This week [December 17 - 25, 2011] in avant garde cinema To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go to http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribe or send an email to weeklylist...@hi-beam.net.
Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl New Film/Video: non-feature: "My First Horror Movie" by Neil Ira Needleman http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=485.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 20, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1382.ann Urban Research 2012 at Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 20, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1383.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Faux Film Festival (Portland, Oregon; Deadline: December 31, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1348.ann Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium; Deadline: December 31, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1373.ann Studio 27 at Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: January 16, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1379.ann 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Berlin (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 20, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1382.ann Urban Research 2012 at Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 20, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1383.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): ============================== * Animals of Art A Film By Peter Sempel, Special Artist Preview [December 17, Brooklyn, New York] * Walden [December 17, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 17, New York, New York] * Avant To Live [December 17, San Francisco, California] * Strange Sinema #47 [December 17, San Francisco, California] * Other Cinema Benefit [December 17, San Francisco, California] * Reminisces of A Journey To Lithuania [December 18, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 18, New York, New York] * Journeys From Berlin/1971 [December 18, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 19, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 20, New York, New York] * Journeys From Berlin/1971 [December 20, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 21, New York, New York] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 22, New York, New York] * Film Screening: Objectified, Gary Hustwit, 2009, 75 Min., video [December 22, San Francisco, California] * Sleepless Night Stories [December 23, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------------- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2011 --------------------------- 12/17 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 6PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle Ave btwn Bushwick and Evergreen Aves) ANIMALS OF ART A FILM BY PETER SEMPEL, SPECIAL ARTIST PREVIEW PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY SCREENING TIME OF 6PM. Admission $6 - Artist in person! We warmly welcome from Hamburg film-maker and photographer Peter Sempel, for a special preview of his newest work "Animals of Art", which recently screened at the Kunstverein (Hamburg), Volksbuhne (Berlin), and Kunsthalle Emdem. This feature is a visionary collage of sound and images featuring among others Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Jonas Mekas, Georg Baselitz, Yoshito Ohno, Peter Broetzmann, Antony & the Johnsons, Shumann, Razorheads. ""Over 2 years I followed and explored different worlds of art, starting and focusing more or less on German artists, from old masters, moderns to young generation, f.e. Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Neo Rauch, Georg Baselitz, Volkmann, Bazon Brock, Jonas Burgert, Kirchner, Runge, Degas, Goya. It also features a little sequence with Raha Raissnia, painting in black, and Jonas Mekas telling us about 1.000m-runnings And, many animals, alligators, giraffes, horses, donkeys, snakes, cats+dogs, andante .It's a big collage, like a painting." - - P S. "Peter Sempel is my good film friend. We did two movies together, JONAS IN THE DESERT and JONAS BY THE OCEAN. He has also done movies on Kazuo Ohno, Nina Hagen, Lemme, and Flamenco. He has developed a very unique, his own Sempelian form of a real life movie musical and he is continuing filming non-stop." -- Jonas Mekas Brief Bio: Peter Semple has been making films since 1981. He was born in Hamburg and grew up in the Australian outback. He started making films because of the music, especially Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and classical music (favourite record "Berlin" by Lou Reed). He carries his films around the world and presents at festivals, special events, in off-cinemas, discos and all kinds of places. In Germany his films are distributed by Silver Cine, a small company in Hamburg. More info: www.microscopegallery.com. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. L Morgan Ave/Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433. 12/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 12:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WALDEN by Jonas Mekas 1969, 180 minutes, 16mm New print by Cinema Arts Inc. Special thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran Bowen (Trackwise) and Pip Laurenson (Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don't get it at all." J.M. "I make home movies therefore I live. I live therefore I make home movies." from the soundtrack. 12/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. 12/17 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 7, ATA, 992 Valencia Street AVANT TO LIVE NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Here's an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most exploratory programming initiativeand with many of the makers in personare Kelly Sears' Once It Started , Salise Hughes' Erasable Cities, Carl Diehl's Future Affluence, Sylvia Schedelbauer's Sounding Glass, Roger Deutsch's Round Trip, Zach Iannazzi's Tarp, Patrick Wilkinson's FIFA 666, Doug Katelus' Casino, Christopher Harris' 28.IV.81 Descending Figures, and Linda Scobie's Craig's Cutting-Room Floor. PLUS recent pieces by Tommy Becker, Bryan Boyce, Karl Lind, Thad Povey, Gibbs Chapman, et alia. Come early for artists' reception, toast 'n' jam, and free pencils! 12/17 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8pm, 275 Capp Street STRANGE SINEMA #47 Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 47, a monthly screening of offbeat films, old gems and newly discovered oddities both entertaining, experimental and eye-opening, all culled from Oddball Films 50,000 film archive. This 47th installment features Red Hot Heat (Sizzling Rhythm with a Beat) from 1937 featuring boogie woogie wildman Maurice Rocco and the Cotton Club Dancers in tinted sepiatone!, It's Not a Commercial (1950s), WEIRD and way-out creepy commercial parody is equal parts muscleman Joe Weider and David Lynch, Death Valley Thrills (1944) an over-the-top hell ride through Death Valley in a rigged up truck, sand skis and more, California Bound (1939) an extract from the hilarious WC Fields feature, and Library of Congress preserved film It's a Gift. Two tv talking horse episodes of Mr. Ed, featuring sorority girls and bombshell Mae West, Art of the Persian Carpet (1973) showcasing the fine art and mythology of Iranian carpet weavers, and abstract computer artist John Whitney's Arabesque (1975) with its mesmerizing Persian inspired patterns and sounds. Don't Miss Daffy Duck Goes to Hollywood (1938) create a spliced up avant garde masterpiece, watch dim-witted dummies in Fraud by Mail (1944) and witness the kooky beatnik inspired animated short Breaking the Habit (1964) by Oscar nominated director Jon Korty! 12/17 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 9pm, 992 Valencia OTHER CINEMA BENEFIT Other Cinema is in need of assistance from its friends, all-around admirers, and worldwide community. Help us keep this rich tradition alive for the exact reasons that it was first conceivedto celebrate and champion the works of underground media makers. Here's just a very short list of filmmakers and artists who have premiered their work at Other Cinema: Barbie Liberation Organization, Roger Beebe, Yin-Ju Chen, Jem Cohen, David Cox, Martha Colburn, Bill Daniel, Carl Diehl, Gerry Fialka, Goldwave, Sam Green, Todd Haynes, James T. Hong, Salise Hughes, Matt McCormick, Anne McGuire, Katherin McInnis, Bill Morrison, Negativland, Kerry Laitala, Jesse Lerner, Shalo P., Damon Packard, People Like Us, Potter-Belmar Labs, Vanessa Renwick, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Lynne Sachs, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Kelly Sears, Semiconductor, Greta Snider, Melinda Stone, Deborah Stratman, Cyrus Tabar, and Ben Wood. See the kickstarter campaign to contribute: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othercinema/other-cinema-benefit?ref =live ------------------------- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2011 ------------------------- 12/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue REMINISCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania. The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with home, memory, and culture." J.M. 12/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. 12/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 by Yvonne Rainer 1980, 125 minutes, 16mm Film Notes With Annette Michelson, Amy Taubin, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt, Vernon Gabor, and Yvonne Rainer. To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. "Rainer's film questions duplicitous rehabilitation (psychiatric care/control), the efficacy of radicalism, and conflicted political and personal motivations. The collage essay technique of JOURNEYS parallels the investigation of these conflicts on a formal level. She weaves the stories of 19th-century Russian anarchists; the staging of identity as it occurs in therapeutic analysis, writing a diary, or preparing a meal; and the fate of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof gang), which exposed the precarious and enforced nature of West German democratic freedoms in the 1970s." Konrad Steiner, kino21 ------------------------- MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 ------------------------- 12/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. -------------------------- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2011 -------------------------- 12/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. 12/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 by Yvonne Rainer 1980, 125 minutes, 16mm Share + This screening is part of: ANARCHISM ON FILM Film Notes With Annette Michelson, Amy Taubin, Vito Acconci, Cynthia Beatt, Ilona Halberstadt, Vernon Gabor, and Yvonne Rainer. To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. "Rainer's film questions duplicitous rehabilitation (psychiatric care/control), the efficacy of radicalism, and conflicted political and personal motivations. The collage essay technique of JOURNEYS parallels the investigation of these conflicts on a formal level. She weaves the stories of 19th-century Russian anarchists; the staging of identity as it occurs in therapeutic analysis, writing a diary, or preparing a meal; and the fate of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof gang), which exposed the precarious and enforced nature of West German democratic freedoms in the 1970s." Konrad Steiner, kino21 ---------------------------- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011 ---------------------------- 12/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. --------------------------- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011 --------------------------- 12/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. 12/22 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7:00pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater, 151 3rd St. FILM SCREENING: OBJECTIFIED, GARY HUSTWIT, 2009, 75 MIN., VIDEO This feature-length documentary from the filmmaker of Helvetica looks at the objects that fill our lives. Toothbrushes and computers alike get their moments in the sun as designers tell the stories behind the objects we use every day and initiate a conversation about what our things say about who we are and what we value. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). ------------------------- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2011 ------------------------- 12/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SLEEPLESS NIGHT STORIES See notes for Dec. 15, 6:45 pm. Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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