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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 ITEM FOR SALE: ============== RCA TP-66 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=31.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== GLI.TC/H (US / Amsterdam / UK; Deadline: September 27, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1354.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1356.ann MONO NO AWARE V (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: November 09, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1357.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 Midnight Black Festival Of Darkness (Los Angeles CA USA; Deadline: October 08, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1317.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 Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 17, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1336.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 GLI.TC/H (US / Amsterdam / UK; Deadline: September 27, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1354.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1356.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): ============================== * Microscopic: An Anniversary Screening Programmed By Bradley Eros [September 17, Brooklyn, New York] * Gate Shock: New and Rare Films By Luther Price [September 17, Chicago, Illinois] * The Experiment: American Falls By Philip Solomon [September 17, New York, New York] * Adolfo Arrieta Program [September 17, New York, New York] * Flammes [September 17, New York, New York] * The Adventures of Sylvia Couski [September 17, New York, New York] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [September 17, Tilberg] * Funeral Parade of Roses [September 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * The 2011 Festival of (In)Appropriation [September 18, Los Angeles, California] * Flammes [September 18, New York, New York] * Le Chateau De Pointilly [September 18, New York, New York] * Short Films of Toshio Matsumoto - Filmmaker In Person [September 19, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Jefre Cantu Ledesma & Paul Climson Duo [September 19, Geneva] * Early Monthly Segments #31 = Black Audio Film Collective [September 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Screening Prypjat - Chernobyl 25 [September 20, Freiburg i. Br.] * The White Ribbon [September 20, Reading, Pennsylvania] * Jennifer Montgomery: Transitional Objects &Amp; the Agonal Phase [September 21, Boston, MA] * Loos Ornamental [September 21, New York, New York] * Films By Alice Anne Parker (Anne Severson) -Aaff 50th Retrospective Screening Series [September 22, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Videofest [September 22, Dallas Texas] * 16mm Rapture Film Night!!! vintage Films From the 1970's!!! (2) [September 22, Harrisburg, PA] * Goff In the Desert [September 22, New York, New York] * San Francisco Cinematheque: Living In the World: Films By Helga Fanderl [September 22, San Francisco, California] * Electromediascope [September 23, Kansas City, Missouri] * Richard Kern Program 1 [September 23, New York, New York] * Schindler's Houses [September 23, New York, New York] * Richard Kern Program 2 [September 23, New York, New York] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Ouverture : That 70's Show (1) [September 23, New York, New York] * Cjc From 1971 To 2011 : 40 Years of Collectif ! [September 23, Paris, France] * Films From Four Mountain Ranges By Marcy Saude [September 23, San Francisco, California] * Radical Light: Stories Untold [September 24, Boston, Massachusetts] * Essential Cinema: October [September 24, New York, New York] * The Holy Bunch [September 24, New York, New York] * Richard Kern Program 1 [September 24, New York, New York] * Basis of Make-Up [September 24, New York, New York] * Richard Kern Program 2 [September 24, New York, New York] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Le Corps-Matiere (1) [September 24, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - La Fuite Eperdue [September 24, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Jeux D'images (1) [September 24, Paris, France] * Hand-Made Animation [September 24, San Francisco, California] * Vital Signs: videos By Dani Leventhal [September 25, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Old and New [September 25, New York, New York] * Heinz Emigholz Program [September 25, New York, New York] * Sense of Architecture [September 25, New York, New York] * Beatrice Gibson Program [September 25, New York, New York] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Depaysements (1) [September 25, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Rituels (1) [September 25, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Points De Vue Polyphoniques (1) [September 25, Paris, France] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011 ---------------------------- 9/17 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) MICROSCOPIC: AN ANNIVERSARY SCREENING PROGRAMMED BY BRADLEY EROS Admission $6. An homage inspired by this small gallery and micro-cinema, in the form of a curated program of subterranean science films and other works of molecular cinema, focused through a lens of miniature scale and perception. Programmed by Bradley Eros. "Filming a once invisible world with a once only imagined instrument." ~ Jean Painleve. With microscopic works by Jean Painleve, Stephanie Wuertz, Elle Burchill, Charles & Ray Eames, Woody Allen, & Bradley Eros and others, plus scenes from Microcosmos, Fantastic Voyage, Powers of Ten & The Incredible Shrinking Man. "The right eye's duty is to dive inside the telescope, while the left eye interrogates the microscope." - Leonora Carrington more info www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433, J/M/Z Myrtle-Broadway, L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 9/17 Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema http://www.whitelightcinema.com 7pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) GATE SHOCK: NEW AND RARE FILMS BY LUTHER PRICE White Light Cinema is pleased to present the second program (we must like him!) of work by acclaimed experimental filmmaker Luther Price this year this time with Price in person, to introduce and discuss his work. For more than twenty-five years, Boston-area filmmaker has been creating a raw and visceral body of work that challenges, infuriates, shocks, fascinates, and, sometimes, soothes viewers who have think they've seen it all. His is a gritty cinema: initially made in the intimate Super-8 format and now mostly in 16mm. It is a handcrafted cinema, with dozens of splices (which seem to want to fly apart at any moment), decayed and distressed footage (buried in the ground), and hand-painted frames (which shed a fine dust when projected). His is a scrappy cinema, which is mostly composed from found science, educational, porn, and other orphan films. Images are cobbled together between generous sections of leader and sound slug. His is a fuck-you cinema, which plunges head first into uncomfortable sexual imagery, discomforting medical footage, heartbreaking tales of loneliness and isolation, and a disdain for social mores. His is also a deeply moving, intimate, revelatory, soul-searching, and profound cinema, that often passes through the darkest dark to find some light, however faint. It is a cinema of catharsis. PROGRAM (Not in screening order): Inkblot #40: Sleep (2011, 3 mins. approx., 16mm) Andy Warhol (2004, 9 mins. approx., 16mm) Sorry Walking the Cross "Quatch" (2011, 8 mins. approx., 16mm) Sorry #3 (2011, 11 mins. approx., 16mm) Gift Givers (2008, 8 mins. approx., Super-8mm) The Mongrel Sister (2007, 11 mins. approx., 16mm) Fancy (2006, 11 mins. approx., 16mm) Domestic Blue (2005, 9 mins. approx., 16mm) Plus some surprise never-publicly-shown Super-8mm films from 2003-2010! * NOTE: This program includes explicit material and other material that may be disturbing to some viewers. 9/17 New York, New York: Maysles Cinema http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html 7:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue at 127th St. (2 or 3 train to 125th St.) THE EXPERIMENT: AMERICAN FALLS BY PHILIP SOLOMON American Falls, Philip Solomon, 2010, 55m. "American Falls is a single-channel triptych adaptation of a 55-minute, six-channel, 5.1-surround installation commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It was inspired by a trip that I took to the capital at the invitation of the Corcoran in 1999, where I first encountered Frederick Church's great painting Niagara; took note of a multichannel video installation being projected onto the walls of the Corcoran rotunda; and went on walking tours of various monuments to the "fallen" throughout the DC area. The architecture of the rotunda in the vicinity of Niagara invited me to muse on creating an all-enveloping, manmade "falls", re-imagined as a WPA/Diego Rivera cine-mural, where the mediated images of the American Dream that I had been absorbing since childhood would flow together into the river with the roaring turbulence of America's failures to sustain the myths and ideals so deeply embedded in the received iconography." - Philip Solomon. http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/theexperiment.html. **The event will be hosted by Jessica Betz, former assistant of Philip Solomon who performed a great deal of the chemical, optical and installation work on American Falls. Jessica will also be present for a Q&A following the screening. 9/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm , 32 2nd Avenue ADOLFO ARRIETA PROGRAM See notes for Sept. 15, 7 pm. 9/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FLAMMES In French with English subtitles, 1978, 90 minutes, video Film Notes With Caroline Loeb, Dyonis Mascolo, Javier Grandes, Pascal Greggory, Isabel Garcia Lorca, Marilu Marini, Jeffrey Carey, and Paquita Paquin. Barbara, a young girl, lives in an immense house with Louis, her divorced father, and her governess, Anne. The little girl is frequently assailed by nightmares, repeatedly dreaming of a fireman who comes in through the window of her bedroom while she sleeps. Louis dismisses Anne, believing that Barbara's terror is being provoked by the terrifying stories she tells her "[TAM TAM was at first] an amorous triangle between father, daughter, and governess and suddenly I had the vision of the fireman. As soon as he appeared, with the madness he provoked, I had the impression of venturing into a very different story: an immoral tale " A.A. 9/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE ADVENTURES OF SYLVIA COUSKI See notes for Sept. 16, 7:15 pm. 9/17 Tilberg: Incubate http://incubate.org/2011/artist/96/Jefre+Cantu-Ledesma+&+Paul+Clipson 10:45pm, Koningsplein 250 5038 WK Tilburg, The Netherlands JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON Warm, melancholic ambient guitar noises (think stripped down My Bloody Valentine and early Eluvium) will be supported by Super 8mm film visuals by Paul Clipson. -------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 -------------------------- 9/18 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES A carnivalesque melding of documentary verité and avant-garde psychedelia, Funeral Parade of Roses offers a shocking and ecstatic journey through the nocturnal underworld of Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood, following the strange misadventures of a rebellious drag queen fending off his/her rivals. Often cited as a major inspiration for Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Matsumoto's breakthrough film is a visually audacious and lyrically abstract testament to the vertiginous daring of the postwar Japanese avant-garde art and film scenes. Matsumoto orchestrates a series of quite astonishing visual set pieces, including actual performances by the influential Fluxus-inspired street theater groups, the Zero Jigen and Genpei Akasegawa. Directed by Toshio Matsumoto, Appearing in Person. With Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Toyosaburo Uchiyama Japan 1969, 35mm, b/w, 105 min. 9/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas) THE 2011 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION Dillon Rickman and Mark Toscano in person. The Festival of (In)appropriation is back with its latest batch of contemporary short audiovisual works that appropriate film or video footage and repurpose it in "inappropriate" and inventive ways, demonstrating the range of approaches contemporary filmmakers are taking in repurposing found materials. Films to be screened: Lucky Strike (Shashwati Talukdar), Interdimensional Headphase (Dillon Rickman), Camp (Peter Freund), Jive and Tusslemuscle (Steve Cossman), The Homogenics (Gerard Freixes Ribera), Ceibas Epilogue: The Well of Representation (Evan Meaney), The Voyagers (Penny Lane), February 2008 & June 1967 (Mark Toscano), Avo (Muidumbe)/Granny (Muidumbe) (Raquel Schefer), Kanye West Apologizes to George W. Bush (Jaimz Asmundson), Self-Destruction for Eternity (Wei-Ming Ho), Palindromia (Lab Collective), and A Reasonable Man (Brian L. Frye). 9/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FLAMMES See notes for Sept. 17, 7:15 pm. 9/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm , 32 2nd Avenue LE CHATEAU DE POINTILLY See notes for Sept. 15, 9 pm. -------------------------- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 -------------------------- 9/19 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street SHORT FILMS OF TOSHIO MATSUMOTO - FILMMAKER IN PERSON For My Crushed Right Eye (Tsuburekakatta migime no tame ni) Japan 1969, 16mm for three projectors, color, 13 min Silver Wheel (Ginrin) Japan 1955, 35mm, b/w, 12 min Song of the Stone (Ishi no Uta) Japan 1963, 16mm, b/w, 24 min Ecstasis Japan 1969, 16mm, b/w, 11 min Atman Japan 1975, 16mm, color, 12 min Everything Visible Is Empty (Shiki soku ze ku) Japan 1975, 16mm, color, 8 min 9/19 Geneva: Le Kab de L'Usine http://www.lekab.ch/site/jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-climson-duo-2/ 9pm, 4, place des Volontaires 1204 Geneva | Switzerland JEFRE CANTU LEDESMA & PAUL CLIMSON DUO Super 8mm film collages projected with layered guitar and synth drones. 9/19 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 9:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #31 = BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE Early Monthly Segments is proud to present a rare 16mm print of Black Audio Film Collective's Handsworth Songs. The film takes as its point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of London. Running throughout Handsworth Songs is the idea that the riots were the outcome of a protracted suppression by British society of black presence. The film portrays civil disorder as an opening onto a secret history of dissatisfaction that is connected to the national drama of industrial decline. The 'Songs' of the title do not reference musicality but instead invoke the idea of documentary as a poetic montage of associations from British documentarians John Grierson & Humphrey Jennings. Inaugurated in the UK in 1982 and dissolved in 1998, the seven-person Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) included John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson and Trevor Mathison and produced award winning film, photography, slide, video, installation, posters, interventions. Programme: Handsworth Songs, Black Audio Film Collective, 1986, 16mm, UK, 60 min. screening with Dark by Paul Winkler, 1974, 16mm, Australia, 14 min. @ The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom,1214 Queen Street West, Monday, September 19, 2011 **9 PM show** $5 10 suggested donation --------------------------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 --------------------------- 9/20 Freiburg i. Br.: Directors Lounge http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/ 19:30, Kommunales Kino Freiburg e.V. SCREENING PRYPJAT - CHERNOBYL 25 Pripyat the Uncanny of Modernity -*°*- 175 mins -*°*- Presented by Klaus W. Eisenlohr. The film program comprises films representing visions of the abandoned city of Pripyat by artists and documentary filmmakers, and imaginations of futures under the influence of "peaceful nuclear energy". Gair Dunlop confronts historical material about the glorious future that Dounreay Atomic Research Establishment would provide with his own camera footage, shot after the shut-down of the research power plant (Atom Town: Life After Technology). Now a ruin that still radiates, Dounreay does not attract nuclear tourists, unlike Chernobyl, which has become a popular destinations for photographers and other contemporary "explorers". Julio Soto presents his imagination of cities after a climate or nuclear catastrophe in virtual images (Invisible Cities) just before he went to Pripyat himself in order to make a documentary about past and present inhabitants of the forbidden zone (Radiophobia). Vanessa Renwick in glorious pictures celebrates the good-bye to Trojan, a power-plant in the US that may be the equivalent to Brokdorf in Germany concerning the long-lasting local protests, but which was never going on-grid (Portrait #2: Trojan). And Thomas Bartels reflects in poetic pictures of 16mm film the mood of the year 1986, now almost a documentary of the mood in Germany under the influence of the clouds of Chernobyl (Zwischenlandung). -*°*- Chernobyl may have become the symbol for the crumbled future visions of modern prosperity made possible by peaceful nuclear energy, and for the apocalyptic imaginations of a modern catastrophe. However, it has also triggered an array of aspirations for adventures. Maybe less so the actual melted and broken reactor, shielded under a crumbling "sarcophagus" but the ghost town Pripyat, once a young modernist city, has become a collective iconographic symbol for the uncanny modernity that seems to attract people in many ways. -*°*- Hanne Adam + Thierry Buysse - www.reactor4.be, Chernobyl & Pripyat with experimental music, 2009, 10:33 min, DE/BE -*°*- Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Phantasma Pripyat, 2011, 12:36 min, DE -*°*- Gair Dunlop, Atom Town: Life After Technology, 2011, 22:07, UK -*°*- Andrea Slavik, Nuclear Energy, 2011, 06:47, US -*°*- Vanessa Renwick, Portrait #2: Trojan, 2006, 05:14, US -*°*- Anders Weberg, Peaceful Atom, 2009, 02:19, SWE -*°*- Sarah Breen Lovett, Immaterial Meshup, 2008, 03:40, AUS -*°*- Nicky Larkin, Pripyat, 2007, 16:00, NE -*°*- Julio Soto, Invisible Cities, 2003, 06:17, ESP -*°*- Thomas Bartels, Zwischenlandung, 1986, 13:20, DE -*°*- Julio Soto, Radiophobia, 2005, 54:00, ESP 9/20 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://www.berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts THE WHITE RIBBON - The White Ribbon (2009, 144 min.) by MICHAEL HANEKE . "A village in Protestant northern Germany, 1913-1914. On the eve of World War I. The story of the children and teenagers of a choir run by the village schoolteacher, and their families: the baron, the steward, the pastor, the doctor, the midwife, the tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual. Who is behind it all?" Cannes Film Festival (winner of the Palme d'Or) ----------------------------- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 ----------------------------- 9/21 Boston, MA: Massachusetts College of Art and Design http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 8:00pm, FILM Department | Screening Rm 1 JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS & THE AGONAL PHASE MassArt FILM SOCIETY presents: JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS & THE AGONAL PHASE PROGRAM: ...TRANSITIONAL OBJECTS 2000, TRT 19 minutes, 16mm & video Distributed by Video Data Bank (vdb.org) "Begun as a consideration of the upgrading from manual to digital film editing techniques,Transitional Objects explores the anxiety and loss inevitable in such a transition while also suggesting the consequences of other life transitions. The video takes its title from D.W. Winnicott's theory of children's use of transitional objects to negotiate the gaps between internal reality and the shared reality of people and things. Remarkably layered, Transitional Objects weaves together considerations of splicing, Winnicott, sewing, motherhood, new technology and loss of mastery." -Carl Bogner"Playtime with psychoanalytic theory mischief-maker Jennifer Montgomery, who toys with the boundaries between self and other, and sutures together chimeras before your eyes."-New York Video Festival THE AGONAL PHASE 2010, TRT 42 minutes, HD with Christopher Montgomery, Laszlo McKenzie, and Vivian Montgomery. Distributed by Video Data Bank (vdb.org) In the aftermath of a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside of the terribly interiorized state of mourning. JM "The agonal phase: the visible events that take place when life is in the act of extricating itself from protoplasm too compromised to sustain it any longer. They are like some violent outbursts of protest arising deep in the primitive unconscious raging against the too-hasty departure of the spirit; no matter its preparation by even months of antecedent illness, the body often is reluctant to agree to the divorce." Sherwin Nuland, How We Die Jennifer Montgomery's film titles include Deliver (2008), Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Threads of Belonging (2003), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika, (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). Her newest film, The Agonal Phase (2010), premiered at the New York Film Festival. These films range from experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank. Her work has shown at international festivals, as well as the 2008 Whitney Biennial (NYC), MoMA (NYC), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), and the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis). She has been the recipient of many grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She now lives in Arlington, MA. Entrance to MassART Film Society is through Public Safety on TETLOW ST. http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 9/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LOOS ORNAMENTAL SULLIVAN'S BANKS / SULLIVANS BANKEN 1993-2000, 38 minutes, 35mm. During the twilight of his career, legendary Chicago architect Louis Sullivan called the 'Father of Modernism' constructed the eight banks that are showcased here. Collectively referred to as Sullivan's Jewel Boxes, these banks are located in ordinary small towns across America's heartland. & LOOS ORNAMENTAL 2008, 72 minutes, 35mm. The film shows 27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (18701933) in order of their construction. Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural theory. Total running time: ca. 115 minutes. ---------------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 ---------------------------- 9/22 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 7:30 pm, Michigan Theater FILMS BY ALICE ANNE PARKER (ANNE SEVERSON) -AAFF 50TH RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING SERIES The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) launches its 50th season in September with a five-part Retrospective Screening Series, which presents influential and rare films from its five decades of ground breaking exhibition. Alice Anne Parker (a.k.a Anne Severson) will present five of her films, made between 1969-1974, as well as films by Gunvor Nelson, Jay Cassidy, and Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley. Parker will be interviewed by artist Holly Hughes after the screening. Parker will be showing I CHANGE I AM THE SAME (1 min, 1969); RIVERBODY (7 min, 1970); NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA (17 min, 1972); INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES (5 min, 1972); STRUGGLE OF THE MEAT (4 min, 1974); and TAKE OFF (Gunvor Nelson, 10 min, 1972); BEST OF MAY,1968 (Jay Cassidy, 3 min, 1972); THE OFF HANDED JAPE (Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley, 9 min, 1967). All films presented on 16mm. 9/22 Dallas Texas: Video Assocaition of Dallas http://www.videofest.org/ 7 PM, Angelika Theater Mockingbird Station VIDEOFEST Dallas, TX The 24th Annual VideoFest will be at the Angelika Film Center Sept. 22-25,2011. The oldest and largest video and film festival in the nation, VideoFest shows a diverse range of works by regional, national and international video and film artists that are hard to find at the local video store, the movie theater or on Netflix. Because VideoFest is different than a traditional film festival or just going to a movie, expect something different! For the third year in a row, the VideoFest will be presented thru I-Tunes. VideoFest is presented by Video Association of Dallas. ABOUT VIDEOFEST VideoFest is now the oldest and largest video festival in the United States, and continues to garner critical and popular acclaim. Since 1986, VideoFest has specialized in independent, alternative, and non-commercial media, presenting hard-to-find works rarely seen on television, in movie theaters, or elsewhere, despite their artistic excellence and cultural and social relevance. Even in a Web 2.0 environment where everything is seemingly available on the Internet, VideoFest provides curatorial guidance, a critical voice in the wilderness navigating the vast and diverse landscape of media, helping to interpret its cultural and artistic significance. The event still provides a communal environment for real-time, face-to-face dialogue between makers and audiences. 9/22 Harrisburg, PA: Moviate http://www.moviate.org/?q=node%2F65 8:00pm, 1306 N. 3rd St.. 16MM RAPTURE FILM NIGHT!!! VINTAGE FILMS FROM THE 1970'S!!! (2) 16MM 1970's Rapture Film Night Part 3!!! @ MOVIATE Thursday - September 22, 2011 Admission = $5 Donation Yes, it is part 3 of our 5 part series of 16mm Religious Rapture Scare Films!! Don't worry if you missed others in the series as they all stand on their own! Come and learn how not to go to Hell!! Scare yourself silly by experiencing these films on 16mm film, the way they were meant to be seen in schools and churches! Come out and enjoy the end of days here with us at MOVIATE!!! http://www.moviate.org/?q=node%2F65 9/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GOFF IN THE DESERT by Heinz Emigholz 2003, 110 minutes, 35mm (GOFF IN DER WÜSTE) Documents 62 buildings from small petrol stations to representative museums designed by Bruce Goff (1904-82), the great unknown of a distinctively American form of architecture. As such, it is the first comprehensive filmic catalogue of nearly all his surviving creations. Goff is the great unknown of a distinctively American form of architecture. His constructions and designs run contrary to the ideals of the well-known International Style movement. Sparking legendary controversies during his lifetime, his work has paved the way for new, as yet unimaginable avenues in architecture. This film, the seventh in Emigholz's series, PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND, was shot over 40 days during a 9,200-mile journey across the US, and constitutes an open-minded look at the spaces Bruce Goff created. 9/22 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7:00 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE: LIVING IN THE WORLD: FILMS BY HELGA FANDERL "Working with film since the late 1980sexclusively in Super-8mmthe German-born and Paris-based artist Helga Fanderl is a master of cinematic duration and the in-camera edit, each of her over 700 short films a small epiphany of graphic composition and poetic form. As if taking cues from the latent lyricism discoverable at the margins of certain 'structuralist' worksincluding films of Gehr, Snow, Stark and WarholFanderl's compact and formal works (which resemble superficially travelogues and portraits) are subtly revelatory of a vibrant world of energy and light embodied in (and flowing through) the surfaces of the physical world. Tonight's screening presents an approximately sixty-minuteall silentprogram of short works ranging from 13 minutes each in Super-8mm format as well as in 16mm blow up." (Steve Polta). $10 general; $7 SFMOMA or Cinematheque members, students and seniors. -------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 -------------------------- 9/23 Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art http://www.nelson-atkins.org 7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street ELECTROMEDIASCOPE Lives on Hold: Searching for Agency and Identity in a Changing World. The works included in Lives on Hold examine different cultural, social-ecological and political instances where the socially determined rights of agency and mobility that exist between individuals, institutions and governments are increasingly challenged, systematized and withheld. In recent history the actions of individuals and numerous civil rights movements have gained critical international support for issues of freedom in specific locations around the world and this has led in many instances to more tolerance, cultural diversity and empathy for alternative points of view. In the West feminists re-defined the gendered territory of the male-dominated art world, and helped re-contextualize what it means to be feminine from a non-male perspective for peoples around the world. Today's pervasive and protracted conditions of warfare, diasporas, and displacement coupled with the ubiquity and emptiness of non-place and proliferating forms of deterritorialization are woven into the fabric of all places and countries. Urban street culture, gated communities and suburban "safety" enclaves have conflicting cultural connotations and meanings depending on differing desires, expectations and social mores. Empty nightscapes of surveillance, remote sensing, capture and control are pervasive topics that the news media does not discuss, but instead exploit in their nightly theaters of attraction and fear. The borderguard accesses and interprets the cloaked, invisible and virtual data of personal identity information of immigrants, transients, exiles and travelers. At another scale, a global mesh of fragmented local and regional territories have become sites of marginalization, containment and exclusion, where the suspended lives of refugees, migrant workers, and disenfranchised people have been relegated to a kind of non-status with little or no agency or volition. The video works in Lives on Hold present examples of successful revolution and the continuing struggle between the forces of stasis and change. They document escalating political and cultural contention that questions limits to mobility and cultural expression. Their works cause us to think about the celebrations and also the losses of human potential, self-actualization and creativity, and what it means to be human in today's worldwide social-ecological context. The late capitalist and totalitarian forces of commodification, containment and control are often established under agendas of exclusivity, security and national chauvinism. If such conditions persist, and it is likely that they will, the potential arises for a global future where the haves and the have-nots become increasingly segregated and controlled in what could be the most serious cultural, ecological and social dilemma that our planet faces. Patrick Clancy. In Order Not To Be Here, Deborah Stratman (USA), 2002, 16 mm film shown on video, 33:00 min. Contained Mobility, Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), 2004, video, 21:25 min. Stranger Comes to Town, Jacqueline Goss (USA), 2007, video, 28:30 min. Part of a 3-part series on Sept. 9, 16 and 23. 9/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 1 Richard Kern's controversial, unconventional, and darkly comedic short films earned him immediate distinction in the 1980s underground film circuit. A prime figure in the "Cinema of Transgression" group of that era, Kern is likely more recognized today for his erotic photographs, books, and videos. Looking back it is clear that Kern's Super-8 films were an attack on the entrenched avant-garde and a close-up examination of highly subversive behavior. Starring the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, Lung Leg, Henry Rollins, and Kembra Pfahler, featuring original soundtracks by musicians such as Foetus and Sonic Youth, and widely distributed on VHS during the burgeoning days of alternative and punk music, Kern's films remain shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful. These eye-opening works still rattle the senses. In conjunction with a group show featuring his photographs at the gallery Maccarone (630 Greenwich Street; www.maccarone.net), opening on September 9, and to celebrate Anthology's preservation of a number of his works, we present this two-program survey of Kern's most notable films. Along with a few surprises! "[Kern's] angry, sick, amusing, abusing, sexy, idiotic, nihilistic, voyeuristic, psychotic shorts and twisted music videos provided the fulcrum around which the Cinema of Transgression revolved." FILM THREAT PROGRAM 1: GOODBYE 42ND STREET (1983, 4 minutes, Super8mm-to-16mm) Newly preserved, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Kern films the storefronts of famous 42nd Street: the fast-food stands, the sex shops, the grindhouse and porn theaters, and interrupts the visit with random acts of violence. THE KING OF SEX (1987, 5 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Nick Zedd. Music by Killdozer. A man demonstrates his virility. YOU KILLED ME FIRST (1985, 12 minutes, Super8mm-to-16mm) Newly preserved, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Featuring Karen Finley, David Wojnarowicz, and Lung Leg. During Thanksgiving dinner, a young woman recalls family milestones that helped shape her outlook on life. THE EVIL CAMERAMAN (1986/90, 12 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Jap Anne and Jackie O. Music by Foetus Corp. Radical change in Kern's cinema. The filmmaker tries to manipulate his models who suddenly show unexpected resistance. THE SEWING CIRCLE (1992, 7 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Kembra Pfahler. Kern films the extreme piercing operation made on performance artist and singer of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Kembra Pfahler. X IS Y (1990, 4 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Jackie O and Cristina. Music by Cop Shoot Cop. A bunch of sexy women play with the preferred toy of primal dominant males: the automatic weapon. THE BITCHES (1992, 10 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video, b&w) Music by Jim Coleman. Two women, one man, three bitches. Or how to surprise the average porn watcher. Plus one secret movie! Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 9/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SCHINDLER'S HOUSES SCHINDLER'S HOUSES / SCHINDLERS HÄUSER 2007, 99 minutes, 35mm. In and around Los Angeles, the houses of Austro-American architect Rudolf M. Schindler are as celebrated as those of Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom Schindler once worked. Here Emigholz documents 40 of Schindler's buildings. "I would happily rank SCHINDLER'S HOUSES on the short list of essential modern movies about our city's physical and social geography." Scott Foundas, L.A. WEEKLY & MAILLART'S BRIDGES / MAILLARTS BRÜCKEN (1995-2000, 24 minutes, 35mm) Robert Maillart (18721940) revolutionized concrete-based construction. This film shows fourteen roof constructions and bridges that he designed and built. Total running time: ca. 125 minutes. 9/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES (PARTS 1 AND 3) (1985, 18 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video, b&w) "Stray Dogs" (Part 1): The thwarted and destructive loves of an art lover facing his idol. Featuring David Wojnarowicz and Bill Rice. Music by J.G. Thirlwell. "Thrust In Me" (Part 3): This provocative film probably shows the synthesis of the Cinema of Transgression by illustrating the worst taboos. Featuring Nick Zedd and others. Music by The Dream Syndicate. SUBMIT TO ME (1985, 12 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Lydia Lunch and others. Music by Butthole Surfers. A series of decadent portraits in which sex, bondage, blood, and violence collide. PIERCE (1986, 9 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Audrey Rose. A bored young woman decides to let a friend pierce her nipples. FINGERED (1986, 22 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video, b&w) Featuring Lydia Lunch, Lung Leg, and Marty Nations. The misadventures of a sex phone operator after she meets a sexually depraved psychopath. MY NIGHTMARE (1993, 5 minutes, Super8mm-to-HD video) Featuring Susan McNamara. Music by Joe Budenhauser. Kern ironically makes fun of the photography profession and the advantages it provides with women. Plus one secret movie! Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 9/23 : Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=147 8:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - OUVERTURE : THAT 70'S SHOW (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - OUVERTURE : THAT 70'S SHOW Séance présentée par Laurence Rebouillon et Marcel Mazé De la rencontre de Marcel Mazé avec Jonas Mekas lors de la vision de "Notes on the circus", que Marcel Mazé programmait aux Rencontres internationales de Hyères, naîtra l'envie de créer le Collectif Jeune Cinéma sur le modèle de la Film-Makers' Cooperative de New York. Voici un panorama éclectique des cinéastes de la première décennie de la coopérative. - "Notes on the circus" de Jonas Mekas, - "Focalises" de Marcel Mazé, 1980 - "Le départ d'Eurydice" de Raphaël Bassan - "Merce Cunningham" de Jackie Raynal - "Ex-tension" de Jean-Paul Dupuis - "Celluloid Heroes" de Jérôme de Missolz - "Scène de ménage" chez les gauchistes de Pierre Merejkowsky - "Die Strassen sind voll von grossartigen Technikern" de Jürgen Salk - "Scopolamine" de Robert Withers http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=147 9/23 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema http://www.cjcinema.org/ 8pm, Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2 CJC FROM 1971 TO 2011 : 40 YEARS OF COLLECTIF ! On September, from 23 to 25, the Pompidou Center welcomes us for a week-end of exploration of the catalogue and the history of the CJC. 9/23 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8:00pm, 992 Valencia Street at 21st FILMS FROM FOUR MOUNTAIN RANGES BY MARCY SAUDE A program of recent experimental documentary shorts investigating marginal histories embedded in the landscape. Fragmented tales of outlaws, back-to-the-landers, farmers, and most of all- mountains. Former gold rush boom towns; serial killers in Santa Cruz, California; anabaptist folk medicine as performance art; anarchists and Comanche re-enactors; a rural festival of antique farming technology; quiet looks at counterculture architecture; lots of mountain-gazing in the Rockies, the Sangre de Cristos, Southern Appalachia and the California Redwoods; and attempts to push against the edges of non-fiction form. Approximate program running time: 70 minutes. Screening: Murder Capital, 10 min, 2007; This Kind of Town, 6 min, 2010; The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel, 27 min, 2010; Sangre de Cristo, 26 min, 2011. all films: 16mm transferred to digital video. (continued in next email)
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