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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: ===================== INSTA (Knoxville; Deadline: March 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1549.ann Accolade Competition (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1550.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 30 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1551.ann INSTA: International Show/Tell Annual Media Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: March 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1552.ann Con i minuti contati - International Short Film Festival (Montefalco, Umbria, Italy; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1553.ann 25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1554.ann Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1555.ann Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2013 Call for Entries (UK; Deadline: May 03, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1556.ann VIDEOHOLICA 2013 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1557.ann Mumbai Women's International Film Festival (Mumbai,India; Deadline: April 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1558.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 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 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 ArtUP! | Exhibition PARABOLE (Bulgaria; Deadline: March 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1537.ann Termite TV (Baltimore, MD USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1540.ann Termite TV (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1542.ann Holland Animation Film Festival (Utrecht, the Netherlands; Deadline: March 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1543.ann The White House Studio Project (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: March 25, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1548.ann INSTA (Knoxville; Deadline: March 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1549.ann Accolade Competition (San Diego, CA, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1550.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 30 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: March 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1551.ann INSTA: International Show/Tell Annual Media Festival (Knoxville, Tennessee USA; Deadline: March 08, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1552.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): ============================== * The Shipment [February 23, Boston, Massachusetts] * El Pasado Es Un Animal Grotesco [February 23, Boston, Massachusetts] * Aki Onda & Paul Clipson [February 23, Brooklyn, New York] * Jud Yalkut: "Seminal Films" and "Music and Media" With Symposium. [February 23, Dayton, Ohio] * New Works Salon [February 23, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Triumph of the Will [February 23, New York, New York] * Sanrizuka [February 23, New York, New York] * The White Hare of Inababa [February 23, New York, New York] * Afro-Futurism: Sun Ra + Soda_jerk's Astro Black + [February 23, San Francisco, California] * Avant Erotica: Love Meditations [February 24, Austin, TX] * Passing Strange [February 24, Boston, Massachusetts] * Descend In Madness: World Premiere of the Complete 4-Part Vhs Jerusalem By James Fotopoulos [February 24, Brooklyn, New York] * Frame 2 Looking, Caring [February 24, Cambridge, UK] * My Mars Bar Movie [February 24, New York, New York] * Portrait of Mr. O [February 24, New York, New York] * Michio Okabe Program [February 24, New York, New York] * Your Day Is My Night Premiere At Moma's Documentary Fortnight [February 24, New York, New York] * Small Poetry: Recent Highlights of the Small Gauge Film Festival [February 24, San Francisco, CA] * Ben Russell: Altered States [February 25, Los Angeles, California] * Japanese Avant-Garde Program 9 [February 25, New York, New York] * Matt Porterfield Presents Rob Tregenza's Talking To Strangers [February 26, Brooklyn, NY] * Gushing Prayer [February 26, New York, New York] * Fellatio, Food, and Phones: andy Warhol's Eating Too Fast [February 27, Austin, Texas] * Victor Faccinto At Massart Film Society [February 27, Boston, MA] * Resisting Paradise [February 27, Providence, RI] * <B>Archives In Progress: An Evening With Darko Fritz </B> [February 28, Chicago, Illinois] * La Air: Huckleberry Lain [February 28, Los Angeles, California] * William E. Jones Presents Fred Halsted's La Plays Itself [February 28, San Francisco, CA] * Agnes Martin's Gabriel [March 2, Evanston, IL] * Let Me Be Your Band + Forster + Plotnick + Idaho Joe + [March 2, San Francisco, California] * Luther Price In Person! - Event Placeholder! [March 3, Chicago, IL] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------------- 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 Brooklyn, New York: Issue Project Room http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/aki-onda-paul-clipson 4pm & 8pm, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn (Greenpoint) AKI ONDA & PAUL CLIPSON Cassette musician Aki Onda collaborates with a San Fransisco based filmmaker Paul Clipson for his final performance of the 2012 Artist-in-Residence series. Onda and Clipson render images and sounds as if a fragmented journey of landscapes and memories. They investigate personal, intuitive spaces, through their favored technologies of Super 8mm film and cassette Walkman. Both artists place significant emphasis on performance environments, where their visual and sonic field recordings interact to create sensory collages, born out of the subjective impressions of the audience. 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 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 2 - 9PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle bwtn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) DESCEND IN MADNESS: WORLD PREMIERE OF THE COMPLETE 4-PART VHS JERUSALEM BY JAMES FOTOPOULOS admission $6 artist in person. James Fotopoulos returns to Microscope for "Descend into Madness", the world premiere of his complete 7-hour VHS video epic JERUSALEM. Consisting of 4 separate videos "Jerusalem", "Sublimation", "Conjunction" and "The Pearl" completed between 2003 and 2004 the work follows a group of actors whose physical, ritualistic performances explore inter-dimensional travel. The event also marks the individual premieres of "Conjunction" and "Sublimation" (parts 2 and 3). "Jerusalem" (part one) screened for the first time last year as part of "VHS" presented by Rebecca Cleman of EAI at the Museum of Arts and Design. The better-known final section, "The Pearl", was originally premiered at Ocularis in Brooklyn, NY in 2004. Full program details: http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=10213. JAMES FOTOPOULOS' works have screened and exhibited in the US and internationally including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA PS1, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Art Center, 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Art and Design, London Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives and Andy Warhol Museum, among many others. Fotopoulos currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Mrytle/Broadway. Other options: L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop is across the street. 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. 2/24 San Francisco, CA: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 7:30, 992 Valencia SMALL POETRY: RECENT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SMALL GAUGE FILM FESTIVAL [members: $5 / non-members: $10] - Presented by SF Cinematheque with Paul Clipson, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Ross Meckfessel and Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen In Person. - Founded in 2011, the annual Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival is dedicated to encouraging and supporting filmmakers working the 8mm and Super-8mm formats through the exhibition of contemporary and historical works created in these humble yet inspiring gauges. Tonight Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen appears in person to present a selection from the fest's first two years including: Mie Kurihara's Small Poetry and Sheri Wills' Fever, each ethereal and poignant meditations on light and shadow\; Jason Halprin's I Colonize The Golden Triangle, a travelogue documenting the maker's travels through Northern India\; Pablo Marin's Diario Colorado, a fluid, masterful, multiple exposure study\; Ross Meckfessel's He, She, I Was, a series autobiographical fragments of friends' lives\; and Tara Nelson's, Flying Fish, a home movie which brings us into the intimate living space of the filmmaker's sister. Also screening: Paul Clipson's Another Void\; Clint Enns' Sears Catalogue 2011/broadcast/a single tear\; Sam Hoolihan's Summer Elsewhere\; Saul Levine's Light Licks: By The Waters of Babylon: I Want To Paint It Black\; Janis Crystal Lipzin's De Luce\; Gordon Nelson's Feather\; Pablo Valencia's Blindside II\; Naren Wilks' Collide-o-scope\; Tony Wu's More Intimacy and Stephanie Wuertz' Luilekkerland. (Steve Polta & Karen Johannesen) ------------------------- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013 ------------------------- 2/25 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 BEN RUSSELL: ALTERED STATES Los Angeles PremieresThis program, a slightly modified version of one shown at the Centre Pompidou last fall, presents a selection of films from Ben Russell's ongoing TRYPPS series, including River Rites, Black And White Trypps Number Three, Ponce de León, Trypps #6 and Trypps #7. Shot mostly in 16mm, though formally quite distinct, these short films "enunciate a 'psychedelic ethnography'in which the trip is both the means and the end," Russell writes, noting that his films have "expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance à la Jean Rouch." The evening concludes with the two-projector performance of The Black and the White Gods. Russell was listed among the "50 Best Filmmakers Under 50," by Cinema Scope. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] 2/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE PROGRAM 9 Shuji Terayama A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE CINEMA / SEISHŌNEN NO TAME NO EIGA NYŪMON (1974, 3 min, triple-screen 16mm) Akira Uno TOI ET MOI / OMAE TO WATASHI (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w) Tadanori Yokoo ANTHOLOGY 1 (1963, 11 min, 16mm) Katsuhiro Tomita THE MARTYR / JYUNKYŌSHA (1963, 28 min, 16mm, b&w) Shuji Terayama's triple-projection piece was made for the 100ft Film Festival hosted by Image Forum and explores imaginary orgies and strange memories tinted with the three primary colors. TOI ET MOI by Akira Uno stretches the definition of animation by drawing onto bodies and fogging the images with smoke, while Tadanori Yokoo remolds his graphic designs into animation with rhythmic edits. THE MARTYR, a production closely related to the legendary Nihon University Cinema Club, boasts a ragged visual flair. Total running time: ca. 55 min. -------------------------- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 -------------------------- 2/26 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street MATT PORTERFIELD PRESENTS ROB TREGENZA'S TALKING TO STRANGERS Talking to Strangers, Rob Tregenza, digital projection, 1987, 90 mins, Introduced by Matt Porterfield - "Talking to Strangers, written, directed, and shot in Baltimore by Rob Tregenza in 1985, is a formally audacious, episodic narrative made up of nine scenes, each composed of a single eleven-minute take (a complete 400 foot roll of film). The camera dances with a noncommittal, increasingly unreliable, disintegrating protagonist as he tackles the world\; this choreography also includes a series of strangers, who remain strangers to us and him despite being confronted with probing questions about life, religion, ethics, art, love. - What happens when you subject a non-professional cast to a rigid formal style that necessitates perfection? Knowingly, I believe, the filmmaker invites imperfection. Once you understand the structure and its implicit high stakes, the act of watching something ostensibly livein which anything could go wrongcreates a palpable tension. Despite strict rules, the potential for improvisation between the camera, its subject, and the audience is never ignored. Tregenza's use of physical space owes as much to the theater as traditions of cinematic realism, with hints of a formalist aesthetic akin to James Benning or Michael Snow. Moments when characters on the very edge of the frame duck to make way for the camera confirm the ideal that 'cinema is a game that anyone can play,' as Godard put it, 'so why not?'" - MP - Followed by a conversation with Porterfield and Tregenza. - Jean-Luc Godard on Talking to Strangers: http://www.cinemaparallel.com/Godard.TTS.html - - Rob Tregenza has written, directed and photographed three award-winning independent feature films, films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the "Certain Regard" category and the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. Over the years, his films have also appeared at the festivals of Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam and Edinburgh. - A retrospective of his feature films was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 1999, and in 1996 Jean-Luc Godard hand-selected Tregenza's Talking to Strangers to screen again at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival. Godard describes passages in Tregenza's films as, "remarkable and at times astonishing, that is, softly imbued with the marvelous." He further explains that in Tregenza's cinematic world, "reality walks hand in hand with fiction." - Tregenza has also had an award-winning career as a television commercial director and has worked as a Director of Photography for other independent filmmakers such as Bela Tarr and Alex Cox. - - Matt Porterfield is the writer/director of Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), and I Used to Be Darker (2013), which recently premiered at Sundance. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland and teaches film theory, screenwriting, and production at Johns Hopkins University. In 2012, Matt was a featured artist in the Whitney Biennial, a Creative Capital grantee, and the recipient of a Wexner Center Artists Residency. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 2/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GUSHING PRAYER by Masao Adachi 1971, 72 min, 35mm This screening is part of: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN (FUNSHUTSU KIGAN 15-SAI NO BAISHUNFU) A member of Nihon University Cinema Club and scriptwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, activist filmmaker Masao Adachi made this unique pink film that is pregnant with political allegory in the wake of the failed revolution that marked the 1960s. GUSHING PRAYER explores the benumbed disappointment of failure and the paralysis of youth, depicting teenage forays into group sex, suicide, and prostitution with a remarkably desensitized vision. ---------------------------- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 ---------------------------- 2/27 Austin, Texas: The Mad Stork Cinema 8:30, ROOM: STUDIO 4D, Building CMD, UT FELLATIO, FOOD, AND PHONES: ANDY WARHOL'S EATING TOO FAST Join us for a evening of Warhol's rarely screened sequel to Blow Job. - Eating Too Fast (1966) - dir. Andy Warhol, 16mm, 67 minutes. - "Eating Too Fast (1966) is an Andy Warhol film made at the Factory. It was originally titled Blow Job #2 and features art critic and writer Gregory Battcock." 2/27 Boston, MA: Tara Merenda Nelson 8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue VICTOR FACCINTO AT MASSART FILM SOCIETY Animator, filmmaker, artist and lecturer Victor Faccinto will present works from 1972-2012. - Guest Curated by Tara Merenda Nelson - Seduction and repulsion, love and lust, good and evil are the tensions that permeate Faccinto's work. His compositions are obsessive in their orchestration. His allegiance to bright, vibrant colors belies the sometimes disturbing subject matter, and maintains a level of humorous irreverence that is integrated throughout the work. - from Victor Faccinto: Three Decades, Luise Ross Gallery - You will see things you will never forget. - *16mm* - Exercise (13 mins.) hand altered 16mm film, Book of Dead (15 mins.) hand altered and bleached 16mm film, Filet of Soul (16 mins.) paper cutout animation - *Video* - Visual Remains, 2001 (5:50) altered and bleached 16mm film on DVD, Facts and Figures, 2012 (10:30) details from the lives of Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt and Fatty Arbuckle - MASSART FILM SOCIETY, Programmed by Saul Levine, FILM SOCIETY is a screening class for MassArt film students open to those who are interested. We hope to provide access to films and videos not often shown at other venues. - Enter to MASSART through the South Building, Admissions on Huntington Ave. FILM SOCIETY shows are held in Screening Rm 1 in East Hall in the FILM Department. Suggested donation is $4 at the door and free to MassArt community with their ID. Donations are used to give visiting artist something for their expenses of coming to show their work. - - Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department Screening RM 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115. - http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 2/27 Providence, RI: Magic Lantern http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/ 9:00 PM, Cable Car Cinema & Cafe, 204 S. Main St RESISTING PARADISE Magic Lantern and the 2013 Providence French Film Festival Present: Resisting Paradise (Barbara Hammer, 2003). A provocative inquiry into the role of the artist during wartime, Barbara Hammer's documentary Resisting Paradise was begun in 1999 while the acclaimed American avant-garde filmmaker was an artist-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, a small fishing village in southern France. Though Hammer originally went to Cassis to study the light of Provence (famous for enthralling generations of French painters), the outbreak of the war in Kosovo quickly led her to question the value of such abstract pursuits. Projecting this concern backward through history, Resisting Paradise turns to the lives of Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard to examine the divergent practices of artists and Resistance fighters living in the south of France during World War II. Screening with three experimental shorts made in Cassis by artists affiliated with the Camargo Foundation: The Canaries (Jerome Hill, 1969); Cassis (Jonas Mekas, 1966); and Fall (3 Parts) (Leighton Pierce, 2002). TRT ca. 102 min --------------------------- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 --------------------------- 2/28 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St. ARCHIVES IN PROGRESS: AN EVENING WITH DARKO FRITZ Renowned for his groundbreaking exhibitions of video and computer art, Amsterdam-based curator and researcher Darko Fritz has also produced a body of work around concepts of glitch, error, and surveillance. Fritz presents selections from Archives in Progress, an ongoing project that draws upon his past works to explore the possibility of the archive and "pure information" as mediums for art. Organized with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam. An architect by training, Darko Fritz (b. 1966, Split, Croatia) is a multimedia artist, curator, researcher, and graphic designer. His own artworks are in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Skopje City Museum; World Bank, Washington D.C.; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; among others. He is currently based in Amsterdam, Korčula, and Zagreb. 1987-2012, Croatia/Netherlands/UK, multiple formats, ca 75 min + discussion 2/28 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St LA AIR: HUCKLEBERRY LAIN Free / LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. Studying under numerous undergrounds legends such as Mike Kuchar, Christine Panushka, Larry Cuba and Marie Losier, Huckleberry Lain has created a library of films from Super 8 experiments to motion-capture avant-garde tales. In this current project Huckleberry will cross the old technologies of Fuji's Single-8 film with new digital animation in order to reconstruct some of the downtown LA movie palaces that are slowly being erased from our history. Only a few relics remain of the dozens of cinema palaces that premiered some of the world's biggest movies from the Golden Age of cinema. Downtown Los Angeles was a sea of flashing neon where now only a dim flicker of light remains on a couple of buildings. This is a project on architectural restoration and a love letter to some of the most beautiful buildings in the United States. Music will be by Alejandro Cohen of the LA bands Languis and Pharaohs. 2/28 San Francisco, CA: SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) 7pm, 151 3rd St WILLIAM E. JONES PRESENTS FRED HALSTED'S LA PLAYS ITSELF Before there was mainstream gay pornography, there was Fred Halsted and his daring approach to the genre. In L.A. Plays Itself, tracking shots of the gritty landscape of L.A. and the pastoral parkland of Malibu Canyon play backdrop to rough scenes of S&M. Yet Halsted's aesthetic approach to cinematography, narrative, and editing has earned the film a place in experimental film history, and as such it holds the distinction of being the only gay porn film in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Halsted scholar William E. Jones. - Part of More Than Just Queer: Luminaries Past and Present ----------------------- SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013 ----------------------- 3/2 Evanston, IL: Block Cinema and White Light Cinema 3pm, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University AGNES MARTIN'S GABRIEL Block Cinema and White Light Cinema Present - Agnes Martin's GABRIEL - Saturday, March 2 3pm - FREE Admission! - At Block Cinema at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University, Evanston - - GABRIEL (1976, 78 min, DVD Projection) by Agnes Martin - The celebrated abstract painter Agnes Martin's only film, Gabriel, is a stylistic departure from her work on canvas. Structured as a very loose, minimal narrative, it is, in Martin's words, "about this little boy who climbs a mountain and all the beautiful things he sees." Martin used this framing device to present an observational film centered on landscape and nature, a film about a more casual kind of looking than her compositionally-precise geometric paintings demand. Gabriel sees Martin in a playful artistic mode: "My movie is about happiness, innocence, and beauty." This is a rare opportunity to see another side of one of the great artists of mid-century modernism. - - Courtesy of The Pace Gallery. - www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu - www.whitelightcinema.com 3/2 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St LET ME BE YOUR BAND + FORSTER + PLOTNICK + IDAHO JOE + Twist and stomp through the eccentric world of One-Man-Bands! This heart-pumping plunge off a curvy West Virginian highway leads to the infamous Rockabilly-Wild-Man Hasil Adkins and other misfit innovators: Bob Log III, former bus-driver-turned-punk Delta Blues man; Washboard Hank on his kitchen-sink tuba; and the Mysterious Asthmatic Avenger. Witness Eric Royer's self-built 5-piece bluegrass band, the Lonesome Organist, and King Louie, the hurricane of sound! The NorCal debut of this feature doc is preceded by local solo acts: Guest emcee Russ Forster, the precocious Henry Plotnick, and the marvelous singing-bowls of Idaho Joe. $7. --------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013 --------------------- 3/3 Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema http://www.whitelightcinema.com 7:30, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee LUTHER PRICE IN PERSON! - EVENT PLACEHOLDER! Luther Price returns to Chicago for two screenings of early Super-8mm films. The first, this one, is presented by White Light CInema (me) and will feature early (including his very first film) and super rare Super-8mm films AND a selection of Price's recent hand-made slides! - The second show will be presented by SAIC's Eye & Ear Clinic on Tuesday, March 5. Keep an eye (ha!) on their FB page for details. - Will update this with specifics once everything is finalized. - HUZZAH! - [The pix is from one of Price's slides, but is not necessarily one showing] 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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