From: Weekly Listing (email suppressed)
Date: Sat May 30 2009 - 08:27:09 PDT
This week [May 30 - June 7, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Experimental Media Congress
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Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Deadline: June 30, 2009)
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CologneOFF (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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One Minute Challenge (London; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2009)
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Accessibility 2009: Cross Currents (Sumter, SC USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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Magazine BLU BLUfilm Shortfest (Pleasanton, CA, USA; Deadline: September 01, 2009)
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Ventura Film Festival (Ventura, CA; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseille, France; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 05, 2009)
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Ellensburg Film Festival (Ellensburg, WA, USA; Deadline: July 03, 2009)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2009 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna; Deadline: June 20, 2009)
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16th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: June 15, 2009)
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Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: July 01, 2009)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 2009)
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OFF: Oblò Film Festival, a true-school indie film festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: July 01, 2009)
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Strasbourg International Film Festival (Strasbourg, Alsace, FRANCE; Deadline: June 08, 2009)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 26, 2009)
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Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA; Deadline: June 25, 2009)
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The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: June 30, 2009)
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Around the Coyote (Chicago; Deadline: June 01, 2009)
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abstracta (roma; Deadline: June 30, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Avant To Live: New Experimental Works [May 30, San Francisco, California]
* The Illuminated Corridor [May 30, oakland, ca]
* Indie Monthly Film Series [May 31, Eugene, Oregon]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Dialogues, By Owen Land [May 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Nervy Animations [June 3, San Francisco, California]
* Leslie Thornton's Peggy and Fred In Hell [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 5 [June 6, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Festival of (In)Appropriation [June 7, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
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5/30
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
AVANT TO LIVE: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
person—are Martha Colburn's Triumph of the Wild, Dale Hoyt's Male Glaze,
Doug Katelus' Lost in the Flood, Shalo P's Nevermore, Roger Beebe's
Money Changes Everything, Caspar Stracke's Zuse Strip, and Karla
Betancourt's Bolivar and Other Interruptions. ALSO recent pieces by Tony
Gault, James Hong / Yin-Ju Chen, Karl Lind, Richard Mitchell, et al.
*$7.
5/30
oakland, ca: Illuminated Corridor
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/
7pm - 9:30pm, middle harbor shoreline park | 7th street and middle harbor rood
THE ILLUMINATED CORRIDOR
free | don't be late | rain or shine | fm radio essential :: read the
faq, man http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/faq/ :: a multi-layered work
at the intersection of oakland's history and habitat with over 30
artists convening to illuminate this remarkable public park in sight and
sound :: featuring work and performances by: the shallow tide (cheryl e.
leonard and rebecca haseltinein performance with ann dentel and karen
stackpole :: building 122 gilbert guerrero and kathleen quillian ::
triangulation alfonso alvarez, keith arnold and kahlil karn, jen cohen,
steven dye, ian winters and evelyn ficarra :: the subtidal goals work by
john "b" berzins, georgie friedman, diana stasko and others knitted
together by killer banshees and live performance by lisa k. blatt, wayne
grim and dia felix, lee montgomery :: port radio zachary james watkins
live mix of work by sean clute, grant finlay, chas kremenak, phog
masheen, dallas simpson, bill thompson, biggi vinkeloe, michael zelner
and more, since that is how these things go :: bike bike bike bike is
best :: and really, please don't be late. gates close when parking lot
is full :: made possible by the generous support of the east bay
community foundation fund for artists, the san francisco foundation, the
zellerbach family foundation and the illuminated corridor commissioning
fund
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SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009
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5/31
Eugene, Oregon: DIVA Center
http://divacenter.org/
7:00 P.M. , 110 W. Broadway
INDIE MONTHLY FILM SERIES
The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, DIVA, is starting a series
of independent film screenings in the fall of 2009. We are calling for
submissions from filmmakers whose works have had exposure and received
recognition at regional festivals. Artists who want a good venue in
Oregon's second largest city are encouraged to send their works in a DVD
format to the DIVA Gallery at the following address. Downtown Initiative
for The Visual Arts 110 W. Broadway - Eugene, Oregon 97401 541.344.3482
If you have any further questions, you can contact the Media Arts
Committee secretary, Steve Poizat-Newcomb, at email suppressed
5/31
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, , Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS DIALOGUES, BY OWEN LAND
Los Angeles Filmforum presents Dialogues, by Owen Land – Los Angeles
Premiere! Owen Land in person. A feature-length (2009, 133 minutes,
video) self-reflexive experimental film by Apollo Jize (aka Owen Land)
with music by Meredith Monk and many more. On one level, DIALOGUES is a
parody of Scorpio Rising, using era-specific hit records to locate
scenes in time; on another level, it's an interpretation of Plato's
dialogue 'Phaedo', in which Socrates proves the doctrine of
re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric
belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity in the form of thirty
"Platonic Dialogues." General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free
for Filmforum members. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian
Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex.
Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2009
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6/3
San Francisco, California: El Rio
http://www.elriosf.com/
7PM , 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez)
NERVY ANIMATIONS
Mustache Cinema presents Nervy Animations -live 16mm projected works by
Robert Breer, Lawerence Jordan, Martha Colburn, rare print by Frank
Mouris and much more.. RT: 48min. Wednesday, June 3rd. show starts @ 7PM
SHARP! FREE Admission, Popcorn & Mustaches
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009
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6/5
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
LESLIE THORNTON'S PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL
Leslie Thornton is tentatively scheduled to introduce the screening live
via webcam! ***** "Thornton's place in cinema history has already been
assured for the sole reason that she is the author of Peggy and Fred in
Hell." (Bill Krohn, Cahiers du Cinéma) ***** "[T]his series as a
whole…represents the most exciting recent work in the American
avant-garde, a saga that raises questions about everything while making
everything seem very strange." (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)
***** A post-apocalyptic fairy tale for the modern age. ***** Now more
than 25 years in the making, Leslie Thornton's extraordinary film and
video serial PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL (1984-2008, approx. 90 mins., video)
screens in it's most recent configuration. Featured last year at the
2008 Whitney Biennial, PEGGY AND FRED has morphed and changed over the
years, growing as Thornton incorporates new technology into her
production. Originally shown with both 16mm and video parts, it is
currently exhibited as a single-channel video work. ***** PEGGY AND FRED
IN HELL follows two children, the eponymous Peggy and Fred, as they
wander and make discoveries in an unspecified future. Part
science-fiction, part comedy, part coming-of-age tale, part social
critique, PEGGY AND FRED stands as one of the most inspired and
consequential experimental works of the last quarter century. *****
"Peggy and Fred in Hell, Thornton's ongoing and open-ended series, maps
a surreal, quasi-apocalyptic realm littered with the detritus of a pop
culture bursting at the seams. Castaways in this wilderness of signs,
Peggy and Fred are, as Thornton states, "raised by television," their
experience shaped by a palimpsest of science and science-fiction, new
technologies and obsolete ones, half-remembered movies and the leavings
of history. An exploration of the aesthetics of narrative form as well
as the politics of the image, Thornton's rigorously experimental oeuvre
has forged a unique and powerful syntax." (Electronic Arts Intermix)
***** "Peggy And Fred In Hell is one of the strangest cinematic
artifacts of the last 20 years, revealing the abuses of history and
innocence in the face of catastrophe, as it chronicles two small
children journeying through a post-apocalyptic landscape to create their
own world. Breaking genre restrictions, Thornton uses improvisation,
planted quotes, archival footage and formless timeframes to confront the
viewer's preconceptions of cause and effect." (Video Data Bank) ***
Admission: $7.00-10.00 sliding scale
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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009
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6/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd Street - Phyllis Wattis Theater
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 5
C'est Vrai, 1990, 60 min., video The Present, 1996, 24 min., 35mm Total
running time: 84 min. C'est Vrai is a one-hour trip through New York
City's Lower East Side, produced on video for French television without
editing the narrative. It presents a startling juxtaposition of scripted
fiction, which appears to be drawn from real life and improvised
documentation that overlays the story when Peter Orlovsky arrives to
confront the filmmaker. Simple objects, photographs, and events prompt
Frank to self-conscious rumination in The Present. From his homes in New
York and Nova Scotia and on visits to friends, the artist contemplates
his relationships, the anniversary of his daughter's death, his son's
mental illness, and his work. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or
with museum admission. Double features: films offered on the same date
are included in one ticket. Also screened on Thursday, June 11th
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SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009
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6/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, , Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Festival of (In)appropriation:
Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking. Recent films that appropriate
footage from diverse sources in vastly different ways, showing the range
of approaches contemporary filmmakers are taking in repurposing found
materials. Including The Blockbuster Tapes by Daniel Martinico (2008);
Through these Trackless Waters by Elizabeth Henry (2007) Utopia
Variations by Gregg Biermann (2008); The Game by Tasman Richardson
(2007); TB TX Dance by Roger Beebe (2006); Untitled ("Tiny Bits") by
Sandra Gibson (2009); Flicker On Off by Caroline Koebel (2008),
Speechless by Scott Stark (2008) and more! General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com
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