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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: ===================== 360 | 365 Film Festival (Rochester, NY USA; Deadline: February 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1376.ann EFF PORTLAND (Portland; Deadline: February 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1377.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Stop & Go (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1302.ann Go Short - International Film Festival Nijmegen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1319.ann $100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1339.ann Experiments in Cinema v7.9 (Albuquerque, New Mexico USA; Deadline: December 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1343.ann The Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL; Deadline: December 09, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1352.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 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 Accolade Competition (La Jolla, Ca USA; Deadline: November 18, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1369.ann Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, Illinois, USA; Deadline: November 11, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1372.ann De Anza Experimental Film Exhibition (Cupertino, CA, USA; Deadline: November 07, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1375.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): ============================== * Wasteland Utopias W/ Filmmaker David Sherman In Person [November 5, Buffalo, New York] * How To Carve A Ball of Sound/ Sound Design Masterclass With Leighton Pierce [November 5, New York, New York] * Another Experiment By Women Film Festival [November 5, New York, New York] * Meso-American Memory [November 5, San Francisco, California] * Wasteland Utopias W/ Filmmaker David Sherman In Person [November 7, Amherst, MA] * Performa: Piece To Camera [November 8, New York, New York] * Roger Beebe (In Person ) [November 8, Reading, Pennsylvania] * David Sherman Screens Wasteland Utopias [November 9, Boston, Massachusetts] * Nicolas Provost: Long Live the New Flesh [November 10, Chicago, Illinois] * Luther Price: Four Super 8 Films [November 10, Los Angeles, California] * Images Festival [November 10, New York, New York] * Craneway Event By Tacita Dean [November 10, San Francisco, California] * The Observers [November 11, New York, New York] * Convento [November 11, New York, New York] * Sharp Edge Blunt [November 12, Brooklyn, New York] * Jaguar [November 12, New York, New York] * Deus Ex Boltanski By Robert Gardner [November 12, New York, New York] * Mead Shorts Program [November 12, New York, New York] * All For the Good of the World and NoOvice [November 12, New York, New York] * Radiolab Listening Party: Space [November 12, New York, New York] * Empty Quarter [November 12, New York, New York] * Kinder [November 12, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Classics of the Twenties [November 12, New York, New York] * Jonas Mekas' Fluxus Cabaret [November 12, New York, New York] * Films and video of Carolee Schneemann [November 12, New York, New York] * Frankenstein Reconstituted [November 12, San Francisco, California] * Doin' It On Tape: video From the Woman's Building [November 13, Los Angeles, California] * Blue Meridian [November 13, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Christopher Maclaine Program [November 13, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2011 -------------------------- 11/5 Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel http://www.squeaky.org 7 PM, 712 Main Street WASTELAND UTOPIAS W/ FILMMAKER DAVID SHERMAN IN PERSON Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950sWebb building his colossal, panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage, documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By juxtaposing these two thinkerswho represent ostensibly opposing visions of a still-undefined futureSherman asks viewers to consider a multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social environments. The filmmaker, David Sherman, will be in town for a tasty Q&A session. 11/5 New York, New York: Exit Art http://www.exitart.org/ 2:00 --3:30 PM, 475 Tenth Avenue / NYC / 10018 HOW TO CARVE A BALL OF SOUND/ SOUND DESIGN MASTERCLASS WITH LEIGHTON PIERCE Moving image makers are invited to attend a masterclass given by LEIGHTON PIERCE on the creative use of sound design -- an element which is the core of his art. Pierce will present Pro Tools session examples from his own work and will also discuss his approach to sound. Participating filmmakers are encouraged to bring a short three-minute clip of their work on DVD or Vimeo link, which Pierce will discuss with the class.// For more information go to Exit Art website// $12 General Admission. Space is limited. To RSVP, please email Aimee Chan Lindquist, ai...@exitart.org 11/5 New York, New York: Another Experiment by Women Film Festival http://http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com 2 different shows: 4 & 8 PM / panel discussion-5:30PM, MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP 66 East 4th STREET ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL is the only festival of Experimental film to feature work by women only........... HIGHLIGHTS include:.. MY WINDOW by ANABELA COSTA uses CHROMADEPTH glasses to expand its dimensions.... ANGELA FERRAIOLO will present her computer generated interactive video installation, YOU! THE LAST FOUR SECONDS .... ALICE COHEN will perform live with keyboards and voice accompaning her film, TRANCE ACTIONS.... RACHAEL GUMA's live performance of 18FPS, 45RPM, 3SPI using Super 8 film and vinyl phonograph recording.... PANEL DISCUSSION led by KERRIE WELSH, with Festival filmmakers: Alice Cohen, Noe Kidder, Courtney Krantz, Amy Ruhl, & Stephanie Wuertz.... IN ADDITION short works by Lynne Sachs, Lori Felker, Sally Grizzell Larson, Lili White, Mercedes Sader, Kelly Oliver, C & A Projects (Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone), Rebecca Louise Tiernan, Noe Kidder with Tin Tay, Liliana Resnick, Mo Hyun-shin, Cinzia Sarto, Alessandra Cianelli....... BUY DISCOUNTED TICKETS ON-LINE NOW: http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/festival-tickets/....... .... MORE INFO: http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/festival-tickets/millenn ium-schedule/........... TAX-DEDUCTABLE DONATIONS: http://www.indiegogo.com/Another-Experiment-by-Women-Film-Festival 11/5 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street MESO-AMERICAN MEMORY HISTORIES OF YANQUI WALKER + JESSE LERNER'S MAYA + Here's the Cali premiere of Kathryn Ramey's Yanqui Walker and the Optical Revolution, a revelatory experimental doc on the infamous imperialist adventurer who seized Nicaragua. A hand-processed COLOR 16mm work, Ramey's lyrical essay is preceded by (in person) Martha Wallner and Jeff Skoller's updating of their Xchange TV project⎯bi-national Nicaraguan history lessons that also address the Walker episode. An excerpt from Alex Cox' legendary Clash-cast Walker completes the triptych. Opening the show, our globe-trotting compadre Jesse Lerner initiates the Central American theme with the book-launch of his Maya of Modernism, on Mayan indigenous design in 20thCentury art and architecture, with copious cultural-anthropological clips and scenes from Eisenstein's ¡Que Viva México!. ------------------------ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 ------------------------ 11/7 Amherst, MA: Hampshire College 7:30, Leibling Center, 893 West Street WASTELAND UTOPIAS W/ FILMMAKER DAVID SHERMAN IN PERSON Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950sWebb building his colossal, panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage, documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By juxtaposing these two thinkerswho represent ostensibly opposing visions of a still-undefined futureSherman asks viewers to consider a multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social environments. The filmmaker, David Sherman, will be in town for a tasty Q&A session. ------------------------- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2011 ------------------------- 11/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PERFORMA: PIECE TO CAMERA In the 70s, several Golden State artists began making minimalist videos of themselves performing humorous conceptual experiments. Whether through deadpan monologues (William Wegman), comic task-based structures (John Baldessari), absurd comments and confessions (Cynthia Maughan), or psychologically-charged role-playing (Eleanor Antin), all of these artists played in some way with the delivery style of stand-up. William Wegman VARIOUS WORKS (1970-78, ca. 20 minutes, video) Cynthia Maughan VARIOUS WORKS (1973-78, ca. 10 minutes, video) John Baldessari BALDESSARI SINGS LEWITT (1972, 13 minutes, video) Eleanor Antin THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL BALLET (1975, 26 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. 11/8 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://www.berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts ROGER BEEBE (IN PERSON ) In this program, "Films for One to Eight Projectors," Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectorsrunning as many as 8 projectors simultaneouslynot for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema." The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films "The Strip Mall Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, "Money Changes Everything," and on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space "Last Light of a Dying Star." These films are simultaneously performance films (as they can only be screened with Beebe actually running the projectorsand running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation16mm and super 8mm film alongside video and digital formats), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011 --------------------------- 11/9 Boston, Massachusetts: MassArt Film Society http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 8 PM, 621 Huntington Ave DAVID SHERMAN SCREENS WASTELAND UTOPIAS Wasteland Utopias explores the intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/naturalist Wilhelm Reich. Each found his way into southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950sWebb building his colossal, panoptically-planned retirement community Sun City and Reich conducting his weather manipulation experiments using Orgone Energy. This unlikely pairing provokes a hallucinatory, magic-conceptualist examination of the disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature, evoking questions about both ecological and social sustainability. Using found footage, documentary interviews, and narrative tableaux, the film interweaves contradictory narratives and critically poetic observations. By juxtaposing these two thinkerswho represent ostensibly opposing visions of a still-undefined futureSherman asks viewers to consider a multiplicity of perspectives on our endangered natural and social environments. --------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011 --------------------------- 11/10 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street NICOLAS PROVOST: LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH Nicolas Provost in person! With digital prowess and deft editing, Belgian filmmaker Nicolas Provost transforms clichéd Hollywood scenes into something altogether more alluring, mysterious, and occasionally, more grotesque. Long Live the New Flesh (2009) takes this notion to extremes, melting the pixels of canonical horror films (The Shining, The Exorcist, and others) into new forms, effectively creating new kinds of monsters. Gravity (2007) considers the trope of romance fulfilled in a strobe-like succession of seemingly endless Hollywood kissing scenes. Provost based two of his latest works, Stardust and Storyteller (both 2010), in Las Vegas, imbuing banal shots of life on the strip and inside its casinos with a sense of the uncanny. On the whole, Provost's art attests to the malleability of the cinematic images that remain ingrained in our memory, but also just out of reach. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. Nicolas Provost, 2007-2010, Belgium, multiple formats, ca. 75 min + discussion. 11/10 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset Blvd) LUTHER PRICE: FOUR SUPER 8 FILMS Four Super 8 films by Luther Price, screened on their original format. Warm Broth, Sodom, Clown, and Mr. Wonderful. $5. 11/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue IMAGES FESTIVAL The Images Festival is the largest festival in North America for experimental and independent moving image culture, showcasing the innovative edge of international contemporary media art both on and off the screen through film, video, installation art, music, and performance. From Super-8 and hand-tinted celluloid to the latest video art, Images has presented thousands of films and media-based projects since 1988. Images is committed to an expanded concept of film and video practice: alongside theatrical screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking live performances, media art installations in galleries across Toronto, and new media projects. The festival goes out of its way and over the edge to provide Toronto with an annual extravaganza of vanguard image making. For more information and our full archive, please visit www.imagesfestival.com. SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT Copies. Interpretations. Copies of copies. Interpretations of interpretations. Alterations, appropriations, and repeating patterns. From structural and formal mechanisms that trigger a persistence of vision, to performances that critique through mimesis, these works examine the production and consumption of images, and the ways in which authorship and originality contextualize and define them. Duane Linklater IT'S HARD TO GET IN MY SYSTEM (Canada, 2010, 6 minutes, video) Sitting side-by-side, a cellist plays back a version of a traditional Cree song to Linklater, and though we see the artist vocalize the song, only the sound of the cello is audible. Oliver Laric VERSIONS (Germany, 2010, 9 minutes, video) A dense visual essay on the manufacturing of images and authorship. Simon Payne POINT LINE PLANE (UK, 2010, 8 minutes, video) A continually moving grid of black, white, and grey lines produces an illusion of depth and perspective as the lines shift from negative to positive. Gloria Nava BLACK SWAN MAKEUP TUTORIAL (USA, 2011, 4 minutes, video) Takes on the problematic and stereotypical character played by Natalie Portman in the recent film BLACK SWAN. Lewis Klahr WEDNESDAY MORNING TWO A.M. (USA, 2010, 7 minutes, video) The first in a series of new works by L.A. animator Klahr, this film is set to the sparse and atmospheric soundtrack of "I'll Never Leave" by The Shangri-Las. Jesse McLean MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS (USA, 2010, 20 minutes, video) "Out of the blue, I bought my first television. I kept the TV on all the time." Andy Warhol Jodie Mack RAD PLAID (USA, 2010, 6 minutes, 16mm, silent) Meticulously photographed swatches of fabrics are rapidly intercut, their orientations shifting to create a rhythmic, pulsing grid of pattern where the rigidity of its form is countered by the DIY aesthetic of the textiles. Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 11/10 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA (151 Third Street) CRANEWAY EVENT BY TACITA DEAN Tacita Dean's Craneway Event Phyllis Wattis Theater 7:00 p.m. Tacita Dean, 2009, 108 min., 16mm Artist Dean offers a film portrait of late choreographer Merce Cunningham as he leads his dancers in three days of rehearsal for one of his dance "events" in the former Ford Assembly Plant in Richmond, California. The plant's expansive windows allow shifting light and views of the San Francisco Bay to play a role alongside the dancers, complementing their movements. Completed just months after Cunningham's passing, Craneway Event is a poetic homage to the avant-garde master. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. For tickets please visit www.sfmoma.org ------------------------- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2011 ------------------------- 11/11 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 7:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue THE OBSERVERS The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Jacqueline Goss IN PERSON to present her new film THE OBSERVERS. High above the world on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the wind is a constant companion. It whips violently around the mountaintop, craggy in winter from hardened snowfall and in summer from the brown rocks beneath. The sun rarely makes an appearance, bursting occasionally through the thin crack between thick cloud cover and the distant horizon. At the last human-operated weather observatory in North America, the shifts in wind speed, visibility, barometric pressure, and temperature have been measured hourly since 1932. By reenacting this solitary work, filmmaker Jacqueline Goss draws our attention to its repetitive and anachronistic nature and to the subtle forces acting on this dramatic landscape. Q and A with Goss following the screening. 11/11 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 8:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue CONVENTO The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Jarred Alterman IN PERSON to present his breathtaking film CONVENTO. Prima ballerina Geraldine, photographer Kees, and their two boys, Christiaan and Louis, left Holland in 1980 to take up residence at the Convento São Francisco de Mértola. Strategically situated at the convergence of two rivers in southeastern Portugal, this vacant monastery was left decaying for centuries until the Zwanikken family arrived and transformed it with their eccentric and earthy endeavors. In the airy studio converted from the estate's chapel, son Christiaan builds kinetic sculptures from discarded electronics and the skulls and bones of deceased wildlife. Combining the family's home movies with his own observant photography, filmmaker Jarred Alterman casts these fantastical creatures as supporting characters in the film, as they literally move across the landscape, animating the ancient grounds. A discussion with Alterman and artist and film subject Christiaan Zwanikken will follow the screening. Also join us to view Zwanikken's stunning sculptures at the Museum throughout the Mead Festival. --------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011 --------------------------- 11/12 Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave SHARP EDGE BLUNT Staring with two of his earlier 16mm film works, and continuing through his current video works in progress, Leighton Pierce will take us through a series of works that progressively crack his sense of normal time and space. Program length is 62 minutes. Leighton Pierce in attendance for discussion along with artists/writers Jim Supanick and Rebekah Rutkoff. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 4:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue JAGUAR The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents JAGUAR by seminal filmmaker Jean Rouch. Three Nigerien men leave home to seek wealth and adventures on the Gold Coast of Ghana in 1953. A chronicle of their travels, JAGUAR was shot before the availability of portable synchronized-sound equipment. More than a decade later, Rouch assembled the silent footage into a feature in collaboration with Damouré Zika, one of the travelers in the film. He then asked Damouré and the other two main characters, Illo and Lam, to improvise their own narration while watching the edited footage. The resulting soundtrack is a lively combination of invented dialogue, jokes, and observations that bring the viewer closer to an understanding of these men than any traditional narration could ever do. A watershed figure in cinema who helped define documentary's cinema verité movement, Rouch was revered by ethnographers and embraced by the French New Wave. His loose shooting style and close relationship with his subjects make JAGUAR a classic across genres, as engaging today as when it first screened. See the Mead Retrospective for more rare and exciting titles at http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/2011/highlights/retrospective. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 6:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue DEUS EX BOLTANSKI BY ROBERT GARDNER The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Robert Gardner in person with the New York Premiere of his new film Deus Ex Boltanski Robert Gardner's précis of the manpower and machinery used to mount French artist Christian Boltanski's Personne exhibit at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2010. This film precedes THE CREATORS by Laura Gamse (Filmmaker in Person.) Mthetho taught himself to sing in Italian by playing the music a phrase at a time and sounding out the lyrics until he had learned the whole song. Now, in his untrained, heartfelt tenor, he can belt out tear-inducing renditions of "Santa Lucia" and "O Solo Mio." This young man is just one of the many dedicated Cape Town artists and musicians profiled in Laura Gamse's pastiche documentary about art in hard times. Rappers, b-boys, graffiti artists, jazz and blues musicians share their work and describe how post-Apartheid South Africa has served as both agent and obstacle to the act of creation. Shot with the intensity of breaking news footage, THE CREATORS reminds us how urgently the world needs its artists. Q and A with the filmmakers following the screening. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 6:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue MEAD SHORTS PROGRAM Guañape Sur by János Richter Hundreds of workers descend on Guañape Sur off the coast of Peru to harvest the excrement of the island birds, hardened over the course of 11 many years by the locale's unique weather patterns. Voice Unknown by Jinhee Park (South Korea, Filmmaker in Person, New York Premiere) An elderly woman shuffles around the neighborhood grocery store where she works, attending to the mundane tasks of shopkeeping. Her face is obscured to protect the family she left behind as she describes her harrowing escape from North Korea. Through her disembodied voice, a universal story unfolds, one of loss, exile, and cultivating roots in a new land. White Elephant by Kristof Bilsen (Democratic Republic of Congo, United Kingdom, U.S. Premiere, Filmmaker in Person) At Kinshasa's central post office, an ossified remnant of the Congo's colonial past, employees sit idle in vast rooms built for more bustling times. Sixty years since achieving independence from Belgium, and the country's hopes for a prosperous and just future are unrealized but not abandoned. Filmmakers in person. Q and A to follow. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 6:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue ALL FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD AND NOOVICE Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Czech provocateur Vit Klusák who co-directed the 2004 doc-comedy Czech Dream about the opening of a fake hypermarket, he has turned his sardonic attentions to another micro-front in the globalization skirmishes. In September 2009, Hyundai inaugurated its latest factory at the foot of the Beskid mountains in a Czech village of cabbage fields and pasturelands with less than one thousand inhabitants. Noovice's bucolic heart was carved out when the Korean automobile manufacturer pit neighbor against neighbor and forced the principle landowners to sell and make way for the mechanized behemoth. Motivated as much by activism as by a sense of the absurd, Klusák gains unprecedented access to the shiny new plant and to the now altered lives of the Noovice villagers. Combining cinematic flourishes normally reserved for feature films, Brechtian techniques of participatory drama, and old-fashioned journalistic muckraking, Klusák shows how Hyundai broke its corporate promise to contribute "all the best for the world." Stick around through the end credits for the director's hilarious sauerkraut commercial. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 7:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue RADIOLAB LISTENING PARTY: SPACE Margaret Mead Film Festival invites audiences into the Hayden Planetarium for a special RADIOLAB LISTENING PARTY. Join hosts Jad Abumrad (recently named a MacArthur Fellow) and Robert Krulwich for an immersive Radiolab "listening party" charting humanity's paradoxical relationship with space exploration, from wide-eyed romanticism to cynical fear. While Radiolab conjures expert aural wonders, the Zeiss Mark IX projector conjures brilliant starscapes in the Hayden Dome. The show includes interviews with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, Brian Greene, host of NOVA's The Elegant Universe, and Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson. Abumrad and Krulwich will be on-hand to share behind-the-scenes anecdotes about their program and field questions from the audience. Since 2005, WNYC's RADIOLAB has been piquing the childlike wonder in adults with its radio show that explores the esoteric and essential of our universe. With its unique reporting style and inventive sound designs, Radiolab epitomizes the new kinds of documentary storytelling the Mead Festival is dedicated to showcasing. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 8:00 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue EMPTY QUARTER The Margaret Mead Film Festival presents Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty's new film EMPTY QUARTER. A series of tableaux in black and white, Empty Quarter is a 16mm portrait of Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties in southeast Oregon, a region that represents one-third of the state's landmass yet holds less than two percent of its population. Portland filmmakers LeTourneau and Minty alternate extended takes of the economy in motioncows crowded in a stockyard, cowboys preparing for a rodeo, workers packing onions for transportwith local voices describing their histories, struggles, and pleasures. As the images and stories accumulate, the quiet beauty of the landscape and rich diversity of the communities belie the monotonous mechanisms that have come to dominate their daily lives. Followed by a Q and A with the filmmakers. 11/12 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 8:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue KINDER The Margaret Mead Film Festival present KINDER (Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award Nominee.) As the Sun's rays stream through the palatial Bavarian woods, four young boys dart among the trees, engrossed in a joyful game of hide-and-seek. These brief moments of innocent abandon provide a stark contrast to the reality of their lives in a German children's home, which is rife with aggressive teasing, loneliness, and unfocused anger. First-time filmmaker Bettina Büttner spent three months observing a selection of interned boys, capturing them in moments of startling candor. Intrigued by the preternaturally thoughtful 10-year-old Marvin, she continues to follow him after he returns home, where he tries to fit in among the family who left him scarred. Shot in crisp black-and-white, Kinder expresses the indelibility of a dysfunctional childhood and the resilience of a young mind. Q and A with Büttner following the screening. 11/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES ernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) Man Ray LE RETOUR À LA RAISON (1923, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EMAK BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray ANEMIC CINEMA (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. 11/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JONAS MEKAS' FLUXUS CABARET 75 minutes, video. As part of Performa 11's Fluxus Weekend, artist, filmmaker, and Anthology Film Archives Founder and Artistic Director Jonas Mekas has selected a dozen Fluxus-related performances, anecdotes, and diaristic notes from the materials in his video archives for this special presentation. Nam June Paik performs in Times Square, Ben Vautier presents a theory of Fluxus and comments on his early performances in Nice, John Lennon and Yoko Ono join George Maciunas on a trip up the Hudson River, Joseph Beuys sings, and more, in an illuminating, entertaining, and highly personal tribute by Mekas to this influential period. Fluxus Weekend, presented by Performa, is an intensive 72-hour program in Lower Manhattan honoring the movement's history and prompting the making of new Fluxus actions, objects, music, film, and ideas for the 21st century, with projects ranging in size from large events to small-scale gestures. 11/12 New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 8pm, 66 East 4th Street FILMS AND VIDEO OF CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN In celebration of the publication of MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL No. 54, this special program will feature films and videos by Carolee Schneemann that are discussed in this issue of the journal, including Kitch's Last Meal. Carolee Schneemann will be in attendance to introduce and discuss her work. 11/12 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street FRANKENSTEIN RECONSTITUTED BILL MORRISON'S SPARK OF BEING + THE MESMERIST + RELEASE We welcome back Morrison, a sublime craftsman of archival compilation, for a one-person showin factthe SF debut of his hr.-plus "reconstruction" of the Frankenstein story. Cinematic detritus is like clay in the hands of this essential cine-poet. With original music by Dave Douglas, this gothic masterwork is of course an allegory on the suturing of Frankenstein's Monster himself. ALSO two of Bill's earlier experimental montage works, The Mesmerist (with Karloff and featuring the music of Bill Frisell), and the recent Release, a formal elaboration of footage from Al Capone's prison exit. $7. ------------------------- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2011 ------------------------- 11/13 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas) DOIN' IT ON TAPE: VIDEO FROM THE WOMAN'S BUILDING Hosted by Jerri Allyn and Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, this screening will include video excerpts that they've selected from the Los Angeles Women's Video Center's archives, highlighting work from 1971-1986. Featured artists include The L.A. Women's Video Center collective, Cheri Gaulke, Starr Goode, Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Susan Mogul, Sheila Ruth, Jane Thurmond, and more. 11/13 New York, New York: Margaret Mead Film Festival http://www.amnh.org/mead 4:30 pm, American Museum of Natural History 77th between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue BLUE MERIDIAN Margaret Mead Film Festival presents the NY Premiere of BLUE MERIDIAN by Sofie Benoot. (Filmmaker in person, NY Premiere)Following the Mighty Mississippi as it flows from Cairo, Illinois, to Venice, Louisiana, where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, Blue Meridian encounters the diverse people and places along America's fabled waterway. A forgotten blues singer performs a soulful song. A couple that runs a soup kitchen discuss the importance of going to church. A prison warden complains about the growing number of prisons. A New Orleans poet recites an angry poem. A nature conservationist explains the power of kudzu. These and many others bear witness to the turbulent history, natural disasters, and economic misfortunes that have affected the communities along the riverbank. Belgian filmmaker Sofie Benoot stays just long enough at each depot to take a brief impression or record a song and then, like the river she traces, meanders on her way. Co-presenter: Flanders House 11/13 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE PROGRAM "The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period." J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957, 14 minutes, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 minutes, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5 minutes, 16mm) THE END (1953, 35 minutes, 16mm) "Six stories of people on the last day of their lives. Most are about to commit suicide, or some metaphorical equivalent, but the mushroom cloud with which the film begins and ends reminds us that, as Maclaine's voice intones on the sound track, we await 'the grand suicide of the human race' his conceit is that his characters have reached the end of their personal ropes the day before a nuclear holocaust. Throughout the film he compares the dehumanizing effects of mass culture to the dehumanizing effects of personal despair, weaving these two threads together until the mannequins he films in store windows, the anonymous people he films on the street, and his characters all seem variations on the same half-living, half-dead persona." Fred Camper Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 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