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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Id Docs [April 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Madcat Women's International Film Festival 2008 Tour Presents “Id Docs” [April 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Experiments On Film #89: [April 26, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Lucha Libre + Rock'n'roll Made In Mexico [April 26, San Francisco, California]
* Projection 2: Experiments In Diary Film [April 27, Dublin, Ireland]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 2: Steve Fagin [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Shine On: Films By Michael Robinson [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Ghost In the Reel Change [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Next Shorts 3 – Mapping Identity [April 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Best of Ottawa 07 [April 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Deep In the Vault: Documentaries From the Ny Filmmakers Coop [April 28, New York, New York]
* Films From Moviate: Caleb Smith: In Person [April 29, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Mass Art Film Society: Nothing That Is Not there and the Nothing That Is [April 30, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Sfai Film Salon: Burning Star [April 30, San Francisco, California]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase, Long Form Showcase [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
* The Films of Stephanie Barber [May 1, Seattle, Washington]
* Third Eye Cinema 'the Films of Stephanie Barber' [May 1, Seattle, Washington]
* Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890–2008 [May 2, London, England]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase, Film Directing Showcase [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Nathaniel Dorsky [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Heather's Short Shorts: Rockabilly, Bluegrass and Honky-Tonk Hits [May 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase, Film and video Showcase [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Skoller's Promise of Happiness [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 2: Bruce &
Norman Yonemoto [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008
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4/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8pm, 5243 N. Clark St., 2nd Floor
ID DOCS
MadCat Women's International Film Festival travels to Chicago with a
series of documentary films from the far reaches of the earth curated by
Ariella Ben-Dov entitled, ID DOCS. Identity cannot be reduced to stats
on a badge. It is both personal and public, elusive and fixed. Using a
patient camera and lyrical imagery, these filmmakers gently probe how
society, biology, place, and even appliances play a role in who we are
and how we think of ourselves and others. The Widows' Coast by Janina
Lapinskaite (Lithuania) a poetic portrait of the residents of a Baltic
seacoast village whose lives are marked by painful loss. The heroes of
the film are widows who face their seemingly tragic destiny with the
strength and vitality usually reserved for the unscathed. The Market
(Ana Husman, Croatia) A stop-motion homage to locally grown produce and
tight-knit communities. The ladies of this Croatian market gregariously
share the art of growing the perfect piece of fruit and how to prepare
traditional preserves. But do not dare cross the unspoken boundary and
handle the goods—these jolly ladies mean business. Lost Without You
(Fiona McGee, Australia) trails a group of girls and their mobile
phones. How attached can they get? Benidorm (Carolin Schmitz, Germany)
In high tourist season eager sunbathers flock to Benidorm's concrete
coast on the Mediterranean for its endless sun and cheap amusements. Off
season, its residents are largely pensioners. Winner of the 2006 German
Short Film Prize, this documentary examines the changing age structure
of our society and its obligatory clichés through the lens of this small
Spanish town. Portraits & Testimonies (Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, US) is
part of a series of animated interviews, this film features Brazilian
Cris Sequeira discussing her beliefs on life, death, and life after
death. Miriam, Impression of Light (An Coenen, Belgium) chronicles an
adopted albino girl as she navigates her world. How does it feel to be
different in a world that strives for uniformity and perfection? I Am Me
by Kathrin Resetarits (Austria) Twin win ballerinas Olga and Anastasia
can be made to dress alike and look identical. But when they dance the
part of the dying swan, their movements demonstrate two individual
personalities. Following two sets of twins, the filmmaker explores the
meaning of individuality in uncommon and everyday routine. For the full
line-up go to http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org.
4/26
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
MADCAT WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008 TOUR PRESENTS “ID DOCS”
Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov MadCat is a highly acclaimed festival that
exhibits independent and experimental films and videos directed by women
from around the globe. The Festival emphasizes work that is inventive
and visionary. MadCat takes place each September in the Bay Area, and
each winter and spring MadCat tours to over 20 museums, universities,
art houses and microcinemas. Screening this evening is the program ID
DOCS: Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both
personal and public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and
lyrical imagery, these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology,
place, and even appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of
ourselves and others. Screening are the short films The Widows' Coast
(25 min., Lithuania) by Janina Lapinskaite; The Market (9.5 min.,
Croatia) by Ana Husman; Lost Without You (5.5 min., Australia) by Fiona
McGee; Benidorm (19 min., Germany) by Carolin Schmitz; Portraits &
Testimonies #3: Cris Sequeira, 1 min., USA) by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson;
Miriam, Impression of Light (11.5 min., Belgium) by An Coenen; and I Am
Me (30 min., Austria) by Kathrin Resetarits.
4/26
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Jefferson Presents
9pm, Garfield Artworks 4931 Penn Ave.
EXPERIMENTS ON FILM #89:
Wolf Vostell - "Four Films" (196*) 16mm, black and white, silent, 21
min"The four films included in this reel are: SUN IN YOUR HEAD(1963);
20JULI 1964 AACHEN (1967); STARFIGHTER (1967); NOTSTANDSBORDSTEIN(1967).
The first one, and the last one of the four, can also beperformed with
actions and audience participation. All four filmsoriginated as parts of
other shows performed by Vostell. -Jonas Mekas Malcolm LeGrice - "Talla"
(1968) 16mm, black and white, silent, 19.75 min... is the most
narrative/subjective film I have yet made. Because allthe material was
shot by me in a week or so it has location continuity,which becomes very
important in the film. --M. L. G. Tom Palazzolo - "Love It/Leave It"
(1973) 16mm, color, sound, 14 min"LOVE IT/LEAVE IT is a raucous
treatment of patriotic color, football,nudity and parades set to a
refrain of 'Love It' and coalescing intoTom Palazzolo's nightmare
rendition of America the Awful. It sounds thetheme song of this program
[at the Whitney] and gives you a pretty goodstart on deciding to 'Leave
It.'" -- Archer Winston, New York Post Werner Nekes - "Hurrycan" (1979)
16mm, color & b/w, sound, 80.5 min"Hurrycan has nothing to do with
whirlwinds, although in this Nekesfilm the pictures journey across the
screen, excitedly, spasmodicallyand flickering. The title weds the
element of haste with the notion ofa film can. Which in this case turns
out to be something of a Pandora'sBox and contains expectations for a
new way of seeing. A computerizedshutter system that Nekes had built now
precisely controls thecomplicated interlocking of agitated images. The
unexposed film runsthrough the camera several times in succession.
According to apredetermined plan, only specific frames, so called
'Kinefelder' (atleast two of them are needed to attain visual motion)
are exposed. Whathas been filmed appears to be 'normal' enough on
screen. Yet it seemssegmented, somehow new and assembled in a strange
fascinating way.Nekes works with film images like a composer with
polyphonicstructures. The motif appears in many variations.
diverselysuper-imposed. conducted contrapuntually and in unison. Nekes
callsthis prinicple 'polyvisual'. Art historians are familiar with
suchmodes of perception since cubism, which operated with
simultaneousviews of one and the same object." Barbara Hammer - "Pond &
Waterfall" (1982) 16mm, color, silent, 15 min"The camera eye is like an
amphibian that sees on two levels in itsjourney from underwater in a
safe pond down to a violent, turbulentocean. -- Kathleen Hulser, Centre
Georges Pompidou Brochure Michelle Handelman - "Safer Sexual Techniques
in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1988) 16mm, color, sound, 10
minWorking from the premise that there is no such thing as safe sex,
thisfilm is designed as an arcane storybook with each sexual act
beingcontained within a 100 ft.-roll of film. A structural film
withcontent, each roll contains layers of sexual illusion amid
subliminalmessages created by in-camera effects. The soundtrack starts
from asingle cat's purr and is manipulated with each sexual act,
creating aclimatic fever sounding like a buzzing chainsaw.
4/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
LUCHA LIBRE + ROCK'N'ROLL MADE IN MEXICO
In person, Gustavo Vazquez galvanizes our gallery with his new 50-min.
doc on Mexican wrestling, Que Viva La Lucha! Gustavo returned to Tijuana
many times over the years to capture these surreal scenes of extreme
theater in the sports arena. The masks, costumes, and characters often
draw on mythological figures like Robin Hood, or comic-book heroes like
Spiderman, or even corrupt politicians, cops, and other villains. In the
show's second half we premiere Lance Miccio's hr.-plus overview of the
particular historical arc of Mexican Rock-including visits with legends
Fito de la Parra, Javier Batiz, and Lalo Toral-from the innocent '50s,
through the oppressive ban from '71 to '85, to the electronic present.
Piñata! *$8.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2008
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4/27
Dublin, Ireland: Experimental Film Club
http://experimentalfilmclub.blogspot.com/
4pm, Ha'penny Bridge Inn (upstairs)
PROJECTION 2: EXPERIMENTS IN DIARY FILM
OSKAR FISCHINGER´S "WALKING FROM MUNICH TO BERLIN"
1927-b&w-16mm-silent-5min In the Springtime of 1927, Fischinger (better
known for his painterly experimental animation pieces) had numerous
debts caused partly by the inflation and crisis in Germany. On June the
1st of that same year he left Munich on foot bound for Berlin bringing
with him his camera and films. During three and a half weeks he wandered
the secondary roads, filming image by image the people he met and the
places he passed through. DONAL O´CEILLEACHAIR´S "WITH WIND & WHITE
CLOUD" Experimental Documentary –NY-2005-b&w-super 8-5 min. Oskar
Fischinger's 1927 film 'Walking from Munich to Berlin' was one of the
first single-frame films ever made. In the space of three minutes (one
camera roll) Fischinger traversed the length of Germany visually
articulating the accelerated mode of modern life and anticipating the
break-neck speed of the moving image that would come much later with the
advent of MTV and television commercials. In 2003, Donal found himself
in Istanbul for the premier CUZCO 1999. Intent on travelling over land
to Berlin he made his way on Eastern European trains with a Super 8
camera and a copy of Film Art: An Introduction. He pointed his camera
out the window and 14 days, and 3,240 single frame images later (230 per
day) this film was complete. WW&WC is a contemporary homage to
Fischinger's inspired journey; travelling from the eastern tip of Europe
and Istanbul's Bosphorous shores through Eastern Europe to the heart of
Alexanderplatz in Berlin. WW&WC was originally conceived of as a dual
projection film comprised of video with superimposed super 8 film
projection. The video represents the filmmakers documentation of the
'real' while the film, like a dream is closer to his memory of it. This
copy displays the video only. Any dreams are 100% the viewers. JONAS
MEKAS´ "LOST LOST LOST" Diaries, Notes and Sketches filmed 1949-1963,
edited 1976 – 16mm- b/w & colour 60 minute extract from 180'. Poet and
hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas invented the diary
form of film-making. Born in Lithuania in 1922, and displaced from his
homeland by the Soviet and Nazi invasions. Lost Lost Lost comprises
fourteen years of filming, starting from his arrival in America as a
political refugee. It documents the New York counterculture of the 50's
and the development of Mekas' own filming style. "The period I am
dealing with in these six reels was a period of desperation, of attempts
to desperately grow roots into the ground, create new memories. In these
six painful reels I tried to indicate how it feels to be an exile, how I
felt in those years. They describe the mood of a Displaced Person who
hasn't yet forgotten his native country but hasn't yet gained a new one.
The sixth reel is a transitional reel, where I begin to find moments of
happiness. New life begins …." Jonas Mekas " The borderline is fading
between an artifact – an 'ouvre d'art', conceived as such, a pure
product of stylized imagination – and what can be described as a poet's
account of events; as sincere and as honest as only a poet's account can
be. Maybe Jonas Mekas' Lost Lost Lost has just marked the beginning of a
new genre. In the line of Gide, of a Sarte, of a Malraux. But in film."
Antonin J. Liehm, Thousand Eyes.
4/27
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 2: STEVE FAGIN
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. Steve
Fagin in person tonight with Oliver Kahn (2003, 55 min) and Zero Degrees
Latitude (1993, 60 min), introduced by curator Rita Gonzales. Los
Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las
Palmas. Sunday April 27, 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
4/27
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, 701 Mission St/YBCA
SHINE ON: FILMS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
Michael Robinson In Person. Since 2000, Michael Robinson has created a
body of work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated
experience, a cinema of ambivalent melancholy and existential danger.
The General Returns from One Place to Another pits a cynical Frank
O'Hara monologue against an ominous vibrating landscape. And We All
Shine On is a machine-eyed vision of a post-apocalyptic paradise. Light
Is Waiting, in which a Full House episode "devours itself from the
inside out," excavates a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.
Frequently working with abjected imagery—forgotten television,
mid-century magazines—and overly familiar pop songs, Robinson's work
flirts with a resigned pessimism, yet dares to find hope in the very
heart of despair. Also screening: Tidal, Victory Over the Sun, You Don't
Bring Me Flowers, Chiquitita and the Soft Escape and All Through the
Night. $10, general; $6, members, students, disabled, seniors.
4/27
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia st at 21 st
GHOST IN THE REEL CHANGE
Sunday, April 27, 2008. 8PM $6 GHOST in the REEL CHANGE EYE-FULL FILMS
and ATA present: A night of experimental films with live music by GHOST
IN THE HOUSE and REEL CHANGE. Featuring: Tom Nunn – homemade
instruments, Karen Stackpole – gongs, percussion, Kyle Bruckmann – oboe,
English horn, David Michalak – lap steel, Andrew Voigt – saxophones and
Ann Dental - cello This show will open with a candlelit set of music by
GHOST IN THE HOUSE. Then, REEL CHANGE and GHOST IN THE HOUSE will
perform live soundtracks for Death of a Hollywood Extra (1928), Ghosts
Before Breakfast (1928) and a set of films by David Michalak including:
Reaching For The Trigger, Regenbogen, See What You See and others. David
Michalak is celebrating over 30 years of filmmaking and plays "avant"
lap steel guitar. He formed REEL CHANGE to perform soundtracks for his
films in 1999 with Andrew Voigt (ROVA co-founder) and Tom Nunn
(instrument builder, Tom Waits etc.) GHOST IN THE HOUSE was formed in
2004 with "The Gongwoman" Karen Stackpole, Kyle Bruckmann and Tom Nunn
to perform movie music without the movies. Tonight's show combines the 2
groups for maximum effect. www.edgetonerecords.com/ghostinthehouse.html
www.eye-fullfilms.com/
4/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
http://www.hotdocs.ca
4:45PM, Innis Town Hall - 2 Sussex Avenue
NEXT SHORTS 3 – MAPPING IDENTITY
NEXT SHORTS 3 – Mapping Identity Co-presented with Images Festival
Lovely Andrea D: Hito Steyerl / Austria / 2007 / 30 min A filmmaker
searches for an old photo spread of herself as a Japanese "rope bondage"
model and turns up a universal critique of identity and censorship. Cock
Fight Song D:Lilibeth Cuenca / Denmark / 2006 / 3 min Lilibeth Cuenca
explores the national sport of her native Philippines, cockfighting.
Blending the pop music persona of a half-plucked dancing cock with
bloody documentary footage of real fights and betting, she critiques
male domination and macho culture. Je suis une bombe D: Elodie Pong /
Switzerland / 2006 / 6 min An erotic dancing panda bear is a woman's
alter ego and a filmmaker's commentary on sexuality and persona.
Perfect/Growing Older (Dis)gracefully D: Esra Ersen / UK / 2006 / 23 min
Struck by the radical transformation currently taking place in Liverpool
in the run-up to being a European Capital of Culture, Ersen becomes an
urban planner of sorts by transferring those methods from city to
person. By performing a makeover on a long standing resident of
Liverpool, the filmmaker provokes questions on how urban processes
affect the people who experience them firsthand. Time Flies D: Frédéric
Moser, Philippe Schwinger /Germany / 2006 / 4 min Based on Monica
Lewinsky, the character of Amanda Cook is presented in a five-minute
portrait. Wandering around an empty theatre, she wonders if, after
hosting a TV show, designing a handbag collection, searching for God and
"dallying" with the President, she can ever marry a normal man?
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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008
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4/28
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
BEST OF OTTAWA 07
Now in its 32nd year, the Ottawa International Animation Festival is the
largest animation showcase in North America and one of the most highly
regarded festivals in the world. The 2007 edition of the fest drew from
a record 12,000 submissions, from 73 countries, for its final selection
of 97 new works, running the gamut from feature-length productions to
student films and specially commissioned pieces. This program of OIAF
highlights offers brilliant new animations by Aaron Augenblick, Signe
Baumane, Jonas Odell, Anders Mehring, Jonas Dahlbeck, Juan Pablo
Zaramella, Jeff Scher, Michael Langan, Shoji Goto, Bert Gottschalk, Josh
Raskin, Elizabeth Hobbs and Tibor Banoczki.
4/28
New York, New York: NY Filmmakers Coop
http://www.film-makerscoop.com/
7:30 pm, Collective Unconscious 279 Church Street
DEEP IN THE VAULT: DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE NY FILMMAKERS COOP
Curator Ariella Ben-Dov mined the Filmmakers Coop vault to create this
special evening of rarely seen documentary films. Children Make Movies
(1961, 16mm) Tonight is a rare chance to see video maven Deedee
Halleck's first film made with children from the Lillian Wald Settlement
in Lower Manhattan. Diary (Pamela Bennett, 1989, 16mm) is a short
rumination about a woman and her dream. Lie Back And Enjoy It (Joann
Elam, 1982, 16mm) "an absorbing eight-minute dialectical film about the
politics of representation. An undergraduate male student paid it a true
compliment in declaring that he can no longer look at a woman in a film
without thinking about the consequences of the filmmaker's use of her as
a person and as a spectacle. Everyone who watches movies with women in
them ought to see it," - Jump Cut. Nightclub, Memories of Havana in
Queens (Silvianna Goldsmith, FILMMAKER IN PERSON, 1975, 16mm) Three
Latin dancers in a nightclub in Queens do a samba, a merengue and an
afro-cuban dance. Filmed both tongue-in-cheek with humor and satire at
the kitsch aspects, and also seriously as a tribute to the culture's
ancient sensuality. Baby Doll (Tessa Hughes-Freeland, 1982, 16mm) A
docu-portrait narrated by two GoGo dancers who share insights about
their craft. Testing, Testing, How Do You Do? (Sheila Paige, 1969, 16mm)
Filmed at the 1969 Miss America Pageant held at Atlantic City, Testing
contains an interview with Miss Virginia footage of the pageant
rehearsal and of the Women's Liberation demonstration taking place
outside Convention Hall. Jaraslawa (Deedee Halleck, 1975, 16mm) follows
an old Ukrainian woman as she bakes bread and talks about her life as an
immigrant. This lyrical experimental film has a sound track by the Penny
Whistlers. NYC Premiere of Marie Losier's Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist
(FILMMAKER IN PERSON) – part of an ongoing series of film portraits of
avant-garde directors (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. Plus more!
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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
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4/29
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
FILMS FROM MOVIATE: CALEB SMITH: IN PERSON
An in-person group show by artists associated with the Harrisburg-based
media center, Moviate - founded in 1997 by Caleb Smith and Bryan Baker,
and since then serving as central PA's prime exhibition venue for
independent and experimental moving-image art. Program to be introduced
by Moviate director and film/video artist and teacher, CALEB SMITH, will
include: several films in super-8 and a digital video animation by TARA
CHICKEY; 16mm and found footage works (on DVD) by JIM HOLLENBAUGH; video
abstractions by MICHAEL ROBINSON; pixelvision, super-8 and mini-DV works
by CALEB SMITH; and digital video & animation by LISA BENNETT.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
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4/30
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, Screening Room 1, Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue
MASS ART FILM SOCIETY: NOTHING THAT IS NOT THERE AND THE NOTHING THAT IS
Mass Art Film Society Wednesday April 30 at 8pm Nothing That Is Not
There and the Nothing That Is THE EXQUISITE HOUR by Phil Solomon 1995,
16mm, 8 min. THE SNOWMAN by Phil Solomon 1989/1994, 16mm, 14 min.
LOSSLESS #3 and LOSSLESS #4 by Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin 2008,
video, Filmmakers in Person WHAT THE WATER SAID 4-6 by David Gatten
2007, 16mm, 17 min. KRYPTON IS DOOMED by Ken Jacobs 2005, video, 35 min.
For more information visit: http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
4/30
San Francisco, California: SFAI Film Salon
7:30pm, SFAI, Studio 8, 800 Chestnut Street
SFAI FILM SALON: BURNING STAR
Uniquely transgressive, Onishi Kenji's Burning Star was made mere months
after the Kobe earthquake of 1993. It is both an act of mourning for the
filmmaker's father and an exploration of the corporeality of death.
Onishi's rites of bereavement are both extremely challenging and
personal, documented dispassionately with his Super 8 camera. The
explosive finale, his father's cremation, is at once harrowing and
shockingly beautiful. A Burning Star, Onishi Kenji, 1995, 90 min, 16mm
For more information contact: email suppressed or
(address suppressed) The SFAI Film Salon is supported by the SFAI
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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008
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5/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE, LONG FORM SHOWCASE
The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action
works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film
Directing Program. Free admission
5/1
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
THE FILMS OF STEPHANIE BARBER
MAY 1, Thursday at 8pm DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE THIRD EYE CINEMA PRESENTS
THE FILMS OF STEPHANIE BARBER (Stephanie Barber, USA, 1997-2007, 16mm)
Prolific Baltimore-based filmmaker and artist Stephanie Barber has been
featured in solo shows at the New York Film Festival's Views From the
Avant-Garde and the Museum of Modern Art's Cineprobe series. She has
established herself over the past decade as an extraordinary filmmaker,
winning awards and acclaim at festivals and venues all over the world.
For this program, Barber brings together a diverse selection of her work
including FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN, DOGS, METRONOME, TOTAL POWER
DEAD DEAD DEAD; SHIPFILM; LETTERS NOTES; and CATALOG. Barber will
discuss her films throughout the presentation of this short work.
5/1
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Center
http://www.nwfilm.org/
8pm, 1515 12th Ave
THIRD EYE CINEMA 'THE FILMS OF STEPHANIE BARBER'
MAY 1, Thursday at 8pm Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave Seattle, WA
98122 Tickets are $8.50 general, $6 seniors, 5$ NWFF members
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/calendar.php
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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008
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5/2
London, England: Tate
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/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. Friday 2 May, 19.00 Programme 15: May 68
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary protest events
of May 1968 in France, this programme reflects filmmakers' desire to
document political events alternatively, taking take direct
revolutionary action through cinema and inventing new film forms along
the way. Part of the season All Power to the Imagination! 1968 and Its
Legacies. For full details visit www.1968.org.uk. Chris Marker and
Jean-Luc Godard, Ciné-Tracts 1 - 16, 1968, 35', 16mm Gérard Fromanger
(with Jean-Luc Godard), Film-Tract n°1968, 1968, 3', 16mm Gérard
Fromanger, Le Rouge, 1969, 3', 16mm Groupe Medvedkine de Sochaux,
Sochaux, 11 juin 68, 1970, 20', 16mm Daniel Pommereulle, Vite, 1969,
30', 35mm Programme duration 91 minutes 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.
5/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE, FILM DIRECTING SHOWCASE
The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action
works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film
Directing Program. Free Admission
5/2
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film & Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
NATHANIEL DORSKY
Celebrated avant-garde filmmaker and author of "Devotional Cinema,"
Nathaniel Dorsky has delighted audiences for over 40 years with films
that celebrate the sensuous beauty of natural light. Dorsky's films are
both silent and run at silent speed, straddling the threshold of
persistence of vision. His rigorous attention to the qualities of film
emulsion (grain, color, texture) places his work on an artistic level
akin to Chinese poetry. Whether his camera is trained on a rain swept
street, sunlight undulating in tree branches, or the gestures of a
loved-one, the viewer is aware of a certain conundrum: These objects all
exist in the everyday world, yet Dorsky manages to transcend their
mundane significance. The visceral result is an expansion of the screen
into a living, breathing entity. Utilizing montage that highlights
visual echoes across a series of disparate shots, rather than relying on
the narrative accumulation of cuts, the work is supremely generous to
its audience. One may emerge from Dorsky's cinema-as-meditative-state
with a sensitized, liberated vision of the world. The Archive is pleased
to welcome Dorsky for a screening of three of his most recent 16mm
films, including the world premiere of his latest work, Winter (2007).
*IN PERSON: Nathaniel Dorsky World Premiere! WINTER (2007). "San
Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked,
verdant—a period of shadows and renewal." —N.D. 16mm, color, silent,
approx. 22 min (17 FPS). Los Angeles Premiere! SONG AND SOLITUDE
(2005-2006). "Song and Solitude was conceived and photographed with the
loving collaboration of Susan Vigil during the last year of her life.
Its balance is more toward an expression of inner landscape, or what it
feels like to be, rather than an exploration of the external visual
world as such." —N.D. 16mm, color, silent, approx. 21 min (17 FPS). THE
VISITATION (2002). "A gradual unfolding, an arrival so to speak. I felt
the necessity to describe an occurrence, not one specifically of time
and place, but one of revelation in one's psyche. The place of
articulation is not so much in the realm of images as information, but
in the response of the heart to the poignancy of the cuts." —N.D. 16mm,
color, silent, approx. 18 min (17 FPS)
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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008
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5/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
HEATHER’S SHORT SHORTS: ROCKABILLY, BLUEGRASS AND HONKY-TONK HITS
Curated and Hosted by Heather McAdams "Being a die-hard country music
fan and an avid 16mm film collector, it only made sense that I would
begin to seek out the legends of honky-tonk on 16mm film. In addition to
finding a few classic Snader Soundies, I have been able to collect some
of the most amazing songs from vintage Television Shows like Ranch
Party, The Country Show and Country Caravan, as well as extracting songs
from country music feature films such as The Road To Nashville and Las
Vegas Hillbillies. On this special night I am very excited to share the
very best of my collection, all projected on 16mm film for maximum
viewing pleasure! This evening's lineup is star studded and includes:
Johnny Cash + the Tennessee Two, The Collins Kids, The Stonemans, Wanda
Jackson, George Jones, Stringbean, Bob Wills, Hank Snow, Whispering Bill
Anderson, Carl Perkins, Porter Wagoner, The Osborne Brothers, Bill
Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Justin Tubb, Johnny + Jack and more! Get ready for
bumper-to-bumper entertainment as this will truly be as close as you get
to experiencing what it was like to see these legends of country in
person, many of whom are now deceased. Grab your boots and bring your
friends!" –Heather McAdams Curator Heather McAdams and her hillbilly
husband Chris Ligon will be present to introduce the show and answer any
of your questions.
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE, FILM AND VIDEO SHOWCASE
The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action
works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film
Directing Program. Free admission
5/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
SKOLLER'S PROMISE OF HAPPINESS
In conjunction with thousands of other tributes across the globe, our
homage to the revolutionary fervor of 40 years ago is here focused on
the Vietnamese War of Liberation. Jeffrey Skoller's 35-min. meditation
on the Southeast Asian nation four decades after the Tet Offensive
affords a complex sense of the Revolution's success. In person, Skoller
unfolds his themes of utopia, democracy, and disappointment, in
thoughtful opening remarks and engaged Q&A. Rhapsodizing on similar
issues of national independence, but in dramatic stylistic contrast,
Santiago Alvarez's half-hr. 79 Springtimes of Ho Chi Minh is an
acknowledged masterwork of Cuban cinema that advances anti-imperialist
solidarity ever so artfully. Supporting this pair of poetic political
essays are a passel of topical shorts: the U.S. Army's Know Your Enemy,
Mark Brecke's War as a Second Language (trailer), Bill Daniel/Warren
Haack's SSSS, and Travis Wilkerson's National Archives.
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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2008
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5/4
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 2: BRUCE &
NORMAN YONEMOTO
In conjunction with the Getty's California video exhibition, Filmforum
highlights the work of video makers whose work cries out for more
exhibition – significant pieces by fine artists of their media. Tonight,
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto present work from the 1980s to 2007, including
Vault (1984), Blinky (1988), Kappa (1986), Sounds Like the Sound of
Music (2005), Papa (2006). 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.
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