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This week [January 10 - 18, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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"Keep the Home Fires Burning" by Ryan OToole
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"Southern Tier" by Jeff Hyland
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Cambridge International Super 8 Film festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: January 09, 2009)
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Filmaka Lincoln Grammy Competition (Los Angeles,Ca USA; Deadline: January 02, 2009)
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West Chester Film Festival (West Chester, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Detroit Shorts Film Festival (Detroit, MI; Deadline: March 01, 2009)
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Euganea Movie Movement 2009 (Monselice/Este - ITALY; Deadline: March 13, 2009)
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Experiments in Cinema V4.2 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2009)
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Renderyard International Film Festival (London; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival (PDX FEST) (Portland, OR, USA; Deadline: January 23, 2009)
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Main Line Film Festival (Wayne, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 15, 2009)
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4th Annual Short Shorts Film Festival (Duluth, MN, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2009)
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Hinterland Film Festival (Montague, MA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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60x60 WHAT IF? (New England, USA; Deadline: January 15, 2009)
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Lateral Movement: Art & the Moving Image (Adelaide, SA, Australia; Deadline: January 16, 2009)
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The Virtual Memory Project (Philadelphia; Deadline: January 23, 2009)
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West Chester Film Festival (West Chester, PA, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Artist and the Archives - Film Ist, Parts 1-12 [January 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Brakhage With Brakhage: Marilyn Brakhage Introducing Films By Stan
Brakhage. [January 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Brakhage: Films From 1958–1962 [January 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 12, Eugene, Oregon]
* 17 Hours of Darkness (Reflections On This Place I Call Home) [January 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* Curse and Blessing (Film and Filing Cabinet) [January 14, Brooklyn, New York]
* Karkowski / Hinant & Lohle [January 14, Brussels, Belgium]
* Avant-Garde Silent Films - "Berlin: Symphony of A City" [January 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Entrance Strategies [January 15, San Francisco, California]
* Convergence [January 15, Sheffield]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 16, San Francisco, California]
* The Artist and the Archives - "Phantom of the Operator" [January 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits [January 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Under A Shipwrecked Moon [January 17, San Francisco, California]
* "Crawford" A Documentary Film By David Modigliani [January 18, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2009
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1/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
THE ARTIST AND THE ARCHIVES - FILM IST, PARTS 1-12
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present The Artist and The Archives
- "Film Ist," parts 1-12 (Gustav Deutsch) Deutsch uses a set of
industrial, scientific, educational and silent narrative films to
explore the basic properties and abilities of cinema, providing twelve
pithy and profound answers to the question, "What is Film?" While Film
Ist 1-6 (1998) proposes the science laboratory as one birthplace of
film, the more anthropological sections 7–12 (2002) focuses on variety;
using tricks, humor and theatre, to trace a lineage back to the
innovations of Georges Méliès. General admission $10; Filmforum and
Cinefamily members free. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com and
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at Fairfax
High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2009
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1/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
BRAKHAGE WITH BRAKHAGE: MARILYN BRAKHAGE INTRODUCING FILMS BY STAN
BRAKHAGE.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Brakhage with Brakhage: Marilyn Brakhage
introducing Films by Stan Brakhage. Filmforum is delighted to open its
2009 season with a marvelous program of films by the master avant-garde
filmmaker Stan Brakhage, hosted by Marilyn Brakhage in her first
appearance in Los Angeles. Films include The Machine of Eden (1970), "He
was born. He suffered. He died" (1974), Burial Path (1978), Visions in
Meditation #4 (1990), Boulder Blues and Pearls and…(1992), Persians 1-3
(1999), Chinese Series (2003) 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.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2009
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1/12
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
BRAKHAGE: FILMS FROM 1958–1962
Six of Brakhage's most influential and greatest films. ANTICIPATION OF
THE NIGHT is a moving exploration of mortality within a world suffused
with a tragic and indifferent beauty. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING is at
once a document of his daughter's birth and a testament to the
generative powers of light and love. BLUE MOSES grapples with the
conflicts between how the camera and the eye perceive. SIRIUS REMEMBERED
is a loving and gruesome tribute to his beloved pet dog, left to decay
over the course of three seasons. As Sirius rots, Brakhage never
flinches. Also in program: THE DEAD, THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR. All
films on 16mm. Admission: $5
1/12
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://www.proscenia.net/diva/calendar.htm
7:30pm, 110 W Broadway
CHANNELING: AN INVOCATION OF SPECTRAL BODIES AND QUEER SPIRITS
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits *a touring
film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White*
CURATORS IN PERSON! CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and
the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that
calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The
intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult
technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and
emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The
works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the
political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the
AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition
(Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow
cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents
emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns
on their own campy, poetic, sexual,humorous, and even utopian terms,
using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade
effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit http://channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour
info, and more information about the artists and works included in the
program. RUNNING ORDER: Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00,
video) Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video) Michael Robinson
- Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video) EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) -
Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video) Aay Preston-Myint - Some
Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video) Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00,
video) John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990,
24:00, video) Total Running Time: ~68 min. $5-$10 Sliding Scale
Admission
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2009
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1/13
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
17 HOURS OF DARKNESS (REFLECTIONS ON THIS PLACE I CALL HOME)
Curated by Christina Battle "17 hours of darkness (reflections on this
place I call home)" brings together a collection of works by
contemporary Canadian artists exploring the dark and nagging anxieties
associated with the Canadian landscape. An investigation of my own
obsession with Canada's natural climate, artists represented attempt to
navigate the darkness that envelops our days for so many hours of the
year. As we brace for another long winter I wonder how this obsession
has shaped our collective memory and in turn impacts the Canadian
experience...oh, and of course, there's some hockey in there too. - CB
Work to be screened, accompanied by a handmade slideshow: 18,000 Dead in
Gordon Head, Clive Holden, 35mm on DVD, 2003, 13 mins In the summer of
1982, during a visit to the poet-filmmaker's hometown, he witnessed the
murder of a teenage girl – killed by a sniper on a quiet, suburban
street, in the middle of the afternoon. He returned a year later to lie
with his camera on the spot where she died, and to roam the
neighbourhood searching for footage. Taking Pictures, Scott Berry and
Adam Segal, 16mm, 2007, 3 mins A hand-processed diary film about memory,
family and loss told through snapshots and landscapes in and around
Ontario. Music by Sam Phillips. Lake Ontario (in my head), Penny McCann,
16mm, 2006, 5 mins A meditative look at a mutable and hypnotic horizon.
Grainy Super 8 imagery, optically printed 16mm footage and an
atmospheric soundtrack evoke the stillness of mind reached when standing
before expansive sky and water. oil wells: sturgeon road & 97th street,
Christina Battle, 16mm, 2002, 3 mins Highlighting the repetitive nature
of oil wells in northern alberta, this hand processed film documents a
sighting common to the canadian prairies. Wreck/Nation, John Price,
16mm, 1998, 12 mins Wreck: I passed the wreck not long after crossing
into Saskatchewan. Day 3, alone, driving west towards Vancouver. On the
other side of the highway, a twisted mess of iron and steel. Rail cars
like beached whales strewn arbitrarily in heaps rupturing the
perspective symmetry of the endless prairie. At once an allusion to the
fallibility of industrialization and modernity. I felt after it had
flashed past the windscreen, that there were significations here that
reached far deeper than this immediate literal interpretation. Half an
hour after I had watched the image recede completely into the eastern
horizon through my side view mirror, the memory of this apocalyptic
tableaux - its darkly poetic irony - would compel me to turn back.
Nation: A roll of film shot in Montreal at the 1995 rally against the
secession of Quebec became the raw material for a candy coloured
hand-processed meditation on the idea of "Nation." Mean, Clive Holden,
35mm on DVD, 2006, 3 mins Mean is a diptych made from Super 8 film and
old video footage. The pun of the title comes from the extra levels of
"meaning" we attach to nation, religion, sports teams, and even to art
genres like film and video. The hockey players were shot in Super 8 off
a TV set and then subjected to cheap and crude "toy-like" effects -- the
result seems to capture the tragicomic nature of hockey fights (and of
artists arguing). With the fans, the favourite kind of hockey fight
results in 100% domination, with the complete humiliation and
psychological disintegration of the loser. Mean tries to dissolve and
reconstitute this corrosive culture into a kind of uglybeauty. The
diseased maple leaves were filmed beside Toronto's Don Valley Parkway,
the lens focusing on the sky and the sun between the branches. This
piece isn't really a film or video, it's "grain + noise." Défi des
étoiles, Sara MacLean, 16mm, 2005, 11 mins Jan 29, 1991 "Ladies and
Gentlemen: Would you please now rise for our Canadian troops in the
Persian Gulf War...for our Gold Medal-winning team, and our Country?"
Shoulders on a Map, Jason Britski, 16mm, 2004, 4 mins "An endless
inventory of trees, snow, rocks and water rolls by onscreen in this
experimental travelogue. Shoulders on a Map is a Super 8 homage to
transportation, motion and the breathtaking landscape of the Canadian
Rockies." - Ben Murray, Toronto International Film Festival Fore and
Aft, Sara MacLean, 35mm on DVD, 2008, 6 mins Fore-and-Aft was created by
the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada - site of the highest tides in
the world. Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was
buried in the sea bed, and dragged through the ocean behind a boat.
Physically exposing film to the motion and light of the sea recorded
tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles.
Images of the Bluenose (the famous fore-and-aft rigged racing schooner
from Nova Scotia whose likeness graces the Canadian ten cent coin) float
ominously overtop of the tides, never coming into clear focus and
instead dissolving into wet ink droplets and reforming - merging with
and re-emerging from the sea. With a B.Sc. in Environmental Biology from
the University of Alberta and an MFA from the San Francisco Art
Institute, Christina currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her
artworks have been supported by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of
Toronto (LIFT), the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council
for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council, and
have screened internationally in festivals and galleries including: The
Images Festival (Toronto), The London Film Festival (London, England);
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands); YYZ
Artists' Outlet (Toronto); White Box (New York); The Foreman Art Gallery
at Bishops University (Sherbrooke, QB); The city of Toronto's Nuit
Blanche 2006 and in the 2006 Whitney Biennial: "Day for Night" (New
York). Tickets - $7, available at door.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
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1/14
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
CURSE AND BLESSING (FILM AND FILING CABINET)
Presented by Jem Cohen "Everything is included in the new conception of
the newsreel. Into the jumble of life resolutely enter." - Dziga Vertov,
"Kinoks, a Revolution" "...to that factory of film footage in which
life, passing through the camera lens, does not vanish forever, leaving
no trace, but does, on the contrary, leave a trace, precise and
inimitable." - Dziga Vertov, "On Kinopravda" "Not a film, but a filing
cabinet." - Dziga Vertov, the Diaries In my closets, cabinets, and
storage rooms there are stacks of films. Some eventually become parts of
finished projects, some were shown here and there in live music
collaborations, some never make it beyond the apartment wall. An
informal evening of mostly 16mm rarities and sketches; a few things
never previously projected and at least one never previously seen, the
journey more than the destination. - JC Subjects likely to include the
following: The Federal Prison on 2nd Ave. Brooklyn (just a few blocks
from Light Industry). The Eldridge Street Synagogue in disarray. Steel
factory madness in the North of Spain. Italian Anatomy museum.
Springtime in Gowanus. Followed by a conversation between Cohen and
Michael Almereyda. Brooklyn-based Cohen has made over 35 films built
from his own ongoing archive of street footage, portraits, and sound.
His feature, CHAIN, premiered at the 2004 Berlin International Film
Festival and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and received an
Independent Spirit Award. Most recently, Cohen collaborated with Patti
Smith on a series of short films and installations at Fondation Cartier
in Paris and directed a program of film with live music, Evening's Civil
Twilight in Empires of Tin (with Vic Chesnutt, members of Silver Mount
Zion, Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, T. Griffin and Catherine McRae). It will
be released on dvd by Constellation Records. Cohen's other projects
include: Benjamin Smoke, (co-directed with Peter Sillen), Instrument
(Fugazi) and Lost Book Found. He has worked extensively with musicians,
including Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the Ex, Terry Riley, Elliott
Smith, Sparklehorse, R.E.M., Blonde Redhead, Stephen Vitiello, and the
Orpheus Orchestra with Gil Shaham. Cohen's works have been broadcast by
the BBC, PBS, ARTE, and the Sundance Channel, and are in the collections
of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, and Melbourne's Screen
Gallery. Tickets - $7, available at door.
1/14
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=8647
8 PM, 23 Ravenstein st.
KARKOWSKI / HINANT & LOHLE
WED 14.01.2009 / 20:00 BOZAR / BRUSSELS [b]KARKOWSKI / HINANT &
LOHLE[/b]
[IMG]http://www.bozar.be/b3/userfiles/FY07-Torturing_Nurse_440302.jpg[/I
MG] [b]ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - live [i]Fuck You[/i] (Guy Marc Hinant &
Dominique Lohlé, Belg, 2009, 100', english and chinese, french
subtitles) - screening[/b] Important figure in the history of noise
music, [b]Zbigniew Karkowski [/b]has studied with Xenakis, Messiaen,
Boehmer and Boulez. He has worked with Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende
Neubauten), Merzbow, The Hafler Trio and Peter Rehberg. Karkowski is not
interested in the traditional definition of music. In his opinion, all
musical theory and systems as cultural concepts must be destroyed.
[i]Fuck You[/i], the new film by [b]Guy-Marc Hinant and Dominique
Lohlé[/b] (following their work on Luc Ferrari, Henri Pousseur, David
Toop and Léo Kupper), is a portrait of Karkowski during a Chinese tour
in 2006. [i]Fuck You [/i]is an immersion in the heart of the chinese
underground music scene (Dickson Dee, Torturing Nurse, Sun Meng Jin,
Wand Changcun, The Bamboo Lover) and sets up a clash between opposite
visions on music. First screening. INFO:
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=8647 PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS | PALEIS
VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN | CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS - 23 rue Ravensteinstraat,
1000 Bruxelles | Brussel | Brussels - http://www.bozar.be
1/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
AVANT-GARDE SILENT FILMS - "BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A CITY"
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present Avant-Garde Silent Films -
"Berlin: Symphony Of A City." Walter Ruttmann's classic 1927 film with
live musical accompaniment. A vast, restless celebration of urban life
in Weimar Germany, Ruttman's masterwork is perhaps the most poetic of
the great "City Symphony" films. General admission $14; Filmforum and
Cinefamily members $10. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com and
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at Fairfax
High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
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1/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 pm, 151 Third Street
ENTRANCE STRATEGIES
SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater 7:00 p.m. In conjunction with "The Art of
Participation: 1950 to Now", this selection of video shorts presents a
range of documented interventions by contemporary artists and activists.
From subtle gestures to provocative engagement, these often sly and
humorous performances question the limits of public space and the
reliability of the media. No corporate institution is safe from their
critical lens. The selection includes works by Bernadette Corporation,
Jeff Cain, Andrea Fraser, Aleksandra Mir, Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos,
and The Yes Men. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors.
Tickets are available at the museum (with no surcharge) or online.
Organized by Melissa Pellico and Tanya Zimbardo, media arts, SFMOMA
1/15
Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University
all day - end view 6-8pm, Sheffield Institute of Art and Design Gallery | Furnival Building | Sheffield Hallam University | 153 Arundel Street | Sheffield S1 2NU
CONVERGENCE
CONVERGENCE is an exhibition of works which approach and focus on a
particular theme or subject through the moving and still image, silence
and sound. All works have been created by Northern Media School BA & MA
Film and Media Production, and BA Photography students from Sheffield
Hallam University. Where: Sheffield Institute of Art and Design Gallery
Furnival Building | Sheffield Hallam University | 153 Arundel Street |
Sheffield S1 2NU | UK When: Tuesday 6th January 2009 - 16th January 2009
- Mondays - Fridays 10-4pm End View: Thursday 15th January 2009 6–8pm -
Please join course lecturers and students for an evening opening of the
show with refreshments
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009
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1/16
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8:00pm, 992 Valencia Street
CHANNELING: AN INVOCATION OF SPECTRAL BODIES AND QUEER SPIRITS
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits *a touring
film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White*
CURATORS IN PERSON! CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and
the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that
calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The
intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult
technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and
emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The
works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the
political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the
AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition
(Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow
cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents
emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns
on their own campy, poetic, sexual,humorous, and even utopian terms,
using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade
effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit http://channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour
info, and more information about the artists and works included in the
program. RUNNING ORDER: Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00,
video) Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video) Michael Robinson
- Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video) EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) -
Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video) Aay Preston-Myint - Some
Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video) Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00,
video) John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990,
24:00, video) Total Running Time: ~68 min. $6 Admission
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2009
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1/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
THE ARTIST AND THE ARCHIVES - "PHANTOM OF THE OPERATOR"
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum present The Artist and The Archives
- Phantom of the Operator (Caroline Martel, 2004) Martel takes
overlooked artifacts of cinema history—one hundred industrial,
advertising and scientific management films produced in North America
between 1903 and 1989—and turns them into a dreamlike montage
documentary. She also resurrects from the past an arcane electronic
musical instrument: the ondes Martenot, adding to the mood set by the
voice of award-winning actor Pascale Montpetit. General admission $10;
Filmforum and Cinefamily members free. http://www.silentmovietheatre.com
and http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. Parking across the street at
Fairfax High School. Cinefamily: 323-655-2510
1/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
CHANNELING: AN INVOCATION OF SPECTRAL BODIES AND QUEER SPIRITS
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits *a touring
film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White*
CURATORS IN PERSON! CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and
the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that
calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The
intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult
technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and
emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The
works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the
political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the
AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition
(Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow
cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents
emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns
on their own campy, poetic, sexual,humorous, and even utopian terms,
using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade
effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
Please visit http://channelingqueerspirits.wordpress.com for news, tour
info, and more information about the artists and works included in the
program. RUNNING ORDER: Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00,
video) Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video) Michael Robinson
- Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video) EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) -
Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video) Aay Preston-Myint - Some
Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video) Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00,
video) John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990,
24:00, video) Total Running Time: ~68 min. $5 Admission
1/17
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia street
UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON
saturday, January 17, 2009. 8PM $6 UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON Directed by
Antero Alli (in person) "...where "Under a Shipwrecked Moon" triumphs is
Alli's extraordinary dream and hallucination sequences which take the
imagination into new and daring realms that few artists could ever
aspire to conceive..." -- PHIL HALL. FILMTHEAT.COM The power of a
long-buried family secret is unleashed when the extreme rituals of a
self-made shamanic punk rocker catapult him into the spirit realm in
search of his father, a ship captain who drowned at sea. This ship
captain's mother was a Finnish sorceress whose powers were passed onto
the punk rocker grandson, powers that are tested when the grandfather
unexpectedly collapses into a coma. His consciousness drifts though a
series of dreams, memories and visions of his first love, the sorceress,
who beckons him to join her in the Great Beyond in this surreal fable of
true love, giant hedgehogs and the mystical depths of family bonds.
Antero Alli (in petrson), Super-8 film &DV, 2003; 96 min. 2-minute
teaser http://www.fractalvideo.com/HTML/UASMFV.html the movie site
http://www.verticalpool.com/moon.html filmography
http://www.verticalpool.com/filmography.html
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2009
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1/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
"CRAWFORD" A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY DAVID MODIGLIANI
Los Angeles Filmforum presents "Crawford" A Documentary Film by David
Modigliani – The Farewell Tour. "Crawford" (2008, 74 min) is an
extraordinary documentary by first-time filmmaker David Modigliani,
provides a unique perspective on the Bush presidency: through the eyes
of the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas. 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.
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