[Frameworks] Part 1 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2012] in avant garde cinema

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Part 1 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2012] in avant garde cinema

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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: November 01, 2012)
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OpenLens Festival (Eugene, OR, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2012)
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Home Movie Day - Oakland (Oakland, California; Deadline: October 20, 2012)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 29 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: October 29, 2012)
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Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, Serbia; Deadline: October 20, 2012)
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: October 26, 2012)
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MONO NO AWARE VI (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: October 31, 2012)
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Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, US; Deadline: October 31, 2012)
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Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2012)
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Go Short (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 01, 2012)
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FLEX Fest (Gainesville, FL, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2012)
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Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, United States; Deadline: October 15, 2012)
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Aural Fixation - The Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2012)
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Home Movie Day - Oakland (Oakland, California; Deadline: October 20, 2012)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 29 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: October 29, 2012)
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Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, Serbia; Deadline: October 20, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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 *  Projexorcism: Spaceglue Continuum [October 13, Baltimore]
 *  Needle Through Thumb [October 13, Brooklyn, New York]
 *  Fragments of Kubelka [October 13, London, England]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 13, New York]
 *  Stop & Go 3-D [October 13, Oakland, CA]
 *  Michael Koshkin's Pixel visions + Fialka's Pxl This 21 Fest   [October 13, San Francisco, California]
 *  Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane [October 14, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
 *  Home Movies and the Avant-Garde: Program 2 [October 14, Chicago, Illinois]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 14, New York]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 14, New York]
 *  Couleurs MéCaniques: Films of Rose Lowder [October 14, San Francisco, California]
 *  George & Mike Kuchar, New York: 1960-1970 [October 14, Seattle, Washington]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 15, New York]
 *  #44 = Monday October 15, 2012 = Helga Fanderl In Person! [October 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
 *  Julie Ault Presents James Benning's 11 X 14 [October 16, Brooklyn, New York]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 16, New York]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 17, New York]
 *  Abendland [October 17, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
 *  Sex Ed. Films On 16mm Film! Not To Be Missed (Learn and Laugh!) 8pm, Oct.
    18th. [October 18, Harrisburg, PA]
 *  Florian Cramer Presents Work From Worm.Filmwerkplaats [October 18, Los Angeles, California]
 *  Annual Benefit For Film-Makers' Coop October 18th! [October 18, New York, NY]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 18, New York]
 *  Two Years At Sea [October 18, New York]
 *  Sf Cinematheque Screening: "The Lighted Field: Beings and Relations" [October 18, San Francisco, California]
 *  The Lighted Field: Beings and Relations [October 18, San Francisco, California]
 *  Electromediascope [October 19, Kansas City, Missouri]
 *  TraitÉ De Bave Et D’ÉTernitÉ [October 19, London, England]
 *  Breaking the Frame [October 19, London, England]
 *  Home Movie Day! [October 20, Austin, TX]
 *  Two Years At Sea By Ben Rivers - Ben Rivers In Person [October 20, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
 *  Margaret Tait's “Caora Mor: the Big Sheep” & Symposium [October 20, Helmsdale]
 *  Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler [October 20, London, England]
 *  Two Architecture Studies [October 20, London, England]
 *  Mati Diop [October 20, London, England]
 *  Rites of Passage [October 20, London, England]
 *  Movies & Tv By Mark Toscano and Lori Felker [October 20, Los Angeles, California]
 *  Prelinger + Orphans In Space + First On the Moon + [October 20, San Francisco, California]
 *  Urban/Rural Landscpes [October 21, Greenbelt, Md]
 *  Peter Kubelka Presents Monument Film [October 21, London, England]
 *  The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of
    Joanna Southcott [October 21, London, England]
 *  Where the Magic Happens [October 21, London, England]
 *  Fly Into the Mystery [October 21, London, England]
 *  L.A. Filmforum Presents Mirrored Curtains: the Films and videos of Lori
    Felker [October 21, Los Angeles, California]


Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2012
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10/13
Baltimore: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8:30pm, Pent House Gallery |  Copy Cat B501 |  1511 Guilford Ave.

 PROJEXORCISM: SPACEGLUE CONTINUUM
  Doors @8:30pm | Performance @9:00pm | $5 | Sight Unseen and Projexorcism
  present: Spaceglue Continuum, a live cinema performance inspired by
  "duct tape and its history of utility in space and on screen." The eight
  films used in this performance are not spliced - they are manipulated
  with independent lighting controllers, disrupting the linear flow of
  plot and dialogue as other films are blended in and out in a dizzying
  stroboscopic maelstrom of light and optical sound - real time editing a
  new narrative out of old found films. Using eight 16mm projectors,
  bicycle chains, CD-Rs as image splitters, light controllers, VJ/DJ
  mixers, camcorder images scrambled digitally and re-projected through
  two butterflied video projectors, and optical audio, projectionist Ed
  Cooper weaves an absurd new sensory overload from found footage.

10/13
Brooklyn, New York: The Intercourse
http://theintercourse.org/events/
7 PM, 159 Pioneer St., Red Hook

 NEEDLE THROUGH THUMB
  Named after a classic sleight-of-hand trick, Needle Through Thumb is a
  program of trick-films, humorous structural films, cinematic puns, and
  films that use mis-direction and distraction of the viewer. Presented in
  conjunction with "Seeker An' The Trick," a show of paintings by Joey
  Frank. Screening Lineup: John Smith – Gargantuan, 1:00, 1981. Mark
  Toscano – Rating Dogs on a Scale of 1 to 10, 2:30, 2011. Robert Nelson –
  Oh Dem Watermelons, 10:45, 1965. James Otis – On Your Own, 2:00, 1981.
  Gary Beydler – Glass Face, 3:00, 1975. Leighton Pierce – Glass, 7:00,
  1998. Dana Hodgdon – Reflexfilm/Familyfilm, 22:00, 1978. Owen Land – New
  Improved Institutional Quality, 10:00, 1976. Tom Palazzolo – Love it /
  Leave it, 15:00, 1973. Scott Stark – Hotel Cartograph, 12:00, 1983.
  Curated by Alexander Stewart. All works screened on 16mm. trt: 85 mins 

10/13
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
1pm, ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH

 FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
  FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA (Martina Kudláček | Austria 2012 | 232 min
  plus brief interval) In this extended portrait, Peter Kubelka speaks at
  length about his life, work and interests, drawing on a vast range of
  knowledge and experience. Active as a filmmaker since the 1950s,
  Kubelka's acclaimed cinematic works are only one aspect of his dynamic
  personality. In his legendary public lectures, he holds forth on a
  variety of disciplines including film, music, archaeology and cooking.
  He has also played an important institutional role in establishing the
  Austrian Film Museum, and as co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, for
  whom he designed an ideal viewing theatre known as the Invisible Cinema.
  Martina Kudláček (known for previous documentaries on Maya Deren
  and Marie Menken) immersed herself in Kubelka's world for several years,
  researching historical footage, recording lectures, and perhaps most
  importantly, filming him at home surrounded by his eclectic collection
  of anthropological objects. In these precious sequences, Fragments of
  Kubelka provides extraordinary insight in conveying his philosophy on
  life and art. (Mark Webber) 

10/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5, 7 and 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/13
Oakland, CA: Studio Quercus
http://www.studioquercus.com
7:00 pm, 85 26th Street, Oakland, CA

 STOP & GO 3-D
  A new series of stop-motion animations from around the world
  (www.stopandgoshow.com)  The program dramatically plays with our visual
  senses through the artist's use of strobing effects, afterimages,
  anaglyphic experiments, optical elements and three-dimensional spoofs.
  Four of the animations in the program require the audience to wear
  red/cyan-colored glasses to fully engage with the work. This is the
  third installment of the Stop & Go program which was developed in 2008
  to showcase animations that use stop-motion techniques. Animations in
  the Stop & Go 3-D screening are by Santiago Caicedo de Roux, David
  Daniels, Iemke van Dijk, Joey Fauerso, José Heerkens, Gilbert Hsiao,
  Kalle Johansson & Bendik Kaltenborn, Sarah Klein & David Kwan, Abbey
  Luck & Sean Donnelly, Jodie Mack, Brian McClave, Claudia Molitor & Gavin
  Peacock, Kate Nartker, Mel Prest & Andrew Kleindolph, Johan Rijpma,
  Albert Roskam, Tal Rosner, Jennifer Schmidt, Molly Schwartz, Wade
  Shotter & Yukfoo Animation, Jeanne Stern and Mark de Weijer.
  Tickets:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/271634

10/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia

 MICHAEL KOSHKIN’S PIXEL VISIONS + FIALKA’S PXL THIS 21 FEST  
  In this hr-plus sneak preview, Pixel Visions examines the early life and
  growing subculture of Fisher Price PXL 2000 enthusiasts—how the first
  kids' video camera, using a simple audiocassette, turned the film world
  on, and found its way to Hollywood! Through interviews and rare footage,
  Koshkin demonstrates how this cheap plastic camera gave access to
  emerging artists attracted to its abstract b/w imagery. With Rick
  Linklater, Cecilia Doughtery, Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth), Peggy Ahwesh,
  and others. PLUS peripatetic media whiz Gerry Fialka, in the flesh with
  the finest from his famous fest: Clint Enns, Wago Kreider, Will Erokan,
  tENTATIVELY a convenience, and more!

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012
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10/14
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

 JORDAN BELSON: FILMS SACRED AND PROFANE
  Presented in association with the Center for Visual Music. The
  mesmerizing and otherworldly films of Jordan Belson (1926-2011) mark one
  of the unsurpassed high points in the history of post-WWII American
  experimental cinema. Defining a mode of rigorously and sublimely pure
  cinema, Belson’s films invent spellbinding abstract forms in order
  to engage and expand perceptual experience, exploring a realm beyond
  habitual vision and somewhere deeper within human consciousness.
  Belson’s long fascination with space travel and Eastern religions
  guided his exploration of light as a sculptural element, imbued with
  celestial, ethereal and mystical properties. In now iconic works such as
  Allures, Re-entry, Samadhi and the aptly named Light, Belson radically
  transformed the abstract film as defined earlier by Oskar Fischinger and
  Norman McLaren into an immersive and meditative experience, opening
  swirling, glittering depths in the screen for the “mind’s
  eye” to travel. Rarely acknowledged are the ways Belson’s
  films were in dialogue with the most progressive art of its time, both
  the op-art of Bridget Riley and the Light and Space movement of the
  1960s of Robert Irwin, Peter Alexander, et al., the West Coast school of
  minimalism that discovered a kind of vernacular sacred within the
  intense Southern California sunlight. Belson’s work remained
  largely unseen for many years until the Center for Visual Music
  undertook an ambitious preservation initiative focused on Belson and the
  work of other abstract filmmakers. Presented in association with the
  CVM, the program includes a number of key titles recently preserved by
  the Center as well as Belson’s marvelous final film, Epilogue
  which was commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum for their vitally
  important Visual Music exhibition. The Harvard Film Archive is pleased
  to welcome Center for Visual Music curator and archivist Cindy Keefer to
  present an exciting showcase of Belson’s cinema that includes both
  new preserved titles and rare archival prints. Introduction by Cindy
  Keefer Sunday October 14 at 7pm Caravan US 1952, 16mm, color, 4 min
  Séance US 1959, 16mm, color, 3.5 min Allures US 1961, 16mm, color, 8 min
  Re-entry US 1964, 16mm transferred to digital video, color, 6 min
  Momentum US 1968, 16mm, color, 6 min Chakra US 1972, 16mm, color, 6 min
  Light US 1973, 16mm, color, 6 min Cycles Directed by Jordan Belson and
  Stephen Beck US 1974, 16mm, color, 10 min Music of the Spheres US
  1977/2002, digital video, color, 7 min Epilogue US 2005, digial video,
  color, 12 min Quartet US c. 1982, 16mm, color, silent, 10 min
  (unfinished) 

10/14
Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society
http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org
7:00 PM, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th Floor

 HOME MOVIES AND THE AVANT-GARDE: PROGRAM 2
  Presented in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives as part of
  Home Movie Day — The Program: [1] The Persistence of Memory (Ricardo
  Block, 1984, 16.5 min, 16mm from Filmmaker's Coop) [2] A Trip to the
  Land of Knowledge (Zoe Beloff, 1995, 65 min, 16mm from Filmmaker's Coop)
  [3] Reflexfilm/Familyfilm (Dana Hodgdon, 1978, 22 min, 16mm from Chicago
  Filmmakers) — For decades, home movies and avant-garde films were
  jointly denigrated as 'amateur' in the least appealing sense: precious,
  obscure, endless, and immeasurably handicapped by a lack of professional
  polish. They were judged as failed attempts at Hollywood-style
  filmmaking, though their aspirations and implications often could not be
  more removed. In the 1960s, avant-garde filmmakers like Jonas Mekas and
  Stan Vanderbeek began reclaiming the epithet of 'home moviemakers,'
  producing work that challenged the borders of amateur cinema and
  domesticity itself. In honor of the tenth anniversary of Home Movie Day,
  we present two programs of avant-garde films that exalt, appropriate,
  and reshuffle home movies.

10/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5, 7 and 9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/14
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
4 pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)

 COULEURS MéCANIQUES: FILMS OF ROSE LOWDER
  "The most memorable of Lowder's films are experiments in creating
  distinct visual experiences that, in their reduction of day-long
  phenomena into brief, precise, intense cinematic moments, sing the
  potential of an ecological film aesthetic." (Scott MacDonald) Hailing
  from the south of France, filmmaker, curator and archivist Rose Lowder
  has created, since 1978, a remarkable body of 16mm films which explore
  visual perception and the mechanics of the cinematic apparatus while
  absolutely exploding with ecstatic color and vibrant kineticism.
  Inspired largely by the rhythms of nature and rural life, Lowder's films
  joyously celebrate the textures of the natural world with an
  impassioned, impressionistic eye. This two-part series, presented on the
  occasion of her first visit to the Bay Area since 1987, represents a
  brief overview of Lowder's extraordinary body of work, 1978–2011. Second
  program to include: Roulement, rouerie, aubage, a study of paddle wheels
  on the River Sorgue; Rue des Teinturiers a longitudinal exploration of
  an urban landscape via intricate focus-pulling; Les Coquelicots
  (Poppies), a fusion of fishing boats and a field of red poppies; Jardin
  du sel/Salt Garden, a series of six poetic pictures, based on the sun,
  the wind and the sea, a strangely dark documentation of a sea-salt
  harvest; Bouquets 11-20, ten tightly structured, intricately woven,
  single-frame floral flicker films; and Beijing 1988, in which the
  ancient traditional philosophies and social practices of Chinese culture
  confront the ideological ambitions of the State. (Steve Polta)

10/14
Seattle, Washington: Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
www.malicamalya.com
4:00, Northwest Film Forum

 GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR, NEW YORK: 1960-1970
  "CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE RUMPOT: The Midnight Movies of George & Mike
  Kuchar; New York, 1960-1970 curated by Malic Amalya, with Mike Kuchar in
  attendance This program celebrates the life and work of the Kuchar
  brothers, their filmmaking legacy, their dazzling low-fi aesthetics, and
  the decade that launched them from their mother's apartment in the Bronx
  into the underworld of avant-garde cinema. With 16mm prints preserved by
  Anthology Film Archives, with support from the Film Foundation and the
  National Film Preservation Foundation. I WAS A TEENAGE RUMPOT (The
  Kuchar Brothers, 1960); PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF (The Kuchar Brothers,
  1961); SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS (Mike Kuchar, 1965); HOLD ME WHILE I'M
  NAKED (George Kuchar, 1966); ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN (George Kuchar,
  1967); KNOCTURN (George Kuchar, 1968); with a special screening of Mike
  Kuchar's SWAN SONG (2009)

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
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10/15
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00pm, Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West

 #44 = MONDAY OCTOBER 15, 2012 = HELGA FANDERL IN PERSON!
  Communing with Joseph Cornell's The Aviary We're pleased to present an
  evening of films by and with Helga Fanderl inspired by Joseph Cornell's
  1955 film The Aviary. Fanderl is an incredibly prolific film artist
  whose mostly in camera-edited works are beautifully poetic ruminiations
  on the quotidian; she is currently in Toronto as artist-in-residence at
  LIFT. "It was a challenge and a new experience to build a programme
  around Joseph Cornell's and Rudy Burckhardt's film The Aviary, a work
  that I have loved for a long time. With a selection of my films – both
  Super 8 and 16mm blow-ups – on the one hand I want to echo in a freely
  associative way specific qualities and motives of this fine work, making
  the beholder feel a mental and poetic affinity, on the other hand to
  give an insight into my way of filmmaking which is also different. To
  and fro as it were." - Helga Fanderl German-born filmmaker Helga Fanderl
  has been making Super-8 films since the mid 1980s. Silent, short, and
  edited in-camera, her films reflect the lightness and spontaneity of the
  small-gauge medium and camera. "With the Super-8 camera I can react very
  quickly: the eye against the viewfinder, the camera close to the body,
  perceiving and filming simultaneously." Working in both black-and-white
  and color, the intensive poetic works (none is over three minutes)
  reveal a surprising and sensitive view of the environment: patterns of
  flight above tall trees or gray skyscrapers, shimmying leaves and
  falling green apples, flying baskets full of silver sardines shown in
  rapid succession. http://helgafanderl.com Helga is also offering a
  workshop at LIFT during her residency!

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
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10/16
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street

 JULIE AULT PRESENTS JAMES BENNING'S 11 X 14
  11 x 14, James Benning, 16mm, 1976, 83 mins, Introduced by Julie Ault -
  "When I made 11 x 14, finally I thought I had something to say: I think
  that's when I really became a filmmaker." - James Benning - One of James
  Benning's major early works, 11 x 14 grew out of his earlier 8 1/2 x 11
  (1974). Exactly a third of the latter film's shots are re-used in 11 x
  14, expanding the original set of central characters from three to four,
  and increasing the interwoven, elliptical storylines from two to three:
  a young lesbian couple travelling across the Midwest, a married man who
  may be having an affair, and another man who's hitchhiking while looking
  for work. Benning's goal, as he puts it, was "to construct a narrative
  that would destroy a narrative that already existed." The film moves
  forward through a series of precisely composed single-shot sequences,
  mostly static and yet sensually rich, interspersed with punctuations of
  black leader. Each sequence refigures fundamentals of cinematic form,
  whether playing with sound-image relations, displacing action into
  offscreen space, or introducing apparent doppelgangers into the cast. -
  "I wanted to develop, out of their juxtaposition in a particular way, a
  non-linear reading of the film as a whole, or what I call
  ‘spherical space.' I try to introduce various visual
  or audial motifs which recur in shots widely separated in the film,"
  Benning has said. "By the time the film is finished, it will have been
  possible to relate shots in a number of different ways. This sort of
  cross-referencing is what I mean by ‘spherical
  space.'" Or, as Benning has offered elsewhere: "Hopefully, the film
  teaches you how to watch the film." - Tickets - $7, available at door. -
  Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office
  opens at 7pm.

10/16
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 and 9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012
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10/17
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7 and 9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/17
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia
http://ihousephilly.org/events/abendland/
7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street

 ABENDLAND
  dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2011, 35mm, 90mins, color, German w/
  English subtitles ///// Some things can be seen more clearly at night:
  Abendland, Nikolaus Geyrhalter's new feature film, undertakes a long,
  associative journey, surveying Europe by night in terms of its many
  different facets. Pulsating society of service providers and prosperity,
  bulwark of security and exclusion, urban civilization, hedonistic temple
  of earthly delights, inspired and weighed down at the same time by its
  history, traditions and highly developed culture. Night work,
  obliviousness to the surrounding world, noise and silence, a Babel of
  languages and translation problems, one's first steps in life, disease,
  death and desperate attempts to cross borders: All this is revealed by
  Geyrhalter's camerawork and in Wolfgang Widerhofer's careful editing,
  which produce an essay film with powerful images about a continent and
  the principle of the Western world, Abendland. At times, it seems to be
  on the verge of breathing its last breath. Once in Europa is the title
  of a 1987 tale by novelist and essayist John Berger which examines the
  unjustness of being born into certain conditions. A similar motivation
  may have driven Nikolaus Geyrhalter and the resolute gaze he directs at
  present-day life in this unjust Europe: a love of humanity that grows
  stronger through distance. Some things can be seen more clearly at
  night.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012
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10/18
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate Harrisburg
8:00, The Other Room Theatre

 SEX ED. FILMS ON 16MM FILM! NOT TO BE MISSED (LEARN AND LAUGH!) 8PM, OCT.
 18TH.
  SEX EDUCATION FILMS on 16mm film! (LEARN AND LAUGH!) - EVERYONE NEEDS TO
  SEE SOME: SEX ED. FILMS! - 16mm film prints too (not a video projection)
  - "SEX, CHOICES, and YOU" 1988, 17 min. Color, Sound. STARRING
  ALEXANDRA PAUL (of BAYWATCH fame) - "VENERIAL DISEASE: HIDDEN
  EPIDEMIC" 1972, color, sound. - "THEN ONE YEAR" 19 min.
  color, sound. from the study guide: "Can a girl get pregnant if
  she's not married?" "Do you become pregnant if you pet?"
  "Are necking and petting bad for the health?" - "RED
  LIGHT GREEN LIGHT" - "BECAUSE HE MADE ME FEEL IMPORTANT"
  - "NO MORE SECRETS" - 8pm at The Other Room Theatre, Pine
  Street, Lancaster - $ donation - always a good time! - Venue/Location: -
  THE OTHER ROOM THEATRE at F&M, Lancaster

10/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)

 FLORIAN CRAMER PRESENTS WORK FROM WORM.FILMWERKPLAATS
  $5 / In more than a decade, the film work space at WORM, Rotterdam, The
  Netherlands, has become one of Europe's leading DIY film labs and
  production space for non-narrative (and sometimes also narrative) film.
  It is a vital part of a large international network of DIY labs and
  micro cinemas. Florian Cramer from Rotterdam has brought along a
  selection of 8 and 16mm films from WORM.filmwerkplaats and will
  introduce them to the audience. These films were made with intricate
  analog laboratory processes and printing techniques. Many of them are
  lyrical, many of them oscillate between nature and cityscapes, abstract
  and concrete imagery. In stark contrast, the 45 min. film Ctrl-Alt-Esc
  from Rotterdam is an adults-only exploitation movie featuring Joep van
  Lieshout as maniac artist/serial killer Bokito and, most importantly,
  the building of WORM.

10/18
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
6pm, 253 East Houston St.

 ANNUAL BENEFIT FOR FILM-MAKERS' COOP OCTOBER 18TH!
  Displaying Artists Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon, Victoria Keddie,
  Matt Wellins, Hollis Frampton, Barbara Rubin, Standish Lawder, Zach
  Layton.

10/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/18
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 TWO YEARS AT SEA
  See notes for Oct. 12, 7 pm. 

10/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA

 SF CINEMATHEQUE SCREENING: "THE LIGHTED FIELD: BEINGS AND RELATIONS"
  Like the works in the exhibition Field Conditions, the films and videos
  in this program imagine the cinematic frame as a locus of diffuse and
  vibrant energy, a ground from which figures may (or may not) emerge.
  Featuring Len Lye's Free Radicals and Particles in Space; Jodie Mack's
  Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside and Untitled (for R.); Nathaniel
  Dorsky's Pneuma; Andrew Noren's Imaginary Light; Semiconductor's 20Hz;
  and Karl Lemieux's Mamori. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA and San Francisco
  Cinematheque members, students, and seniors. 

10/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7 PM, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street (between Mission & Howard Streets)

 THE LIGHTED FIELD: BEINGS AND RELATIONS
  SFMOMA's Field Conditions (on view September 1–January 6) presents
  graphic works which, in the words of the exhibition's curator Joseph
  Becker, "redefine the relationships between figure and ground, […] place
  and non-place, finite and infinite." Similarly, the film/video works in
  this program imagine the cinematic frame as a locus of diffuse and
  vibrant energy, as a ground from which figures may (or may not) emerge.
  Len Lye's Free Radicals and Particles in Space use the simplest of
  graphic film techniques to enter the third-dimension. Jodie Mack's
  Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside, flickering and flocking, goes
  postal on the picture plane while her Untitled (for R.) finds foreground
  and background playfully (and profoundly) confounded. Nathaniel Dorsky's
  1983 film Pneuma—a glorious arrangement of color film stocks, unexposed
  and imageless—celebrates the cinematic understructure, the material and
  spiritual essence of the cinematic ground. Finally, Andrew Noren's
  Imaginary Light, described as "intuitive conjuring and orchestration of
  retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind,"
  is an exhilarating and vertiginous plunge into the dematerialized dramas
  of light and shadow revealed in everyday views. Also screening: 20Hz by
  Semiconductor, a sculptural visualization of a high atmosphere
  geo-magnetic storm; and Mamori by Karl Lemieux, a kinetic study of the
  Amazon rain forest, created in collaboration with composer Francisco
  López. (Steve Polta)

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10/19
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street

 ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
  Possible Worlds: Community, Identity and Culture. "El Velador / The
  Night Watchman," Natalia Almada (Mexico / USA), 2011, 72 min, HD video
  transferred to DVD, Spanish with English subtitles. This film explores
  the violence that is pointlessly destroying Mexico, and rescues a sense
  of humanity from the heart of that violence. "The history of the world
  has been shaped by climate, war, famine, disease, Diasporas,
  revolutions, invention, energy and commerce. These influences all
  continue to contribute to the socio-political and cultural dynamics of
  change. Several new technological and intellectual developments are
  affecting the ways that people think about the communities that they are
  born into as well as those that they choose. The very notion of
  communities itself is complex with different scales and qualities,
  including the community of those who do not belong to a community, open
  permeable communities and closed or static societies where power is
  achieved through violence, ethnic cleansing and dictatorial or fascist
  control that maintains the status quo in the face of global change. At a
  time when the dysfunctional and often horrific dissolution and
  destruction of communities is becoming more prevalent artists and
  filmmakers are producing works that document and raise critical
  questions regarding what, how and if the limits of community that are
  emerging are relevant in the context of today's global political,
  economic and social crises." -- Patrick Clancy. This series began on
  October 12 and will continue on October 26. 

10/19
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
6:30pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ÉTERNITÉ
  ON VENOM AND ETERNITY (TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D'ÉTERNITÉ) (Isidore Isou |
  France 1951 | 120 min | new print) The first and only film by the
  founder of the French Lettrist movement begins with a warning: 'Dear
  spectators, you are about to see a discrepant film. No refunds will be
  given.' Advocating for the rupture of language and photography, Isou
  expects the spectator to 'leave the cinema blind, his ears crushed, both
  torn asunder by the disjunction of word and image'. At the 1951 Cannes
  Festival, where Traité received its first pubic screening, it won the
  admiration of Guy Debord and Jean Cocteau, who wondered if it would take
  50 years before its radical aesthetics could be understood. The
  Lettrists believed the development of cinema had been stalled by the
  domination of the studio system. In order for a new cinema to emerge, it
  had first to be destroyed – symbolically and physically – by bleaching
  and scratching the images, and by replacing soundtracks with abrasive
  concrete poetry and enraged tirades. (Mark Webber) 

10/19
London, England: BFI London Film Festival
www.experimentaweekend.org.uk
9pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

 BREAKING THE FRAME
  BREAKING THE FRAME (Marielle Nitoslawska | Canada 2012 | 100 min)
  Breaking the Frame is the first feature-length documentary on Carolee
  Schneemann, an artist whose pioneering work has transformed discourses
  on the body, sexuality and gender. In cinema history, she is primarily
  known for Fuses, an honestly explicit film of lovemaking from a feminine
  viewpoint shot between 1964-67. For decades, Schneemann has similarly
  challenged taboos in other media, making paintings, performances, video,
  collage and installations in which personal experiences are absolutely
  entwined with formal considerations: 'Form is emotion. I work towards
  metaphors of sensation, a dramatization of loss and recovery.' Her
  kinetic performance style, developed while a key member of the Judson
  Dance Theater, produced pieces such as Meat Joy, Up To And Including Her
  Limits and Interior Scroll, now regarded as seminal works of live art.
  In this mesmerising film, which forgoes chronological biography, the
  artist generously shares her memories and extraordinary personal
  archive. (Mark Webber) 


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