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This week [October 9 - 17, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Tone Rose: Simultaneous Opposites #52" by Robert Edgar
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The Rover (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2010)
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The Journal of Short Film (Columbus, OH, USA; Deadline: November 05, 2010)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
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CROSSROADS: A Festival of new & Rediscovered Films (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 10, 2011)
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Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium; Deadline: December 31, 2010)
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The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: December 02, 2010)
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13th San Francisco Independent Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 09, 2010)
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MONO NO AWARE IV (Brooklyn, NY. USA; Deadline: November 05, 2010)
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The Indie Fest (La Jolla, California, USA; Deadline: October 29, 2010)
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Screening @ High Concept Laboratories (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: October 23, 2010)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 29, 2010)
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Rogue & AMC Big Break Movie Contest (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Keith Sanborn [October 9, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton [October 9, New York]
* John Lennon & Yoko Ono Program 1 [October 9, New York]
* John Lennon & Yoko Ono Program 2 [October 9, New York]
* Grand Detour Presents: Summer Squash At Hollywood vintage [October 9, Portland, Oregon]
* So Wrong they’Re Right 15th Anniversary Party + [October 9, San Francisco, California]
* Stay the Same Never Change Laurel Nakadate In Person! [October 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* A Drive-In [October 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Assorted Morsels: New 16mm Films By Amy Halpern [October 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Con Leche [October 10, New York]
* Optical Boundaries Tour: 16mm Films By Steve Cossman, Ross Nugent, & Fern
Silva [October 10, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
* Une Fois Mars ColoniséE (Once Mars Is Colonized) By Pierre Yves Clouin At
the Antimatter Film Festival [October 10, Victoria, BC, Canada]
* Lewis Klahr: Dreaming Over the Flux of Things Past [October 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Wasteland Utopias and Earlier Works [October 11, Santa Monica]
* Optical Boundaries Tour: 16mm Films By Steve Cossman, Ross Nugent, & Fern
Silva [October 12, Louisville, KY 40202]
* Eye:Am Another Experiment By Women Show [October 12, New York, New York]
* The World Stopped Watching: Bill Gentile In Person [October 12, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Here We Are Now [October 13, Brussels]
* Optical Boundaries Tour: 16mm Films By Steve Cossman, Ross Nugent, & Fern
Silva [October 13, Cincinnati, OH 45209 ]
* Cut and Run: Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium. [October 13, Hanover, New Hampshire]
* Optical Boundaries Tour: 16mm Films By Steve Cossman, Ross Nugent, & Fern
Silva [October 14, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304]
* Internal Systems: Films By Coleen Fitzgibbon [October 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* Wasteland Utopias [October 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Recently Preserved Films of Dean Snider [October 14, New York, New York]
* Dean Snider Program [October 14, New York]
* Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane [October 14, San Francisco, California]
* Counter Cultures, Counter Cinema [October 14, West Hollywood, California]
* Electromediascope [October 15, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Fnc Lab | Hybridation I (Audiovisual Performance) [October 15, Montreal, Canada]
* Critical Mass [October 15, New York, New York]
* New Nothing Cinema [October 16, New York, New York]
* New Nothing Cinema In Nyc [October 16, New York, New York]
* Chip Lord + Ant Farm + Archimedia + [October 16, San Francisco, California]
* Stop & Go Rides Again [October 16, San Francisco, California]
* Optical Boundaries Tour: 16mm Films By Steve Cossman, Ross Nugent, & Fern
Silva [October 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Peter Mays: Tantras and Sutras [October 17, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010
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10/9
New York, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place - Bushwick - Brooklyn NY 11221
KEITH SANBORN
New York based media artist and theorist Keith Sanborn joins us at
MICROSCOPE Gallery on October 9th 7PM for a program of his radical video
works including: Semi-private sub-Hegelian Panty Fantasy with sound
(2001) 4 min.; Operation Double Trouble (2003) 10 min.; V2N single
channel version (2004) 11 minute; and the 25 minute Project for A New
American Century, or Writing and the Art of Persecution (2007), "which
explores and attempts to unmask the intellectual strategies of
University of Chicago philosopher Leo Strauss, that have gained such
influence among members of the Bush administration and its supporters.
These strategies constitute a kind of debased hermeneutics, that creates
esoteric and exoteric constructions of texts and events. They have been
used to justify duplicity as a matter of policy and torture as a way of
enforcing administration views." KS / Keith Sanborn's work has been
included in major survey exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the
American Century, and Monter/Sampler and festivals such as OVNI
(Barcelona), The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Hong Kong
Videotage, and Ostranenie (Dessau). His theoretical work has appeared in
a range of publications from journals such as Artforum and books, such
as Kunst nach Ground Zero to exhibition catalogues published by MOMA
(New York), Exit Art, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. He has
translated into English the work of Guy Debord, René Viénet, Gil Wolman,
Georges Bataille, Napoleon, Paolo Gioli, Berthold Brecht, Lev Kuleshov
and Esther Shub among others. He has also acted as an independent
curator, working with such institutions as the Oberhausen Short Film
Festival, Exit Art, Artists Space, the Pacific Film Archive, and
CinemaTexas. He teaches at Princeton University, where he is a Lecturer
in the Program in Visual Arts and at the Milton Avery Graduate School in
the Arts of Bard College. / Admission $6, tickets available at the door
/ Directions: J/M/Z Myrtle Ave./Broadway – walk straight across the
street up Myrtle, cross Bushwick Ave, first street on left, next to
Little Skip's Café. L train: Morgan Ave or Jefferson St stops. For more
info: http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=14
10/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON
THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 minutes, 35mm) THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970,
32 minutes, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 minutes, 16mm) Three films by an
American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy
of living. If there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the
master of it. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
10/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO PROGRAM 1
On the occasion of what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday, we
present this special tribute program showcasing several of the films
Lennon and Yoko Ono created together in the late 60s and early 70s.
Rarely screened today, these films are vitally important contributions
to underground cinema, and a remarkable testament to Lennon and Ono's
creative partnership. Lennon and Ono were close associates of
Anthology's co-founder Jonas Mekas, and key supporters of the
institution in its early days, so we're pleased to pay tribute to
Lennon's memory with these special screenings of his film work. Very
special thanks to Yoko Ono, and to Kitty Cleary (MoMA). PROGRAM 1:
APOTHEOSIS (1970, 18 minutes, 16mm) FLY (1970, 25 minutes, 16mm) FREEDOM
(1970, 1 minute, 16mm, b&w, silent) TWO VIRGINS (1968, 19 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
10/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: ERECTION (1971, 20 minutes, 16mm) FILM NO. 5 [SMILE] (1968,
51 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
10/9
Portland, Oregon: Grand Detour
http://www.grand-detour.org/
6pm - 12am, Hollywood Vintage 2757 NE Pacific St Portland, OR. 97232
GRAND DETOUR PRESENTS: SUMMER SQUASH AT HOLLYWOOD VINTAGE
Starting the Ninth of October and lasting through the end of the month,
Grand Detour Experiments in New Media will be in residence at Hollywood
Vintage with Summer Squash, an exciting program of video installations
and performances staged throughout the building. The opening celebration
for Summer Squash begins at 6PM, and is open to all ages with a cover
charge of $5. At this celebration, Hollywood Vintage will open the doors
to their cavernous basement, and beginning at 8PM Portland's very own
surreal pseudo-scientists Weird Fiction will mount a multi-media
extravaganza. Also in the line-up: is Kelly Kendziorski, a documentarian
and visual anthropologist, performing her project Superduck Projectid
with collaborator Jennifer Knipling . Simultaneously, the space will be
filled with installations by performance artist Laura Hughes, video
artist Allison Tarry, Recess Gallery founder Tori Abernathy, and Grand
Detour founding member Hannah Piper Burns. Upstairs in the storefront,
video installations by Julie Perini, Christine Taylor, Ben Popp, and
Jonathan Marrs will be sprinkled through the racks of fabulous vintage
clothes, costumes, sunglasses, and shoes, enriching the shopping
experience and bringing new and unexpected contexts to the work. These
videos will be viewable in the store on the 9th from 6-8PM, and during
regular store hours throughout the month. Hollywood Vintage has been a
mainstay in the Portland community for over a decade, and this
collaboration is Grand Detour's most ambitious curatorial project to
date. By combining art, commerce, and social sculpture, SummerSquash
represents the best Portland's community-centered spirit. This is also
an opportunity for Grand Detour to unveil their winter programming and
future projects, as well as new curatorial efforts and exciting
collaborations. http://www.hollywoodvintage.com/
10/9
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
SO WRONG THEY’RE RIGHT 15TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY +
Join Russ Forster for an unforgettable night of 8-track delights,
featuring a 16mm screening of his SWTR, a gleefully obsessive doc by
Forster and Dan Sutherland that chronicles their epic 10,000-mile
pilgrimage through a national underground of 8-track tape fanatics.
Thrill to the banjo stylings of the original song "8-Track Luv"
performed by Half Pro! Dance to the nostalgic karaoke sounds of Monsieur
Fromage! Sweat to the world premiere of the Black Metal exercise video
Home Exorcise! Indulge in complimentary cake and champagne to celebrate
the 6th wedding anniversary of Russ and Maggie! PLUS glimpses of Russ'
zines (paper and video), a demonstration of the Telex 12-tape turret
player, and an 8-track trivia contest, with prizes!
10/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.
STAY THE SAME NEVER CHANGE LAUREL NAKADATE IN PERSON!
Pleasure Dome is pleased to present the Canadian premiere of Stay The
Same Never Change (93 min., 2008). Written, shot and directed by Laurel
Nakadate, this debut feature film situates itself at the crossroads of
visual fact and narrative fiction. Though the story is scripted, it is
set in the real Kansas City homes of its amateur actors. It's a story
about people and the lives they're living while wanting more. Whether
it's a family man looking for beauty or a young woman obsessed with
polar bears and Oprah, the characters in this film reveal quiet lives
laden with sadness and desire. The film's soundtrack features original
music composed by Owen Ashworth and performed by Casiotone for the
Painfully Alone. Hovering somewhere between Todd Solondz and Harmony
Korine, Stay the Same Never Change, controversial video artist Laurel
Nakadate's feature debut, probes the hollowness of Middle America via
sensual depiction of assorted lonely teenage girls desperately seeking a
way out — or in. Loosely composed as a succession of vignettes by
Nakadate, but enacted with disaffected flatness by nubile
nonprofessionals in their own Kansas City homes, the provocative pic, is
often disturbing and absorbing..." Variety
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010
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10/10
Brooklyn, New York: A DRIVE-IN 6
http://www.jessiestead.com/adrivein.html
Approximate Dusk / 7:30 PM or so, 65 Union Street & Van Brunt
A DRIVE-IN
This weekend on Sunday Night we will host A DRIVE-IN 6 when the sun goes
down on the industrial waterfront grounds of Red Hook Brooklyn! This
very special late season installment of everybody's favorite
un-authorized projection party will feature performances by the likes of
ZELJKO MCMULLEN, BRADLEY EROS, and very possibly... OTHER PEOPLE! There
will be assorted live music, multi-format motion pictures & slide shows,
roller skating, a bubble machine, people throwing stuff onto the side of
a truck with movies on it, and very possibly OTHER SURPRISE DELIGHTS!
10/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
ASSORTED MORSELS: NEW 16MM FILMS BY AMY HALPERN
On November 12-14, Filmforum and USC Visions & Voices will present the
symposium Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles
1945-1980 at USC. In the weeks leading up to it, Filmforum will host
evenings with long-time Los Angeles-based filmmakers in evenings of old
and new works. We're starting with Amy Halpern, whose sensitive visions
of texture, movement and light are entrancing. Halpern's films are
consistently full of life, celebrating the possibilities of cinema art.
And she has created a new set of films, several of which will receive
their World Premieres at this screening! Amy Halpern is a filmmaker and
artist who works with light, camera and movement. She has been making
abstract films since 1972.
10/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CON LECHE
The most recent video by critically-acclaimed artist Jordan Wolfson
(whose work graces the cover of this edition of Anthology's quarterly
Film Program), CON LECHE mixes classic hand-drawn animation with video
footage from post-industrial Detroit. The title refers to the main
subjects of the artwork: animated cartoon Diet Coke bottles filled with
milk. These bottles walk through the desolate streets, sometimes in
groups and sometimes alone. On the video's soundtrack meanwhile, we hear
a reading by a commercial voice-over actress dominated and distorted by
Wolfson's tonal and theatrical interruptions. She reads selections of
texts appropriated from the internet referencing identity, technology,
fashion, recycling, and reincarnation among other topics. Jordan Wolfson
was born in New York City in 1980 and received his B.F.A. from the Rhode
Island School of Design in 2003. Since then he has divided his time
between Berlin and New York. His works, mainly in film and video, have
received international attention and can today be found in numerous
institutional and private collections worldwide. Wolfson's work has been
characterized by a critical yet fiercely autonomous response to popular
culture, media, and aesthetic genre, often oscillating between pop and
conceptual art. CON LECHE will be installed in the Courthouse Theater on
Sunday, October 10 from 4:30-10:30 (with no admission charge),
accompanied by a public discussion between Wolfson and Chrissie Iles,
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Film and Video at the Whitney Museum
of American Art. The discussion will be moderated by Boško
Blagojević. "[In CON LECHE], Wolfson has layered apparently
unambiguous signs and discourses one atop the other, shredding the
worlds of commerce and revealing their constructedness, taking apart
universally recognized emblems of consumer culture and interspersing
them with what would appear to be highly intimate remarks, and at the
same time undercutting the global success story of branding with the
catastrophe of post-industrial Detroit." –Dominikus Müller, ARTFORUM
"Skepticism towards language and representation makes Wolfson's work an
exercise in elegant subversion that sets him in the tradition of
classical cynics, whose philosophy was motivated by an intellectual and
ethical disposition to disbelieve." –Philippe Vergne, PHAIDON PRESS "[In
CON LECHE], Wolfson lives up to his young reputation as someone who
likes to cover his tracks and reshuffle the deck, mixing Pop and
conceptual inflexions, a taste for theory and for surprise and visual
games. An artist with more than one card up his sleeve, just right for
our times." –Paul Ardenne, ART PRESS
10/10
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Filmmakers
http://www.pghfilmmakers.org/
7:30pm, 477 Melwood Ave
OPTICAL BOUNDARIES TOUR: 16MM FILMS BY STEVE COSSMAN, ROSS NUGENT, & FERN
SILVA
This program features three filmmakers whose respective works explore a
variety of environments as well as the formal properties of the film
medium. Though working independently, their films culminate in an
examination of the film material as a true document of past and present.
Each artist calls attention to the process of separation and
recombination through the use of discarded View-Master cells,
appropriated 16mm nature footage, and a kaleidoscopic amalgam of the new
and old world. Program includes Steve Cossman's "HHOOWWLL" (7 min,
2010), "CRUSHER" (11 min, silent, 2010) & "TUSSLEMUSCLE" (5 min,
2007-10); Ross Nugent's "tonal tide" (9 min, 2009) & "Spillway
Study/Carpe Diez" (16mm x 3 projector performance, 8 min, 2010); Fern
Silva's "Sahara Mosaic" (10 min, 2009), and others. ($4 admission)
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10/10
Victoria, BC, Canada: Antimatter Film Festival
http://www.antimatter.ws/
21:00, Open Space Arts Centre, 510 Fort St, Victoria, BC, Canada
UNE FOIS MARS COLONISéE (ONCE MARS IS COLONIZED) BY PIERRE YVES CLOUIN AT
THE ANTIMATTER FILM FESTIVAL
Une fois Mars colonisée (Once Mars Is Colonized, 2010) by Pierre Yves
Clouin, premieres at the 13th annual Antimatter Film Festival
(http://www.antimatter.ws/), October 8 to 16, 2010, in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. It will be featured in the program "Losing Ground"
scheduled at Open Space on October 10 at 9pm. Antimatter Film Festival
is directed by Todd Eacrett, and curated by Deborah de Boer.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2010
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10/11
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
LEWIS KLAHR: DREAMING OVER THE FLUX OF THINGS PAST
Los Angeles premiere Prolix Satori, USA, 2008-10, 77.5 minutes, digital
video Master collagist Lewis Klahr returns to REDCAT with a new series,
Prolix Satori. A departure for him, the series is both open-ended and
ongoing, with a variety of thematic focuses, and will include a
combination of very short works (under a minute) and feature-length
films. It will also function as an umbrella for various sub-series. This
program offers seven digital films from Prolix Satori, including five
pieces from "The Couplets": Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (2009, 6:30
min.), Sugar Slim Says (2010, 7 min.), Nimbus Smile (2009, 8:30 min.),
Nimbus Seeds (2009, 8:30 min.), and Cumulonimbus (2010, 9:30 min., with
music by Mark Anthony Thompson performed by Chocolate Genius). "The
Couplets" is generally be structured around the pairing of pop melodies
and the theme of romantic love as expressed in the songs' lyrics. Also
screening: False Aging (2008, 15 min.) and Lethe (2009, 23 min.). In
person: Lewis Klahr/ Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts
$5]
10/11
Santa Monica: DOCUMENTAL
www.Laughtears.com
6 & 8PM, Unurban Coffee House, 301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA
WASTELAND UTOPIAS AND EARLIER WORKS
David Sherman's (in person) engaging cine-essay featuring visionary
developer Del Webb (Sun City) and legendary radical
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich (Orgone Energy). What on earth
could these two possibly have in common? The sunny Sonoran Desert for
one thing, a shadowy CIA Operative for another. Desert landscapes,
desert soulscapes, sex, sustainability, Emotional Plague, cloudbusting,
water retention, cosmic intervention—these and other relevancies link
the 1950s with our present moment in surprising, and seemingly
prophetic, ways. Swing through Sherman's stunning earlier works from
6-8pm: TO RE-EDIT THE WORLD ('02, 32m) California beatnik blowout
experimental doc featuring luminaries of the 50's-60's underground
including Kenneth Anger, Anton Szandor LaVey, Bobby Beausoleil,
Christopher Maclaine. Also Sherman's multi-award winning film TUNING THE
SLEEPING MACHINE ('96, 13m) which plays out like a cross between David
Lynch and Luis Bunuel, and his prophetic post 9/11 video collage mash-up
THE GRACELESS ('03, 11m)
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010
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10/12
Louisville, KY 40202: 21c Museum
http://www.21cmuseum.org/
8pm, 700 W. Main St
OPTICAL BOUNDARIES TOUR: 16MM FILMS BY STEVE COSSMAN, ROSS NUGENT, & FERN
SILVA
This program features three filmmakers whose respective works explore a
variety of environments as well as the formal properties of the film
medium. Though working independently, their films culminate in an
examination of the film material as a true document of past and present.
Each artist calls attention to the process of separation and
recombination through the use of discarded View-Master cells,
appropriated 16mm nature footage, and a kaleidoscopic amalgam of the new
and old world. Steve Cossman & Ross Nugent in attendance. FREE
Admission. http://opticalboundaries.wordpress.com/
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6 to 7 PM, 32 Second Ave
EYE:AM ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN SHOW
Screening celebrating experimental, memoir, and documentary film by
women. This is a special show for WOMEN's short movies that present
their own personal vision of experimental movie making, juried by Lili
White for EYE AM whose current home is at Anthology Film Archives in New
York City. THE SELECTED FILM & MAKERS ARE: Caroline Bernard— Fonction
Panorama LG KU990- 5.48 Marcy Saude-- This Kind of Town- 5.30 Muriel
Montini-- Le Monde Est Immense- 9.05 Sasha Waters Freyer-- You Can See
The Sun in Late December- 6.40 Stephanie Wuertz-- Myelin Fields- 2.40
Noe Kidder-- Paradise- 10 Sara Strahan-- The Daughter Remembers to
Forget- 3.36 Cecilia Araeda-- What Comes Between- 5.36 Shelly Silver-- 5
lessons & 9 questions About Chinatown-10.00
10/12
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING: BILL GENTILE IN PERSON
The World Stopped Watching (2002 –2003) shot in Nicaragua, is a sequel
to the award winning documentary, The World Is Watching (1987) - a
cinema verité examination of foreign news coverage of a climactic moment
in the US-financed Contra war against Nicaragua's revolutionary
government. Fifteen years later, filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold
Crooks return to Nicaragua with two American journalists (one of them
our presenter this evening) who were in the original film - to discover
what became of the first revolution to be conducted in the glare of the
world media. Bill Gentile is a major American documentary filmmaker and
journalist (a number of his films and videos have garnered major awards
(eg., Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights Reporting and two
National Emmy Awards). His career spans three decades, five continents
and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication, most
especially visual communication, or visual storytelling. "I began my
career in the golden days of journalism when the craft still was about
information as opposed to entertainment, and when the men and women who
practiced the craft believed that information can make a difference."-BG
(Program co-sponsored by BFI along with Latin American and Caribbean
Studies at Albright College; part of a celebration of Hispanic Heritage
Month)
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010
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10/13
Brussels: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
21:00, Beursschouwburg, rue Auguste Orts 20-28
HERE WE ARE NOW
Here We Are Now 13 October 2010, 21:00. Beursschouwburg, Brussels. A
Courtisane event, in the context of the S.H.O.W. (Shit Happens on
Wednesdays) series. Free entrance, plus food & drinks & Courtisane DJs.
To what extent can we still make a difference between "public" and
"private"? According to philosopher Jean Baudrillard, "the one is no
longer a spectacle, the other no longer a secret". Now that the most
intimate details of our lives are thoughtlessly shared on the internet
and the media, in order to feed an endless, compulsive loop of
information, participation and circulation, it seems like ever more
constraints and obstacles are being annulled. Surrounded and obsessed by
a world of images, overcome by a gnawing insecurity, we submit ourselves
to a regime of ultimate visibility. We are well aware of being seen,
followed and remembered, but that is precisely what pushes us to all
kinds of forms of disclosure, confession and "selfploitation". The
mediatised gaze of the other, at the same time disturbing and
stimulating in its elusiveness and omnipresence, has become the
paramount point of reference for our obsessive search for identity and
belonging. We show ourselves in order to become ourselves, while we
irrevocably disappear behind our images. The uncanny transit zone where
intimacy merges into transparency is the central theme of this
programme. Four recent video works, each in their own way, explore the
contemporary conjunction of media and subjectivity, in which it seems no
longer possible to maintain an unequivocal relationship between watching
and showing, subject and object, seeing and being seen. With works by
Mohamed Bourouissa, Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes, Ruti Sela &
Maayan Amir, Shelly Silver
10/13
Cincinnati, OH 45209 : Country Club
http://www.countryclubprojects.com/
7pm, 3209 Madison Rd.
OPTICAL BOUNDARIES TOUR: 16MM FILMS BY STEVE COSSMAN, ROSS NUGENT, & FERN
SILVA
This program features three filmmakers whose respective works explore a
variety of environments as well as the formal properties of the film
medium. Though working independently, their films culminate in an
examination of the film material as a true document of past and present.
Each artist calls attention to the process of separation and
recombination through the use of discarded View-Master cells,
appropriated 16mm nature footage, and a kaleidoscopic amalgam of the new
and old world. Steve Cossman & Ross Nugent in attendance. $4 suggested
donation. http://opticalboundaries.wordpress.com/
10/13
Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College
http://cutandruntour.wordpress.com/
7pm, Dartmouth College--Loews Theater
CUT AND RUN: EVOLUTION AND LIFE OF THE MIND, BODY, AND MEDIUM.
We are born, we grow, we experience a world of our own perceptions. We
wonder who we're becoming, we are influenced and we experiment. We
become responsible for how we develop. We can change and reshape who we
are and what we know by the powers we grant ourselves. This Cut and Run
series focuses on cycles of minds, bodies, and filmstrips. Each work
represents a perspective of itself as one, in contrast to others.
Experience a cinematic evolution through cycles of the mind, body, and
medium in this montage from filmmakers throughout the world: Alberto
Cabrera Bernal, Jo Dery, Richard Wiebe, Frederic Cousseau, Ray Rea,
Jodie Mack, Brenda Contreras.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2010
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10/14
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304: Cranbrook Academy of Art- Media Center
http://www.cranbrookart.edu/
8pm, 39221 Woodward Ave.
OPTICAL BOUNDARIES TOUR: 16MM FILMS BY STEVE COSSMAN, ROSS NUGENT, & FERN
SILVA
This program features three filmmakers whose respective works explore a
variety of environments as well as the formal properties of the film
medium. Though working independently, their films culminate in an
examination of the film material as a true document of past and present.
Each artist calls attention to the process of separation and
recombination through the use of discarded View-Master cells,
appropriated 16mm nature footage, and a kaleidoscopic amalgam of the new
and old world. Steve Cossman & Ross Nugent in attendance, approx. 60
mins. Free_donations suggested. http://opticalboundaries.wordpress.com/
10/14
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St
INTERNAL SYSTEMS: FILMS BY COLEEN FITZGIBBON
"…Brilliance waiting to be revisited." — Holly Willis, LA Weekly
Between 1973 and 1975, Coleen Fitzgibbon, operating under the name
"Colen Fitzgibbon," produced a series of films that stand as some of
cinema's most rigorous explorations of the medium. Associated with the
Structural film movement and New York's No Wave scene, Fitzgibbon's
films emphasize time, duration, and their own flickering mechanics while
also hinting at a deeper socio-cultural meaning. This evening, the SAIC
alumna will present four of these films, including her 1974 standout,
Internal System, whose recent restoration is attracting fresh acclaim.
In the words of curator Andréa Picard, the film is "a vast, minimalist
study of the monochromatic frame, a sort of sublime testing of film's
internal logic, its emulsive permutations and light sensitivities." Also
on the program: Fitzgibbon's scratchy audio-visual collage Found Film
Flashes (1974); the gorgeous FM/TRCS (1974) which uses the process of
rephotography to transform the image of a woman dressing into abstract
orbs of color and light; and the witty Restoring Appearances to Order
(1974), featuring a short sequence of Fitzgibbon scrubbing a dirty sink
to suggest the labor of art-making. Special thanks to Sandra Gibson for
her generous assistance with this program. Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1973-75,
USA, 16mm, ca. 75 min (plus discussion). COLEEN FITZGIBBON (1950,
Illinois) was active as an experimental film artist under the pseudonym
"Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years 1973-1980. A student at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study
Program, she studied with Owen Land (aka "George Landow"), Stan
Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, and worked on film projects for
Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Les Levine. She formed the
collaborative X+Y with Robin Winters in 1976, the Offices of Fend,
Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince, and Winters in 1979 and is best known
for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab)
in 1977, along with artists Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Liza Bear, Betsy
Sussler, and Tom Otterness, among others. Fitzgibbon has screened her
work at numerous international film festivals and museums, including the
EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art,
London; Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and
Millennium Film Workshop, all New York City, and most recently at the
Toronto Film Festival (2009) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
City. Fitzgibbon currently resides in New York and Montana.
10/14
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8PM, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) LA, CA
WASTELAND UTOPIAS
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
environments. David Sherman in person
10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Avenue
RECENTLY PRESERVED FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER
7:30 PM THE FILMS OF DEAN SNIDER Film Notes "Legendary San Francisco
underground filmmaker Dean Snider made over 100 films between 1979-1990.
These usually short, deeply personal, and always entertaining works
bring us someplace most filmmakers fear to tread. Often handmade,
scratched, shot, found, and re-appropriated, Dean's movies defy most
stipulations that exist (and they do exist) within experimental cinema.
Mostly produced in the early 80s, during the first years of the No
Nothing Cinema, a free underground screening venue that Snider was
instrumental in creating, his movies contain the feisty anarchistic
sense of energy that No Nothing represented – they are sarcastic, funny,
beautiful, sometimes fast, and always engaging, even down to the very
layers of celluloid in which his hand scratched those initials 'D.S.'
Snider created some of the most self-revealingly personal films you're
ever likely to see. "Tonight's program will feature rarely screened 16mm
prints recently preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from
the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts. "In addition, these 16mm works will be preceded by
some of the 35mm films Snider made in the late 80s, as well as the NY
premiere of a new video by Michael Rudnick, DUGOUT ON BERRY ST., which
gives us an in-depth look at Snider's venue, the No Nothing Cinema.
Starring Dean, Rock Ross, and George Kuchar, it also happens to be
dedicated to those same three men. Shot during a time when many of the
films on view this evening were being produced, it offers a glimpse into
a scene that continues to thrive as Dean Snider's legacy lives on
throughout the streets of San Francisco." –Douglas Katelus
10/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DEAN SNIDER PROGRAM
"Legendary San Francisco underground filmmaker Dean Snider made over 100
films between 1979-1990. These usually short, deeply personal, and
always entertaining works bring us someplace most filmmakers fear to
tread. Often handmade, scratched, shot, found, and re-appropriated,
Dean's movies defy most stipulations that exist (and they do exist)
within experimental cinema. Mostly produced in the early 80s, during the
first years of the No Nothing Cinema, a free underground screening venue
that Snider was instrumental in creating, his movies contain the feisty
anarchistic sense of energy that No Nothing represented – they are
sarcastic, funny, beautiful, sometimes fast, and always engaging, even
down to the very layers of celluloid in which his hand scratched those
initials 'D.S.' Snider created some of the most self-revealingly
personal films you're ever likely to see. "Tonight's program will
feature rarely screened 16mm prints recently preserved by Anthology Film
Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and
the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. "In addition, these 16mm
works will be preceded by some of the 35mm films Snider made in the late
80s, as well as the NY premiere of a new video by Michael Rudnick,
DUGOUT ON BERRY ST., which gives us an in-depth look at Snider's venue,
the No Nothing Cinema. Starring Dean, Rock Ross, and George Kuchar, it
also happens to be dedicated to those same three men. Shot during a time
when many of the films on view this evening were being produced, it
offers a glimpse into a scene that continues to thrive as Dean Snider's
legacy lives on throughout the streets of San Francisco." –Douglas
Katelus Michael Rudnick DUGOUT ON BERRY ST. (2009, 18 minutes, video) LA
MAR (1987, 5 minutes, 35mm) I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT (1987, 5
minutes, 35mm) A VERY UNFORTUNATE STORY (1987, 3 minutes, 35mm) ALL
ABOUT EGGS (1991, 3 minutes, 35mm) FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY (1990, 1
minute, 35mm) TWO MORE (ca. late 1980s, 3 minutes, 35mm) THE NIGHT COULD
LAST FOREVER (1985, 9 minutes, 35mm) (intermission) HEY! (1981, 0.0417
seconds, 16mm) BORED MEMBERS (1981, 2 minutes, 16mm) CLOUD NINE (1983, 3
minutes, 16mm) ISH & VINNY (1982, 18 seconds, 16mm) PREFERRED PIECE
(1982, 1 minute, 16mm) 1984 (1984, 50 seconds, 16mm) BLOTCHER FILM
(1981, 30 seconds, 16mm) WAUWATOSA (1978, 2 minutes, 16mm) LAND WITHOUT
TALK (1989, 5 minutes, 16mm) WITHOUT YOU BABE (1987, 5 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
10/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m. , 151 Third Street
JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE
Introduced by Cindy Keefer, archivist and curator, Center for Visual
Music Since 1947, Bay Area artist Belson has explored consciousness,
transcendence, and light in an extraordinary body of abstract films that
has been called "cosmic cinema." This program features rarely screened
films including Caravan (1952), a new preservation print of Chakra
(1972), and the Bay Area premiere of Epilogue (2005), a distillation of
60 years of visionary images synchronized to a symphonic tone poem by
Rachmaninoff.
10/14
West Hollywood, California: The Film-Makers' Cooperative
http://www.facebook.com/counterculturecountercinema
Oct 14-16,2010, SilverScreen Theater-Pacific Design Center
COUNTER CULTURES, COUNTER CINEMA
October 14-16, 2010 at the SilverScreen Theater/The Pacific Design
Center. Artists Attending in person are: Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs,
Carolee Schneemann.This cinema extravaganza, programmed from the
collection of The New American Cinema Group/New York's Film-Makers'
Cooperative, showcases the long-term alliance between experimental
cinema and counter-culture activity. Covering 50 years, these films and
videos explore sexuality, politics, communal experiments, and
transgressive film appropriations. Please check out our Facebook page
for trailers and info at: www.facebook.com/counterculturecountercinema
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010
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10/15
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"Wave Energies FeedBack: 30 Years of Electronic Media at Kansas City Art
Institute." Part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the
Kansas City Art Institute. "Last Man of Idaho," Ascot Smith (USA), 2010,
video, 25 min.; "Development Inc.," Robert Renfrow (USA), 2004, video,
3:45 min.; "Horoscope," Naoko Wowsugi (Japan), 2010, video, 2:46 min.;
"Chant," Naoko Wowsugi (Japan) and Monica Palma (Mexico), 2007, video,
4:20 min.; "The Moment After the Moment," Robert Heishman (USA), 2010,
video with original score by Heishman and Amanda Bowles, 5:55 min.;
"Driftwood," Cyan Meeks (USA), 2010, video, 7:00 min.; "Green," Brendan
Meara (USA), 2009, music video with original score, 2:13 min.; "Light
Bulb Video," Brendan Meara (USA), 2009, music video with original score,
7:01 min.; "Center," Jamie Hitchings (USA), 2008, video, 1:20 min.;
"Courtesan Ghost," Kristie Alshaibi (USA), 2006, video, 4:14 min.;
"Signal Cross-Over," Kristie Alshaibi (USA) and Usama Alshaibi
(Iraq/USA), 2007, video, 3:24 min.; "Grains," Kristin Miltner (USA),
Live Performance with voice, computer and video projection, 30 min.
Additional programs on Oct. 8 and Oct. 22.
10/15
Montreal, Canada: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FNC-Lab/140669232641739?ref=ts
21:00, Agora du Coeur des sciences / UQAM / 175, avenue du Président-Kennedy
FNC LAB | HYBRIDATION I (AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE)
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Organ Mood + L'Oeil de
Verre + Dystophonie
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: In Dystophonie,
Alexandre Quessy (visuals) and Tristan Matthews (music) try to convey
the experience of living in a space that is constantly torn apart and
reconfigured by external actors. The two artists do live sampling of
sounds and images with tools they developed, including Toonloop, a live
stop-motion animation application.
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: L'Œil de verre is a duo
made up of Jean-Benoit Pouliot and Carl Fortin. Since 2004, the two
artists have worked together developing performances and installations
using various assemblages and machines of their own design. They
manipulate materials and light to create luminous tableaux and fleeting
apparitions that change and move before the eyes of spectators. The
sound element is also an integral part of their performances, in which
there is always room for improvisation.
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: A joint project by sound
experimenter Christophe Lamarche and visual artist Mathieu Jacques,
Organ Mood hinges on the concepts of improvisation, immersion and
mysticism. Mere months after the release of the duo's first album,
Grands Projets, Organ Mood presents FNC wolves with a dense, multi-part
performance, a majestic ritual in which time takes a back seat to
utopian music for the eyes, heart and hands.
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10/15
New York, New York: Art For Progress
http://www.artforprogress.org
6:00pm, 385 Broadway, second floor
CRITICAL MASS
New York City non profit organization Art For Progress will be hosting
Critical Mass, a group art exhibition, on Friday, October 15th at the
HeadQuarters Gallery in Tribeca, 385 Broadway, second floor. Curated by
Natalie Kates (www.nataliekates.com), the exhibit asks "In these
uncertain times does it seems the world is reaching a Critical Mass?
What will be the tipping point for a new order or action to occur and
will it be in the name of evolution or revolution?" The 16-artist show
consists of sculpture, painting, photography and digital art. The
participating artists are as follows: Adam Cohen, Berette Macaulay,
Chris Soria, Ione Citrin, Fareeha Khawaja, JAK, Jeanne Wilkinson, Juan
Manuel Pajares, Gabe Kirchheimer, Kenneth Yee, Lance Dehne, Marina
Reiter, Max Greis, Philip Simmons, Sima Schloss and Yuriy Bobrykov. A
hard-bound book featuring the artists will be available to commemorate
the show. Art For Progress, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in
2004, is comprised of international artists, designers, film makers,
DJ's, and musicians. AFP provides artists with multiple benefits,
supportive services, and exposure both on-line and at special events,
while also providing arts education to NYC public school kids. Go to
www.artforprogress.org for full event details. RSVP to
(address suppressed) In addition to the opening reception,
"Critical Mass" will be on v
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010
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10/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
NEW NOTHING CINEMA
San Francisco's New Nothing Cinema uproots and sets its feet down in New
York City's very own underground with a group program of experimental
film and video curated by Douglas Katelus. ----- Tonight's program
contains a cross section of New Nothing - then and now - including work
by key founding member, the late Dean Snider; whose films contain the
feisty anarchistic sense of energy that No Nothing
represented—sarcastic, funny, beautiful, sometimes fast—always engaging.
As well as a selection of work by Bay Area artists who are actively
making films every year: Sam Green, Kerry Laitala, Paul Clipson,
Tomonari Nishikawa, Michael Rudnick, Irwin Swirnoff, and others.------
"A long time ago, or so it seems, people made films just for the fun of
it. Then someone got the idea that film had to hurt. No pain, no gain.
Somehow film showcases decided they were right. Today people still make
films just for the fun of it. And we show them at the No Nothing
Cinema." (Dean Snider)
10/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
NEW NOTHING CINEMA IN NYC
OCTOBER 16 (Sat.) NEW NOTHING CINEMA in NYC San Francisco's New Nothing
Cinema uproots and sets its feet down in New York City's very own
underground with a group program of experimental film and video curated
by Douglas Katelus. The No Nothing Cinema was created in 1982 by a local
group called the 'emergency filmmakers' to showcase experimental cinema.
In 1997 they were forced to relocate into San Francisco's SOMA district
and with a new building came a new name; the New Nothing Cinema.
Tonight's program contains a cross section of New Nothing - then and now
- including work by key founding member, the late Dean Snider; whose
films contain the feisty anarchistic sense of energy that No Nothing
represented - sarcastic, funny, beautiful, sometimes fast - always
engaging. As well as a selection of work by Bay Area artists who are
actively making films every year. "A long time ago, or so it seems,
people made films just for the fun of it. Then someone got the idea that
film had to hurt. No pain, no gain. Somehow film showcases decided they
were right. Today people still make films just for the fun of it. And we
show them at the No Nothing Cinema." (Dean Snider) CLEAR GLASSES (2010,
4min) by Sam Green INTO THE MASS (2007, 3min) by Tomonari Nishikawa LA
MEDIAUNIDAD (THE MEDIUM) (2010, 10min) by Karla Claudio Betancourt
TELEVISION FOR ADAM (2008, 10min) by Shalo P HIGHWAY TO HELL (2008,
3.30min) by Brian Boyce ORBIT (2006, 9min) by Kerry Laitala BRICK
SAPPHIRE PEBBLES (2010, 2.30min) by Michael Rudnick DEATH OF ASTRO
(2008, 5.30min) by Douglas Katelus SPHINX ON THE SEINE (2009, 9min) by
Paul Clipson PARKS AND RECREATION (2006, 7min) by Irwin Swirnoff BROWN
EYED GIRL (1983, 3min) by Dean Snider
10/16
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
CHIP LORD + ANT FARM + ARCHIMEDIA +
Beth Federici and Laura Harrison's Space, Land, and Time: Underground
Adventures with Ant Farm delves into the work of that renegade '70s
collective. Radical architects, video pioneers (Media Burn, Eternal
Frame), and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers (Chip
Lord in person) built a body of subversive work that questions the
status quo, mashing up Bucky Fuller and NASA with trashy backyard
Americana. Chip kicks in with his own piece in this book-launch of UC
Press' Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the SF Bay Area,
which includes Marita Sturken's article on the group. Opening the
program is Archimedia's (David Cox and Molly Hankwitz) half-hr.
lecture-demo Playfields, Mindmaps and Screen Culture, on the
increasingly aggressive use of screen displays and data-mining to
depict, and control, the idea of self and the city. SPECIAL TREATS: Come
early for Carl Diehl's Polterzeitgeist, and during intermission, David
Sherman—in from Arizona for the anthology's release—debuts his video
installation An Outdoor Cinema in West Texas.
10/16
San Francisco, California: Exploratorium
www.exploratorium.edu
2pm, Palace of Fine Arts - 3601 Lyon Street
STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN
Screening stop-motion work by visual artists and filmmakers. Animations
by Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson, Kathy Aoki, Alessandra Ausenda,
Lizzie Black & Anna Maria Murphy, Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner,
Deborah Davidovits, Almut Determeyer, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks, Sarah
Klein, Evelien Lohbeck, Miwa Matreyek, Tucker Nichols, David O'Kane, Ara
Peterson, Mel Prest, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey, Sjors
Vervoort, Andy Vogt, Scott Wolniak.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2010
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10/17
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale
http://nightingaletheatre.org/
8pm, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
OPTICAL BOUNDARIES TOUR: 16MM FILMS BY STEVE COSSMAN, ROSS NUGENT, & FERN
SILVA
This program features three filmmakers whose respective works explore a
variety of environments as well as the formal properties of the film
medium. Though working independently, their films culminate in an
examination of the film material as a true document of past and present.
Each artist calls attention to the process of separation and
recombination through the use of discarded View-Master cells,
appropriated 16mm nature footage, and a kaleidoscopic amalgam of the new
and old world. Steve Cossman & Ross Nugent in attendance, approx. 60
mins, $5 admission. http://opticalboundaries.wordpress.com/
10/17
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
PETER MAYS: TANTRAS AND SUTRAS
On November 12-14, Filmforum and USC Visions & Voices will present the
symposium Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles
1945-1980 at USC. In the weeks leading up to it, Filmforum will host
evenings with long-time Los Angeles-based filmmakers in evenings of old
and new works. Peter Mays has been actively making films and paintings
in Los Angeles since the 1960s, a key person of the experimental film
scene. We're delighted to host him with some of his early works and
several new ones.
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