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Date: Sat Dec 05 2009 - 07:01:06 PST
Part 2 of 2: This week [December 4 - 13, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009
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12/11
Fort Lauderdale: 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival
7 PM, 810 NE 4th Avenue
THE 2ND 1:1 SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
The 2nd 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival December 11, 2009 @ The BUBBLE - 810
NE 4th Avenue | Fort Lauderdale, FL Doors 7 PM + Show 7:30 PM $5
Suggested Donation | Filmmakers in Attendance | Special Guest Speaker
Alex Rogalski For the 2nd time in South Florida, and after 9 successful
years, the original One Take Super 8 Event presents the 2nd 1:1 Super 8
Film Festival. 25 independent filmmakers from South Florida and beyond
will load their cameras to take part in this year's spectacle. These
3-minute "masterpieces" will truly display the diversity and creativity
of independent filmmakers of South Florida. The 1:1 Super 8 Film
Festival and it's sister events are distinct film spectacles, in that
none of the films are viewed before the screening. The filmmakers are
not allowed to edit or preview their films prior to the screening. What
they shoot in camera is what is shown. There is no physical cuts or
splices allowed. There is no opportunity to make changes. Sound tracks
are prerecorded or performed live. One take! One night! This concept
leads to some exciting and refreshing films, and a rare opportunity for
public viewing. The 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival is happening December
11th, 2009 at The Bubble, 810 NE 4th Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. Doors
will open at 7 PM and the screening will begin at 7:30 PM. A $5
suggested donation will be accepted upon entry. After party to follow at
the Briny Riverfront located at 3045 South Andrews Ave., Fort
Lauderdale. Filmmakers will be in attendance at the screening, however
the program is subject to change. Special guest, Alex Rogalski will also
be in attendance and will be holding a short lecture before the
screening on the history of the One take Super 8 Event and the aesthetic
characteristics associated with super 8 filmmaking and exhibition.
12/11
London, England: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
7pm, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
FROM JOHN TO SEBASTIAN
Screening to include UK premieres of several new productions in a
programme that examines the wealth of strategies employed by
contemporary artists working with the moving image. During 2009
www.tank.tv has had the pleasure of exhibiting the work of eighteen
artists in a series of eighteen online solo shows. To celebrate the
range and quality of work shown tank.tv have invited nine of the artists
included in 2009's programme to screen a previously unseen work in the
Starr Auditorium at Tate Modern. The resulting programme will premiere
several new productions from emerging and world renowned artists working
with the moving image today, including: Alice Anderson, John Bock,
Sebastian Buerkner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jean-Charles Hue, Lisa Oppenheim,
Steve Reinke, Michael Robinson and Mark Aerial Waller. 2009's Solo Show
Programme on tank.tv was an attempt to survey the range of strategies
and styles that have and are being used by artists working with the
moving image. All eighteen solo exhibitions are available to view via
the tank.tv online collection at www.tank.tv. Programme duration 70mins
// Tickets £5 (£4 concessions), available through the Tate box
office.
12/11
London, England: tank.tv
http://www.tank.tv/
7pm, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
FROM JOHN TO SEBASTIAN
To celebrate the range and quality of work shown throughout tank.tv in
2009 tank.tv have invited nine of the artists included in this year's
programme to screen a previously unseen work in the Starr Auditorium at
Tate Modern. The resulting programme will premiere several new
productions from emerging and world renowned artists working with the
moving image today, including: Alice Anderson, John Bock, Sebastian
Buerkner, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jean-Charles Hue, Lisa Oppenheim, Steve
Reinke, Michael Robinson and Mark Aerial Waller. Programme duration
approx 70 mins // Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) available through the Tate
box office.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEDY
by Andy Warhol 1966, 67 minutes, 16mm. HEDY presents the adventures of
Hedy Lamarr, as she receives a face-lift, is arrested for shoplifting,
and goes on trial to face the accusations of her five former husbands.
Mario Montez gives one of his most outstanding performances in the title
role, and the film features appearances by Mary Woronov, Ingrid
Superstar, Gerard Malanga, and Jack Smith. Filmed with the usual amount
of Warholian chaos in a loft full of used furniture, HEDY also includes
live music by the Velvet Underground.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VINYL
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. An adaptation of Anthony
Burgess's novel, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, which is about as far from
Kubrick's version as possible. The misbehavior and reconditioning of the
young hoodlum Victor (Gerard Malanga) takes place in a claustrophobic
setting crammed with cast members and S&M practitioners. Though she had
a walk-on part in HORSE, VINYL marks the first significant appearance in
a Warhol film of Superstar Edie Sedgwick, who, though sitting silently
in the foreground throughout, somehow manages to steal the movie from
its ostensible stars.
12/11
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
7pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
AN EVENING WITH CHRISTINA BATTLE CO-PRESENTED BY PIFVA - PHILADELPHIA
INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO ASSOCIATION
Friday, December 11 at 8pm An Evening with Christina Battle Co-presented
by PIFVA - Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Christina
Battle has established herself as a significant artist and arts educator
in the Toronto film community since moving there from Edmonton in 2002.
She rigorously combines celluloid hand-processing techniques with a
variety of other imaging methods. Battle's tactile, DIY approach to film
production finds a powerful accompaniment in the themes she explores -
history and counter-memory, ideology and political mythology, gender,
and environmental catastrophe. Effectively, the combination of Battle's
processes and subject matter is a hand-to-hand artistic engagement with
some of our most pressing historical and contemporary issues. - Scott
Birdwise, Programmer, The Canadian Film Institute (2008). oil wells:
sturgeon road & 97th street dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2002, 16mm, 3
mins, color Highlighting the repetitive nature of oil wells in northern
Alberta, this hand processed film documents a sighting common to the
Canadian prairies, simultaneously managing to recall Cecile Fontaine's
delicacy of emulsion-layering technique while paying homage to Pat
O'Neill's 7362 (1967), and evoking with marvelous understatement the
grand prize at the heart of the imperialist resource wars. paradise
falls, new mexico dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2004, 16mm, 5 mins,
color The desert wind from America's Southwestern ghost towns blows
through the film's emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery
of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.
buffalo lifts dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2004, 16mm, 3 mins, color,
silent A herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they cross the
film frame. In a process called "emulsion lifting", the image of the
buffalos was produced by boiling the original pictures and resettling
them onto a new length of film. hysteria dir. Christina Battle, Canada,
2006, 35mm, 4 mins, b/w In hysteria, Battle refers more obliquely to the
contemporary political climate using schoolbook illustrations of the
Salem witch trials. She works the surface of the film in distinctive
ways, lifting the emulsion to add new wrinkles to the image one frame at
a time. - Chris Gehman & Andrea Picard, Toronto International Film
Festival three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck dir.
Christina Battle, Canada, 2006, 35mm, 5 mins, b/w, silent Inspired by
the diorama-like boxes of Joseph Cornell, and with text taken from
victims of hurricane Katrina, three hours, fifteen minutes before the
hurricane struck imagines moments just before a violent weather storm.
Behind the Shadows dir. Christina Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, 17 mins,
color Outside the window a storm like no other is taking shape. Behind
the Shadows documents the imagined moment when the delicate balance
between natural and developed worlds began to shift. As if caught in a
void between dream and reality, characters struggle to reconcile threats
from the outside environment. Inspired by natural disaster horror
movies, Behind the Shadows examines how popular media has shaped our
understandings of fear. wandering through secret storms dir. Christina
Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, 7 mins, color In the not-so-distant future,
an old government archive is discovered. As workers sift through the
files in an attempt to put them into context, a storm locked up since
the past is unleashed. suddenly everything changed dir. Christina
Battle, Canada, 2009, 16mm, color Looking back, the clues were clear.
But by the time the emergency crews took flight it was too late. Things
will never be the same.
12/11
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm free, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
ATA 25: QUARTER CENTURY OF ALTERNATIVE WORK A SELECTED SCREENING
To celebrate our staff and their work as artists and volunteers, ATA is
hosting a very special screening that includes work by founders, staff
and associates from early 80s to the present. Also, we will crack open a
mysterious Time Capsule buried under ATA over twenty years ago! ATA
Founders John Martin, Marshall Weber, Lise Swenson ATA Past Volunteers
Craig Baldwin, Carl Diehl, Kota Ezawa, John Fanning, Luke hones, Phil
Patero, Rigo 23, Konrad Steiner, Andrew Wilson ATA Present Volunteers
Karla Claudio Betancourt, Isabel Fondevila, Shae Green, Gilbert
Guerrero, Kent Howie, Ivan Jaigirdar, Dayv Jones, Ali Kashani, Lukas
Lukasic, Sam Manera, Mike Missiaen, Jon Olson, Kathleen Quillian, Linda
Scobie, Jon Shade
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2009
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12/12
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8pm, 5243 N. Clark
CRITICAL MASS: RE-VIEWING HOLLIS FRAMPTON
BIRTH OF MAGELLAN Hollis Frampton's unfinished Magellan Cycle was to be
the crowning achievement of the structuralist filmmaker's career, but,
in 1984, he died before he could complete it. Planned to run 36 hours in
length and to be viewed over the course of 371 days, the cycle loosely
follows Ferdinand Magellan's five-year journey around the world. Instead
of providing a linear narrative, Frampton breaks down the voyage into a
rediscovery of the tools of perception and social integration. This
screening is part of the citywide series CRITICAL MASS: RE-VIEWING
HOLLIS FRAMPTON. Other participants include Block Cinema, Doc Films,
Conversations at the Edge, White Light Cinema, and the University of
Chicago Film Studies Center. "By the time we have got out of school, we
have learned to punch in by 8:15 in the morning, we have learned to read
'no right turn,' we have also on our own looked at 15,000 hours of
unregulated, ungoverned, undecoded images that constitute our real
education. I grew up like that - everyone grows up like that, Magellan
is a film that, like all things (since I have not had the luxury of
perfect alienation, but only the partial luxury of imperfect alienation)
comes out of an imperfect understanding of my culture. It is probably
easiest to imagine it as a project if it is understood not as a project
in drama, or in literature, nor as a project in sculpture, but as one
that subsists as a work of sculpture in time rather than space." - HF
Program to include: MATRIX (1977, 28 min., 16mm), MINDFALL I & VII
(1977-80, 36 min., 16mm), CADENZAS I & XIV (1980, 11 min., 16mm).
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KITCHEN
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. Tavel's heterosexual satire was
filmed in a real kitchen, with Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau playing
an unhappy couple, Jo and Mikie. The action is interrupted by various
chaotic activities: the running of a blender which drowns out the
dialogue, the continual sneezing of Sedgwick and her co-stars, a
bustling houseboy played by Rene Ricard, and photographer David McCabe,
who repeatedly strides onto the set to take photos of the actors. Note:
The hair which appears in the frame is part of the film.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
JOSEPH CORNELL, PROGRAM 1 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent.
ROSE HOBART (1939, 20 minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8
minutes, 16mm) THE MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE
CHILDREN'S PARTY (1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955,
10 minutes, 16mm) AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5
minutes, 16mm, photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8
minutes, 16mm) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL
(1957, 3 minutes, 16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled
(found) images. ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY &
CHILDREN'S PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The
others were directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and
Rudy Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
running time: ca. 100 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE LIFE OF JUANITA CASTRO
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. An article written by Castro's
sister in 1964 inspired Tavel's script for this film, a subversive
avant-garde satire on Latin American politics in which Fidel Castro is
played by a woman, while Marie Menken stars as Juanita. The entire cast,
representing Castro's family, sits in rows of chairs grouped for a
family portrait. They all follow directions from Tavel, who sits in the
last row feeding the actors their lines, which they repeat in a mixture
of Spanish and English.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
(ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HORSE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 105 minutes, 16mm. Staged at the Factory with a
rented horse, this is a homoerotic parody of the Western genre. The
enacting of Tavel's script (followed with difficulty from cue cards held
up off-screen) takes place on a set crowded with evidence of the film's
production: mounted lights, a boom mic, assorted onlookers, and the
Factory doors and telephone all visible in the frame. The film may be
shown with either two or three reels. The 'action' occurs in Reels 1 &
3; Reel 2, a 33-minute 'documentary' shot of the horse standing in front
of the Factory doors, may be shown either in the middle or at the end of
the film. Any votes?
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jean Cocteau 1946, 93 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score by Georges Auric.
"Jean Cocteau's first full-length movie is perhaps the most sensuously
elegant of all filmed fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday
family life to the magic of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm,
with its Vermeer simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in
the Gustave Doré extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. In
Christian Bérard's makeup, Jean Marais is a magnificent Beast." –Pauline
Kael
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HARLOT
by Andy Warhol 1964, 67 minutes, 16mm. Warhol's first synch-sound
feature is an underground version of the Jean Harlow story with Mario
Montez in drag as the platinum-haired Hollywood sex symbol of the 1930s.
Staged as a kind of tableau vivant on a couch at the Factory, with
Montez occupying the center of a carefully composed group of Superstars,
along with a large white cat, HARLOT was the first film Tavel worked on
with Warhol, though it was not based on one of his scripts. Instead he,
Billy Name, and Harry Fainlight improvised the off-screen conversation
that dominates the soundtrack, while on-screen the film culminates with
Montez consuming copious quantities of bananas in highly suggestive
ways.
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
2pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
WORKING WITH THE LOOP – WORKSHOP/MASTER CLASS WITH CHRISTINA BATTLE
PRESENTED BY PIFVA - PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO ASSOCIATION
Saturday, December 12 at 2pm Working with the Loop – Workshop/Master
Class with Christina Battle Presented by PIFVA - Philadelphia
Independent Film and Video Association Continually turning back upon
itself and endlessly repeating, the loop creates a unique relationship
with viewers and allows artists not only to draw attention to, but also
to sculpt time in unique ways. With a DIY approach and working within
the confines of the loop, we will consider how working at the level of
the (16mm film) frame can allow artists to manipulate time using
handmade and manipulation techniques (painting, scratching, collage).
Price TBA
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
5pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
YERVANT GIANIKIAN AND ANGELA RICCI LUCCHI – FRAGMENTS AND ASSEMBLAGES
Saturday, December 12 at 5pm Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi –
Fragments and Assemblages Milan-based filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and
Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for their accomplished work with
archival footage derived principally from the 1910s and 1920s.
Thoughtfully juxtaposing images, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi also
re-photograph their material, adjusting the film's speed, adding tinted
color and spare soundtracks, and reframing the image to focus on key
details. Such meticulous manipulation encourages viewers to read the
footage instead of simply watching it, so as to consider not only what
the images mean, but how. The spare and intense films of Gianikian and
Ricci Lucchi wring both irony and a strange, mournful in the images they
select, bearing witness to the ravages of time and the destructive power
of the European nations and their armies. Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 dir.
Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Italy, 1981, 16mm, 56 mins,
color and b/w In 1977, Yervant Gianikian came upon a whole store of
9.5mm films dating from the beginnings of motion pictures to 1928 -
silent movies reproduced from 35mm copies (the originals of which have
been lost). There were Enrico Guazzoni's minor works, Il canto
dell'amore trionfante and Messaline of 1923, Arnold Fanck's 1926 Der
heilige Berg starring Leni Riefensthal, and a score of other,
unidentifiable fiction and documentary films. In wanting to show all of
human behavior, Karagoez: Catalogue 9.5 manages only to disclose our
most mysterious poses. Inventario Balcanico (Balkan Inventory) dir.
Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Gianikian, Italy, 2000,16mm, 62 mins, b/w
The accumulation of images of human and ecological disasters from the
former Yugoslavia prompted us to look for evidence of pre-existing
essential values, which could not possibly not exist. Records of life as
it was. Material for a film which celebrates life over conflict and
division. A work of analysis, based on formats no longer used, no longer
even projectable, to make indestructible the memories preserved in the
images we have found: films shot by amateurs, by travelers, by Nazi
soldiers in the Balkans. - Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi.
12/12
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/archivefever1.0.htm
7:30pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
JIM FINN - FABRICATIONS & RECYCLING
Saturday, December 12 at 7:30pm Jim Finn - Fabrications & Recycling
Director Jim Finn in person Jim Finn is a critically acclaimed filmmaker
who uses humor and historical fiction to examine ideology, capitalism
and revolutionary art practices. Interkosmos, the first of his trilogy
of feature-length films looking at Marxist ideology, was called "a retro
gust of communist utopianism" by the Village Voice and "charming and
fantastic, so full of rare atmospheres" by Canadian filmmaker Guy
Maddin. His second feature, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo
was listed by the Village Voice as one of 2007's top ten experimental
films. The Juche Idea dir. Jim Finn, US, 2008, video, 62 mins, color
Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? Jim Finn, the Busby
Berkeley of propaganda, follows a South Korean video artist in North
Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema. This is no kitsch
mockumentary, just a careful analysis of the love of cinema that is as
surreally funny as it is true. Isn't art revolutionary? - Cinevegas Film
Festival Free admission members above Internationalist level; $5
Internationalists; $6 students + seniors; $8 general admission. In
advance at TICKETWEB or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater
Box Office.
12/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: 'THE EARTH IS YOUNG' + 'ORIGINS' +
Just in time for the holidays! Michael Gitlin's The Earth Is Young is
based on a series of interviews with Young Earth Creationists, who find
evidence of a 6-day, 6,000-year-old Creation in their reading of the
geological record. These encounters are framed with depictions of the
slow work of dedicated paleontologists, pointing towards a world far
older and more complex, if no less fantastic. At times bordering on
science fiction, the hour-long piece elaborates an essay on the nature
of Science, and the physical and ideological tools with which one builds
a model of the world. ALSO: Ben Rivers' Origin of the Species engages
with a 70-year-old Scottish hermit, obsessed with "trying to really
understand" Darwin's book for many years, whilst working on small
inventions for making his life easier. PLUS implausible religious clips
from the Moody Institute, Left Behind series, Scientology, A.A. Allen,
and other kook cults. Free blood-red wine and pale-white crackers.
$6.66.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009
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12/13
Brooklyn, New York: DocTruck
www.doctruck.blogspot.com
6:00pm, 600 Vanderbilt Ave
THE THREE ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA IN A HOT, CRAMPED BASEMENT
A terrible evening in somewhat cold (not cold enough?) December.
DocTruck, a new, occasional, experimental, traveling documentary series
with more presents the stark, gloomy, spacious, kid-friendly, The Three
Rooms of Melancholia at Unnameable Books' awfully cluttered and
low-ceilinged basement, at six o'clock on a Sunday. Gin and no other
refreshment will be served. Warm gin. And snacks, but... There will
probably be chairs provided. The Three Rooms of Melancholia reveals how
the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in
Chechnya. Divided into three episodes or 'rooms,' the film is
characterized by an elegantly paced, observational style, which uses
little dialog, minimal voice-over commentary and a spare but evocative
musical score. Room No. 1, "Longing," set in a military academy in
Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg, portrays the highly regimented lives of
the young cadets, most of them from broken or dysfunctional families,
who are being trained for future roles in the Russian army. While
showing their military drills, classroom sessions, church ceremonies,
and recess period, the film briefly profiles several of the boys, whose
stories reflect the political turmoil of contemporary Russia. Room No.
2, "Breathing," filmed in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the former
Soviet republic fighting for its independence, shows the widespread
destruction wrought by the Russian shelling and bombardment, a city
where families struggle to survive in barely habitable buildings, packs
of stray dogs roam the streets, Russian military vehicles clog the
roads, soldiers monitor roadblocks, and a courageous woman attempts to
rescue orphaned or semi-orphaned children from the violence. Room No. 3,
"Remembering," filmed in the neighboring Islamic republic of Ingushetia,
focuses on children in refugee camps and in a makeshift orphanage,
including a young boy found living in a cardboard box, a 19-year-old
girl traumatized by her rape at the age of 12 by Russian soldiers, and a
roomful of children transfixed by televised images of the deadly
aftermath of the crisis in which a Moscow theater audience was held
hostage by Chechen terrorists. Unnameable Books is at 600 Vanderbilt
Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn The event is in the basement, next
to the broiler. Sunday, December 13 at 6pm
12/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION:
CONTEMPORARY FOUND FOOTAGE FILMMAKING, PART 2
Los Angeles Filmforum presents The Festival of (In)appropriation:
Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking, Part 2. Whether you call it
collage, compilation, found footage, detournement, or recycled cinema,
the incorporation of previously shot materials into new artworks is a
practice that has generated novel juxtapositions of elements which have
produced new meanings and ideas that may not have been intended by the
original makers, that are, in other words "inappropriate." In this
program, we bring together a selection of recent films from around the
world that appropriate footage from diverse sources in vastly different
ways, including The Ship by Brandon Downing, The Animated Heavy-Metal
Parking Lot by Leslie Supnet, The Legend of Pwdre Ser by Dave Griffiths,
Friend Film by Colin Barton, Alone by Gerard Freixes Ribera, The Acrobat
by Chris Kennedy, Emergence by Marcin Blajecki, Outlaw by Ann
Steuernagel, That's Right by Matthew Causey, Anemic Cinema with Z
Coordinate by Jorge Sa, The Motions of Bodies by Ann Steuernagel, Asleep
at the Wheel by Mike Maryniuk, Isolating Landscapes by Heidi Phillips,
The Last Interview in Exile by McLean Fahnestock, Profanations by Oriol
Sanchez. Los Angeles Filmforum, at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood
Blvd, at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028. 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.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEDY
See program notes for Dec. 11th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
by Jean Cocteau 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect
bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with
snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a
furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." –Georges Sadoul
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #1
See program notes for Dec. 10th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm. In French with English
subtitles. With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on
the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A
drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy
who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of
immortality."
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #2
See program notes for Dec. 10th.
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm. In French with no subtitles;
English synopsis available. To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative
artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology – the god of the lyre, song
and poetry – was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the
poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of
suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many
deaths."
12/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SPACE
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm. SPACE is based on a Tavel
scenario, in which various characters are supposed to recite lines from
eight unconnected scripts while Warhol's roving camera moves among them.
However, the large assembled cast – which includes Edie Sedgwick, as
well as folk singer Eric Andersen and Dorothy Dean – seems completely
uninterested in following the script, and SPACE transforms itself from a
Tavel film into an Edie Sedgwick film before our eyes.
12/13
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
11am-10pm $10 all day access, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
UNDERGROUND - EXPERIMENTAL - UNSTOPPABLE: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS!
Artists' Television Access was founded in 1984 by a group of young,
radical artists and activists committed to using video, performance, art
and education to progressing culture and community. Today, ATA continues
to provide a community venue for independent and alternative artists in
its Mission District storefront gallery. Over the past 25 years, ATA has
presented thousands of film and video screenings, performances, gallery
exhibitions and workshops. Help us get ready for another 25 years and
join us as we celebrate ATA's 25th anniversary with a day full of live
music, performances, installations, bbq, and a raffle wih great prizes!
The Lambs; Jeremy Dalmas and Friends; Young Prisms; Bare Wires; Ash
Reiter; Kacey Johansing; Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson (Electronic
& Ambient / Super 8 film); Eats Tapes; Psychic Reality; Rank/Xerox
Raffle Prizes include ATA DVD compilations and goodies from: Good
Vibrations, Landmark Theatres, Red Vic Movie House, Back to the Picture,
Therapy, Lost Weekend Video and SFMOMA.
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