This week [August 27 - September 4, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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"Does Anyone Ever Really Quit?" by Bryan Konefsky
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Binghamton University Cinema Department
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Faux Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 31, 2011)
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EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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MisALT Screening Series: Glitch v. Scratch (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Think Tic (London, England; Deadline: September 09, 2011)
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Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA USA; Deadline: September 23, 2011)
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Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2011)
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Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
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Colour Out of Space (Brighton, East Sussex, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011)
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Damming Fluxus (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: September 30, 2011)
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Black Thorns in the Black Box (Chicago. IL USA; Deadline: October 01, 2011)
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2.Intervideo Talent Award (Wiesbaden, Germany; Deadline: August 31, 2011)
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EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 28, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [August 28, New York]
* Nick Zedd Program 1 [September 2, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Zvenigora [September 3, New York]
* Nick Zedd Program 2 [September 3, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Arsenal [September 4, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Earth [September 4, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011
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8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
See notes for Aug. 26, 9 pm.
8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
See notes for Aug. 26, 7 pm.
8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes,
35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death
waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the
screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is
like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth
of immortality."
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2011
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8/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
See notes for Aug. 27, 8:30 pm.
8/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To
Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek
mythology – the god of the lyre, song and poetry – was Cocteau's
personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search
for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during
which the poet must experience many deaths."
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
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9/2
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NICK ZEDD PROGRAM 1
THE RETURN OF NICK ZEDD, PROGRAM 1: POLICE STATE PRESERVED AND OTHER
WORKS Share + Film Notes Filmmaker in person! An anti-social renaissance
man for our times, Nick Zedd is a notorious filmmaker, writer, painter,
actor, political satirist, and "First Minister of Protocol" for The
Cinema of Transgression, the New York filmmakers movement he spearheaded
25 years ago whose reverberations are still being felt in dark corners
today. Punk in attitude and ultra-DIY in approach, Zedd's eye-popping,
shocking, and often hilarious films and videos employ the mysterious
powers of xenomorphosis, a term he coined to describe what happens when
the "domain wall of an alternate universe smashes your reality tunnel
and neurological re-engineering occurs." Nick returns for a rare visit
from his new home in Mexico City to bring us this two-program survey of
his classic and contemporary work, as well as to premiere Anthology's
brand-new 16mm preservation of his masterpiece POLICE STATE. Famous for
being infamous, Nick Zedd is the underground, and you should come see
why. "Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell – he's my
kind of director!" –John Waters PROGRAM ONE: POLICE STATE PRESERVED AND
OTHER WORKS THE BOGUS MAN (1980, 11 minutes, 16mm-on-DVD) Depicts the
release of information concerning the cloning of the President of the
United States. Starring David McDermott, Lawrence Oliver Cherry, and
Rafik. THRUST IN ME (1984, 8 minutes, Super 8mm-on-DVD) Co-directed with
Richard Kern, THRUST IN ME defies description. Starring Zedd (in dual
roles), Margot Damien, and Don Houston. POLICE STATE (1987, 18 minutes,
16mm) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. A prime document of
pre-gentrification Lower East Side, POLICE STATE ranks high as one of
the most cogent, comedic, and enduring works of the 1980s underground
film scene. Starring Zedd, Rockets Redglare, Flip Crowley, and
Willoughby Sharp. WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY (1992, 20-minute excerpt,
16mm/DVD triple projection) A mind-bending multiple-projection blow-out
with an emphasis on the exotic featuring the talents of Kembra Pfahler,
Annie Sprinkle, Ari Roussimoff, and Steven Oddo. WHOREGASM (1988, 11
minutes, 16mm/DVD triple projection) "If this film doesn't land him in
jail, I don't know what will. The first print was already seized by the
Canadian police back in May ('89)…and Zedd narrowly escaped arrest when
he showed it in Tompkins Square Park this summer to an audience of winos
and beggars who got so excited they performed a circle jerk in front of
the bandshell." –FILM THREAT 18 ECSTASY IN ENTROPY (1999, 15 minutes,
16mm) A group of warrior lapdancers struggle to overthrow the
authoritarian structures of corporate state capitalism. In between a
succulent blowjob, the naked superwomen punch and wrestle in a
voluptuous cataclysm of feminine ferocity while a chihuahua named Pinky
sniffs at their feet. Stars Annie Sprinkle, Taylor Mead, Brenda Bergman,
and Jaiko Suzuki. WHY DO YOU EXIST? (1998, 11 minutes, 16mm) A series of
close-ups of real urban 'types' in which the camera is returned to its
Edison-era status as a simple recording device. Featuring Brenda
Bergman, Kembra Pfahler, Dr. Ducky DooLittle, Mike Diana, and Little
Annie. TOM THUMB (1999, 3 minutes, DVD) A trailer for a film that
doesn't exist, shot on digital video in Copenhagen, Denmark. I OF K9
(2000, 3 minutes, DVD) A segment from the Ocularis End of Year Kiss
Factory Event movie, starring Will Keenan, and Daryl & Scott Free. Total
running time: ca. 105 minutes.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
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9/3
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ZVENIGORA
by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis
available), 1928, 96 minutes, 35mm Dovzhenko's second film, attacked by
Soviet critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen
its political impact, remains today a "cinematic poem" as the director
named it. Dovzhenko wrote: "I did not so much make the picture as sing
it out like a songbird." Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a
mythic search for hidden treasure by two brothers.
9/3
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NICK ZEDD PROGRAM 2
Filmmaker in person! An anti-social renaissance man for our times, Nick
Zedd is a notorious filmmaker, writer, painter, actor, political
satirist, and "First Minister of Protocol" for The Cinema of
Transgression, the New York filmmakers movement he spearheaded 25 years
ago whose reverberations are still being felt in dark corners today.
Punk in attitude and ultra-DIY in approach, Zedd's eye-popping,
shocking, and often hilarious films and videos employ the mysterious
powers of xenomorphosis, a term he coined to describe what happens when
the "domain wall of an alternate universe smashes your reality tunnel
and neurological re-engineering occurs." Nick returns for a rare visit
from his new home in Mexico City to bring us this two-program survey of
his classic and contemporary work, as well as to premiere Anthology's
brand-new 16mm preservation of his masterpiece POLICE STATE. Famous for
being infamous, Nick Zedd is the underground, and you should come see
why. "Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell – he's my
kind of director!" –John Waters PROGRAM TWO: RECENT AND NEW VIDEOS NO
PLAGUE LIKE HOME (2007, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) Electra Elf episode
deconstructing the superhero genre as Nimbus attacks implantable
microchips and the 9/11 Inside Job, along with the dangers of watching
TV. HOLLOW BE THY NAME (2007, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) The Mayor is
kidnapped by Eclectus and her henchmen, then Electra Elf is cloned by
Pantaloon and can't stop fighting herself, forcing Fluffer to seek the
aid of Vatican superhero Pulsar. Starring Rev. Jen, Sue Palchak, Brenda
Bergman, and the Dueling Bankheads. PAINTINGS 2009-11 (2011, 7 minutes,
Mini-DV) Entities painted in oil, exhibited at the Microscope Gallery in
January. NYC/MEXICO (2011, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) Shot in Teotihuacan at
the Pyramid of the Sun, along with scenes in Tequisquiapan, Mexico City,
Times Square, and Brooklyn. THE BIRTH OF ZERAK (2011, 5 minutes, DVD)
Caesarean birth of Zerak Zedd in Mexico City. Total running time: ca.
100 minutes.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
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9/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ARSENAL
by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis
available), 1928-29, 87 minutes, 35mm One of Dovzhenko's few completely
independent films, from script to screen. ARSENAL is a civil war epic
envisioned in unusual, painterly images: a fallen soldier – drunk on the
enemy's laughing gas – his frozen body still baring its teeth long after
the battle and his life are over.
9/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EARTH
by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis
available), 1929-30, 82 minutes, 35mm A poetic expression of love for
both nature and Ukrainian culture by the man who was alternatively
branded a deserter by Ukrainians and a Ukrainian nationalist by Russian
Soviets. Dovzhenko champions the progression of life, class struggle,
and new attitudes for a town changed by a tractor and a fallen hero.
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