Hello world. I understand that it's somewhat bad form to post screening announcements here but Cinematheque is running four screenings this week—including late additions—and we missed the "weekly screenings" thingy. Promise not to do this too often. Hope to see some people...
THIS WEEK: LUTHER PRICE (twice), JOHN SMITH, ALAIN LETOURNEAU & PAM MINTY. read on... WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY*...* *Bruised Jewels: Films and Slide Works by Luther Price** * *Two programs—Luther Price In Person at each* presented in association with the California College of the Arts* *<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/8cf04aee8a> *Bruised Jewels, program 1:* *WED 7 NOV . 7PM . CCA* 1111 Eighth Street (near 16th) in San Francisco [admission is *FREE*—Wednesday night only] *Bruised Jewels, **program 2:* *THURS 8 NOV . 7:30PM . ATA<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/90d23e6533> * 992 Valencia Street (at 21st) in San Francisco members: $5 / non-members: $10] Order advance tickets here<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/7c7b1f86f3> . *Details: *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 footage—variously looped (hideously), attacked (viciously), and over-painted (gloriously) to the point of delirium—Price’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 screenings—his 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, *slides will be exhibited on Wednesday night only.* ------------------------------ then FRIDAY... *FRI 9 NOV . 7:30PM . YBCA<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/588aba8c48> * *701 Mission Street (at Third) in San Francisco* *Constancy of Change: Films of John Smith* presented in association with the Pacific Film Archive<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/1d0fe15497> [members: $6 / non-members: $10] Order advance tickets here<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/7a7c3ac453/p=16054> . *John Smith In Person* Inspired by conceptual art and British “structural materialist” filmmaking, but also fascinated by the power of narrative and the spoken word, the films of London-based artist John Smith<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/07d910cdc9>deftly subvert the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the raw material of everyday life, Smith’s meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema. A highly prolific filmmaker since 1972, we welcome John Smith in his first-ever San Francisco appearance to present a sampler of his works created between 1975–2012, including: *Associations*, a complexly humorous send-up of visualized linguistic theory; *Gargantuan*, a quick riff on pictorial framing and verbal description, starring an amphibian; *Slow Glass *, a rambling, wise and witty examination of memory, perception and change, of life in East London and the art of glass- making; two entries in Smith’s multi-part *Hotel Diaries* series—*Frozen War* and *Throwing Stones*—which find the filmmaker delivering late night monologues in response to Western media coverage of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East; and two recent HD video works—*Flag Mountain*, a view across the border of the divided city of Nicosia, Cyprus; and *Dad’s Stick*, an oblique portrait of the filmmaker’s father. (Steve Polta & John Smith)* NOTE:* John Smith will appear at Pacific Film Archive on Wednesday, November 7 for a completely different screening of his works. For details see www.bampfa.berkeley.edu<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/8b105f6b0d> . ------------------------------ and then on SUNDAY... *SUN 11 NOV . 7:30PM . ATA<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/517ccc1f07> * *992 Valencia (at 21st) in San Francisco* *Alain LeTourneau & Pam Minty: **Empty Quarter* [members: $5 / non-members: $10] Order advance tickets here<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/e134c24c77> . *Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty In Person* For over a decade, the duo of Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty—working together under the name 40 Frames<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?SanFranciscoCinemath/bbc50d8c44/bc7ad48e97/bc388cf545>—have 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 study—in the tradition of Benning’s *California Trilogy* and Barbash & Castaing-Taylor’s *Sweetgrass*—of a seemingly mundane yet highly politicized landscape. (Steve Polta) On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Stefan Grabowski <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > We are very proud and excited to present premieres > of three new films by artists with Boston and NY ties, accompanied by a > deliciously crisp 35mm print of a piece by Martha Colburn. > > Featuring - > > *Hay Algo y Se Va by Kim Arnias* > 2012, 2:53, 16mm - world premiere! > (There is something. Now it's gone.) A perpetual sea of bodies, gestures > and gazes collide to create a familiar yet estranging family reunion. > > * Heritage by Cate Giordano* > 2012, 30:23, video - Boston premiere! > Shot by Patrick Guerrero. With Julianna Schley. > It is 1888 and all the buffalo are gone, leaving one of the largest cities > in South Dakota empty. Now there are only two residents left. Shot 'on > location' in the streets of New York City, Heritage is a melodrama about a > man, played by a woman, who learns to deal with the reality of change and > the freedom of being alone. > > *Gold by Nellie Kluz* > 2012, 20 min, video - world premiere! > A vérité-style meditation on modern-day alchemy. > > and > > *Cosmetic Emergency by Martha Colburn* > 2005, 8 min, 35mm > Cosmetic Emergency explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live > action and lyrical animations. A free-form take on the current trend of > cosmetic obsession and the immortal quality of painting, the film searches > for "what’s on the inside." > > Followed by an election-results afterparty at The First Printer. > <http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=1B6620E&e=223963&c=13447&t=0&l=23AF111&email=BPhWzQ08dMaN%2BEomvEToTnzBjzlZ2TJR> > > Our > website<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=1B6620F&e=223963&c=13447&t=0&l=23AF111&email=BPhWzQ08dMaN%2BEomvEToTnzBjzlZ2TJR> > · > RSVP<http://visitor.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?u=1B66210&e=223963&c=13447&t=0&l=23AF111&email=BPhWzQ08dMaN%2BEomvEToTnzBjzlZ2TJR> > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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