[Frameworks] This week [September 11 - 19, 2010] in avant garde cinema
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 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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London Iranian Film Festival (London; Deadline: September 17, 2010)
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Rogue & AMC Big Break Movie Contest (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2010)
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Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival (Cambridge, UK; Deadline: November 27, 2010)
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Experimental Media Festival (Washignton; Deadline: September 13, 2010)
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13th San Francisco Independent Film Festival (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: October 09, 2010)
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Arteles Residency Program (Hameenkyro; Deadline: September 17, 2010)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA USA; Deadline: September 18, 2010)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Andrew Lampert: the Old World and This One, Too [September 11, Long Island City, NY]
* Elusive Landscape [September 11, Miami Beach, FL]
* Hitler: A Film From Germany [September 11, New York, New York]
* Sfmoma Presents <I>Mean Streets: Chip Lord, Lourdes Portillo, Konrad
Steiner, and Graham Connah</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Sfmoma Presents Gregory Pickup's <I>Pickup's Tricks</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Sfmoma Presents Ernie Gehr's <I>Cotton Candy</I> [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Grimonprez’ Double Take + Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y + [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* Stop & Go Rides Again [September 11, San Francisco, California]
* X-Tra Vol. 13 No. 1 Launch and Charles Ludlam Screening [September 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Astronome [September 12, New York, New York]
* Hitler: A Film From Germany [September 12, New York, New York]
* Astronome, A Night At the Opera By Henry Hills [September 12, New York]
* What Is Life Without the Living? [September 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Karl May [September 13, New York, New York]
* Ludwig [September 14, New York, New York]
* Hurricane Season [September 15, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage [September 15, New York, New York]
* Fear of Flying: Beauty and Power: Curated By Mike Hoolboom [September 17, Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada]
* Blissful Discretion: Curated By Solomon Nagler [September 18, Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada]
* Independence [September 18, New York, New York]
* Blows Against Bp! Prelinger's Lives of Energy + Yes Men + [September 18, San Francisco, California]
* The Broken Shape: Jennet Thomas In Person! [September 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the 2010 Festival of (In)Appropriation -
Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking [September 19, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
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9/11
Long Island City, NY: Greater New York Cinema
3pm, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
ANDREW LAMPERT: THE OLD WORLD AND THIS ONE, TOO
Today's show features a few groupings of all new works now seeing the
light of the screen. Herein is space and time, approached from numerous
angles, encompassing friends, colleagues, ancestors and unknowns. The
present doesn't pause, it moves faster with each blink. Are These Dance
Films?: BUFFON MOVEMENT ACADEMY (2010, 3.5 minutes, Super 8, music by
Louis T. Hardin) IRINA IN A GROOVE (2010, 6 minutes, Super 8) Caroline &
Madeline, Together: CAROLINE GOLUM AS 2010, 9 minutes, video Caroline
Golum auditions to play my great great great great great Aunt in late
1700s. Siberia. MADELINE QUINN IS 2010, 9 minutes, video Madeline Quinn
gets the role of a lifetime, Gunilla, a wicked Swedish warrior with
demented desires and a plan for domination. ETKA & RIFKA: TEENAGERS OF
THE OLD WORLD 2010, 12 minutes, 16mm on video Caroline and Madeline star
in this all-inclusive attempt to make a student film. MADELINE
VICTORIOUS 2010, 5.5 minutes, video Madeline elaborates upon the
circumstances surrounding her arrival in NYC, and much more. Portraits:
DECONGESTING LEILA 2010, 4 minutes, Super 8 Starring Leila Hekmat. For
adults only. PETERMICHELLEANGELAALAN 2010, 3.5 minutes, Super 8 Precious
moments set to music, made sappier. Destiny: DOUBLE TROUBLE 2010, approx
12 minutes, X2 Super 8 DOUBLE TROUBLE is the aptly named duo of Andrew
Lampert and Fern Silva. Today features the stereo-vision premiere of a
brand new double projection piece. Not much else to say. PLUS… another
incredible short film from the SEE series by Eugene Castle! AND… yet
more surprises! BUT WAIT…even better door prizes!
9/11
Miami Beach, FL: Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc.
http://elusivelandscape.blogspot.com
8PM - 10PM, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive
ELUSIVE LANDSCAPE
Elusive Landscape will be presented at five outdoor locations across
Miami from June to October 2010. This work consists of multiple
hand-crafted 16mm films depicting the forms and colors of natural
landscapes projected directly into the landscapes themselves. These
events will be free and open to the public. Artist Dinorah de Jesús
Rodriguez brings to this project over 30 years' experience in
hand-crafted 16mm filmmaking, as well as a history of moving image
installation, including several works which have included projections in
the outdoors. Unique soundscapes for each site will be provided by
composer and sound designer Ricardo Lastre. Following the five outdoor
installations, there will be an exhibition at Diaspora Vibe Gallery
showing the films projected onto screens as well as the filmstrips
themselves, encased in light boxes, and a video documenting the entire
process of creating and exhibiting this work.
9/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In English, German,
French, and Russian with English subtitles, 1977, 429 minutes, 35mm Film
Notes HITLER – EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND With Heinz Schubert, Harry Baer,
Hellmuth Lange, Andre Heller, Peter Kern, and Amalie Syberberg. "[O]ne
of the great works of art of the 20th century and one of the greatest
films ever made." –Susan Sontag, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The final, and
certainly most ambitious, film in Syberberg's trilogy is an epic
nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying
his mythic rise, and the effect he continues to wield over Germany. In a
series of twenty-two tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use
of puppets, props, a thundering Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen
projection to evoke the origins of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany, and
the disturbing aftermath.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
3 p.m., 4 Star Theatre, 2200 Clement Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS MEAN STREETS: CHIP LORD, LOURDES PORTILLO, KONRAD
STEINER, AND GRAHAM CONNAH
In this shorts program, we feature works whose protagonists race and
toggle through San Francisco's real and imagined streets. Lord's Movie
Map runs iconic car chases in Bullitt and Vertigo against each other.
Portillo's My McQueen tracks the influence that Bullitt star Steve
McQueen exerts on San Francisco's multiple identities, while Lord's
Awakening from the Twentieth Century wonders if the virtual is edging
out the actual spaces captured in these films. An excerpt of Steiner and
Connah's collaboration, Overdoing the Movies, features a mashup of chase
scenes excerpted from The Conversation, What's Up Doc, and seven other
films set in San Francisco, accompanied by a live performance of
Connah's original score. Presented in conjunction with Cinema City Out
There.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
6 p.m., Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS GREGORY PICKUP'S PICKUP'S TRICKS
Profiling Hibiscus, the splendidly sequined founder of the legendary
Cockettes, filmmaker Pickup saw his Grove Street loft transformed into
"a glitter factory" for a very San Franciscan series of revels. The film
captures Pickup's home remade as a cabaret for Hibiscus's free theater
group, the Angels of Light, and even Allen Ginsberg arrives to perform
Blake poems in drag.
9/11
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
Noon, Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa Street
SFMOMA PRESENTS ERNIE GEHR'S COTTON CANDY
Critic J. Hoberman has described Gehr's celebrated body of avant-garde
film work as "a tale of three cities": Berlin, his parents' home; New
York, where he became known for his structuralist films in the late
1960s; and San Francisco, where he lived and taught from the late 1980s
to the mid-2000s. Cotton Candy visits San Francisco's beloved Musee
Mecanique before its move from the Cliff House to Fisherman's Wharf;
relishing the proto-cinematic devices there, Gehr recaptures the dream
of cinema before it found its big screen. Gehr introduces the film and
joins us for a post-screening discussion. Presented in conjunction with
Cinema City Out There.
9/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
GRIMONPREZ’ DOUBLE TAKE + DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y +
In its Bay Area theatrical premiere, acclaimed Belgian director Johan
Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor
unwittingly caught up in a "double take" on the Cold War period,
targeting the global rise of "fear-as-commodity." Subverting a marvelous
array of TV footage, Grimonprez traces Catastrophe Culture's relentless
assault on the home, from the inception of televised images to our
present-day zapping neurosis. PLUS: Grimonprez' first feature, dial
H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, a Don DeLillo-penned freefall through history in which
archival footage of jet hijackings is collaged with surreal '70s
ephemera, banal disco riffs, and David Shea's superb remixed soundtrack.
*Doors at 7:30 for season-opening champagne reception; showtime is 8pm.
9/11
San Francisco, California: Intersection for the Arts
http://www.stopandgoshow.com
4pm, 7pm, 9pm, 446 Valencia 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.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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9/12
Los Angeles, California: X-TRA Art Quarterly
x-traonline.org
6pm-9pm, 2692 S La Cienega
X-TRA VOL. 13 NO. 1 LAUNCH AND CHARLES LUDLAM SCREENING
Bradford Nordeen, who reviewed the 'Lost films of Charles Ludlam' for
the volume, will screen Ludlam's Museum of Wax and will exhibit an
"ambient" screening - the west coast premiere - of the recently
re-discovered Gooseflesh. Zoe Crosher contributed the Artist Project to
the issue, and has a billboard project with LAXART, part of LAXART
Public Initiatives, on view on the same block as Mandrake. She will
present some of her source material from both projects, in collaboration
with curator Jenée Misraje.
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30, 2nd Ave & 2nd Street
ASTRONOME
Director Henry Hills presents his new video ASTRONOME - A NIGHT AT THE
OPERA in celebration of its recent release on DVD by Tzadik
(http://www.tzadik.com/). A full length HD translation of last years
collaboration between John Zorn and Richard Foreman, ASTRONOME was shot
in performance over six nights with multiple cameras at the
Ontolgical-Hysteric Theater and presents the entire event. This will be
a rare opportunity to see the piece full screen and in high-resolution.
It will be preceded by Hills' recent film, FAILED STATES. "This is the
greatest resource available to see the set-piece details of Foreman's
theater: concrete particulars woven together with dazzling precision."
--Charles Bernstein
9/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY
HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg In English, German,
French, and Russian with English subtitles, 1977, 429 minutes, 35mm Film
Notes HITLER – EIN FILM AUS DEUTSCHLAND With Heinz Schubert, Harry Baer,
Hellmuth Lange, Andre Heller, Peter Kern, and Amalie Syberberg. "[O]ne
of the great works of art of the 20th century and one of the greatest
films ever made." –Susan Sontag, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The final, and
certainly most ambitious, film in Syberberg's trilogy is an epic
nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying
his mythic rise, and the effect he continues to wield over Germany. In a
series of twenty-two tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use
of puppets, props, a thundering Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen
projection to evoke the origins of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany, and
the disturbing aftermath.
9/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA BY HENRY HILLS
SPECIAL PREMIERE SCREENING! Henry Hills returns to Anthology for the
premiere of his latest video, a feature-length documentation of the
wonderfully unruly ASTRONOME, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, a collaborative
production by playwright/director Richard Foreman and composer John
Zorn. Staged at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in Spring 2009,
ASTRONOME was, to say the least, a fast, furious flurry of syncopated
movement, metaphysical mayhem, and voluminous hardcore music. Shooting
with two cameras over the course of six performances, Hills has
concocted an amazingly assembled, precisely framed, and altogether
amusing video that most definitely stands as a work of its own. In
Hills's ASTRONOME the set, the props, the actors, and the music all meld
into a singular, fantastically fluid ensemble production. For those not
lucky enough to have seen the show live, you thankfully now have a lot
to catch up with…. Starring: Karl Allen, Benjamin Forster, Fulya Peker,
Eric Magnus, Morgan Von Prelle Pecelli, James Peterson, and Deborah
Wallace. Featuring music by John Zorn with Joey Baron, drums; Trevor
Dunn, bass; Mike Patton, voice. Soundtrack available on Tzadik Records.
With: FAILED STATES (2008, 10 minutes, 16mm) "[It] is a study of
spinning elements, rotation as gesture both mechanized and organic…but
above and beyond this, [it] is remarkable because, among its other
virtues, it combines multiple layers of avant-garde film history and
memory. The link to the fairground, naturally, asks us to think of
cinema as an 'attraction', a non-narrative mode that provokes the
senses." –Michael Sicinski Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
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9/13
Los Angeles, California: Mandrake
bradfordnordeen.com
8pm, 2692 S La Cienega
WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT THE LIVING?
Margot Kidder 2005, 13 min, videoA 1995, 60 min, B&W and Color Super8mm
(screened on DVD) This event is free and will be accompanied by a
publication of images, illustrations, an essay, and artist writings. The
program title misremembers the opening lyric to the theme to Imitation
of Life. The tune hauntingly floods Luther Price's 'A' (1995). Alongside
David Scheid's video, 'Margot Kidder' (2005), these works reconstruct
Hollywood from a space of queer fantasy, creating private narratives
from popular fiction. The event is curated by moving-image scholar
Bradford Nordeen. Named one of the top-20 living avant-garde filmmakers
in Film Comment's recent poling, Boston-based super-8 filmmaker Luther
Price has been frequently likened to Jack Smith, Karen Finley and
Matthew Barney for his raw, visceral cinema. In 'A' Price concocted the
most narrative tale of his 25-year career: a cyclical feature in which a
faded starlet (Edie) courts suitor after suitor and fades into an
alcoholic Lassie-laden haze. Price portrays the heroine as she spirals
deeper into destructive delusions, turning on her lovers like an
amped-up Jeanne Dielman. Edie is also a ghostly, childhood memory, based
on Price's mother and her obsessive viewing of woman's pictures. David
Scheid is a video artist and clinical counselor who works in out-patient
OCD clients. 'Margot Kidder' meticulously reconstructs 3 films from the
actress' golden period to illuminate Kidder's peculiar personal
narrative. Scheid infers that Kidder's infamous downfall was present all
along in these fragile performances. 'Margot Kidder' throws these clues
into plain view, presenting a dismaying decoding of these otherwise
commercial films. Like Price's work, the film also serves as an intimate
portrait of a homosexual fan's obsession with a female star. The
13-minute found-footage film is an alarming depiction of the filmmaker's
arousal, disdain, compassion and compulsion towards the eponymous
subject. "Roses and Red, Blood is Black…A is a relentlessly rancid
alcoholic and drug-induced journey through which Edie, a washed-up and
broken movie starlet finds herself alone and ugly with only glittering
memories of her silver past." Luther Price via Canyon Cinema
9/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KARL MAY
See notes for Sept. 10th, 7:30 pm.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
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9/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LUDWIG
See notes for Sept. 9th, 7:30 pm.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
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9/15
Brooklyn, New York: ISSUE Project Room
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/08/06/emerging-artists-commission-meredith-drum-presents-hurricane-season/
8:00 PM, ISSUE Project Room at the Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
HURRICANE SEASON
Hurricane Season is a night of experimental documentary film and video
shorts commemorating the recent history of the U.S. Gulf Coast — a
violent storm, an oil spill, two instances of government un-response and
other evidence of systems out of balance. A range of work made since
Hurricane Katrina will be presented, including pieces by Liza Johnson,
Pawel Wojtasik (courtesy Priska C. Juschka Fine Art), Ghen Zando-Dennis
and Taylor Dunne, and Helen Hill and Courtney Egan, plus Tony Oursler's
1982 Song of Oil and an excerpt from Robert Flaherty's 1948 Louisiana
Storm. The screening is programmed by Meredith Drum and Rachel Stevens
9/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE
by Stan Brakhage Film Notes All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4
minutes, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29 minutes, 16mm) THE MACHINE
OF EDEN (1970, 11 minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7
minutes, 16mm) DOOR (1971, 4 minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH
A VIEW (1971, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10
minutes, 16mm) THE RIDDLE OF LUMEN (1972, 14 minutes, 16mm) A selection
from some of Brakhage's most densely mysterious works. Total running
time: ca. 90 minutes.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
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9/17
Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada: Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery
http://www.strutsgallery.ca
7:30pm, Campbell Carriage Factory Museum: 19 Church St.
FEAR OF FLYING: BEAUTY AND POWER: CURATED BY MIKE HOOLBOOM
7:00pm Rides leave from Struts Gallery 7:30pm Reception 8:00pm
Presentation by Mike Hoolboom 8:30pm Screening of O'er the Land by
Deborah Stratman -----------------------------------------------------
Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland
----------------------------------------------------- Faucet Media Arts
Centre & Struts Gallery are pleased to present the final installment of
Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland -- the last
two in a series of four outdoor experimental film screenings in the
Tantramar marshes. These screenings provide an exciting opportunity to
see unique experimental film and video work outside of the institutional
walls of the gallery. This opens the project up to wider New Brunswick
audiences who might not normally cross the threshold of artist run
centres. It also removes the work from the realm of normal expectations
and places it into an environment where anything is possible. These
screenings also mark the launch of Sift; a new cultural broadsheet
devoted to critical writing, interviews, and images about contemporary
art. Each curator has been asked to write an essay about the films they
are presenting. The essays, along with interviews are printed in the
inaugural issues of Sift as well as published on our website. A major
component of the Sites for Seeing project is bringing these artists to
Sackville to engage with the local community. During their visit, they
will meet with local artists and residents at a reception before the
screening, as well as through individual studio visits the day after the
screening. Mike Hoolboom is an artist working in film and video, and the
author of three non-fiction books: Plague Years (1998), Fringe Film in
Canada (2000) and Practical Dreamers (2008) and one novel The Steve
Machine (2008). He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening
collective, and has worked as the artistic director of the Images
Festival and the experimental film co-ordinator at the CFMDC. Solomon
Nagler's films, installations, and curated shows have played across
Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Retrospectives of his work have
screened at Winnipeg Cinematheque, Excentris Cinema in Montreal and
Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris. Nagler is currently a
professor at NSCAD University in Halifax. On Friday, September 17, Mike
Hoolboom will be presenting a film by Deborah Stratman called O'er The
Land. On Saturday, September 18, Solomon Nagler will be presenting
Blissful Discrection which is a screening of experimental short films on
35mm. Essays by both programmers will soon be posted on our website at
www.strutsgallery.ca Sites for Seeing is made possible through the
support of a dissemination grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
For more information on this project, contact amanda at strutsgallery.ca or
phone 506-536-1211.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
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9/18
Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada: Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery
http://www.strutsgallery.ca
7:30pm, Campbell Carriage Factory Museum: 19 Church St.
BLISSFUL DISCRETION: CURATED BY SOLOMON NAGLER
7:00pm Rides leave from Struts Gallery, 7 Lorne St. 7:30pm Reception
8:00pm Presentation by Solomon Nagler 8:30pm Screening of experimental
short 35mm films -----------------------------------------------------
Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland
----------------------------------------------------- Faucet Media Arts
Centre & Struts Gallery are pleased to present the final installment of
Sites for Seeing: Out of the Cineplex and Into the Marshland -- the last
two in a series of four outdoor experimental film screenings in the
Tantramar marshes. These screenings provide an exciting opportunity to
see unique experimental film and video work outside of the institutional
walls of the gallery. This opens the project up to wider New Brunswick
audiences who might not normally cross the threshold of artist run
centres. It also removes the work from the realm of normal expectations
and places it into an environment where anything is possible. These
screenings also mark the launch of Sift; a new cultural broadsheet
devoted to critical writing, interviews, and images about contemporary
art. Each curator has been asked to write an essay about the films they
are presenting. The essays, along with interviews are printed in the
inaugural issues of Sift as well as published on our website. A major
component of the Sites for Seeing project is bringing these artists to
Sackville to engage with the local community. During their visit, they
will meet with local artists and residents at a reception before the
screening, as well as through individual studio visits the day after the
screening. Solomon Nagler's films, installations, and curated shows have
played across Canada, in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Retrospectives of
his work have screened at Winnipeg Cinematheque, Excentris Cinema in
Montreal and Festival De Le Cinéma Different in Paris. Nagler is
currently a professor at NSCAD University in Halifax.
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screening as a part of Blissful Discretion include: Long Shadows (Joshua
Bonetta) C:won Eyed Jail (Kelly Egan) Refraction Series (Chris Gehman)
Mamori (Karl Lemieux) Ville Marie (Alexandre Larose) Trees of Syntax,
Leaves of Axis (Diachi Saito) Fore-and-Aft (Sara MacLean) sea series #6
- Landfall at Métis-sur-Mer (John Price) and sea series #5 - Georgian
Bay : a survey of littoral recreation (John Price)
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Seeing is made possible through the support of a dissemination grant
from the Canada Council for the Arts. For more information on this
project, contact amanda at strutsgallery.ca or phone 506-536-1211.
9/18
New York, New York: MICROSCOPE GALLERY
http://www.microscopegallery.com
6-9pm, 4 Charles Place - Bushwick - Brooklyn NY 11221
INDEPENDENCE
MICROSCOPE GALLERY INAUGURAL EXHIBITION / SEPTEMBER 18TH – OCTOBER 18TH
/ Opening Reception: Sept 18th 6-9pm / Live performances at 6pm /
Featuring works by: Peggy Ahwesh, Michel Auder, Agnes Bolt, Martha
Colburn, Bradley Eros, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Glen Fogel, Takahiko
Iimura, Tom Jarmusch, Jonas Mekas, Anton Perich. MICROSCOPE Gallery
opens its doors in an old carburetor shop near Freedom Triangle in
Bushwick on September 18th. One of the few galleries in the world
dedicated to film, video, sound and other time-based art the MICROSCOPE
presents as its inaugural exhibition Indepedence, a group show of
emerging and established artists including several pioneers and heroes
of the New York underground. / Independent from theory, accepted
technique, prevailing politics, economic considerations, or even
equipment; working with film, video, or sound; and based in New York,
this describes the 11 very different artists in the show. It is the
spirit of innovation and uncompromising vision that we celebrate. The
artists, some of whom have been working for 2 and 3 generations, just do
what they do, year-after-year without concern for current trends or
schools of thought, and in spite of the inevitable obstacles that arise.
It is not surprising that each artist also works in other mediums
including sculpture, collage, print and performance. Independence offers
the rare chance to see the range of these artists works on display
side-by-side. / for further info: info at microscopegallery.com /
www.microscopegallery.com
9/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:00pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
BLOWS AGAINST BP! PRELINGER’S LIVES OF ENERGY + YES MEN +
Culled from his world-renowned archive, here's the US premiere of Rick
Prelinger's feature-length montage of promotional clips from the energy
industry, creating a striking commentary on our over-dependence on oil.
Rick's shtick is preceded by a bevy of pungent shorts on environmental
issues, including Bahrani/Herzog's Plastic Bag, Jorge Furtado's Isle of
Flowers, Kathleen Quillian's Wasteland, and Rob Ray's Canary in a Coal
Mine. PLUS an Edward James Olmos inquiry, an Edward "Monkey Wrenching"
Albee excerpt, and a Paper Tiger TV segment. AND, at 10:30: The return
of The Yes Men Fix the World, in which our intrepid pranksters intervene
in the money-grubbing activities of the oil and chemical moguls. *8pm
showtime; $6.66, to benefit the Int'l Bird Rescue Research Center
(spokesperson present).
9/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
8pm, 129 Spadina Ave. (down the lane) CineCycle
THE BROKEN SHAPE: JENNET THOMAS IN PERSON!
Jennet Thomas's work emerged from the anarchistic, experimental culture
of London's underground film and live art club scene in the 1990s, where
she was a co-founder of the Exploding Cinema Collective. It now screens
extensively in international film festivals and galleries. Her work
began as hybrid spoken word performance and projections for a live
audience, it now combines a variety of filmic languages, ranging from
soap opera to experimental and underground filmmaking, from sci-fi to
musicals. "I like to explore unexpected processes of sense-making. My
narratives are often fractured, absurdist – generated via dream-logic
and increasingly experimental methodologies, inspired by odd corners of
British culture, driven by the urge to tell." Program : Important Toy
(1997), 4 Ways He Tried to Tell You (1999), SHARONY! (2000), Because of
the War (2005), The Man Who Went Outside (2008), Return of the Black
Tower (2008) + Miranda July's Getting Stronger Every Day (2001).
"[Jennet] Thomas suggests the near-feasibility of the absurd by
expressing messages from alternative dimensions, bizarre social codes
and accounts of recent cultural history through everyday means… The
bizarre, Thomas seems to suggest, is a close relative of the ordinary."
– Sally O'Reilly
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
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9/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE 2010 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION -
CONTEMPORARY FOUND FOOTAGE FILMMAKING
At the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles
Admission for Filmforum screenings: $10 general, $6 students/seniors,
free for Filmforum members Advance ticket purchase available through
Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125278
Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, detournement,
or recycled cinema, the incorporation of previously shot materials into
new artworks is a practice that has generated novel juxtapositions of
elements which have produced new meanings and ideas that may not have
been intended by the original makers, that are, in other words
"inappropriate."
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