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This week [August 29 - September 5, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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This week's programs (summary):
- Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective [September 1, Berkeley, California]
- Some American Landscapes [September 2, Los Angeles, California]
| Wednesday, September 1, 2010 |
Berkeley, California:
Pacific Film Archive
7:30 pm, PFA Theatre, 2575 Bancroft Way
Optical Poetry: Oskar Fischinger Retrospective
PFA presents Oskar Fischinger classics, in association with Center for Visual Music. Tonight's program of Fischinger’s astounding visual music includes many new and preserved prints, including Allegretto, Composition in Blue, Motion Painting no. 1, Radio Dynamics, Kreise, Walking from Munich to Berlin, two Muratti commercials, Spiritual Constructions, several Studies, and many more. Program also includes William Moritz's 1993 Cinemascope recreation of "R-1, ein Formspiel." “Decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before Fantasia (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of ‘absolute’ or nonobjective filmmaking . . . who created exquisite ‘visual music’ using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz.”
—John Canemaker, New York Times. Program features all 35mm prints, most have been preserved by Academy Film Archive, Center for Visual Music, and Fischinger Archive.
| Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
Los Angeles, California:
Echo Park Film Center
8:00 PM, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset Blvd)
Some American Landscapes
$5. The American landscape is examined in distinct ways in these recent films. Jeremy Menzies’ Between the Lines uses time lapse and night photography to observe the human-built environment in a series of exquisitely composed takes. Rick Bahto’s Still Life depicts an arrangement of potted plants situated in locations around their native environment that have been transformed by human activity. John Palmer explores real and imagined fragments of the California landscape through a variety of alternative techniques in his Landscape Quartet. Finally, Shauna McGarry and Lorna Turner present alternate views of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in short Super 8 portraits. John Palmer, Shauna McGarry, Lorna Turner and Rick Bahto in person for a Q&A after the screening.
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