[Frameworks] This week [August 20 - 28, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [August 20 - 28, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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"Does Anyone Ever Really Quit?" by Bryan Konefsky
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Faux Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 31, 2011)
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EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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MisALT Screening Series: Glitch v. Scratch (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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Think Tic (London, England; Deadline: September 09, 2011)
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Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
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Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA USA; Deadline: September 23, 2011)
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Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2011)
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Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
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2.Intervideo Talent Award (Wiesbaden, Germany; Deadline: August 31, 2011)
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EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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MisALT Screening Series: Glitch v. Scratch (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 10, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Avant 11 [August 20, Karlstad, Sweden]
* Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [August 20, New York]
* Ken Jacobs 3d [August 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Ordet [August 21, New York]
* Recycled visions [August 21, Seattle, Washington]
* The Intimacy of Intervention - An Evening With Ken Jacobs [August 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Tommy (1975) [August 25, San Francisco, California]
* Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic [August 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [August 26, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [August 26, New York]
* New Films From Canyon Cinema [August 26, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 27, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 28, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [August 28, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011
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8/20
Karlstad, Sweden: Avant 11
http://film-i-varmland.regionvarmland.se/visning/evenemang-visning/avant/avant
9:30am-10:30pm, see website
AVANT 11
Works by Werner Nekes, Claes Soderquist, Inger Lise Hansen, Guy Sherwin,
Gunvor Nelson and Lynn Loo.
8/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1943, 100 minutes, 35mm, b&w (VREDENS DAG) "Carl Dreyer's
art begins to unfold at the point where most other directors give up.
Witchcraft and martyrdom are his themes – but his witches don't ride
broomsticks, they ride the erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a
world that suggests a dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." –Pauline
Kael
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2011
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8/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
2:00pm, the Downtown Independent Theater, 251 S. Main St
KEN JACOBS 3D
Los Angeles Filmforum and LA 3D Club Present Ken Jacobs in person!
Excerpts from Jacobs's 3D work will be shown and projected in both
anaglyph or 3D without spectacles. Selections will include excerpts from
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (1975), Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging
Noise (2005), Anaglyph Tom (2008) and more recent experimental work with
Elbow Dance, Space Flaws and From Berkeley to San Francisco (2010).
Rooftop reception following the event
8/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET
THE WORD / ORDET by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English
synopsis available), 1955, 132 minutes, 35mm, b&w An existential
morality essay by the master of the long take, in which a man who
believes he is Jesus Christ soon begins to convince those around him.
Based on the play by Kaj Munk, ORDET is a meditation on faith and
fanaticism.
8/21
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
4:30 PM, 1515 12th Ave.
RECYCLED VISIONS
Recycled Visions, a collection of short experimental films by Salise
Hughes will screen at Northwest Film Forum on August 21st at 4:30 PM.
Seattle filmmaker Salise Hughes is known for her special process of
digitally erasing and layering images from found footage. Her films have
been included in Seattle International Film Festival, International Film
Festival Rotterdam, L'Alernativa- Barcelona, as well as the galleries of
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Her film Tidal Wave won the Peter
Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film at the 2006 Ann Arbor
Film Festival, and Nothing to Fear but Nothing Itself won the Grand Prix
of the Press at the 2010 Festival des Cinémas Différents et
Expérimentaux de Paris. Recycled Visions is a collection of films made
between 2005- 2011. A shorter version of the program screened at NWFF in
October 2009. In 2010 she was awarded a CityArtist Project Grant from
Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs to extend the program. Earlier
versions of the program were funded by grants from 4Culture, Seattle
Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and Artist Trust. Screening is free or
by donation- donation split between filmmaker and NWFF.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011
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8/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue
THE INTIMACY OF INTERVENTION - AN EVENING WITH KEN JACOBS
Ken Jacobs continues his visit to Los Angeles as Los Angeles Filmforum
and Cinefamily present several of his classic films, and a conversation
moderated by his son, filmmaker Azazel Jacobs! Ken Jacobs is one of the
leading practitioners of film and video art in the world. Screening
curated by Mark Toscano.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011
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8/25
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
TOMMY (1975)
Ken Russell, 1975, 100 min., 35mm. Its conceit is familiar by now: a
deaf, dumb, and blind kid plays a mean pinball. Yet Russell's
phantasmagoric realization of The Who's rock opera album is wholly
unexpected. Ann-Margaret rolls around in baked beans (garnering an
Academy Award nomination); Elton John, as the reigning Pinball Wizard,
plays a piano built into a 10-foot tall pinball machine; and Tina Turner
gives an electrifying performance as the Acid Queen who tries to heal
Tommy with a double dose of sex and LSD. Part of SFMOMA's Opera on Film
Program. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission
(requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).
Does not include entry to The Steins Collect.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011
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8/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:30pm, piXel (+) freQuency, 931 E Pico Blvd. Ste. 202
INQUIRY TOWARDS THE PRACTICE OF SECULAR MAGIC
Ross Lipman, Marcy Saude, and more in person. Secular magic is the
alchemical act of transmuting everyday life into fiction, and vice
versa. The traveling, continually evolving Inquiry examines actions both
State-sanctioned and autonomous, and includes live cinema performances,
archival documents, films, artworks, and artifacts. EXPERIENCE AND
OBSERVE: strange objects, questionable events, and unknown histories in
a bewildering tapestry of transfigured reality! * - THIS IS A BYOS
event: Bring Your Own Seating!
8/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1946, 93 minutes,
35mm, b&w (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score
by Georges Auric. "[P]erhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed
fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday family life to the magic
of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm, with its Vermeer
simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in the Gustave Dore
extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. …Jean Marais is a
magnificent beast." –Pauline Kael
8/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes,
35mm, b&w (LE SANG D'UN POÈTE) "Adolescent angels wandering about, black
boxers with perfect bodies taking flight, school-children in capes
killing each other with snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and
the hallways of a furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." –Georges
Sadoul
8/26
San Francisco, California: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7pm, 145 Ninth Street
NEW FILMS FROM CANYON CINEMA
Celebrating Canyon Cinema's 50th Anniversary August – December 2011
Canyon Cinema, one of the world's premier experimental film distribution
centers is in the process of celebrating its 50th year anniversary.
Undoubtedly, Canyon Cinema has become synonymous with Bay Area
independent and experimental film. At present, Canyon Cinema has 320
members worldwide and distributes more than 3,200 films and hundreds of
DVDs. As we have act...ively grown over the past fifty years, Canyon has
chronicled the history of this unique genre. Join us this fall as we
celebrate our anniversary and remember our shared lineage with the Bay
Area experimental film scene through a series of screenings at the Ninth
Street Independent Film Center and a special program at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Special Support Provided by Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. August 26, 7pm: New Films from Canyon
Cinema 145 Ninth Street, Ninth Street Independent Film Center San
Francisco, CA 94103 $7 general; $5 students & seniors. Canyon Cinema
receives many 16mm films for rental each year. These works are either by
our current filmmaker members or from new filmmakers depositing films
for the first time at Canyon Cinema. Tonight's show is an example of
some of these works. Canyon Cinema also receives numerous DVDs for sale,
please check the Canyon Cinema website for all DVD titles and celluloid
prints for sale. Program: Scott Stark, "Speechless" Curt McDowell, "A
Visit to Indiana" Dominic Angerame, "The Soul of Things" Paul Clipson,
"Union" Robert Schaller, "Mountain Home" Timoleon Wilkins, "Drifter" &
Anna Geyer TBA
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011
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8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
See notes for Aug. 26, 9 pm.
8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
See notes for Aug. 26, 7 pm.
8/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes,
35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death
waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the
screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is
like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth
of immortality."
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2011
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8/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
See notes for Aug. 27, 8:30 pm.
8/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To
Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek
mythology – the god of the lyre, song and poetry – was Cocteau's
personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search
for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during
which the poet must experience many deaths."
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