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This week [January 15 - 23, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Signal To Noise [January 15, Astoria, NY]
* KüçüK 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]
* Andrew Lampert In Person, New & Recent videos [January 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Radical Light: Experimental Film In Beat-Era San Francisco [January 17, Los Angeles, California]
* The Free Screen: From Ecstacy To Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish
Cinema: Session 3 [January 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Free Screen: From Ecstacy To Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish
Cinema: Session 4 [January 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Woyzeck [January 21, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Orphan Redux [January 21, New York]
* Time Is Love,4 - [Show1] [January 22, Bellinzona / Switzerland]
* The Room. Italian Premiere. [January 22, Bologna. Italy.]
* Red Psalm [January 22, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Essential Cinema: Hollis Frampton [January 22, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Radical Light: Small Gauge [January 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Illuminated Texts: New Language-Based videos By David Finkelstein and
Mike Kuchar [January 23, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Nanook of the North [January 23, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Man of Aran [January 23, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2011
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1/15
Astoria, NY: Museum of the Moving Image
www.movingimage.us
8:00PM-2:00AM, 35th ave at 37th street
SIGNAL TO NOISE
The Museum's inaugural Signal to Noise party will take over the building
with a three-ring circus of live electronic music, moving image
performances, and interactive art. Artists, hackers, musicians, and
filmmakers will activate every area of the Museum late into the night.
Nick Yulman and his robotic orchestra will accompany silent films
(including Georges Méličs's 1900 The One-Man Band and Maya Deren and
Alexander Hammid's 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon); Martha Colburn
performs live double-projections accompanied by Thollem McDonas, Greg
Saunier, John Keay, Mike Evans, Laura Ortman, Matt Marinelli, Tom Carter
and Marc Orleans; chiptune artists Bit Shifter and Nullsleep electrify
the dance floor with their hacked Gameboys, with outpt and Paris holding
down the visuals; laptock rock band Project Jenny, Project Jan rattles
the walls; Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep evolve on screen;
Victoria Keddie leads a Kodachrome funeral with prepared violin; DJ
$mall ˘hange lays down the beat; Fall On Your Sword accompany their
mashed-up videos of William Shatner and David Hasselhoff with live
electro-jams; VJ Shantell Martin extracts partygoers' digital auras with
Liz Armstrong on the decks; Sweatshoppe passes out video paint rollers;
and Babycastles drops their DIY art game cabinets and unleashes a roving
cyborg arcade. 8:30pm: Nick Yulman 9:00pm: Bit Shifter (outpt and Paris
on visuals) 9:00pm: Martha Colburn with Thollem McDonas, Greg Saunier,
John Keay, and Mike Evans 9:30pm: Victoria Keddie 10:00pm: Nullsleep
(outpt and Paris on visuals) 10:30pm: Martha Colburn with Thollem
McDonas, Greg Saunier, John Keay, Mike Evans, Laura Ortman, Matt
Marinelli, Tom Carter and Marc Orleans 10:30pm: Nick Yulman 11:00pm:
Fall On Your Sword 11:30pm: Victoria Keddie 12:00am: Project Jenny,
Project Jan 12:00am: Shantell Martin with Liz Armstrong With Scott
Draves and the Electric Sheep, Sweatshoppe, DJ $mall ˘hange, and
Babycastles all night Tickets: $15 public (when ordered online), $20 at
door / $10 Museum members / Free for Silver Screen level and above.
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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
KüçüK SINEMALAR! - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA FROM TURKEY
Küçük 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. "Küçük 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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MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2011
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1/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
ANDREW LAMPERT IN PERSON, NEW & RECENT VIDEOS
Brooklyn film/video maker Andrew Lampert presents a program of video
works including his split screen collaborative work "The Golden Mean:
Charlemagne Palestine" made with Saul Levine and a selection of new,
recent, barely seen and entirely unwatched shorts made by Lampert in
2010 and 2011. Door prizes will be awarded. Admission $6. BIO: Born in
the mid-70s in the Midwest, Andrew Lampert has staged performances and
exhibited his films/videos at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The
Getty Museum, PS1, The British Film Institute, The Kitchen, The
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion Festival,
Light Industry, The Poetry Project, The Brakhage Symposium, Mitchell
Algus Gallery and many other venues here and abroad. The Golden Mean:
Charlemagne Palestine by Andrew Lampert & Saul Levine 2009, video, 66
mins In 2006 legendary composer/performer and raconteur Charlemagne
Palestine appeared in Boston for the first time in over 30 years. On a
stage festooned with teddy bears he told tales of Morton Feldman,
imbibed cognac and simultaneously performed on two Steinway pianos.
Andrew Lampert and Saul Levine ran into each other in the New England
Conservatory lobby, each with video camera serendipitously in hand.
Lampert took a seat in the front row on the left side of the aisle while
Levine sat in the front row on the right. They both documented the
performance in its entirety, each unaware of what the other one was
focusing on. The Golden Mean is a stereo-vision portrait of the highly
energetic, iconoclastic Palestine that presents Lampert and Levine's
footage side-by-side. A beautiful, hysterical and bewildering musical
moment captured by pure providence and presented here for you. - A.
Lampert directions & more info at www.microscopegallery.com 347.925.1433
1/17
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
RADICAL LIGHT: EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN BEAT-ERA SAN FRANCISCO
Radical Light: Alternative Film And Video In The San Francisco Bay Area,
1945–2000 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.
This companion screening focuses on landmark 16mm films from 1949–1959,
including Christopher Maclaine's apocalyptic Beat comic-tragedy The End
(1953) Sidney Peterson's wittily caustic tale of murder and incest The
Lead Shoes (1949), Jane Belson Conger Shimane's playful image and sound
arrangement Odds and Ends (1959), Bruce Conner's pioneering
found-footage A Movie (1958), Hy Hirsh's Eneri (1953) and Patricia
Marx's Things to Come (1953). Co-editors Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and
Steve Seid are on hand for a post-screening book signing. In person:
Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid. Jack H. Skirball Series $9
[students $7, CalArts $5]
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
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1/19
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 3
ANIMATED EXPERIMENTS: RHYTHM, LIGHT AND COLOUR Demonstrating affinities
with such masters as Norman McLaren and Len Lye, these works by some of
Spain's foremost animators range from stop-motion to collage,
sand-on-glass animation, and camera-less cinema. Standouts include
Joaquim Puigvert's Exp. I / II, a dazzling display of film scratching
and direct painting with playful, winsome visual rhythms; Ton Sirera's
Pintura 63, a Kandinski-esque figurative painting come to life; and
Jordi Artigas' Ritmes cromŕticos, a work of total abstraction made from
direct painting on celluloid. Forma, color y ritmo Dir. Josep Mestres |
Spain 1956 | 35mm |5 min. | Silent Ballet Burlón Dir. Fermí Marimón |
Spain 1959 | 35mm | 6 min. Exp. 1 / II Dir. Joaquim Puigvert | Spain
1958-59 | 35mm | 3 min. Pregunta por mí Dir. Begońa Vicario | Spain 1996
| 35mm | 3 min. Pintura 63 Dir. Ton Sirera | Spain 1963 | 35mm | 5 min.
Hezurbeltzak, una fosa común Dir. Izebene Ońederra | Spain 2007 | 35mm |
5 min. Ritmes cromŕticos Dir. Jordi Artigas | Spain 1978 | 35mm | 4 min.
Spain loves you Dir. Isabel Herguera | Spain 1988 | 35mm | 6 min.
Espectro siete Dir. Javier Aguirre | Spain 1970 | 35mm | 8 min. Lluvia
Dir. Eugenio Granell | Spain 1961 | Video | 2 min. | Silent La 72.024
mil•lčssima part d'un any Dir. Marcel Pié Barba | Spain 2008 | Video | 5
min. Danse noire Dir. Frederic Amat | Spain 2006 | Video | 3 min. Monos
Dir. Juan Pablo Etcheverry | Spain 1997 | Video | 1 min. Approx. running
time: 58 minutes Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 7:00pm Cinema 3
1/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net
8:30pm , TIFF Bell Lightbox , 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: FROM ECSTACY TO RAPTURE: 50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH
CINEMA: SESSION 4
PAINTING – MOVEMENT: José Antonio Sistiaga's …ere erera baleibu izik
subua aruaren… Don't miss this rare opportunity to see the 35mm
restoration of one of Spain's most celebrated cinematic works, the only
full-length Spanish film created with a camera-less technique. Basque
artist José Antonio Sistiaga, now universally recognized as one of the
best experimental filmmakers in the world, created his magnum opus by
painting each individual frame with homemade inks and leaving the
celluloid to dry under the blazing sun of Ibiza, a process that took
over seventeen months to complete. Eschewing figurative elements and
sound accompaniment, the beautiful, beguiling and grand result
transcends categorization; while Stan Brakhage is often evoked,
Sistiaga's approach is vastly different and unique to his own painter's
sensibility. The film's nonsensical title—a jumble of meaningless,
Basque-sounding words—is intended to discourage interpretation of the
work (though tempting sci-fi readings have frequently been proffered by
critics), and also to appease the Francoist censorship board, which
would not allow for an untitled film to be shown. While seventy minutes
of silence may be a challenge to some viewers, it is integral to the
luminous, visual splendours of this masterfully mythopoetic work. …ere
erera baleibu izik subua aruaren… Dir. José Antonio Sistiaga | Spain
1968-70 | 35mm | 70 min. | Silent Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 8:30pm
Cinema 3 Co-presented with Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), a
Toronto-based non-profit art centre committed to exploring and promoting
the art of animation and supporting animators as artists (www.tais.ca)
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011
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1/21
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
https://artsemerson.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=4BD790D3-A3A8-49B5-829C-16BE560E7467
7PM, 559 Washington Street
WOYZECK
Hungarian director János Szász's cinematic take on the bleak tale of a
man losing his grip on reality as the authoritarian power of medical
science and military discipline crush him. DIRECTOR IN PERSON! "A
memorable interpretation...harrowingly fresh and relevant." -David
Sterrit
1/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ORPHAN REDUX
The Orphan Film Symposium is a multi-day marathon where artists,
academics, and archivists share their common love for abandoned, unseen,
and unheralded moving images. April 2010 saw the seventh edition of this
crucial biennial gathering, and tonight we present a few of the most
intriguing works from among the 80 titles screened. Artists, scholars,
and Orphan organizer Dan Streible will be on-hand for introductions and
insight. This is an incredible opportunity to see films that have been
far too hard to view until now. Danielle Ash PICKLES FOR NICKELS (2009,
8 minutes, HD) A stop-motion cardboard world where monkeys steal pickles
and neighborhoods change overnight. Presented by Danielle Ash. Fox
Movietone News CHINESE MOTION PICTURE STUDIO (1934, 6 minutes, 35mm,
b&w) Preserved by the University of South Carolina Moving Image Research
Collections. Outtakes from a January 23, 1934 Fox Movietone newsreel
shot in Shanghai demonstrating "how motion pictures are filmed in
China." Presented by Mark Cooper. Max Glandbard THE INVESTIGATORS (1948,
11 minutes, 16mm-to-HD, b&w) From the Max Glandbard Collection, Yale
Film Study Center; digital transfer by the Library of Congress. A
remarkable one-reel musical satire used to support Progressive Party
candidates in the 1948 elections. The Union Films production lampoons
the House Un-American Activities Committee. Presented by Charles Musser.
Henri Cartier-Bresson & Herbert Kline WITH THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE
IN SPAIN (1938, 20 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) From the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade Archives/NYU Tamiment Library. A documentary film shot during
the Spanish Civil War to raise funds for bringing American volunteers –
who had fought against fascism in defense of the Spanish Republic – back
home. Presented by Juan Salas. Scott Nixon THE AUGUSTAS (ca. 1930s-50s,
16 minutes, b&w/color, silent) Preserved by the University of South
Carolina Moving Image Research Collections, with support from the
National Film Preservation Foundation. An intriguing compilation film
made by traveling salesman and amateur filmmaker Scott Nixon, THE
AUGUSTAS records no fewer than 36 places in the U.S. named Augusta.
Presented by Heidi Rae Cooley. Miles Bros. A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET
BEFORE THE FIRE (1906, 12 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Score by Agatha
Kasprzyk and Rafael Leloup.) Preserved by Prelinger Archives. A highly
unusual, lyrical, and even structural single-take film documenting San
Francisco's main thoroughfare from the front window of a moving Market
Street cable car, just days before the 1906 earthquake and fire. Ed
Emshwiller MARCH ON WASHINGTON (1963, 9 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives. A colorful home movie by filmmaker Ed
Emshwiller of the 1963 March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. gave his legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. Lidia García Millán
COLOR (1958, 3 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by New York University. A newly
restored experimental film from Uruguay. Presented by film
preservationist Bill Brand. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011
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1/22
Bellinzona / Switzerland: Time is Love Screening
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
17h00 - 19h00, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino
TIME IS LOVE,4 - [SHOW1]
Time is Love.4 [Show 1] International Video Art Exhibition curated by
Kisito Assangni Saturday 22 january 2011 Centro Contemporanea d'Arte
Ticino Via Tamaro 3 6500 Bellinzona Switzerland Artists: Vienne Chan
(China) | Jennida Chase (USA) | Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay) | Martin Dege
(Germany) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China) | Pauline Horovitz (France) |
Neil Howe (Australia) | Karen Landey (USA) | Lemeh42 (Italy) | Rachel
Maclean (UK) | Adamo Macri (Canada) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Antti
Savela (Sweden) | Guy Wouete (Cameroon) | Kisito Assangni (Togo/UK) 5pm:
Screening 6pm: Lecture: Kisito Assangni with Mario Casanova, Director of
CACT followed by a public discussion. Time is love Screening is an
annual exhibition of projectable videos from an international selection
of artists active around the world. The screening explicitly emphasizes
the idea of love in these hard times and socio-cultural interference,
the way in which technology and society give rise to new forms of
artistic expression by using the new media. The project aims to consider
the work of these artists as part of the global phenomenon that is
contemporary art, and asks the audience to reflect upon how the time
that led to the production of these works was formed. Conceptually
diverse, emotionally incisive and visually inventive, the selected works
transform the most familiar video art into an illuminating investigation
of contemporary culture. Time is Love.4 brings to the world a refreshing
perspective on video art. http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
www.cacticino.net
1/22
Bologna. Italy.: Netmage
http://netmage.it/2011/
10.30, Palazzo Re Enzo
Piazza Nettuno
THE ROOM. ITALIAN PREMIERE.
LUKE FOWLER/KEITH ROWE/PETER TODD. The Room.
 Live expanded 16mm
cinema and sound . Tate Modern presented the first installment of The
Room on 28th November 2008 (Expanded Cinema for Rothko). The Room is
cumulative, building every time it is presented. Each presentation
unique. The French premiere was at CAC Bretigny (Cornelius Cardew The
Freedom of Listening) in 2009, the Spanish premiere at La Case Encendida
(Play), Madrid, 2010.
1/22
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://www.artsemerson.org
7PM, 9PM, 559 Washington Street
RED PSALM
Miklós Jancsó won the Best Director prize at Cannes for this "awesome
fusion of form with content and politics with poetry," which chronicles
with almost ruthless sorrow a farmworkers' revolt and its inevitable
suppression.
1/22
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON
ZORNS LEMMA & HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) by Hollis Frampton Film
Notes ZORNS LEMMA 1971, 36 minutes. "A major poetic work. Created and
put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex
abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and
beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it,
don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light,
possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." – Ernie Gehr
HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes. "nostalgia, beginning as
an ironic look upon a personal past, creates its own filmic time, a past
and future generated by the expectations elicited by its basic
disjunctive strategy." – Annette Michelson "In nostalgia the time it
takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its two-dimensionality)
becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton plays the critic,
asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his
earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire
of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier
masters, and he grins behind the façades of logic, mathematics, and
physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of
Frampton's films." – P. Adams Sitney Total running time: ca. 100
minutes.
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2011
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1/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.)
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS RADICAL LIGHT: SMALL GAUGE
Radical Light: Small Gauge highlights super 8 and regular 8mm films made
in the Bay Area. Even though regular 8mm and later super-8mm were
designed as amateur home mediums during the middle decades of the last
century, artists using these small-scale tools increasingly appreciated
the intimacy of the screening situations and the low-key and fragile
qualities of the image and spontaneity that 8mm filming allowed. This
program showcases a wide range of ways that San Francisco based moving
image artists consciously worked with the small-scale nature of 8mm,
using home distributed found footage, working with daily 'home movie'
subjects to create expressive and direct diaries and cinematic reveries,
or using the nature of these tools for formal exploration. Filmmakers
include Bruce Conner, Scott Stark, Nathaniel Dorsky, Bob Branaman, Janis
Crystal Lipzin, silt, Julie Murray, and Ellen Gaine.
1/23
New York, New York: Medicine Show
http://medicineshowtheatre.org/
7pm, 549 West 52 Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
ILLUMINATED TEXTS: NEW LANGUAGE-BASED VIDEOS BY DAVID FINKELSTEIN AND
MIKE KUCHAR
Language forms the basis for these premieres of new videos from
acclaimed filmmakers Mike Kuchar and David Finkelstein. Whether it is
the metaphysical speculations of "Epistolary Fusillades," poetic
explorations of biology in "Reproductive Technology," or Percy Shelley's
poetic descriptions of love and fate in "The Two Fauns," these complex
collages of music, images, words, and sounds all aim to use video in
order to bring poetic texts to life. MIKE KUCHAR'S films have been
acclaimed all over the world since 1963. His work has influenced many
other filmmakers, such as John Waters, David Lynch, and Andy Warhol.
DAVID FINKELSTEIN's video work has been featured in numerous one-man
shows, film festivals and has won awards at nine of them. Filmmaker
Henry Gwiazda wrote that "Finkelstein's work is stunning thematically,
visually and structurally. Structurally, I don't think he has a peer in
video art." His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative
Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The
Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources.
1/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: NANOOK OF THE NORTH
by Robert Flaherty 1922, 83 minutes, 35mm The most enduring of all
Flaherty's films for its simplicity of purpose, structure, and design.
It ennobles its subjects rather than exploiting them. Sharp and
uncluttered, the film relies on a few well-developed sequences which
remain in the memory of the viewer
1/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAN OF ARAN
by Robert Flaherty 1934, 76 minutes, 35mm Film Notes Flaherty's third
major film portrays the lives of a family of fisher folk on the Aran
Islands off the coast of Galway, Ireland. Flaherty selected this
location and subjects because of their isolation as the westernmost
outpost of European civilization. In addition, the daily struggle
between the islanders and the sea perfectly suited his interests and
concerns. The scenes at sea are breathtaking. "His passionate devotion
to the portrayal of human gesture and of a man's fight for his family
makes the film an incomparable account of human dignity. Better than
anyone, Flaherty knew how to show the true face of Man." –Georges Sadoul
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