[Frameworks] This week [December 1 - 9, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [December 1 - 9, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE:
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"Benny Loves Killing" by Ben Woodiwiss
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"14 x 14" by Albert Alcoz
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MEDIAWAVE-"ANOTHER CONNECTION" Film and Music Gathering (Komarom, Hungary; Deadline: January 10, 2013)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2013)
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Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: November 28, 2012)
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The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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VIDEOFOCUS (Italy; Deadline: December 19, 2012)
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GAZE (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: December 31, 2012)
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RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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OpenLens Festival (Eugene, OR, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2012)
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Vector (Canada; Deadline: December 10, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Lauren Kelley: True Falsetto [December 1, Austin, TX]
* Chungking Express [December 1, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Thomas Dexter: Noise/Index 16mm Film Performance & New videos [December 1, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Queerer they Come: A Film & video Show [December 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Kent Mackenzie's the Exiles [December 1, San Francisco, California]
* The Animation of Wladyslaw Starewicz [December 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Empty Quarter, By Alain Letourneau and Pam Minty [December 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [December 2, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [December 2, New York, New York]
* The Floridian Sweats, New video By Derek Larson [December 3, Brooklyn, New York]
* Recent Work From Anthology Film Archives [December 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Jim Davis Program [December 3, New York, New York]
* In Captivity [December 4, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Free Tuesday Screening: Porcelain, Episode One: On the Lost Side of Time [December 4, San Francisco, California]
* Craig Baldwin's Spectres of the Spectrum [December 5, Austin, TX]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Gunvor Nelson — In Person From Sweden! [December 5, Los Angeles, California]
* It's the Earth Not the Moon [December 5, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Open Screen [December 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Tradition Filmique Et Innovation CinÉMatographique: Un Nouveau
Regard - EvÉNement PÉRiphÉRique Du 14ÈMe
Festival Des CinÉMas DiffÉRents Et ExpÉRimentaux
De Paris [December 6, Paris, France]
* Shifting Geographies/Special Relativity: Butler/Mirza's Deep State and
Other Works [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Stan Brakhage Showcase [December 6, Seattle, Washington]
* 5th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema SoiréE [December 7, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304]
* Sigur RóS' Valtari Film Experiment [December 7, New York, Leipzig, Geneva, Toronto, Vancouver, Antarctica, many more...]
* Valtari Film Experiment [December 7, Seattle, Washington]
* Rourke + Wood/Muybridge + Katelus + Radiophonics [December 8, San Francisco, California]
* Sight Unseen Presents: Perceptual [December 9, Baltimore]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour –
Digital Program B [December 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Sunrise [December 9, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Sunrise [December 9, New York, New York]
* Nobuhiko Obayashi Program [December 9, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012
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12/1
Austin, TX: Women & Their Work Gallery
7pm, 1710 Lavaca Street,
LAUREN KELLEY: TRUE FALSETTO
Lauren Kelley: True Falsetto, December 1 - January 17, 2013 - (closed
Dec.23-Jan.2) - Opening Reception: Saturday, December 1, 7-9PM - Kelley
creates stop motion animations that will bring you into her world of
Froufrou Conclusions and True Falsettos. This work is an
interdisciplinary effort exploring notions of strength. The genesis of
this work is a response to 70s politics that altered the general
perception of women from weak to strong. Essential to that response is
how perceptions of strength affect brown skin women. In 1954 the "Doll
Test" was psychological study with findings that led to swaying the
Supreme Court Case Brown vs the Board of Education and ushering in a new
era of liberty nation-wide. Conducted by Doctors Kenneth and Mamie
Clark, the 'Doll Test' illustrated that an inferiority complex
disproportionately plagued black people. When this study was revisited
in 2005 yielding data parallel to the time of the initial Clark
investigation, Kelley was moved to make work about the malleable nature
of individuality, and decided to broadcast a sequence of short
narratives that incorporated a fixed, brown doll protagonist to embrace.
- view the trailer online:
http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming_exhibitions.html?itemid=816
12/1
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center- 559 Washington Street
CHUNGKING EXPRESS
ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents a screening of Chungking
Express.Two cops—one with an increasing obsession with canned pineapple
and one who has begun to talk to household objects—cross paths at an
express take-out stand in Hong Kong following messy break-ups with their
girlfriends. Both are on a quest to find new love which, if the pixie
waitress at the take-out shop is any indication, may be closer than they
think. Full of energy and quirkiness, this visually stylized film uses
found locations and improvised situations to deliver an unexpectedly
charming and humorous narrative which marked it as a classic of 1990s
foreign cinema.
12/1
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
THOMAS DEXTER: NOISE/INDEX 16MM FILM PERFORMANCE & NEW VIDEOS
Admission $6. NOISE/INDEX is a night of live multi-projector film
performance and a video program – including 3 new and never before seen
works – by Brooklyn-based sound & light artist Thomas Dexter. Dexter
utilizes various analog and digital moving and sound technologies,
including 16mm film, light sensors, sound circuits, to create the images
and sounds elements of his works, both components of which are given
equal importance. For NOISE/INDEX Dexter will perform the expanded
cinema piece "Action/Film", a work utilizing "direct animation,
light-to-sound synthesis, and the destruction of the film itself." The
video program includes works which are similarly concerned with
image/sound relationships and utilizing graphical sound circuits,
light/sound translations, and sounds generated through the process of
image acquisition. - -Thomas Dexter is a Brooklyn-based artist working
within the traditions of experimental film, sound art, performance, and
playing with electricity. In works spanning direct filmmaking, 16mm film
performance, single channel video, and collaborative installation,
Dexter creates compositional systems which intentionally "cross the
wires" between binaries that shape our experience of various media:
image and sound, signal and noise, illusion and material, ephemerality
and timelessness. Dexter's solo and collaborative projects have been
featured at Experimental Intermedia, PS1, Roulette, The Elizabeth
Foundation Project Space, Issue Project Room, Sideshow Gallery, the
Mononoaware Festival, Bushwick BetaSpaces, the Index Festival, Firehouse
Art Space, The Invisible Dog art space, the Splatterpool Gallery and ESP
TV. He is a member of the Future Archaeology collective. tel:
347.925.1433, Nearest subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L -
Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. B54- Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across
the street.
12/1
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00p, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
THE QUEERER THEY COME: A FILM & VIDEO SHOW
A night of artist-made films and videos from around the world, including
works by Vivek Shraya, Campbell X, Keith Wilson, Penelope Spheeris &
more. The program centers around queer folk - outcasts and trailblazers
- who are often at odds with the norms of their larger communities,
LGBTQIA and otherwise. From a 1970s post-gay love story to the fearless
and fabulous dancehall ladies of mid-90s London and beyond, this program
paints a portrait as rich and nuanced as queer life itself. Program
compiled by John Palmer. Visit the event page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/370365293056985/ and check the blog for
full program and more info: http://thequeerertheycome.tumblr.com/ $5 at
the door - seating is limited.
12/1
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
KENT MACKENZIE’S THE EXILES
In the last of our Psycho-Geo trilogy, here's the SF premiere revival of
this Native American neo-realist treasure, via a miraculously rescued
16mm print. Archivist Steve Polta relates the rich background of the
production and restoration of this semi-documentary feature. While he
was a film student at USC in the late-50s, director MacKenzie chanced
upon Bunker Hill, the low-rent neighborhood on the west edge of downtown
LA, when it was first threatened with demolition. Fascinated with a
subculture of Arizona Indians living there, he crafted a compelling
story of a long Friday night. Full of loneliness, yearning and little
flashes of happiness, this legendary group-portrait is a wrenching
chronicle of cultural dislocation and a remarkable record of a city that
has vanished.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012
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12/2
Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society
http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org
6 PM and 8 PM, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th floor
THE ANIMATION OF WLADYSLAW STAREWICZ
THE PROGRAM: [1] The Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman (1912, 12 min,
16mm) — [2] The Frogs Who Wanted A King (1922, 9 min, 16mm) — [3] The
Voice of the Nightingale (1925, 13 min, 16mm) — [4] The Town Rat and the
Country Rat (1927, 10 min, 16mm) — [5] The Mascot (1934, 26 min, 16mm) —
The inexplicably creepy stop motion films of Russian born natural
historian Wladyslaw Starewicz left a mark on animation as strong as Walt
Disney or the Fleischer Brothers, influencing everyone from Jan
Svankmajer to Terry Gilliam, but where other animators seemed to cull
their material from the land of the living, Starewicz's feel like
they've been dug out of the ground (and they are, basically). The result
is an extremely unsettling palette of dead bugs, taxidermied animals,
skeletons, and rear projected real world backgrounds blended into
something that predicts the work of Salvador Dali, George A. Romero, and
Mister Ed the talking horse. Several prints in this program have been
provided by animation historian and archivist Tom Stathes. Visit him at
cartoonsonfilm.blogspot.com and brayanimation.weebly.com (JA)
12/2
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 EMPTY QUARTER, BY ALAIN LETOURNEAU AND PAM MINTY
Filmforum is delighted to host Portland filmmakers, educators,
programmers and film advocates Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty with the
local premiere of their film Empty Quarter! Empty Quarter (2011, 16mm
black & white/sound, 71 minutes) is a film about the region of Southeast
Oregon, an area populated by ranching and farming communities, in Lake,
Harney, and Malheur counties. The region is roughly one-third of
Oregon's landmass yet holds less than 2% of the state's population.
Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
Available at Brown Paper tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/290995
12/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm , 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 1
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. VISUAL VARIATIONS ON
NOGUCHI (1955, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 minutes,
16mm) GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3
minutes, 16mm, score by Teiji Ito) BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5
minutes, 16mm) NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 minutes, 16mm, silent) MOOD
MONDRIAN (1961, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent) EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 4
minutes, 16mm, silent) ANDY WARHOL (1965, 22 minutes, 16mm) Marie Menken
represents the lyrical sensibility in the American avant-garde film. She
manages to get the maximum visual intensity from minimally photogenic
subjects. Her usage of single-frame and her poetic attitude and purity
had a strong influence on many filmmakers of the sixties. Total running
time: ca. 70 minutes.
12/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 2
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. WRESTLING (1964, 8
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) MOONPLAY (1962, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) DRIPS
IN STRIPS (1961, 3 minutes, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12
minutes, 16mm, silent) LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent)
SIDEWALKS (1966, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EXCURSION (1968, 5
minutes, 16mm) WATTS WITH EGGS? (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm, silent)
ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time:
ca. 70 minutes.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012
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12/3
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
THE FLORIDIAN SWEATS, NEW VIDEO BY DEREK LARSON
Admission $6. Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present Derek
Larson's "The Floridian Sweats", a recently completed compilation of
video works resulting from a year the artist spent living in a deserted
east Florida beach town. Larson describes the work as "a schizophrenic
glimpse into digital nostalgia." The Floridian Sweats, video
compilation, color, sound, 2012, Total running time: approximately
45min. "The work is inspired by one strange year spent living and
surfing in a dilapidated beach town on the east coast of Florida, which
was partially developed and then deserted by investors after the recent
economic recession. The videos speak to the politics, weather and
structures of the state. The work ranges in visual styles, effects,
texts and sound. Some pieces inject visual one-liners, some measure
fictional video space by calling attention to the medium, while others
combine literary allusion through stories told by animated characters."
–DL - -Derek Larson is an artist currently based in Georgia. He received
his MFA from The Yale School of Art and has exhibited in the US and
internationally, including at Jack the Pelican and Louis V.E.S.P in New
York. Recently, he presented his Memes project at the Finnish Museum of
Photography in Helsinki. His work has been featured in the Seattle
Times, NY Arts Magazine and Rhizome @ The New Museum in New York among
others. more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest
subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L Morgan Ave or Jefferson
Street, B54 - Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across the street.
12/3
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)
RECENT WORK FROM ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American
Film Program present -------- OUT OF THE PAST: FILM RESTORATION TODAY
Monday, December 3 Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Westwood Village
*FREE Admission --------
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2012-10-01/out-past-film-restoration-t
oday -------- Curator of Collections Andrew Lampert will present a
program of recent preservations undertaken by Anthology Film Archives
including Money, a radically-composed, rapid-fire time capsule of Lower
Manhattan and United States, a conceptual bicentennial film dealing with
spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and
the geographic, political, and social changes from New York to Los
Angeles. In addition to the other works listed, Lampert will show a
sampling of newly digitized videos and a few reels from the "Unessential
Cinema" collection of works gathered from deceased laboratories,
bereaved widows and trash dumpsters. Total Running Time of Program:
approx. 100 min. -------- MONEY 1985 A radically-composed time capsule,
a rapid-fire portrait of the innovative 'downtown' Lower Manhattan
community of poets, musicians, dancers, and personalities active in the
early-to-mid-1980s. As much a sound work as it is a film, Money features
John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Abigail Child,
Charles Bernstein, and anextraordinary cast of luminaries. 35mm, b/w, 15
min. -------- CHEWING 1980 A delightful structuralist study of the act
of eating an apple. 16mm, color, 6 min. -------- LETTER TO D.H. IN PARIS
1967 An influential figure within the NYC experimental film community of
the mid-1960s, David Brooks died tragically young leaving behind only a
handful of works. This piece is described by the maker as "Stoned
people, music, movement, fields." 16mm, color, 4 min. -------- SIX
WINDOWS 1979 "A pan and a dissolve make a window of a wall on film. A
portrait of the filmmaker in a luminous space, synthetically rendered
via positive and negative overlays. ... I lived in some rooms by the sea
and watched the inside and the view as well as thewindow panes that
divided and joined them. I was often lost in thought. The birds would
come and make a racket, reminding me I shared that space and sky with
them. The film is a moody record of that place and my peace of mind."
16mm, color, silent, 7 min. -------- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1975 A
true masterpiece of 70s cinema, more remarkable today than ever before.
A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal
relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic,
political, and social changes from New York to Los Angeles. The space
within each frame is at the same time continuous and elliptical. 16mm,
color, 27 min. -------- IN PERSON: Andrew Lampert, Anthology Film
Archives
12/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JIM DAVIS PROGRAM
PRISMATIC VARIATIONS (1965, 11 min, 16mm, silent) IN THE BEGINNING
(1955, 9 min, 16mm, silent) COLOR DANCES, NO. 2 (1952, 7.5 min, 16mm,
silent) THE SEA (1950, 8.5 min, 16mm, silent) IMPULSES (1959, 9.5 min,
16mm) SEA RHYTHMS (1971, 9.5 min, 16mm, silent) Total running time: ca.
60 min.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
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12/4
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
8pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle
IN CAPTIVITY
In this time of extreme industrialization, wilderness is all but
forgotten. In cities, the trees are kept in corrals, with clearly posted
visiting hours, if not caged up in solitary confinement. While we had
originally intended to put together a program of works celebrating the
wild, both around us and within, we quickly realized that captivity was
inescapable. Wild and tame – free and enslaved – are fundamentally
entwined concepts. The very notion of liberty exists only to contrast
the many constraints that humans have built. Come and be our captive (or
captivated?) audience for the Boston premieres of new films by Daniel
Sousa and Robert Todd, as well as classics by Malcolm Le Grice and Jonas
Mekas (presented in 16mm). We promise not to lock the doors. PROGRAM
//// Feral, Daniel Sousa, 2012, 13m, video /// Construct, Robert Todd,
2012, 12m, 16mm /// Berlin Horse, Malcolm Le Grice, 1970, 7m, 16mm ///
INTERMISSION /// The Brig, Jonas Mekas, 1964, 68m, 16mm
12/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
12pm noon, Phyllis Wattis Theater
FREE TUESDAY SCREENING: PORCELAIN, EPISODE ONE: ON THE LOST SIDE OF TIME
Based in Saigon and Los Angeles, The Propeller Group is an art
collective that often focuses on mass media in the hope of redefining
the social and political understanding of contemporary cultures. The
group is the producer of the miniseries Porcelain, which aired on
Vietnamese television in 2010. In this first of three episodes, the
historical events surrounding a cursed shipment of porcelain from Asia
to Europe in the 17th century intertwine with the lives of contemporary
Vietnamese characters. Museum and program admission are free.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
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12/5
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
7:30, 29th St. Ballroom, 2906 Fruth Street
CRAIG BALDWIN'S SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM
Introduced by Boo Boo herself aka Austin filmmaker Caroline Koebel!
Hilarious and mind-blowing, rapid-fire conspiracies emerge out of this
"mutant blockbuster" soup of cinematic debris! The director of
TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS returns with one of his grandest works
to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Baldwin's treasure trove of
early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood
movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action
footage, no-budget special effects, and relentless narration to generate
a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic. BooBoo, a young
telepath, and her father, Yogi, are revolutionaries pitted against the
"New Electromagnetic Order". Their story, set in the year 2007 in a
blighted Nevada outpost, is interwoven with a history of the development
of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to atom bombs, from
television to the Internet. "At once politically charged and wildly
imaginative, this unique extravaganza confirms director Baldwin as an
avant-garde superstar". -- Christian Science Monitor
12/5
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 GUNVOR NELSON — IN PERSON FROM SWEDEN!
Filmforum continues bringing renowned experimental film artists from
elsewhere this season with an extremely rare visit from Sweden of
legendary media artist Gunvor Nelson. Gunvor Nelson is one of Sweden's
internationally most prominent artists in her field - film and the
moving image, and a key figure in the history of experimental film. Now
81 years old and living in Sweden, she says this is likely to be her
last public screening in Los Angeles…ever, so you really don't want to
miss it. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Available at Brown Paper tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/297544 Screening (subject to
change): Snowdrift (2001, 9 min., video, sound), My Name is Oona (1969,
10 min., 16mm, b&w, sound), Fog Pumas by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley
(1967, 25 min., 16mm, color, sound), Before Need Redressed (1995, 42
min, 16mm, color, sound)
12/5
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia
http://ihousephilly.org/events/portrait-place-its-the-earth-not-the-moon/
7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street
IT’S THE EARTH NOT THE MOON
dir. Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal, 2011, digi-beta, 185 mins, color,
Portuguese w/ English subtitles ///// A cameraman and a soundman arrive
in Corvo in 2007, the smallest island in the archipelago of the Azores.
Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Corvo is a large rock, 6km
high and 4km long, with the crater of a volcano and a single tiny
village of 440 people. Gradually, this small filming crew is accepted by
the island's population as its new inhabitants, two people to add to a
civilization almost 500 years old, whose history is hardly discernible,
such is the lack of records and written memories. Shot at a vertiginous
pace throughout a few years, self produced between arrivals, departures
and coming backs, It's the Earth not the Moon develops as the logbook of
a ship, and turns out as a patchwork of discoveries and experiences
which follow the contemporary life of a civilization isolated in the
middle of the sea. A long Atlantic film odyssey, divided in 14 chapters,
that combines anthropological records, literature, lost archives,
mythological and autobiographical stories.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012
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12/6
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
OPEN SCREEN
$5 / 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, 8mm, 16mm, Blu Ray, QT File.
FILMMAKERS GET IN FREE!
12/6
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinéma
8:00, 123 rue Saint Martin
TRADITION FILMIQUE ET INNOVATION CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE: UN NOUVEAU
REGARD - EVÉNEMENT PÉRIPHÉRIQUE DU 14ÈME
FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE
PARIS
Une sélection de films de jeunes cinéastes Serbes
récemment primés dans des festivals,
présentée par Dunja Jelenkovic, en présence de
Ognjen Glavonić - réalisateur - qui viendra
spécialement de Serbie. - Que ces films aient été
réalisés dans des cadres « officiels » comme
la Faculty of Dramatic Arts ou - dans le plus « original »
Academic Film Center, produits - par des institutions officielles ou
non-officielles, faits - par des professionnels ou des
non-professionnels, sur - celluloïd ou en digital, ces
films et ces vidéos résistent à tous clichés
de l'art. Alternatifs ou classiques, ils - font tous partie de
l'histoire du cinéma. En Serbie, - aujourd'hui, une nouvelle
histoire est en train de - s'écrire. La prochaine vague est
représentée par Ana - Jelić, Andres Denegri,
Boško Prostran & Isidora Ilić (Doplgenger),
Mane Žuđelović, Miloš
Tomić, Ognjen - Glavonić, Stefan
Ivančić... et ce n'est que la - partie
émergente de l'iceberg ! - Dunja Jelenkovic, programmatrice - LES
FILMS : - OVER BELGRADE, Andres Denegri, 4' 25'', 2011 - JIMMY, Ognjen
Glavonić, 21', 2008 - SCRAP MATERIAL, Stefan
Ivančić, 16', 2011 - SPITTED BY KISS,
Miloš Tomić, 11', 2007 - RAYBAN MELTDOWN, Mane
Žuđelović, 15', 2011 - SURPLUS,
Boško Prostran & Isidora Ilić, 6', 2008 -
WEIRD – FUNNY - SCARY STORIES, Ana Jelić, 11', 2012 - -
Mais aussi, une exposition dédiée au 30ème
anniversaire de ALTERNATIVE FILM VIDEO, festival de Belgrade
consacré au cinéma différent et
expérimental. - Vous trouverez toutes les infos
bientôt sur notre site !
12/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 PM, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street (between Mission & Howard Streets)
SHIFTING GEOGRAPHIES/SPECIAL RELATIVITY: BUTLER/MIRZA’S DEEP STATE AND
OTHER WORKS
In its examination of international artistic communities, SFMOMA's
exhibition Six Lines of Flight (Sept. 15–December 31) highlights acts of
collaboration, collective art practice and cultural intervention which,
while based in regionalism and the locality, act as inspiring nodes
within contemporary transglobal cultural networks. Similarly concerned
with the possibilities and problems of collective action and political
intervention is Brad Butler and Karen Mirza's Deep State (scripted by
science-fiction author China Miéville). Taking its title from the
Turkish term "Derin Devlet" ("state within a state"), the film examines
the push and pull of transnational political networks (official and
unofficial), analyzing the invisible flows of power circulating beneath
enactments of individual expression and state oppression. Deep State
screens with Crossings, Robert Fenz' examination of the US/Mexico border
wall; Jonathan Schwartz' A Preface to Red, documenting an encounter
during a European/Asian border crossing; newsreel number one: day and
night (october 25th/26th), Moyah Pravdah Newsreel's documentation of one
battle in an ongoing struggle for the reclamation of public space in
Oakland; and, in celebration of Six Lines… participant Futurefarmers'
publication of A Variation on the Powers of Ten, the classic work of
micro/macro perspective, Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames. (Steve
Polta)
12/6
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7pm, 1515 12th Avenue
STAN BRAKHAGE SHOWCASE
This program brings together some of the Academy Film Archive's
restorations of the films of Stan Brakhage, including the premiere
screening of the newly restored masterpiece, Anticipation of the Night,
and a brand new print of the remarkable Passage Through: A Ritual, with
beautifully restored sound. Marilyn Brakhage and preservationist Mark
Toscano in person! Film Program (see full program notes on the event
website): From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis; The Wonder Ring;
Anticipation of the Night; Passage Through: A Ritual.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012
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12/7
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304: 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée
https://www.facebook.com/1to1Super8CinemaSoiree
Doors 6:30pm/Screening 7:30pm, IWAN The Bubble - 810 NE 4th Ave.
5TH ANNUAL 1:1 SUPER 8 CINEMA SOIRéE
Established in 2006, the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is an annual South
Florida event celebrating the use of super 8 film. Local filmmakers and
artists gleefully take part in this annual event, loading their cameras
with 3m20s of film, nervously creating their masterpieces. The 1:1 Super
8 Cinema Soirée is distinct in that none of the films are viewed by the
filmmakers before the screening. Participants are not allowed to preview
or edit their films. No matter what imperfections, happy accidents or
planned technical attributes occur, what's shot in-camera is what's
shown. There is no opportunity to make changes. Each participant gets
one chance, one reel, and one take, premiering the films at a one night
collective screening. Sound is done separately, most often designed,
edited, and mixed after filming. It's then played back live at the
screening as a type of dual sync system. Other sound options for
participants include projecting the film silent or adding live audio,
which in-turn adds a performative element. Many of these characteristics
lead to some exciting and refreshing films. It's also a rare opportunity
for public viewing and a chance to see super 8 projected in it's
original format. $5 gets you in. Super 8 Social to follow at the Poor
House, 110 SW 3rd Ave. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312. Suede Dudes, Montage
and Dooms De Pop to perform. Free. 21+.
12/7
New York, Leipzig, Geneva, Toronto, Vancouver, Antarctica, many more...: Cinema Purgatorio
http://bit.ly/SZ8zW2
many times through the weekend, many locations around the world
SIGUR RóS' VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT
join sigur rós fans around the world for a unique program of short
films. the weekend of december 7 – 9, a "valtari film experiment"
program collects at least 17 commissioned "official" and fan-created
short films created to coincide with the album valtari. the program will
screen on all seven continents (yes, including antarctica). venues will
include cinemas, cinema-like spaces, rock clubs, native american
casinos, hardware stores, hairdresser salons, and beyond. with the
band's live film inni, large venues were particularly pursued, but this
time, smaller, more avant-garde film-type spaces are sought out, though
there will be many exceptions. in addition, we seek to deliver the films
to the locations exclusively via the internet, cutting down on shipping
drama and further embracing how the internet can connect people working
on similar events around the world. upon the release of their album
valtari, sigur rós gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and
asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to
songs from the album. the idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval
process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers
are alma har'el, floria sigismondi, ramin bahrani, and john cameron
mitchell. at the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their
own personal creations. dates confirmed as of press time are here:
http://bit.ly/SZ8zW2
12/7
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
9pm, December 7 - 9, 1515 12th Avenue
VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT
Sigur Rós gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them
to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from
the band's new album valtari. The project idea aimed to bypass the usual
artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom.
Among the filmmakers are Ramin Bahrani, Alma Har'el and John Cameron
Mitchell.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2012
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12/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
ROURKE + WOOD/MUYBRIDGE + KATELUS + RADIOPHONICS
Indulging our love for forgotten formats and media-archaeology lore,
Jeremy Rourke & Co. debut two live musical performances, The Biography
of a Motion Picture Camera and The Paperman May Charleston. Ben Wood, in
the apparel of none other than Eadweard Muybridge, affords us a charmed
glimpse into those halcyon days of the Magic Lantern. Doug Katelus, as
Hammond organist for the night, offers his 16mm Help Keep Film Dead, on
the last days of Monaco Lab. Lori Varga, as high priestess for tonight's
"church," powers up her 4 projectors in Beyond the Frames of Light and
Strange Sound. PLUS Russ Forster with an in-person tribute to Bill Lear,
inventor of the eponymous jet AND the 8-track tape! AND a half-hr cut of
the BBC's Alchemists of Sound, on the UK Radiophonic Workshop, boasting
Doctor Who composer Delia Derbyshire.*$7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012
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12/9
Baltimore: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8:30pm, The 5th Dimension | 5th Floor H & H Building | 405 W. Franklin St.
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS: PERCEPTUAL
Doors @8:30pm | Performance @9pm | $5-10 sliding scale | Sight Unseen is
pleased to present Perceptual, a new live cinema work by Richard Garet
with the artist in attendance. Perceptual is an audiovisual performance
piece that proposes immersive reception to moving image and sound and
examines the processes of luminosity, color, movement, and light
phenomena. The sound will be carefully constructed and utilized to
effect, intervene, disrupt, and further modify the visual parameters of
the projected images. The techniques employed incorporate real-time
computer processing and visual-constructs established from the
permutations and the brilliancy generated by the media itself and by
systematically breaking apart and algorithmically over-layering the
outcome in order to create the viewing experience. Garet's sonic
construction for this project will hover from material explorations,
recordings of studio experiments, and digital processing while also
articulating subtle sonic movements that modulate and fluctuate over
time.
12/9
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 THE 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELING TOUR –
DIGITAL PROGRAM B
Los Angeles Filmforum concludes its 2012 programming with the 2012
edition of the 50th AAFF Traveling Tour, giving Los Angeles audiences a
chance to see the best new experimental works from around the world! Los
Angeles Filmforum is pleased to present the 50th AAFF Traveling Tour.
This program of short films includes recent experimental, narrative,
documentary and animated films from England, France, Germany and the US;
all selected from the most recent Ann Arbor Film Festival. The program
includes Suzan Pitt's recent animation VISITATION (Los Angeles, 2011, 9
min, Video), a journey through a surreal and dark landscape allowing an
imaginary glimpse within "an outer-world night". Filmmaker Suzan Pitt in
person! Also screening: Moxie by Stephen Irwin (England, 2011, 6 min,
Video — LA premiere!), 20 Hz by Semiconductor (England, 2011, 5 min,
Video — LA premiere!), Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany,
2011, 10 min, Video — LA premiere!), Tin Pressed by Dani Leventhal
(Brooklyn, NY, 2011, 7 min, Video), Untitled by Neil Beloufa (France,
2010, 15 min, Video), Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves) by Hayoun
KWON (France, 2011, 10 min, Video — LA premiere!), Ceibas: Epilogue -
The Well of Representation by Evan Meaney (Knoxville, TN, 2011, 8 min,
Video) Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Available at Brown Paper tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/297552
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SUNRISE
Script by Carl Meyer based on the story "A Trip to Tilsit" by Herman
Sudermann. Photographed by Charles Rosher and Karl Strauss. With George
O'Brien and Janet Gaynor. Murnau's first American film is an allegory
set in no particular time or place, about a man who is temporarily
overruled by his passions, inflamed by the power of evil as personified
by the city woman, and who finally returns to his senses and the orderly
family life of the country. It is a virtuoso exercise representing the
expressiveness of the silent film as it neared its end.
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SUNRISE
See notes for Dec. 9, 3 pm.
12/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI PROGRAM
SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING! FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI: EARLY
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Anthology Film Archives presents a special event
featuring a selection of shorts by Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of the leading
figures of Japan's alternative cinema. Recently receiving attention for
the re-release of his studio debut HOUSE (1977), Obayashi's early
experimental films range in tone from melodrama to comedy and vary in
style from the emotionally hyperbolic to the formally audacious. A
pioneer of 'home movies' in Japan, Obayashi formed film collectives with
Takahiko Iimura and Yoichi Takabayashi, namely the Association of Three
(Sannin no Kai) and the Film Independents, and went on to direct youth
dramas co-produced by the Art Theatre Guild, some titles of which will
be screened as part of the ATG AND JAPANESE UNDERGROUND CINEMA series at
MoMA (December 7-February 10, 2013). Shot in 8mm and 16mm, the films in
this program display a playful hand-made sensitivity and light-hearted
exuberance that has been retained in his more recent feature-length
productions. The screening is a preview event in anticipation of a
comprehensive survey of Japanese experimental cinema from the 1960s and
1970s, coming to Anthology in February 2013: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE:
FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960s-70s JAPAN. Obayashi will be here in person to
present and discuss the program! DANDANKO (1960, 11 min, 8mm-to-digital,
b&w. Co-directed by Akira Hirata.) THURSDAY / MOKUYOBI (1961, 19 min,
8mm-to-digital, b&w) AN EATER / TABETA HITO (1963, 23 min, 16mm, b&w.
Co-directed by Kazutomo Fujino) COMPLEXE (1964, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) Total
running time: ca. 75 min.
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