This week [February 2 - 10, 2013] in avant garde cinema SORRY FOLKS SENT THE 2012 LISTING BY MISTAKE! 2013 BELOW.
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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): ============================== * Hasta Nunca: An Uruguayan Odyssey With Mark Street [February 2, Brooklyn, NY] * Landscape Dissolves: Films By Paul Clipson [February 2, Los Angeles, California] * Syndromes and A Century [February 3, Boston, Massachusetts] * L.A. Filmforum Presents the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour New 16mm Films! [February 3, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Flowers of St. Francis [February 3, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: there Was A Father [February 3, New York, New York] * Bruce Conner Program 1 [February 3, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Rules of the Game [February 3, New York, New York] * Bruce Conner Program 2 [February 3, New York, New York] * Jean Rouch On the Gold Coast Jaguar (Shot 195455, Premiered 1967) Preceded By Les MaîTres Fous (The Mad Masters, 1955) [February 4, Los Angeles, California] * Dan Graham's Minor Threat + Peter Adair's Holy Ghost People [February 5, Brooklyn, NY] * In the Realm of Dreams and Fears [February 6, BRONX, NEW YORK 10451] * Project Room: Antonio vicenty [February 6, BRONX, NEW YORK 10451] * Alexander Mackendrick: A Centennial Celebration [February 6, Los Angeles, California] * Open Screen [February 7, Los Angeles, California] * My Mars Bar Movie [February 7, New York, New York] * Brazil [February 8, Boston, Massachusetts] * Zabriskie Point [February 8, Boston, Massachusetts] * Once Every Day [February 8, New York, New York] * Once Every Day [February 8, New York, New York] * The 8 Fest: A Little Festival For Small Films [February 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * The 2013 8 Fest: A Little Festival For Small Films [February 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * The 8 Fest Small-Gauge Film Festival [February 8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Far From Heaven [February 9, Boston, Massachusetts] * Swimming To Cambodia [February 9, Boston, Massachusetts] * The Bride of Frankenstein [February 9, Boston, Massachusetts] * Once Every Day [February 9, New York, New York] * Once Every Day [February 9, New York, New York] * Once Every Day [February 9, New York, New York] * Cast Shadows: An Evening of Sound/Film Performances To Benefit Ata [February 9, San Francisco, California] * Cast Shadows: An Evening of Sound/Film Performances [February 9, San Francisco] * Monty Python and the Holy Grail [February 10, Boston, Massachusetts] * L.A. Filmforum and Dirty Looks Present Yesterday Once More [February 10, Los Angeles, California] * Once Every Day [February 10, New York, New York] * Once Every Day [February 10, New York, New York] * Once Every Day [February 10, New York, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Jen Cohen + Guillermo Gal*In_dog [February 10, Oakland] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013 -------------------------- 2/2 Brooklyn, NY: Union Docs 7:30, 322 Union Avenue HASTA NUNCA: AN URUGUAYAN ODYSSEY WITH MARK STREET Filmmaker Mark Street and Producer Uzi Sabah will be in attendance for a discussion following the screening. - more info/tickets visit: www.uniondocs.org - Preceded by short film, Mirano de Lejos, Como Desde Una Colina. - Super8 B/W short film, With Enrique Guevara, Directed by Uzi Sabah FantasmaBionico, 2012 - - Hasta Nunca follows Mario Ligetti, a middle aged hipster DJ who produces an underground radio show in Montevideo, Uruguay. On his show "Secrets and Stories", he invites listeners to share their intimate thoughts with him and a live radio audience. Mario re-negotiates his public and private personas during the course of the film and enters into an extramarital affair with Julia, a divorcee searching for a new artistic spark. - In this international production (USA, Uruguay), wach call in to the show was written and performed by local actors. Topics addressed in telephone conversations" lingering affects of the military dictatorship of Uruguay, the difficulty of obtaining an illegal abortion, and varied identity issues. Ligetti's show is a modern rollicking "Miss Lonelyhearts", with its host increasingly suffocated by the persona predicaments of his listeners. - Shot in cinéma vérité style, Hasta Nunca reveals Montevideo as a strong background character in the film's visual landscape. Callers' voices on the radio provide an acoustic counterpoint for an observational investigation of this ramshackle port city which retains the architectural vestiges of its colonial past. 2/2 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset Blvd) LANDSCAPE DISSOLVES: FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON San Francisco based artist Paul Clipson's heavily in-camera edited Super 8mm films utilize multiple exposures, densely layering images into unexpected collages that to bring to light subconscious optical obsessions. For this program he will show a suite of eight short films, each with music by a different artist, as well as a live performance with music by filmmaker/sound artist John Davis. Davis's sound performance is an arrangement utilizing an eight-channel tape loop system incorporating field recordings and processed electronic music. John Davis is an Oakland-based artist and musician working primarily with moving images and sound, whose work builds on the transcendental nature of film in direct response to sound and music. Clipson works with sound artists and musicians, often collaborating on films, live performances and installations. Program: The Crystal Text (2012) with music by young Moon, Chorus (2009) with music by Gregg Kowalsky, Landscape Dissolves (2012) music by Alex Cobb, Light from the Mesa (2010) music by Barn Owl, Absteigend (2012) music by Evan Caminiti, Origin (2012) music by Che Chen, Speaking Corpse (2012) music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, live tape loop performance by John Davis. All works shown on Super 8. ------------------------ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2013 ------------------------ 2/3 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 1:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Syndromes and a Century. In this charming "memory film," Thai director Weerasethakul portrays an imagined representation of his parents' romance in two parts. The first is told from his mother's point of view several decades ago when his parents would have actually met, and the second from his father's viewpoint in a more present-day environment. The result is a stimulating look at the nature of love, how it affects others, and how it endures over time. 2/3 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 NEW 16MM FILMS! Los Angeles Filmforum brings the 16mm show of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour to Los Angeles, a great program of short films including recent experimental, narrative, documentary and animated films from across the US all in 16mm. Featuring two films from LA as well, and multiple premieres in Los Angeles! The highlights are constant. Several makers intensely deal with materials, sometimes of film, sometimes of other sources (yarn or garbage or old film clips) to find their beauty. Explorations of natural and intensely human-built spaces; abstractions; fun and games; books and classic tales; pinhole lenses and the electric currents on which our society runs all come into play. Come see what can be done in film real living celluloid today! Charlotte Pryce in person! 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/319073 or by cash or check at the door Screening: Passage Upon The Plume by Fern Silva (2011, Brooklyn, NY, 7 min., silent - L.A. premiere), Tokyo-Ebisu Tomonari Nishikawa (2010, Binghamton, NY, 5 min), Point de Gaze Jodie Mack (2012, Lebanon, NH, 5 min., silent), A Preface to Red Jonathan Schwartz (2011, Brattleboro, VT, 6 min - L.A. premiere), Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain Robert Schaller (2011, Ward, CO, 6 min., silent - L.A. premiere), Curious Light Charlotte Pryce (2011, Los Angeles, CA, 4 min., silent - L.A. premiere), The Electrical Embrace Norbert Sheih (2011, Los Angeles, CA, 2 min., silent), Craig's Cutting Room Floor Linda Scobie (2011, San Francisco, CA, 2 min., silent - L.A. premiere), Undergrowth Robert Todd (2011, Boston, MA, 12 min. - L.A. premiere), Landfill 16 Jennifer Reeves (2011, New York, NY, 9 min. - L.A. premiere) 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS by Roberto Rossellini In Italian with English subtitles, 1949, 85 min, 35mm, b&w (FRANCESCO, GIULIARE DI DIO) Francesco (St. Francis of Assisi) comes back to Santa Maria degli Angeli from Rome, journeying with his friars through the rain. When they are driven out of a hut, he begs the brothers' forgiveness for abusing their obedience. While the monks are finishing the chapel, Brother Ginepro arrives naked again and confesses that the previous night he was tempted by the Devil. Later, he cuts the foot off a pig to feed a sick brother. That evening, Francesco meets a leper and kisses him. Brother Ginepro receives Francesco's permission to preach and arrives at the camp of Nicolaio, the tyrant of Viterbo, whose cruelty he overcomes with his perfect humility. Francesco teaches Brother Leone that bearing injuries and blows is an example of perfect joy. Francesco sends his brothers out to preach far and wide. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THERE WAS A FATHER by Yasujiro Ozu In Japanese with English subtitles, 1942, 87 min, 35mm (CHICHI ARIKI) A schoolteacher wants his son to marry before entering military service. A key film in Ozu's career many critics feel it is here that his early experimental period ends and his later mature period begins. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BRUCE CONNER PROGRAM 1 Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was an artist whose astounding body of trailblazing work across numerous mediums film, drawing, sculpture, and photography to name just a few has long been celebrated in cinemas, galleries, classrooms, and museums around the world. A puckish iconoclast who adopted numerous styles and identities over the decades, Conner never worried about audience expectations or settled into one groove. He never stopped being completely unpredictable. To celebrate Anthology's recently completed restorations of five of Conner's most seminal films, we present two programs that feature brand-new and pristine prints of key works alongside lesser-screened gems. 10 SECOND FILM, REPORT, COSMIC RAY, MEA CULPA, and AMERICA IS WAITING have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program funded by The Film Foundation. CROSSROADS was restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive, and funded by the Conner Family Trust and Michael Kohn Gallery. Special thanks to Michelle Silva and The Conner Family Trust. PROGRAM 1: 10 SECOND FILM (1965, 10 sec, 16mm) COSMIC RAY (1962, 5 min, 16mm) THE WHITE ROSE (1967, 7 min, 16mm) BREAKAWAY (1966, 5 min, 16mm) PAS DE TROIS (1964/2006, 8.5 min, 16mm-to-video. Edited by Bruce Conner.) A rarely seen document photographed by Dean Stockwell of Conner shooting BREAKAWAY with Toni Basil. LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959-67, 3 min, 16mm) EASTER MORNING RAGA (1966, 10 min, 8mm) While Conner produced a digital version of this work in 2008, we will be screening an original 8mm film print. TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND (1978, 5 min, 16mm) VALSE TRISTE (1978, 5 min, 16mm) HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW (2006, 4.5 min, digital video) Total running time: ca. 60 min. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RULES OF THE GAME by Jean Renoir In French with English subtitles, 1939, 97 min, 35mm, b&w, silent (LA RÈGLE DU JEU) "Detested when it first appeared (for satirizing the French ruling class on the brink of the Second World War), almost destroyed by brutal cutting, restored in 1959 to virtually its original form, THE RULES OF THE GAME is now universally acknowledged as a masterpiece and perhaps Renoir's supreme achievement. In the four international critics' polls organized every ten years (since 1952) by SIGHT AND SOUND, only two films have been constant: one is BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, and the other is THE RULES OF THE GAME. And in the 1982 poll, THE RULES OF THE GAME had climbed to second place. Its extreme complexity (it seems, after more than 20 viewings, one of the cinema's few truly inexhaustible films) makes it peculiarly difficult to write about briefly." Robin Wood. 2/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BRUCE CONNER PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: 10 SECOND FILM (1965, 10 sec, 16mm) MEA CULPA (1981, 5 min, 16mm) MONGOLOID (1978, 3.5 min, 16mm) AMERICA IS WAITING (1981, 3.5 min, 16mm) REPORT (1963-67, 13 min, 16mm) CROSSROADS (1976, 36 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min. ------------------------ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 ------------------------ 2/4 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 JEAN ROUCH ON THE GOLD COAST JAGUAR (SHOT 195455, PREMIERED 1967) PRECEDED BY LES MAîTRES FOUS (THE MAD MASTERS, 1955) These two films compose a fascinating portrait of the dislocation created by colonialism in Africa. Once controversial, but now an anthropological classic, Les Maîtres fous (28 mins.) documents a Hauka possession ceremony, during which the participants mimic figures of the colonial power. With Jaguar (90 mins.), Rouch invented ethno-fiction, a mix of ethnology and improvised narrative. A gallant public writer, a shepherd and a fishermanportrayed respectively by non-professional actors Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia and Illo Gaoudelleave their village to try their luck on the fabled Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). In Accra Damouré becomes a "jaguar" a city slicker. As sync sound was not available then, the three buddies jovially comment on the action after the fact, observing that the Brits royally conned Africa out of its gold.| Jack H. Skirball Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] ------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013 ------------------------- 2/5 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 5:30, 155 Freeman Street DAN GRAHAM'S MINOR THREAT + PETER ADAIR'S HOLY GHOST PEOPLE Minor Threat, Dan Graham, video, 1983, 38 mins - Holy Ghost People, Peter Adair, 16mm, 1967, 53 mins - A classic of ethnographic filmmaking and direct cinema, Holy Ghost People documents the snake-handling rites and other ecstatic forms of worship practiced by a rural Pentecostal church in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. Like thousands of other "holiness churches" found in the Appalachian hills, the Scrabble Creek congregation functions without a minister, stressing instead the power of the Holy Spirit to guide each individual member. They also follow a literal interpretation of the Bible, and grant particular import to a specific passage from the Book of Mark: "These signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons\; they shall speak with new tongues\; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them\; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Their services involve acts of rejoicing through dancing, chanting, spontaneous preaching, speaking in tongues andif any are called by the Spirit to do soingesting Strychnine and handling poisonous copperheads and rattlesnakes. - While the Scrabble Creek church may appear to be a 20th-century holdover of old, weird America, director Peter Adair (who would go on to make the landmark gay lib documentary Word Is Out ten years later) never condescends to his subjects, portraying them instead as everyday people who discuss their faith with a casual forthrightness. Indeed, the congregation's activities could be seen as a small-town equivalent to the happenings and be-ins occurring elsewhere in the 1960s, and the droning sonic rhythms of the churchrecorded, in part, by Steve Reichprove as potent as any contemporaneous experiments in psychedelia. - Holy Ghost People is paired with another document of ecstatic experience, Dan Graham's Minor Threat. Shot during the development of Rock My Religion, Minor Threat serves as a B-side to Graham's seminal video essay on the spiritual roots of American popular music. The tape consists of seemingly raw concert footage of the eponymous band at CBGB, altered mainly by the inclusion of a brief audio interview with frontman Ian MacKaye. Unlike Rock My Religion, Minor Threat is less an analysis than a witnessing. Graham depicts the event as a tumult of male bodies leaping onto the stage and obscuring the band, erasing any distinctions between performers and audience in a continuous paroxsym of guitar-driven rhapsody. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 --------------------------- 2/6 BRONX, NEW YORK 10451: LONGWOOD ART GALLERY BCA http://www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp 5PM - 9PM, 450 GRAND CONCOURSE (149 Street) IN THE REALM OF DREAMS AND FEARS This group exhibition is organized by artist and guest curator Antonio Vicenty, inspired by his interest in horror/fantasy films. It presents recent phantasmagorical works in drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and video by visiting artists from Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Participating artists include Pierre Ayotte, Patricia Ayres, Michael Paul Britto, Fernando Carpaneda, Kari Christensen, Shawn Conn, Steve Durham, Elisabeth Faraone, Julio Garay, Alba García, Mike Hrubovcak, Jayson Keeling, Steve Lewis, Claire Martial, Ivan Monforte, Owen Mulligan, Lucrecia Novoa, Peter Pier, Matt Pinyan, Radical Sem Dó, Johnny Ramos, Vertebrae33, and John Zhao. This exhibition marks Vicenty's first time in a curatorial role. Screening Horror and Fantasy film installation from many filmmakers and artists. 2/6 BRONX, NEW YORK 10451: LONGWOOD ART GALLERY BCA http://www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp 5PM - 9PM, 450 GRAND CONCOURSE (149 Street) PROJECT ROOM: ANTONIO VICENTY Project Room: February 6-May 1, 2013 Curated by Longwood Arts Project, this exhibition is Vicenty's first solo exhibition of his recent experimental film and photography. Inspired by his early childhood in Puerto Rico where he visited funeral homes and walked cemeteries with his family to bury their loved ones, he uses the props, images, visual effects and photography from his infatuation with horror films resulting in experimental photography and films that are eerie, mysterious and scary, with elements of horror, fantasy, everyday fears and the inevitable fact of death through artificial, surreal and dreamlike means. Screening 5 short films in the big screen. 2/6 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION The esteemed director of Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and The Ladykillers (1955), Alexander Mackendrick (19121993) was a pivotal figure in the history of CalArts, and his work and writings remain a major influence on contemporary narrative directors and screenwriters. For this celebration of the artist's multifaceted contributions, Paul Cronin (editor of Mackendrick's seminal book On Film-Making) is joined by two CalArts alums, director James Mangold and author and filmmaker F.X. Feeney. Together they honor the man who, as Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts and throughout his more than 30 years of teaching, shaped an institution and inspired generations of filmmakers. This lively discussion reveals Mackendrick through personal reminiscences, film clips and critical observations on his work as a filmmaker, teacher and theorist. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] -------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013 -------------------------- 2/7 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, standard 8mm, 16mm. 2/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MY MARS BAR MOVIE by Jonas Mekas 2011, 87 min, video Share + Film Notes ENCORE SCREENINGS! Premiered here at Anthology last spring, MY MARS BAR MOVIE, Jonas Mekas's ode to the now-vanished but never-forgotten local dive bar, is back for two encore screenings! Our neighbor ever since we moved to the Second Avenue Courthouse building in 1988, the Mars Bar represented an undiluted blast of the old East Village, keeping alive the punk sensibility and anarchic attitude that are increasingly becoming things of the past in this part of the city. Though its site has been occupied by yet another glass condo building, the Mars Bar nevertheless lives on through Mekas's lens! "For some twenty years, Mars Bar, at the corner of First Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, has been my bar. That's where we went for beer and tequila whenever we had to take a break from our work at Anthology Film Archives, and it was also a bar where most of those who came to see movies at Anthology ended up after the shows. We always had a great time at Mars Bar. It was always open, there was always the jukebox, and very often there was no electricity, and it was old and messy and it didn't want to be any other way it was the last escape place left in downtown New York. So this is my love letter to it, to my Mars Bar. Mars Bar as I knew it." J.M. ------------------------ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013 ------------------------ 2/8 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street BRAZIL ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Brazil. In this visually riveting, mentally stimulating dystopian masterpiece, bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) finds himself tangled in a complex web of deceit in which a series of terrorist bombings are falsely blamed on an innocent citizen rather than the actual terrorist (played by the brilliant Robert De Niro). In this futuristic, totalitarian society, Sam quickly goes from being a loyal citizen of his country to being deemed an enemy of the state. Channeling influences like George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut, famed director Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) creates a frightening vision of a world gone wrong in an eerily realistic fashion that has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1980s. 2/8 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 9:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street ZABRISKIE POINT ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Zabriskie Point. Following one of the student protests during the 1960s, a young man steals an airplane and flies off into the desert. Unexpectedly, he meets a fellow traveler on the journey and ends up falling in love with her. In this idyllic tale of self-discovery, growing pains and young love, Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni makes his only American film, providing a unique outsider's perspective on the turbulent 1960s and the generation wanting to form its own sort of utopia. 2/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY by Richard Foreman 2012, 66 min, digital video Share + Film Notes U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! FOREMAN IN PERSON OPENING NIGHT! Theater director Richard Foreman is an avant-garde legend whose exceptional stage productions, videos, and writings have had a profound influence on arts culture in New York City and around the world since the late 1960s. ONCE EVERY DAY, his first feature film in 35 years, is a bold and utterly mesmerizing work that pushes his entirely unique theatrical vision into unexplored digital territories. Highly visual, complexly edited, and without a conventional narrative 'story', ONCE EVERY DAY nevertheless circles a secret theme as it zeros in on a group of 25 people acting out a series of semi-ritualistic behavior patterns. But their eccentric impulses are aborted in unpredictable ways with each new attempt at action or development. As the film cuts between colored tableaus, bleached-out action sequences, expressionistic black-and-white confrontations, and slow immersion in pure light, we repeatedly hear the voices of the invisible director (Foreman) and his technicians, whispering off-camera instructions and comments to the characters who are of course 'actors' as well as disturbed and inhibited human beings. The implicit question of the film becomes: could this be life itself visibly re-making itself as art? The film was shot in Buffalo, NY as a series of non-connected scenes with multiple performers over only 6 days, with 1 camera controlled by Foreman and 3 or 4 others free to film whatever was transpiring in each room where filming took place. Foreman, who edited the film for well over a year, calls the final result "a time-mosaic of 're-formatted consciousness'". As in much of his theater, the film continuously shifts back and forth between evoking (and echoing) a very particular 'art-making' process, while sliding again and again into ecstasy and radical, free-floating anxiety. A major step away from his nearly annual stage productions at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, ONCE EVERY DAY embraces the total possibilities of cinema to continually subvert expectations and tap into liminal states of consciousness. "No one is better than Mr. Foreman at creating the sense of a confounding universe out of joint and on a slick road to nowhere." Ben Brantley, NEW YORK TIMES 2/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The 8 Fest 7: 00 PM, 651 Dufferin St. THE 8 FEST: A LITTLE FESTIVAL FOR SMALL FILMS The 8 fest 2013 - 6th ANNUAL FESTIVAL SAVE THE DATES - Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10 Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin St. "a little festival for small films" The 8 fest returns to Toronto for its sixth year for three nights of screenings and also live performances. This year will find the festival at a new venue: Workman Arts (651 Dufferin St., just north of Dundas). The 8 fest is North America's only festival devoted to all forms of small-gauge film, including Super 8, 8mm, 9.5 and loops, shown in their original formats. The 8 fest showcases the 70+ history of small gauge film - from contemporary artists' work in the form, to its wider cultural use in home movies, instructional loops and beyond. This year's edition of the 8 fest consists of seven programmes, one regular 8mm workshop, and one artist's talk. The programmes include: Zinger Vol. 4: More Tales from The Funnel films by Paul McGowan, Michaeline Fontana, Laurie Humphries, Annette Mangaard, Blaine Spiegel + Art Reinstein, and Adam Swica  curated by Milada Kovacova Bageroooooo, six! Part One films, loops, and film performances by Zoe Heyn-Jones, Graham Hollings, Pablo Marin, Brett Bell, Elie Vadakan, Baba Hillman, Stephen Broomer, Evanna Chan, Paul Clipson, John Creson & Adam Rosen, Penelope Uribe Abee, Dagie Brundert, Sebastian de Trolio, Clint Enns, Naren Wilks, and Jamie Ross Salome: a feature film by Teo Hernandez  curated by Scott Miler Berry Where The Sidewalk Ends, Montreal Showcase Begins! films and loops by Nancy Baric and Nicolas Renaud, Alexandra Grimanis and Steven Woloshen, Alexandre Larose, Anne-Michèle Fortin, Kara Blake, Stéphane Calce, Suzie Synnott, Karl Lemieux, Malena Szlam, Daïchi Saïto, André Habib, Karina Mariano BANG IT OUT!  Impulse, Warhol + Ross McLaren: films by john Porter, g.b. Jones, Louise Noguchi, Wrik Mead, Nadia Sistonen, Ross McLaren, Ross McLaren produced by Eldon Garnet c urated by Milada Kovacova The Design of Everyday life: Fashions, Interiors, and Household Objects in the 20th Century: A presentation by Home Movie History Project Bageroooooo, six! Part Two films and film performances by Sharlene Bamboat, Tara Nelson, Madi Piller, Nicholas Kovats, Leslie Supnet, John Rodgers, Ilse Kramer . Stephanie Gray, Naren Wilks, Pablo Valencia, David Frankovich, Aaron Zeghers, Kristen Mommertz , Francesco Gagliardi & Clint Enns, Robert Todd, E. Hearte, and Gordon Nelson. A preview compilation of 2013 8 Fest films will be available upon request. The full programme for the 2013 8 fest can be viewed as of January 15th at the8fest.com. The 6th edition of the 8 fest takes place from Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10, 2013. Our venue is the Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin St. (just north of Dundas, east side). Tickets: $5 per event/ $25 festival passes For more info: [email protected] www.the8fest.com The 8 fest is made possible through the generous support of: The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council as well as our sponsors and community partners: Art Gallery of York University, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Niagara Custom Lab, FADO Performance Art Centre, Home Movie History Project, The Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Trinity Square Video ### For more information including interview opportunities, press stills, and promotional DVD compilations of festival selections: Media contact Andrew James Paterson at 416-703-2236, [email protected], www.the8fest.com. A full schedule will be available on our website after Jan.15,2013. 2/8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The 8 Fest http://the8fest.com 7:00 PM, 651 Dufferin St. THE 2013 8 FEST: A LITTLE FESTIVAL FOR SMALL FILMS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 8 fest 2013 - 6th ANNUAL FESTIVAL SAVE THE DATES - Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10 Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin St. "a little festival for small films" The 8 fest returns to Toronto for its sixth year for three nights of screenings and live performances. This year will find the festival at a new venue: Workman Arts Theatre (651 Dufferin St., just north of Dundas). The 8 fest is North America's longest running festival devoted to all forms of small-gauge film, including Super 8, 8mm, 9.5 and loops, shown in their original formats. The 8 fest showcases the 70+ history of small gauge film - from contemporary artists' work in the form, to its wider cultural use in home movies, instructional loops and beyond. This year's edition of the 8 fest consists of seven programmes, one regular 8mm workshop, and one artist's talk. The programmes include: SALOME - a feature Super 8 tour de force by Mexican artist Teo Hernandez, adapted from Oscar Wilde's notorious play. (a co-presentation with Pleasure Dome) WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, MONTREAL SHOWCASE BEGINS! - a survey of 21st century Super 8 activity in Montreal curated by Claudie Levesque (in attendance). Artists include Kara Blake, Alexandre Larose, Alexandra Grimanis & Steven Woloshen, among many others (sponsored by The Images Festival) HOME MOVIE HISTORY PROJECT: The Design of Everyday Life: Fashions, interiors and household objects in the 20th century- a presentation by HomeMovie History Project. These screenings are remarkable for their mixed audiences - youth looking at what preceded their lives and times and citizens of many ages sharing memories. Zinger Vol. 4: More Tales from The Funnel - further exploration of the histories and mysteries of Toronto's legendary underground Funnel Experimental Film Theatre. Including historical works by Annette Mangaard, Laurie Humphries, Blaine Speigel, Paul McGowan, and others. Bang It Out: Impulse, Warhol + Ross McLaren - a spotlight on the seminal work of New York-based filmmaker and mentor Ross McLaren and also those who entered his orbit. McLaren will be presenting an artist's talk while in attendance. Bagerooo, six! (Part 1) and Bagerooo, six! (Part 2) - our surveys of recent and commissioned small-gauge works from artists across Canada, across the United States as well as the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Germany. The 2013 8 fest will also host a regular 8mm workshop with filmmaker John Kneller at Workman Arts Theatre on Saturday afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00 PM. It will be limited to a maximum of ten participants. Registration fee is $25 and includes all materials. Email [email protected] to register. A preview compilation of 2013 8 Fest films is available upon request. The full programme for the 2013 8 fest can be viewed as of January 15th at the8fest.com. he 6th edition of the 8 fest takes place from Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10, 2013. Our venue is the Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin St. (just north of Dundas, east side). Tickets: $5 per event/ $25 festival passes For more info: [email protected] www.the8fest.com The 8 fest is made possible through the generous support of: The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council as well as our sponsors and community partners: Art Gallery of York University, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Niagara Custom Lab, FADO Performance Art Centre, Home Movie History Project, The Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Trinity Square Video ### For more information including interview opportunities, press stills, and promotional DVD compilations of festival selections: Media contact Andrew James Paterson at 416-703-2236, [email protected], www.the8fest.com. A full schedule will be available on our website after Jan.15, 2013. 2/8 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: The 8 Fest http://www.the8fest.com 7:00 PM, 651 Dufferin St., THE 8 FEST SMALL-GAUGE FILM FESTIVAL The 8 fest 2013 6th ANNUAL FESTIVAL! Friday, February 8 through Sunday, February 10 Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin Street, Toronto "a little festival for small films" FULL PROGRAMME DETAILS NOW ONLINE www.the8fest.com The 8 fest returns to Toronto for its sixth year for three nights of screenings and live performances. This year will find the festival at a new venue: Workman Arts Theatre (651 Dufferin Street, just north of Dundas). The 8 fest is one of the only festivals in the world devoted to all forms of small-gauge film, including Super 8, 8mm, 9.5 and loops, shown in their original formats. The 8 fest showcases the 70+ history of small gauge film - from contemporary artists' work in the form, to its wider cultural use in home movies, instructional loops and beyond. This year's edition of the 8 fest consists of seven programmes, one regular 8mm workshop, and one artist's talk. The programmes include: Zinger! Volume IV: More Tales from The Funnel Films by Paul McGowan, Michaeline Fontana, Laurie Humphries, Annette Mangaard, Blaine Spiegel + Art Reinstein and Adam Swica. Curated by Milada Kovacova Co-presented with Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) Bageroooooo, six! Part One (recent new works from near and far!) Films, loops, and film performances by Zoe Heyn-Jones, Graham Hollings, Pablo Marin, Brett Bell, Elie Vadakan, Baba Hillman, Stephen Broomer, Evanna Chan, Paul Clipson, John Creson + Adam Rosen, Penelope Uribe Abee, Dagie Brundert, Sebastian de Trolio, Clint Enns, Naren Wilks, and Jamie Ross Co-presented with Trinity Square Video Salomé by Téo Hernandez. A tour de force Super 8 feature film by Mexican artist Hernandez adapted from Oscar Wilde's notorious play. Co-presented with Pleasure Dome Where The Sidewalk Ends, Montreal Showcase Begins! Films and loops by Nancy Baric + Nicolas Renaud, Alexandra Grimanis + Steven Woloshen, Alexandre Larose, Anne-Michèle Fortin, Kara Blake, Stéphane Calce, Suzie Synnott, Karl Lemieux, Malena Szlam, Daïchi Saïto, André Habib, Karina Mariano. Curated by Claudie Lévesque (IN PERSON!) Co-presented with the Images Festival BANG IT OUT! - Impulse, Warhol + Ross McLaren: Films by John Porter, GB Jones, Louise Noguchi, Wrik Mead, Nadia Sistonen, Ross McLaren, and Eldon Garnet. Curated by Milada Kovacova The Design of Everyday life: Fashions, Interiors, and Household Objects in the 20th Century: A presentation by Home Movie History Project. Bageroooooo, six! Part Two (new works from near and far!) Films and film performances by Sharlene Bamboat, Tara Nelson, Madi Piller, Nicholas Kovats, Leslie Supnet, John Rodgers, Ilse Kramer . Stephanie Gray, Naren Wilks, Pablo Valencia, David Frankovich, Aaron Zeghers, Kristen Mommertz, Francesco Gagliardi + Clint Enns, Robert Todd, E. Hearte, and Gordon Nelson. The full programme for the 2013 8 fest can be viewed as of January 15th at the8fest.com. The 6th edition of the 8 fest takes place from Friday, February 8 to Sunday, February 10, 2013. Our new venue is the Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin St. (just north of Dundas, east side). LICENSED VENUE! Tickets: $5 per event/ $25 festival passes (cash only!) For more info: [email protected] www.the8fest.com A preview compilation of 2013 8 Fest films is available upon request. MEDIA CONTACT Andrew Paterson [email protected] 416.703.2236 The 8 fest is made possible through the generous support of: The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council as well as our sponsors and community partners: Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Niagara Custom Lab, FADO Performance Art Centre, Home Movie History Project, The Images Festival, Pleasure Dome and Trinity Square Video ### -------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2013 -------------------------- 2/9 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 1:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street FAR FROM HEAVEN ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Far From Heaven. In a tribute to the "women's films" of the 1950s, writer/director Todd Haynes produces a visually tantalizing and emotionally involved look at the life of one '50s housewife in abnormal circumstances. When she finds out her husband (Dennis Quaid) is having a homosexual affair, Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) realizes that, although she has the perfect veneer of a happy life, she wants more. She seeks solace in the company of a black gardener (Dennis Haysburt), and soon rumors about the two of them begin spreading like wildfire. Providing a personal look at the racial and sexual prejudices of the era, this modern reinterpretation of Douglas Sirk's classic film All That Heaven Allows stands out with tight writing and manicured visuals. Add in the acting talents of Viola Davis and Patricia Clarkson, and Far From Heaven becomes an irresistible, tenderly wrought tale of suppressed love and desire. 2/9 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Swimming to Cambodia. Actor and raconteur Spalding Gray delivers his acclaimed monologue Swimming to Cambodia for the camera. Slipping in history and socio-political context of the political turmoil Cambodia was experiencing at the time, Gray recounts his experience as an extra on the Sam Waterston film The Killing Fields filmed on location. A modern master of language and story, Gray's riveting tale speaks to the power of storytelling and importance of using the artstheatre in particularto bring about social awareness. 2/9 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 9:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents The Bride of Frankenstein. This classic horror film directed James Whale returns to the Frankenstein story with cast members from the original movie, including the legendary actor Boris Karloff. Dr. Frankenstein and his monster are not, in fact, dead as was implied by the end of the first film. They're back, and this time the monster wants a companion. With the persuasion of Dr. Pretorius, Frankenstein is convinced to create a bride for his monster. The results are, of course, nearly disastrous. Featuring a haunting score and cutting edge technology for the time, The Bride of Frankenstein serves as a prime example of the classic horror film from eras passed. 2/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/9 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8 pm, ATA, 992 Valencia Street CAST SHADOWS: AN EVENING OF SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCES TO BENEFIT ATA Support ATA at this special benefit show featuring a roster of evocative inter-media artists working in sound/film performance. All proceeds from the show support Artists' Television Access, the San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. Featuring three film-music ensembles: Barn Owl and Paul Clipson Marielle Jakobsons and John Davis John Davis, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson BARN OWL San Francisco-based drone duo Barn Owl (guitarists Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti) follow in the footsteps of provocative avant-gardists Alice Coltrane and Keiji Haino, while building on the doom metal foundation planted by Black Sabbath. JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist (Tarentel, the Alps) and founder of Root Strata label, Jefre's guitar beams directly down from Souvlaki Space Station and arrives gorgeously mangled via modular synthesizer. Romantically haloed chorus guitar floats widescreen across relentless static drum machines until the sky splits open in the final movement, spilling burning guitar fragments over everything. PAUL CLIPSON Paul Clipson works primarily in film, video and on paper, often collaborating on films, live performances and installations with sound artists and musicians, projecting largely improvised in-camera edited experimental films employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro imagery that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. JOHN DAVIS John Davis is an Oakland-based artist working 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. MARIELLE JAKOBSONS The work of Oakland-based sound artist and violinist Marielle Jakobsons focuses on experiences which are at once "natural" and technologically-altered. She performs regularly across the country in various musical acts: her solo project darwinsbitch, and in her bands myrmyr and TrioMetrik, as well as many side projects and ad hoc ensembles with friends and collaborators. Artists' Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that since 1984 cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. ATA provides an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. ATA believes in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas. ATA is located at 992 Valencia St., near 21st Street. Screening starts at 8:00. Tickets are $15 Gen | $25 Supporter | $50 Sponsor. 2/9 San Francisco: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia Street CAST SHADOWS: AN EVENING OF SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCES Support ATA at this special benefit show featuring a roster of evocative intermedia artists working in sound/film performance. All proceeds from the show support Artists' Television Access, the San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. Featuring three film-music ensembles: Barn Owl and Paul Clipson (Super 8mm) Marielle Jakobsons and John Davis (Super 8 & 16mm) John Davis, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson (Super 8mm) ------------------------- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2013 ------------------------- 2/10 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 1:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Monty Python gang returns with a vengeance in their second full-length (and arguably most beloved) feature film. King Arthur, king of the Britons, assembles a motley crew of knights for his roundtable and together they set off in search of the mythical Holy Grail. Together, this horseless band of brave (and not-so-brave) knights wander the English countryside, assured of their abilities to find the goblet from which Christ drankif that is the Holy Grail, at all. In this quintessential mash-up of comedy, farce and history lesson, Monty Python is at their most memorable, creating a classic that will last even longer than the journey for the Grail itself. 2/10 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 AND DIRTY LOOKS PRESENT YESTERDAY ONCE MORE Filmmakers Zackary Drucker, Mariah Garnett and Chris E. Vargas in person! Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to team with Dirty Looks NYC to present Yesterday Once More, a program of queer moving image portraits from the last two years. Documenting four figures who helped to shape and define a public image of queer life (Peter Berlin, Joe Brainard, Liberace and Flawless Sabrina), each filmmaker in Yesterday Once More approaches their subject with the weight of their historical distance and a panache for contemporary performativity. 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/319818 or by cash or check at the door. Program: I Remember: A film about Joe Brainard (Matt Wolf, 2012, video, 23 min), At Least You Know You Exist (Zackary Drucker, 2011, 16mm on DV, 15 min), Encounters I May or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin (Mariah Garnett, 2012, 16mm, 15 min), Liberaceón (Chris E. Vargas, 2011, video, 16 min) 2/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ONCE EVERY DAY See notes for Feb. 8, 7:15 pm. 2/10 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8:00pm, 511 48th St. (@ Telegraph Ave) SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS JEN COHEN + GUILLERMO GAL*IN_DOG [inter] MEDIA Divinations is a new work created by video/performance artist Jen Cohen and composer/sound artist guillermo gal*in_dog. Using hacked electronic toys to create sounds and live video processing of random objects, Jen Cohen and guillermo gal*in_dog will merge an unrepeatable mélange of discreet moments in a unique and carefully randomized jam session. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Jen Cohen's practice as a video artist seeks to facilitate new ways in which digital technology can contribute to our ontological experience. She is investigating this possibility by creating video and sound works that are both performative and sculptural. http://www.jencohenstudio.com guillermo gal*indog's (aka Guillermo Galindo) artistic work spans a wide spectrum of expression from symphonic composition to the domains of musical and visual computer interaction, electro-acoustic music, opera, film music, instrument building, three dimensional installation, live performance and sound design. http://www.galindog.com 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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