[Frameworks] This week [December 6 - 14, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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SHORTini FILM FESTIVAL (Augusta, Italy; Deadline: May 15, 2015)
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Magmart Festival 9th Edition (2014-15) (Naples,
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22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago,
IL USA; Deadline: December 15, 2014)
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BASEMENT Media Fest (NY, NY, USA; Deadline: December 31, 2014)
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Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 22, 2014)
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Gallery 263 (Cambridge, MA, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2014)
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Flatpack Film Festival (Birmingham, UK; Deadline: December 22, 2014)
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WHAT IF? KC/CT (Kansas City / Hartford / USA; Deadline: December 15, 2014)
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA,
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Mono No Aware viii - Program ii [December 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* La Caca Colectiva /Califa
Imagination [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Dreams Less Sweet [December 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Andy Warhol's Emipre [December 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Early Monthly Segments #69 = Peter Adair +
Marie Menken [December 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Yvonne Rainer's Journeys From Berlin/1971 [December 9, Austin, TX]
* Exquisite Corpse Cinema [December 9, Seattle, Washington]
* Dachau 1974: Conservation In Collaboration
With the Artist [December 11, New York, New York]
* Space Material, Immaterial Place: Films By
Jeremy Moss [December 13, Baltimore, MD]
* Space Material, Immaterial Place: Films By
Jeremy Moss [December 13, Baltimore, Maryland 21202]
* Paul Clipson and Liz Harris: Hypnosis
Display [December 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Texas Kick-Ass Sampler/Best Western
[December 13, San Francisco, California]
* The 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm Tour [December 14, Baltimore, MD]
* We Are the Spirit Guides and We Are Watching You: videos By Duke and
Battersby [December 14, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014
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12/6
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://mononoawarefilm.com/event/mna-2014/
8 PM, 1115 Flushing Ave
MONO NO AWARE VIII - PROGRAM II
MONO NO AWARE is an annual exhibition of expanded cinema, sculpture,
installation and performance art incorporating the moving image on film
or through altered light projections. PROGRAM II presenting artists
include: Tara Merenda Nelson and Gordon Nelson (Rochester, New York),
Lívia Santos (Brooklyn, New York), Andrei Moyssiadis (São Paulo, Brazil)
as Dream Seed Group, Scott Fitzpatrick (Winnipeg, Canada), Sam Hoolihan
(Minneapolis, Minnesota), John Marks (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Brian Oh
(Brooklyn, New York), Maya Kuroki (Montreal, Canada), Krittin
Patkuldilok (Bangkok, Thailand), Hoshika Tachibana (Tokyo, Japan),
Gabriela Gyorgeva (Brooklyn, New York), Alexandra Kocheva (Brooklyn, New
York), Patrick Scanlon (Brooklyn, New York), Kyle Corea (Brooklyn, New
York), Stone Dow (Brooklyn, New York), Clint Hartzell (Camden, Maine),
Joel Schlemowitz (Brooklyn, New York), Michael A Morris (Dallas, Texas)
PLUS DJ Sal Prinicpato (Liquid Liquid) and Matthew Morandi (L.I.E.S.)
FREE TO ATTEND.
12/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
LA CACA COLECTIVA /CALIFA IMAGINATION
This feisty trio of Latina makers is so named because they give a shit!
And in the second of our 3-part Best Western suite, Dolissa Medina, Vero
Majano, and Angela Reginato parlay their shared interest in archival
films, personal memory, and collective consciousness into a provocative
program that showcases the work of each. Medina in fact flies in from
Berlin to world-premiere her magnum opus The Crow Furnace, a half-hour
collage narrative about displacement and loss in San Francisco. Majano
enacts an embodied performance with rare 16mm footage of the Mission
District in the 70s, bearing specifically on the Los Siete murder case
that so rallied the local community. Reginato unspools her lovely memoir
Polvo, which explores the omnivorous process of memory-formation,
centered on a real-life "disappearance". Come early for Angela's
Portrait loops, festive tequila toasts, and quite possibly a piñata. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014
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12/7
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
http://thepictureshow.org
6pm, 226 Green Street
DREAMS LESS SWEET
Psychic TV was founded in 1981 by Genesis P-Orridge following the
break-up of the pioneering industrial group, Throbbing Gristle. From the
outset, as the band name indicates, the concept for the new group
focused heavily on video. In interviews, Genesis proclaimed, "Psychic TV
is a video group who does music, unlike a music group which makes music
videos." Revisiting this agenda, Psychic TV invited 47 artists to create
a collective film set to the group's acclaimed second album, Dreams Less
Sweet, in a process drawing from the cut-up technique originated by
Genesis' friends and mentors Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, as well
as the VHS networking practiced by the Temple of Psychic Youth in the
1980s. The resulting work captures the reverberations of the group's
original obsessions, the return of the repressed. 2013, digital
projection, color, 47 minutes
12/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
12:00 noon, MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue
ANDY WARHOL'S EMIPRE
In conjunction with the exhibition, Andy Warhol: Shadows, MOCA Sunday
Studio and Los Angeles Filmforum are proud to present Empire (1964),
Warhol's minimalist 16mm masterpiece, in its entirety. Celebrating its
50th anniversary, this monumental achievement allows one, as Warhol
said, "to see time go by." A reception will follow the screening at
7:30PM.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014
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12/8
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #69 = PETER ADAIR + MARIE MENKEN
"This film contains some of the strongest images I have ever seen. The
faith these people exhibit is incredible. It makes me want to dance
around with snakes." Harmony Korine Shot in the summer and fall of
1966 in the Appalachian Hills of West Virginia, Holy Ghost People
follows the rituals of the Holiness Pentecostal Church whose liturgy
includes snake handling and speaking in tongues. Peter Adair's small
verité film crew brings us into the small confines of the church,
intensely watching a congregation that values collective experience and
individual revelation. Adair interviews participants who witness to
their religious experiences and the value that experience has in their
daily lives. These interviews add sincerity to the ecstatic rituals that
follow, as Adair films an intense service that ends in snake handling,
faith healing and spiritual possession. Despite the Church's practices
being beyond the mainstream of religious practice, and indeed
unfathomable from a secular understanding, the film follows the action
with a deep interest and a complete lack of condescension. Peter Adair's
sympathetic eye has been attributed to his own outsider status as a
young gay man in the middle of the tumultuous yet liberationist Sixties
(he was 24 when he directed this film). In fact, Adair went on to be a
founder of the Mariposa Film Group, with whom he co-directed the
groundbreaking Word is Out, the first documentary to bring mainstream
attention to the lives of everyday gays and lesbians. Holy Ghost People,
can thus be seen as an early attempt at positive confrontation,
showcasing Adair's ability to meet his subjects in their unique
circumstances from a generous and passionate perspective. Programme:
Lights, Marie Menken, 1966, USA, 16mm, 6 min Holy Ghost People, People
Adair, 1967, USA, 16mm, 53 min @ Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom | 1214 Queen
St West Monday December 8, 2014 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested
donation Special thanks to Haney Armstrong EMS #70 = January = TBA
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014
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12/9
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E. 6th Stree
YVONNE RAINER'S JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971
Experimental Response Cinema presents this now-classic film by legendary
dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Centering around a
series of psychoanalysis sessions (with film scholar Annette Michelson
as "the patient"), Rainer's film investigates topics of terrorism,
radicalism, and rehabilitation. Programmed by Ekrem Serdar.
12/9
Seattle, Washington: Emerald Reels
http://www.emeraldreels.com/satellites.htm
7:00 pm, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle, WA 98105
EXQUISITE CORPSE CINEMA
Join us on December 9th for EX#3: EXquisite Corpse Cinema - premiering
an international collaborative film made in surrealist "Exquisite
Corpse" form. Thirteen filmmakers were given separate instructions for
images to start and end their film sections. Their last image will
randomly connect with the matching starting image from another filmmaker
to create an unconsciously-collaborative feature film. EXquisite Corpse
Cinema takes you on a wild ride through the creative consciousness of
filmmakers from Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Kaupo, Baton Rouge,
Ruma (Serbia), and Newcastle (UK). Filmmakers include Gretchen Burger,
Caryn Cline, Salise Hughes, Reed O'Beirne, Eric Ostrowski, Arto Polus,
Ben Popp, Kathleen Quillian, Kelly Sears, Andy Spletzer, Vorky Tim,
Dustin Zemel, and Robert Zverina. EXcinema is a quarterly screening
series that highlights works that fall between the cracks of traditional
cinema. The series aims to provide a meeting place for filmmakers and
audiences who want to experience and discuss the best of the outer
limits of cinema.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014
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12/11
New York, New York: Independent Media Arts Preservation
http://www.imappreserve.org
6:30, Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU -
Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
DACHAU 1974: CONSERVATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARTIST
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) Presents "Dachau 1974":
Conservation in Collaboration With the Artist, Beryl Korot Date:
December 11, 2014 Time: Reception at 6:00 PM; Program at 6:30 PM
Location: Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University
Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South *** Admission is free, but
seating is limited, If you plan to attend, we ask that you RSVP to
Andrew Ingall, IMAP's Executive Director, at imap at imappreserve.org ****
Panelists: Beryl Korot, artist; Maurice Schechter, Chief Engineer, DuArt
Film and Video; Erik Pill, Consulting Engineer, DuArt Film and Video;
Moderator:Jeff Martin, Consulting Conservator, Kramlich Collection/New
Art Trust ON DECEMBER 11 2014, Independent Media Arts Preservation
(IMAP) will present a panel discussion about a collaborative project to
restore Beryl Korot's seminal video installation, "Dachau 1974." Earlier
this year, the Kramlich Collection and the New Art trust undertook a
complete restoration of the work prior to its installation at Tate
Modern and Art Basel. "Dachau 1974" is a multi-screen video installation
that interweaves images and sounds of the WWII concentration camp as it
stood in 1974 with blank video. Korot has said, "I was taking very
loaded material [and letting] formal elements be as strong. That was the
only way that I felt I wanted to confront this very painful and
unspeakable material
The only way to talk about it would be through the
silence of structure." Artist Peter Campus wrote, in 2014, "When 'Dachau
1974' first came out, it was obvious to me and everyone else that it was
a masterpiece." The restoration project was carried out at Du Art Film &
Video under the supervision of Chief Engineer Maurice Schechter and
Kramlich Collection Consulting Conservator Jeff Martin, with direct
involvement and guidance by Beryl Korot. Korot, Schechter, and
Consulting Engineer Erik Piil will discuss the complex process of
translating a 1974 analog video workutilizing a combination of the
artist's original 1" type EV edit masters and 1/2" open reel exhibition
copiesto 2014 technology, while respecting the original properties of
the analog technology, and maintaining the artist's vision. The panel
will be moderated by Jeff Martin. Independent Media Arts Preservation
(IMAP) serves the caretakers of media collections by providing
information resources to help preserve our cultural heritage. IMAP
offers innovative solutions through information sharing, continuing
education and networking opportunities. For more information:
www.imappreserve.org
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2014
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12/13
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7pm, 1515 Guilford Avenue
SPACE MATERIAL, IMMATERIAL PLACE: FILMS BY JEREMY MOSS
Filmmaker Jeremy Moss, whose work has screened around the globe from the
Crossroads Film Festival in San Francisco to the Arkipel International
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in Indonesia, brings a
60-minute program of recent moving image work. In the summer of 2011,
Moss began expanding beyond his narrative training to fully explore
lyrical and structural tendencies, creating the Super8 surrealist
documentary THOSE INESCAPABLE SLIVERS OF CELLULOID, the abstract
hand-made 16mm films produced at the Independent Imaging Retreat, THE
SIGHT and CICATRIX, the dance for camera pieces in collaboration with
choreographer Pamela Vail, (UN)TETHERED, CHROMA, and THAT DIZZYING
CREST, and the essay film in collaboration with writer Erik Anderson,
THE BLUE RECORD. As a program, these works cohesively embody an
immersive optical and sonic experience revealing cinema's capacity for
both meditative expression and the rigors of collaboration. PROGRAM: THE
BLUE RECORD (2013, 16mm to digital video, 17 min) CICATRIX (2014, 16mm
to digital video, 7 min) (UN)TETHERED (2014, digital video, 10 min)
THOSE INESCAPABLE SLIVERS OF CELLULOID (2011, Super8 to digital video, 7
min) CHROMA (2012, digital video, 4 min) THAT DIZZYING CREST (2013, 16mm
to digital video, 11 min) THE SIGHT (2012, 16mm to digital video, 4
min). http://www.jeremymoss.org/.
12/13
Baltimore, Maryland 21202: Terrault Contemporary
http://www.side-on.com.au
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 1515 Guilford Ave
SPACE MATERIAL, IMMATERIAL PLACE: FILMS BY JEREMY MOSS
Filmmaker in attendance! Filmmaker Jeremy Moss, whose work has screened
around the globe from the Crossroads Film Festival in San Francisco to
the Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in
Indonesia, brings a 60-minute program of recent moving image work. In
the summer of 2011, Moss began expanding beyond his narrative training
to fully explore lyrical and structural tendencies, creating the Super8
surrealist documentary THOSE INESCAPABLE SLIVERS OF CELLULOID, the
abstract hand-made 16mm films produced at the Independent Imaging
Retreat, THE SIGHT and CICATRIX, the dance for camera pieces in
collaboration with choreographer Pamela Vail, (UN)TETHERED, CHROMA, and
THAT DIZZYING CREST, and the essay film in collaboration with writer
Erik Anderson, THE BLUE RECORD. As a program, these works cohesively
embody an immersive optical and sonic experience revealing cinema's
capacity for both meditative expression and the rigors of collaboration.
PROGRAM The Blue Record (2013, 16mm to digital video, 17 min) Cicatrix
(2014, 16mm to digital video, 7 min) (un)tethered (2014, digital video,
10 min) Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid (2011, Super8 to digital
video, 7 min) Chroma (2012, digital video, 4 min) That Dizzying Crest
(2013, 16mm to digital video, 11 min) The Sight (2012, 16mm to digital
video, 4 min)
12/13
Brooklyn, New York: Issue Project Room
http://issueprojectroom.org/event/paul-clipson-and-liz-harris-hypnosis-display
8pm, 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
PAUL CLIPSON AND LIZ HARRIS: HYPNOSIS DISPLAY
Liz Harris (Grouper) and Paul Clipson present the NY premiere of
HYPNOSIS DISPLAY, an evening-length original live sound and 16mm film
collaboration exploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory
environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of
America. HYPNOSIS DISPLAY envelops the viewer within an expansive,
unique sound and image experience. Both artists use formats that emote
sonically and visually unique momentscassette tape and 16mm filmwhich
combine to create an especially resonant live environment. The dialogue
between these sensitive and nostalgic materials evokes a dynamic tension
between beauty and dissonance. Grouper layers performed and field
recorded music to create hypnotic soundscapes cloaked within her vocals
and tape loops. Clipson's collaged, super-impositioned 16mm films,
projected from a film projector within the theatre space, seek to invite
the audience to participate in a collective mind's-eye trip, traversing
Grouper's musical language to create startling, revelatory associations,
as if each viewer is experiencing a hallucinatory waking dream. Neither
image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine
preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field recordings and film
rushes often yield.
12/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
THE TEXAS KICK-ASS SAMPLER/BEST WESTERN
Experimental Response Cinema, our boot-strapping sister salon in Austin,
Pony-Expresses in a program of Texas' best personal-cinema pieces to our
plucky Pacific venue in the spirit of regional reciprocity. Featured is
Mutable Commute, a live performance by the Mission's prodigal son Scott
Stark and his Optic Flare collaborator Allison Leigh Holt, a multi-VHS
musing on America's plunge and plunder post-9/11. PLUS even another
risky projection-performance by co-founder Ekrem Serdar, and singular
cine-poems by ERC exponents Caroline Koebel, Rachel Stuckey, Lyndsay
Bloom, Jarrett Hayman, et alia. AND a very special cameo by OC's
favorite Southwest transient-artist, Bill Daniel, with his
analog-artifacting desert testament, Tumbleweed Talk. Come early for
frito pies and cowboy Soundies
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2014
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12/14
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7pm, The Crown (1910 N. Charles Street, 2nd Fl.)
THE 52ND ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL 16MM TOUR
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is a pioneer of the traveling film festival
concept, having launched an annual tour program in 1964. The AAFF
selects films from the past years festival to screen in art house
theaters, museums, universities, cinematheques and media art centers.
All filmmakers participating on the tour are paid to screen their work,
providing direct support to these independent artists. The 53rd Festival
will take place March 24 29, 2015 at the historic Michigan Theater.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and
experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. The
six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 200 films from over
20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental,
animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid and performance based works.
AAFF Program Director, David Dinnell, in attendance! FEATURED
FILMMAKERS: Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonza?lez Monroy, Mike
Stoltz, Malena Szlam, Rebecca Meyers, Courtney Krantz, Leandro Listorti,
Andrew Kim, Tinne Zenner, Paul Clipson, Mark Toscano, Silvia das Fadas,
Sasha Waters Freyer, Charlotte Pryce & Pablo Mazzolo.
http://www.aafilmfest.org.
12/14
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, 6712 Hollywood Blvd
WE ARE THE SPIRIT GUIDES AND WE ARE WATCHING YOU: VIDEOS BY DUKE AND
BATTERSBY
Duke and Battersby in person! Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to
welcome Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby to town for their first Los
Angeles program, providing an eagerly awaited and long-overdue
opportunity to experience their singular and uncategorizable work, with
the artists in person! Complex, revelatory, and truly entertaining
explorations of empathy, guilt, shame, caring, and humanity are teased
brilliantly from an unconventional mixing of elements, including
diaristic video, found footage, homespun songsmithery, faux-naive
animation, and nature photography.
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