[Frameworks] This week [May 21 - 29, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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Academy of Art University
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Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York, NY; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie PA USA; Deadline: July 30, 2011)
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Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011)
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Go Short - International Film Festival Nijmegen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 30, 2011)
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ATA Film & Video Festival (San Francisco; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: June 01, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Su Friedrich: 3 Works, Filmmaker In Person [May 21, Brooklyn, New York]
* Super 8 Films & Poetry By Stephanie Gray [May 21, New York, New York]
* Disorder [May 21, New York]
* Disorder [May 21, New York]
* Sat. 5/21: Graham Connah Combo's Travelogue Tone-Poems + [May 21, San Francisco, California]
* Triumph of the Wild: New Experimental Animation From Around the World [May 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Disorder [May 22, New York]
* Disorder [May 22, New York]
* The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu [May 22, Zurich, Switzerland]
* The Rivalries of Names, Films By Mary Billyou, Filmmaker In Person [May 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, B 1997 [May 23, Zurich, Switzerland]
* The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu [May 24, Zurich, Switzerland]
* Avant Cinema 4.3: 10 Short Films By Lynne Sachs [May 25, Austin, TX]
* The Free Screen: Double Tide [May 25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Bruce Conner Specials 1 + 2 [May 25, Zurich, Switzerland]
* Flexfest 2011 - Selected Works From the Florida Experimental Film/Video
Festival 2011 [May 26, Berlin, Germany]
* Essential Cinema: Harry Smith Program [May 26, New York]
* Mis Alt Screening Series Presents: Monstrous Bodies [May 26, San Francisco, California]
* Bruce Conner Specials 1 + 2 [May 26, Zurich, Switzerland]
* Carl Diehl A Speculative Genealogy of Metaphortean Research [May 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Heaven and Earth Magic [May 27, New York]
* Two Films By Melika Bass [May 28, Dallas, Texas]
* Stop & Go Rides Again [May 28, Rotterdam, NL]
* Sat. 5/28: New Experimental Works [May 28, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Wavelength [May 29, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Back and Forth [May 29, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2011
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5/21
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen)
SU FRIEDRICH: 3 WORKS, FILMMAKER IN PERSON
In connection with her current exhibition here at Microscope, Su
Friedrich joins us to present a 79 minute program of 3 short highly
personal works: Rules of the Road, The Head of a Pin, & Seeing Red. The
works — 1 on 16mm film & 2 on video – previously screened together as
one of four programs presented at Friedrich's 2006 "Mid Career
Retrospective" at MoMA. PROGRAM: Rules of the Road Script,
cinematography, voiceover, and editing by Su Friedrich 16mm, b/w, sound,
31 mins, 1993 Rules of the Road tells the story of a love affair and its
demise through one of the objects shared by the couple: an old beige
station wagon with fake wood paneling. A typical American family car for
an atypical American family, it provides the women at first with all the
familiar comforts. But when their relationship ends, the car becomes the
property of one and the bane of the other's existence. Even long after
their separation, this tangible reminder of their life together—and
thousands of its imitators—continues to prowl the streets of the city,
haunting the woman who no longer holds the keys either to the car or the
other woman's heart. Through spoken text, popular music and images from
the streets of New York, Rules of the Road takes a somewhat whimsical,
somewhat caustic look at how our dreams of freedom, pleasure, security,
and family are so often symbolized by the automobile. The Head of a Pin
Cinematography, editing and sound editing by Su Friedrich video, col,
sound, 21 mins, 2004 Those of us who grow up in cities and continue
living in them tend to have a romantic view of life in the countryside.
Moreover, we know every subway route, shopping district and urban legend
of our city, and feel that our "street smarts" enable us to function
anywhere–but put us out in the country and we're just plain stupid about
almost everything that nature has to offer. What's the name of that tree
with the peeling bark? What fish just jumped? And are those beaver,
heron, goose or duck tracks? And then there's our experience of
violence–urban violence, of course. We know how to avoid it or, even
better, how to escape it—by going to the country, where it's so
different: so quiet, so peaceful, so safe, so gentle. And it is when
you're lying on a hot rock by the river, or having a drink in the yard
at sunset. And it is until you spend twenty minutes watching a spider
work over and finally kill an insect twice its size. Seeing Red
Cinematography and editing by Su Friedrich video, col, sound, 27 mins,
2005 In Seeing Red, three elements run parallel, overlap, diverge, lock
horns and in various other ways give voice to the notion that a color, a
melody, or a person has multiple characteristics that cannot be grasped
by, or understood within, a simple framework. One element is purely
visual. One is very verbal and minimally visual. One is purely musical.
So is red the color of a fire truck or a ruby, of rust or a rose, of
blood or a brick? How fixed is a melody if it can be twisted, stretched
and shaken to the point where we no longer recognize its original form?
And when we "see red," what color is that exactly? What aspect of
passion are we feeling? Are we looking outward and seeing injustice and
cupidity, or looking inward at our own limitations and failings? J/M/Z -
Myrtle Ave/Broadway, L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street
5/21
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 E. 4th, East Village (bet Bowery & 2nd Ave)
SUPER 8 FILMS & POETRY BY STEPHANIE GRAY
NYC filmmaker-poet Stephanie Gray returns with a program of new super 8
films since her last show with us in 2005. Several of Gray's poetic &
city symphony films will be accompanied by her reading poetry live and
will feature her recent work "You know they want to disappear Hell's
Kitchen as Clinton" currently touring in the Black Maria Film Fest where
it was one of 10 Jury's Choice First Prizes; she will read & perform the
experimental soundtrack live. Program includes: AFTER DOING MY TAXES
AROUND HERE (3 min, color, 2006); BALLOONS TIED UP YOUR SKY (7 min, b/w,
2011); ALSO KNOWN AS (3 min, color, 2011); STOREFRONTS BEFORE OTHER
STOREFRONTS (7 min, b/w, 2007); SEEING THRU BUFFALOS (7 min, b/w, 2007);
CAUGHT IN YOUR FLICKERING WEATHER (10 min, b/w + color, 2011); YOU KNOW
THAT SIDE STREET (7 min, b/w, 2006); YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO DISAPPEAR
HELL'S KITCHEN AS CLINTON (17 min, b/w + color, 2010); SATANIC BIBLE ON
INTERLIBRARY LOAN (7 min, b/w + color, 2011); NEVER HEARD THE WORD
IMPOSSIBLE (7 min, b/w, 2007) Approx. TRT: 73 min.
5/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DISORDER
by Huang Weikai In Mandarin with English subtitles, 2009, 58 minutes,
video Distributed by dGenerate Films; special thanks to Ariella Tai,
Karin Chien, and Kevin Lee. "One of the most mesmerizing films I've seen
in ages." –Hua Hsu, THE ATLANTIC This one-of-a-kind news documentary
captures, with remarkable freedom, the anarchy, violence, and seething
anxiety animating China's major cities today. As urbanization in China
advances at a breakneck pace, Chinese cities teeter on the brink of
mayhem. One man dances in the middle of traffic while another tries to
jump from a bridge before dozens of onlookers. Pigs run wild on a
highway while dignitaries swim in a polluted river. These scenes,
unshowable on China's heavily controlled television networks reflect an
emerging underground media, one that can truly capture the ground-level
upheaval of Chinese society. In DISORDER, Huang Weikai takes footage
collected from a dozen amateur videographers and weaves them into a
unique city symphony of social dysfunction. Huang shatters and
reconstructs a world that's barely comprehensible, though one whose
energy is palpable: vibrant, dangerous, and scary. "Huang inaugurates a
new genre: the City Cacophony Film. Taking Canton as his subject, he
explodes the Romantic lyricism of Ruttmann and Cavalcanti into oblique
shards as China's third largest city, polarized by tradition and
globalization, becomes a study in existential absurdity. A patchwork of
amateur footage offers a berserk, scattershot glimpse into the public
and private spheres of this modern metropolis. A distant cousin of
Godard's WEEKEND, shot through with Keystone Kops, discontented
citizens, and a renegade pig, DISORDER is an original, terrifying
portrait of a society on the verge of a nervous breakdown." –Michael
Chaiken, FILM COMMENT
5/21
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DISORDER
See notes for May 21, 6:30 pm.
5/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 5/21: GRAHAM CONNAH COMBO’S TRAVELOGUE TONE-POEMS +
For another kind of psycho-geography, Graham Connah and his motley crew
of musical treasures have composed original scores for personal
travelogues, for our ongoing live cinema series. Variants of the home
movie, these marvelous 16mm mementos are fascinating first-person
perspectives on "exotic" destinations. We visit New York's Central Park
and Coney Island, '20s Europe, '30s Japan, Bali, India, South Pacific
cruises, Cuba–Panama–California excursions, and Kodachrome escapes into
the natural wonders of the Heartland. Their live performance is
garnished with copious clips from jazz and experimental music history,
including choice cuts and commentary on the undersung Raymond Scott.
PLUS: Gene Krupa, Harry Partch, and the Cotton Club Tramps. $7.
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SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011
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5/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
TRIUMPH OF THE WILD: NEW EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Eric Leiser, Alice Cohen, and Gina Marie Napolitan in person! An amazing
selection from around the world of recent animation made for thinking
adults, exploring techniques, landscapes, histories, physiology, and the
animal kingdom in any number of insightful, beautiful, and amusing ways.
Curated by Eric Leiser. Films to be screened include "These Hammers
Don't Hurt Us" by Michael Robinson (2010), "The External World" by David
O'Reilly (2011), "Triumph of the Wild" by Martha Colburn (2009),
"Battery Cage" by Studio Smack (2009), "Mirror Moves for Private Eyes"
by Alice Cohen (2010), "Mastering Bambi" by Persijn Broerson and Margit
Luckas (2011), "Remisequenz" by Xenia Lesniewski (2010), "City of
Progress" by Justine Bennet (2008), "Forest" by Eric Leiser (2008), and
"Demons and Cathedrals" by Gina Marie Napolitan (2010).
5/22
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DISORDER
See notes for May 21, 6:30 pm.
5/22
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DISORDER
See notes for May 21, 6:30 pm.
5/22
Zurich, Switzerland: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
14:00h, Cinema Z3, Kanonengasse 20, CH-8004 Zurich
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
Andrei Ujica's film made up of more than 1000 hours of found footage.
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MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011
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5/23
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen)
THE RIVALRIES OF NAMES, FILMS BY MARY BILLYOU, FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Brooklyn Filmmaker Mary Billyou joins us to present a program of seven
short 16mm films & videos, including several recent works. Billyou is
inspired by the spirit of punk and feminism, and by the surrealist objet
trouvé and cut-up. She often works with appropriated footage,
documentary and experimental hybrid forms.TRT: 59 minutes PROGRAM: CBS
Eye 16mm, col, sound, 2010, 2 mins A color negative rayogram employing
the tails of Central Broadcasting System programs, announcing their end.
With soundtrack. Case Study #6 minidv, sound, 2010, 3.30 mins An
analysis of a young female subject, K., who describes her love for a
friend. In so doing, she reveals her struggling independence in the
midst of a frenetic environment. Case Study #8 minidv, sound, 2008, 7.30
mins A documentation of the story of A., a young female subject. The
video describes a dialogue that took place one afternoon, during which
A. discusses a painting she made. In so doing, A. reveals her
frustration in her inability to communicate, and the lack of interest
she finds within her relationships with her parents and her friends. 1-9
minidv, silent, 2007, 8 mins Early 20th century footage of convulsing
figures. Their bodies erased, covered up, whited out. A medium shot
against a makeshift background, repeating with little variation. There
are others in the frame, uniformed others: doctors, orderlies, police,
soldiers? Trouble in the trouble. – Pablo de Ocampo, Images Festival
Good Translator minidv, sound, 2007, 22 mins A short documentary about
Mohamed Yousry, a naturalized American citizen who's life changed
radically after September 11, 2001. Mohamed immigrated to the United
States in 1980. For the next twenty years, he developed a full and happy
life, as a husband, father, professional translator, and academic. On
September 13, 2001 Mohamed was approached by the FBI on his doorstep in
Queens, NY. Ours Be the Tossing Super8 transferred to minidv, sound,
2005, 7 mins "Why sing when nobody hears?" No response is made to the
letters read in this film of lonely island landscapes. Meetings are
imagined, but are never realized. Intimate yearnings and unknown bliss
intermix over flickering home movies. The Invalids 16mm, sound, 2003,
9.15 mins "…What is to become of the temperamental individual, who for
all intents and purposes is participating in the 'best' treatment
available, and continues to exhibit undesirable behaviors?" – Anonda
Bell, "Hysteria: Past Yet Present" J/M/Z Myrtle Ave/Broadway, L - Morgan
Ave or Jefferson Street
5/23
Zurich, Switzerland: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
Monday, 22:00h, Cinema Z3, Kanonengasse 20, CH-8004 Zurich
DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, B 1997
The video "Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" by Johan Grimonprez is a unique chronicle
of airplane hijackings, made up of found footage. A cult movie!
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TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011
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5/24
Zurich, Switzerland: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
22:00h, Cinema Z3, Kanonengasse 20, CH-8004 Zurich
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU
see 22 May 2011, 14:00h for details
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
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5/25
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St.)
AVANT CINEMA 4.3: 10 SHORT FILMS BY LYNNE SACHS
Q&A with Lynne Sachs via Skype, moderated by Austin experimental
filmmaker/teacher Caroline Koebel "Equal parts humanist and formalist,
poet and historian, telling tales that are both timeless and political,
Lynne Sachs creates film worlds in which the textures of daily domestic
life are seamlessly connected to the realms of war, political activism,
and our response to terrorist attacks. In one film, a grid becomes a
secret map for understanding the difference between male and female. In
another, an affectionate portrait of her young daughter becomes a study
of whirling circular energy. For each of these ten shorts, Sachs creates
a unique film language, by weaving together images, sounds, and words
that evoke a particular way of viewing the world. All of these works
reveal a sensibility that refuses to flatten either life or art,
insisting on a multilevel reality in which the personal and the
universal become doorways to a broader consciousness." --David
Finkelstein, writer for Filmthreat.com This 62-minute program of ten
films is made possible by Microcinema and their outstanding selection of
experimental films presented in digital format.
5/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://tiff.net/cinematheque
7:00pm , 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: DOUBLE TIDE
FREE EVENT! Canadian Premiere! ". . . guaranteed to lower your blood
pressure and recalibrate your mind . . . Double Tide is an atavistic
harmony of human and planetary motion." —Jeanette Catsoulis, The New
York Times A veritable balm to the senses, Double Tide is the latest
work by internationally celebrated photographer, filmmaker and
installation artist Sharon Lockhart. Divided into two equal parts
comprised of two seemingly long takes (the film was shot on 16mm, edited
and output digitally), Double Tide, like Lockhart's Millet-inspired
portrait of Japanese farmers NO (2003), uses a stationary camera to
document the movements of labour, observing clamdigger Jen Casad as she
trudges through the mudflats of coastal Maine during the natural
phenomenon in which low tide occurs twice during daylight hours, once at
dawn and once at dusk. As the magic hour hues meld with the atmospheric
changes in the landscape—its ephemeral haze, gleaming lights and
crepuscular blues—the sounds of breathing and birds, and the sucking
noise of boots and clams being pulled from the sand, emphasize the
tangibility of labour in contrast to nature's inevitable
transformations. Tranquil, mesmerizing and recalling experiments in
performative and structuralist filmmaking, Double Tide explores the
relationships between stillness and movement, dark and light, work and
time in epically Romantic proportions. Presented by TIFF Cinematheque
and Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival scotiabankcontactphoto.com
5/25
Zurich, Switzerland: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
20:15h, Cinema Z3, Kanonengasse 20, CH-8004 Zurich
BRUCE CONNER SPECIALS 1 + 2
Bruce Conner (1933 – 2008) was an American artist renowned for his work
in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and
photography. His most famous work "Crossroads" replays, at ever slower
speeds, official footage of a hydrogen bomb detonation on Bikini Atoll,
until repetition - 27 times - and slow motion transfigure its colossal
destructiveness into something hypnotically beautiful. For more programm
details see: www.videoex.ch
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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011
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5/26
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, Berlin-Mitte
FLEXFEST 2011 - SELECTED WORKS FROM THE FLORIDA EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO
FESTIVAL 2011
Directors Lounge Screening -*°*- FLEXFEST 2011 presented by Roger W.
Beebe, artistic director of Flexfest -*°*- Since its start in 2004,
Flexfest has become one of the most important festivals for experimental
media in USA. The festival is alternating between a biennal competition
and a curated program, while encouraging "artists to challenge us to
rethink what 'experimental' means. Work may draw on documentary,
animation, avant-garde, underground, or other traditions—-or no
traditions at all." Both 16mm films and digital video will be shown. And
Roger W. Beebe will be present for Q&A. -*°*- Program: Lumphini 2552
(3:00/35mm/Sep. 2009/Thailand) Zach Iannazzi Hadley Grass (3:00, Video,
2009/San Francisco, USA) Sam Green Iron-Wood (7:00/16mm/2009/Australia)
Richard Tuohy The Voyagers (16:30/DV/Jun. 2010/USA) Penny Lane Horizon
Line (1:00/HDV/USA) Katherin McInnis Somewhere Only We Know
(5:15/Video/2009/USA) Jesse McLean TUSSLEMUSCLE (5:00/16mm/Nov.
2009/USA) Steve Cossman Portrait #2: Trojan (5:00/35MM TO VIDEO/2006)
Vanessa Renwick White House (8:00/DV/2009/USA) Georg Koszulinski
Day/Night (Devil's Milhopper) (4:56/16mm/Apr. 2009/USA) Andres E. Arocha
28.IV.81 (Bedouin Sparks) (2:49/16mm/Jan. 2009/USA) Christopher Harris
-*°*- Links: http://flexfest.org -*°*- http://www.facebook.com/flexfest
-*°*- http://www.directorslounge.net -*°*- http://www.z-bar.de
5/26
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. MIRROR ANIMATIONS (extended 1979 version, 11 minutes, 35mm)
NEW PRINT! LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes, 16mm) OZ, THE TIN
WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes, 35mm) "My cinematic excreta is of
four varieties: – batiked animations made directly on film between 1939
and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide – they made me gray." –Harry Smith Total
running time: ca. 80 minutes.
5/26
San Francisco, California: Mis ALT Screening Series
http://www.othervixen.com/misalt.html
7:30pm-10pm, 2150 Folsom St.
MIS ALT SCREENING SERIES PRESENTS: MONSTROUS BODIES
The Mis ALT Screening Series is excited to announce our line-up for our
premier screening Monstrous Bodies: Films and Videos on the Politics,
Pleasures, and Possibilities of the body. Featuring work by 11 artists
spanning 3 continents including: Bernard Roddy, Tony Gault, Isabelle
Schiltz, Beast Mazique Salih, Jorge Catoni, Zachary Epstine, Randy
Sterling Hunter, Barbara Jenkins, Jonas Sebura, RKDB, and Eric Stewart.
Curated by Tessa Siddle. Thursday May 26th, 7:30-10pm At Workspaces LTD,
2150 Folsom St. $5-10 Donation
5/26
Zurich, Switzerland: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
20:15h, Cinema Z3, Kanonengasse 20, CH-8004 Zurich
BRUCE CONNER SPECIALS 1 + 2
see 25 May 2011, 20:15h for details
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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011
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5/27
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place
CARL DIEHL A SPECULATIVE GENEALOGY OF METAPHORTEAN RESEARCH
Performative lecture & video program, approximately 60 minutes. Artist
in person. Admission $6. Portland-based artist Carl Diehl presents a
night of new & recent works in connection with his "Metaphortean
Research", a project he has developed for nearly half a decade. It is
perhaps best to let Diehl describe his work: The neologized term
"Metaphortean" combines "metaphor" and "Fortean," the latter term
denoting strange, mysterious events popularized in the publications of
the independent early 20th century researcher Charles Fort. An eccentric
champion of anomalous phenomena, Fort collected facts that had allegedly
been excluded, rejected, or ignored by established science because they
were unexplainable. While Fort focused on the arbitrary borderlines
between accepted and denied explanations, Metaphortean Research puzzles
the shifting values associated with new and obsolescent media.
Persistent, if marginal, accounts of Bigfoot, UFOs and other Fortean
events will sometimes be implicitly compared with acts of technological
re-use. Alternately, ghosts and monsters may be explicitly scrutinized
in terms of their own hypothetical media consumption habits. Putting
audacity before caution, this speculative genealogy of Metaphortean
Research features short videos and performative para-lectures on topics
including atemporal network culture, the perceived obsolescence of
blurry sasquatches and wayward zombie satellites. PROGRAM A Speculative
Genealogy of Metaphortean Research. Presentation by Carl Diehl
Blobsquatch: In The Expanded Field (2007, 12min) Many Bigfoot
aficionados have dismissed "blobsquatches" (photos too blurry to be
discernible as sasquatches) as an impediment to serious cryptozoological
research. In this paranormal polemic, the Blobsquatch is engaged
critically to explore spaces between information and noise, obsolescence
and adaptive re-use. Patrolling the Ether (2009, 7 min) The end of
analog broadcasts will be a boon for electronic anomalists. In the
diaristic video essay Patrolling the Ether, eclectic electronic pursuits
including EVP, EIP and Martian radio are bandied about by a disembodied
voice emanating from beyond. Paranormal penchants aside, interviews and
examples from Portlland's Pulse Emitter reveal the always already
strange goings-on amongst electrons. Future Affluence (2011, 5 min)
Having dropped its geo-synchronous orbit, a wayward "zombie sat" offers
cryptic anecdotes on orbital debris and tech support for failed utopias.
Polterzeitgeist (2010/11, 15 min) The haunted housing market is in
ruins. In this audio-visually faugmented lecture, ghosts, poltergeists
and other liminal beings are explicitly scrutinized in terms of their
own hypothetically imperiled security in a networked economy. Carl Diehl
resides in Portland Oregon where he teaches Experimental Video
Production, Time Art and Digital Tools at the Northwest Film Center and
Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has screened in the US and
internationally at cinemas, festival and galleries including: PDX
Festival, Transmediale Festival Berlin, ADA Gallery, Millenium Film
Workshop, ATA Film & Video Festival, Other Cinema, ICE Film Festival, La
Enana Marron, Madrid, The Tank, and many others.
5/27
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
by Harry Smith 1950-61, 66 minutes, 16mm, b&w Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation and Cineric, Inc. "NO. 12 can be seen as one moment–certainly
the most elaborately crafted moment–of the single alchemical film which
is Harry Smith's life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one
of the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of
cinema. Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of
various figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects
Smith's abiding concern with auditory effects." – P. Adams Sitney
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SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2011
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5/28
Dallas, Texas: Contemplative Cinema
http://www.contemplativecinema.blogspot.com
8pm, 301 N. Waverly Dr. Dallas, TX 75219
TWO FILMS BY MELIKA BASS
At the next installment of Contemplative Cinema, we will be showing two
brand new films by Chicago filmmaker Melika Bass. Shoals, a short
feature that also functions as an installation, has been described as a
"lulling, singular peculiarity." A description from Melika's website
reads, "A prairie grotesque. On the grounds of a rural sanitarium, three
young women search for wellness, as a cult leader seeks to control their
bodies through labor and daily rituals." Also included in the program is
a short film entitled Waking Things that features the Chicago based
performance troupe Every House Has A Door. The whole program will run
about 92 minutes. ***After the screening, a Q&A will be held with Melika
via skype. Don't miss it!***
5/28
Rotterdam, NL: KUNST & COMPLEX
http://www.stopandgoshow.com
8:00 pm, KEILEWEG 26
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 .
5/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30PM, 992 Valencia Street
SAT. 5/28: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion
personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most
exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in
person—are Martha Colburn's DOLLS VS. DICTATORS, Kelly Sears' Devil's
Canyon, Carl Diehl's Polterzeitgeist, and Salise Hughes' Celluloid
Heroes Never Really Die. PLUS recent pieces by Zach Ianazzi, Doug
Katelus, Tommy Becker, Karl Lind, Bryan Boyce, Richard Mitchell, Molly
Hankwitz, James Hong/Yin-Ju Chen, and others TBA. Come early for
artists' reception, free pencils, and the Dream Machine!
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SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
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5/29
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WAVELENGTH
by Michael Snow 1967, 45 minutes, 16mm "WAVELENGTH is without precedent
in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the
relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and
object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few
films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern
painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a 'triumph of
contemplative cinema.'" – Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS, 1968
5/29
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BACK AND FORTH
by Michael Snow 1969, 52 minutes, 16mm "...This neat, finely tuned,
hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab
classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's
hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this
neckjerking camera gimmick which hits a wooden stop arm at each end of
its swing. Basically it's a perpetual motion film which ingeniously
builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point
where the camera's swinging arcs and white wall field assume the
hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. "In such a hard, drilling
work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as
any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image
outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome,
sometimes occuring with torrential frequency." –Manny Farber, ARTFORUM,
1970
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