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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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Cherry Kino, Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1358.ann 3rd Festival du film Merveilleux et Imaginaire (Paris FRANCE; Deadline: April 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1359.ann International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1360.ann Need a creative escape?ARTErra rural artistic residency (PT) LAST VACANCIES (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1361.ann The Journal of Short Film Volume 25 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: October 28, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1362.ann Black Maria Film + Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 26, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1363.ann Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK; Deadline: October 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1364.ann EcoFocus Film Festival (Athens, GA USA; Deadline: October 22, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1365.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 17, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1336.ann ARTErra-rural artistic residency (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: October 31, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1340.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 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1360.ann The Journal of Short Film Volume 25 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: October 28, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1362.ann Fermynwoods Contemporary Art (UK; Deadline: October 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1364.ann EcoFocus Film Festival (Athens, GA USA; Deadline: October 22, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1365.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): ============================== * At Sea : A Film By Peter Hutton [October 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Martha Colburn, Super 8 Films, Early and Recent Works [October 1, Brooklyn, New York] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Paul Clipson [October 1, Essen, Germany] * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [October 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [October 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [October 1, New York, New York] * An Intimate Evening With Bruce Baillie [October 1, San Francisco, CA] * United Nations [October 1, San Francisco, California] * "Food" By Gordon Matta-Clark, W/ " Charles Simonds: Dwellins" By Rudy Burckhardt [October 2, Brooklyn, New York] * The Testament of Orpheus [October 2, New York, New York] * Orpheus [October 2, New York, New York] * Beauty and the Beast [October 2, New York, New York] * The Return of Ben Rivers [October 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Harun Farocki Program 1 [October 4, New York, New York] * Eccentricites of A Blonde-Haired Girl [October 4, Reading, Pennsylvania] * Paul Sharits: An Open Cinema [October 5, Berkeley, California] * Liminal Spaces In Cinema: Gone To Earth and Union [October 5, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 2: Between Two Wars [October 5, New York, New York] * Jaap Pieters Program 1 [October 5, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 3: Images of the World and the Inscription of War [October 5, New York, New York] * Memory Ciphered In Celluloid [October 6, Atlanta, Georgia] * Landscape As Archive [October 6, Chicago, Illinois] * Harun Farocki Program 4 [October 6, New York, New York] * Jaap Pieters Program 2 [October 6, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 5: Before Your Eyes, vietnam [October 6, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 7 [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: the Soul and the Stem [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Upending [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Ben Rivers [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Seeking the Monkey King [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Ernie Gehr [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Bitches Brew [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: George Kuchar [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Ladders and Tracks [October 7, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Studies For the Decay of the West [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Cabinet of Curiosities [October 8, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 3: Images of the World and the Inscription of War [October 8, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 1 [October 8, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 6: How To Live In the Federal Republic of Germany [October 8, New York, New York] * In Comparison [October 8, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 9 [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Looking Through A Glass Onion [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Jean-Marie Straub [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Voluptuous Sleep [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Daniel Eisenberg: the Unstable Object [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Kevin Jerome Everson [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: John Zorn: A Film In 15 Scenes [October 8, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: George Kuchar [October 8, New York, New York] * Webmasters/Webslaves [October 8, San Francisco, California] * Dream States: the Avant-Garde of the 1940s and 1950s [October 9, Los Angeles, California] * Harun Farocki Program 6: How To Live In the Federal Republic of Germany [October 9, New York, New York] * Creators of the Shopping Worlds [October 9, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 11 [October 9, New York, New York] * Harun Farocki Program 12 [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: the Soul and the Stem [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: virgin Springs [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: the Pettifogger [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: Ladders and Tracks [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: John Zorn: A Film In 15 Scenes [October 9, New York, New York] * Views From the Avant Garde: the Red and the Black [October 9, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011 ------------------------- 10/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Studies and Observations Group http://www.aafilmfest.org/events 8pm, 327 Braun Ct AT SEA : A FILM BY PETER HUTTON AT SEA (16mm, 2007) by Peter Hutton. Studies and Observations No.1. Organized by the Studies and Observations Group. Co-presented by the Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Hutton's most recent filma riveting and revelatory chronicle of the birth, life, and death of a colossal container shipis unquestionably one of his most ambitious and profound. A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea to primitive and dangerous ship breaking in Bangladesh, with an epic journey across the North Atlantic in between."- MoMA. 10/1 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Plaxe (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves) MARTHA COLBURN, SUPER 8 FILMS, EARLY AND RECENT WORKS Artist in Person! Admission $6. For the final weekend of the group exhibition INDEPENDENCE RETURNS, we have invited artist Martha Colburn to screen a program of her radical animated films. Colburn will bring her Super-8 projector and a selection or works, including her 'off beat' early films featuring Jad Fair and Boredoms Music as well as a selection of newer films. Included in the program will be sound Super 8 films made live of her friends playing a variety of music. Artists playing include Tony Conrad, Felix Kubin and Helena Espvall. Colburn also has a collage work and a video on view in the exhibition.Approximately 45 minutes. - Martha Colburn is a filmmaker and artsit. She is best known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques. She has made over forty films since 1994. Colburn has also been fervently involved in playing music. One out of numerous groups she has been a part of is The Dramatics, a band she formed in Baltimore with Jason Willett. Recently in her career, Colburn has made sculptural/video installation work and experimented with integrating her films with musical performance. Yet music and film have always shared a deep connection within Colburn's work. She has made films for System of a Down singer Serj Tankian, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, contributed animation to the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnson, and VJs for the band Deerhoof. She has performed with live projections and bands at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), The Rotterdam Film Festival (2010), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), and many others. In 2010 her film Triumph of the Wild was included in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. More info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z - Broadway/Myrtle Ave. Also, L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 10/1 Essen, Germany: Denovali Swingfest Experimental Music Festival http://denovali.com/swingfest/?lineup 8:30pm, WeststadtHalle, Thea-Leymann-Str. 23 45127 JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA + PAUL CLIPSON This duo creates unique live performances with music and Super 8mm- largely improvised in-camera edited works, employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro images, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE SANG D'UN POÈTE) "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." Georges Sadoul 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1946, 93 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score by Georges Auric. "[P]erhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday family life to the magic of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm, with its Vermeer simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in the Gustave Dore extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. Jean Marais is a magnificent beast." Pauline Kael 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 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." 10/1 San Francisco, CA: Canyon Cinema http://www.canyoncinema.com 7:00pm, 145 Ninth Street AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH BRUCE BAILLIE Join us in celebration of Canyon Cinema's 50th anniversary this fall for a series screenings and events hosted at Ninth Street Cinema with a generous grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. August - December 2011 Canyon Cinema, one of the world's premier experimental film distribution centers is in the process of celebrating its 50th year anniversary. ...Undoubtedly, Canyon Cinema has become synonymous with Bay Area independent and experimental film. At present, Canyon Cinema has 320 members worldwide and distributes more than 3,200 films and hundreds of DVDs. As we have actively grown over the past fifty years, Canyon has chronicled the history of this unique genre. Join us this fall as we celebrate our anniversary and remember our shared lineage with the Bay Area experimental film scene through a series of screenings at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 7pm and a special program at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Third Street, San Francisco, CA An Intimate Evening with Bruce Baillie Please join us for a screening of a newly preserved work print of the HOLY SCROLLS Reel I as well as rare, never before seen "oddments from the Archives plus Roslyn Romance"--BB $7 general; $5 students and seniors 10/1 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street UNITED NATIONS SAM GREEN'S UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE + L'INTERNATIONALE + Our good man Sammy Green returns to Frisco with the world premiere of his half-hr. cine-essay on Esperanto, a language developed to be spoken by all the planet's peoples, and whose remaining adherents afford an inspiring face of utopianism. After Green's in-person intro, we look at two other internationalist pieces: Peter Miller's L'Internationale, a fascinatingand movinghistory of this famous "people's anthem," and Philip Stapp's artful animation Picture in Your Mind, an epic allegory on the human potential for war and peace. NOTE: BOOK POTLATCH! Bring in your used books to trade with others!! ----------------------- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011 ----------------------- 10/2 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Plaxe (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves) "FOOD" BY GORDON MATTA-CLARK, W/ " CHARLES SIMONDS: DWELLINS" BY RUDY BURCKHARDT Admission $6. Approximately 55 minutes. Mary Billyou presents in connection with the Round Robin Collective Live/Work Space Events a screening of Gordon Matta-Clark's Food, about the legendary SoHo restaurant and food cooperative (shot by Robert Frank), along with Rudy Burckhardt's Charles Simonds: Dwellings, a film which captures the sculptor and architect and his miniature works among the dilapidated structures in the Lower East Side. Both were shot in early 70s New York. "Food", Gordon Matta-Clark 1972, 43 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video. This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there. As a social space, meeting ground and ongoing art project for the emergent downtown artists' community, Food was a landmark that still resonates in the history and mythology of SoHo in the 1970s. Camera and Sound: Robert Frank, Suzanne Harris, Gordon Matta-Clark, Danny Seymour. Editing: Roger Welch. "Charles Simonds: Dwellings" Rudy Burckhardt, 1974, 12 mins, 16mm copy. American sculptor and architect Charles Simonds is seen during the winter of 1974 when he spent his days among the devastated tenements and vacant lots of Manhattan's Lower East Side, sculpting clusters of miniature dwellings for an imaginary civilization. These structures abandoned by an imaginary civilization of "Little People," are nestled in crevices of deteriorating buildings and crumbling sidewalks. Evokes themes of survival, dependency, fragility and visionary idealism. more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 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." 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ORPHEUS See program notes for October 1st. 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See program notes for October 1st. ----------------------- MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011 ----------------------- 10/3 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street THE RETURN OF BEN RIVERS The Harvard Film Archive welcomes back British experimental filmmaker and radical ethnographer Ben Rivers (b. 1972) for a screening of two recent works, Slow Action and Sack Barrow that extend his fascination with science fiction, travel and the interweaving of the fantastic and the quotidian. Slow Action is a four-part microcosmic study of remote islands united by a certain uncanny logic of place and by the film's hypnotic documentary-style voiceover written by cult sci-fi author and art critic Mark von Schlegell. Journeying from the Canary Islands to Japan to Polynesia and then back to South West England, Rivers gradually reveals the larger associative constellation created by his overripe imagination which actively channels Robert Smithson, Hammer films and the heroic dream of National Geographic expeditions. Filmed in anamorphic 16mm, Slow Action "stretches" across space and time, reaching back to the geologic past while also pointing towards an uncertain and entropic future. Sack Barrow, meanwhile, is a poetic essay on labor and history that captures the final shuttering of a pre-WWII factory for injured soldiers, following the routines of the last workers and work days and lingering afterwards. Rivers' obsession with the "outdated" that which is anachronistic and yet somehow suspended out of time finds renewed poignancy and enigma in the slow decay of the factory's Industrial Age machines. This program is presented in conjunction with the Film Study Center. Director Ben Rivers in person Special Event Tickets $12 Slow Action Monday October 3 at 7pm Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2010, 16mm, color & b/w, 45 min Followed by Sack Barrow Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2011, 16mm, color, 21 min ------------------------ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011 ------------------------ 10/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 1 INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE / NICHT LÖSCHBARES FEUER 1969, 25 minutes, 16mm. One of Farocki's earliest works, this film looks at the impact and manufacture of napalm, the deadly chemical weapon used frequently during the Vietnam War, and brings to the surface the hidden relationships between labor, industry, and destruction. Its point of departure is Farocki's observation that, "When napalm is burning, it is too late to extinguish it. You have to fight napalm where it is produced: in the factories." Doing just that, Farocki defiantly names names: the producer is Dow Chemical, located in Midland, Michigan. & WAR AT A DISTANCE / ERKENNEN UND VERFOLGEN 2003, 58 minutes, video. "In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on computer. This loss of bearings was to change forever our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of WAR AT A DISTANCE, which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Farocki developed in his earlier work." Antje Ehmann 10/4 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://www.berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts ECCENTRICITES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL Portuguese director, MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA - who was 100 years old at the time of filming creates this love story as told by a man whose thwarted romance with a beautiful young blonde-haired girl still haunts him. "The amused attitude of "Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl" is that of a Shakespeare comedy. Its morality, such as it is, is distilled in a seemingly throwaway observation: "Commerce shuns a sentimental accountant."- Stephen Holden, New York Times -------------------------- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011 -------------------------- 10/5 Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ 7:30, 2575 Bancroft Way PAUL SHARITS: AN OPEN CINEMA Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:30 p.m. Paul Sharits: Early Work Paul Sharits (U.S., 19661971). Introduced by Federico Windhausen. Sharits's early films make provocative reference to sexuality, violence, and self-destruction amidst striking formal experimentation. Includes Razor Blades, Word Movie/Flux Film, and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, and Inferential Current. (50 mins) -- A pioneer of the flicker film, Paul Sharits (194393) trained in painting and graphic design before turning to film. This background is apparent throughout his work, which juxtaposes intense pulses of color with repeated words or sound tones, and often takes the form of multiprojector pieces or installations. A long-time teacher at SUNY Buffalo, Sharits sought to bring about "entirely new definitions of the film viewing and making enterprise." His ultimate goal was to retrain viewers' senses, which he saw as caught up in the overloading stimuli of the "electric age." Tracing the legacy of this pedagogical aim, this retrospective series (Oct. 5-13, 2011), featuring many new preservation prints, surveys Sharits's career as he continuously evolves what it means to "open up" the cinematic medium. He envisioned his filmswith their equal parts abrasion and eleganceas a type of perceptual retuning or shock treatment that could reawaken viewers' dulled capacities for feeling and cognition. In a vivid endorsement, Stan Brakhage characterized Sharits's cinema as a "healing fever cycle" that could be felt flooding through the viewer's veins. A piece from Paul Sharits's Frozen Film Frames (c. 1969), which consists of serial arrangements of colored filmstrips encased in suspended plastic, will be on display at BAM/PFA during this series.--Jennifer Pranolo, Guest Curator 10/5 New York, New York: Flaherty Series / 92YTribeca http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Gone-To-Earth-and-Union.aspx 7:30pm, 200 Hudson Street LIMINAL SPACES IN CINEMA: GONE TO EARTH AND UNION UNION: In Clipson's unnervingly beautiful Super 8 short, he explores movement into layers of time, with an ambiguous confluence of lights, colors and darkness. For the mood and the settings, Clipson was inspired by the nature scenes in Gone to Earth and Union was an attempt to address the inexplicable magic of the role of landscape and motion in the Powell/Pressburger film. Clipson, a San Francisco artist, will be in attendance (viewing Gone to Earth in a 35mm print for the first time) and will discuss both films in a post-screening discussion. Director: Paul Clipson. 15 min. 2010. 16mm.GONE TO EARTH: In this, Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's rarely screened, enchanted Technicolor masterpiece, Jennifer Jones is a half gypsy who runs barefoot through the rolling Welsh countryside with her pet fox (named Foxy) in arm. The gorgeous Jones as Hazel is pursued by both a kind pastor who wants to save her and a brutal Baron who wants to savage her. Hazel is torn between the two, but really belongs to the forest and hills where she feels most at home. Director: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. 110 min. 1950. 35mm. 10/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 2: BETWEEN TWO WARS BETWEEN TWO WARS / ZWISCHEN ZWEI KRIEGEN 1978, 83 minutes, 16mm "An essay film about the time of the blast furnaces 1917-1933 about the development of an industry, about a perfect machinery which had to run itself to the point of its own destruction. The clarity and the precise ordering of his black-and-white images, which do not illustrate thoughts but are themselves thoughts, are reminiscent of late Godard. The poverty of this film its production took six years is at the same time its strength." Hans C. Blumenberg, DIE ZEIT 10/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JAAP PIETERS PROGRAM 1 OCTOBER: JAAP PIETERS There is something inexplicable and strangely exquisite about the Super-8mm films of Dutch artist Jaap Pieters. A longtime icon of small-gauge filmmaking who has shown in cinemas, art spaces, and festivals throughout Europe, Pieters is often compared to Warhol because of his preference for single takes and a fixed camera. The films generally focus on the down-and-out passersby on the street outside his home in Amsterdam, and many of the movies are actually shot from his window. Possessed with an empathetic eye and incredible timing, Pieters captures metaphorical images and private performances that transcend the everyday moments in which they were framed. We are thrilled to have Pieters in person to present these two programs featuring a number of 35mm blow-ups made by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. Rounding out the screenings is an illuminating documentary portrait of Pieters by his colleague Fred Pelon. This program has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation; very special thanks to Coby Reitsma (Mondriaan Foundation), and to Claartje Opdam, Marta Jurkiewicz & Anna Abrahams (EYE Film Institute Netherlands), and Travis Bird. Please note: the films are listed chronologically, but will be screened in a different order. PROGRAM 1: All films in this program are on Super-8mm. THE TROLLEYMAN / DE WINKELWAGENMAN (1991, 3.5 minutes, silent) WILLIAM THE FIRST, WILLIAM THE SECOND, WILLIAM THE THIRD / WILLEM I, WILLEM II, WILLEM III (1991, 17 minutes) THE HOGWEED / DE BEREKLAUW (1992, 3.5 minutes, silent) KIM & STEVEN (1994, 3.5 minutes, silent) STRINGLESS / SNAARLOOS (1994, 3.5 minutes, silent) SCREAMMAN / SCHREEUWMAN (1994, 3.5 minutes, silent) TEARS FROM DADDY'S SUIT / TRANEN UIT PAPA'S PAK (1994, 5.5 minutes, silent) SUDSCRUBBING / SCHUIMSCHROBBEN (1995, 3.5 minutes, silent) THE FLYER / DE VLIEGENIER (1995, 3.5 minutes, silent) MEATTRANSPORT / VLEESVERVOER (1995, 3.5 minutes, silent) PASSERS-BY ON A SUNDAY / PASSANTEN OP ZONDAG (1996, 3.5 minutes, silent) CLEAR VIEWS / SCHONE UITZICHTEN (1997, 2.5 minutes, silent) THE WEIGHT / HET GEWICHT (A.K.A. WHO'S AFRAID OF RED, YELLOW & BLUE) (1998, 6.5 minutes, silent) SILVER GREY WAVES ON THE LAND, OR THE WHITE SEA (WITH THANX TO TGR) / ZILVER GRIJZE GOLVEN OP HET LAND, OF DE WITTE ZEE (MET DANK AAN TGR) (2000, 3.5 minutes, silent) SWISSSPIDER / SPINSUISSE (2000, 3.5 minutes, silent) THE FURIOUS WITH BOTTLE & CAN / DE WOEDENDE MET FLES & BLIK (2002, 1.5 minutes, silent) MICHEL'S SHADOWWORKS / MICHELSSCHADUWWERKING (2004, 3.5 minutes, silent) SPACESHIP SUISSE / RAUMSCHIFF SCHWEIZ (1994/2007, 8.5 minutes, silent) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 10/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 3: IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR / BILDER DER WELT UND INSCHRIFT DES KRIEGES 1988, 75 minutes, 16mm. "A fascinating film essay about photography . Central to the argument of this film are some aerial photographs of Auschwitz taken by American bombers looking for factories and power plants and missing the lines of people in front of the gas chambers which are contrasted with Nazi photographs and images drawn by an Auschwitz prisoner, Alfred Kantor. Farocki's provocative reflections on these and related matters and his highly original manipulation of music make this an excellent introduction to his work, which has seldom been visible in this country." Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER ------------------------- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2011 ------------------------- 10/6 Atlanta, Georgia: Contraband Cinema http://contrabandcinema.com 8pm, Plaza Theater 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue MEMORY CIPHERED IN CELLULOID Film has always been an adversary of time. Whether it functions to recall, preserve, or condition, each of these films employs memory as the operational motive. Center stage is the Georgia premiere of The Florestine Collection. The final film by experimental animator Helen Hill as completed by her husband, Paul Gailiunas. It capsulizes their time in New Orleans, leading up to Hurricane Katrina and her untimely death. It exists as a memory ciphered in flood damaged home movies and the salvaged sections of Hill's animation; Bill Morrison's The Film of Her witnesses a dissident desire to preserve film's earliest memories; and RUDERMEDIA's Film Education, a cluster of 16mm educational films, demonstrates an attempt to alter collective cognizance. This exhibition of memory soaked cinema will screen at the Plaza Theatre, currently enduring its own campaign against the march of time. $6 admission. Come early to memorialize the occasion with 5 free seconds in the Super-8 Filmbooth. 10/6 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street LANDSCAPE AS ARCHIVE Filmmakers Bill Brown and Lee Anne Schmitt in person! In recent years, a number of artists have turned to the landscape itself--using everything from iPhone apps to walking tours--to examine the ways in which ideas, events, and cultures are recorded in the terrain. Curated by filmmaker and SAIC professor Thomas Comerford (Indian Boundary Line, 2010), this evening's program investigates the notion of landscape as archive. Bill Brown's distinctively narrated travelogue, Mountain State (2003), views historical markers across West Virginia (as well as the ghosts that haunt them) as indices of US westward expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. Lee Lynch's and Lee Anne Schmitt's Bower's Cave (2010) explores the implications of the geographic proximity of a California landfill to a cave once containing Native American cultural objects. Sarah J. Christman's Dear Bill Gates (2006) addresses not only how the mining industry has reshaped the landscape of Pennsylvania, but also how mines serve as literal archives for the cultural ephemera collected by the film's namesake. Multiple directors, 2003-2010, USA, 16mm, ca. 60 min plus discussion. 10/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 4 JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND DANIÈLE HUILLET AT WORK ON FRANZ KAFKA'S 'AMERIKA' / JEAN-MARIE STRAUB UND DANIÈLE HUILLET BEI DER ARBEIT AN EINEM FILM 1983, 26 minutes, 16mm. At once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, a major influence on Farocki, this film shows Farocki, under Straub's direction, rehearsing for his role as Delamarche in the film CLASS RELATIONS (1983). & WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY / ARBEITER VERLASSEN DIE FABRIK 1995, 36 minutes, video. Farocki considers the implications of an image that has been depicted throughout cinematic history, starting with the famous Lumière brothers' film. Farocki shows several variations of this scene from different films in order to examine its meaning as a historic and filmic trope. 10/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JAAP PIETERS PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: The 35mm blow-ups presented in this program are courtesy of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. THE TINCANMAN / DE BLIKJESMAN (1991, 3.5 minutes, Super8-to-35mm, silent) JIMMY'S BALLET (1993, 3 minutes, Super8-to-35mm, silent) THE CUPSDANCE / DE KOPJESDANS (1994, 2.5 minutes, Super8-to-35mm) ZÜRICH BLISSNESS / ZÜRCHER ZEGNERIN (2000, 3.5 minutes, Super8-to-35mm, silent) OPWAAIINGEN (2010, 3 minutes, Super8-to-35mm) WINDE'S BLISS / WINDE'S GELUK (2010, 3 minutes, Super8-to-35mm) With: Fred Pelon JAAP PIETERS PORTRAIT 2006, 45 minutes, video, b&w. In Dutch with English subtitles. In this video portrait of Pieters, which premiered at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival, 'the Eye of Amsterdam' is filmed in his home, where his moving struggle with the plethora of objects he's collected becomes a symbol for his inner life. Organizing, controlling, and re-collecting the chaos by means of photography becomes a way of treasure hunting and finding. The filmmaker joins Pieters in the search for his heater, but ends up becoming part of the collection. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 10/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 5: BEFORE YOUR EYES, VIETNAM BEFORE YOUR EYES, VIETNAM / ETWAS WIRD SICHTBAR 1981, 114 minutes, 16mm. "This film marks a definitive turning point in Farocki's career. Here he returns to the topic of the Vietnam War, to take stock of the legacy of the student movement, his own earlier ideal of guerilla film production, and the dream of a certain form of didactic cinema. The earlier goal of a cinema that could 'bring everything together' in a totalizing act of cognition has given way to a sense that the given and visible world is too complex and inherently ambiguous for such an aesthetic; guerilla tactics and techniques are shown to be recuperable within the logic of capital; and the ultimate fantasy of the student movement, to reshape the world in the image that it projected, is shown to be an almost arrogant fantasy." Christopher Pavsek, ROUGE ----------------------- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011 ----------------------- 10/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HARUN FAROCKI PROGRAM 7 AN IMAGE / EIN BILD 1983, 25 minutes, 16mm. "Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals with culture, cars, a certain lifestyle. Maybe all those trappings are only there to cover up the naked woman. Maybe it's like with a paper-doll. The naked woman in the middle is a sun around which a system revolves: of culture, of business, of living! (It's impossible to either look or film into the sun.) One can well imagine that the people creating such a picture, the gravity of which is supposed to hold all that, perform their task with as much care, seriousness, and responsibility as if they were splitting uranium." H.F. & A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE CONSUMER / EIN TAG IM LEBEN DER ENDVERBRAUCHER 1993, 44 minutes, video. Farocki plunders 40 years of advertising films, orchestrating them into an ironic 24 hours in the life of the typical consumer. This collage of 'beautiful images', gleeful and chaotic, deconstructs not only the domestic reference points which punctuate our daily life, but also gives full rein to an offbeat humor. 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 12:30pm, 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 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 1pm, Walter Reade Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: UPENDING OpenEndedGroup, U.S., 2011, 65m (digital 3-D). Filmmakers in person! 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 3:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: BEN RIVERS Sack Barrow: U.K., 2011, 21m; Slow Action: U.K., 2010, 45m. Filmmaker in person! 10/7 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: SEEKING THE MONKEY KING Ken Jacobs, U.S., 2011, 40m. Filmmaker in person at the October 7 screening! 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 5:30pm, Walter Reade Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: ERNIE GEHR Crystal Palace: U.S., 2002-11, 28m; Thank You For Visiting: U.S., 2010, 12m; Mist: U.S., 2010, 9m; ABRACADABRA: U.S., 2009, 39m. Filmmaker in person! 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 5:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater VIEWS FROM THE AVANT GARDE: BITCHES BREW Posthaste Perennial Pattern: Jodie Mack, U.S., 2010, 3m 38s; Babobilicons: Daina Krumins, U.S., 1982, 16m (35mm preservation by the Academy Film Archive); You Are Now Running On Reserve Battery Power: Jessie Stead, U.S., 2011, 11m; Hull: Tara Merenda Nelson, U.S., 2011, 7m 32s; from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds: The Phone Call : Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 1m; Billy and the Magician: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 3m 18s; Little Kitten: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 42s; Level of Zero Buoyancy: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 4m 53s; Romance Novels: Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 1m 4s; A Party Record Packed with Sex and Sadness: Bobby Abate, U.S., 2011, 10m 11s; Praxis 8 12 Scenes: Dietmar Brehm, Austria, 2010, 25m; Taste Test: Andrew Lampert, U.S., 2011, 2m 30s; Bitch-Beauty: MM Serra, U.S., 2011, 7m 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 8:30pm, 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 10/7 New York, New York: New York Film Festival http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.htm 8:45pm, 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 (continued in next email)
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