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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 Film/Video: non-feature: ============================ "Hex Suffice Cache Ten" by Thorsten Fleisch http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=505.ann "REVELATION" by wonder russell http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=506.ann Job Available: ===================== Passing Stories http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=16.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== 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 ImagineIndia International Film Festival (Madrid; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1503.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 RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston Salem, NC, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1464.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 Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1479.ann Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1487.ann WAMMFest (Towson, MD, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1490.ann OpenLens Festival (Eugene, OR, USA; Deadline: December 07, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1492.ann Vector (Canada; Deadline: December 10, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1497.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): ============================== * 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] * Mother Works, videos By Catherine Elwes, Marni Kotak, Linda Montano, & Lynne Sachs [November 11, Brooklyn, New York] * The 2012 Festival of (In)Appropriation [November 11, Los Angeles, California] * Alain Letourneau & Pam Minty: Empty Quarter [November 11, San Francisco, California] * Film Portraits By Ute Aurand - Filmmaker In Person [November 12, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * End To End: Framing the European Financial Crisis (Duncan Campbell/Juan Downey; Free Screening) [November 14, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] * Cinema visionaries: Barbara Hammer [November 14, San Francisco, California] * Sight Unseen Presents: Tom Jarmusch's Sometimes City [November 15, Baltimore] * At Play In the Field of Images: Experimental Filmmaker Scott Stark In Person [November 15, Keene, NH] * Recent Work By Monica Gazzo [November 17, Los Angeles, California] * Bill Daniel + Sam Green + Scott Stark + Brigid Mccaffrey [November 17, San Francisco, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------------- 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 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) MOTHER WORKS, VIDEOS BY CATHERINE ELWES, MARNI KOTAK, LINDA MONTANO, & LYNNE SACHS w/ excerpts from an interview with Mary Kelly. Admission $6. With women issues at the forefront of recent political and social discourse, we present an evening of videos by working women artists including Catherine Elwes, Marni Kotak, Linda Mary Montano and Lynne Sachs concerning motherhood. The program features rare video works and an interview with artist Mary Kelly, covering four decades from the setting of 70s feminism, where motherhood was often marginalized, to today's over-the-top celebration of mommy culture. The common element in these very different approaches to the experience of motherhood and the mother/child relationship is the elevation of the personal daily experience. Each of the works even when unstated is also a collaboration with the artists son or daughter, or in the case of one, with her own mother. The screening is in connection with the current exhibition by artist Marni Kotak, Raising Baby X: The First Year which runs through Monday November 12th. PROGRAM includes: "There is a Myth", Catherine Elwes, video, color, sound, 19 minutes, 1984. "Little Brother", Marni Kotak w/ Ajax Kotak Bell, HD video, color, sound, 12 minutes, 2012. "The Birth of Baby X", Marni Kotak, video, color, sound, 4:30 minutes, 2012 "Mom Art", Linda Mary Montano, color, sound, 23 minutes, 2012. "Same Stream Twice", Lynne Sachs with Maya Street-Sachs, 16mm b&w to DVD, 4 minutes, 2001-2012. In addition, segment from a rare interview with artist Mary Kelly discussing her works including "Post Partum Document". bios and other info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Subway: J/M/Z or L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 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. (Steve Polta) ------------------------- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 ------------------------- 11/12 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street FILM PORTRAITS BY UTE AURAND - FILMMAKER IN PERSON A central figure in the vibrant experimental film scene enlivening Berlin today, Ute Aurand (b. 1957) has only recently received wide recognition outside of her native Germany for her at turns playful and poignant films that creatively engage the tradition of diary film best defined by Jonas Mekas, one of Aurand's acknowledged influences. Aurand's films derive much of their unique and often exuberant energy from their remarkable editing and structure, a kind of precision frame-by-frame montage, at times rapid-fire, that evokes the specific rhythm and personality of the people and places described by her camera. An important showcase of Aurand's singular approach to image and montage is her on-going series of portrait films of friends, family and acquaintances captivating short works that crystallize fleeting encounters and quotidian details into intimate and affectionate renderings of personality and memory. Among Aurand's finest works is Hanging Upside Down in the Branches, a touching double portrait of her parents, filmed just before their death. $12 Special Event Tickets Ute Aurand in Person Deeply Absorbed in Silent Conversation (Schweigend ins Gespraech vertieft) Germany 1981, 16mm, color, 8 min Paulina Germany 2011, 16mm, color & b/w, 5 min Franz Germany 2011, 16mm, color & b/w, 5 min Maria Germany 2011, 16mm, color & b/w, 3 min Susan Germany 2012, 16mm, color & b/w, 5 min Lisbeth Germany 2012, 16mm, color, 2.5 min For Karl (Für Karl) Germany 2012, 16mm, color & b/w, 4.5 min At Home (Zu Hause) Germany 1998, 16mm, color, 2.5 min Jón in Akureyri Germany 1993, 16mm, color, 9 min Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (Kopfüber im Geäst) Germany 2009, 16mm, color, 15 min ---------------------------- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 ---------------------------- 11/14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia http://ihousephilly.org/events/end-to-end-framing-the-european-financial-crisis/ 7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street END TO END: FRAMING THE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS (DUNCAN CAMPBELL/JUAN DOWNEY; FREE SCREENING) Just over a decade into the 21st century and one has the pervasive feeling that we've been here before. The ebb and flow of the global economic systems that push and pull against the arenas of cultural production is a dizzying déjà vu. As we are now in the midst of another great global recession, it becomes crucial to reflect on the intertwined history of economic empires as they rise and fall and the social and cultural sectors that respond to their inevitable shifts. Duncan Campbell's Arbeit and Juan Downey's Hard Times and Culture: Part One, Vienna fin de siècle are two such reflections, each capturing a piece in the puzzle of Europe's economic follycautionary tales of the post-Gilded Age. ///// Arbeit, dir. Duncan Campbell, UK, 2011, video, 39 mins ///// Comprised almost entirely of still photographs, Campbell's Arbeit is, on the surface, a portrait of German economist Hans Tietmeyer. Tietmeyer, former head of Deutsche Bundesbank and chief architect of the Euro, is both brought into focus and obscured, allowing for a more nuanced investigation into recent events leading up to Europe's economic decline. Campbell's film captures the elusive historical facts as they continue to inform a very uncertain future. ///// Hard Times and Culture: Part One, Vienna fin de siècle, dir. Juan Downey, US, 1990, video, 35 mins ///// Hard Times and Culture, Downey's last tape, was to be the first part of a series on the nexus of cultural creativity and economic, political and social forces. Downey subjectively documents periods in which economic hardships coincided with intensified creative output in the fine arts, literature and culture at large. Part One, Vienna fin de siècle focuses on the Austro-Hungarian Empire one hundred years ago, when its decline interlocked closely with the emergence of modernism in the arts and psychoanalysis. Downey frames this program on Vienna with references to contemporary New York. EAI ///// Organized in conjunction with Jeremy Deller: Joy in People at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. ICA thanks The Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation and The Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts. ///// Free admission! Please RSVP at the IHP website if you wish to attend. 11/14 San Francisco, California: California College of the Arts Film Progtram cca.edu/film 7:00 PM, 1111 Eighth Street CINEMA VISIONARIES: BARBARA HAMMER The CCA Film Program's Cinema Visionaries Lecture Series presents a special performance lecture by legendary filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of LGBT cinema and one of contemporary cinema's most important and fearless chroniclers of hidden histories of marginalized peoples. Hammer will present "Incorporating The Lesbian Museum and The Hidden Hammer," a performance lecture that examines hidden queer histories and Hammer's own creative process through which she "queers space and time with performative strategies and object making, often challenging the viewer to enter her space and make work with her." ` --------------------------- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 --------------------------- 11/15 Baltimore: Sight Unseen http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ 7:30pm, The Creative Alliance | 3134 Eastern Ave. SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS: TOM JARMUSCH'S SOMETIMES CITY $10 General Admission | $5 Creative Alliance Members/Students | SOMETIMES CITY is Tom Jarmusch's moving portrait of Cleveland, a city which like many of its post-industrial counterparts is currently attempting to reconstruct a semblance of community while simultaneously confronting its own survival. Jarmusch offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Clevelanders and depicts the conflicted landscape with an extremely candid eye. Once called Baltimore's sister city, the parallels between Cleveland and Charm City are unsettling. Jarmusch traces the atmosphere of aftermath through local commentaries on race, economy, and even a transvestite prostitute reading beat poetry in her bedroom. Anthology Film Archives calls it "a lo-fi, minimalist version of The Wire." Also screening prior to SOMETIMES CITY is ALFREDO, Tom Jarmusch's gritty black and white tribute to conceptual artist Alfredo Martinez. This stunning, silent short film features the artist installing a shooting gallery and playing video games during his 1999-2000 project, QUIET. The film amounts to an arresting scenario captured by visions of violence and voyeurism. Mr. Jarmusch will be in attendance for a Q&A following the films. For more information on the films and advanced ticket sales, please visit www.sightunseenbaltimore.com 11/15 Keene, NH: Keene State College www.keene.edu/ 7pm, 229 Main Street AT PLAY IN THE FIELD OF IMAGES: EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKER SCOTT STARK IN PERSON While in residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, experimental film- and video-maker Scott Stark comes to Keene State to present an evening of his surprising and provocative films. Working in Super-8mm, 16mm, both analog and digital video and even 35mm, Stark writes: "I see each film/video project as a 'first film' with its own cinematic language, one that the viewer learns and engages with as the piece unfolds. This language is shaped by the particular mechanics of each medium, in the same way verbal language is shaped by the mechanics of the human mouth. Thus each film charts the possibility of a pre-cinema experience, one that might have evolved had not narrative and commerce been cinema's prevailing motivational forces." We will screen a selection of the following: Corporate Accounting, Hotel Cartograph, I'll Walk with God, NOEMA, in.side.out, Shape Shift, More than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda, and Speechless. --------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2012 --------------------------- 11/17 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) RECENT WORK BY MONICA GAZZO $5 / San Francisco Art Institute MFA graduate Monica Gazzo is an artist and filmmaker who makes films in Italy and America. Tonight, she shares recent work including Trevi (2009, DVD, sound, color, 22 minutes, world premiere), shot from a window above the Trevi Fountain in Rome; Insights On Acting With Sandro Lombardi (2009, DVD, sound, color, 15 minutes, LA premiere), a video portrait of Florentine actor and writer Sandro Lombardi; and Imagined Nature: A Day With Andrea Marini, Sculptor (2009, DVD, sound, color, 22 minutes, LA premiere), a video portrait of Florentine Sculptor Andrea Marini, in his Calenzano studio. 11/17 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia BILL DANIEL + SAM GREEN + SCOTT STARK + BRIGID MCCAFFREY This first installment of our 3-part Psycho-Geography series attends to that quintessential western landscape, the Desert. Premiering is Sam Green's Portrait of Las Vegas, an insightful essay on that glittering mirage. Bill Daniel (in person, with his Mostly True reissue) kicks in his Slab City Citizen's Band Bulletin, and Laura Kraning contributes her Devil's Gate (on Jack Parsons!). PLUS Scott Stark's new Bloom, and the debut of Brigid McCaffrey's Southwest outsider-geologist saga, Trace Formations. OC's topographic triptych opens with Jackie-O Motherfucker's Tom Greenwood, strumming in sonic complement to Daniel's double-projections. 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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