This week [January 14 - 22, 2012] 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 [email protected].
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: ===================== London End of The World Documentary Film Festival (London United Kingdom.; Deadline: January 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1385.ann Manipulated Image (Los Angeles; Deadline: January 14, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1386.ann Wimbledon SHORTS (Wimbledon; Deadline: March 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1387.ann ASsociety New Media Residency (Roxbury, NY, USA; Deadline: March 06, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1388.ann SFC - Shoah Film Collection (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1389.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 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 Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Quebec; Deadline: January 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1384.ann Manipulated Image (Los Angeles; Deadline: January 14, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1386.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): ============================== * Early Monthly Segments #35 + Public Journal Launch Experimental Media Congress Issue [January 16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Psychedelic visions & Expanded Consciousness [January 18, Los Angeles, California] * Festival Play: Greg Pope & Roc Jimenez De Cisneros [January 19, Barcelona] * The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty [January 19, New York, New York] * I'm Me, and You?: Exploring Identities of Self and Other [January 19, San Francisco, California] * Luminaries: Seca Film Awards [January 19, San Francisco, California] * Festival Play: Martha Colburn & Hayden Chisholm & Juan Felipe Waller [January 20, Barcelona] * Stranded In Canton [January 21, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Los Angeles Observed [January 21, Los Angeles, California] * Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr [January 21, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Kino Eye [January 21, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Forward, Soviet! [January 21, New York, New York] * A Grin Without A Cat [January 21, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: A Sixth of the World [January 21, New York, New York] * The Compilation Film: Shorts Program [January 22, New York, New York] * A Grin Without A Cat [January 22, New York, New York] * Tentatively A Convenience Program 1 [January 22, New York, New York] * Tentatively A Convenience Program 2 [January 22, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 ------------------------ 1/16 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 6:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #35 + PUBLIC JOURNAL LAUNCH EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA CONGRESS ISSUE Print Generation by J.J. Murphy is a rarely screened structural gem that harnesses image and sound deterioration to its fullest. Murphy started with sixty one second shots, a one minute film. He then made fifty contact printed copies from each successive version, consciously degrading the film one "generation" at a time. Print Generation is structured so we begin watching obscured images and work toward the original and back again....while the soundtrack of lapping ocean waves does the opposite. The film elegantly addresses the intricacies of memory and time: how we remember, what we remember and how a fleeting 'home movie' reveals and recedes. Spoiler alert? Well, not exactly, as with all films, structural and otherwise, the magic of the experience is also in the sharing...so we hope you will join us for this special screening alongside the launch of PUBLIC issue #44 on the 2010 Experimental Media Congress. PUBLIC #44 Experimental Media launch, edited by Peggy Gale Monday 16 January 2012, 6-9 PM Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto) @ Early Monthly Segments #35 Print Generation by J.J. Murphy (1974, 16mm, 50 minutes) *NOTE: SCREENING at 6:30 SHARP* Archival print courtesy the Academy Film Archive. Special thanks to Mark Toscano, May Haduong and Canyon Cinema. -- Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde 16mm films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar in Toronto. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. We do not receive public funding for our programs and pay artists from admissions. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012 --------------------------- 1/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 8:00pm, Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue PSYCHEDELIC VISIONS & EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS In person: Beth Block, Peter Mays, Pat O'Neill Hyperkinetic experimental film and animation in the late '60s and early '70s both echoed and informed the volcanic psychedelia that defined those years � and the filmmakers featured in tonight's show created challenging, gorgeous work during that era through obsessive mastery of groundbreaking techniques. Chick Strand's solarized synchronicities, Pat O'Neill's optically-printed densely haptic experiments and Adam Beckett's infinite ecstatic morphs all manage to alter minds, both addled and unaided. The care that went into the films of tonight's sizeable collection of visionaries cannot be overstated, and their influence is a testament to the potent revolutions that originated in obscurity, but still resound in our collective consciousness. -------------------------- THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012 -------------------------- 1/19 Barcelona: Festival Play https://www.obrasocialcajamadrid.es/Ficheros/CMA/ficheros/OBSCultura_EspaiBarnaPlayEnero2012.PDF 8pm, Espai Cultural Plaza de Catalunya, 9 08002 Barcelona, Spain FESTIVAL PLAY: GREG POPE & ROC JIMENEZ DE CISNEROS A multi-16mm projector screening in which disappearing film emulsion creates a performance of sound and image. 1/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY by Esfir Shub 1927, 101 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent This screening is part of: THE COMPILATION FILM (PADENIYE DINASTI ROMANOVIKH) A devastating chronicle of Tsarist Russia from the eve of WWI until its brutal demise in the revolutions of February and October 1917, this work comprises hundreds of films that Shub unearthed and rescued from damp cellars and other neglected corners of the Soviet Union, including newsreels and home movies taken by the Tsar's own cameramen. Using the film splice as a cudgel, Shub contrasts the Imperial Family with the backbreaking toil of the masses, a bitter satire that makes the Revolution seem both historically inevitable and triumphant. 1/19 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8pm, 275 Capp Street I'M ME, AND YOU?: EXPLORING IDENTITIES OF SELF AND OTHER Oddball Films and guest curator Joe Garrity present I'm Me, And You?: Exploring Identities of Self and Other. Get comfortable before the mirror in a program that probes life's greatest mystery: ourselves. From educational films to the avant-garde, animation to documentary, we examine the complexities of identity in the interpersonal world of you and me. This screening includes the groovy after school special Me: A Self Awareness Film (1975), along with a chapter from the feel-good cartoon series The Most Important Person, I'm The Only Me! (1972). Take issue with conformity in Dan Bessie's funky animation Square Pegs and Round Holes (1973), and join children concerned about social roles in the offbeat I'm Me and Want to Be (1975). Witness confidence shaken around the office in the snarky industrial film What Do We Look Like To Others? (1972) and let uneasy teens open up to you in the dubious UC Berkeley sponsored doc, Adolescence: Crisis or Opportunity (1975). Doppelgangers complicate identity in a zany retake of a 1920s drama with Twin Dukes and a Duchess, and animations of primal dimensions dazzle in the Oscar-nominated stop-motion short Clay, or The Origin of the Species (1969) and the startling dream-trip, Ego (1970). Plus! Twin talents and more! Join us as we introspect, "what makes me me?" and ponder the ultimate unknown: your "me" and mine. 1/19 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7pm, 151 Third Street in the Phyllis Wattis Theater LUMINARIES: SECA FILM AWARDS Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA VALSE TRISTE, Bruce Conner, 1978, 6 min., 16mm Testament, James Broughton, 1974, 20 min., 16mm Vital Signs, Barbara Hammer, 1991, 10 min., 16mm Decodings, Michael Wallin, 1988, 15 min., 16mm Frame Line, Gunvor Nelson, 1984, 22 min., 16mm Total running time: 73 min. In tribute to the Bay Area's role as an epicenter of experimental film, this program centers on constructing autobiography. The selection of films is drawn from SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Awards program (1973-98), which recognized innovative and challenging new works by experimental filmmakers in Northern California. Presented in conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). ------------------------ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012 ------------------------ 1/20 Barcelona: Festival Play https://www.obrasocialcajamadrid.es/Ficheros/CMA/ficheros/OBSCultura_EspaiBarnaPlayEnero2012.PDF 8pm, Espai Cultural Pla�a de Catalunya, 9 08002 Barcelona, Spain FESTIVAL PLAY: MARTHA COLBURN & HAYDEN CHISHOLM & JUAN FELIPE WALLER Collage and painting fused with film animations and live musical performance. -------------------------- SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 2012 -------------------------- 1/21 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Studies and Observation Group http://aafilmfest.org 3 pm, 327 Braun Ct STRANDED IN CANTON In 1973, America's greatest living photographer William Eggleston shot 30 hours of video in and around Memphis. Recorded in ghostly black & white video in the city's bars and streets, Stranded in Canton Stranded in Canton (1973-2005, 77 min) is an extraordinary and deeply personal vision of the Memphis demimonde. Preceded by Danish artist Eva Marie R�dbro's video Fuck You Kiss Me (2008, 6 min), a portrait of youth in the isolated towns of Greenland./// Studies and Observation no.5. Organized by The Studies and Observation Group; Co-presented by The Ann Arbor Film Festival 1/21 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 5:00pm, Cinefamily, 611 N Fairfax Avenue LOS ANGELES OBSERVED In person: Thom Andersen, more to be announced! If Thom Anderson's 2003 celluloid essay Los Angeles Plays Itself explored the way Hollywood trained thousands of lenses upon its fragmented topography over the course of a century, tonight's program uncovers how alternate visions of L.A. were executed by several generations of experimental filmmakers. Apt that Anderson's own contribution to the oeuvre, 1966's Olivia's Place, will be screened alongside a saturated roster of unconventional documentaries, avant-garde ethnographies and rare films that capture landscapes turned on their fractured heads. 1/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LITHUANIA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR by Jonas Mekas 2008, 4 hours and 46 minutes, video This screening is part of: THE COMPILATION FILM "This video is made up of footage that I took with my Sony from the television newscasts during the collapse of the USSR, with the home noises in the background. It's a capsule record of what happened and how it happened during that crucial period as recorded by the television newscasters. It can be also viewed as a classic Greek drama in which the destinies of nations are changed drastically by the unbending, bordering-on-irrational will of one small man, one small nation determined to regain its freedom, backed by Olympus in its fight against the Might & Power, against the Impossible." �J.M. 1/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: KINO EYE by Dziga Vertov 1925, 70 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. 1/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FORWARD, SOVIET! by Dziga Vertov With Russian intertitles, English synopsis available;, 1925-26, 73 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent 1/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT by Chris Marker 1978/93, 180 minutes, video This screening is part of: THE COMPILATION FILM (LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE) Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 1960s and 70s: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left. Released in France in 1978, and restored and 're-actualized' by Marker fifteen years later (after the fall of the Soviet Union), it is a sweeping, global contemplation of a critical era in political history. 1/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: A SIXTH OF THE WORLD by Dziga Vertov With Russian intertitles, English synopsis available, 1926, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent ------------------------ SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012 ------------------------ 1/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE COMPILATION FILM: SHORTS PROGRAM Henri Storck L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT INCONNU (1930, 17 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) A montage of newsreel clips satirizing ceremonies commemorating the war dead and indicting world rearmament. It is an ancestor of many subsequent compilation films. Alberto Cavalcanti YELLOW CAESAR (1941, 24 minutes, video, b&w) Cavalcanti ingeniously edits newsreel and propaganda footage of Mussolini to portray the despot in the most absurd and unflattering light. Ken Jacobs PERFECT FILM (1986, 22 minutes, 16mm, b&w) "TV newscast discards from 1965 relating to the assassination of Malcolm X, out-takes of history reprinted as found in a Canal St. bin (with the exception of boosting volume second half). A lot of film is perfect left alone, perfectly revealing in its unconscious or semi-conscious form." �K.J. Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 1/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT See notes for Jan. 21, 8 pm. 1/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TENTATIVELY A CONVENIENCE PROGRAM 1 This screening is part of: NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Film Notes tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE was born at age 21 in 1975 Era Vulgari in BalTimOre, usa. It was at this time that he decided that he was a Mad Scientist/d-composer/Sound Thinker/Thought Collector. Since then he has been active with the Krononautic Organism (a time travelers' society), Nuclear Brain Physics Surgery School, the Neoast?! 'Patanational Cultural Conspiracy', the Church of the SubGenius (in which he's a saint), etc. Whenever he has the energy he devotes himself to "undermining 'reality' maintenance traps" through attempting to apply the maxim "Anything is Anything." These days this is usually manifested by being a Psychopathfinder & a Jack-Off-Of-All-Trades. We will be presenting two programs of his work, one devoted to a selection of recent short films, and the other featuring his epic documentary on the work of avant-garde composer, musician, and writer Franz Kamin. PROGRAM 1: DEFENDERS OF GOOLENGOOK (2000-04, 17.5 minutes, video) I.A.C. DEER HEAD SCULPTURE @ FORMER RANKIN STEEL MILL (2000-04, 8.5 minutes, video) LEDGER OF ST DERMAIN (2004, 7 minutes, mini-DV/slides/slidestrip/Super8mm-to-video) HAIRCUT PARADOX (2005-06, 14 minutes, video) CAPITALISM IS AN ISM (2006, 6.5 minutes, video) the ballad of CodyodeeodoooO (2006-07, 13 minutes, video) SUBTITLES (CLOSURE VERSION) (2005-08, 12 minutes, 8mm/Super-8mm/16mm/VHS/image data files/mini-dv-to-DVD) TV 'NEWS' COMMITS SUICIDE (2009, 6 minutes, video) ROBOTIC (for YouTube) (2009, 7 minutes, video) COLONY (2010-11, 9 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. 1/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TENTATIVELY A CONVENIENCE PROGRAM 2 This screening is part of: NEW/IMPROVED/INSTITUTIONAL/QUALITY Film Notes PROGRAM 2: DEPOT (wherein resides the UNDEAD of Franz Kamin) 2011, 220 minutes, video. A 3 hour and 40 minute documentary about the life and work of composer, writer, performer, and pianist Franz Kamin, who was born in 1941 and studied piano in Oklahoma and Indiana in the 1960s. His extensive compositions and texts were influenced by topology as well as by alcoholism and other difficult personal battles. Despite a fantastically large and substantial body of work, he remained largely unknown, except to specialists in the esoteric, all the way up to his death in a car crash in 2010. Himself a student of the avant-garde and a composer, writer, performer, musician, and moviemaker, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE is uniquely qualified to pay tribute to Kamin. Familiar with Kamin's work since 1974, he befriended him in 1977, performed in his pieces in 1992 and 1993, and stayed in touch with him until shortly before Kamin's death. 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