[Frameworks] This week [February 23 - March 3, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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INSTA (Knoxville; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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Accolade Competition (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 30 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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INSTA: International Show/Tell Annual Media Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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Con i minuti contati - International Short Film Festival (Montefalco, Umbria, Italy; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 15, 2013)
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Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2013 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013)
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Mumbai Women's International Film Festival (Mumbai,India; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2013)
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West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (morgantown, WV, USA; Deadline: February 25, 2013)
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ANIMATOR - International Festival of Animated Film (Poland; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (NY NY USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, WV, USA; Deadline: February 25, 2013)
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ArtUP! | Exhibition PARABOLE (Bulgaria; Deadline: March 15, 2013)
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Termite TV (Baltimore, MD USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013)
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Termite TV (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013)
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Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht, the Netherlands; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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The White House Studio Project (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: March 25, 2013)
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INSTA (Knoxville; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 30 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Shipment [February 23, Boston, Massachusetts]
* El Pasado Es Un Animal Grotesco [February 23, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Aki Onda & Paul Clipson [February 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Jud Yalkut: "Seminal Films" and "Music and Media" With Symposium. [February 23, Dayton, Ohio]
* New Works Salon [February 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Triumph of the Will [February 23, New York, New York]
* Sanrizuka [February 23, New York, New York]
* The White Hare of Inababa [February 23, New York, New York]
* Afro-Futurism: Sun Ra + Soda_jerk's Astro Black + [February 23, San Francisco, California]
* Avant Erotica: Love Meditations [February 24, Austin, TX]
* Passing Strange [February 24, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Descend In Madness: World Premiere of the Complete 4-Part Vhs Jerusalem
By James Fotopoulos [February 24, Brooklyn, New York]
* Frame 2 Looking, Caring [February 24, Cambridge, UK]
* My Mars Bar Movie [February 24, New York, New York]
* Portrait of Mr. O [February 24, New York, New York]
* Michio Okabe Program [February 24, New York, New York]
* Your Day Is My Night Premiere At Moma's Documentary Fortnight [February 24, New York, New York]
* Small Poetry: Recent Highlights of the Small Gauge Film Festival [February 24, San Francisco, CA]
* Ben Russell: Altered States [February 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Japanese Avant-Garde Program 9 [February 25, New York, New York]
* Matt Porterfield Presents Rob Tregenza's Talking To Strangers [February 26, Brooklyn, NY]
* Gushing Prayer [February 26, New York, New York]
* Fellatio, Food, and Phones: andy Warhol's Eating Too Fast [February 27, Austin, Texas]
* Victor Faccinto At Massart Film Society [February 27, Boston, MA]
* Resisting Paradise [February 27, Providence, RI]
* <B>Archives In Progress: An Evening With Darko Fritz </B> [February 28, Chicago, Illinois]
* La Air: Huckleberry Lain [February 28, Los Angeles, California]
* William E. Jones Presents Fred Halsted's La Plays Itself [February 28, San Francisco, CA]
* Agnes Martin's Gabriel [March 2, Evanston, IL]
* Let Me Be Your Band + Forster + Plotnick + Idaho Joe + [March 2, San Francisco, California]
* Luther Price In Person! - Event Placeholder! [March 3, Chicago, IL]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
Brooklyn, New York: Issue Project Room
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/aki-onda-paul-clipson
4pm & 8pm, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint)
AKI ONDA & PAUL CLIPSON
Cassette musician Aki Onda collaborates with a San Fransisco based
filmmaker Paul Clipson for his final performance of the 2012
Artist-in-Residence series. Onda and Clipson render images and sounds as
if a fragmented journey of landscapes and memories. They investigate
personal, intuitive spaces, through their favored technologies of Super
8mm film and cassette Walkman. Both artists place significant emphasis
on performance environments, where their visual and sonic field
recordings interact to create sensory collages, born out of the
subjective impressions of the audience.
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_JERKS 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 AmericaBillie 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
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
2 - 9PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle bwtn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
DESCEND IN MADNESS: WORLD PREMIERE OF THE COMPLETE 4-PART VHS JERUSALEM
BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS
admission $6 artist in person. James Fotopoulos returns to Microscope
for "Descend into Madness", the world premiere of his complete 7-hour
VHS video epic JERUSALEM. Consisting of 4 separate videos "Jerusalem",
"Sublimation", "Conjunction" and "The Pearl" completed between 2003
and 2004 the work follows a group of actors whose physical,
ritualistic performances explore inter-dimensional travel. The event
also marks the individual premieres of "Conjunction" and "Sublimation"
(parts 2 and 3). "Jerusalem" (part one) screened for the first time last
year as part of "VHS" presented by Rebecca Cleman of EAI at the Museum
of Arts and Design. The better-known final section, "The Pearl", was
originally premiered at Ocularis in Brooklyn, NY in 2004. Full program
details: http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=10213. JAMES
FOTOPOULOS' works have screened and exhibited in the US and
internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam,
MoMA PS1, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, 2004 Whitney
Biennial, New York Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Art and Design,
London Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives and Andy Warhol Museum,
among many others. Fotopoulos currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Mrytle/Broadway. Other options: L Morgan Ave or
Jefferson Street. B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across the street.
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.
2/24
San Francisco, CA: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7:30, 992 Valencia
SMALL POETRY: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SMALL GAUGE FILM FESTIVAL
[members: $5 / non-members: $10] - Presented by SF Cinematheque with
Paul Clipson, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Ross Meckfessel and Chicago 8
co-founder Karen Johannesen In Person. - Founded in 2011, the annual
Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival is dedicated to encouraging and
supporting filmmakers working the 8mm and Super-8mm formats through the
exhibition of contemporary and historical works created in these humble
yet inspiring gauges. Tonight Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen
appears in person to present a selection from the fest's first two years
including: Mie Kurihara's Small Poetry and Sheri Wills' Fever, each
ethereal and poignant meditations on light and shadow\; Jason Halprin's
I Colonize The Golden Triangle, a travelogue documenting the maker's
travels through Northern India\; Pablo Marin's Diario Colorado, a fluid,
masterful, multiple exposure study\; Ross Meckfessel's He, She, I Was, a
series autobiographical fragments of friends' lives\; and Tara Nelson's,
Flying Fish, a home movie which brings us into the intimate living space
of the filmmaker's sister. Also screening: Paul Clipson's Another Void\;
Clint Enns' Sears Catalogue 2011/broadcast/a single tear\; Sam
Hoolihan's Summer Elsewhere\; Saul Levine's Light Licks: By The Waters
of Babylon: I Want To Paint It Black\; Janis Crystal Lipzin's De Luce\;
Gordon Nelson's Feather\; Pablo Valencia's Blindside II\; Naren Wilks'
Collide-o-scope\; Tony Wu's More Intimacy and Stephanie Wuertz'
Luilekkerland. (Steve Polta & Karen Johannesen)
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
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2/25
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
BEN RUSSELL: ALTERED STATES
Los Angeles PremieresThis program, a slightly modified version of one
shown at the Centre Pompidou last fall, presents a selection of films
from Ben Russell's ongoing TRYPPS series, including River Rites, Black
And White Trypps Number Three, Ponce de León, Trypps #6 and Trypps #7.
Shot mostly in 16mm, though formally quite distinct, these short films
"enunciate a 'psychedelic ethnography'in which the trip is both the
means and the end," Russell writes, noting that his films have "expanded
their formal and critical language to include the various poles of
action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy,
global capitalism, and trance-dance à la Jean Rouch." The evening
concludes with the two-projector performance of The Black and the White
Gods. Russell was listed among the "50 Best Filmmakers Under 50," by
Cinema Scope. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8,
CalArts $5]
2/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE PROGRAM 9
Shuji Terayama A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE CINEMA / SEISHŌNEN NO
TAME NO EIGA NYŪMON (1974, 3 min, triple-screen 16mm) Akira Uno TOI
ET MOI / OMAE TO WATASHI (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w) Tadanori Yokoo
ANTHOLOGY 1 (1963, 11 min, 16mm) Katsuhiro Tomita THE MARTYR /
JYUNKYŌSHA (1963, 28 min, 16mm, b&w) Shuji Terayama's
triple-projection piece was made for the 100ft Film Festival hosted by
Image Forum and explores imaginary orgies and strange memories tinted
with the three primary colors. TOI ET MOI by Akira Uno stretches the
definition of animation by drawing onto bodies and fogging the images
with smoke, while Tadanori Yokoo remolds his graphic designs into
animation with rhythmic edits. THE MARTYR, a production closely related
to the legendary Nihon University Cinema Club, boasts a ragged visual
flair. Total running time: ca. 55 min.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
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2/26
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street
MATT PORTERFIELD PRESENTS ROB TREGENZA'S TALKING TO STRANGERS
Talking to Strangers, Rob Tregenza, digital projection, 1987, 90 mins,
Introduced by Matt Porterfield - "Talking to Strangers, written,
directed, and shot in Baltimore by Rob Tregenza in 1985, is a formally
audacious, episodic narrative made up of nine scenes, each composed of a
single eleven-minute take (a complete 400 foot roll of film). The camera
dances with a noncommittal, increasingly unreliable, disintegrating
protagonist as he tackles the world\; this choreography also includes a
series of strangers, who remain strangers to us and him despite being
confronted with probing questions about life, religion, ethics, art,
love. - What happens when you subject a non-professional cast to a rigid
formal style that necessitates perfection? Knowingly, I believe, the
filmmaker invites imperfection. Once you understand the structure and
its implicit high stakes, the act of watching something ostensibly
livein which anything could go wrongcreates a palpable
tension. Despite strict rules, the potential for improvisation between
the camera, its subject, and the audience is never ignored. Tregenza's
use of physical space owes as much to the theater as traditions of
cinematic realism, with hints of a formalist aesthetic akin to James
Benning or Michael Snow. Moments when characters on the very edge of the
frame duck to make way for the camera confirm the ideal that 'cinema is
a game that anyone can play,' as Godard put it, 'so why not?'" - MP
- Followed by a conversation with Porterfield and Tregenza. - Jean-Luc
Godard on Talking to Strangers:
http://www.cinemaparallel.com/Godard.TTS.html - - Rob Tregenza has
written, directed and photographed three award-winning independent
feature films, films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival
in the "Certain Regard" category and the Berlin Film Festival in the
Panorama section. Over the years, his films have also appeared at the
festivals of Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam and Edinburgh. - A
retrospective of his feature films was shown at the National Gallery of
Art in Washington D.C. in 1999, and in 1996 Jean-Luc Godard
hand-selected Tregenza's Talking to Strangers to screen again at the
1996 Toronto International Film Festival. Godard describes passages in
Tregenza's films as, "remarkable and at times astonishing, that is,
softly imbued with the marvelous." He further explains that in
Tregenza's cinematic world, "reality walks hand in hand with fiction." -
Tregenza has also had an award-winning career as a television commercial
director and has worked as a Director of Photography for other
independent filmmakers such as Bela Tarr and Alex Cox. - - Matt
Porterfield is the writer/director of Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill
(2011), and I Used to Be Darker (2013), which recently premiered at
Sundance. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland and teaches film theory,
screenwriting, and production at Johns Hopkins University. In 2012, Matt
was a featured artist in the Whitney Biennial, a Creative Capital
grantee, and the recipient of a Wexner Center Artists Residency. -
Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited.
First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
2/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
GUSHING PRAYER
by Masao Adachi 1971, 72 min, 35mm This screening is part of: RITUALS IN
THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN (FUNSHUTSU KIGAN
15-SAI NO BAISHUNFU) A member of Nihon University Cinema Club and
scriptwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, activist filmmaker
Masao Adachi made this unique pink film that is pregnant with political
allegory in the wake of the failed revolution that marked the 1960s.
GUSHING PRAYER explores the benumbed disappointment of failure and the
paralysis of youth, depicting teenage forays into group sex, suicide,
and prostitution with a remarkably desensitized vision.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013
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2/27
Austin, Texas: The Mad Stork Cinema
8:30, ROOM: STUDIO 4D, Building CMD, UT
FELLATIO, FOOD, AND PHONES: ANDY WARHOL'S EATING TOO FAST
Join us for a evening of Warhol's rarely screened sequel to Blow Job. -
Eating Too Fast (1966) - dir. Andy Warhol, 16mm, 67 minutes. -
"Eating Too Fast (1966) is an Andy Warhol film made at the Factory.
It was originally titled Blow Job #2 and features art critic and writer
Gregory Battcock."
2/27
Boston, MA: Tara Merenda Nelson
8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue
VICTOR FACCINTO AT MASSART FILM SOCIETY
Animator, filmmaker, artist and lecturer Victor Faccinto will present
works from 1972-2012. - Guest Curated by Tara Merenda Nelson - Seduction
and repulsion, love and lust, good and evil are the tensions that
permeate Faccinto's work. His compositions are obsessive in their
orchestration. His allegiance to bright, vibrant colors belies the
sometimes disturbing subject matter, and maintains a level of humorous
irreverence that is integrated throughout the work. - from Victor
Faccinto: Three Decades, Luise Ross Gallery - You will see things you
will never forget. - *16mm* - Exercise (13 mins.) hand altered 16mm
film, Book of Dead (15 mins.) hand altered and bleached 16mm film, Filet
of Soul (16 mins.) paper cutout animation - *Video* - Visual Remains,
2001 (5:50) altered and bleached 16mm film on DVD, Facts and Figures,
2012 (10:30) details from the lives of Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt
and Fatty Arbuckle - 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. 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/
2/27
Providence, RI: Magic Lantern
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/
9:00 PM, Cable Car Cinema & Cafe, 204 S. Main St
RESISTING PARADISE
Magic Lantern and the 2013 Providence French Film Festival Present:
Resisting Paradise (Barbara Hammer, 2003). A provocative inquiry into
the role of the artist during wartime, Barbara Hammer's documentary
Resisting Paradise was begun in 1999 while the acclaimed American
avant-garde filmmaker was an artist-in-residence at the Camargo
Foundation in Cassis, a small fishing village in southern France. Though
Hammer originally went to Cassis to study the light of Provence (famous
for enthralling generations of French painters), the outbreak of the war
in Kosovo quickly led her to question the value of such abstract
pursuits. Projecting this concern backward through history, Resisting
Paradise turns to the lives of Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard to
examine the divergent practices of artists and Resistance fighters
living in the south of France during World War II. Screening with three
experimental shorts made in Cassis by artists affiliated with the
Camargo Foundation: The Canaries (Jerome Hill, 1969); Cassis (Jonas
Mekas, 1966); and Fall (3 Parts) (Leighton Pierce, 2002). TRT ca. 102
min
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013
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2/28
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St.
ARCHIVES IN PROGRESS: AN EVENING WITH DARKO FRITZ
Renowned for his groundbreaking exhibitions of video and computer art,
Amsterdam-based curator and researcher Darko Fritz has also produced a
body of work around concepts of glitch, error, and surveillance. Fritz
presents selections from Archives in Progress, an ongoing project that
draws upon his past works to explore the possibility of the archive and
"pure information" as mediums for art. Organized with the support of the
Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. An architect by training, Darko Fritz (b.
1966, Split, Croatia) is a multimedia artist, curator, researcher, and
graphic designer. His own artworks are in the collections of Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; Skopje City Museum; World Bank, Washington D.C.; and
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; among others. He is currently
based in Amsterdam, Korčula, and Zagreb. 1987-2012,
Croatia/Netherlands/UK, multiple formats, ca 75 min + discussion
2/28
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St
LA AIR: HUCKLEBERRY LAIN
Free / LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los
Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over
a four-week period. Studying under numerous undergrounds legends such as
Mike Kuchar, Christine Panushka, Larry Cuba and Marie Losier,
Huckleberry Lain has created a library of films from Super 8 experiments
to motion-capture avant-garde tales. In this current project Huckleberry
will cross the old technologies of Fuji's Single-8 film with new digital
animation in order to reconstruct some of the downtown LA movie palaces
that are slowly being erased from our history. Only a few relics remain
of the dozens of cinema palaces that premiered some of the world's
biggest movies from the Golden Age of cinema. Downtown Los Angeles was a
sea of flashing neon where now only a dim flicker of light remains on a
couple of buildings. This is a project on architectural restoration and
a love letter to some of the most beautiful buildings in the United
States. Music will be by Alejandro Cohen of the LA bands Languis and
Pharaohs.
2/28
San Francisco, CA: SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
7pm, 151 3rd St
WILLIAM E. JONES PRESENTS FRED HALSTED'S LA PLAYS ITSELF
Before there was mainstream gay pornography, there was Fred Halsted and
his daring approach to the genre. In L.A. Plays Itself, tracking shots
of the gritty landscape of L.A. and the pastoral parkland of Malibu
Canyon play backdrop to rough scenes of S&M. Yet Halsted's aesthetic
approach to cinematography, narrative, and editing has earned the film a
place in experimental film history, and as such it holds the distinction
of being the only gay porn film in the collection of the Museum of
Modern Art in New York. The screening will be followed by a discussion
with Halsted scholar William E. Jones. - Part of More Than Just Queer:
Luminaries Past and Present
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013
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3/2
Evanston, IL: Block Cinema and White Light Cinema
3pm, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University
AGNES MARTIN'S GABRIEL
Block Cinema and White Light Cinema Present - Agnes Martin's GABRIEL -
Saturday, March 2 3pm - FREE Admission! - At Block Cinema at the
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern
University, Evanston - - GABRIEL (1976, 78 min, DVD Projection) by Agnes
Martin - The celebrated abstract painter Agnes Martin's only film,
Gabriel, is a stylistic departure from her work on canvas. Structured as
a very loose, minimal narrative, it is, in Martin's words, "about this
little boy who climbs a mountain and all the beautiful things he sees."
Martin used this framing device to present an observational film
centered on landscape and nature, a film about a more casual kind of
looking than her compositionally-precise geometric paintings demand.
Gabriel sees Martin in a playful artistic mode: "My movie is about
happiness, innocence, and beauty." This is a rare opportunity to see
another side of one of the great artists of mid-century modernism. - -
Courtesy of The Pace Gallery. - www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu -
www.whitelightcinema.com
3/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
LET ME BE YOUR BAND + FORSTER + PLOTNICK + IDAHO JOE +
Twist and stomp through the eccentric world of One-Man-Bands! This
heart-pumping plunge off a curvy West Virginian highway leads to the
infamous Rockabilly-Wild-Man Hasil Adkins and other misfit innovators:
Bob Log III, former bus-driver-turned-punk Delta Blues man; Washboard
Hank on his kitchen-sink tuba; and the Mysterious Asthmatic Avenger.
Witness Eric Royer's self-built 5-piece bluegrass band, the Lonesome
Organist, and King Louie, the hurricane of sound! The NorCal debut of
this feature doc is preceded by local solo acts: Guest emcee Russ
Forster, the precocious Henry Plotnick, and the marvelous singing-bowls
of Idaho Joe. $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013
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3/3
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:30, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
LUTHER PRICE IN PERSON! - EVENT PLACEHOLDER!
Luther Price returns to Chicago for two screenings of early Super-8mm
films. The first, this one, is presented by White Light CInema (me) and
will feature early (including his very first film) and super rare
Super-8mm films AND a selection of Price's recent hand-made slides! -
The second show will be presented by SAIC's Eye & Ear Clinic on
Tuesday, March 5. Keep an eye (ha!) on their FB page for details. - Will
update this with specifics once everything is finalized. - HUZZAH! -
[The pix is from one of Price's slides, but is not necessarily one
showing]
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