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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: ===================== San Pedro International Film Festival (San Pedro, Ca; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1480.ann Blue Ocean Film Festival (monterey, ca, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1481.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1482.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1483.ann HOME MOVIE DAY - OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California; Deadline: September 16, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1484.ann Images Festival (Toronto, CANADA; Deadline: October 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1485.ann Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: September 21, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1486.ann Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1487.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 FLEX Fest (Gainesville, FL, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1469.ann Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, United States; Deadline: October 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1473.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 San Pedro International Film Festival (San Pedro, Ca; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1480.ann Blue Ocean Film Festival (monterey, ca, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1481.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1483.ann HOME MOVIE DAY - OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California; Deadline: September 16, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1484.ann Images Festival (Toronto, CANADA; Deadline: October 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1485.ann Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: September 21, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1486.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): ============================== * Erc Atx! [September 15, Austin, TX] * Lost Horizon [September 15, Boston, Massachusetts] * New Works Salon [September 15, Los Angeles, California] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 6. Passing Time [September 15, Los Angeles, California] * Damon Packard's Foxfur + Marcy Saude's Van Tassel [September 15, San Francisco, California] * Home Movies and the Avant-Garde: Program 1 [September 16, Chicago, Illinois] * Touch.30 [September 16, New York, New York] * High Zero: A Night of Experimental Film and video [September 17, Baltimore, MC] * Double Tide By Sharon Lockhart [September 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * The Sounds of Silence 2: Sonic Slippage [September 17, Houston, Texas] * Early Monthly Segments #43 = TéO Hernandez [September 17, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Taylor Mead Program 1 [September 19, New York, New York] * Taylor Mead Program 2 [September 19, New York, New York] * 4-Day Film Festival [September 20, Brooklyn in NY] * The Renegades: Films From the Collection Selected By Apichatpong Weerasethakul [September 20, Minneapolis, Minnesota] * Open Screening [September 21, Chicago, Illinois] * Filmmobile Presents the Sound We See: Los Angeles and Rotterdam [September 21, Los Angeles, California] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 7. visiting Our Neighbors [September 21, Los Angeles, California] * Calgary International Film Festival; 617 8th Avenue Sw Calgary Ab, T2p 1h1 [September 22, Calgary AB] * Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 8. Whose Reality? [September 22, Los Angeles, California] * Jon Moritsugu's Pig Death Machine [September 22, San Francisco, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - Part 9: Here's Looking At You [September 23, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 ---------------------------- 9/15 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 8pm, Co-Lab Projects, 613 Allen St, ERC ATX! ERC ATX, in collaboration with Co-Lab Projects, is proud to present our first show dedicated to local moving image artists. In conjunction to our mission of bringing classical and contemporary experimental cinema to Austin, ERC ATX aims to showcase the rich work that is happening within our midst, while further fostering a community around an other cinema. - Featuring work by Lyndsay Bloom, Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin, Nathan Duncan, Jarrett Hayman, Caroline Koebel, Metrah Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar, Scott Stark and Rachel Stuckey. 9/15 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 1:00pm, 559 Washington St. LOST HORIZON ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents Lost Horizon. Fleeing a Chinese revolution, four civilians crash-land their hijacked plane in the Himalayas and are rescued by the people of Shangri-la. Shrouded in mystery, they discover a hidden world of peace and harmony in this enchanted paradise where time stands still. Based on the best-selling novel by James Hilton, director Frank Capra's masterpiece stars Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt, and was a box office hit at the time of its release. Lost Horizon won Academy Awards for Art Direction (Set Design) and Film Editing, and was widely circulated among the armed services during World War II. Box Office: (617) 824-8400 General Public: $10 | Members & Seniors: $7.50 | Students: $5 | Emerson Students: Free 9/15 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street NEW WORKS SALON Several local and visiting artists will present new in-progress or recently completed works. Bay Area-based Zach Iannazzi will be here with two recent 16mm films; Wildness Regained! from 2008 presents factless documents of a man-altered landscape, and his two-projector When I Get Back From Massachusetts from 2011 in which New England bliss looms a little strange. Local artist Pablo Valencia will project a new collection of Super 8 miniatures: portraits, landscapes, abstractions. And Pat O'Neill presents his new digital video Painter and Ball 4-14, which is, in part, a record of summer overtaking spring outside my studio window, while a chunky little manikin levitates in joyous captivity. Ross Lipman will present the newest part of his The Perfect Heart of Flux, a cycle of works on the nature of organic change: Casa Loma (Dignity and Impudence). Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow aristocrats for nouveau-riche pretentions: the house and its décor considered by many an ornate fake. Its original contents were sold at Pellatt's bankruptcy auction in 1924. Today the building is a museum; its current curators filling its halls with furniture and trappings of the general era. In one corridor, carefully lit, is a folk-art portrait of two dogs accompanied by the sentimental epithet, "Dignity and impudence." 9/15 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 - 6. PASSING TIME The passage of time and a certain amount of distance were probably necessary before visual artists began questioning the reality and aftermath of Nazism. This program introduces several rarely screened works that directly confront recent Austrian history, and they had obvious and radical social, political and artistic repercussions for the Viennese Actionists and the student protests of May '68. Time has passed over dark horizons to become permeated with transforming cities or history in neighbouring countries through the use of judiciously chosen found footage. Works in this program include NS Trilogie Part II: Feeling Kazet (1997); NIGHTSTILL (2007); KUNST & REVOLUTIONARY ART & REVOLUTION (1968); 55/95 (1994); EIN DRITTES REICH (1975); TITO-MATERIAL (1998); CITYSCAPES (2007); 20/68 SCHATZI (1968). Total running time: 79 min. 9/15 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia DAMON PACKARDS FOXFUR + MARCY SAUDES VAN TASSEL OC hosts SoCal bête noire Damon Packard, with the much-anticipated NorCal premiere of his hr-long Foxfur! Packard's protagonist, a sweet, fragile, mentally unbalanced young girl obsessed with crystals, dolphins, Pleiadian UFOs and David Icke, becomes disillusioned with New Age philosophy but now she must discover the secret of the year 1982 and its connection to present day 2012! ALSO in person is ebullient Marcy Saude with her half-hr slideshow on the legendary George Van Tassel, ET-attuned habitué of the Giant Rock and builder of the Integratron. PLUS The Fairytale World of Alexander Ptushko, glimpses of the battery-powered Aetherius Society, and free VHS tapes! Come early for complimentary champagne at our season-opening reception, bathed in the reflected light of Unarius' Uriel. -------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2012 -------------------------- 9/16 Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org 7:00 PM, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th Floor HOME MOVIES AND THE AVANT-GARDE: PROGRAM 1 Presented in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives as part of Home Movie Day The Program: [1] People Near Here (Ron Finne, 1969, 12 min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [2] Urban Peasants (Ken Jacobs, 1975, 60 min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [3] Shit Rat (Dave Rodriguez, 2012, 20 min, 16mm from the artist) For decades, home movies and avant-garde films were jointly denigrated as 'amateur' in the least appealing sense: precious, obscure, endless, and immeasurably handicapped by a lack of professional polish. They were judged as failed attempts at Hollywood-style filmmaking, though their aspirations and implications often could not be more removed. In the 1960s, avant-garde filmmakers like Jonas Mekas and Stan Vanderbeek began reclaiming the epithet of 'home moviemakers,' producing work that challenged the borders of amateur cinema and domesticity itself. In honor of the tenth anniversary of Home Movie Day, we present two programs of avant-garde films that exalt, appropriate, and reshuffle home movies. 9/16 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TOUCH.30 In September 2012 Touch, one of the premiere international labels for experimental music, will present a series of events in Manhattan and Brooklyn at ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, and Anthology Film Archives to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Since its first release in 1982, Touch has created sonic and visual productions that combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it the most enduring of any independent music company of its time. The label has presented a wide range of artists from New Order to Thomas Köner, and now has a strong focus on artists such as Fennesz, Chris Watson, Philip Jeck, Jana Winderen, Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi, and Biosphere. This screening features THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY, the product of a week-long treasure hunt to unearth old records, field recordings, home-made sounds, and images, with audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen, and LIQUID MUSIC, a piece featuring the music of Christian Fennesz, with footage from Prague, Paxos, Crete, Cephalonia, Messinia, London, and Monterey Bay. THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY 2010, 48 minutes, video. Directed by Mike Harding; visuals by Jon Wozencroft; audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen. LIQUID MUSIC 2012, 40 minutes, video. Visuals by Jon Wozencroft; audio by Christian Fennesz. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. -------------------------- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 -------------------------- 9/17 Baltimore, MC: High Zero Festival 7pm, The Charles Theater, 1711 N. Charles Street HIGH ZERO: A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO We are excited to announce... - The second annual High Zero Festival EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO NIGHT. - Monday, September 17th, 7pm screening, The Charles Theatre - Baltimore, MD. $5 - With films by: - ANNE MCGUIRE, BEN GWILLIAM, FRED WORDEN, M.C. SCHMIDT, MICHAEL ROBINSON, JOHN BERNDT, LAURE PROUVOST, TOM BORAM, MELINA AUSIKAITIKUS, FRANCO GONZALEZ, MEG RORISON, KENNETH ZORAN CURWOOD - - Curated by - Meg Rorison, M.C. Schmidt, and Mary Helena Clark. - Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Awards, and Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc. 9/17 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street DOUBLE TIDE BY SHARON LOCKHART Special Event Tickets $12 - Sharon Lockhart in Person Monday September 17 at 7pm Double Tide Directed by Sharon Lockhart US 2009, digital video, color, 99 min Offering a poetic counterpoint to her earlier factory diptych, Lunchbreak (2008) and Exit (2008), Sharon Lockhart returned to Maine and her abiding interest in American labor in her exquisite and meditative Double Tide, a portrait of a clam digger hard at work on the day of an ultra-rare occurrence two daytime low tides, at dawn and dusk. Lockhart's roots in photography and structuralist cinema intertwine as she follows the transforming landscapes of the misty morning and the quiet close of day, with the solitary figure of the clam digger, a poignant emblem of New England's slowly fading historic industries. Also exhibited as a two channel video installation, Double Tide is a meditative expansion and enrichment of the ideas of "stillness" and landscape that remain important thematic constants of Lockhart's oeuvre. The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome back Sharon Lockhart who will be joined by the subject of her film, clam digger Jen Casard. 9/17 Houston, Texas: The Menhil Collection http://www.menil.org/programs/TheSoundsofSilence.php 7pm, 1533 Sul Ross Street THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE 2: SONIC SLIPPAGE The three-part series The Sounds of Silence tracks the many ways in which media artists have engaged sound and its diminutive double, silence. From the muted films of Stan Brakhage and Nathaniel Dorsky, through the clamorous scores of Harry Smith and Peggy Ahwesh, to the sampled sonorities of Warner Jepson and Stephen Vitiello, the series follows the artist's use of film sound as it evolved through numerous improvisations. The film program was organized by Steve Seid, Video Curator of University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Thanks to Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. PROGRAM 2: Sonic Slippage looks at films and tapes that all make use of sound, but display some of the ways in which the picture track is utterly altered by the addition of sound. Lossless #2 Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin (2008, Sound, 3 mins, B&W, Video); Rose Hobart Joseph Cornell (1936, Sound on Cassette, 19 mins, B&W/ Tinted, 16 fps, 16mm, From Anthology Film Archive, Permission Museum of Mod); Film No. 3: Interwoven Harry Smith (1947-49, Sound, 3:20 mins, Color, 16mm); Looking for Mushrooms Bruce Conner (1967, Sound, 4 mins, Color, 16mm); Lilith Steina (1987, Sound, 9:15 mins, Color, Video); Looking for Mushrooms Bruce Conner (1996, Sound, 14 mins, Color,16mm); Driven Scott Stark (2005, Sound, 8:10 mins, Color, Video); She-Puppet Peggy Ahwesh (2001, Sound, 15 mins, Color, Video). 9/17 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 8pm, Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar, 1214 Queen Street West EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #43 = TéO HERNANDEZ We are very excited to be presenting two films by the underknown experimental filmmaker Téo Hernandez (1939-1992). Born in Mexico, Hernandez studied architecture before co-founding the CEC (Centro Experimental de Cinematografia) in 1960 in Mexico City. He moved to Paris in 1966 and from 1968 to 1975 began to realise an extensive number of personal films, all shot in Super-8, some on travels to Morocco, Denmark and London, others in his adopted hometown, Paris. Many of Hernandez's films are marked by strong sweeping camera movements and single-frame shooting of places and spaces near and dear to him. He later flirted with feature-length works, including a queer take on Salomé, which heralded the emergence of a new movement in French experimental filmmaking, dubbed "l'École du corps" ("the School of the Body"). Tonight we'll be showing two films, one a personal Super-8 time-lapse film from winter 1978 and the second a magical Super-8 (shown on 16mm) single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players from the square. "The camera, carried by the agility and strength of the arm, is a phallic extension. The vibration of the image, my convulsive rhythm is an amplified and intensified sexual act. -Téo Hernandez. Programme: Nuestra Señora de Paris, Téo Hernandez, 1981, France, Super 8 on 16mm, col, silent, 22 min Tables d'hivers, Téo Hernandez, 1978-9, France, Super-8, colour, sound, 39 min ----------------------------- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 ----------------------------- 9/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TAYLOR MEAD PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: THE GREAT AMERICAN SILENT MOVIE (1971, 7 minutes, video) A movie shot on Super-8 film at Max's Kansas City restaurant, featuring Taylor, Candy Darling, and Tiger Morse. A wild and wonderful erotic dance. WASHINGTON RASPUTIN (1976, 38 minutes, video) Taylor Mead is Grandma, heiress to the Washington-Morgan-Rasputin fortune. Tinkerbelle and Nancy North make appearances. THE AGING ROCK STAR (1973, 30 minutes, video) Taylor plays an aging rock star who is planning a comeback and hopes to make millions until all of his ex-wives suddenly appear at his door. Featuring Candy Darling, Nancy North, and Darsea D'Wilde. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. 9/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TAYLOR MEAD PROGRAM 2 NIXON CAMBODIA (1973, 38 minutes, video) Taylor plays President Nixon and some Washington wives. Featuring Herb Smokler, Bert Pence, and Rene Metch. ULYSSES AND THE PHANTOM (1973, 38 minutes, video) Taylor plays the legendary traveler who after a long absence returns home to find that everything is changed, including his wife and houseguests. Featuring Taylor Mead, Susan Blond, Tinkerbelle, and Rene Metch. THE MONSTER KIT (1974, 15 minutes, video) Taylor is hired by Playgirl Magazine to pose for the centerfold. They send a personal trainer to improve his physique, but the trainer becomes a monster. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. ---------------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 ---------------------------- 9/20 Brooklyn in NY: Greenpoint Film Festival http://greenpointfilmfestival.org Four days 9/20-23, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 4-DAY FILM FESTIVAL screening experimental, narrative, documentary, animation, features and shorts, 16MM and digital. Open to student work. www.greenpointfilmfestival/submissions Will screen curated programs and selected entries early Fall 2012. GFF is in its second year. 9/20 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html 7:30, Walker Art Center Lecture Room, 1750 Hennepin Ave THE RENEGADES: FILMS FROM THE COLLECTION SELECTED BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL In conjunction with the opening of The Renegades: American Avant-Garde Film 1960 1973, contemporary renegade Apichatpong Weerasethakul, selects nine short films from the Ruben Bentson Film and Video Study Collection that help to define American avant-garde film. 90 minutes. Invocation of My Demon Brother Directed by Kenneth Anger. 1969, 16mm, 12 minutes. Thigh Line Lyre Triangular Directed by Stan Brakhage. 1961, 16mm, 5 minutes. Sexual Meditation Motel #1 Directed by Stan Brakhage. 1970, 16mm, 6 minutes. TEN SECOND FILM Directed by Bruce Conner. 1965, 16mm, 10 seconds. Hold Me While I'm Naked Directed by George Kuchar. 1966, 16mm, 15 minutes. Bleu Shut Directed by Robert Nelson. 1971, 16mm, 30 minutes. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, Directed by Paul Sharits. 1969, 16mm, 11 minutes. Lapis Directed by James Whitney. 1966, 16mm, 10 minutes. Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be premiering his new film Mekong Hotel at the Walker Art Center on October 27. He also created an exclusive online piece for the Walker which will premiere on the Walker Channel in October. -------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 -------------------------- 9/21 Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/ 8:00 PM, At Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St. OPEN SCREENING It's that time again! Our popular Open Screenings feature whatever walks in the door it could be anything: insane comedies, touching dramas, high-energy music videos, odd animation, hot topic documentaries, neighborhood portraits, or who knows what. Join us to showcase your work or just come to watch. Maximum length per person is 20 minutes, and we will screen at least one work from everyone who brings something up to that time length. Accepted formats: DVD only. Nothing X-ratedsorry! Free admission 9/21 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, Corner of W. 37th and S. Hill Street 90089 FILMMOBILE PRESENTS THE SOUND WE SEE: LOS ANGELES AND ROTTERDAM City Symphonies are a style of filmmaking created in the 1920's that sought to celebrate the urban environment by capturing its form and flow on motion picture film, free of actors and narrative devices. Earlier this year, two of our staff members spent four months working with immigrant and at-risk youth at WORM in Rotterdam, Holland to create a modern-day City Symphony. This film was a sister project to The Sound We See: A Los Angeles City Symphony created in 2010 by 37 local teenagers. Both films celebrate local landscapes while inviting audiences to reexamine notions of place and identity. FREE OUTDOOR EVENT, corner of W. 37th Street and S. Hill Street 90089. Everyone welcome! Follow us on Twitter @EPFCFilmmobile for more details. Program support generously provided by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. 9/21 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 - 7. VISITING OUR NEIGHBORS Small or isolated countries have always had a disproportionate interest in the world surrounding them. The key issue in these works is analyzing the observation of "exotic" images, editing and re-editing material of the past and present. Fictional and documentary approaches and reconstructed found footage question social interactions within a 1950s farming community, moral and visual colonialism, the view of foreignness and a collective experience with migrants and refugees. Formally, they function by transposing sounds and images, and aesthetically through the displacement of communities and individuals. Works from this program include AN DIESEN ABENDEN (On Those Evenings) (1952); POOL (1990); SONNE HALT! SUN STOP! (1959-1960); KEY WEST (2002); FILM IST. 9EROBERUNG FILM IS. 9CONQUEST (2002); PASSAGEN (1996); UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (Our Trip to Africa) (1961-1966). Total running time: 100 min. ---------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012 ---------------------------- 9/22 Calgary AB: Chaos a Film Company https://www.calgaryfilm.com/2012/schedule/film/2445/ 9:30 pm, Calgary's Globe Theater CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; 617 8TH AVENUE SW CALGARY AB, T2P 1H1 The film premiered at World Film Festival in Montreal last week and "had people cringing and jumping at shadows," observed Robert Cuffley. "It was great. Seeing it with audience is, in a sense, seeing it for the first time. So I consider this the first time I've "seen" the movie. And it really works nicely. Acting is top notch." Fantasia Film Festival's Mitch Davis emphatically comments: "If you want to see one hell of an eccentrically evil Kim Coates performance, not to mention a typically powerhouse turn by Michael Eklund, be sure to check out Robert Cuffley's aptly-titled Ferocious!" Ferocious plays again at the Calgary International Film Festival (calgaryfilm.com) Saturday September 22 at 9:30pm at Calgary's Globe Theatre. The entire cast will be in attendance including Amanda Crew (Jobs, Charlie St. Cloud), Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy, Black Hawk Down), Michael Eklund, Dustin Milligan and Katie Boland. Ferocious was produced by Carolyn McMaster, CHAOS a film company and Anand Ramayya, Karma Film. A theatrical release is set for late Fall 2012. ### For media inquiries please contact: Carolyn McMaster, CHAOS a film company inc. (403) 283 - 2090 [email protected] 9/22 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 - 8. WHOSE REALITY? These four "choreographed" documentaries play out in the interstices between inside and outside, public and private, visible and invisible, being in control and out of control, and they explore different aspects of the political arena. From a performance to an essay on the status of refugees and illegal immigrants in Fortress Europe, surveillance, public spaces and hyper-real public housing are questioned and traditional family models are undermined. Works in this program include 6/64 MAMA UND PAPA (1964); BODY TRAIL (2008); FORST (2005); SOMEWHERE, LATE AFTERNOON (2007). Total running time: 73 min. 9/22 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8pm & 10pm, 992 Valencia JON MORITSUGUS PIG DEATH MACHINE Notorious cult director Jon Moritsugu and co-producer Amy Davis storm the City after too long an absence. In this W-I-P peek at their new feature, a misanthropic-punk-rock-botanist-babein a nightmarish Doctor Doolittle twistgains the power to "talk to plants" after eating rotten meat! With music by Monte Cazazza, Meri St. Mary, I Am Spoonbender, Deerhoof, Dirty Beaches, Polvo, Early Man, Low On High, many in person serving as celebrity guest DJs, dispensing free vinyl, and trippin' on the Dream Machine. *TWO SHOWS: 8pm & 10pm. $7. -------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 -------------------------- 9/23 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 BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - PART 9: HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU Austria's avant-garde film tradition, arising at mid-century (and thus, relatively later than those of other Western nations) has been among the most sustained and radical of such traditions. As with other Austrian arts, it is a response (in part) to past national decadence and entrenched conservatism; its repository of cutting-edge experimental film and video works is uniquely impressive and progressive, fracturing into ever-newer distinctions. The programs in this series have been constructed from avant-garde films and videos produced between 1955 and 2010 in which virtually every technique and genre imaginable is employed, from formalist and structuralist works by such globally renowned figures as Peter Kubelka, Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Arnold, to the radical work by performance-based artists such as VALIE EXPORT, Mara Mattuschka, Kurt Kren and the Viennese actionists, as well as the boundary-breaking contemporary output of artists including Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Johann Lurf and Virgil Widrich. Works already considered canonical are supplemented by other works that experiment with sonic art and digital technology. Moving between historical, social and aesthetic questions and purely formal works that wreak havoc with the retina, this panoramic selection is an attempt to define a poetic edge within a vast array of production while underlining links and relationships between several generations of artists, (re)discovering new ways of entering into the "material" and the frame, and examining the mechanics of cinema. This series is made possible with the support of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles. This program was curated by Brent Klinkum and presented in association with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Anthology Film Archives. NOTE: The first eight screenings in this series will be at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from August 17 September 22. TICKETS: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets Screening: Neon (Nik Thoenin & Timo Novotny, 2003, video, colour, 5min), Legal Errorist (Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring, 2005, video, b&w, 15min), Spucken Spitting (Friedl vom Gröller, 2000, 35mm, b&w, silent, 2min), The Ballad of Maria Lassnig (Maria Lassnig & Hubert Sielecki, 1992, 35mm, colour, 8min), Pullover (Günter Brus, 1967, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3min), 8/64 Ana - Aktion Brus 8/64 Ana - Action Brus (Kurt Kren, 1964, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3min), November (Hito Steyerl, 2004, video, colour, b&W, 25min), Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich, 2001, 35mm, b&w, 12min) TRT: 73min 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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