[Frameworks] This week [March 17 - 25, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [March 17 - 25, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* From Maclaren To Woloshen [March 17, Lille, France]
* Facts For Fiction [March 17, New York, New York]
* Invocation of Bliss [March 17, New York, New York]
* Heaven and Earth [March 17, New York, New York]
* Prelinger's Learning With the Lights off + the Fillingers + [March 17, San Francisco, California]
* Jon Jost's Swimming In Nebraska [March 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Heaven and Earth [March 18, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Harry Smith Program [March 18, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 18, New York, New York]
* Pieces of Dreams [March 18, New York, New York]
* Gwenyambira Simon Mashoko [March 19, New York, New York]
* #37 = Monday 3/19/2012 = 3rd Anniversary = Gordon Matta-Clark [March 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Indian Diary [March 20, New York, New York]
* George Kuchar (1942-2010) Memorial Screening [March 20, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Experimental Memoria [March 20, Seattle, Washington]
* Courtisane Festival 2012 (21-25 March 2012) [March 21, Ghent, Belgium]
* Siberian Diary [March 21, New York, New York]
* The Free Screen: Jan Peacock: Using Clouds For Words [March 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Daniel Eisenberg- the Unstable Object [March 22, Los Angeles, California]
* New Works Salon [March 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Yemen Travelogue [March 22, New York, New York]
* Save Kusf Benefit Featuring Ralph Carney and Melodious Animations [March 22, San Francisco, California]
* Panorama [March 22, San Francisco, California]
* The Heretics [March 23, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Black Thorns In the Black Box [March 23, Chicago, Illinois]
* Rose and Jasmine [March 23, New York, New York]
* Roman Diary [March 23, New York, New York]
* Experimenta India [March 23, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Rice/Richter/Sharits Program [March 24, New York, New York]
* Ron Rice Program [March 24, New York, New York]
* The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man [March 24, New York, New York]
* Herold + Jacobson + Losier + Mcguire + [March 24, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Sharits Program [March 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Jack Smith Program [March 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Wavelength [March 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Back and Forth [March 25, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012
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3/17
Lille, France: scratchatopia
http://scratchatopia.tumblr.com/
8:00 pm , - L'hybride 18 rue Gosselet, Lille
FROM MACLAREN TO WOLOSHEN
It is my please to invite you a wonderful event organized and curated by
the Quebec Producer, Marcel Jean as part of the 2012 Fete L'anim
Animation Festival in Lille, France. This special program highlights
abstract/musical films from its' pioneer, Norman MacLaren to Steven
Woloshen. "Un trajet qui va de Norman McLaren, pionnier de la gravure et
du dessin sur pellicule, à Steven Woloshen, qui perpétue aujourd'hui la
tradition de l'animation sans caméra. Sur ce chemin rempli de surprises,
quelques rencontres avec les principales figures du cinéma d'animation
expérimental au Québec". En présence du réalisateur Steven Woloshen et
du programmateur Marcel Jean. Durée du programme : 1h The Program; Free
Jafar Panahi Project Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2012 / 1 min Un appel à
la libération du cinéaste iranien Jafar Panahi. Caprice en couleurs
Norman McLaren et Evelyn Lambart / Canada / 1949 / 8 min Le trio jazz
Oscar Peterson interprète quelques pièces de son répertoire, alors que
les cinéastes transcrivent ces sons avec, comme seuls guides, leur
talent et leur libre imagination. Cameras Take Five Steven Woloshen /
Canada / 2003 / 3 min « J'ai commencé ce film comme à mon habitude,
c'est-à-dire que je n'ai préparé aucun récit, ni personnage ou chapitre
avant de commencer cette animation. Bien que Take Five soit un standard
du jazz, je le trouve plutôt structuré à la façon d'un air pop. Au
final, une structure filmique plus narrative a fait son apparition. »
Blinkity Blank Norman McLaren / Canada / 1955 / 5 min Court métrage
expérimental explorant les possibilités de l'animation par intermittence
et des images spasmodiques. Norman McLaren joue avec les lois de la
persistance rétinienne dans une uvre de pure imagination faisant penser
tantôt à un feu d'artifice très nourri, puis ensuite à un dessin lent à
se former et dont on ne perçoit que des touches rapides et éphémères.
Snip Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2004 / 2 min « Ce film a été fait dans
les semaines précédant la naissance de mon premier enfant. Je voulais
faire un film rapide et coloré auquel réagirait un très jeune enfant.
J'allais être en mesure de constater, dans les années qui allaient
suivre, si c'était réussi ou pas. » cNote Christopher Hinton / Canada /
2004 / 7 min Bru Ha Ha ! Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2002 / 2 min Le
cinéaste renoue avec sa sensibilité dadaïste dans ce film inspiré d'une
musique d'Erik Satie. Un commentaire bruyant et surexcité sur les
relations inhumaines. Mamori Karl Lemieux / Canada / 2010 / 7 min
Rivière au tonnerre Pierre Hébert / Canada / 2011 / 7 min The Curse of
the Voodoo Child Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2005 / 4 min Sexe,
naissance, feu et empreintes digitales. Le jeu de la passion et les
événements entourant la conception, tout cela menant au chaos. McLaren's
Negatives Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre / Canada / 2006 / 10 min Playtime
Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2009 / 3 min Le peintre Jock MacDonald
touchait à deux mondes : la figuration et l'abstraction. Un hommage à
son dévouement, à son esprit et à ses sujets exceptionnels, réels ou
imaginaires. For Further information please check:
http://www.fete-anim.com/fr/programme/thema-quebec/de-mclaren-a-woloshen
.html
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FACTS FOR FICTION
by Michael Pilz 1996, 69 minutes, video Pilz drives through NYC with a
very unusual taxi driver: filmmaker, one-time Fluxus artist, and
Anthology associate Jeff Perkins. Sitting by his side, high-8 camera in
hand, Pilz documents Perkins's observations and interactions as they
glide through the night.
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
INVOCATION OF BLISS
by Michael Pilz 2009, 92 minutes, video No dialogue. "In May, 2006 I
traveled around Iran, a small camera always close at hand, and
experienced some of the most memorable 'magical moments' of my life.
I
edited this succession of images and made it last 18 minutes. Then I
added five duplicates of the resulting footage and inserted an
additional close-up between them, which shows Arabic calligraphy of one
of Hafez's most famous poems that is inscribed on his tomb." M.P
3/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEAVEN AND EARTH
1979/82, 297 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm (HIMMEL UND ERDE) In German with
English subtitles. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum. An epic
documentary, in two parts, about life in the Styrian mountain village of
St. Anna. The film is a documentary in the best sense of the word a
meditation on time, on nature and the struggles of man, as well as a
record of a lifestyle ceasing to exist. "[A] fascinating portrait of a
mountain village fighting to survive against the powers of nature as
well as against economic pressures from outside. A profound reflection
on the meaning of life and work, the necessity for relationships and the
definite character of our world. Slow and lengthy, this film stands out
for its beauty and poetry." 14th Festival International de Cinéma,
Nyon, Switzerland "If you let it happen, the film will pull you into its
cosmos; it is one of those works that teaches you to see and listen
again." Ulrich Gregor
3/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
PRELINGERS LEARNING WITH THE LIGHTS OFF + THE FILLINGERS +
Celebrating the book-release of Learning with the Lights Off:
Educational Film in the United States, Rick Prelinger hosts a
smörgåsbord of exemplars from the golden age of educational filmmaking.
Made for American classrooms, these mid-century shorts are both artful
and banal, timely and dated, stimulating and campy. Preceded by the
NorCal premiere of the pithy Re-Presenting Prelinger, Rick's PowerPoint
highlights Jam Handy, the acknowledged master of the genre. He also
focuses on the sinister scare tactics of Sid Davis in a 10-min. clip
from Ken Smith's Sidvision, and with a 16mm excerpt of Davis' Dangerous
Strangers. In fact, there's over an hour of sublimely ridiculous
celluloid, with Carol Ballard's Pigs, Daddy's Girl, We Live in a
Trailer, The Day I Died, a Science in Action fragment, and Skip (AV
Geeks) Elsheimer's Vandalism pick. PLUS Paul and Glenda Fillinger, here
in person after a career in the ed-film business, to share a pair of
their extraordinary pieces. Free toast and jam! $7.77.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012
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3/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm (doors open 7, box office opens 6:30), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
JON JOST'S SWIMMING IN NEBRASKA
After two nights of his films made in Los Angeles in the 1970s,
Filmforum hosts Jon Jost with the United States premiere of a new
digital video work, Swimming in Nebraska. Continuing the examination of
place and mood found in the earlier works, Jost has fully embraced the
medium of digital technology in his work of the past decade. His recent
films are rigorous and beautiful, often abstract, and yet immersed in
the real world. Swimming in Nebraska continues Jost's ongoing challenges
to the assumptions of American mass media while embracing the
possibilities of artistic practice and meditation. Renowned filmmaker
Jon Jost in person! Tickets $10 general, $6 students/seniors, free for
Filmforum members. Available online at Brown Paper Tickets
(http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233200)
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
HEAVEN AND EARTH
See notes for March 17, 6 pm.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HARRY SMITH PROGRAM
HARRY SMITH EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. MIRROR ANIMATIONS (extended 1979 version, 11 minutes, 35mm)
NEW PRINT! LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes, 16mm) OZ, THE TIN
WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes, 35mm) "My cinematic excreta is of
four varieties: batiked animations made directly on film between 1939
and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950;
semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of
1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of
actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been
organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of
the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be
observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works,
works that will forever abide they made me gray." Harry Smith Total
running time: ca. 80 minutes.
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC
by Harry Smith 1950-61, 66 minutes, 16mm, b&w Preserved by Anthology
Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation and Cineric, Inc. "NO. 12 can be seen as one momentcertainly
the most elaborately crafted momentof the single alchemical film which
is Harry Smith's life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one
of the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of
cinema. Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of
various figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects
Smith's abiding concern with auditory effects." P. Adams Sitney
3/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PIECES OF DREAMS
PIECES OF DREAMS 2000, 55 minutes, video. "Pilz observes the theater
director Jack Garfein preparing a Beckett piece ("Ohio Impromptu") in
his hotel room. The room is filled with dialogue and concentration, the
manic repetitions of a single text fragment gives way to long passages
of tense silence. For a while Pilz appears in the picture himself and
becomes an impresario part of the act in a chamber theatre formation
in that the documentary almost takes on fictional characteristics."
Mark Stöhr, SCHNITT DAS FILMMAGAZIN & WINDOWS, DOGS AND HORSES 2006,
40 minutes, video. In German with English subtitles. "This very personal
film is based on material that Michael Pilz shot over a decade, starting
in 1994, in various locations around the world, including Africa,
southern India, Turkey, and Cuba. The director combines shots to form a
subjectively authentic unit, which draws on the non-linear and dispersed
thought processes and imagination of the human mind." Petr Kubica,
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL JIHLAVA
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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
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3/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GWENYAMBIRA SIMON MASHOKO
by Michael Pilz 2002, 210, video In English and Shona; intentionally
unsubtitled. In the summer of 1997, Pilz, along with composer Klaus
Hollinetz and photographer Werner Puntigam, visited the African musician
Simon Mashoko (Gwenyambira), a virtuoso mbira player and a catechist of
the Roman Catholic Church who lived in seclusion in the south of
Zimbabwe. Five years later, the unforgettable experience resulted in a
multimedia installation that attempted to transcend geographic borders
as well as the borders between the individual arts. Pilz's film captures
the mystery of an ordinary day, the interior of music, the creation of
play, faith, and imperceptible dance.
3/19
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
7:30pm, Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West
#37 = MONDAY 3/19/2012 = 3RD ANNIVERSARY = GORDON MATTA-CLARK
We're excited to celebrate three years of programming with a special
program devoted to the films of Gordon Matta-Clark. Our longtime fans
may have spotted a brief glimpse of Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect in
the first film we showed in March 2009: Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed
Nightmare. Tonight brings us full-circle, if you will. Like his peer
Robert Smithson, who also died too young, Matta-Clark's films bring his
ideas, performances and anti-architecture antics to vivid life in a way
that moves beyond mere documentation. Diagrams, writings and photographs
of his work have long preserved him as a pivot point in late 20th
century contemporary art, but there's nothing quite like watching the
vertiginous lengths Matta-Clark goes to realize his cuttings in luminous
live actionwatching him hang from ropes as he carves large openings
into the walls of Pier 52 is as heart-stopping as it is gorgeous.
Tonight features a quartet that surveys the range of Matta-Clark's
filmic output. Tree Dance documents an early performance inspired by
spring fertility rituals, with Matta-Clark moving through a series of
cocoons, ladders and ropes hung throughout a very large tree in
Poughkeepsie, New York. City Slivers slices up the New York cityscape
in-camera, as he creates a series of super-impositions using the city's
dark cavernous streets as mattes. Day's End documents one of
Matta-Clark's famous cuttings, the above mentioned Pier 52, which he
cunningly transformed from a dark warehouse into an "indoor park"much
to the chagrin of both the Port Authority and those that used the dark
corners as a cruising spot. Finally, Fresh Kill features Matta-Clark
driving his old truck, christened Herman Meydag, to the Fresh Kills dump
to be demolished by a bulldozer. Seeing these films again reminds us of
the milieu of which Matta-Clark was a partone is reminded of Bas Jan
Ader, Anthony McCall and John Chamberlain, to name just a fewbut also
of the fervent influence his work still can have on our conceptions of
the built landscape in which we live. Programme: City Slivers, Gordon
Matta-Clark, 1976, 16mm, USA, 15 min. silent Tree Dance, Gordon
Matta-Clark, 1971, Super 8 on 16mm, USA, 10 min. silent Fresh Kill,
Gordon Matta-Clark, 1972, 16mm, USA, 13 min. Day's End, Gordon
Matta-Clark, 1975, Super 8 on 16mm, USA, 23 min. silent
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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012
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3/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
INDIAN DIARY
by Michael Pilz 2000, 168 minutes, video In English and Malayalam;
intentionally unsubtitled. Without recourse to off-screen commentary or
'staged' conversations, Pilz creates the chronology of his stay in India
and his medical treatment there in INDIAN DIARY: one recognizes the same
people and places, participates in everyday life and excursions, and at
some point the radio croaks "What a difference a day makes."
3/20
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
GEORGE KUCHAR (1942-2010) MEMORIAL SCREENING
While I'm Naked (1966, 16mm, 17min.) which in 2000 was voted one of the
100 best films of the 20th century by the Village Voice Critics Poll.
Tonight's selections were made by George's twin brother, Mike. The
brothers Kuchar often visited Berks Filmmakers presenting some of the
most memorable and beloved shows to light our screen. "George Kuchar
was one of the most creative, original, and influential filmmakers of
our time
. Often collaborating with his twin brother, Mike, George
started making films as a Bronx teenager, and the brothers' early films
already show the ingenuity, exuberance, and do-it-yourself charm that
would pervade scores of their subsequent films
. In his films, Kuchar is
always poking fun and always having a good time, in an apparently sweet
and charmingly self-deprecating way. Yet this court jester of
avant-garde cinema had a sardonic edge that was as sharp as an editor's
blade. His vision bubbled out of the cauldron of his gay, Catholic,
working-class childhood. This led to his lifelong tango with the high,
and often dry, seriousness of the art world
. Kuchar stayed true to his
American vernacular instincts throughout his life. The body of work he
produced, now archived at Harvard, is a testimony to the power, and
importance, of film done without the hindrance of large-scale
production."- Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, The Brooklyn Rail
3/20
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th ave
EXPERIMENTAL MEMORIA
This special series commemorates the work of three notable experimental
and underground filmmakers who left us in 2011. Films screen in their
original 16mm format. Features the work of George Kuchar, Robert Breer
and Adolfas Meekas. Full schedule online at nwfilmforum.org.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
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3/21
Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane
http://www.courtisane.be/
20:30, KASKCinema, Sphinx, Vooruit & KASK KUNSTTOREN
COURTISANE FESTIVAL 2012 (21-25 MARCH 2012)
Courtisane presents its annual selection of cutting-edge cinema,
bringing together recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who
open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving
image practice. OPENING NIGHT : Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber
Disclosure (Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder with Olivia Block).
COMPETITION : new works by Ute Aurand, Bonnie Begusch, Sirah Foighel
Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Mati Diop, Fabian Euresti, Janie Geiser,
Beatrice Gibson, Kwon Hayoun, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Laida Lertxundi, Rose
Lowder, Gary Mairs, Valérie Massadian, Pavel Medvedev, Nicolás Pereda,
Charlotte Pryce, Alina Rudnitskaya, Jani Ruscica and Isabelle
Tollenaere. PROFILES : Gabriel Abrantes, George Kuchar, Naomi Uman,
Sung-A Yoon. ARTISTS IN FOCUS : Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Philippe
Grandrieux, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell. Guest programme: MEDIA CITY This
is Then Now and Here. Canadian Films from the Collection of the CFMDC
(19671979) curated by Jeremy Rigsby and Oona Mosna. REVERBERANCES :
Robert Fenz/Robert Garder, José Filipe Costa/ Thomas Harlan, Eric
Baudelaire&Philippe Grandrieux/Masao Adachi. + Children's programme,
workshops, installations, concerts (Robert Lowe, Jake Williams, Stellar
OM Source), and much more !
3/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SIBERIAN DIARY
by Michael Pilz In Dutch and Russian with English subtitles, 2003, 140
minutes, video In English, Russian, Dutch, and German with English
subtitles. "[A documentary about the] inhabitants of a small village
called Apanas, who are covered with snow and cut off from the rest of
the world for six months a year. The harsh climate dictates the tone of
the film, as if the geographical location itself contributed to its
radical aesthetics.
Pilz regards a film as a tool for mutual
understanding within the memory of history and culture." Petr Kubica,
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL JIHLAVA
3/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox
http://www.tiff.net
7:00pm, 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN: JAN PEACOCK: USING CLOUDS FOR WORDS
"Video is where I can work with shapes of time-language events, sound
events, image events-building a space that seems recognizable to us
because it's television, because people spend so much time looking at
that box." Jan Peacock Jan Peacock is one of Canada's most important
video artists, as her honouring by this year's Governor General's Awards
in Visual and Media Arts attests. Through both her thirty-year practice
and her long-time role as a teacher of Intermedia at the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design in Halifax, Peacock has influenced and guided
successive generations of artists in their explorations of the video
medium. She is a pioneer of video installation in Canada (many of the
works being shown in this programme are single-channel "versions" of
installations usually involving multiple screens) and often conceives of
her work as open texts, allowing the medium's memory-like permeability
to allow for future revision, addition and reflection.This programme is
a short survey of selections from Peacock's oeuvre of over twenty video
works and installations. Her early video, California Freeze-Out, made
while a graduate student at UC San Diego and included in the influential
California Video show curated by Kathy Rae Huffman for the1980 Paris
Biennial, sets the stage for many of Peacock's concerns. In it, and in
many subsequent videos, we find the emotional immeasurability of
distance looking longingly at the space between here and there and
the importance of touch: the artist's hands are a common subject and
motif in her work, which heightens the sense of tactility in the video
image. Her videos also frequently address the importance of memory,
especially in relationship to the fragility of life. Wallace & Theresa
memorializes her friend Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, an artist and writer
whose life was cut brutally short, and (Bliss) (Dread) is an important
piece that was made during the maelstrom of the AIDS epidemic. Featured
works: Bystander (Canada 2009, 1.5 min., video) California Freeze-Out
(Canada 1980, 16.5 min., video This Walk, These Steps (Canada 1995, 5
min., video) Wallace & Theresa (Canada 1985, 8.5 min., video) therethere
(Canada 2009, 6 min., video) Reader by the Window (Canada 1993, 16 min.,
video) Current Details (Canada 2003 - ongoing, variable duration, video)
(Bliss) (Dread) The Road Rises to Meet You (Canada 1987, 6.5 min.,
video) Soaring with Dogs (Canada 2008 - ongoing, variable duration,
video) Screening preceded by a looped version of touch 1.0 (2012)
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012
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3/22
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
DANIEL EISENBERG- THE UNSTABLE OBJECT
What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common?
Daniel Eisenberg's (Persistence, Something More Than Night) latest film,
The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on
contemporary models of production. Interested in the ways "things"
affect both producer and consumer, Eisenberg travels to a Volkswagen
factory in Dresden, Germany, where individualized cars are hand-built by
high-tech specialists; to Chicago Lighthouse Industries, where blind
workers produce wall clocks for government offices; and to a deafening
cymbal factory in Istanbul, Turkey, where sought-after cymbals are cast
and hammered by hand, exactly as they were 400 years ago. Through
sequences sympathetic to each site and subject that highlight the senses
of sight, sound, and touch, The Unstable Object quietly probes the
relationships our global economy creates among individuals around the
world. In person: Daniel Eisenberg.Jack H. Skirball Screening Series.
Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
3/22
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
NEW WORKS SALON
Several local artists will present new in-progress or recently completed
works. Sean Batton and Kelsey Brain will present a 16mm film comprising
footage of Occupy Los Angeles's two-month encampment at City Hall. Marcy
Saude presents her in-progress Alternative Strategies #1, in which
Filmmaker Robert Nelson talks about the house he and William Wiley built
by hand in rural Mendocino County. Mark Toscano will present two recent
16mm films, Rating Dogs on a Scale of 1 to 10 (2011) and Demonstration
(2012). Also, Rick Bahto will present sketches towards a documentary on
the composer Mark So, Pablo Valencia will project a collection of Super
8 miniatures, and Hayley Elliott will present a developing cut of
hand-processed Super 8 film.
3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
YEMEN TRAVELOGUE
by Michael Pilz 2008, 160 minutes, video In English and Arabic;
intentionally unsubtitled. "In April 2006, my friend and I flew to
Sana'a, the capital of the Republic of Yemen, and traveled to Shibam,
the legendary mud-brick skyscraper city, the ancient 'Manhattan of the
Desert'. As usual, I filmed whatever caught my eye. It's a very personal
travel journal, and despite these enchanting sites, it lets you forget
about where you are. A film for meditation." M.P.
3/22
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8pm, 275 Capp Street
SAVE KUSF BENEFIT FEATURING RALPH CARNEY AND MELODIOUS ANIMATIONS
Oddball Films hosts a benefit for Save KUSF featuring the great Ralph
Carney & Guests live on the Cinestage! Mr. Carney is a jazz
multi-instrumentalist/horn player who has spent the better part of the
last 2 decades criss-crossing the world, on stage and in studios with
the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, Allen
Ginsberg and Elvis Costello to name only a few. Plus! A selection of the
finest animation films with the jazziest soundtracks in the Oddball
Films collection including Dave Fleischer's Minnie The Moocher (1932)
featuring Betty Boop, Bimbo and the music of Cab Calloway and His
Orchestra; legendary animators Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert's
vibrant Begone Dull Care (1949) with the music of the Oscar Peterson
Trio; principal animator on Yellow Submarine Paul Dreissen's Cat's
Cradle (1974) and much more! Admission: $10 - $15 sliding scale. Limited
Seating RSVP to programming at oddballfilm.com
3/22
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7 p.m., 151 Third Street
PANORAMA
Phyllis Wattis Theater 7:00 p.m. Organized by Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA
Assistant Curator of Media Arts, in conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay
Area Arts: The SECA Awards, this screening brings together short
contemporary and historic film and video works by artists affiliated
with either SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Award (1973-98) series or its
ongoing SECA Art Award program. It features a variety of approaches to
the urban environment as well as animated representations of natural
landscape. Mel Henderson (with Joe Hawley and Alfred Young), Yellow
Cabs, 1969, 16mm transfer to video, 7.5 min. Will Rogan, Sweeter as the
years roll by (part 3), 2003, video, color, sound, 1.4 min. Michael
Rudnick, Panorama, 1982, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min. D-L Alvarez,
Sentry, 2007, video, b&w, sound, 4:36 min. William Allan (with Bruce
Nauman and Robert Nelson), Fishing for Asian Carp, 1966, 16mm, color,
sound, 2.5 min. Kota Ezawa, Home Video 2, 2010, video, color, sound,
5:57 min. Shaun O'Dell, Silent Tree Liftoff, 2003, video, color, silent,
2 min. Sky-David (aka Dennis Pies), Sonoma, 197477, 16mm, color, sound,
6:12 min. Desirée Holman, Troglodyte, 2005, video, color, sound, 7 min.
$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, MARCH 23, 2012
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3/23
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
8:15pm, 559 Washington Street
THE HERETICS
Award-winning New England video artist and Hampshire College Professor
Joan Braderman tells the exhilarating inside story of the seminal New
York feminist art collective and reconnects with members including
writer/critic Lucy Lippard. DIRECTOR IN PERSON!
3/23
Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale
7:00, The NIGHTINGALE, 1084 N. Milwaukee
BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX
Friday, March 23rd, 2012, 7:00 pm, $7-10, BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX,
Curated by Amelia Ishmael & Bryan Wendorf - Black Thorns in the
Black Box is a touring screening of experimental film and video by
eleven contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark,
and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Its screening in Chicago
coincides with the gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White
Cubeon view March 16 through April 14 at Western Exhibitions.
(http://westernexhibitions.com/current/2012/2a_Black_Thorns/) - Based
throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating artists
include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet &
Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London,
England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Ruth
Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris
Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche
(Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and
Michaƫl Sellam (Paris, France). This screening of Black
Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three partsthe
underground, the earth, and the heavensaccording to the three
branches of Medieval concepts of musicmusica mundana, musica
humana, and musica instrumentalisto explore how Black Metal has
permeated all known spheres of creation. - Amelia Ishmael is an artist
whose practice includes critiquing, historicising, teaching, and
curating other artists' practices. Her current projects include the
traveling art exhibition "Black Thorns in the White Cube"
(currently on view at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO) and
co-editing and curating pages for the academic journal Helvete. She
studied studio art and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute and
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has published articles
on contemporary art with The WIRE, Art21.com, ArtSlant Chicago, and Art
Papers.
3/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROSE AND JASMINE
by Michael Pilz 2010, 106 minutes, video No dialogue. A cinematic poem
based on the director's journeys in Iran from 2006-07. By patiently and
gently observing both people and place, Pilz collects images and sounds
of ravishing beauty. "In ancient China before an artist began to paint
anything a tree, for instance he would sit down in front of it for
days, months, years, it didn't matter how long, until he was the tree.
He did not identify himself with the tree but he was the tree
and in
that state only could he paint." M.P.
3/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ROMAN DIARY
by Michael Pilz 2011, 124 minutes, video Share + Film Notes No dialogue.
"I see that I see." Heraklit "Like all my previous films since HEAVEN
AND EARTH (1982), ROMAN DIARY is in a way a tantric exercise or
meditation, as defined by one of the oldest tantric texts, the Vijnana
Bhairava. If you watch a film in order to 'learn' something, then this
film is not for you. But if you want to test out what it is possible to
experience through film, then this is the right medium for you. Using
techniques such as extreme slow motion and irrational, poetic contrast,
it is a tool you can use to center yourself, for it speaks more to the
heart than the head." Michael Pilz, Puttaparthi, Andra Pradesh, India,
15 December, 2011.
3/23
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
7:30pm, 275 Capp Street
EXPERIMENTA INDIA
Oddball Films, in association with San Francisco Cinematheque and 3rd i
Films, is proud to present EXPERIMENTA India. What are possible
cinematic entry points to addressing the context of experimental
filmmaking in India? From experiments in animation, found footage and
stylised montage in the late 60's and early 70's to the most recent
innovations in experimental narrative, this selection of films and
videos, never before seen in the Bay Area, offer a peek into the
aesthetic and socio-political complexities of experimental filmmaking in
India. Festival Director Shai Heredia of EXPERIMENTA India will be
present to introduce these programs. Shai Heredia is a filmmaker and
curator. In 2003, she founded Experimenta, the international festival
for experimental cinema in India. She has curated experimental film
programs for major film and art venues around the globe, including the
Tate Modern, Berlinale Film Festival, and the Images Festival in
Toronto. Her latest film, 'I Am Micro', co-directed with Shumona Goel,
has screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Images Festival. 'I
am Micro' is currently screening as part of the exhibition 'Being
Singular Plural' at the Guggenheim Museum NYC (March 2June 6, 2012).
Admission: $10* - Limited Seating RSVP to programming at oddballfilm.com or
415-558-8117 *Note early start time. The price of a single admission
ticket allows access to both shows. They will run back to back with a
15min intermission. Total run time for both programs is 125min.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012
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3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RICE/RICHTER/SHARITS PROGRAM
Ron Rice CHUMLUM (1964, 23 minutes, 16mm) With Jack Smith, Mario Montez,
Gerard Malanga. "One of the underground's best and most influential
films." Peter Gidal Hans Richter RHYTHMUS 21 (1921, 3 minutes, 16mm,
b&w, silent) "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary
is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of
contrasting opposites." Standish Lawder EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING
TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent) Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968, 36 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation
Foundation. "Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani
Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu
Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color
energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay."
P.S. "In essence there are only three flicker films of importance,
ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G
In terms of the subject
we have discussed here, it is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the
field for the structural film with a flicker base." P. Adams Sitney
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm) Newly preserved print! Starring
poet David Franks whose voice appears on the soundtrack/an uncutting and
unscratching mandala. "Merges violence with purity." P. Adams Sitney
"Surrealist tour de force." Parker Tyler Total running time: ca. 90
minutes.
3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
RON RICE PROGRAM
SENSELESS 1962, 28 minutes, 16mm. "Consisting of a poetic stream of
razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic
travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to
Mexico.... Highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal
development of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and
destruction." David Brooks THE FLOWER THIEF 1960, 59 minutes, 16mm,
b&w. Starring Taylor Mead. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with
support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "In the old
Hollywood movie days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when
all other sources of ideas failed (writers, directors), was called upon
to 'cook up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE
FLOWER THIEF has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who
died unnoticed in the field of stunt." R.R. Total running time: ca. 90
minutes.
3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MEETS THE ATOM MAN
by Ron Rice The film describes, poetically, a way of living. The film is
a protest which is violent, childish, and sincere a protest against an
industrial world based on the cycle of production and consumption."
Alberto Moravia, L'ESSPRESSO
3/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
HEROLD + JACOBSON + LOSIER + MCGUIRE +
Honoring Int'l Women's Month, here's new work by and about women, with
mistress of ceremonies/celebrity DJ Anne McGuire! Kara Herold's
spoken-word performance Warrior Three gives voice to her dilemma as an
A/V tech whose work supports her experimental filmmaking, but is at odds
with both her second-wave feminist Mom and her Zen abbot. A recipient of
the Sarah Jacobson Grant, Marie Losier's Electrocute Your Stars, in its
West Coast theatrical premiere, is a precious peek at sorely-missed
underground maestro George Kuchar. Also lost to cancer, Jacobson herself
is represented by her Fabulous Stains
, a behind-the-scenes explication
of that cult movie's radical potential, made with Sam Green. The program
closes on an apocalyptic, even reactionary note with Dominic Gagnon's
Pieces and Love All to Hell, the second in his infamous trilogy of
banned YouTube screedsin this case, all by women. ALSO Stunt Double by
Julie Wyman, Teaserama by Sietske Tjallingii, protestations by
proto-Libber Susan B. Anthony(!), and delicious sangria. $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012
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3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SHARITS PROGRAM
by Paul Sharits 1968-70, 41 minutes, 16mm
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A
conceptual lap dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip
currents'/Dedicated to my son Christopher." P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is
beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very
powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the
possible levels really recognized." Michael Snow
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JACK SMITH PROGRAM
Jack Smith SCOTCH TAPE 1962, 3 minutes. Junkyard musical. FLAMING
CREATURES 1963, 45 minutes, 16mm, b/w, sound. "FLAMING CREATURES graced
the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic
power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first
time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking
in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint
of all previous filmmakers." - FILM CULTURE
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WAVELENGTH
by Michael Snow 1967, 45 minutes, 16mm "WAVELENGTH is without precedent
in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the
relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and
object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few
films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern
painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a 'triumph of
contemplative cinema.'" Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS, 1968
3/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BACK AND FORTH
by Michael Snow 1969, 52 minutes, 16mm "...This neat, finely tuned,
hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab
classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's
hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this
neckjerking camera gimmick which hits a wooden stop arm at each end of
its swing. Basically it's a perpetual motion film which ingeniously
builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point
where the camera's swinging arcs and white wall field assume the
hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. "In such a hard, drilling
work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as
any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image
outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome,
sometimes occuring with torrential frequency." Manny Farber, ARTFORUM,
1970
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