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Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 09:40:48 PDT
Part 2 of 2: This week [October 10 - 18, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
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10/16
Valdivia, Chile: Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia
http://www.ficv.cl
3pm, Lord Cochrane
NUEVOS CAMINOS
Speechless (Scott Stark, 2008, 13 mins.). Fotografías 3D de vulvas
humanas animadas y entretejidas con superficies y texturas de entornos
naturales y artificiales. Las imágenes de genitales fueron tomadas de
discos 3D ViewMaster que acompañan el libro The Clitoris, publicado en
1976 por dos profesionales médicos. Material sexual explícito; se
aconseja discreción. Origin Of The Species (Ben Rivers, 2008, 16 mins.).
S, un hombre de 75 años obsesionado por la obra de Darwin, vive en un
remoto rincón de Inverness-shire. Desde niño, se ha preguntado sobre la
vida en la tierra y, aunque nunca fue un académico, encontró en Darwin
muchas de las respuestas a sus cuestionantes. La misteriosa geografía de
su mundo: su jardín, sus invenciones y el aislado pedazo de tierra donde
construyó su casa después de una vida de trabajo alrededor del mundo, es
el escenario para su postura frente a la vida en la tierra y el lugar de
la humanidad en ella. California Company Town (Lee Anne Schmitt, 2008,
76 mins.). Una mirada sagaz a los parajes de los pueblos fantasma de
California, abandonados por las industrias que los crearon: otrora
bullentes, ahora los pena el ocaso de la promesa americana. La historia
siempre se ha plasmado en la tierra, un proceso que es notable en
California, un estado cuya geografía ha sido fisurada para servir
intereses privados y públicos específicos.
10/16
Victoria, BC, Canada: Antimatter Film Festival
http://www.antimatter.ws
9pm, at Open Space
THE SKY TAPED TOGETHER
Formal collisions and fragmentation of source material forge new
connections between analogue and digital. Shiny Things: Salise Hughes |
DV | 2007 | USA | 5:30 | Can Premiere A bank heist and a jazz band
backed by a singer made of sky perform a torch version of Neil Young's
"Heart of Gold." When Worlds Collude: Fred Worden | DV | 2008 | USA |
13:00 | Can Premiere An experimental film structured as a kind of
specialised playground in which representational images are freed from
their duties to refer to things outside of themselves. The images run
free in their new lightness, making promiscuous connections with each
other and developing an inexplicable, non-parsable plot line that runs
along with all the urgency of any good thriller. When worlds collude,
something outside of description is always just about to happen. The Sky
Taped Together: Michael Sirianni | DV | 2009 | USA | 7:00 | Can Premiere
This video explores the cycle of environmental and cinematic
appropriation of the West. Composed of images digitally transferred from
a VHS recording of the movie How the West Was Won, remnants of each
technological generation come together to give the once fragmented sky a
chance to stage its own act of re-appropriation. Lezzieflick: Nana
Swiczinsky | DV | 2008 | Austria | 7:00 | Can Premiere A deconstructive
remix of stereotypical representations of lesbian sex in hetero porn.
The body forms become fluid, continually changing, and the women no
longer appear to be available as the passive object of voyeuristic
desire. The content of the image as well as the usual position of the
subject are shifted. The material of the film appears to dissolve in
satisfaction. Is there such a thing as beautiful "hardcore" camera work?
Wound Footage: Thorsten Fleisch | DV | 2009 | Germany | 6:00 | Can
Premiere Source material is a found Super 8 film. The visual carrier was
attacked in a multitude of ways…scratched, cut open and violated. I
captured an attempt to screen it. There it burned and was destroyed by
the projector. With the video footage I provoked the encoding. As a
result some pixels were dislocated. In the end I re-shot the film from
the monitor while mangling the cables that connect the monitor to my
computer. While seeming negative and destructive, the goal was almost
humanist, the unification of the digital with the analogue world. They
seem too far apart, yet they aren't. By exposing every material's
weakness and injuries, it was made one. It's all visual sensations in
the end. Rita Hayworth grindingly sings along. TF Freude (Delight):
Thomas Draschan | 35mm | 2009 | Austria | 3:00 | Can Premiere Digitized
high-resolution images form a rapid flow of visual associations. A
filmic Large Hadron Collider that allows images to explode in the
viewer's head. Micro and macrocosm, sex and religion, old Egypt and the
Space Age are juxtaposed in this purely cinematic 35mm work. A "theory
of everything," before modern physics could come up with one.
Speechless: Scott Stark | 16mm | 2008 | USA | 13:00 | Can Premiere 3D
photographs of human vulvae are animated and interwoven with surfaces
and textures from natural and artificial environments. These images of
genitalia were appropriated from View Master reels that accompanied a
textbook, The Clitoris, published in 1976 by medical professionals.
Perceptual Subjectivity: Philippe Leonard | 16mm | 2009 | Canada | 5:30
| Can Premiere Ideas take shape in a kind of cerebral magma where
referents are assigned to parcels of experience from which intelligible
elements are formed. Perceptual Subjectivity is a visual essay on the
structural formation of thoughts. Frottage/Dommage/Fromage 2 Vous: Rick
Raxlen | DV | 2008 | Canada | 7:11 | W Can Premiere Clint Eastwood
whistles with Kyle. "…far and away the most engaging work…creating such
a heightened sense of awareness and connection to the screen. Visual
music." – Marilyn Brakhage. Stardust: Gerda Cammaer & Gerstyn Hayward |
16mm/8mm on DV | 2009 | Canada | 15:10 | World Premiere While others are
quick to declare that film is dead, Stardust celebrates its dust and
scratches, and its magical powers for time and space travel. It is an
imaginary plea to preserve our dying celluloid past and to fight the
take-over by digital technologies.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009
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10/17
Brussels, Belgium: Bozar Cinema
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=9438
4PM >11 PM, 23 Rue Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels
AN AFTERNOON WITH BORIS LEHMAN
16:00 | Mes 7 lieux (Boris Lehman, work in progress, 180'). 19:30 |
Boris Lehman introducing Isabelle Wuilmart. Followed by Films
ontologiques (Boris Lehman, 45'). 21:30 | Choses qui me rattachent aux
êtres (Boris Lehman, 2009, 20', work in progress) 22:30 | Album 1 (Boris
Lehman, 1974, 60'). Live soundtrack Lucy Grauman, Yves Kengen & Chantal
Levie.
10/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE GOODTIMESKID AND THE WHIRLED
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The GoodTimesKid and The Whirled With
Azazel Jacobs and Ken Jacobs in Person! In a Los Angeles (if not a
global) first, we host the father and son filmmakers Ken and Azazel
Jacobs. Ken Jacobs comes with The Whirled (1956-61; 18 min), a short
long unseen in Los Angeles (if ever) a series of improvisations with
Jack Smith. Azazel Jacobs presents his second feature film The
GoodTimesKid. (2005/2009; 77 min.), "an absurdist comedy of errors, a
punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic that captures
the "amour fou spirit of the early French New Wave" (The Village
Voice)." Note change in day! Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian
Theatre. Saturday Oct 17, 7:30 pm. General admission $10,
students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members. The Egyptian Theatre
has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4
hours for $2 with validation.
10/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: SAM GREEN + ERICK LYLE + VANESSA RENWICK +
In its continuing commitment to redress social amnesia, OC is honored to
host these six new historiographic initiatives. In its world premiere,
with live audio by Dave Cerf, Green's 15-min 'Golden Record' revisits
that idealistic project, curated by Carl Sagan, wherein the '77 Voyager
spacecraft rocketed into the heavens with an LP that incapsulated a
cross-section of human musical culture. ALSO: Lyle returns from his new
base in Brooklyn to recap his Soft Skull Press release, 'On the Lower
Frequencies,' a revelatory nonfiction account of the City's lower
depths. Renwick's 'House of Sound' offers an homage to a now
sorely-missed fixture, recently erased from Portland's traditionally
Black neighborhood. AND Marc Moscato's 'The More Things Stay the Same'
examines the life and world of Dr. Ben Reitman, known in his day as
"King of the Hobos," "the Clap Doctor," and "the most vulgar man in
America." PLUS Dara Greenwald's 'United Victorian Workers,' Kelly Sears'
'The Drift,' and assorted media artifacts. $8.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009
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10/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS ANAGLYPH TOM (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS) BY
KEN JACOBS WITH JACOBS IN PERSON!
Los Angeles Filmforum presents ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) by
Ken Jacobs with Jacobs in person! Los Angeles Premiere! 3-D! Ken Jacobs
is one of the leading practitioners of film and video art in the world.
We're delighted to host the Los Angeles premiere of his newest video
work. ANAGLYPH TOM (2008, 118 minutes, DV-Cam) "Our beloved performers
from the 1905 TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON again encapsulate human
absurdity for our amusement but this time in entirely illusionary 3-D."-
Ken Jacobs. This screening concludes a weeklong residency by Jacobs at
CalArts, REDCAT, UCLA and Los Angeles Filmforum. Los Angeles Filmforum,
at the Egyptian Theatre, Sunday General admission $10, students/seniors
$6, free for Filmforum members. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
validation.
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