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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 MISCELLANEOUS: ============== Petition for Lawrence Brose http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=misc&readfile=126.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (morgantown, WV, USA; Deadline: February 25, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1525.ann Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1526.ann ANIMATOR - International Festival of Animated Film (Poland; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1527.ann CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1528.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== London End of The World Documentary Film Festival (London United Kingdom.; Deadline: January 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1385.ann Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA; Deadline: January 27, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1475.ann Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany; Deadline: January 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1489.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 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 IC Docs (Iowa City, IA USA; Deadline: January 18, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1507.ann What the Festival (Alfred, NY, United States; Deadline: February 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1519.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): ============================== * Fragments of Kubelka [January 5, Washington, DC] * Sixpack Film Series: Way of Passion [January 6, Washington, DC] * Sixpack Film Series: Tlatelolco [January 6, Washington, DC] * Now What: Film, video & Moving Image Performance Curated From An Open Call [January 7, Brooklyn, New York] * Millennium Nomadic: the Films of Storm De Hirsch At the Fmc [January 9, New York City] * The Films of Storm De Hirsch [January 9, New York, NY] * Christmas On Earth [January 9, New York, New York] * Los Angeles Filmforum At Moca Presents: Breaking the Plane [January 10, Los Angeles, California] * Brooklyn-Montreal videozones [January 10, New York, New York] * Taylor Mead [January 11, New York, New York] * Robert Nelson [January 12, New York, New York] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Carolee Schneemann: New videos of the Performing Artist [January 13, Los Angeles, California] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents John Davis and Joshua Churchill [January 13, Oakland, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2013 ------------------------- 1/5 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 1:00 p.m., East Building Large Auditorium, 4th & Constitution Ave. NW FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA Washington premiere. Peter Kubelka (born 1934) is without peer in the film world. The famous Austrian avant-gardist integrates cinema with architecture, music, ethnography, writing, performance art, and, above all, food preparation ("a meal is the ancestral sculpture of mankind"). Kubelka believes that film, like theater and painting, will never be obsolete ("digital is something else altogether"). Czech filmmaker Martina Kudláček spent hours with Kubelka at home, weaving a frank portrait and going beyond biography to uncover new insights. "Kubelka's cinema is like a piece of crystal . . . one could easily conceive that it was picked up from among the organic treasures of nature"Jonas Mekas. (Martina Kudláček, 2012, HDCam, 232 minutes with intermission) ----------------------- SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2013 ----------------------- 1/6 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 2:00 p.m., East Building Large Auditorium, 4th & Constitution Ave. NW SIXPACK FILM SERIES: WAY OF PASSION The Good Friday procession in Trapani, Sicily, is an annual ritual that has survived in the town for 400 years. Without intruding, the filmmakers manage to capture the celebrations surrounding this remarkable festival through the entire town, from the men carousing the night before, to women parading as Christ's brides, to the deeply moving processional itself, as villagers watch the local menfolk bearing the weight of the altar of Christ on their shoulders. "The groups of men are a feast for the eyes . . . one cannot get enough of watching, stirring associations with Mafia Padroni. The magic of this ritual seems to be enduring their suffering together"Brigitta Burger-Utzer. (Joerg Burger, 2011, HDCam, Italian with subtitles, 89 minutes) 1/6 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 4:00 p.m., East Building Large Auditorium, 4th & Constitution Ave. NW SIXPACK FILM SERIES: TLATELOLCO The fabled Mexico City neighborhood Tlatelolco symbolizes the country's intense and tangled history. Its main square, Plaza de las Tres Culturas, contains the remains of Aztec temples, a 16th-century cathedral, and one of the world's great archaeological excavationsyet the plaza was also the site of a notorious bloodbath between demonstrators and the police just days before the 1968 Olympics. Austrian filmmaker Lotte Schreiber chose as her centerpiece Mario Pani's massive 1960s apartment complex, Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, the largest housing project in Mexico and a one-time utopian city-within-a-city. (Lotte Schreiber, 2011, HDCam, Spanish with subtitles, 75 minutes) ----------------------- MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2013 ----------------------- 1/7 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com Doors 7PM, Part 1: 7:20PM, Part 2: 8:45, Part 3: 10PM, 6 Charles Place NEXT DOOR TO MICROSCOPE NOW WHAT: FILM, VIDEO & MOVING IMAGE PERFORMANCE CURATED FROM AN OPEN CALL presented by Microscope Gallery at our next door neighbors, Running Rebel Studios. General admission $8,students (with ID) $6. Reservations recommended at r...@microscopegallery.com. "now what" is a night of screenings & moving image performances curated from an international open call. The 3 programs include a wide-range of mostly new and recent works from established to emerging artists working with Super 8mm or 16mm film, digital video, video games, appropriated footage (from Youtube, Google & other sources), music video, performance and more. The evening also features 5 live projection performances, most presented for the first time including multi-screen, live sound, multiple projectors, and dance. Program, PART I. Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal / Will Bragger / Alysse Stepanian / Adam Paradis / Klara Jirkova / Angela Washko / Sam Cooke / Tina Willgren / CocoRose & Sonny / Timothy P. Kerr / Jason Martin / Nicola Carter / Margaret Rorison. PART II. Tara Merenda Nelson / Metrah Pashaee / Jodie Mack / Josh Bricker / Katie Cercone / Denise Iris / Cory Kram / Rachelle Beaudoin / Kevvy Metal / Devon Johnson / Brian Patrick Franklin / Michael Szpakowski / Joel Schlemowitz. PART III. Jeanne Liotta / James G. Mattise / Kit Yi Wong / Ellen Mueller / Ellie Irons / Peter Rose / Jennae Santos / JaeWook Lee / Clint Enns / Seth Indigo Carnes / Erin Grant / Paul D'Agostino / Nicholas Parish / Stephanie Wuertz. FULL PROGRAM DETAILS at www.microsocpegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. Other Options L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. -------------------------- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013 -------------------------- 1/9 New York City: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 7:30, FMC: 475 Park Ave South 6th Floor, NY, NY 10016 MILLENNIUM NOMADIC: THE FILMS OF STORM DE HIRSCH AT THE FMC An evening of short films by Storm De Hirsch, who used homespun effects that included hand-painting, emulsion-scratching and kaleidoscopic lenses to create unique poetic abstractions that she likened to prehistoric hieroglyphs. She was a published poet, feminist and a student of eastern religion; concerns which inform her films. A visionary filmmaker and important figure in the 60s underground, her films deserve a wider audience. "A further exploration into the color of ritual, the color of thought; a journey through the underworld of sensory derangement."--S.D.H. "I wanted badly to make an animated short, but I had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several rolls of 16mm sound tape. So I used that plus a variety of discarded surgical instruments and the sharp edge of a screwdriver by cutting, etching, and painting directly on both film and [sound] tape."--Storm De Hirsh to her friend Jonas Mekas Program: Third Eye Butterfly (1968) 16mm double projection, color, 10 min Journey Around A Zero (1963) 16mm, black and white, 3 min Divinations (1964) 16mm, color, 5.5 min Trap Dance (1968) 16mm, black and white, 1.5 min Peyote Queen (1965) 16mm, color, 9 min Sing Lotus (1966) 16mm, color, 14 min The Tattooed Man (1969) 16mm, color, 35 min Suggested Donation $10 1/9 New York, NY: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 7:30, Filmmakers Co-op, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor THE FILMS OF STORM DE HIRSCH Millennium Nomadic at the FMC - "A further exploration into the color of ritual, the color of thought\; a journey through the underworld of sensory derangement."--S.D.H. - "I wanted badly to make an animated short, but I had no camera available. I did have some old, unused film stock and several rolls of 16mm sound tape. So I used that plus a variety of discarded surgical instruments and the sharp edge of a screwdriver by cutting, etching, and painting directly on both film and [sound] tape."--Storm De Hirsh to her friend Jonas Mekas - De Hirsch created unique poetic abstractions which she likened to prehistoric glyphs, using homespun effects that included hand-painting, scratching and kaleidoscopes. She is a pioneer of underground cinema, although her work is often neglected. - Program: Third Eye Butterfly (1968) 16mm double projection, color, 10 min, Journey Around A Zero (1963) 16mm, black and white, 3 min, Divinations (1964) 16mm, color, 5.5 min, Trap Dance (1968) 16mm, black and white, 1.5 min, Peyote Queen (1965) 16mm, color, 9 min, Sing Lotus (1966) 16mm, color, 14 min, The Tattooed Man (1969) 16mm, color, 35 min 1/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CHRISTMAS ON EARTH Barbara Rubin (1945-80) was a filmmaker, writer, and scenester who began working for Jonas Mekas at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in 1963. That same year she made the landmark two-projector film CHRISTMAS ON EARTH. Originally titled COCKS AND CUNTS, CHRISTMAS ON EARTH is a work of sexual tableaux vivants, gay and straight. Consisting of two separate reels projected one inside the other, with color gels further enhancing the images, and accompanied by a contemporary rock radio soundtrack, it was originally projected onto the Velvet Underground as they performed during Andy Warhol Up-Tight, an early version of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events. Rubin was a born matchmaker who allegedly brought together the Velvet Underground and Warhol, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, and, according to John Cale, Edie Sedgwick with Warhol. She was at the center of it all but left New York at the end of the 60s, and became heavily involved in Orthodox Judaism, She died during childbirth in France in 1980. CHRISTMAS ON EARTH was one of the 60s underground movies responsible for unraveling American censorship laws, and to celebrate this legacy, Boo-Hooray is publishing a limited-edition book of images from the film, supplemented by an extended biographical essay and bibliography by art historian Daniel Belasco. In conjunction with the publication of this book, as well as an exhibition at Boo-Hooray featuring still images and ephemera relating to the film, Anthology will host a screening featuring CHRISTMAS ON EARTH (1963, 29 min, 16mm), as well as Jonas Mekas's TO BARBARA RUBIN WITH LOVE (2006, 7 min, video), and other special surprises! For more info regarding the book and exhibition, please visit: boo-hooray.com -------------------------- THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013 -------------------------- 1/10 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00pm, MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM AT MOCA PRESENTS: BREAKING THE PLANE In response to the exhibition Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-62, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents an international program of radical films that puncture the image, three-dimensionalize the film surface, or otherwise challenge the traditional cinematic experience. Each work in the program unleashes an energy unseen in ordinary cinema by transforming the strip of film from an unbroken "window on the world" into a turbulent contest of individual frames. Just as post-war painters challenged the continued legitimacy of the picture plane, artists working in film sought to push past the "realistic" representations of time and space typified by the hegemonic Hollywood studio productions. Breaking with accepted forms of cinematic representationoften by physically altering the film itselfthese works appear to fulfill Lucio Fontana's prescient call for the discovery of a "luminous malleable substance" that would allow for an art of speed to be created in four dimensions. Politically, sexually, and formally radical, these transgressive works from 1959-67 still retain their power to shock. The result is a visceral cinema, both literally and metaphorically full of holes. Tickets: $12, FREE for members of MOCA or Los Angeles Filmforum (present your membership card at the box office to claim tickets; no free tickets will be issued without membership card). For tickets, go to moca.org and click on calendar. Screening: Jane Conger Belson Shimane, Odds and Ends (1959, 16mm, color, 4 min.); Takahiko Iimura, On Eye Rape (1962, 16mm, color, 10 min); Stan Brakhage, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (1961, 16mm, color, 9 min.); Stan Brakhage, Mothlight (1963, 16mm, color, 4 min); Carolee Schneemann, Fuses (1967, 16mm, color, 23 min.); Aldo Tambellini, Black Trip (1965, 16mm, black and white, 5 min.); Kurt Kren, 3/60: Baume im Herbst (Trees in Autumn) (1960, 16mm, black and white, 5 min.); Kurt Kren, 6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl) [Mom and Dad (An Otto Muehl Happening)] (1964, 16mm, color, 4 min.); Ken Jacobs, Blonde Cobra (1963, 16mm, black and white, 33 min.) 1/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BROOKLYN-MONTREAL VIDEOZONES This screening is the inaugural event of the Brooklyn-Montreal exhibition exchange project. It serves to launch the project by introducing it to a wider New York public, and as such it will be the only related event to take place in Manhattan. Information concerning subsequent events, including exhibition openings on January 11, 12, and 13 in Williamsburg, Dumbo, and Bushwick, can be found by visiting www.brooklynmontreal.com VIDEOZONES, a compilation of video works by seven Montreal artists and six Brooklyn artists, is a unique exploration of the formal and narrative dimensions of the moving image, with sound, time, archival material, landscape, and performance serving as compositional blocks. The short videos address a wide range of subjects from politics to popular culture, cinematic imagination, and poetic imagery, some emphasizing form and others narrative or content. The selection is curated by Boshko Boskovic, Brooklyn-based independent curator/Residency Unlimited Program Director, and the Montreal collective La Fabrique d'expositions (Marie-Eve Beaupré, Julie Bélisle, Louise Déry, and Audrey Genois), in partnership with Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, where the works will subsequently be shown following this premiere. The inaugural event will include a reception and screening. Many of the artists will be present along with the curators. Celia Rowlson-Hall THREE OF A FEATHER (2011, 6 min, video) Olivia Boudreau LA BRÈCHE (2012, 3 min, video) Jacynthe Carrier PARCOURS (2012, 5 min, video) Rosemarie Padovano PALOMA (2012, 4 min, video) Pascal Grandmaison SOLEIL DIFFÉRÉ (2010-12, 4.5 min, video) Sophie Bélair-Clement INTERLUDE (1974- 2012, 4.5 min, video) Tatiana Istomina HAPPY MOSCOW (PART 1) (2012, 5 min, video) Elisa Kreisinger & Marc Faletti MAD MEN: SET ME FREE (2011, 3 min, video) Frédéric Lavoie LA VIE APRÈS LA MORT (2012, 4 min, video) Marko Markovic AMERICAN SPRING (2012, 6.5 min, video) Robert Boyd TOMORROW PEOPLE (2012, 6 min, video) Aude Moreau SORTIR (2011, 4.5 min, video) Michel De Broin CUT IN THE DARK (2010, 4.5 min, video) Total running time: ca. 70 min. ------------------------ FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013 ------------------------ 1/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue TAYLOR MEAD The Underground's greatest film comedian, Taylor Mead has been an uproarious onscreen presence since the late 1950s. A beloved Warhol superstar who happens to be a neighborhood fixture, Mead's comedic quips and improvisatory skills are unparalleled. Besides acting, Mead is a published poet who for the last few years presented a weekly spoken word extravaganza called, naturally, The Taylor Mead Show at the Bowery Poetry Club. That showcase is sadly defunct (for now), but we are absolutely thrilled to have Taylor with us for one more wild evening of recitations and reminiscences. And to up the ante we will also screen, quite possibly simultaneously, a Warhol film solely devoted to you know what. You've never seen Taylor Mead like this before! 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! -------------------------- SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2013 -------------------------- 1/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ROBERT NELSON THE GREAT BLONDINO 1967, 42 min, 16mm. Newly preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive! "The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is the end." Museum of Modern Art "It is difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film's most striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino's visions, dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive." J. Hoberman, "A Filmmakers Filming Monograph" & BLEU SHUT 1970, 33 min, 16mm. Newly preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive! "Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." Leo Regan Total running time: ca. 80 min. ------------------------ SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013 ------------------------ 1/13 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 CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: NEW VIDEOS OF THE PERFORMING ARTIST Carolee Schneemann in person! Filmforum is delighted to start 2013 with a visit from the influential and fantastic artist Carolee Schneemann. Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist, has transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship to the social body. Schneemann has never ceased to cross mediums and boundaries to make work that resonates with raw poetic power. From her collaged war or diary films and provocative performances to her photos, paintings and installations, Schneemann's varied creations deconstruct our ingrained preconceptions and everyday assumptions. In words, images and actions, her art is deeply personal, sharply critical, intensely expressive, and always innovative. Tonight we are primarily looking at recent video works that draw from or document some of her performances. Her classic film Fuses will be included in the screening Breaking the Plane, presented by Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA, on Thursday January 10 at 7:00 pm. For more information and tickets, see www.moca.org. Currently in Los Angeles, her early painting/constructions are exhibited in a group show at THE BOX, "Painting" (how painting became performance). http://www.theboxla.com/ Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/315189 or by cash or check at the door. Screening: Plumb Line (1968-71, color, sound, Super 8mm film on video, 14:58), Ask the Goddess (1991, color, sound, 7 min.), Snows (1967-2011, color and b&w, silent, 16 mm film on video, 20:30 min. Los Angeles premiere!), Pinea Silva (2011, color, sound, 10 min. Los Angeles premiere!), Americana I-Ching Apple Pie(2007, 16:37 min, color, sound, 16:37), Devour (2003-04, color, sound, 8:40) 1/13 Oakland, California: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8:00 pm, 511 48th Street (@ Telegraph) SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS JOHN DAVIS AND JOSHUA CHURCHILL A night of film, video, and sound with John Davis and Joshua Churchill..,. The evening includes film projected by John with live soundscapes created by Joshua, followed by a collaborative musical performance accompanying live synthesized video feedback. About the Artists: John Davis works with moving images and sound, expanding their relationships through experimentation, chance, collaboration and improvisation. Current performance work investigates various sound and image delivery systems, their material bi-products, and the range of sensory possibilities that exists between them. Joshua Churchill's work includes immersive site-specific sound and light installation, photography, and experimental music/noise. His dynamic works compel one to be critically aware of their surroundings by exploring the aesthetic, emotive, and structural qualities of the environments in which they are situated and/or are examining. Admission is free! 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