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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* An Afternoon With Boris Lehman [October 17, Brussels, Belgium]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Goodtimeskid and the Whirled [October 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Home Movie Day [October 17, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Sam Green + Erick Lyle + Vanessa Renwick + [October 17, San Francisco, California]
* Binary Cities Experimental Film Screening [October 17, San Francisco, California]
* Marc Couroux / John Davis Screening [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]
* Sun Xun: the Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation [October 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Tuesday Club Film Night #2 [October 20, Jamaica Plain, MA]
* Animated Jazz Experiments [October 20, Seattle, Washington]
* Early Monthly Segments #8 [October 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Distribution Workshop/Panel Discussion [October 21, San Francisco, California]
* Mark [October 22, Chicago, Illinois]
* Nightsoil and Friends [October 22, San Francisco, California]
* Specters & Machines; Ata Film & video Festival 2009 [October 22, San Francisco, California]
* San Francisco: Place, Portrait and Performance [October 22, San Francisco, California]
* Janie Geiser Introduces Magnetic Sleep and Other Films [October 23, Columbus, Ohio]
* Stories We Tell Ourselves; Ata Film & video Festival 2009 [October 23, San Francisco, California]
* After Day Comes Night & After That, Day Comes Again: A Tribute To Chick
Strand [October 23, San Francisco, California]
* Stories We Tell Ourselves: 4th Annual Ata Film & video Festival [October 23, San Francisco, California]
* Studio: Monolog [October 24, London, England]
* Hollis Frampton: Hapax Legomena [October 24, London, England]
* Human Nature [October 24, London, England]
* Experiments In Documentary Screening and Journal Release [October 24, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema: Prelingers + Parr + Baldwin + Stark + Katz + [October 24, San Francisco, California]
* Tribute To Chick Strand [October 24, San Francisco, California]
* Studio: My Absolution [October 25, London, England]
* The Exception and the Rule [October 25, London, England]
* Film Ist. A Girl & A Gun [October 25, London, England]
* Whirl of Confusion [October 25, London, England]
* Robert Beavers In Person [October 25, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
noon, 32 2nd Avenue
HOME MOVIE DAY
t's back and better than ever!! Home Movie Day returns, in its 7th
Annual edition, for another celebration of films by you, your parents,
your grandparents, your neighbors, genuine strangers and total weirdos.
HMD 2008 was an overwhelming success with events held throughout the US,
Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. This year promises to be bigger and
better because YOU will be bringing YOUR 8mm, Super-8mm, or 16mm films
to Anthology where they will be inspected and projected for all to
observe. Motion picture archivists will be on hand to discuss film
preservation and to give tips on how to save your precious movies before
it is too late. Sorry, but only films will be screened at this event,
which means NO HOME VIDEOS (however video-makers should definitely come
and see what they are missing). Screenings will be first come, first
served and we will not be able to screen more than one or two reels per
person. Whether it is the day you lost your first tooth, an unknown
cousin's graduation, or Grandpa in his Cadillac, we want to see those
movies! Please contact email suppressed for more information, or
check out our site: homemovieday.com. Saturday, October 17 from
12:00-6:00.
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.
10/17
San Francisco, California: CounterPULSE / NexMap
http://www.nexmap.org/events/0910_Couroux.htm
7 PM, 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
BINARY CITIES EXPERIMENTAL FILM SCREENING
BINARY CITIES #7: Film Screening Saturday, October 17th -- 7pm 68/70,
Marc Couroux, 2009, 124 mins. includes: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (DRIFT STUDY)
(2009) THE FOLLOWING (EPISODE 1: "MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT", GUEST STAR
ROBERT WEBBER) (2009) PROCESS/OBJECT (2009) 68/70: THE PARALLAX VIEW
(2009) 68/70: DEDUCTIVE INSIGHT (2009) Mark You, Make Believe My Dear,
Yes, John Davis, 2006, 14 mins. Admission: $5 Binary Cities #7 features
the premiere of sections of Marc Couroux's video series 68/70 and John
Davis' Mark You Make Believe My Dear, Yes. Couroux, an interdisciplinary
artist whose work is rooted in his experiences as a contemporary music
pianist will be in person to present 68/70, a collection of works
collapsing visual and acoustic spaces, with material culled from 1970s
Hollywood films and TV shows."The Following: Episode 1" is the first in
a series of works foregrounding specific character actors as they travel
through a set of superimposed, overlapping narratives, moving forward in
linear time as they move in depth through a decade's worth of material.
Local SF sound and video artist John Davis will present his 2006 film
Mark You, Make Believe My Dear, Yes, a resurrected Soviet propaganda
film from the 1980's matched with a visceral sound montage that animates
spectres from recent history. A Q&A discussion will follow the
screening.
10/17
San Francisco, California: CounterPULSE / NexMap
http://www.nexmap.org/events/0910_Couroux.htm
7 PM, 1310 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
MARC COUROUX / JOHN DAVIS SCREENING
BINARY CITIES #7: Film Screening Saturday, October 17th -- 7pm 68/70,
Marc Couroux, 2009, 124 mins. includes: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (DRIFT STUDY)
(2009) THE FOLLOWING (EPISODE 1: "MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT", GUEST STAR
ROBERT WEBBER) (2009) PROCESS/OBJECT (2009) 68/70: THE PARALLAX VIEW
(2009) 68/70: DEDUCTIVE INSIGHT (2009) Mark You, Make Believe My Dear,
Yes, John Davis, 2006, 14 mins. Admission: $5 Binary Cities #7 features
the premiere of sections of Marc Couroux's video series 68/70 and John
Davis' Mark You Make Believe My Dear, Yes. Couroux, an interdisciplinary
artist whose work is rooted in his experiences as a contemporary music
pianist will be in person to present 68/70, a collection of works
collapsing visual and acoustic spaces, with material culled from 1970s
Hollywood films and TV shows. "The Following: Episode 1" is the first in
a series of works foregrounding specific character actors as they travel
through a set of superimposed, overlapping narratives, moving forward in
linear time as they move in depth through a decade's worth of material.
Local SF sound and video artist John Davis will present his 2006 film
Mark You, Make Believe My Dear, Yes, a resurrected Soviet propaganda
film from the 1980's matched with a visceral sound montage that animates
spectres from recent history. A Q&A discussion will follow the
screening.
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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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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009
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10/19
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St
SUN XUN: THE DARK MAGICIAN OF NEW CHINESE ANIMATION
West Coast premieres. Giving a rare U.S. presentation of his animation
oeuvre, artist and filmmaker Sun Xun screens a program of shorts ranging
from a witty experiment in body art to the creation of an expansive
imagistic world that evokes China's checkered voyage toward
technological and political modernity. After studying printmaking at the
Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Sun founded the animation studio Pi in
2006. To make his meticulous animations, Sun uses traditional
calligraphy techniques to produce drawings on canvas, silk and printed
matter; these are then hand-copied frame by frame to create flickering
effects and complex, multilayered textures. Sun's films have been shown
in festivals in China, France, Germany and New York's Anthology Film
Archives. His original drawings, meanwhile, have been exhibited in
galleries and museums in China, Europe and the United States. A major
show of his work opens on November 7 at Max Protetch Gallery in New
York. In person: Sun Xun Curated by Bérénice Reynaud and Steve Anker.
Thanks to ShanghART Gallery.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2009
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10/20
Jamaica Plain, MA: Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club
http://www.loring-greenough.org
7pm, Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street
TUESDAY CLUB FILM NIGHT #2
Tuesday Club presents works by the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker Rob
Todd and his former student, Joseph Roberman. Rob is a JP resident and
professor at Emerson College. Joe lives in Brooklyn. Both filmmakers
will be present. An assortment of hot drinks will be served. Admission
is $4, free for Tuesday Club members. To find out more about Rob Todd's
work, please visit www.roberttoddfilms.com.
10/20
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
ANIMATED JAZZ EXPERIMENTS
SPECIAL PRESENTATION AT SEATTLE ART MUSEUM SARAH JANE LAPP AND MARK
DRESSER IN ATTENDANCE! Animated Jazz Experiments There's a long history
of animators and Jazz musicians working together. Most notable amongst
them is John and Faith Hubley, who we featured prominently in last
year's Earshot program. This year we explore that marriage a little
closer to home. Sarah Jane Lapp is a Seattle-based Renaissance woman,
visual artist and filmmaker, who typically takes on abstract and
ethnographic subjects in her finely rendered hand-drawn experimental
animations. Mark Dresser is a Jazz impresario who emerged from the L.A.
"free" jazz scene of the early 70's, and is often considered one of the
master bassists of modern jazz. Lapp's dreamy animation combined with
the improvisational elements of Dresser's music creates sonorous
textural explorations of memory, place and social nostalgia in our
religious imaginations. Join us for the world premiere of Dresser live
accompaniment to many of Lapp's animations including the Seattle
premiere of her newest Chronicles of A Professional Eulogist. Please
note this event is held at the Seattle Art Museum. www.nwfilmforum.org
10/20
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #8
Brent Coughenour, Bruce Baille, Kenneth Anger [[BRENT COUGHENOUR IN
PERSON!]] Tuesday 20 October 2009 = 7:30 PM **NOTE EARLIER start time**
In an effort to improve its image for the nationwide attention brought
to the city by the hosting of the 2006 Super Bowl, the city of Detroit
began demolishing long-vacant buildings, hastening the natural slow
decay caused by decades of industrial collapse. As the city dismantles
itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted from
rubble—an archeology of unanswered questions—combine to tell a surrogate
narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters,
photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer
day echo events from thirty years earlier. The day is sunny, but it is
humid, and clouds are gathering. It is going to rain. – Brent Coughenour
"Like the pieces of a puzzle, I PITY THE FOOL gradually accrues more
elements as it goes on: fragments of narrative combine with other
fragments that at first have no obvious connection. As opposed to
story-lines in many feature-length films that gradually tie up and
resolve their different threads, the focus of the film continues to
broaden and expand, becoming more complex, open-ended and mysterious.
Undertaking a kind of archaeological search for things nearly recent and
long past, the film attempts to re-capture the marginalized and
defiantly minor histories of [the city's] forgotten tenants . . . . I
PITY THE FOOL is essential viewing to anyone interested in, among other
things, urban space, post-industrial landscapes, psychogeography, found
objects, DIY filmmaking, super 8, experimental narrative, and radical
film form." — Luke Sieczek, Northwest Film Forum Brent Coughenour is a
film-and videomaker whose work has dealt largely with various attempts
at exploring narrative cinematic language outside the boundaries of a
traditional dependence on drama and plot. He has presented his work at a
variety of festivals and venues throughout the U.S. and internationally,
including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film and
Video Festival, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Onion City Film
and Video Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, and
Ann Arbor Film Festival. His most recent work incorporates computer
programming for audio and video manipulation into projects designed for
live performance. He is also an occasional member of the Milwaukee
Laptop Orchestra (MiLO). Programme: I Pity The Fool, Brent Coughenour,
2007, 83 mins, Super 8 [presented on video] Castro Street, Bruce
Baillie, 1965, 10 mins, 16mm Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1966, 4 mins, 16mm @
the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West 7:30pm screening
Tuesday 20 October 2009, 8 PM @ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen
Street West 5$ admission MORE INFO http://www.earlymonthlysegments.org
http://www.gladstonehotel.com EMAIL LIST: email suppressed
#9 = Tuesday November 17 = Robert Todd IN PERSON! 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, the CFMDC and the artists who make the work we show.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2009
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10/21
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30, free, 992 Valencia St at 21st
DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP/PANEL DISCUSSION
The ATA Festival presents a FREE workshop on experimental film
exhibition and distribution hosted by local distributors and filmmakers.
Our workshop and discussion offer insight into the world of experimental
film exhibition and distribution. This is a must-attend event for the
super-independent and experimentally minded
writer/director/editor/producer. Festival co-director Kelly Pendergast
will moderate panel and audience discussions with: Microcinema
International founder Joel Bachar; SFcinemateque executive director and
filmmaker Jonathan Marlow; filmmaker, curator and Canyon Cinema Board
Member Maia Carpenter; filmmaker and Other Cinema founder and programmer
Craig Baldwin; and Associate Editor/Producer of Wholphin DVD Magazine
Emily Doe. If you would like to attend, send us an e-mail before October
15 to email suppressed, and reserve a spot! If there are specific
topics you would like to hear discussed at the workshop, please let us
know when you e-mail us.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009
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10/22
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St
MARK
Mike Hoolboom in person! Award-winning Canadian filmmaker and writer
Mike Hoolboom makes his Chicago debut appearance with the premiere of
Mark (2009), an elegiac portrait of his friend and collaborator, Mark
Karbusicky, who committed suicide in 2007. Mark weaves together
childhood snapshots, found footage, and interviews with Karbusicky's
friends, family, and longtime partner, transsexual performance artist
Mirha-Soleil Ross, to map the contours of a life lived "in the
background" and trace the mark he left on the communities around him.
Curator Mark Webber notes, "few filmmakers use re-appropriated footage
in such an emotive way...Hoolboom's recent work is in profound sympathy
with the human condition that speaks directly to our hearts."
Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. 2009, Canada, video, 70 min.
10/22
San Francisco, California: The Overdub Club
http://www.thadpovey.com/odc.html
7:30 pm, 16 Sherman Street
NIGHTSOIL AND FRIENDS
Derived from a triple projection, live performance piece, Nightsoil
utilizes found footage that has been physically reconstituted using
hand-processing, tinting, and other hands-on filmic techniques and
features a powerful new audio score and soundtrack. 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). Free!
10/22
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm $7-$10, 992 Valencia St at 21st
SPECTERS & MACHINES; ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2009
Followed by musical performance and announcement of ATA Audience Award.
Films: The Salariat in Parts Zachary Epcar - 2009, 11:18, 16mm/DV, San
Francisco, CA Diatribe Ben Popp - 2009, 2:07, 16mm, Portland, OR Breathe
Sam Barnett (in person) - 2009, 5:24, Animation, Berkeley, CA Up And
About Again Maarit Suomi-Vaananen - 2009, 9:49, S16mm, Finland Passage
Briare Friedl vom Groller - 2009, 3:00, 16mm, Germany Patrolling The
Ether Carl Diehl - 2009, 7:00, miniDV, Portland, OR Elro Ariel Diaz (in
person) - 2009, 3:52, miniDV, San Francisco, CA Spectrololgy Kerry
Laitala (in person) - 2009, 11:00, 16mm, San Francisco, CA
10/22
San Francisco, California: kino21
http://www.kino21.org/
7pm, 657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
SAN FRANCISCO: PLACE, PORTRAIT AND PERFORMANCE
In conjunction with SF Camerawork's year-long 35 Anniversary
celebration, we present the first of three screenings of films by local
artists, who highlight our legacy as citizens of San Francisco. "17
REASONS WHY" 16 mm, 18 minutes by Nathaniel Dorsky, 1976-1984 Dorsky's
rarely shown light and personal portrait features various locales and
people all around the Bay Area, shot on regular 8 millimeter and
projected as a foursquare array of ecstatic motion and pattern. "575
CASTRO ST." video, 7 minutes by Jenni Olson, 2009 Filmmaker and curator
Olson created this short portrait of an small empty store in the Castro
District, while the location had been transformed into its former state
as a camera shop as the set of the film "Milk." Soundtrack by Harvey
Milk. "HOW TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL, Parts I and II" 16mm, 50 minutes by Roger
Jacoby 1980-82 This is rarely screened gem "began," said Jacoby, "as
excerpts from a compilation journal work begun in 1979. It is an ironic
title - there's nothing sexually explicit about the film." Ironic, yes,
but extremely telling. Jacoby was a 70s migrant from Manhattan. He made
sensuous and insightful films in a deadpan style influenced by Warhol,
but with a twist. He processed his own film, and the result was a
luscious, fleshy and sometimes convulsive emulsion, representing a diary
of his life and the lives of friends as a candle flame tossed by the
wind.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009
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10/23
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
JANIE GEISER INTRODUCES MAGNETIC SLEEP AND OTHER FILMS
One of the most distinguished and distinctive artists working in the
field of experimental animation and film, Janie Geiser creates
atmospheric worlds of mystery and poignancy out of found objects (old
toys, doll houses, puzzle pieces) and original creations. (Geiser is
also a renowned pioneer of avant-garde puppet theater.) This program
offers a survey of her remarkable films, including episodes from her
latest work, Magnetic Sleep (2009), an ambitious multipart story about a
19th-century female hypnotist. In it, Geiser uses live action, collage
animation, rephotography, and painted elements to reinterpret the
techniques of early filmmakers such as Man Ray and Maya Deren. Tentative
program: Magnetic Sleep [Episode 1], The Red Book, The Secret Story,
Spiral Vessel, Lost Motion, Ultima Thule, The Fourth Watch, Magnetic
Sleep [Episode 8], Terrace 49 (approx. 90 mins., 16mm and video)
10/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm $7-$10, 992 Valencia St at 21st
STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES; ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL 2009
Followed by musical performance by Pissy and announcement of ATA
Audience Award. A Poem to be Read into a Flashlight with a Microphone
Placed Above the Breast of a Pregnant Mother Tommy Becker (in person) -
2009, 2:50, DV, San Francisco, CA To Be Regained Zach Iannazzi (in
person) - 2009, 10:00, 16mm, Williamsburg, MA The Acrobat Chris Kennedy
- 2007, 6:00, 16mm, Canada/USA Naomi & Irving Laura Bouza (in person) -
2007, 4:00, 16mm/miniDV, Los Angeles, CA Spaghettidog Elham Rokni -
2006, 5:32, miniDV, Israel Destination Finale Philip Widmann - 2008,
9:15, 8mm, Germany My Tears Are Dry Laida Lertxundi - 2009, English,
16mm, Spain/USA Myth Labs Martha Colburn - 2008, 7:30, DVcam,
Netherlands/USA Chorus Paul Clipson (in person) - 2009, 7:00, S8mm, San
Francisco, CA
10/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)
AFTER DAY COMES NIGHT & AFTER THAT, DAY COMES AGAIN: A TRIBUTE TO CHICK
STRAND
Curated by Dominic Angerame. Introduced by Irina Leimbacher, Steve
Anker, Dominic Angerame and other guests to be announced. Presented in
association with Canyon Cinema -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10] -----
Chick Strand was one of the more renowned pioneers in the Bay Area
experimental filmmaking community. Canyon Cinema was born in 1961 when
Strand and Bruce Baillie began to show films outdoors in Canyon,
California. She was a long time advocate of the art of avant-garde
filmmaking and an inspiration to more than two generations of
filmmakers. Her spirit lives on today with the continued growth of both
Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque. Both organizations have
flourished over the past forty-eight years and this is a testimony to
the passion and dedication of Chick Strand. Tonight's program will
include several of her films, including: "By the Lake", "Artificial
Paradise", "Coming Up For Air", "Loose Ends", "Cartoon le Mousse" and
others.
10/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30, 992 Valencia Street
STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES: 4TH ANNUAL ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
The program includes: A Poem to be Read into a Flashlight with a
Microphone Placed Above the Breast of a Pregnant Mother (Tommy Becker);
To Be Regained (Zach Iannazzi); The Acrobat (Chris Kennedy);
Spaghettidog (Elham Rokni); Destination Finale (Philip Widmann); My
Tears are Dry (Laida Lertxundi); Myth Labs (Martha Colburn); Passage
Briare (Friedl vom Groller); Chorus (Paul Clipson). The screening will
be followed by a musical performance and the announcement of the ATA
Audience Award.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
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10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
12pm to 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
STUDIO: MONOLOG
MONOLOG (Laure Prouvost, UK-France 2009, 12 min) A new work made for the
Festival turns its attention to the viewer and the room itself. 'Come
inside, I'm going to explain a few things. Just about you and the space
we're in. It's quite warm in here, you should take off your jacket ...'
Continuous Projection. Free Admission.
10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
HOLLIS FRAMPTON: HAPAX LEGOMENA
Hollis Frampton, a key figure of the American avant-garde, was an artist
and theoretician whose practice closely resonates with contemporary
discourse. The series of seven films known as HAPAX LEGOMENA is,
alongside ZORNS LEMMA, one of his most distinguished achievements, and
will be presented in its entirety on new preservation prints. Predating
MAGELLAN, the ambitious 'metahistory' of film left unfinished by his
early death in 1984, HAPAX LEGOMENA traces Frampton's own creative
progression from photographer to filmmaker. It dissects sound/image
relationships, incorporates early explorations of video and television,
and looks forward to digital media and electronic processes. Though
notoriously rigorous, Frampton's films are infused with poetic
tendencies and erudite wit, sustaining a dialogue with the materials of
their making, and the viewer's active participation in their reception.
'Hapax legomena are, literally, 'things said once' … The title brackets
a cycle of seven films, which make up a single work composed of
detachable parts … The work is an oblique autobiography, seen in
stereoscopic focus with the phylogeny of film art as I have had to
recapitulate it during my own fitful development as a filmmaker.'
(Hollis Frampton)(NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 36 min) As a
sequence of photographs is presented and slowly burned, a narrator
recounts displaced anecdotes related to their production, shifting the
relationship between words and images. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton,
USA, 1972, 31 min) A 'film for the mind' in which the script is
displayed page by page for the viewer to read and imagine. CRITICAL MASS
(Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 16 min) Frampton's radical editing
technique disrupts and amplifies the already impassioned argument of a
quarrelling couple. TRAVELLING MATTE (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1971, 34
min) 'The pivot upon which the whole of Hapax Legomena turns' uses early
video technology to interrogate the image. ORDINARY MATTER (Hollis
Frampton, USA, 1972, 36 min) This 'headlong dive' from the Brooklyn
Bridge to Stonehenge is a burst of exhilarated consciousness. REMOTE
CONTROL (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 29 min) 'A 'baroque' summary of
film's historic internal conflicts, chiefly those between narrative and
metric/plastic montage; and between illusionist and graphic space.'
SPECIAL EFFECTS (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1972, 11 min) Stripping away
content leaves only the frame. 'People this given space, if you will,
with images of your own devising.' HAPAX LEGOMENA has been preserved
through a major cooperative effort funded by the National Film
Preservation Foundation and undertaken by Anthology Film Archives, MoMA,
the New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program,
and project conservator Bill Brand.
10/24
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
HUMAN NATURE
PASSAGE BRIARE (Friedl vom Gröller, Austria, 2009, 3 min) A meeting of
friends in a Paris backstreet, and an unexpected revelation. HOTEL
ROCCALBA (Josef Dabernig, Austria, 2009, 10 min) In a subtle
choreography, the occupants of a small Alpine hotel pass a lazy
afternoon. Not much happens, but all may not be as it appears. GREGOR
ALEXIS (Jana Debus, Germany, 2008, 20 min) The filmmaker's schizophrenic
brother recounts personal experiences, slipping between first and third
person. The locations chosen for this portrait – a desolate apartment
and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery – are indicative of
the condition of someone potentially as vulnerable as the insects that
collect on his windowsill. THE DISCOVERY (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2008, 4 min)
Tom's dextrous parlour game attracts unwanted attention. A stolen
moment, frozen in time, now re-animated for all to see. THE PRESENTATION
THEME (Jim Trainor, USA, 2008, 14 min) As primitive Magic Marker
drawings illustrate the myths and rituals of the ancient Moche
civilisation, a disparaging narrator describes the tormented trials of a
hapless creature amongst goblets of blood, fanged men and a sacrificial
priestess. BURNING PALACE (Mara Mattuska, Chris Haring, Austria, 2009,
32 min) This new collaboration between Mattuschka and Vienna's Liquid
Loft takes us behind the velvet curtains of the Burning Palace, whose
peculiar inhabitants have an itch they just can't scratch.
10/24
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 PM, 66 East 4th St
EXPERIMENTS IN DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND JOURNAL RELEASE
In celebration of the publication of Millennium Film Journal #51
"Experiments in Documentary", co-edited by Lucas Hilderbrand and Lynne
Sachs, this program will feature the works of a selection of the
filmmakers who wrote essays for this special thematic issue. These media
artists challenge the way we see (and hear) documentary. While visually
and aurally innovative, they are also socially engaged, offering
cultural critiques that cannot be reduced to a singular agenda. Through
their engagement with images and institutions, they open up new ways of
examining how we understand our world and our history. The program
charts the boundaries of experimental documentary: from an allegorical
retelling of political struggle in Chicago 1968 to a collage memoir on
body manipulation to an empathic witnessing of the Gulf Coast six months
after Katrina. Tonight's program brings together artists both showing
and discussing their films. Please join us for a post-screening party
and book signing. "Fountain" (22 min., video, excerpt) by Donigan
Cumming (present) "Clockwork: Birthday" (video documentation of
installation) by Jeanne Finley & John Muse "Vital Signs" (9 minutes,
16mm, 1991) Barbara Hammer (present) "15 Experiments on Peripheral
Vision" (10 min., 16mm, 2008) by Adele Horne "South of Ten" ( 10 min.,
35mm on tape, 2006) by Liza Johnson (present) "Jean Genet in Chicago"
(15 min, 16mm, 2006 excerpt) Frederic Moffet "Chop Off" (8 min., video,
2009) by MM Serra (present) "Hidden in Plain Sight" (10 min., video)by
Mark Street (present)
10/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: PRELINGERS + PARR + BALDWIN + STARK + KATZ +
Canny curator of the cultural memory, Rick Prelinger emerges from the
vaults with a precious cache of newly unearthed amateur films: Southern
sharecroppers, KKK parades, Japanese internees, and May Day demos. Megan
Prelinger interprets a cabinet of curiosities from their SoMA library.
Stephen Parr shares a 16mm selection from the SF Media Archive,
including an amateur monster movie and treasures disinterred from the SF
Dump. Craig Baldwin introduces an eye-popping Kodachrome travelog of a
late-colonial cross-Africa excursion. Scott Stark's 20-min. celluloid
set unveils the discovered mid-century diaries of San Francisco
families. The program is consummated with Joel Katz' compelling
cine-essay, Dear Carrie, unpacking the 20C Kodachrome chronologies of a
courageous globe-trotting matron. PLUS: Free found slides, gratis wine,
and Doug Katelus on Optigan. $7.77.
10/24
San Francisco, California: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7:30, 145 Ninth St #260
TRIBUTE TO CHICK STRAND
A Cinematic Tribute to Chick Strand Curated by Dominic Angerame
Presented by Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque in association
with the Ninth Street Independent Film Center October 24, 2009, 7:30
p.m. Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street in San
Francisco 7:30 PM, Admission $10 A reception will be held following the
screening Films presented: Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) Fever Dream
(1979) Guacamole (1976) Kristallnacht (1979) Soft Fiction (1979)
Waterfall (1967) and more.. Born Mildred in northern California and
nicknamed Chick by her father, CHICK STRAND (1931-2009) studied
anthropology at Berkeley in the 1960s, joined the free speech movement,
and experimented with photographic collage. She joined the filmmaker
Bruce Baillie and editor Ernest Callenbach to found Canyon Cinema, a
screening collective that evolved into the San Francisco Cinematheque
and the independent distributor Canyon Cinema. She enrolled on the
ethnography program at UCLA, and after graduating in 1971 taught for 24
years at Occidental College. She made nineteen films, many shot in
Mexico, while traveling with her life and creative partner, the
pop-surrealist artist Neon Park (Martin Muller, 1940-93). Her work is
held in the collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and continues to be distributed by Canyon Cinema. (Wikipedia)
"Chick Strand was one of the more renowned pioneers in the Bay Area
experimental filmmaking community. Canyon Cinema and the Cinematheque
were founded in 1961 when Strand and Bruce Baillie began to show films
in their backyard on a sheet tied between two trees. These weekly
screenings were the seeds that began to sprout when Canyon Cinema became
an official State Corporation. Out of Canyon Cinema came the Canyon
Cinema News, and the Canyon Cinematheque. The Canyon Cinematheque
branched off from Canyon Cinema around 1977 and became its own non
profit exhibition center known as the Cinematheque. Both organizations,
however, share a common thread in that the promotion of experimental
cinema is the main focus. "Chick Strand, through her example, always
championed the rights of filmmakers. She constantly insisted that
filmmakers be paid for showing their work and that they be treated
properly. The spirit of Canyon Cinema comes from her energies and she
also believed that filmmakers should organize and operate their own
exhibitions and distribution of films. Not only was she an inspiration
to those of us involved in Canyon Cinema, she was also a dedicated
teacher for more than 35 years." - Dominic Angerame, Filmmaker and
Executive Director, Canyon Cinema
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
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10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
12pm to 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
STUDIO: MY ABSOLUTION
MY ABSOLUTION (Victor Alimpiev, Russia-Netherlands, 2008, 8 min)
Alimpiev's work imbues the simplest gestures with mystery and
consequence. An actress performs a sequence of enigmatic actions towards
the nape of a second woman's neck in a performance that creates an
almost sculptural tension which is never quite released. Continuous
Projection. Free Admission.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
THE EXCEPTION AND THE RULE
ME BRONI BA (MY WHITE BABY) (Akosua Adoma Owusu, USA-Ghana, 2008, 22
min) Driven by the pulsing sounds of Afrobeat and American soul, this
spirited study of Ghanaian hair salons questions representations of
beauty and ethnicity. While teams of women weave elaborate styles,
children practice braiding on the blonde hair of white baby dolls,
surplus stock exported from the West. MY TEARS ARE DRY (Laida Lertxundi,
USA-Spain, 2009, 4 min) A song of heartache, an afternoon's repose and
the eternal promise of the blue California sky. THE EXCEPTION AND THE
RULE (Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, UK-Pakistan-India, 2009, 39 min) Shot
primarily in Karachi, The Exception and the Rule employs a variety of
strategies in negotiating consciously political themes. Avoiding
traditional documentary modes, the film frames everyday activities
within a period of civil unrest, incorporating performances to camera,
public interventions and observation. This complex work supplements
Mirza/Butler's Artangel project 'The Museum of Non Participation'.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN
FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN (Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 2009, 97 min) Taking
its cue from DW Griffith via J-L Godard, the latest instalment of the
FILM IST series is a five-act drama in which reclaimed footage is
interwoven with aphorisms from ancient Greek philosophy. Beginning with
the birth of the universe, it develops into a meditation on the timeless
themes of sex and death, exploring creation, desire and destruction by
appropriating scenes from narrative features, war reportage, nature
studies and pornography. The Earth takes shape from molten lava, and man
and woman embark upon their erotic quest. For this mesmerising epic,
Deutsch applies techniques of montage, sound and colour to resources
drawn from both conventional film archives and specialist collections
such as the Kinsey Institute and Imperial War Museum. Excavating cinema
history to tease new meanings from diverse and forgotten film material,
he proposes new perspectives on the cycle of humanity. The film's
integral score by long-term collaborators Christian Fennesz, Burkhardt
Stangl and Martin Siewert incorporates music by David Grubbs, Soap&Skin
and others.
10/25
London, England: London Film Festival
www.bfi.org.uk/lff
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, SE1
WHIRL OF CONFUSION
AND THE SUN FLOWERS (Mary Helena Clark, USA, 2008, 5 min) 'Notes from
the distant future and forgotten past. An ethereal flower and
disembodied voice guide you through the spaces in between.' SHOT FILM
(Greg Pope, UK-Norway, 2009, 4 min) Taking the expression 'to shoot a
film' at face value, this 35mm reel has been blasted with a shotgun.
CONTRE-JOUR (Matthias Müller, Christoph Giradet, Germany, 2009, 11 min)
My Eyes! My Eyes! Flickering out from the screen and direct to your
retina, Contre-jour is not for the optic neurotic. Take a deep breath
and try to relax as Müller and Girardet conduct their examination. FILM
FOR INVISIBLE INK CASE NO. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER (DIMINISHED
BY 1,794) (David Gatten, USA, 2008, 13 min) 'A single piece of paper, a
second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile.
Words by Charles Darwin.' WOLF'S FROTH / AMONGST OTHER THINGS (Paul
Abbott, UK, 2009, 15 min) By chance or circumstance, wolf's froth's
covert syntax refuses to be unpicked. Entangling anxious domesticity
with the spectre of aggression, it conjures a mood of underlying
discomfort and intrigue. FALSE AGING (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2008, 15 min)
Klahr's surreal collage journeys through lost horizons of comic book
Americana and is brought back down to earth by Drella's dream. And
nobody called, and nobody came. MOUNT SHASTA (Oliver Husain, Canada,
2008, 8 min) What is ostensibly a proposal for a film script is acted
out, without artifice, in a bare loft space as Mantler plays a plaintive
lament. A puppet show like none other that will leave you bemused,
befuddled and bewildered.
10/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, in the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
ROBERT BEAVERS IN PERSON
UCLA Film & Television Archive, Los Angeles Filmforum, the Getty
Research Institute, CalArts Film/Video, and REDCAT present Robert
Beavers in Person First time in Los Angeles! At the UCLA Film &
Television Archive This presentation of work by avant-garde filmmaker
Robert Beavers represents the filmmaker's Los Angeles debut, after a
career spanning from the mid-1960s to the present day, and is organized
in conjunction with the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Including AMOR
(1980, 15 min. 35mm, color, Italy/Austria); THE STOAS (1991-97, 22 min.,
35mm, color, Greece); THE GROUND (1993-2001, 20 min., 35mm, color,
Greece); and PITCHER OF COLORED LIGHT (2007, 24 min., 16mm, United
States/Switzerland). Note change in time & location! Los Angeles
Filmforum, at UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater, in
the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. For advance
tickets and directions, please visit
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html
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