This week [August 18 - 26, 2012] in avant garde cinema To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go to http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribe or send an email to weeklylist...@hi-beam.net.
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Media10-10 (Namur, Namur, Belgium; Deadline: August 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1472.ann Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: August 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1474.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): ============================== * A Place On Earth [August 18, Los Angeles, California] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 2. Daily Business [August 18, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Vampyr [August 18, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: the Passion of Joan of Arc [August 18, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [August 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Ordet [August 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [August 23, New York, New York] * Cindy Sherman Selects Film Series: Shadows [August 23, San Francisco, California] * 1913 Massacre & Seeking the Monkey King [August 24, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Strike [August 24, New York, New York] * Sight Unseen Presents: Scene Missing [August 25, Baltimore] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 3. Concrete Forms [August 25, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: October [August 25, New York, New York] * 1913 Massacre & Seeking the Monkey King [August 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Old and New [August 25, New York, New York] * 1913 Massacre & Seeking the Monkey King [August 25, New York, New York] * 1913 Massacre & Seeking the Monkey King [August 26, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: ivan the Terrible [August 26, New York, New York] * 1913 Massacre & Seeking the Monkey King [August 26, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012 ------------------------- 8/18 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) A PLACE ON EARTH With an introduction by filmmaker and restorationist Ross Lipman (schedule permitting). A Place On Earth is a fiction film made with the participation of a real commune in Moscow, one in which the director himself lived. As with Palms, Aristakisyan's previous work, A Place on Earth is not just a film; it is an encounter, and it leaves one unsettled by its radical ethical demands. Says Aristakisyan: "The film does not leave room to maneuver and avoid change... It precludes the very possibility for indulgence in collective delusions after having seen it... It also precludes the possibility for neatly sweeping its contents under the intellectual rug...This is not a socially conscious film. There is no society... It is not a philosophical film either. There are no authorial points of view or ideas. It has to be admittedthis film is dangerous. Truly dangerous." Dir. Artur Aristakisyan, 2001, 120min, projected from DVD 8/18 Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu 7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 2. DAILY BUSINESS Observations of everyday events and life are transposed with irony and humor through choreographic touches, performative actions or documentary real time. Static scenes become mini cinematographic voyages: a kiss enhanced through repetition and recreation, bicycles loaded into an elevator or being repaired, workers finishing their day, or bodybuilding as an artistic performance in itself. The ordinary is subtly tweaked to create wry visual motifs for our undisguised pleasure. Works in this program include HERNALS (1967); BYKETROUBLE (1998); PIECE TOUCHEE (1989); NACH "PIECE TOUCHEE" (1998); HOTEL ROCCALBA (2008); BODYBUILDING (1965-66); LIVINGROOM (1991); DANKE, ES HAT MICH SEHR GEFREUT (1987). Total running time: 68 min. 8/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VAMPYR by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm, b&w "Imagine that we are sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR." Carl Dreyer 8/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC by Carl Th. Dreyer No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1927-28, 98 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC) A work that exemplifies Dreyer's philosophy: simplicity is the most complex idea of all. Although renowned for its spare acts, lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's masterpiece reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face (often existing alone, filling up the frame) and a landscape of history as individual as the lines on that face. Made in 1927-28, it continues to haunt the cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the years go by. ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 2012 ----------------------- 8/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1943, 100 minutes, 35mm, b&w (VREDENS DAG) "Carl Dreyer's art begins to unfold at the point where most other directors give up. Witchcraft and martyrdom are his themes but his witches don't ride broomsticks, they ride the erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a world that suggests a dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." Pauline Kael 8/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1955, 132 minutes, 35mm, b&w An existential morality essay by the master of the long take, in which a man who believes he is Jesus Christ soon begins to convince those around him. Based on the play by Kaj Munk, ORDET is a meditation on faith and fanaticism. ------------------------- THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 ------------------------- 8/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN by Sergei Eisenstein With English intertitles, 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid, super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous, inflamed emotion. 8/23 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7:00pm, Phyllis Wattis Theater CINDY SHERMAN SELECTS FILM SERIES: SHADOWS 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 John Cassavetes's 1959 film, Shadows. Part documentary, part fiction, Shadows explores race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City. A model of independent film, it was shot with a 16mm handheld camera on the streets of New York, much of the dialogue was improvised, and the cast and crew were made up almost entirely of volunteers. A jazz-infused soundtrack complements the subject matter and the era in which the film was born. 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 24, 2012 ----------------------- 8/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 1913 MASSACRE & SEEKING THE MONKEY KING Anthology presents a double-feature of two (radically different) radical political films: Ken Ross and Louis V. Galdieri's documentary 1913 MASSACRE, a chronicle of a tragic incident in American labor history, and Ken Jacobs's eye-, ear-, and mind-exploding SEEKING THE MONKEY KING, a fusion of all-encompassing visual abstraction and politically enraged onscreen text. Ken Ross & Louis V. Galdieri 1913 MASSACRE 2011, 65 minutes, digital video. Follows singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie to Calumet, a once-thriving mining town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula still haunted by the tragic events that inspired his father Woody Guthrie's ballad, '1913 Massacre'. On December 24, 1913, the striking copper miners of Calumet were gathered with their wives and children for a holiday party at the Italian Hall. When someone yelled "Fire!", panic took hold and, in the ensuing chaos, 74 people were crushed and suffocated to death. There was no fire. The version of events that found its way into Guthrie's song attributed the tragedy to the "copper-boss thug-men", who were presumed to have initiated the panic and to have blocked the doors of the Hall. The town itself is still divided over exactly what happened. And no one can explain why they tore down the Italian Hall in 1984. 1913 MASSACRE captures the last living witnesses of the tragedy and reconstructs Calumet's past from individual memories, family legends, and songs, tracing the legacy of the tragedy to the present day, when the town out of work, out of money, out of luck still struggles to come to terms with this painful episode from its past. Ken Jacobs SEEKING THE MONKEY KING 2011, 40 minutes, digital video, Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. A major and indisputable masterpiece from one of the most formidable moving image artists of our time. "An exhilarating audiovisual workout that simultaneously engages multiple parts of the brain, Jacobs's 40-minute movie is a sort of hallucinatory jeremiad. The basic imagery seems derived from close-ups of crumpled metallic foil; this material, which oscillates in color between rich amber and deep blue, is subjected to a barrage of cyclical digital manipulations and married to J.G. Thirlwell's clamorous score. The sound surges; the screen is a roiling imaginary landscape of frozen fire and burning ice. Intermittently, Jacobs superimposes the text of a caustic anti-capitalist, anti-patriotic harangue addressed to a figure he calls 'The Monkey King' . This homemade slingshot has the capacity to resist and pulverize the idiotic visual aggression of a commercial behemoth like TRANSFORMERS. It's a 60s vision happening today beautiful, terrifying, and determined to storm the doors of perception." J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE Total running time: ca. 110 minutes. 8/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STRIKE by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (STACHKA) Eisenstein's interest in the Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012 ------------------------- 8/25 Baltimore: Sight Unseen http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ 8:00pm, Current Space 421 N. Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201 SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS: SCENE MISSING Doors @7pm, films at dusk in the back courtyard of Current Space. Chairs will be provided, but feel free to bring your own seating or blankets! $7 general admission. All films featured on 16mm! SCENE MISSING exposes the enduring tradition in experimental cinema of repurposing found and original film footage. The medium is masterfully recycled by means of chemical and optical manipulations. Frame by frame, the filmmakers' devotion to celluloid involves an intensely personal quality and handcrafted integrity. Emotional resonance projects through the envisioning of ephemeral worlds, excavation of collective memory and disruption of narrative artifice. The beauty of what is long gone or recently passed is resurrected through unique film spaces that overwhelm the senses. Including films by: Kenny Curwood, Kelly Spivey, Malic Amalya, Moira Tierney, Luther Price, Lewis Klahr, Peter Tscherkassky, Ryan O'Toole, & Phil Solomon. TRT: 88m. For more information on the films, go to http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ SIGHT UNSEEN is a roaming monthly screening series showcasing experimental film, video, and live cinematic performance. This series invites recognized pioneers and emerging innovators of moving image media to participate in screenings and performances throughout Baltimore. Programmed by Margaret Rorison, Lorenzo Gattorna, & Kate Ewald and developed with support from the Launch Artists in Baltimore Award. 8/25 Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu 7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 3. CONCRETE FORMS Though the title doesn't mention architecture explicitly, this discipline is omnipresent in all its diversity in both the objectification of structures and descriptions of space. From the Adriatic coast to California, utopian concrete masses take on a form of their own, or even as humorous vehicles to sell shoes. Sound-driven works, from a younger generation of collaborative audiovisual artists in particular, accompany abstract and animated forms with vigor and intelligence. Works in this program include QUADRO (2002); BESENBAHN (2001); HUMANIC SPOT-WURFEL 1 (1971); HUMANIC SPOT-WÜRFEL 1 (1971); VOID.SEQZ 5 (2009); HUMANIC SPOT-WURFEL 2 (1971); HYPERBULIE (1973); RANDOM (1963); CHRONOMOPS (2004); HUMANIC SPOT-UND IMMER WEIDERDIE WURFEL (1973); THE_FUTURE_OF_HUMAN_CONTAINMENT (2002); SEA CONCRETE HUMAN (MALFUNCTIONS #1) (2001); MACHINATION 84 (2010). Total running time: 90 min. 8/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (OKTYABR) Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here. 8/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 1913 MASSACRE & SEEKING THE MONKEY KING See notes for Aug. 24, 7: 30 pm. 8/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (STAROYE I NOVOYE) Known also as THE GENERAL LINE, OLD AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and "overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith. 8/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 1913 MASSACRE & SEEKING THE MONKEY KING See notes for Aug. 24, 7:30 pm. ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 ----------------------- 8/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 1913 MASSACRE & SEEKING THE MONKEY KING See notes for Aug. 24, 7:30 pm. 8/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: IVAN THE TERRIBLE by Sergei Eisenstein In Russian with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm, b&w and color (IVAN GROZNY) "The first time in history a man has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a living hell a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin. 8/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue 1913 MASSACRE & SEEKING THE MONKEY KING See notes for Aug. 24, 7:30 pm. 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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