[Frameworks] This week [November 8 - 16, 2014] in avant garde cinema
Scott Stark
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Sun Nov 9 12:52:33 UTC 2014
This week [November 8 - 16, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Stop & Go Animation Screening [November 8, Boise]
* Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out
(Program 2) [November 8, New York, New York]
* Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out
(Program 3) [November 8, New York, New York]
* "Hymns" Program, Part of Bill Morrison:
Compositions At Moma, T2 [November 8, New York, New York 10019]
* Moon Fails + virtual Boys + Transformers
Pre-Make/Low-Fi Sci-Fi [November 8, San Francisco, California]
* Sight Unseen Presents Jesse Malmed: Untitled
(Just Kidding) [November 9, Baltimore, MD]
* Show & Tell: vincent Grenier Program 1 [November 9, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: vincent Grenier Program 2 [November 10, New York, New York]
* Kelly Reichardt Presents Penny Allen's
Property [November 11, Brooklyn, New York 11222]
* 2014 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental
Animation, Program 1 [November 11, Chicago, Illinois]
* Mfj 60 Publication Screening No. 1 [November 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Deseret [November 12, New York, New York]
* Extreme Japanese Transgression & Furry Freakouts! ShuJi Terayama's
Emperor Tomato Ketchup & Buppoosh [November 12, Tucson]
* Mati Diop: A Thousand Suns [November 13, Chicago, Illinois]
* Andy Warhol: Light and Dark [November 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Persistence of vision: Young Analog
Filmmakers [November 13, New York, New York]
* Jeremy Harris W/ Paul Clipson [November 14, Berkeley, California]
* Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation,
Program 2 [November 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* Nick Felton &Amp; Brian House: Automatic
Data, Personal Documentary [November 15, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation,
Program 3 [November 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation,
Program 4 [November 15, Chicago, Illinois]
* Ken Jacobs: Blankets For Indians [November 15, Houston, Texas]
* Mysterious Object At Noon [November 15, New York, New York]
* MFJ 60 Publication Screening No. 2 [November 15, New York, New York]
* The Fourth Annual San Francisco Cinematheque
Art Auction & Benefit [November 15, San Francisco, California]
* Gallagher's Female Filmmaker Herstory +
Klahr + Gal/Poetic Pixilation [November 15, San Francisco, California]
* The Toxic Edge: A Screening and Conversation
With Sarah Kanouse [November 16, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Jeremy Rourke [November 16, Oakland]
* San Francisco City Symphonies the Films of
Dominic Angerame [November 16, Tucson]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014
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11/8
Boise: The Flicks
http://www.theflicksboise.com/
12:30 p.m., 646 Fulton Street
STOP & GO ANIMATION SCREENING
Stop-motion animations by visual artists and filmmakers. Today's
screening will feature two collections. Stop & Go Made From Scratch a
food, horticulture and crafting collection and Stop & Go 3-D an optical
and geometric set of animations.
11/8
New York, New York 10003: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6pm, 32 Second Ave (@2nd Street)
SCOTT STARK: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (PROGRAM 2)
Second of three programs. See Nov. 7 for details. All of the films and
videos in Programs 1 & 2 have been digitized by Anthology Film
Archives with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts. PROGRAM 2: PROGRAM 2: 11/9/85/LAS/VEGAS/NV (1985, 6 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); RESCISSION (1980, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
DETECTOR (1987, 5 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); TIE FILM (1985, 3 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); LANGUAGE (1984, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
URBAN ARCHEOLOGY #1 (1982, 11 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS (1993, 30 min, Super 8mm-to-digital). Total running time: ca. 75
min.
11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCOTT STARK: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (PROGRAM 3)
PROGRAM 3: Recent works by Scott Stark in program 3. Includes: ONE WAY
TO FIND OUT (2012, 7 min, 35mm) TRACES (2012, 7 min, 35mm) NOCTURNAL
SYMMETRIES (2014, 11 min, double 16mm projection. Sound by Allison Leigh
Holt.) THE REALIST (2013, 40 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 70
min.
11/8
New York, New York 10019: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/22088
4:30pm - 6:30pm, 11 West 53 St
"HYMNS" PROGRAM, PART OF BILL MORRISON: COMPOSITIONS AT MOMA, T2
The "Hymns" program includes "The Miners' Hymns" (52 min), "Who By Water
(18 min), Re:Awakenings" (18 min) and the WORLD PREMIERE of "Back to the
Soil" (18 min).
11/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MOON FAILS + VIRTUAL BOYS + TRANSFORMERS PRE-MAKE/LOW-FI SCI-FI
The second of our Genre-X sessions is on failed or corrupt initiatives
into new technologies, and the fabulous mise-en-scenes that result.
David Cox' lofty Soviet Moon Fails is in fact a latter-day operetta
about the doomed Soviet lunar-landing program, with orchestration, twin
screens, and John Smalley as lead baritone! CO-BILLED: Kevin B. Lee's
Transformers: The Pre-Make, a genius digital deconstruction of
blockbuster-fandom-via-social-media. ALSO: Andre Perkoski's Virtual Boys
on the new trend of consumer VR headsets, the third of the 20-min.
premieres above. PLUS: Shanna Maurizi in person with her Late Night with
Carl Sagan, Soda_Jerk's new cyber-feminist Undaddy Mainframe, Aaron
Zeghers' Conspiracy, Megan Prelinger's Rockets of Yesterday, Jordan
Belson's space oddity, and The Number Stations Mystery! Mini-heli in the
house!! $6.66.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014
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11/9
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7pm, Terrault Contemporary (1515 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202)
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS JESSE MALMED: UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING)
Drawing on the history of avant-garde moving image culture, conceptual
poetics, ecstatic improvisation, dense wordplay and humor, Jesse makes
art using moving images, text, performance, installation and the
overlaps and gaps thereof. These works are conceptually engaged,
language-intensive and visually mesmerizing. Through deliberate
mistranslation and the strategic denaturing of languages and codes,
Jesse revels in and revealing their extra-communicative potential as
sound, as image, as object, and shift audiences' concepts of the show,
of the cinema. Artist in attendance! PROGRAM: THIMBLERIG (2012), 11ish
minutes, color, sound, video. CONQUE (2013), 8 minutes or so, color,
sound, video, flashlight. SUPERNYM (2013) a little shy of 13 minutes,
color, sound, video. GOTH MOVIE (CHEMIROCHA) (2013), 2:36, color, sound,
Super-8 on video. WREADING (2012), 18 minutes or so, color, sound,
video. IN3DIA (2007), 3 minutes, color, sound, video. DO VOICES (2013),
15 minutes, color, sound, video + performance. BIOGRAPHY:
http://www.jessemalmed.net/. TERRAULT CONTEMPORARY:
http://www.terraultcontemporary.com/
11/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: VINCENT GRENIER PROGRAM 1
A professor at Binghamton University and native of Quebec City, Canada
who has been living in the US since the early 1970s, Vincent Grenier has
been a constant presence in festivals and experimental moving image
venues for nearly 40 years. Avant-garde but in many ways also remarkably
classical, Grenier is fascinated by those aspects of our daily
environment that are most easily overlooked. He is concerned with light
and space as much as he is invested in form, finding in each of his
works a new way to address and extend his chosen medium, whether it be
film, video, or installation. Grenier was the subject of a 1992
retrospective at Anthology, but it's high time to catch up with his
recent work, as well as to revisit some key 16mm films from the 70s and
80s. These programs mix new with old in an attempt to understand the
continuities and discrepancies that make his work so consistently
surprising. "Ithaca-based filmmaker Vincent Grenier is a master of
quiet, delicate forms, gradual transitions, and wry misdirection.
Working primarily in digital media for several decades now, Grenier
explores the capacity of video to alter our perception of landscape and
the natural world, particularly our uncertain place within it. His work
belies any assumptions about the 'coldness' of post-cinematic images; he
is a true poet of the medium." Michael Sicinski "My work eschews the
deductive straight lines of arguments, specific judgments and
conclusions. Rather, the cinematic, as figured in my body of work, is
not located as a fixed and static object, but as an opening for
transformative possibilities. Evoking the juxtapositions of the Zen
Buddhist koan, my work shakes the patina of the everyday into a humorous
and poetic awareness of the present." Vincent Grenier PROGRAM 1: TABULA
RASA (1993-2004, 7.5 min, video) LES CHAISES (2008, 9 min, digital)
COLOR STUDY (2000, 4.5 min, video) SURFACE TENSION II (1995, 4 min,
video, silent) MEND (1979, 5 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) INTERIEUR INTERIORS
(to AK) (1978, 15 min, 16mm, silent) ARMOIRE / PROLOGUE & CODA (2007, 5
min, digital) TABLEAUX VIVANTS (FIRST TWO) (2011, 10.5 min, digital,
silent) DE-ICING (2014, 8 min, digital) WATERCOLOR (2013, 12.5 min,
digital) Total running time: ca. 85 min.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014
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11/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: VINCENT GRENIER PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: CATCH (1975, 5 min, 16mm, silent) CLOSER OUTSIDE (1981, 10
min, 16mm, silent) TREMORS (1984, 13 min, 16mm) BURNING BUSH (2010, 9
min, digital) YOU (New version) (1990-2014, 10 min, 16mm-to-video) HERE
(2002, 7 min, video) WINTER COLLECTION (2000, 4.5 min, digital) BACK
VIEW (2011, 17 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 80 min.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014
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11/11
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman St
KELLY REICHARDT PRESENTS PENNY ALLEN'S PROPERTY
Property, Penny Allen, 100 mins, digital projection, 1978 Introduced by
Kelly Reichardt "What they've done to the Rose City is
despicable." Exasperated, a character in Penny Allen's Property
laments the encroaching gentrification of the region and adds, sighing,
"Portland isn't the same as it used to be." Though the lines
were spoken nearly 40 years ago, the sentiment feels grimly reminiscent
of a contemporary situation. Allen's movie follows a community group as
they try to purchase their block, a bohemian enclave and one of the
city's few historically African-American neighborhoods, when it
conspicuously goes up for sale and the future of their living
arrangements is thrown into uncertainty. Allen follows these unlikely
investors-a poet, a thrift-store flipper, an ex-con, an out-of-work
comedian, and a part-time prostitute-as they attempt to get out from
under the thumb of their landlord while also struggling with the
contradictions that come with such autonomy ("Property is theft
anyway," one member remarks in an early meeting). Though it's a
fictional narrative, the film often possesses the feel of a documentary,
in part because it replays the tribulations of a similar, real-life
landgrab Allen had been involved with just two years prior. The
exhaustion of consensus building among the like-minded and the
frustrations of navigating the bureaucracies of banks and local
government is captured with startling accuracy by a restless, searching
camera; it's as though we're living in real time with these people. Yet
the film is also full of raunchy wit and satirical bite.
11/11
Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com
6:00 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art
2014 EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 1
FREE ADMISSION. The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns
for its fifth annual festival this November with four screenings of
experimental animation at the MCA Chicago and the Nightingale Cinema.
Blending an appreciation of classical animation with the sensibilities
of avant-garde cinema and the visual culture of alternative comics, the
Eyeworks programs showcase abstract animation, surreal narratives, and
unconventional character animation. PROGRAM: Florence Miailhe, Hammam,
1992; Joost Rekveld, #11 MareyMoiré, 1999; Georges Schwizgebel, Jeu,
2006; Hoji Tsuchiya, Black Long Skirt, 2010; Eri Kawaguchi, Flower and
Steam, 2013; Joung Yumi, Love Games, 2013; Yoriko Mizushiri, Snow Hut,
2014; Jake Fried, Headspace, 2014; Joshua Mosley, Jeu de Paume, 2014;
Johan Rijpma, Descent, 2014; Zeitguised, Birds, 2014;
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2014
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11/12
Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Journal
http://mfj-online.org
7:30 pm, Brooklyn Fire Proof 119 Ingraham Street
(entrance on Johnson Ave & Porter)--L Train to Morgan Ave
MFJ 60 PUBLICATION SCREENING NO. 1
Screening Celebrating publication of MFJ 60 "Fundamentals." PROGRAM *
Johanna Vaude: "Totalite Remix" (7' 2012); * Shambhavi Kaul:
"Scene 32? (5' 2010); * Torsten Fleisch: "Hex Suffice Cache
Ten" (12' 2012); * Matjaz Ivanisin: "Karpotrotter" (49'
2013); introduced by Joel Schlemowitz . . . - See more at:
http://www.mfj-online.org/mfj-no-60-screening-nov-12-2014/
11/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DESERET
by James Benning 1995, 81 min, 16mm Share + This screening is part of:
THE CLIMATE OF VIENNA THE AUSTRIAN FILM MUSEUM AT FIFTY Film Notes
Preserved by the Austrian Film Museum. Coming just before James Benning
transitioned fully into the language-less landscape films that occupied
him for much of the first decade of the 2000s, DESERET shares these
later films' unfailingly sharp compositional eye and concern with the
social and political dimensions of our environment. Rhythmically,
though, it has more in common with Benning's earlier work, while its use
of found text and narration place it squarely within a group of films
(AMERICAN DREAMS, LANDSCAPE SUICIDE, NORTH ON EVERS) that enact
fascinating experiments with image/text counterpoint. Devoting the
soundtrack to a narration constructed from ninety-three New York Times
articles from 1852-1992, all of them relating to the history of the
state of Utah (or "Deseret," the Mormons' preferred name for the
territory), Benning places this narration in ambiguous interrelationship
to his imagery of contemporary landscapes throughout the state. Each
shot is timed to a single sentence of the text, but as in all the films
of this period, text and image refuse to fit together neatly, remaining
distinct tracks that speak to each other in myriad but never easily
reducible ways.
11/12
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
EXTREME JAPANESE TRANSGRESSION & FURRY FREAKOUTS! SHuJI TERAYAMAS
EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP & BUPPOOSH
One of Terayama's most challenging works, Emperor Tomato Ketchup is
ostensibly about a young boy who is the emperor of a country in which
children have overthrown the adults. This underground masterpiece
startlingly attacks the taboo subjects of adolescent sexuality as well
as the tyranny of both church and state. Lacking a conventional
narrative, the film's gritty, often over-exposed imagery at times
resembles a home movie gone horribly wrong. Set in a dystopian Japan,
its revolutionary gaze is as much sexual as it is political. Equal parts
anarchy and poetry, Emperor Tomato Ketchup is Terayama using the
cinematic canvas to create a work that is revolutionary in both form and
spirit. Opening the show is Tucson's own band of mysteriously costumed
furry ambient aberrancy, Buppoosh!!
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
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11/13
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60601
MATI DIOP: A THOUSAND SUNS
Mati Diop in person! Known for dreamlike shorts that experiment with the
boundaries between documentary and fiction, award-winning French
filmmaker Mati Diop mined her own history for A Thousand Suns. The film
explores the public and private legacies of the seminal Senegalese film
Touki Bouki (1972), directed by her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty. She
focuses on Magaye Niang, a farmer living outside of Dakar, who, as a
young man, played the film's lead. As Niang reflects on the events of
his past, Diop meditates on Senegal's history, the role of its cinema,
and her own place in it. Accompanied by Diop's haunting 2009 short
Atlantiques, which spins feverish tales of European opportunity and
perilous sea crossings. 200913, Senegal/France, multiple formats, ca 65
min + discussion. In French, Wolof, and Swahili with English subtitles.
CATE is FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID $11 General Public
$6 Film Center members $7 Students $5 SAIC faculty and staff and Art
Institute of Chicago staff
11/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, MOCA, 250 South Grand Avenue
ANDY WARHOL: LIGHT AND DARK
Live music by Ezra Buchla. In conjunction with the exhibition Andy
Warhol: Shadows, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA is proud to present a
special screening of Warhol's films Kiss (1963) and Blow Job (1964) with
live music by experimental composer Ezra Buchla. Shadows, which became
an increasingly important concern in Warhol's two-dimensional artworks
over the course of the 1970s, also played a starring role in his earlier
film work. A single light, at once harsh and hallowing, illuminates
actions, both mundane and profane, by turns captivating and alienating.
The resultant play of light, shadow, time, and attention are among the
most influential and arresting artworks of the twentieth century.
Tickets available in advance at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/258310
11/13
New York, New York: New York Public Library - Jefferson Market
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/11/14/persistence-vision-emerging-analog-filmmakers
7:00 PM, 425 Avenue of the Americas
PERSISTENCE OF VISION: YOUNG ANALOG FILMMAKERS
Persistence of Vision: Young Analog Filmmakers is a film program
highlighting the works of five young and emerging artists: Christopher
Gorski, Laura Trager, Angelica Vergel, Pedro Juan Vidal, and Tzuan Wu -
all of whom work with motion picture film as an integral part of their
respective art practices. Despite the inclination towards digital
production, post-production, and exhibition in the more commercial and
industrialized realms of the motion picture landscape as well as among
generations of experimental filmmakers and media artists, there still
remains a small but dedicated community of artists and filmmakers who
continue to utilize the medium of film and the properties unique to it
through processes of footage capture, editing, and/or exhibition, all at
a time when equipment, medium, chemicals - an entire infrastructure -
remains in a constant state of precarious flux. The works presented in
this program, ranging from the diaristic and the gestural to performance
and non-narrative documentary, vary in their content and production
approach. Yet all of these artists, through their work and
resourcefulness, remain engaged in an ongoing dialogue as to how and why
film can continue to be relevant as a medium in the 21st century. Q&A /
panel discussion led by artist Mark John Smith will follow the
screening. The program is curated by Matt Whitman. Artists' Sites:
Christopher Gorski: http://www.underexposedoverjoyed.com/ Angelica
Vergel: http://angelicavergel.com/ Pedro Juan Vidal:
http://vimeo.com/pedrojuanvidal Tzuan Wu:
http://cargocollective.com/tzuanwu Mark John Smith:
http://www.markjohnsmith.co.uk/ Matt Whitman: http://www.mawhitman.com/
Thursday November 13th, 2014 New York Public Library, Jefferson Market
Branch 425 Avenue of the Americas (at 10th St) New York, NY Free and
open to the public!
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014
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11/14
Berkeley, California: L at TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late111414
7:30pm, Woo Hon Fai Hall, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA. 94720
JEREMY HARRIS W/ PAUL CLIPSON
Composer/performer/producer Jeremy Harris, founder of Quest Coast
Quarterly, explores the intersection of cyclical minimalist rhythms and
extended classical harmonies in a series of partially composed,
partially improvised songs and instrumental pieces. Harris sings and
plays several instruments, accompanied by 16mm projections from
collaborator Paul Clipson. Programmed by Andy Cabic (Vetiver.)
11/14
Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com
7:00 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 2
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns for its fifth
annual festival this November with four screenings of experimental
animation at the MCA Chicago and the Nightingale Cinema. Blending an
appreciation of classical animation with the sensibilities of
avant-garde cinema and the visual culture of alternative comics, the
Eyeworks programs showcase abstract animation, surreal narratives, and
unconventional character animation. $10 admission. PROGRAM: Festival
guest Caleb Wood in person, 70 mins + Q&A. Festival guest Caleb Wood
will present a program of his animation in person on Friday, Nov. 14.
Wood studied animation at RISD, where he produced his award-winning
graduation film "Stay Home." He currently lives in Duluth, MN, where he
maintains an incredibly prolific creative output. His animations have
been screened at top animation festivals internationally, and his work
has been presented in art galleries and featured on Adult Swim. Wood was
selected for the prestigious Animation Artist in Residency Tokyo program
in 2013, where he made his film "Goodbye Rabbit Hop Hop." He will
introduce the program of his work, and participate in an audience Q&A
after the screening.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2014
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11/15
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
NICK FELTON & BRIAN HOUSE: AUTOMATIC DATA, PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
Discussion with Nicholas Felton and Brian House moderated by Cecilia
Aldarondo. The focus of this evening's program is the desire to record
and represent one's everyday experience. This basic impulse has
motivated a rich tradition of personal documentary that often frames
both the mundane and the dramatic in a particular filmmaker's life. The
work of American artists like Ross McElwee, Su Friedrich, Robert A.
Nakamura, Alan Berliner, Camille Billops and James V. Hatch (to name but
a few) have been grouped in this particular cannon.
11/15
Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com
5:00 PM, Nightingale Cinema, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 3
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns for its fifth
annual festival this November with four screenings of experimental
animation at the MCA Chicago and the Nightingale Cinema. Blending an
appreciation of classical animation with the sensibilities of
avant-garde cinema and the visual culture of alternative comics, the
Eyeworks programs showcase abstract animation, surreal narratives, and
unconventional character animation. $10 admission. PROGRAM: Robert
Breer, 69, 1968; Doris Chase, Circles I, 1971; Larry Cuba, 3/78, 1978
Chris Sullivan, The Beholder, 1983; Nicole Hewitt, In/Dividu, 1998; Neil
Taylor, Copy Copy, 1999; Sandra Desmazieres, Sans Queue Ni Tete, 2001;
Laszlo Csaki, Days That Were Filled With Sense by Fear, 2002-03; Daniel
Barrow, Advanced Search Terms, 2012-13; Sarina Nihei, Trifling Habits,
2013; Karolina Glusiec, Velocity, 2013; Nick Butcher, Sidewalk, 2014;
Allison Schulnik, Eager, 2014.
11/15
Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com
8:00 PM, Nightingale Cinema, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 4
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns for its fifth
annual festival this November with four screenings of experimental
animation at the MCA Chicago and the Nightingale Cinema. Blending an
appreciation of classical animation with the sensibilities of
avant-garde cinema and the visual culture of alternative comics, the
Eyeworks programs showcase abstract animation, surreal narratives, and
unconventional character animation. $10 admission. *NOTE: Program 4
repeats Program 1, with some lineup changes.* PROGRAM: John Whitney Jr,
Terminal Self, 1971; Florence Miailhe, Hammam, 1992; Georges
Schwizgebel, Jeu, 2006; Hoji Tsuchiya, Black Long Skirt, 2010; Marjorie
Caup, Transhumance, 2012; Leslie Baum and Frederick Wells, Megillat
Breakdown, 2013; Eri Kawaguchi, Flower and Steam, 2013; Joung Yumi, Love
Games, 2013; Yoriko Mizushiri, Snow Hut, 2014; Jake Fried, Headspace,
2014; Joshua Mosley, Jeu de Paume, 2014; Johan Rijpma, Descent, 2014;
Zeitguised, Birds, 2014
11/15
Houston, Texas: Blaffer Onscreen
http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/
1pm, Sundance Cinemas (510 Texas Ave.)
KEN JACOBS: BLANKETS FOR INDIANS
Blaffer On Screen (in conjunction with the Houston Cinema Arts Festival)
is proud to present a rare Texas appearance by New York's Ken Jacobs. A
master of many experimental forms, Jacobs has played a pivotal role in
the history of film, helping to shape poetic, abstract, structural,
political, and 3D cinema in a career spanning nearly six decades. A
perpetual thorn in the side of those who believe cinema's job is to
placate and hypnotize, Jacobs is equally disruptive to the polite,
sterile modernism of the textbooks. His new work, Blankets for Indians,
combines stereoscopic abstraction with material shot during the Occupy
Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park. Jacobs asks us to forge a
relationship between the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, to knock down
the police barriers in our minds. Also screening: Capitalism: Child
Labor (2006) and Capitalism: Slavery (2006).
11/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON
by Apichatpong Weerasethakul In Thai with English subtitles, 2000, 88
min, 35mm, b&w Share + This screening is part of: THE CLIMATE OF VIENNA
THE AUSTRIAN FILM MUSEUM AT FIFTY Film Notes (DOKFAH NAI MEU MAAN)
Restored by the Austrian Film Museum and the World Cinema Foundation.
"Once upon a time
" is how the fairytale career of Apichatpong
Weerasethakul fittingly begins. His first feature is a mix between road
movie, fly-on-the-wall documentary, and exquisite corpse a popular
game among the French surrealists in the 1920s. Journeying south through
the country from Bangkok, the future Palme d'or-winning filmmaker shares
a story with a group of villagers, who then pass it on, gradually
expanding and mutating it along the way until it becomes a collective
object the "mysterious object" of the title. Produced on a shoestring
budget, the 'low-fi' production circumstances of this docu-fiction
fantasy accelerated the need for its restoration, less than 15 years
after its premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Long unavailable to
rent for theatrical screenings, it returns to Anthology Film Archives
(where it enjoyed its initial theatrical premiere run in 2001) in this
beautiful 35mm print, the result of a digital restoration project by the
Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project.
11/15
New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal
http://mfj-online.org
7:30 PM, Grahame Weinbren Studio, 119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor
MFJ 60 PUBLICATION SCREENING NO. 2
---MFJ 60 Fall 2014 "Fundamentals": Harun Farocki Tribute--- PROGRAM
***with Jill Godmilow in person*** Johanna Vaude: Notre Icare
(8.5' 2012) Super 8 transfer to HD; Harun Farocki:
Inextinguishable Fire (22' 1969) New HD Transfer on BluRay; Jill
Godmilow: What Farocki Taught (32' 1997) 16mm transfer to DVD; -
See more at: http://www.mfj-online.org/2581-2/
11/15
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, 55 Taylor Street
THE FOURTH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE ART AUCTION & BENEFIT
Please JOIN US at the Center for New Music for a special reception and
silent art auction from 7pm to 10pmincluding fabulous food, libations
and music from DJ Keith Slogan with many artists and filmmakers in
personin celebration and support of San Francisco Cinematheque, our
artists and our upcoming 54th year of exhibiting cutting-edge
avant-garde film and video art! Over 50 international, national and
regional artists have contributed artworks to this year's stellar
exhibition of drawings, paintings, photography, collage and multi-media
installations. San Francisco Cinematheque would like to thank Romer
Young Gallery and Gallery Paule Anglim for their generous assistance.
Admission: $20 general/ $15 members.
11/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8 PM, 992 Valencia St.
GALLAGHERS FEMALE FILMMAKER HERSTORY + KLAHR + GAL/POETIC PIXILATION
The US experimental animation scene is spontaneously combusting, and OC
proudly fuels the fire for the leading lights of this intensely
energized frame-by-frame form. That rad wunderkind out of Iowa, Kelly
Gallagher, debuts her 15 min. Herstory of the Female Filmmaker,
alongside mentors Jodie Mack's Lily, Jo Dery's Peeks, Vicki Bennett's We
Are Not Amused, and Helen Hills' foundational Madame Winger. CO-BILLED
is the SF premiere of Lewis Klahr's cut-out Rain Couplets, plus Jim
Trainor's Moschops and Len Lye's 1937 color(!) Rainbow Dance. Opening in
person is Omer Gal's animation-cum-performance The Shitheads, and for
those hungry for a bonus at close: the irresistible featurette Mel
Blanc, the Man of a Thousand Voices. Free toast and nutella. *8PM.
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11/16
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
THE TOXIC EDGE: A SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH SARAH KANOUSE
NY Premiere: Around Crab Orchard! Toxicity figures in a range of
contemporary political, economic, social, and environmental discourses,
from the toxic waste of the gulf catastrophe or Fukushima and the toxic
assets of financial institutions, to concerns over toxic lifestyles and
the biomonitoring of toxic bodies. In Around Crab Orchard Sarah Kanouse
investigates the deep flows of toxicity in the natural environment and
how these shape their materiality and the politics of their existence.
Crab Orchard calls itself a unique place to experience nature. As the
only wildlife refuge in the United States whose mission includes
industry and agriculture alongside conservation and recreation, Crab
Orchard claims a harmonious balance between past and present, nature and
culture. Assembled from documents, found footage, and conversations with
activists, writers, and local residents, Around Crab Orchard questions
the ideal of natural harmony while meditating on the persistence of
history, the creation of knowledge, the limits of representation, and
the commonplace of environmental hazard. Around Crab Orchard ultimately
argues for forms of storytelling, image-making, and action that respond
to the full complexity of the social and ecological landscape.
11/16
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St.
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS JEREMY ROURKE
Fresh from a residency at the San Francisco dump, Shapeshifters alum
Jeremy Rourke will return to present new animated work created from the
detritus of the material and spiritual cultures of San Francisco. Rourke
creates animated films from vintage and new photographs, paint, sticks,
shadows, wood, flowers, tape, pens, paper, pencils, and leaves. He is
bringing a band of some kind to Shapeshifters. He is looking in the
bottom of the chest with them. He is looking for bits and pieces that
haven't been shown in ages. He is on this earth, with the sun shining on
it, floating through space, right along with you.
11/16
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
SAN FRANCISCO CITY SYMPHONIES THE FILMS OF DOMINIC ANGERAME
Filmmaker Dominic Angerame (S.F.) in person. We welcome one of the
finest cine-documentarians of urban landscape to EV this evening.
Angerame's rendering of urban change is achieved through the exquisite
B&W photographic tones of 16mm celluloid. Angerame travels from the
hotbed of urban gentrification in SF to Tucson's artist paradise to
share his amazing City Symphony series of 16mm films that record the
manual labor and mechanized deconstruction/reconstruction that resulted
from the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Conner Gallaher provides a live
musical score to Angerame's B&W prescient masterpiece, Continuum.
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