Part 2 of 2: This week [October 13 - 21, 2012] in avant garde cinema -------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 --------------------------
10/20 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 2pm, Austin History Center HOME MOVIE DAY! In collaboration with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and the Austin History Center. Austin is participating in the global Home Movie Day, excavating the treasures of our lives! Bring your regular 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm and VHS, and we'll show them! 10/20 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street TWO YEARS AT SEA BY BEN RIVERS - BEN RIVERS IN PERSON Two Years at Sea Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2011, 35mm, b/w, 86 min For his first feature film, Ben Rivers (b. 1972) reunited once more with Jake Williams, the eccentric hermit whose ramshackle life deep in the Scottish wilderness is the subject of Rivers' This is My Land (2006) and an episode from I Know Where I'm Going (2009). A captivating meditation on solitude and time's passage, Two Years at Sea is a vivid and at times mysterious portrait of a man who seems to have found a genuine inner peace in the slow unfolding of his ritualized every day. The stunning imagery and visual imagination of Two Years at Sea derive a rare power from Rivers' dramatic use of the pointedly anachronistic 16mm widescreen format later blown up to 35mm to cast a swirling photochemical energy around the ragged forest and overstuffed trailer that together constitute Williams' home and universe. Almost entirely worldless, Two Years at Sea uses its richly evocative soundscape and extended long takes to fully immerse the viewer into the resonant tranquility of Williams' life, with photographs and well-worn objects gently hinting but never revealing a past life shed long ago. Phantoms of a Libertine Directed by Ben Rivers UK 2012, 16mm, color, 14 min An evocative tribute to a photographer friend who passed away suddenly, Rivers' latest short makes poetic use of images found in the friend's apartment to share poignantly unknowable fragments of a life's full adventure. 10/20 Helmsdale: Timespan http://www.timespan.org.uk/thebigsheep/ 2.30pm and 6.30pm, Timespan. Helmsdale. Sutherland. Scotland. MARGARET TAITS CAORA MOR: THE BIG SHEEP & SYMPOSIUM Margaret Tait writer, poet, film-maker was resident at Slowbend, Helmsdale on release of the films: 'Caora Mor The Big Sheep' and 'Splashing' (recently rediscovered) in 1966. This symposium will give you the opportunity to visit locations in Helmsdale and Portgower. It will include a screening of 'Land Makar' (1980); and it will open a discussion on four themes: The Sheep and The Land, by way of A Film, and A Poet's Voice. The day will involve participation from older residents and draw on their first hand knowledge and memories of this place, thus explore the change represented by the films. It is timely that we have the chance to revisit this film-work and consider Margaret's time at Slowbend. In light of her recent publication 'Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings' by Fyfield Books, Dr Sarah Neely will discuss why the start of the 60′s was a very productive period for both Margaret's writing and films, and will illustrate their thematic crossover. A reading by Lesley Harrison and a performance by Cara Tolmie will allow us to reconsider the meaning of 'Makar' a Scots word for 'poet'. Peter Todd, artist and co-editor of 'Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret Tait Reader' will introduce the screening of 'Caora Mor: The Big Sheep'. 10/20 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT NATHANIEL DORSKY & JEROME HILER While others bemoan the end of celluloid, Nathaniel Dorsky whose work has become an annual highlight of the festival over the past decade continues apace, more productive now than ever. His carefully considered practice has this year created works of great beauty from a period of sorrow. This screening of two new films will be complemented by rarely exhibited work by his companion Jerome Hiler. AUGUST AND AFTER (Nathaniel Dorsky | USA 2012 | 19 min) 'After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time.' APRIL (Nathaniel Dorsky | USA 2012 | 26 min) 'Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever remember in San Francisco. April is intended as a companion piece for August and After, and is partly funded by a gift from Carla Liss.' WORDS OF MERCURY (Jerome Hiler | USA 2011 | 25 min) Jerome Hiler, who shares Dorsky's heightened sense of wonder at the world around him, builds sensuous layers of superimposition at the moment of shooting. A most private filmmaker, whose primary craft is the less transient medium of stained glass, he has until recently only shown his work as camera originals, thus limiting their public visibility. His inclusion in the latest Whitney Biennial prompted this first digital transfer. 10/20 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT TWO ARCHITECTURE STUDIES ALONG THE LINES (Catalina Niculescu | UK-Romania 2011 | 16 min) On a trip to her native Romania, the artist's interest in architectural forms prompted a visual investigation into how decorative and structural motifs recur in buildings from the traditional to the modern. RECONVERSÃO (Thom Andersen | Portugal 2012 | 65 min) Invited to film in Portugal on the occasion of the Vila do Conde festival's 20th anniversary, Thom Andersen chose to document building projects by Eduardo Souto de Moura, whose work combines modernist aesthetics with traces of the architectural history of his sites. Incorporating local materials with contemporary building techniques, his clean concrete lines harmonise with natural elements and traditional stone walls. Influenced in equal measure by Mies van der Rohe and minimal sculptors such as Judd and Morris, Souta de Moura's achievements include meticulous linear houses, the Porto subway network, and the monumental Braga Stadium, which rises out of the earth beside a mountain of imposing granite. This leisurely film features 17 such projects and culminates in a conversation between the filmmaker and the distinguished architect. 10/20 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT MATI DIOP Among the younger generation of artists exploring new approaches to narrative, the work of Mati Diop is notable for its sensitive portrayal of characters and intimate style of filming. Diop is also an actress, playing leading roles in Clare Denis' 35 Shots of Rum and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer, and is the niece of legendary Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty. Her recent short films will be presented together for the first time in the UK. ATLANTIQUES (Mati Diop | France-Senegal 2009 | 16 min) 'A story about boys who are continually travelling: between past, present and future, between life and death, history and myth.' BIG IN VIETNAM (Mati Diop | France 2012 | 29 min) When a lead actor disappears from set, the director searches for him in the city of Marseille. Stumbling into a karaoke bar, she loses herself in memories of her former home in Vietnam, and encounters a man who shares her sense of displacement. As night becomes day, they walk along the seafront and he recounts the story of his journey from the Far East to Europe. SNOW CANON (Mati Diop | France 2011 | 33 min) Stranded in her parents' chalet in the French Alps, a teenage girl passes time chatting online with friends, until the babysitter arrives and events take an unexpected turn. Innocent pastimes give way to games of power and seduction. 10/20 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 9pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT RITES OF PASSAGE GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE (Steve Reinke | USA 2010 | 4 min) 'Whatever is going on on top, there's a precise machine at work below, and this machine is digging little grooves, and these grooves slowly join together and become the conduits by which all meaning is drained from the world.' MANQUE DE PREUVES (Hayoun Kwon | South Korea-France 2011 | 10 min) To cleanse his village of demons, the chief of a Nigerian tribe plans to sacrifice his twin sons. One escapes and flees to Europe, where his application for asylum is dismissed through lack of material proof. Using his testimony as the basis, Kwon proposes an animated depiction of his account. ὌΡΝΙΘΕΣ (BIRDS) (Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal-Haiti 2012 | 17 min) Pagan folk myth is juxtaposed with ancient Greek comedy as three Haitian girls witness disparate forms of storytelling. An old man tells the tale of his wife's transformation into a goat. In a local village, an elaborately costumed theatre group performs Aristophanes' Birds in the original Attic language. PONCE DE LEÓN (Ben Russell & Jim Drain | USA 2012 | 26 min) 'Our Ponce de León is an immortal for whom time poses the greatest dilemma it is a constant, a given, and his personal battle lies in trying to either arrest time entirely or to make the hands on his clock move ever faster. For Ponce de León, time is a problem of body, and only by escaping his container can he escape time itself.' RIVER RITES (Ben Russell | USA-Suriname 2011 | 12 min) 'Trance dance and water implosion.' A constantly moving camera passes through a complex choreography of bodies engaged in rituals of work and play along the Upper Suriname River. 10/20 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) MOVIES & TV BY MARK TOSCANO AND LORI FELKER $5 / Mark Toscano and Lori Felker are two makers who are very serious about exploring the un-serious. This program brings together recent TV-shaped videos by Felker and a whole slew of 16mm films by Toscano. Lori Felker is a film/videomaker, programmer, projectionist, performer and collaborator. Her work employs multiple formats, styles, and structures, all attempting to make sense of the simultaneous simplicity and chaos of humanity. She is enamored with awkwardness, ineloquence, frustration, searching, trying and failing (or falling) and considers herself an "experiential" filmmaker. (www.FelkerCommaLori.com, variablearea.tv.) Mark Toscano is an archivist and filmmaker, though not necessarily in that order. Program: Videos by Lori Felker: It Doesn't Matter (2012), Broken New (Disaster) (2012, with Chris Royalty), Broken New (Drama) (2012, with Chris Royalty), Broken New (Conspiracy) (2012, with Chris Royalty) / 16mm films by Mark Toscano: The Electrolysis of Brine (2008), February 2008 & June 1967 (2010), Finding the Horn (2008), The Wofobs (2008), WDD / CHL (2009), Rating Dogs on a Scale of 1 to 10 (2011), Demonstration (2012), Process of Elimination (2012), Releasing Human Energies (2012). 10/20 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8pm, 992 Valencia PRELINGER + ORPHANS IN SPACE + FIRST ON THE MOON + SAT. 10/20: PRELINGER + ORPHANS IN SPACE + FIRST ON THE MOON + Local heroine Megan Prelinger celebrates the marvelous in 20th Century aerospace cinema, introducing the inspired DVD set Orphans in Space: Forgotten Films from the Final FrontierWalter Forsberg's NYU archival project that revives celluloid anomalies on space exploration. PLUS the premiere of Aleksei Fedorchenko's First on the Moon, a Russian pseudo-doc mixing archival and live-action footage towards a faux history of Stalin's '30s space program! ALSO Linda Scobie's Space Dogs and Thad Povey's Cineroc. Free Orphans DVDs to the first 10 patrons. ------------------------ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2012 ------------------------ 10/21 Greenbelt, Md: Utopia Film Festival http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/index.html 2pm, Greenbelt Municipal Building 25 Crescent Road Greenbelt, MD 20770 URBAN/RURAL LANDSCPES Experimental film program "Urban/Rural Landscapes 6" (approx. 90 min.) curated by filmmaker Chris Lynn FREE 1. "The Luminous Passage" Ryan Marino-A meditation on the passage of time and light, an evocation of the season of autumn. This film was shot during consecutive autumns in New York, Maine and New Hampshire 2."Hudson River Landscapes" by Patrick Tarrant-Recorded from a 24th floor window on Broadway, Hudson River Landscapes maps the elevated terrain of Manhattan's Upper West Side where laborers and layabouts, while displaced from the city beneath them, and framed by the river behind them , function like secret agents in an unscripted spy drama. 3. "Broad Channel" by Sarah J. Christman. Over the course of four seasons, the nuances of everyday activity are examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline in New York City's Jamaica Bay. Moments of recurrence and change cycle through an ecosystem rooted in migration. 4. "Morning Fisherman" by Chris H Lynn. A piece from the Reconstructing Scenic views from Seventeenth Century Chinese Landscape Painting series. Shot at Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, China. 5. "De Luce 1: Vegetare" by Janis Crystal Lipzin. The colors and light of a garden are transformed by Janis Crystal Lipzin's alchemical experiments with the film material and photochemical processes. 6. "Watercolors" by Ann Deborah Levy-Colors, Patterns, and images, reflected on the surface of a pond mirror changes in seasons and weather over the course of a year to create this "painting in motion". 7. "Underfoot and Overstory" by Jason Livingston. Local environmentalists,the Friends of Hickory Hill Park, work to protect nearly 200 acres of unique urban parkland in Iowa City, Iowa. The organization's mission statement must be produced. The inaugural Hickory Hill Park calendar must be completed. Nature images run parallel, collide or drift beside the demands of group writing, open space and the park's changing boundary. 10/21 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 2pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT PETER KUBELKA PRESENTS MONUMENT FILM MONUMENT FILM (Peter Kubelka | Austria 2012 | c90 min) The Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka has been a vital and uncompromising force in cinema for more than half a century. In a body of work that lasts not much more than an hour in total, he condenses and articulates the essential qualities of analogue cinema, distinguishing film as an autonomous artform. His 1960 film ARNULF RAINER, composed only of the purest elements of light and darkness, sound and silence, remains one of the most radical achievements in film history. In 2012, his new work ANTIPHON in equal terms a response to that earlier film and a testament to the entire medium will be revealed in a unique lecture screening. With 35mm projectors situated in the auditorium, each film will be screened individually, then combined as double projections, both side-by-side and superimposed upon each other. Throughout the event, Kubelka will explicate his theories, communicating his enthusiasm for cinema, and the differences between film and digital media. (Mark Webber) 10/21 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 4pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT THE POOR STOCKINGER, THE LUDDITE CROPPER AND THE DELUDED FOLLOWERS OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT THE POOR STOCKINGER, THE LUDDITE CROPPER AND THE DELUDED FOLLOWERS OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT (Luke Fowler | UK 2012 | 61 min) The new work by Luke Fowler, a current nominee for the Turner Prize, explores the role played by left wing intellectuals in the working class communities of post-war Yorkshire. At night schools organised by the Workers' Educational Association, adults with no other access to further education were taught by progressive thinkers such as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson, from whose treatise The Making of the English Working Class the film takes its long-winded title. As in previous studies of R.D. Laing and Cornelius Cardew, Fowler makes effective use of archival and contemporary materials. The result is far from a conventional documentary: in place of objective commentary, the soundtrack features the lilting voice of artist Ceryth Wyn Evans reading Thompson's class reports (pointed and often droll). For the present-day images of municipal buildings, West Riding towns and surrounding landscapes, Fowler shot in collaboration with American independent filmmaker Peter Hutton. (Mark Webber) 10/21 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 7pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS TEN MINUTIAE (Peter Miller | Germany 2012 | 5 min) A series of brief exercises in cinematographic magic. I AM MICRO (Shumona Goel & Shai Heredia | India 2011 | 15 min) 'Shot in an abandoned optics factory and centred on the activities of a low budget film crew, I am Micro is an experimental essay about filmmaking, the medium of film, and the spirit of making independent cinema.' RITA LARSON'S BOY (Kevin Jerome Everson | USA 2012 | 11 min) In one of a trilogy of works based on personalities from the filmmaker's parents' hometown, actors audition for the role of sitcom character Rollo Larson. As they attempt to inhabit the character, subtle variations in delivery bring a hypnotic dimension to disconnected lines and repetitive actions. TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE (Erin Espelie | USA 2012 | 4 min) Espelie trains her camera on the myriad life forms that coexist within a small area around a mountain creek. 'When nature writes the screenplays, she doesn't abide by crescendos.' DARK GARDEN (Nick Collins | UK 2011 | 9 min) Contours of light define the flowers and plants of a winter garden, filmed against the black expanse of the night sky. WITHIN (Robert Todd | USA 2012 | 9 min) 'A film that sustains a complex condition: keeping the inner world alive as the camera looks 'out' upon the world.' BY PAIN AND RHYME AND ARABESQUES OF FORAGING (David Gatten | USA 2012 | 8 min) An 'experiment touching colours' inspired by 17th Century scientist Robert Boyle, bringing together exquisite images shot over a 13-year period. Its title, from a sonnet by Jorie Graham, encapsulates the process and infers its poetic consequence. THE CREATION AS WE SAW IT (Ben Rivers | UK-Vanuatu 2012 | 14 min) Unexpectedly given the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world, Ben Rivers chose Vanuatu in the South Pacific. Amidst the villages and landscapes of this remote archipelago, he sought out the creation myths and folktales of a distant culture. 10/21 London, England: BFI London Film Festival www.experimentaweekend.org.uk 9pm, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT FLY INTO THE MYSTERY A LAX RIDDLE UNIT (Laida Lertxundi | Spain-USA 2011 | 6 min) 'In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body.' AGATHA (Beatrice Gibson | UK 2012 | 14 min) Strangers in a strange land. As the narrator recounts a dream by composer Cornelius Cardew, the viewer is transported from the hills of Snowdonia to a mental landscape where sci-fi commingles with sexual fantasy. WELL THEN THERE NOW (Lewis Klahr | USA 2011 | 11 min) Loosely interpreting a scenario by John Zorn, Klahr uses subconscious logic to weave strands of suspense from collaged images and fragments of voiceover. THE PLANT (Mary Helena Clark | USA 2012 | 8 min) 'A film filled with clues and stray transmissions built on the bad geometry of point-of-view shots.' ARBOR (Janie Geiser | USA 2012 | 7 min) The layered imagery of Geiser's uncanny animations suggest surreal worlds and spectral presences. 'I was wide awake, in a dream.' THE TIGER'S MIND (Beatrice Gibson | UK 2012 | 20 min) Again referencing Cardew, Gibson's new project The Tiger's Mind takes his 1967 text score and applies it to the process of making a collaborative film, for which each contributor assumes the role of a character. The result is an abstract psychodrama and crime thriller set against the backdrop of a modernist house. 10/21 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 MIRRORED CURTAINS: THE FILMS AND VIDEOS OF LORI FELKER Lori Felker's films and videos relish the idiosyncrasies of science fiction, public access television, and tourism as gateways to a better understanding of human behavior. These structures turn her experimental/experiential approaches into dark, self-reflective comedies that take us next to nowhere. Once referred to as a "zen prankster", Felker attempts to locate and stand upon the middle ground between polar opposites and dance between the surface and the subconscious. Filmmaker Lori Felker in person! TICKETS: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/281781 SCREENING: THIS IS MY SHOW (2009, HD, 15min), Mere Mystery (2010, 16mm [or HD video], 12min), ZWISCHEN (2006, 2 minutes, 16mm), Imperceptihole (2010, 16mm [or HD video], 14min [made with Robert Todd]), THE MIRRORED CURTAIN (2011, HD, 10.5min), The Mennonite Federation (2012, 16mm [or HD video], made with Robert Todd & Craig Webster, 4.5 min), I OWN A CAROUSEL (2011, Super 8 [or HD video], 7min), Across & Down (2012, Super 8/16mm to HD, 18min, experimental documentary) Total running time: 81 min 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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