[Frameworks] This week [July 23 - 31, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [July 23 - 31, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Luminous Greenhouse" by Janis Crystal Lipzin
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"Auto Viewing: Simultaneous Opposites #63" by Robert Edgar
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"A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Robert Edgar's Simultaneous Opposites Engine" by Mark Mosher
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2011)
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Pantheon International Xperimental film & Animation Festival 10.0 (Nicosia, Cyprus; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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CanToo Film Festival (Martinsburg, WV, USA; Deadline: August 19, 2011)
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ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (ny; Deadline: August 17, 2011)
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Intervideo Talent Award 2011 (Mainz, RLP, Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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Black Rock Film Fest (Black Rock CIty, NV, USA; Deadline: July 31, 2011)
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PANOPTiC at Camden International Film Festival (camden, maine, usa; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
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Hollywood Black Film Festival (Hollywood, CA USA; Deadline: July 24, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Alex Mcquilkin: the First 10 Years; video Screening [July 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [July 23, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [July 23, New York]
* Psychohydrography [July 23, New York]
* Live Sound and Film By Joshua Churchill and Paul Clipson [July 23, Oakland]
* Jonas Mekas: Personal Record [July 23, Washington, DC]
* The Autobiography of Nicolae CeauşEscu (Autobiografia Lu Nicolae
CeauşEscu) [July 24, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Robert Breer Program 1 [July 24, New York]
* Robert Breer Program 2 [July 24, New York]
* Psychohydrography [July 24, New York]
* Ken Jacobs: Recent Works [July 24, Washington, DC]
* David Sherman Screens Wasteland Utopias [July 26, Portland, Oregon]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 26, Seattle, Washington]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 27, Olympia, WA]
* Los Olvidados [July 28, New York]
* Los Olvidados [July 28, New York]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 28, Portland, Oregon]
* Marker Xc: Three Times Thirty [July 28, San Francisco, California]
* Pornography and Its Discontents [July 28, San Francisco, California]
* L'age D'or [July 29, New York]
* Essential Cinema:Clair/Picabia/Bunuel/Dali Program [July 30, New York]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 30, San Francisco, California]
* A Co-Op Omnibus [July 30, Washington, DC]
* The Sing It Out Loud Tour: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [July 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Lupe; Flaming Creatures [July 31, Washington, DC]
* Flaming Creatures, Preceded By Lupe [July 31, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011
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7/23
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
ALEX MCQUILKIN: THE FIRST 10 YEARS; VIDEO SCREENING
approx 50 minutes. Admission $6. We are very pleased to present a
comprehensive screening program of works by young video maker Alex
McQuilkin. McQuilkin began working with video while still in her teens,
and the program features works ranging from the infamous "Fucked" made
in 2000 to her most recent video "Unbreak My Heart". McQuilkin's works
investigate the way narratives and other story lines are
transmitted—through myths, fairytales, literature, the visual arts, and
interpretations of archeological artifacts—and the manner in which
cinematic forms contribute to that propagation, including the
presentation of our own selves to others. This is not McQuilkin's first
time at Microscope. Her video "I wish I was a Beam of Light screened in
the program "Presages" curated by Allison Somers in May. "I first
encountered the works of Alex McQuilkin in 2002 when she was an
undergraduate student. What struck me was the contrast between this
fresh-faced girl (many pieces were made when she was a teenager) and the
fearless and confident manner in which she was dealing with very
ambitions material. Almost a decade later, I still have images in my
head from the handful or so short videos I saw at the time: a dual in
the Wild West where the weapon of choice is not a gun, but a killer
bikini bod; a stuffed rabbit spinning in a bloody (mary?) blender while
the protaganist – McQuiklin herself as in all her works – is wretching
violently in the bathroom, and McQuilkin laying on a bed, focused on
putting on make-up while a guy aggressively penetrates her. Sex, Drugs
and Rock & Roll, in some cases, but more than that they were
intelligent, fully realized works. I liked them very much."
EB---McQuilkin lives and works in New York City. Her works have screened
or exhibited internationally and in the US including: PS 1; Museum
Ludwig, Cologne; Marvelli Gallery, NYC; Galerie Adler, Franfurt; Tufts
University; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; Rome; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
and many others. More info and full program will be available at:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. L
- Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 minutes, 35mm) THE BED (1968, 19 minutes,
16mm) NUPTIAE (1969, 14 minutes, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 minutes,
16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are
celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as American
Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 minutes, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45
minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
7/23
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
See notes for July 22, 8 pm.
7/23
Oakland: Swarm Gallery
http://www.swarmgallery.com/
8:30pm, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
LIVE SOUND AND FILM BY JOSHUA CHURCHILL AND PAUL CLIPSON
A performance of electronic and acoustic musical instrumentation and
Super 8 film, in conjunction with Threshold(s), a solo exhibition by
Joshua Churchill.
7/23
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
JONAS MEKAS: PERSONAL RECORD
Filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, and M. M. Serra in person: A
mix of mostly 16 mm recent and historic short works, personally selected
for this program by Jonas Mekas, includes Award Presentation to Andy
Warhol (1964), a documentation of an event and an homage; a sequence of
five rolls of film shot at a Ringling Brothers Circus, titled Notes on
the Circus (1966); Cassis (1966), recorded at the summer home of Jerome
Hill; Report from Millbrook (1966), filmed "on a weekend visit to Tim
Leary's place"; the episodic works World Trade Center Haikus (2000) and
Seven Days from 365 (2007); as well as the short, personal pieces The
Song of Avila (1966) and Jacobses (2010). (Total running time
approximately 75 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011
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7/24
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6:30p, Paramount Center: Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUşESCU (AUTOBIOGRAFIA LU NICOLAE
CEAUşESCU)
This unique compilation film was one of the most buzzed-about entries in
the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The 25-year reign of the infamous
Romanian dictator is presented entirely through the distorted lens of
propaganda and official footage—a gaudy but hollow pageant of speeches,
parades, photo ops, and state visits that is by turns fascinating,
chilling, and darkly humorous. Without narration, but with canny editing
and sound design, director Ujica constructs a self-styled
"autobiography" in which the unreliability of the "narrator" becomes
increasingly apparent, and the offstage presence of suppressed history
increasingly undeniable. (Gene Siskel Film Center)
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 minutes,
16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds, 35mm) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes, 35mm) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR
(1957, 2 minutes, 35mm) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes, 35mm) LE
MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 minutes, 35mm) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes, 35mm)
EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 minutes, 35mm) BLAZES (1961, 3
minutes, 35mm) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm) BREATHING (1963,
5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes, 35mm) 69 (1969, 4.5 minutes,
35mm) The happy, joyful, playful abstractionist of the avant-garde.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program
were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
70 (1970, 5 minutes, 35mm) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes, 35mm) FIST FIGHT
(1964, 9 minutes, 35mm) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI
(1974, 9 minutes, 35mm) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5
minutes, 35mm) BANG (1986, 10 minutes, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 60
minutes.
7/24
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY
See notes for July 22, 8 pm.
7/24
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5:00 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
KEN JACOBS: RECENT WORKS
Filmmakers Ken and Flo Jacobs in person: Committed to pushing technical
and aesthetic boundaries during his long and illustrious career,
avant-gardist Ken Jacobs (who trained with painter Hans Hofmann)
famously cofounded the first department of cinema at the State
University of New York, Binghamton, one of the very first to specialize
in avant-garde film and video. With many accolades and awards behind
him, Jacobs is still deeply dedicated to his experiments in temporality
and perception, engaging more recently in digital manipulation and 3-D.
Titles in this program include his Hot Dogs at the Met (2009), Jonas
Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009), and A Loft (2010), among others. (Total
running time approximately 70 minutes)
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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011
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7/26
Portland, Oregon: Grand Detour
http://www.grand-detour.org/
8 PM, Recess Gallery, 1127 SE 10th
DAVID SHERMAN SCREENS WASTELAND UTOPIAS
Wasteland Utopias is a cinematic essay featuring visionary developer Del
Webb (Sun City) and legendary radical psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm
Reich (Orgone Energy). What on earth could these two possibly have in
common? The sunny Sonoran Desert for one thing, a shadowy CIA Operative
for another. Desert landscapes, desert soulscapes, sex, sustainability,
Emotional Plague, cloudbusting, water retention, cosmic
intervention—these and other relevancies link the 1950s with our present
moment in surprising, and seemingly prophetic, ways.
7/26
Seattle, Washington: The Grand Illusion Cinema
http://www.grandillusioncinema.org/
7PM, 1403 Northeast 50th Street
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011
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7/27
Olympia, WA: Northern Flickers
http://www.northernolympia.org/
7PM, 321 4th Avenue
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
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7/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOS OLVIDADOS
by Luis Buñuel In Spanish with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1950, 88 minutes, 35mm Buñuel's unsentimental view of
Mexico's poor, with equal parts of cruelty and surrealism. A sort of
sequel to LAND WITHOUT BREAD.
7/28
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOS OLVIDADOS
See notes for July 28, 7 pm.
7/28
Portland, Oregon: Grand Detour
http://www.grand-detour.org/
8pm, @ Recess Gallery 1127 SE 10th
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
7/28
San Francisco, California: Canyon Falls Observatory
http://www.exploratorium.edu
7:30pm, McBean Theatre at the Exploratorium (3601 Lyon Street)
MARKER XC: THREE TIMES THIRTY
Three rarely screened films by Chris Marker || 1967-1973 (TRT 86
minutes) | Thursday, 28-July-2011, at 7:30pm | McBean Theatre at the
Exploratorium (Palace of Fine Arts) || On the occasion of the legendary
filmmaker Chris Marker's ninetieth birthday, the Canyon Falls
Observatory (in collaboration with the Cinema Arts Program of the
Exploratorium) presents a free screening of three thematically related
works by the director. The event is presented by Jonathan Marlow, the
former Executive Director of the San Francisco Cinematheque and current
Content VP/co-founder at Fandor, and Liz Keim, Director of the
Exploratorium's Cinema Arts Program, at the McBean Theatre. Like many
birthday celebration, there will also be cake (immediately following the
screening). Perhaps a special guest or two as well. ||\ The Sixth Side
of the Pentagon (1967) Directed by Chris Marker & François Reichenbach
[26 minutes]. Documenting the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam
demonstration on 21-October-1967, Marker and two cameramen capture the
assorted actions of the 100,000 protestors in Washington, D.C. /||\ The
Embassy (1973) Directed by Chris Marker [21 minutes]. An imaginative
portrait of a handful of asylum seekers stuck in the midst of a military
coup in an unnamed country. Occasionally, the assured path to truth is
through fiction. /||\ À bientôt, j'espère / Be Seeing You (1968)
Directed by Mario Marret & Chris Marker [39 minutes]. In this
documentary featurette, the 1967 strike at a textile plant in Besançon,
France, serves as a related precursor to the events of May 1968. Given
the current antipathy for unions in this country, À bientôt, j'espère is
particularly timely. /|| Many thanks to Livia Bloom at Icarus Films
(provider of the films for this program) and Tom Luddy of the Telluride
Film Festival, friend and longtime co-collaborator of Chris Marker on a
number of projects. [About the Director] Born Christian Francois
Bouche-Villeneuve on 29-July-1921, the multi-talented Chris Marker is
one of the most celebrated artists in the world. Arguably best known for
his films La jetée and Sans Soleil, his work as a director dates back to
the early 1950s and continues to the present (with his recent Stopover
in Dubai). In lieu of a full retrospective of which he richly deserves,
this program in no way attempts to address the complexity and variety of
his over half-century of work but, nonetheless, is a modest effort at
acknowledging his impact and influence as a filmmaker, photographer and
innovative artist.
7/28
San Francisco, California: MisALT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107062366058966
7:30pm, 2150 Folsom St.
PORNOGRAPHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Thursday, July 28 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm Location Workspace Limited Art
Studios 2150 Folsom St San Francisco, California Created By Tessa
Siddle, Scott Andrew More Info The MisALT Screening Series is pleased to
announce the line-up for our July 28th Screening: "Pornography and its
Discontents." We are excited to be bringing together a an international
and eclectic collection of experimental films and videos question the
power dynamics of visual representation of sexualized bodies and propose
new possibilities for the portrayal of sex, pleasure and power. Mature
Content – Viewer Discretion is Adv...ised Featuring: Neil Ira Needleman
– Prelude & Erotiloop The Prelude: An "in tact" piece of found footage:
a solicitation to join a porn distributor's frequent buyers program. The
ErotiLoop: Dense, slowly dissolving layers of wiggly-squiggly scrambled
image porn movies. Charles Chadwick – Transubstantiation An esoteric
reworking of the rituals and metaphors of transubstantiation. Scott
Stark – NOEMA NOEMA is philosopher Husserl's term for "the meaning of an
object that is formed in the domain of consciousness." Pornographic
videos are mined for the unerotic moments between moments, when the
actors are engaging in an awkward change of position or when the camera
pans meaningfully away from the urgent mechanisms of sex to a cheap
painting on the wall or the distant embers of a cracking fire. A
piercing musical score loops endlessly throughout, and the repetitive
and curious iterations of movement become furtive searches for meaning
within their own blandness. Scott Stark – Speechless 3D photographs of
human vulvae are animated and interwoven with surfaces and textures from
natural and human-made environments. The genital images were taken from
a set of ViwMaster 3D reels that accompanied a textbook entitled The
Clitoris, published in 1976 by two medical professionals. Anja Dornieden
& Juan David Gonzalez Monroy – Awe Shocks An instructional film
detailing the manufacture process of a whole new consumer product, as
well as its many uses, applications, and benefits. Internet pornography
shot through a Kaleidoscopic lens on 16mm film edited together with
sound from an instructional children's film explaining the logic of
capitalist enterprise. Mauri Lehtonen – Hollywood Mutant Gang Bang
Hundreds of horribly deformed mutants crawl out of the sewers of Los
Angeles to attack Hollywood's rich and famous. Old porn footage has been
treated with scratching and permanent markers. Soundtrack consists of
distant moanings of pleasure, accompanied by "electronic gang bang
music." Scott Andrews – Neráides Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive In
'Neráides, Fall of the Subterrestrial Hive', a fay fantasy world
unravels. A cinematic narrative is revealed where boys play with ponies
while frolicking limp wristed and glitter skinned through the forest and
an alien drag queen commands an army of flying penis monsters. Micheline
Durocher – Electric Garden Skirting voyeurism, Electric Garden is
constructed upon one mirrored continuous pan of the edges and outlines
of the female body and elicits the idea of the well established erotic
theme in art, the reclining nude. Micheline Durocher – doppelganger
Inspired by the autobiography of Goethe, Doppelgänger conveys the
uncanny feeling of being confronted with your double as a fleeting
residual image left on the atmosphere of a place such as an old film. It
pursues culture's persistent association of new electronic media with
paranormal phenomena, technical obsolescence with nostalgia, anxiety and
the erotic." Clint Enns – Debbie Does Ascii Debbie Does Ascii(an ascii
pr0n from a 1981 BBS) is an ascii animation of a scene from Jim Clark's
famous 1978 pornography Debbie Does Dallas. These images, like most
pornographic images, are abstracted versions of human sexuality. Lana Z
Caplan – Love Poems Love Poems were made as a long distance offering,
full of longing, and sent by email. Each one of the three differs in
emotion, from the seductress to the hesitant. The footage is from 1940's
16mm found footage, originally marketed "for art students", as nudity on
film was illegal at the time. Vicky Langan & Maximilian Le Cain – DESK
13 Part of an ongoing creative partnership between sound/performance
artist Vicky Langan and experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain, DESK
13 is an experimental film built around a performance by Langan in which
she uses her body to interrogate the messy interface between inner
desires and their public presentation. 7/28/2011
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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011
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7/29
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
L'AGE D'OR
by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí In French with no subtitles (English
synopsis available), 1930, 73 minutes, 35mm Conventional attempts at
plot synopsis wither in the face of L'ÂGE D'OR. In Buñuel's words, "The
story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual
instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a
romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy."
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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011
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7/30
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA:CLAIR/PICABIA/BUNUEL/DALI PROGRAM
René Clair and Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm) A
masterpiece of Dada and a feat of cinema magic. Made as intermission
entertainment for the Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scene by Francis
Picabia. Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1928, 22
minutes, 35mm) Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a
stream of images from which anything that could be given a rational
meaning was rigorously excluded. It's still the unsurpassed masterpiece
of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES:
TIERRA SIN PAN (1932, 28 minutes, 35mm. With English narration.) "A
documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged
by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective
correlative." –Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
7/30
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia Street
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
7/30
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
A CO-OP OMNIBUS
Filmmaker and Co-op director M. M. Serra in person With thousands of
titles by hundreds of new and former members dating from the 1960s to
the present day, the circulating collection at the Film-Makers'
Cooperative is a veritable treasure trove of experimental film history
and practice. This program highlights a handful of groundbreaking
shorts, including restorations or new prints of these influential
titles: Peggy and Fred in Hell (Prologue) (Leslie Thornton, 1988); Water
Motor (Babette Mangolte, 1978); The Male Gayze (Jack Waters, 1990);
Susie's Ghost (Bill Brand, 2011); Cake and Steak (Abigail Child,
2002–2004); Beirut Outtakes (Peggy Ahwesh, 2007), and Release (Bill
Morrison, 2010). (Total running time approximately 75 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011
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7/31
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/index/Home.html
7:30pm, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028
THE SING IT OUT LOUD TOUR: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK
Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award.
7/31
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5:00 p.m., 4th Street and Constitution Ave. NW
LUPE; FLAMING CREATURES
Described by director Jack Smith as "a comedy set in a haunted music
studio," Flaming Creatures is a seminal avant-garde work not only
because of its outlandishness and unabashedly brazen imagery, but even
more because of its impact on the films of Warhol and others. As an
actor, director, and writer, Smith was a major countercultural figure
and a decisive influence on the development of American experimental
theater, underground cinema, and performance art. "Had Jack Smith
produced nothing other than this amazing artifice, he would still rank
among the great visionaries of American film"—J. Hoberman. (Jack Smith,
1963, 16 mm, 45 minutes) / A contemporary of Jack Smith, Puerto Rican
filmmaker Jose Rodriguez-Soltero cast spectacular transvestite Mario
Montez in the title role of his short Lupe—a campy, roiling homage to
the ill-fated life and brief career of Mexican screen idol Lupe Vélez.
(Montez himself also appeared in many of Warhol's underground films,
including Chelsea Girls). (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966, 16 mm, 50
minutes)
7/31
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
5pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
FLAMING CREATURES, PRECEDED BY LUPE
Described by director Jack Smith as "a comedy set in a haunted music
studio," Flaming Creatures is a seminal avant-garde work not only
because of its outlandishness and unabashedly brazen imagery, but even
more because of its impact on the films of Warhol and others. As an
actor, director, and writer, Smith was a major countercultural figure
and a decisive influence on the development of American experimental
theater, underground cinema, and performance art. "Had Jack Smith
produced nothing other than this amazing artifice, he would still rank
among the great visionaries of American film"—J. Hoberman. (Jack Smith,
1963, 16 mm, 45 minutes) A contemporary of Jack Smith, Puerto Rican
filmmaker Jose Rodriguez-Soltero cast spectacular transvestite Mario
Montez in the title role of his short Lupe—a campy, roiling homage to
the ill-fated life and brief career of Mexican screen idol Lupe Vélez.
(Montez himself also appeared in many of Warhol's underground films,
including Chelsea Girls). (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966, 16 mm, 50
minutes)
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