[Frameworks] This week [March 31 - April 6, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 5 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 6 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* This Our Still Life W/ Kid Beat Box [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* As Above, So Below W/ Amos Fortune Road [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 8 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Palaces of Pity W/ and I Will Rise If Only To Hold You Down [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 9 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back then [March 31, Chicago, Illinois]
* Dutch 70's [March 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Dutch Seventies [March 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Treatment For A Film In 15 Scenes [March 31, New York, New York]
* Jeremy Rourke + Thomas Carnacki + Quay / Stockhausen + [March 31, San Francisco, California]
* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 11 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* In Praise of Shadows- Japanese Avant Garde Films of the 1990s and 2000s [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 10 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* 50th Aaff: This Is Not A Film [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Quick Billy- Bruce Baillie Retrospective Program 3 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Two Years At Sea [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan]
* Elements of Image Making [April 1, Oakland, CA]
* Pillars of Fire, Featuring Works By Langendorff, Losier, Clementi,
Kallal,& P-Orridge [April 2, Brooklyn, New York]
* Narrative Bodies- Films and videos By Abigail Child [April 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Surreal [April 3, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* 2 By Gregory Markopolous [April 4, New York, New York]
* Tonewheel / Film Reel [April 4, San Francisco, California]
* Carolee Schneemann : Breaking the Frame [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Handsworth Songs [April 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Taylor Mead: On Film, In Person [April 5, New York, New York]
* The Films of Cathy Lee Crane:Poetic Biography: An Investigation of Words
From Two Radical Polemicists [April 5, Philadelphia, PA]
* Occultural Film Series: Magick In Cinema [April 5, Seattle, Washington]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012
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3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
11 am, Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 5
Program includes a newly restored 16mm print of UFOs (1971, 3 min) by
Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton; DAS HAUS (2011, 7 min) by David Buob;
ANOTHER DRESS ANOTHER BUTTON (2011, 3 min) by Lyn Eliot; SILLY BEARS
(2011, 6 min) by Matt Brunson; 66314 (2011, 9 min) by Isamu Hirabayashi;
BACK TO LAND (2011, 4 min) by Tijana Petrovic; TATAMP (2011, 3 min) by
Mirai Mizue; THE AROUSING OF THOUGHT (2012, 6 min) by Luciano Zubillaga;
AUGUST SONG (2011, 5 min) by Jodie Mack and Emily Kuehn; and THE
SCRATCHMAN (1980, 3 min) by Heather McAdams.
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
12:30 pm, Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 6
Filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Jesse McLean in attendance. Program
includes 21-87 (1963, 10 min) by Arthur Lipsett; FOREST WALK (2011, 8
min) by Mike Hoolboom; CAUTURE (2010, 30 min) Ionut Piturescu;
TIN-PRESSED (2011, 7 min) by Dani Levanthal; BERLIN TIGER 13h00-16h30
(2012, 3 min) by Shiloh Cinquemani; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING (2010,
12 min) by Tan Pin Pin; and REMOTE (2011, 12 min) by Jesse McLean.
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
5 pm, Michigan Theater
THIS OUR STILL LIFE W/ KID BEAT BOX
This Our Still Life (2011, 57 min) is comprised of video and 8mm footage
dating back to 1989; artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting has created an
exceptionally warm yet unsentimental portrait of his family life in the
French Pyrenees where he lives with his wife and his daughter Eden, who
has Joubert syndrome. Preceded by Stephen Wetzel's video, Kid Beat Box:
Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine (2012, 9 min). Filmmaker Stephen Wetzel in
attendance
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7 pm, Michigan Theater
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW W/ AMOS FORTUNE ROAD
The world premiere of Sarah J. Christman's feature-length documentary;
As Above, So Below (2012, 60 min, 16mm on video) intimately examines
various transmutations that reshape matter and its meanings. What
separates the permanent from the impermanent, the things we discard from
those we preserve? Filmmaker Sarah J. Christman in attendance. Preceded
by Matthew Buckingham's 1996 film Amos Fortune Road (20 min, 16mm),
which was awarded Best Narrative at the 35th AAFF.
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
7:15 pm, Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 8
Filmmakers Minna Parkkinen, Jonathan Schwartz and Laura Heit in
attendance, program includes 20Hz (2011, 5 min) by Semiconductor;
VISITATION (2011, 9 min) by Suzan Pitt, CIRCLE (2010, 6 min) by Minna
Parkkinen; FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN (1996, 6 min) by Stephanie
Barber; A PREFACE TO RED (2011, 6 min) by Jonathan Schwartz; GUANAPE SUR
(2010, 23 min) By Janos Richter; UNDER THE SHADOW OF MARCUS MOUNTAIN
(2011, 6 min) by Robert Schaller; and THE DEEP DARK (2011, 8 min) By
Laura Heit.
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
9:15 pm, Michigan Theater
PALACES OF PITY W/ AND I WILL RISE IF ONLY TO HOLD YOU DOWN
PALACES OF PITY (2011, 60 min), by Portugese filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes
and American filmmaker Daniel Schmidt, is a parable on guilt and
oppression set in ancient and modern Portugal. Preceded by Jennifer
Reeder's AND I WILL RISE IF ONLY TO HOLD YOU DOWN (2012, 25 min), which
receives it's world premiere. Jennifer Reeder will be in attendance.
3/31
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
9:30 pm, Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 9
Filmmakers Evan Meaney, Jennifer Reeves, Fern Silva and Robert Todd in
attendance, program includes MOXIE (2011, 6 min) by Stephen Irwin; NEW
IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS
A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 min) by Owen Land
(formerly known as George Landow); CEIBAS: EPILOGUE - THE WELL OF
REPRESENTATION (2011, 7 min) by Evan Meaney; HAUNTED HOUSE (2011, 4 min)
by Martin Arnold; SOUNDING GLASS (2011, 8 min) by Sylvia Schedelbauer;
LANDFILL 16 (2011, 9 min) by Jennifer Reeves; PASSAGE UPON THE PLUME
(2011, 6 min) by Fern Silva; WITHIN (2012, 6 min) by Robert Todd; and
SACK BARROW (2011, 21 min) by Ben Rivers.
3/31
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
12:30pm, 164 N. State
BRENT GREEN: GRAVITY WAS EVERYWHERE BACK THEN
Brent Green in person. Brent Green's folk-punk films interweave drawing,
puppets, hand-built sets, and stop-motion animation to spin tales of
transformation and loss. This evening, Green presents his acclaimed
animated feature Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (2010). Based on the
true story of a Kentucky hardware clerk who attempted to transform his
house into an eccentric healing machine to save his dying wife from
cancer, the film was shot in a full-scale model of the house Green built
in his rural outdoor studio in Pennsylvania. Mirroring the architecture
of the house itself, Gravity is a crazy-quilt of fantastic imagery,
fabulist narration, and themes of love, obsession, and spirituality.
Presented in collaboration with SAIC's Visiting Artists Program, which
features a lecture and live musical performance by Brent Green on March
28, 6:00 p.m., The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S.
Columbus Dr. 2010, USA, Blu-Ray, 75 minutes + discussion
3/31
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St
DUTCH 70'S
Focusing on films rarely screened in the US since a tour organized by
Holland Experimental Film in 1978, which made a stop at the Theater
Vanguard in Los Angeles, this program mines the Dutch artist-made film
scene of the 1970's, characterized by fertile sites of production and
experimentation such as the Free Academy in the Hague and the Amsterdam
Film Coop. Engaging with contemporaneous currents of avant-garde
filmmaking in ways both alienating and comical, the films utilize
techniques including pixellation, DIY black & white laboratory
manipulation, and documentation to explore themes of the body,
performativity, extreme psychological states, and literal and metaphoric
interiors that subvert classical Dutch interiors of the 17th century.
The program will include films by Frans Zwartjes, Barbara Meter, Mattijn
Seip, Paul de Mol, Henri Plaat, Paul de Nooijer, and Jan Ketelaars.
Curated by Guy Edmonds (Amsterdam), who will introduce the program in
person. All works projected from 16mm.
3/31
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
DUTCH SEVENTIES
"These are the kinds of films we will all have to learn how to watch
forever." - Michael Paggie (Madison Art Center film program, 1978).
Focusing on films rarely screened in the US since a tour organized by
Holland Experimental Film in 1978, which made a stop at the Theater
Vanguard in Los Angeles, this program mines the Dutch artist-made film
scene of the 1970's, characterized by fertile sites of production and
experimentation such as the Free Academy in the Hague and the Amsterdam
Film Coop. Engaging with contemporaneous currents of avant-garde
filmmaking in ways both alienating and comical, the films utilize
techniques including pixellation, DIY black & white laboratory
manipulation, and documentation to explore themes of the body,
performativity, extreme psychological states, and literal and metaphoric
interiors that subvert classical Dutch interiors of the 17th century.
The program will include films by Frans Zwartjes, Barbara Meter, Mattijn
Seip, Paul de Mol, Henri Plaat, Paul de Nooijer, and Jan Ketelaars
(subject to last-minute revision). Curated by Guy Edmonds (Amsterdam),
who will introduce the program in person. All works projected from 16mm.
3/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TREATMENT FOR A FILM IN 15 SCENES
See notes for March 31, 7:30 pm.
3/31
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
JEREMY ROURKE + THOMAS CARNACKI + QUAY / STOCKHAUSEN +
In the second iteration of our OptrOnica series, here are two live acts
and several pre-recordings towards an appreciation of creative
soundtracking. Mr. Rourke juggles guitar, voice, and singing bowls in a
refreshing accompaniment to his own charming pixillations, including
Rollinsville, Honey the Moon, Snow and Buffalo in SF, Eyes Hearing
Stars, and more! Greg Sharpen's experimental ensemble Thomas Carnacki
enlists Jim Kaiser, Jesse Burson, and Gregory Hagan in performing new
audiotracks to Jan Svankmajer's Poe-penned House of Usher (live vox by
Dean Santomieri), and Ladislas Starewicz' marvelous The Mascot. PLUS
Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition for the Brothers' Quay In Absentia,
musical cartoons, and free vinyl. $7.77.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012
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4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1 pm, The Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 11
Filmmakers Bobby Abate, Kevin T. Allen Josh Gibson will be in
attendance, program includes HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED (1966, 15 min) by
George Kuchar; THE EVIL EYES (2011, 20 min) by Bobby Abate; XXX! (2011,
8 min) by Dietmar Brehm; JOSHUA CITY (2011, 4 min) by Kevin T. Allen;
KUDZU VINE (2011, 20 min) by Josh Gibson; and CHEVELLE (2011, 8 min) by
Kevin Everson.
4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
1:30 pm, The Michigan Theater
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS- JAPANESE AVANT GARDE FILMS OF THE 1990S AND 2000S
n Praise of Shadows consists of nine Japanese experimental works from
the 1990s and 2000s, made with various techniques via chosen media. All
show the artists' exploration of moving images, investigating the
possibilities of art of cinema. Some may show more of the process of
making the works, while other may show more of the poetic montage with
light and shadow. Program curated and presented by Tomonari Nishikawa
and David Dinnell. Program includes GESTALT (1999, 7 min, 16mm) by
Takashi Ishida; FLOWER (2004, 6 min, 16mm) by Yuiko Matsuyama; STILL
(1999, 15 min, 8 mm on video); PLATE #23 (SOLID OF REVOLUTION) (2004, 3
min, 16mm) by Ryusuke Ito; EVE (2004, 3 min, 16mm on video) by Takashi
Makino; GARDEN/ING (2007, 7 min, video) by Eriko Sonoda; A BURNING STAR
(short version) (1995, 20 min, 8mm on video) by Kenji Onishi; AMBIGUOUS
FUNEREAL (2004, 12 min, 16mm) by Ichiro Sueoka; and LIKE FLOWING, LIKE
SPINNING (2009, 6 min, 16mm) by Akira Mizuyoshi.
4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
11 am, The Michigan Theater
50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 10
Filmmaker JB Mabe in attendance, program includes THE MATTER PROPOUNDED,
OF ITS POSSIBILITY OR IMPOSSIBILITY, TREATED IN FOUR PARTS (2011, 13
min) by David Gatten; TO QUIT, TO QUIET (2011, 4 min) by JB Mabe; PORCH
GLIDER (1970, 25 min) by James Herbert; FORMS ARE NOT SELF-SUBSISTENT
SUBSTANCES (2010, 23 min) by Samantha Rebello; and GENERATOR (2011, 20
min) by Takashi Makino.
4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
2 pm, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
50TH AAFF: THIS IS NOT A FILM
This is Not a Film is a day-in-the-life documentary of Jafar Panahi's
experience of being under house arrest, filmed almost entirely inside
his apartment in Tehran, as he creatively expresses his frustration of
not being allowed to do what comes so naturally to this passionate
writer and filmmaker: make films. Jafar Panahi, the Iranian writer and
director of internationally acclaimed films such as The White Balloon,
The Circle, and Offside, is under house arrest and a twenty year ban on
making films, leaving Iran, and talking to the media. Filmmaker Jill
Godmilow will be in attendance to introduce this program.
4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3 pm, Michigan Theater
QUICK BILLY- BRUCE BAILLIE RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM 3
Part Eastern philosophy, part gunslinger Western, QUICK BILLY (1970, 60
min, 16mm) plays as a "horse opera in four reels" and meditation on the
transformation of life to death. Film critic Michael Sicinski will
introduce this masterpiece of the American avant-garde, presented from a
recently restored print. Quick Billy will be followed by Baillie's
ROSLYN ROMANCE (IS IT REALLY TRUE?) (1974, 17 min, 16mm).
4/1
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/
3 pm, Michigan Theater
TWO YEARS AT SEA
TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011, 86 min, 35mm) is the first feature length film
by Ben Rivers, whose short film works have screened regularly at the
AAFF since 2008. Rivers' film, by way of a sparse and minimal narrative,
forms a nearly wordless portrait of Jake, who lives in isolation in the
middle of a remote forest in northeastern Scotland. It follows the
character's unconventional life, reflecting Jake's own, capturing
moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving
frugally, passing the time with strange idiosyncratic projects, living
the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years
working at sea to realize.
4/1
Oakland, CA: Black Hole Cinema Free School
http://ecstatic-erratic.com/elements/elements.html
3PM, 1038 24th street
ELEMENTS OF IMAGE MAKING
Elements of Image Making is a workshop structured around the open
exchange of ideas, resources and skills with a focus on teaching through
facilitation. Learn about the manipulation of film's physical and
chemical characteristics in a workshop concerning all things camera-less
(and a few things camera-with). Topics covered range from scratching and
painting found footage to generating new images with handmade film
emulsion, lens-less optics and various direct animation techniques.
Prior film knowledge is not required but attendees with previous
experience are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and experience
at any level they feel comfortable with. Resources provided include:
35mm, 16mm and 8mm found footage, blank leader, exposed/raw stock, and
various paints and markers. Participants are encouraged to bring any
materials they think would be interesting to work with, including any
aged film material or stock, and especially markers, paint, translucent
objects or scratching elements they feel may hold an interesting
presence on film. All editing materials, projectors and tools necessary
will be provided Starting at 7PM there will be a program of films and
performances that explore the core concepts of the workshop, as well as
a discussion on the history of direct animation and alternative
processes. Artists include: Julie Perini, Jodie Mack, Christine Lucy
Latimer, Kevin Obsatz, Randy Sterling Hunter, Ross Meckfessel,Myron Ort,
Tooth, Eric Stewart, Matt Soar, Luis Macia & Adriana Vila, Joshua Lewis,
Zach Iannazzi & Michael Morris. Workshop and Screening are FREE, however
donations are encouraged as means to helps us cover the cost of
materials.
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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
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4/2
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle Ave bwtn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
PILLARS OF FIRE, FEATURING WORKS BY LANGENDORFF, LOSIER, CLEMENTI,
KALLAL,& P-ORRIDGE
Film and curation by Julien Langendorff, Admission $6. We have invited
artist/musician Julien Langendorff to present a night of rare works
including his "Pillars of Fire" made in collaboration with US artist
Jason Glasser. For the evening, Langendorff has also chosen a selection
of short works by NY based artists Rose Kallal, Marie Losier, and
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Psychic TV). The night concludes with
legendary actor/filmmaker Pierre Clémenti's most accomplished work Visa
de censure n. X from 1967. PROGRAM: PILLARS OF FIRE, (8mm transfer, col,
sound, 17min, 2009) by Julien Langendorff / Jason Glasser. AN
INTRODUCTION TO TEMPLE OF PSYCHICK YOUTH and SCARED TO LIVE courtesy of
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Invisible Exports Gallery. DISSOLUTION by
Rose Kallal, (16mm film transfer, 2011). IMPLICATE EXPLICATE, by Rose
Kallal (16mm film transfer, 2012. Sound by Rose Kallal and Mark
Pilkington). Never-before-screened OUTTAKES from THE BALLAD OF GENESIS
AND LADY JAYE, by Marie Losier, (16mm transfer, col, sound, 14min,
2011)with improved violin rehearsal between Tony Conrad and Genesis
P-Orridge at Issue Project Room. Commission TRAILER for the 40th
Anniversary of Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema (and an homage to
George Kuchar and the NY he loved so much) by Marie Losier, (16mm film
transfer, 1:35min, 2011), VISA DE CENSURE N. X by Pierre Clémenti (16mm
transfer to digital, col, sound, 55min, 1967). Julien Langendorff is a
visual artist and musician, working and living between Paris and New
York. He recently had a new solo exhibition in NY, 'Goddess Fuzz
Fantasy', at agnès b. 's new gallery space in Soho. more info:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broaday Ave
(about 2 blocks); L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street (about 3/4 of a
mile).
4/2
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
NARRATIVE BODIES- FILMS AND VIDEOS BY ABIGAIL CHILD
Poet, essayist and filmmaker Abigail Child sees her creations as a
curious and particular intersection, often humorous, sometimes
alchemical, between sound and image. Bodies, fetishes, symbols, icons
and relics are reinvented and refitted to new realities and new desires.
The total assembly is a movement metaphorically (with the ghostly
re-emergence of Griffith on one side and on the other Eisenstein), and
the images and poetic rhythms use structure as a magnifying glass to
uncover the lies and injustices of history. Child's film cycle, Is This
What You Were Born For (1981–89), is a landmark of contemporary
avant-garde cinema, and her recent works continue to be widely shown and
celebrated. Films include Peripeteia I (1977), Perils (1986), Mayhem
(1987), The Future is Behind You (2004–05), Mirror World (2006) and
Ligatures (2009). In person: Abigail Child. Jack H. Skirball Screening
Series. Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
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4/3
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc
http://berksfilmmakers.org
7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts
SURREAL
Un Chien Andalou (1929, 16 min.) by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali –
universally regarded as the greatest and most influential work of cinema
to emerge from the Surrealist movement. Simon of the Desert (1965, 45
min) by Luis Bunuel- "features an early Christian ascetic (Claudio
Brook) who has spent six years, six weeks and six days living on lettuce
and water atop a high stone column, where his life of pure worship
attracts the doubt of churchmen, the mockery of peasants, and eventually
the temptations of Satan. Wonderfully played by Pinal, Satan appears to
the holy man as a lamb-coddling Jesus Christ, a bare-breasted temptress,
and … as a little blonde girl. In a finale that anticipates Bava's Lisa
and the Devil, Satan takes Simon by jet to a 20th-century discotheque."
– Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound; also on the program, The Seashell & the
Clergyman (1928, 41 min) by Germaine Dulac
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012
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4/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
2 BY GREGORY MARKOPOLOUS
SPECIAL SCREENING! Anthology is overjoyed to present this very rare
screening of two masterpieces by the incomparable Gregory Markopoulos.
One of the key figures of the New American Cinema Group, and arguably
among the greatest cinematographers, colorists, and editors in the
history of the medium, Markopoulos alternated between ambitious
avant-garde feature films and short works of a breathtakingly
crystalline perfection. This screening encompasses films made in both
modes: the Aeschylus-inspired ILLIAC PASSION and the gem-like short film
BLISS. Please note: Anthology co-founder and Princeton professor P.
Adams Sitney will give a talk on Markopoulos's vision on Thursday, April
5 at 6:30 in the James Gallery, the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth
Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets). Free and open to the public. See
centerforthehumanities.org for details. Very special thanks to Temenos
Archive, Robert Beavers, Rebekah Rutkoff, and the Center for the
Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. THE ILLIAC PASSION 1964-67, 92
minutes, 16mm. With Richard Beauvais, Taylor Mead, Tally Brown, Gerard
Malanga, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Paul Swan, Gregory Battcock, and
Gregory Markopoulos. Reflecting Markopoulos's fascination with Greek
mythology and culture, this visionary interpretation of Aeschylus's
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND is one of his greatest achievements. Featuring
appearances from a whole constellation of underground film and art world
luminaries – including Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, art critic Gregory
Battcock, Gerard Malanga, and Taylor Mead (who will be here at Anthology
for his own screening the day after this program – see page ? for more
details) – THE ILLIAC PASSION is a contemporary reimagining of the
classical realm, with a soundtrack consisting of excerpts from Bartók
and Markopoulos's own stylized reading of Aeschylus's text. "For a
viewer seeing this extravagant ode to creation some thirty years after
its making, the film's most plangent moments involve Markopoulos's
affectionate casting of friends as mythical figures – Andy Warhol's
Poseidon pumping on an Exercycle above a sea of plastic, Taylor Mead's
Demon leaping, grimacing, and streaming vermilion fringes, and [Jack]
Smith's bohemian Orpheus, spending a quiet afternoon at home with
Eurydice." –Kristin M. Jones Followed by: BLISS (1967, 6 minutes, 16mm)
Made soon after Markopoulos moved to Europe, BLISS is a lyrical study of
the interior of the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra, shot
using only available light and, miraculously, edited entirely in-camera.
4/4
San Francisco, California: NEW NOTHING CINEMA
http://www.douglaskatelus.com
8pm, 16 Sherman Street
TONEWHEEL / FILM REEL
TONEWHEEL / FILM REEL Film work set to Hammond Organ by Douglas Katelus
I will be performing, "Atom Heart and Beyond the Infinite" along with
two brand new new movies with organ sounds, "Transit" and "Help Keep
Film Dead" plus other surprises. free
4/4
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7 PM, Royal Cinema, 608 College Street
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN : BREAKING THE FRAME
The 25th Images Festival is pleased to announce a pre-festival screening
of a new documentary on Carolee Schneemann (in person!) Breaking the
Frame Marielle Nitoslawska (2012, 100 min, HDCAM, Canada) Breaking the
Frame is a comprehensive portrait of the groundbreaking
multidisciplinary artist Carolee Schneemann. A central figure in
twentieth century avant-garde movements, Schneemann expanded the
definition of art and art practice to include discourses on the body,
sexuality and gender. A pioneer of performance art, she is also an
accomplished painter, poet, installation artist and filmmaker. While
giving Schneemann space to tell her own story and share her thoughts,
recollections and mediations on her life and work, Nitoslawska traces an
intimate course though the artists iconic oeuvre. The film demonstrates
the diversity of her enormous artistic achievement and opens the work to
renewed contemplation. A critical meditation on the relation of art to
the physical, domestic and conceptual aspects of daily life as well as
the structure and attributes of memory, Breaking the Frame itself pushes
the formal boundaries of documentary filmmaking. Eschewing standard
chronologies, the film couples descriptive and self-reflexive modalities
as it interweaves aesthetic and political reflection on the feminist
body as a site for reframing arts histories. Deftly weaving archival
images with contemporary footage of Schneemanns journals, paintings and
rural home, Nitoslawska captures the multi-dimensionality of the artists
work. By highlighting the sheen of photographic prints, the fibres of
diary pages and the gloss of wet paint, she provides a textured
mise-en-scene that resonates with Schneemanns corporeal focus. The
visual composition of the film is complemented by a soundtrack replete
with the music of James Tenney. The late composer was Schneemanns
companion and collaborator for many years, and the two remained close
friends until his death in 2006.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012
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4/5
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State
HANDSWORTH SONGS
Founded against the backdrop of rising neo-fascism, police brutality,
and extreme racial unrest of 1980s Britain, the Black Audio Film
Collective produced some of the period's most poetic and provocative
works before disbanding in the 1990s. BAFC's acclaimed essay film,
Handsworth Songs, examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London.
Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie
footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a
broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain's
intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline. 1986, John
Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, UK, 16mm, 60 minutes + discussion
4/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TAYLOR MEAD: ON FILM, IN PERSON
You might call him the Shirley Temple of the Underground. He was
definitely one of Warhol's funniest and most appealing Superstars.
Brendan Gill of THE NEW YORKER once quipped "Taylor Mead looks like a
cross between a zombie and a kewpie and speaks as if his mind and mouth
were full of marshmallow." Words fail to convey all that makes Taylor
Mead so truly special. He is a living legend whose decades of
under-the-radar, over-the-top performances in countless films, plays,
poetry houses, and bars have earned him infamy and renown the world
over. Luckily for us, Taylor is also a neighborhood fixture, and to
celebrate this we are introducing a new ongoing series that will
spotlight his bewitching je ne sais quoi. Tonight's show features the
NYC premiere of a recent restoration of one of Taylor's earliest films,
PASSION IN A SEASIDE SLUM, and two early marvels made with Vernon
Zimmerman. Best of all, the man himself will be on hand to introduce,
take questions, and give answers. Robert Wade Chatterton PASSION IN A
SEASIDE SLUM 1961, 32 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, silent. Preserved by Los
Angeles Film Forum, Academy Film Archive, and Anthology Film Archives,
with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "After his
tour-de-force performances in THE FLOWER THIEF (1960) and LEMON HEARTS
(1960), both made in San Francisco, the great underground performer and
poet Taylor Mead moved to Los Angeles and lived and worked in the Venice
Beach Beat community for a number of months. It was in this context that
Mead collaborated with film society director and amateur filmmaker
Robert Wade Chatterton on the silent color 8mm film, PASSION IN A
SEASIDE SLUM. Mead plays 'the faggot' who persistently cruises a butch
guy intent only on fishing in one of the canals. Using the magic wand of
a radio antenna, Mead transforms himself into ever more implausible drag
figures in his attempts to garner the guy's interest, but only succeeds
in soliciting his amused laughs. Chatterton's self-conscious,
light-hearted treatment of homosexual desire fueled by Mead's inventive
and uproarious performance make for a seminal – if previously forgotten
– example of queer underground cinema." –Marc Siegel Vernon Zimmerman
LEMON HEARTS (1962, 26 minutes, 16mm) Are you ready to see Taylor Mead
in eleven different roles? Take that, Eddie Murphy! An early favorite of
the New American Cinema, an energetic comedy with an early cinema
sensibility that remains riotously funny. Vernon Zimmerman TO L.A.… WITH
LUST (1961, 27 minutes, 16mm) Archer Winsten, the long ago critic at the
NEW YORK POST, comments that this film is "wild and dirty, but so easy
to understand…that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic
youth on-the-march." What else is there to say? Total running time: ca.
90 minutes.
4/5
Philadelphia, PA: International House of Philadelphia
6pm, International House of Philadelphia
THE FILMS OF CATHY LEE CRANE:POETIC BIOGRAPHY: AN INVESTIGATION OF WORDS
FROM TWO RADICAL POLEMICISTS
Over the last decade, Cathy Lee Crane has committed herself to an
ongoing experiment with the biographical film, cultivating a fictional
form of biography that seeks to penetrate what late filmmaker Raul Ruiz
described as the "subtle tissue of life". Combining staged and archival
material, Crane materially renders the spectral life of thought itself
as a kind of poetry.
4/5
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
7:00 pm, 1515 12th Avenue
OCCULTURAL FILM SERIES: MAGICK IN CINEMA
Artist, writer and filmmaker Brian Butler presents a program that
explores the occult as depicted in avant garde and experimental film.
Magick has been defined by Aleister Crowley as "the science and art of
causing change to occur inconformity with the will." The short film is a
perfect medium for modern occult ritual—utilizing sound light and color
to alter the consciousness of the viewer. This program includes pioneers
in the field of occult film as well as newer works by Brian Butler. A
ritual performance will occur following Union of Opposites, performed by
Butler.
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