[Frameworks] This week [June 22 - 30, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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This week [June 22 - 30, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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The 8 Fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2013)
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Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2013)
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Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: August 01, 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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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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Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: July 19, 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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The 25th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: July 19, 2013)
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INFRARED 4: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Former Selves: the Animations of Leslie Supnet [June 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Ben vida / Helm / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [June 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Armchair Adventures [June 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Driven (With Katha Washburn) [June 22, New York, New York]
* Ambient Occlusion: Group Show Featuring Ben Aqua, Daniel Leyva, Colin
Self & Manuel Solano [June 22, New York, New York]
* Basement Media Fest [June 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Oberhausen Short Film Festival Tour –
Artist Film & video 2012 [June 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Auto-Shorts Program [June 23, New York, New York]
* Community Action Center By A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, [June 24, Fire Island, NY]
* Early Monthly Segments #52 = Hein + Hein + Brakhage + Solomon [June 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Three Films By James Scott [June 25, Light Industry]
* Deep Leap — Way Stations [June 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Jonesy [June 26, New York, New York]
* Carl Marzani and Union Films, 1946-1953 [June 27, Light Industry]
* La Air: Erich Burci [June 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Show & Tell: Seoungho Cho Program [June 27, New York, New York]
* Sight Unseen Presents Out there, Over Time [June 28, Baltimore]
* The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents "Double Your Pleasure" : 16mm Films
By Jennifer Reeves and Mm Serra [June 28, Brooklyn, NY]
* Naked Eye Cinema Program [June 28, New York, New York]
* Last Address By Ira Sachs Followed By Tribute Walk [June 28, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [June 29, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [June 29, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 1 [June 29, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 2 [June 29, New York, New York]
* Visiting This World: Films By Paul Clipson & Sound/Film Performance With
Marielle Jakobsons [June 29, San Francisco]
* Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Flaherty On the Road: Family Affairs [June 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [June 30, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [June 30, New York, New York]
* Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions At the Stonewall Inn [June 30, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013
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6/22
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7 pm, 4 Charles Place
FORMER SELVES: THE ANIMATIONS OF LESLIE SUPNET
Microscope Gallery welcomes Leslie Supnet in the U.S. solo screening
debut of her animated works. Since 2007, Supnet has used whimsical and
often surreal imagery to explore themes of sincerity, identity, race,
death, and the multiplicity of human emotion. She does this with
hand-made paper-cut puppets, computer software, and a second-hand
MegaPixel camera found at a thrift store. While often melancholic,
Supnet's animations are not without a sense of humour.
6/22
Brooklyn, New York: PAN_ACT Festival at Issue Project Room
http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/ben-vida-helm-jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-clipson
8pm, 22 Boerum Place, Ground floor Brooklyn, NY 11201
BEN VIDA / HELM / JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON
This evening of sound performances by 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben
Vida and London-based sound artist Helm, includes a sound/Super 8mm film
performance by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson. Cantu-Ledesma and
Clipson have collaborated for over 10 years on live sound / film
performances and installations. Their work is intuitive and focuses on a
spontaneous coming together of the two mediums. They have performed
nationally and internationally at the New York Film Festival, San
Francisco International Film Festival, 25FPS in Zagreb, SFMOMA, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts & The San Francisco Exploratorium. They were
Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the Spring
of 2013.
6/22
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES
$5 / Cosmo Segurson and John Cannizzaro return to Echo Park Film Center
for an all-new episode of Armchair Adventures. Presenting a new program
of amazing, bizarre, surreal, and wonderful animation from around the
globe in glorious 16mm from the archives of Smokehouse Films. Including
films by Norman McLaren, Ladislas Starevich, Jiri Trnka, and the late,
great Ray Harryhausen; come watch magical insects, frogs, horses,
angels, and more dance across the screen from the far corners of the
globe. All works projected on 16mm! Curators and refreshments will be
present.
6/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DRIVEN (WITH KATHA WASHBURN)
by Saul Levine 2008, 82 min, video This screening is part of:
AUTO-CINEMA "In his ongoing series DRIVEN…Levine rides in the front seat
of an automobile while one of his friends talks about his or her life
for 82 minutes (the maximum length of a single take using his digital
camera). […] Levine's low-key mode of inquiry and his genuine passion
for listening have an infectious power." –P. Adams Sitney, ARTFORUM In
this installment of his ongoing DRIVEN series, Levine shares a ride and
an extended conversation with his charismatic friend Katha Washburn, who
shares stories about her experiences pursuing an acting career in NYC,
her job as an administrative assistant at MIT, and her night school
classes at Mass Art.
6/22
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org
10PM - 4AM, Eastern Bloc | 505 East 6th Street
AMBIENT OCCLUSION: GROUP SHOW FEATURING BEN AQUA, DANIEL LEYVA, COLIN
SELF & MANUEL SOLANO
Curated by Brian Droitcour. What does a screen do in a gay bar? It's for
showing porn, for corny match or trivia games, for karaoke and music
videos—it introduces something to talk about, something to do. When
phones got smart and everyone brought their own screens to bars some
people started fretting about the gay bar's future—why go out when you
can hook up with an app? Bars are one way of building communities,
networks are another—and they've created ways of connecting that bars
never imagined, with a variety of spaces for flourishing subcultures and
individual performance. Yet these haven't made bars obsolete; in fact,
they often operate in tandem. "Ambient Occlusion" revisits the concept
of queer spaces at the heart of Dirty Looks: On Location. It's a program
of four works by young artists who are interested in queer spaces both
in cities and online, who explore the points where these spaces overlap
and collide by looking at the roles of drag and dance music in community
formation, porn's effects of identification and alienation, and the
digital ephemera of queer subcultures.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2013
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6/23
Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle Theater
http://www.spectacletheater.com/basement-media-fest/
7:30PM, 124 South 3rd Street
BASEMENT MEDIA FEST
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 Mike Morris 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
6/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE OBERHAUSEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL TOUR –
ARTIST FILM & VIDEO 2012
The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen comes to Los Angeles.
Oberhausen, Germany hosts what is probably the world's leading festival
for short films, and Filmforum is bringing two of their programs from
2012 to Los Angeles. North America, Kenya, Singapore: the artists
represented in this year's Artist Film & Video program spirit us away
down their very own personal paths leading to distant climes both real
and imaginary. In the process, the award-winning and by all means
political films provide insights into the current state of international
media art. For more about the screening, visit http://lafilmforum.org
Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
Available at Brown Paper Tickets
(http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/389893) and at the door.
Screening: The Sweetness of Mother's Hair by Jana Debus (2011, Germany,
color, 18 min.), Applied Theories of Expanding Minds by Lena Bergendahl,
Jennifer Rainsford and Rut Karin Zettergren (2011, Sweden, Kenya, color,
33 min.), Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2011, Germany, black
and white, 10 min.), Jalan Jati by Lucy Davis (2012, Singapore, color,
23 min.)
6/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
AUTO-SHORTS PROGRAM
Alfred Leslie & Frank O'Hara THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT 1964, 39 min, 16mm,
b&w Filmed in one continuous take from the back seat of a convertible
driving in lower Manhattan, this film's thrice-repeated footage features
magnificent subtitles by Frank O'Hara that first appear as a
'translation' of the white wife character's double-talk Danish monologue
and then as the unspoken thoughts of her black doctor husband. Bette
Gordon & James Benning THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1975, 27 min, 16mm.
Preserved with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation.)
A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal
relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic,
political, and social changes from New York to Los Angeles. Morgan
Fisher TURNING OVER (1975, 13 min, video, b&w. Courtesy of the Academy
Film Archive.) In this deadpan video, Fisher drives around San Francisco
as his odometer approaches 100,000 miles, marking the momentousness of
the event with a hilariously sustained monologue to the camera. Paul Kos
& Marlene Kos LIGHTNING (1976, 1.5 min, video, b&w) "When I look for the
lightning, it never strikes. When I look away, it does." Filmed inside a
car, this tape focuses on observation of natural phenomena, presenting
the obverse of the "If a tree falls in the woods…" conundrum. Andrew T.
Betzer IVAN RUNS SOME ERRANDS, RUNS AMOK (2004, 14 min, 35mm) Ivan, a
stranger in a strange land, steals a car with a child in the backseat.
He fulfills his domestic urges and then disappears into the night. Total
running time: ca. 100 min.
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MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013
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6/24
Fire Island, NY: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org
7PM, Cherry Grove Community House
COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER BY A.K. BURNS AND A.L. STEINER,
Fire Island Artist Residency presents: A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner,
Community Action Center, 2010. Curated by Bradford Nordeen. A.K. Burns
and A.L. Steiner fashioned their feature-length socio-sexual opus
inspired by many of the canonic porn films from the 1970s, (L.A. Plays
Itself or Boys in the Sand). Working collaboratively within a creative
circle that included fellow performance artists and musicians, the title
is a free-wheeling cavalcade of queer sexuality and parodic porn set-ups
– offering new spins on standards like the car wash, the pizza delivery
"guy" or street cruising. The artists also maintain numerous rules for
the work's exhibition, not least of which is the requirement that the
title be shown in a public or communal space, amidst a body of people –
subverting the private and consumerist aspects of contemporary
pornography.
6/24
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #52 = HEIN + HEIN + BRAKHAGE + SOLOMON
Material Action! Wilhelm + Birgit Hein + Brakhage + Solomon "get me out
of practice / habitual foaming / As fast as the eye can bear / to see
grain flips its / trigger melt down tender / under eyelids' trance" -
Lee Ann Brown, from Dark Writing Through Elementary Phrases for Stan
Brakhage, Phil Solomon, and Tom who drove Cologne-based filmmakers
Wilhelm and Birgit Hein were the flashpoint of German underground film
in the 1970s. They founded and ran X SCREEN in 1968, where they showed
porno films three nights a week to fund their underground screenings on
the weekends. With a very outward gaze, they brought filmmakers like
Jack Smith, Malcom LeGrice and Kurt Kren through their local cinema and
their two programming stints at Dokumenta. As the centre-point between
the Viennese and English avant-gardes, their own collaborative work
showcased an admixture of both—an aggressive transgressiveness and a
structural materialist focus on film as object. We're very excited to
show a rare, imported copy of Rohfilm (Raw Film), their 1968
masterpiece. Collaged from fragments of autoportraiture and foraged
footage and propelled by Christian Michelis' aggressive proto-noise
soundtrack, Rohfilm is a visceral and relentless manifesto on film's
pure physicality. Elementary Phrases, the first of three collaborations
between Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, celebrates the physical in a
strikingly different way. Composed of Brakhage's unique hand-painted
film frames step-printed on Solomon's optical printer, Elementary
Phrases expands on Brakhage's cascading handmade imagery by building
extended patterns and rhythms out of loops of frames. Solomon's own
photographic imagery mixes in with Brakhage's paint strokes, creating
figurative counterpoints that build on the very musical structure the
two artists develop through the collaborative printing process.
Programme: Rohfilm, Wilhelm + Birgit Hein, 1968, Germany, 16mm, 22 min
Elementary Phrases, Stan Brakhage + Phil Solomon, USA, 1994, 16mm, 38
min silent @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Monday June
24, 2013 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation Thanks to
Arsenal Berlin, CFMDC and The Gladstone Hotel
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013
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6/25
Light Industry: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, Light Industry
THREE FILMS BY JAMES SCOTT
Curated by Jesse Pires - Love's Presentation, James Scott, 16mm, 27
mins, Richard Hamilton, James Scott, 16mm, 25 mins, The Great Ice Cream
Robbery, James Scott, 16mm double projection, 40 mins - The son of
pioneering British abstractionist William Scott, James Scott studied
painting and theater design at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early
1960s, but while there quickly transitioned into making films. In his
early twenties, he directed several notable short works, helmed an
unfinished feature produced by Tony Richardson, and shot a suite of
candle-lit color tests for Richardson's Tom Jones (1963).
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
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6/26
Chicago, Illinois: Deep Leap Microcinema / Nightingale Cinema
http://www.deepleap.net
8:00, 1084 N. Milwaukee
DEEP LEAP — WAY STATIONS
DEEP LEAP MICROCINEMA — WAY STATIONS | The Nightingale Cinema / 1084 N.
Milwaukee / Chicago, IL | June 26, 2013 8 pm / $7-10 sliding scale | The
space betweens: Tool Time times ten times time, two-tiered translation,
hyperspace hypnospace, hot air balloons, Kurt Kren, the trees, the
audition, the proscenium wings, smoke on the water, the stars singing
back. A program for, of and by the pore-explorers seeking what's between
the seen and what meaning can be gleaned from the synaptic. Sites of
transition and transposition reveal that the heat is often in the
imaginative distance between the nameable. These artists—whose work has
shown cumulatively in contexts like the Whitney Biennial, Documenta,
Rotterdam and the Deep Leap Microcinema—each evince a fascination with
these nether spaces that is distinct in its method and aims, but work
together and apart as friendly bedfellows. The hope is that the spaces
between the works—the small ways large files bristle up against each
other in the darkness of the cinema—open up the meanings and feelings of
their borders. Works by: Mary Helena Clark, Claire L. Evans and Mike
Merrill, Deborah Stratman, Clint Enns, Christine Negus, Duane Linkalter,
Fern Silva, Chris Rice and a performance by Alejandro T. Acierto.
Curated by Jesse Malmed.
6/26
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org
10PM - 4AM, continuous loop, The Phoenix | 447 East 13th Street
JONESY
Jonesy, Various Titles, digital video, color, 2008 - 2011. Curated by
David Everitt Howe. Animating found and repurposed photographs, Jonesy's
experimental shorts explore homosexual desire, aesthetic experience, and
the passing of time with a plethora of literary and artistic references;
Poised and in the Throes (2008) pays homage to Jack Smith, Kenneth
Anger, and Fassbinder's Querelle through stop-motion animation of a
sea-side scene; a hazy recollection of the filmmaker's weekend with
pornstar Andy Mantegna comprises the subject of Beauty Must Suffer
(2011), which features glossy magazine photographs of well-built
Mantegna, cut up and criss-crossed to form kaleidoscopic patterns. In
these and other short films, tropes of masculinity are both idealized
and deconstructed.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013
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6/27
Light Industry: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, Light Industry
CARL MARZANI AND UNION FILMS, 1946-1953
Curated by Charles Musser - Received wisdom is that left-wing
documentary filmmaking in the United States ended with the ill-timed
release of Leo Hurwtiz and Paul Strand's Native Land (1942)—not to
be renewed until the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Union Films was a radical, New York-based film
collective that made over two dozen non-fiction films between 1946 and
1953. Its impresario, Carl Marzani, would ultimately spend three years
in jail for his first anti-business motion picture, Deadline for Action
(1946). Fighting back at every step, he twice took his case all the way
to the Supreme Court, only to lose the decision by one vote. When not in
the courts, he was making films. - Tonight's program of Union Films
productions begins with Our Union (1947), made for and about the United
Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE), which funded
many of the collective's achievements. The Investigators (1948) captures
a remarkable piece of street theater featuring actor Hershel Benardi,
who would later be blacklisted, and written by Abel Meeropol, best known
today for penning the lyrics and music for Billie Holiday's "Strange
Fruit." Many Union Films efforts were concerned with winning elections.
This includes People's Congressman (1948), a campaign film for Vito
Marcantonio, who ran on the American Labor Party ticket in East
Harlem—and won. It is narrated by Paul Robeson, who appears
briefly in the film. Marzani and his collaborator, director Max
Glandbard, also made campaign films for Presidential candidate Henry
Wallace of the Progressive Party. A People's Convention (1948)
celebrates the "New Party" convention in Philadelphia, and provides
glimpses of Wallace, Robeson, and the young Pete Seeger. - The most
daring and accomplished organization producing leftist documentaries in
the United States during the immediate post-World War II era, Union
Films has gone unmentioned in every general history of documentary as
well as various accounts of left-wing filmmaking. Hopefully this, the
first retrospective program devoted solely to the motion picture
achievements of Union Films, will contribute to a new appreciation and a
new historiography.
6/27
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
LA AIR: ERICH BURCI
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. Erich Burci will present works from his Re-edit
series, including his residency project titled Deconstructable. Using
educational and other selected 16mm found footage, the artist attempts
to reject their original narrative by skewing sound bites to create a
non-sensical narrative visual essay. Two projectors are used to layer
multiple images on top of each other to deform any image from its
original sense. By breaking down the material in this fashion, the
artist explores how the deconstruction of old ideas can be ultimately be
used to express new visual structures.Other works include Butch Travesty
(16mm & 8mm), which leads the viewer on a subtle and nostalgic trip into
a city that is ever changing; Farewell to Lucy (16mm), inspired by
Matisse, the piece explores camera movement and the connection between
two models: a woman and a fish; and Island Woman (16mm), inspired by
Cuban avant-garde photography, the work creates dynamic compositions
through the use of zooms and hand-painted film material. Free event!
6/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: SEOUNGHO CHO PROGRAM
"Lyrical and visually striking, the video works of Korean artist
Seoungho Cho are distinguished by a unique confluence of complex image
processing and sound collage. Resonating with a highly metaphorical
sensibility, Cho's single-channel tapes and installations are formalist,
almost painterly explorations of subjectivity and the subconscious. The
urban landscapes that Cho often depicts move with a continuous fluidity,
shifting from dreamlike abstractions of light to fleeting reflections of
the city. Figures, cars, and trains are mirrored and diffused through
one another, silhouetted with a haunting anonymity that is echoed in the
poetic texts and soundscapes that accompany each piece. These often
tense meditations focus on the nature and cost of isolation and
loneliness while integrating into a culture, landscape and language
other than one's own." –ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX All works made and
presented on digital video. 1/1 (2001, 4 min, b&w/color) orange factory
(2002, 11.5 min) UNTITLED (2004, 12.5 min) SHOW YOUR TONGUE (2005, 5.5
min) BUOY (2008, 7 min) BUTTERFLY (2008, 11 min) SHIFTED HORIZON (2009,
6 min) BLUE DESERT (2011, 12 min) STONED (2012, 11.5 min) Total running
time: ca. 85 min.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013
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6/28
Baltimore: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
9:00pm, Current Gallery | 421 N. Howard St.
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS OUT THERE, OVER TIME
Sight Unseen presents Out There, Over Time, a group program featuring
perceptive explorations affected by meditation upon the ephemeral and
mystification of the experiential. The represented artists transform
conventional notions of direct observation through composed intricacies
of space, subtle intimations of story, or treated investigations of
stock. These reframed, real-time reflections of the outside world
simultaneously imagine movements removed from empirical consequence and
embrace symbolic, textural strata embedded in the everyday. Out There,
Over Time reinvigorates the time-honored landscape tradition traversing
fixed positions, archival appropriations, nostalgia, poetic atmospheres,
and mythological ethnographic hybrids toward insightful destinations for
documented and dreamt-of sites. Screened in Current Gallery's back
courtyard. Including films and videos by: Christina Battle, Vincent
Grenier, Peter Hutton, Shambhavi Kaul, Laura Kraning, Johann Lurf, Ryan
Marino, Jeremy Moss, Pat O'Neill, Fern Silva, & Robert Todd. $5-10
sliding admission, with half the proceeds going toward rebuilding Open
Space Gallery (www.openspacebaltimore.com). For more information on the
works, artists, and the Sight Unseen screening series, please visit:
www.sightunseenbaltimore.com
6/28
Brooklyn, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
8pm, Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd Street
THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE PRESENTS "DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE" : 16MM FILMS
BY JENNIFER REEVES AND MM SERRA
The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents "Double Your Pleasure" : 16mm
Films by Jennifer Reeves and MM Serra - THE GIRL'S NERVY, by Jennifer
Reeves, 1995 - SOI MEME, by MM Serra, 1995 - DARLING INTERNATIONAL, by
Jennifer Reeves & MM Serra, 1999 - FEAR OF BLUSHING, by Jennifer Reeves,
2001 - DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE, by MM Serra (sound by and starring Jennifer
Reeves), 2002 - Runtime: 43 minutes. Artists in attendance! - Jennifer
Reeves is a New York-based filmmaker working primarily on 16mm film.
Reeves was named one of the "Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50" in the film
journal Cinema Scope in the spring of 2012. MM Serra is an experimental
film/videomaker, curator, author, and Executive Director of the
Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest distributor of independent
media.
6/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NAKED EYE CINEMA PROGRAM
Featuring appearances and production work by Gordon Stokes Kurtti.
Curated by Jack Waters. Filmmakers in person! Gordon Stokes Kurtti
(1960-87) was an American artist, writer, illustrator, and performer,
and a seminal figure in the early East Village art scene of NYC. Gordon
was an early collaborator on many experimental film works by Carl
George, Jack Waters, Bradley Eros, Leslie Lowe, and Brad & Brian Taylor.
He was a close companion and a frequent collaborator on the early
performance and installation works of Kembra Pfahler. Kurtti, like most
of his art friends, wore many hats from cameraman to set designer to
lead actor. The preferred medium was Super-8mm film, easily cut and
edited on a kitchen table. Budgets rarely exceeded a few hundred dollars
and screenings were organized through Naked Eye Cinema, then an
extension of the film program at ABC No Rio, and now an archival section
of Allied Productions, Inc. An exhibition celebrating Kurtti's life and
work will take place at Participant Inc (253 East Houston St.) from June
2-July 14; for more info visit: participantinc.org. Gordon Kurtti's life
and work are the subject of an archival, preservation, and distribution
project by Allied Productions, made possible by the generous support of
Mary Jo and Ted Shen. Carl Michael George LA BELLE FLEUR (1985, 13 min,
Super-8mm) An homage to the silent movie era starring Gordon "Theda
Bara" Kurtti giving major face and attitude to on set rivals Peter
"Geish" Cramer and Jack "the blond bitch" Waters. Image and sound
synthesis with non-narrative character relationships bordered by the
filmmaker's painted scroll depicting the creative spurt. Original music
by Samoa and Barry Frier. Carl Michael George THE LOST 40 DAYS (1986, 14
min, Super-8mm) With Kembra Pfahler, Valerie Caris, Gordon Kurtti,
Samoa, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Brad Taylor, Brian Taylor, Adrian
Saich, Philly, Lorraine Lamont, and baby Amy. Art direction and costume
design by Gordon Stokes Kurtti. Dreams, myths, legends, eroticism, and
nightmares all combine in these episodic fragments including THE
SIX-ARMED SHIVA, THE PRECIPICE AND THE CITY OF GOLD, THE BULLFIGHT and
THE QUEEN OF EVERY HIVE. Note: Tonight's screening marks the premiere of
a new 16mm sound print blown-up from the Super-8mm original and made
possible by support from Allied Productions and the National Film
Preservation Foundation. THE LOST 40 DAYS is now in the permanent
collection of the Library of Congress and Anthology Film Archives. Peter
Cramer PENNY CANDY (1985, 7 min, video) Fun with Gordon Kurtti. With
Jack Waters and Peter Cramer behind the camera. YooHoo, Boys!! Oh Boys!!
Laying eggs in a fur lined bathtub, and making terracotta madeleines
with copper instead of jam. Jack Waters BRAINS BY REVLON (1986, 18 min,
16mm) With Eve Teitlebaum, Sherrie Saunders, Bobbie Fultz, Gordon
Kurtti, Richard Hofmann, Brian Taylor, Brad Taylor, Valerie Caris, and
Samoa. An East Village caterwaul inspired by the book A HISTORY OF
EUROPE by the Belgian historian Henri Perine and George Cukor's film
direction of the Clair Boothe Luce play THE WOMEN. Bradley Eros/Erotic
Psyche HYSTÉRY (1985, 11 min, Super-8mm) With Kembra Pfahler, Bradley
Eros, Jack Waters, Sharon Gannon, Carl George, Gordon Kurtti, and Brad
Taylor. Soundtrack: Einsterzende Neubauten & Psychic TV. A transmutation
of mystery/history/hysteria, where sex and sacrifice mix with death and
voyeurism. Creatures of myth-taken identity in the laboratory of
hystery: 1) intoxicating media, 2) the tenderness of wolves. The
dream/play of Hypnos and Thanatos. Total running time: ca. 70 min.
6/28
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org
TBA (RSVP required), IFC Center | 323 6th Avenue
LAST ADDRESS BY IRA SACHS FOLLOWED BY TRIBUTE WALK
RSVP at dirtylooksnyc at gmail.com Ira Sachs, Last Address, 2010 and
tribute walk with readings. Curated by Alex Fialho. Ira Sachs' Last
Address is a subtle, poetic meditation on the loss that the AIDS
epidemic ravaged on the queer arts community in New York City. The film
consists of a stream of scenic street views of the last residential
addresses where twenty-eight celebrated gay artists and filmmakers lived
in New York City before they passed away as a result of AIDS-related
complications. Birds chirp, bikers pass, and taxis honk in Sachs'
exterior shots in front of the former haunts of LGBT creatives; despite
the filming of this elegiac tribute, NYC life seems to proceed as usual,
a contrast that speaks to the sense of loss on which Last Address
meditates. In Last Address, Sachs intimately links the inextricable
social and sexual histories of New York City's creative scenes through a
site-specific awareness of the deeply historical and queer nature of our
everyday environment. Though these may be the last addresses where each
artist lived, the life of their work continues to address, inspire, and
live with a new generation today. After the screening, a Last Address
tribute walk will visit the last addresses of six of these artists:
Cooke Mueller (285 Bleecker Street), Keith Haring (542 La Guardia
Place), David Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar (189 2nd Avenue), Robert
Mapplethorpe (35 W 23rd Street), and Felix Gonzalez-Torres (London
Terrace, 405-465 W. 23rd Street). Readings from the journals and
personal writings of the artists will pay tribute at each stop along the
way.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013
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6/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (1951, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) THE PLEASURE GARDEN
(1953, 38 min, 35mm, b&w) THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974,
3 min, 16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His
films are celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as
American Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total running time: ca. 80
min.
6/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45 min, 16mm)
TESTAMENT (1974, 20 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 100 min.
6/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 min, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 min, 16mm) UN
MIRACLE (1954, 30 sec, 35mm, Made with Pontus Hulten) RECREATION (1956,
1.5 min, 35mm) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2 min, 35mm)
JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 min, 35mm) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 min, 35mm)
EYEWASH (1959, 3 min, 35mm) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 min,
35mm) BLAZES (1961, 3 min, 35mm) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm)
BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 min, 35mm) 69 (1969, 4.5
min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 70 min.
6/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program
were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
70 (1970, 5 min, 35mm) 77 (1970, 6.5 min, 35mm) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 min,
35mm) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 min, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 min, 35mm) SWISS
ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 min, 35mm) BANG (1986, 10 min,
35mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min.
6/29
San Francisco: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. 94110 $6-10
VISITING THIS WORLD: FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON & SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCE WITH
MARIELLE JAKOBSONS
This evening of recent films by San Francisco-based Paul Clipson will
present works on Super 8mm, made in collaboration with a variety of
musicians and sound artists. The program will include THE CRYSTAL TEXT
(2012) with Young Moon (Trevor Montgomery), DIFFICULT LOVES (2013) with
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, ABSTEIGEND (2012) with Painted Caves (Evan
Caminiti), ORIGIN (2012) with Che Chen, LANDSCAPE DISSOLVES (2012) with
Alex Cobb, VOID REDUX (2013) with Barn Owl, and SPEAKING CORPSE (2012)
with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. The event will also showcase a live sound/film
performance by Clipson and Marielle Jakobsons.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013
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6/30
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS FLAHERTY ON THE ROAD: FAMILY AFFAIRS
Filmmaker Minda Martin in person! The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is
the longest continuously running film event in North America. The
Flaherty is excited to announce the 2012 Flaherty on the Road series,
comprised of four programs of innovative, groundbreaking, and
provocative nonfiction film selected from the 2012 Robert Flaherty Film
Seminar, called Open Wounds, curated by Josexto Cerdán. Filmforum bring
you program 3, called "Family Affairs, featuring two films dealing with
families in different ways. We're delighted to have with us filmmaker
(and former Filmforum intern) Minda Martin, maker of Free Land, for its
Los Angeles premiere! Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free
for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper Tickets
(http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/393578) and at the door.
Screening: FAMILY NIGHTMARE, by Dustin Guy Defa (2011, DigiBeta to QT,
10 min), FREE LAND, by Minda Martin (2009, QT, 63 min) Both of the works
in this program are Los Angeles premieres!
6/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20 min,
16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 min, 16mm, b&w) THE MIDNIGHT PARTY
(1940s-1968, 3.5 min, 16mm, b&w) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY (1940s-1968, 8
min, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 min, 16mm) AVIARY (1955, 11 min,
16mm, b&w) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 min, 16mm, photographed by Stan
Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 min, 16mm) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS
(1957/65, 17 min, 16mm, b&w) ANGEL (1957, 3 min, 16mm) The poet of magic
realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images. ROSE HOBART and the
Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S PARTY) are some of the
earliest collage films created. The others were directed by Cornell (and
photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy Burckhardt among others) at some
of his favorite locations. Total running time: ca. 105 min
6/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2
All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 min, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS (ca.
late-1930s, 11 min, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca. 1940s, 9
min, 16mm) NEW YORK–ROME–BARCELONA–BRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10 min, 16mm)
VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 min, 16mm) MULBERRY STREET (ca. 1957,
9 min, 16mm, b&w, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION SQUARE (1955, 8
min, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS LES FEUILLES (ca.
1957, 4 min, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 min, 16mm) Rare Cornell; more
magic cinema from the master collagist. Variations of films made by
Cornell, plus collage films discovered by archivists after his death.
Total running time: ca. 85 min.
6/30
New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC
http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org
9PM, Stonewall Inn | 53 Christopher Street
RASHAAD NEWSOME: SHADE COMPOSITIONS AT THE STONEWALL INN
Rashaad Newsome, Shade Compositions, 2012. Curated by Alex Fialho.
Rashaad Newsome's performance Shade Compositions builds from a chorus of
subtle snaps, scoffs and throwing shade into a crescendo of outbursts of
"Wut" in the multiple (body) languages of its performers. The swishy
sounds and exaggerated movements of Newsome's performance—the teeth
sucking, huffing and puffing, hair flips and mmhmms—derive from
vernacular gestures made on street corners and subway stops. Acting as
conductor to this symphony of shade, Newsome samples the sassy sounds of
his performers in real-time and loops them into a repetitive
choreographed score via a rigged Nintendo Wii controller. Shade
Compositions has been performed widely (MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Glassbox
Gallery Paris) and Newsome's 2012 iteration for the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art's Stage Presence exhibition was billed as the "grand
finale" of the museum's atrium before its long-term renovation project.
Newsome's multivocal and multifocal ode to queer and women of color
communities was quite the emphatic send-off.
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