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This week [September 26 - October 4, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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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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FRESH: ABSTRACTIONS (Bangkok, Thailand; Deadline: November 07, 2009)
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Poetry Projections III: On Correspondence (Toronto, ON Canada; Deadline: October 05, 2009)
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The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: November 21, 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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Images Festival (Toronto CANADA; Deadline: October 30, 2009)
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Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival (Smithfield, NC, USA; Deadline: October 12, 2009)
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Brief Eternity: Bay Area Student Film Festival 2009 [September 29, Berkeley, California]
* Close Up [September 29, Brooklyn, New York]
* Locative Enigma—Frameshape of Hard Mettles—A Personal Problem/ Projection
Performances By Bruce Mcclure [September 29, Los Angeles, California]
* The Fallen Idol [September 29, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Of Heaven & Earth: the Films of Tom Chomont [September 29, San Francisco, California]
* Early Monthly Segments #7 [September 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Daniel Cockburn - Zerofunctional video Work [September 30, Berlin, Germany]
* Nightsoil Premiere Screening [September 30, San Francisco, California]
* Vision In Motion: Filmmaking At the Institute of Design, 1944–70, Program
1 & Roundtable [October 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Vision In Motion: Filmmaking At the Institute of Design, 1944–70, Program
2 [October 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Program 2 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 3 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 4 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Program 5 [October 3, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Barry Jenkins’ Shorts + Medicine For Melancholy [October 3, San Francisco, California]
* Touching the Sky [October 4, Brussels, Belgium]
* Program 7 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 8 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 9 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 10 [October 4, New York, New York]
* Program 11 [October 4, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
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9/29
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
7:30pm, 2575 Bancroft Way
BRIEF ETERNITY: BAY AREA STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2009
These kaleidoscopic visions refracted through the media of film and
video reflect the way a new generation of college students views the
world in 2009. Richie, ELRO, and Guntheearf construct malfunctioning
realms, at times playful, at times subversive, while Juncture's
top-hatted hero traverses an unsteady digital universe. Bonanza, I
Cannot Remember My Mother, and Cotton Sugar burrow through landscapes,
revivifying the past through the tactile possibilities of the filmstrip.
Tomato displaces human actions onto a vegetable, while an artist
reconfigures contemporary social issues through collage in You Have to
Understand This Hurts Us Too. The commercialization of color in Color
Film contrasts with the abstract poem and painting in Blue Green Yellow
White Red Gray. The act of creation is further explored in L'autre
côté's ghostlike sketches of the Bay, the rhythmically repeating
emulsion-carved figures of Stimulate, and the gloriously mortal light of
If We Could Only Die Twice. Through their use of light and darkness,
color and black-and-white, abstract and concrete visions, these diverse
works create a brief eternity of fading images and embryonic ones not
yet fully formed. —Andrew Eitelberg, Robin Cabe. Please note: The
multimedia slideshow Artificial Rocks will be presented in the theater
preceding the screening; doors open at 7:10 p.m.
9/29
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 220 36th Street
CLOSE UP
Peter Gidal, 16mm, 1983, 70 mins "After three years this film attempts
yet again to deal with the problematising of filmic representation in
sound and image: the overt politically-polemical soundtrack from
Nicaragua must not synchronise with nor must it find an entirely
separable continuum of reality away from the image sequences. Without
avoiding the interrogation of narrative/anti-narrative cinematic
structures (the way the images and the sounds at times hold/do not hold,
or the way they attempt to force a position contradictory to any
(imaginary) represented homogeneity of constructed space, time, ego,
language, film) an attempted materialist use of sound and image must at
the same time be an anti-individualist work. Subjectivities of sound and
image, sometimes producing contradiction (between the two, and within
each) must be in constant process with/against the political polemic(s):
the film can not allow for a final exclusion of either. What is intended
is neither some pure formal dialectic. The viewer's attempts via
her/his/the cultural context of meaning making
(political/sexual/narrative) are worked against by this film's process
(or should be). The work against the capitalist patriarchal position of
narrative, in other words, is (still, and in specificity) the main
interest." - Peter Gidal
9/29
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
LOCATIVE ENIGMA—FRAMESHAPE OF HARD METTLES—A PERSONAL PROBLEM/ PROJECTION
PERFORMANCES BY BRUCE MCCLURE
Alpert Award-winning film projection artist Bruce McClure has performed
extensively in cinematheques, festivals and museums in the United States
and abroad, including recent dates with Throbbing Gristle in New York
and Chicago. "Looking down from the scaffold renders circumstances
unfamiliar; perspective is held in suspension as flattened repetition of
identical units proceeds with no horizon in sight," he says of his
mercurial performances. "In an instant, the gate is activated, clearing
the way for a measured whoosh forestalled by a tautening rope. During
that interval, seemingly eternal scenes flash before one's eyes, cut
short by a final whack and bounce of light. The assembly, shrouded by
the staging and the loop, is seized by duration as it simultaneously
approaches and recedes. Gallows humor is a grim simile for a projection
performance, and if this is a joke then where is the punch line? Answer:
There is never enough time before an execution." In person: Bruce
McClure Curated by Steve Anker.
9/29
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
THE FALLEN IDOL
The Fallen Idol (1948, 95 min.) by CAROL REED. Written by Graham Greene
from his short story "The Basement Room" (the writer's personal favorite
of all his adaptations), marked Greene's first collaboration with
director Reed. "A superior psychological drama [to The Third Man]… As
the eponymous idol, Ralph Richardson is quietly splendid. His
buttoned-up butler is an amiable fabulist, roguish yet decent,
understated but passionate. The yearning with which he regards the
radiant Morgan fuels the movie."
– (J. Hoberman, The Village
Voice) "One of the most brilliant demonstrations of point of view
filmmaking… reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at
its peak."– Andrew Sarris, The New York Observer
9/29
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, San Francisco Art Institute -- 800 Chestnut (between Jones and Leavenworth)
OF HEAVEN & EARTH: THE FILMS OF TOM CHOMONT
Curated and presented by Kyle Stephan. Presented in association with
Frameline and the SFAI Filmmaking Department with thanks to Tom Chomont,
Outfest Legacy Project for LBGT Film Preservation, the National Film
Preservation Foundation and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. --
[members: $5 / non-members: $10/ SFAI students & faculty: free] -----
Since 1961, Tom Chomont -- avant-garde master, New York provocateur,
leather fetishist, HIV survivor -- has created over sixty experimental
films that capture the beauty of everyday encounters and illuminate the
transcendental possibilities of the physical world. While his early
impressionistic film portraits of friends and lovers evoke the erotic
lyricism and trance-like rhythms of early Kenneth Anger and Gregory
Markopoulos, his later videos, raw and hard-edged, use similar montage
techniques to mine darker territories of ritual and sadomasochism. These
meditative and formally innovative films are at once intimate and
intense, otherworldly memory poems of a daring and examined life. This
survey of Chomont's pioneering aesthetic includes nine newly restored
early 16mm films created between 1967 and 1971 -- Jabbok, Mirror Garden,
Phases of the Moon: The Parapsychology of Everyday Life, Epilogue/Siam,
Oblivion, Ophelia/The Cat Lady and Love Objects -- and a selection of
later film and video work, including The Heavens/Earth, Razor Head,
Slash Portrait for Clark, Sadistic Self Portrait and [Self] [Portrait]
(with Mike Hoolboom). ----- The restoration of Chomont's films by the
Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation (a collaboration
between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive) was funded in
part by the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters
Grant.
9/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #7
Marlon Riggs + Warren Sonbert + Nikolai Ursin Made by Marlon Riggs in
1989, Tongues Untied has lost none of its power since its original
release 20 years ago. Immediately reviled and repudiated by white
fundamentalists and black activists alike and more or less rejected by
the broadcasters for whom it was made, the film has nonetheless become a
milestone in independent cinema. As uncompromising in form as it is in
content, Tongues Untied combines dance, poetry, performance, interviews
and historical reenactment in its exploration of how it is to be both
black and gay. While the film's enduring beauty is the result of Riggs'
intelligence in the handling of his medium, its continuing political
relevance is a sad testament to the intransigence of both racism and
homophobia, even in these supposedly more progressive times. Sadly,
Riggs succumbed to AIDS in 1994 but not before delivering a body of work
that, in his own words "delivers a frank, uncensored, uncompromising
articulation of an autonomously defined self and social identity."
PROGRAMME: Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, 1989, 16mm, colour/B&W, sound,
55 minutes Short Fuse, Warren Sonbert, 1992, 16mm, colour, sound, 32
minutes Behind Every Good Man, Nikolai Ursin, 1965, 16mm, B&W, sound, 8
minutes Tuesday 29 September 2009, 8:00 pm screening @ the Art Bar,
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West NEXT: #8 = Tues 10/20/09 = Brent
Coughenour's "I PITY THE FOOL" Super8 [finished on video] feature film
IN PERSON from Milwaukee ! ABOUT: Early Monthly Segments is a new
monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is
inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that
film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this
series will feature historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a
salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto, Canada. In this
relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to
encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening
dialogue. Thanks to everyone at The Gladstone Hotel, CFMDC, Frameline,
New York Filmmakers Cooperative, and the artists who make the works we
show! For more info, or to join our email list, email
earlymonthlysegments (@) gmail.com http://www.earlymonthlysegments.org
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
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9/30
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
9pm, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
DANIEL COCKBURN - ZEROFUNCTIONAL VIDEO WORK
Directors Lounge presents Canadian artist Daniel Cockburn, a current
fellow at DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Daniel Cockburn often appears
in his own films and also is the author of his screenplays. He is not
playing himself, but he enacts the main character of his script. "I am
interested in this blank face without emotions. It becomes a projection
surface for anything that happens in the film, like the Kuleshov
Effect". º°¨¨°º His films seem to exist in-between genres. Some of the
emotional settings in his films possibly recall psychological mind-sets
of science fiction novels of authors like Stanislaw Lem, without having
any of the stage designs of Sci-fi films. They do not play in "future
times"; however, they envision for example loops of recurring scenes as
a maze without exit, or the editing of a film as something the
protagonist of the film becomes aware of. º°¨¨°º Another strategy of the
filmmaker is appropriation. That is most visible in films made of "found
footage"; but also in his camera films, he "steals" ideas from other
texts, films or music. It thus may lead to interesting interpretations
that in his latest project, "You Are Here" – a feature film that is
starring actors and uses stage design again – finding and archiving
material play a big role in the narration. A story that again imparts
some claustrophobic suspense along with scepticism towards simple
narratives. º°¨¨°º A further border crossing may be Daniel's involvement
with performance art. Here, his interest in direct relations between
written text, body and voice become even more apparent. º°¨¨°º On Sept.
30, Daniel Cockburn will present at Z-Bar the short films in which he
took more liberty and a thus more experimental stance than in some of
his other films. And we will see one episode of his upcoming feature
"You Are Here" as a preview. The filmmaker will be present at the
screening for introduction and Q&A after the show. º°¨¨°º (Klaus W.
Eisenlohr) º°¨¨°º More infos and details at:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesCockburn.html º°¨¨°º
http://directorsloungeblog.tumblr.com/post/196882327/cockburn º°¨¨°º
Artist's Links: º°¨¨°º http://zerofunction.com/
9/30
San Francisco, California: The Exploratorium
http://www.thadpovey.com/odc.html
7:30 pm, 3601 Lyon Street
NIGHTSOIL PREMIERE SCREENING
Please join us for a special premiere screening of Nightsoil by the
Overdub Club (Alfonso Alvarez, Thad Povey, and Lucio Menegon). The 75
minute program will be followed by a reception. The piece is a layered
and evocative display of humanity's ability to create both beauty and
destruction, whose title echoes the archeologist investigating abandoned
human latrines. Coming at a dramatic time in America's history and
created in the spirit of this zeitgeist, Nightsoil calls out with an
appeal to "think what you're doing" before choosing violence as a
solution to humanity's problems. Also on the program: Something in the
Air (Alfonso Alvarez), Uso Justo (Scott Miller), La vie d'un chien (John
Harden, music Lucio Menegon), Utopia (Sam Green), and Martyr (Thad
Povey, music Mark Growden).
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2009
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10/1
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
VISION IN MOTION: FILMMAKING AT THE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, 1944–70, PROGRAM
1 & ROUNDTABLE
Guests in person! "The illiterates of the future," the pioneering
Hungarian artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy once famously
proclaimed, "will be ignorant of the camera and pen alike." Founded in
Chicago in 1937 and modeled after the German Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy's
groundbreaking Institute of Design [ID], now part of the Illinois
Institute of Technology, was one of the first American schools to
develop an art-film program. Its influence on photography, art, and
design was unparalleled at the time and still resonates today. This
two-evening program brings together a remarkable collection of
experimental, documentary, and design-focused films by ID faculty and
students, dating from the school's beginnings through 1970. Tonight's
program features films by László Moholy-Nagy, Nathan Lerner, Robert
Stiegler, Larry Janiak, and Wayne Boyer and a roundtable with Hattula
Moholy-Nagy, scholar and daughter of Moholy-Nagy; Elizabeth Siegel,
Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago; and
Wayne Boyer, filmmaker and Professor Emeritus at the University of
Illinois-Chicago. Presented in conjunction with the Chicago History
Museum, "Vision in Motion" is part of the "Learning Modern" exhibition
at SAIC Sullivan Galleries and a program of Living Modern Chicago, a
collaboration of SAIC and the Mies van der Rohe Society/Illinois
Institute of Technology. Visit www.livingmodernchicago.org. 1944–70,
various artists, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 min.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009
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10/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
VISION IN MOTION: FILMMAKING AT THE INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, 1944–70, PROGRAM
2
Artists in person! "The illiterates of the future," the pioneering
Hungarian artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy once famously
proclaimed, "will be ignorant of the camera and pen alike." Founded in
Chicago in 1937 and modeled after the German Bauhaus, Moholy-Nagy's
groundbreaking Institute of Design [ID], now part of the Illinois
Institute of Technology, was one of the first American schools to
develop an art-film program. Its influence on photography, art, and
design was unparalleled at the time and still resonates today. This
two-evening program brings together a remarkable collection of
experimental, documentary, and design-focused films by ID faculty and
students, dating from the school's beginnings through 1970. Tonight's
program includes films by Boris Yakovleff, Kenneth Josephson, Yasuhiro
Ishimoto and Marvin Newman, Millie Goldsholl, and Robert Frerck, among
others. Presented in conjunction with the Chicago History Museum,
"Vision in Motion" is part of the "Learning Modern" exhibition at SAIC
Sullivan Galleries and a program of Living Modern Chicago, a
collaboration of SAIC and the Mies van der Rohe Society/Illinois
Institute of Technology. Visit www.livingmodernchicago.org. 1950–68,
various artists, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 min.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009
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10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 2
Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis, USA, 2009, 1m); Scene 32 (Shambhavi
Kaul, USA/India, 2009, 4m); What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (Erin
Espelie, USA, 2009, 7m) ; Night Side (Rebecca Myers, USA, 2009, 4.28m);
Dwarfs the Sea (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2007, 5m); Journal and Remarks
(David Gatten, USA, 2009, 15m); A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong
Weersethakul, Thailand, 2009, 16m) ; ((((( ))))) (Leslie Thornton, USA,
2009, 9m); Kempinski (Neil Beloufa,Algeria/Mali/France, 2007, 14m);
Trypps #6 (Malobi) (Ben Russell, USA/Suriname, 2008, 12m); I Know Where
I'm Going (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2009, 30m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 3
A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009): Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966,
4m); Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15m); Kristallnacht (1979, 7m); Loose Ends
(1979, 25min); Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
5pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 4
Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier, Netherlands/UK, 2008, 10m); Riff (Lis Rhodes,
U.K., 2004, 18m); O'er the Land (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2009, 52m).
10/3
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
9:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 5
Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow, Canada/Italy, 2009, 9.40m) Bethlehem
(Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 2009, 8m,); My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, USA,
Spain 2009, 4m); If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson, USA, 2009,12m);
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2009, 6:30m); excerpt from
THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2009, 19m); Still
Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon, USA, 2009, 15m).
10/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: BARRY JENKINS’ SHORTS + MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY
The Bay Area is lucky to be the new home of Mr. Jenkins, after an
underwhelming stint in heartless Hollywood. Nominated for three
Independent Spirit Awards, the prolific Jenkins will personally premiere
six shorts (Little Brown Boy, My Josephine, Bruce, A Young Couple, One
Shot Film, and Tall Enough) before unspooling his much-lauded first
feature, Medicine. In muted tones, this compelling love story of
strolls, bikes, and one-night stands is told through the eyes of two
African-American twenty-somethings. With San Francisco having the
smallest proportional Black population of any other major American city,
their poignant drift navigates ethnic identity by illustrating how
gentrification makes it virtually impossible for urban minorities to
just "be."
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2009
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10/4
Brussels, Belgium: Wiels / Atelier Graphoui
www.wiels.org
10:00 - 18:00, Wiels, Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
TOUCHING THE SKY
A programme of animation films and videos for children (0-99 yrs old) on
the theme of the sky which brings together works by artists and by
children themselves. With : Simon Faithfull, Oskar Fischinger, Damian
Gascoigne, Stephen Gray, Stuart Hilton, Jeanne Liotta, Len Lye, Carolina
Melis & Susanne Flender, David O'Reilly, Hiraki Sawa And works from
animation workshops by Joanna Lorho, Eric Dederen, Atelier Graphoui,
Kidscam and Caméra Etc. The videos will run continuously between 10h and
18h (spread throughout the Wiels building), and there will be screening
of 16mm works at 15h. Programme : Maria Palacios Cruz and Frédérique
Versaen
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
12:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 7
Three Ravens (Bobby Abate, USA, 2009,10m); My Way 1 (Amie Siegel, USA,
2009, 9.25m) ; I Miss (Annie Dorsen, USA, 2009, 7m); (If I Can Sing a
Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child, USA, 2009, 5m); The Inversion,
transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2008,
11m); non-Aryan (Abraham Ravett, USA, 2009, 10m); Faces by a Person
Unknown/I volti dell'Anonimo (Paolo Gioli Italy, 2009, 10.38m); Vineland
(Laura Kraning, USA, 2009, 10m); The Diamond (Descartes' Daughter (Emily
Wardill, U.K., 2008, 10.23m); Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet &
Matthias Müller, Germany, 2009,10m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
3pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 8
The Last Happy Day (Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 38m); Nothing is Over
Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008, 17m); The Exception and the Rule
(Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, U.K./India/Pakistan, 37m, color/b&w, sound).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
5:30pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 9
Holy Woods (Cécile Fontaine France 2008 8m.); Sahara Mosaic (Fern Silva,
USA, 2009,10m) ; Way fare (Sylvia Shedelbauer, Germany, 2009, 10m);
Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa,Thailand,Japan, 2009, 2.5m); Chromatic
Frenzy (in Chromavision 3-D) (Kerry Laitala, USA, 2009, 6m) ; Vibration
(Jack Bond & Jane Arden, U.K., 1974, 36m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
7:45pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 10
Postcard #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber, USA, 2009, 3m); Sphinx on the
Seine (Paul Clipson, USA, 2008, 9m,); Piensa En Mí (Alexandra Cuestra,
USA/Ecuador, 2009,15.06m); Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn,U.K., 2008, 7m); H(i)J
(Guillaume Cailleau, Germany, 2009, 6m); The Universe (Barry Gerson,
USA, 2009, 7m); Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier, USA, 2009, 4.40m);
Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2009, 39m).
10/4
New York, New York: Views from the Avant Garde (NY Film Festival)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/
9:45pm, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St.
PROGRAM 11
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito, Canada, 2009, 10m);
Parallax (Christopher Becks, Canada/France/Yemen/Bangaladesh, 2009,
6.40m); Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark, USA, 2009, 6m); Physical
Changes (David Dinnell, USA, 2009, 36m); Wound Footage (Thorsten
Fleisch, Germany, 2009, 6m); Cong In Our Gregational Pom-Poms (Bruce
McClure, USA, 2009, 20m performance for three 16mm projectors).
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