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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: ===================== Home Movie Day - Oakland (Oakland, California; Deadline: October 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1493.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 29 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: October 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1494.ann Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, Serbia; Deadline: October 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1495.ann Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: October 26, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1496.ann Vector (Canada; Deadline: December 10, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1497.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Beloit Film Festival (Beloit, WI, United States; Deadline: November 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1433.ann MONO NO AWARE VI (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: October 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1456.ann Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, US; Deadline: October 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1458.ann Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: November 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1461.ann Go Short (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1462.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 Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: November 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1491.ann Home Movie Day - Oakland (Oakland, California; Deadline: October 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1493.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 29 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: October 29, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1494.ann Alternative Film/Video Festival (Belgrade, Serbia; Deadline: October 20, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1495.ann Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA, USA; Deadline: October 26, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1496.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): ============================== * Home Movie Day! [October 20, Austin, TX] * Two Years At Sea By Ben Rivers - Ben Rivers In Person [October 20, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Margaret Tait's Caora Mor: the Big Sheep & Symposium [October 20, Helmsdale] * Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler [October 20, London, England] * Two Architecture Studies [October 20, London, England] * Mati Diop [October 20, London, England] * Rites of Passage [October 20, London, England] * Movies & Tv By Mark Toscano and Lori Felker [October 20, Los Angeles, California] * Prelinger + Orphans In Space + First On the Moon + [October 20, San Francisco, California] * Urban/Rural Landscpes [October 21, Greenbelt, Md] * Peter Kubelka Presents Monument Film [October 21, London, England] * The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott [October 21, London, England] * Where the Magic Happens [October 21, London, England] * Fly Into the Mystery [October 21, London, England] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Mirrored Curtains: the Films and videos of Lori Felker [October 21, Los Angeles, California] * Night Tide [October 24, Chicago, Illinois] * Show & Tell: Donigan Cumming Program 1 [October 25, New York] * Fragile Memories: Images of Japan [October 25, San Francisco, California] * Avant Halloween: Erc Spooktacular! [October 26, Austin, TX] * Electromediascope [October 26, Kansas City, Missouri] * Show & Tell: Donigan Cumming Program 2 [October 26, New York] * Emergent Phenomena: the Computational Cinema of Gregg Biermann [October 26, San Francisco, California] * Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Opening Program [October 27, Chicago, Illinois] * Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Program 2, Special Guest Nancy andrews [October 27, Chicago, Illinois] * The Experiment Presents Alan Berliner [October 27, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son [October 27, New York] * Avant-Garde Masters Program 1 [October 27, New York] * Divine's Secrets of the Paranormal '70s Pseudo-Docs! [October 27, San Francisco, California] * Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Program 3 [October 28, Chicago, Illinois] * Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Program 4 [October 28, Chicago, Illinois] * Essential Cinema: George & Mike Kuchar [October 28, New York] * Avant-Garde Masters Program 2 [October 28, New York] * Mike Kuchar Program [October 28, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- 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 --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012 --------------------------- 10/24 Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org 7:30 PM, Portage Theater, 4050 N Milwaukee Ave NIGHT TIDE Directed by Curtis Harrington 1961 By the early '60s, Curtis Harrington had already studied with Josef von Sternberg, graduated from USC Film School, cofounded (with Kenneth Anger) the first artist's film co-op, written perceptively about the history of horror cinema for Sight & Sound, and made a quartet of hazy and restless experimental shorts. He brought all this to bear upon his first feature, the independently produced Night Tide, inspired by the closing lines of Poe's "Annabelle Lee." Dewey-eyed Method wannabe and peripheral avant-garde mainstay Dennis Hopper stars as a depressed sailor who falls in love with self-professed mermaid Mora (Linda Lawson) who lives in an aquatic hippodrome in the most squalid corner of the Santa Monica Pier. As if normal adolescent sexual anxiety weren't enough, just imagine irrepressible nightmares with your girlfriend as a killer octopus! The poetic Night Tide was originally dumped as double-bill fodder by American International Pictures after sitting on the shelf for two years. Now fully restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Film Foundation, Night Tide re-emerges as a uniquely resplendent psychodrama that rivals Touch of Evil and Southland Tales as the finest cinematic excavation of the half-conscious countercultural mecca of Venice, California. (KW) -------------------------- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 -------------------------- 10/25 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: DONIGAN CUMMING PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: AFTER BRENDA 1997, 41 min, video. Cumming's abject hero is Pierre, a fifty-something male who has lost everything in the name of love. He is homeless and adrift, an unwanted guest with nothing to offer but a tale. ERRATIC ANGEL 1998, 50 min, video. In his 50th year, Colin looks back on a life of drug and alcohol abuse. Four years into recovery, he is angry and articulate about addiction, treatment, and the romance of the street. In the chaos and claustrophobia of the ice storm, Colin waits to be reborn. His erratic angel is late. Total running time: ca. 95 min. 10/25 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30 PM, Artists Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st Street) FRAGILE MEMORIES: IMAGES OF JAPAN September 3November 3, in its galleries at 925 Mission Street, Intersection for the Arts presents Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by 3.11 East Japan Tsunami, a massive display of personal photographs recovered in the city of Yamomoto during post-tsunami clean-up in 2011, collectively displayed in an overwhelming testament to loss and perseverance. In homage and reference to this exhibition Cinematheque tonight screens Ute Aurand's 2011 film Young Pines (Junge Kiefern), an engaged, stately and patient observance of the urban landscape, a quiet consideration on harmonious overlap between nature and culture. Filmed throughout Japan before the disasters of the tsunami and Fukushima, but edited after, Young Pines' carries an uncanny and inspiring grace. Also screening are three recent films by Japanese filmmakers which consider similar themes, including Tomonari Nishikawa's TokyoEbisu a fragmented collage of that vibrant city's life and motion; Makino Takashi's Generator (with a soundtrack by Jim O'Rourke), a study in accumulation and dissolution, which, created as a response to the disaster in Fukushima, visualizes Tokyo in a toxic state of decay; and Rei Hayama's Emblem, a quiet meditation on the fragility of landscape and life. (Steve Polta) ------------------------ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012 ------------------------ 10/26 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7:30pm, 29th St. Ballroom, 2906 Fruth Street AVANT HALLOWEEN: ERC SPOOKTACULAR! Experimental Films from the Dark Side: Avant garde cinema has never been so creepy, or so fun! Experimental Response Cinema presents an evening of spooky celluloid and demented digital video from beyond the grave by cine-sorcerers Kerry Laitala, David Sherman, Janie Geiser, Peter Tscherkassky, Ben Russell, Stephanie Barber and others. PLUS many hair-raising surprises. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 16mm film, 10 mins.) "A young woman, night, an American feature film. She enters a house, a dark corridor, a thriller. While she forces her way into an unknown space together with the viewer, the cinematographic image-producing processes go off the rails. The rooms telescope into each other, become blurred, while the crackling of the cuts and the background noise - the sound of the film material itself - becomes louder and more penetrating In ten minutes OUTER SPACE races through the unsuspected possibilities of cinematographic errors - a masterpiece."- Stephan Grissemann The Fourth Watch (Janie Geiser, 16mm film, 9 mins.) The ancient Greeks divided the night into four sections; the last section before morning was called the fourth watch. In these hours before dawn, an endless succession of rooms is inhabited by silent film figures occupying flickering space in a mid-century house made of printed tin. "A small masterpiece of the uncanny." Mark McElhatten, curator, New York Film Festival. Secure the Shadow, ere the substance fade (Kerry Laitala, 16mm film, 8 mins.) The title "Secure the Shadow, Ere the Substance Fade " comes from a 19th century photographer who advertised his services photographing corpses. Laitala's film is a meditation on disintegration and mortality. The film utilizes antique Medical stereoscopic images from the Victorian era, which are simultaneously disturbing and beautiful. The filmmaker's intention is to reveal universal truths about the overwhelming quality of disease to render us ultimately mute, immobilized within a corporeal shell that has succumbed to imminent forces beyond our control. Tuning the Sleeping Machine (David Sherman, 16mm film, 13 mins.) "TUNING THE SLEEPING MACHINE maintains a dreamy oscillation between visual abstraction and a disjointedly submerged narrative of sexual menace. ... [It] recalls our shared experience of late-night television in which lambent images emerge from the screen and turn strange as they percolate through our half-conscious thoughts and reveries." - Paul Arthur, Film Comment Trypps #6, Ben Russell | 2009 | 12 minutes. From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It's Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set. -BR. the badger and hare from jhana and the rats of james olds, Stephanie Barber, 2011, 3 min. This is a collaboration with the artist duo Smelling Salt Amusements (Heather Romney and Peter Redgrave) who came to the museum and worked with me all day from idea construction through planning and taping the animation to writing, playing, singing and recording the song and down to the final edit. We had a beautiful day of laughing and rushing each other, fretting and feeling triumphant. The piece bears much of their gentle and fairytale-like aesthetic and, like the most compelling fairytales, hovers uneasily between adorable and horrifying. Stephanie Barber 10/26 Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art http://www.nelson-atkins.org 7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street ELECTROMEDIASCOPE Possible Worlds: Community, Identity and Culture. "The Nine Muses," John Akomfrah (UK), 2010. 94 min, HD transferred to DVD. This film is comprised of nine overlapping musical chapters that mix archival material with original scenes. Homer's "The Odyssey" is the primary narrative reference point for this work. "The history of the world has been shaped by climate, war, famine, disease, Diasporas, revolutions, invention, energy and commerce. These influences all continue to contribute to the socio-political and cultural dynamics of change. Several new technological and intellectual developments are affecting the ways that people think about the communities that they are born into as well as those that they choose. The very notion of communities itself is complex with different scales and qualities, including the community of those who do not belong to a community, open permeable communities and closed or static societies where power is achieved through violence, ethnic cleansing and dictatorial or fascist control that maintains the status quo in the face of global change. At a time when the dysfunctional and often horrific dissolution and destruction of communities is becoming more prevalent artists and filmmakers are producing works that document and raise critical questions regarding what, how and if the limits of community that are emerging are relevant in the context of today's global political, economic and social crises." -- Patrick Clancy. This series had previous programs on October 12 and 19. 10/26 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: DONIGAN CUMMING PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: if only I 2000, 35 min, video. Colleen's life, in her own words, has been "wretched." She was sexually abused by her father, betrayed by her husband, separated from her children, driven by her love for a heroin addict to attempted suicide. Colleen has survived by taking responsibility for her decisions and dreaming of a safer place. MY DINNER WITH WEEGEE 2001, 36.5 min, video. Cumming weaves together two life stories. Marty, once a Catholic labor organizer and peace activist, recalls his friendships with David Dellinger, the Berrigan brothers, Bayard Rustin, Weegee, and James Agee. The other story is Cumming's in his fifty-fourth year, as he examines his own radicalism in light of the "dirty wheezing beacon" up ahead. FOUNTAIN (2005, 22 min, video) In a string of moments with the people who have presented themselves to Cumming's camera for over twenty years, FOUNTAIN allows the accidental and the absurd to dominate our impressions. Storytelling is evacuated in the process. 3 (2007, 3.75 min, video) Men asleep, a dream, play, a song; angel and snow, wings and flowers, money and trees; fast then slow, piano decays, laughter. Total running time: ca. 100 min. 10/26 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8:00 PM, 992 Valencia Street EMERGENT PHENOMENA: THE COMPUTATIONAL CINEMA OF GREGG BIERMANN "In this work Gregg Biermann has taken head-on some of the supreme moments of classical cinema and subjected them to a dazzling transformation in the digital domain. The results are exhilarating, surprising tours de force. They also have a zany quality that shows the artist to have a witty imagination. He is a prober into the hidden corners of cinema, and a master of computer-based wizardry." Larry Gottheim Happy Again 2006, 5 minutes, video, The Hills Are Alive 2005, 7 minutes, video, Utopia Variations 2008, 5 minutes video, Labyrinthine 2010, 15 minutes, video, Another Picture 2007, 4 minutes, video, Crop Duster Octet 2011, HD video, 5 minutes Paradiso 2003, video, 17 minutes, stereo, New Jersey Gradual video, 17 minutes, stereo, 2008 Traffic Patterns 2009, 9 minutes, video -------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2012 -------------------------- 10/27 Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation www.eyeworksfestival.com 2:00 pm, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, OPENING PROGRAM ADMISSION FREE! 80 min. Program: Katayama Takuto, Dissimilated Vision, 2012. Piotr Kamler - Le Mission Ephemere, 1993. 
 Mirai Mizue - Modern No. 2, 2011. Edwin Rostron - Visions of the Invertebrate, 2012
. Kyle Mowat Ballpit, 2012. Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart - Begone Dull Care, 1949
. Peter Millard Boogodobiegodongo, 2012
. Christopher Hinton cNote, 2004. Stuart Hilton - Six Weeks in June, 1996.
 Benoit Guillome - Naked Unborn Child, 2012. 
 Bruno Dicolla - The End, 2012. 
 Kawai + Okamura Columbos, 2012. 
 Ksenia Stoylik Tomatoes, 2011. 
 Eric Dyer Coversong, 2011. 
 Frank and Caroline Mouris - Frank Film, 1973 
 Jake Fried - Waiting Room, 2012 10/27 Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation www.eyeworksfestival.com 7:00 pm, DePaul University School of CIM, Daley Building, 247 S. State St., Lower Level EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 2, SPECIAL GUEST NANCY ANDREWS Animator Nancy Andrews will present three of her films, Behind the Eyes are the Ears (2009), The Haunted Camera (2006), and Hedwig Page, Seaside Librarian (1998). TRT: 90 mins. Admission: $10. Tickets available in advance via festival website. 10/27 New York, New York: Maysles Cinema http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema.html 7:30pm, 343 Lenox Avenue @ 127 Street THE EXPERIMENT PRESENTS ALAN BERLINER The Experiment, for its third installment of experimental documentary cinema encompassing a serial nature, is pleased to present an excerpted retrospective screening of works by NYC native, Alan Berliner, in attendance for an integrated platform of projection and discussion focusing on the profound impact of his innovative film essays and their acute attention towards familial affection and conflict. My emphasis will be on showing the ways in which I've been reusing, recycling, and re-contextualizing a wide array of sounds, images, and formal strategies in my films, for over 30 years, and how this approach has, over time, allowed the films to cross-fertilize with one another, yielding additional layers of meaning; a continuity between all of my films, which can now be seen as a life-long "project," reaffirming the plasticity of cinematic storytelling. Alan Berliner. Featuring clips from the following films: City Edition (1980), Myth in the Electric Age (1981), Everywhere at Once (1985), The Family Album (1986), Intimate Stranger (1991), Nobody's Business (1996), Wide Awake (2001), Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet's Alzheimer's (2010), First Cousin Once Removed (2012). For more information, please visit http://www.alanberliner.com/. 10/27 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON by Ken Jacobs 1969, 115 minutes, 16mm An absolute masterpiece from one of the most inspiring innovators of modern cinema. "Original 1905 film shot and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer, rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie, almost as a side effect, coming into being." K.J. 10/27 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue AVANT-GARDE MASTERS PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: Larry Rivers TITS 1969, 60 min, 16mm. Preserved by the Larry Rivers Foundation; introduced by the Foundation's Director, David Joel! "The first film I made after my African adventure was a documentary on breasts. As the film evolved, it grew to include the chests of Mongolian wrestlers and women of all ages, their bodies and thoughts on their bodies, and many men, including my twenty-four-year-old son Steven, wearing falsies on his hairy chest in quest of the perfect bosom. Even the milk bags and udders of cows, dogs, and sheep found their way into the film, which I called TITS, and which couldn't have been a redder flag to flap during the cultural wave of feminism." Larry Rivers & Gerd Stern Y (1963, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by the Intermedia Foundation. Made in collaboration with Ivan Majdrakoff and Michael Callahan.) Images of painted lines on the highway intersect with the human body in the most mesmerizing of ways in this award-winning, scandal-provoking short by one of the 1960s premiere artist collectives. 10/27 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia DIVINE'S SECRETS OF THE PARANORMAL '70S PSEUDO-DOCS! Encyclopedic in breadth and brimming with historical--and hysterical--insights, OC's fave genre archivist Christian Divine initiates a mind-boggling evening afloat in the phenomenal world of 70s psychotronic cinema: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, UFOs, hauntings, and occult ceremonies. These cult currents, as reflected in the era's popular Sunn Classics pseudo-documentary/exploitation cycles, are expertly explicated with clips from Chariot of the Gods, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Equinox, Hex, Hangar 18, and a special "revival" of Wheeler Dixon's sorely underrated The Amazing World of Ghosts. Plus a nod to Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of series, free treats, and mulled wine. ------------------------ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012 ------------------------ 10/28 Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation www.eyeworksfestival.com 1 PM, DePaul University School of CIM, Daley Building, 247 S. State St., Lower Level EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 3 Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane and Mari Pakkas - Breakfast on the Grass, 2012. Jenna Caravello - The Room with No Corners, 2011.
 Adam Beckett - Flesh Flows, 1974. 
 Thorne Brandt - AGOD 2012, 2012.
 Naomi Uman Removed, 1999.
 Keiichi Tanaami - Sweet Friday, 1975
. Atsushi Wada - The Great Rabbit, 2012.
 Jim Trainor - The Fetishist, 1998. *This program features disturbing content and is not recommended for children* Admission: $10. Tickets available in advance through the festival website. 10/28 Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation www.eyeworksfestival.com 4 PM, DePaul University School of CIM, Daley Building, 247 S. State St., Lower Level EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION, PROGRAM 4 Oskar Fischinger - Composition in Blue, 1935
. Lillian Schwartz Pixillation, 1970. 
 Johan Rijpma Division, 2012.
 Peter Burr Alone With the Moon, 2010. 
 Semiconductor - Black Rain, 2009. 
 Al Jarnow - Celestial Navigation, 1985.
 Tomonari Nishikawa - Market Street, 2005.
 Daina Krumins Babobilicons, 1981.
 Leif Goldberg - Horse Holograph, 1998.
 Darko Masnec - I Already Know What I Hear, 2012.
 Immanuel Wagner Baka, 2010. Admission: $10. Tickets available in advance through the festival website. TRT 80 minutes. 10/28 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR All films preserved with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. THE NAKED AND THE NUDE (1957, 36 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up, sound on CD) The oldest surviving Kuchar mini-epic, this patriotic WWII period piece (made by high schoolers) chronicles the desires and destinies of carnal appetites on the front line. "Big Rousing Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner sing the title song. You'll come out whistling from both ends." G.K. PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up, sound on CD) "It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy." G.K. BORN OF THE WIND (1962, 24 min, 8mm-to-16mm) Preserved by Anthology through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc. "A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life 2,000 years as a mummy couldn't quench her thirst for love!" G.K. TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN (1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up, sound on CD) Mike's cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. Total running time: ca. 95 min. 10/28 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue AVANT-GARDE MASTERS PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: Frank Stauffacher NOTES ON THE PORT OF ST. FRANCIS (1951, 21 min, 16mm. Preserved by Pacific Film Archive.) A poetic portrait of San Francisco narrated by Vincent Price. Rudy Burckhardt THE CLIMATE OF NEW YORK (1948, 21 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) Mid-1940s New York City preserved in luminous black-and-white and saturated color. "Shows the relation of New Yorkers to their monumental environment, their nervous movement against the solid calm of their architecture, and the almost impossible difference in scale between the two." R.B. Beryl Sokoloff GAUDI (1962, 14 min, 16mm. Preserved by Silver Bow Art.) Sokoloff's cinematic homage to the architect, Antonio Gaudi. The filmmaker intertwines Gaudi's fantastic forms with the vital streets of Barcelona creating a poetic tension and visual excitement. Tom Palazzolo HE (1966, 8 min, 16mm. Preserved by Chicago Filmmakers.) Men are strange creatures. This film follows a few of them, including an Abe Lincoln look-alike, and a nudist swimmer in January. Total running time: ca. 70 min. 10/28 New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM MELTDOWN 2012, 12 min, digital video. "Waiting to live" and "Waiting to die" are the same thing or is he just plain "Mad"? STARBOUND 2012, 47 min, digital video. Dizzy "way out", "new age" widescreen mayhem seethes within the walls of the Institute for Metaphysical Research and Spiritual Wellness. GREEN DESIRE 1966, 20 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. A youth wanders the landscape of grass and sky in search of puzzling impulses. GREEN DESIRE is an exquisite and rarely seen example of Kuchar's masterful use of color, texture, and tone. MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL 2011, 34 min, video. A color-splashed mystery play about revelers at a masquerade ball produced by Kuchar and his San Francisco Art Institute students. Total running time: ca. 120 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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