[Frameworks] This week [February 19 - 27, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [February 19 - 27, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Magmart | international videoart festival (Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2011)
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Trafficked Identities at FLEFF 2011 (Ithaca, New York, USA; Deadline: March 15, 2011)
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Euganea Film Festival (Padua, Italy; Deadline: March 05, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Eniaios: Cycle Five [February 19, Astoria, Queens, New York]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 19, Berlin, Germany]
* Beauty and the Beast; Histoire(S) Du CinéMa [February 19, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Stephanie Gray: Sig(H)Ns - Super 8 Films [February 19, Brooklyn, New York]
* 35mm-Marathon [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* For the Lovers [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* Augenlicht [February 19, Gainesville, Florida]
* Personal Cinema Series - Jeff Scher [February 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [February 19, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [February 19, New York]
* Rose Lowder Program [February 19, New York]
* Sat. 2/19: Kuchar's Secret of Wendel Samson + [February 19, San Francisco, California]
* The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge [February 20, Berlin, Germany]
* Wrap Up After Party and Awards Ceremony [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Here and there [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* People, For A Change, and Birds [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Look/Touch [February 20, Gainesville, Florida]
* Fred Worden: Illusions and Altercations [February 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 1 [February 20, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 2 [February 20, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Melies Program 3 [February 20, New York]
* Long Live Our Love [February 20, Seattle, Washington]
* Body and Mind: the Primordial Cinema of Fred Worden [February 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Early Monthly Segments #25 = James Broughton + Sidney Peterson [February 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* New Things By Rick Bahto and Mark So [February 22, Los Angeles, California]
* In Focus: the Humorous/Recent video Art From Israel, Japan and Mexico [February 22, Los Angeles, California]
* 30th Black Maria Film/Video Festival: John Columbus In Person [February 22, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Keeping Trace -- On Time and Film [February 23, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Andrea Geyer: Criminal Case [February 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* Open Screening [February 24, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Fog Tropes [February 24, San Francisco, California]
* Phantom Love [February 25, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Electromediascope [February 25, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Open Screening [February 25, New York, New York]
* Time Is Love.4 - [Show 2] International video Art Exhibition [February 26, Baltimore]
* Call & Response From the Coop - A Cinematic Exquisite Corpse For Two Film
Curators [February 26, Brooklyn, New York]
* Personal Cinema Series: Lewis Klahr [February 26, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Jennings/Kirsanoff/Leger & Murphy/Clair & Picabia
Program [February 26, New York]
* Sat. 2/26: Wiki-Rebels + Ellsberg + [February 26, San Francisco, California]
* Wasteland Utopias: Artist As Outsider Archivist [February 26, Tucson, AZ]
* Essential Cinema: Rapt [February 27, New York]
* Jem Cohen: Curious visions: Instrument [February 27, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011
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2/19
Astoria, Queens, New York: Museum of the Moving Image
www.movingimage.us
3:00 pm, 35 Avenue at 37 Street
ENIAIOS: CYCLE FIVE
Saturday, February 19, 3:00 p.m. ENIAIOS: CYCLE FIVE By Gregory
Markopoulos 263 mins. (4 hours, 23 mins.) Visionary filmmaker and
American expatriate Gregory Markopoulos (1928-1992) devoted his last
twenty years to Eniaios, an eighty-hour meditation on the essence of
cinema, embodied in an intricate fusion of Greek myth, portraiture, and
landscape. The film was designed to be shown only in its entirety during
special screenings of its twenty-two cycles, or "orders," in a carefully
chosen site outside the Peloponnesian village of Lyssaria. At the
current pace of restoration and preservation, with successive screenings
of individual cycles every few years, the entire film will not be seen
until 2028. Museum of the Moving Image will screen Eniaios: Cycle 5 on
Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. Prior to the screening will be
an hour-long panel discussion, at 1:00 p.m., with Robert Beavers, who
was Gregory Markopoulos's companion for nearly thirty years and who
directs the Temenos Association, devoted to the preservation and
presentation of Markopoulos's work. A panel of noted scholars, including
Rebekah Rutkoff, Dr. Jeffrey Stout, and Richard Suchenski, will discuss
Markopoulos's work. This 16mm projection copy of Eniaios: Cycle 5 was
made possible by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation,
with funding from The Film Foundation. The event is free with museum
admission. For your reference, an essay by P. Adams Sitney on
Markopoulos's Eniaios project can be found: here
2/19
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/19
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7pm, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; HISTOIRE(S) DU CINéMA
One of cinema's most enchanting and sensuous excursions into the realm
of poetic fantasy. To save her father, Belle agrees to live with the
hideous Beast, eventually transforming him with her love.
2/19
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick
STEPHANIE GRAY: SIG(H)NS - SUPER 8 FILMS
Bikes. Buildings. Poetry. Metallica... This is what the world is made
of, as it appears in this selection of short super8 films by Stephanie
Gray, an out-and-out modern bike heroine riding among urban decadence
and sighing, lamenting for the disappearance of brick-built pieces of
reality. Although poetry and metal music can partly relieve her, Poe's
cravens seem to keep storming over the city pronouncing their nevermore
at the funerals of empty buildings, houses, stores. Gray is able to zoom
in and rediscover the beauty of what is simple, the poetry inherent in
little things, and even a single bike ride to work can find its way to
happiness. Seeing through her eyes gives us the chance to practice this
very special, fertile, right - if ever rightness existed - perspective
on the world. -- andrea monti... "...we just never get used to it, the
higher and higher we fly and the easier it is to say, "TAKE THIS JOB AND
SHOVE IT", and soon we burst and it is very very lite, and we just get
used to the dark, but the reds, and the smokes and the steel and the
cries of "justice", of "fairness", of "it's the principle of the thing,
bud", it's like strangers, it's like fire." ... (from "School of Work",
by Stephanie Gray, published in "Heart Stoner Bingo", 2007)... ...The
program features 11 super 8 short films by Gray, all projected on film,
including the premiere of her fresh-from-print "Satanic Bible on
Interlibrary Loan". A few of them will be projected with live narration
by the artist. The evening includes works from 1999-2011 including
2010's "You know they want to disappear Hell's Kitchen as Clinton" as
well as display of a selection of film still prints.
2/19
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
1pm, THE HIPPODROME STATE THEATER
35MM-MARATHON
Horizontal Boundaries (23:00/35mm/2008/USA) Pat O'Neill; Trypps #7
(Badlands) (10:00/S16mm/2010/USA) Ben Russell; Trees of Syntax, Leaves
of Axis (10:00/35mm/2009/Japan-Canada) Daïchi Saïto; Desert 79
(19:06/35mm/2010/Norway) Anna Abrahams; Lumphini 2552 (3:00/35mm/Sep.
2009/Thailand) Tomonari Nishikawa; Strips (6:00/35mm/Jan. 2010/Canada)
Félix Dufour-Laperrière; Coming Attractions (25:00/35mm/2010/Austria)
Peter Tscherkassky
2/19
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
7pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
FOR THE LOVERS
Sweet Clover, A Homecoming (17:25/Super 8mm/May 2010/USA) Jen Heuson;
Nilda (8:14/Super 8mm/Mar. 2010/Philippines) Joy A. Aquino; Everytime
(10:31/Digital Video/2010/Netherlands) Boersen & Lukács; Der Spiegel
(4:55/Digital Video/2007/Isreal-Germany) Keren Cytter; Father Lover
Friend (7:55/HD Video/2010/USA) Lindsay Foster; Fantasy Suite
(7:17/Digital Video/Jul. 2009/USA) Kent Lambert; The Voyagers
(16:30/DV/Jun. 2010/USA) Penny Lane
2/19
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
9pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
AUGENLICHT
Varfix (8:23/HD/Jan. 2010/Japan) Kotaro Tanaka; ...These Blazing Starrs!
(14:27/16mm/2011/USA) Deborah Stratman; New Year Sun
(3:00/16mm/2010/USA) Sun Jonathan Schwartz; Day/Night (Devil's
Milhopper) (4:56/16mm/Apr. 2009/USA) Andres E. Arocha; Retrograde
Premonition (5:00/HD/2010/USA) Leighton Pierce; Light from the Mesa
(7:00/Super 8mm/2010/USA) Paul Clipson; Rayning (7:00/16mm/2010/USA)
Robert Todd; Head Garden (3:50/Digital Video/2009/USA) Lilli Carré;
Compressive/Percussive (18:00/Digital Video/2010/USA) Scott Stark
2/19
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8/$6, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES - JEFF SCHER
Jeff Scher is a New York-based filmmaker, who defines himself not as an
animator, but as a painter working in motion. He is fascinated by the
human mind's ability to create the illusion of movement from disparate
images. His montages are dizzying arrays of color, light, figures and
forms that flit about like unruly thoughts, tricking the eye and
revealing unexpected visual harmonies. Scher gave up his pre-med studies
for film while at Bard College in the mid-1970s. He still makes use of
rotoscoping, an old animation technique in which film frames are blown
up and traced individually onto animation cells. In Scher's case, he
painstakingly hand paints and shoots each frame, sometimes substituting
clay, paper models, or found materials for his paintings. --PROGRAM--
NYC (3 min.-1975/2007) Second version of film shot in 1975, rescored and
recut in 2007, L'EAU LIFE (3 min.-2007), THE SHADOW'S DREAM (3
min.-2009), NO TIME (3 min.-2007), SUMMER RETREAT (3 min.-2008), GRAND
CENTRAL (Short Version - 3 min.-1999), YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS (2
min.-2006), FLY BY NIGHT (3 min.-2007), THE PARADE (3 min.-2008), WHITE
OUT (3 min.-2007), YOU WON'T REMEMBER THIS EITHER (3 min.-2008), LOST
THOUGHTS (3 min.-2010) [PREMIERE], GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (3
min.-2010) Made with Paul Simon, EXPERIMENTS AND CLIPS (5
min.-2000-2010), PRETTY DEAD, A Faux Noir Faux Narrative (4 min.-2010).
THE FILMMAKER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE SCREENING.
2/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 1
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. VISUAL VARIATIONS ON
NOGUCHI (1955, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 minutes,
16mm) GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3
minutes, 16mm, score by Teiji Ito) BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5
minutes, 16mm) NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 minutes, 16mm, silent) MOOD
MONDRIAN (1961, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent) EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 4
minutes, 16mm, silent) ANDY WARHOL (1965, 22 minutes, 16mm) Marie Menken
represents the lyrical sensibility in the American avant-garde film. She
manages to get the maximum visual intensity from minimally photogenic
subjects. Her usage of single-frame and her poetic attitude and purity
had a strong influence on many filmmakers of the sixties. Total running
time: ca. 70 minutes.
2/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 2
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. WRESTLING (1964, 8
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) MOONPLAY (1962, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) DRIPS
IN STRIPS (1961, 3 minutes, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12
minutes, 16mm, silent) LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent)
SIDEWALKS (1966, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EXCURSION (1968, 5
minutes, 16mm) WATTS WITH EGGS? (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm, silent)
ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time:
ca. 70 minutes.
2/19
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROSE LOWDER PROGRAM
FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NYC PREMIERE OF NEW WORK! Anthology is delighted to
present a program of films by French experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder,
featuring several brand-new works which will be enjoying their NYC
premiere! Lowder has been a prolific practitioner of perceptual
experiments with 16mm film since the 1970s. She has composed more than
50 films, mostly in and around her home in the beautiful Avignon region
of France. Lowder's breathtaking and carefully composed films explore
landscape and cityscape using a unique single-frame structure. After
training as a painter and sculptor in artist studios and art schools in
Lima, Lowder worked in London as an artist while earning a living as a
film editor. Since 1977 she has been active as a film curator, as well
as a filmmaker. In order to make her body of work available to a wider
public, she compiled a collection of films and paper documents, The
Experimental Film Archive of Avignon (1981). In 1982, she co-founded the
experimental film distribution organization, Lightcone, which currently
circulates more than 3,500 films throughout Europe and the U.S. Lowder
is still active with Lightcone and regularly tours France and Europe as
a film curator. Lowder has not visited the U.S. since the late-80s, and
so we are overjoyed to welcome her back for this evening's program. "I
have shot many reels of film, and I build on my past experience, but
each reel covers new ground. To me, a project isn't interesting if I
know exactly what's going to happen. I could film a flowerpot, but that
would be cinematographically totally boring. I want the subject that I'm
filming to be living its own life." –Rose Lowder LES TOURNESOLS COLORÉS
/ COLORED SUNFLOWERS (1983, 3 minutes, 16mm, silent) QUIPROQUO (1992, 13
minutes, 16mm. Music by Katie O'Looney.) BOUQUETS 1-10 (1994-95, 11.5
minutes, 16mm, silent) JARDINS DU MARAIS / MARSH GARDENS (2010, 2.5
minutes, 16mm, silent) FLEUR DE SEL / SEA SALT FLOWER (2010, 32 minutes,
16mm. Music by François Alexis Degrenier) Total running time: ca. 65
minutes.
2/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 2/19: KUCHAR’S SECRET OF WENDEL SAMSON +
In the afterglow of Valentine's, the season opens with a celebration of
all things erotic. Headlining is Mike Kuchar (in person) with his '66
masterpiece, The Secret of Wendel Samson. Co-billed is the world
premiere of a three-part sex suite, Absinthe, by Jason Mitchell and
Stacey Ransom (in person). ALSO Ximena Cuevas' The Bed, Arlene Sanders'
The Mulberry Bush, Kronhausen's legendary PsychoMontage, and in person,
Kerry Laitala's Pin-Up in 3-D! PLUS Mike Olenick's Rabid, Julia
Ostertag's SexJunkie, Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez' XXX, Jean Painlevé's
Sex Life of an Octopus, and an ultra-rare found fragment of Jack Smith
and Gerard Malanga rolling around in bed! Come early to this inaugural
event for PornOrchestra music, free sangria and condoms, bouquets of
flowers, and Ms. Laitala's stereoscopic installations!
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011
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2/20
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
starting 6 pm, Meinblau, Pfefferberg, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin Mitte
THE 7TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE
This year's 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge has attracted an
outstanding number of international artists and filmmakers to come to
Berlin, to be personally present and to introduce their programme or
show their art. The media art festival, organized by Berlin artists,
will again present not just a selection of this year's best submissions,
but exhibit a large number of curated programmes on specific topics
selected by German and international guest curators. Directors Lounge
features three main programmes every day, together with live music
events, DJ's and a loop programme at the lounge bar. The lounge invites
for meetings and discussions, or just a cool chill-out. º*¨¨*º Directors
Lounge as an initiative of artists encompasses monthly screenings,
exhibitions and art events for several years now. And, the festival in
February that features a wide and international spectrum of experimental
works, documentary films and art works, mostly focussing on the short
form. This all happens in a relaxed ambience, in the mode of an open
house, a meeting-point during Berlinale and the idea of a lounge that
has become much more than an insider's tip in the Berlin art scene.
º*¨¨*º Beginning with Febr. 10th over the period of ten days, and
starting at 6 pm, Directors Lounge features a daily programme of
specials at Meinblau on Pfefferberg in Berlin-Mitte, the heart of
Berlin. Highlights include composer Michael Nyman, who will personally
present his film work; Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most important
exponents of French experimental film; the Collectif Jeune Cinéma;
Alexei Dmitriev (St. Petersburg), shooting star of the international
curator scene; Berlin gallerist Fridey Mickel; Kika Nicolela (Brazil);
Klaus W. Eisenlohrs "Urban Research"; the Zebra Poetry Film Festival and
films by artists of the Myriam Blundell Project (London), to name only a
few. Following a good old tradition of Directors Lounge's curators, the
program will be out just shortly before the start of the festival. Check
it out here: www.directorslounge.net º*¨¨*º º*¨¨*º Meinblau,
Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18 | Schönhauser Allee 176, U Senefelder
Platz, 10119 Berlin Mitte º*¨¨*º daily from 6 pm - open end º*¨¨*º
Opening Party: Thurs, 10th, 8 pm º*¨¨*º no admission fee for all
screenings
2/20
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
11pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
WRAP UP AFTER PARTY AND AWARDS CEREMONY
LIVE VJ PERFORMANCE BY AMANDA JUSTICE
2/20
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
4pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
HERE AND THERE
Scene 32 (5:00/16mm and HD to digital/2009/India-USA) Shambhavi Kaul;
Twin Propellers (3:00/Super 8mm, 2010/USA) Jason Halprin; 5 Lessons and
9 Questions About Chinatown (9:54/ HD/ Feb. 2010/USA) Shelly Silver;
Long for the City (9:10/Super 8mm/2008/USA) Jem Cohen; The Indian
Boundary Line (41:00/16mm, 8mm, Super 8mm/2010/USA) Thomas Comerford
2/20
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
7pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
PEOPLE, FOR A CHANGE, AND BIRDS
Mugs (4:00/Mini DV/2008/USA) Ronnie Cramer; Irma
(13:00/HDTV/2010/Mexico-USA) Charles Fairbanks; Villa 31 Buenos Aires
(5:00/DVC Pro/2010/Spain) Chus Dominique; Immokalee, My Home
(16:00/Super-8mm/Nov. 2009/USA) Kevin T. Allen & Jennifer L. Heuson;
AM/PM (9:00/16mm/2010/USA) Brigid McCaffrey; Avó (Muidumbe)
(10:49/DV-CAM/2009/Portugal) Raquel Schefer; Destination Finale
(9:15/8mm/2008/Germany) Philip Widmann; The Commoners (12:30/HDV/Jul.
2009/USA) Jessica Bardsley and Penny Lane
2/20
Gainesville, Florida: FLEX (Florida Experimental Film Festival)
flexfest.org
9pm, THE TOP SECRET SPACE
LOOK/TOUCH
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (3:38/16mm/2010/USA) Jodie Mack; Piel Canela
(3:30/16mm/2010/USA) Linda Scobie; Sutrapeze (5:30/HD/2010/Netherlands)
Pim Zwier; Esthesia (4:12/Video/Jun. 2010/USA) Kyle Sullivan; Flyscreen
(8:00/16mm/2010/Australia) Richard Tuohy; Way Fare
(6:30/DV/2009/Germany) Sylvia Schedelbauer; Horizon Line (1:00/HDV/USA)
Katherin McInnis; Trilogía Sin Título (12:00/Super
8/2008-2009/Argentina) Pablo Marín; Tokyo--Ebisu (5:00/16mm/Sep.
2010/Japan) Tomonari Nishikawa; How Should You Pick Up the Ball and
Throw It? (2:00/16mm/2009/USA) Zach Iannazzi; TUSSLEMUSCLE
(5:00/16mm/Nov. 2009/USA) Steve Cossman; Collide-O-Scope (3:24/Super
8mm/Jan. 2010/England) Naren Wilks; Special Offer Inside
(4:30/16mm/2010/USA) Jodie Mack; 28.IV.81 (Bedouin Sparks)
(2:49/16mm/Jan. 2009/USA) Christopher Harris
2/20
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA 90026
FRED WORDEN: ILLUSIONS AND ALTERCATIONS
Fred Worden in person! Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to welcome
one-time Angeleno Fred Worden for a program of eight film and digital
video shorts spanning the mid-'80s to the present day. Worden has been
making experimental film since the mid 1970s and has had his work shown
at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art, The Centre
Pompidou, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The
London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The
Toronto Film Festival, The Hong Kong International Film Festival and
numerous other experimental film venues. He is currently an Associate
Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC.
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 1
All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR /
L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE (1899, 1 minute, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON /
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 minutes, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN
NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 minutes, 35mm)
DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L'HUILE (1907, 5
minutes, 35mm) MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU
DIABLE (1906, 18 minutes, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects,
Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated
unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes.
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 2
The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. THE CASCADE OF
FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 minutes, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT /
UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 minutes, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA
FÉE CARABOSSE (1906, 13 minutes, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE
VOYAGE À TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 minutes, 35mm) Total running
time: ca. 50 minutes.
2/20
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MELIES PROGRAM 3
All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS /
ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE
PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT
(1903, 3 minutes, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA
MANCHE (1907, 25 minutes, 16mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN
OU LES MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 minutes, 16mm) THE DOCTOR'S
SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 minutes, 16mm) Total
running time: ca. 55 minutes.
2/20
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Ave (at Pike)
LONG LIVE OUR LOVE
Recent works by Michael Robinson, Ben Russell and Laida Lertxundi -
Director Laida Lextundi in attendance! A desert wind is blowing, a
bright light flickering out from far beyond that half-blue horizon. This
landscape is a skyscape, it is a rotating mirror, it is a stuttering
television image. You and I are there as well - we are jungled and we
are masked, we are lost but we are holding hands. We have song and bell
and bird for guides, and with you and you standing next to me, this is
certainly all we need: Long Live Our Love!
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011
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2/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30 pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
BODY AND MIND: THE PRIMORDIAL CINEMA OF FRED WORDEN
During the past twenty years New York-based Fred Worden has redefined
cinema with his film and digital works, creating concentrated and
transcendent experiences for both body and mind. Worden describes his
work as a "cinema of pure energy that bypasses the discursive mind and
goes right at the body, in through the eyes, pulsing, to jigger directly
the brain's electro-chemical neural flows, seedbed of every ingle
thought or feeling." In her essay The Cinema, Virgina Woolf asked, "Is
there… some secret language which we feel and see but never speak, and,
if so, could this be made visible to the eye?" Many filmmakers have
approached this question and few have succeeded so powerfully. Worden's
films have been shown at the Whitney Museum, MoMA, the Centre Pompidou,
Pacific Film Archive and dozens of film festivals throughout the world.
Films include The Or Cloud (2001), Here Amongst the Persuaded (2004),
1859 (2008), Possessed (2010), and others. In person: Fred Worden. Jack
H. Skirball Series $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
2/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel : 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #25 = JAMES BROUGHTON + SIDNEY PETERSON
"The connections may or may not be rational. In an intentionally
realistic work the question of rationality is not a consideration." –
Sidney Peterson Early Monthly Segments is excited to present three films
from the 1940s by West Coast artists James Broughton and Sidney
Peterson. Often called "the father of West Coast independent cinema,"
Broughton (1913-1999) considered himself a poet first and foremost, and
his films are recognized for their lyrical styles and for mixing poetry
with film. Peterson (1905-2000) was a sculptor, writer and painter. Both
artists taught at the San Francisco Art Institute (at that time the
California School of Fine Arts), where Peterson founded the first
filmmaking courses.Mother's Day opens with a startling image, a send-up
of the Pieta with a hapless man being cradled by a statue, one of a
multiplicity of strange "mothers" in the film. This anti-tribute to
Mother envisions Father as mostly a face in a frame, staring blankly,
and children as childlike adults, mindlessly playing hopscotch and
shooting squirt guns. Peterson describes The Potted Psalm as "Vertical
pans, rhythmic movements, fetishes, but more importantly, freedom, the
liberty to see what happens… A film that grows organically, without any
rational connections, always human… …Something that is perfectly
natural, but beyond anatomy." "In the neosurreal The Cage an artist
(played by two different actors) removes his eye in an attempt to stop
seeing conventionally…a deranged romp through SF that includes reverse
motion, anamorphic squeezing, inanimate objects that move & narrative
ruptures." – Fred Camper. "These images are meant to play not on our
rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within us." –
Sidney Peterson ----------------------------------- Programme: The
Potted Psalm, Sidney Peterson + James Broughton, 1946, 16mm, 25 min,
B&W, silent, USA The Cage, Sidney Peterson, 1947, 16mm, 25 minutes, B&W,
silent, USA Mother's Day, James Broughton, 1948, 16mm, 15 min, B&W, USA
------------------------------------ Early Monthly Segments is a monthly
film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired
by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film.
Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series
features historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like
setting at the Gladstone Art Bar. In this relaxed context with
refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a
convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue.
------------------------------------- EMS #26 = MONDAY 3/21 = SECOND
ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM!
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011
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2/22
Los Angeles, California: the wulf.
http://thewulf.org/
8:00 pm, 1026 south santa fe avenue #203
NEW THINGS BY RICK BAHTO AND MARK SO
Rick Bahto: Sparse Gardens (2010). Performance for 35 mm Kodachrome
slides and cassette tape. Two types of gardened spaces common in Phoenix
are compared visually and sonically: the fussily landscaped strips and
islands of parking lots and driveways, and vacant lots, bulldozed clear
of buildings or natural desert that have been re-inhabited by weeds or
rogue/remnant landscaping plants. Mark So: Girls on the Run (Other
dreams.) [readings 37] (2010) [Ashbery series]. Performed by Mark So,
Kate Brown, Tuni Chatterji, Dave Hughes, Rick Bahto, Pablo Valencia,
Julia Holter, Mari, Madison Brookshire, and Cat Lamb.
2/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
IN FOCUS: THE HUMOROUS/RECENT VIDEO ART FROM ISRAEL, JAPAN AND MEXICO
Exploring both differences and commonalities, this program places a
special emphasis on the humorous to reflect upon its lineage within
avant-garde circles and its particular importance to a younger
generation of contemporary artists, many of whom are responding to the
current state of political, economic and ecological upheaval through
levity. With approximately three short works from each region by
established and emerging artists alike, the program generates laughter
from situations more nuanced than vaudevillian, and often in the service
of larger thematic, political or formal concerns. A short discussion,
led by Paul Young, on humor in contemporary art practice follows the
screening. In person: Paul Young $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
2/22
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www. berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
30TH BLACK MARIA FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL: JOHN COLUMBUS IN PERSON
A juried national tour reflecting the imaginative work being done by
experimental and independent film & video makers today. JOHN COLUMBUS,
the festival's founder and director, will present a selection of
prizewinners representing a wide range of styles and genres from this
year's competition including Berks Director, Jerry Orr's "cowboy's
heifer (w)rap ,"winner of a Director's Choice prize this year.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011
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2/23
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
tiff.net
7:00pm , 350 King Street West
KEEPING TRACE -- ON TIME AND FILM
A trace is something that remains visible or tangible after the event
which initially caused it has passed. They are like pictures, or rather,
film prints: immaterial inscriptions on a material medium, suggesting
movement that, in turn, only exists within time, and of which film
literally preserves a trace. This selection of films marks the passing
of time itself. The experience of time in relation to changing light
conditions, evocations of feelings of solitude triggered by the vision
of seemingly abandoned, furnished interiors, experiments with the
layering of time, are central elements to the work. These traces of
human life are of surprising ambiguity, as they not only point back to
the past, but also towards a possible future. Curated by Marlene Rigler.
Born in Vienna, Marlene Rigler is a European curator and researcher
specializing in the fields of the visual arts. In 2009, she was
appointed the artistic director of a newly opened, interdisciplinary and
experimental art space called Platform3 in Munich, Germany. Pro Agri
dir. Nicky Hamlyn | Great Britain 2008 | 3 min. | 16mm Les Chaises dir.
Vincent Grenier | Canada 2008 | 8 min. | HD August Afternoons dir.
Deanna Morse | USA 1985 | 5 min. | 16mm She is Away dir. Bruce Elder |
Canada 1976 | 13 min. | 16mm Tamalpais dir. Chris Kennedy | Canada 2009
| 14 min. | 16mm Lacuna dir. Shannon Harris | Canada 2008 | 10 min. | DV
Transitions dir. Barbara Sternberg | Canada 1982 | 11 min. | 16mm
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011
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2/24
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / 312-846-2600)
ANDREA GEYER: CRIMINAL CASE
Andrea Geyer in person! In her striking, cerebral videos, installations,
and photographs, German-born, New York-based artist Andrea Geyer mixes
documentary and fiction to examine the ways historical narratives and
social spaces shift over time and within larger socio-political
contexts. Featured in tonight's program is Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb
(2009-10), which reenacts the 1961-62 trial of notorious Nazi criminal
Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Based on both court transcripts and Hannah
Arendt's book on the trial (Eichmann in Jerusalem: Report on the
Banality of Evil), Geyer's video abstracts the trial into six equally
distinct roles — Accused, Defense, Judge, Prosecution, Reporter, and
Audience — all performed by the same actor, artist (and SAIC alumnus) Wu
Ingrid Tsang. Together, these fractions explore the trial's lasting
relevance. Geyer, writes art historian Johanna Burton, "opens up whole
pockets of forgotten history and, in so doing, remobilizes calcified,
regulated understandings." 2009-10, Andrea Geyer, USA, HD Video, ca. 60
mins plus discussion.
2/24
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www. berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Albright College Center for the Arts
OPEN SCREENING
Bring your own films or video: all work will be screened.
2/24
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
FOG TROPES
An evening of film-work alongside live experimental sound pieces with:
Tashi Wada & Madison Brookshire / En & Paul Clipson / Radiant Husk &
Zach Iannazzi / Sean McCann
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
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2/25
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7pm, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St
PHANTOM LOVE
Nina Menkes' surreal psychodrama is a striking evocation of female
dreamscape in which violence and trauma are steadily percolating—a
triumph of visual intelligence and aesthetic integrity. DIRECTOR IN
PERSON!
2/25
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"InsideOut: Ndw Performance Videos." "Home 2," Olaf Breuning
(Switzerland), 2007, 30:12 min., digital video. "Only Just Begun,"
Jennet Thomas (UK), 2006, 5:00 min., video transferred to DVD. "Dark
Sequins," Amy Greenfield (USA), 2004, 13 min., 16mm film transferred to
digital video. "Light of the Body," Amy Greenfield (USA), 2004, 11:10
min., digital video. "Wildfire," Amy Greenfield (USA), 2002, 11:45 min.,
digital video. "A Vicious Undertow," Jesper Just (Denmark, Lives and
works in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York, New York), 2007, 10:00 min.,
Super 16mm film transferred to DVD. "No Man Is an Island II," Jesper
Just (Denmark, Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York, New
York), 2004, 4:00 min., DVCAM transferred to DVD. Program continued from
Feb. 11 and 18.
2/25
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
Doors open 7pm, screening begins at 8pm, 66 East 4th Street
OPEN SCREENING
DVD, Mini-DV, Videotape, 16MM, S8MM. All works are shown on a
first-come-first-served basis. Bring films, videos and/or come as a
viewer. (Finished works only, limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per
person). Refreshments will be available. Doors open at 7pm. Screening
begins at 8pm and ends at 10:30pm. Admission by contribution.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011
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2/26
Baltimore: Time is Love Screening
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
19:00, Hexagon Space
TIME IS LOVE.4 - [SHOW 2] INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART EXHIBITION
Time is Love.4 [show 2] International Video Art Exhibition curated by
Kisito Assangni Saturday February 26, 2011 HEXAGON SPACE 1825 North
Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 USA Featuring: Jennida Chase (USA) |
Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay/Italy) | Kokou Ekouagou (Togo/China) | Pauline
Horovitz (France) | Neil Howe (Australia) | Karen Landey (USA) | Lemeh42
(Italy) | Rachel Maclean (UK) | Adamo Macri (Canada) | Joas Nebe
(Germany) | Kika Nicolela (Brazil) | Alex Pearl (UK) | Antti Savela
(Sweden) | Guy Wouete (Cameroon) | Kisito Assangni (Togo/UK) 7pm:
Screening 8pm: Talk: Kisito Assangni with Shaina Craft, Coordinator of
Hexagon followed by a public discussion 9pm: Live soundtracks Time is
love Screening is an annual exhibition of projectable videos from an
international selection of artists active around the world. The
screening explicitly emphasizes the idea of love in these hard times and
socio-cultural interference, the way in which technology and society
give rise to new forms of artistic expression by using the new media.
The project aims to consider the work of these artists as part of the
global phenomenon that is contemporary art, and asks the audience to
reflect upon how the time that led to the production of these works was
formed. Conceptually diverse, emotionally incisive and visually
inventive, the selected works transform the most familiar video art into
an illuminating investigation of contemporary culture. Time is Love.4
brings to the world a refreshing perspective on video art.
http://timeisloveshow.blogspot.com
2/26
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30PM, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
CALL & RESPONSE FROM THE COOP - A CINEMATIC EXQUISITE CORPSE FOR TWO FILM
CURATORS
Kevin Duggan and Joel Schlemowitz, many years after first meeting at
Films Charas, co-curate a program of short films from the Film-Makers'
Cooperative. The program is selected in the manner of a chess game:
Kevin selects the first film, Joel chooses the next film in response,
and so on. An exquisite corpse for two film programmers! No curatorial
theme! Neither player knows what comes next! What connections will
emerge? How will it end? The opening gambit: Rudy Burckhardt's evocative
1959 portrait of the Lower East Side, "East Side Summer," reflects the
spirit of Films Charas, a L.E.S. neighborhood film program and
forerunner of today's DIY microcinemas. Founded by filmmakers and
activists Doris Kornish and Mathew Seig, and based in the El Bohio
Cultural Center, it flourished in the '80s and '90s showing films
ranging from political docs to Roger Corman B-movies to local East
Village filmmakers to indie features. A frequent guest at Charas,
Burckhardt also represents the Coop's mission of preserving and sharing
independent and avant-garde film. And so begins our program: what will
be the next move? About Kevin: Kevin is currently Senior Advancement
Officer at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC); in
addition to Films Charas, over the years he has worked for many
independent media and arts organizations. A visual artist exploring
natural history (www.kevinduggan.com), he also directed the film
"Paterson" (1989), an historical docu-fiction about that city's labor
history. About Joel: In the final year of Films Charas the duties of
projectionist were taken up by Joel Schlemowitz. Joel is an experimental
filmmaker whose work is available on DVD through microcinemadvd.com and
who teaches experimental filmmaking at The New School. Joel's films have
received awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Screening have
included the Tribeca Film Festival and New York Film Festival. For the
past three years he has curated the Cine Soiree film series. More
information about Joel at www.joelschlemowitz.com About the Coop: The
Film-Makers' Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of
independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in
1962, as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the
Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes and DVDs in its collection.
www.film-makerscoop.com
2/26
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm - Admission $8/$6, 66 East 4th Street
PERSONAL CINEMA SERIES: LEWIS KLAHR
PROLIX SATORI (75 min.-2008-2010) - NYC PREMIERE IN ITS FULL SERIES
FORM. ------------ I have often worked in series before-"Picture Books
For Adults", "Tales of the Forgotten Future", "Engram Sepals", "The Two
Minutes to Zero Trilogy"-but never quite like this. The main difference
is that "Prolix Satori" is both open ended with a variety of thematic
focuses instead of a single, centralized one. As the series title
suggests, it will include films that are very very short (under a
minute) and films that are feature length. "Prolix Satori" will also
contain various sub-series: this program offers several films from "The
Couplets" ("Wednesday Morning Two A.M.", "Sugar Slim Says" and all 3
Nimbus films). "The Couplets" will generally, but not exclusively,
organize themselves around the pairing of various pop songs and just as
in the songs lyrics, the theme of romantic love. This screening marks
the NYC premiere of the first completed sequence of this ongoing series.
- L.K. ------------- On LETHE: "In Greek mythology Lethe is the
underworld river from which the dead drink to forget their life on
earth. The first film in a possible trilogy of mythologically inspired
pieces with female protagonists." - L.K. ------------ Writing in 2002
about a first showing with his wife Janie Geiser, Lewis Klahr writes- "I
remembered how many other firsts I'd had at the Millennium: first group,
first solo show, first time I ever curated a show. And then, of course,
there's the most important first- the first roll of Super 8 I ever shot
was with a camera rented from the Millennium. That was way back in
1977." -----------PROGRAM-------- FALSE AGING (14.5 min.-2008), "THE
NIMBUS TRILOGY": NIMBUS SMILE (8.5 min.-2009), NIMBUS SEEDS (8.5
min.-2009), and CUMULONIMBUS (9.5 min.-2010), SUGAR SLIM SAYS (7
min.-2010), WENESDAY MORNING TWO A.M. (6.5 min.-2009), LETHE (23
min.-2009). --------THE FILMMAKER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE EVENT.
2/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JENNINGS/KIRSANOFF/LEGER & MURPHY/CLAIR & PICABIA
PROGRAM
Humphrey Jennings LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w)
Jennings's film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio
landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and
conflicting with the multitude of sounds. From the film's introduction:
"I have been listening to Britain. I have heard the sound of her life by
day and by night…. In the great sound picture that is here presented,
you too will hear that heart beating. For blended together in one great
symphony is the music of Britain at war." Dimitri Kirsanoff MÉNILMONTANT
(1924-25, 38 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) A melodramatic story of an
orphan girl whose seduction is avenged. Early use of hand-held camera,
montage, and superimpositions. Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET
MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives! A brief exploration of cubist form, black-and-white
tonalities, and various vectors through its constant, rapidly cut
movements and compositions. Many of the film's forms and compositions
are reflected in – or themselves reflect – forms and compositions in
Léger's famous cubist paintings from the period. René Clair & Francis
Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) A masterpiece of dada, a
feat of cinema magic. Made as an intermission entertainment for the
Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scenario by Francis Picabia. Music by
Erik Satie. Total program time: ca. 105 minutes.
2/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 2/26: WIKI-REBELS + ELLSBERG +
Information wants to be free! Julian Assange has bravely advanced a new
model for transparency in government and business, and he has been made
to suffer for his bold initiatives. Here's a benefit event to
demonstrate our support for this information warrior who now has to
defend himself against legal and other threats. We'll screen Jesper Huor
and Bosse Lindquist's hr-long Wiki-Rebels, with introductory remarks by
David Cox. After intermission, we'll unspool Rick Goldsmith's inspiring
Daniel Ellsberg doc, The Most Dangerous Man in America, on the earlier
Vietnam-War whistle-blower. $6-$10.
2/26
Tucson, AZ: Hidden Films of the Southwest & Mexico Symposium
https://sites.google.com/site/hiddencinemasouthwestmexico/home
7 PM, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
WASTELAND UTOPIAS: ARTIST AS OUTSIDER ARCHIVIST
Introduction by Liz Coffee, Film Conservator, Harvard Film Archive-
David Sherman, Wasteland Utopias (91m)- Wasteland Utopias (2010), uses
"hidden films" to construct a psychogeographic portrait of the Sonoran
Desert from 1955 to the present. By exploring the intersection of two
radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and
outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich, I bring two very
distinct minds, from a particular historical moment in the Southwest,
into an illuminating conversation that allows for a reimagining of
present geographical, social, and environmental issues important to the
Southwest today. Both Webb and Reich found their way into southern
Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late1950s—Webb building his colossal,
panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. Using found
footage, documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, this feature
cine-essay interweaves contradictory narratives and critically poetic
observations
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011
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2/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RAPT
by Dimitri Kirsanoff In French with no subtitles, English synopsis
available, 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm Film Notes "RAPT is, paradoxically,
both a film which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and
a work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that
paradox can be resolved by an understanding of the film's complex
utilization of music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this
respect it is reminiscent of the part-talkie genre…. It is linked to
such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'?GE D'OR. The
radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic
musical score. In making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the
composers Honegger and Hoerce." –Lucy Fisher
2/27
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
JEM COHEN: CURIOUS VISIONS: INSTRUMENT
Members of Fugazi in person One of Washington's most successful bands,
Fugazi is the epitome of DIY (Do It Yourself) ethics. Its members are
both subjects and collaborators with Cohen on this documentary, part of
the 2000 Whitney Biennial and winner of many awards. Incorporating more
than 10 years of recordings, Instrument weaves personal and concert
footage, observational film, collected sound, and Fugazi's own original
music into an epic portrait of the band, their environment, and the
counterculture of the 1980s and '90s. "I thought of bringing 'dub' to
documentary—of a project where unadulterated real-time performances,
abstract, rough-hewn Super-8 collages and archival artifacts would
collide and conjoin in a way that honestly represented musical
experience"—Jem Cohen. (1999, digiBeta, 115 minutes)
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