[Frameworks] Part 1 of 2: This week [September 17 - 25, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Microscopic: An Anniversary Screening Programmed By Bradley Eros [September 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Gate Shock: New and Rare Films By Luther Price [September 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Experiment: American Falls By Philip Solomon [September 17, New York, New York]
* Adolfo Arrieta Program [September 17, New York, New York]
* Flammes [September 17, New York, New York]
* The Adventures of Sylvia Couski [September 17, New York, New York]
* Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [September 17, Tilberg]
* Funeral Parade of Roses [September 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* The 2011 Festival of (In)Appropriation [September 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Flammes [September 18, New York, New York]
* Le Chateau De Pointilly [September 18, New York, New York]
* Short Films of Toshio Matsumoto - Filmmaker In Person [September 19, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Jefre Cantu Ledesma & Paul Climson Duo [September 19, Geneva]
* Early Monthly Segments #31 = Black Audio Film Collective [September 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Screening Prypjat - Chernobyl 25 [September 20, Freiburg i. Br.]
* The White Ribbon [September 20, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Jennifer Montgomery: Transitional Objects &Amp; the Agonal Phase [September 21, Boston, MA]
* Loos Ornamental [September 21, New York, New York]
* Films By Alice Anne Parker (Anne Severson) -Aaff 50th Retrospective
Screening Series [September 22, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Videofest [September 22, Dallas Texas]
* 16mm Rapture Film Night!!! vintage Films From the 1970's!!! (2) [September 22, Harrisburg, PA]
* Goff In the Desert [September 22, New York, New York]
* San Francisco Cinematheque: Living In the World: Films By Helga Fanderl [September 22, San Francisco, California]
* Electromediascope [September 23, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Richard Kern Program 1 [September 23, New York, New York]
* Schindler's Houses [September 23, New York, New York]
* Richard Kern Program 2 [September 23, New York, New York]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Ouverture : That
70's Show (1) [September 23, New York, New York]
* Cjc From 1971 To 2011 : 40 Years of Collectif ! [September 23, Paris, France]
* Films From Four Mountain Ranges By Marcy Saude [September 23, San Francisco, California]
* Radical Light: Stories Untold [September 24, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Essential Cinema: October [September 24, New York, New York]
* The Holy Bunch [September 24, New York, New York]
* Richard Kern Program 1 [September 24, New York, New York]
* Basis of Make-Up [September 24, New York, New York]
* Richard Kern Program 2 [September 24, New York, New York]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Le Corps-Matiere (1) [September 24, Paris, France]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - La Fuite Eperdue [September 24, Paris, France]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Jeux D'images (1) [September 24, Paris, France]
* Hand-Made Animation [September 24, San Francisco, California]
* Vital Signs: videos By Dani Leventhal [September 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Old and New [September 25, New York, New York]
* Heinz Emigholz Program [September 25, New York, New York]
* Sense of Architecture [September 25, New York, New York]
* Beatrice Gibson Program [September 25, New York, New York]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Depaysements (1) [September 25, Paris, France]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Rituels (1) [September 25, Paris, France]
* Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Points De Vue
Polyphoniques (1) [September 25, Paris, France]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
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9/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
MICROSCOPIC: AN ANNIVERSARY SCREENING PROGRAMMED BY BRADLEY EROS
Admission $6. An homage inspired by this small gallery and micro-cinema,
in the form of a curated program of subterranean science films and other
works of molecular cinema, focused through a lens of miniature scale and
perception. Programmed by Bradley Eros. "Filming a once invisible world
with a once only imagined instrument." ~ Jean Painleve. With microscopic
works by Jean Painleve, Stephanie Wuertz, Elle Burchill, Charles & Ray
Eames, Woody Allen, & Bradley Eros and others, plus scenes from
Microcosmos, Fantastic Voyage, Powers of Ten & The Incredible Shrinking
Man. "The right eye's duty is to dive inside the telescope, while the
left eye interrogates the microscope." - Leonora Carrington more info
www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433, J/M/Z Myrtle-Broadway, L -
Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street.
9/17
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
GATE SHOCK: NEW AND RARE FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE
White Light Cinema is pleased to present the second program (we must
like him!) of work by acclaimed experimental filmmaker Luther Price this
year – this time with Price in person, to introduce and discuss his
work. For more than twenty-five years, Boston-area filmmaker has been
creating a raw and visceral body of work that challenges, infuriates,
shocks, fascinates, and, sometimes, soothes viewers who have think
they've seen it all. His is a gritty cinema: initially made in the
intimate Super-8 format and now mostly in 16mm. It is a handcrafted
cinema, with dozens of splices (which seem to want to fly apart at any
moment), decayed and distressed footage (buried in the ground), and
hand-painted frames (which shed a fine dust when projected). His is a
scrappy cinema, which is mostly composed from found science,
educational, porn, and other orphan films. Images are cobbled together
between generous sections of leader and sound slug. His is a fuck-you
cinema, which plunges head first into uncomfortable sexual imagery,
discomforting medical footage, heartbreaking tales of loneliness and
isolation, and a disdain for social mores. His is also a deeply moving,
intimate, revelatory, soul-searching, and profound cinema, that often
passes through the darkest dark to find some light, however faint. It is
a cinema of catharsis. PROGRAM (Not in screening order): Inkblot #40:
Sleep (2011, 3 mins. approx., 16mm) Andy Warhol (2004, 9 mins. approx.,
16mm) Sorry – Walking the Cross "Quatch" (2011, 8 mins. approx., 16mm)
Sorry #3 (2011, 11 mins. approx., 16mm) Gift Givers (2008, 8 mins.
approx., Super-8mm) The Mongrel Sister (2007, 11 mins. approx., 16mm)
Fancy (2006, 11 mins. approx., 16mm) Domestic Blue (2005, 9 mins.
approx., 16mm) Plus some surprise never-publicly-shown Super-8mm films
from 2003-2010! * NOTE: This program includes explicit material and
other material that may be disturbing to some viewers.
9/17
New York, New York: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue at 127th St. (2 or 3 train to 125th St.)
THE EXPERIMENT: AMERICAN FALLS BY PHILIP SOLOMON
American Falls, Philip Solomon, 2010, 55m. "American Falls is a
single-channel triptych adaptation of a 55-minute, six-channel,
5.1-surround installation commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. It was inspired by a trip that I took to the capital at
the invitation of the Corcoran in 1999, where I first encountered
Frederick Church's great painting Niagara; took note of a multichannel
video installation being projected onto the walls of the Corcoran
rotunda; and went on walking tours of various monuments to the "fallen"
throughout the DC area. The architecture of the rotunda in the vicinity
of Niagara invited me to muse on creating an all-enveloping, manmade
"falls", re-imagined as a WPA/Diego Rivera cine-mural, where the
mediated images of the American Dream that I had been absorbing since
childhood would flow together into the river with the roaring turbulence
of America's failures to sustain the myths and ideals so deeply embedded
in the received iconography." - Philip Solomon.
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/theexperiment.html. **The event
will be hosted by Jessica Betz, former assistant of Philip Solomon who
performed a great deal of the chemical, optical and installation work on
American Falls. Jessica will also be present for a Q&A following the
screening.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
ADOLFO ARRIETA PROGRAM
See notes for Sept. 15, 7 pm.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAMMES
In French with English subtitles, 1978, 90 minutes, video Film Notes
With Caroline Loeb, Dyonis Mascolo, Javier Grandes, Pascal Greggory,
Isabel Garcia Lorca, Marilu Marini, Jeffrey Carey, and Paquita Paquin.
Barbara, a young girl, lives in an immense house with Louis, her
divorced father, and her governess, Anne. The little girl is frequently
assailed by nightmares, repeatedly dreaming of a fireman who comes in
through the window of her bedroom while she sleeps. Louis dismisses
Anne, believing that Barbara's terror is being provoked by the
terrifying stories she tells her… "[TAM TAM was at first] an amorous
triangle between father, daughter, and governess…and suddenly I had the
vision of the fireman. … As soon as he appeared, with the madness he
provoked, I had the impression of venturing into a very different story:
an immoral tale…" –A.A.
9/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE ADVENTURES OF SYLVIA COUSKI
See notes for Sept. 16, 7:15 pm.
9/17
Tilberg: Incubate
http://incubate.org/2011/artist/96/Jefre+Cantu-Ledesma+&+Paul+Clipson
10:45pm, Koningsplein 250 5038 WK Tilburg, The Netherlands
JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON
Warm, melancholic ambient guitar noises (think stripped down My Bloody
Valentine and early Eluvium) will be supported by Super 8mm film visuals
by Paul Clipson.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011
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9/18
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
A carnivalesque melding of documentary verité and avant-garde
psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic
journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo's Shinjuku
neighborhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag
queen fending off his/her rivals. Often cited as a major inspiration for
Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Matsumoto's breakthrough film is a
visually audacious and lyrically abstract testament to the vertiginous
daring of the postwar Japanese avant-garde art and film scenes.
Matsumoto orchestrates a series of quite astonishing visual set pieces,
including actual performances by the influential Fluxus-inspired street
theater groups, the Zero Jigen and Genpei Akasegawa. Directed by Toshio
Matsumoto, Appearing in Person. With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Toyosaburo
Uchiyama Japan 1969, 35mm, b/w, 105 min.
9/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
THE 2011 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION
Dillon Rickman and Mark Toscano in person. The Festival of
(In)appropriation is back with its latest batch of contemporary short
audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose
it in "inappropriate" and inventive ways, demonstrating the range of
approaches contemporary filmmakers are taking in repurposing found
materials. Films to be screened: Lucky Strike (Shashwati Talukdar),
Interdimensional Headphase (Dillon Rickman), Camp (Peter Freund), Jive
and Tusslemuscle (Steve Cossman), The Homogenics (Gerard Freixes
Ribera), Ceibas Epilogue: The Well of Representation (Evan Meaney), The
Voyagers (Penny Lane), February 2008 & June 1967 (Mark Toscano), Avo
(Muidumbe)/Granny (Muidumbe) (Raquel Schefer), Kanye West Apologizes to
George W. Bush (Jaimz Asmundson), Self-Destruction for Eternity
(Wei-Ming Ho), Palindromia (Lab Collective), and A Reasonable Man (Brian
L. Frye).
9/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAMMES
See notes for Sept. 17, 7:15 pm.
9/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
LE CHATEAU DE POINTILLY
See notes for Sept. 15, 9 pm.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
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9/19
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
SHORT FILMS OF TOSHIO MATSUMOTO - FILMMAKER IN PERSON
For My Crushed Right Eye (Tsuburekakatta migime no tame ni) Japan 1969,
16mm for three projectors, color, 13 min Silver Wheel (Ginrin) Japan
1955, 35mm, b/w, 12 min Song of the Stone (Ishi no Uta) Japan 1963,
16mm, b/w, 24 min Ecstasis Japan 1969, 16mm, b/w, 11 min Atman Japan
1975, 16mm, color, 12 min Everything Visible Is Empty (Shiki soku ze ku)
Japan 1975, 16mm, color, 8 min
9/19
Geneva: Le Kab de L'Usine
http://www.lekab.ch/site/jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-climson-duo-2/
9pm, 4, place des Volontaires 1204 Geneva | Switzerland
JEFRE CANTU LEDESMA & PAUL CLIMSON DUO
Super 8mm film collages projected with layered guitar and synth drones.
9/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
9:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #31 = BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE
Early Monthly Segments is proud to present a rare 16mm print of Black
Audio Film Collective's Handsworth Songs. The film takes as its point of
departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the
Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London.
Running throughout Handsworth Songs is the idea that the riots were the
outcome of a protracted suppression by British society of black
presence. The film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret
history of dissatisfaction that is connected to the national drama of
industrial decline. The 'Songs' of the title do not reference musicality
but instead invoke the idea of documentary as a poetic montage of
associations from British documentarians John Grierson & Humphrey
Jennings. Inaugurated in the UK in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, the
seven-person Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) included John Akomfrah,
Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson
and Trevor Mathison and produced award winning film, photography, slide,
video, installation, posters, interventions. Programme: Handsworth
Songs, Black Audio Film Collective, 1986, 16mm, UK, 60 min. screening
with Dark by Paul Winkler, 1974, 16mm, Australia, 14 min. @ The
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom,1214 Queen Street West, Monday, September 19,
2011 **9 PM show** $5 – 10 suggested donation
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
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9/20
Freiburg i. Br.: Directors Lounge
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
19:30, Kommunales Kino Freiburg e.V.
SCREENING PRYPJAT - CHERNOBYL 25
Pripyat – the Uncanny of Modernity -*°*- 175 mins -*°*- Presented by
Klaus W. Eisenlohr. The film program comprises films representing
visions of the abandoned city of Pripyat by artists and documentary
filmmakers, and imaginations of futures under the influence of "peaceful
nuclear energy". Gair Dunlop confronts historical material about the
glorious future that Dounreay Atomic Research Establishment would
provide with his own camera footage, shot after the shut-down of the
research power plant (Atom Town: Life After Technology). Now a ruin that
still radiates, Dounreay does not attract nuclear tourists, unlike
Chernobyl, which has become a popular destinations for photographers and
other contemporary "explorers". Julio Soto presents his imagination of
cities after a climate or nuclear catastrophe in virtual images
(Invisible Cities) just before he went to Pripyat himself in order to
make a documentary about past and present inhabitants of the forbidden
zone (Radiophobia). Vanessa Renwick in glorious pictures celebrates the
good-bye to Trojan, a power-plant in the US that may be the equivalent
to Brokdorf in Germany concerning the long-lasting local protests, but
which was never going on-grid (Portrait #2: Trojan). And Thomas Bartels
reflects in poetic pictures of 16mm film the mood of the year 1986, now
almost a documentary of the mood in Germany under the influence of the
clouds of Chernobyl (Zwischenlandung). -*°*- Chernobyl may have become
the symbol for the crumbled future visions of modern prosperity made
possible by peaceful nuclear energy, and for the apocalyptic
imaginations of a modern catastrophe. However, it has also triggered an
array of aspirations for adventures. Maybe less so the actual melted and
broken reactor, shielded under a crumbling "sarcophagus" but the ghost
town Pripyat, once a young modernist city, has become a collective
iconographic symbol for the uncanny modernity that seems to attract
people in many ways. -*°*- Hanne Adam + Thierry Buysse -
www.reactor4.be, Chernobyl & Pripyat with experimental music, 2009,
10:33 min, DE/BE -*°*- Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Phantasma Pripyat, 2011,
12:36 min, DE -*°*- Gair Dunlop, Atom Town: Life After Technology, 2011,
22:07, UK -*°*- Andrea Slavik, Nuclear Energy, 2011, 06:47, US -*°*-
Vanessa Renwick, Portrait #2: Trojan, 2006, 05:14, US -*°*- Anders
Weberg, Peaceful Atom, 2009, 02:19, SWE -*°*- Sarah Breen Lovett,
Immaterial Meshup, 2008, 03:40, AUS -*°*- Nicky Larkin, Pripyat, 2007,
16:00, NE -*°*- Julio Soto, Invisible Cities, 2003, 06:17, ESP -*°*-
Thomas Bartels, Zwischenlandung, 1986, 13:20, DE -*°*- Julio Soto,
Radiophobia, 2005, 54:00, ESP
9/20
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts
THE WHITE RIBBON
- The White Ribbon (2009, 144 min.) by MICHAEL HANEKE . "A village in
Protestant northern Germany, 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The
story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village
schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor,
the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and
gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it
all?" –Cannes Film Festival (winner of the Palme d'Or)
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
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9/21
Boston, MA: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8:00pm, FILM Department | Screening Rm 1
JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS & THE AGONAL PHASE
MassArt FILM SOCIETY presents: JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS
& THE AGONAL PHASE PROGRAM: ...TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS 2000, TRT 19
minutes, 16mm & video Distributed by Video Data Bank (vdb.org)
"Begun as a consideration of the upgrading from manual to digital film
editing techniques,Transitional Objects explores the anxiety and loss
inevitable in such a transition while also suggesting the consequences
of other life transitions. The video takes its title from D.W.
Winnicott's theory of children's use of transitional objects to
negotiate the gaps between internal reality and the shared reality of
people and things. Remarkably layered, Transitional Objects weaves
together considerations of splicing, Winnicott, sewing, motherhood, new
technology and loss of mastery." -Carl Bogner"Playtime with
psychoanalytic theory mischief-maker Jennifer Montgomery, who toys with
the boundaries between self and other, and sutures together chimeras
before your eyes."-New York Video Festival THE AGONAL PHASE 2010, TRT 42
minutes, HD with Christopher Montgomery, Laszlo McKenzie, and Vivian
Montgomery. Distributed by Video Data Bank (vdb.org) In the aftermath of
a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so
deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and
listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections
consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside
of the terribly interiorized state of mourning. JM "The agonal phase:
the visible events that take place when life is in the act of
extricating itself from protoplasm too compromised to sustain it any
longer. They are like some violent outbursts of protest arising deep in
the primitive unconscious raging against the too-hasty departure of the
spirit; no matter its preparation by even months of antecedent illness,
the body often is reluctant to agree to the divorce." Sherwin Nuland,
How We Die Jennifer Montgomery's film titles include Deliver (2008),
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Threads of Belonging (2003),
Transitional Objects (2000), Troika, (1998), Art For Teachers of
Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990),
and Home Avenue (1989). Her newest film, The Agonal Phase (2010),
premiered at the New York Film Festival. These films range from
experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by
Zeitgeist Films, Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data
Bank. Her work has shown at international festivals, as well as the 2008
Whitney Biennial (NYC), MoMA (NYC), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the
Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), and the Walker Arts
Center (Minneapolis). She has been the recipient of many grants,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She now lives in Arlington, MA.
Entrance to MassART Film Society is through Public Safety on TETLOW ST.
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
9/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LOOS ORNAMENTAL
SULLIVAN'S BANKS / SULLIVANS BANKEN 1993-2000, 38 minutes, 35mm. During
the twilight of his career, legendary Chicago architect Louis Sullivan –
called the 'Father of Modernism' – constructed the eight banks that are
showcased here. Collectively referred to as Sullivan's Jewel Boxes,
these banks are located in ordinary small towns across America's
heartland. & LOOS ORNAMENTAL 2008, 72 minutes, 35mm. The film shows 27
still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos
(1870–1933) in order of their construction. Loos was one of the pioneers
of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against
ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural
theory. Total running time: ca. 115 minutes.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
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9/22
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:30 pm, Michigan Theater
FILMS BY ALICE ANNE PARKER (ANNE SEVERSON) -AAFF 50TH RETROSPECTIVE
SCREENING SERIES
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) launches its 50th season in September
with a five-part Retrospective Screening Series, which presents
influential and rare films from its five decades of ground breaking
exhibition. Alice Anne Parker (a.k.a Anne Severson) will present five of
her films, made between 1969-1974, as well as films by Gunvor Nelson,
Jay Cassidy, and Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley. Parker will be
interviewed by artist Holly Hughes after the screening. Parker will be
showing I CHANGE I AM THE SAME (1 min, 1969); RIVERBODY (7 min, 1970);
NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA (17 min, 1972); INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES (5 min,
1972); STRUGGLE OF THE MEAT (4 min, 1974); and TAKE OFF (Gunvor Nelson,
10 min, 1972); BEST OF MAY,1968 (Jay Cassidy, 3 min, 1972); THE OFF
HANDED JAPE (Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley, 9 min, 1967). All films
presented on 16mm.
9/22
Dallas Texas: Video Assocaition of Dallas
http://www.videofest.org/
7 PM, Angelika Theater Mockingbird Station
VIDEOFEST
Dallas, TX – The 24th Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film
Center Sept. 22-25,2011. The oldest and largest video and film festival
in the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional,
national and international video and film artists that are hard to find
at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because
VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to
a movie, expect something different! For the third year in a row, the
VideoFest will be presented thru I-Tunes. VideoFest is presented by
Video Association of Dallas. ABOUT VIDEOFEST VideoFest is now the oldest
and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner
critical and popular acclaim. Since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in
independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting
hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or
elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social
relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly
available on the Internet, VideoFest provides curatorial guidance, a
critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse
landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic
significance. The event still provides a communal environment for
real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences.
9/22
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/?q=node%2F65
8:00pm, 1306 N. 3rd St..
16MM RAPTURE FILM NIGHT!!! VINTAGE FILMS FROM THE 1970'S!!! (2)
16MM 1970's Rapture Film Night Part 3!!! @ MOVIATE Thursday - September
22, 2011 Admission = $5 Donation Yes, it is part 3 of our 5 part series
of 16mm Religious Rapture Scare Films!! Don't worry if you missed others
in the series as they all stand on their own! Come and learn how not to
go to Hell!! Scare yourself silly by experiencing these films on 16mm
film, the way they were meant to be seen in schools and churches! Come
out and enjoy the end of days here with us at MOVIATE!!!
http://www.moviate.org/?q=node%2F65
9/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GOFF IN THE DESERT
by Heinz Emigholz 2003, 110 minutes, 35mm (GOFF IN DER WÜSTE) Documents
62 buildings – from small petrol stations to representative museums –
designed by Bruce Goff (1904-82), the great unknown of a distinctively
American form of architecture. As such, it is the first comprehensive
filmic catalogue of nearly all his surviving creations. Goff is the
great unknown of a distinctively American form of architecture. His
constructions and designs run contrary to the ideals of the well-known
International Style movement. Sparking legendary controversies during
his lifetime, his work has paved the way for new, as yet unimaginable
avenues in architecture. This film, the seventh in Emigholz's series,
PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND, was shot over 40 days during a 9,200-mile
journey across the US, and constitutes an open-minded look at the spaces
Bruce Goff created.
9/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE: LIVING IN THE WORLD: FILMS BY HELGA FANDERL
"Working with film since the late 1980s—exclusively in Super-8mm—the
German-born and Paris-based artist Helga Fanderl is a master of
cinematic duration and the in-camera edit, each of her over 700 short
films a small epiphany of graphic composition and poetic form. As if
taking cues from the latent lyricism discoverable at the margins of
certain 'structuralist' works—including films of Gehr, Snow, Stark and
Warhol—Fanderl's compact and formal works (which resemble superficially
travelogues and portraits) are subtly revelatory of a vibrant world of
energy and light embodied in (and flowing through) the surfaces of the
physical world. Tonight's screening presents an approximately
sixty-minute—all silent—program of short works ranging from 1–3 minutes
each in Super-8mm format as well as in 16mm blow up." (Steve Polta). $10
general; $7 SFMOMA or Cinematheque members, students and seniors.
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9/23
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
Lives on Hold: Searching for Agency and Identity in a Changing World.
The works included in Lives on Hold examine different cultural,
social-ecological and political instances where the socially determined
rights of agency and mobility that exist between individuals,
institutions and governments are increasingly challenged, systematized
and withheld. In recent history the actions of individuals and numerous
civil rights movements have gained critical international support for
issues of freedom in specific locations around the world and this has
led in many instances to more tolerance, cultural diversity and empathy
for alternative points of view. In the West feminists re-defined the
gendered territory of the male-dominated art world, and helped
re-contextualize what it means to be feminine from a non-male
perspective for peoples around the world. Today's pervasive and
protracted conditions of warfare, diasporas, and displacement coupled
with the ubiquity and emptiness of non-place and proliferating forms of
deterritorialization are woven into the fabric of all places and
countries. Urban street culture, gated communities and suburban "safety"
enclaves have conflicting cultural connotations and meanings depending
on differing desires, expectations and social mores. Empty nightscapes
of surveillance, remote sensing, capture and control are pervasive
topics that the news media does not discuss, but instead exploit in
their nightly theaters of attraction and fear. The borderguard accesses
and interprets the cloaked, invisible and virtual data of personal
identity information of immigrants, transients, exiles and travelers. At
another scale, a global mesh of fragmented local and regional
territories have become sites of marginalization, containment and
exclusion, where the suspended lives of refugees, migrant workers, and
disenfranchised people have been relegated to a kind of non-status with
little or no agency or volition. The video works in Lives on Hold
present examples of successful revolution and the continuing struggle
between the forces of stasis and change. They document escalating
political and cultural contention that questions limits to mobility and
cultural expression. Their works cause us to think about the
celebrations and also the losses of human potential, self-actualization
and creativity, and what it means to be human in today's worldwide
social-ecological context. The late capitalist and totalitarian forces
of commodification, containment and control are often established under
agendas of exclusivity, security and national chauvinism. If such
conditions persist, and it is likely that they will, the potential
arises for a global future where the haves and the have-nots become
increasingly segregated and controlled in what could be the most serious
cultural, ecological and social dilemma that our planet faces. –Patrick
Clancy. In Order Not To Be Here, Deborah Stratman (USA), 2002, 16 mm
film shown on video, 33:00 min. Contained Mobility, Ursula Biemann
(Switzerland), 2004, video, 21:25 min. Stranger Comes to Town,
Jacqueline Goss (USA), 2007, video, 28:30 min. Part of a 3-part series
on Sept. 9, 16 and 23.
9/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 1
Richard Kern's controversial, unconventional, and darkly comedic short
films earned him immediate distinction in the 1980s underground film
circuit. A prime figure in the "Cinema of Transgression" group of that
era, Kern is likely more recognized today for his erotic photographs,
books, and videos. Looking back it is clear that Kern's Super-8 films
were an attack on the entrenched avant-garde and a close-up examination
of highly subversive behavior. Starring the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick
Zedd, David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, Lung Leg, Henry Rollins, and
Kembra Pfahler, featuring original soundtracks by musicians such as
Foetus and Sonic Youth, and widely distributed on VHS during the
burgeoning days of alternative and punk music, Kern's films remain
shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite
wonderful. These eye-opening works still rattle the senses. In
conjunction with a group show featuring his photographs at the gallery
Maccarone (630 Greenwich Street; www.maccarone.net), opening on
September 9, and to celebrate Anthology's preservation of a number of
his works, we present this two-program survey of Kern's most notable
films. Along with a few surprises! "[Kern's] angry, sick, amusing,
abusing, sexy, idiotic, nihilistic, voyeuristic, psychotic shorts and
twisted music videos provided the fulcrum around which the Cinema of
Transgression revolved." –FILM THREAT PROGRAM 1: GOODBYE 42ND STREET
(1983, 4 minutes, Super8mm-to-16mm) Newly preserved, with support from
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Kern films the
storefronts of famous 42nd Street: the fast-food stands, the sex shops,
the grindhouse and porn theaters, and interrupts the visit with random
acts of violence. THE KING OF SEX (1987, 5 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD
video) Featuring Nick Zedd. Music by Killdozer. A man demonstrates his
virility. YOU KILLED ME FIRST (1985, 12 minutes, Super8mm-to-16mm) Newly
preserved, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. Featuring Karen Finley, David Wojnarowicz, and Lung Leg. During
Thanksgiving dinner, a young woman recalls family milestones that helped
shape her outlook on life. THE EVIL CAMERAMAN (1986/90, 12 minutes,
Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Jap Anne and Jackie O. Music by Foetus
Corp. Radical change in Kern's cinema. The filmmaker tries to manipulate
his models who suddenly show unexpected resistance. THE SEWING CIRCLE
(1992, 7 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Kembra Pfahler. Kern
films the extreme piercing operation made on performance artist and
singer of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Kembra Pfahler. X IS Y
(1990, 4 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Jackie O and Cristina.
Music by Cop Shoot Cop. A bunch of sexy women play with the preferred
toy of primal dominant males: the automatic weapon. THE BITCHES (1992,
10 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video, b&w) Music by Jim Coleman. Two women,
one man, three bitches. Or how to surprise the average porn watcher.
Plus one secret movie! Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
9/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCHINDLER'S HOUSES
SCHINDLER'S HOUSES / SCHINDLERS HÄUSER 2007, 99 minutes, 35mm. In and
around Los Angeles, the houses of Austro-American architect Rudolf M.
Schindler are as celebrated as those of Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom
Schindler once worked. Here Emigholz documents 40 of Schindler's
buildings. "I would happily rank SCHINDLER'S HOUSES on the short list of
essential modern movies about our city's physical and social geography."
–Scott Foundas, L.A. WEEKLY & MAILLART'S BRIDGES / MAILLARTS BRÜCKEN
(1995-2000, 24 minutes, 35mm) Robert Maillart (1872–1940) revolutionized
concrete-based construction. This film shows fourteen roof constructions
and bridges that he designed and built. Total running time: ca. 125
minutes.
9/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES (PARTS 1 AND 3) (1985, 18 minutes,
Super8mm-to-HD video, b&w) "Stray Dogs" (Part 1): The thwarted and
destructive loves of an art lover facing his idol. Featuring David
Wojnarowicz and Bill Rice. Music by J.G. Thirlwell. "Thrust In Me" (Part
3): This provocative film probably shows the synthesis of the Cinema of
Transgression by illustrating the worst taboos. Featuring Nick Zedd and
others. Music by The Dream Syndicate. SUBMIT TO ME (1985, 12 minutes,
Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Lydia Lunch and others. Music by
Butthole Surfers. A series of decadent portraits in which sex, bondage,
blood, and violence collide. PIERCE (1986, 9 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD
video) Featuring Audrey Rose. A bored young woman decides to let a
friend pierce her nipples. FINGERED (1986, 22 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD
video, b&w) Featuring Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, and Marty Nations. The
misadventures of a sex phone operator after she meets a sexually
depraved psychopath. MY NIGHTMARE (1993, 5 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD
video) Featuring Susan McNamara. Music by Joe Budenhauser. Kern
ironically makes fun of the photography profession and the advantages it
provides with women. Plus one secret movie! Total running time: ca. 70
minutes.
9/23
: Centre Georges Pompidou
http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=147
8:00pm, Cinéma 2
LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - OUVERTURE : THAT
70'S SHOW (1)
LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - OUVERTURE : THAT
70'S SHOW Séance présentée par Laurence Rebouillon et
Marcel Mazé De la rencontre de Marcel Mazé avec Jonas Mekas
lors de la vision de "Notes on the circus", que Marcel Mazé
programmait aux Rencontres internationales de Hyères,
naîtra l'envie de créer le Collectif Jeune Cinéma
sur le modèle de la Film-Makers' Cooperative de New York.
Voici un panorama éclectique des cinéastes de la
première décennie de la coopérative. - "Notes on
the circus" de Jonas Mekas, - "Focalises" de Marcel Mazé, 1980 -
"Le départ d'Eurydice" de Raphaël Bassan - "Merce
Cunningham" de Jackie Raynal - "Ex-tension" de Jean-Paul Dupuis -
"Celluloid Heroes" de Jérôme de Missolz -
"Scène de ménage" chez les gauchistes de Pierre
Merejkowsky - "Die Strassen sind voll von grossartigen Technikern" de
Jürgen Salk - "Scopolamine" de Robert Withers
http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=147
9/23
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8pm, Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2
CJC FROM 1971 TO 2011 : 40 YEARS OF COLLECTIF !
On September, from 23 to 25, the Pompidou Center welcomes us for a
week-end of exploration of the catalogue and the history of the CJC.
9/23
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8:00pm, 992 Valencia Street at 21st
FILMS FROM FOUR MOUNTAIN RANGES BY MARCY SAUDE
A program of recent experimental documentary shorts investigating
marginal histories embedded in the landscape. Fragmented tales of
outlaws, back-to-the-landers, farmers, and most of all- mountains.
Former gold rush boom towns; serial killers in Santa Cruz, California;
anabaptist folk medicine as performance art; anarchists and Comanche
re-enactors; a rural festival of antique farming technology; quiet looks
at counterculture architecture; lots of mountain-gazing in the Rockies,
the Sangre de Cristos, Southern Appalachia and the California Redwoods;
and attempts to push against the edges of non-fiction form. Approximate
program running time: 70 minutes. Screening: Murder Capital, 10 min,
2007; This Kind of Town, 6 min, 2010; The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel,
27 min, 2010; Sangre de Cristo, 26 min, 2011. all films: 16mm
transferred to digital video.
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