[Frameworks] Upcoming Screenings at Oddball Films/San Francisco Media Archive

Mon Oct 8 13:56:56 CDT 2012

Hello all:

Here's a few programs of interest in our upcoming screening series. 
Note the Albanian Cinema Project Benefit and screening of Concrete Mushrooms (Vimeo link here: http://vimeo.com/6710102)
For more info and to sign up for our screening programs visit www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

American Trance Cinema  Thurs. Oct. 11 - 8PM

Oddball Films presentsAmerican Trance Cinema: Spellbinding Ceremonies, an evening of rare and intriguing films plus unique shorts exploring the unique cultural rituals and ceremonies of several disparate American demographics.  Enjoy a rare chance to see these normally off-limits customs, including Peter Adair’s extraordinary ethnographic documentary Holy Ghost People (1967) which offers a fascinating look at a West Virginia Pentecostal congregation as they relish the religious fervor of speaking in tongues, anointing and trances.  Famed ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s Buck Dancer (1965) reveals the Northern Mississippi tradition of buck dancing, in this rare filmic and musical artifact.  In Pomo Shaman (1964), we are privy to the intricacies of a Native American healing ceremony. Trance Cinema is part of a series of ongoing film programs exploring ritual, higher consciousness and altered states of awareness.
Link: http://www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2012/10/trance-cinema-spellbinding-ceremonies.html

MESS with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories - Fri. Oct 12th - 8:00PM

Oddball Films has the rare opportunity to present the fourth annual installment in the innovative interview-based series MESS (Media Ecology Soul Salon) featuring Mark Pauline founder of theSurvival Research Laboratories. Los Angeles media artist and curator Gerry Fialka will interview Pauline in person on the Oddball Cine Stage, with video excerpts from 40 years of SRL performances.  Survival Research Laboratories, founded in 1978, is the innovator of robot-based performance art and known for the most dangerous shows on earth.  So dangerous, in fact, that recently the group was banned from performing in San Francisco.  This rare and exciting interview will explore the unique blending of performance and technology and the mind behind the robotic mayhem.
Link: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-interview-with-mark-pauline-of.html

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Albanian Cinema But Were Afraid to Ask - Sat. Oct. 13 - 8PM

The Albanian Cinema Project and the San Francisco Media Archive present Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Albanian Cinema But Were Afraid to Ask, an evening of specially selected  and extraordinarily rare films from the Central State Film Archives.  Come and see a selection of communist era educational and instructional films that have never been seen in the US; highlights from Albanian filmmaker Fatmir Koci’s love letter to the Albanian film archivesIn The Land of the Eagles, and the US premiere of Albania’s film entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, the documentary shortConcrete Mushrooms. Help us save Albania’s endangered film heritage!
Link: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2012/10/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html

Best regards,

Stephen Parr
Director

Oddball Film+Video
www.oddballfilm.com
Oddball Films
www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

275 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone 415.558.8112
Fax 415.558.8116

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> Fat and sassy, our new issue, JUMP CUT: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 54 has a cornucopia of articles on experimental media.
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> “Making it through”: sickness and health in Su Friedrich’s The Odds of Recovery
> by William C. Wees
> In vivid and intimate detail, Su Friedrich's autobiographical film offers literal and metaphorical views of the consequences of sickness and the pleasures of recovery.
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> Work-in-progress: Marie Menken and the mechanical representation of labor
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> Through her experimental short films, Marie Menken reveals how cinema’s capacities lie not only in the mechanical workings of the camera but also the potentials of human labor, leading us to bigger reflections on the inextricable ties between filmmaking, labor, and modern society.
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> The Cry of Jazz and the expressive politics of music and race
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> An interview with Ed Bland, director of the landmark 1959 film on jazz music and African Americans in U.S. society, reveals the context of the experimental documentary's argument and analysis.
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> Identity, interactivity and performativity in Michelle Citron’s Queer Feast
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> An exploration of interactive narrative and form in the work of experimental filmmaker Michelle Citron.
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> Video games, cognitive capital, the cognitariat, and the dream factory's seedy streets: patrolling the citizenry of LA Noire
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> A critical discussion of LA Noire, a game that claimed to revolutionize the industry but which this article contends raises perennial questions relevant to gaming in general regarding the cognitariat, surveillance culture and the digital panopticon.
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> New media and politics: populist revolt, state control, and elections
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> Review of Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns, eds., Tweets From Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People who Made it;  Evgeny Morozov ,The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom; Richard L. Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos, eds., iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era
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> Time after time: cinema, trauma, and (a)temporality
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> Review of Todd McGowan's Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema
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> Hello there,
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> Details of a new experimental moving image event in the UK below:
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> Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective
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> MEMIC Film Salon 1: Warpaint is the launch event of MEMIC (Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective). This independent collective has been set up to instigate a critical dialogue about experimental moving image works and to provide a platform for experimental filmmakers, video artists, animators and multimedia artists.
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> Each Film Salon will consist of a traditional screening and an exhibition of moving image installation works. There will be facilities for digital video projection, 16mm and 8mm film, slide projection, as well as a number of HD and CRT monitors.
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> This event is a great opportunity to showcase your work to an audience and to network with other filmmakers and moving image artists.
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> You are invited to submit innovative work which will be screened at MEMIC’s first Film Salon on Friday the 30 of November 2012. The program for the evening will be published on www.memic.co.uk
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> The first Film Salon will take place at Althorpe Studios and Gallery, Royal Leamington Spa. Leamington is just over an hour by train from London, and 30 mins from Birmingham, therefore strategically placed to become the centre of contemporary art in the UK. (yes!)
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> Deadline for submissions: November 15th 2012
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> Format for submissions: DVD or weblink to video
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> MEMIC Film Salon 1: Friday 30 November, 7pm onwards, admission free
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> Email your submissions to: michael.lightborne at gmail.com
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> Post your submissions to: MEMIC, Althorpe Studios and Gallery, Unit 6, Althorpe Industrial Estate, Althorpe Street, Leamington Spa, CV32 5AU, UK.
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