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This week [June 28 - July 5, 2009] in avant garde cinema
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This week's programs (summary):
- Essential Cinema- Ron Rice Program [June 28, New York, New York]
- Essential Cinema- Sunrise: Fw Murnau [June 28, New York, New York]
- Special Henry Hills Dvd Release Event [June 28, New York, New York]
- Tregor Film Fest [July 3, Lannion, France]
- Los Angeles As A Character [July 3, San Francisco, California]
| Sunday, June 28, 2009 |
New York, New York:
Anthology Film Archives
5:00pm, 32 second Avenue
Essential Cinema- Ron Rice Program
SENSELESS
1962, 28 minutes, 16mm
“Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico...highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal development of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction.” –David Brooks
THE FLOWER THIEF
1960, 59 minutes, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Starring Taylor Mead.
“In the old Hollywood movie days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of ideas failed (writers, directors), was called upon to ‘cook up’ something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed in the field of stunt.” –R.R.
Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
New York, New York:
Anthology Film Archives
6:00pm, 32 second Avenue
Essential Cinema- Sunrise: FW Murnau
SUNRISE
by F.W. Murnau
1927, 95 minutes, 35mm.
Murnau’s first American film is an allegory set in no particular time or place, about a man who is temporarily overruled by his passions, inflamed by the power of evil as personified by the city woman, and who finally returns to his senses and the orderly family life of the country. It is a virtuoso exercise representing the expressiveness of the silent film as it neared its end.
New York, New York:
Anthology Film Archives
7:30pm, 32 second Avenue
Special Henry Hills DVD Release Event
SPECIAL HENRY HILLS DVD RELEASE EVENT
Filmmaker in person! Reception to follow.
Moving to New York in 1978, filmmaker Henry Hills formed a strong alliance with the Downtown music improvisers and the “Language” poets, guiding his film work toward a rhythmic, multilayered world filled with unpredictable changes and a striking improvisational edge. At long last, his uncompromising shorts are being released on DVD, courtesy of John Zorn’s equally radical TZADIK label. This show includes the very best of Hills’s wonderfully intense films – from the downtown all-star-filled MONEY to structural dance films like LITTLE LIEUTENANT and BALI MÉCANIQUE. A major force in new cinema, these films are brilliantly visual, crammed with image and double meaning.
PORTER SPRINGS 3 (1977, 7 minutes, 16mm, color, silent)
KINO DA! (1980, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound)
MONEY (1984, 14 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
SSS (1988, 6 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
GOTHAM (1990, 3 minutes, video, b&w, sound)
GOA LAWAH (1992, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
BALI MÉCANIQUE (1992, 11 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
LITTLE LIEUTENANT (1994, 6 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
PORTER SPRINGS 4 (1999, 15 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)
ELECTRICITY (2007, 7 minutes, video, color, sound)
FAILED STATES (2008, 10 minutes, video, color, sound)
Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
| Friday, July 3, 2009 |
Lannion, France:
Tregor Film Fest
July 3-5 - all day!, Bowling L'Eclipse Zone commerciale le Lion de Saint Marc 22300 Lannion
Tregor Film Fest
Cool films for interesting people.
San Francisco, California:
Artists Television Access
8:00 PM, 992 Valencia Street
Los Angeles as a Character
Los Angeles as a Character
is a one-night only screening (July 3, 2009, 8:00 PM) at the
Artists’ Television Access
that will showcase experimental, documentary, and narrative short films and videos with the city of
Los Angeles
as a peripheral or central theme, backdrop or character.
13 films were chosen for the screening, ranging from fifteen year old Mason Shefa’s experimental look at the neon landscape of Hollywood at night in
Memories of an Undefined Image,
(2007) to Donlee Brussell’s award-winning,
Intoxicated Demons,
(2005) a darkly comedic “love letter to counter culture LA.” Other films include Valentina Martin’s,
Iris:Los Angeles,
(2005) an experimental “poem” described as an “open letter of praise” to the city; and visiting program curator Charles Doran presents the S.F. premiere of
Westsider,
(2007) a black comedy portraying the downfall of an arrogant, Frank Gehry-obsessed architect.
Other films include:
Dance, Eli, Dance
– teenage director Ava Hess focuses on the various neighborhoods of Los Angeles as her protagonist dances from downtown L.A. to Venice beach.
Hair Cowboy
(2008) - dir. Patrick Robins’ documentary about a cooler-than-thou homeless hair stylist on Melrose Blvd.
I Remember Venice
(2008) – dir. Will O’Loughlen – a short film-poem about a day in Venice California, shot in a single afternoon in March, 2007.
Moose…Indian
(2006) – dir. Nicholas Kokich – on a desperate quest, a lonely man travels a fantastic voyage by bike through the city of Los Angeles.
Mr. Freeway
(2008) – dir. Kenneth Hughes – an ambitious short following a man running on the freeway in a search for his “other” while an original version of Carmina Burana plays in the background.
Palm Tree Song Line
(2008) – Berlin-based artist Dagie Brundert showcases her fascination with one of L.A.’s most notable features.
Roger
(2007) – former ATA volunteer Jennifer Stefanisko directs a narrative short about a Silverlake musician trying to write a song amidst daydreams, freak outs, visions and visitors.
Rollingman
(2000) – dir. Mike Sakamoto – an isolated man comes up with a singularly bizarre idea to make his existence palatable.
Some Los Angeles Apartments and a Dorm
– dir. Laura Daroca – Past and present collide; time and space collapse; and fact and fiction intersect with images of Los Angeles residential buildings once inhabited by a young woman.
More information on the films and filmmakers can be found here:
http://www.laasacharacter.org/Echo_films.php
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