This week [December 3 - 11, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Video Installations By Scott Stark and Barna Kantor [December 3, Austin, TX]
* Mono No Aware V [December 3, Brooklyn, New York]
* Sponeck! - KüçüK Sinemalar Experimental Film/Video Exhibition [December 3, Istanbul, Turkey]
* Duncan Reekie : Retrospective [December 3, London, England]
* Someplace I Don't Belong [December 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Insight Film Festival [December 3, Manchester, England]
* 3rd Insight Film Festival 2011 [December 3, Manchester]
* Owen Land Program 1 [December 3, New York, New York]
* Owen Land Dialogues [December 3, New York, New York]
* Wallace Berman's Underground [December 3, Pasadena, CA]
* From Tea Leaves To Technology [December 3, San Francisco, California]
* Incredibly Strange Music [December 3, San Francisco, California]
* Community visionaries: visual Communications and the Dawn of Asian
Pacific American Cinema [December 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rapt [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 1 [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 2 [December 4, New York, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 3 [December 4, New York, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #34 = Hart of London By Jack Chambers [December 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* 13th Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas [December 6, Paris, France]
* The Trouble With Harry [December 6, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Design Shorts By Paul Clipson [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Berks County Film & video Show [December 8, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Celebrating George Kuchar [December 8, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: the General [December 10, New York, New York]
* Optronica! [December 10, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Laurel & Hardy [December 11, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
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12/3
Austin, TX: Austin Holiday Stroll
5-9pm, 914 Congress
VIDEO INSTALLATIONS BY SCOTT STARK AND BARNA KANTOR
Artists Scott Stark and Barna Kantor set up video projections on
Congress Avenue as part of Austin's Holiday Stroll. Free.
12/3
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://www.mononoawarefilm.com
6 PM - 11 PM, 92 Wythe Avenue at the corner of North 11th street & Wythe
MONO NO AWARE V
MONO NO AWARE is an international exhibition of contemporary artists and
filmmakers whose work incorporates Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered
light projections as part of a live performance or installation. No
digital projections are presented; film and projected light only. We
believe there is magic in seeing a film print projected, a presence a
poet has when reading their own work, a feeling that resonates in your
chest when seeing music performed live. For these reasons we encourage
live projections with live additional audio, visual and performative
elements. Participating artists include: Lindsay Mcintyre, Edward Merton
Casey, Monica Baptista, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens, Joey
Huertas aka Jane Public, Patricia Ordonez, Morgan Nance, Luke Munn, Eric
Ostrowski, Jodie Mack, Jasa Baka, Julia Thomas, Tyr Jami, Alex Mallis,
Hunter Simpson, Theodore Rex King, Jordan Stone, Alex Cunningham and
Amanda Long. It will be a wonderful evening filled with live musical
performances, dance, poetry, installation, multiple-projections and
audience participation! That means YOU! There is NO FEE TO ATTEND, so
invite your friends ! Various snacks / drinks / treats will be available
from our sponsors: Adobe software will raffle a new version of CS5.5 and
Flash !!! ADOBE, KODAK, DIJIFI, PAC-LAB, RAW REVOLUTION, IZZE, ROUTE 11
CHIPS, REEDS GINGER BREW, DAVID LYNCH'S ORGANIC COFFEE, EMERGEN-C,
LARABAR This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts
Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc (BAC) and by the
participants of MNA filmmaking workshops. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mono No Aware is a sponsored
project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Contributions for the purposes of Mono No Aware must be made payable to
Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
The full program is listed on our website in the GALLERY includes bios
and synopsis for each presentation.
12/3
Istanbul, Turkey: Küçük Sinemalar
http://kucuksinemalar.blogspot.com
7.30 pm, Büyük Hendek Cd. No: 21/2 Galata Kuledibi, Beyoglu
SPONECK! - KüçüK SINEMALAR EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO EXHIBITION
A selection of our recent films and videos + 2 16mm films from the USA!
The Küçük Sinemalar group consists of Can Eskinazi, Eytan Ipeker, Yoel
Meranda, Ekrem Serdar and Mustafa Uzuner. Scott Puccio's "I am in
♥" Scott Stark's "I Walk with God" Place: Galata Perform Adress:
Büyük Hendek Cad. No: 21/2 Galata Kuledibi, Beyoğlu (Very close to
the Galata Tower) Free Seating
12/3
London, England: Exploding Cinema
http://www.explodingcinema.org
7.30pm, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
DUNCAN REEKIE : RETROSPECTIVE
As part of the London Underground Film Festival, Duncan Reekie will
present and perform a selection of work including early Super 8 films,
recent digital video and the world premiere of a new performance. Reekie
has been a malign influence on British Underground Cinema for over
twenty years.He has produced a diverse body of work that explores a
variety of styles, techniques and purpose, including narrative drama,
scratching and colouring celluloid,multiple superimpositions, video
collage and lyrical visions. He is perhaps most celebrated for his
performance work which features projected images and scathing rhetoric
that is often mistaken for irony. Reekie has developed a mongrel praxis
that refuses the institutional separation between theory and practice.
It is subjective and chaotic, it is enmeshed in a complex system of
political contingencies : he is an agent in the narrative. He is a
founder member of the infamous Exploding Cinema Collective, a radical
open access-screening group and he was the co-ordinator, producer and
co-director of the international Underground feature film MALDOROR
(2001) that has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. His
highly acclaimed book 'Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground
Cinema' was published by Wallflower Press in October 2007.
http://www.duncanreekie.co.uk/ £5 at the door. Advanced discounted
tickets available for £3.50 at:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/142078. For day tickets, visit:
http://www.wegottickets.com/f/3635. For map and directions :
http://www.thehorsehospital.com/contact/. For the full London
Underground Film Festival program check out :
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=246415185411892.
http://www.londonundergroundfilmfestival.org.uk/.
12/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
SOMEPLACE I DON'T BELONG
A not-to-be-missed night of Italian Futurist ponderings, poignant
portraits, animated evocations, intimate glimpses of shrimp, and much
more. This collection of film and video includes work by Scott Stark,
Janie Geiser, Matt Wolf, Allison Schulnik, Ben Coonley, Ely Kim, Keith
Wilson, and John Davis, plus a few surprises. Highlights include Scott
Stark's award-winning 16mm film "Speechless" (a mesmerizing and
provocative meditation featuring animated 3D photographs taken from a
set of ViewMaster 3D reels that accompanied a medical textbook entitled
"The Clitoris"), Janie Geiser's haunting 16mm film "The Fourth Watch"
(which was named by Film Comment as one of the top 10 experimental films
of 2000-2010), Matt Wolf's cell phone-only mini-opus "Boca"
(commissioned by Filmmaker Magazine with music by Owen Pallett/Final
Fantasy), and Allison Schulnik's breathtaking stop-motion animation
"Mound." Program compiled by John Palmer. Admission helps support Echo
Park Film Center and the featured artists. Stick around after the
screening for libations, treats, and lively discussions. $5 at the door
- seating is limited. SHOW SITE:
http://someplaceidontbelong.tumblr.com/
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/188411011243935/
12/3
Manchester, England: Insight Film Festival
http://www.insightfestival.co.uk
11am- 11pm, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL
The Insight Festival brings together films and audiences from around the
world for a weekend spectacular of screenings, discussion and debate.
Filmmakers of all faiths and none present work from around the world,
exploring and challenging aspects of religion and belief. TICKETS
Weekend Pass - £9.00/£6.00 (Concessions) Day Pass - £5.00/£3.50
(Concessions) Festival Lecture - £3.00/£1.50 (Concessions)
www.insightfestival.co.uk/tickets Festival highlights
The Insight
Festival Lecture The first Insight Festival Lecture will be given by
critically acclaimed author and screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce
(Millions, 24 hour Party People). Frank has worked with everyone from
Michael Winterbottom to Danny Boyle, and will be discussing his approach
to his work in the lecture titled 'Special Effect: The joy and pain of
having a counter cultural set of beliefs'. Film Programme The 3rd
Insight Festival 2011 received a record number of submissions, and with
entries open internationally for the first time, this year's screenings
are more exciting than ever. Insight announce animation, documentary and
drama from across the globe. Full listings at
www.insightfestival.co.uk/films Workshops BBC writersroom will host a
free session about screenwriting with a chance to meet BBC writer and
producer Henry Swindell. Join them for a workshop which focuses on
championing writers from across the north of England. This event is
FREE.
12/3
Manchester: Insight Film Festival
http://www.insightfestival.co,uk
11am, Zion Arts Centre, Manchester
3RD INSIGHT FILM FESTIVAL 2011
3rd Insight Film Festival 2011 Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December Zion Arts
Centre Manchester www.insightfestival.co.uk 0161 232 6084 The Insight
Festival brings together films and audiences from around the world for a
weekend spectacular of screenings, discussion and debate. Filmmakers of
all faiths and none present work from around the world, exploring and
challenging aspects of religion and belief. TICKETS Weekend Pass -
£9.00/£6.00 (Concessions) Day Pass - £5.00/£3.50 (Concessions) Festival
Lecture - £3.00/£1.50 (Concessions) www.insightfestival.co.uk/tickets
Festival highlights
The Insight Festival Lecture The first Insight
Festival Lecture will be given by critically acclaimed author and
screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, 24 hour Party People).
Frank has worked with everyone from Michael Winterbottom to Danny Boyle,
and will be discussing his approach to his work in the lecture titled
'Special Effect: The joy and pain of having a counter cultural set of
beliefs'. Film Programme The 3rd Insight Festival 2011 received a record
number of submissions, and with entries open internationally for the
first time, this year's screenings are more exciting than ever. Insight
announce animation, documentary and drama from across the globe. Full
listings at www.insightfestival.co.uk/films Workshops BBC writersroom
will host a free session about screenwriting with a chance to meet BBC
writer and producer Henry Swindell. Join them for a workshop which
focuses on championing writers from across the north of England. This
event is FREE.
12/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 2 , 6:45.
12/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OWEN LAND DIALOGUES
DIALOGUES, OR A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MIND 2007-09, 120 minutes,
video. Land's final film the first he had produced in more than 20
years consists of an episodic series of short films informed by his
study of folklore, myth, history, and the theology of all major
religions, including Gnosticism and cabala. With a healthy dose of irony
and a proudly irreverent attitude toward all kinds of orthodoxies, Land
readily applies the structure of the Platonic dialogue to explore themes
of reincarnation, art criticism, and Tantra. "On one level, DIALOGUES is
a parody of SCORPIO RISING, using era-specific hit records to locate
scenes in time and mood; on another level, it's an interpretation of
Plato's dialogue 'Phaedo', in which Socrates proves the doctrine of
re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric
belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity. With music by Meredith
Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Patti Smith, The Byrds, Phil Collins,
Alice Cooper, Genesis, The Human League, et al. Rated R: Restricted to
audiences with a knowledge of Art History." O.L.
12/3
Pasadena, CA: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Ave
WALLACE BERMANS UNDERGROUND
In the mid-1960's, Wallace Berman inspired and communed with a
close-knit circle of actors and artists, who screened their underground
films domestically among a group of Topanga Canyon bohemians. These
films were influenced by Berman's spiritualist and radically amateur
concepts of art, that nevertheless thrived in the intersection among
art, Hollywood, and the institutions of the semi-commercial underground.
Films to be screened include: Aleph by Wallace Berman (1956-66),
Breakaway by Bruce Conner (1966), First Film by Russ Tamblyn (c. 1966),
Rio Reel by Russ Tamblyn (c. 1968), A Dance Film Inspired by the Music
of Jim Morrison by Toni Basil (1968), and Selections from Topanga Rose
by George Herms (1960s). In person: Toni Basil, Tosh Berman, George
Herms, Russ Tamblyn (schedules permitting)
12/3
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8pm, 275 Capp Street
FROM TEA LEAVES TO TECHNOLOGY
Oddball Films presents From Tea Leaves to Technology: Britain's GPO
Films, a program of rare 16mm films examining culture and modernity
produced by the UK's legendary GPO Film Unit. The GPO employed some of
the most influential directors of creative cinema including abstract
filmmakers and animators such as Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Lotte
Reiniger. The program features Song of Ceylon (1934), one of the most
critically acclaimed films of the UK's early documentary film movement
produced by John Grierson (who would go on to found the National Film
Board of Canada) and sponsored by the Empire Tea Marketing Board and the
Ceylon Tea Propaganda Bureau. Song of Ceylon chronicles the exotic
cultural and religious customs of the Sinhalese (now Sri Lankans) and
the effects of advanced industrialism on their culture. This poetic and
elegantly lensed film features inventive experimental sound montages
interwoven with anthropological narration. Winner of best film at the
1935 International Film Festival in Brussels. Also screening will be
Night Mail (1936). This critically acclaimed film features the operation
of the Royal Mail train delivery service showing its systematic stages
and procedures channeling representations of modern technology and
institutional practice into a study of the train as a powerful symbol of
modernity. Night Mail borrowed from the aesthetics of Soviet cinema to
turn an explanation of the work of the travelling post office into a
hymn to collective labor. With a musical score arranged by Benjamin
Britten and Alberto Cavalcanti, and rhyming verse written by the great
poet W.H. Auden. Also screening will be This Is Britain (1942) a British
propaganda short produced during World War II by the Crown Film Unit, an
organization within the British Government's Ministry of Information to
support the Allied war effort. The film depicts a day in the life of
Britain during the blitz, and is noted for its nonlinear structure and
inventive use of sound. It was nominated for the Academy Award for
Documentary Feature in 1942. Finally The Oil in Your Engine (1969) a
technologically innovative film about the properties of oil in
automotive engines produced by the makers of the biggest petroleum
disaster in history-British Petroleum. The psychedelic visuals and
experimental soundtrack, combined with the innovatively framed shots
makes their "science" of oil lubrication all the more bizarre. Nominated
for a BAFTA award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). ----
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming_at_oddballfilm.com
or 415.558.8117
12/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC
DALE HOYT'S BRAILLE + WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE + Dale introduces
this deadpan video about his father's career at Muzak, revealing some of
the machinations behind what became known as "elevator music." Preceded
by a clip from The Joy of Easy Listening, from none other than the BBC.
ALSO British in origin is Matthew Bate's What the Future Sounded Like, a
look at the early analog synthesizer scene in '60s England, with clips
of Hawkwind and Roxy Music-era Brian Eno!! Keith Sanborn's Russian
research has unearthed a rare Esfir Shub clip of the revolutionary
Theremin, followed by John Roy's work-in-progress on the avant-garde
hobo Harry Partch, Bitter Music. In 16mm, surreal post-war Soundies
initiate a mini-review of the music-on-film genres: the campiest
Scopitones, as well as The World's Worst Music Videos! Free beer AND
free vinyl!!
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2011
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12/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00pm, the Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main Street
COMMUNITY VISIONARIES: VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS AND THE DAWN OF ASIAN
PACIFIC AMERICAN CINEMA
This program highlights the documentary-focused early years of Visual
Communications (VC), an organization created by a group of visionary
Asian American filmmakers, educators, and activists from UCLA's
EthnoCommunications program. In person: Alan Kondo, Duana Kubo, Robert
Nakamura, Eddie Wong! Films to be screened include Manzanar by Robert
Nakamura (1971), Wong Sinsaang directed by Eddie Wong (1971), City City
by Duane Kubo & Donna Deitch (1974), I Told You So by Alan Kondo (1974),
and Cruisin' J-Town by Duane Kubo (1975).
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RAPT
by Dimitri Kirsanoff In French with no subtitles, English synopsis
available, 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm "RAPT is, paradoxically, both a film
which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a work
which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that paradox can
be resolved by an understanding of the film's complex utilization of
music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this respect it is
reminiscent of the part-talkie genre
. It is linked to such abstract and
hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'?GE D'OR. The radical nature of
RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic musical score. In
making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the composers Honegger
and Hoerce." Lucy Fisher
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2
minutes, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2
minutes) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14
minutes) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959,
3 minutes) BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes,
16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes) 69 (1969,
4.5 minutes) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. 70 (1970, 5 minutes) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9
minutes) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 minutes)
SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes) BANG (1986, 10
minutes) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
12/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 3
HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY'S HOMAGE TO NEW YORK (1960, 9.5 minutes, 16mm,
b&w) INNER AND OUTER SPACE (1960, 4 minutes, 16mm) HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE
(1962, 8 minutes, 16mm) PBL NO. 2 (1968, 1 minute, 16mm) RUBBER CEMENT
(1975, 10 minutes, 16mm) LMNO (1978, 9.5 minutes, 16mm) T. Z. (1979, 8.5
minutes, 16mm) TRIAL BALLOONS (1982, 5.5 minutes, 16mm) A FROG ON THE
SWING (1988, 5 minutes, 16mm) SPARKILL AVE! (1993, 5 minutes, 16mm) TIME
FLIES (1997, 13.5 minutes, 16mm) ATOZ (2000, 5 minutes, 16mm) WHAT GOES
UP (2000, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011
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12/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #34 = HART OF LONDON BY JACK CHAMBERS
Parallel to the exhibitions of Jack Chambers' artwork at the Art Gallery
of Ontario, running until May 13, and the McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, running until January 15, we're pleased to present a 16mm
screening of his breathtaking film, Hart of London. "The houses were
unlit and, without their orange banners of human warmth, the street
looked abandoned of life. My feet became numb with the cold as the day
darkened, and tough little grey flakes began falling from the sky. I
looked around to find what it was that had hurt me, and all I saw were
the dumb houses, the glitter of steel through a crack in the closing
sky, and the hard snow Jack Chambers on Hart of London EARLY MONTHLY
SEGMENTS _at_ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West Monday
December 5, 2011, 7:30 pm screening, $5 suggested donation Special
thanks to the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Filmmakers
Distribution Centre (CFMDC) and our lovely hosts at the Gladstone Hotel.
Upcoming: #35 = Monday 16 January 2012 = PUBLIC Journal launch of 2010
Experimental Media Congress issue WITH special EMS screening of a
recently restored rarely screened avant garde film! Early Monthly
Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert
Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation
found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate
MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde 16mm
films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto,
Canada. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food
available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged
viewing and post-screening dialogue. We do not receive public funding
for our programs. We pay artists from admissions.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011
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12/6
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8pm, Les Voûtes, 19 rue des Frigos 73013
13TH PARIS FESTIVAL OF DIFFERENT AND EXPERIMENTAL CINEMAS
The 13th Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas (December,
6-11, 2011) renews the ideas developed in 2010: a big event built around
an international competition, with a Grand Jury and a Press Jury, and
many cartes blanches that this year we dedicate to European film
structures. For this new edition, the Festival also organises several
non-competitive screenings and a special programme to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of Collectif Jeune Cinéma.
12/6
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
by ALFRED HITCHCOCK. The Master's most delightful and gorgeous (dark, of
course) comedy.
12/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
noon, Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA (151 Third Street)
DESIGN SHORTS BY PAUL CLIPSON
Paul Clipson Presents Design Shorts Introduced by Paul Clipson,
filmmaker Phyllis Wattis Theater, noon This program of commercial and
experimental shorts investigates how ideas about consumerism, product,
and design directly inform the visual style and texture of a film. In
some manner self-referential or subversive, these films comment on and
critique the very basis of their own creation, questioning basic
practices of the entertainment industry. The program includes Adebar
(1957) and Schwechater (1958), Peter Kubelka's failed commercials that
became seminal works of avant-garde cinema. Museum and program admission
are free.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
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12/8
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BERKS COUNTY FILM & VIDEO SHOW
A sampling of recent independent & experimental media art recently
produced in Berks County. Film/video artist will be present to introduce
their work.
12/8
San Francisco, California: SF Cinematheque
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/events/1978
7pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA (151 Third Street)
CELEBRATING GEORGE KUCHAR
With the passing of Kuchar in September, this program pays homage to his
50-plus years of filmmaking and his jaw-droppingly voluminous
filmography of camp genre send-up, diary film, and video portraiture
that is unparalleled in its far-reaching cultural influence. This
program of works by one of the most influential figures in film history
includes Hold Me While I'm Naked; Wild Night in El Reno; I, An Actress;
The Mongreloid; and others. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA and SF Cinematheque
members, students, and seniors. For tickets please visit www.sfmoma.org
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2011
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12/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE GENERAL
by Buster Keaton 1927, 105 minutes, 35mm One of Keaton's best silent
features, setting comedy against a true Civil War story of a stolen
train and Union spies.
12/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street
OPTRONICA!
GENDREAU'S PERILS OF THE PHANTOM NEEDLE + VORONINA + GOLDWAVE + Our
semi-annual Live A/V program features Michael Gendreau and Lisa Seitz,
mixing turntables, infrasonic recordings, and a structural shaker named
Electro-Seis. Opening the show is Goldwave, performing a live soundtrack
to their time-travel omnibus Tempus Fluxus. Followed by that spritely
spark of mutant microtones, Lana Voronina. Will Erokan deploys a special
speaker set-up for his Mechanical Induction, a demonstration of "sonic
programming" using the binaural-beats phenomena. PLUS Keith Sanborn's
re-discovered Soviet Theremin material, Len Lye's awesome Storm King
clip (in 16mm), and a young Michael Tilson Thomas on prepared piano!
Come early for Negativland's Booper how-to's (with free DVDs) and $2
homemade brews at our High-Art Bar. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2011
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12/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: LAUREL & HARDY
"Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the movies' greatest comic duo, the
quintessential dumb and dumber odd-couple. Though critically
overshadowed by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, they were enormously
popular, and proved a major influence on Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball
& Vivian Vance, and Jackie Gleason & Art Carney, not to mention Samuel
Beckett (they were an inspiration for WAITING FOR GODOT), Roman Polanski
(who paid homage to them in his existentialist short films FAT AND LEAN
and TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE), and Ken Jacobs (whose ONTIC ANTICS
deconstructs one of their films)." David Mulkins COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THE MUSIC BOX (1932,
30 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THEM THAR HILLS (1934,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. TIT FOR TAT (1935, 20
minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. Total running time: ca.
95 minutes.
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