[Frameworks] This week [January 2 - 9, 2011] in avant garde cinema

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This week [January 2 - 9, 2011] in avant garde cinema

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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Indie Fest (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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Digital Checkpoints at FLEFF 2011 (Ithaca, New York, USA; Deadline: January 31, 2011)
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synthetic zero & S0NiK Fest (Bronx, NY, USA; Deadline: January 10, 2011)
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Centrespace Gallery (Bristol, UK; Deadline: January 06, 2011)
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Videoex Festival (Zürich , Switzerland; Deadline: January 28, 2011)
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Studio 27 (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: January 26, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 *  The Free Screen: From Ecstacy To Rapture: 50 Years of the Other Spanish
    Cinema: Session 1   [January 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 *  Essential Cinema: Strike [January 6, New York]
 *  The Standby Program [January 7, New York]
 *  Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [January 8, New York]
 *  Essential Cinema: October [January 8, New York]
 *  Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Rr By James Benning [January 9, Los Angeles, California]
 *  Essential Cinema: Old and New [January 9, New York]
 *  Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [January 9, New York]

Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2011
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1/5
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox 
http://tiff.net 
7:00pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox , 350 King Street West

 THE FREE SCREEN: FROM ECSTACY TO RAPTURE: 50 YEARS OF THE OTHER SPANISH
 CINEMA: SESSION 1  
  The first installment of The Free Screen at TIFF Bell Lightbox features
  From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 Years of the other Spanish Cinema, an
  unprecedented retrospective of Spanish experimental cinema of the last
  half century. Featuring numerous restored prints and preservation video
  transfers, this important international touring programme provides a
  rare overview of an alternative national cinema whose contribution to
  the international avant-garde stretches far beyond the renowned legacy
  of Dali and Buñuel. Presented in six programmes arranged by theme and
  technique rather than chronology, and including two feature-length cult
  masterworks, this series was curated by Antoni Pinent for the
  Contemporary Cultural Centre in Barcelona. We give special thanks to
  Gloria Vilches (CCCB) for making possible the Toronto premiere of these
  films. –Andréa Picard  CREDIT LINE From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 Years of
  the other Spanish Cinema An Xcèntric Programme, the Cinema of the CCCB.
  Produced by CCCB – Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona SEACEX –
  State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs and Cooperation / Ministry of Culture (Spain) With the support
  of ICIC / Cinematheque of Catalunya DOCUMENTS / ITINERARIES A programme
  of shorts and réalités beginning with a film by José Val del Omar, a
  visionary filmmaker and one of the most relevant and enigmatic figures
  to emerge within the Spanish film industry. The stark but ravishing
  Fuego en Castilla, which won an award at Cannes in 1961, forms part of
  his unfinished Tríptico elemental de España, which both fascinated and
  baffled the Francoist authorities. Other filmmakers included are the
  architect Gabriel Blanco, better known as an animator but represented
  here by a documentary depicting a typical Sunday for a Spanish citizen
  in an outlying urban area; the multidisciplinary artists Benet Rossell
  and Antoni Miralda, presenting a look at military iconography; and
  celebrated filmmaker and documentarian José Luis Guerin (In the City of
  Sylvia, Guest), who, after debuting with his full-length 1983 feature
  Los motivos de Berta, created the short essay film Souvenir. The
  programme concludes with a documentary by Virginia García del Pino about
  people exercising professions having to do with death, dirt or sex.
  Fuego en Castilla dir. José Val del Omar | Spain 1958-59 | 35mm | 17
  min. De purificatione automobilis Dir. Gabriel Blanco | Spain 1974 |
  35mm | 16 min. Miserere Dirs. Antoni Miralda and Benet Rossell | Spain
  1979 | 35mm | 12 min. Souvenir Dirs. Silvia Gracia and José Luis Guerín
  | Spain 1985 | Video | 5 min. Lo que tú dices que soy Dir. Virginia
  García del Pino | Spain 2007 | Video | 28 min. Total running time: 78
  minutes Co-presented with AluCine Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:00pm
  Cinema 3 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2011
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1/6
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STRIKE
  by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
  available., 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm Film Notes Eisenstein's interest in
  the Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which
  non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating
  Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping
  realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only
  completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 2011
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1/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 THE STANDBY PROGRAM
  The Standby Program, Inc., is a non-profit media arts service
  organization founded in 1983, dedicated to providing film, video, and
  preservation services to artists and fellow non-profits. The program
  operates out of several post-production studios located in and around
  NYC. A few times a year, Standby partners with other organizations to
  screen works created and preserved through the program. Anthology is
  pleased to host this invaluable organization for this evening of very
  special films. All things come to life when captured on film and video,
  but the films in this program demonstrate a hyper-life, meticulously
  created through the art of animation and archival footage manipulation.
  Each filmmaker integrates the exploration of word, image, and
  experience, taking us on a visual journey, sometimes frightening,
  sometimes ethereal, but always very personal. For more information
  regarding Standby, please visit: www.standby.org Ruth Peyser THERE WAS A
  LITTLE GIRL (2009, 25 minutes, video) This film utilizes animation,
  manipulated found images, and film footage to tell six stories from the
  filmmaker's life. Her colorful hand-drawn images are a stark contrast to
  the harrowing tales from childhood to middle-age. Klaus Lutz TITAN
  (2008, 11 minutes, 16mm, silent. Courtesy of The Estate of Klaus
  Lutz/Rotwand Gallery Zurich/Kinemathek Le Bon Film Basel.) This
  beautiful and timeless odyssey of stop-motion, time-lapse, and layering
  of images follows the late Klaus Lutz on a dream-like journey as an
  astronaut, sailor, and bird, all without leaving his kitchen. Kelly
  Spivey MAKE THEM JUMP (2010, 11 minutes, 16mm) Optically printed from
  found footage, this experimental film uses snippets from discarded
  educational films. Through time and image manipulation, we experience
  themes of control, powerlessness, and isolation. Cathy Cook IMMORTAL
  CUPBOARD: IN SEARCH OF LORINE NIEDECKER 2009, 73 minutes, 16mm-to-video.
  An artistic film essay on Lorine Niedecker's life and poetry. Drawing on
  their shared Wisconsin heritage, Cook combines original live-action
  footage, archival images, and Niedecker's only audio interview to unfurl
  the poet's psychological and physical landscape. Total running time: ca.
  125 minutes.

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
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1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
  by Sergei Eisenstein With English intertitles., 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm
  Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid, super-structured plot
  share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous, inflamed emotion.

1/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER
  by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
  available., 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in
  OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing
  contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2011
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1/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas

 LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS RR BY JAMES BENNING
  Los Angeles Premiere! James Benning in person! At the Spielberg Theater
  at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd. (at Las Palmas), Los Angeles CA
  90028 Tickets: General $10, Students/seniors $6; free for Filmforum
  members Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets.
  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/142723 Chosen as one of the best
  movies of its year, and its decade, RR, by James Benning finally screens
  in Los Angeles. Filmforum begins its 2011 programming with this
  brilliant film, merging observation and motion, present-day commerce and
  the historical growth of America, in Benning's inimitable style. James
  Benning will join us in person, and we hope you will as well for the
  start of Filmforum's 36th year. RR (2007, 16mm, color, 115 min., sound)
  Benning's last 16mm film, consisting of 43 static shots of trains
  crossing through the frame, in locations throughout the United States.
  The shot duration is determined by the time it takes the train to pass
  through the frame. 

1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW
  by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles; English synopsis
  available, 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm Known also as THE GENERAL LINE, OLD
  AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed
  and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of
  characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and
  "overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith

1/9
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
  by Sergei Eisenstein In Russian with no subtitles; English synopsis
  available, 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm "The first time in history a man
  has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned
  production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white
  machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a
  living hell – a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.

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