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This week [June 19 - 27, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: August 01, 2010)
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FLEX Fest (Gainesville, FL, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2010)
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Journal of Short Film (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 31, 2010)
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EYE AM: ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN (NY NY USA; Deadline: September 06, 2010)
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Around the Coyote Fall Festival 2010 (Chicago; Deadline: July 21, 2010)
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abstracta (roma, Italia; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2010 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2010)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
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INVIDEO (Milano - Italy; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
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Basement Media Festival (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Deadline: July 24, 2010)
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L'Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2010)
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San Francisco Documentary Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: July 02, 2010)
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Black Rock City Film Festival (Black Rock City - Burning Man; Deadline: July 15, 2010)
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1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60 Second Hand Job Presented (Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Deadline: June 19, 2010)
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Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: July 15, 2010)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 25, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Personal Cinema Series: Barton Lewis – Films About Light and the Urban
Landscape [June 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [June 19, New York]
* The Sound Cinema of Stan Brakhage [June 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [June 20, New York]
* Daichi Saito and the Double Negative Collective [June 23, Buffalo, New York]
* Amalgama, Sesiones De Cine Y VíDeo Experimental Y Documental [June 25, Barcelona, Spain]
* The Feature [June 25, New York]
* Mara Mattuschka Program 1 [June 25, New York]
* The Feature [June 26, New York]
* Essential Cinema: there Was A Father [June 26, New York]
* The Feature [June 26, New York]
* Mara Mattuschka Program 2 [June 26, New York]
* Diary of A Merchant Seaman [June 26, San Francisco, California]
* Richard Myers: Deathstyles [June 27, Los Angeles, California]
* The Feature [June 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Nelson/Sharits Program [June 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Mother [June 27, New York]
* The Feature [June 27, New York]
* Mara Mattuschka Program 3 [June 27, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2010
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6/19
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: BARTON LEWIS – FILMS ABOUT LIGHT AND THE URBAN
LANDSCAPE
FILMS ABOUT LIGHT AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE.---- The Millennium is
especially pleased to present for the first time a program of films by a
long-time user of our filmmaking facilities. Barton Lewis will be
present to screen eight short 16mm films that have emerged from his
interest in light and the urban landscape. The films were made between
1998 and 2009 and the program totals 84 minutes. Lewis is the man with
the movie camera wandering through the streets on New York City filming
new and old structures–the High Line, an elevated railroad in Chelsea
and a graffiti-scrawled, dilapidated meat packing plant in the West
Village that no longer exists. His filmmaking locations take him to
Pacific Street and Bridge Street in Brooklyn, the East River Pavilion,
Roosevelt Avenue and his West 14th Street apartment in
Manhattan.----Admission $8/$6 members
6/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 1
VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1955, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HURRY! HURRY!
(1957, 3 minutes, 16mm) GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm)
DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3 minutes, 16mm, score by Teiji Ito) BAGATELLE FOR
WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5 minutes, 16mm) NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 minutes,
16mm, silent) MOOD MONDRIAN (1961, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent) EYE MUSIC IN
RED MAJOR (1961, 4 minutes, 16mm, silent) Marie Menken represents the
lyrical sensibility in the American avant-garde film. She manages to get
the maximum visual intensity from minimally photogenic subjects. Her
usage of single-frame and her poetic attitude and purity had a strong
influence on many filmmakers of the sixties. Total running time: ca. 50
minutes.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010
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6/20
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THE SOUND CINEMA OF STAN BRAKHAGE
Among his more than 350 personal films, Stan Brakhage (1933-2003)
produced only 27 works with soundtracks (a complete list appears below).
In this program, five of these sound films will be shown, representing a
variety of approaches to what Brakhage referred to as "the 'sound
problem' of motion picture aesthetic."
6/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 2
ANDY WARHOL (1965, 22 minutes, 16mm) WRESTLING (1964, 8 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent) MOONPLAY (1962, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) DRIPS IN STRIPS
(1961, 3 minutes, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12 minutes, 16mm,
silent) LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) SIDEWALKS (1966,
7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EXCURSION (1968, 5 minutes, 16mm) WATTS
WITH EGGS? (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm, silent) ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER
(1961, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010
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6/23
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
8 o'clock, 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202
DAICHI SAITO AND THE DOUBLE NEGATIVE COLLECTIVE
Co-founder Daïchi Saïto will be in Buffalo to present films and videos
of the Montreal based art-collective, including his hypnotic
collaboration with violinist Malcolm Goldstein, Trees of Syntax, Leaves
of Axis. This screening has been generously supported by the
Canadian-American Studies Program, the Department of Media Study at SUNY
Buffalo and Hallwalls! http://www.hallwalls.org/ *** Originally from
Japan, Daïchi Saïto is an independent filmmaker based in Montreal. As a
co-founder of the Double Negative Collective, a Montreal-based group of
film/video/installation/projection performance artists dedicated to the
exhibition and production of experimental cinema, Saïto has been
actively involved in the local artistic community. The films of Saïto
explore the relation between the corporeal phenomena of vision and the
material nature of the medium, fusing a formal investigation of frame
and juxtaposition with sensual and poetic expressions. His films have
screened in various venues both in Canada and abroad, including: The New
York Film Festival; The International Film Festival Rotterdam; The
Images Festival; The Toronto International Film Festival; The London
Film Festival; The Hong Kong International Film Festival; San Francisco
MOMA; Cinematheque Ontario; Anthology Film Archives, among others. His
films are distributed in Europe by Light Cone (Paris, France) and in
North America by the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre (Toronto),
where he serves as a member of the Board of Directors. His recent film
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis won the Ken Burns Award for Best of the
Festival at the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2010. Double Negative
Collective is a Montreal-based group of film, video and installation
artists interested in creating, curating and disseminating experimental
film. Founded in 2004, the collective seeks to locate cinema in human
experience, in the eye, hand and heartbeat. Through experiments in form,
voice and vision, they try to initiate a dialogue long-neglected in the
independent artist-based filmmaking community; a benevolent conspiracy
of ideas. You can read more about the Collective at:
http://doublenegativecollective.blogspot.com/ *** The evening's full
line-up: 1. Chiasmus (Daïchi Saïto, 16mm, b&w, optical mono, 8min.,
2003) 2. Chasmic Dance (Daïchi Saïto, 16mm, b&w, silent 24fps, 6min.,
2004) 3. Blind Alley Augury (Daïchi Saïto, super-8, color, silent 18fps,
3min., 2006) 4. All That Rises (Daïchi Saïto, 16mm, color, optical mono,
7min., 2007) 5. Green Fuse (Daïchi Saïto, super-8, color, silent 18fps,
3min., 2008) 6. Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, 35mm,
1.37:1, color, Dolby SR, 10min., 2009) (Due to the unavailability of a
portable 35mm projector, this film willl be screened on miniDV) 7.
Fracas (Eduardo Menz, Digital 8, color, 5min., sound, 2007) 8.
Cronograma de un tiempo inexistente / Chronogram of Inexistent Time
(Malena Szlam, 35mm to HD, color, silent, 6min., 2008) 9. Western
Sunburn (Karl Lemieux, 16mm to DV, b&w and color, sound, 10min., 2007)
10. Lola (Mike Rollo, 16mm to DV, b&w, sound, 2:45min., 2008) 11. Bajo
tu lámina de agujero profundo / Beneath Your Skin of Deep Hollow (Malena
Szlam, super-8, color, silent 18fps, 3min., 2009)
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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010
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6/25
Barcelona, Spain: Amalgama - experimental cinema
http://amalgamacinema.blogspot.com/
19h, Tapioles, 53
AMALGAMA, SESIONES DE CINE Y VíDEO EXPERIMENTAL Y DOCUMENTAL
SESIÓN 4: TRAYECTOS, DERIVAS. viernes 25 de junio de 2010 (44 minutos)
Pablo Useros - The Human Race (2009). 5' León Siminiani - El tránsito
(2009). 12' Nicolás Combarro - Vigo (2009) 26' Salir a la calle, pasear,
vagar, contemplar y observar son acciones que el cineasta recupera de la
tradición del reportaje fotográfico callejero para documentar su entorno
más inmediato. Desplazarse con la cámara en mano resulta necesario para
cartografiar el espacio público y tratar de elaborar conjeturas acerca
del comportamiento del ser humano en la ciudad. El artista contemporáneo
Hamish Fulton ya intuyó con su lema "No walk, no work" la necesidad de
experimentar el trayecto, divagando, documentando y reflexionando el
sentido de la propia práctica artística. En el ámbito fílmico estas
dervias suscitan tendencias a medio camino de la sinfonía urbana y del
cine-ensayo en primera persona. Madrid, Nueva York y Vigo son los
contextos geográficos presenciados en esta última sesión. Son tres
planos topográficos que, bajo puntos de vista heterogéneos, plantean
cuestiones acerca de los usos de la ciudad. En The Human Race Pablo
Useros descompone una serie de planos capturados desde un punto fijo de
la Plaza Mayor de Madrid, para estudiar, estructuralmente, las personas
registradas en un conjunto de panorámicas. León Siminiani analiza
discursivamente las constantes del produccionismo en El tránsito,
sirviéndose de una voz en off perspicaz y un montaje formalmente
literal. Nicolás Combarro registra un recorrido registrado en plano
secuencia por las calles de Vigo para describir la ciudad gallega como
un entorno sinuosamente inquietante.
6/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
by Michel Auder & Andrew Neel 2008, 177 minutes, video. Special thanks
to Michel Auder, Andrew Neel, Ethan Palmer (SeeThink Productions), and
Marisa Newman. SPECIAL ENCORE SCREENINGS! Michel Auder's epic film is a
summation of his half-century-long career as a video artist and diarist.
In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives, and 1-minute haikus, Auder
has created a body of work that is wholly unique in the history of the
moving image. With the archive of footage Auder has amassed over the
decades providing much of the source material, alongside new scenes shot
by co-director Andrew Neel (the grandson of painter Alice Neel), THE
FEATURE represents a self-conscious and quasi-fictional variation on the
story of Auder's life. "In Auder's case, the truth is certainly stranger
than fiction. One of the first to compulsively exploit the diaristic
potential of the Sony Portapak, he was right there at the heart of the
Warhol Factory and the Soho art explosion. … Taking in his marriages to
both Viva and Cindy Sherman, and affiliations with Larry Rivers, the
Zanzibar group, and the downtown art scene, this is necessarily a tale
of epic proportions, chronicling an amazing journey through art and life
while providing access to a wealth of fascinating personal footage."
–Mark Webber "Opens [Auder's] world to a new audience, his aesthetic to
a more conventional form, and his achievement to the wider recognition
it deserves. It's a beautiful, beguiling movie. … While indebted, like
all his videos, to Warhol's let-the-camera-roll aesthetic, THE FEATURE
is closer in tone to the limpid diary films of Jonas Mekas and the
plangent memoir-poems of the filmmaker Philippe Garrel…. His voice,
however, is eminently his own: charismatic yet self-effacing,
tenderhearted but compelled by uncontrollable appetites (for sex,
heroin, and subjects for the camera)." –Nathan Lee, NEW YORK TIMES This
revival of THE FEATURE has been scheduled to coincide with concurrent
gallery exhibitions devoted to Michel Auder's work taking place
throughout the summer at Zach Feuer Gallery, Participant Inc., and
Newman Popiashvili; for more info visit, www.zachfeuer.com,
www.participantinc.org, and www.npgallery.com.
6/25
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MARA MATTUSCHKA PROGRAM 1
NAVELFABLE / NABELFABEL (1984, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) CAESAREAN SECTION /
KAISER SCHNITT (1987, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) PROJECT ARSE MACHINE /
UNTERNEHMEN ARSCHMASCHINE (1997, 17 minutes, 16mm, b&w) (in
collaboration with Gabriele Szekatsch) PLASMA (2004, 11 minutes, BetaSP)
RUNNING SUSHI (2008, 28 minutes, BetaSP) (in collaboration with Chris
Haring) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. Screening as part of the
series MARA MATTUSCHKA
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SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2010
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6/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See notes for March 25th. 7 pm.
6/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THERE WAS A FATHER
THERE WAS A FATHER / CHICHI ARIKI by Yasujiro Ozu 1942, 87 minutes,
16mm, b&w. In Japanese with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A
schoolteacher wants his son to marry before entering military service. A
key film in Ozu's career – many critics feel it is here that his early
experimental period ends and his later mature period begins. Screening
as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See notes for June 25th. 7 pm.
6/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MARA MATTUSCHKA PROGRAM 2
LEGAL ERRORIST (2005, 15 minutes, BetaSP, b&w) (in collaboration with
Chris Haring) BALL-HEAD / KUGELKOPF (1985, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
PARASYMPATHICA (1986, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) CEROLAX II (1985, 3 minutes,
16mm, b&w) PART TIME HEROES (2007, 33 minutes, BetaSP) (in collaboration
with Chris Haring) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
6/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, $6, 992 Valencia St at 21st
DIARY OF A MERCHANT SEAMAN
A heartfelt documentation of the nightlife in one of San Francisco's
most beloved dive bars: Expansion Bar. With footage collected over the
last ten years of the bar's existence and including interviews with Dick
Wood, John Anderson and Gary Milliman, with stories from Paul Hodge ,
dudley, Gary Davies and others. Film maker Martin Reade gives viewers
the chance to be a part of this singular establishment.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2010
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6/27
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
RICHARD MYERS: DEATHSTYLES
Richard Myers in person! Ohio-based and truly independent, filmmaker
Richard Myers works in bold modes, creating works imbued with true
experimental goals and methods, observing and commenting with restless
ingenuity on his world, political and personal. Filmforum has hosted him
with several of his feature films through the years, since the 1980s,
and we're delighted to host him again as the third night of a visit of
Myers to the Southland, along with shows at Newtown and the Panorama.
The other nights and Filmforum's show will give audiences to see a wide
array of Myers's films, from observational documentary to heated
scatological response to the political violence of the 1970s.
6/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See notes for June 25th, 7 pm.
6/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: NELSON/SHARITS PROGRAM
Robert Nelson BLEU SHUT 1970, 33 minutes, 16mm. "Boat-name quizzes,
dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry whore, a
car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by
a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in
the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's happening here?
Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." –Leo Regan Paul Sharits
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm) Newly preserved print! Starring
poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an uncutting and
unscratching mandala. "Merges violence with purity." –P. Adams Sitney
"Surrealist tour de force." –Parker Tyler Total running time: ca. 50
minutes. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MOTHER
by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin 1926, 104 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Based on
the novel by Maxim Gorky. In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis
available. With the simple theme of a working-class mother growing in
political consciousness through participation in revolutionary activity,
this film established Pudovkin as one of the major figures of the Soviet
cinema. A student of Kuleshov and an admirer of Griffith's films, he was
writing his first book of film theory at the same time he was making
MOTHER. His expert cutting on movement and his associated editing of
unrelated scenes to form what he called a "plastic synthesis" are amply
demonstrated here. Although in direct opposition to Eisenstein's shock
montage, Pudovkin used a linkage method advanced far beyond Kuleshov's
theories. Screening as part of the series ESSENTIAL CINEMA
6/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FEATURE
See notes for June 25th, 7 pm.
6/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MARA MATTUSCHKA PROGRAM 3
COMEBACK (2005, 14 minutes, BetaSP, b&w) S.O.S. EXTRATERRESTRIA (1993,
10 minutes, 16mm, b&w) LES MISERABLES (1987, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w) THANK
YOU, I HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED / DANKE, ES HAT MICH SEHR GEFREUT (1987, 2
minutes, 16mm, b&w) BURNING PALACE (2009, 33 minutes, 35mm) (in
collaboration with Chris Haring) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
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