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Date: Sat Nov 06 2010 - 08:55:59 PDT
This week [November 6 - 14, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Git Along, Little Dogies" by kate lain
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University of Rhode Island, Film Media program
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
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The Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 12, 2010)
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Indie Fest (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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European Media Art Festival (Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
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CologneOFF 2011 (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: March 01, 2011)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 10, 2010)
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The 2011 Delta International Film and Video
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Go Short - International Short Film Festival
(Nijmegen, Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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30th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey
City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: December 03, 2010)
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The Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 19, 2010)
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Experiments In Cinema v6.3 (Albuquerque, New
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danubeVIDEOARTfestival #1 (Grein, Austria; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: November 27, 2010)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: December 02, 2010)
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Fermynwoods Online Open (Thrapston, England; Deadline: November 08, 2010)
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The Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 12, 2010)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 10, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Performances! [November 6, Glendale, CA]
* Personal Cinema Series: Rick Bahto [November 6, New York, New York]
* The Sound of Jazz/Get Out of the Car [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Parson's Widow [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Passion of Joan of Arc [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Vampyr [November 6, New York]
* Where I'm Calling From [November 6, Oakland, CA]
* M. Prelinger's Another Science Fiction +
Atomic Sublime + [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Michael Scroggins: What Are You Looking At?
[November 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Cartel: the Pilot [November 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Vj201: visual Workshop [November 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Gerard Courant Marathon Weekend [November 7, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Paul Sharits Program [November 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [November 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Ordet [November 7, New York]
* Baywatch! [November 7, San Francisco, California]
* Black Sunday (1960, 87 Min) By Mario
Bava [November 9, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Radical Light: Bay Area Found Footage—From
Junk To Funk To Punk [November 10, San Francisco, California]
* Erie [November 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Screening: Oh My Soul By Nicholas Monsour
[November 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Plug & Pray Opening Night of the Mead
Festival [November 11, New York, New York]
* Because We’Re Human: 10 Years of D.I .Y.
Collaboration [November 11, San Francisco, California]
* Breakaway: Films By Bruce Conner [November 11, Seattle, Washington]
* Prosperity and Tranquility With Arp:Alexis Georgopoulos W/ Marielle
Jacobsons & Jefre Cantu/Films By Paul Clipson/Video By Sara
Magenheimer [November 12, Berkeley, California]
* Raymond Pettibon: the Punk Years, 1978-1986 [November 12, Boca Raton, FL]
* Alternative Projections: A Symposium and
Film Festival [November 12, Los Angeles, California]
* My Beautiful Dacia [November 12, New York, New York]
* Pericles In America By John Cohen [November 12, New York, New York]
* Sound of Jazz/Get Out of the Car [November 12, New York]
* S.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. [November 12, San Francisco, California]
* Alternative Projections: A Symposium and
Film Festival [November 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Eleanore & the Timekeeper [November 13, New York, New York]
* In Comparison By Harun Farocki [November 13, New York, New York]
* Lantern Slides Looking Glass Through Time
[November 13, New York, New York]
* Roscoe Holcomb, From Daisy Kentucky [November 13, New York, New York]
* John Cohen In the andes [November 13, New York, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: Akiko Nakamura [November 13, New York, New York]
* Sleep [November 13, New York]
* Free the Hikers + Forbidden Iran
+ [November 13, San Francisco, California]
* Punto Y Raya 2010 Us Tour Best of the Fest &
Retrospective [November 14, "Exploratorium at the
Palace of Fine Arts" 3601 Lyon Street]
* Alternative Projections: A Symposium and
Film Festival [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Saluting Shorts [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Osadne [November 14, New York, New York]
* Short Docs At the Mead Festival [November 14, New York, New York]
* The High Lonesome Sound and Other John Cohen
Films [November 14, New York, New York]
* Tuli Kupfelberg Program 1 [November 14, New York]
* Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec God? [November 14, New York]
* Punto Y Raya 2010 Us Tour Best of the Fest & Retrospective (Address
Correction!) [November 14, San Francisco, California]
* Cartoon Justice: Hallucinarium and Other
Diversions… [November 14, San Francisco, California]
* Spanish Cooking and Its Indigestions
[November 14, San Francisco, California]
* One Eye, Two “I’S” At Union Docs [November
14, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010
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11/6
Glendale, CA: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Echo Park Film Center Annex" Atwater Village
PERFORMANCES!
An evening featuring innovative and internationally recognized A/V sets
from Los Angeles VJ artists: VJ Fader, MkUltra and more
11/6
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: RICK BAHTO
Rick Bahto is an artist currently living in Los Angeles working
primarily with Super and regular 8mm film, as well as sound and
performance. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, where
he studied with Janis Crystal Lipzin and Charles Boone, among others.
His works have been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, Chicago Filmmakers, Los Angeles
Filmforum, The 8 Fest (Toronto), among other venues, and has created
several collaborative performance pieces with composer/performer Luciano
Chessa. His work is influenced by both structural filmmaking and the New
York School, and frequently incorporates both indeterminate procedures
alongside/within pre-determined forms. For this presentation, he will
project a collection of Super 8 films, all previously unseen in New
York. He will also present the first public realization of his
open-ended performance work for Super 8 film and audio cassettes
entitled Some Places for Mark So and Madison Brookshire, which will
close the program.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE SOUND OF JAZZ/GET OUT OF THE CAR
Jack Smight THE SOUND OF JAZZ 1957, 58 minutes, video. One of the
high-points of American television, this 1957 broadcast, an episode in
CBS's SEVEN LIVELY ARTS series, brought performances by some of the most
gifted jazz musicians of the period into living rooms throughout the
country. Featuring appearances by jazz greats Count Basie, Lester Young,
Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell, Gerry
Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk, the emotional peak of the program is the
rendition of "Fine and Mellow", which represented the reunion of Billie
Holiday and her estranged long-time friend Lester Young, playing
together here for the final time. & Thom Andersen GET OUT OF THE CAR
2010, 34 minutes, 16mm. This new film by Thom Andersen, a follow-up to
his award-winning documentary LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, is a miniature
city symphony composed of advertising signs, building facades, fragments
of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural
landmarks. Taking its cue from the Richard Berry song whose title it
shares, the film's musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey
of popular music made in Los Angeles across the 20th century, with an
emphasis on 50s jazz/R&B and 90s corridos! & Thom Andersen & Malcolm
Brodwick --- ------- (1967, 11 minutes, 16mm) Also known as 'short line
long line' (for the verbally-inclined), this earlier film by Andersen is
one of the greatest of all experimental rock 'n' roll films – formally
rigorous, visually gorgeous, and rhythmically dynamic. Total running
time: ca. 105 minutes.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PARSON'S WIDOW
No English intertitles; English synopsis available, 1921, 78 minutes,
35mm Film Notes A lyrical, early Dreyer comedy. A young parson wins a
plum parish in 17th century Norway, but is obliged to marry the widow of
his deceased predecessor and pretend his attractive young fiancée is his
sister. The master's touch is evident in the close-ups of the pastor's
would-be rivals and parishioners and a slow pan presaging the 360-degree
views of VAMPYR.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
No English intertitles; English synopsis available, 1927-28, 98 minutes,
35mm Film Notes A work that exemplifies Dreyer's philosophy: simplicity
is the most complex idea of all. Although renowned for its spare acts,
lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's masterpiece
reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face (often existing
alone, filling up the frame) and a landscape of history as individual as
the lines on that face. Made in 1927-28, it continues to haunt the
cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the years go by.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VAMPYR
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis
available, 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm Film Notes "Imagine that we are
sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a
corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken
on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are
physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are
as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR."
–Carl Dreyer
11/6
Oakland, CA: Krowswork
www.krowswork.com/calling.html
5-9, 480 23rd Street - side entrance
WHERE I'M CALLING FROM
Join us for "Where I'm Calling From"- featuring Dale Hoyt, Regina
Clarkinia, Jan Peacock, Anna Shteynshleyger, Justine Reyes. opening
reception, November 5th, 5-9. on view October 29-November 27. Krowswork
is pleased to present Where I'm Calling From featuring videos by Dale
Hoyt, Jan Peacock, Anna Shteynshleyger, and Regina Clarkinia that
explore the telephone for the psychic, elliptical tool that it is, with
each artist picking up on the phone's unsettling, simultaneous
relationship to place and placelessness, to home and distance from home.
Photographer Justine Reyes makes palpable the honest yearning of place
through her revelatory photographs of her mother and uncle in their home
and in hotel rooms in various world locales, from the series "Home, Away
From Home."
11/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia
Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
M. PRELINGER’S ANOTHER SCIENCE FICTION + ATOMIC SUBLIME +
With a visual trip through rocket history, Megan Shaw Prelinger, author
of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, presents a
slideshow about the past, and the future, of the technologies of design
and advertising that promised deliverance from the Cold War. Her
handsome volume (available at the show) represents the harvest from the
fertile image-bank that is her SoMA library. ALSO IN PERSON, Jesse
Lerner escapes from SoCal with the world premiere of his feature essay
film, Atomic Sublime. This rich compilation doc, on the ideological role
of the Abstract Expressionist movement constitutes a critically engaging
inquiry into the interface of art and politics in the McCarthy era. PLUS
jaw-dropping dollops of the nuclear mindset from Classifying Nuclear
Weapons, Operation Ivy, Fighting Fires After Atomic Attack, a CIA
filmstrip, and 3D atomic-test blasts!
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
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11/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
MICHAEL SCROGGINS: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
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. Michael Scroggins has been a pioneer in animation
performance and video art since the early 1970s, a member of the
legendary light show group Single Wing Turquoise Bird, and a teacher at
Cal Arts since the late 1970s. We're delighted to host him with a survey
of his work from the 1970s to a brand new world premiere!
11/7
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
CARTEL: THE PILOT
Bienvenido a la primero screening of CARTEL: The Pilot. For the
employees of Cartel Villadiablo it's just like working in any other
company except there are drugs... and guns... and business sombreros. We
will be showing 3 MAGNIFICO episodes. Written and directed by Alison
Cardoso, More info: http://www.cartelvd.com/ FREE! FILMMAKERS AND CAST
IN ATTENDANCE!
11/7
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Museum of Neon Art" 136 W. 4th St
VJ201: VISUAL WORKSHOP
Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) and iotaCenter will present a 5-hour
advanced VJing workshop for intermediate video artists to collaborate
and experiment with live visual music, content creation, software, &
equipment. For a hint of some LAVA work, watch VJ Fader's most recent
video: Electric Tears. http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/lvp2010/
11/7
New York, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place - Bushwick - Brooklyn NY 11221
GERARD COURANT MARATHON WEEKEND
Sunday & Monday November 7 & 8 / screenings begin at 7PM both nights
This weekend at MICROSCOPE Gallery we celebrate the Mid-Point of our 17
day, 154 hour-long exhibit of Gerard Courant's epic serial portrait film
CINEMATONS by screening 4 of his feature films over 2 days, Sunday &
Monday, November 7 & 8. The first screening each night will be of an
early feature work. For the second program, we will screen a recent
serial feature. Courant's films, unstaged and shot in real life could be
considered documents of people, places, or times, but they are not
documentaries. They are beautifully shot, moving portraits, examining
through retake and repetition, inch-by-inch (or rather
centimeter-by-centimeter) Courant is a filmmaker obsessed with looking
and uncovering, to see deeper and more intensely.... Gerard Courant
Screening Program: Admission: $6/film, $8 for 2, 4 for $12 SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 7TH 7 PM - Je meurs de soif, j'étouffe, je ne puis crier (I'm
dying of thirst, chocking, I can not cry out) 1979, 62', original
format 16mm, col, sound with: Gina Lola Benzina, Philippe Garrel,
Marie-Noelle Kauffmann, Tessa Volkine & Gerard Courant ...By
violating the rules of classic narrative cinema, the work of Gérard
Courant focuses on using that 'blind area' in order to increase the
level of noticing, operating in a way that is more photographic than
photography itself. For this purpose, he uses many techniques related to
live recording, especially improvisation: 'film shot contraband' and
'improvised film' are the descriptions that better represent the works
I'm Dying of Thirst, choking, I can not cry out...." (1982). Michel
Larouche..... 8:15PM - La Ville Des Fantomes II (The Haunted City II)
2008, 122 minutes, Nokia cell phone, col, sound Music by Elisa Point...
A part of Courant's series 'Carnet Filmés' (Book
Films), The Haunted City II is a wandering through various neighborhoods
of Paris: Parc Montsouris, Canal Saint Martin, Montmartre, Place de la
République, Place de l'Italie, etc. "Showing the differences is always
art, especially when the tearing 'sound graphics' by Elisa Point reveal
- a posteriori - the Paris' deep tear of modernity. By accident,
Courant pays homage to Lumière Brothers, by shooting the arrival of the
Montmartre cable-car into the station, and then using it to go back
down, in a subjective shot, doing what the Lumières did in Lyon, in the
beloved town of Courant." Alain Paucard... MONDAY NOVEMBER 8TH 7PM -
A Propos de la Grece (About Greece) 1985, 85', original format Super8,
col, sound with: Epi Melopoulou ...Courant had the
impressive idea to contrast with the beauty of Greece, a rhythm of
elements and places, like a vibration. He did it with Hatch editing,
even less repetitive than we might expect, as if he knew its secret. A
mechanical sound accompanies the images, invariably. And finally, above
all, that woman. Simply, the woman who was spending the holidays in
Greece with Gérard. So this is what he has actually recorded: an
obsessive memory of happiness. A man - with a camera, Vertov would add
- once lived in Greece, and there experienced love at its highest
intensity. Fabrice Revault D'Allonnes... 8:45PM - BB X 20 2010, 81
minutes, appropriated footage, color, sound ...BB X
20 is the compression of 20 films starring Brigitte Bardot, released
between 1952 and 1970. Every film is reduced to 25 times the original
length, resulting in approximately 4 minutes. BB X 20 is an absolutely
complete compression: this anthology devoted to Brigitte Bardot doesn't
miss a single shot of the original films! G C The work, presented in
chronological order beginning with 1952, the year she first appeared on
screen, slowly reveal the creation and transformation of Brigitte Bardot
into an icon... Directions: Charles Place is at the intersection of
Myrtle & Willoughby Aves 1 block east of Bushwick Ave. J/M/Z -
Myrtle/Broadway- walk straight across Broadway, along Myrtle Ave to next
light, cross Bushwick Ave, Charles Place is first left. We are first
building on the left. L - Morgan Ave - Morgan Ave toward Flushing, cross
Flushing Right on Troutman, left on Evergreen, Right on Willoughby,
Right on Charles Place. L - Jefferson Ave - Walk Troutman in the
direction of Bushwick Ave. Left on Evergreen, Right on Willoughby, Right
on Charles Place. B54 Bus (Myrtle Ave) stops right across the street at
Freedom Triangle. For more info call 347.925.1433 or visit
www.microscopegallery.com
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM
Paul Sharits S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED 1968-70, 41
minutes, 16mm, color. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap
dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my
son Christopher." –P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive
scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The
film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really
recognized." –Michael Snow 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. 60 minutes.
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH
In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis available, 1943, 100
minutes, 35mm Film Notes "Carl Dreyer's art begins to unfold at the
point where most other directors give up. Witchcraft and martyrdom are
his themes – but his witches don't ride broomsticks, they ride the
erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a world that suggests a
dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." –Pauline Kael
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET
In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis available, 1955, 132
minutes, 35mm Film Notes An existential morality essay by the master of
the long take, in which a man who believes he is Jesus Christ soon
begins to convince those around him. Based on the play by Kaj Munk,
ORDET is a meditation on faith and fanaticism.
11/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Film Society
http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,38,618&pageid=1900
4:30pm, Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St
BAYWATCH!
Don't be fooled. None of these shorts by Bay Area filmmakers feature
David Hasselhoff. Instead, we offer an array of strategies of
investigation, surveillance and voyeurism. Next year, we'll feature the
beach. TRT: 74 min Alambamento: (Mário Bastos, Angola/Egypt, 15 min) Set
and photographed in Angola, this atmospheric short investigates a place
where beauty, corruption and honor intersect. The Burning Wigs of
Sedition: (Simon Cheffins, Anna Fitch, 10 min) At last, the Extra Action
Marching Band's libertine manifesto (i.e. music video). Call + Response:
(Ellen Lake, 4 min) This charming juxtaposition pits archival footage of
phone conversations with contemporary counterparts. The Fuck You Garage:
(Eric Landmark, 3 min) A meticulous inventory of one of San Francisco's
most important architectural features. Number One Fan: (Dia Felix, 8
min) This urgent short asks the questions: Who is Erin Markey? Why
should you stalk her? Sinking State: (Beth Lisick, Frazer Bradshaw, USA,
11 min) Bernadette has a stripper raven in her yard. Should she tolerate
it or run away from it? The Soul of Things: (Dominic Angerame, 15 min)
Angerame's ongoing experimental film project continues its masterful
innovation of the city-symphony. Surveillance of a Camp in Spring:
(James T. Hong, Yin-Ju Chen, Germany/Taiwan/USA, 7 min) This unsettling
short reveals the true nature of an extra-creepy day camp.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2010
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11/9
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BLACK SUNDAY (1960, 87 MIN) BY MARIO BAVA
In the running as one of the greatest gothic horror films of all time,
(certainly one of the most influential), directed by the maestro of
Italian horror and featuring the unforgettable screen presence of
Barbara Steele (in a double-role). Bava, a camerman before becoming a
director, working as he often did with a miniscule budget, creates an
atmospheric black and white world of sets, dramatic lighting and visual
effects (many of them done in-camera) that delight and nourish the
imagination.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010
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11/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.)
RADICAL LIGHT: BAY AREA FOUND FOOTAGE—FROM JUNK TO FUNK TO PUNK
Curated and presented by Craig Baldwin, presented in association with
Pacific Film Archive and Oddball Film + Video [members: $5 /
non-members: $10] ----- Among the rich and richly varied filmways of the
Bay Area is that rather outré (or is it?) practice known as Found
Footage filmmaking, a mode of production that's enjoyed a peculiarly
prominent place in the local heritage. Among the many reasons are the
living legacy of Dada and anti-Art, a sense of Pop humor about the
pre-fabricated, and, crucially, the no-budget, contrarian, yet generous
impulses from the Beat, Hippie and Punk sub-cultures. A shifting matrix
of life-styles, psycho-geographies, art- and social-histories—and a
whole lotta creativity!—has enabled us to discover and share our own
uses and meanings for things. A crafty imagination can still make its
own way through an ever-more bewildering forest of signs—maybe even
swing from those trees! This is what is both supremely ironic and
profoundly redemptive about this ingenious bricolage aesthetic. (Craig
Baldwin)
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2010
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11/11
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St
ERIE
Kevin Jerome Everson in person! Over the past thirteen years,
Kevin Jerome Everson has crafted an exquisite—and prodigious—body of
work on the working-class culture of African-Americans and people of
African descent. Combining documentary and fiction, Everson's nearly 70
shorts and four features center on everyday tasks and gestures to
unearth and illuminate the ordinary grace of daily life. This evening,
in conjunction with the Video Data Bank's release of the 25-title DVD
box set, Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome
Everson, the artist presents his acclaimed feature Erie (2010) along
with a handful of new shorts. Unspooling in a series of hand-held,
single-take shots filmed in the urban centers around the great lake,
Erie captures the conversation of former General Motors workers as the
plant is about to close; hospital employees carefully sorting and
sterilizing surgical implements; and young performers krumping and
rehearsing musical theater side-by-side, the camera moving between them
in a kind of mash-up-en-scene and microcosm of the rich and multifaceted
operation of the film as a whole. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank.
Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010, USA, HDCAM video, ca. 90 min (plus
discussion). KEVIN JEROME EVERSON (1965, Mansfield, OH) has made
four feature-length films and nearly seventy shorts. He received an MFA
from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. His films
and artwork have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York;
the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the
Studio Museum in Harlem; the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles;
Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
Art, Florida; Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; the
Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; the American Academy of Rome, Italy; the
Sundance Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival;
Cinematexas; Ann Arbor Film Festival; and Chicago Underground Film
Festival, among many others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Ohio Arts
Council Fellowships, an American Academy Rome Prize, and residencies at
Yaddo and MacDowell Colony. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art
at the University of Virginia and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
11/11
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SCREENING: OH MY SOUL BY NICHOLAS MONSOUR
We're proud to present the west coast premiere of OH MY SOUL, a film
about isolation, despair, and the miracle of empathy. Everyday and
spiritual realities are explored through a dream-like progression of
events including grocery shopping, oversleeping, working, hallucinating,
nervous breakdown, death, rebirth and a lunar eclipse. Performed by a
cast of non-professional actors in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English
and Tamashek, Nicholas Monsour's first feature-length film combines the
real, symbolic and imaginary effects of isolation, death and human
interaction with a poetic minimalism and loving attention to the details
and gestures of everyday life. This film — how it was made and the end
result — is very different from average "independent" American movies.
It is a personal film, made for almost nothing by a volunteer crew of
artists in real locations, suffused with the experiences of many. An
official selection at the 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival,
presented with selected short films made by Nicholas Monsour. More Info:
http://www.ohmysoulmovie.com and http://www.nicholasmonsour.com
FILMMAKER NICHOLAS MONSOUR IN ATTENDANCE! $5 donation requested
11/11
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/plug-pray
7pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
PLUG & PRAY OPENING NIGHT OF THE MEAD FESTIVAL
The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival features over 38
outstanding films representing the best in documentary, animation,
experimental nonfiction, and archival footage from all corners of the
world offering an intimate look at worlds rarely seen. OPENING NIGHT of
the Mead Festival presents the NY Premiere of the complex and moving
Plug & Pray by Judith Malek-Mahdavi and Jens Schanze. The next
generation of technology researchers envision robots as the future. From
adult-sized, flesh-toned babysitters to nano-robots that circulate in
our cells improving our DNA, robots will be good for us. At least that's
the assumption of scientists in labs in Boston, Genoa, Tokyo, and
Hamburg as they move relentlessly forward with their cutting-edge
research in artificial intelligence, among them the American inventor
and futurist Ray Kurzweil, now spending millions on a way to "backup our
brains." Biology, as they see it, is flawed and only risks improvement
as it merges with these sophisticated machines. In Plug & Pray, one man
comes forward to doubt the wisdom of the goal. Joseph Weizenbaum, whose
work in AI begat the technology used in cruise missiles, urges us to
reconsider our wholehearted embrace of technology before robots become
as ubiquitous as iPods. Co-presented by the Goethe-Institute, New York
Special post-screening reception with the Jens Schanze Full line-up
amnh.org/mead.
11/11
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, $5, 992 Valencia at 21st
BECAUSE WE’RE HUMAN: 10 YEARS OF D.I .Y. COLLABORATION
"Don't wait for leaders" said Mother Theresa, "Do it alone, person to
person". That's hardcore. Mike Watt (of the Minutemen) calls it "jamming
econo". Well, nowadays that's just about all there is … and right on if
you can get that together. For 10 years, Mike Missiaen (filmmaker, VJ,
ATA board member) and Lee Bob Watson (writer, musician, music producer)
have been engaged in DIY collaborations on the margins of the music and
art worlds. Armed with medium grade technology and abetted by able
assistants – most notably Mitch Slater (aka "the Machine") – Mike and
Lee have managed to turn out an eclectic mix of short films and music
videos. They dream big, go small and slowly but surely they get shit
done. As Lee Bob explains, "We've built a miniature media empire that
exists in shoe boxes and suitcases spray painted gold." Why do they do
it? Because they can. The show will include video screenings and live
music, highlighting the best products of 10 years of collaborative work,
featuring the debut of the latest collaboration: a music video for the
song "I 'm a M an" from the forthcoming album TRAVEL : WORLD CR* T VOL 1
and live performances of various artists that performed on the album.
11/11
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
BREAKAWAY: FILMS BY BRUCE CONNER
NOVEMBER 11, THURSDAY AT 7PM Presented by Northwest Film Forum, The
Sprocket Society and Third Eye Cinema Breakaway: Films By Bruce Conner
(16mm and DigiBeta, 70 min) We are proud to present a sampling of Bruce
Conner's greatest films, celebrating what would have been his 77th
birthday. A painter, sculptor and collagist, Conner is perhaps best
remembered as among the most important—and delightful—experimental
filmmakers of the late 20th century. Often juxtaposing dark humor with
pure visionary joy, his found-footage films A Movie (1959) and Cosmic
Ray (1961) are acknowledged landmarks that were later adopted wholesale
by the '80s underground. Music films like Devo's Mongoloid (1978) mocked
MTV's hyper-consumerism even as it was gestating, while later works such
as Valse Triste (1979) and Looking for Mushrooms (1995), used personal
footage toward a more lyrical approach. Don't miss this rare screening
of Conner's films, all unavailable on DVD. "Bruce Conner's ecstatic
films...were at once salvage projects and assertions of individuality in
an increasingly anonymous age. In their modest way...they were acts of
resistance, an aesthetic rejoinder to a world drowning in its own image.
Just as important, they are generally a blast—witty, exuberant,
despairing, engaged, apocalyptic."—Manhola Dargis, New York Times
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010
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11/12
Berkeley, California: Berkeley Art Museum
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late111210
7:30pm, 2626 Bancroft
PROSPERITY AND TRANQUILITY WITH ARP:ALEXIS GEORGOPOULOS W/ MARIELLE
JACOBSONS & JEFRE CANTU/FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON/VIDEO BY SARA MAGENHEIMER
The third installment of Tomo Yasuda's series of (address suppressed) events, Alexis
Georgopoulos's BAM/PFA performance with Marielle Jacobsons and Jefre
Cantu-Ledesma will be accompanied by San Francisco experimental
filmmaker Paul Clipson's original double-projection Super 8mm films, and
Los Angeles-based artist Sara Magenheimer will present a seasonal video
loop, a meditation on the passage of time and the natural environment.
Admission: $7, free for UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and
BAM/PFA members.
11/12
Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University
http://www.fau.edu/galleries/pettibonprogramming.php
1-4 (Tues-Fri); 1-5 (Sat), 777 Glades Road
RAYMOND PETTIBON: THE PUNK YEARS, 1978-1986
Schmidt Center Gallery November 13, 2010 - January 22, 2011 -- This
exhibition presents Raymond Pettibon's early graphic works from the
California punk rock era. Featured are over 200 examples of Pettibon's
aggressively powerful designs created for the band Black Flag(whose lead
vocalist was Henry Rollins) and other wellknown punk bands such as Sonic
Youth, Hüsker Dü, Circle Jerks and the Dead Kennedys. In the past twenty
years, Pettibon has developed an international reputation as a leading
contemporary artist who offers piercing commentary on diverse aspects of
American culture through his characteristic comic book style. This
multi-media exhibition includes posters, gig fliers, zines, album covers
along with their albums, T-shirts, skateboard decks, CDs and videos. --
The exhibition also includes a selection of post-punk era works by
Pettibon from south Florida public and private art collections,
demonstrating a development of the artist's style and thematic
interests. A selection of punk era film and video works and punk
inspired performances will round out the exhibition, made possible
through collaboration with faculty members James E. Cunningham and
Alejandro Sánchez-Samper, Department of Music, and Shane Eason, School
of Communication and Multimedia Studies. A lecture and book signing by
Ryan Moore, Department of Sociology and author of Sells Like Teen
Spirit: Music, Youth Culture and Social Crisis, will also be presented.
-- Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 1978-86 is the first in ICI's
Exhibitions in a Box series. Organized and circulated by Independent
Curators International (ICI), New York, this exhibition has been
assembled by David Platzker. The exhibition is made possible, in part,
by a grant from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts; the ICI Board of Trustees, and ICI
Benefactors Barbara and John Robinson.
11/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
6:00 pm, USC School of Cinematic Arts
ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS: A SYMPOSIUM AND FILM FESTIVAL
Opening reception and screening for A three-day symposium that aims to
expand understanding of how experimental filmmaking evolved in Los
Angeles and to contextualize its place in postwar art history. The
project places focus on the community of filmmakers, artists, curators
and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of
experimental cinema in Southern California in the postwar era. It will
add to the definitive overview of the topic provided in David James's
book The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor
Cinemas in Los Angeles, while creating a complementary archive of
resources for future scholars.
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Symposium.html
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/my-beautiful-dacia
8:30pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
MY BEAUTIFUL DACIA
The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is thrilled to
present the U.S. Premiere of Stefan Constantinescu and Julio Soto's MY
BEAUTIFUL DACIA an examination of the bemusing and complicated cultural
history of the Romanian Dacia automobile. This is simultaneously a
symbol of Communist oppression and of homegrown know-how. When mass
production began in 1968, ordinary Romanians could finally buy their own
car yet had to wait up to five years to get one. Spanning the 1970s,
1980s, 1990s, and today, this documentary takes the Dacia for a sardonic
ride through Romania's dysfunctional history, from the tyranny of
Nicolae Ceausescu to the caprice of capitalism's new regime. Through the
windshields of assorted Dacias, we eventually come to realize what these
countrymen already know: just because something is broken down doesn't
mean it is not beloved. Co-presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute
in New York Julio Soto in person. For the full line up and tickets go to
amnh.org/mead.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/unearthing-pen
6pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
PERICLES IN AMERICA BY JOHN COHEN
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival presents JOHN COHEN: A Life in
Work The Mead celebrates the life and work of JOHN COHEN, prolific
scholar, photographer, musician, and filmmaker. This seven-film series
showcases the wide scope of his interests and his deep engagement with
each, from the indigenous cultures of Peru to the musical traditions of
Appalachia and the Greek coastal mountains. Tonight PERICLES IN AMERICA
screens. Greek ex-patriot Pericles Halkias is nostalgic for the old
country. Sitting in his basement in Queens surrounded by his
instruments, he scorns the modernization of his beloved Romani-inflected
music, which he still plays in its pure form on the clarinet for NY's
Epirote community. In search of better opportunities, generations of
Greeks have left the rocky slopes of Epirus, which is nestled in the
northwest mountains bordering Albania. But the promise of steady work
fulfilled in mid-century America cannot soothe the longing for homeland
felt among New York's Greek immigrant community. Traveling from Astoria
to Athens, Cohen presents the music of Epirus, tracing back to its
Romani roots. At once an elegy to this music's expressive sound and a
history of Greeks in America, this documentary conveys the ambiguous
relationship these immigrants have with a culture left behind and with
the New World, which, for better or worse, has become their home. Cohen
in person. For a full line-up go to http://www.amnh.org/mead
11/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SOUND OF JAZZ/GET OUT OF THE CAR
See program notes for Nov. 6th, 4 pm.
11/12
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
S.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
"S.O.L.U.T.I.O.N." is a program of short films combining environmental
topics with D.I.Y. surrealism, selected by artist/curator Billy Miller.
The title "Solution" refers to both the idea of reconciliation and a
chemical state of suspension. This collection presents a wide range of
approaches. Included in the program; cult musician/artist Genesis P.
Orridge's "Eva Adolf Braun Hitler" (which proposes that Eva Braun and
the famous dictator are the same person and have been living in a
basement in Williamsburg NY since WW2 !), filmmaker Ashleigh Nankivell's
"Helping Johnny Remember" which deftly portrays the sexual violence
lurking beneath the surface of children's games, artist Jonah Freeman's
untitled short which feels like a Chinatown accupressure video gone
haywire, master collagist Lewis Klahr's "False Aging" evoking the
bittersweet passing of time through deft use of montage, Lisa Kirk's
mock perfume commercial "Revolution" that presents a pipe bomb as luxury
item, Janie Geiser's "Ghost Algebra" which takes the viewer on an
animated journey through the use of found objects and medical
illustrations to find the original meaning of the word "algebra", Larry
Carlson's "Contact The Star People" that puts the viewer in a trance via
the marriage of trippy music and visuals, Justin Lowe's "More" which
traces the graceful movement of a killer whale as it (psychedelically)
travels through the water, Fritz Haeg's short video telling the story of
one man's attempts to save the European Kingfisher bird, and finally we
get a peek at Florent Tillon's "Detroit Wildlife" that shows the ghosts
of that city's past as well as a glimpse of it's possible future. Also
on tap are a few surprises that you'll have to be there to experience
(don't worry, it's painless). Total duration of program: 1 hour, 15
minutes. An evening of fun for all… relax and float downstream!
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010
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11/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
9:00 am, USC School of Cinematic Arts
ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS: A SYMPOSIUM AND FILM FESTIVAL
A three-day symposium that aims to expand understanding of how
experimental filmmaking evolved in Los Angeles and to contextualize its
place in postwar art history. The project places focus on the community
of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the
creation and presentation of experimental cinema in Southern California
in the postwar era. It will add to the definitive overview of the topic
provided in David James's book The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and
Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, while creating a
complementary archive of resources for future scholars.
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Symposium.html
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/elanor-timekeeper
8pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER
The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival presents Danièle
Wilmouth's Eleanore & the Timekeeper is a moving contemplation of the
relationship between the filmmakers robust 90 year old grandmother,
Eleanore and her 62 year old uncle, Ronnie who has developmental
disabilities. Rising every morning at 6 am, Ronnie wakes Eleanore,
always still fast asleep. Bathed in the light of dawn that envelopes
their Pennsylvania farmhouse, Ronnie sits alone at his desk stacking cut
paper in neat rows, waiting for his mother to come downstairs and
breakfast to be served. Wilmouth portrays their daily life from a
familiar reserve, showing us the quiet amenable ways in which the pair
have adapted to each other. The routine is broken when Eleanore, must
have knee surgery that will require weeks of recovery and
rehabilitation. Who will look after Ronnie? While making arrangements
for her son's temporary care, Eleanore confronts the hard reality that
she will not always be there for him and, more startling, that he may be
more self-sufficient than she thinks. For the full line up and tickets
go to amnh.org/mead.
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/in-comparison
6pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
IN COMPARISON BY HARUN FAROCKI
The Mead Festival features is prolific filmmaker Harun Farocki's In
Comparision. The brick has been integral in everything from the Great
Wall of China to the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun, from the Ishtar Gate of
Babylon to the warehouses of New York's Lower East Side. Around for the
last 10,000 years, the ubiquitous brick can be rectangular or
curvaceous, fired or mixed with cement, solid or with an internal arch.
Whatever its form, it continues to constitute our world, as Farocki
reminds us in this quietly observed documentary of how they are made and
used across geography and cultures. From a community clinic in Burkina
Faso, where each brick is handmade steps away from a rising structure,
to a factory in Germany, where prefab walls are built on an automated
assembly line, this literal building-block of human civilization stands
as a mute witness to what has been sacrificed and gained in the march to
modernization. Co-presented by the Department of Anthropology, Barnard
College, Columbia University and the Goethe-Institut, New York. Farocki
will be in attendance. For a full line-up go to
http://www.amnh.org/mead/
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/lantern-slides
1:30pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
LANTERN SLIDES LOOKING GLASS THROUGH TIME
The American Museum of Natural History and 34th Annual Margaret Mead
Film & Video Festival presents Lantern Slides: Looking Glass through
History Join the Mead for an urban dig through the Museum's library
archives. Once the foundation of a wildly popular series of lectures by
zoologist and AMNH founder Albert Bickmore, the Museum's collection of
more than 40,000 glass lantern slides were used as an educational tool
starting in the late 1800s and were later circulated throughout NYC's
public school system. Often hand-colored, these slides depict myriad
subjects, such as landscapes, scientific specimens, and field
expeditions captured around the world by the Museum's own scientists. In
celebration of the recovery of about 20,000 of these rare artifacts, the
Festival presents the opportunity to view these unique historical
documents and stunning works of art through the eyes of in-house
archivist Barbara Mathé. She will share the behind-the-scenes history of
the lantern slides, photographs of Museum employees painting the
original slides, and the fascinating story of their journey from AMNH to
a basement in Staten Island and back again. Historian Constance Areson
Clarke. and media historian Alison Griffiths. will also be on hand to
discuss the wider history of lantern slides and educational media..
Co-presented by International Center of Photography and the New York
Stereoscopic Society For the full line up and tickets go to
amnh.org/mead.
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/roscoe
8:30pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
ROSCOE HOLCOMB, FROM DAISY KENTUCKY
The Mead Festival presents the World Premiere of Roscoe Holcomb from
Daisy, Kentucky. When John Cohen met Roscoe Holcomb in 1962, Holcomb was
down on his luck, having been forced to quit his job in the mines after
a workplace injury. In moments of reflection on his front porch, Holcomb
shares his life story with Cohen and displays his exceptional banjo
playing, infused with the soul and grit of his hard-scrabble existence
in Appalachia. This new film is composed of 16mm outtakes from
interviews with Holcomb and his family, performance footage, and scenes
of Appalachian life shot for Cohen's 1963 film The High Lonesome Sound,
which will be shown on Sunday afternoon. Screening with Sara and
Maybelle: The Carter Family along with never before seen gems from the
Country Music Hall of Fame. Followed by a live musical performance by
Cohen and his band THE DUST BUSTERS.
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/highlights/life-in-work
2pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
JOHN COHEN IN THE ANDES
John Cohen in the Andes features Carnival in Q'eros: Where the Mountain
Meets the Jungle and Peruvian Weaving: A Continuous Warp The Q'eros live
in the crease of land between the Andes and the Amazon, where they still
practice the sacred rituals of their Incan ancestors. When John Cohen
filmed features Carnival in Q'eros in 1989, no outsider had ever
witnessed their celebration, an all-night freeform ceremony of
storytelling and flute-playing. Letting his camera wander over the
mountain vistas, alpaca chewing cud, stone huts, and the red, brown, and
blue tones of the Q'eros's colorful woven garb, Cohen opens a window
onto this unique and ancient culture. When the filmmakers offer a gift
of alpaca offspring to refurbish the community's diminishing herd, we
have the privilege of witnessing the communal negotiations, in which
everyone gets their say. Peruvian Weaving -A tradition that dates back
to at least 2500 BC, Peruvian warp weaving has been passed down from
woman to woman for generations and has changed little over time. Cohen
takes us step by step through the painstaking process, using
contemporary footage shot among the Q'eros and archival footage from a
1946 educational film, in which American Museum of Natural History
archaeologist Junius Bird describes his team's exciting discovery of
Pre-Columbian textile artifacts on the coast of Peru and decodes the
meanings woven into the fabric's designs . Cohen in person. For a full
line-up go to http://www.amnh.org/mead
11/13
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - admission $8/$6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: AKIKO NAKAMURA
PROGRAM OF VIDEO WORKS. Akiko Nakamura, born in Japan, studied fine arts
in a interdisciplinary manner in the United States and received her BFA
degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1997. She has lived in Tokyo
ever since and has used the video medium as a means of expression. Her
works have been screened and exhibited in over 20 cities worldwide.
Parallel to making her own works, she has organized independent shows
and screenings, and this year participated in MJVAX 2010, Malaysia-Japan
Video Art Exchange which took place in three cities in Malaysia. She is
sometimes associated with an artist collective VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo.
----"Her works often start from a specific, just videotaping whatever
she finds interesting in everyday life, or documenting performance
artists, her friends, or people about whom she wants to know more. From
there, she tries to find some kind of connection between the images she
shot and her own thoughts generated by watching them repeatedly or
leaving them unwatched for a long time."- A.N.
11/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SLEEP
1963, 5 hours and 21 minutes, 16mm Film Notes INTRODUCED BY JOHN GIORNO,
POET AND STAR OF 'SLEEP'! Warhol was truly the preeminent maker of
boring masterpieces, and perhaps the only director who explicitly and
enthusiastically embraced the concept of boredom. The first installment
of BORING MASTERPIECES included his legendary 1964 film, EMPIRE, surely
the conceptual peak of the boring masterpiece concept. But the year
before, Warhol had made a similarly epically-uneventful film, every bit
as radical and sublime as its successor: SLEEP. A five-plus-hour study
of the poet John Giorno asleep, it is human and intimate, where EMPIRE
is inanimate and monumental. One of Warhol's very first films, it is in
many ways unique in his filmography. "Warhol's…SLEEP movie must be
infuriating to the impatient or the nervous or to those so busy they
cannot allow the eye and the mind to adjust to a quieter, flowing sense
of time. What appears boring is the elimination of incident, accident,
story, sound and the moving camera. … As less and less happens on the
screen, we become satisfied with almost nothing and find the slightest
shift in the body of the sleeper or the least movement of the camera
interesting enough. The movie is not so much about sleep as it is about
our capacity to see the possibilities of an aspect of film carried to
its logical conclusion, REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM to some, indicating a new
awareness to others." –Henry Geldzahler
11/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia
Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE THE HIKERS + FORBIDDEN IRAN +
As many already know, East Bay residents (and UCB grads) Shane Bauer,
Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal were arrested by Iranian forces while
hiking in Iraqi border areas last year. Their detainment is being
exploited for political reasons in the current US/Iran standoff. We
screen some clips about their predicament, and hear from close
associates, including journalists David Martinez, Mark Brecke, and the
"fourth hiker," Shon Meckfessel. ALSO a report on Evin Prison, from
Carla Garapedian's Forbidden Iran. Come early for a 16mm overview of
Iranian history, Land of the Peacock Throne. *$7–$100 benefits the Free
the Hikers org.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2010
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11/14
"Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts" 3601 Lyon Street: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7PM, "Echo Park Film Center" 1200 N. Alvarado St.
PUNTO Y RAYA 2010 US TOUR BEST OF THE FEST & RETROSPECTIVE
The Largest and most complete experimental and abstract film festival in
the world shows the best of the fest in Dallas. Barbara Doser -
Frameframer; Kazuhiko Kobayashi - Ren-Ka-Lin-Ten; Sabrina Schmid -
Evariations; Cristina Casanova Seuma -Ratlles III | Line III; Marc
St.Aubin - Implosion; Jim Merz - Mostly Red; Juanjo Fernández_Gnomalab -
Abstract Love; Mary Benedicto - Ready, Set, Go; Aleksandra Dulic &
Kenneth Newby - Intersecting Lines; Pedro Ignacio & Vodanovic Rojas -
Tierra Plana | Flat Land; Trish Scott - Wave; Deborah Johnson - The Palm
Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake; Clemente Calvo Muñoz - Videolightwork
four.
http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/2_edicion/eng/competicion09_mod1_eng.h
tml As well as a collection of classic experimental and abstract films:
Frank & Caroline Mouris - Impasse; John Whitney Sr. - Arabesque; Larry
Cuba - 3/78; Larry Cuba - Two Space; Larry Cuba- Calculated movements;
Jules Engel - Train Landscape; Jules Engel - Shapes & Gestures; Hy Hirsh
- Scratch Pad; Hy Hirsh - Chasse des Touches | The Chase of
Brushstrokes; Adam Beckett - Heavy Light; Adam Beckett - Kitsch in Sync.
http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/puntoyraya2010/
11/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
11:00 am, USC School of Cinematic Arts
ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS: A SYMPOSIUM AND FILM FESTIVAL
A three-day symposium that aims to expand understanding of how
experimental filmmaking evolved in Los Angeles and to contextualize its
place in postwar art history. The project places focus on the community
of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the
creation and presentation of experimental cinema in Southern California
in the postwar era. It will add to the definitive overview of the topic
provided in David James's book The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and
Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, while creating a
complementary archive of resources for future scholars.
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Symposium.html
11/14
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SALUTING SHORTS
Saluting Shorts is an open mic night of sorts, where filmmakers will
screen their latest short films, music videos, commercials, webisodes,
filmed sketches, trailers, etc. Drinks available, FREE POPCORN! $5
donation Email for more info about how to submit:
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11/14
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/osadne
6:30pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
OSADNE
The 34th Annual Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival presents a series
of documentaries untitled World's Gone By about communities trying to
hold onto their traditional cultures> included in this series is Marko
Skop's Osadne a humorous look at the men who appeal to the European
Union in an effort to boost tourism in their village and thwart the
increasing decline of the village's population. Osadne is dying. A small
village cradled in a valley of Slovakia's mountains, it is home to 200
Rusyns, a dwindling minority on the easternmost edge of Europe. To save
the town from further population attrition, the long-time mayor, a newly
posted orthodox priest, and the media-savvy head of the Rusyn revival
movement look to the European Union. The threesome make a pilgrimage to
EU's parliament in Brussels to raise support for competing plans to
improve the local economy—a Chapel of Grief and a monastery. By turns
distant and intimate, ironic and poignant, this documentary traces the
political education of these well-intentioned crusaders as they try to
draw attention to Osadne's plight. When Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" surges
on the soundtrack as the camera sweeps from the packed galley to the
nearly empty parliamentary chamber on the day the Rusyns visit, Slovak
director Skop is preparing us for inevitable disappointment and, at the
same time, sharing a complicit smile. Co-presented CEC ArtsLink For the
full line up go to amnh.org/mead.
11/14
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/films/unearthing-pen
2pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
SHORT DOCS AT THE MEAD FESTIVAL
The Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is thrilled to present Mead
Briefing a series of five short films that individually present stories
from vastly different regions and voices, and collectively exhibit the
great power of short form filmmaking. Unearthing the Pen by Carol Salter
(NY Premiere) a young Ugandan shepherd struggles to reconcile his
longing to read and write with the traditions of his tribe, which 40
years ago put a curse on the pen. Ghost Noise by Marcia Connolly. (U.S.
Premiere, Filmmaker in person.) Connolly's film adopts an Inuit woman's
poetic artistry, which draws its inspiration from the mythological and
mundane in equal parts. The Final Chapter by Mina T. Son. (World
Premiere) A black-and-white sketch of three Californians who are more
curious, and honest, about death than most. By the River by Magdalena
Kowalczyk. (US Premiere, Filmmaker in person) a moody look a men at work
unfolds among the thickets that grow along the frozen banks of a modern
waterway. Barren by Saskia Kluit and Hanneke van der Linden, (US
Premiere) in this live-action documentary delicately overlaid with
animated ink drawings, a widower dismantles the dovecot that once housed
his beloved homing pigeons. . For a full Festival line-up go to
http://www.amnh.org/mead
11/14
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film & Video
Festival, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2010/highlights/life-in-work
2:30pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th
Street between Central Park West and Columbus
THE HIGH LONESOME SOUND AND OTHER JOHN COHEN FILMS
The Mead Festival continues with THE HIGH LONESOME SOUND. In one of his
most celebrated works, John Cohen illuminates the deep connection the
people of Appalachia feel to their musical traditions. Set in eastern
Kentucky, Cohen's first film The High Lonesome Sound, documents the
songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers expressing the joys and
sorrows of life, while pausing to record the beauty of the surrounding
mountains and the simplicity of their homes. Musical performances
include the Shepherd Family, Roscoe Holcomb on guitar and banjo, and
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys performing "John Henry" for a
mixed-race audience in the town square. Screening with The End of an Old
Song. This film follows Dillard Chandler who was one of the last
performers of a nearly lost musical tradition. A liminal figure who
straddles the old and new, Chandler renders traditional English ballads
as testimony of the continued hardships faced by the people of
Appalachia and an evocation of a world gone by. Also screening never
before seen gems from the Country Music Hall of Fame. Cohen in person.
For a full line-up go to http://www.amnh.org/mead
11/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TULI KUPFELBERG PROGRAM 1
60s icon, Fugs co-founder, cartoonist, and New York underground beat
poet laureate Tuli Kupferberg passed away in July 2010 at age 86,
leaving a rich legacy of a lifetime's worth of artistic radicalism and
fun, including many rarely-seen film and video appearances. This special
memorial screening presents a diverse collection of short films and
videos from the 1960s onward, including Tuli's appearances on the public
access programs REVOLTING NEWS and IF I CAN'T DANCE YOU CAN KEEP YOUR
REVOLUTION, some of Tuli's more recent web clips, and other odds and
ends. Not to mention the first screening in many a moon of the long-lost
counter-culture feature VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC GOD?, starring Tuli in
the title role! Special thanks to Mitch Blank, Thelma Blitz, Coca
Crystal, Jack Christie, Michael Hirsh, Samara Kupferberg, Jeffrey Lewis,
Paul Lovelace, Norman Savitt, and Sylvia Topp. The Tuli Kupferberg
screenings are sponsored by Arthur Magazine, www.arthurmag.com PROGRAM 1
Shorts, clips, and odds & ends, including Edward English's short film:
FUGS (1960s, 12.5 minutes, 16mm) "(Sights and sounds of the lower East
Side rain forest.) This film captures a bit of the Fugs' environment,
which includes the lower East Side, the Waldorf Astoria, the MacDougal
Street scene, police harassment, show biz, humanity, their audiences,
and the filmmaker." –E.E.
11/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC GOD?
Michael Hirsh & Jack Christie VOULEZ-VOUS COUCHER AVEC GOD? 1972, 69
minutes, 16mm-to-video. Voulez-vous coucher avec God? Judge for yourself
at the New York premiere of this vintage, Canadian-made experimental
flick featuring a groundbreaking potpourri of live action and animation,
backed by a rollicking soundtrack of 1960s hits. As portrayed by
Kupferberg, there's no messing with this Yahweh who'd just as soon enjoy
a blow job from an inflatable schmoo as mastermind a presidential
election from the cozy confines of his bathtub in Hashish Seventh
Heaven, where a cast of pipe-dreaming souls journeys to be reborn. All
hell breaks loose when the angel of the Lord attempts to cover up his
failure to avert the sacrifice of young Isaac by his father, Abraham
(also played by Kupferberg).
11/14
San Francisco, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7PM, "Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts" 3601 Lyon Street
PUNTO Y RAYA 2010 US TOUR BEST OF THE FEST & RETROSPECTIVE (ADDRESS
CORRECTION!)
Same as other listing, but with correct address of San Francisco. The
Largest and most complete experimental and abstract film festival in the
world shows the best of the fest in Dallas. Barbara Doser - Frameframer;
Kazuhiko Kobayashi - Ren-Ka-Lin-Ten; Sabrina Schmid - Evariations;
Cristina Casanova Seuma -Ratlles III | Line III; Marc St.Aubin -
Implosion; Jim Merz - Mostly Red; Juanjo Fernández_Gnomalab - Abstract
Love; Mary Benedicto - Ready, Set, Go; Aleksandra Dulic & Kenneth Newby
- Intersecting Lines; Pedro Ignacio & Vodanovic Rojas - Tierra Plana |
Flat Land; Trish Scott - Wave; Deborah Johnson - The Palm Sunday Tornado
Hits Crystal Lake; Clemente Calvo Muñoz - Videolightwork four.
http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/2_edicion/eng/competicion09_mod1_eng.h
tml As well as a collection of classic experimental and abstract films:
Frank & Caroline Mouris - Impasse; John Whitney Sr. - Arabesque; Larry
Cuba - 3/78; Larry Cuba - Two Space; Larry Cuba- Calculated movements;
Jules Engel - Train Landscape; Jules Engel - Shapes & Gestures; Hy Hirsh
- Scratch Pad; Hy Hirsh - Chasse des Touches | The Chase of
Brushstrokes; Adam Beckett - Heavy Light; Adam Beckett - Kitsch in Sync.
http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/puntoyraya2010/
11/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
4pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
CARTOON JUSTICE: HALLUCINARIUM AND OTHER DIVERSIONS…
An afternoon of short films/kinetic visual sculptures with live
experimental soundtracks by members of Cartoon Justice and guests,
performing improvised electroacoustic shamanic noise jazz. A variety of
visual content inventing and remixing pasts and futures, distant
traditions and local chaos, individual visions and a fractured consensus
reality will be accompanied by genre-bending sounds that, like the
visuals, blend repurposed style and content with the newly-created and
unclassifiable. Godzilla and space aliens wreak havoc in Amsterdam while
Butoh performers explore the Californian desert, Albrecht Durer gets
deconstructed and reconstructed, and the audience is invited to create
its own visual universe and then forced to inhabit it.
11/14
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
SPANISH COOKING AND ITS INDIGESTIONS
ATA presents some of the most the revulsive, eccentric, irreverent, acid
dishes of the contemporary Spanish avant-garde cinema. Andrés Duque,
María Cañas, David Domingo, Virgina García del Pino and the audiovisual
collective Los Hijos are the chefs for this atypical dinner.
11/14
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Avenue
ONE EYE, TWO “I’S” AT UNION DOCS
60 years of Cinematic Collaborations from the Archive of the Filmmakers
Cooperative. Special guests: P. Adams Sitney, Bradley Eros and the
Zaqistan Arts Council .
http://www.uniondocs.org/lynne-sachs-one-eye-two-%E2%80%9Ci%E2%80%99s%E2
%80%9D-with-p-adams-sitney/ Curated by Lynne Sachs with the help of Mark
Street, MM Serra and Ryan Marino. Screened in glorious 16mm, tonight's
program celebrates six decades of film collaborations from the
collection of the New York based Film-Makers' Cooperative. Scholar and
historian P. Adams Sitney will introduce our first short works -- three
New York City cine-poems shot by Rudy Burckhardt who worked regularly
with artist Joseph Cornell during the 1950s. Our 1960s selection is
Joyce Wieland's and Michael Snow's formalist vision of dripping water in
a bowl – pure, liquid, kinetic sculpture in exquisite black and white.
Next we will witness a grid-like flicker film hurled onto the screen by
Beverly and Tony Conrad in 1970. By 1984 the avant-garde was into body
art and filmmaker Tom Chomont photographed his brother Ken shaving ---
from the top of his head all the way down. Bradley Eros' and Jeanne
Liotta's 1992 movie pushes our awareness of the body even further, into
a dream-like reverie on cinema. And Stan Brakhage created one of his
only film collaborations with Mary Beth Reed in 2001, revealing to the
world his delicate process of painting on film. We will finish this
evening with the premiere of a Wild West conceptual art video by the
Zaqistan Arts Council (Sofia Gallisá, Zaq Landsberg, Scott Riehs, and
Jeff Sisson). 1950s Aviary, The/Nymphlight, A Fable For Fountains (1957
- 1970) 16mm, color & b/w,sound, 19 min by Rudolph Burckhardt and Joseph
Cornell. According to P. Adams Sitney, "Rudy Burckhardt photographed
'The Aviary' (1955), an impression of New York's Union Square, under
Joseph Cornell's direction. This location held a particular fascination
for Cornell who wanted to establish a foundation for artists and art
therapy there. In the film he treats the park as an outdoor aviary." In
]Nymphlight' (1957) Burkhardt and Cornell filmed a 12-year-old ballet
student in Bryant Park behind the New York Public Library. In 'A Fable
for Fountains' (1957-70) Cornell met a young actress when she played a
boy in an off-off-Broadway production. He remarked at her resemblance to
a figure in one of his boxes and later persuaded her to appear in this
film, this time shot by Burckhardt in Little Italy. 1960s: Dripping
Water (1969) 16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min. by Joyce Wieland and
Michael Snow "Snow and Wieland's film uplifts the object, and leaves the
viewer with a finer attitude toward the world around him, it opens his
eyes to the phenomenal world. and how can you love people if you don't
love water, stone, grass." Jonas Mekas, New York Times, August 1969
1970s: Straight and Narrow (1970) 16mm, black and white, sound, 10 min.
by Beverly Conrad and Tony Conrad Straight And Narrow uses the flicker
phenomenon, not as an end in itself, but as an effectuator of other
related phenomena. Also, by using images which alternate in a vibrating
flickering schedule, a new impression of motion and texture is created.
1980s: Razor Head (1984) 16mm, color, silent, 4 min by Tom Chomont with
Ken Chomont One brother shaves another in this highly charged erotic
performance. 1990s: Dervish Machine (1992) 16mm, black and white, sound,
10 min by Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta Hand-developed meditations on
being and movement, as inspired by Brian Gysin's Dreammachine, Sufi
mysticism, and early cinema. A knowledge of the fragility of existence
mirrors the tenuousness of the material. 2000s: Garden Path (2001) 16mm,
color & b/w, silent, 7 min by Mary Beth Reed and Stan Brakhage The film
reveals The creative process of hand painted film visionary, Stan
Brakhage. whose painted images leap out of black and white footage of
the artist at work. 2010s: Defiance: Zaqistan at 5 years (2010) video, 6
min. by Sofia Gallisá, Zaq Landsberg, Scott Riehs, and Jeff Sisson This
collaborative video documents the sixth expedition to Zaqistan, a
breakaway republic founded from two acres of remote Utah desert
purchased off of Ebay and declared independent from the United States in
2005.
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