[Frameworks] This week [April 26 - May 4, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Experimental Filmmaking Course
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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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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES SCIENCES ET CINÉMAS
(RISC) INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(Marseille, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Greenvoice video campaign (Geneva, Switzerland; Deadline: May 04, 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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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 31, 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)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1681.ann
WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Ottawa Internaitonal Animation Festival (Ottawa,
ON, Canada; Deadline: May 18, 2014)
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landlocked film festival (iowa city; Deadline: May 31, 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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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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(RISC) INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(Marseille, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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]
* The Return of the End of New York: 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]
* Let Your Light Shine: Jodie Mack In Person! [April 27, Austin, Texas]
* Highlights From the Academic Ciné-Club
Belgrade, 1960-1980 [April 27, Los Angeles, California]
* My Gaze /// Yr Gaze * Denah A. Johnston [April 27, Oakland, CA]
* The Art of Collision: Montage Films By Henry
Hills [April 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Memoirs of An Angel (2014) and Other Films - An Evening With Bruce
Baillie [April 28, Oakland, CA]
* Mex-Parismental 9° [April 29, Paris, France]
* Mex-Parismental // 9ÈMe ÉDition [April 29, Paris, France]
* Symmetries and Abstractions: Films and
videos By Scott Stark [April 30, Chicago, IL]
* Peter Emanuel Goldman's Echoes of Silence [April 30, New York, NY]
* Shorts 5: Experimental: Looking Glass [April 30, San Francisco, CA]
* A Few Favorite Short Films From Eff Portland
In Seattle [April 30, Seattle, Washington]
* Open Screen [May 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Spcl Ntrst [May 3, Baltimore, MD]
* Burning Bungalows [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* In and Out of Afghanistan [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* Henry Hills: Rhythmic States [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
Brooklyn, New York: with Millennnium Film Workship
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery #104, 119 Ingraham Street
THE RETURN OF THE END OF NEW YORK: FILMS BY NICK ZEDD
Film-maker in Person. Co-presented with Millennium Film Workshop at
Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery #104. $8 admission. Millennium members $6.
Microscope Gallery and Millennium Film Workshop are pleased to present a
night of original 16mm film Cinema of Transgression classics by NYC
legend Nick Zedd, who is visiting from Mexico City. Program includes:
"Police State". (1987)18 min (16mm) A black comedy about the abuse of
power, exposing in all its ugliness, the callousness and corruption of
the criminal justice system and its impact on those who don't conform to
approved cultural stereotypes. "Ecstasy In Entropy" 1999) 15 min (16mm,
audio cassette sound). A group of warrior lap dancers struggle to
overthrow the authoritarian structures of corporate state capitalism.and
"Why Do You Exist". (1998)11 min (16mm audio cassette sound) A series of
closeups of real urban "types" in which the camera is returned to its
Edison-era status as a simple recording device. Among those starring in
the films are Taylor Mead, Annie Sprinkle, Brenda Bergman, Kembra
Pfahler, Little Annie, Dr. Ducky Doolittle, Darryl Free, Gene Suicide,
Joey Zero and others. Nearest Subway Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street L.
info at microscopegallery.com, tel: 347.925.1433.
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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SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014
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4/27
Austin, Texas: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
6pm, 2906 Fruth St.
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: JODIE MACK IN PERSON!
Experimental Response Cinema, in collaboration with the Blaffer Art
Museum, is excited to present the acclaimed program that's touring
the nation with Jodie Mack in person! Featuring a live performance by
the filmmaker of Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project! "As far
as arriving on a national scene, Jodie Mack must be considered
2013's breakout star of the avant-garde. With no less than five new
works premiering this calendar year alone, the infectiously animated
Mack makes films of equally enchanting, ...hand-crafted care. Combining
elements analog animation, stop-motion miscellany, performance art
physicality, and rock opera histrionics, the forty-five-minute Dusty
Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project, serenaded by Mack's live vocal
re-imagining of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, is not only the
young filmmaker's most ambitious project to date, but also a
monument to familial economics and a dizzying in-person A/V experience
in its own right." - Fandor. Full details here:
http://www.ercatx.org/
april-27th-let-your-light-shine-jodie-mack-in-person
4/27
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ACADEMIC CINé-CLUB BELGRADE, 1960-1980
Curator Greg de Cuir, Jr. in person This program presents some of the
groundbreaking films from the history of the club (later re-named
Academic Film Center), much of which has not been screened in
international settings in a number of decades, providing a glimpse into
an invisible history of avant-garde ciné-club culture from a forgotten
region. Tickets are free for this show, with a suggested donation to
cover expenses.
4/27
Oakland, CA: n/a
7:00pm, 4304 West Street
MY GAZE /// YR GAZE * DENAH A. JOHNSTON
n/a is very excited to present a selection of shorts by denah a.
johnson, director of operations at the canyon cinema foundation. this
special presentation features works on 16mm motion picture film: - this
is it by james broughton (1971) 10 min. - scar tissue by su friedrich
(1979) 7 min. - geography of the body by willard maas (1943) 7 min. - a
visit to indiana by curt mcdowell (1970) 10 min. - amphetamine by warren
sonbert (1966) 10 min. - chiquitita and the soft escape by michael
robinson (2003) 10 min. - no no nooky TV by barbara hammer (1987) 12
min. - removed by naomi uman (1999) 6 min. - invocation of my demon
brother by kenneth anger (1969) 11 min. - this program is co-presented
by canyon cinema foundation - my gaze / / / yr gaze is a screening
program that explores what cinema seen through a queer perspective can
tell us about itself, ourselves, the worlds we live in, and the worlds
we imagine. it is curated by irwin swirnoff. - / - denah a. johnston is
a san francisco based filmmaker, writer and teacher and director of
operations at canyon cinema foundation. her first book no future now: a
nomadology of resistance and subversion was released in spring 2012. an
editor for agnèsfilms.com, she is always on the lookout for new
and challenging works on female filmmakers. her current research
explores cinema produced by women, transcending gendered representations
in the production of their work regardless of form or substance. -
www.denahjohnston.com - / - irwin swirnoff (b. pheonix 1977, lives in
the bay area) received his mfa from the san francisco art institute, and
teaches in the cinematic arts department at cal state university
monterey bay. - using film, photography, creative writing, and his
background in zine & d.i.y. culture, he creates intimate work with a
queer sensibility, exploring intimacy, longing, loss, desire,
physicality, sexuality, and the constant struggle to remain in the here
and now. a longtime dj, he's hosted the popular radio show, sleeves on
hearts and served as the music director of kusf 90.3fm, in san
francisco. - irwin's work has been shown throughout the united states
and europe at festivals like outfest, the new york film fest, frameline,
seattle queer film festival, toronto inside out, etcetera, and he's been
featured in the new york times, sf weekly, maximum rock n roll, punk
planet, and the bold italic. -
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MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014
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4/28
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 W 2nd S
THE ART OF COLLISION: MONTAGE FILMS BY HENRY HILLS
In person: Henry Hills. Uncovering the ethereal in the mundane and the
abstract in the naturalistic, Henry Hills activates a heightened
attentiveness in viewers through his signature use of montage-intensely
concentrated, rhythmically complex, and replete with eccentric wit.
Porter Springs 3 (6 min, silent, 1977) This "painterly" work consists of
basically one image: reflections of trees on the lake broken by a line
of waterlillies, an hallucinatory love poem. These beautiful,
intricately animated reflections were unfortunately shot in ECO which
has proved to be remarkably unstable, turning blue before an
internegative was made. Therefore, this is one of only three prints of
this "elegant and serene experience" (Pat O'Neill). Kino Da! (2 min,
1980) Shot in sync with wind-up Bolex. Sound recording: Mark McGowan.
Portrait of North Beach Communist cafe poet & gentle comrade, Jack
Hirschman: KINO DA! (ah, ke, ke) KINO DA! The Dead die die dada low king
quanto zong MOVE! (ur, ur) Grey todays it-a clear to the quick ear,
quicker z'heels The Poe (pay, po, pee, pick-pick), nuf of "D" yet Call
Vertov (beep, beep)... Money (15 min, 1985) Filmed primarily on the
streets of Manhattan for the ambient sounds and movements and occasional
pedestrian interaction to create a rich tapestry of swirling colors and
juxtaposed architectural spaces in deep focus and present the intense
urban over-flowing energy that is experience living here. Money is
thematically centered around a discussion of economic problems facing
avant-garde artists in the Reagan era. Discussion, however, is
fragmented into words and phrases and reassembled into writing. Little
Lieutenant (7 min, 1994) A look back at the late Weimar era with its
struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece.
Scored to John Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song, "Little
Lieutenant of the Loving God," and drawing its imagery both from the
original song and its somewhat idiosyncratic rearrangement, the film
presents an internal reading of Silvers' solo scored to the same musical
piece, "Along the Skid Mark of Recorded History." Closely following the
Zorn arrangement, the film was storyboarded in 30 scenes (the
arrangement changes approximately every four measures) and principally
shot in a small studio employing rear projection, with foreground
movement choreographed to interact with the projected imagery which
reflects themes apparent in the song and its arrangement. Failed States
(10 min, 2008) Conceived, directed, shot, & edited by Henry Hills "Guru
Guru Gatha" performed by Jackson Mac Low Boys love to spin until they
collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Preparations for
renegotiating the Nonproliferation Treaty. "arcana" (30 min, 2010) A
30-minute cut-up epic that takes footage - both found and shot by the
filmmaker - and crosses it in an almost arithmetic manner with a
pre-arranged soundtrack. The basis is a written film treatment of the
musician John Zorn, in which 254 scenes, bundled into 15 sequences, are
captured in short, sometimes cryptic descriptions.
4/28
Oakland, CA: Black Hole Cinematheque
https://www.facebook.com/xvxvxvxo
7:30pm, 1038 24th Street
MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL (2014) AND OTHER FILMS - AN EVENING WITH BRUCE
BAILLIE
A night with Bruce Baillie (in person), premiering parts from his final
three-part, major work, Memoirs of an Angel, as well as screenings of
other selected films from his life. - Memoirs of an Angel (Remembering
Life) - Part I, Salute. Entr'Acte. Cavite. Parts II and III, Night &
Light, in-progress. (Bruce Baillie/2014/31mins/digital projection) - ' -
with the purpose of enlightening contemporary audiences who have tended
to view the recent work* from a superficial, linear or literal point of
view.' 'Metaphoric imagery, implicit language of simple, yet universal
...Joie!' - *(Part I, Salute, has seen a limited, temporary release, -
while this, M. Baillie's final work, remains in progress). - 'Beginning
with children at dusk, flocks of starlings in flight, birth, sea, and
the title, My Last Masquerade, lyrical film artist, Bruce Baillie's
declared last film will be in three parts, Salute, Night, and Light.' -
'From my recent interview, a few of the thematic elements as projected
by l'auteur: Introduction of the element of illusion (masquerade).
Imagery of war - documentary, the movies, and the author recording
himself, self-consciously in uniform! One cannot here avoid an implicit
reference to the Bhagavadgita\; the warrior, Arjuna and Lord Krishna in
Dharma combat on the battle field, as metaphor for the human dilemma in
confrontation with the world of time/space, illusion of opposites,
attachment to the merely transcient, etc.' - 'Memory and memoir commes
toutes les choses, Gautama Buddha's "ten-thousand things".
Angel of the mind, essential memory, Mind of mind prior to all
sentiency, Truth abiding in fiction, the necessity of language, The
Word, and so on. Le facon de parler, le langage concret, la langue
langeur. L'image prosaique - the perfect medium - in parallel with the
apparencies of everyday reality. Narrative, l'histoire, l'Art. - 'Some
further keys to the work in progress from M. Baillie's voluminous notes
of the past 15 years: Cantos 9, Part III: "Crossing the river of my
preferences". - Cantos 10, Part II: Spes una mundi perditi (Sole
hope for the lost world - Th. Merton, "Learning to Love"). -
Cantos 11, Part II: (With images from a village in the Philippines of
laundry blowing in the afternoon wind). "Ancient banners of
mortality blown by the heavenly host!". - Cantos 5, Part II:
"In the Night, with none other than the Light that burned in my
heart." - San Juan de las Cruz. - Cantos 3, Part III: "And the
remnants of the world were renewed by children, and it was called
Paradise".' - 'Here, the film's form', I continue (M. Joyeux), 'is
deliberately conventional, i.e., non-abstract, yet the imagery is
essentially connotative, transcendental in nature, or simply poetic,
describing human necessity to identify itself. This, mes cheres, is our
author's purpose and final touch, le pointe du verite - the touch of
truth! Something to leave you - le Monde - a veritable last word as to
the universal Why, Who, What, concealed in ordinary language, so to
speak, as in being what it/one appears to be. It is not of the form yet
does lie within. Poetry concealed within the word, yet not the wording
itself. The Word manifest in mere prose. De Chardin's noumenal wed with
phenomena, Light in night. Memoirs from Les Anges!"
/445212115581228/
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TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2014
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4/29
Paris, France: Mex-Parismental
http://www.cjcinema.org/
19h, 200, quai de Valmy 75010
MEX-PARISMENTAL 9°
For this ninth edition, in collaboration with the Collectif Jeune
Cinema, Mex-Parismental, unveils a cinema of creative filmmakers of the
young generation from Mexico and Latin America. This annual event is an
unique opportunity to stay informed about the most contemporary
experimental cinema and video from Mexico to the Southern Cone.
Mex-Parismental will take place this year on Tuesday, April 29 at Point
Ephemere to highlight this cinematographic production. The Artists,
filmmakers and videographers represented in this edition, offer us a
beautiful journey regardless of clichés and establish an intercultural
encounter, far from the political and social dictates of their country
of origin. https://www.facebook.com/MexParismental
4/29
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
7:00pm, 200 quai de Valmy
MEX-PARISMENTAL // 9ÈME ÉDITION
Pour cette 9ème édition, Mex-Parismental, en collaboration
avec le Collectif Jeune Cinéma, dévoile un cinéma
de cinéastes plasticiens de la jeune génération
Mexicaine et d'Amérique Latine et vous donne rendez-vous le mardi
29 avril au Point Ephémère afin de mettre en
lumière cette production cinématographique. -
Mex-Parismental est une occasion singulière de suivre
l'actualité du cinéma et de la vidéo
expérimentale les plus contemporains du Mexique jusqu'au
cône sud. - Les artistes, cinéastes ou
vidéastes représentés nous offrent un beau parcours
sans tenir compte des clichés et instaurent une rencontre
interculturelle, loin des dictats politiques et sociaux de leurs pays
d'origine. - Certains films sélectionnés dans cette
9ème édition interrogent les liens paysages/existence, les
géographies intimes, (Náma, Desierto )
réelles ou éthérées, de souvenirs, (
AsÃ,Vermelha é a luz do freio) de rêves, de
cauchemars ( Demiurge, Doméstica ) et de fantasmes (XXX). Ces
univers oniriques retranscrivent le langage symbolique d'une certaine
forme du voyage chamanique, ( Nostalgia, Blood, Sea, Film ) dans un
« espace insituable ». D'autres films nous dévoilent
de regards, qui deviennent le reflet de soi ou l'empreinte de l'autre,
le rapport entre le corps et la matérialité filmique et
l'espace physique, (El huaraches, Slow food) créent
poétiquement une ambiance d'intimité et de nostalgie. -
Renseignements pratiques
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014
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4/30
Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee
SYMMETRIES AND ABSTRACTIONS: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY SCOTT STARK
White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present - SYMMETRIES AND
ABSTRACTIONS: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY SCOTT STARK - With Scott Stark in
Person! - Wednesday, April 30 â 7:00pm, At the
Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) - - White Light Cinema is excited
to welcome Scott Stark, who will present a small sampling of his film
and video work. Stark has selected four new and recent worksBLOOM
(2012), SPEECHLESS (2008), the double 16mm film NOCTURNAL SYMMETRIES
(2014), and his amazing digital video THE REALIST (2013)along with
an early film, HOTEL CARTOGRAPH (1983). - Together, these five works are
a mapping of many diverse aspects of Stark's artistic practice. From his
formal investigations into symmetry, patterning, abstraction, and
mirroring that can be found in many of his works to inquiries into the
perceptual and phenomenological nature of the media (film, video,
digital) to the act of seeing, and questions of representation. They are
also visually rich works, concerned as much about color and texture as
they are with structure. They are about rhythm and movement, either on
screen or in the editing. Sometimes they are humorous. Sometimes they
are political (in the broadest sense). Sometimes they are
provocative/provoking. Always they are stimulatingvisually and
intellectually.
4/30
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7:30pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor
PETER EMANUEL GOLDMAN'S ECHOES OF SILENCE
Peter Emanuel Goldman's Echoes of Silence - - Wednesday, April 30 at
7:30 pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative // 475 Park Avenue South, 6th
Floor - $10 Suggested Donation - - Structured as a series of 15
loosely-related vignettes, each introduced by a hand-drawn title card, a
watercolor painting, and a short montage of stills drawn from elsewhere
in the film, Echoes of Silence is a black and white wandering through
1960s New York City. The film has no dialogue, instead focusing on its
characters' faces and Charles Mingus' music.
4/30
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
10:30pm, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street
SHORTS 5: EXPERIMENTAL: LOOKING GLASS
Paul Clipson, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Lawrence Jordan In Person. -
Presented in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive and San Francisco International Film Festival. - Curated by
Kathy Geritz and Vanessa O'Neill. - - In ways quietly observant and
intensely expressive, these 11 experimental films take us on a journey
through the looking glassreflecting on the past, illuminating the
present, and imagining the future. A story is told backward, a girl is
magically transformed and everyday objects aren't what they seem. Two
lost films are found\; two others alchemically altered. - QUEEN TAKES
PAWN, A journey through an old house by way of a mirror, a child's
storybook and some images from days gone by. (Su Friedrich, USA 2013, 7
min, Color, digital video) - METAMORFOZA, During wartime, a girl
magically transforms. (Martha Colburn, The Netherlands 2013, 7 min,
Color, digital video) - LITTLE GIRL, Prune Blossoms, Healdsburg\; Little
Girl Outside Sebastopol\; Two Waterbugs, Graton - (Bruce Baillie, USA
1966, 10 min, Color/B&W, 16mm, Restored in 2013 by the Academy Film
Archive) - DAD'S STICK, Three objects my father showed me shortly before
he died. (John Smith, UK 2012, 5 min, Color, digital video) - 66,
EPISODE 1: ICHOR, My personal version of utopia. (Lewis Klahr, USA 2013,
5:30 min, Color, digital video) - DE LUCE 2: ARCHITECTURA, Light and
photochemistry collide and conspire against different architectural
backdrops. (Janis Crystal Lipzin, USA 2013, 8:30 min, Color, digital
video) - This is a Cinema by the Bay film - FARTHER THAN THE EYE CAN
SEE, Traces an experience to a place that no longer exists. (Basma
Alsharif, Jordan/United Arab Emirates 2012, 13 min, Color, digital
video) - LOST AND FOUND, Filmed 20 or so years ago on an excursion back
and forth from Manhattan to Staten Island. Later I arranged the shots
and hid it in a box for a long time. (Jim Jennings, USA 1988/2013, 5
min, B&W, Silent, 16mm) - ENTR'ACTE, A series of vaudeville acts
inserted between the lines of reality. (Lawrence Jordan, USA 2013, 3
min, Color, 16mm) - This is a Cinema by the Bay film - A STUDY IN
NATURAL MAGIC, An alchemist's spell. (Charlotte Pryce, USA 2013, 3 min,
Color, Silent, 16mm) - BRIGHT MIRROR, A figure, a landscape and a camera
blur into something between dance and drawing. (Paul Clipson, USA 2013,
9 min, Color/B&W, Super-8mm) - This is a Cinema by the Bay film -
Kathy Geritz, Vanessa O'Neill
4/30
Seattle, Washington: Emerald Reels
http://www.emeraldreels.com/satellites.htm
8:00 PM, 203 N. 36 St., Seattle, WA 98103
A FEW FAVORITE SHORT FILMS FROM EFF PORTLAND IN SEATTLE
Featuring 14 shorts from 6 countries in a program that celebrates the
dynamic landscape of contemporary experimental film & video. Includes
films by Caroline Monnet, Colinet André, Emily Jones, Gina Marie
Napolitan, Jeremy Moss, Katie Goodwin, Marcia Beatriz Granero, Qathi
Hart, Reed O'Beirne, Salise Hughes, Scott Fitzpatrick, Ted Kennedy, Tony
Balko, and Ulf Kristiansen. EFF Portland Festival co-director, Ben Popp,
in attendance.
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THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014
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5/1
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
OPEN SCREEN
Our cinematic free-for-all, daring you to share your film with the
feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress!
First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum.
DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm.
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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014
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5/3
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8PM, The Crown, 1910 N Charles Street, 2nd FL
SPCL NTRST
[SPCL NTRST] wipe[s] the console with a soft, dry cloth. [Together they]
peel the white paper from the base of the [appropriated VHS footage in
order to] affix the base so the mark on [Music] are pointing at each
other. When affixing the base, [SPCL NTRST] make[s] sure that you so not
cover any of the lettering on the console. Do not touch [inadvertent
musicality] for about 30 to 60 minutes after affixing it to the console.
Doing so can cause the [exposed moments of emotion and subtext hidden
within the practical and impersonal] to come off. Do expect [Category:
Health] as well as [Category: Music]. For more information on SPCL
NTRST, please visit: http://www.spclntrst.com/
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
BURNING BUNGALOWS
$5 / Burning Bungalows brought new and unseen experimental film from Los
Angeles on the road last month, and after weeks on the road, the
filmmakers are bringing the program back home. 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. Program: Vulgarians 1, 2, 3 (2012, 16mm to digital) and
Arietta (2014, 16mm) by Cosmo Segurson, Waxing and Milking (2014, Super
8) and Them Oracles (2012, 16mm) by Alee Peoples; He Hates to be Second
(2008, digital) by Kelly Sears; Berm and Jup (2014, digital) by Abby
Banks; Artio and Belenus (2014, digital) by Nancy Jean Tucker; The
Temptation of St. Anthony (2012, Super 8 to digital) by John Cannizzaro;
Untitled: Varanasi (2014 35mm stills to video) by Lisa Marr & Paolo
Davanzo.
5/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
IN AND OUT OF AFGHANISTAN
The dearth of credible reporting on America's longest war should be a
point of shame to the corporate media that controls way too much of the
national bandwidth. Tonight we finally see some independent
perspectives, generated from both inside and out of the war zone,
including a sizeable chunk of Jon Gianvito's Far from Afghanistan, an
enlightened omnibus drawn from the States' most engage makers (Minda
Martin, Soon-Mi Yoo, Jon Jost, et al). ALSO delivering the news is
Kathleen Foster's 10 Years On, recapitulating Afghani and Pakistani
politics from the period of the Soviet occupation, and Paul Refsdal's
Taliban: Behind the Masks, affording us an extremely rare encounter with
the native resistance themselves.
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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
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5/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street
HENRY HILLS: RHYTHMIC STATES
Henry Hills in person! HENRY HILLS has been making dense, intensely
rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New
York's East Village, he has ongoing working relationships with the
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, and choreographer Sally
Silver. His films, with an eccentric humor, seek abstraction within
sharply-focused naturalistic imagery & the ethereal within the mundane,
promoting an active attentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated
montage.
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