[Frameworks] Part 1 of 2: This week [February 4 - 12, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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EDITOR'S CHOICE EVENT OF THE WEEK:
George Kuchar's Devil's Cleavage at Anthology Film Archives
2/12 at Anthology
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
"Blue/Green/Posts-dhjeui873/" by Gregory Healey
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"Vestale sous contraintes" by yt75
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"Public Property Cashed In" by Chetan Boray
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"Dénouement" by Ismail Bahri
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MISCELLANEOUS:
MAMC, City University of Hong Kong
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=122.ann
MFACM, City University of Hong Kong
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=123.ann
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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The Journal of Short Film Volume 27 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1394.ann
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: March 30, 2012)
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WAMMFest (Women And Minorities in Media Festival) (Baltimore, MD, USA; Deadline: March 09, 2012)
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What The Festival (Alfred, NY, USA; Deadline: February 29, 2012)
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The Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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deadCENTER Film Festival (Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Deadline: February 14, 2012)
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Videoex International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival (Zürich, Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2012)
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Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: June 20, 2012)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Magmart | international videoart festival - VII edition (Naples, Irìtaly; Deadline: February 29, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1366.ann
Media City (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: February 24, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1370.ann
19th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: March 01, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1374.ann
EFF PORTLAND (Portland; Deadline: February 15, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1377.ann
call for artists 2012 (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: March 09, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1380.ann
ASsociety New Media Residency (Roxbury, NY, USA; Deadline: March 06, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1388.ann
ARTErra rural artistic residency (Tondela,Portugal; Deadline: March 09, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1391.ann
WAMMFest (Women And Minorities in Media Festival) (Baltimore, MD, USA; Deadline: March 09, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1396.ann
What The Festival (Alfred, NY, USA; Deadline: February 29, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1397.ann
deadCENTER Film Festival (Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Deadline: February 14, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1399.ann
Videoex International Experimentalfilm & Video Festival (Zürich, Switzerland; Deadline: February 15, 2012)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1400.ann
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Hearts In Dixie [February 4, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Outsiders Observe Los Angeles [February 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Unmade Beds [February 4, New York, New York]
* The Foreigner [February 4, New York, New York]
* Croatian Animation [February 4, Oakland, California]
* Andrew Lampert's Constipation (Contracted Cinema) (Cinema Expanded
[Again!]) [February 4, San Francisco, California]
* One Minute of Darkness [February 5, Boston, Massachusetts]
* The Foreigner [February 5, New York, New York]
* Blank Generation [February 5, New York, New York]
* Golden Age of Zagreb Animation [February 5, San Rafael, California]
* "The Sky Song" Feature By James Fotopoulos [February 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* In Comparison [February 6, New York, New York]
* Other Cinema Kickstarter! [February 6, San Francisco, CA]
* It's Raining Cats & Dogs! Boston Experimental Films & videos [February 7, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Jennifer Reeves's Chronic + Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful [February 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Balagan Presents... Whose Land? [February 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Music + Image [February 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Lost and Found [February 8, Boston, MA]
* Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Naked Spaces—Living Is Round [February 8, Brooklyn, New York]
* We Began By Measuring Distance [February 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Dynamo Short Docs From the Underground!!!! [February 9, Harrisburg, PA]
* Films By andrew Meyer, Including An Early Clue To the New Direction [February 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Carey Burtt Program [February 9, New York, New York]
* Dirty Looks: Queer Conversations On Culture and the Arts [February 9, San Francisco, California]
* Beats Being Dead [February 10, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around [February 10, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account In Nine Parts (Parts
I - iv) [February 10, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Electromediascope [February 10, Kansas City, Missouri]
* George Kuchar Program 1 [February 10, New York, New York]
* George Kuchar Program 2 [February 10, New York, New York]
* Dirty Looks Presents: Rosa Von Praunheim's City of Lost Souls [February 10, San Francisco, California]
* Beats Being Dead [February 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around [February 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* One Minute of Darkness [February 11, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Jack Smith, Rare Short 16mm Films. [February 11, Brooklyn, New York]
* Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True
Account In Nine Parts [February 11, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Nelson Program [February 11, New York, New York]
* George Kuchar Program 3 [February 11, New York, New York]
* Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time [February 12, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Oliver Laxe's You Are All Captains [February 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* George Kuchar Program 5 [February 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Carriage Trade [February 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: My Hustler [February 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Warhol/Whitney Program [February 12, New York, New York]
* George Kuchar Program 6 [February 12, New York, New York]
* Dirty Looks: Female Trouble [February 12, San Francisco, California]
* Stepping Between Projections; James Diamond In Person! [February 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012
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2/4
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6:30pm, Paramount Theater
HEARTS IN DIXIE
One of eight black-cast musicals made in Hollywood between 1929 and
1959. A white-imagined "folk" narrative focusing on Southern, rural
blacks, with music comprised of traditional spirituals arranged by
African Americans. ARCHIVAL PRINT!
2/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA 90026
OUTSIDERS OBSERVE LOS ANGELES
Films looking at Los Angeles by artists who weren't here for the long
haul -- visitors to our balmy climes. What truths about the city are
these non-Angeleños able to see, and how do they express them? Films to
be screened: The Desert People by David Lamelas (1974), Me & Bruce & Art
by Ben Van Meter (1968), Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana
to Hollywood Via Death Valley by Robert Nelson (1972-76/2004), and
Special Warning, by Robert Nelson (1999). This screening is dedicated to
Robert Nelson, who we lost this January.
2/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
UNMADE BEDS
See notes for Feb. 3, 9:30 pm.
2/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FOREIGNER
by Amos Poe 1978, 95 minutes, 16mm With Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, and
Deborah Harry. "A year later I made THE FOREIGNER, a film about a
European coming to NY. In this case Max Menace (Eric Mitchell), a German
terrorist who is trying to find a place to hide. But you can't hide in
jungleland! He is terrorized, and ripped to bits. This is the story of
the other side of the American dream; the foreigner who doesn't make it.
A nightmare film in an existential philosophical context, a world where
less is more." –A.P.
2/4
Oakland, California: Studio Quercus
www.studioquercus.com
8pm, 385 26th Street
CROATIAN ANIMATION
The Croatian Animation Cultural Exchange presents an evening of
historical animations from Croatia (1957-1978) with works by Nikola
Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica, Z l a t k o G r g ic and more. The program
is presented by Vanja Hraste who is a visiting program director of the
film-club association of Croatia.
2/4
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street
ANDREW LAMPERT'S CONSTIPATION (CONTRACTED CINEMA) (CINEMA EXPANDED
[AGAIN!])
Andrew Lampert In Person presented in association with Oddball Films.
[members: $5 / non-members: $10] Far from the fussiness of his downtown
day job—preserving avant-garde classics at Anthology Film Archives—the
cinema of Andrew Lampert sprawls with contingency and unscripted
accident. Truly placed in the present tense, Lampert's film/performance
hybrids—equal parts stand-up shtick and conceptual conundra—hold the
social space between projector and screen to be truly where the action
is. Whether making short films or live productions, his work playfully
engages structure, storytelling and portraiture to address the
contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days.
Tonight features the premiere of a single-projector expanded cinema
performance titled Constipation, the latest work in his ongoing
"contracted cinema" series. He writes: "Constipation is a film for
filmmakers. A Super-8 love letter/break-up note for Kodachrome
fetishists. An entertainment for the public-at-large." Also expect a few
recent works including Taste Test, and undoubtedly many surprises.
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012
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2/5
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
2:00pm, Paramount Theater
ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS
A dark, memorably strange fairy tale in which a police inspector tries
to put himself inside the mind of a criminal while the isolated escapee
flees deeper into a possibly enchanted forest. Part three of the
celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy.
2/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FOREIGNER
See notes for Feb. 4, 9:30 pm.
2/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
BLANK GENERATION
See notes for Feb. 3, 7: 15 pm.
2/5
San Rafael, California: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Theater
www.cafilm.org
4:15pm, 385 26th Street
GOLDEN AGE OF ZAGREB ANIMATION
Beginning in the 1950s, animators from the Zagreb Film Studios in
Croatia (then Yugoslavia) developed a strong style that was soon known
around the world at the "Zagreb School" of animation. Vanja Hraste will
present a special program of Zagreb's best and speak about its colorful
history.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
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2/6
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
"THE SKY SONG" FEATURE BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS
(2007, Video, color, sound stereo, 127 min ), Admission $6 – Artist in
Person. On the final night of the current exhibition "Dreamful Slumbers:
drawings and videos", James Fotopoulos will present his 2007 video "The
Sky Song", a Western-style feature about revenge. In this work,
Fotopoulos incorporates special effects, costumes, charcoal and
primitive computer drawings with actors' performances. The "Sky Song"
lays the foundation for further incorporation of hand drawn images in
his later films. "The Sky Song, like other Fotopoulos films and videos,
is something I won't soon forget. In short, it makes Inland Empire look
like Apollo 13…notable largely for image-manipulated actors performing
wooden script readings of a disturbed Western punctuated by psychosexual
bloodlettings, primitive 3-D computer graphics of naked bodies and
childlike drawings, and a series of flashed icons ranging from barnyard
animals to an array of fruit. The word 'nightmare' could describe The
Sky Song, but not easily: it's an indescribable experience…" —
Indiewire. Bio: James Fotopoulos was born in Chicago and currently lives
and works in Philadelphia. His films and videos have been screened
internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the
New York Underground Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the
Walker Art Center and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. His works
have also been featured in a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives,
2004 Whitney Biennial, and at Museum of Modern Art (NY).His works have
exhibited at: Momenta Art; Museo de Arte Contemportaneo del Zulia,
Venezuela; Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA; Triskel Art Center,
Cork, Ireland; Bienniale for Videoart, Mechelen, Belgium; Vertex List
NYC; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) among others. He has
received a Creative Capital Grant for his in-progress interdisciplinary
epic on the life of Richard Nixon. He has collaborated with Raymond
Pettibon, Barney Rosset, Cory Arcangel, Torsten Zenas Burns, Ben
Coonley, and many others. More info www.microscopegallery.com, TEL:
347.925.1433; J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway, or L Morgan Ave or Jefferson
Street.
2/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
IN COMPARISON
See notes for Feb. 3, 7 pm.
2/6
San Francisco, CA: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
12:00am-3am, 992 Valencia Street , San Francisco, CA
OTHER CINEMA KICKSTARTER!
Friends! So happy to share with you the news that, with the help of a
lot of you, Other Cinema has managed to reach its initial fundraising
goal! Thanks to all who have contributed! But for those of you who
haven't yet been able to chip in, then please note that we still have
great rewards left! For example, Academy-Award nominee Sam Green is
making available a very special, unprecedented set of his six DVDs for
the radically discounted sum of $99! And Ben Rivers, recent recipient of
Art Basel’s prestigious Baloise Prize, is offering an extraordinary
artist’s proof of his photo collage entitled "Skullcap Aurora." Greta
Snider, prolific queen of DIY filmmaking, zine-publishing and 3-D
story-telling, has kicked in two more of her ingenious Viewmaster discs.
And Kelly Sears, on her way back to Sundance for another marvelous
exhibition of her work, is affording a limited number of custom-made
Brion Gysin-inspired collage-postcards. And there are even more awesome
rewards on the Kickstarter site, so please go to
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othercinema/other-cinema-benefit to
make your pledge.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
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2/7
Boston, Massachusetts: The Open Eye Cinema at SCATV
http://theopeneyecinema.blogspot.com/
7:30PM, SCATV 90 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143
IT'S RAINING CATS & DOGS! BOSTON EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS
A night of cat and/or dog- themed films and videos programmed by
Boston's own Frankie Symonds. Featuring films and videos by Luther
Price, Michelle Handelman, Tom Chomont, Torsten Zenas Burns, Gordon
Nelson, Tara Merenda Nelson, Ian Clement, Evan Johnson, Xavier Glxss,
Evan Griffin, Eric Van Der Vynckt, Kyle Caetano, Frankie Symonds, and
more to come. This is the premiere screening of "The Open Eye" a new
Somerville, MA film series operated by Gordon Nelson in the studios of
Somerville Community Access TV.
2/7
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:00, Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street
JENNIFER REEVES'S CHRONIC + SADIE BENNING'S FLAT IS BEAUTIFUL
Chronic, Jennifer Reeves, 1996, 16mm, 38 mins - Flat Is Beautiful, Sadie
Benning, 1998, video, 50 mins - Loosely based on episodes from the
filmmaker's own life, Jennifer Reeves's Chronic tells the story of
Gretchen, a Midwestern punk teenager institutionalized for her
"so-called mental illness," and her subsequent life as a young woman in
New York, still enmeshed in the aftermath of her recent past. The film
presents Gretchen's experiences through a stream of allusive
superimpositions, snatches of dialog, songs played off crackling vinyl,
and unnerving moments of re-enactment. Almost entirely
optically-printed, Chronic revels in the multifarious textures of
celluloid through a complex formal repertoire, linking it to depictions
of subjective states in the films of Stan Brakhage (one of Chronic's
great admirers), but pushing this tradition forward into the age of the
medicalized psyche. - Like Chronic, Sadie Benning's Flat is Beautiful
presents a lushly lo-fi coming-of-age tale, here told from the
perspective of Taylor, a 12-year-old latchkey tomboy being raised by a
single mom in run-down 1980s Minneapolis. Exteriors appear in grainy
Super-8, while interiors are shot in fuzzy Pixelvision, and all actors
wear hand-drawn masks throughout\; the effect is at once alienating and
dreamlike, like memories grown uncertain over time, or the way that
children move seamlessly between reality and imagination. Taylor's life,
too, echoes Benning's ownâ€"her artist father, her early stirrings of
sexual identity. "You're not a boy, you're a girl, stupid." her friend
taunts her over the phone. "No, I'm not," Taylor answers. "Then what are
you?" - Both films are pitch-perfect studies of the particularly
downbeat mood of gen-x feminism, works that found new formal languages
to articulate the vicissitudes of an 80s adolescence. - Followed by a
conversation with Benning and Reeves. - Tickets - $7, available at door.
- Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office
opens at 6:30.
2/7
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
Doors at 7pm, films at 8pm., Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street
BALAGAN PRESENTS... WHOSE LAND?
Inspired by the Occupy movement that gripped our attention this past
fall and winter, Balagan presents a selection of films that deal with
the American land and its proprietors. DJ Angela Sawyer of Weirdo
Records opens the night at 7pm with vinyl gems from her collection!
Films start at 8pm. Tickets are $10 regular / $8 student and senior.
Program: Triumph of the Wild (2008, 10 mins, 35mm) by Martha Colburn /
Future So Bright (2010, 23 mins, HDCam) by Matt McCormick / Kudzu Vine
(2011, 20 mins, 35mm CinemaScope) by Josh Gibson / Crossings (2005, 5
mins, 16mm) by Robert Fenz (appearing in person!) / You Are on Indian
Land (1969, 34 mins, 16mm) by Mort Ransen and Mike Mitchell
2/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
MUSIC + IMAGE
Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time In the early 1980s, many
artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on
television—a promise that was broken by commercialism. This selection of
short videos takes inspiration from the spirit of Ernie Kovacs,
television impresario and music lover, as it highlights some of the
era's most compelling video art accompanied by music. By turns humorous,
pensive, or even abstract, the works are drawn from screenings and
exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and include artists Bob
Snyder; Cynthia Maughan; Dara Birnbaum; Philip Mallory Jones; Tom
DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler; Cecelia Condit; Toni Basil and
David Byrne; Max Almy; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Laurie Anderson;
Claus Blume; MICA-TV (Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen); Zbigniew
Rybczyński; and Henry Selick. In person: Curator Nancy Buchanan
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series. Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
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2/8
Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY
8:00, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, FILM DEPT SCREENING Rm 1
LOST AND FOUND
MassART Film Society presents, - LOST and FOUND, Two great lost and
found films. - YOU ARE NOT I by Sara Driver and BORDERLINE by Kenneth
Macpherson - YOU ARE NOT I, Sara Driver, 1981 16mm - A haunting
adaptation of a 1948 short story by Paul Bowles about a woman who
escapes from an asylum, You Are Not I played widely in the international
film festival circuit in the early Eighties. Then, a leak in a New
Jersey warehouse destroyed the negative, leaving director Sara Driver
with only a battered, unprojectable copy. Miraculously, a print was
found among the holdings of Paul Bowles in 2009, and now the film has
been restored and is available once again. Undoubtedly one of the most
impressive works to emerge from the post-punk downtown scene, the film
was beautifully shot by Jim Jarmusch (who also co-wrote the screenplay)
and features Suzanne Fletcher, Nan Goldin and Luc Sante. - You Are Not I
was preserved with The Lois Bianchi Award, a grant from The Women's Film
Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television. -
BORDERLINE, Kenneth Macpherson 1930 16mm - Written and directed by
Kenneth Macpherson and produced by the Pool Group in Territet,
Switzerland. The silent film, with English inter-titles, is primarily
noted for its handling of the contentious issue of inter-racial
relationships, using avant-garde experimental film-making techniques,
and is today very much part of the curriculum of the study of modern
cinematography. - The film, which features Paul Robeson, Bryher and HD,
was originally believed to have been lost, but was discovered, by
chance, in Switzerland in 1983. An original 16mm copy of this film is
now held in the Donnell Media Center, New York City Public Library. In
2006, the British Film Institute sponsored the film's restoration by The
George Eastman House and eventual DVD release with a soundtrack,
composed by Courtney Pine. Its premiere at the Tate Modern gallery in
London attracted 2,000 people. In 2010, the film was released with a
soundtrack composed by Mallory Johns, and performed by the Southern
Connecticut State University Creative Music Orchestra. -
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
2/8
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:00, Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street
TRINH T. MINH-HA'S NAKED SPACES—LIVING IS ROUND
Naked Spaces—Living Is Round, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 16mm, 1985, 135 mins -
"Naked Spaces surveys the integration of ritual and work, the home and
the world, culture and nature, in the traditional villages of six West
African countries (Senegal, Mauritania, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and
Benin). Over the course of its two-hour-plus running time, the film
effortlessly attests to the rich variety of the region's indigenous
architecture. Trinh documents adobe cities and stilt-set river towns,
villages nestled in the rocks and settlements splayed out across the
bush, turreted straw houses and domelike huts. Each dwelling has its own
blend of environmental logic and irrational splendor—simultaneously, as
Trinh puts it, 'a tool, a sanctuary, and a work of art.' - Fittingly,
considering her subject matter, Trinh's images are as unpretentious as
home movies—exhibiting the same gorgeous overexposures, casual jump
cuts, and, at times, jarring incompletion. Just as some shots refuse to
take possession of their subject, Trinh's narrative declines to
generalize about the Other (nor does she present her film as a unified
whole). Not only is her use of sound purposefully erratic, there are
times in Naked Spaces when representation decomposes into isolated
details and pure sensation. More than a mosaic of impressions, however,
the film is nonlinear, decentered, and deliberately unsettling. - Like
Reassemblage, Naked Spaces sets out to challenge and criticize—not to
mention derange—the conventions of ethnographic film." - J. Hoberman -
Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited.
First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
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2/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State
WE BEGAN BY MEASURING DISTANCE
"We Began By Measuring Distance" reflects on intrinsic and imposed
distances—physical, logistical, and psychological—represented in works
by women filmmakers from or connected to Palestine, including Jumana
Emil Abboud, Basma al-Sharif, Mona Hatoum, and Annemarie Jacir. Informed
by stories of loss and violence, these short films invoke and measure
the space between past and present, mother and daughter, as well as home
and exile. Introduced by Tirtza Even, SAIC Professor in Film, Video, New
Media, and Animation. Basma al-Sharif in person. 1989–2011, multiple
directors, Egypt/Israel/Lebanon/Palestine/UK, various formats, ca. 80
minutes + discussion
2/9
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
8:00, Moviate - 1306 N. 3rd St.
DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!!!
DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!! - From John Waters and
Mormons, to Mental Institutions and Grandfathers!!!! You don't want to
miss this amazing program of very special Short Documentaries!!! -
Thursday February 9, 2012, Starts promptly at 8pm, Admission is $5 -
Program For The Evening: - SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA (Michael Stabile,
2011)- 17 minutes - -In the late 1960s, as the Sexual Revolution was
first gaining steam, San Francisco was pushing the boundaries of what
could be filmed and quickly became, according to the NY Times, 'The Smut
Capital of the United States.' From shabby storefront theaters and live
sex shows to the Erotic Film Festival, the City became ground zero in
the fight over obscenity, as both local politicians and Federal law
enforcement went to war with filmmakers and free-speech advocates. 'Smut
Capital' talks to the theater owners, film producers and stars in an
attempt to recreate a revolution that wasn't televised, but screened.
Featuring John Waters. Premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival - LIKE
THEM ON FACEBOOK AT: https://www.facebook.com/smutcapital,
www.sfsmut.com - A CALL OF CONSCIENCE: PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL & HOSPITAL
(Heath Hofmeister, 2011)- 16 minutes, A short documentary about the
Pennhurst State School & Hospital located outside of Philadelphia, PA.
Hidden in a remote river bend in Pennsylvania, 10,500 people were forced
to call this place 'home'. Now neglected, decaying and hidden beneath
decades of over-growth, one of America's most dramatic civil rights
stories awaits discovery. A Call of Conscience: Pennhurst State School
and Hospital uncovers the untold story of the birth place of the Civil
Rights Movement of the Intellectually Disabled. Supported by their
families and community, this group of residents united and overcame the
label of 'retarded' to lead and win one of the greatest civil victories
for the disabled in U.S History. The result of their struggle not only
won their freedom but positively transformed the social landscape of
America forever! Official Selection of the 2011 Queens International
Film Festival. - THE DEBRIS (SMALL SLIVERS OF CELLULOID) (Jeremy Moss,
2012) - 7 minutes, An experimental documentary exploring the Southern
Utah desert and human remnants thereon\; ideology intersects image and
site. Shards from a Utah Mormon's mind. - DRUGS (Renny McCauley, 2008)-
16 minutes, Four addicts give candid testimonials offering insights into
the, complicated nature of drug abuse. - Played at: Durango Independent
Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, San Francisco
Shorts Film Festival & Rumschpringe Film, Festival. - ONE IN TEN ( Susan
Hilvert, 2008) - 23 minutes, A personal documentary about a filmmaker
coming out of the closet. - I KNOW YOU (Bruce Parsons, 2007) - 18
minutes, A personal documentary revealing how the search for a new
relationship can actually reveal the foundation of an old one. Filmmaker
Bruce Parsons, along with his father, search his hometown to try and
meet his grandfather, for the first time. - www.moviate.org
2/9
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset)
FILMS BY ANDREW MEYER, INCLUDING AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION
"[The virtues of] Andrew Meyer's black-and-white AN EARLY CLUE TO THE
NEW DIRECTION... had nothing to do with technical polish. Mr. Meyer's
film hung on dialogue, cast and plot (of a kind), clearly moving in a
new direction. Its central virtue was nothing less than a superb
performance by an old man, Prescott Townsend, playing a Boston rogue
long past his time, who charms a young girl with his 'snowflake
theory.'" --Douglas M. Davis, National Observer. "Afterward, one felt
that Andrew Meyer had opened a new world for 16mm cinema, one in which
many kinds of excuses no longer need to be made. AN EARLY CLUE TO THE
NEW DIRECTION... is unexpected, glorious, and indescribably moving, and
I can't forget it." --James Stoller, Village Voice.
2/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CAREY BURTT PROGRAM
Carey Burtt began producing short works in the late-70s, and has been
making his mark on the underground film festival circuit for the last
two decades. His darkly funny, deeply creepy films and videos have much
in common with the Cinema of Transgression movement of the 80s; however
they are completely products of his own twisted imagination. Rarely seen
all together, this program offers viewers an opportunity to enter
Burtt's delightfully deranged world. "My films are very personal. All of
them are a form of therapy and reflect my state of mind at the time of
inception – or address an issue that obsesses me. I have spent a lot of
time in isolation – so fear of people and feelings of alienation have
been strong for me throughout my life. I often make films about what I
am most afraid of." –Carey Burtt Writer, musician, and filmmaker Bruce
Bennett will host a Q&A with Carey Burtt after the screening. HITCHHIKE
(1979, 4 minutes, video) HEY MISTER, YOU'RE IN THE GIRLS' ROOM (1991, 4
minutes, video) THE PSYCHOTIC ODYSSEY OF RICHARD CHASE (1998, 6 minutes,
16mm) THE DEATH OF SEX (1998, 4 minutes, 16mm) MIND CONTROL MADE EASY OR
HOW TO BECOME A CULT LEADER (1999, 13 minutes, 16mm) THROUGH A GASH
DARKLY (2006, 6 minutes, video) DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (2010, 10
minutes, video) THE DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER MOVIE (2010, 10 minutes,
video) HOW NOT TO BE STUPID (A GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING) (2010, 8
minutes, video) BLOOD AND FIRE (2011, 10 minutes, video) HELPING: WITH
TRAVIS (2011, 12 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
2/9
San Francisco, California: California College of Art
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QCCA/QCCAFemTrb.html
7PM, 1111 8th St
DIRTY LOOKS: QUEER CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS
New York's Queer Film Series DIRTY LOOKS screens an evening of
experimental queer video and film at California College of the Arts. A
post-screening conversation will feature curator Bradford Nordeen (Dirty
Looks) and Bay Area artist/curator Margaret Tedesco. Queer Conversations
on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned
artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations
to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics in the humanities and the
arts. Nordeen will present the FEMALE TROUBLE program, which spans five
decades of "genderfuck" video and film production. The artists in this
series queer female subject space via drag tactics, narrative
juxtaposition and overt performativity with styles ranging from
masquerade to mythic, performance document to exposé video zine. FEMALE
TROUBLE: Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez Screen Test, 2010 Patti Podesta,
Stepping, 1981 Steven Arnold, Messages, Messages, 1968 Narcissister,
Every Woman, 2010 Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008 Vaginal Davis, Barbi Twins
(excerpt), 1993
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
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2/10
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7:30pm, Paramount Theater
BEATS BEING DEAD
This "cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller," set in Germany's Thuringian
Forest (a region alive with legends and myth), plays the police search
for an escaped killer against a story of star-crossed lovers. Part one
of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy.
2/10
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
9:15pm, Paramount Theater
DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND
A novelistic criminal investigation which deftly juxtaposes personal
drama against the search for a killer, underlining the DREILEBEN
trilogy's recurring themes of false appearances and deeply hidden
truths. Part two of the celebrated trilogy.
2/10
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE, A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS (PARTS
I - IV)
Filmmaker David Gatten in conversation with film curator Chris Stults
Special Event Tickets $12 Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002,
16mm, b/w, 20 min The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 16mm, b/w, 37 min
Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to
the Art of Printing 1999, 16mm, b/w, 26 min The Enjoyment of Reading
(Lost and Found) 2001, 16mm, color, 18 min
2/10
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination." Gilles Deleuze elucidates an
understanding of modern cinema as a conceptual practice contiguous with
contemporary art in his book Cinema 2: The Time-Image. In the process he
discusses modern political cinema and imagined communities and suggests
that when considering the new basis on which they are founded in the
third world and for minorities, art, and especially cinematographic art,
must take part in a task that is "not that of addressing a people, which
is presupposed already there, but of contributing to the invention of a
people." Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination exemplifies this process
through diverse examples of aesthetic, sociocultural and political works
that address aspects of imaginable worlds. They tell strange and
beautiful stories through visual and audible means that are
reverberating with geopolitical realities while bringing to life a
missing past. Cinema plays an important role in contemporary art where
its unique development of images of thought cause us to rethink notions
of the experimental within the context of the emerging global cinema's
emphasis on visual and media literacy, a tactile - sensory form of
editing and imagistic use of sound. This work shares more with the
connotative syntax of oral histories, poetry, performances and ritual
traditions than with many established forms of western cinema that are
more often grounded in textual literacy and a denotative narrative flow.
The works in Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination take us out of our
world of habitual experience as John Cage suggested and establish
alternative ways of experiencing the past and imagining the future.
These works extend media literacy to emphasize a greater intensity of
visual and audible world sensations that are already known in the
performance, song and storytelling of other cultures. They not only
share and re-imagine older culturally specific myths of origin, sense of
place and transformative identity, but invent new stories and parables
that address current geophysical realities for a global world that is
reconnecting through virtual contact. Myth and storytelling of third
world cultures meet the science fiction, technology and cinematic
subcultures of the developed world. This emerging cultural imaginary is
not a utopia. The storytelling, myths and fables re-imagine an expanding
present with past and future folds. We can see, feel and empathize with
these inhabitants of other worlds and perhaps understand them in the
context of our present culture with its disasters, suspicions of the
alien other and the guarded stasis of citizens who have lost alien
sensibilities and sensitivities. Artists are reawakening historical
moments of alien contact by rethinking the past, subverting the present
and subjectifying the future. Their new visual mythmaking and
storytelling are contributing to the invention of a future where memes
leak out and pollinate broader shared aspects of culture, and in the
process enable global cultural exchange. –Patrick Clancy. "Before
Tomorrow," Marie-Hélène Cousineau (Canada) in collaboration with
Madeline Ivalu (Canada) and Susan Avingaq (Canada), based on Før
Morgendaggen by Jørn Riel (Denmark), 2008. 92:47 min., video, Inuktitut
with English subtitles. Program continues on Feb. 17 and 24.
2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: A PACKAGE OF STARS FROM GEORGE AND THE VDB GANG For more than
25 years, the Video Data Bank team measured the passing of the seasons
by the titillating titles received from George Kuchar: weather diaries,
class pictures, summer visits to friends in NY and Cape Cod, winter
holiday festivities, festival visits…. George transitioned from using
film to video in 1985 and VDB has distributed his work ever since, with
the archive now housing all 275 of his videos. During 2005 VDB was
delighted to collaborate with him on a box set of his work, making it
possible for a wider audience to appreciate his treasures. To represent
George's work and to interact with him day-to-day was a delight; in
addition to his undoubted artistic talents, he was funny, modest,
grateful, and a real human being. This program presents just a few of
the shining stars that make up George's galaxy. POINT 'N SHOOT (1989, 5
minutes, video) ROUTE 666 (1994, 8 minutes, video) SEASON OF SORROW
(1996, 12.5 minutes, video) UNCLE EVIL (1996, 7 minutes, video) HONEY
BUNNIES ON ICE (2001, 7 minutes, video) BURNOUT (2003, 20 minutes,
video) HOTSPELL (2011, 26 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 90
minutes.
2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: THE FILM-MAKERS' COOP PRESENTS: 1960s-70s GEORGE KUCHAR
TRIBUTE As the original distributor of George Kuchar's work, the Coop is
honored to present this program in celebration of his amazing life and
career. Here is a quote from Ken Jacobs: "We [Ken and Flo Jacobs] were
having open screenings in 1963, and Bob Cowan, a Canadian filmmaker,
showed up with George and Mike. To them, our place was very exotic; and
they were exotic to us. Cowan had met them at an amateur 8mm film club
in the Bronx (where they were considered odd). We showed various stuff,
including PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF. We were knocked out! I said to Jack
Smith, 'You have to see this guy's stuff.' I also told Jonas to check
them out, and they all did. And history began. We then invited George
and Mike to join the Film-Makers' Coop." MOSHULU HOLIDAY (1966, 9
minutes, 16mm) ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN (1967, 15 minutes, 16mm)
KNOCTURNE (1968, 8.5 minutes, 16mm) THE SUNSHINE SISTERS (1972, 36
minutes, 16mm) I, AN ACTRESS (1977, 9 minutes, 16mm) WILD NIGHT IN EL
RENO (1977, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
2/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia Street
DIRTY LOOKS PRESENTS: ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM'S CITY OF LOST SOULS
Dirty Looks is proud to host the West Coast premiere of a recent
restoration of Rosa Von Praunheim's trans punk musical City of Lost
Souls, 1983. Angie Stardust has a lot on her plate, running a boarding
house called Pension Stardust filled with misfit lodgers: an erotic
trapeze duo, a magickal group therapist, assorted layabouts,
nymphomaniacs and Lila (Jayne County), a Southern blonde who dreams of
Hollywood. These tenants also staff Angie's fast food enterprise, Burger
Queen. But when Lila gets knocked up by a Communist who promises to make
her a superstar on East Berlin television, the real havoc ensues. Rosa
Von Praunheim directs this mostly American cast in a trans musical
spectacular that has been described as "Hedwig and the Angry Inch… in
reverse." The event will be accompanied by a complimentary publication
featuring archival imagery from the Rosa Von Praunheim archive and
writings by Bruce Benderson, Jayne County, Joe E. Jeffreys, Amos Mac,
Marc Siegel and Justin Shock.
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