[Frameworks] This week [May 19 - 27, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* New Day At 40- A Community's Celebration [May 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Kelly Sears - Filmmaker In Person! [May 23, Austin, TX]
* Super 8: Brakhage / Kuchar / Levine / Polta / Price [May 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Solus Program 1 [May 25, New York, New York]
* On Failure [May 26, London, England]
* Artur Aristakisyan's Palms [May 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: L'age D'or [May 26, New York, New York]
* Solus Program 2 [May 26, New York, New York]
* Solus Program 3 [May 26, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [May 26, San Francisco, California]
* Iteration/Aberation [May 26, San Francisco, California]
* Contemporary Currents [May 27, London, England]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 1 [May 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 2 [May 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 3 [May 27, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
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5/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
NEW DAY AT 40- A COMMUNITY'S CELEBRATION
REDCAT is proud to host a celebratory screening (program TBA) to mark
the 40th anniversary of New Day Films—created by filmmakers Julia
Reichert and Jim Klein when they failed to secure distribution for
Growing Up Female (1971), about the social constraints placed on women
aged 4 to 35. In the early 1970s the act of hearing women's voices was
perceived as a "radical," and New Day welcomed the work of
filmmakers—both men and women—who were challenging the political status
quo in terms of gender, social and racial inequality. Today, New Day
Films counts more than 100 members, whose films have won Academy Awards,
Emmys, and premiered at major film festivals, and cover issues as
diverse as immigration, human rights, LGBT, disability, addiction,
criminal justice, youth and aging. In person: Members of New Day Films.
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series / Tickets: $10 [students $8, CalArts
$5]
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
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5/23
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
7.30 PM, 29th Street Ballroom at Spiderhouse, 2906 Fruth Street
KELLY SEARS - FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Experimental Response Cinema and 29th Street Ballroom host
Galveston-based animator and filmmaker KELLY SEARS, whose
internationally-exhibited collage films are culled from discarded
periodicals, books, archives, and orphan cinema. Drawing on
experimental, documentary and narrative practices and featuring both
analog and digital animation techniques, her films harness images of the
past to reflect on the present. She is a current resident at the
Galveston Artist Residency and a 2009-2011 fellow at the Core Program at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her films have screened widely,
including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Film Fest,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, and Anthology Film
Archives. The approximately one-hour program will be followed by a Q & A
moderated by Caroline Koebel with Kelly Sears.
http://www.kellysears.com/ Films include: Once It Started It Could Not
End Otherwise, Imprinted, Cover Me Alpha, Voice on the Line, The Body
Besieged, Jean, The Believers, He Hates to be Second, The Drift, Angels
Chant Like Witches, Devil's Canyon, and Charles and Christopher.
Experimental Response Cinema is an Austin-based collective of
avant-garde film and video artists, devoted to bringing local, national
and international experimental films to Austin screens. Admission: $7
general/$5 students with ID
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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012
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5/24
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
SUPER 8: BRAKHAGE / KUCHAR / LEVINE / POLTA / PRICE
A diverse program of experimental Super 8 mm films. Stan Brakhage's
Airs, from a collection of Super 8 films he completed in 1976 and later
blown up to 16mm. Luther Price's Green "Green is a world where ghosts
live … conjuring the familiar, reliving, events unresolved, revealing
very little" (Price). Steve Polta's 1997A (Arrival) "renders a subtle
spectral impressionism via tenuous images of space, form, and color in
disembodied flux" (New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde).
Saul Levine's "midsummer daydream" Light Lick: Only Sunshine and
Submission, "a confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films
entered in a Super 8 competition" (Levine). George Kuchar's Mom,
"something for me to play and remember my mother by when she is not here
to visit me: smiling, eating, walking around nice places that are filmed
with a cheap lens so that you can't see the cracks and the dirt"
(Kuchar). All films shown on Super 8, except Brakhage's, which will be
shown on 16mm.
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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
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5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SOLUS PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1 This is a program that samples international strategies of
re-thinking city living, reclaiming territories, negotiating urban
spaces, and perceiving the relationships they create. The show includes
films from Egypt, Ireland, Mauritania, Senegal, and the U.S., including
an Irish-Mauritania co-production (the first ever, to our knowledge!).
Special mention goes to the Maison des Cinéastes in Nouakchott,
Mauritania (www.lamaisondescineastes.org), and to our friends in
Alexandria, Egypt, whose online videos kept us up-to-date during the
recent, fantastic Arab Spring. Ronan Coyle CHRYSALIS (Ireland, 2009, 2
minutes, video) Rubberbandits HORSE OUTSIDE (Ireland, 2010, 4 minutes,
video) Les filles du bled KO MI DEBO (Mauritania, 2009, 4 minutes,
video) Alan Lambert OUROBOROS II (Ireland, 2007-11, 2 minutes, video)
Ahmed Talek Ould Taleb Lehiar LA-BAS DANS LA CAPITALE (Mauritania, 2008,
3 minutes, video) Ahmed Ghoneimy THE GOOD BOY (Egypt, 2009, 7 minutes,
video) Hugh Mcgrory MAZE (Ireland, 2003, 3 minutes, Super-8mm/video)
Felix Samba N'diaye LES MALLES (Senegal, 1989, 14 minutes, 16mm) Moira
Tierney NOUAKCHOTT ROCKS (Ireland/Maritania, 2010, 21 minutes,
Super-8mm/video) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012
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5/26
London, England: LUX / ICA Binennial of Moving Images
http://biennialofmovingimages.org.uk/symposium/
10 am - 1 pm, ICA Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
ON FAILURE
Keynote address: Jan Verwoert, Why Rudie Can't Fail Jan Verwoert is a
critic, writer, curator, art historian, and contributing editor to
Frieze magazine. Further papers by: Anirban Gupta-Nigam, Failure as
Possibility: Reading Two Fragments of Moving-Image Work (Jawaharlal
Nehru University, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Delhi) Robert Rapoport,
The End of Ethnographic Representation in Huyghe's 'The Host and the
Cloud' (Ruskin School, Oxford) Rosa Menkman, The Intentional Faux-Pas
(Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne) Emily Candela, No signal: Failures
of transmission in the moving image from analogue 'snow' to the 'blue
screen of death' (Royal College of Art and the Science Museum, London)
5/26
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
ARTUR ARISTAKISYAN'S PALMS
"Artur Aristakisyan's 1993 documentary, Palms (Ladoni), has been a film
cited more than seen; it's an intensely poetic, provocative–even
inspiring–account of the poor and destitute in Chisinau (formerly
Kishinev), the capital of Moldova ... it was shot in handheld,
black-and-white 16mm and enlarged to 35mm in an a way that makes it seem
like a scratched, overly-contrasted artifact from ages past; a film
about the purity of abjection that physically resembles its subject. The
only soundtrack is Aristakisyan's ruminating narration and brief
snatches of Giuseppe Verdi's soaring music. The footage was collected
over the course of several years shortly after the fall of the Soviet
Union and Moldova's independence, and it could be said to be a baring of
the country's repressed soul through the tenuous lives of its
vagabonds." --Doug Cummings, Film Journeys. Directed by Artur
Aristakisyan, 1993, 139min, projected from DVD. With an introduction by
Ross Lipman.
5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: L'AGE D'OR
by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali In French with no subtitles (printed
synopsis provided in English), 1930, 73 minutes (THE GOLDEN AGE)
Conventional attempts at plot description wither in the face of L'ÂGE
D'OR. Buñuel writes of it, "The story is a sequence of moral and
surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form
the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full
surrealistic frenzy."
5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SOLUS PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: CHILDRENS' FILMS The first four of these films were shot
during Super-8mm workshops given by the Film Flamme association in
Marseille and by Moira Tierney in Dublin, Fermanagh, and Toulouse. The
children were at total liberty to proceed as they desired; adult input
consisted of technical support and post-production (the films were
primarily edited in-camera; post production consisted of assembling the
images and sound according to the childrens' instructions). The fifth
film was shot by children in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) of
County Cork, Ireland, during a workshop led by Donal Ó'Céilleachair. LA
DREAM TEAM (2007, 3 minutes, Super-8mm) LIBERTY KIDS (2006, 5 minutes,
Super-8mm) BELLEFONT 31! (2011, 20 minutes, Super-8mm) COLLECTIVE FILM
(2010, 22 minutes, Super-8mm) FÉILEACÁN SOLAS (2008, 5 minutes,
35mm/video) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SOLUS PROGRAM 3
St. Clair Bourne THE BLACK AND THE GREEN 1983, 45 minutes, video. This
film, one of St. Clair Bourne's most rarely seen, chronicles a
fact-finding trip to Belfast made by five American civil rights
activists, including the Reverend Herbert Daughtry. Drawing a parallel
between the civil rights movement and the troubles in Northern Ireland,
the film documents the activists' discovery that many Catholics in
Ireland had been influenced by the civil rights movement. As the
WASHINGTON POST reported at the time, "In the Belfast ghetto, the
delegation members are strangers in a familiar land of crushed
tenements, graffiti-stained walls, and heavily armed law officers."
Reverend Daughtry and Sandy Boyer, both of whom are featured in the
film, will be here in person for the screening!
5/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinema that champions personal
expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most exploratory
programming initiative—and with many of the makers in person—are
Caroline Koebel's Repeat Photography…, Salise Hughes' The Swimmer, Roger
Deutsch's First Love, Tony Gault's Ghost of Yesterday, Semiconductor's
Black Rain, Will Erokan's Trog Alley, Brian Konefsky's Miss Yummy Yummy,
Greg Haas' Distant Form, Katherin McInnis' Snakes and Ladders, and
Vanessa Renwick's Medusa Smack. PLUS recent pieces by Soda_Jerk, Karl
Lind, Bryan Boyce, Richard Mitchell, and Sylvia Schedelbauer. Come early
for artists' reception, free pencils, and the Dream Machine! $6.
5/26
San Francisco, California: the LAB
http://www.thelab.org/schedule/events/596-iterationaberation.html
8:00pm, 2948 16th Street
ITERATION/ABERATION
$7-$15 sliding scale Performances by Mike Morris, Dayv Jones, Tooth and
Eric Stewart. With films by Tony Conrad, Rose Lowder, Randy-Sterling
Hunter, Zach Iannazzi and more. Iteration/Aberration explores the
relationships between pattern, wavelength, and rhythm to that of
perception, memory and experience. By extending cinema beyond
traditional forms of presentation, the projector and audience become
dynamic and malleable elements that reframe the media-maker's role into
that more akin to a performer, conductor or choreographer. These
artist's employ optical, electrical and mechanical manipulations that
pry cinema into a ritualistic performance of light and sound fully
accepting that the act of watching, changes that which is being watched.
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SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2012
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5/27
London, England: LUX / ICA Binennial of Moving Images
http://biennialofmovingimages.org.uk/symposium/
10 am - 1 pm, ICA Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS
Keynote address: Maeve Connolly, Television, Cultural Legitimation and
Contemporary Art Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and research
fellow at Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und
Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Weimar Bauhaus University Further papers by:
Katy Connor, From Solid Light to Satellite: the materiality of the
moving image as broadcast signal and data (EMERGE, Bournemouth
University Media School) Christopher C de Selincourt, Where is the Mind
of the Media Editor? (Cardiff School of Art and Design) Rebecca Birch,
Field Montage (Loughborough University School of the Arts) Marialaura
Ghidini, Working through and beyond web-based video platforms: towards a
redefinition of moving image (CRUMB, University of Sunderland) Andy
Weir, Deep Time Contagion: Nuclear Storage and the Nonhuman Temporality
of Moving Image Artwork (Goldsmiths College, London)
5/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 1
LAUGHING GAS (1914, 16 min, 16mm) DOUGH AND DYNAMITE (1914, 33 min,
16mm) A WOMAN (1915, 20 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
5/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 2
SHANGHAIED (1915, 30 min, 16mm) POLICE (1916, 34 min, 16mm) THE FIREMAN
(1916, 32 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 100 minutes.
5/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 3
ONE A.M. (1916, 34 min, 16mm) EASY STREET (1917, 19 min, 16mm) THE IDLE
CLASS (1921, 32 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
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