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This week [February 5 - 13, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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"Abstract?" by Alexei Dmitriev
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"Shining Bottles" by Michael Couvaras
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Cut and Run (California, USA; Deadline: April 07, 2011)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, US; Deadline: July 08, 2011)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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Wimbledon Shorts 2011 (Wimbledon, London; Deadline: April 01, 2011)
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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: April 01, 2011)
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LIFT (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 11, 2011)
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CROSSROADS: A Festival of new & Rediscovered Films (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: February 10, 2011)
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Magmart | international videoart festival (Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2011)
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Migrating Forms (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2011)
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CologneOFF 2011 (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: March 01, 2011)
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The 2011 Delta International Film and Video Festival (Cleveland, MS USA; Deadline: February 07, 2011)
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Filmarmalade (london; Deadline: March 01, 2011)
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Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: February 25, 2011)
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Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia; Deadline: February 14, 2011)
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Euganea Film Festival (Padua, Italy; Deadline: March 05, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Brian Frye & Penny Lane, "From Here To Eternity: Occasional Histories" [February 5, Brooklyn, New York]
* Synthetic Zero Event and {SØNik}Fest 3 [February 5, New York, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: George and Mike Kuchar [February 5, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Sunrise [February 5, New York, New York]
* Cinema Arts: Soul of Things [February 5, San Francisco, California]
* Soccer Like Never Before, By Hellmuth Costard [February 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [February 6, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [February 6, New York]
* 4 Films By Nick Zedd, Filmmaker In Person [February 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Memory of Decay Show: Cinema As A Mnemonic Device [February 9, Providence, RI]
* Wavelength By Michael Snow [February 9, Seattle, Washington]
* The Wild Triumphs of Martha Colburn [February 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Screen/Society--An Evening With Experimental Filmmaker Roger Deutsch [February 10, Durham, NC]
* The Child Ballads: A Two Night Event of Art, Music, and Film [February 10, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Mother [February 10, New York]
* Avant-Garde Showcase: An Evening With Rose Lowder [February 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Electromediascope [February 11, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Essential Cinema: there Was A Father [February 11, New York]
* New/Improved/Institutional/Quality Presents: Jodie Mack [February 12, New York, New York]
* Migration/Dislocation: A Celebration of Millennium Film Journal No. 53 [February 12, New York, New York]
* Millennium Film Journal 53: Celebration & Screening [February 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Jordan/Levitt/Maas Program [February 12, New York]
* Jodie Mack Program [February 12, New York]
* Lost, Lost, Lost [February 13, Astoria, Queens, New York]
* New Urban Observations [February 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Walden [February 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Reminisces of A Journey To Lithuania [February 13, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011
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2/5
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
BRIAN FRYE & PENNY LANE, "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: OCCASIONAL HISTORIES"
This dynamic (recently married) duo present "From Here to Eternity:
Occasional Histories" a night of films (Frye) & video (Lane), concluding
with 15 minutes of their new collaborative work-in-progress "Our Nixon",
a feature documentary including the Super 8 home movies of some of
Nixon's aides to be completed this year. Expect found footage, war
reenactment, poetic essay, science, humor and more during the 75-minute
program. Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker, journalist, and law professor.
His films have appeared in many museums and festivals, including the
Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco
International Film Festival. He was awarded a 2000 Jerome Foundation
grant. His writing on film and art has appeared in many books and
magazines, including The New Republic, Film Comment, and Cineaste. He is
currently a visiting assistant professor at Hofstra Law School. Penny
Lane is a filmmaker, programmer, writer and art professor usually found
somewhere in New York state. Her films have screened at Rotterdam, AFI
FEST, MOMA's Documentary Fortnight, Images Festival, Rooftop Films, and
other venues. She's been awarded grants from NYSCA, ETC, LEF Foundation
and Puffin Foundation. Her award-winning 2005 documentary "The Abortion
Diaries" has become an important organizing tool in the reproductive
rights community, having shown in almost every U.S. state and worldwide.
PROGRAM: ACROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK Brian L. Frye, 2002, 11 min., 16mm,
color, silent OONA'S VEIL Brian L. Frye, 2000, 8 min., 16mm, b&w, sound
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY Brian L. Frye, 1999, 11 min., 16mm, b&w, sound
HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Penny Lane, 2010, 4 min., video, color THE
VOYAGERS Penny Lane, 2010, 16 min., video, color THE COMMONERS Penny
Lane, 2009, 12 min., video, color OUR NIXON: NIXON GOES TO CHINA Penny
Lane and Brian L. Frye, release date 2011, 15 min excerpt TRT: approx.
75 minutes Admission $6 – tickets available at door
2/5
New York, New York: Synthetic Zero and {SØNiK}Fest
http://www.bronxartspace.com/feb2011.php
7-10pm, BronxArtSpace, 305 E. 140th St #1A Bronx NY 10454
SYNTHETIC ZERO EVENT AND {SØNIK}FEST 3
The next Synthetic Zero and {SØNiK}Fest events will be on Wednesday,
February 2nd, 6pm - 9pm, and Saturday, Feburary 5th, 7pm - 10pm at the
BronxArtSpace at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454, curated by Mitsu
Hadeishi and Seyhan Musaoglu. We will have video installations,
experimental film/video, art, dance, multimedia performance, music,
noise, and poetry. The event will be free (donations accepted). The
event will also be part of the Bronx Culture Trolley on Wednesday. Note:
the art exhibit will also be open Thursday 2:30-6:30pm, and Friday and
Saturday noon-6:30pm through the 12th. Performances: Jessica
Danser/dansfolk - Excerpt from "Sensitive Female Chord Progression" -
dance (Saturday only) Elizabeth Glushko and Liquid Light Lab - music &
multimedia Betty T Kao - poetry reading (Wednesday only) The shooting
star experiment of lights - experimental music Booker Stardrum's
Drillbaby - music (Wednesday only) Experimental Film: Jeremy Newman -
"The Persistence of Forgetting" - Mt. Laurel, NJ Damien Ferland - "Death
by VHS" - Winnipeg MB, Canada Charles Chadwick - "Transubstantiation" -
South San Francisco, CA Kate Balsley - "Anima Mundi" - Brown Deer, WI
Mike Celona - "Detour 3" - Rochester, NY Damali Abrams - "Rompe Puesto"
- Queens, NY Evan Meaney - Knoxville, TN Alexei Dmitriev - "Abstract?"
Russell Chartier - "Devil on a Dam" - West Haven, CT Tanguy de Thuret -
"Untitled" - Italy Christopher Conry - "In the Green Room: an afternoon
& an evening with Chairlift and the Crystal Stilts" - Brooklyn, NY
Visual Art: Jacek Maczynski - paintings Rebecca Bird - paintings Sara
Conde - paintings Darcy Dahl - video installation Amy Elkins -
photographic-based experimental work Brad Darcy - visual art Sujin Lee -
video installation PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO FRIENDS! Thanks. Note: These
events are made possible in part with public funds from the Bronx
Council on the Arts through the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund Regrants Program, Bronx
Borough President Aldolfo Carrion and the Bronx delegation of the City
Council.
2/5
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - $8/$6 ADMISSION, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: GEORGE AND MIKE KUCHAR
The Kuchar brothers are back with a full program of new works, all NYC
premieres. These shows are a popular yearly tradition at Millennium.
Bronx-born George and Mike both make their home in San Francisco. For
fifty years George and Mike Kuchar have produced some of the most
original, innovative and witty independent cinema in this country.
------On LINGO OF THE LOST - "This is a recent example of narrative
concoctions I make with attractive young people on a cheap
budget...$600. The budget is cheap, not the young people... It's my big
chance to run a kind of movie story and in a way we are all under
contract to make a blockbuster (At least that's our hope). A total flop
is fine too as long as it's artistic. Find out if we hit these goals by
seeing this colorful drama on the sacred and the profound (with a little
sci-fi thrown in)."- G.K.------- On ROOM 666 - "An episode of marital
mayhem commissioned by 'Vice' magazine- M.K------- On MEDUSA'S GAZE -
"Marbles spill out of the ocean on summer days spent laundering personal
wreckage."- M.K.------PROGRAM: By GEORGE KUCHAR: TUMMY ACHE TIME (25
min.-2010), LINGO OF THE LOST (35 min.-2010)----By MIKE KUCHAR: IDOLATRY
(10 min.-2010), CINEVEGAS (7 min-2009), ROOM 666 (10 min.-2010),
MEDUSA'S GAZE (12 min.-2010), ECHO'S GARDEN (12 min.-2010), OPAL ESSENCE
(12 min.-2010)------ Note - The Kuchar brothers will not be present for
this screening.
2/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SUNRISE
See notes for Feb. 3rd, 7 pm.
2/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Exploratorium
2pm, 3501 Lyon Streeet,
CINEMA ARTS: SOUL OF THINGS
Filmmaker Dominic Angerame presents The Soul of Things (2010) with live
music by Kevin Barnard and a screening of Moholy-Nagy's Light Play.
http://press.exploratorium.edu/cinema-arts-the-soul-of-things-and-light-
play-with-live-music/
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011
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2/6
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.)
SOCCER LIKE NEVER BEFORE, BY HELLMUTH COSTARD
Long before the films Zidane and Kobe Doin' Work singularly followed
their titular characters, German filmmaker Hellmuth Costard made the
film that served as a model for both, Soccer Like Never Before (1970,
color, 105 min.), by following George Best through one match of
Manchester United in 1970. What better way to get away from the Super
Bowl then through this absorbing film of football as defined by the rest
of the world? Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors $6; free for
Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper
Tickets. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/153087
2/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
See notes for Feb. 3rd, 9 pm.
2/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME
See notes for Feb. 3rd, 9 pm.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2011
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2/7
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
4 FILMS BY NICK ZEDD, FILMMAKER IN PERSON
We've asked Nick Zedd back to Microscope Gallery on Monday 2/7, for one
more fix of his radical flicks before he heads to Mexico. This time the
Master of Transgression brings a range of 16mm and video works including
his b&w underground classic POLICE STATE; I of K9, his contribution to a
collaborative remake of Warhol's Kiss; LORD OF THE COCKRINGS, featuring
art stars Rev Jen, World Famous *BOB*, Faceboy, and OF LICE & MEN:
Episode 10 of his Electra Elf series in which hate radio host Rush
Lintball becomes Captain SUV and goes on a rampage. Monday is also the
final day the "Eye Transgress" exhibit at the gallery, revealing the
depth of Zedd's artistic vision with his his new "Entities" oil
paintings, a new video diary shot in NYC & Mexico completed this month,
hand-colored posters for early screenings, the complete hand-colored
"Underground Film Bulletins 1-9, published from 1984-1990, sculpture and
more. Gallery hours are 1-6PM and by special appointment. Admission $6 –
tickets available at door but reservations are recommended:
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011
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2/9
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30PM, Cable Car Cinema and Cafe, 204 S. Main St.
THE MEMORY OF DECAY SHOW: CINEMA AS A MNEMONIC DEVICE
What was it? The decay of memory? Despite widespread anxieties
surrounding the (media induced) condition of forgetfulness plaguing
modern culture, a whole range of contemporary experimental filmmakers
have taken to examining, cultivating, and reconfiguring the mnemonic
capacity of the filmic image. The Memory of Decay Show seeks to address
this tendency by drawing together diverse practices of cinematic
remembrance that stem from an experience – or seek to enact a process –
of decay. Pairing short films that revolve around memories of loss, the
loss of memory, and the deconstruction of nostalgic modes of remembrance
with an experimental feature that attempts to summon forth the
half-forgotten narratives inhering within the decomposing materials of
our world, this show argues for a conception of cinema as a mnemonic
device, a training ground for resisting the amnesiac tendencies of our
times. /// FEATURING: Saul Levine, "Notes After Long Silence" (1989);
Louise Bourque, "Self Portrait Post Mortem" (2002); Kurt Kren, "50/96:
Snapshots (for Bruce)" (1996); Pat O'Neill, "The Decay of Fiction"
(2002); Louise Bourque, "Going Back Home" (2000) /// TRT: 98 min ///
Admission $5 /// Curated by Josh Guilford /// **Magic Lantern is
graciously funded by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media
Studies, and the Creative Arts Council at Brown University**
2/9
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
WAVELENGTH BY MICHAEL SNOW
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1967, 16mm, 45 min) / Co-presented by the
Sprocket Society and Third Eye Cinema / New 16mm print! / Wednesday, Feb
09 at 08:00PM / With his film Wavelength, Michael Snow revolutionized
the international avant-garde film scene. Viewed from its basic concept,
this is a purely formal film: it consists of a single, 45-minute-long
tracking shot through the length of a room, accompanied by slowly
increasing sine tones. As the camera moves forward through the room's
space (when carefully studied the movement is not continuous, but made
up of individual passages edited together), one registers the passing of
several nights and days. The camera is ultimately moving toward a spot
between two windows at the back of the room, where a photograph on the
wall shows the unsettled surface of the sea. In the end, the camera
comes so close to it that only the waves fill the screen. "Wavelength is
without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of
cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time,
subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one
of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy
modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a
'triumph of contemplative cinema." —Gene Youngblood, L.A. Free Press,
1968 / Screens with: Breakfast / (Michael Snow, 1976, Canada, 16mm,
15min) / "In Breakfast, the camera (behind an invisible plexiglass
shield) dollies toward an untidy still life of breakfast items and
slowly pushes the objects along the table until they tip over, tumble
off, or are smashed against the wall at the far end of the table."
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
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2/10
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / 312-846-2600)
THE WILD TRIUMPHS OF MARTHA COLBURN
Martha Colburn in person! Martha Colburn's wickedly witty animations are
assemblages of stop-motion puppetry, multi-layered glass painting, and
all forms of pop cultural detritus. Drawing inspiration from the
histories of the American West and more recent narratives of
methamphetamine use and environmental catastrophe, Colburn's outrageous
pastiches offer incendiary commentary on our contemporary condition.
This evening, she will present a range of works from across her
oeuvre—including early favorites like Evil of Dracula (1997) and
Cosmetic Emergency (2005)—and the Chicago premiere of two brand-new
projects, in addition to an in-depth discussion about her process.
1994-2010, Martha Colburn, Netherlands/USA, multiple formats, ca. 75
mins plus discussion.
2/10
Durham, NC: Duke University Screen/Society
http://ami.duke.edu/events/2011/02/10/screen-society-special-events-roger-deutsch-experimental-screening
7 PM, Carr 103
SCREEN/SOCIETY--AN EVENING WITH EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER ROGER DEUTSCH
Experimental filmmaker Roger Deutsch presents a program of his short
works. Mario Makes a Movie, First Love, Prelude, Some Call it Home, here
and there, Dead People
2/10
New York, New York: Rotating History Project
8 pm, 322 Union Avenue Brooklyn NY 11211
THE CHILD BALLADS: A TWO NIGHT EVENT OF ART, MUSIC, AND FILM
Thursday, February 10th and Friday, February 11th 322 Union Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11211 Come join the artists and performers for this
traveling exhibition, organized by The Rotating History Project
(Baltimore based artists Teddy Johnson and Heather Rounds), when it
makes its way to Brooklyn on February 10 and 11, 2011. The two-day event
will feature painting interpretations of Francis J Child's English and
Scottish Popular Ballads by 13 artists from around the country,
screenings of several theme-related documentary films by directors Neil
Rosenbaum and John Cohen, and live musical performances of ballads and
traditional music by John Cohen and Art Rosenbaum with the Around the
Globe Chantey Singers. Art receptions are free 9-20 dollar suggested
donation for music and film EVENT SCHEDULE Thursday, February 10th
6pm-7:30pm— Art reception 8pm-8:45pm— Music performance by Art Rosenbaum
with the Around the Globe Chantey Singers 9pm— Screening of "Sing My
Troubles By," Directed by Neil Rosenbaum, Co-produced by Art Rosenbaum
and Lance Leadbetter (followed by Q&A with Art Rosenbaum) Friday,
February 11th 6pm-7:30pm— Art reception 7:30pm-8:30pm— Music Performance
by Art Rosenbaum and John Cohen 8:45pm— Screenings of 3 films, directed
by John Cohen: "The End of an Old Song", "Gypsies Sing Long Ballads",
and "The Ballad and the Source" (followed by Q&A with John Cohen)
FEATURED PAINTERS Jovan Erfan Annie Ewaskio Eberhard Froehlich Jeremy
Hughes Ryan Jedlicka Teddy Johnson Bart Lynch Ty Lytton Ben Mckee Elias
Necol Melad Shaun Preston Art Rosenbaum Rachel Wolfson ABOUT THE SHOW
American scholar Francis James Child collected the Child Ballads, a
collection of 305 distinct ballads from England and Scotland and their
American variants, in the late nineteenth century. Dealing with such
ageless themes as morality, murder, romance, supernatural experiences,
historical events, riddles, and folk heroes, Child's compiled ballads
continue to survive through oral traditions, are still sung today in
both America and Europe, and have become part of the core of traditional
Appalachian music. The Child Ballad Show is an exploration and
continuation of these beautiful and strange old songs through the
mediums of painting, music, and film. A companion book for the show is
available for $10 at event. ABOUT THE FILMS "Sing My Troubles By."
(2010) Directed by Neil Rosenbaum USA, Running time: 93 min. A portrait
of living older Georgia women who treasure and continue to perform the
gospel, blues, mountain music and ballad traditions they grew up with.
"The End of an Old Song" (1973) Directed by John Cohen USA, Running
time: 26 min., B&W Filmed in the mountains of North Carolina, this
acclaimed documentary revisits the region where English folklorist Cecil
Sharp collected British ballads in the early 1900s. The film contrasts
the nature of the ballad singers with the presence of the jukebox.
"Gypsies Sing Long Ballads" (1982) Directed by John Cohen USA, film
location: Scotland and UK, Running time: 30 min. Scotland's Gypsies have
lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some
still live by the sides of roads, most live today in houses and are
under pressure to abandon their culture. This film celebrates their
traditional music, especially the long unaccompanied British ballads.
"The Ballad and the Source" (1983) Directed by John Cohen USA, film
location: England and UK, Running time: 16 min., color The tradition of
unaccompanied ballad singing is very old and still cherished in Great
Britain, though only a few traditional singers are still alive. This
sensitive musical portrait profiles the life and art of Walter Pardon,
perhaps the finest living traditional English ballad singer of his time.
FILM BIOS Neil Rosenbaum is a videographer-filmmaker based in the
Missouri Ozarks, having studied at the American University in
Washington, D.C., and having worked there in video editing and
production for The Learning Channel. Neil's father, Art Rosenbaum, is
co-producer, with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital, Atlanta. Art is an
artist and folklorist, Wheatley Professor in the Arts Emeritus at the
University of Georgia. He has collected and performed traditional
American folk music for over 50 years and among his credits are two
hard-cover books on Georgia folk music, two instruction books on
traditional banjo playing, and 20 LPs, CDs, and video documentaries of
his field collections. "Art of Field Recording: 50 Years of Traditional
American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum Vol. I, on the
Dust-to-Digital label, won a Grammy for Best Historical Album in 2007,
as well as a nomination for Best Album Notes. John Cohen is a
Photographer, Film-maker, and noted collector and performer of old time
American music; founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. John
Cohen's body of work has been recognized in a wide range of fields: his
photographs are in major museum collections and publications, his award
winning films have been shown on PBS and BBC and at festivals worldwide.
The sound recordings of the New Lost City Ramblers have received several
Grammy nominations, and, along with his field recordings, have
influenced many musicians - including Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Ry Cooder
- and shaped the old time music revival.
2/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MOTHER
by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin In Russian with no subtitles, English synopsis
available, 1926, 104 minutes, 35mm Film Notes With the simple theme of a
working-class mother growing in political consciousness through
participation in revolutionary activity, this film established Pudovkin
as one of the major figures of the Soviet cinema. A student of Kuleshov
and an admirer of Griffith's films, he was writing his first book of
film theory at the same time he was making MOTHER. His expert cutting on
movement and his associated editing of unrelated scenes to form what he
called a "plastic synthesis" are amply demonstrated here. Although in
direct opposition to Eisenstein's shock montage, Pudovkin used a linkage
method advanced far beyond Kuleshov's theories.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
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2/11
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7pm, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St
AVANT-GARDE SHOWCASE: AN EVENING WITH ROSE LOWDER
French filmmaker Rose Lowder, a prolific practitioner of perceptual
experiments with 16mm film since the 1970s, visits the Paramount to
present a program of her breathtakingly exquisite and precisely
cinematic explorations of landscape.
2/11
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"InsideOut: New Performance Videos." "Goldrush," Alix Pearlstein (USA),
2008, 3:05 min., digital video transferred to DVD. "Empty Pockets,"
Robin Rhode (South Africa, Lives and works in Berlin, Germany), 2008,
1:20 min., digital animation looped on DVD. "Untitled, Bottles," Robin
Rhode (South Africa, Lives and works in Berlin, Germany), 2005, 10:09
min., Super 8 mm film transferred to DVD. " Untitled," Mark Couzens
(UK), 2009, 17 min., digital video transferred to DVD. "Blot Out the
Sun," Harrell Fletcher (USA), 2002, 22:13 min., video. "Whacker," Harry
Dodge (USA) and Stanya Kahn (USA), 2005, 6:25 min., video. "Can't
Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out," Harry Dodge (USA) and Stanya Kahn (USA),
2006, 26:05 min., video.
2/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THERE WAS A FATHER
by Yasujiro Ozu In Japanese with no subtitles, English synopsis
available, 1942, 87 minutes, 16mm Film Notes A schoolteacher wants his
son to marry before entering military service. A key film in Ozu's
career – many critics feel it is here that his early experimental period
ends and his later mature period begins
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2011
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2/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 32 Second Avenue
NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY PRESENTS: JODIE MACK
7:30 PM NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY PRESENTS: JODIE MACK Film
Notes Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. The co-recipient of the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill
Award, Mack has worked with the Florida Experimental Film and Video
Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and
Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's favorite
micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Her 16mm films and music videos have
screened at a variety of venues – from backyards, basements, and
classrooms to Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center; New York's School of
Visual Arts Theater; and on tour with Ok Go. "Jodie's films come from a
marvelous, idiosyncratic world full of bright colors, perpetually
renewed handcrafted technique, and endless wordplay and song." –Roger
Beebe
2/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8/$6, 66 East 4th Street
MIGRATION/DISLOCATION: A CELEBRATION OF MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 53
In celebration of the publication of MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL #53, this
program will feature films, videos and digital works discussed in the
journal, coalescing around the connected themes of dislocation and
migration. We will screen works by Amie Siegel, Rebecca Meyers and Laura
Kraning, who are discussed in Tony Pipolo's review of the New York Film
Festival's "Views from the Avant Garde." The issue includes substantial
interviews with veteran filmmakers Peter Rose and Vincent Grenier, and
the program will include works by each of them. Tom Chomont and Gary
Beydler will be memorialized with screenings of their films, and works
by other artists discussed in the journal will also be shown.
---PROGRAM--- MY WAY (9.5 min.-2009) by AMIE SIEGEL, NIGHTSIDE (4.5
min.-2009) by REBECCA MEYERS, PIENSA EN MI (THINK OF ME) (15 min.-2009)
by ALEXANDRA CUESTA, VINELAND (10 min.-2009) by LAURA KRANING, SECONDARY
CURRENTS (16 min.-1983) by PETER ROSE, LES CHAISES (8.5 min.-2005) by
VINCENT GRENIER, PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (6 min.-1974) by GARY BEYDLER,
7362 (10 min.-1967) by PAT O'NEILL, and a work by TOM CHOMONT (To be
Announced).
2/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 pm, 66 East 4th Street
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL 53: CELEBRATION & SCREENING
The program, organized by Grahame Weinbren and Jessica Ruffin,
celebrates the publication of MFJ No. 53 "Migration/DIslocations," with
film by artists discussed, reviewed, interviewed or memorialized in the
issue. The program includes works in 16mm, analog video and digital
video, by Gary Beydler, Tom Chomont, Mounir Fatmi, Amie Siegel,
Alexandra Cuesta, Vincent Grenier, Laura Kraning, Rebecca Meyers, Pat
O'Neill, and Peter Rose. Several filmmakers and authors will be present,
and recent and past journals will be available at discounted prices.
2/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JORDAN/LEVITT/MAAS PROGRAM
Larry Jordan DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HAMFAT
ASAR (1965, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 minutes, 16mm)
THE OLD HOUSE PASSING (1966, 45 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives.) OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968, 9 minutes. New
35mm print!) "Fantastic landscapes of the mind is what make the unique
work of San Francisco animator Larry Jordan so compelling. With a taste
for nostalgic romanticism for intricate turn-of-the-century
illustrations, Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel
engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the
subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a
prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner
self." - Jackie Leger Helen Levitt IN THE STREET (1952, 12 minutes,
16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Helen Levitt's short,
lyrical documentary portrait of life in Spanish Harlem. Stealthily shot
by Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee. Willard Maas GEOGRAPHY OF THE
BODY (1943, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
"The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered,
mysterious continent." - W.M. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
2/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JODIE MACK PROGRAM
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. The co-recipient of the 2010 Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill
Award, Mack has worked with the Florida Experimental Film and Video
Festival, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and
Ear Clinic, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's favorite
micro-cinema, The Nightingale. Her 16mm films and music videos have
screened at a variety of venues – from backyards, basements, and
classrooms to Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center; New York's School of
Visual Arts Theater; and on tour with Ok Go. "Jodie's films come from a
marvelous, idiosyncratic world full of bright colors, perpetually
renewed handcrafted technique, and endless wordplay and song." –Roger
Beebe THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT (2011, 5 minutes, 16mm) LILLY (2007, 6
minutes, 16mm) YARD WORK IS HARD WORK (2008, 28 minutes, 16mm) HARLEQUIN
AND LACE (2009, 5 minutes, 16mm, silent) POSTHASTE PERENNIAL PATTERN
(2010, 4 minutes, 16mm) RAD PLAID (2010, 6 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE
#1: SPECIAL OFFER INSIDE (2010, 4.5 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE #2: ALL
EYES ON THE SILVER SCREEN (2010, 3 minutes, 16mm x 2, b&w, silent)
UNSUBSCRIBE #3 GLITCH ENVY (2010, 6 minutes, 16mm) UNSUBSCRIBE #4 THE
SADDEST SONG IN THE WORLD (2010, 3 minutes, 16mm) Total running time:
ca. 75 minutes.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011
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2/13
Astoria, Queens, New York: Museum of the Moving Image
www.movingimage.us
3:30 pm, 35 Avenue at 37 Street
LOST, LOST, LOST
Sunday, February 13, 3:30 p.m. LOST, LOST, LOST By Jonas Mekas 1976, 180
mins. Introduced by Jonas Mekas 16mm print preserved by Anthology Film
Archives Dir. Jonas Mekas. 1976, 180 mins. Filmmaker, poet, critic,
exhibitor, distributor, and champion of avant-garde filmmaking, Jonas
Mekas is also the creator of beautiful diary films marked by a fleeting,
impressionistic style suffused at once with nostalgia and presence
in-the-moment. This epic diary chronicles his arrival in New York City
and his early years with the underground scene. Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives as part of the Avant-Garde Masters Grant program
administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation and funded by
The Film Foundation. The event is free with museum admission.
2/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
NEW URBAN OBSERVATIONS
Los Angeles Filmforum presents New Urban Observations Thom Andersen,
Laura Kraning, and Steven O'Day in person! These extraordinary films
continue the rich tradition of the city symphony and the experimental
and experiential films of the city, dating back to the earliest days of
film. The city itself – its people and spaces, rhythms and hustle, and
the life cycles of buildings and places – are viewed and made personal
through the superb craft and perceptive gaze of tonight's filmmakers.
London, San Francisco, Detroit, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, all seen in
their uniqueness, while all give insight into the arcs and possibilities
of all cities. The program includes two Los Angeles premieres: Jack
Cronin's ravishing look at the empty spaces of Detroit, and Laura
Kraning's immersive look at the reflections and images found at a
drive-in in the City of Industry. Also, it includes another opportunity
to see Thom Andersen's latest 16mm film, of billboards and spaces of a
lost Los Angeles, with its history still suffusing the present, after
its two sold-out screenings thus far in Los Angeles. Steven O'Day finds
the exhilarating possibilities of modern transportation in Tokyo;
Tomonari Nishikawa masterfully distills Market Street, and film, to its
essential lines; and Eva Weber allows us an intimate view of London from
on high. Curated by Adam Hyman. Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors
$6; free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase available through
Brown Paper Tickets. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/152569 The
Films: The Solitary Life of Cranes, by Eva Weber (2008, England, video,
27 min,) Part city symphony, part visual poem, 'The Solitary Life of
Cranes' explores the invisible life of a city, its patterns and hidden
secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working high above its
streets. The Solitary Life of Cranes' premiered at Britdoc Film Festival
in July 2008 where it won the Award for Best Short Film. Market Street,
by Tomonari Nishikawa (2005, US, 16mm, silent, b&w, 5 min.) All images
are shot on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco,
composing each frame on the street while filming. It was commissioned by
Exploratorium and San Francisco Arts Commission for the outdoor
screening event, A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005: An Outdoor
Centennial Celebration. Invisible City, by Jack Cronin (2006, USA, Super
8 on DV, 11 min.) Los Angeles Premiere! Invisible City was filmed in
Detroit over the course of three years. Inspired by Italo Calvino's Le
città invisibili, in which the Italian author suggests that what
constitutes a city is not so much its physical structure but the
impression it makes upon its visitors. The film is loosely organized
into four segments representing spring, summer, fall, and winter.
Vineland, by Laura Kraning (2009, USA, DV, 10.15 min.) Los Angeles
premiere! Winner of the City is Cinema Jury Award at the 2010 Ann Arbor
Film Festival. At the last drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles,
dislocated Hollywood images filled with apocalyptic angst float within
the desolate nocturnal landscape of the City of Industry. In this border
zone, re-framed and mirrored projections collide with the displaced
radio broadcast soundtrack, revealing overlapping realities at the
intersection of nostalgia and alienation. - L.K. "...A spectral quality
characterizes all the images and sounds, both those that emanate from
the screen in the night sky, and those of the surrounding cityscape.
Vineland speaks quietly and eloquently of fantasized image-making, of
the sheer presence and scale of Hollywood's imposition on the landscape,
both that of the nation and the one in our minds." - Tony Pipolo,
Millenium Film Journal Tokyo by Bicycle, by Steven O'Day (2010, USA,
video, 3 min.) Bicycling through tokyo -- at the speed of light. long
exposure photography + bicycle + neon megalopolis = bike love!!! Get Out
of the Car, by Thom Andersen (2010, 16mm film, 34 min) Direction: Thom
Andersen; camera: Madison Brookshire, Adam R. Levine; editing: Adam R.
Levine; sound: Craig Smith GET OUT OF THE CAR is a city symphony film in
16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of
music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural
landmarks. The musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey of
popular music made in Los Angeles (and a few other places) from 1941 to
1999, with an emphasis on rhythm'n'blues and jazz from the 1950s and
corridos from the 1990s. The music of Richard Berry, Johnny Otis, Leiber
and Stoller, and Los Tigres del Norte is featured prominently. "Get Out
Of The Car… is an elegiac portrait of the back patio of the city: Latin
quarters, empty spaces that had been communal spaces, a culture in
disappearance, a culture in transformation." – Cahiers du Cinéma España
Parking is now easiest at the Hollywood & Highland complex. Bring your
ticket for validation. Parking is $2 for 4 hours with validation. Enter
that complex on Highland or Hollywood. The theater is 1.5 blocks east.
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the
Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support generously provided
by American Cinematheque. Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's
longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film
and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation. 2010 is our
34th year. Memberships available, $60 single or $95 dual Contact us at
email suppressed Become a fan on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter!
2/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WALDEN
New print by Cinema Arts Inc. Special thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran
Bowen (Trackwise) and Pip Laurenson (Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68;
edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have
been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality:
situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot
ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I
shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you
sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep
a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now,
this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all." –J.M.
"I make home movies – therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home
movies." –from the soundtrack.
2/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: REMINISCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special
thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four
parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in
America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania.
The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months
in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter
Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with
home, memory, and culture." –J.M.
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