[Frameworks] This week [May 28 - June 5, 2016] in avant garde cinema

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Tony Conrad: Completely In Present (#anchor7) [June 1, Chicago, Illinois]

NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2016)
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It’s LIQUID Experimental Art Architecture and Design Festival (Rome; Deadline: June 18, 2016)
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Bandini International Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: June 23, 2016)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb; Deadline: May 31, 2016)
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival (Edinburgh; Deadline: June 27, 2016)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2016)
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L'Alternativa, 23rd Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 2016)
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It’s LIQUID Experimental Art Architecture and Design Festival (Rome; Deadline: June 18, 2016)
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Bandini International Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: June 23, 2016)
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.

This week's programs (summary):
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet (#anchor1) [May 28, New York, New York]
* Narcisa Hirsch Program (#anchor2) [May 28, New York, New York]
* New Experimental Works (#anchor3) [May 28, San Francisco, California]
* On Performing: Pereda & PiñEiro (Greatest Hits + viola Double Feature) (#anchor4) [May 29, Brooklyn, NY]
* Moviate Underground Film Festival (#anchor5) [May 29, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]
* Marie Louise Alemann Program (#anchor6) [May 29, New York, New York]
* Tony Conrad: Completely In Present (#anchor7) [June 1, Chicago, Illinois]
* Show & Tell: Erin Espelie Program (#anchor8) [June 1, New York, New York]
* Shorts 1: Two of Wands (#anchor9) [June 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Sky Trembles (#anchor10) [June 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Tony Conrad: the Magician (#anchor11) [June 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Love Witch (#anchor12) [June 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Paul Sharits (#anchor13) [June 2, New York, New York]
* Shorts 2: the Tower (#anchor14) [June 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Grace Period (#anchor15) [June 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Luther Price: Flesh Fracture (#anchor16) [June 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 3: Three of Cups (#anchor17) [June 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein (#anchor18) [June 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Paul Sharits (#anchor19) [June 3, New York, New York]
* Thom andersen Program 1 (#anchor20) [June 3, New York, New York]
* Lau Nau With Dire Wolves and Paul Clipson (#anchor21) [June 3, San Francisco, California]
* Shorts 4: Six of Swords (#anchor22) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 5: Seven of Wands (#anchor23) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Focus On Infinity (#anchor24) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 6: the Emperor (#anchor25) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Excursions (#anchor26) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 8: Wheel of Fortune Reversed (#anchor27) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 7: the Page of Swords (#anchor28) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Luther Price: the Hermit (#anchor29) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* Pastor Paul (#anchor30) [June 4, Chicago, Illinois]
* New Works Salon Xxxiv: Jakobson, Bellouin & Bracken, Clipson & Johnson (#anchor31) [June 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Thom andersen Program 2 (#anchor32) [June 4, New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits Program (#anchor33) [June 4, New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits (#anchor34) [June 4, New York, New York]
* Polyphonic Negotiations: Experimental Documents From Dustin Zemel (#anchor35) [June 5, Austin, Texas 11111]
* Booger Red (#anchor36) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 10: the Hanged Man (#anchor37) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 11: High Priestess (#anchor38) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 12: Five of Pentacles (#anchor39) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Alchemist Cookbook (#anchor40) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Deprogrammed (#anchor41) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]
* Shorts 9: the Hierophant (#anchor42) [June 5, Chicago, Illinois]

SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2016

5/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
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5/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
NARCISA HIRSCH PROGRAM
MARABUNTA (1967, 8 min, 16mm-to-digital, b&w) COME OUT (1970/71, 12 min, 16mm-to-35mm) TALLER (1975 (English version), 11 min, 16mm-to-digital) TESTAMENTO Y VIDA INTERIOR (1976/2001, 11 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) AMA-ZONA (1983/2001, 11 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) LA NOCHE BENGALÍ (1980, 6 min, 16mm-to-digital) Total running time: ca. 65 min.

5/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30, ATA Gallery 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
An energized evening that champions personal expression and radical form, with most of the makers in person: Featured are the West Coast premieres of Sarah Lewison’s March, Patrick Tarrant’s The Take-Up, Sydney Kovar’s The Pursuit of Profit, and Nancy Jean Tucker’s Control Room. ALSO, in the house: Our man Max Godino with his PK Dick-inspired Days of Perky Pat, Mike Kuchar with Museum of Damaged Art, Greta Snider with Prayer for the Torture Memos, Stephen Graves with Bicicletas por la Paz, Faith Arazi with Untitled Marxist Pop, and Bryan Boyce and Anne McGuire, both with respective debuts. PLUS the world premieres of live film-performances by Kristin Cato (Zero…One…Two), and Linda Scobie & Isaac Sherman (END UP). Come early for a very rare 16mm glimpse of Chick Strand in KEBS’ 1970 Underground Film! Free pencils!..tho admission is $8.

SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2016

5/29
Brooklyn, NY: UnionDocs
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7:30pm, 322 Union Ave.
ON PERFORMING: PEREDA & PIñEIRO (GREATEST HITS + VIOLA DOUBLE FEATURE)
Two beguiling films about performance and the realities it engenders. Among the many schisms dividing the cinema world, the split between documentary and fiction seems to be the harshest. Yet, as long as a film features a human subject, it will always rely on the performance of the subject to engender the reality depicted. The veracity/truthfulness of a performance may be questioned, but rarely do we doubt its effects. Here, we present two films that explicitly problematize the effectiveness of performance and attempt to ask whether or not it matters? Nicolás Pereda’s GREATEST HITS begins as a fiction film about a mother-and-son duo whose routine is shattered when the son’s father intrudes into their lives after a long absence. This reality is soon displaced when a different actor is brought in, midway through the film, to portray the father figure, creating a mise-en-abyme of recreated memories. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Matías Piñeiro’s VIOLA, which begins with
an already-fractured reality. As an all-women theater troupe rehearses Love’s Labour’s Lost, the performance of the play starts to gain a reality of its own and identities are gradually replaced/displaced within/without the play. (Daniel Hui)

5/29
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Moviate Underground Film Festival
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5/28-5/29, 250 reiley st
MOVIATE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Come out to the 18th annual Moviate Underground Film Festiva in Harrisburg, PA. A ton of short films and events with filmmakers in attendance - all free! Check out the schedule at moviate.org

5/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MARIE LOUISE ALEMANN PROGRAM
AUTOBIOGRÁFICO 2 (1974, 5 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) VANESSA (1974, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) Juan José Mugni UNTITLED (1975, 5.5 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) LEGITIMA DEFENSA / SELF-DEFENSE (1980, 8 min, Super 8mm-to-digital, b&w) SENSACIÓN 77: MIMETISMO / SENSATION 77: MIMICRY (1977, 8 min, Super 8mm-to-digital, b&w) ESCENAS DE MESA / TABLE SCENES (1979, 7 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) UMBRALES / THRESHOLDS (1980, 19 min, Super 8mm-to-digital) Total running time: ca. 65 min

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016

6/1
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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8:00 PM, Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN PRESENT
Tony Conrad: Completely In Present Tyler Hubby 98 min., video, 2016, USA, World Premiere The Chicago Underground Film Festival is proud to present the World Premiere of Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, a two-decades-in-the-making documentary about the legendary artist’s extraordinary life and influential work. One of the great American artists of our era, Conrad’s work has remained largely unknown to the world at large. Conrad’s career has directly touched and influenced most major contemporary movements in art, film, and music since the early 1960s, pushing the boundaries of what moving images and sound can be and providing inspiration for artists and musicians everywhere. Conrad performed in Jack Smith’s legendary underground film Flaming Creatures, for which he also provided the soundtrack. His own work with film commenced audaciously in 1966 with The Flicker, a film composed entirely of black and white frames, which turned the film world on its head and helped
launch the movement of “structural filmmaking” that dominated experimental film for the next decade. Working with composers such as Stockhausen and La Monte Young he was a central figure in the development of Just Intonation and Minimalism which led to his subsequent role in the formation of the Velvet Underground, directly or indirectly influencing all guitar-based rock music that followed. Conrad was an early proponent of public access television as a democratic activist tool. He continued to perform and make groundbreaking works right up until his death in April of this year and had finally begun to achieve the recognition he deserved. Reflecting Conrad’s own unconventional and forward-thinking means of creating art, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present mixes intimate footage of the artist and his collaborators and accomplices shot by Hubby over the past two decades, along with selections from Conrad’s personal archive of recordings and films and of course the always
surprising and playful Tony Conrad himself guiding viewers through free associative narratives of his astounding and creative life. “Tony Conrad has slowly been emerging from avant-gardist obscurity over the past few years, and about time. His multifold career — as experimental film and video-maker, composer, musician and sound artist — still looks radical and prescient a half-century after it began” – The New York Times Shown With: Lacrimal Groove MV Carbon 4 min., video, 2015, USA “An isolated human calls upon the insects to interpret a message sent through the circuitry of a Buchla. Communication gaps are patched between the species as the frequencies surpass the limitations of language.” MC Opening night tickets include admission to the festival party at Elastic Arts with performances from Ben Baker Billington, Bruce McClure and Tony Conrad's Drone Strings with MV Carbon (Cello), Jim Becker (Violin) and Fred Longberg-Holm (Cello)

6/1
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
SHOW & TELL: ERIN ESPELIE PROGRAM
Filmmaker, writer, editor, and teacher Erin Espelie is remarkable for having achieved the rare feat of successfully bridging the worlds of cinema and science, both in her moving-image work and in her career as a whole. The author of numerous experimental films, she is a scientist by training (with a degree in molecular biology and genetics), has worked in bacteriology and virology laboratories at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Cornell University, and has forged a career as an environmental journalist (including serving as the Editor in Chief and columnist for Natural History Magazine) and a lecturer on environmental issues and the documentary arts. Her films reflect this thrillingly multi-disciplinary approach, integrating fascinating investigations into natural phenomena with a poetic approach to photography and cinematic structure that’s reminiscent of the work of Robert Beavers, Nathaniel Dorsky, Jeanne Liotta, and others. For her Show
& Tell program, Espelie will present a screening of her most recent film, THE LANTHANIDE SERIES, alongside the earlier, three-part work, TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE. THE LANTHANIDE SERIES (2014, 72 min, digital) “I shot the piece over a period of roughly three years in more than five countries and ten U.S. states, aiming my camera at either Aztec obsidian discs or a modern-day black mirror – that is, a defunct iPad. The novelty in image-capture aside, the piece is a meditation on how technology has been shaping the way we see the world, how we record the present and replay the past. It is also a consideration of the unusual visual and aural properties of rare earth elements (or the Lanthanides of the Periodic Table) and the political and environmental costs of their mining.” –Erin Espelie “A gorgeous, informative feature-length tone poem about the rare earth elements. Equal parts Farocki [and Jack] Chambers.” –Michael Sicinski “This is a science documentary with curiosity and soul,
one willing to examine the mystery of life at its most elemental level.” –Tom Whiteside, DURHAM CINEMATHEQUE TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE I 2012, 5 min, digital TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE II 2013, 5 min, digital TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE III 2013, 6 min, digital In this series, Nature wrote the screenplays, as Roy Disney once said, and the following places and periods were documented in the same vicinity of Gold Run Creek in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado: 3 square feet in 3 hours on the summer solstice (TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE I) 30 square feet in 3 hours on the winter solstice (TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE II) 0.3 square feet over 30 days in late summer (TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE III) “In these three epically miniature videos, Espelie documents moments – both awesome and quotidian – involving animals and natural environments around Colorado’s Gold Run Creek, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The narration is taken from the classic series of Disney documentaries from the 1950s that gives Espelie’s trilogy
its name, and she manipulates them to further deepen the wonders, mysteries, and unknowability of nature.” –WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS Total running time: ca. 90 min.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2016

6/2
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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6:30 PM, Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 1: TWO OF WANDS
Super-Unit Teresa Czepiec 20 min., video, 2015, Poland “Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a housing machine. Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the building. The lifts only stop every three floors so the residents must go through a maze of corridors and stairs in order to get to their flats. The main characters of the documentary are people living in Superjednostka and going through important moments of their lives there. This is where their emotions throb, their expectations engender, and their desires come true... or not.762 flat doors and 762 stories. We are opening only a few of them.” TC The Anatomical Universe Damon Mohl 15 min., video, 2015, USA “Revolving simply around the friendship between a janitor and a security guard, The Anatomical Universe examines the life of a man named Edward Hillcot. Charles Dickens said it best, “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that
profound secret and mystery to every other.” DM Heavy Fog Tonight Nathan Reich 19 min., video, 2015, USA ’”Conrad Milster, 80, chief engineer since 1967 at New York City's oldest running steam driven power plant, prepares for his last annual steam whistle show. Conrad will have to face the daily struggles of preserving an era long forgotten while adapting to the digital world around him.” NR Irradiant Field Laura Kraning 10 min., video, 2016, USA “Mirroring sky and earth, solitary mechanical sentinels follow the sun, while metal grids rain in a parched California landscape. Irradiant Field is a visual and sonic portrait at the intersection of nature and machine - a desert mirage of light, wind, water, and metallic reflection.” LK Another City Lan Pham Ngoc 25 min, video, 2016, Viet Nam “A drenched middle-aged woman taking off her wig, gazing out of the glass windows. A young man bursting into tears in a karaoke room surrounded by tropical landscape wallpaper. A young woman
trying to wipe a smear off of the wedding dress she’s wearing. Each predicament is woven seamlessly together by a familiar Asian refrain…” LPN

6/2
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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7:00 PM, Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
THE SKY TREMBLES
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS Ben Rivers 98 min., 35mm, 2015, UK, Chicago Premiere “Sublime and surreal in equal measure, the latest feature by British filmmaker Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea) charts a mysterious transformation from observational making-of to inventive adaptation. THE SKY TREMBLES... begins with dramatic views of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where a filmmaker (Spanish director Oliver Laxe) is in the midst of a complex shoot with caravans and horses. Rivers surveys the scene with his 16mm Bolex, capturing the sensual sfumato effects of the sun and the pastel glow of the landscape. As Rivers observes the director at work and the film crew in contemplative repose, clearly bored by the frustrating fits and starts of shooting, a portrait of a mythic landscape emerges, with the spectacle of long-abandoned film sets serving as a reminder of the region's long history as a site of international film production. As traces
of artifice begin to meld with and co-exist alongside the real, THE SKY TREMBLES... veers into hallucinatory misadventure. Inspired by Paul Bowles' story "A Distant Episode" (which is also the title of Rivers' new short film, screening in Wavelengths 2) and elements drawn from the life and stories of Moroccan writer and artist Mohammed Mrabet, the film's second half follows Laxe's director as he abandons his set and is then brutalized and forced into captivity as the "King of Cans" — a shift that cleverly refracts the deceptive documentary mode of the first half and converts the film into an ingenious meditation on the illusion of cinema itself. Reminiscent of the radical, oneiric films Philippe Garrel made during the underground Zanzibar movement of the late sixties, THE SKY TREMBLES...marks a notable departure for Rivers. Though recalling his previous work in its breathtaking 16mm cinematography and study of a lone, wandering man in a far-flung locale, it is rawer, more
disquieting, more capacious, and verges on the psychedelic.” - Andréa Picard Shown With: Engram of Returning Daïchi Saïto 19 min., 35mm, 2015, Canada "Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score by Montreal-based musician Jason Sharp, Daïchi Saïto’s Engram of Returning is an epic 35mm CinemaScope metaphysical travelogue that reveals a supernal world which pulses and flickers with formal patterns and deep hues." - Andréa Picard

6/2
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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8:30, Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
TONY CONRAD: THE MAGICIAN
The Flicker 30 min., 16mm, 1966, USA Conrad’s seminal experimental film, exploits the strobing effect of the cinematic image. Considered a cornerstone of structural filmmaking. Landscape Is a Wish for Motion 4 min., video, 2003/2011, USA A spoken piece with film projection. Weak Bodies and Strong Wills 5 min., 16mm on video, 1986, USA A political lament for a dying economy. The anonymous found footage includes a cameo appearance by Harry Truman. Beholden to Victory (excerpt) 7 min., Super-8 on video 1980, USA , With Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and others. “An excerpt of the full-length super-8 film Hail the Fallen. It is a ‘war movie’ genre picture… The film was not directed in the traditional sense. There was no script. The actors were required to play as in a game – to follow certain rules, or to be more precise, to follow certain restrictions. They were told only what they were NOT ALLOWED TO DO. Thus the film consists of a series of scenes, of examples of correct
behavior.” - Mike Kelley In Line 7 min., video, 1985, USA Word, trance, and command are installed as valences of artistic license, revealed as figures of parental authority. Palace of Error 9 min., 16mm on video, 1982/2011, USA A theoretical discourse involving three participants, enacted in silhouette. Tony Conrad with Keith Sanborn and Barbara Broughel. I’ve Never Been… 4 min., video, 2003/2011, USA An original song with guitar and special effects. Editing and additional guitar: Zeljko McMullen Teddy Tells Jokes 7 min., video, 1980, USA Straight and Narrow 10 min., 16mm on video, 1970, USA (produced with Beverly Grant Conrad, music from Terry Riley and John Cale’s recording “Church of Anthrax”) “An extension of the flicker film phenomenon, Straight and Narrow is a study in subjective color and visual rhythm… (it) uses the flicker phenomenon not as an end in itself, but as an effectuator of other related phenomena.” - Filmmakers Cooperative

6/2
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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9:00 PM, Logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
THE LOVE WITCH
The Love Witch Anna Biller 120 min., 35mm on DCP, 2015, USA “Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the ‘60s, The Love Witch explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.” AB

6/2
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
PAUL SHARITS
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE! FILMMAKER IN PERSON! A crucial figure in 1960s-70s avant-garde film, Paul Sharits was among the pioneers of structuralist cinema, a school of filmmaking that sought to emphasize and explore the formal dimensions and physical properties specific to the medium. A deeply committed and visionary artist, Sharits began exploring the potential of the single frame and the flicker effect in the mid-1960s, and would go on to make numerous films that take as their subject the filmstrip itself. Though his work has been celebrated among avant-garde filmmakers and scholars for decades, in recent years he has also been embraced by the art museum and gallery worlds, and appropriately so, given his persistence in deconstructing 16mm film into such novel forms as multiple projection installations, frozen film frames mounted between plexiglass sheets, and ink-colored partitions for abstract films. The first feature-length documentary about Sharits, François Miron’s new film
is both a perceptive exploration of his oeuvre by a filmmaker who has clearly studied and thought deeply about Sharits’s work for many years, and a revealing account of his often troubled life. Featuring extended clips from interviews and other footage of Sharits, as well as new interviews with other filmmakers, scholars, and family members, the documentary sketches a portrait of a tormented, deeply romantic artist, always courting disaster but also cursed by an inherited mental condition. PAUL SHARITS is both a terrific introduction to Sharits’s life and work, and, for those with a longstanding interest in the filmmaker, a treasure trove of rare footage, illuminating commentary, and archival materials.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016

6/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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6:30 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 2: THE TOWER
Terrestrial Calum Walter 11 min., video, 2015, USA “The observations of an object in motion: A mobile device captures the trajectories of objects liberated from and bound to land, against a backdrop of uniquely human dissonance.” CW A Disaster Forever Michael Gitlin 16 min., video, 2015, USA “Derived from a 25-year old cassette tape, transcribed and re-enacted on a surround recording stage, A Disaster Forever positions us on the unfamiliar terrain of a highly idiosyncratic cosmology. .” MG Lighthouse Paul Clipson 5 min., 16mm, 2015, USA “A collage of city surfaces, layers and levels of space, meant to blur with and contrast to the guitar-drone soundtrack of Kong Midas Sound and Fennesz. Filmed in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong.” PC Must See Nellie Kluz 13 min., video, 2016, USA “All over America, rain or shine, pilgrims journey together.” NK Light Licks: Pardes/Night time Is The Right Time Saul Levine 4 min., 16mm, 2014, USA “LIGHT LICKS are ecstatic flicker films
inspired by jazz and mystic visionary practice. PARDES ancient Persian for walled garden. In Hebrew and Aramaic - paradise, heaven,the garden of Eden,the peak or terminus of ecstatic visionary, trance flight NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME moon play light garden be loved” SL An Appearance of Fortitude Rajee Samarasinghe 5 min., video, 2015, USA/Sri Lanka “Part of an ongoing series of American psychogeographies, this particular piece investigates the idea of "remoteness," as two people establish a curious rapport in a sleepy Southern Californian suburb.” RS Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson 11 min., 16mm on video, 2016, USA “During an Ear, Nose and Throat examination Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event she eyewitnessed.” KJE Crippled Symmetries Beatrice Gibson 26 min., video, 2015, UK “A precocious 11 year old capitalist and his side-kick, an ailing composer, are the two unlikely protagonists of this experimental meditation on money, music and abstraction in post
crisis Britain. The work is inspired obliquely by William Gaddis’ epic satirical novel JR (1975).” BG

6/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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7:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
GRACE PERIOD
Grace Period KyungMook Kim & Caroline Key 62 min., Video, 2015, South Korea/USA “Combining documentary with experimental video, Grace Period documents the activities of female sex workers in the Yeongdeungpo red-light district in Seoul, South Korea. Facing constant police crackdowns and the threat of permanent closure following the opening of a massive shopping complex adjacent to their workplaces, the women of Yeongdeungpo band together in protest. Archival footage, mostly shot by the women themselves, shows their collective efforts as they organize with other sex workers from brothels across the country. In creative and daring acts of resistance, they launch a series of demonstrations that trace a lineage to Korea’s democratic union movements of the 1980s-- denouncing the government and corporate interests, demanding decriminalization, and declaring their rights as workers.“ KK, CK Shown With: Jaaji Approx. Sky Hopinka 8 min., video, 2015, USA “Logging and approximating a
relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings, of recollections and of songs, new and traditional, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect.” SH Notes From The Border Iva Radivojevic 10 min., video, 2015, USA “The refugee crisis on the borders of Europe during the summer of 2015 through the tale of one man’s journey to the continent.” IR

6/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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6:00 PM, Mana Contemporary 2233 S Throop St
LUTHER PRICE: FLESH FRACTURE
une 3 – August 12, 2016 Opening, Friday, June 3, 6-8pm Since the mid 1980’s, Boston-based visual artist Luther Price has been known for his iconic, deeply personal, and at times disturbing, Super-8mm films and live performances. In recent years, Price has moved from the Super 8mm format to recycled, distressed, and hand-painted 16mm films and 35mm slides, initially as a practical way of sharing a likeness of his films without risking the original works. Eventually, Price began sequencing these slides and projecting them as loops. Selections of the slide-based work were featured in the 2012 Whitney Biennial and recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and the ICA Boston. This exhibition features selections from Price's most recent series of 35mm slides, Sugar Fractures, alongside 2 carousels from his 2012 series Utopia, and 2 carousels from his 2015 series Meat Chapter 3, the third chapter in Price's ongoing, multimedia series, Meat. The Meat series is inspired by a
violent incident in Nicaragua in 1985 when Price was shot with a high-powered rifle in his abdomen. Price’s injury 31 years ago, literally opened up the artist’s body and body of work to unabashed explorations of childhood trauma, sexual desire, and years later, the experience of losing his sister, mother, and father to cancer in a three-year span. The year following his shooting, the artist began making pscyodramatic autobiographical films of his childhood memories under the character pseudonym, Tom Rhoads. He changed his name to Luther Price in 1989 during the production of his infamous and controversial Super 8mm classic, Sodom. Price spent the 1990's collecting footage and audio recordings of his family in his childhood home in Revere, MA. Following the death of his sister Sally, Price compiled the film and audiotape into his unflinching, repetitive, nightmarish home movie classic, Home (1999). Anthology Film Archives digitally preserved Home in 2013. The piece is
displayed here for the first time as a looping video installation. Price’s visceral explorations of mortality and decay in his 35mm slide work is inexorably linked to his experimental film, performance and sculpture practices. In the last 10-15 years, Price has expedited the decay of film emulsion in his works by burying his film or applying various household materials to the film surface: salt, cleaners, soil, and most recently, sugar. His latest approach culls visions of the artist’s most well known pseudonym, Tom Rhoades’ Cunt character from his early film and video work: Luther at his home (just a few blocks from where he grew up), smoking a cigarette, apron draped, in his kitchen, cooking up a batch of sugary 35mm slides with his three cats, Mr. Grey, Gurly, and Cartoon. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Mana Contemporary and The Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF). Luther Price’s work appears courtesy of the artist, Callicoon Fine Arts, and Anthology Film
Archives. On Saturday June 4th, CUFF will screen two recent Anthology Film Archives' digital restorations of his classic Super 8 films, Clown (1992/2003) and A (1995). The films will screen at the Logan Theater on June 4th at 8pm. Please visit cuff.org for more details.

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Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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8:30 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 3: THREE OF CUPS
REGAL Karissa Hahn 2 min., 16mm, 2015, USA “from: film (theater) to > youtube (home) > to film (theater) torrented/pirated (digital) images as found footage....printed from a household printer onto 16mm clear film.... such as the loading dial, REGAL aims to circulate and find its way back to the screen. Take this proxy and see that the ghost has become tangible. informed largely by: Hito Steyerl's "In Defense of the Poor Image".” KH Savasana Brandon Daley 10 min., video, 2015, USA “A man in the midst of a midlife crisis attempts to sooth his existential concerns by practicing the age old art of yoga.” BD From beginings to begining Simon Quéheillard 10 min., video, 2015, France “The blow of a baton can give birth to a character. Objects loom before him brutally and without reason, revealed by a harsh and shadowless light. An endless series of catastrophes, From beginnings to beginnings follows the travels of a straw man without interiority or speech.” SQ 4'33" 4:3 Michael
Wawzenek 5 min., video, 2015, USA “After John Cage” MW Immortal Cats #1 Scott Fitzpatrick 1 min., video, 2015, Canada “What is your greatest ambition in life? Laser-printed onto recycled 35mm film in 2015.” SF Rabbit Season Duck Season Michael Bell-Smith 5 min., video, 2014, USA “A scene from the 1951 Warner Bros cartoon’s iconic encounter between the hunter, the rabbit, and the duck frames a web of tightly constructed sequences that move across various forms of video, including traditional animation, live action, and 3-D animation. A loose essay film, the video adopts a variety of tones and genres to touch upon themes of resistance, taste, the construction of meaning, and the exhaustion of choice” MB Discontinuity Lori Felker 16 min., video, 2016, USA “Discontinuity highlights the unexpected fissures that can form between us, including the things that can fall in and get lost. When Tabitha returns “home” after a separation from her boyfriend, Stephen, what they've been
missing becomes opaquely clear and who they're becoming makes it hard for them to see each other. Their disconnections are mirrored in the film’s approach to editing, its confusion of time and space, and a free-wheelin' clowder of cats.” LF Chums From Across the Void Jim Finn 17 min., video, 2015, USA “Little Radek, the step-dancing Bolshevik; Machera, the Andean Robin Hood, and Maria Spiridonova, the Russian socialist assassin are your guides for Past Leftist Life Regression therapy. In this third Inner Trotsky Child video, narrator Lois Severin— a former Trotskyite turned suburban housewife—attempts to radicalize the personal fulfillment and self-help scene. Like the Christian fundamentalist activists in the 1970’s who prepared the way for the Reagan Revolution, the Inner Trotsky Child movement was a way to cope “ JF Bev Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik 26 min., video, 2015, USA “The son of a serial killer goes to a trust workshop in Tampa, has nightmares.” SB,AM

6/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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9:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY: TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein Tim Kirk 92 min., video, 2015, USA “Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein is an exercise in extreme metafictional tragicomedy. Presented as the commentary track of a cynically rushed repressing of a forgotten (but 100% genuine) Frankenstein film's DVD (in lieu of unspecified 'recent events'), this project transforms the film into an entirely new, all too human horror story. Featuring Clu Gulager as Gavin Merrill, director of the 1977 original who is happily exploiting the unmentioned tragedy linked to the film, the recording session becomes both a mystery and its own sort of Frankenstein story as he clashes with 'Terror of Frankenstein's screenwriter (Zack Norman) and, ultimately, its star (Leon Vitali from Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon, playing himself.) "Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein" is Mystery Science Theater 3000 by way of Sartre, an icy satire of the monsters on screen, behind the
camera, and in the audience..” TK

6/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
PAUL SHARITS
See notes for June 2, 7:30 pm.

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New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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9:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
THOM ANDERSEN PROGRAM 1
THOM ANDERSEN WILL BE HERE IN PERSON TO INTRODUCE THE 9:15 SCREENING ON FRI, JUNE 3! OLIVIA’S PLACE (1966, 5 min, 16mm) “Olivia may have felt no need to change, but the world around her was not bound by such an impractical sentiment. OLIVIA’S PLACE is gone. The site where it used to stand is now a sort of plaza between two large old wood frame houses that were moved to their present location from elsewhere in the city. One of these houses is occupied by a restaurant, the other is occupied by the California Heritage Museum.” –Morgan Fisher Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick --- ------- (aka THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MOVIE) (1967, 11 min, 16mm) This is one of the greatest of all experimental rock ‘n’ roll films – formally rigorous, visually gorgeous, and rhythmically dynamic. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (1967-74, 59 min, 16mm-to-35mm. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.) “One of the best essay films ever made on a cinematic subject, [MUYBRIDGE]
adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge’s photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds. Andersen’s perspectives on Muybridge are multifaceted and often surprising (characteristically, the film’s opening quotation is from Mao), and he presents Muybridge’s photographic sequences in various ways to spell out the many meanings of this fascinating precinematic work.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER Total running time: ca. 85 min.

6/3
San Francisco, California: The Lab
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7:30pm, 2948 16th Street
LAU NAU WITH DIRE WOLVES AND PAUL CLIPSON
The evening features musical performances by singer-songwriter/musician Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) and the San Francisco-based group Dire Wolves, both accompanied by Super 8mm and 16mm film projections by Paul Clipson.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2016

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Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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2:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 4: SIX OF SWORDS
The Puddle Serdar Yilmaz 10 min., video, 2015, Turkey “A man in the flea market walks while checking walls covered with old posters and counters full of stuff with prying eyes. Due to the incarnating object that he sees on one of the counters just carries him away into another reality.” SY On Surgery Russell Sheaffer & Aaron Michael Smith 8 min., Video, 2015, USA “On Surgery attempts to replicate the physical process of bone surgery on the body of 16mm film stock. By wetting raw, unprocessed 16mm color negative film, separating out the photosensitive emulsion from the base of the film using a medical scalpel, and then reapplying the layers, the only images visible are representative of the scars left on the film. The music for the film is taken entirely from the sound of the projection of the 16mm film and from a reading of one of Sheaffer’s post-surgical diary entries. “ RS Vintage Print Sigfried A Fruhauf 13 min., Video, 2016, Austria “An old photograph forms the starting
point of my exploration. The picture must have been taken towards the end of the 19th century, at a time when film had just been invented and pictures were only starting to move. Its origins date back to a phase of transition between the still and the moving image. By creating a wide variety of duplications of a single image i am trying to translate it into the temporal and contemporary nature of film.” SF Conversations With The Dead: Birth Caul Bardo Irving Gamboa 4 min., 16mm on video, 2016, USA “A chemically treated and rust bathed hallucinatory vision of the Tibetan Bardos. A film about the cyclical rhythms of dream and myth: A subterranean rorschach tapestry of bardo-themed symbols.” IG The Betrayal Susan Young 6 min., video, 2015, UK “A woman trusts her psychiatrist, but becomes enmeshed in his prescriptive web. At its dark heart, The Betrayal is a twisted, deadly love affair.” SY The Immortal Jellyfish Colin West McDonald 9 min., video, 2015, USA “After misreading her
clock, Claire goes on an existential crusade to discover the truth behind time itself.” CM In the Sky of your Thoughts what the Clouds Are Craig Webster 15 min., video, 2015, USA “A spandex-clad wanderer is led by a boy into a strange world.” CW Bang Utot Fabio Scacchioli & Vincenzo Core 26 min., video, 2016, Italy/Serbia “A diaphanous shadowed woman rests beyond the confine of thousand liquefied nights, writes her secret on a piece of paper and, speechless, asks the uncovered sky if it’s true what they say, that beyond the tides live creatures made out of dreams. Is it a dream the dream that I see? Is it a sound the sound that I hear? The image, seeing itself in the mirror, says: it is not that what I show you that matters, but what I conceal, what vanishes beyond the boundary of the visible.” FS,VC

6/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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3:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 5: SEVEN OF WANDS
Champion Andrés Passoni 8 min., video, 2016, Argentina “Every Sunday greyhound fans take their passion to the dog tracks. The spectators gather attracted by big bets, they watch the animals with the program in hand and choose their favorites to bet on them a sum of money hoping to win the prize with the greyhound champion. ” AP Snowbirds Lorenzo Gattorna 9 min., Video, 2015, USA ”The onset of northern winter transitions towards the solace of southern latitudes. A dense nostalgia nestles into the former as a peculiar splendor surfaces upon the latter. However, what remains constant is a forecast for the near future. A certain unease surrounds eventual passersby and the establishment of permanence.” LG Wayward Fronds Fern Silva 13 min., 16mm on Video, 2014, USA “Mermaids flip a tale of twin detriments, domiciles cradle morph invaders, crocodile trails swallow two-legged twigs in a fecund mash of nature's outlaws... down in the Everglades.” FS Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves
Ralitsa Doncheva 11 min., 16mm on Video, 2015, USA “An impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life in the mountains, away from people and cities.” RD Solitary Acts #6 Nazli Dincel 11 min., 16mm, 2015, USA “This is a feminist critique of the Oedipal complex. The filmmaker recounts an abortion she had in 2009. The aborted child survives and becomes her lover. Her subject is filmed in a private act.” ND JUS SOLI somebody nobody 16 min., video, 2015, UK “JUS SOLI opens up a discourse on the Black British experience; interrupting the emotional transition between generations and questioning what it means to be British” somebody nobody First Time Steven Summers 7 min., video, 2015, USA “A meditation on VHS tapes and the act of losing one's virginity.” SS I Remember Nothing Zia Anger 18 min., video, 2015, USA “A student, unaware that she is epileptic, tries to get through another day. The film is structured in five sections,
after the phases of a seizure.” ZA

6/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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4:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
FOCUS ON INFINITY
Focus on Infinity Joerg Burger, 80 min., Video, 2014, Austria, Chicago Premiere “The question concerning the origin of our cosmos and our existence has moved humanity for thousands of years. Where do we come from, what are we and where do we go? Looking for answers to these questions, scientists dig deep into the dimensions of our thoughts – to the limits of our imagination. Mathematics and Physics reached a certain degree of abstraction, not absolutely comprehensible for laypersons. What is keeping the innermost of the world together – creation or evolution? Theories and conclusions of natural science make you think about the purpose of live. Rational thinking rises to a new challenge: It gets confronted with an intellectual world that only philosophers and theologians seem to have known so far. Conversely, belief needs to deal with questions regarding the scientific background of creation. Enormous telescopes in the desert, supercomputers and gigantic particle accelerators:
No effort is too much to satisfy the thirst for knowledge of human beings – to finally understand the secret of infinity. Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to people, machines and places that are connected with the exploration of the origin of our universe and our existence. Allowing an insight into the life and thoughts of scientists, this film will bring up questions, that are important to modern cosmology and quantum physics..” JB Shown With: Lullaby Optic Steve Wood 8 min., Video, 2015, USA “An abstract work generated by moving lights through multiple video feedback loops, resulting in a catalog of transient electronic forms. Captured in-camera, with no additional graphics or color enhancement. Scored with sounds from the NASA archives, and also with recordings of circuit-bent toys.“ SW The Known Universe Lisa McCarty 4 min., Video, 2015, USA “The Known Universe is comprised of every publicly available image captured by the Hubble Telescope.” LM

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Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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5:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 6: THE EMPEROR
This Home Is Not Empty Carol Nguyen 4 min., video, 2014, Canada “A personal film questioning the 'lies you tell yourself' through a metaphorical lens.” CN DUST - The wanted life Giulio Baraldi 21 min., video, 2014, Germany/Italy “DUST is the adventure of eight physically and mentally disabled persons who have been living in the Cottolengo Institute of Turin for over fifty years. This is neither a script nor an attempt to tell their discomfort.Through a creative artistic path revolving around theatre, these characters in search of an author stage themselves and the life that they would like to lead.” GB Still At Large Paul Rooney 11 min., video, 2015, UK “The work seems to be an essay film about Holy Island, northern England, written and presented by Nicholas Still. But there is another, sinister, voice on the soundtrack, perhaps the voice of 'narrative' itself, submerging everything in it's sadistic tide.” PR The Splits Allison Hrabluik 15 min., video, 2015, Canada “Twenty
people gather in a hall to perform an absurd ritual of movement and sound. Scissors clip, a rope whirs, and the sound of a mouth harp interrupts an operatic scream” AH Traveling with Maxim Gorkiy Bernd Lützeler & Kolja Kunt 11 min., video, 2014, Germany “As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their heads depicted in profile. Faces with no expression, formal gestures. In the background, a little bit of everyday life: The hard, square, stone architecture arises from ocher-colored, brownish, blackish mush of color or mud. A demonstration of the function of the central perspective. An idealized representation of a tropical paradise. Strangely, there's no absurdity in this.” BL,LK Spawned Seeds Eugene Sun Park & Sara Zalek 3 min., video, 2016, USA “One of the major developments in 20th-century contemporary dance, Butoh combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of
Japanese traditional performing arts to create a unique art form that is both controversial and universal in its expression. As art critic Mark Holborn of the New York Times describes it, “Butoh is defined by its very evasion of definition.” EP Rock Clay Sand Straw Wood Adele Horne 11 min., 16mm, 2015, USA/Canada “A group works together to build a cottage out of inexpensive, local resources in Northern California. The film documents the gestures and materials that are part of the process.” AH Open Hearing Brian Ashby, John Corbett, & Terri Kapsalis 10 min., video, 2015, USA “A dog is rescued from the railroad tracks. Citizens have their say while councilmen watch. Which is more precarious? Will somebody please do something? A collaborative meditation on the tensions between image, sound, and word that journeys beyond the human in the circus of politics.” BA

6/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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6:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
EXCURSIONS
Excursions Daniel Martinico 80 min., video, 2016, USA “In the hopes of revitalizing their marriage, a husband and wife retreat to a remote cabin getaway with some longtime friends. Their pleasant interaction quickly assumes a relentless intensity as they push one another, mentally and physically, towards transcendence. This shortcut to enlightenment, however, has unexpected consequences.” DM "Excursions is a slow burn that eventually sets your hair on fire. What begins as an idyllic couples getaway for Los Angeles yuppies quickly subverts into an animalistic symphony of oddities that pulls viewers down a rabbit hole, and then collapses the hole behind them." - Josh Mandel, Slamdance Shown With: Old Friends Bruce Bundy 11 min., video, 2015, USA “Kat and Arthur are married, Clara and Nicholas are too, and they all share a long friendship from their pursuits in higher education. Kat and Arthur have left the academic realm in favor of assuming control of a family-owned funeral
parlor, while Clara and Nicholas have gone the route of adjunct professors; all are haunted by their positions. Clara and Nicholas taunt Kat and Arthur for leaving academia while lamenting their own newly onset professorial malaise, and envying their backdoor exit, while Kat and Arthur savor their roles as ejected fools while aching somewhat for the self-satisfying virtues of an academic life. They drink a lot and their strange, kinky, beautiful and tormented dynamics dance them through the course of their evening-long, heady reunion, proving that they are, indeed, old friends” BB

6/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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10:00, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 8: WHEEL OF FORTUNE REVERSED
Memento Mori Ali Aschman 4 min., Video, 2014, USA “An old briefcase opens to reveal the lives of objects, in this reflection on the ravages of time and the tendency of all things towards death and disappearance..” AA Crush Christopher McKee 11 min., Video, 2015, USA “A romantic encounter in the not-so-normal life of a girl named Sandra. A love letter to the films of David Cronenberg and Wes Anderson, this dark comedy explores the themes of young love, parental guidance, obsession, and pleasure” CM The Puppet Man Jacqueline Castel 9 min., Video, 2015, USA “A supernatural killer stalks a young woman and her friends in a seedy, neon-lit dive bar in this short film featuring horror legend John Carpenter.” JC Disco Inferno Alice Waddingon 12 min., Video, 2015, Spain “A weary hell minion is on a mission to rescue her boss, who has entrenched herself on a palace surrounded by a bunch of lost souls. But the Devil is not willing to return to her daily routine.”AW Gorgeous Vortex Todd
Lincoln 15 min., Video, 2015, USA “A high fashion horror film about a woman who is haunted by her past and on the run from a secret organization.” TL Sticky Drama Jon Rafman and Daniel Lopatin 11 min., Video, 2015, USA “Featuring a cast of over 35 children and developed in collaboration with Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never), the video brings to life a fantastical world in which characters are on a quest, battling for dominance and in a race against time to archive past histories. Inspired by the costumes, staging and extended improvised narratives of Live Action Roleplay (LARP), the video reflects the vivid, often violent world of children’s imaginations and games, as well as extending ongoing investigation into the nature of memory and the horror of data loss.” JR Maggie's Problem Molly Hewitt 30 min., Video, 2014, USA “From the dark depths of the unknown comes a creature which baffles science and could terrorize the world. But what happens when she is unable to
contain her sinister desires? Maggie has a problem and it is a very big problem indeed!” -MH

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Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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7:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 7: THE PAGE OF SWORDS
Over&Over Michael Fleming 8 min., 35mm on video, 2016, The Netherlands “A 35mm found footage, hand manipulated, analogue collage film. It focuses on how fear and revenge is used in commercial cinema. Suggesting to be in control of our fear of mortality. Decimate what threatens us. In a same way the surface of the film material has been treated: by peeling, scalping, cutting, burning and destroying the image.” MF Body Contours Kristin Reeves 5 min., video, 2015, USA “Make movies in your mind, feel the soundtrack, and drift away from your body for the win. Produced through a media art residency at Signal Culture using real-time analog video processing tools.” KR 16mm Sound Film Aaron Kutnick 2 min., 16mm on video, 2014, USA “The origins of film scratches.“ AK Actual Case History Tony Gault & Elizabeth Henry 9 min., video, 2015, USA “Rotoscope animation reshapes a film into an examination of “the vague, indefinite fears which keep growing in our minds.” TG,EH Odessa Crash Test
(Notes on Film 09) Norbert Pfaffenbichler 6 min., video, 2014, Austria One of the most iconic moments in the history of film is reimagined with smashing success. 6500 Lisa Truttmann 9 min.,video, 2015, Austria “A video essay on the relativity of words, questioning the application of absolute values in an argument, visualized through a play on colors, their spaces, and their subjective perception. Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s "Remarks on Colour" emphasize this rhythmic flickering and slightly absurd conversation between colour and language.” LT B-Roll With Andre James N. Kienitz Wilkins 19 min., video, 2015, USA “An anonymous and mediated testimonial about one man’s dangerous dream.” JW Blops John Klacsmann 3 min., 16mm, 2014, USA "BLOPBLOPBLOPBLOPBLOPBLOPPOLBPOLBPOLBBLOPBLOPBLOPBLOPBLOPBLOP.....an 'anxious animation'" JK Stop Matt O'Connell & Lydia Janbay 28 min., video, 2014, USA “Summer 1995. A boy receives his first video camera for his 13th birthday. What starts as a
harmless home movie evolves into something much more alarming once he begins obsessively documenting his stepsister’s self-destructive behavior. Using personal crises as props for his narrative, the boy’s invasive lens only intensifies family conflict.“ MC,LJ

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Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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8:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
LUTHER PRICE: THE HERMIT
CLOWN 30 min., Super 8mm-to-digital, 1991/2002, Digitally restored by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ...............i found the mask at a thrirft store in CAMBRIDGE ...........WHERE I WAS LIVING IN THE 90'S .......IT WAS 1990...........I BOUGHT THE MASK AND BROUGHT IT HOME ...........PUT IT ON IN THE MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM ...........AND STARTED TO SAY ''FUCK IT SUCK IT"................AND CHASED MY FRIEND ,LISA OUT OF THE HOUSE ..............I BOUGHT SOME SUPER 8 COLOR SOUND FILM ............AND PLANNED A WEEKEND AT MY PARENTS HOME ON THE BEACH ......THE BACK YARD HAD A SEA WALL.....THIS MADE A BRILLIANT AND MOST WONDERFUL STAGE TO WORK WITH THE HORIZON AND CHANGING SKY.................I HAD WORKED THIS WAY BEFORE , WITH ''WARM BROTH '' AND ''GREEN''...............THE LANDSCAPE ........WAS ALWAYS AMAZING AND WAITING .................so ,.....in the back of my parents home on the ocean .........i filmed my clown
chapters ...............they began with the idea of filming ''CLOWN'' CHARACTERS IN ON SUPER 8 COLOR SOUND 3MIN CARTRIDGE ..........SHOT AT 24 FRMS................SO , IN CAMERA ...I WANTED TO MAKE A SEEM LESS IN CAMERA STORY ''CLOWN''...........THIS IDEA WENT ON FOR A WHILE ...........THE SCREAMING CLOWN CAME ABOUT BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING A SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ''ARREA'..........SHE WAS ONLY A VERY SMALL CHILD BUT WE ALL GOT IN CLOWN DRAG ..........AND HID WHEN SHE CAME IN WITH HER MOTHER AND SURPRISED HER ,......WITH CAKE / CONFETTI AND BALLOONS ....................SHE WAS AFRAID AT FIRST...............BUT SHE KNEW IT WAS US .......................I HAD DEVELOPED THE SCREAMING CLOWN FOR THAT ,....HER BIRTHDAY.....................as time went on ,................and i had a SUPERB 8 PRINT MADE OF THE FILM......I CONTUED TO FILM MORE CHAPTERS ............I COMPLETED THE FILM IN 2002......................A SUPER 8 SOUND COLOR FILM .............IN SOME OF THE OTHER
CHAPTERS ,..I MAY HAVE TAKEN THINGS A BIT FAR ...BUT THATS OK ..........HAVE A NICE DAY ............../ BUT OH ...............HOW I MISS SUPER 8 COLOR SOUND FILM..............I'D SUCK A DICK FOR A BRICK ....................OF FILM...........LUTHER PRICE A 60 min, Super 8mm-to-digital, 1995, . Digitally restored by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

6/4
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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9:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
PASTOR PAUL
Pastor Paul Jules Bartkowski 70 min., video, 2015, Ghana/USA “Pastor Paul follows the story of Benjamin, a mathematician and tourist in West Africa who is on a mission to discover the hidden formulas in the rhythms of African drumming. Early on in his travels he is shanghaied by a famous Nollywood actor named Kubolor (Wanlov the Kubolor) into playing the ghost of a white missionary (called Pastor Paul) in a Nollywood film, directed by the eccentric and formidable Funsho Ogundipe (Himself). During the shoot Benjamin experiences an actual spirit possession, speaking in tongues and seizure-like spasms, horrifying the crew and inadvertently giving the director exactly what he was looking for. Benjamin attempts to return to his research, seeking out drummers in remote villages, until his possession reoccurs. From that point on, his life turns into a Nollywood film as he pursues a remedy for this affliction. In the end Benjamin attends the premiere of the Nollywood film where it
all began.” JB Shown With: He Who Eats Children Ben Russell 26min., video, 2016, USA “...and we Antilleans, we know only too well that – as they say in the islands – the black man has a fear of blue eyes.” - Franz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks

6/4
Los Angeles, California:
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8pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON XXXIV: JAKOBSON, BELLOUIN & BRACKEN, CLIPSON & JOHNSON
The Echo Park Film Center presents an evening of visiting Bay Area artists working with sound and light. Marielle V. Jakobsons presents new work composed with her “Macro-Cymatic” visual music instrument, Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken perform a new percussive piece for hand made string instruments and strobes, and Paul Clipson and Chuck Johnson collaborate with vivid celluloid projections on 16mm and luminous pedal steel with electronics.

6/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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THOM ANDERSEN PROGRAM 2
THOM ANDERSEN WILL BE HERE IN PERSON TO INTRODUCE AND ANSWER QUESTIONS AFTER THE 4:30 SCREENING ON SAT, JUNE 4! GET OUT OF THE CAR (2010, 34 min, 16mm. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.) A miniature city symphony composed of advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished cultural landmarks. Taking its cue from the Richard Berry song whose title it shares, the film’s musical fragments compose an impressionistic survey of popular music made in Los Angeles across the 20th century, with an emphasis on 50s jazz/R&B and 90s corridos! THE TONY LONGO TRILOGY (2014, 14 min, digital) “A stumble through the studio backlots, [this film] is comprised of three sections, all culled from the supporting appearances in Los Angeles-shot films by the beefy Tony Longo, referred to by Andersen in the opening title card as an ‘axiom of the American action cinema.’ The three segments present variations as to what results when the
focus is shifted from the foreground (the star) to the background: here, poor Tony Longo who, it seems, was destined to never catch a break.” –Mark Peranson Thom Andersen & Andrew Kim CALIFORNIA SUN (2015, 4 min, digital, b&w/color. Music by the Farmingdale Sound Machine.) Created for the opening track of the Farmingdale Sound Machine album, “Maximum Amusement,” which was itself inspired by Andersen’s LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, Andersen’s first music video reveals his collage technique to be perfectly suited to the form. A TRAIN ARRIVES AT THE STATION (2016, 16 min, digital, b&w/color) Just what it says more or less… Total running time: ca. 70 min.

6/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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5:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM
Alongside our screenings of François Miron’s documentary PAUL SHARITS, we offer a program of Sharits’s own work. Featuring recently preserved rarities from throughout his career, this selection encompasses one of Sharits’s Fluxus films (WORD MOVIE), an excerpt from one of his extraordinary film installations (DAMAGED FILM LOOP), Sharits’s recently discovered sole 3D work (3-D MOVIE), a colorfully kinetic 2-screen projection (TIRGU JIU), and an astonishing experiment in filmstrip re-photography (EPISODIC GENERATION), as well as an episode of Gerald O’Grady’s Buffalo, NY, public television show FILM-MAKERS, featuring a studio interview with Sharits focusing on his work. All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. WORD MOVIE 1966, 4 min, 16mm DAMAGED FILM LOOP 1973-74, 4 min, 16mm, silent, excerpt from two-projector installation 3-D MOVIE 1975, 8 min, 16mm, silent, anaglyph 3D TIRGU JIU 1977, 10 min, 16mm, silent, 2-screen projection EPISODIC GENERATION 1977-78, 30 min, 16mm
FILM-MAKERS: PAUL SHARITS 1976, 30 min, video Total running time: ca. 90 min.

6/4
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
PAUL SHARITS
See notes for June 2, 7:30 pm.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2016

6/5
Austin, Texas 11111: Experimental Response Cinema
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8:00 PM, The Museum of Human Achievement
POLYPHONIC NEGOTIATIONS: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTS FROM DUSTIN ZEMEL
Experimental Response Cinema welcomes Dustin Zemel to Austin for a special screening of his playful and provocative videos. Pretend your MTV exploded. Imagine your heart reflected back to you in a million mirrors. Pretend you're looking a thousand different ways at someone else's story, only to find fragments of your own experience in the process. These videos and multi-channel works illustrate one artist's attempt to build "polyphonic environments"-formal methods to capture the ways we see and hear while honoring the quantity and confusion of informational excess. Dustin Zemel is an award-winning video artist and scholar. His works and curated programs have screened at Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque), Horse Hospital (London), PDX Film Fest (Portland), ACRE TV (Chicago) and more. He is the founder and former director of Grand Detour, a microcinema, curatorial group, and educational hub for experimental filmmakers and new media artists in Portland, OR. Currently, he is
pursuing a PhD at Louisiana State University as an EDA scholar studying experimental and documentary media. More info and links to videos at: PROGRAM: Big, Dramatic (2008) SD video, 16:19 1+1 > 2 (2009), SD video, 3:22 More Please! (2007) video, 6:21 Impressions of a Highly Coveted Demographic (2008) 5-channel video to single channel assembly, 5 minute excerpt Convergence Series: Tik-Tok (2011) 5-channel video to single-channel assembly, HD, 4:09 SCOOP 6PM: all is well (2015) HD, 0:45 Action Phase Loop 5: Crane Hang (2016) HD, 5:50 Hologram Analogies (2012) HD, 19:55 Sonnet 404 … loading ... (2014) HD, 5:00 Diary Film 01: new Cine-mnemonic inquiry (2015) HD, 5:13 TRT 1:11:54

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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4:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
BOOGER RED
Booger Red Berndt Mader 95 min., Video, 2015, USA “Booger Red is a hybrid narrative/documentary film where fictional journalist, Onur Tukel, investigates the true case of the ‘Mineola Swingers Club’ trials. In 2006, seven people were sentenced to life for purportedly running the largest child sex ring in Texas history--inside of a swingers club in Mineola, TX. Onur, portraying a veteran reporter, interviews the actual defendants and lawyers involved in the trials. On his journey through the seedy underbelly of east Texas, Onur is forced to confront his own history with abuse while he discovers that the allegations at the root of his investigation might have never happened..” BM “Booger Red falls somewhere between Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line and Call Northside 777’s cynicism.” - The Austin Chronicle

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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5:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 10: THE HANGED MAN
Instrument Anna Kipervaser 6 min., video, 2014, USA “Connecting time and place through undiscovered empty space between hemispheres.” AK Tiniest Dreams Randy Sterling Hunter 6 min., 16mm on video, 2014, Austria "Two cannot become one. This idea threads its way through Tiniest Dreams conceptually, and it is persuasively conveyed by the formal division of the work into two parts as well." -Christian Höller, Six Pack Films Animal Landscape Shelley Dodson 4 min., video, 2014, USA “African animals transform the environment as the relationship between predator and prey unfolds.” SD Toledo, My Father Carson Parrish 8 min., 16mm on video, 2015, USA “An underexposed night on the town with my dad and the movie palaces of yore." CP White Zone Gaelle Cintre 22 min.,16mm on video, 2015, France “Four women who are electro-hypersensitive -a rare condition where people find themselves acutely intolerant to electromagnetic fields including cell phone signals and WiFi- are driven deep into the
French Alps in search for remote underground shelter. Because of their situation, their way of life has never been photographed. Until now. Zone Blanche is a film without electricity.“ GC Shades of Shadow Amir George 8 min., Video, 2015, USA “Commissioned by Chicago Film Archives. Shades of Shadows is a collaboration with psychedelic soul band The O'Mys, that delves into spiritual mysticism and ritual sacrifice. Created with all archival footage, the characters in the film seek to manifest a better self.” AG Cup of Stars Ryan & Tyler Betschart 4 min., 16mm on Video, 2015, USA “A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas. Using dream logic under their own bizarre terms, The Betschart Bros. subtly express through a smearing of light and the telling of folktales, ideas of growing up as siblings in Southern California.” RB,TB Venom And Eternity For Beginners Aryan Kaganof 20 min., 16mm on Video, 2015,
South Africa “The system’s thought, the thought of the social organization of appearance, is itself obscured by the generalized sub-communication which it defends. It does not know that conflict is at the origin of all things in its world. Specialists in the power of the spectacle, an absolute power within its system of language without response, are absolutely corrupted by their experience of contempt and of the success of contempt; and they find their contempt confirmed by their knowledge of the contemptible man, who the spectator really is.”AK The Mess Peter Burr 14 min., Video, 2016, United States “A journey to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. We follow the perspective of Aria End - tasked with cleaning up this feral structure.” PB

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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6:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 11: HIGH PRIESTESS
All Tru-ish Mina Mir 3 min., Video, 2015, USA “A One-sided relationship is depicted through a series of vibrant, absurdist vignettes.” MM Dear Lorde Duke & Battersby 27 Min., Video, 2015, USA “Bone collector Maxine Rose, a 14 year old teenage girl, is looking for validation from her heroes, amongst them the primatologist Jane Goodall, bishop Desmond Tutu and the New Zealand teen pop Star Lorde. Offering them a gift of language, Maxine Rose stands for the desire to be visible and understood, not unlike the desire of an artist. We are particularly impressed by the multilayered story telling structure, the freshness of the characterization, and the honest exploration of an artists` vulnerability." –Excerpt from the jury’s comment on awarding Dear Lorde the EMAF award. Pattern For Survival Kelly Sears 7 Min., Video, 2015, USA “Pattern for Survival channels the frenetic energy and aggression of security and preparedness. As you read the rest of this manual, keep in mind the need
for a survival strategy.” KS Crystal Lake Jennifer Reeder 20 Min., Video, 2016, USA “A group of young girls take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence. EVERY GRRRL-SHAPED BREATH IS A BATTLE CRY.” JR Baghdad, Iowa Usama Alshaibi 34 Min., Video, 2015, USA “This liminal landscape, artificial yet grounded in a personal cultural mash-up of memory and pain, is seen through the camera, or the windshield as screen, as an attempt to reach a border between the seen and unseen. The town Baghdad, Iowa, is an imagined place that is transitional and conceptual. It is a place that connects my personal memories and trauma to an artistic space, which in turn allows both fears and desires to be expressed. Baghdad, Iowa is the mask, the shadow and the night stars that sing the
sorrow song of death. The traveler is you and the voice you hear is your own. You might be dreaming, so don’t wake up until you arrive in Baghdad, Iowa.” UA

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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7:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 12: FIVE OF PENTACLES
Chorus Josh Lewis 15 min., 16mm, 2015, USA “To the accuser who is the god of this world.” JL. Luminous Echoe Chelsey Lorae 15 min., video, 2015, USA “Shot entirely inside a Los Angeles residence, Luminous Echoes creates an abstract experience of sights and sounds in a city dwelling.”CL All Systems Go Shannon Lee 5 min., video, 2015, USA “A pilot destroys a UFO in his memory. Created with colored pencils and videographics, as well as repurposed found footage and sound” SL Yapi Nathaniel Draper & Aaron Khandros 9 min., video, 2015, Greece “Greece is covered in concrete tumors — yapi, half-finished buildings left in permanent limbo, skeletal structures like temples to some obscure future gods. Emerging from their obscurity, the yapia grow to take on a life of their own. The future of their meaning, and their moment, are up for grabs.” ND,AK Gulls at Gibraltar Stephen Broomer 4 min., 16mm, 2015, Canada “Seagulls hover and dip on the rocky coastline of Gibraltar Point. Tilting and
multiple horizons camouflage the birds, splintering and gathering the lone gull to the flock.” SB Mental Space Toby Tatum 7 min., video, 1015, UK “A vision in a dream. Follow a stream of consciousness deep into a world transformed by the shaping spirit of the imagination.” TT Fish Point Pablo Mazzolo 7 min., 16mm, 2015, Argentina “The film is an impressionist, kinetic exploration through the natural landscape of Fish Point, the Provincial Nature Reserve on Pelee Island (Ontario, Canadá).” PM 2183 Days Natasha De Betak 26 min., video, 2015, France/India “Filmed over a period of five years; An unique cinematic observation of a Holy man who has been on a hunger strike to save the sacred river Ganga. Year after year, his body crumbles and on the 2183rd day he dies. Expressionism and poetry meet to create a sublime journey of an unusual soul.” NDB

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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8:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
THE ALCHEMIST COOKBOOK
The Alchemist Cookbook Joel Potroykus 82 min., Video, 2016, USA, Chicago Premiere “Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemical pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.” JP Shown With: Prima Materia Azin Seraj 9 min., video, 2015, USA “To the alchemists, the crudest base materials concealed a divine spark, a latent, transformative potential obscured within the darkness of matter. Prima Materia draws on the cryptic language of esoteric alchemy to distill, through the use of elemental processes and symbolically charged objects, both the personal experience and psychological phenomenon of surviving trauma.” AS

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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2:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
DEPROGRAMMED
Deprogrammed Mia Donovon 84 min., Video, 2015, Canada, US Premiere “Deprogrammed is a feature-documentary about the rise of Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s deprogramming technique and anti-cult crusade. Deprogramming, as a form of cult intervention, started in 1971 and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from groups referred to as ‘cults’. Inspired by her stepbrother’s deprogramming by Patrick in 1991, Mia Donovan meets the infamous ‘Father of Deprogramming’ himself and begins to unravel his notorious legacy.” MD Shown With: The Ladies Tyler Zoanni 13 min., Video, 2015, USA “For 50 years, a group of Ukrainian women has gathered in New York’s East Village to make dumplings for their church. This observational short offers an evocative portrait of “the ladies” and the work, faith, gossip, and humor that
brings them together.” - TZ

6/5
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
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3:00 PM, logan Theatre, 2646 N. Milwaukee Ave
SHORTS 9: THE HIEROPHANT
Anthem Robert Todd 3 min., Video, 2015, USA “Troubled times call for troubling measures. We have used our powers to build our House as we have seen fit, perfectly hollow, reflecting nothing of consequence. The end is near, and we have ushered it in.” RT Of Birth and Brittle Teeth Marinah Janello 6 min., Video, 2015, USA/Spain “Of Birth and Brittle Teeth chronicles the lives of a group of farmers located in central Spain, dedicated to living off the land that they tend. With the use of spoken poetry and documentations of their daily lives, the film encourages the viewer to see the agronomist and their harvest as one.” MJ Infrastructures Aurèle Ferrier 23 min., Video, 2014, Switzerland “Infrastructures involves a journey through a landscape of infrastructures that are common to an everyday reality of routine. Yet here we find these environments are deserted. This allows attention to focus instead on the design and spatial arrangements of the objects, which become centrally
present. .” AF Anóme Lena Ditte Nissen 13 min., video, 2014, Germany “Interweaving documentary images from the two matrilineal tribes of the Moshu (China) and the Kuna (Panama) this film connects alleged female societies from continent to continent. The link between these two worlds is the filmmaker herself, trying to cope with the otherness of what is seen and the strangeness of the inner experience.” LN Exile Exotic Sasha Litvintseva 14 min., video, 2015, UK “Steeped in elliptical history and historical simulacra, Exile Exotic is set at a hotel that is a replica of the Kremlin. Narrating the exotic beginnings of my mother's and my exile from Russia, the film serves as a platform for us to visit the Kremlin again, albeit by the side of a pool. This film is a pilgrimage. This film comes in waves.” SL The Masked Monkeys Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy 30 min., 16mm, 2015, Germany “The masked arts of Indonesia are thousands of years old. They are commonly referred
to as wayang topeng (wayang: shadow or puppet; topeng: mask). It is believed that wayang topeng originated from tribal death rites, where masked dancers were considered the interpreters of the gods. In the lowest rungs of Javanese society a unique manifestation of these masked traditions can be found. Its practitioners are performers, but they are not merely entertainers. Their aim is not simply to amuse. Their ambition is to be respected, to be honored, to be successful. They have embarked on a path they know will lead to a higher state, to an honorable and noble position.” AD,JM
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