Part 2 of 2: This week [February 2 - 10, 2012] in avant garde cinema -------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012 --------------------------
2/9 Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net 8pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastrasse, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e, 10178 Berlin THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012 [DL8], the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for contemporary media and film, 2012, is hitting Berlin in a new vein and venue, this year making the up-and-comer insider tip Naherholung Sternchen its stomping ground. The reason for the move will be clear to all once they hit the doors, literally a stone's throw from the iconic Kino International near Alexanderplatz Berlin: the location, a one-time thespians' hangout already steeped in its own history, has clearly been waiting for this moment. And it's here: 1001 nights at the cinema, all in eleven days. A romping, cinedalic party, the place to see films, rub shoulders with filmmakers and spectators, meet a global set around the bar... and see more films. What's up and coming, with performances and music thrown in for good measure. This year topped off with a celebration with all the Berlin Film Festivals: You Say Festival, We Say Party, The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 the night to party with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin (and beyond) film universe. Enough festivals to kill a rhino! With special presentations by Nick Zedd, Simon Ellis, Yony Leyser, Andreas Muller-Pohle, Miron Zownir, Birol �nel, Telemach Wiesinger and many others... The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012 Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, 10178 Berlin behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstrasse Daily from 6pm | Free admission till 10 pm Opening reception Thurs., Feb. 9, 8pm The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 2/9 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, 164 N. State WE BEGAN BY MEASURING DISTANCE "We Began By Measuring Distance" reflects on intrinsic and imposed distances�physical, logistical, and psychological�represented in works by women filmmakers from or connected to Palestine, including Jumana Emil Abboud, Basma al-Sharif, Mona Hatoum, and Annemarie Jacir. Informed by stories of loss and violence, these short films invoke and measure the space between past and present, mother and daughter, as well as home and exile. Introduced by Tirtza Even, SAIC Professor in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation. Basma al-Sharif in person. 1989�2011, multiple directors, Egypt/Israel/Lebanon/Palestine/UK, various formats, ca. 80 minutes + discussion 2/9 Harrisburg, PA: Moviate http://www.moviate.org/ 8:00, Moviate - 1306 N. 3rd St. DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!!! DYNAMO SHORT DOCS FROM THE UNDERGROUND!!! - From John Waters and Mormons, to Mental Institutions and Grandfathers!!!! You don't want to miss this amazing program of very special Short Documentaries!!! - Thursday February 9, 2012, Starts promptly at 8pm, Admission is $5 - Program For The Evening: - SMUT CAPITAL OF AMERICA (Michael Stabile, 2011)- 17 minutes - -In the late 1960s, as the Sexual Revolution was first gaining steam, San Francisco was pushing the boundaries of what could be filmed and quickly became, according to the NY Times, 'The Smut Capital of the United States.' From shabby storefront theaters and live sex shows to the Erotic Film Festival, the City became ground zero in the fight over obscenity, as both local politicians and Federal law enforcement went to war with filmmakers and free-speech advocates. 'Smut Capital' talks to the theater owners, film producers and stars in an attempt to recreate a revolution that wasn't televised, but screened. Featuring John Waters. Premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival - LIKE THEM ON FACEBOOK AT: https://www.facebook.com/smutcapital, www.sfsmut.com - A CALL OF CONSCIENCE: PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL & HOSPITAL (Heath Hofmeister, 2011)- 16 minutes, A short documentary about the Pennhurst State School & Hospital located outside of Philadelphia, PA. Hidden in a remote river bend in Pennsylvania, 10,500 people were forced to call this place 'home'. Now neglected, decaying and hidden beneath decades of over-growth, one of America's most dramatic civil rights stories awaits discovery. A Call of Conscience: Pennhurst State School and Hospital uncovers the untold story of the birth place of the Civil Rights Movement of the Intellectually Disabled. Supported by their families and community, this group of residents united and overcame the label of 'retarded' to lead and win one of the greatest civil victories for the disabled in U.S History. The result of their struggle not only won their freedom but positively transformed the social landscape of America forever! Official Selection of the 2011 Queens International Film Festival. - THE DEBRIS (SMALL SLIVERS OF CELLULOID) (Jeremy Moss, 2012) - 7 minutes, An experimental documentary exploring the Southern Utah desert and human remnants thereon\; ideology intersects image and site. Shards from a Utah Mormon's mind. - DRUGS (Renny McCauley, 2008)- 16 minutes, Four addicts give candid testimonials offering insights into the, complicated nature of drug abuse. - Played at: Durango Independent Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, San Francisco Shorts Film Festival & Rumschpringe Film, Festival. - ONE IN TEN ( Susan Hilvert, 2008) - 23 minutes, A personal documentary about a filmmaker coming out of the closet. - I KNOW YOU (Bruce Parsons, 2007) - 18 minutes, A personal documentary revealing how the search for a new relationship can actually reveal the foundation of an old one. Filmmaker Bruce Parsons, along with his father, search his hometown to try and meet his grandfather, for the first time. - www.moviate.org 2/9 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset) FILMS BY ANDREW MEYER, INCLUDING AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION "[The virtues of] Andrew Meyer's black-and-white AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION... had nothing to do with technical polish. Mr. Meyer's film hung on dialogue, cast and plot (of a kind), clearly moving in a new direction. Its central virtue was nothing less than a superb performance by an old man, Prescott Townsend, playing a Boston rogue long past his time, who charms a young girl with his 'snowflake theory.'" --Douglas M. Davis, National Observer. "Afterward, one felt that Andrew Meyer had opened a new world for 16mm cinema, one in which many kinds of excuses no longer need to be made. AN EARLY CLUE TO THE NEW DIRECTION... is unexpected, glorious, and indescribably moving, and I can't forget it." --James Stoller, Village Voice. 2/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CAREY BURTT PROGRAM Carey Burtt began producing short works in the late-70s, and has been making his mark on the underground film festival circuit for the last two decades. His darkly funny, deeply creepy films and videos have much in common with the Cinema of Transgression movement of the 80s; however they are completely products of his own twisted imagination. Rarely seen all together, this program offers viewers an opportunity to enter Burtt's delightfully deranged world. "My films are very personal. All of them are a form of therapy and reflect my state of mind at the time of inception � or address an issue that obsesses me. I have spent a lot of time in isolation � so fear of people and feelings of alienation have been strong for me throughout my life. I often make films about what I am most afraid of." �Carey Burtt Writer, musician, and filmmaker Bruce Bennett will host a Q&A with Carey Burtt after the screening. HITCHHIKE (1979, 4 minutes, video) HEY MISTER, YOU'RE IN THE GIRLS' ROOM (1991, 4 minutes, video) THE PSYCHOTIC ODYSSEY OF RICHARD CHASE (1998, 6 minutes, 16mm) THE DEATH OF SEX (1998, 4 minutes, 16mm) MIND CONTROL MADE EASY OR HOW TO BECOME A CULT LEADER (1999, 13 minutes, 16mm) THROUGH A GASH DARKLY (2006, 6 minutes, video) DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (2010, 10 minutes, video) THE DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER MOVIE (2010, 10 minutes, video) HOW NOT TO BE STUPID (A GUIDE TO CRITICAL THINKING) (2010, 8 minutes, video) BLOOD AND FIRE (2011, 10 minutes, video) HELPING: WITH TRAVIS (2011, 12 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. 2/9 San Francisco, California: California College of Art http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QCCA/QCCAFemTrb.html 7PM, 1111 8th St DIRTY LOOKS: QUEER CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS New York's Queer Film Series DIRTY LOOKS screens an evening of experimental queer video and film at California College of the Arts. A post-screening conversation will feature curator Bradford Nordeen (Dirty Looks) and Bay Area artist/curator Margaret Tedesco. Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics in the humanities and the arts. Nordeen will present the FEMALE TROUBLE program, which spans five decades of "genderfuck" video and film production. The artists in this series queer female subject space via drag tactics, narrative juxtaposition and overt performativity with styles ranging from masquerade to mythic, performance document to expos� video zine. FEMALE TROUBLE: Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez Screen Test, 2010 Patti Podesta, Stepping, 1981 Steven Arnold, Messages, Messages, 1968 Narcissister, Every Woman, 2010 Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008 Vaginal Davis, Barbi Twins (excerpt), 1993 ------------------------- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 ------------------------- 2/10 Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge http://www.directorslounge.net 6pm, Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e, 10178 Berlin THE 8TH BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE [DL8], FEB, 9 - 19 [DL8], the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for contemporary media and film, 2012, is hitting Berlin in a new vein and venue, this year making the up-and-comer insider tip Naherholung Sternchen its stomping ground. The reason for the move will be clear to all once they hit the doors, literally a stone's throw from the iconic Kino International near Alexanderplatz Berlin: the location, a one-time thespians' hangout already steeped in its own history, has clearly been waiting for this moment. And it's here: 1001 nights at the cinema, all in eleven days. A romping, cinedalic party, the place to see films, rub shoulders with filmmakers and spectators, meet a global set around the bar... and see more films. What's up and coming, with performances and music thrown in for good measure. This year topped off with a celebration with all the Berlin Film Festivals: You Say Festival, We Say Party, The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 � the night to party with all the movers and shakers of the Berlin (and beyond) film universe. Enough festivals to kill a rhino! With special presentations by Nick Zedd, Simon Ellis, Yony Leyser, Andreas M�ller-Pohle, Miron Zownir, Birol �nel, Telemach Wiesinger and many others... The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [DL8] 09.�19.02.2012 Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastra�e 7, 10178 Berlin behind the Kino International/ Rathaus Mitte U Schillingstra�e Daily from 6pm | Free admission till 10 pm The Official Festiwelt Party Wed., Feb. 15 2/10 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 7:30pm, Paramount Theater BEATS BEING DEAD This "cool, Hitchcockian romantic thriller," set in Germany's Thuringian Forest (a region alive with legends and myth), plays the police search for an escaped killer against a story of star-crossed lovers. Part one of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. 2/10 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 9:15pm, Paramount Theater DREILEBEN: DON'T FOLLOW ME AROUND A novelistic criminal investigation which deftly juxtaposes personal drama against the search for a killer, underlining the DREILEBEN trilogy's recurring themes of false appearances and deeply hidden truths. Part two of the celebrated trilogy. 2/10 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE, A TRUE ACCOUNT IN NINE PARTS (PARTS I - IV) Filmmaker David Gatten in conversation with film curator Chris Stults Special Event Tickets $12 Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 16mm, b/w, 20 min The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 16mm, b/w, 37 min Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 16mm, b/w, 26 min The Enjoyment of Reading (Lost and Found) 2001, 16mm, color, 18 min 2/10 Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art http://www.nelson-atkins.org 7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street ELECTROMEDIASCOPE "Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination." Gilles Deleuze elucidates an understanding of modern cinema as a conceptual practice contiguous with contemporary art in his book Cinema 2: The Time-Image. In the process he discusses modern political cinema and imagined communities and suggests that when considering the new basis on which they are founded in the third world and for minorities, art, and especially cinematographic art, must take part in a task that is "not that of addressing a people, which is presupposed already there, but of contributing to the invention of a people." Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination exemplifies this process through diverse examples of aesthetic, sociocultural and political works that address aspects of imaginable worlds. They tell strange and beautiful stories through visual and audible means that are reverberating with geopolitical realities while bringing to life a missing past. Cinema plays an important role in contemporary art where its unique development of images of thought cause us to rethink notions of the experimental within the context of the emerging global cinema's emphasis on visual and media literacy, a tactile - sensory form of editing and imagistic use of sound. This work shares more with the connotative syntax of oral histories, poetry, performances and ritual traditions than with many established forms of western cinema that are more often grounded in textual literacy and a denotative narrative flow. The works in Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination take us out of our world of habitual experience as John Cage suggested and establish alternative ways of experiencing the past and imagining the future. These works extend media literacy to emphasize a greater intensity of visual and audible world sensations that are already known in the performance, song and storytelling of other cultures. They not only share and re-imagine older culturally specific myths of origin, sense of place and transformative identity, but invent new stories and parables that address current geophysical realities for a global world that is reconnecting through virtual contact. Myth and storytelling of third world cultures meet the science fiction, technology and cinematic subcultures of the developed world. This emerging cultural imaginary is not a utopia. The storytelling, myths and fables re-imagine an expanding present with past and future folds. We can see, feel and empathize with these inhabitants of other worlds and perhaps understand them in the context of our present culture with its disasters, suspicions of the alien other and the guarded stasis of citizens who have lost alien sensibilities and sensitivities. Artists are reawakening historical moments of alien contact by rethinking the past, subverting the present and subjectifying the future. Their new visual mythmaking and storytelling are contributing to the invention of a future where memes leak out and pollinate broader shared aspects of culture, and in the process enable global cultural exchange. �Patrick Clancy. "Before Tomorrow," Marie-H�l�ne Cousineau (Canada) in collaboration with Madeline Ivalu (Canada) and Susan Avingaq (Canada), based on F�r Morgendaggen by J�rn Riel (Denmark), 2008. 92:47 min., video, Inuktitut with English subtitles. Program continues on Feb. 17 and 24. 2/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: A PACKAGE OF STARS FROM GEORGE AND THE VDB GANG For more than 25 years, the Video Data Bank team measured the passing of the seasons by the titillating titles received from George Kuchar: weather diaries, class pictures, summer visits to friends in NY and Cape Cod, winter holiday festivities, festival visits�. George transitioned from using film to video in 1985 and VDB has distributed his work ever since, with the archive now housing all 275 of his videos. During 2005 VDB was delighted to collaborate with him on a box set of his work, making it possible for a wider audience to appreciate his treasures. To represent George's work and to interact with him day-to-day was a delight; in addition to his undoubted artistic talents, he was funny, modest, grateful, and a real human being. This program presents just a few of the shining stars that make up George's galaxy. POINT 'N SHOOT (1989, 5 minutes, video) ROUTE 666 (1994, 8 minutes, video) SEASON OF SORROW (1996, 12.5 minutes, video) UNCLE EVIL (1996, 7 minutes, video) HONEY BUNNIES ON ICE (2001, 7 minutes, video) BURNOUT (2003, 20 minutes, video) HOTSPELL (2011, 26 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 2/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GEORGE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: THE FILM-MAKERS' COOP PRESENTS: 1960s-70s GEORGE KUCHAR TRIBUTE As the original distributor of George Kuchar's work, the Coop is honored to present this program in celebration of his amazing life and career. Here is a quote from Ken Jacobs: "We [Ken and Flo Jacobs] were having open screenings in 1963, and Bob Cowan, a Canadian filmmaker, showed up with George and Mike. To them, our place was very exotic; and they were exotic to us. Cowan had met them at an amateur 8mm film club in the Bronx (where they were considered odd). We showed various stuff, including PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF. We were knocked out! I said to Jack Smith, 'You have to see this guy's stuff.' I also told Jonas to check them out, and they all did. And history began. We then invited George and Mike to join the Film-Makers' Coop." MOSHULU HOLIDAY (1966, 9 minutes, 16mm) ECLIPSE OF THE SUN VIRGIN (1967, 15 minutes, 16mm) KNOCTURNE (1968, 8.5 minutes, 16mm) THE SUNSHINE SISTERS (1972, 36 minutes, 16mm) I, AN ACTRESS (1977, 9 minutes, 16mm) WILD NIGHT IN EL RENO (1977, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 2/10 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8PM, 992 Valencia Street DIRTY LOOKS PRESENTS: ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM'S CITY OF LOST SOULS Dirty Looks is proud to host the West Coast premiere of a recent restoration of Rosa Von Praunheim's trans punk musical City of Lost Souls, 1983. Angie Stardust has a lot on her plate, running a boarding house called Pension Stardust filled with misfit lodgers: an erotic trapeze duo, a magickal group therapist, assorted layabouts, nymphomaniacs and Lila (Jayne County), a Southern blonde who dreams of Hollywood. These tenants also staff Angie's fast food enterprise, Burger Queen. But when Lila gets knocked up by a Communist who promises to make her a superstar on East Berlin television, the real havoc ensues. Rosa Von Praunheim directs this mostly American cast in a trans musical spectacular that has been described as "Hedwig and the Angry Inch� in reverse." The event will be accompanied by a complimentary publication featuring archival imagery from the Rosa Von Praunheim archive and writings by Bruce Benderson, Jayne County, Joe E. Jeffreys, Amos Mac, Marc Siegel and Justin Shock. 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