[Frameworks] This week [June 7 - 15, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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This week [June 7 - 15, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Alchemy Festival Touring Programme: Works from
Scotland (Hawick, Scotland, UK; Deadline: September 01, 2014)
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Medrar (Cairo, Egypt; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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the8fest (Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2014)
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Slamdance Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: October 09, 2014)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, US; Deadline: July 11, 2014)
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz,
RheinlandPfalz, Germany; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections
(Cologne/Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2014)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film
Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2014)
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Columbus International Film + Video Festival
(Columbus; Deadline: July 01, 2014)
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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Medrar (Cairo, Egypt; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Millennium Film Journal No. 59 Publication
Screening [June 7, New York, New York]
* Hypnosis Display: Grouper and Paul Clipson [June 8, London, England]
* La Aa [June 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents the Light Art
of Dennis Keefe & Glenn Mckay [June 8, Oakland]
* Sight Unseen Hosts H.E.F.F. On 95 [June 9, Baltimore, MD]
* Steve Cossman In Person. [June 10, Austin, TX]
* Fillip Release Event & Screening of the Hart
of London [June 10, Los Angeles, California]
* A Body Without Organs With Stephen Graves In Person [June 12, Baltimore]
* Not About Art: A Sampler of Short Films By
Al RazutisVisual Alchemy [June 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Treasures of Big House: Allison Leigh Holt
and Scott Stark [June 13, Austin, TX]
* Black Blood: the Photographic Art and Films
of Jasmine Hirst [June 13, New York, NY]
* Artist Portraits [June 14, Brooklyn, New York]
* Grassroots Acoustica: An Epfc Fundraiser
[June 14, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014
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6/7
New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal
http://mfj-online.org
8 pm, Grahame Weinbren Studio, 119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 59 PUBLICATION SCREENING
Program of rarely screened works by filmmakers featured in MFJ No. 59:
Leandro Katz, PARADOX (2001). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Owen Land On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited
by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the
Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed? (1977) with Paul Sharits as Mozart . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony McCall,
Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, Jane Weinstock and Ivan Ward,
SIGMUND FREUD'S DORA (1979)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014
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6/8
London, England: Opera North Projects
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=16066
7:30pm, LSO St. Luke's, 161 Old St, London EC1V 9NG, United Kingdom
HYPNOSIS DISPLAY: GROUPER AND PAUL CLIPSON
A dream meditation on contemporary America in sound and image, with
Grouper/Liz Harris' layers of processed field recordings, choral
harmonies and keyboard juxtaposed with Paul Clipson's collaged,
multi-layered color and black & white 16mm film projection.
6/8
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street
LA AA
Films from the 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival - Los Angeles edition. The
Ann Arbor Film Festival held its 52nd edition in March 2014 and featured
over 200 films from 24 countries. This year's edition had a strong
contingent of works from Los Angeles based filmmakers. The AAFF held two
retrospective film series dedicated to Thom Andersen and Penelope
Spheeris; represented in this program by Andersen's 1966 film Olivia's
Place and Spheeris's No Use Walkin' When You Can Stroll (1998). This
program also includes AAFF audience favorite Troy Morgan's stop-motion
animation Musical Recordings from the Realm of the Dead, the psychedelic
music video Grip for Sun Araw by Daniel Brantley, Mark Toscano's
poignant one-shot portrait Certain Things, Charlotte Pryce's recent 16mm
film A Study in Natural Magic (awarded at the 52nd AAFF); as well as
recent films by Sílvia Das Fadas, Mike Stoltz, and Andrew Kim (awarded
Most Promising Filmmaker at the 52nd AAFF). For more event information:
www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238. Tickets: $10 general, $6
students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card
in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/715853 or at the door.
6/8
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS THE LIGHT ART OF DENNIS KEEFE & GLENN MCKAY
Dovetailing off recent programming at the Exploratorium, Shapeshifters
is excited to present the work of pioneering light artists Dennis Keefe
and (the late) Glenn McKay who are two of the artists responsible for
creating the famous psychedelic light shows of the 1960s. Working
together under the name of the Headlights Light Show, Keefe and McKay
performed at many west coast venues, including the Fillmore, and also
toured extensively with the Jefferson Airplane. The highlight of the
program will be a live light art performance by Dennis Keefe with
collaborators Jim Baldocchi and Lori Varga and musical accompaniment by
Chris Musgrave (Lumerians) and Sarah R. Brady. We will also be showing
parts of McKay's video Altered States which was created for the artist's
SFMOMA retrospective in 1999 and demonstrates his light art in various
forms over the course of four decades.
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MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014
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6/9
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7:30PM, The Crown (1910 N Charles Street, 2nd FL)
SIGHT UNSEEN HOSTS H.E.F.F. ON 95
Sight Unseen is pleased to host H.E.F.F. on 95, a curatorial venture
down Interstate 95 showcasing the winning films of the 2014 Haverhill
Experimental Film Festival. This endeavor gives the opportunity for
filmmakers to screen their artwork in multiple venues hitting major
stops that include Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Richmond, and ending in Durham, North Carolina. The roughly 1.5 hour
program will feature contemporary work in avant-garde cinema at a
national and international level. It will highlight various films from
abstract home VHS distortion flicks to 16mm direct animation works to
experimental documentaries. This tour and festival itself hope to
extinguish the Hollywood standard of the moving image by showing major
cities an idea of what this art form can accomplish: a true, purer
method of capturing reality. The winning films of the 2014 Haverhill
Experimental Film Festival will be announced on Sunday, June 1st.
Programmed by Brendan & Jeremy Smyth, Directors of H.E.F.F. For further
information about the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, please
visit: http://www.haverhillexperimental.org/
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TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014
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6/10
Austin, TX: ERC & Farewell Books
http://www.farewellbookstore.com
8 PM, 913 E Cesar Chavez St
STEVE COSSMAN IN PERSON.
Experimental Response Cinema and Farewell Books present a very special
evening with Steve Cossman in person! All 16mm film program includes
TUSSLEMUSCLE 2007-2009, CRUSHER, 2010, RED CABBAGES 2013, WHITE
ROUGHAGE, 2013 and a premiere of PHOSPHENE, 2014 by Kenneth Zoran
Curwood. Farewell Books, founded in February 2013 and run by Travis Kent
& Mikaylah Bowman, is a progressive new and used bookshop and art
gallery in the city of Austin, Texas. Free to the public, donations
welcome :L )
6/10
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
FILLIP RELEASE EVENT & SCREENING OF THE HART OF LONDON
Free event! Fillip, a Vancouver-based contemporary art magazine, is
pleased to announce the availability of issue 19 with a special launch
event at EPFC. The issue includes essays by Byron Peters and Jacob Wick
on misperformance, and Bettina Funcke on the documenta 100 Notes series,
as well as conversations with artists Lene Berg and Zarouhie Abdalian,
and Matteo Pasquinelli onThe Labour of Abstraction. Also included are
artist portfolios by Sumi Ink Club and Nicholas Gottlund, as well as
Christopher Régimbal on Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario. The
evening features a screening of Jack Chambers' film The Hart of London
(1970, 79 min., 16mm)."Jack Chambers is one of Canada's most famous and
greatest living painters. Why then have his films been as neglected as
they have been? I feel that it is because his films do not arise as an
adjunct to his painting (as is true in the case of most other painter
film-makers) but that, rather, Jack Chambers has realized the almost
opposed aesthetics of paint and film and has created a body of moving
pictures so crucially unique as to fright paint buffery: thus his films
have inherited a social position kin to that of the films of Joseph
Cornell in this country. The fact is that four films of Jack Chambers
have changed the whole history of film, despite their neglect, in a way
that isn't possible within the field of painting. There are no 'masters'
of film in any significant sense whatsoever. There are only 'makers' of
film in the original, or at least medieval, sense of the word. Jack
Chambers is a true 'maker' of films. He needs no stance, or standing,
for he dances attendance upon the coming-into-being of something
recognizably new: (and as all is new, always, one must question the
veracity of all works, whatever medium, which beseem everything but that
truth)." Stan Brakhage.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014
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6/12
Baltimore: Wind-Up Space
https://www.facebook.com/events/1395177420702806/
8:00PM, 12 W. North Ave.
A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS WITH STEPHEN GRAVES IN PERSON
"A Body Without Organs was shot intimately with my father and mother
over a one and a half year period at their home in Florida. This film is
a portrait of their lives in the present, a supple present marked by
frequent incursions into various pasts, real and imagined. My father has
no colon. He is narcoleptic. His friends are all ghosts. His life is
dreamt. In the house there is my mother. There are the cats. And then
there is a body without organs." - Stephen Graves. A Body Without Organs
premiered at the 2013 Chicago Underground Film Festival, where it won
the Most Visionary Film Award, in Jack Sargeant's words, "for
re-imagining the personal documentary, exposing souls, exploring human
suffering and the value & meaning of true love. Without forgetting the
values that inspired underground filmmakers: experimentation and unique
personal stories." With Stephen Graves in person, programmed by Kate
Ewald. $6.
6/12
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NOT ABOUT ART: A SAMPLER OF SHORT FILMS BY AL RAZUTISVISUAL ALCHEMY
$5 / Celebrating avant-garde, Structuralist, formalist, mythopoeic,
Situationist and anarchist influences over nearly 50 years of
film-making, Al Razutis is pioneer in film/video hybrids, optical
manipulations, radical media performance, holographic and 3-D art
practice, and all-around troublemaking. Filmmaker will be in attendance
to introduce, comment, and engage with audience on the film-forms,
context, and interpretation of film practice outside of art
institutions, outside of commercial and popular notions of film as
experimental and underground cinema. Al Razutis in person!
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014
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6/13
Austin, TX: New Media Art and Sound Summit 2014
http://nmassfest.org/
10:00pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
TREASURES OF BIG HOUSE: ALLISON LEIGH HOLT AND SCOTT STARK
The New Media Art and Sound Summit (NMASS) 2014 presents a program of
live projector performances, single channel videos, dual-16mm
symmetries, looping noises, magical music, colorful toys, whirling
gizmos, twirling toiletries, old-school media devices and new school
mishaps, all arranged in a controlled cacophony by Oillison Oolt (aka
Allison Leigh Holt) and Scott Stark. - Program: - Right, Scott Stark,
single channel video, 2008, A playful study of one of the U.S.A.'s most
ubiquitous symbols, and an attempt to re-invent it as a thing of
problematic beauty. - Nocturnal Symmetries, 2014, two 16mm projectors
and live audio, - Images by Scott Stark, sound by Allison Leigh Holt,
using field recordings by Byram Abbott. "Images untethered in dream-like
urban and natural landscapes, aggravated by artificial light, lost in
the gap between imperfect symmetries." - Experiment 2, Allison Leigh
Holt, single channel video, Experiment 2 is a live-mixed analog video
experiment made at the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in upstate
New York, with footage from a modified surveillance camera. Shot in
Indonesia\; Boston\; Manhattan\; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History, CA, - Liberty, Scott Stark, single channel video, 2014, Freedom
in our America, visually sliced and diced. - Treasures of Big House,
Live performance with Scott Stark and Allison Leigh Holt, Multiple
digital video projections, five video cameras including a surveillance
camera, looping analog and digital sounds, various toys and noise-making
devices. "A playful, manic interaction between two performers with
light, shadow and sound, using toys, household objects and toiletries
out of control." - PLUS many surprises!
6/13
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7:00pm, 475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor
BLACK BLOOD: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART AND FILMS OF JASMINE HIRST
BLACK BLOOD: The Photographic Art and Films of Jasmine Hirst, Opening
Friday, June 13, 7-9\; Screening at 8pm, Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475
Park Avenue South, 6th Floor (at 32nd St.) $10 Suggested Donation - - On
view June 13-July 18, Monday-Friday 12-4 - - The Film-Makers'
Cooperative invites you to our latest gallery exhibition featuring the
filmmaker and photographer Jasmine Hirst. New photographic prints
created by Hirst in collaboration with Lydia Lunch will be on view from
June 13 until July 18. - Curated by MM Serra, Corynn Loebs and Jasmine
Hirst - Jasmine Hirst is a photographic artist and filmmaker who lives
and works in New York City. Jasmine's art is represented by Illuminated
Metropolis Gallery in New York and her films are collected by the New
York Filmmakers Co-op of the New American Cinema Group. -
http://jasminemakeart.wix.com/jasmine-hirst - This exhibition and
screening are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts
and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014
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6/14
Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7:30pm, Le Petit Versailles: 346 E.Houston@ Ave C
ARTIST PORTRAITS
Le Petit Versailles and Millennium Film Workshop Present Artist
Portraits Saturday, June 14th, 7:30pm Artists filming artists (and one
historian). From the 60's. On 16mm. Curated by Stephanie Wuertz and
Sasha Janerus From the Filmmakers Co-op Marie Menken, Andy Warhol (1965)
16mm, color, 22 min "A long day in the life of Pop artist Any Warhol
shortened into minutes: a document." -- M.M. Ed Emshwiller, George
Dumpson's Place (1965) 16mm, color, 8 min George Dumpson was a
scavenger. He created a small universe with what he found and could
carry on his homemade wagon. To me he epitomized the soul of the artist.
He put together what things he could in such a way as to satisfy some
inner need, just as I had to make this picture of him and his place.
Jack and Olga Chambers, R-34 (1967) 16mm, color, 26 min ... a film on
the movement and work of Greg Curnoe, but is not intended as a
documentary. It is merely my attempt to communicate using his movements
and images from his work. "R-34 is the greatest film on the creative
process I've yet seen." -- Stan Brakhage. Hollis Frampton, Manual of
Arms (1966) 16mm, black and white, 17 min Courtly dances with friends
and lovers, in the form of a 14 part drill for the camera, incorporating
physiognomic & locomotor evidence related to the lens by 13 artists and
an historian, namely: C. Andre, B. Brown, R. Castoro, L. Childs, B.
Goldensohn, R. Huot, E. Lloyd, L. Lozano, L. Meyer, L. Poons, M. Snow,
M. Steinbrechner, T. Tharp, J. Wieland. Location: Le Petit Versailles,
RAIN OR SHINE!, 346 E.Houston@ Ave C F to 2nd Ave, J/M to
Delancey/Essex, $5 Suggested Donation
6/14
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
GRASSROOTS ACOUSTICA: AN EPFC FUNDRAISER
In June, Grassroots Acoustica's troupe of singer/songwriters comes to
EPFC to raise contributions to keep it growing. The 7 year-old monthly
series has never charged a cover but has raised over $73,000 in
donations supporting L.A.-based arts, education, social services,
medical research & animal rescue organizations. Named Best Acoustic
Night by Los Angeles Magazine in their Best Of LA 2011 issue, Grassroots
Acoustica has attracted a vibrant community of hit songwriters, nominees
and/or winners of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Oscar & even Peabody, national
touring acts swinging through L.A., session player royalty, two
actresses from Robert Altman films and one reality show star. This event
charges no cover but all donations benefit EPFC.
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