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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Visual Music At Expressions Gallery [September 20, Berkeley, California]
* Basement Basement. [September 20, Bristol]
* Vincent Grenier Retrospective, 1978-2008 [September 20, Buffalo, New York]
* The Short Films of Kirthi Nath [September 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tie Retrospective: the Shivering Eyelash [September 20, Houston, Texas]
* Flixation Underground Film Club [September 20, London, England]
* Welcome To Mars + Shaw Prelinger + Davis + [September 20, San Francisco, California]
* Tie Retrospective: the Shivering Eyelash [September 20, TIE Retrospective: The Shivering Eyelash]
* Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite - 30th Anniversary Screening [September 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmforum Presents the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, Part 2 [September 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Eyes Upside Down, An Illustrated Lecture By P. Adams Sitney [September 22, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* California Company Town [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* The Films of Dean Snider [September 23, Buffalo, New York]
* Rosemary's Baby [September 23, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Hear It To Believe It [September 23, San Francisco]
* Abstracta, International Abstract Cinema Exhibition [September 23, roma]
* Cida Film Café Networking Evening [September 24, London, England]
* Hammer Presents: Restless Brilliance [September 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Ava Gardner Film Festival [September 24, Smithfield, NC]
* Zwischen | Stadt | Raum - Screening [September 25, Berlin, Germany]
* Psychedelic Cinema Light Show Films (1967-1969) With Live Music [September 25, Brookline, Massachusetts]
* Eyes Wide Open: videos By Dani Leventhal [September 25, Chicago, Illinois]
* Open Screening [September 25, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* How We Fight Program 1: Iraqi Short Films/Presented By Kino21 [September 25, san francisco ca 94110]
* The Order of Things: Dis/Order, On Axioms and Images [September 26, Antwerp]
* Fellow Traveler: the Cinema of Warren Sonbert [September 26, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Phil Solomon: Two Installations [September 26, Columbus, Ohio]
* Electromediascope [September 26, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Hallucinogenic California: the Alternate Worlds of Craig Baldwin and
Damon Packard [September 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Films of Dean Snider [September 26, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Scary Cow Film Co-Op Presnts:Iran (Is Not the Problem) [September 26, san francisco ca 94110]
* Films of Dean Snider [September 27, Braddock, Pennsylvania]
* Xy Chromosome Project #3 By Lynne Sachs & Mark Street [September 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Chicago's Own: Aijo [September 27, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tuareg - Bruce Checefsky [September 27, Cleveland, OHIO]
* Green/Lozano + Deutsch + Mcinnis + Rivers + [September 27, San Francisco, California]
* Films of Dean Snider [September 28, Braddock, Pennsylvania]
* Hidden In Plain Sight Directed By Mark Street [September 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Filmforum Presents "Mock Up On Mu," By Craig Baldwin [September 28, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
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9/20
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://expressionsgallery.org
7pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue, (near Ashby BART Station)
VISUAL MUSIC AT EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
Expressions Gallery's Visual Music series presents ExoTV: Enigmatic
Vision, Improvised electro-acoustic music with kinetic ambient
animations by Mika Pontecorvo (Flute, Live electronic processing/Max
MSP) and Adriane Pontecorvo (Cello). 7:00 PM, Saturday, September 20 at
Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, (Near Ashby BART
Station). Free; 510-644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org Contact: Loren
Means, email suppressed The performance will include excerpts from
movements entitled BLIPVERT/SUBVERT (Due), CHOREO (Qua), and a full
performance of the movement AQUA (Tre). These are early results of a
Kinetic Ambient Fiction Engine Architecture (KAFEA) being
designed/developed by Mika with Neal Elzenga. The performance utilizes
source imagery from the artwork of Artist/Writer Professor Meg Schoerke
of San Francisco State University. The KAFEA system is a follow-on from
Pontecorvo and Elzenga's earlier generative meta-design concepts
entitled 'Arties', first presented at the AISB'99 Symposium on Creative
Evolutionary Systems in Edinburgh, UK in 1999 and refined for the
Generative Arts '99 Conference in Milan that same year. Mika studied
composition with and worked as an assistant under the electronic music
pioneer Vladimir Ussachevsky. Mika's other work includes Research and
Development in artificial intelligence, virtual environments, and
interactive media. Most recently this research has focused on the
application of simulated evolutionary systems and other Complex Adaptive
Systems (CAS) concepts to design, arts, and product ideation. Adriane's
Cello work began with performing live improvised film scores in an
arabic-jazz-psychedelic fusion band in 2004. She has performed in a
number of noise and experimental rock units since that time. They are
both currently members of the experimental ensembles Cartoon Justice and
Theory Garden. Their work can be found at the following websites:
http://myspace.com/cartoonjustice http://myspace.com/theorygarden
http://myspace.com/dcr0 http://myspace.com/mikasf or for more info
email: email suppressed
9/20
Bristol: Arnolfini
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk
3.00pm, 16 Narrow Quay
BASEMENT BASEMENT.
Tickets £3/£2 concs. & Spike Associates. A celebration of the artist run
space Ayton Basement, Newcastle through work by some of the artists who
showed there. In 1976 a few month after artists run space 2B Butler's
Wharf opened in London, Ayton Basement opened on the quayside in
Newcastle Upon Tyne. 'A space run by artists for contemporary work in
video, film, and live performance'. It would present work by Eric
Bainbridge, Paul Burwell, Nicolas Collins, Stuart Marshall, David
Critchely, Roland Miller and Shirley Cameron, Jenny Okun, Alison
Winckle, amongst others. Many of these artists would also be active in
other organisations including, London Film Makers Co-op, London
Musicians Collective, and London Video Arts. In due course Ayton
Basement would become Basement Group and move to a new venue in Spectro
Arts Workshop, and then continue to evolve with a new group of artists
taking on Basement Group which would become Projects UK and continues
today in Newcastle as Locus +. Curated and presented by Peter Todd a
founding member. Programme. PEA SOUP. NICOLAS COLLINS. 1974-76, sound
CD.16 mins. Recorded live at Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic. June 1999.
Nicolas Collins, electronics, George Cremsachi, double bass. A
self-stabilizing network of circuitry nudges the pitch of audio feedback
to a different resonant frequency every time the feedback starts to
build. The familiar shriek is replaced with unstable patterns of hollow
tones, a site-specific raga reflecting the acoustical personality of the
room. These architectural melodies can be influenced by moving in the
space, making other sounds, or even by letting in a draft of cold air.
CLOUDS. JENNY OKUN. 1975, Colour, 3 Minutes. 16mm silent.This film
contrasts the concepts of relative motion and absolute motion. The speed
and direction of the car and clouds, the spiralling motion of the
camera, and the stationary factory chimneys all combine to produce the
illusion of space within the frame. STILL LIFE. JENNY OKUN. 1976,
silent, colour, 6 mins, 16mm silent. Still Life explores the
transformation of an image from colour negative to colour positive on
one film stock. The still life was painted its colour negative during
filming and then the exposed film was processed and then printed on
colour negative printstock. PEDAGOGUE. NEIL BARTLETT and STUART
MARSHALL. 1988, 10mins, video. A short performance to camera by solo
performer/dramatist Neil Bartlett. Pedagogue explores in comic style the
possible implications of Clause 28. Through Clause 28, the British
Government took powers to outlaw the 'promotion of homosexuality' in
education and local government. THREE PIECES PERFORMED AT THE ROBERT
SELF GALLERY NEWCASTLE. PETER TODD. Reformatted from original stills in
2006 by Susi Arnott. 2.5 mins. DVD. Three pieces presented during One
Artist One Day at the short lived but influential Newcastle branch of
the Robert Self Gallery. PIECES I NEVER DID. DAVID CRITCHLEY. 1979, 35
mins, DVD. "Talking to camera, I described ideas that had never got
beyond a note in a sketchbook. Paradoxically, I was able to resurrect on
video these items of personal performance that had been edged out by the
structuralism of early video art, such as shouting the words "Shut Up!"
until I lost my voice, having objects thrown at me until I changed
colour, and proposing to end the piece by blowing myself up. I intended
the piece to be colourful and action packed -". IDIOPHONICS. STUART
MARSHALL. 1971-72. re-staged performance. Duration variable. A
performance for three people with castenets, and portable foghorns. With
special thanks to Alvin Lucier, Nicolas Collins. Basement Basement
corresponded the publication of THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN WITHOUT YOU From
the Collective Archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+
(1977-2007), and follows on from a number of events, exhibitions and
documentation covering this period including the exhibitions, 'fast and
loose (my dead gallery) London 1956 – 2006 at The Fieldgate Gallery and
the online exhibition 2B Butler's Wharf
www.studycollection.co.uk/2B/index.html. Basement Basement was first
presented at Candid Arts London by LUX on 21st Sept. 2007. Subsequent
presentations have been at The Star and Shadow Cinema Newcastle and the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008. Supported by Spike Island
Associates Prgramme.
9/20
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8pm , 341 Delaware Ave.
VINCENT GRENIER RETROSPECTIVE, 1978-2008
Hallwalls' Media Arts Program will kick off its Fall 2008 Season with a
retrospective of avant garde film and video maker Vincent Grenier. For
over 30 years the French-Canadian artist has been creating award-winning
experimental films and videos, yet his last visit to Buffalo was over
three decades ago! Hallwalls is proud to welcome this esteemed filmmaker
back to Buffalo. Grenier will present an evening of his poetic works, a
survey which will range from his early 16mm films to his most recent
video projects including: Tabula Rasa (1993-2004, Orig.16 mm/DV, 7:30
min., color, sound); Catch (1975, 16mm, 5 min. color/silent); Here
(2002, DV, 7:00 min. stereo); Surface Tension #2 (1995, 16mm, 4min.,
color, optical mono); North Southernly (2005, 6 min. color stereo);
This, and This (2006 DV, 10:30, min., color, stereo); Mend (1979, 16mm,
5 min. B&W/silent); Armoire (2007, DV, 3 min., color, stereo);
Interieur/Interiors (To AK) (1978, 16mm, 15 min. B&W silent). For more
details please visit http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts_09.html#grenier
9/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
THE SHORT FILMS OF KIRTHI NATH
With Filmmaker Kirthi Nath in Person! Co-Presented by 3rd I. Kirthi Nath
is an award winning South Asian filmmaker, writer, educator and curator.
As an artist, her body of inspired creative work fluidly straddles
genres, occupying a fertile hybrid landscape of cultural poetics,
experimentalism, and hybrid narrative. Tactile and dreamlike, her work
explores female subjectivity, memory, desire, and racial and sexual
identities. Nath's films have shown in several festivals and events
including a solo show at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Moondance
International Women's Festival, San Francisco Asian American Film
Festival, Berkeley Women of Color Festival and Ladyfest (Olympia,
Scotland, Bay Area and Texas). As an educator, Kirthi teaches video at
the Bay Area Video Coalition to marginalized youth communities and is
constantly exploring multiple ways of empowering young people to become
both producer and audience; to understand genre and go beyond it.
Screening this evening are the short films Embrace It (2007); Come On,
Big Empty (2006); Letting Go (2005); By the By (2004); The To Do List
Confession (2001); Incarnation (1999); 2:38 (1999); and Yours (1999).
Total running time: 57 mins. Q & A with the filmmaker to follow the
program. About 3rd I: From art-house classics to documentary films, from
innovative and experimental visions to next-level Bollywood, 3rd I is
committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through
independent film. The group, who's national chapter is based out of San
Francisco, showcases films from and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, the Maldives and the global South Asian
Diaspora.
9/20
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 800 Aurora St.,
TIE RETROSPECTIVE: THE SHIVERING EYELASH
Please join TIE curator, Christopher May, at Aurora Picture Show this
weekend in Houston, Texas for a program of obscure black & white films
from the past. This show must go on as they say. X-Ray Film I - The
Alimentary System (Fleisch Archive, 1936, 16mm, silent, 11 min., 22fps,
Germany) This is the first of several of Prof. Robert Janker's x-ray
films. The filmmaker was a pioneer of x-ray cinematography. The film was
featured in a TIE-2005 festival program, showcasing educational films
that were released during the Third Reich in Germany. Un Chant D'Amour
(Jean Genet, 1950, 16mm, silent, 23min., 24fps, France) One of the most
memorable avant-garde films ever made, Un Chant D'Amour is also one of
the most controversial. Made by the famed writer, Jean Genet, it
features uncensored, sensual, jail-house scenes. Two prisoners in
complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately
in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
Spectator (Frans Zwartjes, 1970, 16mm, optical sound, 11min., 24fps,
Netherlands) Hidden safely behind his camera, the photographer can't get
enough of what the glamorous model, with her long eye lashes, has to
offer him. The Secret Cinema (Paul Bartel, 1968, 16mm, optical sound,
30min., 24fps, USA) The Secret Cinema is a black-comic tale of a woman
whose fears that her life is being filmed for the entertainment of her
friends turn out to be true. The film presaged the sardonic tone of most
of the maker's later work (Eating Raoul), though he would mostly abandon
The Secret Cinema's experimental aspects in favor of linear narratives
with perverse touches.
9/20
London, England: Flixation
http://www.thehorsehospital.com
8.30 pm, The Horse Hospital, The Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N
FLIXATION UNDERGROUND FILM CLUB
FLIXATION Short film, electronic craft, amateur film Art, performance
and music. As the sad carcass of the London summer drags itself under a
bush for another year, let Flixation take you by the paw and show you
our Autumn harvest of tasty films, fecund performance, ripening music
and all the usual high jinks including the world premiere of Dr Duncan
Reekie's new film 'The King in Darkness', 'Sick Puppy' by Caroline
Kennedy, 'Jim and Heinz : the Finale' from the Blunt Club and films by
Judd Clampett, Clive Shaw and many other gems. Tube: Russell Square.
Buses: 7,59,68,91,188 Admission £5/£4 www.myspace.com/flixation
www.flixation.org.uk
9/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
WELCOME TO MARS + SHAW PRELINGER + DAVIS +
Kook-expert Ken Hollings jets in from London-town for the North American
book-launch of his sub-pop Cult Study of Fifties America, on the bizarre
intersection of cybernetics, behavior modification, atomic weapons, and
UFOs, highlighting how these currents were refracted through the visual
surfaces of popular culture, domestic design, and suburban living.
Responding from the US side, Megan Shaw Prelinger, representing her own
forthcoming book Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race,
recalls the Eisenhower years with a fascinating flight through a
pictorial history of aerospace ads, retrieved from her own SoMA library.
For the third leg of this Cold War re-visitation, local A/V artist John
Davis returns from, yes, Moldavia (formerly part of Romania), with the
media-archeological remains of the very last Soviet newsreels,
reflecting on this same period, but from the other side of the "Iron
Curtain"! He screens the most astonishing agit-prop artifacts, and in
fact performs an original sonic score, to a particularly uncanny
iteration of Socialist Sur-Realism.
9/20
TIE Retrospective: The Shivering Eyelash: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.org
8:PM, Aurora Picture Show
TIE RETROSPECTIVE: THE SHIVERING EYELASH
X-Ray Film I - The Alimentary System (Fleisch Archive, 1936, 16mm,
silent, 11 min., 22fps, Germany) This is the first of several of Prof.
Robert Janker's x-ray films. The filmmaker was a pioneer of x-ray
cinematography. The film was first featured in a TIE-2005 festival
program that showcased educational films that were made during the Third
Reich in Germany. Un Chant D'Amour (Jean Genet, 1950, 16mm, silent,
23min., 24fps, France) One of the most memorable avant-garde films ever
made, Un Chant D'Amour is also one of the most controversial. Made by
the famed writer, Jean Genet, it features uncensored, sensual,
jail-house scenes. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the
thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a
most unusual kind of communication. Spectator(Frans Zwartjes, 1970,
16mm, optical sound, 11min., 24fps, Netherlands) Hidden safely behind
his camera, the photographer can't get enough of what the glamorous
model, with her long eye lashes, has to offer him. The Secret
Cinema(Paul Bartel, 1968, 16mm, optical sound, 30min., 24fps, USA) The
Secret Cinema is a black-comic tale of a woman whose fears that her life
is being filmed for the entertainment of her friends turn out to be
true. The film presaged the sardonic tone of most of the maker's later
work (Eating Raoul), though he would mostly abandon The Secret Cinema's
experimental aspects in favor of linear narratives with perverse
touches.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
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9/21
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
MICHELLE CITRON'S DAUGHTER RITE - 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
With Michelle Citron in Person! White Light Cinema and The Nightingale
are pleased to co-present a special screening of Michelle Citron's
feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978, 53 mins., 16mm), in its 30th
anniversary year. Daughter Rite is of the key films from the 1970s
alternative film scene – a time when feminism, theory, progressive
politics, queer issues, and a general sense of questioning of
experimental, documentary, and narrative norms were all being felt.
Daughter Rite combines many of these concerns to create a fascinating
and influential hybrid, a genre-bending film that remains a vibrant and
timely exploration of reality and fiction 30 years after it was made.
"Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct
cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth
couldn't always be found in front of a camera lens. Scandalous in its
day for bending the rules of representation to enlighten its audience
about filmmaking, Daughter Rite has a lot to teach folks hooked on
reality TV, too. Citron's documentary inquiries into feminism, women in
the trades, and feminist approaches to media representation are time
capsules that merit re-opening." (B. Ruby Rich, author of Chick Flicks:
Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement). Michelle Citron is
an award-winning media artist whose work includes Daughter Rite and What
You Take For Granted… (films), and As American As Apple Pie, Cocktails &
Appetizers, and Mixed Greens (CD-ROMs). She is the author of the
prize-winning book, Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions, and she's
received grants from the NEA, NEH, and Illinois Arts Council. She is
Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College,
Chicago. Admission: $7.00-10.00, sliding scale.
9/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 46TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR, PART 2
The AAFF Tour is a program of many of the finest cutting-edge, creative
and artfully-crafted independent films from the most recent festival.
Tonight includes "The Anthem" by world-renowned director Apichtapong
Weerasethakul, "The Drift" by Kelly Sears, "My Croatian Nose" by Richard
Dinter, "A Hundred Feet Universe" by Naoko Tasaka, and many more. The
full program can be found at: http://www.aafilmfest.org/tour. General
admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The
Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland
complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
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9/22
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
EYES UPSIDE DOWN, AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY P. ADAMS SITNEY
Sitney's latest work, Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the
Heritage of Emerson is a fascinating study of the poetic and
philosophical roots of the postwar American avant-garde that examines
the centrality and underappreciated influence of Emersonian poetics in
the work of key American experimental filmmakers. The Harvard Film
Archive is proud to welcome P. Adams Sitney for an illustrated lecture
that draws from Eyes Upside Down and integrates screenings and
discussion of the following films: Arabesque for Kenneth Anger Directed
by Marie Menken. US 1961, 16mm, color, 4 min. Visions in Meditation #1
Directed by Stan Brakhage US 1989, 16mm, color, silent, 16 min. Shift
Directed by Ernie Gehr US 1972-74, 16mm, color, 9 min. Gently Down the
Stream Directed by Su Friedrich US 1981, 16mm, b/w, silent, 13 min.
Gloria! Directed by Hollis Frampton US 1979, 16mm, color, 10 min.
Apparatus Sum (Studies For Magellan #1) Directed by Hollis Frampton US
1972, 16mm, color, silent, 3 min.
9/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN
World premiere 2008, 76 min., 16mm California Company Town, the
much-anticipated essay film by Lee Anne Schmitt, casts a probing,
clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the
industries that created them—onetime boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist
whose practice extends from film and performance to photography and
writing, Schmitt is a member of the faculty of CalArts' graduate Film
Directing Program. She creates evocative, deeply felt works that
consider everyday elements of American life as cultural ritual,
including a series of cinematic investigations of the intersections of
landscape with personal memory (Las Vegas, 2000), with the history of
the American Left (Awake and Sing, 2003), and with urban development
(The Wash, 2005). In person: Lee Anne Schmitt
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
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9/23
Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel
http://www.squeaky.org
tba, 712 Main St.
THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
----------------THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER------------------- More heard
of than seen outside San Francisco, the films of Dean Snider (1949-1994)
are formally playful and richly possessed of character. Ultra-short and
often self-mocking, Snider's abounding catalog is a bit confusing and
almost always funny. Hard to compare with any other filmmaker, Snider's
subversive stance and sardonic sense of humor enlivened his varied,
quixotic films and real-life antics. He once staged a coup in the
projection booth of the San Francisco Cinematheque, forcing a show of
local films on the audience. On another occasion, with fellow
cinema-activist Steve Schmidt, Snider literally hijacked an entire
Cinematheque audience by bus and delivered them to a screening at the No
Nothing Cinema, a now-legendary film/performance venue that he
co-founded. Snider was known to pay a dollar to viewers who attended his
shows, and as a judge at the Ann Arbor Film Festival he gave each and
every festival-rejected filmmaker $3 of his prize money, igniting
debate. Indisputably important and certainly overlooked, these films are
nothing short of a revelation. "During his relatively short lifespan,
Snider produced literally hundreds of films. Beyond filmmaking, his
gadfly outbursts and philosophical provocations helped spark controversy
and stimulate conceptual filmic border-crossings…. Film theorist Janice
Crystal-Lipzin said of Dean's films, 'Why, the titles are longer than
the films!' – no doubt referring to HEY!, a single frame of a bale of
hay." –V. Vale and Marian Wallace, RESEARCHPUBS.COM- This program
contains 17 of Snider's 16mm and 35mm works, none of which are in
distribution. A limited edition DVD set of Dean's work will also be
available at all shows.------ Organized and presented by Douglas
Katelus.
9/23
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College
ROSEMARY’S BABY
Rosemary's Baby (1968, 136 min.) by ROMAN POLANSKI. In this, the
director's first American film, "Polanski's camerawork and Richard
Sylbert's production design transform the realistic setting (shot on
location in Manhattan's Dakota apartment building) into a sinister
projection of Rosemary's [Mia Farrow] fears, chillingly locating
supernatural horror in the familiar by leaving the most grotesque
frights to the viewer's imagination. This apocalyptic yet darkly comic
paranoia about the hallowed institution of childbirth touched a nerve
with late-'60s audiences feeling uneasy about traditional norms.
Produced by B-horror maestro William Castle, Rosemary's Baby became a
critically-praised hit, winning [Ruth] Gordon an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress. Inspiring a wave of satanic horror from The Exorcist
(1973) to The Omen (1976), Rosemary's Baby helped usher in the genre's
modern era by combining a supernatural story with Alfred Hitchcock's
propensity for finding normality horrific."—Lucia Bozzola, New York
Times
9/23
San Francisco: MadCat Women's International Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
8:30pm, El Rio 3158 Mission Street @ Precita
HEAR IT TO BELIEVE IT
The 12th Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival presents HEAR
IT TO BELIEVE IT - This year marks a change at MadCat with a new
schedule for the call for submissions and the announcement of an
expanded touring program. MadCat's open call is now exclusively for
touring works, which will be selected by May 1, 2009, for a national
tour to begin in Fall 2009. Hear It to Believe It Continuing a
long-running tradition, MadCat presents a series of silent 16mm films
set to live music performed by local musicians, including bands Tartufi
and Silian Rail. Learn more about these musicians at:
http://www.tartufirock.net/ --- http://www.myspace.com/silianrailmusic.
THE FILMS: Observando el Cielo (Jeanne Liotta, Soundtrack by Peggy
Ahwesh) Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the
chaos of the cosmos are inscribed onto 16mm film. These naturally
occurring very low frequency radio recordings of the magnetosphere allow
the universe to speak for itself. Chosen as one of the Top Ten Films of
2007 by Artforum and the Village Voice. Air (Sheri Wills) Mimicking the
unpredictable and frequently serendipitous nature of watercolor paints
as they run over a blank sheet of paper, these images unfold on the
screen, become charged with life, then quickly disappear into a
mysterious void. Box Office (Jenny Perlin) Shocking statistics highlight
the hypocrisy of American foreign policy in Iraq. Fallen Flags (Amanda
Christie) A layered tapestry of filmed trains and underwater footage,
this film explores fear, death, and transience through the traces of
human voices set amid the flickering light and shadows of empty
passenger cars. Ecstatic Vessels (Diane Kitchen) Fluid images of nature
create a dreamlike palette of color and time, what fellow filmmaker
Grant Wiedenfeld called, "A symphony of movement, color, focus, line."
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly (Charlotte Pryce) A
philosophical quest drenched in luminous colors and sparkling light,
this film was shot on color reversal and entirely hand-processed and
re-printed on the optical printer. curated by Ariella
Ben-Dov,www.madcatfilmfestival.org.
9/23
roma: zac and link campus university
http://www.abstractacinema.com
23-27 of september, roma
ABSTRACTA, INTERNATIONAL ABSTRACT CINEMA EXHIBITION
only festival for abstract cinema in the world
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
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9/24
London, England: CIDA (Cultural Industries Development Agency)
http://www.cida.co.uk
18:00-21:00, Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, E1 4UJ
CIDA FILM CAFé NETWORKING EVENING
CIDA (Cultural Industries Development Agency) is holding its bi-annual
Film Café networking evening on Wednesday 24 September from 6pm– 9pm at
Genesis Cinema, East London. CIDA has brought together leading film
financiers, support agencies, broadcasters and distributors to give
filmmakers and those interested in film production the opportunity to
network and find out what support is available to help them develop
their film production businesses. This event features presentations from
the European Union Media Programme unit, New Producer's Alliance, ITV
Local, Create.tv, Current TV and Filmaka providing a full insight into
their current grants, marketing platforms, commissions and business
support services. As an event highlight Create.tv will launch their
latest short film challenge, which has been designed with CIDA. This
challenge invites amateur and professional filmmakers to capture aspects
of East London and its relationship with sport. Each entry will be
judged by Create.tv and members of the Cultural Olympiad, with the
winning entry being broadcast on Create.tv as a flagship film of the
Cultural Olympiad. This challenge will be officially opened at the film
café networking evening on 24 September and entries will not be accepted
before. This new and challenging opportunity will be the first to work
with cutting-edge online technology that will lead future low-budget
production and distribution models. Submissions must be: 90 seconds to 3
minutes long Any genre A finished short or an introduction to a future
feature Created on the Create.tv platform CIDA, the Cultural Industries
Development Agency is the leading support organisation for the creative
and cultural sector in East London. We help thousands of creative
individuals, businesses and arts organisations through our range of
innovative projects, services and events.
9/24
Los Angeles, California: UCLA's Hammer Museum
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/
7 pm, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.
HAMMER PRESENTS: RESTLESS BRILLIANCE
Hammer Presents: Restless Brilliance Exploring current trajectories in
music and video while showcasing new work in the field of experimental
electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presents
artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance,
and art. Screening: Colorfield Variations, a collection of audio/visual
works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array
of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists. Live performance:
Shuttle358 seamlessly blends the soft sounds of ambient music with the
granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism. Co-presented with
Volume Projects.
9/24
Smithfield, NC: Ava Gardner Museum
http://www.avafilmfestival.com
daily 10am-until, Five venues in Downtown Smithfield, North Carolina
AVA GARDNER FILM FESTIVAL
The fourth annual Ava Gardner Film Festival scheduled for September
24-27, 2008 will be a celebration of independent films from around the
world and will showcase several of Ava's classic films. The Ava Gardner
Museum has set the last week in September every year for this popular
new festival that draws thousands of visitors to Smithfield. From
Wednesday through Saturday, the festival will feature independent films,
documentaries, narratives, short films and features. In addition to the
films, there will be special museum exhibits and the JOCO Artists Guild
sponsored Arts and Fine Crafts Marketplace near the Ava Gardner Museum
located in historic Downtown Smithfield. For more festival information
check out the Ava Gardner Museum's Web site at www.avafilmfestival.com
or e-mail Angela Lawson, Museum Director, at (address suppressed)
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