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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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== 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 Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: May 18, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1439.ann Avanca Film festival (Avanca, Portugal; Deadline: April 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1440.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 Arizona Underground Film Festival (Tucson, AZ, USA; Deadline: May 18, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1439.ann Avanca Film festival (Avanca, Portugal; Deadline: April 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1440.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): ============================== * 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] * Anthony Mccall's Line Describing A Cone [April 23, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Bill Morrison- Miners, Bridges, Lost Love and Other Retrieved Treasures [April 23, Los Angeles, California] * Moolaadé By Ousmane Sembene [April 24, Reading, Pennsylvania] * Craig Baldwin In Denver!! [April 25, Denver, CO] * Dirty Looks: Warren Sonbert | Tom Chomont [April 25, New York, New York] * La Air: John Palmer [April 26, Los Angeles, California] * Design In Motion: Oskar Fischinger and Abstract Animation [April 27, Los Angeles, California] * Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 27, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Program 1 [April 27, New York, New York] * Tech Focus ii: Caring For Film and Slide Art [April 27, Washington, DC] * New Works Salon [April 28, Los Angeles, California] * Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 28, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Program 2 [April 28, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Program 3 [April 28, New York, New York] * Divine's Technicolor Dreams: Cinematic Psychedelia + [April 28, San Francisco, California] * Screening: the Pipedreams Project & Someday All of This Will Be Yours [April 28, Vancouver, British Columbia] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Same Sex/Different Sex: Queer Identity and Culture [April 29, Los Angeles, California] * Mi_losangeles2012: Memory and "Identity" [April 29, Los Angeles, California] * Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes [April 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 1 [April 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 2 [April 29, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Program 4 [April 29, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Program 5 [April 29, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ 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. ---------------------- MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 ---------------------- 4/23 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street (ROOM B-04) ANTHONY MCCALLS LINE DESCRIBING A CONE Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It is dealing with the projected light-beam itself, rather than treating the light-beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded when it strikes a flat surface (the screen). The film exists only in the present: the moment of projection. It refers to nothing beyond this real time. The form of attention required on the part of the viewer is unprecedented. No longer is one viewing position as good as any other. For this film every viewing position presents a different aspect. The view therefore has a participatory role in apprehending the event: he or she can indeed needs to move around, relative to the emerging light-form. Anthony McCall Directed by Anthony McCall USA 1973, 16mm, b/w, silent, 30 min http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2012aprjun/mccall.html 4/23 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 BILL MORRISON- MINERS, BRIDGES, LOST LOVE AND OTHER RETRIEVED TREASURES Los Angeles premiere | The Miners' Hymns (USA/UK, 2011, 52 min, HD) Since The Film of Her (1996), award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison has completed more than 20 experimental pieces in which he poetically and rhythmically reworks archival footage in various stages of preservation or decomposition. With The Miners' Hymns, he teams up with Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson to celebrate the culture and political struggles of the Durham collieries in northeastern England. Weaving together stunning black-and-white footage from the early 1900s through the massive 1984 strikes, the film montages different aspects of the miners' livesthe hardship of pit work, the role of the trade unions, the tradition of the colliery brass bands and the annual Miners' Gala in Durham. A selection of earlier short films, including Outerborough (2005) and Release (2010) rounds out the evening. In person: Bill Morrison ----------------------- TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 ----------------------- 4/24 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts MOOLAADé BY OUSMANE SEMBENE Moolaadé (2005, 124 min) is a rousing polemic directed against the still common African practice of female circumcision. The action is set in a small African village, where four young girls facing ritual "purification" flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists (both male and female) and endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter to the heir-apparent to the tribal throne. "It's Sembene's most beautiful film; having avoided prettifying exotica during his whole career, the aging master was able to relax and enjoy the shade-dappled sunniness of his native land, making his most issue-oriented film also his most Renoirian."- Michael Atkinson (in Bambara with subtitles) ------------------------- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 ------------------------- 4/25 Denver, CO: Counterpath http://counterpathpress.org/craig-baldwins-sonic-outlaws-wednesday-april-25-2012-7-p-m 7pm, 613 22nd St CRAIG BALDWIN IN DENVER!! Come out to Counterpath Press Gallery and rail against the machine with Craig Baldwin in the flesh, talking about and screening his culture-jamming collage essay film SONIC OUTLAWS http://counterpathpress.org/craig-baldwins-sonic-outlaws-wednesday-april -25-2012-7-p-m 4/25 New York, New York: Dirty Looks http://dirtylooksnyc.org 8:30PM, Judson Memorial Church / 55 Washington Square South DIRTY LOOKS: WARREN SONBERT | TOM CHOMONT From the late sixties until their untimely deaths (in 1995 and 2010, respectively) Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont made some of the most innovative and thrilling film and video diaries around. Documenting queer experience from wild sixties drug cultures to the regressive, Reaganite years of the early AIDS crisis, these lyrical works delve into the quotidian, showcasing explicit drug use, S&M rituals, kittens at play, hardcore sexuality, and Grace Jones. PROGRAM Warren Sonbert, Amphetamine (with Wendy Appel), 16mm, 10 min., 1966 | Tom Chomont, Jabbok, 16mm, 3 min., 1967 | Warren Sonbert, Divided Loyalties, 16mm, 22 min., 1975-78 | Tom Chomont, Razor Head, 16mm, 4 min., 1984 | Warren Sonbert, Honor and Obey, 16mm, 21 min., 1987 | Tom Chomont, Slash Portrait, Video, 7 min., 1994 ------------------------ THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 ------------------------ 4/26 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) LA AIR: JOHN PALMER LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. Our April resident, John Palmer, plans to work on a series of hand-processed photogram 16mm films, a video about secrets, andtime-willinga work-in-progress using manipulated projection and live performance. John Palmer is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. His work includes film, video, photography, and sculpture, and has been exhibited internationally, including venues such as Southern Exposure, SF Cameraworks, Black Maria Gallery, Blaffer Gallery, La Enana Marron, Artists Space, Pacific Film Archive and Millennium Film Workshop. He received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium and the James Broughton Film Award. FREE! ---------------------- FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 ---------------------- 4/27 Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 7:30 pm, Bing Theatre, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard DESIGN IN MOTION: OSKAR FISCHINGER AND ABSTRACT ANIMATION Center for Visual Music and LACMA present two programs of experimental animation and abstraction by artists working in California, screened on 35mm and 16mm film. Featuring films by Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, Harry Smith, Jules Engel, Charles Dockum and more, the programs are presented in conjunction with the exhibition California Design 1930-1965, Living in a Modern Way. 1st program: Optical Poetry, Oskar Fischinger Retrospective. The Oskar Fischinger Retrospective features restored 35mm prints of his classic visual music films: Allegretto, Composition in Blue, Muratti Greift Ein, a new preservation print of Spirals, Studies 5,6,7 and 8, Motion Painting no. 1 and more. 2nd program: Color and Form: Modernist Animation in California. The second program that highlights landmark, abstract animation includes Fischinger's delightful and rarely seen advertisement for Muntz TV (1952), plus films by some of the many California filmmakers whom he inspired: stunning jazz films by Jordan Belson (Caravan, 1952) and Harry Smith (Films #1,2,3); Jules Engel's Mobiles, Play Pen, and his color-field film Landscape; Belson's rarely screened Mandala (1953); John Stehura's groundbreaking Cibernetik 5.3 (1960-65)one of the very first computer films; Charles Dockum's Mobilcolor Projector light-experiment film; Fischinger's later motion painting experiments; Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray and more. Most are preserved 16mm prints. Both programs introduced by curator/archivist Cindy Keefer. Fischinger prints preserved by Center for Visual Music, Academy Film Archive, EYE FIlm Insitute, and Fischinger Archive. Engel films preserved by Center for Visual Music. Ticketing through LACMA: www.lacma.org/series/design-motion-oskar-fischinger-and-abstract-animati on 4/27 New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html 7:00PM, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 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 Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg 4/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: THE GREAT BLONDINO PREVIEW (1967, 4 minutes, 16mm) William Allan & Bruce Nauman FISHING FOR ASIAN CARP (1967, 3 minutes, 16mm. Sound by Robert Nelson.) HOT LEATHERETTE (1967, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) GRATEFUL DEAD (1967, 8 minutes, 16mm) MORE (1971/98, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) THE GREAT BLONDINO (with William T. Wiley, 1967, 43 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 4/27 Washington, DC: electronic media group of the american institute for conservation http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/emg/ 9am-5pm, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden TECH FOCUS II: CARING FOR FILM AND SLIDE ART The Electronic Media Group of the American Institute for Conservation, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC) are pleased to announce an important new two-day workshop: TechFocus II: Caring for Film and Slide Art. Projected motion picture film and slides are in a state of crisis. Far more quickly than anyone could have anticipated, these technologies will soon reach obsolescence. Options for duplication and preservation are narrowing rapidly. Our collective familiarity and technical understanding of this material is fading. Yet artists continue to create vital works using film and slides, and earlier works by important artists are being shown in museums with increasing frequency. TechFocus II is designed to educate conservators, curators and other art professionals about the technology of film and slide-based artworks, and to recommend best practices for acquisition, preservation and display. As part of this instruction, the workshop includes a unique "School of Seeing": actual films and slides are projected as examples of different production processes, so that participants can gain an accurate understanding of the principles being discussed. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for international professionals to gather and debate strategies for collective action in the face of disappearing film stocks, obsolete equipment, and declining expertise. The TechFocus workshop series is being organized by the AIC Electronic Media Group to provide detailed technical education in the preservation of media art. Launched on the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking TechArcheology symposium that was held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000, TechFocus offers in-depth instruction in a broad range of media. Each workshop, hosted by a different institution, is dedicated to one specific media-art technology. A systematic lecture program, delivered by international experts, introduces workshop participants to the technology behind these artworks, and offers real- world guidelines for their preservation. The workshop is being made possible by the generous support of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, FAIC, and the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TechFocus II Planning Committee: Jeff Martin, Christine Frohnert, Joanna Phillips, Eric Pourchot with Susan Lake, Sarah Stauderman, and Gwynne Ryan Full program, fee details and registration will be made available on the AIC website soon: www.conservation-us.org/courses ------------------------ SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 ------------------------ 4/28 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) NEW WORKS SALON $5 / Several artists will present new in-progress or recently completed works. As a result of spending a month long residency at EPFC Ursula Brookbank became involved with shooting film after ten years of working with video. Super 8 was used for the documentation of objects from the SHE WORLD archive, an on going accumulation of feminine detritus gathered by the artist. As a work in progress, multiple projection of the films is being explored as well forms of narration. Walter Vargas shows his Super 8 My Mother's Money for this Film, a work about Sacramento's politics and a South Central boy empowered by Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, walking on a tightrope between self-comfort and biculturalism, seeing what the hell Chicano means, and that it's ok to be two, or not. Bay Area artist Linda Scobie visits us with her 16mm works Craig's Cutting Room Floor, a furious two-minute fragmented journey through cinema's history taken right off the cutting room floor of San Francisco collage artist, filmmaker, and eclectic archivist of 16mm films Craig Baldwin, and her newly completed Skydogs. Kim Strouse will present her on-going video project begun in 2009 MAKE UP, in which she explores how making up functions in her relationship from self to other, from apology to lipstick; what is my make up? how do I make up? how do we make up? Cosmo Segurson will present a new work based on Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 Detour, which "has haunted me since the first night I watched it. With absolute respect for the source material, this is my first attempt to expand my favorite scene into a fever dream of despair, and existential horror. Enjoy." 4/28 New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html 11:30PM, Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 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 Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg 4/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 2 OH DEM WATERMELONS (1965, 11 minutes, 16mm) DEEP WESTURN (1973, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) THE OFF-HANDED JAPE (with William T. Wiley, 1967, 8 minutes, 16mm) Chris Langdon PICASSO (1973, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w) LIMITATIONS (1988, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w) PENNY BRIGHT & JIMMY WITHERSPOON (1967, 4 minutes, 16mm) THE AWFUL BACKLASH (with William Allan, 1967, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w) BLEU SHUT (1970, 33 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. 4/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm , 32 2nd Ave. ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 3 SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 1: TIJUANA TO HOLLYWOOD VIA DEATH VALLEY 1976, 46 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color. & SUITE CALIFORNIA STOPS & PASSES PART 2: SAN FRANCISCO TO THE SIERRA NEVADAS & BACK AGAIN 1978, 48 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. 4/28 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street DIVINE'S TECHNICOLOR DREAMS: CINEMATIC PSYCHEDELIA + Concluding our Psychedelia suite, Christian returns with another mind-bending slide-show on cult cinema, this time trippin' on freak-out scenes in feature films. This kaleidoscopic genre, peaking in the '60s and '70s, opened up an opportunity to directly demonstrate a visionary experience in filmic terms. Among the sensory overload of B-fare, obscure anomalies, and even an occasional A-movie, we grok the grooviest vignettes from The Trip, Head, Skidoo, The Tingler, Riot on Sunset Strip, Wild in the Streets, Psych-Out, Easy Rider, 200 Motels, The Big Cube, Performance, and myriad more. Divine has organized his presentation in the shape of an actual trip, with a few longer 16mm interludes (Hallucination Generation and Go Ask Alice). PLUS a cautionary clip from LSD: Insight or Insanity, free Kool-Aid, and a liquid light show! $6. 4/28 Vancouver, British Columbia: The Purple Thistle Centre http://sunfishmoonlight.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/screening-the-pipedreams-project-someday-all-of-this-will-be-yours/ 7pm, The Rhizome Cafe - 317 East Broadway SCREENING: THE PIPEDREAMS PROJECT & SOMEDAY ALL OF THIS WILL BE YOURS How do we confront overwhelming social, political, and ecological issues with a sense of agency? Two pairs of young filmmakers explore this question on separate journeys: one kayaking the 900km between Kitimat and Vancouver BC in search of answers about Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline; the other following the 3500km of the Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline from Vancouver to Fort McMurray AB, the center of tar sands extraction. The films serve as catalysts and palette-cleansers for discussion. More infos: http://sunfishmoonlight.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/screening-the-pipedream s-project-someday-all-of-this-will-be-yours/ Filmmakers in Attendance! Stay after screening for discussion on pipelines, tarsands, and creative resistance! Don't forget to support your local Rhizome! Fully-licensed kitchen open before and after screening. THE FILMS: - - - - The PipeDreams Project - - - - - Ryan Vandecasteyen & Faroe Des Roches Digital, 28 min., 2011 In May of 2010, Enbridge Inc. made an official application to build twined crude oil and condensate pipelines that would connect Alberta's Tar Sands to Kitimat, BC, and for the first time bring crude oil super tankers to BC's North Coast. In the fall of 2010, Curtis, Ryan and Faroe kayaked 900 km in opposition to this controversial pipeline. Their journey leads them face to face with the complexity of the environmental assessment process, the difficulties local communities face in having their voices heard, and the growing resistance against the pipeline. Leaving the city behind for adventure and the exploration of the isolated and dangerous coast of British Columbia, they immerse themselves completely in one of the last truly wild places on Earth. The trio becomes deeply impacted by their experience, irreversibly entangled in the Pacific Northwest, and awakened to a world of power, politics and the question of democracy. - - - - Someday All of This Will Be Yours - - - - - Adam Huggins, Ilana Fonariov, & Jethro Archer 16mm, 22 min., 2011 Traversing the TransMountain Pipeline from Vancouver to Alberta's Oil Sands, Someday All Of This Will Be Yours is a surrealist anti-documentary, a road trip film about resource extraction, and an exploration of how individuals relate to the myriad of acute social, ecological, and political struggles within and across their communities. Shot by three travellers on a bolex over seven days, processed by hand in buckets of developer at the Purple Thistle Center in East Van, and covertly edited overnight in Goldcorp's "Center for the Arts", this is a truly independent project about our community and just how far it extends. ---------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012 ---------------------- 4/29 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm (box office opens 6:30, doors open 7), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. L.A. FILMFORUM PRESENTS SAME SEX/DIFFERENT SEX: QUEER IDENTITY AND CULTURE From the 1950s through the 1980s, underground film was an avenue for artistic self-expression for lesbian and gay artists, and also occasionally provided a way for LGBT people to see representations of themselves without persecution. But the cultural climate changed dramatically over the decades, with the closeted screenings for friends of the earlier period changing to public screenings and well-advertised events. This program starts with a little-known work from 1962, made by Robert Chatterton, who was also a prominent underground film exhibitor. Taylor Mead, on one of his occasional visits to Los Angeles, acted in two films by Chatterton, including Passion in a Seaside Slum. Brought to our attention by Marc Siegel in the Alternative Projections symposium in 2010, Filmforum arranged for the preservation of Passion in a Seaside Slum with the generous support of the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Film Foundation. This is the premiere screening of this new print. We are also screening a remarkable short documentary made by Penelope Spheeris and lesbian public service announcements from the Woman's Building in the 1970s. More films to be added; waiting on confirmations for several great films. In person: Penelope Spheeris (schedule permitting) Special thanks to Kristin Pepe, Outfest; the Getty Research Institute; Anthology Film Archives. The show is free! Reservations recommended and will be held until 7:15pm on show night. Reservations online at Brown Paper Tickets. Screening (subject to change): Passion in a Seaside Slum (Robert Wade Chatterton, 1962, 32 min), Lesbian occupationspublic service announcements (PSAs) (produced the the Los Angeles Women's Video Center, 1970s, each 30-60 sec), Fever Dream (Chick Strand, 1979, 7 min), I Don't Know (Penelope Spheeris, 1972, 18 min) - more to be added! 4/29 Los Angeles, California: ARENA 1 Gallery http://manipulatedimage.com/LosAngeles2012.html#arena1 7PM - 10PM ----$5 suggested contribution----, 3026 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, California, 90405 MI_LOSANGELES2012: MEMORY AND "IDENTITY" Video art screenings, sound and video installations, performances, artist talk.... A night of video art screenings, sound installation by Philip Mantione, video installation by Joe Merrell, performances by Mariel Carranza and Soyeon Jung, and artist discussions at ARENA 1 Gallery curated by Alysse Stepanian of Manipulated image. Stepanian will also present Kisito Assangni's [SFIP] Project, a selection of African video art. 4/29 New York, New York: Tribeca Film Festival http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/shorts__journeys_across_cultural_landscapes-film42784.html 11:00AM, Tribeca Cinemas 54 Varick Street at Laight 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 Gonzlez, "Inquire Within" Jay Rosenblatt, and "All the Lines Flow Out" Charles Lim Yi Yong. - Jon Gartenberg 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1 With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to 35mm. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 minutes, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten. RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2 minutes) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 minutes) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 minutes) BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes) 69 (1969, 4.5 minutes) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2 With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to 35mm. 70 (1970, 5 minutes) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 minutes) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 minutes) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes) BANG (1986, 10 minutes) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 4 Marcy Saude ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES 1: HANDMADE HOME (2012, 6 minutes, b&w/color) KING DAVID (with Mike Henderson, 1970-73/2003, 8 minutes, 16mm) HAMLET ACT (1982, 22 minutes, 16mm, b&w) SPECIAL WARNING (1999, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w/color) & HAULING TOTO BIG 1997, 46 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM 5 Marian Wallace THE COUNTER CULTURE HOUR WITH GUEST: ROBERT NELSON 2011, 58 minutes, video. "Robert Nelson came by the RE/Search office, and this video documents the visit and conversation between Robert and (mostly) V. Vale. I was having technical difficulties, but couldn't let Robert know or he would probably have 'had to go' right away, so the documentation also includes me 'pretending nothing was wrong' to stretch out the visit as long as possible. THE COUNTER CULTURE HOUR, hosted by V. Vale, appears monthly on public access TV in San Francisco." M.W. 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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