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This week [December 6 - 14, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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"Filemón" by cassandra tribe
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"Ce(n)sur" by Geert Wachtelaer
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Los Angeles Filmforum
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4th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Flower Thief [December 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Kill Your Timid Notion Festival On Tour 2008 [December 6, Glasgow, UK]
* 10 Years of Experimental and Different Cinema [December 6, Paris, France]
* Burroughs' Words of Advice + Flicker [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Light Spaces – New videos By Walter
Ungerer [December 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Technology, Nature and Other Matters [December 7, San Francisco, California]
* Joan Jonas-Reading Culture Through Dante and Aby Warburg [December 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Festival Des CinéMas DifféRents De Paris [December 9, Paris, France]
* Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: the Language Show [December 10, Providence, RI]
* The Free Screen - MáRio Peixoto's Limite [December 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Bran(...)Pos + Wiggwaum: Sound Vs. Image [December 11, San Francisco, California]
* Peter Rose [December 13, New York, New York]
* James T. Hong's Lessons of the Blood + [December 13, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Susan Mogul's "Driving Men" [December 14, Los Angeles, California]
* At Sea [December 14, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
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12/6
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
THE FLOWER THIEF
Curated and Introduced by Patrick Friel. Ron Rice's acclaimed, but
little seen, experimental classic The Flower Thief (1960, 75 mins.,
16mm) will be showing in a recently preserved print. Starring the
indomitable, dough-faced underground fixture Taylor Mead ("a cross
between a kewpie doll and Fred Astaire gone bad" – Sheldan Renan), The
Flower Thief is a loose, Beat-inspired narrative about the hi-jinks and
misadventures of a Wild Man caught between the absurd and the poetic.
"In the old Hollywood days movie studios would keep a man on the set
who, when all other sources of ideas failed, was called upon to 'cook
up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF
has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed
in the field of stunt." (Ron Rice)
12/6
Glasgow, UK: CCA
http://www.arika.org.uk
1830-2245, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION FESTIVAL ON TOUR 2008
KILL YOUR TIMID NOTION A step across the border between sound & vision
Featuring live immersive performances and film screenings from:- Live
Performances KEN JACOBS & ERIC LA CASA / KEITH ROWE / ANDREW LAMPERT /
BRUCE MCCLURE / GREG POPE / and more... Film Programme HOLLIS FRAMPTON /
JEANNE LIOTTA / PAUL SHARITS / PETER KUBELKA / WALTER RUTTMANN / and
more... Your eyes see what, 10 or 15 images a second? That's 10Hz. Your
ears can hear 15,000 Hz. Surely there must be something interesting in
this incongruity? Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading
festivals of music, sound, film and image. It's about exploring the
different ways we navigate the borders, disparities and similarities
between what we hear and what we see. Involving some of the great
experimental artists, musicians and filmmakers of our time, and some of
the not too distant future. The programme features film being developed
as it's projected, 3D celestial pulsations, visual harmonics,
audio/video feedback loops, celluloid manhandled with sandpaper and much
more besides.... For more info, clips, sound and images take a look at
the tour site www.arika.org.uk
12/6
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8 p.m, Centre Georges Pompidou
10 YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DIFFERENT CINEMA
10 ans de cinéma expérimental et différent For its 10th anniversary the
Festival of Cinémas Différents of Paris (9-14 December 08) is invited by
the Center Pompidou to present a screening with films already programmed
within the last 9 past editions. To Celebrate this event Marcel Mazé the
CJC's founder, Pip Chodorov the new president, and Angélica Cuevas
Portilla and Gabrielle Reiner the directors of this 10th Edition will be
present on the screening. Pour son dixième anniversaire, le Festival des
cinémas différents de Paris (du 9 au 14 décembre 2008) est invité par le
Centre Pompidou à présenter un choix des films projetés lors de ses
précédentes éditions. Né en 1999 sous les auspices du Collectif jeune
cinéma (CJC) créé en 1971, ce festival a pris la relève du Festival du
jeune cinéma d'Hyères, se consacrant exclusivement au cinéma différent,
qu'il soit expérimental, underground ou d'avant-garde. Pour fêter
l'événement, Marcel Mazé, président d'honneur, Raphaël Bassan,
co-fondateur du CJC, Pip Chodorov, son actuel président, Gabrielle
Reiner et Angelica Cuevas, directrices du festival, seront présents à la
séance.
12/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
BURROUGHS' WORDS OF ADVICE + FLICKER
In its US premiere, Lars Movin's portrait of William Burroughs follows
the esteemed Beat writer from his European spoken-word tour back to his
Manhattan Bunker, and finally to his Lawrence, Kansas home in his later
years. Hilariously scabrous readings that capture Burroughs' sardonic
wit are intercut with in-depth interviews and music by Patti Smith, as
friends (including poet John Giorno), offer new insights into the
author's creative legacy. Co-billed is Nik Sheehan's FLicKeR, recounting
the history of Brion Gysin's hypnotic Dream Machine, a simple yet
ingenious variety of strobe-light that produces a drugless high. With
interviews from some of the counterculture's most eccentric icons--Iggy
Pop, Genesis P-Orridge, Marianne Faithfull, and again, our man Bill
Burroughs--this hr-plus doc limns Gysin's enlightened quest to transform
human consciousness. With DJ Onanist.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2008
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12/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS LIGHT SPACES – NEW VIDEOS BY WALTER
UNGERER
Ungerer is a longtime filmmaker and artist of international reputation,
beginning with the underground film scene of NYC in the early 1960s,
continuing through to his own experimental short films and features in
Vermont from the late '60s to the 21st Century. In the 1990s he moved to
video in his explorations of light, space and technology. Tonight
includes :The Salt Shaker and the Moon" (2008), "Inalienable" (2008),
"Such As It Is" (2007), "91 Le Grand" (2005) and more. All Los Angeles
Premieres. Ungerer in person. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas. General admission $10,
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.
12/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
TECHNOLOGY, NATURE AND OTHER MATTERS
curated and presented by Charles Boone A broad view of artists' work in
the realm of moving images—plus, perhaps, some nice, seeming
opposites—is explored: Material originally intended for installation
will be presented theatrically along with documentation of various sorts
and other provocative films and videos. Step by step, Alexandra Steele's
One to the Forty-First Power dissolves the everyday into abstract
worlds. Minyong Jang's The Breath details nature's stasis and tiny
movements. In Karaoke Wrong Number, Rachel Perry Welty riffs on what her
answering machine has to say. The images in Sarah Wylie Ammerman's
Swallow seem to start in a doctor's examining room – perhaps we're
actually seeing a weird kind of S/M. Also screening: Masako Tanaka's
close-up portrait of Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Hession's Ten Attempts,
Joshua Kanies' Chasm, recent work by David Phillips and Paul Rowley,
Christoph Giradet, Mami Kosemura and other diverse treats. (Charles
Boone)
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
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12/8
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd St.
JOAN JONAS-READING CULTURE THROUGH DANTE AND ABY WARBURG
Los Angeles theatrical premieres Showing theatrical versions of her two
most recent multimedia works, legendary video and performance artist
Joan Jonas offers a deeply lyrical reading of two literary sources: the
epic poetry of Dante Alighieri and the poetic cultural commentary of
turn-of-the-century German historian and theorist Aby Warburg. Reading
Dante (2007–08, 30 min.) is a double projection inspired by fragments of
Inferno and Paradiso that produces the experience of a sensual,
diffracted "infernal paradise" through footage collected from all over
the world: Northern Canadian woods, a performance in Italy, a modernist
ruin in a Mexican lava field, New York's deserted business district at
night. This piece is followed by a single-channel version of The Shape,
the Scent, the Feel of Things (2004–06, 70 min.)—a staging of Aby
Warburg's famous 1923 lecture on the Pueblo Indian snake ritual. One of
the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early
'70s, Jonas has collaborated with figures ranging from Dan Graham and
Richard Serra to Laurie Anderson and The Wooster Group. Her work has
been exhibited extensively across the globe. In person: Joan Jonas
Tickets $9 [students $7]
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
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12/9
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
Starts at 8 pm, 17, Bld de Strasbourg 75010
FESTIVAL DES CINéMAS DIFFéRENTS DE PARIS
Film Festival only devoted to different, experimental, underground
films. The Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with a retrospective
program within the 9 past editions and a special selection of black and
white contemporary films. Which also includes performances, expanded
cinema, a workshop for children and monographic screening of Dietmar
Brehm, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Robert Todd and Sylvain George. The
Festival will take place from the 9th to the 12th December at the
Archipel cinema in Paris and during the weekend (13 and 14) at Saint
Ouen (Mains d'oeuvres).
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008
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12/10
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30 pm, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street
MAGIC LANTERN CINEMA PRESENTS: THE LANGUAGE SHOW
Magic Lantern presents: THE LANGUAGE SHOW Wednesday, December 10, 9:30pm
Cable Car Cinema 204 S. Main Street, Providence $5 In the 1920s,
filmmakers as diverse as Griffith and Vertov were preoccupied by the
possibility that cinema might function as a visual Esperanto, allowing
for a new language of communication across national borders. While the
introduction of sound put an end to this dream, the relationship between
language and cinema has never ceased to fascinate experimental film. A-Z
inventories, proper names, diaries, signage, foreign languages,
screenplays, and karaoke lyric prompts populate the 8 films and videos
that make up THE LANGUAGE SHOW, Magic Lantern's last program of 2008.
Featuring: Ben Russell, Trypps 5 (Dubai). 3 mins, 16mm, 2008 "APP APPAP
APP APAPPAP APP APP APP APAPPAPAPPAP APPAP APP" A short treatise on the
semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering
neon of global capitalism. –BR Su Friedrich, Gently Down the Stream. 12
mins, 16mm, 1981. Constructed from fourteen dreams taken from my
journals. The text is scratched directly onto the film, so that you hear
your own voice as you read. The "framed" images accompanying the words
are of women, water, animals and saints, which were chosen for their
indirect but potent correspondence to the text. –SF Michael Robinson,
Hold Me Now. 3 mins, video, 2008. A haunted sing-a-long made for the PDX
Film Festival's 2008 Karaoke Throwdown. –MR David Gatten, Film for
Invisible Ink, case no. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter [diminished by
1,794]. 13 mins, 16mm, 2008. A single piece of paper, a second stab at
suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by
Charles Darwin. A long-distance dedication for a far-away friend halfway
up the mountain.—DG Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen. 5:30 mins,
video, 1975. From A to Z, Rosler "shows and tells" the ingredients of
the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary
with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as
she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork,
is a rebel gesture, punching through the "system of harnessed
subjectivity" from the inside out. –Video Data Bank Gunvor Nelson, My
Name is Oona. 10 mins, 16mm, 1969. MY NAME IS OONA captures in haunting,
intensely lyrical images fragments of the coming to consciousness of a
child girl. A series of extremely brief flashes of her moving through
night-lit space or woods in sensuous negative, separated by rapid fades
into blackness, burst upon us like a fairy-tale princess, with a late
sun only partially outlining her and the animal in silvery filigree
against the encroaching darkness; one of the most perfect recent
examples of poetic cinema. Throughout the entire film, the girl,
compulsively and as if in awe, repeats her name, until it becomes a
magic incantation of self-realization. –Amos Vogel Emily Vey Duke +
Cooper Battersby, The Fine Arts, 3 mins, video, 2001. "I hate the fine
arts. I hate and am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine
arts are always made with artifice." A look at the obstacles between
language and expression. Hollis Frampton, Poetic Justice (Hapax Legomena
II). 31 mins, 16mm, 1971. Frampton presents us with a 'scenario' of
extreme complexity in which the themes of sexuality, infidelity,
voyeurism are 'projected' in narrative sequence entirely through the
voice telling the tale—again it is the first person singular speaking,
however, in the present tense and addressing the characters as 'you,'
'your lover,' and referring to an 'I.' We see, on screen, only the
physical aspect of a script, papers resting on a table...and the
projection is that of a film as consonant with the projection of the
mind. –Annette Michelson
12/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
7:00 p.m., Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. West
THE FREE SCREEN - MáRIO PEIXOTO'S LIMITE
RESTORED ARCHIVAL 35MM PRINT of LIMITE! Director: Mário Peixoto (Brazil,
1931, 120 minutes, 35mm, Cast: Olga Breno, Brutus Pedreira, Tatiana
Rey). Limite "accomplishes what Germaine Dulac had demanded in 1927: the
'real' filmmaker should 'divest cinema of all elements not particular to
it, to seek its true essence in the consciousness of movement and visual
rhythms.'" – Michael Korfmann, senses of cinema. One of the plentiful
buried treasures of world cinema, Limite (shown only once before at the
Cinematheque) has recently resurfaced in exclusive screenings at Cannes,
Rotterdam, and Paris following a lengthy period of inaccessibility – one
which helped cement its mythic aura and status as "unknown masterpiece,"
a term used by French critic Georges Sadoul following his unsuccessful
pilgrimage to see it in Rio de Janeiro in the early Sixties. Limite is
Mário Peixoto's one and only film, an enthralling work of pure cinema
with stylistic affinities to Fritz Lang, Murnau, Pabst, and Man Ray, and
widely considered one of the best Brazilian films of all time. Inspired
by an arresting André Kertész photograph that the then
twenty-two-year-old director encountered in Paris, the film exudes an
ecstatic Expressionism in its high contrast, elliptical depiction of
three castaways battling unforgiving waters on a rickety boat. The
precariousness of their existence is uncannily mirrored by the
threatened annihilation of the film's original nitrate images, some of
which succumbed to vinegar syndrome before a dupe copy was made and
restored. The resulting damage has created a fascinating artifact, both
beautiful and haunting. Never released commercially, the film was shown
at ciné-clubs within Brazil, then at a few private screenings (most
notably for Orson Welles on one occasion and Renée Falconetti on
another), then withdrew into obscurity partially on account of poor
prints. A protracted restoration prevented widespread exposure, though
its reputation grew continuously, due to a polemical piece written by
Glauber Rocha (who declaimed its bourgeois status), and support from
Walter Salles who, in 1996, founded the Mário Peixoto Archives. Although
arduous work continues on the film's digital remastering, the restored
print is being made available to us by the Cinemateca Brasileira, who
have been instrumental in assuring the film's lifeline. Tonight's
special screening will include the restored original soundtrack,
composed of vinyl recordings by Satie, Debussy, Borodin, Stravinsky,
Prokofiev, Ravel and Cesar Franck, which were played live during its
first screenings. – Andréa Picard.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008
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12/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street (at Twenty-first)
BRAN(...)POS + WIGGWAUM: SOUND VS. IMAGE
presented in association with Club Sandwich For years the SF artist
known as bran(…)pos has terrorized audiences worldwide with wildly
delirious, butoh-inspired sound/music/noise/face performances. The
recent addition of Max/MSP-modulated live video feeds to the infernal
exotica cartoon brew takes the already harrowing violence of the
artiste's performative palette to new delirious dimension. In
grunge/organic counterpoint, Wiggwaum—the local trio of Douglas Katelus,
Loren Means and Randy Lee Sutherland—revive the "lightshow" genre by
pairing hand-worked film and vintage psychedelia to their noise rock
freakout jams. As if this were not enough, screening between acts will
be Ben Russell's Black and White Trypps Number Three, a trance/ritual
transformation featuring the music of Lightning Bolt, and Terence
Hannum's The Badge of Punishment (featuring the sonic squalls of
Prurient).
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2008
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12/13
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 E. 4th St.
PETER ROSE
Rose will show a selection of recently completed works, several of which
are based upon his experiments with "transfalumination*" Included will
be: The Geosophist's Tears Odysseus in Ithaca Pneumenon* (a video
installation) Studies in Transfalumination* I think I shall walk forever
in the afteroon* Conflation (a video installation) E Questriations* (a
suite of video installations)
12/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JAMES T. HONG'S LESSONS OF THE BLOOD +
Now based in Berlin, the globetrotting Mr. Hong rewards his fans in
Frisco with a privileged 'sneak peek' at his feature-lengthLessons of
the Blood, a personal crusade to expose Japanese historical revisionism
of war crimes. In response to Japan's controversial erasure of
atrocities against its Asian neighbors, particularly China, James has
generated, through repeated research trips, many interview hours with
survivors, and has now wrapped this doc material in his own inimitable
polemic-cinema style. This powerful essay on historical memory, slave
labor, and biological warfare is preceded by a special screening of the
first 16mm reel of Hong's extremely rare Spear of Destiny, an allegory
on similar themes of political tyranny.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2008
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12/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS SUSAN MOGUL’S "DRIVING MEN"
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Susan Mogul's "Driving Men" (2008, 68
min). Mogul in attendance. Mogul's hilarious and heartfelt feature
length film is a multi-layered story that explores universal themes:
fathers and daughters, men and women and the choice not to have
children; it also strives to become a mirror for others. A repeat after
our sold out screening in August. General admission $10,
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.
12/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
AT SEA
curated and presented by Jennifer Blaylock "…the cruelty of the sea, its
relentlessness and awfulness, rushed upon me. Life had become cheap and
tawdry, a beastly and inarticulate thing, a soulless stirring of the
ooze and slime. I held on to the weather rail, close by the shrouds, and
gazed out across the desolate foaming waves to the low-lying fog-banks
that hid San Francisco and the California coast. Rain-squalls were
driving in between, and I could scarcely see the fog. And this strange
vessel, with its terrible men, pressed under by wind and sea and ever
leaping up and out, was heading away into the south-west, into the great
and lonely Pacific expanse." (Jack London, The Sea Wolf) Screening: a
triad meditation of new seafaring films, including local filmmaker
matthew swiezynski's this invisible art of memory – magic hour number 1,
Stephanie Barber's dwarfs the sea, and Peter Hutton's At Sea which
documents the birth, life and death of a forty-ton container ship,
including scenes of ship-building in South Korea and ship-breaking in
Bangladesh. (Jennifer Blaylock)
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