[Frameworks] This week [April 18 - 26, 2014] in avant garde cinema
Scott Stark
sstark at hi-beam.net
Sat Apr 19 17:36:10 UTC 2014
This week [April 18 - 26, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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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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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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Inte. Independent Film Festival (Rome, Italy; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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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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The Journal of Short Film Volume 34 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: May 02, 2014)
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Ottawa Internaitonal Animation Festival (Ottawa, ON, Canada; Deadline: May 18, 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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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* Shoot Yourself: Artists In their Own Light [April 21, Austin, TX]
* Small New Films [April 21, Los Angeles, CA]
* Small New Films [April 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Early Monthly Segments #62 = Monday, April 21, 2014 = Mark Lapore [April 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Fire Light [April 22, Chicago, Illinois]
* Katy Martin: Local Color [April 22, New York, NY]
* Canyon Cinema Salon With Lawrence Jordan [April 23, San Francisco, CA]
* {Extreme Southern Culture Part 4} Benjamin Smoke [April 23, Tucson, AZ]
* Domesticity, A Micro-Festival (Program A) [April 24, Brooklyn, New York]
* Basma Alsharif: DoppelgäNging [April 24, Chicago, Illinois]
* La Air: Chloe Reyes [April 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Film virus [April 24, New York, New York]
* Prospectif CinéMa Presents Peter Miller [April 24, Paris, France]
* Julius Ziz &Amp; Louis Benassi (4 Films With Artists In Attendance) [April 24, Paris, France]
* Domesticity, A Micro-Festival (Program B) [April 25, Brooklyn, New York]
* New Restorations and Discoveries From Center For visual Music [April 26, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY]
* Walter Ungerer; Experimental Filmmaker [April 26, Belfast, Maine, USA]
* Walter Ungerer-Recent Films [April 26, Belfast, Maine, USA]
* Domesticity, A Micro-Festival (Program C) [April 26, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Return of the End of Ny: Films By Nick Zedd [April 26, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Text of Light [April 26, New York, New York]
* Contested San Francisco + [April 26, San Francisco, California]
* Avant - Az !! Experimental Media From Tucson [April 26, Tucson, AZ]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014
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4/21
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
8:00pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 E Manor Rd
SHOOT YOURSELF: ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN LIGHT
Fusebox Festival and Experimental Response Cinema present: SHOOT
YOURSELF: Artists in their own light. What is it that draws artists to
stand in front of their own lenses? Perhaps it's vanity\; perhaps it's
having a convenient and willing body, or perhaps it's just the draw of
the limelight, a way to manufacture their own 15 minutes of fame. Or
maybe it's a chance to reveal, in a public way, something personal that
only the unblinking neutrality of the mechanical eye can expose. The
film and video artists in this program point their cameras at themselves
to frame their explorations of body, psyche, sexuality and social
construct. Featuring works by Lori Felker, Jeroen Offerman, Sharon
Hayes, Miranda July, Kate Hers, Bridget Irish, Jun Jalbuena, Dara
Greenwald, Amaranta Sanchez, Scott Stark and Ekrem Serdar. Programmed by
Scott Stark.
4/21
Los Angeles, CA: REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd Street
SMALL NEW FILMS
Since 2002, the Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) has been an influential
proponent of small-gauge film, particularly Super 8mm and 8mm. This
survey of handmade films affirms the independent spirit of the EPFC
community in an aesthetically eclectic range of works from personal
diary films to cross-disciplinary collaborations, from documentary
portraiture to hand-processed abstraction. Drawing on young
experimenters from the center's education and residency programs as well
as artists commissioned to make brand-new films for EPFC's 12-year
anniversary, the program includes films by Rick Bahto, Ursula Brookbank,
Kate Brown, Paul Clipson, Hayley Elliott, Marilyn Hernandez, Ellie
Parker, John Porter, Chloe Reyes, Martine Syms, Penelope Uribe-Abee, and
Pablo Valencia, all projected from Super 8 or 8mm camera originals.
4/21
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
SMALL NEW FILMS
Since 2002, the Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) has been an influential
proponent of small-gauge film, particularly Super 8mm and 8mm. This
survey of handmade films affirms the independent spirit of the EPFC
community in an aesthetically eclectic range of works from personal
diary films to cross-disciplinary collaborations, from documentary
portraiture to hand-processed abstraction. Drawing on young
experimenters from the center's education and residency programs as well
as artists commissioned to make brand-new films for EPFC's 12-year
anniversary, the program includes Kate Brown's 4X3, Marilyn Hernandez's
Perforated Damage, Alee Peoples' Waxing and Milking, a film for two
projectors by Rick Bahto, and shorts by Paul Clipson, Chloe Reyes and
Pablo Valencia—all projected from Super 8 or 8mm camera originals. In
person: Rick Bahto, Kate Brown, Marilyn Hernandez, Alee Peoples, Chloe
Reyes and Pablo Valencia Program curated by Rick Bahto
4/21
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #62 = MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 = MARK LAPORE
Mark LaPore brought a deeply felt criticality to documentary film,
particularly in relation to its more anthropological tendencies. A
filmmaker and teacher based in Boston, his films stood out for their
caustic take on what Mark McElhatten refers to as the "equivocal bad
conscience of ethnography", a brave position even in a town known for
expanding the possibilities of documentary form. Today, almost ten years
after his sudden death, his work seems even more apropos in relation to
the pronounced ethnographic turn in recent experimental films. A
wanderer by nature, LaPore's travels drove him to make films in the
Sudan, India and Sri Lanka. Unlike many of his more traditional peers
who attempted to salvage cultural purities before they disappeared,
LaPore was early to realize and articulate the effect immigration,
globalization and capitalism were having on the Western distinction of
us and them. His films reflected that emerging cultural hybridity,
particularly on how this decentred ideas of the West itself, by both
questioning and reinforcing the distance between subject and searcher.
The films in this program (including a brand new print of Five Bad
Elements from the Academy Film Archive) are specific examples of this
line of inquiry, amplified by a central concern of LaPore's, the
"trouble with representation as incomplete understanding." Programme:
The Sleepers, Mark LaPore, 1989, USA, 16mm, 16 min Five Bad Elements,
Mark LaPore, 1997, USA, 16mm, 32 min. The Glass System, Mark LaPore,
2000, USA, 16mm, 20 min. @ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom | 1214 Queen St
West Monday April 21, 2014 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested
donation
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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014
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4/22
Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400 + The Nightingale Cinema
http://gallery400.uic.edu/events/screenings-fire-light
8 pm, 1084 N Milwaukee
FIRE LIGHT
The warmth of your love is like the warmth of the sun and this will be
our year took a long time come Following five wonderful exhibitions at
Gallery 400, a series of works for the screen by graduating Masters of
Fine Arts candidates from the School of Art & Art History at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. Featuring works by: Alejandro T.
Acierto, Erik Allen, Colleen Keihm, Chris Little, Jesse Malmed, Melissa
Myser, Hanna M. Owens (with Kelly Thomas), Courtney Prokopas, Jonathan
Loïc Rogers, Matt Shaw, Jenyu Wang.
4/22
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7:00pm, Filmmakers Co-op, 475 Park Ave South
KATY MARTIN: LOCAL COLOR
The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents, Katy Martin: Local Color, An
Exhibition of New Digital Prints, April 22nd - May 22nd - Opening
Reception on Tuesday, April 22nd at 7pm, With a Screening of Martin's
Film and Video Work at 8 pm - At the Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475 Park
Ave South (at 32nd St.), 6th Floor, Suggested Donation $10
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
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4/23
San Francisco, CA: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7:00pm, New Nothing Cinema - 16 Sherman Street
CANYON CINEMA SALON WITH LAWRENCE JORDAN
Canyon Cinema Foundation is honored to spend an evening Wednesday April
23rd with Canyon founder, magician and visual alchemist Lawrence Jordan.
- The Canyon Cinema Salon is a FREE public event at New Nothing Cinema
(16 Sherman Street in SOMA). Doors open at 7pm for a brief reception and
doors close promptly at 7:30pm to begin the show. - The Program -
Lawrence will discuss and screen Solar Sight II and III and provide a
live animation demonstration. Consider this a visit to his virtual
studio in San Francisco – this evening is not to be
missed! - Solar Sight II (2012) 10 minutes | color | sound | 16mm - Many
of the approaches to the cut-out material are the same as in part I,
however II is a much different film. It is more meditative. It has a
somewhat slower pace. I tried to let the cut-outs float more gracefully.
Again, John Davis' music forms an integral part of the meditation. I
have used that word ‘meditation' because that is how
some very astute friends of mine described it to me on first viewing. -
The approach is partly planned, partly improvised under the camera.
There has been little or no editing outside the camera for many years in
my animation. All effects are done in camera. - Solar Sight III (2013)
16 minutes | color | sound | 16mm - In Solar Sight III I have continued
the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own
"romantic-with-an-edge" slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are sometimes
run-on, sometimes separated by brief periods of darkness to relax, as in
breathing, the viewing eye. There are no fancy superimpositions now, nor
excessive visual trickery–only a comparatively
straight forward presentation of the improbable images, which have
formed themselves in my improbable mind. - Live animation demonstration,
Ever wonder how Lawrence Jordan makes his films? Come and see for
yourself! - For more details please see the announcement on our website
http://canyoncinema.com/2014/04/07/canyon-cinema-salon-with-lawrence-jor
dan-april-23rd/ - https://www.facebook.com/events/1387859881494878/
4/23
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
{EXTREME SOUTHERN CULTURE PART 4} BENJAMIN SMOKE
Filmed over ten years and released in 2000, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's
film, Benjamin Smoke documents the tortured life and career of the
Atlanta based musician Robert Dickerson, aka Benjamin Smoke. Dickerson
was a drug addicted, HIV positive gay misfit who died in 1991, and who
fronted several local underground bands, including Smoke and the Opal
Foxx Quartet. Filmed largely in and around the Cabbagetown neighborhood
of Atlanta, the film profiles an artist who literally gave it all for
his art.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014
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4/24
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://thepictureshow.org
7:30pm, 226 Green Street
DOMESTICITY, A MICRO-FESTIVAL (PROGRAM A)
Kids, tea-kettles, super 8, ghosts! The second open-call here at The
Picture Show, "domesticity" was about finding works that look at the
familiar household, even as they estrange from it; films that are
respectfully nostalgic, yet acknowledge the inherent discomfort in the
backwards glance; films that find the humdrum terrain of a house as a
map to untold stories. Then there are those humorous few shorts for
which home-sweet-home is a place to actively re-contextualize objects
and 'assumptions of [our] phantoms.' With films by: Michael Bucuzzo /
Sasha Waters Freyer / Roshanak Elmendorf / Yaron Lapid / Spring Cleaning
Collective / Georg Anthony Svatek / Unknown Artist! / Karissa Hahn /
Anja Dornieden and Juan David González
4/24
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago, IL 60601
BASMA ALSHARIF: DOPPELGäNGING
Basma Alsharif's sharp, seductive films have often been informed by
Palestine's history, its contemporary political situation, and the
conflicted experiences of those who call it home (whether or not they
live there). She returns to CATE with a collection of recent films that
explore bilocation—the act of being in multiple places at once—a state
of being she uses to describe Palestinian identity, as well as cinema
itself. The program offers the possibility of bilocating through the
visceral experience of drone-glitched TV and teenage cello lessons in
Home Movies Gaza (2013); a rhyming exercise in the Panathenaic Stadium
in Girls Only (2014); a stroboscopic oral history in Farther Than the
Eye Can See (2012); and a hypnosis-inducing pan-geographic shuttle in
Deep Sleep (2014), a film/performance. Presented in collaboration with
Video Data Bank. 2012–14, Canada/Gaza Strip/Greece/Malta/United Arab
Emirates, multiple formats, ca 70 min + discussion. Basma Alsharif (b.
1983, Kuwait) is a visual artist working between cinema and installation
whose work concerns the human condition as it is related to the
subjective experience of political history. Since receiving her MFA from
the University of Illinois in Chicago in 2007, she has shown her work in
solo exhibitions, biennials, and film festivals internationally,
including Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Jerusalem
Show, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, Videobrasil, and
Manifesta 8.
4/24
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
LA AIR: CHLOE REYES
LA AIR is an artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles
filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a
four-week period. Chloe Reyes is an alumnus of Echo Park Film Center
youth program, her films have shown in festivals including $100 Fest and
Toronto Film Festival. Her program for LA AIR will intertwine family
stories and neighborhood places to re-contextualize a bicultural
upbringing in the suburbs of North Hollywood. From a grandmother's
reminiscence on old Hollywood to a father's reflection on his small
hometown in Zacatecas, these short films will include experiments in
hand-made emulsion and alterations in photochemical processes. Free
event!
4/24
New York, New York: The William Burroughs Centenary Festival
8 PM, 131 E. 10th Street
FILM VIRUS
Nick Zedd , making a rare appearance from his base in Mexico City will
present recent videos as well as early work, in a show with Andre
Perkowski. Among recent work he will present the United States premiere
of THE EXTREMIST MANIFESTO as well as Paintings (2011) a film of his
xenomorphic entities with music by Dr Fanatik. Other titles to be shown
include No Plague Like Home, a controversial episode of the acclaimed
Electra Elf series, exploring the 9/11 inside job, sub-dermal implants
and the effects of alpha waves on tv viewers. This episode deconstructs
the superhero genre, narrative television and is detourned from several
unusual sources, combining found footage with original material shot for
the series. Also to be shown; Ecstasy In Entropy, a film from 1999
starring Annie Sprinkle, Taylor Mead, Brenda Bergman, World Famous Bob,
Mike Diana and others. Finally, Mr. Zedd will present Police State, a
film from 1987 which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in. It is
a black comedy about police brutality based on real events starring
Willoughby Sharp, Flip Crowley and Rockets Redglare.
4/24
Paris, France: Centre Pompidou
http://goo.gl/yvwtZi
8pm, Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France
PROSPECTIF CINéMA PRESENTS PETER MILLER
Prospectif Cinéma presents a program of eight new films and videos by
Peter Miller: "Film Path", 16mm, 6 minutes, b/w sound; "Eidola", HD
video, 6 minutes, b/w silent; "GLYPHS", HD video, 3 minutes, color,
sound; "A film that removes you from you", 16mm, 3 minutes, b/w, sound;
"A film that knows the future before you do", 16mm, 6 min, color,
silent; "A film that returns you to you", 16mm, 3 minutes, b/w, sound;
"Vision II", 16mm, 10 minutes, color, silent; "Stained Glass", 16mm, 10
minutes, color, sound by Toby Driver.
4/24
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8:30pm, Cinema La Clef
JULIUS ZIZ & LOUIS BENASSI (4 FILMS WITH ARTISTS IN ATTENDANCE)
Julius ZIZ et Louis BENASSI viendront présenter quelques-uns de
leurs films respectifs, ainsi qu'une récente
co-réalisation.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
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4/25
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://thepictureshow.org
7:30pm, 226 Green Street
DOMESTICITY, A MICRO-FESTIVAL (PROGRAM B)
Kids, tea-kettles, super 8, ghosts! The second open-call here at The
Picture Show, "domesticity" was about finding works that look at the
familiar household, even as they estrange from it; films that are
respectfully nostalgic, yet acknowledge the inherent discomfort in the
backwards glance; films that find the humdrum terrain of a house as a
map to untold stories. Then there are those humorous few shorts for
which home-sweet-home is a place to actively re-contextualize objects
and 'assumptions of [our] phantoms.' With films by: Julie Perini /
Siobhan Landry / Michael Walsh / Lisa Truttman / Adam Sekuler / Sean
Hanley & Katie Fleming / Clint Enns / Michael Davis / Lynne Sachs / Kai
Hoyme / Zachary Epcar
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014
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4/26
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/NewRestorationsProgram.html
7 pm, Ottaway Theatre, Bard College
NEW RESTORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES FROM CENTER FOR VISUAL MUSIC
The John Cage Trust and Bard College Conservatory of Music present New
Restorations and Discoveries from Center for Visual Music, April 26.
From absolute film to psychedelia, this program of revelatory moments
from the history of visual music and kinetic art explores lost,
legendary and rare treasures from the archives of Center for Visual
Music (CVM). Featuring the east coast premiere of the newly discovered
film by John Cage and Richard Lippold, The Sun Film (1956), about the
kinetic art sculpture. Rare works by Jordan Belson include his infamous
LSD (1962); a presentation reel from the legendary San Francisco Vortex
Concerts (1959) and Quartet (1983). Early films by Oskar Fischinger, an
influence on Cage, Belson and many others, include Ornament Sound (1932)
and newly preserved 35mm prints of Spirals and Studie nr 5. Made in
upstate New York, Turn, Turn, Turn (1966) by Jud Yalkut is 'a kinetic
alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicolas Schöffer, Julio Le
Parc, USCO, and Nam June Paik' with sound by USCO.' Plus films by
Charles Dockum and Mary Ellen Bute. The program, featuring many newly
preserved 16mm and 35mm prints, will be introduced by curator/archivist
Cindy Keefer of CVM. Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, will
introduce The Sun Film by Cage and Lippold. Free admission, no
reservations required. Full title list and film descriptions at
http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/NewRestorationsProgram.html
4/26
Belfast, Maine, USA: Aarhus Gallery
http://www.aarhusgallery.com/
7:30 PM, 50 Main St.
WALTER UNGERER; EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER
Please join us for an evening of experimental film with filmmaker Walter
Ungerer Saturday April 26 at 7:30pm, with a Q&A after the show. Light
refreshments. Walter Ungerer was born in 1935 in Harlem, New York. He is
a longtime filmmaker with an international reputation. Beginning with
the underground film scene of NYC in the early 1960s, Walter continues
with his experimental short films, videos and features to this day. With
fifty years of filmmaking, video, computer, and media experience, Walter
Ungerers' works have been well received at festivals and competitions
throughout the world, to name a few: the Florence International Film
Festival, the Tours International Film Festival, France, the Athens
International Film Festival (Best Feature Film) and the Atlantic Film
and Video Festival, NS, Canada (Critics' Choice Award). He has been
honored with special exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
City and the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam as well as several other impressive
venues. He has also received among other grants and awards, an American
Film Institute Independent Filmmaker grant and a National Endowment for
the Arts Media grant. Walter's methods have changed somewhat since his
early years of filmmaking. At the end of the twentieth century he made
the transition to computer editing systems and dslr cameras.
Nonetheless, he still relies on an intuitive approach to decision making
with a predilection for the themes of nature, earth, the unknown and
unknowable. Saturday April 26, 2014 at 7:30pm
4/26
Belfast, Maine, USA: Aarhus Gallery
www.aarhusgallery.com
6:00 PM, 50 Main Street
WALTER UNGERER-RECENT FILMS
Walter Ungerer will present a selection of his recent films; short films
completed within the last three years. Included in the program: MONARDA,
PARVA SED APTA MIHI, GREEN EYE, ICI, and NO.COM.
4/26
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://thepictureshow.org
7:30pm, 226 Green Street
DOMESTICITY, A MICRO-FESTIVAL (PROGRAM C)
The last of our three-program micro-festival around the theme of
"domesticity," tonight's film & performance center around the act of
looking back at what was, and re-contextualizing nostalgia. This
includes Laura Bouza's documentary of eight now-elderly
housewife-dancers, as well as a live performance by photographer-writer
duo Dick Blau and Jane Gallop, who use words and images to share what
family life looks like when 'living with a camera.' This evening, 'home'
is where the time went. "Eight Women" / Laura Bouza / 29 min & "Thicker
Than Water: My Family in Photographs (1968-2014)" / Dick Blau and Jane
Gallop / Live performance approx. 45 min
4/26
Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7 pm, 119 Ingraham Street
THE RETURN OF THE END OF NY: FILMS BY NICK ZEDD
NYC legend Nick Zedd visits from Mexico to show his original 16mm
classics Police State, Ecstasy In Entropy and Why Do You Exist. Starring
Taylor Mead, Annie Sprinkle, Brenda Bergman, Kembra Pfahler, Little
Annie, Dr. Ducky Doolittle, Solange Monnier, Daryl Free, Gene Suicide,
Joey Zero and others. The gallery space, Brooklyn Fireproof 104 will
also be exhibiting recent paintings by Nick Zedd and John O'Grodnick
with an opening on the 25th at 6 pm.
4/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives. Brakhage's tour-de-force exploration of refracted light in an
ashtray. "All that is, is light." –Johannes Scotus Erigena
4/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
CONTESTED SAN FRANCISCO +
Kicking off our Scritti Politti triptych, guest MC Leslie Dreyer--at the
center of many anti-gentri actions, as well as their video
documentation--affords us the righteous pleasure of reviewing them as a
chronology of popular resistance against the invasion of our
neighborhood by speculators, developers, and Great White Google buses.
Leslie and her Heart of the City cohorts perform on-the-spot narration
to their inspired interventions, providing crucial information on the
displacement epidemic that is rolling over the neighborhood. ALSO in the
house are advocates from the SF Tenants Union, partial beneficiaries of
door and bar monies, so come with a thirst for sangria and locally
crafted beer! In second half, we broaden our focus to again embrace the
particular psycho-geographic reasons why we live here in the first
place, including the SF debut of Sam Green/Andy Black's single-channel
Study of Fog, Veronica Majano's legendary Calle Chula, Whispered
Media/Peter Plate's Realtors' Tour, and, yes, our Google bus dart-board.
4/26
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
AVANT - AZ !! EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA FROM TUCSON
Our first annual showcase of experimental media from Tucson. Come see a
burgeoning blowout of homespun excellence ranging from experimental
animation to music videos to poetic meditations to multi-screen video
performance. Featuring several premieres and including the work of:
Heather Gray, Tom Michelson, Nika Kaiser, Steev Hise & Adam
Cooper Terán, Cathy de la Cruz, Claire Mirocha, Yuri Makino, Liz Burke,
Gary Setzer, Manuel Abril, Jacob Bricca, Alex Von Bergen, Andrew Shuta,
Ari Palos & Eren McGinnis, Rory O'Rear and more.
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