Part 2 of 2: This week [February 4 - 12, 2012] in avant garde cinema --------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 ---------------------------
2/11 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 5:00pm, Paramount Theater BEATS BEING DEAD This "cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller," set in Germany's Thuringian Forest (a region alive with legends and myth), plays the police search for an escaped killer against a story of star-crossed lovers. Part one of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. 2/11 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:45pm, Paramount Theater DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND A novelistic criminal investigation which deftly juxtaposes personal drama against the search for a killer, underlining the DREILEBEN trilogy's recurring themes of false appearances and deeply hidden truths. Part two of the celebrated trilogy. 2/11 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 8:45pm, Paramount Theater ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS A dark, memorably strange fairy tale in which a police inspector tries to put himself inside the mind of a criminal while the isolated escapee flees deeper into a possibly enchanted forest. Part three of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. 2/11 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 5 PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) JACK SMITH, RARE SHORT 16MM FILMS. New to distribution at the Film-Makers' Co-op. Admission $10. In connection with the "We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Co-op" exhibit at Microscope Gallery, we are screening new prints of 7 rare short films by legendary Filmmaker/artist Jack Smith. PROGRAM features: "Scotch Tape" (1962) 16mm, color, 3 min.; "Overstimulated" (1960) 16mm, black and white, 3 min; "No President" (1968) 16mm, black and white, 50 min; "Respectable Creatures" (1967) 16mm, color, sound, 25 min; "Hot Air Specialists" (1970's) 16mm, color, 4 min; "Song for Rent" (1970's) 16mm, color, 4 min; and "Yellow Sequence (196365), 16mm, 15 min. The opening for the exhibition immediately follows the screening and runs until 9PM. Artists on exhibit: Katherine Bauer, Bill Brand, Robert Breer, Rudy Burckhardt, Donna Cameron, Abigail Child, Martha Colburn, Peter Cramer, Bradley Eros, Su Friedrich, Ken Jacobs, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Anne Hanavan, Takahiko Iimura, Jeanne Liotta, Jonas Mekas, Julie Murray, Jennifer Reeves, Barbara Rubin, Lynne Sachs, Carolee Schneemann, Joel Schlemowitz, MM Serra, Jack Smith, Smith and Lowles, Mark Street, Jack Waters, and others. Please rsvp for screening at r...@microscopegallery.com. More info at www.microscopegallery.com. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway; L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433. 2/11 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street FOUR FILMS TOWARD PART V OF SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE, A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS Filmmaker David Gatten in conversation with film curator Mark McElhatten Special Event Tickets $12 The Matter Propounded, Of Its Possibility or Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts 2011, 16mm, b/w, 13 min How to Conduct a Love Affair 2007, 16mm, color, 8 min So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come 2010, 16mm, color, 9 min Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 323: Once Upon a Time in the West 2010, 16mm, b/w, 20 min 2/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM THE GREAT BLONDINO 1967, 42 minutes, 16mm. Newly preserved print! "The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is the end." Museum of Modern Art "It is difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film's most striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino's visions, dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive." J. Hoberman, "A Filmmakers Filming Monograph" BLEU SHUT 1970, 33 minutes, 16mm. Newly preserved print! "Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." Leo Regan Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. 2/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 3 PROGRAM 3: FROM THE SHELVES OF EAI "In the mid-1980s, George Kuchar acquired an 8mm camcorder and began producing an extraordinary series of video diaries, chronicling a singular, ongoing personal history. Exhibiting the rawness of video vérité and the theatricality of fiction, his self-narrated tapes record close-up observations of the personal routines and social interactions of Kuchar's daily life. These remarkable video journals often resonate with an unexpected poetry. "During this time, George would often come to EAI to personally deliver the masters of his video works. He would then sit down and, on the spot, hand-write on note-paper wonderful descriptions of his pieces, three of which are reprinted here." Lori Zippay, Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) CULT OF THE CUBICLES 1987, 46 minutes, video. It's New York in the summer and I set out to track down some high school friends who have burrowed deep into the 'big apple.' The viewer gets to see how far they've eaten their way to the core in this 45-minute study of urban denizens in the grip of Newtonian damnation. RAINY SEASON (1987, 28.5 minutes, video) The rains come and a chill sets in as I explore the dark and dank pockets of things best left in the closet. A parade of faces pass or drop by to bring sunshine, but the glow only makes the shadows appear darker in this study of things that hump and bump in the night. THE CREEPING CRIMSON (1987, 13 minutes, video) It is fall and Halloween and mom is in the hospital. The leaves are red and the mood is blue but life drips on, pizza is devoured and the mall must be frequented. A stroll among the foliage reveals bitter fruit yet sweetness lies just around the corner where the Bronx meets Westchester and whiteness constipates. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. ------------------------- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 ------------------------- 2/12 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 4:30pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street SILENT MOUNTAINS, SINGING OCEANS, AND SLIVERS OF TIME Filmmaker David Gatten in Person - Special Event Tickets $12 Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 71: Base-Plus-Fog 2006, 16mm, b/w, 10 min What the Water Said, Nos. 1-3 1998, 16mm, color, 16 min Journal and Remarks 2009, 16mm, color, 15 min Shrimp Boat Log 2006/2010, 16mm, color, 6 min What the Water Said, Nos. 4-6 2007, 16mm, color, 17 min Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794] 2008, 16mm, b/w, 13 min 2/12 Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema http://www.whitelightcinema.com 7pm, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N. MilwaukeeAve., 4th Floor, Chicago, Illinois OLIVER LAXE'S YOU ARE ALL CAPTAINS White Light Cinema Presents: Oliver Laxe's YOU ARE ALL CAPTAINS, Sunday, February 12 7:00pm, At Cinema Borealis (1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 4th Floor) - - Only Chicago Screening on a National Tour! - Cannes prize winner! - You Are All Captains (Todos vós sodes capitáns) (2010, 35mm, 79 mins., Spain/Morocco) - Directed by Oliver Laxe - Compared with the films of Abbas Kiarostami and Francois Truffaut, Spanish-French director Oliver Laxe's YOU ARE ALL CAPTAINS follows a self-described "neo-colonialist" filmmaker, playfully portrayed by Laxe, who goes to Tangier ostensibly to hold a series of workshops for disadvantaged street children. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Laxe's intentions are far to turn these children into pawns in his own feature. The film asks direct questions about cinema's role in cultural exchange by deftly blurring the line between fiction and documentary, You Are All Captains unveils though its magnificent black-and-white images full of daily life, the problems of filmmaking in a global economic reality. A mysterious, whimsical and unique creation that won the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes. - "Remarkable...one of the rare movies in which action is imbued with thought, and in which the very process of thought seems to come to life. The movie's scale is small, its subjects are intimate, its artistic reach is immense." (Richard Brody, New Yorker) - "[A] brilliantly constructed deconstruction of "truth" versus "fiction." (Village Voice) - "Poignant and dryly, philosophically ironic." (New Yorker) - - Admission: $8-10 sliding scale 2/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 5 PROGRAM 5: OUT OF THE ARCHIVES: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES AND HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE Programs 5 and 6 of our tribute series bring together works from the Kuchar collections of Anthology, Harvard Film Archive, and Pacific Film Archive. We all possess substantial holdings of George's many films and videos, and tonight screen some personal favorites, as well as brand-new preservations. From Anthology Film Archives: THE ONEERS (1982, 17 minutes, 16mm) LEISURE (1966, 9.5 minutes, 16mm) ANITA NEEDS ME (1963, 16 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Avant-Garde Masters Program of The Film Foundation, administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. From Harvard Film Archive: CLUB VATICAN (1984, 13.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CARNAL BIPEDS (1973, 22 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. 2/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CARRIAGE TRADE by Warren Sonbert 1973 version, 61 minutes, 16mm "My magnum opus. Travels over four continents in six years." W.S. "With CARRIAGE TRADE, Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the 'knee-jerk' reaction produced by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as 'a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.' This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the spectator's assimilation of 'the changing relations of the movement of objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions, rhythm, spacing, and density of images." Jon Gartenberg 2/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MY HUSTLER by Andy Warhol 1965, 67 minutes, 16mm, b&w MY HUSTLER is one of the classics of gay cinema. It is the story of a sexual triangle in which Ed Hood competes with his Fire Island neighbors, Joe Campbell and Genevieve Charbin, for the attentions of Paul America, whom he has rented for the weekend from "Dial-a-Hustler". The realism of the scenario is due largely to the absence of a script and performances by actors essentially playing themselves. 2/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WARHOL/WHITNEY PROGRAM Andy Warhol EAT (1963, 35 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) John and James Whitney FILM EXERCISES 1-5 (1943-45, 18 minutes, 16mm) James Whitney LAPIS (1963-66, 10 minutes, 16mm, silent) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 2/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 6 THE DEVIL'S CLEAVAGE 1973, 108 minutes, 16mm. Preserved by Pacific Film Archive with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "Toward the end of this paralytically funny film, a Kucharian buck blurts out, 'If there's no food for the peasants, give them cheesecake, give them beefcake.' Fortunately, there's plenty of both: cheesecake in the form of luscious, high-cholesterol drama, and beefcake in the form of firmly faceted physiques swathed in the attire of shame. Kuchar's heady brew froths around a pent-up nurse named Ginger whose marriage is on the rocks when she would prefer it to be straight up. Leaving behind the heaving hills of San Francisco, she heads for new misadventures in the rollicking town of Blessed Prairie, Oklahoma. Kuchar's rousing cast, including the ever-pouty Ainslie Pryor and the provocatively prim Curt McDowell, pass through a jungle of moodily-lit interiors whose effect is dime-store von Sternberg, a creeping claustrophobia of dark shadows and cheap trinkets. Lifting lavishly from Sirk and the circus, Kuchar, that great impresario of the inappropriate, has immortalized 'a biped in heat.'" Steve Seid, PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE 2/12 San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts http://www.ybca.org/bros-hos 2PM, 701 Mission St DIRTY LOOKS: FEMALE TROUBLE Part of the series Bros Before Hos. Presented by Bradford Nordeen. This afternoon, we investigate the flipside of masculinity, with a program of short experimental film and video that explores and explodes normative roles of femininity and gender. With work that spans five decades, these artists queer female subject space via drag tactics, narrative juxtaposition and overt performativity, with styles ranging from masquerade to mythic, performance document to exposé video zine. Based in Brooklyn, Bradford Nordeen is a writer and curator who presents "Dirty Looks," a roaming monthly platform for queer experimental film and video. Program includes: Mario Montez Screen Test by Conrad Ventur (2010)
 Stepping by Patti Podesta (1980)
 Messages, Messages by Steven Arnold (1968) Every Woman by Narcissister (2010)
 Home Stories by Matthias Müller (1991) Fish by Zackary Drucker (2008) 
 Barbi Twins (excerpt) by Vaginal Davis (1993) Plus a surprise premiere
 2/12 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome http://www.pdome.org/ 4pm, PWYC, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. STEPPING BETWEEN PROJECTIONS; JAMES DIAMOND IN PERSON! Pleasure Dome and the Rhubarb Festival, Canada's premiere experimental performance festival, are pleased to co-present the video works of award-winning director, producer and writer James Diamond. Diamond will speak with artist, activist and curator Ananya Ohri following the screening. The concrete, material object of the body, his own body, plays a central role in Diamond's work. Since 1999 Diamond has been producing work motivated by the corporeal experiences of pregnancy,post-partum depression, sexual disorientation, as well as moments of rage and reflection, colonization and patriarchy. Self-described as being of Indigenous (Cree/Métis) and Jewish descent, a trans person and a self-expressionist, Diamond does not single out any one way to be identified. He offers himself as a whole: "mixed blood, mixed gender...mixed sex." Letting us in at moments of personal reflection, Diamond's work provides a glimpse into the changes he experiences as the triumvirate of a person, an artist and a political being. James Diamond is a director, producer, writer and mentor in the fields of communications and multimedia. He has directed numerous award-winning films, including Mars Womb-Man which won the Best Experimental Work at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in 2006. James is currently working as an editor, counting among his clients renowned institutes such as the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. The programme will include his body of work produced over the past decade including: The Man From Venus (1999), First Things First(2001), Brain Plus World (2002), X (2004), Mars Womb-Man (2006), Private Property (2007) and I am the art scene starring Woman Polanski (2010). Ananya Ohri is an artist, curator and activist who recently graduated with a Master of Arts from the Cinema and Media Studies program at York University. Her work explores the relationship between media and community. She currently works for the Regent Park Film Festival in Toronto. Ohri's essay on the work of James Diamond, Stepping Between Projections, was produced during her Vtape Fellowship in 2010¬11, a program that ran concurrently with the Curatorial Incubator v.8. The fellowship provided three emerging curator/writers support for their research and professional editing for their essay on the artist of their choice. The completed essays are published online at www.vtape.org. 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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