[Frameworks] This week [April 28 - May 6, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [April 28 - May 6, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Diluvi Privati I" by Andrea Vincenzi
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 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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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 29, 2012)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 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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EXiS (Seoul, South Korea; Deadline: June 01, 2012)
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Radon Lake (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012)
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Dallas VideoFest 25 (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: June 01, 2012)
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New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: May 30, 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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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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Orbit! Films About Our Solar System [April 30, Austin, Texas]
* The Imaginary Voyages of Maureen Selwood [April 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Six Films By Amy Greenfield and Book Launch, Flesh Into Light [April 30, New York, New York]
* Amy Greenfield Program [April 30, New York, New York]
* Transparent Cities [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Jerry Orr In Person [May 1, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* A Little Holy Circus-- Kim Keown and Cirkestra [May 2, Boston, MA]
* Stop & Go 3-D [May 3, Amsterdam, Netherlands]
* Green | Red [May 3, Brooklyn, New York]
* L.A. Filmforum and Cinefamily Present Numbers, Patterns, and Shapes:
Later Abstractions of the 1960s and 1970s [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Open Screen [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Berks County Film & video Show [May 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Past Future Now! [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* Toni Dove 2 Nights of Spectropia [May 4, Brooklyn, New York]
* Past Future Now! [May 4, San Francisco, California]
* Treasures From Tv Land [May 5, San Francisco, California]
* Soe + Lord + Sherman + Daniel + Alfvegren + [May 5, San Francisco, California]
* Danny Lyon Program [May 6, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
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4/30
Austin, Texas: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
9:00, 1100 warehouse E 5th St., Austin, Texas
ORBIT! FILMS ABOUT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Experimental Response Cinema and the Fusebox Festival present ORBIT!, an
other-worldly program of short, avant-garde films about our solar
system. Starting at the sun, hopping from planet to planet from
innermost Mercury to the distant reaches of Pluto, and finding along the
way moons, asteroids and comets, each celestial body is represented by a
short video by a different filmmaker, dealing with the science of outer
space through creative and emotional storytelling and visual poetry.
Some or all of the original source material in each piece comes from
NASA footage, reinterpreted by the artist to make a unique
extra-terrestrial portrait. - Filmmakers include: Brent Hoff, Ben
Coonley, Jessica Oreck, Mike Plante, Brian Cassidy & Melanie
Shatzky, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Jacqueline Goss & Michael Gitlin,
Kelly Sears, Bill Brown, Travis Wilkerson, and Deborah Stratman. The
works in this program were originally commissioned by Rooftop Films and
Cinemad. - Films to be screened: Look at the Sun (Brent Hoff | San
Francisco, CA | 5 min.) - For thousands of years, humanity has watched
the sun with a mixture of fear and awe, believing without knowing why,
that our lives depend on its mysterious undulations. The sun has
changed, our sense of wonder has not. Now more than ever, we must look
at the sun. - Mercury (Ben Coonley | Brooklyn, NY | 6 min.) - A
mercurial cine-opera set to visuals gathered by NASA's MESSENGER
spacecraft. Lyrics composed in collaboration with the International
Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
(WGPSN). - Venus (Jessica Oreck | New York, NY | 5 min.) - Jessica
explores the inner-workings of our sister planet. Examining the
atmospheric composition of Venus, this piece, narrated by Jackie Reynal,
exposes a reminder of what could happen on Earth. - Copernicus
Resurrected [Earth] (Mike Plante | Los Angeles, CA | 5 min.) - A short
note about Earth and a gentleman of our times. - I Seen the Moon (Brian
M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky | Brooklyn, NY | 4 min.) - Signs of life
for this man may very well exist on the Moon. - No Message Received
[Mars] (Mark Elijah Rosenberg | Brooklyn, NY | 9 min.) - A little robot
born on Mars. The introverted scientist who created it. A meta-fictional
re-telling of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, discovering a story about
outcast people and forgotten technology, about wondrous things
struggling for attention in busy worlds. - ...These Blazeing Starrs!
[Comets] (Deborah Stratman | Chicago, IL | 14 min.) - Since comets have
been recorded, they've augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end
times. This will be a little film about these meteoric ice-cored
fireballs and their historic ties to divination." ...These Blazeing
Starrs! Threaten the World with Famine, Plague, & Warrs..." Du
Bartas, De cometis (1665) - Jupiter Elicius (Kelly Sears | Houston, TX |
4 min.) - A haunted meteorologist dreams of storms that are both closer
and further away than he thought. His unshakable bravado is undone
through fast winds and high pressure systems and a sense of duty. - Scan
Platform Problems (Close To You) [Saturn] (Jacqueline Goss and Michael
Gitlin | Tivoli, NY) - The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played
with, put back together again. - Neptune Calling! (Poseidan | Austin,
TX) - Neptune, in a true display of his personality, prank calls the
other planets. - Uranus (Bill Brown | Lubbock, Texas | 8 min.) - It is
2003. A spaceman takes a trip to Uranus. He is fleeing from the Earth in
the month before a big, rich country invades a little country of little
consequence for mysterious reasons. - Pluto Declaration (Travis
Wilkerson | Denver, CO | 5 min.) - Restore the classical definition of
planet! - Requiem for progress (Re-Entry) (Travis Wilkerson | Denver, CO
| 6 min.) - A triptych for the age of austerity, as mournful and
mysterious as deep space itself. Meant to be screened by 1 projector, 3,
9, 33, or (ideally) 99 projectors at once.
4/30
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
THE IMAGINARY VOYAGES OF MAUREEN SELWOOD
Since 1980 Maureen Selwood's hand-drawn animations have taken viewers
into the strange, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying lands of the mind.
For her first solo show in Los Angeles, she presents a selection of more
recent pieces, including the haunting black-and-white imagery of Hail
Mary (1998); the expressively rendered Drawing Lessons (2006) and I
Started Early (2007); As You Desire Me (2009), the single-channel
version of an installation inspired by her residence at the American
Academy in Rome at the beginning of the Iraq War; the hallucinogenic
trip of How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims
(2009); the unexpected washing-machine madness of A Modern Convenience
(2012); as well as Mistaken Identity (2001), her alluring deconstruction
of 1955 noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, presented with live performance. In
person: Maureen Selwood. Jack H. Skirball Screening Series / $10
[students $8, CalArts $5]
4/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00, 32 Second Avenue
SIX FILMS BY AMY GREENFIELD AND BOOK LAUNCH, FLESH INTO LIGHT
FLESH INTO LIGHT by Robert Haller (U of Chicago Press) describes the 40
films made by Greenfield. Six will be shown with Greenfield and Haller
present.
4/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
AMY GREENFIELD PROGRAM
ELEMENT (1973, 12 minutes, 16mm) TRANSPORT (1971, 8 minutes, 16mm)
BODYSONGS: TOUCH AND CLOSEUP NUDES (1979/2012, 8 minutes, video. World
premiere!) DOWNTOWN GODDESS (1996, 10 minutes, video) MUSEic OF THE BODY
(2009, 10 minutes, video) WILDFIRE (2002, 11 minutes, 35mm) Total
running time: ca. 65 minutes, plus discussion.
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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
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5/1
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
TRANSPARENT CITIES
World premiere In this vivid portrait of Los Angeles, layers of sound
and image field recordings combine with music—both recorded and
performed live—to offer an eloquent meditation on presence and absence,
lived experience and re-presented time. An extraordinary collaboration
by Madison Brookshire (video), April Guthrie (cello), Michael Pisaro
(sound), and Cassia Streb (viola), Transparent Cities reveals patterns
of light, movement, sound, and silence that emerge during the course of
a single day. The video images dissolve into a ghostly translucency as
the recorded audio and live music build up densely layered sonic
textures—an experience of the city that is utterly strange yet eerily
familiar. Transparent Cities is preceded by Five Lines, a new film/music
composition by Madison Brookshire. Tickets: $20 [students $16, CalArts
$10]
5/1
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
JERRY ORR IN PERSON
Local filmmaker, co-founder and director of Berks Filmmakers, JERRY ORR
will present a mini retrospective of his films and videos. For over 40
years Orr has been exploring the phenomenological, spiritual and
material reality of existence through various media of non-narrative,
moving-image-art (ie., 16mm, super-8, paracinema, analog and digital
video). Of late his video work has extended into the realm of
experimental narrative. Orr's work has been screened at prestigious
venues nationally including Millennium Film Workshop (NYC) and the
Museum of Modern Art. His experimental video, Cow Boy's Heifer's (W) Rap
won a Director's Prize in the 2010 Black Maria Film & Video Festival.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012
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5/2
Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY
7:00, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
A LITTLE HOLY CIRCUS-- KIM KEOWN AND CIRKESTRA
MASSART FILM SOCIETY presents: - A Little Holy Circus brought to you by
a Woman with Many Names and featuring Peter Bufano of Cirkestra composer
of the song A Little Holy Circus - Program: Screen tests with Jayne
NoWek a work in progress by Kim Keown intermittent - Laura Sister Angel
10 min S8 film by Kim Keown with Susan Black performing a live sound
track - History Lesson 3 min film by Hazel Manko - - A Little Holy
Circus 4 min film & performance by Faye Raye and Cirkestra
performing a live sound track (a work in Progress) - Making the Hairless
Woman 31 min short doc by Kim Keown, Cirkestra performing live music -
notes: Screen tests is the first attempt to work on an idea I have had
for several years. The reporter, Jayne Nowek, is an aspect of myself
that taken alone people may find familiar but not completely recognize.
Its like déjà vu. She's a clunky voice in my head that's a
way of making things clear and simultaneously more confusing\; a nerd
that wants to delve deeper into the goofiest things. - Laura Sister
Angel I call the first film I ever made, and I suppose that's true
outside of animation classes where I made images. At first the film was
a way of expressing a feeling or feelings-loss, mourning, anger,
sadness. I used the movements and the rhythms to get at all that. But
the story developed overtime to incorporate the insight that death
manifests, through the various sound tracks used or unused during the
film's screenings. Starting on a 4 track with whispers to telling the
entire story from my sister's death to her reappearance as an angel in
my life 20 years later. - History Lesson is the first film my daughter,
Hazel Manko, ever made shot on a bolex and edited digitally. I acted as
cameraman to her vision. She and my companion, Ed, play roles to a sound
tract of one of her father's songs. - A little Holy Circus is a work in
progress to explore projection and performance techniques as well as a
concept made up by a "Miss Patty" and executed into the song A Little
Holy Circus by Peter Bufano during his 24 hour circus song CD Marathon.
- Making the Hairless Woman is a short doc about Peter Bufano, an
exclown turned circus musician who did a 24 hour CD marathon. It was
made using about 6 hours of HD footage shot during 2 interviews and the
24 hour period, as well as with footage from phones, computers, SD
footage shot by Peter Camila and his band members and photographs taken
during the marathon by Peter's cousin Peter. - Cirkestra
http://cirkestra.com/ "Highly praised" Boston Globe - "Perhaps the most
unusual musical group in Boston" Brett Milano: B.U. Today -
"Fabulous...timeless and original, a combo you don't see every day Nancy
Sheehan:" Worcester Telegram - "Musical Acrobats" Jon Garelick: Boston
Phoenix - "If you can have an intimate circus band Cirkestra are it"
Boston Phoenix - "Swings like a carnie in a drunken brawl" 7 Days - Kim
Keown: - Kim graduated from Emerson College and started working in her
field of communication disorders while going to MassArt part time. She
was an installation artist for 10 years doing work in gardens and
studios in the Boston area before becoming a performance artist. She has
also made a few films including Laura Sister Angel, Love Songs, and
Making the Hairless Woman. She is currently a studio manager in the film
department at the Massachusetts College of Art, a yoga teacher, and the
founder of a small multimedia performance group, Circus Mirage, where
she manifests fabulous figments of her imagination. -
http://circusmirage.blogspot.com/ - MASSART FILM SOCIETY, Programmed by
Saul Levine, is a screening class for MassArt film students open to
those who are interested. We hope to provide access to films and videos
not often shown at other venues. -
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ - Directions: Held @
Massachusetts College of Art Film Department in screening room 1. 621
Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115. On the T take the green line E train to
Longwood stop or 39 Bus. - Entrance through MassART after 7pm is through
Public Safety on Evans Way/Tetlow St
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THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
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5/3
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier
www.amsterdamsgrafischatelier.nl
8pm, Laurierstraat 109
STOP & GO 3-D
Stop & Go 3-D features a new series of stop-motion animations by 27
contemporary visual artists and filmmakers from around the world. The
program dramatically plays with our visual senses through the artist's
use of stobing effects, afterimages, anaglyphic experiments, optical
elements and three-dimensional spoofs. The animations in this program
were chosen from a world-wide open call for submissions and by
invitation. Five of the animations in the program require the audience
to wear red/cyan-colored glasses to fully engage with the work.
Additional Hours: May 4-8, 2012
5/3
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1937
8-9pm, Manhattan Bridge Archway (DUMBO)
GREEN | RED
GREEN | RED is a site-specific and immersive audio-visual experience by
Peter Burr and Friends. Scrolling and cascading video "frames" provide
the viewpoint into a computer wilderness, with an accompanying
surround-soundtrack. This will be the premiere of the new video piece by
Peter Burr. Other performers include Seabat, Dr. Laser and Eric Carlson:
At the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge (Adams Street at Water Street)
FREE. MORE DETAILS: http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1937
PREVIEW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ocXRbzrFw&feature=youtu.be
Presented by MONO NO AWARE FILM : www.mononoawarefilm.com
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm (box office opens 6:30, doors open 7), Cinefamily, 611 N. Fairfax Ave.
L.A. FILMFORUM AND CINEFAMILY PRESENT NUMBERS, PATTERNS, AND SHAPES:
LATER ABSTRACTIONS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S
Early in Alternative Projections we presented Early Abstractions of the
1940s and 1950s, which presented an evolution of imagery in films from
abstracted sculptural shapes to abstract images created by animation and
optical printer. We continue looking at the evolution with more
remarkable abstract films. As in the earlier show, John and James
Whitney continue as key figures, but working separately. John Whitney's
1967 Experiments in Motion Graphics introduces the possibilities of
computer animations, soon to be fully explored. The classic films 7362
by Pat O'Neill's and Kitsch in Synch by Adam Beckett reveal some of the
unbelievable possibilities of optical printer work. Jules Engel's Train
Landscape uses traditional animation. Michael Scroggins worked with
pioneering video manipulation. And then the age of the computer was upon
us. In person: Larry Cuba, Louis Hock, Pat O'Neill, Michael Scroggins,
John Whitney Jr. (schedules permitting) For full information, please
visit
http://www.alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/later-abstraction
s/ and http://tinyurl.com/6wdjldz Tickets: $12 general; free for
Filmforum and Cinefamily members. See
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241557 Screening (subject to
change): Experiments in Motion Graphics (John Whitney, 1967, 12 min),
Matrix III (John Whitney, 1972, 10 min), 7362 (Pat O'Neill, 1967, 11
min), Train Landscape (Jules Engel, 1974, 3 min), Kitsch in Synch (Adam
Beckett, 1975, 5 min), Light Traps (Louis Hock, 1975, 8 min), 3/78
(Objects and Transformations) (Larry Cuba, 1978, 6 min), Two Space
(Larry Cuba, 1979, 8 min), Recent Li (Michael Scroggins, 1980, 5 min),
Kang Jing Xiang (James Whitney, 1982, 13 min)
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
OPEN SCREEN
Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty
EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First
come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD,
VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm. FILMMAKERS GET IN
FREE!
5/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
BERKS COUNTY FILM & VIDEO SHOW
A show comprised of outstanding independent and experimental
moving-image art recently produced in Berks County. Makers will be
present to introduce and discuss their works.
5/3
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8PM, 275 Capp Street 3rd Floor
PAST FUTURE NOW!
Oddball Films proudly presents PAST FUTURE NOW! Films from the PAST have
been selected by curator/artist Ashley Lauren Saks, that are about the
FUTURE, which is NOW. Beginning with these 1970s and 80s film clips
selected from the Oddball Film Archive (San Francisco) selected artists
created video reactions/responses to them. This delicately curated
program is meant to take the viewer through a journey from the Past to
the Present to the Future and back again. The program includes
commissioned videos by artists: Daniela Anastassiou & Miles Martinez,
Jeanne Finley, Dan Gilsdorf & Bean Gilsdorf, Sasha Krieger, Christine
Lucy Latimer, Christian McKay, Ranu Mukherjee, and Doug Garth Williams.
Featuring Film Excerpts from: Future Shock, 1972 // A documentary film
narrated by Orson Wells, based onthe Futurist book by Alvin Toffler.
Robotics: the Future is Now, 1984 // Hosted by William Shatner Computer
Dreams, 1989 *VHS // An anthology of computer graphics and digital
effects. Visions Of The Future, 1970s // A 3 part film montage by
Richard Whittaker involving predictions for future lifestyles,
juxtaposed against "evil environmental horrors of today." Signal Syntax,
1983 // An amateur film short about "death by computers" Ethics in the
Computer Age 1984 // Dramatic vignettes addressing the consequences of
software piracy and hacking.
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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012
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5/4
Brooklyn, New York: Roulette
http://roulette.org/events/mixology-toni-dove-spectropia-with-r-luke-dubois/
8pm, 509 Atlantic Avenue,
TONI DOVE 2 NIGHTS OF SPECTROPIA
Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents 2 nights of Toni Dove's Spectropia, a
sci-fi hybrid live-mix cinema event featuring time travel, telepathy,
and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New
York City, 1931, following the Great Crash. Featuring live performances
by Toni Dove, R. Luke Debois, Elliott Sharp and The 31 Band with a
performance by special guest Debbie Harry singing "This Time That
Place". Created and performed by Toni Dove and software designer R. Luke
Debois, Spectropia presents live performers who orchestrate onscreen
characters through a mix of film, performance, and a system of motion
sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument, creating a narrative form
that is part video game, part feature film, and part VJ mashing. The
audience sees through characters eyes, hears their interior thoughts,
and virtual characters break the wall speaking live to the audience.
Spectropia features a collection of highly acclaimed performers across
multiple genres. The film's cast features actress Aleksa Palladino
(Boardwalk Empire, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and
Find Me Guilty) as Spectropia and Helen Pickett (recently with the
Forsythe Ballet of Frankfurt and The Wooster Group) as Sally.
Highly-acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp composed the
original score which features pop icon Debbie Harry providing vocals on
the song "This Time, That Place." Award winning artist Perry Hoberman
contributed to the set design for Spectropia's studio with an
interactive installation of used computer equipment. R. Luke DuBois,
artist and co-author of the Jitter software suite for real time
manipulation of matrix data designed the project's proprietary software.
5/4
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8PM, 275 Capp Street 3rd Floor
PAST FUTURE NOW!
Oddball Films proudly presents PAST FUTURE NOW! Films from the PAST have
been selected by curator/artist Ashley Lauren Saks, that are about the
FUTURE, which is NOW. Beginning with these 1970s and 80s film clips
selected from the Oddball Film Archive (San Francisco) selected artists
created video reactions/responses to them. This delicately curated
program is meant to take the viewer through a journey from the Past to
the Present to the Future and back again. The program includes
commissioned videos by artists: Daniela Anastassiou & Miles Martinez,
Jeanne Finley, Dan Gilsdorf & Bean Gilsdorf, Sasha Krieger, Christine
Lucy Latimer, Christian McKay, Ranu Mukherjee, and Doug Garth Williams.
Featuring Film Excerpts from: Future Shock, 1972 // A documentary film
narrated by Orson Wells, based onthe Futurist book by Alvin Toffler.
Robotics: the Future is Now, 1984 // Hosted by William Shatner Computer
Dreams, 1989 *VHS // An anthology of computer graphics and digital
effects. Visions Of The Future, 1970s // A 3 part film montage by
Richard Whittaker involving predictions for future lifestyles,
juxtaposed against "evil environmental horrors of today." Signal Syntax,
1983 // An amateur film short about "death by computers" Ethics in the
Computer Age 1984 // Dramatic vignettes addressing the consequences of
software piracy and hacking.
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SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012
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5/5
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8PM, 275 Capp Street 3rd Floor
TREASURES FROM TV LAND
Oddball Films presents Treasures From TV Land. Whether it was a
commercial or a sitcom, commercials or a variety show, most television
production prior to the late 1970s was made on 16mm. This program
features rare, weird and wonderful vintage TV screened from 16mm film
prints. Highlights include excerpts from The Debbie Reynolds Show
featuring the multi-talented leading lady in the skit A Date With Debbie
(1960); Season 3 episode 31 of My Favorite Martian titled My Nut Cup
Runneth Over (1966) about a squirrel accidentally transformed into a
human; Some Like It Hot (1961), the un-aired, lost TV pilot for a series
based on the classic Billy Wilder film; and clips from the queen of TV
comedy Lucille Ball's shows I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. Plus!
Television Land (1971) brilliantly edited visual history of the great
communicator, and loads of kooky vintage TV commercials.
5/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
SOE + LORD + SHERMAN + DANIEL + ALFVEGREN +
Valerie Soe world-premieres her Chinese Gardens, a personal exploration
of Port Townsend's hidden history. Dan Boord/Luis Valdovino's Chinese
Ghost Story undertakes a similar excavation of the unknown Asian
laborers who built the Western railroads. The debut of David Sherman's
Assassination in Dreamland correlates the McKinley assassination with
the early history of cinema, while Kennedy/Rosentrater's Dick-George
picks up on the Presidential tip with a '71 Nixon/Wallace photo-op. Chip
Lord's Une Ville de L'Avenir posits a future urbanism by hybridizing
Alphaville with his own verité. In person, Bill Daniel's Mission Bay at
Night surveys that haunted SF shoreline. Head of the Cali. Fortean
Society, Skylaire Alfvegren rounds it out with her 45-min. The Secret
Life of Southern California. Come early to meet the makers, to witness
Ben Wood's 3-D Philippines Projection proposal, and drink in Frank
Stauffacher's 16mm Notes on the Port of St. Francis. $6.
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SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012
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5/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DANNY LYON PROGRAM
SHADOWMAN 2011, 22 minutes, video. Lyon's existential look at himself,
filmmaking, the irony of digital, the death of film, and his musings on
the meaning of his lifetime of work. Shot in the Bernalillo, New Mexico
graveyard (Lyon's fifth major scene shot in this spot), the Acoma
reservation's desert, the streets and garages of Manhattan, and the
Maine woods and skies. DEAR MARK 1981, 15 minutes, 16mm. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts. Special thanks to George Eastman House for providing
original production elements. A portrait of artist Mark di Suvero made
from footage shot over the course of a decade by his friend Lyon. We
watch the sculptor at work and at play in the woods of New York State,
and in exile in France during his protest against the war in Vietnam.
Against the background of Medieval Armor at the Met, Lyon has replaced
di Suvero's voice with that of the singing cowboy, Gene Autry.
Wonderfully quirky and playful, DEAR MARK is an inspired homage to di
Suvero couched in the form of "Dadaistic comedy", as the late critic
Thomas Albright put it. LOS NIÑOS ABANDONADOS 1975, 63 minutes,
16mm-to-video. Restoration produced with the support of the Menil
Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston, with a Gift from Joan Hohlt and
J. Roger Wich Foundation. Restoration produced by Mark Rance, Watchmaker
Films. Assistant color correction by Tara Reinecke Walch; technical
support by Brooks Walch. Focuses on the lives of abandoned children who
scavenge in the streets of Santa Marta, a small town in Colombia. A
staggering work of vérité that in its imagery and emotion feels like an
extension of neo-realist cinema, it finds Lyon's ever-present camera
capturing moments of reality as stark as they are poetic. The
filmmakers' original vision had been to reach a mass audience of
Americans by having the film shown on national television, but in 1975
public television rejected the film because it lacked narration. Modern
writing about this film does not focus on the poverty of the children
but rather Lyon's statement of the existential freedom of his
characters. We will be screening a brand new digital restoration of LOS
NIÑOS ABANDONADOS diligently produced by Mark Rance from the original
production elements. This film, a highlight of Lyon's filmmaking and a
landmark work of 1970s cinema, has never looked better or felt more
gripping. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
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