Part 1 of 3: This week [April 5 - 13, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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Part 1 of 3: This week [April 5 - 13, 2008] in avant garde cinema

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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: May 15, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * 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]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 6, Chicago, Illinois]
 * 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]
 * Heinz Emigholz, Schindler's Houses [April 7, Los Angeles, California]
 * Bearded Child Tour [April 7, Peoria, IL]
 * International Shorts Program 5: Just Before the Road Ends, there'll Be
    Another Road [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * S Is For Student [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 8, Bloomington, IN]
 * Taka iimura: In Person [April 8, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * International Shorts 6: Landscape As Verb [April 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images 2: the Conversation, A.K.A. Everything Is Everything--Tasman
    Richardson & Kentaro Taki [April 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 9, Nashville, Indiana]
 * Sfai Film Salon: Flat Is Beautiful [April 9, San Francisco, California]
 * This Shall Be A Sign By James T. Hong [April 9, San Francisco, California]
 * Hail the New Puritan By Charles Atlas [April 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images 3: the Valerie Project [April 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Talk To the Pie #3: Expanding Projections [April 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Talk To the Pie #4: Translations/TraduçõEs [April 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Special Sneak Peak: Mock Up On Mu With Filmmaker Craig Baldwin In Person! [April 10, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader—Book Release Party! [April 10, San Francisco, California]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 10, Springfield, MO]
 * Live Images 4: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry By Daniel Barrow [April 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Talk To the Pie #5: Documentary Uncertainties [April 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * International Shorts Program 7: the Nobility Inherent In Struggles That
    Cannot Be Won [April 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Oskar Fischinger Retrospective: Optical Poetry [April 11, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 11, Harrison, Arkansas]
 * Electromediascope [April 11, Kansas City, Missouri]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 11, London, England]
 * Global Undergrounds: 700is, Icelandic Experimental Film Festival [April 11, San Francisco, California]
 * Global Undergrounds [April 11, San Francisco, California]
 * No Cuts, No Splices, Selections From One Take Super 8 [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images5: Charles Atlas / Alan Licht [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * International Shorts Program 8: Three Spaces of Decay [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images 4: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry By Daniel Barrow [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Oskar Fischinger Retrospective: Optical Poetry [April 12, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * Dyke Delicious Series 5: the Children's Hour [April 12, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Bearded Child Film Tour [April 12, Hot Springs, Arkansas]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 12, London, England]
 * New Perspectives On New Asia [April 12, San Francisco, California]
 * Electric Dreams / Volcanic visions: the Cinema of Janice Findley [April 12, Seattle, Washington]
 * Live Images 6: theda By Georgina Starr [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Media Art Matters [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Artist Talk: Sadie Benning In Conversation [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Live Images 4: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry By Daniel Barrow [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Awards Cermony and Closing Night Party [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Oskar Fischinger Retrospective: Optical Poetry [April 13, Albuquerque, New Mexico]
 * Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [April 13, London, England]
 * Filmforum Presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond - Closing Night [April 13, Los Angeles, California]
 * Collective Sight: Collaborative Cell Phone Movie Events [April 13, New York, New York]
 * Closing Night Gala: Trading the Future By B.H. Yael [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008
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4/5
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm , 341 Delaware Ave.

 EYES AND EARS: SOUND NEEDS IMAGE (PART II)
  Co-curators Joanna Raczynska and Will Redman return with the second
  installation of EYES AND EARS, a presentation of live performance of
  video and film scores. The evening includes commissioned moving image
  works by artists Bruce Checefsky. Sara Hornbacher, Caroline Koebel.
  Hollie Lavenstein, Stephanie Maxwell, and Zach Poff. Performances by the
  Open Music Ensemble, featuring Otto Muller, Josh DeScherer, Chris Reba,
  Will Redman, Steve Baczkowski, J.T. Rinker, Todd Whitman, Bill Sack.
  Made possible by a major grant from The New York State Music Fund.

4/5
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/index.shtml
7pm, 24 Quincy Street

 TONY CONRAD - FILM/PERFORMANCE
  Artist Tony Conrad In Person Special Event Tickets $15 Straight and
  Narrow Saturday, April 5 at 7pm Featuring music by Terry Riley and John
  Cale, Conrad's black and white flicker film is designed to make the
  viewer experience a range of color effects through its carefully
  modulated rhythm structure. Directed by Tony Conrad US 1970, 16mm, b/w,
  10 min. followed by The Flicker One of the essential American
  avant-garde films, THE FLICKER transforms Plato's cave into a
  hallucinatory dream machine. Must be experienced to be believed.
  Directed by Tony Conrad US 1966, 16mm, b/w, 30 min. followed by a live
  musical performance by Tony Conrad (electric violin) and MV Carbon
  (electric cello) Directors Marie Losier and Tony Conrad in Person
  Special Event Tickets $10 Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist Sunday, April 6 at
  3pm The latest in Marie Losier's ongoing series of film portraits of
  avant-garde artists (George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard
  Foreman), DreaMinimalist offers an insightful and hilarious encounter
  with Conrad as he sings, dances and remembers his youth and his
  association with Jack Smith. Directed by Marie Losier US 2008, 16mm,
  color, 28 min. followed by Snowbeard Losier's poignant short film, a
  tribute to New York icon Mike Kuchar, was filmed on his last day before
  leaving Manhattan to relocate to San Francisco. Directed by Marie Losier
  US 2008, 16mm, b/w, 3 min. Recent Video Work In Line Directed by Tony
  Conrad. US 1985, video, color, 7 min. Grading Tips for Teachers Directed
  by Tony Conrad. US 2001, video, color, 13 min. Tony's Oscular Pets
  Directed by Tony Conrad. US 2003, video, color 5 min. Conversation II
  Directed by Tony Conrad. US 2005, video, 6 min. Artist Tony Conrad In
  Person Special Event Tickets $15 Short Films Sunday, April 6 at 7pm
  Articulation of Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals Directed by Tony
  Conrad. US 1975, 16mm, B&W, sound, 10 min. excerpt of 75 min. original
  4-X Attack Directed by Tony Conrad. US 1973, 16mm, B&W, silent, 2 min.
  The Eye of Count Flickerstein Directed by Tony Conrad. US 1967, revised
  1975, 16mm, B&W, silent, 7 min. Followed by Film Electrocution A live
  performance in which raw film stock is electrically manipulated,
  processed and projected.

4/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.

 HEATHER'S SHORT SHORTS: TRAILER TRASH!
  Curated and Hosted by Heather McAdams "When I was a kid, my dad used to
  project film noir and monster trailers along with our own 16mm home
  movies and as a result I began to collect 16mm trailers myself. After 30
  years of collecting, I am pleased to present an entire evening of my
  favorites! I am especially fond of trailers with quirky titles, B-Films,
  horror and music trailers from the 1940s - 1970s. This evening's show
  will be non-stop action with dozens of fun TV, Movie and Theatrical
  Trailers including: The Big Doll House, Amazon Women, The Hot Box,
  Superchick, Foxy Brown, The Summer School Teachers, Private Duty Nurses,
  Satan's Cheerleaders, Go Go Mania, Twist All Night, When the Boys Meet
  the Girls, Get Yourself a College Girl, Station Six Sahara, Invasion of
  the Saucer Men, The Girl in the Kremlin, The 3 Fantastic Supermen, Who's
  Afraid of Virginia Woolf, as well as a couple of my personal favorites,
  Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter and Trip with the Teacher,
  plus lots more! A regular laugh riot!" –Heather McAdams Curator Heather
  McAdams and her always-hilarious husband Chris Ligon will be present to
  introduce the show and answer all of your questions.

4/5
San Francisco, California: Electric Works Gallery
http://www.sfelectricworks.com
8 pm, 130 Eighth Street

 STOP & GO
  Kissing hats, elephants driving, a man who turns into the sun, and
  dinosaurs roaming the countryside rarely happen in real life, but at the
  stop-motion film screening called Stop & Go at the Electric Works
  Gallery in April, all of this will become ordinary. Established
  filmmakers and visual artists will use stop-motion techniques to tell
  stories, examine visual phenomena, and make political statements in a
  collection of short videos. The line-up of videos includes both local
  and international artists and is curated by Bay Area artist and animator
  Sarah Klein.

4/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street

 NATE BOYCE + WOBBLY + MURATA
  In this experimental intermedia live cinema lab, we showcase two
  pioneers exploring the interface between audio and video abstractions.
  Boyce premieres Plasma-Wielder, a hot-rodded hybrid of analog and
  digital systems enabling extreme image-processing. Later, his
  collaboration with Wobbly fuses pure electronic sound-generation with
  plunderphonics into a hypnotic continuum of perceptual discovery. A
  selection of historical and contemporary exemplars ground this evening
  of (neo-)psychedelic synthesis, including the Vasulkas, Adam Beckett,
  LoVid, LSD, and a new piece by Takeshi Murata. PLUS Unarius'
  Restoration! *$7.

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
12:30 and 1:30, Galleries at the 401 Richmond building

 OFF SCREEN GALLERY TOUR
  Join a guided tour to all of the festival installations in the 401
  Galleries. They will be hosting opening receptions all day noon-five if
  you want to check it out at your own pace. Gallery TPW | A Space |
  Gallery 44 | Prefix ICA | Trinity Square Video | Vtape | WARC Gallery |
  Wynick/Tuck Gallery | YYZ Artists' Outlet

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre

 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM II: RUPTURES RESTRUCTURED
  Light Work Mood Disorder by Jennifer Reeves [USA, 2007, 2 x 16mm, 28
  min] Made in collaboration with musician Anthony Burr, Light Work Mood
  Disorder is a double 16mm piece composed of old educational films and
  physical manipulation of the film frame. From an intricate web of thread
  hand-stitched into the film, to surface treatments with a variety of
  pharmaceutical substances, Reeve's film is a micro & macroscopic
  exploration on themes of corporate exploitation of physical and mental
  health. Western Sunburn by Karl Lemieux [Canada, 2007, video, 10 min]
  Working from looped rolls of found footage, Montréal-based Lemieux
  re-imagines and reframes iconographic figures from an old western with
  painting, scratching, cutting and burning. Black And White Trypps Number
  Four by Ben Russell [USA, 2008, 16mm, 11 min] The newest of Russell's
  continuing series of psychedelic abstractions is one part experimental
  film, one part stand up comedy, and one part social commentary. Using a
  piece of 35mm slug featuring the American comedian Richard Pryor,
  Russell concocts a visual and aural assault of physically incompatible
  film gauges and historically incompatible racial stereotypes. The Boy
  Who Died by John Price [Canada, 2007, 35mm, 7 min, silent] An
  impressionistic study of wintry landscapes in northern Saskatchewan shot
  during down time from a documentary about aboriginal youth. Framing
  Price's shoot is the news of a devastating skidoo accident involving one
  of the subjects of the documentary. Once by Barbra Sternberg [Canada,
  2007, 16mm, 5 min] Juxtaposing silence, sound, light, and language. At
  the onset of Sternberg's Once, we hear an audio excerpt from Rilke's
  Ninth Elegy in darkness, which gives way to a silent film filled with
  glimpses of shimmering light evoking the beauty and brevity of life.
  Ever Present Going Past by Phil Hoffman [Canada, 2007, video, 8 min]
  Hoffman's recent video, made in collaboration with poet Garry Shikatani.
  Sunsets, gardens, footage of days past, places far and near. The world
  we might love, into which we pass through some gate. A garden, the worn
  azul and yellow tiles the assured passage so needed, then broken

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
10:30 PM, Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Avenue

 OFF SCREEN LAUNCH PARTY
  Celebrate with us. The galleries are all open! DJ Metro Desi. FREE

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
3:00 PM, Gallery 44, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 120

 TALK TO THE PIE #2: NELSON HENRICKS
  Images' 2008 Spotlight Artist, Nelson Henricks is joined by fellow
  artist R.M. Vaughan to talk about his recent installation work as well
  as his twenty-year career in video art.

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)

 FROM RUSSIA... -A CINEFANTOM SELECTION
  The independent Cine Fantom movement—after three decades—is alive and
  well in Moscow. Each Wednesday throughout the year, Cine Fantom holds
  public screenings followed by discussions between film professionals and
  the audience. Over the years, Cine Fantom has produced hundreds of
  projects, which have been screened in Russia and at festivals worldwide.
  In 1984, in Moscow and in Leningrad, several artists (unknown to each
  other) began to screen their experimental films at home for friends.
  Thus clandestine festivals were born. The filmmakers produced a body of
  hilarious, satirical, minimum budget works outside the state-run studio
  system. The brothers Igor and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to this first
  generation of independents. This selection features mainly early black
  and white films by the Aleinikov brothers. In these films, ideological
  comments and critical notions are frequently masked by typical Russian
  black humor. "There is an element of social comment in our films, such
  as in Metastasis and there are films in which the ideas of Moscow
  conceptualism are to be found, such as Tractors," commented Gleb.
  Everything, however, is permeated with sharp irony, an irony reflected
  two decades later, this time in color and in subtler from, in March, a
  recent work by Olga Tchernysheva. (Please see our website for film
  titles and further information.)

4/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
12:00 noon, Joseph Workman Theatre

 ONE MINUTE MOVIES WORKSHOP
  This hands-on workshop led by video artist Penny Lane, will guide adult
  students through the basics of visual story-telling with storyboards and
  in-camera editing to make 60-second PSAs or short "personal story"
  narratives. This workshop is open to Workman Arts Members only. For
  information please visit www.workmanarts.org or call 416 583 4339

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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008
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4/6
Chicago, Illinois: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee

 BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
  A touring program with selections from past Bearded Child Film
  Festivals. Most of the films have been rarely shown outside of the
  Bearded Child, and several directors will be at the event in-person.
  Including films from Jeremiah Barber, Amy Lockhart, Matthew Silver, Eric
  Patrick, This will be a very bizarre night of film.

4/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND
  Filmforum presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond Opening Night
  of a Week-Long City-Wide Screening Series with Emigholz in Person
  Emigholz in person tonight with Basis of Make-Up II (Photography and
  Beyond 4) (1995-2000, 35mm, color, 48 min.), Miscellanea I (Photography
  and Beyond 5) (1988-2001, 35mm, b&w, 20 min.), and Miscellanea II
  (Photography and Beyond 6) (1988-2001, 35mm, color, 19 min.).
  Miscellanea I and II, as their titles suggest, are studies done during
  the filming of various other projects, "left-overs" that are assembled
  here in a new and fascinating way. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the
  Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. Sunday April 6,
  2008. 7:00 pm. General admission $9, students/seniors $6, free for
  Filmforum members. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian
  Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex.
  Park 4 hours for $2 with validation. Advance ticket purchase now
  available through Fandango through the American Cinematheque website,
  www.egyptiantheatre.com

4/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA

 THE DREAM REVEALS THE WAKING DAY
  Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert and Sylvia Schedelbauer In Person. Six
  recent works which vacillate between radical introspection and
  cosmological wonder, each inverting interior and exterior worlds,
  finding intimacy in the cosmos, divinity in the details. Sylvia
  Schedelbauer's associative collage Remote Intimacy presents a detached
  personal history with the dreadful certainty of a dream. Mark Street's
  Alone, Apart meanders between filmic figure and ground, wresting
  strangeness from the everyday while Jeanne Liotta's Eclipse allows the
  lunar eclipse to shine through emulsified noise. Abraham Ravett's
  Tziporah and Karen Johannesen's Light Speed each meditate on domestic
  details, hinting at the eternal within the everyday and Peggy Ahwesh's
  Warm Objects uses a heat-sensing camera to look (just) beyond the skin
  deep. Finally, traveling sound artists Paul Bradley and Maile Colbert
  present a cinematic translation of their multi-channel installation,
  Transit, an environmental work exploring spaces between memory and
  emotion, between inhale and exhale. $10, general; $6, members, students,
  disabled, seniors.

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:30PM, The Music Gallery, 197 John Street

 LIVE IMAGES: LIGHT TRAP BY GREG POPE WITH KNURL
  Oslo-based filmmaker Greg Pope's Light Trap is a performance with four
  prepared 16mm projectors and a sound artist. Something of a "live punk
  homage" to Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone, the work is a
  voluminous and spatial sound/light sculpture, performed live and in
  constant flux by factors both random and controlled. Without a screen,
  seating, or a traditional beginning and end, Light Trap explores the raw
  elements of cinema: the projector, the film material, the darkened room
  and synchronized sound. The imagery in Light Trap begins with loops of
  completely black film, a dark room filled with haze, and only the hum of
  the projectors' motors. Slowly, the emulsion is whittled away on each
  loop with sandpaper and an array of hand tools, allowing bursts and
  streams of light to pierce through the darkness. Synchronous to the
  unfolding cascade of light emanating into the room, the aberrations on
  the film loops create pops, cracks, and hisses. This constant, reductive
  physical process applied to the surface of the film loops results in a
  slow transformation of the physical space; out of aural and visual
  darkness builds a cacophonous crescendo of sound and light. After
  dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, Greg Pope founded
  Brighton based Super 8 film collective Situation Cinema in 1986. From
  this group came Loophole Cinema (London 1989)—using 16mm
  multi-projection techniques, they were self-styled shadow engineers
  performing numerous events around Europe until their demise in 1999.
  They also produced The International Symposium of Shadows in London in
  1996. Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video
  installations, live art pieces and single screen film works since 1996.
  He currently lives in Norway in a small wooden house and is active with
  Atopia, an artists' film and video collective in Oslo. Knurl, a.k.a.
  Alan Bloor, is one of the premier noise artists in Canada. Using contact
  mics and scrap metal, Knurl creates incredibly powerful harsh noise. At
  times reminiscent of the likes of Daniel Menche and Haters, Knurl has
  released 2 efforts for Alien8 Recordings, and has appeared on the
  Coalescence compilation. Other labels that have documented Knurl include
  RRR, Self Abuse, Labyrinth, Entarte Kunst and Musicus Phycus. Knurl has
  performed with Keiji Haino, David Kristian, Haters, Princess Dragon Mom,
  MSBR and Government Alpha and collaborated live with Jim O'Rourke and
  Thurston Moore.

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

 PERFORMANCE BUS TOUR TO THE BLACKWOOD GALLERY AND THE AGYU
  Don't miss these installations. Bus departs from the Gladstone at 1PM
  sharp and returns at 6 PM. Media art events to entertain you en route!

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2:30 PM, Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street, Suite 376

 COPY CATS: COPYRIGHT AND APPROPRIATION IN THE MEDIA ARTS
  Trinity Square Video moderates a panel of artists and legal experts as
  they discuss the impending changes to Canadian copyright laws and how it
  may affect media artists. With artists Johanna Householder and Jonathon
  Culp, Toronto entertainment lawyer Jonathan Sommer and Laura J. Murray,
  co-author of Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide.

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington

 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 3: FRAGMENTS IN FRAGMENTS
  An archeological dig. Object and artifact as visual metaphor for
  unearthing stories and reconciling the past. Hope by Dana Claxton
  [Canada, 2007, video, 10 min] A fixed shot over a table with broken
  pieces of pottery scattered about. The artist successfully reconstructs
  the shards back into a bowl; starting again from scratch, she is unable
  to quite make it fit on the second go around. A simple action reflects
  on the difficulties of reconciliation across history and cultures.
  Paterson—Lodz by Redmond Entwistle [UK, 2006, 16mm/multi-channel sound
  installation, 60 min] A conceptually and formally astute work that
  investigates place, culture, and politics in early 20th century
  histories of Paterson, NJ and Lodz, Poland. The visual elements of the
  film are composed of long sections of black leader cutting back and
  forth with macro-photographed details of glass castings taken from
  sidewalks in the aforementioned cities. Though the physical duration of
  the film print is approximately 18 minutes, after the title credits
  roll, the film is rewound, re-threaded and projected twice more for a
  total of three passes through the projector. As the imagery is repeated
  on screen three times, the audio for the film is ever changing. Rather
  than using the fixed optical track on the film, SMPTE time code drives a
  computer, which randomly selects audio for a 10-channel sound
  "composition" resulting in a different mix each time the film is played.
  This soundscape alternates between field recordings in the two cities
  and interviews about the 1905 revolution in Lodz, the Paterson Silk
  Strike of 1913, and involvement of the Jewish populations in both
  cities. The resulting work, lasting the better part of an hour, is a
  constantly evolving minimalist experiment in non-fiction form. In
  considering the sparse imagery over three successive viewings, our
  attentions are turned to an audio composition that is, both literally
  and figuratively, larger than what can be contained in the film itself.
  It's a story that is never fixed, pointing towards the uncertainty of
  histories and memories to reconcile with each other.

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington

 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 4: WITHIN AND WITHOUT WE CONTINUE ALONG
  Above and below the natural unfolds, mediated by internal and external
  wanderings, wonderings. Outwardly From Earth's Center, by Rosa Barba
  [Netherlands/Germany, 2006,video, 20 min] Outwardly from Earth's Centre
  takes place on an island that is slowly drifting away, doomed to
  disappear. The population of the island struggles to find ways to
  stabilize and keep put their home. Using ropes and weights, the
  fictitious inhabitants take expert advice and attempt to put a stop to
  their land that is drifting away. This is Not an Anchor, This Boat is
  Not an Anchor by Marianna Milhorat [Canada, 2007, 16mm, 11 min] Through
  a dense mist we emerge into a foggy marshland. Slowly and achingly a
  mysterious landscape is revealed. Foghorns and sharp cuts jolt the
  meandering sense of place and memory, recollection of then, creating a
  sense of unease and anxiety within. Isolated Landscapes by Heidi
  Phillips [Canada, 2007, video, 5 min] Looking to the sea to find you
  there. Distance, longings, thoughts drifting to dark places, to within,
  to a heart drawn and shaded, barely beating. Echo Park by Paul Clipson
  [USA, 2007, Super 8, 9 min] This beautifully crafted Super 8 film
  captures the delicacy and elegance of leaves pooled with dew. Clipson's
  luscious camerawork focuses on the shimmering and splattering of light
  as it moves from natural to urban landscapes. Observando el Cielo by
  Jeanne Liotta [USA, 2007, 16mm, 19 min] So galaxies of the Virgo cluster
  glow like years… It was inner space, the universe inside time Years,
  years ago Astronomers have gazed out at the compass of all existence For
  years they found nothing 'Cause no one had looked

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4/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 HEINZ EMIGHOLZ, SCHINDLER'S HOUSES
  West Coast premiere Germany, 2007, 99 min., 35mm, color For the past 15
  years, the idiosyncratic Berlin filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has created a
  series of films documenting the work of certain 20th-century architects
  for whom he feels a special affinity. What attracts him particularly is
  the complex organization of interior spaces and the spatial relations
  between a building and its immediate surroundings. So this encounter
  with the "space architecture" of fellow maverick Rudolph Schindler, who
  practiced in Los Angeles from 1922 to 1953, seems not only natural but
  almost inevitable, and Schindler's Houses has become the most popular of
  Emigholz's architecture films, even as his rejection of all the clichés
  and conventions of architectural photography has sparked controversy.
  Schindler's Houses is also a witty and incisive portrait of Los Angeles,
  perhaps the best documentary about the city ever made. In person: Heinz
  Emigholz

4/7
Peoria, IL: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
7:30pm, One World Cafe, 1245 W. Main St.

 BEARDED CHILD TOUR
  A selection of underground and experimental short films from the Bearded
  Child Film Festival.

4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington

 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM 5: JUST BEFORE THE ROAD ENDS, THERE'LL BE
 ANOTHER ROAD
  Left, leaving, lost, and found. These seven works span reenactments and
  recollections, search parties and pants, History and personal loss.
  Pants by Divya Mehra [Canada, 2007, video, 2 min] Narendra is
  terrified—His new wife is wearing PANTS! Shocked and confused, Narendra
  calls his father-in-law in New Delhi for some reassuring guidance in
  dealing with his free-spirited wife. Fickle as Poison by Andrea Cooper
  [Canada, 2008, video, 15 min] Fickle as Poison is the tale of Mary and
  Frank; a poignant chronicle of tumultuous desire and mysterious death.
  Alison by Nina Yuen [USA, year, video, 11 min] Long lost girls in
  gingham dresses, search parties, madness and drownings. Left off the
  highway and down the hill. At the bottom, hang another left. Keep
  bearing left. The road will make a Y. Left again. She Used to See Him
  Most Weekends by Penny Lane [USA, 2007, video, 4 min] A short story
  about growing up, a certain love song, and the apocryphal memories of
  childhood. Simple animations create a picture book whose story is
  scrambled by time and loss. Blue Water by Christine Negus [Canada, 2007,
  video, 17 min] This seven part video investigates dualities of longing
  and loss through mundane documents of everyday life; high school
  interviews about the prom, interior shots of grandmother's home and her
  porcelain bell collection, and an annual Christmas light show traffic
  jam. Here We Are by Kim Sheppard [Canada, 2007, video, 5 min]
  Constructed of footage and sound found on You Tube, Here We Are explores
  online watchers and their subjects. Low-resolution personal documents
  and family photos posted on the web make up this abstracted and
  voyeuristic video. Cleveland Trilogy by Kevin Jerome Everson [USA, 2007,
  video, 13 min] This trilogy of works explores past and present histories
  and landscapes in Cleveland, Ohio. Emergency Needs uses found footage
  and a reenactment of a press conference by mayor Carl Stokes after the
  1968 race riots. North is literally about trying to find one's way and
  The Reverend E. Randall T. Osborn, First Cousin is about the art of the
  cut away and what does not make it to the 6 o'clock news.

4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)

 S IS FOR STUDENT
  A program of 12 outstanding works curated and made by Canadian and
  International students. Curated by Lesley Chan, Dan Neuhaus and Serena
  Lee. Countdown by Josiah Aien-Drake [Hampshire College, USA, 2007,
  video, 3 min] The part of a film you are never supposed to see
  represented with symbols other than spoken languages. five five five
  five/ seven seven sev/ five five five five five. Memory Thief by Dylin
  North [Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, 2006, video, 3 min]
  Wavering eye lines shift, still hands move mindway lanes. Let's think it
  once more. With text that won't quit and the most charming of audio
  tracks, this sexy little triptych will leave you begging for more. The
  Last Samosa by Ryan McClure Scott [Alberta College of Art & Design,
  Calgary, 2007, video, 4 min] Eclectic production techniques meet wacky
  style in this backyard romp. Only the most complex dramatic tension can
  ensue from the pairing of neon puppets with a felt samosa. A fried
  isosceles resting between us like so. Drawn Close by Sak Tatham [Ontario
  College of Art & Design, Toronto, 2007, video, 3 min] This masterful
  blend of hilarity, random visual effects and clever mise-en-scène is
  sure to delight. Deadpan humor taken to multiple parallel levels à la
  Méliès-styled tricks. No matter how close you draw, connections remain.
  Karaoke Show by Karl Tebbe [University of Applied Sciences, Germany,
  2007, 35mm, 4 min] Hushing audience. Carpet hairs rise and sway. Liquid
  microphone. From The Ground Up In Order, Embrace by Nick Briz
  [University of Central Florida, USA, 2007, video, 2 min] An indisputable
  argument for the healing properties of colour; also the reason why rock
  n' roll and video are here to stay. A digitally apocalyptic vacuum
  reminiscent of Zack Morris's sweater. Life is Good by Jesse Bellon [York
  University, Toronto, 2005-7, video, 3 min] An urban postmodern nightmare
  for the anti-commercialists. A convincing illustration of why a strict
  regimen of rhythm and bright lights are instrumental in maintaining a
  positive outlook on life. Tangled by Ji Hyun Park [Academy of Media Arts
  Cologne, Germany, 2007, video, 8 min] Gravity is for suckers. An
  Allegory of social change in German history as seen in popular hairdo's
  of the eras. Sports and Diversions by Bum Lee [Carnegie Mellon
  University, USA, 2006, video, 4 min] This is the final frontier of
  shadow puppetry, Rorschach tests, and bizarre dreams. Daughters of Dada
  by Flame Schon [Santa Fe Community College, USA, 2007, video, 2 Min] An
  acid trip of multi-media abstract filmmaking. Try and find a colour that
  doesn't explode in this gem. Flame puts the F in FX. Godfri by Asaf
  Setty [Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Israel, 2007, video, 17 min] The
  Conversation meets La Jêtée. This is what Bowie meant by sound and
  vision: a triumphant synthesis of stunning photography and slick folly.
  A desk strewn with sound cuts, city sewn in tape machines, will our ears
  speak back? Othello by Kai Welf Hoyme [Academy of Media Arts (KHM),
  Germany, 2008, video, 5 min] Grey sportswear takes on profound embodied
  significance in this transgressive cinematic marvel. Ropes hold our
  bodies, squirming towards nowhere, unfold my limbs please. There's
  nothing that can be said about this film; it must be viewed and
  experienced.

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4/8
Bloomington, IN: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
9pm, cinemat, 123 S. Walnut St.

 BEARDED CHILD FILM TOUR
  A selection of underground and experimental short films from the Bearded
  Child Film Festival.

4/8
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College

 TAKA IIMURA: IN PERSON
  TAKA IIMURA (Tokyo, Japan) will be present to introduce a program of
  some of his best known experimental films and videos. The first part of
  the screening will feature some works from the 1960's: Kuzu (Junks),
  1962m 10min., B/W, Music by Takehisa Kosugi ; Ai (LOVE), 1962, 15min.,
  B/W, Music by Yoko Ono; On Eye Rape, 1962, 10min., B/W/Color, Silent,; A
  Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput, 1962, 12min., B/W. ("For many
  years, Japanese experimental film was Takahiko Iimura."-Malcolm Le
  Grice). The second part of the program will feature Iimura's films &
  conceptual videos which embody/explore the Zen concept of "MA": MA:
  Space/Time in The Garden of Ryoan Ji, 1989, 16mm, Color, 16min. Sound;
  The Making of In Ryoan-Ji, 1989, Video, B/W & Color, 10min., Sound; MA:
  The Stones Have Moved, 2004, Video, B/W & Color, 10min., Silent.
  "Although Taka was and continues to be an active part of the New York
  avant-garde scene, he always remained an enigmatic, mysterious presence,
  pursuing his own unique route through the very center of the avant-garde
  cinema. While the intensity and the fire of the American avant-garde
  film movement inspired him and attracted him, his Japanese origins
  contributed decisively to his uncompromising explorations of cinema's
  minimalist and conceptualist possibilities. He has explored this
  direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else." - Jonas Mekas.

4/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre (1001 Queen Street West)

 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 6: LANDSCAPE AS VERB
  Places and people shift and mutate through time, language, longing and
  escape. Proximity by Inger Lise Hansen [Norway, 2006, 35mm, 4 min] This
  disorienting landscape film flips vistas upside down, creating a
  push-pull between the shifting weather of the sky below and the textured
  ground above. Nikamowin (Song) by Kevin Lee Burton [Canada, 2007, video,
  11 min] A linguistic soundscape comprised of the deconstruction and
  reconstruction of Cree narration dances with manipulated landscapes.
  This audio-visual experiment begs questions of how languages exist,
  emerge and survive. City of Blind Alchemists by Ruben Guzman
  [Canada/Argentina, 2006, video, 12 min] A freestyle essay-documentary
  that explores uranium mining in Canada, the long-term effects of
  radiation and two different interpretations of time. nocturne (lampedusa
  - fort europa) by Pieter Geenen [Belgium, 2006, video, 28 min, silent]
  nocturne (lampedusa - fort europa) uses an infrared camera to capture
  the sparkling and enticing nighttime vista of the Italian island of
  Lampedusa. Lampedusa is the closest European point to the north of the
  African continent and as such has become a site for asylum seekers from
  Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Refugees use small boats in the night
  to reach this land of promises. This silent piece creates a sense of
  longing and wonder as we gaze upon the hopeful lights flickering in the
  distance. The Flag by Köken Ergun [Turkey, 2006, video, 9 min] The Flag
  documents the Turkish republic's national day of ceremony "Children's
  Day", April 23rd, and marks the establishment of the new Turkish
  parliament and the demise of the Ottoman Empire in 1920. This video
  features the patriotic ceremonies hosted by the mayor and governor of
  Istanbul, where young children recite poems and oaths diligently with
  amazing emotionality and nationalistic fervor.

4/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:30PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington

 LIVE IMAGES 2: THE CONVERSATION, A.K.A. EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING--TASMAN
 RICHARDSON & KENTARO TAKI
  As the speed of information grows, culture viruses expand and coalesce.
  The global homogenization of symbols, meanings, voices seems inevitable.
  Two artists, meet for a dialogue in their common first language, video.
  Through sound and vision, Kentaro Taki and Tasman Richardson will
  attempt to harmonize, synchronize, and improvise a culture clash of
  stolen air transmissions from their native broadcast geographies. What
  differences, if any, are left in our spectacular conversations of
  post-everything tele-presence? Kentaro Taki was born in Osaka, Japan in
  1973. He completed his Masters in Fine Arts in the Department of Imaging
  Arts and Sciences at Musashino Art University. Kentaro has exhibited his
  video works and installations throughout Europe and Asia. He is
  currently the director of Videoart Center Tokyo, and devotes his time to
  innovating audio video techniques and building a global alternative
  artists' network. For over a decade Tasman Richardson has exhibited or
  performed extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, North Africa and
  Asia. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996
  where he developed the JAWA editing technique as his thesis. In 2002 he
  co-founded the media arts collective FAMEFAME. He spends his time
  developing video as a universal language by pursuing international
  collaborations with other video/audio artists. He lives in Toronto,
  Canada.

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