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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 MISCELLANEOUS: ============== DIY 16mm Looper http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=124.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Space 1026 (Philadelphia, Pa; Deadline: July 22, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1444.ann videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1445.ann FLEFF (Ithaca, NY, USA; Deadline: August 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1446.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: June 06, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1447.ann Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto; Deadline: June 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1448.ann Plug Projects Film/Video Series (Kansas City, MO.; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1449.ann INFRARED 3: Queer Avant-Garde Films (Seattle, WA, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1450.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Indie Memphis Film Festival (Memphis, TN, USA; Deadline: June 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1401.ann YoungCuts Film Festival (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1414.ann EXiS (Seoul, South Korea; Deadline: June 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1416.ann Oblò Film Festival 2012 (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1418.ann Dallas VideoFest 25 (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: June 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1425.ann 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 ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: June 06, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1447.ann Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto; Deadline: June 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1448.ann Plug Projects Film/Video Series (Kansas City, MO.; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1449.ann INFRARED 3: Queer Avant-Garde Films (Seattle, WA, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1450.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): ============================== * New Works Salon: Calarts Edition [May 19, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [May 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [May 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 19, New York, New York] * Vanessa Renwick's Charismatic Megafauna + [May 19, San Francisco, California] * <B>Crossroads Program 4:</B> <B><I>Contemplation Is A Monstrous Task...</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California] * <B>Crossroads Program 3</B> <B><I>Women With Flowers: Celebrating Chick Strand</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California] * <B>Crossroads Program 5</B> <B><I>Apparent Motion: Projection Arts!</B></I> [May 19, San Francisco, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents L.A. Filmworks: the State of the Art In Los Angeles, 1980 [May 20, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [May 20, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 20, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [May 20, New York, New York] * <B>Crossroads Program 6:</B><I>...For there Our Captors Demanded Songs of Joy</I> [May 20, San Francisco, California] * <B>Crossroads Program 7 </B><I>California Dreaming: Films By Laida Lertxund</I>I [May 20, San Francisco, California] * <B>Crossroads Program 8:</B><I>Voices For New Atlantis</I> [May 20, San Francisco, California] * New Day At 40- A Community's Celebration [May 21, Los Angeles, California] * Kelly Sears - Filmmaker In Person! [May 23, Austin, TX] * Super 8: Brakhage / Kuchar / Levine / Polta / Price [May 24, Los Angeles, California] * Solus Program 1 [May 25, New York, New York] * On Failure [May 26, London, England] * Artur Aristakisyan's Palms [May 26, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: L'age D'or [May 26, New York, New York] * Solus Program 2 [May 26, New York, New York] * Solus Program 3 [May 26, New York, New York] * New Experimental Works [May 26, San Francisco, California] * Iteration/Aberation [May 26, San Francisco, California] * Contemporary Currents [May 27, London, England] * Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 1 [May 27, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 2 [May 27, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Charlie Chaplin Program 3 [May 27, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 ---------------------- 5/19 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) NEW WORKS SALON: CALARTS EDITION A special CalArts student edition of the New Works Salon, in which several artists will present in-progress or recently completed works. This screening will present a broad range of film and video work being made at the California Institute of the Arts, undergraduate and graduate students from the film/video program, experimental animation and the school of art will be showcased. Former EPFC student and current teacher Walter Vargas will show Driving South Florence, a 16mm portrait on South Central made during his first year at CalArts, 16mm Standards of Perfection by Andrew Kim is not a film about miniature horses, Marisa Williamson presents a myth of origin--about Africans who could fly, who lost their wings on the Middle Passage, but relearned the ability to fly in a moment of danger, Jackson McCoy shares "an ocean" a meditation on water, film, wet film, and dry ice, Silvia das Fadas presents Apanhar Laranjas / Picking Oranges a 1 minute 16mm film, Calvin Fredrick made a film in which "A beef thief gets some ham lip and is hampered by the doo," all Ryan Betschart set out to do was to make an amazing Disney Channel Original Movie, but ended up making lo-fi demonic musings on his own childhood, John Warren will show his 16mm Poppy Fields Forever, Mike Stoltz will show In Between, and curator, EPFC staff member and current MFA student at CalArts Eve LaFountain will show her latest pinhole/8mm dual projection film Elderberry, Black Walnut, Oak. 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET See notes for May 18, 7:30 pm. 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See notes for May 18, 9 pm. 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of immortality." 5/19 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street VANESSA RENWICKS CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA + In this co-presentation with SF's Exploratorium, Portland personal-doc artiste Vanessa Renwick brings to the Bay Area the ambitious debut of her magnum opus on wolves, with live musical accompaniment! She interweaves Super8 and 16mm footage from her teenage life in inner-city Chicago, living and hitch-hiking with a wolf dog, with stunning documentation of the wolves' reintroduction into the Western US. Seattle composer/cellist Lori Goldston performs her original score, accompanied by vocalist Jessika Kenney, guitarist Dylan Carlson, and percussion/horn-player Greg Campbell. PLUS Vanessa's Mighty Tacoma opener, and a live musical interlude. $7. 5/19 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 4:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 4: CONTEMPLATION IS A MONSTROUS TASK... Don't Look Directly into the Sun (2010) by Kathleen Rugh; Dark Enough (2011) by Jeanne Liotta; These Blazeing Starrs! (2011) by Deborah Stratman; End Transmission (2010) by Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong; Landfill 16 (2011) by Jennifer Reeves; Curious Light (2011) by Charlotte Pryce; Valleys of Fear (2010) by Erin Espelie 5/19 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 2:00 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 3 WOMEN WITH FLOWERS: CELEBRATING CHICK STRAND To leave out the spirit of the people presents a thin tapestry of the culture, easy to rent, lacking in strength and depth. I want to know really what it is like to be a breathing, talking, moving, emotional, relating individual in the society.Chick Strand (19312009) In the early 1960s, with co-conspirator Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand was instrumental in the foundation of both Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque, presenting guerilla-style underground film screenings across the Bay Area for much of that decade. As a filmmaker known for a sensuous lyricism (frequently seen,paradoxically, in her "experimental ethnographies") Strand's films epitomized "west coast" American filmmaking at its very best, with a matter-of-fact folk wisdom, humor and profound sensitivity embodied in all of her varied works. On the occasion of the completion of her final work, Señora con Flores, Cinematheque is proud to celebrate this inspirational figure. Screening: Senora con Flores/Woman with Flowers (1995/2011) by Chick Strand; Kristallnacht (1979) by Chick Strand; Soft Fiction (1979) by Chick Strand; Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) by Chick Strand 5/19 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 8:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 5 APPARENT MOTION: PROJECTION ARTS! APPARENT MOTION celebrates the art of projection, the cinematic exhibition apparatus exposed as a primal light and sound machine, an invention without a future, ripe for rediscovery. Evening includes performances by Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles: Myth of Persistence (2012); Kerry Laitala: The Color Red Bleeds Blue (201112) with live score by John Davis; Greg Pope: Cipher Screen (201012) with live score by John Hegre -------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 -------------------- 5/20 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 L.A. FILMWORKS: THE STATE OF THE ART IN LOS ANGELES, 1980 In the early 1980s, Filmforum's Terry Cannon assembled a few mixed shows for touring of experimental films by Los Angeles filmmakers. Along with Filmforum Film, a document of Filmforum in 1980, selections from these shows, and maybe some additional treats, prove a fitting conclusion to Alternative Projections, revealing the state of the art in Los Angeles, circa 1980. We'll have a great mix of films, with experimental, animated, conceptual, and documentary works, followed by a celebratory reception! In person: Betzy Bromberg, Terry Cannon, Tom Leeser, Craig Rice, William Scaff, Keith Ullrich (schedules permitting) For full information, please visit http://www.alternativeprojections.com/screening-series/l-a-filmworks-the -state-of-the-art-in-los-angeles-1980/ 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/246038 Screening (subject to change): Zulu As Konoe (Craig Rice, 1980, 5 min), Renee Walking/TV Talking (Tom Leeser, 1980, 10 min), Soothing the Bruise (Betzy Bromberg, 1980, 21 min), Rose for Red (Diana Wilson, 1980, 3 min), The Dream Trilogy (William Scaff, 36 min), Filmforum Film (Craig Rice, 1980, 4 min) 5/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See notes for May 18, 9 pm. 5/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS See notes for May 19, 9 pm. 5/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology the god of the lyre, song and poetry was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many deaths." 5/20 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 3:00 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 6:...FOR THERE OUR CAPTORS DEMANDED SONGS OF JOY Man Is Always on the Stairs Between the Pleats of Matter and the Fields of the Soul (2011) by Jing Niu; L'eau, l'air et les songes (Water, air and dreams) (2009) by Cecile Ravel and Jean-Marc Manteau; Their Bird (2010) by Rei Hayama; Crusts (2011) by Alexander Stewart; Last Time (2011) by Julia Shirar; Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This Could Be the Last Time (2011) by Saul Levine; A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects (Kodomo ga Mushi no Shigai wo Umeni Iku) by Rei Hayama 5/20 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 5:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 7 CALIFORNIA DREAMING: FILMS BY LAIDA LERTXUNDI Laida Lertxundi (b. Bilbao, 1981) 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. Program includes a selection of Lertxundi's recent films and three short films which have been an inspiration. Screening: Farce Sensationelle! (2009) by Laida Lertxundi; Lemon (1969) by Hollis Frampton; Footnotes to a House of Love (2007) by Laida Lertxundi; My Tears Are Dry (2009) by Laida Lertxundi; All My Life (1966) by Bruce Baillie; Llora Cuando Te Pase/Cry When It Happens (2011) by Laida Lertxundi; A Lax Riddle Unit (2011) by Laida Lertxundi 5/20 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30 PM, <B>Victoria Theatre</B> 2961 16th Street (between Mission and Van Ness) CROSSROADS PROGRAM 8:VOICES FOR NEW ATLANTIS 9214 (2010) by Takahiro Suzuki; The Voice of God (2010) by Bernd Lutzeler; Sounding Glass (2011) by Sylvia Schedelbauer; FF (2010) by Deborah Stratman; River Rites (2011) by Ben Russell; Slow Action (2010) by Ben Rivers -------------------- MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 -------------------- 5/21 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 NEW DAY AT 40- A COMMUNITY'S CELEBRATION REDCAT is proud to host a celebratory screening (program TBA) to mark the 40th anniversary of New Day Filmscreated by filmmakers Julia Reichert and Jim Klein when they failed to secure distribution for Growing Up Female (1971), about the social constraints placed on women aged 4 to 35. In the early 1970s the act of hearing women's voices was perceived as a "radical," and New Day welcomed the work of filmmakersboth men and womenwho were challenging the political status quo in terms of gender, social and racial inequality. Today, New Day Films counts more than 100 members, whose films have won Academy Awards, Emmys, and premiered at major film festivals, and cover issues as diverse as immigration, human rights, LGBT, disability, addiction, criminal justice, youth and aging. In person: Members of New Day Films. Jack H. Skirball Screening Series / Tickets: $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] ----------------------- WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 ----------------------- 5/23 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7.30 PM, 29th Street Ballroom at Spiderhouse, 2906 Fruth Street KELLY SEARS - FILMMAKER IN PERSON! Experimental Response Cinema and 29th Street Ballroom host Galveston-based animator and filmmaker KELLY SEARS, whose internationally-exhibited collage films are culled from discarded periodicals, books, archives, and orphan cinema. Drawing on experimental, documentary and narrative practices and featuring both analog and digital animation techniques, her films harness images of the past to reflect on the present. She is a current resident at the Galveston Artist Residency and a 2009-2011 fellow at the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her films have screened widely, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Film Fest, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, and Anthology Film Archives. The approximately one-hour program will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Caroline Koebel with Kelly Sears. http://www.kellysears.com/ Films include: Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise, Imprinted, Cover Me Alpha, Voice on the Line, The Body Besieged, Jean, The Believers, He Hates to be Second, The Drift, Angels Chant Like Witches, Devil's Canyon, and Charles and Christopher. Experimental Response Cinema is an Austin-based collective of avant-garde film and video artists, devoted to bringing local, national and international experimental films to Austin screens. Admission: $7 general/$5 students with ID ---------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 ---------------------- 5/24 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) SUPER 8: BRAKHAGE / KUCHAR / LEVINE / POLTA / PRICE A diverse program of experimental Super 8 mm films. Stan Brakhage's Airs, from a collection of Super 8 films he completed in 1976 and later blown up to 16mm. Luther Price's Green "Green is a world where ghosts live conjuring the familiar, reliving, events unresolved, revealing very little" (Price). Steve Polta's 1997A (Arrival) "renders a subtle spectral impressionism via tenuous images of space, form, and color in disembodied flux" (New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde). Saul Levine's "midsummer daydream" Light Lick: Only Sunshine and Submission, "a confrontational rant addressed to the judges of the films entered in a Super 8 competition" (Levine). George Kuchar's Mom, "something for me to play and remember my mother by when she is not here to visit me: smiling, eating, walking around nice places that are filmed with a cheap lens so that you can't see the cracks and the dirt" (Kuchar). All films shown on Super 8, except Brakhage's, which will be shown on 16mm. -------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012 -------------------- 5/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SOLUS PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1 This is a program that samples international strategies of re-thinking city living, reclaiming territories, negotiating urban spaces, and perceiving the relationships they create. The show includes films from Egypt, Ireland, Mauritania, Senegal, and the U.S., including an Irish-Mauritania co-production (the first ever, to our knowledge!). Special mention goes to the Maison des Cinéastes in Nouakchott, Mauritania (www.lamaisondescineastes.org), and to our friends in Alexandria, Egypt, whose online videos kept us up-to-date during the recent, fantastic Arab Spring. Ronan Coyle CHRYSALIS (Ireland, 2009, 2 minutes, video) Rubberbandits HORSE OUTSIDE (Ireland, 2010, 4 minutes, video) Les filles du bled KO MI DEBO (Mauritania, 2009, 4 minutes, video) Alan Lambert OUROBOROS II (Ireland, 2007-11, 2 minutes, video) Ahmed Talek Ould Taleb Lehiar LA-BAS DANS LA CAPITALE (Mauritania, 2008, 3 minutes, video) Ahmed Ghoneimy THE GOOD BOY (Egypt, 2009, 7 minutes, video) Hugh Mcgrory MAZE (Ireland, 2003, 3 minutes, Super-8mm/video) Felix Samba N'diaye LES MALLES (Senegal, 1989, 14 minutes, 16mm) Moira Tierney NOUAKCHOTT ROCKS (Ireland/Maritania, 2010, 21 minutes, Super-8mm/video) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. ---------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 26, 2012 ---------------------- 5/26 London, England: LUX / ICA Binennial of Moving Images http://biennialofmovingimages.org.uk/symposium/ 10 am - 1 pm, ICA Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH ON FAILURE Keynote address: Jan Verwoert, Why Rudie Can't Fail Jan Verwoert is a critic, writer, curator, art historian, and contributing editor to Frieze magazine. Further papers by: Anirban Gupta-Nigam, Failure as Possibility: Reading Two Fragments of Moving-Image Work (Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Delhi) Robert Rapoport, The End of Ethnographic Representation in Huyghe's 'The Host and the Cloud' (Ruskin School, Oxford) Rosa Menkman, The Intentional Faux-Pas (Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne) Emily Candela, No signal: Failures of transmission in the moving image from analogue 'snow' to the 'blue screen of death' (Royal College of Art and the Science Museum, London) 5/26 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) ARTUR ARISTAKISYAN'S PALMS "Artur Aristakisyan's 1993 documentary, Palms (Ladoni), has been a film cited more than seen; it's an intensely poetic, provocativeeven inspiringaccount of the poor and destitute in Chisinau (formerly Kishinev), the capital of Moldova ... it was shot in handheld, black-and-white 16mm and enlarged to 35mm in an a way that makes it seem like a scratched, overly-contrasted artifact from ages past; a film about the purity of abjection that physically resembles its subject. The only soundtrack is Aristakisyan's ruminating narration and brief snatches of Giuseppe Verdi's soaring music. The footage was collected over the course of several years shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union and Moldova's independence, and it could be said to be a baring of the country's repressed soul through the tenuous lives of its vagabonds." --Doug Cummings, Film Journeys. Directed by Artur Aristakisyan, 1993, 139min, projected from DVD. With an introduction by Ross Lipman. 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: L'AGE D'OR by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali In French with no subtitles (printed synopsis provided in English), 1930, 73 minutes (THE GOLDEN AGE) Conventional attempts at plot description wither in the face of L'ÂGE D'OR. Buñuel writes of it, "The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy." 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SOLUS PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: CHILDRENS' FILMS The first four of these films were shot during Super-8mm workshops given by the Film Flamme association in Marseille and by Moira Tierney in Dublin, Fermanagh, and Toulouse. The children were at total liberty to proceed as they desired; adult input consisted of technical support and post-production (the films were primarily edited in-camera; post production consisted of assembling the images and sound according to the childrens' instructions). The fifth film was shot by children in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) of County Cork, Ireland, during a workshop led by Donal Ó'Céilleachair. LA DREAM TEAM (2007, 3 minutes, Super-8mm) LIBERTY KIDS (2006, 5 minutes, Super-8mm) BELLEFONT 31! (2011, 20 minutes, Super-8mm) COLLECTIVE FILM (2010, 22 minutes, Super-8mm) FÉILEACÁN SOLAS (2008, 5 minutes, 35mm/video) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SOLUS PROGRAM 3 St. Clair Bourne THE BLACK AND THE GREEN 1983, 45 minutes, video. This film, one of St. Clair Bourne's most rarely seen, chronicles a fact-finding trip to Belfast made by five American civil rights activists, including the Reverend Herbert Daughtry. Drawing a parallel between the civil rights movement and the troubles in Northern Ireland, the film documents the activists' discovery that many Catholics in Ireland had been influenced by the civil rights movement. As the WASHINGTON POST reported at the time, "In the Belfast ghetto, the delegation members are strangers in a familiar land of crushed tenements, graffiti-stained walls, and heavily armed law officers." Reverend Daughtry and Sandy Boyer, both of whom are featured in the film, will be here in person for the screening! 5/26 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Here's an energized evening of new cinema that champions personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most exploratory programming initiativeand with many of the makers in personare Caroline Koebel's Repeat Photography , Salise Hughes' The Swimmer, Roger Deutsch's First Love, Tony Gault's Ghost of Yesterday, Semiconductor's Black Rain, Will Erokan's Trog Alley, Brian Konefsky's Miss Yummy Yummy, Greg Haas' Distant Form, Katherin McInnis' Snakes and Ladders, and Vanessa Renwick's Medusa Smack. PLUS recent pieces by Soda_Jerk, Karl Lind, Bryan Boyce, Richard Mitchell, and Sylvia Schedelbauer. Come early for artists' reception, free pencils, and the Dream Machine! $6. 5/26 San Francisco, California: the LAB http://www.thelab.org/schedule/events/596-iterationaberation.html 8:00pm, 2948 16th Street ITERATION/ABERATION $7-$15 sliding scale Performances by Mike Morris, Dayv Jones, Tooth and Eric Stewart. With films by Tony Conrad, Rose Lowder, Randy-Sterling Hunter, Zach Iannazzi and more. Iteration/Aberration explores the relationships between pattern, wavelength, and rhythm to that of perception, memory and experience. By extending cinema beyond traditional forms of presentation, the projector and audience become dynamic and malleable elements that reframe the media-maker's role into that more akin to a performer, conductor or choreographer. These artist's employ optical, electrical and mechanical manipulations that pry cinema into a ritualistic performance of light and sound fully accepting that the act of watching, changes that which is being watched. -------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 27, 2012 -------------------- 5/27 London, England: LUX / ICA Binennial of Moving Images http://biennialofmovingimages.org.uk/symposium/ 10 am - 1 pm, ICA Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH CONTEMPORARY CURRENTS Keynote address: Maeve Connolly, Television, Cultural Legitimation and Contemporary Art Maeve Connolly is a writer, lecturer and research fellow at Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), Weimar Bauhaus University Further papers by: Katy Connor, From Solid Light to Satellite: the materiality of the moving image as broadcast signal and data (EMERGE, Bournemouth University Media School) Christopher C de Selincourt, Where is the Mind of the Media Editor? (Cardiff School of Art and Design) Rebecca Birch, Field Montage (Loughborough University School of the Arts) Marialaura Ghidini, Working through and beyond web-based video platforms: towards a redefinition of moving image (CRUMB, University of Sunderland) Andy Weir, Deep Time Contagion: Nuclear Storage and the Nonhuman Temporality of Moving Image Artwork (Goldsmiths College, London) 5/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 1 LAUGHING GAS (1914, 16 min, 16mm) DOUGH AND DYNAMITE (1914, 33 min, 16mm) A WOMAN (1915, 20 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. 5/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 2 SHANGHAIED (1915, 30 min, 16mm) POLICE (1916, 34 min, 16mm) THE FIREMAN (1916, 32 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. 5/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHARLIE CHAPLIN PROGRAM 3 ONE A.M. (1916, 34 min, 16mm) EASY STREET (1917, 19 min, 16mm) THE IDLE CLASS (1921, 32 min, 16mm) 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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