This week [July 16 - 24, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 17, 2011)
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Hollywood Black Film Festival (Hollywood, CA USA; Deadline: July 24, 2011)
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Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2011)
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Pantheon International Xperimental film & Animation Festival 10.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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CanToo Film Festival (Martinsburg, WV, USA; Deadline: August 19, 2011)
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Intervideo Talent Award 2011 (Mainz, RLP, Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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Black Rock Film Fest (Black Rock CIty, NV, USA; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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PANOPTiC at Camden International Film Festival (camden, maine, usa; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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Hollywood Black Film Festival (Hollywood, CA USA; Deadline: July 24, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Experiment: the Rare Short Works of Richard Sandler and Howard
Guttenplan [July 16, New York, New York]
* The Diary Films of Richard Sandler and Howard Guttenplan [July 16, New York, New York]
* Cinema 16 Benefit Screening For Millennium Film Workshop [July 16, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Songs 1-14 [July 16, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Program [July 16, New York]
* "Sleepless Nights Stories" [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Jonas Mekas: Personal Record [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Sleepless Nights Stories [July 16, Washington, DC]
* Kelly Spivey Films, Super 8 and 16mm [July 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Open Screening of Dvd Short-Shorts Under 8 Mins. [July 17, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Text of Light [July 17, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Program [July 17, New York]
* Inter-Action: Animated Shorts By Seat [July 18, New York, New York]
* Inter-Action: Animated Shorts By Seat [July 20, New York, New York]
* The Body Electronic: An Evening With Jesse Malmed [July 20, Portland, Oregon]
* Kinema Nippon Program 1 [July 21, New York]
* Kinema Nippon Program 2 [July 21, New York]
* Psychohydrography [July 22, New York]
* Alex Mcquilkin: the First 10 Years; video Screening [July 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [July 23, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [July 23, New York]
* Psychohydrography [July 23, New York]
* Live Sound and Film By Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson [July 23, Oakland]
* Jonas Mekas: Personal Record [July 23, Washington, DC]
* The Autobiography of Nicolae CeauşEscu (Autobiografia Lu Nicolae
CeauşEscu) [July 24, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Robert Breer Program 1 [July 24, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 2 [July 24, New York]
* Psychohydrography [July 24, New York]
* Ken Jacobs: Recent Works [July 24, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011
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7/16
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue at 127th St. (2 or 3 train to 125th St.)
THE EXPERIMENT: THE RARE SHORT WORKS OF RICHARD SANDLER AND HOWARD
GUTTENPLAN
This second screening of The Experiment in 2011 features works by two
filmmakers who have been key figures in the New York independent film
scene for the greater part of the last 40 years: Richard Sandler
(director of underground masterpiece The Gods of Times Square) and
Howard Guttenplan (director of the legendary Millennium Film Workshop).
Please join us for a screening of rarely seen shorts and fragments
followed by a reception and discussion with filmmakers. Drinks will be
available at the bar. Thank you for your support! Richard Sandler:
Radioactive City, 2011, S8mm/Mini-DV, 20m (World Premiere). A diaristic
portrait of Los Angeles focusing on two main events from the last six
months: The disaster of the Fukushima power plant and an outbreak of
sports rivalry-related violence at Dodger Stadium resulting in a man
going into a coma. Forever and Sunsmell, 2011, S8mm, 13m. Super-8 film
footage meditation on New York's East Village and Central Park set to
the music of John Cage and the lyrics of E.E. Cummings. Howard
Guttenplan: Diary Film Series, 1971-1979. A selection of diary films
created and curated by the filmmaker himself. Running time estimated at
60 minutes. Potential titles include Western Diary, European Diary,
Dream Series: ((Part 2) Eye-Con), Caracas Diary, Haiti Diary, Laporte
Diary, Middle East Diary and NYC Diary.
7/16
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:30, 343 Lenox avenue at 127th Street
THE DIARY FILMS OF RICHARD SANDLER AND HOWARD GUTTENPLAN
This second screening of The Experiment in 2011 features works by two
filmmakers who have been key figures in the New York independent film
scene for the greater part of the last 40 years: Richard Sandler
(director of underground masterpiece The Gods of Times Square) and
Howard Guttenplan (director of the legendary Millennium Film Workshop).
Please join us for a screening of rarely seen shorts and fragments
followed by a reception and discussion with filmmakers. Drinks will be
available at the bar. Thank you! Richard Sandler Shorts and Fragments
http://www.richardsandler.com/ Radioactive City, 2011, S8mm/Mini-DV, 20m
A diaristic portrait of Los Angeles focusing on two main events from the
last six months: The disaster of the Fukushima power plant and an
outbreak of sports rivalry-related violence at Dodger Stadium resulting
in a man going into a coma. Forever and Sunsmell, 2011, S8mm, 13m
Super-8 film footage meditation on New York's East Village and Central
Park set to the music of John Cage and the lyrics of E.E. Cummings More
titles TBA! "Watching Richard Sandler's documentary is like discovering
a box of old photographs. Here are the sidewalk preachers, pleasure
seekers, and urban malcontents that populated Times Square before it was
cleaned up, when the theatres showed films with titles like "Horny Frat
Girls." Sandler is an accomplished street photographer, and his
practiced eye does much with limited means; he builds atmosphere by
framing his subjects against the oversized fashion ads and news zippers.
He accumulates impressions, theologies, and rants, and presents them
virtually without narration; the result is a tone poem of the righteous
and the possessed…" - Michael Agger (review for The New Yorker of the
Gods of Times Square) Howard Guttenplan Diary Film Series
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ A selection of diary films created and
curated by the filmmaker himself. Running time estimated between 45 and
60 minutes. Potential titles include Western Diary, European Diary,
Dream Series: ((Part 2) Eye-Con), Caracas Diary, Haiti Diary, Laporte
Diary, Middle East Diary and NYC Diary. "He creates a visual flow of
rich impressions of singular intensity. There are always surprises. Is
it a blue sky or merely a small patch of color on a wall? Real objects
and their shadows intermingle to such an extent that it is difficult to
tell where one leaves off and other begins. The compositional space of
the framed image is shifted and divided in every possible way. At times
close-up and far shot become interchangeable; small clusters of repeated
patterns grow and develop into larger ones with the speed and nervous
twitches of an artist's brush." – Bob Cowan (Take One Magazine) "For the
most part, a written diary records what we do, as well as attitudes
towards those actions. But a film diary can only be a record of what is
seen. This fact is the basic condition of the genre. In order to present
us with a sense of whom he or she is, the film diarist must work
obliquely, portraying the whole person through only one aspect of life,
perception. Each image is read as a decision or choice of where and how
to look. The film is a string of such choices, from which the
personalities of the diarist emerges through correspondences and
regularities in the imagery." – Noel Carroll
7/16
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm , 66 East 4th Street
CINEMA 16 BENEFIT SCREENING FOR MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP
Cinema 16 presents an evening of avant-garde films with live musical
scores in encore performances from past Cinema 16 events, in an evening
to benefit the esteemed media arts center, Millennium Film
Workshop.---//--- The evening will include Brooklyn-based, minimal synth
trio FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, George Bennett) performing to Maya
Deren's At Land, Brooklyn-based sound artist NICK YULMAN with the 1927
film by Charley Bowers A Wild Roomer, ABLEHEARTS (Brooklyn sound and
video artist THOMAS ARSENAULT) performing to Kihachiro Kawamoto's
"Dojoji Temple," and singer and artist JOSEPH KECKLER with Busby
Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935. ---//--- Melding the worlds of art,
music, and film, curator Molly Surno aims to recreate the silent film
era, and resurrect the communal performance experience. Bands are
invited to compose a musical score in order to modernize the tradition
of a live music accompanying films during the 1920s. Cinema 16 initially
began in 1947 as a New York based avant-garde film society; now over
four decades later, Surno is bringing the spirit of Cinema 16 back to be
experienced by a new generation of filmgoers.---//--- Don't miss this
extraordinary one night event. ---//--- Admission $20 donation.
7/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE SONGS 1-14
by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 minutes, 16mm "SONG 1: Portrait of a
lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4:
Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth
song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco.
SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10:
Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain
scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG
13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and
crystals." –S.B.
7/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
(1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD
(1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES
(1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF
WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films,
BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
"SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES"
Washington premiere: "For two hours we stroll with Jonas Mekas through
New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, bars and
clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee
Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and
daughters, and also many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film
begins with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in that
situation. . . . Sleepy and yet wide awake, you find yourself in the
world of those exhausted from the day's exertions. In Sleepless Nights
Stories we witness (approximately) 25 tales from a thousand and one
nights . . . remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde
filmmakers whose life rewrote film history"—Berlinale 2011. (Jonas
Mekas, 2011, DigiBeta, 112 minutes)
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
JONAS MEKAS: PERSONAL RECORD
ilmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, and M. M. Serra in person A
mix of mostly 16 mm recent and historic short works, personally selected
for this program by Jonas Mekas, includes Award Presentation to Andy
Warhol (1964), a documentation of an event and an homage; a sequence of
five rolls of film shot at a Ringling Brothers Circus, titled Notes on
the Circus (1966); Cassis (1966), recorded at the summer home of Jerome
Hill; Report from Millbrook (1966), filmed "on a weekend visit to Tim
Leary's place"; the episodic works World Trade Center Haikus (2000) and
Seven Days from 365 (2007); as well as the short, personal pieces The
Song of Avila (1966) and Jacobses (2010). (Total running time
approximately 75 minutes)
7/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES
Washington premiere "For two hours we stroll with Jonas Mekas through
New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, bars and
clubs. We meet old acquaintances like Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Carolee
Schneemann, Marina Abramovic, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and
daughters, and also many new acquaintances. The father of the diary film
begins with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in that
situation. . . . Sleepy and yet wide awake, you find yourself in the
world of those exhausted from the day's exertions. In Sleepless Nights
Stories we witness (approximately) 25 tales from a thousand and one
nights . . . remnants of films by one of the greatest avant-garde
filmmakers whose life rewrote film history"—Berlinale 2011. (Jonas
Mekas, 2011, DigiBeta, 112 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2011
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7/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
KELLY SPIVEY FILMS, SUPER 8 AND 16MM
Approx. 50 Minutes, Admission $6. We present a program of short Super 8
and 16mm films by New York filmmaker Kelly Spivey made from 2000 to the
present. Spivey's films explore themes of class, gender, women's roles
and more recently, anxiety, especially in relationship to our
increasingly frenetic urban lifestyles, and the potential for
information overload. Spivey works exclusively with film, many of which
are collage/animation works. She will also screen footage from a two new
works in progress. Spivey has been making experimental films since 1998.
Her work has screened nationally and internationally at venues and
festivals including Anthology Film Archives, Women in the Directors
Chair, FLEXFest 2011, MIXNYC, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival, Ladyfest Seattle, Ocularis, Hallwalls Contemporary Art
Center, ReelNY PBS. She has received support from the Queens Council on
the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and she was a New York
Foundation on the Arts Fellow in 2005. She works in New York City in
post-production sound and picture editing and video preservation at
MercerMedia. PROGRAM INCLUDES: "Why You Were Born" (2001, 6 minutes,
Super-8mm). "Poor White Trash Girl: Class Consciousness" (2003, 6
minutes, 16mm). "Keep Up With Medicine" (2001, 3 minutes, super 8mm)
"Me, Myself & I" (2003, 3 minutes, 16mm) "Make Them Jump" (2009, 11
minutes, 16mm) "Stein's Cow" (2000, 3 minutes, super 8mm). "What if the
World Loved Cellulite?" (2000, 6 minutes, super 8mm) Plus camera rolls
from 2 new works in progress. more info will be posted at
www.microscopegallery.com, tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. L -
Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
7/17
New York, New York: The Media Loft (eMediaLoft.org)
http://http://www.emedialoft.org/
8pm, 55 Bethune St (corner Washington St.)., 6th floor A-629
OPEN SCREENING OF DVD SHORT-SHORTS UNDER 8 MINS.
Open video SHORT-SHORTS night at The Media Loft $8. -- or FREE if you
bring a DVD under 8 mins, AND AN AUDIENCE-FRIEND. DVDs will be screened
in order of length: the shortest first.
7/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 minutes, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force
exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light."
–Dun Scotus Erigena
7/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON
SAGA (1970, 29 minutes, 16mm) THE MACHINE OF EDEN (1970, 11 minutes,
16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 minutes, 16mm) DOOR (1971, 4
minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 minutes,
16mm) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 minutes, 16mm) THE RIDDLE OF
LUMEN (1972, 14 minutes, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's most
densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011
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7/18
New York, New York: Seattle Experimental Animation Team
www.experimentalanimation.org
8:00PM, 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street
INTER-ACTION: ANIMATED SHORTS BY SEAT
Animator Tess Martin presents a collection of short animations that
explore inter-actions - action between each frame of motion as well as
between each subject on screen. Made individually by twelve members of
SEAT (Seattle Experimental Animation Team) these thought-provoking films
reflect on love, insanity, faith and murder. Includes films by: BRITTA
JOHNSON, DREW CHRISTIE, AARON WENDEL, TESS MARTIN, AMANDA MOORE, DAVIS
LIMBACH, SARAH JANE LAPP, CLYDE PETERSEN, WEBSTER CROWELL, STEFAN
GRUBER, SALISE HUGHES and BRUCE BICKFORD.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011
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7/20
New York, New York: Seattle Experimental Animation Team
www.experimentalanimation.org
6:00PM, NewFilmmakers _at_ Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave
INTER-ACTION: ANIMATED SHORTS BY SEAT
Animator Tess Martin presents a collection of short animations that
explore inter-actions - action between each frame of motion as well as
between each subject on screen. Made individually by twelve members of
SEAT (Seattle Experimental Animation Team) these thought-provoking films
reflect on love, insanity, faith and murder. Includes films by: BRITTA
JOHNSON, DREW CHRISTIE, AARON WENDEL, TESS MARTIN, AMANDA MOORE, DAVIS
LIMBACH, SARAH JANE LAPP, CLYDE PETERSEN, WEBSTER CROWELL, STEFAN
GRUBER, SALISE HUGHES and BRUCE BICKFORD.
7/20
Portland, Oregon: Northwest Film Center
http://www.nwfilm.org/
7 pm, 1219 SW Park Ave
THE BODY ELECTRONIC: AN EVENING WITH JESSE MALMED
Whip smart, blissfully dense and multipronged cinema and performance;
conceptual poetics, direct address, participatory movie song: Jesse
Malmed presents a fascinating and manifold mix of conceptually rich
video L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, process-intensive bi-fidelity
abstractedelia and participatory installations such as the multiple
iterations of CONVERSATIONAL KARAOKE!! (in which audience members
perform dizzying, strange and incisive texts of the artist's design).
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THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011
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7/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KINEMA NIPPON PROGRAM 1
KINEMA NIPPON: MOVING IMAGES FROM JAPAN A benefit for the Japanese
disaster relief. Kinema Nippon is a series of fund-raising screenings
that present curated programs of experimental films, video art, and
Japanese classics, held in several international cities in collaboration
with local film and art institutions. By presenting film and video work
to celebrate the visionary cinema of Japan, Kinema Nippon mobilizes the
moving image as a catalyst for cultural awareness and unity during this
crucial time. All proceeds from the U.S. events will be channeled
through Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund
(www.japansociety.org/earthquake), and in Europe through
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (www.jdzb.de). Kinema Nippon is
organized by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson. Ticket prices for this
special benefit event will be $9 for each program and $15 for both.
Please note: original formats are listed below, but all works will be
shown on video for these screenings. NIPPON RE-READ: RADICAL FRAGMENTS
AND ABSTRACTIONS FROM JAPAN A spectrum of experimental moving image
works from Japan, ranging from late-60s to contemporary works, are
presented in Kinema Nippon's two-part program. Although varying greatly
in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously
reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and
innovations in their medium. Abstractions of the mundane are seen in the
graphic films in Program 1, which deal directly with the materiality of
their medium rather than focusing on a visual referent. In WHITE
CALLIGRAPHY RE-READ (1967), Takahiko Iimura activates the Japanese
characters of the Kojiki, the earliest Japanese historical chronicle, by
deconstructing text into its constitutive graphic ciphers. These works,
including LIKA by Stom Sogo and STILL IN COSMOS (2009) by Takashi
Makino, direct the attention of the viewer to the pictorial, emphasizing
more painterly concerns, digital and celluloid textures, the visceral
correlation of sound and image, and of flatness vs. representational
depth. The works in Program 2 offer a poetic investigation into the
fragmentary experience of the quotidian by eschewing narrative and
rendering cultural images and references to unveil the uncanny within
the familiar. Tomonari Nishikawa's in-camera manipulation of bustling
metro hubs in SHIBUYA-TOKYO and TOKYO-EBISU (2010), as well as Kano's
pensive meditations on quintessential Japanese subjects, form a
counterpoint to Toshio Matsumoto's split-screen filmic hallucination of
the late-60s underground, FOR THE DAMAGED RIGHT EYE (1969), which was
made in conjunction with his seminal feature FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
(1969). NIPPON RE-READ, PROGRAM 1 Takahiko Iimura WHITE CALLIGRAPHY
RE-READ (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm) Takashi Makino STILL IN COSMOS (2009,
18 minutes, 35mm/16mm/DV. Music by Jim O'Rourke.) Yoi Suzuki, et al.
SEE-SEA-SAW (2010, 10 minutes, 16mm) Stom Sogo LIKA (LICRE) (2007, 26
minutes, video) Daisuke Nose DOWN THE LINE (2000, 2.5 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
7/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KINEMA NIPPON PROGRAM 2
KINEMA NIPPON: MOVING IMAGES FROM JAPAN A benefit for the Japanese
disaster relief. Kinema Nippon is a series of fund-raising screenings
that present curated programs of experimental films, video art, and
Japanese classics, held in several international cities in collaboration
with local film and art institutions. By presenting film and video work
to celebrate the visionary cinema of Japan, Kinema Nippon mobilizes the
moving image as a catalyst for cultural awareness and unity during this
crucial time. All proceeds from the U.S. events will be channeled
through Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund
(www.japansociety.org/earthquake), and in Europe through
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin (www.jdzb.de). Kinema Nippon is
organized by Aily Nash and Nine Yamamoto-Masson. Ticket prices for this
special benefit event will be $9 for each program and $15 for both.
Please note: original formats are listed below, but all works will be
shown on video for these screenings. NIPPON RE-READ: RADICAL FRAGMENTS
AND ABSTRACTIONS FROM JAPAN A spectrum of experimental moving image
works from Japan, ranging from late-60s to contemporary works, are
presented in Kinema Nippon's two-part program. Although varying greatly
in their formal and aesthetic concerns, the works all rigorously
reexamine the everyday through their respective experiments and
innovations in their medium. Abstractions of the mundane are seen in the
graphic films in Program 1, which deal directly with the materiality of
their medium rather than focusing on a visual referent. In WHITE
CALLIGRAPHY RE-READ (1967), Takahiko Iimura activates the Japanese
characters of the Kojiki, the earliest Japanese historical chronicle, by
deconstructing text into its constitutive graphic ciphers. These works,
including LIKA by Stom Sogo and STILL IN COSMOS (2009) by Takashi
Makino, direct the attention of the viewer to the pictorial, emphasizing
more painterly concerns, digital and celluloid textures, the visceral
correlation of sound and image, and of flatness vs. representational
depth. The works in Program 2 offer a poetic investigation into the
fragmentary experience of the quotidian by eschewing narrative and
rendering cultural images and references to unveil the uncanny within
the familiar. Tomonari Nishikawa's in-camera manipulation of bustling
metro hubs in SHIBUYA-TOKYO and TOKYO-EBISU (2010), as well as Kano's
pensive meditations on quintessential Japanese subjects, form a
counterpoint to Toshio Matsumoto's split-screen filmic hallucination of
the late-60s underground, FOR THE DAMAGED RIGHT EYE (1969), which was
made in conjunction with his seminal feature FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
(1969). NIPPON RE-READ, PROGRAM 2 Tomonari Nishikawa SHIBUYA – TOKYO
(2010, 10 minutes, 16mm) Tomonari Nishikawa TOKYO – EBISU (2010, 5
minutes, 16mm) Eriko Sonoda KAGI (2005, 7 minutes, 8mm) Toshio Matsumoto
FOR THE DAMAGED RIGHT EYE (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm) Shiho Kano SHINONOME
OMOGO ISHIZUCHI (2008, 15 minutes, DV) Shinkan Tamaki ONE RECORD ON
DECEMBER (2007, 6.5 minutes, 16mm) Daisuke Nose TIME FOR RADIO EXERCISE
(2003, 11.5 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011
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7/22
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
y Peter Bo Rappmund 2010, 63 minutes, digital video Share + Film Notes
NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Each quarterly calendar at Anthology
is filled with hundreds of films and videos all grouped into a number of
series or categories. Along with preservation screenings, theatrical
premieres, thematic series, and auteur and actor retrospectives, we're
equally dedicated to presenting new and recent work by individuals
operating at the vanguard of non-commercial cinema. Each month, under
the rubric NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY, we showcase at least one
such program, focusing on moving-image artists who are emerging, at
their peak, or long-established but still prolific. This calendar's
programs feature the work of Peter Bo Rappmund, film preservationist and
filmmaker Ross Lipman, and, from the UK, Beatrice Gibson. Anthology
gratefully acknowledges support for this program from the Experimental
Television Center's Presentation Funds Program, which is supported by
public funds from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York
State Council on the Arts. JULY: Peter Bo Rappmund PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
2010, 63 minutes, digital video. This mesmerizing high-definition
digital video follows the Los Angeles water supply from its Eastern
Sierra Nevada source through the alien channels of the Los Angeles River
all the way to its eventual Pacific deposit. Constructed entirely from
single-frame photographic images, combined with sound recordings of the
sun by Thomas Ashcraft, PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY is a strikingly conceived and
fully accomplished work. Reminiscent of the work of James Benning and
Thom Andersen (both of whom Rappmund studied with at CalArts), in its
formal qualities as well as its concern with the social and political
dimensions of landscape, it nevertheless establishes Rappmund as a
gifted filmmaker with a highly distinctive sensibility. "[T]he sheer
inexorableness of these images seals PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY as a praiseworthy
head movie. The immersive 'trip' structure may not satisfy
environmentalist agendas for the river, though it would be silly to
think that any exhaustive document of Los Angeles's water could ever be
apolitical. Rappmund explains, 'I didn't want to be too didactic, but I
tried to construct something that would at least pique the curiosity of
some as to how semi-arid land can support 13 million people.'
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY finally rests on the notion that in order to
understand a landscape, it may be necessary to be overwhelmed by it."
–Max Goldberg, CINEMA SCOPE
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SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011
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7/23
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
ALEX MCQUILKIN: THE FIRST 10 YEARS; VIDEO SCREENING
approx 50 minutes. Admission $6. We are very pleased to present a
comprehensive screening program of works by young video maker Alex
McQuilkin. McQuilkin began working with video while still in her teens,
and the program features works ranging from the infamous "Fucked" made
in 2000 to her most recent video "Unbreak My Heart". McQuilkin's works
investigate the way narratives and other story lines are
transmitted—through myths, fairytales, literature, the visual arts, and
interpretations of archeological artifacts—and the manner in which
cinematic forms contribute to that propagation, including the
presentation of our own selves to others. This is not McQuilkin's first
time at Microscope. Her video "I wish I was a Beam of Light screened in
the program "Presages" curated by Allison Somers in May. "I first
encountered the works of Alex McQuilkin in 2002 when she was an
undergraduate student. What struck me was the contrast between this
fresh-faced girl (many pieces were made when she was a teenager) and the
fearless and confident manner in which she was dealing with very
ambitions material. Almost a decade later, I still have images in my
head from the handful or so short videos I saw at the time: a dual in
the Wild West where the weapon of choice is not a gun, but a killer
bikini bod; a stuffed rabbit spinning in a bloody (mary?) blender while
the protaganist – McQuiklin herself as in all her works – is wretching
violently in the bathroom, and McQuilkin laying on a bed, focused on
putting on make-up while a guy aggressively penetrates her. Sex, Drugs
and Rock & Roll, in some cases, but more than that they were
intelligent, fully realized works. I liked them very much."
EB---McQuilkin lives and works in New York City. Her works have screened
or exhibited internationally and in the US including: PS 1; Museum
Ludwig, Cologne; Marvelli Gallery, NYC; Galerie Adler, Franfurt; Tufts
University; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; Rome; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
and many others. More info and full program will be available at:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. L
- Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 minutes, 35mm) THE BED (1968, 19 minutes,
16mm) NUPTIAE (1969, 14 minutes, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 minutes,
16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are
celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as American
Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 minutes, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45
minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
See notes for July 22, 8 pm.
7/23
Oakland: Swarm Gallery
http://www.swarmgallery.com/
8:30pm, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
LIVE SOUND AND FILM BY JOSHUA CHURCHILL AND PAUL CLIPSON
A performance of electronic and acoustic musical instrumentation and
Super 8 film, in conjunction with Threshold(s), a solo exhibition by
Joshua Churchill.
7/23
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
JONAS MEKAS: PERSONAL RECORD
Filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, and M. M. Serra in person: A
mix of mostly 16 mm recent and historic short works, personally selected
for this program by Jonas Mekas, includes Award Presentation to Andy
Warhol (1964), a documentation of an event and an homage; a sequence of
five rolls of film shot at a Ringling Brothers Circus, titled Notes on
the Circus (1966); Cassis (1966), recorded at the summer home of Jerome
Hill; Report from Millbrook (1966), filmed "on a weekend visit to Tim
Leary's place"; the episodic works World Trade Center Haikus (2000) and
Seven Days from 365 (2007); as well as the short, personal pieces The
Song of Avila (1966) and Jacobses (2010). (Total running time
approximately 75 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011
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7/24
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6:30p, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUşESCU (AUTOBIOGRAFIA LU NICOLAE
CEAUşESCU)
This unique compilation film was one of the most buzzed-about entries in
the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The 25-year reign of the infamous
Romanian dictator is presented entirely through the distorted lens of
propaganda and official footage—a gaudy but hollow pageant of speeches,
parades, photo ops, and state visits that is by turns fascinating,
chilling, and darkly humorous. Without narration, but with canny editing
and sound design, director Ujica constructs a self-styled
"autobiography" in which the unreliability of the "narrator" becomes
increasingly apparent, and the offstage presence of suppressed history
increasingly undeniable. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 minutes,
16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds, 35mm) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes, 35mm) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR
(1957, 2 minutes, 35mm) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes, 35mm) LE
MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 minutes, 35mm) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes, 35mm)
EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 minutes, 35mm) BLAZES (1961, 3
minutes, 35mm) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm) BREATHING (1963,
5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes, 35mm) 69 (1969, 4.5 minutes,
35mm) The happy, joyful, playful abstractionist of the avant-garde.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program
were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
70 (1970, 5 minutes, 35mm) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes, 35mm) FIST FIGHT
(1964, 9 minutes, 35mm) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI
(1974, 9 minutes, 35mm) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5
minutes, 35mm) BANG (1986, 10 minutes, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 60
minutes.
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
See notes for July 22, 8 pm.
7/24
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5:00 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
KEN JACOBS: RECENT WORKS
Filmmakers Ken and Flo Jacobs in person: Committed to pushing technical
and aesthetic boundaries during his long and illustrious career,
avant-gardist Ken Jacobs (who trained with painter Hans Hofmann)
famously cofounded the first department of cinema at the State
University of New York, Binghamton, one of the very first to specialize
in avant-garde film and video. With many accolades and awards behind
him, Jacobs is still deeply dedicated to his experiments in temporality
and perception, engaging more recently in digital manipulation and 3-D.
Titles in this program include his Hot Dogs at the Met (2009), Jonas
Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009), and A Loft (2010), among others. (Total
running time approximately 70 minutes)
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