated woman, who lives alone, and works in a
  casino in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Lulu's relationship with her much
  younger lover is charged but emotionally disconnected and Lulu's younger
  sister, Nitzan (Juliette Marquis, This Girl's Life), is in the midst of
  a psychotic breakdown, caused in part by prescription medication. Lulu
  feels emotionally invaded by her mother, who wants to come to town and
  stay with her in order to try and help the younger sister -- but this
  feels like a further intense invasion, and Lulu refuses. Phantom Love
  positions an alienated woman against a harsh, inhospitable landscape --
  this time, within a family. Structured like Chinese boxes, with each
  scene opening onto another, Phantom Love is a powerful erotic-fantasy
  that explores a woman's sexuality through her dreams. Directed by Nina
  Menkes, U.S.A., 2007, 35mm, 87 mins.

2/29
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.

 MEADOWLARK WITH FILMMAKER TAYLOR GREESON IN PERSON!
  Meadowlark With filmmaker Taylor Greeson in person! Co-presented by
  Chicago Cinema Forum In Billings, Montana during the summer of 1993, 12
  year-old Taylor Greeson was ordained in the Mormon faith, lost his
  virginity to a much older man, and suffered the murder of his brother.
  Meadowlark (USA, 2007, 77 min.), a stirring autobiographical doc and
  debut feature from the recent CAL Arts grad, is a quiet excavation of
  those events through memory and landscape. Using the vast Montana
  wilderness and heaps of candid family photographs, Greeson recounts the
  story as he remembers it, set against present-day footage of the story's
  locations and cast of characters. As Greeson conducts interviews,
  examines evidence a decade old, and reveals the story detail-by-detail,
  what is most remarkable is his transcendent calm. The patient craft of
  the movie allows the audience to experience, unmitigated by
  sensationalism, one person's path to forgiveness. The film culminates in
  a conversation between Greeson and the man who murdered his brother. Q &
  A to follow. Screening to be accompanied by recent work from Chicago
  visual artists, including the series' headquarters by Celeste Neuhaus
  and What's Under Your Bed? by Karen Tisel.

2/29
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street

 ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
  Life and Art: Stories from the Borderland. "Me and You and Everyone We
  Know," Miranda July (USA), 2005, 90 min., digital video shown on DVD.
  Program also included "Absolute Wilson by Katharina Otto-Bernstein shown
  on February 15 and "In A Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian" by
  Don Bernier on February 22. "Katharina Otto-Bernstein's and Don
  Bernier's documentaries and Miranda July's fictional film explore the
  creative lives and delicate balance that is maintained between the art
  and life of three very different artists. Through their films we enter
  into the everyday reality of these individuals and learn how the unique
  circumstances of their worlds and day-to-day activities provide sources
  of inspiration and self-discovery for their art-in-life and life-in-art
  experiences. We witness their successes, failures, struggles and
  survival strategies to realize projects and communicate with others
  within situations in which their private worlds and the worlds of art
  and culture overlap. Miranda July's fictional characters are in part
  autobiographical reflections, but also creative personae of an artist
  and the people with whom she interacts. Their life experiences and
  profound responses to basic human conditions become manifestations of
  art in everyday life." –Patrick Clancy.

2/29
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Saturday Evening, 66 East 4th Street (Between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery)

 OPEN SCREENING
  DVD, MINI-DV, Videotape, 16MM, S8MM. All works are shown on a
  first-come-first-served basis. Bring films, videos or come as a viewer.
  (Finished works only, limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per person).
  Refreshments are available. Doors open at 7pm. Screening begins at 8pm
  and ends at 10:30pm. Admission by contribution.

2/29
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
9:15, 992 valencia st

 WESLEY WILLIS'S JOY RIDES
  Friday, February 29, 2008. 9:15PM $8 Wesley Willis's Joy Rides Noise Pop
  Festival Q&A with Jello Biafra and director Chris Bagley following
  screening. WESLEY WILLIS'S JOY RIDES, a beautifully crafted portrait of
  the self- proclaimed rock 'n' roll star and "Chicago City Artist",
  Wesley Willis. Despite impossible odds, Chicago native, Wesley Willis
  became an underground rock icon, revered artist and hero to many before
  his untimely death in 2003. Through his force of personality and his
  artistic talents, Wesley's music and art attracted people from all walks
  of life. This film follows the prolific artist on his journey from
  obscurity to fame. Tickets:
  http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=22702

2/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
9:30 p.m., Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall (317 Dundas Street West)

 R. BRUCE ELDER'S THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD: PART THREE CONTINUED AT
 CINEMATHEQUE ONTARIO
  PART THREE: EXULTATIONS (IN LIGHT OF THE GREAT GIVING). "To be
  resurrected is to be reunited with the body. Hence the EXULTATIONS
  region of THE BOOK OF ALL THE DEAD attempts to reconstruct the flesh
  (out of the pixels of computer image process) and to reanimate it." – R.
  Bruce Elder. NEWTON AND ME (1990, 110 minutes). Though he engineered the
  mechanical universe of modern science, Newton was also committed to
  alchemical and apocalyptic speculation, hoping to transform the self and
  redeem history. Elder revisits this ambivalent legacy in his own quest
  for a more harmonious cosmology.

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