[Frameworks] This week [December 8 - 16, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire (France; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: November 28, 2012)
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Visions Film Festival and Conference (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* "Reels & Lights" Crater (Luis Macias & Adriana vila) Followed By Friends
of Bradley Eros (On His B-Day) [December 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #46 [December 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Festival Des CinéMas DifféRents Et ExpéRimentaux De Paris [December 11, Paris, France]
* The Saga of Anatahan [December 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* La Air: Pablo Valencia [December 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Ercatx! [December 14, Austin, TX]
* Your Day Is My Night: Live Film Performance Directed By Lynne Sachs [December 14, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Tara and Gordon Nelson [December 14, New York, New York]
* Songs For the Animals: A Benefit For Cinematheque! [December 14, San Francisco, California]
* New Works Salon viii [December 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Diaries, Notes & Sketches (Walden) [December 15, New York, New York]
* Incredibly Strange Religion! [December 15, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Reminiscences of A Journey To Lithuania [December 16, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012
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12/10
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
"REELS & LIGHTS" CRATER (LUIS MACIAS & ADRIANA VILA) FOLLOWED BY FRIENDS
OF BRADLEY EROS (ON HIS B-DAY)
Admission $6. Microscope is pleased to host a very special night of
projector performance, film, video and sound organized by Bradley Eros.
The event is a double feature, so-to-speak, starting off with a 16mm
filmless projector performance by Barcelona-based artists Luis Macìas
and Adriana Vila, "Reels & Lights", a tribute to the movie projector
also involving strobe lights, optical sound & light sensors. The second
program includes film, video, sound and more by friends and
collaborators of Bradley Eros on the occasion of his birthday. Featuring
works by Victoria Keddie, Rachelle Rahme, Joel Schlemowitz, Sarah
Halpern, Tim Geraghty, Rachael Guma, Natas, Elle Burchill, Sadaf H Nava,
Lary Seven, Marianne Shaneen, Marie Losier & Bradley Eros. Program:
Reels & Lights, approx. 30 minutes, a tribute to the movie projector.
The appearance of the cinematic apparatus in its simplest form, using
intermittent light and shadows, silence and sound. This is a project of
pre-expanded cinema using a 16mm film projector as a research object.
The projector becomes the protagonist. The perforations of a double
perforated black film are used as a source of intermittent and constant
repetitive optical sound. Also the vibration of the projector is used
trough a sound sensor that is placed in it's interior. These two sources
of sound emanating from the projector are fused finally into a sound
mixer. "gifts & presence", will immediately follow the approximately 30
minute performance and features films, videos, sound, and/or performance
A birthday bash looking gift horses in the mouth, for and against
eros.ion, in the presence of eyes & ears, with film, video, music or
performance by Victoria Keddie, Rachelle Rahme, Joel Schlemowitz, Sarah
Halpern, Tim Geraghty, Rachael Guma, Natas, Elle Burchill, Sadaf H Nava,
Lary Seven, Marianne Shaneen, Marie Losier & Bradley Eros. They'll all
be there! - -Macias' & Vila Guevara's performances and installations
have been shown at various art centers, galleries, institutions, and
other venues including: Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezulea; Museum
of Modern Art, Salvador de Bahia; Cinematheque National of Venezuela;
Artist Television Access (ATA Site) San Francisco, Echo Park Film
Center, Los Angeles; Millenium Film Workshop, New York among others.
More info at www.cratercollective.com & www.microscopegallery.com. Tel:
347.925.1433. Nearest subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway, L - Morgan Ave or
Jefferson Street.
12/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street Weest
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #46
Peter Rose + Vincent Grenier Guest Programmed by Christine Lucy Latimer
+ Mark Loeser "In the process of making Work, in the lifelong commitment
to embodying the images and ideas that confront us, we propose,
implicitly, a condition in which we test out an experience of working on
ourselves outside the conditions of alienation as we find and are
defined by them. If we can't get it together, given our inner freedom,
who can?" – Peter Rose, On the Edge The kaleidoscopic corridors of
Analogies: studies in the movement of time make for one of Peter Rose's
most heavily worked, purely visual pieces. It offers the viewer a sense
of humanity that is absent in similar, more austere works (the great,
relentless halls of Ernie Gehr's Serene Velocity or Malcolm LeGrice's
Corridor for comparison). Rose's work spins the frame around
characteristic glimpses of implied drama and coy playfulness. The
framing and soft shoe meet in a low-key flamenco-dervish. The man who
could not see far enough is the very best of films not simply born of
but explicitly about the pursuit of poetic, filmic visions. Where the
entire genre of experimental film may be said to expand the range of
sights available to us, few films preface for the viewer what motivates
this: the filmmaker seeking Seeing itself. Rose's career-long
fascination with the elusiveness of meaning is most memorably visualized
here. Vincent Grenier's sublime Interieur Interiors (To A. K.) is
featured between the Roses. In it, lines are woven between the frame,
the spaces it displays, and the scratches etched on the film's surface
over the years. Our thanks to EMS for this opportunity to guest curate
and for doing what they do here in Toronto every month." -Mark Loeser
and Christine Lucy Latimer Programme: Analogies: Studies in the Movement
of Time, Peter Rose, 1977, 16mm, USA, 14 min. Interieur Interiors (to
A.K.), Vincent Grenier, 1978, 16mm, USA/Canada, 15 min. The man who
could not see far enough, Peter Rose, 1981, 16mm, USA, 33 min. @
Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Monday December 10, 2012 |
7:00 pm screening *NOTE EARLY START TIME*
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012
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12/11
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8 pm, Les Voutes , 19, rue des Frigos, 75013
FESTIVAL DES CINéMAS DIFFéRENTS ET EXPéRIMENTAUX DE PARIS
From 11th - 16th December!!! For its 14th edition the Paris Festival of
Different and Experimental Cinema will present for its third consecutive
year an international COMPETITION composed of 9 screening sessions. 57
films were selected among the 900 that we received. As usual we have
chosen to present a large panorama of contemporary productions that do
not conform to the notion of genre and duration as imposed by the film
industry. Yes, experimental and different cinema mix together forms,
grain and pixels to show us the world, tell us stories, or offers
magnificent abstract forms. Yes, experimental cinema disrupts our
spectator's habits and that is why we like it. This year the festival
presents a thematic program about the Eastern European production that
will unfold through 6 FOCUS screenings. A special screening:
STRIGIFORME, will present recent works by some of the CJC filmmakers
that were part of the selection committee or part of the jury for this
edition. Two programs about SUPER 8 films will be presented by the
French filmmaker , Colas Ricard. We will also pay homage to the
filmmakers Marcel Hanoun and Laurence Chanfro who have both sadly left
us this year. Finally, we will close the festival by presenting a
selection ex-Yugoslavian films, programmed by Marcel Mazé ( the founder
of the CJC) in 1983 at the Film festival of Hyères, for us, this is our
way to pay homage to him as a programmer-discoverer of films and to keep
him present by our side despite his painful absence.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012
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12/12
Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society
http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org
7:30 PM, Portage Theater, 4050 N Milwaukee Ave
THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN
Discharged from Macao by Howard Hughes, Josef von Sternberg's Hollywood
career had come undone. The director embarked on a dream project that
brought the exacting affection of his Marlene Dietrich vehicles to its
logical and impossible conclusion. Anatahan follows a group of stranded
Japanese soldiers as they decline into savagery, fighting for guns,
power, and the island's only girl, entirely unaware that war has ceased.
The artificial society meets its match: Anatahan's cast is wholly
Japanese, but Sternberg's brisk, fussy English voiceover narration
supersedes all. Filmed entirely in a Kyoto studio, Anatahan is some sort
of monstrous apex of synthetic cinema, representing near-total control
for the obsessive filmmaker, who intercedes not only with the sets and
montage, but with the thoughts and actions of every human in the film.
(Sternberg would subsequently lament his sole compromise: photographing
real waves rather than fabricating the ocean. He also maintained that
the film's essence would survive even if projected upside-down and
backwards.) Anatahan never found a non-cultist audience, prompting
Sternberg to tinker—deleting dialogue and adding nude shots. At least
Anatahan could boast a theatrical release several years before Jet
Pilot, another fateful Sternberg-Hughes collaboration begun in 1950!
(HM)
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012
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12/13
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
LA AIR: PABLO VALENCIA
LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles
filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a
four-week period. Though he is famed for his tongue-in-cheek criticisms,
his satires of traditional culture, and his unending social
responsibility, few remember that Pablo Valencia, a Los Angeles based
artist, began first and foremost: as an artist; a collagist, painter,
sculptor, sound designer, and filmmaker. He creates representational and
abstract pieces moving freely between documentation, surrealism, and
formalism. Pablo was instrumental in the founding of the Overseas
Chinese Artists Foundation as well as laying the groundwork for
experimental artists in the East Village where he published three books
about the future generation of artists. His work has been displayed all
over the world in Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Korea and the United States and recently has been commissioned by
the Tate Modern. Later his name would become famous with projects such
as the 'Bird's Nest,' the Olympic Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Summer
Games, a project he quickly distanced himself from following completion.
His role as an activist deepened following the closing of his blog. His
work has been shown extensively throughout the Americas and Europe.
During his residency at the Echo Park Film Center he has strived to make
work that is a meditation on time and marked by a pursuit of honesty. He
has created work for this show on Super 8, regular 8, and video. Pablo
currently resides in Los Angeles. His LA AIR show is sponsored by Coke.
He is a resident of Los Angeles. More images and information are
available on http://www.monstrouscreature.org. FREE EVENT!
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012
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12/14
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
8pm, Tiny Park Gallery - 1101 Navasota St, Austin, TX 78702
ERCATX!
ERC ATX, in collaboration Tiny Park Gallery, is proud to present our
first show dedicated to local moving image artists. In conjunction to
our mission of bringing classical and contemporary experimental cinema
to Austin, ERC ATX aims to showcase the rich work that is happening
within our midst, while further fostering a community around an other
cinema. Featuring work by Lyndsay Bloom, Jason Cortlund & Julia
Halperin, Nathan S Duncan, Jarrett Hayman, Caroline Koebel, Ekrem
Serdar, Scott Stark and Rachel Stuckey.
12/14
New York, New York: University Settlement
http://http://www.universitysettlement.org/us/news/PerformanceProject/2012-2013_performance_calendar/your_day_is_my_night_live_perfor/
7:30, 184 Eldridge St @ Rivington
YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT: LIVE FILM PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY LYNNE SACHS
In "Your Day is My Night" a group of Chinese performers creates a
dynamic live film performance that tells the collective story of Chinese
immigration to New York City from the viewpoint of an older generation.
Directed by Lynne Sachs on both stage and screen, the seven performers
play themselves, all living together in a shift-bed apartment in the
heart of Chinatown. Since the early days of New York's tenement houses,
shift workers have had to share beds, making such spaces a fundamental
part of immigrant life. In this dynamic multi-media production, the
concept of the shift-bed allows the audience to see the private become
public. The bed transforms into a stage when the performers exchange
stories around domestic life, immigration and personal-political
upheaval. "Your Day is My Night" is a provocative work of experimental
theater and cinema that reflects deeply on this familiar item of
household furniture. A bilingual performance in Chinese and English.
12/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: TARA AND GORDON NELSON
MOVIES FROM THE MULTIVERSE: FILMS BY TARA AND GORDON NELSON Filmmaking
spouses Tara and Gordon Nelson present an extensive selection of their
Super-8mm and 16mm films, in a program that encompasses quadruple
projections, sound performances, live editing, audience interaction,
found-footage dance parties, and other extraterrestrial surprises.
Hailing from the celluloid paradise of Pittsburgh, and currently
residing in Boston, they have created a body of work, both separately
and together, that explores the many ways in which Super-8mm and 16mm
film can document, manipulate, and transfigure reality. Given their
embrace of performance and happenstance, no two shows are ever alike –
prepare to be dazzled! Tara and Gordon Nelson NOISOLPMI (2009, 5 min,
16mm, b&w, live sound) Drama in the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Tara Nelson IN CHINA (2012, 10 min, Super-8mm) A travel diary on 2
projectors, with live sound from a Buddhist 'chant box' that is passed
through the audience. The overlapping images are edited 'live' using
Chinese fans as external shutters. Tara Nelson SNOW (2010, 7 min,
Super-8mm, b&w) I was unexpectedly hospitalized after a surgery disaster
in December 2009. This footage was shot under the influence of
painkillers. It is hand-processed and hand-scratched. Tara Nelson FLYING
FISH (2012, 7 min, Super-8mm, silent) "When the new is given birth, the
light is brought to Earth. The energy of the cosmos becomes visible
through human life and deeds, and that energy impregnates all with its
divine quality. The creation which takes place in darkness and stillness
will emerge and spread the divine, the light, sharing it once again with
the mother who gave it birth." –The Tarot, Princess of Disks Gordon
Nelson UNTIED FORCES (2010, 3 min, 16mm, double-system sound) A surreal
film about cosmic alignments and tenuous relationships among cattle, a
cat, soldiers, and a bit of witchcraft. 16mm hand-processed footage
combined with animation. Music composed and performed by GN. Gordon
Nelson FEATHER (2008, 4 min, Super-8mm) Pittsburgh in wintertime,
carousels, and scraps from the cutting-room floor. Tara Nelson HULL
(2011, 8 min, 16mm) A journey between layers of corporal consciousness,
HULL explores the physical memory of trauma, and the psychological
repercussions of a surgical disaster. Gordon Nelson SIXTIES TEEN DANCE
PARTY (2001, 12 min, 16mm, b&w, live sound) Found footage by an
anonymous filmmaker of a wild dance party circa 1965 suspended in time.
12/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9 PM, Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street (at Valencia)
SONGS FOR THE ANIMALS: A BENEFIT FOR CINEMATHEQUE!
Join us this evening at our annual benefit in celebration of
Cinematheque's 50+ years of innovative film programming for a
once-in-a-lifetime cinematic spectacle featuring video/sound
performances by an incredible lineup of local luminaries. Working this
evening entirely with samples of animal voices, experimental
electronicist Wobbly provides a live score to SUE-C's More Animals, a
recent example of her sublimely handmade live cinema. Tommy
Becker—crafter of menacing synth-pop performance art presents excerpts
from Tape Number One, a collection of ambivalently joyous
video/performance greeting cards. Finally, Suzy Poling (a 2012
SFMOMA/SECA nominee), drawing inspiration from hypnotic realms, natural
phenomena and ecological oddities, will create multi-dimensional live
image/sound environments in collaboration with her own aural alter-ego
Pod Blotz. As if this were not enough, MC for the evening is none other
than the inimitable musician/comic/curator and all-around
man-about-town, Mr. George Chen! Extended event information to come!
(Gina Basso & Steve Polta)
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2012
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12/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON VIII
$5 / Celebrate our last day open in 2012 with a program of all brand new
work! Kate Brown will show Couch (16mm, 3min, b/w, California) and
recent 16mm footage from Los Angeles. Dana Berman Duff will show Vibrant
Matter, short studies of the unstable nature of matter in 16mm film and
digital video projection. Kate Lain will show her work In the Usual
Manner, in which photographer Barret Oliver brings his darkroom and gear
to the Huntington Library to produce hauntingly beautiful work 'in the
usual manner' of the nineteenth-century photographer. Eve-Lauryn
LaFountain will show her work They Told Me 'Apikaan' Means Braid, which
was created as a 50 foot 16mm film loop installation that physically ran
the length of a gallery at Calarts in October as part of the group show
This is All We Have in Common. The piece explores issues of identity and
the breakdown of tradition as a loop of information that is constantly
circling. Originally shot on 8mm film by Rick Bahto, optically printed
to 16mm, hand processed, performed and conceived by Eve-Lauryn
LaFountain. Plus more TBA!
12/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES (WALDEN)
by Jonas Mekas 1969, 180 minutes, 16mm Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69.
"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around
with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations,
friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames,
on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing.
When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you
look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film
(camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this
instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all." –J.M. "I
make home movies – therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home
movies." –from the soundtrack.
12/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
INCREDIBLY STRANGE RELIGION!
Shepherded by religious archivist Mitchell Random, we partake of the
holiday spirit with a program devoted to the curious realm of, uh,
idiosyncratic spiritual belief. After Random's pick hits of Religious
Right rants, we behold the awesome wonder of the Mormon Church's Ancient
America Speaks, on the incredible but true story behind the Mayan
Pyramids! PLUS the third part of Peter Adair's deadly serious Holy Ghost
People (snake-handling, in 16mm), Bruce Conner's Permian Strata, Richard
Martin's Mixed Signals, and Rodney Ascher's Scientology Filmstrip
(narrated by L. Ron Hubbard). ALSO Cult Explosion (with Eldridge Cleaver
and People's Temple survivors), Satanic backward-masking abominations,
and free red wine. *$6.66.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012
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12/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special
thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four
parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in
America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania.
The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months
in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter
Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with
home, memory, and culture." –J.M.
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