[Frameworks] Part 1 of 2: This week [April 6 - 14, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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Columbus International Film + Video Festival (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FESTIVAL (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: April 20, 2013)
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Esperimental Documentaries (New York, NY; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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twin rivers media festival (Asheville, NC USA; Deadline: May 06, 2013)
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Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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Con i minuti contati - International Short Film Festival (Montefalco, Umbria, Italy; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2013 Call for Entries (UK; Deadline: May 03, 2013)
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Mumbai Women's International Film Festival (Mumbai,India; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseilles, France; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Federation Square - Melbourne (Australia; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Exuberant Politics (Iowa City, IA; Deadline: April 21, 2013)
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LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FESTIVAL (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: April 20, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 13 Lakes: Recent Films of James Benning [April 6, Austin, TX]
* Ten Skies: Recent Films of James Benning [April 6, Austin, TX]
* Ria Live Cinema (Aka Our Eye Aye = Ria = Resonant Interval Algorythmns) [April 6, Los Angeles, California]
* Stom Sogo Program 3 [April 6, New York, New York]
* Stom Sogo Program 4 [April 6, New York, New York]
* Doug Harvey's Pataphysical Interrogation Techniques [April 6, San Francisco, California]
* Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The War: Recent Films of James Benning [April 7, Austin, TX]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Leighton Pierce: Familial Time Defamiliarized [April 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Valentin/Vigo Program [April 7, New York, New York]
* Stom Sogo Program 5 [April 7, New York, New York]
* Stom Sogo Program 6 [April 7, New York, New York]
* Realisms: New Work By Scott Stark [April 7, San Francisco, California]
* Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Stemple Pass: Recent Films By James Benning [April 8, Austin, TX]
* Dirty Handed Cinema: Handmade 16mm Films By Richard Tuohy [April 8, Brooklyn, New York]
* Experiences In Transformative Time: New Work By Leighton Pierce [April 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Walter Ungerer [April 8, Portland]
* Four X Dorsky [April 10, Austin, Tx]
* Alison S. M. Kobayashi: videos, Performances, and Other Works [April 10, Boston]
* Luc Sante Presents Nicole VÉDrÈS's Paris 1900 [April 10, Brooklyn, NY]
* Nightworks - Film, video and Performance Event [April 10, London, England]
* The Last Words of Dutch Schultz [April 10, New York, New York]
* We Are Winning, Don't Forget: Short Works By Jean-Gabriel PéRiot [April 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
* Leviathan [April 10, Providence, RI]
* Floating Energy: the Films of Nathaniel Dorsky [April 10, Seattle, Washington]
* <B>An Evening With Rosa Barba</B> [April 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Walter Ungerer, Selected Films [April 11, Hallowell, ME 04347]
* Walter Ungerer, Selected Films [April 11, Hallowell, ME 04347]
* "A Noisy Delivery" By Gx Jupitter-Larsen (World Premiere Screening) [April 11, Leeds, United Kingdom]
* Dana Duff's the Gringas [April 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Show & Tell: Hannah SchüPbach [April 11, New York, New York]
* Opening Night! Tim Hecker + Robert Todd Wsg Slowpitch [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Too Much Information: Uic Bfa thesis Show [April 12, Chicago, IL]
* .Black~Ssstatic_dark~Fuzzz_doom~Glitch. [April 12, Chicago, Illinois]
* Electromediascope [April 12, Kansas City, Missouri]
* Consuming Spirits In La, At Cinefamily, Prsented By Animation Breakdown
and Cinefamily [April 12, Los Angeles, CA]
* Films &Amp; videos By Janis Crystal Lipzin &Amp; Alee Peoples [April 12, Los Angeles, CA]
* Janis Crystal Lipzin & Alee Peoples [April 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Althea Thauberger: A Memory Lasts Forever [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* L.A. Filmforum, Free Form Film Festival, and video Data Bank Present
Point and Shoot: videos By George Kuchar (A Celebration) [April 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Marc Olmsted & the Job + Russ Forster + the Octoplayer + [April 13, San Francisco, California]
* Mmnemonic Dvices - Recent Toronto Film/Video [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Jean-Marie Teno's Leaf In the Wind [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* All That Is Solid - Shorts Program [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* L.A. Filmforum, Free Form Film Festival, and video Data Bank Present
Starbound: New videos By Mike Kuchar [April 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Cleopatra [April 14, New York, New York]
* Sleight of Hand - Shorts Program [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* John Torres's Lukas Nino (Lukas the Strange) [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013
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4/6
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
11am, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th)
13 LAKES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
James Benning is one of the world's most significant and groundbreaking
avant-garde filmmakers. Beginning the early 1970s, he began his
exploration of the American landscape on film, while introducing
rigorous formal structures and experiments with sound and image. In
these, his recent films, made between 2004 and 2012, a range of
Benning's longtime interests and greatest gifts come to light: his
working class roots and political activism (the war) and his interest in
places, history and cinematic time (STEMPLE PASS, 13 LAKES and TEN
SKIES). 13 Lakes: Benning's attraction to landscapes, form and studying
place over time coalesces in this astonishingly rich, minimalist work
which consists of long takes of thirteen US lakes. While formal in
structure, a narrative emerges; artist Martin Beck wrote of the film "13
Lakes tells the story about a landscape, its virginity, and its
culturalization." Presented in 16mm.
4/6
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
2pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th)
TEN SKIES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
The companion piece to 13 LAKES, TEN SKIES documents a series of
skyscapes in California. James Benning described it as an anti-war film,
"about the antithesis of war, [about] the kind of beauty we are
destroying." The films have been heralded as cinematic masterpieces by
cinephiles and critics alike. Presented in 16mm.
4/6
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
RIA LIVE CINEMA (AKA OUR EYE AYE = RIA = RESONANT INTERVAL ALGORYTHMNS)
Video artists-Social engineers Will Erokan, Gerry Fialka, John
Cannizzaro & poets, dancers, musicians = LIVE CINEMA probing the filmed
close-up on the human eye, as seen in Un Chien Andalou, Man With The
Movie Camera, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, and Blade Runner. Delve deep
into the reel motives and consequences of the Ludovico treatment from A
Clockwork Orange, which originated in the novel by Anthony Burgess, who
was directly influenced by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The Wake turns
the eye into an ear via Finneganese (language about language):
"Television kills telephony in Brothers' broil. Our eyes demand their
turn. Let them be seen." and "what can't be coded can be decoded if an
ear aye seize what no eye ere grieved fore." Experience the RIA "live
cinema" immersion into post-hypnotic hyper-maximum stimulation
triggering McLuhan's Menippean satirized Gesamtkunstwerk. Peter
Greenaway presaged the complex clairvoyance of Erokan's birth on
September 30, 1983 by declaring "Cinema's death date was 31 September
1983, when the remote-control zapper was introduced to the living room,
because now cinema has to be interactive, multi-media art." The
retrocausality of this non-existent date renders an
effects-precede-causes half-truth. "A half truth is still alot of a
truth" – McLuhan. Explore & re-explore the sensory simultaneity of
integral awareness (IA being the flip of AI - artificial intelligence)
in passing through the vanishing point when seeing oneself both as
oneself and as the other. It may be the death and rebirth of agraRIAn,
AlgeRIA, antiquaRIAn, appropRIAtion, AquaRIAn, barbaRIAn, & AbdeRIAn
laughter, which comes from rustic simpletons who would laugh at anything
or anyone they did not understand. RIA is a drowned river valley that
remains open to the sea. This evokes the Wake and Frank Zappa's "The
ocean is the ultimate solution." "But that the white eye-lid of the
screen reflect its proper light, the Universe would go up in flames" -
Luis Bunuel.
4/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STOM SOGO PROGRAM 3
This program contains a healthy sampling from Sogo's massive 9-reel,
nearly 300 minute cycle of Super-8 diary films, which he titled I
HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET. Dated 1995 but likely spanning a few years,
this series contains footage shot while still a student at SVA, images
captured on the streets, and at home featuring friends and strangers in
the flow of life. Sogo rarely screened his intricately detailed,
exquisitely photographed diaries in public, but when he did they left a
lasting impression on all those who saw them. Dizzying in their
breakneck speed, these works demonstrate Sogo's incredible eye and
preternatural ability to compose in-camera. Total running time: ca. 80
min.
4/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STOM SOGO PROGRAM 4
PERIODICAL EFFECT (2001, 9.5 min, video) SPACE CAT (1999, 20 min,
Super-8mm) PROBLEM IS YOU (2002, 27 min, Super-8mm) JERK (2007, 24 min,
video) Total running time: ca. 85 min.
4/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
DOUG HARVEY'S PATAPHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
Second in our Secret Agents suite, LA Weekly critic Doug Harvey zooms
in, also with a book-launch-in fact, a party, to celebrate his anthology
of sublimely ridiculous rants and paranoid analyses. His crackpot-genius
PITA compendium gleefully crosses conspiracy theory with avant-garde
literature. Doug's readings address absurd art pranks and
mistranslation: Averty's Ubu Roi, Turkish Star Wars, Benny Lava's
mis-subtitled music videos and Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99 ( 16mm
excerpt). PLUS an inquiry into the "Rock Books" of uber-fabulist Richard
Shaver, detailing the Alphabet of the Ancients. Free beer. $6.66
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
1:00pm, 350 King Street West
BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
Dyketactics. This programme of short films focuses on a period when
Barbara Hammer, residing in the Bay Area and newly out, began to explore
her new identities as both lesbian and filmmaker.
4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
7:00pm, 350 King Street West
BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
Nitrate Kisses w/ Schizy. Barbara Hammer's first feature-length film is
a taboo-busting provocation, a politically charged polemic and a
rapturous visual ode to the sensual pleasures of love and intimacy.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013
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4/7
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
5pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St)
THE WAR: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
Russian art group Voina and outspoken punk band Pussy Riot are some of
the activists documented in this film, which surveys some of the biggest
activism happenings staged against the autocratic powers that be.
Presented digitally.
4/7
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 LEIGHTON PIERCE: FAMILIAL TIME DEFAMILIARIZED
Filmmaker Leighton Pierce in person! Filmforum is delighted to host
artist Leighton Pierce, here from New York, for the first of two
different screenings in Los Angeles. Pierce is one of the leading
practitioners of experimental film and video in the United States today,
and hasn't screened in Los Angeles in a number of years. He is
presenting a range of his work. Freed from the constraints of
traditional narrative, it is that process of creating an image in the
mind of the viewer--the psychological filling-in of the imagined space,
not the actual photograph of a space--that Pierce engages. Through the
use of rich cascading imagery against the counterpoint of the
soundtrack, Pierce disintegrates the film plane, allowing viewers to
embody the perceptions of the video solidly within themselves. This
video encourages a different kind of viewing and listening—one in which
listening and looking inward matters as much as looking outward.
Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
Available by in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358056 or at the door. Screening:
Thursday (1990, 16mm, 4.5 min), Glass (1998, 16mm, 7 min), Wood (1980,
SD video, 8 min), The Back Steps (1981, SD video, 5 min), Water Seeking
its Level (2002, SD video, 4 min), Evaporation (2002, SD video, 11 min),
Viscera (2004-5, SD video, 11 min), Sitting (2010, HD video, 4 min),
Orphan on Halloween (2012, HD video, 2012, 3 min), River Trees (2011,
video, silent, 3 min), Retrograde Premonition, (2010, video, 5 min),
Works in Progress (~7 min)
4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VALENTIN/VIGO PROGRAM
Karl Valentin CONFIRMATION DAY / DER FIRMLING 1934, 23 min, 35mm, b&w.
In German with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A father and
son, celebrating the son's confirmation, go to a fancy restaurant and
drink all day. They want to order Emmentaler cheese, but can only find
Affentaler wine on the menu. How did the Affentaler, which they think is
cheese, get into the bottle? They keep on drinking away, attracting
attention and causing more and more confusion. "Valentin plays a drunken
father treating his giggly young son to lunch, and the inspired muddle
he creates out of a table, two chairs, an umbrella, and a watch chain
rivals some of Laurel and Hardy's best moments." –J.R. Jones, CHICAGO
READER & Jean Vigo ZERO FOR CONDUCT / ZÉRO DE CONDUITE 1935, 44 min,
35mm, b&w. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available. An
eloquent parable of freedom versus authority, Vigo's film is set at a
boys' boarding school and undoubtedly echoes Vigo's own unhappy
experiences as a child. Under the pressure of various civic groups the
film was removed from screens several months after its release in 1933.
It was branded "anti-French" by censors and was not shown again in Paris
until 1945. Total running time: ca. 70 min.
4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STOM SOGO PROGRAM 5
MONKEY 2 (1996, 20 min, Super-8mm) REPEAT (2006, 9.5 min, video) C FOR
CIAS (2008, 11 min, video) TRI (2004, 9 min, video) I SMELL YOU (2000,
10 min, Super-8mm) And other works… Total running time: ca. 75 min.
4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
STOM SOGO PROGRAM 6
PASSPORT REVIEW (2004, 21 min, video) SYNC-UP ELEMENT (2007, 23 min,
video) LOUISE GILMORE AND FUTURE (2008, 13 min, video) And other works…
Total running time: ca. 75 min.
4/7
San Francisco, California: Crossroads Film Festival
5:30, 2961 16th Street
REALISMS: NEW WORK BY SCOTT STARK
Working systematically across his career in virtually all film formats
(including analog and digital video, installation and multi-projector
performance), Scott Stark has produced more than sixty films and videos
since 1980. Abounding with a prowling visuality, an astonishing sense of
sound/image synthesis and an acute appreciation for filmic physicality,
the cinema of Scott Stark exists ecstatically at the points of collision
of between cinematic structure (self-imposed limitations) and the
invasive and exhilarating chaos of the so-called real world, a world
which is always seeping in between his frames. Frequently incorporating
wry considerations of work, leisure time, personal performativity and
representation while simultaneously playing with viewers' expectations
of narrativity and conventional cinematic processes, Stark's amazingly
diverse body of film/video work embodies sometimes bemused, sometimes
critical considerations of life as it passes. The daily commute, the
corporate cubicle, shopping malls, beaches and hotel hallways—all these
and more have provided backdrops for Stark's eager examinations and
stately considerations of the daily rituals and day-to-day roles of
humans living in the world, resulting in a body of work as humorous and
socially engaging as it is exhilaratingly experiential. On the occasion
of the his completion of The Realist — a major new work, literally years
in the making— Cinematheque celebrates Scott Stark in CROSSROADS 2013
with this sampler program of three recent works (Compressive/Percussive,
Longhorn Tremolo), plus a wonderful lost oddity by Fernand Léger. (Steve
Polta)
4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
4:30pm, 350 King Street West
BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
Resisting Death. "Freedom is riding my horse on a trail exploring the
unknown or seeing with the eyes that rebirth from cancer has given me,
as the world becomes new again." — Barbara Hammer
4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
7:15pm, 350 King Street West
BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
Generations. This programme highlights Barbara Hammer's influence on a
younger generation of queer filmmakers, as well as paying tribute to one
of her own primary influences, the legendary Maya Deren.
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MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013
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4/8
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
7pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St)
STEMPLE PASS: RECENT FILMS BY JAMES BENNING
Static shots of Benning's northern California cabin make up one of
several Benning films exploring isolation in nature. In this, the
experience of Waldenesque imagery contrasts with the voiceover writings
of Ted Kaczynski. Presented digitally.
4/8
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
DIRTY HANDED CINEMA: HANDMADE 16MM FILMS BY RICHARD TUOHY
A rare screening of new and recent hand-made 16mm films by Richard Tuohy
on tour in the US from his native Australia. The six films in the
program were hand processed and printed by the artist on a salvaged 16mm
contact printer using techniques developed through his experimentation
with the salvaged film lab equipment. Tuohy is part a burgeoning
artist-run film lab movement, which utilizes recovered technological
left-overs from film industry as it sheds much of its traditional
machinery. Tuohy says he sees the change is an opportunity a kind of
liberation for the filmmaker – allowing experimentation in areas that
previously were too often a costly mystery kept in the hands of
professional. Richard Tuohy is one of the most active experimental film
artists currently working on celluloid in Australia. His film
'Iron-Wood' won first prize (ex aequo) at 'Abstracta 2009' experimental
film festival in Rome. He runs Nanolab in Australia – the specialist
small gauge film processing laboratory. He is also a founding director
of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival. Tuohy's
films have screened at fRotterdam International, Ann Arbour, Media
Cityl, European Media Art Festival, FLEXFest , Onion City Film Festival,
Abstracta, EXiS (Seol) and KLEX festival among others. Program and other
info: www.mciroscopegallery.com. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway.
Other options L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. te: 347.925.1433.
4/8
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
EXPERIENCES IN TRANSFORMATIVE TIME: NEW WORK BY LEIGHTON PIERCE
Leighton Pierce's cinema transforms ordinary sounds and visual
impressions into ecstatic experiences filled with new kinds of movements
and sensory rediscoveries of the world. Often hovering between
definition and abstraction, and between gestural implication and
narrative meaning, his musical eye and ear find beauty and magic in
everyday places and situations. Pierce's work has been shown widely at
festivals and museums, and this screening features two early 16mm films
along with nine recent digital pieces, including Viscera, described by
filmmaker Jon Jost as "an astonishing piece on the recreation of a
presence through remnants of their being, memories of their gestures, as
molded in the impressionistic contours of light. A film built upon
cascading refractions. The film dissolves in the memory as one watches
it…" | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
4/8
Portland: Maine Public Broadcasting Network
12:30 AM, Maine Public Television Channel 10
WALTER UNGERER
A program about media artist Walter Ungerer will be aired on MPBN (Maine
Public Broadcasting Network) on March 28, 10:30 PM, on March 30, 11:30
AM, and again on April 8, 12:30 AM. The program is comprised of first a
short documentary about Ungerer, and then his recent film PARVA SED APTA
MIHI. The documentary was produced by students of the College of the
Atlantic media production program under the supervision of two of the
school's media instructors, David Camlin and Petra Simmons. Hannah Piper
Burns of the Experimental Film Festival, Portland, Oregon writing about
PARVA SED APTA MIHI describes the film this way, "In a surreal and
psychedelic atmosphere the film deals with life, freedom, and
transcendence of limitations". PARVA SED APTA MIHI uses the short form,
and is representative of Ungerer's layering style of building visual
sequences. For years he was noted for using the long form (films over 75
minutes) shooting narrative films with concern for static shots devoid
of any camera movement but with careful concern for composition,
suggesting a painterly quality. This is no surprise since Ungerer
studied fine and graphic arts at Pratt Institute in the 1950s. His
willingness to begin to embrace the computer in the 1990s is a change
thought by some to be brought about by the escalating costs of producing
a film. To focus on the visual qualities of Ungerer's films without
mentioning the ethereal, meditative tones they eschew, is to miss the
most important part of his work, the ability to take the viewer to
another realm, another space, as Hannah Piper Burns describes it, "In a
surreal and psychedelic atmosphere the film deals with life, freedom,
and transcendence of limitations".
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
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4/10
Austin, Tx: The Mad Stork Cinema
9pm, ROOM: STUDIO 4D, Building CMD, UT
FOUR X DORSKY
Nathaniel Dorsky, born in New York City in 1943, is an experimental
filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has
resided in San Francisco since 1971. - "In film, there are two ways of
including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to
create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being
human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping
into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing,
softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the
latter is a form of poetry." – Nathaniel Dorsky - - Compline,
18.5min / 16mm / silent / 2009, Compline is a night devotion or prayer,
the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is
also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I
have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond
farewell to this noble emulsion. (ND) - Pastourelle, 16.5min / 16mm /
silent / 2010, A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of
courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film
Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of
spring. (ND) - August and After, 18.5min / 16mm / silent / 2012, After a
lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away
during the same period of time. (ND) - April, 26min / 16mm / silent /
2012, 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.
(ND)
4/10
Boston: Massachusetts College of Art
http://emulsionalchemy.org
8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue
ALISON S. M. KOBAYASHI: VIDEOS, PERFORMANCES, AND OTHER WORKS
MASSART FILM SOCIETY presents - ALISON S. M. KOBAYASHI, filmmaker in
person! - BIO// - Alison S. M. Kobayashi is a visual artist working in
video, performance, installation and drawing. She was born and raised in
Mississauga, Canada and is currently based in Brooklyn. - Her interest
in found narratives resulted in two video works, From Alex To Alex and
Dan Carter. Finding a lost letter in the first case, and a discarded
answering machine tape in the second, Kobayashi imagines identities for
each person mentioned in the narrative and then performs all the roles
herself. In 2006 she won the TSV Artistic Vision Award for Best Local
Short Film at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and in 2007 was
awarded the Mississauga Arts Award for Best Emerging Artist. Her films
have been shown in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, Spain, the
Netherlands and Hong Kong. - www.asmk.ca - MASSART FILM SOCIETY,
Programmed by Saul Levine, FILM SOCIETY is a screening class for MassArt
film students open to those who are interested. We hope to provide
access to films and videos not often shown at other venues. - Enter to
MASSART through the South Building, Admissions on Huntington Ave. FILM
SOCIETY shows are held in Screening Rm 1 in East Hall in the FILM
Department at 8pm. Suggested donation is $4 at the door and free to
MassArt community with their ID. Donations are used to give visiting
artist something for their expenses of coming to show their work. - -
Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department Screening RM 1. 621
Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115. -
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
4/10
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street
LUC SANTE PRESENTS NICOLE V&EACUTE;DR&EGRAVE;S'S PARIS 1900
Paris 1900, Nicole Védrès, 16mm, 1947, 74 mins, Introduced
by Luc Sante - Nicole Védrès's film Paris 1900 is an
attempt to render the whole of a time and place by compiling and
organizing hundreds of excerpts taken from newsreels and fiction films
of the period. To us today this mode of operation is unexceptional, a
standby of television programming, but in 1947, when
Védrès made her picture, there was really only one major
precedent, Esfir Shub's groundbreaking 1927 Fall of the Romanov Dynasty.
The range of Védrès's film is enormous, with clips of such
figures as La Belle Otero, Willy and Colette, Buffalo Bill, Guillaume
Apollinaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriele d'Annunzio, and the very young
Maurice Chevalier, and rare footage of such events as the 1910 Paris
flood and the police's war against the anarchist Bonnot Gang. Fashion,
sports, dandies, duels, the grand gesture, feminism, railway strikes,
soup kitchens, and tragicomic attempts at manned flight take their place
in the sweeping narrative. From a lighthearted beginning at the dawn of
the century, accentuated by popular melodies, clips from
Méliès pictures, and Monty Wooley's orotund
English-language narration, the mood gradually darkens, inexorably
leading to August 1914 and the abrupt termination of a way of life. -
Nicole Védrès, née Cahen (1911-1965) was a
significant figure in the postwar bohemian scene around
St.-Germain-des-Prés. She wrote seven novels and eleven works of
nonfiction and made four films, of which Paris 1900 was the first. Chris
Marker, who quoted from this movie in two of his own works, also
credited Védrès with originating the essay-film in her
second picture, Life Begins Tomorrow (1949). The idea for the movie was
hatched by its executive producer, Pierre Braunberger, who produced Jean
Renoir's films in the 1930s and those of Godard, Truffaut, Rivette,
Resnais, and Jean Rouch in the 1960s. - LS - Luc Sante has written about
urban life, popular culture, photography, crime, and social history for
thirty years. His books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of
Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and the forthcoming La Canaille: Paris
and Its Rabble. He teaches writing and the history of photography at
Bard College, and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
4/10
London, England: NIGHTWORKS
http://www.fieldworkrca.wordpress.com/nightworks
7pm - 9pm, TESTBED1, 33 Parkgate Street, Battersea, London, SW11 4NP
NIGHTWORKS - FILM, VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE EVENT
Nightworks is a film and video installation and performance event,
including artists, filmmakers and tutors, mainly from the Visual
Communication programme at the Royal College of Art. This one night
event offers a dynamic engagement with the location and audience,
featuring new and existing work, some made specifically for TESTBED1, a
former Victorian dairy. The programme includes new site-specific work by
Simon Payne; the first UK screening of 'Three Windsor Films (from Seven
Windsor Films)', new work by Nicky Hamlyn and an extended version of
'Candle' by Neil Henderson. Plus film and video installations and
performances by; Suky Best, Ian Wiblin, Jennifer Nightingale, Cathy
Rogers, Laura Wilson, Deniz Johns, Amy Dickson, Karolina Raczynski,
Maria Anastassiou and Gareth Polmeer. Doors open at 7.00pm, Performances
start at 7.30pm - 9.00pm. Bar available. Find out more about the artists
and filmmakers involved at
http://www.fieldworkrca.wordpress.com/nightworks
4/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Theater, 32 2nd Avenue
THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ
This program features a film by Richard Sylvarnes with live musical
accompaniment by the band Zerø Times Everything. The Last Words of Dutch
Schultz is a feature film based on the delirious death-bed ramblings of
the gangster who died following a shooting in Newark, NJ in 1935. The
film incorporates found footage including travelogues, FBI training
films, silent-era films, newsreels, commercials, and more and features
the actor, filmmaker and playwright DJ Mendel and NY Mets broadcaster
Alex Anthony. Zerø Times Everything is Pietro Russino on Electric and
Loop Guitar, Tony Geballe on Electric Guitar, and Richard Sylvarnes on
Synthesizer, Kaoss Pads, and Possible Guitar.
4/10
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia
http://ihousephilly.org/events/full-exposurewe-are-winning-dont-forget-short-works-by-jean-gabriel-periot/
7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street
WE ARE WINNING, DON'T FORGET: SHORT WORKS BY JEAN-GABRIEL PéRIOT
Introduction and Q&A with Jean-Gabriel Périot Jean-Gabriel Périot, born
in France in 1974, has over the past fifteen years perfected an
innovative filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Moving
image and photographic archives make up the raw material of his shorts,
which are edited to create an impressionistic story or narrative,
typically aided by compelling soundtracks. Periot's work is
distinguished for its intense, emotional approach to contemporary and
historic political themes. Despite the labor-intensive process of
compiling a film via multiple edited images, Périot has made numerous
short films using digital video and/or film that reside within combined
documentary/essay, animation, and experimental genres. His works have
been honored with many prizes and shown worldwide in numerous festivals,
institutions, and cinemas. This event is Périot's first travel to the
US. – Sally Berger, Department of Film, MoMA All works screened in HD
video, in French with English subtitles Nijuman no borei (200,000
Phantoms) – 2007, 10 mins. The Devil – 2012, 7 mins. Undo – 2005, 10
mins. We Are Winning, Don't Forget – 2004, 7 mins. The Barbarians –
2010, 5 mins. Even If She Had Been A Criminal… – 2006, 10 mins. #67 –
2012, 2 mins. Before I Was Sad – 2012, 4 mins. Between Dogs and Wolves –
2008, 28 mins. Total running time: 83 minutes Périot's first travel to
the US begins at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of Modern Mondays,
organized for the Museum by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, The
Department of Film, MoMA. This national tour We Are Winning, Don't
Forget is organized by Amélie Garin-Davet and Steve Holmgren, and is
presented with support from UnionDocs and The Cultural Services of the
French Embassy and the Museum of Modern Art. Special Thanks to VTape,
film Re-distribution, Heure Exquise, Light Cone, Envie de Tempête, Local
Films and Sacrebleu Production.
4/10
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/
7:00 PM, Cable Car Cinema & Cafe, 204 S. Main St
LEVIATHAN
Magic Lantern Presents: LEVIATHAN: A Film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and
Véréna Paravel. A groundbreaking, immersive portrait of New England's
contemporary commercial fishing industry that has been lauded as "the
best horror film of the year," "an action movie par excellence," and a
"spectacular… optic-aural overload whose aim [is] to knock us off our
bearings..." Made by Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Véréna
Paravel (Foreign Parts), Leviathan follows a hulking groundfish trawler
on a weeks-long fishing expedition through the murky black waters off
the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts – a city that once inspired
Melville's Moby Dick, and which is currently the country's largest
fishing port. What results is not a detached, observational report about
fishing, but a profoundly vivid "shared anthropology" (Paravel), or a
multi-perspective record of the commercial fishing world that speaks not
only to the realities of the fishermen it depicts, but also to those of
the fish they catch, the ship they inhabit, the birds that follow in
their wake, and ultimately, the sea itself. Almost entirely
dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, Leviathan is a
cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors. /// TRT 87 min ///
Admission: $7
4/10
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8PM, 1515 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122
FLOATING ENERGY: THE FILMS OF NATHANIEL DORSKY
Shooting almost exclusively in 16mm and found with a Bolex by his side,
Nathaniel Dorsky is one of a rare breed of filmmakers whose work can be
classified as essential viewing. Dorsky creates immersive, rhythmical
worlds with his visually handsome films, as he isolates an elemental
profundity in his medium. Always without sound and grounded in a
penetrating understanding of film form, Dorsky renders the prosaic a
poetic experience, drawing attention to vitality in the ordinary. While
delivering emotionally meditative work, Dorsky edits nature, light, and
figure to create an utterly sensual cinema. Join us for two evenings of
Mr. Dorsky's films, curated by the artist himself. "If we do relinquish
control, we suddenly see a hidden world, one that has existed all along
right in front of us. In a flash, the uncanny presence of the poetic and
vibrant world, ripe with mystery, stands before us." —Nathaniel Dorsky,
Devotional Cinema "There is the world that we see, and then there is the
world that artists like Mr. Dorsky see and generously share." —Manohla
Dargis, New York Times
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