From: Mark McElhatten (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Sep 13 2009 - 08:14:44 PDT
My apologies to Adam and the Los Angeles Film Forum. I listed the date
correctly below
with the show information but scrambled it up top at the head. So
September 13th
in Los Angeles is the first tribute followed the next day by Flaherty
in New York.
And two tributes on October 3 in NY and LA. A lot of synchronicity
going on.
Good to see the Philadelphia International House listing. I hope there
are
more to follow.
On Sep 13, 2009, at 10:07 AM, FRAMEWORKS automatic digest system wrote:
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> 1. Chick Strand tribute screenings in Philadelphia @ International
> House
> 2. Chick Strand tribute screenings In New York City, Los Angeles,
> and San
> Francisco.
> 3. This week [September 12 - 20, 2009] in avant garde cinema
>
>
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> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:03:02 -0400
> From: Robert Cargni Mitchell <email suppressed>
> Subject: Chick Strand tribute screenings in Philadelphia @
> International House
>
> Film @ International House
>
> S.A. Ibrahim Theater
>
> 3701 Chestnut Street
>
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> 215-895-6555
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7pm=20
>
> Chick Strand Tribute
>
> =20
>
> Born Mildred Strand in Northern California she was given the
> nickname =
> Chick by her father. Strand studied anthropology at Berkeley, and in
> the =
> early 1960s organized film happenings with Bruce Baillie. Later she =
> edited with Baillie and Ernest Callenbach Canyon Cinema-News, which =
> became a focal point for the West Coast independent film movement.
> She =
> taught for 24 years at Occidental College. For over thirty years she =
> made regular trips to Mexico with her second husband Neon Park and
> made =
> films about the people she met there. Strand's ethnographic films
> are =
> distinctive for their complex layering of sound and image, and the =
> juxtaposition of found footage and sound with original images.
>
> =20
>
> Cartoon le Mousse=20
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1979, 16mm, 12 min, B&W
>
> "Chick Strand is a prolific and prodigiously gifted film artist who =
> seems to break new ground with each new work. Her recent 'found
> footage' =
> works such as CARTOON LE MOUSSE, are extraordinarily beautiful,
> moving, =
> visionary pieces that push this genre into previously unexplored =
> territory. If poetry is the art of making evocative connections
> between =
> otherwise dissimilar phenomena, then Chick Strand is a great poet,
> for =
> these films transcend their material to create a surreal and sublime =
> universe beyond reason." -- Gene Youngblood
>
> =20
>
> Krystallnacht=20
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1979, 16mm, 8 min, B&W
>
> Dedicated to the memory of Anne Frank, and the tenacity of the human =
> spirit.
>
> =20
>
> Soft Fiction
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1979, 16mm, 55 min, B&W
>
> "Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that
> brilliantly =
> portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the =
> documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism... The
> title =
> SOFT FICTION works on several levels. It evokes the soft line
> between =
> truth and fiction that characterizes Strand's own approach to =
> documentary, and suggests the idea of soft-core fiction, which is =
> appropriate to the film's erotic content and style ... Strand
> continues =
> to celebrate in her brilliant, innovative personal documentaries her =
> theme, the reaffirmation of the tough resilience of the human
> spirit." =
> -- Marsha Kinder, Film Quarterly
>
> =20
>
> Coming up for Air
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1986, 16mm, 26 min, color
>
> A "new narrative" film based on the visions of magic realism in an
> Anglo =
> context. This is a gothic mystery that explores a reckless pursuit
> of =
> interchangeable personalities and experience. Whether experience is =
> first hand, read, remembered from a conversation during a chance =
> encounter, heard of from all possible sources of information,
> whether =
> fact or fiction, the "experiences" become ours; reinterpreted, =
> reconstructed, and restructured, finally becoming our personal
> myths, =
> and the source of our poetry and dreams. The sources for this film =
> include night dreams, the idea of holocaust, the exoticness of the =
> Mid-East, the sensuality of animals, the explorations of Scott in =
> Antarctica, and a film ...entitled The Son of Amir Is Dead.
>
> =20
>
> =20
>
> Waterfall
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1967, 16mm, 3 min, color
>
> A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing,
> home =
> development and solarization. It is a film using visual
> relationships to =
> invoke a feeling of flow and movement with Japanese Koto music.=20
>
> =20
>
> Mujer De Milfuegos=20
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1976, 16mm, 15 min, color
>
> A kind of heretic fantasy film this is an expressionistic,
> surrealistic =
> portrait of a Latin American woman, not a personal portrait so much
> as =
> an evocation of the consciousness of women in rural parts of such =
> countries as Spain, Greece and Mexico; women who wear black from the
> age =
> 15 and spend their entire lives giving birth, preparing food and
> tending =
> to household and farm responsibilities. MUJER DE MILFUEGOS depicts
> in =
> poetic, almost abstract terms, their daily repetitive tasks as a
> form of =
> obsessive ritual. Through experiences of ecstasy and madness we are =
> shown different aspects of the human personality. The final sequence =
> presents her awareness of another level of knowledge.=20
>
> =20
>
> Mosori Monika=20
>
> dir, Chick Strand, USA, 1970, 16mm, 21 min, color
>
> An expressive documentary about women in the Third World, this is an =
> ethnographic film about two cultures that have encountered one
> another. =
> The Spanish Franciscan Missionaries went to Venezuela in 1945 to =
> "civilize" the Warao Indians, who live in the swamps on the Orinoco =
> River Delta. The relationship between the Indians and the
> missionaries =
> is simple on the surface, but it is manifested in a complex change
> of =
> techniques, values and life style which have indelibly altered the
> Warao =
> vision of life. The acculturation is presented from two viewpoints.
> A =
> nun tells how the Indians lived when the missionaries arrived and
> what =
> the nuns have done to "improve" conditions, both spiritually and =
> materially. An old Warao Indian woman tells what she feels has been
> the =
> important experiences in her life.=20
>
> =20
>
> =20
> Robert E. Cargni
> Film Program Curator=20
> Ibrahim Theater @ International House
> International House Philadelphia=20
> 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA=20
> p) 1.215.895.6555| (f) 1.215.895.6562=20
> www.ihousephilly.org
>
> =20
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:12:22 -0700
> From: Adam Hyman <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Chick Strand tribute screenings In New York City, Los
> Angeles, and San Francisco.
>
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> Hi all,
>
> Thank you Mark for the shout out. I just wanted to make a
> correction. The
> Los Angeles Filmforum screening is tomorrow, Sunday September 13 at
> 7:30 pm=
> ,
> not September 23. Also, filmmaker Amy Halpern really did the
> curating of
> this one. Hope to see those of you in So Cal!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
> On 9/12/09 1:35 PM, "Mark McElhatten" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> The late Chick Strand has been fondly remembered on this film
>> discussion =
> site.
>> There will be a number of tribute programs devoted to her work this
>> fall =
> in
>> New York, Los Angeles,
>> =C2=A0San Francisco and other locations. Other people on Frameworks
>> may wish =
> to
>> provide more details or list other screenings scheduled or yet be
>> announc=
> ed.
>> =C2=A0
>> Flaherty in NYC at Anthology Film Archives =E2=80=93 Sept 14.=C2=A0
>> =C2=A0(=C2=A0the summer=
> seminar
>> programs were curated by Irina Liembacher)
>> Los Angeles Film Forum=C2=A0 =E2=80=93 curated by Adam Hyman
>> =E2=80=93 Sept. 23
>> New York Film Festival =E2=80=93 curated by Mark McElhatten and
>> Gavin Smith =E2=80=93=
> Oct. 3
>> Occidental College =E2=80=93 Los Angeles curated by Adam Hyman
>> =E2=80=93 Oct. 3
>> Walking Picture Palace at Anthology Film Archives =E2=80=93curated
>> by Mark McEl=
> hatten
>> -Oct. 6
>> San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
>> =E2=80=93 curated=
> by
>> Dominic Angerame =E2=80=93 Oct 23.
>> =C2=A0
>> Details for all screenings and relevant urls below:
>> =20
>> New York screenings include:
>> =C2=A0
>> The first will occur this Monday, September 14th at 7:30 p.m.
>> as=C2=A0 a
>> presentation of Flaherty in NYC and taking place at Anthology Film
>> Archiv=
> es at
>> 32 Second Avenue in downtown Manhattan N.Y.
>> =C2=A0For the best source of information and all details go to the
>> Flaherty website : www.flahertyseminar.org <http://www.flahertyseminar.or
>> =
> g>
>> This event will include a screening of
>> Anselmo and the Women (1986, 16mm, 35min, Mexico)=C2=A0
>> Mosori Monika (1970, 16mm, 20min, Venezuela)
>> Fake Fruit (1986, 16mm, 22min, Mexico)
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0Bill Brand,
>> Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs will be pr=
> esent for a
>> discussion as part of this presentation.
>> =C2=A0
>> Later in October there will be two additional tribute screenings in
>> New Y=
> ork
>> with a different selection of films. The first is at the New York
>> Film
>> Festival=E2=80=99s
>> =C2=A0=E2=80=9CViews From The Avant =E2=80=93 Garde=E2=80=9D at the
>> Walter Reade Theater. For a=
> ll
>> information and program description go to
>> =C2=A0http://www.filmlinc.com/views/?p=3D409
>> =C2=A0Saturday October 3rd=C2=A0, 3p.m.=C2=A0at Views from the
>> Avant- Garde NYFF
>> Films to be screened:
>> =C2=A0
>> Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966, 4min)
>> Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15min)
>> Kristallnacht (1979, 7min)
>> Loose Ends (1979, 25min)
>> Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22min)
>> =C2=A0
>> Tuesday October 6 at 6:30 pm as part of THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE at
>> Anthology Film Archives. Listing will be in the next Anthology
>> calendar=C2=A0
>> and on their website in October. Go to http://www.anthologyfilmarchives
>> .o=
> rg/
>> Films to be screened:
>> Waterfall (1967, 3min)
>> Cosas de mi Vida (1976, 25min)
>> Soft Fiction (1979, 54min)
>> Elasticity (1976, 22min)
>> =C2=A0
>> =C2=A0
>> =C2=A0
>> Los Angeles screenings:
>> =C2=A0
>> =C2=A0
>> =C2=A0
>> LA Film Forum will have present a Tribute to Chick Strand at the
>> Egyptia=
> n
>> Theatre on Sunday, September 13 at 7:30pm.=C2=A0=C2=A0Angel Blue
>> Sweet Wings (1=
> 966, 3
>> min)Guacamole (1976, 18 min)Cartoon le Mousse (1979, 15 min)War
>> Zone by
>> Marty Muller, aka Neon Park (1971, 3 min)By the Lake (1986, 9.5
>> min)Waterfall (1967, 3 min)Kristallnacht (1979, 7 min)Elasticity
>> (1976,=
> 25
>> min)=C2=A0They will also be co-presenting a free screening at
>> Occidental Col=
> lege,
>> where Chick Strand was a long-time professor, on October 3 at
>> 5:00pm. Th=
> is
>> screening is curated by Adam Hyman.=C2=A0Anselmo (1967, 4
>> min)Loose Ends (19=
> 79, 25
>> min)Soft Fiction (1979, 54 min)=C2=A0The San Francisco
>> Cinematheque in
>> association with Canyon Cinema will present a tribute curated by
>> Dominic
>> Angerame. =E2=80=9C After Day Comes Night and After That, Day Comes
>> Again=E2=80=9D on=
> Friday
>> October 23 at 7:30 pm. =C2=A0The screening will be at the Yerba
>> Beuna Cente=
> r for
>> the Arts.Irina Liembacher, Steve Anker, Dominic Angerame will
>> introduce.=
> Go
>> to http://www.sfcinematheque.org/#/calendar/200910230/=C2=A0=C2=A0
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> For in=
> fo on
>> FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>> =20
>> =20
>
>
>
>
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> <TITLE>Re: Chick Strand tribute screenings In New York City, Los
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> nd San Francisco.</TITLE>
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> <BODY>
> <FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:
> 12.0px'>Hi al=
> l,<BR>
> <BR>
> Thank you Mark for the shout out. I just wanted to make a
> correction.=
> The Los Angeles Filmforum screening is tomorrow, Sunday
> September 13 =
> at 7:30 pm, not September 23. Also, filmmaker Amy Halpern
> really did t=
> he curating of this one. Hope to see those of you in So Cal!<BR>
> <BR>
> Best regards,<BR>
> <BR>
> Adam<BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> On 9/12/09 1:35 PM, "Mark McElhatten" <email suppressed
> >=
> ; wrote:<BR>
> <BR>
> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica,
> Arial"><SPAN STYL=
> E=3D'font-size:12.0px'>The late Chick Strand has been fondly
> remembered on thi=
> s film discussion site. There will be a number of tribute programs
> devoted t=
> o her work this fall in New York, Los Angeles,<BR>
> =C2=A0San Francisco and other locations. Other people on Frameworks
> may wish to=
> provide more details or list other screenings scheduled or yet be
> announced=
> .<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Flaherty in NYC at Anthology Film Archives – Sept 14.=C2=A0
> =C2=A0(=C2=A0the summ=
> er seminar programs were curated by Irina Liembacher)<BR>
> Los Angeles Film Forum=C2=A0 – curated by Adam Hyman –
> Sept. 23<BR>
> New York Film Festival – curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin
> Smith &=
> #8211; Oct. 3<BR>
> Occidental College – Los Angeles curated by Adam Hyman –
> Oct. 3=
> <BR>
> Walking Picture Palace at Anthology Film Archives –curated by
> Mark Mc=
> Elhatten -Oct. 6<BR>
> San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
> – curat=
> ed by Dominic Angerame – Oct 23.<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Details for all screenings and relevant urls below:<BR>
> <BR>
> New York screenings include:<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> The first will occur this Monday, September 14</SPAN><FONT
> SIZE=3D"2"><SPAN S=
> TYLE=3D'font-size:10.0px'>th</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:
> 12.0px'> at 7=
> :30 p.m. as=C2=A0 a presentation of Flaherty in NYC and taking place
> at Antholog=
> y Film Archives at 32 Second Avenue in downtown Manhattan N.Y.<BR>
> =C2=A0For the best source of information and all details go to the
> <BR>
> Flaherty website : www.flahertyseminar.org <a href=3D"http://www.flahertysemi
> =
> nar.org"><http://www.flahertyseminar.org>> <BR>
> This event will include a screening of <BR>
> Anselmo and the Women (1986, 16mm, 35min, Mexico)=C2=A0<BR>
> Mosori Monika (1970, 16mm, 20min, Venezuela)<BR>
> Fake Fruit (1986, 16mm, 22min, Mexico)<BR>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0Bill Brand,
> Barbara Hammer and Lynne Sachs will be pres=
> ent for a discussion as part of this presentation.<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Later in October there will be two additional tribute screenings in
> New Yor=
> k with a different selection of films. The first is at the New York
> Film Fes=
> tival’s<BR>
> =C2=A0“Views From The Avant – Garde” at the Walter
> Reade Thea=
> ter. For all information and program description go to<BR>
> =C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.filmlinc.com/views/?p=3D409">http://www.filmlinc.com/vi=
> ews/?p=3D409</a><BR>
> =C2=A0Saturday October 3</SPAN><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-
> size:10.0px'>rd=
> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>=C2=A0, 3p.m.=C2=A0at
> Views from the Av=
> ant- Garde NYFF<BR>
> Films to be screened:<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966, 4min)<BR>
> Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15min)<BR>
> Kristallnacht (1979, 7min)<BR>
> Loose Ends (1979, 25min)<BR>
> Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22min)<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Tuesday October 6 at 6:30 pm as part of THE WALKING PICTURE PALACE
> at Antho=
> logy Film Archives. Listing will be in the next Anthology
> calendar=C2=A0<BR>
> and on their website in October. Go to <a href=3D"http://www.anthologyfilmarc
> =
> hives.org/">http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/><BR>
> Films to be screened:<BR>
> Waterfall (1967, 3min)<BR>
> Cosas de mi Vida (1976, 25min)<BR>
> Soft Fiction (1979, 54min)<BR>
> Elasticity (1976, 22min)<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> Los Angeles screenings:<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> =C2=A0<BR>
> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT
> FACE=3D"=EA=B5=B4=EB=A6=BC">=C2=A0<BR>
> </FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">LA Film Forum will
> have=
> present a Tribute to Chick Strand at the Egyptian Theatre on Sunday,
> Septem=
> ber 13 at 7:30pm.=C2=A0=C2=A0Angel Blue Sweet Wings
> (1966, 3 min)Guacamo=
> le (1976, 18 min)Cartoon le Mousse (1979, 15 min)War
> Zone by Mar=
> ty Muller, aka Neon Park (1971, 3 min)By the Lake (1986,
> 9.5 min=
> )Waterfall (1967, 3 min)Kristallnacht (1979, 7
> min)Elasticity (1=
> 976, 25 min)=C2=A0They will also be co-presenting a free
> screening a=
> t Occidental College, where Chick Strand was a long-time
> professor, on=
> October 3 at 5:00pm. This screening is curated by Adam
> Hyman.=C2=A0Anselmo (196=
> 7, 4 min)Loose Ends (1979, 25 min)Soft Fiction (1979,
> 54 m=
> in)=C2=A0The San Francisco Cinematheque in association with
> Canyon Cinema =
> will present a tribute curated by Dominic Angerame. “
> After Day =
> Comes Night and After That, Day Comes Again” on Friday October
> 23 &nbs=
> p;at 7:30 pm. =C2=A0The screening will be at the Yerba Beuna
> Center for th=
> e Arts.Irina Liembacher, Steve Anker, Dominic Angerame will
> introduce.=
> Go to <a href=3D"http://www.sfcinematheque.org/#/calendar/
> 200910230/">h=
> ttp://www.sfcinematheque.org/#/calendar/200910230/</a>=C2=A0=C2=A0<BR>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info=
> on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>. <BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:07:01 -0700
> From: Weekly Listing <email suppressed>
> Subject: This week [September 12 - 20, 2009] in avant garde cinema
>
> This week [September 12 - 20, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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> * 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 12, Houston, Texas]
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> * Other Cinema: ‘New Brow’ Underground Art + Big Daddy Roth
> [September 12, San Francisco, California]
> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents A Chick Strand Tribute Screening
> [September 13, Los Angeles, California]
> * Man With A Movie Camera [September 13, New York, New York]
> * Essential Cinema the Man With the Movie Camera [September 13, New
> York, New York]
> * Portrait of Jason [September 15, Berkeley, California]
> * 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 15, Ithaca, New York]
> * Tuesday Club Film Night #1 [September 15, Jamaica Plain,
> Massachusetts]
> * Rr By James Benning [September 15, Seattle, Washington]
> * Golan Levin [September 17, Chicago, Illinois]
> * Ata Open Screening [September 17, San Francisco, California]
> * Electromediascope [September 18, Kansas City, Missouri]
> * Metamkine At Florence Gould Hall [September 18, New York, New York]
> * Excorpse Volume 1 (West Coast Premiere) [September 18, San
> Francisco, California]
> * 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 18, Terre Haute, IN]
> * Other Cinema: Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? + William Burroughs
> + [September 19, San Francisco, California]
> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Trials of American Liberalism
> [September 20, Los Angeles, California]
> * José Antonio Sistiaga: Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren
> [September 20, San Francisco, California]
>
>
> Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
>
> ----------------------------
> SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
> ----------------------------
>
> 9/12
> Houston, Texas: Ann Arbor Film Festival
> http://aafilmfest.org/
> 7 PM, Aurora Picture Show - 800 Aurora St.
>
> 47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
> The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
> independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a
> premiere
> showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This
> program
> explores themes of life and death within the geography of our
> surroundings, and includes films from Detroit, Montreal, San
> Francisco,
> Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.
>
> 9/12
> New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 3:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> THE ELEVENTH YEAR
> Dziga Vertov 1928, 60 minutes, 35mm, silent. With Russian
> intertitles;
> English synopsis available.
>
> 9/12
> New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 5:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
> MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm, silent
>
> 9/12
> San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
> http://www.othercinema.com/
> 8:30, 992 Valencia St.
>
> OTHER CINEMA: ‘NEW BROW’ UNDERGROUND ART + BIG DADDY ROTH
> Personally introduced by director Tanem Davidson, New Brow:
> Contemporary
> Underground Art offers first-hand accounts from artists, galleries,
> and
> collectors who have initiated a young and lively Pop-Surrealist
> movement, thriving on the West Coast. Documenting its funky studios
> and
> makeshift exhibition spaces, this energized feature acknowledges the
> influence of oft unrecognized California subcultures, such as
> Kustom Kar
> Kulture, underground comix, graffiti, tattoo, surf/skate, and punk
> scenes. Includes interviews with Robert Williams, Ron English,
> Shepard
> Fairey, and many more! PLUS Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink on Big
> Daddy Roth, Cyrus Tabar on his ambient audio emulator, and free PBR
> for
> the season's opening reception.
>
> --------------------------
> SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
> --------------------------
>
> 9/13
> 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 A CHICK STRAND TRIBUTE SCREENING
> Filmmaker, artist, teacher, joyful marvel, force of life
> Chick Strand
> passed away on July 11, and our city and our lives won't be the same.
> Tonight we'll be running a wide range of the glorious gamut of her
> work,
> one treat from her husband, and more. Curated by filmmaker Amy
> Halpern.
> Including ANGEL BLUE SWEET WINGS (1966, 3 min.), GUACAMOLE (1976, 18
> min.), CARTOON LE MOUSSE (1979, 15 min.), BY THE LAKE (1986, 9.5
> min.),
> WATERFALL (1967, 3 min.), KRISTALNACHT (1979, 7 min.), ELASTICITY
> (1976,
> 25 min.), WAR ZONE by Marty Muller, aka Neon Park (1971, 3 min.)
> 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.
>
> 9/13
> New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 5:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
> Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm, silent
>
> 9/13
> New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 5:00pm, 32 Second Avenue
>
> ESSENTIAL CINEMA THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA
> MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA by Dziga Vertov 1929, 104 minutes, 35mm,
> silent
> MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA / CHELOVEK S KINO-APPARATOM "Little
> introduction
> is needed for one of the great masterpieces of world cinema, Vertov's
> extraordinary meditation on then-contemporary Soviet Russian
> society and
> the place of filmmakers within it. A kind of 'city symphony,'
> cataloguing the sights and sounds of urban life, the film is
> structured
> across a day, beginning with citizens waking up while machines are
> revved up. As Vertov shows us, among the first heading off to work is
> the 'man with the movie camera,' played in the film by his brother
> and
> cameraman Mikhail Kaufman. For Vertov, the camera was a kind of
> infinitely more perfect eye: it could offer details and aspects of
> the
> world that might be missed otherwise." –FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN
> CENTER
>
> ---------------------------
> TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
> ---------------------------
>
> 9/15
> Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
> http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
> 7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
>
> PORTRAIT OF JASON
> Described by Clarke as a response to the cinema verité works of
> Leacock
> and Pennebaker, Portrait of Jason is a fascinating, moving
> depiction of
> Jason Holliday, an African American gay prostitute and aspiring
> nightclub performer. Filmed over twelve hours, from 9 p.m. to 9
> a.m., in
> Clarke's apartment, Holliday's nonstop talking was interrupted only
> by
> the reloading of the camera. Clarke described it as "the first time I
> was able to give up my intense control and allow Jason and the
> camera to
> react to each other." As the sole person on screen, Jason
> "performs" for
> the camera, improvising and impersonating, relating stories,
> confessing
> his sexual encounters, and ultimately revealing himself. It is a self
> that may or may not relate to the stories he has told, but which
> comes
> to "life" before the camera. In Clarke's verité exposé, there is no
> truth; there is a production. "One thing I never expected was the
> highly
> charged emotional evening that took place," she said. "How the people
> behind the camera reacted that night is a very important part of what
> the film is about."
>
> 9/15
> Ithaca, New York: Ann Arbor Film Festival
> http://aafilmfest.org/
> 7:15 PM, Cornell Cinema - 104 Willard Straight Hall
>
> 47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
> The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
> independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a
> premiere
> showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This
> program
> explores themes of a changing globalized world through personal,
> existential journeys and includes films from Paris, London, Winnipeg,
> and the U.S.
>
> 9/15
> Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club
> 7:00 pm, Loring-Greenough House (12 South Street, across from the
> Monument)
>
> TUESDAY CLUB FILM NIGHT #1
> You are cordially invited to the first of a series of film screenings
> presented by the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club. Held at the
> Loring-Greenough House every third Tuesday, the series will
> showcase the
> work of Boston-area filmmakers and animators. The opening film will
> be
> Andrew Landauro's sci-fi feature, CIRCUIT. Andrew is a MassArt
> graduate
> and JP resident. He will be present to participate in the post-
> screening
> discussion. There will be beer!! To find out more about CIRCUIT,
> visit
> http://www.whatiscircuit.com. To learn about the Tuesday Club and the
> Loring-Greenough House, go to http://www.loring-greenough.org. To
> inquire about showing your own film (of any length or format) at a
> future screening, email Mariya at louxor (at) runbox (dot) com.
>
> 9/15
> Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
> http://www.nwfilmforum.org
> 8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
>
> RR BY JAMES BENNING
> SEPTEMBER 15–16, TUESDAY–WEDNESDAY AT 8PM CO-PRESENTED BY THIRD EYE
> CINEMA SEATTLE PREMIERE RR (James Benning, USA, 2008, 16mm, 111
> min) In
> 1895, the first film audience ever reportedly ran screaming from the
> theater during the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of a Train. The
> audience thought that an actual oncoming train was hurtling towards
> them, unfamiliar as they were with the screen and projector that
> produced the moving image. Although today's moviegoers may be more
> comfortable with train footage, James Benning's RR promises a unique
> kind of cinematic experience for audiences. Structured around the
> deceptively simple visual motif of a train crossing a series of
> static
> shots, it presents a visually stunning portrait of the role of
> railroads
> in American history and culture. "Benning has an incredible formal
> eye,
> able to place his 16mm camera in the absolute perfect spot and
> capture
> the landscape." —Daily Plastic
>
> ----------------------------
> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
> ----------------------------
>
> 9/17
> Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
> http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
> 6pm, 164 N. State St
>
> GOLAN LEVIN
> Golan Levin in person! Whimsical, provocative, and sublime, the
> work of
> new media artist Golan Levin explores the possibilities of code,
> screens, interactivity, and our relationship with machines. Levin
> creates collaborative digital systems, resulting in performances like
> Dialtones (A Telesymphony) (2001), a musical composition with sounds
> generated through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing
> of the
> audience's own mobile phones; software art such as The Dumpster: A
> Visualization of Romantic Breakups (2005), which offers novel
> perspectives on online communications; and installations like Eyecode
> (2007), which generates imagery from its viewer's eyes. Levin will
> discuss these works and more in an interactive screening and lecture.
> Co-presented by the Department of Interactive Arts & Media, Columbia
> College Chicago. 1997–2009, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.
>
> 9/17
> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
> http://www.atasite.org/
> Doors 7pm, Show 8, $5, 992 Valencia at 21st.
>
> ATA OPEN SCREENING
> ATA's open screening is the only monthly open submissions screening
> in
> the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
> take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
> revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
> refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
> artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang
> out
> with us anywayEnjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the
> people, the
> refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and
> length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week
> advance
> submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max
> length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm
> All
> genres. More Info: contact Matt & Richard at
> email suppressed
>
> --------------------------
> FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
> --------------------------
>
> 9/18
> Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
> http://www.nelson-atkins.org
> 7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
>
> ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
> Videos by Steina Vasulka. Previous program, Selected Works of
> Steina and
> Woody Vasulka, on Sept. 11. Series continues Sept. 25. "Distant
> Activities," 1972, 4:45 min., 1/2" open reel video shown on DVD.
> "Land
> of Timoteus," 1975, 6:45 min., 1/2" open reel video shown on DVD.
> "Orbital Obsessions," 1977 (remastered 1988), 24:10 min., 3/4" U-
> Matic
> video shown on DVD. "Violin Power," 1978, 9:10 min., 1/2" open reel
> video shown on DVD. "Bad," 1979, 2:04 min., 3/4" U-Matic video
> shown on
> DVD. "Lilith," 1987, 9:10 min., 3/4" U-Matic video shown on DVD. "A
> So
> Desu Ka," 1994, 9:30 min., S-VHS video shown on DVD. "In the Land
> of the
> Elevator Girls," 1989, 4:14 min., S-VHS video shown on DVD. "Trevor,"
> 2000, 11 min., digital video shown on DVD. "Warp," 1999, 4 min.,
> digital
> video shown on DVD.
>
> 9/18
> New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 8:00pm, 55 East 59th St. (between Madison and Park Avenues)
>
> METAMKINE AT FLORENCE GOULD HALL
> THIS SHOW IS NOT AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES. IT IS AT THE FLORENCE
> GOULD
> HALL. CELLULE D'INTERVENTION METAMKINE Live at the French Institute
> Alliance Francaise (FIAF). This event is programmed by Marie Losier
> and
> Andy Lampert, in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives. Friday,
> September 18, 2009 at 8pm Ticket Prices: TBD FIAF, Florence Gould
> Hall
> 55 East 59th Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues) Anthology is
> proud to partner with FIAF to bring the truly astounding projector
> performance group Metamkine for a long-overdue New York City
> performance
> at the Florence Gould Hall. Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, a trio
> founded in 1987 and based in Grenoble, France, includes one musician
> (J?r?me Noetinger) and two filmmakers (Christophe Auger and Xavier
> Qu?rel) whose research into the relationship between image and
> sound has
> resulted in works they refer to as live "musico-cinematic" creations.
> Working with a core narrative, the three artists create a series of
> impromptu situational vignettes accompanied by a live soundtrack of
> tape
> fragments and analog synthesizer sounds. Through the use of mirrors,
> multiple projectors, and ingenious on-stage editing, the group
> produces
> and directs a stunning live film experience. No two performances are
> ever the same. Metamkine truly create music for the eyes and film for
> the ears! Metamkine is being presented as part of FIAF's CROSSING THE
> LINE festival, a platform for vibrant new artistic practices that
> engages widely diverse traditions, perspectives, and ideas through
> artists working in France and New York City. Conceived, initiated,
> and
> produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural
> institutions, the third annual edition of this inter-disciplinary
> contemporary arts festival further develops this focus on artists who
> are transforming cultural practices on both sides of the Atlantic.
> This
> event is programmed by Marie Losier and Andy Lampert, in
> collaboration
> with Anthology Film Archives. Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8pm
> Ticket
> Prices: TBD FIAF, Florence Gould Hall 55 East 59th Street (Between
> Madison and Park Avenues) Info: 212-355-6160 Tickets: 212-307-4100
> For
> more information please visit: fiaf.org
>
> 9/18
> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
> http://www.atasite.org/
> 8pm $6, 992 Valencia at 21st.
>
> EXCORPSE VOLUME 1 (WEST COAST PREMIERE)
> This program will be followed by a Q&A with participating local
> artists
> Marty McCutcheon and Brad Wise. The first volume of a unique
> "Exquisite
> Corpse" video art is a collaboration between 37 artists from 16
> countries. The project was inspired by the classic Surrealists'
> drawing
> method of the same name, in which a paper is folded so that each
> contributor sees only a small portion of the preceding artist's work.
> When the last participant is finished, the sheet is unfolded to
> reveal a
> strangely divergent, yet contiguous form or figure. Using this
> semi-blind, sequential method, ExCorpse participants created minute-
> long
> video art segments in response to the final ten seconds of the
> previous
> filmmaker's work. Each participant was then asked to incorporate
> these
> seconds into their piece, creating transitions as they pleased, until
> everyone's vision was threaded together into a final "corpse." "Only
> recently, could such a pan-global, audiovisual variation of this
> Surrealist exercise be produced with such ease and spontaneous
> free-association," said project coordinator Kika Nicolela, an
> award-winning filmmaker from São Paulo, Brazil. Nicolela
> facilitated the
> project as viral social media experiment, following discussions in
> the
> Video Artists Forum on Artreview.com, an international social network
> for artists, curators and art critics. Berkeley-based painter and
> multimedia artist Marty McCutcheon, who produced five separate pieces
> for the first volume, was also the first to suggest an exquisite
> corpse
> to Nicolela and the Forum. "This process of video exchange between
> artists from around the world is very inspiring," said Brad WIse, a
> Bay
> Area video artist, who was invited by McCutcheon to contribute. "It
> illuminates the possibilities and potentials of global, collective
> creativity." Wise, who describes himself as a student of Surrealism
> and
> Salvadore Dali's "Paranoiac-critical method," has since contributed
> to
> other video corpse projects, each with its with own themes and/or
> creative "obstacles." He and McCutcheon hope that this screening at
> ATA
> will inspire attending artists to collaborate in unique ways.
> ExCorpse,
> v1, was produced in nine threads over the course of 2008, and it has
> been screened in festivals and galleries throughout the world,
> including
> Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, and
> the
> US. The upcoming screening at ATA is the first time the project has
> been
> shown in California. The project continues to grow. ExCorpse, v2, was
> produced during the first half of 2009 involving 60 artists in 36
> countries. Volume 2 will have its world premiere at the "V.art09"
> International art fair in Värnamo, Sweden, September 11-13, and
> will be
> screened at ATA at a later date. Participating Artists: Hélène Abram
> (France), Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Romuald Beugnon (France). Caroline
> Breton(France), Alexandra Buhl (Denmark), Michael Chang (Denmark),
> Jan
> Hakon Erichsen (Norway), Alicia Felberbaum (UK), Alberto Guerreiro
> (Portugal), Niclas Hallberg (Sweden), Nung-Hsin Hu (Taiwan), Ronee
> Hui
> (England), Jan Kather (USA), Ulf Kristiansen (Norway), Christian
> Leduc
> (Canada), Kai Lossgott (South Africa), Dellani Lima (Brazil), Mads
> Ljungdahl (Denmark), Ambuja Magaji (India), Hans Manner-Jakobsen
> (Denmark), Marty McCutcheon (USA), Kika Nicolela (Brazil), Renata
> Padovan (Brazil), Stina Pehrsdotter (Sweden), Tim Pickerill (USA),
> John
> Pirard (Belgium), Per E. Riksson (Sweden), Pedro Reis (Portugal),
> Pila
> Rusjan (Slovenia), Joshua Sandler (USA), Zachary Sandler (USA),
> Simone
> Stoll (Germany), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Joy
> Whalen (USA), Alison Williams (South Africa), Brad Wise (USA) To
> read an
> interview with ExCorpse members, see:
> http://momente.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/exquisite-corpse-at-monkey-town-
> new-york/ For more information, visit: http://www.vimeo.com/excorpse
> http://www.artreview.com/profile/EXCORPSE
>
> 9/18
> Terre Haute, IN: Ann Arbor Film Festival
> http://aafilmfest.org/
> 8 PM, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - 5500 Wabash Ave
>
> 47TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR
> The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the original and longest running
> independent film festival in the United States, recognized as a
> premiere
> showcase for risk-taking, pioneering and art driven cinema. This
> program
> explores themes of life and death within the geography of our
> surroundings, and includes films from Detroit, Montreal, San
> Francisco,
> Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.
>
> ----------------------------
> SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
> ----------------------------
>
> 9/19
> San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
> http://www.othercinema.com/
> 8:00 PM, 992 Valencia St.
>
> OTHER CINEMA: WHO’S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER? + WILLIAM BURROUGHS +
> Kathy Acker was a pro-sex feminist author whose life became
> inextricably
> blurred with her experimental fiction. The NorCal debut of Barbara
> Caspar's trenchant portrait mixes testimonials of friends with
> archival
> photos, TV interview footage, animated adaptations of her work, and
> dialog with girls whom Acker inspired. Followed by: Lars Movin's
> Words
> of Advice trails Beat writer Bill Burroughs from his European
> spoken-word tour back to his Manhattan Bunker, and finally to his
> Lawrence, KS home in his later years. Hilariously scabrous readings
> that
> capture Burroughs' sardonic wit are intercut with in-depth
> interviews,
> and music by Patti Smith, as friends such as poet John Giorno offer
> new
> insights into the author's creative legacy. Free pencils, Dream
> Machine
> in effect!
>
> --------------------------
> SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
> --------------------------
>
> 9/20
> Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
> http://www.lafilmforum.org/
> 7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
>
> LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE TRIALS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
> Profit motive and the whispering wind by John Gianvito and
> American/Sandinista by Jason Blalock. Los Angeles premieres! Jason
> Blalock in person Two tributes to the efforts of American
> progressives
> past, using two very different approaches to non-fiction film, both
> compelling and insightful. Profit motive and the whispering wind by
> John
> Gianvito (2008, 58 min, 16mm to video) is a visual meditation on the
> progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries,
> historic plaques and markers, inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's
> History of the United States. Winner of Best Experimental Film of the
> Year from the National Society of Film Critics (2008).
> American/Sandinista by Jason Blalock (2008, 30 min, video) tells the
> story of a small group of controversial U.S. engineers who went to
> Sandinista-controlled Nicaragua in the 1980s, determined to lend
> their
> skills and labor to the revolutionary Sandinista cause. 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.
>
> 9/20
> San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
> http://www.sfcinematheque.org
> 8:00 PM, Victoria Theater -- 2961 16th Street (at Mission and 16th)
>
> JOSé ANTONIO SISTIAGA: ERE ERERA BALEIBU ICIK SUBUA ARUAREN
> With a new score composed and performed by Savage Republic
> presented in
> association with Cabinetic, RE/Search, the San Francisco Silent Film
> Festival and the San Francisco Bay Guardian -- [center main floor --
> members: $20 / non-members: $25; outer main floor & balcony --
> members:
> $10 / non-members: $15] ----- "Basque abstract artist José Antonio
> Sistiaga painted directly onto film with homemade inks to create this
> silent 1970 feature. But Sistiaga's strangely titled work
> is different
> from the films of Stan Brakhage, who didn't come to film from
> painting
> and had his own rhythm. [
> ] [I]ts combination of color and 35-millimeter
> 'scope (with about half an hour in black and white) yields the kind
> of
> spectacle one associates with musicals and [science fiction] epics."
> (Jonathan Rosenbaum) ----- A hand-painted masterpiece of the 1970s; a
> legendary band of the 1980s. Sistiaga's rarely-screened "ere erera
> baleibu icik subua aruaren" is a work of uncompromising beauty that
> absolutely deserves a wider appreciation. Savage Republic, one of the
> unrecognized godfathers of post-rock, formed roughly three decades
> ago
> in the midst of the Los Angeles punk rock scene and abrubtly
> disbanded
> in 1989. In recent years, they've reformed and their unique sound
> (imagine a Middle Eastern surf band backed by the rhythm section from
> Joy Division) is as compelling and inexorable as ever. For
> Cinematheque's season opener, SR -- original members Ethan Port and
> Thom
> Fuhrmann joined by Alan Waddington and Kerry Dowling -- performs a
> newly
> commissioned score to Sistiaga's prodigious work, presented in a
> stunning 35mm print from Paris.
>
>
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> __________________________________________________________________
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>
> End of FRAMEWORKS Digest - 12 Sep 2009 to 13 Sep 2009 - Special
> issue (#2009-558)
> *********************************************************************************
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.