This week [October 31 - November 8, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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This week [October 31 - November 8, 2009] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Wound Footage" by Thorsten Fleisch
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI USA; Deadline: November 02, 2009)
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Free to Be..US! (Orono, ME, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2009)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Map Open Space at FLEFF 2010 (Ithaca (New York), USA; Deadline: January 15, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 31, 2010)
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One Minute Challenge (London; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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Go Short (Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, North Carolina USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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MONO NO AWARE FILM EVENT / @ LUMENHOUSE (Brooklyn, NY, United States; Deadline: November 09, 2009)
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12th Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2009)
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29th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 27, 2009)
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International film competition - "Intervideo Talent Award" (Mainz, Germany; Deadline: November 30, 2009)
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Beaufort International Film Festival (Beaufort, SC. USA; Deadline: November 15, 2009)
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Tregor Film Fest (Lannion, Tregor, France; Deadline: November 20, 2009)
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FRESH: ABSTRACTIONS (Bangkok, Thailand; Deadline: November 07, 2009)
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The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: November 21, 2009)
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI USA; Deadline: November 02, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen's the Golem (1920) With A Live Score By
    Brian Lebarton [October 31, Los Angeles, California]
 * Other Cinema: Macias' History of Japanese Horror + Dj Onanist [October 31, San Francisco, California]
 * "Los Herederos" With "A Letter To Uncle Boonmee" [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
 * Los Angeles Filmforum and Afi Fest Present the Anchorage [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
 * Rudy Burckhardt Program [November 1, New York, New York]
 * Lichtspiel: Contemporary Abstract Animation and visual Music [November 3, Los Angeles, California]
 * Performa Program 1 [November 3, New York, New York]
 * Performa Program 2 [November 3, New York, New York]
 * Two Lane Blacktop [November 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
 * Morgan Fisher Films [November 4, Naples, Italy]
 * Performa Program 3 [November 4, New York, New York]
 * Performa Program 4 [November 4, New York, New York]
 * Mustache Cinema Presents 'i Am Thankful For Hand-Made Films" [November 4, San Francisco, California]
 * In Present Tense: Films of Ute Aurand [November 4, San Francisco, California]
 * All Together Now: videos By Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn [November 5, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Videofest [November 5, Dallas, TX]
 * Satellite, As Long As It Is Aiming At the Sky /A video Project By Nasrin
    Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiab [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
 * Luminous Triptych: Angelina Krahn, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
 * (De)Coding [November 5, Naples, Italy]
 * Mike Kuchar Program 1 [November 5, New York, New York]
 * Mike Kuchar Program 2 [November 5, New York, New York]
 * Silhouettes and Serenades: A Night of Acoustic Song and Improvised Film [November 5, San Francisco, California]
 * Visiting Filmmaker: Robert Beavers [November 6, Columbus, Ohio]
 * Videofest [November 6, Dallas, TX]
 * Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film and video [November 6, Edinburgh, Scotland]
 * Women's Experimental Cinema Program 1: Abigail Child [November 6, New York, New York]
 * Women's Experimental Cinema Program 2: Su Friedrich [November 6, New York, New York]
 * Wholphin Selections [November 6, San Francisco, California]
 * Running Up That Hill [November 6, San Francisco, California]
 * Videofest [November 7, Dallas, TX]
 * Dinorah De Jesus Rodriguez At Sleepless Night [November 7, Miami Beach, FL]
 * Stan Brakhage Songs 1-14 [November 7, New York, New York]
 * Women's Experimental Cinema Program 3: Ericka Beckman [November 7, New York, New York]
 * Women's Experimental Cinema Program 4: Peggy Ahwesh [November 7, New York, New York]
 * Other Cinema: Wobbly's History of Sampling + Rip + [November 7, San Francisco, California]
 * Videofest [November 8, Dallas, TX]
 * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Film About A Woman Who... By Yvonne
    Rainer [November 8, Los Angeles, California]
 * Light Matters: Joost Rekveld In Person [November 8, Los Angeles, California]
 * Stan Brakhage Program [November 8, New York, New York]
 * La vie Noir [November 8, New York, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009
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10/31
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 PAUL WEGENER AND HENRIK GALEEN’S THE GOLEM (1920) WITH A LIVE SCORE BY
 BRIAN LEBARTON
  Celebrate Halloween with one of the earliest and surely creepiest horror
  films in cinema history, accompanied with live music by tricked-out
  ghouls under the direction of Brian LeBarton, best known as Beck's
  prodigious music director. The 1920 touchstone of Expressionism tells
  the Eastern European Jewish legend of the Golem—an oversize clay statue
  brought to life by a Prague rabbi to do muscle work and help protect the
  city's Jews. It doesn't take long, though, before the plan goes horribly
  wrong... With director Paul Wegener as the Golem, cinematography by Karl
  Freund (Metropolis) and amazing sets by architect Hans Poelzig.
  LeBarton's costumed band, meanwhile, features analog keyboards,
  electronic treatments, cello, and special guest Joey Waronker on drums
  and percussion. Fri Oct 30–Sat Oct 31 | $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]

10/31
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00, 992 Valencia St.

 OTHER CINEMA: MACIAS' HISTORY OF JAPANESE HORROR + DJ ONANIST
  The national editor of top J-Pop mag Otaku USA, Patrick Macias flies in
  from Tokyo for this Halloween event, terrorizing us with tales of the
  roots and branches of the now super-hot J-Horror phenomenon. Macias
  grounds his explication in the work of Nobuo Nakagawa, considered the
  grandfather of the genre. His Jigoku (Hell, 1960) is acknowledged as one
  of the first gore films that broke through to popular consciousness, and
  woke the world of cinema to this phantastic thematic and stylistic
  vocabulary. The surreal supernatural feature draws upon the Buddhist
  idea of retribution that all earthly sins must be atoned for after
  death. Patrick threads his appreciation of Nakagawa through excerpts
  from three of his other works, The Ceiling at Utsunomiya (1956), The
  Ghost of Yotsuya (1958), and The Mansion of the Ghost Cat (1959). Come
  early, in cosplay, for free hot sake, flying turtles, and the haunted
  sounds of DJ Onanist. NOTE: Doors 7:30, show at 8. $6.66.

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009
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11/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
4:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028.

 "LOS HEREDEROS" WITH "A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE"
  Los Angeles Filmforum and the AFI FEST present LOS HEREDEROS directed by
  Eugenio Polgovsky (2008, 90 min., Mexico, HDCAM) – Los Angeles premiere!
  The "herederos" of the title —children who have "inherited" a legacy of
  grinding poverty—live on the land. They plow, they harvest, they load
  wood and they build walls with the bricks that they made with their
  hands. They also frolic, and play and dance. LOS HEREDEROS is both
  extremely intimate (the camera's point of view is like that of a tiny
  creature scurrying to keep pace with the kids) and pointedly universal,
  while rigorously refusing to draw conclusions. –Robert Koehler Preceded
  by A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  (2009, 18 min., Thailand/U.K., Digibeta) – Los Angeles premiere! Winner
  of two prizes at the 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  In Apichatpong's hauntingly poetic piece—one part of his ambitious
  "Primitives" project—the voices of three young men describe to an uncle
  how their Thai village of Nabua has been abandoned in the wake of war.
  Filmforum at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas,
  Los Angeles CA 90028 Note variety of time! Admission free! But you need
  to get tickets through AFI. Remaining tickets will be available at the
  door. Full AFI Film Festival details & tickets at www.afi.com/afifest

11/1
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 AND AFI FEST PRESENT THE ANCHORAGE
  Los Angeles Filmforum and AFI FEST present THE ANCHORAGE directed by
  C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom (2009, 87 min., U.S./Sweden, 35mm) U.S.
  premiere! C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom in person! Winner of Locarno's
  Golden Leopard for Filmmakers of the Present Immersing the viewer in
  magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and meditative film reveals
  the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in harmony there: a
  Rousseauesque vision of a relationship between a human being and her
  environment. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has
  a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours
  for $2 with validation. Get your tickets starting October 16 at AFI.com
  or AFI.com/AFIFEST, or by calling 1-866-AFI-FEST. You can also obtain
  tickets by going to the Festival Box Office located at the Mann 6
  Theatre starting on October 26th, or on the day of the screenings via
  rush lines.

11/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 RUDY BURCKHARDT PROGRAM
  RUDY BURCKHARDT ONE FLIGHT UP (1969, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.
  Paintings by Alex Katz.) Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters
  program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the National
  Film Preservation Foundation. THE CLIMATE OF NEW YORK (1948, 21 minutes,
  16mm, b&w/color, sound. Poems by Edwin Denby, music by William
  Flanagan.) Preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by
  the Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation
  Foundation. MONTGOMERY ALABAMA (1941, 4 minutes, 16mm, color, sound.
  Piano by Earl Hines.) THE DOGWOOD MAIDEN (1949, ca. 10 minutes, 16mm,
  b&w, silent. With Elaine de Kooning, Frank Safford, and Michael Kidd.)
  PARADISE ARMS (1967, 11 minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Collaboration with
  Neil Welliver, text by Joe Brainard.) SCATTERED SHOWERS (1999, ca. 10
  minutes, 16mm, color, sound. Collaboration with and music by Tom
  Burckhardt.) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
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11/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 LICHTSPIEL: CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ANIMATION AND VISUAL MUSIC
  Co-presented with Center for Visual Music Los Angeles premieres | This
  ravishing "play of light" explores rhythmic abstractions in the
  tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation. The
  centerpiece of the program is the Los Angeles debut of Joost Rekveld's
  #37 (Netherlands, 2009, 31 min., 35mm CinemaScope), a stunningly
  beautiful study of the propagation and diffraction of light through
  crystalline structures. Sure to bend more than a few minds, the lineup
  also offers award winning animated shorts from around the world, most of
  which are screening in L.A. for the first time. Featured artists include
  Spot Draves, Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen, Bärbel Neubauer, Thorsten
  Fleisch, Bret Battey, Michael Scroggins, Samantha Krukowski, Mondi,
  Devon Damonte, Scott Nyerges, Vivek Patel and Yusuke Nakajima. Plus the
  final film by the late CGI wizard Richard "Doc" Baily. In person: Joost
  Rekveld Curated by Center for Visual Music with Steve Anker. | Jack H.
  Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

11/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 PERFORMA PROGRAM 1
  PERFORMA PROGRAM 1 The Futurist Canon Tina Cordero, Guido Martina &
  Pippo Oriani SPEED / VELOCITA Italy, 1930, 13 minutes, video, b&w,
  silent. One of the only Futurist films still existing, SPEED captures
  the dynamics of the city, with rotating views, whistling machines,
  articulated mannequins, and homages to 20th-century artists such as
  Boccioni, Mondrian, L?ger, and Kandinsky, all rhythmically collaged
  together by Futurist painter Oriani in collaboration with Futurist
  writers Cordero and Martina. Corrado D'Errico STRAMILANO Italy, 1929, 14
  minutes, video, b&w, sound. A vibrant 'city symphony' showing a day in
  the life of Milan, from factories to farmers' markets, skyscrapers,
  nightclubs, and beyond, with sound effects of human voices and machines.
  Although not officially 'Futurist', this film is directly related to
  Futurist ideas and works, such as SPEED. Anton Giulio Bragaglia THA?S
  Italy, 1917, 54 minutes (incomplete), video, b&w, silent. THA?S is
  considered to be the only surviving full-length Futurist film. In it,
  the title character plots to seduce her best friend's crush, and the
  melodramatic chain of events that ensues leads to a Futuristic final
  sequence, shot against the visionary set designs of Futurist painter
  Enrico Prampolini. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. –Tuesday,
  November 3 at 7:00 and Monday,

11/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm , 32 2nd Avenue

 PERFORMA PROGRAM 2
  PERFOMA PROGRAM 2 Futurist-Related Performance Luca Comerio EXCELSIOR
  Italy, 1914, 23 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. A grand 1881 ballet that
  celebrates technology and progress through tableaux saluting
  turn-of-the-century technological innovations – electricity, the
  telegraph, and the Brooklyn Bridge, among them – EXCELSIOR was made into
  a film over 30 years later, as the worldwide interest in Futurism was
  taking off. Marcel Fabre LOVE AFOOT / AMOR PEDESTRE Italy, 1914, 10
  minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. The feet of three people act out an
  adulterous affair in LOVE AFOOT, the only filmed record of Futurist
  'reductionist performance'. Jacques Feyder and Gaston Ravel FEET AND
  HANDS / DES PIEDS ET DES MAINS France, 1915, 18 minutes, video, b&w,
  silent. A mechanical ballet of feet and hands influenced by Futurist
  ideas. Claude Autant-Lara A COLLECTION OF FACTS / FAIT-DIVERS France,
  1923, 20 minutes, video, b&w, silent. Surrealistic short made early in
  the career of Autant-Lara, who would later become one of the French
  'directors of quality' attacked by the New Wave filmmakers, in which a
  trio of actors (including Antonin Artaud!) jealously confront one
  another, set to an avant-garde score by Arthur Honegger and others.
  Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. –Tuesday, November 3 at 9:00 and
  Monday, November 9 at 9:00.

11/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College

 TWO LANE BLACKTOP
  Two Lane Blacktop (1971, 102 min.) by MONTE HELLMAN Calling this movie
  (depicting a cross-country race between a '55 Chevy and a '70 GTO)
  "Bressonian,"as some have done, may be a bit of a stretch; it is,
  however, in the race as the ultimate (i.e. purest) road movie. James
  Taylor (a not so sweet, baby James) is The Driver in a role that appears
  "…beyond acting… a deadpan stoned zen state of non-performance;"- (A.O.
  Scott, NY Times). Dennis Wilson (of Beach Boy drummer fame) rides
  shotgun and in the backseat, Laurie Bird plays The Girl. Along with the
  cars, the passing American landscape and some stunning wide-screen
  cinematography, the real star of the film is Warren Oates as GTO, an
  alcoholic, has-been loser who might or might not have won the race but
  may win the viewer's heart.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
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11/4
Naples, Italy: Independent Film Show
http://www.em-arts.org/independent-film-show-2009-edition
8 PM, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, piazza Dante

 MORGAN FISHER FILMS
  In the presence of Morgan Fisher. The Director and His Actor Look at
  Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2) (1968, 16mm, b&w,
  sound, 15 min) - Documentary Footage (1968, 16mm, colour, sound, 11 min)
  - Production Stills (1970, 16mm, colour, sound 11 min) - Picture and
  Sound Rushes (1973, 16mm, b&w, sound, 11 min) - Cue Rolls (1974, 16mm,
  colour, sound, 5min30) - Projection Instructions (1976, 16mm, b&w,
  sound, 4 min) - Standard Gauge (1984, 16mm, colour, sound, 35 min).
  Curated by Stoffel Debuysere & Maria Palacios Cruz

11/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 PERFORMA PROGRAM 3
  PERFORMA PROGRAM 3 Man and Machine Eugene Deslaw MARCH OF THE MACHINES /
  LA MARCHE DES MACHINES France, 1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. With
  live performance by Luciano Chessa on November 11! An abstract
  mechanical symphony with a score originally written by Futurist artist
  Luigi Russolo and now lost, this film will be shown with a special live
  soundtrack by composer and Russolo expert Luciano Chessa (Nov. 11
  screening only). Taking Deslaw's notes about the process of synching
  music to images developed by Russolo for this film into consideration,
  Chessa's original score will be performed with his reconstructions of
  the incredible intonaromuri, or Futurist noise-intoners. Francesco Di
  Cocco THE GUT OF THE CITY / IL VENTRE DELLA CITTÀ Italy, 1932, 13
  minutes, 35mm, b&w, sound. A poetic, experimental, industrial
  documentary. André Deed THE MECHANICAL MAN / L'UOMO MECCANICO Italy,
  1921, 46 minutes (incomplete), 35mm, b&w, silent. A colossal robot runs
  wild in an unstoppable crime spree in this rare fantasy-horror epic by
  André Deed, protégé of George Méliès, that culminates in a wild showdown
  between the evil robot and another mechanical marvel. Total running
  time: ca. 70 minutes.

11/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 PERFORMA PROGRAM 4
  PERFORMA PROGRAM 4 Trains, Trains, Trains Corrado D'Errico IMPRESSIONS
  OF LIFE #1: RAILWAY STATION RHYTHMS / RITMI DI STAZIONE, IMPRESSIONI DI
  VITA N. 1 Italy, 1933, 10 minutes, video, b&w, silent. Gorgeous
  documentary depicting a day in the 'iron world' – a railway station – by
  intermingling the repetitive motions of machines with the mechanisms of
  human behavior. Henri Chomette PLAY OF REFLECTIONS AND SPEED / JEUX DES
  REFLETS ET DE LA VITESSE France, 1925, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. A
  beautiful montage of sped-up shots taken from moving trains and boats,
  highlighting the play of light and motion through superimpositions,
  upside-down camerawork, and other experimental techniques, made by
  Chomette, brother of René Clair and a leader of the French 'pure cinema'
  movement. Willy Otto Zielke THE STEEL BEAST / DAS STAHLTIER Germany,
  1935, 75 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. Daring collage of rhythms,
  abstractions, superimpositions, and wild shots of the railroad and other
  machines, made by the great German photographer Zielke, that was
  originally commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the
  Nuremburg-Furth railroad line, and later banned by the Third Reich for
  "decadent aesthetics." Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.

11/4
San Francisco, California: Mustache Cinema
http://site.mustachecinema.com/
7PM , 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez)

 MUSTACHE CINEMA PRESENTS 'I AM THANKFUL FOR HAND-MADE FILMS"
  In the month of November, when many thanks are given, Mustache Cinema
  would like to give recognition to the art of hand-made films. Filmmakers
  Phil Solomon, Robert Schaller, Maia Cybelle Carpenter, David Gatten,
  Jennifer Reeves, and Ken Paul Rosenthal participate in a more natural
  and direct relationship with their work. Their films have been
  self-processed, chemically manipulated, painted, toned, soaked in the
  Atlantic Ocean and buried underground. The results of such
  experimentation peel back layers of emulsion and awaken embedded
  celluloid grain-- giving their pictures the bubbling textures and
  rhythmic color shifts that can only come from hand-made films, which we
  are thankful for. Wednesday, Nov 4th-- Show Starts @ 7PM Free Admission
  & Mustaches Mustache Cinema is an artist-run, experimental film series
  hosted by El Rio on the first Wednesday of every month. Our 8mm/16mm
  film projections present artistic alternatives to commercial filmmaking
  and expose audiences to more thought provoking cinema. Mustache is
  dedicated to inspiring creative discussions about film, cultivating a
  friendly community and passing out fake mustaches at every show.

11/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, California College of the Arts -- 1111 Eighth Street (between Hooper and Irwin)

 IN PRESENT TENSE: FILMS OF UTE AURAND
  Ute Aurand in-person. Presented in association with the Pacific Film
  Archive -- [members: $5 / non-members: $10/ CCA students & faculty:
  free] ----- Over the last thirty years, German filmmaker Ute Aurand has
  been creating films drawn from her daily life, travels and friends. Made
  in conversation with the work of Jonas Mekas, Margaret Tait and Marie
  Menken, Aurand's films find a spontaneous interaction with the here and
  now. Her signature staccato bursts of imagery share a stylistic affinity
  with Mekas, but lack the Lithuanian émigré's melancholy. Instead, her
  work has a decidedly joyous present tense -- the flooding imagery of the
  now. This program features two early films, "Deeply Absorbed in Silent
  Conversation (Schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft)" and "Thirds 1 (Terzen
  1)", and a stunning new work, "Building Underground (In die Erde
  gebaut)." In the latter, she follows the construction of the new wing of
  Zurich's Museum Reitberg from the groundbreaking in 2004 to its opening
  in 2007. Enhancing her unparalleled access to the construction site with
  an attentive eye towards the meticulous labour involved, Aurand creates
  a portrait that beautifully melds her seeing with her subject. Her image
  bursts, like bricks and mortar, construct moving pictures out of
  fragments much like the labourers build up the museum wing from under
  the ground. ----- Presented with the generous support of the
  Goethe-Institut San Francisco

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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11/5
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State St

 ALL TOGETHER NOW: VIDEOS BY HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN
  Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn in person! With a biting yet surprisingly
  tender wit, Los Angeles performance and video artists Harry Dodge and
  Stanya Kahn couch social critique in bizarre, hilarious, and seemingly
  impromptu scenarios. Collaborating since 2001, their work has been
  featured in exhibitions and film festivals the world over. "At first
  glance," writes critic Jeffrey Kastner,"[their videos] seem like lo-fi
  screwball sketches, thanks to their improvisational skills, Kahn's
  magnetic performances, and Dodge's keen directorial hand." Can't Swallow
  It, Can't Spit it Out (2006), featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial,
  trails a bloody-nosed modern-day Valkyrie-cum-raconteur as she wanders
  the streets of L.A. Their 2008 tour de force, All Together Now, imagines
  a post-apocalyptic scenario where different clans forge their way in an
  anarchic world. Also featured: Whacker (2005); Let the Good Times Roll
  (2004); and Winner (2002). 2002–08, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.

11/5
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
7 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.

 VIDEOFEST
  The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film Center Nov.5-8,
  2009 in Dallas, TX. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
  the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
  national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
  at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
  VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
  a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
  Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
  will be presented thru I-Tunes.

11/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St

 SATELLITE, AS LONG AS IT IS AIMING AT THE SKY /A VIDEO PROJECT BY NASRIN
 TABATABAI AND BABAK AFRASSIAB
  Co-presented with the CalArts graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program |
  This timely video peers into the microcosm of Persian-language satellite
  television stations, now numbering more than 20, that broadcast
  internationally from Los Angeles. With the majority of their audiences
  residing in Iran, these stations have come to produce a surplus
  geography between "here" and "there," carrying highly provisional,
  ambivalent political and cultural identities. The screening is followed
  by a discussion with the filmmakers moderated by Norman M. Klein. In
  person: Nasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi | $10 [students $5, CalArts
  free]

11/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset Blvd)

 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. This is the first time any of these films have
  been seen in Los Angeles. Rick Bahto in person.

11/5
Naples, Italy: Independent Film Show
http://www.em-arts.org/independent-film-show-2009-edition
8 PM, Fondazione Morra, Palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, piazza Dante

 (DE)CODING
  (DE)CODING plays with cinema's ability and potential to generate
  associations, may they be intentional or not. This programme brings
  together a series of films that explore the capacity of images and words
  to create meaning, even when attempts are made to release them from the
  constraint of narrative, or in other words from the constraint of
  "making sense". Images and words can't help making meaning "before our
  eyes", for we will always try to look for their sense and purpose.
  Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz. 1st part : Thom
  Andersen and Malcolm Brodwick — ——- (aka short line long line), US,
  1966-67, colour, sound, 11' - Morgan Fisher ( ), US, 2003, 16mm,
  colour/b&w, silent, 21' - John Smith Associations, UK, 1975, 16mm,
  colour, sound, 7' - Robert Nelson Bleu Shut, US, 1970, 16mm, colour,
  sound, 33'. 2nd part : Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma, 1970, 16mm, colour,
  sound, 60'.

11/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
  MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1 Filmmaker in person! THE FAERY GARDEN (2007, 15
  minutes, video) A pleasant garden turns mischievous. EPHEMERAL SEIZURE
  (2009, 20 minutes, video) The 'New Age' is splashed with color.
  IDENTIFIED OBJECTS (2008, 5 minutes, video) …what the hell happened in
  the sky?! A DREAM OF ROSES (2008, 15 minutes, video) Red roses drip
  blood amid God's pink dawn. THE VERNAL ZONE (2009, 15 minutes, video)
  …the place beneath a bewitching moon! WITCHERY (2008, 15 minutes, video)
  Pagan pandemonium ensues. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.

11/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
  MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2 SONG OF THE SEVEN SENSES (2007, 20 minutes, video)
  A vagabond's pictoral path strewn with poetry. PEEK-A-BOO (2007, 10
  minutes, video) …"I see you!" TARNISHED UTOPIA (2008, 20 minutes, video)
  Part the veils and sniff intoxicating blossoms. OBSESSIVE (2009, 10
  minutes, video) Sweet agony too delicious to be without. CINEFEST (2009,
  10 minutes, video) 'Aristocratic bums' deserve the best of everything.
  THE TIGER (2009, 10 minutes, video) …one's 'softest parts' are 'scooped
  out' and 'eaten alive.' Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. –Thursday,
  November 5 at 9:30.

11/5
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st

 SILHOUETTES AND SERENADES: A NIGHT OF ACOUSTIC SONG AND IMPROVISED FILM
  Live acoustic performances by Bay Area singer/songwriters Emily Jane
  White, Foxtails Brigade and Steve Taylor (of Rogue Wave) w/ a debut
  screening of Foxtails Brigade's "Chat With Sivan music" video by Andrew
  and live improvised film projections by Luke Judd. 8pm. $6

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11/6
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.

 VISITING FILMMAKER: ROBERT BEAVERS
  "One of the most exacting minds and singular sensibilities at work in
  the movies." -Village Voice. American expatriate Robert Beavers has been
  making and refining his exquisite films in relative isolation in Europe
  since the late 1960s. But only within the past decade has he begun to
  show them more widely—and his substantial body of work has been met with
  tremendous critical acclaim. "Add Robert Beavers to the pantheon. This
  is an epochal event," Nathan Lee, for example, wrote in the New York Sun
  on the occasion of a 2005 retrospective at the Whitney Museum. Beavers,
  who was born in Massachusetts, mixes lyrical autobiography with a
  precise formal beauty that displays a thoughtful command of all aspects
  of filmmaking. As Susan Oxtoby of the Pacific Film Archive has aptly
  noted, his films "seem to embody the ideals of the Renaissance in their
  fascination with perception, psychology, literature, the natural world,
  architectural space, musical phrasing, and aesthetic beauty." It's a
  special honor to have Beavers introduce this rare screening in person.
  You'll see four astounding, sensuous films, including his most recent
  one (and his first shot in America in almost forty years). (app. 70
  mins., 35mm and 16mm) Featured Films: AMOR, 1980, 35mm, 15 mins.; The
  Stoas, 1991–97, 35mm, 22 mins.; The Ground, 1993–2001, 35mm, 20 mins.;
  Pitcher of Colored Light, 2000–20007, 16mm, 23 mins.

11/6
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
7 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.

 VIDEOFEST
  Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
  Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
  the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
  national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
  at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
  VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
  a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
  Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
  will be presented thru I-Tunes.

11/6
Edinburgh, Scotland: Diversions Film Festival
http://www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk
 6 - 8 November, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ, Scotland, UK

 DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
  DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO 6-8 NOVEMBER 2009
  FILMHOUSE CINEMA, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Diversions Film Festival is back
  for a second year, bringing together a diverse selection of experimental
  films and videos from all over the world. Guest curated by artists,
  filmmakers, critics and distributors, the programme combines films by
  well-known figures, such as Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Guy
  Sherwin, Rose Lowder, Matthias Muller & Christophe Girardet, Olivier
  Fouchard, Ian Hugo, Pat O'Neill, Patrick Bokanowski, Margaret Tait,
  Enrico Cocozza and Eino Ruutsalo, with new works by young filmmakers.
  This year's special highlights include a screening of films by JEANNE
  LIOTTA, who will be present to introduce and talk about her works, PLUS
  a new film by Sami van Ingen - JUST ONE KISS - THE FALL OF NED KELLY -
  an expansive found-footage film with a live musical accompaniment. To
  coincide with an exhibition at the Dean Gallery of Modern Art ('Running
  Time: Artists' Film in Scotland 1960 to Now'), Diversions and the
  National Galleries of Scotland will host a Study Day on the subject on
  7th November, featuring talks by artists and critics, screenings by Matt
  Hulse and Dalziel & Scullion, and a panel discussion. This will be
  followed by a screening of Scottish artists' film and video at
  Filmhouse.

11/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 1: ABIGAIL CHILD
  ABIGAIL CHILD: BEYOND GENDERED SOUND NOISE FILM, SCRATCH VIDEO, AND THE
  NEW PSYCHEDELIC ACID HOUSE VULNERABILITY Presented by Melissa Ragona,
  Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory, Carnegie
  Mellon University; in collaboration with Abigail Child, in absentia.
  George Barber TILT (1983, 5 minutes, video) George Barber ARTS COUNCIL
  GB SCRATCH (1988, 1.5 minutes, video) Dara Birnbaum POP POP VIDEO
  [includes GENERAL HOSPITAL, OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEED SKATING, and KOJAK/WANG]
  (1980, 9 minutes, video) Elisa Ahtila ME/WE, OKAY, GRAY (1993, 3
  minutes, video) Abigail Child SURFACE NOISE (Part 1 of HOW THE WORLD
  WORKS) (2000, 18 minutes, 16mm) Abigail Child IF I CAN SING A SONG OF
  LIGATURES (2009, 5 minutes, 16mm) Charles Atlas SON OF SAM AND DELILAH
  (1991, 27 minutes, video) Kalup Linzy LOLLIPOP (2006, 4 minutes, video)
  Martha Colburn DON'T KILL THE WEATHER MAN (2007, 5 minutes,
  16mm-to-video) Jacob Ciocci THE PEACE TAPE (2007, 5 minutes, video)
  Jacob & Jessica Ciocci THE TRANCE TAPES! (2007, 5-minute excerpt, video)
  Takeshi Murata MONSTER MOVIE (2005, 4 minutes, video) Music by Ikue Mori
  and Zeena Parkins. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.

11/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 2: SU FRIEDRICH
  SU FRIEDRICH: THEN AND NOW Marjorie Keller SHE/VA (1973, 3 minutes,
  16mm) Su Friedrich GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (1981, 15 minutes, 16mm)
  Leslie Thornton JENNIFER, WHERE ARE YOU? (1981, 10 minutes, 16mm) Anne
  Severson (Alice Anne Parker) NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA (1971, 17 minutes,
  16mm) Joyce Wieland SAILBOAT (1967, 3 minutes, 16mm) Joyce Wieland &
  Hollis Frampton A & B IN ONTARIO (1984, 15 minutes, 16mm) Su Friedrich
  SEEING RED (2005, 27 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.

11/6
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm. $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st

 WHOLPHIN SELECTIONS
  Join us for an evening of selected shorts from Wholphin. Program TBA.
  Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine published by McSweeney's, lovingly
  encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the
  way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you
  know, do it.

11/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts -- 701 Mission Street (at 3rd)

 RUNNING UP THAT HILL
  Curated and presented by Michael Robinson. Presented in association with
  the Headlands Center for the Arts -- [members: $6 / non-members: $10]
  ----- Exploring states of psychological purgatory, journeys of spiritual
  flux and the possibilities of transcendence found in the act of getting
  lost, these episodes in the struggles and joys of the transient being
  are in turns haunting, hilarious, damning and hopeful. Running Up That
  Hill features Shana Moulton's desert vision quest, "Sand Saga"; Ben
  Rivers' foggy portrait of pilgrimage, "The Coming Race"; Jesse McLean's
  reality television meltdown "Somewhere Only We Know"; Tsuji Naoyuki's
  entrancing charcoal nightmare, "Children of Shadows"; Phil Solomon's
  intervention into the Grand Theft Auto netherworld, "Rehearsals for
  Retirement"; an excerpt of Ryan Trecartin's miasma of cloning, adoption
  and online identity, "I-Be Area"; and curator Michael Robinson's most
  recent work, "If There Be Thorns."

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
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11/7
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
12 p.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.

 VIDEOFEST
  Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
  Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
  the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
  national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
  at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
  VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
  a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
  Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
  will be presented thru I-Tunes.

11/7
Miami Beach, FL: sol island media works
http://www.solislandmediaworks.com
7pm to 7am, 2000 Convention Center Ave.

 DINORAH DE JESUS RODRIGUEZ AT SLEEPLESS NIGHT
  Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez will be presenting two moving image
  installations entitled "o Amor" and "Ephemera" at the Miami Beach
  Botanical Garden to celebrate Sleepless Night on the evening of November
  7, 2009 from about 7pm until daybreak the following morning... Working
  with hand-crafted found and recycled film footage, Rodriguez
  orchestrates transparent realities from fragments of photographs and
  films... "O Amor" is a video journey into the subconscious secrets of
  the Botanical Garden itself. Filmed at this very site, "o Amor" is a
  giant video projection addressing the cycle of bloom and decay in both
  the natural environment and the experience of love, looped and screened
  outdoors through the main window of the Garden's Administrative
  Offices... "Ephemera" consists of miniscule transparent images suspended
  from the branches of the Grand Poinciana tree at the entrance to the
  Botanical Garden. This 3-D collage will be rendered kinetic by the
  natural breezes blowing through the outdoor environment, and the
  projection achieved through the use of spotlights at the base of the
  tree... Dancers from Momentum Dance Company will perform an interactive
  piece in collaboration with this installation, choreographed by Delma
  Iles. Performance at midnight.

11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STAN BRAKHAGE SONGS 1-14
  SONGS 1-14 by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 minutes, 16mm, silent. "SONG
  1: Portrait of a lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in
  remembering. SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG
  5: A childbirth song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7:
  San Francisco. SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and
  substance. SONG 10: Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect,
  a lyre of rain scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass
  traps. SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds,
  paints and crystals." –S.B. –Saturday, November 7 at 4:00.

11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 3: ERICKA BECKMAN
  ERICKA BECKMAN: PERFORMING THE IMAGE With Vera Dika, Associate Professor
  of Film Studies, New Jersey City University. Jack Goldstein BONE CHINA
  (1974-78, 2-minute loop, video) Pat O'Neill SAUGUS SERIES (1974, 18.5
  minutes, 16mm) Owen Land NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE
  ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS
  (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm) Vito Acconci THEME SONG (1973, 15-minute
  excerpt, video) Julia Heyward MY BLUE PERIOD (1975, 15-minute excerpt,
  video) Ericka Beckman YOU THE BETTER (1983, 20 minutes, 16mm) Ericka
  Beckman SWITCH CENTER (2003, 12 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca.
  95 minutes.

11/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA PROGRAM 4: PEGGY AHWESH
  PEGGY AHWESH: ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME Jaime Iglehart TRUE STORY (2008,
  15 minutes, video) Patricia Baga THERE IS NO "I" IN TRISHA, SEASON 2,
  EPISODE 7 (2005/07, 4 minutes, video) Patricia Baga AB-ORIGINALS (MARY)
  (2007/08, 7.5 minutes, video) Otis Turner THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
  (1910, 13 minutes, video) Marie Losier PAPAL BROKEN-DANCE (2008, 6
  minutes, video) Dani Leventhal 54 DAYS THIS WINTER 36 DAYS THIS SPRING
  (2009, 18 minutes, video) Peggy Ahwesh THE SCARY MOVIE (1993, 10
  minutes, 16mm) Katherine Bauer PSYCHO PUSSY SLAUGHTER (2008, 10 minutes,
  video) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.

11/7
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.

 OTHER CINEMA: WOBBLY’S HISTORY OF SAMPLING + RIP +
  Jon "Wobbly" Leidecker has spliced together an hour-long historical
  review of audio pastiche, revisiting the benchmarks of the practice over
  the course of the last century. His assiduous survey moves through Ives,
  Oliveros, Cage, Buchanan & Goodman, Pierres Henry & Schaeffer, Perrey &
  Kingsley, Paik, Reich, Marclay, Oswald, et al. PLUS RiP: A Remix
  Manifesto, the world's first open-source documentary about copyright and
  Fair Use. Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of
  intellectual property in the Information Age, mixing up the mediascape
  and shattering the wall between users and producers. His doc features
  mash-up master and Illegal Art exponent Girl Talk, who blends samples of
  existing music into new songs. Engaging interviews with creators,
  lawmakers, and consumers are interspersed with animation, collage, and
  archival footage in this righteous rave-up. Come early for the brutal
  plunderphonics of Muerto Zoke. $7.77.

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11/8
Dallas, TX: Video Association of Dallas
www.videofest.org
10:30 a.m., Angelika Film Center, 5321 E. Mockingbird Ln.

 VIDEOFEST
  Dallas, TX – The 22nd Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
  Center Nov.5-8, 2009. The oldest and largest video and film festival in
  the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
  national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
  at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
  VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
  a movie, a designer will be creating a VideoFest set at the Angelika.
  Expect something different! For the second year in a row, the VideoFest
  will be presented thru I-Tunes.

11/8
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 FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... BY YVONNE
 RAINER
  Los Angeles Filmforum presents Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer
  Retrospective (part 2 of 8). Over the course of our 2009-2010 seasons,
  Filmforum is proud to present a full retrospective of the media works of
  Yvonne Rainer. Tonight, FILM ABOUT A WOMAN WHO... (1974, 105 mins, b&w,
  16mm) Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays
  with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of
  a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger. (Note:
  Rainer will NOT be present at this show.) Los Angeles Filmforum, at the
  Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA
  90028. Sunday Nov 8, 2009. 7:30 pm. General admission $10,
  students/seniors $6, free for Filmforum members.
  http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The Egyptian Theatre has a validation
  stamp for the Hollywood & Highland complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with
  validation.

11/8
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:00 pm, Billy Wilder Theatre at The Hammer Museum

 LIGHT MATTERS: JOOST REKVELD IN PERSON
  UCLA Film and Television Archive and Center for Visual Music present the
  first West Coast retrospective of films by celebrated Dutch filmmaker
  and installation artist Joost Rekveld. Rekveld, who will appear in
  person, started making abstract films in 1991 after he invited Bill
  Moritz and Elfriede Fischinger to come to the Netherlands to present a
  day-long survey of abstract cinema. Almost twenty years later, Rekveld
  pursues his fascination with human perception and the history of optics
  and perspective with the aim of creating a "music for the eyes." An
  important part of his filmmaking is to develop his own tools, often
  inspired by the less frequented by-ways in the history of science and
  technology. Films featured: #3 (1994), #23.2 Book of Mirrors (2002), #7
  (1996), and #11 Marey Moiré (1999). TRT 69 minutes, 35mm/16mm. With
  thanks to Celia Mercer/UCLA Animation Workshop. Tickets are $10 online,
  $9 general, $8 student and seniors.

11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
  ess otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
  (1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD
  (1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES
  (1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF
  WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
  Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
  This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
  camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films,
  BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.

11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 LA VIE NOIR
  BURCKHARDT & BURCKHARDT: LA VIE NOIR by JACOB BURCKHARDT & JIM NEU 2007,
  50 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; play directed by Keith McDermott;
  with Mary Shultz, Black-Eyed Susan, Tony Nunziata, John Costelloe,
  Agosto Machado, Chris Maresca, Deborah Auer, and Jim Neu. When eight
  strangers find themselves in a high-rise bar during a storm, it seems
  like a movie – even to them. That feeling grows as they discover
  inter-connections that seem beyond coincidence. As the intrigue
  intensifies, so does the storm, and the characters' survival may depend
  on the answer to the question, "Are we in it or at it?" During the
  theatrical run of LA VIE NOIR at La MaMa, the cast assembled for an
  extra performance so that Jacob Burckhardt could film it. Made under
  B-movie conditions, with only one long evening to complete the shoot,
  the film version captures the cinematic quality of the play in more ways
  than one. "Downtown ironist Jim Neu knows that the world of fedoras,
  shady ladies and rain-swept sidewalks has been creeping into our
  consciousness for decades." –Robert Simonson, TIME OUT NEW YORK & DUET
  FOR SPIES 1993, 23 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; camera and
  editing by Jacob Burckhardt. Two spies meet for a rendezvous over a
  crowded city expressway. Their thoughts go back to the key debriefing of
  their careers, and they find their separate memories to be strangely
  identical. A story of doubt and deniability, a dark post-cold-war comedy
  of individual and institutional delusions becoming one and the same. An
  adaptation of a play by Jim Neu, it was shot on exotic locations around
  the city. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.

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