[Frameworks] This week [May 14 - 22, 2016] in avant garde cinema

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** This week [May 14 - 22, 2016] in avant garde cinema
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Vibratile Fields: Films By Ernie Gehr (#anchor6) [May 15, Oakland, California]

Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.

This week's programs (summary):
* Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer + (#anchor1) [May 14, San Francisco, California]
* By Our Selves (#anchor2) [May 15, Austin, TX]
* I Don’T Belong Anywhere: the Cinema of Chantal Akerman (#anchor3) [May 15, Austin, TX]
* Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie (#anchor4) [May 15, Austin, TX]
* The Death Film (#anchor5) [May 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Vibratile Fields: Films By Ernie Gehr (#anchor6) [May 15, Oakland, California]
* Jeanne Liotta: Experimental En Kino Palais (#anchor7) [May 18, Buenos Aires, Argentina]
* Show & Tell: Albert Sackl (#anchor8) [May 19, New York, New York]
* Experimental Documentary Portraits (#anchor9) [May 19, San Francisco, California 94110]
* Ken Jacobs and Family Program 1 (#anchor10) [May 20, New York, New York]
* Erik Davis + Mark Mccloud Sample the Microgram + (#anchor11) [May 21, San Francisco, California]
* L.A. Ola: Dead Slow Ahead (#anchor12) [May 22, Los Angeles, California]
* Ken Jacobs and Family Program 2 (#anchor13) [May 22, New York, New York]

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016

5/14
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30, ATA Gallery 992 Valencia Street
ALEX RIVERA’S SLEEP DEALER +
In his first feature, our long-time ally Alex (PapaPapa) Rivera oh-so-artfully turns speculative fiction into a terrifying critique of a paranoid future. This Sundance-winner spins a fantastic narrative on the dystopian outcomes of globalization, particularly the privatization of water and the place of immigrant labor in the neo-liberal economy. Rivera’s wildly imaginative fable is set in tomorrow’s fearfully militarized world, a technological work-camp marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a worldwide cyber-network that joins minds and experiences. When a Mexican youth’s family is wiped out by a misguided drone, he must head North. But migrant workers cannot cross the new world border--it's been sealed off! Instead, he ends up in a human/cyborg “virtual” factory on the frontier, where he connects his body to a robot in the US. Tragically marginalized upon its ‘08 release, Alex recently regained control of his potent parable, and immediately dispatched it to OC with
his blessings.

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2016

5/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
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7:45pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E 6th St.
BY OUR SELVES
directed by Andrew Kötting. 2015, United Kingdom. Andrew Kötting recreates scenes of the fascinating and melancholy 90-mile walk undertaken in 1841 by the nature poet John Clare, in a bizarre documentary. Curated by Phil Fagan.

5/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
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2pm, The Marchesa Hall and Theatre (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)
I DON’T BELONG ANYWHERE: THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN
Experimental Response Cinema and the Austin Film Society co-present an afternoon in tribute to Chantal Akerman, featuring this new documentary about her, followed by an Austin premiere screening of her final film No Home Movie. Six months after her death, Chantal Akerman’s absence is still keenly mourned in film communities worldwide. Marianne Lambert’s documentary surveys the themes that drove Akerman’s filmmaking: womanhood, loss, space and place.

5/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
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4pm, The Marchesa Hall and Theatre (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)
CHANTAL AKERMAN: NO HOME MOVIE
Opening remarks by filmmaker, screenwriter and actor Andrew Bujalski. Experimental Response Cinema and the Austin Film Society are pleased to co-present the Austin premiere of Chantal Akerman’s last film, No Home Movie. Six months after her death, Chantal Akerman’s absence is still keenly mourned in film communities worldwide. Akerman’s last film, No Home Movie, is a meditation on love and trauma across generational boundaries: such forces revitalize and damage the mother-daughter bond at the same time.

5/15
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.,
THE DEATH FILM
As a companion/sequel to Los Angeles Filmforum’s May 8 program The Birth Film, The Death Film will feature a selection of American experimental films dealing in various modes and moods with the subject of death and dying, including films by Barbara Hammer, Martha Colburn, Stan Brakhage, Vanessa Renwick, Gus Van Sant, and more. 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-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=dad7393e4b&e=4e65756555 or at the door.

5/15
Oakland, California: Black Hole Cinematheque
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2pm, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plz
VIBRATILE FIELDS: FILMS BY ERNIE GEHR
For the second installment of Pro Arts and black hole cinematheque's collaborative matinee series we look at a collection of films by Ernie Gehr which investigate deceptively simple materials and landscapes of everyday encounter as radically potent portals into the continually unfolding mysteries hidden beneath the surface of our perception. Often constructed in an intricate relationship of individual film frames as well as a concern with what happens "between the frames" or within the subjective experience of the viewer as afforded by the unique combinative encounter of camera, projector, film, light waves, and the human cognitive systems, Gehr's intuitive capacity for elegantly executed yet perpetually probing works bring new light to a shifting definition of the "experimental" in film. A self taught filmmaker who became a central figure in the fields of Structural Film and the avant-garde communities of New York and San Francisco as well as a long time teacher in the
fertile grounds of the SFAI Film Department, Gehr continues to make works that expand and investigate our ways of seeing. All films on 16mm prints courtesy of Canyon Cinema Foundation.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016

5/18
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Kino Palais
7pm, Posadas 1725
JEANNE LIOTTA: EXPERIMENTAL EN KINO PALAIS
Función especial: Jeanne Liotta. Trabajos seleccionados: - Loretta, 2004, Estados Unidos, dir. Jeanne Liotta. 4 minutos. - Observando el cielo, 2007, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Liotta, 19 minutos. - Sutro, 2009, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Liotta, 3 minutos. - Hephaestus of the airshaft, 2005, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Lioetta, 4 minutos. - Crosswalk, 2010, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Liotta, 19 minutos. - Property, 2012, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Liotta, 4 minutos. - Soon it would be too hot, 2014, Estados Unidos, Dir. Jeanne Liotta, 6 minutos.

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2016

5/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
SHOW & TELL: ALBERT SACKL
This program marks the first U.S. retrospective of the work of Austrian filmmaker Albert Sackl, who has been making experimental short films for almost twenty years now. A onetime student of Peter Kubelka’s, Sackl’s work is distinguished by his use, in nearly every one of his films, of the same technique – photographing each film one frame at a time. And yet, despite this voluntary adherence to a seemingly limited formal approach, the technique proves to be very much a means rather than an end, one that he’s applied to everything from film portraiture and time-lapse experiments to landscape photography. Much of his earlier work depicts men and women posed before black screens, reducing the elements of his work to figure, camera, and time. But his most recent film, the appropriately titled IN THE OPEN, finds him escaping the studio and boldly expanding his subject matter to integrate stunningly photographed landscapes. The result is a time-lapse masterpiece, an avant-garde
epic that achieves a stunning rhythmical and visual complexity as it cycles through what seems to be every possible permutation of the relationship between the single-frame technique, the vast setting, and the various elements he introduces into the landscape. Sackl is a filmmaker whose rigorously conceived and carefully crafted films deconstruct cinematic time and space in consistently thought-provoking and visually inventive ways. This program is presented with support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; special thanks to Christine Moser & Arianna Kronreif. GUT EIN TAG MIT VERSCHIEDENEM / A DAY FULL OF VARIETY (1998, 12 min, Super-8mm, silent) RAUCHEN UND SAUFEN / SMOKING AND DRINKING (1997, 10 min, Super-8mm) NACH “PIÈCE TOUCHÉE” / AFTER “PIÈCE TOUCHÉE” (1998, 9 min, 16mm, silent) VOM INNEN; VON AUSSEN / ABOUT THE INSIDE; FROM OUTSIDE (2006, 20 min, 16mm, silent) STEIFHEIT I+II / STIFFNESS I+II (1997-2007, 6 min, 35mm, silent) IM FREIEN / IN THE OPEN (2011, 23 min,
35mm, silent) Total running time: ca. 85 min.

5/19
San Francisco, California 94110: Artists Television Access
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7pm, 992 Valencia St
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY PORTRAITS
FREE Greta Snider’s Experimental Doc Workshop from San Francisco State University brings 18 different short film portraits to the screen. Come to this free screening to meet the artists, family members, ghosts, and video games featured in creatively designed portrait films. Filmmakers include: Joshua Berger, Michael Cruz, Trey Flanigan, Taylor Giffin, Ryan Ianelli, Justin Jue, Shelby Martin, Ivan Moore, Robert Negoescu, Bryan Petrass, Andrew Rodriguez, Fatemeh Safaverdi, Sigifredo Sandoval, Dylan Tachick, Andrei Valladolid, Tristan Vranizan, Kate Yuki.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016

5/20
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
KEN JACOBS AND FAMILY PROGRAM 1
URBAN PEASANTS (1975, 60 min, 16mm) NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW (1969, 14 min, 16mm-to-digital) SPAGHETTI AZA (1976, 1.5 min, 16mm, silent) THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER (2009, 8 min, digital, silent) Total running time: ca. 90 min.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2016

5/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30, ATA Gallery 992 Valencia Street
ERIK DAVIS + MARK MCCLOUD SAMPLE THE MICROGRAM +
Now that the official “Psychedelic Renaissance” is upon us, tune in and turn on to this brain-melting trip into the history and art of LSD-25. After his long PhD quest at Rice U, counterculture historian Dr. Erik Davis finally returns to OC with a clipadelic discourse on High Weirdness, focusing on the new generation of academic research advocates and globetrotting ayahuasceros. Davis is joined by the curator of San Francisco’s LSD Museum, the Mission’s own notorious non-felon Mark McCloud, unveiling a visual history of blotter art, and rare scans of the DEA’s own in-house newsletter. From drug-scare clips to Hollywood trip sequences to EDM imagery to Shulgin memorials, tonight’s set and setting celebrate the visual legacy--and continued influence--of “Hofmann’s potion”. And of course a liquid lightshow, by Joshua “Crystal Castles” Harper! $8.

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2016

5/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.,
L.A. OLA: DEAD SLOW AHEAD
The American Cinematheque, L.A. OLA Spanish Contemporary Cinema Showcase and Los Angeles Filmforum present L.A. OLA, May 20-22. 7.30pm [Spielberg] Screening We All Love the Seashore · 2016 · Director Keina Espiñeira · 18min A group of men are waiting at the fringes of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe, in limbo between time and place. A film is shot there with the men playing themselves. Myths from the colonial past collide with dreams of a better future. Winner of Prix Rotterdam at IFFR 2016. [Spielberg] Screening Dead Slow Ahead (Spain, 2015 · Director Mauro Herce · 74 min.) A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its pace reveals the continuous movement of the machinery devouring its workers: the old sailors’ gestures disappearing under the mechanical and impersonal pulse of the 21st century neo-capitalism. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species with engines still running, unstoppable. Awarded with a
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5/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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KEN JACOBS AND FAMILY PROGRAM 2
FLO ROUNDS A CORNER (1999, 6 min, digital, silent) BOB FLEISCHNER DYING (2009, 3 min, digital, silent) JONAS MEKAS IN KODACHROME DAYS (2009, 3.5 min, digital, silent) HOT DOGS AT THE MET (2009, 10.5 min, digital) CYCLOPEAN 3D; LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (2012, 47 min, digital, silent) Total running time: ca. 75 min.
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