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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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Last Vacancies 2012 Portugal Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1465.ann VIDEODRONE (London, UK; Deadline: July 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1466.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1467.ann (Re)Capturing Womanhood (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1468.ann FLEX Fest (Gainesville, FL, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1469.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== BASEMENT MEDIA FEST (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1411.ann PollyGrind Underground Film Festival of Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV, USA; Deadline: August 13, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1419.ann Space 1026 (Philadelphia, Pa; Deadline: July 22, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1444.ann FLEFF (Ithaca, NY, USA; Deadline: August 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1446.ann "Then, what if?" (Hartford CT USA; Deadline: August 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1451.ann Ingenuity Fest (Cleveland, OH USA; Deadline: August 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1463.ann VIDEODRONE (London, UK; Deadline: July 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1466.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): ============================== * Soundings: Films By James Herbert [July 21, Chicago, Illinois] * Essential Cinema: Hollis Frampton Program [July 21, New York, New York] * Cut & Paste Program 2 [July 21, New York, New York] * Soundings: Films By James Herbert [July 22, Chicago, Illinois] * L.A. Filmforum Presents GlóRia, Directed By Manuela viegas [July 22, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Maya Deren Program [July 22, New York, New York] * Stratman Program 1 [July 22, New York, New York] * Stratman Program 2 [July 22, New York, New York] * Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe [July 23, Brooklyn, NY] * Stratman Program 3 [July 23, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Zvenigora [July 26, New York, New York] * Not A Memory ( ) Something Personal [July 26, San Francisco, California] * Orbit(Film) [July 27, Chicago, Illinois] * Essential Cinema: Arsenal [July 28, New York, New York] * Conrad Schnitzler Program 1 [July 28, New York, New York] * L.A. Filmforum Presents the Reach of Resonance, Directed By Steve Elkins [July 29, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Earth [July 29, New York, New York] * Conrad Schnitzler Program 2 [July 29, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012 ----------------------- 7/21 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 5:00 PM, National Pastime Theater, 941 W. Lawrence Ave. SOUNDINGS: FILMS BY JAMES HERBERT Co-presented with National Pastime Theater as part of their "Naked July" Festival. For The National Pastime Theater's "Naked July: Art Stripped Down" summer festival, Chicago Filmmakers is presenting a retrospective of work by James Herbert. Although he was better known for the music videos he directed for R.E.M. (It's The End of The World As We Know It), Herbert made a series of amazing short films and a few acclaimed features. Each of these films is a highly stylized nude study of beautiful young heterosexual couples in decayed settings in the American south (Herbert is based in Athens, Georgia) that suggest new beginnings from old ruins: Automan (1988, 20 min.) takes place in the back seat of a broken down car, Piano (1988, 20 min.) in a crumbling theater, and Soundings (1986, 20 min.) in an old prairie house. Unlike the others, Frontiers (1984, 20 min.) is shot in a studio, but the juxtaposition of sexual contact with the audio recording of a recent argument conveys a similar interest in cycles of struggle and evolution. (1984-88, 80 min. total, 16mm) Admission: $8 7/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HOLLIS FRAMPTON PROGRAM ZORNS LEMMA 1970, 60 minutes, 16mm, color. "A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it, don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." Ernie Gehr & HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes, 16mm, b&w. "Nostalgia, beginning as an ironic look upon a personal past, creates its own filmic time, a past and future generated by the expectations elicited by its basic disjunctive strategy." Annette Michelson "In nostalgia the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic, mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of Frampton's films." P. Adams Sitney Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. 7/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CUT & PASTE PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: Harry Smith [OUTTAKES FROM HARRY SMITH'S OZ] ca. 1962, 23.5 minutes, 35mm. Much to our surprise, Anthology recently recovered a number of original 35mm negative camera rolls by revered animator/alchemist/ethnomusicographer Harry Smith. The reels had been, unknown to all, sitting in a lab since 1967. The footage contains camera, focus, and exposure tests for OZ, Smith's amazing, abandoned feature-length adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic tale. While Anthology has preserved and regularly presents Smith's NO. 16: OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967), which contains the completed excerpt THE APPROACH TO EMERALD CITY, much of the material in these two reels is different. Raw footage that was never intended to be viewed as anything other than dailies, these alluring outtakes are resoundingly beautiful, and like all things Smith, deeply mysterious. & Lawrence Jordan SOPHIE'S PLACE 1986, 90 minutes, 16mm. "[T]he greatest epic animation film ever, yr wondrous SOPHIE'S PLACE " Stan Brakhage "Full hand-painted cut-out animation. I call it an 'alchemical autobiography.' The film begins in a paradisiacal garden. It then proceeds to the interior of the Mosque of St. Sophia. More and more the film develops into episodes centering around one form or another of Sophia, an early Greek and Gnostic embodiment of spiritual wisdom. She is seen emanating light waves and symbolic objects. (But I must emphasize that I do not know the exact significance of any of the symbols in the film any more than I know the meaning of my dreams, nor do I know the meaning of the episodes. I hope that they the symbols and the episodes set off poetic associations in the viewer. I mean them to be entirely open to the viewer's own interpretation.)" L.J. --------------------- SUNDAY, JULY 22, 2012 --------------------- 7/22 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 8:00 PM, National Pastime Theater, 941 W. Lawrence Ave. SOUNDINGS: FILMS BY JAMES HERBERT See July 21st listing for details. 7/22 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 GLóRIA, DIRECTED BY MANUELA VIEGAS GLÓRIA Directed by Manuela Viegas. With Jean Christophe Bouvet, Francisco Relvas, Raquel Marques. Portugal/France/Spain 1999, 35mm, color, 110 min. Portuguese with English subtitles. Possibly the Los Angeles premiere. The first and only feature film to date by influential editor Manuela Viegas (Costa's O Sangue, João Cesar Monteiro's Silvestre) is a stylish coming of age tale and a moving portrait of the slow death of a rural Portuguese town. Co-written by Viegas and Joaquim Sapinho, Glória is a nuanced exploration of first love's dangerous exhilaration, awakened in the eponymous thirteen-year-old by the release from prison and homecoming of the stationmaster's older and enigmatic son. A central figure of the Portuguese film scene of the 1980s and 1990s, Viegas taught alongside Reis in the Escola Superior. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/257702 Part of THE FILMS AND LEGACY OF ANTÓNIO REIS AND MARGARIDA CORDEIRO, Presented in association with the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Please note: The first three programs in this series will be presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive on July 6, 7, and 9. Please visit their website at http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar for tickets and more information. This series has been adapted from a program curated by Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive. Program notes adapted from notes written by Haden Guest. 7/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MAYA DEREN PROGRAM MAYA DEREN MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959. AT LAND 1944, 15 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid. A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA 1945, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME 1946, 15 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook. Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. 7/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STRATMAN PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: ON THE VARIOUS NATURE OF THINGS (1995, 25 minutes, 16mm) HOW AMONG THE FROZEN WORDS (2005, 44 seconds, video) IT WILL DIE OUT IN THE MIND (2006, 4 minutes, video) THE MAGICIAN'S HOUSE (2007, 6 minutes, 16mm) & FROM HETTY TO NANCY 1997, 44 minutes, 16mm. The stoic beauty of the Icelandic landscape forms a backdrop for a series of witty and caustic letters written at the turn of the century by a woman named Hetty as she treks with her companion Masie, four school girls, and their school marm. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes 7/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STRATMAN PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: THESE BLAZEING STARRS! (2011, 14 minutes, 16mm) WAKING (1994, 7 minutes, video) RAY'S BIRDS (2010, 7 minutes, video) VILLAGE, SILENCED (2012, 7 minutes, video) UNTIED (2001, 3 minutes, 16mm) & IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE 2002, 33 minutes, 16mm. An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience, and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. --------------------- MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012 --------------------- 7/23 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street NATHANIEL DORSKY + SUSAN HOWE One of America's preeminent contemporary poets, Susan Howe has published a series of writings, since the 1970s, that combine autobiography and historical researchon such topics as Emily Dickinson, Charles S. Peirce, and the 17th century utopian sect The Labadie Tract. In addition to their roles as scholarship and memoir, Howe's works are also notable for their highly idiosyncratic page design, frequently involving complex typography, line placement, and other visual patterning that point to the influence of her initial training as a painter. Identified with the Language poets early in her career, Howe has created a body of essays and poetry that invoke deep emotional resonance while operating at the highest levels of formal experimentation. - For this event at Light Industry, Howe will read selections from her writing, chosen with the work of filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky in mind, particularly Devotional Cinema, his series of lectures on the possibility of film as a meditative, curative and transcendent experience. The reading will be followed by a screening of Dorsky's Alaya, a silent study of grains of sand, captured from a multitude of viewpoints, that transforms its relatively simple subject matter into a mesmerizing, ever-shifting landscape. - "Alaya manages a perfection of 'musical' light across a space of time greater in length than would seem possible (consider how brief most such perfected works are, such as Peter Kubelka, say)...and with minimal means of line and tone....After about three minutes I began to be aware of the subtlety of rhythm, within each shot and shot-to-shot, which carried each cut, causing each new image to sit in-the-light of those several previous...a little short of a miracle. Bravo!" - Stan Brakhage - Alaya, Nathaniel Dorsky, 16mm, 1987, 28 mins - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 7/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STRATMAN PROGRAM 3 PROGRAM 3: SHRIMP CHICKEN FISH (2010, 5 minutes, video) ENERGY COUNTRY (2003, 14.5 minutes, video) & KUYENDA N'KUBVINA 2010, 40 minutes, video. Looks at how thought and culture propagate in Malawi. The video was instigated by the filmmaker's relative ignorance about the people and culture of southeast Africa, and accompanies her as she seeks out individuals and infrastructures that channel and articulate Malawian identity. Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. ----------------------- THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012 ----------------------- 7/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ZVENIGORA by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928, 96 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent Dovzhenko's second film, attacked by Soviet critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen its political impact, remains today a "cinematic poem" as the director named it. Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a mythic search for hidden treasure by two brothers. Dovzhenko wrote: "I did not so much make the picture as sing it out like a songbird." 7/26 San Francisco, California: Roxie Theater http://carlelsaesser.com 9:15, Roxie Theater 16th and Valencia NOT A MEMORY ( ) SOMETHING PERSONAL We cordially invite you to the premier of Not a Memory( )Something Personal. Shot up in the backwoods of Alaska and wastelands of a salmon processing camp, Not A Memory( )Something Personal follows two friends on their way home. They stop and camp out for the night, waiting, catching up on rest. The following morning one of them is missing with no explanation. The film was shot simultaneously on Super 8, standard definition and HD to pull apart and examine the character's intersections between identity, memory, love and projection. As one searches for meaning without a past, the other struggles with his obsessive desires when they confuse memories. "Sometimes I forget that I am not you and you are not me". Mark your calenders: JULY 26th at 9:15PM At the Roxie Theater in the heart of the Mission, San Francisco Tickets are only Five dollars and are starting to sell, so buy yours online now! The Trailer can be seen here: //youtu.be/E4ZaS4P_SRg Tickets can be bought here:http://roxie.com The facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/132618200209999/ --------------------- FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012 --------------------- 7/27 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 7:30 PM, Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Dr. ORBIT(FILM) Co-sponsored by the Adler Planetarium. In Orbit(film), every planet in our solar system is represented by a short film, each made by a different filmmaker, dealing with the science of outer space through creative and emotional storytelling and visual poetry. Some of the original source material comes from NASA footage, reinterpreted by each filmmaker to make a portrait of the respective planet. Non-planet films cover the sun, moon and comets. The series is co-produced by Mike Plante (Cinemad) and Mark Elijah Rosenberg (Rooftop Films), and contributing filmmakers include Bill Brown (Uranus), Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (The Moon), Ben Coonley (Mercury), Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss (Saturn), Brent Hoff (The Sun), Jessica Oreck (Venus), Mike Plante (Earth), Poseidon (Neptune), Mark Elijah Rosenberg (Mars), Kelly Sears (Jupiter), Deborah Stratman (Comets), and Travis Wilkerson (Pluto and re-entry). (2010-11, 85 min. total). Admission: $10 ----------------------- SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2012 ----------------------- 7/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ARSENAL by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928-29, 87 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent One of Dovzhenko's few completely independent films, from script to screen. ARSENAL is a civil war epic envisioned in unusual, painterly images: a fallen soldier drunk on the enemy's laughing gas his frozen body still baring its teeth long after the battle and his life are over. 7/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CONRAD SCHNITZLER PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: FILM/VIDEO (1970-1980) Schnitzler's early films explode with energy. During this time CON, as he liked to be called, was making intermedia art street performances, gallery installations, and explosive new music all influenced by free jazz and psychedelic rock. For these live actions, CON wore black and white make-up, dressed in white leather, and mounted a megaphone on a black motorcycle helmet. The films from this period are fast paced, high contrast, hypnotic explorations of energy with abstract imagery or CON the magician/performer as subject matter. Jürgen Boettcher RÄUME INSZENIERTE UND GEFUNDENE ENVIRONMENTS (1970, 3 minutes, video) Wolfgang Seidel FAHRSTUHL (1971, 3 minutes, video) WALKMAN (4 minutes, video) ZAUBERER (7 minutes, video) FORTSCHITT (3 minutes, video) DIE NIE ALT WERDEN (4 minutes, video) UNTITLED FILM #1 (6 minutes, 8mm, silent) ZWOLF JAHR KUR FÜR MICHELANGELO (9 minutes, video) SCHWARZER DOM (8 minutes, video, b&w) ZYLINDER (2 minutes, video) SCHWARZE HAND (3 minutes, video) WER IM LADEN DIE SCHUHSCHACHTELN ZÄHLT (4 minutes, video) MEHR SPASS (6 minutes, video) UPER (8 minutes, video) NATURLICH (5 minutes, video) TAKE OFF (1980, 4 minutes, video) Julien Perrin PREMIER CON/TACT (2009, 12 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. --------------------- SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2012 --------------------- 7/29 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 THE REACH OF RESONANCE, DIRECTED BY STEVE ELKINS Los Angeles Filmforum presents the fabulous debut film of Steve Elkins, The Reach of Resonance, on July 29. A meditation on the meaning of music, featuring John Luther Adams, Kronos Quartet, Miya Masaoka, Bob Ostertag, Jon Rose, the film is a unique exploration of acoustic possibilities of the world, and the zones where composers merge sound and politics. Previously screened at the Angel City Jazz Festival to a standing ovation, "The Reach Of Resonance" was awarded "Best Film Essay" at Montreal's International Festival Of Films On Art, and the Temps D'Image Film For Art Award at the Temps D'Image Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal "for a film which reflects the importance of arts in human society in the most original way." Director Steve Elkins will appear in person! Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/258638 7/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: EARTH by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1929-30, 82 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (ZEMLYA) A poetic expression of love for both nature and Ukrainian culture by the man who was alternatively branded a deserter by Ukrainians and a Ukrainian nationalist by Russian Soviets. Dovzhenko champions the progression of life, class struggle, and new attitudes for a town changed by a tractor and a fallen hero. 7/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CONRAD SCHNITZLER PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: FILM/VIDEO (1975-1986) After leaving the art scene to focus on composing, CON's musical scores take precedence. He is no longer the subject; the pieces become longer and more focused. CON produced hours of cinematic meditations using primitive computer graphics, dissolving shapes and abstract washes of color and light. One can imagine the reclusive CON sitting back in his chair, observing the transformation of a blowing curtain into an abstract landscape, as his wild symphony unfolds. In all his work, the precise tonalities sculpted by his electronic instruments inform the vision. Erika Lippki DIE SPUR DIE KARAWANE (1977, 7 minutes, video) UNTITLED FILM #2 (4 minutes, 8mm, silent) LUX CONCERT (1979, 29 minutes, video) SCHATTEN III (1982, 3 minutes, 8mm, b&w) LICHTPUNKT UND SCHWARZE ZEICHEN (1978, 24 minutes, video, b&w) DAS CAS CON VIDEO I (1986, 21 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 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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