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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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== twin rivers media festival (Asheville, NC USA; Deadline: May 06, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1535.ann 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=1536.ann ArtUP! | Exhibition PARABOLE (Bulgaria; Deadline: March 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1537.ann Philadelphia Short Film Night (Philadelphia, PA, USA; Deadline: February 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1538.ann Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1539.ann Termite TV (Baltimore, MD USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1540.ann Pleasure Dome (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: February 22, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1541.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1482.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 Accolade Competition (La Jolla, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1501.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 Visions Film Festival and Conference (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1514.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies Portugal (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1515.ann Montreal Underground Film Festival (Montreal, QC, Canada; Deadline: February 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1524.ann 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 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 Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Australia; Deadline: February 18, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1531.ann ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL (NY NY USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1532.ann 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=1536.ann Philadelphia Short Film Night (Philadelphia, PA, USA; Deadline: February 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1538.ann Pleasure Dome (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: February 22, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1541.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): ============================== * Yankee Clutter: Recently Skewed Histories [February 2, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Valentin/Vigo Program [February 2, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Mother [February 2, New York, New York] * Beats Being Dead [February 3, Boston, Massachusetts] * Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around [February 3, Boston, Massachusetts] * A Diptych By Robert Fenz [February 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Barbara Hammer: the Fearless Frame [February 3, London, England] * Decasia Live W 55-Piece Orchestra - Free! [February 3, New York, NY] * In Comparison [February 3, New York, New York] * The Blank Generation [February 3, New York, New York] * Unmade Beds [February 3, New York, New York] * Gene Youngblood - Secession From the Broadcast ii: the Challenge To Create On the Same Scale As We Can Destroy [February 3, San Francisco, California] * Paul Clipson & Marielle Jakobsons [February 3, San Francisco, California] * Hearts In Dixie [February 4, Boston, Massachusetts] * Outsiders Observe Los Angeles [February 4, Los Angeles, California] * Unmade Beds [February 4, New York, New York] * The Foreigner [February 4, New York, New York] * Croatian Animation [February 4, Oakland, California] * Andrew Lampert's Constipation (Contracted Cinema) (Cinema Expanded [Again!]) [February 4, San Francisco, California] * One Minute of Darkness [February 5, Boston, Massachusetts] * The Foreigner [February 5, New York, New York] * Blank Generation [February 5, New York, New York] * Golden Age of Zagreb Animation [February 5, San Rafael, California] * "The Sky Song" Feature By James Fotopoulos [February 6, Brooklyn, New York] * In Comparison [February 6, New York, New York] * Other Cinema Kickstarter! [February 6, San Francisco, CA] * It's Raining Cats & Dogs! Boston Experimental Films & videos [February 7, Boston, Massachusetts] * Jennifer Reeves's Chronic + Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful [February 7, Brooklyn, New York] * Balagan Presents... Whose Land? [February 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Music + Image [February 7, Los Angeles, California] * Lost and Found [February 8, Boston, MA] * Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Naked Spaces�Living Is Round [February 8, Brooklyn, New York] * <B> the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [Dl8] 09.�19.02.2012</B> [February 9, Berlin, Germany] * We Began By Measuring Distance [February 9, Chicago, Illinois] * Dynamo Short Docs From the Underground!!!! [February 9, Harrisburg, PA] * Films By andrew Meyer, Including An Early Clue To the New Direction [February 9, Los Angeles, California] * Carey Burtt Program [February 9, New York, New York] * Dirty Looks: Queer Conversations On Culture and the Arts [February 9, San Francisco, California] * <B>The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge [Dl8], Feb, 9 - 19 </B> [February 10, Berlin, Germany] * Beats Being Dead [February 10, Boston, Massachusetts] * Dreileben: Don't Follow Me Around [February 10, Boston, Massachusetts] * Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account In Nine Parts (Parts I - iv) [February 10, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Electromediascope [February 10, Kansas City, Missouri] * George Kuchar Program 1 [February 10, New York, New York] * George Kuchar Program 2 [February 10, New York, New York] * Dirty Looks Presents: Rosa Von Praunheim's City of Lost Souls [February 10, San Francisco, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 -------------------------- 2/2 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset) YANKEE CLUTTER: RECENTLY SKEWED HISTORIES A night of recent 16mm films originating from New England. These shorts evoke the true spirit of small frosty towns filled with secret restaurants, raw warehouse spaces turned into mad science laboratories, low-budget light shows, and piles of ephemera all working against centuries of puritanical tradition. Featuring: Echoes of Bats and Men by Jo Dery (2005, 16mm, 7:15) The night shift begins with a musical history lesson sung by a chubby skunk. Learn about Rhode Island's industrial evolution through the midnight flight of a little bat and her many friends. Hull by Tara Merenda Nelson (2011, 16mm, 7:30) A journey between layers of corporal consciousness, Hull explores the physical memory of trauma, and the psychological repercussions of a surgical disaster. 0106 by Xander Marro and Mat Brinkman (2006, 16mm, 12:15) A single-frame barrage of DIY living quarters, puppeteer frontiers, too many cats, silkscreen explosions, portable cooking stoves, zine libraries, drum kits, and more - all to the discordant squall of Marro and Brinkman's manic sonar hearts. The Root That Ate Roger Williams by Alee Peoples (2011, 16mm/video, 18:00) A half truthful documentary of what happened to the remains of Providence's founder and champion of 'free religion'. The other half is perhaps a fabrication of a club based on the actual folklore of the root. Shot in 16mm, the film strikes a playful balance of truthful story telling and sly farce of related ideas and places. Passage Upon The Plume by Fern Silva (2011, 16mm, 6:45) "Those who go thither, they return not again." Plumes dust the arid land, east to west, shapeshifting as they lift in ascension. Something lowers. An ark ran aground where revolution took root: ropes raise stones in baskets. Hearts heavier and lighter than the feather, permitted passage. Tethered or freed, resting from life or dawning anew. (Charity Coleman) Brand New Film by Leif Goldberg (2012, 16mm, 10:00) Sure to be a dazzler by the head honcho of National Waste. Curated by Mike Stoltz. $5 2/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VALENTIN/VIGO PROGRAM Karl Valentin CONFIRMATION DAY / DER FIRMLING 1934, 23 minutes, 35mm, b&w. In German with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A father and son, celebrating the son's confirmation, go to a fancy restaurant and drink all day. They want to order Emmentaler cheese, but can only find Affentaler wine on the menu. How did the Affentaler, which they think is cheese, get into the bottle? They keep on drinking away, attracting attention and causing more and more confusion. "Valentin plays a drunken father treating his giggly young son to lunch, and the inspired muddle he creates out of a table, two chairs, an umbrella, and a watch chain rivals some of Laurel and Hardy's best moments." �J.R. Jones, CHICAGO READER & Jean Vigo Z�RO DE CONDUITE 1935, 44 minutes, 35mm, b&w. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available. Z�RO DE CONDUITE, an eloquent parable of freedom versus authority, is set at a boys' boarding school and undoubtedly echoes Vigo's own unhappy experiences as a child. Under the pressure of various civic groups the film was removed from screens several months after its release in 1933. It was branded "anti-French" by censors and was not shown again in Paris until 1945. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. 2/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MOTHER by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin In Russian with no subtitles, English synopsis available, 1926, 104 minutes, 35mm With the simple theme of a working-class mother growing in political consciousness through participation in revolutionary activity, this film established Pudovkin as one of the major figures of the Soviet cinema. A student of Kuleshov and an admirer of Griffith's films, he was writing his first book of film theory at the same time he was making MOTHER. His expert cutting on movement and his associated editing of unrelated scenes to form what he called a "plastic synthesis" are amply demonstrated here. Although in direct opposition to Eisenstein's shock montage, Pudovkin used a linkage method advanced far beyond Kuleshov's theories. ------------------------ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012 ------------------------ 2/3 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:00pm, 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. 2/3 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 7:45pm, 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. 2/3 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street A DIPTYCH BY ROBERT FENZ Filmmaker Robert Fenz in Person Special Event Tickets $12 Correspondence Correspondence is my tribute Robert Gardner's body of work. Retracing his steps, I filmed in the same locations in which he filmed. Dead Birds (1964) was filmed in West Papua, Rivers of Sand (1974) was filmed in Ethiopia, and Forest of Bliss (1986) was filmed in Benares, India. My goal was to craft a film in dialogue with his body of work. I found my images � one might say � to the left-and-right of his frames. I shot the majority of the film in lush black-and-white and did not record sound. I intended in this way to echo the poetic element in Gardner's film documents. Correspondence is as much about Gardner's documentary style as it is about filmmaking with silver gelatin material � about how we think and remember with film. So, Correspondence is my tribute to Gardner, but it is also my homage to a kind of filmmaking in which he is a master. � Robert Fenz Directed by Robert Fenz US/Germany 2011, 16mm, color, 30 min The Sole of the Foot A series of improvised variations on the concept of "place," The Sole of the Foot explores ideas of belonging, isolation, and displacement. I filmed in France, Israel, and Cuba, among populations whose claim to belonging and identity are contested by others who assert a superior right to belong. I chose these locations because of questions I have about my own sense of belonging and of place. The sound in the film moves in-and-out of sync; the film itself is in color. Color, like sync sound, creates an illusion of presence. By using location sound, and moving it in or out of sync, I try alternately to enhance or mute a sense of alienation and disorientation--touched by improvisation�creating a space wherein viewers may contemplate their own train of thought as equal participants in an act of imaginative co-creation. � RF Directed by Robert Fenz US/Germany 2011, 16mm, color, 34 min Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 A composition of elusive moments and variations of colliding perspectives, Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00 documents the railway tracks stretching out from under the Modersohnbr�cke (Modersohn Bridge) towards Warshauer Str. S-Bahn Station in Berlin, Germany. The abstracted landscape visualizes alternative conceptions of time, experience and the ordinary. Directed by Shiloh Cinquemani Germany 2010, 16mm, color, 2 min 2/3 London, England: Tate Modern http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/programmes/film 7pm, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG BARBARA HAMMER: THE FEARLESS FRAME 3 - 27 February 2012. This major survey of Barbara Hammer's work will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren's Sink 2011, a tribute to Deren's longstanding influence on the artist. The month-long series also includes screenings of early, rarely seen Super-8 films, an evening of expanded cinema performances in the Turbine Hall, an event in response to Hammer's work by artist Emily Roysdon, and several events featuring artists and speakers drawn from across Europe and North America, who testify to the powerful creative community Hammer has inspired. The programme will be punctuated with films by friends, colleagues, and filmmakers whom Hammer considers crucial influences. In addition to Deren, artists include Chick Strand, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Gunvor Nelson, Chris Welsby, Gina Carducci, Cecilia Dougherty, John Greyson, William E. Jones, Liz Rosenfeld, Emily Mode, Scott Berry, Kjerstin Rossi and more. Hammer says: 'As an experimental filmmaker and lesbian feminist, I have advocated that radical content deserves radical form.' She has fearlessly pursued innovation from her earliest experiments with sexuality and feminist identity in the 1960s and 70s to her stunning perceptual and optical printing experiments during the 80s and the documentaries she continues to make that unearth secret histories and give voice to those traditionally without one. Her films have transformed the screen into an active and experimental field that powerfully brings together images and the bodies they represent. Curated by Stuart Comer and Barbara Hammer 2/3 New York, NY: The World Financial Center Winter Garden 7:30, 200 Vesey St DECASIA LIVE W 55-PIECE ORCHESTRA - FREE! DECASIA LIVE returns to New York for the first time in 5 years. - Film by Bill Morrison, symphony by Michael Gordon, A rare LIVE PERFORMANCE featuring the 55-piece Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, conducted by Timothy Weiss. - Don't miss it! - Final event of a four-night series hosted by - WNYC New Sounds Live's John Schaefer, presenting the work of filmmaker Bill Morrison, - at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 31 January - 3 February, at 7:30pm, FREE - 31 Jan: The Miners' Hymns with LIVE PERFORMANCE, 1 Feb: The Great Flood, 2 Feb: Spark of Being, 3 Feb: Decasia with LIVE PERFORMANCE 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue IN COMPARISON by Harun Farocki In German with English subtitles, 2009, 61 minutes, 16mm Share + This screening is part of: DEUTSCHE DOCS: THE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DOCUMENTARY Film Notes (ZUM VERGLEICH) For his most recent film, Farocki observes the process of manufacturing bricks, in various cultures, and across different modes and scales of production. "I wanted to make a film about concomitance, and about contemporary production on a range of different technical levels. So I looked for an object that had not changed too much in the past few thousand years. This could have been a shoe or a knife, but a brick becomes part of a building and therefore part of our environment. So the brick appears as something of a poetic object. I follow its mode of creation and use in Africa, India, and Europe." �H.F. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE BLANK GENERATION NIGHT LUNCH 1975, 32 minutes, 16mm. & BLANK GENERATION 1976, 55 minutes, 16mm. Poe's first two works, both made in collaboration with Ivan Kr�l, are lo-fi concert films that are invaluable documents of the 1970s NYC downtown music scene. Featuring performances by the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, the Talking Heads, Television, David Bowie, the New York Dolls, Wayne County, Freddie Mercury, Johnny Thunders, and others, they are unforgettable testaments to a period of unparalleled vitality and creativity. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue UNMADE BEDS by Amos Poe 1976, 77 minutes, 16mm With Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, and Deborah Harry. "[A] reinvention of the nouvelle vague in the context of New York. I wanted to start where Godard started, to go back to basics: innocence, romanticism, bohemianism, all the things that made up NYC for me at that time. It is the story of an artist: a medium, an ego, and a changed society. He thinks his camera is a gun, he thinks he is Belmondo, and he thinks NY is Paris. His fate is therefore doomed. So when Godard and his pals at the Cin�math�que saw Sirk, Hawks, etc, they tried to make films like that � but they failed. Instead they created the New Wave. My attempt created a kind of New Wave in New York." �A.P. 2/3 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street GENE YOUNGBLOOD - SECESSION FROM THE BROADCAST II: THE CHALLENGE TO CREATE ON THE SAME SCALE AS WE CAN DESTROY Gene Youngblood is an internationally known theorist of media arts and politics and a respected scholar in the history and theory of alternative cinemas. His Expanded Cinema (1970), the first book to consider video as an art form, was seminal in establishing media arts as a recognized artistic and scholarly discipline. He has been teaching, writing, curating and lecturing on media democracy and alternative cinemas since 1970 and is widely known as a pioneering voice in the media democracy movement. Secession from the Broadcast is a two-part lecture presented as a collaboration between Cinematheque and the San Francisco Art Institute. This lecture explores in greater detail some key questions raised in program 1. What is the revolutionary potential of the Internet? How can we use it to cultivate radical will at scale? Why is social control in crisis, and what is state power going to do about it? What does it mean to leave the culture without leaving the country? What does it mean that culture is a technology of the self? What is counterculture, and how can it support a daily practice of conscious counter-socialization? What does it mean to create on the same scale as we can destroy, and what is the role of the arts in meeting that challenge? [members: $6 / non-members: $10] 2/3 San Francisco, California: Will Brown Gallery http://wearewillbrown.com/index.php?/project/paul-clipson--marielle-jakobsons/ 9pm, 3041 24th Street PAUL CLIPSON & MARIELLE JAKOBSONS Audio/Visual Performance Paul Clipson is an experimental film artist based in San Francisco, California. Marielle V. Jakobsons is a sound artist and musician based in Oakland, California. His largely improvised, in-camera-edited super-8mm film work generally involves projected installation and live collaborative performances utilizing sound. A classically-trained pianist and violinist, she collaborates extensively in new music/media, improvisation, and experimental pop. By employing various dissolve techniques, multiple exposures, and macro-imagery, he brings to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms in our minds and the world around us. Together with Gregg Kowalsky, her band Date Palms creates a sound of psychedelic minimalism and has released LP's on both Mexican Summer and Root Strata. His films have screened around the world and throughout the U.S., including at the Cin�math�que Fran�aise, the Rotterdam Film Festival and the NYFF Views From The Avant Garde. Her second solo album "Glass Canyon" is due out on Students of Decay in Spring, 2012. -------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012 -------------------------- 2/4 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:30pm, Paramount Theater HEARTS IN DIXIE One of eight black-cast musicals made in Hollywood between 1929 and 1959. A white-imagined "folk" narrative focusing on Southern, rural blacks, with music comprised of traditional spirituals arranged by African Americans. ARCHIVAL PRINT! 2/4 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 8:00pm, The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA 90026 OUTSIDERS OBSERVE LOS ANGELES Films looking at Los Angeles by artists who weren't here for the long haul -- visitors to our balmy climes. What truths about the city are these non-Angele�os able to see, and how do they express them? Films to be screened: The Desert People by David Lamelas (1974), Me & Bruce & Art by Ben Van Meter (1968), Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood Via Death Valley by Robert Nelson (1972-76/2004), and Special Warning, by Robert Nelson (1999). This screening is dedicated to Robert Nelson, who we lost this January. 2/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue UNMADE BEDS See notes for Feb. 3, 9:30 pm. 2/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE FOREIGNER by Amos Poe 1978, 95 minutes, 16mm With Eric Mitchell, Patti Astor, and Deborah Harry. "A year later I made THE FOREIGNER, a film about a European coming to NY. In this case Max Menace (Eric Mitchell), a German terrorist who is trying to find a place to hide. But you can't hide in jungleland! He is terrorized, and ripped to bits. This is the story of the other side of the American dream; the foreigner who doesn't make it. A nightmare film in an existential philosophical context, a world where less is more." �A.P. 2/4 Oakland, California: Studio Quercus www.studioquercus.com 8pm, 385 26th Street CROATIAN ANIMATION The Croatian Animation Cultural Exchange presents an evening of historical animations from Croatia (1957-1978) with works by Nikola Kostelac, Vatroslav Mimica, Z l a t k o G r g ic and more. The program is presented by Vanja Hraste who is a visiting program director of the film-club association of Croatia. 2/4 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque http://www.sfcinematheque.org 7:30pm, Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street ANDREW LAMPERT'S CONSTIPATION (CONTRACTED CINEMA) (CINEMA EXPANDED [AGAIN!]) Andrew Lampert In Person presented in association with Oddball Films. [members: $5 / non-members: $10] Far from the fussiness of his downtown day job�preserving avant-garde classics at Anthology Film Archives�the cinema of Andrew Lampert sprawls with contingency and unscripted accident. Truly placed in the present tense, Lampert's film/performance hybrids�equal parts stand-up shtick and conceptual conundra�hold the social space between projector and screen to be truly where the action is. Whether making short films or live productions, his work playfully engages structure, storytelling and portraiture to address the contemporary condition of cinema spectatorship in its waning days. Tonight features the premiere of a single-projector expanded cinema performance titled Constipation, the latest work in his ongoing "contracted cinema" series. He writes: "Constipation is a film for filmmakers. A Super-8 love letter/break-up note for Kodachrome fetishists. An entertainment for the public-at-large." Also expect a few recent works including Taste Test, and undoubtedly many surprises. ------------------------ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012 ------------------------ 2/5 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 2:00pm, Paramount Theater ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS A dark, memorably strange fairy tale in which a police inspector tries to put himself inside the mind of a criminal while the isolated escapee flees deeper into a possibly enchanted forest. Part three of the celebrated DREILEBEN trilogy. 2/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE FOREIGNER See notes for Feb. 4, 9:30 pm. 2/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BLANK GENERATION See notes for Feb. 3, 7: 15 pm. 2/5 San Rafael, California: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Theater www.cafilm.org 4:15pm, 385 26th Street GOLDEN AGE OF ZAGREB ANIMATION Beginning in the 1950s, animators from the Zagreb Film Studios in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) developed a strong style that was soon known around the world at the "Zagreb School" of animation. Vanja Hraste will present a special program of Zagreb's best and speak about its colorful history. ------------------------ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 ------------------------ 2/6 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) "THE SKY SONG" FEATURE BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS (2007, Video, color, sound stereo, 127 min ), Admission $6 � Artist in Person. On the final night of the current exhibition "Dreamful Slumbers: drawings and videos", James Fotopoulos will present his 2007 video "The Sky Song", a Western-style feature about revenge. In this work, Fotopoulos incorporates special effects, costumes, charcoal and primitive computer drawings with actors' performances. The "Sky Song" lays the foundation for further incorporation of hand drawn images in his later films. "The Sky Song, like other Fotopoulos films and videos, is something I won't soon forget. In short, it makes Inland Empire look like Apollo 13�notable largely for image-manipulated actors performing wooden script readings of a disturbed Western punctuated by psychosexual bloodlettings, primitive 3-D computer graphics of naked bodies and childlike drawings, and a series of flashed icons ranging from barnyard animals to an array of fruit. The word 'nightmare' could describe The Sky Song, but not easily: it's an indescribable experience�" � Indiewire. Bio: James Fotopoulos was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. His films and videos have been screened internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Underground Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Walker Art Center and the Andy Warhol Museum, among others. His works have also been featured in a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, 2004 Whitney Biennial, and at Museum of Modern Art (NY).His works have exhibited at: Momenta Art; Museo de Arte Contemportaneo del Zulia, Venezuela; Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA; Triskel Art Center, Cork, Ireland; Bienniale for Videoart, Mechelen, Belgium; Vertex List NYC; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) among others. He has received a Creative Capital Grant for his in-progress interdisciplinary epic on the life of Richard Nixon. He has collaborated with Raymond Pettibon, Barney Rosset, Cory Arcangel, Torsten Zenas Burns, Ben Coonley, and many others. More info www.microscopegallery.com, TEL: 347.925.1433; J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway, or L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. 2/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue IN COMPARISON See notes for Feb. 3, 7 pm. 2/6 San Francisco, CA: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 12:00am-3am, 992 Valencia Street , San Francisco, CA OTHER CINEMA KICKSTARTER! Friends! So happy to share with you the news that, with the help of a lot of you, Other Cinema has managed to reach its initial fundraising goal! Thanks to all who have contributed! But for those of you who haven't yet been able to chip in, then please note that we still have great rewards left! For example, Academy-Award nominee Sam Green is making available a very special, unprecedented set of his six DVDs for the radically discounted sum of $99! And Ben Rivers, recent recipient of Art Baselâs prestigious Baloise Prize, is offering an extraordinary artistâs proof of his photo collage entitled "Skullcap Aurora."� Greta Snider, prolific queen of DIY filmmaking, zine-publishing and 3-D story-telling, has kicked in two more of her ingenious Viewmaster discs. And Kelly Sears, on her way back to Sundance for another marvelous exhibition of her work, is affording a limited number of custom-made Brion Gysin-inspired collage-postcards. And there are even more awesome rewards on the Kickstarter site, so please go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othercinema/other-cinema-benefit to make your pledge. ------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 ------------------------- 2/7 Boston, Massachusetts: The Open Eye Cinema at SCATV http://theopeneyecinema.blogspot.com/ 7:30PM, SCATV 90 Union Square, Somerville, MA 02143 IT'S RAINING CATS & DOGS! BOSTON EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS A night of cat and/or dog- themed films and videos programmed by Boston's own Frankie Symonds. Featuring films and videos by Luther Price, Michelle Handelman, Tom Chomont, Torsten Zenas Burns, Gordon Nelson, Tara Merenda Nelson, Ian Clement, Evan Johnson, Xavier Glxss, Evan Griffin, Eric Van Der Vynckt, Kyle Caetano, Frankie Symonds, and more to come. This is the premiere screening of "The Open Eye" a new Somerville, MA film series operated by Gordon Nelson in the studios of Somerville Community Access TV. 2/7 Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:00, Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street JENNIFER REEVES'S CHRONIC + SADIE BENNING'S FLAT IS BEAUTIFUL Chronic, Jennifer Reeves, 1996, 16mm, 38 mins - Flat Is Beautiful, Sadie Benning, 1998, video, 50 mins - Loosely based on episodes from the filmmaker's own life, Jennifer Reeves's Chronic tells the story of Gretchen, a Midwestern punk teenager institutionalized for her "so-called mental illness," and her subsequent life as a young woman in New York, still enmeshed in the aftermath of her recent past. The film presents Gretchen's experiences through a stream of allusive superimpositions, snatches of dialog, songs played off crackling vinyl, and unnerving moments of re-enactment. Almost entirely optically-printed, Chronic revels in the multifarious textures of celluloid through a complex formal repertoire, linking it to depictions of subjective states in the films of Stan Brakhage (one of Chronic's great admirers), but pushing this tradition forward into the age of the medicalized psyche. - Like Chronic, Sadie Benning's Flat is Beautiful presents a lushly lo-fi coming-of-age tale, here told from the perspective of Taylor, a 12-year-old latchkey tomboy being raised by a single mom in run-down 1980s Minneapolis. Exteriors appear in grainy Super-8, while interiors are shot in fuzzy Pixelvision, and all actors wear hand-drawn masks throughout\; the effect is at once alienating and dreamlike, like memories grown uncertain over time, or the way that children move seamlessly between reality and imagination. Taylor's life, too, echoes Benning's own�"her artist father, her early stirrings of sexual identity. "You're not a boy, you're a girl, stupid." her friend taunts her over the phone. "No, I'm not," Taylor answers. "Then what are you?" - Both films are pitch-perfect studies of the particularly downbeat mood of gen-x feminism, works that found new formal languages to articulate the vicissitudes of an 80s adolescence. - Followed by a conversation with Benning and Reeves. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30. 2/7 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com Doors at 7pm, films at 8pm., Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street BALAGAN PRESENTS... WHOSE LAND? Inspired by the Occupy movement that gripped our attention this past fall and winter, Balagan presents a selection of films that deal with the American land and its proprietors. DJ Angela Sawyer of Weirdo Records opens the night at 7pm with vinyl gems from her collection! Films start at 8pm. Tickets are $10 regular / $8 student and senior. Program: Triumph of the Wild (2008, 10 mins, 35mm) by Martha Colburn / Future So Bright (2010, 23 mins, HDCam) by Matt McCormick / Kudzu Vine (2011, 20 mins, 35mm CinemaScope) by Josh Gibson / Crossings (2005, 5 mins, 16mm) by Robert Fenz (appearing in person!) / You Are on Indian Land (1969, 34 mins, 16mm) by Mort Ransen and Mike Mitchell 2/7 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 MUSIC + IMAGE Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time In the early 1980s, many artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on television�a promise that was broken by commercialism. This selection of short videos takes inspiration from the spirit of Ernie Kovacs, television impresario and music lover, as it highlights some of the era's most compelling video art accompanied by music. By turns humorous, pensive, or even abstract, the works are drawn from screenings and exhibitions at the Long Beach Museum of Art, and include artists Bob Snyder; Cynthia Maughan; Dara Birnbaum; Philip Mallory Jones; Tom DeWitt, Vibeke Sorensen and Dean Winkler; Cecelia Condit; Toni Basil and David Byrne; Max Almy; Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn; Laurie Anderson; Claus Blume; MICA-TV (Carole Ann Klonarides and Michael Owen); Zbigniew RybczyÅski; and Henry Selick. In person: Curator Nancy Buchanan Jack H. Skirball Screening Series. Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012 --------------------------- 2/8 Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY 8:00, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, FILM DEPT SCREENING Rm 1 LOST AND FOUND MassART Film Society presents, - LOST and FOUND, Two great lost and found films. - YOU ARE NOT I by Sara Driver and BORDERLINE by Kenneth Macpherson - YOU ARE NOT I, Sara Driver, 1981 16mm - A haunting adaptation of a 1948 short story by Paul Bowles about a woman who escapes from an asylum, You Are Not I played widely in the international film festival circuit in the early Eighties. Then, a leak in a New Jersey warehouse destroyed the negative, leaving director Sara Driver with only a battered, unprojectable copy. Miraculously, a print was found among the holdings of Paul Bowles in 2009, and now the film has been restored and is available once again. Undoubtedly one of the most impressive works to emerge from the post-punk downtown scene, the film was beautifully shot by Jim Jarmusch (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and features Suzanne Fletcher, Nan Goldin and Luc Sante. - You Are Not I was preserved with The Lois Bianchi Award, a grant from The Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film and Television. - BORDERLINE, Kenneth Macpherson 1930 16mm - Written and directed by Kenneth Macpherson and produced by the Pool Group in Territet, Switzerland. The silent film, with English inter-titles, is primarily noted for its handling of the contentious issue of inter-racial relationships, using avant-garde experimental film-making techniques, and is today very much part of the curriculum of the study of modern cinematography. - The film, which features Paul Robeson, Bryher and HD, was originally believed to have been lost, but was discovered, by chance, in Switzerland in 1983. An original 16mm copy of this film is now held in the Donnell Media Center, New York City Public Library. In 2006, the British Film Institute sponsored the film's restoration by The George Eastman House and eventual DVD release with a soundtrack, composed by Courtney Pine. Its premiere at the Tate Modern gallery in London attracted 2,000 people. In 2010, the film was released with a soundtrack composed by Mallory Johns, and performed by the Southern Connecticut State University Creative Music Orchestra. - http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 2/8 Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:00, Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street TRINH T. MINH-HA'S NAKED SPACES�LIVING IS ROUND Naked Spaces�Living Is Round, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 16mm, 1985, 135 mins - "Naked Spaces surveys the integration of ritual and work, the home and the world, culture and nature, in the traditional villages of six West African countries (Senegal, Mauritania, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Benin). Over the course of its two-hour-plus running time, the film effortlessly attests to the rich variety of the region's indigenous architecture. Trinh documents adobe cities and stilt-set river towns, villages nestled in the rocks and settlements splayed out across the bush, turreted straw houses and domelike huts. Each dwelling has its own blend of environmental logic and irrational splendor�simultaneously, as Trinh puts it, 'a tool, a sanctuary, and a work of art.' - Fittingly, considering her subject matter, Trinh's images are as unpretentious as home movies�exhibiting the same gorgeous overexposures, casual jump cuts, and, at times, jarring incompletion. Just as some shots refuse to take possession of their subject, Trinh's narrative declines to generalize about the Other (nor does she present her film as a unified whole). Not only is her use of sound purposefully erratic, there are times in Naked Spaces when representation decomposes into isolated details and pure sensation. More than a mosaic of impressions, however, the film is nonlinear, decentered, and deliberately unsettling. - Like Reassemblage, Naked Spaces sets out to challenge and criticize�not to mention derange�the conventions of ethnographic film." - J. Hoberman - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30. (continued in next email)
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