[Frameworks] This week [December 18 - 26, 2010] in avant garde cinema

Sun Dec 19 02:57:31 CST 2010

This week [December 18 - 26, 2010] in avant garde cinema

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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Machina Mystica" by Aaron F. Ross
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=449.ann
"Opus Alchymicum" by Aaron F. Ross
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=450.ann
"Against Cinema" by Alberto Cabrera Bernal
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=451.ann
"DOG OF GOD " by John Ledbetter
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=452.ann
"Prelude" by Joeri Pruys
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=448.ann

JOB AVAILABLE:
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=6.ann

NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia; Deadline: February 14, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1251.ann
Studio 27 (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: January 26, 2011)
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Euganea Film Festival (Padua, Italy; Deadline: March 05, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1253.ann
Facade Window Project (Seattle, Washington, USA; Deadline: March 04, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1254.ann

DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium; Deadline: December 31, 2010)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1226.ann
Appropriation Alliance Critical Remix Festival (Fresno, CA, USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1230.ann
synthetic zero & S0NiK Fest (Bronx, NY, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1241.ann
Old Bridge Filmmakers Showcase (Old Bridge N.J. USA; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1242.ann
"Close To My Heart" in CologneOFF 2011 (online and offline festivals; Deadline: December 20, 2010)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1246.ann
Centrespace Gallery (Bristol, UK; Deadline: January 06, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1247.ann
znNexus Foundation for Today's art (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: December 27, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 *  Andy Warhol's Face & the Velvet Underground In Boston [December 18, Chicago, Illinois]
 *  Personal Cinema Series: Noe Kidder [December 18, New York, New York]
 *  Joseph Cornell Program 1 [December 18, New York, New York]
 *  Joseph Cornell Program 2 [December 18, New York, New York]
 *  New Experimental Works 	    [December 18, San Francisco, California]
 *  Robert On His Lunch Break - official Baltic Premiere  [December 21, Riga, Latvia]
 *  Red and White: Program 1 [December 23, San Francisco, California]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2010
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12/18
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)

 ANDY WARHOL'S FACE & THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON
  Andy Warhol's Face & The Velvet Underground in Boston *** Two New
  Preservations! *** Presented in Memory of Callie Angell *** Andy
  Warhol's filmography continues to produce unknown and barely-known films
  as films are slowly preserved and released. FACE is one of those
  barely-known titles – it was publicly shown but little seen before
  Warhol withdrew all of his films from distribution. Starring the
  magnetic Edie Sedgwick, who comes closest to being a muse for Warhol of
  all the Factory regulars, FACE is an extreme example of Warhol's
  interest in portraiture: the film is a nearly 70 minute extended
  "close-up" of Sedgwick as she performs a variety of mundane tasks,
  converses with an off-screen Chuck Wein, and just is herself. *** Also
  showing is another newly preserved film, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN
  BOSTON, featuring the band in concert. *** This program is presented in
  memory of Callie Angell (1948-2010). Angell was a film curator, writer,
  researcher, and project director. She worked at Anthology Film Archives
  and the Whitney Museum in New York City and for the past ten years was
  the director of the Andy Warhol Film Project, where she was preparing a
  two-volume catalog raisonée on Warhol's films (volume one, on the Screen
  Tests, was published in 2008; volume two was nearing completion). Angell
  has become the foremost expert on Warhol's films and was a tireless
  champion of his work. *** FACE (1965, 66 mins., 16mm, new preservation
  print) "Featuring two fixed-frame shots of Warhol's socialite superstar
  Edie Sedgwick, FACE (1965, USA, 66 min.) captures what the singer and
  poet Patti Smith described as Sedgwick's ability to radiate
  'intelligence, speed, and being connected with the moment.'" (MoMA) ***
  THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, 33 mins., 16mm, new preservation
  print) "THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, USA, 33 min.), which
  Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety
  of filmmaking techniques—sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning
  shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of
  light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off—that mirror the kinesthetic
  experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights,
  whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal
  use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound of The Velvet Underground."
  (MoMA) *** Admission: $7.00-10.00 sliding scale 

12/18
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, Admission $8/$6 for members, 66 East 4th Street

 PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: NOE KIDDER
  Noe Kidder was raised in Upstate New York and Kauai, Hawaii. She studied
  film with Tatsu Aoki at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her
  work is known for its unusual combinations of animation, puppetry,
  projection, and performance. The work of Maya Deren and Janie Geiser
  among others have inspired her.----PROGRAM---- MY FATHER WAS A GANGSTER
  (3 min. 2010) A stand in self-portrait. Total displacement and complete
  familiarity. Picture postcards flashing in the size of little stamps.
  The past of our city suffocates and puzzles. What is cheapest and
  easiest is me. --- HOLLYWOOD SONGBOOK (40 min. 2010) A film-music
  collaboration with Jessica Goldring, Darren Chase and Bill Solomon of
  EXILKABARETT. Song cycle by Hanns Eisler, poems by Bertolt Brecht,
  glorious B&W reversal plus X film and the fresh waters of Spring. ---
  HOLY BLOOD (40min, 2010) A long term project co-directed with Los
  Angeles artist Brian Getnick. The first narrative experiment. A small
  town theater, fragmented and self-imploding.

12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00, 32 2nd Ave. 

 JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
  Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20
  minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes, 16mm) THE
  MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY
  (1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes, 16mm)
  AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes, 16mm,
  photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) A
  LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL (1957, 3 minutes,
  16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images.
  ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S
  PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were
  directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy
  Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
  running time: ca. 100 minutes.

12/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15, 32 2nd Ave. 

 JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
  All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
  (ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
  1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
  minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
  STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
  SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
  LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
  16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
  Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
  archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. 

12/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS 	   
  Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
  personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
  exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
  person—are Deborah Stratman's It Will Die Out in the Mind, Roger Beebe's
  Beginnings, David Cox' Time Ghosts, Greg Zifcak's Life Forms, and Kelly
  Sears' The Body Besieged. PLUS recent pieces by Kerry Laitala, Richard
  Mitchell, Bryan Boyce, Martha Colburn, Molly Hankwitz, Salise Hughes,
  and others TBA. Come early for artists' reception, Laitala's peep-show
  installations, and the Dream Machine! 

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2010
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12/21
Riga, Latvia: 2ANNAS
http://www.2annas.lv/eng/132/
7:00PM, 9 Aristida Bri&#257;na Iela, Riga 1001, Latvia

 ROBERT ON HIS LUNCH BREAK - OFFICIAL BALTIC PREMIERE 
  Dave Andrae's 2010 experimental narrative Robert on his Lunch Break will
  see its official Baltic premiere in Riga, Latvia on December 21st, with
  a subsequent showing on the 27th. These screenings are in conjunction
  with the 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival, as a fun,
  out-of-competition warm-up for the main event in May. The first
  screening will take place at the lovely cafe Piens, with the second
  showing at the music club Nabaklab. Also included in the program are the
  following films, shown by 2ANNAS earlier this year and without a doubt
  worth seeing again: Gold Digger 2 by Inese V&#275;ri&#326;a, The
  Multitude is Feverish by Vika Kirchenbauer, Space Poodle by Inese
  V&#275;ri&#326;a, 2009 In 365 Seconds by Karl Larsson, The Human Body
  (Illustrated) by Sally Stevens, Eulogy by Ben Claremont, and Passing by
  Seong Jun Lee.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010
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12/23
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m., 151 Third Street

 RED AND WHITE: PROGRAM 1
  Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon), Albert Lamorisse, 1957, 34 min., 35mm
  Crin Blanc (White Mane), Albert Lamorisse, 1953, 40 min., 35mm The Red
  Balloon follows a lonely young boy, played by Lamorisse's son, as he
  explores Paris with a playful, seemingly sentient balloon. White Mane,
  set in a devastatingly beautiful Mediterranean landscape, is the story
  of another boy who befriends a wild horse as it evades the ranchers who
  would capture it. Modern fables of childhood innocence and freedom,
  these true family classics are as delightful for kids as they are deeply
  emotional for adults. Part of Red and White. $5 general; free for SFMOMA
  members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be
  picked up in the Haas Atrium). 

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