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This week [September 19 - 27, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Beaufort International Film Festival (Beaufort, SC. USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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Tregor Film Fest (Lannion, Tregor, France; Deadline: November 20, 2009)
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Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM, USA; Deadline: December 10, 2009)
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HEART OF GOLD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Gympie, Queensland, Austalia; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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Accessibility 2009: Cross Currents (Sumter, SC USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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Los Angeles as a Character (Los Angeles, CA USA; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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48th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 05, 2009)
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the 8 fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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Hot Sauce & Magnolias (Southern Region, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2009)
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Boston Underground Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2009)
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Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival (Smithfield, NC, USA; Deadline: October 12, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Howl! Arts Project 2009: Film Series [September 19, New York, New York]
* 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]
* The Howl! Arts Project 2009: Film Series [September 20, New York, New York]
* José Antonio Sistiaga: Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren [September 20, San Francisco, California]
* Look Through the Window: the Films of Chris Kennedy [September 22, Berkeley, California]
* Michael Robinson On Www.Tank.Tv [September 22, Online]
* Jem Cohen In-Person [September 22, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Jem Cohen, Filmmaker In-Person, Short Film Screening With Q&A [September 23, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
* Free Form Film Festival: Return and Report [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* Heavy visuals '69: Electronic Cinema and Experimental Films [September 23, Seattle, Washington]
* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 24, Albuquerque, NM]
* Chick Strand: Soft Fiction [September 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tie, the International Experimental Cinema Exposition [September 24, Lincoln, NE]
* José Antonio Sistiaga: Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren [September 24, San Francisco, California]
* Experimental Media Series [September 24, Washington, DC]
* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 25, Albuquerque, NM]
* Nathaniel Dorsky Screening [September 25, Brooklyn, New York]
* Electromediascope [September 25, Kansas City, Missouri]
* The Little Man In the Boat [September 25, San Francisco, California]
* 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour [September 26, Albuquerque, NM]
* Other Cinema: Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action + [September 26, San Francisco, California]
* Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren (1970, 75 Min., 35mm) Dir. Jose
Antonio Sistiaga With A New Score Composed and Performed By Savage
Republi [September 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Gustav Deutsch: Film Ist. A Girl & A Gun [September 27, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
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9/19
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
10:00 PM, 66 East 4th Street
THE HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES
PUNK ROCK, FOREVER! Introduction by Amos Poe, filmmaker, and Ivan Kral,
musician and filmmaker: • THE BLANK GENERATION, 1976, directed by Amos
Poe and Ivan Kral. Cast: Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones, The
Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, Blondie, Harry Toledo, Marbles, Tuff
Darts, Wayne County, Miamis, New York Dolls, The Shirts. B/W, sound. 55
min. 16mm print courtesy of Amos Poe. "In 1976 Ivan Kral joined the
Patti Smith Group and became friendly with underground filmmaker Amos
Poe. Poe and Kral were both interested in the punk rock scenes that was
just beginning to emerge in New York City at venues like CBGB and Max's
Kansas City, and they began bringing cameras to shows, shooting silent
footage of bands who were beginning to develop potent reputations in the
rock underground. Poe and Kral married their silent footage with live
tapes or demo recordings of the bands (most of whom had yet to release a
record) to create a deliberately rough audio-visual record of the
burgeoning punk scene." (Wikipedia) Introduction by M. Henry Jones,
filmmaker: • SOUL CITY, 1979, directed by M. Henry Jones. Cast: The
Fleshtones. Color, sound. 2 min. 16mm print courtesy of the New York
Film-Makers' Cooperative. "In Henry Jones' words, this film is intended
to, 'Visually counterpoint the music of a subculture.' Punk rock group
FLESHTONES perform the song "Soul City," as tiny black & white cut-out
figures, (with hand-tinted flesh tones), against a flickering background
of brilliant color. In SOUL CITY, Jones 'recycled' the same basic
movements of his subjects by reconstructing totally new motions from the
same severely limited amount of footage. This was done through
alteration of perspective, and reversal of selected movements at varying
intervals. The number of movements a subject can make, artificially
created from a few basics, becomes almost limitless." (Bikini Girl
Magazine) • PUNKING OUT, 1979, directed by Maggie Carson, Juliusz
Kossakowski, and Fredric A. Shore. Cast: Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome,
Richard Hell, Hilly Kristal, Lydia Lunch, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone,
Johnny Ramone, Helen Wheels. B/W, sound, 25 min. 16mm print courtesy of
the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for
the Performing Arts, with the permission of Ric Shore, Managing
Producer. Punking Out has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie
Corporation of New York." "Documents the beginning of the punk rock
movement in New York City at CBGB's, a punk night club, and the
lifestyle that revolves around this scene. Presents a sometimes shocking
look at the attitudes and motivations behind the movement through
interviews with outspoken club-goers and band members of the Ramones,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dead Boys." (New York Public
Library Catalogue).
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!
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
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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
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
10:00 PM, 66 East 4th Street
THE HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2009: FILM SERIES
A MOVEABLE FEAST: A TRIBUTE TO THE NEW YORK FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE
Part 2: THROUGH THE DECADES Introduction by Jon Gartenberg, Curator,
Howl Film Festival, and M.M. Serra, Executive Director, New York
Film-Makers' Coop: This program also celebrates almost a half-century of
the Coop's existence, and the archive of more than 5,000 films that it
makes available for distribution. These films and videos date from 1921
to the present, and this program presents a brief (by no means
comprehensive) survey by decade of the creative richness of the films in
the Coop's collection. All films and videos courtesy of the New York
Film-Makers' Coop. • GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST (1927-28), directed by Hans
Richter. B/W, Sound, 6 min. (16mm print) "Pure vintage dada. A humorous,
delightful, grotesque in which ordinary objects rebel against their
daily routine and, for a brief period of liberation, fallow their own
laws. A bow-tie undoes itself, bowler hats float gracefully through the
air, coffee cups leap from a tray to smash themselves on the ground, and
so forth. At the stroke of noon, they return to their normal functional
state. GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST represents one of the earliest
collaborations between avant-garde filmmaker and composer: Paul
Hindemith's score accompanied the film when it was first shown at an
avent-garde music festival in Baden-Baden in 1928." (Standish D. Lawder)
• HAITI (1938), directed by Rudy Burckhardt. B/W, Sound, 15 min. (16mm
print) "A young Swiss with a curious eye looks at this tropical black
island world, savoring the difference." (New York Film-Makers'
Cooperative Catalogue) • RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946), directed by
Maya Deren. B/W, Sound, 15 min. (16mm print) In Maya Deren's RITUAL IN
TRANSFIGURED TIME we have gestures that invite us to move into step with
them, abandoning the comfort of the known and giving ourselves over to
so many strange partners. This silent short begins in a domestic
environment, moves to a party scene, and ends with modern dance
performed in an outdoor setting. The film's continuity is established by
an emphasis on gesture and/or dance throughout." (New York Film-Makers'
Cooperative Catalogue) • GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957), directed by Marie
Menken. Color, sound, 5 min. (16mm print) "A lyric, tender, intensely
subjective exploration of a flower garden, with extreme magnification,
flashing color harmonies." (Cinema 16) • HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED (1966),
directed by George Kuchar. Color, Sound, 15 min. (16mm print) "A very
direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than
sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imaging,
HOLD ME surpasses any of Kuchar's previous work. The odd blend of
Hollywood glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires
counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality." (Ken
Kelman) • THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN (1972), directed by Stan Brakhage. Color,
Silent, 13 min. (16mm print) The classical riddle was meant to be heard,
of course. Its answers are contained within its questions; and on the
smallest piece of itself this possibility depends upon sound --
'utterly,' like they say... the pun is its pivot. Therefore, my RIDDLE
OF LUMEN depends upon qualities of light. All films do, of course. But
with THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN, 'the hero' of the film is light/itself. It is
a film I'd long wanted to make -- inspired by the sense, and specific
formal possibilities, of the classical English language riddle... only
one appropriate to film and, thus, as distinct from language as I could
make it." (Stan Brakhage) • DHPG MON AMOUR (1989), directed by Carl
Michael George. Color, Sound, 12 min. (super 8mm blowup to 16mm print.)
A Super-8 homestyle movie which explores the radical advances made by
PWA's (People With AIDS), in developing their own health care. Focusing
precisely on the ordinary minutiae of David Conover and Joe Walsh's
daily life, DHPG Mon Amour shows the struggle for self-determination and
control over one's own body, and resonates on an intimate and more
broadly political level." (New York Film-Makers' Cooperative Catalogue)
• THE FILM OF HER (1996), directed by Bill Morrison. B/W, Sound, 12 min.
(16mm print) "...Morrison's THE FILM OF HER is based on the story of a
Library on Congress clerk who saved a vaultful of paper reels,
documenting the earliest days of cinema, from the incinerator. A
gorgeous tribute to the art form's origins, this 12-minute short is
anchored by the memory of this man, who has fixed in his mind since
boyhood the image of a woman he saw in an early porn film. 'The Film of
Her' is what drives the clerk to save the films, this collective memory,
and it also serves as the focal point for Morrison's thoughts on
personal experience and the happenstance of history. Drawing comparisons
between the primordial ooze and the elemental flicker of a light
projector, or between Lumiere babes, magic a la Melies, and the gears of
industry, Morrison reminds us that even the most brilliant and brave
creations begin as cherished ideas nurtured in dedicated imaginations
and subjected to the whims of chance." ( Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A.
Weekly) • MEET ME IN WICHITA (2007), directed by Martha Colburn. Color,
Sound, 8 min. (DVD) "This work throws Osama Bin Laden into the fairytale
Land of Oz. A combination of watercolors, collage and paint on glass
animation, this film is a play between fact, fiction, politics, fantasy,
terror and morality." (New York Film-Makers' Cooperative Catalogue)
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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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
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9/22
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
LOOK THROUGH THE WINDOW: THE FILMS OF CHRIS KENNEDY
Chris Kennedy in Person Toronto-based filmmaker, curator, and writer
Chris Kennedy returns to the Bay Area where he was based for two years
to present a program of his materialist cinema. Many of his films
explore place; both 4x8x3 and Tamalpais add to this endeavor a
consciousness of framing. Tamalpais uses a grid to select views of the
Marin County peak, bringing forth both details and panoramas.
Simultaneous Contrast and Tape Film, as well as sections of Jane's
Window, also focus our attention on the film frame, its parameters
echoed by shots of windows, complicated by graphic patterns or
hand-processing. Memo to Pic Desk, the acrobat, and lay claim to an
island variously draw on found footage. The acrobat is inspired in part
by a poem by Toronto poet Ryan Kamstra, while photojournalists' notes
are paired with vintage images in Kennedy and Anna van der Meulen's Memo
to Pic Desk. The provocative lay claim to an island draws on texts from
the 1969 American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island and letters by
supporters to explore this utopian moment. —Kathy Geritz • Jane's Window
(2005, 10 mins, Silent, Color, 35mm). 4x8x3 (2003, 3 mins, Color). Memo
to Pic Desk (with Anna van der Meulen, 2006, 6.5 mins, B&W). Tape Film
(2007, 5 mins, Silent, Color). the acrobat (2007, 6 mins, B&W).
Simultaneous Contrast (2008, 5 mins, Silent, Color). Tamalpais
(2008–2009, 14 mins, Color). lay claim to an island (2008–2009, 13 mins,
Color, DigiBeta)
9/22
Online: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
All, www.tank.tv
MICHAEL ROBINSON ON WWW.TANK.TV
tank.tv is pleased to present nine films and videos by the young
American artist Michael Robinson online at www.tank.tv until September
22nd.
9/22
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
JEM COHEN IN-PERSON
JEM COHEN (Brooklyn) started his filmmaking life working in the studio
system but realized that to make the kinds of films that embody his
personal, poetic and activist vision he would have to do it on his own
or in collaboration with artists/friends (most notably, poets and
musicians) he admired. His works have been shown worldwide and he has
been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and grants. PROGRAM:
Spirit (Super 8, 7.5 min.) "Patti Smith asked if I would do a short film
to accompany the release of her version of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen
Spirit. … The film is a domestic portrait of Patti and her son, Jackson.
William Blake was invited in the form of a plaster cast of his death
mask. Kurt Cobain, (conflicted, fierce, gentle, and another mother's
son) was invited as an admirer of Leadbelly. Cats were invited as
household saints. The film invokes New York and rural America. It is
about picking up guitars and doing dirty dishes."-JC; Long for the City
(2008, Super 8, 9:10) Patti Smith portrait; For Walter Benjamin (2008,
16mm, 10:00) with Patti Smith; Blessed are the Dreams of Men (2006,
16mm, 9:15); One Bright Day (2009, DV, 17 min.) "While out shooting for
a different project altogether, I encountered two sleeping men on a
Manhattan street. A short time later, I was standing in front of
Pennsylvania Train Station with the camera on a tripod, when one of the
men suddenly reappeared. He stepped in front of my camera and began to
speak, about his path in the U.S. military, from Panama to Afghanistan
to Iraq, about his life. I decided to limit the piece to what I shot in
that area in those few hours, with one key addition: the text from a
classic children's rhyme."-JC; Night Scene New York (2009, 16mm, 9.5
min).
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
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9/23
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
7:30PM, The Abbey Gallery, 50 N. Cameron St. (second floor, back)
JEM COHEN, FILMMAKER IN-PERSON, SHORT FILM SCREENING WITH Q&A
Wednesday September 23rd: Jem Cohen, Filmmaker In-Person, NOTE EARLY
TIME: 7:30PM at the Abbey Gallery. 50 North Cameron St, Harrisburg
INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD WINNER FOR "CHAIN". Has made films with Fugazi,
R.E.M., A Silver Mt. Zion, Smoke, Patti Smith, Elliott Smith, The Ex,
and many more. Jem will be showing 5 films including "Lucky 3" a film
portrait of Elliott Smith. I DON'T LIKE MUSIC VIDEOS - 2000 from FLUID
VIDEO CREW on Vimeo.
9/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st.
FREE FORM FILM FESTIVAL: RETURN AND REPORT
Surveillance and assessment of things both human and inhuman. videos:
Van McElwee (ST. LOUIS) - Vat, and Alternity Ryan Wylie (COLUMBIA, MO.)
- The Human Story Christina Corfield (SAN FRANCISCO) - The Immense
Burden of Fear and Regret Jeremy Newman (OHIO) - Window Tyrone Davies
(SAN FRANCISCO) - Tracking Transience Donald Daedalus (SAN FRANCISCO) -
Flying Rat Trap Elizabeth Henry (DENVER) - Through These Trackless
Waters Paul Baker (AUSTIIN) - Control This Jae-Min Han (SAN FRANCISCO) -
Watch CLOSING ACT: live music by SABRETEETH
9/23
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
HEAVY VISUALS '69: ELECTRONIC CINEMA AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
(Various directors, 1969, 16mm, 71 min) A selection of 1969's
cutting-edge landmarks in avant garde shorts, video art, and even
computer animation. Featuring: Kenneth Anger (Invocation of My Demon
Brother), Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut (Beatles Electronique, and
Electronic Moon No. 2), Larry Jordan (Our Lady of the Sphere), Michael
Whitney (Binary Bit Patterns), Scott Bartlett (Moon 1969), a rare
screening of Le Labyrinthe by Piotr Kamler (with electronic score by
Bernard Paremegiani), plus Stephan Gebhardt's short documentary about
controversial Aktionist performance artist, Hermann Nitch.
www.nwfilmforum.org
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
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9/24
Albuquerque, NM: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
6 & 8 PM, Southwest Film Center - 3601 University Blvd SE
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. The 6PM
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. The 8PM program explores themes of a changing
globalized world through personal, existential journeys and includes
films from Paris, London, Winnipeg, and the U.S. This event runs
September 24-26, 2009.
9/24
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
CHICK STRAND: SOFT FICTION
Celebrated West Coast filmmaker Chick Strand (1931–2009) left behind a
radical body of work exploring the space between documentary and poetry,
truth and fiction, and the politics and pleasures of representation. A
key figure in American independent and avant-garde film, Strand was a
co-founder of Canyon Cinema in the mid-1960s and began her own
filmmaking career at age 34, while an ethnography student at UCLA. This
tribute includes her films Soft Fiction (1979), an exploration of female
sexuality that raises provocative questions about storytelling, memory,
and the performance of one's self, and the exquisitely abstract
Kristallnacht (1979), an homage to Anne Frank and the resilience of the
human spirit. 1979, USA, 16mm, ca. 75 min.
9/24
Lincoln, NE: TIE
http://experimentalcinema.org/ross2009.htm
7:00PM, 313 N. 13th STREET
TIE, THE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA EXPOSITION
Join us for the new edition of TIE (September 24-25, 2009), a
presentation that illuminates the continuing vitality of experimental
cinema with new 35mm and 16mm films from Argentina, Germany, Finland,
USA, Spain, Netherlands, and Austria . A special presentation of the
1965 classic avant-garde film, Vinyl, by Andy Warhol, concludes the
program. The festival includes work by Karl Kels, Ben Russell, Tim
Leyendekker, Mara Mattuschka/Chris Haring, Antoni Pinent, Sami van
Ingen, Noah Stout, Friedl vom Gröller, Thomas Draschan, Paulo Pecora.
9/24
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, SFMOMA -- 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard)
JOSé ANTONIO SISTIAGA: ERE ERERA BALEIBU ICIK SUBUA ARUAREN
Co-curated by Tomonari Nishikawa & Vanessa O'Neill. Presented in
association with the Center for Asian American Media -- [members: $7 /
non-members: $10] Tickets available at http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1469
----- In tandem with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art visual arts
exhibits The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography and Photography
Now: China, Japan, Korea, Measurement in the Impermanence consists of
contemporary Japanese experimental works that display an interest in the
frame as a unit of time, constructed either sensuously or methodically,
in order to produce ephemeral phenomena. The program includes Makino
Takashi's "Resolution, Synthesis, Re-composition" (with a score by Carl
Stone), a voyage through a strata of images and sounds; Akira
Mizuyoshi's "Like Flowing, Like Spinning", a lyrical visual of obscure
images in motion; and Ryusuke Ito's photogrammed sound and visual
collage film "A Flat, Split Reel." Stom Sogo's "Sync Up Element" is a
soothing flicker video with a refrain of illusory memories, while Ichiro
Sueoka's "Marching On" unveils a discovery of traditional customs and
patterns in decay. Yo Ota's "Inclined Horizon" is a playful visual
choreographed by on-and-off time-lapse technique. Time-lapse in Takashi
Ishida's "Reflection" is utilized towards an investigation of the
planet's rotation to give birth to an organic creature on the interior.
Yuiko Matsuyama's "Lens on Lens" is an exploration in the world of flux
and Daïchi Saïto's "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis" (with music by
Malcolm Goldstein) provides a sensuous experience through a landscape in
a different dimension.
9/24
Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts
http://www.wpadc.org
6:30 - 8:15pm, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA SERIES
Since 2006, the Experimental Media Series has showcased the talents of
artists working in sound and video art. This year's selection of
finalists' works will present the leading edge in electronic media
works. The most compelling entries, as selected by the juror Kelly
Gordon, Associate Curator of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
and based on overall quality and innovation, will be awarded the Kraft
Prize for New Media and the WPA Experimental Art Prize, two cash prizes
of $750 each, to be presented on October 1 at The Phillips Collection.
VENUE SCHEDULE: September 24 and October 1, 2009, 6:30-8:15 pm The
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20009 October
13 and 14, 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm Maryland Institute College of Art, Falvey
Hall, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217 October 15, 2009,
8:00-9:30 pm at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20013
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Stephen Ausherman (US) Stephanie Barber (US) Bret
Battey (UK ) Patrick Bergeron (CA) Manuella Blackburn (UK) Aaron Bowles
(US) Lin Culbertson (US) Robert Ladislas Derr (US) Nhieu Do (US) Brian
Evans (US) Harvey Goldman (US) Lee Henderson (CA) Janne Holtermann (DE)
Daniel Iglesia (US) Ben McCormick (US) Karl J. Mendonca (US) Jonathan
Monaghan (US) Neil Ira Needleman (US) Julia Oldham (US) Kala Pierson
(US) Maria Pithara (US) Gerard Freixes Ribera (ES) Stefan Riebel (DE)
Alberto Roblest (US) Jack Dingo Ryan (US) Eldad Tsabary (CA) & Robert
Voisey (US) Jessica Westbrook (US)
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
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9/25
Albuquerque, NM: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
6 & 8 PM, Southwest Film Center - 3601 University Blvd SE
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. The 6PM
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. The 8PM program explores themes of a changing
globalized world through personal, existential journeys and includes
films from Paris, London, Winnipeg, and the U.S. This event runs
September 24-26, 2009.
9/25
Brooklyn, New York: Hermitage
9:00 PM, 281 N7th Street
NATHANIEL DORSKY SCREENING
Hermitage in association with The Arm. Hermitage is pround to present
the following films of Nathaniel Dorsky: Sarabande & Winter 16mm Color
Silent Program Running Time is 35 minutes $7 Admission 281 North 7th
Street Brooklyn NY 11211 For any questions please contact:
email suppressed
9/25
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Steina and Woody Vasulka In Person. Work, commentary and interchange
with the audience. "Studies for Brotherhood," Steina and Woody Vasulka,
1980s and 90s, video documentation of narrative experiments shown on
DVD. "Brotherhood – 6 Media Constructions," Woody Vasulka, 1990s and
ongoing, video documentation of narrative experiments shown on DVD.
Additional series programs on Sept. 11 and 18.
9/25
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia St
THE LITTLE MAN IN THE BOAT
A heartfelt documentation of the nightlife in one of San Francisco's
most beloved dive bars: Expansion Bar. With footage collected over the
last ten years of the bar's existence and including interviews with Dick
Wood, John Anderson and Gary Milliman film maker Martin Reade gives
viewers the chance to be a part of this singular establishment.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
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9/26
Albuquerque, NM: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
6 & 8 PM, Southwest Film Center - 3601 University Blvd SE
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. The 6PM
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. The 8PM program explores themes of a changing
globalized world through personal, existential journeys and includes
films from Paris, London, Winnipeg, and the U.S. This event runs
September 24-26, 2009.
9/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION +
Coming all the way from Toronto, Velcrow Ripper ('Scared Straight,'
'Bones of the Forest') unveils the new wave in spiritual activism—-the
people using their hearts and bodies to make a political difference. His
feature doc includes interviews with Bishop Desmond Tutu, environmental
activist Julia Butterfly Hill, author Alice Walker, actress Daryl
Hannah, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and dozens of others around the
world. Leaders of the alternative spiritual movement bring their voices
to the cause, acknowledging that making a better world may begin within
one's self, but it shouldn't stop there. Opening the program are two of
Velcrow's short works: the US premiere of 'Revolution of the Spirit,'
featuring Aung San Suu Kyi (currently on trial in Burma), and
'Burn'—Noam Chomsky meets Burning Man.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
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9/27
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
ERE ERERA BALEIBU ICIK SUBUA ARUAREN (1970, 75 MIN., 35MM) DIR. JOSE
ANTONIO SISTIAGA WITH A NEW SCORE COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY SAVAGE
REPUBLI
Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater, and the
San Francisco Cinematheque present ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren
(1970, 75 min., 35mm) dir. Jose Antonio Sistiaga with a new score
composed and performed by Savage Republic. 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
entirely 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 abruptly disbanded
in 1989. In recent years, they've reformed and their unique sound (akin
to a Middle Eastern surf band backed by the rhythm section from Joy
Division) is as compelling and inexorable as ever. Savage Republic --
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. Preceded
by the short film (with its own soundtrack) Impressions en Haute
Atmosphère by Jose Antonio Sistiaga (1989, 7:00, 35 mm, color, sound)
Cinefamily and Los Angeles Filmforum at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N
Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036. Sunday September 27, 2009, 7:00 pm.
General admission $13, visit www.cinefamily.org or call 323-655-2510
9/27
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2:00 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
GUSTAV DEUTSCH: FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN
Presented in association with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts --
[members: $6 / non-members: $8] ----- Gustav Deutsch, the master of
found footage, "weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images
from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction and
actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film
archives of the Kinsey Institute…, enabling him to incorporate sequences
from especially rare erotic and sex films…" Deutsch adroitly assembles a
precisely constructed, mesmerizing ebb and flow of images into
extraordinary montage sequences divided into five acts: Genesis,
Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos and Symposion," (Tribeca Film Festival). In
"FILM IST. a girl & a gun", Deutsch has mined the world's film archives
to construct a universal narrative of love, passion, war and violence.
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