Part 2 of 2: This week [February 11 - 19, 2012] in avant garde cinema --------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 ---------------------------
2/18 Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net 6pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstraße, 10178 Berlin THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8], FEB, 9 - 19 See Feb. 11. 2/18 Gainesville, FL: FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival www.flexfest.org 7 p.m., The Top Secret Space (24 N. Main St.) FLEXFEST 2012, NIGHT 1: SU FRIEDRICH Su Friedrich kicks of FLEXfest 2012 with a sampling of her 30+ years of filmmaking. Program includes Gently Down the Stream (1981, 16mm, 13:00), Seeing Red (2005, video, 27:00), and Sink or Swim (1990, 16mm, 48:00). Filmmaker in attendance. All FLEXfest 2012 are free and open to the public. 2/18 Gainesville, FL: FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival www.flexfest.org 9 p.m., The Top Secret Space (24 N. Main St.) FLEXFEST 2012, NIGHT 1: SU FRIEDRICH FLEXfest 2012 continues with a program of films that influenced Su Friedrich. Program includes Vincent Grenier, Intérieur Interiors (to AK) (1978, 16mm, 15:00), Marjorie Keller, She/Va (1973, standard 8mm blown up to 16mm, 3 mins), Peggy Ahwesh, Philosophy in the Bedroom (1987, Super-8 on video, 7:00), Joyce Wieland, Sailboat (1967, 16mm, 3:00), Yvonne Rainer, An Emotional Accretion in 48 Steps (excerpt from "Film About a Woman Who ") (1974, 16mm, 8:00), John Marshall, Lion Game (1970, 16mm on video, 4:00), Leslie Thornton, Jennifer, Where are You? (1981, 16mm, 10:00), Kyle Kibbe, 100 N.Y., N.Y. (1989, 16mm, 16:30), and John Smith, The Girl Chewing Gum (1975, 16mm, 15:00). Presented by Su Friedrich. All FLEXfest 2012 events are free and open to the public. 2/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 10:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 5 PROGRAM 5: UNPRODUCED and UNFINISHED For this special live, late-night event, members of The Wooster Group will read from three unproduced TWG screenplays: LOVE AFFAIR, based on Ruth Kligman's memoir of her affair with Jackson Pollock; KOKAJO, based on the 1964 Kaneto Shindo film, ONIBABA; and THIS WILL KILL THAT, based on Victor Hugo's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. The evening will also include clips from their unfinished feature film, WRONG GUYS. With special guests TBA. 2/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 3 PROGRAM 3: BRACE UP! The Wooster Group's eerie deconstruction of Anton Chekhov's THE THREE SISTERS, in a translation by Paul Schmidt, BRACE UP! incorporates selections from popular and obscure postwar Japanese film and performance. This footage is from the Group's 2003 revival."Chekhov's vision of lives of missed connections and ambitions devoured by time actually jibes, in a bizarre way, with TWG's fragmented, disorienting approach. The Group's trademark use of television screens and microphones, and scrambling of taped and live performances, blurred the line between immediate and mediated reality in ways that gave a new, wicked vitality to Chekhovian lines like 'Little by little you will disappear' and 'When things lose their form, they lose their identity.' Ben Brantley, NEW YORK TIMES 2/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 4 PROGRAM 4: TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (PHÈDRE) This program highlights The Wooster Group's 2002 OBIE-winning production of Paul Schmidt's version of Racine's PHÈDRE, set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras, and badminton . "This blend of ironic seriousness, heightened theatricality and multimedia ballet has developed into one of the sharpest of theatrical instruments an ideal scalpel for Racine's surgical exploration into lust." VILLAGE VOICE "An astonishing invention and completely, utterly nuts. If it weren't so nuts, it wouldn't be so astonishing." NEW YORK OBSERVER 2/18 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome http://www.pdome.org/ 4pm, Jackman Hall, AGO, 317 Dundas Street West & McCaul St. entrance PLEASURE DOME & ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF IN THE NATURE OF THINGS BY BARBARA STERNBERG IN PERSON! WITH EARLY WORKS BY THE 2011 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD RECIPIENTS BARBARA STERNBERG AND DAVID RIMMER The 2011 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts recipients Barbara Sternberg and David Rimmer have used a range of techniques to explore the medium of film throughout their respective careers. In particular, optical printing has allowed them both to achieve complexly layered imagery and intricate patterns of repetition, enabling each to craft their own unique poetics of cinema. Subjects in their work range from the minutia of daily life, such as women playing on a beach in Seashore (Rimmer, 1971), or people at work in factories in Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (Rimmer, 1970) and Opus 40 (Sternberg, 1979), to meditations on life and death as in C'est La Vie (Sternberg, 1997) and Migration (Rimmer, 1969). We are especially excited to open the program with the world premiere of Sternberg's latest film, in the nature of things (42min. 2011). Organized around a central image of the forest as a transitional space, the film continues her exploration of dialectics: the human and the natural world, young and old, living and dying. From its layering of images upon images and frames within frames, to its rich colour palette and dense polyrhythms, it is a film that demands to be experienced rather than simply watched. Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. Sternberg's films work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision, perception, motion and temporality. The Vancouver experimental filmmaker David Rimmer is one of Canada's best-known and most internationally acclaimed film artist. His frequently contemplative films investigate both the nature of the film medium and the quality of perception, and go beyond the structuralist/materialist approach to film: they explore the structure of the medium, yet simultaneously operate on a metaphoric or poetic level. ------------------------- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012 ------------------------- 2/19 Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net 6pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstraße, 10178 Berlin THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8], FEB, 9 - 19 See Feb. 11. 2/19 Gainesville, FL: FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival www.flexfest.org 7 p.m., The Top Secret Space (24 N. Main St.) FLEXFEST 2012, NIGHT 2: STEVE REINKE FLEXfest 2012's second night features the deadpan theoretical comedy of Chicago-based videomaker Steve Reinke. Tonight's program includes the U.S. Premiere of Reinke's new feature, The Tiny Ventriloquist (2012, video, 61:00) along with two earlier shorts, Ask the Insects (2005, video, 8:00), and Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) (1006, video, 4:00). Filmmaker in attendance. All FLEXfest 2012 events are free and open to the public. 2/19 Gainesville, FL: FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival www.flexfest.org 9 p.m., The Top Secret Space (24 N. Main St.) FLEXFEST 2012, NIGHT 2: STEVE REINKE FLEXfest 2012 continues with a program of films and videos that influenced Steve Reinke. Program includes Lisa Steele, A Very Personal Story (1974, video, 20:00), John Smith, Associations (1975, 16mm, 7:00), Donigan Cumming, Locke's Way (2003, video, 21:00), Barry Doupé, At the Heart of a Sparrow (2006, video, 29:00). Presented by Steve Reinke. All FLEXfest 2012 events are free and open to the public. 2/19 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 4:00pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas) TRICKY POSES AND TAXING CONDITIONS: PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA These selections raise questions about the nature and purpose of performance, and also playfully look at how the camera, filmmaker, and projectionist also perform their roles. Films to be screened include: Performance Under Working Conditions (Allan Sekula, 1973), Pulling Mouth (Bruce Nauman, 1969), Ma Bell (Paul McCarthy, 1971), Frozen & Buried Alive (Cynthia Maughan, 1974-75), Trajectory (Sam Erenberg, 1977), Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher, 1976), Big Tip, Back Up, Shout Out (Susan Mogul, 1976), Nun and Deviant (Nancy Angelo, Candace Compton Pappas, 1976), A Glancing Blow (Richard Newton, 1979), Cheap Imitations 1: Melies - India Rubber Head (Grahame Weinbren & Roberta Friedman, 1980), and I'm Too Sad To Tell You (Bas Jan Ader, 1971). 2/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 6 PROGRAM 6: HOUSE/LIGHTS The Wooster Group's 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein's DOCTOR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS with Joseph Mawra's B-movie classic, OLGA'S HOUSE OF SHAME. "[B]edazzling there's nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying thoughts about the deeply mixed blessings of technological progress." NEW YORK TIMES 2/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 7 PROGRAM 7: NORTH ATLANTIC & WRONG GUYS Two texts by long-time TWG associate James Strahs provided the backbone for these very different productions. This program includes clips from the military comedy, NORTH ATLANTIC, in all its different eras and productions, as well as the entire 1997 unfinished film, WRONG GUYS, a tale of smuggling and survivalists, adapted from Strahs's short novel and first shown in the 1997 Whitney Biennial (and rarely seen since). The NEW YORK TIMES said, "Watching NORTH ATLANTIC can feel like channel-surfing, drunk, through a military-themed cinematic menu." 2/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 8 PROGRAM 8: EUGENE O'NEILL This program highlights TWG's many years of engagement with the work of Eugene O'Neill, which has stretched from the late 1970s up to the current production of EARLY PLAYS (an adaptation of O'Neill's "Sea Plays" and a collaboration with NYC Players). The evening begins with clips of a condensed version of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT from TWG's POINT JUDITH (an epilog). Then the focus shifts to THE HAIRY APE featuring Willem Dafoe and music by John Lurie and the video reconception of THE EMPEROR JONES an "explosive, beat driven, in-your-face confrontation" (NEW YORK TIMES) with original music by David Linton and an OBIE-winning performance by Kate Valk in the title role. 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