[Frameworks] This week [April 12 - 20, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Forbidden Film Festival (Austin, TX; Deadline: April 15, 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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The Picture Show (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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INSTA Media Festival (Knoxville, TN United States; Deadline: May 15, 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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SHORTini FILM FESTIVAL (Augusta, Italy; Deadline: May 15, 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)
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Artsfest Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: April 21, 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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Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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The Picture Show (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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INSTA Media Festival (Knoxville, TN United States; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Experiential Documentary [April 14, Austin, TX]
* Shelly Silver Intimate visions and Public
Spaces [April 14, Los Angeles, California]
* Epfc Invades Sfai [April 15, San Francisco, California]
* When I Stop Looking and Other Films By Todd
Herman [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Todd Herman's Film Screening At Meridian
Gallery - Rescheduled [April 16, San Francisco, California]
* Burning Bungalows: Experimental Film &
Animation On the Road From La [April 16, Tucson, AZ]
* Waldeinsamkeit [April 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Thom andersen: ReconversãO [April 17, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tooth and Nail - Reception For video Program [April 17, New York, NY]
* Selects From the Experimental Film Society [April 18, Brooklyn, New York]
* Chicago Underground Duo (Thrill Jockey Records) In the Sanctuary At
Second City [April 19, Harrisburg, PA]
* The Pattern of the World: Films By Paul
Clipson [April 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Show & Tell: Public Lighting [April 19, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Lacan Palestine [April 19, New York, New York]
* Erik Davis' The Flying Eyeball: Drugs, God, and California Design In the
Art of Rick Griffin + [April 19, San Francisco, California]
* Old Weird America: Music & Bbq!! [April 19, Tucson, AZ]
* Burning Bungalows: Experimental Film and
Animation From L.A. [April 20, Austin, TX]
* Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 3 [April 20, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Hoolboom Program 3 [April 20, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014
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4/14
Austin, TX: The Mad Stork Cinema
8:00pm, Texas Union Theater
EXPERIENTIAL DOCUMENTARY
Experiential and personal, humorous and unsettling, this program of
unconventional documentaries explores surveillance and human
relationships with the natural and animal worlds. - Draft 9, Dani
Leventhal, 28 min, SD video, 2003, Platonic, Dani Leventhal, 21 min, HD
video, 2013, Hacked Circuit, Deborah Stratman, 15 min, HD video, 2014,
Choreography, David Redmon & Ashley Sabine, 6 min, HD video, 2013
4/14
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SHELLY SILVER INTIMATE VISIONS AND PUBLIC SPACES
Touch (digital video, 68 min., 2013) Special Mention plus The
Intangible Heritage Award, Cinéma du Réel preceded by: What I'm Looking
For (digital video, 15 min, 2004) What I'm Looking For, the second volet
of Shelly Silver's trilogy of fictional essay films shot in public
spaces, explores the relationship between a female photographer and
subjects met on the Internet. In Touch, a gay man returns to New York
City's Chinatown after being away for 50 years to care for his dying
mother. Like him, the city has changed, and yet, the past still haunts
his familiar streets. While the man a librarian, homosexual,
Chinese-speaking is an invention of the filmmaker, "words make the
impossible imaginable, therefore possible," he says. The Chair of
Columbia University Visual Arts department and a 2005 John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation fellow, Shelly Silver explores contested
territories between public and private, narrative and documentary, the
watcher and the watched in both the still and the moving image. In
person: Shelly Silve
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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014
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4/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Art Institute
7:30 pm, 800 Chestnut St, Lecture Hall
EPFC INVADES SFAI
A program of films made by artists involved with the Echo Park Film
Center. Program: Compositions 1 (2013, 16mm) by Rick Bahto, Vulgarians
1, 2, 3 (2012, 3X16mm, shown today on video) by Cosmo Segurson, Passive
Anarchy (1998, 16mm) by Paolo Davanzo, Smudge Series (2013, 16mm) by Eve
LaFountain, Breather (2013, 16mm) Lisa Marr, Amani and Rae (2014, Super
8, shown today on video) by Ellie Parker, Them Oracles (2013, 16mm) Alee
Peoples, Four Films (2012, Super 8, shown today on video) by Pablo
Valencia, and LA Risingfm (2012, 16mm, shown today on video) by Walter
Vargas. Free show!
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014
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4/16
San Francisco, California: Meridian Gallery
http://meridiangallery.org/
7:30pm - 9:30pm, 535 Powell Street
WHEN I STOP LOOKING AND OTHER FILMS BY TODD HERMAN
MERIDIAN GALLERY is pleased to present works by film artist Todd Herman.
Herman's films look to a rare and disregarded beauty beyond our
divergent understandings of the human form. His work deals with themes
of the body and transience; sexual and representational taboos;
spectatorship and complicity. This evening's program will feature
several of Todd's short films including his most recent work WHEN I STOP
LOOKING. Herman has been the recipient of many awards for his work and
has presented his films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam,
San Francisco International Film Festival, Southbank Centre, Anthology
Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque, and Pacific Film Archives,
among others. Todd Herman in person. For more information about the
artist visit: www.todd-herman.com
4/16
San Francisco, California: Meridian Gallery
http://meridiangallery.org
RESCHEDULED - TBA, 535 POWELL STREET, SF CA
TODD HERMAN'S FILM SCREENING AT MERIDIAN GALLERY - RESCHEDULED
Todd Herman's film screening at Meridian Gallery on April 16th has been
rescheduled to a later date this year. Stay tuned!! For more information
visit: www.todd-herman.com
4/16
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
BURNING BUNGALOWS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM & ANIMATION ON THE ROAD FROM LA
Filmmakers in person! The second part of our series investigating new
work from regional hotbeds of experimental media. The artists write,
"With a handmade mix of animation and live action on video, super 8,
16mm and 35mm slides we're covering all the bases for an eclectic hour
and 20 minutes. The films tend toward an ethereal conjuring of spirits
with a dystopian punk attitude." Filmmakers Alee Peoples, Cosmo Serguson
& Abby Banks will be here in person to present this unusual assortment
of new work!
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014
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4/17
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films
http://www.balaganfilms.com
7:30pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street
WALDEINSAMKEIT
Rebounding from the sylvan charms of A Spell to Ward off the Darkness,
we've decided to unveil this melancholy program centered on
Waldeinsamkeit, or, woodland solitude. The forest has always sparked the
imagination of the lonely traveler, promising encounters with
tree-dwelling spirits, ferocious bandits, treacherous plantlife, and
feline royalty... During Transcedentalist times, it grew into a
benevolent zone of introspection and personal growth. And today, it has
gained the status of vestige signifying humanity's lost innocence. The
presented films touch upon some of these ideas in direct or oblique
ways, whether through exploring the endlessly compelling shapes of the
forest, the evolution of a solitary space across time, or the human's
place within. The lineup features a number of new international works
that innovatively utilize experimental techniques like pinhole
cinematography, screenprinting, layering of multiple exposures, and
timelapse; as well as a couple rarely-seen classics -- and a few
surprises. PROGRAM: Cinematographie - Philipp Fleischmann / Deep Red -
Esther Urlus / Kiri (Fog) - Takahiko Iimura / Wold Shadow - Stan
Brakhage / Mountain Home - Robert Schaller / Aspect - Emily Richardson /
Christ Church -- Saint James - Stephen Broomer / More TBA.
4/17
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60601
THOM ANDERSEN: RECONVERSãO
A master of the essay film, Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself)
turns his attention to the work of the Pritzker Prizewinning Portuguese
architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Considering built, unrealized, and
abandoned projects and using a stop-motion technique that emphasizes the
temporal dimension of architecture, Reconversão (2012) regards buildings
not as static objects but living things, subject to decay, death, and
even rebirth. (Museum of the Moving Image). 2012, Portugal/USA, Digital
Video, 65 min + discussion. Thom Andersen (b. 1943, Chicago) is a
filmmaker, curator, and scholar based in Los Angeles where he currently
teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Anderson has made
numerous short films including Melting (1965), Olivia's Place (1966) and
--- ------- (1967, in collaboration with Malcolm Brodwick). In 2003 he
completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation
of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award
for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film
Festival, and it was voted Best Documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice
Film Critics' Poll.
4/17
New York, NY: Vanity Projects
6:00pm, 99 Chrystie Street
TOOTH AND NAIL - RECEPTION FOR VIDEO PROGRAM
April 8th - May 8th, Reception April 17th from 6-9pm - Vanity Project
presents Tooth and Nail, a video program organized by artist Darrin
Martin of eighteen works exploring both real and virtual bodies
disrupted by cultural noise or the artifacts of their own making.
Oscillating between musical numbers and performance art in process,
representations of the human form are fractured or multiplied in some
cases to the point of abstraction. At times, the shifting points of view
suggest the subject of the videos are the viewers themselves. Videos and
films by Torsten Zenas Burns, Julia Litman-Cleper, Jen Cohen, Stephanie
Gray, Pete Hickok, Stephan Hillerbrand & Mary Magsamen, Desiree
Holman, Denise Iris, Aron Kantor, Torsten Kretchzmar, Jodie Mack, Darrin
Martin, Anne McGuire, Conrad M. Meyers II, Monica Panzarino, and
Benjamin Rosenthal with James Moreno. - Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary
Magsamen, "Whole" 2012, 3 minutes, Benjamin Rosenthal,
"Human, Next: Phase One" 2013-14, 12:17 minutes, Denise Iris,
"Sweetmeats" 2013, 4:40 minutes, Conrad M. Meyers II,
"Blight" 2012, 3 minutes, Torsten Z Burns, "Demoformances
2" 2013, 4:14 minutes, Pete Hickok, "Mani Mani Mani Mani (The
Finger)" 2013, 1:28 minutes, Julia Litman-Cleper, "Cube, pt
2," 2013, 1:43 min. - Denise Iris, "Increase the Joy"
from Minimentals, 2012, 0:26 minutes, Jen Cohen, "Go away, bad
dreams" 2014, 4:30 minutes - Monica Panzarino, "Sings The
Star-Spangled Banner" 2011, 3:20 minutes, Stephanie Gray,
"Kristy" 2003, 6:47 minutes, Julia Litman-Cleper, "AR
Parking Lot" 2014, 1:22 minutes, Anne McGuire, "After
Wegman" 2003, 3:30 min, Aron Kantor, "Hungry Hungry
Homos" 2013, 2:39 minutes, Jodie Mack, "Persian Pickles"
2012, 2:50 minutes, Torsten Kretchzmar, "Freddy McGuire--Lottery
Ticket" 2009, 3:48 minutes, Desiree Holman, excerpts from
"Close Contact" 2013, 5:03 minutes, Darrin Martin, "The
Casts" 2013, 6:21 minutes -
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014
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4/18
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
thepictureshow.org
7:30pm, 226 Green Street
SELECTS FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL FILM SOCIETY
Experimental Film Society (EFS) is an independent, not-for-profit entity
specializing in avant-garde, independent and no/low budget filmmaking.
It was founded in 2000 in Tehran, Iran by Rouzbeh Rashidi and has been
based in Dublin, Ireland since 2004. It unites works by a dozen
filmmakers scattered across the globe, whose films are distinguished by
an uncompromising, no-budget devotion to personal, experimental cinema.
With this selection of ten shorts, Michael Higgins and Rouzbeh Rashidi
-- themselves filmmakers, curators, and members of EFS -- put together a
presentation of visionary voices from Ireland, Iran, Spain, France, and
Switzerland, and bring them to Brooklyn, NY.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2014
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4/19
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate Harrisburg
7:30pm, Second City Church, 251 Verbeke Street
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO (THRILL JOCKEY RECORDS) IN THE SANCTUARY AT
SECOND CITY
SATURDAY APRIL 19th, 2014 - Chicago Underground Duo - The Chicago
Underground Duo is - Chad Taylor (plays with Iron and Wine, Stereolab,
Swell Season, Sam Prekop of the Sea and Cake, and many others) and - Rob
Mazurek (plays with Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Starlicker, Stereolab, Isotope 217) - LISTEN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZR9kv0p3FhQ -
ONLINE TICKETS HERE:
http://moviate.ticketleap.com/chicagoundergroundduo/ - $10,
4/19
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
THE PATTERN OF THE WORLD: FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON
$5 / Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often
collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live
performances, and installations. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring
to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while
working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered,
in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a
process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and
conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live
performance. The evening's program will feature two rare 16mm films and
a world premiere on Super 8mm: Untitled (2011) 16mm, color, 15 minutes,
silent. A rare to screen meditative study of San Francisco streets,
shadows and sunlight, starring musician Trevor Montgomery (Young Moon
and The Drift). BRIGHT MIRROR (2013) Super 8mm, 9 min., color/B&W, music
by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. A series of movements between a figure (Anya
Kamenskaya), a landscape (the Marin Headlands), and a camera (Super
8mm), blur into something between dance and the gesture of drawing.
Completed as part of a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
LIGHT YEAR (2013) 45 min., 16mm, silent. Extended version of a
commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium, as part of a Cinema
Artist residency, this film-collage studies the water systems and
architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and formal
contexts.
4/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: PUBLIC LIGHTING
Anthology welcomes Mike Hoolboom for three programs surveying his
diverse and challenging body of work. Hoolboom is a major figure in
contemporary Canadian experimental cinema, predominantly as a film- and
video-maker, but also as founder of the now-defunct magazine, THE
INDEPENDENT EYE, co-founder of the artist-run exhibition group, Pleasure
Dome, and author of numerous articles and books on avant-garde
filmmaking. An astonishingly prolific and restlessly searching artist,
Hoolboom has made over 50 films and videos since 1980, comprising short,
mid-length, and feature films, and running the gamut from found-footage
works and hand-processed films to experimental documentaries and home
movies. Since being diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989, Hoolboom's work
has gravitated towards themes involving the body, disease, AIDS
activism, and impermanence. In the words of critic Geoff Pevere, his
films and videos demonstrate "a consuming interest in navigating the
outer limits of perception, of language, of self, of mechanical
reproduction, of bodily sensation and experience (and most recently, and
surprisingly, of the discourse of nationhood)." These programs will
showcase his recent feature-length collage film, LACAN PALESTINE, as
well as the earlier feature, PUBLIC LIGHTING (2004) and a program of
short works from throughout his career. Special thanks to Jim Supanick.
This series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds
grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger
Lakes (www.NYSCA.org, www.eARTS.org). PROGRAM 1: PUBLIC LIGHTING 2004,
70 min, video This film examines the current media obsession with
biography, offering up "the six different kinds of personality" as case
studies and miniatures, possible examples. "Surpasses even the beauty of
his most recent work, IMITATIONS OF LIFE. Visually dense and hypnotic
while brimming with the kind of penetrating ideas one associates with
Godard, PUBLIC LIGHTING ponders the ways in which seeing and hearing
affect human consciousness." Robert Koehler, VARIETY
4/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: LACAN PALESTINE
LACAN PALESTINE 2012, 70 min, digital "Mining a wealth of material from
TV news, documentary, fiction, and fantasy film, LACAN PALESTINE is a
visual roller-coaster, with Hoolboom using cinema to suggest Palestine
as a place of recurring psychological-colonial-projection a space
whose conquest is here spectacularly re-lived in celluloid waves of
armed crusaders, legionnaires, Mongol horsemen, biplanes, and machine
guns. [
] Dizzying in its technical and conceptual density, LACAN
PALESTINE is truly incomparable cinema." Nick Denes, LONDON PALESTINE
FILM FESTIVAL "Hoolboom shows Palestine as the setting of a love story
without love with Moses, Abraham, and Jacques Lacan in the main
roles." JIHLAVA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
4/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
ERIK DAVIS' THE FLYING EYEBALL: DRUGS, GOD, AND CALIFORNIA DESIGN IN THE
ART OF RICK GRIFFIN +
OC is once again honored to host thee lightning-rod of "pulp mysticism",
our long-lost prodigal son Erik Davis, now returned to his SF
stomping-grounds after doctoral studies. In a compelling meta-commentary
on 60s West Coast counter-cultural identity, here Erik's slide-show
unpacks the complex personality and career of Rick Griffin, a true
California psychonaut who graduated from his surfer-boy beginnings
(Pacific Vibrations) to the higher states of psychedelic art, there to
develop the classic visual tropes, including the famous flying eyeball
of many a rock poster. Opening is Trashman, an eye-popping short on
Mission graphic legend Spain Rodriguez, a much-loved underground comix
artist of the same period. AND liquid light show by Josh Harper!
4/19
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
OLD WEIRD AMERICA: MUSIC & BBQ!!
Join us for an evening of juke joint merriment and street side BBQ as we
welcome acclaimed finger style guitarist Marisa Anderson from Portland.
Anderson's recent album Mercury (Mississippi Records) was heralded by
NPR as one of "5 New Guitar Records That Would Make John Fahey Proud"
and called "brilliant" by Pitchfork.com. Opening the show is Ohioan
mastermind Ryne Warner, bringing his own stripped down take on
traditional music forms.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2014
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4/20
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7:00pm, Tiny Park, 1101 Navasota
BURNING BUNGALOWS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND ANIMATION FROM L.A.
Burning Bungalows brings new and unseen experimental film from Los
Angeles on the road this coming April. With a handmade mix of animation
and live action on video, super 8, 16mm and 35mm slides we're covering
all the bases for an eclectic hour and 20 minutes. The films tend toward
an ethereal conjuring of spirits with a dystopian punk attitude. With
filmmakers Abby Banks, Alee Peoples, and Cosmo Segurson in person! -
Full details:
http://www.ercatx.org/april-20th-burning-bungalows-experimental-film-and
-animation-from-l-a/
4/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 3
All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 min, 16mm) PASHT (1965, 5 min,
16mm) FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) THE HORSEMAN, THE
WOMAN AND THE MOTH (1968, 19 min, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29
min, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 min, 16mm. Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives.) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4
min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) THE SHORES OF
PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 min, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's
most densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 95 min.
4/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: HOOLBOOM PROGRAM 3
BUFFALO DEATH MASK (2013, 23 min, digital) A conversation with Canadian
painter Stephen Andrews returns us to a pre-cocktail moment, when being
HIV+ afforded us the consolation of certainty. DAMAGED (2002, 9 min,
digital) A 9-minute portrait of an indecisive man related in 18 decisive
moments. FRANK'S COCK (1993, 8 min, 16mm) "In the simplest of frames, in
monologue, Callum Rennie plays a man remembering his lover lost to AIDS.
[
] Eight minutes of pure, perfect cinema." Cameron Bailey, NOW
MAGAZINE RAIN (2003, 5 min, digital) "Hoolboom's restlessly intelligent
film is broken up into ten parts, each revolving around issues of
representation, eventually narrowing into a sort of treatise on the
Hollywood dream factory and its impact on how we imagine the future.
Total running time: ca. 50 min.
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