[Frameworks] This week (June 27-July 5, 2015) in avant garde cinema

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** This week [June 27 - July 5, 2015] in avant garde cinema
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This week's programs (summary):
* Out of the Dark (#anchor1) [June 27, Berlin, Germany]
* Fol Sunar: Amerikan Deneysel Sineması'ndan SeçKiler (#anchor2) [June 27, Istanbul, Turkey]
* Headboggle / Aurora Crispin / Jenny Yang / Paul Clipson (#anchor3) [June 27, Oakland]
* Videoshop Screenings: Shambhavi Kaul + Brent Coughenour + Rebecca Baron (#anchor4) [June 27, Paris, France]
* Spin Tactics (#anchor5) [June 27, San Francisco, California]
* Feelings Are Facts: the Life of Yvonne Rainer (#anchor6) [June 27, San Francisco, California]
* Twilight Made Manifest: the Films of Phil Solomon: the Twilight Psalms (#anchor7) [June 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Connectivity Through Cinema Presents "Tear It Up, Son!" the Films of Ross Nugent - In Person - (#anchor8) [June 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Forward To Distant Times: New visions of the West (#anchor9) [June 28, Los Angeles, California]
* La videoshop Screenings: Jp Sniadecki + Jay Rosenblatt + Caveh Zahedi (#anchor10) [June 28, Paris, France]
* Twilight Made Manifest: the Films of Phil Solomon: In Memoriam (#anchor11) [June 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Jonas Mekas "365 Day Project - June", Screening Premiere, Mekas In Person (#anchor12) [June 29, Brooklyn, New York]
* Carte Blanche Au Flex Fest (#anchor13) [June 29, France]
* Betwixt and Between: Canyon Cinema Salon With Kate Mccabe (#anchor14) [June 29, San Francisco, California]
* La videoshop Screenings: Christopher Harris + Roger Beebe (#anchor15) [June 30, Paris, France]
* A Mirror Avant-Garde: Non-Canonical Canonicals By Women Filmmakers (#anchor16) [July 1, New York, New York 10016]
* Fire Island Film + Sound (#anchor17) [July 1, New York, New York]
* Picture Perfect Pyramids: Films By Johann Lurf (#anchor18) [July 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Without You I'm Nothing (#anchor19) [July 3, New York, New York]
* Nearfields: An Evening of Moving Image and Music (#anchor20) [July 3, San Francisco, California]
* The Improbable Made Possible: A Displaced People (#anchor21) [July 5, Baltimore, MD]
* The Improbable Made Possible: A Displaced People (#anchor22) [July 5, Baltimore, Maryland]
* She's A Talker (#anchor23) [July 5, New York, New York]

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015

6/27
Berlin, Germany: Colorado Filmmuseum
6:00pm, Atelier Ebersstr., Ebersstr. 80 (Hinterhof) D-10827
OUT OF THE DARK
An Evening of Film, Object & Food. Thomas Draschan, Eva Heldman, Uwe Buhrdorf, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Frank Biesendorfer, Thomas Seideman, Heather Allen, Margit Seiler, Stefanie Mayer, Micki Tschur.

6/27
Istanbul, Turkey: Yeşilçam Sineması
7:00pm, İmam Adnan Sokağı No:8
FOL SUNAR: AMERIKAN DENEYSEL SINEMASı'NDAN SEçKILER
FLEXfest Greatest Hits, Amerikalı deneysel sinemacı ve film programcısı Roger Beebe'nin programladığı ve Avrupa'nın çeşitli yerlerinde gösterimini gerçekleştirdiği bir seçkidir. Bu seçki, Amerikan Deneysel Sineması'nın son 11 yılında kendisine yer edinmiş önemli işlerden oluşmaktadır. Fol Sinema Topluluğu, eşsiz bir deneyim sunan bu programı, Varşova'dan hemen sonra, Paris'teki gösterimden de bir gün önce Roger Beebe'nin katılımı ile İstanbul'da Beyoğlu'ndaki Yeşilçam Sineması'nda seyirciler ile buluşturacak. 27 Haziran akşamı gerçekleşecek bu özel gösterimdeki filmlerin bazıları orjinal formatı olan 16mm'den gösterilecektir. With Pluses and Minuses: (Yön. Mike Stoltz / 2013 / 16mm / 5'). Light from the Mesa: (Yön. Paul Clipson / 2010 / Super 8mm / 6’). Quiero Ver: (Yön. Adele Horne / 2008 / 16mm / 6’). Altitude Zero: (Yön. Lauren Cook / 2004 / 16mm / 5’). Handful of Dust: (Yön. Hope Tucker / 2013 / 9’). River Rites: (Yön. Ben Russell / 2011 /
16mm / 11’ 30’’). Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside: (Yön. Jodie Mack / 2010 / 16mm / 4’ 30’’). Beaver Skull Magick: (Yön. Steve Reinke / 2010 / 6’). Somewhere Only We Know: (Yön. Jesse McLean / 2009 / 5’). The Realist: (Yön. Scott Stark / 2013 / HD Video / 36’).

6/27
Oakland: LAND AND SEA
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HEADBOGGLE / AURORA CRISPIN / JENNY YANG / PAUL CLIPSON
Three sound/music performances featuring Headboggle, Aurora Crispin, and Jenny Yang with Super 8mm and 16mm films by Paul Clipson.

6/27
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: SHAMBHAVI KAUL + BRENT COUGHENOUR + REBECCA BARON
19:30h | Shambhavi Kaul + Brent Coughenour 21:30h | Rebecca Baron Shambhavi Kaul Shambhavi Kaul's cinematic constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive non-places. Described as creating “zones of compression and dispersion,” her work utilizes strategies of montage and recirculation, inviting an affective response while simultaneously measuring our capacity to know what we encounter. Shambhavi Kaul was born in Jodhpur, India and currently lives in India and North Carolina, USA. She has exhibited her work worldwide at venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, The New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This evening of work will include her recent film, Night Noon (2014, 12:00), shot in the desert landscapes of Baja California, as well as Mount Song (2013, 9:00) and 21 Chitrakoot (2012, 9:00) Time's Arrow: Videos by Brent Coughenour A program of video experiments that incorporate sounds and
images from popular media, the internet, and a range of archives, both known and obscure, to consider the idea of time: the inaccessible past and the unknowable future. Work includes: In Search of Lost Time (2011, 3:30), nPNBIbK (2011, 24:00), Work in Progress (2011, 13:00), Video Proposal for a Film to be Titled "Yearbook" (2011, 365 sec.), and Elegy for the Living as Sung by the Dying, Part 1-3 (2011, 13:00). (Dis)Appearances : Films Curated by Rebecca Baron Rebecca Baron Detour de Force (30:00) Detour de Force presents the world of thoughtographer Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Constructed from 16mm documentation of Serios’s sessions and audio recordings of Serios speaking with Dr. Jule Eisenbud, the Denver psychiatrist who championed his abilities, the film is more ethnography than biography, portraying the social and scientific environments in which Serios thrived. The film enjoys a
rich sound environment by Ernst Karel, Kyle Bruckmann, and Guiseppe Ielasi. Gaëlle Cintré Zone Blanche (2014, 22:00) Suffering from an acute intolerance to electromagnetic fields caused by cell phones and Wi-Fi, among other things, four women are forced to survive on the margins of the world. In the mountains, looking for a subterranean refuge, the daily life of these ‘electro-hyper-sensitives’ oscillates between a return to a primitive way of life and a science-fiction post-apocalyptic existence. Unable to endure proximity to electrical current or even batteries, they must be approached with a mechanical camera… A film without electricity. Abigail Han Untitled (2015, 2:00) A short meditation on the ontology of the photograph and its relationship to the moving image. Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin Lossless 3 (2009, 10:00) Removing keyframes from a digital version of John Ford's The Searchers, Baron and Goodwin attack the film's temporal structuring to render a kinetic
“painted desert” of the West. (Braxton Soderman)

6/27
San Francisco, California: Peephole Cinema
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June 27-Aug 9, 280 Orange Alley (off of Valencia and 26th)
SPIN TACTICS
Three artists repurpose vinyl records and perform with turntables to make moving images. Work by Elise Baldwin, Gilbert Hsiao and Katie Turnbull. The cinema is open and vvailable to the Public 24/7

6/27
San Francisco, California: Frameline Film Festival
11am, Castro Theater, Market & Castro
FEELINGS ARE FACTS: THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER
Expected to attend: Director Jack Walsh, Producer Christine Murray. In 1966, Yvonne Rainer, a young dancer and choreographer from San Francisco, already a founding member of the vastly influential Judson Dance Theater, made an unconventional solo that became a decisive moment in the history of contemporary art. Director Jack Walsh’s inviting portrait of Yvonne Rainer begins with Trio A’s pivotal turn, which forced new ways of seeing performance and the body. The film then steps back to survey the cultural ground that gave rise not only to this revolutionary work but also to the equally radical dance and film career of Rainer, an endlessly resourceful intellect and feminist. Interweaving tantalizing performances with reflections from an impressive roster of friends and colleagues (including fellow Judson veterans Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, and Lucinda Childs, as well as Bay Area scholar B. Ruby Rich), the film features forthright interviews with Rainer herself, now 80 and
still a vital, engaged artist. Covering everything from early influences like Merce Cunningham and John Cage to her rocky upbringing amid San Francisco anarchist and bohemian circles, coming out as a lesbian in her fifties, and her return to dance in 2000 at the behest of Mikhail Baryshnikov, this insightful documentary has as much to say about the politics of identity as it does about the always-related concerns of one of the preeminent artists of our time. — Rob Avila

6/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
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1pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
TWILIGHT MADE MANIFEST: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON: THE TWILIGHT PSALMS
Its name a play on that of The Twilight Zone, the ongoing Twilight Psalms is the centrepiece of Solomon's oeuvre. Introduction by Phil Solomon. Its name a play on that of The Twilight Zone (and with each of its individual installments adopting the title of an episode from the television series), the ongoing Twilight Psalms is the centrepiece of Solomon's oeuvre. Emulating the creeping unease of its almost-namesake and evoking a plaintive millennial regret, this series of films goes beyond personal narrative to address the failings of history, looking back at the pains (and horrors) of the twentieth century and directing a so-called "minor" cinema towards grander gestures and a more expansive conceptual ambition. The Psalms also showcases some of Solomon's most stunning employments of optical printing, particularly in the two central films Walking Distance (which uses footage of Harry Houdini to evoke the physical difficulty of escape) and Night of the Meek (which links
imagery from Paul Wegener's The Golem and James Whale's Frankenstein to the industrial-scale pogrom of the Holocaust); the bronzed and embossed figures in the former and the black-and-white decay of the latter are some of the most visually compelling images created during the century's turn. Our screening of The Twilight Psalms is preceded by Stan Brakhage's First Hymn to the Night - Novalis, which was made in the period immediately preceding his collaborations with Solomon. First Hymn to the Night – Novalis (dir. Stan Brakhage \ USA 1994 \ 3 min. \ 16mm) Psalm I: "The Lateness of the Hour" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1999 \ 10 min. \ 16mm) Psalm II: "Walking Distance" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1999 \ 23 min. \ 16mm) Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 2002 \ 23 min. \ 16mm) Psalm IV: "Valley of the Shadow" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 2013 \ 8 min. \ video)

SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015

6/28
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
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7 PM , 361 Manhattan Avenue
CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS "TEAR IT UP, SON!" THE FILMS OF ROSS NUGENT - IN PERSON -
Join us for an intimate screening presentation with artist and filmmaker Ross Nugent (Pittsburgh, PA.) Ross Nugent returns to New York for an intimate night of moving images and conversation. This program will present a selection of films shot on 16mm over the last 7 years including his most recent film Steel Mill Rolling, a document of a functioning steel mill in Western Pennsylvania where the filmmaker's family has worked for nearly 100 years. Though the artist is an “Emulsion enthusiast” digital video interludes (unlisted) will help give greater context to the working artist. Screening program includes: Hopper Repair 2010 (16mm, 4.5 minutes, color, sound), Tear it up, Son! 2011 (Super-16 transferred to HD, 9 min, b/w, sound), Steel Mill Rolling 2014 (16mm, 12 min, color, sound), Whatever It Takes, work-in-progress, (16mm X 2 and HD video, 10 min, sound, live performance) Spillway Study/Carpe Diez 2009, (16mm X 3, 8 min, b/w + color gels, live performance) Total running
time: 52 minutes on-screen, 60 minutes Additional time for discussion / Q & A with the artist : The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series presents the work of artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special interactive programs in-person. We engage the community by showing work with a focus on post-screening discussion and audience participation. This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).,br>

6/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.,
FORWARD TO DISTANT TIMES: NEW VISIONS OF THE WEST
Sunday June 28, 2015, 7:30 pm Los Angeles Filmforum presents Forward to Distant Times: New Visions of the West At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 NOTE: Amy Halpern, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Kate Lain, LeeAnn Schmidy, and Penelope Uribe-Abee in person! Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to present “Forward to Distant Times,” a program of extraordinary experimental examinations of the history, mythology and landscape of the American west. Drawing on diverse traditions ranging from the city symphony to the film diary, the filmmakers featured in tonight’s program look at the western United States with fresh eyes, examining the visual residue of history, the iconography of the west and the continuing impact of redevelopment. Screening: Cuentos, by Penelope Uribe-Abee( 2015, video, color, sound, 7 min., World Premiere!); Palm Down, by Amy Halpern (2010, 16mm, color, silent, 6 min.); The Wash, by Lee Anne Schmitt and Lee Lynch, 2005, Super
8 transferred to digital, color, sound, 20 min.); Field Notes: Tree 1, by Kate Lain (Super 8 transferred to digital, b&w, sound, 3:28 min.); Piensa en Mi, by Alexandra Cuesta (2009, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min.); From Sea to See, by Eve Lauryn LaFountain (2014, Super 8 transferred to video, color, sound, 8:23 min. World Premiere!) Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://hi-beam.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1baf772c73&e=4e65756555 or at the door.

6/28
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: JP SNIADECKI + JAY ROSENBLATT + CAVEH ZAHEDI
19h30 | J.P. Sniadecki 21h30 | Jay Rosenblatt + Caveh Zahedi J.P. Sniadecki Yumen (2013, 65:00) Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, J. P. Sniadecki. This highly experimental twist on the ethnographic documentary visits the town of Yumen, in China’s northwest Gansu province, a once-thriving, oil-rich community in the 1980s that has been left depleted and derelict. Strikingly shot on film, Yumen tells the story of this ghost town through a series of wandering characters and inventive vignettes in which even the spirit of Bruce Springsteen is summoned to comment on a world in ruins. A collaboration between Chinese and American filmmakers, Yumen pushes the boundaries of the documentary aesthetic in depicting China’s past and present. (MOMA) Jay Rosenblatt Short of Breath (1990, 10:00) A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother's depression. Short
of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It's like a punch in the stomach. (JR) Caveh Zahedi The Sheik and I (2012, 74:00) Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I Am A Sex Addict) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself and gleefully presses every culturally sensitive button he can find. But his court jester antics fails to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned for blasphemy and he is threatened with arrest if he returns to Sharjah.

6/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
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8pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
TWILIGHT MADE MANIFEST: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON: IN MEMORIAM
Made in response to the death of Solomon's lifelong friend Mark LaPore, the In Memoriam trilogy uses the dystopic hinterlands of Grand Theft Auto to find uncannily affecting landscapes that speak to loss, solitude, and departure. Introduction by Phil Solomon. "Do you think the end of the world will come at night time?" "Uh-uh. At dawn." —Rebel Without a Cause One of Solomon's earliest films, Nocturne uses time exposure to capture the lightplay of darkest night. The lights and shadows of the neighbourhood around Solomon's home are blended with footage of air raids from World War II, creating a disturbing yet compelling vision of suburban anxiety and the historical memories that haunt the night. This nocturnal unease returns in the In Memoriam trilogy — made in response to the death of Solomon's lifelong friend Mark LaPore — where Solomon guides us through the dystopic hinterlands of Grand Theft Auto to find uncannily affecting landscapes that speak to loss, solitude, and
departure. The programme concludes with one of Solomon's most stunning films, Remains to Be Seen, a memorial to the artist's mother that chemically transforms found images (of a ghostly cyclist, surgeons around an operating table, and others) to create haunting visions of a life once lived. Nocturne (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1980 \ 8 min. \ 16mm) Rehearsals for Retirement (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 2007 \ 11 min. \ video) Last Days in a Lonely Place (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 2007 \ 20 min. \ video) Still Raining, Still Dreaming (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 2008 \ 12 min. \ video) Remains to Be Seen (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1989/1994 \ 18 min. \ Super 8 on 16mm)

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015

6/29
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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7-10pm, 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2B
JONAS MEKAS "365 DAY PROJECT - JUNE", SCREENING PREMIERE, MEKAS IN PERSON
Admission $6, FREE for MEMBERS, pizza at mid-point. Jonas Mekas' "365 Day Project" screening premier reaches its half-way mark with "Part Six: June" and as the days get longer, Mekas' thoughts turn to summer travels with family in Cape Cod and with friends Peter Kubelka in Capri, Tony Guerrero in Southern France, Philip Glass in Luxembourg, and Jackie Raynal in Paris. Mekas' daily wanderings in NYC take him from Spoonbill in Williamsburg where Tosh Berman presents a book of his father's photographs to the Upper East Side with Richard Serra at his MoMA opening, and a chance encounter with Taylor Mead in the East Village in between. The artist also pauses to offer advice on how to stop a headache and on the "beauty of changing one's mind", as inspired by Paris Hilton, and captures discussions on the mediums of film and video, including a proclamation by Kubelka about the future of his celluloid works. Other days are full of dance, drinks, music, and roses. “Every day of the
year 2007 I placed on my website one new video usually about 3 to 10 minutes in length. By the time the project ended, I had made 38 hours of completed video works, the equivalent of twenty feature films… It was the most challenging undertaking I had ever done..." JM. Additional info: www.microscopegallery.com, 347.925.1433, info at microscopegallery.com. Jefferson L stop (exit Starr Street.

6/29
France: Parigi
8:30pm, Parigi
CARTE BLANCHE AU FLEX FEST
Le cinéaste Roger Beebe, initiateur de FLEX en Floride, nous invite à découvrir quelques films expérimentaux présentés lors des dernières éditions du festival. Au programme : Mike Stoltz—With Pluses and Minuses (2013) 16mm // 5’ Paul Clipson—Light from the Mesa (2010) S8, son CD // 7’ Adele Horne—Quiero Ver (2008) vidéo // 6’ Lauren Cook—Altitude Zero (2004) 16mm // 5’ Hope Tucker—A Handful of Dust (2013) vidéo // 9’ Ben Russell—River Rites (2011) 16mm en vidéo // 11’ Jodie Mack—Special Offer Inside (2010) 16mm // 4’ Jesse McLean—Somewhere only we know (2009) vidéo // 5’ Scott Stark—The Realist (2013) vidéo // 36’

6/29
San Francisco, California: Canyon Cinema
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7pm, New Nothing Cinema, 16 Sherman Street
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: CANYON CINEMA SALON WITH KATE MCCABE
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of June 29th, 2015 at New Nothing Cinema for the next installment of our 2015 Salon series. This month, we’re pleased to welcome independent filmmaker Kate McCabe who will premiere her new film “You and I Remain”, a lovely apocalyptic lullaby about the Anthropocene, alongside films from the Canyon collection that have greatly moved her: films by her mentor and friend Pat O’Neill and grand-mentor and Canyon co-founder, Chick Strand. On her selections, McCabe says: “I chose these films because they are similar to my perceptions and work aesthetics as personal observations of our twilight worlds. Worlds where portraits of places and emotions are the kinetic sublime- where we as viewers are transported betwixt and between, hovering – our feet grounded on earth, our heads in the clouds. The everyday scene, a moving lyrical event functioning as a tribute to beauty and our lucid spirit. These films are like private conversations sharing a
secret and a dream.” Program Notes: Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) | Chick Strand | 3 minutes | Color | Sound. Kristallnacht (1979) | Chick Strand | 7 minutes | B&W | Sound. Milk and Honey (2004) | Kate McCabe | 17 minutes | Color | Sound. Sleeping Dogs (Never Lie) (1978) | Pat O’Neill | 9 minutes | Color | Sound. You and I Remain (2015) | Kate McCabe | 15 minutes | Color | Sound. The Last of the Persimmons (1972) | Pat O’Neill | 6 minutes | Color | Sound.

TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015

6/30
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: CHRISTOPHER HARRIS + ROGER BEEBE
19h30 | Christopher Harris 21h30 | Roger Beebe Filmmaker in attendance Christopher Harris 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) (2011, 3:00) The film is comprised of footage Harris shot at a performance of Christ’s Passion, staged as an attraction at a Florida amusement park… The images themselves operate contrapuntally (close-ups and medium shots, mismatched reaction shots, etc.), but Harris’ use of the pure filmic light continually disrupts these faux-holy scenarios from coming into being. This flimsy display of devotion is shown up by something genuinely overpowering, or at least recognizably real. (Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope) Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) (2007, 8:00) Florida, 2007. Somewhere in a quiet outer suburb of the Milky Way galaxy, we live our lives in the pleasant warmth of our middle-of-the-road star, the Sun. Slowly but surely we will reach the point when there will be one last perfect sunny day. The sun will swell up, scorch the earth and finally consume it.
Reckless Eyeballing (2004, 14:00) Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era of black criminals staring at white women, this hand-processed, optically-printed amalgam reframes desire by way of everything from D.W. Griffith to Foxy Brown and Angela Davis: `Your lover belongs to this band of murderous outlaws.' (Cinematexas International Short Film Festival) still/here (2001, 60:00) The midwest's great cities can be alienating, and this black-and-white essay articulates disturbed relationships between people and landscapes through imagery and editing. Filmmaker Christopher Harris suffuses the blighted north side of Saint Louis with a powerful melancholy, lingering on rubble-strewn lots, decrepit buildings, and empty streets, while footsteps and a continually ringing phone on the sound track suggest lives interrupted by the devastation. Holes in a movie theater marquee are powerfully evocative, but even more impressive is the film's sprawling, almost chaotic form: its calculated
incompleteness truly matches the subject, and Harris's long takes imply—not without a hint of anger—that the ruins of his hometown are eternal. (Fred Camper, Chicago Reader) Roger Beebe: Filmmaker in attendance Best known for his multi-projector 16mm performances, Roger Beebe has also been slowly accumulating a significant body of single-channel video work as well. In the wake of the release of two new major videos in 2014--the award-winning Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part II: The Crying Game and Congratulations (One Step at a Time)—La Vidéoshop is excited to present a program focused on that full body of work. The program features those new works alongside older videos including his experimental karaoke piece, Touch Me Karaoke (2008), to be performed live by the director; his “contracted cinema” take on the Biblical concordance, Beginnings (2010/2011); his "telephone game”-inspired “One Nation under Tommy,” and more.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015

7/1
New York, New York 10016: Filmmakers Co-op
7:00pm, 475 Park Ave South 6th Floor
A MIRROR AVANT-GARDE: NON-CANONICAL CANONICALS BY WOMEN FILMMAKERS
Curated by Tess Takahashi. If you've seen more than three of the films in this program, I'd be surprised. Yet every single one of these films by women filmmakers, chosen from the collection of the Filmmaker's Co-op, deserves to be written about, taught in classes, and be part of the canon of avant-garde film. In a program of striking artistic voices from filmmakers with large bodies of work, you'll see resonances with the films of Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Owen Land, Hollis Frampton, Barbara Rubin, Malcolm LeGrice, and many others. An important thematic thread running through this program is artists' incorporation of various kinds of mirrors, both material and metaphoric. Mirrors reverse, distort, and reflect ourselves and our culture back to us in unexpected ways - and have been crucial to thinking about how we look and how we're looked at. Before you go away for July 4th weekend, come join us in the funhouse! Program Includes: -Baby Doll - Tessa
Hughes-Freeland, 1982 5m -Noyes - Bette Gordon, 1976, 4m -Abstraction - Rosalind Schneider, 1971, 8m -Mutiny - Abigail Child, 1983, 9.5m -Peyote Queen - Storm DeHirsch, 1965, 9m -All Women Are Equal - Marguerite Paris, 1972, 15m -What is a man? - Sara-Kathryn Arledge, 1958, 10m -The Scary Movie - Peggy Ahwesh, 1996, 9m -Hearts, Chains And Flowers - Silvianna Goldsmith, 1995, 8m TRT: 77.5 min Tess Takahashi is Scholar in Residence at the Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York. She is an independent Toronto-based scholar who writes on experimental media, film, art installation, and performance. She is working on a book titled Impure Film: Medium Specificity and the North American Avant-Garde (1968-2008) and another called Moving Through Magnitude. She is a member of the editorial collective for the feminist film journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media and a member of the experimental media programming collective, Pleasure Dome. Her work has been published in journals
like Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, Millennium Film Journal, Animation, and MIRAGE.

7/1
New York, New York: Dirty Looks: ON LOCATION
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8PM, White Columns | 320 West 13th Street
FIRE ISLAND FILM + SOUND
Sam Ashby and Ginger Brooks Takahashi present a progression of the project they started in Cherry Grove in summer 2014 as part of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR). Drawing from Sam Ashby's archive of films made on the island, and activated through Ginger Brooks Takahashi's live modular synthesizer soundtrack, Fire Island Film + Sound is an audio-visual experience that explores the Island as a site of queer exile, utopia, sexual liberation and trauma. White Columns is New York's oldest alternative art space. It was founded in 1970 by Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark as an experimental platform for artists. Originally located in SoHo (and known as the 112 Workshop/112 Greene Street), the organization was renamed White Columns when it moved to Spring Street in 1979. In 1991 White Columns moved to Christopher Street in the West Village, and in 1998 the gallery relocated to its present address on the border of the West Village and Meat Packing District. Curator: Evan Garza

THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2015

7/2
Chicago, Illinois: Cinema Borealis
9:00 PM, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave.
PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMIDS: FILMS BY JOHANN LURF
Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:00 PM Cinema Borealis 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. $10 Johann Lurf in person Join filmmaker Johann Lurf at Cinema Borealis on Thursday, July 2 for a program of his films. Based in Vienna, Lurf makes films that draw on the structural legacies of Snow and Kubelka and the recontexualizations of Connor and Tscherkassky. The films are simultaneously playful and rigorous; technically ambitious and remarkably simple. Orienting his camera toward the mundane and the exotic with equal care, Lurf charts unexpected possibilities for cinematic perceptions of time and space. Viennese artist and filmmaker Johann Lurf creates machines, uses editing techniques and found footage to alter our perception. His structural films and moving camera work uses rhythmical strategies to analyze existing imagery, observe and document built structures and their functions around us. By comparing similar objects patterns emerge, the whole being more than the sum of its parts. Born in 1982
in Vienna Johann Lurf has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Slade School of Art in London. He graduated from Harun Farocki’s film class in 2009. He received the State Grant of Austria for Video- and Media Art and participated in the Artist-in-Residence Programs at the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles 2011 and at the SAIC in Chicago 2015. His works have been internationally shown and awarded in numerous exhibitions and festivals. Lurf is working on a new film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this summer through Artist in Residency Krems. Films in the program Twelve Tales Told, 2014, 4:00, 35mm 12 Explosions, 2008, 6:00, DV The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, 2009, 3:00, 35mm VERTIGO RUSH, 2007, 19:00, DCP Picture Perfect Pyramid, 2013, 5:00, 16mm EMBARGO, 2014, 10:00, DCP RECONNAISSANCE, 2012, 5:00. DCP A to A, 2011, 5:00, 35mm Total runtime: 57 minutes

FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015

7/3
New York, New York: Dirty Looks: ON LOCATION
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10PM, Dixon Place | 161 Chrystie Street
WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING
John Boskovich, Without You I'm Nothing, 35mm on video, 89min., 1990. Sandra Bernhard takes on Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, and Diana Ross, sings “Me and Mrs. Jones” as a lesbian torch song, and strips down to American flag G-string to the tune of “Little Red Corvette” in the film version of her hit one-woman show, Without You I’m Nothing, With You I’m Not Much Better. It was during the East Village run of the show that Bernhard made her infamous appearance on Letterman with Madonna, another of her many interventions into American pop culture, toying with notions of celebrity and sexuality. After spawning Dixon Place as a salon in her Paris apartment in 1985, Artistic Director Ellie Covan pioneered the organization in her New York City living room for 23 years. Dixon Place is now a non-profit institution committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance, music, puppetry, circus arts, literature, and visual art at all stages of
development. Curator: Karl McCool

7/3
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
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8pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEARFIELDS: AN EVENING OF MOVING IMAGE AND MUSIC
Performances by: John Davis + Paul Clipson (16mm film) / Keith Evans / Jim Haynes / Collin McKelvey

SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2015

7/5
Baltimore, MD: The Improbable Made Possible
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7:30PM, Terrault Contemporary (1515 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202)
THE IMPROBABLE MADE POSSIBLE: A DISPLACED PEOPLE
The Improbable Made Possible is a roaming screening series that showcases contemporary avant-garde cinema, exposing the traditions of direct observation and speculative fiction. Since 2011, this annual initiative has invited recognized pioneers and emerging practitioners to partake in curated programs at renowned venues. Through projection and participation, it advances alternative modes of moving images and challenges the pursuits of those in attendance. Previous destinations include Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter Film Festival, UnionDocs and Spectacle Theater. A Displaced People marks the fifth installment of this series. It begins with a familiar farewell. A shared, secreted commute then makes way for a palpable, parading façade. The presence and absence of maternal lineage leads to depth defying processions. Celebrity personas, on stage and off, are soon re-imagined in séance fictions of disillusioned selves. Customs that challenge complacency on an isolated yet
integrated island prophesy the occurrence of a cataclysm. Memoirs are finally transformed by means of tormented home video tapes and the nervous illness that follows, inside and out. Featuring: Despedida, Alexandra Cuesta, 2013, Sun Song, Joel Wanek, 2013, Burn Out the Day, Sasha Waters Freyer, 2014, Ceallaigh at Kilmainham, Kelly Gallagher, 2013, lacuna, Shannon Harris, 2008, The Trouble with Haints, Kevvy Metal, 2011, After the Rainbow, Soda_Jerk, 2009, Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget, Ben Russell, 2013, In Search of Lost Time, Jason Younkman, 2012, [deterritorialization], Ben Balcom, 2013. TRT: approx. 85m. Programmed by Lorenzo Gattorna.

7/5
Baltimore, Maryland: Terrault Contemporary
7:30pm - 9:30pm, 1515 Guilford Ave
THE IMPROBABLE MADE POSSIBLE: A DISPLACED PEOPLE
It begins with a familiar farewell. A shared, secreted commute then makes way for a palpable, parading fa&ccedilade. The presence and absence of maternal lineage leads to depth defying processions. Celebrity personas, on stage and off, are soon reimagined in séance fictions of disillusioned selves. Customs that challenge complacency on an isolated yet integrated island prophesy the occurrence of a cataclysm. Memoirs are finally transformed by means of tormented home video tapes and the nervous illness that follows, inside and out. Despedida, Alexandra Cuesta, 2013, 16mm, color, 10m Sun Song, Joel Wanek, 2013, digital, color, silent, 15m Burn Out the Day, Sasha Waters Freyer, 2014, 16mm, color, 4m Ceallaigh at Kilmainham, Kelly Gallagher, 2013, 16mm to digital, color, 7m lacuna, Shannon Harris, 2008, 16mm, color, 10m The Trouble with Haints, Kevvy Metal, 2011, digital, b/w & color, 2.5m After the Rainbow, Soda_Jerk , 2009, digital, b/w & color, 6m Let Us Persevere in What We
Have Resolved Before We Forget, Ben Russell, 2013, S16mm to digital, color, 20m In Search of Lost Time, Jason Younkman, 2012, VHS to digital, color, 8m [deterritorialization], Ben Balcom, 2013, digital, color, 2m Programmed by Lorenzo Gattornahttp:// lorenzogattorna.com/ The-Improbable-Made-Possibl e The Improbable Made Possible is a roaming screening series that showcases contemporary avant-garde cinema, exposing the traditions of direct observation and speculative fiction. Since 2011, this annual initiative has invited recognized pioneers and emerging practitioners to partake in curated programs at renowned venues. Through projection and participation, it advances alternative modes of moving images and challenges the pursuits of those in attendance. $5 suggested donation

7/5
New York, New York: Dirty Looks: ON LOCATION
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7PM, The Rusty Knot | 425 West Street
SHE'S A TALKER
Created in 1993, Neil Goldberg travelled all 5 New York boroughs to record about 80 gay men stroking their cats saying "She's a talker." He edited his footage down to two-second snapshots of each man, his cat and his home. Goldberg says of the work, "though the premise is unabashedly campy, the work was created at a time when many people around me were dying, and that pervasive experience of mortality drove my wish to preserve these men on videotape." Long running Sunday afternoon party on the Hudson River, Scissor Sundays is a Tea Dance without the ferry ride. Come for the DJS, the beer selection and pretzel dogs, stay for dancing, the furtive glances, and the sunset. Everyone is happy here. Curator: Carl Williamson, Theodore Kerr
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