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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: ===================== Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA; Deadline: January 27, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1475.ann Aural Fixation - The Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1476.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1477.ann Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Deadline: October 08, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1478.ann Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1479.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARTS COLLABORATORY (Ghana; Deadline: October 02, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1431.ann 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 (Re)Capturing Womanhood (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: October 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1468.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1477.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): ============================== * 80th Anniversary of the Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio (Russia) [September 4, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Images Festival Screening At 9th Exis Festival, Seoul [September 4, Seoul] * Mess With Texas [September 6, Austin, TX] * Open Screen [September 6, Los Angeles, California] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 4. From A To Z and Back [September 6, Los Angeles, California] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Kerry Laitala With John Davis and Neal Johnson [September 6, Oakland] * Marina Del Rey Film Festival [September 7, Los Angeles, California] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 5. Cinema Revisited [September 7, Los Angeles, California] * Contemporary visual Music [September 7, San Francisco, California] * Urban Presents: Seven Experimental Films By Jeffrey Moser [September 7, Wilmington, DE] * Films By Abraham Ravett [September 8, Los Angeles, California] * Chantal Akerman Presents Michael Snow's La RÉGion Centrale [September 9, Brooklyn, NY] * Refuge - Chicago's Own: Director Ethan Besinger In Person! [September 9, Chicago, Illinois] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 -------------------------- 9/4 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 20:00, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAINT PETERSBURG DOCUMENTARY FILM STUDIO (RUSSIA) ALL FILMS ON 35MM WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. PROGRAM: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- On the Third Planet from the Sun (Na tret'ei ot solntsa planete), Pavel Medvedev, 2006, 35mm, 32 mins. The Russian North. People who live here pick up "space garbage" in the bog, sell the scrap metal or use it in housekeeping and farming. In the Arkhangelsk region, 45 years since nuclear bomb experiments, life is going its ordinary way. Festivals and awards: Grand-prix and prize for the best documentary at 53rd IFF, Oberhausen, 2007; Prize for the best work of the director of photography at IFF "Massage to man", Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Special program at IFF Jihlava, Jugoslavia, September, 2008; Diploma "For the resistance to the ecological catastrophe" at the I Russian Open film festival "Sol Zemli", Samara, 2008; I Diploma at the film festival "Radonezh", Moscow, 2008; Second prize «For depicting the crossing of the everlasting human paths with merciless roads of contemporary civilization; for poetry and irony» at IFF «Crossroads of Europe», Lyublin, Poland, 2008; and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- Bitch Academy (Kak stat' stervoi), Alina Rudnitskaya, 2007, 35mm, 31 mins. There was a time when the word "bitch" was perceived as negative. But today it has become a bestseller. A bitch has become a kind of ideal to a modern woman, a real hero of our days. Most of the women older than 15 seek to be a bitch. Who is a vixen, modern bitch? Vixen is a woman that follows her own desires, she relies only on herself, clearly understands what she wants to get from life and men, doesn't follow the stereotypes, knows men's "weak" points, is self-supporting and has inner freedom.The main shooting technique is a method of observation. This film can be called "the best documentary comedy" about women. Festivals and awards: IFF Oberhausen, Germany, IFF Madrid Documenta, Spain; IFF " Independent Shorts ", Vein, Austria; IFF " Stars of Shaken ", Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan; IFF Villa De Conde, Portugal; "Open cinema" Saint-Petersburg, Russia; "Okno v Europu", Vyborg, Russia; RFAF international festival of Anthropological Films, Salekhard, Russia; "Rossya" IFF, Yekaterinburg, Russia; 52 London BFI IFF - Alina Rudnitskaya film programme; Prix europa IFF, Berlin, Germany IFF "in Drama", Greece; Exground IFF, Germany - Alina Rudnitskaya film programme Saratovskie stradania IFF, Saratov, Russia; No-budget film festival "Suburbia", Roma, Italy; Kassel IFF, Germany; Neubrandenburg IFF, Germany; IDFA, Amsterdam; Winterthur IFF, Switzerland - Alina Rudnitskaya film programme; IFF Cork, Denmark; and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- Factory (Fabrika), Sergei Loznitsa, 2004, 35mm, 30 mins. Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continues and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory. Festivals and awards: Grand Prix International Film Festival in Lion, France, 2004; Best International Film "Media City" International Film Festival, Toronto, 2005; Jury Award International Film Festival, Toronto, 2005; Best Camera "Message to Man" International Film Festival, St.Petersburg, 2005 9/4 Seoul: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 1600h, Korean Film Archive, 1602 DMC, Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul IMAGES FESTIVAL SCREENING AT 9TH EXIS FESTIVAL, SEOUL 이미지스 페스티벌 25주년기념 프로그램 (1988) Images 25th Anniversary 1988 Screening 9/4 화 | 오후 4시 | 시네마테크 KOFA(한국영상자료원) 2관 4th, September TUE | pm 16:00 | Cinematheque KOFA (Korean Film Archive) theater no.2 큐레이터: 아넷 맨가르, 로스 턴벌, 케머런 베일리 Curator: Annette Mangaard, Ross Turnbull, Cameron Bailey 이미지스 페스티벌의 25주년을 기념하기 위해 우리는 1988년 6월의 마지막 주말을 떠올려본다. 페스티벌은 팩토리 극장에서 4일밤 동안 진행되었고 캐나다 전역에서 온 작가들의 51편의 필름과 비디오 작업을 4개의 프로그램으로 나눠서 상영하였다. 이미지스 페스티벌을 그 출발점에서 다시 돌아보기 위해 우리는 페스티벌을 창립한 심사위원들과 프로그래머들을 초청하여 페스티벌 첫 회에 상영된 작품들 중에서 다시 상영작품을 선정하고 이에 대한 대화를 나누었다. 케머런 베일리는 리차드 커의 작품 을, 아넷 맨가르는 프란시스 레밍의 작품 을, 그리고 로스 턴벌은 잰 피콕의 을 선정했다. To celebrate 25 years of Images programming, we're looking back to the last weekend of June 1988. For four nights, the festival took over the Factory theatre and presented four programs with 51 films and videos by artists from across Canada. To help explore the origins of the Images Festival, we've invited founding board members and programmers to select and talk about the work from the first festival that had the most impact for them. Cameron Bailey chose Last Days of Contrition by Ricard Kerr, Annette Mangaard picked Orientation Express by Frances Leeming and Ross Turnbull selected Sirensong by Jan Peacock. http://ex-is.org/2012/index.php/exchoice/images-festival/ /////// http://www.koreafilm.org/main/main.asp --------------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 --------------------------- 9/6 Austin, TX: Arthouse at the Jones Center http://www.arthousetexas.org/ 7pm, 700 Congress Ave. MESS WITH TEXAS Texas-based film/video artists Kelly Sears, Mark and Angela Walley, Scott Stark, Alec Jhangiani, and Alex Luster have delved into the vast collection of movies, newsreels, and homemade films in the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and have created entirely new works from the footage. These new reworkings are creative intersections of past and present, bringing new life to cinematic memory. Commissioned for the exhibition Perspectives 178: CINEPLEX at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Presented with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Aurora Picture Show, and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. 9/6 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, 8mm, 16mm. $5 / FILMMAKERS GET IN FREE! 9/6 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 - 4. FROM A TO Z AND BACK Inspired by the first film images ever shot in La Ciotat to sophisticated references to Hitchcock, this program questions media, the passage of time and different technologies used to create moving images. From the horizontal to the vertical and at differing speeds, intensities or fluctuations, various modes of cinematographic dislocation are explored. And in doing so nearly every possible manner of moving from one place to another is employed, whether traditional or virtual. Works in this program include L'ARRIVEE (1997-1998); LUUKKAANKANGASUPDATED, REVISITED (2005); MIR MIG MEN (2002); PERFEKT 2 (1982); FILMAN EXERCISE IN ILLUSIONS II (1983); ADJUNGIERTE DISLOKATIONEN (1973); 5/67 TV (1967); ALPINE PASSAGE (2006); VERTIGO RUSH (2007). Total running time: 71 min. 9/6 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8PM - 9PM, Arbor, 4210 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609 SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS KERRY LAITALA WITH JOHN DAVIS AND NEAL JOHNSON Multi-dimensional, award-winning, San Francisco filmmaker Kerry Laitala conjures spirits from the material of celluloid using her trove of tricks and techniques to make dazzling explosions of color, light and motion. Kerry will perform "The Color Red Bleeds Blue," an expanded cinema work, along with two new premieres of live cinematic sorcery: "Trip the Light Fantastic," a collaboration with Neal Johnson and "Velvet of Night," a collaboration with musician John Davis. Plus other surprises. ------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 ------------------------- 9/7 Los Angeles, California: Marina del Rey Film Festival http://mdrfilmfestival.com/ 9-11, 13480 Maxella Avenue, Marina Del Rey, CA MARINA DEL REY FILM FESTIVAL The Marina del Rey Film Festival SUBMISSIONS OPEN! Marina del Rey is Los Angeles premier film Festival in September. The Marina del Rey Film Festival accepts films in every genre, on any topic from every country around the world. Promoting the spirt of film making and Independent film in Marina del Rey and Los Angeles. 9/7 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 - 5. CINEMA REVISITED Revisiting classical cinema in order to reinvent and create entirely new artistic visions is an attribute of Austrian avant-garde audiovisual production over the past twenty-five years, and it also represents a source of fascination for today's curious filmgoers. Here, images of Barbara Stanwyck are reappropriated, Anna Magnani's voice accompanies scenes of Italian suburbia, Mickey Rooney and July Garland are vivisectioned, Barbara Hershey is attacked by the apparatus, and the poetry of early cinema is resurrected in all its beauty in FILM IS. All this, in addition to material taken from hundreds of other sources, contributes to the creation of unique cinematographic languages. Works in this program include ALONE. LIFE WASTES ANDY HARDY (1998); BORGATE (2008); OUTER SPACE (1999); FILM IS. 7COMIC (2002); MOSAIK MECANIQUE (Notes on Film 03) (2008); PICTURE AGAIN (2003); Zwolf Boxkampfer jagen Viktor quer uber den großen Sylter Deich 140 9 (2009); THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG (2009). Total running time: 81 min. 9/7 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8 p.m., 992 Valencia Street CONTEMPORARY VISUAL MUSIC The screening will demonstrate the diversity visual music. Visual music is an umbrella term for all kinds of things: music with a color organ or oscilloscope techniques, expanded cinema, music videos or animated films. This diversity has been further extended by developments in digital technology. A common denominator for all
 of the different techniques and formats is an evenly balanced combination of visual and acoustic elements. Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund of the Berlin-based organization Fluctuating Images in cooperation with Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (www.fluctuating-images.de). 9/7 Wilmington, DE: UrbaN 5pm, Theatre N at Nemours, 11th & Tatnall Streets URBAN PRESENTS: SEVEN EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY JEFFREY MOSER Join us during Art Loop at Theatre N for a free exhibition of short films. Sponsored by Urban Garden Cinema at Theatre N --------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012 --------------------------- 9/8 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) FILMS BY ABRAHAM RAVETT Abraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years. In tandem with a current exhibition of Polaroid SX-70 photographs at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, filmmaker and Hampshire College Professor Abraham Ravett will present a program of recent and previously made films. The screening includes three films that reflect the complexities of filial relationships; the lingering impact of the Holocaust, and with Horse/Kappa/House, the Japanese rural landscape is presented as a space of loss, memory and collective history. Program: The March (1999), Horse/Kappa/House (1995), and Tziporah (2007) on 16mm; Notes for a Polish Jew (2012) on DVD. Presented and curated by Ravett's former student Eve LaFountain. ------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 ------------------------- 9/9 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 3pm, 155 Freeman Street CHANTAL AKERMAN PRESENTS MICHAEL SNOW'S LA RÉGION CENTRALE La Région centrale, Michael Snow, 16mm, 1971, 190 mins, Introduced by Chantal Akerman - "You are here, the film is there, it is neither fascism nor entertainment." - Michael Snow - Chantal Akerman presents a screening of Michael Snow's La Région centrale, an important influence that opened her mind "to the relationship between film and your body, time as the most important thing in film." - "For La Région centrale, Snow had a special camera apparatus constructed...an apparatus capable of moving in all directions: horizontally, vertically, laterally, or in a spiral. The film is one continuous movement across space, intercutting occasionally the X serving as a point of reference and permitting one to take hold of stable reality. Snow has chosen to film a deserted region, without the least trace of human life....In the first frames, the camera disengages itself slowly from the ground in a circular movement. Progressively, the space fragments, vision inverts in every sense, light everywhere dissolves appearance. We become insensible accomplices to a sort of cosmic movement....He catapults us into the heart of a world before speech, before arbitrarily composed meanings, even subject. He forces us to rethink not only cinema, but our universe." - Louis Marcorelles, Le Monde - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 2:30pm. 9/9 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 4:00 PM, Gorilla Tangos Skokie Theater, 7924 Lincoln Ave., Skokie REFUGE - CHICAGOS OWN: DIRECTOR ETHAN BESINGER IN PERSON! Co-presented by Gorilla Tango Theater. Refuge is a one-hour documentary revealing the origins and originality of a resourceful Chicago community that over generations has brought together more than 1,000 Central European Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors under one roof. Interweaving archival footage with testimony of the Selfhelp Home's residents, founders, and historians, this film reaches back 70 years to tell the experiences of this last generation before, during, and after World War II. (2012, 60 min.) Admission: $10 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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