[Frameworks] This week [October 30 - November 7, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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This week [October 30 - November 7, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Git Along, Little Dogies" by kate lain
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30th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: December 03, 2010)
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Appropriation Alliance Critical Remix Festival (Fresno, CA, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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Migrating Forms (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2011)
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI USA; Deadline: November 04, 2010)
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Go Short - International Short Film Festival (Nijmegen, Netherlands; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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MONO NO AWARE IV (Brooklyn, NY. USA; Deadline: November 05, 2010)
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30th Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; Deadline: December 03, 2010)
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The Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 19, 2010)
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Experiments In Cinema v6.3 (Albuquerque, New Mexico USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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danubeVIDEOARTfestival #1 (Grein, Austria; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: November 27, 2010)
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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DIVA Center (Eugene, Oregon, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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The Journal of Short Film (Columbus, OH, USA; Deadline: November 05, 2010)
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Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI USA; Deadline: December 01, 2010)
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The LAB (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: December 02, 2010)
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Fermynwoods Online Open (Thrapston, England; Deadline: November 08, 2010)
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI USA; Deadline: November 04, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Personal Cinema Series - Ps3* Pedro Sanchez3 [October 30, New York, New York]
* Sounds Like? - Jeanne Liotta [October 30, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Arsenal [October 30, New York]
* War of the Gargantuas + Godzilla Fantasia + [October 30, San Francisco, California]
* Fear Found Footage From Spain [October 31, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Earth [October 31, New York]
* Spectacles of Light: Films and videos By Peter Rose [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Punto Y Raya 2010 Us Tour - the Best of 2009 and the Awarded Films of
2007 [November 2, Los Angeles, California]
* La Captive (2000 118 Min) By Chantal Akerman [November 2, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Mondi Paralleli - Live video Performance By Sheri Wills With Chamber
Chorus [November 3, Kingston, RI]
* Punto Y Raya 2010 Tour- Retrospective: "Larry Cuba and Other Abstract
Classics" [November 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Radical Light (Women of the West: ’70s Bay Area Experimentalists) [November 3, San Francisco, California]
* Radical Light: Women of the West: ‘70s Bay Area Experimentalists [November 3, San Francisco, California]
* Civil Status: Films By Alina Rudnitskaya [November 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Video Out [November 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Sarah Halpern Program [November 4, New York]
* After Dark: Fear [November 4, San Francisco, California]
* Vision/Power/Technology: Harun Farocki On Film and video [November 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Us Premiere - Pip Chodorov Feature Documentary "Free Radicals" [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Lumia Night: the Roots of Live visual Performance [November 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Praise the Tube [November 5, San Francisco, California]
* Performances! [November 6, Glendale, CA]
* Personal Cinema Series: Rick Bahto [November 6, New York, New York]
* The Sound of Jazz/Get Out of the Car [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Parson's Widow [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Passion of Joan of Arc [November 6, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Vampyr [November 6, New York]
* M. Prelinger's Another Science Fiction + Atomic Sublime + [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Michael Scroggins: What Are You Looking At? [November 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Vj201: visual Workshop [November 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Paul Sharits Program [November 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [November 7, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Ordet [November 7, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010
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10/30
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8/$6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - PS3* PEDRO SANCHEZ3
Pedro Sanchez3, born in Madrid, Spain and based in New York City, uses a
range of media to produce expressive, penetrating art works and films to
document his life's journey between Tokyo, New York, and Madrid. As
someone grounded in an international language, his work contains an
array of diverse approaches to the film medium. Over two decades, he has
created a series of large scale site-specific installations informed by
an early engagement with sculpture, painting, short films, and video
art.----"The illogical and abrupt or ritualistic actions are not symbols
that require interpretation or conclusion. They are merely symptoms of
persistently questioned inconclusiveness, that is why the experience of
these films means having to take a mental journey that yields no
answer."- PS3*----PROGRAM - GOVERNOR'S ISLAND (12 min. 2010), ONI (7.5
min. 2005), CONEY ISLAND (10 min. 2010), ALICE ENCOUNTER (5 min. 2008),
ENTERTAINMENT (14 min. 2004).
10/30
New York, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place - Bushwick - Brooklyn NY 11221
SOUNDS LIKE? - JEANNE LIOTTA
Jeanne Liotta, film-maker, curator, performer, researcher, and academic
ventures across the East River to our Bushwick gallery next Saturday
10.30 with her record player, audio recordings, Youtube channel works,
and videos including her most recent piece "Crosswalks" (original format
is 35mm) which premiered at this year's New York Film Festival. We are
looking forward to this special and improvisational night and hope you
will join us!.../// Stylistic contaminations for record player, youtube,
music/and/video, from the contrived and crafted to the perfect-as-is.
Including fragments and sketches of point n shoot field recording
research gathered on my zerojeanli youtube channel, with other discreet
short works over the years motivated by a tense and lively engagement
with music and sound. J L All video/audio program by Jeanne Liotta.
PROGRAM: WHAT MAKES DAY AND NIGHT 1998, 16mm, 9', sound This 1940's
artifact is coupled with music by Nino Rota to expose the existential
skeleton in the closet: our perilous journey on the planet Earth. A
readymade film with the barest of interventions.../ HYMN TO THE VOID
(documentation) 2006, originally a 16mm sound film and hymn board loop
installation Work for the Night is coming.../ HEPHAESTUS OF THE AIRSHAFT
2005, DV, 3', sound The god of metallurgy manifests in Manhattan, with
the radio on.../ SWEET DREAMS 2009, screen captures / DV, midi sound
files Shot on location in Second Life at Beneath the Tree That Died by
AM Radio, screen captures by Sunshine Hernandoz, editing by Jeanne
Liotta. Commissioned for the second annual PDX Festival Experimental
Filmmaker Karoke Throwdown.../ SUTRO 2009, digital video, 3', sounds by
Scanner (from Lauwarm Instrumentals) Animated portrait of the eponymous
television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in
that earthshaking city by the Bay.../ CROSSWALK 2010, 35mm, 19', stereo
sound Uyo-realism from the streets of Loisaida. The Cinema is an
explosion of my love for reality - Pier Paolo Pasolini (It will be
projected in the digital version).../// From the ordinary George Ives
taught his son to respect the power of vernacular music. As a Civil War
band leader he understood how sentimental tunes such as Stephen Foster
's songs, marches and bugle calls were woven into the experience of war
and the memories of soldiers. Charles Ives came to associate everyday
music with profound emotions and spiritual aspirations. One of his
father's most resonant pieces of wisdom came when he said of a
stonemason's off-key hymn singing: "Look into his face and hear the
music of the ages. Don't pay too much attention to the sounds--for if
you do, you may miss the music. You won't get a wild, heroic ride to
heaven on pretty little sounds." - Jan Swafford... More info &
directions @ www.microscopegallery.com
10/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 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.
10/30
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
7:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS + GODZILLA FANTASIA +
Editor of the national J-Pop mag Otaku, Patrick Macias and August Ragone
respond to the Halloween call with a titanic tribute to the storied
director of the original Godzilla, Ishiro Honda. With more than a nod
towards the recently released Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The
Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda, the provocative pair of kaiju fanboys
contextualize Honda's prolific career, which saw the production of
Rodan, Mothra, The Mysterians, Monster Zero, Destroy All Monsters,
Terror of Mechagodzilla, Atragon, and Battle in Outer Space (the latter
two excerpted here). Starring Russ Tamblyn, the 16mm Gargantuas is
Honda's 1966 effort, in which two hairy humanoids spawned from
Frankenstein's monster (!) wreak havoc on—where else?—Tokyo. Free hot
sake! Doors open at 7:30 for cinematic trick-or-treats; come in cosplay!
*8pm showtime.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2010
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10/31
New York, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place - Bushwick - Brooklyn NY 11221
FEAR FOUND FOOTAGE FROM SPAIN
curated by Albert Alcoz SUNDAY OCTOBER 31ST & MONDAY NOVEMBER 1ST
Screening starts @ 7pm...... The experimental filmmakers from Spain use
found footage techniques to transform the original material appropiated
into new aesthetic forms with ideological discourses. As Paul Arthur has
stated: "It is only an ostensible paradox that as cinema nears the end
of its filmic phase, the avant-garde has adopted the inquest of history
as one of its dominant projects". The pieces chosen for the Fear found
footage from Spain recover the cinematic past to reveal the invisible
side of the image suggesting fear and suspiciousness. Erotic amateur
films, auteur cinema and feature horror films are subverted to celebrate
the existence of moving images and the possibility to recycle them.
PROGRAM: A Spanish Delight by Eugeni Bonet, 2007, 5' An ironic
appropiation of an anonymous found footage film in black and white where
the erotic images have been accompanied by a new song named "Canción
española" by Antonio Paso y Enrique García Álvarez. Miralls (Mirrors) by
Gerard Gil, 2006, 21' A suspense montage of different scenes of feature
horror films of free domain. The recycled images are associated with an
instrumental music made with panic atmospheric textures. Copyright is
for losers by Ninotchka Art Project, 2008, 24' An inspiring video made
with juxtapositions of comercial films and electronic sounds combined to
discuss copyright issues and the notion of originality in the cinematic
media context. Profanaciones (Desecrations) by Oriol Sánchez, 2008, 22'
A rhythmical video created to deprive cinema of his sacred character.
Hundreds of superimposed images from famous terror films and vintage B
movies are methodically arranged on three screens. The End by Fernando
Franco, 2008, 6' A composition of diverse death performed by known
actors on fiction films. Showed in slow motion theses non happy-ending
scenes question the representation of the decease of the human
body...///... Total Running Time: 78 minutes aprox. About Albert Alcoz
Albert Alcoz is a Barcelona-based filmmaker, programmer and writer
specializing in avantgarde and experimental cinema. Designs the
Visionary Film blog, curates the experimental cinema and video sessions
named Amalgama, writes articles about cinema and contemporary art in
magazines and books. He creates experimental films on super 8 and 16 mm.
///...Admission is $6 - tickets available at door / For more info visit
www.microscopegallery.com
10/31
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 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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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
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11/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SPECTACLES OF LIGHT: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY PETER ROSE
Since 1968, Peter Rose has made more than 30 films, tapes, performances,
and installations. Many early works raise intriguing questions about the
nature of time, space, light, and perception, and draw upon his
background in mathematics. His subsequent interest in language as
subject, and video as a medium, has generated a substantial body of work
that plays with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political
satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy. Rose's
recent installations return to an examination of landscape, time, and
vision, and works on this program propose an annotated, nocturnal
portrait of a vanished culture. Rose's work has been widely exhibited in
venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the
Centre Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Film Society of
Lincoln Center, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In
person: Peter Rose / Jack H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts
$5]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010
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11/2
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Downtown Independent" @ 251 S. Main St.
PUNTO Y RAYA 2010 US TOUR - THE BEST OF 2009 AND THE AWARDED FILMS OF
2007
The Largest and most complete experimental and abstract film festival in
the world shows the best of the fest in Dallas. Barbara Doser -
Frameframer; Kazuhiko Kobayashi - Ren-Ka-Lin-Ten; Sabrina Schmid -
Evariations; Cristina Casanova Seuma -Ratlles III | Line III; Marc
St.Aubin - Implosion; Jim Merz - Mostly Red; Juanjo Fernández_Gnomalab -
Abstract Love; Mary Benedicto - Ready, Set, Go; Aleksandra Dulic &
Kenneth Newby - Intersecting Lines; Pedro Ignacio & Vodanovic Rojas -
Tierra Plana | Flat Land; Trish Scott - Wave; Deborah Johnson - The Palm
Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake; Clemente Calvo Muñoz - Videolightwork
four.
http://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/2_edicion/eng/competicion09_mod1_eng.h
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11/2
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
LA CAPTIVE (2000 118 MIN) BY CHANTAL AKERMAN
"Inspired by the fifth volume of Remembrance of Things Past, but more
directly influenced by Vertigo and Buñuel's oeuvre, the film is a
contemporary surrealist masterpiece and Akerman's most fully realized
feature since Jeanne Dielman. Somber in tone but punctuated with
hilariously absurd details, it has, from beginning to end, the quality
and logic of a dream—or of a fantasy spun by the protagonist as he lies
in bed, writing in his notebook à la Proust …. La Captive is one of the
rare films where meaning is conveyed as much through sound as image.
It's also Akerman's most despairing depiction of her recurrent theme:
the impossible desire to merge the self with the other—always in her
films a stand-in for the long-lost mother."- Amy Taubin, The Village
Voice
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2010
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11/3
Kingston, RI: University of Rhode Island - Fine Arts Gallery
http://mhoh.pair.com/users/swills/newcake/NMPerf.html
5:00, University of Rhode Island, Fine Arts Center, Main Gallery
MONDI PARALLELI - LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY SHERI WILLS WITH CHAMBER
CHORUS
Reception with Live Video Performance by Sheri Wills, with the chamber
Lively Experiment performing the US premiere of Jan Jirasek's "Mondi
Paralelli." Reception: 4:30-6:30 Performance: 5:00 (the piece is
approximately 20 minutes)
11/3
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Echo Park Film Center" 1200 N. Alvarado St.
PUNTO Y RAYA 2010 TOUR- RETROSPECTIVE: "LARRY CUBA AND OTHER ABSTRACT
CLASSICS"
A collection of classic experimental and abstract films: Frank &
Caroline Mouris - Impasse; John Whitney Sr. - Arabesque; Larry Cuba -
3/78; Larry Cuba - Two Space; Larry Cuba- Calculated movements; Jules
Engel - Train Landscape; Jules Engel - Shapes & Gestures; Hy Hirsh -
Scratch Pad; Hy Hirsh - Chasse des Touches | The Chase of Brushstrokes;
Adam Beckett - Heavy Light; Adam Beckett - Kitsch in Sync.
http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/puntoyraya2010/
11/3
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30 pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
RADICAL LIGHT (WOMEN OF THE WEST: ’70S BAY AREA EXPERIMENTALISTS)
San Francisco Cinematheque presents: Revisit or discover anew these
radical films by some of the women who made the Bay Area scintillate in
the '70s. These films both resist and embody the archetypes that were
assigned to art created by women of the time. Each film asks us to look
closely and savor its qualities, such as the metered scoring in Anne
Severson [Alice Anne Parker]'s The Struggle of the Meat; rigorous &
seductive self-examination in Barbara Linkevitch's Traces; submission to
constructed accident in Jane Dobson's Stained Picture; unconscious and
the corporeal in Gunvor Nelson's Moon's Pool; non-interventionist
process in Dorothy Wiley's Cabbage; collision of illusionism & 2-D in
Caroline Savage's Voyeur; absurdity of the infinite in Freude
[Bartlett]'s Folly; uneasy meditation on the nature of perception in
Stephanie Beroes' Valley Fever; and painterly animation in Barbara
Hammer's Our Trip.
11/3
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 pm, Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia (at 21st)
RADICAL LIGHT: WOMEN OF THE WEST: ‘70S BAY AREA EXPERIMENTALISTS
curated and introduced by Janis Crystal Lipzin, presented in association
with Pacific Film Archive [members: $5 / non-members: $10] ---- The
decade of the '70s was characterized by strident manifestos and
polemics, a condition from which artist-made films were hardly immune.
But that history doesn't appear so simple to those artists who made it.
These films both resist and embody the archetypes that were assigned to
art created by women of the time. Each film asks us to look closely and
savor its qualities, such as the metered scoring in Anne Severson [Alice
Anne Parker]'s The Struggle of the Meat; rigorous & seductive
self-examination in Barbara Linkevitch's Traces; submission to
constructed accident in Jane Dobson's Stained Picture; unconscious and
the corporeal in Gunvor Nelson's Moon's Pool; non-interventionist
process in "Dorothy Wiley's Cabbage; collision of illusionism & 2-D in
Caroline Savage's Voyeur; absurdity of the infinite in Freude
[Bartlett]'s Folly; uneasy meditation on the nature of perception in
Stephanie Beroes' Valley Fever; and painterly animation in Barbara
Hammer's Our Trip. Revisit or discover anew these radical films by some
of the women who made the Bay Area scintillate in the '70s. (Janis
Crystal Lipzin)
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010
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11/4
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St
CIVIL STATUS: FILMS BY ALINA RUDNITSKAYA
Alina Rudnitskaya in person! Often absurd and occasionally
shattering, Alina Rudnitskaya's documentaries are tragicomic field notes
on the bracing cultural and political changes of "New Russia." Produced
largely through the storied St. Petersburg Documentary Studio, her films
examine the day-to-day lives of her fellow citizens while illuminating
their aspirations for and fantasies about the future. This evening, in a
rare U.S. appearance, Rudnitskaya presents three films from her
award-winning body of work. In Bitch Academy (2008), she follows a group
of women who go back to school to become "strong women" by learning to
seduce millionaire sugar daddies. Some revel in the school's provocative
hands-on lessons while others grimly choke back tears—only hinting at
the troubles they hope to escape—as they struggle to master this new
form of empowerment. In Civil Status (2005), Rudnitskaya observes the
everyday drama of work at the Civil Registry office, where the
ladies-only staff transforms the joy, fury, and grief of new brides,
divorcing husbands, and recent widows into bureaucratic procedure. And,
in Besame Mucho (2006) she sketches an intimate portrait of an amateur
choir in rural Tikhvin as they rehearse for group of Italian diplomats.
In Russian with English subtitles. Alina Rudnitskaya, 2005-08, Russia,
35mm and Beta SP video, ca. 90 min (plus discussion). ALINA
RUDNITSKAYA (1976, Zaozernyj, Russian Federation) is a director and
scriptwriter. She received a degree from the Academy of Aerospace
Engineering, St. Petersburg in 1997 and studied film directing at St.
Petersburg's University of Culture and Arts from 1997-2001. Her short
films, largely produced through the renowned St. Petersburg Documentary
Studio, have garnered over thirty international awards prizes and have
screened worldwide, including at the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany;
the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; International
Film Festival Vila do Conde, Portugal; Documentamadrid, Spain; the
London Film Festival, UK; Transmediale, Berlin, Germany; and Silverdocs,
Maryland, USA; among many others. She lives and works in St. Petersburg.
11/4
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
7PM, University of Southern California SCA 108, George Lucas Building 900 W. 34th Street
VIDEO OUT
Underground artists and entertainers from today's club and rave scene
talk about their creative roots, their tribulations and their dreams.
Hear tales of the 'Homeboy Shopping Network' and flamethrowers in
illegal clubs. Follow talented young pixel pushers who dream of moving
up to the world of fine art and big money. Their work plays throughout
as avant-garde video artists and clubland VJ's tell the story of live
video art over the last thirty years. Featuring a panel discussion with
directors Paul Vlachos and Meredith Finkelstein and local VJs James Cui
(VJ Fader) and Eric Medine (MkUltra)
11/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SARAH HALPERN PROGRAM
1. noun 2. noun 3. adjective 4. plural noun 5. adjective 6. plural noun
7. verb 8. noun 9. plural noun 10. verb 11. noun Sarah Halpern is a
(1)___________________-based
(2)__________________.(3)__________________(4)____________________will
develop through the interaction of multiple
(5)____________________(6)_________________. These new works in film and
video aim to (7)___________________the (8)___________________between
perception and reality. Forever tethered to structure but dreaming of
chaos, her work delicately flirts with spontaneity and the greater
(9)____________________of the imagination. Tonight's show will
(10)__________________your (11)__________________. With special guest
musician Matt Wellins.
11/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
6:00pm, McBean Theatre at the Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon (near Marina Boulevard)
AFTER DARK: FEAR
presented in collaboration with Exploratorium's After Dark Program,
[free with museum admission] ---- What are you afraid of? Is it things
that go bump in the night or a particular night something bumped? Death?
Spiders? Earthquakes? Experience life After Dark, a cutting edge evening
series exclusively for adults that mixes cocktails, conversation, and
playful, innovative science and art events. Not a theater, cabaret, or
gallery, After Dark contains aspects of all three. Tonight through film,
activities and exhibit experiences we will explore fear–the line between
it and anxiety, its effects on our brains and the manipulation of our
fears for good and ill. We'll explore the relationship between fear and
pleasure, phobias, fright, flight and what heightened stress of fear and
anxiety might be doing to our bodies and brains. After a night of Fear
at the Exploratorium you might have a different take on what you are
afraid of. (Melissa Alexander)
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010
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11/5
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy street
VISION/POWER/TECHNOLOGY: HARUN FAROCKI ON FILM AND VIDEO
Harun Farocki in person November 5, November 6 and November 15 for
screenings of film and video work, including INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE, AS
YOU SEE, IN COMPARISON, NOTHING VENTURED, I THOUGHT I WAS SEEING
CONVICTS and IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR.
11/5
Los Angeles, California: AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi
http://filmguide.afifest.com/tixSYS/2010/films/4707
6:45pm, Mann's Theatre 2, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
US PREMIERE - PIP CHODOROV FEATURE DOCUMENTARY "FREE RADICALS"
Filmmaker and film activist Pip Chodorov offers this affectionate
overview of some of the leading figures of 20th century experimental
film. Narrating in a personal and plainspoken manner ("I'd like you to
meet some of my friends and see their films"), Chodorov combines clips
and even films in their entirety with conversations with such luminaries
as Hans Richter, Robert Breer, Michael Snow, Peter Kubelka and Stan
Brakhage in his final recorded interview. The film, which takes its
title from Len Lye's direct animation classic, shows how avant-garde
filmmakers were often left in a no man's land between the art world and
the commercial film industry. It was up to visionaries like Jonas Mekas
and the organizations he founded — Film-Makers' Cooperative, Anthology
Film Archive — to help struggling filmmakers out. (At one point, Ken
Jacobs describes dumpster diving for food.) Warm and inspiring,
Chodorov's film is part essay and part loving tribute. —Doug Cummings -
- - See the trailer here: http://re-voir.com/pip/FreeRadTrailer.mp4
11/5
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Echo Park Film Center" 1200 N. Alvarado St.
LUMIA NIGHT: THE ROOTS OF LIVE VISUAL PERFORMANCE
An evening featuring: -"Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Story of Light
Art" (2007), the story of Thomas Wilfred vividly told through
photographs, personal letters as well as interviews with audience
members, acquaintances, and current practitioners of Lumia. The
documentary also includes interviews with prominent Wilfred collector
Eugene Epstein and touches upon other light-art pioneers, Mary Hallock
Greenewalt and Charles Dockum. With an introduction by directors Paul
Vlachos and Meredith Finkelstein -"Trip The Light Fantastic" (2010), a
new film by digital lumia artist George Stadnik -"The Work of Thomas
Wilfred," a presentation by eminent Lumia collectors/historians AJ &
Eugene Epstein $5
11/5
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, $6, 992 Valencia at 21st
PRAISE THE TUBE
Vintage and outsider religious programming from the backyards and cable
access stations of America. Praise the Tube, is part of a traveling
media archeology series, co-curated byFree Form Film Festival and Lost
Media Archive. Features: Spiritual Warfare and Satanism, Pokemon: the
Mystery of Pocket Monsters, Satan Bite the Dust, Are You the One? and
more…
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2010
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11/6
Glendale, CA: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Echo Park Film Center Annex" Atwater Village
PERFORMANCES!
An evening featuring innovative and internationally recognized A/V sets
from Los Angeles VJ artists: VJ Fader, MkUltra and more
11/6
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: RICK BAHTO
Rick Bahto is an artist currently living in Los Angeles working
primarily with Super and regular 8mm film, as well as sound and
performance. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, where
he studied with Janis Crystal Lipzin and Charles Boone, among others.
His works have been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, Chicago Filmmakers, Los Angeles
Filmforum, The 8 Fest (Toronto), among other venues, and has created
several collaborative performance pieces with composer/performer Luciano
Chessa. His work is influenced by both structural filmmaking and the New
York School, and frequently incorporates both indeterminate procedures
alongside/within pre-determined forms. For this presentation, he will
project a collection of Super 8 films, all previously unseen in New
York. He will also present the first public realization of his
open-ended performance work for Super 8 film and audio cassettes
entitled Some Places for Mark So and Madison Brookshire, which will
close the program.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE SOUND OF JAZZ/GET OUT OF THE CAR
Jack Smight THE SOUND OF JAZZ 1957, 58 minutes, video. One of the
high-points of American television, this 1957 broadcast, an episode in
CBS's SEVEN LIVELY ARTS series, brought performances by some of the most
gifted jazz musicians of the period into living rooms throughout the
country. Featuring appearances by jazz greats Count Basie, Lester Young,
Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell, Gerry
Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk, the emotional peak of the program is the
rendition of "Fine and Mellow", which represented the reunion of Billie
Holiday and her estranged long-time friend Lester Young, playing
together here for the final time. & Thom Andersen GET OUT OF THE CAR
2010, 34 minutes, 16mm. This new film by Thom Andersen, a follow-up to
his award-winning documentary LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, is a miniature
city symphony composed of advertising signs, building facades, fragments
of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural
landmarks. Taking its cue from the Richard Berry song whose title it
shares, the film's musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey
of popular music made in Los Angeles across the 20th century, with an
emphasis on 50s jazz/R&B and 90s corridos! & Thom Andersen & Malcolm
Brodwick --- ------- (1967, 11 minutes, 16mm) Also known as 'short line
long line' (for the verbally-inclined), this earlier film by Andersen is
one of the greatest of all experimental rock 'n' roll films – formally
rigorous, visually gorgeous, and rhythmically dynamic. Total running
time: ca. 105 minutes.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PARSON'S WIDOW
No English intertitles; English synopsis available, 1921, 78 minutes,
35mm Film Notes A lyrical, early Dreyer comedy. A young parson wins a
plum parish in 17th century Norway, but is obliged to marry the widow of
his deceased predecessor and pretend his attractive young fiancée is his
sister. The master's touch is evident in the close-ups of the pastor's
would-be rivals and parishioners and a slow pan presaging the 360-degree
views of VAMPYR.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
No English intertitles; English synopsis available, 1927-28, 98 minutes,
35mm Film Notes A work that exemplifies Dreyer's philosophy: simplicity
is the most complex idea of all. Although renowned for its spare acts,
lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's masterpiece
reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face (often existing
alone, filling up the frame) and a landscape of history as individual as
the lines on that face. Made in 1927-28, it continues to haunt the
cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the years go by.
11/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VAMPYR
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis
available, 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm Film Notes "Imagine that we are
sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a
corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken
on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are
physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are
as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR."
–Carl Dreyer
11/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
M. PRELINGER’S ANOTHER SCIENCE FICTION + ATOMIC SUBLIME +
With a visual trip through rocket history, Megan Shaw Prelinger, author
of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, presents a
slideshow about the past, and the future, of the technologies of design
and advertising that promised deliverance from the Cold War. Her
handsome volume (available at the show) represents the harvest from the
fertile image-bank that is her SoMA library. ALSO IN PERSON, Jesse
Lerner escapes from SoCal with the world premiere of his feature essay
film, Atomic Sublime. This rich compilation doc, on the ideological role
of the Abstract Expressionist movement constitutes a critically engaging
inquiry into the interface of art and politics in the McCarthy era. PLUS
jaw-dropping dollops of the nuclear mindset from Classifying Nuclear
Weapons, Operation Ivy, Fighting Fires After Atomic Attack, a CIA
filmstrip, and 3D atomic-test blasts!
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010
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11/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
MICHAEL SCROGGINS: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
On November 12-14, Filmforum and USC Visions & Voices will present the
symposium Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles
1945-1980 at USC. In the weeks leading up to it, Filmforum will host
evenings with long-time Los Angeles-based filmmakers in evenings of old
and new works. Michael Scroggins has been a pioneer in animation
performance and video art since the early 1970s, a member of the
legendary light show group Single Wing Turquoise Bird, and a teacher at
Cal Arts since the late 1970s. We're delighted to host him with a survey
of his work from the 1970s to a brand new world premiere!
11/7
Los Angeles, California: iotaCenter
http://www.iotaCenter.org
8PM, "Museum of Neon Art" 136 W. 4th St
VJ201: VISUAL WORKSHOP
Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) and iotaCenter will present a 5-hour
advanced VJing workshop for intermediate video artists to collaborate
and experiment with live visual music, content creation, software, &
equipment. For a hint of some LAVA work, watch VJ Fader's most recent
video: Electric Tears. http://www.iotacenter.org/news/events/lvp2010/
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM
Paul Sharits S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED 1968-70, 41
minutes, 16mm, color. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support
from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap
dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my
son Christopher." –P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive
scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The
film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really
recognized." –Michael Snow T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm)
Newly preserved print! Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on
soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala. "Merges violence with
purity." –P. Adams Sitney "Surrealist tour de force." –Parker Tyler
Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH
In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis available, 1943, 100
minutes, 35mm Film Notes "Carl Dreyer's art begins to unfold at the
point where most other directors give up. Witchcraft and martyrdom are
his themes – but his witches don't ride broomsticks, they ride the
erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a world that suggests a
dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." –Pauline Kael
11/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET
In Danish with no subtitles; English synopsis available, 1955, 132
minutes, 35mm Film Notes An existential morality essay by the master of
the long take, in which a man who believes he is Jesus Christ soon
begins to convince those around him. Based on the play by Kaj Munk,
ORDET is a meditation on faith and fanaticism.
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