[Frameworks] This week [September 28 - October 6, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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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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Punto y Raya Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: October 28, 2013)
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Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 01, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Electric Affinities: Close Up and Queer Modernism [September 30, Brooklyn, NY]
* Phil Niblock Program 4 [September 30, New York, New York]
* Phil Niblock Program 5 [September 30, New York, New York]
* La Cicatrice IntéRieure (1972) By Philippe Garrel [October 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Flaherty Nyc Program 1 [October 1, New York, New York]
* Pratiques Filmiques Du Collage (1975-2013) // SÉAnce
RÉGuliÈRe Du Collectif Jeune CinÉMa [October 1, Paris, France]
* Massart Film Society Presents: Cecilia Dougherty [October 2, Boston, MA]
* Erin Cosgrove: What Manner of Person Art Thou? [October 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Open Screen [October 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Shireen Seno's Big Boy [October 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Cinema / Poetry With John Cannizzaro [October 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Alva-Dye + Becker + Woodman + Dumptruck + Shalo P + [October 5, San Francisco, California]
* Yans & Reto [October 6, New York, New York]
* Your Store [October 6, San Francisco, California]
* Sound/Film Performance By Paul Clipson & En [October 6, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
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9/30
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street
ELECTRIC AFFINITIES: CLOSE UP AND QUEER MODERNISM
A lecture by Mal Ahern - Between 1927 and 1933, the poet H.D. assisted
with the publication of the avant-garde film magazine Close Up, which
was edited by Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson. The three writers also
lived together in a queer ménage à trois, collectively
raising a child, making films, and editing their influential journal. -
This lecture will present photographs, letters, and films from the
group's rich (and sometimes risqué) archive. The trio's personal
lives frequently appear in their public work: Bryher solicited essays
for the magazine from her own psychoanalyst, and Macpherson directed two
of the family's pet monkeys in the film Monkey's Moon. Close Up also
shows the queer family's personal obsessions: their interest in the
occult and Bauhaus architecture, their anti-censorship activism, and
their interactions with diverse figures like G.W. Pabst, Paul Robeson,
Sergei Eistenstein, Havelock Ellis, and Gertrude Stein. - But more
significantly, images, words, and themes from the trio's private
correspondence resurface in their public essays for Close Up, allowing
us to give new, erotically-charged valences to many of the terms in
appearing in the journal. Their private nicknames and "spirit
animal" alter-egos, for instance, often appear as metaphors for
cinema itself, suggesting that the authors imagined film as a chimeric
animal body capable of many kinds of erotic encounters. Moreover, H.D.
and Bryher's writings on psychoanalysis give us the opportunity to
imagine an alternative form of psychoanalytic film theory, one based on
queer and female visual pleasure. By placing H.D., Bryher, and
Macpherson's essays in their proper context, we can read their work as
offering a very queer account of cinematic modernism. - The lecture will
be accompanied by a screening of Monkey's Moon (1929). - Mal Ahern is a
third-year PhD student in the joint program in Film Studies and History
of Art at Yale University. Her work has been published in The New
Inquiry and Millennium Film Journal, and her essay "Riddles of the
Sphinx and the Center of the Pan" is forthcoming in the 2014 Yale
University Press book Panoramic Vistas. - FREE - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
9/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PHIL NIBLOCK PROGRAM 4
PROGRAM 4: Katherine Liberovskaya 70 FOR 70 (+ 1): SEVENTY (ONE) SIDES
OF PHILL NIBLOCK 2004, 103 min, digital video A dynamic portrait
composed from fragments of seventy (+1) extremely close-up interventions
on video about Niblock by seventy (+1) people connected to him in some
way. These interventions, or monologues, were collected in honor of his
70th year (2003-2004) and the piece premiered the day of his 71st
birthday, October 2, 2004, as an installation at Diapason Gallery for
Sound and Intermedia, NYC. Seventy people among his numerous colleagues
and friends were invited to say anything they wanted about Niblock
within the constraints of a very tight shot of their face. The result is
an intimate collage of meditations, reminiscences, anecdotes, stories,
impressions, feelings…from seventy-one different angles: seventy (one)
sides of Phill Niblock. With Chris Anderson, Thomas Ankersmit, Jeff
Bauer, David Behrman, Tara Bhattacharya, Maria Blondeel, Krystyna
Borkowska, Jens Brand, Tom Buckner, Yu-Fei Chen, Steve Dalachinsky,
Irina Danilova, Guy De Bièvre, Michael Delia, John Duncan, Jean Dupuy,
Angie Eng, Dan Evans Farkas, Esther Ferrer, David First, Bernhard Gal,
Dave Geary, Madeleine Gekiere, Malcolm Goldstein, Annie Gosfield, Matt
Griffin, Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Hull, Tom Johnson, Seth Josel, Tomi
Keranen, Roger Kleier, Hans W. Koch, Yumi Kori, Mary Jane Leach, Okkyung
Lee, Katherine Liberovskaya, Alan Licht, Chris Mann, Frankie Mann, Al
Margolis, Eric Mattson, Charlie Morrow, Boris Nieslony, Morgan O'Hara,
Yuko Otomo, Paul Panhuysen, Vitaly Patsyukov, Emanuel Dimas de Melo
Pimenta, Jurgita Remeikyté, Don Ritter, Matt Rogalsky, Ursula Scherrer,
Claudia Schmacke, Michael Schumacher, Shelly Silver, Jim Staley, Gerd
Stern, Volker Straebel, Elaine Summers, Michael Timpson, Yasunao Tone,
Jo Truman, Keiko Uenishi, Ruben Verdadeiro, David Watson, Monika Weiss,
Anne Wellmer, Amnon Wolman, Dion Workman, Nina Zaretskaya.
9/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PHIL NIBLOCK PROGRAM 5
PROGRAM 5: SIX FILMS FROM THE 60s The six films are 16mm sound films,
made in the late 1960s, transferred to video. MORNING (1966-69, 17 min,
16mm-to-video, b&w) With members of the Open Theater Group, including
Lee Worley, James Barbosa, Cynthia Harris, Sharon Gans, and Joseph
Chaikin. THE MAGIC SUN (1966-68, 17 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w) A high
contrast black and white work featuring members of the Sun Ra Arkestra;
music by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. DOG TRACK (1969, 9 min, 16mm-to-video)
A film based on a found text. Read by Barbara Porte. ANNIE (1968, 8 min,
16mm-to-video) A portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff, with a sound-collage
score. MAX (1966-68, 7 min, 16mm-to-video, b&w) An collage film portrait
of Max Neuhaus, with a collage soundtrack by Neuhaus. Edited by David
Geary. RAOUL (1968-69, 20 min, 16mm-to-video) A portrait of the painter
Raoul Middleman, made with extensive use of time-lapse film technique.
The sound track is improvised by Middleman and Niblock. Total running
time: ca. 85 min.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013
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10/1
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan
http://www.balaganfilms.com
7:30pm, Brattle Theatre
LA CICATRICE INTéRIEURE (1972) BY PHILIPPE GARREL
Ominous and sublime landscapes of Iceland and Sinai, gorgeous soundtrack
by Nico, which was later released as the album Desertshore (with the
notable exception of "König," which only appears in the film), and the
23-year-old director languishing with his Teutonic muse in amazing linen
and leather outfits: such are the makings of this 1972 underground
classic. This 35mm screening would not have been possible without
support from the Oedipus Foundation, Goethe-Institut Boston, and the
Consulate General of France in Boston.
10/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
FLAHERTY NYC PROGRAM 1
REFUSE & REFUSAL: ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN & AVANT-GARDIST INTERVENTIONS "The
truth of a society is in its detritus." –Ella Shohat & Robert Stam "The
world is our garbage, we shall not want." –Black Mask The previously
unquenchable spirit of the modernist avant-garde seems to have
evaporated at almost the same moment as anti-authoritarian, autonomist,
and anarchist movements re-surfaced in the 21st century. These films,
which explore the unmistakable correspondence between refuse and
refusal, should tell us a thing or two about this wholly unpredicted
emergence. Jean-Marie Straub FOR JOACHIM GATTI (France, 2009, 3 min) New
York Newsreel GARBAGE (USA, 1968, 10 min) Joseph Beuys & Jurgen Boch
AUSFEGEN (Germany, 1972, 26 min) Andrey Ustinov & Natalya Nikolaeva
EXPULSION FROM PARADISE (Russia, 2002, 2.5 min) Jorge Furtado ISLE OF
FLOWERS (Brazil, 1989, 12 min) Chiapas Media Project THE LAND BELONGS TO
THOSE WHO WORK IT (Mexico, 2005, 15 min) Total running time: ca. 75 min.
Speakers: Ben Morea, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri.
10/1
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinéma
8pmj, Cinema La Clef, 34 rue Daubenton
PRATIQUES FILMIQUES DU COLLAGE (1975-2013) // SÉANCE
RÉGULIÈRE DU COLLECTIF JEUNE CINÉMA
La première séance régulière de la
rentrée sera consacrée aux pratiques filmiques du Collage
(1975-2013). - Cette séance fait partie d'une programmation plus
vaste consacrée au Found Footage au sein de la 15ème
édition du FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET
EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS. -
************************************************ - Invention cubiste
sous le nom de "papiers collés" puis photomontage
dadaïste, le collage est présent aussi au
cinéma. Il est lié à la notion de
détournement. La figure de Gil J. Wolman en est l'exemple.
Co-rédacteur avec Guy Debord, en 1956, du texte fondateur sur le
détournement, il pratique le collage sous la forme de "l'art
scotch". L'essai documentaire et d'animation d'Alain Jaubert "La
Disparition" démontre que les tyrans ont toujours
détourné les archives photographiques pour
réécrire l'histoire. - On trouve aussi le collage dans un
cinéma d'animation expérimental très proche de
l'affiche polonaise. Le cinéaste Zbigniew Rybczinski
découpe l'image en filtres de couleur tel un livre à
dessiner pour enfants. Dans le film "Katar" du cinéaste
d'animation polonais Hieronim Neumann, c'est le principe du
découpage qui est mis en avant. David Matarasso découpe
des bouts de pellicules pour les assembler figurativement en
mosaïque sur une, pellicule 35mm avant de la refilmer en
16mm au banc-titre. Le belge Yoann Stehr assemble des bouts de
génériques pour servir un propos critique. Inspiré
par l'univers de David Lynch, l'anglais Kiron Hussain assemble
différentes images filmées et peintes. La séance
s'achèvera par l'avant première du nouveau film du
cinéaste croate Dalibor Baric découvert l'an, dernier au
festival des cinémas différents. Hommage sincère
à "La Jetée" de Chris Marker, tout en
étant une variation du "Vampyr" de Dreyer, il reprend
l'imagerie des films de science-fiction américains durant la
guerre froide. - - Séance programmée et
présentée par Yves-Marie Mahé, vidéaste et
programmateur indépendant.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2013
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10/2
Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY
8pm, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue
MASSART FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS: CECILIA DOUGHERTY
PROGRAM: - THE FOURTH SPACE, 2010, 30:00, 4-channel installation, with
MOVING PARTS, a 6-channel sound installation by Aleksei R. Stevens - The
Fourth Space is based in interests I had in architecture and space in
general, and comes out of an earlier practice of taking pictures
wherever I went. Spaces in the video include Marcel Breuer's
Armstorong-Piretti Tire Building and the Roche-Dineloo Knights of
Columbus tower, buildings in Chicago's Loop, San Miguel de Allende in
Central Mexico -- Juan's Cafe, the Oratorio, the Instituto Allende, the
Biblioteca, streets, traffic, and Mexico's famous green taxis\; on Dean
Street, under demolition in Brooklyn\; the split tower at the Wexner
Center for the Arts in Columbus\; the Alps surrounding the village of
Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Included are beds slept in, tables worked at,
ceiling fans stared up at, chairs and couches sat on, cats petted,
windows looked out from, garden paths walked, planes flown in, mountains
crossed, oceans swam in. Altogether, the record of a year of taking note
of location. - GONE, 2001, 36:42, 2-channel installation - GONE is a
2-channel installation based on episode no.2 of producer Craig Gilbert's
An American Family, the landmark 1970s Public Television cinema verite
documentary about the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, California. The
second episode of the series follows mother Pat Loud's arrival in New
York, where she spends the week with her son Lance, who is living at the
Chelsea Hotel. Much of the dialogue in Gone is based on the actual
dialogue in the original series. - Starring Laurie Weeks, Amy Sillman,
Frances Sorensen, Mike Iveson, Lia Gangitano, Lori E. Seid, Susan
O'Brien, and Joe Westmoreland. Dance performance by Jennifer Monson. -
With music by Johanna Fateman, Le Tigre, and Mike Iveson
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013
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10/3
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St.
ERIN COSGROVE: WHAT MANNER OF PERSON ART THOU?
Erin Cosgrove in person. Los Angeles–based artist, animator, and author
Erin Cosgrove mixes pop culture and a range of historical
references—Fabio, the Baader-Meinhof gang, America's founding fathers,
Bible fan fiction—to offer dark and often wickedly funny critiques of
contemporary political culture. For this program, she screens a
selection of recent shorts alongside her 2008 tour-de-force animated
feature, What Manner of Person Art Thou? 2008–12, USA, multiple formats,
ca 75 min + discussion
10/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
OPEN SCREEN
$5 / 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, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm.
10/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
9:30 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
SHIREEN SENO'S BIG BOY
$5 / "There is a silent violence at the heart of every Filipino, but
that from which possibilities can emerge. Big Boy is a meditation on a
history of violence—not just in war and colonization but also in
creation, in coming into being. It is a questioning of the tight-knit
family unit which the Philippines is synonymous with, and how this myth
of family might parallel the myth of a nation. The preoccupation with
height and outward appearance, the belief in a better life elsewhere,
these are some of the myths of growth and progress that are present in
the Philippines until today. The film will present an alternative
history or rather, a collision of histories that uncover the persistence
of, yet ultimate mayhem, that is memory." Shireen Seno was born to a
Filipino family in Japan, where she spent most of her childhood. She
graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in Architectural
studies and Cinema studies. Shireen started out in film shooting stills
for Lav Diaz and John Torres before going on to direct her debut
feature, Big Boy, which premiered at the International Film Festival
Rotterdam 2013 and went on to screen at Jeonju International Film
Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, as the opening film of
Hors Pistes Tokyo, organized by the Centre Pompidou, and in competition
at T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival. It won the prize
for Best First Film at the Festival de Cine Lima Independiente. Big Boy
(2012) 89 minutes, Super 8 on BluRay. Director Shireen Seno in person!
http://bigboylovesyou.com
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2013
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10/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
CINEMA / POETRY WITH JOHN CANNIZZARO
Playfully exploring the connection between cinema and poetry, John
Cannizzaro returns to EPFC with an eclectic array of 16mm films, music,
and poetry from the archives of Smokehouse Films. Combining works by
Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Margaret Atwood, Nick Cave,
Eddie Vedder, Jean Cocteau, Norman McLaren, Charles and Ray Eames and
many others, the program will delve into the myriad ways that cinema and
poetry collide and/or overlap ... and hopefully even create a few new,
live poems. The night includes multi-projected 16mm films, live music
and poetry by Norwood Cheek and Andrea Richards, and the premiere of a
brand new cine-poem by John Cannizzaro. The curator and refreshments
will be present.
10/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia St.
ALVA-DYE + BECKER + WOODMAN + DUMPTRUCK + SHALO P +
Launching Incite's new issue on alt.exhibition, OC enacts the theme with
an aggressive Live Cinema show!! Deploying a free-hanging screen, Alva &
Dyemark's double-projector As Big as a House rhapsodizes on sports,
while Tommy Becker vocalizes to Songs for the Lemons and for Disobedient
Youth, with audience participation! Cincinnati's Charlie (viDEO sAVant)
Woodman pic-mixes his Drowned World in concert with the ambient-jazz
Geishafold. Shalo P unveils The Spy, a neo-psychedelic electronic
collage, while Sam (Dumptruck) Manera hunkers down on a home-made knot
of noise-makers, with closed-circuit close-ups! Twixt the live acts:
Semiconductor's latest, Claire Bain's mirrored imagery, Lillian
Schwartz' 3-D, Bing Crosby's Auroratone, Len Lye's '35 GasparColor, and
Peggy Nelson's adieu-to-analog. $7.77. optronica
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2013
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10/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
YANS & RETO
YANS & RETO is a one-night festival of action art by artists (mainly,
but not limited to) over sixty and under thirty. YANS & RETO is an
assembly of people engaged in contemporary culture who, regardless of
their disciplines, share a taste for radicalism and experimental
creation. Nothing is more brutal than money. YANS & RETO's fourth
edition is dedicated to $$$. "7 minutes or less" performances, short
films, videos, proclamations, comedy, songs, etc, that deal in extreme
ways with money will be on view. Stand up and bite the hand of your
owner! For more information or to register, visit:
http://fundacionmosis.com/English/yans.htm. Entries must be in before
September 10. YANS & RETO is a festival conceived by Jana Leo.
Co-organized and co-produced by Fundación MOSIS and Spain Culture New
York-Consulate General of Spain with the support of AC/E, Acción
Cultural Española.
10/6
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
3:00- 5:00 pm (reception), 992 Valencia Street
YOUR STORE
For the month of October the window of Artist Television Access will be
a place where the everyday is on display with Your Store. Hand-made
cardboard sculptures, drawings and stop-motion animations inspired by
the people who live, work and visit the Valencia Street Corridor and the
greater Mission Neighborhood will be accessible to any passer-by as a
homestyle advertisement of the neighborhood. Your Store hopes to give
the neighborhood a chance to reflect on the people and places that make
up this dynamic and quickly changing area. www.yourstoreproject.com
10/6
Washington, DC: Sonic Circuits Festival
http://dc-soniccircuits.org/
3:30-6:30pm (Part of Lab ll performances), Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20002
SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCE BY PAUL CLIPSON & EN
Super 8mm films and sound performance by Paul Clipson and En (Maxwell
August Croy and James Devane) at the Sonic Circuits Festival
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