[Frameworks] This week [November 17 - 25, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [November 17 - 25, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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ImagineIndia International Film Festival (Madrid; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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MEDIAWAVE-"ANOTHER CONNECTION" Film and Music Gathering (Komarom, Hungary; Deadline: January 10, 2013)
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Beloit Film Festival (Beloit, WI, United States; Deadline: November 20, 2012)
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RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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WAMMFest (Towson, MD, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012)
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OpenLens Festival (Eugene, OR, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2012)
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Vector (Canada; Deadline: December 10, 2012)
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Gimme Some Truth Documentary Forum (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: November 23, 2012)
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Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Recent Work By Monica Gazzo [November 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Bill Daniel + Sam Green + Scott Stark + Brigid Mccaffrey [November 17, San Francisco, California]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents John Smith: Associations and Ambiguities [November 18, Los Angeles, California]
* All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace [November 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Robbie Land: Filmmaker In Person [November 24, Austin, TX]
* New Works Salon vii [November 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 1 [November 24, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 2 [November 24, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 3 [November 24, New York, New York]
* Mccormick's Great Northwest + 433 Pictures’ Nobodies [November 24, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Laurel and Hardy [November 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Classics of the Twenties [November 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Christopher Maclaine [November 25, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2012
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11/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
RECENT WORK BY MONICA GAZZO
$5 / San Francisco Art Institute MFA graduate Monica Gazzo is an artist
and filmmaker who makes films in Italy and America. Tonight, she shares
recent work including Trevi (2009, DVD, sound, color, 22 minutes, world
premiere), shot from a window above the Trevi Fountain in Rome; Insights
On Acting With Sandro Lombardi (2009, DVD, sound, color, 15 minutes, LA
premiere), a video portrait of Florentine actor and writer Sandro
Lombardi; and Imagined Nature: A Day With Andrea Marini, Sculptor (2009,
DVD, sound, color, 22 minutes, LA premiere), a video portrait of
Florentine Sculptor Andrea Marini, in his Calenzano studio.
11/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
BILL DANIEL + SAM GREEN + SCOTT STARK + BRIGID MCCAFFREY
This first installment of our 3-part Psycho-Geography series attends to
that quintessential western landscape, the Desert. Premiering is Sam
Green's Portrait of Las Vegas, an insightful essay on that glittering
mirage. Bill Daniel (in person, with his Mostly True reissue) kicks in
his Slab City Citizen's Band Bulletin, and Laura Kraning contributes her
Devil's Gate (on Jack Parsons!). PLUS Scott Stark's new Bloom, and the
debut of Brigid McCaffrey's Southwest outsider-geologist saga, Trace
Formations. OC's topographic triptych opens with Jackie-O Motherfucker's
Tom Greenwood, strumming in sonic complement to Daniel's
double-projections.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012
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11/18
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 JOHN SMITH: ASSOCIATIONS AND AMBIGUITIES
Filmforum continues bringing renowned experimental film artists from
elsewhere this season with an extremely rare visit from the UK of
filmmaker John Smith, who last came to Los Angeles in the 1980s! Note
the change in location for tonight. The two John Smith Filmforum shows
(the other on 11/16) are partly a retrospective, and partly the Los
Angeles premiere of a number of recent works. Tickets: $10 general; $6
students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper
tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/290592 Screening: Om
(1986, 4 min.), Associations (1975, 7 min.), Gargantuan (1992, 1 min. --
Los Angeles Premiere!), Slow Glass (1988-91, 40 min.), The Kiss (1999, 5
min. -- collaboration with Ian Bourn), Throwing Stones (Hotel Diaries 3)
(2004, 11 min. -- Los Angeles Premiere!), Flag Mountain (2010, 8 min. --
Los Angeles Premiere!), Flag Mountain (2010, 8 min. -- Los Angeles
Premiere!) John Smith in person from the UK!
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012
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11/23
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
7:30 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
$5 / The best way to spend your Black Friday is seeing British cinematic
polymath Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. His
latest film is a harrowing look at capitalism and colonialism through
Curtis' trademark archival BBC footage and pop music collage. The film
is made up of three sections exploring the idea that rose up in the
1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world—a world
where a new kind of global capitalism could thrive free of all risk. The
best kind of capitalist horror movie, Adam Curtis examines ideas from
disparate strands of society and shows how eerily connected they are
through the shaky joint logic of political, technological, and
scientific thought. It'll put a healthy fear of capitalism in you and,
in all likelihood, prevent you from enjoying Black Friday ever again.
180 minutes, video. Note early start time!
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
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11/24
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
7pm, DOMY Books - 913 East Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78702
ROBBIE LAND: FILMMAKER IN PERSON
Come see the hand worked, celluloid explorations of Atlanta-based
filmmaker Robbie Land! Land will be present for an introduction and Q
and A.
11/24
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
NEW WORKS SALON VII
$5 / Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or
recently completed works. Sean Batton will present 16mm footage from a
recent trip to Tokyo. Chris Girard will integrate blurry photographs
with slices of words to create a live collage poetry making session; the
placement of the photographs next to words expresses the dissolution of
the blur through the words. Cosmo Segurson will present Super 8 footage
from his recent trip to Tokyo, unrelated to Mr. Batton's. Elizabeth
DiGiovanni will present two recent video works, Now and Then and Spirit
Evidence, which deal with collecting and imaging the traces, residues,
and evidence from the realm of spirits, ghosts, and memory. Plus others
TBA!
11/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 1
All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR /
L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE (1899, 1 min, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON /
VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 min, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN
NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 min, 35mm) DELIRIUM
IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L'HUILE (1907, 5 min, 35mm) MERRY
FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE (1906, 18 min,
35mm) Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the
realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and
artificiality (in its best sense). Total running time: ca. 60 min
11/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 2
The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. THE CASCADE OF
FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 min, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN
LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 min, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE
CARABOSSE (1906, 13 min, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE
À TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50
min.
11/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 3
All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS /
ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 min, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE
PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 min, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT
(1903, 3 min, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE
(1907, 25 min, 35mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES
MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 min, 35mm) THE DOCTOR'S SECRET /
HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca.
55 min.
11/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
MCCORMICK’S GREAT NORTHWEST + 433 PICTURES’ NOBODIES
Our longtime microcinema accomplice Matt McCormick personally introduces
the Cali premiere of his experimental travelog, faithfully recreating
the 3,200-mile road-trip of four Seattle women in 1958. Fifty years
later, McCormick discovered their scrapbook in a thrift store, and so
set out on the road, following their route as precisely as possible. His
patient observations constitute a lyrical time-capsule, revealing how
the landscape, architecture, and culture of the Northwest has changed
over the past half-century. ALSO: Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
premiere their 433 Pictures project, American Nobodies, a half-hr suite
of poetic miniatures, finding complexity and meaning in small moments
and overlooked details.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012
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11/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: LAUREL AND HARDY
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the movies' greatest comic duo, the
quintessential dumb and dumber odd-couple. Though critically
overshadowed by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, they were enormously
popular, and proved a major influence on Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball
& Vivian Vance, and Jackie Gleason & Art Carney, not to mention Samuel
Beckett (they were an inspiration for WAITING FOR GODOT), Roman Polanski
(who paid homage to them in his existentialist short films FAT AND LEAN
and TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE), and Ken Jacobs (whose ONTIC ANTICS
deconstructs one of their films)." –David Mulkins COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THE MUSIC BOX (1932,
30 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THEM THAR HILLS (1934,
20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. TIT FOR TAT (1935, 20
minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. Total running time: ca.
95 minutes.
11/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES
Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm,
b&w, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) René Clair & Francis
Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) Man Ray LE RETOUR À LA
RAISON (1923, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EMAK BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes, 35mm, b&w,
silent) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray ANEMIC CINEMA (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm,
b&w, silent) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes.
11/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
"The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He
was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who
later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years
were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield,
California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most
significant work to come out of the beat period." –J.J. Murphy All films
preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957,
14 minutes, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 minutes, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5
minutes, 16mm) THE END (1953, 35 minutes, 16mm) "Six stories of people
on the last day of their lives. Most are about to commit suicide, or
some metaphorical equivalent, but the mushroom cloud with which the film
begins and ends reminds us that, as Maclaine's voice intones on the
sound track, we await 'the grand suicide of the human race' – his
conceit is that his characters have reached the end of their personal
ropes the day before a nuclear holocaust. Throughout the film he
compares the dehumanizing effects of mass culture to the dehumanizing
effects of personal despair, weaving these two threads together until
the mannequins he films in store windows, the anonymous people he films
on the street, and his characters all seem variations on the same
half-living, half-dead persona." –Fred Camper Total running time: ca. 65
minutes.
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