[Frameworks] This week [March 2 - 10, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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Hamburg Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire (France; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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URBAN RANCH PROJECT (Facebook; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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ArtUP! | Exhibition PARABOLE (Bulgaria; Deadline: March 15, 2013)
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Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht, the Netherlands; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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MudasFest (Portugal; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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Familius Family International Fim Festival (Provo, UT, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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INSTA (Knoxville; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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INSTA: International Show/Tell Annual Media Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: March 08, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Agnes Martin's Gabriel [March 2, Evanston, IL]
* Small Poetry: Recent Highlights of the Chicago 8 Film Festival [March 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Let Me Be Your Band + Forster + Plotnick + Idaho Joe + [March 2, San Francisco, California]
* Luther Price In Person! - Event Placeholder! [March 3, Chicago, IL]
* Elements of Image Making [March 3, San Francisco, California]
* An Evening of Experimental Found Footage Cinema - With James Hollenbaugh [March 4, LANCASTER,PA]
* Queer Sex Works: Money Power Sex [March 4, Los Angeles, California]
* &Quot;Trilogy&Quot; Launch and Film Screening Bfi Southbank [March 5, BFI Southbank Belvedere Road South]
* <B>Remix-It-Right: Rediscoveries In the Phil Morton Archive</B> [March 7, Chicago, Illinois]
* Place of Work: One. Artist Film-Makers and the Creative Space. [March 7, London, England]
* Open Screen [March 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Zelmir Zilnik Early Works [March 7, New York, New York]
* Richard Tuohy: Dirty-Handed Cinema [March 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Kevin Jerome Everson - Ten Five In the Grass & Other Shorts [March 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Otto Muehl Program [March 9, New York, New York]
* S:Treams... [March 9, New York, New York]
* New Haitian Cinema: Fragmentation and Flux + [March 9, San Francisco, California]
* Far From Afghanistan / Far From vietnam [March 10, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Thom andersen's ReconversãO (Reconversion) [March 10, Los Angeles, California]
* Zelmir Zilnik Early Works [March 10, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Flaming Creatures [March 10, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013
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3/2
Evanston, IL: Block Cinema and White Light Cinema
3pm, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University
AGNES MARTIN'S GABRIEL
Block Cinema and White Light Cinema Present - Agnes Martin's GABRIEL -
Saturday, March 2 – 3pm - FREE Admission! - At Block Cinema at the
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern
University, Evanston - - GABRIEL (1976, 78 min, DVD Projection) by Agnes
Martin - The celebrated abstract painter Agnes Martin's only film,
Gabriel, is a stylistic departure from her work on canvas. Structured as
a very loose, minimal narrative, it is, in Martin's words, "about this
little boy who climbs a mountain and all the beautiful things he sees."
Martin used this framing device to present an observational film
centered on landscape and nature, a film about a more casual kind of
looking than her compositionally-precise geometric paintings demand.
Gabriel sees Martin in a playful artistic mode: "My movie is about
happiness, innocence, and beauty." This is a rare opportunity to see
another side of one of the great artists of mid-century modernism. - -
Courtesy of The Pace Gallery. - www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu -
www.whitelightcinema.com
3/2
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SMALL POETRY: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHICAGO 8 FILM FESTIVAL
Founded in 2011, the annual Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival is
dedicated to encouraging and supporting filmmakers working the 8mm and
Super-8mm formats through the exhibition of contemporary and historical
works created in these humble yet inspiring gauges. Tonight Chicago 8
co-founder Karen Johannesen appears in person to present a selection
from the fest's first two years including: Mie Kurihara's Small Poetry
and Sheri Wills' Fever, each ethereal and poignant meditations on light
and shadow; Jason Halprin's I Colonize The Golden Triangle, a travelogue
documenting the maker's travels through Northern India; Pablo Marin's
Diario Colorado, a fluid, masterful, multiple exposure study; Ross
Meckfessel's He, She, I Was, a series autobiographical fragments of
friends' lives; and Tara Nelson's, Flying Fish, a home movie which
brings us into the intimate living space of the filmmaker. Also
screening: Paul Clipson's Another Void; Clint Enns' Sears Catalogue
2011/broadcast/a single tear; Sam Hoolihan's Summer Elsewhere; Saul
Levine's Light Licks: By The Waters of Babylon: I Want To Paint It
Black; Janis Crystal Lipzin's De Luce; Gordon Nelson's Feather; Pablo
Valencia's Blindside II; Naren Wilks' Collide-o-scope; Tony Wu's More
Intimacy and Stephanie Wuertz' Luilekkerland. Filmmaker Pablo Valencia
and Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen in person! (text: Karen
Johannesen and Steve Polta)
3/2
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
LET ME BE YOUR BAND + FORSTER + PLOTNICK + IDAHO JOE +
Twist and stomp through the eccentric world of One-Man-Bands! This
heart-pumping plunge off a curvy West Virginian highway leads to the
infamous Rockabilly-Wild-Man Hasil Adkins and other misfit innovators:
Bob Log III, former bus-driver-turned-punk Delta Blues man; Washboard
Hank on his kitchen-sink tuba; and the Mysterious Asthmatic Avenger.
Witness Eric Royer's self-built 5-piece bluegrass band, the Lonesome
Organist, and King Louie, the hurricane of sound! The NorCal debut of
this feature doc is preceded by local solo acts: Guest emcee Russ
Forster, the precocious Henry Plotnick, and the marvelous singing-bowls
of Idaho Joe. $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013
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3/3
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:30, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
LUTHER PRICE IN PERSON! - EVENT PLACEHOLDER!
Luther Price returns to Chicago for two screenings of early Super-8mm
films. The first, this one, is presented by White Light CInema (me) and
will feature early (including his very first film) and super rare
Super-8mm films AND a selection of Price's recent hand-made slides! -
The second show will be presented by SAIC's Eye & Ear Clinic on
Tuesday, March 5. Keep an eye (ha!) on their FB page for details. - Will
update this with specifics once everything is finalized. - HUZZAH! -
[The pix is from one of Price's slides, but is not necessarily one
showing]
3/3
San Francisco, California: Elements of Image Making/RattleSnakeMaster/Intermittent Motion
http://www.ecstatic-erratic.com/
6pm, Noisebridge 2169 Mission st
ELEMENTS OF IMAGE MAKING
Hand processing 16mm and super 8. This is a small workshop/tutorial on
how to process black and white motion picture film. We will discuss
processing as negative or reversal and we will be showing people how to
load a lomo spiral tank. This work shop is free and open to anyone at
any level. for more info contact Eric Stewart (e.l.j.stewart at gmail.com)
See you there!
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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013
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3/4
LANCASTER,PA: Moviate Harrisburg
8pm, THE OTHER ROOM THEATRE -
AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL FOUND FOOTAGE CINEMA - WITH JAMES HOLLENBAUGH
THE OTHER ROOM THEATRE at F&M, Lancaster - 715 Pine Street,
Lancaster, PA 17603 - Admission = $5 - MOVIATE and The Film & Media
Studies Program at Franklin & Marshall College Present: - AN EVENING
OF EXPERIMENTAL FOUND FOOTAGE CINEMA - With Filmmaker James Hollenbaugh
- Showing his works: - DAKU (2012) - A companion piece to the conceptual
sounds of Tennessee performance artist, Bryan Lewis Saunders, and
American percussionist, Z'EV. This 38 minute religious experience just
returned from a month long tour in France, Sweden, and the United
Kingdom. - MERCURY (2012) - Another found footage journey, this time
combined with the talents of Bryan Lewis Saunders and the sounds of
musician Kaontrol Kontraos. Learn about an outer space you've never
before considered. - BRUCE TIMES EIGHT (2013) - Screening publicly for
the first time, this short film collage is entirely made up of rare
split 8mm film internegatives shot by early physique photographer
"Bruce of Los Angeles". - GOODNIGHT MAMA (2010) - A protest
film exploring the similarities between organized religion, pornography,
and mass suicide. - For More Info Email - jeremy.moss at fandm.edu - or -
Go To: www.moviate.org - Bryan Lewis Saunders -
www.bryanlewissaunders.org
3/4
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
QUEER SEX WORKS: MONEY POWER SEX
With a wide range of piercingly personal perspectives, this screening of
experimental films made by queer artists explores a markedly different
outlook about sex work. Be they strippers, hustlers, rent boys, go-go
dancers, escorts, whores, pro-dommes, pornographers or rough trade –
they do it for the money. Yet, unlike their straight counterparts, they
are "outsiders" in relation to the status quo. Sex work is a job with
class, gender, race and power inequality like any other but with added
social stigma, legal and, potentially, even physical danger. The program
includes a reconstruction of the legendary A Fire in My Belly, A Work in
Progress (1986–87) by David Wojnarowicz and The Fall of Communism as
Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) by William E. Jones, among others. | Jack
H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013
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3/5
BFI Southbank Belvedere Road South: Inger Lise Hansen
6:20, BFI Southbank Belvedere Road SouthBank London SE1 8XT
"TRILOGY" LAUNCH AND FILM SCREENING BFI SOUTHBANK
To celebrate the launch of two new landscape film DVDs from LUX
(Trilogy, Inger Lise Hansen and Landscape Films 1977-1982, John Woodman)
the BFI Southbank is presenting a special screening followed by a
reception at the BFI Shop. The awe-inspiring power of nature and its
associated weather systems as explored across a range of groundbreaking
works by renowned artist filmmakers. Subtle shifts in natural light,
delicate tidal movements and the terraforming power of seasonal change
determine the shape and structure of several of the films here. Others
reflect with great beauty on the impact that nature has on our lives as
an alchemical, elemental force. A timely programme for today's changing
world. Breath (1975. William Raban. 16min); Colour Separation (1976.
Chris Welsby. 2min); Colours of This Time (1972. William Raban. 4min);
Water Wrackets (1975. Peter Greenaway. 12min); Three Short Landscape
Films (1979. Renny Croft. 6min); Walk (1975. Jenny Okun. 5min); Bridge
(1980. John Woodman. 4min); Aerial (1974. Margaret Tait. 4min); Aspect
(2004. Emily Richardson. 9min); Proximity (2006. Inger Lise Hansen.
4min) Introduced by artist John Woodman and BFI National Archive curator
William Fowler. - See more at:
http://lux.org.uk/whats-on/environmental-agency-landscape-film-screening
-and-dvd-launch#sthash.QTOfuTtz.dpuf
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
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3/7
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
8:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St.
REMIX-IT-RIGHT: REDISCOVERIES IN THE PHIL MORTON ARCHIVE
Introduced by curator Jon Cates. An international roster of contemporary
video and new media artists remix and reimagine works by Chicago video
pioneer Phil Morton. Morton's genre-defying work anticipated remix; he
also developed COPY-IT-RIGHT, an alternative to copyright that
encourages making, sharing, re-editing and distributing media art.
Introduced and organized by Jon Cates, Founder of the Phil Morton
Memorial Archive and Chair of SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New
Media, and Animation, this program interweaves Morton's originals with
their remixes. Multiple formats. Presented in collaboration with the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. This program is
generously supported by the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation.
Phil Morton (1945-2003) was an electronic visualization artist, analog
computer builder, real-time video graphic performance artist, C.B. radio
performer, Mobile Video Van designer and user, and videotape maker. His
thirty-year "personal video databank" is available through the Phil
Morton Memorial Research Archive in SAIC's Department of Film, Video,
New Media, and Animation. 1972-2013, multiple countries, multiple
formats, ca 60 min + discussion
3/7
London, England: Whitechapel Gallery
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org
7.00pm - 8.30pm, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX
PLACE OF WORK: ONE. ARTIST FILM-MAKERS AND THE CREATIVE SPACE.
Screening of rarely-seen films by JOHN SMITH, STORM DE HIRSCH, RENATE
SAMI and MARGARET TAIT that explore different locations of creativity,
from the room to the garden and beyond. Guest curated by PETER TODD.
Introduced by Peter Todd, with responses by film-maker and Tait
researcher Becca Voelcker, and poet and critic Sophie Mayer. The second
part of this programme screens 30.5.13. LEADING LIGHT. (JOHN SMITH,
1975, 16mm) 11 minutes. "Vertov imagined a 'single room' made up of a
montage of many different rooms. Smith reverses this aspect of 'creative
geography' by showing how many rooms the camera can create from just
one." - A. L. Rees in 'Unpacking 7 Films' programme notes quoted in
'London Film Makers Co –op Catalogue' 1993, p. 131. DIVINATIONS. (STORM
DE HIRSCH, 1964, 16mm) 6 minutes. "Each episode is a complete piece of
information. Episodes contrast with each other. Episodes are separated.
Each episode successively presents the pleasure of a new situation." -
Gary Frost, Art Institute, Chicago. Quoted in 'London Film Makers Co –op
Catalogue' 1993, p. 32. EIN JAHR. (One Year) (RENTE SAMI, 2011, Video)
12 minutes. "A tree seen through the window of my kitchen and, behind
the tree, a wall, the stucco old and falling in pieces, leaving strange
abstract forms and designs that changed with the light according to the
time of day and season." - Renate Sami in NYFF 2011 programme notes.
PLACE OF WORK. (MARGARET TAIT, 1976, 16mm) 31 minutes. "I was really
trying to paint (as it were) this self-contained place – a house and
garden, in among streets, with glimpses of the town and of the sea and
islands from the windows – because I knew it so well, rather than to
tell any story about its having been the family home and so on."
Margaret Tait (Imagined Interview) in Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret
Tait Reader. Edited by Peter Todd and Benjamin Cook. LUX. 2004. p 85.
3/7
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
OPEN SCREEN
Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty
EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First
come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD,
Blu-ray, laserdisc, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, QT file, Super 8, 8mm, 16mm,
or 35mm slides.
3/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ZELMIR ZILNIK EARLY WORKS
by Zelimir Zilnik In Serbian with English subtitles, 1969, 87 min,
35mm-to-digital video This screening is part of: A TRIBUTE TO AMOS VOGEL
AND 'FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART' (RANI RADOVI) Filmed during the political
ferment of 1968, this work explores the radical impulses behind the
unrest of the young in a country where the revolutionaries of an earlier
generation now form the Establishment. Three young men and a beautiful
girl leave home and move across the country in search of a just society
and true socialism, only to discover tragically that an unfinished
revolution, while changing the face of power, has failed to change the
nature of man. Filled with black humor, frank sex, and bizarre tableaux,
the film becomes a revolutionary allegory of the European New Left.
Though it brought its director into conflict with his country's
authorities, the Yugoslav courts subsequently ruled in his favor in a
landmark decision.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
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3/8
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
RICHARD TUOHY: DIRTY-HANDED CINEMA
Presenting a program of hand made 16mm film work from Australian
experimental filmmaker Richard Tuohy—a distinctively cinematic
experience, wrestled from mundane objects and salvaged film industry
equipment. More visual then cerebral, these pictures move, and with an
energy unique to film. Tuohy's films have screened at Rotterdam IFF, Ann
Arbour, Media City, EMAF, FLEX, Onion City, Abstracta, ExIS and KLEX.
Tuohy is part of the growing artist run film lab movement. As the film
industry sheds much of its traditional machinery, Tuohy and others like
him are scavenging these technological left-overs, giving them new life
in the growing artist run film labs movement, and discovering new
possibilities and techniques that had been largely out of reach for an
earlier generation of film experimenters. Tuohy refers to such
lab-working filmmakers as coming from the school of 'dirty hands'; where
the filmmaker really gets their hands into the nitty-gritty of film.
Tuohy sees this change as an opportunity, indeed as a kind of liberation
for the experimental filmmaker – allowing experimentation in areas that
previously were too often a costly mystery kept in the hands of
professionals. This program presents six hand-processed and d-i-y
printed 16mm film works from Tuohy's recent output. The films, though
diverse, are all highly abstract and tightly structured and share a
fascination with the visual possibilities of basic traditional film
technology. All these films are hand processed and hand printed on a
salvaged 16mm contact printer! Program: Iron-wood (2009) Tasmanian
Splintering (2011) Dot Matrix (2013) Etienne's Hand (2011) Flyscreen
(2010) Seoul Electric (2012)
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013
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3/9
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
KEVIN JEROME EVERSON - TEN FIVE IN THE GRASS & OTHER SHORTS
U.S. Premiere With six feature-length films and more than 70 shorts,
Alpert Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson has explored the multiple
facets of African American life via a variety of formal approaches.
Whether through his signature long shots, collage of archival sources or
the re-enactment of fictional material that echoes the lives of his
performers, Everson favors a strategy that interrupts the documentary
impulse, abstracting everyday actions and statements into theatrical
gestures. His work plays with the ambivalent relationship between art
and narrative, fact and fiction. This screening includes a selection of
shorts, from the Lumière-inspired Workers Leaving the Job Site (2013),
to a dark, witty, homage to Chester Himes, Early Riser (2012), to an
exploration of the world of black cowboys, Ten Five in the Grass (2012).
| Alpert Award Artist–Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students
$8, CalArts $5]
3/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
OTTO MUEHL PROGRAM
The Austrian avant-gardist Otto Muehl may well be the most scandalous
filmmaker working in cinema today. Whether he is also the most
subversive is the subject of a continuing international debate, with
even some liberal critics denouncing him as fascist, or at least,
anti-humanist. But it is a grave mistake to misinterpret Muehl's work as
pornographic, thereby underestimating its seditious, anarchist intent.
Muehl's films…are based on his notorious 'Materialaktionen'; love
happenings, involving nude protagonists in real and extravagant acts of
sexual violence and defilement. Clearly derived from dada-surrealist
anti-aestheticism, these public performances predictably caused police
prosecution, scandals, and near-riots in various countries. They invade
the spectator's defence mechanism and value systems in a manner
comparable perhaps only to the slitting of the woman's eyeball in
Buñuel's UN CHIEN ANDALOU or Franju's deceptive documentary of the
slaughter-houses, THE BLOOD OF THE BEASTS. Kurt Kren 6/64: MAMA & PAPA
(1964, 4 min, 16mm) Otto Muehl MATERIALAKTIONSFILME 1970 47 min, 16mm
3/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
S:TREAMS...
by Paul Sharits 1968-70, 41 min, 16mm Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A
conceptual lap dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip
currents'/Dedicated to my son Christopher." –P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is
beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very
powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the
possible levels really recognized." –Michael Snow
3/9
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
NEW HAITIAN CINEMA: FRAGMENTATION AND FLUX +
Three years after a devastating earthquake, the Haitian people still
struggle to rebuild, both physically and culturally. In a benefit for
Jakmel Art Center, OC joins Ilona Berger and Ivy McClelland in mounting
a forum for new film and video. Jean-Guerly Pétion initiates the show
with a multi-media dance piece. Désirée Dorsainvil sets off the second
half with original choreography, drawn from both Afro-Haitian and Modern
traditions. Recent émigré Zaka sojourns from SoCal to personally
introduce his new video work. ALSO: Maksaens Denis, Louis Ebby Angel,
Guy Regis Jr., Romel Jean-Pierre, and Alex Art Louis from TeleGhetto.
Come early for artists' reception with world-renowned rum. $7–$20.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013
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3/10
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN / FAR FROM VIETNAM
With the US war in Afghanistan about to enter its second decade,
filmmaker and Emerson professor John Gianvito felt compelled to mark the
milestone cinematically by turning to an influential example of anti-war
cinema for inspiration: Far from Vietnam, the 1967 collective omnibus
spearheaded by the great film-essayist Chris Marker, who edited the work
of a number of collaborators into a dynamic fusion of documentary,
activism and cinematic experiment addressed to a war that seemed
curiously near and far at the same time. Similarly, Gianvito has
fashioned a parallel response to the present state of affairs. This
program juxtaposes both films in hopes that spectators will be provoked
to compare the responses to US aggression then and now, by filmmakers
and the population at large. $12 Special Event Tickets John Gianvito and
Soon-Mi Yoo in person Far From Afghanistan Sunday March 10 at 7pm Like
its predecessor, Far From Afghanistan mixes an experimental approach to
film form with fictional narrative, found footage and reportage in
response to a protracted war that remains uncannily invisible here on
the "home front." Besides contributing his own sequence, John Gianvito
assembled a group of filmmakers active in the US whose work typically
blends fiction, non-fiction and formal experimentation. Reportage is
provided by a number of short segments from a collective of Afghani
journalists called "Afghan Images." The result is imbued with a profound
anger and sadness about what the war has meant to the populations of
both countries. Almost inevitably, the film addresses the ever-closer
relationship between image technologies and warfare with its chilling
inclusion of actual drone's-eye-view footage from an attack on Afghan
civilians deemed insurgents. Directed by John Gianvito, Jon Jost,
Soon-mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson US/Afghanistan 2012, digital
video, color, 129 min
3/10
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm (box office opens 6:30, doors open 7), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS THOM ANDERSEN'S RECONVERSãO (RECONVERSION)
Filmmaker Thom Andersen in person! Filmforum is proud to present Thom
Andersen's most recent work, Reconversão (Reconversion), an essay on the
architecture of Eduardo Souto de Moura. Reconversão portrays 17
buildings and projects by the Porto architect Eduardo Souto Moura,
accompanied usually by his own writings. It is a search for his
architecture, without critical commentary. Technically, Reconversão
combines the crudeness of proto-cinema with the hyperrealism of digital
cinema, bringing us back to the ideals of Dziga Vertov. 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/344310 or by cash or check at the
door. Screening: Reconversão (Reconversion) (2012, Portugal/USA, video,
color, 65 mins)
3/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ZELMIR ZILNIK EARLY WORKS
See notes for March 7, 6:45 pm.
3/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FLAMING CREATURES
SCOTCH TAPE 1962, 3 min, 16mm Junkyard musical. & FLAMING CREATURES
1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w "FLAMING CREATURES graced the anarchic
liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy
of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in
motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in
decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of
all previous filmmakers." - FILM CULTURE
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