[Frameworks] This week [September 21 - 29, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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This week [September 21 - 29, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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experimental Video Course
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"Almost there" by Kim Collmer
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Open City Cinema (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: October 15, 2013)
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MVAS Screening/Exhibition at Kings ARI (Melbourne, Vic. Australia; Deadline: October 15, 2013)
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PCPC Arts Festival (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2013)
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Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: October 23, 2013)
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Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: October 19, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Sight Unseen Presents Sights & Sounds From Enoch Pratt [September 21, Baltimore, MD]
* New Works Salon [September 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Forster's vinyl Resurgence + Muybridge + 16mm Soundies + [September 21, San Francisco, California]
* Echo-Systems: Outdoor Music + Film [September 22, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Saul Levine: Groove To Groove [September 22, Brooklyn, NY]
* Maintenance By Adele Horne, Los Angeles Premiere! [September 22, Los Angeles, California]
* One Night, Standish Lawder [September 23, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* An Evening With Grey Room [September 24, Brooklyn, NY]
* Screening of Dog Star Man By Stan Brakhage [September 24, Lancaster, PA]
* Fiction-Non Presents: Lynne Sachs' Your Day Is My Night [September 25, New York, NY]
* Directors Lounge Screening: Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy [September 26, Berlin, Germany]
* Tomomi Adachi and Takahiko iimura: Films and Performances [September 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Edmonton International Film Festival [September 26, Edmonton, Alberta]
* La Air: Eve Fowler & Mariah Garnett [September 26, Los Angeles, California]
* Konrad Steiner's 'way' Film Premiere [September 26, San Francisco, California]
* Boston Premiere of Unbound A New Film By Abigail Child [September 27, Boston, MA]
* Hearkenings Presents Early Films By D.W. Griffith [September 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Phil Niblock Program 1 [September 28, New York, New York]
* Sam Green's Tree Utopia + Dear Comrade + Jesse Drew + [September 28, San Francisco, California]
* Phil Niblock Program 2 [September 29, New York, New York]
* Phil Niblock Program 3 [September 29, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013
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9/21
Baltimore, MD: Sights & Sounds Department @ Enoch Pratt Free Library
http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/sightsandsounds/
2pm, 400 Cathedral Street (Wheeler Auditorium)
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS SIGHTS & SOUNDS FROM ENOCH PRATT
Sight Unseen presents a selection of experimental standouts from the
Sights & Sounds Department at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The shorts
program promises audiovisual displays of unbridled cinepoems,
contrast-filled fantasies, televised filmloops, violent diptychs,
laboratory graphics, plein air dreamscapes, paranoid studies and
multiplied microcosms. The rapid-fire as well as resonant sequences
highlight the rich and radical extent of this Baltimore-based analog
archive both chronologically and content-wise. A special thanks goes to
Tom Warner at Sights & Sounds for setting this screening at Enoch Pratt.
FEATURING: Dream of the Wild Horses by Denys Colomb de Daunant, 1960,
Angel by Derek May, 1966, Off-On by Scott Bartlett, 1967, Black TV by
Aldo Tambellini, 1968, UFO's by Lillian Schwartz, 1971, Mindscape by
Jacques Drouin, 1976, Mirrored Reason by Stan Vanderbeek, 1979,
Subtitles by Michael Tolson a.k.a. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, 1983.
TRT: 63m. For more information on the films, please visit:
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/.
9/21
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
NEW WORKS SALON
$5 / Ross Lipman will screen two recent works: Curva Peligrosa, part of
his cycle of works on the nature of organic change The Perfect Heart of
Flux, examines La Reparosa, a perilously stunning stretch of road
between Tijuana and Mexacali. Though measures have been taken to
increase safety it remains a major hazard, as attested to by the ruins
of vehicles that lay beneath it. Dr. Bish Remedies, from Lipman's
"personal ethnography" series, is an informal visit with legendary
filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in Washington
State. Michele Jaquis, who will be screening three short videos, is a
socially engaged artist and educator based in Los Angeles, where she is
founding Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Otis College of Art
and Design. Her work has been presented at conferences, film and video
festivals, galleries, museums, and alternative spaces across the U.S.
and in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Combining strategies of
documentary research, social practice and performance art, Michele's
recent videos explore the complexities of language, identity and
communication. And visiting from the Bay Area a special expanded cinema
performance by Beige, the collaborative project of Vanessa O'Neill and
Kent Long. "Working with 16mm projection and live sound, we endeavor to
keep present our physical selves, as we slowly succumb to the screen's
dissociative veil."
9/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
FORSTER’S VINYL RESURGENCE + MUYBRIDGE + 16MM SOUNDIES +
A survey—and celebration!—of Analog Media culture: Ben Wood
re-capitulates Frisco's fabled father of the moving image, Rick
Prelinger annotates Trip Down Market Street in a 60 Minutes clip, and
Will Nold documents the relentlessly cruel theatrical switch to DCP.
ALSO: Russ Forster—with one hand on the turntable and the other on the
overhead projector, and a third(?) on electric guitar—complements that
cinema timeline with his own demented performance on the value of vinyl,
leading to other seminal audio-art-ifacts: Tiny Tim on 8-track tapes, an
Optigan promo, the SF Tape Music Center, Moog and modular synth clips,
Harry Partch, even the Trololoman! Free beer (and typewriters!!) launch
Russ' latest 8-Track Mind issue, while fantastic 16mm Soundies (Spike
Jones, Liberace) toast that lost format. media archeology
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
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9/22
Boston, Massachusetts: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
7:30pm, Norman B. Leventhal Park, Congress Street x Franklin Street
ECHO-SYSTEMS: OUTDOOR MUSIC + FILM
A special treat: outdoor screening and performance in the middle of
Boston's masonic Financial district, courtesy of the caretakers of the
Norman B. Leventhal Park. Acclaimed JP-based filmmaker Robert Todd and
Fort Point-based filmmaker Douglas Urbank will present their most recent
16mm works in collaboration with local experimental musicians, Ernst
Karel and Jorrit Dijkstra. Rain date: September 29.
9/22
Brooklyn, NY: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
5:30pm, The Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave
SAUL LEVINE: GROOVE TO GROOVE
SAUL LEVINE: GROOVE TO GROOVE, MILLENIUM FILM WORKSHOP @ SILENT BARN
9|22|13 - Millennium Film workshop is pleased to present Saul Levine:
Groove to Groove, this Sunday, September 22 at Silent Barn. We've been
showing Saul's work from the beginning, so it's fitting that Sunday's
program takes us from 1968 to the present. - Program: - NEW LEFT NOTE -
(R8/16mm, 27min) Silent - DEPARTURE, 1976-84 © Saul Levine -
(S8, 25min) Sound - GROOVE TO GROOVE, 1978-1982 © Saul
Levine - (S8, 12min) Sound, Featuring Mai Cramer & the Jesse Green
Blues Band - RAPS AND CHANTS Part One, 1981-82 © Saul Levine
- (S8, 12min) Sound - LIGHT LICKS: BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON: - I WANT TO
PAINT IT BLACK, 2011 © Saul Levine - (S8/16mm, 12min)
Silent, WHOLE NOTE 1999-00 © Saul Levine - A FEW TUNES GOING OUT:
BOPPING THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA BLUE 1978-79 © Saul Levine (S8, 7min)
Sound - A FEW TUNES GOING OUT: GROOVE TO GROOVE 1978-1982 © Saul Levine
(S8, 12min) Sound - WWW.SAULLEVINE.COM - Location: The Silent Barn - $8
9/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028
MAINTENANCE BY ADELE HORNE, LOS ANGELES PREMIERE!
Filmmaker Adele Horne returns to Filmforum with the Los Angeles premiere
of her latest film, the superb documentary Maintenance. The winner of
the Grand Prize of the Images Festival in April, Maintenance provides an
intimate reckoning of cleaning house, inviting viewers to meditate on
the ongoing maintenance work that makes other, more highly valued, work
possible. 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/462215 or at the door.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
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9/23
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7PM, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street
ONE NIGHT, STANDISH LAWDER
$12 Special Event Tickets Standish Lawder in Person A truly
multi-dimensional artist, the filmmaker, photographer, inventor,
educator and film historian Standish Lawder (b. 1936) is best known
today for his delightfully intelligent films that playfully straddle the
categories of structuralist cinema and conceptual art. Lawder's long
career in cinema began first as a student of art history at Yale where
his PhD dissertation gave way to a major book on cubist cinema and a
position teaching film history and influencing a generation of film
scholars. Lawder's year as the Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor of Film
at Harvard – the university's first faculty position in cinema studies –
earns him a special place in the history of the Harvard Film Archive and
the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, now in the midst of its 50th
anniversary celebration. Displaying a similar offbeat humor and rigorous
design as the work of Owen Land and Morgan Fisher, Lawder's own films
dramatically expand and challenge the modernist montage principles of
the early cinematic avant garde so close to him, especially the work of
his father-in-law, Hans Richter. In major works such as Necrology and
the all too little known Corridor (a fascinating companion piece to
Ernie Gehr's Serene Velocity of the same year), Lawder creatively bends
the perceptual dimensions of cinema into dizzying new directions,
creating spellbinding, mysterious and quite literally visionary films.
The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome Standish Lawder back to
Harvard for a focused retrospective and enlightened discussion.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
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9/24
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street
AN EVENING WITH GREY ROOM
The reception of Guy Debord's work has long positioned him foremost as a
theorist and political writer, and only secondarily as a filmmaker, but
in a strategic departure, the current issue of Grey Room is devoted to a
re-examination of Debord's cinematic output. To mark the arrival of this
publication, the first book-length collection of its kind, Light
Industry presents a screening of a newly-produced (and completely
unofficial) English-language version of Debord's film Society of the
Spectacle (1973), with a voiceover by Paul Chan. - Debord directed seven
productions between the 1950s and 1990s, ranging from the Lettrist-era
Howls for Sade (1952) to the late television documentary Guy Debord, His
Art and His Times (1995)\; his On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a
Rather Brief Unity of Time (1959) and Critique of Separation (1961) are
the only films made by a member of the Situationist International during
the group's existence. In "Guy Debord, Filmmaker," the introduction to
Grey Room's special issue, Jason E. Smith notes that filmmaking was "the
most consistent activity Debord undertook over the course of his life,"
and that, furthermore, cinema became one of the key—if frequently
overlooked—theoretical concerns of the SI. - "As a writer, Debord,
with the exception of La société du spectacle, has no
oeuvre," Smith writes. "As a filmmaker, however, he has an oeuvre. The
films, consequently, should be placed at the center of his work. They
are not illustrations of his theoretical writings\; they are the putting
into sensible or material form his otherwise abstract theoretical
formulations. An argument can even be made—at some risk and
requiring much justification—that nothing of value in Debord's
theoretical writings does not appear or rather reappear in his films:
they are a form of filtration, selection, and expansion." - The
historical lack of availability of Debord's films has contributed to
this paucity of critical attention. Debord himself pulled them from
distribution in 1984, following the murder of his producer and friend
Gérard Lebovici, and for years they circulated only as
nth-generation VHS bootlegs. More recently, Gaumont issued a DVD box set
in 2005, and in 2009 Lincoln Center hosted the first retrospective of
Debord's films with English-subtitled prints. - Though these
contemporary releases have enabled an unprecedented visibility for the
the work, subtitling presents certain aesthetic problems. Most of his
films are structured around numerous modes of narration: Society of the
Spectacle, for instance, includes voice-over, intertitles, and
French-subtitled clips appropriated from reduction prints of Hollywood
movies and other sources. English subtitling flattens this complexity,
distracting the viewer and overly simplifying Debord's correspondences
between word and image. This particular issue has been addressed by
filmmakers such as Harun Farocki, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and
Straub-Huillet by offering multiple iterations of the same essay film,
narrated in different languages. Inspired by these artists, we look back
to Debord's role as a filmmaker through an experiment in translation. -
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord, digital projection, 87 mins -
Followed by a discussion with Alexander R. Galloway, Jason E. Smith,
McKenzie Wark, and Soyoung Yoon. - Tickets - Pay-what-you-wish ($7
suggested donation), available at door. - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
9/24
Lancaster, PA: Franklin&Marshall College
7:00pm, Franklin&Marshall College
SCREENING OF DOG STAR MAN BY STAN BRAKHAGE
1964 film by Stan Brakhage shown on 16MM film - Original live score
performed by Flamingosis https://soundcloud.com/flamingosis, Sponsored
by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Film - Projection courtesy of
MOVIATE http://www.moviate.org/ - Location: Green Room Theatre (College
Ave) on the campus of F&M College - "I force myself to make
films that the viewer can absorb according to their, own experience, in
the act of seeing, without requiring that it be absorbed by the film
and/or by their lack of experience." -Stan Brakhage (on Film)
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
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9/25
New York, NY: Maysles Cinema
http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html
7:00pm, Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Blvd.
FICTION-NON PRESENTS: LYNNE SACHS' YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT
Wednesday, September 25th-Thursday, September 26th, 7:00pm, Fiction-Non:
Lynne Sachs' Your Day is My Night - (A documentary series exploring
'hybrid films' that cross the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction
traditions.) - Curated by Beyza Boyacioglu - Your Day is My Night, Lynne
Sachs, 2013, 65 min. - This provocative hybrid documentary begins with
the stories of a Chinatown "shift-bed" apartment, as told
through dreams, movement and song. The bed transforms into a stage,
revealing the collective history of the Chinese in the United States
through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical
improvisations. Shot on 16mm, Super 8 and HD video in the kitchens,
bedrooms, wedding halls, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, Your Day is
My Night addresses issues of home and urban life. With each
"performance" of their present, the characters illuminate the joys and
tragedies of their past, as well as the challenges of contemporary life
in New York. - Both evening's screenings will begin with a short live
performance created for Beyza Boyacioglu's "Fiction-Non" series.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
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9/26
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
DIRECTORS LOUNGE SCREENING: ANJA DORNIEDEN & JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY
Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy have dedicated themselves
to avant-garde film and work together for several years, strictly with
16mm and Super-8. At the same time they often address society-related
questions in their films, with phenomenas ranging from the relation
between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, from the nostalgia about
East-German puppet houses, to spatial imaginations connected the term
private sphere. As members of the Labor Berlin, they have created their
own facilities to develop film, but also produce 35mm copies of some of
their films. Working with film for them also means to extend the
possibilities of single film projection towards a layering of
projections, which becomes a performance by itself, in former days also
called Expanded Cinema. °**° °**° Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez
Monroy will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr °**°
Artist Links: http://www.ojoboca.com/ °**° Links: Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net °**° Z-Bar http://www.z-bar.de °**°
Program details (upcoming): http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/ °**°
°**°
9/26
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St.
TOMOMI ADACHI AND TAKAHIKO IIMURA: FILMS AND PERFORMANCES
In a rare joint appearance, filmmaking luminary Takahiko Iimura and
Tokyo-based sound artist Tomomi Adachi present an evening of films and
performances. Since the early 1960s, Iimura has been renowned for his
groundbreaking films and videos, ranging from surreal underground
narratives to elegant explorations of time and perception, many produced
with performance artists and avant-garde composers. Adachi has garnered
similar acclaim for his work with voice, electronics, and self-made
instruments. The two will present four of Iimura's early films, a
selection of Adachi's works, including the Chicago premiere of his
ten-voice Song for Everyone, and a new collaboration for film, voice,
and electronics. Co-presented with the experimental music series Lampo
with support from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Sound
Department. 1962–2013, Japan/USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min +
discussion
9/26
Edmonton, Alberta: The Edmonton International Film Festival
www.edmontonfilmfest.com
11am, Empire Theatres, Edmonton City Centre
THE EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF)shines its spotlight on
the City of Champions and everything Indie film from September 26 -
October 5,2013 at Empire theatres, in Edmonton City Centre. This year's
line-up features more than 150 films from around the world! And, the
Canadian Premiere of the Good Son: The Life of Ray 'Boom, Boom' Mancini
with Director Jesse James Miller and Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini in
attendance. There's also the always popular Lunchbox Shorts, 45 minutes
of international short films and a Subway lunch. It's the perfect way to
spend your afternoon. Or join in the fun and register your team for the
24/ONE Filmmaking Challenge. There's something for everyone! Gala
Premieres, Parties, Visiting Filmmakers, Music and Laughter. If you eat,
drink and breathe Independent film, and want to meet others like you,
the Edmonton International Film Festival is the place to be.
www.edmontonfilmfest.com follow @edmfilmfest
9/26
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
LA AIR: EVE FOWLER & MARIAH GARNETT
The Girls! The Boys! The Girls! Come sneak a peak, in a voyeuristic
evening of objectifying surfers. Excerpts from Eve Fowler & Mariah
Garnett's new movie, Life Is Torture will be screened along side some of
the films which inspired it—movies about, and sometimes by, surfers from
the 1970's. Eve Fowler lives and works in Los Angeles. A graduate of
Temple University and Yale University, she is co-founder of Artist
Curated Projects in Los Angeles. She has had a solo shows at Horton
Gallery, New York; Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles; and Julie Saul
Gallery, New York. Mariah Garnett is an experimental filmmaker and
artist whose work seeks to occupy a space between convention and
experimentation—or, rather, to experiment with convention. The
boundaries of adaptation, documentary and fiction are continually being
drawn and re-drawn in her work. Her work has been screened at the Venice
Biennial, Rencontres Internationales, and Outfest, and included in a two
person show at ltd los angeles as well as a solo show at Human Resources
Gallery. 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. Free event!
9/26
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
http://tickets.ybca.org/single/psDetail.aspx?psn=17286
6:30, 8pm, 3rd and Mission Streets
KONRAD STEINER'S 'WAY' FILM PREMIERE
The six part film follows the six sections of Leslie Scalapino's book
length poem, 'way' (1988). (LS appears in a brief cameo in the film, but
this is not a film of the poet reading.) As the poet performs the
complete text on the soundtrack, a montage of images responds to various
levels and qualities of movement in the reading: the narratives, the
ideas, the cadences and melodies, the poetic images themselves. The look
of the film is drawn from a variety of sources including 16mm film and
video footage of San Francisco streets and bars, internet clips of
Hollywood, documentary, personal and erotic video, and computer
generated animation. While the film presents the poem (voiced), it
doesn't illustrate, interpret or even "set" the poem. Aesthetically it
offers the viewer an expanded "reading" experience of interpreting a
complex braid of image and language. Philosophically i hope it follows a
model of how individual elements can join without merging, can retain
identity and commonality at once, without subordination to rules,
programs, dogma or heirarchy. Co presented by the SFSU Poetry Center and
YBCA
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
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9/27
Boston, MA: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
7:00pm, 100 Northern Ave
BOSTON PREMIERE OF UNBOUND A NEW FILM BY ABIGAIL CHILD
UNBOUND: Scenes from the Life of Mary Shelley. - 2013, 69 mins, 16mm,
sound. - In Rome for a year at the American Academy, I created imaginary
home movies of scenes from the life of Mary and Percy Shelley. I was
attracted to these authors — their life of poetry, politics and
sexual invention—and inspired by my previous fictionalizing of
home movies in Covert Action and The Future is Behind You. I worked with
non-actors, the seasons and the extraordinary architecture and
landscapes of Italy where the Shelleys were in exile for six of their
eight years together. - The result was a feature film A Shape of Error,
gorgeous, emotional and harnessed to the narrative. I wanted to go
further and abetted by digital technology, I have
‘exploded' the film. The result is UNBOUND,
digressive, looped, unpredictable, symphonic, spontaneous,
messy—like life and memory. Music by Zeena Parkins. - Filmmaker
Abigail Child in attendance.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
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9/28
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset)
HEARKENINGS PRESENTS EARLY FILMS BY D.W. GRIFFITH
$5 / "The motion picture is an art, since it approaches more closely
real life." That this quote comes from D.W. Griffith creates a paradox:
he helped standardize many conventions of cinematic illusion, and yet he
showed a dynamic receptivity to real life. What did he mean? This
screening will feature a selection of short films made during Griffith's
formative years at the Biograph Company including Fools of Fate (1909),
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909), A Corner in Wheat (1909), The
Rose of Kentucky (1911), The Painted Lady (1912) and others. All films
will be projected on 16mm.
9/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PHIL NIBLOCK PROGRAM 1
PROGRAM 1: ENVIRONMENTS The 'Environments' were a series of non-verbal
theater and museum installations/performances that Niblock produced at
the turn of the 1960s. These were originally presented in various venues
– Judson Church, NYC, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Herbert
F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, and the Whitney Museum.
Only the last three 'Environments' still exist in their complete
versions. We will be screening them as they were originally presented,
as three 16mm film images projected simultaneously side-by-side – the
first time they've been shown this way since the 70s – and with early
analog music by Niblock. CROSS COUNTRY/ENVIRONMENT II (1970, ca. 60 min,
16mm) 100 MILE RADIUS/ENVIRONMENT III (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm) TEN
HUNDRED INCH RADII/ENVIRONMENT IV (1971, ca. 60 min, 16mm) Total running
time: ca. 3 hours
9/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
SAM GREEN’S TREE UTOPIA + DEAR COMRADE + JESSE DREW +
Mr. Green graces our gallery again with the debut of this "live cinema"
piece on the generosity of tree-planting. His performance is paired with
the endlessly inspiring Esperanto section of his Utopia in Four
Movements. Echoing Sam's communitarian impulses is (in person) Mady
Schutzman's hr-long essay on Llano del Rio, a 20th Century secular
cooperative founded in Southern California by socialist Job Harriman.
Her visit to a Colorado commune and staging of sci-fi scenes are among
the parallel universes that play out the possibilities of intentional
communities. AND another dear comrade, Jesse Drew, sets the tone on
autonomous zones West of Eden (Iain Boal's new anthology). Sangria!
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
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9/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
1:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PHIL NIBLOCK PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 1 The series of films
'The Movement of People Working' portrays human labor in its most
elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91, on 16mm color film and
later video, and in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong
Kong, the Arctic, Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China, and Japan,
the series comprises over 25 hours of footage (from which we'll be
showing a selection). It focuses on work as a choreography of movements
and gestures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of
laborers' actions. PERU AND MEXICO (1973/74, 96 min, 16mm-to-digital
video) BAY JAMES (1976, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital video) ARCTIC (1977, 25
min, 16mm-to-digital video) BRASIL (1984, 90 min, 16mm-to-digital video)
Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013. Total running time:
ca. 245 min.
9/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PHIL NIBLOCK PROGRAM 3
PROGRAM 3: THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WORKING, PART 2 CHINA (1987, 110 min,
16mm-to-digital video) JAPAN (1989, 120 min, 16mm-to-digital video)
Presented with music by Niblock from 1990 to 2013. Total running time:
ca. 240 min.
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