[Frameworks] Part 2 of 2: This week [October 8 - 16, 2011] in avant garde cinema

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Part 2 of 2: This week [October 8 - 16, 2011] in avant garde cinema

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2011
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10/14
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6p, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington Street

 YANQUI WALKER AND THE OPTICAL REVOLUTION
  Emerson Presents—Director Kathryn Ramey in Person Filmmaker and
  anthropologist Kathryn Ramey's award winning films operate at the
  intersection of experimental film and socio-cultural research. We are
  pleased to welcome Ramey to the Paramount to present a program of her
  work, including her recent video Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL
  REVOLUTION, an exploration of the obscure American expansionist and
  military dictator William Walker, who through force and coercion became
  president of Nicaragua in 1856.

10/14
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St.

  WERNER SCHROETER/ELFI MIKESCH: A VOICE THAT LINGERS
  Jack H. Skirball Series $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] U.S. premiere
  Werner Schroeter (1945–2010) created one of the most significant oeuvres
  of the New German Cinema, a legacy of more than 20 visually and aurally
  stunning features, among them Willow Springs (1973), Palermo oder
  Wolfsburg (1980), Malina (1991), and Deux (2002). His intimate
  collaborations with divas such as Magdalena Montezuma, Candy Darling,
  Ingrid Caven, Maria Callas, and Isabelle Huppert go beyond mere camp:
  Schroeter's protagonists exhaust themselves in music, melodrama, or
  visual excess to express consuming passions. When love is gone and death
  has come, he once said, "the expression remains, like a quake, a
  shivering sensation." Schroeter had shot most of his earlier films, but,
  beginning with Der Rosenkönig (1986), experimental filmmaker Elfi
  Mikesch became his regular DP, and she went on to accumulate extensive
  footage on his work and, in particular, the last four years of his life.
  This two-night program includes the U.S. debut of Mikesch's insightful,
  affectionate documentary Mondo Lux – Die Bilderwelten Des Werner
  Schroeter (2011, "Mondo Lux – The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter")
  and a selection of Schroeter's work, notably the cult film Der Tod der
  Maria Malibran (1972, "The Death of Maria Malibran"), one of Michel
  Foucault's favorites. In person: Elfi Mikesch (pending) Curated by Steve
  Anker and Bérénice Reynaud Funded in part with generous support from the
  Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. "Schroeter's flair for lush visuals and
  heightened emotions introduced an operatic sensibility to the New German
  Cinema movement." — Dave Kehr, The New York Times

10/14
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
http://www.beyond2000.co.uk/umbrella/
1pm, J. A. De Sèves Theatre, Concordia University, Montreal

 RINSE, REPEAT, RESTORE - CONFERENCES OF MARK TOSCANO AND GUSTAV DEUTCH ON
 FILM ARCHIVE
  Ces conférences ont lieu à l'Université Concordia le 14 octobre, dans le
  cadre du cycle Rinse, Repeat,Restore. Pénétrez sous les voûtes des
  archives filmiques telles que les connaissent l'archiviste et
  restaurateur Mark Toscano et le cinéaste Gustav Deutsch.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011
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10/15
Boston, Massachusetts: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.com/index.htm
7:30PM, Aviary Gallery, 48 South Street, Jamaica Plain

 NEW AND UNSEEN SUPER-8 FILMS BY BOSTON FILMMAKERS
  Special(?) guest curator: Frankie Symonds Featuring films by Luther
  Price, Saul Levine, Shawn Cotter, Adam Paradis, Gordon Nelson, Tara
  Merenda Nelson, Lana Z. Kaplan, L.J. Frezza and more! Also, a special
  reading from acclaimed poet Ted Richer!

10/15
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
6:00pm, 631 West 2nd St.

 WERNER SCHROETER/ELFI MIKESCH: A VOICE THAT LINGERS
  Jack H. Skirball Series $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] U.S. premiere
  Werner Schroeter (1945–2010) created one of the most significant oeuvres
  of the New German Cinema, a legacy of more than 20 visually and aurally
  stunning features, among them Willow Springs (1973), Palermo oder
  Wolfsburg (1980), Malina (1991), and Deux (2002). His intimate
  collaborations with divas such as Magdalena Montezuma, Candy Darling,
  Ingrid Caven, Maria Callas, and Isabelle Huppert go beyond mere camp:
  Schroeter's protagonists exhaust themselves in music, melodrama, or
  visual excess to express consuming passions. When love is gone and death
  has come, he once said, "the expression remains, like a quake, a
  shivering sensation." Schroeter had shot most of his earlier films, but,
  beginning with Der Rosenkönig (1986), experimental filmmaker Elfi
  Mikesch became his regular DP, and she went on to accumulate extensive
  footage on his work and, in particular, the last four years of his life.
  This two-night program includes the U.S. debut of Mikesch's insightful,
  affectionate documentary Mondo Lux – Die Bilderwelten Des Werner
  Schroeter (2011, "Mondo Lux – The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter")
  and a selection of Schroeter's work, notably the cult film Der Tod der
  Maria Malibran (1972, "The Death of Maria Malibran"), one of Michel
  Foucault's favorites. In person: Elfi Mikesch (pending) Curated by Steve
  Anker and Bérénice Reynaud Funded in part with generous support from the
  Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. "Schroeter's flair for lush visuals and
  heightened emotions introduced an operatic sensibility to the New German
  Cinema movement." — Dave Kehr, The New York Times

10/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JORDAN/LEVITT/MAAS PROGRAM
  Larry Jordan DUO CONCERTANTES (1962-64, 6 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HAMFAT
  ASAR (1965, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w) GYMNOPEDIES (1968, 6 minutes, 16mm)
  THE OLD HOUSE PASSING (1966, 45 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by
  Anthology Film Archives.) OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1968, 9 minutes. New
  35mm print!) "Fantastic landscapes of the mind is what make the unique
  work of San Francisco animator Larry Jordan so compelling. With a taste
  for nostalgic romanticism for intricate turn-of-the-century
  illustrations, Jordan creates a magical universe of work using old steel
  engravings and collectable memorabilia. His 50-year pursuit into the
  subconscious mind gives him a place in the annals of cinema as a
  prolific animator on a voyage into the surreal psychology of the inner
  self." - Jackie Leger Helen Levitt IN THE STREET (1952, 12 minutes,
  16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Helen Levitt's short,
  lyrical documentary portrait of life in Spanish Harlem. Stealthily shot
  by Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee. Willard Maas GEOGRAPHY OF THE
  BODY (1943, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)
  "The terrors and splendors of the human body as the undiscovered,
  mysterious continent." - W.M. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.

10/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street

 LO-TECH HI-JINX
  GERRY FIALKA'S PXL THIS 20 FEST! Honoring media-theorist Marshall
  McLuhan as part of a worldwide centenary, we welcome back one of his
  fiercest and funniest proponents with a program of videos made on
  audio-cassette! This current iteration of Fialka's long-running fest
  embodies McLuhan's bold ideas about democratic communication tools.
  Among the movies made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy camcorder are:
  Jesse Drew's Dolby, Mariko Drew's It's a Lemonhead, tENTATIVELY a
  cONVENIENCE's Philosopher's Union, and other pieces by Gerry himself,
  Paolo Davanzo, and a sneak preview of Michael Koshkin's feature-doc on
  this cult format. Come early for 2-bit beer, free vinyl records, and
  David Cox on the Optigan (another media-archaeological oddity)!

10/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
7pm, Trash Palace, 89-B Niagara St.

  PATRICK KEILLER'S ROBINSON IN RUINS
  Robinson in Ruins (2010), the final film in Patrick Keiller's Robinson
  Trilogy, takes its conceit from the "found" notebooks and film canisters
  of the titular character Robinson as he crosses the English countryside
  expounding upon a myriad of millennial anxieties and premonitions of
  late capitalist collapse. Released from prison at the start of the 2008
  recession, Robinson is enlisted to help a network of non-human
  intelligences in preserving the possibility of survival on the planet by
  searching for "the molecular basis of historical events." The wandering
  cinematographer Robinson is a flâneur of the pre-apocalyptic era,
  vividly recording the rural and agrarian landscape and explicating the
  history of financial markets, civil uprising and the ruins of the 21st
  century. Narrated by Robinson's ex-lover and co-researcher (Vanessa
  Redgrave) the elegiac journey of a great philosopher, poet and prophet
  of demise receives its timely Toronto premiere following widespread
  rioting across the UK and amidst paradigm-shifting unrest and
  uncertainty in the face of global austerity and economic crisis.
  Keiller's insights (which Redgrave breathes into life with savoury) are
  accompanied by mesmeric images that pursue a landscape of the past for
  its tidings of the future.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011
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10/16
Boston, Massachusetts: TIE
http://www.experimentalcinema.com/index.htm
7:30PM, SCATV 90 Union Square, Somerville, MA

 MY FAVORITE COLOR IS BLUE
  "My Favorite Color Is Blue": A cinematic meditation on youth,
  regression, trouble-making, and transcendence. Featuring TIE programmer
  Chris May in person. With films by Frank Biesendorfer, Stan Brakhage,
  Jesse Kennedy and more! All films projected in Super-8mm or Standard 8mm
  $5

10/16
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
http://www.beyond2000.co.uk/umbrella/
8pm, the Agora du Coeur des Sciences de l'UQÀM. (174 ave. President Kennedy, Montreal). All performances are FREE

 POR LA NOCHE VOLVIó DELIRANDO "TODO ES AGUA”
  Using multiple 16-mm projectors, suspended screens and quadraphonic
  sounds, Malena Szlam and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh conspire to create a
  dreamlike world in permanent flux.

10/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON PROGRAM
  ZORNS LEMMA 1970, 60 minutes, 16mm, color. "A major poetic work. Created
  and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex
  abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and
  beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it,
  don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light,
  possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." –Ernie Gehr
  & HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes, 16mm, b&w. "Nostalgia,
  beginning as an ironic look upon a personal past, creates its own filmic
  time, a past and future generated by the expectations elicited by its
  basic disjunctive strategy." –Annette Michelson "In nostalgia the time
  it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its
  two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton
  plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating,
  mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them
  both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of
  his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic,
  mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors
  for most of Frampton's films." –P. Adams Sitney

10/16
San Francisco, California: MisALT Screening Series
http://www.othervixen.com/misalt.html
8pm, Artist Television Access 992 Valencia St

 MISALT SCREENING SERIES PRESENTS: GLITCH VS SCRATCH
  MisALT Screening Series Presents: Glitch vs Scratch. Sunday, October
  16th, 2011. 8pm , $6.00 Artist Television Access 992 Valencia St. San
  Francisco, CA The MisALT Screening Series is excited to present its
  October screening: "Glitch vs. Scratch." This screening seeks to create
  a dialog between artists working in Scratch Cinema (film based practices
  that make interventions on the celluloid level) and Glitch based video
  and media practices (which manipulate images by exploiting
  vulnerabilities on the molecular and electron level of video tape and
  code), to bridge the gap between work that focuses on the material
  underpinnings of cinema and work that brings attention to the often
  invisible foundation that lies beneath digital media. The bubbling,
  flickering, abstractions of decaying, damaged, and melting celluloid
  meet the frantic and ghostly distortions of mangled signals and scripts.
  Featuring: Jodie Mack, "Unsubscribe #3: Glitch Envy" Tsen-Chu Hsu
  (Taiwan), "Cotton Sugar" Florian Cramper (Netherlands), "How to
  picturize two Kafka short stories within one hour in a hotel room"
  Charlotte Taylor, "Secrets" Péter Lichter (Hungary), "Light Sleep"
  Alberto Cabrera Bernal (Spain), "12 Erased Trailers" Christine Lucy
  Latimer (Canada), "MOSAIC" Anna Geyer, "Good Bye Pig" Nick Briz, "Binary
  Quotes" Adam R. Levine, "Koh" Michael Betancourt w/ FsLux, "One" Steven
  Ball(UK) "The War on Television" Lili White, "Got 'Cha" Drone Dungeon
  "Phantom Wegman I-III" Channel TWO "In a []" Ted Davis "What makes up a
  Surprising Image" Lennon Batchelor "Focus on the Family" Curated by
  Tessa Siddle

10/16
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:00, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW.

 AMERICAN ORIGINALS NOW: LYNNE SACHS
  October 16, 23 East Building Concourse, Auditorium The ongoing film
  series American Originals Now offers an opportunity for discussion with
  internationally recognized American filmmakers and a chance to share in
  their artistic practice through special screenings and conversations
  about their works in progress. Since the mid-1980s, Lynne Sachs has
  developed an impressive catalogue of essay films that draw on her
  interests in sound design, collage, and personal recollection. She
  investigates war-torn regions such as Israel, Bosnia, and Vietnam,
  always striving to work in the space between a community's collective
  memory and her own subjective perceptions. Sachs teaches experimental
  film and video at New York University and her films have screened at the
  Museum of Modern Art and the Buenos Aires, New York, and Sundance Film
  Festivals. Her work was recently the subject of a major retrospective at
  the San Francisco Cinemathèque. Lynne Sachs: Recent Short Films October
  16 at 4:00 East Building Concourse, Auditorium Lynne Sachs in person
  Three short films exemplify Sachs' unique approach to nonfiction
  filmmaking and to the empathetic process of imagining other people's
  motivations. Photograph of Wind (2001, 16 mm, 4 minutes) is a portrait
  of the artist's daughter as witnessed by the eye of the storm; The Last
  Happy Day (2009, 37 minutes) uses personal letters, abstracted images of
  war, home movies, and a performance by children to understand the
  complex story of Sachs' distant cousin, Sandor Lenard, a Hungarian
  medical doctor who fled the Nazis and reconstructed the bones of
  American dead; and Wind in Our Hair (2010, 42 minutes) is a bilingual
  narrative inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
  (Total running time approximately 83 minutes)


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