[Frameworks] This week [August 11 - 19, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Impact 2012 - A Festival of Political Art Presents: Political Films By
Ken Jacobs [August 11, New York, NY]
* Essential Cinema: Genet/Frank & Leslie Program [August 11, New York, New York]
* Black Sun Cinema [August 12, Cork, Ireland]
* Essential Cinema: Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner Program [August 12, New York, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #42 = Susan Sontag's Promised Lands [August 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Private Territory: Helsinki [August 16, Helsinki, Finland]
* Tonewheel/Film Reel: Personal Film Work of Douglas Katelus [August 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Lateral Mobility: A Send-Off Show For Kara Herold [August 16, San Francisco, CA]
* Cindy Sherman Selects Film Series: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre [August 16, San Francisco, California]
* Environmental Film Series - the Whale [August 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema [August 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: the Parson's Widow [August 17, New York, New York]
* Private Territory: Stockholm [August 17, Stockholm, Sweden]
* A Place On Earth [August 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 2. Daily
Business [August 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Vampyr [August 18, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Passion of Joan of Arc [August 18, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [August 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Ordet [August 19, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012
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8/11
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
10pm, Culture Project: 45 Bleecker Street
IMPACT 2012 - A FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL ART PRESENTS: POLITICAL FILMS BY
KEN JACOBS
Impact 2012 - A Festival of Political Art, in collaboration with The
Film-Makers' Coop presents Political Films by Ken Jacobs. - Screening:
Another Occupation (2011) and Seeking the Monkey King (2011) - Ken
Jacobs in person & MM Serra discussion. - Saturday, August 11th
2012, 10PM at Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street. - Sponsored in part
by The New York State Council on the Arts.
8/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GENET/FRANK & LESLIE PROGRAM
Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean
Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines
of prison cells and a homophobic state… a powerfully resonant work that
explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank &
Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely
spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with
Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who
offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never
finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an
incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're
raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and
one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner.
But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like
scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline. Total running
time: ca. 60 minutes.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2012
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8/12
Cork, Ireland: Black Sun
http://blacksuncork.tumblr.com/
13:30, Triskel Christchurch Cinema
BLACK SUN CINEMA
Black Sun, Cork's weirdo/outer limits music and film event, is
presenting its first ever all-film event in partnership with Triskel
Christchurch. Adventurous audiences with a taste for the more far-out
side of experimental cinema will be treated to a whole afternoon of
dreamlike and hauntingly unsettling avant-garde visions. American
underground legend James Fotopoulos' feature The Nest (2003) "makes it
seem as though he is some extraterrestrial visitor photographing humans
for the first time" (Variety) and is ideal, mind-warping viewing for
David Lynch fans who think they've seen everything. The five-film
mini-retrospective of Frans Zwartjes' claustrophobically stylised short
films fully justifies the reputation of this poet of voyeurism and
sexual tension as perhaps Holland's preeminent experimental filmmaker.
And three of Ireland's most uncompromising alternative filmmakers,
Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh and Maximilian Le Cain, will be on hand
to present a series of their more disturbing shorts. Visit
www.blacksuncork.tumblr.com for more details.
8/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to
counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." –D.G. "Austere and
chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure, density and
rhythm."–William Moritz STOP MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes, 16mm, color,
silent. "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A
research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." –William Moritz
Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm, color.
Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera,
embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old
78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where
suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy
was our achievement as well as breaking out of step." –K.J. Ken Jacobs &
Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up,
b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the
generous support of The Film Foundation, The National Film Preservation
Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic
narrative – no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time
for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a
man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation
and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying,
guilt-strictured and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation
with style… enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to
dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70
minutes.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2012
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8/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #42 = SUSAN SONTAG'S PROMISED LANDS
We're thrilled to present a recently preserved 16mm print of Susan
Sontag's only documentary. Filmed during the bitter end of Israel's Yom
Kippur War in 1973, and subsequently banned in Israel upon release, she
called it her "most personal film." From Harvard Film Archive: In her
writing as in this film, Sontag preferred "collage, assemblage, and
inventory." Lingering shots of mourners at the Wailing Wall, abandoned
remains of humans and their machines, and soldiers reenacting war in a
psychiatric ward interact with sequences of herdsmen minding goats,
people chatting at the market, and children holding hands. "It is a film
about a mental landscape...as well as a physical and political one."
said Sontag. Unidentified voices sometimes reinforce, sometimes counter
her visual chronicle – itself containing many contradictions amid the
grief and gunfire. Pondering the origins and probable outcome of "two
rights opposing each other," Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk and physicist
Yuval Ne'eman typify variations of the intellectual speculation that
continues today. Painfully present, Promised Lands reverberates like the
bells in the opening shots or the recurring heart monitor sound
flat-lining and coming to life again … ominous yet hopeful, always a
lament. WEBSITE: www.earlymonthlysegments.org
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012
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8/16
Helsinki, Finland: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
20:00, Nomadic Academy of Experimental Arts (Harakka Island)
PRIVATE TERRITORY: HELSINKI
Program of events on Harakka Island: last day of datadada - mail art
exhibition, open from 12.00 - 16.00 /// sound art concert at 16.00 by
Jukka Hautamäki /// 18.00 Manifesto-performance by media artist Mia
Mäkelä /// 20.00 Private Territory screening: In addition to 16mm films
from North American filmmakers Saul Levine, Robert Todd, Shambhavi Kaul,
Jodie Mack and others, the program will include works by Finnish artists
Marja Mikkonen and Anna Nykyri, and Masha Godovannaya (St. Petersburg).
8/16
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
TONEWHEEL/FILM REEL: PERSONAL FILM WORK OF DOUGLAS KATELUS
Tonewheel / Film Reel is a program of 16mm film and video work by
Douglas Katelus, a San Francisco based filmmaker and organist. These
movies are derived from observation while occasionally searching for
what sits below those endless layers of asphalt, concrete and gasoline.
The evening's program will be in two parts. First a never-ending road
trip followed by an homage to dead technology and lost landscape.
Numerous works will be screened produced between 2004–2012. The most
recent of which are set to a live musical performance on the Hammond
Organ.
8/16
San Francisco, CA: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 valencia street,
LATERAL MOBILITY: A SEND-OFF SHOW FOR KARA HEROLD
Come to Artists' Television Access and bid a fond farewell to Kara
Herold! Just two days later, she'll be on her way to Syracuse University
to start her new career as Assistant Professor of AV tech -- er, Film
and Video production. - And in the true hustling spirit of independent
art-making, you can both celebrate Kara's 20+ years in the SF media arts
community AND help her raise funds for her current multimedia
live-cinema project, Warrior 3: A Tale of Meager Transcendence. - Plus,
there will be FREE BEER AND WINE. And raffle items: grand prize, career
advice from Kara's mom and a Zen Priest! - You will also enjoy readings,
films, and performances by Anjali Sundaram, Monica Nolan, Lynn Peril,
Christy Chan, Monica Bhatnagar, Keith Wilson, and Gibbs Chapman.
Finally, Kara will show excepts from Warrior 3. - Did we mention
there'll be FREE BEER AND WINE? And the chance to win some career
advice? And to celebrate Kara's old and new careers! - And say good-bye.
- $10 door donation (remember, free beer & wine!)\; but because it's
a going away party, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. - And
there's no objection to further donations! You can write those off your
taxes if you donate through Kara's fiscal sponsor:
http://www.sffs.org/donate/donate-now.aspx?pid=1338 - - Program -
Parental Rental (video, Christy Chan) - A simulated conversation with a
set of artistically leaning parents. Originally shown in a cardboard
house installation. - Dukes Up (performance, Monica Bhatnagar) - Young
and green as a bean, Monica accepted Daisy's hand in forever-after
friendship. In Dukes Up, she attempts to shake her habit of a friend to
emerge clean . . . or at least minty fresh. - Everything but Time
(video, Anjali Sundaram) - Working minutes and commuter hours, soft
ambience and hard architecture, resistance and surveillance, public and
private space. - Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante (reading, Monica
Nolan) - This forth-coming third installment in the Lesbian Career Girl
series is the story of a madcap Maxie, a society girl who has only
dabbled in the world of work before being disinherited for her
scandalous behavior. As she tries to find a way to earn a living,
Maxie's job-hunting adventures draw her into Bay City's underworld. An
intriguing array of women help Maxie in her attempt to find both
romantic and career satisfaction. - The Shrimp (video, Keith Wilson) -
Tracing an environmentally threatened seafood from source to plate and
back again. - Intermission, Raffle draw - Swimming in the Steno Pool
(reading, Lynn Peril) - Author/secretary Lynn Peril delivers a feisty,
witty celebration of the women who have been running the show for
decades. - Push Button (film, Gibbs Chapman) - A history of idleness and
ignorance. - Selections from Warrior 3: A Tale of Meager Transcendence
(video of performance, Kara Herold, 2012) - A multimedia comedic "live
documentary" that tells the story of an artist struggling to reconcile
her artistic aspirations with her work as an audio visual technician. -
Socializing, toasts, etc.
8/16
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7:00pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater
CINDY SHERMAN SELECTS FILM SERIES: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
In conjunction with SFMOMA's Cindy Sherman retrospective, the artist has
selected a few of the films that have shaped her vision. Reflecting a
wide spectrum of genres and eras, the works shown here highlight the
extraordinary range of her interests and influences. This week is a
screening of Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror film classic, The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, which follows a group of young travelers whose car breaks down
in the middle of nowhere to their misfortune. Known for originating many
of the staples of the slasher genre — such as a faceless killer and
power tools as weapons — it also functioned as a critique of the meat
industry. Ticketing costs are $5 general admission; free for SFMOMA
members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be
picked up in the Haas Atrium).
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012
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8/17
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:15 PM, Buttercup Park, 4901 N. Sheridan Rd.
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM SERIES - THE WHALE
New York Times Critic's Pick. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, The Whale is a
remarkable true story about Luna, a young killer whale, who is orphaned
off the coast of British Columbia, and adopted by the residents of
Nootka Sound. Luna quickly endears himself to them by demonstrating
affection and an ability to communicate, and indeed seems to thrive on
human contact until the government steps in to separate them for the
animal's own protection. Full of beautiful scenery and strange twists,
The Whale also raises compelling questions about the emotional lives of
animals that continue to elude human understanding. (D. Suzanne Chisholm
and Michael Parfit, 2011, 85 min.) Free admission
8/17
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
The camera's rolling and we've boarded a rollercoaster of visual and
sound voyages. This opening program combines an excitingly eclectic
range of artistic modes and represents both an introduction to what have
become the hallmarks of Austrian experimental cinema and the perfect
place to begin 10 adventures into cinema and its history. Whether
reconstructing found footage, using sophisticated multiple points of
view, restaging documentaries or undertaking structural explorations,
these techniques all become rhythmic tools for our aural and visual
pleasure. Works in this program include FILM IST 1: MOVEMENT AND TIME
(2002); SCHÖNBERG (1990); YES? OUI? YA? (2002); MIRROR MECHANICS (2005);
SUBROSA (2004); ARNULF RAINER (1960); DIE GEBURT DER VENUS (Birth of
Venus) (1970-1972); SUNSET BOULEVARD (1991); WISLA (1996); BODY POLITICS
(1974); INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE (2005). Total running
time: 73 min.
8/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PARSON'S WIDOW
by Carl Th. Dreyer No English intertitles (English synopsis available),
1921, 78 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (PRASTANKAN) A lyrical, early Dreyer
comedy. A young parson wins a plum parish in 17th century Norway, but is
obliged to marry the widow of his deceased predecessor and pretend his
attractive young fiancée is his sister. The master's touch is evident in
the close-ups of the pastor's would-be rivals and parishioners and a
slow pan presaging the 360-degree views of VAMPYR.
8/17
Stockholm, Sweden: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
20:00, Fylkingen (Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm, Sweden)
PRIVATE TERRITORY: STOCKHOLM
Ryan Tebo (filmmaker) and Sally Müller (curator) have collaborated with
Boston-based Mariya Nikiforova for a Stockhom screening of Private
Territory, a traveling tour of films by American filmmakers such as Saul
Levine, Robert Todd, Jodie Mack, Shambhavi Kaul and others, Finnish
artists Marja Mikkonen and Anna Nykyri, and Russian filmmaker Masha
Godovannaya. For the screening in Stockholm there will also be bonus
films by Tamara Henderson, who just graduated from Kungliga
Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, and Åsa Hoflin.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012
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8/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
A PLACE ON EARTH
With an introduction by filmmaker and restorationist Ross Lipman
(schedule permitting). A Place On Earth is a fiction film made with the
participation of a real commune in Moscow, one in which the director
himself lived. As with Palms, Aristakisyan's previous work, A Place on
Earth is not just a film; it is an encounter, and it leaves one
unsettled by its radical ethical demands. Says Aristakisyan: "The film
does not leave room to maneuver and avoid change... It precludes the
very possibility for indulgence in collective delusions after having
seen it... It also precludes the possibility for neatly sweeping its
contents under the intellectual rug...This is not a socially conscious
film. There is no society... It is not a philosophical film either.
There are no authorial points of view or ideas. It has to be
admitted—this film is dangerous. Truly dangerous." Dir. Artur
Aristakisyan, 2001, 120min, projected from DVD
8/18
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 2. DAILY
BUSINESS
Observations of everyday events and life are transposed with irony and
humor through choreographic touches, performative actions or documentary
real time. Static scenes become mini cinematographic voyages: a kiss
enhanced through repetition and recreation, bicycles loaded into an
elevator or being repaired, workers finishing their day, or bodybuilding
as an artistic performance in itself. The ordinary is subtly tweaked to
create wry visual motifs for our undisguised pleasure. Works in this
program include HERNALS (1967); BYKETROUBLE (1998); PIECE TOUCHEE
(1989); NACH "PIECE TOUCHEE" (1998); HOTEL ROCCALBA (2008); BODYBUILDING
(1965-66); LIVINGROOM (1991); DANKE, ES HAT MICH SEHR GEFREUT (1987).
Total running time: 68 min.
8/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VAMPYR
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm, b&w "Imagine that we are sitting
in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse
behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken on
another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are
physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are
as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR."
–Carl Dreyer
8/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
by Carl Th. Dreyer No English intertitles (English synopsis available),
1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC) A
work that exemplifies Dreyer's philosophy: simplicity is the most
complex idea of all. Although renowned for its spare acts, lack of
embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's masterpiece reveals the
natural complexity of an un-retouched face (often existing alone,
filling up the frame) and a landscape of history as individual as the
lines on that face. Made in 1927-28, it continues to haunt the cinema,
looking more and more avant-garde as the years go by.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2012
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8/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1943, 100 minutes, 35mm, b&w (VREDENS DAG) "Carl Dreyer's
art begins to unfold at the point where most other directors give up.
Witchcraft and martyrdom are his themes – but his witches don't ride
broomsticks, they ride the erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a
world that suggests a dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." –Pauline
Kael
8/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET
by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1955, 132 minutes, 35mm, b&w An existential morality essay
by the master of the long take, in which a man who believes he is Jesus
Christ soon begins to convince those around him. Based on the play by
Kaj Munk, ORDET is a meditation on faith and fanaticism.
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