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This week [February 14 - 22, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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MadCat Women's International Film Festival (NYC, NY; Deadline: February 20, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA. USA; Deadline: February 16, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* International Directors Lounge 2009 [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Ludwig SchöNherr #3 [February 14, Berlin, Germany]
* Une Simple Histoire [February 14, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 14, New York, New York]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 14, New York, New York]
* International Directors Lounge 2009 - Closing Night and Party [February 15, Berlin, Germany]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Binaural: New Media Art From the Nodar
Artist Residency Center In Portugal [February 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Home Less Home [February 15, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema Arsenal [February 15, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 15, New York, New York]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [February 15, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen - Heinz Emigholz's Loos Ornamental [February 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Films of Stan Brakhage, 1972-1976 [February 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* I Pity the Fool [February 16, Geneva, Switzerland]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 16, New York, New York]
* Great Speeches From A Dying World [February 17, New York, New York]
* 28th Black Maria Film & video Festival: John Columbus In Person [February 17, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* I Pity the Fool [February 18, Nantes, France]
* Unessential Cinema: See [February 18, New York, New York]
* <B>Joseph Strick: <I>The Savage Eye</I> & <I>Muscle Beach</I>
Restored</B> [February 18, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son [February 19, New York, New York]
* Alfred Leslie Program 1 [February 19, New York, New York]
* Music By the Eyeful [February 19, San Francisco, California]
* Electromediascope [February 20, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Essential Cinema Intolerance [February 20, New York, New York]
* Alfred Leslie Program 2 [February 20, New York, New York]
* Dan anderson Presents Best of Bearded Child Film Festival... [February 20, San Antonio, TX]
* Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble [February 20, San Francisco, California]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part I [February 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema the Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc [February 21, New York, New York]
* Alfred Leslie Program 3 [February 21, New York, New York]
* Ventana Al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films [February 21, New York, New York]
* Redcat International Children's Film Festival Part I [February 22, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2009
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2/14
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/14
Berlin, Germany: 59th Berlin International Film Festival
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum/program/forum-expanded/
12:00pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Strasse 2
LUDWIG SCHöNHERR #3
Program #3 New York: Ein visuelles Arbeitstagebuch / New York: A Visual
Work Diary Super 8, 720', 1976-79
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
Directed by Marcel Hanoun 1958, 68 minutes, 16mm. In French with no
subtitles; English synopsis available. "Based on a true incident, the
film chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and
lodging in Paris. … UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a
formal stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that
it makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost
Fellini-esque by comparison." –TIME
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories. From atop the Space Needle high above the parking garage in
which she lives, Deborah delivers a speech by former slave Sojourner
Truth asking, "Ain't I a woman?" Jose's recitation poses a question that
most in the film have pondered: whether it is nobler to suffer
outrageous fortune or to die. We're reminded that the authors of these
canonized speeches, the downtrodden folks reciting them, and each of us
are all part of the same human endeavor. With beautiful photography and
a musical score by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O'Neil, GREAT SPEECHES is
one of the most intimate encounters with homelessness on film and a
moving meditation on the fragility of life.
2/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
Directed by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK
THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took
with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the
USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of
what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded
by the television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek
drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2009
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2/15
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
6 pm until late night, Scala, Friedrichstrasse 112A, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 2009 - CLOSING NIGHT AND PARTY
International Directors Lounge 2009 | media art festival º°¨¨°º 5-15
February 2009 | daily from 6 pm, until late night | º°¨¨°º Scala |
Friedrich Str. 112A | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
http://directorslounge.net/DLscalamap.html º°¨¨°º • The fifth Berlin
International Directors Lounge will take place from 5 - 15 February, at
the time of the 59th Berlin International Festival. Expect video art and
experimental film from all flavors and parts of the world. Several
curated programs, specials, accompanied by DJs and VJs ensure eleven
cosmopolitan days and nights.. º°¨¨°º • Once again we will offer a
hideaway, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody
interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart. º°¨¨°º • The
screenings are followed by nights of music and specials. The Lounge as a
club, the spot to dance the night away. º°¨¨°º • 5 Februray through 15
February daily program - from 6 pm until late night. º°¨¨°º • 3
screening programs followed by a music/mixed media program every night.
º°¨¨°º http://directorslounge.net/DL2009_de.html --
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/ º°¨¨°º Detailed program details
will be out soon, so please check back on our site.
2/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS BINAURAL: NEW MEDIA ART FROM THE NODAR
ARTIST RESIDENCY CENTER IN PORTUGAL
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Binaural: New Media Art from the Nodar
Artist Residency Center in Portugal. With Maile Colbert and Rui Costa in
person. All Los Angeles premieres. Binaural is a Portuguese media arts
collective that promotes the exploration and research in sound, visual
and new media arts, focusing on the crossing of media and languages and
on the articulation between artistic production and the surrounding
context, particularly through its activities in the rural space of
Nodar. Videos include "Contos do Paiva" (Martin Clarke and Alicja
Rogalska, 2007), "Souvenirs de Carmella" (Vered Dror, 2007), "Over the
Eyes" (Maile Colbert, 2007), "Nodar Flowlines : Sonzo-Paiva Conflux"
(John Grzinich, 2008) 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.
2/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
HOME LESS HOME
Directed by Bill Brand 1991, 75 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Edited and
co-written by Joanna Kiernan; cinematography by Zoe Beloff and Bill
Brand. SPECIAL SCREENING! Presented in concert with Linas Phillips's
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD (see page 6), HOME LESS HOME provides
a broad investigation into the causes and conditions of homelessness,
through the first-hand experiences of several homeless people, as well
as analyses of TV news reports and historical images of poverty.
Offering new ways of looking at homelessness, it displaces the debate
from questions of charity to ones of social justice.
2/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA ARSENAL
Directed by Alexandr Dovzhenko 1928-29, 87 minutes, 35mm, silent. No
English intertitles; English synopsis available. One of Dovzhenko's few
completely independent films, from script to screen. ARSENAL is a civil
war epic envisioned in unusual, painterly images: a fallen soldier –
drunk on the enemy's laughing gas – his frozen body still baring its
teeth long after the battle and his life are over.
2/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories.
2/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! "This video is made up of footage that I took with my Sony
from the television newscasts during the collapse of the USSR, with the
home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of what happened
and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded by the
television newscasters. "It can be also viewed as a classic Greek drama
in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the
unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small
nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight
against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." –J.M.
2/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cinematheque Ontario
http://www.bell.ca/cinematheque
5:15 p.m., AGO's Jackman Hall - 317 Dundas St. W.
THE FREE SCREEN - HEINZ EMIGHOLZ'S LOOS ORNAMENTAL
The much-anticipated follow-up to Schindler's Houses, Heinz Emigholz's
international festival hit and a quick sellout in TIFF's 2007
Wavelengths programme, Loos Ornamental is the latest and thirteenth
installment in this leading German avant-garde filmmaker's critically
lauded Photography and Beyond series. Begun in 1984, this singular
undertaking, which will ultimately amount to twenty-five films on art
and design, has won Emigholz a solid place among the world's pre-eminent
artists. Meditations on the beauty of man-made works of art, his films
employ a rigorous taxonomic approach to buildings –"architecture as
autobiography," as the filmmaker calls it. Loos Ornamental comprises
twenty-seven buildings and interiors designed by Adolf Loos (1870-1933),
one of the most important and contentious pioneers of Modernist
architecture. The façades, shops, houses, apartments and monuments,
built between 1899 and 1931, are all presented in their present states,
shot in their natural surroundings, from Vienna, lower Austria, Prague,
Brno, Pilsen, Nachod, and Paris. The film thus provides a fascinating
comparative study of Loos's work which, to some degree, both
surprisingly and pleasantly deviates from the austere tenets he put
forth in his 1908 manifesto, Ornament and Crime – a turning point in
architectural theory, much discussed and debated to this present day.
Formal asceticism meets luscious materials (i.e., the innate
"ornamentation" of striated marble, of rich and undulating wood grains,
of sumptuous wall paneling), like in Vienna's famous Kärtner Bar (1908),
also known as "The American Bar," or simply, the "Loos Bar," a
shimmering jewel-box of a snug, romantic boîte.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009
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2/16
Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films
http://docfilms.uchicago.edu
7:00, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St.
FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE, 1972-1976
Films of Stan Brakhage, 1972-1976 107 minutes, 16mm Admission: $5 Fred
Camper has argued that in THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN "each image represents a
unique and miraculous form of light." THE WOLD-SHADOW imposes a sheet of
clear glass between the camera and its object, a shot of woodlands.
Shooting in single frames, Brakhage applies stunning layers of paint to
the glass. STAR GARDEN is a celebration of the sun as possibly the only
source of true beauty on earth. Also in program: The Process, The Shores
of Phos: A Fable, Aquarien, Dominion, Flight, "he was born, he suffered,
he died", Hymn to Her, Skein, Sol, and Airs.
2/16
Geneva, Switzerland: Cinema Spoutnik
http://www.spoutnik.info/
9 pm, 11 rue de la Coulouvrenière, 1er étage 1204 geneve
I PITY THE FOOL
U.S. filmmaker Brent Coughenour in person to present a super 8 narrative
city poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial collapse in
the city of Detroit. I PITY THE FOOL, 2007, super 8 presented on video,
83 min. As a city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface.
Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered
questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing
pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies.
Fractured moments occurring on one summer day echo events from thirty
years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are
gathering. It is going to rain. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE
FOOL gradually accrues more elements as it goes on: fragments of
narrative combine with other fragments that at first have no obvious
connection. As opposed to story-lines in many feature-length films that
gradually tie up and resolve their different threads, the focus of the
film continues to broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended
and mysterious. Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things
nearly recent and long past, the film attempts to re-capture the
marginalized and defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten
tenants . . . . I PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone
interested in, among other things, urban space, post-industrial
landscapes, psycho-geography, found objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8,
experimental narrative, and radical film form." -Luke Sieczek, Northwest
Film Forum
2/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives. The words of Shakespeare, Lincoln, JFK and
others are reinvested with meaning as they're tied to these personal
stories.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009
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2/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD
Directed by Linas Phillips 2007, 92 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! Phillips spent nearly two years getting to know nine of
Seattle's homeless population. The result is a unique and compassionate
exploration of the hard luck, wrong turns and broken dreams that reside
on the city's streets. This film uncovers circumstances that have landed
(and keep) these people lost and penniless – most involving abuse,
addiction, and mental illness. But it also finds kindness and hope. Each
subject was asked to recite a famous speech from history that they felt
related to their lives.
2/17
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
28TH BLACK MARIA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL: JOHN COLUMBUS IN PERSON
Black Maria Film & Video Festival is one of America's premiere showcases
for experimental and independent film and video. Black Maria's founder
and director, JOHN COLUMBUS, will introduce the screenings representing
a wide range of styles and genres by some of the most innovative
moving-image artists working today; included in the program will be the
Grand prize winner, Scott Stark's, Speechless ("Speechless is gorgeous,
mysterious, hallucinatory.... this is a magnificent work, equal to, or
even better than, Brakhage's sexual meditations." -- Gene Youngblood,
author of Expanded Cinema.")
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009
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2/18
Nantes, France: Festival Cable#2
9 PM, Bitche, 3 rue de Bitche 44000
I PITY THE FOOL
U.S. filmmaker Brent Coughenour in person to present a super 8 narrative
city poem exploring the devastation left by post-industrial collapse in
the city of Detroit. I PITY THE FOOL, 2007, super 8 presented on video,
83 min. As a city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface.
Collections of scraps sifted from rubble—an archeology of unanswered
questions—combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing
pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies.
Fractured moments occurring on one summer day echo events from thirty
years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is humid, and clouds are
gathering. It is going to rain. "Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE
FOOL gradually accrues more elements as it goes on: fragments of
narrative combine with other fragments that at first have no obvious
connection. As opposed to story-lines in many feature-length films that
gradually tie up and resolve their different threads, the focus of the
film continues to broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended
and mysterious. Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things
nearly recent and long past, the film attempts to re-capture the
marginalized and defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten
tenants . . . . I PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone
interested in, among other things, urban space, post-industrial
landscapes, psycho-geography, found objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8,
experimental narrative, and radical film form." -Luke Sieczek, Northwest
Film Forum
2/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
UNESSENTIAL CINEMA: SEE
Our UNESSENTIAL CINEMA series typically features unknown reels and real
oddities from the collection. This time around we change gears to
celebrate the handiwork of home cinema pioneer Eugene Castle, a genius
film editor who in the 1930s brought 8mm and 16mm films into the living
rooms of millions. For 40 years Castle Films was the cinephile's source
for all manner of cartoons, travelogues, novelty films and
disaster-heavy news footage. Of the hundreds of Castle films to be found
today in flea markets and dusty attics, perhaps none are as charmingly
confounding as the SEE series of 1937. These short newsreels feature
such delights as boxing babies, flailing flappers, out-of-control tanks,
crashing cars and angry animals. Tonight, a number of the truly
preposterous SEE shorts will be dusted off and screened alongside other
outré fare from days of yore. If you like YouTube, you'll love SEE.
2/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
JOSEPH STRICK: THE SAVAGE EYE & MUSCLE BEACH RESTORED
Uniquely intersecting the realm of documentary and narrative cinema, The
Savage Eye pairs three innovative filmmakers (Joseph Strick, Ben Maddow
and Sidney Meyers) with three stellar cinematographers (Haskell Wexler,
Helen Levitt and Jack Couffer) to create a snapshot of late-1950s
American life in transition. This masterpiece of vérité filmmaking,
culled from discordant materials yet remarkably unified in a fictive
context, remains as compelling today as the year of its initial release.
We present The Savage Eye with Joseph Strick's earliest documentary
short, Muscle Beach, both beautifully restored by the Academy Film
Archive. Prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
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2/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON
Directed by Ken Jacobs 1969, 102 minutes, 16mm. "Original 1905 film shot
and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer, rescued via a paper print
filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is most
reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie, almost as
a side effect, coming into being." –K.J.
2/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ALFRED LESLIE PROGRAM 1
Directed by Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 29 minutes, 35mm.
Co-adapted, -photographed and -directed by Alfred Leslie and Robert
Frank. A film considered by Leslie as his "first realist work", DAISY
was shot in his studio loft on 12th Street and 4th Avenue. It presents
the seemingly improvised actions of a group of friends played by Allen
Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Larry Rivers, Delphine Seyrig,
David Amram, Alice Neel and Richard Bellamy among others. The narration
is performed by Jack Kerouac, based on an adaptation by the directors of
the third act of Kerouac's unproduced play, THE BEAT GENERATION OR THE
BISHOP OF THE NEW AREMANIAN CHURCH. PULL MY DAISY was recognized by the
Library of Congress as being of "historic and aesthetic importance" and
added to the National Film Registry in 1996. HE LAST CLEAN SHIRT 1964,
39 minutes, 16mm. Made in collaboration with Frank O'Hara. Filmed in one
continuous take from the back seat of a convertible driving in lower
Manhattan, this film's thrice-repeated footage features magnificent
subtitles by Frank O'Hara that first appear as a 'translation' of the
white wife character's double-talk Danish monologue and then as the
unspoken thoughts of her black doctor husband. A STRANGER CALLS AT
MIDNIGHT 2008, 30 minutes, video. Subtitled "A Self-interview, of
Sorts", this brand new piece offers a unique view of Leslie's creative
practice, told in his own words. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
2/19
San Francisco, California: Luggage Store Gallery
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/eyeful/20090219.html
8:00, 1007 Market Street
MUSIC BY THE EYEFUL
$6 - $10 Made possible by the generous support of the Zellerbach Family
Foundation Hologlyphics http://www.hologlyphics.com/ Hologlyphics is the
art of performing true 3D animations along with with music. It combines
elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film,
electronic music, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new
artform. Emphasis is focused on exploration of new, previously unseen 3D
animations, patterns, scenes and glyphs, not on photorealistic imagery.
These spatial visuals are seen in full 3D without glasses. Although not
the same technical process as holography, the visual result is the same,
a True 3D image with full horizontal parallax. Horizontal parallax
allows you not only to see the animation in 3D, but to see all views of
the animation scene within a 90 degree viewing range. As you walk left
to right, the perspective of the image changes as in the real world. The
Hologlyphic Funkalizer is a performance based Analog/Digital video
synthesis system, that displays moving true 3D images, intertwined with
music and spatial sound. Visuals and sounds are controlled by musical
keyboards, acoustic instruments, sound sculptures and a unique control
panel. Sounds can be associated and interact with images, modulate each
other and undergo vast spatial transformations in the aural and visual
realm. -------------------------------------------------- Music by the
Eyeful is a concert series at the Luggage Store Gallery that features
inventions in visual music: from musician-filmmaker collaborations to
optical instrument inventors, performative projectionists, and
experimental work that highlights the sonic properties of visual art and
the visual properties of music. Each show includes public discussions
with presenting artists to reveal techniques, technologies and intent.
The 2008-09 program includes nine concerts of local, regional and
national artists who are working new frontiers in visual music and
intermedia. Opening the event will be- Nate Boyce with chen santa maria
Nate Boyce's analog and digital skills merge to form entirely new and
insanely psychedelic videos that explore the thresholds of perceptual
ambiguity. Oakland duo Chen Santa Maria duo mix electro acoustic sound
sources, samplers, drum machines, and guitars to hone their varied
outputs. Their collaboration results in stunning and immersive
performances of aural and optic strobe.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009
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2/20
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Time and Event in the Still and Moving Image The films presented in this
program employ diverse and unconventional strategies for organizing and
experiencing still images as cinematic events. All cinematic sequences
involve rapidly flashing still photographs that are magically
transformed into an illusion of organic movement. The observer's mind
and body respond to and make sense of these moving pictures as with
other visual patterns, movements and multi-sensory associations that the
body already knows. A person viewing a photograph or painting controls
the timing and duration of the event while moving around within the
image in a way that is different from the experience of time and
representational events that occur in most films. Chris Marker's La
Jetée makes use of photographic time to relate a science fiction film
about time travel. Frampton, Greenaway and Benning use non-narrative,
notational editing strategies of listing and classification. Frampton's
organizational procedure for Zorns Lemma conflates cinema's 24 frames
per second with the Roman alphabet of 24 letters. Lockhart's NO
documents hay being spread across a field while also referencing the
rasterized writing of pixels across video frames. Snow's Breakfast
appears to be a humorous and ironic allusion to modernist painting's
flattening of the picture's surface. Many of these artists use a
stationary camera and shots that range from still photographs to a
single 32-minute extended take. Once aware of the filmmaker's
organizational methods, viewers are free to explore the nuances and
progress of the story, process or game that takes place both within and
outside the frame, much in the manner that one would explore a
photograph or a real-time event. –Patrick Clancy. La Jetée, Chris Marker
(France), 1962, 28 min., 16mm film. Breakfast (Table Top Dolly), Michael
Snow (Canada), 1972-76, 15 min., 16mm film. Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena
I), Hollis Freampton (USA), 1973, 36 min., 16mm film. NO, Sharon
Lockhart (USA), 2003, 32:30 min., 16mm film. Additional series programs
on February 13 and February 27.
2/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA INTOLERANCE
Directed by D.W. Griffith 1916, 170 minutes, 35mm, silent. Griffith's
immensely influential silent epic intercuts four parallel tales from
history to embroider a moral tapestry on personal, social and political
repression through the ages. It has exerted an influence on generations
of filmmakers, including Eisenstein, who studied the film closely.
2/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ALFRED LESLIE PROGRAM 2
Directed by Alfred Leslie BIRTH OF A NATION 1965 1965-1998, 45 minutes,
video. Leslie's original mid-60s, feature-length epic never saw the
light of day. Using a Fairchild 8mm sync-sound camera and working with a
floating cast of art world friends, Leslie constructed a wild
counterculture opera which included inter-racial marriage, a
claustrophobic m?nage ? trois, lesbian parents, masturbation, suicide, a
number of musical interludes and apparently lots of telephones ringing.
A final edit was being prepared for a potential screening at the 1966 NY
Film Festival when his studio was destroyed by fire. This 1998 video
version includes short film and sound snippets that were retrieved from
the rubble. MAGIC THINKING (Guggenheim version) 2008, 35 minutes, video.
A stunning recreation and revisiting of a multi-media performance
originally titled FILM MAKER PAINTER, PAINTER, FILM MAKER (ART AS
INFORMATION), given by Leslie at the Guggenheim on April 18, 1965. Total
running time: ca. 85 minutes.
2/20
San Antonio, TX: UTSA New Media Program
http://www.beardedchild.com/
7pm, UTSA Downtown Campus, Buena Vista Building, Aula Canaria
DAN ANDERSON PRESENTS BEST OF BEARDED CHILD FILM FESTIVAL...
at the University of Texas at San Antonio. See related events at
http://potterbelmar.org/elray/2009/diy-avantgarde.html
2/20
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 valencia Street
JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY ENSEMBLE
Friday, February 20, 2009. 8PM $6 JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY ENSEMBLE Performs
Live Music to Experimental Film Featuring Jean Genet's Chant d'Amour,
works by Derek Jarman, and contemporary experimental filmmakers. The
Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led
by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, performs live
musical soundtracks to experimental films including Jean Genet's
underground classic Chant d'Amour (shot by Jean Cocteau), works by Derek
Jarman, Phil Maxwell, Hazuan Hashim, Ben Coopersmith, and more. The Jack
Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble specializes in abstract, spacious, free form,
transcendental, electro-acoustic contemporary music. Dubowsky has scored
four feature films including That Man Peter Berlin and Rock Haven.
Dubowsky has received grants from Meet the Composer, Zellerbach Family
Fund, Friends of the SF Public Library, and this year from the American
Composers Forum. The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble I album was performed
and recorded live with no overdubs; no pre-recorded music is used in
concert either. Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble Member Bios † Composer,
keyboardist, and bassist Jack Curtis Dubowsky received his MM in
Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and also
studied at the Aspen School. Jack studied conducting with Sonja Neblett,
and composition with David Conte, Conrad Susa, Elinor Armer, and Michael
Czajkowski. Jack has composed three chamber operas, music for four
feature films, television, and concert performance. Jack's choral music
has been performed internationally by groups including the San Francisco
Choral Artists, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, and the Mount
Eden Chorus. Jack's orchestral music has been performed by the Castro
Valley Chamber Orchestra. Jack's chamber music has been performed by the
Snopea Chamber Ensemble, the Organic Sound Experiment, Collaborata, and
the Paradigm Brass. Jack has received grants from Meet the Composer,
Inc., the Zellerbach Family Fund, and the Friends of the San Francisco
Public Library. Jack has produced recordings by The Winsome Griffles,
Glen Meadmore, and the Virgin Whore Complex. Jack's award winning "Mr
Jones" parody is a highlight of the Momus album Stars Forever. †
Percussionist Fred Morgan received his BM in percussion performance from
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the study of Jack Van Geem
and his MM from the New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Will
Hudgins. Fred currently studies timpani with San Francisco Timpanist
David Herbert. Other teachers have included Andrew Lewis, James Lee
Wyatt, and Alan Hall. Fred played William Kraft's first timpani concerto
with the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2003 as a winner of the
orchestra's Young Artist Competition. Fred was a member of the San
Francisco Youth Symphony from 1997-2002. Fred has traveled abroad
recently subbing as a timpanist and percussionist in the Hong Kong
Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Kansas City Symphony. Fred
also does concerts with SF Symphony brass and boys choir at Grace
Cathedral in San Francisco and has subbed with the Midsummer Mozart
Festival. Fred participated in the festivals of Spoleto USA,
Schleswig-holstein, Music Academy of the West, Jeunnesses Musicales,
National Orchestral Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival.
Contemporary engagements include work with the Sprocket Ensemble and
performances and recordings of the music of Erling Wold. Locally Fred
subs with the Oakland East bay Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony.
Fred has received a percussion chair in the Stockton Symphony. LINKS
http://www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html http://www.myspace.com/jcdensemble
http://www.cdbaby.com/jackcurtisdubowsky http://atasite.org
http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/dubowsky
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239554/ MEDIA CONTACTS Jack Curtis Dubowsky
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2009
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2/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL PART I
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films. Each screening: $5
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC / LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer 1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. No
English intertitles; English synopsis available. Although renowned for
its spare acts, lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's
masterpiece reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face, and
a landscape of history as individual as the lines on that face. It
continues to haunt the cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the
years go by.
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
ALFRED LESLIE PROGRAM 3
Directed by Alfred Leslie Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. SONGS OF
THE BLUE-FOOTED BOOBIES 2008, 11 minutes, video. Music videos for
hipsters! In these short collages, three of Frank O'Hara's poems meet
their match with Leslie superimposing cabaret music and film clips. The
real zinger here is FANTASY, in which O'Hara's text combines with (a
very sexy) Hedy Lamarr and Ukelele Ike's definitive version of PAPER
MOON. EINSTEIN'S SECRET 2008, 11 minutes, video. In this highly
inventive work, Leslie layers a visual track of drawings and frames from
his graphic novella ATTACKED BY THE HEART with a text track of three
poems by Frank O'Hara streamed as subtitles. The soundtrack includes
found music and snippets of vintage movie dialogue. EINSTEIN'S SECRET is
also the title of a 1958 collage by Leslie. A STRANGER CALLS AT
MIDNIGHT?? 2008, 30 minutes, video. Subtitled "A Self-interview, of
Sorts", this brand new piece offers a unique view of Leslie's creative
practice, told in his own words. A pioneering post-modernist, the artist
here offers the back-story to several of his films, including PULL MY
DAISY.
2/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
VENTANA AL SUR: AN EVENING OF ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. Curated by Mark Street and Lynne
Sachs. This rollicking evening of challenging, expressive and
oppositional Argentine cinema offers a window onto artists shredding
formal niceties, relishing in risk and daring to access the sublime.
From an achingly beautiful evocation of a field of flowers to a darkly
humorous evisceration of the tenets of the stock market, this program
will take us to the land where summer is winter and winter is summer and
render our souls topsy-turvy for a bit as well. Last summer NYC
experimental filmmakers Mark Street and Lynne Sachs immersed themselves
in the Buenos Aires film community through a variety of collaborative
cinematic endeavors, meeting and watching the works of local
moving-image makers – some young bucks as well as some veterans who have
been expanding the parameters of the medium since the early-1960s. We
will be serving Yerba Mate tea in a communal gourd and sweet dessert
churros in the lobby before the show.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2009
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2/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
noon, 1:30pm and 3pm, 631 W. 2nd St.
REDCAT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL PART I
Presented in partnership with Northwest Film Forum and Cinema K. Now in
its fourth year, this audience favorite raises the curtain on a world of
wonder sure to delight film lovers of all ages. The festival looks to
all corners of the world for its new collection of inspiring stories,
exhilarating adventures and pure cinematic joy. The weekend program
includes visionary animation, rip-roaring live action, and rarely shown
classic films. Each screening: $5
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