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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: 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: ===================== 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 Plug: FPS (Kansas City, MO, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1505.ann Magmart | video under volcano (Naples, Italy; Deadline: February 28, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1506.ann IC Docs (Iowa City, IA USA; Deadline: January 18, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1507.ann Visions Film Festival and Conference (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1509.ann Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire (France; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1510.ann Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: November 28, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1511.ann The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1512.ann VIDEOFOCUS (Italy; Deadline: December 19, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1513.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== GAZE (San Francisco, CA; Deadline: December 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1423.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 Plug: FPS (Kansas City, MO, USA; Deadline: December 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1505.ann The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: December 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1512.ann VIDEOFOCUS (Italy; Deadline: December 19, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1513.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): ============================== * Lauren Kelley: True Falsetto [December 1, Austin, TX] * Chungking Express [December 1, Boston, Massachusetts] * Thomas Dexter: Noise/Index 16mm Film Performance & New videos [December 1, Brooklyn, New York] * The Queerer they Come: A Film & video Show [December 1, Los Angeles, California] * Kent Mackenzie's the Exiles [December 1, San Francisco, California] * The Animation of Wladyslaw Starewicz [December 2, Chicago, Illinois] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Empty Quarter, By Alain Letourneau and Pam Minty [December 2, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [December 2, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [December 2, New York, New York] * The Floridian Sweats, New video By Derek Larson [December 3, Brooklyn, New York] * Recent Work From Anthology Film Archives [December 3, Los Angeles, California] * Jim Davis Program [December 3, New York, New York] * In Captivity [December 4, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Free Tuesday Screening: Porcelain, Episode One: On the Lost Side of Time [December 4, San Francisco, California] * Craig Baldwin's Spectres of the Spectrum [December 5, Austin, TX] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Gunvor Nelson In Person From Sweden! [December 5, Los Angeles, California] * It's the Earth Not the Moon [December 5, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] * Open Screen [December 6, Los Angeles, California] * Tradition Filmique Et Innovation CinÉMatographique: Un Nouveau Regard - EvÉNement PÉRiphÉRique Du 14ÈMe Festival Des CinÉMas DiffÉRents Et ExpÉRimentaux De Paris [December 6, Paris, France] * Shifting Geographies/Special Relativity: Butler/Mirza's Deep State and Other Works [December 6, San Francisco, California] * Stan Brakhage Showcase [December 6, Seattle, Washington] * 5th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema SoiréE [December 7, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304] * Sigur RóS' Valtari Film Experiment [December 7, New York, Leipzig, Geneva, Toronto, Vancouver, Antarctica, many more...] * Valtari Film Experiment [December 7, Seattle, Washington] * Rourke + Wood/Muybridge + Katelus + Radiophonics [December 8, San Francisco, California] * Sight Unseen Presents: Perceptual [December 9, Baltimore] * L.A. Filmforum Presents the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour Digital Program B [December 9, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Sunrise [December 9, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Sunrise [December 9, New York, New York] * Nobuhiko Obayashi Program [December 9, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012 -------------------------- 12/1 Austin, TX: Women & Their Work Gallery 7pm, 1710 Lavaca Street, LAUREN KELLEY: TRUE FALSETTO Lauren Kelley: True Falsetto, December 1 - January 17, 2013 - (closed Dec.23-Jan.2) - Opening Reception: Saturday, December 1, 7-9PM - Kelley creates stop motion animations that will bring you into her world of Froufrou Conclusions and True Falsettos. This work is an interdisciplinary effort exploring notions of strength. The genesis of this work is a response to 70s politics that altered the general perception of women from weak to strong. Essential to that response is how perceptions of strength affect brown skin women. In 1954 the "Doll Test" was psychological study with findings that led to swaying the Supreme Court Case Brown vs the Board of Education and ushering in a new era of liberty nation-wide. Conducted by Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark, the 'Doll Test' illustrated that an inferiority complex disproportionately plagued black people. When this study was revisited in 2005 yielding data parallel to the time of the initial Clark investigation, Kelley was moved to make work about the malleable nature of individuality, and decided to broadcast a sequence of short narratives that incorporated a fixed, brown doll protagonist to embrace. - view the trailer online: http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/upcoming_exhibitions.html?itemid=816 12/1 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center- 559 Washington Street CHUNGKING EXPRESS ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents a screening of Chungking Express.Two copsone with an increasing obsession with canned pineapple and one who has begun to talk to household objectscross paths at an express take-out stand in Hong Kong following messy break-ups with their girlfriends. Both are on a quest to find new love which, if the pixie waitress at the take-out shop is any indication, may be closer than they think. Full of energy and quirkiness, this visually stylized film uses found locations and improvised situations to deliver an unexpectedly charming and humorous narrative which marked it as a classic of 1990s foreign cinema. 12/1 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) THOMAS DEXTER: NOISE/INDEX 16MM FILM PERFORMANCE & NEW VIDEOS Admission $6. NOISE/INDEX is a night of live multi-projector film performance and a video program including 3 new and never before seen works by Brooklyn-based sound & light artist Thomas Dexter. Dexter utilizes various analog and digital moving and sound technologies, including 16mm film, light sensors, sound circuits, to create the images and sounds elements of his works, both components of which are given equal importance. For NOISE/INDEX Dexter will perform the expanded cinema piece "Action/Film", a work utilizing "direct animation, light-to-sound synthesis, and the destruction of the film itself." The video program includes works which are similarly concerned with image/sound relationships and utilizing graphical sound circuits, light/sound translations, and sounds generated through the process of image acquisition. - -Thomas Dexter is a Brooklyn-based artist working within the traditions of experimental film, sound art, performance, and playing with electricity. In works spanning direct filmmaking, 16mm film performance, single channel video, and collaborative installation, Dexter creates compositional systems which intentionally "cross the wires" between binaries that shape our experience of various media: image and sound, signal and noise, illusion and material, ephemerality and timelessness. Dexter's solo and collaborative projects have been featured at Experimental Intermedia, PS1, Roulette, The Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, Issue Project Room, Sideshow Gallery, the Mononoaware Festival, Bushwick BetaSpaces, the Index Festival, Firehouse Art Space, The Invisible Dog art space, the Splatterpool Gallery and ESP TV. He is a member of the Future Archaeology collective. tel: 347.925.1433, Nearest subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. B54- Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across the street. 12/1 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8:00p, 1200 N. Alvarado Street THE QUEERER THEY COME: A FILM & VIDEO SHOW A night of artist-made films and videos from around the world, including works by Vivek Shraya, Campbell X, Keith Wilson, Penelope Spheeris & more. The program centers around queer folk - outcasts and trailblazers - who are often at odds with the norms of their larger communities, LGBTQIA and otherwise. From a 1970s post-gay love story to the fearless and fabulous dancehall ladies of mid-90s London and beyond, this program paints a portrait as rich and nuanced as queer life itself. Program compiled by John Palmer. Visit the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/370365293056985/ and check the blog for full program and more info: http://thequeerertheycome.tumblr.com/ $5 at the door - seating is limited. 12/1 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia KENT MACKENZIES THE EXILES In the last of our Psycho-Geo trilogy, here's the SF premiere revival of this Native American neo-realist treasure, via a miraculously rescued 16mm print. Archivist Steve Polta relates the rich background of the production and restoration of this semi-documentary feature. While he was a film student at USC in the late-50s, director MacKenzie chanced upon Bunker Hill, the low-rent neighborhood on the west edge of downtown LA, when it was first threatened with demolition. Fascinated with a subculture of Arizona Indians living there, he crafted a compelling story of a long Friday night. Full of loneliness, yearning and little flashes of happiness, this legendary group-portrait is a wrenching chronicle of cultural dislocation and a remarkable record of a city that has vanished. ------------------------ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 ------------------------ 12/2 Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org 6 PM and 8 PM, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th floor THE ANIMATION OF WLADYSLAW STAREWICZ THE PROGRAM: [1] The Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman (1912, 12 min, 16mm) [2] The Frogs Who Wanted A King (1922, 9 min, 16mm) [3] The Voice of the Nightingale (1925, 13 min, 16mm) [4] The Town Rat and the Country Rat (1927, 10 min, 16mm) [5] The Mascot (1934, 26 min, 16mm) The inexplicably creepy stop motion films of Russian born natural historian Wladyslaw Starewicz left a mark on animation as strong as Walt Disney or the Fleischer Brothers, influencing everyone from Jan Svankmajer to Terry Gilliam, but where other animators seemed to cull their material from the land of the living, Starewicz's feel like they've been dug out of the ground (and they are, basically). The result is an extremely unsettling palette of dead bugs, taxidermied animals, skeletons, and rear projected real world backgrounds blended into something that predicts the work of Salvador Dali, George A. Romero, and Mister Ed the talking horse. Several prints in this program have been provided by animation historian and archivist Tom Stathes. Visit him at cartoonsonfilm.blogspot.com and brayanimation.weebly.com (JA) 12/2 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 EMPTY QUARTER, BY ALAIN LETOURNEAU AND PAM MINTY Filmforum is delighted to host Portland filmmakers, educators, programmers and film advocates Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty with the local premiere of their film Empty Quarter! Empty Quarter (2011, 16mm black & white/sound, 71 minutes) is a film about the region of Southeast Oregon, an area populated by ranching and farming communities, in Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties. The region is roughly one-third of Oregon's landmass yet holds less than 2% of the state's population. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/290995 12/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:45 pm , 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 1 All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1955, 4 minutes, 16mm, b&w) HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 minutes, 16mm) GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 minutes, 16mm) DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3 minutes, 16mm, score by Teiji Ito) BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5 minutes, 16mm) NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 minutes, 16mm, silent) MOOD MONDRIAN (1961, 7 minutes, 16mm, silent) EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 4 minutes, 16mm, silent) ANDY WARHOL (1965, 22 minutes, 16mm) Marie Menken represents the lyrical sensibility in the American avant-garde film. She manages to get the maximum visual intensity from minimally photogenic subjects. Her usage of single-frame and her poetic attitude and purity had a strong influence on many filmmakers of the sixties. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 12/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 2 All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. WRESTLING (1964, 8 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) MOONPLAY (1962, 5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) DRIPS IN STRIPS (1961, 3 minutes, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12 minutes, 16mm, silent) LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) SIDEWALKS (1966, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) EXCURSION (1968, 5 minutes, 16mm) WATTS WITH EGGS? (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm, silent) ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. ------------------------ MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012 ------------------------ 12/3 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) THE FLORIDIAN SWEATS, NEW VIDEO BY DEREK LARSON Admission $6. Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present Derek Larson's "The Floridian Sweats", a recently completed compilation of video works resulting from a year the artist spent living in a deserted east Florida beach town. Larson describes the work as "a schizophrenic glimpse into digital nostalgia." The Floridian Sweats, video compilation, color, sound, 2012, Total running time: approximately 45min. "The work is inspired by one strange year spent living and surfing in a dilapidated beach town on the east coast of Florida, which was partially developed and then deserted by investors after the recent economic recession. The videos speak to the politics, weather and structures of the state. The work ranges in visual styles, effects, texts and sound. Some pieces inject visual one-liners, some measure fictional video space by calling attention to the medium, while others combine literary allusion through stories told by animated characters." DL - -Derek Larson is an artist currently based in Georgia. He received his MFA from The Yale School of Art and has exhibited in the US and internationally, including at Jack the Pelican and Louis V.E.S.P in New York. Recently, he presented his Memes project at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. His work has been featured in the Seattle Times, NY Arts Magazine and Rhizome @ The New Museum in New York among others. more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street, B54 - Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across the street. 12/3 Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu 7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) RECENT WORK FROM ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present -------- OUT OF THE PAST: FILM RESTORATION TODAY Monday, December 3 Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Westwood Village *FREE Admission -------- http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2012-10-01/out-past-film-restoration-t oday -------- Curator of Collections Andrew Lampert will present a program of recent preservations undertaken by Anthology Film Archives including Money, a radically-composed, rapid-fire time capsule of Lower Manhattan and United States, a conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from New York to Los Angeles. In addition to the other works listed, Lampert will show a sampling of newly digitized videos and a few reels from the "Unessential Cinema" collection of works gathered from deceased laboratories, bereaved widows and trash dumpsters. Total Running Time of Program: approx. 100 min. -------- MONEY 1985 A radically-composed time capsule, a rapid-fire portrait of the innovative 'downtown' Lower Manhattan community of poets, musicians, dancers, and personalities active in the early-to-mid-1980s. As much a sound work as it is a film, Money features John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Abigail Child, Charles Bernstein, and anextraordinary cast of luminaries. 35mm, b/w, 15 min. -------- CHEWING 1980 A delightful structuralist study of the act of eating an apple. 16mm, color, 6 min. -------- LETTER TO D.H. IN PARIS 1967 An influential figure within the NYC experimental film community of the mid-1960s, David Brooks died tragically young leaving behind only a handful of works. This piece is described by the maker as "Stoned people, music, movement, fields." 16mm, color, 4 min. -------- SIX WINDOWS 1979 "A pan and a dissolve make a window of a wall on film. A portrait of the filmmaker in a luminous space, synthetically rendered via positive and negative overlays. ... I lived in some rooms by the sea and watched the inside and the view as well as thewindow panes that divided and joined them. I was often lost in thought. The birds would come and make a racket, reminding me I shared that space and sky with them. The film is a moody record of that place and my peace of mind." 16mm, color, silent, 7 min. -------- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1975 A true masterpiece of 70s cinema, more remarkable today than ever before. A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from New York to Los Angeles. The space within each frame is at the same time continuous and elliptical. 16mm, color, 27 min. -------- IN PERSON: Andrew Lampert, Anthology Film Archives 12/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JIM DAVIS PROGRAM PRISMATIC VARIATIONS (1965, 11 min, 16mm, silent) IN THE BEGINNING (1955, 9 min, 16mm, silent) COLOR DANCES, NO. 2 (1952, 7.5 min, 16mm, silent) THE SEA (1950, 8.5 min, 16mm, silent) IMPULSES (1959, 9.5 min, 16mm) SEA RHYTHMS (1971, 9.5 min, 16mm, silent) Total running time: ca. 60 min. ------------------------- TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012 ------------------------- 12/4 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 8pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle IN CAPTIVITY In this time of extreme industrialization, wilderness is all but forgotten. In cities, the trees are kept in corrals, with clearly posted visiting hours, if not caged up in solitary confinement. While we had originally intended to put together a program of works celebrating the wild, both around us and within, we quickly realized that captivity was inescapable. Wild and tame free and enslaved are fundamentally entwined concepts. The very notion of liberty exists only to contrast the many constraints that humans have built. Come and be our captive (or captivated?) audience for the Boston premieres of new films by Daniel Sousa and Robert Todd, as well as classics by Malcolm Le Grice and Jonas Mekas (presented in 16mm). We promise not to lock the doors. PROGRAM //// Feral, Daniel Sousa, 2012, 13m, video /// Construct, Robert Todd, 2012, 12m, 16mm /// Berlin Horse, Malcolm Le Grice, 1970, 7m, 16mm /// INTERMISSION /// The Brig, Jonas Mekas, 1964, 68m, 16mm 12/4 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 12pm noon, Phyllis Wattis Theater FREE TUESDAY SCREENING: PORCELAIN, EPISODE ONE: ON THE LOST SIDE OF TIME Based in Saigon and Los Angeles, The Propeller Group is an art collective that often focuses on mass media in the hope of redefining the social and political understanding of contemporary cultures. The group is the producer of the miniseries Porcelain, which aired on Vietnamese television in 2010. In this first of three episodes, the historical events surrounding a cursed shipment of porcelain from Asia to Europe in the 17th century intertwine with the lives of contemporary Vietnamese characters. Museum and program admission are free. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012 --------------------------- 12/5 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7:30, 29th St. Ballroom, 2906 Fruth Street CRAIG BALDWIN'S SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM Introduced by Boo Boo herself aka Austin filmmaker Caroline Koebel! Hilarious and mind-blowing, rapid-fire conspiracies emerge out of this "mutant blockbuster" soup of cinematic debris! The director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS returns with one of his grandest works to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Baldwin's treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects, and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic. BooBoo, a young telepath, and her father, Yogi, are revolutionaries pitted against the "New Electromagnetic Order". Their story, set in the year 2007 in a blighted Nevada outpost, is interwoven with a history of the development of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to atom bombs, from television to the Internet. "At once politically charged and wildly imaginative, this unique extravaganza confirms director Baldwin as an avant-garde superstar". -- Christian Science Monitor 12/5 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 GUNVOR NELSON IN PERSON FROM SWEDEN! Filmforum continues bringing renowned experimental film artists from elsewhere this season with an extremely rare visit from Sweden of legendary media artist Gunvor Nelson. Gunvor Nelson is one of Sweden's internationally most prominent artists in her field - film and the moving image, and a key figure in the history of experimental film. Now 81 years old and living in Sweden, she says this is likely to be her last public screening in Los Angeles ever, so you really don't want to miss it. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/297544 Screening (subject to change): Snowdrift (2001, 9 min., video, sound), My Name is Oona (1969, 10 min., 16mm, b&w, sound), Fog Pumas by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley (1967, 25 min., 16mm, color, sound), Before Need Redressed (1995, 42 min, 16mm, color, sound) 12/5 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia http://ihousephilly.org/events/portrait-place-its-the-earth-not-the-moon/ 7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street ITS THE EARTH NOT THE MOON dir. Gonçalo Tocha, Portugal, 2011, digi-beta, 185 mins, color, Portuguese w/ English subtitles ///// A cameraman and a soundman arrive in Corvo in 2007, the smallest island in the archipelago of the Azores. Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Corvo is a large rock, 6km high and 4km long, with the crater of a volcano and a single tiny village of 440 people. Gradually, this small filming crew is accepted by the island's population as its new inhabitants, two people to add to a civilization almost 500 years old, whose history is hardly discernible, such is the lack of records and written memories. Shot at a vertiginous pace throughout a few years, self produced between arrivals, departures and coming backs, It's the Earth not the Moon develops as the logbook of a ship, and turns out as a patchwork of discoveries and experiences which follow the contemporary life of a civilization isolated in the middle of the sea. A long Atlantic film odyssey, divided in 14 chapters, that combines anthropological records, literature, lost archives, mythological and autobiographical stories. -------------------------- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2012 -------------------------- 12/6 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. 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! 12/6 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinéma 8:00, 123 rue Saint Martin TRADITION FILMIQUE ET INNOVATION CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE: UN NOUVEAU REGARD - EVÉNEMENT PÉRIPHÉRIQUE DU 14ÈME FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS ET EXPÉRIMENTAUX DE PARIS Une sélection de films de jeunes cinéastes Serbes récemment primés dans des festivals, présentée par Dunja Jelenkovic, en présence de Ognjen GlavoniÄ - réalisateur - qui viendra spécialement de Serbie. - Que ces films aient été réalisés dans des cadres « officiels » comme la Faculty of Dramatic Arts ou - dans le plus « original » Academic Film Center, produits - par des institutions officielles ou non-officielles, faits - par des professionnels ou des non-professionnels, sur - celluloïd ou en digital, ces films et ces vidéos résistent à tous clichés de l'art. Alternatifs ou classiques, ils - font tous partie de l'histoire du cinéma. En Serbie, - aujourd'hui, une nouvelle histoire est en train de - s'écrire. La prochaine vague est représentée par Ana - JeliÄ, Andres Denegri, BoÅ¡ko Prostran & Isidora IliÄ (Doplgenger), Mane ŽuÄeloviÄ, MiloÅ¡ TomiÄ, Ognjen - GlavoniÄ, Stefan IvanÄiÄ... et ce n'est que la - partie émergente de l'iceberg ! - Dunja Jelenkovic, programmatrice - LES FILMS : - OVER BELGRADE, Andres Denegri, 4' 25'', 2011 - JIMMY, Ognjen GlavoniÄ, 21', 2008 - SCRAP MATERIAL, Stefan IvanÄiÄ, 16', 2011 - SPITTED BY KISS, MiloÅ¡ TomiÄ, 11', 2007 - RAYBAN MELTDOWN, Mane ŽuÄeloviÄ, 15', 2011 - SURPLUS, BoÅ¡ko Prostran & Isidora IliÄ, 6', 2008 - WEIRD FUNNY - SCARY STORIES, Ana JeliÄ, 11', 2012 - - Mais aussi, une exposition dédiée au 30ème anniversaire de ALTERNATIVE FILM VIDEO, festival de Belgrade consacré au cinéma différent et expérimental. - Vous trouverez toutes les infos bientôt sur notre site ! 12/6 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30 PM, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street (between Mission & Howard Streets) SHIFTING GEOGRAPHIES/SPECIAL RELATIVITY: BUTLER/MIRZAS DEEP STATE AND OTHER WORKS In its examination of international artistic communities, SFMOMA's exhibition Six Lines of Flight (Sept. 15December 31) highlights acts of collaboration, collective art practice and cultural intervention which, while based in regionalism and the locality, act as inspiring nodes within contemporary transglobal cultural networks. Similarly concerned with the possibilities and problems of collective action and political intervention is Brad Butler and Karen Mirza's Deep State (scripted by science-fiction author China Miéville). Taking its title from the Turkish term "Derin Devlet" ("state within a state"), the film examines the push and pull of transnational political networks (official and unofficial), analyzing the invisible flows of power circulating beneath enactments of individual expression and state oppression. Deep State screens with Crossings, Robert Fenz' examination of the US/Mexico border wall; Jonathan Schwartz' A Preface to Red, documenting an encounter during a European/Asian border crossing; newsreel number one: day and night (october 25th/26th), Moyah Pravdah Newsreel's documentation of one battle in an ongoing struggle for the reclamation of public space in Oakland; and, in celebration of Six Lines participant Futurefarmers' publication of A Variation on the Powers of Ten, the classic work of micro/macro perspective, Powers of Ten, by Charles and Ray Eames. (Steve Polta) 12/6 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 7pm, 1515 12th Avenue STAN BRAKHAGE SHOWCASE This program brings together some of the Academy Film Archive's restorations of the films of Stan Brakhage, including the premiere screening of the newly restored masterpiece, Anticipation of the Night, and a brand new print of the remarkable Passage Through: A Ritual, with beautifully restored sound. Marilyn Brakhage and preservationist Mark Toscano in person! Film Program (see full program notes on the event website): From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis; The Wonder Ring; Anticipation of the Night; Passage Through: A Ritual. ------------------------ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012 ------------------------ 12/7 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304: 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée https://www.facebook.com/1to1Super8CinemaSoiree Doors 6:30pm/Screening 7:30pm, IWAN The Bubble - 810 NE 4th Ave. 5TH ANNUAL 1:1 SUPER 8 CINEMA SOIRéE Established in 2006, the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is an annual South Florida event celebrating the use of super 8 film. Local filmmakers and artists gleefully take part in this annual event, loading their cameras with 3m20s of film, nervously creating their masterpieces. The 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is distinct in that none of the films are viewed by the filmmakers before the screening. Participants are not allowed to preview or edit their films. No matter what imperfections, happy accidents or planned technical attributes occur, what's shot in-camera is what's shown. There is no opportunity to make changes. Each participant gets one chance, one reel, and one take, premiering the films at a one night collective screening. Sound is done separately, most often designed, edited, and mixed after filming. It's then played back live at the screening as a type of dual sync system. Other sound options for participants include projecting the film silent or adding live audio, which in-turn adds a performative element. Many of these characteristics lead to some exciting and refreshing films. It's also a rare opportunity for public viewing and a chance to see super 8 projected in it's original format. $5 gets you in. Super 8 Social to follow at the Poor House, 110 SW 3rd Ave. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312. Suede Dudes, Montage and Dooms De Pop to perform. Free. 21+. 12/7 New York, Leipzig, Geneva, Toronto, Vancouver, Antarctica, many more...: Cinema Purgatorio http://bit.ly/SZ8zW2 many times through the weekend, many locations around the world SIGUR RóS' VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT join sigur rós fans around the world for a unique program of short films. the weekend of december 7 9, a "valtari film experiment" program collects at least 17 commissioned "official" and fan-created short films created to coincide with the album valtari. the program will screen on all seven continents (yes, including antarctica). venues will include cinemas, cinema-like spaces, rock clubs, native american casinos, hardware stores, hairdresser salons, and beyond. with the band's live film inni, large venues were particularly pursued, but this time, smaller, more avant-garde film-type spaces are sought out, though there will be many exceptions. in addition, we seek to deliver the films to the locations exclusively via the internet, cutting down on shipping drama and further embracing how the internet can connect people working on similar events around the world. upon the release of their album valtari, sigur rós gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the album. the idea was to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are alma har'el, floria sigismondi, ramin bahrani, and john cameron mitchell. at the same time, the band invited fans to contribute their own personal creations. dates confirmed as of press time are here: http://bit.ly/SZ8zW2 12/7 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 9pm, December 7 - 9, 1515 12th Avenue VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT Sigur Rós gave a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. The project idea aimed to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. Among the filmmakers are Ramin Bahrani, Alma Har'el and John Cameron Mitchell. -------------------------- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2012 -------------------------- 12/8 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia ROURKE + WOOD/MUYBRIDGE + KATELUS + RADIOPHONICS Indulging our love for forgotten formats and media-archaeology lore, Jeremy Rourke & Co. debut two live musical performances, The Biography of a Motion Picture Camera and The Paperman May Charleston. Ben Wood, in the apparel of none other than Eadweard Muybridge, affords us a charmed glimpse into those halcyon days of the Magic Lantern. Doug Katelus, as Hammond organist for the night, offers his 16mm Help Keep Film Dead, on the last days of Monaco Lab. Lori Varga, as high priestess for tonight's "church," powers up her 4 projectors in Beyond the Frames of Light and Strange Sound. PLUS Russ Forster with an in-person tribute to Bill Lear, inventor of the eponymous jet AND the 8-track tape! AND a half-hr cut of the BBC's Alchemists of Sound, on the UK Radiophonic Workshop, boasting Doctor Who composer Delia Derbyshire.*$7. ------------------------ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012 ------------------------ 12/9 Baltimore: Sight Unseen http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ 8:30pm, The 5th Dimension | 5th Floor H & H Building | 405 W. Franklin St. SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS: PERCEPTUAL Doors @8:30pm | Performance @9pm | $5-10 sliding scale | Sight Unseen is pleased to present Perceptual, a new live cinema work by Richard Garet with the artist in attendance. Perceptual is an audiovisual performance piece that proposes immersive reception to moving image and sound and examines the processes of luminosity, color, movement, and light phenomena. The sound will be carefully constructed and utilized to effect, intervene, disrupt, and further modify the visual parameters of the projected images. The techniques employed incorporate real-time computer processing and visual-constructs established from the permutations and the brilliancy generated by the media itself and by systematically breaking apart and algorithmically over-layering the outcome in order to create the viewing experience. Garet's sonic construction for this project will hover from material explorations, recordings of studio experiments, and digital processing while also articulating subtle sonic movements that modulate and fluctuate over time. 12/9 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 THE 50TH ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TRAVELING TOUR DIGITAL PROGRAM B Los Angeles Filmforum concludes its 2012 programming with the 2012 edition of the 50th AAFF Traveling Tour, giving Los Angeles audiences a chance to see the best new experimental works from around the world! Los Angeles Filmforum is pleased to present the 50th AAFF Traveling Tour. This program of short films includes recent experimental, narrative, documentary and animated films from England, France, Germany and the US; all selected from the most recent Ann Arbor Film Festival. The program includes Suzan Pitt's recent animation VISITATION (Los Angeles, 2011, 9 min, Video), a journey through a surreal and dark landscape allowing an imaginary glimpse within "an outer-world night". Filmmaker Suzan Pitt in person! Also screening: Moxie by Stephen Irwin (England, 2011, 6 min, Video LA premiere!), 20 Hz by Semiconductor (England, 2011, 5 min, Video LA premiere!), Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer (Germany, 2011, 10 min, Video LA premiere!), Tin Pressed by Dani Leventhal (Brooklyn, NY, 2011, 7 min, Video), Untitled by Neil Beloufa (France, 2010, 15 min, Video), Lack of Evidence (Manque de Preuves) by Hayoun KWON (France, 2011, 10 min, Video LA premiere!), Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation by Evan Meaney (Knoxville, TN, 2011, 8 min, Video) Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/297552 12/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SUNRISE Script by Carl Meyer based on the story "A Trip to Tilsit" by Herman Sudermann. Photographed by Charles Rosher and Karl Strauss. With George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor. Murnau's first American film is an allegory set in no particular time or place, about a man who is temporarily overruled by his passions, inflamed by the power of evil as personified by the city woman, and who finally returns to his senses and the orderly family life of the country. It is a virtuoso exercise representing the expressiveness of the silent film as it neared its end. 12/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SUNRISE See notes for Dec. 9, 3 pm. 12/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI PROGRAM SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING! FILMMAKER IN PERSON! NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI: EARLY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Anthology Film Archives presents a special event featuring a selection of shorts by Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of the leading figures of Japan's alternative cinema. Recently receiving attention for the re-release of his studio debut HOUSE (1977), Obayashi's early experimental films range in tone from melodrama to comedy and vary in style from the emotionally hyperbolic to the formally audacious. A pioneer of 'home movies' in Japan, Obayashi formed film collectives with Takahiko Iimura and Yoichi Takabayashi, namely the Association of Three (Sannin no Kai) and the Film Independents, and went on to direct youth dramas co-produced by the Art Theatre Guild, some titles of which will be screened as part of the ATG AND JAPANESE UNDERGROUND CINEMA series at MoMA (December 7-February 10, 2013). Shot in 8mm and 16mm, the films in this program display a playful hand-made sensitivity and light-hearted exuberance that has been retained in his more recent feature-length productions. The screening is a preview event in anticipation of a comprehensive survey of Japanese experimental cinema from the 1960s and 1970s, coming to Anthology in February 2013: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960s-70s JAPAN. Obayashi will be here in person to present and discuss the program! DANDANKO (1960, 11 min, 8mm-to-digital, b&w. Co-directed by Akira Hirata.) THURSDAY / MOKUYOBI (1961, 19 min, 8mm-to-digital, b&w) AN EATER / TABETA HITO (1963, 23 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Kazutomo Fujino) COMPLEXE (1964, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) Total running time: ca. 75 min. 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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