This week [January 30 - February 7, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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This week [January 30 - February 7, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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"Memory Game" by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
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ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2010 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
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ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 26, 2010)
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Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FIlm Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2010)
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
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Media City (Windsor ON Canada; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: January 31, 2010)
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Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17, 2010)
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The Journal of Short Film Vol. 19 (Columbus, OH, United States; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
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Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Vic, Australia; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
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Crossroads (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: February 10, 2010)
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The 2010 Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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Go Short International film festival (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: February 01, 2010)
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IC Docs (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: March 06, 2010)
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DotFest - International Online Short Film Festival (Switzerland; Deadline: March 01, 2010)
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The International Surrealist Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: February 13, 2010)
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ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 26, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 * Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 3 [January 30, Los Angeles, California]
 * Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [January 30, New York]
 * Essential Cinema: October [January 30, New York]
 * Golden: the Polyphonic Aural Experience [January 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Another Day and Night In Japan [January 30, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 4 [January 31, Los Angeles, California]
 * Essential Cinema: Old and New [January 31, New York]
 * Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [January 31, New York]
 * Guardiaregia (1985) A Film By Giovanni Sampogna [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Bagerooo, Three! Recent Super 8 Filmmaking! [January 31, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 * Rr By James Benning [February 3, Seattle, Washington]
 * The Indian Boundary Line [February 4, Chicago, Illinois]
 * Essential Cinema: Nanook of the North [February 5, New York]
 * Essential Cinema: Man of Aran [February 6, New York]
 * Essential Cinema: Hollis Frampton [February 6, New York]
 * Circles of Confusion: A Hollis Frampton Film Retrospective Part 5 [February 7, Los Angeles, California]
 * Essential Cinema: Genet/Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie [February 7, New York]
 * Essential Cinema: Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner [February 7, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2010
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1/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00 pm, Pacific Design Center Silver Screen, 8687 Melrose Avenue

 CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 3
  Los Angeles Filmforum, Khastoo Gallery, and the Art Los Angeles
  Contemporary Fair are delighted to present CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a
  five-screening series of films by Hollis Frampton, from January 21 to
  February 7, 2010, with guest scholars and artists at each program to
  discuss his works and their influence on later artists. Los Angeles, CA
  90069-5730; (310) 657-0800; for information contact Khastoo Gallery or
  Los Angeles Filmforum. In conjunction with the Art Los Angeles
  Contemporary Fair, http://www.artlosangelesfair.com/ Free Panel
  following screening: Alex Klein (artist/curatorial fellow at LACMA);
  David James (USC film professor and Frampton scholar); Madison
  Brookshire, Michael Ned Holte Poetic Justice (Hapax Legomena II), 1972,
  31 min., silent Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena I), 1973, 36 min., sound

1/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
  by Sergei Eisenstein 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With English
  intertitles. Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid,
  super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous,
  inflamed emotion.

1/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER
  by Sergei Eisenstein 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
  intertitles; English synopsis available. Eisenstein celebrates the
  baroque in OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN,
  disappointing contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema"
  starts here.

1/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
7 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)

 GOLDEN: THE POLYPHONIC AURAL EXPERIENCE
  curated by Milada Kovacova. Experimentation, audacity, and revolt will
  be essential elements of Golden. This is a rehash. Expect no biases
  here. There is no inclination here of picture dominating sound. Audio
  plays as equal a part as the image. Golden is a random fusion of 5
  filmmakers with 5 audio artists continuously rotating so that each flick
  shapeshifts. Audio artists: Sym Corrigan, Ken Gregory, Darsha Hewitt,
  Taimaz Moslemian and Steve Reinke. Super 8 filmmakers: Deco Dawson, John
  Kneller, Nicholas Kovats, Tricia Martin and Midi Onodera. On the theme
  of "Golden".

1/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
9 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)

 ANOTHER DAY AND NIGHT IN JAPAN
  curated by Tomonari Nishikawa (in person!) This program consists of
  contemporary Japanese 8mm films, including six works shot on Fujifilm's
  "Single-8." It features a diverse selection from Japan's personal 8mm
  filmmakers, from a hand-processed experimental film to a short narrative
  with magnetic soundstripe. All films in Single or Super 8! Films by
  Toshiyuki Maeda, Maya Asaba, Eriko Sonoda, Akira Mizuyoshi, Mie
  Kurihara, Satoshi Yajimachi, Masaharu Oki, Kenji Onishi.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010
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1/31
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 4
  Los Angeles Filmforum and Khastoo Gallery are delighted to present
  CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a five-screening series of films by Hollis
  Frampton, from January 21 to February 7, 2010, with guest scholars and
  artists at each program to discuss his works and their influence on
  later artists. A Lecture, 1968, audio & performance, 23 min. Process
  Red, 1968, 3:30, silent Carrots and Peas, 1969, 5.5 min., sound Lemon,
  1969, 7.30 min., silent Surface Tension, 1968, 10 min., sound
  Palindrome, 1969, 22 min., silent Cadenzas I & XIV (Completed Pts The
  Birth of Magellan: 14 Cadenas), 1980, 11.25 min, sound
  email suppressed; www.lafilmforum.org Tickets:
  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95583

1/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW
  by Sergei Eisenstein 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. With Russian
  intertitles; English synopsis available. Known also as THE GENERAL LINE,
  OLD AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he
  developed and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the
  montage of characters in the foreground and background to conjure
  meanings, and "overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith.

1/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
  by Sergei Eisenstein 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm, b&w. In Russian with no
  subtitles; English synopsis available. "The first time in history a man
  has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned
  production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white
  machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a
  living hell – a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.

1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
7 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)

 GUARDIAREGIA (1985) A FILM BY GIOVANNI SAMPOGNA
  "Guardiaregia is the ancestral home of both my parents for well over
  1000-years and is located about an hour drive northeast of Naples two
  hours southeast of Rome. The village's name was given to us by the King
  of Naples during the renaissance age – it literally means, "The Kings
  Guardian" – even though the village itself is over 2000 years old. I was
  born in Australia, but grew up in Guardiaregia from age 3-7 & I have
  been back over a dozen times usually for 2-months or more. My dads
  family farm of over 400 years is still in operation there & opens this
  film. Y'arrr!!!" Originally made as Sampogna's thesis film (it remains
  the longest thesis film ever completed at Ryerson), Guardiaregia is a
  cinema-verite portrait of a daily agrarian life that has not changed
  much in the small town's 2000-year history. Guardiaregia was quickly
  transferred to video after shooting and has NEVER been shown on its
  original format. This night marks the one and only chance to see this
  extraordinary documentary projected on super 8 sound film! Guardiaregia
  (the Kings Guardian) Giovanni Sampogna Super 8, sound on film,
  Canada/Italy 1985 96 min.

1/31
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the 8 fest
9 pm , Canadian Corps Headquarters, 201 Niagara Street (Just South of King)

 BAGEROOO, THREE! RECENT SUPER 8 FILMMAKING!
  An exciting collection of new small gauge films and one rarely screened
  older film closes out this year's screenings! These films were selected
  from an international call for recent Super 8 films. Augmenting the
  selection of recent work is a new performance by local super 8
  filmmaker, Peggy Anne Berton. This year we saw an increase in
  submissions from Spanish-speaking countries and from filmmakers under
  the age of thirty, further proof that we're just scratching the surface
  of contemporary interest in small gauge filmmaking. Tonight's program
  features beautiful city symphonies, celebrations of childhood, gothic
  nightmares and abstractions drawn from an thoughtful attentiveness to
  the natural world--sometimes in the same film! All films in Super 8!
  Films by Rich Bahto (Los Angeles), Andres Victorero Rey (Ames, Spain),
  Jonathan Sajda (San Francisco), Cecilia Arenada (Winnipeg), Siue Moffatt
  (Toronto), Nicky Hamlyn (Lewes, UK), Gerald Saul (Regina), Ryan Hill
  (Regina), Paul Clipson (San Francisco), Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Madrid),
  Kevin T. Allen (Brooklyn), Brandon Fox (Boulder, CO), Helder Carvajal
  (Regina) and Peggy Anne Berton with Marc St Aubin (Toronto).

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
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2/3
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)

 RR BY JAMES BENNING
  Feb 03, 2010 (James Benning, USA, 2008, 16mm, 111 min) In 1895, the
  first film audience ever reportedly ran screaming from the theater
  during the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of a Train. Although today's
  moviegoers may be more comfortable with train footage, James Benning's
  RR promises a unique kind of cinematic experience for audiences.
  http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/series/1138

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010
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2/4
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6p.m., 164 N. State St.

 THE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE
  Thomas Comerford in person! Over the last eight years, local musician
  and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has been at work on a series of
  quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political,
  and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002;
  Land Marked/Marquette, 2005). This evening, Comerford will present the
  world premiere of The Indian Boundary Line (2010). The film follows, as
  Comerford notes, "a road very close to my home in Chicago, Rogers
  Avenue," which traces the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis boundary between the
  United States and "Indian Territory." In doing so, it examines the
  collision between "the vernacular landscape, with its storefronts,
  short-cut footpaths and picnic tables, and the symbolic one, replete
  with historical markers, statues, and fences." Through its observations
  and audio-visual juxtapositions, The Indian Boundary Line meditates on
  history and its relationship to the landscape, with its own shifting
  boundaries, designs, uses, and inhabitants across two centuries. With
  Land Marked/Marquette. Thomas Comerford, 2010, USA, DigiBeta video and
  16mm, ca. 75 min (plus discussion).

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
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2/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: NANOOK OF THE NORTH
  by Robert Flaherty 1922, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. The most
  enduring of all Flaherty's films for its simplicity of purpose,
  structure, and design. It ennobles its subjects rather than exploiting
  them. Sharp and uncluttered, the film relies on a few well-developed
  sequences which remain in the memory of the viewer.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
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2/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAN OF ARAN
  by Robert Flaherty 1934, 76 minutes, 35mm, b&w. Flaherty's third major
  film portrays the lives of a family of fisher folk on the Aran Islands
  off the coast of Galway, Ireland. Flaherty selected this location and
  subjects because of their isolation as the westernmost outpost of
  European civilization. In addition, the daily struggle between the
  islanders and the sea perfectly suited his interests and concerns. The
  scenes at sea are breathtaking. "His passionate devotion to the
  portrayal of human gesture and of a man's fight for his family makes the
  film an incomparable account of human dignity. Better than anyone,
  Flaherty knew how to show the true face of Man." –Georges Sadoul

2/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON
  ZORNS LEMMA 1970, 60 minutes, 16mm, color. "A major poetic work. Created
  and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex
  abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and
  beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it,
  don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light,
  possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." –Ernie Gehr
  & HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes, 16mm, b&w. "Nostalgia,
  beginning as an ironic look upon a personal past, creates its own filmic
  time, a past and future generated by the expectations elicited by its
  basic disjunctive strategy." –Annette Michelson "In nostalgia the time
  it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its
  two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton
  plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
  mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
  both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of
  his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic,
  mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors
  for most of Frampton's films." –P. Adams Sitney

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
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2/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 CIRCLES OF CONFUSION: A HOLLIS FRAMPTON FILM RETROSPECTIVE PART 5
  Los Angeles Filmforum and Khastoo Gallery are delighted to present
  CIRCLES OF CONFUSION, a five-screening series of films by Hollis
  Frampton, from January 21 to February 7, 2010, with guest scholars and
  artists at each program to discuss his works and their influence on
  later artists. email suppressed; www.lafilmforum.org Tickets:
  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95584 Introduction by David James
  (USC) Gloria, 1979, 9.5 min., sound Zorns Lemma, 1970, 60 min., sound

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

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GENET/ROBERT FRANK & ALFRED LESLIE
  Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean
  Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines
  of prison cells and a homophobic state…a powerfully resonant work that
  explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank &
  Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely
  spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with
  Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who
  offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never
  finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an
  incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're
  raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and
  one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner.
  But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like
  scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline.

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

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
  Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm, color,
  silent. "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to
  counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." –D.G. "Austere and
  chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure, density and
  rhythm."–William Moritz STOP MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
  silent. A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
  silent. "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A
  research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." –William Moritz
  Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm, color.
  Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera,
  embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old
  78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where
  suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy
  was our achievement as well as breaking out of step." –K.J. Ken Jacobs &
  Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up,
  b&w/color. 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.

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