[Frameworks] Part 2 of 2: This week [February 2 - 10, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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Part 2 of 2: This week [February 2 - 10, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
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2/9
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
8pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastrasse, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e, 10178 Berlin
THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012
[DL8], the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for
contemporary media and film, 2012, is hitting Berlin in a new vein and
venue, this year making the up-and-comer insider tip Naherholung
Sternchen its stomping ground. The reason for the move will be clear to
all once they hit the doors, literally a stone's throw from the iconic
Kino International near Alexanderplatz Berlin: the location, a one-time
thespians' hangout already steeped in its own history, has clearly been
waiting for this moment. And it's here: 1001 nights at the cinema, all
in eleven days. A romping, cinedalic party, the place to see films, rub
shoulders with filmmakers and spectators, meet a global set around the
bar... and see more films. What's up and coming, with performances and
music thrown in for good measure. This year topped off with a
celebration with all the Berlin Film Festivals: You Say Festival, We Say
Party, The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 the night to party
with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin (and beyond) film
universe. Enough festivals to kill a rhino! With special presentations
by Nick Zedd, Simon Ellis, Yony Leyser, Andreas Muller-Pohle, Miron
Zownir, Birol �nel, Telemach Wiesinger and many others... The 8th
Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012 Naherholung
Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, 10178 Berlin behind the Kino
International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstrasse Daily from 6pm | Free
admission till 10 pm Opening reception Thurs., Feb. 9, 8pm The Official
Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15
2/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6pm, 164 N. State
WE BEGAN BY MEASURING DISTANCE
"We Began By Measuring Distance" reflects on intrinsic and imposed
distances�physical, logistical, and psychological�represented in works
by women filmmakers from or connected to Palestine, including Jumana
Emil Abboud, Basma al-Sharif, Mona Hatoum, and Annemarie Jacir. Informed
by stories of loss and violence, these short films invoke and measure
the space between past and present, mother and daughter, as well as home
and exile. Introduced by Tirtza Even, SAIC Professor in Film, Video, New
Media, and Animation. Basma al-Sharif in person. 1989�2011, multiple
directors, Egypt/Israel/Lebanon/Palestine/UK, various formats, ca. 80
minutes + discussion
2/9
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
8:00, Moviate - 1306 N. 3rd St.
DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!!!
DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!! - From John Waters and
Mormons, to Mental Institutions and Grandfathers!!!! You don't want to
miss this amazing program of very special Short Documentaries!!! -
Thursday February 9, 2012, Starts promptly at 8pm, Admission is $5 -
Program For The Evening: - SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA (Michael Stabile,
2011)- 17 minutes - -In the late 1960s, as the Sexual Revolution was
first gaining steam, San Francisco was pushing the boundaries of what
could be filmed and quickly became, according to the NY Times, 'The Smut
Capital of the United States.' From shabby storefront theaters and live
sex shows to the Erotic Film Festival, the City became ground zero in
the fight over obscenity, as both local politicians and Federal law
enforcement went to war with filmmakers and free-speech advocates. 'Smut
Capital' talks to the theater owners, film producers and stars in an
attempt to recreate a revolution that wasn't televised, but screened.
Featuring John Waters. Premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival - LIKE
THEM ON FACEBOOK AT: https://www.facebook.com/smutcapital,
www.sfsmut.com - A CALL OF CONSCIENCE: PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL & HOSPITAL
(Heath Hofmeister, 2011)- 16 minutes, A short documentary about the
Pennhurst State School & Hospital located outside of Philadelphia, PA.
Hidden in a remote river bend in Pennsylvania, 10,500 people were forced
to call this place 'home'. Now neglected, decaying and hidden beneath
decades of over-growth, one of America's most dramatic civil rights
stories awaits discovery. A Call of Conscience: Pennhurst State School
and Hospital uncovers the untold story of the birth place of the Civil
Rights Movement of the Intellectually Disabled. Supported by their
families and community, this group of residents united and overcame the
label of 'retarded' to lead and win one of the greatest civil victories
for the disabled in U.S History. The result of their struggle not only
won their freedom but positively transformed the social landscape of
America forever! Official Selection of the 2011 Queens International
Film Festival. - THE DEBRIS (SMALL SLIVERS OF CELLULOID) (Jeremy Moss,
2012) - 7 minutes, An experimental documentary exploring the Southern
Utah desert and human remnants thereon\; ideology intersects image and
site. Shards from a Utah Mormon's mind. - DRUGS (Renny McCauley, 2008)-
16 minutes, Four addicts give candid testimonials offering insights into
the, complicated nature of drug abuse. - Played at: Durango Independent
Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, San Francisco
Shorts Film Festival & Rumschpringe Film, Festival. - ONE IN TEN ( Susan
Hilvert, 2008) - 23 minutes, A personal documentary about a filmmaker
coming out of the closet. - I KNOW YOU (Bruce Parsons, 2007) - 18
minutes, A personal documentary revealing how the search for a new
relationship can actually reveal the foundation of an old one. Filmmaker
Bruce Parsons, along with his father, search his hometown to try and
meet his grandfather, for the first time. - www.moviate.org
2/9
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset)
FILMS BY ANDREW MEYER, INCLUDING AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION
"[The virtues of] Andrew Meyer's black-and-white AN EARLY CLUE TO THE
NEW DIRECTION... had nothing to do with technical polish. Mr. Meyer's
film hung on dialogue, cast and plot (of a kind), clearly moving in a
new direction. Its central virtue was nothing less than a superb
performance by an old man, Prescott Townsend, playing a Boston rogue
long past his time, who charms a young girl with his 'snowflake
theory.'" --Douglas M. Davis, National Observer. "Afterward, one felt
that Andrew Meyer had opened a new world for 16mm cinema, one in which
many kinds of excuses no longer need to be made. AN EARLY CLUE TO THE
NEW DIRECTION... is unexpected, glorious, and indescribably moving, and
I can't forget it." --James Stoller, Village Voice.
2/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
CAREY BURTT PROGRAM
Carey Burtt began producing short works in the late-70s, and has been
making his mark on the underground film festival circuit for the last
two decades. His darkly funny, deeply creepy films and videos have much
in common with the Cinema of Transgression movement of the 80s; however
they are completely products of his own twisted imagination. Rarely seen
all together, this program offers viewers an opportunity to enter
Burtt's delightfully deranged world. "My films are very personal. All of
them are a form of therapy and reflect my state of mind at the time of
inception � or address an issue that obsesses me. I have spent a lot of
time in isolation � so fear of people and feelings of alienation have
been strong for me throughout my life. I often make films about what I
am most afraid of." �Carey Burtt Writer, musician, and filmmaker Bruce
Bennett will host a Q&A with Carey Burtt after the screening. HITCHHIKE
(1979, 4 minutes, video) HEY MISTER, YOU'RE IN THE GIRLS' ROOM (1991, 4
minutes, video) THE PSYCHOTIC ODYSSEY OF RICHARD CHASE (1998, 6 minutes,
16mm) THE DEATH OF SEX (1998, 4 minutes, 16mm) MIND CONTROL MADE EASY OR
HOW TO BECOME A CULT LEADER (1999, 13 minutes, 16mm) THROUGH A GASH
DARKLY (2006, 6 minutes, video) DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (2010, 10
minutes, video) THE DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER MOVIE (2010, 10 minutes,
video) HOW NOT TO BE STUPID (A GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING) (2010, 8
minutes, video) BLOOD AND FIRE (2011, 10 minutes, video) HELPING: WITH
TRAVIS (2011, 12 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
2/9
San Francisco, California: California College of Art
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QCCA/QCCAFemTrb.html
7PM, 1111 8th St
DIRTY LOOKS: QUEER CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS
New York's Queer Film Series DIRTY LOOKS screens an evening of
experimental queer video and film at California College of the Arts. A
post-screening conversation will feature curator Bradford Nordeen (Dirty
Looks) and Bay Area artist/curator Margaret Tedesco. Queer Conversations
on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned
artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations
to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics in the humanities and the
arts. Nordeen will present the FEMALE TROUBLE program, which spans five
decades of "genderfuck" video and film production. The artists in this
series queer female subject space via drag tactics, narrative
juxtaposition and overt performativity with styles ranging from
masquerade to mythic, performance document to expos� video zine. FEMALE
TROUBLE: Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez Screen Test, 2010 Patti Podesta,
Stepping, 1981 Steven Arnold, Messages, Messages, 1968 Narcissister,
Every Woman, 2010 Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008 Vaginal Davis, Barbi Twins
(excerpt), 1993
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012
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2/10
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
6pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e, 10178 Berlin
THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8], FEB, 9 - 19
[DL8], the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for
contemporary media and film, 2012, is hitting Berlin in a new vein and
venue, this year making the up-and-comer insider tip Naherholung
Sternchen its stomping ground. The reason for the move will be clear to
all once they hit the doors, literally a stone's throw from the iconic
Kino International near Alexanderplatz Berlin: the location, a one-time
thespians' hangout already steeped in its own history, has clearly been
waiting for this moment. And it's here: 1001 nights at the cinema, all
in eleven days. A romping, cinedalic party, the place to see films, rub
shoulders with filmmakers and spectators, meet a global set around the
bar... and see more films. What's up and coming, with performances and
music thrown in for good measure. This year topped off with a
celebration with all the Berlin Film Festivals: You Say Festival, We Say
Party, The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 � the night to party
with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin (and beyond) film
universe. Enough festivals to kill a rhino! With special presentations
by Nick Zedd, Simon Ellis, Yony Leyser, Andreas M�ller-Pohle, Miron
Zownir, Birol �nel, Telemach Wiesinger and many others... The 8th Berlin
International Directors Lounge [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012 Naherholung
Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, 10178 Berlin behind the Kino International/
Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e Daily from 6pm | Free admission till 10
pm The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15
2/10
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
7:30pm, Paramount Theater
BEATS BEING DEAD
This "cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller," set in Germany's Thuringian
Forest (a region alive with legends and myth), plays the police search
for an escaped killer against a story of star-crossed lovers. Part one
of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy.
2/10
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
9:15pm, Paramount Theater
DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND
A novelistic criminal investigation which deftly juxtaposes personal
drama against the search for a killer, underlining the DREILEBEN
trilogy's recurring themes of false appearances and deeply hidden
truths. Part two of the celebrated trilogy.
2/10
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE, A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS (PARTS
I - IV)
Filmmaker David Gatten in conversation with film curator Chris Stults
Special Event Tickets $12 Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002,
16mm, b/w, 20 min The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 16mm, b/w, 37 min
Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to
the Art of Printing 1999, 16mm, b/w, 26 min The Enjoyment of Reading
(Lost and Found) 2001, 16mm, color, 18 min
2/10
Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org
7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street
ELECTROMEDIASCOPE
"Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination." Gilles Deleuze elucidates an
understanding of modern cinema as a conceptual practice contiguous with
contemporary art in his book Cinema 2: The Time-Image. In the process he
discusses modern political cinema and imagined communities and suggests
that when considering the new basis on which they are founded in the
third world and for minorities, art, and especially cinematographic art,
must take part in a task that is "not that of addressing a people, which
is presupposed already there, but of contributing to the invention of a
people." Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination exemplifies this process
through diverse examples of aesthetic, sociocultural and political works
that address aspects of imaginable worlds. They tell strange and
beautiful stories through visual and audible means that are
reverberating with geopolitical realities while bringing to life a
missing past. Cinema plays an important role in contemporary art where
its unique development of images of thought cause us to rethink notions
of the experimental within the context of the emerging global cinema's
emphasis on visual and media literacy, a tactile - sensory form of
editing and imagistic use of sound. This work shares more with the
connotative syntax of oral histories, poetry, performances and ritual
traditions than with many established forms of western cinema that are
more often grounded in textual literacy and a denotative narrative flow.
The works in Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination take us out of our
world of habitual experience as John Cage suggested and establish
alternative ways of experiencing the past and imagining the future.
These works extend media literacy to emphasize a greater intensity of
visual and audible world sensations that are already known in the
performance, song and storytelling of other cultures. They not only
share and re-imagine older culturally specific myths of origin, sense of
place and transformative identity, but invent new stories and parables
that address current geophysical realities for a global world that is
reconnecting through virtual contact. Myth and storytelling of third
world cultures meet the science fiction, technology and cinematic
subcultures of the developed world. This emerging cultural imaginary is
not a utopia. The storytelling, myths and fables re-imagine an expanding
present with past and future folds. We can see, feel and empathize with
these inhabitants of other worlds and perhaps understand them in the
context of our present culture with its disasters, suspicions of the
alien other and the guarded stasis of citizens who have lost alien
sensibilities and sensitivities. Artists are reawakening historical
moments of alien contact by rethinking the past, subverting the present
and subjectifying the future. Their new visual mythmaking and
storytelling are contributing to the invention of a future where memes
leak out and pollinate broader shared aspects of culture, and in the
process enable global cultural exchange. �Patrick Clancy. "Before
Tomorrow," Marie-H�l�ne Cousineau (Canada) in collaboration with
Madeline Ivalu (Canada) and Susan Avingaq (Canada), based on F�r
Morgendaggen by J�rn Riel (Denmark), 2008. 92:47 min., video, Inuktitut
with English subtitles. Program continues on Feb. 17 and 24.
2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: A PACKAGE OF STARS FROM GEORGE AND THE VDB GANG For more than
25 years, the Video Data Bank team measured the passing of the seasons
by the titillating titles received from George Kuchar: weather diaries,
class pictures, summer visits to friends in NY and Cape Cod, winter
holiday festivities, festival visits�. George transitioned from using
film to video in 1985 and VDB has distributed his work ever since, with
the archive now housing all 275 of his videos. During 2005 VDB was
delighted to collaborate with him on a box set of his work, making it
possible for a wider audience to appreciate his treasures. To represent
George's work and to interact with him day-to-day was a delight; in
addition to his undoubted artistic talents, he was funny, modest,
grateful, and a real human being. This program presents just a few of
the shining stars that make up George's galaxy. POINT 'N SHOOT (1989, 5
minutes, video) ROUTE 666 (1994, 8 minutes, video) SEASON OF SORROW
(1996, 12.5 minutes, video) UNCLE EVIL (1996, 7 minutes, video) HONEY
BUNNIES ON ICE (2001, 7 minutes, video) BURNOUT (2003, 20 minutes,
video) HOTSPELL (2011, 26 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 90
minutes.
2/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: THE FILM-MAKERS' COOP PRESENTS: 1960s-70s GEORGE KUCHAR
TRIBUTE As the original distributor of George Kuchar's work, the Coop is
honored to present this program in celebration of his amazing life and
career. Here is a quote from Ken Jacobs: "We [Ken and Flo Jacobs] were
having open screenings in 1963, and Bob Cowan, a Canadian filmmaker,
showed up with George and Mike. To them, our place was very exotic; and
they were exotic to us. Cowan had met them at an amateur 8mm film club
in the Bronx (where they were considered odd). We showed various stuff,
including PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF. We were knocked out! I said to Jack
Smith, 'You have to see this guy's stuff.' I also told Jonas to check
them out, and they all did. And history began. We then invited George
and Mike to join the Film-Makers' Coop." MOSHULU HOLIDAY (1966, 9
minutes, 16mm) ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN (1967, 15 minutes, 16mm)
KNOCTURNE (1968, 8.5 minutes, 16mm) THE SUNSHINE SISTERS (1972, 36
minutes, 16mm) I, AN ACTRESS (1977, 9 minutes, 16mm) WILD NIGHT IN EL
RENO (1977, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
2/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8PM, 992 Valencia Street
DIRTY LOOKS PRESENTS: ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM'S CITY OF LOST SOULS
Dirty Looks is proud to host the West Coast premiere of a recent
restoration of Rosa Von Praunheim's trans punk musical City of Lost
Souls, 1983. Angie Stardust has a lot on her plate, running a boarding
house called Pension Stardust filled with misfit lodgers: an erotic
trapeze duo, a magickal group therapist, assorted layabouts,
nymphomaniacs and Lila (Jayne County), a Southern blonde who dreams of
Hollywood. These tenants also staff Angie's fast food enterprise, Burger
Queen. But when Lila gets knocked up by a Communist who promises to make
her a superstar on East Berlin television, the real havoc ensues. Rosa
Von Praunheim directs this mostly American cast in a trans musical
spectacular that has been described as "Hedwig and the Angry Inch� in
reverse." The event will be accompanied by a complimentary publication
featuring archival imagery from the Rosa Von Praunheim archive and
writings by Bruce Benderson, Jayne County, Joe E. Jeffreys, Amos Mac,
Marc Siegel and Justin Shock.
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