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Date: Sat Mar 21 2009 - 08:26:31 PDT
This week [March 21 - 29, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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IN OUT FESTIVAL (Poland; Deadline: August 08, 2009)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseille, France; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Illuminated Corridor (oakland, ca, usa; Deadline: April 01, 2009)
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Cheese Sandwich Film Festival (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: March 25, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Refracted Lens Present Figures of Speech [March 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Feature [March 21, New York, New York]
* Chris Carlsson's 'foundsf' + California Company Town + [March 21, San Francisco, California]
* The Toe Tactic [March 21, Seattle, Washington]
* Proud Flesh, European Premiere [March 22, Berlin, Germany]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents A World Rattled of Habit: Films By Ben
Rivers. [March 22, Los Angeles, California]
* The Feature [March 22, New York, New York]
* Lunchfilm: Film Before Food [March 22, San Francisco, California]
* The Feature [March 23, New York, New York]
* The Feature [March 24, New York, New York]
* Shortfilm Presentation [March 24, Paris, France]
* George Kuchar In Person [March 24, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Mababangong Bangungot (Perfumed Nightmare) [March 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 1 [March 25, New York, New York]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 2 [March 25, New York, New York]
* <B>Cinematheque Salon</B> [Members-Only] [March 25, San Francisco, California]
* Thorsten Fleisch, 16mm Films and video [March 26, Berlin, Germany]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 1 [March 26, New York, New York]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 2 [March 26, New York, New York]
* Open Screening [March 26, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Observational Movies #3 [March 26, San Francisco, California]
* Mountains and Rivers Without End [March 27, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Ibiza: A Reading For 'the Flicker' [March 27, Berlin, Germany]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 1 [March 27, New York, New York]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 2 [March 27, New York, New York]
* Among the Paving Stones [March 28, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 1 [March 28, New York, New York]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 2 [March 28, New York, New York]
* Bleak House: the Poetic Horror of Ben Rivers [March 28, San Francisco, California]
* Systems and Layers [March 29, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Hitoshi Toyoda: Nazuna 35mm Slideshow [March 29, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Los Angeles Premiere of Ken Jacobs's
"Razzle Dazzle the Lost World." [March 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 1 [March 29, New York, New York]
* Hapax Legomena, Program 2 [March 29, New York, New York]
* <B>This Is My Land: Ben Rivers’ Portraits and Landscapes</B> [March 29, San Francisco, California]
* Lift Monthly Screening: Documentary and Authenticity [March 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2009
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3/21
Chicago, Illinois: Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Space
http://rootsandculturecac.org
8pm, 1034 N Milwaukee Ave
REFRACTED LENS PRESENT FIGURES OF SPEECH
Refracted Lens presents... FIGURES OF SPEECH Saturday, March 21, 2009 at
8pm FREE Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Space 1034 N Milwaukee Ave,
Chicago http://rootsandculturecac.org A casual conversation between
unexpected lovers...the rituals of sign language against a backdrop of
loss...emails lost to the black hole of spam...a tangle of foreign
tongues and cultural traditions...creepy tales and ghost stories...a
scenario described but never witnessed...all embedded within miles of
celluloid and countless gigabytes... The powerful nuances of language
are often overshadowed by cinematic dazzle. But what happens when the
moving image is abstracted altogether, leaving behind only a trace of
text, a mark of memory? Or when narration assumes an intensely primary
role? And in cases where thoughts resist articulation, can film function
as a subversive tactic—in other words, as an expression of the
inexpressible? Through the recent films of eight young women artists
working in the U.S. and Europe, "Figures of Speech" deals explicitly
with language and speech acts—including voiceover, epistolary gestures,
sign language, subtitling, conversation, and storytelling—to frame new
ideas of memory, sexuality, history, and technology. This program
explores the collision of the screen with words—written, spoken, hinted
at, gestured, and omitted—to unlock a spectrum of fervent and subversive
meanings. Featuring... Eve Heller (US/Vienna), "Ruby Skin" (16mm, 4.5
mins, 2005); Caroline Key (Los Angeles), "Speech Memory" (16mm, 23 mins,
2007); Mary Helena Clark (Baltimore), "And the Sun Flowers" (16mm, 5
mins, 2008)*; Adebukola Bodunrin (Chicago - in attendance!), "It's Hard
to Wreck a Nice Beach - It's Hard to Recognize Speech" (animation/video,
15.5 mins, 2007); Dora Garcia (Spain/Belgium), "FILM (Hotel Wôlfers)"
(35mm, 11 mins, 2007)*; Sarah Christman (NYC), "Dear Bill Gates" (16mm +
video, 17min, 2006)*; Nanna Debois Buhl (Denmark/NYC), "A New Space
Within a Space" (8mm, 8 mins, 2006)* * Chicago premiere TRT: 84 mins
3/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00pm, 7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
THE FEATURE
2008, 177 minutes, video. NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! Michel Auder
& Andrew Neel THE FEATURE Very special thanks to Michel Auder, Andrew
Neel and Ethan Palmer (SeeThink Productions). Michel Auder's epic new
film is a summation of his half-century-long career as a video artist
and diarist. In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives, and 1-minute
haikus, Auder has created a body of work that is wholly unique in the
history of the moving image. With the archive of footage Auder has
amassed over the decades providing much of the source material,
alongside new scenes shot by co-director Andrew Neel (the grandson of
painter Alice Neel), THE FEATURE represents a self-conscious and
quasi-fictional variation on the story of Auder's life.
3/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
CHRIS CARLSSON'S 'FOUNDSF' + CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN +
Author of several books, most recently Nowtopia, Mission visionary Chris
Carlsson returns from the World Social Forum in Brazil for a report-back
on not only that momentous event, but also the auspicious transition of
his ongoing Shaping San Francisco to the newly named and Wiki-enabled
FoundSF. Chris is a fount of radical historical knowledge and
enlightened proposals for the future of our fair City. His themes on the
need for local autonomy resonate in the Bay Area premiere of Lee Anne
Schmitt's California Company Town. This 16mm essay film casts a probing,
clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the
industries that created them—one-time boom-towns now haunted by the
twilight of the American promise. PLUS Emperor Norton and other glimpses
of the City's history.
3/21
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
THE TOE TACTIC
MARCH 21–22, SATURDAY–SUNDAY AT 8PM Director in attendance The Toe
Tactic (Emily Hubley, USA, 2008, Beta-SP, 84 min) Animator Emily
Hubley's first feature length film is an offbeat hybrid that plays on
the themes of time, memory, loss and yearning. Blending fantasy and
reality, animation and live action, The Toe Tactic tells the story of
Mona Peek (Lily Rabe), a young woman grieving her father's death and
searching for her lost wallet in a world populated by lonely neighbors,
animated objects and a songwriting elevator man. The film includes
colorful, card-playing cartoon canines (voiced by the likes of Eli
Wallach, Marian Seldes and Andrea Martin) who comment on—and meddle
in—Mona's life. Cameos include Jane Lynch, Mary Kay Place and John
Sayles. Edited by Emily's brother Ray Hubley, with music by sister
Georgia's indie rock band Yo La Tengo, The Toe Tactic is a true
extension of the legacy of their parents, independent animation icons
Faith and John Hubley. The director will be in attendance for these
special screenings, and the feature will be preceded by two of her short
films The Pigeon Within and Set Set Spike.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2009
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3/22
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
20:00, GDK Galerie der Künste, Potsdamer Straße 98, 10785 Berlin
PROUD FLESH, EUROPEAN PREMIERE
HAIR-E and Directors Lounge presents: -**- Proud Flesh -**- A film by
Chiara Giovando and Jenny Gräf Sheppard. Premiered in Baltimore July
2008. -**- Experimental Western shot in the Badlands and in Baltimore,
MD. -**- Original score by Chiara Giovando and Jenny Gräf Sheppard
(Harrius/Metalux). -**- "Proud Flesh" was filmed in the Badlands
National Park in South Dakota, "1880's Town" a replica of a historic
town using original buildings from the era, and Baltimore, MD. According
to Jenny Gräf Sheppard, the film is a Western but changes into a totally
different direction. The film contains violence, guns, blood and
loneliness like in a "real Western", however it also has a mythical,
ritual-like quality both in its acting and in its story-line. Since
early beginnings, avant-garde filmmakers have been interested in rituals
(like Maya Deren) and using film to "transfigure" them in time. However,
it is unusual to see this stance applied to the Western genre and the
settings of historical costumes and places of that time. "I've always
been interested in picturing women in that condition (of the John Ford
Western, KWE), and an older woman that position ... picturing older
women in the traditional young, male role." With their debut film, the
two filmmakers and musicians, Jenny Gräf Sheppard and Chiara Giovando
have composed a congenial mixture of film, music and reflections of the
American story. (Klaus W. Eisenlohr / Directors Lounge) -**- Jenny, who
will have a solo concert on Saturday 21, at Kunstraum Sorge, the
previous night, will be present in person and available for Q&A. This
evening will be the German premiere of "Proud Flesh". -**- Proud Flesh
trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5m7H63TDE -**- Artist Links:
http://jennygrafsheppard.com/ -**- http://zaimph.org -**- -**- Support:
www.directorslounge.net www.richfilm.de www.hairentertainment.com
www.white-rabbit-berlin.com http://www.gdk-berlin.de/
3/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS A WORLD RATTLED OF HABIT: FILMS BY BEN
RIVERS.
Los Angeles Filmforum presents A World Rattled of Habit: Films by Ben
Rivers. The first LA appearance of British experimental filmmaker Ben
Rivers with the LA premieres of House (2005/7), This Is My Land (2006),
The Coming Race (2006), Astika (2006), Ah, Liberty! (2008), A World
Rattled Of Habit (2008) and more! His rich and quiet examinations of
place and unique characters resonate with unseen personal histories and
unexpected pleasures. General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free
for Filmforum members. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for
the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00pm, 7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See March 21 for details.
3/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
LUNCHFILM: FILM BEFORE FOOD
Curated and presented by Mike Plante. The rules are simple and
straightforward. In exchange for an afternoon meal, participating
filmmakers make a short film with an identical budget to the total cost
of the lunch. A contract is drafted on the back of a napkin with only a
handful of stipulations drawn from the lunchtime conversation, such as
"Film must: use miniatures," "have a bunny in it" or "span continents."
Now, fifty shorts later, Lunchfilm originator (and Cinevegas programmer)
Mike Plante brings the latest batch to our neighborhood. With films from
Tom Barndt, Martha Colburn, David Fenster and David Nordstrom, Jim Finn,
Mike Gibisser, Brent Green, Sam Green, Braden King, George Kuchar, Lee
Lynch and Naomi Uman, Nicholas McCarthy, Sarah Soquel Morhaim, Ricardo
Rivera, Kelly Sears, Jennifer Shainin and Randy Walker, the resulting
works are as varied and engaging as this multifarious collection of
contributors would suggest.
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MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009
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3/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See March 21 for details.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009
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3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See March 21 for details.
3/24
Paris, France: Kodak space in Paris
http://lucwouters.pagesperso-orange.fr/LOEIL_DE_LUC/Bienvenue.html
9 pm, 26 rue Villiot - 75012 Paris - France
SHORTFILM PRESENTATION
2 shortfilms of the french director Luc Wouters presented in the Paris's
Kodak space - Un Jour Sans (A No Luck Day) 15' - 2008 Sometimes
everything is going wrong, specially today, by this too hot summer
temperature. KARIM, who's job is to deliver pizza, discovers it very
quickly. His scooter is dammaged by the bad boys of the city, but it is
just the beginning of this bad day ... - Aux Abois 5'- 2000
3/24
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
GEORGE KUCHAR IN PERSON
George Kuchar (San Francisco) will be present to screen and discuss some
of his recent videos. Chicago's Video Data Bank, one of America's most
important distributors of video art, with more titles by Kuchar than any
artist in their collection, describes him as "among the most exciting
and prolific independent videomakers working today. With his homemade
Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s,
he became legendary as one of the most distinctive and outrageous
American underground filmmakers. After his 1980s transition to the video
medium, he remained a master of genre manipulation and subversion,
creating dozens of brilliantly edited, hilarious, observant, often
diaristic tapes with an 8mm camcorder, dime-store props, not-so-special
effects, and using friends as actors and the "pageant that is life" as
his studio. In 1992, Kuchar received the prestigious Maya Deren Award
for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute.
He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he makes many of
his tapes in collaboration with his students." Included on the program
(all released in 2008): Eye on the Sky (21 min.); Orphans of the Cosmos
(40 min.) Made … with my students, this tuneful picture transports the
viewer to the planet Mars as three attractive teens seek funding for an
expedition into adulthood …Although this trip is short on funding but
big in concept it's really quite a vision impaired ; Portrait of Genie
(10 min.) An ex-student of mine opens up in the privacy of her home and
shows me her etchings (watercolors) as we talk of art and things that
slip under the fabric of daily attire; Spectral Delivery (15 min.) A
volume of illustrated horrors arrives to stimulate the chatter of those
who behold its weighty extravagance. The locales shift from plate to
plate as nutritious foods for thought telegraph their nifty nutrients to
the very core of our convoluted coils. The dishes arrive in a variety of
spices and places so just sit back, savor the variety, and help deposit
what is digested in a bowl of your choice
3/24
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
7:30pm, the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
MABABANGONG BANGUNGOT (PERFUMED NIGHTMARE)
A film by Kidlat Tahimik, Philippines, 16mm, 1977, 91 minutes. With:
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken, 16mm, 1961, 4 mins. The first
installment of the Early Monthly Segments film series debuts with Kidlat
Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare. A sensation upon its debut at the
Berlinale in 1977, the film has gone on to achieve legendary status. In
this strikingly engaging hybrid, Tahimik himself stars as a Jeepney
driver who sets out from the Philippines in search of rocket engineer
Wernher von Braun. Instead of America, he finds himself in Munich, Paris
and in a series of adventures he could never have imagined upon
departure, observing the clash of cultures and the seductive dreams of
technological modernization along the way. Werner Herzog once declared,
"Kidlat, you are best in your detours," and this film is full of them,
as Tahimik's wit and penchant for observable ironies makes this film an
insightful adventure into the heart of cultural imperialism.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009
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3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: (nostalgia) (HAPAX LEGOMENA I) 1973, 36 minutes, 16mm, sound.
"[T]he time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its
two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton
plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of
his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic,
mathematics, and physical demonstration which are the formal metaphors
for most of Frampton's films." –P. Adams Sitney POETIC JUSTICE (HAPAX
LEGOMENA II) 1972, 31 minutes, 16mm, silent. "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 CRITICAL MASS (HAPAX
LEGOMENA III) 1971, 26 minutes, 16mm, sound. "As a work of art I think
[it] is quite universal and deals with all quarrels (those between men
and women, or men and men, or women and women, or children, or war. It
is war!... It is very funny, and rather obviously so. It is a magic film
in that you can enjoy it, with greater appreciation, each time you look
at it. Most aesthetic experiences are not enjoyable on the surface. You
have to look at them a number of times before you are able to fully
enjoy them, but this one stands up at once, and again and again, and is
amazingly clear." –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: TRAVELING MATTE (HAPAX LEGOMENA IV) 1971, 34 minutes, 16mm,
silent. "TRAVELING MATTE is the pivot upon which the whole of HAPAX
LEGOMENA turns." –H.F. "This film metaphors an entire human life: birth,
sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and palm of the maker's
hand, wherein others only attempt to read the future." –Stan Brakhage
ORDINARY MATTER (HAPAX LEGOMENA V) 1972, 36 minutes, 16mm, sound on CD.
"A vision of a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong
through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a
monument to connection), Stonehenge (a monument to the intercourse
between consciousness and LIGHT)… visiting along the way diverse
meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and ending in the remembered
cornfields of my childhood." –H.F. "I suppose I think of it as a kind of
acceleration from TRAVELING MATTE. [There] the eye is groping and
feeling its way and staggering and so forth. And [here] the need somehow
to worry about those words, and still photographs, and so forth, is
behind. ORDINARY MATTER is for me a kind of ecstatic, headlong dive."
–H.F. REMOTE CONTROL (HAPAX LEGOMENA VI) 1972, 29 minutes, 16mm, silent.
"[In REMOTE CONTROL], the images speed up to the point where every
successive frame is different from every previous frame, so that if
there is an image in it, it's a kind of inner voice within the images,
as sometimes music will have many voices that can be written out on the
paper, and then in the listening the real shape of the music is to be
found in the voice that is generated among them. … It was shot in a
single evening, off the tube, right off the ordinary TV set, in the
course of an evening." –H.F. SPECIAL EFFECTS (HAPAX LEGOMENA VII) 1972,
11 minutes, 16mm, sound. "I wanted to affirm and honor the film frame
itself. Because so much of what we know now, so much of our experience
is something that comes to us through that frame. It seems to be a kind
of synonym for what we are conscious of. I have only seen the pyramids
of Egypt within that frame. I have only seen – endless things – most of
what I believe I have experienced I have in fact seen at the movies.
I've seen it inside that frame." –H.F. Total running time: ca. 115
minutes.
3/25
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street
CINEMATHEQUE SALON [MEMBERS-ONLY]
San Francisco Cinematheque members are invited to attend – for free – an
intimate gathering at the screening room of the Ninth Street Independent
Film Center in celebration of experimental film and the local filmmaking
community. A smattering of snacks and liquid refreshments will be
provided. Topics will be discussed. Films will be screened. Guaranteed
to include several recent and classic works, along with a handful of
"forbidden" titles – therefore, the program will not be announced in
advance.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009
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3/26
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2006.html
21:00, Directors Lounge at SCALA, Friedrichstraße 112a, (2nd floor), 10117 Berlin
THORSTEN FLEISCH, 16MM FILMS AND VIDEO
Directors Lounge presents: -**- Thorsten Fleisch -**- Personal show by
film and videomaker Thorsten Fleisch, experimental film and video, with
later music performance of his band "Die Malende" -**- Thursday, 26
March 2009 21:00 / 9pm Scala -**- In his work, Thorsten Fleisch is
combining light, playful ways to linger on existential themes with
meticulous handcraftship. The seemingly abstract work defines
materiality in contemporary ways while at the same time, it is
captivating on the level of pure pictorial sensations. The program and
some of the films by themselves combine lens-based images (KILL and
parts of Hautnah) with non-camera images, such as direct treatment of
film material (Blutrausch and Kosmos) and computer-generated renderings
(Gestalt). Some examples of the filmmakers collection of old educational
science films will enrich the program, again bringing together the
interests of Thorsten Fleisch in science and sensually captivating
material. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr. -**- Links:
http://fleischfilm.com/ -**- http://www.fleischarchive.org/ -**-
http://www.malende.com/ -**- http://www.directorslounge.net -**-
http://www.richfilm.de/
3/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 1
See March 25 for details.
3/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 2
See March 25 for details.
3/26
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films, tapes or discs; all works will be screened.
3/26
San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema
8pm, 12 Sherman Street
OBSERVATIONAL MOVIES #3
films by: Karla Claudio; Cora Foxx; Douglas Katelus; Sam Manera; Michael
Robinson; Michael Rudnick; Rock Ross; Scott Stark; Michelle Silva;
Randylee Sutherland; Irwin Swirnoff. oh yeah, not to be missed bring
some friends and some booze... good times for all!!!!! FREE!
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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2009
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3/27
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater Screening Room
MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END
Film of the Sea by Takashi Ishida, Japan, 12 min., video, 2007. \
Refraction Series by Chris Gehman, Canada, 8 min., 35mm, silent, 2008. \
When It Was Blue by Jennifer Reeves, USA, 60 min., video, 2008.
3/27
Berlin, Germany: Tanya Leighton Gallery
http://www.tanyaleighton.com
8pm, Kurfürstenstraße 156
IBIZA: A READING FOR 'THE FLICKER'
IBIZA: A reading for 'The Flicker' is a solo performance by London-based
artist Ian White. Friday 27 March, performance starts at 8pm (running
time: 40 mins) Booking recommended A real life true story and the
image-less hallucinogens of Tony Conrad's 1966 film The Flicker are
presented simultaneously, like parallel lines in a face-off. IBIZA is a
question about the real: an assertion of difference or a kind of
hopelessness with nonetheless some good energy, a response to a specific
place and a specific time, a personal history and imaginary space. Not
Ibiza, but the room we're in. This performance is part of a series of
'screenings' curated by Ian White entitled It's Not the Homosexual Who
Is Perverse but the Situation in Which He Lives: Kino, Kunst, Kontext
Now, in collaboration with Kino Arsenal, Berlin. Ian White is a curator,
writer and artist. As an artist his practice is predominantly in
event-orientated and performance work, often in collaboration.
3/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 1
See March 25 for details.
3/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 2
See March 25 for details.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009
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3/28
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
4 pm, Michigan Theater Screening Room
AMONG THE PAVING STONES
Dig by Robert Todd, USA, 3 min., 16mm, 2007. / Speechless by Scott
Stark, USA, 13 min., 16mm, 2008. / Lossless #2 by Rebecca Baron and Doug
Goodwin , USA, 3 min., video, B/W, 2008. / De Tijd by Bart Vegter,
Netherlands, 9 min., 35mm,silent, 2008. / Horizontal Boundaries by Pat
O'Neill, USA, 23 min., 35mm, 2008. / Public Domain by Jim Jennings, USA,
8 min., 16mm, silent, 2008. / ELEMENTs by Julie Murray, USA, 7
min.,16mm, 2008. / Origin of the Species by Ben Rivers, England, 16
min., 16mm, 2008. / Sarabande by Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 15 min., 16mm
silent, 2008.
3/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 1
See March 25 for details.
3/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 2
See March 25 for details.
3/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
BLEAK HOUSE: THE POETIC HORROR OF BEN RIVERS
In his first-ever visit, this Brighton, UK maker unleashes a creepy lot
of sublimely suspenseful, genre-inflected cine-poems. Winner of last
year's Rotterdam Tiger Award, this prolific Brit fashions minimal, moody
riffs on horror film tropes. Rivers' work profits from the sheer
physical pleasure of the hazy chiaroscuro of desolate and crumbling
places. Included on this program of poignant cinema are Old Dark House,
a hand-processed tour-by-flashlight of an abandoned, burnt-out building;
The Hyrcynium Wood, a B/W "mystery" film shot in 16mm; and The Coming
Race, wherein thousands of people climb a rocky mountain terrain – a
vague, mysterious and unsettling pilgrimage fraught with unknown
intentions. DJ Onanist conjures up a haunted-house FX mix for our
artist's reception.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2009
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3/29
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1 pm, Michigan Theater Main Theater
SYSTEMS AND LAYERS
On the Third Planet from the Sun by Pavel Medvedev, Russia, 32 min.,
35mm, 2006. / Más Se Perdió by Stephen Connolly, England, 14 min., 16mm,
2008. / O'er the Land by Deborah Stratman , USA, 52 min., 16mm, 2008.
3/29
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3:30 pm, Michigan Theater Screening Room
HITOSHI TOYODA: NAZUNA 35MM SLIDESHOW
Hitoshi Toyoda in person to present NAZUNA (35mm slideshow, 580 images,
90 min, silent). NAZUNA documents Toyoda's yearlong journey back through
Japan; returning to his family's home in Tokyo, discovering a small
community of Japanese Amish, spending time at a church for the homeless
and living in a Buddhist temple deep in the mountains. Hitoshi Toyoda is
a self-taught photographer who has worked exclusively in the medium of
slideshows for the past ten years. His silent slide shows have been
compared to haiku literature because of the way they are able to
encompass both the minutiae of daily life and the larger, unknowable
forces that govern that life. Toyoda only exhibits his work in live
contexts, clicking through the slides himself. Born in New York City, he
grew up in Tokyo and now divides his time between both. He has presented
his work in public spaces, churches, and galleries and museums including
the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Taka Ishii
Gallery, Images Festival and Anthology Film Archives.
3/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF KEN JACOBS’S
"RAZZLE DAZZLE THE LOST WORLD."
Los Angeles Filmforum presents the Los Angeles Premiere of Ken Jacobs's
"Razzle Dazzle the Lost World." Ken Jacob's is one of the leading
practitioners of film and video art in the world. We're delighted to
host the Los Angeles premiere of his newest video work: Capitalism:
Slavery (2006, DVD NTSC, b&w, silent, 3 min.) and the Razzle Dazzle the
Lost World (2008, DVD NTSC, color and black & white, 90 min.). An
eye-popper and brain-boggler…" – Nathan Lee, NY Times. General admission
$10, students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The Egyptian
Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex.
Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
3/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: (nostalgia) (HAPAX LEGOMENA I) 1973, 36 minutes, 16mm, sound.
"[T]he time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its
two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton
plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of
his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic,
mathematics, and physical demonstration which are the formal metaphors
for most of Frampton's films." –P. Adams Sitney POETIC JUSTICE (HAPAX
LEGOMENA II) 1972, 31 minutes, 16mm, silent. "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 CRITICAL MASS (HAPAX
LEGOMENA III) 1971, 26 minutes, 16mm, sound. "As a work of art I think
[it] is quite universal and deals with all quarrels (those between men
and women, or men and men, or women and women, or children, or war. It
is war!... It is very funny, and rather obviously so. It is a magic film
in that you can enjoy it, with greater appreciation, each time you look
at it. Most aesthetic experiences are not enjoyable on the surface. You
have to look at them a number of times before you are able to fully
enjoy them, but this one stands up at once, and again and again, and is
amazingly clear." –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
3/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HAPAX LEGOMENA, PROGRAM 2
HOLLIS FRAMPTON'S HAPAX LEGOMENA MARCH 25-31 "Hapax legomena are,
literally, 'things said once'. The scholarly jargon refers to those
words that occur only a single time in the entire oeuvre of an author,
or in a whole literature." –H.F. Hollis Frampton – photographer,
theoretician, philosopher and, above all, filmmaker – is one of the
towering figures of American avant-garde cinema. Possessed of a
frighteningly prodigious and wide-ranging intellect – he was a voracious
reader from childhood, and his films abound with evidence of his
fascination with linguistics, science, mathematics and philosophy –
combined with a witty and mischievous attraction to puzzles and
game-playing, Frampton was active as a filmmaker for only a
decade-and-a-half (his career cut tragically short by his death from
cancer in 1984). But in that brief time he created a breathtakingly
ambitious body of work, whose range and inventiveness are unsurpassed.
Frampton's seven-part HAPAX LEGOMENA is arguably his greatest completed
achievement. While its various parts can each stand alone, together they
form a complex and quasi-symphonic whole – an enigmatic structuralist
'autobiography', a series of investigations into the possibilities of
filmmaking, and a playful and dazzling encyclopedia of the cinema that
is perhaps the closest thing avant-garde film has to Bach's
"Well-Tempered Clavier". Puzzling, conceptually daring, and at times
disarmingly comic, HAPAX LEGOMENA is one of the pinnacles of
experimental film. This full week of screenings of the complete work
celebrates the preservation of HAPAX LEGOMENA, as well as the April 2009
publication, by MIT Press, of ON THE CAMERA ARTS AND CONSECUTIVE
MATTERS: THE WRITINGS OF HOLLIS FRAMPTON, edited by Bruce Jenkins, a
collection encompassing Frampton's critical essays, lectures,
correspondence, interviews, and scripts. In addition to a very special
recreation of Frampton's A LECTURE, and presentations by Michael Zryd
(York University) and Ken Eisenstein (University of Chicago) on
Saturday, March 28, each evening will feature an introduction by a
different Frampton scholar or enthusiast. The scheduled speakers
include: Keith Sanborn, filmmaker and critic (Wednesday); Annette
Michelson, scholar and co-founder of the journal, OCTOBER (Thursday); P.
Adams Sitney, scholar and author of VISIONARY FILM (Friday); Bruce
Jenkins, Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Film, Video, and
New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Saturday); Bill
Brand, filmmaker, scholar, and preservationist, along with students from
NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (Sunday); and
Gerry O'Grady, scholar and writer (Monday). HAPAX LEGOMENA has been
preserved through a major cooperative effort funded by the National Film
Preservation Foundation, and undertaken by MoMA, Anthology Film
Archives, the New York University Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation Program, and Bill Brand, professor in the NYU program and
project conservator. PROGRAM 2: TRAVELING MATTE (HAPAX LEGOMENA IV)
1971, 34 minutes, 16mm, silent. "TRAVELING MATTE is the pivot upon which
the whole of HAPAX LEGOMENA turns." –H.F. "This film metaphors an entire
human life: birth, sex, death – the framing device is the fingers and
palm of the maker's hand, wherein others only attempt to read the
future." –Stan Brakhage ORDINARY MATTER (HAPAX LEGOMENA V) 1972, 36
minutes, 16mm, sound on CD. "A vision of a journey, during which the eye
of the mind drives headlong through Salisbury Cloister (a monument to
enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a monument to connection), Stonehenge (a
monument to the intercourse between consciousness and LIGHT)… visiting
along the way diverse meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and
ending in the remembered cornfields of my childhood." –H.F. "I suppose I
think of it as a kind of acceleration from TRAVELING MATTE. [There] the
eye is groping and feeling its way and staggering and so forth. And
[here] the need somehow to worry about those words, and still
photographs, and so forth, is behind. ORDINARY MATTER is for me a kind
of ecstatic, headlong dive." –H.F. REMOTE CONTROL (HAPAX LEGOMENA VI)
1972, 29 minutes, 16mm, silent. "[In REMOTE CONTROL], the images speed
up to the point where every successive frame is different from every
previous frame, so that if there is an image in it, it's a kind of inner
voice within the images, as sometimes music will have many voices that
can be written out on the paper, and then in the listening the real
shape of the music is to be found in the voice that is generated among
them. … It was shot in a single evening, off the tube, right off the
ordinary TV set, in the course of an evening." –H.F. SPECIAL EFFECTS
(HAPAX LEGOMENA VII) 1972, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound. "I wanted to affirm
and honor the film frame itself. Because so much of what we know now, so
much of our experience is something that comes to us through that frame.
It seems to be a kind of synonym for what we are conscious of. I have
only seen the pyramids of Egypt within that frame. I have only seen –
endless things – most of what I believe I have experienced I have in
fact seen at the movies. I've seen it inside that frame." –H.F. Total
running time: ca. 115 minutes.
3/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
THIS IS MY LAND: BEN RIVERS’ PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES
BEN RIVERS IN-PERSON. The work of Ben Rivers occupies a distinctive
place between personal document and expressive explorations of place.
Detailed intimacies of portraiture are met with suggestions of the
mysterious and vast through impressionistic images of landscape. These
quiet contemplations are augmented with the fervent energies of the
occupants to reveal myriad layers of character. Rivers will appear in
person from England to present five recent films in his portraiture
series (THIS IS MY LAND, ASTIKA, A WORLD RATTLED OF HABIT, ORIGIN OF
SPECIES and AH, LIBERTY! ) as well as the San Francisco premiere of his
latest work.
3/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
7 pm, 1137 Dupont St. (@ Gladstone), Toronto, ON
LIFT MONTHLY SCREENING: DOCUMENTARY AND AUTHENTICITY
In its new monthly screening series, LIFT presents a program of works on
the theme of Documentary & Authenticity, with 16mm films by Philip
Hoffman (?O, Zoo! and Somewhere Between Jalostotitlan and Encarnacion)
and Ryan Feldman (Eulogy/Obverse). Phil Hoffman will be in attendance.
The LIFT monthly screening is a new event intended to introduce
filmmakers to diverse approaches to filmmaking. During the LIFT workshop
season, the last Sunday of each month will be devoted to screening and
discussing a selection of work from the library of the CFMDC and
elsewhere. This is an excellent opportunity for filmmakers to get
together, discuss the approaches other filmmakers have taken, and
develop their own ideas. The winter/spring screenings present a diverse
selection of Canadian documentary work to complement the workshop
season's focus on documentary filmmaking. Admission by donation ($5
suggested).
Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl
The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker:
http://www.hi-beam.net
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