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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: ===================== The Valley Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: February 11, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1402.ann Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1403.ann 5th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR (Poznan, Poland; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1404.ann Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1405.ann Siciliambiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito lo Capo, Tp, Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1406.ann MisALT Screening Series Presents: Experiments with Science (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1407.ann MisALT Screening Series Presents: Vulgar Politics (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1408.ann MisALT Screening Series Presents: Conversations with the Mirror (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1409.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Magmart | international videoart festival - VII edition (Naples, Irìtaly; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1366.ann Media City (Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: February 24, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1370.ann 19th Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: March 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1374.ann call for artists 2012 (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: March 09, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1380.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 ARTErra rural artistic residency (Tondela,Portugal; Deadline: March 09, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1391.ann WAMMFest (Women And Minorities in Media Festival) (Baltimore, MD, USA; Deadline: March 09, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1396.ann What The Festival (Alfred, NY, USA; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1397.ann Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, Canada; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1403.ann 5th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR (Poznan, Poland; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1404.ann Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1405.ann MisALT Screening Series Presents: Experiments with Science (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1407.ann MisALT Screening Series Presents: Conversations with the Mirror (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: February 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1409.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): ============================== * We Are Cinema: Ken Jacobs Films &Amp; 3d video [February 18, Brooklyn, New York] * <B>The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [Dl8], Feb, 9 - 19 </B> [February 18, Berlin, Germany] * Flexfest 2012, Night 1: Su Friedrich [February 18, Gainesville, FL] * Flexfest 2012, Night 1: Su Friedrich [February 18, Gainesville, FL] * Wooster Group Program 5 [February 18, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 3 [February 18, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 4 [February 18, New York, New York] * 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 [February 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * <B>The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [Dl8], Feb, 9 - 19 </B> [February 19, Berlin, Germany] * Flexfest 2012, Night 2: Steve Reinke [February 19, Gainesville, FL] * Flexfest 2012, Night 2: Steve Reinke [February 19, Gainesville, FL] * Tricky Poses and Taxing Conditions: Performance and Media [February 19, Los Angeles, California] * Wooster Group Program 6 [February 19, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 7 [February 19, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 8 [February 19, New York, New York] * Flexfest 2012, Night 3: Sam Green (And Friends) [February 20, Gainesville, FL] * Wooster Group Program 9 [February 20, New York, New York] * Early Monthly Segments #36 = Razor's Edge = Barbara Hammer + Kurt Kren [February 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Depot (Wherein Resides the Undead of Franz Kamin) [February 21, Milwaukee] * Wooster Group Program 10 [February 21, New York, New York] * Paranoid Park (2007, 84 Min.) By Gus Van Sant [February 21, Reading, Pennsylvania] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Retrospective Series- Forest of Bliss [February 22, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Films By Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand [February 22, Austin, TX] * The Films of Xander Marro [February 22, Boston, MA] * From Gust To Hail [February 22, East Coast] * Tentatively, A Convenience "Selected Shorts 2000-2011 [February 22, Milwaukee] * Wooster Group Program 11 [February 22, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 12 [February 22, New York, New York] * George Kuchar: Hotspell [February 23, Chicago, Illinois] * Wooster Group Program 1 [February 23, New York, New York] * Wooster Group Program 2 [February 23, New York, New York] * Private Life/Public Spaces [February 23, San Francisco, California] * Films and videos By Jeanne Liotta [February 24, Austin, TX] * Electromediascope [February 24, Kansas City, Missouri] * La Air: Instereo [February 24, Los Angeles, California] * Ken Kobland Program 1 [February 24, New York, New York] * Mi_losangeles2012: Guttural! [February 25, Los Angeles, California] * Manipulated Image Presents Guttural! [February 25, Los Angeles, California] * Serra & Bell/Jonas Program [February 25, New York, New York] * Ken Kobland Program 2 [February 25, New York, New York] * Duo Des Mots [February 25, Paris, France] * Mad Dance [February 25, San Francisco, California] * How Much Movement Does the Image Need? [February 25, Washington, DC] * Skip the Oscars [February 26, Atlanta, Georgia] * Minus Zero [February 26, New York, New York] * King Blank [February 26, New York, New York] * Ken Kobland Program 3 [February 26, New York, New York] * Recall and Memory [February 26, Washington, DC] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012 --------------------------- 2/18 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7:00, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Ave), WE ARE CINEMA: KEN JACOBS FILMS & 3D VIDEO WE ARE CINEMA: KEN JACOBS, Saturday February 18, 7pm, Admission $6 - Artist in Person, 83 minute program - (Limites Seating, please RSVP to r...@microscopegallery.com) - In connection with the "We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Cooperative" exhibit at Microscope Gallery, legendary filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents an evening of his works including his early film "Blonde Cobra" (1963) starring Jack Smith\; "The Whirled" (1956-1963) also with Smith\; and his recent anaglyph 3D video "America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening" (2011). Jacobs is one of the major forces in American avant garde cinema and has been working with the moving image in a variety of forms for over 50 years. "Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found between shots. Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new play of appearances is possible here." K.J. 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. THE EMPEROR JONES was the opening night selection of the 1999 New York Video festival. ------------------------- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 ------------------------- 2/20 Gainesville, FL: FLEX: the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival www.flexfest.org 7 p.m., The University Auditorium (Union Rd. and Newell Dr.) FLEXFEST 2012, NIGHT 3: SAM GREEN (AND FRIENDS) FLEXfest 2012 concludes with a presentation of the "live documentary" Utopia in Four Movements, performed by Sam Green, Dave Cerf, the Quavers, and Brendan Canty. All FLEXfest 2012 shows are free and open to the public. 2/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 9 PROGRAM 9: RUMSTICK ROAD INTRODUCED BY ELIZABETH LECOMPTE & KEN KOBLAND! A work-in-progress reconstruction of the groundbreaking 1977 TWG production. RUMSTICK ROAD was an attempt to understand Spalding Gray's mother's suicide using audio-taped conversations, family letters, dance, slides, and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. This evening's project aims to recreate that lost performance through archival materials such as Super-8 film, video footage, still photographs, and audio recordings. Elizabeth LeCompte and Ken Kobland will be here to introduce the program and to take questions afterwards. "A brilliant and engrossing work; one whose abstraction and complexity are at the service of genuine emotion." NEW YORK TIMES 2/20 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 7:30 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #36 = RAZOR'S EDGE = BARBARA HAMMER + KURT KREN Tonight is a chance to take a look at two filmmakers seldom, if ever, paired together to pull out some fascinating similarities from both their works. Barbara Hammer, the prolific filmmaker known for her radical and poetic films on lesbian identity and Kurt Kren, best known for documenting (in a uniquely structural way) the early performances of the Viennese Aktionist movement, may never have shared a stage, but their extensive catalogues share an obsession with interests beyond the radical body. While Kren's explosive early Aktionist films have a well-deserved infamy (particularly the Otto Muehl film 7/64 Leda and the Swan and 16/67 September 20ththe eating, drinking, pissing and shitting film), other '60s era films had a different definition of "graphic", basing films like 2/60 48 Heads From The Szondi-Test on images taken from printed matter, flattening the possibilities of film down to a two-dimensional picture plane. In the '70s his films moved from the micro to the macro, shifting to large swathes of time that he harnessed by creating long time-exposures, most notably with the stunning 31/75 Asyl, where Kren used a series of masks to re-expose three rolls of film over twenty-one days, creating a landscape fragmented across time. Barbara Hammer's Sanctus and Bent Time each tackle similar themes in Hammer's own particular way. Sanctus takes early x-rays shot by Dr. James Sibley Watson and optically prints them into a remarkable film about the way our bodies are imaged in relationship to medicine and disease. Dr. Watson's eerie moving x-rays transform the human body into an ethereal, two-dimensional object. Bent Time explores the fourth dimension, time, in her wondrous trip across the continental United States, stopping at ancient places like Chaco Canyon and more recent sites such as the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Driven by a Pauline Oliveros score, the film maps the energy of time and history in an exciting play of light, movement and sound. Programme: 2/60 48 Köpfe Aus Dem Szondi-Test (48 Heads From The Szondi-Test), Kurt Kren, 1960, 16mm, Austria, 4.5 min. b&w, silent 10/65 Selbstverstümmelung (Self-Mutilation), Kurt Kren, 1965, 16mm, Austria, 5 min. b&w, silent Sanctus, Barbara Hammer, 1990, 16mm, USA, 19 min. colour, sound (still above) 32/76 An W + B (To W + B), Kurt Kren, 1976, Austria, 7 min. colour, silent 34/77 Tschibo, Kurt Kren, 1977, 16mm, Austria, 2 min. colour, silent 31/75 Asyl (Asylum), Kurt Kren, 1975, 16mm, Austria, 9 min. colour, silent Bent Time, Barbara Hammer, 1983, 16mm, USA, 22 min. colour, sound 50/96 Snapshots (for Bruce), Kurt Kren, 1996, 16mm, Austria, 5 min. colour, silent @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Monday February 20, 2012 | 7:30 pm screening, $5 suggested donation 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 films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar. In this relaxed context with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue. Thanks to the CFMDC, Canyon Cinema and The Gladstone Hotel. Contact earlymonthlysegme...@gmail.com for email list Upcoming #37 = Monday March 19 = 3rd Anniversary! Website: www.earlymonthlysegments.org -------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012 -------------------------- 2/21 Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Theatre www.uniontheatre.uwm.edu 7pm, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd Floor DEPOT (WHEREIN RESIDES THE UNDEAD OF FRANZ KAMIN) By tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, USA, 220 min, video, 2011. Filmmaker in attendance! This comprehensive documentary offers an insightful testament to the life and work of composer, writer, performer, and pianist Franz Kamin (1941-2010) made by the prolific independent film and video maker "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE". Despite a fantastically substantial body of work nurtured by avant-garde culture, Kamin (born in Milwaukee) remained largely unknown during his lifetime. His compositions and texts were influenced by topology and as well as by alcoholism and other difficult personal battles. Kamin's profound impact is revealed through extensive archival footage and interviews with his many friends and collaborators. Documentarian "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE" (co-founder of Neoism) is uniquely qualified to create this work in Kamin's honor, having befriended him in 1977, as well as amassing an equally impressive catalog of esoteric work as a '(d) composer', writer, performer, and musician. Cosponsored by the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival & UWM Film Dept. FREE ADMISSION 2/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 10 PROGRAM 10: HULA, FOR THE GOOD TIMES, FISH STORY, and TODAY, I MUST SINCERELY CONGRATULATE YOU The evening will begin with two TWG dance pieces from the early 80s: Ray Whitfield and the Johnsons in HULA, a record album interpretation of "Hula" by The Waikiki Hula Boys (Columbia LP 565); followed by the almost unknown FOR THE GOOD TIMES, a choreographed dance inspired by "charades." TODAY is the Group's little-seen meta-documentary of daily life in a fading performance troupe. In FISH STORY, subtitled "A Documentary About Theater Life in Eight Dances", and the companion piece to the Group's BRACE UP!, the theatrical worlds of Chekhov and Geinin intertwine to form "a richly personal ode to the craft of theater and the transience of life" (NEW YORK TIMES). 2/21 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts PARANOID PARK (2007, 84 MIN.) BY GUS VAN SANT A film about youth, skateboarding, innocence, desire, guilt and Van Sant's darkly poetic northwest . "Mr. Van Sant's use of different film speeds and jump cuts, and his tendency to underscore his own storytelling he regularly, almost compulsively repeats certain images and lines reinforces rather than undermines the story's realism. With its soft, smudged colors and caressing lighting, "Paranoid Park" looks like a dream the cinematographers are Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li but the story is truer than most kitchen-sink dramas. This isn't the canned realism of the tidy psychological exegesis; this is realism that accepts the mystery and ambiguity of human existence. It is the realism that André Bazin sees in the world of Roberto Rossellini: a world of "pure acts, unimportant in themselves," that prepare the way "for the sudden dazzling revelation of their meaning."- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times ---------------------------- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 ---------------------------- 2/22 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 7:30 pm, Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE SERIES- FOREST OF BLISS The AAFF 50th Retrospective series concludes with Robert Gardner's FOREST OF BLISS (1986, 90 min), which was screened at the 24th Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1986. Forest of Bliss will be screened from a 35mm print on loan from the Harvard Film Archive. "FOREST OF BLISS is intended as an unsparing but ultimately redeeming account of the inevitable griefs and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, one of the world's most holy cities. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give anyone who sees it a wholly authentic though greatly magnified view of the matters of life and death that are portrayed." -RG 2/22 Austin, TX: Austin Cinematheque 7pm, CMB 4.122 otherwise known as 4D, Guadalupe and Dean Keaton FILMS BY BRUCE BAILLIE AND CHICK STRAND Austin Cinematheque and ERC present: Baillie: On Sundays, All My Life. Strand: Cartoon Le Mousse, Waterfall, Guacamole. 2/22 Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY 8:00, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, FILM Department | ScreeningRm 1 THE FILMS OF XANDER MARRO MassART Film Society presents, - The Films of XANDER MARRO - Xander Marro (American b. 1975) is a fake scientist/olde style tinker based out of the Dirt Palace\; a feminist cupcake encrusted netherworld located along the dioxin filled banks of the Woonasquatucket river (which is to say in Providence, RI USA). From this post she makes movies, puppet shows, prints and phone calls. Her adventures underground have included curating the "Movies with Live Soundtracks" film series and performing in various theatrick/musical formats as one of the variety of her alter egos (Madame Von Temper Tantrum, Lady Long Arms, Lil Blood-n-Guts, Madame Von Malt Liquor etc.) Up until recently she was the managing director of AS220 where she crafted endless spreadsheets and reports documenting the possibility of an organized egalitarian approach to art making as a transmutative tool in generating beauty, achieving equality, next level human consciousness and putting a final an end to humanity's terrible habit of endless war making. - Program Description: A collection of short movies made over 15 years in Providence RI. Mostly made on 16mm film, sometimes narrative the program's common themes include : DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too many cats, winter, witches, wishes, silkscreen explosions, portable cooking stoves, zine libraries, drum kits, fairy tales, cut paper, trinkets stored in drawers, the quest for true love, the junk of this material world, alchemy/regular chemistry, the magic of unlikely alliances, and the spirits of the night. - PROGRAM, Born to Never Throw Anything Away - 2009, Running time 4:10 16mm Soundtrack: Xander Marro (drum track) Natalja Kent (Guitar track at end) Amil Byleckie (Synth track at beginning) Portrait of a house, that once housed a family of 18, then a mother and son, then a man and his collections. - The Pattern of Ritual - 2005, Running time 7:44 16mm (projected on Video) Soundtrack: Xander Marro 10 dances for the invocation of the new season. Starring: the Seagulls (unfortunately sacrificed for the prophetic powers held within their wings), the Pyramid, the re-occurring wooden peacock, the seemingly charming cobra, the forest made of fishes, and the matchstick game. - L'Eye - 2001, Running time 2:02 16mm - Soundtrack: Carley Ptak - If at first you don't succeed, scry, scry again. - Isemond (collaboration with Mat Brinkman) 2006, Running time 17:35 16mm Soundtrack: Xander Marro & Mat Brinkman Puppet fairytale. Isemond the tailor makes a bonnet for a kindly goose. Their unlikely alliance becomes a force in the battle against a hungry real-estate developer. - Spell Casting Mishaps Volume 1 - 2011, Running time 1:14 Video - Soundtrack: Amil Byleckie - Explanation of how I became a sandwich. - The Further Adventures of Lady Long Arms in the Land of Love - 2004, Running time 11:05, 16mm Soundtrack: Xander Marro & Mat Brinkman Starring: The Re-Occuring Wooden Peacocks, Lady Long Arms, The Dancing Hearts of Infinity, The Seagulls, The Disappearing Owl, Sir Trang Feng, Bug Bear (as the Polar Bear), The Snowstorm, The Ice Cream Hut at the summit of the highest mountain in the universe - The Journey - 2002, Running time 8:08 16mm (projected on video) Soundtrack: Xander Marro Have you ever been visited by a fairy god-mother? Stayed awake for days and nights cleaning (perhaps moving) forgetting to eat and talk and arranging then rearranging all of your worldly possessions into piles and then other piles until you were in the midst of a psychedelic semi-conscious perhaps semi-psychotic dream state and then taken to a netherworld by a beautiful peacock? If yes, this one's for you! - The Chemical Bath - (L'Eye V.2) 2001, Running time: 6:02 handprocessed 16mm Soundtrack: Xander Marro & Mat Brinkman (warping The Shirelles & Suicidal Tendencies) Starring: silver molecules (tri-x reversal), Italian shoe magazines, 1st developer, 2nd developer, bleach, stop bath, fix, green/cyan - 0106 (collaboration with Mat Brinkman) 2006, Running time: 12:16 16mm Soundtrack: Xander Marro Story of how I might live my life until I die told one frame at a time for approximately 17,664 frames. DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too many cats, silkscreen explosions, portable cooking stoves, zine libraries, drum kits. Melting brain. - http://xandermarro.com/ - MASSART FILM SOCIETY, Programmed by Saul Levine, is a screening class for MassArt film students open to those who are interested. We hope to provide access to films and videos not often shown at other venues. - http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 2/22 East Coast: Film Tour fromgusttohail.com 8:30, East Coast FROM GUST TO HAIL Experimental cinema showcase: From Gust to Hail brings New England-based filmmakers to several cities along the East Coast from Boston to Baltimore. Works by filmmakers Kathleen Rugh, Jonathan Schwartz, Rob Todd, and Kimberly Forero-Arnias are amongst the kaleidoscopic selection that comprises the program. Curators Luis Arnias and Matt McWilliams have been collaborating and showing locally in Boston since 2009 - in galleries, backyards, and living rooms. Now they are taking this cinema of attractions on the road and sharing works that would not otherwise be accessible except in an academic setting or through the festival establishment. Homemade Apple Cider will be available during the screenings and all works will be screened in their original 16mm or super 8 format. Shows (Feb 22-29) Wed 22 - Providence, RI - 8:30PM Everett Theater//Carriage House Thurs 23 - New Brunswick, NJ - 9:30PM Wormhole Fri 24 - Brooklyn, NY - 7:30PM Union Docs Sat 25 - Philadelphia, PA - 8:30PM Little Berlin Sun 26 - Baltimore, MD - 8:30PM Annex 3E Wed 29 - Boston, MA - 8:30PM Aviary fromgusttohail.com cont...@fromgusttohail.com 2/22 Milwaukee: Milwaukee Underground FF + Light Stroke www.facebook.com/mkeunderground 7pm, 601 E. Wright St./ Riverwest TENTATIVELY, A CONVENIENCE "SELECTED SHORTS 2000-2011 Filmmaker in attendance! The indefatigable Pittsburgh-based avant-garde avatar tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE has amassed an impressive catalog of esoteric work as a '(d) composer', writer, performer, musician, and sprocket scientist over the last 30+ years. Tonight's program highlights a selection of his short vaudeos, including documentary portraits from the fringe, a compelling found-footage romp through the mediascape, a lampoon of local news nonsense, and also touting array of textual treatises. Profound, profane, and personal, this cross-section of his opulent oeuvre provides a privileged purview of the place of images in the creation of our sense of self. 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. Program: Defenders of Goolengook (video, 17.5 min, 2000-04), I.A.C. Deer Head Sculpture @ Former Rankin Steel Mill (video, 8.5 min, 2000-04), Ledger of St Dermain (mini-DV/slides/slidestrip/Super8mm-to-video, 7 min, 2004), Haircut Paradox (video, 14 min, 2005-06) Capitalism is an Ism (video, 6.5 min, 2006) The Ballad of CodyodeeodoooO (video, 13 min, 2006-07) Subtitles (closure version) (8mm/Super-8mm/16mm/VHS/image data files/mini-dv-to-dvd, 12 min, 2005-08) TV 'News' Commits Suicide (video, 6 min, 2009) Robotic (for YouTube) (video, 7 min, 2009) COLONY (video, 9 min, 2010-11) Cosponsored by the UWM Film Dept., Milwaukee Underground FF, and Light Stroke. 2/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 11 PROGRAM 11: WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO & RHYME 'EM TO DEATH WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO is TWG's 1992 full-length video and was originally shown at the NYFF and included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Michael Kirby's teleplay is a cops-versus-white-supremacists tale imagined as a structuralist police procedural, as well as a prescient examination of domestic terrorism and the national security apparatus. RHYME 'EM TO DEATH, a short black-and-white film shot by Leslie Thornton and inspired by Victor Hugo's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and the Salem Witch Trials, was first shown in the 1995 Whitney Biennial. 2/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 12 ROGRAM 12: FILMS FROM Embedded in much of TWG's theater pieces are several films that are discreet works of art in their own right. This evening will include screenings of "The Cocktail Party" from NAYATT SCHOOL; "By the Sea" from POINT JUDITH (an epilog); and "Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It" from FRANK DELL'S THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTONY (all three made in collaboration with filmmaker Ken Kobland). --------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 --------------------------- 2/23 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, 164 N. State GEORGE KUCHAR: HOTSPELL Introduced by Abina Manning, Executive Director of the Video Data Bank. George Kuchar became a legend with his Super 8 and 16mm melodramas from the 1950s and '60s, influencing artists including Andy Warhol, John Waters, and Todd Solondz. He turned to video in the mid-1980s, crafting hundreds of often diaristic videos from "the pageant that is life." For the last quarter-century, the Video Data Bank has collected and distributed this work; it now houses the artist's complete archive of nearly 300 videos. This evening Executive Director Abina Manning presents Kuchar's "greatest hits," including his last video, the remarkable and revealing Hotspell (2011). Presented in collaboration with the Video Data Bank. 19892011, USA, various formats, ca. 85 minutes + discussion 2/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 1 See notes for Feb 17, 7 pm. 2/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WOOSTER GROUP PROGRAM 2 See notes for Feb. 17, 9 pm. 2/23 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8pm, 275 Capp Street PRIVATE LIFE/PUBLIC SPACES Oddball Films, with Lynn Cursaro, presents: Private Life/Public Spaces: The Many Lives of Cities. Take freewheeling look at cities, real and imagined, as viewed by an individual's lens. From classic cartoon, government propaganda, experimental documentary and story book, urban life is where some explore facets of their private selves. A pair of siblings make a home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler. You . . . functions as an ode to both a girl and Budapest. The Civil Defense nightmare of Our Cities Must Fight will galvanized your hometown loyalty, or else! See The City of Light through the eyes of a regular schmo in Brooklyn Goes to Paris. Maurice Sendak's swinging kitchen metropolis, In the Night Kitchen, is just familiar enough to be the stuff of dreams. Post-Be Bop surrealism is out for a walk on a short NYC pier in Help, My Snowman's Burning Down. Hollywood glamour goes undersea when the contents of Porky's Five & Ten go into the briny. S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening shows what happens when you rent a hall and throw a utopia. And, as usual, Lynn's home-baked treats for all! Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programm...@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117 (continued in next email)
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