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

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

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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2008
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4/12
Albuquerque, New Mexico:
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
6 pm, Southwest Film Center, University of New Mexico

 OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE: OPTICAL POETRY
  Program features 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films,
  including Allegretto (2 versions), Composition in Blue, Motion Painting
  No. 1, Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Muratti Greift Ein, Radio Dynamics,
  Kreise, American March, Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Walking from
  Munich to Berlin and many more. Features prints preserved by Academy
  Film Archive, Center for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the
  support of Film Foundation, Sony, and Cinematheque quebecoise. CVM
  presents this program in association with Southwest Film Center and The
  Fischinger Archive. Tickets: $5 general admission, $3 students, $4
  faculty/staff, available at box office before screening.

4/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 Social Hr., 8:00 Screening, 5243 N. Clark St.

 DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES 5: THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
  Co-presented by Black Cat Productions Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members
  (includes social hour and screening) April is our month for lesbian film
  classics and this season we've got the mother of them all. The
  Children's Hour (directed by William Wyler, 1961, 107 min., USA) is
  adapted from the play by Lillian Hellman and was nominated for 14
  Academy Awards no less. Audrey Hepburn (Karen) and Shirley MacLaine
  (Martha) are best friends from college who run a private school for
  young girls. Enter James Garner (Dr. Joe Cardin) who wants to marry
  Karen and things start to change between the friends. When one of the
  young girls sees the two women embrace, rumors start to spread until
  even the women begin to question their relationship.

4/12
Hot Springs, Arkansas: Bearded Child Film Festival
http://myspace.com/beardedchildfilmfest
8pm, Low Key Arts

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

4/12
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
  Saturday 12 April, 19.00 Programme 10: Philippe Garrel Garrel's dreamy,
  minimalist masterpiece, The Crystal Cradle, stars his then partner Nico
  as the unforgettably beautiful muse of creativity. The film also
  features Anita Pallenberg, painter Frédéric Pardo, and Pierre Clémenti,
  icon of the Sixties avant-garde, all accompanied by a haunting
  soundtrack by Ash Ra Tempel. Le berceau de cristal de Philippe Garrel,
  1976, 80', 35mm Programme duration 80 minutes 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.

4/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street

 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON NEW ASIA
  Programmed by Sylvia Schedelbauer, here's a pair of international
  artist-teams who address seismic cultural shifts centering on China and
  Taiwan. Emerging SF artist Yin-Ju Chen introduces a 20-min. set of video
  work-with the premiere of Transaction-lyricizing her personal cultural
  anxiety. Her suite of subjective insights is broadened in collaborative
  work with another OC favorite, Mr. James T. Hong: a first view of
  Divided and One, on the election in Taipei. Hong presents a sneak
  preview of his New History Zero (on Japanese historical revisionism),
  The Coldest War and Sino-American Friendship. The evening is anchored by
  the West-Coast debut of Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer's
  Metropolis: Report from China, a riveting verité essay, produced by the
  Pompidou, that engages with the oft overlooked human agents of China's
  staggering growth.

4/12
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave

 ELECTRIC DREAMS / VOLCANIC VISIONS: THE CINEMA OF JANICE FINDLEY
  APRIL 12, Saturday at 8pm DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE THIRD EYE CINEMA
  PRESENTS ELECTRIC DREAMS / VOLCANIC VISIONS: THE CINEMA OF JANICE
  FINDLEY Janice Findley's fiercely original films explore enchanted,
  uncharted territory with a unique sensibility. Utilizing meticulous
  stop-motion and live-action techniques, brilliant set and costume design
  and beguiling musical scores by musician/composer Paul Hansen, Findley
  creates a subterranean world of emotions that evoke waking dreams. By
  turns menacing, inviting and funny, these adventures of the mind dare
  the viewer to enter into the realm of dreams... or is it nightmares?
  Findley's films have been showcased in a retrospective at MoMA in New
  York, where her work is part of the permanent collection, as well as in
  the hinterlands of the U.S. by a widely traveled bicycling
  projectionist. This evening's program includes "Tripletime", "A Nermish
  Gothic", "Beyond Kabuki", "I Am The Night" and "Faux Paw" plus Maya
  Deren's "Meshes Of The Afternoon." "Equal parts illusionistic film
  techniques and the filmmaker's refreshingly untethered imagination.
  Imagine 'Alice in Wonderland' done by a collaboration of ...F.W. Murnau
  ...Maya Deren ...and Jan Svankmajer." -THE OREGONIAN

4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:30 PM, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen's Quay

 LIVE IMAGES 6: THEDA BY GEORGINA STARR
  Georgina Starr's silent work Theda grew out of Starr's interest in the
  silent cinema era actress Theda Bara. Surpassed in popularity by only
  Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Bara made more than 40 films between
  1914 and 1926, of which only a handful remain intact. Bara was often
  cast in the role of the femme fatale, earning her the distinction of one
  of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Drawing on the life and work of Bara,
  as well as other forgotten silent film stars, Theda combines
  reconstructions of scenes from the lost films with a narrative about a
  crazed fan. In taking on the role of Bara, Starr experiments with
  various performance styles and narrative techniques to consider the
  cinema as a reflection of one's own life. In the spirit of the era from
  which the work comes, Starr collaborates with live musicians to provide
  a score for the film each time it is presented. Having presented the
  work with two very different ensembles in London and New York, the
  Canadian premiere of Theda will engage the long-standing improvisational
  ensemble CCMC. Curated by Aki Onda. NOTE: Tickets for Georgina Starr's
  performance Theda are now available from Harbourfront Centre's Box
  Office three ways: ONLINE through www.imagesfestival.com or BY PHONE:
  416.973.4000 Born in Leeds, UK, Georgina Starr studied at the
  Rijksademie in Amsterdam, and now lives and works in London. Her art
  practice, largely rooted in video, but incorporating objects, prints,
  drawings and photographs, often builds its narratives from various
  references and biographies in popular culture. Her work has been
  exhibited internationally at Tracy Williams, Ltd. (New York), Tate
  Gallery (London), nca | nichido contemporary art (Tokyo), the 49th
  Venice Biennale, and Annet Gelink Gallery (Amsterdam) among many others.
  With a history extending back to the 1970s, CCMC is Canada's first and
  still pre-eminent non-idiomatic free-improvisation ensemble. A
  world-travelled group through various incarnations, the band settled
  fourteen years ago into the form of a trio consisting of original CCMC
  member Michael Snow (piano and synthesizer), along with John Oswald
  (alto sax) and Paul Dutton (soundsinging and harmonica). A fixture on
  Toronto's alternative music scene, the trio has issued two CDs and has
  toured Canada, Europe and the U.S.A. Each of the members has achieved
  renown in areas other than music, Snow and Oswald in the visual arts,
  Dutton in literature.

4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
1-5 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West

 MEDIA ART MATTERS
  What does the media arts landscape look like for artists across Ontario?
  MEDIA ART MATTERS! combines a lively discussion on the possibilities and
  challenges of media practice with a media art intervention at the Images
  Festival closing party. The panel includes presentations by a diverse
  group of media art advocates practicing at the boundaries of
  contemporary culture. An informal discussion with the audience will
  follow. Later that evening artists from across the region will converge
  on 401 Richmond to combine text and light with its post- industrial
  architecture in an on-the-fly collective expression. These two venues,
  presented by IMAAontario, brings together artists, independent producers
  and educators who believe that media art matters ... A LOT!!! Artist Run
  Machines, Open Source Culture is a public think tank hosted by moderator
  Clive Robertson with panelists Vera Frenkel, Richard Fung, Steve Loft,
  and Caroline Seck Langill. Together with the audience, this seasoned
  group of artists, academics, critics, curators and activists will bring
  their uniques experiences in the media arts to bear on questions of the
  sectors viability and validitation within greater social, political and
  economic spheres. The audience will be challenged to interpret and
  evaluate the hybrid forms of organization and action that exist in the
  territory between the institution and individual practitioners. For more
  info about MEDIA ART MATTERS! visit the IMAAontario website at:
  http://www.imaa-ontario.ca IMAAontario gratefully acknowledges the
  support of the Ontario Arts Council towards MEDIA ART MATTERS!. The
  Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00 PM, Harbourfront Centre, Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queen's Quay

 ARTIST TALK: SADIE BENNING IN CONVERSATION
  In conjunction with her exhibition at The Power Plant, Sadie Benning
  will be joined by Video Data Bank co-founder Kate Horsfield to talk
  about her major new work Play Pause.

4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:30 PM, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queen's Quay

 LIVE IMAGES 4: EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY BY DANIEL BARROW
  Please see description on 4/10/08 for more details.

4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:30 PM, 401 Richmond Street West

 AWARDS CERMONY AND CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
  The jury will present the awards for the festival and it's you last
  chance to drink with us! Also join us for people power projectors: a
  free projection event: people power projectors is a collaborative show
  of light, a semi- chaotic expression of the ideals and realities to be
  found within the media arts community. Using a grab bag of available
  projection devices, groups from across the province will cast their
  ephemeral statements onto myriad planes and textures found throughout
  the party location. A political act, a collective act, an aesthetic act,
  and an excuse to have some fun and be surprised. Come out and see the
  dark walls come alive with the voices of those who believe that media
  art matters ... A LOT!!!

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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2008
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4/13
Albuquerque, New Mexico:
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org
3 pm, Southwest Film Center, University of New Mexico

 OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE: OPTICAL POETRY
  Program features 35mm prints of Fischinger's classic Visual Music films,
  including Allegretto (2 versions), Composition in Blue, Motion Painting
  No. 1, Study No. 6, Study No. 7, Muratti Greift Ein, Radio Dynamics,
  Kreise, American March, Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Walking from
  Munich to Berlin and many more. Features prints preserved by Academy
  Film Archive, Center for Visual Music and Fischinger Archive, with the
  support of Film Foundation, Sony, and Cinematheque quebecoise. CVM
  presents this program in association with Southwest Film Center and The
  Fischinger Archive. Tickets: $5 general admission, $3 students, $4
  faculty/staff, available at box office before screening.

4/13
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
  Sunday 13 April, 15.00 Programme 11: Philippe Grandrieux Philippe
  Grandrieux is the director of numerous documentary-essays and two
  features that constitute the most advanced point of contemporary
  cinematic research. This screening includes two shorts, plus La Vie
  nouvelle, which explores all the ways in which we fail to understand the
  world: sleep, dream, fantasy, trance, delirium, and the general
  confusion of bodies and perceptions. Un Lac (excerpt, work in progress),
  2008 L'Arrière-saison, 2007, 10', video La vie nouvelle, 2002, 102', 35
  mm Programme duration 120' 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.

4/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 FILMFORUM PRESENTS HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND - CLOSING NIGHT
  Filmforum presents Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond Closing Night
  of a Week-Long City-Wide Screening Series with Emigholz in Person
  Sullivan's Banks (Photography and Beyond 2) (1993-2000, 35mm, color, 38
  min.) Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect
  Louis Sullivan (1856–1924).; Miscellanea III (Photography and Beyond 10)
  (1997-2004, 35mm, 22 min.); Maillart's Bridges (Photography and Beyond
  3) (2001, 35mm, 24 min.), Swiss architect Robert Maillart revolutionized
  concrete-based construction. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
  Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. Sunday April 13 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

4/13
New York, New York: Collective Sight
http://www.collectivesight.org
3 pm, Columbus Circle (globe sculpture)

 COLLECTIVE SIGHT: COLLABORATIVE CELL PHONE MOVIE EVENTS
  You are invited to participate in Collective Sight, two collaborative
  cell phone movie-making events, taking place April 13th and 20th in New
  York City. Participants are asked to shoot video with their cell phones
  starting at the same time at the same place. Collective Sight takes two
  similar structures (in historic places) as a starting point for
  exploring public space in New York City. Sunday, April 13th 3 pm: the
  globe sculpture on the north side of Columbus Circle at the center of
  Manhattan. Sunday, April 20th 3 pm: the World's Fair UniSphere in
  Flushing Meadows, Queens. More information and a prototype video can be
  seen at www.collectivesight.org. This project is done in collaboration
  with Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR), as part of NPR's participation in
  the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00 PM, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington

 CLOSING NIGHT GALA: TRADING THE FUTURE BY B.H. YAEL
  Given that we've known about environmental degradation for so long, why
  have we not done more? Trading the Future is a video essay that
  questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on
  environmental urgencies. Starting with a personal memory, the fear of
  the rapture, the video addresses the Christian narrative for the end of
  times, and draws connections to secular apocalypticism and our eager
  acceptance of a cataclysmic end. Trading the Future challenges the
  philosophical and practical foundations of death, the growth of the
  market place and the politics of apocalypse. At the same time, the video
  proposes possible alternatives around the idea of natality, the
  productivity of biodiversity and the agency of everyday activism.
  Decidedly non-messianic, Trading the Future refuses to reproduce the
  apocalyptic images that we have been inundated with in mass media and
  movies. Thirteen chapters create a complex weave of ideas, combining
  impressionistic montages, street interviews and dialogues with academics
  and activists: Grace Jantzen, Valerie Langer, David Noble, Lee Quinby,
  and Vandana Shiva. b.h. Yael is an independent video and installation
  artist whose work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has
  shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to various
  educational venues. These include Fresh Blood, A Consideration of
  Belonging, the Approximations series produced with Johanna Householder,
  and the recent Palestine Trilogy, three videos that focus on activist
  initiatives in Israel/Palestine. Yael has produced work as part of
  various artist projects and collectives: Spontaneous Combustion,
  blahblahblah (Reviewing Quebec), and the Hardpressed Collective. Her
  most recent installation work, the fear series, have shown at the
  Koffler Gallery and at Harbourfront's York Quay Gallery. She is
  Professor in the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design
  in Toronto, Canada, and is a recent recipient of the Chalmers Arts
  Fellowship Award. PRECEDED BY: The Garden City by Vera Brunner-Sung
  Traveling to Bangalore, India from Valencia, California, Brunner-Sung's
  brief essay meditates on a quote from Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man
  Under Socialism—"The systems that fail are those that rely on the
  permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."

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