[Frameworks] Part 2 of 2: This week [February 16 - 24, 2013] in avant garde cinema

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Part 2 of 2: This week [February 16 - 24, 2013] in avant garde cinema

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013
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2/23
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street

 THE SHIPMENT
  ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents The Shipment. Playwright and
  director Young Jean Lee and a talented cast of five African-American
  performers create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that
  dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about
  race and culture. One of the leading and most provocative voices in
  American contemporary theatre, Lee pushes herself to new artistic
  heights as she confronts her fear about creating an ethnic identity play
  through the lens of a "black identity politics show."

2/23
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
9:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street

 EL PASADO ES UN ANIMAL GROTESCO
  ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents El Pasado Es Un Animal
  Grotesco. It's 1999 in Buenos Aires. Mario, Laura, Pablo and Vicky are
  in their mid-20s and ready for careers, love and adulthood. Over the
  next decade, Argentina's economy will collapse and their lives will take
  a series of unexpected turns. In this fast-paced, multilayered "mega
  fiction," director Mariano Pensotti (one of the most noted experimental
  directors throughout the world) deftly unfolds the lives of these four
  characters. El pasado es un animal grotesco (The Past is a Grotesque
  Animal) is a funny and moving portrait that takes place atop a slowly
  spinning turntable stage; a reminder of time's ceaseless march. Guided
  by a narrative voice-over, we are granted access to a string of defining
  moments in the touching and tumultuous lives of the group. Moments that
  illustrate how quickly and easily real life can transform into fiction
  and back again.

2/23
Dayton, Ohio: The University of Dayton
www.udayton.edu/arts
1 PM-4 PM, ArtStreet Studio B on Kefauver Avenue

 JUD YALKUT: "SEMINAL FILMS" AND "MUSIC AND MEDIA" WITH SYMPOSIUM.
  A program of films by Jud Yalkut at 1 pm from 1966-1972 includes "Turn
  Turn Turn" (1966), several film collaborations with Nam June Paik
  (1967-1972) including "Videotape Study No. 3," "Beatles Electroniques,"
  "Electronic Moon No. 2," and "Electronic Yoga," "China Cat Sunflower"
  (1972) with the Grateful Dead, and "Planes" a film for the Trisha Brown
  Dance Company, newly restored through an American Film Preservation
  Foundation" grant in their "Avant Garde Masters" program. 2 pm: A film
  panel with professors from the University of Dayton, choreographer
  Rodney Veal, and Associate Professor Benjamin Britton of the University
  of Cincinnati. 3 pm: A screening of "Music and Media" films by Jud
  Yalkut celebrating jazz artists who were also visual artists, including
  the late Warren James of Yellow Springs, Ohio in "Noh Age Video" (2000),
  and "Portrait of Pee Wee" with legendary jazz clarinetist Pee Wee
  Russell (1998).

2/23
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St

 NEW WORKS SALON
  $5 / Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or
  recently completed works. Bay Area based artist Valerie Soe presents her
  experimental documentary The Chinese Gardens, which looks at the lost
  Chinese community in Port Townsend, WA, examining racism against the
  Chinese in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s, from the Chinese
  Exclusion Act of 1882 through various lynchings, beatings, and murders,
  drawing connections between past and present race relations in the U.S.
  Brigid McCaffrey will show her work Innisfree, in which a geologist
  traces a range of formations with the Mojave Desert, considering a full
  retreat into remoteness and the company of the rocks. Also, Chloe Reyes
  will show a new 8mm film.

2/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL
  by Leni Riefenstahl 1934-35, 106 min, 35mm, b&w (TRIUMPH DES WILLENS)
  "The official Nazi record of the 1934 Nuremberg Party rally,
  commissioned by Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, [it] is one of
  the most controversial contributions to film history because of its
  subject matter – her insistence that the film is solely a work of art
  and not propaganda; and the presentation of the subject matter – the
  manipulation of reality in this 'documentary' record. The contributions
  to the art of film this work has to offer are closely tied to the
  controversies. [It] is a masterpiece of style and editing, which in turn
  are the very techniques used to manipulate reality and create
  emotionally effective propaganda." –Marie Saeli

2/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 SANRIZUKA
  by Shinsuke Ogawa 1973, 146 min, 16mm, b&w This screening is part of:
  RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN
  (SANRIZUKA: HETA BURAKU) Over the span of ten years and seven films,
  beginning in 1968, Ogawa Productions documented and participated in the
  revolt against the building of Narita airport. Ogawa and his team lived
  communally with the farmers and student activists in Sanrizuka village,
  which was to be destroyed and replaced by runways. A redefinition of the
  limits of involvement in documentary filmmaking, SANRIZUKA: HETA VILLAGE
  provides rare insight into grassroots activism and captures the
  pressures experienced by the workers' and the patience required for
  their revolt.

2/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 THE WHITE HARE OF INABABA
  by Yoshihiro Kato 1970, 120 min, 16mm-to-video This screening is part
  of: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN
  (INABA NO SHIROUSAGI) Zero Jigen, the most notoriously outrageous
  performance art group in Japan, described themselves as having 'raped
  the city' with their naked rituals enacted on the streets across Japan.
  Shot by Masanori Oe, a member of the Newsreel collective in New York,
  the film documents the group's happenings, which raged against the
  commodification of art represented by the Osaka Expo in 1970, and which
  they attacked in their activities for the 'Joint Struggle Faction of
  Crashing Expo '70'.

2/23
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St

 AFRO-FUTURISM: SUN RA + SODA_JERK’S ASTRO BLACK +     
  We celebrate Black History Month with a focus on African-American
  musical contributions, notably those associated with Afro-Futurism. The
  West Coast premiere of Soda_Jerk's complete Astro Black suite is a
  half-hr. collage-narrative of wildly juxtaposed scenes, from vaudeville
  through electronica to UFOs. PLUS Cauleen Smith's masterful choreography
  of a Chicago marching band's public performance of a Sun Ra composition.
  ALSO: three rare Sun Ra segments expressing his way-out sci-fi
  cosmology, righteous clips of Muhammad Ali and a 10-year-old Michael
  Jackson, and an irresistibly funky chunk from that classic 16mm
  time-capsule Black Music in America—Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Nina
  Simone, B.B. King, et. al.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2013
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2/24
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7:30pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road

 AVANT EROTICA: LOVE MEDITATIONS
  Our 2013 Avant Erotica show is subtitled "Love Meditations;" it is less
  about the graphic depiction of the coital act, and instead delves deeper
  into personal soliloquies of desire, physical plasticity and emotional
  isolation. Headlining the program is a newly-restored version of Carolee
  Schneemann's legendary sexual incantation "Fuses," the self-shot erotic
  classic featuring herself and her partner as imagined through eyes of
  her cat. The program also includes works both historical and
  contemporary by Gheith Al-Amine, Stan Brakhage, Taka Iimura, Tom
  Chomont, WE WHO R WE (Ted Hearne and Philip White), and Chick Strand.
  Sexual Meditation: #1 Motel, Stan Brakhage, 7 min /silent / 16mm / 1970
  Part of the Sexual Meditation series, this film is a rhythmic and
  abstract exploration of light, hand-painted Ai (Love), Taka Iimura, 10
  min / sound by Yoko Ono / 16mm / 1962. 10minutes of the act of creation
  itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " (T.I.) Once Upon a
  Sidewalk, Gheith Al-Amine, 20 mins / sound / digital video / 2009 /
  Beirut, Lebanon. This video explores the representation of women as
  objects of desire and questions the medium of video itself by repeatedly
  manipulating its parameters. Fever Dream, Chick Strand, 7min / sound /
  16mm / 1979. A wet hot dream about sensuality. Hi Is My Name, R WE WHO R
  WE, 3 mins /sound / video / 2013. A testosterone-laden screed of
  aggravated vocals, manic tonalities and frantic eyeballing. Oblivion,
  Tom Chomont, 4 mins / silent / 16mm / 1969. "Successfully blends
  elements from both the poetic and diary modes. In the process Tom
  Chomont has created one of the few truly erotic works in cinema." -- J.
  J. Murphy. Fuses (newly restored version, with added footage), Carolee
  Schneemann, 30 min / silent / 16mm / 1967. New restoration of the
  original 16mm collaged print - May 2007. "... devastatingly erotic,
  transcending the surfaces of sex to communicate its true spirit, its
  meaning as an activity for herself and, quite accurately, women in
  general." -- B. Ruby Rich 

2/24
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
1:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street

 PASSING STRANGE
  ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Passing Strange.Already a hit
  Broadway show, Passing Strange tells the story of a young black man who
  decides to leave behind his religious, middle-class upbringing in 1970s
  Los Angeles and head to Europe to find something "real." In racy
  Amsterdam and militarized Berlin, he encounters some misadventures with
  sex, drugs, art and politics, causing him to realize how much he left
  behind at his home. Famed director Spike Lee brings his signature touch
  to this contemporary musical, filming the event with multi-camera
  coverage and providing a unique glimpse to the backstage process of the
  actors in the show. This electric collaboration between theatre and film
  artists is not to be missed.

2/24
Cambridge, UK: Frame
3pm, Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

 FRAME 2 – LOOKING, CARING
  Frame an informal series of artist and independent film events curated
  by Becca Voelcker Two afternoons of film screenings, talks and
  discussions. Keynes Hall, King's College, University of Cambridge, CB2
  1ST Events are free and there is no need to book. Event 2 3-4/4.30pm
  Sunday 24th February Looking, Caring speakers JENNY CHAMARETTE, Queen
  Mary, University of London. GARETH EVANS, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
  films Block (Emily Richardson) 2005 12 min We Saw (Peter Todd) 2009 4
  min Aerial (Margaret Tait) 1974 4 min Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel)
  2008 extracts George (Luke Fowler) 2008 4 min 

2/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 MY MARS BAR MOVIE
  by Jonas Mekas 2011, 87 min, video ENCORE SCREENINGS! Premiered here at
  Anthology last spring, MY MARS BAR MOVIE, Jonas Mekas's ode to the
  now-vanished but never-forgotten local dive bar, is back for two encore
  screenings! Our neighbor ever since we moved to the Second Avenue
  Courthouse building in 1988, the Mars Bar represented an undiluted blast
  of the old East Village, keeping alive the punk sensibility and anarchic
  attitude that are increasingly becoming things of the past in this part
  of the city. Though its site has been occupied by yet another glass
  condo building, the Mars Bar nevertheless lives on through Mekas's lens!
  "For some twenty years, Mars Bar, at the corner of First Street and
  Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer
  and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at Anthology
  Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who came to see
  movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always had a great time
  at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the jukebox, and very
  often there was no electricity, and it was old and messy and it didn't
  want to be any other way – it was the last escape place left in downtown
  New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I
  knew it." –J.M.

2/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 PORTRAIT OF MR. O
  Donald Richie SACRIFICE / GISEI (1959, 10 min, 8mm-to-video, b&w) &
  Chiaki Nagano THE PORTRAIT OF MR. O / O-SHI NO SHŌZŌ 1969, 59
  min, 16mm, b&w Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) was considered the
  pinnacle of postwar avant-garde arts and continues to thrill the world
  of modern dance today. Richie's SACRIFICE is the first filmed document
  of their activities and a rare insight into the movement's formative
  period, while THE PORTRAIT OF MR. O is the first in a series of
  collaborations between Chiaki Nagano and butoh's co-founder Kazuo Ohno,
  whose elegant gestures grace the screen.

2/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 MICHIO OKABE PROGRAM
  GENESIS THEORY / TENCHI SŌZŌSETSU 1967, 20 min, 16mm, b&w CAMP
  / KYANPU 1970, 30 min, 16mm BOY-TASTE / SHŌNEN SHIKŌ 1973, 12
  min, 16mm Seen as one of the leading lights of the angura (underground)
  and psychedelic arts that proliferated in the late 1960s, Michio Okabe's
  films find their uniqueness in straddling documented performance and the
  act of filmmaking as performance. The winner of a prize at the first
  experimental film festival in Japan at the Sogetsu Art Center, Okabe's
  queer sensibilities, bare-body rituals, and usurpation of pop songs are
  reminiscent of Kenneth Anger's work. Total running time: ca. 65 min.

2/24
New York, New York: Lynne Sachs - Your Day is My Night
2:00PM, MoMA 11 West 53rd Street

 YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT PREMIERE AT MOMA'S DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT
  World Premiere of "Your Day is My Night" as part of MoMA's Documentary
  Fortnight series. Sunday February 24th - 2:00pm & Monday February 25th -
  8:00pm Director Lynne Sachs, co-producer Sean Hanley, and members of the
  cast will be in appearance at both screenings for a Q&A. Immigrant
  residents of a "shift-bed" apartment in the heart of New York City's
  Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the
  bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of
  the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical
  monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens,
  bedrooms, wedding halls, cafés, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this
  provocative hybrid documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy,
  and urban life. In Mandarin, English & Spanish; English subtitles. 64
  min.

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