[Frameworks] This week [November 13 - 21, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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This week [November 13 - 21, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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""IOKA"" by Kyle S. Glowacky
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=440.ann
"Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the
San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000"
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=441.ann

NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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The Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 12, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1234.ann
Indie Fest (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1235.ann
European Media Art Festival (Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1236.ann
CologneOFF 2011 (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: March 01, 2011)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1237.ann
Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 10, 2010)
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The 2011 Delta International Film and Video
Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 07, 2011)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1239.ann
Digital Checkpoints at FLEFF 2011 (Ithaca, New
York, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2011)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1240.ann

DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Go Short - International Short Film Festival
(Nijmegen, Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1182.ann
The 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL,
USA; Deadline: December 12, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1193.ann
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1196.ann
30th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey
City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: December 03, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1203.ann
The Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 19, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1209.ann
Experiments In Cinema v6.3 (Albuquerque, New
Mexico USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1210.ann
danubeVIDEOARTfestival #1 (Grein, Austria; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1214.ann
Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: November 27, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1215.ann
$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1216.ann
DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1219.ann
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1223.ann
RiverRun International Film Festival
(Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1224.ann
The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: December 02, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1227.ann
Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1233.ann
European Media Art Festival (Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1236.ann
Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 10, 2010)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1238.ann

THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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  * Alan Berliner: New Inklings, Old Obsessions,
and Other Works In Progress [November 13, Brooklyn, New York]
  * The Voyagers – A Double Feature [November 13, Chicago, Illinois]
  * 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]
  * Radical Light: 1980-1989 [November 14, Berkeley, California]
  * Zero Film Festival and 'young Hearts Run
Free' [November 14, Brooklyn, New York]
  * Alternative Projections: A Symposium and
Film Festival [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
  * Saluting Shorts [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
  * Saluting Shorts [November 14, Los Angeles, California]
  * Short Docs At the Mead Festival [November 14, New York, New York]
  * Osadne [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]
  * Epfc Doc Class Project Premiere [November 15, Los Angeles, California]
  * Tom (2002, 53 Min.) By Mike Holboom [November 16, Reading, Pennsylvania]
  * Early Monthly Segments #22= Three Films By
Chick Strand [November 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
  * New Landscapes For the New World: Contemporary Spanish Experimental
     Cinema [November 17, San Francisco, California]
  * Reenactments [November 18, Chicago, Illinois]
  * Dino's Drive-In [November 18, Los Angeles, California]
  * Elusive Landscape [November 18, Miami, FL]
  * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [November 18, New York]
  * Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [November 18, New York]
  * Bay Area Ecstatic [November 18, San Francisco, California]
  * Punto Y Raya 2010 Us Tour Best of the Fest &
Retrospective [November 19, Eugene, Oregon]
  * 10th Annual Human Rights Film Festival - Day
1 [November 19, Los Angeles, California]
  * More So / Bahto [November 19, Los Angeles, California]
  * Personal Cinema Series: Tribute To Jim Neu
(Fri 19th & Sat 20th) [November 19, New York, New York]
  * Ciné-Constellation: Three Films By Amie
Siegel [November 19, Seattle, Washington]
  * 10th Annual Human Rights Film Festival - Day
2 [November 20, Los Angeles, California]
  * Personal Cinema Series: Tribute To Jim Neu
(Fri. 19th & Sat. 20th) [November 20, New York, New York]
  * Short Film Show [November 20, Old Bridge N.J]
  * Mccormick's Future So Bright + Uman + Sachs
+ [November 20, San Francisco, California]
  * Spiritual Transmission In 3d [November 20, Wilmington, North Carolina]
  * J-Walt's “Spontaneous Fantasia” and Other
Live visual Performers [November 21, Glendale, CA]
  * Filmforum Presents the 48th Ann Arbor Film
Festival Tour 16mm Program [November 21, Los Angeles, California]
  * Introduction To Final Cut Pro [November 21, Los Angeles, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010
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11/13
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave

  ALAN BERLINER: NEW INKLINGS, OLD OBSESSIONS, AND OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS
   Alan Berliner will present an evening of some of his rarely seen
   experimental short films, installation projects, collages, and a
   selection of other mixed-media specimens gathered from his extraordinary
   archive of images, sounds, and miscellaneous multi-media. Works to be
   shown include Translating Edwin Honig, Playing With Fire, Exquisite
   Corpse, Playing God, City Edition, Late City Edition, and Everywhere at
   Once.

11/13
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7 and 9pm, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave

  THE VOYAGERS – A DOUBLE FEATURE
   Work by Penny Lane and Brian Frye 7:00pm (Lane) / 9:00pm (Frye) Penny
   Lane creates video pieces that exhibit a vibrant contemporary
   imagination at work. Often playing with the expectations of genre, her
   works are lively explorations of the world as she experiences it.
   Playful and emotive, her work moves deftly between the worlds of
   documentary, narrative, and experimental cinema. Her videos have
   screened at AFI FEST, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Int'l
   Film Festival, Images Festival, Florida Experimental (FLEX), Seattle
   Int'l Film Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and MOMA
   "Documentary Fortnight." Penny has been awarded production grants from
   the New York State Council for the Arts, LEF Foundation, NYSCA,
   Experimental Television Center, IFP, Dutchess County Arts Council, and
   the Puffin Foundation. Currently she is a visiting professor in art at
   Williams College and in pre-production on a feature documentary about
   goat testicles and Mexican radio. And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.
   Program Details: Sometimes I Get Lossy (2008, 1 min.) This is what
   happens when you spend all your time in front of a computer. How To Make
   An Autobiography (2010, 4 mins.) The first thing you do when writing an
   autobiography is start off with a lot of facts about your life. Try to
   find interesting facts. Men Seeking Women (2007, 4 mins.) A random
   sample of Craigslist personals opens up performative possibilities for
   an animated corporate tool. Famous Lunch 03.28.05 9 PM (2009, 2 mins.)
   Part of an unfinished series of videos involving imaginative
   surveillance. It turns out that I am really weirded out by spying on
   people, so maybe the series is doomed. A collaboration with Thom
   Stylinski (oh yes, those are his voices). We Are The Littletons (2004,
   10 mins.) We Are The Littletons presents a tangled web of found objects,
   intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications
   centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks"
   who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family.
   A true story with forged signatures, We Are The Littletons is about
   what's outside the margins of the American Dream, the people and
   memories that get removed from the family photos and erased from the
   records. It is also about their persistent struggle to come home,
   welcome or not. She used to see him most weekends (2007, 4 mins.) A
   short story about growing up, a certain love song, and the apocryphal
   memories of childhood. Also: a sort of epilogue to The Abortion Diaries.
   The Commoners (2009, 12 mins.) by Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane In 1890,
   one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare
   and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in the New
   World was the European Starling, now one of the most common birds in
   America. Its introduction is widely considered a major environmental
   disaster. The Commoners is a moving image essay about starlings, poetry,
   and the purist rhetoric used to describe "invasive species." It is also
   about the paths people forge through history, intentionally or not, as
   they attempt to change the natural world. The Voyagers (2010, 16 mins.)
   This is the piece I made for Brian and for our wedding. Some people have
   asked to see it again. In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and
   Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and
   alone, they will travel until the end of the universe. Each spacecraft
   carries a golden record album, a massive compilation of images and
   sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth. According to Carl Sagan,
   "[t]he spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if
   there are advanced space-faring civilizations in interstellar space. But
   the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very
   hopeful about life on this planet." While working on the golden record,
   Sagan met and fell madly in love with his future wife Annie Druyan. The
   record became their love letter to humankind and to each other. In the
   summer of 2010, I began my own hopeful voyage into the unknown. This
   film is a love letter to my fellow traveler. Brian Frye in Person! For
   roughly a decade (from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s) Brian Frye was
   one of the best and most original experimental filmmakers around. Before
   heading to law school, Frye crafted a body of work that demonstrated a
   keen awareness of form, a sensitivity to his materials, and a careful
   understanding of history – both film history and history in the broadest
   sense. His films ACROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK (a portrait/landscape work of
   Civil War re-enactors) and MEETING WITH KHRUSCHEV (which excavates a
   short fragment of a famous meeting) explore two very different eras of
   American history in vastly different ways. 6.95: STRIPTEASE (1995, 3
   mins., 16mm, b&w, silent) "6.95: Striptease might have been titled
   "Brian Frye Fails to Strip." We see Frye disrobe, but when he gets to
   his white undershorts, the roll ends in white flare-outs. There's also
   something strange about his movements, especially when he drops his
   shirt - because in fact he ran the camera in reverse while putting his
   clothes on. As a result, the work is much more than a joke about not
   doing what so many other student performers are quite happy to do. The
   unnatural-looking movements and the expectation set up by the title in
   effect comment on conventional narrative cinema, in which the film's end
   is supposed to resolve the plot's overarching "issue": Will they have
   sex? Will they get away with the crime? Here, once one realizes that
   Frye's movements are off, every instant seems peculiarly nonlinear,
   anticipating the final reference to the material realities of film.
   Further, 6.95: Striptease often has a splotchy yellow tint that's the
   result of home processing. Frye minimized the tint in some of his other
   films but intentionally did not do so here. The image's occasional
   yellowish field combines with the reverse motion to denaturalize Frye's
   figure: he seems trapped on the surface, in the emulsion. […] The
   splotches and scratches and dust contribute to the sense of film as an
   object rather than a transparent window onto some reproducible
   "reality." Frye's point in 6.95: Striptease, as in all his work, is that
   we cannot directly know the world by seeing it." (Fred Camper) ? 9.95:
   THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN MY LIFE (INFINITE SET) (1995, 3 mins.,
   16mm, b&w, silent) MEETING WITH KHRUSCHEV (1997, 35 mins., 16mm, b&w,
   silent) "About a half hour in length, 'Meeting with Krushchev' is a
   refilming of a sequence perhaps 15 seconds long showing a meeting
   between the Soviet premier and president Kennedy. Frye slowed it down in
   reprinting, resulting in a sequence just over a minute in length, then
   he rephotographed it more than 20 times with varying degrees of
   magnification. For the final film he intercut all 21 strips, editing in
   a way that seems neither random nor precisely calculated. We might see
   shots of grain patterns, sometimes colored by handprocessing, shots of
   the action that are a little clearer, and occasional views of the
   'master shot.'" (Amy Beste) THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY (1999, 11 mins.,
   16mm, b&w, sound) "In 1999, I bought the outtakes from a short film
   called 'A Portrait in Fear' from the cinematographer. The movie was
   directed by a chiropractor from Kansas City, Missouri, and shot on an
   Auricon. The poetry came naturally." (BF) THE LETTER (2001, 11 mins,
   16mm, b&w, sound) "An essay toward documenting the ineffable. I'm told
   that all philosophy springs from one question: why is there something,
   rather than nothing? Perhaps these are fragments of one man's answer to
   that question. He spoke to someone once; I encountered his ghost and
   replied with this film. One might consider it a dialogue between a man
   of Faith and one who has merely tasted of the absurd, yet struggles to
   ingest it." (BF) "[Frye] aims to blur the line between completed film
   and unfinished experiment - many of his best pieces look like fragments
   or rushes. His work is relentlessly self-questioning, offering a subtle,
   ever shifting mix of open-endedness and structure. The Letter is
   composed of 'visually interesting' shots, he says, from the outtakes he
   found for an unidentified documentary. And his film looks like outtakes,
   with pans around a cemetery and an unexplained bald man. Later a shot of
   worms moving against a mesh screen introduces a different kind of
   imagery and motion - and as in most of Frye's best work, there's
   something creepy about the image and how little it explains. Watching
   Frye's films, the viewer often feels trapped in a box with only a few
   peepholes, each of which distorts the world in a different way." (Fred
   Camper, "Cinema of Possibilities," Chicago Reader, June 28, 2002)
   KADDISH (2002, 11 mins., 16mm, color and b&w, sound) "Here is my
   covenant with you, says the Lord: My spirit that is upon you, and the
   words I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or the
   mouths of your children or the mouths of your children's children – the
   Lord says – from now through all eternity." (Isaiah 59:21) "A fragment
   of tinted nitrate. An acetate recording of a wedding ceremony. Echoes of
   the bitter sweetness of the Spirit on the tongue of Man. As Frampton
   tipped his hat to Gloria, so might I." (BF) ACROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK
   (2002, 11 mins., 16mm, color, silent) "On December 12, 1863, General
   Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Potomac engaged General Robert E. Lee's
   Army of Northern Virginia in the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
   Before Burnside's army could enter the town, Union engineers were forced
   to lay pontoon bridges across the Rappahannock River under withering
   fire. Close combat through the streets of Fredericksburg and multiple
   assaults on the Confederate army entrenched in the heights behind the
   town resulted in heavy Federal casualties, which forced an eventual
   withdrawal. In November 2001, I attended a small and relatively informal
   reenactment of the battle of Fredericksburg. About a hundred men and
   women did their best to illustrate the actions of the thousands of young
   men who offered their lives a century earlier. An air of absurd theater
   suffused the entire event, which provided the ground for its peculiar
   truth. Everyone played their part exceedingly honestly and well, and
   left something on the film I was myself surprised to find there." (BF)
   "American Civil War recreationists restage Burnside's failed campaign at
   Fredericksburg. Frye's silent, slow-motion photography provides a
   melancholic distance that magnifies the odd romance of a bloodless
   enactment of a bloody war." (Images Festival)

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
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
5pm, 2625 Durant

  RADICAL LIGHT: 1980-1989
   co-presentation with San Francisco Cinematheque. The Mysterious
   Barricades (Peter Herwitz, 1987, 8 mins, Silent, Color, Super 8, From
   artist). Winterwheat (Mark Street, 1989, 8 mins, Color). Sorted Details
   (Charles Wright, 1980, 13 mins, Color). Vespucciland: The Great and Free
   (Rock Ross, 1982, 3 mins, Color/B&W, From artist). Field Study # 2
   (Gunvor Nelson, 1988, 8 mins, Color). On The Corner (Chuck Hudina, 1983,
   5 mins Silent, B&W). Across The Street (Lynn Marie Kirby, 1982, 3 mins,
   Color). Department of the Interior (Nina Fonoroff, 1986, 8.5 mins, B&W).
   Ecce Homo (Jerry Tartaglia, 1989, 7 mins B&W/Color, From artist). Other
   Reckless Things (Janis Crystal Lipzin, 1984, 20 mins, Color).

11/14
Brooklyn, New York: Zero Film Festival
www.zerofilmfest.com
2pm-11pm, Invisible Dog Art Centre, 51 Bergen Street

  ZERO FILM FESTIVAL AND 'YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE'
   Zero Film Festival celebrates achievements with films made on zero
   budgets. Films are submitted from all around the world. Films are
   no-budget, independent, experimental, avant-garde and underground.
   Events run all week up to Wednesday 17th. On Sunday 14th there is a
   shorts programme followed by the New York Premiere of Award-winning UK
   no-budget feature film 'Young Hearts Run Free' at 9:30pm. 'Young Hearts
   Run Free' Community, Friendship, First Loves, Rebellion! 1974; a teenage
   artist from a quiet village in northern England falls in love with the
   new girl, betrays his best friends, gets involved in violent rioting at
   a miners' strike and is forced to choose between his old friends and his
   new love. Coming of age story of romance and teenage angst set against
   the backdrop of community bonds strained under a crumbling economy; very
   relevant for today. Made on the streets of the impoverished former
   coalfields in Northern England, this is a souful mix of cool 1970s
   styles, warm-hearted romance and gritty social realism.

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! Email
   for more info about how to submit: email suppressed

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:
   email suppressed

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/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/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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2010
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11/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

  EPFC DOC CLASS PROJECT PREMIERE
   Come on down and check out terrific short films created by the
   participants of EPFC's Intro To Documentary Filmmaking class. FREE!
   FOOD! FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2010
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11/16
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts

  TOM (2002, 53 MIN.) BY MIKE HOLBOOM
   A very intimate, complex and celebratory portrait of Tom Chomont (who
   died August, 2010), one of the most brilliant film and video artists of
   our time (and a frequent visitor to Berks during the 1970's and '80s).
   "In a magnificently crafted medley of found footage and verité
   interview, experimental veteran Mike Hoolboom gives us this hauntingly
   moving biography of a key figure of the New York underground, Tom
   Chomont. A pioneering queer experimental filmmaker, longtime AIDS
   survivor and wily raconteur, Chomont is an extraordinary subject. His
   fantastical stories punctuate the hypnotic rush of images, recounting
   infanticide, incest and visions of a white light, which he images as
   both the beginning and end of all life. 'Tom' achieves a rare alchemical
   beauty - a symphony of intimate portraiture, emotional fidelity and
   rigorous artistic experimentation." – Mix Festival Catalogue (A memorial
   show featuring Tom's films and videos will take place in our next cycle
   of programs)

11/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West

  EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #22= THREE FILMS BY CHICK STRAND
   Early Monthly Segments is excited to be able to present three films by
   the late great Chick Strand, a founding figure of the West Coast film
   scene. Strand, a key figure of truly independent American film who died
   last year at the age of 77, left a remarkable legacy: in addition to her
   almost 20 films, she was a co-founder (with Bruce Baillie) of Canyon
   Cinema and a teacher at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her works
   range from lyrical film poems to deft documentary explorations of
   inter-personal and cross-cultural relationships. The three films in this
   programme display some of the breadth and depth of her skills. Waterfall
   and Angel Blue Sweet Wings are what Strand called 'film poems',
   celebrating both the human form and the medium of film. Soft Fiction is
   a series of five film portraits that explore the complicated convergence
   of sexual desire, pleasure, pain, exploitation and enlightenment. As
   radical and shocking today as it must have been on its completion in
   1979, Soft Fiction is a rare example of a film which shows women not
   just as passive victims of sexual exploitation, but as critical
   participants who are able to use the knowledge and understanding gained
   from extreme experiences to transcend pain with wit and grace.
   Programme: Angel Blue Sweet Wings, Chick Strand, 1966, 16mm, USA, 3
   minutes, colour Waterfall, Chick Strand, 1967, 16mm, USA, 3 minutes,
   colour Soft Fiction, Chick Strand, 1979, 16mm, USA, 54 minutes, B&W @
   Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Tuesday November 16, 2010
   | 7:30pm screening, $5 suggested donation Special thanks to Canyon
   Cinema, Irina Leimbacher and the Gladstone Hotel more info:
   email suppressed

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010
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11/17
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St. (near Mission St.)

  NEW LANDSCAPES FOR THE NEW WORLD: CONTEMPORARY SPANISH EXPERIMENTAL
  CINEMA
   curated by Garbiñe Ortega, presented with support from Dirección General
   de Política e Industrias Culturales of the Spanish Ministry of Culture
   and Consulate General of Spain in New York. [members: $5 / non-members:
   $10] ----- Films that think, images that beat, sounds which play
   ping-pong. This program represents an intense capsule reflecting diverse
   and exciting talents in contemporary Spanish avant-garde cinema. Coming
   from darkness, animation, found footage and the exploration of visual
   and sonic textures describe the illness and cure of the individual in
   the present, the opening of other spaces and dimensions, luminous new
   landscapes, paranormal events. "They are already here. Or maybe they are
   just in our imagination. One way or another, unexpected things happen…"
   (Garbiñe Ortega)

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010
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11/18
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St

  REENACTMENTS
   Curator Irina Botea in person! "Artistic reenactments do not
   ask…what really happened…instead, they ask what the images we see might
   mean concretely to us" — Inke Arns Artistic reenactments do not
   aim to affirm or glorify the past, but rather to examine an event's
   relevance in the present. They call into question our very understanding
   of this present—along with its social, political and cultural potential.
   This program, curated by artist and SAIC faculty member Irina Botea,
   proposes a trajectory of reenactment that cycles through highly mediated
   events and famous works of art, from a propaganda film made by the
   Romanian secret police in 1959 to Sharon Hayes's Symbionese Liberation
   Army (SLA) Screeds (2003), in which the artist attempts to recite from
   memory Patty Hearst's infamous tapes to her parents after being
   kidnapped in 1974. Also featuring work by Ion Grigorescu, Ciprian
   Muresan, Mathew Paul Jinks, Kerry Tribe, and Artur Z.mijewski, among
   others. Multiple artists, 1959-2010, Poland/Romania/USA, multiple
   formats, ca. 75 min. IRINA BOTEA (1970, Ploiesti, Romania) is a
   visual artist, whose works combine cinema verite and direct cinema with
   reenactment strategies, auditions, and rehearsals. She received a BFA
   and MFA from Bucharest University of Arts in 2001 and an MFA from the
   School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Solo and group shows
   include: National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris; Reina Sofia National
   Museum, Madrid; Gwangju Biennale 2010; U -Turn Quadriennial, Copenhagen;
   51st Venice Biennale; Prague Bienale; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Casa
   Encendida, Madrid; Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria; Argos Center for Art
   and Media, Brussels; Artefact Festival, Leuven; Rotterdam Film Festival;
   HMKV Halle, Dortmund; Casino de Luxembourg; Kunstforum, Vienna; Foksal
   Gallery, Warsaw; MNAC (National Museum of Contemporary Art), Bucharest;
   Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland; and Center for
   Contemporary Art Ujazdowki Castle, Warsaw. She resides in Chicago.

11/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

  DINO’S DRIVE-IN
   Dino's Drive In presents a Films on Film program involving movies about
   movies...The highlight being an ultra rare 16mm silent feature called
   SHOOTING STARS (1927) about a famous husband and wife acting team and a
   tragic love triangle. Noir-esque before there was even such a genre,
   this is a written and directed bydebut film from the acclaimed British
   director Anthony Asquith of A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929). This will most
   certainly be your only chance to ever see a projected print of this
   film. Also featuring accompanying shorts about movies. PUNK ROCK
   ARCHIVIST DINO EVERETT IN ATTENDANCE!

11/18
Miami, FL: Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc.
http://elusivelandscape.blogspot.com
8PM - 10PM, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, 3938 North Miami Avenue

  ELUSIVE LANDSCAPE
   Elusive Landscape will be presented at five outdoor locations across
   Miami from June to October 2010. This work consists of multiple
   hand-crafted 16mm films depicting the forms and colors of natural
   landscapes projected directly into the landscapes themselves. These
   events will be free and open to the public. Artist Dinorah de Jesús
   Rodriguez brings to this project over 30 years' experience in
   hand-crafted 16mm filmmaking, as well as a history of moving image
   installation, including several works which have included projections in
   the outdoors. Unique soundscapes for each site will be provided by
   composer and sound designer Ricardo Lastre. Following the five outdoor
   installations, there will be an exhibition at Diaspora Vibe Gallery
   showing the films projected onto screens as well as the filmstrips
   themselves, encased in light boxes, and a video documenting the entire
   process of creating and exhibiting this work.

11/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
   by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm
   Film Notes "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect
   bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with
   snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a
   furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." –Georges Sadoul

11/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

  ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
   by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available,
   1959, 83 minutes, 35mm Film Notes To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative
   artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology – the god of the lyre, song
   and poetry – was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the
   poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of
   suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many
   deaths.

11/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7p.m., 151 Third Street

  BAY AREA ECSTATIC
   Introduced by Brecht Andersch, filmmaker and projectionist
   Retrospectroscope, Kerry Laitala, 1998, 3 min., 16mm Chinese Firedrill,
   Will Hindle, 1968, 25 min., 16mm The Crossing, Timoleon Wilkins, 2007, 7
   min., 16mm Filmpiece for Sunshine, John Luther Schofill, 1968, 23 min.,
   16mm Firepage, Bruce Cooper, 1991, 3 min., 16mm Invocation of My Demon
   Brother, Kenneth Anger, 1969, 11 min., 16mm Looking for Mushrooms (Long
   Version), Bruce Conner, 1996, 14 min., 16mm Triptych in Four Parts,
   Lawrence Jordan, 1958, 12 min., 16mm The San Francisco Bay Area has for
   decades been the epicenter of a branch of mystically inclined
   experimental filmmaking that seeks to induce ecstasy in viewers.
   Filmmaker, SFMOMA Open Space blogger, and projectionist Andersch
   conceived this program in conjunction with his oral history project
   documenting the movement, featuring interviews with such luminaries as
   Bruce Baillie and Stan Brakhage. The program also coincides with the
   publication of Radical Light, a new history of Bay Area experimental
   cinema, to which Andersch is a contributor. Join us as we explore the
   realms of exalted experience conjured by local cine-sorcerers.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010
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11/19
Eugene, Oregon: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7:30PM, "Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA)" Center 110 W Broadway

  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/

11/19
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
7:30pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

  10TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL - DAY 1
   The Human Rights Film Festival is an annual presentation of documentary
   films highlighting national and global social justice themes. Basic
   human rights, including the right to peacefully assemble, the right to
   religious freedom, the right of political sovereignty and the right to
   life and liberty, are often taken for granted in Western industrialized
   nations. The Human Rights Film Festival began in 2000 as the UNA/UCI
   Human Rights Film Festival and has since moved to the Echo Park Film
   Center. This year's focus is on Latin America. All events are FREE and
   open to the public.

11/19
Los Angeles, California: the wulf.
http://thewulf.org/
8:00 pm, 1026 south santa fe avenue #203, los angeles, california 90021

  MORE SO / BAHTO
   Free. Several new Super 8 films by Rick Bahto, including Lebensraum, For
   Pablo Valencia, For Karen Johannesen, and an open-ended,
   variable-duration performance for Super 8 film and cassette tapes
   entitled Some Places for Mark So and Madison Brookshire, performed by
   Mark So (boombox) and Madison Brookshire (Super 8 projector) that may
   last anywhere from between 5 and 50 minutes, or maybe even longer. Mark
   So will present something new or old, to be decided.
   http://rickbahto.wordpress.com

11/19
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8PM - ADMISSION $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street

  PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: TRIBUTE TO JIM NEU (FRI 19TH & SAT 20TH)
   Jim Neu, who passed away this past July, was acclaimed for his writings
   for the Off-Off-Broadway theatre and experimental films. He was a
   frequent presence at Millennium and wrote many of his plays for
   production at La MaMa Theatre. (La MaMa will present a special program
   dedicated to Jim Neu on the afternoon of November 20th). The Millennium
   will be screening two feature films that Jim Neu wrote the screen plays
   for- DOOMED LOVE and THE BIG BLUE, both directed by Andy Horn. We also
   will screen a short film co-directed by Jacob Burckhardt and Jim Neu-
   DUET FOR SPIES.----"Mr Neu's subject, broadly speaking, was the effect
   of pop culture on the individual American psyche...A jazz lover, Mr. Neu
   often included original music and songs in his plays and infused his
   dialogue with a cryptic musicality that he borrowed from the likes of
   Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, employing short sentences in
   sometimes daffy repartee that zigged and zagged between slightly warped
   cliches and other quirky surprises."- Bruce Weber (NY
   TIMES).---------------- NOV. 19 THE BIG BLUE (100 min. 1988) Directed by
   Andy Horn,--- DUET FOR SPIES (22.5 min. 1993) Directed by Jacob
   Burckhardt & Jim Neu.------ NOV. 20 DOOMED LOVE (75 min. 1983) Directed
   by Andy Horn (Filmed & premiered at Millennium). A "modern" opera of
   love and death- memory and obsession. The dialogue, written by Jim Neu
   (a former collaborator of Robert Wilson), calls up the romantic
   phraseology of the ages- from literature to TV- strung together into a
   musical refrain.

11/19
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)

  CINé-CONSTELLATION: THREE FILMS BY AMIE SIEGEL
   NOVEMBER 19–20, FRIDAY–SATURDAY Ciné-Constellation: Three Films By Amie
   Siegel. The work of American filmmaker, author and video installation
   artist Amie Siegel, as she puts it, "mines the voyeuristic gaze," while
   exploring and challenging various media and its capacity to communicate
   human perceptions and history. The films in this series explore themes
   of cultural memory and identity in particular relation to Germany, her
   adopted country. The restrained self-reflexivity and deadpan humor that
   unite Siegel's films lend them richness that actively questions the
   limits of traditional nonfiction cinema. Exhibitions and screenings
   include The Talent Show, Walker Art Center; Auto-Kino! Temporäre
   Kunsthalle Berlin; The Russian Linesman, The Hayward, London; 2008
   Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Forum Expanded, KW
   Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Berlin International Film
   Festival; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
   BFI Southbank; Frankfurt Film Museum, and Film Forum in New York. Her
   first book of poetry, The Waking Life (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,
   CA) was published in 1999. Siegel has been a guest artist of the DAAD
   Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, the Fulton Fellow in Non-Fiction Filmmaking
   at the Film Study Center at Harvard University and a recent recipient of
   the Guggenheim Fellowship. NOVEMBER 19, FRIDAY AT 7PM / Director in
   attendance / Empathy / (Amie Siegel, 2003, USA, 35mm, 92 min) The
   postmodern Empathy explores the practice of psychoanalysis reversing its
   traditional power structure, and putting psychoanalysts on the couch.
   It's much more than a traditional documentary, with interviews of
   practicing psychoanalysts dispersed throughout, resulting in an ultimate
   collapse of the genres of fiction, screen test and documentary. While
   following Lia (Gigi Buffington), an insecure actress undergoing
   psychoanalysis, a woman does a screen test for a role in Empathy (also
   Buffington), and later, a woman, now named Jennifer Scott James (still
   Buffington) is interviewed about her experience acting in the role of
   Lia. Acting and therapy are connoted throughout the film for their
   presumed scripted nature, but even that assumption is tenuous, as
   fictional space and reality/public and private blur and the preconceived
   notion of stable identities is called into question. "Poet Amie
   Siegel's seriously playful essay on the art and craft of psychoanalysis
   is blatantly several films in one—psychological melodrama, historical
   essay and shrink verité." —J.Hoberman. screens with The Sleepers (Amie
   Siegel, 1999, USA, 16mm, 45 min) Composed with a fragile narrative, The
   Sleepers is constructed of glimpses caught through apartment windows at
   night. The audience is made aware of the easy confluence of movie-goer
   and voyeur as we see a man watching TV, a lonely woman staring in the
   inky darkness, a comforting domestic scene. It's unclear if they're
   actors, or if they know they are being watched. NOVEMBER 20, SATURDAY AT
   8PM / Director in attendance / DDR/DDR (Amie Siegel, 2008, USA, HD, 135
   min) This experimental documentary takes the failed East German state
   and the lasting East-West divide as subjects, investigating the line
   between victim and perpetrator. Siegel interviews a hobbyist is so
   intensely engaged in the East German obsession with Western films that
   he's chosen to emulate American Indian culture and life by developing a
   communal Indian village. In her discussions, the hobbyist's victimhood
   under the East German state is juxtaposed with the victimhood enacted
   through role-playing the targets of American genocide. A sense of a the
   slow cultural death, and the societal aimlessness that results, is
   evoked. "[Siegel's] polymathic style recalls Countdown (1990), Ulrike
   Ottinger's account of the two Germanys uniting their currencies. DDR/DDR
   also evokes Godard's Sympathy for the Devil (1968), a provocative essay
   mixing a Rolling Stones session, Black Panther rhetoric, and Native
   Americans…. DDR/DDR is an alluring and allusive dossier." —Chicago
   Sun-Times

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010
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11/20
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
12pm-4pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

  10TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL - DAY 2
   The Human Rights Film Festival is an annual presentation of documentary
   films highlighting national and global social justice themes. Basic
   human rights, including the right to peacefully assemble, the right to
   religious freedom, the right of political sovereignty and the right to
   life and liberty, are often taken for granted in Western industrialized
   nations. The Human Rights Film Festival began in 2000 as the UNA/UCI
   Human Rights Film Festival and has since moved to the Echo Park Film
   Center. This year's focus is on Latin America. All events are FREE and
   open to the public. Noon-1pm: Coming Home (43 min, USA) 1pm-3pm: White
   Clouds, Black Clouds (5 min, Italy), In the Light of Reverence (73 min,
   USA) 3pm-4pm: Exigibilidad de los Derechos de Las Mujeres – Por el
   derecho a una vida libre de violencias par alas mujeres (43 min,
   Colombia) NOTE: This film is in Spanish without subtitles.

11/20
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - ADMISSION $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street

  PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: TRIBUTE TO JIM NEU (FRI. 19TH & SAT. 20TH)
   Jim Neu, who passed away this past July, was acclaimed for his writings
   for the Off-Off-Broadway theatre and experimental films. He was a
   frequent presence at Millennium and wrote many of his plays for
   production at La MaMa Theatre. (La MaMa will present a special program
   dedicated to Jim Neu on the afternoon of November 20th). The Millennium
   will be screening two feature films that Jim Neu wrote the screen plays
   for- DOOMED LOVE and THE BIG BLUE, both directed by Andy Horn. We also
   will screen a short film co-directed by Jacob Burckhardt and Jim Neu-
   DUET FOR SPIES.----"Mr Neu's subject, broadly speaking, was the effect
   of pop culture on the individual American psyche...A jazz lover, Mr. Neu
   often included original music and songs in his plays and infused his
   dialogue with a cryptic musicality that he borrowed from the likes of
   Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, employing short sentences in
   sometimes daffy repartee that zigged and zagged between slightly warped
   cliches and other quirky surprises."- Bruce Weber (NY
   TIMES).---------------- NOV. 19 THE BIG BLUE (100 min. 1988) Directed by
   Andy Horn,--- DUET FOR SPIES (22.5 min. 1993) Directed by Jacob
   Burckhardt & Jim Neu.------ NOV. 20 DOOMED LOVE (75 min. 1983) Directed
   by Andy Horn (Filmed & premiered at Millennium). A "modern" opera of
   love and death- memory and obsession. The dialogue, written by Jim Neu
   (a former collaborator of Robert Wilson), calls up the romantic
   phraseology of the ages- from literature to TV- strung together into a
   musical refrain.

11/20
Old Bridge N.J: Old Bridge Filmmakers Showcase
1:30, Old Bridge Public Library

  SHORT FILM SHOW
   The Old Bridge Public Library is proud to support the work of up and
   coming local artists. On Saturday, November 20 at 1:30 p.m., local
   filmmakers Jill Woodward, Sue May and Matt Helme will screen their short
   films at the Library and discuss the craft of making movies. Presenters
   hope to build enthusiasm among the community to support the local arts
   scene by showing the a wide variety of work and giving attendees the
   opportunity to see these films and ask questions of the artists. All
   films are equivalent of a "PG" rating or less. This program is free and
   open to the public. For more information, please contact the Library by
   calling (732) 721-5600 ext. 5033 or visiting
   http://www.facebook.com/l/e0971ZW7DCH5ACpMe2kiF6cfjaw;www.oldbridgelibra
   ry.org. http://matthelme.webs.com/

11/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia
Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

  MCCORMICK’S FUTURE SO BRIGHT + UMAN + SACHS +
   Matt McCormick's Future So Bright meditates on abandoned spaces in the
   American West. This half-hr. sneak peek at his experimental essay
   considers the failed efforts of the American Western Expansion,
   exploring ghost towns, abandoned military bases, and boarded-up tourist
   traps. In 16mm, Naomi Uman's Ukranian Time Capsule is a 55-min. personal
   journey to her familial roots in Eastern Europe, organized in poignant
   episodes of earthy village life. PLUS the Bay Area premiere of the
   much-lauded Last Address by Ira (Forty Shades of Blue) Sachs, cataloging
   exteriors of the final residences of NY artists who died of AIDS
   (Haring, Mapplethorpe, Eichelberger, and too many more). AND Marcy
   Saude's This Kind of Town, Mark Street's Street of Dreams, Bryan Boyce's
   Valencia Gardens, Rich Bott's Hard Feelings, and free maps!

11/20
Wilmington, North Carolina: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
8:30 pm, 35 North Front Street Cafe Phoenix

  SPIRITUAL TRANSMISSION IN 3D
   The show will be upstairs in the Banquet Hall. The show is free. ST3D is
   an Experimental Trans-media Show incorporating Film into Theatre. I am
   using projected film to create a space in which the actors will perform
   live. It is an interpretation of how the human, the spirit and the media
   relate to each other through the infrastructure of the dawning digital
   era. Plot: An old man's life flashes before his eyes and we discover to
   what extent the media and it's growing number of outlets has impacted
   his life's story. This theme is further implied by the projection on the
   screens which creates the impression that the stage, which is dressed as
   a bedroom, is also the interior of a bad television that intermittently
   displays visual memories from television, film, and home footage.
   Director: Joshua Ramsey Cast: Larry Knoerl Devin McGee Lydia Saris
   Tanner Cheek Taran Hall Karla Slade

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010
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11/21
Glendale, CA: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
6PM, "Glendale Planetarium" 1500 North Verdugo Rd.

  J-WALT’S “SPONTANEOUS FANTASIA” AND OTHER LIVE VISUAL PERFORMERS
   The Glendale Community College Planetarium presents cutting-edge
   immersive 3D real time animation SPONTANEOUS FANTASIA, performed live by
   artist/programmer/composer J-Walt Adamczyk. The show represents a brand
   new art form where the one-hour animated program won't exist until the
   artist creates it live in front of the audience. This show also includes
   performances by special guests.
   http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/lvp2010/

11/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

  FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR 16MM PROGRAM
   The Ann Arbor Film Festival is pleased to present a full touring program
   of 16mm films after a four-year hiatus. This program will present rare,
   contemporary short 16mm films across the U.S. Featuring award-winning
   films from the 48th AAFF, this international program presents
   genre-defying short films from Japan, Canada, Australia, and the U.S.
   Included are new animated hand-drawn works from Naoyuki Tsuji and Jim
   Trainor, along with exquisite observational films by Laida Lertxundi and
   Alexandra Cuesta.

11/21
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
1-5pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

  INTRODUCTION TO FINAL CUT PRO
   Calling all interested adults (ages 20+) looking to learn the beauty and
   grace of digital editing! All equipment and materials provided by EPFC.
   Class limited to 6 students; tuition is $60/$50 members.

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