[Frameworks] First Look 20/21 Experimental Films at Museum of the Moving Image

Thu Jul 29 00:07:06 UTC 2021

Good work, Becca!
Wish I could be there.
Best, Steve

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:48 AM Becca Keating <keating.becca at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This weekend Museum of the Moving Image will present experimental programs
> as part of its annual First Look Festival of New York Premieres.
>
> The programs will feature new work from *Ken Jacobs* (Double Wow and
> Other Films by Ken Jacobs
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/08/01/detail/double-wow-and-other-works-by-ken-jacobs>
> *)* and *James Benning* (Maggie's Farm
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/maggies-farm>).
> Additionally, Are We Here, Together? Experimental Shorts
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/are-we-here-together-experimental-shorts>
> playing Saturday, Just 31st at 6:30pm presents new short works from 2020
> and 2021 with filmmakers Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby, Talenda Sanders,
> Meg Rorison, Peter Burr, Roger Beebe and Ross Meckfessel in person.
>
> Full details on the programs are as follows:
>
> *Saturday, July 31st*
> 4:00pm Maggie's Farm
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/maggies-farm>
>
> *Dir. James Benning*. United States. 2020, 84 mins. If landscape is a
> function of time as James Benning has held throughout his career, then this
> serene study of the parking lot, stairwell, corridors, and rear loading
> dock of the CalArts building where Benning has worked for 33 years
> comprises more than the sum of its 24 three-and-a-half-minute-long shots,
> divided sequentially into eight exteriors, eight interiors, and eight
> exteriors again, recorded in a single day. The suggested rhythm of the
> filmmaker’s own quotidian life over decades merges dreamily with the
> real-time rhythms of this institutional space, where sometimes the music of
> Bob Dylan and Linda Ronstadt is overheard. *New York premiere*
> *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for
> MoMI members. Order online.
> <https://1282.blackbaudhosting.com/1282/sslpage.aspx?pid=196&tab=2&txobjid=ae19f444-0a32-46f7-bcfe-59a8446ef3ba>* *After
> your purchase, an electronic ticket will be sent via email. All seating is
> general admission. Please review safety protocols
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021> before your visit.*
>
> *Saturday, July 31st*
> 6:30pm Are We Here, Together? Experimental Shorts
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/are-we-here-together-experimental-shorts>
>
> A mining of perception exploring landscapes, cityscapes, bodies,
> sexuality, feminism, anti-capitalism, and anti-authoritarianism in search
> of meaning, connection, the self, resolve, and greater ideals. These two
> programs of shorts conclude with a projector performance by Roger Beebe
> paying tribute to the filmmaker Norman McLaren.
>
> *Program 1: In These Times*
>
> *With Emily Vey Duke, Talena Sanders, and Cooper Battersby in person*
>
> Running time: approximately 60 mins.
>
>
> *We Carry with Us Our Mother * Dir. Olivia Ciummo. United States. 2019, 5
> mins. Planetary events and blood red landscapes blend with ethereal sounds
> as text leaves clues about difficulties with the mind and body. *New York
> premiere*
>
>
> *Garden City Beautiful * Dir. Ben Balcom. United States. 2019, 12 mins.
> One sunny afternoon in the Midwest, suspended in a time between, two
> commuters daydream about a life lived otherwise. *New York City premiere*
>
> *Zen Basketball*.
> Dir. Mike Hoolboom. U.S. 2020, 5 mins. In a series of simple frames, the
> often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in
> retirement, the greatest defensive player of the amateur leagues continues
> to practice on a remote island, far from the madding crowds. His techniques
> and dedication undergo continual refinement, revealed here in this
> startling exposé. *North American premiere*
>
>
> *Eastern State * Dir. Talena Sanders. U.S. 2019, 5 mins. *Eastern State*
> brings a found archive of decades of footage documenting the lives of the
> patients and employees of one of the oldest mental health institutions in
> the United States into dialogue with Barbara Loden's 1970 film Wanda.
> Through digital video corruption, VHS artifacting, stroboscopic effects,
> direct animation, and overlays, this collage film considers the fidelity of
> nonfiction media to lived experiences of isolation. Warning: flicker
> effects. *New York premiere*
>
>
> *Standing Forward Full * Dir. Alee Peoples. United States. 2020, 6 mins.
> A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a spiral slide built around a
> tower. Like this film, an exorcism attempt of an unrequited desire, itʼs
> either moving too fast or at a complete standstill. Disorienting but
> exciting. *New York premiere.*
>
>
> *Curious Fantasies * Dir. Jesse McLean. United States. 2019, 8 mins.The
> language and imagery related to celebrity perfumes (both descriptive and
> visual) are a starting point to think about consumer desires and the
> corruption of branding. “Give us your songs, your smells, and we will give
> you everything.” The rich get richer, everyone smells poorer. *New York
> premiere*
>
>
> *BECOMING * Dir. Ariel Teal. United States. 2018, 8 mins. Embodying a
> body after trauma. Blowjobs, *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, and memory are
> interwoven in an attempt to process and find bodily autonomy. Content
> warning: The film contains text dealing with sexual trauma. *New York
> premiere*
>
>
> *Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox * Dirs. Emily Vey Duke, Cooper
> Battersby. U.S, 12 mins. “What would another world look like, one that is
> carried by this feeling of empathy, of mutual love between humans and
> animals, between species? How would our relationship with a largely
> domesticated nature and environment change? How would established
> relationships of power and strength be redefined with this thought?”—Tasja
> Langenbach. *New York premiere*
>
> *Program 2: Perceptual States*
>
> *With Peter Burr, Margaret Rorison, and Ross Meckfessel in person*
>
> Running time: approximately 75 mins.
>
>
> *Black Square * Dir. Peter Burr. U.S. 2020. 7 mins. An assembly of human
> figures writhe and squares strobe in rhythm to audio sampled from the
> opening of the 1965 Op Art exhibition "The Responsive Eye." Through the
> friction of this contrast, a portrait emerges of an anxious divided society
> testing the boundaries of awareness. Warning: flicker effects. *New York
> premiere*
>
>
> *Another Horizon * Dir. Stephanie Barber. U.S. 2020. 9 mins. The horizon,
> where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place
> where these two elements come together. A metaphor, an orienting, a promise
> of transition, change, transcendence. A place where the corporeal and
> spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. *New York City premiere*
>
>
> *Zero Length Spring * Dir. Ross Meckfessel. U.S. 2020. 16 mins. A walk
> through corridors and rooms culminates in a familial Reiki session—what’s
> underneath and within. An apotropaic film, imprinted by rituals and
> symbols, basking in ruptures of the body and the earth. Through ASMR brush
> tracks and the language of self-help therapy, film surface abrasions and
> alleged paranormal photos, the film gives shape to various unseeable
> forces. You’re worth it, you deserve love, you can grow. *New York
> premiere*
>
>
> *The I and S of Lives * Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson. United States. 2021, 7
> mins. The “I” and “S” of “Lives” are the smoothest area of resistance. A
> rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) navigates the letters on the pavement of
> Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. on a summer afternoon, 2020. *New
> York premiere*
>
>
> *Baltimore * Dir. Margaret Rorison. United States. 2021, 22 mins. A
> montage of the underpopulated streets, shuddered storefronts, and crumbling
> cornices of Baltimore City suggests a disturbed, mind’s eye recollection of
> social neglect and physical decay. *New York premiere.*
>
>
> *Live Performance Lineage (for Norman McLaren) * Dir. Roger Beebe. U.S.
> 2019. 15 mins. 16mm projector performance. Lineage is a loop-based
> “orchestral” film performance for four 16mm projectors. Using as a point of
> departure Norman McLaren’s abstract animations in *Lines Horizontal* as
> well as reworked footage from two documentary portraits of McLaren in his
> prime and in his later life, the film explores how abstract marks made in a
> variety of ways—laser printing and etching, contact printing and
> hand-processing—result in strange and surprising sounds. *New York
> premiere.*
>
> *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for
> MoMI members. Order online.
> <https://1282.blackbaudhosting.com/1282/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=d0eccf03-d611-464a-9169-33478e236690>* *After
> your purchase, an electronic ticket will be sent via email. All seating is
> general admission. Please review safety protocols
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021> before your visit.*
>
> *Sunday, August 1::*
> 4:00pm Double Wow and Other Films by Ken Jacobs
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/08/01/detail/double-wow-and-other-works-by-ken-jacobs>
>
> *With Ken Jacobs in conversation with David Schwartz*
>
> Dir. Ken Jacobs. United States. 1969–2021, 70-minute program. MoMI’s 1989
> Ken Jacobs retrospective celebrated three decades of pioneering work by the
> New York avant garde icon. Always inventing new forms and bending
> technology to his unique artistry, Jacobs embraced digital cinema and has
> become even more prolific in the subsequent three decades. In this program,
> two celluloid portraits of his young son and daughter and a digital
> exploration of 19th-century stereographic imagery of children laboring at a
> thread factory, are presented along with the world premiere of a 40-minute
> 3D work, Double Wow, whose title evokes the wonderment and impact of so
> many of his films. The screening, with First Look favorite Ken Jacobs in
> person, celebrates the release of The Ken Jacobs Collection by Kino Lorber
> on Blu-ray.
>
> *Nissan Ariana Window* (1969, 14 mins., 16mm)
>
> *Spaghetti Aza* (1976, 1 min., 16mm)
>
> *Opening the 19th Century* *1896* (1991, 9 mins., 16mm)
>
> *Capitalism: Child Labor* (2006, 14 mins.)
>
> *Double Wow* (*World Premiere*. 2021, 40 mins., 3-D)
>
> *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for
> MoMI members. Order online.
> <https://1282.blackbaudhosting.com/1282/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=2c0caa2a-01d1-49db-8d50-119d4065990e>* *After
> your purchase, an electronic ticket will be sent via email. All seating is
> general admission. Please review safety protocols
> <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021> before your visit.*
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