[Frameworks] This week [January 14 - 22, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [January 14 - 22, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Early Monthly Segments #35 + Public Journal Launch Experimental Media
Congress Issue [January 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Psychedelic visions & Expanded Consciousness [January 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Festival Play: Greg Pope & Roc Jimenez De Cisneros [January 19, Barcelona]
* The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty [January 19, New York, New York]
* I'm Me, and You?: Exploring Identities of Self and Other [January 19, San Francisco, California]
* Luminaries: Seca Film Awards [January 19, San Francisco, California]
* Festival Play: Martha Colburn & Hayden Chisholm & Juan Felipe Waller [January 20, Barcelona]
* Stranded In Canton [January 21, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Los Angeles Observed [January 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [January 21, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Kino Eye [January 21, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Forward, Soviet! [January 21, New York, New York]
* A Grin Without A Cat [January 21, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: A Sixth of the World [January 21, New York, New York]
* The Compilation Film: Shorts Program [January 22, New York, New York]
* A Grin Without A Cat [January 22, New York, New York]
* Tentatively A Convenience Program 1 [January 22, New York, New York]
* Tentatively A Convenience Program 2 [January 22, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
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1/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
6:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #35 + PUBLIC JOURNAL LAUNCH EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA
CONGRESS ISSUE
Print Generation by J.J. Murphy is a rarely screened structural gem that
harnesses image and sound deterioration to its fullest. Murphy started
with sixty one second shots, a one minute film. He then made fifty
contact printed copies from each successive version, consciously
degrading the film one "generation" at a time. Print Generation is
structured so we begin watching obscured images and work toward the
original and back again....while the soundtrack of lapping ocean waves
does the opposite. The film elegantly addresses the intricacies of
memory and time: how we remember, what we remember and how a fleeting
'home movie' reveals and recedes. Spoiler alert? Well, not exactly, as
with all films, structural and otherwise, the magic of the experience is
also in the sharing...so we hope you will join us for this special
screening alongside the launch of PUBLIC issue #44 on the 2010
Experimental Media Congress. PUBLIC #44 Experimental Media launch,
edited by Peggy Gale Monday 16 January 2012, 6-9 PM Gladstone Hotel
Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto) @ Early Monthly Segments #35
Print Generation by J.J. Murphy (1974, 16mm, 50 minutes) *NOTE:
SCREENING at 6:30 SHARP* Archival print courtesy the Academy Film
Archive. Special thanks to Mark Toscano, May Haduong and Canyon Cinema.
-- Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early
film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and
experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris
Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and
contemporary avant-garde 16mm films in a salon-like setting at the
Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto. In this relaxed context with refreshing
beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial
atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. We do not
receive public funding for our programs and pay artists from admissions.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
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1/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue
PSYCHEDELIC VISIONS & EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS
In person: Beth Block, Peter Mays, Pat O'Neill Hyperkinetic experimental
film and animation in the late '60s and early '70s both echoed and
informed the volcanic psychedelia that defined those years � and the
filmmakers featured in tonight's show created challenging, gorgeous work
during that era through obsessive mastery of groundbreaking techniques.
Chick Strand's solarized synchronicities, Pat O'Neill's
optically-printed densely haptic experiments and Adam Beckett's infinite
ecstatic morphs all manage to alter minds, both addled and unaided. The
care that went into the films of tonight's sizeable collection of
visionaries cannot be overstated, and their influence is a testament to
the potent revolutions that originated in obscurity, but still resound
in our collective consciousness.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012
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1/19
Barcelona: Festival Play
https://www.obrasocialcajamadrid.es/Ficheros/CMA/ficheros/OBSCultura_EspaiBarnaPlayEnero2012.PDF
8pm, Espai Cultural Plaza de Catalunya, 9 08002 Barcelona, Spain
FESTIVAL PLAY: GREG POPE & ROC JIMENEZ DE CISNEROS
A multi-16mm projector screening in which disappearing film emulsion
creates a performance of sound and image.
1/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY
by Esfir Shub 1927, 101 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent This screening is
part of: THE COMPILATION FILM (PADENIYE DINASTI ROMANOVIKH) A
devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of WWI until its
brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, this work
comprises hundreds of films that Shub unearthed and rescued from damp
cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including
newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar's own cameramen. Using the
film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family with the
backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the
Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant.
1/19
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8pm, 275 Capp Street
I'M ME, AND YOU?: EXPLORING IDENTITIES OF SELF AND OTHER
Oddball Films and guest curator Joe Garrity present I'm Me, And You?:
Exploring Identities of Self and Other. Get comfortable before the
mirror in a program that probes life's greatest mystery: ourselves. From
educational films to the avant-garde, animation to documentary, we
examine the complexities of identity in the interpersonal world of you
and me. This screening includes the groovy after school special Me: A
Self Awareness Film (1975), along with a chapter from the feel-good
cartoon series The Most Important Person, I'm The Only Me! (1972). Take
issue with conformity in Dan Bessie's funky animation Square Pegs and
Round Holes (1973), and join children concerned about social roles in
the offbeat I'm Me and Want to Be (1975). Witness confidence shaken
around the office in the snarky industrial film What Do We Look Like To
Others? (1972) and let uneasy teens open up to you in the dubious UC
Berkeley sponsored doc, Adolescence: Crisis or Opportunity (1975).
Doppelgangers complicate identity in a zany retake of a 1920s drama with
Twin Dukes and a Duchess, and animations of primal dimensions dazzle in
the Oscar-nominated stop-motion short Clay, or The Origin of the Species
(1969) and the startling dream-trip, Ego (1970). Plus! Twin talents and
more! Join us as we introspect, "what makes me me?" and ponder the
ultimate unknown: your "me" and mine.
1/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, 151 Third Street in the Phyllis Wattis Theater
LUMINARIES: SECA FILM AWARDS
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA VALSE TRISTE,
Bruce Conner, 1978, 6 min., 16mm Testament, James Broughton, 1974, 20
min., 16mm Vital Signs, Barbara Hammer, 1991, 10 min., 16mm Decodings,
Michael Wallin, 1988, 15 min., 16mm Frame Line, Gunvor Nelson, 1984, 22
min., 16mm Total running time: 73 min. In tribute to the Bay Area's role
as an epicenter of experimental film, this program centers on
constructing autobiography. The selection of films is drawn from
SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Awards program (1973-98), which recognized
innovative and challenging new works by experimental filmmakers in
Northern California. Presented in conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay
Area Art: The SECA Awards. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with
museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the
Haas Atrium).
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012
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1/20
Barcelona: Festival Play
https://www.obrasocialcajamadrid.es/Ficheros/CMA/ficheros/OBSCultura_EspaiBarnaPlayEnero2012.PDF
8pm, Espai Cultural Pla�a de Catalunya, 9 08002 Barcelona, Spain
FESTIVAL PLAY: MARTHA COLBURN & HAYDEN CHISHOLM & JUAN FELIPE WALLER
Collage and painting fused with film animations and live musical
performance.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012
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1/21
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Studies and Observation Group
http://aafilmfest.org
3 pm, 327 Braun Ct
STRANDED IN CANTON
In 1973, America's greatest living photographer William Eggleston shot
30 hours of video in and around Memphis. Recorded in ghostly black &
white video in the city's bars and streets, Stranded in Canton Stranded
in Canton (1973-2005, 77 min) is an extraordinary and deeply personal
vision of the Memphis demimonde. Preceded by Danish artist Eva Marie
R�dbro's video Fuck You Kiss Me (2008, 6 min), a portrait of youth in
the isolated towns of Greenland./// Studies and Observation no.5.
Organized by The Studies and Observation Group; Co-presented by The Ann
Arbor Film Festival
1/21
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
5:00pm, Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue
LOS ANGELES OBSERVED
In person: Thom Andersen, more to be announced! If Thom Anderson's 2003
celluloid essay Los Angeles Plays Itself explored the way Hollywood
trained thousands of lenses upon its fragmented topography over the
course of a century, tonight's program uncovers how alternate visions of
L.A. were executed by several generations of experimental filmmakers.
Apt that Anderson's own contribution to the oeuvre, 1966's Olivia's
Place, will be screened alongside a saturated roster of unconventional
documentaries, avant-garde ethnographies and rare films that capture
landscapes turned on their fractured heads.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR
by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video This screening is
part of: THE COMPILATION FILM "This video is made up of footage that I
took with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of
the USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record
of what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as
recorded by the television newscasters. It can be also viewed as a
classic Greek drama in which the destinies of nations are changed
drastically by the unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small
man, one small nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by
Olympus in its fight against the Might & Power, against the Impossible."
�J.M.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: KINO EYE
by Dziga Vertov 1925, 70 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FORWARD, SOVIET!
by Dziga Vertov With Russian intertitles, English synopsis available;,
1925-26, 73 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
by Chris Marker 1978/93, 180 minutes, video This screening is part of:
THE COMPILATION FILM (LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE) Marker's epic
film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 1960s and 70s:
Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
Released in France in 1978, and restored and 're-actualized' by Marker
fifteen years later (after the fall of the Soviet Union), it is a
sweeping, global contemplation of a critical era in political history.
1/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: A SIXTH OF THE WORLD
by Dziga Vertov With Russian intertitles, English synopsis available,
1926, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012
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1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE COMPILATION FILM: SHORTS PROGRAM
Henri Storck L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT INCONNU (1930, 17 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent) A montage of newsreel clips satirizing ceremonies commemorating
the war dead and indicting world rearmament. It is an ancestor of many
subsequent compilation films. Alberto Cavalcanti YELLOW CAESAR (1941, 24
minutes, video, b&w) Cavalcanti ingeniously edits newsreel and
propaganda footage of Mussolini to portray the despot in the most absurd
and unflattering light. Ken Jacobs PERFECT FILM (1986, 22 minutes, 16mm,
b&w) "TV newscast discards from 1965 relating to the assassination of
Malcolm X, out-takes of history reprinted as found in a Canal St. bin
(with the exception of boosting volume second half). A lot of film is
perfect left alone, perfectly revealing in its unconscious or
semi-conscious form." �K.J. Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
See notes for Jan. 21, 8 pm.
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TENTATIVELY A CONVENIENCE PROGRAM 1
This screening is part of: NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Film Notes
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born at age 21 in 1975 Era Vulgari in
BalTimOre, usa. It was at this time that he decided that he was a Mad
Scientist/d-composer/Sound Thinker/Thought Collector. Since then he has
been active with the Krononautic Organism (a time travelers' society),
Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, the Neoast?! 'Patanational
Cultural Conspiracy', the Church of the SubGenius (in which he's a
saint), etc. Whenever he has the energy he devotes himself to
"undermining 'reality' maintenance traps" through attempting to apply
the maxim "Anything is Anything." These days this is usually manifested
by being a Psychopathfinder & a Jack-Off-Of-All-Trades. We will be
presenting two programs of his work, one devoted to a selection of
recent short films, and the other featuring his epic documentary on the
work of avant-garde composer, musician, and writer Franz Kamin. PROGRAM
1: DEFENDERS OF GOOLENGOOK (2000-04, 17.5 minutes, video) I.A.C. DEER
HEAD SCULPTURE @ FORMER RANKIN STEEL MILL (2000-04, 8.5 minutes, video)
LEDGER OF ST DERMAIN (2004, 7 minutes,
mini-DV/slides/slidestrip/Super8mm-to-video) HAIRCUT PARADOX (2005-06,
14 minutes, video) CAPITALISM IS AN ISM (2006, 6.5 minutes, video) the
ballad of CodyodeeodoooO (2006-07, 13 minutes, video) SUBTITLES (CLOSURE
VERSION) (2005-08, 12 minutes, 8mm/Super-8mm/16mm/VHS/image data
files/mini-dv-to-DVD) TV 'NEWS' COMMITS SUICIDE (2009, 6 minutes, video)
ROBOTIC (for YouTube) (2009, 7 minutes, video) COLONY (2010-11, 9
minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
1/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TENTATIVELY A CONVENIENCE PROGRAM 2
This screening is part of: NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Film Notes
PROGRAM 2: DEPOT (wherein resides the UNDEAD of Franz Kamin) 2011, 220
minutes, video. A 3 hour and 40 minute documentary about the life and
work of composer, writer, performer, and pianist Franz Kamin, who was
born in 1941 and studied piano in Oklahoma and Indiana in the 1960s. His
extensive compositions and texts were influenced by topology as well as
by alcoholism and other difficult personal battles. Despite a
fantastically large and substantial body of work, he remained largely
unknown, except to specialists in the esoteric, all the way up to his
death in a car crash in 2010. Himself a student of the avant-garde and a
composer, writer, performer, musician, and moviemaker, tENTATIVELY, a
cONVENIENCE is uniquely qualified to pay tribute to Kamin. Familiar with
Kamin's work since 1974, he befriended him in 1977, performed in his
pieces in 1992 and 1993, and stayed in touch with him until shortly
before Kamin's death.
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