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This week [April 17 - 25, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Everybody dies in Lonely Town" by Andrew T. Cutler
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The Journal of Short Film Vol. 20 (Columbus, OH, United States; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Video Art Festival Miden (Kalamata, Greece; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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CortopotereShortFilmFestival (Bergamo, Italy; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
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L'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2010)
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Lucca Film Festival 2010 (Lucca, Tuscany - Italy; Deadline: July 31, 2010)
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zwergWERK - Oldenburg Short Film Days (Oldenburg, Germany; Deadline: August 15, 2010)
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Experimental Media Festival (Washignton; Deadline: September 13, 2010)
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Fargo-Moorhead LGBT FIlm Festival (Fargo, ND, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2010)
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Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2010)
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Real Light ((touring this fall); Deadline: April 24, 2010)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2010)
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 19, 2010)
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Contemporary Arts Center (Las Vegas, NV; Deadline: May 10, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Thundercrack! [April 17, New York]
* George Kuchar Shorts Program [April 17, New York]
* Secrets of the Shadow World [April 17, New York]
* Other Cinema, 4/17: Cump's California Is An Island + Denning + Bravos + [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 2 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 3 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 4 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 5 [April 17, San Francisco, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Stephanie Barber: Little Presents [April 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Mike Kuchar Program 1 [April 18, New York]
* Mike Kuchar Program 2 [April 18, New York]
* Secrets of the Shadow World [April 18, New York]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 6 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 7 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads: A Festival of New and Rediscovered Film - Program 8 [April 18, San Francisco, California]
* Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break With Exit [April 19, Los Angeles, California]
* La Raison Avant La Passion [April 19, New York]
* Animation! [April 20, Jamaica Plain, MA]
* Brand Upon the Brain [April 20, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival [April 22, Cambridge (UK)]
* Crime Wave [April 23, San Francisco, California]
* Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries [April 24, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Ucla Film & Television Archive, In Association With Los Angeles
Filmforum, Presents Intersections: Poetry/Film [April 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [April 24, New York]
* Closer Than they Appear - Eggleston, Huron, Smith - At Krowswork [April 24, Oakland, CA]
* Other Cinema, 4/24: Kerry Laitala & Eats Tapes + Pad Mclaughlin + [April 24, San Francisco, California]
* Barbara Hammer In Person [April 24, Seattle, Washington]
* The Ucla Film & Television Archive, In Association With Los Angeles
Filmforum, Presents Intersections: Poetry/Film [April 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [April 25, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010
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4/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
THUNDERCRACK!
by Curt McDowell 1975, 152 minutes, video. Written by and featuring
George Kuchar. ULTRA-RARE SCREENINGS OF THE COMPLETE VERSION! "Witness
if you dare, the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film,
complete with four men, three women, and a gorilla. Ecstasy so great
that all heaven and hell becomes just one big old Shangri-La! … With the
initial setup of an atmospheric gothic horror tale – dark stormy night
breakdown featuring a creepy old house on the hill – it quickly turns
into a bawdy, graphic, and darkly comic orgy. Dead drunk, horny, and
delirious Marion Eaton commands the screen as one of cinema's weirdest
female characters, while George Kuchar falls madly in love with a
gorilla. … The most dialogue you will ever see in porn and the most porn
you will ever see in a melodrama, THUNDERCRACK! is a volatile marriage
of genres, fluid sexuality, and depraved perversion." –D.A. Johnston,
FRAMELINE
4/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 Second Avenue
GEORGE KUCHAR SHORTS PROGRAM
LIBIDO LAGOON (2009, 30 minutes, video) The plot involves the corruption
of a Christian community by the vapors that emanate from those baptized
in Libido Lagoon: a drainage pond for everything vile and vitalizing
(below the belt)." – G.K. BURRITO BAY (2009, 25 minutes video) "This
video diary/travelogue centers on a tropical trip to Acapulco where
yours truly hits both sand and surf with maximum impact. The actual
movie that's being documented throughout this video bit the dust via a
hard-drive malfunction, so this is almost all that remains (so far) of
the doomed yet enjoyable venture." –G.K. CALORIE COTTAGE (2010, 10
minutes, video) "Encompassing both Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the
exploding New Year's Eve celebrations, this holiday video is chock full
of chicken and chatter befitting the season. Come join the merry mayhem
as young and old devour what's left of the old year to burp up the new
one!" –G.K. THE HAIRY HORROR (2009, 10 minutes, video) "A chance
encounter with a sober student reveals the mystery of a woodland wonder
that has left a mark on his youthful psyche just as it leaves huge
footprints on the forest floor. –G.K. MELLOW MAGIC (2009, 15 minutes,
video) "The viewer is whisked through a lovely cat-house, which also
includes a turtle along with the whiskered pets, and then is suddenly
immersed in the painted output of my old (yet still young and vibrant
looking) friend, Michelle Joyce. The artist's positive outlook, in
contrast to my up and down yo-yo swings, makes for a saucy finale of
simmering meatballs in this rosy colored stew of our own making." –G.K.
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. Screening as part of KUCHAR BROTHERS
FESTIVAL
4/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD
by George Kuchar 1998-99, 140 minutes, video. As audacious as it is
rewarding, SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD is one of George's true
masterpieces. It's rarely screened, so take advantage! "Centering on the
paranormal ideas of UFO author John Keel, this sprawling mini-series
spans the four corners of tolerance as it delves into mysteries
whispered about on national television and tacky talk-fests worldwide.
Not simply about little green or gray beings from other planets, this
video's endless delving into a rainbow display of people and places
tries to put the whole kit and caboodle into perspective. Proving that
it's not all a crock of crap but a cornucopia of corned beef and cabbage
plus a ton of other culinary concoctions, the secrets that you will
crack in this caloric overdose will split your trousers and expand both
buttocks and cosmic consciousness at the same time. And that time clocks
in at about two hours and twenty minutes. So prepare yourself for a
three-course feast of triple-scooped treats." –G.K. Screening as part of
KUCHAR BROTHERS FESTIVAL
4/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 4/17: CUMP’S CALIFORNIA IS AN ISLAND + DENNING + BRAVOS +
Drawing on accounts of Conquistador Hernan Cortes' attempt to colonize
Baja California, 16th Century cartographies, and a romance/adventure
novel ripe with Amazons; this sneak-preview of (in person) Sarolta
Cump's 20-min. experimental doc investigates the fantasies, fears, and
fetishes of European explorers through a post-colonial queer lens, and
with a bawdy sense of humor to boot! ALSO here for intro and Q&A, Nara
Denning's Neurotique No. 6 is an 8-min. "neo silent film" of erotic
fantasy, rife with surreal imagery and dark humor. Denning combines the
influences of German Expressionism and avant-garde cinema to breathe new
life into the notion of the cine-poem. PLUS Former SF artiste and now
new faculty at UMich, Alexis Bravos' Argonaut, a 16mm biography of the
19th Century writer/explorer Eliza Farnham., in which a single event in
her life is oh-so-cinematically re-imagined. AND Martha Colburn's Wonder
Woman animation, Mike Kuchar's Paradise Gone, 3-D Venus Fly-Traps, and
Handsome Sam Green, segueing from a Sarah Jacobson clip into an
invitation to apply for the grant in her name, for emerging women
makers. Sangria! *$7.
4/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
1:00 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 2
HAMMER! MAKING MOVIES OUT OF SEX AND LIFE. Barbara Hammer performance
and book release. Cinematheque presents an afternoon tribute to and an
illustrated lecture from Barbara Hammer on the occasion of the
publication "HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life," the first book
by the influential filmmaker whose life and work have inspired a
generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers.
The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer
aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars
of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in
the past ten years–Hammer will guide us through these years with this
enlivened and engaging talk and performance. Co-sponsored by Frameline.
4/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:30 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 3
SHORTS PROGRAM 1 - The first of three short film programs of new and
rediscovered works at Crossroads: Paul CLIPSON: "Chorus" (2009) 7 min.,
Shambhavi KAUL: "Scene 32" (2009) 6 min., Karl LEMIEUX: "Mamori" (2010)
8 min., Caryn CLINE: "In the Conservatory" (2010) 7 min., Krišs
SALMANIS: "Swelter" (2009) 9 min., Marcy SAUDE: "This Kind of Town" 5
min., Bryan BOYCE: "More is Always on the Way" (2010) 11 min. (excerpt),
Mark TOSCANO: "Finding the Horn" (2008) 4 min., Lewis KLAHR: "Wednesday
Morning Two A.M." (2009) 6 min., Vanessa WOODS: "The Chambered Nautilus"
(2010) 4 min., Guy MADDIN: "Night Mayor" (2010) 14 min., Frank
STAUFFACHER: "Zig Zag" (1948) 8 min. - Curated by Jonathan Marlow.
4/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 4
IN THE JUNGLE: STEPHANIE BARBER PERFORMANCE - Stephanie Barber returns
to San Francisco for the West Coast debut of her piece, "In the Jungle,"
a multi-media performance piece with live musical accompaniment by Adam
Puls. "Part musical, part poetic lecture, part video transpiration
soaked performance, "In the Jungle," playfully and sorrowfully tells the
tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile... Thinking of
all the implications of fear and understanding...the way these two ideas
are constantly referenced, metaphorically, in the flora she set out to
study. Barber is again toying with the lines between literature and the
other mediums she uses as armatures upon which to construct her unique
experimental essays." (HT)
4/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9:00 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 5
KEN PAUL ROSENTHAL'S "CROOKED BEAUTY" - Ken Paul Rosenthal in person.
The world premiere of Ken Paul Rosenthal's long-awaited "Crooked
Beauty," a poetic documentary that explores positive and compassionate
models for transforming the experience of madness in our culture. "Birds
with perfectly symmetrical feathers cannot fly." — Ashley McNamara. An
artist/writer challenges Western stereotypes of madness by transforming
her experiences with psychiatric institutions and mood-altering
medications into innovative mental health activism and creative
expression. "Crooked Beauty" reshapes perspectives on the diagnosis and
treatment of mental illness by presenting madness as a tool of insight
and integration for individuals who openly struggle with their mental
health, and anyone who might feel "crazy" in today's chaotic world.
Ashley's poignant and revealing testimonials reach beyond the
stereotypes of mental health problems to suggest that extreme sadness
and sensitivity is not an illness, but a part of human experience to be
explored with creativity and compassion. Thematically progressive and
formally beautiful, "Crooked Beauty" establishes a common ground from
outside the mainstream through a story of personal transformation,
courage, and empowerment. Preceded by Ken Paul Rosenthal's short film
"Near Windows." Co-sponsored by the Icarus Project.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2010
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4/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS STEPHANIE BARBER: LITTLE PRESENTS
Laden and light, with ideas and technology and analogy and analogue
essences, whimsical manipulations of time and text, suffused with the
emotional heft needed for these heart-wrenching, media mad times, the
works of Stephanie Barber are among the most unique and delightful being
produced these days. We've lucky to have her in Los Angeles for a night
of a West Coast jaunt from Baltimore. Don't miss this rare opportunity
to explore these films and converse with the artist about them… or let
them play in your dreams for the weeks to follow.
4/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 Second Avenue
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
WIDOW'S WEB (2003, 15 minutes, video) A verbal slugfest between mother
and daughter, money and love. HUSH-A-BYE-BABY (2005, 15 minutes, video)
Love comes in all shapes and sizes. PEEK-A-BOO (2007, 10 minutes, video)
…I see you. A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTMARE (2008, 15 minutes, video) Things
crawl out of the woodwork in broad daylight. IDYLL (2008, 20 minutes,
video) …All spun on the web of a spider. THE TIGER (2009, 10 minutes,
video) A devoured heart is chewed up and spit out. Total running time:
ca. 90 minutes.
4/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 Second Avenue
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
EPHEMERAL SEIZURE (2009, 20 minutes, video) A new age trip splashed with
stained-glass colors. ZOOLOGY (2006, 20 minutes, video) Organic life
infests the mind. BEDEVILED (2009, 20 minutes, video) The ups and downs
of the human phoenix. SWAN SONG (2009, 20 minutes, video) A poem of
passion dressed in warm skin. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
Screening as part of KUCHAR BROTHERS FESTIVAL
4/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 Second Avenue
SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD
by George Kuchar 1998-99, 140 minutes, video. As audacious as it is
rewarding, SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD is one of George's true
masterpieces. It's rarely screened, so take advantage! "Centering on the
paranormal ideas of UFO author John Keel, this sprawling mini-series
spans the four corners of tolerance as it delves into mysteries
whispered about on national television and tacky talk-fests worldwide.
Not simply about little green or gray beings from other planets, this
video's endless delving into a rainbow display of people and places
tries to put the whole kit and caboodle into perspective. Proving that
it's not all a crock of crap but a cornucopia of corned beef and cabbage
plus a ton of other culinary concoctions, the secrets that you will
crack in this caloric overdose will split your trousers and expand both
buttocks and cosmic consciousness at the same time. And that time clocks
in at about two hours and twenty minutes. So prepare yourself for a
three-course feast of triple-scooped treats." –G.K. Screening as part of
KUCHAR BROTHERS FESTIVAL
4/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2:00 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 6
SHORTS PROGRAM II - Curated by Steve Polta. The second of three short
film programs: Tsen—Chu HSU: "Cotton Sugar" (2009) 4 min., Eddie
KAMMERER: "The Bobsled, (1972) 4 min., Sylvia SCHEDELBAUER: "way fare"
(2009) 7 min., Katherin MCINNIS: "too close, too far" (2009) 15 min.,
Beverly D'ANGELO: "The Lonely Chicken Dream" (1954) 3 min., Vincent
GRENIER: "Straight Lines" (2009) 5 min., Robbie LAND: "Floridaland"
(2010) 5 min., Mary Helena CLARK: "Sound Over Water" (2009) 5 min.,
Philip WIDMAN: "Destination Finale" (2008) 10 min., Linda SCOBIE: "Road
Not Taken" (2009) 6 min., Christopher HARRIS: "28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)"
(2009) 3 min. Roger DEUTSCH: here and there (2008) 15 min.
4/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
4:30 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 7
SHORTS PROGRAM III - Curated by Vanessa O'Neill. The final short film
program of the festival: Ann STEUERNAGEL: "Charades" (2009) 7min.,
Charles CHADWICK: "The Circle to Vanish" (2009) 7.5 min., Coleen
FITZGIBBON: "FM/TRCS" (1974) 11min., Jennifer REEVES: "Trains are for
Dreaming" (2009) 7 min., Michael WALSH: "Ascent" (2009) 23 min., Barbara
STERNBERG: "Once" (2007) 4.5 min., Barbara STERNBERG: "Time Being"
(2007), 8 min., Peter ROSE: "Journey to Q'xtlan" (2009), 7.5 min.
4/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00 pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street (Between Mission and Capp)
CROSSROADS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AND REDISCOVERED FILM - PROGRAM 8
"SLEEP FURIOUSLY" - We conclude the First Annual Report of Crossroads
with the West Coast premiere of Gideon Koppel's remarkable "Sleep
Furiously" (which received its U.S. premiere at the Telluride Film
Festival). "Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where
Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and
population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is
disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is
dying out. Koppel leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world
of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire."
(Anon) - Preceded by Ben Rivers' most recent short "I Know Where I'm
Going." "What would be left of human action, human traces, human
constructions, human buildings and wider ripple effects of humans after
that length of time...assuming, that humans disappear in the
geologically near future." A fragmented road trip through Britain on the
peripheries. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone
stragglers. My first stop geologist Jan Zalasiewicz, talking about the
Earth in One-hundred millions years time. - BR
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MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010
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4/19
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SHARON LOCKHART: LUNCH BREAK WITH EXIT
Los Angeles theatrical premieres 2008, 80 min., HD In her new series on
the state of American labor, artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart turns
her meditative gaze to workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine.
Lunch Break revisits cinema's second-greatest invention after the
close-up: the tracking shot. In one long, sensuous, uninterrupted take,
the film moves through a factory corridor where workers linger while on
their lunch break. The camera "tracks down," literally, the minute,
humble signs of humanity, captured at such a quotidian level that the
viewer cannot help but be moved to the core. In the confines of an
industrial setting, imperfect bodies unfold as sculptures in time as
Lockhart's evocative soundscape, designed with filmmaker James Benning
and composer Becky Allen, extends from the drone of machinery to Led
Zeppelin. Lunch Break is followed by the companion film Exit (2008, 41
min., HD), in which Lockhart reverses the gaze, with a fixed camera and
a nod to Lumière. In person: Sharon Lockhart
4/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
LA RAISON AVANT LA PASSION
by Joyce Wieland 1968-69, 80 minutes, 16mm. "Joyce Wieland's major film
so far. With its many eccentricities, it is a glyph of her artistic
personality; a lyric vision tempered by an aggressive form and a
visionary patriotism mixed with ironic self parody. It is a film to be
seen many times." –P. Adams Sitney, FILM CULTURE "This film is about the
pain and joy of living in a very large space: in fact, in a continent.
It is painful, because such an experience distends the mind, it seems
too large for passionate reason to contain. It is joyous, because 'true
patriot love', a reasonable passion, can contain it, after all. But what
is remarkable, for me, is that all its urgency is lucidly caught, bound
as it were chemically, in the substance of film itself, requiring no
exterior argument." –Hollis Frampton "Joyce Wieland's major film so far.
With its many eccentricities, it is a glyph of her artistic personality;
a lyric vision tempered by an aggressive form and a visionary patriotism
mixed with ironic self parody. It is a film to be seen many times." –P.
Adams Sitney, FILM CULTURE "This film is about the pain and joy of
living in a very large space: in fact, in a continent. It is painful,
because such an experience distends the mind, it seems too large for
passionate reason to contain. It is joyous, because 'true patriot love',
a reasonable passion, can contain it, after all. But what is remarkable,
for me, is that all its urgency is lucidly caught, bound as it were
chemically, in the substance of film itself, requiring no exterior
argument." –Hollis Frampton
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TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
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4/20
Jamaica Plain, MA: Loring-Greenough House
http://lghfilm.blogspot.com
7:30pm, 12 South Street
ANIMATION!
For our eighth screening the Loring-Greenough House presents a program
of fantastic locally-made animation!! Come by around 7 pm for cookies
and refreshments, and the screening will begin, as usual, sometime
around 7:30. All works will be shown on video with the exception of Dan
Sousa's Minotaur (16mm). Our line-up: DANIEL ROWE, STEVE SUBOTNICK,
MATTHEW NEWMAN-LONG, ALAN JENNINGS, AMY KRAVITZ, RUTH LINGFORD, DAN
SOUSA...with the possibility of a couple surprise additions!
4/20
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers,Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BRAND UPON THE BRAIN
Brand Upon the Brain (2006, 99 min.) by GUY MADDEN "A house painter
named Guy Maddin comes home after 30 years to fulfill his dying mother's
request that he repaint the sinister orphanage she runs inside a
lighthouse. The kids all have mysterious holes in their heads, and
additional intrigues involve a teenage sleuth and a harpist posing as
her brother. Enhanced by Jason Staczek's superb score, this is
characteristically intense and, unlike most of Maddin's silent-movie
models, frenetically edited."- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader (The
film's narration is read by poet, John Ashbery.)
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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010
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4/22
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge International Super 8 Film Festival
www.cambridge-super8.org
8pm, Murray Edwards College
CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
This year festival will take place at Murray Edwards college and Anglia
Ruskin University from the 22nd of April to the 1st of May 2010.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010
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4/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM $6, 992 Valencia St. at 21st
CRIME WAVE
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS is proud to present for one night only
Winnipeg Boy Wonder John Paizs's 1986 8o min Low-Budget Feature length
Canadian Comedy Classic "CRIME WAVE" . Considered as one of the most
influential Indepedent Canadian Comedies of all time. The film is an
homage to late 1940s-early 1950s "color crime pictures". Paizs plays
Steven Penny, a struggling screenwriter who lives above the garage of a
suburban family, and begins typing each night from the moment the street
lamp comes on. Everything we learn about the character comes from Kim
(Eva Kovacs), the family's daughter, who has a schoolgirl crush on him,
as Penny never utters a word in the entire film. John Paizs later went
on to direct the highly original smash television hit "KIDS IN THE HALL"
Steven Penny wants to write the greatest "color crime movie ever made.(a
"color crime movie" is a movie in color about a crime.)This must see
self referential Canadian movie about a crime writer with writers block
is a true must see for Aspiring Filmmakers and or anyone who ever wanted
to make it to the top. " CRIME WAVE" breakdown Terrible Twists, Color
Crime Quarterly, an Evil Elvis, Self Mutilation, The Jaws of Life,Car
Counting, A Dynamite-Wearing Party Crasher, Crime Club High Jinks,
Possible Pedophilia, Screenwriting By Streetlight,Paralyzing Moments of
Self Doubt, Dr. Jolly's Twisted Pony Ride, Persistence of Vision, The
Top Of The World. Over All Rating 9, Come Out and Enjoy This Epic Tale
Of The Crime Wave.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010
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4/24
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30PM, 322 Union Ave
JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ: FILM PORTRAITS AND EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
A program of films that straddle the experimental film and the
documentary. A new film by Joel Schlemowitz will also have its premiere.
Program includes: "Silo" (2007) 16mm, color, 3 min. "Teslamania" (2007)
16mm, color, 6 min. "Dame Darcy - a film portrait" (2007) 16mm, b&w, 5
min. "Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse" (2003), 16mm, b&w, 20
min. "Moving Images - the Film-Makers Cooperative relocates" (2001),
16mm, b&w/color, 14 min. All works will be shown on 16mm film.
4/24
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. at Westwood,
THE UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH LOS ANGELES
FILMFORUM, PRESENTS INTERSECTIONS: POETRY/FILM
Innovative filmmakers searching for new cinematic forms have frequently
turned to poetry as a source of inspiration and to poets themselves as
collaborators. In the 1960s and 70s, in particular, especially with
respect to the Beat poets, it became clear that poetry and avant-garde
film, both together and in parallel, had achieved a major evolution of
visual and written language which continues to fuel popular and artistic
culture today. As the UCLA campus welcomes the 2010 Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books, the Archive presents two nights of films exploring
the intersection of mid-century poets and filmmakers and the casual,
humorous and often rigorous cross-pollinization between these artists of
the page and screen. ROBERT FROST: A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD
(Shirley Clarke, 1963, 35mm, b/w, 52 min.) and PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS
JAMES BROUGHTON, PART ONE (John Luther Schofill, 1974-1980, 16mm, color,
40 min.)
4/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
by Jean Renoir 1939, 97 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles.
"Detested when it first appeared (for satirizing the French ruling class
on the brink of the Second World War), almost destroyed by brutal
cutting, restored in 1959 to virtually its original form, THE RULES OF
THE GAME is now universally acknowledged as a masterpiece and perhaps
Renoir's supreme achievement. In the four international critics' polls
organized every ten years (since 1952) by SIGHT AND SOUND, only two
films have been constant: one is BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and the other is
THE RULES OF THE GAME. And in the 1982 poll, THE RULES OF THE GAME had
climbed to second place. Its extreme complexity (it seems, after more
than 20 viewings, one of the cinema's few truly inexhaustible films)
makes it peculiarly difficult to write about briefly." –Robin Wood.
4/24
Oakland, CA: Krowswork Gallery
http://www.krowswork.com
6-9 pm, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR - EGGLESTON, HURON, SMITH - AT KROWSWORK
Krowswork Gallery is pleased to present Closer Than They Appear
featuring video by William Eggleston, a video installation by Sade
Huron, and photography by Ryan C. Smith. Each of these artists achieves
a startling, unsuspected intimacy through their formally conceived, yet
never unnatural, images of the everyday. Unspoken but thoroughly
integrated into this intimacy is a consideration of place and
placelessness, and of the lonely poignancy which often accompanies any
careful, deliberate looking at that which is closest to you./////////
Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday April 24th from 6
to 9. Exhibition on view through May 23rd. For more information visit
www.krowswork.com/closer.html //////// Pioneering photographer William
Eggleston made history in 1976 with the first exhibition of color
photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. A few years before
that show, though, in 1973, Eggleston had been one of the first
experimenters with the cutting-edge Sony PortaPak. The result is
Stranded in Canton, which will be continually on view at Krowswork, a
77-minute edit of over thirty hours of footage that chronicles the
unique underbelly of the strange world of privilege and deprivation in
the Mississippi Delta in the 1970s./////// Sade Huron is a Welsh-born
video and performance artist who has made the Bay Area her home since
1998. In her installation at Krowswork she presents a video shot while
driving on a highway, interspersed with footage that explores the
process of remembering and searches personal memoir. The breakdown and
deinterlacing of the video footage correspond directly to the breakdown,
and opening up, of memory./////// Photography at its core is a
transparent medium. When Ryan C. Smith takes portraits of people and
places familiar to him, a transference takes place and the viewer
becomes privy to a private dialogue that gets to the heart and breadth
of the relationship of the photographer to his subject--all captured in
a single, salient moment. Smith's photographs mostly picture friends,
lovers, and relations from the Bay Area and his native Nebraska, and
effortlessly integrate his evident devotion to them with a precise and
observant distance from them.
4/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OTHER CINEMA, 4/24: KERRY LAITALA & EATS TAPES + PAD MCLAUGHLIN +
We are lucky indeed to catch the mercurial Kerry Laitala between a
couple of her European engagements. The Goldie-awardee and maker behind
The Muse of Cinema brings an extraordinary new dimension to our
microcinema screen…that is, of DEPTH! This true Frisco original has
seized upon a retinal quirk, the ChromaDepth Effect, and gleefully
exploited the phenomenon with a delirious dose of Kodachrome. Kerry
presents (at least) four 3-D pieces: Afterimage: A Flicker of Life,
Chromatic Frenzy, and a pair too new to even name. This stereoscopic
spectacular is accompanied by the electronic hues of phonic faves Eats
Tapes (Marijke Jorritsma and Greg Zifcak), who rave it up in their own
righteous set. Preceding the Chromatic Cocktail serving is the high
craft of 3-D vets Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, with Pad's own debut
Strata, Bob's Day of the Dead ethnographic, and a 3-wall in-depth
immersion! *$7.77
4/24
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
BARBARA HAMMER IN PERSON
Barbara Hammer, on tour with her first book HAMMER! Making Movies Out of
Sex and Life, presents films from four decades of work in this rare
celebration at Northwest Film Forum. Holland Cotter, writing in the New
York Times, said, "The short films by Hammer are accessible, sexually
explicit, loaded with attitude and hilarious." Hammer's most recent
film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, about her survival from ovarian cancer,
won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best LGBT Short Film at the 2009
Berlin International Film Festival. Films from each decade will be
screened and Barbara will read short passages from her new book, which
will be for sale after the screening. Come see Hammer before her career
retrospectives at MoMA (NY) this fall and at The Tate Modern in winter
2010/11. Program includes: Menses, 1974, 16mm, 4 min; Optic Nerve, 1985,
16mm, 16 min; Still Point, 1989, 16mm, 9 min; Sanctus, 1990, 16mm, 19
min; A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, 2008, Beta-SP, 30 min.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2010
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4/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, UCLA Film & Television Archive, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. at Westwood,
THE UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH LOS ANGELES
FILMFORUM, PRESENTS INTERSECTIONS: POETRY/FILM
Innovative filmmakers searching for new cinematic forms have frequently
turned to poetry as a source of inspiration and to poets themselves as
collaborators. In the 1960s and 70s, in particular, especially with
respect to the Beat poets, it became clear that poetry and avant-garde
film, both together and in parallel, had achieved a major evolution of
visual and written language which continues to fuel popular and artistic
culture today. As the UCLA campus welcomes the 2010 Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books, the Archive presents two nights of films exploring
the intersection of mid-century poets and filmmakers and the casual,
humorous and often rigorous cross-pollinization between these artists of
the page and screen. VISIONS OF A CITY (Larry Jordan, 1957-1978, 16mm,
b/w, 8 min.); ADVENTURES OF JIMMY (James Broughton, 1950, 16mm, b/w, 11
min.); IN BETWEEN (Stan Brakhage, 1955, 16mm, color, 10 min.); NOTES ON
THE PORT OF ST FRANCIS (Frank Stauffacher, 1952, 16mm, b/w, 22 min.),
and more!
4/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 Second Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
by Jean Renoir 1939, 97 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles.
"Detested when it first appeared (for satirizing the French ruling class
on the brink of the Second World War), almost destroyed by brutal
cutting, restored in 1959 to virtually its original form, THE RULES OF
THE GAME is now universally acknowledged as a masterpiece and perhaps
Renoir's supreme achievement. In the four international critics' polls
organized every ten years (since 1952) by SIGHT AND SOUND, only two
films have been constant: one is BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and the other is
THE RULES OF THE GAME. And in the 1982 poll, THE RULES OF THE GAME had
climbed to second place. Its extreme complexity (it seems, after more
than 20 viewings, one of the cinema's few truly inexhaustible films)
makes it peculiarly difficult to write about briefly." –Robin Wood.
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