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Deadline: April 13, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1421.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): ============================== * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 5 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 6 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * This Our Still Life W/ Kid Beat Box [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * As Above, So Below W/ Amos Fortune Road [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 8 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Palaces of Pity W/ and I Will Rise If Only To Hold You Down [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 9 [March 31, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back then [March 31, Chicago, Illinois] * Dutch 70's [March 31, Los Angeles, California] * Dutch Seventies [March 31, Los Angeles, California] * Treatment For A Film In 15 Scenes [March 31, New York, New York] * Jeremy Rourke + Thomas Carnacki + Quay / Stockhausen + [March 31, San Francisco, California] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 11 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * In Praise of Shadows- Japanese Avant Garde Films of the 1990s and 2000s [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival: Films In Competition 10 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * 50th Aaff: This Is Not A Film [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Quick Billy- Bruce Baillie Retrospective Program 3 [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Two Years At Sea [April 1, Ann Arbor, Michigan] * Elements of Image Making [April 1, Oakland, CA] * Pillars of Fire, Featuring Works By Langendorff, Losier, Clementi, Kallal,& P-Orridge [April 2, Brooklyn, New York] * Narrative Bodies- Films and videos By Abigail Child [April 2, Los Angeles, California] * Surreal [April 3, Reading, Pennsylvania] * 2 By Gregory Markopolous [April 4, New York, New York] * Tonewheel / Film Reel [April 4, San Francisco, California] * Carolee Schneemann : Breaking the Frame [April 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Handsworth Songs [April 5, Chicago, Illinois] * Taylor Mead: On Film, In Person [April 5, New York, New York] * The Films of Cathy Lee Crane:Poetic Biography: An Investigation of Words From Two Radical Polemicists [April 5, Philadelphia, PA] * Occultural Film Series: Magick In Cinema [April 5, Seattle, Washington] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 ------------------------ 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 11 am, Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 5 Program includes a newly restored 16mm print of UFOs (1971, 3 min) by Lillian Schwartz and Ken Knowlton; DAS HAUS (2011, 7 min) by David Buob; ANOTHER DRESS ANOTHER BUTTON (2011, 3 min) by Lyn Eliot; SILLY BEARS (2011, 6 min) by Matt Brunson; 66314 (2011, 9 min) by Isamu Hirabayashi; BACK TO LAND (2011, 4 min) by Tijana Petrovic; TATAMP (2011, 3 min) by Mirai Mizue; THE AROUSING OF THOUGHT (2012, 6 min) by Luciano Zubillaga; AUGUST SONG (2011, 5 min) by Jodie Mack and Emily Kuehn; and THE SCRATCHMAN (1980, 3 min) by Heather McAdams. 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 12:30 pm, Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 6 Filmmakers Mike Hoolboom and Jesse McLean in attendance. Program includes 21-87 (1963, 10 min) by Arthur Lipsett; FOREST WALK (2011, 8 min) by Mike Hoolboom; CAUTURE (2010, 30 min) Ionut Piturescu; TIN-PRESSED (2011, 7 min) by Dani Levanthal; BERLIN TIGER 13h00-16h30 (2012, 3 min) by Shiloh Cinquemani; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING (2010, 12 min) by Tan Pin Pin; and REMOTE (2011, 12 min) by Jesse McLean. 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 5 pm, Michigan Theater THIS OUR STILL LIFE W/ KID BEAT BOX This Our Still Life (2011, 57 min) is comprised of video and 8mm footage dating back to 1989; artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting has created an exceptionally warm yet unsentimental portrait of his family life in the French Pyrenees where he lives with his wife and his daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome. Preceded by Stephen Wetzel's video, Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine (2012, 9 min). Filmmaker Stephen Wetzel in attendance 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 7 pm, Michigan Theater AS ABOVE, SO BELOW W/ AMOS FORTUNE ROAD The world premiere of Sarah J. Christman's feature-length documentary; As Above, So Below (2012, 60 min, 16mm on video) intimately examines various transmutations that reshape matter and its meanings. What separates the permanent from the impermanent, the things we discard from those we preserve? Filmmaker Sarah J. Christman in attendance. Preceded by Matthew Buckingham's 1996 film Amos Fortune Road (20 min, 16mm), which was awarded Best Narrative at the 35th AAFF. 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 7:15 pm, Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 8 Filmmakers Minna Parkkinen, Jonathan Schwartz and Laura Heit in attendance, program includes 20Hz (2011, 5 min) by Semiconductor; VISITATION (2011, 9 min) by Suzan Pitt, CIRCLE (2010, 6 min) by Minna Parkkinen; FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN (1996, 6 min) by Stephanie Barber; A PREFACE TO RED (2011, 6 min) by Jonathan Schwartz; GUANAPE SUR (2010, 23 min) By Janos Richter; UNDER THE SHADOW OF MARCUS MOUNTAIN (2011, 6 min) by Robert Schaller; and THE DEEP DARK (2011, 8 min) By Laura Heit. 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 9:15 pm, Michigan Theater PALACES OF PITY W/ AND I WILL RISE IF ONLY TO HOLD YOU DOWN PALACES OF PITY (2011, 60 min), by Portugese filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes and American filmmaker Daniel Schmidt, is a parable on guilt and oppression set in ancient and modern Portugal. Preceded by Jennifer Reeder's AND I WILL RISE IF ONLY TO HOLD YOU DOWN (2012, 25 min), which receives it's world premiere. Jennifer Reeder will be in attendance. 3/31 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 9:30 pm, Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 9 Filmmakers Evan Meaney, Jennifer Reeves, Fern Silva and Robert Todd in attendance, program includes MOXIE (2011, 6 min) by Stephen Irwin; NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 min) by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow); CEIBAS: EPILOGUE - THE WELL OF REPRESENTATION (2011, 7 min) by Evan Meaney; HAUNTED HOUSE (2011, 4 min) by Martin Arnold; SOUNDING GLASS (2011, 8 min) by Sylvia Schedelbauer; LANDFILL 16 (2011, 9 min) by Jennifer Reeves; PASSAGE UPON THE PLUME (2011, 6 min) by Fern Silva; WITHIN (2012, 6 min) by Robert Todd; and SACK BARROW (2011, 21 min) by Ben Rivers. 3/31 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 12:30pm, 164 N. State BRENT GREEN: GRAVITY WAS EVERYWHERE BACK THEN Brent Green in person. Brent Green's folk-punk films interweave drawing, puppets, hand-built sets, and stop-motion animation to spin tales of transformation and loss. This evening, Green presents his acclaimed animated feature Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (2010). Based on the true story of a Kentucky hardware clerk who attempted to transform his house into an eccentric healing machine to save his dying wife from cancer, the film was shot in a full-scale model of the house Green built in his rural outdoor studio in Pennsylvania. Mirroring the architecture of the house itself, Gravity is a crazy-quilt of fantastic imagery, fabulist narration, and themes of love, obsession, and spirituality. Presented in collaboration with SAIC's Visiting Artists Program, which features a lecture and live musical performance by Brent Green on March 28, 6:00 p.m., The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S. Columbus Dr. 2010, USA, Blu-Ray, 75 minutes + discussion 3/31 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8:00 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St DUTCH 70'S Focusing on films rarely screened in the US since a tour organized by Holland Experimental Film in 1978, which made a stop at the Theater Vanguard in Los Angeles, this program mines the Dutch artist-made film scene of the 1970's, characterized by fertile sites of production and experimentation such as the Free Academy in the Hague and the Amsterdam Film Coop. Engaging with contemporaneous currents of avant-garde filmmaking in ways both alienating and comical, the films utilize techniques including pixellation, DIY black & white laboratory manipulation, and documentation to explore themes of the body, performativity, extreme psychological states, and literal and metaphoric interiors that subvert classical Dutch interiors of the 17th century. The program will include films by Frans Zwartjes, Barbara Meter, Mattijn Seip, Paul de Mol, Henri Plaat, Paul de Nooijer, and Jan Ketelaars. Curated by Guy Edmonds (Amsterdam), who will introduce the program in person. All works projected from 16mm. 3/31 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) DUTCH SEVENTIES "These are the kinds of films we will all have to learn how to watch forever." - Michael Paggie (Madison Art Center film program, 1978). Focusing on films rarely screened in the US since a tour organized by Holland Experimental Film in 1978, which made a stop at the Theater Vanguard in Los Angeles, this program mines the Dutch artist-made film scene of the 1970's, characterized by fertile sites of production and experimentation such as the Free Academy in the Hague and the Amsterdam Film Coop. Engaging with contemporaneous currents of avant-garde filmmaking in ways both alienating and comical, the films utilize techniques including pixellation, DIY black & white laboratory manipulation, and documentation to explore themes of the body, performativity, extreme psychological states, and literal and metaphoric interiors that subvert classical Dutch interiors of the 17th century. The program will include films by Frans Zwartjes, Barbara Meter, Mattijn Seip, Paul de Mol, Henri Plaat, Paul de Nooijer, and Jan Ketelaars (subject to last-minute revision). Curated by Guy Edmonds (Amsterdam), who will introduce the program in person. All works projected from 16mm. 3/31 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TREATMENT FOR A FILM IN 15 SCENES See notes for March 31, 7:30 pm. 3/31 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street JEREMY ROURKE + THOMAS CARNACKI + QUAY / STOCKHAUSEN + In the second iteration of our OptrOnica series, here are two live acts and several pre-recordings towards an appreciation of creative soundtracking. Mr. Rourke juggles guitar, voice, and singing bowls in a refreshing accompaniment to his own charming pixillations, including Rollinsville, Honey the Moon, Snow and Buffalo in SF, Eyes Hearing Stars, and more! Greg Sharpen's experimental ensemble Thomas Carnacki enlists Jim Kaiser, Jesse Burson, and Gregory Hagan in performing new audiotracks to Jan Svankmajer's Poe-penned House of Usher (live vox by Dean Santomieri), and Ladislas Starewicz' marvelous The Mascot. PLUS Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition for the Brothers' Quay In Absentia, musical cartoons, and free vinyl. $7.77. --------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012 --------------------- 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 1 pm, The Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 11 Filmmakers Bobby Abate, Kevin T. Allen Josh Gibson will be in attendance, program includes HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED (1966, 15 min) by George Kuchar; THE EVIL EYES (2011, 20 min) by Bobby Abate; XXX! (2011, 8 min) by Dietmar Brehm; JOSHUA CITY (2011, 4 min) by Kevin T. Allen; KUDZU VINE (2011, 20 min) by Josh Gibson; and CHEVELLE (2011, 8 min) by Kevin Everson. 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 1:30 pm, The Michigan Theater IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS- JAPANESE AVANT GARDE FILMS OF THE 1990S AND 2000S n Praise of Shadows consists of nine Japanese experimental works from the 1990s and 2000s, made with various techniques via chosen media. All show the artists' exploration of moving images, investigating the possibilities of art of cinema. Some may show more of the process of making the works, while other may show more of the poetic montage with light and shadow. Program curated and presented by Tomonari Nishikawa and David Dinnell. Program includes GESTALT (1999, 7 min, 16mm) by Takashi Ishida; FLOWER (2004, 6 min, 16mm) by Yuiko Matsuyama; STILL (1999, 15 min, 8 mm on video); PLATE #23 (SOLID OF REVOLUTION) (2004, 3 min, 16mm) by Ryusuke Ito; EVE (2004, 3 min, 16mm on video) by Takashi Makino; GARDEN/ING (2007, 7 min, video) by Eriko Sonoda; A BURNING STAR (short version) (1995, 20 min, 8mm on video) by Kenji Onishi; AMBIGUOUS FUNEREAL (2004, 12 min, 16mm) by Ichiro Sueoka; and LIKE FLOWING, LIKE SPINNING (2009, 6 min, 16mm) by Akira Mizuyoshi. 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 11 am, The Michigan Theater 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL: FILMS IN COMPETITION 10 Filmmaker JB Mabe in attendance, program includes THE MATTER PROPOUNDED, OF ITS POSSIBILITY OR IMPOSSIBILITY, TREATED IN FOUR PARTS (2011, 13 min) by David Gatten; TO QUIT, TO QUIET (2011, 4 min) by JB Mabe; PORCH GLIDER (1970, 25 min) by James Herbert; FORMS ARE NOT SELF-SUBSISTENT SUBSTANCES (2010, 23 min) by Samantha Rebello; and GENERATOR (2011, 20 min) by Takashi Makino. 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 2 pm, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 50TH AAFF: THIS IS NOT A FILM This is Not a Film is a day-in-the-life documentary of Jafar Panahi's experience of being under house arrest, filmed almost entirely inside his apartment in Tehran, as he creatively expresses his frustration of not being allowed to do what comes so naturally to this passionate writer and filmmaker: make films. Jafar Panahi, the Iranian writer and director of internationally acclaimed films such as The White Balloon, The Circle, and Offside, is under house arrest and a twenty year ban on making films, leaving Iran, and talking to the media. Filmmaker Jill Godmilow will be in attendance to introduce this program. 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 3 pm, Michigan Theater QUICK BILLY- BRUCE BAILLIE RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM 3 Part Eastern philosophy, part gunslinger Western, QUICK BILLY (1970, 60 min, 16mm) plays as a "horse opera in four reels" and meditation on the transformation of life to death. Film critic Michael Sicinski will introduce this masterpiece of the American avant-garde, presented from a recently restored print. Quick Billy will be followed by Baillie's ROSLYN ROMANCE (IS IT REALLY TRUE?) (1974, 17 min, 16mm). 4/1 Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Film Festival http://aafilmfest.org/ 3 pm, Michigan Theater TWO YEARS AT SEA TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011, 86 min, 35mm) is the first feature length film by Ben Rivers, whose short film works have screened regularly at the AAFF since 2008. Rivers' film, by way of a sparse and minimal narrative, forms a nearly wordless portrait of Jake, who lives in isolation in the middle of a remote forest in northeastern Scotland. It follows the character's unconventional life, reflecting Jake's own, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange idiosyncratic projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realize. 4/1 Oakland, CA: Black Hole Cinema Free School http://ecstatic-erratic.com/elements/elements.html 3PM, 1038 24th street ELEMENTS OF IMAGE MAKING Elements of Image Making is a workshop structured around the open exchange of ideas, resources and skills with a focus on teaching through facilitation. Learn about the manipulation of film's physical and chemical characteristics in a workshop concerning all things camera-less (and a few things camera-with). Topics covered range from scratching and painting found footage to generating new images with handmade film emulsion, lens-less optics and various direct animation techniques. Prior film knowledge is not required but attendees with previous experience are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and experience at any level they feel comfortable with. Resources provided include: 35mm, 16mm and 8mm found footage, blank leader, exposed/raw stock, and various paints and markers. Participants are encouraged to bring any materials they think would be interesting to work with, including any aged film material or stock, and especially markers, paint, translucent objects or scratching elements they feel may hold an interesting presence on film. All editing materials, projectors and tools necessary will be provided Starting at 7PM there will be a program of films and performances that explore the core concepts of the workshop, as well as a discussion on the history of direct animation and alternative processes. Artists include: Julie Perini, Jodie Mack, Christine Lucy Latimer, Kevin Obsatz, Randy Sterling Hunter, Ross Meckfessel,Myron Ort, Tooth, Eric Stewart, Matt Soar, Luis Macia & Adriana Vila, Joshua Lewis, Zach Iannazzi & Michael Morris. Workshop and Screening are FREE, however donations are encouraged as means to helps us cover the cost of materials. --------------------- MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012 --------------------- 4/2 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle Ave bwtn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) PILLARS OF FIRE, FEATURING WORKS BY LANGENDORFF, LOSIER, CLEMENTI, KALLAL,& P-ORRIDGE Film and curation by Julien Langendorff, Admission $6. We have invited artist/musician Julien Langendorff to present a night of rare works including his "Pillars of Fire" made in collaboration with US artist Jason Glasser. For the evening, Langendorff has also chosen a selection of short works by NY based artists Rose Kallal, Marie Losier, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Psychic TV). The night concludes with legendary actor/filmmaker Pierre Clémenti's most accomplished work Visa de censure n. X from 1967. PROGRAM: PILLARS OF FIRE, (8mm transfer, col, sound, 17min, 2009) by Julien Langendorff / Jason Glasser. AN INTRODUCTION TO TEMPLE OF PSYCHICK YOUTH and SCARED TO LIVE courtesy of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Invisible Exports Gallery. DISSOLUTION by Rose Kallal, (16mm film transfer, 2011). IMPLICATE EXPLICATE, by Rose Kallal (16mm film transfer, 2012. Sound by Rose Kallal and Mark Pilkington). Never-before-screened OUTTAKES from THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, by Marie Losier, (16mm transfer, col, sound, 14min, 2011)with improved violin rehearsal between Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge at Issue Project Room. Commission TRAILER for the 40th Anniversary of Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema (and an homage to George Kuchar and the NY he loved so much) by Marie Losier, (16mm film transfer, 1:35min, 2011), VISA DE CENSURE N. X by Pierre Clémenti (16mm transfer to digital, col, sound, 55min, 1967). Julien Langendorff is a visual artist and musician, working and living between Paris and New York. He recently had a new solo exhibition in NY, 'Goddess Fuzz Fantasy', at agnès b. 's new gallery space in Soho. more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broaday Ave (about 2 blocks); L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street (about 3/4 of a mile). 4/2 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 NARRATIVE BODIES- FILMS AND VIDEOS BY ABIGAIL CHILD Poet, essayist and filmmaker Abigail Child sees her creations as a curious and particular intersection, often humorous, sometimes alchemical, between sound and image. Bodies, fetishes, symbols, icons and relics are reinvented and refitted to new realities and new desires. The total assembly is a movement metaphorically (with the ghostly re-emergence of Griffith on one side and on the other Eisenstein), and the images and poetic rhythms use structure as a magnifying glass to uncover the lies and injustices of history. Child's film cycle, Is This What You Were Born For (198189), is a landmark of contemporary avant-garde cinema, and her recent works continue to be widely shown and celebrated. Films include Peripeteia I (1977), Perils (1986), Mayhem (1987), The Future is Behind You (200405), Mirror World (2006) and Ligatures (2009). In person: Abigail Child. Jack H. Skirball Screening Series. Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] ---------------------- TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 ---------------------- 4/3 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts SURREAL Un Chien Andalou (1929, 16 min.) by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali universally regarded as the greatest and most influential work of cinema to emerge from the Surrealist movement. Simon of the Desert (1965, 45 min) by Luis Bunuel- "features an early Christian ascetic (Claudio Brook) who has spent six years, six weeks and six days living on lettuce and water atop a high stone column, where his life of pure worship attracts the doubt of churchmen, the mockery of peasants, and eventually the temptations of Satan. Wonderfully played by Pinal, Satan appears to the holy man as a lamb-coddling Jesus Christ, a bare-breasted temptress, and as a little blonde girl. In a finale that anticipates Bava's Lisa and the Devil, Satan takes Simon by jet to a 20th-century discotheque." Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound; also on the program, The Seashell & the Clergyman (1928, 41 min) by Germaine Dulac ------------------------ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 ------------------------ 4/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 2 BY GREGORY MARKOPOLOUS SPECIAL SCREENING! Anthology is overjoyed to present this very rare screening of two masterpieces by the incomparable Gregory Markopoulos. One of the key figures of the New American Cinema Group, and arguably among the greatest cinematographers, colorists, and editors in the history of the medium, Markopoulos alternated between ambitious avant-garde feature films and short works of a breathtakingly crystalline perfection. This screening encompasses films made in both modes: the Aeschylus-inspired ILLIAC PASSION and the gem-like short film BLISS. Please note: Anthology co-founder and Princeton professor P. Adams Sitney will give a talk on Markopoulos's vision on Thursday, April 5 at 6:30 in the James Gallery, the Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets). Free and open to the public. See centerforthehumanities.org for details. Very special thanks to Temenos Archive, Robert Beavers, Rebekah Rutkoff, and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY. THE ILLIAC PASSION 1964-67, 92 minutes, 16mm. With Richard Beauvais, Taylor Mead, Tally Brown, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Paul Swan, Gregory Battcock, and Gregory Markopoulos. Reflecting Markopoulos's fascination with Greek mythology and culture, this visionary interpretation of Aeschylus's PROMETHEUS UNBOUND is one of his greatest achievements. Featuring appearances from a whole constellation of underground film and art world luminaries including Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, art critic Gregory Battcock, Gerard Malanga, and Taylor Mead (who will be here at Anthology for his own screening the day after this program see page ? for more details) THE ILLIAC PASSION is a contemporary reimagining of the classical realm, with a soundtrack consisting of excerpts from Bartók and Markopoulos's own stylized reading of Aeschylus's text. "For a viewer seeing this extravagant ode to creation some thirty years after its making, the film's most plangent moments involve Markopoulos's affectionate casting of friends as mythical figures Andy Warhol's Poseidon pumping on an Exercycle above a sea of plastic, Taylor Mead's Demon leaping, grimacing, and streaming vermilion fringes, and [Jack] Smith's bohemian Orpheus, spending a quiet afternoon at home with Eurydice." Kristin M. Jones Followed by: BLISS (1967, 6 minutes, 16mm) Made soon after Markopoulos moved to Europe, BLISS is a lyrical study of the interior of the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra, shot using only available light and, miraculously, edited entirely in-camera. 4/4 San Francisco, California: NEW NOTHING CINEMA http://www.douglaskatelus.com 8pm, 16 Sherman Street TONEWHEEL / FILM REEL TONEWHEEL / FILM REEL Film work set to Hammond Organ by Douglas Katelus I will be performing, "Atom Heart and Beyond the Infinite" along with two brand new new movies with organ sounds, "Transit" and "Help Keep Film Dead" plus other surprises. free 4/4 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 7 PM, Royal Cinema, 608 College Street CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN : BREAKING THE FRAME The 25th Images Festival is pleased to announce a pre-festival screening of a new documentary on Carolee Schneemann (in person!) Breaking the Frame Marielle Nitoslawska (2012, 100 min, HDCAM, Canada) Breaking the Frame is a comprehensive portrait of the groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist Carolee Schneemann. A central figure in twentieth century avant-garde movements, Schneemann expanded the definition of art and art practice to include discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. A pioneer of performance art, she is also an accomplished painter, poet, installation artist and filmmaker. While giving Schneemann space to tell her own story and share her thoughts, recollections and mediations on her life and work, Nitoslawska traces an intimate course though the artists iconic oeuvre. The film demonstrates the diversity of her enormous artistic achievement and opens the work to renewed contemplation. A critical meditation on the relation of art to the physical, domestic and conceptual aspects of daily life as well as the structure and attributes of memory, Breaking the Frame itself pushes the formal boundaries of documentary filmmaking. Eschewing standard chronologies, the film couples descriptive and self-reflexive modalities as it interweaves aesthetic and political reflection on the feminist body as a site for reframing arts histories. Deftly weaving archival images with contemporary footage of Schneemanns journals, paintings and rural home, Nitoslawska captures the multi-dimensionality of the artists work. By highlighting the sheen of photographic prints, the fibres of diary pages and the gloss of wet paint, she provides a textured mise-en-scene that resonates with Schneemanns corporeal focus. The visual composition of the film is complemented by a soundtrack replete with the music of James Tenney. The late composer was Schneemanns companion and collaborator for many years, and the two remained close friends until his death in 2006. ----------------------- THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 ----------------------- 4/5 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, 164 N. State HANDSWORTH SONGS Founded against the backdrop of rising neo-fascism, police brutality, and extreme racial unrest of 1980s Britain, the Black Audio Film Collective produced some of the period's most poetic and provocative works before disbanding in the 1990s. BAFC's acclaimed essay film, Handsworth Songs, examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving archival photographs, newsreel clips, and home movie footage, the film is both an exploration of documentary aesthetics and a broad meditation social and cultural oppression through Britain's intertwined narratives of racism and economic decline. 1986, John Akomfrah/Black Audio Film Collective, UK, 16mm, 60 minutes + discussion 4/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TAYLOR MEAD: ON FILM, IN PERSON You might call him the Shirley Temple of the Underground. He was definitely one of Warhol's funniest and most appealing Superstars. Brendan Gill of THE NEW YORKER once quipped "Taylor Mead looks like a cross between a zombie and a kewpie and speaks as if his mind and mouth were full of marshmallow." Words fail to convey all that makes Taylor Mead so truly special. He is a living legend whose decades of under-the-radar, over-the-top performances in countless films, plays, poetry houses, and bars have earned him infamy and renown the world over. Luckily for us, Taylor is also a neighborhood fixture, and to celebrate this we are introducing a new ongoing series that will spotlight his bewitching je ne sais quoi. Tonight's show features the NYC premiere of a recent restoration of one of Taylor's earliest films, PASSION IN A SEASIDE SLUM, and two early marvels made with Vernon Zimmerman. Best of all, the man himself will be on hand to introduce, take questions, and give answers. Robert Wade Chatterton PASSION IN A SEASIDE SLUM 1961, 32 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm, silent. Preserved by Los Angeles Film Forum, Academy Film Archive, and Anthology Film Archives, with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "After his tour-de-force performances in THE FLOWER THIEF (1960) and LEMON HEARTS (1960), both made in San Francisco, the great underground performer and poet Taylor Mead moved to Los Angeles and lived and worked in the Venice Beach Beat community for a number of months. It was in this context that Mead collaborated with film society director and amateur filmmaker Robert Wade Chatterton on the silent color 8mm film, PASSION IN A SEASIDE SLUM. Mead plays 'the faggot' who persistently cruises a butch guy intent only on fishing in one of the canals. Using the magic wand of a radio antenna, Mead transforms himself into ever more implausible drag figures in his attempts to garner the guy's interest, but only succeeds in soliciting his amused laughs. Chatterton's self-conscious, light-hearted treatment of homosexual desire fueled by Mead's inventive and uproarious performance make for a seminal if previously forgotten example of queer underground cinema." Marc Siegel Vernon Zimmerman LEMON HEARTS (1962, 26 minutes, 16mm) Are you ready to see Taylor Mead in eleven different roles? Take that, Eddie Murphy! An early favorite of the New American Cinema, an energetic comedy with an early cinema sensibility that remains riotously funny. Vernon Zimmerman TO L.A. WITH LUST (1961, 27 minutes, 16mm) Archer Winsten, the long ago critic at the NEW YORK POST, comments that this film is "wild and dirty, but so easy to understand that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic youth on-the-march." What else is there to say? Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 4/5 Philadelphia, PA: International House of Philadelphia 6pm, International House of Philadelphia THE FILMS OF CATHY LEE CRANE:POETIC BIOGRAPHY: AN INVESTIGATION OF WORDS FROM TWO RADICAL POLEMICISTS Over the last decade, Cathy Lee Crane has committed herself to an ongoing experiment with the biographical film, cultivating a fictional form of biography that seeks to penetrate what late filmmaker Raul Ruiz described as the "subtle tissue of life". Combining staged and archival material, Crane materially renders the spectral life of thought itself as a kind of poetry. 4/5 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 7:00 pm, 1515 12th Avenue OCCULTURAL FILM SERIES: MAGICK IN CINEMA Artist, writer and filmmaker Brian Butler presents a program that explores the occult as depicted in avant garde and experimental film. Magick has been defined by Aleister Crowley as "the science and art of causing change to occur inconformity with the will." The short film is a perfect medium for modern occult ritualutilizing sound light and color to alter the consciousness of the viewer. This program includes pioneers in the field of occult film as well as newer works by Brian Butler. A ritual performance will occur following Union of Opposites, performed by Butler. 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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