This week [November 5 - 13, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Wasteland Utopias W/ Filmmaker David Sherman In Person [November 5, Buffalo, New York]
* How To Carve A Ball of Sound/ Sound Design Masterclass With Leighton
Pierce [November 5, New York, New York]
* Another Experiment By Women Film Festival [November 5, New York, New York]
* Meso-American Memory [November 5, San Francisco, California]
* Wasteland Utopias W/ Filmmaker David Sherman In Person [November 7, Amherst, MA]
* Performa: Piece To Camera [November 8, New York, New York]
* Roger Beebe (In Person ) [November 8, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* David Sherman Screens Wasteland Utopias [November 9, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Nicolas Provost: Long Live the New Flesh [November 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Luther Price: Four Super 8 Films [November 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Images Festival [November 10, New York, New York]
* Craneway Event By Tacita Dean [November 10, San Francisco, California]
* The Observers [November 11, New York, New York]
* Convento [November 11, New York, New York]
* Sharp Edge Blunt [November 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Jaguar [November 12, New York, New York]
* Deus Ex Boltanski By Robert Gardner [November 12, New York, New York]
* Mead Shorts Program [November 12, New York, New York]
* All For the Good of the World and NošOvice [November 12, New York, New York]
* Radiolab Listening Party: Space [November 12, New York, New York]
* Empty Quarter [November 12, New York, New York]
* Kinder [November 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Classics of the Twenties [November 12, New York, New York]
* Jonas Mekas' Fluxus Cabaret [November 12, New York, New York]
* Films and video of Carolee Schneemann [November 12, New York, New York]
* Frankenstein Reconstituted [November 12, San Francisco, California]
* Doin' It On Tape: video From the Woman's Building [November 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Blue Meridian [November 13, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Christopher Maclaine Program [November 13, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011
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11/5
Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel
http://www.squeaky.org
7 PM, 712 Main Street
WASTELAND UTOPIAS W/ FILMMAKER DAVID SHERMAN IN PERSON
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
environments. The filmmaker, David Sherman, will be in town for a tasty
Q&A session.
11/5
New York, New York: Exit Art
http://www.exitart.org/
2:00 --3:30 PM, 475 Tenth Avenue / NYC / 10018
HOW TO CARVE A BALL OF SOUND/ SOUND DESIGN MASTERCLASS WITH LEIGHTON
PIERCE
Moving image makers are invited to attend a masterclass given by
LEIGHTON PIERCE on the creative use of sound design -- an element which
is the core of his art. Pierce will present Pro Tools session examples
from his own work and will also discuss his approach to sound.
Participating filmmakers are encouraged to bring a short three-minute
clip of their work on DVD or Vimeo link, which Pierce will discuss with
the class.// For more information go to Exit Art website// $12 General
Admission. Space is limited. To RSVP, please email Aimee Chan Lindquist,
aimee_at_exitart.org
11/5
New York, New York: Another Experiment by Women Film Festival
http://http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com
2 different shows: 4 & 8 PM / panel discussion-5:30PM, MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP 66 East 4th STREET
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL is the only festival of
Experimental film to feature work by women only........... HIGHLIGHTS
include:.. MY WINDOW by ANABELA COSTA uses CHROMADEPTH glasses to expand
its dimensions.... ANGELA FERRAIOLO will present her computer generated
interactive video installation, YOU! THE LAST FOUR SECONDS .... ALICE
COHEN will perform live with keyboards and voice accompaning her film,
TRANCE ACTIONS.... RACHAEL GUMA's live performance of 18FPS, 45RPM, 3SPI
using Super 8 film and vinyl phonograph recording.... PANEL DISCUSSION
led by KERRIE WELSH, with Festival filmmakers: Alice Cohen, Noe Kidder,
Courtney Krantz, Amy Ruhl, & Stephanie Wuertz.... IN ADDITION short
works by Lynne Sachs, Lori Felker, Sally Grizzell Larson, Lili White,
Mercedes Sader, Kelly Oliver, C & A Projects (Carolyn Radlo & Alanna
Simone), Rebecca Louise Tiernan, Noe Kidder with Tin Tay, Liliana
Resnick, Mo Hyun-shin, Cinzia Sarto, Alessandra Cianelli....... BUY
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11/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
MESO-AMERICAN MEMORY
HISTORIES OF YANQUI WALKER + JESSE LERNER'S MAYA + Here's the Cali
premiere of Kathryn Ramey's Yanqui Walker and the Optical Revolution, a
revelatory experimental doc on the infamous imperialist adventurer who
seized Nicaragua. A hand-processed COLOR 16mm work, Ramey's lyrical
essay is preceded by (in person) Martha Wallner and Jeff Skoller's
updating of their Xchange TV project⎯bi-national Nicaraguan
history lessons that also address the Walker episode. An excerpt from
Alex Cox' legendary Clash-cast Walker completes the triptych. Opening
the show, our globe-trotting compadre Jesse Lerner initiates the Central
American theme with the book-launch of his Maya of Modernism, on Mayan
indigenous design in 20thCentury art and architecture, with copious
cultural-anthropological clips and scenes from Eisenstein's ¡Que Viva
México!.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
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11/7
Amherst, MA: Hampshire College
7:30, Leibling Center, 893 West Street
WASTELAND UTOPIAS W/ FILMMAKER DAVID SHERMAN IN PERSON
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
environments. The filmmaker, David Sherman, will be in town for a tasty
Q&A session.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011
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11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PERFORMA: PIECE TO CAMERA
In the 70s, several Golden State artists began making minimalist videos
of themselves performing humorous conceptual experiments. Whether
through deadpan monologues (William Wegman), comic task-based structures
(John Baldessari), absurd comments and confessions (Cynthia Maughan), or
psychologically-charged role-playing (Eleanor Antin), all of these
artists played in some way with the delivery style of stand-up. William
Wegman VARIOUS WORKS (1970-78, ca. 20 minutes, video) Cynthia Maughan
VARIOUS WORKS (1973-78, ca. 10 minutes, video) John Baldessari
BALDESSARI SINGS LEWITT (1972, 13 minutes, video) Eleanor Antin THE
LITTLE MATCH GIRL BALLET (1975, 26 minutes, video) Total running time:
ca. 75 minutes.
11/8
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
ROGER BEEBE (IN PERSON )
In this program, "Films for One to Eight Projectors," Beebe explores the
possibilities of using multiple projectors—running as many as 8
projectors simultaneously—not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but
for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema." The show builds
from the relatively straightforward two-projector films "The Strip Mall
Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate three-projector
meditation on Las Vegas, "Money Changes Everything," and on finally to
the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space "Last Light of
a Dying Star." These films are simultaneously performance films (as they
can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors—and
running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with
a parade of different modes of image making and presentation—16mm and
super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant
aesthetic works in their own right.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011
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11/9
Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8 PM, 621 Huntington Ave
DAVID SHERMAN SCREENS WASTELAND UTOPIAS
Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
environments.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
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11/10
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street
NICOLAS PROVOST: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
Nicolas Provost in person! With digital prowess and deft editing,
Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost transforms clichéd Hollywood scenes
into something altogether more alluring, mysterious, and occasionally,
more grotesque. Long Live the New Flesh (2009) takes this notion to
extremes, melting the pixels of canonical horror films (The Shining, The
Exorcist, and others) into new forms, effectively creating new kinds of
monsters. Gravity (2007) considers the trope of romance fulfilled in a
strobe-like succession of seemingly endless Hollywood kissing scenes.
Provost based two of his latest works, Stardust and Storyteller (both
2010), in Las Vegas, imbuing banal shots of life on the strip and inside
its casinos with a sense of the uncanny. On the whole, Provost's art
attests to the malleability of the cinematic images that remain
ingrained in our memory, but also just out of reach. Co-presented by the
Video Data Bank. Nicolas Provost, 2007-2010, Belgium, multiple formats,
ca. 75 min + discussion.
11/10
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset Blvd)
LUTHER PRICE: FOUR SUPER 8 FILMS
Four Super 8 films by Luther Price, screened on their original format.
Warm Broth, Sodom, Clown, and Mr. Wonderful. $5.
11/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IMAGES FESTIVAL
The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for
experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the
innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off
the screen through film, video, installation art, music, and
performance. From Super-8 and hand-tinted celluloid to the latest video
art, Images has presented thousands of films and media-based projects
since 1988. Images is committed to an expanded concept of film and video
practice: alongside theatrical screenings, the festival presents
groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in galleries
across Toronto, and new media projects. The festival goes out of its way
and over the edge to provide Toronto with an annual extravaganza of
vanguard image making. For more information and our full archive, please
visit www.imagesfestival.com. SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT Copies.
Interpretations. Copies of copies. Interpretations of interpretations.
Alterations, appropriations, and repeating patterns. From structural and
formal mechanisms that trigger a persistence of vision, to performances
that critique through mimesis, these works examine the production and
consumption of images, and the ways in which authorship and originality
contextualize and define them. Duane Linklater IT'S HARD TO GET IN MY
SYSTEM (Canada, 2010, 6 minutes, video) Sitting side-by-side, a cellist
plays back a version of a traditional Cree song to Linklater, and though
we see the artist vocalize the song, only the sound of the cello is
audible. Oliver Laric VERSIONS (Germany, 2010, 9 minutes, video) A dense
visual essay on the manufacturing of images and authorship. Simon Payne
POINT LINE PLANE (UK, 2010, 8 minutes, video) A continually moving grid
of black, white, and grey lines produces an illusion of depth and
perspective as the lines shift from negative to positive. Gloria Nava
BLACK SWAN MAKEUP TUTORIAL (USA, 2011, 4 minutes, video) Takes on the
problematic and stereotypical character played by Natalie Portman in the
recent film BLACK SWAN. Lewis Klahr WEDNESDAY MORNING TWO A.M. (USA,
2010, 7 minutes, video) The first in a series of new works by L.A.
animator Klahr, this film is set to the sparse and atmospheric
soundtrack of "I'll Never Leave" by The Shangri-Las. Jesse McLean MAGIC
FOR BEGINNERS (USA, 2010, 20 minutes, video) "Out of the blue, I bought
my first television. I kept the TV on all the time." –Andy Warhol Jodie
Mack RAD PLAID (USA, 2010, 6 minutes, 16mm, silent) Meticulously
photographed swatches of fabrics are rapidly intercut, their
orientations shifting to create a rhythmic, pulsing grid of pattern
where the rigidity of its form is countered by the DIY aesthetic of the
textiles. Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
11/10
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA (151 Third Street)
CRANEWAY EVENT BY TACITA DEAN
Tacita Dean's Craneway Event Phyllis Wattis Theater 7:00 p.m. Tacita
Dean, 2009, 108 min., 16mm Artist Dean offers a film portrait of late
choreographer Merce Cunningham as he leads his dancers in three days of
rehearsal for one of his dance "events" in the former Ford Assembly
Plant in Richmond, California. The plant's expansive windows allow
shifting light and views of the San Francisco Bay to play a role
alongside the dancers, complementing their movements. Completed just
months after Cunningham's passing, Craneway Event is a poetic homage to
the avant-garde master. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and
seniors. For tickets please visit www.sfmoma.org
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011
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11/11
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
7:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
THE OBSERVERS
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Jacqueline Goss IN PERSON to
present her new film THE OBSERVERS. High above the world on Mount
Washington in New Hampshire, the wind is a constant companion. It whips
violently around the mountaintop, craggy in winter from hardened
snowfall and in summer from the brown rocks beneath. The sun rarely
makes an appearance, bursting occasionally through the thin crack
between thick cloud cover and the distant horizon. At the last
human-operated weather observatory in North America, the shifts in wind
speed, visibility, barometric pressure, and temperature have been
measured hourly since 1932. By reenacting this solitary work, filmmaker
Jacqueline Goss draws our attention to its repetitive and anachronistic
nature and to the subtle forces acting on this dramatic landscape. Q and
A with Goss following the screening.
11/11
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
8:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
CONVENTO
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Jarred Alterman IN PERSON to
present his breathtaking film CONVENTO. Prima ballerina Geraldine,
photographer Kees, and their two boys, Christiaan and Louis, left
Holland in 1980 to take up residence at the Convento São Francisco de
Mértola. Strategically situated at the convergence of two rivers in
southeastern Portugal, this vacant monastery was left decaying for
centuries until the Zwanikken family arrived and transformed it with
their eccentric and earthy endeavors. In the airy studio converted from
the estate's chapel, son Christiaan builds kinetic sculptures from
discarded electronics and the skulls and bones of deceased wildlife.
Combining the family's home movies with his own observant photography,
filmmaker Jarred Alterman casts these fantastical creatures as
supporting characters in the film, as they literally move across the
landscape, animating the ancient grounds. A discussion with Alterman and
artist and film subject Christiaan Zwanikken will follow the screening.
Also join us to view Zwanikken's stunning sculptures at the Museum
throughout the Mead Festival.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
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11/12
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave
SHARP EDGE BLUNT
Staring with two of his earlier 16mm film works, and continuing through
his current video works in progress, Leighton Pierce will take us
through a series of works that progressively crack his sense of normal
time and space. Program length is 62 minutes. Leighton Pierce in
attendance for discussion along with artists/writers Jim Supanick and
Rebekah Rutkoff.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
4:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
JAGUAR
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents JAGUAR by seminal filmmaker
Jean Rouch. Three Nigerien men leave home to seek wealth and adventures
on the Gold Coast of Ghana in 1953. A chronicle of their travels, JAGUAR
was shot before the availability of portable synchronized-sound
equipment. More than a decade later, Rouch assembled the silent footage
into a feature in collaboration with Damouré Zika, one of the travelers
in the film. He then asked Damouré and the other two main characters,
Illo and Lam, to improvise their own narration while watching the edited
footage. The resulting soundtrack is a lively combination of invented
dialogue, jokes, and observations that bring the viewer closer to an
understanding of these men than any traditional narration could ever do.
A watershed figure in cinema who helped define documentary's cinema
verité movement, Rouch was revered by ethnographers and embraced by the
French New Wave. His loose shooting style and close relationship with
his subjects make JAGUAR a classic across genres, as engaging today as
when it first screened. See the Mead Retrospective for more rare and
exciting titles at
http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2011/highlights/retrospective.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
6:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
DEUS EX BOLTANSKI BY ROBERT GARDNER
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Robert Gardner in person with
the New York Premiere of his new film Deus Ex Boltanski Robert Gardner's
précis of the manpower and machinery used to mount French artist
Christian Boltanski's Personne exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris in
2010. This film precedes THE CREATORS by Laura Gamse (Filmmaker in
Person.) Mthetho taught himself to sing in Italian by playing the music
a phrase at a time and sounding out the lyrics until he had learned the
whole song. Now, in his untrained, heartfelt tenor, he can belt out
tear-inducing renditions of "Santa Lucia" and "O Solo Mio." This young
man is just one of the many dedicated Cape Town artists and musicians
profiled in Laura Gamse's pastiche documentary about art in hard times.
Rappers, b-boys, graffiti artists, jazz and blues musicians share their
work and describe how post-Apartheid South Africa has served as both
agent and obstacle to the act of creation. Shot with the intensity of
breaking news footage, THE CREATORS reminds us how urgently the world
needs its artists. Q and A with the filmmakers following the screening.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
6:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
MEAD SHORTS PROGRAM
Guañape Sur by János Richter Hundreds of workers descend on Guañape Sur
off the coast of Peru to harvest the excrement of the island birds,
hardened over the course of 11 many years by the locale's unique weather
patterns. Voice Unknown by Jinhee Park (South Korea, Filmmaker in
Person, New York Premiere) An elderly woman shuffles around the
neighborhood grocery store where she works, attending to the mundane
tasks of shopkeeping. Her face is obscured to protect the family she
left behind as she describes her harrowing escape from North Korea.
Through her disembodied voice, a universal story unfolds, one of loss,
exile, and cultivating roots in a new land. White Elephant by Kristof
Bilsen (Democratic Republic of Congo, United Kingdom, U.S. Premiere,
Filmmaker in Person) At Kinshasa's central post office, an ossified
remnant of the Congo's colonial past, employees sit idle in vast rooms
built for more bustling times. Sixty years since achieving independence
from Belgium, and the country's hopes for a prosperous and just future
are unrealized but not abandoned. Filmmakers in person. Q and A to
follow.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
6:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
ALL FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD AND NOšOVICE
Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Czech provocateur Vit Klusák who
co-directed the 2004 doc-comedy Czech Dream about the opening of a fake
hypermarket, he has turned his sardonic attentions to another
micro-front in the globalization skirmishes. In September 2009, Hyundai
inaugurated its latest factory at the foot of the Beskid mountains in a
Czech village of cabbage fields and pasturelands with less than one
thousand inhabitants. Nošovice's bucolic heart was carved out when the
Korean automobile manufacturer pit neighbor against neighbor and forced
the principle landowners to sell and make way for the mechanized
behemoth. Motivated as much by activism as by a sense of the absurd,
Klusák gains unprecedented access to the shiny new plant and to the now
altered lives of the Nošovice villagers. Combining cinematic flourishes
normally reserved for feature films, Brechtian techniques of
participatory drama, and old-fashioned journalistic muckraking, Klusák
shows how Hyundai broke its corporate promise to contribute "all the
best for the world." Stick around through the end credits for the
director's hilarious sauerkraut commercial.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
7:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
RADIOLAB LISTENING PARTY: SPACE
Margaret Mead Film Festival invites audiences into the Hayden
Planetarium for a special RADIOLAB LISTENING PARTY. Join hosts Jad
Abumrad (recently named a MacArthur Fellow) and Robert Krulwich for an
immersive Radiolab "listening party" charting humanity's paradoxical
relationship with space exploration, from wide-eyed romanticism to
cynical fear. While Radiolab conjures expert aural wonders, the Zeiss
Mark IX projector conjures brilliant starscapes in the Hayden Dome. The
show includes interviews with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, Brian
Greene, host of NOVA's The Elegant Universe, and Hayden Planetarium
Director Neil deGrasse Tyson. Abumrad and Krulwich will be on-hand to
share behind-the-scenes anecdotes about their program and field
questions from the audience. Since 2005, WNYC's RADIOLAB has been
piquing the childlike wonder in adults with its radio show that explores
the esoteric and essential of our universe. With its unique reporting
style and inventive sound designs, Radiolab epitomizes the new kinds of
documentary storytelling the Mead Festival is dedicated to showcasing.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
8:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
EMPTY QUARTER
The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Alain LeTourneau and Pam
Minty's new film EMPTY QUARTER. A series of tableaux in black and white,
Empty Quarter is a 16mm portrait of Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties
in southeast Oregon, a region that represents one-third of the state's
landmass yet holds less than two percent of its population. Portland
filmmakers LeTourneau and Minty alternate extended takes of the economy
in motion—cows crowded in a stockyard, cowboys preparing for a rodeo,
workers packing onions for transport—with local voices describing their
histories, struggles, and pleasures. As the images and stories
accumulate, the quiet beauty of the landscape and rich diversity of the
communities belie the monotonous mechanisms that have come to dominate
their daily lives. Followed by a Q and A with the filmmakers.
11/12
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
8:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
KINDER
The Margaret Mead Film Festival present KINDER (Margaret Mead Filmmaker
Award Nominee.) As the Sun's rays stream through the palatial Bavarian
woods, four young boys dart among the trees, engrossed in a joyful game
of hide-and-seek. These brief moments of innocent abandon provide a
stark contrast to the reality of their lives in a German children's
home, which is rife with aggressive teasing, loneliness, and unfocused
anger. First-time filmmaker Bettina Büttner spent three months observing
a selection of interned boys, capturing them in moments of startling
candor. Intrigued by the preternaturally thoughtful 10-year-old Marvin,
she continues to follow him after he returns home, where he tries to fit
in among the family who left him scarred. Shot in crisp black-and-white,
Kinder expresses the indelibility of a dysfunctional childhood and the
resilience of a young mind. Q and A with Büttner following the
screening.
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES
ernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm,
b&w, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) René Clair & Francis
Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) Man Ray LE RETOUR À LA
RAISON (1923, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EMAK BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes, 35mm, b&w,
silent) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray ANEMIC CINEMA (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm,
b&w, silent) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JONAS MEKAS' FLUXUS CABARET
75 minutes, video. As part of Performa 11's Fluxus Weekend, artist,
filmmaker, and Anthology Film Archives Founder and Artistic Director
Jonas Mekas has selected a dozen Fluxus-related performances, anecdotes,
and diaristic notes from the materials in his video archives for this
special presentation. Nam June Paik performs in Times Square, Ben
Vautier presents a theory of Fluxus and comments on his early
performances in Nice, John Lennon and Yoko Ono join George Maciunas on a
trip up the Hudson River, Joseph Beuys sings, and more, in an
illuminating, entertaining, and highly personal tribute by Mekas to this
influential period. Fluxus Weekend, presented by Performa, is an
intensive 72-hour program in Lower Manhattan honoring the movement's
history and prompting the making of new Fluxus actions, objects, music,
film, and ideas for the 21st century, with projects ranging in size from
large events to small-scale gestures.
11/12
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
FILMS AND VIDEO OF CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
In celebration of the publication of MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL No. 54,
this special program will feature films and videos by Carolee Schneemann
that are discussed in this issue of the journal, including Kitch's Last
Meal. Carolee Schneemann will be in attendance to introduce and discuss
her work.
11/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
FRANKENSTEIN RECONSTITUTED
BILL MORRISON'S SPARK OF BEING + THE MESMERIST + RELEASE We welcome back
Morrison, a sublime craftsman of archival compilation, for a one-person
show—in fact—the SF debut of his hr.-plus "reconstruction" of the
Frankenstein story. Cinematic detritus is like clay in the hands of this
essential cine-poet. With original music by Dave Douglas, this gothic
masterwork is of course an allegory on the suturing of Frankenstein's
Monster himself. ALSO two of Bill's earlier experimental montage works,
The Mesmerist (with Karloff and featuring the music of Bill Frisell),
and the recent Release, a formal elaboration of footage from Al Capone's
prison exit. $7.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011
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11/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
DOIN' IT ON TAPE: VIDEO FROM THE WOMAN'S BUILDING
Hosted by Jerri Allyn and Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, this screening will
include video excerpts that they've selected from the Los Angeles
Women's Video Center's archives, highlighting work from 1971-1986.
Featured artists include The L.A. Women's Video Center collective, Cheri
Gaulke, Starr Goode, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Susan Mogul,
Sheila Ruth, Jane Thurmond, and more.
11/13
New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival
http://www.amnh.org/mead
4:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue
BLUE MERIDIAN
Margaret Mead Film Festival presents the NY Premiere of BLUE MERIDIAN by
Sofie Benoot. (Filmmaker in person, NY Premiere)Following the Mighty
Mississippi as it flows from Cairo, Illinois, to Venice, Louisiana,
where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, Blue Meridian encounters the
diverse people and places along America's fabled waterway. A forgotten
blues singer performs a soulful song. A couple that runs a soup kitchen
discuss the importance of going to church. A prison warden complains
about the growing number of prisons. A New Orleans poet recites an angry
poem. A nature conservationist explains the power of kudzu. These and
many others bear witness to the turbulent history, natural disasters,
and economic misfortunes that have affected the communities along the
riverbank. Belgian filmmaker Sofie Benoot stays just long enough at each
depot to take a brief impression or record a song and then, like the
river she traces, meanders on her way. Co-presenter: Flanders House
11/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE PROGRAM
"The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He
was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who
later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years
were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield,
California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most
significant work to come out of the beat period." –J.J. Murphy All films
preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957,
14 minutes, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 minutes, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5
minutes, 16mm) THE END (1953, 35 minutes, 16mm) "Six stories of people
on the last day of their lives. Most are about to commit suicide, or
some metaphorical equivalent, but the mushroom cloud with which the film
begins and ends reminds us that, as Maclaine's voice intones on the
sound track, we await 'the grand suicide of the human race' – his
conceit is that his characters have reached the end of their personal
ropes the day before a nuclear holocaust. Throughout the film he
compares the dehumanizing effects of mass culture to the dehumanizing
effects of personal despair, weaving these two threads together until
the mannequins he films in store windows, the anonymous people he films
on the street, and his characters all seem variations on the same
half-living, half-dead persona." –Fred Camper Total running time: ca. 65
minutes.
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