[Frameworks] This week [May 12 - 20, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [May 12 - 20, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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The Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Surplus/Lack (San Francisco Bay Area, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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Oblò Film Festival 2012 (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: June 15, 2012)
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Cellardoor Cinema Screenplay Contest (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* L.A. Filmforum Presents Moving Pictures: Painting, Photography, Film [May 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Moving Pictures: Painting, Photography,
Film [May 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Where You Had Been: Six Films By Nick Collins, Peter Todd & Margaret Tait [May 12, Norwich, UK]
* Occupy Cinema! [May 12, San Francisco, California]
* Douglas Crimp Presents andy Warhol's Paul Swan [May 14, Brooklyn, NY]
* Stop & Go 3-D [May 16, Berlin, Germany]
* Pxl This 21 [May 17, Los Angeles, California]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents the Alternative Projections Marathon [May 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Alternative Projections Marathon [May 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [May 18, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [May 18, New York, New York]
* <B>Crossroads Program 1:</B> <B><I>There Is A Presence
Lingering...</B></I> [May 18, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 2</B> <B><I>Awe Shocks: Illusion Reigns</B></I> [May 18, San Francisco, California]
* New Works Salon: Calarts Edition [May 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [May 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [May 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 19, New York, New York]
* Vanessa Renwick's Charismatic Megafauna + [May 19, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 4:</B> <B><I>Contemplation Is A Monstrous
Task...</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 3</B> <B><I>Women With Flowers: Celebrating Chick
Strand</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 5</B> <B><I>Apparent Motion: Projection
Arts!</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents L.A. Filmworks: the State of the Art In Los
Angeles, 1980 [May 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [May 20, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 20, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [May 20, New York, New York]
* <B>Crossroads Program 6:</B><I>...For there Our Captors Demanded Songs of
Joy</I> [May 20, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 7 </B><I>California Dreaming: Films By Laida
Lertxund</I>I [May 20, San Francisco, California]
* <B>Crossroads Program 8:</B><I>Voices For New Atlantis</I> [May 20, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012
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5/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm, Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS MOVING PICTURES: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM
Movies are made up of many still images, moving rapidly through a
projector. And they are among the two-dimensional pictorial arts, along
with painting and photography. And here's a show bringing these ideas
front and center, with lively deconstructions of movies into stills;
commentaries on the "death" of painting; explorations into the
possibility of making moving paintings; and intense explorations into
the meaning of still images in the creation of identity of a people.
Including films by many artists, often people who also work in paint:
John Baldessari, Renate Druks, Paul McCarthy, Sam Erenberg, Morgan
Fisher, Gary Beydler, and more! In person: Sam Erenberg (schedule
permitting) Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors, free for
Filmforum members - available online at Brown Paper Tickets Screening:
Production Stills (Morgan Fisher, 1970), Pasadena Freeway Stills (Gary
Beydler, 1974), Walking Forward-Running Past (John Baldessari, 1971),
Abacus (Lyn Gerry & Estelle Kirsh, 1980), A Painter's Journal (Renate
Druks, 1967), The Last Statement of Painting I (Sam Erenberg, 1970), The
Last Statement of Painting II (Sam Erenberg, 1970), Painting Face Down -
White Line (Paul McCarthy, 1972), Whipping the Wall with Paint (Paul
McCarthy, 1975), Powers of Ten (Charles & Ray Eames, 1973), Medea (Ben
Caldwell, 1973), Chicana (Sylvia Morales, 1979)
5/12
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS MOVING PICTURES: PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY,
FILM
Part of Filmforum's series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in
Los Angeles, 1945-1980. Movies are made up of many still images, moving
rapidly through a projector. And they are among the two-dimensional
pictorial arts, along with painting and photography. And here's a show
bringing these ideas front and center, with lively deconstructions of
movies into stills; commentaries on the "death" of painting;
explorations into the possibility of making moving paintings; and
intense explorations into the meaning of still images in the creation of
the identity of a people. Including films by many artists, often people
who also work in paint: John Baldessari, Paul McCarthy, Sam Erenberg,
Morgan Fisher, Gary Beydler, and more! Some in person. For full
information & Tickets, please visit
http://www.alternativeprojections.com/screening-series
5/12
Norwich, UK: Promontories
www.promontories.org
6pm, World Art & Museology Lecture Theatre, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
WHERE YOU HAD BEEN: SIX FILMS BY NICK COLLINS, PETER TODD & MARGARET TAIT
A quest for the core of things, these six films circle the phenomenal
and essential. Framed by two luminous works by the Orcadian poet
Margaret Tait which summon the wild and elemental, films by Peter Todd
and Nick Collins by contrast tackle the resolutely quotidian, bounded
spaces of the domestic interior and the garden, yet in doing so reveal
the wonder within; a world of enchantment. The screening will be
introduced by artist and curator Peter Todd, who will take questions
afterwards. A programme with full film notes will be available on the
night. £3 ============== This screening coincides with the publication
of Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories, Writings by Carcanet Press. Co-curated
by the artists, with Adam Pugh. Many thanks to both Peter Todd and Nick
Collins for making this screening possible; also to Ben Cook, LUX, and
Simon Dell, School of World Art & Museology. All proceeds go to the
artists to partly cover expenses.
5/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
OCCUPY CINEMA!
OC proudly participates in a national day of honoring, through motion
pictures, the ideas and actions of the worldwide Occupy movement. This
2-hr. program proffers a plethora of testimonials, docs and agit-prop,
all short-form works that illuminate the many facets of the 99%
movement. Among the in-person pieces are David Martinez' Autumn Sun: The
Story of Occupy Oakland, Michael Goodier/Jane Martin's Occupy Telephone,
Molly Hankwitz' Pike Loop, Carla Leshne's Howard Zinn interview, and
Julie Wyman's UCD crowd-sourced project. ALSO: Updates from Caitlin
Manning and others, with tentative contributions from Martha Colburn,
Jem Cohen, Les Leveque, Mike Kavanagh, and Black Hole. Come early for
veggie BBQ on the street! $7 donation (no one turned away); portion of
proceeds to OccupySF.
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MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012
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5/14
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
6:30, 155 Freeman Street
DOUGLAS CRIMP PRESENTS ANDY WARHOL'S PAUL SWAN
Paul Swan, Andy Warhol, 16mm, 1965, 66 mins, Introduced by Douglas Crimp
- Paul Swan is Andy Warhol's two-reel portrait of the dancer once billed
as "the most beautiful man in the world." In 1965, when Warhol filmed
him, Swan was eighty-two years old and still performing his aesthetic
dance routines in weekly salons attended by the likes of Marcel Duchamp
and Alexander Calder. In Warhol's film, Swan dances such numbers as "Two
Hero's Slain," his elegy for World War I soldiers, "The Elements: Earth,
Water, Fire, and Air—the Movements Seen and Unseen in Nature," and
"Three Oriental Numbers" in skimpy costumes that he spends a great deal
of the time getting into and out of. Paul Swan is one of the few films
Warhol shot it color in 1965, and though the camera is stationary in the
first reel, trained throughout on the tapestry backdrop Swan uses for a
set, in the second reel Warhol zooms right in on Swan's aging flesh and
shoe-polish eye make-up. For much of that reel, though, Swan remains
off-stage (and off-screen) looking for a particular pair of black
slippers that he insists must be worn with his French peasant costume.
Swan's pianist helps him look for the slippers while the crew behind the
camera becomes increasingly impatient to get Swan back in front of the
camera. Not surprisingly, Warhol is content to let the action take its
own course. Callie Angell wrote that "Warhol's interest in Paul Swan
seems to have been based on the observation that, in his unswerving
dedication to his increasingly anachronistic art form, Swan had become
the living embodiment of camp." And in fact Swan had appeared in
Warhol's film of that title around the same time that Paul Swan was
made. Angell also noted that Swan's performance in Warhol's film recalls
"the equally disorganized, equally uncompromising performances of Jack
Smith," with whom he appears in Camp. - DC - For tonight's event, Crimp
will read from his new book, "Our Kind of Movie": The Films of
Andy Warhol. - Douglas Crimp teaches Visual and Cultural Studies at the
University of Rochester. His previous books are On the Museum's Ruins
(1993) and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
(2002). Crimp was the curator of the Pictures exhibition at Artists
Space, New York in 1977 and an editor of October magazine from 1977 to
1990. With Lynne Cooke, he organized the exhibition Mixed Use,
Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present for
the Reina Sofía in Madrid in the summer of 2010. He is
currently working on a memoir of New York in the 1970s called Before
Pictures. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012
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5/16
Berlin, Germany: General Public
http://www.generalpublic.de/
8pm, Schönhauser Allee 167c
STOP & GO 3-D
The third installment of the Stop & Go stop-motion animation series will
dramatically plays with our visual senses. Stobing effects, afterimages,
anaglyphic experiments, optical elements and three-dimensional spoofs
are all part of the show. The animations in this program are chosen from
an open call for submissions and by invitation. Five of the animations
in the program require the audience to wear red/cyan-colored glasses to
fully appreciate the work. Additional opening hours: Thursday, May 17,
2012, 3–6pm Total Running Time: 70 minutes For further information
please visit: www.stopandgoshow.com/latest.html A cooperation between
General Public and fluctuating images.
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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
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5/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
PXL THIS 21
PXL THIS 21, the 21st annual toy camera film festival featuring
Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder and the
second oldest film festival in LA, celebrates visionary moving image
artists from 4-years-olds to professionals. All genres are here:
avant-garde, comedy, documentary, abstract, music, art, narrative &
films words cannot describe. "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J.
Hoberman. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is
the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly. Director Gerry Fialka will
be present for discussion.
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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
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5/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00pm (to 2am 5/19), Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS MARATHON
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 has
featured over 26 shows since October 2012. For the penultimate
experience, we celebrate with an incredible range of films and videos
that we haven't squeezed into other screenings, with frequent breaks for
socializing! Come at the start or in the middle! Some classics and lot
of rarities will please you to no end! Films by Pat O'Neill, Louis Hock,
Chick Strand, Susan Mogul, Roberta Friedman & Grahame Weinbren, Gary
Beydler, Michael Scroggins, Beth Block, William Hale, Amy Halpern,
Morgan Fisher, Diana Wilson, Curtis Harrington, home movies, and many
more! In person: Lots of folks! Special thanks to: Everyone, but
especially everyone who brings food and drink! Tickets: $10 general, $6
students/seniors with ID; free for Filmforum members - available online
at Brown Paper Tickets Screening: Come be surprised! We promise not to
disappoint.
5/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm – 2 am, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS MARATHON
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 has
featured over 24 shows since October 2011. Alternative Projections is
Filmforum's exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists,
curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and
presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in
the postwar era. Tonight we celebrate with an incredible range of films
and videos that we haven't squeezed into other screenings, with frequent
breaks for socializing! Come at the start or in the middle! Some
classics and lot of rarities will please you to no end! For full
information, please visit
http://www.alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/
5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes,
35mm, b&w (LE SANG D'UN POÈTE) "Adolescent angels wandering about, black
boxers with perfect bodies taking flight, school-children in capes
killing each other with snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and
the hallways of a furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." –Georges
Sadoul
5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1946, 93 minutes,
35mm, b&w (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score
by Georges Auric. "[P]erhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed
fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday family life to the magic
of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm, with its Vermeer
simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in the Gustave Dore
extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. …Jean Marais is a
magnificent beast." –Pauline Kael
5/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 1: THERE IS A PRESENCE LINGERING...
Remote (2011) by Jesse McLean; Love Rose (2010) by Bobby Abate; Leonora
(2011) by Eliane Lima; With-Me-Not-Me (2011) by Olivia Ciummo; Song for
the Collectors (2011) by Tommy Becker; Craig's Cutting Room Floor (2011)
by Linda Scobie; One Way to Find Out (2012) by Scott Stark; The Pool
(2011) by Christine Lucy Latimer; Araneae (Compound Eyes No. 4) (2011)
by Paul Clipson; The Ape of Nature (2010) by Peggy Ahwesh
5/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
9:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 2 AWE SHOCKS: ILLUSION REIGNS
rites of alchemy (2011) by Moyah Pravda Newsreel; Village, silenced
(2012) by Deborah Stratman; Penumbra Blind (2012) by Christina McPhee;
Snakes and Ladders (2011) by Katherin McInnis; movement (2011) by Moyah
Pravda Newsreel; Awe Shocks (2011) by Anja Dornieden and Juan David
Gonzalez Monroy; Seeking the Monkey King (2011) by Ken Jacobs
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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
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5/19
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
NEW WORKS SALON: CALARTS EDITION
A special CalArts student edition of the New Works Salon, in which
several artists will present in-progress or recently completed works.
This screening will present a broad range of film and video work being
made at the California Institute of the Arts, undergraduate and graduate
students from the film/video program, experimental animation and the
school of art will be showcased. Former EPFC student and current teacher
Walter Vargas will show Driving South Florence, a 16mm portrait on South
Central made during his first year at CalArts, 16mm Standards of
Perfection by Andrew Kim is not a film about miniature horses, Marisa
Williamson presents a myth of origin--about Africans who could fly, who
lost their wings on the Middle Passage, but relearned the ability to fly
in a moment of danger, Jackson McCoy shares "an ocean" a meditation on
water, film, wet film, and dry ice, Silvia das Fadas presents Apanhar
Laranjas / Picking Oranges a 1 minute 16mm film, Calvin Fredrick made a
film in which "A beef thief gets some ham lip and is hampered by the
doo," all Ryan Betschart set out to do was to make an amazing Disney
Channel Original Movie, but ended up making lo-fi demonic musings on his
own childhood, John Warren will show his 16mm Poppy Fields Forever, Mike
Stoltz will show In Between, and curator, EPFC staff member and current
MFA student at CalArts Eve LaFountain will show her latest pinhole/8mm
dual projection film Elderberry, Black Walnut, Oak.
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
See notes for May 18, 7:30 pm.
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
See notes for May 18, 9 pm.
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes,
35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death
waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the
screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is
like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth
of immortality."
5/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
VANESSA RENWICK’S CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA +
In this co-presentation with SF's Exploratorium, Portland personal-doc
artiste Vanessa Renwick brings to the Bay Area the ambitious debut of
her magnum opus on wolves, with live musical accompaniment! She
interweaves Super8 and 16mm footage from her teenage life in inner-city
Chicago, living and hitch-hiking with a wolf dog, with stunning
documentation of the wolves' reintroduction into the Western US. Seattle
composer/cellist Lori Goldston performs her original score, accompanied
by vocalist Jessika Kenney, guitarist Dylan Carlson, and
percussion/horn-player Greg Campbell. PLUS Vanessa's Mighty Tacoma
opener, and a live musical interlude. $7.
5/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
4:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 4: CONTEMPLATION IS A MONSTROUS TASK...
Don't Look Directly into the Sun (2010) by Kathleen Rugh; Dark Enough
(2011) by Jeanne Liotta; These Blazeing Starrs! (2011) by Deborah
Stratman; End Transmission (2010) by Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong;
Landfill 16 (2011) by Jennifer Reeves; Curious Light (2011) by Charlotte
Pryce; Valleys of Fear (2010) by Erin Espelie
5/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
2:00 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 3 WOMEN WITH FLOWERS: CELEBRATING CHICK STRAND
To leave out the spirit of the people presents a thin tapestry of the
culture, easy to rent, lacking in strength and depth. I want to know
really what it is like to be a breathing, talking, moving, emotional,
relating individual in the society.—Chick Strand (1931–2009) In the
early 1960s, with co-conspirator Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand was
instrumental in the foundation of both Canyon Cinema and San Francisco
Cinematheque, presenting guerilla-style underground film screenings
across the Bay Area for much of that decade. As a filmmaker known for a
sensuous lyricism (frequently seen,paradoxically, in her "experimental
ethnographies") Strand's films epitomized "west coast" American
filmmaking at its very best, with a matter-of-fact folk wisdom, humor
and profound sensitivity embodied in all of her varied works. On the
occasion of the completion of her final work, Señora con Flores,
Cinematheque is proud to celebrate this inspirational figure. Screening:
Senora con Flores/Woman with Flowers (1995/2011) by Chick Strand;
Kristallnacht (1979) by Chick Strand; Soft Fiction (1979) by Chick
Strand; Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) by Chick Strand
5/19
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 5 APPARENT MOTION: PROJECTION ARTS!
APPARENT MOTION celebrates the art of projection, the cinematic
exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an
invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Evening includes
performances by Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles: Myth of Persistence
(2012); Kerry Laitala: The Color Red Bleeds Blue (2011–12) with live
score by John Davis; Greg Pope: Cipher Screen (2010–12) with live score
by John Hegre
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SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
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5/20
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 L.A. FILMWORKS: THE STATE OF THE ART IN LOS
ANGELES, 1980
In the early 1980s, Filmforum's Terry Cannon assembled a few mixed shows
for touring of experimental films by Los Angeles filmmakers. Along with
Filmforum Film, a document of Filmforum in 1980, selections from these
shows, and maybe some additional treats, prove a fitting conclusion to
Alternative Projections, revealing the state of the art in Los Angeles,
circa 1980. We'll have a great mix of films, with experimental,
animated, conceptual, and documentary works, followed by a celebratory
reception! In person: Betzy Bromberg, Terry Cannon, Tom Leeser, Craig
Rice, William Scaff, Keith Ullrich (schedules permitting) For full
information, please visit
http://www.alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/l-a-filmworks-the
-state-of-the-art-in-los-angeles-1980/ The show is free! Reservations
recommended, and will be held until 7:15 pm on show night, at which time
they will be released to anyone present. Reservations available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246038 Screening (subject to
change): Zulu As Konoe (Craig Rice, 1980, 5 min), Renee Walking/TV
Talking (Tom Leeser, 1980, 10 min), Soothing the Bruise (Betzy Bromberg,
1980, 21 min), Rose for Red (Diana Wilson, 1980, 3 min), The Dream
Trilogy (William Scaff, 36 min), Filmforum Film (Craig Rice, 1980, 4
min)
5/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
See notes for May 18, 9 pm.
5/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
See notes for May 19, 9 pm.
5/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis
available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To
Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek
mythology – the god of the lyre, song and poetry – was Cocteau's
personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search
for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during
which the poet must experience many deaths."
5/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3:00 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 6:...FOR THERE OUR CAPTORS DEMANDED SONGS OF JOY
Man Is Always on the Stairs Between the Pleats of Matter and the Fields
of the Soul (2011) by Jing Niu; L'eau, l'air et les songes (Water, air
and dreams) (2009) by Cecile Ravel and Jean-Marc Manteau; Their Bird
(2010) by Rei Hayama; Crusts (2011) by Alexander Stewart; Last Time
(2011) by Julia Shirar; Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This
Could Be the Last Time (2011) by Saul Levine; A Child Goes Burying Dead
Insects (Kodomo ga Mushi no Shigai wo Umeni Iku) by Rei Hayama
5/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 7 CALIFORNIA DREAMING: FILMS BY LAIDA LERTXUNDI
Laida Lertxundi (b. Bilbao, 1981) makes films with non-actors that evoke
external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements
of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be
imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers'
desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling,
it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and music with
found locales, constructed situations and quotidian environments. Shot
within and around Los Angeles, her films map out a geography of
landscapes transformed by affective and subjective states. Program
includes a selection of Lertxundi's recent films and three short films
which have been an inspiration. Screening: Farce Sensationelle! (2009)
by Laida Lertxundi; Lemon (1969) by Hollis Frampton; Footnotes to a
House of Love (2007) by Laida Lertxundi; My Tears Are Dry (2009) by
Laida Lertxundi; All My Life (1966) by Bruce Baillie; Llora Cuando Te
Pase/Cry When It Happens (2011) by Laida Lertxundi; A Lax Riddle Unit
(2011) by Laida Lertxundi
5/20
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness)
CROSSROADS PROGRAM 8:VOICES FOR NEW ATLANTIS
9214 (2010) by Takahiro Suzuki; The Voice of God (2010) by Bernd
Lutzeler; Sounding Glass (2011) by Sylvia Schedelbauer; FF (2010) by
Deborah Stratman; River Rites (2011) by Ben Russell; Slow Action (2010)
by Ben Rivers
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