[Frameworks] This week [September 15 - 23, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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San Pedro International Film Festival (San Pedro, Ca; Deadline: September 15, 2012)
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Blue Ocean Film Festival (monterey, ca, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2012)
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ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: February 15, 2013)
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Images Festival (Toronto, CANADA; Deadline: October 01, 2012)
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INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATORY (Ghana; Deadline: October 02, 2012)
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Last Vacancies 2012 Portugal Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2012)
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(Re)Capturing Womanhood (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: October 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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The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 15, 2012)
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 08, 2012)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Erc Atx! [September 15, Austin, TX]
* Lost Horizon [September 15, Boston, Massachusetts]
* New Works Salon [September 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 6. Passing
Time [September 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Damon Packard's Foxfur + Marcy Saude's Van Tassel [September 15, San Francisco, California]
* Home Movies and the Avant-Garde: Program 1 [September 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Touch.30 [September 16, New York, New York]
* High Zero: A Night of Experimental Film and video [September 17, Baltimore, MC]
* Double Tide By Sharon Lockhart [September 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* The Sounds of Silence 2: Sonic Slippage [September 17, Houston, Texas]
* Early Monthly Segments #43 = TéO Hernandez [September 17, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Taylor Mead Program 1 [September 19, New York, New York]
* Taylor Mead Program 2 [September 19, New York, New York]
* 4-Day Film Festival [September 20, Brooklyn in NY]
* The Renegades: Films From the Collection Selected By Apichatpong
Weerasethakul [September 20, Minneapolis, Minnesota]
* Open Screening [September 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Filmmobile Presents the Sound We See: Los Angeles and Rotterdam [September 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 7. visiting
Our Neighbors [September 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Calgary International Film Festival; 617 8th Avenue Sw Calgary Ab, T2p
1h1 [September 22, Calgary AB]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 8. Whose
Reality? [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Jon Moritsugu's Pig Death Machine [September 22, San Francisco, California]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian
Experimental Cinema - Part 9: Here's Looking At You [September 23, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
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9/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
8pm, Co-Lab Projects, 613 Allen St,
ERC ATX!
ERC ATX, in collaboration with Co-Lab Projects, is proud to present our
first show dedicated to local moving image artists. In conjunction to
our mission of bringing classical and contemporary experimental cinema
to Austin, ERC ATX aims to showcase the rich work that is happening
within our midst, while further fostering a community around an other
cinema. - Featuring work by Lyndsay Bloom, Jason Cortlund & Julia
Halperin, Nathan Duncan, Jarrett Hayman, Caroline Koebel, Metrah
Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar, Scott Stark and Rachel Stuckey.
9/15
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
1:00pm, 559 Washington St.
LOST HORIZON
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents Lost Horizon. Fleeing a Chinese
revolution, four civilians crash-land their hijacked plane in the
Himalayas and are rescued by the people of Shangri-la. Shrouded in
mystery, they discover a hidden world of peace and harmony in this
enchanted paradise where time stands still. Based on the best-selling
novel by James Hilton, director Frank Capra's masterpiece stars Ronald
Colman and Jane Wyatt, and was a box office hit at the time of its
release. Lost Horizon won Academy Awards for Art Direction (Set Design)
and Film Editing, and was widely circulated among the armed services
during World War II. Box Office: (617) 824-8400 General Public: $10 |
Members & Seniors: $7.50 | Students: $5 | Emerson Students: Free
9/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
NEW WORKS SALON
Several local and visiting artists will present new in-progress or
recently completed works. Bay Area-based Zach Iannazzi will be here with
two recent 16mm films; Wildness Regained! from 2008 presents factless
documents of a man-altered landscape, and his two-projector When I Get
Back From Massachusetts from 2011 in which New England bliss looms a
little strange. Local artist Pablo Valencia will project a new
collection of Super 8 miniatures: portraits, landscapes, abstractions.
And Pat O'Neill presents his new digital video Painter and Ball 4-14,
which is, in part, a record of summer overtaking spring outside my
studio window, while a chunky little manikin levitates in joyous
captivity. Ross Lipman will present the newest part of his The Perfect
Heart of Flux, a cycle of works on the nature of organic change: Casa
Loma (Dignity and Impudence). Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion
of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire,
Pellatt was derided by fellow aristocrats for nouveau-riche pretentions:
the house and its décor considered by many an ornate fake. Its original
contents were sold at Pellatt's bankruptcy auction in 1924. Today the
building is a museum; its current curators filling its halls with
furniture and trappings of the general era. In one corridor, carefully
lit, is a folk-art portrait of two dogs accompanied by the sentimental
epithet, "Dignity and impudence."
9/15
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 6. PASSING
TIME
The passage of time and a certain amount of distance were probably
necessary before visual artists began questioning the reality and
aftermath of Nazism. This program introduces several rarely screened
works that directly confront recent Austrian history, and they had
obvious and radical social, political and artistic repercussions for the
Viennese Actionists and the student protests of May '68. Time has passed
over dark horizons to become permeated with transforming cities or
history in neighbouring countries through the use of judiciously chosen
found footage. Works in this program include NS Trilogie Part II:
Feeling Kazet (1997); NIGHTSTILL (2007); KUNST & REVOLUTIONARY ART &
REVOLUTION (1968); 55/95 (1994); EIN DRITTES REICH (1975); TITO-MATERIAL
(1998); CITYSCAPES (2007); 20/68 SCHATZI (1968). Total running time: 79
min.
9/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia
DAMON PACKARD’S FOXFUR + MARCY SAUDE’S VAN TASSEL
OC hosts SoCal bête noire Damon Packard, with the much-anticipated
NorCal premiere of his hr-long Foxfur! Packard's protagonist, a sweet,
fragile, mentally unbalanced young girl obsessed with crystals,
dolphins, Pleiadian UFOs and David Icke, becomes disillusioned with New
Age philosophy…but now she must discover the secret of the year 1982 and
its connection to present day 2012! ALSO in person is ebullient Marcy
Saude with her half-hr slideshow on the legendary George Van Tassel,
ET-attuned habitué of the Giant Rock and builder of the Integratron.
PLUS The Fairytale World of Alexander Ptushko, glimpses of the
battery-powered Aetherius Society, and free VHS tapes! Come early for
complimentary champagne at our season-opening reception, bathed in the
reflected light of Unarius' Uriel.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
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9/16
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 1
Presented in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives as part of
Home Movie Day — The Program: [1] People Near Here (Ron Finne, 1969, 12
min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [2] Urban Peasants (Ken Jacobs, 1975,
60 min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [3] Shit Rat (Dave Rodriguez, 2012,
20 min, 16mm from the artist) — 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.
9/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TOUCH.30
In September 2012 Touch, one of the premiere international labels for
experimental music, will present a series of events in Manhattan and
Brooklyn at ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, and Anthology
Film Archives to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Since its first
release in 1982, Touch has created sonic and visual productions that
combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it
the most enduring of any independent music company of its time. The
label has presented a wide range of artists from New Order to Thomas
Köner, and now has a strong focus on artists such as Fennesz, Chris
Watson, Philip Jeck, Jana Winderen, Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi,
and Biosphere. This screening features THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY, the product
of a week-long treasure hunt to unearth old records, field recordings,
home-made sounds, and images, with audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen, and
LIQUID MUSIC, a piece featuring the music of Christian Fennesz, with
footage from Prague, Paxos, Crete, Cephalonia, Messinia, London, and
Monterey Bay. THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY 2010, 48 minutes, video. Directed by
Mike Harding; visuals by Jon Wozencroft; audio by Philip Jeck &
BJNilsen. LIQUID MUSIC 2012, 40 minutes, video. Visuals by Jon
Wozencroft; audio by Christian Fennesz. Total running time: ca. 95
minutes.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
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9/17
Baltimore, MC: High Zero Festival
7pm, The Charles Theater, 1711 N. Charles Street
HIGH ZERO: A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
We are excited to announce... - The second annual High Zero Festival
EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO NIGHT. - Monday, September 17th, 7pm
screening, The Charles Theatre - Baltimore, MD. $5 - With films by: -
ANNE MCGUIRE, BEN GWILLIAM, FRED WORDEN, M.C. SCHMIDT, MICHAEL ROBINSON,
JOHN BERNDT, LAURE PROUVOST, TOM BORAM, MELINA AUSIKAITIKUS, FRANCO
GONZALEZ, MEG RORISON, KENNETH ZORAN CURWOOD - - Curated by - Meg
Rorison, M.C. Schmidt, and Mary Helena Clark. - Funded by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator
of the Baker Artist Awards, and Station North Arts & Entertainment,
Inc.
9/17
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
DOUBLE TIDE BY SHARON LOCKHART
Special Event Tickets $12 - Sharon Lockhart in Person Monday September
17 at 7pm Double Tide Directed by Sharon Lockhart US 2009, digital
video, color, 99 min Offering a poetic counterpoint to her earlier
factory diptych, Lunchbreak (2008) and Exit (2008), Sharon Lockhart
returned to Maine and her abiding interest in American labor in her
exquisite and meditative Double Tide, a portrait of a clam digger hard
at work on the day of an ultra-rare occurrence – two daytime low tides,
at dawn and dusk. Lockhart's roots in photography and structuralist
cinema intertwine as she follows the transforming landscapes of the
misty morning and the quiet close of day, with the solitary figure of
the clam digger, a poignant emblem of New England's slowly fading
historic industries. Also exhibited as a two channel video installation,
Double Tide is a meditative expansion and enrichment of the ideas of
"stillness" and landscape that remain important thematic
constants of Lockhart's oeuvre. The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to
welcome back Sharon Lockhart who will be joined by the subject of her
film, clam digger Jen Casard.
9/17
Houston, Texas: The Menhil Collection
http://www.menil.org/programs/TheSoundsofSilence.php
7pm, 1533 Sul Ross Street
THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE 2: SONIC SLIPPAGE
The three-part series The Sounds of Silence tracks the many ways in
which media artists have engaged sound and its diminutive double,
silence. From the muted films of Stan Brakhage and Nathaniel Dorsky,
through the clamorous scores of Harry Smith and Peggy Ahwesh, to the
sampled sonorities of Warner Jepson and Stephen Vitiello, the series
follows the artist's use of film sound as it evolved through numerous
improvisations. The film program was organized by Steve Seid, Video
Curator of University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive. Thanks to Rice University, Department of Visual and
Dramatic Arts. PROGRAM 2: Sonic Slippage looks at films and tapes that
all make use of sound, but display some of the ways in which the picture
track is utterly altered by the addition of sound. Lossless #2 Rebecca
Baron, Douglas Goodwin (2008, Sound, 3 mins, B&W, Video); Rose Hobart
Joseph Cornell (1936, Sound on Cassette, 19 mins, B&W/ Tinted, 16 fps,
16mm, From Anthology Film Archive, Permission Museum of Mod); Film No.
3: Interwoven Harry Smith (1947-49, Sound, 3:20 mins, Color, 16mm);
Looking for Mushrooms Bruce Conner (1967, Sound, 4 mins, Color, 16mm);
Lilith Steina (1987, Sound, 9:15 mins, Color, Video); Looking for
Mushrooms Bruce Conner (1996, Sound, 14 mins, Color,16mm); Driven Scott
Stark (2005, Sound, 8:10 mins, Color, Video); She-Puppet Peggy Ahwesh
(2001, Sound, 15 mins, Color, Video).
9/17
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8pm, Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #43 = TéO HERNANDEZ
We are very excited to be presenting two films by the underknown
experimental filmmaker Téo Hernandez (1939-1992). Born in Mexico,
Hernandez studied architecture before co-founding the CEC (Centro
Experimental de Cinematografia) in 1960 in Mexico City. He moved to
Paris in 1966 and from 1968 to 1975 began to realise an extensive number
of personal films, all shot in Super-8, some on travels to Morocco,
Denmark and London, others in his adopted hometown, Paris. Many of
Hernandez's films are marked by strong sweeping camera movements and
single-frame shooting of places and spaces near and dear to him. He
later flirted with feature-length works, including a queer take on
Salomé, which heralded the emergence of a new movement in French
experimental filmmaking, dubbed "l'École du corps" ("the School of the
Body"). Tonight we'll be showing two films, one a personal Super-8
time-lapse film from winter 1978 and the second a magical Super-8 (shown
on 16mm) single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring
luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square.
"The camera, carried by the agility and strength of the arm, is a
phallic extension. The vibration of the image, my convulsive rhythm is
an amplified and intensified sexual act. -Téo Hernandez. Programme:
Nuestra Señora de Paris, Téo Hernandez, 1981, France, Super 8 on 16mm,
col, silent, 22 min Tables d'hivers, Téo Hernandez, 1978-9, France,
Super-8, colour, sound, 39 min
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
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9/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TAYLOR MEAD PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: THE GREAT AMERICAN SILENT MOVIE (1971, 7 minutes, video) A
movie shot on Super-8 film at Max's Kansas City restaurant, featuring
Taylor, Candy Darling, and Tiger Morse. A wild and wonderful erotic
dance. WASHINGTON RASPUTIN (1976, 38 minutes, video) Taylor Mead is
Grandma, heiress to the Washington-Morgan-Rasputin fortune. Tinkerbelle
and Nancy North make appearances. THE AGING ROCK STAR (1973, 30 minutes,
video) Taylor plays an aging rock star who is planning a comeback and
hopes to make millions until all of his ex-wives suddenly appear at his
door. Featuring Candy Darling, Nancy North, and Darsea D'Wilde. Total
running time: ca. 80 minutes.
9/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TAYLOR MEAD PROGRAM 2
NIXON CAMBODIA (1973, 38 minutes, video) Taylor plays President Nixon
and some Washington wives. Featuring Herb Smokler, Bert Pence, and Rene
Metch. ULYSSES AND THE PHANTOM (1973, 38 minutes, video) Taylor plays
the legendary traveler who after a long absence returns home to find
that everything is changed, including his wife and houseguests.
Featuring Taylor Mead, Susan Blond, Tinkerbelle, and Rene Metch. THE
MONSTER KIT (1974, 15 minutes, video) Taylor is hired by Playgirl
Magazine to pose for the centerfold. They send a personal trainer to
improve his physique, but the trainer becomes a monster. Total running
time: ca. 95 minutes.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
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9/20
Brooklyn in NY: Greenpoint Film Festival
http://greenpointfilmfestival.org
Four days 9/20-23, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
4-DAY FILM FESTIVAL
screening experimental, narrative, documentary, animation, features and
shorts, 16MM and digital. Open to student work.
www.greenpointfilmfestival/submissions Will screen curated programs and
selected entries early Fall 2012. GFF is in its second year.
9/20
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html
7:30, Walker Art Center Lecture Room, 1750 Hennepin Ave
THE RENEGADES: FILMS FROM THE COLLECTION SELECTED BY APICHATPONG
WEERASETHAKUL
In conjunction with the opening of The Renegades: American Avant-Garde
Film 1960 – 1973, contemporary renegade Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
selects nine short films from the Ruben Bentson Film and Video Study
Collection that help to define American avant-garde film. 90 minutes.
Invocation of My Demon Brother Directed by Kenneth Anger. 1969, 16mm, 12
minutes. Thigh Line Lyre Triangular Directed by Stan Brakhage. 1961,
16mm, 5 minutes. Sexual Meditation Motel #1 Directed by Stan Brakhage.
1970, 16mm, 6 minutes. TEN SECOND FILM Directed by Bruce Conner. 1965,
16mm, 10 seconds. Hold Me While I'm Naked Directed by George Kuchar.
1966, 16mm, 15 minutes. Bleu Shut Directed by Robert Nelson. 1971,
16mm, 30 minutes. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, Directed by Paul Sharits. 1969,
16mm, 11 minutes. Lapis Directed by James Whitney. 1966, 16mm, 10
minutes. Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be premiering his new film
Mekong Hotel at the Walker Art Center on October 27. He also created an
exclusive online piece for the Walker which will premiere on the Walker
Channel in October.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
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9/21
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 PM, At Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St.
OPEN SCREENING
It's that time again! Our popular Open Screenings feature whatever walks
in the door — it could be anything: insane comedies, touching dramas,
high-energy music videos, odd animation, hot topic documentaries,
neighborhood portraits, or who knows what. Join us to showcase your work
or just come to watch. Maximum length per person is 20 minutes, and we
will screen at least one work from everyone who brings something up to
that time length. Accepted formats: DVD only. Nothing X-rated—sorry!
Free admission
9/21
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, Corner of W. 37th and S. Hill Street 90089
FILMMOBILE PRESENTS THE SOUND WE SEE: LOS ANGELES AND ROTTERDAM
City Symphonies are a style of filmmaking created in the 1920's that
sought to celebrate the urban environment by capturing its form and flow
on motion picture film, free of actors and narrative devices. Earlier
this year, two of our staff members spent four months working with
immigrant and at-risk youth at WORM in Rotterdam, Holland to create a
modern-day City Symphony. This film was a sister project to The Sound We
See: A Los Angeles City Symphony created in 2010 by 37 local teenagers.
Both films celebrate local landscapes while inviting audiences to
reexamine notions of place and identity. FREE OUTDOOR EVENT, corner of
W. 37th Street and S. Hill Street 90089. Everyone welcome! Follow us on
Twitter @EPFCFilmmobile for more details. Program support generously
provided by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
9/21
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 7. VISITING
OUR NEIGHBORS
Small or isolated countries have always had a disproportionate interest
in the world surrounding them. The key issue in these works is analyzing
the observation of "exotic" images, editing and re-editing material of
the past and present. Fictional and documentary approaches and
reconstructed found footage question social interactions within a 1950s
farming community, moral and visual colonialism, the view of foreignness
and a collective experience with migrants and refugees. Formally, they
function by transposing sounds and images, and aesthetically through the
displacement of communities and individuals. Works from this program
include AN DIESEN ABENDEN (On Those Evenings) (1952); POOL (1990); SONNE
HALT! SUN STOP! (1959-1960); KEY WEST (2002); FILM IST. 9–EROBERUNG FILM
IS. 9–CONQUEST (2002); PASSAGEN (1996); UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Our Trip to
Africa) (1961-1966). Total running time: 100 min.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
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9/22
Calgary AB: Chaos a Film Company
https://www.calgaryfilm.com/2012/schedule/film/2445/
9:30 pm, Calgary's Globe Theater
CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; 617 8TH AVENUE SW CALGARY AB, T2P
1H1
The film premiered at World Film Festival in Montreal last week and "had
people cringing and jumping at shadows," observed Robert Cuffley. "It
was great. Seeing it with audience is, in a sense, seeing it for the
first time. So I consider this the first time I've "seen" the movie. And
it really works nicely. Acting is top notch." Fantasia Film Festival's
Mitch Davis emphatically comments: "If you want to see one hell of an
eccentrically evil Kim Coates performance, not to mention a typically
powerhouse turn by Michael Eklund, be sure to check out Robert Cuffley's
aptly-titled Ferocious!" Ferocious plays again at the Calgary
International Film Festival (calgaryfilm.com) Saturday September 22 at
9:30pm at Calgary's Globe Theatre. The entire cast will be in attendance
including Amanda Crew (Jobs, Charlie St. Cloud), Kim Coates (Sons of
Anarchy, Black Hawk Down), Michael Eklund, Dustin Milligan and Katie
Boland. Ferocious was produced by Carolyn McMaster, CHAOS a film company
and Anand Ramayya, Karma Film. A theatrical release is set for late Fall
2012. ### For media inquiries please contact: Carolyn McMaster, CHAOS a
film company inc. (403) 283 - 2090 cmcmaster at chaosafilmcompany.com
9/22
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 8. WHOSE
REALITY?
These four "choreographed" documentaries play out in the interstices
between inside and outside, public and private, visible and invisible,
being in control and out of control, and they explore different aspects
of the political arena. From a performance to an essay on the status of
refugees and illegal immigrants in Fortress Europe, surveillance, public
spaces and hyper-real public housing are questioned and traditional
family models are undermined. Works in this program include 6/64 MAMA
UND PAPA (1964); BODY TRAIL (2008); FORST (2005); SOMEWHERE, LATE
AFTERNOON (2007). Total running time: 73 min.
9/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8pm & 10pm, 992 Valencia
JON MORITSUGU’S PIG DEATH MACHINE
Notorious cult director Jon Moritsugu and co-producer Amy Davis storm
the City after too long an absence. In this W-I-P peek at their new
feature, a misanthropic-punk-rock-botanist-babe—in a nightmarish Doctor
Doolittle twist—gains the power to "talk to plants" after eating rotten
meat! With music by Monte Cazazza, Meri St. Mary, I Am Spoonbender,
Deerhoof, Dirty Beaches, Polvo, Early Man, Low On High, many in person
serving as celebrity guest DJs, dispensing free vinyl, and trippin' on
the Dream Machine. *TWO SHOWS: 8pm & 10pm. $7.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
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9/23
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 BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - PART 9: HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU
Austria's avant-garde film tradition, arising at mid-century (and thus,
relatively later than those of other Western nations) has been among the
most sustained and radical of such traditions. As with other Austrian
arts, it is a response (in part) to past national decadence and
entrenched conservatism; its repository of cutting-edge experimental
film and video works is uniquely impressive and progressive, fracturing
into ever-newer distinctions. The programs in this series have been
constructed from avant-garde films and videos produced between 1955 and
2010 in which virtually every technique and genre imaginable is
employed, from formalist and structuralist works by such globally
renowned figures as Peter Kubelka, Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Arnold,
to the radical work by performance-based artists such as VALIE EXPORT,
Mara Mattuschka, Kurt Kren and the Viennese actionists, as well as the
boundary-breaking contemporary output of artists including Siegfried A.
Fruhauf, Johann Lurf and Virgil Widrich. Works already considered
canonical are supplemented by other works that experiment with sonic art
and digital technology. Moving between historical, social and aesthetic
questions and purely formal works that wreak havoc with the retina, this
panoramic selection is an attempt to define a poetic edge within a vast
array of production while underlining links and relationships between
several generations of artists, (re)discovering new ways of entering
into the "material" and the frame, and examining the mechanics of
cinema. This series is made possible with the support of the Austrian
Consulate General in Los Angeles. This program was curated by Brent
Klinkum and presented in association with the UCLA Film & Television
Archive and Anthology Film Archives. NOTE: The first eight screenings in
this series will be at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from August
17 – September 22. TICKETS: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for
Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets Screening: Neon (Nik
Thoenin & Timo Novotny, 2003, video, colour, 5min), Legal Errorist (Mara
Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2005, video, b&w, 15min), Spucken Spitting
(Friedl vom Gröller, 2000, 35mm, b&w, silent, 2min), The Ballad of Maria
Lassnig (Maria Lassnig & Hubert Sielecki, 1992, 35mm, colour, 8min),
Pullover (Günter Brus, 1967, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3min), 8/64 Ana - Aktion
Brus 8/64 Ana - Action Brus (Kurt Kren, 1964, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3min),
November (Hito Steyerl, 2004, video, colour, b&W, 25min), Copy Shop
(Virgil Widrich, 2001, 35mm, b&w, 12min) TRT: 73min
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