[Frameworks] FW: The Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 Online tonight!

Fri Apr 10 22:04:41 UTC 2020

From:  "lafilmforum at gmail.com" <lafilmforum at gmail.com>
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Date:  Friday, April 10, 2020 at 2:44 PM
To:  Adam Hyman <adam at lafilmforum.org>
Subject:  The Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 Online tonight!

       The Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 Online tonight!
  Followed by a Q&A

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  Online Screenings This Week:
The Festival of (In)appropriation #11 tonight!
 and Ism, Ism, Ism: Umbrales: Women Experimental Filmmakers from Latin
America

  She Collage, by Kate Lain
Screening online in the Festival of (In)appropriation #11 on Friday April
10.

  Greetings all!
We hope that you are staying as safe and healthy as possible.

A couple of Filmforum-originated shows, the Festival of (In)Appropriation
and Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, will have streaming
screenings organized by Northwest Film Forum in Seattle (no relation to us).
You could buy a ticket to attend either of those wherever you are!

Tonight at 8 pm Pacific time is the Festival of (In)appropriation #11!
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The Festival will play once at a preset time with discussion after.  We've
just decided to extend its online presence for some hours after the Q&A, so
that it can be viewed later tonight or tomorrow morning.
Tune in if you can!

Festival of (In)Appropriation #11 (2020)

Fri Apr 10: 8.00pm
Sliding scale admission: $025

Please pay what you can; proceeds support our move to a virtual platform!

Showtime listed is Pacific Daylight Time.

Northwest Film Forum is SCREENING ONLINE! NWFF¹s physical space is
temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but
community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist.

€ € HOW TO WATCH € €
Purchase a ticket through Brown Paper Tickets in advance of the listed
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Registration ends 1 hour before the start time.
30 minutes before the screening, NWFF will send a link and password to your
registered e-mail address! (Don¹t see it? Check your spam filter.) The
password will expire at the end of the film. No late seating!
If by showtime you do not receive an e-mail with details, please contact
louie at nwfilmforum.org for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your spam!)

Discussion
** Co-curators Jaimie Baron and Lauren Berliner will host a Zoom Q&A
following the screening at 9:30pm PDT. We will send registrants a link to
join the Zoom at 6pm on Friday! **

About
Curators Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner present their latest
edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation, with this invigorating
selection of cutting-edge, moving-image appropriation art. Sponsored by Los
Angeles Filmforum, the thrilling 11th edition of the Festival features all
the remarkable variety and complexity viewers have come to expect from this
pioneering international showcase of found-footage film and video. From
elegant exquisite corpses with dark political undertones, to jocular YouTube
mash-ups and music-video supercuts; from avant-documentary inquiries into
issues that resonate with our #MeToo moment, to masterly celebrations of the
craft of collage and hand-made cinema, this new program has something for
every experimental cinema sensibility.

The Program:

She Collage
by Kate Lain
(US, digital video, color, sound, 2015, 9:55 min)
She Collage is part response to the work of California-based collage artist
Terry Braunstein, part reflection on the practice of art-making. Like
Braunstein¹s art, the film is itself a collage‹in this case, frame-by-frame
hand-manipulated images of Braunstein, paper cutout stop motion animation,
archival footage, and an assemblage of sounds. (Kate Lain)

The Edge of Alchemy
by Stacey Steers
(US, 35mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2017, 19 min)
The actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from
their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an upending of
the Frankenstein story and an undercurrent of hive collapse. The third film
in a trilogy examining women¹s inner world, this handmade film is
constructed from over 6,500 collages. Music by Lech Jankowski of the
Brothers Quay. (Stacey Steers)

Lorde‹Supercut (Supercut)
by Duncan Robson
(US, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 03:44 min)
This unofficial music video for Lorde¹s ³Supercut² from the 2017 album
Melodrama is made from covers found on YouTube and Instagram, revealing the
diversity of Lorde¹s fans as they earnestly channel themselves through
Lorde¹s song and the internet. (Duncan Robson)

La Mesa
by Adrián García Gómez
(US, HD video, b/w, sound, 2018, 9:45 min)
La Mesa explores the intersections of memory, identity and queer desire. It
recreates fragmented and romanticized stories of a childhood in rural Mexico
as told by the filmmaker¹s father. These disjointed vignettes are interwoven
with queered reenactments of scenes from popular culture. The filmmaker
casts himself in the old Mexican films and American Westerns he grew up
watching with his family in California. He appears as the romantic lead
opposite the male actors, including Pedro Infante, Mexican national hero and
the filmmaker¹s childhood crush. The animations are laid over footage of the
old family home in Mexico which now sits alone, slowly being consumed by the
surrounding countryside. By centering queer desire in his family¹s history,
the filmmaker validates his childhood experiences while challenging popular
representations of masculinity as well as traditional notions of power and
vulnerability. (Adrián García Gómez)

Am I Pretty?
by Jennifer Proctor
(US, HD video, sound, color, 2017, 10 min)
A visually silent film appropriating audio from YouTube videos uploaded by
tween and teen girls primarily in 2012 as part of a meme. In these videos,
the young women entreat viewers to evaluate whether or not they are pretty
and post their responses in the comments. Am I Pretty? seeks to call
attention to the act of spectatorship invoked in these videos, and what
results when the visual basis for judgment is withheld  an acousmatic
reduction through the denial of the promised image. (Jennifer Proctor)

Mark Zuckerberg¹s Dog
by Hawk Martha
(US, HD video, color, sound, 2018, 1:34 min)
A very serious critique of capitalism centered on the canine-in-chief of
Facebook. (Jaimie Baron)

Light Plays
by Anne-Marie Bouchard
(Canada, 16mm transferred to HD video, color, sound, 2017, 7:17 min)
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, experimentally animated
with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon,
and exotic birds, but it is also about narration, experimentation, and
playfulness. (Anne-Marie Bouchard)

8th October 2016
by Péter Lichter
(Hungary, 35mm transferred to HD video, b/w, sound, 2017, 2 min)
The title of the film is the date on which the editorial staff of Hungary¹s
largest opposition newspaper, Népszabadság, was fired. The filmmaker tore up
copies of that day¹s issue, layered them, and then turned them into an
urgent collage expressing his yearning for the free expression of opposition
viewpoints. The visible edges of the film emphasize the impossibility of
presenting information in a complete context. (Péter Lichter)

What Happened to Her
by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
(US, HD video, color, sound, 2016, 14 min)
What Happened to Her is a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession
with images of the dead woman on screen. Interspersing found footage from
films and police procedural television shows and one actor¹s experience of
playing the part of a corpse, the film offers a meditative critique on the
trope of the dead female body. The visual narrative of the genre, one
reinforced through its intense and pervasive repetition, is revealed as a
highly structured pageant. Concurrently, the experience of physical invasion
and exploitation voiced by the actor pierce the fabric of the screened
fantasy. The result is recurring and magnetic film cliché laid bare. (Kristy
Guevara-Flanagan)

me and my army
by sair goetz
(US, HD video, color, sound, 2017, 9 min)
me and my army re-imagines the experiences of the actress Adrienne
Corri‹most famous for her role as a rape victim in Stanley Kubrick¹s A
Clockwork Orange‹as feminist performance art. (sair goetz)

  From Copacabana Beach, by Vivian Ostrovsky
(1983, 10:08 min., b&w /color, sound, Super 8 transferred to digital))
Screening online via Northwest Film Forum, Thursday April 9 - Sat April 11.
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  And also screening from our series Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in
Latin America, Umbrales: Experimental Women Filmmakers from Latin America
will be available from Thurs Apr 09: 6.00pm  Sat Apr 11: 11.59pm, with a
Q&A at 2 pm on Saturday:
https://nwfilmforum.org/films/ismo-ismo-ismo-umbrales-experimental-women-fil
mmakers-from-latin-america-online/
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Admission is on a sliding scale; money supports NWFF and goes to the
filmmakers.

** LA Filmforum friends will be joined by Cecilia Vicuña, Ximena Cuevas and
others for a Zoom Q&A at 2pm PDT on Saturday. We will send registrants a
link to join the Zoom at noon on Saturday! **

€ € HOW TO WATCH € €
Purchase a ticket through Brown Paper Tickets
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1271e&id=9577820558&e=a04be70c7a> .
Your email receipt from Brown Paper Tickets will contain a link and password
for viewing, under ³Ticket Details². (Don¹t see it? Check your spam filter.)
The password will expire at midnight PST on the last date of the screening.

If you encounter any issues logging in, please contact louie at nwfilmforum.org
for a quick follow-up. (But please, check your confirmation email!)

** Co-presented with Interbay Cinema Society! **

This program showcases female filmmakers who sought to carve out a place
within the male-dominated world of Latin American independent audiovisual
production. Key works, such as Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch¹s Come Out
(1971), exemplify the defiant position toward gendered and essentializing
aesthetics expected of Latin American women filmmakers. This program
includes pioneering Uruguayan filmmaker Lydia García Millán¹s Color (1955),
one of the first abstract experimental films from Latin America; the
politically charged Super 8 experiments by Puerto Rican underground artist
Poli Marichal; and a recent video essay by Mexican artist Ximena Cuevas.

Come Out (Narcisa Hirsch, Argentina, 1971, 11 min)
Color (Lydia Garcia, Uruguay, 1955, 4 min)
Desnudo con alcatraces (Silvia Gruner, Mexico, 1986, 2 min, silent, b&w)
Popsicles (Gloria Camiruaga, Chile/US, 1982-1984, 5 min, Spanish w/ English
subtitles)
Umbrales (Marie Louise Alemann, Argentina, 1967, 19 min)
Paracas (Cecilia Vicuña, Chile/US, 1983, 19 min, Spanish w/ English
subtitles)
Devil in the Flesh (Ximena Cuevas, Mexico, 2003, 5 min, Spanish w/ English
subtitles)
Copacabana (Vivian Ostrovsky, Brazil, 1983, 10 min)
Blues Tropical (Poli Marichal, Puerto Rico, 1982, 4 min)

Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America (Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Cine
experimental en América Latina)
Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America is a research project and
film series conceived by Los Angeles Filmforum as part of the Pacific
Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.

Ism, Ism, Ism is the first comprehensive, U.S.-based film program and
publication to treat the full breadth of Latin America¹s vibrant
experimental film production. The screenings feature key historical and
contemporary works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba,
Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the
United States. Revisiting classic names and forms from the experimental
canon, the film series daringly places them within a completely novel scope
and breadth. The film series takes both the aficionado and open-minded
viewer through a journey into a wealth of materials culled from the
forgotten corners of Latin American film archives integrated with recent
production from across the continent.

  Color by Lydia Garcia (Uruguay, 1955, 4 min)
Screening online via Northwest Film Forum, Thursday April 9 - Sat April 11.
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  There are many online experimental and documentary film viewing resources
now available.  I¹m listing some below, but you can find plenty more.

First, a list originated by our friend Kate Lain, called Cabin Fever, and
added to by many people.
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This one contains the most work in an experimental vein.

Cabin Fever and multiple other sources are listed at Hyperallergic
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There are more listed at Maysles Cinema. After filmmaker resources is a list
of film sources.  Many are the same as listed at Hyperallergic; some differ.
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An interview with Carolee Schneemann, newly published in The Believer
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The British Film Institute player is showing many films from the London
Film-makers Coop for free, celebrating 50 years of the LFMC (now Lux), the
ground-breaking production and distribution cooperative for artists¹ moving
image. 
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The SF Cinematheque has an online show, certainty is becoming our nemesis,
with multiple short films.
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Northwest Film Forum has links to multiple items
<https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729
1271e&id=7e4224bd38&e=a04be70c7a> , including the newest Pedro Costa film,
Vitalina Varela.

Electronic Arts Intermix and 47 Canal are streaming Trevor Shimizu: Video
Paintings 
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Video Data Bank has launched VDB TV with its Decades series of shows
streaming free 
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Now Instant Image Hall has things playing on its online screen
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Acropolis Cinema and the Lumiere Music Hall have a link to Heimat Is a Place
in Time, via Icarus Films, for a fee.
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Film-makers Coop has posted some programs by different filmmakers to Vimeo
On Demand for streaming.  These aren¹t free.
Storm de Hirsch: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/stormdehirsch
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Marie Menken: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mariemenken
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Edward Owens:  https://vimeo.com/ondemand/edowens
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Filmatique is posting a film a day this week for free.
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The Philosophical Research Society in LA has posted "Films to Heal"
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Here¹s a compendium by a professor in the UK
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The International Doc Fest Amsterdam (IDFA) has lots of documentaries
available for free online
<https://lafilmforum.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b9b114d2d0f9dc5e6729
1271e&id=bc4e5edbe8&e=a04be70c7a> .

POV's biweekly curated Playlist
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1271e&id=a20c1b2113&e=a04be70c7a>

POV & America ReFramed -- documentaries that broadcast on POV or America
ReFramed currently available for streaming
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A YouTube channel of Classic Korean Cinema.
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1271e&id=78980ebcdb&e=a04be70c7a>

Anthology Film Archives has curated Helter Skelter, ³movies that take place
almost solely  if not entirely  within the confines of the protagonists¹
apartments or houses.²  But the films generally live on other streaming
sites. 
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Individual filmmakers such as Sky Hopinka, Jodie Mack, Penny Lane, Ephraim
Asili, Alexandra Cuesta, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Wheeler Winston Dixon, and
more have Vimeo or personal channels
Many are listed in the above links at Hyperallergic and Maysles.

Virtual tours of amy LA area museums.  Here¹s a list
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1271e&id=e0e3795cd0&e=a04be70c7a>

Happy Viewing!  Hoping to see you all in person soon.

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