[Frameworks] This week [May 19 - 28, 2018] in avant garde cinema
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This week [May 19 - 28, 2018] in avant garde cinema
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This week [May 19 - 28, 2018] in avant garde cinema
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Pool Party ii: Group Screening of 22 Artists <#anchor5> [May 21,
Brooklyn, New York]
Scott Stark. the Body: Inside.Out <#anchor8> [May 25, London]
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
Light Field (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: September 15, 2018)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
Haverhill Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: June 01, 2018)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: June 22, 2018)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 31, 2018)
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OFF THE WALL 2018 (Madison, WI, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2018)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: June
01, 2018)
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Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (Paris, France;
Deadline: May 20, 2018)
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.
This week's programs (summary):
* Visual Chorus <#anchor1> [May 19, London, England]
* Karl Marx On Film: Shorts Program <#anchor2> [May 19, New York, NY]
* Optronica3:Polyvision With E.Vargas + T.S.Porras + K.Cato + <#anchor3>
[May 19, San Francisco, California]
* Beauty Becomes the Beast <#anchor4> [May 20, New York, NY]
* Pool Party ii: Group Screening of 22 Artists <#anchor5> [May 21,
Brooklyn, New York]
* Fracto Experimental Film Encounter 2018 <#anchor6> [May 24, Berlin,
Germany]
* Visions | 24.05.18 | Phillip Warnell <#anchor7> [May 24, Montréal]
* Scott Stark. the Body: Inside.Out <#anchor8> [May 25, London]
* 1968 On Screen: Shorts Program 1 <#anchor9> [May 25, New York, NY]
* New Experimental Works <#anchor10> [May 26, San Francisco, California]
* Investigation of A Flame + Last Summer Won'T Happen - Lynne Sachs In
Person! <#anchor11> [May 27, New York, NY]
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018
5/19
London, England: Emerald Reels
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19:30, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1JD
VISUAL CHORUS
A collection of contemporary experimental, animated and
creatively-narrative short films screened in combination with musicians
creating live soundtracks. On Saturday 19 May in London, we're going to amp
up the fun by having a live jazz trio, led by Rachael Cohen, improvise
soundtracks to a program of contemporary short films at the Horse Hospital
arts venue. FILMS by Martha Colburn, Caryn Cline, Kamila Kuc, Mike Morris,
Sally Cloninger, Jeremy Moss, Shannon Stewart, Adam Sekuler, Bryan Konefsky,
Jon Behrens, Salise Hughes, Linda Fenstermaker and Reed O'Beirne. Live
soundtracks performed by: Rachael Cohen (sax) with Shane Forbes (drums) and
Larry Bartley (bass). VISUAL CHORUS - The Horse Hospital - Colonnade,
Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD - Sat 19 May - 7:30p - £6
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5/19
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
KARL MARX ON FILM: SHORTS PROGRAM
Mark Lewis TWO IMPOSSIBLE FILMS (1995, 28 min, 35mm) One of the first
major pieces by Mark Lewis, perhaps best known for his installation works
and his collaborations with film theorist Laura Mulvey, this film takes the
form of a pair of wildly ambitious trailers for imaginary "biopics" of
Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. Laura Kipnis MARX: THE VIDEO (A POLITICS OF
REVOLTING BODIES) (1990, 27 min, video) "A
postmodern-experimental-revisionist bio-pic on Karl Marx - this is Marx
after the collapse of Communism, after feminism, after Freud. Based on
Marx's letters to Engels, which were largely concerned with the state of
his own body, it recounts a body continually erupting with painful boils and
carbuncles into new and grotesque configurations (all the while Marx was
writing CAPITAL and anticipating social revolution, it was his own body that
was in revolt). The body becomes the site of displacement, both for the
thwarted revolution and for the problematic issues of sex, subjectivity,
and the role of women (outside production) deleted from the public-sphere
Marx-in-theory." -Laura Kipnis Michael Blum WANDERING MARXWARDS (1999, 19.5
min, digital) "In this video, Blum poses the question of whether it makes
any sense to reread Marx's CAPITAL over 150 years after its publication. He
comments on the operation of contemporary societies, while staging himself
in various situations, in which we see him conspicuously taking advantage of
the comfort of the capitalist world (hotel, fitness gym, piscine, jacuzzi,
etc.) while reading CAPITAL. […] Blum…opens up a dialogue between
19th-century Marxist thought and 21st-century lifestyles in a humorous way."
-Priscilia Marques
5/19
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8 PM, 992 Valencia Street
OPTRONICA3:POLYVISION WITH E.VARGAS + T.S.PORRAS + K.CATO +
East Bay impresario Elia Vargas enacts his in situ [Meta]rials, an
anti-Anthropocene visual rite where dry ice meets crude oil. Co-featured is
tamara suarez porras’ in six* parts, a live performance composed from 35mm
(found) slides, overhead projectors, and her live narration about the family
of her biological father, who she’s never met. ALSO Star Seven, the newly
expanded version of Kristin Cato’s 16mm-sourced visionary recitation ad
astra, and the West Coast premiere of the oh-so-psychedelic Wishing Well
from SF/Berliner Sylvia Schedelbauer! Come early for Lillian Schwartz, the
Dream Machine, Daumier on filmstrips, and the historic/hypnagogic Metanomen.
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2018
5/20
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
BEAUTY BECOMES THE BEAST
by Vivienne Dick. Using fragmented images of women and a central
performance from Lydia Lunch as both a tormented five year old and a
troubled teenager, this film looks at the mother and daughter relationship
and examines the cyclical relationship between the two. William S.
Burroughs & Anthony Balch TOWERS OPEN FIRE (1963, 16 min, 16mm, b&w.
Archival print courtesy of the British Film Institute.) An assault on
linear narrative and good taste, bringing together readings by Burroughs,
unrelated film sequences, and the pervasive image of Gysin's Dream Machine -
inducer of hallucinations and mental stimulation. Jean Rouch THE MAD
MASTERS / LES MAÃŽTRES FOUS (1955, 28 min, 16mm-to-digital. In French with
English subtitles.) Rouch's controversial short film documents a meeting of
African participants in the Hauka movement, congregating to enter into a
trance-like state and mockingly mimic their British colonial
administrators. Total running time: ca. 85 min.
MONDAY, MAY 21, 2018
5/21
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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7:30pm, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, #2B
POOL PARTY II: GROUP SCREENING OF 22 ARTISTS
w/ works by by Lana Z Caplan, Naval Cassidy, Yun Chen, Josh Drake, Meredith
Drum, Liliana Farber, Sasha Waters Freyer, Johannes Gierlinger, Karissa
Hahn, Michael Lyons, Jesse Malmed, Jeremy Moss, T. R. Pickerill, Mike Rollo,
Margaret Rorison, Rachel Rosheger, Livia Sa’, Benjamin Lundberg Torres
Sánchez, Rebecca Shapass, Barron Sherer, Amanda Russhell Wallace, Travis
Wood. It's time to refresh our Event Series with another Pool Party, a group
screening of short films and videos selected from our submission pool the
first iteration of which took place in June of 2012 at our former space.
While similar nights have occurred under different titles and forms we are
excited to return to the original concept. Pool Party II features recent
works by 22 artists – new to established, local to international – not
necessarily bound by any particular theme, but that have been submitted to
Microscope’s Event Series within the past year. We would also like to use
this occasion to thank all the artists who have sent us works since we
opened in 2010: Keep them coming! And, please know that this is not the
first program curated from the last year of submissions, nor do we expect it
to be the last. Full program notes & info about the artists at
www.microscopegallery.com. tel:347.925.1433, info at microscopegallery.com.
Admission $8, Students & Members $6. 1329 Willloughby Ave, 2B, Brooklyn, NY
11237. Nearest subway: Jefferson St L (exit Starr Street).
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018
5/24
Berlin, Germany: Fracto Experimental Film Encounter
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19:00, ACUD MACHT NEU , VETERANENSTRAßE 21, 10119
FRACTO EXPERIMENTAL FILM ENCOUNTER 2018
FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter inviting artists and
filmmakers to present works that explore today's perceptual landscape and
interrogate its set of technological configurations. The second edition will
be held at ACUD MACHT NEU Cinema & Studio in Berlin from the 24th to the
27th of May 2018, with four days of screenings, artist talks and workshops.
The official selection curated by Giuseppe Boccassini and Tommaso Isabella
will be presented in a series of 15 programmes presenting 70 international
titles of recent artist moving image works and experimental films,
including 11 World premières, 17 European premières and 30 German premières.
Cristina Baldacci, Federico Rossin, Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco Torri are
the guest curators of this second edition contributing three special
programmes. ICI Berlin fellow Cristina Baldacci invites artists Maria Iorio
and Raphaël Cuomo to discuss their practice and present their film Appunti
del passaggio (2014-16). Reconstructing forgotten episodes related to
migration from Italy to Switzerland in the 1960s, the film introduces a
minor perspective into the ways in which the historical phenomenon of
migration from southern to northern Europe is represented today, testing the
validity of History and exposing it to the first-hand accounts of those who
actually made the passage. Independent film curator Federico Rossin selects
titles from Paris distributor Light Cone for a programme dedicated to
analogue and digital DISSOLUTION(S) with works by Tomonari Nishikawa, Paul
Sharits, Kirk Tougas and Jacques Perconte: "Disintegrations and repetitions
in search of a possible incarnation of the cinematic (glorious) body. A
program of four films as a ritual sacrifice of the photochemical matter and
a cupio dissolvi of the digital palette." Karianne Fiorini and Gianmarco
Torri present RE-FRAMING THE HOME MOVIE, a workshop that will introduce the
audience to home movies and amateur films as both specific archival
documents in the field of film heritage and creative source material for
filmmakers and artists. The workshop will examine their peculiar
characteristics (in terms of history, film formats and aesthetics) and
address specific issues related to their preservation and use in new works
of art. FRACTO 2018 OFFICIAL SELECTION:https://fractofilm.com/2018
5/24
Montréal: VISIONS
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20H, la lumière collective [7080, rue Alexandra, #506]
VISIONS | 24.05.18 | PHILLIP WARNELL
Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies [35mm to digital, 20mins] + Ming of
Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air [Super 16mm to digital, 71mins]
[Filmmaker present + HD projection]
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018
5/25
London: Kamila Kuc
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19:00, Colonades, London
SCOTT STARK. THE BODY: INSIDE.OUT
Curated by Kamila Kuc, this show explores Stark's preoccupation with the
human form through a variety of formats, from animated 3D stereoscopic
photographs, Super8 and 16mm film, to digital video. In Stark's own words,
each video is 'a "first film" with its own cinematic language, one that the
viewer learns and engages with as the piece unfolds. This language is shaped
by the particular mechanics of each medium, in the same way verbal language
is shaped by the mechanics of the human mouth. Thus each film charts the
possibility of a pre-cinema experience, one that might have evolved had not
narrative and commerce been cinema's prevailing motivational forces.'
5/25
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
1968 ON SCREEN: SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Helke Sander BREAK THE POWER OF THE MANIPULATORS / BRECHT DIE MACHT DER
MANIPULATEURE (1967/68, 43 min, 16mm, b&w. In German with English
subtitles. Archival print courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek.) Produced
for Finnish television, this film by the radical political filmmaker Helke
Sander not only documents but also reflects on the campaign of the German
New Left against the publishing house Springer, which to this day publishes
the most powerful German right-wing tabloid Bild and in the tumultuous 1960s
and 70s endeavored to turn the public against the student movement. Its
investigation of the power of large media conglomerates to manipulate public
opinion could hardly be more relevant today. Gerd Conradt FARBTEST - DIE
ROTE FAHNE (1968, 12 min, 16mm-to-DCP, silent) "A red flag is carried
through the streets of Berlin, in a relay race, to the town hall. The
fifteen participants raise the flag on the balcony of the building to
everyone's amazement." -DOCLISBOA Hartmut Bitomsky JOHNSON & CO. AND THE
CAMPAIGN AGAINST POVERTY / JOHNSON & CO. UND DER FELDZUG GEGEN DIE ARMUT
(1968, 18 min, 16mm. In German with projected English subtitles. Archival
print courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek.) Reflecting the influence of
Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, this early film by Bitomsky (DUST) criticizes
the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as U.S.
imperialism in Vietnam. Cristina Perincioli FOR WOMEN - CHAPTER 1 / FÃœR
FRAUEN - 1. KAPITEL (1971, 28 min, 16mm-to-digital. In German with English
subtitles.) For her thesis film, Perincioli recruited a group of housewives
and shop assistants to both appear in the film and collaborate on its
making. Set in a supermarket, FOR WOMEN depicts the female employees'
growing consciousness of their exploitation at the hands of their male
supervisors and co-workers. Ultimately they demonstrate their power by going
on strike, leaving the men with no choice but to take on tasks they're
incompetent to perform.
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2018
5/26
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8 PM, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
For 33 years now, the OC season has been consummated with an energized
evening of radical expression and form, with many of the makers in person.
Spot-lit on this Spring round are Julie Murray’s Radius (West Coast debut),
and Frédéric Moffet’s Fever Freaks (Cali launch). PLUS premieres from Tala
Brecke, in person (Rain), Alessia Cecchet (WWW), Carl Diehl (Connective
Unconscious), Carl Elsaesser (Sounding), John Warren (Helter Skelter),
Winston Hacking (Erodium Thunk , on 16mm!), and Clint Enns (All My Life
(After Baillie)), a Super8/digital-animation “panoramic scroll” of Bruce’s
All My Life. ALSO Andrew Norman Wilson’s Ode to Seekers, a new one from
Bryan Boyce, and other currently in-progress pieces TBA! Free pencils. $8.
SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2018
5/27
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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3:45 PM, 32 Second Avenue
INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME + LAST SUMMER WON'T HAPPEN - LYNNE SACHS IN
PERSON!
Lynne Sachs INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME (2001, 45 min, 16mm) On May 17,
1968, nine Vietnam War protesters, including a nurse, an artist, and three
priests, walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed
hundreds of Selective Service records and incinerated them with homemade
napalm. INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME is an intimate look at this unlikely,
disparate band of resisters - the Catonsville Nine as they came to be known
- who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience. Sachs has
combined long unseen archival footage with a series of informal interviews
with Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Howard Zinn, John Hogan, Tom Lewis,
and Marjorie and Tom Melville to encourage viewers to ponder the relevance
of such events today.Lynne Sachs will be here in person for both screenings!
Peter Gessner & Tom Hurwitz LAST SUMMER WON'T HAPPEN (1968, 58 min, 16mm)
Shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love, LAST SUMMER WON'T HAPPEN is
a critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in NYC. The
film traces the development of a group of activists on the Lower East Side.
We see their growth from isolated, alienated individuals to a politically
empowered community. Filmed between the protests at the Pentagon and the
demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, it includes
portraits of Abbie Hoffman, editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil Ochs, and
anarchist Tom "Osha" Neumann.
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