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Date: Sat Jun 13 2009 - 07:55:36 PDT
This week [June 13 - 21, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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"Togetherness" by Todd Herman
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Images Festival (Toronto CANADA; Deadline: July 15, 2009)
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Los Angeles as a Character (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: October 01, 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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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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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 26, 2009)
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7th International Short Film Festival "Wie wir Leben!/The Way We Live!" - Filmmmuseum Munich (Munich, Bavaria, Germany; Deadline: July 10, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Art Along the Way: Masstransiscope With Artist Bill Brand [June 13, New York, New York]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Candy Mountain [June 13, San Francisco, California]
* Rust Fest Digital Arts and New Media Festival [June 13, Youngstown, Ohio]
* Indie Monthly Film Series [June 14, Eugene, Oregon]
* Bill Brand Film With Live Music [June 14, New York, New York]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Opening Night Program [June 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Notes In Origin: Films By Ellie Epp, Vanessa O’Neill and Rebecca Meyers [June 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Barry Doupé's Ponytail [June 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show One: Past
Perfect [June 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Two: vision
Quest [June 18, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Talkies With Guy Maddin [June 18, Minneapolis, Minnesota]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 6 [June 18, San Francisco, California]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Three:
Shards of Space and Place [June 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Four: the
Spirit That Guides Us [June 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Brook Hinton: Water, Asphalt, Ether [June 19, Oakland CA]
* Animating Analogue: Screening/Panel Discussion [June 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Five: the
Loneliness of the Long Distance Filmmaker [June 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Six: the
Familiar Re-Made [June 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Onion City Experimental Film and video Festival - Group Show Seven:
Culture Clash [June 20, Chicago, Illinois]
* Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 6 [June 20, San Francisco, California]
* Portraits of Robert Frank [June 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Sarah Pucill: Taken By the Frame [June 21, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2009
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6/13
New York, New York: MTA Transit Museum
2 pm, corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn Heights
ART ALONG THE WAY: MASSTRANSISCOPE WITH ARTIST BILL BRAND
Brooklyn subway riders of the early 1980's remember the colorful movie
that emerged from the dark tunnel before crossing over the Manhattan
Bridge. Titled "Masstransiscope," this fanciful installation was created
by artist Bill Brand and is located in the unused subway station at
Myrtle Avenue. Brand's work has been recently restored to its former
glory. Join the artist for a talk and tour about the popular 28-year old
project and its recent refurbishing. The talk will be held at the
Transit Museum located in a 1930s subway station. Following the talk we
will ride on the train to see MASSTRANSISCOPE in action. Museum
admission - Adults $5, Children $3. Reservations are not required and
seating is on a first come, first serve basis. For information please
call 718-694-1794.
6/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd Street - Phyllis Wattis Theater
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: CANDY MOUNTAIN
Candy Mountain Codirected with Rudy Wurlitzer 1988, 91 min., 35mm
Cocreated with writer Rudy Wurlitzer, Candy Mountain was Frank's most
widely distributed and expensive productions, and the cast includes
several renowned musicians. The tale follows Julius Book, a would-be
musician who embarks on a journey from New York to Nova Scotia in search
of the musician's Holy Grail: the elusive guitar maker, Elmore Silk.
Along the way, Book learns hard life lessons as he faces optimism and
hope, as well as failure and disillusionment. $5 general; free for
SFMOMA members or with museum admission.
6/13
Youngstown, Ohio: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, McDonough Museum of Art, 525 Wick Avenue
RUST FEST DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL
At 7pm in the McDonough Museum Auditorium, a performance piece by Leslie
Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens will take place. They will present a live
mix of music and video projection. A selection of digital arts and new
media from MFA programs within the United States. Beginning June 13th
the McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University
will open the exhibition Rust Fest, featuring the work of graduate
students enrolled in MFA programs in digital arts and new media from
eight universities across the United States. Each institution was asked
to submit seven examples of notable work from students currently
enrolled in their graduate programs. Rust Fest will feature a
presentation of screen based work in all forms - from animation to
computer games and novel visualization environments - to works in 2nd
life. This exhibition will provide an unparalleled opportunity for
visitors to the Museum to encounter compelling new media and digital art
works from several progressive MFA programs. The schools participating
in this exhibition include, Rhode Island School of Design, Transart
Institute, Alfred University, New York University, the University of
Texas at San Antonio, the University of California at Santa Cruz,
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota. The opening
of the festival on Saturday, June 13 will include an exciting
performance piece by Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens. Potter-Belmar
Labs presents a live mix of music and video projection. Both artists
perform from laptop computers augmented by external digital devices used
to manipulate their palette of images and sounds. The duo carries the
audience through an improvised collage experience in sound and image.
They build as they go, weaving field recordings with threads sampled
from pop culture and their own rich sound and image compositions. The
performance begins at 7:00pm and will take place in the McDonough
auditorium.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2009
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6/14
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
6/14
New York, New York: Vision Festival XIV
http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule.php
8 pm, Abrons Arts Center in the Downstairs Theater, 466 Grand Street
BILL BRAND FILM WITH LIVE MUSIC
Bill Brand's ANGULAR MOMENTUM (1973), a 20-minute 16mm color film will
screen with live music by Phil Skaller, piano and Jeff Kaiser, trumpet
and electronics. Admission gets you into other Vision Festival events.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2009
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6/16
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00pm, Gene Siskel FIlm Center (164 N. State St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM
HORIZONTAL BOUNDARIES (2008, 23 mins., 35mm, US) by Pat O'Neill. O'Neill
explores the geography of California through a dynamic range of optical
effects. *** NEW YORK LANTERN (2008, 15 mins., video, US) by Ernie Gehr.
"The haunting world of the photographic still. A fraction of a second
frozen for eternity. How it pulls and vibrates the imagination with its
uncanny magic of a world unavailable to the living (not necessarily that
photographic motion pictures are!). A bizarre universe of bits and
pieces, ever so shimmering and oscillating with layers of time,
allusions, and of course, human projections. Bring them back to mind. A
conjuring act sorts. From far away. New York Lantern? - a tour, if you
wish, of a shifting landscape, an imagining of a New York as close and
as distant from us now as perhaps the Big Bang." (EG) *** DE TIJD (2008,
9 mins., 35mm, The Netherlands) by Bart Vegter. Colorful,
computer-generated abstract forms move through subtle transformations in
this breathtaking film. Live musical accompaniment by White/Light. ***
UNE CATASTROPHE (2008, 1 min., 35mm, Switzerland/Italy) by Jean-Luc
Godard. Godard shows the power of the miniature with this tiny cinematic
gem. *** ELEMENTs (2008, 7 mins., 16mm, US) by Julie Murray. A delicate
and haunting landscape film. *** FALSE AGING (2008, 15 mins., video, US)
by Lewis Klahr. Using cutouts and music from Lou Reed, John Cale, and
Jefferson Airplane, animator Klahr creates a mini pop—operetta of
surprising emotional depth. *** COSMIC RAY (1961, 4 mins., 16mm, US) and
PERMIAN STRATA (1969 , 4 mins., 16mm, US) by Bruce Conner. A kinetic
masterpiece and an unlikely juxtaposition of Bob Dylan and a found 1940s
biblical narrative, showing in tribute to the late Bruce Conner. ***
NIGHT SIDE (2008, 4 mins., 16mm, US) by Rebecca Meyers. Meyers provides
a lyrical glimpse of the nocturnal world. *** MY TEARS ARE DRY (2009, 4
mins., 16mm, US) by Laida Lertxundi. A Southern-California homage to
Bruce Baillie's classic All My Life. *** BLACK RAIN (2009, 3 mins.,
video, UK, US Premiere) by Semiconductor. The British duo Semiconductor
utilizes satellite imagery of cosmic dust and other solar matter to
create a beautiful dance of light.
6/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
www.earlymonthlysegments.org
8:00pm, the Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen West
NOTES IN ORIGIN: FILMS BY ELLIE EPP, VANESSA O’NEILL AND REBECCA MEYERS
This month's Early Monthly Segment focuses on the work of three
filmmakers whose attention to their surroundings harbours a deep sense
of presence and concentration. Ellie Epp's notes in origin, a quiet
classic of the Canadian fringe, returns us to Northern Alberta where Epp
grew up and presents us with ten shots of the land—-shots which resonate
with a stillness that places us strongly in relationship to the act of
seeing. With burren, Vanessa O'Neill rearticulates the pain of return.
By subjecting her super 8 footage of an Irish shoreline to harsh
chemical processes, she mirrors the erosive power of wave and wind on
rock and the emotional pull of a distant landscape. The two films of
Rebecca Meyers draw the natural world in to colour her gaze. night light
and leaping treats her cat as her muse, re-envisioning her home from a
feline perspective and things we want to see attends to the grand scale
of our environment, picturing the larger natural cycles that often only
serve as a remote background to the brief path of our lives.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
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6/17
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - BARRY DOUPé'S PONYTAIL
PONYTAIL (2008, 92 mins., video, Canada) by Barry Doupé. This
astonishing computer-animated feature is a tour-de-force of technique
and cryptic storytelling as it follows a set of Sims-like characters
struggling against inaction. "This feature-length video follows several
inflicted characters and recounts the ways in which they find resolve. A
series of entropic scenarios held together by an attraction to failure
and its spectacle describe the characters' malfunction — their inability
to fulfill personal desire. Compelled by the consequences and rewards of
their attempts they question their own trajectory. Using elements of
melodrama, performative monologue and traditional narrative structure
Ponytail presents a unique society of characters that destroy the
distinction between memory and invention." (Doupé) *** Preceded by: UP
THE RABBIT HOLE (2008, 5 mins., video, Canada) by Asa Mori. In this
deliberately crudely animated work a "six-nippled creature finds herself
trapped in a capsule with a dead rabbit and a bloody hole." (Video Out)
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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009
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6/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW ONE: PAST
PERFECT
THE SCENIC ROUTE (2008, 25 mins., video, US) by Ken Jacobs. "A work of
genuine hypnosis. Ken Jacobs tears open a scene from the film The
Barbarian (1933). Like so many of his found-footage experiments, it is a
movie about the shadows people leave behind - here, quite literally."
(International Film Festival Rotterdam) *** DISTANT THINGS (2006, 10
mins., video, UK) by Katy Woods. "Woods animates micro film by standing
a video camera in front of the monitor and speedily flicking through
thousands of images. She then pauses for a few seconds resting on an
image she likes the look of. Woods has an eye for a satisfying image.
She loves a bird. Images of birds are paused at frequently. In a world
saturated with visual images how does one make a choice? Ones own
intuition seems as successful as any." (Olsen) *** BERNADETTE (2008, 37
mins., video, UK) by Duncan Campbell. "When the Northern Irish
Republican political activist Bernadette Devlin was prohibited from
speaking in parliament after Bloody Sunday, she punched the home
secretary and proclaimed she only regretted she 'didn't get him by the
throat.' The firebrand Devlin is obviously hard to historically pin
down: a fact that the video artist Duncan Campbell here fully recognises
in his celebration of her political spirit. Working with mediated images
of her, he mixes fact and fiction, documentary footage with animation
and scripted voiceover to create an intriguing portrait of a committed
individual." (LUX)
6/18
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
9:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW TWO: VISION
QUEST
SPIRIT (2005, 8 mins., video, France) by Dominique Furgé. Luminous
colored dots or blobs move, connect, combine, and separate against a
white background as excerpts from Orson Welles' radio play The War of
the Worlds imparts a narrative impulse to their activity. Music by
Legeti and snippets from David Bowie and others complete the spare, but
carefully crafted, soundtrack. *** THE SEASONS (2008, 30 mins., video,
Japan) by Makino Takashi. Made in collaboration with musician Jim
O'Rourke, this is a stunning impressionistic work that becomes more than
just a nature-piece of trees and water. Takashi's images, rhythm, and
editing work in synergy with the score, each complementing the other, to
create a video of surprising emotion and power. *** CHROMATIC COCKTAIL
(2009, 10 mins., 3D video, US) by Kerry Laitala. A merry-go-round of
circles, and squiggles, and more dance before the eyes, quite literally
it seems, in this abstract 3D animation. *** DIRTY GOGGLES OF PERCEPTION
(LEFT AND RIGHT) (2009, 25 mins., double 16mm live projector
performance, US, World Premiere) by Joe Grimm. "A synaesthetic
performance for modified 16mm projectors and audio circuitry, this piece
negotiates the space between the physically real and the perceptually
real; between noumena and phenomena. Photosensitive circuitry translates
light waves into sound waves, sonifying flickers that are sometimes slow
enough to be visible to the eye—and sometimes fast enough to be
perceived only by the ear. A monolithic light/noise blast that goes
literally to the limits of the senses and beyond them, provoking a
confrontation with that ultimate unattainable reality: The World of
Things In Themselves. In memoriam Immanuel Kant. Warning: Unsuitable for
those with photosensitive epilepsy."
6/18
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Talkies
http://thetalkies.net
7:00p.m. & 9:00p.m., 3951 Central Ave NE
THE TALKIES WITH GUY MADDIN
GUY MADDIN – LIVE IN PERSON!! "If you're sad and like beer, I'm your
lady"- Lady Port-Huntley It may be cliché but what better way to ease
our financial-minded woes than to gather round the silver screen to
witness Baroness Lady Helen-Port Huntley's contest to end all contests:
who can produce THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD? Blowing in from the
northerly diabolic region known as Winnipeg, Guy Maddin's live
commentary marks The Talkies' 5th installment. Uniquely gifted to push
this nascent notion into uncharted waters Maddin, the maniac behind the
expanded viewing spectacles such as Branded Upon the Brain and the
beautiful essay My Winnipeg, innately understands how special the space
in the cinema can be and will, on June 18th, transform The Heights
Theatre into the best Talkies experience yet. Arrive at 7p.m. on
Thursday, June 18th for a 35mm screening of THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE
WORLD starring Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney (of Kids in the
Hall fame) . At 9:00p.m. this celluloid salvo screens again with the
extra somethin' somethin' that only The Talkies provides: live
commentary from Guy Maddin himself.
6/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, 151 3rd Street - Phyllis Wattis Theater
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 6
Flamingo, 1990, 7 min., video Moving Pictures, 1994, 16 min., color
video I Remember, 1996, 5 min., video Sanyu, 1999, 27 min., 35mm Paper
Route, 2002, 23 min., video Total running time: 73 min. Flamingo is
Frank's poetic diary (with voiceover narration) recording the
construction of a new foundation for his house in a remote area of Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia; it silently describes the need to keep working in
the face of nature and time. Frank narrates a charming reenactment of
his visit to the home of Alfred Stieglitz in I Remember. The cast
comprises June Leaf as Georgia O'Keeffe, artist Jerome Sother as Robert
Frank, and Frank himself in the role of Stieglitz. Sanyu (1901-64), an
important Chinese artist, was a friend of Robert Frank's who died in
anonymity in Paris. In Sanyu, Frank creates a requiem that includes
dramatic and documentary scenes set in Paris, and a chronicle of his
trip to Taipei to attend Sotheby's auction of the paintings Sanyu left
him. in Paper Route, the artist joins Robert MacMillan on a wintry,
predawn morning and accompanies him on his daily route delivering
newspapers to towns in the rural Nova Scotia community where Frank has
had a second home for many years. Chatting amiably in voiceover as his
camera observes the landscape and MacMillan's encounters with his
customers, Frank conducts a rambling interview inspired by his own
desire to better understand how people live their lives. $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 June
20th at 3pm.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009
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6/19
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW THREE:
SHARDS OF SPACE AND PLACE
TAPE FILM (2007, 5 mins., 16mm, Canada/US) by Chris Kennedy. The
viewer's challenge is to locate the artist in space as he slowly boxes
himself in with strips of tape. Inside and outside are confounded in
this beautiful hand-processed film, shot on a variety of black and white
and color film stocks. *** TO BE REGAINED (2008, 10 mins., 16mm, US) by
Zach Iannazzi. "The film approaches the subject of humanity's attempts
to correct its imprint on nature, more specifically, interventions with
anadromous fish reproductive and migratory cycles on dammed-up and
polluted rivers. Mixing found footage, reprinted and hand processed film
over a soundtrack of interviews and observations by folks up and down
the Connecticut River, the short is a beautiful and unsettling look at
the ways we interact with the natural environment." (ZI) *** CROSSINGS
(2007, 10 mins., 16mm, US) by Robert Fenz. "A vision of the U.S.-Mexican
border as a kinetic and disorienting fault line, an abstract force field
suspended between the two nations." (Media City) *** NEW JERSEY GRADUAL
(2008, 18 mins., video, US) by Gregg Biermann. A fixture of suburban
sprawl and consumerist culture, the parking lot, is transformed into a
kaleidoscopic swirl of texture and movement. *** JOURNEY TO Q'XTLAN
(2009, 8 mins., video, US) by Peter Rose. "Incandescent unnamable
transfaluminal specters are summoned by an itinerant magus; experiments
in performative illumination; a journey, an opera, a koan with and
without answer." (PR) *** I'M A NEW YORK BASED ARTIST (2007, 2 mins.,
video, France) by Pierre Yves Clouin. Actually a Paris based artist,
Clouin strikes an ironic note with grungy low-res images of NYC as the
soundtrack swells with a well-known 1950s pop standard. *** PRO AGRI
(2009, 3 mins., 16mm, UK, World Premiere) by Nicky Hamlyn. Lighting the
way to a better tomorrow? *** CANARIES IN THE COALMINE (2009, 12 mins.,
video, US, World Premiere) by Rob Ray. A surprisingly subtle and
contemplative work from a member of the circuit-bending noise group I
Love Presets. Ray documents five abandoned or unpopulated industrial,
domestic, and technological sites in the Western U.S. in an
"investigation into the mystery and symbolism of the American
landscape." *** AFTER WRITING (2007, 5 mins., 16mm, US) by Mary Helena
Clark. Markings and traces of past times, found in an abandoned
schoolroom.
6/19
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
9:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW FOUR: THE
SPIRIT THAT GUIDES US
OPTRA FIELD III-VI (2007-08, 14 mins., video, US) by T. Marie. "Elegant,
dichromatic time-based drawings from a series that explore the
propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites,
somewhat reminiscent of the painted works Sol Lewitt and Agnes Martin,
but purely conceived via electronic media." (International Film Festival
Rotterdam) *** tiempo pudente (2008, 2 mins., video, Turkey, World
Premiere) by Yoel Meranda. An abstract impression of Barcelona Beach.
*** océanéant (2009, 3 mins., video, Turkey, World Premiere) by Yoel
Meranda. "A pink ocean of nothingness…" (YM) *** BEIRUT 2/14/05 (2008, 8
mins., 16mm, US, North American Premiere) by Alexandra Cuesta.
Documentary as happenstance, in the middle of bigger things. ***
atlantis (2008, 11 mins., video, Belgium, US Premiere) by Pieter Geenen.
"'atlantis' shows the banks of the Three Gorges Reservoir being scanned
by the searchlights of a Yangtze cruise boat. The lightbeam on this
nocturnal landscape seems to explore a sunken universe, a land of which
people seem to have left, with demolished buildings, desolate forests
and ghost ships." (PG) *** WOLF'S FROTH/AMONGST OTHER THINGS (2009, 15
mins., video, UK, North American Premiere) by Paul Abbott. Confounding
and intriguing in its hyper-minimalism and fragmentation, Abbott's video
seems to come from musical traditions (Cage, atonal music) or linguistic
theory rather than from cinema or the visual arts. It is a sly work of
rupture—questioning the very basis of understanding. *** AND THE SUN
FLOWERS (2008, 5 mins., video, US) by Mary Helena Clark. Truth is there
if you stare hard enough. *** FROM RUINS TO REXISTANCE [DAS RUINAS A
REXISTENCIA] (2007, 13 mins., 35mm on video, Brazil) by Carlos Adriano.
"I find 'Das ruínas a rexistência' very fascinating. There is something
very opaque about this film, but it invites rather than shuts one out. I
feel it as a profound contemplation on the relation between poetry and
film. This is central to this project, not just because [Adriano] deals
with a poet, but because the question of modern poetry and modern film
challenge (rather than simply aid) each other. The issue with a film
like this seems to me to be less any attempt at expression than
interrogating what is an image when it is moving and how does an image
get defined by being juxtaposed (or superimposed) with another." (Tom
Gunning) *** KEMPINSKI (2007, 14 mins., video, Algeria/France) by Neil
Beloufa. "A unique blend of science fiction and documentary, shot in
Mopti, Mali." (Media City) *** FILM FOR INVISIBLE INK CASE NO. 142:
ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [DIMINISHED BY 1,794] (2008, 13 mins.,
16mm, US) by David Gatten. "A single piece of paper, a second stab at
suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by
Charles Darwin. A long-distance dedication for a far-away friend
half-way up the mountain." (DG) *** PARALLAX (2008, 6 mins., 16mm,
Canada) by Christopher Becks. 1. The apparent displacement of an
observed object due to a change in the position of the observer. 2. The
apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being
observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth or due
to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun. 3. The
difference between the view of an object as seen through the
picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate
viewfinder.
6/19
Oakland CA: Smokey's Tangle
http://www.smokeystangle.com
8PM, Smokey's Tangle, 4709 Telegraph Ave
BROOK HINTON: WATER, ASPHALT, ETHER
Video works incorporating aquatic and urban landscapes, followed by a
live "audiovisual seance" and the complete TRACE GARDEN series. Artist
in person. Venue: http://www.smokeystangle.com Brook Hinton:
http://www.brookhinton.com
6/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
7 pm, Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the alley) - suggested donation $8 / $5 LIFT members
ANIMATING ANALOGUE: SCREENING/PANEL DISCUSSION
LIFT presents ANIMATING ANALOGUE, part one of LIFT's new six-part
screening series Strategies of the Medium. Animating Analogue reflects
on current practices in film-based animation using professional
animation stands, representing a wide range of styles and techniques.
These animation stands - on which nearly all animation was produced
pre-Flash and CGI - are remarkably versatile and complex machines. With
a current complement of three Oxberry stands, both 16mm and 35mm, LIFT
has remarkable resources available to filmmakers wishing to explore the
world of animation. A short panel discussion after the screening
features animators Jonathan Amitay and Chris Gehman, moderated by Ellen
Besen. These artists have chosen to invest themselves in these unique
film-based practices - with diverse and challenging results. Come hear
their thoughts on the rewards, risks, and 'realities' that lie in wait
for those who engage with the most extraordinary of film genres.
FEATURED FILMS: Rostrum Press: Materials Testing, Chris Gehman; Primiti
Too Taa, Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton; Deadpan, Rick Raxlen; Frank Film,
Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris; Lost Motion, Janie Geiser; Walk for
Walk, Amy Lockhart; Nukie's Sermon from the Bottle, Jonathan Amitay;
Tables of Content, Wendy Tilby; The Visible Compendium, Larry Jordan
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6/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
5:00pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW FIVE: THE
LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE FILMMAKER
TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) (2009, 12 mins., 16mm, US) by Ben Russell. "From the
Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, this single take film offers a
strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It's Halloween at
the equator, Lightning Bolt for the jungle set." (BR) *** nothing is
over nothing (2008, 17 mins., 16mm, US) by Jonathan Schwartz. "There
were other places where the lord fell, and others where he rested; but
one of the most curious landmarks…we found…was a certain stone built
into a house…so seemed and scarred that it bore a sort of grotesque
resemblance to the human face. One of the pilgrims said, 'But there is
no evidence that the stones did cry out.' The guide was perfectly
serene. He said calmly, 'This is one of the stones that would have cried
out.'" (Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad) *** Unnamed Film (2008, 55
mins., 16mm, Ukraine) by Naomi Uman. Uman is currently living in the
Ukraine, in the small rural village from which her ancestors come.
Unnamed Film is a quiet, delicate, and absorbing portrait of this
community, which unfolds with little dialogue—the images speaking for
themselves. It is part of a larger cycle of films, The Ukrainian Time
Machine Project. "In village society it is the babushky (grandmothers,
old women) who hold the key to surviving in the absence of economic
wellbeing. It is their practical thinking and preservation of what might
be considered trash that enables them to survive on pensions of less
than eighty dollars a month. In immersing myself in this culture, I have
needed to create a life in a foreign place without the luxury of regular
access to stores, a car, or the ability to communicate easily with my
neighbors. I have learned from watching the babushky how to live simply
and practically, wasting absolutely nothing. This economy will be
manifest in my films. Each frame, each shot, each fragment of sound is
considered. This age-old creativity of making something out of nothing,
or strictly out of what one has at-hand, can be applied to the creation
of media. Scarcity requires a different kind of resourcefulness. The
films in this cycle are small and intimate, repeating age-old stories in
as few words as possible." (NU)
6/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:30pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW SIX: THE
FAMILIAR RE-MADE
SEQUENCES + INTERRUPTIONS (2009, 16 mins., 16mm, UK, World Premiere) by
Nicky Hamlyn. A study in texture and rhythm. *** THE SKY TAPED TOGETHER
(2009, 7 mins., video, US, World Premiere) by Michael Sirianni. A work
of suturing: the sky from a VHS copy of the Cinerama film How the West
Was Won is digitally copied and reassembled. *** LAKE (2009, 4 mins.,
video, US, World Premiere) by Jake Barningham. Waves of digital pixels
and abstraction. *** THE PARABLE OF THE TULIP PAINTER AND THE FLY (2008,
4 mins., 16mm, US) by Charlotte Pryce. "An intoxicating flower; a
metaphorical insect; a longing reach across the centuries. The film is a
philosophical search drenched in luminous colors and sparkling light."
(CP) *** YSBRYD (2008, 8 mins., video, US) by Julie Murray. The erotic
tangle of unexpected protagonists. *** BUOY (2008, 6 mins., video, US)
by Seoungho Cho. The strata and sea level marks in the Death Valley
desert become a disorienting "motion painting" as they are recorded from
a moving car. *** POSTCARD #3: NIAGARA RISES (2009, 3 mins., video, US,
World Premiere) by Carolyn Faber. What comes down must go up. *** LES
CHAISES (2008, 9 mins., video, US) by Vincent Grenier. "Two weather worn
red vinyl chairs on an outdoor promontory oriented toward a 'view,'
stand as witnesses." (VG) *** QUIVER (2008, 10 mins., 16mm, US) by
Robert Todd. "Quiver. Barely touching. Movement further in and along,
through the surface of a light." (RT) *** THREE/3: IN THE OCEAN, ON LAND
(2009, 6 mins., video, US) by Peter Bo Rappmund. A diptych of sequences:
one all chaos, the other all serenity.
6/20
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
9:15pm, Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N. Clark St.)
ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL - GROUP SHOW SEVEN:
CULTURE CLASH
ALTERNITY (2008, 7 mins., video, US) by Van McElwee. "The vanishing
point of linear perspective is expanded to a plane. This allows all of
the potential events within that vanishing point to mingle freely on the
surface of the screen." (VM) *** PARIS TIMES THREE (2009, 8 mins.,
video, US) by Carina Johnson. A "remake" of Bruce Conner's 1973 film
Marilyn Times Five which keeps the structure and soundtrack of the
original but replaces the actress. Instead of the pretend "Marilyn" of
Conner's film (no, it's not really Monroe) we see the contemporary
blonde Paris Hilton, in footage taken from her notorious amateur sex
tape One Night in Paris. The result is a smart and telling riff on
celebrity, sexuality, and the representation of women in high and low
art. *** WHEN WORLDS COLLUDE (2008, 13 mins., video, US) by Fred Worden.
A kinetic oscillation between different images, Worden creates a War of
the Worlds in which everything is in collision (or is it collusion?).
*** COLLIDE-A-SCOPE (2009, 3 mins., 16mm, Australia, US Premiere) by
Gregory Godhard. A fanciful animated supposition of what the results of
supercollider experiments would look like. *** SUTRO (2009, 2 mins.,
video, US) by Jeanne Liotta. "Animated portrait of the eponymous
television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in
that earthshaking city by the Bay..." (JL) *** THE ETERNAL QUARTER INCH
(2008, 9 mins., video, US) by Jesse McLean. "Rising fundamentalism and a
government that cites faith to defend war action have helped to grow a
desperate society. Dipping between ecstasy and despair, transcendence
and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you can lose
your way, lose yourself in the moment, lose your faith in a belief
system." (JM) *** POOR MAN'S PUCE MOMENT (2008, 4 mins., video, US) by
Jessie Stead. "A low-res tribute to Puce Moment (1949) by Kenneth Anger
using the soundtrack by Jonathan Halper, evidently added to the film
during the 1960s." (JS) *** SAND SAGA (2008, 11 mins., video, US) by
Shana Moulton. "Moulton's alter ego Cynthia again gains access to a
parallel universe via the transformative powers of New Age body
treatments and domestic objects. After applying a facial beauty mask,
she moves through an environment energized with Southwestern motifs and
rituals, from sculpted heads and Georgia O'Keefe-like forms to sand
painting and hot stone massage. Ultimately Cynthia is transported to a
fantastical world and emerges transformed." (Electronic Arts Intermix)
*** THE PRESENTATION THEME (2008, 14 mins., 16mm, US) by Jim Trainor.
Animator Jim Trainor continues his exploration of the dark and the
strange in this elliptical tale of a Peruvian prisoner, a blood-hungry
priestess, and totemic creatures.
6/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3pm, 151 3rd Street - Phyllis Wattis Theater
ROBERT FRANK RETROSPECTIVE: PROGRAM 6
See June 18th for description
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SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009
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6/21
Los Angeles, California: Museum of Contemporary Art
3:00 pm, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
PORTRAITS OF ROBERT FRANK
In conjunction with the exhibition From the Permanent Collection: Robert
Frank's "The Americans", MOCA presents Portraits of Robert Frank, an
afternoon of films examining the life and career of the renowned
photographer, co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum. In An American
Journey (2009, color, 58 min.), French director Philippe Séclier
retraces the path followed by legendary photographer Robert Frank when
he created his seminal photographic portfolio, The Americans. In an
effort to examine the impact of Frank's images, Séclier travels 15,000
miles through the various communities of America, moving between past
and present. Conversations in Vermont (1969, b/w, 26 min.), directed by
Frank and photographed by Ralph Gibson, is Frank's first overtly
autobiographical film. In it, he interviews his two children, Pablo and
Andrea, about their experiences growing up with artists as parents. In
the process, Frank questions his own world. Originally planned as a
study of indigenous American music, About Me: A Musical (1971, b/w, 35
min.) evolved instead into a film about its author. The actress Lynn
Reyner plays Robert Frank as he examines his life and questions his
contributions as a photographer. Museum open 11am–6pm. INFO 213/621-1745
or (address suppressed) Films FREE with museum admission. Museum General
Admission: $10; Students with I.D.: $5.
http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?m=6&day=21#21
6/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
SARAH PUCILL: TAKEN BY THE FRAME
The Echo Park Film Center and Los Angeles Filmforum host British artist,
photographer and filmmaker Sarah Pucill, whose films and photographs
play with boundaries of self and other, frequently involving mirrors or
mirroring and strong performances. Sometimes rigorously formal, other
times humorously enamored with the possibilities of light, surfaces, and
bodies, while exploring the range of possibilities vested in the camera.
Los Angeles premieres of all works from this award-winning experimental
filmmaker. Tonight we'll be screening: You Be Mother (1990, 7 min.,
16mm); Milk and Glass (1993, 10 min., 16mm); Stages of Mourning (2004,
17 min., 16mm); Taking My Skin (2006, 35 min., 16mm); Fall In Frame
(2009, 18 min., 16mm) Los Angeles Filmforum & the Echo Park Film Center,
at the Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd),
Los Angeles, CA 90026. 213-484-8846. Sunday June 21, 2009. 7:30 pm.
General admission $5. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com and
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
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