This week [November 17 - 25, 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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== ImagineIndia International Film Festival (Madrid; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1503.ann MEDIAWAVE-"ANOTHER CONNECTION" Film and Music Gathering (Komarom, Hungary; Deadline: January 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1504.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 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 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): ============================== * Recent Work By Monica Gazzo [November 17, Los Angeles, California] * Bill Daniel + Sam Green + Scott Stark + Brigid Mccaffrey [November 17, San Francisco, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents John Smith: Associations and Ambiguities [November 18, Los Angeles, California] * All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace [November 23, Los Angeles, California] * Robbie Land: Filmmaker In Person [November 24, Austin, TX] * New Works Salon vii [November 24, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 1 [November 24, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 2 [November 24, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Georges Melies Program 3 [November 24, New York, New York] * Mccormick's Great Northwest + 433 Pictures Nobodies [November 24, San Francisco, California] * Essential Cinema: Laurel and Hardy [November 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Classics of the Twenties [November 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Christopher Maclaine [November 25, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------------- 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. ------------------------- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012 ------------------------- 11/18 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 JOHN SMITH: ASSOCIATIONS AND AMBIGUITIES Filmforum continues bringing renowned experimental film artists from elsewhere this season with an extremely rare visit from the UK of filmmaker John Smith, who last came to Los Angeles in the 1980s! Note the change in location for tonight. The two John Smith Filmforum shows (the other on 11/16) are partly a retrospective, and partly the Los Angeles premiere of a number of recent works. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/290592 Screening: Om (1986, 4 min.), Associations (1975, 7 min.), Gargantuan (1992, 1 min. -- Los Angeles Premiere!), Slow Glass (1988-91, 40 min.), The Kiss (1999, 5 min. -- collaboration with Ian Bourn), Throwing Stones (Hotel Diaries 3) (2004, 11 min. -- Los Angeles Premiere!), Flag Mountain (2010, 8 min. -- Los Angeles Premiere!), Flag Mountain (2010, 8 min. -- Los Angeles Premiere!) John Smith in person from the UK! ------------------------- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012 ------------------------- 11/23 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 7:30 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE $5 / The best way to spend your Black Friday is seeing British cinematic polymath Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. His latest film is a harrowing look at capitalism and colonialism through Curtis' trademark archival BBC footage and pop music collage. The film is made up of three sections exploring the idea that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable worlda world where a new kind of global capitalism could thrive free of all risk. The best kind of capitalist horror movie, Adam Curtis examines ideas from disparate strands of society and shows how eerily connected they are through the shaky joint logic of political, technological, and scientific thought. It'll put a healthy fear of capitalism in you and, in all likelihood, prevent you from enjoying Black Friday ever again. 180 minutes, video. Note early start time! --------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012 --------------------------- 11/24 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7pm, DOMY Books - 913 East Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78702 ROBBIE LAND: FILMMAKER IN PERSON Come see the hand worked, celluloid explorations of Atlanta-based filmmaker Robbie Land! Land will be present for an introduction and Q and A. 11/24 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) NEW WORKS SALON VII $5 / Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or recently completed works. Sean Batton will present 16mm footage from a recent trip to Tokyo. Chris Girard will integrate blurry photographs with slices of words to create a live collage poetry making session; the placement of the photographs next to words expresses the dissolution of the blur through the words. Cosmo Segurson will present Super 8 footage from his recent trip to Tokyo, unrelated to Mr. Batton's. Elizabeth DiGiovanni will present two recent video works, Now and Then and Spirit Evidence, which deal with collecting and imaging the traces, residues, and evidence from the realm of spirits, ghosts, and memory. Plus others TBA! 11/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 1 All films in this program are b&w and silent. THE CONJUROR / L'ILLUSIONISTE FIN DE SIÈCLE (1899, 1 min, 35mm) TRIP TO THE MOON / VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902, 12 min, 35mm) THE PALACE OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS / LE PALAIS DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS (1905, 21 min, 35mm) DELIRIUM IN A STUDIO / ALI BARBOUYOU ALI BOUF À L'HUILE (1907, 5 min, 35mm) MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN / LES QUATRES CENT FARCES DU DIABLE (1906, 18 min, 35mm) Magician, master of special effects, Méliès broke with the realistic (Lumière) mode of cinema and celebrated unlimited fantasy and artificiality (in its best sense). Total running time: ca. 60 min 11/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 2 The films on this program are hand-tinted and silent. THE CASCADE OF FIRE / LA CASCADE DE FEU (1904, 3 min, 35mm) A DIABOLICAL TENANT / UN LOCATAIRE DIABOLIQUE (1909, 8 min, 35mm) THE HUNCHBACK FAIRY / LA FÉE CARABOSSE (1906, 13 min, 35mm) VOYAGE ACROSS THE IMPOSSIBLE / LE VOYAGE À TRAVERS L'IMPOSSIBLE (1904, 20 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 50 min. 11/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGES MELIES PROGRAM 3 All films in this program are b&w and silent. EXTRAORDINARY ILLUSIONS / ILLUSIONS FUNAMBULESQUES (1903, 3 min, 16mm) THE ENCHANTED WELL / LE PUITS FANTASTIQUE (1903, 3 min, 16mm) THE APPARITION / LE REVENANT (1903, 3 min, 16mm) TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL / LE TUNNEL SOUS LA MANCHE (1907, 25 min, 35mm) SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKY / PAUVRE JEAN OU LES MESAVENTURES D'UN BUVEUR (1909, 5 min, 35mm) THE DOCTOR'S SECRET / HYDROTHÉRAPIE FANTASTIQUE (1909, 11 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min. 11/24 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia MCCORMICKS GREAT NORTHWEST + 433 PICTURES NOBODIES Our longtime microcinema accomplice Matt McCormick personally introduces the Cali premiere of his experimental travelog, faithfully recreating the 3,200-mile road-trip of four Seattle women in 1958. Fifty years later, McCormick discovered their scrapbook in a thrift store, and so set out on the road, following their route as precisely as possible. His patient observations constitute a lyrical time-capsule, revealing how the landscape, architecture, and culture of the Northwest has changed over the past half-century. ALSO: Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck premiere their 433 Pictures project, American Nobodies, a half-hr suite of poetic miniatures, finding complexity and meaning in small moments and overlooked details. ------------------------- SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012 ------------------------- 11/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: LAUREL AND HARDY Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the movies' greatest comic duo, the quintessential dumb and dumber odd-couple. Though critically overshadowed by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, they were enormously popular, and proved a major influence on Abbott & Costello, Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance, and Jackie Gleason & Art Carney, not to mention Samuel Beckett (they were an inspiration for WAITING FOR GODOT), Roman Polanski (who paid homage to them in his existentialist short films FAT AND LEAN and TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE), and Ken Jacobs (whose ONTIC ANTICS deconstructs one of their films)." David Mulkins COUNTY HOSPITAL (1932, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THE MUSIC BOX (1932, 30 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by James Parrott. THEM THAR HILLS (1934, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. TIT FOR TAT (1935, 20 minutes, 16mm, b&w) Directed by Charley Rogers. Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. 11/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLASSICS OF THE TWENTIES Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy BALLET MÉCANIQUE (1924, 19 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 minutes, 35mm, b&w) Man Ray LE RETOUR À LA RAISON (1923, 2 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) ÉTOILE DE MER (1927, 13 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EMAK BAKIA (1927, 18 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Marcel Duchamp & Man Ray ANEMIC CINEMA (1926, 7 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent) Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. 11/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE "The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield, California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most significant work to come out of the beat period." J.J. Murphy All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957, 14 minutes, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 minutes, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5 minutes, 16mm) THE END (1953, 35 minutes, 16mm) "Six stories of people on the last day of their lives. Most are about to commit suicide, or some metaphorical equivalent, but the mushroom cloud with which the film begins and ends reminds us that, as Maclaine's voice intones on the sound track, we await 'the grand suicide of the human race' his conceit is that his characters have reached the end of their personal ropes the day before a nuclear holocaust. Throughout the film he compares the dehumanizing effects of mass culture to the dehumanizing effects of personal despair, weaving these two threads together until the mannequins he films in store windows, the anonymous people he films on the street, and his characters all seem variations on the same half-living, half-dead persona." Fred Camper Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 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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