FrameWorks Digest, Vol 1, Issue 12

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hi there--
chris' advanced math skills aside -- i don't find the list weird at all.

the editor of the list co-programs Views. the editor of the list sent a "pre-selection" of titles to the 46 selectors which, included every film shown at views in the 2000's and a sprinkling of others from Wavelengths that didn't show at Views. these were the 'recommended' titles so to speak, although all selectors were invited to add their own, of course.

its been said before: Views skews way toward distinguished gentlemen from the US.
the list of selectors is mostly in this camp, with a sprinkling of women and folks outside the US.

so its not weird at all to me that the list lauds Mr. Klahr, (and not just because he voted!) and crew, because IMHO it was a pre-determined self-congratulatory exercise.

as all such lists of this ilk are...

ciao,
scott in toronto

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Subject: [Frameworks] This week [June 5 - 13, 2010] in avant garde
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This week [June 5 - 13, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60 
Second Hand Job Presented (Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Deadline: June 19, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1178.ann
Go Short - International Short Film Festival 
(Nijmegen, Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1182.ann
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, 
Australia; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1183.ann
Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder. CO 
USA; Deadline: September 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1184.ann
DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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abstracta (roma, Italia; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1116.ann
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1126.ann
VIDEOHOLICA 2010 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 
(Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1127.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
INVIDEO (Milano - Italy; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1146.ann
CortopotereShortFilmFestival (Bergamo, Italy; Deadline: June 14, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1161.ann
L'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival 
(Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1162.ann
San Francisco Documentary Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1171.ann
1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60 
Second Hand Job Presented (Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Deadline: June 19, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1178.ann
London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1181.ann
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, 
Australia; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1183.ann
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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  *  House of Sound [June 5, Detroit]
  *  Cap/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program 
Screening [June 5, Los Angeles, California]
  *  Personal Cinema Series: Lili White [June 5, New York, New York]
  *  Essential Cinema: Melies Program 1 [June 5, New York]
  *  Essential Cinema: Melies Program 2 [June 5, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 5, New York]
  *  Essential Cinema: Melies Program 3 [June 5, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 5, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 5, New York]
  *  What If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked - Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin
     Martin [June 5, Oakland, CA]
  *  By Brakhage: A 16mm Film Screening [June 6, Los Angeles, California]
  *  Essential Cinema: Rice/Richter/Sharits Program [June 6, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 6, New York]
  *  Van Mcelwee Program 1 [June 6, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 6, New York]
  *  Van Mcelwee Program 2 [June 6, New York]
  *  Visionaries [June 6, New York]
  *  Champion Fishermen: the Films of Jason 
Halprin & Jb Mabe [June 11, Chicago, Illinois]
  *  The virgin's Bed [June 11, New York]
  *  Personal Cinema Series: Jon Behrens [June 12, New York, New York]
  *  Visa De Censure X/New Old [June 12, New York]
  *  In the Shadow.../Soleil [June 12, New York]
  *  Stephen Connolly: Occasional Pieces and 
Afflicted States [June 13, Los Angeles, California]
  *  Pierre Clementi Shorts Program [June 13, New York]
  *  Wheel of Ashes [June 13, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2010
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6/5
Detroit: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:00 PM, MOCAD, 4454 Woodward Avenue
  HOUSE OF SOUND
   The Images Festival and MOCAD present a FREE screening: House of Sound
   MOCAD and Toronto's Images Festival are thrilled to be collaborating on
   an evening of short experimental films culled from recent festival
   presentations, alongside classic avant-garde shorts. This salon-style
   screening will highlight experimental short works by film and video
   artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of the
   medium in form and/or content. Whether the instigator of a melodramatic
   moment, a vessel of history or the materialist marker of time, the
   presence of recorded music throughout the films and videos presented in
   House of Sound are all united by the role of sound as harbinger of
   change. The musical selections found in these contemporary and
   historical works by Keren Cytter, Maya Deren, Nelson Henricks, Laida
   Lertxundi, Vanessa Renwick and Nikolai Ursin merge the popular and the
   perplexing: the songs playing back into each house mark control gained,
   control lost. PROGRAM Portrait #3: House of Sound ?(Vanessa
   Renwick, 2010, 35mm on video, 12 minutes, USA)  Scanning the now empty
   intersection where a legendary Portland record store once stood among a
   strip of black jazz clubs, Portrait #3: House of Sound is a testimonial
   to a community space recently demolished. Behind Every Good Man?
   (Nikolai Ursin, 1965, 16mm, 8 minutes, USA)? This remarkable 1965
   student film is a brief encounter with a transsexual black man who
   shares his experiences as a woman through snagging a "good man." Four
   Seasons? (Keren Cytter, 2009, video, 14 minutes,
   Germany/Israel)?  A series of deadpan , forlorn exchanges between
   characters begins with a brief detour into Tennessee Williams' A
   Streetcar Named Desire and culminates in a fireworks show of
   spontaneously combusting household objects: a record player, a Christman
   tree and a plate of cake. My Tears Are Dry? (Laida Lertxundi,
   2009, 16mm, 4 minutes, USA)?  A Hoagy Land 45, two women, a bed,
   an armchair and the beautiful outside. Failure? (Nelson Henricks,
   2007, video, 7 minutes, Canada) ?Images of beauty rituals both
   masculine and feminine focus on the removal of body hair. Scenes of
   adolescent embarrassment are played out in adult life. Gender confusion
   lurks behind the curtain. Impoverished aesthetics. Popular music. Meshes
   of the Afternoon? (Maya Deren, 1943, 16mm, 15 minutes, USA)
   ?In 1990, Meshes of the Afternoon was selected for preservation in
   the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as
   being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going
   into the registry in just the second year of voting.
6/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
2pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
  CAP/SONY PICTURES MEDIA ARTS PROGRAM SCREENING
   Middle and high school students in the CAP/Sony Pictures Media Arts
   Program present a slate of animation and new media works. Classes in
   this after-school program are held each year at Banning's Landing
   Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens
   Community Service Center in Pacoima, the Watts Towers Arts Center, and
   the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center. Free | Reservations:
   213 237-2800.
6/5
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
  PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: LILI WHITE
   This program features several new works made by the artist since her
   last program at Millennium in 2007----REVERIE (20? min.-2009), CRACKED
   (3? min.-2008), THE FUTURE IS YOU (9 min.-2008), S/tr:w/EET WALK (19
   min.-2009), TURQUOISE BEADS (38 min.-2009)----- "My thing was always a
   layered image. In 2008, concurrent fractured frames of video tape were
   explored. In 2009, different public places, along with their historic
   and mythic events blended into a collective dreamscape. The idea was to
   evince the 'whole' of 'it,' like how ALL the facets form a diamond and
   is fueled more on a 'why' rather than a 'how.' The work is located more
   on the 'horizontal'-not necessarily one that is linear-but one that
   stretches out in different directions, like the tentacles of an
   octopus." - L.W.----- On THE FUTURE IS YOU: "Like a lithographer's
   velvety mezzotint, this monochromic future of molten metal features New
   York City's downtown streets after the 9/11 disaster. 'Seemingly' among
   city and forest, the landscape study moves back and forth between
   Nature's trees and man's canyons of steel, showing neither but both. A
   chromium sound heard-doubled and abstracted-accompanying anxiety and
   serenity inside us. Exploring the gradient view the focus is on small
   movement like amoebas in a primordial soup; eventually stretching our
   attention to the larger matrix where we all reside." - L.W.----Admission
   $8/$6 members
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 1
   All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR /
   L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SI?CLE (1899, 1 minute, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON /
   VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 minutes, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN
   NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 minutes, 35mm)
   DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF ? L'HUILE (1907, 5
   minutes, 35mm) MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU
   DIABLE (1906, 18 minutes, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects,
   M?li?s broke with the realistic (Lumi?re) mode of cinema and celebrated
   unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). Total running
   time: ca. 60 minutes. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 2
   The films on this program are hand-tinted. THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA
   CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 minutes, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN
   LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 minutes, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA
   F?E CARABOSSE (1906, 13 minutes, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE
   VOYAGE ? TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 minutes, 35mm) Total running
   time: ca. 50 minutes. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 3
   All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS /
   ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE
   PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT
   (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS
   LAMANCHE (1907, 25 minutes, 16mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE
   JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 minutes, 16mm) THE
   DOCTOR'S SECRET / HYDROTH?RAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 minutes, 16mm)
   Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. Screening as part of the series
   ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/5
Oakland, CA: Krowswork Gallery
http://www.krowswork.com
6-9 pm, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
  WHAT IF? IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED - TORSTEN ZENAS BURNS & DARRIN
  MARTIN
   What If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked is a total-gallery experience
   in video and photography made collaborately by veteran video artists
   Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin. "In the Days When the Tiger
   Smoked" - is the Korean equivalent of "Once Upon a Time," suggesting an
   event set in a mythical time. Their juxtaposition of imagery and
   narrative reveals an entangled story that spans the gulf between genders
   and representations, the body and technology. the imaginative present.
   Please join us at Krowswork on June 5th for the opening, from 6-9.
   www.krowswork.com/whatif.html
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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2010
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6/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
  BY BRAKHAGE: A 16MM FILM SCREENING
   Filmforum opens June with a celebratory program of 16mm films by Stan
   Brakhage, commemorating the release of Criterion's DVD set By Brakhage:
   An Anthology, Volume Two. However, we also wish to commemorate the
   continued availability of all of Stan Brakhage's films on film, the
   format in which they are ideally intended to be seen. As such, tonight's
   program draws its films from the contents of Criterion's DVD release,
   but presented in their original 16mm. Brakhage's filmmaking is so
   vividly and deeply about the textures and properties of celluloid film
   and the apparatus of film projection, and this program is designed to
   highlight works from this excellent DVD release that particularly
   benefit from projection in their original medium. The Criterion release
   is cause for celebration, but we also invite you to continue to seek out
   and support the projection of films on film as much as possible.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RICE/RICHTER/SHARITS PROGRAM
   Ron Rice CHUMLUM (1964, 23 minutes, 16mm) With Jack Smith, Mario Montez,
   Gerard Malanga. "One of the underground's best and most influential
   films." -Peter Gidal Hans Richter RHYTHMUS 21 (1921, 3 minutes, 16mm,
   b&w, silent) "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary
   is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of
   contrasting opposites." -Standish Lawder EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING
   TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
   silent) Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968, 36 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by
   Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
   Foundation. "Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani
   Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu
   Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color
   energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay."
   -P.S. "In essence there are only three flicker films of importance,
   ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G- In terms of the subject
   we have discussed here, it is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the
   field for the structural film with a flicker base." -P. Adams Sitney
   Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VAN MCELWEE PROGRAM 1
   Artist in Person! The previous ten-plus years have witnessed a veritable
   explosion in new tools and expanded possibilities for digital image
   production. No one has embraced these developments more so than St.
   Louis-based artist Van McElwee, whose history with video dates back to
   the analog days of the 1970s. McElwee's distinguished body of work has
   been extensively exhibited worldwide and includes over 40 video shorts,
   installations, and web projects. This two-program overview of pieces
   from the last decade is proof positive that McElwee is an ultra-prolific
   digital pioneer of the highest order. With each new work he finds yet
   another way to invade his software and invent images that previously
   could not have been conceived, much less seen. "An alchemy occurs when
   the outer world is transformed into video: it becomes mind-stuff. I
   carry this process forward, questioning the nature of reality, exploring
   time and dimensionality by weaving fragments of the world into new
   patterns. In this way, video can enjoy the same freedom as painting and
   music; it can be something, not just about something." -V.M. Anthology
   gratefully acknowledges support for this series from the Experimental
   Television Center's Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by
   public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York
   State Council on the Arts. PROGRAM 1: DIAGONAL DRIFT (2006, 10 min)
   Imagine a filmstrip of a nocturnal American landscape. The vertical
   frames, as usual, represent time, but here there are horizontal frames
   that represent parallel universes. This piece illustrates a diagonal
   movement across that field of frames, so that worlds continuously melt
   into similar worlds, always in-between realities. If these imaginary
   filmstrips are cut, twisted and turned back on themselves, the image
   changes abruptly. In keeping with the philosophy and the mood of the
   piece, a cellular automata program (Wolframtones) was used to create
   artificial mathematical melodies that constantly shift from one strange
   tonal system to another. VARIFOLD (2010, 9:35) A motionless camera
   stares at a city branching in time. The screen moves with half-real
   forms: a cross-section of probability space. APERSPECTIVAL HOUSE (2008,
   5:30 min) With Music by TOM HAMILTON This house is under construction.
   Its design incorporates numerous points of view into one flowing form.
   The sound is a field of musical patterns without a tonal center. "Where
   today we seem to discern only shrieks and dissonance, tomorrow we will
   find a new tone, a new form, a new perception." Jean Gebser Tom Hamilton
   has been composing and performing for over 40 years, and his work with
   electronic music originated in the late-60s era of analog synthesis.
   Hamilton often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of
   activity, prompting the use of "present-time listening" on the part of
   both performer and listener. PROCESSION (2000, 18 min) In communal
   celebrations, such as parades, the event creates a new space. A city
   becomes a fantastic version of itself; a new creature that erupts in the
   streets and then disappears. In Procession, awareness is given a richly
   dimensional vantage point on this phenomenon. The parade's flow is
   intensely modulated by editing, folded into itself again and again.
   Waves of transformation surge through a fabric of recurring moments,
   until the river of time swells and floods its banks. NATURELAND (2003,
   14 min) Elevator music branches and flows in new directions. Unadorned
   concrete structures exude layer upon layer of natural scenery. These
   virtual vistas unfold in surges, accompanied by mutating Muzak.
   Natureland reflects the crucial process by which we navigate the nested
   realities of our programmed environment, embracing illusion and its
   mechanism, weaving dissonant strands of experience into a pattern that
   we can call "our world." STUPAFORM (2002, 9 min) The result of extensive
   location shooting, Stupaform gathers into one moment the myriad
   manifestations of the Buddhist stupa, or pagoda. Stupaform oscillates
   between the inner and outer aspects of this symbol of transcendence,
   distilling an essence. The actual structures become electronic
   phenomena, apparitions of the stupa's inner form. The sound of a
   Nepalese bell follows this vector; a physical reflection of an unstruck
   vibration. RED AND BLUE ARMIES IN A FOREST (2010, 7 min) YouTube Laser
   Tag footage is used to represent two armies converging in a forest. Each
   group electronically monitors the movements of the other, while updating
   simulations of possible encounters. A new space emerges as real and
   virtual overlap. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VAN MCELWEE PROGRAM 2
   VAN MCELWEE: A DECADE #2 Artist in Person! The previous ten-plus years
   have witnessed a veritable explosion in new tools and expanded
   possibilities for digital image production. No one has embraced these
   developments more so than St. Louis-based artist Van McElwee, whose
   history with video dates back to the analog days of the 1970s. McElwee's
   distinguished body of work has been extensively exhibited worldwide and
   includes over 40 video shorts, installations, and web projects. This
   two-program overview of pieces from the last decade is proof positive
   that McElwee is an ultra-prolific digital pioneer of the highest order.
   With each new work he finds yet another way to invade his software and
   invent images that previously could not have been conceived, much less
   seen. "An alchemy occurs when the outer world is transformed into video:
   it becomes mind-stuff. I carry this process forward, questioning the
   nature of reality, exploring time and dimensionality by weaving
   fragments of the world into new patterns. In this way, video can enjoy
   the same freedom as painting and music; it can be something, not just
   about something." -V.M. "McElwee's reconstructed realities capture
   participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end
   of a work." -TL Reid, AFTERIMAGE Anthology gratefully acknowledges
   support for this series from the Experimental Television Center's
   Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by public funds from the
   Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the
   Arts. PROGRAM 2: ALTERNITY: A FIGURE IN MANIFOLD SPACE (2008, 6:48 min)
   The vanishing point of linear perspective is expanded to a plane. This
   allows all of the potential events within that vanishing point to mingle
   freely on the surface of the screen. Local sounds blend and shift. The
   expanded horizon causes reverberating fractures in time; multiple
   realities branch and flow through one another, creating a sponge-space
   of possibilities. VAT (2005, 23 min) Manufactured items are ideas
   materialized. Vat, created from hundreds of actual objects performs a
   reversal: the artifacts emerge from a primal chaos into their ideal
   forms. The objects rotate continuously (the equivalent of an arcing
   camera), opening to reveal new spaces; as level upon level of impossible
   forms unfold. For the soundtrack, a recording of the ocean was literally
   played through all the strings of a baby grand piano. The results were
   used to excite the piano's strings again and again, producing a variety
   of exotic tones and colorations LIQUID CRYSTAL (2009, 15:10 min) Imagine
   a fly's eye, but with each facet roaming independently through nighttime
   Tokyo. These multiple perspectives are woven together at brain wave
   frequencies, creating new patterns and new spaces. HELIOGOS (2001, 11
   min) Three garden paths twist and turn through a labyrinth of time. The
   earth orbits the sun as a camera orbits the gardens. Six years are cut
   and folded as a playful edit-form spins its web. NAVIGATORS: MELTING
   CHRONONS (4:30 min) The grain of time is imagined at close range,
   revealing not a straight line, but turbulence, one moment melting into
   another. THE CAPITOL OF THE MULTIVERSE (2009, 8:22 min) A neoclassical
   form breathes and mutates, overlooking a shifting horizon. Total running
   time: ca. 82 minutes. Screening as part of the series
   NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY
6/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISIONARIES
   See program notes for June 4, 7 pm.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2010
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6/11
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8 pm, 5243 N Clark St
  CHAMPION FISHERMEN: THE FILMS OF JASON HALPRIN & JB MABE
   In the Fall of 2007, when both filmmakers were new to the Chicago
   community they met fortuitously while watching Super 8 films in the back
   room of Chicago Filmmakers. After two and a half years and numerous bar
   room conversations about film aesthetics, CF is proud to present a
   selection of work from two of Chicago's own. Both new and old works will
   be shown, and they have promised a sort of salon with occasional
   interruptions, elucidations, and exchanges on the formal concerns in
   each other's work. Both Mabe and Halprin work almost exclusively in
   film, and create intricate studies of visual landscapes both actual and
   constructed. Additionally the physical characteristics of film grain and
   color reproduction are at work in their craft, and both have extensively
   explored the Super 8 and 16mm formats. Included in this program will be
   excerpts from Halprin's ongoing diary project and 16mm travelogues, and
   Mabe's explorations of light and space. See www.chicagofilmmakers.org
   for more information.
6/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  THE VIRGIN'S BED
   by Philippe Garrel 1969, 114 minutes, 35mm, b&w. Minimal French
   dialogue; no subtitles. With Pierre Cl?menti, Zouzou, Tina Aumont, and
   Jean-Pierre Kalfon. In May 1968, Garrel joined his friends on the
   barricades of Paris, and LE LIT DE LA VIERGE, begun just a few months
   later, echoes with that period's rebellious spirit. Cl?menti plays a
   Christ reluctant to assume his earthly mission. As the Virgin Mary,
   Zouzou attempts to reconcile him with his duty. But Garrel invokes the
   Christian narrative only to reject a strict retelling of that story.
   Made without a script and under the influence of LSD, LE LIT DE LA
   VIERGE is minimally concerned with traditional religion. With an
   episodic and non-chronological narrative, Garrel's film reminds us of
   the contestatory attitude of the '68 generation for whom Jesus was a
   hippie avant la lettre.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2010
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6/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
  PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: JON BEHRENS
   For more than 30 years, Seattle-based artist Jon Behrens has worked
   completely outside of the mainstream conception of what filmmaking is.
   He began to make films as a teenager in the late seventies, starting
   with his Grandfather's Wollensak regular 8mm camera and then moving to
   16mm shortly thereafter. Since the age of 16 Behrens has made well over
   100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from
   documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film
   experiments in which the celluloid film stock has been manipulated. Over
   the years Jon has screened his films nationally and internationally, and
   has been called one of the Northwest's most prolific filmmakers.----
   Program: THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES (7? min.-2008),
   UNDERCURRENTS (10 min.-1994), THE ASTRUM ARGENTIUM (6 min.-2006), ALL
   SAINTS DAY II (5 min.-2002), STAN'S SALON (3 min-1997), FLUFFY FLUFFY
   CALM CALM (10 min.-1998), ANOMALIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS (12 min.-2003),
   VERNAL OBEISANCE (6 min.-2003), THE FLICKERING OF THE MIND'S EYE (10
   min.-2001).----Admission $8/$6 members
6/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  VISA DE CENSURE X/NEW OLD
   by Pierre Cl?menti 1967-75, 45 minutes, 16mm. "A distillation of the
   hundreds of hours Cl?menti and his friends spent smoking dope,
   performing and dropping acid, this is a mythopoeic evocation of man's
   spiritual awakening. Set to a soundtrack by Clearlight Symphony, the
   film's hypnotic intensity is maintained through a prismatic, iris-like
   mandala superimposed at center screen - a constant visual referent and
   the locus of concentration within the frame. A psychedelic overload of
   images both beautiful and troubling, the film is particularly effective
   in the deliberate shock of its montage: Cl?menti on stage spitting a
   tarantula out of his mouth, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix in concert,
   Bertolucci on the set of PARTNER seen tugging at a noose around his
   neck, The Living Theatre's historic performance at the Avignon Theatre
   Festival in summer 1968-" -Michael Chaiken & NEW OLD 1979, 66 minutes,
   16mm. "Cl?menti followed VISA DE CENSURE NO. X with NEW OLD, described
   by the director as 'the discovery of language, images, rhythm; the birth
   of cinema and my own birth.' Revisiting the 15 hours of footage he shot
   during his 'nomadic existence', NEW OLD covers roughly the years from
   1967 to 1977, positing the counterculture of the 60s alongside that of
   the late 70s, the Aquarian ethos against the mindset of punk rock."
   -Michael Chaiken
6/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  IN THE SHADOW.../SOLEIL
   IN THE SHADOW OF THE BLUE SCOUNDREL by Pierre Cl?menti 1978-85, 84
   minutes, 16mm. In French with projected English subtitles. "Cl?menti's
   most ambitious film was this feature-length, future-shock narrative, a
   political fiction set against a Burroughs-esque landscape of drug
   dealers, addicts, government control systems, and Islamic revolution.
   The plot concerns the destabilization of Necro City by Islamic
   insurgents who have flooded the blighted metropolis with potent strains
   of heroin and hashish, with Cl?menti playing General Nutsbody, the
   city's military leader. The sub-narcotic lull of the film's looping
   soundtrack, the saturated-to-abstraction colors, and the double-exposure
   photography give Paris's subterranean underworld a savage, no-budget
   grandeur not unlike New York's high-Reagan-era Lower East Side as
   depicted by Nick Zedd or Richard Kern." -Michael Chaiken & SOLEIL 1988,
   16 minutes, 16mm. In French with projected English subtitles. "Part
   narrative, part meditation, SOLEIL is haunted by memories past, present,
   and future. The last film Cl?menti was to direct, and his personal
   favorite, it begins with a reenactment of his arrest in Rome where,
   alone in a cell, he suffers the slow grind of the judicial system's
   wheels. As if to secure his own image for posterity, he sets himself the
   task of recording his final words: 'Deafened by the song of innocence,
   awaiting no fame-Who is this fragile heart beyond melancholy? Here lies
   Pierre Cl?menti. The deceased was beloved, was perfect, to excess.'"
   -Michael Chaiken
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SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 2010
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6/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
  STEPHEN CONNOLLY: OCCASIONAL PIECES AND AFFLICTED STATES
   Filmforum is delighted to host the premiere screening for UK-based
   filmmaker Stephen Connolly here in Los Angeles. One of the leading
   strands of experimental film today utilizes observational documentary
   techniques, without necessarily tying the edited film to a clear
   narrative or leading character. Instead, the work investigates the
   social, political and historical terrain of contemporary spaces and
   landscapes through shards of space and lengthy stares. Connolly's short
   films retain the sensitivity to light, rhythm, and perception that
   characterize all fine experimental and documentary work.
6/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  PIERRE CLEMENTI SHORTS PROGRAM
   Etienne O'Leary HOMEO (1967, 38 minutes, 16mm) CHROMO SUD (1968, 21
   minutes, 16mm) Canadian-born filmmaker Etienne O'Leary worked with an
   intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting,
   dense layering of superimposed images, and a spontaneous notebook-type
   shooting style. Yet even if much of O'Leary's material was initially
   'diaristic', depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he
   encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during
   editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized,
   sometimes darkly sexual fantasias. CHROMO SUD, his most sinister work by
   far, owes as much to Kenneth Anger as to Jonas Mekas, presenting the
   libertarian impulses of the time in as orgiastically morbid and sadistic
   a vein as Anger's SCORPIO RISING biker culture. Olivier Mosset FILM
   PORNO (1968, 3 minutes, 16mm) "To understand what this FILM PORNO is or
   isn't - it isn't cinema, and certainly not pornography - one would have
   to go back to those revolutionary years when the act of writing,
   painting, or filming couldn't be separated from the process of life,
   creation, and liberation." -Frances Lengel Ange Leccia STRIDURA (1980,
   13 minutes, 16mm) A future shock vision of a post-Apocalyptic, fascist
   society. Starring Cl?menti in dual roles as "the rebel" and the
   behind-the-scenes Ayatollah Hamenei-esque character deciding his fate
   from an airtight control room. Secret chambers of power, rabid military
   police, and nuclear explosions, this film is a virtual Mahmoud
   Ahmadinejad compendium. Alfredo Leonardi LIBRO DI SANTI ROMA ETERNA
   (BOOK OF SAINTS OF ETERNAL ROME) (1968, 14.5 minutes, 16mm) "Leonardi's
   subject matter is happiness and joy, through the choice of image, and
   through the editing (structuring) and through the camera movement, and
   the more I see this film the more I want to see it again. [It] is in my
   book of living classics." -Jonas Mekas, VILLAGE VOICE This program will
   also include two selections from the vast tape collection of video
   artist Michel Auder, one shot in the late 60s and one a decade later,
   and both featuring Cl?menti. Total running time: ca. 120 minutes.
   Screening as part of THE FILMS OF PIERRE CL?MENTI
6/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
  WHEEL OF ASHES
   by Peter Emanuel Goldman 1968/71, 110 minutes, 35mm. With Pierre
   Cl?menti, Katinka Bo, Pierre Besan?on, Judith Malina, Juliet Berto,
   Stasia Gelber. Archival print courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.
   Goldman, who had recently established himself as one of the leading
   lights of the American underground film movement with his first feature
   film, ECHOES OF SILENCE, made his second feature in France, with
   Cl?menti starring as a young man adrift in Paris, searching for meaning
   via sexual encounters, solitary contemplation, and an exploration of
   both Western and Eastern religious traditions. Hardly seen in the U.S.,
   in the 60s or since, WHEEL OF ASHES represents a fascinating
   intersection of important European and American underground figures.
   "There was not one of us who was not profoundly touched by this
   film-perhaps the first to give a true feeling of certain quarters of
   Paris." -CAHIERS DU CIN?MA Screening as part of THE FILMS OF PIERRE
   CL?MENTI
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