This week [July 30 - August 7, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker 16mm B&W Films [July 30, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema:Clair/Picabia/Bunuel/Dali Program [July 30, New York]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 30, San Francisco, California]
* A Co-Op Omnibus [July 30, Washington, DC]
* Oh, the Places I've Been: Films By Jason Halprin [July 31, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Lupe; Flaming Creatures [July 31, Washington, DC]
* Flaming Creatures, Preceded By Lupe [July 31, Washington, DC]
* Ross Lipman Program [August 3, New York]
* Carmen Jones (1954) [August 4, San Francisco, California]
* Red Hook Cine Soiree!! [August 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* Paul Swan/Outer and Inner Space [August 7, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011
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7/30
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle, btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
GREGORY SMULEWICZ-ZUCKER 16MM B&W FILMS
Approx 50 minute program. Admission $6. Filmmaker and writer Gregory
Smulewicz-Zucker premieres his new 16mm film completed this year and 3
earlier short works. Smulewicz-Zucker's films are delicate black & white
abstract works, exploring and experimenting with light. "Zucker's early
films were about the darkness fighting the coming of the light. Now, in
his most recent film, he has done the opposite: the light has won, but
it's constantly being attacked by the darkness... I think that this is
the state of our existence [and] Zucker has produced a kind of poem of
that state. A very beautiful film, very Blakean." Jonas Mekas (2007)
----- Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker is a writer and filmmaker living in New
York. He is currently the Managing Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern
Society and Culture (www.logosjournal.com). His films have been shown at
Anthology Film Archives. His writings on film have appeared in The
Brooklyn Rail. He is the editor of three forthcoming books: Strangers to
Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Lexington Books), The Politics of
African Independence: A Reader in African Political Thought (Hackett)
and Class, Culture, and the Public Intellectual: Stanley Aronowitz and
his Critics. He is currently a PhD candidate in the History program at
The Graduate Center, CUNY. More info at www.microscopegallery.com.
J/M/Z-Myrtle/Broadway, L-Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street, tel:
347.925.1433.
7/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA:CLAIR/PICABIA/BUNUEL/DALI PROGRAM
René Clair and Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm) A
masterpiece of Dada and a feat of cinema magic. Made as intermission
entertainment for the Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scene by Francis
Picabia. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1928, 22
minutes, 35mm) Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a
stream of images from which anything that could be given a rational
meaning was rigorously excluded. It's still the unsurpassed masterpiece
of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES:
TIERRA SIN PAN (1932, 28 minutes, 35mm. With English narration.) "A
documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged
by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective
correlative." –Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
7/30
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia Street
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
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. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, 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. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
7/30
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
A CO-OP OMNIBUS
Filmmaker and Co-op director M. M. Serra in person With thousands of
titles by hundreds of new and former members dating from the 1960s to
the present day, the circulating collection at the Film-Makers'
Cooperative is a veritable treasure trove of experimental film history
and practice. This program highlights a handful of groundbreaking
shorts, including restorations or new prints of these influential
titles: Peggy and Fred in Hell (Prologue) (Leslie Thornton, 1988); Water
Motor (Babette Mangolte, 1978); The Male Gayze (Jack Waters, 1990);
Susie's Ghost (Bill Brand, 2011); Cake and Steak (Abigail Child,
2002–2004); Beirut Outtakes (Peggy Ahwesh, 2007), and Release (Bill
Morrison, 2010). (Total running time approximately 75 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011
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7/31
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale
http://nightingaletheatre.org/
8 PM, 1084 N Milwaukee Ave
OH, THE PLACES I'VE BEEN: FILMS BY JASON HALPRIN
Though he is best known for his commitment to the small gauge format of
Super-8mm, Halprin began as a video artist, and still occasionally
strays into optically printed and hand-processed 16mm work. Made over
the past 14 years in over 35 US states and a few foreign countries, this
program highlights his continued exploration of how geography, both
physical and creative, is manifested in the moving image. Halprin's work
is influenced by the way humans are affected by their immediate
surroundings, and how the shape of a location can impact social
interaction and lifestyle. Though his cinematic journey has a strong
presence in urban environments, Halprin says, the open air is really
where his artistic heart lies: "cities and wilderness both open cerebral
pathways that might otherwise not be taken, and the movement between
them has a profound impact on thought patterns...as for me, I am haunted
by landscape." See website for more details.
7/31
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Home.html
7:30pm, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
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. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, 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. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
7/31
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5:00 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
LUPE; FLAMING CREATURES
Described by director Jack Smith as "a comedy set in a haunted music
studio," Flaming Creatures is a seminal avant-garde work not only
because of its outlandishness and unabashedly brazen imagery, but even
more because of its impact on the films of Warhol and others. As an
actor, director, and writer, Smith was a major countercultural figure
and a decisive influence on the development of American experimental
theater, underground cinema, and performance art. "Had Jack Smith
produced nothing other than this amazing artifice, he would still rank
among the great visionaries of American film"—J. Hoberman. (Jack Smith,
1963, 16 mm, 45 minutes) / A contemporary of Jack Smith, Puerto Rican
filmmaker Jose Rodriguez-Soltero cast spectacular transvestite Mario
Montez in the title role of his short Lupe—a campy, roiling homage to
the ill-fated life and brief career of Mexican screen idol Lupe Vélez.
(Montez himself also appeared in many of Warhol's underground films,
including Chelsea Girls). (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966, 16 mm, 50
minutes)
7/31
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
FLAMING CREATURES, PRECEDED BY LUPE
Described by director Jack Smith as "a comedy set in a haunted music
studio," Flaming Creatures is a seminal avant-garde work not only
because of its outlandishness and unabashedly brazen imagery, but even
more because of its impact on the films of Warhol and others. As an
actor, director, and writer, Smith was a major countercultural figure
and a decisive influence on the development of American experimental
theater, underground cinema, and performance art. "Had Jack Smith
produced nothing other than this amazing artifice, he would still rank
among the great visionaries of American film"—J. Hoberman. (Jack Smith,
1963, 16 mm, 45 minutes) A contemporary of Jack Smith, Puerto Rican
filmmaker Jose Rodriguez-Soltero cast spectacular transvestite Mario
Montez in the title role of his short Lupe—a campy, roiling homage to
the ill-fated life and brief career of Mexican screen idol Lupe Vélez.
(Montez himself also appeared in many of Warhol's underground films,
including Chelsea Girls). (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966, 16 mm, 50
minutes)
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011
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8/3
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROSS LIPMAN PROGRAM
AUGUST: ROSS LIPMAN URBAN RUINS, FOUND MOMENTS Filmmaker in person!
Known as one of the world's leading restorationists of experimental and
independent cinema, Ross Lipman is also an accomplished filmmaker,
writer, and performer whose oeuvre has taken on urban decay as a marker
of modern consciousness. He visits Anthology with a program of his own
lyrical and speculative works, including the live cinema performance
essay THE CROPPING OF THE SPECTACLE, selections from the video cycle THE
PERFECT HEART OF FLUX, and a sneak preview excerpt of his feature-length
memoir, KEEP WARM, BURN BRITAIN!, with an original score by NY
street-performing legend Thoth. "Everything that's built crumbles in
time: buildings, cultures, fortunes, and lives," says Lipman. "The
detritus of civilization tells us no less about our current epoch than
an archeological dig speaks to history. The urban ruin is particularly
compelling because it speaks of the recent past, and reminds us that our
own lives and creations will also soon pass into dust. These film,
video, and performance works explore decay in a myriad of forms –
architectural, cultural, and personal." "Lipman's films are
wonderful…strong and delicate at the same time…unique. The rhythm and
colors are so subtle, deep, and soft." –Nicole Brenez, Cinémathèque
Française 10-17-88 1989, 11 minutes, 16mm. Audio collage by John Shaw.
Optically printed collage of found and archival footage. THE CROPPING OF
THE SPECTACLE Video/PowerPoint performance, 25 minutes. Premiered at
Orphan Film Symposium (NY), 2008. A 25-minute PowerPoint performance
investigating the birth of the Television Spectacle in 1954 McCarthy's
America. Based on Lipman's work restoring the classic anarchist
documentary POINT OF ORDER (Emile de Antonio/Dan Talbot, 1964). From THE
PERFECT HEART OF FLUX compilation: SELF-PORTRAIT IN MAUSOLEUM (2009, 1
minute, DV) OCEAN BEACH / PT. LOBOS I, II, III (2007, 10 minutes, DV)
CASA LOMA (DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE) (2010, 10 minutes, DV) KEEP WARM, BURN
BRITAIN! Work-in-progress, ca. 17-minute excerpt, 35mm. With music by
Thoth. Lipman's current project is a feature-length experimental memoir
of the mid-80s squatting movement in East London. Comprised entirely of
still photographs, it chronicles the lives of the anarchists, outcasts,
and punks who inhabited a network of soon-to-be demolished buildings
south of the Thames, an area known in the anarchist community as
Squatter's Paradise. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011
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8/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
CARMEN JONES (1954)
Introduction and pre-screening performance by Kalup Linzy. Otto
Preminger, 1954, 105 min., 35mm. Preminger's Carmen Jones sticks closely
to the original score of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, though the cast,
lyrics, and story are modernized in surprising ways: the events are set
in World War II America and the entire cast is African American. Don
Jose becomes an all-American GI Joe, played by Harry Belafonte, and
Carmen becomes parachute factory worker Carmen Jones, a role that won
Dorothy Dandridge a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Part of SFMOMA's
Opera on Film Program. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and
seniors. Does not include entry to The Steins Collect.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011
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8/6
Brooklyn, New York: BWAC
3PM, 499 Van Brunt Street
RED HOOK CINE SOIREE!!
featuring tropical reveries, flying French pop singers, and chess games
on the roof!!! 3PM - Saturday August 6, 2011 / BWAC / 499 Van Brunt
Street Red Hook, Brooklyn Screening room is on the first floor,
accessible to all.
http://www.bwac.org/directions (...right across from
Fairway) / Joel Schlemowitz presents... A salon of experimental and
underground films from cine-artists Jeanne Liotta, Vanessa Renwick,
Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty, Marie Losier, and a special presentation of
René Clair's "Entr'acte" with live soundtrack by Joel Schlemowitz's
Krupnik Orchestra. / A summer afternoon and short works of avant-garde
cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to the enchantment
of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge ourselves in the
hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten ourselves lightly
and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen, to take respite
from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by the sea. / Expect
red wine and soft cheese, and 78s of 1920s foxtrots played on the
Victrola!
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011
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8/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SWAN/OUTER AND INNER SPACE
PAUL SWAN / OUTER AND INNER SPACE by Andy Warhol Share + This screening
is part of: TALKING HEAD Film Notes Andy Warhol PAUL SWAN 1965, 66
minutes, 16mm. PAUL SWAN is Warhol's documentary portrait of the early
20th century American dancer who pioneered 'aesthetic', interpretive
forms of modern dance. The elderly Swan recreates past dance
performances, reciting poetry for the camera, frequently changing
costumes, and leaving the stage empty for long periods while he hunts
for a lost shoe. & Andy Warhol OUTER AND INNER SPACE 1965, 33 minutes,
double-screen 16mm. Shot in August 1965 using videotape equipment loaned
to Warhol by the Norelco Company, OUTER AND INNER SPACE features Edie
Sedgwick seated in front of a large television screen, on which we see
her pre-recorded video image. As the videotape plays, she responds to
her own image and talks with someone off-screen. The result is a
fascinating exercise in double-screen filmmaking which highlights
Sedgwick's beauty as well as her mercurial, fragmented personality.
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