From: Bryan Wendorf (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Feb 06 2010 - 10:14:49 PST
We didn't get this posted to Flicker in time for this week's listings
so here it is...
The Chicago Underground Film Festival is now accepting submissions for
our 17th festival to be held June 24 – July 1 2010 at the Gene Siskel
Film Center. Early Deadline is March 1 2010, Final Deadline March 15.
For entry forms and guidelines please visit http://www.cuff.org
Since 1994, the Chicago Underground Film Festival has presented the
finest in new underground, experimental and documentary film and
video. In 2008 the festival entered into a partnership with
IFP/Chicago and in 2009 the festival moved to the state of the art
Gene Siskel Film Center. 2010 will mark another major change for the
festival as we move from our traditional fall dates to the spring.
2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival jury selected the following
works as festival winners. Our 2009 jury was comprised of Patrick
Friel (White Light Cinema/Onion City Film Festival), Adam Hart
(University of Chicago Experimental Film Club) and author and media
activist Anne Elizabeth Moore. Winning films were given one of a kind
hand-made trophies designed by Chicago artist Luke Breckon.
Best Narrative Feature: Blondes In The Jungle (Whitney Horne and Lev Kalman)
Best Narrative Short: All Ghost Women Play The Theremin (Jerzy Rose)
Best Documentary Feature: It Came From Kuchar! (Jennifer Kroot)
Best Documentary Short: Me Broni Ba (Akosua Adoma Owusu)
Best Experimental Film: Jaws (Sabine Gruffat)
Best Animation: Elfmädchen (Mirka Morales)
Made In Chicago Award: Somewhere Only We Know (Jesse Maclean)
Audience Award: American Radical- The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
(David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier)
On 2/6/10, Weekly Listing <email suppressed> wrote:
> This week [February 6 - 14, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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> NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
> ============================
> "Memory Game" by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=411.ann
> "STEVEN" by Ankur Mittal
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=410.ann
>
> NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
> =====================
> ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February
> 26, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1128.ann
> Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FIlm Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1129.ann
> Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: March 31, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1130.ann
> Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1131.ann
> Videoex festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1132.ann
> 6th Renderyard Short Film Festival (London; Deadline: July 31, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1133.ann
> Odds and Ends (Portland, Oregon. USA; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1134.ann
> Im:mobil Art (italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1135.ann
> Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival, extend its
> deadline (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1136.ann
> International Talent Workshop - Zagreb Jewish Film Festival (Zagreb,
> Croatia; Deadline: April 01, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1137.ann
>
> DEADLINES APPROACHING:
> ======================
> Media City (Windsor ON Canada; Deadline: February 19, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1088.ann
> Bicycle Film Festival (New York, NY, United States; Deadline: February 17,
> 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1094.ann
> Around the Coyote (Chicago, IL; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1107.ann
> Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Vic,
> Australia; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1110.ann
> Crossroads (San Francisco, CA USA; Deadline: February 10, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1112.ann
> IC Docs (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: March 06, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1121.ann
> DotFest - International Online Short Film Festival (Switzerland; Deadline:
> March 01, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1122.ann
> The International Surrealist Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline:
> February 13, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1125.ann
> ARTSFEST Film Festival, 12th Annual (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February
> 26, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1128.ann
> Videoex festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1132.ann
> Im:mobil Art (italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1135.ann
> Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival, extend its
> deadline (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2010)
> http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1136.ann
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> THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
> ==============================
> * 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]
> * Man Ray On Film [February 10, New York]
> * When It Was Blue [February 10, Seattle, Washington]
> * An Evening With Dara Birnbaum [February 11, Chicago, Illinois]
> * Nmc: Live Cinema Summit [February 11, Chicago, Illinois]
> * Gdr Underground Films [February 11, New York]
> * 75 Years In the Dark: A Partial History of Film At Sfmoma [February 11,
> San Francisco, California]
> * Electromediascope [February 12, Kansas City, Missouri]
> * Banned Broken Sky / Bene Brocani Schifano [February 12, New York, New
> York]
> * Personal Cinema Series - David Baker [February 13, New York, New York]
> * Essential Cinema: Une Simple Histoire [February 13, New York]
> * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Kristina Talking Pictures By Yvonne
> Rainer [February 14, Los Angeles, California]
>
>
> Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
>
> --------------------------
> SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
> --------------------------
>
> 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
>
> ------------------------
> SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010
> ------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------
> WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2010
> ----------------------------
>
> 2/10
> New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> MAN RAY ON FILM
> In conjunction with the exhibition ALIAS MAN RAY: THE ART OF REINVENTION
> at The Jewish Museum, Anthology will be screening a program of the films
> Man Ray created or worked on during the course of his career. A
> trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed
> multiple artistic identities over the course of his career � Dadaist,
> Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer �
> and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer,
> painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker. Best known as a
> photographer, Man Ray in fact moved from one medium to another as he
> defied aesthetic boundaries. Like his fellow Dadaist and close friend
> Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray took delight in playing games and confounding
> expectations. With his steadfast independence and his need to explore
> every artistic avenue, Man Ray forged a vision that changed the very way
> art was conceived. ALIAS MAN RAY: THE ART OF REINVENTION will be on
> display through March 14, 2010 at The Jewish Museum, located at 5th
> Avenue at 92nd Street. For more information, please visit:
> www.thejewishmuseum.org. Very special thanks to Andrew Ingall & Jennifer
> Mock (The Jewish Museum). Man Ray LE RETOUR ? LA RAISON (1923, 2
> minutes, 16mm) ?TOILE DE MER (1927, 13 minutes, 16mm) EMAK BAKIA (1927,
> 18 minutes, 35mm) LES MYST?RES DE CH?TEAU DE D? (1929, 27 minutes, 35mm,
> with French intertitles) Fernand L?ger with Dudley Murphy BALLET
> M?CANIQUE? (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
> Archives.) Ren? Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes,
> 35mm) Marcel Duchamp with Man Ray ANEMIC CINEMA (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm)
> Total running time: ca. 115 minutes.
>
> 2/10
> Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
> http://www.nwfilmforum.org
> 8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
>
> WHEN IT WAS BLUE
> (Jennifer Reeves, 2008, USA, DigiBeta, 60 min) Jennifer Reeves's epic,
> years-in-the-making When It Was Blue presents an experience of a world
> that is both visceral and fleeting. Photographed in 16mm over many years
> in various waters and terrains, an elaborate montage connects diverse
> ecosystems spanning from the northeastern USA, to Iceland, Canada's
> Pacific coast, New Zealand and Central America.
> http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/series/1138
>
> ---------------------------
> THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
> ---------------------------
>
> 2/11
> Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
> http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
> 6p.m., 164 N. State St.
>
> AN EVENING WITH DARA BIRNBAUM
> Dara Birnbaum in person! Thirty years before the ubiquitous YouTube
> mashup, artist Dara Birnbaum hijacked television imagery in a series of
> coolly ironic videos that recontextualized pop cultural icons (Wonder
> Woman, Kojak, Laverne and Shirley), TV grammar (inserts, two-shots,
> wipes), and genres (soap operas, sitcoms, game shows) to reveal their
> ideological subtexts. Birnbaum described her videos as late-20th-century
> "ready-mades"--works that "manipulate a medium which is itself highly
> manipulative." Now renowned as a pioneer in televisual appropriation,
> she is currently the subject of a major retrospective that began at
> S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium, and will tour to Museu Funda��o Serralves in
> Porto, Portugal, later in the spring. This evening, Birnbaum will
> present an overview of her practice, with examples from her seminal
> early videos (Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-79; Pop Pop
> Video: General Hospital/Olympic Speed Skating, 1980), music videos and
> commercial spots (Airbreak for MTV Inc., 1987), gallery installations
> (Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission, 1989-90), large-scale,
> interactive outdoor pieces (Rio Videowall, 1989), as well as her latest
> works. Dara Birnbaum, 1978-2010, USA, multiple formats, ca. 90 min (plus
> discussion).
>
> 2/11
> Chicago, Illinois: New Media Caucus
> http://www.newmediacaucus.org/
> 5 PM - 10:30 PM, Columbia College Chicago, Conway Center - 1104 S Wabash
> Ave, 1st floor
>
> NMC: LIVE CINEMA SUMMIT
> The Live Cinema Summit is a one-night-only showcase of ten national and
> international artists/artist collectives working in the emerging field
> of real-time audio-visual performance, and will feature performances by:
> Noisefold, Barbara Lattanzi, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, Robert Martin,
> Jon Satrom, Potter-Belmar Labs, DataIRJ, Black and Jones, jonCates, and
> Alessandro Imperato as well as several Columbia College students. The
> event begins at 5pm, and features a full line-up of back-to-back live
> cinema performance-demonstrations with break-out discussions and plenty
> of room for dialogue. Note: This evening only, trolleys complimentary
> Columbia College Chicago (CCC) will be continually transporting to/from
> the Hyatt starting at 5:30-9pm | makes stops at all CCC galleries and
> the Conaway Center.
>
> 2/11
> New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> GDR UNDERGROUND FILMS
> 1983-89/1997, 97 minutes, video. In German with English subtitles.
> Includes films by Helge Leiberg, Gino Hahnemann, Cornelia Schleime,
> Cornelia Klauss, Via Lewandowsky, Thomas Frydetzki, Claus L�ser, Tohm di
> Roes, Thomas Werner, and Ramona K�ppel-Welsh. Though the State had a
> monopoly on film production in East Germany (the German Democratic
> Republic, or GDR), it was not absolute. An underground film scene made
> up of painters, poets, musicians, and performance artists flourished
> from the 1970s-80s outside official channels. This program features a
> selection of ten Super-8mm films from this fascinating and provocative
> movement, many of whose members � including Helge Leiberg, Via
> Lewandowsky, and Cornelia Schleime � are now leading figures in the
> international art world. "It's amazing (and gratifying) to realize that
> such 'subversive' films were made in the GDR." �Amos Vogel, FILM AS A
> SUBVERSIVE ART
>
> 2/11
> San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
> http://www.sfmoma.org
> 7 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94103
>
> 75 YEARS IN THE DARK: A PARTIAL HISTORY OF FILM AT SFMOMA
> In 1937, Grace McCann Morley set up a screen and some chairs in the
> rotunda of the War Memorial Veterans Building (SFMOMA's first home) and
> showed films: D. W. Griffith, Walt Disney, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on
> the Western Front, and the first ever Movietone newsreel featuring
> George Bernard Shaw. She believed that film, the 20th century's very own
> visual art form, should have a place in a museum of modern art. From the
> beginning, it's been an eclectic and inclusive mix: high- and lowbrow;
> shorts and features; fiction and documentary; studio, independent, and
> artists' films; video and digital media. For our anniversary, we invited
> three guest curators to explore film in the context of the history of
> modern visual arts and assemble programs from three successiveeras. In
> Programs 1, 2, and 3, Scott MacDonald, one of the country's foremost
> film historians, looks at 1937 through 1960. Steve Anker, dean of the
> School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, covers
> 1960 to 1985 in Programs 4 through 6 (screening in March and April).
> Former SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Benjamin Weil selects from 1985 to
> the present in Programs 7 through 9 (May). The Europeans: Creating a
> Context The Smiling Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, 1922, 35 min.; Study
> No. 7,Oskar Fischinger, 1931, 3 min.; Rain, Joris Ivens, 1929, 15 min.;
> Composition in Blue, Oskar Fischinger, 1935, 4 min.; Carmen, Lotte
> Reiniger, 1932, 11 min.; A Colour Box, Len Lye, 1935, 5 min.; The
> Vampire, Jean Painlev�, 1945, 9 min.;Swinging the Lambeth Walk, Len Lye,
> 1940, 3 min. For more information:
> http://www.sfmoma.org/events/series/1319
>
> -------------------------
> FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
> -------------------------
>
> 2/12
> Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
> http://www.nelson-atkins.org
> 7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
>
> ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
> "The film and videos in 'Shifting Frames of Reference' navigate new
> narrative pathways and inventive cinematic experiences without relying
> on text or dialog. Instead, framing, cinematography and editing are used
> by these artists to emphasize more liminal and connotative forms of
> observation and empathetic awareness at the thresholds of perception. Lu
> Chunsheng and Seoungho Cho's video works examine and call into question
> local experiences that ultimately have to do with how we know and
> re-imagine the world, and how our bodies know and respond to both inner
> and outer space. Ken Kobland and Ernie Gehr explore beauty and the
> pleasure of shifting visual perceptions of places that have been
> constructed and inhabited over time." �Patrick Clancy. "Ideas of Order
> in Cinque Terre," Ken Kobland (USA), 2005, 32 min., digital video.
> "Horizontal Silence," Seoungho Cho (South Korea), 2003, 8:31 min.,
> digital video. "ws.2," Seoungho Cho (South Korea), 2004, 8:06 min.,
> digital video. "I Left My Silent House," Seoungho Cho (South Korea),
> 2007, 8:51 min., digital video. "Before the Appearance of the First
> Steam Engine," Lu Chunsheng (China), 2003, 35 min., digital video shown
> on DVD. Program continues on February 19 and 26.
>
> 2/12
> New York, New York: Lucca Film Festival
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
> 7.15pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
>
> BANNED BROKEN SKY / BENE BROCANI SCHIFANO
> B a n n e d B r o k e n S k y B e n e B r o c a n i S c h i f a n o a t
> A n t h o l o g y F i l m A r c h i v e s , F e b 1 2 t h t o 1 4 t h -
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> curated by Andrea Monti and Alessandro De Francesco (press conference
> and reception: Thursday Feb 11th 6pm at Italian Cultural Insitute of New
> York) This series is a triple homage to three of Italian cinema's most
> important independent filmmakers � Carmelo Bene, Franco Brocani, and
> Mario Schifano � whose long-lasting friendships and collaborations with
> each other were interrupted only by the early deaths of Schifano (1998)
> and Bene (2002). Though their artistic sensibilities were very different
> � Bene for instance was far better known as a playwright and theater
> director than as a filmmaker, while Schifano was a renowned painter �
> they all lived and worked in Rome in the 1960s and 70s, a period of
> remarkably rich artistic and cultural activity. Though all three sought
> to achieve a profoundly personal form of cinema, they resisted
> identifying with the Italian underground scene, preferring to make
> narrative films (albeit strikingly experimental ones) in order to effect
> a revolution in cinema that would reach audiences beyond the confines of
> the avant-garde. This series offers a rare opportunity to see a
> selection of their work, featuring five films (several recently
> restored) that are rarely, if ever, screened in the U.S., and that are
> as interrelated as they are impossible to categorize. F I L M S I N P R
> O G R A M : FEB 12 7:15 PM NECROPOLIS Franco Brocani 1970, 92 minutes,
> 35mm. In English, German, French, and Italian with English subtitles.
> Photography: Ivan Stoynov. Starring Viva, Pierre Cl�menti, Tina Aumont,
> Louis Waldon, Carmelo Bene and Paul Jabara. FEB 12 9:30 PM
> SCHIFANOSAURUS REX Franco Brocani 2008, 65 minutes, video. Tribute to
> Mario Schifano, Pop italian painter. In Italian with projected English
> subtitles. Music by Andrea Monti. FEB 13 6:30 PM OUR LADY OF THE TURKS /
> NOSTRA SIGNORA DEI TURCHI Carmelo Bene 1968, 125 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm
> blow-up. In Italian with projected English subtitles. FEB 13 9:15 PM
> SALOM� Carmelo Bene 1972, 80 minutes, 35mm. In Italian with projected
> English subtitles. FEB 14 6:30 PM UMANO NON UMANO Mario Schifano 1969,
> 95 minutes, 35mm. In Italian with projected English subtitles. With
> Adriano Apr�, Carmelo Bene, Franco Brocani, Mick Jagger, Alberto
> Moravia, Anita Pallenberg, and Keith Richards. For further info, email
> email suppressed
>
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> SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
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>
> 2/13
> New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
> http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
> 8pm, 66 East 4th Street
>
> PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - DAVID BAKER
> In his second one-person program at Millennium, NYC artist David Baker
> will give a magic lantern presentation with an accompanying reading from
> related surrealist texts (15 min.). He will screen four digital film
> works: FOLK FORMS (Iwerks Analytic) (11:42 min.-2009), SOTTO VOCE (6:00
> min.-2009), EGYPT 8MM (Grisaille) (20:27 min.-2009), AB OVO (10:41
> min.-2009). "The sorcery of an "inverted anthropomorphism" as it
> reverberates in analogous forms will be the subject of this evening's
> presentation. In prelude, a magic lantern demonstratio�n will be given �
> opals, agates, gemstones and minerals (to discern aleatoric
> calligraphies played out patiently over thousands of years), then
> optical illusions, anamorphosi�s through the prism of a dissident branch
> of 1930's surrealism. With The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois as
> Baedeker-resemblances, hidden recurrences, impossible scribblings in
> nature will be set next to digital film works." - D.B.
>
> 2/13
> New York: Anthology Film Archives
> http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
> 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
>
> ESSENTIAL CINEMA: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
> by Marcel Hanoun 1958, 68 minutes, 16mm, b&w. In French with no
> subtitles; English synopsis available. "Based on a true incident, the
> film chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and
> lodging in Paris. This is the only plot, and Hanoun has little interest
> in embellishing it with background and motivation: he never even makes
> it clear, for example, whether the woman is the child's mother, guardian
> or companion. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a formal
> stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that it
> makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost Fellini-esque
> by comparison." �TIME
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> SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010
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>
> 2/14
> Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
> http://www.lafilmforum.org/
> 7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
>
> LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES BY YVONNE
> RAINER
> Los Angeles Filmforum presents KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES Part 5 (of 8)
> of Bodies, Objects, Films: An Yvonne Rainer Retrospective At the
> Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles Over
> the course of our 2009-2010 seasons, Filmforum is proud to present a
> full retrospective of the media works of Yvonne Rainer. One of the most
> significant artists in dance and film of the last fifty years, this is
> the first full retrospective of her films in Los Angeles. Please note
> that Rainer will not be present at this screening Admission $10 general,
> $6 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase
> available through Brown Paper Tickets:
> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/95589 KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES
> (1976, 90 min., 16mm, color) Rainer continued her preoccupation with the
> contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a
> female lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a
> choreographer.
>
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