[Frameworks] This week [December 4 - 12, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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This week [December 4 - 12, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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"Prelude" by Joeri Pruys
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"Fertile Ground Corporate Slug" by Bryan Konefsky
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"Shoe Shine Cinema: Confusion Is Sexy" by Bryan Konefsky
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"Let Me Say This About That" by Bryan Konefsky
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"Vancouver" by Bryan Konefsky
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"Secession From The Broadcast: Gene Youngblood and the Communications Revolution" by Bryan Konefsky
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"Shot Film" by Alberto Cabrera Bernal
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""IOKA"" by Kyle S. Glowacky
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"Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000"
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: February 25, 2011)
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"Close To My Heart" in CologneOFF 2011 (online and offline festivals; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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Centrespace Gallery (Bristol, UK; Deadline: January 06, 2011)
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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Trafficked Identities at FLEFF 2011 (Ithaca, New York, USA; Deadline: March 15, 2011)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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The 33rd Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: December 12, 2010)
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Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
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RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
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Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium; Deadline: December 31, 2010)
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Appropriation Alliance Critical Remix Festival (Fresno, CA, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: December 17, 2010)
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European Media Art Festival (Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2010)
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Flatpack Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 10, 2010)
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Old Bridge Filmmakers Showcase (Old Bridge N.J. USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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"Close To My Heart" in CologneOFF 2011 (online and offline festivals; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
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Centrespace Gallery (Bristol, UK; Deadline: January 06, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Treat/Threat and Three Windows [December 4, Austin, TX]
* Benefit For the Film-Makers' Coop of New York [December 4, New York, New York]
* Stop & Go Rides Again [December 4, Oakland]
* Granato's D-Tour + Sonic Youth's Sleeping Nights Awake + [December 4, San Francisco, California]
* An Evening of Minimal and Abstract Sounds and Film [December 4, San Francisco, California]
* There's Something Else (Or Some Titles of Recent Spanish Experimental
Cinema) [December 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Eggeling & Cavalcanti Program [December 5, New York]
* Forbidden Planet (1956, 98 Min.) By Fred M. Wilcox [December 7, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 2010 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival [December 8, Fort Lauderdale, FL]
* 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival [December 8, Fort Lauderdale, FL]
* Lou Castel Program 1 [December 8, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 2 [December 8, New York]
* Andy Warhol's Face and the Velvet Undeground In Boston [December 8, San Francisco, California]
* Andrew Betzer Program [December 9, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 3 [December 9, New York]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [December 9, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Videosur iii: Experimental Shorts From Argentina, Chile, and Brazil [December 10, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 1 [December 10, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 4 [December 10, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: Joey Huertas [December 11, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Maya Deren Program [December 11, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 5 [December 11, New York]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 2 [December 11, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 1 [December 11, New York]
* Que Faire ? Art, Film, Politique / What Is To Be Done ? Art, Film,
Politics [December 11, Paris, France]
* Elise Baldwin + Vanessa O’Neill + Thomas Carnacki + [December 11, San Francisco, California]
* Filmforum Presents the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour: video Program
One [December 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 1 [December 12, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 6 [December 12, New York]
* Ted Nemeth/Mary Ellen Bute Program 2 [December 12, New York]
* Lou Castel Program 2 [December 12, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2010
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12/4
Austin, TX: Temporary Miracles
http://www.downtownaustinholidays.com/schedule.php
6-9pm, Congress Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets
TREAT/THREAT AND THREE WINDOWS
Artists Scott Stark and Barna Kantor present outdoor video installations
on Congress Avenue tonight as part of the Temporary Miracles holiday
"stroll" south of the Capitol Building. In "Treat/Threat," artist and
filmmaker Scott Stark projects parallel images of Christmas home movies
from the 1940s, 50s and 60s onto a screen in front of the cafe, edited
into a lively and playful mix that is both nostalgic and frenetic. In
"Three Windows," artist Barna Kantor transforms vacant building facades
with dynamic video projection of three windows into the past,
contemplating activities that the buildings used to have. Free, 6-9pm.
12/4
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8 pm, 66 East 4th Street
BENEFIT FOR THE FILM-MAKERS' COOP OF NEW YORK
The Millennium is pleased to present its annual, pre-Christmas benefit
screening and party to support this venerable and worthy cinema
institution. This program will feature recent films and videos deposited
in the Film-makers' Cooperative of New York. Since its founding in 1962,
the Coop has played a vital role in the development of a truly
independent, avant-garde cinema in the United States and abroad. It has
been a model for other organizations around the world. The Coop is open
to all film/video makers regardless of style, subject matter, geography.
Artists set the rental prices, write the descriptions for the catalog,
receive equal treatment in regards to publicity, and care and handling
of work. Come early, bring your friends, meet the makers, and see a wide
range of cutting edge films and videos. Refreshments will be served.
ADMISSION BY $15 CONTRIBUTION.
12/4
Oakland: Studio Quercus
http://www.stopandgoshow.com
8:00 pm, 385 26th Street
STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN
Screening stop-motion work by visual artists and filmmakers. Animations
by Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson, Kathy Aoki, Alessandra Ausenda,
Lizzie Black & Anna Maria Murphy, Paz de la Calzada & Michael Rauner,
Deborah Davidovits, Almut Determeyer, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks, Sarah
Klein, Evelien Lohbeck, Miwa Matreyek, Tucker Nichols, David O'Kane, Ara
Peterson, Mel Prest, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone & Sam Sharkey, Sjors
Vervoort, Andy Vogt, Scott Wolniak. Tickets: $10 Advance Sales:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/136652
12/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00pm, 10pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
GRANATO’S D-TOUR + SONIC YOUTH’S SLEEPING NIGHTS AWAKE +
As part of the ATA/Other Cinema annual benefit weekend, local lensman
Jim Granato (in person) generously shares his award-winning long-form,
shot by Christian Bruno, on personal survival in the rock 'n' roll
milieu. Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon is threatened with a
deteriorating kidney (his only one) right at the start of a national
tour. John Vanderslice, the Moore Brothers, and many other musicians
appear in this hometown tale of courage in the face of an inadequate
health-care system. CO-BILLED is Michael Albright's 79-min. Sleeping
Nights Awake, capturing Sonic Youth's July 4th Reno performance. The
band's Nevada visit was in fact documented by six high-school students,
affording a candid rockumentary much less pretentious than the typical
music-biz promo. PLUS: Rev. Douglas Katelus welcomes all at his cozy
piano bar, while Bill Daniel and Richard Kern garnish the Sonic survey.
*8pm showtime for the double feature; Sleeping Nights starts at 10pm.
$6–$10.
12/4
San Francisco, California: The Lab
http://www.thelab.org/events/474-joshuachurchillwithpaulclipson.html
8 pm, 2948 16th Street
AN EVENING OF MINIMAL AND ABSTRACT SOUNDS AND FILM
John Krausbauer and Agnes Szelag, Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada,
Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2010
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12/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE (OR SOME TITLES OF RECENT SPANISH EXPERIMENTAL
CINEMA)
Films that think, images that beat, sounds which play ping-pong. This
program represents an intense capsule reflecting diverse and exciting
talents in contemporary Spanish avant-garde cinema. Coming from
darkness, animation, found footage and the exploration of visual and
sonic textures describe the illness and cure of the individual in the
present, the opening of other spaces and dimensions, luminous new
landscapes, paranormal events. "They are already here. Or maybe they are
just in our imagination. One way or another, unexpected things happen…"
Curated by Garbiñe Ortega
12/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EGGELING & CAVALCANTI PROGRAM
Viking Eggeling SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE 1924, 8 minutes, 35mm, silent.
Alberto Cavalcanti RIEN QUE LES HEURES 1928, 52 minutes, 35mm, silent. A
"city symphony" interweaving documentary, experimental and narrative
elements that provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. Total
running time: ca. 65 minutes.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010
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12/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956, 98 MIN.) BY FRED M. WILCOX
A most delightful sci-fi classic: Shakespeare's "The Tempest
,"transported to outer-space, a touch of pop-Freud and lots of Hollywood
visual and audio (credited as "electronic tonalities") magic at its most
effective. With Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Robby the Robot.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010
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12/8
Fort Lauderdale, FL: 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival
www.shanechristianeason.com
7:30 PM, 10 South New River Drive East
2010 1:1 SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
For the third time in South Florida, Black Iron Film Artist Collective
and the original One Take Super 8 Event present the 2010 1:1 Super 8
Film Festival. Twenty independent filmmakers and artists from South
Florida will load their cameras to take part in this year's spectacle.
These 200 second "masterpieces" will truly display the diversity and
creativity from different independent filmmakers of South Florida.
DATE/TIME/LOCATION: Wednesday December 8, 2010. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
with screening at 7:30 p.m. in the Historic Maxwell Room, adjacent the
Downtowner Saloon, 10 South New River Drive East, Fort Lauderdale. Free
and open to the public! Cash donations accepted. For additional info
contact Shane Christian Eason, Festival Director:
1to1super8filmfestival at gmail.com or 954.762.5246.
12/8
Fort Lauderdale, FL: 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168821126475288
7:30 PM, The Maxwell Room, 10 South New River Drive East
1:1 SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL
THE 2010 1:1 SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL ONE REEL | ONE TAKE | ONE NIGHT FORT
LAUDERDALE, FL For the third time in South Florida, Black Iron Film
Artist Collective and the original One Take Super 8 Event present the
2010 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival. Twenty independent filmmakers and
artists from South Florida will load their cameras to take part in this
year's spectacle. These 200 second "masterpieces" will truly display the
diversity and creativity from different independent filmmakers of South
Florida. WHEN - Wednesday December 8, 2010 TIME - Doors open at 6:30
p.m. with screening at 7:30 p.m. WHERE - The Maxwell Room (Adjacent The
Downtowner Saloon) 10 South New River Drive East, Fort Lauderdale, FL
33301 (Downtown Fort Lauderdale) DIRECTIONS - Take Andrews Ave to SE 5th
St. and turn East, then left on SE 1st Ave. Both located on the South
side of the New River, East of the Andrews Avenue Bridge. Free and meter
parking is available behind The Maxwell Room/The Downtowner Saloon and
under the Andrews Avenue Bridge. COST - Free and open to the public! $5
suggested donation. INFORMATION & HISTORY The original One Take Super 8
Event was established in 2000 in Regina, Saskatchewan by filmmaker Alex
Rogalski (Toronto) as a way to help create more independent films by a
variety of artists, while giving the local community an opportunity to
view these films collectively. The concept of using super 8 cameras is
centered on the idea that super 8, often discarded to antiquity in this
digital age, is still the most affordable film gauge for independent
filmmakers. In recent years, more attention has been given to this film
format, as it once sat on the edge of extinction. Now its effects are
seen in major Hollywood films, as well as music videos and mainstream
television commercials. The One Take Super 8 Event is a distinct film
screening, in that none of the films are viewed before they are
screened. The filmmakers are not allowed to edit or preview their films
prior to the screening. What they shoot in-camera, is what is shown.
There is no physical cuts or splices allowed by the participants and
there is no opportunity to make changes. This concept leads to some
exciting and refreshing films, and a rare opportunity for public
viewing. The popularity of this noncompetitive festival has enabled it
to return each year with more filmmakers participating. Over 550 films
have been created, collected and distributed for the One Take Super 8
Event. The event has also expanded to a number of cities throughout
North America, the first being Montreal (2005) with the second city
being Metro Fort Lauderdale/Miami. This was also the first time the One
Take Super 8 Event left Canada for a jaunt south. The first Fort
Lauderdale/Miami show (2006) coordinated by filmmaker and FAU Film
Production Professor Shane Eason spawned 20 films, some new and some
programmed from previous shows. It had approximately 125 attend and held
an impressive festive atmosphere. Further, in 2009, a second festival
had 24 films produced and 150 people in attendance. The 2009 festival
also garnered a new, standalone, event title, The 1:1 Super 8 Film
Festival. Although a new festival was established, the manifesto and
concepts from the original would carry over. One cartridge! One take!
One night! This year marks the third 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival in sunny
South Florida and it's already a hot topic of discussion among artists
yearning for the sight and smell of super 8 film. So grab a camera, get
some celluloid, and shoot for the 2010 1:1 Super 8 Film Festival. For
additional information and questions contact Shane Eason at
1to1super8filmfestival at gmail.com or 954-762-5246. The 2010 1:1 Super 8
Film Festival acknowledges the following for their generous support:
Florida Atlantic University Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts &
Letters, Florida Atlantic University School of Communication and
Multimedia Studies, The Downtowner Saloon, The Maxwell Room, Black Iron
Film Artist Collective, The One Take Super 8 Event, PAC LAB INC &
Eastman Kodak Films.
12/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 1
Lou Castel JUST IN TIME 1998, 13 minutes, video. With Castel, Robert
Kramer, Nadine Naous, and Sarah Jalabert. Castel's first video, made
following an encounter with American independent filmmaker Robert Kramer
and realized with his help. It is perhaps a love story, fragments of
which are spread over four characters. A common café becomes a
conceptual space, which Castel uses as a set for his playful dismantling
of the rules of filmmaking. "Device: the window. Actor and director
cross off-screen and on-screen. It's the first time I direct, so I'm so
high and I feel the urge to run wherever and to split myself in two,
substituting the image with the invention. Concept: all ethnic culture
is against money. Story: none." –L.C. & Lou Castel PYRAMIDIAL 2005, 90
minutes, video. Not an experimental film, but a film that turns into an
experiment. The camera used as an instrument for the apprehension of
physical laws. Almost as if an apple has fallen on his head, a singular
light-refraction phenomenon makes Castel begin an independent
experiment, carried out with Cartesian accuracy. Total running time: ca.
105 minutes.
12/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 2
James June Schneider 1, 2, 3, WHITEOUT (aka THE END OF THE LIGHT AGE)
2007, 75 minutes, 35mm. In English and French with English subtitles.
With Castel and Karine Adrover. In a future present, an inventor who has
dedicated himself to the cause of a 'positive' darkness works to counter
the tide of a bright, diffuse, and technologically oriented time. As the
story develops, the film expands from the acted scenes into a lyrical
universe composed of filmed and found sound and image. & Gérard Courant
LOU CASTEL PAR GÉRARD COURANT 1981-86, 12 minutes, Super8mm-to-video,
silent. A compilation of three portraits of Castel by the filmmaker
Gérard Courant, who over the past three decades has created more than
2,000 short films featuring various artists and other figures, famous
and not-so-famous, as part of his vast CINÉMATON project (which, at 150
hours and counting, has been called the longest film ever created). This
compilation encompasses the films CINÉMATON NO. 129, CINÉMATON NO. 501,
and COUPLE NO. 10. & Stefano Canapa PROMENAUX 2000-01, 12 minutes, 16mm,
b&w. At first it's just a take on reality, a game of observation among
an anonymous crowd. Then it's a strange nightfall accompanied by words
from Rimbaud, with the search for new images becoming primordial. In the
morning we discover a fascinating reality, a space without limits,
fluctuating in a dream-like state. Critic and filmmaker Yann Beauvais
has written, "There is an elegance in its restraint, and an enchantment
with actions and behaviors that have no purpose beyond their presence."
Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
12/8
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
6:30pm, Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street
ANDY WARHOL'S FACE AND THE VELVET UNDEGROUND IN BOSTON
Cinematheque Benefit: 6:30pm*: Pre-screening reception 8:00pm**: Film
Screening and after party Join us for a special benefit event featuring
two very rare and recently preserved films by Andy Warhol–Face, starring
socialite superstar Edie Sedgwick, and The Velvet Underground in Boston,
a dazzling document of the band on tour in 1967. The evening begins with
a pre-screening reception, featuring music and drinks (courtesy of the
Ninkasi Brewing Company). Uncovered after forty years, the restored Face
is a remarkable contribution to Warhol's oeuvre of films. Warhol's
mastery of the close-up reveals and revels in Edie Sedgwick's uncanny
cinematic presence. The Velvet Underground in Boston, filmed during a
performance at the Boston Tea Party, is a rare and remarkable account of
the influential rock band. Utilizing a variety of camera techniques and
in-camera editing, Warhol captures the pulsating and dazzling energies
of the band and the time–a must see for Velvet Underground and Warhol
fans alike!
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2010
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12/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ANDREW BETZER PROGRAM
Andrew T. Betzer (b. 1974) resides in Jersey City and makes
approximately one short film a year. Most of his wonderfully titled and
strangely moving movies have a preoccupation with children left to their
own devices, broken patriarchs with loose parental morals, impossible
expectations, and the inevitable disappointments between children and
adults. His SMALL APARTMENT recently won the Grand Jury Award for best
narrative short at the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin,
Texas while other films have played various venues and festivals ranging
from the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, London Film Festival, AFI Film
Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival…and now Anthology Film Archives.
Betzer's work behind the camera actually extends to the laboratory,
where he personally undertakes most of the post-production and printing
work. A graduate of the University of Maryland film program, Betzer is a
true specialist in film restoration who works at New York's own Cineric
Inc. Our screening is rounded out by Betzer's own selection of "key
works" from his cinematic development. Tonight's show is Mr. Betzer's
self-declared "farewell celebration" to short filmmaking…for now. Expect
more from him, hopefully soon. DIET PINK LEMONADE (1999, 1 minute, 16mm,
b&w) A girl sells lemonade, a man wants to buy it, but something goes
terribly wrong. "A classic! It is the sort of simple, funny oddity that
today's DIY filmmaker might shoot with a phone-camera and upload to the
internet, and not think twice about it. But back when DIY filmmakers
still spent money and shot film, with sync-sound no less, [this] was a
daring production, especially for something so likely to leave many
audience members (at the time) scratching their heads." –Skizz Cyzyk,
musician/filmmaker IVAN RUNS SOME ERRANDS, RUNS AMOK (2004, 14 minutes,
35mm) Ivan, a stranger in a strange land, steals a car with a child in
the backseat. He fulfills his domestic urges and then disappears into
the night. SANS SUPERVISION (2006, 11 minutes, 35mm) A young couple
spend their summer days running away from their responsibilities, but
their responsibilities learn how to outrun them. SMALL APARTMENT (2008,
7.5 minutes, 35mm) A middle-aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law
explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space. "A father,
sharing an apartment with his son,…films his son having sex with his
girlfriend. After a brief, wordless lunch with the couple, they leave
and he masturbates to the tape. The film, despite what I just described,
is deeply funny and quite moving, shot by DP Sean Williams with some of
the low-fi immediacy he brought to Ronnie Bronstein's FROWNLAND."
–Brandon Harris, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE JOHN WAYNE HATED HORSES (2009, 10
minutes, 35mm) A father and his young son share a house, a yard, and
very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army
toys. Plus: Walerian Borowczyk THE TIDE / LA MARÊE (1974, 21 minutes,
35mm-to-video) The first part of Borowczyk's erotic, period-spanning
portmanteau film IMMORAL TALES, THE TIDE is set in the present day, and
concerns a student and his young female cousin who, stranded on a
secluded beach by the tide, get to know each other better than cousins
ought to. John Heyn & Jeff Krulik HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT (1986, 17
minutes, video) Heyn and Krulik's legendary piece of pop anthropology
observes the Judas Priest fan in its natural habitat – awaiting a
concert in a Maryland parking lot ca. 1986. Total running time: ca. 85
minutes.
12/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 3
Tonino De Bernardi SORRISI ASMATICI – FIORI DEL DESTINO 1997, 120
minutes, video. With Castel, Lucas Belvaux, Giulietta De Bernardi, and
Inês de Medeiros. Made by one of the masters of the Italian underground
movement, this film is the first in De Bernardi's ASTHMATIC SMILES
trilogy, and stars Castel in one of his most singular and committed
performances. In a fateful crossing of individual trajectories, men and
women of different origins, like sirens out of their natural element,
crawl into the streets of the civilized world only to become targets of
mockery. Besides brilliantly symbolizing the experience of alienation
within one's own society and the powerlessness of human communication,
this film offers a vision of history that does not exclude the
possibility of metamorphosis.
12/9
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works in various media by film and video artists from the region.
Makers will be present to introduce their work.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2010
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12/10
Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Art Boston
http://www.mfa.org/programs/film/videosur-iii-experimental-shorts-argentina-chile-and-brazil
8:00pm, 465 Huntington Avenue
VIDEOSUR III: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS FROM ARGENTINA, CHILE, AND BRAZIL
VideoSur III: Experimental Shorts from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil by
various artists (2010, approx 90 min.). Inspired by the spirit of
exchange in the Americas, DiscordiaFilms' VideoSur programs present
Latin American video art to US audiences. VideoSur III explores how
South American artists use digital media to communicate their experience
of urban environments. Whether working in their cities of origin, travel
destinations or temporary places residence, these artists comment on the
transitory and connective realities of Latin American communities. Fully
immersed in a globalized, visual culture, the videos highlight artists'
unique perspectives and creative approaches, often made necessary by a
lack of resources. Featuring work in animation, stop-motion and
video-performance, VideoSur III depicts vast cityscapes,
micro-perspectives of city life, and the rapid exchanges that result
from migration. Presented by DiscordiaFilms and the Ruth and Carl J.
Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership
with Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. VideoSur III is curated by Liz
Munsell of DiscordiaFilms and Mauricio Román of Espacio G
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 1
On Friday, this program will be introduced by Dudley Andrew, Professor
of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at Yale University, and on
Sunday by a Yale faculty member or guest speaker TBD. Late Animated
Shorts by Mary Ellen Bute in collaboration with Ted Nemeth: MOOD
CONTRASTS (1956, 7 minutes, 35mm) IMAGINATION (1958, 3 minutes, 16mm)
GINGER ROGERS; EGGS; WHEELS; 12 ROCKS (1950s-60s, 11 minutes, 16mm) Four
short films produced at Ted Nemeth Studios are linked in this promo
reel, including a stop-action dance sequence with Perry Como and Ginger
Rogers, and three cute, smart, and fun children's pieces. PASSAGES FROM
FINNEGANS WAKE 1965, 92 minutes, 35mm. With a Matching Grant from the
NFPF, the Yale Film Study Center's fine-grain master has been restored
with subtitles at Colorlab. According to documents at Yale's Beinecke
Library, this was a 1970 re-edit for European distribution. Several of
the subtitle reels were missing and had to be carefully recreated from
the script. Beautifully restored image and sound! Total running time:
ca. 115 minutes.
12/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 4
Joanna Grudzinska and Lou Castel QUARZELL DIT CASTEL 2008, 75 minutes,
video. In front of a hotel, a 12-year-old girl arrives, holding in her
hand a tiny suitcase. A 60-year-old man opens the door and lets her in.
Hand-in-hand, they enter a huge salon, where the man looks at the garden
through the window and stares for a while at the leaves moving on the
trees, while the girl collapses on the sofa. Originally a 40-minute-long
video, it was later expanded to encompass a performance by Castel
addressing the topic of acting in politics, as well as excerpts from
some of the films he has appeared in throughout his career. It will here
be presented in its definitive 75-minute version. & Yuka Toyoshima
LAVRATUS PRODEO 2009, 26 minutes, video. During this intimate journey,
we are invited to listen to Castel's stories, to watch him painting in
his atelier, and to accompany him on a train while he poses constructive
questions concerning his work as an actor. The originality of
Toyoshima's 'portraits' lies in her way of framing her work and of
bringing her own sensitivity into them. Here, her camera doesn't bother
to stay so discreet. And indeed, with Castel – an expert at presenting
himself before the camera – discretion is not really the order of the
day. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2010
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12/11
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Admission $8 / $6 members, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: JOEY HUERTAS
Joey Huertas' films consist of personal revelatory confessions recorded
by unconventional means (surveillance equipment, microfilm, archives,
journals, and toys) and read much like the entries found in a hidden
personal diary. The films take many forms, including physical stories
arranged by peculiar/imagined biographies, collections of found
photographs, drawings and compositions from text journals. The filmmaker
is also a clinical social worker.------------PROGRAM: ...IN THE UPPER
ROOM (5 min.) "A film that uses propaganda techniques established by the
Institute of Propaganda Analysis to deliver a faux true-crime narrative
based on the terrifying reality of hate-group organizations." -J.H.---
GIRLSTORIES CASE-STUDY FILM TRILOGY: MISSING GREEN (10 min.), NICE
PEOPLE (26 min.) and HOMEWRECKA (32 min.) "Explicit in emotional subject
matter, the films reveal a diversity of problems adolecsent females have
in society when faced with misunderstood mental health issues. Clinical
depression, body image disorders and battered syndrome are study points
visited by the filmmaker."- J.H.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAYA DEREN PROGRAM
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by
Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959. AT LAND 1944, 15
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander
Hammid. A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA 1945, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
1946, 15 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with
Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and
Frank Westbrook. Total running time: ca. 50 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 5
Lou Castel CONVERGENCES 2005, 35 minutes, video. Throughout a single
day, apparently parallel actions lead us by accident to the same place,
time, image. The diagonally-divided screen slowly recomposes, the two
possible tracks of the same day lived by the same person (or perhaps
two?) finally converge as in a cul-de-sac. & Lou Castel REVOYANT 2005,
87 minutes, video. To re-watch: first of all, for yourself. Images from
the past, shot and left aside, all gathered on the same screen, the same
surface, each of them telling a different story. Is it possible to
rediscover them, to let them be part of your present again? This video
is one of the few examples of multi-screen cinema that lets the screens
'dialogue' with each other. Total running time: ca. 125 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 2
On Saturday, this program will be introduced by Michael Kerbel, Director
of the Yale University Film Study Center, and on Sunday by a Yale
faculty member or guest speaker TBD. THE BOY WHO SAW THROUGH (1956, 23
minutes, 35mm) Directed by legendary documentary filmmaker George Stoney
(ALL MY BABIES), this film was Bute's first endeavor producing live
action. Ted Nemeth was executive producer and director of photography.
Based on a short story and set in Victorian New York, the film stars
13-year-old Ronnie (Christopher) Walken. The film was restored at
Cineric Inc., with funding from a NFPF Basic Grant. TIME PIECE (1965, 9
minutes, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.) Jim Henson
runs, jumps, and flies in this Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Subject
film that uses most of Ted Nemeth's clever cinematography and special
effects. RAMA (1970, 16 minutes, 16mm. Print courtesy of the
Film-Makers' Cooperative.) A cinematic tone poem about a mythological
sea goddess. Special filters were developed by cinematographer Nemeth to
create the look of a watercolor painting. Sugar Cain stars and recites
her lyrical musings. OUT OF THE CRADLE, ENDLESSLY ROCKING: PASSAGES FROM
THE ODYSSEY OF WALT WHITMAN (1980-83, 15 minutes, 16mm) Principal
photography had been completed and completion funds were being sought at
the time of Bute's death in 1983. Never-before-seen, these excerpts are
presented as a fitting tribute to the filmmakers' collaborative legacy.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 8th, 7 PM.
12/11
Paris, France: le peuple qui manque
http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org
December 11-19, 2010, Centre Pompidou / Palais de Tokyo / Beaux-Arts de Paris/ Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers / Espace Khiasma
QUE FAIRE ? ART, FILM, POLITIQUE / WHAT IS TO BE DONE ? ART, FILM,
POLITICS
From the 11th to the 19th December 2010, the French curatorial platform
le peuple qui manque presents screenings and international symposium
about new critical and political strategies in contemporary art and more
specifically in artists films and videos.
http://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/quefaire
12/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
ELISE BALDWIN + VANESSA O’NEILL + THOMAS CARNACKI +
Let the dead speak! Programmed by Christine Metropoulos, the fifth
vignette in our Dead Media suite offers a night of innovation through
excavation, repurposing, and reanimation. We begin with a nod to
pre-cinema as Thomas Carnacki (Greg Scharpen and cohorts) intones its
miscellanea and machines amidst a shadow-puppet theater, to invoke a
decidedly visual symphony. We enter the realm of cinema, as
hand-processing maven Vanessa O'Neill re-registers the projection
experience with her multiple-16mm paean of layered and reworked film, to
live sound by Kent Long. And we extend beyond cinema, as Elise Baldwin
conjures a Chimera, from her series of turntable performances
incorporating miniature dioramas on vinyl, live video, sound, lighting,
and archival imagery. Arrive at 8pm for divinatory drink specials and
other delicious atrocities! $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010
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12/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 48TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR: VIDEO PROGRAM
ONE
Here's your chance to see the latest and greatest in independent short
film work from around the world, as we present highlights from the 48th
Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2010. Filmforum will host two shows of three,
this second night including works on video. This program presents
memorable and award-winning short films from artists around the world.
Included are stunning new works by established experimental makers Lewis
Klahr, Semiconductor and Inger Lise Hansen. Emerging Spanish maker Chema
Garcia Ibarra's narrative portrait reveals a story both funny and
tragic. Acclaimed animators Joanna Priestley and David O'Reilly's share
their latest, dynamic creations. Films by Stephen Wetzel, Duke &
Battersby and Kent Lambert offer provocative visions through sampling,
song and hybrid styles that defy classification.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 1
See notes for Dec. 10th, 7:30 PM.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 6
Lou Castel OUR TONGUES ARE MOVING 2001, 80 minutes, video. With Castel,
Carolina Contreras, Nadine Naous, and Christelle Mari. Around a table
outside a café three women and one man are sitting. The place is not a
set for a fiction, and the actors are not the characters of any story.
As in a cut-out space-time, the people's gestures, dialogues, and
intentions are subjected to a concern that completely destroys any
attempt to construct something, even the project of making a film. & Lou
Castel FIN? 2005, 40 minutes, video. With Castel, Fabienne Duszynski,
and Sahiri Quarzell. A domestic improvisation on the process of making a
video. "Through a plot and an editing made in the camera, this is a
first humorous approach to the act of appropriation of non-existent
images." –L.C. Total running time: ca. 125 minutes.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TED NEMETH/MARY ELLEN BUTE PROGRAM 2
See notes for Dec. 11, 7:30 PM.
12/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOU CASTEL PROGRAM 2
See notes for Dec. 8, 9:30 PM.
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