[Frameworks] This week [June 4 - 12, 2011] in avant garde cinema

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This week [June 4 - 12, 2011] in avant garde cinema

"Weird War" by Albert Alcoz
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Welcome Matting: Simultaneous Opposites #61" by Robert Edgar
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"Weird War" by Albert Alcoz
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"Help Wanted" by Waylon Bacon
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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EXiS international experimental film & video festival in Seoul (Seoul; Deadline: June 15, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1322.ann
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1323.ann
Venice International Film Festival (Italy; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1324.ann
Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1326.ann
Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: August 01, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1327.ann
London FIlm Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1328.ann
Strange Beauty Film Festival 2012 (Durham, North Carolina USA; Deadline: December 15, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1329.ann

DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, US; Deadline: July 08, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1263.ann
OFF // Oblò Film Festival (Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland; Deadline: July 01, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1276.ann
Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 17, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1283.ann
VIDEOHOLICA (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2011)
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Punto y Raya Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 04, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1293.ann
L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1294.ann
Dallas VideoFest (Dallas, Texas USA; Deadline: June 28, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1300.ann
Journal of Short Film Volume 24 (Columbus, Ohio; Deadline: June 10, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1321.ann
EXiS international experimental film & video festival in Seoul (Seoul; Deadline: June 15, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1322.ann
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, NSW, Australia; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1323.ann
Venice International Film Festival (Italy; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1324.ann
London FIlm Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 24, 2011)
 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1328.ann

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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 *  Wasteland Utopias With Filmmaker David Sherman In Discussion With Curator
    Paul Roth [June 4, Brooklyn, New York]
 *  Martha Colburn & Friends [June 4, New York]
 *  Sharing Some Sharits: Classic Films By Paul Sharits [June 5, Los Angeles, California]
 *  Hapax Legomena, Part 1  [June 5, New York]
 *  Hapax Legomena, Part 2 [June 5, New York]
 *  Christo Redentor (Wip) and Four Rivers — Screening At Anthology Film [June 7, New York, New York]
 *  Stop & Go Rides Again [June 9, Stuttgart, DE]
 *  Los Angeles Plays Itself  [June 9, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 *  Short Films By Thom andersen  [June 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 *  All Smiles: video Works By Anne Mcguire [June 12, Los Angeles, California]


Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2011
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6/4
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30, 322 UNION AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11211

 WASTELAND UTOPIAS WITH FILMMAKER DAVID SHERMAN IN DISCUSSION WITH CURATOR
 PAUL ROTH
  Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different
  utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider
  psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern
  Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s—Webb building his colossal,
  panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting
  his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely
  pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the
  disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions
  about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage,
  documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves
  contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By
  juxtaposing these two thinkers—who represent ostensibly opposing visions
  of a still-undefined future—Sherman asks viewers to consider a
  multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social
  environments.---------------- Paul Roth is the Executive Director of the
  Richard Avedon Foundation. Prior to that, Roth served as senior curator
  of photograph and media arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

6/4
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 MARTHA COLBURN & FRIENDS
  MARTHA COLBURN & FRIENDS PROGRAM Share + Film Notes
  NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Anthology's exhibition program
  encompasses many different categories of screenings each calendar –
  along with our theatrical premieres, thematic series, and auteur and
  actor retrospectives, we're equally dedicated to presenting new or
  recent work by individual artists working at the vanguard of
  avant-garde/experimental/non-commercial cinema, encompassing filmmakers
  who are emerging, at their peak, or long-established but still prolific.
  Each month we showcase at least one such program under the rubric
  NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY, an Owen Land-inspired title for a
  series that, after all, features new moving-image work, exhibited at a
  hallowed institution, and whose high quality we're more than prepared to
  guarantee. This calendar's programs feature the work of Boston-based
  16mm filmmaker Rebecca Meyers, Chinese found-footage documentarian Huang
  Weikai, and experimental animator and musician Martha Colburn. JUNE:
  MARTHA COLBURN & FRIENDS With pianist Thollem McDonas (Edgetone Records)
  and drummer Greg Saunier (DEERHOOF). This evening we will host
  experimental animator (and this calendar's cover artist!) Martha Colburn
  for a special screening/performance, featuring a selection of her work
  from the past 17 years, including the NY Theatrical Premiere of her new
  film DOLLS VS. DICTATORS and the first screening on 35mm of TRIUMPH OF
  THE WILD (fresh from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival). Martha is as
  active musically as she is cinematically, having collaborated with THE
  BOREDOMS, Jad Fair, Serj Tankian, the new group MUSICUM CONSORTIUM with
  Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier, and others. Tonight she'll be joined for a
  live performance by pianist Thollem McDonas and drummer Greg Saunier.
  "Painting, collage, found footage, music and research slug it out
  frame-by-frame; edited entirely in camera, her clamoring films plunge
  towards unreality with the conviction of Méliès…. The films resemble
  24-frames-per-second tornados, atomizing rifts opened by cigarette
  advertising, pornography, television, cosmetic surgery, and, in MYTH
  LABS and TRIUMPH OF THE WILD, the language and landscape of political
  fantasy." –CINEMA SCOPE FIRST FILM IN X-TRO (1994, 5.5 minutes, 16mm)
  FEATURE PRESENTATION (1994, 6 minutes, 16mm) EVIL OF DRACULA (1997, 2
  minutes, 16mm) THERE'S A PERVERT IN OUR POOL! (1998, 2.5 minutes, 16mm)
  SKELEHELLAVISION (2000-02, 8 minutes, 16mm) COSMETIC EMERGENCY (2005, 8
  minutes, 35mm) DESTINY MANIFESTO (2006, 8 minutes, 16mm-to-video) DON'T
  KILL THE WEATHERMAN! (2007, 5 minutes, 16mm-to-video) TRIUMPH OF THE
  WILD (2008, 10 minutes, 16mm-to-video) MYTH LABS (2008, 7.5 minutes,
  16mm-to-video) ONE AND ONE IS LIFE (2009, 4 minutes, 16mm-to-video) JOIN
  THE FREEDOM FORCE (2009, 4 minutes, 16mm-to-video) DOLLS VS. DICTATORS
  (2010, 11 minutes, 35mm) Commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image,
  NY, to inaugurate its new Video Screening Amphitheater, DOLLS VS.
  DICTATORS is based on Colburn's photographs of the Museum's unparalleled
  collection of dolls, toys, and other licensed merchandise. Total running
  time: ca. 95 minutes.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011
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6/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St.

 SHARING SOME SHARITS: CLASSIC FILMS BY PAUL SHARITS
  Paul Sharits was one of the most important figures of the American
  avant-garde in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Trained as a painter, he worked
  in a variety of arts, and left us with numerous superb films. Here's a
  chance to see a few of his classic "structuralist" films and more, in
  living 16mm! Films to be screened include Ray Gun Virus (1966),
  T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968), N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968), Axiomatic Granularity
  (1973), and Piece Mandala/End War (1966).

6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 HAPAX LEGOMENA, PART 1 
  HOLLIS FRAMPTON'S HAPAX LEGOMENA "Hapax legomena are, literally, 'things
  said once'. The scholarly jargon refers to those words that occur only a
  single time in the entire oeuvre of an author, or in a whole
  literature." –H.F. Hollis Frampton – photographer, theoretician,
  philosopher and, above all, filmmaker – is one of the towering figures
  of American avant-garde cinema, and his seven-part HAPAX LEGOMENA is
  arguably his greatest completed achievement. While its various parts can
  each stand alone, together they form a complex and quasi-symphonic whole
  – an enigmatic structuralist 'autobiography', a series of investigations
  into the possibilities of filmmaking, and a playful and dazzling
  encyclopedia of the cinema that is perhaps the closest thing avant-garde
  film has to Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier". Puzzling, conceptually
  daring, and at times disarmingly comic, HAPAX LEGOMENA is one of the
  pinnacles of experimental film. HAPAX LEGOMENA was recently preserved
  through a major cooperative effort funded by the National Film
  Preservation Foundation, and undertaken by MoMA, Anthology Film
  Archives, the New York University Moving Image Archiving and
  Preservation Program, and Bill Brand, professor in the NYU program and
  project conservator. PROGRAM 1: (nostalgia) (HAPAX LEGOMENA I) 1973, 36
  minutes, 16mm, b&w. POETIC JUSTICE (HAPAX LEGOMENA II) 1972, 31 minutes,
  16mm, b&w, silent. CRITICAL MASS (HAPAX LEGOMENA III) 1971, 26 minutes,
  16mm, b&w. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.

6/5
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 HAPAX LEGOMENA, PART 2
  HOLLIS FRAMPTON'S HAPAX LEGOMENA "Hapax legomena are, literally, 'things
  said once'. The scholarly jargon refers to those words that occur only a
  single time in the entire oeuvre of an author, or in a whole
  literature." –H.F. Hollis Frampton – photographer, theoretician,
  philosopher and, above all, filmmaker – is one of the towering figures
  of American avant-garde cinema, and his seven-part HAPAX LEGOMENA is
  arguably his greatest completed achievement. While its various parts can
  each stand alone, together they form a complex and quasi-symphonic whole
  – an enigmatic structuralist 'autobiography', a series of investigations
  into the possibilities of filmmaking, and a playful and dazzling
  encyclopedia of the cinema that is perhaps the closest thing avant-garde
  film has to Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier". Puzzling, conceptually
  daring, and at times disarmingly comic, HAPAX LEGOMENA is one of the
  pinnacles of experimental film. HAPAX LEGOMENA was recently preserved
  through a major cooperative effort funded by the National Film
  Preservation Foundation, and undertaken by MoMA, Anthology Film
  Archives, the New York University Moving Image Archiving and
  Preservation Program, and Bill Brand, professor in the NYU program and
  project conservator. PROGRAM 2: TRAVELING MATTE (HAPAX LEGOMENA IV)
  1971, 34 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. ORDINARY MATTER (HAPAX LEGOMENA V)
  1972, 36 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound on CD. REMOTE CONTROL (HAPAX LEGOMENA
  VI) 1972, 29 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. SPECIAL EFFECTS (HAPAX LEGOMENA
  VII) 1972, 11 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Total running time: ca. 115 minutes.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011
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6/7
New York, New York: Tenzin Phuntsog
http://www.tenzinphuntsog.com
6:00 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, Deren Theater

 CHRISTO REDENTOR (WIP) AND FOUR RIVERS — SCREENING AT ANTHOLOGY FILM
  Video: Tenzin Phuntsog, Sound: Brian Chase.  Christo Redentor
  (Circumambulation), was filmed on location in Rio De Janeiro, Brasil in
  2010. The piece documents an aerial circumambulation for a duration of
  approximately 10 minutes around the Christo Redentor statue in Rio. The
  ritual act of circumambulating clockwise is a reference to a ritual act
  pilgrims practice around Sites of importance such as Holy Mountains,
  Temples, geological spots etc… The music is constructed from the
  overtones of a single snare drum hit.  From here, the steady pulsing of
  the delayed sustain slowly uncovers the kaleidoscopic spectrum of
  frequencies contained within that single snare drum hit.  From one, an
  endlessly unity emerges.  As the pitches from the speakers result in
  beating patterns which are perceptible based upon the position of our
  head, we realize that no two locations in the room yield the same
  combination of tones.  What one person is hearing is different from what
  "I" is hearing.  Together, we are all watching and listening yet our
  individual experiences are very different.  Just as with the revolutions
  around the Christ statue, with the music here, over time the sensation
  of the tones, as with the slow repetitive motion of the point of view of
  the camera, takes greater and greater effect, while the identification
  with the tones themselves gradually diminishes.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011
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6/9
Stuttgart, DE: INTERVENTIONSRAUM/BOX STAATSTHEATER STUTTGART in collaboration with Fluctuating Images
www.fluctuating-images.de/de/node/32
8:00 pm, Oberer Schloßgarten 6 | 70173 Stuttgart

 STOP & GO RIDES AGAIN
  This spring Stop & Go will travel from San Francisco to Europe to screen
  the second installment of the show Stop & Go Rides Again. For this
  occasion the screening will take place alongside an exhibition of
  small-scale artworks by some of the screening artists. The exhibition is
  designed to illuminate a deeper connection between the animations in the
  program and the artist's primary practice of painting, drawing,
  sculpture or media work. Stop & Go Rides Again includes animations by
  Reed Anderson, Daniel Davidson , Kathy Aoki, Alessandra Ausenda, Lizzie
  Black, Anna Maria Murphy, Paz de la Calzada, Michael Rauner, Deborah
  Davidovits, Almut Determeyer , Owen Gatley, Luke Jinks, Sarah Klein,
  Evelien Lohbeck, Miwa Matreyek, Tucker Nichols, David O'Kane, Ara
  Peterson, Mel Prest, Jen Stark, Melinda Stone, Sam Sharkey, Sjors
  Vervoort, Andy Vogt and Scott Wolniak . For further information about
  the show visit www.stopandgoshow.com. 

6/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net 
6:30pm , 350 King Street West

 LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF 
  Los Angeles Plays Itself June 9th at 6:30pm and June 11 at 7:00pm
  Director Thom Andersen introduces the Thursday night screening of his
  remarkable essay film, a witty and thoughtful exploration of how Los
  Angeles (not "L.A.") has been represented onscreen, from Hollywood
  classics to oblique art films, from action flicks, science fiction and
  gay porn to independent films and the avant-garde. For tickets, visit
  tiff.net 

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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011
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6/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net 
7:00pm , 350 King Street West

 SHORT FILMS BY THOM ANDERSEN 
  TIFF Cinematheque is pleased to welcome filmmaker and scholar Thom
  Andersen for a night of conversation and screenings. Andersen will join
  TIFF's Head of Film Programmes, Jesse Wente for an onstage conversation
  and a screening of four of his short works, including his latest film 
  Get Out of the Car , which debuted in the Wavelengths programme at the
  2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Melting dir. Thom Andersen |
  USA 1965 | 6 min. Olivia's Place dir. Thom Andersen | USA 1966 | 5 min.
  --- ------- dir. Thom Andersen | USA 1967 | 11 min. Get Out Of The Car
  dir. Thom Andersen | USA 2010 | 34 min. For tickets and more
  information, visit tiff.net 

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SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011
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6/12
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

 ALL SMILES: VIDEO WORKS BY ANNE MCGUIRE
  Anne McGuire in person! A full retrospective of McGuire's short works,
  each a marvel of wit, media savvy, unabashed performance, and brilliant
  commentary on modern society. Videos by McGuire to be screened include:
  Museum (1989), Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3 (1991), The Telling (1996), The
  Waltons (1996), When I Was a Monster (1996), I Am Crazy and You're Not
  Wrong (1997), All Smiles and Sadness (1999), I Like Men (2000), After
  Wegman (2003), and Turntable (2005). The show closes with two 16mm
  masterpieces on love and loss selected by McGuire: Chronicles (1969) by
  Mike Kuchar and Princess of the Lake (1981) with animation by Giulio
  Gianini and drawings by Emanuele Luzzati.


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