This week [April 25 - May 3, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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This week [April 25 - May 3, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseille, France; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Framptonia! - "The Secret History of the Dividing Line" By David Gatten [April 25, Buffalo, New York]
 * Ec - Peter Kubelka [April 25, New York, New York]
 * Clarke Shorts Program #2 [April 25, New York, New York]
 * Lenz [April 25, New York, New York]
 * The Cool World [April 25, New York, New York]
 * I Was A Swiss Banker [April 25, New York, New York]
 * The Connection [April 25, New York, New York]
 * Depth Perception: 3-D Spectacular! [April 25, San Francisco, California]
 * Robert Frank: Recent Films [April 25, Washington, DC]
 * For Robert [April 25, Washington, DC]
 * Handle With Care [April 26, Berkeley, California]
 * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Treasures From American Film Archives iv [April 26, Los Angeles, California]
 * Essential Cinema - George Landow, Aka Owen Lan [April 26, New York, New York]
 * Clarke Shorts Program #3 [April 26, New York, New York]
 * Clarke Shorts Program #4 [April 26, New York, New York]
 * Lift Monthly Screening: History and Memory [April 26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Zoe Beloff: Conjuring Specters [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
 * Rome Burns – A Portrait of Shirley Clarke [April 27, New York, New York]
 * RaphaËL Maze: Films, videos, and “Pocket Films” [April 27, New York, New York]
 * Portrait of Jason [April 27, New York, New York]
 * In Person: Lis Rhodes [April 27, Vienna, Austria]
 * Garden Pieces. Glimpse of the Garden. [April 28, London, England]
 * Clarke Shorts Program #4 [April 28, New York, New York]
 * Clarke Shorts Program #1 [April 28, New York, New York]
 * Marcel Proust's Time Regained [April 28, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * In Person: Lis Rhodes [April 28, Vienna, Austria]
 * 3rd Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival [April 29, Cambridge, UK]
 * The Cinema Cabaret: Live Film Narration [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
 * Calarts Film/Video Showcases [April 30, Los Angeles, California]
 * The Black Banana & Other Shorts By Ben Hayeem [April 30, New York, New York]
 * Open Screening [April 30, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 1, Buffalo, New York]
 * Calarts Film/Video Showcases [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
 * Handle With Care [May 1, San Francisco, California]
 * 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 2, Buffalo, New York]
 * Orphans Film Symposium West [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
 * Calarts Film/Video Showcases [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
 * Ec - Peter Kubelka [May 2, New York, New York]
 * The Animal In Me [May 2, Philadelphia]
 * Pipe Dreams: Ptushko & Packard + [May 2, San Francisco, California]
 * Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1 [May 2, San Francisco, California]
 * 35th Anniversary of the Founding of Media Study [May 3, Buffalo, New York]
 * Orphans Film Symposium West [May 3, Los Angeles, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009
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4/25
Buffalo, New York: Media Study - University at Buffalo, SUNY
7 p.m., Center for the Arts, Room 112, University at Buffalo North Campus

 FRAMPTONIA! - "THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE" BY DAVID GATTEN
  FRAMPTONIA! Everything and everyone is cordially invited to FRAMPTONIA!
  Buffalo's two part screening series celebrating Hollis Frampton, a
  legendary instructor in the media studies department at the University
  at Buffalo. On April 24th, we will be screening the newly restored
  prints of Hollis Frampton's seven part "Hapax Legomena" followed by a
  presentation by Professor Michael Zryd (if you don't already know: a
  renowned Frampton scholar). The next day we'll be hosting the already
  iconic film's of David Gatten; he'll present his epic series "The Secret
  History of the Dividing Line." An event to be sure! Both screenings are
  free! Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena w/ presentation by Prof. Michael
  Zryd Friday, April 24th 5 o'clock David Gatten's The Secret History of
  the Dividing Line Saturday, April 25th 7 o'clock (For those who might be
  traveling far distances I would love to find a place for you among the
  poets or filmmakers who reside in the nickel city! Just pop-off an
  e-mail outside of frameworks and we can begin to unravel your plans)
  FRAMPTONIA! is generously supported by the Department of Media Study,
  the Graduate Student Association, Subboard I, INC and the GSA's for
  Media Study, Poetics and Visual Studies. -Ekrem Serdar -Scott Puccio

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 EC - PETER KUBELKA
  MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm)
  ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 minute, 35mm) ARNULF
  RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm) UNSERE AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA
  (1966, 12 minutes, 35mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 minutes, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka
  is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality
  above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I
  would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest
  filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above
  all else…etcetera." –Stan Brakhage

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #2
  FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME (1979, 60 minutes, 16mm) A collection of
  four short experimental dance films: INITIATION, MYSTERIUM, TRANS, and
  ONE-2-3.

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 LENZ
  Directed by Thomas Imbach 2006, 96 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
  subtitles The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges
  to research the story behind Georg Buchner's novel fragment, LENZ. But
  he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more
  emotional territory: a reunion with his estranged wife Natalie and their
  son Noah in the Swiss Alps. Like his literary counterpart, the
  modern-day Lenz follows the Romantic motto, "Genius writes its own
  rules". Against a background of global tourism – provided by the
  authentic Zermatt locations – LENZ portrays an unconventional family and
  a man swinging between euphoria and desperation.

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 THE COOL WORLD
  Directed by Shirley Clarke 1964, 105 minutes, 16mm. "THE COOL
  WORLD…look[s] as radical today as [it] did in the 60s. The first fiction
  feature to be shot entirely on location in Harlem, THE COOL WORLD was
  adapted by Clarke and her frequent collaborator Carl Lee from Warren
  Miller's novel about a black teenager who gets caught up in a culture of
  gangs and guns. Shot verite style with the light-weight equipment that
  had just come on the market, it seems as much a documentary of
  inner-city life just before Black Power as it does a fictional
  coming-of-age story." –Amy Taubin, VILLAGE VOICE

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45pm, 32 Second Avenue

 I WAS A SWISS BANKER
  Directed by Thomas Imbach 2007, 75 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
  subtitles Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish
  self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling money
  across the border for reinvestment. But, flagged down one day by a
  customs officers, Roger loses his cool and makes a run for it. Diving
  headlong into Lake Constance, he catapults himself out of his life as a
  banker and into a totally new universe, populated by shy mermaids in
  Lara Croft gear and cunning magpie witches in helicopters. As in a Grimm
  Brothers fairy tale, Roger has to pass three tests to cast off the
  witches' curse and find happiness. His underwater journey through an
  intoxicatingly beautiful Switzerland is enhanced by the enchanting songs
  of sirens – a fable full of lust for life and love.

4/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 Second Avenue

 THE CONNECTION
  Directed by Shirley Clarke 1962, 110 minutes, 35mm. Preservation print
  courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funded by
  The Film Foundation. "Clarke's first feature, made after several
  avant-garde shorts and before her better-known THE COOL WORLD and
  PORTRAIT OF JASON. Based on Jack Gelber's play about a group of junkies
  hanging out in a New York loft waiting for their fix, THE CONNECTION is
  part Beat narrative, part interrogation of documentary form, part
  portrait of a subculture. Noted for Clarke's innovative
  camera-choreography, it was banned for its obscenity but won the
  Critic's Prize at Cannes." –Irina Leimbacher, SF

4/25
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.

 DEPTH PERCEPTION: 3-D SPECTACULAR!
  We're honored to have back those 3-D masters from Marin County, Pad
  McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, premiering the latter's projection-piece
  on San Andreas temblors, The City Quakes: The San Francisco Earthquakes
  of 1906 & 1989, with Bob's original score. Pad has his own short piece,
  Sketch Pad, a series of experiments with stereographic motion pictures,
  combining 3-D video and stills. This stereoscopic extravaganza also
  boasts the debut of Kerry Laitala's Chromatic Cocktail, a Kodachrome
  exploration using the eye-po pping Chromadepth process, plus new spatial
  initiatives! ALSO: Neighborhood flaneur David Cox with 3-D movies made
  on his iPhone (believe it or not), a 3-D tour of a Viewmaster, factory a
  rare Hy Hirsch piece from the '50s, and views of Burning Man, wrestling
  matches, and carnivorous plants. Free Wine, 3 different glasses provided
  *7.

4/25
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
1:00 pm, NGA, 4th & Constiution Ave. NW

 ROBERT FRANK: RECENT FILMS
  Friends and family, New York and Nova Scotia, and the artist's fixations
  and fascinations shape the content of Robert Frank's films. This
  selection includes work completed between 1996 and 2005. The Present
  (1996, 35 mm, 24 minutes); Flamingo (1997, digital beta, 7 minutes); I
  Remember (1998, digital beta, 5 minutes); Sanyu (1999, digital beta, 27
  minutes); Paper Route (2002, digital beta, 23 minutes); and True Story
  (2004, digital beta, 26 minutes)

4/25
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
3:30 PM, NGA, 4th & Constiution Ave. NW

 FOR ROBERT
  curated by Michael Shamberg A selection of poetic avant-garde works by
  various artists, chosen for this program by independent curator Michael
  H. Shamberg in honor of Robert Frank's photography and films: Junkopia
  (Chris Marker, 6 minutes); NYC Weights and Measures (Jem Cohen, 6
  minutes); p.s. beirut (Michael H. Shamberg, 7 minutes); Notes on Iceland
  (Melody Owen, 5 minutes); After Writing (Mary Helena Clark, 4 minutes);
  Monsanto (Paula Gaitán, 22 minutes); Nocturne (Avenue A, no lens) (Joel
  Schlemowitz, 3 minutes); Ah Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 19 minutes); Summer
  Cannibals (Robert Frank, 4 minutes); Run (Robert Frank, 4 minutes);
  Playback (Pere Portabella, 8 minutes). (89 minutes total)

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SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 2009
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4/26
Berkeley, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
http://fest09.sffs.org/
8:30pm, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way (at Bowditch)

 HANDLE WITH CARE
  Curated by Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher The seven artist-made films
  gathered in this program vary from a cutout collage, a hand-processed
  film, a puppet and costume drama, to two films with 3D imagery. Whether
  a single shot recording ninety-three candles flickering on a birthday
  cake or an allegorical recounting of a near-death experience, these
  films remind us of the fragility of life and the power of the moving
  image medium…as well as the reverse. Chromatic Cocktail (Kerry Laitala,
  USA, 2008, digital video (mini-dv), color, silent, 8.5 mins): The
  vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala's experiments with
  chromovision leap off the screen in pulsating 3D. Experiment on
  Peripheral Vision, #1 (Adele Horne and Paul VanDeCarr, USA, 2008,
  digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 3 mins): In the first of a
  series of experiments, a man and a woman note what they see from the
  corner of their eyes. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
  (Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 4 mins): Charlotte
  Pryce's luminous, hand-processed film reaches across the centuries to
  find inspiration in a Dutch 17th Century painting. On a Phantom Limb
  (Nancy Andrews, USA 2009, digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 35
  mins): An imaginative allegory draws on ink paintings, live-action, and
  puppets to explore a woman who finds herself part bird after a
  life-threatening occurrence. Speechless (Scott Stark, USA, 2008, 16mm,
  color, sound, 13 mins): This beautiful yet uneasy weaving of imagery of
  human vulvas and landscapes draws on medical 3D Viewmaster images. False
  Aging (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, digital video (digibeta), color, sound,
  15 mins): Longing and regret are evoked in this haunting collage-film,
  crafted from the detritus of the past. Ninety-Three (Kevin Jerome
  Everson, USA, 2008, digital video (dvcam), b/w, silent 3 mins): A
  succinct portrait of resilience.

4/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.

 LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS TREASURES FROM AMERICAN FILM ARCHIVES IV
  Los Angeles Filmforum presents Treasures from American Film Archives IV
  – Six films from the box, screened on film, in honor of its release With
  Jeff Lambert, Assistant Director of the National Film Preservation
  Foundation, and Mark Toscano of the Academy Film Archive in person! This
  March brought the long-awaited home-video debut of 26 classics of
  American experimental filmmaking in this new release from the National
  Film Preservation Foundation: Treasures Iv: American Avant-Garde Film,
  1947-1986, Tonight: Fog Line (Larry Gottheim, 1970); Go! Go! Go! (Marie
  Menken, 1964); Chumlum (Ron Rice, 1964); Peyote Queen (Storm De Hirsch,
  1965); Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1969-70); 7362 (Pat O'Neill, 1965-67)
  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.

4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA - GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAN
  A selection of his short films. "His remarkable faculty is as maker of
  images... the images he photographs are among the most radical,
  super-real and haunting images the cinema has ever given us." –P. Adams
  Sitney, VISIONARY FILM

4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #3
  TEEPEE VIDEO SPACE TROUPE: THE EARLY YEARS (1971, 16 minutes, video)
  This video journal is an informal time capsule of the downtown cultural
  and artistic milieu in New York. Part 1 documents a party given by John
  Lennon and Yoko Ono. In Parts 2 & 3, Arthur C. Clarke performs a
  celestial experiment with a video camera on the roof of the Chelsea
  Hotel, while influential theologian Alan Watts waits silently, creating
  "an exercise in Zen." SAVAGE/LOVE (1981, 26 minutes, video) TONGUES
  (1982, 20 minutes, video) A tour-de-force synthesis of theater and
  video, SAVAGE/LOVE and TONGUES mark the collaboration between Clarke,
  actor/director Joseph Chaikin, and playwright Sam Shepard. Through her
  ingenious camera work, precise editing, and imaginative use of
  electronic imaging, Clarke powerfully transforms these stage pieces into
  resonant video drama.

4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #4
  SKYSCRAPER (1959, 20 minutes, 16mm) This Academy Award-winning short
  features a jazzy score of Beat-style poems and songs blended with the
  voices of actors playing construction workers as they construct the
  Tishman Building on Fifth Avenue in New York. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S
  QUARREL WITH THE WORLD (1963, 55 minutes, 35mm) Print courtesy of the
  Academy Film Archive. An intimate portrait of Robert Frost completed
  before his death at age 88. Crosscutting his professional life as a
  public figure and honored poet laureate with the private man at his home
  in Vermont, this documentary achieves remarkable insight into an
  American icon.

4/26
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: HISTORY AND MEMORY
  In its new monthly screening series, LIFT presents a program of works on
  the theme of History & Memory, with 16mm films by Garine Torossian (Girl
  from Moush), Judith Doyle (Private Property/Public History), Francisca
  Duran (Retrato Oficial) and Elida Schogt (A Trilogy). 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).

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MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009
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4/27
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.

 ZOE BELOFF: CONJURING SPECTERS
  New York artist Zoe Beloff's unique and mesmerizing films are
  philosophical toys—objects with which to think. Her work has especially
  borne on "phantoms," on images that are "not there," and on a
  precinematic version of the virtual—created by means of a stereoscopic
  Bolex camera that produces spectral 3-D images. Shadowland Or Light From
  The Other Side (2000, 32 min., 3-D 16mm, b/w), starring Kate Valk of The
  Wooster Group, locates a link between Victorian spiritualism and the
  birth of cinema in late-19th century "Ghost Shows," where actors
  interacted with magic lantern slides and stereoscopic views. Charming
  Augustine (2004, 40 min., 3-D 16mm film, b/w) is an experimental
  narrative inspired by one of Charcot's most famous patients at the
  Salpétrière in turn-of-the-century Paris. It explores connections
  between photographic documentation of hysteria and the prehistory of
  narrative film: Augustine captivates the doctors with her theatrical and
  photogenic hysterical attacks and in the process becomes a star—the
  "Sarah Bernhardt" of the asylum. In person: Zoe Beloff Jack H. Skirball
  Series $9 [students $7]

4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 ROME BURNS – A PORTRAIT OF SHIRLEY CLARKE
  Directed by Noël Burch & André S. Labarthe 1970, 54 minutes, video "Part
  of the CINEASTES DE NOTRE TEMPS series, this memorable documentary is an
  opportunity to see Clarke holding court, sharing her bold cinematic
  ideas and opinions on filmmaking with a congregation including such
  luminaries as director Jacques Rivette, writer and artist Jean-Jacques
  Lebel and Yoko Ono. Shot in January 1968 and co-directed by Noel Burch
  and Andre S. Labarthe, footage of this nature featuring Clarke at such a
  crucial time in her development is scarce to say the least." –EDINBURGH
  INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 RAPHAËL MAZE: FILMS, VIDEOS, AND “POCKET FILMS”
  "My films and videos are situated at the crossroads of the history of
  art video and experimental cinema. These two practices have explored the
  possibilities of an open and wide-ranging process, playing with forms as
  well as durations. I have been developing a body of work which reflects
  on the very nature of these pictures. "In my films and my journeys I
  like to record intuitive perception, that of visual and internal
  landscapes. My filmmaking represents an experiment in intuitive
  thinking, distinct from the logic of a linear thought. "Experimental
  cinema and video together traverse the fields of pictorial
  experimentation, bringing into play new codes and new forms of
  representation. Since 2007, I have been making films with mobile phones,
  in 3G+ video, a new practice I call 'pocket films', and which I have
  been circulating with other artists including Edson Barrus, Yann
  Beauvais, Abigail Child, Veronica Baena, and Corinne Peuchet." –R.M.

4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 PORTRAIT OF JASON
  Directed by Shirley Clarke 1967, 105 minutes, 35mm. A raw record of a
  confessional conversation with an African-American gay hustler
  recounting his life and times. A disturbing and fascinating document, it
  unflinchingly observes Jason Holliday – conversing, performing,
  confessing, dissolving. "The most fascinating film I've ever seen."
  –Ingmar Bergman

4/27
Vienna, Austria: Austrian Film Museum
http://www.filmmuseum.at
9 pm, Austrian Film Museum

 IN PERSON: LIS RHODES
  Films by Lis Rhodes 1: Light Music (1975–77), Running Light (1996), A
  Cold Draft (1988), RIFF (2004). Lis Rhodes is one of the principal
  artists of British avangarde film after 1970. In contrast to her
  contemporaries Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal or Chris Welsby, her films
  have hardly been shown in Austria. After working with the London
  Filmmakers' Co-op she co-founded Circles (later: Cinenova), the first
  distribution company for films and videos by women. This engagement for
  female representation in the art world is also reflected in her essays
  and some of her films. Rhodes started out with abstract or "absolute"
  films like Dresden Dynamo (1971/74), emphasizing the synaesthetic
  interplay of colour, movement and sound. A highlight of her
  presentations at the Film Museum will be the performance of her
  legendary Expanded Cinema double projection Light Music: a dynamic light
  and sound environment amplified by a smoke machine. Since the late
  1970s, her films have moved towards an investigation of complex
  historical, social and political processes. They deal with expulsion (in
  the past and the present), the sealing-off of Europe towards immigrants,
  the invasion of Iraq, violence against women, and the classification of
  female identity. In these later works Lis Rhodes achieves a unique blend
  of photography, Super-8- and 16mm-film, drawing, writing, and a literary
  language which is fully aware of the impossibility of defining "reality"
  in an unambiguous way. Her layering of these levels creates
  three-dimensional pictorial spaces which correspond to her mysterious,
  poeticalpolitical texts. „Only the permitted is really visible in a
  culture that equates ‚real' with ‚visible'. Like most systems it has a
  rational explanation for its existence. It's property. Who owns it?"
  (Running Light, 1996). A joint programme of sixpackfilm and the Austrian
  Film Museum.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009
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4/28
London, England: BFI Southbank
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/
6.20pm, NFT 2

 GARDEN PIECES. GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN.
  'Without those who love me and whom I love, these small film could not
  have existed.' Marie Menken's words speak of the work of many film
  makers and equally of the close relationships with the garden we
  experience with Anne Charlotte Robertson in reel 80 of her five year 8mm
  diary (on video), with organic and natural gardening in France in the
  most recent Bouquets of Rose Lowder, and the house and garden of Robert
  Beavers' mother. We end with a Navajo medicine man collecting plants.
  The last of a series of three programmes curated and intorduced by Peter
  Todd. Glimpse of the Garden, Marie Menken, 1957. Emily Died, Anne
  Charlotte Robertson, 1997. Bouquets 21-30, Rose Lowder 2001-2005.
  Pitcher of Coloured Light, Robert Beavers. 2007. The Spirit of the
  Navajo, Maxine and Maryjane Tsoi 1966.

4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #4
  SKYSCRAPER (1959, 20 minutes, 16mm) This Academy Award-winning short
  features a jazzy score of Beat-style poems and songs blended with the
  voices of actors playing construction workers as they construct the
  Tishman Building on Fifth Avenue in New York. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S
  QUARREL WITH THE WORLD (1963, 55 minutes, 35mm) Print courtesy of the
  Academy Film Archive. An intimate portrait of Robert Frost completed
  before his death at age 88. Crosscutting his professional life as a
  public figure and honored poet laureate with the private man at his home
  in Vermont, this documentary achieves remarkable insight into an
  American icon.

4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 Second Avenue

 CLARKE SHORTS PROGRAM #1
  DANCE IN THE SUN (1953, 6 minutes, 16mm) IN PARIS PARKS (1954, 13
  minutes, 16mm) BULLFIGHT (1955, 9 minutes, 16mm) MOMENT IN LOVE (1956,
  11 minutes, 16mm) BRUSSELS LOOPS (1957, 22 minutes, 16mm)
  BRIDGES-GO-ROUND (1958, 7 minutes, 16mm) Recently preserved print! Total
  running time: ca. 70 minutes. Clarke's early films reflect her interest
  in dance, and in capturing the motion and rhythms of dance on film. But
  while some are explicitly dance films, others, especially IN PARIS PARKS
  and BRIDGES-GO-ROUND, expand the concept considerably. As Clarke
  characterized her approach, "I concern myself, whether I'm working with
  dancers or actors, at all times, with the choreography of what is
  happening on the screen: its designs, its rhythms, its movements, all
  elements of dance but also all elements of life – for me this is the
  dance that exists on film, not dance as it exists on the stage."

4/28
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts

 MARCEL PROUST’S TIME REGAINED
  Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999, 162 min) by RAOUL RUIZ This film,
  starring Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, and John Malkovich offers
  something quite different and more challenging than the treatments (e.g.
  Masterpiece Theater or Merchant-Ivory) of literary classics many viewers
  are used to. "Writing in the light of the Lumière brothers'
  cinematographe, Proust sought to have his readers visualize temporality;
  filming at the dawn of the digital era, Ruiz allows the flow of static
  images through the movie projector to merge with the stream of time,
  while pondering the paradox of memories fixed in emulsion. Time
  Regained's characters are introduced as the dying Proust shuffles
  through his collection of photos. 'Then one day,' he muses, 'everything
  changes.'…. With misplaced nostalgia, contemporary filmmakers continue
  to revisit those literary classics written before there were movies.
  Ruiz is more creatively anachronistic. This is a 20th-century movie
  about a 20th-century novel. The filmmaker attempts to approximate not
  Proust's prose but rather the writer's modernist, multiple-perspective
  simultaneity. People are simultaneously old and young. Marcel wanders
  through the crypt after his child self. As the camera moves, statues
  parade through a shifting foreground. Time Regained is a testament to
  Marcel's understanding that 'the true paradises are those we lost'—which
  is to say that the pleasure it provides is the involuntary memory of
  cinema itself." – J. Hoberman, TheVillage Voice

4/28
Vienna, Austria: Austrian Film Museum
http://www.filmmuseum.at
9 pm, Austrian Film Museum

 IN PERSON: LIS RHODES
  Films by Lis Rhodes 2: Dresden Dynamo (1971), Light Reading (1979), Just
  About Now (1993), Pictures on Pink Paper (1982). Lis Rhodes is one of
  the principal artists of British avangarde film after 1970. In contrast
  to her contemporaries Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal or Chris Welsby, her
  films have hardly been shown in Austria. After working with the London
  Filmmakers' Co-op she co-founded Circles (later: Cinenova), the first
  distribution company for films and videos by women. This engagement for
  female representation in the art world is also reflected in her essays
  and some of her films. Rhodes started out with abstract or "absolute"
  films like Dresden Dynamo (1971/74), emphasizing the synaesthetic
  interplay of colour, movement and sound. A highlight of her
  presentations at the Film Museum will be the performance of her
  legendary Expanded Cinema double projection Light Music: a dynamic light
  and sound environment amplified by a smoke machine. Since the late
  1970s, her films have moved towards an investigation of complex
  historical, social and political processes. They deal with expulsion (in
  the past and the present), the sealing-off of Europe towards immigrants,
  the invasion of Iraq, violence against women, and the classification of
  female identity. In these later works Lis Rhodes achieves a unique blend
  of photography, Super-8- and 16mm-film, drawing, writing, and a literary
  language which is fully aware of the impossibility of defining "reality"
  in an unambiguous way. Her layering of these levels creates
  three-dimensional pictorial spaces which correspond to her mysterious,
  poeticalpolitical texts. „Only the permitted is really visible in a
  culture that equates ‚real' with ‚visible'. Like most systems it has a
  rational explanation for its existence. It's property. Who owns it?"
  (Running Light, 1996). A joint programme of sixpackfilm and the Austrian
  Film Museum.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009
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4/29
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival
http://www.cambridge-super8.org
7pm, USC, Mill lane

 3RD CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
  With more than 60 World, International, European and UK Premieres, our
  competition and panorama programmes will show the best films originated
  on the brilliant Super 8 format. More than 25 filmmakers from across
  Europe will join the festival for a great four days of networking and
  films. All genres are represented (animation, fiction, documentaries and
  experimental film), showing the diversity of our selection. Here are
  some highlights; * A very special Magic Lantern opening show * Super 8
  Workshop with Dagie Brundert * 4 competition screenings * 2 panorama
  screenings * Premiere of David Teague's feature 'Love Suicides'
  including a Q & A with the crew * Cambridge memories programme * A Dagie
  Brundert retrospective * A Super 8 industry panel * Performance from the
  Szeged Super 8 Acrobat Group

4/29
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St.

 THE CINEMA CABARET: LIVE FILM NARRATION
  Poets from San Francisco and Los Angeles revive the lost Japanese art of
  the benshi—the on-stage narrator who in the silent movie era dispensed
  commentary or on-the-sport interpretative improvisation alongside moving
  pictures. The Cinema Cabaret's "neo-benshis" choose scenes from films or
  TV shows, turn down the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images
  with new meanings. Relying on language and sound, the resulting
  interventions range from hilarious parodies to sly critiques to more
  subversive interpretations. The neo-benshis this evening take on scenes
  from Bollywood's Silsila (1981), the atomic noir On the Beach (1959) and
  classics such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), among other
  works. Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7]

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009
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4/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info., 631 W. 2nd St.

 CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
  FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
  live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
  Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.

4/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 THE BLACK BANANA & OTHER SHORTS BY BEN HAYEEM
  ULTRAESSENTIAL CINEMA PRESENTS: "THE BLACK BANANA" AND OTHER SHORTS BY
  BEN HAYEEM Each Anthology calendar features an Unessential Cinema
  program, but this time around we've altered the series' title so as to
  properly respect the unmissable, unfathomable wonder that is THE BLACK
  BANANA. Born and raised in Bombay, director Ben Hayeem (1933-2004) made
  a number of well-regarded films and was close with experimental film
  pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early in his career he joined
  the Living Theater group in New York and became the only Indian Jew to
  play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a Brecht play. This
  comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him down the path to
  the rather incredible and risqu? happenings in THE BLACK BANANA. The
  original promotional notes inform us that, "In this zany, ribald Middle
  Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt against the parental
  and conventional authority, represented by old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and
  Texans. Avram, a hippy Hassid, Hassan, a zany Arab inventor, and Tex, a
  towering, footloose Texan – all of them possessed by the spirit of the
  Dybbuk – engage in an exuberant search for freedom, love, money, sex and
  marriage (or escape from marriage)…. Despite its message of peace and
  good will between Jew and Arab, THE BLACK BANANA has the distinction of
  being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity
  and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board." And if that
  isn't enough, we are sweetening the bill with the addition of a couple
  Hayeem shorts. We'll see you here! Benjamin Hayeem PAPILLOTE (1964, 10.5
  minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) FLORA (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound) &
  THE BLACK BANANA 1976, 71 minutes, 16mm, color.

4/30
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

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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
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5/1
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
2 p.m., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020

 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
  2:00 PM Reminiscences of Administrators 3:30 PM Memories of
  Distinguished Visiting Faculty 7:30 PM Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas;
  Screening of The Birth of a Nation (1997) 9:00 PM Screening of Media
  Works by Early Students, 1973 - 1983

5/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info., 631 W. 2nd St.

 CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
  FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
  live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
  Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.

5/1
San Francisco, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
http://fest09.sffs.org/
9:15pm, Sundance Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)

 HANDLE WITH CARE
  Curated by Kathy Geritz and Irina Leimbacher The seven artist-made films
  gathered in this program vary from a cutout collage, a hand-processed
  film, a puppet and costume drama, to two films with 3D imagery. Whether
  a single shot recording ninety-three candles flickering on a birthday
  cake or an allegorical recounting of a near-death experience, these
  films remind us of the fragility of life and the power of the moving
  image medium…as well as the reverse. Chromatic Cocktail (Kerry Laitala,
  USA, 2008, digital video (mini-dv), color, silent, 8.5 mins): The
  vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala's experiments with
  chromovision leap off the screen in pulsating 3D. Experiment on
  Peripheral Vision, #1 (Adele Horne and Paul VanDeCarr, USA, 2008,
  digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 3 mins): In the first of a
  series of experiments, a man and a woman note what they see from the
  corner of their eyes. The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
  (Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2008, 16mm, color, silent, 4 mins): Charlotte
  Pryce's luminous, hand-processed film reaches across the centuries to
  find inspiration in a Dutch 17th Century painting. On a Phantom Limb
  (Nancy Andrews, USA 2009, digital video (digibeta), color, sound, 35
  mins): An imaginative allegory draws on ink paintings, live-action, and
  puppets to explore a woman who finds herself part bird after a
  life-threatening occurrence. Speechless (Scott Stark, USA, 2008, 16mm,
  color, sound, 13 mins): This beautiful yet uneasy weaving of imagery of
  human vulvas and landscapes draws on medical 3D Viewmaster images. False
  Aging (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, digital video (digibeta), color, sound,
  15 mins): Longing and regret are evoked in this haunting collage-film,
  crafted from the detritus of the past. Ninety-Three (Kevin Jerome
  Everson, USA, 2008, digital video (dvcam), b/w, silent 3 mins): A
  succinct portrait of resilience.

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SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009
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5/2
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
10 A.M., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020

 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
  Saturday, May 2 10:00 AM Memories of Media Study Doctoral Students 2:00
  PM Presentations by Early Media Study Creative Artists 4:30 PM Graduates
  Who are Now Chairs 7:30 PM Reminiscences of the Founding Faculty Members
  9:00 PM Reception

5/2
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles CA 90036

 ORPHANS FILM SYMPOSIUM WEST
  http://www.lafilmforum.org/OrphansWest/Program/Program.html Orphans West
  Symposium Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, 2009 At the Silent Movie
  Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue (at Melrose), Los Angeles, CA Presented
  by Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and
  the MIAP program The Orphan Film Symposium has had six incarnations
  since its start in 1999 at the University of South Carolina. Founder Dan
  Streible has since developed the symposium into a favorite of AMIA
  members, filmmakers, and historians. The event is now held at NYU as a
  project of their Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program, and
  draws sold out crowds from around the world (18 nations were represented
  at the last symposium). For the uninitiated, "orphan" works are those
  which are outside of the mainstream and often have no known origin or
  copyright, or were at one point considered "lost" and without a formal
  repository to preserve it. These include home movies, amateur and
  educational films, industrial and sponsored films, experimental films,
  and newsreels. According to Dan Streible, the founder of the Orphans
  Film Symposium, 1. 2. Three dictionary connotations of orphan [are]
  analogous to what film archivists mean by the label: 1) One deprived of
  protection (orphans of the storm); 2) an item not developed because it
  is unprofitable (an orphan drug); and 3) a discontinued model (an orphan
  automobile) ... we can fairly say that in the twenty-first century, all
  film (celluloid) is becoming an orphaned technology. Presenters at the
  symposium speak about orphan restoration and research projects, their
  processes of discovery for these films and videos, followed by
  screenings of the works. Undoubtedly, latecomers to the Orphans
  phenomenon are curious as to what stories and treasures the early
  incarnations of the symposium uncovered. For those curious parties who
  have missed some or all of the symposia, Los Angeles organizations LA
  Filmforum and Cinefamily have worked with NYU and Dan Streible to
  coordinate a two-day retrospective event on May 2 and 3 at the historic
  Silent Movie Theatre at 611 N. Fairfax. The event will feature five
  shows; each featuring selected presentations and screenings from all six
  previous symposia. Orphans founder Dan Streible will be present along
  with an amazing lineup of presenters and films. Admission is $13 per
  show. For $65 you will receive a pass to all five shows in the
  symposium, free soda and popcorn AND a dinner and wine reception on
  Saturday night between the first and second shows! Saturday May 2,
  6:00pm Selections from Orphans 1: Saving Orphan Films in the Digital Age
  and Orphans 2: Documenting the 20th Century Saturday May 2, 9:30pm
  Selections from Orphans 3: Listening to Orphan Films; Sound, Music,
  Voice Please visit the Cinefamily site to purchase a symposium pass or
  individual tickets!

5/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
See film.calarts.edu for program info.</, 631 W. 2nd St.

 CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES
  FREE The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new
  live-action works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the
  Film Directing Program. See film.calarts.edu for program info.

5/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30pm, 32 Second Avenue

 EC - PETER KUBELKA
  MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm)
  ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 minute, 35mm) ARNULF
  RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm) UNSERE AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA
  (1966, 12 minutes, 35mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 minutes, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka
  is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality
  above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I
  would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest
  filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above
  all else…etcetera." –Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 55 minutes.

5/2
Philadelphia: Flickering Light Film Festival
http://www.flickeringfilms.com
7pm, 7137 Germantown Ave

 THE ANIMAL IN ME
  The Animal in Me: Films Featuring Characters from the Rest of the Animal
  Kingdom (67 minutes) Saturday May 2nd, 7pm Sedgwick Theater, 7137
  Germantown Ave (accessible by public transit–R8 and #23 bus) $5 Here You
  are When You Were (Jesse Moore) Unique combination of original ambient
  music and hand painted film frames rendering a dream like experience.
  Five County Fair (David Ellsworth) Super 8 impressions of residents who
  travel to the town of Farmville, VA to attend a county fair. God's
  Critters (Bruce James) Dogs howl, cats meow and Pastor Maggie Ainslie
  advises at Atonement Lutheran Church in the Fishtown neighborhood of
  Philadelphia. by any other name (Rini Yun Keagy) Through found footage
  re-enacting Spanish colonialism and with imagery of sloths held captive
  in a zoo, by any other name quietly interrogates the historical
  trajectory of the act of naming and meaning. Indigenous to South America
  but named by western imperialism, sloth the animal is subtly compared to
  the native peoples of the same continent. Would these slow-moving,
  peaceful herbivores and subjugated peoples everywhere throughout time,
  by any other name, be anything other than animal or human? Six and a
  Half (Lily Amirpour) A little girl comes face to face with power and
  weakness when she tries to catch a frog in a pond. Eaten (Anne Haydock)
  A game of dress-up: windows and wallpaper, hawks and moths, olive loaf
  and tinfoil. Say Yesss (Chris Thomas)The story of one bug communicating
  a crush on another. Wittle Bitty (Louis Waters)Desire, cleanliness and
  cats. A young, domestic man's growing obsession with the ever elusive
  domestic cat. Wustenspringmaus (Jim Finn)The little known history of our
  dear friend, the gerbil. God of Tears (Max Margulies and Naoko Masuda)
  Blue Boy, a 200 year old child-god has a problem: he has no friends.The
  planet he rules over is completely devoid of animal life. So he spends
  his free time crying. What he doesn't know is that when tears fall from
  his face, they jump onto another planet as rain. This rain creates moist
  and succulent rainbows, which the people on the other planet then eat
  and is their only form of sustenance. One day, a cat magically appears
  before the eyes of the Blue Boy. He immediately befriends it, and
  forgets about crying. This, of course, leads to harsh problems on the
  other planet, where people begin to starve to death.

5/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.

 PIPE DREAMS: PTUSHKO & PACKARD +
  Open sesame! Welcome to a cinematic den where fantasy—yea,
  delirium—reign! Doug Katelus conjures dark angels through the Optigan,
  transporting us to the ultra-rare Fairytale World of Alexander Ptushko,
  a child's-eye survey of this Russian film wizard's phantasmagoric
  special effects. ALSO: Andres Garcia Franco's haunting The Invention, a
  marvelous descent into an exotic Mexican demimonde. AND Drew Heitzler's
  Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics), a riff on the 1963 Curtis
  Harrington film that uses Venice Beach as a backdrop for a surreal
  dreamscape of Pynchonesque paranoia and comedic horror. PLUS Damon
  Packard, Busby Berkeley, Houdini, and hallucinatory shorts. Free Wine,
  Hookah in the house *$6.66.

5/2
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd St

 ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 1
  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1 SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater
  Saturday, May 2, 2009, 3:00 p.m. Pull My Daisy, Codirected with Alfred
  Leslie, 1959, 28 min., 16mm The Sin of Jesus, 1961, 40 min., 35mm O.K.
  End Here, 1963, 30 min., 35mm Total running time: 98 min. $5 general;
  free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free
  ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Screens again on
  Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

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SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2009
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5/3
Buffalo, New York: Department of Media Study - SUNY Buffalo
http://ubdms.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/celebration-of-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-media-study/
10 A.M., Department of Media Study University at Buffalo The State University of New York 231 Center for the Arts Buffalo, NY 14260-6020

 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF MEDIA STUDY
  Sunday, May 3 10:00 AM Teachers and Curators Participants: Thom
  Anderson, Anthony Bannon, Peer Bode, Tony Conrad, Marguerite Dorrity,
  Christine Downing, Arnold Dreyblatt, Seth Feldman, Barry Grant, J.
  Ronald Green, Louisa Green, Brian Henderson, Kathy High, Bruce Jenkins,
  Peter Lunenfeld, Jonas Mekas, Annette Michelson, John Minkowsky, Scott
  Nygren, Gerald O'Grady, Robert O'Kane, Vladamir Petric, Robert Polidori,
  Vibeke Sorensen, Steina, Woody Vasulka, Peter Weibel, Alan Williams,
  Andrej Zdravic

5/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00, 4:30, and 8:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles CA 90036

 ORPHANS FILM SYMPOSIUM WEST
  Orphans West Symposium Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, 2009 At the
  Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue (at Melrose), Los Angeles,
  CA Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily, NYU Tisch School of
  the Arts and the MIAP program Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily at the
  Silent Movie Theatre, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
  will present a retrospective of the Orphan Film Symposium – Orphans West
  - at the historic Silent Movie Theatre on May 2 and 3, 2009. "Orphan"
  works are those which are outside of the mainstream and often have no
  known origin or copyright, or were at one point considered "lost" and
  without a formal repository to preserve it. These include home movies,
  amateur and educational films, industrial and sponsored films,
  experimental films, and newsreels. Presenters at the symposium speak
  about orphan restoration and research projects, their processes of
  discovery for these films and videos, followed by screenings of the
  works. The event will feature five shows; each featuring selected
  presentations and screenings from all six previous symposia. Orphans
  founder Dan Streible will be present along with an amazing lineup of
  presenters and films. Admission is $13 per show. For $65 you will
  receive a pass to all five shows in the symposium, free soda and popcorn
  AND a dinner and wine reception on Saturday night between the first and
  second shows! Please visit the Cinefamily site to purchase a symposium
  pass or individual tickets! Sunday May 3, 2:00pm Selections from Orphans
  4: On Location: Place and Region in Forgotten Films Sunday May 3, 4:30pm
  Selections from Orphans 5: Science, Industry and Education Sunday May 3,
  8:00pm Selections from Orphans 6: The State Los Angeles Filmforum at the
  Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036.
  Saturday/Sunday May 2 & 3, 2009. General admission $13 per session, $65
  for weekend pass. http://www.cinefamily.org/calendar/orphans.html and
  www.lafilmforum.org/OrphansWest/Program To purchase tickets or symposium
  passes, visit www.cinefamily.org or call 323-655-2510

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