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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: ============================ "Truth " by Patrick King http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=502.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== the 8 fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1470.ann Buried/Exhumed 16mm Film Suggestion (Baltimore, MD; Deadline: August 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1471.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== MADATAC 04 (Madrid_Spain; Deadline: August 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1415.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 FLEFF (Ithaca, NY, USA; Deadline: August 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1446.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1455.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 the 8 fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1470.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): ============================== * Some Girls Never Learn - Chicago's Own: Writer/Director Jerzy Rose In Person! [August 4, Chicago, Illinois] * Free Radicals [August 4, New York, New York] * Ken Jacob's the Nervous Magic Lantern: A Benefit For Millennium [August 4, New York, New York] * Peripheral Produce Auto-Cinematic video Mixtape Re-Release Party [August 4, Portland, Oregon] * L.A. Filmforum and Lace Present Steve Roden: Sequences and Scores [August 5, Los Angeles, California] * Free Radicals [August 5, New York, New York] * Black Thorns In the Black Box, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco [August 5, San Francisco, CA] * Free Radicals [August 6, New York, New York] * Flesh [August 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Free Radicals [August 7, New York, New York] * Cindy Sherman Selects Film Series: La Jetee and Meshes of the Afternoon [August 7, San Francisco, California] * Free Radicals [August 8, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson Tribute Screening #2: Seven From Sixty-Seven [August 9, Los Angeles, California] * Free Radicals [August 9, New York, New York] * Cindy Sherman Selects Film Series: Wanda [August 9, San Francisco, California] * Saints of the Avant-Garde Series - the Power and the Glory: Films By Bruce Baillie [August 10, Chicago, Illinois] * Millennium Goes Pop! [August 10, Ridgewood] * Impact 2012 - A Festival of Political Art Presents: Political Films By Ken Jacobs [August 11, New York, NY] * Essential Cinema: Genet/Frank & Leslie Program [August 11, New York, New York] * Black Sun Cinema [August 12, Cork, Ireland] * Essential Cinema: Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner Program [August 12, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2012 ------------------------ 8/4 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 7:00 PM, Gorilla Tangos Skokie Theater, 7924 Lincoln Ave., Skokie SOME GIRLS NEVER LEARN - CHICAGOS OWN: WRITER/DIRECTOR JERZY ROSE IN PERSON! See August 3rd listing for details. 8/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5,7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. 8/4 New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 8:00pm, 32 2nd Ave @ 2nd Street KEN JACOB'S THE NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN: A BENEFIT FOR MILLENNIUM A benefit performance of TIME SQUARED by Ken and Flo Jacobs will be held at Anthology Film Archives. This event is to help raise money for Millennium Film Workshop. "A lightweight propeller steadily turns, interrupting a single beam of light passing through a lens and making The Nervous Magic Lantern nervous. Things placed in the path of light result in an illusion onscreen of things moving in every possible direction and yet never moving at all, except by the hand of the projectionist. My home-made cine-projector is down to the bone. A lightweight frame supports a styrofoam roof and walls. The small enclosure contains a small theater-lamp and empty space. One might hear a whisper-fan whispering. Silent cinema was never this silent. This is hands-on projection with projectionist as main moving part. Objects are manipulated within this essence of a machine while, onscreen, we see a vast 3D churning and morphing that could have been made to happen before the invention of film and film-transport devices. And perhaps they were, but minds were not ready for the results." TIME SQUARED will be preceded by a screening of THE GREEN WAVE. $10.00 minimum (larger donations very much appreciated) all proceeds go to Millennium Film Workshop 8/4 Portland, Oregon: Peripheral Produce www.peripheralproduce.com 8:00 PM, Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard PERIPHERAL PRODUCE AUTO-CINEMATIC VIDEO MIXTAPE RE-RELEASE PARTY The Peripheral Produce AUTO-CINEMATIC Video Mix Tape, originally released on VHS tape in 1996 and out of print for many years, featured early work from local experimental filmmakers Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick, Jon Raymond, Matt McCormick and many others. Now re-mastered on DVD, Peripheral Produce is happy to announce the re-release of that title along with a screening event/release party at Portland's Hollywood Theatre that will feature classic films from the DVD alongside a selection of new local experimental work. From the mid 90s to the late 00s, Peripheral Produce was the corner stone of Portland's experimental film community. Started by Matt McCormick in 1996, Peripheral Produce was a screening series, a video distribution label, and the force behind the PDX Film Festival. Local artists such as Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick, and Jon Raymond cut their teeth at Peripheral Produce while Portland audiences were treated to unique cinematic events that ranged from film-projector-performances to "communal View-Master experiences." The August 4th show will feature many of those seminal works, along with a selection of new works from Portland's fast rising "next generation" of experimental filmmakers. Artists featured in the show include Miranda July, Vanessa Renwick, Jon Raymond, Stephen Slappe, Matt McCormick, Orland Nutt, Ashby Lee Collinson, and much much more. ---------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2012 ---------------------- 8/5 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 AND LACE PRESENT STEVE RODEN: SEQUENCES AND SCORES Los Angeles Filmforum and LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition) invite you to join us for a rare screening of early film works by Los Angeles artist Steve Roden, presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences, currently on view at LACE. This screening includes Roden's first film, "the dreams of ophelia", from 1989, as well as many never before screened super 8mm projects from early 1990's - some of which will be accompanied by improvised sound scores performed live by the artist. The evening will also include Roden's 2011 16mm film, Striations, inspired by Dennis Oppenheim's early films, Gary Beydler's Hand Held Day, and the work of Jess. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors/LACE members; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/262575 8/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5,7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. 8/5 San Francisco, CA: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8:00, 992 valencia street BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX, ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS, SAN FRANCISCO An experimental screening of moving images presenting three spheres penetrated by Black Metal - Artists: Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). ---------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 ---------------------- 8/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5,7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. ----------------------- TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 ----------------------- 8/7 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 8pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street FLESH Just in time for the hot and sticky August weather, Balagan presents FLESH. As evocative as any one word can be, the films of flesh likewise present vivid portrayals of life and death, food, sexuality, and the human body in surprising and unexpected ways. Presented entirely on 16mm. // PROGRAM // The Craven Sluck (1967) by Mike Kuchar // Hull (2011) by Tara Nelson // Rose (2008) by Robert Todd // Inflorescentia (1997) by Caroline Koebel // Self Song / Death Song (1997) by Stan Brakhage // Chicken Real (1980) by Les Blank 8/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. 8/7 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 12pm, noon, Phyllis Wattis Theater CINDY SHERMAN SELECTS FILM SERIES: LA JETEE AND MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON The August Free Tuesday screening at the SFMOMA features two influential experimental films selected by the artist Cindy Sherman: Chris Marker's 1962 film, La Jetée, and Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid's 1943 film, Meshes of the Afternoon. Composed almost entirely of still photographs and considered one of the most beautiful films of all time, La Jetée depicts an underground, post-World War III world, where drug-induced time travel is used to send a prisoner to the future for help. Meshes of the Afternoon, Deren and Hammid's best-known collaboration, exemplifies the filmmakers' signature style of beauty and surrealism. Program and museum admission are free. ------------------------- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2012 ------------------------- 8/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. ------------------------ THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012 ------------------------ 8/9 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) ROBERT NELSON TRIBUTE SCREENING #2: SEVEN FROM SIXTY-SEVEN A second in a series of tribute screenings to the late, great Robert Nelson. 1967 was a particularly prolific year for Nelson, marking not only the completion and premiere of his epic classic The Great Blondino, but additionally the release of no less than TEN additional films, several of which will be shown in this program. More well-known shorts like The Awful Backlash, Hot Leatherette, and Grateful Dead will share the bill with the little-seen duo Penny Bright and Jimmy Witherspoon and Half-Open and Lumpy. If you haven't seen a Nelson film, this is a great program to start with, full of his characteristic unpredictable humor and formal invention. HOT LEATHERETTE (1967, 16mm, b/w, sound, 4min.) THE OFF-HANDED JAPE (w/ William T. Wiley, 1967, 16mm, color, sound, 8min.) HALF-OPEN AND LUMPY (1967, 16mm, b/w & color, sound, 3min.) PENNY BRIGHT AND JIMMY WITHERSPOON (1967, 16mm, color, sound, 3min.) THE AWFUL BACKLASH (w/ William Allan, 1967, 16mm, b/w, sound, 14min.) GRATEFUL DEAD (1967, 16mm, color, sound, 9min.) THE GREAT BLONDINO (w/ William T. Wiley, 1967, 16mm, b/w & color, sound, 43min.) 8/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7,9 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FREE RADICALS See notes for Aug. 3, 7 pm. 8/9 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7:00pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater CINDY SHERMAN SELECTS FILM SERIES: WANDA In conjunction with SFMOMA's Cindy Sherman retrospective, the artist has selected a few of the films that have shaped her vision. Reflecting a wide spectrum of genres and eras, the works shown here highlight the extraordinary range of her interests and influences. This week is a screening of Barbara Loden's 1970 film, Wanda. Set in the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, this film follows Wanda, an alcoholic who abandons her husband and children for a life of drinking and sleeping with strange men. Her world changes again when she walks in on a man attempting to rob a bar and ends up on the road as his partner in crime a ride that leads them both toward the unexpected. Ticketing costs are $5 general admission; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). ----------------------- FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 ----------------------- 8/10 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 8:30 PM, Second Unitarian Church of Chicago, 656 W. Barry Ave. SAINTS OF THE AVANT-GARDE SERIES - THE POWER AND THE GLORY: FILMS BY BRUCE BAILLIE Bruce Baillie became a central figure in the New American Cinema movement in the 1960s with his sensuous tone poems and by starting the Canyon Cinema cooperative in his backyard in 1961. This program features some of his key works from that decade, in which people and places are accorded a mystical reverence through gorgeous images and atmospheric soundtracks. Many of these films are considered masterpieces and some of the most beautiful films ever made. (1961-67, 65 min. total, 16mm). Admission: $8 Tung (1966, 6 min.) Portrait of a female dancer in the early morning. Mr. Hayashi (1961, 3 min.) Newsreel about a Japanese gardener looking for work. Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964, 20 min.) Mass for Native American life. To Parsifal (1963, 16 min.) Tribute to Wagner with fog, railroads, and mountains. Castro Street (1966, 10 min.) - Portrait of the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, CA. Valentin de las Sierras (1967, 10 min.) Portrait of a young girl in Jalisco, Mexico. 8/10 Ridgewood: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 8 pm, 66 E 4th Street MILLENNIUM GOES POP! Movie stars, pop idols, iconic spaces and cultural pastimes take center stage at Millennium Film Workshop on August 10th. Take a rollicking romp through the imaginations, dreams and fantasies of our ensemble of filmmakers. Ride in a gondola to Hollywood, Bollywood, and the by-gone eras of cinema. Get loopy and fall in l'amour with cult icons Kristy McNichol, Anthony Perkins, and... Olive Oyl (?) Explore the Wonderful World of POP with Kelly Spivey, Marie Losier, Bradley Eros, Stephanie Wuertz, Josh Lewis, Tim Geraghty, David Horowitz, Stephanie Gray, Todd Daniel, and A. Glenn, Sarah Halpern, Marie Gomez, and Rachael Guma. Why You Were Born (Kelly Spivey, Super 8mm, 16 min, 2001) Soap Operetta (Sarah Halpern, 16mm, 3 min, 2012) Kristy (Stephanie Gray, hand processed super 8 b/w, 7 min, sound on CD, 2003) Thigh Meat (A. Glenn, DVD, 1min2sec, 2006) Slap the Gondola! (Marie Losier, 16mm, 15min, color, screened on video, Nov 2010) Skyscraper Modern (Todd Daniel, video, 4min20sec, 2006) In my dreams (Stephanie Weurtz, 3min11sec, super-8 transfer, 2011) If You'll Be Mine (Marie (Kirchofer Gomez, DVD, 6min6sec, 2004) Eros c'est Lamour (Bradley Eros and Tim Geraghty, DVD, 8 minutes, sound, 2008) Hula Loop (Rachael Guma, Super 8mm, 3min. live sound, 2012) Bollywood Rockers on Acid (David Horowitz) Extinction Becomes Us: Kodachrome vs. SantaCon (Josh Lewis, 3min, Super 8 color, 2010) l'oop {love' olive oyl popeye} (Bradley Eros) ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012 ------------------------- 8/11 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 10pm, Culture Project: 45 Bleecker Street IMPACT 2012 - A FESTIVAL OF POLITICAL ART PRESENTS: POLITICAL FILMS BY KEN JACOBS Impact 2012 - A Festival of Political Art, in collaboration with The Film-Makers' Coop presents Political Films by Ken Jacobs. - Screening: Another Occupation (2011) and Seeking the Monkey King (2011) - Ken Jacobs in person & MM Serra discussion. - Saturday, August 11th 2012, 10PM at Culture Project, 45 Bleecker Street. - Sponsored in part by The New York State Council on the Arts. 8/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GENET/FRANK & LESLIE PROGRAM Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Jean Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines of prison cells and a homophobic state a powerfully resonant work that explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner. But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline. Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2012 ----------------------- 8/12 Cork, Ireland: Black Sun http://blacksuncork.tumblr.com/ 13:30, Triskel Christchurch Cinema BLACK SUN CINEMA Black Sun, Cork's weirdo/outer limits music and film event, is presenting its first ever all-film event in partnership with Triskel Christchurch. Adventurous audiences with a taste for the more far-out side of experimental cinema will be treated to a whole afternoon of dreamlike and hauntingly unsettling avant-garde visions. American underground legend James Fotopoulos' feature The Nest (2003) "makes it seem as though he is some extraterrestrial visitor photographing humans for the first time" (Variety) and is ideal, mind-warping viewing for David Lynch fans who think they've seen everything. The five-film mini-retrospective of Frans Zwartjes' claustrophobically stylised short films fully justifies the reputation of this poet of voyeurism and sexual tension as perhaps Holland's preeminent experimental filmmaker. And three of Ireland's most uncompromising alternative filmmakers, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Dean Kavanagh and Maximilian Le Cain, will be on hand to present a series of their more disturbing shorts. Visit www.blacksuncork.tumblr.com for more details. 8/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS 1941, 5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." D.G. "Austere and chaste combinations, with subtle manipulation of structure, density and rhythm."William Moritz STOP MOTION TESTS 1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE 1943, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." William Moritz Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS 1959-63, 18 minutes, 16mm, color. Featuring Jack Smith. "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement as well as breaking out of step." K.J. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up, b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support of The Film Foundation, The National Film Preservation Foundation, Simon Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-strictured and yet triumphing on one level over the situation with style enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" K.J. Total running time: ca. 70 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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