Part 2 of 2: This week [October 1 - 9, 2011] in avant garde cinema ------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 -------------------------
10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 1:15pm, Walter Reade Theate VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST Klaus Wyborny, Germany, 2010, 80m Filmmaker in person! 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 11:15am, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Between Gold: Jonathan Schwartz, U.S., 2011, 10m 42s; Tin Pressed: Dani Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 6m 23s; Fifteen an Hour: Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S., 2011, 6m; Tableaux Vivants: Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 10m 20s; Curious Light: Charlotte Pryce, U.S., 2011, 4m 12s; Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances: Samantha Rebello, U.K., 2010, 22m; The Matter Propounded, of its Possibility or Impossibility, treated in four Parts: David Gatten, U.S., 2011, 13m; from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: Miniatures : Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 2m; Degas: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 58s; The Eclipse: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 33s; ransom notes: Kelly Egan, Canada, 2011, 4m; Conjuror's Box : Kerry Laitala, U.S., 2011, 4m. 10/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 3: IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR See notes for October 5, 9:00 pm. 10/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 1 See notes for October 4, 7:30 pm. 10/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 6: HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY / LEBEN BRD 1990, 83 minutes, 16mm. "A mordantly comic montage of short scenes taken from 32 instructional classes, as well as therapy and test sessions. The film alternates between two kinds of activity: simulations and exercises carried out by human beings (learning about everything from child care to striptease to war to sales techniques to auto safety) and products being tested without visible human intervention. The thin line separating socialization from indoctrination is repeatedly traversed and the implication is that while diverse appliances are being tested for human use, humans are being trained and tested so they can aspire to the performance level of appliances." Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER 10/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue IN COMPARISON IN COMPARISON / ZUM VERGLEICH 2009, 61 minutes, 16mm. For his most recent film, Farocki observes the process of manufacturing bricks, in various cultures, and across different modes and scales of production. "For IN COMPARISON, I wanted to make a film about concomitance, and about contemporary production on a range of different technical levels. So I looked for an object that had not changed too much in the past few thousand years. This could have been a shoe or a knife, but a brick becomes part of a building and therefore part of our environment. So the brick appears as something of a poetic object. I follow its mode of creation and use in Africa, India, and Europe." H.F. 10/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 9 THE APPEARANCE / DER AUFTRITT 1996, 40 minutes, video. "Farocki once again takes us into the world of advertising. An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted, 'Eyedentity', is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously express both the company's dynamism and its reliability! A fascinating, dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is dramatized to win that lucrative contract." Jörg Becker & THE INTERVIEW / DIE BEWERBUNG 1997, 58 minutes, video. "In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been retrained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level managers all of them are supposed to learn how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term 'self management' is applied. The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to hang a social identity." H.F. 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 1:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS ONION Passage Upon the Plume: Fern Silva, U.S., 2011, 6m 46s; Shayne's Rectangle : Dani Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 5m 4s; Line Describing Your Mom: Michael Robinson, U.S., 2011, 5m 50s; Gossip: Bobby Abate, U.S., 2011, 8m 19s; from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: Tatum's Ghost: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 3m 45s The Death of the Gorilla: Peter Mays, U.S., 1966, 16m (new restoration by the Academy Film Archive); By foot-candle light: Mary Helena Clark, U.S., 2011, 9m; A Lax Riddle Unit: Laida Lertxundi, Spain, 2011, 6m; Sounding Glass: Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2011, 7m; The Evil Eyes: Bobby Abate, U.S., 2010, 18m. 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 11am, Walter Reade Theate VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEAN-MARIE STRAUB Lothringen! co-directed with Danièle Huillet France, 1994, 20m Un héritier France/South Korea, 2011, 20m L'Inconsolable France, 2011, 15m Schakale und Araber Switzerland, 2011, 11m 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 4:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: VOLUPTUOUS SLEEP Betzy Bromberg, U.S., 2011, 95m FIlmmaker in person! 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 4pm, Walter Reade Theate VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: DANIEL EISENBERG: THE UNSTABLE OBJECT Less and Less / Toujours moins Luc Moullet, France, 2010, 14m The Unstable Object U.S./Germany/Turkey, 2011, 69m Daniel Eisenberg in person! 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 6:45pm, Walter Reade Theate VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: KEVIN JEROME EVERSON Quality Control U.S., 2011, 70m 42s The Prichard U.S., 2011, 11m 18s 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 7:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEROME HILER & NATHANIEL DORSKY Words of Mercury: Jerome Hiler, U.S., 2011, 25m; The Return: Nathaniel Dorsky, U.S., 2011, 27m. Both filmmakers in person! 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 9:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JOHN ZORN: A FILM IN 15 SCENES 15 scenes: 254 shots Gobolux, U.S., 2011, 15m Well Then There Now Lewis Klahr, U.S., 2011, 19m 30s Bare Room Joey Izzo, U.S., 2011, 31m 33s arcana Henry Hills, U.S./Austria, 2011, 33m John Zorn and all filmmakers in person at October 8 screening! 10/8 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 9:45pm, Walter Reade Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: GEORGE KUCHAR Lingo of the Lost: U.S., 2010, 37m 45s. Empire of Evil: U.S., 2011, 50m 10/8 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street WEBMASTERS/WEBSLAVES RIP IN PIECES AMERICA + DEAR BILL + DEAR STEVE + ANONYMOUS + A program on the politics of social media: Dominic Gagnon's Rip in Pieces is a riveting compilation of "extremist" videos removed from YouTube (for ideological, not sexual content). ALSO: Still making headlines, Steve Jobs is the addressee in Herman Asselberghs' Dear Steve, a trenchant analysis of the "new hegemony" of new media, whilst we witness the disassembly of one of Jobs' laptops! AND Sarah Christman's Dear Bill, emailed toyou guessed itBill Gates, taken to task for his less-than-accessible archival empire. PLUS Greg Berger's inspirational interview with a Cairo blogger/activist, Egypt: How We Did It; Julian Assange in a WikiLeaks infomercial; and an open letter from the hactivist group, Anonymous. Come early for cheap spiked coffee and Andrew Wilson's Global Countdown. ----------------------- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2011 ----------------------- 10/9 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas) DREAM STATES: THE AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1940S AND 1950S This program launches LA Filmforum's screening series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980. The series will feature over 24 shows between now and May 2012. Alternative Projections is Filmforum's exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of experimental film and video in Southern California in the postwar era. This program includes Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren (1943), Juliet by Man Ray (ca.1940), Salvador Dali sequence from Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), Fireworks by Kenneth Anger (1947), On the Edge by Curtis Harrington (1949/2003), Psyche (Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort, part 1) by Gregory Markopoulos (1947), House of Cards by Joseph Vogel (1947), and What is a Man? By Sara Kathryn Arledge (1958). 10/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 6: HOW TO LIVE IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY See notes for October 7, 7 pm. 10/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CREATORS OF THE SHOPPING WORLDS THE CREATORS OF THE SHOPPING WORLDS / DIE SCHÖPFER DER EINKAUFSWELTEN 2001, 72 minutes, video. "Everyone is familiar with this experience [of shopping] and knows what a mall looks like. This self-evident phenomenon is, however, the result of a highly complex process. The designing of shopping malls is overseen by an army of planners, managers and scientists. Farocki shows how mall producers look at malls when they want to find out, for example, how passers-by move, where they stop and where they reach for an article. He adds these images to the everyday ones and gives them a magical charge." Antje Ehmann 10/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 11 WHAT'S UP? / WAS IST LOS? 1991, 60 minutes, 16mm. "How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in WHAT'S UP? in a motif depicting a postcard of a painting by Titian in an eye-mark recorder. Elsewhere topographical test images of the human brain record stimulus-response patterns during visual trials by measuring brainwaves (calibration curves). Research on the effectiveness of advertising investigates the question of what advertisements affect what regions of the brain, what scenes 'work' images for an 'inward' colonization of the human body, at once a commodity and a market." Jörg Becker & RESPITE / AUFSCHUB 2007, 40 minutes, video, silent. Resurrects footage shot by Rudolf Breslauer, an inmate of a Dutch transit camp for Jews during WWII. The images we see of incoming and outgoing trains, prisoners being processed, and daily camp life are set to Farocki's silent intertitle commentary. 10/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 12 PRISON IMAGES / GEFÄNGNISBILDER 2000, 60 minutes, video. "A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices. The cinema has always been attracted to prisons." H.F. & NOTHING VENTURED / NICHT OHNE RISIKO 2004, 50 minutes, video. The film follows the negotiations between a mid-sized company and a venture capital firm as the company looks for capital to start production on its invention. Farocki limits himself to observing events without comment. It's a microscopic look at one cell of today's economy, an ethnographic portrait of a commonplace business dealing. 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 12pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE SOUL AND THE STEM Señora con Flores / Woman with Flowers: Chick Strand; Jan Villa: Natasha Mendonca; The Sole of the Foot: Robert Fenz; Correspondence: Robert Fenz 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 1pm, Walter Reade Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: VIRGIN SPRINGS Baptismal Sticks and Stones: April Simmons, U.S., 2011, 6m 50s; Devil's Gate: Laura Kraning, U.S., 2011, 20m; Twice Removed: Leslie Thornton, U.S., 2011, 9m ; Ricky: Janie Geiser, U.S., 2011, 11m; Silent Springs : Erin Espelie, U.S., 2011, 12m 57s; Gazette: Eléonore de Montesquiou, Russia/Estonia, 2009, 4m 12s; Kudzu Vine: Josh Gibson, U.S., 2011, 19.52m. 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 2:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JEROME HILER & NATHANIEL DORSKY Words of Mercury: Jerome Hiler, U.S., 2011, 25m; The Return: Nathaniel Dorsky, U.S., 2011, 27m. Both filmmakers in person! 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 3:30pm, Walter Reade Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE PETTIFOGGER Lewis Klahr, U.S., 2011, 65m Filmmaker in person October 9 screening! 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 5:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: LADDERS AND TRACKS Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 Shiloh Cinquemani, U.S./Germany, 2011, 2m 7s (k)now (t)here HeyYeun Jang, U.S., 2011, 8m 50s Subway: Angela Ferraiolo, U.S., 2011, 7m 40s; Village, silenced: Deborah Stratman, U.S., 2011, 4m 56s; Snakes and Ladders: Katherin McInnis, U.S., 2011, 3m; Longhorn Tremolo: Scott Stark, U.S., 2010, 16m; Landfill 16: Jennifer Reeves, U.S., 2011, 8m 52s; Barren: Katherin McInnis, U.S., 2010, 2m; Back View: Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 17m; The Toy Sun: Ken Kobland, U.S., 2011, 33m 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 6pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: JOHN ZORN: A FILM IN 15 SCENES 15 scenes: 254 shots Gobolux, U.S., 2011, 15m Well Then There Now Lewis Klahr, U.S., 2011, 19m 30s Bare Room Joey Izzo, U.S., 2011, 31m 33s arcana Henry Hills, U.S./Austria, 2011, 33m 10/9 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 8:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: THE RED AND THE BLACK River Rites: Ben Russell, U.S./Suriname, 2011, 11m 30s; Shadow, Seed, Spagyric : David Baker, U.S., 2011, 5m 12s; Peril of the Antilles : Fern Silva, U.S., 2011, 5.51m; A Preface to Red: Jonathan Schwartz, U.S./Turkey, 2010, 6m; Protocol: Lina Rodriguez, Canada/Colombia, 2011, 1m 15s; Imperceptihole: Lori Felker & Robert Todd, U.S., 2011, 14m 37s; LIGHT LICKS: BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON: I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK: Saul Levine, U.S., 2011, 12m; Third Law: N Kedzie Blvd.: Mike Gibisser, U.S., 2011, 7m 10s; Slow Burn: Jesse Cain, U.S., 2011, 19m 46s. 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