This week [October 27 - November 4, 2012] in avant garde cinema To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go to http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribe or send an email to [email protected].
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 FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE: ======================== "Benny Loves Killing" by Ben Woodiwiss http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=135.ann "14 x 14" by Albert Alcoz http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=504.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Vector (Canada; Deadline: December 10, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1497.ann Hamburg Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1498.ann Gimme Some Truth Documentary Forum (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: November 23, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1499.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 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 Gimme Some Truth Documentary Forum (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: November 23, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1499.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): ============================== * 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] * David Gatten: Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account In Nine Parts [October 28, Los Angeles, California] * 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] * Hollywood Burn: Soda_jerk, Bryan Boyce, Jon Dieringer, Elisa Kreisinger &Amp; Marc Faletti [October 30, Long Island City, NY] * Thorsten Fleisch, Berlin Premiere of Hex Suffice Cache Ten and 16mm Archive Films [November 1, Berlin, Germany] * Film Poems With Peter Todd [November 1, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK] * Open Screen [November 1, Los Angeles, California] * Your Day Is My Night: Live Film Performance Directed By Lynne Sachs [November 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Jennings/Kirsanoff Program [November 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: the General [November 2, New York, New York] * Sound Movies: Kick That Habit and Twelve Dark Noons [November 3, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Rapt [November 3, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Peter Kubelka Program [November 3, New York, New York] * Jamie Meltzer's Informant [November 3, San Francisco, California] * Rose Lowder: Colorful Frames [November 4, Los Angeles, California] * Taylor Mead: On Film, In Person [November 4, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- 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 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd DAVID GATTEN: FOUR FILMS TOWARD PART V OF SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE, A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS David Gatten in person! Screening, all in 16mm: The Matter Propounded, Of Its Possibility or Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts (2011, 13 minutes, b&w, silent, 16mm); How to Conduct a Love Affair (2007, 8 minutes, color, silent, 16mm); So Sure of Nowhere Buying Times to Come (2010, 9 minutes, color, silent, 16mm); Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 323: Once Upon a Time in the West (2010, 20 minutes, b&w, sound, 16mm) All Los Angeles Premieres! 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. ------------------------- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 ------------------------- 10/30 Long Island City, NY: Flux Factory 7:30pm, 39-31 29th Street HOLLYWOOD BURN: SODA_JERK, BRYAN BOYCE, JON DIERINGER, ELISA KREISINGER & MARC FALETTI #hollywoodburn - On the eve of halloween, a flag for piracy and the free culture movement will be raised with a screening of sample-based works by Soda_Jerk, Bryan Boyce, Jon Dieringer, Elisa Kreisinger & Marc Faletti. - Created over 10 years in collaboration with artist Sam Smith, Soda_Jerk's feature 'Hollywood Burn' is an anti-copyright epic constructed from hundreds of samples plundered from the Hollywood archive. It will be launched in New York with this free one-night only event. - Mimicking the hyperbolic rhetoric of today's copyright cops, 'Hollywood Burn' pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Determined to alter the present by changing the past, the pirates travel back to 1955 to construct the ultimate weapon: an Elvis Presley video clone. Part sci-fi + rom com + biblical epic + action movie, this remix manifesto adopts the tactical responses of the parasite, feeding off the body of Hollywood and inhabiting its cinematic structures and codes. The unwitting all-star cast includes Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston, Batman, Bette Davis, Jaws, Jesus, the Hulk, the Hoff & the Ghostbusters. Check out trailer at https://vimeo.com/34675675. - Soda_Jerk are joined by west coast found footage legend Bryan Boyce, whose acclaimed 'Walt Disney's Taxi Driver' will play alongside his timely new Romney short. Also in the mix is an excerpt from local programmer and artist Jon Dieringer's 'Tough Guys', which deftly reworks the soundtrack of Scorsese's Mean Streets, and a collaborative project from NYC's remix advocate Elisa Kreisinger & Marc Faletti, who have mined AMC's series to construct the feminist anthem 'Mad Men: Set Me Free'. - The artists will be in attendance, please join us for a drink at 7:30 with the screenings to begin at 8:00 sharp. -------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 -------------------------- 11/1 Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net 21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstr. 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte THORSTEN FLEISCH, BERLIN PREMIERE OF HEX SUFFICE CACHE TEN AND 16MM ARCHIVE FILMS Directors Lounge Screening: *°¨¨°* Thorsten Fleisch, Berlin Premiere of Hex Suffice Cache Ten *°¨¨°* Video and 16mm Filmprogramm selected from his private Educational Film Archive *°¨¨°* Thursday, 1 November 2012, 21:00 Uhr, Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte *°¨¨°* Hex Suffice Cache Ten, produced by Thorsten Fleischcinematography, Script & Music by Thorsten Fleisch
. Starring Lise Ivanouw, Daniel Scheimberg, Timo Fleisch and Thorsten Fleisch. Length: 12:42 minutes / Format: HD / Year: 2012 *°¨¨°* Synopsis: A surreal escape of a disintegrating mind into neon-lit nightmares from a discarded future. Suddenly interferences from sub-particle proliferation occur within the protagonist's body, a transformation can't be avoided. This exploration of cinematic space within an implosion of cerebral space is a daring tale of aliens, experiments on humans, video games and mutation. It is showering the unsuspecting viewer in handmade visual and aural stimuli from planet Fleisch. *°¨¨°* Artist Links: http://www.fleischfilm.com *°¨¨°* Links: http://www.directorslounge.net , http://www.richfilm.de , http://www.z-bar.de 11/1 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: Scottish Poetry Library http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/ 6.30pm, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, EH8 8DT FILM POEMS WITH PETER TODD An evening of film poems.It is an exhilarating programme made up of both old and new. From film poems by Margaret Tait and earlier films such as Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's city symphony film, Manhatta, to more recent work by Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle. It will also be the UK premiere of Renate Sami's film, A Year. The evening is curated by London-based artist and filmmaker, Peter Todd. Todd has curated a number of screenings relating to the film poem over the years. Dr Sarah Neely (University of Stirling) will introduce the films. 11/1 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) OPEN SCREEN $5 / Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, 8mm, 16mm, Blu Ray, QT File. FILMMAKERS GET IN FREE! 11/1 New York, New York: University Settlement http://www.universitysettlement.org/us/news/PerformanceProject/2012-2013_performance_calendar/your_day_is_my_night_live_perfor/ 7:30, 184 Eldridge St @ Rivington YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT: LIVE FILM PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY LYNNE SACHS In "Your Day is My Night" a group of Chinese performers creates a dynamic live film performance that tells the collective story of Chinese immigration to New York City from the viewpoint of an older generation. Directed by Lynne Sachs on both stage and screen, the seven performers play themselves, all living together in a shift-bed apartment in the heart of Chinatown. Since the early days of New York's tenement houses, shift workers have had to share beds, making such spaces a fundamental part of immigrant life. In this dynamic multi-media production, the concept of the shift-bed allows the audience to see the private become public. The bed transforms into a stage when the performers exchange stories around domestic life, immigration and personal-political upheaval. "Your Day is My Night" is a provocative work of experimental theater and cinema that reflects deeply on this familiar item of household furniture. A bilingual performance in Chinese and English. 11/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JENNINGS/KIRSANOFF PROGRAM Humphrey Jennings LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w) Jennings's film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and conflicting with the multitude of sounds. From the film's introduction: "I have been listening to Britain. I have heard the sound of her life by day and by night . In the great sound picture that is here presented, you too will hear that heart beating. For blended together in one great symphony is the music of Britain at war." Dimitri Kirsanoff MÉNILMONTANT (1924-25, 38 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) A melodramatic story of an orphan girl whose seduction is avenged. Early use of hand-held camera, montage, and superimpositions. Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives! A brief exploration of cubist form, black-and-white tonalities, and various vectors through its constant, rapidly cut movements and compositions. Many of the film's forms and compositions are reflected in or themselves reflect forms and compositions in Léger's famous cubist paintings from the period. René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) A masterpiece of dada, a feat of cinema magic. Made as an intermission entertainment for the Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scenario by Francis Picabia. Music by Erik Satie. Total program time: ca. 105 minutes. ------------------------ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2012 ------------------------ 11/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE GENERAL by Buster Keaton 1927, 105 minutes, 35mm One of Keaton's best silent features, setting comedy against a true Civil War story of a stolen train and Union spies. -------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2012 -------------------------- 11/3 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) SOUND MOVIES: KICK THAT HABIT AND TWELVE DARK NOONS $5 / Mike Stoltz presents a night of musician-filmmaker collaborations featuring Peter Liechti's Kick That Habit and Jaqueline Castel's Twelve Dark Noons. Kick That Habit (Peter Liechti, 1989, Switzerland, 45:00, 16mm presented on HD) is a portrait of the household electronics duo VOICE CRACK whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechti's vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. Set against the Australian Outback, Twelve Dark Noons (Jaqueline Castel, 2011, 16:00, Super8 to HD) is a character study of a lone man, lost in an unforgiving desert terrain with nothing but a suitcase and fragments of his unraveling memory. As memories unfold and reality dissolves, the film's scenery transforms into a psychological dreamscape haunted by a mysterious woman hidden in the dunes. Sydney-based band Naked on the Vague star in the film and contribute a darkly hypnotic psychedelic score. 11/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RAPT by Dimitri Kirsanoff In French with no subtitles, English synopsis available, 1934, 84 minutes, 35mm "RAPT is, paradoxically, both a film which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that paradox can be resolved by an understanding of the film's complex utilization of music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this respect it is reminiscent of the part-talkie genre . It is linked to such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L'?GE D'OR. The radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic musical score. In making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the composers Honegger and Hoerce." Lucy Fisher 11/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN / MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE (1955, 16 minutes, 35mm, b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 minute, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 minute, 35mm, color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 minutes, 35mm, b&w) UNSERE AFRIKAREISE / OUR TRIP TO AFRICA (1966, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) PAUSE (1977, 12 minutes, 16mm, color) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera." Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 55 minutes. 11/3 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia JAMIE MELTZERS INFORMANT Stanford-based Jamie (Song-Poem Story) Meltzer delivers the theatrical premiere of his fascinating study on Brandon Darby, former activist turned FBI informant. A portrait of his life is meticulously constructed through intimate interviews with Darby and tense re-enactments starring the man himself. These are often contradicted by witnesses and commentators from across the political spectrum, including those involved in the RNC arrests (detailed in last year's Better This World). Informant raises the possibility of fluid truth in a system addicted to false binaries. Filmmaker in person. ------------------------ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012 ------------------------ 11/4 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, the Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street ROSE LOWDER: COLORFUL FRAMES Rose Lowder in person! Screening: Parcelle (1979, 3 min., silent, color, 16mm); Couleurs mécaniques (Mechanical Colours) (1979, 16 min., silent, color, 16mm); Champ Provençal (Provençal Field) (1979, 9 min., silent, 16mm); Les tournesols (Sunflowers) (1982, 3 min., silent, 16mm); Bouquets 1-10 (1994-95, 11.33 min, silent, 16mm); Two Pictures (in collaboration with Carl Brown) (1999, 12 min, 16mm); Habitat, Batracien/Batrachian (2006, 8.31 min., color, silent, 16mm); Beijing 1988 (1988-2011, 12:17 min., 16mm). 11/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TAYLOR MEAD: ON FILM, IN PERSON THE TAYLOR MEAD SHOW One never quite knows what will escape Taylor's smirking lips. If you have never seen him perform live before, you seriously don't have any clue what you are missing. Poems, gossip, jokes, and oh so much more & Andy Warhol TAYLOR MEAD'S ASS 1964, 76 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Andy gives Yoko Ono a run for her money with this epic portrait of Taylor Mead's posterior. The original version supposedly ran for over two hours! 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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