[Frameworks] This week [July 27 - August 4, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FEST (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: October 10, 2013)
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Experimental Documentaries (new york, NY; Deadline: October 15, 2013)
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Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal; Deadline: August 01, 2013)
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Kinofilm: Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, United Kingdom; Deadline: August 15, 2013)
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Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013)
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Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: August 01, 2013)
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Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Immovable Objects: Film Works By Rachael Guma & A Special Performance By
Optipus [July 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Pedro AlmóDovar, Labyrinth of Passion At El Charro Espanol! [July 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Conner & Conrad Program [July 27, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Eggeling/Cavalcanti Program [July 27, New York, New York]
* The Poetics of Mountains, their Mutations and Multifarious Things,
Verbier, 27-28 July 2013 [July 27, Verbier]
* Sight Unseen Presents: Perpetual Memory [July 28, Baltimore]
* How To Be A Crook and Succeed In the Art World: Useful Tips For Artists
and Galleries [July 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Michael Klier's Der Riese [The Giant] -- Encore Screening! [July 28, Chicago, IL]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents "Live and In Color: An Evening With Simon
Tarr" [July 28, Los Angeles, California]
* The Artist and the Fragile Emulsion [July 28, Washington, DC]
* Simone Di Bagno and Michele Capozzi, T.V. Transvestite Screening [July 29, New York, New York]
* Jem Cohen Program 1 [July 29, New York, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #53 [July 29, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga [July 30, Brooklyn, NY]
* Jem Cohen Program 2 [July 30, New York, New York]
* Notes + A Few Tunes Going Out [July 31, Boston, MA]
* The Re- Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 (X3) Film(S) and Live Music With Mark
Street, Bradford Reed and Geoff Gersh [July 31, Brooklyn, NY]
* Double vision [July 31, Brooklyn, New York]
* Gay videos and Fims From Youtube At Julius'! [July 31, New York, New York]
* Experimental Documentaries [July 31, New York, New York]
* Now What #2: Film, video, New Media and Performance, Curated By
Microscope [August 1, Brooklyn, New York]
* Heat Waves: Robert Todd Films &Amp; Synthhumpers + Guests Music [August 2, Brooklyn, NY]
* 1,000 Leagues Under the City With the Goat Family and More! [August 2, San Francisco, CA]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 1 [August 4, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 2 [August 4, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 3 [August 4, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013
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7/27
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place Brooklyn, NY 11221
IMMOVABLE OBJECTS: FILM WORKS BY RACHAEL GUMA & A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY
OPTIPUS
w/ Bradley Eros, Victoria Keddie, Timothy Geraghty, and Rachelle Rahme
// admission $6 – artists in person // Microscope Gallery is very
pleased to welcome Rachael Guma for a night of her Super 8 film & film
performance works involving live sound and vinyl record manipulations.
Guma kicks off the program with a screening of Dear Phone, the 1976
short film by Peter Greenaway, an artist who has highly inspired her
work. The night concludes with a live visual/sound poem performance of
"A Poison Tree – William Blake" by Guma and other members of the
expanded cinema collective Optipus.
7/27
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/
2PM - 5PM, El Charro Espanol, 4 Charles Street (RSVP)
PEDRO ALMóDOVAR, LABYRINTH OF PASSION AT EL CHARRO ESPANOL!
Pedro Almódovar, Labyrinth of Passion, 35mm on DVD, color, 1982. Curated
by TIffany Malakooti. Labyrinth of Passion follows scantily disguised
but heavily camped-up members of the Iranian royal family in their
famous period of limbo following the revolution of 1979 as they are
thrust by Pedro Almódovar into extravagant plot lines that weave
hilariously between historical accuracy and ribald fantasy. "Toraya,"
the disgruntled ex-empress is desperate to fertilize herself with royal
seed via the young Crown Prince "Riza." Riza is busy attempting to cure
himself of his homosexuality after falling in love with a nymphomaniac
pop star named Sexilia, but his former lover Sadec (played by a young
and nubile Antonio Banderas) is secretly a pro-Khomeini terrorist
belonging to a group attempting to kidnap him. Plus, plastic surgery,
doctors, laxatives, and other culturally appropriate themes. RSVP for
table dirtylooksnyc at gmail.com
7/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CONNER & CONRAD PROGRAM
Bruce Conner A MOVIE (1958, 12 min, 16mm) COSMIC RAY (1961, 4 min, 16mm)
REPORT (1965, 13 min, 16mm) Three films by the master and poet of the
collage film. COSMIC RAY and REPORT have been preserved by Anthology
through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters
Grant program funded by The Film Foundation. Tony Conrad THE FLICKER
1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology with funding provided by the
National Film Preservation Foundation. Mathematical and rhythmical
orchestration of white and black frames. Total running time: ca. 65 min.
7/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EGGELING/CAVALCANTI PROGRAM
Viking Eggeling SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE 1924, 8 minutes, 35mm. Alberto
Cavalcanti RIEN QUE LES HEURES / NOTHING BUT THE HOURS 1928, 52 minutes,
35mm. A "city symphony" interweaving documentary, experimental, and
narrative elements that provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s.
Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
7/27
Verbier: Artprojx Cinema
http://www.artprojx.com/cinema
17:30, Place Medran
THE POETICS OF MOUNTAINS, THEIR MUTATIONS AND MULTIFARIOUS THINGS,
VERBIER, 27-28 JULY 2013
Artprojx presents: 'the poetics of mountains, their mutations and
multifarious things'. Selected by David Gryn. Screening in Verbier,
Switzerland 27-28 July 2013. Verbier 3-D as part of its 'Mutations'
programme. >>>> Artists: Darren Almond, Sanford Biggers, Janet Biggs,
Ulu Braun, Louise Camrass, Eli Cortinas, Shezad Dawood, Kota Ezawa,
Clare Langan, Melanie Manchot, Takeshi Murata and Billy Grant, Mariele
Neudecker, Johanna Reich, DJ Spooky, Jaan Toomik, Fabian Weber | Aubert
Vanderlinden | Paul Gladstone-Reid. >>>> The poetics of mountains, their
mutations and multifarious things is a reflection on the place of this
screening and how an audience engages with it's own reflection. A
programme of mountain, snow, ice, the outsider and mutation inspired and
related films. http://www.artprojx.com http://davidgryn.wordpress.com
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SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013
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7/28
Baltimore: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
9:00pm, The WindUp Space, 12 W. North Ave.
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS: PERPETUAL MEMORY
For its first anniversary, Sight Unseen presents Perpetual Memory, a
group program of mesmerizing, seminal masterpieces on celluloid. These
experimental feats of cinema continue to achieve an affective, recurring
response from contemporary viewers. Via visceral and intellectual
variations upon classical composition, mass media, and personal peril,
these award-winning works established alternative modes of filmmaking
that enhanced earlier aesthetic traditions and are still emulated by
younger generations of moving image practitioners. Enmeshed in
exponential shifts to the status quo, these four breakthrough films
reveal seductive motions towards sublime beauty as well as psychological
shock. Featuring films by Bruce Conner, Maya Deren, Chris Marker, &
Norman McLaren. For more information, visit
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ FREE ADMISSION.
7/28
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place Brooklyn, NY 11221
HOW TO BE A CROOK AND SUCCEED IN THE ART WORLD: USEFUL TIPS FOR ARTISTS
AND GALLERIES
an improvised discussion // OUTLAW: NEW WORKS artist Jonas Mekas will
attend // Doors 6:40 – admission is free // On the final weekend of
Jonas Mekas' OUTLAW: NEW WORKS, an exhibition inspired by the artist's
"money draining and annoying 'dispute' with a former gallery –
Microscope presents the improvisational discussion "How to be a Crook
and Succeed in the Art World: Useful Tips for Artists & Galleries." A
reception with the artist follows the discussion. Please note the
discussion will start promptly at 7pm.
7/28
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
8pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
MICHAEL KLIER'S DER RIESE [THE GIANT] -- ENCORE SCREENING!
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present, Michael Klier's DER
RIESE [THE GIANT] -- Encore Screening! - A Prescient 1983 German Film
Essay on Surveillance - Saturday, July 27 – 8:00pm, At the
Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) - - Der Riese [The Giant] - Michael
Klier (1983, 82 min, Video on DVD, West Germany) - "Comprised entirely
of material generated by surveillance cameras, Der Riese is a rhapsodic
but ominous work depicting the world with a cold mechanical spirit. That
nothing can escape the chill stare of surveillance is only the starting
point of Klier's tape. People come and go in public places-parks,
department stores, banks, airports-like lifeless ciphers, unaware of the
authoritarian stare of the camera. The flattened field of vision,
black-and-white imagery, and sterile quality of the technology make the
inhabitants of Der Riese emptied shadows. They are the signs of life;
truly signs, not the flesh rendered in two dimensions. Lyrically
constructed sequences unfold to the strains of Mahler and Wagner, adding
an almost heroic mood to much of this dark work. But this is where Der
Riese excels-footage seemingly impervious to meaning here acquires the
energy of high drama. Even the unblinking eye of the surveillance camera
can be foiled." (Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive)
7/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS "LIVE AND IN COLOR: AN EVENING WITH SIMON
TARR"
Filmmaker Simon Tarr in person! Simon Tarr comes from South Carolina
with films and live cinema performance! Many Los Angeles premieres! Not
well known yet on the West Coast, Simon Tarr utilizes a full array of
methods to create his expressive media work. Sometimes he grabs video
glitches and renders them in one luxurious colorful whole; other times
he films fleeting moments in centers of world finance. He manipulates
found footage in completed works and live "remixes" that change the
meaning of the original work. It's a shame that we haven't hosted his
work in Los Angeles previously, and we're delighted to rectify the
situation. Be sure to come out and see the possibilities! Tickets: $10
general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by
credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/419198 or at the door. Screening
(subject to change): FUD (2006, digital, color, sound, 4 min),
Lowcountry (2012, digital, color, sound, 7 mins), TIA MAK (2007, live
performance, color, sound, 15 min), Giri Chit (2009, digital, color,
sound, 14 min), Interruptus (2011, digital, color, sound, 4 min), Drang
8th Ave (2012, digital, color, sound, 1 min), Mother of the World (2011,
digital, color, sound, 12 min), Glitchscape (2013, live performance,
color, sound, 14 min)
7/28
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4:30pm, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
THE ARTIST AND THE FRAGILE EMULSION
Jon Gartenberg in person Short innovative films by Andy Warhol, Warren
Sonbert, David Wojnarowicz, Jack Waters, Ken Jacobs, and Beryl Sokoloff
are screened during an illustrated presentation by archivist and curator
Jon Gartenberg, specialist in restoring the legacy of moving image
artists. Total running time approximately 90 minutes.
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MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013
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7/29
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/
9PM, Don Pedro (Bathsalts), 90 Manhattan Avenue
SIMONE DI BAGNO AND MICHELE CAPOZZI, T.V. TRANSVESTITE SCREENING
16mm on video, 1982 Curated by Bradford Nordeen. Predating Paris Is
Burning by 8 years, T.V. Transvestite offers a rare glimpse into the
ball scene in Harlem of the 1980s. Featuring drag legends Pepper
LaBeija, Doran Corey and Sugar, the film was initially released to
incredible acclaim by filmmakers like Federico Fellini and Michelangelo
Antonioni. The film's distribution was truncated, however, due to
musical licensing issues, and was considered lost for 30 years.
7/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JEM COHEN PROGRAM 1
Jem Cohen has long-since established himself as one of the most gifted
and uncompromising of independent American filmmakers, creating a body
of work over the past 30 years that encompasses shorts and features;
Super-8, 16mm, and digital works; and documentaries, music videos, and
narrative films. Demonstrating both a preoccupation with music (and
other art forms), and a deep commitment to critiquing the excesses of
American society, he has worked at the intersection of culture and
politics throughout his career. Following on the release of his most
recent feature, MUSEUM HOURS, set to open in NYC in June, we present two
programs focused on his short films – one highlighting some of his
earliest works, the other showcasing more recent but still
rarely-screened pieces. Though his features have garnered a great deal
of (well-deserved) attention, these short works reveal another, equally
important dimension of his cinema. PROGRAM 1: SOME EARLY WORK BURIED IN
LIGHT 1994, 60 min, Super-8mm-to-digital video Music: Tom Cora, Ben
Katchor, Vic Chesnutt, Stephen Vitiello, Gabriel Cohen, and Knox
Chandler. A personal exploration of Central and Eastern Europe in a time
of massive change, the film consists of dispatches from Berlin, Prague,
Krakow, Budapest, and Dresden. Visual shortwave, jumbled dictionaries,
and the ghosts of Hitler, Stalin, and Disney. "When I traveled to
Central and Eastern Europe in '92 and '93, the euphoria surrounding the
dramatic changes of '89 had already faded. I felt that I had come just
in time to see Old Europe being carted off to the dustbin, renovated,
and welcomed into the international shopping mall network. With this
project, I set out to explore this fleeting juncture, and to capture
something of a world that seemed about to disappear. As a descendent of
Eastern European immigrants, my travels took on an added individual
significance." –J.C. JUST HOLD STILL 1989, 32 min, Super-8mm-to-digital
video This compilation was intended to work like a visual LP ('long
playing record') and was released with the following manifesto: "Where
documentary collides. Music video as independent film. Birds as
punctuation". Side A was called "The Heart is Attached" and consisted of
the following shorts: 4:44 (FROM HER HOUSE HOME) (1989, 3.5 min) A
certain kind of night collected: trees, houses, footsteps, and narrative
skimmed. In support of unsolved mysteries. NEVER CHANGE (1988, 4.5 min)
Filmed here and there, but mostly coming down one California mountain in
a quiet storm of film grain and fog. The text is a poem read by Blake
Nelson. LOVE TELLER (1989, 2.5 min. Made with Ben Katchor.) A 42nd St.
arcade machine and the science of the human heart. LIGHT YEARS (1989,
4.5 min) Personal history, passing friends, and why does memory look so
much like Super 8? Side B was called "City Song" and contained the
following: CITYFILMS COLLECT (1989, 2.5 min, silent, b&w) Brief
photoplays from unrehearsed New York, including rare documentation of
the Motorcycle Christ. GLUE MAN (1989, 5 min) A collaboration with the
band, Fugazi, built around some troubling footage that I'd gathered from
Brooklyn windows, and some music the band was developing concurrently.
Video and song were intertwined, a shared deconstruction. Our intention
was to challenge the music video form on several fronts: creating a
piece that foregrounded documentary footage rather than pop conventions,
finding ways to meld images and music outside of the commercial stream
dictated by MTV and the record industry. In short, thinking about the
problem of when to avert one's eyes, while making a 'music video' with
nothing to sell. TALK ABOUT THE PASSION (1988, 3.5 min) In collaboration
with the band, R.E.M., my first (non) music video, with some images
borrowed from THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK. Concerns homelessness, but
it's also simply about counting and accountability. Total running time:
ca. 95 min.
7/29
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #53
Perceptual Intensities // Guest programmed by Michael Zryd Three films
rooted in real and resonant spaces that magnify the transformative
process of aesthetic contact between eye/ear/body and the matter/wave
forms of the world.A student film from David Bienstock's masters studies
at New York University, Brummer's takes its young couple through a
whirlwind of Godard, Technicolor, and breakfast. Peggy's Blue Skylight
is a loose and lovely romp through Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow's loft
in New York, shot originally on 8mm and transferred to 16mm colour stock
in 1985. The title comes from a jazz piece by Charles Mingus and Paul
Bley performs the soundtrack. The fifth film in Hollis Frampton's 7-part
Hapax Legomena, Ordinary Matter was also the last film of the series to
be completed, partly due to Frampton's ambitious original plan to have
the sound track consist of verbal descriptions by three women and three
men of Marcel Duchamp's Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating
Gas. The current soundtrack is a non-sync recording of Frampton reading
what he called the "Wade-Giles syllabary of the Chinese language," an
attempt to translate ideograms (idea-pictures) to phonemes (units of
sound). Frampton's description of the film gets us started: "A vision of
a journey, during which the eye of the mind drives headlong through
Salisbury Cloister (a monument to enclosure), Brooklyn Bridge (a
monument to connection), Stonehenge (a monument to the intercourse
between consciousness and LIGHT)… visiting along the way diverse
meadows, barns, waters where I now live; and ending in the remembered
cornfields of my childhood." Like Duchamp's posthumous installation,
Ordinary Matter is less about what we see (or think we see) than the
work of perception and consciousness as it swings between matter and
energy. As Frampton says in A Lecture: "This is where we came in."
Programme: Brummer's, David Bienstock, 1967, USA, 16mm, 10 min Peggy's
Blue Skylight, Joyce Wieland, 1965, USA/Canada, Super-8 on 16mm, 12 min
Ordinary Matter, Hollis Frampton, 1972, USA, 16mm, 36 min. sound on tape
@ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar 1214 Queen St West Monday July 29, 2013 8:00
PM screening $5-10 suggested donation Thanks to the Gladstone Hotel,
CFMDC and York University. Contact earlymonthlysegments at gmail.com for
email list. Next up: EMS #54 = Monday August 19, 2013 = TBA
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TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013
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7/30
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street
SARAH MALDOROR'S SAMBIZANGA
Sambizanga, Sarah Maldoror, 16mm, 1972, 102 mins - "Sarah
Maldoror's Sambizanga is a film about acting. In fact, the film was seen
to be so effective at mobilizing action that the Portuguese colonial
authorities banned it from being screened in their then province of
Angola. It was first seen publicly in Angola only after the country won
its independence in 1974. Based on a novel by Luandino Vieira, a
political prisoner of the Portuguese from 1961 to 1974, Sambizanga is a
fictionalized chronicle of the arrest and fatal imprisonment of a man
whose underground activities were an impenetrable secret to all around
him.
7/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JEM COHEN PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: PASSING THROUGH BLESSED ARE THE DREAMS OF MEN (2005, 9.5 min,
16mm-to-digital video) Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of
anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape,
accompanied by a guitar piece from Andy Moor of the Ex. The film can be
seen as a curious parable made in a time of national malaise. It's
subheading refers to the Book of Daniel, Chapter 11, verse 40: "And at
the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the
king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter
into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over." REAL BIRDS (2012,
11 min, digital video) A walk in Gowanus shortly before the 10th
anniversary of 9/11. ONE BRIGHT DAY (2009, 17 min, digital video) While
out shooting for a different project, I encountered two sleeping men on
a Manhattan street. A short time later, I was standing in front of
Pennsylvania Train Station with the camera on a tripod when one of the
men suddenly reappeared. He stepped in front of my camera and began to
speak, about his path in the U.S. military, from Panama to Afghanistan
to Iraq, about his life. I decided to limit the piece to what I shot in
that area in those few hours, with one key addition: the text from a
classic children's rhyme. CROSSING PATHS WITH LUCE VIGO (2010, 12 min,
16mm-to-digital video) A portrait of Luce Vigo, film critic, educator,
and the daughter of seminal filmmaker, Jean Vigo. Filmed in Pamplona,
Spain. Luce reflects on her life and her father's legacy. OPUS LUMINIS
ET HOMINIS (2010, 14 min, 16mm-to-digital video) Portrait of Pamplona,
in the North of Spain. This small city is both the home of the fine
Punto de Vista film festival and, less promisingly, one of the centers
of the right wing, ultra-Catholic Opus Dei (Works of God). Hence my
title, which translates to "Works of Light and Man". Total running time:
ca. 70 min.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013
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7/31
Boston, MA: MassArt Film Society
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue
NOTES + A FEW TUNES GOING OUT
Summer MASSART Film Society - NOTES + A FEW TUNES GOING OUT, please join
me as I present some of my NOTES & TUNES - Program: NOTES OF AN
EARLY FALL [1976, S8mm, 18fps, color, sound, 33 min.] "Notes of an
early fall refers to the season in which he returns to his family home
with his new camera to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, as well as to the
aesthetic fall from the grace of pure vision into the worldly cacophony
of synchronous sound (in a hyperbole of Brakhage's polemics) and the
fall from a prestigious position in what was at the time the strongest
academic program in avant-garde filmmaking in America..." Taking
Note: P. Adams Sitney on the films of Saul Levine " - ArtForum,
May, 2007 by P. Adams Sitney, Full article here:
http://saullevine.com/artwork/858175_Taking_Note_P_Adams_Sitney_on_the_f
ilms.html - NOTES AFTER A LONG SILENCE [1984 - 1989, S8mm, sound, 16
min.] "Hard-edged poetry. How else could one characterize the films
of Saul Levine, which cut as they do between jackhammers and B.B. King
singing the blues? Levine is Boston's own outsider. In the culture of
public television and whiz bang computer-generated images, Levine sticks
to his expressionist, tactile guns as the king of Super 8. Perhaps
better known nationally than in his adopted home city, Saul Levine has
made a reputation for himself as a prime maker and promoter of the
American avant-garde film..." - Marjorie Keller, VISIONS MAGAZINE
Film/Television Arts, N.7 Summer ‘92, Full Article
here:
http://saullevine.com/artwork/858136_Saul_Levine_s_Notes_After_Long_Sile
nce.html - A FEW TUNES GOING OUT 1974 - 1984, TUNE #1 - BOPPING THE
GREAT WALL OF CHINA BLUE [1974 - 1984, S8mm, 18fps, sound, 5 min.]
"A portrait of disc jockey Mai Cramer, filmmaker Dan Barnett, and
Levine himself. The film cuts between Cramer talking, Barnett working
and touring China and Levine engaged in the routines of his life.
Incorporated into the portrait are shots of an astronaut floating in
space, clouds passing and Chinese women performing their daily exercise.
As vast space and clouds float by, the film mixes daily routines,
foreign locales and the expanse of the universe in a work of cinematic
music and dance." - Marjorie Keller, program note, Collective for
Living Cinema, 1983 - TUNE #2, GROOVE TO GROOVE [1979 - 1984, S8mm,
18fps, sound, 13 min.] - w/ MAI CRAMER & JESSE GREEN BLUES BAND -
TUNE #3, A BRENNEN SOLL COLUMBUS MEDINA [1979 - 1984, S8mm, 18fps,
sound, 13 min.] A collection of songs, stories, conversations scattered
and interchangeable at the Memorial Day event. - 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. -
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Film Department Screening RM
1 | 621 Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115, Enter MASSART through the South
Building, Admissions, on Huntington Ave. Suggested donation is $4 at the
door and free to the MassArt community with their ID. Donations are used
to give visiting artist something for their expenses of coming to show
their work.
7/31
Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Fire Proof
7:00pm, 119 Ingraham Street (in the alley)
THE RE- TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3 (X3) FILM(S) AND LIVE MUSIC WITH MARK
STREET, BRADFORD REED AND GEOFF GERSH
Wednesday July 31 7pm, Brooklyn Fire Proof East 119 Ingraham Street |
Brooklyn, NY - 5 $ -
http://www.brooklynfireproof.com/cafe/events/the-re-taking-of-pelham-123
-x3-films-and-live-music/ - In this live performance three slightly
altered versions of the same film title(made in 1974, 1998 and 2009)
will be projected side by side. Sound will be mixed from each of the
three works with live musical improvisation by Bradford Reed and Geoff
Gersh. - Narrative slippages, abstract fugues and time-travel
counterpoints collide and mingle in this fractious and riotous remake of
a remake of a remake of a book adaptation. NYC manages to both evolve
and stay the same over the course of 35 years, as does visual
storytelling. - Projection and Concept: Mark Street, Pencilina: Bradford
Reed, Guitar: Geoff Gersh - Mark Street is an experimental filmmaker who
works in the tradition of urban street photography, just like his name
suggests. He has made films in Dakar, Senegal\; Hanoi, Vietnam,
Montevideo, Uruguay and New York City - www.markstreetfilms.com -
Bradford Reed is a Brooklyn based composer, performer and producer who
fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original
instrument of his own design. - http://www.pencilina.com - Geoff Gersh
is a guitarist/composer who works with filmmakers, choreographers and
other visual artists. He performs monthly at the Nitehawk Cinema in
Williamsburg accompanying silent films. - http://www.geoffgersh.com
7/31
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
https://www.facebook.com/events/493584180723458/
7 pm , Center For Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Avenue
DOUBLE VISION
Please join Mono No Aware on Wednesday JULY 31st for an intimate
screening performance with Andrew Lampert, Fern Silva, and David Beard.
PROGRAM BELOW : "DOUBLE TROUBLE", 2013 Super 8mm Andrew Lampert & Fern
Silva Double Trouble is an expanded cinema projector performance duo of
filmmakers Andrew Lampert and Fern Silva. Each reiteration of this piece
unveils a new double projection experience focused on something they
came up with at the very last minute. Pasta Fazul! Mangia Cine!!
"CORRESPONDENCES 1-4", "MANHATTAN BEACH" & "TWO PARKS" , 2013 Double 8mm
David Beard The 'correspondences series' films were made in
collaboration with photographer Christy Shigekawa. --- Andrew Lampert -
Working primarily in film, video, and performance, Andrew Lampert
pursues the alchemy between artist, art, and audience in a public space,
especially that of cinema. A trained film archivist, Lampert combines a
Duchampian attention to the gap between an artwork's private intent and
public reception with an appreciation for the contingency of film as a
medium, bringing unscripted and chance elements into cinema's veneer of
control. Reveling in cinema as a performative environment, Lampert
reclaims this space from a mass media culture to emphasize its potential
for immediacy and accident. Fern Silva - Is a former instructor for MONO
NO AWARE's workshop series and a alumni of MONO NO AWARE II. He has
created a body of film, video, and projection work that has been
screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and
cinematheques including the Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, New
York, Edinburgh, Images, Oberhausen, and Ann Arbor Film Festivals,
Anthology Film Archive, Wexner Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Cinematheque, MALI, BAM, ICA/Boston, and the Greater New York exhibition
at MOMA P.S.1. His work emerges out of travel and its various effects on
culture. As a personal artist with an interest in working against
conventional modes of documentary and narrative film-making, his work
often gravitates toward ideas surrounding mysticism and the deceptive
capabilities of memory. He was listed as one of the Top 25 Filmmakers
for the 21st Century in Film Comment Magazine's Avant-Garde Filmmakers
Poll, is the recipient of the Gus Van Sant Award from the 49th Ann Arbor
Film Festival and was nominated for Best International Short Film at the
2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival. He received a BFA from
Massachusetts College of Art, MFA from Bard College and is currently
based in Brooklyn, NY and Chicago, IL where he teaches filmmaking at the
University of Illinois-Chicago. David Beard - " The greatest influence
on my visual works is 17 years of involvement in abstract and
experimental music, translating lessons learned in texture, rhythm, flow
and improvisation into visual language. I've performed and recorded with
the bands Kanovanik, the Real Perfections, and Acoustical Cave Band, and
collaborated with artists and musicians including Daniel Carter, Hanayo,
Firehorse the DJ, and Vox Populi (Paris). I see the camera first as a
tool to sharpen one's eye for the world, and secondly as a means of
sharing that perspective with others. My experimental films reflect
observation during 'free and easy wandering' and spontaneous decision
than more than meticulous planning. I view 'art objects' as the residue
of art in living. Other influences include over a decade of experience
working in the field of chemistry, daily life in NYC, and the regular
practice of internal martial arts. I am a 6th generation Men Ren in the
lineages of Northern Wu Taijiquan and Cheng Style Baguazhang under Frank
Allen (Wutang PCA). In addition to music and motion picture films, I am
also active in video, computer art and still photography. "
7/31
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/
9PM, Julius’, 159 West 10th Street
GAY VIDEOS AND FIMS FROM YOUTUBE AT JULIUS'!
Various Artists, YOUTUBE XXX-Trava-GANZA, 2012, YouTube. Curated by
Dirty Looks: On Location Curatorial Committee. A YouTube slam. Dueling
teams try to outdo each other as they scour YouTube in search of the
"gayest" videos they can find, covering such YouTube genres as: gay
music videos, obliquely gay videos, and funniest gay home videos. These
artists were carefully hand-selected by virtue of their cultural acumen
and the amount of time they spend trolling YouTube videos.
7/31
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 PM, 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
Experimental Documentaries on the subject of travel Curated by Tova
Beck-Friedman A program of short innovative and unconventional
documentaries. Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 6:00 PM Anthology Film
Archive, Deren Theater 32 Second Ave @ 2nd Street, New York, NY 10003
****** Colonize the Golden Triangle (From Behind Glass), Jason Halprin,
12:30 A trip to Northern India - the challenges of being a tourist in
exotic places. I Was Here, Philippe Leonard, 05:35 An afternoon spent in
front of the Pantheon in Rome. To Begin With, Mónica Savirón, 08:00 What
to keep and what to leave behind. Descending into Las Vegas, William A.
Brown, 02:50 Las Vegas is the sum of all American desires where revelers
descending into an adult playground. Two Crowd Studies Pensacola,
William A. Brown, 04:30 Mardi Gras celebration in Pensacola, Florida.
Antloop Alexander Hahn, 05:33 A fictitious passage to India? Danube
Treasure, Ada Kobusiewicz, 05:00 Harshness and poetry in the polluted
Danube river. Mukuntuweap, Enrico Rossini Cullen, 18:00 Impressions of
Zion National Park.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013
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8/1
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm-11pm, 6 Charles Place Brooklyn, NY 11221
NOW WHAT #2: FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE, CURATED BY
MICROSCOPE
It's summer, now what! Microscope is very pleased to present the 2nd
installment of now what, a night of screening & moving image performance
curated from an international open call. The 3 programs include a
wide-range of mostly new and recent works from established to emerging
artists working with Super 8mm or 16mm film, digital video, video games,
appropriated footage (from Youtube, Google & other sources), music
video, performance and more. The night also features 5 live film and
video projection performances, most presented for the first time
including multi-screen, live sound, multiple projectors, glitch and
weird objects. Program (in 3 parts): // PART I: Doors 7PM, screening
7:20PM // PART II: 8.45PM // PART III: 10PM // More info and FULL
PROGRAM available soon at www.microscopegallery.com // presented at our
neighbors, Running Rebel Studios: 6 Charles Place, Brooklyn NY 11221 //
general admission $8 //students (with ID) $6
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013
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8/2
Brooklyn, NY: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 355 Union Ave.
HEAT WAVES: ROBERT TODD FILMS & SYNTHHUMPERS + GUESTS MUSIC
Filmmaker Robert Todd in attendance for a discussion along with curator
Rachael Rakes. Synthhumpers + guests to follow. info/tix:
www.uniondocs.org - 7:30pm screening, 9:30pm live performance. Suggested
donation $12 or concert only $9. - Drawing from the resultant archive of
near-constant filming, Robert Todd assembles his own footage into
temporal moods which then fracture and multiply through careful editing.
Todd's extensive body of work comprises a library of emotions and
observations and reveals a life dedicated to careful looking. Marking
the pinnacle of summer, this program features a survey of Todd's
hot-weather films, capturing, interchangeably, the light, oppression,
curiosity, and clarity of the East Coast summer. - Organized–and
lemonade provided by– Rachael Rakes, full line-up on the site -
Following the screening, we will pull up the chairs and welcome sonic
explorers Synthhumpers. This kitchen table-top sound collaboration
between Jim Supanick and Josh Solondz features murky improvisations
which are anchored in trust and transcendental pursuit. For their last
performance, they repurposed an electric football game for their novel
interpretation of Alvin Lucier's The Queen of the South at the 2013 Ann
Arbor Film Festival\; this time they will save Electronic Dance Music
from itself, summoning the spirits of Kiki Gyan and Sugarfoot Bonner
through their rhythmmachine. No indie-rocker beard-scratchin' permitted-
this night is strictly to groove with the two jayesses and their special
secret guests.
8/2
San Francisco, CA: De Young Museum
5pm-9pm, DeYoung, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr
1,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE CITY WITH THE GOAT FAMILY AND MORE!
A Friday night after-hours art happening at the de Young Museum with
films and music by the Goat Family. Also Urbanauts, Sean Orlando, Rebar,
Atlas Obscura, films by the Exploratorium and our friend and host Ben
Burke. This will start your August off on the right hoof. -
http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/friday-nights-de-young-1000-le
agues-under-city
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013
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8/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 1
A WOMAN (1915, 20 min, 16mm, b&w) EASY STREET (1917, 19 min, 16mm, b&w)
A DOG'S LIFE (1918, 33 min, 35mm, b&w) Total running time: ca. 75 min.
8/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 2
SHOULDER ARMS (1918, 37 min, 35mm, b&w) SUNNYSIDE (1919, 30 min, 35mm,
b&w) A DAY'S PLEASURE (1919, 19 min, 35mm, b&w) Total running time: ca.
90 min.
8/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 3
THE IDLE CLASS (1921, 32 min, 35mm, b&w) PAY DAY (1922, 22 min, 35mm,
b&w) THE PILGRIM (1923, 41 min, 35mm, b&w) Total running time: ca. 100
min.
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