This week [November 3 - 11, 2012] in avant garde cinema This week [October 27 - November 4, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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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: ===================== 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 Indie Fest (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: February 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1500.ann Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1501.ann Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1502.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 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 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 OpenLens Festival (Eugene, OR, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1492.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 Best Shorts Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: November 23, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1502.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): ============================== * 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] * Eyeworks Presents Jim Trainor's the Fetishist [November 4, Chicago, Illinois] * Rose Lowder: Colorful Frames [November 4, Los Angeles, California] * Taylor Mead: On Film, In Person [November 4, New York, New York] * The Friendship State: Texas Experimental Filmmakers, Film & video Organized By Caroline Koebel [November 5, Brooklyn, New York] * The Animated Art of Caroline Leaf - Filmmaker In Person [November 5, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Spectral Evidence [November 6, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Judson Dance theater Program 4 [November 6, New York, New York] * Cry Dr. Chicago [November 6, New York, New York] * Free Tuesday Screening: [November 6, San Francisco, California] * Films and videos By Scott Stark [November 7, Amherst, MA] * Moving While Waking [November 7, Austin, TX] * Films and Slide Works By Luther Price [November 7, San Francisco, California] * Show & Tell: Jacob Ciocci [November 8, New York, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Sylvia Schedelbauer and Jeff Surak [November 8, Oakland] * Films and Slide Works By Luther Price [November 8, San Francisco, California] * Curt Mcdowell's Loads [November 9, Los Angeles, California] * Mfj 56 Publication Celebration Screening [November 9, New York, New York] * Hearkenings Presents Silent Cry, A Film By Stephen Dwoskin [November 10, Los Angeles, California] * Freddy Mcguire + Varga + Erokan + Laitala's 3d [November 10, San Francisco, California] * The 2012 Festival of (In)Appropriation [November 11, Los Angeles, California] * Alain Letourneau & Pam Minty: Empty Quarter [November 11, San Francisco, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- 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 Chicago, Illinois: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation http://www.eyeworksfestival.com 7:00 PM, Roots & Culture contemporary art center, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave. EYEWORKS PRESENTS JIM TRAINOR'S THE FETISHIST The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation presents a special free screening of Jim Trainor's film The Fetishist at Roots & Culture contemporary art center, this Sunday, November 4, at 7:00 PM. From Trainor: 'The Fetishist' is an animated film based on the criminal career of William Heirens, a serial killer active in Chicago in the 1940s. The film dwells on the early life of its subject, who suffered a head injury in infancy and whose childhood obsession with stealing women's underwear presages an escalating series of violations. 'The Fetishist' does not attempt 'to get into the mind of a serial killer'; instead, it presents a world depopulated by the limitations of a psychopathic personality. Eyeworks presents The Fetishist, Jim Trainor, 1997, 16mm, 38:00, Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:00 pm, Roots & Culture contemporary art center, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave., Free admission 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! ------------------------ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 ------------------------ 11/5 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) THE FRIENDSHIP STATE: TEXAS EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKERS, FILM & VIDEO ORGANIZED BY CAROLINE KOEBEL with works by: Lyndsay Bloom, Caroline Koebel, Jennifer Lane, Kelly Sears, Scott Stark. Approx 77 minutes. Admission $6. The screening marks Caroline Koebel's curatorial return to NYC after leaving three years ago for Texas. She was previously curator of Reel Time at P.S. 122; produced and directed the Body Hold Out Festival at WEBO Performance Space; presented Ba Ba Baby at the Knitting Factory, and various programs for the Film-makers' Cooperative, NYC. "I conceived this program in response to pondering upcoming travels back to NYC and the context in which I'd like to screen my work now that I live in Austin rather than there. Leveling all the scary stuff about my new state is what you learn from the inside, not the least of which is that the motto of Texas is "friendship." In my three years here, I have been sustained and inspired by the presence of a range of film and video artists. The Friendship State embraces the dialog between makers and comprises five artists, including me, from diverse points of Texaseach engaging select tactics to reveal, negate and ultimately transcend moving image boundaries." CK Complete program & biographical info: www.microscopegallery.com. Nearest subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway, or L - Morgan Ave, or Jefferson Street. tel: 347.925.1433. 11/5 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street THE ANIMATED ART OF CAROLINE LEAF - FILMMAKER IN PERSON The films of Caroline Leaf (b. 1946) dramatically expand a tradition of artistic and artisanal animation that flourished in Canada and, to a lesser extent, the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Although she has made few films, Leaf pioneered important new aesthetic and technical approaches to narrative animation which have remained deeply influential over later artists such as William Kentridge. Made while she was an undergraduate at Harvard, Leaf's very first film Sand, or Peter and the Wolf immediately revealed her talent in "direct animation," working without any kind of image background or structural armature but here instead "drawing" live by manipulating and sculpting sand on glass, a painstaking and elusive technique with truly magical results. Movement, character and environment are fused in a truly unique fashion in Leaf's films, rendered with a startling immediate and intimate poetry. Made by painting directly on a pane of glass, The Street, for example, powerfully evokes a post-WWII tenement neighborhood from the point of view of a young boy coming of age, with Leaf's swirling, ever shifting figures delicately intertwining his actual and imagined point of views. Leaf's skills in adapting literature reached a further high point in her poignant Kafka adaptation, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa where the shape-shifting logic of her animation found an ideal and arresting subject. One of her darkest and most moving films, Leaf's most recent work Two Sisters was a notable departure her first time working with an original story of her own and her first to embrace the technique of scratching directly onto the emulsion of 70mm film stock. Leaf's career has special meaning for the Harvard Film Archive and the Carpenter Center which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, and within which Leaf made her initial steps as an animator, studying under the visionary head of the Harvard's vibrant animation sector Derek Lamb. The Harvard Film Archive is proud to welcome Caroline Leaf for a retrospective of her animated films, screened on new prints and including the HFA's own preservation of Sand, or Peter and the Wolf. $12 Special Event Tickets Caroline Leaf in Person Sand, or Peter and the Wolf US 1968, 16mm, b/w, 10 min The Owl Who Married a Goose Canada 1974, 35mm, b/w, 7 min The Street Canada 1976, 35mm, color, 10 min The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa Canada 1977, 16mm, b/w, 9 min Interview Directed by Caroline Leaf and Veronika Soul Canada 1979, 35mm, color, 13 min I Met a Man US 1991, digital video, color, 1 min Two Sisters Canada 1991, 35mm, color, 10 min ------------------------- TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012 ------------------------- 11/6 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 8pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street SPECTRAL EVIDENCE The surprising focus on the female body at the heart of the Republican party's social campaign, which has increasingly entered the public consciousness in the past year, should feel familiar to Bostonians, especially around this spooky time of year. The sentiments expressed by ideologues such as Paul Ryan, Rush Limbaugh, Todd Akin, Michelle Bachmann bear some resemblance to those evoked during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 and the European witch hunts, which had raged about a century before. At these trials, spectral evidence was an effective form of court testimony, in which the accuser recalled dreams or visions implicating a community member in witchcraft. In a political climate where the female body is examined for its childbearing properties and where feminine autonomy is suspicious, artistic creativity by female artists may be seen as a kind of dark magic. And so we present you "spectral evidence" against these artists: four films that rival the male gaze of contemporary American cinema by taking a new look at the trappings of the female body. Featuring Cosmetic Emergency by Martha Colburn, world premieres of new works by Kim Arnias and Nellie Kluz (Hay Algo y Se Va and Gold), and the Boston premiere of Cate Giordano's two-years-in-the-making Heritage. 11/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JUDSON DANCE THEATER PROGRAM 4 Films will include: Jonas Mekas CUP/SAUCER/TWO DANCERS/RADIO (1965/83, 23 min, 16mm) With Kenneth King & Phoebe Neville. Simone Forti CLOTHS (fragment) (1967, 5 min, 16mm-to-video) Camera: Hollis Frampton. Simone Forti & Anne Tardos STATUES (1977/99, 14 min, video) Babette Mangolte WATER MOTOR (1978, 7 min, 16mm, b&w) Steve Paxton MAGNESIUM (1972, 9.5 min, video, b&w) Steve Paxton CHUTE (1979, 9.5 min, video, b&w) 11/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CRY DR. CHICAGO In George Manupelli's wonderfully cracked feature CRY DR. CHICAGO, which had fallen almost entirely into oblivion when Anthology was able to revive and then preserve it in 2008, Dr. Chicago (played by venerable composer Alvin Lucier) is a sex-change surgeon on the run from the law, forever on his way to Sweden and always out to make a buck. Along for the ride are his faithful companions Sheila Marie (the delightfully zonked-out Mary Ashley) and Steve (brilliantly, and silently, portrayed by the great dancer Steve Paxton, a founding member of Judson Dance Theater). Together they must face the fiendish plots of their French nemesis Clo Clo (played by the riotously funny Claude Kipnis) who will stop at nothing to exact bloody revenge. Shot in glorious color and set amid the sprawling gardens and lush landscapes of Bucyrus, Ohio, CRY DR. CHICAGO is by far one of the most enjoyable feature films to come out of the 1960s underground era. 11/6 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 12pm noon, Phyllis Wattis Theater FREE TUESDAY SCREENING: This program on Election Day considers performances that have held a mirror to society by adopting the visual language of protest. Radio personality Bob Fass asks New Yorkers to make sense of the Bob Hope and Chairman Mao signs in Öyvind Fahlström's Mao-Hope March (1966). Mircea Cantor's assembled group in The Landscape Is Changing (2003) reflects the built environment of Tirana, Albania. At the famed Speakers' Corner in London, artist Carey Young delivers a corporate skills workshop on successful communication in Everything You've Heard Is Wrong (1999). Museum and program admission are free. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 --------------------------- 11/7 Amherst, MA: Hampshire College http://www.hampshire.edu/discover/17832.htm 7pm, 893 West Street, Bill Brand Screening Room, Jerome Liebling Center FILMS AND VIDEOS BY SCOTT STARK Scott Stark in Person! Experimental film- and video-maker Scott Stark comes to Hampshire College to present an evening of his surprising and provocative films. Works will include Angel Beach, Longhorn Tremolo, Chromesthetic Response, Bloom, Slow and others. 11/7 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7pm, Visual Arts Center - 2300 Trinity Street Austin, TX 78712 MOVING WHILE WAKING In collaboration with the UT Austin Visual Arts Center. A screening dedicated to movement. Featuring work by Maya Deren, Keewatin Dewdney, Vincent Grenier, Kerry Laitala, Ben Russell, Scott Stark and David Wilson. 11/7 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30, CCA FILMS AND SLIDE WORKS BY LUTHER PRICE presented in association with the California College of the Arts Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 7pm at CCA [admission is FREE]. Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7:30pm at ATA [$5 members / $10 general] Order advance tickets here. In pre-millennial times filmmaker Luther Price was infamous for deeply personal and aggressively visceral super-8 films (Sodom, Meat, Eruption Errection, Bottle Can) which enacted primal domestic psychodramas and/or probed the psychosexual extremes of physical experience. Moving ever onward, the 21st century 16mm films and dazzling hand-made slide work of the stridently defiant filmstrip fetishist continues to confront. Based on abjected found footagevariously looped (hideously), attacked (viciously), and over-painted (gloriously) to the point of deliriumPrice's works are dazzling bruised jewels, overwhelming to viewers in their brutal physicality, their profane beauty and their disjointed, almost limbic, narrative fragmentations. Following major screenings in 2012 at the Whitney Biennial and the New York Film Festival, CCA and Cinematheque are proud to host Luther Price for two screeningshis first in-person appearance in the Bay Area in over a decade. (Steve Polta) NOTE: Each screening in this two-part series will feature Luther Price in person presenting a different selection of films each night. Slide wrorks will screen on Wednesday, Nov. 7 only. Film titles to likely to screen in the series include fancy; The Biscuit Day; Deaf for Chicken Lip; Kittens Grow Up; Dipping Sause; September Song; Inside Velvet K; selections from the Ink Blots series, possibly including Aqua Woman, Sleep, Shelly Winters and The Biscuit Song; and chapters from the ongoing insectoid Christ saga Sorry, possibly to include Horns and Walking the Cross "Quatch". (Steve Polta) -------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 -------------------------- 11/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: JACOB CIOCCI THE PEACE TAPE (2008, 4 min, video. Music by Extreme Animals.) "Culling his sources from thrift stores (countless straight-to-VHS childrens' programs), the Internet (a single YouTube clip featuring "dog in a dog costume"), and his own designs (flash animation of eyes and mouths, subliminal flickers of text), Ciocci concentrates hours of light entertainment into a dense, four-minute block." ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY, STRESSFUL MIX (2006, 3 min, video) The classic inspirational pop song by Bobby McFerrin gets a stressful remix. A depressed robot, the specter of "World Music", Grateful Dead bears, and the always-lurking hand of death drift on anxious clouds through the bottom floor of a dying shopping mall. HOW TO ESCAPE FROM THE STRESS BOXES (2006, 7 min, video) "E-meditation is revealed as false mediation and Troll-ing becomes a binarized self-help guide towards salvation-through-total-destruction." Ben Russell YOUR LIFE, YOUR LANGUAGE (2010, 7 min, video. Music by Extreme Animals.) This video was made from a combination of found footage and footage shot by the artist at the Youth Explosion community day in Braddock, Pennsylvania, August 25, 2010. THE URGENCY (2010, 7 min, video. Music by Extreme Animals.) Ciocci takes an ambivalent look at contemporary technological life, via a loose narrative that questions the power of the individual and the purpose (or purposelessness) of agency within a world of incomprehensible complexity. AM I EVIL? (2011, 4 min, video. Music by Extreme Animals.) Uses the Harry Potter theme-song as a basis for discussing recent popular culture 'witches' in America. Is social control so pervasive that an individual is only capable of combating it with a power on the scale of wizardry? FINALE: The premiere of a new, untitled 15-minute performance piece for guitar and video made in collaboration with David Wightman. The piece is the result of Wightman's residency at Harvestworks, and uses a custom Max/MSP patch built by Matthew Ostrowski to trigger video clips via Wightman's guitar playing. Total running time: ca. 60 min. 11/8 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8-9PM, Arbor, 4210 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609 SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER AND JEFF SURAK Shapeshifters Cinema is excited to present a special cross-continental collaboration with Berlin-based filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer and Washington, DC-based sound artist Jeff Surak. Sylvia Schedelbauer's films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival footage. Jeff Surak uses unconventional sound sources (dry ice, old record players, autoharp, microcassettes, etc) to layer successive walls of noise into gargantuan citadels of shimmering light. 11/8 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30, ATA, 992 Valencia FILMS AND SLIDE WORKS BY LUTHER PRICE See November 7 ------------------------ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 ------------------------ 11/9 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) CURT MCDOWELL'S LOADS $5 / "Curt was curt, cute, controversial, and not celibate", George Kuchar said of his friend, the San Francisco based artist Curt McDowell. This program will present a selection of some of his notoriously ribald and explicitly autobiographic 16mm films, including the classic Confessions, in which he addresses the camera as a surrogate for his parents and goes on to list in graphic detail his sins of the flesh, his "rural operetta" Boggy Depot starring George Kuchar; Nudes (A Sketchbook), which presents a series of vignettes interpreting the personalities of his closest friends; and Loads, documenting his seduction of a series of "straight" men met on the street. "Call him a Frisco fornicator or an Indiana-born iconoclast and you only skim the surface of what this entity was into. Everything that he did get into was usually greased up for maximum penetration and the ease in which he entered the lives of every Tom, Dick and Harry was breathtaking. They also spurted into him the essence of his creativity: a joy in corporeal connections and a sharing of human juices to oil up the machinery of movie making." (Kuchar). All works shown on 16mm. This screening is strictly 18 and over. 11/9 New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal http://www.mfj-online.org/2012/mfj-56-publication-screening/ 8 pm, 119 West 22nd Street MFJ 56 PUBLICATION CELEBRATION SCREENING Screening to Celebrate the Publication of MFJ 56: Material Practice: From Sprockets to Binaries The program consista of moving image works analyzed, mentioned or otherwise included in MFJ No. 56 by: * * * KATHLEEN BAUER * * GREGG BIERMANN * * EVAN MEANY * * BRADLEY EROS * * JANIS CRYSTAL LIPZIN * * LAURE PROUVOST * * RICHARD TUOHY * * STEVEN WOLOSHEN * * * $8 entrance; or $14 includes copy of MFJ 56 (cover price $9.00) --------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 --------------------------- 11/10 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) HEARKENINGS PRESENTS SILENT CRY, A FILM BY STEPHEN DWOSKIN $5 / We continue to explore the films of the late Stephen Dwoskin, who passed away earlier this year. Silent Cry was originally commissioned by German television as part of a loose trilogy that began with Behindert, which was screened at EPFC in April. "A kind of impressionistic 'diary' of a girl and her silent cry for help/understanding/love/identity. Not everything is seen from her viewpoint but everything is felt as she feels it. What Dwoskin calls an 'under-narrative' develops and interweaves through the film giving a composite of dreams, distortions, diaries, memories and feelings. Dwoskin has likened the film to a kind of contemporary Alice in Wonderland, 'a world which we can feel more and more as the filmic tapestry is woven.' It is also, one should emphasize, beautifully photographed with not only highly effective extreme close-ups but also many finely-patterned almost abstract shots." - Ken Wlaschin, catalogue, 1977 London International Film Festival 11/10 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia FREDDY MCGUIRE + VARGA + EROKAN + LAITALAS 3D Our ecletic/electric Live A/V series returns with a roster of 7 performances and several single-channel works. Lori Varga opens a Pandora's Box of 13 circuit-bent devices, mini-synth electronic toys available for audience use! Will Erokan ups the ante with his Collective Discarnate, manipulating audio and video to in fact hypnotize us ("brain entrainment")! Kerry Laitala steers the stereoscopic section of the show, using ChromaDepth glasses to explore the many dimensions of A-G classics (Belson, Bute) as well as her own debut work. PLUS Anne "Freddy" McGuire, with Wobbly, playing to her new vid Recital, Lana "Granny" Voronina's demon-plagued electronica, David Cox' Optigan And Apps, Tommy Becker's Song for Elliott Jacques, and Soda_Jerk's succulent sample from their soon-coming Astro Black. Consummating is Andre Perkowski's live ensemble performance to his Beach Boys-obsessed Endless Syncopation. *$7.77. ------------------------- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2012 ------------------------- 11/11 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd THE 2012 FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION Filmmakers and curators in person. Screening: Crop Duster Octet by Gregg Biermann (US, HD video, 5:30m, 2011); Saskatchewan by Richard Wiebe (US, 16mm on DV, 16m, 2012); I For NDN by Clint Enns and Darryl Nepinak (Canada, video, 1:34m, 2011); Scarlet by Sharon A. Mooney (US, video, 4:44m, 2012); Cat Scannd by Michael Guccione (US, video, 3:27m, 2010); Night Hunter by Stacey Steers (US, 35mm on HD video, 15:30m, 2010); Machine Language by Robert Todd (US, video, 5:30m, 2012); La Salle Hotel by Scott Fitzpatrick (Canada, 35mm on video, 2m, 2011); Revving Motors, Spinning Wheels (Action Painting) by Jeremy Rotsztain (US, video, 4:05m, 2011); Forsaken by Heidi Phillips (Canada, 16mm on video, 4:30, 2012); Youtopia by Danial Nord (US, video, 2:29m, 2011); Ghost of Yesterday by Tony Gault. (US, video, 5:30m, 2012); Retrocognition by Eric Patrick (US, video, 17:37m, 2012). Curated by Jaimie Baron, Greg Cohen, and Lauren Berliner. 11/11 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30 PM, Artists Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st Street) ALAIN LETOURNEAU & PAM MINTY: EMPTY QUARTER For over a decade, the duo of Alain LeTourneau and Pam Mintyworking together under the name 40 Frameshave been tireless advocates for the vitality of 16mm exhibition and production, maintaining a comprehensive directory of filmmaker resources, managing a film archive and curating regular screenings of independent and underground film in their native Portland, Oregon. Their first feature-length film, Empty Quarter, is a subtle and complex portrait of the lives, landscapes and industry of southeastern Oregon, a seemingly remote region that, while comprising one third of the state's landmass, holds only 2% of its population (a surprisingly diverse population, including East Indian and Japanese families, ancestors of Basque sheepherders, Paiute tribes people and Latinos who have come to help work the land). Placing local voices describing the region's history and daily life in counterpoint to stunning black-and-white cinematography and an ambient rural soundscape, Empty Quarter emerges as a complex and subtle studyin the tradition of Benning's California Trilogy and Barbash & Castaing-Taylor's Sweetgrassof a seemingly mundane yet highly politicized landscape. 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