[Frameworks] This week [April 5 - 13, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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This week [April 5 - 13, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Forbidden Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: April 15, 2014)
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Directors Lounge at Japan Day Duesseldorf/Black
Box Cinema (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: April 20, 2014)
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landlocked film festival (iowa city; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2014)
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FCDEP - Festival des Cinemas Differents et
Experimentaux de Paris (Paris, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival San
Vito Lo Capo (San Vito Lo Capo, TP, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2014)
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BELOIT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2014)
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Kinofilm Manchester International Short Film
Festival (Manchester, UK; Deadline: April 07, 2014)
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Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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CologneOFF_Cologne International Videoart
Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: April 30, 2014)
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival (Scotland; Deadline: April 28, 2014)
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animateCOLOGNE (Cologne/Germany; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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Forbidden Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: April 15, 2014)
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The Journal of Short Film Volume 34 (Columbus,
Ohio, USA; Deadline: May 02, 2014)
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ARTErra residency (Tondela (portugal); Deadline: April 15, 2014)
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Directors Lounge at Japan Day Duesseldorf/Black
Box Cinema (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: April 20, 2014)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1686.ann
Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 2014)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1688.ann
VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival San
Vito Lo Capo (San Vito Lo Capo, TP, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2014)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1690.ann
Kinofilm Manchester International Short Film
Festival (Manchester, UK; Deadline: April 07, 2014)
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Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Sight Unseen Presents A Spell To Ward off
the Darkness [April 5, Baltimore]
* I'll Cry Tomorrow ... and Other Super 8
Films By Luther Price [April 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Kenneth Anger Program [April 5, New York, New York]
* Kerry Laitala & Brian Darr's "Old Man and
the Mountain" [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: Intimate Immensities: Ritual Takes Form and My Beating
Heart Bounds With Exulting Motion [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: Intimate Immensities: Ritual Takes Form and My Beating
Heart Bounds With Exulting Motion [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: A Spell To Ward off the Darkness: Installation view and
Artists Talk [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: Apparent Motion: Seitz Vs
Gendreau; Elise Baldwin; Mshr [April 5, San Francisco, California]
* A Gregory Markopoulos Prelude - Part I [April 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Burroughs Shorts Program [April 6, New York, New York]
* Crossroads 2014: Intimate Immensities 2:
Untethered
[April 6, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: Choreographies of Devotion, In the Roaring Traffic's
Boom
[April 6, San Francisco, California]
* Crossroads 2014: Phantom Tunneling 2: Life Is Long, the Walls Come off,
and Light Enters Your Cell(S) [April 6, San Francisco, California]
* A Gregory Markopoulos Prelude - Part ii
[April 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Body and Flesh: the Tactile Cinema of
Luther Price [April 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Trop TôT, Trop Tard/Too Soon, Too Late (DaniÈLe
Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub/1981) [April 7, Oakland, California ]
* Selection of Short Films By Su Friedrich
[April 8, Lancaster, Pennsylvania]
* Machine vision [April 9, Austin, TX]
* Luther Price: Poetry of the Found [April 9, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimental Film From Berlin [April 9, Tucson, AZ]
* Everything Is Terrible! Doggie Woggiez and
More [April 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Ed Webb-Ingall Presents Open Door: Starting
To Happen [April 10, Los Angeles, California]
* The Way of Light: A Site - Specific Sound
&Amp; Light Performance [April 10, Mumbai, India]
* Essential Cinema: Quick Billy [April 10, New York, New York]
* White Cube/Black Box: Nancy Holt [April 10, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Baillie/Crockwell
Program [April 10, New York, New York]
* Images Festival - Opening Night - From Gulf
To Gulf To Gulf [April 10, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Mowgli - the Jungle Book, A Ussr
Adaptation. [April 11, Brooklyn, New York]
* Andrew Lampert's Making Space For More
[April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* A Collection of Drops - Shorts Program of
Recent Toronto Film/Video [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Nicaragua In the 80s: Las Nicas &Amp; Lamento - Two video Documentaries
By Julia Lesage [April 12, Chicago, IL]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 1 [April 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 2 [April 12, New York, New York]
* Ben Rivers' "Two Years At Sea" + [April 12, San Francisco, California]
* A Conjuring, A Slow Acting Poison - Short
Film/Video [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Remodeled Beyond Recognition - Short
Film/Video [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* +Space of Surveillance+ Michael Klier's the
Giant (Der Riese) [April 12, Tucson, AZ]
* Essential Cinema: Dog Star Man [April 13, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Songs 1-14 [April 13, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents andy Puls [April 13, Oakland]
* Transparent Things: Music/Film Conversations Between Rick Bahto & Paul
Clipson [April 13, San Francisco, California]
* Debate: Is Art School Killing Art? [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Lucy Raven's On Location Performance/Lecture
[April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Film Program In Which there Appear Colour Bars, Greek Pop Songs, Didactic
Eye-Makeup, Etc. [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Duncan Campbell + Chris Marker/Alain Resnais
[April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014
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4/5
Baltimore: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
6:30PM, Area 405, 405 E. Oliver St.
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
Sight Unseen is pleased to present Ben Russell and Ben Rivers' A SPELL
TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS, paired with a dinner inspired by the film
(Menu TBA). A SPELL follows an unnamed character through three seemingly
disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in
the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in
isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a
concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty, and an optimism of the darkest
sort, A SPELL is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in
the present. Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best known for his
intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead role, A
SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - it is at once a
document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into
transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation. $15,
including dinner. Tickets can be bought at:
https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4ivN0/ab/61ojA2?
4/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
I'LL CRY TOMORROW ... AND OTHER SUPER 8 FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE
$5 / DEAR DICKY...................THE SKY IS BLUE THEY
SAY...............AND SOMETIMES GREY OR WHITE.................
SOMETIMES,...GREY AND BLACK..................AND SOME MIGHT TRY THEIR
HARDEST TO HOLD ON TO EARTH BECAUSE OF IT...........SOME MAY BE FLUNG
FOR MILES ................SOME MIGHT STAND AS THEY WERE ............BUT
LIKE OLD PAPER BAGS ...BLOWING IN THE WIND ................WE GO
....................ASHES TIL DUST..................AND THE SOUND OF
FATHERS AND MOTHERS SCRAPED THE EARTH FOR ME ........I
PROCEED.................AND GATHER ..............TO WONDER ......AND PRY
THEIR WRINKLED HANDS IN LIFE WERE NOT IN VAIN................THE DUST OF
THEIR LIFE LIVES UNDER MY FINGERNAILS............AND THE PARASITE THAT
STILL LIVES IN MY BRAIN............. ............I WAS THEIR FUTURE
FLOCK............AND THE ONE TO DIE LAST...............BUT NOT WITHOUT
TELLING THE STORY.....................LUTHER PRICE....part
one.............. the shy in so fucking blue...............i have to
close my windows...........the scent around says nothing of
life.............tampons and lavender.............old lady rotten
cunt.................huge belly's that hold hoards of kfc......mc
donalds ................and anything else you can eat for about
99cents................... Program: Meat Situation 04 (4 minutes, Super
8), Eruption Erection (1990, 10 minutes, Super 8), I'll Cry Tomorrow
(1999, 40 minutes, Super 8), Meat Blue 03 (1999, 12 minutes, Super 8)
Luther Price in person!
4/5
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: KENNETH ANGER PROGRAM
FIREWORKS (1947, 15 min, 35mm, b&w) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 min,
35mm) EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3
min, 16mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 16mm) Poetry, psychodrama, and
the occult meet in these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the
American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 80 min.
4/5
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
KERRY LAITALA & BRIAN DARR'S "OLD MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN"
Inaugurating our 4-part Psycho-Geographic suite, the endlessly inventive
Kerry Laitala unveils her latest 16mm masterpiece, The Old Man of the
Mountain. Her handsome handiwork explores the history of this New
Hampshire landmark, as well as its ritual and totemic properties.
Collaborator Brian Darr, on various wind instruments and gongs, performs
audio-tracks to not only this headliner, but also to the 1924(!) Epic of
Everest, as well as to variously convulsing volcanoes, earthquakes, and
underground caverns. PLUS the early-30s Alps-lensed Love to a Harmonica,
idiosyncratic personal travelogs from around this orb of ours, and
episodes from monumental sculptural projects-Mount Rushmore, the Crazy
Horse Memorial
even the Hollow Earth! Come early for free beer and Craig
Baldwin's Crazed Crystals.
4/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3pm, Victoria Theatre
CROSSROADS 2014: INTIMATE IMMENSITIES: RITUAL TAKES FORM AND MY BEATING
HEART BOUNDS WITH EXULTING MOTION
Presented in association with the SF Dance Film Festival In Person:
Malic Amalya, Paul Clipson, Zach Iannazzi, Christine Lucy Latimer and
Jeremy Moss SCREENING: My Heart, Overreaches (2013) by Malic Amalya;
Difficult Loves (2013) by Paul Clipson; With Pluses and Minuses (2013)
by Mike Stoltz; Chroma (2012) by Jeremy Moss; PULL/DRIFT (2013; world
premiere) by Margaret Rorison; Short (2013; bay area premiere) by Robert
Todd; California Picture Book (2013) by Zach Iannazzi; Lezuo (2013;
north american premiere) by Giuseppe Boccassini; Jane's Birthday (2013;
north american premiere) by Christine Lucy Latimer; That Dizzying Crest
(2013; world premiere) by Jeremy Moss.
4/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
CROSSROADS 2014: INTIMATE IMMENSITIES: RITUAL TAKES FORM AND MY BEATING
HEART BOUNDS WITH EXULTING MOTION
Presented in association with the SF Dance Film Festival In Person:
Malic Amalya, Paul Clipson, Zach Iannazzi, Christine Lucy Latimer and
Jeremy Moss SCREENING: My Heart, Overreaches (2013) by Malic Amalya;
Difficult Loves (2013) by Paul Clipson; With Pluses and Minuses (2013)
by Mike Stoltz; Chroma (2012) by Jeremy Moss; PULL/DRIFT (2013; world
premiere) by Margaret Rorison; Short (2013; bay area premiere) by Robert
Todd; California Picture Book (2013) by Zach Iannazzi; Lezuo (2013;
north american premiere) by Giuseppe Boccassini; Jane's Birthday (2013;
north american premiere) by Christine Lucy Latimer; That Dizzying Crest
(2013; world premiere) by Jeremy Moss.
4/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5pm, Kadist Art Foundation
CROSSROADS 2014: A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS: INSTALLATION VIEW AND
ARTISTS TALK
Presented in association with the Kadist Art Foundation. Ben Rivers In
Person.
4/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8pm, Victoria Theatre
CROSSROADS 2014: APPARENT MOTION: SEITZ VS GENDREAU; ELISE BALDWIN; MSHR
Presented in association with 23Five Apparent Motion is CROSSROADS'
annual celebration of projection as art and object, the cinematic
exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an
invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Evening includes
performances by Seitz vs Gendreau, Elise Baldwin and MSHR (Portland).
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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2014
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4/6
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
A GREGORY MARKOPOULOS PRELUDE - PART I
Special Event Tickets $12 - Robert Beavers in Person As a prelude to a
major Markopoulos retrospective to be presented in conjunction with the
book's release in the fall of 2014, the Harvard Film Archive is pleased
to present a showcase of Markopoulos' early work, films all made before
his departure for Europe and accompanied here by a selection of relevant
and revelatory writings excerpted from the eagerly awaited volume, Film
as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos. Swain
Directed by Gregory Markopoulos. With Gregory Markopoulos, Mary Zelles -
US 1950, 16mm, color, 24 min Twice A Man Directed by Gregory
Markopoulos. With Paul Kilb, Olympia Dukakis, Vilet Roditi - US 1963,
16mm, color, 49 min Ming Green Directed by Gregory Markopoulos - US
1966, 16mm, color, 7 min
4/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
BURROUGHS SHORTS PROGRAM
This program of rare Burroughs-related short films will include Stan
Brakhage's THOT FAL'N (1978, 9 min, 16mm, silent), Anthony Balch's
WILLIAM BUYS A PARROT (1963, 2 min, 16mm-to-digital), documentation of
Burroughs's last public reading in Lawrence, KS, in 1995, and more!
4/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
3pm, Victoria Theatre
CROSSROADS 2014: INTIMATE IMMENSITIES 2: UNTETHERED
In Person: Charles Chadwick, Catie Eller, Talia Feder, Thad Povey, April
Simmons and Scott Stark SCREENING: Friction of the Inner and Outer
Consciousness (2014) by Isaac Sherman; Through Tunnels (2013) by Talia
Feder; Visual Pleasure (2013) by Catie Eller; A Noisy Delivery (2013) by
Charles Chadwick; Hacked Circuit (2014) by Deborah Stratman; Nocturnal
Symmetries (2014) by Scott Stark, with sound by Allison Leigh Holt; Half
Life (2013) by April Simmons; 'til I see my way back home (2013) by Thad
Povey; Threshold (2013) by Robert Todd.
4/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
5pm, Victoria Theatre
CROSSROADS 2014: CHOREOGRAPHIES OF DEVOTION, IN THE ROARING TRAFFICS
BOOM
In Person: Sarah Rosalena Brady, Roger Deutsch, Laida Lertxundi, Mónica
Savirón and Joel Wanek SCREENING: Line Describing Your Mom (2012) by
Michael Robinson; Faded Color (2013; bay area premiere) by Sarah
Rosalena Brady; After Hours (2013; bay area premiere) by Karen Yasinsky;
The Waiting Sands (2013) by Margaret Rorison; Broken Tongue (2013; bay
area premiere) by Mónica Savirón; We Had the Experience but Missed the
Meaning (2014; bay area premiere) by Laida Lertxundi; Scherzo (2014) by
Roger Deutsch; Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013 (2013;
bay area premiere) by Sílvia das Fadas; Sun Song (2013; bay area
premiere) by Joel Wanek; Affect Theory (2013; bay area premiere) by
Jeanne Liotta.
4/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7pm, Victoria Theatre
CROSSROADS 2014: PHANTOM TUNNELING 2: LIFE IS LONG, THE WALLS COME OFF,
AND LIGHT ENTERS YOUR CELL(S)
In Person: Kadet Kuhne, Jeremy Moss and Jean-Paul Kelly In Person
SCREENING: Quantum Tunneling (2013) by Kadet Kuhne; Drain (2012) by
Bettina Hoffman; The Blue Record (2013; world premiere) by Erik Anderson
and Jeremy Moss; Service of the Goods (2013) by Jean-Paul Kelly; The
Lonely Life of Debby Adams (2013; bay area premiere) by Karen Yasinsky.
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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014
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4/7
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
A GREGORY MARKOPOULOS PRELUDE - PART II
Special Event Tickets $12 - Robert Beavers in Person As a prelude to a
major Markopoulos retrospective to be presented in conjunction with the
book's release in the fall of 2014, the Harvard Film Archive is pleased
to present a showcase of Markopoulos' early work, films all made before
his departure for Europe and accompanied here by a selection of relevant
and revelatory writings excerpted from the eagerly awaited volume, Film
as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos. The Illiac
Passion Directed by Gregory Markopoulos. With Richard Beauvais, David
Beauvais, Robert Alvarez - US 1964-67, 16mm, color, 92 min
4/7
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
BODY AND FLESH: THE TACTILE CINEMA OF LUTHER PRICE
Using celluloid to confront the mortality of life, Luther Price's
handcrafted, visceral films and slides stand-alone in their ability to
simultaneously shock and mesmerize. Price's tragic and poetic vision,
celebrated and controversial, is conveyed through a tactile, sculptural
manipulation of the material in combination with provocative images.
"THE SPRINKLES OF MY TEARS FALL IN ANOTHER TIME AND ON MY MOTHER'S
BEAUTIFUL FACE AS SHE HELD ME IN HER ARMS AT BIRTH...WE CRIED ...WE
CRIED FOR LIFE." (L.P.) Price's films have shown at the Whitney and
Museum of Modern Art, as well as at festivals and storefront cinemas,
for the past 25 years. Price will show two slide pieces, including Light
Fractures (2013), several Super-8 films, including Home (1999) and
Recitations (2000), and a new 16mm film. In person: Luther Price
4/7
Oakland, California : black hole cinematheque
8:30pm in PDT, 1038 24th st
TROP TôT, TROP TARD/TOO SOON, TOO LATE (DANIÈLE
HUILLET/JEAN-MARIE STRAUB/1981)
Trop tôt, trop tard/Too Soon, Too Late (Danièle
Huillet/Jean-Marie Straub/1981/105 mins/digital projection) "Opening
upon one of the most memorable shots ever filmed, Trop tôt, trop
tard is an essay on the often tentative, yet urgent conditions of
revolution. Shot in France and Egypt, the film employs a diptych
structure as it attempts to (quite literally) catch the wind of past
revolutions, using the writings of Friedrich Engels and Mahmoud Hussein.
(Cinematheque Ontario)... "Too Soon, Too Late inverts the usual
relationship in a Straub-Huillet film between landscape and text - the
landscape becoming the film's central text, the verbal text becoming the
film's "setting". Practically speaking, this reduces the relative
importance of the verbal texts in the films - although when I mentioned
this notion to Straub, he countered that nevertheless the film could
never have been made without those texts." "The uncontrolled movements
of people, animals and weather function on this terrain like
improvisations that play against the "composed" framings and camera
movements, somewhat in the manner of jazz. When I proposed this parallel
to Straub, he replied that a principal reference point for him and
Huillet while shooting the second part of Too Soon, Too Late was the
late quartets of Beethoven - particularly the use of suspensions and
slow tempos. The very slow pans, according to Dave Kehr, always move in
the same direction as the wind, and it is largely the sense one has of
the film's profound attentiveness to the material world that makes the
film so singular a documentary - calling to mind the three living
quotations cited by Straub before the screening of the film at the
Collective for Living Cinema on April 30, 1983: D. W. Griffith at the
end of his life: "What modern movies lack is the wind in the trees."
Rosa Luxembourg: "The fate of insects is not less important than the
revolution." Cézanne, who painted Mont Saint-Victoire again and
again: "Look at this mountain, once it was fire." (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014
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4/8
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Phillips Museum of Art-F&M College
7:30pm, Steinman College Center-College Ave
SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS BY SU FRIEDRICH
Film Screening of short films by Su Friedrich - Su Friedrich's films
regularly combine elements of narrative, documentary, and experimental
styles of film-making and often focus on the roles of women, family, and
homosexuality in contemporary America. Su Friedrich has been a leading
figure in avant-garde filmmaking and a pivotal force in the
establishment of Queer Cinema. Her work has radicalized film form and
content by incorporating a feminist perspective and issues of lesbian
identity and by creating a remarkable and innovative synthesis of
experimental, narrative and documentary genres. - Screening in 16MM: -
Sink or Swim (1990) - Damned if You Don't (1987) - Sally Mather Gibson
Curriculum Gallery, The Phillips Museum of Art - Co-Sponsored by the
Department of Theatre, Dance and Film - Projection by MOVIATE - This
event is free and open to the public. -
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014
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4/9
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
8:00pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 6th St.
MACHINE VISION
A collection of works describing, investigating, expanding, detonating
the dream machine. An essential Hollis Frampton performance, a recently
restored 16mm double projection by Paul Sharits, an expansive video by
Steina Vasulka, and Tony Conrad's legendary THE FLICKER. Four artists
â each associated with Buffalo's legendary Media Study
department - take up the essentials of the moving image. Programmed by
Ekrem Serdar. Heather Pesanti, senior curator of The Contemporary
Austin, will introduce the screening. - WARNING: THIS SCREENING INCLUDES
WORKS WITH FLICKERING LIGHTS THAT ARE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS FOR
PHOTOGENIC EPILEPTICS OR PHOTOGENIC MIGRAINE SUFFERERS. ATTEND AT YOUR
OWN RISK.
4/9
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
LUTHER PRICE: POETRY OF THE FOUND
Luther Price in person! Here's what he says about tonight's screening:
"All of the films we will screen deal with found footage
this batch is
from mid 2000
in 2003, i decided to work completely with found footage,
leaving behind what was turning into an auto biographical night
mare
with found footage ,...i could...perhaps instead of always seeing
the bleak
find something wonderful
open my eyes and take life in
there
will always be pain
but there is so much beauty too
even more so when we
realize how fragile life is
and that life and it's moments become the
key to who we are
it's all we have.....just a memory of a life we left
behind
"
4/9
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM BERLIN
Filmmakers in person! Anja Dornieden & Juan David González are
experimental filmmakers living and working in Berlin. Since 2010 they
have been working together under the moniker OJOBOCA. In their work they
are practitioners of Horrorism, a simulated method for inner and outer
transformation. Tonight, their program, titled Now I Want to Laugh will
present a thought provoking selection of their recent 16mm films and
performances.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014
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4/10
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60601
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! DOGGIE WOGGIEZ AND MORE
"If everything is terrible, then nothing is" is the motto of this
filmmaking collective, whose pseudonym-loving members make rapid-fire
mash-ups from VHS tapes found in thrift storesforgotten children's
shows, religious sermons, no-budget monster moviesto explore the
weirdest corners of the American psyche. Leaving little time for
reflection, only total submission, its cinema is a kind of psychedelic
food poisoning, equally abrasive and hilarious and, in the end, oddly
affectionate toward its varied subjects. EIT! presents several shorts
and its feature-length masterwork Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez!
(2012)a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain with a cast of
cinematic canines. 2012-14, USA, multiple formats, ca 80 min +
discussion. Founded in 2006 Everything is Terrible! (EIT!) is an
anonymous video collective dedicated to unearthing the best and worst
ever committed to VHS. EIT! mines thrift stores and bargain bins for old
VHS tapes and gives them new life in video compilations, live shows, and
the group's website. EIT!'s work has been hailed by Wired, Time, The
Onion, Chicago Tribune, NPR's All Things Considered, BoingBoing,
Buzzfeed, Videogum, Paste, and Jezebel. The CBC deemed the group's site
"the best ever."
4/10
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
ED WEBB-INGALL PRESENTS OPEN DOOR: STARTING TO HAPPEN
$5 / Ed Webb-Ingall will be hosting a screening and discussion of work
by a community film group from the 1970s called Liberation Films.
Liberation Films grew out of Angry Arts, a film society run by Vietnam
Solidarity Committee activists in the UK, its core work was as a 16mm
distributor, although it also produced films and ran screenings. Open
Door: Starting to Happen (1974) shows the results of an experiment, in
which filmmakers Liberation Films taught a community action group of
residents in Balham, South London how to use video equipment to record
local protests for social change. It was broadcast on BBC2 as part of
their community engagement program Open Door and includes an
introduction by Tony Wickert of Liberation Films and concludes with a
panel discussion involving members of Liberation Films and the community
members involved both in this project and in similar ones elsewhere. Ed
Webb-Ingall is a filmmaker with an interest in exploring practices and
forms of collaboration. He works with groups using collective film
making as means to investigate themes of identity, history, politics and
representation. He has written on the history and practice of
collaborative film making in the UK. Recent projects have been with
South London Gallery, International Project Space, Tokyo Wonder Site,
Tate Liverpool and The British Film Institute. He Co-edited a book on
the filmmaker Derek Jarman, published by Thames and Hudson in September
2013. Most recently he was awarded a British Council International
Cultural Exchange Scholarship to travel to Los Angeles where, with Echo
Park Film Center, he will use filmmaking as a means to explore different
communities through self-representation, reflection and the act of
making and watching films together. The screening will be followed by a
discussion about the changing role of community filmmaking. The
Screening is supported by the British Council Cultural Exchange
International.
4/10
Mumbai, India: Experimenta India
7pm, Mumbai, India
THE WAY OF LIGHT: A SITE - SPECIFIC SOUND & LIGHT PERFORMANCE
EXPERIMENTA INDIA PRESENTS, THE WAY OF LIGHT - a site-specific sound and
light performance by Shumona Goel, Michael Northam, Tabasheer Zutshi,
and Avijit Mukul Kishore. - APRIL 10 & 11, 2014, Mumbai, TIMINGS:
7:00-7:45 PM or 8:30-9:15 PM - VENUE, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute -
#136, K.R.Cama Institute Building, Ground Floor, Bombay Samachar Marg,
Fort, Mumbai 400023 Tel # 022 2284 3893, Landmark: End of Kala Ghoda
Opposite Lions Gate - The Way of Light is a meditative environment in
slowly shifting colored light and minimally evolving, deep drones that
creates a hypnotic effect, drawing the listener into a haunted, dream
world. - In The Way of Light, Shumona, Michael, Tabasheer, and Avijit
bring their sensibilities of film and music to produce a site-specific
installation in the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute of Bombay's art
district, Kala Ghoda. The work grows from the artists' long term
interest in how a space can come alivehow a space can begin to
sing and reveal itself through time, compelling the audience to slip
into new fields of awareness. - FREE ENTRY - PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
4/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: QUICK BILLY
by Bruce Baillie 1971, 56 min, 16mm Bruce Baillie's journey through "the
dark wood encountered in the middle of life's journey" (Dante), with
references to Bardo Thodol. A major work from one of the great poets of
cinema. Plus: QUICK BILLY: SIX ROLLS; 14/41/43/46/47/52 1968-69, 16 min,
16mm Six uncut camera rolls to be shown with QUICK BILLY. The 'rolls'
took the form of a correspondence, or theater, between their author and
Stan Brakhage, in the winter of 1968-69
4/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
WHITE CUBE/BLACK BOX: NANCY HOLT
Nancy Holt SUN TUNNELS (1978, 27 min, 16mm-to-video) Nancy Holt & Theo
Tegelaers BREAKING GROUND: BROKEN CIRCLE/SPIRAL HILL (1971/2011, 21 min,
digital) Nancy Holt THE MAKING OF AMARILLO RAMP 1973/2013, 32 min,
digital Total running time: ca. 85 min.
4/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BAILLIE/CROCKWELL PROGRAM
Bruce Baillie MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 min, 16mm, b&w)
QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 min, 16mm) CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 min, 16mm) ALL
MY LIFE (1966, 3 min, 16mm) VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 min, 16mm)
Meditations on America by a filmmaker whom Willard van Dyke once called
the most American of all contemporary filmmakers. Annette Michelson has
referred to Bruce Baillie as one of the few American political
filmmakers. Douglass Crockwell GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE (1964, 8 min, 16mm)
"The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with
plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain
extent these early attempts were successful." D.C. Total running time:
ca. 100 min.
4/10
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
7:00 PM, Royal Cinema, 608 College Street
IMAGES FESTIVAL - OPENING NIGHT - FROM GULF TO GULF TO GULF
Kicking off the 27th Images Festival is an intimate and epic film by the
Indian collective CAMP artists in attendance. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
was shot over four years with a variety of high definition and mobile
phone cameras, providing a remarkable window into the usually invisible
world of merchant seamen who traverse the Arabian Sea to the Persian
Gulf. Having screened at Experimenta Festival, FID Marseille and
Documenta, we are thrilled to bring this incredible film to Toronto
audiences for our opening night! Co-presented with Toronto Reel Asian
International Film Festival and South Asian Visual Arts Centre. And
please join us afterwards for the Opening Night Party at The Boat 158
Augusta Avenue, starting at 9pm!! WATCH THE TRAILER
https://vimeo.com/90922097
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014
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4/11
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://ThePictureShow.org
7:30PM, 226 Green St. Greenpoint, Brooklyn
MOWGLI - THE JUNGLE BOOK, A USSR ADAPTATION.
the PICTURE show presents: MOWGLI // In 1967 Rudyard Kipling had two
adaptations realized of his work, The Jungle Book. One was produced by
Walt Disney Productions and the other, released in episodical form, by
the state-owned animation studio of the USSR, Soyuzmultfilm. This,
?á???? (Mowgli), is the version you didn't
see growing up. -- ThePictureShow.org/screens/2014april/mowgli/
4/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
6-9 PM, Art Gallery of Ontario's FRANK Restaurant, 317 Dundas St W
ANDREW LAMPERT'S MAKING SPACE FOR MORE
Are you always hungry for more? Then please join us for an inexplicable
evening of unheralded discoveries and gastronomic delights at Frank, the
acclaimed restaurant of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Filmmaker/ gourmand
Andrew Lampert will act as host for a multi-course, moving-image
excavation of the darkest shelves found in the AGO's sprawling
collection of 85,000 works of art. Lampert has concocted a come-and-go
event that fuses creative culinary dishes, specially created by chef
Jeff Dueck, with a view into the AGO's never-before-seen, endlessly
fascinating archive. Featuring a live music performance by Michael Snow
and sizable servings of sensory overload, Andrew Lampert's Making Space
For More will satisfy all your cravings. This performance can be
experienced anytime between 6 and 9 PM. Admission is included with the
purchase of food and drink, either with a prix fixe menu through advance
reservations or a la carte without reservations on a first come, first
served basis. Reservations can be made through ago.net/frank or by
calling 416 979 6688.
4/11
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
A COLLECTION OF DROPS - SHORTS PROGRAM OF RECENT TORONTO FILM/VIDEO
A collection of drops Guest curated by Johnson Ngo A drop, a puddle, a
pool, a pond, a river, a lake, an ocean. Water, in its various states,
serves as a metaphor for movement and change. Its sound is a score for
reflection and contemplation. Films/videos by Byron Chan, Heather
Trawick, John Kneller, Nathan Saliwonchyk, Chris Kennedy, John
Creson/Adam Rosen, Christine Lucy Latimer, Nicholas Pye, Terra Long,
Deirdre Logue.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1259&month=n
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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014
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4/12
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:30pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
NICARAGUA IN THE 80S: LAS NICAS & LAMENTO - TWO VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
BY JULIA LESAGE
White Light Cinema, Hopscotch Cinema, and The Nightingale Present -
NICARAGUA IN THE 80s: LAS NICAS & LAMENTO - Two Video Documentaries
by Julia Lesage - With Julia Lesage in Person! - Saturday, April 12
â 7:30pm, At the Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
- - White Light Cinema, along with Hopscotch Cinema and The Nightingale,
are pleased to present two little-seen video documentaries, about the
lives of women in Nicaragua in the 1980s after the Sandinista
revolution, by videomaker, professor, author, and Jump Cut magazine
co-founder and co-editor Julia Lesage. Lesage will be in person to
introduce and discuss this important work that provides a snapshot of a
troubled nation in a moment of optimism. - - The following text was
provided by Lesage: - - Introduction: - The Sandinista Revolution in
1979 and the years following were filmed by many solidarity workers
traveling to and living in Nicaragua. However, after that period ended
in 1990, much of the interest here in video about Nicaragua declined.
Invited to teach video production to young artists in a workshop in the
Sandinista labor union, Julia Lesage made three visits in 1981, 1984,
and 1987, living there for months at a time. For her, it was an utopian
moment, sharing young videomakers' aspirations and dreams for a better
life. - - LAS NICAS - (1986, 45 min, VHS, color, English and Spanish
Versions) - In 1981 and 1982, Julia Lesage and Carole Isaacs visited
Nicaragua and did in-depth audio interviews with women in the Managua
area in the early years following the Sandinista revolution. Here women
speak with hope about work, sexual politics, religion, family life,
children, social participation and defense. The tape integrates folk
music, popular music, and murals to show people's artistic expression of
these issues. - - LAMENTO - (1986, 12 min, VHS, black and white, Spanish
language with printed translation. Camera, Chuck Kleinhans. Image
processing, editing, direction, Julia Lesage) - In September 1984, Julia
Lesage and Chuck Kleinhans visited EstelÃ, Nicaragua, where
they shot extensive VHS footage of life in Sandinista Nicaragua. Here a
group of Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs offer their collective memory of
the last years of the Somoza regime and the role played by very young
fighters in overthrowing the dictator. - The footage was processed using
the Sandin Image Processor and edited in 3/4" video. - - ABOUT
JULIA LESAGE, Julia Lesage learned videomaking in Chicago through the
Center for New Television. Later she moved to the University of Oregon,
where she taught video production, screenwriting, and film theory and
criticism. She is also co-editor and co-founder of Jump Cut: A Review of
Contemporary Media, now an online publication. - - Admission:
$7.00-10.00 sliding scale
4/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 1
DESISTFILM (1954, 7 min, 16mm, sound) REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12
min, 16mm, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) 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. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) 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.
4/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 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. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) CAT'S CRADLE
(1959, 6 min, 16mm) SIRIUS REMEMBERED (1959, 12 min, 16mm) THE DEAD
(1960, 11 min, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives.) 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.
4/12
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
BEN RIVERS' "TWO YEARS AT SEA" +
Mr. Rivers is a young man from Brighton, England, who has newly awoken
the world to the ever-fresh possibilities of a hand-held Bolex. Against
all the odds, his humble, largely wordless 16mm b/w rolls were cut
together, blown up to 35mm, and screened to enthusiastic audiences in
theaters across the U.K. This careful, attentive feature doc is, simply
enough, a glimpse into the life of a middle-aged man who lives in the
middle of a Scottish forest. He is seen in all seasons, surviving
frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical
dream he had as a younger man. Opening are a couple of Rivers' earlier
shorts, The Creation As We Saw It and May Tomorrow Shine The
Brightest...
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
6:30 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
A CONJURING, A SLOW ACTING POISON - SHORT FILM/VIDEO
Moving between depictions of the real world and pure form, the films in
this screening are all engaged in some form of conjuring: from the
cinematic and historical incantations performed by Hiwa K in This Lemon
Tastes of Apple, to the hypnotic alpha and delta states produced in
Joshua Solondz's Prisoner's Cinema, to the shamanistic premonitions of a
healer in Vipin Vijay's Venomous Folds. Other films/videos by Karen
Yasinsky, Charlotte Pryce, Rhayne Vermette and Barry Doupe + Yota
Kobayashi.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1260&month=n
4/12
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
9:00 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
REMODELED BEYOND RECOGNITION - SHORT FILM/VIDEO
This program explores the production and deconstruction of image,
identity and space. Moving between the digital realm and the real world,
this selection of videos examines the representation and construction of
bodies and buildings, from the infamous story of Milli Vanilli's lip
sync scandal to a closing epilogue delivered by a crudely drawn Bart
Simpson. Films and videos by Ian Cheng, Oliver Laric, Joshua Romphf,
Benjamin Pearson, Jesse McLean, Juliane Henrich and Matthew Williamson.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1270&month=n
4/12
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
+SPACE OF SURVEILLANCE+ MICHAEL KLIERS THE GIANT (DER RIESE)
co-sponsored by U of A German Studies 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. Lyrically constructed
sequences unfold to the strains of Mahler and Wagner, adding an almost
heroic mood to this dark work.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014
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4/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 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
4/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 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.
4/13
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8PM - 9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS ANDY PULS
Andy Puls is a video artist, analog electronics designer, and
composer/musician. He runs the experimental media production studio,
"Whistlehut" in Richmond, CA, where he produces his own and others'
audio and visual recordings, and designs electronic audio and video
devices. His video work centers around live, intuitive, "no source"
visualizations. Using video hardware processing, camera feedback loops,
and video synthesis, he uncovers the inner-world landscapes existing
behind the scan-lines. His focus on live connection to the viewers, and
his direct interaction with sound -- working both solo, and in
collaboration with other live sound artists -- makes each performance
entirely unique to circumstance. For this performance, he will be using
newly created video devices and performing a live score using homemade,
and other electronic instruments.
4/13
San Francisco, California: Artist's Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/2014/04/mysterium-musicfilm-conversations-between-rick-bahto-paul-clipson/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. 94110
TRANSPARENT THINGS: MUSIC/FILM CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN RICK BAHTO & PAUL
CLIPSON
An evening of experimental films, music videos, and works on Super 8 and
16mm by Rick Bahto and Paul Clipson that feature their collaborations
with sound artists and musicians. Soundtracks include work by Julia
Holter (MARIENDBAD, FINALE, MAXIM'S l, WORLD), Tashi Wada (LIGHT YEAR),
Barn Owl (VOID REDUX), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (OTHER STATES, DIFFICULT
LOVES)) and Evan Caminiti (ABSTEIGEND) . Clipson's LIGHT YEAR and OTHER
STATES will be SF premieres on 16mm and Super 8mm. A conversation
between the filmmakers will follow the screening.
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
2:00 PM, Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street
DEBATE: IS ART SCHOOL KILLING ART?
Images, AluCine and Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO/RAMO) we have
assembled two esteemed panels that will debate (Oxford style! in a
pub!!) the implications and effects of the professionalization, through
academia, of art. Moderated by: Deanna Bowen Team Yes: Andrew
Lampert, Ross McLaren and Wanda Nanibush Team No: Omar Estrada, Paige
Sarlin and Kim Simon Co-presented with MANO/RAMO and AluCine Toronto
Latin Film + Media Arts Festival. http://www.mano-ramo.ca
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
5:00 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
LUCY RAVEN'S ON LOCATION PERFORMANCE/LECTURE
Lucy Raven's projects often take form through long threads of research,
cycling through a query and following different trajectories to arrive
at a finished film. These investigations, around topics both concrete
and abstract, oftentimes overlap, intertwine and commingle to create
bodies of related work. One end point to this is the illustrated
lecture-performance, a form in which Raven's image-making and research
are performed in an inquisitive and playful gesture of sharing research,
context and thinking out loud. Complementing her exhibition for the
festival, Curtains, Raven will be presenting one such lecture
performance which draws on many of her ongoing interests: labour,
industry, globalization and questions around the way we see. In this
work, Raven explores the location of production and the production of
location in Hollywood cinema. Beginning with the conversion from 2D to
3D of the apocalypse blockbuster 2012, On Location investigates the
history and context of labour in Hollywood, from the Fordist animation
factories of Fleischer and Disney to current trends of outsourcing
visual effects work to China and India.
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
6:30 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
FILM PROGRAM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR COLOUR BARS, GREEK POP SONGS, DIDACTIC
EYE-MAKEUP, ETC.
Why aren't more craters named after women. . . or experimental
filmmakers? From ancient Greece to the present day, cosmic concerns to
earthly endeavours, the works in this program are connected by wit and
subtle playfulness as well as a thoughtful relationship to material and
conceptual qualities of film and video. Works by Marisa Hoicka, Sophie
Michael, Chris Hoag, Ben Coonley, Amy Halpern, Lauren Cook and Alee
Peoples.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1264&month=n
4/13
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The Images Festival
http://www.imagesfestival.com/
8:30 PM, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
DUNCAN CAMPBELL + CHRIS MARKER/ALAIN RESNAIS
Duncan Campbell is known for his insightful films that use biographical
subjects to explore the political and historical contexts within which
they exist. At the core of these works is the recognition of the limits
of representation and a questioning of authority and intention in the
image. In It For Others, it is not a person but Chris Marker and Alain
Resnais' 1953 film Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die) that
becomes the subject around which Campbell builds his work. Like
Bernadette Devlin or John DeLorean in his earlier films, Campbell uses
Marker and Resnais' work as both a source and a point of departure to
construct a densely woven treatise on the life, death, consumption and
circulation of objects and images, and his film begins with an
essayistic reflection upon and recreation of Les statues meurent aussi.
Moving away from this narrative inquiry on the Western gaze, African
objects, ownership and meaning, the film's second segment consists of a
performance made in collaboration with the choreographer Michael Clark
in which the members of his company enact a choreographed illustration
of the movement of commodities and capital. Continuing its move outward
from its starting point, the film's second half provides us with
real-world illustrations of these ideas: filmed and appropriated images
of commodities and advertising, photographs of Ireland's civil war and
the transformation of revolutionary images into commodities at a Chinese
textile factory.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/calendar.php?event_id=1267&month=n
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