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Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: ============================ "Does Anyone Ever Really Quit?" by Bryan Konefsky http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=478.ann JOB AVAILABLE: ============== Binghamton University Cinema Department http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=9.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Faux Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 31, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1348.ann EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1349.ann MisALT Screening Series: Glitch v. Scratch (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 10, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1350.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Think Tic (London, England; Deadline: September 09, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1303.ann Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1316.ann Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: September 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1326.ann Flicker Spokane Film Festival (Spokane, WA USA; Deadline: September 23, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1335.ann Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1338.ann Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: September 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1341.ann Colour Out of Space (Brighton, East Sussex, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1344.ann Damming Fluxus (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1345.ann Black Thorns in the Black Box (Chicago. IL USA; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1346.ann 2.Intervideo Talent Award (Wiesbaden, Germany; Deadline: August 31, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1347.ann EXPERIMENTA INDIA (Bangalore, India; Deadline: September 10, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1349.ann MisALT Screening Series: Glitch v. Scratch (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: September 10, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1350.ann Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl Also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY): ============================== * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [August 27, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [August 27, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 27, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [August 28, New York] * Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [August 28, New York] * Nick Zedd Program 1 [September 2, New York] * Essential Cinema: Zvenigora [September 3, New York] * Nick Zedd Program 2 [September 3, New York] * Essential Cinema: Arsenal [September 4, New York] * Essential Cinema: Earth [September 4, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011 ------------------------- 8/27 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET See notes for Aug. 26, 9 pm. 8/27 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See notes for Aug. 26, 7 pm. 8/27 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of immortality." ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2011 ----------------------- 8/28 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS See notes for Aug. 27, 8:30 pm. 8/28 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology the god of the lyre, song and poetry was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many deaths." ------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 ------------------------- 9/2 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue NICK ZEDD PROGRAM 1 THE RETURN OF NICK ZEDD, PROGRAM 1: POLICE STATE PRESERVED AND OTHER WORKS Share + Film Notes Filmmaker in person! An anti-social renaissance man for our times, Nick Zedd is a notorious filmmaker, writer, painter, actor, political satirist, and "First Minister of Protocol" for The Cinema of Transgression, the New York filmmakers movement he spearheaded 25 years ago whose reverberations are still being felt in dark corners today. Punk in attitude and ultra-DIY in approach, Zedd's eye-popping, shocking, and often hilarious films and videos employ the mysterious powers of xenomorphosis, a term he coined to describe what happens when the "domain wall of an alternate universe smashes your reality tunnel and neurological re-engineering occurs." Nick returns for a rare visit from his new home in Mexico City to bring us this two-program survey of his classic and contemporary work, as well as to premiere Anthology's brand-new 16mm preservation of his masterpiece POLICE STATE. Famous for being infamous, Nick Zedd is the underground, and you should come see why. "Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell he's my kind of director!" John Waters PROGRAM ONE: POLICE STATE PRESERVED AND OTHER WORKS THE BOGUS MAN (1980, 11 minutes, 16mm-on-DVD) Depicts the release of information concerning the cloning of the President of the United States. Starring David McDermott, Lawrence Oliver Cherry, and Rafik. THRUST IN ME (1984, 8 minutes, Super 8mm-on-DVD) Co-directed with Richard Kern, THRUST IN ME defies description. Starring Zedd (in dual roles), Margot Damien, and Don Houston. POLICE STATE (1987, 18 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. A prime document of pre-gentrification Lower East Side, POLICE STATE ranks high as one of the most cogent, comedic, and enduring works of the 1980s underground film scene. Starring Zedd, Rockets Redglare, Flip Crowley, and Willoughby Sharp. WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY (1992, 20-minute excerpt, 16mm/DVD triple projection) A mind-bending multiple-projection blow-out with an emphasis on the exotic featuring the talents of Kembra Pfahler, Annie Sprinkle, Ari Roussimoff, and Steven Oddo. WHOREGASM (1988, 11 minutes, 16mm/DVD triple projection) "If this film doesn't land him in jail, I don't know what will. The first print was already seized by the Canadian police back in May ('89) and Zedd narrowly escaped arrest when he showed it in Tompkins Square Park this summer to an audience of winos and beggars who got so excited they performed a circle jerk in front of the bandshell." FILM THREAT 18 ECSTASY IN ENTROPY (1999, 15 minutes, 16mm) A group of warrior lapdancers struggle to overthrow the authoritarian structures of corporate state capitalism. In between a succulent blowjob, the naked superwomen punch and wrestle in a voluptuous cataclysm of feminine ferocity while a chihuahua named Pinky sniffs at their feet. Stars Annie Sprinkle, Taylor Mead, Brenda Bergman, and Jaiko Suzuki. WHY DO YOU EXIST? (1998, 11 minutes, 16mm) A series of close-ups of real urban 'types' in which the camera is returned to its Edison-era status as a simple recording device. Featuring Brenda Bergman, Kembra Pfahler, Dr. Ducky DooLittle, Mike Diana, and Little Annie. TOM THUMB (1999, 3 minutes, DVD) A trailer for a film that doesn't exist, shot on digital video in Copenhagen, Denmark. I OF K9 (2000, 3 minutes, DVD) A segment from the Ocularis End of Year Kiss Factory Event movie, starring Will Keenan, and Daryl & Scott Free. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. --------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 --------------------------- 9/3 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ZVENIGORA by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928, 96 minutes, 35mm Dovzhenko's second film, attacked by Soviet critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen its political impact, remains today a "cinematic poem" as the director named it. Dovzhenko wrote: "I did not so much make the picture as sing it out like a songbird." Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a mythic search for hidden treasure by two brothers. 9/3 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue NICK ZEDD PROGRAM 2 Filmmaker in person! An anti-social renaissance man for our times, Nick Zedd is a notorious filmmaker, writer, painter, actor, political satirist, and "First Minister of Protocol" for The Cinema of Transgression, the New York filmmakers movement he spearheaded 25 years ago whose reverberations are still being felt in dark corners today. Punk in attitude and ultra-DIY in approach, Zedd's eye-popping, shocking, and often hilarious films and videos employ the mysterious powers of xenomorphosis, a term he coined to describe what happens when the "domain wall of an alternate universe smashes your reality tunnel and neurological re-engineering occurs." Nick returns for a rare visit from his new home in Mexico City to bring us this two-program survey of his classic and contemporary work, as well as to premiere Anthology's brand-new 16mm preservation of his masterpiece POLICE STATE. Famous for being infamous, Nick Zedd is the underground, and you should come see why. "Nick Zedd makes violent, perverted art films from Hell he's my kind of director!" John Waters PROGRAM TWO: RECENT AND NEW VIDEOS NO PLAGUE LIKE HOME (2007, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) Electra Elf episode deconstructing the superhero genre as Nimbus attacks implantable microchips and the 9/11 Inside Job, along with the dangers of watching TV. HOLLOW BE THY NAME (2007, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) The Mayor is kidnapped by Eclectus and her henchmen, then Electra Elf is cloned by Pantaloon and can't stop fighting herself, forcing Fluffer to seek the aid of Vatican superhero Pulsar. Starring Rev. Jen, Sue Palchak, Brenda Bergman, and the Dueling Bankheads. PAINTINGS 2009-11 (2011, 7 minutes, Mini-DV) Entities painted in oil, exhibited at the Microscope Gallery in January. NYC/MEXICO (2011, 28 minutes, Mini-DV) Shot in Teotihuacan at the Pyramid of the Sun, along with scenes in Tequisquiapan, Mexico City, Times Square, and Brooklyn. THE BIRTH OF ZERAK (2011, 5 minutes, DVD) Caesarean birth of Zerak Zedd in Mexico City. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. ------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 ------------------------- 9/4 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ARSENAL by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928-29, 87 minutes, 35mm One of Dovzhenko's few completely independent films, from script to screen. ARSENAL is a civil war epic envisioned in unusual, painterly images: a fallen soldier drunk on the enemy's laughing gas his frozen body still baring its teeth long after the battle and his life are over. 9/4 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EARTH by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1929-30, 82 minutes, 35mm A poetic expression of love for both nature and Ukrainian culture by the man who was alternatively branded a deserter by Ukrainians and a Ukrainian nationalist by Russian Soviets. Dovzhenko champions the progression of life, class struggle, and new attitudes for a town changed by a tractor and a fallen hero. Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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