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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: "The Huntington IN MOTION" by Kate Lain http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=499.ann FUNDING: Amy Ruhl (Deadline: June 1, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=funding&readfile=20.ann JOB AVAILABLE: University of Tampa http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=12.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== "Then, what if?" (Hartford CT USA; Deadline: August 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1451.ann London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 22, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1452.ann Mossadegh Is My Homeboy (USA; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1453.ann Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Deadline: July 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1454.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1455.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== SFC - Shoah Film Collection (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1389.ann Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1392.ann 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 Videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1417.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 animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1426.ann Abstracta (Roma, Italy; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1429.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 Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: June 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1441.ann L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: July 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1442.ann New Jersey Young Film & Videomakers Festival - NEW DEADLINE 6/25 (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: June 25, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1443.ann videoholica (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1445.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 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 London Film Festival (London, UK; Deadline: June 22, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1452.ann Mossadegh Is My Homeboy (USA; Deadline: June 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1453.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): ============================== * Red Hook Cine Soiree!! [June 2, Brooklyn, NY] * Jj Murphy's Print Generation & Stan Brakhage's Passage Through: A Ritual [June 2, Los Angeles, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Rembrandt's JAccuse, By Peter Greenaway - Los Angeles Premiere! [June 3, Los Angeles, California] * Three-Sided Mirror/Fall of the House of Usher [June 4, New York, New York] * Acceleration [June 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Open Screen [June 7, Los Angeles, California] * Bad Behavior [June 7, San Francisco, California] * Lost Animation [June 8, San Francisco, California] * Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna [June 9, Brooklyn, NY] * Occupy Zeitgeist video/Art Exhibition [June 9, Fresno, California] * Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [June 9, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [June 10, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2012 ---------------------- 6/2 Brooklyn, NY: BWAC 3pm, 499 Van Brunt Street RED HOOK CINE SOIREE!! featuring magic potions! ghost towns! and flying bananas!!! 3PM - Saturday June 2, 2012 BWAC 499 Van Brunt Street Red Hook, Brooklyn Screening room is on the first floor, accessible to all. http://www.bwac.org/directions (...right across from Fairway) Joel Schlemowitz presents... A salon of experimental and underground films from cine-artists Jacob Burckhardt & Royston Scott, S.I. Chowdhury, Z. L. B. Dautzenberg, Taylor Dunne, Seth Fragomen, Jodie Mack, Barbara Rosenthal, Lynne Sachs, Sheri Wills, Amanda Wong A summer afternoon and short works of avant-garde cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to the enchantment of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge ourselves in the hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten ourselves lightly and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen, to take respite from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by the sea. Expect red wine and soft cheese, and 78s of old-time cowboy music played on the Victrola! 6/2 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) JJ MURPHY'S PRINT GENERATION & STAN BRAKHAGE'S PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL Two newly restored masterworks of the American avant-garde, presented in brand new prints, from the restorations by the Academy Film Archive. Presented by Mark Toscano. PRINT GENERATION by J.J. Murphy (1973-74, 16mm, color, sound, 50min.) J.J. Murphy's film follows one minute (60 one-second shots) of unspectacular anecdotal footage through 50 film printing generations, as the imagery moves from distant abstraction, to extreme clarity, and back to abstraction again. The result is one of the most humane and moving achievements of so-called structuralist film, a breathtaking use of the inherent qualities of film to evoke complex notions of memory and loss. PASSAGE THROUGH: A RITUAL by Stan Brakhage (1990, 16mm, color, sound, 46min.) One of Stan Brakhage's few films to be cut precisely to an existing soundtrack, Passage Through: A Ritual emerged from an unexpected collaboration-by-mail between Brakhage and composer Philip Corner. Inspired by seeing Brakhage's 1972 film The Riddle of Lumen, Corner recorded a variation of a piano piece in progress, Through the Mysterious Barricades, and sent the resulting tape to Brakhage as a gift. Moved by the recording and the fact that one of his films had inspired it, Brakhage asked Corner if he could make a new film with this recording as its soundtrack. The resulting film is one of Brakhage's most restrained, sparse, and beautiful. -------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2012 -------------------- 6/3 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 REMBRANDTS JACCUSE, BY PETER GREENAWAY - LOS ANGELES PREMIERE! Filmforum is happy to bring the Los Angeles premieres of two Peter Greenaway films, with imported 35mm prints! The first, Rembrandt's J'Accuse, is on June 3, and the second, Nightwatching, is on June 17. The two are closely related, fictional and documentary interpretations of Rembrandt and the painting The Night Watch. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available online at Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/249735 -------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012 -------------------- 6/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THREE-SIDED MIRROR/FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR / LA GLACE À TROIS FACES 1927, 38 minutes, 35mm. & THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER / LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER 1928, 62 minutes, 35mm. These two films have become canonical for studies of Epstein's work. They are both accessible and experimental in their subtly non-linear narratives and their explorations of camera techniques, including subtle slow and fast motion. --------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012 --------------------- 6/5 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan http://www.balaganfilms.com 8:00pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street ACCELERATION As a large section of the city floods out during the summer months toward worlds of water and other amusements, Balagan maintains momentum with the June 5th program: Acceleration. Come on board the cinematic roller coaster as we rocket toward maximum velocity, with pulsing lights and flowing hallucinogenic landscapes rushing by on all sides. Program: Dromosphäre (2010, Germany) by Thorsten Fleisch //// Impossible Chase (2011, USA) by John Warren //// Bike Light (2012, USA) by Nicholas Kovats //// Monster Movie (2005, USA) by Takeshi Murata //// Outer Space (1999, Austria) by Peter Tscherkassky //// Heavy-Light (1973, USA) by Adam Beckett ---------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012 ---------------------- 6/7 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) OPEN SCREEN Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm. $5 / FILMMAKERS GET IN FREE! 6/7 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8PM, 275 Capp Street 3rd Floor BAD BEHAVIOR Oddball Films presents Bad Behavior, a program exploring teen traumas, cultural conflict and youthful rebellion. Whether in a French Boarding school in 1933 or on the streets of the San Francisco's Mission district in 1971 disaffected youth have many ways to express their frustration. The program features the legendary Jean Vigo film Zero for Conduct (1933). One of the most poetic films ever made and one of the most influential, Vigo based his first fictional film on his own miserable experiences in a French boarding school, and the result is one of the greatest films about youth ever made. Its influence is felt in other filmic tales of disaffected youth, from Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959) to Alan Parker's Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), and Lindsay Anderson's (1968). Also screening will be the noirish story of a tough teenage boy Boy With a Knife (1956) starring B-movie legend Richard Widmark and Chuck Connors; and The Bully (1951), a classic mental hygiene film featuring Chick Allen-school bully! Plus! Clips from the rare, shot-in San Francisco film Latino: A Cultural Conflict (1971) charting the path of a Salvadorian delinquent in SF's Mission district. With priceless shots of the Mission. Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to [email protected] or 415.558.8117. -------------------- FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012 -------------------- 6/8 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8PM, 275 Capp Street 3rd Floor LOST ANIMATION Oddball Films presents an evening of Lost Animation -rarely screened classics and obscurities of world animation. Most are quite scarce despite scads of accolades and international awards. Films include: Claymation (1978), legendary clay animator Will (California Raisins) Vinton in the studio; The Romance of Transportation, whimsical Canadian animation from 1952 with a dynamic jazz soundtrack; Harold and Cynthia (1971); consumerist culture skewered; The Mole and The Rocket (1965), beautiful Czech cartoon for kids (and mid-century style-loving adults); Queer Birds (1967), bizarre and innovative metaphoric Czech animation; Closed Mondays(1974), brilliant claymation from Will Vinton; Boom (1974), more cold war jitters from Polish animator Bretislav Pojar; The Sword (1967), surprise hit from the Lost Animation Fest; Clay, or Origin of The Species (1965), the Oscar-winning claymation by Eliot Noyes, Jr.; PLUS! He Was Her Man, the banned 1937 Looney Tunes cartoon based on the old murder ballad "Frankie & Johnny". Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to [email protected] or 415-558-8117. ---------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012 ---------------------- 6/9 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 3pm, 155 Freeman Street ALBERTO GRIFI AND MASSIMO SARCHIELLI'S ANNA Anna, Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, video, 1972-1975, 225 mins, Introduced by Dennis Lim - Shot in 1972, first shown in 1975, and newly restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna is an astonishing nearly four-hour documentary about a 16-year-old homeless junkie, eight months pregnant, whom the filmmakers discovered in Rome's Piazza Navona. Mainly shot on then-newfangled video (which at times gives the black-and-white images a ghostly translucence), it documents the interactions between the beautiful, clearly damaged, often dazed teenager and the directors, who take her in partly out of compassion and partly because she's a fascinating subject for a film. - Far from straightforward vérité, this self-implicating chronicle includes reenactments of the first meeting, explicit attempts to direct its subject, and frequent intrusions from behind the camera (not least the emergence of the film's electrician as a love interest). Anna cuts between long, often discomfiting domestic scenes (including an interminable delousing in the shower) and equally protracted café discussions back in the square, where the unruly cross talk among hippies, bums, bourgeoisie, and angry young men touches on the movie's key themes of obligation and intervention: between filmmakers and their subjects, the state and its citizens, fellow members of society. - An end-of-the-1960s document with the scale and intimacy of Robert Kramer's Milestones, Anna also marks the birth of our media age, not just demonstrating the obsessive immersions of a new technology that, as Grifi put it, "makes life filmable," but also embodying the uneasy dawning awareness of what that means. It's a film born on a cusp, as an urgency to change the world yielded to an urge to record it. - DL - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 2:30pm. 6/9 Fresno, California: Gallery 25 TBA, Gallery 25, 660 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721 OCCUPY ZEITGEIST VIDEO/ART EXHIBITION The Occupy Movement began with a simple question, "What is your one demand?" From that singular question, a grass roots phenomenon known as "Occupy Wall Street" became the growing face and voice of the people of the United States. The movement swept through our country and spread to sites across the world. As OWS moves into spring with plans to continue and expand on its initial momentum and message, we (Diran Lyons and Janice Ledgerwood) marveled at how OWS is changing the landscape of memes, the currency of conversation and of poetry, and wondered at how artists are responding to that (re)evolution. We decided to organize an exhibit and call it Occupy Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist is a German word for which there is not an equivalent word in English. It is defined as "the spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even within specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with such a time, era, or group. When reduced to its initials, Occupy Zeitgeist becomes OZ, the fanciful place of Frank Baum's famous allegory, which seems particularly appropriate and timely. Indeed, a critical interpretation of The Wizard of Oz by Henry M. Littlefield (http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm) reveals an economic and historical context that is similar to our current situation. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" we are told over and over again. And, for a long time, we didn't. For a long time we were all asleep, content with what we had (or thought we had) an illusion of security, freedom, and choice.... But we are awake now and we have a message for those who wish us to sleep again, those who would suppress, repress, and oppress the 99% and the smaller Occupy Movement: I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: "Two cast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing besides remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Call for Entries We are seeking art from various Occupy encampments as well as art and design inspired by OWS. It is our vision to create an interactive, multi-media, participatory exhibit that resembles an Occupy village. We are looking for: Tents as art forms Paintings, sculptures, photography, produced by individuals or collectives Digital files of posters to create a looping slideshow Poems that can be performed by our local poets Performance art Simultaneously, we are organizing a film and video festival to accompany the exhibition. For the Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Video Festival, we are looking for short and full-length documentaries and remix videos of any length. The parameters for both the exhibit and the video festival are inclusive, as Occupy has addressed a wide range of issues. The work can directly relate to the Occupy sites that have generated extensive documentary footage or collections of art. It could address the corruption of Wall Street, the banking system, the NDAA, SOPA/PIPA, the 1% or issues of privilege, the plight of the 99% during the economic downturn, the depletion of civil liberties, etc. There is no entry fee. However, participating artists must pay for their own shipping to and from the exhibit. This applies to both the exhibition and the video festival. The Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Exhibition To submit any tangible artwork (see below for video and film), please send jpeg files to the following address: [email protected]. If you are submitting performance work, please send a YouTube or Vimeo link of the proposed piece to the aforementioned address. Please include your name, title of the piece, and a short description of the work. If you have any questions, we would enjoy hearing from you. There is no limit to the amount of artwork that can be submitted by an individual or collective, but do understand that there are limits to the physical gallery space and that not all artwork will be accepted. The Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Video Festival To submit video or film for consideration (YouTube, Vimeo links only), please send them to the following address: [email protected]. Please include your name, title of the piece, and a short description of the work. If you have any questions, we would enjoy hearing from you. There is no limit to the amount of videos that may be submitted by an individual or collective, but do understand that there are limits to the time we have to showcase the videos and films and that not all of them will be accepted. The festival will feature invited video works by Andy Baio, Elisa Kreisinger, Martin Leduc, Corey Ogilvie, Erik Nelson, Adam Quirk, and The Yes Men. The program will also include the feature length documentaries by Dennis Trainor, Jr. and "The Occupy Movie" (by Andrew Halliwell, Maziar Ghaderi, and Corey Ogilvie). The Calendar March 15 April 15: please submit your artwork, film, or video for consideration April 25: notifications send to all May 30: all accepted entries must arrive to be included May 31 June 6: installation June 7, 5:00-8:00 pm: Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) opens at Gallery 25, 660 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, CA 93721 June 9, 16, and 23: Occupy Zeitgeist (OZ) Video Festival premiers (times to be announced) June 30: final day of the exhibition July 7: return of artwork Please feel free to share this far and wide. 6/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20 minutes, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 minutes, 16mm) THE MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 minutes, 16mm) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY (1940s-1968, 8 minutes, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 minutes, 16mm) AVIARY (1955, 11 minutes, 16mm) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 minutes, 16mm, photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 minutes, 16mm) ANGEL (1957, 3 minutes, 16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images. ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. --------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2012 --------------------- 6/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2 All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS (ca. late-1930s, 11 minutes, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca. 1940s, 9 minutes, 16mm) NEW YORKROMEBARCELONABRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10 minutes, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 minutes, 16mm) MULBERRY STREET (ca. 1957, 9 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION SQUARE (1955, 8 minutes, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 minutes, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 minutes, 16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist. Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. 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