[Frameworks] Part 2 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2012] in avant garde cinema

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Part 2 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2012] in avant garde cinema

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012
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10/20
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
2pm, Austin History Center

 HOME MOVIE DAY!
  In collaboration with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and the
  Austin History Center. Austin is participating in the global Home Movie
  Day, excavating the treasures of our lives! Bring your regular 8mm,
  Super 8mm, 16mm and VHS, and we'll show them!

10/20
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

 TWO YEARS AT SEA BY BEN RIVERS - BEN RIVERS IN PERSON
  Two Years at Sea Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2011, 35mm, b/w, 86 min For
  his first feature film, Ben Rivers (b. 1972) reunited once more with
  Jake Williams, the eccentric hermit whose ramshackle life deep in the
  Scottish wilderness is the subject of Rivers' This is My Land (2006) and
  an episode from I Know Where I'm Going (2009). A captivating meditation
  on solitude and time's passage, Two Years at Sea is a vivid and at times
  mysterious portrait of a man who seems to have found a genuine inner
  peace in the slow unfolding of his ritualized every day. The stunning
  imagery and visual imagination of Two Years at Sea derive a rare power
  from Rivers' dramatic use of the pointedly anachronistic 16mm widescreen
  format – later blown up to 35mm – to cast a swirling photochemical
  energy around the ragged forest and overstuffed trailer that together
  constitute Williams' home and universe. Almost entirely worldless, Two
  Years at Sea uses its richly evocative soundscape and extended long
  takes to fully immerse the viewer into the resonant tranquility of
  Williams' life, with photographs and well-worn objects gently hinting
  but never revealing a past life shed long ago. Phantoms of a Libertine
  Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2012, 16mm, color, 14 min An evocative tribute
  to a photographer friend who passed away suddenly, Rivers' latest short
  makes poetic use of images found in the friend's apartment to share
  poignantly unknowable fragments of a life's full adventure.

10/20
Helmsdale: Timespan
http://www.timespan.org.uk/thebigsheep/
2.30pm  and 6.30pm, Timespan. Helmsdale. Sutherland. Scotland.

 MARGARET TAIT’S “CAORA MOR: THE BIG SHEEP” & SYMPOSIUM
  Margaret Tait – writer, poet, film-maker was resident at Slowbend,
  Helmsdale on release of the films: 'Caora Mor – The Big Sheep' and
  'Splashing' (recently rediscovered) in 1966. This symposium will give
  you the opportunity to visit locations in Helmsdale and Portgower. It
  will include a screening of 'Land Makar' (1980); and it will open a
  discussion on four themes: The Sheep and The Land, by way of A Film, and
  A Poet's Voice. The day will involve participation from older residents
  and draw on their first hand knowledge and memories of this place, thus
  explore the change represented by the films. It is timely that we have
  the chance to revisit this film-work and consider Margaret's time at
  Slowbend. In light of her recent publication 'Margaret Tait: Poems,
  Stories and Writings' by Fyfield Books, Dr Sarah Neely will discuss why
  the start of the 60′s was a very productive period for both
  Margaret's writing and films, and will illustrate their thematic
  crossover. A reading by Lesley Harrison and a performance by Cara Tolmie
  will allow us to reconsider the meaning of 'Makar' – a Scots word for
  'poet'. Peter Todd, artist and co-editor of 'Subjects and Sequences: A
  Margaret Tait Reader' will introduce the screening of 'Caora Mor: The
  Big Sheep'.

10/20
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER
  While others bemoan the end of celluloid, Nathaniel Dorsky – whose work
  has become an annual highlight of the festival over the past decade –
  continues apace, more productive now than ever. His carefully considered
  practice has this year created works of great beauty from a period of
  sorrow. This screening of two new films will be complemented by rarely
  exhibited work by his companion Jerome Hiler. AUGUST AND AFTER
  (Nathaniel Dorsky | USA 2012 | 19 min) 'After a lifetime, two mutual
  friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same
  period of time.' APRIL (Nathaniel Dorsky | USA 2012 | 26 min) 'Following
  a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared
  itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever remember
  in San Francisco. April is intended as a companion piece for August and
  After, and is partly funded by a gift from Carla Liss.' WORDS OF MERCURY
  (Jerome Hiler | USA 2011 | 25 min) Jerome Hiler, who shares Dorsky's
  heightened sense of wonder at the world around him, builds sensuous
  layers of superimposition at the moment of shooting. A most private
  filmmaker, whose primary craft is the less transient medium of stained
  glass, he has until recently only shown his work as camera originals,
  thus limiting their public visibility. His inclusion in the latest
  Whitney Biennial prompted this first digital transfer. 

10/20
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 TWO ARCHITECTURE STUDIES
  ALONG THE LINES (Catalina Niculescu | UK-Romania 2011 | 16 min) On a
  trip to her native Romania, the artist's interest in architectural forms
  prompted a visual investigation into how decorative and structural
  motifs recur in buildings from the traditional to the modern.
  RECONVERSÃO (Thom Andersen | Portugal 2012 | 65 min) Invited to film in
  Portugal on the occasion of the Vila do Conde festival's 20th
  anniversary, Thom Andersen chose to document building projects by
  Eduardo Souto de Moura, whose work combines modernist aesthetics with
  traces of the architectural history of his sites. Incorporating local
  materials with contemporary building techniques, his clean concrete
  lines harmonise with natural elements and traditional stone walls.
  Influenced in equal measure by Mies van der Rohe and minimal sculptors
  such as Judd and Morris, Souta de Moura's achievements include
  meticulous linear houses, the Porto subway network, and the monumental
  Braga Stadium, which rises out of the earth beside a mountain of
  imposing granite. This leisurely film features 17 such projects and
  culminates in a conversation between the filmmaker and the distinguished
  architect. 

10/20
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 MATI DIOP
  Among the younger generation of artists exploring new approaches to
  narrative, the work of Mati Diop is notable for its sensitive portrayal
  of characters and intimate style of filming. Diop is also an actress,
  playing leading roles in Clare Denis' 35 Shots of Rum and Antonio
  Campos' Simon Killer, and is the niece of legendary Senegalese director
  Djibril Diop Mambéty. Her recent short films will be presented together
  for the first time in the UK. ATLANTIQUES (Mati Diop | France-Senegal
  2009 | 16 min) 'A story about boys who are continually travelling:
  between past, present and future, between life and death, history and
  myth.' BIG IN VIETNAM (Mati Diop | France 2012 | 29 min) When a lead
  actor disappears from set, the director searches for him in the city of
  Marseille. Stumbling into a karaoke bar, she loses herself in memories
  of her former home in Vietnam, and encounters a man who shares her sense
  of displacement. As night becomes day, they walk along the seafront and
  he recounts the story of his journey from the Far East to Europe. SNOW
  CANON (Mati Diop | France 2011 | 33 min) Stranded in her parents' chalet
  in the French Alps, a teenage girl passes time chatting online with
  friends, until the babysitter arrives and events take an unexpected
  turn. Innocent pastimes give way to games of power and seduction. 

10/20
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
9pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 RITES OF PASSAGE
  GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE (Steve Reinke | USA 2010 | 4 min) 'Whatever is
  going on on top, there's a precise machine at work below, and this
  machine is digging little grooves, and these grooves slowly join
  together and become the conduits by which all meaning is drained from
  the world.' MANQUE DE PREUVES (Hayoun Kwon | South Korea-France 2011 |
  10 min) To cleanse his village of demons, the chief of a Nigerian tribe
  plans to sacrifice his twin sons. One escapes and flees to Europe, where
  his application for asylum is dismissed through lack of material proof.
  Using his testimony as the basis, Kwon proposes an animated depiction of
  his account. ὌΡΝΙΘΕΣ (BIRDS)
  (Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal-Haiti 2012 | 17 min) Pagan folk myth is
  juxtaposed with ancient Greek comedy as three Haitian girls witness
  disparate forms of storytelling. An old man tells the tale of his wife's
  transformation into a goat. In a local village, an elaborately costumed
  theatre group performs Aristophanes' Birds in the original Attic
  language. PONCE DE LEÓN (Ben Russell & Jim Drain | USA 2012 | 26 min)
  'Our Ponce de León is an immortal for whom time poses the greatest
  dilemma – it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in
  trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock
  move ever faster. For Ponce de León, time is a problem of body, and only
  by escaping his container can he escape time itself.' RIVER RITES (Ben
  Russell | USA-Suriname 2011 | 12 min) 'Trance dance and water
  implosion.' A constantly moving camera passes through a complex
  choreography of bodies engaged in rituals of work and play along the
  Upper Suriname River. 

10/20
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)

 MOVIES & TV BY MARK TOSCANO AND LORI FELKER
  $5 / Mark Toscano and Lori Felker are two makers who are very serious
  about exploring the un-serious. This program brings together recent
  TV-shaped videos by Felker and a whole slew of 16mm films by Toscano.
  Lori Felker is a film/videomaker, programmer, projectionist, performer
  and collaborator. Her work employs multiple formats, styles, and
  structures, all attempting to make sense of the simultaneous simplicity
  and chaos of humanity. She is enamored with awkwardness, ineloquence,
  frustration, searching, trying and failing (or falling) and considers
  herself an "experiential" filmmaker. (www.FelkerCommaLori.com,
  variablearea.tv.) Mark Toscano is an archivist and filmmaker, though not
  necessarily in that order. Program: Videos by Lori Felker: It Doesn't
  Matter (2012), Broken New (Disaster) (2012, with Chris Royalty), Broken
  New (Drama) (2012, with Chris Royalty), Broken New (Conspiracy) (2012,
  with Chris Royalty) / 16mm films by Mark Toscano: The Electrolysis of
  Brine (2008), February 2008 & June 1967 (2010), Finding the Horn (2008),
  The Wofobs (2008), WDD / CHL (2009), Rating Dogs on a Scale of 1 to 10
  (2011), Demonstration (2012), Process of Elimination (2012), Releasing
  Human Energies (2012).

10/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8pm, 992 Valencia

 PRELINGER + ORPHANS IN SPACE + FIRST ON THE MOON +
  SAT. 10/20: PRELINGER + ORPHANS IN SPACE + FIRST ON THE MOON + Local
  heroine Megan Prelinger celebrates the marvelous in 20th Century
  aerospace cinema, introducing the inspired DVD set Orphans in Space:
  Forgotten Films from the Final Frontier—Walter Forsberg's NYU archival
  project that revives celluloid anomalies on space exploration. PLUS the
  premiere of Aleksei Fedorchenko's First on the Moon, a Russian
  pseudo-doc mixing archival and live-action footage towards a faux
  history of Stalin's '30s space program! ALSO Linda Scobie's Space Dogs
  and Thad Povey's Cineroc. Free Orphans DVDs to the first 10 patrons. 

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2012
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10/21
Greenbelt, Md: Utopia Film Festival
http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/index.html
2pm, Greenbelt Municipal Building 25 Crescent Road  Greenbelt, MD 20770

 URBAN/RURAL LANDSCPES
  Experimental film program "Urban/Rural Landscapes 6" (approx. 90 min.)
  curated by filmmaker Chris Lynn FREE 1. "The Luminous Passage" Ryan
  Marino-A meditation on the passage of time and light, an evocation of
  the season of autumn. This film was shot during consecutive autumns in
  New York, Maine and New Hampshire 2."Hudson River Landscapes" by Patrick
  Tarrant-Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River
  Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side
  where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath
  them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents
  in an unscripted spy drama. 3. "Broad Channel" by Sarah J. Christman.
  Over the course of four seasons, the nuances of everyday activity are
  examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline in New York City's
  Jamaica Bay. Moments of recurrence and change cycle through an ecosystem
  rooted in migration. 4. "Morning Fisherman" by Chris H Lynn. A piece
  from the Reconstructing Scenic views from Seventeenth Century Chinese
  Landscape Painting series. Shot at Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, China. 5. "De
  Luce 1: Vegetare" by Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a
  garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin's alchemical experiments
  with the film material and photochemical processes. 6. "Watercolors" by
  Ann Deborah Levy-Colors, Patterns, and images, reflected on the surface
  of a pond mirror changes in seasons and weather over the course of a
  year to create this "painting in motion". 7. "Underfoot and Overstory"
  by Jason Livingston. Local environmentalists,the Friends of Hickory Hill
  Park, work to protect nearly 200 acres of unique urban parkland in Iowa
  City, Iowa. The organization's mission statement must be produced. The
  inaugural Hickory Hill Park calendar must be completed. Nature images
  run parallel, collide or drift beside the demands of group writing, open
  space and the park's changing boundary.

10/21
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 PETER KUBELKA PRESENTS MONUMENT FILM
  MONUMENT FILM (Peter Kubelka | Austria 2012 | c90 min) The Austrian
  filmmaker Peter Kubelka has been a vital and uncompromising force in
  cinema for more than half a century. In a body of work that lasts not
  much more than an hour in total, he condenses and articulates the
  essential qualities of analogue cinema, distinguishing film as an
  autonomous artform. His 1960 film ARNULF RAINER, composed only of the
  purest elements of light and darkness, sound and silence, remains one of
  the most radical achievements in film history. In 2012, his new work
  ANTIPHON – in equal terms a response to that earlier film and a
  testament to the entire medium – will be revealed in a unique lecture
  screening. With 35mm projectors situated in the auditorium, each film
  will be screened individually, then combined as double projections, both
  side-by-side and superimposed upon each other. Throughout the event,
  Kubelka will explicate his theories, communicating his enthusiasm for
  cinema, and the differences between film and digital media. (Mark
  Webber) 

10/21
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 THE POOR STOCKINGER, THE LUDDITE CROPPER AND THE DELUDED FOLLOWERS OF
 JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
  THE POOR STOCKINGER, THE LUDDITE CROPPER AND THE DELUDED FOLLOWERS OF
  JOANNA SOUTHCOTT (Luke Fowler | UK 2012 | 61 min) The new work by Luke
  Fowler, a current nominee for the Turner Prize, explores the role played
  by left wing intellectuals in the working class communities of post-war
  Yorkshire. At night schools organised by the Workers' Educational
  Association, adults with no other access to further education were
  taught by progressive thinkers such as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart
  and E.P. Thompson, from whose treatise The Making of the English Working
  Class the film takes its long-winded title. As in previous studies of
  R.D. Laing and Cornelius Cardew, Fowler makes effective use of archival
  and contemporary materials. The result is far from a conventional
  documentary: in place of objective commentary, the soundtrack features
  the lilting voice of artist Ceryth Wyn Evans reading Thompson's class
  reports (pointed and often droll). For the present-day images of
  municipal buildings, West Riding towns and surrounding landscapes,
  Fowler shot in collaboration with American independent filmmaker Peter
  Hutton. (Mark Webber) 

10/21
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS
  TEN MINUTIAE (Peter Miller | Germany 2012 | 5 min) A series of brief
  exercises in cinematographic magic. I AM MICRO (Shumona Goel & Shai
  Heredia | India 2011 | 15 min) 'Shot in an abandoned optics factory and
  centred on the activities of a low budget film crew, I am Micro is an
  experimental essay about filmmaking, the medium of film, and the spirit
  of making independent cinema.' RITA LARSON'S BOY (Kevin Jerome Everson |
  USA 2012 | 11 min) In one of a trilogy of works based on personalities
  from the filmmaker's parents' hometown, actors audition for the role of
  sitcom character Rollo Larson. As they attempt to inhabit the character,
  subtle variations in delivery bring a hypnotic dimension to disconnected
  lines and repetitive actions. TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE (Erin Espelie | USA
  2012 | 4 min) Espelie trains her camera on the myriad life forms that
  coexist within a small area around a mountain creek. 'When nature writes
  the screenplays, she doesn't abide by crescendos.' DARK GARDEN (Nick
  Collins | UK 2011 | 9 min) Contours of light define the flowers and
  plants of a winter garden, filmed against the black expanse of the night
  sky. WITHIN (Robert Todd | USA 2012 | 9 min) 'A film that sustains a
  complex condition: keeping the inner world alive as the camera looks
  'out' upon the world.' BY PAIN AND RHYME AND ARABESQUES OF FORAGING
  (David Gatten | USA 2012 | 8 min) An 'experiment touching colours'
  inspired by 17th Century scientist Robert Boyle, bringing together
  exquisite images shot over a 13-year period. Its title, from a sonnet by
  Jorie Graham, encapsulates the process and infers its poetic
  consequence. THE CREATION AS WE SAW IT (Ben Rivers | UK-Vanuatu 2012 |
  14 min) Unexpectedly given the opportunity to travel anywhere in the
  world, Ben Rivers chose Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Amidst the
  villages and landscapes of this remote archipelago, he sought out the
  creation myths and folktales of a distant culture. 

10/21
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
9pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 FLY INTO THE MYSTERY
  A LAX RIDDLE UNIT (Laida Lertxundi | Spain-USA 2011 | 6 min) 'In a Los
  Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved
  one. A film of the feminine structuring body.' AGATHA (Beatrice Gibson |
  UK 2012 | 14 min) Strangers in a strange land. As the narrator recounts
  a dream by composer Cornelius Cardew, the viewer is transported from the
  hills of Snowdonia to a mental landscape where sci-fi commingles with
  sexual fantasy. WELL THEN THERE NOW (Lewis Klahr | USA 2011 | 11 min)
  Loosely interpreting a scenario by John Zorn, Klahr uses subconscious
  logic to weave strands of suspense from collaged images and fragments of
  voiceover. THE PLANT (Mary Helena Clark | USA 2012 | 8 min) 'A film
  filled with clues and stray transmissions built on the bad geometry of
  point-of-view shots.' ARBOR (Janie Geiser | USA 2012 | 7 min) The
  layered imagery of Geiser's uncanny animations suggest surreal worlds
  and spectral presences. 'I was wide awake, in a dream.' THE TIGER'S MIND
  (Beatrice Gibson | UK 2012 | 20 min) Again referencing Cardew, Gibson's
  new project The Tiger's Mind takes his 1967 text score and applies it to
  the process of making a collaborative film, for which each contributor
  assumes the role of a character. The result is an abstract psychodrama
  and crime thriller set against the backdrop of a modernist house. 

10/21
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 MIRRORED CURTAINS: THE FILMS AND VIDEOS OF LORI
 FELKER
  Lori Felker's films and videos relish the idiosyncrasies of science
  fiction, public access television, and tourism as gateways to a better
  understanding of human behavior. These structures turn her
  experimental/experiential approaches into dark, self-reflective comedies
  that take us next to nowhere. Once referred to as a "zen prankster",
  Felker attempts to locate and stand upon the middle ground between polar
  opposites and dance between the surface and the subconscious. Filmmaker
  Lori Felker in person! TICKETS: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free
  for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets:
  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/281781 SCREENING: THIS IS MY SHOW
  (2009, HD, 15min), Mere Mystery (2010, 16mm [or HD video], 12min),
  ZWISCHEN (2006, 2 minutes, 16mm), Imperceptihole (2010, 16mm [or HD
  video], 14min [made with Robert Todd]), THE MIRRORED CURTAIN (2011, HD,
  10.5min), The Mennonite Federation (2012, 16mm [or HD video], made with
  Robert Todd & Craig Webster, 4.5 min), I OWN A CAROUSEL (2011, Super 8
  [or HD video], 7min), Across & Down (2012, Super 8/16mm to HD, 18min,
  experimental documentary) Total running time: 81 min


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