[Frameworks] This week [May 18 - 26, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* KüçüK Sinemalar! Experimental Cinema From Turkey [May 18, Austin, TX]
* Axwff Salutes Mm Serra &Amp; the Ny Filmmakers Co-Op [May 18, Filmmakers Co-op]
* The Dream Machine: A Living Room Screening With Phil Solomon! [May 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Up To the Border—A Personal view About the Berlin Wall [May 18, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimental Films of Coleman Miller [May 18, Minneapolis, MN]
* Small Lies &Amp; Big Truths -- Shelly Silver At Anthology Film Archives [May 18, New York, NY]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program [May 18, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Shelly Silver Program 2 [May 18, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Shelly Silver Program 3 [May 18, New York, New York]
* Bill Brown's Book Launch and Retrospective [May 18, San Francisco, California]
* Michael Klier's Der Riese [The Giant] [May 19, Chicago, IL]
* Simply Because You're Near Me: Films By Phil Solomon [May 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 2 [May 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Dog Star Man [May 19, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Songs 1-14 [May 19, New York, New York]
* The Elegiac visions of Phil Solomon [May 20, Los Angeles, California]
* Dash Shaw + Bobby's Girl [May 21, Brooklyn, NY]
* Two Films By Charles Dekeukeleire [May 23, Brooklyn, NY]
* King Lavra: A Micro-Opera With Live video By Sheri Wills [May 23, Brooklyn, New York]
* Pxl This 22 [May 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Walter Ungerer/ Recent Short Films [May 23, Portland]
* Ken Jacobs Program 1 [May 24, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 2 [May 24, New York, New York]
* Animator/Filmmaker Emily Hubley In-Person [May 25, Harrisburg, PA]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 3 [May 25, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Text of Light [May 25, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 3 [May 25, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 4 [May 25, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works [May 25, San Francisco, California]
* Videoex Festival / Chris Marker: Short Films & La JetéE [May 25, Zurich]
* Videoex Festival / the Short Films By David Lynch [May 25, Zurich]
* Essential Cinema: Brakhage Pittsburgh Trilogy [May 26, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 5 [May 26, New York, New York]
* Ken Jacobs Program 6 [May 26, New York, New York]
* Videoex Festival / "Ici Et Ailleurs" By Jean-Luc Godard [May 26, Zurich]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013
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5/18
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7pm, AMOA-Arthouse, 701 Congress Ave.
KüçüK SINEMALAR! EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA FROM TURKEY
Experimental Response Cinema and AMOA-ArtHouse are proud to present this
screening featuring a number of vital and contemporary works from
Turkey! Hot off the heels from a showing at Albuquerque's Experiments in
Cinema, this program is programmed by ERC's Ekrem Serdar, who will
present the screening. Republic Day by Can Eskinazi 4.25min / digital /
sound / 2010 A Preface to Red by Jonathan Schwartz 6min / 16mm / sound /
2010 A single recording, recorded in a tunnel that one passes through
after exiting a boat taking you from one continent to another, where
people are selling bright colored toys and bright white sneakers. for
the brief variations in the movement on the periphery—Jonathan Schwartz
océanéant by Yoel Meranda 2.25min / digital / silent / 2009 "Yoel
Meranda indulges a fascination with color in his extraordinary
abstraction océanéant : fields of translucent reds gather upon
themselves until they seem to congeal into something with mass, weight,
and texture." – Fred Camper Peeling by Eytan İpeker 6min / digital
/ silent / 2011 Neyse Halin… by Mustafa Uzuner 5.43min / digital / sound
/ 2007 diagonal by Yoel Meranda 0.56min / digital / silent / 2009 Moscow
Diaries, Part 2 – Statues by Can Eskinazi 2.46min / digital / sound /
2011 A mystery thriller featuring a rather unusual Russian cabdriver.
Oğlun Burada (Your Son is Here) by Deniz Tortum 3.26min / digital /
sound / 2012 My parents' wedding anniversary in Istanbul seen through my
room in Brooklyn. Material Ghost by Mustafa Uzuner 2.31min / digital /
silent / 2010 Shot on an old SONY HDV camera usıng a macro lens
converter. Highway Screening by Yoel Meranda 2.07min / digital / silent
/ 2010 Silent video shot in İzmir while travelling from Urla to
downtown (and back, at night) by car. Thanks goes to Can and the
Eskinazi family for the wonderful hospitality. Do not watch this if you
have photosensitive epilepsy. Siamese by Eytan İpeker 4.37min /
digital / silent / 2011 A video that winks back at its audience – Eytan
Ipeker Bu Sahilde (On this Coast) by Zeynep Dadak & Merve Kayan 21.47min
/ 16mm / sound / 2010 Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) is a short essay film on
the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a small coastal
town on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of
vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, the fantastical
counterpart to winter.
5/18
Filmmakers Co-op: Filmmakers Co-op
7pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floo
AXWFF SALUTES MM SERRA & THE NY FILMMAKERS CO-OP
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, Salutes MM Serra & the NY
Filmmakers Co-OP, Curated by Lili White - Screenings at the Film-Makers'
Cooperative's, Charles S. Cohen Educational Screening Room - Wednesday
May 1st, 2013 at 7:00pm - Admission $10 - Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475
Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016, Ph. 212-267-5665 - -
PROGRAM NOTES - TRT: 78 minutes - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON\; Maya Deren -
- The HOUSE of the GENTLE (excerpt)\; Lili White - - MILK AND GLASS\;
Sarah Pucill - - BITCH BEAUTY\; MM Serra - - MISSING GREEN\; Joey
Huertas aka Jane Public - #1\; Rie Sakaguchi-Nakaoka - - TIDES\; Amy
Greenfield\; Camera: Hilary Harris - - FIREFLY\; Dariya Yalova\;
Featuring Olga Alimanovic - - http://axwff.com,
http://film-makerscoop.com/
5/18
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
8:00 pm, Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street (at Hoover), Los Angeles CA 90007
THE DREAM MACHINE: A LIVING ROOM SCREENING WITH PHIL SOLOMON!
Phil Solomon relocates his dream machine to the marvelous Velaslavasay
Panorama for the sort of informal living room screening that we all
dream of. It's a night for rare super8mm films, even two that were never
released, and a few joyful larks. Plus the Panorama's garden welcomes
everyone for the post-show conviviality. Including Nocturne 3 (The Dream
Machine) (1976, super-8, silent, 8 minutes), Nocturne 4 (1980, color,
super-8, 10 minutes), The Passage of the Bride (1978, 16mm silent, 6
min.), As If We (1980, color, silent, 16mm, 15 minutes) Los Angeles
Premiere!, Remains to be Seen (1989, Super-8mm, 17 min), The Exquisite
Hour (1989, Super 8mm, 14 min.), and more!
5/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
UP TO THE BORDER—A PERSONAL VIEW ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL
Sunday, August 13th 1961, the government of the German Democratic
Republic lays the foundation stone for the "ugliest monument in the
world". A whole city is in a state of shock. At first the "atrocious
century-construction" is watched in disbelief. Then people start pulling
their 8mm-cameras out of their cupboards to capture the images of the
events. On the basis of these extraordinary, widely unknown recordings
and found footage, Claus Oppermann und Gerald Grote's first feature film
tells many impressive but forgotten stories about the rise of the Berlin
Wall in 1961 to its fall in 1989, about the division of Germany and a
bloody borderline through the middle of Europe. Claus Oppermann works as
a camera operator, author, director and editor for cinema, TV, and
advertising productions. Gerald Grote is primarily active as a graphic
designer. He worked as a talk show host before becoming the
editor-in-chief of a regional magazine, and is also active as an author
and filmmaker. Bis an DIE GRENZE—der private Blick auf die Mauer, dir.
Claus Oppermann and Gerald Grote, 95 minutes, Blu-ray, 2012. Presented
by Villa Aurora.
5/18
Minneapolis, MN: Casket Cinema
7pm, 681 17th Ave. NE
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF COLEMAN MILLER
Dear Friends of Casket Cinema, - Casket Cinema wraps up its 5th season
with an Art-A-Whirl showcase of the Experimental Films of Coleman Miller
on Saturday May 18th at 7pm. Miller is a film and video artist who works
in the experimental genre. His work dynamically celebrates the
self-referential by displaying sprocket holes, frame lines and aesthetic
debris. His characters break down the 4th wall and recognizing they are,
indeed, in a film. Miller worked for many years as a film printer at San
Francisco's Monaco Lab where he conjured and refined numerous and
resourceful printing techniques on the various continuous contact
printers there. His work has shown at Rotterdam, Sundance, Ann Arbor,
Edinburgh, Mill Valley, OtherCinema and many other venues. He has been
awarded the Jerome, McKnight and Film Arts Foundation grants. - We will
be playing: - Fixated Whereabouts 1983 16mm ~6 min, Kirk We Hardly Knew
Ya 1996 16mm ~ 14 min, Step Off a Ten Foot Platform With Your Clothes On
1990 16mm ~6 min, Sideways 1993 16mm ~ 3 min - Heaven 2006 digital ~4
min, New York Minute 2011 digital 4 min, Frank & Paula 2010 digital
~4 min, Take the L 2009 digital ~ 3 min, Uso Justo 2005 digital 22 min -
Running time is around 1 hour. - This is a special Saturday evening
show. The director will be present. Films will be playing on video and
16mm. Donation is $10. - Special guests will be the filmmaker, Coleman
Miller and will be joined with Casket Cinema co-founder/host Mark
Wojahn.
5/18
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6pm, 32 Second Avenue (@2nd Street)
SMALL LIES & BIG TRUTHS -- SHELLY SILVER AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
SATURDAY NIGHT PROGRAMS - Saturday May 18 at 6:00 PM, The Houses that
Are Left (1992) & Meet The People (1986) - Saturday May 18 at 8:00
PM, Former East/Former West (1994) -
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40782,
www.shellysilver.com - "Silver has been making films since 1980.
She works with actors and non-actors alike, and has interviewed
extensively on the streets of Berlin, Tokyo, New York\; she has a
writer's ear for the idiosyncrasies of unrehearsed speech, and a
painterly eye for real-world color. Monologue, voiceover, and onscreen
text interweave in her collaged narratives, and the oneiric precision of
her editing allows the long take to shatter into split screens, to fold
in time to repeat itself from other angles, or to speed into jump cuts,
almost without the audience being aware that anything radical has
occurred. This visual and verbal fluidity, in which points of view shift
constantly into each other—so that no lulling cinematic suture
ever captures us, but no traumatic rupture shocks us
either—correlates to Silver's vision of what it means to be a
person in a city in the late twentieth century and the early
twenty-first. For Silver, living in the existential apartment-house with
fellow citizens means looking out the window, scoping on the street,
eavesdropping, quoting, meeting strangers and having awkward, excited,
unexpectedly candid talks. To look, and to let oneself be seen, is to
feel the Other present everywhere, becoming and failing to become the
self, and it is not a nightmare. It's a pleasure -- and like all
pleasures tinged with ambiguity, with risk." From In the
Neighboring Rooms, Frances Richard
5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM
DESISTFILM (1954, 7 min, 16mm, sound) REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12
min, 16mm, sound) THE WONDER RING (1955, 4 min, 16mm) FLESH OF MORNING
(1956, 25 min, 16mm) DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE (1957, 8 min, 16mm) WINDOW
WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 min, 16mm) Films made during the early,
"psychodramatic" period of one of modern cinema's greatest innovators,
including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time:
ca. 75 minutes.
5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: SHELLY SILVER PROGRAM 2
The Houses that are Left 1991, 52 min, digital video A story of
mortality, friendship, revenge, murder, and the supernatural, as two
friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being
besieged by malignant messages from the dead. Truth and fiction are
blurred as the dead communicate with the living and real people are
interviewed by fictional characters. "Structured as a sort of
post-modern mystery story (that encompasses everything from murder to
market research, from sexuality to the supernatural), 'The Houses that
are Left' constructs a shifting narrative framework in which not only
its characters but also the viewer is constantly having to sift out what
is fiction from what is truth…to finally arrive at its powerful and
perceptive dissection of modern America: anxious, narcissistic, consumed
by media images." –Steven Bode, LONDON FILM FESTIVAL Meet the People
1986, 15 min, digital video "The fictions of the self overtly concern
Silver in her tour-de-force 'Meet The People'. In video verite style,
she swiftly intercuts what appear to be her interviews of 14 individuals
representing contemporary New York types: a cabby, a waitress, a
housewife, a stripper, an Italian construction worker, a black army
officer. At the end the credits reveal that all 14 are actors and all
were apparently reading Silver's script…. Silver wittily questions the
very idea of the authentic – ultimately she implies, 'personal truth' is
a momentary and collaborative invention, a triborough bridge between
actor, author-director, and audience – on TV and on the street." –Anne
Hoy, Curator, INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
5/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: SHELLY SILVER PROGRAM 3
PROGRAM 3 FORMER EAST/FORMER WEST 1994, 62 min, digital video Made up of
hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the
Reunification, this is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times
disturbing documentary about what it meant to be German at that
particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this
divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology
and everyday experience. Silver questions the very notion of a shared
language, focusing on changing definitions of words for political and
economic systems – democracy, freedom, capitalism, socialism – as well
as words used to describe nations and identity – nationality, Germany,
history, foreigners, home.
5/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
BILL BROWN’S BOOK LAUNCH AND RETROSPECTIVE
Mr. Brown delights us with his personal appearance, in from North
Carolina with a charming "how-to" volume, Action!. The artist-author
reads from this self-illustrated guide to film- and video-making, and
also from the latest issue of his beloved travel 'zine, Dream Whip. Bill
then introduces an inspiring mid-career overview of his personal
documentaries, headlined by the West Coast premiere of Memorial Land, a
careful consideration of architectural sites honoring the 9/11 dead.
ALSO: Chicago Corner, Confederation Park, Mountain State, and Bill's
recent Document, a laser-printer-to-16mm rendering of a redacted CIA
text. Q&A, toast and jam, and books available!
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SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013
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5/19
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:30, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
MICHAEL KLIER'S DER RIESE [THE GIANT]
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present - Michael Klier's DER
RIESE [THE GIANT] - A Prescient 1983 German Film Essay on Surveillance -
Sunday, May 19 – 7:30pm, At the Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee
Ave.) - - Der Riese [The Giant] - Michael Klier (1983, 82 min, Video on
DVD, West Germany) - "Comprised entirely of material generated by
surveillance cameras, Der Riese is a rhapsodic but ominous work
depicting the world with a cold mechanical spirit. That nothing can
escape the chill stare of surveillance is only the starting point of
Klier's tape. People come and go in public places-parks, department
stores, banks, airports-like lifeless ciphers, unaware of the
authoritarian stare of the camera. The flattened field of vision,
black-and-white imagery, and sterile quality of the technology make the
inhabitants of Der Riese emptied shadows. They are the signs of life\;
truly signs, not the flesh rendered in two dimensions. Lyrically
constructed sequences unfold to the strains of Mahler and Wagner, adding
an almost heroic mood to much of this dark work. But this is where Der
Riese excels-footage seemingly impervious to meaning here acquires the
energy of high drama. Even the unblinking eye of the surveillance camera
can be foiled." (Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive)
5/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028
SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE NEAR ME: FILMS BY PHIL SOLOMON
In our second night with Phil Solomon in person, Solomon brings an array
of 16mm classics from throughout his career, and presents the world
premiere of a new work! Nocturne (1980/89, 16mm, 10 min.), The Secret
Garden (1988, 16mm, 23 min.), Seasons... by Phil Solomon and Stan
Brakhage (2002, 16mm, 15 minutes), The Snowman (1995, 16mm, 8 min.),
Psalm II: "Walking Distance" (1999, 23 min.), and Simply Because You're
Near Me (2013, color, sound, HD video, 12 minutes) World Premiere!
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/375330 or at the door.
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 2
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT
(1958, 40 min, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 min, 16mm) SIRIUS REMEMBERED
(1959, 12 min, 16mm) THE DEAD (1960, 11 min, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4
min, 16mm) BLUE MOSES (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With ANTICIPATION
OF THE NIGHT, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye
vision" period. This program also contains a unique example of a film
made without a camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and
'acted') films, BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 90 min.
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DOG STAR MAN
by Stan Brakhage 1961-64, 74 min, 16mm A masterwork in which all of
Brakhage's techniques achieve a complex synthesis to produce one of
cinema's supreme epic poems. "The film breathes and is an organic and
surging thing… it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in
every variation of color." –Michael McClure, ARTFORUM
5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SONGS 1-14
by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 16mm "SONG 1: Portrait of a lady.
SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4: Three
girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth song. SONG
6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco. SONG 8: Sea
creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10: Sitting
around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches.
SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG 13: A travel
song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals."
–S.B.
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MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013
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5/20
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
THE ELEGIAC VISIONS OF PHIL SOLOMON
Since 1975, Phil Solomon has been making films that magically penetrate
the surface of images and reveal depths of new poetic meaning. Solomon's
16mm films imbue prerecorded imagery with fantastical sensual and
dimensional qualities. His recent work extends these concerns into the
digital realm, creating haunting landscapes that reawaken the mysteries
of life and death, and of physical reality and alternative states.
Solomon presents two masterful films, What's Out Tonight is Lost (1983)
and Psalm I: "The Lateness of the Hour" (1999), and four digital works,
Innocence and Despair (2002), his tribute to 9/11, and In Memoriam
(2005–09), a trilogy in memory of filmmaker Mark LaPore that mystically
transforms backgrounds from the video game series Grand Theft Auto. |
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5]
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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
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5/21
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street
DASH SHAW + BOBBY'S GIRL
"A former student of the genius artist-seer-cartoonist Gary Panter,
Dash, it's fair to say, is something of a genius as well." - Chris Ware
- "I have seen the future of comics and its name is Dash Shaw." - David
Mazzucchelli - With books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and
his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible
for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made
today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and
off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and
strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga.
Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun
to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes
music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th
Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada
doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He's also crafted
cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game
shows and reality tv that marry their source materials' original audio
tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny
effect—Wheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so
strange. Tonight, he'll present a selection of his experiments with
moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film
chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his
particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby's Girl, an 80s anime
rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive. -
Followed by a conversation with Shaw. - Tickets - $7, available at door.
- Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office
opens at 7pm.
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THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013
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5/23
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street
TWO FILMS BY CHARLES DEKEUKELEIRE
Impatience, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1928, 27 mins, Histoire de
détective, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1929, 37 mins - An
unjustly overlooked figure of the European avant-garde, Belgian
filmmaker Charles Dekeukeleire made only four experimental works in the
1920s. Two of them—Impatience and Histoire de
détective—are nothing less than hidden masterpieces of the
era, though they reportedly baffled audiences in their own day. In this
pair of films, Dekeukeleire proposes an enigmatic disassembling of
silent cinema's constitutive logics, presaging the concerns of
structural film by many decades and dramatically upending conventions of
narrative form. - Impatience is built around what Dekeukeleire called
the four "characters" of the film, introduced in a title card as The
Mountain, The Motorcycle, The Woman, and Abstract Blocks. Each element
appears in a succession of discrete, repeated shots, their relationship
suggested exclusively via montage, yet never granting the viewer the
climactic payoff of fiction they at first appear to promise. The
evocation of speed and a vertiginous cinematography seem in tune with
the loopier elements of the 20s avant-garde, but ultimately Impatience
feels less allied to contemporaneous experiments such as Ballet
mécanique and more like a forgotten ancestor to the
internal-combustion erotics of Kustom Kar Kommandos. - If Impatience
suggests a foray into pure cinema by stressing the primacy of
phenomenological experience, Histoire de détective overturns this
very project through its deployment of a film-within-a-film that
constitutes a failure of optical investigation. The story concerns Mme.
Jonathan, who hires T, a detective, to trail her neurasthenic husband
around Belgium and Luxembourg. T uses a motion-picture camera to follow
M. Jonathan, and most of Histoire is taken up with T's shaky,
idiosyncratic footage of street scenes and local architecture. Providing
few clues of their own, T's digressive shots are interrupted by
elaborately designed intertitles that bear almost all of the narrative
information of the film. This distended structure plays with the tropes
of the crime serial, but almost sadistically denies the viewer any of
the genre's expected visual pleasures in favor of less obvious effects.
"My greatest concern," Dekeukeleire once noted, "is to make the camera's
lens live like the eye, like a glance...conditioned by the inner life."
- Impatience and Histoire de détective will be screened on
unsubtitled 16mm prints courtesy of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.
For tonight's event, the intertitles will be translated live by Luc
Sante. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
5/23
Brooklyn, New York: Roulette
http://roulette.org/events/sheri-willis-wkhorikos-king-lavra/
8:00PM, 509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves) DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
KING LAVRA: A MICRO-OPERA WITH LIVE VIDEO BY SHERI WILLS
King Lavra is a micro-opera by Czech composer, Jan Jirásek, with live
video by Sheri Wills, and performed by KHORIKOS. Based on an old folk
tale, King Lavra is a very contemporary re-telling of secrets concealed
and revealed: a psychological story of an individual hiding a silent
shame and a political one of the people's need to know the true nature
of their leaders.
5/23
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
PXL THIS 22
PXL THIS 22, the 22nd annual toy camera film festival featuring
Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder and the
second oldest film festival in LA, celebrates visionary moving image
artists from 4-years-olds to professionals. All genres are here:
avant-garde, comedy, documentary, abstract, music, art, narrative &
films words cannot describe. "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J.
Hoberman. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is
the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly. Director Gerry Fialka will
be present for discussion!
5/23
Portland: St. Lawrence Arts Center
7:00 PM, 76 Congress Street
WALTER UNGERER/ RECENT SHORT FILMS
Please note: This is the re-scheduling of a previous engagement from
April 23 to May 23 On Thursday, May 23rd, St. Lawrence Arts will present
a program of his recent short films including GREEN EYE (Atlanta Film
Festival) and MONARDA (Strand Theater and Farnsworth Museum
collaboration). There will be a Q & A at the conclusion of the program.
Walter Ungerer is a longtime filmmaker and artist of international
reputation, beginning with the underground film scene in NYC in the
early 1960s, continuing through to the 21st century in Maine. Ungerer's
works have been shown at festivals and competitions throughout the world
including Florence, Tours, Athens, Hong Kong, Houston, Tate, UK and
MoMA, NY. Two of Ungerer's films with recent success on the
international festival circuit are PARVA SED APTA MIHI (Factory Art,
Berlin, Germany Alchemy Festival, Scotland; Experimental Film Festival,
Oregon) and GREEN EYE (Atlanta Film Festival) Ungerer uses the short
form, another term for short film. His method of working can be
described as layering or building visual sequences one on top of the
next. For years he was noted for using the long form (films over 75
minutes) shooting narrative films with concern for static shots devoid
of any camera movement but with careful concern for composition,
suggesting a painterly quality. This is no surprise since Ungerer
studied fine and graphic arts at Pratt Institute in the 1950s. His
willingness to begin to embrace the computer in the 1990s is a change
thought by some to be brought about by the escalating costs of producing
a film. To focus on the visual qualities of Ungerer's films without
mentioning the ethereal, meditative tones they eschew, is to miss the
most important part of his work, the ability to take the viewer to
another realm, a surreal atmosphere where, as Hannah Piper Burns,
co-director of the Experimental Film Festival, Oregon describes it,
"…the film deals with life, freedom, and transcendence of limitations".
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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013
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5/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 1
ORCHARD STREET (1955, 12 min, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Preserved by The
Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film
Preservation.) ARTIE AND MARTY ROSENBLATT'S BABY PICTURES (1963, 4 min,
8mm, sound on tape) AIRSHAFT (1967, 4 min, 16mm) JERRY TAKES A BACK
SEAT, THEN PASSES OUT OF THE PICTURE (1975, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up)
THE WINTER FOOTAGE (1964, 50 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up) Total running
time: ca. 90 min.
5/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 2
THE WHIRLED (1956-63 [compiled in early 1990s], 19 min, 16mm. Preserved
by Anthology Film Archives.) BAUD'LARIAN CAPERS (A MUSICAL WITH NAZIS
AND JEWS) (1963, 25 min, 16mm) BOB FLEISCHNER DYING (2009, 3 min,
digital video) HOT DOGS AT THE MET (2009, 10 min, digital video) LISA
AND JOEY IN CONNECTICUT, JANUARY '65: "YOU'VE COME BACK!" "YOU'RE STILL
HERE!" (1965, 18 min, 8mm-to-16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min.
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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013
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5/25
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
2:00pm, 612 N Front St.,
ANIMATOR/FILMMAKER EMILY HUBLEY IN-PERSON
part of THE 15th Annual ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL: EMILY HUBLEY
(animator/filmmaker) IN-PERSON - ANIMATOR for the film "HEDWIG AND
THE ANGRY INCH" and videos for Yo La Tengo, The Db's and more! -
Ms. Hubley has been making animated shorts since 1980. Her hand-drawn
films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her
newest short, and/or extends this to the perspective of a male artist,
who debates his inner/outer muse. and/or screened at the San Francisco
International Film Festival, animation festivals in Poland and Hiroshima
and this year's Black Maria Film Festival. EMILY will present TWO
PROGRAMS mixing her films with those of her parents, animators John and
Faith Hubley. - Oscar Nominated Short by John and Faith Hubley,
http://youtu.be/cit6iUEEdyo - 2PM - Program 1 "ALL AGES AFTERNOON" 88
minutes. - With 3 films by Faith Hubley, 3 films by Emily Hubley, and 4
films by John and Faith Hubley. - Adventures of an *(John and Faith
1956) 10m - Hello(Faith 1984) 9.5m - Moonbird(John & Faith 1959) 10m
- Time of the Angels(Faith 1987) 10m - Cockaboody(John & Faith 1973)
8.5m - The Tower(Georgia & Emily 1984) 11.5m - Urbanissimo(John
& Faith 1967) 6m - Enough(Emily 1992) 4.5m - Tall Time Tales(Faith
1992) 8m - One Self: Fish/Girl(Emily 1997) 10m - and - 4PM, Program 2
"PRE-EVENING ADULT FRIENDLY" 89 minutes. - With 2 films by Faith Hubley,
4 films by Emily Hubley, and 4 films by John and Faith Hubley. - Date w
Dizzy(John & Faith 1960) 10m - The Hole(John & Faith 1962) 15m -
Pigeon Within(Emily 2000) 4.5m - Eggs(John & Faith 1970) 6m - Her
Grandmother's Gift(Emily 1995) 6m - Witch Madness(Faith 1999) 8.5 -
Zuckerkandl(John & Faith 1969) 15m - Set Set Spike(Emily 2003) 6m -
Tender Game(John & Faith 1958) 6m - Northern Ice Golden Sun(Faith
2001) 6.5 - and/or (Emily 2012) 5.5m - at the Civic Club of Harrisburg.
- FREE
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 3
All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 min, 16mm) PASHT (1965, 5 min,
16mm) FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) THE HORSEMAN, THE
WOMAN AND THE MOTH (1968, 19 min, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29
min, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 min, 16mm) SEXUAL
MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 min, 16mm, b&w) THE SHORES OF
PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 min, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's
most densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 95 min.
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 min, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force exploration
of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light." –Dun Scotus
Erigena
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 3
THE DOCTOR'S DREAM (1978, 23 min, 16mm) PERFECT FILM (1985, 22 min,
16mm) WHAT HAPPENED ON 23RD STREET IN 1901 (2009, 14 min, digital video)
THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY (2006, 11 min, digital video) Total running
time: ca. 75 min.
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 4
GLOBE (1969, 22 min, 16mm, Pulfrich 3D) INSISTENT CLAMOR (2005, 22 min,
digital video) BRAIN OPERATIONS (2009, 22 min, digital video) MAKE LIGHT
ON FILM (1995, 15 min, 16mm, Pulfrich 3D) Total running time: ca. 85
min.
5/25
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinema that champions personal
expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most exploratory
programming initiative—and with many of the makers in person—are Salise
Hughes' Charade, Kelly Sears' The Rancher, Brook Hinton's Slow Force
Glimpse, Pablo Marin's Denkbuilder, Heidi Phillips' Art Composition,
David Cox' Do Others, and Daniel Corona's Bedroom. PLUS recent pieces by
Anne McGuire, Jeanne Finley, Linda Scobie, Bryan Boyce, Doug Katelus,
and a new movie by Miles Votek, Zander Mackie, and Ben Fash. Lana
Voronina delivers the deathblow with her New World Order Rave Mom
performance. Come early for artists' reception, free pencils, and the
Dream Machine!
5/25
Zurich: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
20:15, Kanonengasse 20
VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / CHRIS MARKER: SHORT FILMS & LA JETéE
The 1962 French science fiction featurette "La Jetée" is considered as
one of the masterpieces of Chris Marker's experimental practice.
Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a
post-nuclear war experiment in time travel which has inspired a long
list of filmmakers during the last decades. For the opening night of the
Videoex Festival a sequence of short films by Chris Marker - including
"La Jetée" - will be projected in the space of the Cinema Z3.
5/25
Zurich: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
22:00, Kanonengasse 20
VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / THE SHORT FILMS BY DAVID LYNCH
Filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, visual artist, musician and actor,
David Lynch is worldwide known expecially for his surrealist films,
which are developed in a unique cinematic style, characterized by its
dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The end of the first day of
the Videoex Festival is dedicated to the projection in series of
selected short films by the American multifaceted director.
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SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2013
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5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY
EYES 1970, 36 min, 16mm, silent. "After wishing for years to be
given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations
of our Times – some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average
imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers,
Politicians, etc.: – I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh
police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970."
–S.B. & DEUS EX 1971, 34 min, 16mm, silent. "I have been many times very
ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX
in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by
the memory of one incident in an emergency room of San Francisco's
Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself
together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and
the following lines from Charles Olson's 'Cole's Island' had especially
centered the experience, 'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins
the poem with the statement 'I met Death –' And then: 'He didn't bother
me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in
the circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But
they wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And /
He certainly was, the moment I saw him.'" –S.B. & THE ACT OF SEEING WITH
ONE'S OWN EYES 1971, 32 min, 16mm, silent. "…Brakhage, entering, with
his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the
autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for
it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing
exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for
ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular
intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of
mortality acquires the names and faces of others." –Hollis Frampton
Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 5
AMERICA AT WAR (2011, 30 min, digital video, anaglyph 3D) ANOTHER
OCCUPATION (2011, 15 min, digital video) SEEKING THE MONKEY KING (2011,
40 min, digital video) Total running time: ca. 90 min.
5/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 6
KEATON'S COPS (1991, 23 min, 16mm) HIS FAVORITE WIFE IMPROVED (OR THE
VIRTUE OF BAD RECEPTION) (2008, 2 min, digital video) WE ARE CHARMING
(2007, 1 min, digital video) HANKY PANKY JANUARY 1902 (2007, 1 min,
digital video) NYMPH (2007, 2 min, digital video) ALONE AT LAST (2008, 2
min, digital video) THE DISCOVERY (2008, 5 min, digital video) LOVE
STORY (2008, 3 min, digital video) DISORIENT EXPRESS (1996, 30 min,
35mm) Total running time: 75 min.
5/26
Zurich: Videoex
http://www.videoex.ch/
18:15, Kanonengasse 20
VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / "ICI ET AILLEURS" BY JEAN-LUC GODARD
As a first step of "For ever Godard!", a short survey inside the film
practice of the Swiss-French director Jean-Luc Godard shown during the
Videoex Festival, one of his most controversial films will be projected
in the Cinema Z3. "Ici et ailleurs", produced in 1976 by using footage
from "Jusqu'à la victoire" (a 1970 pro-Palestinian film made by Godard
and Jean-Pierre Gorin), marks the beginning of Godard's transitional
period, which found him experimenting with video and moving from
political polemics to an examination of the way people perceive
themselves and others.
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