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Part 1 of 2: This week [October 10 - 18, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Abnormals Gallery Opening [October 10, Berlin, Germany]
* The Image of Dorian Gray In the Yellow Press [October 10, New York, New York]
* Ticket of No Return [October 10, New York, New York]
* Freak Orlando [October 10, New York, New York]
* Live Cinema: Nate Boyce + John Davis + Softserve + [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Palinode, Diminished Frame, the Painting, Winged Dialogue, Plan of
Brussels, Still Light, Wingseed [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Ruskin, the Ground [October 10, San Francisco, California]
* Strategies of the Medium iii: In the Dark [October 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing A Live Projector Performance
By Alex Mackenzie [October 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour – Program
1 [October 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Madame X [October 11, New York, New York]
* Joan of Arc of Mongolia [October 11, New York, New York]
* Eyes Upside Down: P. Adams Sitney On Brakhage & Sonbert [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society: Dream Films 1926-1972 [October 11, Seattle, Washington]
* Ken Jacobs: Towards the Depths of the Even Greater Depression / A Nervous
Magic Lantern Performance [October 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Korean Wedding Chest [October 12, New York, New York]
* Pawel Wojtasik Program [October 12, New York, New York]
* Ticket of No Return [October 12, New York, New York]
* Luminous Triptych: Angelina Krahn, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* Luminous Triptych (Angelina Krahn, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto) [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* Short Films: Oberhausen [October 12, San Francisco, California]
* Recycled visions: the Films of Salise Hughes [October 12, Seattle, Washington]
* Eye Am: A Women Night of Film At Anthology Film Archives [October 13, New York, New York]
* It's Alive [October 13, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Dreaming Awake: How James Joyce Invented Experimental Cinema & Disguised
It As A Book [October 13, San Francisco, California]
* The Image of Dorian Gray In the Yellow Press [October 14, New York, New York]
* Freak Orlando [October 14, New York, New York]
* Impakt Festival // Accelerated Living [October 14, Utrecht, The Netherlands]
* Double Thunder Screening At Antimatter Film Festival [October 14, Victoria, British Columbia]
* Act Up Oral History Project [October 15, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Hollis Frampton: Solariumagelani [October 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* I^3 Hypermedia To Host Special Preview Screening of Sundance Winner, “We
Live In Public” [October 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* CinÉMa Abattoir - 'amour Et Terrorisme' [October 15, Monreal, Canada]
* From Frescobaldi To Pollock, From Rembrandt To Steve Reich, Poetic
Dialogue Between Images and Sound [October 15, Monreal, Canada]
* Kiwi-Pop and Spazzanimation; the Blueness (Nz) With A Set of Experimental
Animated Shorts [October 15, San Francisco, California]
* Nuevos Caminos [October 16, Valdivia, Chile]
* The Sky Taped Together [October 16, Victoria, BC, Canada]
* An Afternoon With Boris Lehman [October 17, Brussels, Belgium]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Goodtimeskid and the Whirled [October 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Other Cinema: Sam Green + Erick Lyle + Vanessa Renwick + [October 17, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Anaglyph Tom (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) By
Ken Jacobs With Jacobs In Person! [October 18, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009
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10/10
Berlin, Germany: nEgoist
http://negoist.
20:00, Linienstraße 154
ABNORMALS GALLERY OPENING
The gallery opening event will be connected with the New Nude
Photography album premiere and exhibition. The exhibition will feature
works created by members of our abnormals.org community and published in
the New Nude Photography album. The event will be accompanied by music
form "Exquisite Mussels" CD album by Aline Tissot. More Info:
www.AbnormalsGallery.com
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE IMAGE OF DORIAN GRAY IN THE YELLOW PRESS
by Ulrike Ottinger 1984, 150 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Verushka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea
Blumenschein, Irm Hermann, and Magdalena Montezuma. Dorian Gray, young,
rich, handsome, and above all narcissistic, wiles away his days
attending lectures, art exhibits, and charity dinners. His life is lived
out of the public eye until the cynical head of a media conglomerate
decides to turn him into a celebrity in an unscrupulous ploy to boost
newspaper sales. Dorian soon forgets his noble pursuits as he becomes
front-page news around the world. But can Dorian handle the power of
celebrity or will it destroy him?
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TICKET OF NO RETURN
by Ulrike Ottinger 1979, 108 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, and
Eddie Constantine. A portrait of two unusual but also extremely
different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid
mask, consciously drinks herself to death. The other is a known drinker
in town. In the course of the story they try to get to know each other,
but they cannot come together. The background is Berlin, thrown open to
a grotesque kind of sightseeing (drinkers' geography) and complemented
by authentic contributions from people who live there or are visiting –
rock singers, writers, artists, taxi drivers.
10/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FREAK ORLANDO
by Ulrike Ottinger 1981, 126 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie
Constantine. "Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this
extravaganza of performance art and oddity by Ottinger. Actually, the
political focus is closer to that of Tod Browning's FREAKS than to
Woolf's ORLANDO, though Ottinger has taken from Woolf the notion of 'an
ideal protagonist [who] represents all the social possibilities – man
and woman – which we normally do not have.' The five episodes situate
the hero/heroine in the Freak City department store (along with her
seven dwarf shoemakers), in the Middle Ages, toward the end of the
Spanish Inquisition, in a circus (where he falls in love with Delphine
Seyrig, one of a pair of Siamese twins), and on a grand European tour
with four bunnies (during which she appears at an annual festival of
ugliness)." –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
10/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
LIVE CINEMA: NATE BOYCE + JOHN DAVIS + SOFTSERVE +
MC Cyrus Tabar welcomes three live A/V acts, forging a new fusion
between real-time audio and visual performance. Boyce's new
Messiaen-based work is framed within a heuristic review of media-art
touchstones—Breer, Kren, Kubelka, Frampton, Sharits—who resonate with
his own approach to serial, systemic composition. ALSO: Channeling
natural landscapes and the Northern Californian psychedelic imagination,
filmmaker/audio artist John Davis and koto musician Maxwell August Croy
perform a collaborative sound piece to hand-processed and solarized
Super-8 film. PLUS: Erik Wilson, aka Softserve, invokes a delirious
space in which live-generated abstractions rhyme with energized audio
gestures. $7.77.
10/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
12:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
PALINODE, DIMINISHED FRAME, THE PAINTING, WINGED DIALOGUE, PLAN OF
BRUSSELS, STILL LIGHT, WINGSEED
Robert Beavers in-person -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10] -- "My Hand
Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure: The Films of
Robert Beavers" series Program III ---- "In "Palinode" a disk-shapped
matte continually shifting in and out of focus alternately blocks part
of the image or contains it. Its respiratory rhythm matches musical
fragments of Wladimir Vogel's Wagadu, as the camera studies a
middle-aged male singer in Zurich, singing, eating, window shopping,
meeting a young girl." (P. Adams Sitney); "There is a balance in
"Diminished Frame" between a sense of the past seen in the views of West
Berlin, filmed in black-and-white, and a sense of the present in which I
filmed myself showing how the color is being created by placing filters
in the camera's aperture." (Robert Beavers); "The Painting" uses masking
and rack focus techniques to disclose portions of The Martyrdom of Saint
Hippolytus, a fifteenth-century altarpiece. "Beavers gives a… rarefied
psychodramatic jolt, juxtaposing shots of Gregory Markopoulos, bisected
by shafts of light, with a torn photo of himself and the recurring image
of a shattered windowpane." (J. Hoberman); ""Winged Dialogue" details
with growing clarity the desperate beauty and sexuality of the body
animated by its soul." (Tom Chomont); "In "Plan of Brussels", Beavers
filmed himself in a hotel room… while in rapid rhythmic cutting, and
sometimes in superimposition, the phantasmagoria of people he met in
Brussels and images from the streets flood his mind." (P. Adams Sitney);
"The first half of "Still Light" explores delicate nuances of lighting,
color and depth as Beavers shoots the face of a young man in various
locales on the Greek island of Hydra… The second half was shot in the
London flat of Nigel Gosling. The two halves bring to mind any number of
structuralist binarisms: youth and age, creation and criticism, action
and reflection, living landscape and mummified text." (Ed Halter); In
"Wingseed", Beavers draws comparisons between the pastoral beauty of a
Greek hillside and that of the male form. ---- This long-awaited
presentation of Robert Beavers' film cycle is presented with the
generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Consulate General of Switzerland. For more
information visit sfcinematheque.org
10/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
RUSKIN, THE GROUND
Robert Beavers in-person -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10] -- "My Hand
Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure: The Films of
Robert Beavers" series Program IV ---- "Ruskin" foregrounds Beavers'
love of literature, architecture and landscape -- the filmmaker's hand
rests on a volume of John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice and much of the
film is shot in the environs of Venice, London and the Swiss Alps.
Elegant cinematography and innovative sound construction -- Beavers'
films are as beautiful to listen to as they are to see -- build the
foundation of this ode to an earlier era. "The Ground" uses seemingly
simple components -- the sun-baked landscape of a Greek island, the blue
waters of the Aegean Sea and images of a man chiseling stone -- to
conjure the fundamental experience of holding something close to one's
heart. A repeated close up of a man pounding his bare chest, then
gesturing with hand outstretched, lends dramatic tension to the film's
expression of devotional love. ---- This long-awaited presentation of
Robert Beavers' film cycle is presented with the generous support of the
San Francisco Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Consulate General of Switzerland. For more information visit
sfcinematheque.org
10/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
http://www.lift.on.ca/
8pm, Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the alley)
STRATEGIES OF THE MEDIUM III: IN THE DARK
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) presents
Strategies of the Medium III: In The Dark featuring a live film
performance of "the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing" by
Vancouver's Alex MacKenzie on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 8pm,
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue (down the lane). Admission is $5.00 for
LIFT members & $8.00 for non-members. Contact LIFT at 416-588-6444 or
visit www.LIFT.on.ca for more information. In this performative
screening, LIFT continues with its medium-specific programming series to
explore work produced through chemical manipulation in the lab. Alex
MacKenzie's "the wooden lightbox: a secret art of seeing" is a vivid
example of the possibilities of self-sufficient filmmaking. "the wooden
lightbox: a secret art of seeing" is an exploration and reconfiguration
of cinematic apparatus and emulsion. Using the early development of
cinema as a marker for cultural, technological and economic change,
these film cycles draw from turn of the century cinematic prototypes and
long forgotten ideas surrounding the moving image and its early promise.
At the core of this approach is the use of a homebuilt hand-cranked
projector in an expanded cinema format to present a striking array of
handmade and processed emulsion. The vast potential of the film frame is
drawn out through imagery both archaic and contemporary in shape and
form. Hypnosis, panorama, motion studies, expectation, magic, the dream
world and slight of eye conspire in this intimate and immersive
framework. Alex MacKenzie has been working as a media artist for over 15
years with a focus on various models of expanded cinema and light
projection involving the handmade image. He was the founder and curator
of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!!
Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. His live media works
are presented at festivals and underground screening spaces throughout
Europe and North America -- most recently at the Rotterdam International
Film Festival, Lightcone in Paris, the WNDX festival in Winnipeg and the
Halifax Independent Film Festival. He is currently a guest teacher at
LIFT (http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/workshopschedule.html). The "Strategies
of the Medium" series is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Since 1981 LIFT has been Canada's foremost artist-run-centre for
independent filmmakers.
10/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, CineCycle 129 Spadina Ave.
THE WOODEN LIGHTBOX: A SECRET ART OF SEEING A LIVE PROJECTOR PERFORMANCE
BY ALEX MACKENZIE
The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing is Vancouver-based artist
Alex MacKenzie's new live performance, which makes use of a hand-cranked
film projector reassembled and reconfigured from parts from a dozen old
projectors. Similarly, the performance itself is a kind of
recompilation, projecting images from old ephemeral films optically
printed onto handmade and hand-processed emulsions, creating ghostly
reminders of moving images past. The Wooden Lightbox is presented as
part of LIFT's year-round Strategies of the Medium series. "Presented
here is the first of an extended cycle of films that use the early
development of cinema as a marker for cultural, technological and
economic change. These film cycles draw from turn of the century
cinematic prototypes and long forgotten ideas surrrounding the moving
image and its early promise. At the core of this approach is the use of
a homebuilt hand-cranked projector in an expanded cinema format to
present a striking array of handmade and processed emulsion. The vast
potential of the film frame is drawn out through imagery both archaic
and contemporary in shape and form. Hypnosis, panorama, motion studies,
expectation, magic, the dreamworld and sleight of eye conspire in this
intimate and immersive framework. The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of
Seeing is performed live with a hand-cranked 16mm projector built and
assembled from various relic 16mm projector and rewind parts and framed
in a wooden box. Ten "chapters" are presented over the course of 4
reels. Film speed is varied manually by cranking more quickly or more
slowly, while direction of the action is controlled by winding forward
and backward. An average of 8 frames of 16mm can be cranked for every
second of time elapsed. Colour gels are used to tone the black and white
images while lens and hand interference are used to distort and/or
partially obscure the image. Sound consists of a series of tracks shaped
for the specific chapters and acting as guides to the progression of the
images. TWL is an ongoing work in progress, an assembly of images
entirely hand-processed and contact printed, transforming and developing
as new materials are added and deleted. Approximate screening time:
45-50 minutes." A.M.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2009
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10/11
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles CA 90026
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR – PROGRAM
1
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour –
Program 1 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 exciting show mixes new experimental, animation, and documentary
work – a great way to catch up on what is happening in film & video art!
Tonight includes Dahlia (Michael Langan, 5 min); Studies in
Transfalumination (Peter Rose, 5 min.); Passages (Marie-Josee
Saint-Pierre, 24.5 min.); Reincarnation (Takeshi Kushida, 5 min.); Six
Apartments (Reynold Reynolds, 12.5 min.); Video Terraform Dance Party
(Jeremy Bailey, 12 min.); A City to Yourself (Nicole Macdonald, 24 min.)
Note change in location! 213-484-8846. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
10/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MADAME X
by Ulrike Ottinger 1988, 147 minutes, 16mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Tabea Blumenschein and Yvonne Rainer. Madame X, a harsh,
pitiless beauty, the cruel uncrowned ruler of the China Sea, launches an
appeal to all women willing to exchange their comfortable and secure but
unbearably dull lives for a world of dangers and uncertainties, free
from rules and patriarchal tyranny. A variety of women respond to her
call, but they soon find themselves swapping one kind of servitude for
another, as Madame X demands complete devotion from her shipmates, even
the ones she is enamored with. MADAME X subverts traditional modes of
narrative cinema to create a challenging and allegorical tale of female
empowerment.
10/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOAN OF ARC OF MONGOLIA
by Ulrike Ottinger 1989, 165 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Delphine Seyrig and Irm Hermann. "[Delphine Seyrig is] a
cultivated lady anthropologist traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad,
where her companions include a renowned Yiddish tenor (Micky Katz), a
German schoolteacher (Fassbinder regular Irm Hermann), a campy all-girl
klezmer trio, and a young girl in search of adventure. When, mid-steppe,
the train is halted by Mongolian tribeswomen on ponies who kidnap the
female passengers, the journey assumes a new dimension. Visually
splendid and emotionally resonant, with knock-out musical numbers, this
is both a lesbian epic and a love story between a filmmaker and her
medium." –Leslie Camhi, VILLAGE VOICE
10/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5:00 pm, California College of the Arts -- 1111 Eighth Street (between Hooper and Irwin)
EYES UPSIDE DOWN: P. ADAMS SITNEY ON BRAKHAGE & SONBERT
P. Adams Sitney in-person -- [members: $5 / non-members: $10/ CCA
students & faculty: free] ----- Writing and lecturing on film since the
early 1960s (and presently Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center
for the Arts at Princeton University), P. Adams Sitney stands as one of
avant-garde cinema's most passionate and eloquent theorists and critics.
His "Visionary Film", published in 1974, drew deeply from fields of
poetry and literature in discussing the works of Anger, Brakhage, Deren,
Markopoulos and others. The tome remains a classic of critical insight
on the field. His latest work, "Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers
and the Heritage of Emerson", examines the continued thread of
Emersonian poetics in the American avant-garde canon and incorporates
in-depth discussions of the works of many post–Visionary Film artists,
including Abigail Child, Su Friedrich, Andrew Noren and Warren Sonbert.
Appearing in-person at Cinematheque for the first time in over a decade,
Sitney will discuss his latest book, accompanied by screenings of Stan
Brakhage's "Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde" and Warren Sonbert's
"Rude Awakening."
10/11
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY: DREAM FILMS 1926-1972
ZOE BELOFF IN ATTENDANCE CO-PRESENTED BY THIRD EYE CINEMA The Coney
Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society: Dream Films 1926-1972 The members
of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society were filled with the
desire to participate in one of the great intellectual movements of the
20th century: psychiatry. Additionally, like the Amateur Cine League
(founded the same year), many members wished to tap into the power for
self expression afforded by technologies like home movie cameras that
were newly accessible to ordinary people. This screening presents a
range of their amateur films, which reveal an incredibly brave,
unapologetic exploration of their inner lives. Starting in 1926, the
Society held annual competitions in which members recreated their dreams
on film and analyzed them. Inspired by Freud's proposition in "The
Interpretation of Dreams" that in dreams, ideas and wishes are
dramatized as "mental pictures," they decided to put theory into
practice, creating films that recorded the hopes, fears and fantasies of
a changing cross section of Coney Island through the 20th century.
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Freud's visit to Coney Island, the
program will be in three parts including a short, illustrated lecture
introducing the work of the Society, a screening of Coney Island (1917)
by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and nine award winning "Dream Films."
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009
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10/12
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
KEN JACOBS: TOWARDS THE DEPTHS OF THE EVEN GREATER DEPRESSION / A NERVOUS
MAGIC LANTERN PERFORMANCE
West Coast premiere The revered avant-garde filmmaker (Star Spangled to
Death) and "paracinema" champion has a repertory of techniques to
realize astonishing optical effects. In his live 3-D shows, Jacobs
variously manipulates a film projector's mechanisms, painted plastic
cells, and sometimes objects, to summon otherworldly abstractions with
vertiginous depth of field. "My self-constructed 'Lantern' uses neither
film nor video," he explains. "Abstraction can offer the opportunity to
meet and grapple directly with risky situations, taking real chances
instead of identifying with some actor-proxy on a movie set. The
question of what we are looking at becomes of less urgency than from
where in space we are viewing, and where and of what consistency and
shape and size is the mass confronting us at any one moment. It might be
best to think of what you and others see as a group hallucination."
Jacobs is also screening Disorient Express (1906/1996, 30 min., 35mm,
silent). In person: Ken Jacobs Curated by Steve Anker. This screening is
part of a weeklong residency by Jacobs at CalArts, UCLA and Los Angeles
Filmforum.
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KOREAN WEDDING CHEST
by Ulrike Ottinger 2009, 82 minutes, 35mm. In Korean and German with
English subtitles. NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE! "When I opened a Korean email
in fall 2007 I didn't imagine that I would soon be opening a
well-stocked miracle box, the inspiring contents of which would become a
film: THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST. Even though (or especially because) this
carefully packed, filled, and tied-up wooden chest was assembled
according to the rules of an honored tradition, it offers a remarkable
insight into and overview of modern Korean society. I was inspired to
look more closely at the old and new rituals to determine what is old in
the new and new in the old. A modern fairytale about the amazing
phenomenon of new mega cities emerging everywhere and their
contradictory societies caught in the balancing act. Bon voyage into the
present!" –Ulrike Ottinger
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAWEL WOJTASIK PROGRAM
Filmmaker in person! PIGS (2007, 12 minutes, DVCAM) A close-range look
at pigs living on a farm in Las Vegas, Nevada. THE AQUARIUM (2006, 22
minutes, HDCAM) Filmed in Alaska, THE AQUARIUM contrasts the openness of
the primeval Arctic landscape with the entrapment of captured sea
mammals in aquariums. NASCENTES MORIMUR (2009, 27 minutes, HDCAM,
silent) A film consisting of silent footage of an actual autopsy. Images
of the dissected flesh are shown emerging from the darkness. They
reference investigations into the interior of the body undertaken since
the Renaissance by artists, anatomists, and physicians. BELOW SEA LEVEL
(2009, 6 minutes, Panoramic 360° camera, HD video) This film is an
evocation of the spirit of the city of New Orleans and its surrounding
wetlands. It attempts to speak in images and sound about the continuing
plight of the place, of the human and ecological crises occurring there.
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TICKET OF NO RETURN
by Ulrike Ottinger 1979, 108 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, and
Eddie Constantine. A portrait of two unusual but also extremely
different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid
mask, consciously drinks herself to death. The other is a known drinker
in town. In the course of the story they try to get to know each other,
but they cannot come together. The background is Berlin, thrown open to
a grotesque kind of sightseeing (drinkers' geography) and complemented
by authentic contributions from people who live there or are visiting –
rock singers, writers, artists, taxi drivers.
10/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
LUMINOUS TRIPTYCH: ANGELINA KRAHN, KAREN JOHANNESEN, RICK BAHTO
Working from different aesthetic and conceptual backgrounds, the films
of these three artists share an ethos of handmade, personal cinema.
Angelina Krahn utilizes a wide palette of alternative techniques in her
films, perhaps most poignantly in Stigmata Sampler, in which she sewed
into the surface of the film to cover up and obscure images of her own
body. Karen Johannesen's masterful editing and single-framing techniques
serve to embody studies into quantum mechanics, bringing to vision in
delicate landscapes a world "teeming with billions of unrealized
possibilities". Rick Bahto's in-camera edited works use the people and
places of his everyday life as the basis of studies in movement, rhythm
and duration, creating a tension between pre-determined structures and a
freedom of improvisation. Rick Bahto in person.
10/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia St at 21st
LUMINOUS TRIPTYCH (ANGELINA KRAHN, KAREN JOHANNESEN, RICK BAHTO)
Working from different aesthetic and conceptual backgrounds, the films
of these three artists share an ethos of handmade, personal cinema.
Angelina Krahn utilizes a wide palette of alternative techniques in her
films, perhaps most poignantly in *Stigmata Sampler,* in which she sewed
into the surface of the film to cover up and obscure images of her own
body. Karen Johannesen's masterful editing and single-framing techniques
serve to embody studies into quantum mechanics, bringing to vision in
delicate landscapes a world "teeming with billions of unrealized
possibilities". Rick Bahto's in-camera edited works use the people and
places of his everyday life as the basis of studies in movement, rhythm
and duration, creating a tension between pre-determined structures and a
freedom of improvisation. Rick Bahto in person.
10/12
San Francisco, California: Goeth-Institut
6:30pm, 530 Bush Street
SHORT FILMS: OBERHAUSEN
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the
world's most respected film events. Exclusively for the Goethe-Institut
San Francisco, Lars Henrik Gass, head of the festival, will present a
few of the promoted short films. Murphy – an intense piece of Bjørn
Melhus will be shown alongside other current prize-winning short films.
Followed by Q&A with Lars Henrik Gass. n.n. DIR Michel Klöfkorn, Germany
2009, DVD, 11 min., color, English. I don't want to live like a pigeon
in your Europe. Ketamine – Behind the Light (Ketamin - Hinter dem Licht)
DIR Carsten Aschmann, Germany 2009, DVD, 21 min., color German with
English subtitles. A ride through the mountains. Sounds of chords,
beauty, art and death echo through places and elements. The journey ends
in Venice, which seems exhausted and empty. Murphy DIR Bjørn Melhus,
Germany 2008, DVD, 3'30 min., color, English. "Murphy" is a real
posttraumatic stress disorder. The Shape Of Things DIR Oliver Pietsch,
Germany 2008, DVD, 17'30 min, color + b/w, English A found-footage-film
about the portrayal of sleep, anxiety and longing in films. Please Say
Something DIR David O'Reilly, Germany 2009, DVD, 10 min, color, English.
A story about the dysfunctional relationship between a cat and a mouse
in the distant future. Fiction Follows Forms DIR Julia Oschatz, Germany
2008, DVD, 3 min., color, silent In "Fiction Follows Forms" all elements
of the painter, filmmaker and designer sink into a Beckett-like world.
Things can get a bit absurd but they will follow some sort of form in
one way or another.
10/12
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
RECYCLED VISIONS: THE FILMS OF SALISE HUGHES
CO-PRESENTED BY THIRD EYE CINEMA Recycled Visions: The Films of Salise
Hughes Visual artist Salise Hughes began experimenting with found film
footage four years ago, creating her own unique process of digitally
erasing and layering areas of the film image. Recycling is a major theme
of her work, tearing apart existing 16 mm educational, and Hollywood
genre films and rebuilding them, subverting the original material and
giving the footage new meaning. Her films have screened in festivals
around the globe including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Athens
Greece International Film Festival, L'Alternativa-Independent de
Barcelona, Seattle International Film Festival and the Ann Arbor Film
Festival were she won an award for Technical Innovation in 2006. For
this event composer Jason Staczek, and vocalists Alicia Dara and Mia
Katerine Boyle will perform their scores live. This program was made
possible by grants from Artist Trust, City of Seattle Office of Arts and
Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009
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10/13
New York, New York: Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens
http://www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com
6-8:30pm, Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave.
EYE AM: A WOMEN NIGHT OF FILM AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
******** 6:15pm Eye Am - www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com - for full
screening details including film descriptions and maker bios~
Experimental, narrative and documentary shorts made by women. Featuring
the works of Naomi White, Oriana Fox, Alana Kakoyiannis, Akosua Adoma
Owusu, Naiti Gamez & Kim Hall. *Curated by Victoria Kereszi ********
7:15pm (including Q&A with Filmmakers) "Chaos/Peace" The work in this
bill explores the various ways we process the chaos within that can stem
from personal relationships, societal pressure and global concerns with
different approaches ranging from the conceptual to the completely
absurd. Artists include: Marianna Ellenberg, Hyung Sung, Liz Haley,
Julie Perini, Cat Tyc, Victoria Fu, Virginia Valdes & Kitty Green.
*Curated by Cat Tyc
10/13
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College
IT’S ALIVE
It's Alive (1974, 91min.) by LARRY COHEN "The screen's first monster
baby seemed a bit shocking even after The Exorcist. It was Larry Cohen's
biggest hit and benefits from Bernard Herrmann's score and Rick Bakers
horrible fanged mutant infant. The baby doesn't waste any time
slaughtering the doctors and nurses in the delivery room. Later it
attacks a milk truck."- Michael Weldon, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of
Film
10/13
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Delancey Street Screening Room -- 600 Embarcadero Street (at Brannan)
DREAMING AWAKE: HOW JAMES JOYCE INVENTED EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA & DISGUISED
IT AS A BOOK
Curated and presented by Gerry Fialka. Presented in association with
Litquake -- [members: $10 / non-members: $15] ----- Paramedia-ecologist
Gerry Fialka's challenging interactive workshop probes how Joyce's 1939
meta-narrative book/epic collage Finnegans Wake (and Marshall McLuhan's
Menippean satirized translation) presaged experimental and political
activist cinema. How did the Wake influence Hollis Frampton, Owen Land,
John Cage and Peter Greenaway? How and why does the Wake tell the
history of everything that ever happened and will happen? Why did Joyce
hang out with the Masons and reveal their secrets? Why did the British
secret police study the Wake? How did the Wake invent MK-ULTRA, the
CIA's mind control program? How does the Wake write a detailed history
of the future? How and why did Joyce anticipate the
Facebook-Google-Wiki-Twitter-YouTube-blogospheric swirl and whatever
comes after the Internet? Harry Smith, who claimed Italian philosopher
Giordano Bruno invented cinema, stated that the function of film viewing
is to put people to sleep -- dreaming awake. Presentation includes
ultra-rare film clips from Mary Ellen Bute's "Passages from Finnegans
Wake" and Hollis Frampton's "Gloria!" Re-Joyce interconnecting
Finneganese "funny funereels," "allnights newseryreel," "they leap
looply, looply, as they link to light,"
"cellelleneteutoslavzendlatinsoundscript" and a "riot of blots and blurs
and bars and balls and hoops and wriggles and juxtaposed jottings linked
by spurts of speed." Fun for all at Finnegans Wake.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009
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10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE IMAGE OF DORIAN GRAY IN THE YELLOW PRESS
by Ulrike Ottinger 1984, 150 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Verushka von Lehndorff, Delphine Seyrig, Tabea
Blumenschein, Irm Hermann, and Magdalena Montezuma. Dorian Gray, young,
rich, handsome, and above all narcissistic, wiles away his days
attending lectures, art exhibits, and charity dinners. His life is lived
out of the public eye until the cynical head of a media conglomerate
decides to turn him into a celebrity in an unscrupulous ploy to boost
newspaper sales. Dorian soon forgets his noble pursuits as he becomes
front-page news around the world. But can Dorian handle the power of
celebrity or will it destroy him?
10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FREAK ORLANDO
by Ulrike Ottinger 1981, 126 minutes, 35mm. In German with English
subtitles. With Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie
Constantine. "Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this
extravaganza of performance art and oddity by Ottinger. Actually, the
political focus is closer to that of Tod Browning's FREAKS than to
Woolf's ORLANDO, though Ottinger has taken from Woolf the notion of 'an
ideal protagonist [who] represents all the social possibilities – man
and woman – which we normally do not have.' The five episodes situate
the hero/heroine in the Freak City department store (along with her
seven dwarf shoemakers), in the Middle Ages, toward the end of the
Spanish Inquisition, in a circus (where he falls in love with Delphine
Seyrig, one of a pair of Siamese twins), and on a grand European tour
with four bunnies (during which she appears at an annual festival of
ugliness)." –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER
10/14
Utrecht, The Netherlands: Impakt Festival
http://www.impakt.nl/
18:00, various lacations
IMPAKT FESTIVAL // ACCELERATED LIVING
Hi all, Just a small note to say that we've done a program for the
Impakt Festival, which will take place from October 14 till 18 in
Utrecht (Netherlands). The program draws on this year's central theme -
"accelerated living" - and explores notions of time and speed. We'll be
screening works by Gary Beydler, Bruce Conner, Ivan Ladislav Galeta,
Chris Garrat, Dryden Goodwin, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jean–François
Guiton, Gerard Holthuis, Philip Hoffman, Peter Hutton, Ken Jacobs, Jim
Jennings, Kurt Kren, Malcolm Le Grice, Mark Lewis, Jeanne Liotta, Rose
Lowder, Gordon Matta-Clark, Pavel Medvedev, Marie Menken, Dietmar
Offenhuber, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, Yo Ota, D.A. Pennebaker, Ilppo
Pohjola, Michel Pavlou, Artavazd Pelechian, Norbert Pfaffenbichler,
William Raban, Joost Rekveld, Nicolas Rey, Emily Richardson, Guy
Sherwin, Morten Skallerud, Michael Snow, Stom Sogo, Scott Stark, Makino
Takashi, Leslie Thornton, Andrei Ujica, Chris Welsby, Joyce Wieland,
Fred Worden and Iván Zulueta Furthermore there will be performances by
Guy Sherwin, Dirk de Bruyn + Joel Stern, Bruce McClure, Thomas Köner,
Arnold Dreyblatt Ensemble, Thomas Brinkmann, Oren Ambarchi & Robbie
Avenaim, Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson & Bruno Martinez (performing
Eliane Radigue's Naldjorlak I, II, III), and a bunch of other people.
There will also be an exhibition (with works by Julieta Aranda, Jonas
Dahlberg, Vadim Fishkin, Glenn Kaino, Guy Sherwin, Thomson & Craighead
and Guido van der Werve) and a conference dedicated to the theme.
Besides that, there's of course the traditional selection of recent film
and video work, compiled by Impakt. You can find a preview of the
program on www.diagonalthoughts.com. The full program will soon be
online on www.impakt.nl. If you happen to be in the neighbourhood,
please come and join us. looking forward! cheerio, Stoffel Debuysere &
Maria Palacios Cruz
10/14
Victoria, British Columbia: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
7 PM, Open Space Arts Center, 510 Fort St
DOUBLE THUNDER SCREENING AT ANTIMATTER FILM FESTIVAL
San Antonio based video art duo Potter-Belmar Labs will have their
latest short, Double Thunder, showing at the Antimatter Film Festival
this year. The Festival starts on October 9; PBL's short will be
screened on Oct 14 at 7 PM. Don't miss it!
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
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10/15
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Art Museum
http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/actup
6-9pm, 24 Quincy Street
ACT UP ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
The ACT UP Oral History Project will be presented in its entirety in an
exhibit at the Carpenter Center for the Arts at Harvard University. The
exhibit will open on October 15th and run through December 23rd. The 102
interviews conducted by the ACT UP Oral History Project will be
presented on 14 monitors continuously from 10 in the morning until 11 at
night. Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman will speak at the opening. For
more information on the exhibit, go to
www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/ACTUP.html
10/15
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
HOLLIS FRAMPTON: SOLARIUMAGELANI
Frampton scholar Bruce Jenkins in person! Filmmaker, photographer, and
theorist Hollis Frampton (1936–84) is a major figure in the American
avant-garde. Ambitious in scope, his films wittily engage with
philosophy, mathematics, and science. CATE presents a rare screening of
three exquisite yet lesser-known works from 1974: Summer Solstice,
Autumnal Equinox, and Winter Solstice. Part of Magellan, Frampton's
unfinished epic film cycle intended to screen over 369 days, these works
take on the primordial rhythms and energies of life and death within a
pasture, slaughterhouse, and steel mill. Introduced by SAIC professor
and Frampton scholar Bruce Jenkins and followed by a book signing of
Jenkins's On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of
Hollis Frampton (MIT Press, 2009). This program is part of "Critical
Mass: Re-Viewing Hollis Frampton," a multi-institutional retrospective
through January 2010. Visit www.saic.edu/cateblog. 1974, USA, 16mm, ca.
95 min.
10/15
Chicago, Illinois: i^3 hypermedia.com
http://www.i3hypermedia.com
7:30pm, 11 West Illinois Street 4th Floor
I^3 HYPERMEDIA TO HOST SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING OF SUNDANCE WINNER, “WE
LIVE IN PUBLIC”
*October 15th @ 7:30. Intimate Talkback with Director Ondi Timoner to
Follow* Prior to its official opening at the Music Box on October 16th,
i^3 hypermedia will host a very special promotional screening of
Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner (US Documentary), "We Live in Public",
the story of early internet pioneer and grand-scale social engineering
experimenter, Josh Harris. Renowned filmmaker Ondi Timoner (and possibly
documentary subject Josh Harris) will be present for an intimate
talk-back and discussion immediately following the screening. This
portion will stream live @ http://www.i3hypermedia.com. The internet
audience is encouraged to participate in the discussion. Synopsis: Ten
years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN
PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen
through the eyes of "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard
of", artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director
Ondi Timoner (DIG! – which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in
2004 – making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award
twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a
riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world
inevitably takes control of our lives. Harris, often called the "Warhol
of the Web", founded Psuedo.com, the first internet television network
during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and
funded the ground breaking project "Quiet" in an underground bunker in
NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the
turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade
our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but
with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook, and
Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a
six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic
surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the
price we pay for living in public. (source:
http://weliveinpublicthemovie.com) Completed in 2009, the film is
already part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMa), New York. Advance tickets are now on sale for only $5 at
http://i3hypermedia.com. Admission at the door will be $7. Doors open at
7:00 for the 7:30 PM screening. Location: 11 W. Illinois, 4th Floor
(Grand Red Line). BYOB welcome. i^3 hypermedia is a progressive
production/post-production studio and interstitial art venue know for
innovative filmmaking techniques and experimental live-streaming events.
http://i3hypermedia.com. i^3 will also be streaming live video from the
official opening party at the Music Box on October 16th.
10/15
Monreal, Canada: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
http://www.nouveaucinema.ca
11pm, Agora du Coeur des Sciences de l'UQÀM, 175 President-Kennedy
CINÉMA ABATTOIR - 'AMOUR ET TERRORISME'
Performance tryptic on 15mm and super 8, with experimental electronic
music. Karl Lemieux & Hyena Hive_________Influx Lasn_______
Artisanat_______ Dark Xenakiss and more.
10/15
Monreal, Canada: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
http://www.nouveaucinema.ca
9pm, Agora du Coeur des Sciences de l'UQÀM, 175 President-Kennedy
FROM FRESCOBALDI TO POLLOCK, FROM REMBRANDT TO STEVE REICH, POETIC
DIALOGUE BETWEEN IMAGES AND SOUND
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLLARD-NEVEN (Belgium), piano -
http://www.collardneven.com --------- JEAN DETHEUX, video-artist -
http://www.vudici.net
 ------------------ A painter-filmmaker and
a pianist who (re)discovered each other and (re)connnected somewhere
beyond time and space and who very much look forward to the unexpected
possibilities of their visual and sonic interplay. You will have the
chance to hear a wide range of music, from Frescobaldi, Dowland, and
Couperin to the more contemporary Jean-Luc Fafchamps, John Adams, Steve
Reich, Maurice Ravel, Claude Ledoux and Collard-Neven himself. There
will be free improvisation, music that yet doesn't exist but is however
there, somewhere, as a 'possibility' of music.
10/15
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia St at 21st
KIWI-POP AND SPAZZANIMATION; THE BLUENESS (NZ) WITH A SET OF EXPERIMENTAL
ANIMATED SHORTS
Direct from New Zealand, The Blueness is a shoegazing, distorted pop
band that smudges notes and chords together into an unrecognizable soup
of sonic awesomeness. Accompanied by custom-made psychedelic popadelic
animation backdrops, The Blueness bring fuzzy pop delight to your eyes
and ears. In addition, animations by young luminaries from California
and beyond, including Kate Hoffman's intimate macro-lens puppetry, and
Robert Becraft's 16mm serial killer/cargo cult/The Wipers inspired
stop-motion. http://www.theblueness.com/
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