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This week [January 8 - 16, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Relations and Abstractions - Max Hattler - Dl Screening At Z-Bar [January 8, Berlin, Germany]
* Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [January 8, New York]
* Essential Cinema: October [January 8, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Rr By James Benning [January 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Old and New [January 9, New York]
* Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [January 9, New York]
* Eye:Am:Women Behind the Lens Presents Another Experiment By Women Curated
By Lili White. [January 12, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen: From Ecstacy To Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish
Cinema: Session 2 [January 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* K���K Sinemalar! - Experimental Cinema From Turkey [January 16, Buffalo, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Radical Light: the 1980s and 1990s [January 16, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
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1/8
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte
RELATIONS AND ABSTRACTIONS - MAX HATTLER - DL SCREENING AT Z-BAR
Directors Lounge Screening at Z-Bar *���* *���* Animations and Videos by
Max Hattler *���* *���* Max Hattler surprises his audience with the
gripping force of his abstracted images, combined with sounds he often
composes for his own films. The German media artist and animator lives
in London and has made a real leap into the media art and festival scene
since he graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005. A programme of
his films was already presented at Directors Lounge 2010, and we are
happy to present his new programme this month, prior to our festival in
February. *���* In Germany, animation is not being considered as a
proper art field, and similar to graphic arts it is often seen as
"angewandte Kunst" i.e. craftsmanship or applied arts, mostly feeding
the film industry. The field of animation can be quite broad, from
animations from pencil drawings, paper-cut-outs, stop-motion, 3D
animation, Flash animation and live generated computer graphics. Max
Hattler seems to embrace them all, and his work could be seen as happy
eclecticism, as post-modern art practice. In Aanaatt (2008) he is using
stop-motion animation, Drift (2007) is a combination of close-up
photography of skin combined with compositing and Flash animation,
Heaven and Hell (2010) are computer generated graphic animation loops,
Everything Turns (2004) has been drawn directly into the computer, and
Ladyscraper: Cheese Burgers (2011) looks like it was made with live VJ
tools. *���* Looking closer into Max's work, however, we realize that
his art is in no way about eclecticism or appropriation. The artist does
make his mark with genuine image composition, and even if his use of
different media tools is astonishingly varied, there is something common
in most of his films, a kind of surplus, or plenitude that can be almost
overwhelming. Animation, this tedious and time-consuming technique (also
true in the digital age) usually leads to reduction (unless it is made
by big teams and studios such as Pixar) often resulting in a kind of
artistic beauty of scarcity. Not with Max Hattler, though! Even if
animation techniques lead him to quite abstracted forms, they are not
abstract. And the reduced, abstracted forms become symbols again, which
often multiply, break apart in smaller image units, still animated, and
again accumulate, congregate to larger units, to super-structures.
Amazingly, this often happens with a chuckle, a political twist or black
humour. *���* We are very much looking forward to this film night with
Max Hattler, who will be available for Q&A after the show. (curated by
Klaus W. Eisenlohr) *���* *���* Artist Link: *���*
http://www.maxhattler.com/ *���*
http://www.facebook.com/maxhattler.artistpage *���* More infos: *���*
http://www.directorslounge.net *���*
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesMaxHattler.html *���*
http://directorsloungenews.tumblr.com/post/2602007203/max-hattler *���*
Z-Bar *���* http://www.z-bar.de
1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
by Sergei Eisenstein With English intertitles., 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm
Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid, super-structured plot
share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous, inflamed emotion.
1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER
by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
available., 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in
OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing
contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2011
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1/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS RR BY JAMES BENNING
Los Angeles Premiere! James Benning in person! At the Spielberg Theater
at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA
90028 Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors $6; free for Filmforum
members Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142723 Chosen as one of the best
movies of its year, and its decade, RR, by James Benning finally screens
in Los Angeles. Filmforum begins its 2011 programming with this
brilliant film, merging observation and motion, present-day commerce and
the historical growth of America, in Benning's inimitable style. James
Benning will join us in person, and we hope you will as well for the
start of Filmforum's 36th year. RR (2007, 16mm, color, 115 min., sound)
Benning's last 16mm film, consisting of 43 static shots of trains
crossing through the frame, in locations throughout the United States.
The shot duration is determined by the time it takes the train to pass
through the frame.
1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW
by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
available, 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm Known also as THE GENERAL LINE, OLD
AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed
and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of
characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and
"overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith
1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
by Sergei Eisenstein In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis
available, 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm "The first time in history a man
has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned
production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white
machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a
living hell � a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011
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1/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 PM, 32 2nd AVENUE
EYE:AM:WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS PRESENTS ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN CURATED
BY LILI WHITE.
EYE:AM:Women Behind the Lens-- www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com -- is a
screening series celebrating experimental, memoir, and documentary film
by women. Eye Am's current home at Anthology Film Archives in New York
City. ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN presents personal visions of
experimental movie making. TONIGHT'S FILMS: Tova Beck Friedman HER WORLD
(17 Minutes), Ann Gusewelle SOMETHING STILL EXISTS (6 Minutes), Chloe
Smolarski-Heims TO GO TO WORK AGAIN (7 Minutes), Alysse Stepanian
ROGHIEH (6 Minutes), Hey Yeun Jang PORTRAIT PROJECT (SHORT VERSION) (4
Minutes), Leslie Supnet FAIR TRADE (5 Minutes), Kathy Rugh DON'T LOOK
DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN (9 Minutes), and Marie Losier CET AIR LA (3
Minutes).
1/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net
7:00pm , TIFF Bell Lightbox , 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: FROM ECSTACY TO RAPTURE: 50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH
CINEMA: SESSION 2
APPROPRIATIONS / GREAT SUPER 8 A thrilling and eclectic mix of Super 8
shorts and 16mm found-footage films (transferred to video) that traces
the avant-garde ethos developed by the experimental film communities
based in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia during the seventies to the
latest generation of Spanish film artists active from the late nineties
to the present. Highlights include David Domingo's Kenneth Anger- and
Kuchar brothers-inspired S�per 8, Marcel Pey's Bloodfilm, which begins
as a remake of Andy Warhol's Kiss (1963) but quickly changes pace, as
well as Manuel Herga's epic and dreamy Brutal Ardour. For / Against Dir.
Eug�nia Balcells | Spain 1983 | 3 min. Minnesota 1943 Dir. Toni Serra |
Spain 1995 | 7 min. Alice in Hollywoodland Dir. Jes�s P�rez-Miranda |
Spain 2006 | 7 min. S�per 8 Dir. David Domingo | Spain 1997 | 7 min. |
Silent Bloodfilm Dir. Marcel Pey | Spain 1975 | 2 min. Roulette Wheel
Dir. Luis Cerver� | Spain 2005 | 2 min. Signaturas (s�ntesis) Dir. Juan
Bufill | Spain 2008 | 6 min. | Silent I Love You Because Dir. Lope
Serrano Sol | Spain 2007 | 2 min. 22arroba Dir. Maximiliano Viale |
Spain 2008 | 4 min. Photomatons Dir. Eugeni Bonet | Spain 1976 | 3 min.
A escala del hombre Dir. David Reznak | Spain 1991 | 8 min. Copy Scream
Dir. Oriol S�nchez | Spain 2005 | 2 min. | Silent Brutal Ardour Dir.
Manuel Huerga | Spain 1979 | 15 min. Approx. running time: 70 minutes
Co-presented with The 8fest (www.the8fest.com) [LOGO] Wednesday, January
12, 2011 at 7:00pm Cinema 3
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2011
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1/16
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
3pm, 341 Delaware Avenue
K���K SINEMALAR! - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA FROM TURKEY
K���k Sinemalar! (Little Cinemas) is a screening of new experimental
shorts by a tight-knit of group film and video makers from Turkey,
including Can Eskinazi, Eytan Ipeker, Yoel Meranda, Ekrem Serdar,
Mustafa Uzuner and Cengiz Yetken. "K���k Sinemalar! is a group of media
artists, highly cognizant of ideas and aesthetics coming from the North
American and European avant-garde, who together also operate the Turkish
experimental cinema blog (kucuksinemalar.blogspot.com) of the same
name," states curator Ekrem Serdar. "Hoping to provide a small survey of
experimental practice originating from a continent-straddling nation,
the screening will also provide a forum for discovery of Turkish
avant-garde cinema with a screening of Cengiz Yetken's 16mm film Of Eh
(1968)." The screening is a follow up to "Shapeless", a screening of
experimental cinema which took place at Istanbul's Pera Museum. $8
general, $6 students/seniors, $5 members
1/16
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS RADICAL LIGHT: THE 1980S AND 1990S
Radical Light: Alternative Film And Video In The San Francisco Bay Area,
1945�2000, (UC Press), edited by Steve Anker, Co-Curator of Film at
REDCAT, and Pacific Film Archive curators Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid,
is a rich compendium of essays, reminiscences and striking visuals that
attests to the vital and varied experimental film and video scene that
has existed in the Bay Area for more than half a century. In conjunction
with the book's release, Filmforum and other organizations are hosting a
series of screenings highlighting an amazing range of work produced in
the Bay Area over the past seven decades. Filmforum's show on January
16th will highlight films made in the 1980s and 1990s, with two
filmmakers, Timoleon Wilkins and Cauleen Smith, in person along with
curators Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz! Sorted Details (Charles Wright,
1980, 13 mins, Color). Field Study # 2 (Gunvor Nelson, 1988, 8 mins,
Color). Across The Street (Lynn Marie Kirby, 1982, 3 mins, Color).
Department of the Interior (Nina Fonoroff, 1986, 8.5 mins, B&W). Short
of Breath (Jay Rosenblatt, 1990, 10 mins, Color). Flight (Greta Snider,
1996, 5 mins, Silent, B&W). Premonition (Dominic Angerame, 1995, 10
mins, B&W). Lake of the Spirits (Timoleon Wilkins, 1998, 7 mins, Color).
Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron) (Cauleen Smith, 1991, 13
mins, Color).
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