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This week [December 19 - 27, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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Faux Film Festival (Portland OR, USA; Deadline: December 31, 2009)
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Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, United Kingdom; Deadline: December 26, 2009)
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Boston Science Fiction Film Festival (Boston, MA, USA ; Deadline: December 21, 2009)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Friendly But Starving ii: An Evening of Avant-Garde & Experimental Films [December 19, Austin, TX]
* The Films of Dave Gearey [December 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Eggeling/Cavalcanti Program [December 19, New York]
* Shorts Program [December 19, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Conrad, Jacobs & Fleischner Program [December 19, New York]
* James Nares Program [December 19, New York]
* 30+ Years of Film @ International House the Janus Collection [December 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Other Cinema: New Experimental Works [December 19, San Francisco, California]
* Beryl Sokoloff Program [December 20, New York]
* Ccsf Student Film Showcase [December 20, San Francisco, California]
* Lyon/Davidovich./Stoney Program [December 21, New York, New York]
* The Black Banana [December 22, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2009
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12/19
Austin, TX: Austin School of Film
http://austinfilmschool.org
7:30pm, 906 E. Fifth Street
FRIENDLY BUT STARVING II: AN EVENING OF AVANT-GARDE & EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
The 2009 Artist Salon & Screening Series presents Friendly but Starving
II: An Evening of Avant-Garde & Experimental Films on December 19, 2009,
at 7:30pm. A mind blowing exhibition of Super 8 Cinema. Witness the
talent and meet the artists at this year's Avant-Garde & Experimental
Filmmaking showcase. This special evening will take place at the Austin
School of Film and include a Q&A with the artists in attendance.
12/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00pm, Anthology Film Archives, 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue
THE FILMS OF DAVE GEAREY
The Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island invites
you to celebrate 36 years at CUNY with the films of Dave Gearey,
including TWO MEN (3 min, 1972), FOOTAGE (10 min, 1975), STREAM RAPID
FALLS (22 min, 1978), BRANCHES (6 min, 1975), 3% VISION (11 min, 2000),
THE BLACKBURN PAINTING (5 min, 2008), SIX BITS FOR RAY (5 min, 2008).
Dave Gearey will be present and admission is free.
12/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EGGELING/CAVALCANTI PROGRAM
Viking Eggeling SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE 1924, 8 minutes, 35mm, silent.
Alberto Cavalcanti RIEN QUE LES HEURES 1928, 52 minutes, 35mm, silent. A
"city symphony" interweaving documentary, experimental and narrative
elements that provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. Total
running time: ca. 65 minutes.
12/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHORTS PROGRAM
Matthew Silver BEWARE OF THE HOT DOG PEOPLE (2002, 5 minutes,
16mm-to-video) Michael Jackson, the open highway, and pizza. Rip Torn
THE BEARDING OF THE PRESIDENT (ca. 16 minutes, 16mm) This short
experimental political satire, unearthed during the lead-up to our Rip
Torn retrospective last spring, features Torn impersonating Richard
Nixon, a role he would later revisit in much more conventional
circumstances, as part of a 1979 CBS TV movie. A strange and funny
investigation into the shady realms of media, performance, and Nixonian
psychology. J. Hoberman CARGO OF LURE (1974, 14.5 minutes, 16mm)
Hoberman's single-shot journey up the Harlem River is both a rigorously
minimalist filmic experiment and a disarmingly beautiful record of a
part of the city that generally goes unnoticed. Greg Sharits TRANSFER
(12 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm. Preserved with support from the National
Endowment for the Arts.) Employing colored 8mm leader and letraset
numbers, letters, and symbols, Greg Sharits created this intense
masterpiece, which is surely on par with anything made by his older and
more renowned brother, Paul. Jose Rodriguez-Soltero JEROVI (1965, 11.5
minutes, 16mm. Preserved with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts.) Directed by the gifted avant-garde filmmaker
Rodriguez-Soltero, who passed away earlier this year, JEROVI celebrates
narcissistic desire and the physical act of self-love. Matthew Silver
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (2006, 30 minutes, 16mm/DV. Made in
collaboration with Bogdan Szabo.) What do you really need to know about
a film called IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME? Total running time: ca. 95
minutes.
12/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CONRAD, JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Tony Conrad THE FLICKER 1966, 30 minutes, 16mm, sound. Mathematical and
rhythmical orchestration of white and black frames. Ken Jacobs & Bob
Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up.
Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support
of the Film Foundation, the National Film Preservation Foundation, Simon
Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative – no, not
really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of
delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination
suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with
American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-strictured
and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation with style…
enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a
regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JAMES NARES PROGRAM
In May 2008 Anthology hosted the first complete retrospective of
painter/filmmaker James Nares. While perhaps most recognized by
cinephiles for his no-wave period piece ROME 78, Nares has produced an
extensive, exciting body of moving image works that continually defy
gravity and expectations. This single-program survey includes a generous
selection of short works spanning more than 30 years and concludes with
the premiere of two brand new videos. "James Nares's films are like
luminous jewels scattered in the dirt – as varied and striking as his
paintings, his photographs, and his train of thought." –Jim Jarmusch
DRIP (2007, 2 minutes, video) Rhythmic video music made by dropping
stones on stones. RAMP (1976, 3 minutes, Super-8mm-to-16mm) A concrete
ball on the off-ramp to the old West Side Highway. WAITING FOR THE WIND
(1982, 7.5 minutes, Super-8mm-to-16mm) "A technical tour de force. Nares
creates a tornado-like catastrophe with a hand-held Super-8 camera, a
shooting ratio of three to one (about $100 worth of film stock), and
remarkable timing." –Amy Taubin, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS WEATHER BED (1991, 3
minutes, video) Tracking a storm in the bedsheets. SUICIDE ? NO, MURDER
(1977, 30 minutes, Super-8mm-to-16mm) Nares returns, an aspiring angry
young man, to England, the home of his youth. His simmering discontent
is reflected in the maelstrom of late-70s cultural upheaval. HAMMERED
(1991, 2 minutes, video) Narrow escape from a rain of hammers. WITH GOD
ON OUR SIDE (2008, 5 minutes, video) RIDING WITH MICHAUX (2009, 5
minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
12/19
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Film @ International House Philadelphia
http://www.ihousephilly.org/januscollectionwinter0910.htm
7pm, 3701 Chestnut Street
30+ YEARS OF FILM @ INTERNATIONAL HOUSE THE JANUS COLLECTION
30+ Years of Film @ International House THE JANUS COLLECTION Truly one
of our national treasures, American film culture without Janus Films is
unimaginable. Film @ International House is celebrating 30 + years with
a selection of titles from Janus' extraordinary collection, all in
brand-new or restored 35mm prints. Here's your chance to celebrate their
achievements and to be dazzled all over again by highlights from their
incomparable collection. Saturday, December 19 at 7pm Jeanne Dielman, 23
Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France,
1975, 35mm, 201 mins, color, French w/ English subtitles A singular work
in cinema history, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine
of a middle-aged widow whose chores include making the beds, cooking
dinner for her son and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous
spareness, Akerman's film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire
world. Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment
that has been analyzed and argued over for decades. Free admission
IHouse 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.
12/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
person—are Carl Diehl's Mind Children Get Headaches, Shalo P's The Spy,
Andrew Mooney's Flok, David Cox' Flash Memory, Richard Mitchell's
Well-Tempered Clavier, and Robbyn Alexander's A Spell to Catch a
Firefly. ALSO recent pieces by Bryan Boyce, Karla Betancourt, Myrina
Tunberg, Karl Lind, James Hong/Yin-Ju Chen, and others TBA. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009
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12/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
BERYL SOKOLOFF PROGRAM
Anthology hosted a retrospective this past spring devoted to Jim
McBride, whose landmark cinema-vérité satire DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY is
justifiably a cult favorite. But the series established without a doubt
that there is much more to McBride's career, marking the re-discovery of
several incredible films, including the two personal documentaries
screening here, the bona fide vérité follow-ups to HOLZMAN. MY
GIRLFRIEND'S WEDDING 1969, 60 minutes, 16mm. A fascinating profile of
McBride's English girlfriend, Clarissa Ainley. With his camera almost
entirely trained on her, McBride explores Clarissa's life and loves, her
feelings about her parents and children, and documents her greencard
marriage to a man she has only known for a week. However, as the film
progresses, the most revealing truths are about the person behind the
camera. PICTURES FROM LIFE'S OTHER SIDE 1971, 45 minutes, video. The
third film of McBride's 'documentary' trilogy, PICTURES follows Jim and
Clarissa in a journey across the U.S., waiting for a baby and looking
for a place to settle. Crude, witty, or plain scenes of everyday life
compose a moving portrait of early-70s America – an uncharted country, a
generation with no direction home.
12/20
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30PM door, 8Pm screening $4, 992 Valencia St, at 21st
CCSF STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE
Join CCSF Department of Cinema's Motion Picture Directing class for a
screening of the 2009 final film projects. The showcase features a
variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing
Students: Joshua Bewig, Andreas Blair, Krisana Horachaikul, Nick
Petrick, Mark Pope, Robert Sawyer, Sophia Rivera, Miranda McCauley,
Mandel Lum, Daniel Kaminsky, Moises Joshua Contreras, Green Le Fluer,
Melissa Kalestrom, Jaime Gonzales. Music, Drinks, lots of fun
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2009
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12/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LYON/DAVIDOVICH./STONEY PROGRAM
Danny Lyon BORN TO FILM 1982, 33 minutes, 16mm. One of the highlights of
our retrospective devoted to the photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon.
"…[I]ntimately autobiographical, interspersing footage of Lyon's own
young son with film shot in the 1930s by Lyon's father, a doctor who
emigrated from Germany… Lyon's passionate vision has deepened and grown
in resonance and the film is not just family or even social history, but
about human continuity, the power of instinct to survive, the grace that
love and play bring to it, the wonder of being alive." –Thomas Albright,
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Jaime Davidovich SALUDOS AMIGOS! 1982, ca. 20
minutes, video. A classic of cable access by the master of the medium,
Jaime "Dr. Videovich" Davidovich. "SALUDOS AMIGOS! is a documentary
about Lubbock, Texas, where the denim-suited doctor chases armadillos
and discusses television, race and the Vietnam War with Christopher B.
'Stubbs' Stubblefield, founder of the legendary Texan BBQ
establishment-cum-music-venue." –Leah Churner George Stoney HOW TO LOOK
AT A CITY 1963, 28 minutes, 16mm. One of the more than two-dozen films
made by Stoney, along with collaborators, celebrating New York City.
Urbanologist Gene Raskin demonstrates what "makes it work" in this film
from the Channel 13 series, METROPOLIS, CREATOR OR DESTROYER. Total
running time: ca. 85 minutes.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009
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12/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE BLACK BANANA
by Ben Hayeem 1976, 71 minutes, 16mm, color. We're particularly thrilled
to present an encore screening, co-presented with BIDOUN MAGAZINE, of
Ben Hayeem's unmissable, unfathomable wonder. Born and raised in Bombay,
Hayeem (1933-2004) made a number of well-regarded films and was close
with experimental film pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early
in his career he joined the Living Theater group in New York and became
the only Indian Jew to play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a
Brecht play. This comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him
down the path to the rather incredible and risqu? happenings in THE
BLACK BANANA. The original promotional notes inform us that, "In this
zany, ribald Middle Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt
against the parental and conventional authority, represented by
old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and Texans. … Despite its message of peace and
good will between Jew and Arab, THE BLACK BANANA has the distinction of
being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity
and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board." Plus:
PAPILLOTE (1964, 10.5 minutes, 16mm) FLORA (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total
running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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