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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 FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: ============================ "Diluvi Privati I" by Andrea Vincenzi http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=498.ann NEW FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE: =========================== "Uncle Tad Baker's Loon Show: The Movie" by Tad Baker http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=131.ann "Black Biscuit" by Fabrizio Federico http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=130.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: May 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1428.ann Abstracta (Roma, Italy; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1429.ann THE BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM: MEDIA ARTS IN FOCUS (MALI) (Ghana; Deadline: May 02, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1430.ann INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATORY (Ghana; Deadline: October 02, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1431.ann Documentary shorts (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1432.ann Beloit Film Festival (Beloit, WI, United States; Deadline: November 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1433.ann 25 FPS International experimental film and video festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1434.ann Unreal Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1435.ann Cellardoor Cinema Screenplay Contest (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1436.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1437.ann Greentopia Festival (Rochester, NY, United States; Deadline: July 02, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1438.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1392.ann The Journal of Short Film Volume 27 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1394.ann The Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1398.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: Vulgar Politics (San Francisco, CA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1408.ann Surplus/Lack (San Francisco Bay Area, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1412.ann Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto; Deadline: May 04, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1413.ann International Video Art Festival NOW&AFTER12 (Moscow, Russia; Deadline: April 25, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1420.ann Radon Lake (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1424.ann Manipulated Image @ art:screen fest 2012 in Sweden (Los Angeles, CA, USA; Deadline: April 24, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1427.ann THE BAMAKO SYMPOSIUM: MEDIA ARTS IN FOCUS (MALI) (Ghana; Deadline: May 02, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1430.ann Documentary shorts (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1432.ann 25 FPS International experimental film and video festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1434.ann Unreal Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1435.ann Cellardoor Cinema Screenplay Contest (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1436.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 27, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1437.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): ============================== * Stan Brakhage Program 1 [April 14, New York, New York] * Dog Star Man [April 14, New York, New York] * My Mars Bar Movie [April 14, New York, New York] * John Davis On Thunderbolt Pagoda + Lori Varga's Toy Synths + Cox' Korgs + [April 14, San Francisco, California] * Peggy Ahwesh: Audio & vision Machines, Introduced By Rebecca Cleman of Eai [April 15, Brooklyn, New York] * The Pittsburgh Trilogy [April 15, New York, New York] * Songs 1-14 [April 15, New York, New York] * My Mars Bar Movie [April 15, New York, New York] * Mixed Signals: Moving Images Works By Lee Arnold [April 16, Brooklyn, New York] * The Animated Films of William Kentridge [April 16, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Seeing and Awakening- New Films By Nathaniel Dorsky [April 16, Los Angeles, California] * College (1927, 66 Min) By James W. Horne & Buster Keaton [April 17, Reading, Pennsylvania] * James Benning: Twenty Cigarettes [April 19, Chicago, Illinois] * Crosstown Rivals: Films From Usc and Ucla In the 1960s [April 19, Los Angeles, California] * Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 19, New York, New York] * Yugoslav Experimental Program [April 19, New York, New York] * Improvised Music and Experimental Film [April 19, Seattle, Washington] * Misalt Presents: Conversations With the Mirror - Contemporary Autonarritive and Reflections On the Self [April 20, Artists' Television Access] * Cecilia Dougherty Program 1 [April 20, New York, New York] * Misalt Screening Series Presents: Conversations With the Mirror - Contemporary Autonarrative [April 20, San Francisco, California] * Print Generation [April 21, Boston, Massachusetts] * Films By Lewis Klahr & Laida Lertxundi [April 21, Los Angeles, California] * Cecilia Dougherty Program 2 [April 21, New York, New York] * Cecilia Dougherty Program 3 [April 21, New York, New York] * Ken Adams' Mckenna Experience + Goldwave + Dmt + [April 21, San Francisco, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Bright Ideas: Conceptual Art Films From Los Angeles [April 22, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 2 [April 22, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Text of Light [April 22, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 3 [April 22, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 ------------------------ 4/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 1 DESISTFILM (1954, 7 min, 16mm, sound) REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12 min, 16mm, sound) THE WONDER RING (1955, 4 min, 16mm) FLESH OF MORNING (1956, 25 min, 16mm) DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE (1957, 8 min, 16mm) WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 min, 16mm) Films made during the early, "psychodramatic" period of one of modern cinema's greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. 4/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue DOG STAR MAN by Stan Brakhage 1961-64, 74 minutes, 16mm A masterwork in which all of Brakhage's techniques achieve a complex synthesis to produce one of cinema's supreme epic poems. "The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color." Michael McClure, ARTFORUM 4/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MY MARS BAR MOVIE See notes for April 13, 8 pm. 4/14 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street JOHN DAVIS ON THUNDERBOLT PAGODA + LORI VARGAS TOY SYNTHS + COX' KORGS + The first in our Psychedelia series, tonight's show resonates with the switched-on groove of the analog synthesizer subculture. Headlining is John Davis' live-track to Ira Cohen's legendary Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda. PLUS: We welcome back to the Bay Area Ms. Lori Varga, who cleverly demonstrates 9 "modified" oddities from her mini-synth collection, inviting audience into hands-on experience! David Cox shows off both the impossibly funky Optigan and also its iteration as an iPhone app! Concluding the evening is Matthew Bate's What the Future Sounded Like, a half-hr. BBC doc on the early synth scene in '60s England, with clips of Roxy Music-era Brian Eno, Hawkwind, and Dr. Who. Come early for Bob Moog clips, early Soviet Theremin, Raymond Scott initiatives, Negativland Boopers, and bio-feedback bliss! $6.66. ---------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 ---------------------- 4/15 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 6PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) PEGGY AHWESH: AUDIO & VISION MACHINES, INTRODUCED BY REBECCA CLEMAN OF EAI Admission $6, Introduced by Rebecca Cleman of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). The screening is in connection with her current exhibition "Inside Circle". The program of new and old works spans almost 20 years and illuminates the thinking behind the exhibition. The issues of women and identity, friendship, and the ethnography of everyday life are brought together in works based in play-acting and improvisation, embracing a marginal and radical subjectivity in the Warholian tradition. Pittsburgh poet and filmmaker, luminary and social butterfly, Natalka Voslakov, appears in several of the works contributing "much of the irony, social critique, and visual pleasure" of the films." A series of answering messages left by Voslakov over a 10 year period are the inspiration for the exhibition, which is on view through April 16. PROGRAM: "Bethlehem" by Peggy Ahwesh (8 min, 2008. "Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra" by Natalka Voslakov (18 min, 1979). Audio Listening session: 'The Geisha Life' & 'Totally Alone' mash up of soundtracks featuring Natalka Voslavka, by Peggy Ahwesh (10 min, 2012). "Philosophy in the Bedroom, Pts 1 and 2" by Peggy Ahwesh (16 min, 1993). "The Vision Machine" by Peggy Ahwesh (20 min, 1996). more info at www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options: L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 4/15 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY by Stan Brakhage Share + Film Notes EYES 1970, 36 minutes, 16mm, silent. "After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970." S.B. & DEUS EX 1971, 34 minutes, 16mm, silent. "I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room of San Francisco's Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and the following lines from Charles Olson's 'Cole's Island' had especially centered the experience, 'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins the poem with the statement 'I met Death ' And then: 'He didn't bother me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And / He certainly was, the moment I saw him.'" S.B. & THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES 1971, 32 minutes, 16mm, silent. " Brakhage, entering, with his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of others." Hollis Frampton Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. 4/15 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SONGS 1-14 "SONG 1: Portrait of a lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco. SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10: Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals." S.B. 4/15 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MY MARS BAR MOVIE See notes for April 13, 7:30 pm. ---------------------- MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 ---------------------- 4/16 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) MIXED SIGNALS: MOVING IMAGES WORKS BY LEE ARNOLD Admission $6 Artist in person. Approx 50 minute program. Microscope is very pleased to present a solo screening of works by Brooklyn-based artist Lee Arnold. His work spans numerous media from drawings to photography and moving image works. Arnold's films and videos often conceived for installation constitute an elemental part of his work, but rarely have been been presented together. The program consists of 14 short videos made from 2005 through 2011 and displays side-by-side such varied range of works as time-lapse films of nature, digital animations and other formal, software-based experiments. PROGRAM "Die Farben", 2007 Feat. Die Farben (stadium), Die Farben (escalator) and Die Farben (pool) (1 min each). "Stereo", 2007 (music composed by Jaques Tati; performed by Chris Dingman) Video, 3:12 min. "S-Bahn", 2006 (music by David Bowie & Brian Eno; recorded Berlin, 1977) Video, 5 min. "Alpinia", 2006 (Video, 1:37 min). "Twenty-Four Colors", 2005 (Video, 4:12 min)."Clouds", 2008 (Video, 1:15 min). I"n-Transit", 2005 (Video, 7 min). "Ice", 2009 (music by Hans Otte from "The Book of Sounds") Video, 8:36 min. "Utopia", 2009 (Video, 1:30 min). "Circles", 2009 (Video, 24 sec). "View from Governors Island", 2010 (Video, 3 min), "Walpurgis Night", 2011 (Video, 1 min). "The Magic Mountain", 2011 (8mm transfer to video, 7 min). "Mixed Signals", 2011 (Video, 1:10 min). Bio Lee Arnold was born in London in 1972 and lives in Brooklyn. In his work he explores the nature of time and perception using a variety of media, including film, video, photography, drawing and sound. He has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad at venues including NURTUREart in New York, Fleisher-Ollman in Philadelphia, and SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the DAAD, Berlin. more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433, nearest subway J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway or L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 4/16 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street THE ANIMATED FILMS OF WILLIAM KENTRIDGE South African artist extraordinaire William Kentridge (b. 1955) is celebrated for his unusual drawing-based art practice which uses age-old techniques to create cutting edge and often fiercely political work in a wide range of media from prints to theater, opera and most of all film. Since the late 1970s Kentridge has given much of his time to the direction of "moving pictures," crafting intensely artisanal and profoundly imaginative films based entirely upon his handmade charcoal drawings and using only a drafting table and camera for their arduous and extended productions. Refusing any kind of computerized special effects, Kentridge instead works and reworks his drawings as he films them, making the act of erasure as important as his drawings, keeping the trace as alive as the figure. A direct extension of the palimpsest mode of Kentridge's animated films is the alternately melancholic and whimsical world which they describe, ranging from the comical study of bureaucratic chaos, Memo to his remarkable polyptych, 9 Drawings for Projection. Loosely centered around the troubling yet strangely sympathetic figure of the fat cat capitalist and cuckold, Soho Eckstein, 9 Drawings for Projection offers a lyrical meditation on contemporary South Africa that openly addresses the thorny issues of apartheid, class inequity and rampant free market capitalism. A passionate cinephile whose own work draws on a range of film referents from Sergei Eisenstein to George Méliès, Kentridge's animated works are mesmerizing both as a kind of pure cinema and as a dramatic mode of live drawing. WILLIAM KENTRIDGE IN PERSON SPECIAL EVENT TICKETS $12 Memo (South Africa 1994, digital video, color, 3 min) Johannesburg: 2nd Greatest City After Paris (South Africa 1989, 35mm, b/w, 8 min) Mine (South Africa 1991, 35mm, color, 6 min) Ubu Tells the Truth (South Africa 1997, digital video, b/w, 8 min) Journey to the Moon (South Africa 2003, digital video, b/w, 8 min) History of the Main Complaint (South Africa 1996, 35mm, b/w, 6 min) WEIGHING and WANTING (South Africa 1998, 35mm, color, 6 min) Stereoscope (South Africa 1999, 35mm, color, 8 min) Other Faces (South Africa 2011, digital video, color, 9 min) 4/16 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 SEEING AND AWAKENING- NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY Nathaniel Dorsky's work draws from the very essence of cinema; he creates profound experiences that explore the world through images of extraordinary beauty, and a montage that subverts the descriptive and awakens mystery. Dorsky's book Devotional Cinema is a modern classic on the poetics of the medium, and the thirteen films he has completed since 1996 have been widely acclaimed and featured at major film festivals and museums throughout the world. This program will include Pastourelle (2010), The Return (named by The New York Times as one of the best films of 2011), and a world premiere, August and After. A different program of Dorsky's films will be shown at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In person: Nathaniel Dorsky. Jack H. Skirball Screening Series / $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] ----------------------- TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2012 ----------------------- 4/17 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts COLLEGE (1927, 66 MIN) BY JAMES W. HORNE & BUSTER KEATON One of the most brilliant performances by the stone-faced, clown poet of silent cinema. College contains "Keaton's most startlingly inventive stunts... executed so precisely and with such an air of confident innocence that they are charged with surprise and probably will be forever." Pauline Kael ------------------------ THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 ------------------------ 4/19 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, 164 N. State JAMES BENNING: TWENTY CIGARETTES James Benning in person. Celebrated for his minimal, monumental landscape studies, James Benning turns to the intimacy of the portrait in his latest film, Twenty Cigarettes. Referencing Warhol's screen tests, 1930's Hollywood glamour, and the disappearing cigarette break, the film captures twenty of Benning's friends (including filmmaker Sharon Lockhart, cultural theorist Dick Hebdige, and book editor Janet Jenkins) satiating their smoke cravings. Each shot's length is determined by the time it takes each subject to smoke a cigarette, and over the course of the film a dynamic range of personalities emerges out of an array of physical characteristics, distinctive settings, and personal relationships to the camera. 2011, USA, HDCAM, 99 minutes + discussion 4/19 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00pm, Ray Stark Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Bldg, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th St. CROSSTOWN RIVALS: FILMS FROM USC AND UCLA IN THE 1960S Enthused by the possibilities of "underground" film, energetic students at Los Angeles' leading universities made a healthy amount of work using alternative approaches in the 1960s. This work gained notoriety in the mass media, with an article in Time Magazine, among others. The most well-known filmmaker to come out of this period is George Lucas, but we'll also be looking at remarkable students works by Penelope Spheeris, David Lebrun, Paul Golding, Robert Abel, John Milius, Burton Gershfield, Bruce Green, and Rob Thompson. Politically and socially activated works, experimenting in animation, collage, documentary, and narrative, topped by two unusual science fiction films from Spheeris and Lucas. In person: David Lebrun, others to be announced (schedules permitting) Info: http://alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/crosstown-rivals-film s-from-usc-and-ucla-in-the-1960s/ Tickets are free. RSVPs are available on the USC website at http://cinema.usc.edu/CrossTownRivals 4/19 New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html 7:00PM, 260 West 23rd Street SHORTS: JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Spanning creative journeys across four continents, the assembled filmmakers invoke diverse cultural landscapes, suggesting a collective struggle of humanity between apocalyptic visions of the past, present, and future, and the redemptive power of the human spirit. Cinematic techniques comprising found footage imagery, historic audio recordings, still photography, animation, collage, Super 8mm (celluloid) filmmaking, and digital cinematography comprise the rich visual and audio landscapes of these films, all made by talented artists, ranging from emerging student voices to experienced filmmakers returning to TFF. Films include "An Incomplete History of the Travelogue" Sasha Waters Freyer, 1925, "Scenes From a Visit to Japan" Joel Schlemowitz, "The Valley" Leif Huron , "Sinews of Peace" Timo Franc, "Barcelona" Martin Laporte, "Democratic Locations" Thomas Kutschker, "Abyss of Man's Conscience (ReconoceR)" Juan Camilo González, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg 4/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. YUGOSLAV EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM The original formats are listed below; however, due to the fragile and often unique nature of most of these films, they will be screened from video. Tomislav Gotovac THE MORNING OF A FAUN (1963, 7 minutes, 16mm) Tomislav Gotovac CIRCLE (JUTKEVICH-COUNT) (1964, 7 minutes, 16mm) Gotovac is a figure of seminal importance in the history of Yugoslav cinema. He was a versatile filmmaker, conceptual and performance artist, and a hardcore cinephile ("As soon as I open my eyes in the morning, I see film"). Since the 1960s, his avant-garde practices have greatly inspired generations of filmmakers and artists. This program features two of Gotovac's key (proto-)structural works built, respectively, around the fixed and the gyrating camera's field of vision. Mihovil Pansini K-3, OR CLEAR SKY WITHOUT A CLOUD (1963, 3 minutes, 16mm) This short is a prime example of the "antifilm" tendency, which developed in the early 1960s and became one of the defining tropes of Yugoslav experimental cinema. Pansini was not only a practitioner, but also the foremost theoretician of "antifilm". Ivan Martinac I'M MAD (1967, 5 minutes, Super-8mm) "Space is never primary in the film. Time is. Therefore, it is also not the event but the cut that is primary." I.M. Ana Nua Dragan SOME INFORMATION (1968, 2 minutes, 8mm) A string of self-sufficient images, records of events and situations involving the filmmaker. Nua Dragan's interest was in casting diverse social and communication processes as so many types of cinematic relations. Slobodan ijan HANDMADE (1971, 1.5 minutes, 8mm) This is a rugged artisanal miniature, a vibrant piece of raw film matter from a filmmaker whose career has successfully unfolded on parallel tracks in the realm of experimental art, as well as in the mainstream of feature-length narrative cinema. Ivica Matić CLASSIFIEDS (IN MEMORIAM) (1971, 6 minutes, 16mm) A provocative and disturbing film, edited as if under the sign of Freud's claim that the unconscious "knows no contradiction." Vladimir Petek ENCOUNTERS (1963, 5 minutes, 35mm) Petek's extravagant cinematic portrait of a young woman is grounded in extensive interrogation of the nature of the medium. Miodrag Tarana & Mirko Avramović FROM ME TO YOU (1972, 3.5 minutes, 8mm) A playful exchange involving two cameras. Nikola Djurić THE RAVEN (1973, 5 minutes, 16mm) This lyrical exercise in bird-watching developed from Djurić's work on a self-made optical printer. Radoslav Vladić MARINELA (1974, 4 minutes, 16mm) Vladić's films are shot with much precision and attention to visual detail. In this work, subject matter and cinematographic technique are whimsically matched. While the record spins, the camera incessantly pans across the room. Miodrag Miloević LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1983, 6 minutes [short version], 16mm) "This is my attempt to analyze a favorite film. I shot it off a television screen. It is a Bertolucci film, but cleansed of everything I did not like about it." M.M. elimir ilnik INVENTORY (1975, 9 minutes, 16mm) A political-materialist documentary in the structural mode, made by a veteran of Yugoslav engaged ("black wave") cinema. The film's subject matter is guest-workers in Munich, Germany. Davorin Marc BITE ME. ONCE ALREADY (1977-80, 1.5 minutes, Super-8mm) "The effect of teeth on a strip of film." Made by Marc and a group of friends. Bojan Jovanović TURMOIL (1982, 13 minutes, 16mm) Politics of film form is, quite literally, the subject of Jovanović's exploration. Taking as his starting point some footage of street scenes in early-1980s Kosovo, the filmmaker systematically disrupts the legibility of the image. Flicker, scratching, re-filming (over- and under-exposure), slow motion, frozen/burning frames, and the film losing its loop, all become symptoms of the rising socio-political tensions in the region. Miroslav Bata Petrović PURE FILM: MEMENTO OF GEFF (1984, 5 minutes, 16mm) Made some two decades after the idea of "antifilm" was originally elaborated, this playful homage insists on the continued relevance of its impulse toward radical reductivism. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 4/19 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th ave IMPROVISED MUSIC AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM This twice-annual program, co-curated by The Monktail Creative Music Concern and the Film Forum, presents an evening of live collaborative media experiments. Some of the area's most talented musicians will play in and alongside a number of pioneering short films by Northwest filmmakers. ---------------------- FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 ---------------------- 4/20 Artists' Television Access: MisALT 8:00, Artists' Television Access MISALT PRESENTS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MIRROR - CONTEMPORARY AUTONARRITIVE AND REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF The MisALT screening series is excited to announce Conversations With The Mirror: Contemporary Autonarrative and Reflections of the Self, an evening of videos that present innovative approaches to autobiographic and auto-fictional subject matter. The program consists of work by 8 intriguing experimental video and filmmakers ranging from sci-fi memoirs, revisionist diaries, semi-fictional documentary, and brutally honest self-portraits. Featuring work by Bryan Konefsky, Fiona Trigg, Ron Toole, Julie Perini, Carl Elsaesser, Nadia Jassim, Marissa Perel, and Yasi Ghanbari. Curated by Tessa Siddle. - 8:00PM Friday April 20th, 2012. - at Artist Television Access, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA - $6.00 - Featuring: "There is a Wind That Blew" (Carl Elsaesser, USA, 2011) - Two parents insert themselves into their son's diary and assume several roles, until the diary realizes their presence. As the passages fall apart and the son violently, tries to get rid of his parents, a film crew appears-framing specifics-searching for, concrete answers to an echoing repression. There is Wind That Blew explores the fluid, relationship between repression, documentary film making, narrative representation, - family history and agency. - "Black Swans at Night" (Fiona Trigg, Australia, 2011) - A reflection on employment anxieties, love, sex, guilt, and the films of Paul Schrader. - "Vancouver" (Bryan Konefsky, USA, 2008) - A five part diary inspired by a recent trip to Vancouver, British Columbia where, at the border a Canadian Customs Officer accuses the filmmaker of smuggling pornography into their country. Ultimately this work is a meditation on paranoia, false perceptions, misguided judgments and a particular brand of "profiling." - "Girl Next Door" (Julie Perini, USA, 2010) - An experimental documentary about a cluster of apartment dwellers in Perini's North Portland, neighborhood that combines factual and fictional information to create a portrait of a micro-community. - "Where Once Was When" (Ron Toole, USA, 2011) - A man travels to a distant planet where his memory is used to populate the new land with soul. A voiced narrative counters a textual one\; each presents a unique point of view. As his memory drains he wrestles with these points of view. He feels responsible of the other people in his memory who have no say in their captured role, but also excited by the prospect of seeding a new planet. Incorporating optical print techniques to visually relate memory, and using the last few rolls of kodachrome to shoot the distant planet, Toole's film displays a strong subtext about the creation of avant garde film and its continuation. - "Bee Test" (Nadia Jassim, USA, 2009) "Andi" (Nadia Jassim, USA, 2010) - Jassim's hallucinatory and visceral video diptych reflects upon the collapse of a doomed and dysfunctional relationship through dreams, prophecy, insect life, and aviation. - "Father Figure" (Yasi Ghanbari & Marissa Perel, USA, 2010) - Dentistry, aerobics, and George Michael form the backdrop for a meditation on tensions in the father-daughter relationship. 4/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. CECILIA DOUGHERTY PROGRAM 1 IN A STATION, PETALS (2011, 13 minutes, video, silent) This video is created from hundreds of stills sourced from TV shows that I used to watch. I targeted small corners of the frame or scene, and since I was looking so closely, began to notice how race and gender stereotypes are contained in the tiny moments of the pixels. LAURIE (1998, 11 minutes, video) The first in a series of video portraits of writers, this was inspired by Laurie Weeks's uncanny ability to simultaneously embody her characters and write them from a clear distance. The text in question is a few paragraphs from a draft of the novel ZIPPER MOUTH, published last fall by the Feminist Press. LESLIE (1998, 11 minutes, video) A portrait of the West Coast poet Leslie Scalapino, who left an unmatched legacy of literature, poetry, and ideas when she died in 2010. The text is from AS: ALL OCCURRENCE IN STRUCTURE, UNSEEN (DEER NIGHT). EILEEN (2000, 10 minutes, video) This video is an unabashed fan letter to poet Eileen Myles. I shot the movie as I imagined Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie shooting PULL MY DAISY, a film that left an impression on me chiefly of the struggle between form and formlessness, plan and improvisation, sketch and story. KEVIN & CEDAR (2002, 8.5 minutes, video) I went to visit Kevin Killian's South of Market apartment in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of him, and when I arrived he had a guest, poet Cedar Sigo. While they had corresponded earlier, they were meeting that day for the first time. Cedar agreed to participate in our video shoot. GONE (2001, 37 minutes, video) A two-channel video based on Episode No. 2 of producer Craig Gilbert's AN AMERICAN FAMILY, the landmark 1970s Public Television cinéma vérité documentary about the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California. The second episode of the series follows mother Pat Loud's arrival in New York, where she spends the week with her son Lance, who is living at the Chelsea Hotel. Much of the dialogue in GONE is based on the actual dialogue in the original series. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. 4/20 San Francisco, California: MisALT Screening Series http://www.othervixen.com/convomirror.html 8PM, Artist Televison Access 992 Valencia St MISALT SCREENING SERIES PRESENTS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MIRROR - CONTEMPORARY AUTONARRATIVE The MisALT screening series is excited to announce Conversations With The Mirror: Contemporary Autonarrative and Reflections of the Self, an evening of videos that present innovative approaches to autobiographic and auto-fictional subject matter. The program consists of work by 8 intriguing experimental video and filmmakers ranging from sci-fi memoirs, revisionist diaries, semi-fictional documentary, and brutally honest self-portraits. Featuring work by Bryan Konefsky, Fiona Trigg, Ron Toole, Julie Perini, Carl Elsaesser, Nadia Jassim, Marissa Perel, and Yasi Ghanbari. Curated by Tessa Siddle. 8:00PM Friday April 20th, 2012. at Artist Television Access 992 Valencia St San Francisco, CA $6.00 ------------------------ SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 ------------------------ 4/21 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 7:00pm, 559 Washington Street PRINT GENERATION J.J. Murphy's rarely screened, seminal exploration of film and memory. Re-printing one minute of film 50 times, Murphy pushes the limits of film's materiality to create a profound journey from abstraction to representation & back again. RESTORATION PRINT! 4/21 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) FILMS BY LEWIS KLAHR & LAIDA LERTXUNDI $5 / Master collagist Lewis Klahr has been making films since 1977. He is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic experimental films, which have screened extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. "Above all Klahr's great subject is time, which certainly explains the exquisitely melancholy tone that pervades his work. He traffics in modes that are pitched just beyond the realm of reason. Somewhere between waking and sleeping, we can find that wavelength and achieve understanding--only to have it slip away as we enter ones state or the other. Klahr's films and videos provide a rare opportunity for us to engage with a liminal state of consciousness with our alert mind and to reach those "infrathin" moments that Proust describes as existing outside of time."-- Chris Stults, Film Comment. Laida Lertxundi makes films with non-actors that evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers' desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and music with found locales, constructed situations, and quotidian environments. Shot within and around Los Angeles, her films map out a geography of landscapes transformed by affective and subjective states. Her films have been selected for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and other venues and festivals where her work has been shown include MoMA, LACMA, the Viennale, "Views from the Avant Garde" at the New York Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Program: Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (2009, Digital Video), Lethe (2009, Digital Video), and Two Hours To Zero (2004, 16mm) by Lewis Klahr; Footnotes to a House of Love (2007), My Tears Are Dry (2009), Llora Cuando Te Pase / Cry When It Happens (2010), and A Lax Riddle Unit (2011) (all 16mm) by Laida Lertxundi. LEWIS KLAHR AND LAIDA LERTXUNDI IN ATTENDANCE! 4/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. CECILIA DOUGHERTY PROGRAM 2 COAT OF ARMS (1987, 16 minutes, slow scan remote video capture, silent) This piece is an enjoyment of the artifice of video its colors, shapes, and electronic games. THE THIRD SPACE (2009, 27 minutes, video) This piece grew out of my photo blog, QUOTIDIAN NEW YORK, which I used as a portable studio to record and archive pictures I took on my daily rounds. CLAUDIA (1987, 8 minutes, video) An examination of the possibility that anything as marginal to society as lesbian sex can be placed within a context of a normal life, domestic architecture, and mundane perspective not an exercise in invisibility, but as an examination of everyday life itself. MY FAILURE TO ASSIMILATE (1995, 20 minutes, video) An essay and a documentary examining the failure of society to accept feminist ideologies to a point where feminism could have an appreciable, lasting, or functional effect on the lives of ordinary women as a class. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. 4/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. CECILIA DOUGHERTY PROGRAM 3 OCCUPY WALL STREET REDUX (2011, 14.5 minutes, video, silent) Impressions, regressions, confessions. A sampling of direct democracy; thinking of times past, and takin' it to the streets. It's not a documentary, so it doesn't have to pretend to be objective. Footage from OWS NYC Sept-Nov 2011. THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD (1992, 5.5 minutes, video) Inspired by psychologist Alice Miller's book THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUE SELF. While not an adaptation of the book, my video is an essay on the transference phenomenon, narcissism, and the desire for a sense of self-worth based on the needs of peers and the standards of others. JOE-JOE 1993, 52 minutes, video. Co-directed and co-produced by Leslie Singer and Cecilia Dougherty. An adaptation of the diaries of 1960s British bad-boy playwright Joe Orton. This may be an entirely new genre of biopic, as JOE-JOE presents Orton not as one talented gay rogue, but as two fabulous and talented gay women, both named Joe Orton. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes 4/21 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street KEN ADAMS' MCKENNA EXPERIENCE + GOLDWAVE + DMT + In this West Coast launch of Incite's New Ages issue, Adams (former Rose X), having ejected from Texas for new digs in the Bay Area, unveils the NorCal debut of his hr.-plus Terence McKenna Experience. Adams has crafted an experimental electronic essay by and about the rogue intellectual, spoken-word artist, and psychedelic visionary, infused into a multi-temporal cascade of imagery, ideas, and mesmerizing music. Supporting this hallucinatory homage, as the final installment of our OptrOnica thread, is the live-cinema collective Goldwave (Cyrus Tabar, Shemoel Recalde, Josh Roberts) with its ravishing A/V synthesis. PLUS Mitch Schultz' DMT: The Spirit Molecule, with Ralph Abraham. Come early for Jordan Belson, the Whitney Brothers, and the Dream Machine. $6. ---------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 ---------------------- 4/22 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm (doors open 7, box office opens 6:30), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS BRIGHT IDEAS: CONCEPTUAL ART FILMS FROM LOS ANGELES Los Angeles was one of the centers of Conceptual Art production, as reflected by multiple Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. Where sculptural and installation manifestations of Conceptual Art are more widely known, film and video also served as media for these sorts of explorations works in which the concept preceded the work, and for which one could theoretically conceive the work with the rules themselves. The program includes a wide array of works by artists known both for working in other media and in film. Several will be in person. The program includes works by artists more known for working in other media, such as John Baldessari, Jack Goldstein, and David Wilson, and for those working in film, such as Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren, and Susan Rosenfeld. In person: Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, more to be confirmed Info: http://alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/bright-ideas-conceptu al-art-films/ The show is free! Reservations recommended, and will be held until 7:15 pm on show night, at which time they will be released to anyone present. Reservations available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239612 4/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 2 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT (1958, 40 minutes, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEAD (1960, 11 minutes, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 minutes, 16mm) BLUE MOSES (1963, 11 minutes, 16mm, sound) PASHT (1965, 5 minutes, 16mm) FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 minutes, 16mm, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films, BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. 4/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TEXT OF LIGHT by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 minutes, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light." Dun Scotus Erigena 4/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 3 All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29 minutes, 16mm) THE MACHINE OF EDEN (1970, 11 minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 minutes, 16mm) DOOR (1971, 4 minutes, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 minutes, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's most densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 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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