[Frameworks] This week [June 9 - 17, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [June 9 - 17, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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"The Huntington IN MOTION" by Kate Lain
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Intensive Non-Fiction and Narrative Film Workshops
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 22, 2012)
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Mossadegh Is My Homeboy (USA; Deadline: June 30, 2012)
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Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Deadline: July 20, 2012)
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The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012)
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MONO NO AWARE VI (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: October 31, 2012)
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The Journal of Short Film Volume 28 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 14, 2012)
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Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, US; Deadline: October 31, 2012)
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SFC - Shoah Film Collection (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012)
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Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: June 20, 2012)
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YoungCuts Film Festival (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Deadline: June 15, 2012)
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Videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2012)
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Oblò Film Festival 2012 (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: June 15, 2012)
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animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012)
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Abstracta (Roma, Italy; Deadline: June 30, 2012)
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Greentopia Festival (Rochester, NY, United States; Deadline: July 02, 2012)
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Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 29, 2012)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 2012)
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New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival - NEW DEADLINE 6/25 (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: June 25, 2012)
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videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2012)
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Plug Projects Film/Video Series (Kansas City, MO.; Deadline: June 15, 2012)
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INFRARED 3: Queer Avant-Garde Films (Seattle, WA, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2012)
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London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 22, 2012)
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Mossadegh Is My Homeboy (USA; Deadline: June 30, 2012)
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The Journal of Short Film Volume 28 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 14, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna [June 9, Brooklyn, NY]
* Circa, 16mm Films By Katherine Bauer. [June 9, Brooklyn, New York]
* Occupy Zeitgeist video/Art Exhibition [June 9, Fresno, California]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [June 9, New York, New York]
* Intonations From the Parallel Stream [June 9, Oakland, CA 94612]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [June 10, New York, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #40 = Monday June 11 = Marie Menken + Ute
Aurand/Ulrike Pfeiffer [June 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [June 13, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [June 13, New York, New York]
* Charismatic Megafauna W/ Live Film Score & Medusa Smack [June 13, Seattle, Washington]
* Urban Overload + Serdar's 5 Solids [June 14, Austin, TX]
* Robert Nelson Tribute Screening #1 [June 14, Los Angeles, California]
* M.M. Serra Program [June 14, New York, New York]
* Recent Works By Grahame Weinbren [June 14, New York, New York]
* Steve Cossman: Direct-Er's Cuts [June 15, Austin, TX]
* The Beauty Is Relentless: the Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper
Battersby Book Launch & Screening, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby,
In Person! [June 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Double vision: Comics & Animation [June 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Direct-Er's Cuts Films Created By Direct-Filmmaking Methods [June 16, Houston, Texas]
* How To Be A Homosexual: Films of Roger Jacoby [June 16, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Conrad/Jacobs & Fleischner Program [June 16, New York, New York]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Nightwatching, By Peter Greenaway – Los Angeles
Premiere! [June 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Eggeling & Cavalcanti Program [June 17, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012
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6/9
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
3pm, 155 Freeman Street
ALBERTO GRIFI AND MASSIMO SARCHIELLI'S ANNA
Anna, Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, video, 1972-1975, 225 mins,
Introduced by Dennis Lim - Shot in 1972, first shown in 1975, and newly
restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, Alberto Grifi and Massimo
Sarchielli's Anna is an astonishing nearly four-hour documentary about a
16-year-old homeless junkie, eight months pregnant, whom the filmmakers
discovered in Rome's Piazza Navona. Mainly shot on then-newfangled video
(which at times gives the black-and-white images a ghostly
translucence), it documents the interactions between the beautiful,
clearly damaged, often dazed teenager and the directors, who take her in
partly out of compassion and partly because she's a fascinating subject
for a film. - Far from straightforward vérité, this
self-implicating chronicle includes reenactments of the first meeting,
explicit attempts to direct its subject, and frequent intrusions from
behind the camera (not least the emergence of the film's electrician as
a love interest). Anna cuts between long, often discomfiting domestic
scenes (including an interminable delousing in the shower) and equally
protracted café discussions back in the square, where the unruly
cross talk among hippies, bums, bourgeoisie, and angry young men touches
on the movie's key themes of obligation and intervention: between
filmmakers and their subjects, the state and its citizens, fellow
members of society. - An end-of-the-1960s document with the scale and
intimacy of Robert Kramer's Milestones, Anna also marks the birth of our
media age, not just demonstrating the obsessive immersions of a new
technology that, as Grifi put it, "makes life filmable," but also
embodying the uneasy dawning awareness of what that means. It's a film
born on a cusp, as an urgency to change the world yielded to an urge to
record it. - DL - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note:
seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at
2:30pm.
6/9
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btw Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
CIRCA, 16MM FILMS BY KATHERINE BAUER.
Admission $6, filmmaker in person. We are very pleased to welcome
filmmaker Katherine Bauer to Microscope for a solo evening of her 16mm
films. Bauer has divided the night into two sections. The first "Furies"
features seven short films depicting " the conjoined fates of
civilization, wilderness and desire fading into one another, where the
familiar transforms into the bizarre and the bizarre is brought close
again…". The second half of the program, "Cystallus," includes a
selection of segments of her continuing apocalyptic sci-fi horror epic
of the same name. PROGRAM; Part 1: Furies -Ichor (2007) color, 3min.
Vanitas (2009) color, 3min. Circa (2009) color, 7min. Death Love (2011)
color, 10 min. Arcade Isle (2011) color, 8 min. Domestic/Vortex/Thrust
(2010) black and white, 6 min. 39.8280,-76.0121 (2012) black and white,
3 min. Part 2: Crystallus Crystallus: Astral Erotic Impact Phase (2012)
color, 13 min. Crystallus: Discontinuity and Nucleation Phases (2009)
black and white and color, 12 min. Crystallus: Crystal Death Phase
(2011) color, 6min.Katherine Bauer works primarily with 16mm film and
its material potential for sculpture, photography and installation. Much
of her work involves mythologies, folklores, and narratives. The
celluloid of film gives bodily presence to these narratives and enacts
their themes of decay, eroticism and horror. Katherine received a BA
from Bard College where she majored in Film and Electronic Arts. She is
currently working on a MFA from NYU in Studio Art where she also teaches
16mm filmmaking. She is on the Board of Directors at the Filmmakers
Cooperative and member of the film collective Optipus. full program
notes and more info at www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433,
nearest subway - J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway or L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson
Street.
6/9
Fresno, California: Gallery 25
TBA, Gallery 25, 660 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721
OCCUPY ZEITGEIST VIDEO/ART EXHIBITION
The Occupy Movement began with a simple question, "What is your one
demand?" From that singular question, a grass roots phenomenon known as
"Occupy Wall Street" became the growing face and voice of the people of
the United States. The movement swept through our country and spread to
sites across the world. As OWS moves into spring with plans to continue
and expand on its initial momentum and message, we (Diran Lyons and
Janice Ledgerwood) marveled at how OWS is changing the landscape of
memes, the currency of conversation and of poetry, and wondered at how
artists are responding to that (re)evolution. We decided to organize an
exhibit and call it Occupy Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist is a German word for
which there is not an equivalent word in English. It is defined as "the
spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the
general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political
climate within a nation or even within specific groups, along with the
general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated
with such a time, era, or group. When reduced to its initials, Occupy
Zeitgeist becomes OZ, the fanciful place of Frank Baum's famous
allegory, which seems particularly appropriate and timely. Indeed, a
critical interpretation of The Wizard of Oz by Henry M. Littlefield
(http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm) reveals an economic and historical
context that is similar to our current situation. "Pay no attention to
the man behind the curtain!" we are told over and over again. And, for a
long time, we didn't. For a long time we were all asleep, content with
what we had (or thought we had) … an illusion of security, freedom, and
choice.... But we are awake now and we have a message for those who wish
us to sleep again, those who would suppress, repress, and oppress the
99% and the smaller Occupy Movement: I met a traveler from an antique
land Who said: "Two cast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the
desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,
whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its
sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these
lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And
on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing besides
remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The
lone and level sands stretch far away." Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe
Shelley A Call for Entries We are seeking art from various Occupy
encampments as well as art and design inspired by OWS. It is our vision
to create an interactive, multi-media, participatory exhibit that
resembles an Occupy village. We are looking for: • Tents as art forms •
Paintings, sculptures, photography, produced by individuals or
collectives • Digital files of posters to create a looping slideshow •
Poems that can be performed by our local poets • Performance art
Simultaneously, we are organizing a film and video festival to accompany
the exhibition. For the Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Video Festival, we are
looking for short and full-length documentaries and remix videos of any
length. The parameters for both the exhibit and the video festival are
inclusive, as Occupy has addressed a wide range of issues. The work can
directly relate to the Occupy sites that have generated extensive
documentary footage or collections of art. It could address the
corruption of Wall Street, the banking system, the NDAA, SOPA/PIPA, the
1% or issues of privilege, the plight of the 99% during the economic
downturn, the depletion of civil liberties, etc. There is no entry fee.
However, participating artists must pay for their own shipping to and
from the exhibit. This applies to both the exhibition and the video
festival. The Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Exhibition To submit any tangible
artwork (see below for video and film), please send jpeg files to the
following address: Occupy.Zeitgeist.Exhibition at gmail.com. If you are
submitting performance work, please send a YouTube or Vimeo link of the
proposed piece to the aforementioned address. Please include your name,
title of the piece, and a short description of the work. If you have any
questions, we would enjoy hearing from you. There is no limit to the
amount of artwork that can be submitted by an individual or collective,
but do understand that there are limits to the physical gallery space
and that not all artwork will be accepted. The Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ)
Video Festival To submit video or film for consideration (YouTube, Vimeo
links only), please send them to the following address:
Occupy.Zeitgeist.Festival at gmail.com. Please include your name, title of
the piece, and a short description of the work. If you have any
questions, we would enjoy hearing from you. There is no limit to the
amount of videos that may be submitted by an individual or collective,
but do understand that there are limits to the time we have to showcase
the videos and films and that not all of them will be accepted. The
festival will feature invited video works by Andy Baio, Elisa
Kreisinger, Martin Leduc, Corey Ogilvie, Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk, and
The Yes Men. The program will also include the feature length
documentaries by Dennis Trainor, Jr. and "The Occupy Movie" (by Andrew
Halliwell, Maziar Ghaderi, and Corey Ogilvie). The Calendar • March 15 –
April 15: please submit your artwork, film, or video for consideration •
April 25: notifications send to all • May 30: all accepted entries must
arrive to be included • May 31 – June 6: installation • June 7,
5:00-8:00 pm: Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) opens at Gallery 25, 660 Van Ness
Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721 • June 9, 16, and 23: Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ)
Video Festival premiers (times to be announced) • June 30: final day of
the exhibition • July 7: return of artwork Please feel free to share
this far and wide.
6/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20
minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes, 16mm) THE
MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY
(1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes, 16mm)
AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes, 16mm,
photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) A
LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL (1957, 3 minutes,
16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images.
ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S
PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were
directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy
Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total
running time: ca. 105 minutes.
6/9
Oakland, CA 94612: Studio Quercus
8:00, 385 26th Street
INTONATIONS FROM THE PARALLEL STREAM
Night of Image and Sound, Paul Clipson / Collin McKelvey, Linda Scobie /
John Davis, John Davis / Joshua Churchill
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SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2012
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6/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS
(ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca.
1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10
minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY
STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION
SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS
LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes,
16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist.
Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by
archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
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MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012
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6/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8pm, Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #40 = MONDAY JUNE 11 = MARIE MENKEN + UTE
AURAND/ULRIKE PFEIFFER
June's screening is a special occasion as we have obtained a very rare
print of Marie Menken's unfinished (and hence, virtually unknown) The
Gravediggers of Guadix (1961). Marie Menken (1910-1970) holds a special
place in the film pantheon as one of the earliest practitioners of
personal filmmaking and her embodied camerawork was an influence on many
filmmakers, from Stan Brakhage to Ute Aurand. In the same trip to Spain
with Kenneth Anger in 1958 where she filmed the exquisite Arabesque for
Kenneth Anger, Menken spent time with a group of monks devoted to
burying the dead. The subject must have been a powerful theme for "a
Lithuanian Roman Catholic fascinated by saints, monks and religious
iconography" (as characterized by P. Adams Sitney) and the unedited
Kodachrome camera rolls are gorgeous documents of her camera eye and the
unique rituals of the monks that live in the sun-parched cave-village of
Guadix. Ute Aurand and Ulrike Pfeiffer take embodied vision to its
joyous extreme in OH! die vier Jahreszeiten(OH! The Four Seasons, 1988),
which features the two filmmakers frolicking through the four seasons in
Berlin, Moscow, Paris and London. Inspired by a Jonas Mekas quote on the
intuitive power of improvisation that opens the film, the two filmmakers
trade the camera back and forth, filming each other at play. Aurand runs
around in the Berlin snow in a white dress and boots and swings a young
boy around and around in Red Square before Aurand and Pfeiffer both
dance in a Paris fountain and then dress up as angels in the London
twilight. The music of Orff, Prokofiev, Piaf and Deller alongside the
youthful spontaneity of the two filmmakers creates an exuberant ode to
the changing of the seasons, the exhilaration of travel and the act of
creation. Programme: OH! die vier Jahreszeiten (OH! The Four Seasons),
Ute Aurand/Ulrike Pfeiffer, 1988, 16mm, Germany, 18 min. The
Gravediggers of Guadix, Marie Menken, 1961, 16mm, USA/Spain, 45 min.
silent @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Monday June 11,
2012 | 8:00 pm screening, $5 suggested donation
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012
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6/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 minutes, 35mm) THE BED (1968, 19 minutes,
16mm) NUPTIAE (1969, 14 minutes, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 minutes,
16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are
celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as American
Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
6/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 minutes, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45
minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
6/13
Seattle, Washington: Oregon Department of Kick Ass
http://www.odoka.org
8pm, NW Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA W/ LIVE FILM SCORE & MEDUSA SMACK
Two new films by Vanessa Renwick, one being Charismatic Megafauna with a
live score by cellist Lori Goldston and electric guitarist Dylan
Carlson, both of Earth, vocalist Jessika Kenney and percussionist Greg
Campbell. http://nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2197 "This is a new
piece I made with the jaw dropping cellist Lori Goldston. It is 50
minutes long and consists of footage that was shot by biologists during
the wolf capture (in Canada) and reintroduction in to the USA in the mid
90's. There also is 16mm footage that I shot when I lived in Chicago in
the early 80's with a wolfdog. "This piece gives you a behind the scenes
look at the practice known as "Wildlife Management." "I have been making
a big piece on the wolf reintroduction for 12 years now, and this is the
third wolf related video installation or movie I have made out of the
subject matter, along the way to completing the huge flick, The Land
Piranhas. This is the first piece that I included humans in, and
although I am all for the wolf reintroduction, watching all the
manipulation and processing that we humans are doing to these animals
makes me feel a bit like, ALIEN INVASION!!!!! Also, the footage of my
wolfdog included in this piece...why do people have wolfdogs?... so out
of place in the landscape. the landscape that we manage to death.....
There are no words spoken in this film. There is a small snippet of it
here, as well as more info on the musicians."
http://www.lorigoldston.com/charismatic-megafauna/ There also is a
little more on it here:
http://urbanhonking.com/plazm/2012/05/02/transformation-with-vanessa-ren
wick/ The other piece, Medusa Smack is a meditation on jellyfish with a
tripped out score by Tara Jane ONeil. A little more info and a preview
of it here: http://www.odoka.org/the_work/medusa_smack/
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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012
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6/14
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
7pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
URBAN OVERLOAD + SERDAR'S 5 SOLIDS
Experimental Response Cinema and the New Media and Sound Summit (NMASS)
present an evening of kinetic cinema, with multiple 16mm projector loops
and musique-concrete video feeds meshing into a frenetic infrastructure
of visual and auditory overload. Loosely themed around the idea of
penetrating and surviving inside the seductive toxicities of the urban
environment, the program features work by Austin artists Caroline
Koebel, Rick Reed and Scott Stark, a special 16mm projector performance
by Ekrem Serdar, and many surprises. NOTE: admission by festival pass
only, $50 for 4 days, more than 30 events. See New Media Art and Sound
Summit: http://nmassfest.org/ for details.
6/14
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
ROBERT NELSON TRIBUTE SCREENING #1
To celebrate the passing of the inimitable Robert Nelson (1930–2012),
Mark Toscano and Echo Park Film Center will be presenting multiple
programs of Bob's work, beginning with two Nelson films which have not
been seen together in decades, despite that being Bob's original
intention. The Suite California films were originally intended as a much
longer, multi-part travelog throughout California. Bob completed two
parts, covering Southern California and the Bay Area, and the results
are formally inventive and highly affecting, functioning as travelogs
that ultimately trace the vast and unpredictable area between a rich
personal reading of a place and the place itself. Although both works
feature Bob's characteristic brilliant humor throughout, they are also
deeply reflective and rich with unexpected, revelatory insight about his
own experience of his home state. SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART
1: TIJUANA TO HOLLYWOOD VIA DEATH VALLEY (1976, b/w & color, sound,
46min.) SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 2: SAN FRANCISCO TO THE
SIERRA NEVADAS & BACK AGAIN (1978, b/w & color, sound, 48min.)
6/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
M.M. SERRA PROGRAM
MM Serra is an experimental filmmaker, curator, author, and Executive
Director of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest distributor
of independent media. Her most recent piece, BITCH BEAUTY, premiered at
the 2011 New York Film Festival, and her other films have screened at
the Whitney, the Pompidou, and the Berlin International Film Festival.
Titillating, sumptuous, and always subversive, Serra's short films focus
on alternative cultures and intimate moments. They are simultaneously
eye-opening and awe-inducing. Whether creating documentary portraits or
colorfully dynamic exposés, Serra never fails to go where you would
least expect. This career-spanning program will feature the world
premiere of a new video about the Lower East Side as well as a special
sneak-preview of a work-in-progress. "Her cinema is marked by a lush
sensuality, a concern for light, play, and artfully woven soundtrack."
–Barbara Hammer, YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, CALIFORNIA WOMEN ARTISTS EYE
ETC. (1982, 2 minutes, 16mm) Serra's first acknowledged film, shot on
vacation in Hawaii, explores the light, colors, and sensuous movement of
the Hawaiian culture. FIVE FILMS (NYC/NIGHTFALL/FRAMED/PPI/TURNER)
(1987, 11 minutes, 16mm) "In these five films, created over a five-year
period, MM Serra emerges as a lyric poet filmmaker with a vividly
different eye and ear. … Mysterious, elliptical, extremely slim, and
delicate in their making – yet bursting with energy – these films seem
to elaborate a particularly feminine aesthetic of sensuality and
pleasure." –PARABOLA ARTS STASIS SERIES I & II (STASIS I. STILL LIFE;
STASIS II. PAPA'S GARDEN) (1991, 6 minutes, 16mm) Using Pixelvision
video transferred to 16mm film, these works map the visual space of
emotional investigation. SOI MEME (1995, 6 minutes, 16mm) Sound
composition by Zeena Parkins. Erotic dance performance by Goddess
Rosemary. Peggy Ahwesh & MM Serra NOTES FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE (THE
VIEW FROM LUDLOW STREET) 2010, ca. 30 minutes, video. Camera by Angela
Christlieb. World Premiere! Experimental documentary filmed over a
two-year period in the L.E.S. includes such personalities as Clayton
Patterson, performance artist Penny Arcade, Anthology's own Jed
Rapfogel, and other amazing HOWL Fest personalities. DARLING
INTERNATIONAL (1999, 22 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Collaboration with Jenn
Reeves. An exploration of sexual fantasies of a NY metal worker. "An
evocative work whose sexual sadomasochistic scenario, grainy visual
texture, and layered soundtrack render it highly tactile, fairly begging
to be touched." –Shannon Kelly, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ART PARADE (2007,
5 minutes, video) "In ART PARADE the Karen Black girls show beauty is in
the eye of the beholder. The female form, big hair, and suggestive
movements attract and fascinate us and the question of gender can be an
illusion or for some still very tantalizing. I liked the use of strong
color. It reminded me in nature insects use color to attract. In this
film the color intensifies the [female masquerade] and makes [it] more
alluring." –Diane Leon CHOP OFF (2008, 6 minutes, video) "Exposes the
dark, fearful recesses of the human psyche by filming the body
modification of performance artist R.K. Literally risking 'life and
limb', R.K.'s body is his medium and amputation is his art. The very act
of filming him often stimulates a cascading range of emotions, from
disgust to fear to dread." –TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL "Please please show
this film! It's unique, it's real, it's not like any other film. What
one sees in it cannot be seen anywhere else. It will shock some, but the
fact is that there are shocking things in this world and we should know
it and see it, nothing human should be hidden from knowledge. You made a
very REAL film about REAL people. One of the most difficult things to do
in cinema. I congratulate you." –Jonas Mekas BITCH-BEAUTY (2011, 7
minutes, video) An experimental documentary profiling the life of Anne
Hanavan, whose experiences as part of the underground scene in the East
Village of the 1980s paralleled those of now-deceased actor and
screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis Lund (BAD LIEUTENANT). Using Hanavan's films,
performances, readings, and music, as well as footage from Lund's work,
BITCH-BEAUTY is an intense seven-minute time capsule of addiction, the
perils of street prostitution, and subsequent renewal or revival through
cathartic self-expression. BREATHE DEEP: CRYSTALLUM (2011, ca. 5
minutes, video) Work-in-progress. An experimental portrait of the
Goddess of Crystallum, Katherine Bauer, profiling her creative
engagement with death and rebirth through the crystallization of
roadkill. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
6/14
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
8pm, 66 East 4th Street
RECENT WORKS BY GRAHAME WEINBREN
The program includes several works screening for the first time ever.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012
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6/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
7:00pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
STEVE COSSMAN: DIRECT-ER'S CUTS
Experimental Response Cinema and NMASS present: - Direct-er's Cuts,
presented by Steve Cossman, is a program of films made using various
direct film making techniques. Direct film making encompasses various
camera-less methods (such as scratching, painting and masking) through
which a film maker produces and alters images by directly manipulating
the surface of the film frame. The program will include a rare print
(courtesy of film historian Cecil Starr) of one of the germinal works of
direct film making: Len Lye's 1958 animation Free Radicals. The program
will conclude in a question and answer session with artist Steve
Cossman. 40 min - Ancestors, 2012, 16mm, silent 4 min 20 sec,
Hand-painted Leader with Adhered Overlays, Douglas Urbank - " This 16 mm
film is made from scans of old photographs of unidentified ancestors of
mine from a box that came into my sister's possession after our mother
died. I have adhered their images to leader film, cutting and blending
their features together by hand and adding color, patterns and bits of
text from old letters. " D.U. - 40,mov, 2012, 16mm, sound, 0 min 40 sec,
Photocopied rubbings and clear tape. - Devon Damonte - "Rubbings of the
historic Moviola editing machine from Portland, OR, NW Film Center's
School of Film are animated by camera-less methods using only
photocopies and adhesive tape onto 16mm film leader. Inspired by NWFC's
40 second movies project, this is exactly 40 seconds long, 960 frames of
picture. The variations in grid square size is the result of the
Moviola's metal foot pedal being worn down in the editing of countless
movies. This evidence of millions of miles of film footage, lovingly cut
by scores of editors is recast upon wings of light via crotchety
projection contraptions in wishing NWFC all the best for the next 40
years, and beyond . . ." D.D. - Fe, 2010, 16mm, silent 3 min 00 sec,
High contrast photo-grams, hand-processed and solarized, Eric Stewart,
Photo-grams of magnets in a magnetic field. - Pillager, 2011, 16mm
sound, 7 min 00 sec, Hand-processed and bleached. - Joshua Lewis, A
document of aggressive and proximate manipulations of competing
photographic reactions. - A Joy, 16mm sound 6 min 00 sec, Colored
acetate, patterned contact paper and ink. - Jodie Mack, A collaboration
with Four Tet for Everything Ecstatic (Domino, 2005). - Free Radicals,
1958/1979, 16mm sound 4 min 30 sec, 16mm black leader, scratched. - Len
Lye, Begun in 1958 and completed in 1979, Lye made the film by directly
scratching the film stock. The resulting "figures of motion"
are set to music by the Bagirmi tribe of Africa. - GUMS, 2012, 16mm
sound 3 min 00 seconds, Digital laser printer with optical sound. -
Aaron Vinton, A crunch of digital imagery married to the analog surface,
GUMS creates its own optical track in high-con graphics. - TUSSLEMUSCLE,
2007-2009, 16mm sound 5 min 14 sec, 16mm 7,000 Viewmaster stereoscopic
stills and splicing tape. - Steve Cossman, The work presented is a
reflection on humanity's ecological relationship and the ritual of
restoration. Jacob Long of Earthen Sea created the score. - NOTE: NMASS
festival passes are $50 for 4 days, with over 30 events by dozens of
artists. See http://nmassfest.org for details.
6/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art & Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org
8pm, Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave. (down the lane)
THE BEAUTY IS RELENTLESS: THE SHORT MOVIES OF EMILY VEY DUKE AND COOPER
BATTERSBY BOOK LAUNCH & SCREENING, EMILY VEY DUKE & COOPER BATTERSBY, IN
PERSON!
Please join us to watch three strange and wicked video wonders from
Emily and Cooper. They'll be here in person to dish the inside scoop, as
well as signing copies of their new book The Beauty Is Relentless,
edited by Mike Hoolboom and published by Museum of Contemporary Canadian
Art and Pleasure Dome. $10 Admission price includes the all-colour book!
The Beauty Is Relentless: The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper
Battersby In this collection of scripts, creative writings and critical
missives, their word smart blend of home spun animation, bedroom pop
philosophy songs, and glam personas by the galore get the full
treatment. Imagine threesomes, daddy's porn, fame, and the importance of
animals served up on a privateTV station. The book is both smartful and
stylish, featuring Electric Animal author Akira Lippit on the couple,
Czech film scientist Andrea Slovakova, video legends Tom Sherman and
Monique Moumblow, music writer Terence Dick, queer avatar Sholem
Kristalka and video dad Steve Reinke. Novelists Claudia Dey and Kyo
Maclear lend wit and grace. There are also a pair of fully illustrated
video scripts, a hilarious tell-all interview with writer pal Sara
Hollenberg, a suite of unpublished writings by Duke (including I Hate
Orgasms) and a collection of commissioned artist's pages. 8 pm Video
programme followed by outdoor reception: The New Freedom Founders; I Am
a Conjuror 26 minutes 2005 Being Fucked Up 10 minutes 2001 Beauty Plus
Pity 15 minutes 2009
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SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 2012
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6/16
Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com/
1:30 pm, Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash Ave.
DOUBLE VISION: COMICS & ANIMATION
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is excited to present a
program of short animation work as part of the Chicago Alternative
Comics Expo (CAKE.) Titled "Double Vision: Comics and Animation," this
program features a series of strange, fun, and beautiful films from
artists who fuse the two media in unexpected and compelling ways. Half
of the pieces in this program are made by comics artists who also make
animation (Mahler, Larsson, Dery, McManus, Beaty and Shaw.) Also
included are works from animators who make formal or conceptual
references to comics in their films (Gruber, Trainor, Sweetvittles,
O'Reilly), and works made through collaborations (Cruikshank, working
with Kim Deitch; and Lockhart, working with Marc Bell). Jim Trainor, Jo
Dery, Nate Beaty, Amy Lockhart and Marc Bell will be present to discuss
their work in a Q&A after the program. Program lineup: Nicolas Mahler -
Mystery Music. 2009, Austria, 5:00; Stefan Gruber - Both Worlds. 2011,
USA, 10:17; Peter Larsson - The People and the Whale. 2008, Sweden,
5:47; Sally Cruikshank - Quasi at the Quackadero. 1975, USA, 9:57; Amy
Lockhart - The Collagist. 2009, Canada, 2:00; Jo Dery - Chapter 3. 2012,
USA, 2:13; Jim Trainor - Harmony. 2004, USA, 12:00; Jesse McManus - Buoy
Boy. 2008, USA, 2:00; Trixy Sweetvittles - La Mujer Lagartija. 1996,
USA, 4:00; Nate Beaty - Warble and Bleat. 2012, USA, 1:30; Dash Shaw -
The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD. 2009, USA, 7:42; David
O'Reilly - Please Say Something. 2009, Ireland/Germany, 10:00; total
runtime: 72:26 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation presents
"Double Vision: Comics & Animation" - Curated by Lilli Carré & Alexander
Stewart - Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) - Saturday, June 16,
2012, 1:30-3:00 pm - Columbia College's Ludington Building, 1st Floor
Conway Stage, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago Free and open to the public
www.cakechicago.com www.eyeworksfestival.com
6/16
Houston, Texas: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
8pm, 2442 Bartlett Street
DIRECT-ER'S CUTS FILMS CREATED BY DIRECT-FILMMAKING METHODS
Working the surface of the celluloid, these films have been physically
cut, scratched, taped, dyed, bleached, and optically printed to create a
moving image on screen. All films presented are film prints on 16mm.
Included in this program is Steve Cossman's work on film TUSSLEMUSCLE,
assembled from over 7,000 individual view-master reel cells.
Hand-spliced together into a linear film strip over the course of three
years, the film transforms Kodachrome flora from musical and numerical
pattern into visual rhythm.
6/16
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
HOW TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL: FILMS OF ROGER JACOBY
"HOW TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL began, said Jacoby, as 'excerpts from a
compilation journal work begun in 1979. It is an ironic title - there's
nothing sexually explicit about the film.' But the film is richly
sensual.... In every scene, the emulsion captures the images, enhances,
then betrays, overpowers and destroys them, as the patterns and color
reshape the filmed reality into a different landscape." - Kathleen
Tyner, Cinematograph. Works to be screened on 16mm: How to Be a
Homosexual Parts 1 & 2 and Aged in Wood. $5
6/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CONRAD/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Tony Conrad THE FLICKER 1966, 30 minutes, 16mm, sound. Mathematical and
rhythmical orchestration of white and black frames. & Ken Jacobs & Bob
Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up.
Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support
of the Film Foundation, the National Film Preservation Foundation, Simon
Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative – no, not
really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of
delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination
suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with
American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-strictured
and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation with style…
enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a
regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2012
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6/17
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 NIGHTWATCHING, BY PETER GREENAWAY – LOS ANGELES
PREMIERE!
Filmforum is happy to bring the Los Angeles premieres of two Peter
Greenaway films, with imported 35mm prints! The first, Rembrandt's
J'Accuse, is on June 3, and the second, Nightwatching, is on June 17.
The two are closely related, fictional and documentary interpretations
of Rembrandt and the painting The Night Watch. Nightwatching,
Greenaway's fictional foray into art-history detecting, was made a year
before the more spare Rembrandt's J'Accuse. Tickets: $10 general; $6
students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper
tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/249754
6/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EGGELING & CAVALCANTI PROGRAM
Viking Eggeling SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE 1924, 8 minutes, 35mm. & Alberto
Cavalcanti RIEN QUE LES HEURES 1928, 52 minutes, 35mm. A "city symphony"
interweaving documentary, experimental, and narrative elements that
provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. Total running time: ca.
65 minutes.
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