[Frameworks] This week [April 21 - 29, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [April 21 - 29, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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"Diluvi Privati I" by Andrea Vincenzi
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THE BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM: MEDIA ARTS IN FOCUS (MALI) (Ghana; Deadline: May 02, 2012)
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INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATORY (Ghana; Deadline: October 02, 2012)
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Documentary shorts (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Beloit Film Festival (Beloit, WI, United States; Deadline: November 20, 2012)
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25 FPS International experimental film and video festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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Unreal Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Cellardoor Cinema Screenplay Contest (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012)
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Greentopia Festival (Rochester, NY, United States; Deadline: July 02, 2012)
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Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: May 18, 2012)
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Avanca Film festival (Avanca, Portugal; Deadline: April 30, 2012)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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The Journal of Short Film Volume 27 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012)
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The Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Siciliambiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito lo Capo, Tp, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2012)
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MisALT Screening Series Presents: Vulgar Politics (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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Surplus/Lack (San Francisco Bay Area, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto; Deadline: May 04, 2012)
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International Video Art Festival “NOW&AFTER’12” (Moscow, Russia; Deadline: April 25, 2012)
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Radon Lake (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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Manipulated Image @ art:screen fest 2012 in Sweden (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2012)
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THE BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM: MEDIA ARTS IN FOCUS (MALI) (Ghana; Deadline: May 02, 2012)
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Documentary shorts (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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25 FPS International experimental film and video festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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Unreal Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Cellardoor Cinema Screenplay Contest (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012)
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Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: May 18, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Print Generation [April 21, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Films By Lewis Klahr & Laida Lertxundi [April 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Cecilia Dougherty Program 2 [April 21, New York, New York]
* Cecilia Dougherty Program 3 [April 21, New York, New York]
* Ken Adams' Mckenna Experience + Goldwave + Dmt + [April 21, San Francisco, California]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Bright Ideas: Conceptual Art Films From Los
Angeles [April 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 2 [April 22, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Text of Light [April 22, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 3 [April 22, New York, New York]
* Anthony Mccall's Line Describing A Cone [April 23, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Bill Morrison- Miners, Bridges, Lost Love and Other Retrieved Treasures [April 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Moolaadé By Ousmane Sembene [April 24, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Craig Baldwin In Denver!! [April 25, Denver, CO]
* Dirty Looks: Warren Sonbert | Tom Chomont [April 25, New York, New York]
* La Air: John Palmer [April 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Design In Motion: Oskar Fischinger and Abstract Animation [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 27, New York, New York]
* Robert Nelson Program 1 [April 27, New York, New York]
* Tech Focus ii: Caring For Film and Slide Art [April 27, Washington, DC]
* New Works Salon [April 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 28, New York, New York]
* Robert Nelson Program 2 [April 28, New York, New York]
* Robert Nelson Program 3 [April 28, New York, New York]
* Divine's Technicolor Dreams: Cinematic Psychedelia + [April 28, San Francisco, California]
* Screening: the Pipedreams Project & Someday All of This Will Be Yours [April 28, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Same Sex/Different Sex: Queer Identity and
Culture [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Mi_losangeles2012: “Memory” and "Identity" [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 29, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 1 [April 29, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 2 [April 29, New York, New York]
* Robert Nelson Program 4 [April 29, New York, New York]
* Robert Nelson Program 5 [April 29, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
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4/21
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7:00pm, 559 Washington Street
PRINT GENERATION
J.J. Murphy's rarely screened, seminal exploration of film and memory.
Re-printing one minute of film 50 times, Murphy pushes the limits of
film's materiality to create a profound journey from abstraction to
representation & back again. RESTORATION PRINT!
4/21
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
FILMS BY LEWIS KLAHR & LAIDA LERTXUNDI
$5 / Master collagist Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. He
is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic experimental films, which have
screened extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. "Above all
Klahr's great subject is time, which certainly explains the exquisitely
melancholy tone that pervades his work. He traffics in modes that are
pitched just beyond the realm of reason. Somewhere between waking and
sleeping, we can find that wavelength and achieve understanding--only to
have it slip away as we enter ones state or the other. Klahr's films and
videos provide a rare opportunity for us to engage with a liminal state
of consciousness with our alert mind and to reach those "infrathin"
moments that Proust describes as existing outside of time."-- Chris
Stults, Film Comment. Laida Lertxundi makes films with non-actors that
evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate
arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments
can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how
viewers' desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of
storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and
music with found locales, constructed situations, and quotidian
environments. Shot within and around Los Angeles, her films map out a
geography of landscapes transformed by affective and subjective states.
Her films have been selected for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and other
venues and festivals where her work has been shown include MoMA, LACMA,
the Viennale, "Views from the Avant Garde" at the New York Film
Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Program:
Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (2009, Digital Video), Lethe (2009, Digital
Video), and Two Hours To Zero (2004, 16mm) by Lewis Klahr; Footnotes to
a House of Love (2007), My Tears Are Dry (2009), Llora Cuando Te Pase /
Cry When It Happens (2010), and A Lax Riddle Unit (2011) (all 16mm) by
Laida Lertxundi. LEWIS KLAHR AND LAIDA LERTXUNDI IN ATTENDANCE!
4/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
CECILIA DOUGHERTY PROGRAM 2
COAT OF ARMS (1987, 16 minutes, slow scan remote video capture, silent)
This piece is an enjoyment of the artifice of video – its colors,
shapes, and electronic games. THE THIRD SPACE (2009, 27 minutes, video)
This piece grew out of my photo blog, QUOTIDIAN NEW YORK, which I used
as a portable studio to record and archive pictures I took on my daily
rounds. CLAUDIA (1987, 8 minutes, video) An examination of the
possibility that anything as marginal to society as lesbian sex can be
placed within a context of a normal life, domestic architecture, and
mundane perspective – not an exercise in invisibility, but as an
examination of everyday life itself. MY FAILURE TO ASSIMILATE (1995, 20
minutes, video) An essay and a documentary examining the failure of
society to accept feminist ideologies to a point where feminism could
have an appreciable, lasting, or functional effect on the lives of
ordinary women as a class. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
4/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
CECILIA DOUGHERTY PROGRAM 3
OCCUPY WALL STREET REDUX (2011, 14.5 minutes, video, silent)
Impressions, regressions, confessions. A sampling of direct democracy;
thinking of times past, and takin' it to the streets. It's not a
documentary, so it doesn't have to pretend to be objective. Footage from
OWS NYC Sept-Nov 2011. THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD (1992, 5.5 minutes,
video) Inspired by psychologist Alice Miller's book THE DRAMA OF THE
GIFTED CHILD: THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUE SELF. While not an adaptation of
the book, my video is an essay on the transference phenomenon,
narcissism, and the desire for a sense of self-worth based on the needs
of peers and the standards of others. JOE-JOE 1993, 52 minutes, video.
Co-directed and co-produced by Leslie Singer and Cecilia Dougherty. An
adaptation of the diaries of 1960s British bad-boy playwright Joe Orton.
This may be an entirely new genre of biopic, as JOE-JOE presents Orton
not as one talented gay rogue, but as two fabulous and talented gay
women, both named Joe Orton. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes
4/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
KEN ADAMS' MCKENNA EXPERIENCE + GOLDWAVE + DMT +
In this West Coast launch of Incite's New Ages issue, Adams (former Rose
X), having ejected from Texas for new digs in the Bay Area, unveils the
NorCal debut of his hr.-plus Terence McKenna Experience. Adams has
crafted an experimental electronic essay by and about the rogue
intellectual, spoken-word artist, and psychedelic visionary, infused
into a multi-temporal cascade of imagery, ideas, and mesmerizing music.
Supporting this hallucinatory homage, as the final installment of our
OptrOnica thread, is the live-cinema collective Goldwave (Cyrus Tabar,
Shemoel Recalde, Josh Roberts) with its ravishing A/V synthesis. PLUS
Mitch Schultz' DMT: The Spirit Molecule, with Ralph Abraham. Come early
for Jordan Belson, the Whitney Brothers, and the Dream Machine. $6.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012
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4/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm (doors open 7, box office opens 6:30), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS BRIGHT IDEAS: CONCEPTUAL ART FILMS FROM LOS
ANGELES
Los Angeles was one of the centers of Conceptual Art production, as
reflected by multiple Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. Where
sculptural and installation manifestations of Conceptual Art are more
widely known, film and video also served as media for these sorts of
explorations – works in which the concept preceded the work, and for
which one could theoretically conceive the work with the rules
themselves. The program includes a wide array of works by artists known
both for working in other media and in film. Several will be in person.
The program includes works by artists more known for working in other
media, such as John Baldessari, Jack Goldstein, and David Wilson, and
for those working in film, such as Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Roberta
Friedman, Grahame Weinbren, and Susan Rosenfeld. In person: Thom
Andersen, Morgan Fisher, more to be confirmed Info:
http://alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/bright-ideas-conceptu
al-art-films/ The show is free! Reservations recommended, and will be
held until 7:15 pm on show night, at which time they will be released to
anyone present. Reservations available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239612
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 2
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
(1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD
(1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES
(1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF
WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT,
Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period.
This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a
camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films,
BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 minutes, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force
exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light."
–Dun Scotus Erigena
4/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 3
All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON
SAGA (1970, 29 minutes, 16mm) THE MACHINE OF EDEN (1970, 11 minutes,
16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 minutes, 16mm) DOOR (1971, 4
minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 minutes,
16mm) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 minutes, 16mm) A selection
from some of Brakhage's most densely mysterious works. Total running
time: ca. 90 minutes.
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MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
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4/23
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street (ROOM B-04)
ANTHONY MCCALL’S LINE DESCRIBING A CONE
Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing
with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the
light-beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded when
it strikes a flat surface (the screen). The film exists only in the
present: the moment of projection. It refers to nothing beyond this real
time. The form of attention required on the part of the viewer is
unprecedented. No longer is one viewing position as good as any other.
For this film every viewing position presents a different aspect. The
view therefore has a participatory role in apprehending the event: he or
she can – indeed needs to move around, relative to the emerging
light-form. – Anthony McCall Directed by Anthony McCall USA 1973, 16mm,
b/w, silent, 30 min
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2012aprjun/mccall.html
4/23
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
BILL MORRISON- MINERS, BRIDGES, LOST LOVE AND OTHER RETRIEVED TREASURES
Los Angeles premiere | The Miners' Hymns (USA/UK, 2011, 52 min, HD)
Since The Film of Her (1996), award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has
completed more than 20 experimental pieces in which he poetically and
rhythmically reworks archival footage in various stages of preservation
or decomposition. With The Miners' Hymns, he teams up with Icelandic
composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to celebrate the culture and political
struggles of the Durham collieries in northeastern England. Weaving
together stunning black-and-white footage from the early 1900s through
the massive 1984 strikes, the film montages different aspects of the
miners' lives—the hardship of pit work, the role of the trade unions,
the tradition of the colliery brass bands and the annual Miners' Gala in
Durham. A selection of earlier short films, including Outerborough
(2005) and Release (2010) rounds out the evening. In person: Bill
Morrison
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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
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4/24
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
MOOLAADé BY OUSMANE SEMBENE
Moolaadé (2005, 124 min) is a rousing polemic directed against the still
common African practice of female circumcision. The action is set in a
small African village, where four young girls facing ritual
"purification" flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a
strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter
from mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé
(sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing
stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists (both male and
female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the
heir-apparent to the tribal throne. "It's … Sembene's most beautiful
film; having avoided prettifying exotica during his whole career, the
aging master was able to relax and enjoy the shade-dappled sunniness of
his native land, making his most issue-oriented film also his most
Renoirian."- Michael Atkinson (in Bambara with subtitles)
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
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4/25
Denver, CO: Counterpath
http://counterpathpress.org/craig-baldwins-sonic-outlaws-wednesday-april-25-2012-7-p-m
7pm, 613 22nd St
CRAIG BALDWIN IN DENVER!!
Come out to Counterpath Press Gallery and rail against the machine with
Craig Baldwin in the flesh, talking about and screening his
culture-jamming collage essay film SONIC OUTLAWS
http://counterpathpress.org/craig-baldwins-sonic-outlaws-wednesday-april
-25-2012-7-p-m
4/25
New York, New York: Dirty Looks
http://dirtylooksnyc.org
8:30PM, Judson Memorial Church / 55 Washington Square South
DIRTY LOOKS: WARREN SONBERT | TOM CHOMONT
From the late sixties until their untimely deaths (in 1995 and 2010,
respectively) Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont made some of the most
innovative and thrilling film and video diaries around. Documenting
queer experience from wild sixties drug cultures to the regressive,
Reaganite years of the early AIDS crisis, these lyrical works delve into
the quotidian, showcasing explicit drug use, S&M rituals, kittens at
play, hardcore sexuality, and Grace Jones. PROGRAM Warren Sonbert,
Amphetamine (with Wendy Appel), 16mm, 10 min., 1966 | Tom Chomont,
Jabbok, 16mm, 3 min., 1967 | Warren Sonbert, Divided Loyalties, 16mm, 22
min., 1975-78 | Tom Chomont, Razor Head, 16mm, 4 min., 1984 | Warren
Sonbert, Honor and Obey, 16mm, 21 min., 1987 | Tom Chomont, Slash
Portrait, Video, 7 min., 1994
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
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4/26
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
LA AIR: JOHN PALMER
LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles
filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a
four-week period. Our April resident, John Palmer, plans to work on a
series of hand-processed photogram 16mm films, a video about secrets,
and—time-willing—a work-in-progress using manipulated projection and
live performance. John Palmer is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary
artist and designer. His work includes film, video, photography, and
sculpture, and has been exhibited internationally, including venues such
as Southern Exposure, SF Cameraworks, Black Maria Gallery, Blaffer
Gallery, La Enana Marron, Artists Space, Pacific Film Archive and
Millennium Film Workshop. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art
Institute and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium
and the James Broughton Film Award. FREE!
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012
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4/27
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
7:30 pm, Bing Theatre, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
DESIGN IN MOTION: OSKAR FISCHINGER AND ABSTRACT ANIMATION
Center for Visual Music and LACMA present two programs of experimental
animation and abstraction by artists working in California, screened on
35mm and 16mm film. Featuring films by Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Bruce
Conner, Harry Smith, Jules Engel, Charles Dockum and more, the programs
are presented in conjunction with the exhibition California Design
1930-1965, Living in a Modern Way. 1st program: Optical Poetry, Oskar
Fischinger Retrospective. The Oskar Fischinger Retrospective features
restored 35mm prints of his classic visual music films: Allegretto,
Composition in Blue, Muratti Greift Ein, a new preservation print of
Spirals, Studies 5,6,7 and 8, Motion Painting no. 1 and more. 2nd
program: Color and Form: Modernist Animation in California. The second
program that highlights landmark, abstract animation includes
Fischinger's delightful and rarely seen advertisement for Muntz TV
(1952), plus films by some of the many California filmmakers whom he
inspired: stunning jazz films by Jordan Belson (Caravan, 1952) and Harry
Smith (Films #1,2,3); Jules Engel's Mobiles, Play Pen, and his
color-field film Landscape; Belson's rarely screened Mandala (1953);
John Stehura's groundbreaking Cibernetik 5.3 (1960-65)—one of the very
first computer films; Charles Dockum's Mobilcolor Projector
light-experiment film; Fischinger's later motion painting experiments;
Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray and more. Most are preserved 16mm prints. Both
programs introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer. Fischinger prints
preserved by Center for Visual Music, Academy Film Archive, EYE FIlm
Insitute, and Fischinger Archive. Engel films preserved by Center for
Visual Music. Ticketing through LACMA:
www.lacma.org/series/design-motion-oskar-fischinger-and-abstract-animati
on
4/27
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html
7:00PM, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 260 West 23rd Street
SHORTS: JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Spanning creative journeys across four continents, the assembled
filmmakers invoke diverse cultural landscapes, suggesting a collective
struggle of humanity between apocalyptic visions of the past, present,
and future, and the redemptive power of the human spirit. Cinematic
techniques comprising found footage imagery, historic audio recordings,
still photography, animation, collage, Super 8mm (celluloid) filmmaking,
and digital cinematography comprise the rich visual and audio landscapes
of these films, all made by talented artists, ranging from emerging
student voices to experienced filmmakers returning to TFF. Films include
"An Incomplete History of the Travelogue" Sasha Waters Freyer, 1925,
"Scenes From a Visit to Japan" Joel Schlemowitz, "The Valley" Leif Huron
, "Sinews of Peace" Timo Franc, "Barcelona" Martin Laporte, "Democratic
Locations" Thomas Kutschker, "Abyss of Man's Conscience (ReconoceR)"
Juan Camilo Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines
Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: THE GREAT BLONDINO PREVIEW (1967, 4 minutes, 16mm) William
Allan & Bruce Nauman FISHING FOR ASIAN CARP (1967, 3 minutes, 16mm.
Sound by Robert Nelson.) HOT LEATHERETTE (1967, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
GRATEFUL DEAD (1967, 8 minutes, 16mm) MORE (1971/98, 20 minutes, 16mm,
b&w) THE GREAT BLONDINO (with William T. Wiley, 1967, 43 minutes, 16mm,
b&w/color) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
4/27
Washington, DC: electronic media group of the american institute for conservation
http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/
9am-5pm, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
TECH FOCUS II: CARING FOR FILM AND SLIDE ART
The Electronic Media Group of the American Institute for Conservation,
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Foundation of the
American Institute for Conservation (FAIC) are pleased to announce an
important new two-day workshop: TechFocus II: Caring for Film and Slide
Art. Projected motion picture film and slides are in a state of crisis.
Far more quickly than anyone could have anticipated, these technologies
will soon reach obsolescence. Options for duplication and preservation
are narrowing rapidly. Our collective familiarity and technical
understanding of this material is fading. Yet artists continue to create
vital works using film and slides, and earlier works by important
artists are being shown in museums with increasing frequency. TechFocus
II is designed to educate conservators, curators and other art
professionals about the technology of film and slide-based artworks, and
to recommend best practices for acquisition, preservation and display.
As part of this instruction, the workshop includes a unique "School of
Seeing": actual films and slides are projected as examples of different
production processes, so that participants can gain an accurate
understanding of the principles being discussed. Moreover, this workshop
will provide a forum for international professionals to gather and
debate strategies for collective action in the face of disappearing film
stocks, obsolete equipment, and declining expertise. The TechFocus
workshop series is being organized by the AIC Electronic Media Group to
provide detailed technical education in the preservation of media art.
Launched on the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking TechArcheology
symposium that was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in
2000, TechFocus offers in-depth instruction in a broad range of media.
Each workshop, hosted by a different institution, is dedicated to one
specific media-art technology. A systematic lecture program, delivered
by international experts, introduces workshop participants to the
technology behind these artworks, and offers real- world guidelines for
their preservation. The workshop is being made possible by the generous
support of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, FAIC, and the
Smithsonian Institution Archives. TechFocus II Planning Committee: Jeff
Martin, Christine Frohnert, Joanna Phillips, Eric Pourchot with Susan
Lake, Sarah Stauderman, and Gwynne Ryan Full program, fee details and
registration will be made available on the AIC website soon:
www.conservation-us.org/courses
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
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4/28
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
NEW WORKS SALON
$5 / Several artists will present new in-progress or recently completed
works. As a result of spending a month long residency at EPFC Ursula
Brookbank became involved with shooting film after ten years of working
with video. Super 8 was used for the documentation of objects from the
SHE WORLD archive, an on going accumulation of feminine detritus
gathered by the artist. As a work in progress, multiple projection of
the films is being explored as well forms of narration. Walter Vargas
shows his Super 8 My Mother's Money for this Film, a work about
Sacramento's politics and a South Central boy empowered by Frida Kahlo's
painting The Two Fridas, walking on a tightrope between self-comfort and
biculturalism, seeing what the hell Chicano means, and that it's ok to
be two, or not. Bay Area artist Linda Scobie visits us with her 16mm
works Craig's Cutting Room Floor, a furious two-minute fragmented
journey through cinema's history taken right off the cutting room floor
of San Francisco collage artist, filmmaker, and eclectic archivist of
16mm films Craig Baldwin, and her newly completed Skydogs. Kim Strouse
will present her on-going video project begun in 2009 MAKE UP, in which
she explores how making up functions in her relationship from self to
other, from apology to lipstick; what is my make up? how do I make up?
how do we make up? Cosmo Segurson will present a new work based on Edgar
G. Ulmer's 1945 Detour, which "has haunted me since the first night I
watched it. With absolute respect for the source material, this is my
first attempt to expand my favorite scene into a fever dream of despair,
and existential horror. Enjoy."
4/28
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html
11:30PM, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 260 West 23rd Street
SHORTS: JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Spanning creative journeys across four continents, the assembled
filmmakers invoke diverse cultural landscapes, suggesting a collective
struggle of humanity between apocalyptic visions of the past, present,
and future, and the redemptive power of the human spirit. Cinematic
techniques comprising found footage imagery, historic audio recordings,
still photography, animation, collage, Super 8mm (celluloid) filmmaking,
and digital cinematography comprise the rich visual and audio landscapes
of these films, all made by talented artists, ranging from emerging
student voices to experienced filmmakers returning to TFF. Films include
"An Incomplete History of the Travelogue" Sasha Waters Freyer, 1925,
"Scenes From a Visit to Japan" Joel Schlemowitz, "The Valley" Leif
Huron, "Sinews of Peace" Timo Franc, "Barcelona" Martin Laporte,
"Democratic Locations" Thomas Kutschker, "Abyss of Man's Conscience
(ReconoceR)" Juan Camilo Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and
"All the Lines Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 2
OH DEM WATERMELONS (1965, 11 minutes, 16mm) DEEP WESTURN (1973, 5
minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) THE OFF-HANDED JAPE (with William T. Wiley,
1967, 8 minutes, 16mm) Chris Langdon PICASSO (1973, 3 minutes, 16mm,
b&w) LIMITATIONS (1988, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w) PENNY BRIGHT & JIMMY
WITHERSPOON (1967, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE AWFUL BACKLASH (with William
Allan, 1967, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w) BLEU SHUT (1970, 33 minutes, 16mm,
b&w/color) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 3
SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 1: TIJUANA TO HOLLYWOOD VIA DEATH
VALLEY 1976, 46 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color. & SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS &
PASSES PART 2: SAN FRANCISCO TO THE SIERRA NEVADAS & BACK AGAIN 1978, 48
minutes, 16mm, b&w/color. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
4/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
DIVINE'S TECHNICOLOR DREAMS: CINEMATIC PSYCHEDELIA +
Concluding our Psychedelia suite, Christian returns with another
mind-bending slide-show on cult cinema, this time trippin' on freak-out
scenes in feature films. This kaleidoscopic genre, peaking in the '60s
and '70s, opened up an opportunity to directly demonstrate a visionary
experience in filmic terms. Among the sensory overload of B-fare,
obscure anomalies, and even an occasional A-movie, we grok the grooviest
vignettes from The Trip, Head, Skidoo, The Tingler, Riot on Sunset
Strip, Wild in the Streets, Psych-Out, Easy Rider, 200 Motels, The Big
Cube, Performance, and myriad more. Divine has organized his
presentation in the shape of an actual trip, with a few longer 16mm
interludes (Hallucination Generation and Go Ask Alice). PLUS a
cautionary clip from LSD: Insight or Insanity, free Kool-Aid, and a
liquid light show! $6.
4/28
Vancouver, British Columbia: The Purple Thistle Centre
http://sunfishmoonlight.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/screening-the-pipedreams-project-someday-all-of-this-will-be-yours/
7pm, The Rhizome Cafe - 317 East Broadway
SCREENING: THE PIPEDREAMS PROJECT & SOMEDAY ALL OF THIS WILL BE YOURS
How do we confront overwhelming social, political, and ecological issues
with a sense of agency? Two pairs of young filmmakers explore this
question on separate journeys: one kayaking the 900km between Kitimat
and Vancouver BC in search of answers about Enbridge's proposed Northern
Gateway Pipeline; the other following the 3500km of the Kinder Morgan
TransMountain Pipeline from Vancouver to Fort McMurray AB, the center of
tar sands extraction. The films serve as catalysts and palette-cleansers
for discussion. More infos:
http://sunfishmoonlight.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/screening-the-pipedream
s-project-someday-all-of-this-will-be-yours/ Filmmakers in Attendance!
Stay after screening for discussion on pipelines, tarsands, and creative
resistance! Don't forget to support your local Rhizome! Fully-licensed
kitchen open before and after screening. THE FILMS: - - - - The
PipeDreams Project - - - - - Ryan Vandecasteyen & Faroe Des Roches
Digital, 28 min., 2011 In May of 2010, Enbridge Inc. made an official
application to build twined crude oil and condensate pipelines that
would connect Alberta's Tar Sands to Kitimat, BC, and for the first time
bring crude oil super tankers to BC's North Coast. In the fall of 2010,
Curtis, Ryan and Faroe kayaked 900 km in opposition to this
controversial pipeline. Their journey leads them face to face with the
complexity of the environmental assessment process, the difficulties
local communities face in having their voices heard, and the growing
resistance against the pipeline. Leaving the city behind for adventure
and the exploration of the isolated and dangerous coast of British
Columbia, they immerse themselves completely in one of the last truly
wild places on Earth. The trio becomes deeply impacted by their
experience, irreversibly entangled in the Pacific Northwest, and
awakened to a world of power, politics and the question of democracy. -
- - - Someday All of This Will Be Yours - - - - - Adam Huggins, Ilana
Fonariov, & Jethro Archer 16mm, 22 min., 2011 Traversing the
TransMountain Pipeline from Vancouver to Alberta's Oil Sands, Someday
All Of This Will Be Yours is a surrealist anti-documentary, a road trip
film about resource extraction, and an exploration of how individuals
relate to the myriad of acute social, ecological, and political
struggles within and across their communities. Shot by three travellers
on a bolex over seven days, processed by hand in buckets of developer at
the Purple Thistle Center in East Van, and covertly edited overnight in
Goldcorp's "Center for the Arts", this is a truly independent project
about our community and just how far it extends.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012
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4/29
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm (box office opens 6:30, doors open 7), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS SAME SEX/DIFFERENT SEX: QUEER IDENTITY AND
CULTURE
From the 1950s through the 1980s, underground film was an avenue for
artistic self-expression for lesbian and gay artists, and also
occasionally provided a way for LGBT people to see representations of
themselves without persecution. But the cultural climate changed
dramatically over the decades, with the closeted screenings for friends
of the earlier period changing to public screenings and well-advertised
events. This program starts with a little-known work from 1962, made by
Robert Chatterton, who was also a prominent underground film exhibitor.
Taylor Mead, on one of his occasional visits to Los Angeles, acted in
two films by Chatterton, including Passion in a Seaside Slum. Brought to
our attention by Marc Siegel in the Alternative Projections symposium in
2010, Filmforum arranged for the preservation of Passion in a Seaside
Slum with the generous support of the National Film Preservation
Foundation and the Film Foundation. This is the premiere screening of
this new print. We are also screening a remarkable short documentary
made by Penelope Spheeris and lesbian public service announcements from
the Woman's Building in the 1970s. More films to be added; waiting on
confirmations for several great films. In person: Penelope Spheeris
(schedule permitting) Special thanks to Kristin Pepe, Outfest; the Getty
Research Institute; Anthology Film Archives. The show is free!
Reservations recommended and will be held until 7:15pm on show night.
Reservations online at Brown Paper Tickets. Screening (subject to
change): Passion in a Seaside Slum (Robert Wade Chatterton, 1962, 32
min), Lesbian occupations—public service announcements (PSAs) (produced
the the Los Angeles Women's Video Center, 1970s, each 30-60 sec), Fever
Dream (Chick Strand, 1979, 7 min), I Don't Know (Penelope Spheeris,
1972, 18 min) - more to be added!
4/29
Los Angeles, California: ARENA 1 Gallery
http://manipulatedimage.com/LosAngeles2012.html#arena1
7PM - 10PM ----$5 suggested contribution----, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, California, 90405
MI_LOSANGELES2012: “MEMORY” AND "IDENTITY"
Video art screenings, sound and video installations, performances,
artist talk.... A night of video art screenings, sound installation by
Philip Mantione, video installation by Joe Merrell, performances by
Mariel Carranza and Soyeon Jung, and artist discussions at ARENA 1
Gallery curated by Alysse Stepanian of Manipulated image. Stepanian will
also present Kisito Assangni's [SFIP] Project, a selection of African
video art.
4/29
New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival
http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html
11:00AM, Tribeca Cinemas 54 Varick Street at Laight Street
SHORTS: JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Spanning creative journeys across four continents, the assembled
filmmakers invoke diverse cultural landscapes, suggesting a collective
struggle of humanity between apocalyptic visions of the past, present,
and future, and the redemptive power of the human spirit. Cinematic
techniques comprising found footage imagery, historic audio recordings,
still photography, animation, collage, Super 8mm (celluloid) filmmaking,
and digital cinematography comprise the rich visual and audio landscapes
of these films, all made by talented artists, ranging from emerging
student voices to experienced filmmakers returning to TFF. Films include
"An Incomplete History of the Travelogue" Sasha Waters Freyer, 1925,
"Scenes From a Visit to Japan" Joel Schlemowitz, "The Valley" Leif Huron
, "Sinews of Peace" Timo Franc, "Barcelona" Martin Laporte, "Democratic
Locations" Thomas Kutschker, "Abyss of Man's Conscience (ReconoceR)"
Juan Camilo Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines
Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2
minutes, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2
minutes) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14
minutes) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959,
3 minutes) BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes,
16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes) 69 (1969,
4.5 minutes) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to
35mm. 70 (1970, 5 minutes) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9
minutes) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 minutes)
SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes) BANG (1986, 10
minutes) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 4
Marcy Saude ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES 1: HANDMADE HOME (2012, 6 minutes,
b&w/color) KING DAVID (with Mike Henderson, 1970-73/2003, 8 minutes,
16mm) HAMLET ACT (1982, 22 minutes, 16mm, b&w) SPECIAL WARNING (1999, 5
minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) & HAULING TOTO BIG 1997, 46 minutes, 16mm,
b&w. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 5
Marian Wallace THE COUNTER CULTURE HOUR WITH GUEST: ROBERT NELSON 2011,
58 minutes, video. "Robert Nelson came by the RE/Search office, and this
video documents the visit and conversation between Robert and (mostly)
V. Vale. I was having technical difficulties, but couldn't let Robert
know or he would probably have 'had to go' right away, so the
documentation also includes me 'pretending nothing was wrong' to stretch
out the visit as long as possible. THE COUNTER CULTURE HOUR, hosted by
V. Vale, appears monthly on public access TV in San Francisco." –M.W.
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