[Frameworks] This week [April 27 - May 5, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Experimental: Artifacts and Artificial Acts [April 27, Berkeley, California]
* Stranger Collaborations, Organized By Jacqueline Goss [April 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Animation Freak-Out Night [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Friendship State [April 27, New Orleans, LA]
* Essential Cinema: Kenneth Anger Program [April 27, New York, New York]
* Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 27, New York, New York]
* Jeremy Rourke + Colburn + Klahr + Geiser + [April 27, San Francisco, California]
* Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 27, Washington, DC]
* Don't Be Cruel: videos By Dale Hoyt, Sun 4.28, 7pm [April 28, Brooklyn, NY]
* Don't Be Crual, videos By Dale Hoyt [April 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Baillie/Crockwell Program [April 28, New York, New York]
* Quick Billy [April 28, New York, New York]
* Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 28, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Lori Varga and Paul Baker [April 28, Oakland]
* Psychic Sculpture [April 28, Sausalito]
* Cabinets of Wonder: Films and Performance By Charlotte Pryce [April 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Flaming Creatures - 50th Anniversary Program [April 29, New York, New York]
* Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 29, New York, New York]
* The Extravagant Shadows With David Gatten In Person -Special Nyff
Reprise Screening [April 29, New York, New York]
* The Extravagant Shadows With David Gatten In Person -Special Nyff
Reprise Screening [April 29, New York, New York]
* Object Worshipping: Notes On Claes Oldenburg's Films, Or the Ballad of
the Turning Woman [April 30, Brooklyn, NY]
* Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 30, New York, New York]
* Experimental: Artifacts and Artificial Acts [April 30, San Francisco, California]
* Axwff Salutes Mm Serra &Amp; the Film-Makers Cooperative [May 1, New York, NY]
* &Quot;That's A Wrap!&Quot; Film/Video Senior Show [May 2, Cambridge, MA]
* Open Screen [May 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Lili White's Experi-Doc Feature: Fool's Gold: California Roadtrip In An
Election Year [May 2, New York, NY]
* May the Road Rise To Meet You [May 2, Paris, France]
* The Soft Escape: Films and videos By Michael Robinson [May 3, Chicago, IL]
* Mady Schutzman's Dear Comrade [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Fragments of Kubelka [May 3, New York, New York]
* The Built World [May 3, Seattle, Washington]
* No Man's Zone By Toshi Fujiwara [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Peter Kubelka Program [May 4, New York, New York]
* Fragments of Kubelka [May 4, New York, New York]
* Millennium Film Journal No. 57 Publication Screening [May 4, New York, New York]
* Megan Prelinger's Electronics and the Modern Century + [May 4, San Francisco, California]
* Peter Kubelka Program [May 5, New York, New York]
* Fragments of Kubelka [May 5, New York, New York]
* Bay Area Cine Salon [May 5, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013
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4/27
Berkeley, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
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8:45pm, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
EXPERIMENTAL: ARTIFACTS AND ARTIFICIAL ACTS
Nine recent experimental films look at troubling facts and surprising
moments with beauty and inventiveness. Decaying ledgers, an ancient
Turkish site and a petrified giant are among the artifacts excavated to
reflect on our present times. A conversation between a president and an
astronaut is unearthed, a disturbing speech is recreated, traces of a
vanished culture are presented or invented. Presented in association
with the Pacific Film Archive and the San Francisco Cinematheque. The
Name Is Not the Thing Named: A visual and sonic journey that suggests
the otherness of familiar encounters. (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2012, 11
min, Color/B&W) Artificial Persons: Historical moments are woven into a
hypnotic exploration of truth and power. (Katherin McInnis, USA, 2012, 5
min, B&W) Soundtrack by Roger Winfield. A Few Extra Copies: An obsessive
reenactment of R. Budd Dwyer's final speech is a haunting meditation on
life's pressures and constraints. (Bobby Abate, USA, 2012, 9 min, Color)
Pipe Dreams: Two moments in Syrian history 25 years apart speak to how
authoritarian regimes protect their powerand their image. (Ali Cherri,
Lebanon/France, 2012, 7 min, Color, In Arabic, with English subtitles)
Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact: Animation is used to explore ideas of
faith and intentionality behind drastic actions. (Karen Yasinsky, USA,
2013, 9 mins, Color/B&W) Verses: Decomposing ledgers found in an
abandoned juvenile hall create startling Rorschach patterns. (James
Sansing, USA, 2012, 4 mins, Color/B&W) This is a Cinema by the Bay Film.
The Indeserian Tablets: The religion, stories and practices of a
vanished culture are annotated in an imaginary ethnography. (Peter Rose,
USA, 2012, 16 mins, Color) View from the Acropolis: Cultural
appropriation is reexamined through a visit to an ancient site from
which antiquities were taken. (Lonnie von Brummelen, Siebren de Haan,
The Netherlands, 2012, 16 mins, B&W) Bloom: The arid Texas landscape of
oil drilling yields a moment of beauty. (Scott Stark, 2012, 11 mins,
Color/B&W) Music by Greg Headley
4/27
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
STRANGER COLLABORATIONS, ORGANIZED BY JACQUELINE GOSS
featuring new works by Goss, Vanessa Haroutunian, Alexia Welch, Maxwell
Paparella paired with others of their choosing. Admission $6 artists
in attendance. For "Stranger Collaborations" these members of the
Joanie4Jackie collective at Bard pair their works with a piece chosen
from the J4J archive, drawing from a surfeit of images and sounds made
by strangers to illustrate the personal and ineffable. The J4J
collection was started by filmmaker Miranda July in the 1990′s and
is now an international collection of over two hundred films and videos
made by young women and girls and now housed at Bard College. More info
www.microscopegallery.com.tel:347.925.1433, info at microscopegallery.com.
Nearest subway J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway.
4/27
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
ANIMATION FREAK-OUT NIGHT
Won't you join Cosmo Segurson for an evening of strange and mind bending
cartoons? Root beer floats will be served up as his collection of 16mm
animation prints entertains you beyond belief. From the United States
and around the world, some from the Film Center's own library, these
cartoons are rare and well worth your attention. Tex Avery, The
Fleischer Studios, and a couple of prints that he's not sure who made,
will be shown. Did we mention Root Beer Floats? All works shown on 16mm!
4/27
New Orleans, LA: Zeitgeist
http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/
7:30pm, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
FRIENDSHIP STATE
FRIENDSHIP STATE: Experimental Texas Films with visiting filmmakers
Caroline Koebel & Lindsay Bloom. Featuring works by Lyndsay Bloom,
Caroline Koebel, Jennifer Lane, Kelly Sears and Scott Stark . The
Friendship State was originally conceived as a testament to the vitality
of cinema art in Texas. Befuddling all the alienating preconceptions
about my new state is the direct encounter of Texas from the inside;
depth of familiarity takes presence. While I'm still dismayed
horrified by the reality of the state's dominant politics, now I know
from firsthand experience that there's also a whole lot of good in
circulation. The motto of Texas is "friendship." In my time here, I have
been sustained and inspired by the presence of a plethora of film and
video artists. The Friendship State embraces the dialog between makers
and comprises five directors, including me, from diverse points of
Texaseach engaging select tactics to reveal, negate and ultimately
transcend moving image boundaries. (Caroline Koebel, Austin)
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: KENNETH ANGER PROGRAM
FIREWORKS (1947, 20 min, 35mm, b&w) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 min,
35mm) EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3
min, 16mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 35mm) Poetry, psychodrama, and
the occult meet in these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the
American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 85 min.
4/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN
by Jonas Mekas 2012, 68 min, video Share + Film Notes "A motion picture
composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the
years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the
editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City,
seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play
music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano
improvisations by Auguste Varkalis. It's a kind of autobiographical,
diaristic poem, celebration of happiness and life. I consider myself a
happy man." J.M. "In a film of amazing delicacy and poetic insight,
Mekas celebrates the beauty of imperfect images
" Amy Taubin "OUT-TAKES
starts with Mekas alone at night while the city sleeps, editing his old
films. As he looks back over his life he starts to talk, insisting that
his life's work amounts to 'just images, some fragments of this world'
that he will bring together for himself and a few friends. But as images
of the people who brought joy into his life pass by, we realize that
most of them are no longer alive. Mekas sees them again, but he is
seeing them alone. As much as it is about his happy life, the film is
also about emptiness, loss, and a longing for some sort of spiritual
consolation. At one moment the cover of St John of the Cross's
MEDITATIONS appears on screen. This is Mekas's long dark night of the
soul." Richard Dorment, THE TELEGRAPH
4/27
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
JEREMY ROURKE + COLBURN + KLAHR + GEISER +
Back by popular demand is the spirited person of Jeremy Rourke,
conjuring musical complements to three extraordinary animations: the
debut of his own Walk Long Inside Upon Your Land, the exquisite Mulching
Emulsion, and Dave Fleischer's 1928 Koko Goes Ghosting. We honor the
recently deceased Gerry Anderson with a section from Thunderbirds Are
Go!, plus Philip Stapp's Tanguy-esque Picture in Your Mind (on 16mm). As
to the new generation: Martha Colburn's Colony Collapse Disorder, Jodie
Mack's August Song, Nina Paley's This Land Is Mine, Omer Gal's Sap,
Janie Geiser's Lost Motion, and Lewis Klahr's Creased Robe Smile. Joel
Schlemowitz kicks in a collage-homage to illustrator extraordinaire Ms.
Dame Darcy
4/27
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN
Fleeting scenes and favorite moments, Out-Takes is composed of fragments
not used in his earlier diary films, the genre that Jonas Mekas (now 90)
made famous during his more than 50 years of filmmaking."Brief glimpses
of family, my friends, girlfriends, the City, seasons of the year,
travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during
those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste
Varkalis. It is a kind of autobiographical, diaristic poem, celebration
of happiness and life. I consider myself a happy man." (Jonas Mekas,
2012, DigiBeta, 68 minutes) Reminiscences from Germany, writes Mekas, is
"an attempt to provide an introduction to the German period of my life
from 1944 to 1949. Using original photos taken by myself and my brother
Adolfas, and footage from 1971 and 1993, I revisit Elmshorn, Flensburg,
Wiesbaden, Mainz and Kassel where I spent five yearsfirst as a Forced
Laborer in a war prisoners' camp, and later as a Displaced Person in
displaced persons' camps.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013
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4/28
Brooklyn, NY: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place
DON'T BE CRUEL: VIDEOS BY DALE HOYT, SUN 4.28, 7PM
Artist in person, admission $6 - Microscope welcomes San Francisco-based
artist Dale Hoyt to present a night of videos during a rare visit to the
East Coast. This screening is one we have been anticipating for over two
years. For the occasion, Hoyt has selected a special program of works
made primarily in the 80s including his "The Complete Diary of Anne
Frank", which is in the permanent collection of MoMA and The Getty
Museum. Most of the works have never before screened in New York. - Hoyt
lived in the city from 1989 to 1992 and like the filmmakers of the No
Wave and Cinema of Transgression film movements of the 70s & 80s
Lower East Side, his works share a DIY aesthetic and reject the troupes
of the previous avant garde generation. Hoyt was among the first of the
underground/experimental/personal moving images makers using solely
video (not film). - Hoyt's body of work also includes the mediums of
painting, drawing and writing. In addition to his show at Microscope,
the artist is in town to present a music video he directed for Annette
Peacock's song young, as part of the current Blues for Smoke exhibition
at the Whitney. - Dale Hoyt will introduce the evening and answer
questions after the screening at Microscope. - - PROGRAM - Over My Dead
Body, Dale Hoyt, 1983, video, color, mono, 15 minutes - The Complete
Anne Frank, Dale Hoyt, 1985, video, color, sound, 37 minutes - Don't Be
Cruel, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 2003, 12 minutes - Ringo
Zapruder, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 4 minutes - - Who Shot
MM, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 2:10 minutes - - Your World
Dies Screaming, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 5 minutes - Full
program notes and additional info at www.microscopegallery.com
4/28
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
DON'T BE CRUAL, VIDEOS BY DALE HOYT
admission $6 artist in attendance. San Francisco-based artist Dale
Hoyt presents a night of videos during a rare visit to the East Coast.
For the occasion, Hoyt has selected a special program of works made
primarily in the 80s including his "The Complete Diary of Anne Frank",
which is in the permanent collection of MoMA and The Getty Museum. Most
of the works have never before screened in New York. Hoyt lived in the
city from 1989 to 1992 and like the filmmakers of the No Wave and Cinema
of Transgression film movements of the 70s & 80s Lower East Side, his
works share a DIY aesthetic and reject the troupes of the previous avant
garde generation. Hoyt was among the first of the
underground/experimental/personal moving images makers using solely
video. Hoyt's body of work also includes the mediums of painting,
drawing and writing. In addition to his show at Microscope, the artist
is in town to present a music video he directed for Annette Peacock's
song young, as part of the current Blues for Smoke exhibition at the
Whitney. Hoyt will introduce the evening and answer questions after the
screening at Microscope. Program and additional info at
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433.
info at microscopegallery.com. Nearest Suway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BAILLIE/CROCKWELL PROGRAM
Bruce Baillie MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 min, 16mm, b&w)
QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 min, 16mm) CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 min, 16mm) ALL
MY LIFE (1966, 3 min, 16mm) VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 min, 16mm)
Meditations on America by a filmmaker whom Willard van Dyke once called
the most American of all contemporary filmmakers. Annette Michelson has
referred to Bruce Baillie as one of the few American political
filmmakers. Douglass Crockwell GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE (1964, 8 min, 16mm)
"The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with
plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain
extent these early attempts were successful." D.C. Total running time:
ca. 100 min.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
QUICK BILLY
by Bruce Baillie 1971, 57 min, 16mm Bruce Baillie's journey through "the
dark wood encountered in the middle of life's journey" (Dante), with
references to Bardo Thodol. A major work from one of the great poets of
cinema.
4/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN
See notes for April 25, 8 pm.
4/28
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS LORI VARGA AND PAUL BAKER
Bay Area native Lori Varga will present "Beyond the Frames of Light and
Strange Sounds, Vol. 2" using 16mm and 8mm handmade collage films,
experimental celluloid loops, 35mm slides and a live electronic sound
collage made from old audio tape loop machines, magnetic card readers
and analog cassette tapes. Paul Baker (Austin, Texas) and friends will
also perform Analog Omega - a series of analog feedback loops of images
and sounds utilizing VCR, TV and projector overlays, set to audio dronal
and tonal experimental sound.
4/28
Sausalito: Headlands Center for the Arts
http://www.headlands.org/event/spring-open-house-2/
3pm sharp, Building 961, 944 Simmonds Road, Sausalito, CA 94965
PSYCHIC SCULPTURE
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson (Artists in Residence Spring 2013)
present Psychic Sculpturea live collaboration of Super 8 film & sound.
Free.
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MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013
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4/29
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
CABINETS OF WONDER: FILMS AND PERFORMANCE BY CHARLOTTE PRYCE
Charlotte Pryce's exquisitely detailed and evocatively structured short
films suggest an alert daydreaming in which the documented and the
imagined are juxtaposed. Her films offer fleeting illuminations that
hover on the periphery of vision, calling into question the "mechanical
eye" of the lens and the chemical composition of the celluloid. The
films use 16mm "chrome" stocksnow-extinct reversal colorwhich are
hand-processed and optically reprinted. "Like the items in a Cabinet of
Wonder, my subjects are specimens of philosophical musing: rootless
plants, mysterious insects and curious glasses," says Pryce. The program
includes Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature, Discoveries
on the Forest Floor, The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly,
Curious Light, Looking Glass Insects, A Study in Natural Magic, and a
live magic lantern show. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10
[students $8, CalArts $5]
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAMING CREATURES - 50TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
Boo-Hooray and Anthology present a very special evening commemorating
the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of Jack Smith's
FLAMING CREATURES. Featuring a double bill of Smith's underground
masterpiece and Ken Jacobs's equally ground-breaking BLONDE COBRA
(recreating the program presented on April 29, 1963 at the Bleecker
Street Cinema), the program will also include some extraordinary
surprises brought to you by Tony Conrad and the Boo-Hooray crew.
Boo-Hooray is an exhibition space (at 265 Canal St) dedicated to
20th/21st-century counter-culture ephemera, photography, and book arts.
For more info, visit: www.boo-hooray.com. Jack Smith FLAMING CREATURES
1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w & Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA
1959-63, 35 min, 16-to-35mm blow-up, b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith.
Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support of The Film
Foundation.
4/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN
See notes for April 25, 8 pm.
4/29
New York, New York: Film Society of Lincoln Center
http://www.filmlinc.com
7pm, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St
THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS WITH DAVID GATTEN IN PERSON -SPECIAL NYFF
REPRISE SCREENING
The Extravagant Shadows (USA, Format: DCP, color, sound 175 minutes)
David Gatten, 2012 at the Francesca Beale Theater at 7:00pm on Monday
April 29. For tickets and more information:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-extravagant-shadows Fourteen
years in the making, David Gatten's first digital feature premiered at
Views from the Avant-Garde during the 50th New York Film Festival in
October and was ranked ninth in the Film Comment's critics poll of the
"20 Best Undistributed Films of 2012." Join us for a special reprise
screening with director David Gatten in person! "A love story in
shifting colors, illusive light and sentimental songs from the year
1968. A movie about the movement of desire across the distances of
geography and time. A meditation on the manner in which books, letters
and other written or printed communications might both produce and
mediate that distance. A shelf of books, an inventory of pigments. A
question of language and a statement about time. Condensations upon
several occasions." David Gatten
4/29
New York, New York: Film Society of Lincoln Center
http://www.filmlinc.com
7pm, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St
THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS WITH DAVID GATTEN IN PERSON -SPECIAL NYFF
REPRISE SCREENING
The Extravagant Shadows (USA, Format: DCP, color, sound 175 minutes)
David Gatten, 2012 at the Francesca Beale Theater at 7:00pm on Monday
April 29. For tickets and more information:
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-extravagant-shadows Fourteen
years in the making, David Gatten's first digital feature premiered at
Views from the Avant-Garde during the 50th New York Film Festival in
October and was ranked ninth in the Film Comment's critics poll of the
"20 Best Undistributed Films of 2012." Join us for a special reprise
screening with director David Gatten in person! "A love story in
shifting colors, illusive light and sentimental songs from the year
1968. A movie about the movement of desire across the distances of
geography and time. A meditation on the manner in which books, letters
and other written or printed communications might both produce and
mediate that distance. A shelf of books, an inventory of pigments. A
question of language and a statement about time. Condensations upon
several occasions." David Gatten
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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013
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4/30
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street
OBJECT WORSHIPPING: NOTES ON CLAES OLDENBURG'S FILMS, OR THE BALLAD OF
THE TURNING WOMAN
A lecture by Branden W. Joseph - In 1969, armed with a
recently-purchased 8mm movie camera, celebrated pop artist Claes
Oldenburg shot a series of short films, most notably the prosaically
(and provisionally) entitled Statue of Turning Woman Being Installed in
Front of Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles. Likely screened publicly only
once (if at all) in the context of the artist's 1969 Museum of Modern
Art retrospective, Oldenburg's thirteen-minute movie nonetheless
represents a certain culmination to the little-known and
little-investigated cinematic endeavors that he pursued throughout the
decade. Drawing upon unpublished research from Oldenburg's studio
archives, this illustrated lecture attempts to flesh out Oldenburg's
cinematic interests and pursuitsincluding collaborations and
interactions with filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert
Breer, Ron Rice, John Jones, and George Manupellias they relate
to his more well-known happenings, pop sculptures, and proposals for
fantastic monuments (many of which will be on view in Claes Oldenburg:
The Street and the Store, opening at MoMA on April 14). Only slightly
better-known than Oldenburg's interest in film is the variety of
sexually suggestive writings, drawings, and collages he produced in the
mid-sixties, works that relate integrally to the production and
significance of Turning Woman. When placed back into its proper context,
Oldenburg's modest Turning Woman film emerges as a pivotal work within
the development and transformation of his aesthetic at the turn of the
decade. A screening of Turning Woman (on digital transfer), arranged by
permission of the artist, will accompany the lecture. - Branden W.
Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
at Columbia University and author of books on Tony Conrad (Zone, 2008),
Anthony McCall (Steidl, 2005), and Robert Rauschenberg (MIT, 2003). His
most recent book, The Roh and the Cooked: Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant
in Europe (August Verlag, 2012) derives from a lecture originally
delivered at Light Industry in 2009. - FREE - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
4/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN
See notes for April 25, 8 pm.
4/30
San Francisco, California: San Francisco International Film Festival
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7pm, New People CInema, 1746 Post (near Webster) in Japantown
EXPERIMENTAL: ARTIFACTS AND ARTIFICIAL ACTS
See Saturday, April 27 for details.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013
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5/1
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floo
AXWFF SALUTES MM SERRA & THE FILM-MAKERS COOPERATIVE
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, Salutes MM Serra & the
Film-Makers' Cooperative, Curated by Lili White - Wednesday May 1st,
2013 at 7:00pm - Film-Makers' Cooperative Charles S. Cohen Screening
Room - Suggested Donation: $10 - - PROGRAM - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON\;
Maya Deren - - The HOUSE of the GENTLE (excerpt)\; Lili White - - MILK
AND GLASS\; Sarah Pucill - - BITCH BEAUTY\; MM Serra - - MISSING GREEN\;
Joey Huertas aka Jane Public - #1\; Rie Sakaguchi-Nakaoka - - TIDES\;
Amy Greenfield\; Camera: Hilary Harris - - FIREFLY\; Dariya Yalova\;
Featuring Olga Alimanovic - - http://axwff.com,
http://film-makerscoop.com
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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013
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5/2
Cambridge, MA: Mass Art Film Society
6:30, Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square Building 1900
"THAT'S A WRAP!" FILM/VIDEO SENIOR SHOW
"THAT'S A WRAP!" Come enjoy the Massart Film/Video class of
2013's final show at the Kendall Theater. - Show starts at 6:30pm, This
is a FREE event and all are welcomed to come!
5/2
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
OPEN SCREEN
Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty
EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First
come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD,
VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm. $5
5/2
New York, NY: New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/node/197516?lref=55%2Fcalendar
6pm, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
LILI WHITE'S EXPERI-DOC FEATURE: FOOL'S GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROADTRIP IN AN
ELECTION YEAR
Lili White will screen and discuss her film Fool's Gold: California
Roadtrip in an Election Year (2012).
5/2
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8:30, passage goublier, 41 rue du faubourg st martin, 75010
MAY THE ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU
PROJECTIONS DE FILMS DE MOIRA TIERNEY TOURNÉS EN SUPER 8
DANS LES RUES DE LA NOUVELLE-ORLÉANS ET DE DUBLIN +
PERFORMANCE LIVE DE MACADARA SMITH - - ENTRÉE LIBRE -
PROGRAMME: - 20h30 > APÉRO, 21h00 > PERFORMANCE DE
MACDARA SMITH, 21h30 > COURTS-MÉTRAGES DE MOIRA TIERNEY
PERFORMANCE: Macdara Smith live : mélange de déclamations,
de trompette et de réflexions sur les Renards, s'adaptant plus ou
moins aux présences humaines et urbaines. - FILMS: Une
sélection de courts-métrages tournés en Super-8mm
par Moira Tierney à Dublin et en Nouvelle-Orléans,
notamment "SHOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME" (filmé avec les
Mardi Gras Indians en 2012) et "INVENT THE FUTURE" (clip avec
le rappeur Truth Universal), mais aussi en avant-première
mondiale le film THE SHINING EMERALD (WE HAVE MOVED)...et un clip
youtube de la meilleure rappeuse irlandaise du moment : Tempermental
Misselayneous, sur sa terre natale à Finglas,
Dublin.http://www.cjcinema.org/
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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013
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5/3
Chicago, IL: The Nightingale
8pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
THE SOFT ESCAPE: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON
The NIGHTINGALE is delighted to host Michael Robinson in person to
present a program of (mostly) recent film and video work along with a
few incidental clips of inspiration and ephemera. Interested in both the
texture of film grain and video artifact, Robinson's work plays with
formal concerns, but move offer more than that .Robinson elegantly mines
a collective nostalgia surrounding popular culture, often serving up
brief bursts of transcendent emotionality embedded in our shared media
consumption.Program Details: And We All Shine On (2006, 7min, 16) -
These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (2010, 13min, dv) - Chiquitita and the Soft
Escape (2003, 10min, 16) - Light Is Waiting (2007, 11min, dv) - If There
Be Thorns (2009, 13.5min, dv) - Line Describing Your Mom (2011, 6min,
dv) - Victory Over the Sun (2007, 12.5min, 16) - and others TBD -
Michael Robinson (b.1981) is a film and video artist whose work explores
the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines
between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria.
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
MADY SCHUTZMAN'S DEAR COMRADE
Dear Comrade is a feature length, documentary essay film inspired by the
creation of Llano del Rio (191418), one of California's most successful
secular cooperative colonies. The film documents this collective
enterprise through a tour of the California ruins, photos and
recollections of local historians and residents, voices of former
colonists, and scholars of California history. However, the primary
focus of the film resides not so much in the past as in the musings,
questions, courage, frustrations, fantasies, and labors of many before
and after Llano who have assumed comparable struggles - to forego
economic and political security to craft an alternative society. Through
the intersection of stories, a seemingly traditional documentary film
morphs into a montage of parallel universes, historical re-enactments,
clownery, political commentary, and a palpable desirefailings and
disappointments notwithstandingto give idealism and cooperation another
try. Mady Schutzman is a writer, theatre artist, and filmmaker. She is a
practitioner of the work of Augusto Boal and co-editor of Playing Boal:
Theatre, Therapy, Activism (1994) and A Boal Companion: Dialogues on
Theatre and Cultural Politics (2006). Her creative non-fiction has been
published in several journals including The Drama Review, Black Clock,
and Theatre Topics. Her stageplay UPSET!a Brechtian comedy about Rodney
King and the L.A. uprisingswon an Ovation Award in 2006. Dear Comrade
is the first film that Mady has directed and produced. She teaches at
California Institute of the Arts and USC. Screening followed by a Q&A
with filmmakers Rebecca Baron and Adele Horne!
5/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
by Martina Kudláček 2012, 233 min, digital video U.S. THEATRICAL
PREMIERE RUN! FILMMAKER AND KUBELKA IN PERSON! Presented with the
support of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; special thanks to
Andreas Stadler & Hannah Liko. Having previously created fascinating
documentary portraits of seminal avant-garde figures Maya Deren and
Marie Menken, Martina Kudláček has turned her sights on Peter
Kubelka, the legendary Austrian filmmaker, theorist, lecturer, and cook,
not to mention AFA co-founder. And the result is her most ambitious film
yet, an expansive yet focused 4-hour immersion in Kubelka's work,
theories, personality, and sensibility. While Kubelka's radical and
pioneering body of films is a highly condensed work of little more than
an hour, his lectures are legendary for their extended length. In
Kudláček's film these drawn-out presentations on 'what is cinema'
and 'cooking as an art form' are frequently illuminated by
archaeological objects from Kubelka's eclectic collection. He considers
his ongoing collecting to be an expanded film practice that explores the
evolution of humanity. Delving deeply into the numerous, incredibly
varied, and yet gracefully integrated facets of Kubelka's life,
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA is both a vibrant portrait of a unique and
legendary figure and a penetrating inquiry into his views on cinema,
art, and experience. "Martina's film on Kubelka is the best film on any
artist that I've ever seen. The trick she used was so simple and so
difficult: she kept herself out of it. What she gave us is pure
Kubelka." Jonas Mekas "Kudláček invites us to an intimate meeting
with Johann Sebastian Bach, or equivalent, and speaking our language.
Stan Brakhage of the conspicuous ego considered him the greatest
filmmaker. I'm content when anyone hits their stride Oscar Micheaux!
and he's surely the greatest Peter Kubelka we could have, he who taught
us how damn interesting perfection could be." Ken Jacobs "How do you
portray a Renaissance man? With the perseverance of a skilled Nature
filmmaker, Kudláček observed Peter Kubelka for many years with her
hand-held camera and gave him all the time in the world to expose us to
his unfolding vision. As a result she presents a four-hour masterpiece
about one of the most influential artists in film history and one of the
most original thinkers and critics of our times." Peter Tscherkassky
Both Martina Kudláček and Peter Kubelka will be here in person!
Check http://fragmentsofkubelka.org/
5/3
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8:00PM, 1515 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122
THE BUILT WORLD
At the edge of Rio de Janeiro, the glittering monument to Brazil's rise
in the world of global capitalism, stands another monument: a giant
edifice, full of light. It's divided symmetrically down the middle.
Doctors and technicians walk in and out of the same side every day, but
nobody walks in the other. It's a ruin, an ambiguous space that could
have been anything but was never occupied. A casually unlocked door in
the hospital leads into the facility's collapsing mirror image, an
enigma that directors Csekö and Urano explore in this mystery movie of
societal proportions.
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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013
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5/4
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NO MAN'S ZONE BY TOSHI FUJIWARA
The 40 year old nuclear power station on the coast of Fukushima went
into crisis after being struck by the tsunami on March 11th 2011. Within
24 hours, evacuation order was proclaimed to the surrounding 20 km area.
The new documentary by Toshi Fujiwara is a journey within this No Man's
Zone and the surrounding regions around it where people continue to
live, as well as a journey into time and history when the film
encounters with the people who have or will be evacuated, those who have
no choice but to continue to live nearby. No Man's Zone (2011) 104
minutes, video, color, Japanese/English. Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara in
person!
5/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM
MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm,
b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min,
35mm, b&w/color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm, b&w) OUR TRIP TO
AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 min,
16mm) POETRY AND TRUTH / DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT (2003, 13 min, 35mm)
"Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor
that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now
elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's
greatest filmmaker which is to say, simply: see his films!
by all
means/above all else
etcetera." Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca.
65 min.
5/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
See notes for May 3, 7 pm.
5/4
New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal / Workshop
http://mfj-online.org
8:30 pm, Grahame Weinbren Studio, 119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 57 PUBLICATION SCREENING
Screening to celebrate the publication of Millennium Film Journal No.
57... Program consists of works discussed in the issue, including:
Catherine Elwes: There is a Myth (UK,1984); Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel:
I Am Micro (India, 2011); Noe Kidder: Kuíuipo (USA, 2013); Anna
Marziano: The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing
Some (Italy, 2011); Pat O'Neill: Ojo Calientes (USA, 2012); Jennifer
Proctor: A Movie by Jen Proctor (USA 2010-12); and some 1970s single
channel videos by Tony Oursler... Admission: $14.00 includes copy of MFJ
57; $8.00 admission only.
5/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
MEGAN PRELINGERS ELECTRONICS AND THE MODERN CENTURY +
Archivist, author, and Prelinger Library principal, Megan Prelinger
graces us again with an hr.-long W-i-P slideshow on the visualization of
20th Century electronic technology. Anticipating her forthcoming book,
Megan has unearthed modernist artists who ushered in the Electronic Age
with their visionary graphics, demonstrating that design and technology
were mutual contextualizers in the mid-century modern era. After her
fascinating show-and-tell, these post-war 16mm films also bear on
tonight's theme: IBM's 1953 Piercing the Unknown, the supremely campy
1945 Principles of Electricity, Philco's 1967 Year 1999, and even a
outrageous clip of Orson Welles in the seminal Future Shock.
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SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013
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5/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM
See notes for May 4, 5:15 pm.
5/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
See notes for May 3, 7 pm.
5/5
San Francisco, California: Lost Weekend Video
7 pm, 1034 Valencia Street
BAY AREA CINE SALON
Bay Area Cine Salon $6 EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. OLD and NEW. HISTORIC and
AHISTORIC. The Bay Area Cine Salon presents contemporary works by local
film-makers working with analogue film along side a selection of shorts
celebrating Mayday and social justice. Come see works by Bruce Baillie,
Robert Nelson, Charles Chadwick, Zach Van Joo, Zach Iannazzi, Nawneet
Ranjan and Eric Stewart.
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