[Frameworks] This week [April 30 - May 8, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [April 30 - May 8, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Dallas VideoFest (Dallas, Texas USA; Deadline: June 28, 2011)
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Mis ALT Screening Series, Screening#1: Monstrous Bodies (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 11, 2011)
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International Science and Film Festival (Marseilles (France); Deadline: May 20, 2011)
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INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: May 14, 2011)
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CologneOFF 2011 (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: May 01, 2011)
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Festival International Film Merveilleux (Paris FRANCE; Deadline: May 09, 2011)
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Festival of (In)appropriation 2011 (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2011)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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Leith Short Film Festival 2011 (United Kingdom; Deadline: May 16, 2011)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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Silver Salt Animation Festival (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Deadline: April 30, 2011)
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The Accolade Competition (La Jolla, Ca USA; Deadline: May 27, 2011)
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EYE AM: Women Behind The Lens (Troy; Deadline: May 01, 2011)
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13th ANNUAL ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL (harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: April 30, 2011)
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Open Call for ARTErra Artistic Residence in Portugal (Tondela - PORTUGAL; Deadline: May 13, 2011)
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Babel Fiche - a microfilm museum for future humans (Manchester, UK; Deadline: May 01, 2011)
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Cherry Kino (Leeds, UK; Deadline: May 16, 2011)
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Mis ALT Screening Series, Screening#1: Monstrous Bodies (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 11, 2011)
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INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: May 14, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Ivan & ivana, A Film By Jeff Silva [April 30, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Day Job, A Program of Short videos Organized By Ben Coonley [April 30, Brooklyn, New York]
* Visiting Filmmaker: Jay Rosenblatt [April 30, Columbus, Ohio]
* Essential Cinema: Flaming Creatures [April 30, New York]
* Film Show [April 30, Old Bridge]
* Sat. 4/30: Lucy Walker's Waste Land + [April 30, San Francisco, California]
* Ivan & ivana, A Film By Jeff Silva [May 1, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Presages, 16mm Films & video Organzied By Allison Somers [May 1, Brooklyn, New York]
* Specks of Existence: Hartmut Bitomsky's Dust [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Stranded In Canton By William Eggleston [May 3, Portland, Oregon]
* Pecker [May 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Stranded In Canton By William Eggleston [May 4, Portland, Oregon]
* Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: This Land Is Our Land Show [May 4, Providence, RI]
* Nervous Magic Lantern: An Evening With Ken and Flo Jacobs [May 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase [May 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Berks Area Film & video Show [May 5, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Extended Cinemas / After Dark / Exploratorium [May 5, San Francisco, California]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase [May 6, Los Angeles, California]
* "Alice In Wonderland" New Feature By James Fotopoulos, Artist In Person [May 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase [May 7, Los Angeles, California]
* The Urban Landscape In Cinematic Transformation [May 7, New York, New York]
* Sat. 5/7: the Essays and Arguments of James Hong [May 7, San Francisco, California]
* Fantastic Optosonic Projections: A Showcase of Sight & Sound [May 7, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011
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4/30
Boston, Massachusetts: Independent Film Festival of Boston
http://www.ivanandivana.com/
2:30PM, Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square Somerville, MA
IVAN & IVANA, A FILM BY JEFF SILVA
After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their
dreams for a normal life, they set out unex pectedly from the Balkans,
along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in
California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the
film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent
economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction
of the American immigrant experience.
https://www.facebook.com/ivanandivana
4/30
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
DAY JOB, A PROGRAM OF SHORT VIDEOS ORGANIZED BY BEN COONLEY
Participating Artists: Dianne Bellino, Jesse Cain, Ben Coonley, Jack
Curtis Dubowsky, Benj Gerdes, David Kay, Kent Lambert, Marie Losier &
others who have elected to remain anonymous "The concept of a "day job"
implies a kind of second-order activity. Though day jobs are financially
expedient, they are generally assumed to be unrelated to the artist's
raison d'être, making art. It may be embarrassing for an artist to admit
to having a day job; some believe that successful artists do not work
outside of the studio. But the waking hours and creative activities of
most artists are deeply impacted by the non-studio-based things they do
to make money. Day jobs may "wear us down" by sucking away precious time
and energy on mundane or common tasks. But they also introduce us to
problems, structures, routines, materials, skills, people and ideas (in
short, subject matter) that we simply wouldn't have access to if we
didn't have to work for a living. This is a program of films created
during, about, and for artists' day jobs. They include: remarkable films
made as part of a non-art paid activity; films that were directly
inspired by paid work activities; and films that were shot and/or edited
on the sly while the artist was getting paid to do something else."
--B.C. Artists include: Marie Losier (French Institute Film Programmer)
Kent Lambert (Medical Film Archivist) David Kay (Senior Encoder at a
Late 90s Internet Startup) XXXXXXX XXXXXXX (Artist Assistant)* XXX
XXXXXXX (Collectable Figurine Prototype Painter)* Benj Gerdes (Wedding
Videographer) XXXX XXXXX (Video-on-Demand Supervisor)* Jack Curtis
Dubowsky (Music Studio Technician) Ben Coonley (Instructional Practices
Videographer) Jesse Cain (Documentary Cinematographer) Dianne Bellino
(Oral Storyteller/Performer for Children) And others… Tickets $6;
reservations recommended at: info at microscopegallery.com J/M/Z
Myrtle/Broadway. L Trains - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
4/30
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 PM, 1871 N. High St.
VISITING FILMMAKER: JAY ROSENBLATT
Jay Rosenblatt introduces four more of his remarkable shorts. In
Rosenblatt's latest, The D Train, an elderly man reflects on his life.
(2011, 5 mins., video). Phantom Limb offers the director's meditation on
the loss of his brother as a child. (2005, 28 mins., video) Afraid So is
a short film about anxiety (2006, 3 mins, video). In The Darkness of
Day, the director creates a haunting rumination on suicide inspired by
the death of a friend 20 years ago. (2009, 26 mins., video)
4/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FLAMING CREATURES
SCOTCH TAPE 1962, 3 minutes, 16mm. Junkyard musical. & FLAMING CREATURES
1963, 45 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound. '[Smith] graced the anarchic
liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy
of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in
motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in
decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of
all previous filmmakers." –FILM CULTURE
4/30
Old Bridge: Old Bridge Filmmakers Showcase
April, 1 Old Bridge Plaza
FILM SHOW
An exhibition of short film and video work.To submit work contact Matt
Helme at dcinema2134 at yahoo.com .
4/30
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 4/30: LUCY WALKER’S WASTE LAND +
Walker's Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys
from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's
largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio
de Janiero. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" —or
self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. His collaboration with
these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of
themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the
catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. With a score by Moby,
this moving doc speaks to the transformative power of art and the
alchemy of the human spirit.
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SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2011
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5/1
Boston, Massachusetts: Independent Film Festival of Boston
http://www.ivanandivana.com/
8PM, Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square Somerville, MA
IVAN & IVANA, A FILM BY JEFF SILVA
After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their
dreams for a normal life, they set out unex pectedly from the Balkans,
along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in
California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the
film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent
economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction
of the American immigrant experience.
https://www.facebook.com/ivanandivana
5/1
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
PRESAGES, 16MM FILMS & VIDEO ORGANZIED BY ALLISON SOMERS
Tickets $6, reservations recommended at info at microscopegallery.com.
Films & videos by: Adam Putnam, Alex McQuilkin, Allison Somers, Jason
Martin, Katherine Bauer, Peter Clough, Ronnie Bass & Tommy Hartung. In
connection with her current exhibition Black & Blue, we invited Allison
Somers to screen her b&w 16mm films. She decided instead to put together
an ambitious program including works by 7 other artists. "While
previewing the works for this screening, I encountered what I believe to
be premonitions, conveyed via the materiality of the film or video. For
me, these artists use their material as a medium — through which
surfaces a secret knowledge of what is to come. But in these works, the
volume at which the message is shared is turned way down — to that of a
whisper. As contributing artist Katherine Bauer wrote about her work:
The material has written inside of it the urge to crystallize. I think
this can be said for all the works in this screening". – A S reclaimed
empire Adam Putnam, video, approx. 4 minutes, 2008-2010 I Wish I Was a
Beam of Light Alex McQuilkin, single channel video, 3 minutes, 2009
Rick's House Allison Somers, b/w 16mm film, silent, 3.5 minutes, 2010
Swimming Pool Allison Somers, b/w 16mm film, silent, 3.5 minutes, 2010
UFO EVIDENCE Reel 2 Jason Martin, color 16mm film, silent, 3 minutes,
2010 Crystallus: Phase one, Discontinuity Katherine Bauer, 16mm film,
silent, 6 min, 2009-ongoing Moon Peter Clough, miniDV, variable length,
2007 River Peter Clough, AVCHD video, (screening an excerpt from 27 min
work), sound, 2009 Terry Debris Ronnie Bass and Tommy Hartung, video, 5
minutes, 2005 Allison Somers: Black & Blue features gelatin silver
prints, cyanotype images, & video and is on view through May 8th.
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MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011
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5/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SPECKS OF EXISTENCE: HARTMUT BITOMSKY’S DUST
Through a web of interviews, poetic ruminations and cinematic
investigations, Hartmut Bitomsky's Dust (2007) serves as a
philosophical, factual and fanciful examination of the smallest objects
that can be perceived, particles that permeate every aspect of life. Of
the titular subject of this work Bitomsky notes, "Wherever we go, it has
already beaten us; wherever we turn it follows us. It is our past, our
present and our future… It gets inside us, we shed it… It nestles right
into the despair of its own existence." Known for his theoretical depth
and originality, Bitomsky has produced a major body of documentary essay
films and critical writing on cinema for 40 years, is an influential
teacher and served as the Dean of CalArts' School of Film/Video from
1993 to 2002. Dust and his earlier films have been shown at festivals
throughout the world. In person: Hartmut Bitomsky. Jack H. Skirball
Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
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TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011
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5/3
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30 pm, 2522 Southeast Clinton Street
STRANDED IN CANTON BY WILLIAM EGGLESTON
More than 30 years ago, America's greatest living photographer William
Eggleston shot 30 hours of video in and around Memphis, using a modified
Sony Porta-pak. It is an extraordinary and deeply personal vision of the
Memphis demimonde, filmed in the city's bars and streets. Come see this
rarely seen, recently revived work!
5/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www. berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
PECKER
Pecker (1998, 87 min.) by JOHN WATERS compared to the Divine era, might
be Waters 'light,' but it is nevertheless a film by one of America's
masters of comic cinema. "I can't do this film justice by description.
The devil is in the details, and he's everywhere in this film. The joy
of a Waters film is feeling naughty just for watching it. Pecker's
grandmother speaks with a plastic Virgin Mary doll and his sister calls
all gay men Mary. The film demonstrates for America what "tea-bagging"
is. Waters brilliantly skewers the pretensions of the New York art world
and culture, and uses real people from that world in the process. Not
only do you see Pecker's fawned over photos, but you see how he got
them, often posed. It was amazing to see (Martha) Plimpton, (Lili
)Taylor and (Christina) Ricci, three generations of sensitive "it"
girls, all acting together. The underused Plimpton, particularly, is
unhinged and smokes the other two. Waters can cast whomever he wants
now. I always guess which part Divine would play if alive, but here, he
could have played anybody other than Pecker. Imagine the
possibilities."- Film Threat
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011
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5/4
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
CalArts' School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four
special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film
Directing programs.Jack H. Skirball Series Free | Reservations
Encouraged
5/4
Portland, Oregon: Cinema Project
http://www.cinemaproject.org/
7:30 pm, 2522 Southeast Clinton Street
STRANDED IN CANTON BY WILLIAM EGGLESTON
More than 30 years ago, America's greatest living photographer William
Eggleston shot 30 hours of video in and around Memphis, using a modified
Sony Porta-pak. It is an extraordinary and deeply personal vision of the
Memphis demimonde, filmed in the city's bars and streets. Come see this
rarely seen, recently revived work!
5/4
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://magiclanterncinema.com/
9:30PM, Cable Car Cinema and Cafe, 204 S. Main St.
MAGIC LANTERN CINEMA PRESENTS: THIS LAND IS OUR LAND SHOW
Inspired by the heroic struggles across North Africa and the Middle East
as well as here in Wisconsin, Woody Guthrie's folk hymn, "This Land is
Our Land," has re-emerged as a theme song for a new working class
movement, one opposed to the attacks on public sector workers and cuts
to education and social services. Sung at protests in the 1960s and ever
since, Guthrie's song is purported to have been written to drown out
Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." Its continued relevance and
resonance is a testament to the power of music to bring people together
and to animate social movements. This show seeks to explore how songs of
protest reflect the history and politics of land, country, and
solidarity. Unlike national anthems, these sounds inspire a different
kind of feeling, one imbued with an internationalism, the sort that was
registered by the signs and chants in the Madison state house and Tahrir
Square. The three documentaries in this program offer different
approaches to how songs help us to picture ourselves and our world. Join
us for a cinematic exploration of the music that speaks to our needs,
our dignity, our power, and our desire for radical change.///Featuring:
Paul Hubbard, "Guthrie for Today," 2011, DVD, 5 minutes; Peter Miller,
"The Internationale," 2000, DVD, 30 minutes; Travis Wilkerson, "An
Injury to One," 2002, DVD, 52 minutes.///TRT: 87 minutes -- admission
$5.
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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011
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5/5
Chicago, Illinois: Film Studies Center
http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/
7:00pm, University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis, Cobb 307
NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN: AN EVENING WITH KEN AND FLO JACOBS
The most advanced cinema rises from the simplest technology, as the
Nervous Magic Lantern, an empty box with a single-element glass lens, a
light and spinning shutter interrupting the light, casts images that
conjure 3D illusions and other visual phenomena. Jacobs also will screen
and discuss recent digital works Capitalism: Child Labor (2006) and The
Green Wave (2011).
5/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
CalArts' School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four
special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film
Directing programs.Jack H. Skirball Series Free | Reservations
Encouraged
5/5
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www. berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW
Recent works in various media by film and video artists and students.
Makers will be present to introduce their work.
5/5
San Francisco, California: Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterdark/event.php?id=75
6-10pm, 3601 Lyon Street
EXTENDED CINEMAS / AFTER DARK / EXPLORATORIUM
Featuring Artists Miwa Matreyek, Caroline Brown and Bryan Lence, Nate
Boyce, Paul Clipson and Tashi Wada, and Tracey Snelling
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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011
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5/6
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
CalArts' School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four
special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film
Directing programs.Jack H. Skirball Series Free | Reservations
Encouraged
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SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2011
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5/7
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
"ALICE IN WONDERLAND" NEW FEATURE BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS, ARTIST IN PERSON
2010, high-definition video, color, sound stereo. 245 drawings. 99
minutes. Tickets $6. Reservations recommended at:
info at microscopegallery.com. We welcome James Fotopoulos to Microscope to
present his most recent feature, an adaptation of the 1886 musical
"Alice in Wonderland: A Dream Play for Children" by Henry Saville Clark
and Walter Slaughter. Fotopoulos' "Alice in Wonderland", inspired by a
2003 Lewis Carroll daguerreotype exhibit, propels the Clark/Slaughter
musical score into the 21st century digital age. Sculptures, drawings,
text, and original music are used to explore the late 19th century's
evolution of painting, literature, and theatre into early photography
and moving pictures. The piece probes the interplay of art and science
and in exploring these ideas certain lives and themes are touched upon –
the relationship between John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll, Ruskin's
theories on drawing, Thomas Eakins' painting and his use of photography,
the burgeoning of early cinema with Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules
Marey, the notions of the amateurism and professionalism in art and the
archetype of the condemned artist. The work is presented in two acts
remaining faithful to the musical's original construction based upon
Carroll's narratives. BIO: Fotopoulos' works has been shown
internationally at many festivals and sites including the International
Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Underground Film Festival, the
Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center the Andy Warhol Museum,
the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among others. Charles Place is a dead-end
street off Myrtle Ave, btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves. J/M/Z
Myrtle/Broadway. L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433.
5/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
7:00 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE
CalArts' School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four
special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by
students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film
Directing programs.Jack H. Skirball Series Free | Reservations
Encouraged
5/7
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7pm & 9pm, Millennium Film Workshop, 66 East 4th Street
THE URBAN LANDSCAPE IN CINEMATIC TRANSFORMATION
"The Urban Landscape in Cinematic
Transformation"_____________________________ STORYTELLING & LOCAL
HISTORY: An avant-garde film series interweaves three threads pertinent
to the East Village, Chinatown, and Lower East Side: the urban
landscape, subcultures that inhabit them, and changes over
time._____________________________ The Urban Landscape in Cinematic
Transformation will feature films that show the changing urban landscape
and the people who inhabit it, from the late 1950s to today. The FMC
will be collaborating with The Millennium Workshop on this special focus
showcase. The four programs will take place over two days, with one
program of shorts and one feature on each day. SHORTS will be shown
Saturday, May 7th, at 7 PM and Sunday, May 8th, at 2 PM , and the
FEATURES will screen Saturday, May 7th, at 9 PM and Sunday, May 8th, at
5 PM ._____________________________ Highlights of shorts program
Saturday, May 7th, 7PM: Ken Jacobs' Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days,
using innovative digital techniques to transform Mekas into 3D
motion;Coleen Fitzgibbons's L.E.S. (Lower East Side), a fable about a
parallel Manhattan and its mammon-worshiping inhabitants; and Peter
Cramer's Coney Island, a haunting study of a once-famous amusement
park._____________________________ Feature program Saturday, May 7th, 9
PM: filmgoers can view Rachel Amodeo's What About Me, the story of a
young homeless woman who is slowly deteriorating on the streets of the
Lower East Side, including footage of the homeless shanty-town that
existed in Tompkins Square Park from 1989 to
1990._____________________________ Highlights of shorts program Sunday,
May 8th, 2PM: Shirley Clarke's Bridges-Go-Round, a classic masterpiece
of undulating man-made urban constructions; Henry Hills's Money, a
meditation on the economic problems facing New York avant-garde artists;
and Donna Cameron's Broken Bridge, a collage of deconstructed hand-drawn
images of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, using Cameron's own patented
invention, paper emulsion._____________________________ Feature program
Sunday, May 8th, 5 PM: Phillip Hartman and Doris Kornish's filmic love
letter to the Lower East Side's pre-gentrification days, No Picnic,
features the diverse, off-beat, and often insane characters representing
the various subcultures that once defined the neighborhood. Look for an
early performance by Steve Buscemi as a dead
pimp._____________________________ These programs are produced in
collaboration with the New Museum as part of the Festival of Ideas for
the New City, a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving
scores of Downtown organizations working together to harness the power
of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore ideas
that will shape it. The Festival will include a three-day slate of
symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty
independent projects and public events.
5/7
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 5/7: THE ESSAYS AND ARGUMENTS OF JAMES HONG
The last of our long-lost Prodigal Sons, cine-essayist James Hong has
marched into ideological battles in China, Taiwan, Germany, and
recently, the Netherlands. Despite the distances, Mr. Hong has been
unceasingly churning out his idiosyncratic amalgam of history, ethos,
sarcasm, and rant, in an effort to critique and redress cultural
amnesia. He introduces at least five recent pieces, including End
Transmission, Submission to a Small World, A Peaceful Drowning, and The
Duck of Nature/The Duck of God. The evening is consummated with the new
closing chapter of his masterwork Lessons of the Blood. This 45-min.
section serves as a powerful platform for Hong's abiding obsession with
the Japanese atrocities in Nanking, China.
5/7
San Francisco, California: Space Gallery SF
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183803078332502
8pm-12am, 1141 Polk St
FANTASTIC OPTOSONIC PROJECTIONS: A SHOWCASE OF SIGHT & SOUND
Fantastic OptoSonic Projections is the first event of a series
celebrating cinema, music, live performance, and the ancient tradition
of "sitting around the fire" to experience each. The evening will be an
intimate storytelling environment where performer and audience exchange
inspiration with much room for improvisation and spontaneity. We present
a program of short films and musical performances intercut by good old
party time. Please join us and bring friends! Featuring Films by: Kadet
Kuhne, Wilfred Galila, Amy Harrison, Meghan O'Hara, and Paul Clipson.
Live Sound & Score by: The Family of Man, Kadet Kuhne, and A Low Cost
Affordable Heating Plan
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