[Frameworks] Part 2 of 2: This week [March 30 - April 7, 2013] in avant garde cinema

Sun Mar 31 01:14:53 UTC 2013

Part 2 of 2: This week [March 30 - April 7, 2013] in avant garde cinema

-----------------------
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013
-----------------------

4/6
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
11am, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th)

 13 LAKES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
  James Benning is one of the world's most significant and groundbreaking
  avant-garde filmmakers. Beginning the early 1970s, he began his
  exploration of the American landscape on film, while introducing
  rigorous formal structures and experiments with sound and image. In
  these, his recent films, made between 2004 and 2012, a range of
  Benning's longtime interests and greatest gifts come to light: his
  working class roots and political activism (the war) and his interest in
  places, history and cinematic time (STEMPLE PASS, 13 LAKES and TEN
  SKIES). 13 Lakes: Benning's attraction to landscapes, form and studying
  place over time coalesces in this astonishingly rich, minimalist work
  which consists of long takes of thirteen US lakes. While formal in
  structure, a narrative emerges; artist Martin Beck wrote of the film "13
  Lakes tells the story about a landscape, its virginity, and its
  culturalization." Presented in 16mm. 

4/6
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
2pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th)

 TEN SKIES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
  The companion piece to 13 LAKES, TEN SKIES documents a series of
  skyscapes in California. James Benning described it as an anti-war film,
  "about the antithesis of war, [about] the kind of beauty we are
  destroying." The films have been heralded as cinematic masterpieces by
  cinephiles and critics alike. Presented in 16mm. 

4/6
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.

 RIA LIVE CINEMA (AKA OUR EYE AYE = RIA = RESONANT INTERVAL ALGORYTHMNS)
  Video artists-Social engineers Will Erokan, Gerry Fialka, John
  Cannizzaro & poets, dancers, musicians = LIVE CINEMA probing the filmed
  close-up on the human eye, as seen in Un Chien Andalou, Man With The
  Movie Camera, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, and Blade Runner. Delve deep
  into the reel motives and consequences of the Ludovico treatment from A
  Clockwork Orange, which originated in the novel by Anthony Burgess, who
  was directly influenced by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The Wake turns
  the eye into an ear via Finneganese (language about language):
  "Television kills telephony in Brothers' broil. Our eyes demand their
  turn. Let them be seen." and "what can't be coded can be decoded if an
  ear aye seize what no eye ere grieved fore." Experience the RIA "live
  cinema" immersion into post-hypnotic hyper-maximum stimulation
  triggering McLuhan's Menippean satirized Gesamtkunstwerk. Peter
  Greenaway presaged the complex clairvoyance of Erokan's birth on
  September 30, 1983 by declaring "Cinema's death date was 31 September
  1983, when the remote-control zapper was introduced to the living room,
  because now cinema has to be interactive, multi-media art." The
  retrocausality of this non-existent date renders an
  effects-precede-causes half-truth. "A half truth is still alot of a
  truth" – McLuhan. Explore & re-explore the sensory simultaneity of
  integral awareness (IA being the flip of AI - artificial intelligence)
  in passing through the vanishing point when seeing oneself both as
  oneself and as the other. It may be the death and rebirth of agraRIAn,
  AlgeRIA, antiquaRIAn, appropRIAtion, AquaRIAn, barbaRIAn, & AbdeRIAn
  laughter, which comes from rustic simpletons who would laugh at anything
  or anyone they did not understand. RIA is a drowned river valley that
  remains open to the sea. This evokes the Wake and Frank Zappa's "The
  ocean is the ultimate solution." "But that the white eye-lid of the
  screen reflect its proper light, the Universe would go up in flames" -
  Luis Bunuel.

4/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STOM SOGO PROGRAM 3
  This program contains a healthy sampling from Sogo's massive 9-reel,
  nearly 300 minute cycle of Super-8 diary films, which he titled I
  HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET. Dated 1995 but likely spanning a few years,
  this series contains footage shot while still a student at SVA, images
  captured on the streets, and at home featuring friends and strangers in
  the flow of life. Sogo rarely screened his intricately detailed,
  exquisitely photographed diaries in public, but when he did they left a
  lasting impression on all those who saw them. Dizzying in their
  breakneck speed, these works demonstrate Sogo's incredible eye and
  preternatural ability to compose in-camera. Total running time: ca. 80
  min.

4/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STOM SOGO PROGRAM 4
  PERIODICAL EFFECT (2001, 9.5 min, video) SPACE CAT (1999, 20 min,
  Super-8mm) PROBLEM IS YOU (2002, 27 min, Super-8mm) JERK (2007, 24 min,
  video) Total running time: ca. 85 min.

4/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St

 DOUG HARVEY'S PATAPHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
  Second in our Secret Agents suite, LA Weekly critic Doug Harvey zooms
  in, also with a book-launch-in fact, a party, to celebrate his anthology
  of sublimely ridiculous rants and paranoid analyses. His crackpot-genius
  PITA compendium gleefully crosses conspiracy theory with avant-garde
  literature. Doug's readings address absurd art pranks and
  mistranslation: Averty's Ubu Roi, Turkish Star Wars, Benny Lava's
  mis-subtitled music videos and Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99 ( 16mm
  excerpt). PLUS an inquiry into the "Rock Books" of uber-fabulist Richard
  Shaver, detailing the Alphabet of the Ancients. Free beer. $6.66

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
1:00pm, 350 King Street West

 BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
  Dyketactics. This programme of short films focuses on a period when
  Barbara Hammer, residing in the Bay Area and newly out, began to explore
  her new identities as both lesbian and filmmaker. 

4/6
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
7:00pm, 350 King Street West

 BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
  Nitrate Kisses w/ Schizy. Barbara Hammer's first feature-length film is
  a taboo-busting provocation, a politically charged polemic and a
  rapturous visual ode to the sensual pleasures of love and intimacy. 

---------------------
SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013
---------------------

4/7
Austin, TX: Austin Film Society
http://www.austinfilm.org/
5pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St)

 THE WAR: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING
  Russian art group Voina and outspoken punk band Pussy Riot are some of
  the activists documented in this film, which surveys some of the biggest
  activism happenings staged against the autocratic powers that be.
  Presented digitally. 

4/7
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 LEIGHTON PIERCE: FAMILIAL TIME DEFAMILIARIZED
  Filmmaker Leighton Pierce in person! Filmforum is delighted to host
  artist Leighton Pierce, here from New York, for the first of two
  different screenings in Los Angeles. Pierce is one of the leading
  practitioners of experimental film and video in the United States today,
  and hasn't screened in Los Angeles in a number of years. He is
  presenting a range of his work. Freed from the constraints of
  traditional narrative, it is that process of creating an image in the
  mind of the viewer--the psychological filling-in of the imagined space,
  not the actual photograph of a space--that Pierce engages. Through the
  use of rich cascading imagery against the counterpoint of the
  soundtrack, Pierce disintegrates the film plane, allowing viewers to
  embody the perceptions of the video solidly within themselves. This
  video encourages a different kind of viewing and listening—one in which
  listening and looking inward matters as much as looking outward.
  Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
  Available by in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at
  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358056 or at the door. Screening:
  Thursday (1990, 16mm, 4.5 min), Glass (1998, 16mm, 7 min), Wood (1980,
  SD video, 8 min), The Back Steps (1981, SD video, 5 min), Water Seeking
  its Level (2002, SD video, 4 min), Evaporation (2002, SD video, 11 min),
  Viscera (2004-5, SD video, 11 min), Sitting (2010, HD video, 4 min),
  Orphan on Halloween (2012, HD video, 2012, 3 min), River Trees (2011,
  video, silent, 3 min), Retrograde Premonition, (2010, video, 5 min),
  Works in Progress (~7 min)

4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VALENTIN/VIGO PROGRAM
  Karl Valentin CONFIRMATION DAY / DER FIRMLING 1934, 23 min, 35mm, b&w.
  In German with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A father and
  son, celebrating the son's confirmation, go to a fancy restaurant and
  drink all day. They want to order Emmentaler cheese, but can only find
  Affentaler wine on the menu. How did the Affentaler, which they think is
  cheese, get into the bottle? They keep on drinking away, attracting
  attention and causing more and more confusion. "Valentin plays a drunken
  father treating his giggly young son to lunch, and the inspired muddle
  he creates out of a table, two chairs, an umbrella, and a watch chain
  rivals some of Laurel and Hardy's best moments." –J.R. Jones, CHICAGO
  READER & Jean Vigo ZERO FOR CONDUCT / ZÉRO DE CONDUITE 1935, 44 min,
  35mm, b&w. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available. An
  eloquent parable of freedom versus authority, Vigo's film is set at a
  boys' boarding school and undoubtedly echoes Vigo's own unhappy
  experiences as a child. Under the pressure of various civic groups the
  film was removed from screens several months after its release in 1933.
  It was branded "anti-French" by censors and was not shown again in Paris
  until 1945. Total running time: ca. 70 min.

4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STOM SOGO PROGRAM 5
  MONKEY 2 (1996, 20 min, Super-8mm) REPEAT (2006, 9.5 min, video) C FOR
  CIAS (2008, 11 min, video) TRI (2004, 9 min, video) I SMELL YOU (2000,
  10 min, Super-8mm) And other works… Total running time: ca. 75 min.

4/7
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue

 STOM SOGO PROGRAM 6
  PASSPORT REVIEW (2004, 21 min, video) SYNC-UP ELEMENT (2007, 23 min,
  video) LOUISE GILMORE AND FUTURE (2008, 13 min, video) And other works…
  Total running time: ca. 75 min.

4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
4:30pm, 350 King Street West

 BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
  Resisting Death. "Freedom is riding my horse on a trail exploring the
  unknown or seeing with the eyes that rebirth from cancer has given me,
  as the world becomes new again." — Barbara Hammer 

4/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
http://tiff.net
7:15pm, 350 King Street West

 BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER
  Generations. This programme highlights Barbara Hammer's influence on a
  younger generation of queer filmmakers, as well as paying tribute to one
  of her own primary influences, the legendary Maya Deren. 

Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form
at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl

The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker:
http://www.hi-beam.net