[Frameworks] This week [June 8 - 16, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia; Deadline: June 28, 2013)
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Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal; Deadline: August 01, 2013)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 31 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 05, 2013)
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The 25th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: July 19, 2013)
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There Shall Be Popcorn (Dayton, Oh, USA; Deadline: February 05, 2014)
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Kinofilm: Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, United Kingdom; Deadline: August 15, 2013)
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INFRARED 4: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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danubeVIDEOARTfestival (Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013)
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Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013)
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Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2013 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 12, 2013)
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Columbus International Film + Video Festival (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies Portugal (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: June 15, 2013)
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VIDEOHOLICA 2013 [OUT OF FOCUS!] OPEN CALL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2013)
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5th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt; Deadline: June 30, 2013)
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Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia; Deadline: June 28, 2013)
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Journal of Short Film Volume 31 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 05, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Shifting Lives: Photographing the Immigrant Experience In Chinatown W/
Lynne Sachs and Annie Ling [June 8, Brooklyn, New York]
* Kissed By the Sun: A Night of Films By Dagie Brundert [June 8, Los Angeles, California]
* The Outré World of Rolf Forsberg [June 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Psychic Sculptures [June 9, Brooklyn, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Josh Kit Clayton [June 9, Oakland]
* Open Screen #2 At Microscope Gallery [June 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Kino Exposed [June 10, Manchester]
* Peter Hutton Presents Johan Van Der Keuken's the White Castle [June 11, Brooklyn, NY]
* The Invisible Forest [June 12, Seattle, Washington]
* Erc Atx! Local Austin Filmmakers, Programs 1 and 2 [June 13, Austin, TX]
* Michael Morris In Person [June 13, Austin, TX]
* Around Crab Orchard By Sarah Kanouse [June 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Interpretations On 16mm Performances [June 13, New York, NY]
* Oddball Films Presents Watch What You Eat [June 13, San Francisco, California]
* Dreambody/Earthbody [June 13, Seattle, Washington]
* The Free Screen - the Imagined Film: Narcisa Hirsch and Michael Snow In
Dialogue [June 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Learn Your Lesson...About Sex: Shockucational Contraceptives [June 14, San Francisco, California]
* Basement Media Festival [June 15, Brooklyn, New York]
* New Works Salon [June 15, Los Angeles, California]
* The Free Screen - Narcisa Hirsch: Filmic Passages [June 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013
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6/8
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30, 322 Union Ave. Williamsburg
SHIFTING LIVES: PHOTOGRAPHING THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN CHINATOWN W/
LYNNE SACHS AND ANNIE LING
At this event, Annie Ling will present a slideshow of her photographs,
with an emphasis on 81 Bowery, a project that explores the domestic
experiences of immigrants in NYC's Chinatown. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs will
screen her hybrid documentary Your Day is My Night followed by a joint
conversation. For years, Annie Ling has worked on getting beyond the
streets into the residences of Chinese immigrants in an exclusive
Chinatown community. This desire was sparked by a love for the people
there and a concern for their stories left untold. Ling had been
documenting tenement buildings throughout Chinatown, New York, when she
came upon 81 Bowery— a vestige of tenement flophouses inhabited today by
Chinese immigrant laborers. 81 Bowery, one of the last standing lodging
houses in New York City, has been home for more than a generation of
immigrant laborers who work at construction sites and kitchens in
Chinatown. Your Day is My Night 64 minutes | USA | 2013 | HD Video
Chinese, English and Spanish with English subtitles In this hybrid
documentary shot in New York, director Lynne Sachs utilizes the bed as
both starting and focal point for inquiry into the personal and
collective experiences of a household of immigrants living in a
"shift-bed" apartment in Chinatown. Initially documented in Jacob Riis'
controversial photography of the late 19th century, a shift-bed is a bed
that is shared or rented in increments by people who are neither in the
same family nor in a relationship. Since the advent of tenement housing
in the Lower East Side, working class people have shared beds, making
such spaces a definable and fundamental part of immigrant life. Over a
century later, the shift-bed remains a necessity for many, triggered by
socio-economic barriers embedded within the urban experience. In Sachs'
film, seven characters ranging in age from 30 to 78 play themselves
through autobiographical monologues, verité conversations and theatrical
movement pieces. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals a
collective history of Chinese immigrants in the United States. The
intimate cinematography and sound design suggest dreams and memories of
the performers, inviting the audience into a community often considered
closed to non-Chinese speakers. Through it all, Your Day is My Night
addresses issues around privacy, intimacy, belonging and the urban
experience via the basic human need for a place to sleep.
6/8
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
KISSED BY THE SUN: A NIGHT OF FILMS BY DAGIE BRUNDERT
We are honored, excited and just plain happy that one of our favorite
filmmakers in the world is spending the month of June in Los Angeles as
an EPFC Artist-in-Residence. Join for this very special evening of SUPER
8 Films that celebrate the beauty of life and living! Preceded by a
WELCOME RECEPTION at 7PM that will entail delicious food, libations and
joy for everyone! FILMMAKER DAGIE BRUNDERT in ATTENDANCE!
6/8
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., Billy Wilder Theater: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
THE OUTRé WORLD OF ROLF FORSBERG
UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American
Film Program present SATURDAY, JUNE 8 @ 7:30 P.M.
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2013-06-08/outre-world-rolf-forsberg
|THE OUTRÉ WORLD OF ROLF FORSBERG A true auteur of the often unjustly
unsung genre of sponsored films, Rolf Forsberg has written and directed
a number of highly stylized expressionistic shorts that defy simple
description, including the controversial and acclaimed Parable (1964),
which was named to the National Film Registry last year. While many of
Forsberg's films were made on assignment for major religious
organizations, his complex body of work is unexpectedly provocative,
independent and experimental. Illustrating key influences, including
Bergman and Fellini, Forsberg employs enigmatic symbolism and poetic
lyricism to create vivid, nightmarish allegories situated between the
spiritual and the secular, heaven and hell. UCLA Film & Television
Archive is pleased to celebrate Rolf Forsberg's uniquely humanist canon
with a selection of some of his most notable films and a conversation
with the filmmaker himself.| PARABLE 1964 Dir. Rolf Forsberg, Tom Rook.
Commissioned by the New York City Protestant Council of Churches for
their 1964 World's Fair pavilion, Parable, with its European art house
sensibilities, was highly controversial for daring to utilize allegory
in depicting "Christ as a clown." Despite threats of violence and
protests against the short, audiences and critics embraced the powerful
work, with Newsweek proclaiming it "very probably the best film of the
fair." 16mm, color, 20 min.| ANTKEEPER 1966 Filmmaker Rolf Forsberg's
surrealistic allegory concerns an antkeeper that transforms his son into
an ant in order to save an ant colony from self-destruction. Produced
for the Lutheran Church in America, the experimental short showcases
Forsberg's uniquely stylized vision as well as the pioneering
macro-photography of noted nature cinematographer, Robert H. Crandall
(The Living Desert). 16mm, color, 28 min.| ARK 1970 In this
expressionistic precursor to the Sci-Fi classic Silent Running (1972), a
modern day "Noah" cares for the last remnants of nature in a dystopian
future. Produced for an independent production company, filmmaker Rolf
Forsberg's prescient ecological warning was extremely successful in 16mm
distribution to schools, churches and civic groups and enjoyed a brief,
limited theatrical run in Los Angeles. 16mm, color, 19 min.| ONE FRIDAY
1973 Filmmaker Rolf Forsberg focuses his humanist lens on race relations
in this provocative, independently produced short that was marketed as a
classroom film intended to generate group discussion. As a toddler roams
an unnamed idyllic suburbia, Forsberg juxtaposes the beauty of nature
against the brutal violence wrought by armed combat between the races.
An earnest call for peace and reconciliation and, viewed today, a
problematic time capsule of white anxiety regarding black militancy in
the post-Watts-rebellion era. 16mm, color, 14 min.| IN PERSON: Rolf
Forsberg.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013
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6/9
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave. Williamsburg 11211
PSYCHIC SCULPTURES
This evening features two sound performances by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and
Bill Kouligas accompanied by Super 8mm film projections by Paul Clipson
and Rachelle Rahme. Shot and projected on Super 8 reversal, these
original color and black and white films study figurative and abstract
space, focusing on texture, color, and movement, sometimes within layers
of dizzying in-camera edited montages. Much like a visual form of field
recording, the films gather together landscapes vast and small, natural
and artificial, to present a possible path into which one can interact
with the lush, textural environments of Cantu-Lesma's and Kouligas's
ambient/electronic soundscapes. Relying on counterpoint and coincidence,
these sound and film performances merge sonic and cinematic processes to
fuse together a unique sensory experience created by the eyes and ears
of the audience. Presented with Control.
6/9
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8PM - 9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS JOSH KIT CLAYTON
In conversation, concept, and repetition, "Afterimage" by Josh Kit
Clayton is an abstraction of cinema based in the matter of thought. A
social zoetrope, it is a study on the transmission and persistence of
idea as language shaping the machinery of the mind. The juxtaposition of
discontinuities gives way to the illusion of motion as a means of
reconciling separateness. And a life after the fact. Duplication.
Degradation. Dispersal. "Afterimage" will include a reading component
and discussion along with other exercises in pairs and larger
structures.
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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
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6/10
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
OPEN SCREEN #2 AT MICROSCOPE GALLERY
free with film & video, otherwise $6. Microscope Gallery resurrects our
Opening Screening night! We invite anyone to bring a work to screen,
from first time makers to those artists who have previously exhibited
works here. We will screen works in the following formats: Video – DVD
or a Quicktime file on a flash drive, Film – 16 mm or Super 8 (w/
advance notice). Under 15 minutes is preferred. The night will continue
until the last work is screened. For questions or to give us a heads up
that you will attend (with or without a work) please contact:
submissions at microscopegallery.com No pre-registration is required. Tel:
347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway, L Myrtle Ave or
Jefferson Street. B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop.
6/10
Manchester: KINOFILM: Manchester International Short Film Festival
www.kinofilm.org.uk
6pm and 8pm, Three Minute Theatre
KINO EXPOSED
Kinofilm presents its first student and young people film festival for
three days only. Open to short films by students and people between the
ages of 16 - 28. UK and International sections of the festival with
award catagories. The event takes place in the evenings only with
screenings at 6pm and 8pm at the Three Minute Theatre, Oldham Street,
Manchester. For details see our facebook page for Kino Exposed.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
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6/11
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street
PETER HUTTON PRESENTS JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN'S THE WHITE CASTLE
The White Castle (Het Witte Kasteel) - Johan van der Keuken, 16mm, 1973,
76 mins, Introduced by Peter Hutton - A tour de force of dialectical
editing, Johan van der Keuken's The White Castle forms the middle
segment of his "North-South Triptych" of documentaries. In this chapter,
van der Keuken trains his camera on three different locales: the Spanish
island of Formentara, a rural enclave in the process of becoming a
tourist destination\; African-American neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio,
where younger generations are facing poverty by embracing new forms of
political organizing\; and two factories in The Netherlands, one of
which becomes occupied by its workers. While these three sites at first
seem disparate, and their inhabitants isolated from one another, van der
Keuken reveals connections among them through a complex rhyming and
repetition of images. Spanish peasants slaughtering sheep and kneading
bread, young Ohioans discussing police oppression, and factory workers
methodically producing car upholstery all become part of a larger
system, in which the flow of capital necessitates the creation of a kind
of Third World inside the West itself. A White Castle restaurant comes
to serve as an ominous symbol for both the racial divisions within
America and the assembly-line logic of production that determines the
structure of lives worldwide. - "In The White Castle two themes are
central: the idea of a vast conveyor-belt that runs throughout the world
and the idea of democratization going on in smaller communities. The
teenagers from the slums of Columbus form this kind of community, one
that's searching for its own values. The images, grouped around these
two themes, are about social fragmentation and isolation, which is
caused by an unequal distribution of capital and knowledge, and which
leads to the formation of ghettos, in which people live as the refuse of
effects of supply and demand....The pattern shattering in The White
Castle comes to expression through the form itself. Almost every moment
gets lifted out of its everyday context and transferred into other
contexts. Certain images emerge over and over again, with varying
meanings. This way there's no storyline developing with a beginning and
ending, but a whole that constantly keeps on moving." - Johan van der
Keuken -
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
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6/12
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Avenue
THE INVISIBLE FOREST
Antero Alli's The Invisible Forest is a surrealistic trip through the
internal landscape of one man's subconscious to a place beyond belief,
beyond words and beyond the mind itself to. Alex, an experimental
theater director (Antero Alli), brings his troupe to a forest to perform
his vision of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of
ghosts, gods, and demons. During their "paratheatrical experiment," Alex
is haunted by a recurring nightmare where Artaud appears and mocks his
ambitions. With his sanity pushed to its outer limits, Alex visits a
psychotherapist who suggests hypnotic regression to remedy his problem.
Written and directed by Antero Alli with text also by William
Shakespeare and Antonin Artaud. Director in attendance! Tickets at:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2678
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
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6/13
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
4-6pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
ERC ATX! LOCAL AUSTIN FILMMAKERS, PROGRAMS 1 AND 2
In Experimental Response Cinema's final programs of the Spring 2013
season, we present two programs of works by local film and video
artists, including Rachel Stuckey, Caroline Koebel, Paul Gansky, Scott
Stark, David Bartner, Lyndsay Bloom, Metrah Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar,
Patrick Marshall, Jarrett Hayman, Nathan Duncan and Kirsty Hughan. Works
shown in 16mm, Super-8, and digital video, as well as a live audience
collaboration where audience members are invited to make noise with pots
and pans. Part of the New Media and Sound Summit at the Salvage Vanguard
Theater, three days of avant garde sound, music and images.
6/13
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
6:30pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
MICHAEL MORRIS IN PERSON
ERC's final show of the Spring 2013 is an in-person program of work by
Dallas, TX artist and educator Michael Morris. "My recent work has moved
toward two not-completely separate points of focus: essayistic works in
film and video that mine accumulations of meaning attached to objects,
sites, and experiences; and performative works that initiate hybrid
situations where an act of interpretation occurs between technologies to
question the evolving understanding of cinematic reception." - M.M. Part
of the New Music and Sound Summit at Salvage Vanguard Theater, three
days of avant garde music, sound and images.
6/13
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
AROUND CRAB ORCHARD BY SARAH KANOUSE
$5 / Crab Orchard calls itself a unique place to experience nature. As
the only wildlife refuge in the United States whose mission includes
industry and agriculture alongside conservation and recreation, Crab
Orchard claims a harmonious balance between past and present, nature and
culture. Assembled from documents, found footage, and conversations with
activists, writers, and local residents, Around Crab Orchard questions
the ideal of natural harmony while meditating on the persistence of
history, the creation of knowledge, the limits of representation, and
the commonplace of environmental hazard. Around Crab Orchard ultimately
argues for forms of storytelling, image-making, and action that respond
to the full complexity of the social and ecological landscape. For more
information visit: www.readysubjects.org/aco Filmmaker Sarah Kanouse in
person!
6/13
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7:30pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor
INTERPRETATIONS ON 16MM PERFORMANCES
The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents: - INTERPRETATIONS ON 16MM
PERFORMANCE: - Come Explore the Cinematic Visions of Performance in the
work of Howard Lester, Carolee Schneeman, Jud Yalkut and More! -
Thursday June 13th // 7:30pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475 Park
Avenue South, 6th Floor (@32nd St.) - Curated by Linda Fenstermaker -
Suggested Donation: $10 - www.film-makerscoop.com - The Film-Makers'
Cooperative is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts
and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
6/13
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8 PM, 275 Capp St.
ODDBALL FILMS PRESENTS WATCH WHAT YOU EAT
Oddball Films presents Watch What You Eat, a program of witty and
thought-provoking short films that will make you rethink your next meal.
The program features the Oddball Premiere of a new short documentary The
Trouble with Bread (2013) chronicling filmmaker Maggie Biedelman's quest
to uncover the truth behind the new epidemic of gluten intolerance. Our
neighbors to the North try to uncover a mystery, the Mystery in the
Kitchen (1958) with the housewife's guide to proper family nutrition.
Comedian Marshall Efron hits us with a double dose of food truths as he
mixes up a pie out of chemicals in Chemical Feast (1973) and gives us
the lowdown on your breakfast "foods" in The Sugar Cereal Imitation
Orange Breakfast (1973). Creepy little boys and girls sing about the
foods they'd like to eat in The Eating, Feel Good Movie (1974). Visit a
commune farm and a local market to learn about Surviving the Chemical
Feast (1975). With vintage commercials and more surprises to sink your
teeth into! Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at 8:00PM Venue: Oddball
Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating
RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or programming at oddballfilm.com Featuring: The
Trouble With Bread (Color, 2013, Maggie Beidelman) This short
documentary takes us on a journey with the filmmaker as she hunts to
find the answers to her apparent gluten intolerance: what could have
possibly changed in the last couple of generations that so many people
have been complaining of not being able to eat wheat? Maggie Beidelman
takes us from farm to mill to bakery, with some surprising findings
about the nature of the modern wheat industry. We're far beyond the
10,000-year-old flour-water-salt recipe, folks. Modern bread is not what
you think. Mystery in the Kitchen (Color, 1958) Produced by the National
Film Board of Canada, this soft-boiled film aimed at housewives uses
satire and humor to teach proper nutrition and good eating habits by
pointing out the subtle poisons you may be subjecting your family to.
Beautiful color mid-century domestic scenes from our neighbors to the
North. The Sugar Cereal Imitation Orange Breakfast (Color, 1973) As
explained by the film can insert: "Comedian Marshall Efron, in boy's cap
and sweater gives some inside tips to other kids on how to manipulate
Mom into buying those television advertised, heavily frosted,
super-sugar, breakfast cereals- which unfortunately are low in nutrition
and bad for the teeth. Then, turning his humor to a display of imitation
orange juice products, Effron examines brand name concentrates, liquids
and powders which variously contain water, sugar, chemicals, additives,
and sometimes orange juice!" Chemical Feast (Color, 1973) Join our host
Marshall Efron again in another satirical look at today's (or the 1970s)
modern foods. Chef Effron cooks up a big 'ol meal of slop based on the
ingredients found in some common pre-packaged, heavily processed miracle
'foods'. The Eating, Feel Good Movie (Color, 1974) A musical laugh riot.
Children dressed in their Sunday best have a sepia-toned tea party and
begin to sing about the food groups over enticing shots of vintage food.
One boy sings longily over a meaty montage "I'd like a roast or a chop
or a steak or a stew so I'll have big strong muscles and I'll grow right
too." A creepy campy masterpiece! Food: Surviving the Chemical Feast
(Color, 1975) From the Coping With Tomorrow series, this film takes us
on a journey through the daunting world of processed foods to a greener
pasture where hippies browse the natural foods store and buy grains in
bulk. Visit the commune farm (cultivated by shoeless long-hairs and
naked babies, of course) and take a tour of the local market to see just
what it is you're buying when you pick up that cucumber and snap off a
bite. Directed by Peter Thurling.
6/13
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
8pm, 1515 12th Avenue
DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY
Since 1977, underground filmmaker Antero Alli has been developing a
medium of "paratheatre," inspired by the late Polish visionary of
theater, Jerzy Grotowski. Alli's paratheatre is a highly visceral
process that incorporates physical theatre, Zazen meditation, modern
dance and vocalization to gain access to the internal landscape. For
this "dreambody/earthbody" ritual, Alli trained a group of seven in
paratheatre methods to execute a ritual choreography, using movements
recalled from their nocturnal dreams. The result is a rare and haunting
glimpse into a microculture of asocial group ritual dynamics, normally
performed in total privacy. The group also demonstrates a series of
paratheatre techniques accompanied by Alli's narrative of his unique
creative process. The film also features participant interviews,
dramatic re-enactments of the director's own dreams, and a lush musical
score by Antero's wife, composer/singer, Sylvi Alli. Seattle premiere!
Director in attendance! More info and tickets:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2679
6/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN - THE IMAGINED FILM: NARCISA HIRSCH AND MICHAEL SNOW IN
DIALOGUE
FREE EVENT! Narcisa Hirsch and Michael Snow join us for an onstage
discussion following the screening of Snow's A Casing Shelved and
Hirsch's Taller (Workshop), which Hirsch made in response to Snow's film
— despite the fact that she had only ever heard about it.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
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6/14
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8 PM, 275 Capp St.
LEARN YOUR LESSON...ABOUT SEX: SHOCKUCATIONAL CONTRACEPTIVES
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Learn Your
Lesson...About Sex - Shockucational Contraceptives, the fourth in a
series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and
camptastic shockucational films and TV specials of the collection. This
time, it's all about sex and its potentially devastating aftermath.
Peter Sellers lends his voice to an animated father struggling to
educate his child in the Birds, Bees and Storks (1965). Di$ney brings us
another cartoon, the disturbingly knee-slapping VD: Attack Plan (1972)
featuring a syphilitic army sergeant directing his VD troops into battle
against stupid humans. The Canadians bring us a melodramatic account of
Teenage Pregnancy (1971). You better watch out for Herpes: The New
Sexual Epidemic (1981) and all the problems that come with it. One
girl's got a dirty little secret in the hilarious Innocent Party (1959).
Sex and speed will kill you in The Last Prom(1973). And since not all
lessons about sex are bad, we'll also be learning How to Undress for
Your Husband (1940s) with Mrs. John Barrymore. And much more including
an excerpt from the twisted doctor's training film Sex and The
Professional, the intro to a couple's film on better fellatio, the
vintage Army VD training film Sex Hygiene (1941) for the early birds,
and even more surprises! Date: Friday, June 14th, 2013 at 8:00pm Venue:
Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited
Seating RSVP to programming at oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117 Featuring:
VD: Attack Plan (1972, color) "Yes, it's true. Walt D*sney Productions
has made a significant contribution to the war against VD. "VD Attack
Plan" – A fully animated Walt D*sney 16mm motion picture." states the
brochure accompanying this 16mm educational film. VD Attack Plan had
some forward thinking and enlightening approaches (not just for D*sney
but everyone else producing this type of film in 1973) to the subject of
sexually transmitted diseases including promotion of condoms (instead of
abstinence) and the fact that VD can be spread through same sex
couplings. This "war against disease " film doesn't miss a beat-even
showcasing some of the graphic effects of the disease in action. In
brilliant Technicolor, just like you'd want it to be. Birds, Bees and
Storks (1965, color) A father sets out to explain the facts of life to
his son, but becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his
explanations are so vague as to be incomprehensible. Inspired by Gerard
Hoffnung's 1960 book of the same name, this is a delightful and all too
familiar study of the embarrassed middle-aged British male, as a father
attempts to explain the facts of life to his son but ends up delivering
a monologue so packed with euphemisms about birds, bees and butterflies
that it ends up being totally incoherent. Produced by the esteemed Halas
& Batchelor Animation Studio, the visual style (inspired directly by
Hoffnung's drawings) is simple in the extreme - for much of the film, we
just watch the father squirming and blushing in his chair, which focuses
our attention both on Peter Sellers' monologue and director John Halas'
subtle visual characterization, all nervous tics and fidgeting. Herpes:
The New Sexual Epidemic (Color, 1981) "Oh no, Kathy! Did you tell
David?" Join three people on their painful, and itchy journeys with the
simplex. One is a young woman in the thralls of love, but a prison of
shame. One is an expectant mother, ready to give the gift of life, not
herpes. And the last is a sailor, infected from exotic ports of call,
but hoping to dock in his beloveds harbor. Feel the pain, then, learn
the facts about the "new" epidemic… The Last Prom (Color, 1973) Pristine
print of this all-time classic scare film. Shot in 1973, but looks and
sounds like the late 1950's as these hot-blooded teens live and drive
too fast: sex=death. So good it was remade in 1980 (replacing the
necking and bad driving with dui). Teenage Pregnancy (Color, 1971) No
one can bring you the melodrama of teen pregnancy quite like the
Canadians. This campy morsel features a lot of worry, disappointment,
facts and good old-fashioned overacting. Like a lost Degrassi episode,
the touching story of 16 year-old Betty's life will bring you to
tears…of laughter! The Innocent Party (Color, 1959) The guilt-tripped
noir-like shocker about a "dirty" girl and her hidden secret- VD! See
what happens when she "gifts' her boyfriend with it! A cool beatnik-jazz
soundtrack highlights highlights this sordid tale produced by the Kansas
State Board of Health! How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (1940s)
An exercise in exhibitionism starring Mrs. John Barrymore (!) wife of
the famed Hollywood legend. For The Early Birds: Sex Hygiene (B&W, 1941)
"Most men know less about their own bodies than they do about
automobiles" admonishes the doctor that's about to take one army base of
whore-mongering recruits and teach them the disgusting truth of what
awaits them after trifling with "contaminated women." This classic VD
film was produced in WWII by the War Department in collaboration with
the Surgeon General and through epic, Star Wars-length written
prologues, and graphic footage of chancres and blisters, it sought to
keep our troops in fighting shape, with lessons we can still stand to
learn today.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013
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6/15
Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle Theater
http://www.spectacletheater.com/basement-media-fest/
7:30PM, 124 South 3rd Street
BASEMENT MEDIA FESTIVAL
The BASEMENT Media Fest is a survey of contemporary artists working with
lo-def, lo-tech, and lo-fi motion pix techniques. Founded in response to
the commercial race for hi-res and true-to-life IMG quality, BASEMENT is
a celebration of the mediated experience as an aesthetic experience.
Equal parts glitchd digital vidz, fuzzy VHS, and grimy 16mm film, this
year's screening ought to plaza any connoisseur of experimental .MOVs.
Artist Clint Enns will be in attendance. Spectacle is a community
screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, established and staffed
entirely by volunteers. Our programming encompasses overlooked works,
offbeat gems, contemporary art, political polemics, live performance and
more. Shows are $5
6/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON
$5 / Mike Stoltz will project two 16mm films: his recent Pluses and
Minuses—"Real morning with pluses and minuses, my symbols for truth."
–D. Boon, and the in-progress Half Human Half Vapor, a collection of
artifacts left by Lewis Vandercar, Floridian sculptor and warlock. Rick
Bahto will project the camera original Super 8 films of two works made
to accompany songs by Julia Holter—Finale from her album Tragedy and
World from her upcoming release Loud City Song. Sarah Rara will show an
excerpt from her in-progress 16mm film Ukiah, which examines the
goings-on during a gathering of artists and builders at a ranch in
Ukiah, California. The film gathers together an array of materials from
plant studies and landscapes to the activities of artists surrounding
the building of a house to serve as a center for learning and think tank
for the upcoming exhibition The Possible curated by David Wilson at the
Berkeley Art Museum. Silkscreened onto the film are landscapes drawn by
David Wilson, as well as notes and haikus assembled by the group during
the gathering. The film serves as a document of the place, the people,
and the process of making an exhibition. Other artists TBA!
6/15
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
2:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West
THE FREE SCREEN - NARCISA HIRSCH: FILMIC PASSAGES
FREE EVENT! On the second night of our retrospective, Narcisa Hirsch
introduces and discusses a diverse selection of her short work.
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