Part 2 of 2: This week [February 16 - 24, 2013] in avant garde cinema --------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2013 ---------------------------
2/23 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 6:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street THE SHIPMENT ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents The Shipment. Playwright and director Young Jean Lee and a talented cast of five African-American performers create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about race and culture. One of the leading and most provocative voices in American contemporary theatre, Lee pushes herself to new artistic heights as she confronts her fear about creating an ethnic identity play through the lens of a "black identity politics show." 2/23 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 9:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street EL PASADO ES UN ANIMAL GROTESCO ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents El Pasado Es Un Animal Grotesco. It's 1999 in Buenos Aires. Mario, Laura, Pablo and Vicky are in their mid-20s and ready for careers, love and adulthood. Over the next decade, Argentina's economy will collapse and their lives will take a series of unexpected turns. In this fast-paced, multilayered "mega fiction," director Mariano Pensotti (one of the most noted experimental directors throughout the world) deftly unfolds the lives of these four characters. El pasado es un animal grotesco (The Past is a Grotesque Animal) is a funny and moving portrait that takes place atop a slowly spinning turntable stage; a reminder of time's ceaseless march. Guided by a narrative voice-over, we are granted access to a string of defining moments in the touching and tumultuous lives of the group. Moments that illustrate how quickly and easily real life can transform into fiction and back again. 2/23 Dayton, Ohio: The University of Dayton www.udayton.edu/arts 1 PM-4 PM, ArtStreet Studio B on Kefauver Avenue JUD YALKUT: "SEMINAL FILMS" AND "MUSIC AND MEDIA" WITH SYMPOSIUM. A program of films by Jud Yalkut at 1 pm from 1966-1972 includes "Turn Turn Turn" (1966), several film collaborations with Nam June Paik (1967-1972) including "Videotape Study No. 3," "Beatles Electroniques," "Electronic Moon No. 2," and "Electronic Yoga," "China Cat Sunflower" (1972) with the Grateful Dead, and "Planes" a film for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, newly restored through an American Film Preservation Foundation" grant in their "Avant Garde Masters" program. 2 pm: A film panel with professors from the University of Dayton, choreographer Rodney Veal, and Associate Professor Benjamin Britton of the University of Cincinnati. 3 pm: A screening of "Music and Media" films by Jud Yalkut celebrating jazz artists who were also visual artists, including the late Warren James of Yellow Springs, Ohio in "Noh Age Video" (2000), and "Portrait of Pee Wee" with legendary jazz clarinetist Pee Wee Russell (1998). 2/23 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St NEW WORKS SALON $5 / Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or recently completed works. Bay Area based artist Valerie Soe presents her experimental documentary The Chinese Gardens, which looks at the lost Chinese community in Port Townsend, WA, examining racism against the Chinese in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s, from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 through various lynchings, beatings, and murders, drawing connections between past and present race relations in the U.S. Brigid McCaffrey will show her work Innisfree, in which a geologist traces a range of formations with the Mojave Desert, considering a full retreat into remoteness and the company of the rocks. Also, Chloe Reyes will show a new 8mm film. 2/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TRIUMPH OF THE WILL by Leni Riefenstahl 1934-35, 106 min, 35mm, b&w (TRIUMPH DES WILLENS) "The official Nazi record of the 1934 Nuremberg Party rally, commissioned by Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, [it] is one of the most controversial contributions to film history because of its subject matter her insistence that the film is solely a work of art and not propaganda; and the presentation of the subject matter the manipulation of reality in this 'documentary' record. The contributions to the art of film this work has to offer are closely tied to the controversies. [It] is a masterpiece of style and editing, which in turn are the very techniques used to manipulate reality and create emotionally effective propaganda." Marie Saeli 2/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SANRIZUKA by Shinsuke Ogawa 1973, 146 min, 16mm, b&w This screening is part of: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN (SANRIZUKA: HETA BURAKU) Over the span of ten years and seven films, beginning in 1968, Ogawa Productions documented and participated in the revolt against the building of Narita airport. Ogawa and his team lived communally with the farmers and student activists in Sanrizuka village, which was to be destroyed and replaced by runways. A redefinition of the limits of involvement in documentary filmmaking, SANRIZUKA: HETA VILLAGE provides rare insight into grassroots activism and captures the pressures experienced by the workers' and the patience required for their revolt. 2/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE WHITE HARE OF INABABA by Yoshihiro Kato 1970, 120 min, 16mm-to-video This screening is part of: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN (INABA NO SHIROUSAGI) Zero Jigen, the most notoriously outrageous performance art group in Japan, described themselves as having 'raped the city' with their naked rituals enacted on the streets across Japan. Shot by Masanori Oe, a member of the Newsreel collective in New York, the film documents the group's happenings, which raged against the commodification of art represented by the Osaka Expo in 1970, and which they attacked in their activities for the 'Joint Struggle Faction of Crashing Expo '70'. 2/23 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St AFRO-FUTURISM: SUN RA + SODA_JERKS ASTRO BLACK + We celebrate Black History Month with a focus on African-American musical contributions, notably those associated with Afro-Futurism. The West Coast premiere of Soda_Jerk's complete Astro Black suite is a half-hr. collage-narrative of wildly juxtaposed scenes, from vaudeville through electronica to UFOs. PLUS Cauleen Smith's masterful choreography of a Chicago marching band's public performance of a Sun Ra composition. ALSO: three rare Sun Ra segments expressing his way-out sci-fi cosmology, righteous clips of Muhammad Ali and a 10-year-old Michael Jackson, and an irresistibly funky chunk from that classic 16mm time-capsule Black Music in AmericaBillie Holiday, Count Basie, Nina Simone, B.B. King, et. al. ------------------------- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2013 ------------------------- 2/24 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 7:30pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road AVANT EROTICA: LOVE MEDITATIONS Our 2013 Avant Erotica show is subtitled "Love Meditations;" it is less about the graphic depiction of the coital act, and instead delves deeper into personal soliloquies of desire, physical plasticity and emotional isolation. Headlining the program is a newly-restored version of Carolee Schneemann's legendary sexual incantation "Fuses," the self-shot erotic classic featuring herself and her partner as imagined through eyes of her cat. The program also includes works both historical and contemporary by Gheith Al-Amine, Stan Brakhage, Taka Iimura, Tom Chomont, WE WHO R WE (Ted Hearne and Philip White), and Chick Strand. Sexual Meditation: #1 Motel, Stan Brakhage, 7 min /silent / 16mm / 1970 Part of the Sexual Meditation series, this film is a rhythmic and abstract exploration of light, hand-painted Ai (Love), Taka Iimura, 10 min / sound by Yoko Ono / 16mm / 1962. 10minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " (T.I.) Once Upon a Sidewalk, Gheith Al-Amine, 20 mins / sound / digital video / 2009 / Beirut, Lebanon. This video explores the representation of women as objects of desire and questions the medium of video itself by repeatedly manipulating its parameters. Fever Dream, Chick Strand, 7min / sound / 16mm / 1979. A wet hot dream about sensuality. Hi Is My Name, R WE WHO R WE, 3 mins /sound / video / 2013. A testosterone-laden screed of aggravated vocals, manic tonalities and frantic eyeballing. Oblivion, Tom Chomont, 4 mins / silent / 16mm / 1969. "Successfully blends elements from both the poetic and diary modes. In the process Tom Chomont has created one of the few truly erotic works in cinema." -- J. J. Murphy. Fuses (newly restored version, with added footage), Carolee Schneemann, 30 min / silent / 16mm / 1967. New restoration of the original 16mm collaged print - May 2007. "... devastatingly erotic, transcending the surfaces of sex to communicate its true spirit, its meaning as an activity for herself and, quite accurately, women in general." -- B. Ruby Rich 2/24 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 1:00 PM, Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street PASSING STRANGE ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage presents Passing Strange.Already a hit Broadway show, Passing Strange tells the story of a young black man who decides to leave behind his religious, middle-class upbringing in 1970s Los Angeles and head to Europe to find something "real." In racy Amsterdam and militarized Berlin, he encounters some misadventures with sex, drugs, art and politics, causing him to realize how much he left behind at his home. Famed director Spike Lee brings his signature touch to this contemporary musical, filming the event with multi-camera coverage and providing a unique glimpse to the backstage process of the actors in the show. This electric collaboration between theatre and film artists is not to be missed. 2/24 Cambridge, UK: Frame 3pm, Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge FRAME 2 LOOKING, CARING Frame an informal series of artist and independent film events curated by Becca Voelcker Two afternoons of film screenings, talks and discussions. Keynes Hall, King's College, University of Cambridge, CB2 1ST Events are free and there is no need to book. Event 2 3-4/4.30pm Sunday 24th February Looking, Caring speakers JENNY CHAMARETTE, Queen Mary, University of London. GARETH EVANS, Whitechapel Gallery, London. films Block (Emily Richardson) 2005 12 min We Saw (Peter Todd) 2009 4 min Aerial (Margaret Tait) 1974 4 min Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel) 2008 extracts George (Luke Fowler) 2008 4 min 2/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MY MARS BAR MOVIE by Jonas Mekas 2011, 87 min, video 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. 2/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PORTRAIT OF MR. O Donald Richie SACRIFICE / GISEI (1959, 10 min, 8mm-to-video, b&w) & Chiaki Nagano THE PORTRAIT OF MR. O / O-SHI NO SHŌZŌ 1969, 59 min, 16mm, b&w Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) was considered the pinnacle of postwar avant-garde arts and continues to thrill the world of modern dance today. Richie's SACRIFICE is the first filmed document of their activities and a rare insight into the movement's formative period, while THE PORTRAIT OF MR. O is the first in a series of collaborations between Chiaki Nagano and butoh's co-founder Kazuo Ohno, whose elegant gestures grace the screen. 2/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MICHIO OKABE PROGRAM GENESIS THEORY / TENCHI SŌZŌSETSU 1967, 20 min, 16mm, b&w CAMP / KYANPU 1970, 30 min, 16mm BOY-TASTE / SHŌNEN SHIKŌ 1973, 12 min, 16mm Seen as one of the leading lights of the angura (underground) and psychedelic arts that proliferated in the late 1960s, Michio Okabe's films find their uniqueness in straddling documented performance and the act of filmmaking as performance. The winner of a prize at the first experimental film festival in Japan at the Sogetsu Art Center, Okabe's queer sensibilities, bare-body rituals, and usurpation of pop songs are reminiscent of Kenneth Anger's work. Total running time: ca. 65 min. 2/24 New York, New York: Lynne Sachs - Your Day is My Night 2:00PM, MoMA 11 West 53rd Street YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT PREMIERE AT MOMA'S DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT World Premiere of "Your Day is My Night" as part of MoMA's Documentary Fortnight series. Sunday February 24th - 2:00pm & Monday February 25th - 8:00pm Director Lynne Sachs, co-producer Sean Hanley, and members of the cast will be in appearance at both screenings for a Q&A. Immigrant residents of a "shift-bed" apartment in the heart of New York City's Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafés, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative hybrid documentary addresses issues of privacy, intimacy, and urban life. In Mandarin, English & Spanish; English subtitles. 64 min. Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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