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Part 1 of 2: This week [March 29 - April 6, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 29, London, England]
* Melinda Stone's Homesweet Homestead + [March 29, San Francisco, California]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [March 30, London, England]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 1: Allan
Sekula [March 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Brad [March 30, San Francisco, California]
* Fools! [April 1, Brooklyn, New York]
* Demon Seed [April 1, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* This Is No Joke [April 1, San Francisco, California]
* Things Sinkin' With A Melody: the Films of Michael Robinson [April 2, Columbus, Ohio]
* Sfai Film Salon: Imprints In Super 8 [April 2, San Francisco, California]
* Falling Out of Time: New Documentaries From the Former Soviet Europe [April 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Free Workshop For Texas Filmmakers Production Fund [April 3, Houston, Texas]
* A Summer Not To Forget [April 3, San Francisco, California]
* Images Opening Night Party [April 3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Opening Night Gala! the Lollipop Generation By G.B. Jones [April 3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Lonely Boys: Steve Reinke In the Company of Some Other Men [April 4, San Francisco, California]
* Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait [April 4, Seattle, Washington]
* Partytime! [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Talk To the Pie #1: G.B. Jones In Conversation With Allyson Mitchell [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 1: Glimmers of Light Disappear In the
Distant Shadows [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Nelson Henricks (Canadian Spotlight Artist) [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Eyes and Ears: Sound Needs Image (Part ii) [April 5, Buffalo, New York]
* Tony Conrad - Film/Performance [April 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Heather's Short Shorts: Trailer Trash! [April 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Stop & Go [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Nate Boyce + Wobbly + Murata [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Off Screen Gallery Tour [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program ii: Ruptures Restructured [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Off Screen Launch Party [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Talk To the Pie #2: Nelson Henricks [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* From Russia... -A Cinefantom Selection [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* One Minute Movies Workshop [April 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond [April 6, Los Angeles, California]
* The Dream Reveals the Waking Day [April 6, San Francisco, California]
* Live Images: Light Trap By Greg Pope With Knurl [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Performance Bus Tour To the Blackwood Gallery and the Agyu [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Copy Cats: Copyright and Appropriation In the Media Arts [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 3: Fragments In Fragments [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* International Shorts Program 4: Within and Without We Continue Along [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008
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3/29
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
19:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Saturday 29 March, 19.00 Programme 7: X With titles such as Ogres, Fuck,
and Clandestine Porn Film, this programme is not for the prudish.
Pushing back the boundaries of acceptability, these films include Man
Ray's early erotic experiments, Lionel Soukaz's 70s post-queer-punk
masterpiece, and Augustin Gimel's radical remix of pornographic
iconography. Anonymous, Film porno clandestin, c1930, 3', 16 mm Barbara
Glowczewska, Maladie d'amour, 1977, 6', 16mm Lionel Soukaz, Ixe, 1980,
45', 35 mm Yves-Marie Mahé, Fuck, 1999, 4'30, 16mm Ruth Anderwald,
Bravo !, 2000, 1'05, 2000, Super 8 Jean-Paul Nogues, Ogres, 2001, 7',
video Raphaël Gray, Rythmixxx, 2002, 7', video Augustin Gimel, Fig. 4.,
2004, 5', video Johanna Vaude, Love and Death, 2006, 6', video Programme
duration 78 minutes This programme contains adult content.
3/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
MELINDA STONE'S HOMESWEET HOMESTEAD +
Timed with the launch of her howtohomestead.org website, Melinda returns
from the wilds of her NorCal Autonomous Zone with a lively show of short
films and performances bearing on self-sufficiency and sustainable DIY
lifeways. Included in the program are her Making Chicken Dinner,
Pressing Apples, and The Humanure Cycle. ALSO Sam Sharkey's Kombucha and
You, Erik Knutzen's Self-Watering Container, and Bill Daniel's
Underground Square Dance, among other 16mm cherries. Melinda and Sam
lead the audience in singing the Natural Anthem, America the Beautiful,
and Incredible Adventures of the Primitive Creature, with plenty of free
homemade beer and wine to wet our whistles (and kazoos)!
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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008
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3/30
London, England: Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film
15:00, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
PARADISE NOW! ESSENTIAL FRENCH AVANT-GARDE CINEMA, 1890–2008
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including
an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from
the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous
surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical
political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by
manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and
Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French
avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the
May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which
resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and
formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema
to the present day. The series includes pioneering films by Christian
Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard
Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia,
Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris
Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène
Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle
Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more. Curated by Nicole
Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent
Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
Sunday 30 March, 15.00 Programme 8: Text An afternoon of films exploring
the relationships between text, sound and image. Renowned artist
Christian Boltanski's early film examines the loneliness of a
working-class mother, referring both to Anne Frank's diary, and to the
human condition under capitalism. Jean-Luc Godard offers a
characteristically intricate and thought-provoking reflection on time
and cinema's relation to history. Christian Boltanski, Essai de
reconstitution des 46 jours qui précédèrent la mort de Françoise
Guiniou, 1971, 19', 16mm Luc Meichler, Allée des signes de Gisèle
Rapp-Meichler, 1976, 21', 16mm Gisèle Rap-Meichler, Rosa Rot, 1994/2001,
8', video Sabine Massenet, Je comprends moi aussi le langage des
oiseaux, 1999-2000, 8' Stefani de Loppinot, Calamity Jane, 2002, 10'
Marylène Negro, Ich Sterbe, 2007, 12', video Jean-Luc Godard and
Anne-Marie Miéville, Dans le noir du temps (In the Blackness of Time),
2002, 11' Programme duration 81 minutes
3/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VIDEO ARTISTS, PART 1: ALLAN
SEKULA
In conjunction with the Getty's California video exhibition, Filmforum
highlights the work of four artists whose work cries out for more
exhibition – significant pieces by fine artists of their media. Allan
Sekula in person tonight with Tsukiji (2001, 43:30, color, sound), A
Short Film for Laos (2006-2007, 45 minutes, digital video, color,
sound), Performance under Working Conditions (1973, 20 minutes, b&w
video) General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum
members, cash and check only. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
3/30
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
BRAD
Sunday, March 30, 2008. 8PM $6 Brad Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was
a U.S. documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York
City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers'
strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. "At the night of octuber 27, 2006,
my phone rang. It was a friend. Crying, he told me that a few hours
earlier they killed Brad, with his camera on his hand, filming a
barricade of the Oaxaca popular rebeliion, in Mexico. I was speechless.
What can you say of such unexpected death of a friend? That shot also
hit me. Me and many other friends who like Brad dedicate their lives to
be filming the social movements, but from another perspective, from
inside, showing what the corporate media doesn't want to see. This is
our story."
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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
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4/1
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
FOOLS!
Ubi umbras, ibi fatuis [Where there are shadows, there will be fools.]
"April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on
the other three-hundred and sixty-four." – Mark Twain. Calling all ye
fools! April fools, holy fools, royal fools, crazy fools, fools tragic,
innocent & lovelorn. Ye jokers, pranksters, and just plain idiots. On a
day honoring the Scottish custom known as "hunting the gowk," (i.e. the
cuckoo) & other festivities of absurdity dating back to antiquity, the
"original" Robert(a) Beck Memorial (Mercurial) Cinema - Brian Frye &
Bradley Eros – present, not an exaltation of larks, nor a murder of
crows, but a ship of fools, daffy & loony, dim & running amok! Featuring
FILMS – new, tarnished & disinterred, all brought to light for the
occasion – by Elle Burchill, Jeanne Liotta, Marie Losier, Deadly Doris
(Die Tödliche Doris), the Brothers Mekas & Kuchar, Tony Ganz & Rhody
Streeter & Aphex Twin. PLUS, silent comics & moronic soundies, early
porn & looney tunes. Remember, fortuna favet fatuis [fortune favors
fools], but fortuna caeca est [fortune is blind]. R.O.D., Elle Burchill,
video, 2008, 3 mins The Life of Sid Vicious, Die Tödliche Doris,
Super-8, 1980, 10 mins A Trip Through the Brooks Home, Tony Ganz and
Rhody Streeter, 16mm, Year Unknown, 10 mins Manifesto aka Struck by the
Hand, Jeanne Liotta and Andrew Castrucci, video, 2001, 11 min Time and
Fortune Vietnam Newsreel, Jonas Mekas, 16mm, 1968, 4 mins (with Adolfas
Mekas) If I'd a known you was bringin' a girl, I'd of put my teeth in,
Elle Burchill, video, 2007, 5 min (featuring Rodney Cross) Whack, Kent
Lambert, video, 1999, 6 mins (with Phillip Michael Thomas) Eat My
Makeup!, Marie Losier, 16mm, 2005, 6 mins (featuring George Kuchar, et
al.) Fools! aka Simple Simon Psilocybin, Bradley Eros, 8mm/16mm
projection performance, 2008, 7 mins Soundie with Vince Peabody, 16mm,
193?, 3 mins Getting His Goat aka On The Beach, 16mm on video, 1926, 7
mins Honeymoon Hotel, Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter, 16mm, Year Unknown,
5 mins [Lipstick Jungle], 16mm, Year Unknown, 5 mins Windowlicker, Chris
Cunningham, video, 10 mins, 1998 (featuring Aphex Twin) Curated by Brian
Frye and Bradley Eros. Tickets - $6, available at door.
4/1
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
DEMON SEED
Demon Seed (1977, 94 min.) by DONALD CAMMELL. Cammell, better known for
Performance which he directed in 1970 starring Mick Jagger, (and for
which he credited Kenneth Anger as the major influence), has been
described as: "The paradigmatic auteur maudit, ….gathering in his
Chelsea-set mythos everything you could want from a Byronic culture god:
rugged beauty, innate brilliance, orgies, dope, rock stars, Aleister
Crowley, fierce uncompromisability, suicide, and a tortured handful of
movies as innovative as they are, finally, high-flying monkeyshines…. In
[Demon Seed's] near future of robotic home appliances, Julie Christie
stars as a dissatisfied, childless wife whose scientist husband just
happens to have booted up the world's most advanced supercomputer. It
takes the machine no time to question … why it should follow orders and
why in the hell it should not be alive—so it takes over the scientist's
house and proceeds to methodically blackmail, rape, and impregnate
Christie's no-nonsense heroine. The scenario has lit dynamite strapped
to it…. the equations it makes between technology and phallic power are
unique." - Michael Atkinson, Village Voice. Special effects by Jordan
Belson.
4/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
Noon, 151 Third Street
THIS IS NO JOKE
Free Tuesday Program; This Is No Joke; Rudolf Frieling, curator of media
arts, SFMOMA; Noon - 1:00 p.m. Phyllis Wattis Theater; Organized in
conjunction with the exhibition In Collaboration: Early Works from the
Media Arts Collection, this April Fool's Day video art program showcases
the absurdist and parodic critique artists employ in their deadpan
investigations of perception and meaning. The selection includes 1970s
comedic performance videos by John Baldessari, Nancy Holt and Robert
Smithson, Martha Rosler, and William Wegman. Brace yourself for a
glimpse of whom and what they captured. John Baldessari, Teaching a
Plant the Alphabet, 1972, 18:08 min, b&w, sound; Martha Rosler,
Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975, 5:30 min, b&w, sound; William Wegman,
Selected Works (1970 - 1978),1981, 7:00 min, b&w, color, sound;
Collection SFMOMA; Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, East Coast, West
Coast, 1969, 22:00 min, b&w, sound
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008
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4/2
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
THINGS SINKIN' WITH A MELODY: THE FILMS OF MICHAEL ROBINSON
Michael Robinson in person Voted the "Most Promising Filmmaker" at last
year's Ann Arbor Film Festival, the young Chicago-based Michael Robinson
has since delivered on that promise with a string of beautiful and
enigmatic short films. He combines elements from across the cultural
spectrum (from Guns N' Roses to Frank O'Hara) to create uplifting
cinematic ballads about heartbreak, loss, fear, and the end of
modernism. Robinson presents and introduces a selection of his most
celebrated works, as well as his recently completed video All Through
the Night. (app. 80 mins., 16mm and video)
4/2
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
SFAI FILM SALON: IMPRINTS IN SUPER 8
These filmmakers works in Super 8 point to the medium's allowance for an
immediacy of expression, ease of movement and unique textural qualities,
in engagments with intimate and visceral inspirations. Saul Levine's
Light Lick: Get it While You Can was made frame by frame, augmenting
glimpses of the everyday with the gestures, rhythms and pulses of pure
light. Storm de Hirsch's Recurring Dream excites a sensory engagement
with ritual and the transcendent, while Stan Brakhage's luminous Song 14
has growing molds, paints and crystals literally imprinting themselves
onto the fi lm. Emily Died is a part of Anne Charlotte Robertson's
continuing fi lm diary, a project in which she exposes and confronts her
personal struggles and life's losses with the power of filmic discovery
and raw expression. Willie Varela's personal cinema confronts the
hovering presence of mortality in Juntos en la Vida, Unidos en la Muerte
("Together in Life, United in Death"). Program to include: Light Lick:
Get it While You Can, Saul Levine, 2000, 10 min., Recurring Dream, Storm
de Hirsch, 1965, 3 min. Juntos en la Vida, Unidos en la Muerte, Willie
Varela 1985, 10 min. Emily Died, Anne Charlotte Robertson, 1997, 27 min.
(on video) Song #14, Stan Brakhage, 1965, 8 min A House Full of Dust,
Steve Polta, 2007, 15 min. All films on Super 8, except for Emily Died
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)
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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008
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4/3
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
6 pm, 164 N. State St.
FALLING OUT OF TIME: NEW DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE FORMER SOVIET EUROPE
With curators Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby in person! Once the home of
state-sponsored social realism, the former Soviet Europe has given rise
to a new breed of documentary, revising its realist tradition with the
observational ambiguities and formal rigor more familiar to experimental
cinema. Often produced at historic documentary studios, these films
focus on the once-valorized "common man"—the industrial and rural
working class—now abandoned in the region's ongoing economic and
cultural transformation. Taken together, they provide a portrait of an
area "returning to Europe" and a people "falling out of time." Curated
by Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby, directors of Windsor's annual film and
video art festival, Media City, the program includes Igor Strembitskyy's
2005 Cannes-winning Ukrainian film Wayfarers; acclaimed Russian director
Sergei Loznitsa's haunting Halt (2000); Victor Asliuk's The Mine (2004,
Belarus); and Oksana Buraja's Mother (2001, Lithuania), among others.
(2000–07, various directors, various countries, multiple formats, ca 90
min.)
4/3
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
7 p.m., 800 Aurora Street
FREE WORKSHOP FOR TEXAS FILMMAKERS PRODUCTION FUND
Thursday, April 3, 6pm Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Workshop Austin
Film Society has partnered with Aurora Picture Show and SWAMP to bring a
free workshop to Houston on the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund at the
following locations and times: Thursday, April 3rd, 7pm @ Aurora Picture
Show Saturday, April 5th, 3pm @ Rice Media Center The Austin Film
Society's Director of Artist Services Bryan Poyser will conduct a free
workshop about applying to the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund and
screen work samples from previously funded projects. The Texas
Filmmakers Production Fund has an eleven-year history of supporting
Texas filmmakers with cash, goods and services - over $800,000 for 234
film and video projects at last count. TFPF recipients have shown their
films at festivals like Sundance, Cannes and Toronto and have been
nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. This year, TFPF will give out
at least $100,000 to Texas filmmakers, selected by a national panel of
filmmakers and film professionals. Application forms are available
through www.austinfilm.org. Application deadline: June 2, 2008.
4/3
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7.30pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
A SUMMER NOT TO FORGET
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Series With a report and discussion by Zeina
Zaatari—activist with the National Council of Arab American, who
traveled to Lebanon during the 2006 war. A Summer Not to Forget a
documentary on the 2006 U.S./Israeli war against Lebanon On July 12,
2006, Hezbollah captured 2 Israeli soldiers. For the following 34 days,
Lebanon witnessed continuous Israeli bombardment. This documentary takes
you beyond the headlines into the harsh realities of war. It explores
the devastation of a nation and a people caught under siege. Through
powerful and often disturbing images, this film tells the story of yet
another war on Lebanon: 1,200 civilians killed and 4,000 injured, more
than one million people displaced, 78 bridges destroyed, 15,000 homes
damaged, the environmental disaster of 15,000 tons of oil spilled on 80
km of Mediterranean coast, and many more catastrophes. In footage not
shown by the western media, the film also exposes the devastation of 57
collective massacres in an attempt to capture the horror of its victims
and their families. Directed by Carol Mansour, 27min. Children of
Shatila a story of the Palestinian diaspora Many people first became
aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and
horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located
in Beirut's "belt of misery," the camp is home to 15,000 Palestinians
and Lebanese who share a common experience of displacement, unemployment
and poverty. Fifty years after the exile of their grandparents from
Palestine, the children of Shatila attempt to come to terms with the
reality of being refugees in a camp that has survived massacre, siege
and starvation. Director Mai Masri focuses on two Palestinian children
in the camp: Farah, age 11 and Issa, age 12. When these children are
given video cameras, the story of the camp evolves from their personal
narratives as they articulate the feelings and hopes of their
generation. 50min., 1998, Arabic with English subtitles.
4/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
11:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
IMAGES OPENING NIGHT PARTY
DJ Isabelle Nöel, drinks, good times!
4/3
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)
OPENING NIGHT GALA! THE LOLLIPOP GENERATION BY G.B. JONES
"This legendary, unfinished film, fifteen years in the making, about the
lives of under-aged porn stars is roughly to Queer Cinema what Orson
Welles' The Other Side of the Wind is to, well, Cinema." – Dennis Cooper
A G.B. Jones film is a major event that cannot be taken lightly. Prone
to working meticulously and over many years (she shoots and edits on
Super 8 film) G.B. Jones is ready to unveil her fifteen-plus-years in
the making feature film: The Lollipop Generation. Since 1992 her Super 8
camera loaded with Ektachrome has traveled across North America (and all
over Toronto) to capture the queer underground with a brazen Do It
Yourself aesthetic capturing Juvenille Delinquents running away,
shoplifting, making porn, working the streets and getting busy in public
places – creating a never-never land of queeruptions. The Lollipop
Generation follows Georgie [Jena von Brucker] who runs away from home
and meets up with a cast of perverts, hustlers, playground dwellers and
lollipop lovers. Along the way we encounter friendly kidnappings, porn
shoots, washroom action and roadside attractions from across the
continent as Georgie gets her make on in back alleys everywhere – the
scruffy and scrappy coterie is matched by the grain and grit of the
small-gauge on which it was captured. The Lollipop Generation features
appearances by Jena von Brucker, Vaginal Crème Davis, Johnny Noxzema,
Caroline Azar, Mark Ewert, Karen Chapelle, Calvin Johnson, Rachel
Pepper, KC Klass, Diana Donato, Mitchell Watkins, Jane Danger, Jen
Smith, Andrew Cecil, Scott Treleaven, Paul P., Joel Gibb and G.B. Jones
Original music by Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, Anonymous Boy and the
Abominations, Mariae Nascenti, Jane Danger, Swishin' Duds and Bunny and
the Lakers. G.B. Jones has had solo visual art exhibitions at Feature,
New York and Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, among others. Her
work has been reviewed extensively in The New York Times, The Village
Voice, ArtForum, and Flash Art, among others, and has been featured in
numerous publications and recordings, most recently in LTTR Issue 5. She
has directed and appeared in several underground films including The
Yo-Yo Gang and The Troublemakers. She also contributed to Miranda July's
Joanie4Jackie compilation, which screened throughout the United States,
Canada, and Europe. In addition, she was a founding member of the band
Fifth Column and co-publisher of the fanzine J.D.s [with Bruce LaBruce].
She lives and works in Toronto. Year: 2008 Length: 80 minutes Country of
Origin: Canada Exhibition Format: Video Distributer: Artist Distributed
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4/4
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
LONELY BOYS: STEVE REINKE IN THE COMPANY OF SOME OTHER MEN
Friday, April 4, 2008. 8PM $6-$10 Lonely Boys: Steve Reinke in the
Company of Some Other Men Also featuring works by John Smith, George
Kuchar & Joe Gibbons Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan Steve Reinke¹s
videos are raunchy pieces of questionable autobiography. With a knack
for dredging timely cultural criticism from source texts as ubiquitous
as The Oprah Winfrey Show and as outmoded as Heideigger, Reinke is also
adept at wrangling his iTunes playlist to hit the proper pop cultural
motif in the stomach. In this intermix, unlikely playmates like
Pinnochio and anal stimulation are reintroduced as natural geneology.
Reinke is not alone in this playing field. To supply context to his
prolific videography, independent works by voice-over masters George
Kuchar, John Smith and Joe Gibbons are also included. In this hour-long
program, four lonely boys share the screen so that we might feast on the
cruel enjoyment of their sour disappointments and revel in the odd
tangents produced by their idiosyncratic relationships with narrative.
Program of works Steve Reinke, Joke (version one), 1992. Video, color/so
04:56. Steve Reinke, Treehouse, 1995. Video, color/so, 03:55. John
Smith, The Girl Chewing Gum, 1976. 16mm, b&w/so, 12:00. Steve Reinke,
Amsterdam Camera Vacation, 2001. Video, color/so, 11:00. George Kuchar,
Hold Me While I¹m Naked, 1966. 16mm, color/so, 15:00. Steve Reinke,
Understanding Heterosexuality, 1994. Video, b&w/so, 01:28. Steve Reinke,
Pioneer, 1994. Video, b&w/so, 01:13. Steve Reinke, Assplay, 1995. Video,
color/so, 01:36. Joe Gibbons, Pretty Boy, 1994. Pixelvision, b&w/so,
03:00. Steve Reinke, Corey, 1995. Video, color/so, 02:51. Steve Reinke,
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp), 2006. Video,
color/so, 4:00. Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his
videos. His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his
autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture
appraisals with endearing wit. He is co-editor of the anthology The
Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema and in has published a
collection of his scripts entitled Everybody Loves Nothing. His work is
screened widely and is part of several collections, including the Museum
of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the National
Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). Sarah Robayo Sheridan is a Canadian writer
and curator living in San Francisco. She has co-curated Learning to Love
You More at MU (Eindhoven, 2007) and also presented Chris Marker¹s
multi-screen installation The Hollow Men at both Prefix ICA (Toronto,
2006) and Daziboa (Montreal, 2006). She is currently completing an MA in
Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts.
4/4
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7:15, 9:15pm, 1515 12th Ave
ZIDANE: A 21ST CENTURY PORTRAIT
APRIL 4 - 6, Friday-Sunday at 7:15, 9:15pm ZIDANE, A 21ST CENTURY
PORTRAIT Sponsored by Brian and Victoria Owen Klein Sponsored by Easy
Street Records, KBCS 91.3 FM, and Cafe Presse (Douglas Gordon and
Philippe Parreno, France / Iceland, 2006, 35mm, 92 min) Acclaimed
contemporary artists and filmmakers Douglas Gordon (24 Hour Psycho) and
Philippe Parreno have taken a unusual approach in creating this film
portrait of soccer superstar Zinédine Zidane. They focused seventeen
synchronized 35mm and HD cameras (equipped with the most powerful zoom
lenses ever made) solely on him for the entirety of a soccer match from
the first kick of the ball to the final whistle. The result of this
360-degree, real-time portrait is a startling connection to the
sensations, the psychology and the body of the athlete. The film's
brilliant sound design captures the ebb and flow of the stadium crowd
(one clue to the game's activity off-screen), and incorporates an
original score by the band Mogwai that emphasizes the calm intensity of
the player (and the sport.) Something of a mixture between sports film,
nature documentary and art portrait, ZIDANE is a truly unique cinematic
experience. "Sublime…the greatest film about football ever made. There
was no more soulful an examination of the human condition to be found at
Cannes than in watching Zidane at work." -THE OBSERVER "By the end,
Zidane has achieved the charisma and mystery of the hero from some lost
Shakespeare play." - THE GUARDIAN
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
11:00 PM, Interaccess, 9 Ossington Avenue
PARTYTIME!
Come out. Drink a beer. Meet the festival artists and others.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
4:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
TALK TO THE PIE #1: G.B. JONES IN CONVERSATION WITH ALLYSON MITCHELL
Join Toronto-based artist G.B. Jones for a conversation with Allyson
Mitchell about her 15-years in the making Super 8 feature The Lollipop
Generation.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 1: GLIMMERS OF LIGHT DISAPPEAR IN THE
DISTANT SHADOWS
Silhouettes and rolling seas, rain and planes drop from the sky with
shaky landings. Leaves glisten and bees swarm in dark dreams and
recollections. In a Year With 13 Deaths,italics Jonathan Schwartz, USA,
2008,16mm, 3 min Light shimmering in water, rippling darkness
descending, passing vistas and fluttering intervals. Rehearsals for
Retirement,italicsPhil Solomon, USA, 2006, video, 10 min. Rehearsals For
Retirement is the second segment of In Memoriam Mark LaPore: a trio of
works entirely composed of images culled from the video game Grand Theft
Auto. A lone shadow traverses misty woods of lush green and blue and
watches lightning strike and a burning hearse. Children of
Shadows,italics Naoyuki Tsuji, Japan, 2006, 16mm, 18 min Black and white
drawings with lingering shadows of children set the stage for this dark
and mysterious animation. Amidst a sparse and haunting soundtrack,
teardrops mingle and mutate into fields of daisies and slow drips turn
to bunnies hopping down a woman's legs. Ring,italics Robert Todd, USA,
2007, 16mm, 12 min Macro darkness glistening in contrast, light dancing
as fleshy pulp sparkles. This film has a foreboding soundtrack that
swells and retreats with pulsating extreme close ups and quivering focus
pulls. The Beekeeper,italics Sara Preibsch, Sweden/UK, 2007, 35 mm, 19
min A beautiful and poetic portrait of an aging beekeeper recounting his
experiences while escaping Germany crossing the alps on foot. "There is
a lot of mystique surrounding the idea of bees; for instance, different
institutions have always used bees as an example of insects that are
diligent and therefore worth imitating in their diligence … an ideal
society which is able to manage everything... but reality, when one
looks closer, is not quite the same." 90 Years,italics Jonathan
Schwartz, USA, 2008, 16mm, 3 min An elderly man is assisted into the
cockpit of a small plane, take off, ascension, surveyed from the runway,
only to land once again in silence.
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)
NELSON HENRICKS (CANADIAN SPOTLIGHT ARTIST)
Nelson Henricks' prolific body of work, spanning from the 80's,
carefully explores the poetics of words, visuals and sound. He creates
seamlessly crafted narratives that play with language and the frame of
film while inhabiting a distinct sense of self-reflexivity. He has
described his work as "a cross between rock video and poetry," which
rings true to his refined aesthetic. Henricks thoughtfully weaves text,
light, music, exquisite videography and precise editing that reflects
his truly unique and solidly grounded visual and aural aesthetic. Please
join us tonight for a selected retrospective screening of his work.
Nelson Henricks was born in Bow Island, Alberta and is a graduate of the
Alberta College of Art (1986). He moved to Montréal in 1991, where he
received a BFA from Concordia University (1994). Henricks lives and
works in Montréal, where he has taught at Concordia University (1995 -
present), McGill University (2001- 2003) and Université du Québec à
Montréal (1999, 2003). He has also taught at the University of Toronto
(2003). A musician, writer, curator and artist, Henricks is best known
for his videotapes, which have been exhibited worldwide. Henricks was
the recipient of the Bell Canada Award in Video Art (2002) and the Board
of Governors' Alumni Award of Excellence from the Alberta College of Art
and Design (2005). For more information, go to www.nelsonhenricks.com.
Conspiracy of Lies 1992, video,12 min Comédie 1994, video 7 min Crush
1997, video, 12 min Window (fenêtre) 1997, video, 3 min Time Passes
1998, video, 7 min Planetarium 2001, video, 21 min Satellite 2004,
video, 6 min Failure 2007, video 7 min Untitled (Score) with Jackie
Gallant 2007, video, 7 min
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