From: Charles Chadwick (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Nov 14 2009 - 12:50:51 PST
Hey everyone. I have some 3374 kodak black and white print stock. Does
anyone know what the Asa of this is? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
-Charles
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> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
> ==============================
> * The Time We Killed [November 14, Houston, Texas]
> * Los Angeles As A Character [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
> * Immokalee, My Home [November 14, New York, New York]
> * Perestroika: Reconstruction of A Flat [November 14, New York, New
> York]
> * How I Am and Speech Memory [November 14, New York, New York]
> * Babaji, An Indian Love Story [November 14, New York, New York]
> * The Living [November 14, New York, New York]
> * Wondrous World of Laundry [November 14, New York, New York]
> * Mediamodes [November 14, New York, New York]
> * Ventana Al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Films
> [November 14, New York, New York]
> * J. Kroot's 'it Came From Kuchar,' With George & Mike! +
> [November 14, San Francisco, California]
> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents D.W. Griffith In California, With
> Talk By
> Tom Gunning [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
> * Dj Spooky and the Science of Terra Nova [November 15, New York,
> New York]
> * Blind Loves [November 15, New York, New York]
> * Performa: Futurist Life Redux [November 16, New York]
> * Early Monthly Segments #9 = Robert Todd In Person [November 16,
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
> * Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture From Silent
> Cinema To
> Avant-Garde Film [November 17, Berkeley, California]
> * By the Waters of Boston [November 17, Jamaica Plain, MA]
> * Orphee [November 17, Reading, Pennsylvania]
> * The Hydroacoustic Show [November 18, Chicago, Illinois]
> * Orange Alternative: Screening & Discussion Nov 18 & 19 [November
> 18, New York, New York]
> * Free Form Film Series Lay Down Tracks [November 18, San
> Francisco, California]
> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 18, Smithfield,
> NC, USA]
> * Look For Me: Animated Films By Laura Heit [November 19, Chicago,
> Illinois]
> * Open Screening: the West We Won [November 19, San Francisco,
> California]
> * Deborah Stratman: O’Er the Land [November 19, San Francisco, Cali
> fornia]
> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 19, Smithfield,
> NC, USA]
> * Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena [November 20, Philadelphia,
> Pennsylvania]
> * Exhibicion Luminosa [November 20, San Francisco, California]
> * “One Day When I Was Growing Up In the ‘60s…”: A Lecture By
> Yvonne Rainer [November 20, San Francisco, California]
> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 20, Smithfield,
> NC, USA]
> * The Search: New videos By Kyle Canterbury [November 21, Chicago,
> Illinois]
> * Stan Brakhage Program [November 21, New York]
> * Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena Pt. 2 [November 21,
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
> * Carousel Microcinema #1: Tree Claps Hand: Gentle Films For Tough
> Times [November 21, San Diego, California]
> * Other Cinema: Alcatraz Anniversary [November 21, San Francisco,
> California]
> * Yvonne Rainer: Journeys From Berlin/1971 [November 21, San
> Francisco, California]
> * Tropical Vulture: Ybcalive! George Kuchar & Miguel Calderon
> [November 21, San Francisco, California]
> * Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival [November 21, Smithfield,
> NC, USA]
> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour –
> Program
> 2 [November 22, Los Angeles, California]
> * Text of Light [November 22, New York]
> * Clair/Picabia/Bunuel Program [November 22, New York]
> * Los Olvidados [November 22, New York]
> * Yvonne Rainer: Privilege [November 22, San Francisco, California]
>
>
> Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
>
> ---------------------------
> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009
> ---------------------------
>
> 11/14
> Houston, Texas: Cinema Arts Festival
> http://www.cinemartsociety.org
> 1pm, Rice Media Center
>
> THE TIME WE KILLED
> The Time We Killed is the first feature by avant-garde filmmaker
> Jennifer Reeves, who had been generally known for her formal
> experimentation with optical printing and painting directly on film
> (as
> in the extraordinary When It Was Blue, screening Friday) and her
> exploration of a range of topics including women's sexuality, mental
> health and recovery, poetry, and dogs. The Time We Killed is a
> surprising departure, a remarkably assured narrative feature. The
> film's
> title has a double meaning, signifying both the boredom and
> isolation of
> the protagonist and her country's run-up to the Iraq war. It has
> the raw
> intimacy of a filmed diary as it focuses on the daily life of
> Robyn, an
> agoraphobic writer who shuts herself in her Brooklyn apartment
> after the
> events of September 11, 2001. It is a visually stunning and evocative
> meditation on Robyn's inner world filled with memories, past loves,
> childhood visions, and life failings. The imagery is beautiful,
> capturing the light reflecting on the East River and the nature
> surrounding Robyn, reflecting Reeves's avant-garde experience as a
> cinematic painter of light. The film won multiple awards at the
> Berlin
> Film Festival (2004), New York's Tribeca Film Festival (Best NY
> Narrative Feature 2004), and screened at the Whitney Museum, and at
> the
> Rotterdam, Sundance, and New York film festivals. —MDH
>
> 11/14
> Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
> http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
> 8:00 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado Bl.
>
> LOS ANGELES AS A CHARACTER
> The 2nd annual Los Angeles as a Character screening will be
> showcased on
> Saturday, November 14, 2009, at the Echo Park Film Center. A
> mixture of
> narrative, experimental and documentary short films and videos with
> the
> city of Los Angeles as a peripheral or central theme, backdrop or
> character will be shown. 10 films were chosen ranging from acclaimed
> urban journalist Mike Sonksen's (aka, "Mike the Poet") "I Am Alive In
> Los Angeles!!" (2008) - a vibrant look at the multi-faceted
> character of
> Los Angeles; "Dichotomy" (2009) - a short documentary by Laotian-
> born
> Van Veng reflecting the disparities between two distinct types of
> urban
> dwellers in downtown LA; Teenager Stephanie Cisneros' acclaimed "Echo
> Park: A Different View" (2005) captures a specific moment in time
> when
> gentrification began in Echo Park; film fest favorite "Homeless in
> Hollywood" (2009) by Hollis McLachlan follows an Australian
> emigrant who
> refuses to abandon his dream of acting despite having to live on the
> streets and curator Charles Doran screens his award-winning narrative
> "Ennui," described as "a horrific and comedic pastiche of the
> pretensions of the art school crowd, white guilt, and the 'posthuman
> condition." Other films include: "The New Los Angeles"(2009) – dir.
> Will
> O'Loughlen – a two minute field guide to making a better city, shot
> entirely on a Flip HD Camera. "Sunset to Sunset"(2009) – dir. Kent
> Hayward – a Super-8 mm time-lapse walk across LA starting at Sunset
> Junction in Silverlake, down Santa Monica Blvd. to the beach. "Los
> Angeles Through the Looking Glass"(2008) – dir. Jonathan Emrys –
> A photo
> essay, put into video format, attempting to characterize Los Angeles
> from the point of view of its relationship to the motion picture
> capitol
> of the world, Hollywood. "Naked Slave 4 Art Infomercial #2"(2009) -
> Johnny Naked. An infomercial soliciting the viewer to be part of
> the Los
> Angeles/Hollywood dream by inviting them to participate in the sale
> of a
> human being to be used as a personal art object/slave. "Misanthropia"
> (2009) - Jackie McBride. A timely story (told in depressingly grainy
> Super-8 b&w), about one man's downward spiral after being laid off
> and
> forced into a dispiriting temp job at the college he got his degree
> from. More information on the films and filmmakers can be found here:
> www.LAasaCharacter.org The Echo Park Film Center is located at:
> 1200 N.
> Alvarado Street, (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA 90026 Tickets are
> $5.00 and are available on the evening of the show
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 4:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> IMMOKALEE, MY HOME
> Immokalee, Florida, is at the heart of industrial agriculture in the
> United States. It also has the largest population of migrant farm
> workers in the state. These workers live in slave-like conditions:
> some
> are beaten, not given food or water, or not paid. Yet they continue
> to
> come from their homes in Mexico, Guatemala, and Haiti to earn money
> on
> these modern-day plantations. Visiting tomato fields, workers' homes,
> carnivals, and churches, the documentary recounts the community's
> struggle for farm workers' rights. What ultimately emerges is a
> tale of
> persistent hope for a better life. Directors Kevin T. Allen and
> Jennifer
> Heuson in person. World Premiere. Film precedes The Unforbidden
> City --
> A beer peddler bikes through the narrow alleyways of Beijing's
> fourteenth-century neighborhood known as Source Street. As he rides,
> collecting empties and delivering full bottles, he introduces us to
> other area residents. The grumpy Dong Tongju works in central
> heating.
> Gao Li fantasizes about a life as a lady of leisure, with the time to
> have her nails done and find just the right sofa. Old Wang
> meticulously
> records in his diary the banalities of each day, including the high
> temperature. Just beyond the tightly packed warren of single-story
> houses stands the gleaming National Grand Theater and the wide,
> freshly
> paved road leading out to the modern high-rises that represent the
> future of this forever expanding city. As a steady beat of pick axes,
> sledge hammers, and bulldozers closes in on their homes, the
> residents
> alternately prepare and despair for the day when Beijing's historic
> heart has no more room for them.
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 4PM , 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> PERESTROIKA: RECONSTRUCTION OF A FLAT
> Once the seat of the Russian Empire, the Baroque historic center of
> St.
> Petersburg is up for sale. Having had its architectural jewels
> hacked up
> into komunalka during the Communist era, the city is now experiencing
> the wake of perestroika reforms, where communal property promises
> capitalist-sized profits. In one flat on Marat Street, each of the
> four
> rooms is inhabited by a different family, all of whom share the
> bathroom
> and kitchen. When one owner decides to put her room on the market,
> she
> must also convince the others to sell. Enter the self-interested real
> estate agents and impatient buyers, and a frenzied unraveling of the
> already tenuous relationships ensues. As witness to the many
> intrigues
> involved in the sale, filmmaker Christiane Büchner brings us along
> for a
> sardonic ride with intractable neighbors through the cramped
> quarters,
> peeling-paint hallways, and water-damaged ceilings of Russia's new
> economy, which in the end head-butts against its Byzantine past.
> Director Christiane Büchner in person.
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 5:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> HOW I AM AND SPEECH MEMORY
> HOW I AM"I'm like a hermit on an island," is how Patrick, an autistic
> teenager, describes himself. Trapped in his own body, he attempts to
> reach others with "talk written down," his own poetic prose, which
> acts
> as a free-form guide through this intimate portrait of a disability.
> With a delicate hand, the filmmakers show Patrick's discomfort with
> the
> outer world of family and school as well as his affinity for the
> natural
> world. As the camera tries to reach through his disability, Patrick
> himself reveals the limitations of language as an expression of an
> inner
> life. SPEECH MEMORY Father and daughter try to build a posthumous
> portrait of the filmmaker's Korean grandfather. Born deaf in Japan
> during its occupation of Korea, Key Jin Yun was raised learning
> only to
> write and sign in Japanese. After Japan's defeat in 1945, the
> occupation
> ended and the boy and his family returned to Korea. Through the
> details
> of Key Jin Yun's life, Speech Memory examines the impact of
> immigration
> and cultural assimilation, revealing the shifting complexities of
> language, national identity, and memory. Filmmakers in Person
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 6:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> BABAJI, AN INDIAN LOVE STORY
> Baba Basant Rai buried his wife nine years ago, and yet still
> grieves.
> Prescribing and preparing traditional remedies, Babaji, as he is
> affectionately called, attends to the community outside Hazaribagh,
> in
> Jharkhand, India, curing fevers and stomach ailments as well as
> exorcising the malevolent ghosts that walk among them. As
> knowledgeable
> and accomplished as he is in using the natural world to help the
> sick,
> Babaji was unable to save his beloved wife. Digging a grave next to
> hers, he lies down in it and waits for death. Meanwhile, the people
> of
> the town depend on Babaji, who is rumored to be more than 100 years
> old.
> They marvel at his eccentricity and longevity, regarding him as a
> "star"
> and their road to possible notoriety. A portrait of one man's sorrow,
> the film is also a window into traditional Indian culture, its beauty
> and limitations, and how it struggles to accommodate, and resist,
> modernity. Director Jiska Rickels in person. US PREMIERE
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 6:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> THE LIVING
> Fed by four major rivers, Ukraine is a land of fertile steppes that
> used
> to be known as the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union. A Slavic culture
> that was once the hub of Europe, 20th century Ukraine has been
> carved up
> and dominated successively by Russians, Austro-Hungarians, and
> Soviets,
> all of whom recognized its strategic value. When Stalin implemented
> forced collectivization as part of his Five Year Plan to
> industrialize
> and de-privatize the USSR, he ordered Communist officials in the
> Ukraine
> to starve the resistant rural population. The resulting Holodomor was
> witnessed by few outsiders; one of these, British journalist Gareth
> Jones, left behind evidence in his personal diaries. While sharing
> entries of these piercing, first-hand accounts, director Sergiy
> Bukovsky
> juxtaposes propaganda cinema of the era showing a happy, productive
> peasant population against snippets of testimony of Holodomor
> survivors.
> Children at the time, these witnesses' scattered remembrances
> slowly fit
> together to complete a horrific chapter in Soviet history, which cost
> the lives of 25,000 Ukrainians each day. Filmmaker in person, US
> PREMIERE
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 8:30pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> WONDROUS WORLD OF LAUNDRY
> Freshly laundered sheets, crisp tablecloths, and fluffy bath towels
> adorn the bedrooms, dining rooms, and bath racks of Berlin's finest
> hotels. Surprising at it seems, those clean white linens are washed,
> dried, and pressed not at a nearby Berlin laundry but across the
> River
> Odra in a small town in neighboring Poland. Taking his camera to
> Widuchowa, German filmmaker Hans-Christian Schmid tours the border
> town
> where Fliegel Textile provides 24-hour turnaround service to its
> hotel
> clients. By meeting some of the female employees and their
> families, the
> film quietly exposes how the global marketplace is affecting small-
> town
> eastern Europe, where labor is cheaper and life is harder. Working
> shifts on a rotating seven-day, 24-hour schedule interferes with
> family
> life, so everyone, including the children, pitch in to ensure the
> housework and the cooking get done. But nurturing relationships with
> wives, husbands, and children requires more than paying the bills and
> ticking off chores, and as the lure of better-paying jobs calls more
> townspeople abroad, these workers struggle to keep their families
> together. US PREMIERE
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: School of Visual Arts
> http://www.mediamodes.com
> 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., School of Visual Arts
>
> MEDIAMODES
> The School of Visual Arts presents MediaModes, an interdisciplinary
> graduate conference on critical thinking at the intersection of art
> and
> technology, with a keynote address by noted critic and scholar
> Jonathan
> Crary. The conference will be held Saturday, November 19th at the SVA
> Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York City. All events are free and
> open
> to the public. For more information and a schedule of events, please
> visit www.mediamodes.com.
>
> 11/14
> New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
> http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
> 8 PM, 66 East 4th St
>
> VENTANA AL SUR: AN EVENING OF ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
> This rollicking evening of challenging, expressive and oppositional
> Argentine cinema offers a window onto makers shredding formal
> niceties,
> relishing in risk and daring to access the sublime. From an achingly
> beautiful evocation of an hourglass to a darkly humorous
> evisceration of
> the tenets of the stock market, this program will take us to the land
> where summer is winter and winter is summer and render our souls
> topsy-turvy for a bit too. For the last two summers NYC experimental
> filmmakers Mark Street and Lynne Sachs immersed themselves in the
> Buenos
> Aires film community through a variety of collaborative cinematic
> endeavors. In addition to shooting Super 8 movies with their artist
> peers in town, Street and Sachs spent time meeting and watching the
> works of local moving image makers – some young bucks and some vete
> rans
> who have been expanding the parameters of the medium since the early
> 1960s. Tonight's artists include: Ernesto Baca, Enrique Bernacchini,
> Macarena Gagliardi., Ruben Guzman , Narcisa Hirsch, Leandro Katz,
> Leandro Listorti, Pablo Marin, Liliana Porter, Tomas Rautenstrauch,
> Sergio Subeero, and Diego Trerotola. We will serve sweet dessert
> churros
> and other Argentine delicacies in the lobby before the show. Contact:
> Mark Street at email suppressed or Lynne Sachs at
> email suppressed
>
> 11/14
> San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
> http://www.othercinema.com/
> 8:30, 992 Valencia St.
>
> J. KROOT’S 'IT CAME FROM KUCHAR,' WITH GEORGE & MIKE! +
> Two legends of underground filmmaking—twin brothers George and Mike
> Kuchar—are the subjects of Jennifer Kroot's new doc, affording a
> hilarious and at times bittersweet intro to these Mission-based
> kitsch-meisters. Since the '50s, when the teenaged twins wowed the
> art
> world with their 8mm extravaganzas, they have continued their
> low-budget, totally idiosyncratic pursuit of cinematic expression.
> Alongside Warhol and Anger, the Kuchar brothers were pioneering
> members
> of the '60s New York underground, and they've since inspired John
> Waters, Guy Maddin, Pedro Almodovar, Todd Solondz, and thousands
> more.
> Director Kroot is here in the flesh to present her stars and answer
> questions, before the show climaxes with the '65 'Sins of the
> Fleshapoids.' Free wine, $8.
>
> -------------------------
> SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2009
> -------------------------
>
> 11/15
> Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
> http://www.lafilmforum.org/
> 7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 Alvarado Street (at Sunset)
>
> LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS D.W. GRIFFITH IN CALIFORNIA, WITH
> TALK BY
> TOM GUNNING
> For fans of early film, and of Southern California history! We're
> delighted to host the internationally-renowned film scholar Tom
> Gunning,
> who will talk about Griffith's time in California, and these
> selected,
> rarely screened films made in So Cal in the years before World War I.
> All in 16mm with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick.
> Films:
> Man's Genesis (1912, 17 min); The New Dress (1911, 17 min.); The
> Massacre (1914, 20 min); The Unchanging Sea (1910, 14 min.); The
> Sands
> of Dee (1912, 17 min); The Female of the Species (1912, 17 min) Los
> Angeles Filmforum, at the Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado
> Street
> (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles CA 90026. 213-484-8846. Sunday
> November 15,
> 2009. 7:30 pm. General admission $10, students/seniors $6, free for
> Filmforum members.
>
> 11/15
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 4pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> DJ SPOOKY AND THE SCIENCE OF TERRA NOVA
> Join us for a behind-the-scenes peek of the latest multimedia
> creation
> by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, whose Rebirth of a Nation redefined
> D.W. Griffith's racist 1915 film about the American Civil War. With
> Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctic, he turns his attention to global
> climate
> change, specifically its effects on the world's only uninhabited
> landmass, Antarctica. Using sounds recorded during a visit to the
> frozen
> continent and images culled from AMNH archives, DJ Spooky
> demonstrates
> how he created Terra Nova, discussing his project with Heidi Cullen,
> director of communications and senior research scientist at Climate
> Central, a nonprofit foundation created to provide science-based
> assessments of climate change and options for addressing it. Andrew
> C.
> Revkin, an environmental reporter for The New York Times, whose Dot
> Earth blog examines efforts to balance human affairs with the
> planet's
> limits, will moderate the event.
>
> 11/15
> New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American
> Museum of Natural History
> http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2009/
> 6pm, 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
>
> BLIND LOVES
> Sitting around the parlor one afternoon in their home in Levoča,
> Slovakia, Peter and Iveta imagine an underwater world, him noodling
> on
> the piano, her knitting vigorously. Director Juraj Lehotský obliges
> the
> married couple's fantasies, rendering them in a fanciful vignette.
> But
> neither Peter nor Iveta can see it. They are both blind. Combining
> moody, low-light cinematography, an artist's eye for composition,
> and a
> sharp ear for quotidian sounds, Blind Loves depicts the day-to-day
> world
> of the blind, rich in other sensory experiences. NY Premiere
>
> -------------------------
> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
> -------------------------
>
> 11/16
> New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 8: 00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> PERFORMA: FUTURIST LIFE REDUX
> FUTURIST LIFE REDUX Commissioned by Performa with SFMOMA. Co-
> presented
> by Performa and Anthology Film Archives for Performa 09. The only
> officially 'Futurist' film ever made, VITA FUTURISTA (FUTURIST
> LIFE) was
> devised in 1916 by a committee of Futurist artists including Arnaldo
> Ginna, Giacomo Balla, Remo Chiti, Bruno Corra, and F.T. Marinetti.
> Comprised of eleven independent segments conceived and written by
> different artists – with the whole film shot, edited, and generally
> overseen by Ginna – FUTURIST LIFE directly took up several ideas
> proposed in "The Futurist Cinema" manifesto written earlier in the
> same
> year, contrasting the spirit and lifestyle of the Futurist with
> that of
> the ordinary man in a series of humorous sketches, many of which used
> experimental techniques such as split screens and double exposures.
> The
> final, 40-minute FUTURIST LIFE premiered at the Niccolini Theatre in
> Florence in 1917, as part of a program with four sintesi (very short
> plays) by Emilio Settimelli and Corra, and live poetry readings by
> Settimelli and Chiti of the works of several Futurist writers. It
> was a
> failure with the audience, who threw stones and other objects at the
> screen, and was generally forgotten soon after it came out. The only
> known copy of this film was lost several decades ago, and now all
> that
> remain are written accounts by Ginna and the journal L'ITALIA
> FUTURISTA,
> as well as a few still images. Now, for the Performa 09 biennial,
> Performa and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) have
> joined
> together to commission a diverse group of thirteen contemporary
> American
> film and video artists – Trisha Baga, Chamecki-Lerner, Martha Colbu
> rn,
> Ben Coonley, Lynn Hershman, George Kuchar, Shana Moulton, Shannon
> Plumb,
> Aida Ruilova, Matthew Silver & Shoval Zohar (The Future), and Michael
> Smith – to create their own, 3-5 minute versions of the eleven segm
> ents
> in VITA FUTURISTA, re-imagining this film in relation to our own
> future.
> These shorts will then be compiled into one, all-new version of
> FUTURIST
> LIFE for the 21st century, making its New York premiere at
> Anthology on
> this evening. Curated by Lana Wilson (Performa) with Andrew Lampert
> (Anthology). Special thanks to RoseLee Goldberg (Performa) and Frank
> Smigiel (SFMOMA).
>
> 11/16
> Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
> http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
> 7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
>
> EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #9 = ROBERT TODD IN PERSON
> Robert Todd is the most prolific of filmmakers, completing forty
> films
> in the last ten years alone. Trained as a painter, Todd carefully
> observes his Boston surroundings and re-presents them to us with an
> astute sense of form. His films are works of magnification, employing
> macro-focus lenses, and an eye for detail that bring us closer to
> levels
> of reality we often miss. His films can reveal the forgotten beauty
> of
> the natural world or the hidden stillness in busy parts of the
> city. The
> works in this program date from the last three years and wrestle with
> themes such as the corporeal elements of the body; places and
> moments of
> passage; and the fleeting glimpses of, or hauntings by, spirit.
> *Special
> thanks to Ben Donoghue and LIFT for helping to make this event
> possible*
> Programme: Interplay, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2006, USA, 6.5 min.
> Qualities
> of Stone, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2006, USA, 11 min. Dig, Robert Todd,
> 16mm,
> 2007, USA, 3 min. Passing, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2008, USA, 4 min.
> Antechamber, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2008, USA, 12 min. Rose, Robert Todd,
> 16mm, 2008, USA, 9 min. Repair, Robert Todd, 16mm, 2009, USA, 15
> min. @
> the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West Tuesday November
> 17,
> 2009 | 7:30pm screening, $5 *Robert Todd's Stable will be showing
> at a
> LIFT screening November 21 at Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara Street (Just
> West of Bathurst). More info at www.lift.on.ca
> http://www.earlymonthlysegments.org
>
> --------------------------
> TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2009
> --------------------------
>
> 11/17
> Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
> http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
> 7:30 PM, 2575 Bancroft Way
>
> JESTERS AND GESTURES: PERFORMING YIDDISH CULTURE FROM SILENT CINEMA TO
> AVANT-GARDE FILM
> Films by Abraham Ravett: Everything's For You ( 1989) , 58 min., 16mm
> ----- The March ( 1999). 25 min., 16mm--- "non-Aryan" ( 2009) 12
> min.,
> 16mm
>
> 11/17
> Jamaica Plain, MA: JP Tuesday Club
> http://www.loring-greenough.org
> 7:30 pm, Loring Greenough House, 12 South St
>
> BY THE WATERS OF BOSTON
> A night of film and video by Saul Levine and Adam Paradis. If you
> like
> challenging cinema and cozy atmosphere, we'd like to see you at the
> third monthly film screening at the Loring-Greenough House in JP. The
> doors open at 7pm, and the show begins at 7:30. Admission is $4.
> Bring a
> friend and pass it on.
>
> 11/17
> Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
> www.berksfilmmakers.org
> 7:30 pm, Albright College
>
> ORPHEE
> Orphee (1947, 95 min.) by JEAN COCTEAU In this, the second of
> Cocteau's
> Orpheus trilogy, Cocteau employs his unique blend of French classical
> and surrealist/modernist mise-en-scene. The filmmaker (artist, poet,
> novelist, playwright) described the ideal viewer of his films as one
> "open to my dream and agree[ing] to be put to sleep and to dream it
> with
> me (accepting the logic by which dreams operate, which is implacable,
> although it is not governed by our logic). I am only talking about
> the
> mechanics, since Orphée is not at all a dream in itself: through a
> wealth of detail similar to that which we find in dreams, it
> summarizes
> my way of living and my conception of life."And in the same text :
> "Mirrors: we watch ourselves grow old in mirrors. They bring us
> closer
> to death." -Jean Cocteau, The Art of Cinema
>
> ----------------------------
> WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009
> ----------------------------
>
> 11/18
> Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400
> http://gallery400.blogspot.com/2009/10/hydroacoustic-show.html
> 7:00pm, 400 S. Peoria Street
>
> THE HYDROACOUSTIC SHOW
> At 20,000 leagues below the sea everyone can hear you scream – that
> 's
> the nature of sound and water after all, and (maybe) that's why we
> call
> all those vibrations dazzling our skulls by the oceanic descriptor
> WAVEFORMS. Just ask Alex Halsted – she was born into water, under w
> ater,
> knows wet and sound better than all of us combined. For the last
> month
> in Gallery 400 she's been humoring our earth-ears with her rhythmic
> pulses, and now it's time to return the favor. And so, submitted
> for her
> approval: an aqua-opera in 7 stanzas, a capital-SEA-composition in as
> many verses. From that silent surface (Hutton) to the scratch and
> curl
> of the fevered deep (Gatten); betwixt a siren-spongebob-song (Best)
> and
> a flicker score for the Red Sea (Holthuis); with whale chorus
> (Clark),
> octo-electronica (Painleve), and gurgling pop tune (Rist) – this is
> a
> kino-song for the best Nigerian Elephant-nosed Fish we'll ever know.
> Here's To You, Alex. FEATURING: Study of A River by Peter Hutton
> (16:00,
> 16mm, 1996-97), What the Water Said Nos 4-7 by David Gatten (17:00,
> 16mm, 2007), Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob by Masta Best (3:46,
> video,
> 2007), Amours de la pieuvre (Love Life of the Octopus) by Jean
> Painleve
> (14:00, 16mm on video, 1965), I'm a Victim of This Song by Pipilotti
> Rist (5:06, video, 1995), Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis (15:00,
> 35mm on video, 2004), Sound Over Water by Mary Helena Clark (6:00,
> 16mm,
> 2009)
>
> 11/18
> New York, New York: Bluestockings & Change You Want to See
> 7:00, Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street
>
> ORANGE ALTERNATIVE: SCREENING & DISCUSSION NOV 18 & 19
> Each event will include a presentation, film/video screening, and
> discussion. Different films will be screened each night. Wednesday,
> November 18, 2009, 7:00 pm Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street @
> Stanton, NY, NY Films: The Orange Alternative, 1989, Mirosław
> Dembiński (21 min.) Dwarves go to Ukraine, 2005, Mirosław
> Dembińskim (on the OA action in the Orange Revolution in 2004)
> Thursday, November 19, 2009, 7:30 pm The Change You Want to See 84
> Havemeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY Films: Major or the
> Revolution of Dwarves, 1989, Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz (40 min.)
> Dwarf for
> the Mayor, 2003, Mirosław Dembiński (36 min.) (on the OA's
> election campaign for the City Council in Warsaw) About the Orange
> Alternative: The Orange Alternative is an underground anarchic
> movement,
> which was started in 1981 in Wroclaw, south-west Poland, by Waldemar
> Fydrych aka "Major." Somewhat inspired by Provos, and strongly
> influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism, it painted absurd graffiti
> dwarfs
> on city walls, which became its symbol and organized massive
> happenings
> oftentimes with participation of thousands of people wearing dwarf
> hats.
> It was one of the more picturesque elements of Eastern European
> opposition against communism. website: www.orange-alternative.org
> Waldemar "Major" Fydrych was born in Torun, Poland on April 8, 1953.
> Graduated in History and Art History at the University of Wroclaw.
> Founder of the Orange Alternative. In March 1988, he was arrested for
> distributing women's hygienic napkins in the street. Sentenced to
> three
> months of prison but released following public uproar.
>
> 11/18
> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
> http://www.atasite.org/
> 8pm. $6., 992 Valencia St. at 21st
>
> FREE FORM FILM SERIES LAY DOWN TRACKS
> Five American nomads "hit the road" in this sprawling 16mm
> documentary
> feature. A beautiful and remarkable love letter to travel. Dir:
> Danielle
> Lombardi and Brigid McCaffrey Additional Films: Fledgeling - Tony
> Gault,
> Elizabeth Henry (Denver, Co) Faces on Mars - David Borengasser (San
> Francisco) CLOSING PERFORMANCE: Live Performance by Add Oil
>
> 11/18
> Smithfield, NC, USA: Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival
> 7:30m, 109 South Third Street
>
> AVA GARDNER INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
> The Third Annual Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival celebrates
> Ava's
> passion for the Arts and her love for Independent Films, live music,
> parties, and so much more. November 18-21, 2009
>
> ---------------------------
> THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009
> ---------------------------
>
> 11/19
> Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
> http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
> 6pm, 164 N. State St
>
> LOOK FOR ME: ANIMATED FILMS BY LAURA HEIT
> Laura Heit in person! Poignant and smart, the animated films of
> puppet
> artist and SAIC alumna Laura Heit employ stop-motion, live action
> puppetry, hand-drawing, and computer animation. Heit is the co-
> director
> of the experimental animation department at CalArts and her
> award-winning work has screened extensively at museums and film
> festivals around the world. This program showcases her films from the
> last twelve years and features a special live performance of her
> acclaimed puppet-show-in miniature, The Matchbox Shows. Films
> include:
> Parachute (1997), an allegory following a young woman as she leaves
> home; Collapse (2002), a 2D computer animation tracing a single
> tragic
> moment; The Amazing, Mysterious and True Story of Mary Anning and Her
> Monsters (2003), about the little-known paleontologist Mary Anning;
> and
> Look For Me (2005), a Channel 4 UK television commission imagining
> one's
> own invisibility. 1997–2005, USA, multiple formats, ca. 65 min.
>
> 11/19
> San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
> http://www.atasite.org/
> 7pm Door, 8PM $5, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
>
> OPEN SCREENING: THE WEST WE WON
> ATA's open screening is the only monthly open submissions screening
> in
> the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and
> take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open
> revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the
> refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing
> artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a filmmaker? Come and hang
> out
> with us anyway: Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the
> people,
> the refreshments Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title
> and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week
> advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good.
> Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and
> 16mm
> All genres. More Info: contact Katy at email suppressed
>
> 11/19
> San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
> http://www.sfcinematheque.org
> 7:00 pm, SFMOMA -- 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard)
>
> DEBORAH STRATMAN: O’ER THE LAND
> Deborah Stratman in-person -- [members: $7 / non-members: $10]
> ----- A
> committed cinematic explorer, Deborah Stratman's essayistic film work
> resembles that of James Benning and Vanessa Renwick in its
> examination
> of landscape and locale as well as its poetic contemplation of
> ideology
> and belief. Presented as a series of patient observances of
> competitive
> spectacle and masculine display, her epic "O'er the Land" channels
> the
> dark side of the American psyche, presenting a savagely poetic
> meditation on the contemporary culture of violence, territoriality
> and
> patriotism through studies of gun culture, war reenactments and
> border
> conflicts. Including a telling of the story of Lt. Colonel William
> Rankin -- a USMC pilot who survived being trapped in the updrafts
> of a
> thunderstorm for forty-five minutes following an emergency ejection
> at
> 48,000 feet -- O'er the Land describes a stark and disturbing world
> of
> survivors and warriors. Yet against this grim backdrop, a rich, even
> redemptive exposition of the American landscape emerges. Also
> screening:
> Stratman's Paranormal Trilogy ("How Among The Frozen Words", "It Will
> Die Out in the Mind" and "The Magician's House") and her 1993 film
> "Palimpsest."
>
> 11/19
> Smithfield, NC, USA: Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival
> http://www.myspace.com/AvaGardnerFilmFestival
> noonish, 109 South Third Street
>
> AVA GARDNER INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
> The Third Annual Ava Gardner Independent Film Festival celebrates
> Ava's
> passion for the Arts with Independent Films, live music, parties,
> and so
> much more. November 18-21, 2009
>
> -------------------------
> FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009
>
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>
>
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