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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 ITEM FOR SALE: ============== The Beauty Is Relentless; The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=31.ann Moving Shadows: Experimental Film Practices in a Landscape of Change http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=32.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Marseilles, France; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1559.ann Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 12, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1560.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; Deadline: March 22, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1561.ann SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1562.ann Federation Square - Melbourne (Australia; Deadline: April 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1563.ann Somerville Open CInema (Somerville, MA 02143; Deadline: April 05, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1564.ann Exuberant Politics (Iowa City, IA; Deadline: April 21, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1565.ann International Kontinent Photography Awards (TR; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1566.ann WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1567.ann animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival (Cologne/Germany; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1568.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Hamburg Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1498.ann ImagineIndia International Film Festival (Madrid; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1503.ann Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire (France; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1510.ann URBAN RANCH PROJECT (Facebook; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1521.ann filmarmalade (london, united kingdom; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1533.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 MudasFest (Portugal; Deadline: April 05, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1544.ann Familius Family International Fim Festival (Provo, UT, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1545.ann Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1546.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 Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1555.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; Deadline: March 22, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1561.ann Somerville Open CInema (Somerville, MA 02143; Deadline: April 05, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1564.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): ============================== * Kevin Jerome Everson - Ten Five In the Grass & Other Shorts [March 9, Los Angeles, California] * Otto Muehl Program [March 9, New York, New York] * S:Treams... [March 9, New York, New York] * New Haitian Cinema: Fragmentation and Flux + [March 9, San Francisco, California] * Far From Afghanistan / Far From vietnam [March 10, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Thom andersen's ReconversãO (Reconversion) [March 10, Los Angeles, California] * Zelmir Zilnik Early Works [March 10, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Flaming Creatures [March 10, New York, New York] * Brian Frye In Person! [March 11, Austin, TX] * Far From Afghanistan / Far From vietnam [March 11, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Christopher Wilcha's the Target Shoots First [March 12, Brooklyn, NY] * Varda/Marker: the Museum's Attraction: Talk By Christa BlüMlinger [March 13, Chicago, Illinois] * Zelmir Zilnik Early Works [March 13, New York, New York] * Proto-Cinematic Investigations [March 13, Params, NJ] * Jaap Pieters Live In Paris - Projection 8mm En PrÉSence Du CinÉAste [March 13, Paris, France] * An Evening With Sam Green [March 13, San Francisco, California] * Balagan Presents... Diy Dystopia [March 14, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * L.A. Filmforum At Moca Presents Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So: <I>We're (Still) Living</I> [March 14, Los Angeles, California] * Rick Bahto, Julia Holter, and Mark So: We're (Still) Living [March 14, Los Angeles, California] * Mark Street's Hasta Nunca [March 14, Los Angeles, California] * Wavelength [March 14, New York, New York] * Back and Forth [March 14, New York, New York] * Northern Lights: Fag Selects [March 14, San Francisco, California] * It's Going Through You Like An X-Ray; the video Works of Jesse Mclean In Person! [March 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Behindert [March 16, New York, New York] * Olivia Wyatt's Staring Into the Sun + Mark Brecke + [March 16, San Francisco, California] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Kevin Jerome Everson: <I>Quality Control</I> [March 17, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013 ----------------------- 3/9 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 KEVIN JEROME EVERSON - TEN FIVE IN THE GRASS & OTHER SHORTS U.S. Premiere With six feature-length films and more than 70 shorts, Alpert Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson has explored the multiple facets of African American life via a variety of formal approaches. Whether through his signature long shots, collage of archival sources or the re-enactment of fictional material that echoes the lives of his performers, Everson favors a strategy that interrupts the documentary impulse, abstracting everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures. His work plays with the ambivalent relationship between art and narrative, fact and fiction. This screening includes a selection of shorts, from the Lumière-inspired Workers Leaving the Job Site (2013), to a dark, witty, homage to Chester Himes, Early Riser (2012), to an exploration of the world of black cowboys, Ten Five in the Grass (2012). | Alpert Award ArtistJack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] 3/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue OTTO MUEHL PROGRAM The Austrian avant-gardist Otto Muehl may well be the most scandalous filmmaker working in cinema today. Whether he is also the most subversive is the subject of a continuing international debate, with even some liberal critics denouncing him as fascist, or at least, anti-humanist. But it is a grave mistake to misinterpret Muehl's work as pornographic, thereby underestimating its seditious, anarchist intent. Muehl's films are based on his notorious 'Materialaktionen'; love happenings, involving nude protagonists in real and extravagant acts of sexual violence and defilement. Clearly derived from dada-surrealist anti-aestheticism, these public performances predictably caused police prosecution, scandals, and near-riots in various countries. They invade the spectator's defence mechanism and value systems in a manner comparable perhaps only to the slitting of the woman's eyeball in Buñuel's UN CHIEN ANDALOU or Franju's deceptive documentary of the slaughter-houses, THE BLOOD OF THE BEASTS. Kurt Kren 6/64: MAMA & PAPA (1964, 4 min, 16mm) Otto Muehl MATERIALAKTIONSFILME 1970 47 min, 16mm 3/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue S:TREAMS... by Paul Sharits 1968-70, 41 min, 16mm Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my son Christopher." P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really recognized." Michael Snow 3/9 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St NEW HAITIAN CINEMA: FRAGMENTATION AND FLUX + Three years after a devastating earthquake, the Haitian people still struggle to rebuild, both physically and culturally. In a benefit for Jakmel Art Center, OC joins Ilona Berger and Ivy McClelland in mounting a forum for new film and video. Jean-Guerly Pétion initiates the show with a multi-media dance piece. Désirée Dorsainvil sets off the second half with original choreography, drawn from both Afro-Haitian and Modern traditions. Recent émigré Zaka sojourns from SoCal to personally introduce his new video work. ALSO: Maksaens Denis, Louis Ebby Angel, Guy Regis Jr., Romel Jean-Pierre, and Alex Art Louis from TeleGhetto. Come early for artists' reception with world-renowned rum. $7$20. ---------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013 ---------------------- 3/10 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN / FAR FROM VIETNAM With the US war in Afghanistan about to enter its second decade, filmmaker and Emerson professor John Gianvito felt compelled to mark the milestone cinematically by turning to an influential example of anti-war cinema for inspiration: Far from Vietnam, the 1967 collective omnibus spearheaded by the great film-essayist Chris Marker, who edited the work of a number of collaborators into a dynamic fusion of documentary, activism and cinematic experiment addressed to a war that seemed curiously near and far at the same time. Similarly, Gianvito has fashioned a parallel response to the present state of affairs. This program juxtaposes both films in hopes that spectators will be provoked to compare the responses to US aggression then and now, by filmmakers and the population at large. $12 Special Event Tickets John Gianvito and Soon-Mi Yoo in person Far From Afghanistan Sunday March 10 at 7pm Like its predecessor, Far From Afghanistan mixes an experimental approach to film form with fictional narrative, found footage and reportage in response to a protracted war that remains uncannily invisible here on the "home front." Besides contributing his own sequence, John Gianvito assembled a group of filmmakers active in the US whose work typically blends fiction, non-fiction and formal experimentation. Reportage is provided by a number of short segments from a collective of Afghani journalists called "Afghan Images." The result is imbued with a profound anger and sadness about what the war has meant to the populations of both countries. Almost inevitably, the film addresses the ever-closer relationship between image technologies and warfare with its chilling inclusion of actual drone's-eye-view footage from an attack on Afghan civilians deemed insurgents. Directed by John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson US/Afghanistan 2012, digital video, color, 129 min 3/10 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 PRESENTS THOM ANDERSEN'S RECONVERSãO (RECONVERSION) Filmmaker Thom Andersen in person! Filmforum is proud to present Thom Andersen's most recent work, Reconversão (Reconversion), an essay on the architecture of Eduardo Souto de Moura. Reconversão portrays 17 buildings and projects by the Porto architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied usually by his own writings. It is a search for his architecture, without critical commentary. Technically, Reconversão combines the crudeness of proto-cinema with the hyperrealism of digital cinema, bringing us back to the ideals of Dziga Vertov. 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/344310 or by cash or check at the door. Screening: Reconversão (Reconversion) (2012, Portugal/USA, video, color, 65 mins) 3/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ZELMIR ZILNIK EARLY WORKS See notes for March 7, 6:45 pm. 3/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: FLAMING CREATURES SCOTCH TAPE 1962, 3 min, 16mm Junkyard musical. & FLAMING CREATURES 1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w "FLAMING CREATURES graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers." - FILM CULTURE ---------------------- MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013 ---------------------- 3/11 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 8pm, 1101 Navasota Street BRIAN FRYE IN PERSON! Experimental Response Cinema is proud to present the avant-garde films of Lexington, Kentucky filmmaker Brian Frye, who will be in Austin to screen Our Nixon (which he co-produced with Penny Lane) at SXSW! We're excited to host the filmmaker and his films and videos from 1999 to the present! Brian L. Frye is a filmmaker, journalist, and law professor who lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He was named (along with Penny Lane) one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012. His short films explore relationships between history, society, and cinema through archival and amateur images. His films have appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde, the New York Underground Film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Warhol Museum, Pleasure Dome, Media City and the Images Festival. His short films are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum and distributed by the Filmmaker's Coop. He's been awarded grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Electronic Television Center. His writing on film and art has appeared in October, The New Republic, Film Comment, Cineaste, Millennium Film Journal and the Village Voice. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Hofstra Law School and is developing a beer-brewing hobby. Program: A Reasonable Man. 15 min / video / sound / 2011; The Anatomy of Melancholy. 11 min / 16mm / sound / 1999; The War is Beautiful in Springtime 3 min /16mm / silent / 2010; Observations at Gettysburg, 6 July 2002. 10 min / 16mm / silent / 2003; The Letter. 11 min / 16mm / sound / 2001; Francois Boue Services the Fragrance Machine at Bloomingdales. 3 min / 16mm / sound / 1999; Encomium. 2 min / 16mm / silent / 2003. 3/11 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN / FAR FROM VIETNAM With the US war in Afghanistan about to enter its second decade, filmmaker and Emerson professor John Gianvito felt compelled to mark the milestone cinematically by turning to an influential example of anti-war cinema for inspiration: Far from Vietnam, the 1967 collective omnibus spearheaded by the great film-essayist Chris Marker, who edited the work of a number of collaborators into a dynamic fusion of documentary, activism and cinematic experiment addressed to a war that seemed curiously near and far at the same time. Similarly, Gianvito has fashioned a parallel response to the present state of affairs. This program juxtaposes both films in hopes that spectators will be provoked to compare the responses to US aggression then and now, by filmmakers and the population at large. Far From Vietnam (Loin du Vietnam) Sunday March 11 at 7pm In 1967, Chris Marker assembled footage shot by a number of filmmakers opposed to the war in Vietnam into a film essay. Most of these filmmakers were French; their commitment to this project testifies to the political engagement of the Left Bank and New Wave filmmakers at that time as well as to their awareness that US aggression in Vietnam stemmed directly from that country's revolt against French colonialism. William Klein films pro- and anti-war protests in New York, while Joris Ivens contributes footage from Vietnam; Resnais and Godard contribute two self-contained sequences. Marker masterfully blends these contributions with interviews, newsreel imagery and additional material by Agnès Varda and Claude Lelouch, and lays a typically incisive and occasionally ironic voiceover on top. Directed by Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais France 1967, 35mm, color, 115 min. French and English with English subtitles ----------------------- TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013 ----------------------- 3/12 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street CHRISTOPHER WILCHA'S THE TARGET SHOOTS FIRST The Target Shoots First, Christopher Wilcha, video, 1999, 70 mins - In 1993, recent college grad Christopher Wilcha landed his first real job at the offices of mail-order music giant Columbia House in New York, where he discovered that his knowledge of punk rock minutiae was more marketable than his philosophy degree. Columbia was looking for a way to tap into the post-grunge market, and needed a twentysomething informant who would help them tell Bad Brains from Bad Religion. To document his new life, Wilcha began bringing his Hi-8 camera to work, eventually recording more than 200 hours over a two-year period. After leaving the company in 1995, he edited his old tapes into The Target Shoots First, a first-person account of how the Age of Cobain played out inside the music industry's most unglamorous wing. - Low-key, lo-fi, and unpretentious, Target is a dead-on early 90s time capsule. Wilcha parses corporate life like a Margaret Mead of midtown, collecting footage of company retreats, office birthdays, and workplace injuries, analyzing the distinct cultures found on different floors of his building, and desperately broadcasting his own boredom. The film hones in on Wilcha and his co-workers as they refurbish Columbia's "Alternative Music Club" with gusto\; here, the co-optation of indie by mainstream isn't a top-down decision, but a conflicted, bottom-up process, spearheaded by overeducated staff as a way to relieve day-to-day tedium. "Instead of seeing the magazine relaunch as an obligation, we see it as a creative opportunity," Wilcha narrates. "Our only goal is to see what we can get away with." - When it began screening in 1999, Wilcha's documentary became something of a phenomenon\; in the midst of the dot-com boom, a slightly older Generation X found themselves likewise reinventing the workplace, only now with infusions of clueless venture capital. Today, Columbia House has been made obsolete by the internet, "alternative" has been shattered into myriad micro-obsessions, and cameras are only allowed in offices for promotional lip-dubs. Two decades later, Wilcha's post-collegiate diaries of his expedition into the corporate wilds now feel like images of a lost world. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. ------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013 ------------------------- 3/13 Chicago, Illinois: Film Studies Center http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2013/vardamarker-museums-attraction-talk-christa-bl%C3%BCmlinger 5pm, Film Studies Center, Cobb 307, 5811 S. Ellis VARDA/MARKER: THE MUSEUM'S ATTRACTION: TALK BY CHRISTA BLüMLINGER Christa Blümlinger (University of Paris VIII) compares the early films and later installations and digital work of the radical Rive Gauche artist-filmmakers Agnès Varda and Chris Marker. Whether they include visits to galleries or present "found objects" or photographs to the viewer, Chris Marker's and Agnès Varda's early films constitute the museum exhibition as a major element. The way both Rive Gauche filmmakers weave together images, sounds, music, and commentary posits a complex relationship between movement and stillness. This in turn resonates with a kind of museum-like gestalt that prefigures their late installations and digital creations. Christa Blümlinger is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Vincennes-Saint-Denis (Paris 8). She has curated numerous curatorial and critical activities in Vienna, Berlin and Paris, including Diagonale (Salzburg) and Duisburger Filmwoche (Duisburg). Her publications include the edition of writings of Harun Farocki (in French) and of Serge Daney (in German), as well as books about essay film, media art, avant-garde cinema and film aesthetics. As a critic she has published in magazines such as Trafic, Cinematheque, Parachute, Intermedialites, montage/av,, and Camera Austria. Counter Cinema/Counter Media Series: What is the visual language of opposition? Does the form of resistance matter today? The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality's Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project focuses on film and media practices that use form to resist and "counter" dominant film and media outlets, platforms, and traditions. In 2013, the Project will mount a series of talks and screenings curated by project director Jennifer Wild (Assistant Professor, CMS), and international film programmers, makers, collectives, and critics. 3/13 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ZELMIR ZILNIK EARLY WORKS See notes for March 7, 6:45 pm. 3/13 Params, NJ: Gallery Bergen http://www.bergen.edu/gallerybergen/index.html 6pm, 400 Paramus Rd., West Hall 3rd Floor PROTO-CINEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS curated by by Gregg Biermann: http://www.bergen.edu/gallerybergen/index.html 3/13 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinéma 24:00, 34 rue Daubenton JAAP PIETERS LIVE IN PARIS - PROJECTION 8MM EN PR&EACUTE;SENCE DU CIN&EACUTE;ASTE SÃANCE RÃGULIÃRE DU COLLECTIF JEUNE CINÃMA - ----------------------- - Les films super-8mm du cinéaste néerlandais Jaap Pieters ont quelque chose d'inexplicable et de bizarrement exquis. Reconnu depuis longtemps pour sa défense du petit format, qu'il projette dans les cinémas, les lieux d'art et des festivals à travers l'Europe, Pieters est souvent comparé à Warhol en raison de sa préférence pour de longues prises de vue à caméra fixe. Beaucoup de ses films sont tournés depuis sa fenêtre. Grâce à son oeil empathique et aux situations fortuites, Pieters saisit des images métaphoriques et des performances privées des passants qui transcendent les moments du quotidien qui y sont encadrés. - ---------------------- - Jaap Pieters est photographe et cinéaste Super 8 depuis trois décennies. En commençant par un programme solo à Istanbul en 1997, il montre ses films régulièrement dans tous les coins de l'Europe. C'est un habitué du festival de film de Rotterdam, ainsi que des espaces alternatifs de par le monde. 3/13 San Francisco, California: California College of the Arts Film Program http://www.cca.edu/calendar/2013/cinema-visionaries-evening-sam-green 7:30 PM, 1111 Eighth Street AN EVENING WITH SAM GREEN CCA's Film Program presents a special evening with Oscar-nominated documentarian, experimental filmmaker, and performance cinema pioneer Sam Green, the latest visionary to grace the Timken Lecture Hall stage as part of the CCA Film Program's Cinema Visionaries series. Green's recent work has expanded the very notion of what live cinema can be: His latest, The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, features Green and seminal indie-rockers Yo La Tengo performing live with the film. Join us for an evening that promises to be chockful of delights and insights from one of cinema's most forward-thinking filmmakers. The CInema Visionaries Series is made possible by a generous gift from Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein This event is free and open to the public. ------------------------ THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 ------------------------ 3/14 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 7:30pm, Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street BALAGAN PRESENTS... DIY DYSTOPIA With the natural world teetering on the brink of multilateral catastrophe, a group of analog filmmakers have taken matters into their own hands. Through direct contact with the medium lifting and reassembling images on the film strip adhering waste matter to celluloid leaving emulsion to languish in the landfill the artists interpret physical processes that ravage our land. Their grave methods yield results of unexpected poetry, vibrancy and beauty. Films by Jennifer Reeves, Christina Battle, Dan Baker, Douglas Urbank and more. 3/14 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00pm, MOCA Grand Avenues Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 South Grand Avenue L.A. FILMFORUM AT MOCA PRESENTS RICK BAHTO, JULIA HOLTER, AND MARK SO: WE'RE (STILL) LIVING Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents an evening of new work by Rick Bahto, Mark So and Julia Holter. Working at the intersection of art, experimental music, and projector performance, these three artists come together for a unique event in which their distinct, yet related practices share time and space. Predicated upon dynamics that arise simply and incidentally as media combine in real time, the work shares in the pioneering spirit of composer John Cage and others, yet looks, sounds, and feels like nothing else. Tickets: $12, FREE for members of MOCA or Los Angeles Filmforum (present your membership card at the box office to claim tickets; no free tickets will be issued without membership card). For tickets, go to moca.org and click on calendar. 3/14 Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA http://moca.org 7:00 pm, 250 South Grand Avenue RICK BAHTO, JULIA HOLTER, AND MARK SO: WE'RE (STILL) LIVING INFO 213/621-1745 or educat...@moca.org Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents an evening of new work by Rick Bahto, Mark So and Julia Holter. Working at the intersection of art, experimental music, and projector performance, these three artists come together for a unique event in which their distinct, yet related practices share time and space. Predicated upon dynamics that arise simply and incidentally as media combine in real time, the work shares in the pioneering spirit of composer John Cage and others, yet looks, sounds, and feels like nothing else. In their words: there is no picture. there are things going on in the world. it wouldn't cross your mind to improvise. in place of realizing a blueprint, something more like gardening. do we want to make a new kind of pumpkin pie, or do we want to plant pumpkin seeds and pay attention, really see what happens? 3/14 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. MARK STREET'S HASTA NUNCA 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 extra marital affair with JULIA, a divorcee searching for a new artistic spark. In this international production (USA, Uruguay) each call in to the show was written and performed by local actors. Topics addressed in telephone conversations include: the lingering effects of the military dictatorship in 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 personal 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. 3/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue WAVELENGTH by Michael Snow 1967, 45 min, 16mm "WAVELENGTH is without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a 'triumph of contemplative cinema.'" Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS, 1968 3/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BACK AND FORTH by Michael Snow 1969, 52 min, 16mm "...This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this neckjerking camera gimmick which hits a wooden stop arm at each end of its swing. Basically it's a perpetual motion film which ingeniously builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point where the camera's swinging arcs and white wall field assume the hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. "In such a hard, drilling work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome, sometimes occuring with torrential frequency." Manny Farber, ARTFORUM 3/14 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7pm, 151 Third Street NORTHERN LIGHTS: FAG SELECTS Toronto-based FAG Feminist Art Gallery is a collaboration between the artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell. They write: "Through FAG we host, we fund, we advocate, we support, we claim, and we make. FAG is focused on a diverse community of individuals and artists and our collective and communal powers. FAG is committed to the cultivation of a new kind of sisterhood that isn't based on gender and privilege and a new kind of brotherhood that isn't based on rape and pillage. FAG is feminist in its resistance and in its attempts to reconcile its participation in oppressive systems. FAG is not fixed. FAG is not success. FAG is feminist in its insistence in closing the gap between studio, gallery, art, activism, social, and home. FAG is feminist in its can'ts, its won'ts, and its wants. For More Than Just Queer, we present a selection of our film and video faves sure to stoke your feminist flames. In our 'FAGging it forward' style, the program will be international in scope but from a queerly Canadian home base." Program will be introduced by Julia Bryan-Wilson, assistant professor of art, UC Berkeley Part of More Than Just Queer: Luminaries Past and Present. ---------------------- FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 ---------------------- 3/15 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome http://www.pdome.org/ 7:30pm $8, CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue ITS GOING THROUGH YOU LIKE AN X-RAY; THE VIDEO WORKS OF JESSE MCLEAN IN PERSON! There's this moment when a crowd at a Christian rock show find themselves in an ambling, prolonged silence. This is the prescribed point to connect with the Lord. Sway, watch and wait. Jesse McLean's videos examine fixations, confound certainty and build a trajectory through the inconceivable. Inner life is synthesized with the screen, convincingly, right up until the moment when the pull-back occurs. Resonance coupled with essayistic layers of images and words; it's all coming through you. We sway with it. Transfixed and thoughtful, we tumble toward understanding until it is mere steps away. One foot in, one foot out, sometimes the understanding reached is not what is expected, it's disarming, leaving new questions in its wake. Other times our pre-existing questions the big ones are reframed and expanded into a form that can drive us forward. All this through the vessels of televangelists, geysers, ill-fated shuttle launches, reality TV anxiety, tears, trances, songs that cycle perpetually through re-performance on YouTube and collections of things left behind; all carefully selected, all with something to offer. "You can't see it, you can't feel it, and you can't taste it, but it's here, right now, all around us, it's going through you like an X-ray." Join us for a No Reading After the Internet featuring excerpts from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) hosted by cheyanne turions, on Saturday, March 16, 2:00 pm @ Whippersnapper Gallery, 549B Dundas Street West.Free No Reading After the Internet is a salon series dealing with cultural texts, which are read aloud by participants. The particular urgency of the project is in reforming publics and experimenting with the act of reading, as its own media form, in our moment. www.noreadingaftertheinternet.wordpress.com In The Philosophy of Andy Warholwhich, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflectionshe talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New York, the explosion of his career in the sixties, and his life among celebrities. Jesse McLean's work is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through the mediation of found footage. Her recent work interpolates the production, proliferation, and consumption of televisual experience, investigating how this transfer of information creates a bind of complex relationships between maker and viewer. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, her work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant. ------------------------ SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013 ------------------------ 3/16 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BEHINDERT by Stephen Dwoskin 1974, 96 min, 16mm-to-digital video This screening is part of: KISSING THE MOON: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY STEPHEN DWOSKIN "An astonishingly intimate recreation of Dwoskin's time with actor Carola Regnier (who gives a hypnotically intricate performance of her own desires and vulnerabilities). This is Dwoskin's masterpiece. Indeed, I have come to regard it as the one of the greatest works in cinema history. [ ] Like many of Dwoskin's pieces, it is a reflection upon his physical condition the title could be translated as 'hindered' or even 'handicapped', hence 'disabled' and the strains it poses on his exchanges with an able-bodied lover. But this is as far from a 'social problem' or 'disease of the week' telemovie as can possibly be imagined as the perfectly judged long takes, coupled with the relentless drone-score by Gavin Bryars, attest. "BEHINDERT remains Dwoskin's most daring and artistically successful attempt to splice his 'first person' mode of cinema with a staged fiction creating a kind of cubistic complexity from the constantly shuffled perspectives. The 'fourth look' which Willemen intuited not exactly the look of the characters, the spectator, or even the camera-eye, but some other, more forbidding look, like the gaze of society itself hovers over the interstices between these images, these tableaux, these scenes from a relationship. From a film-history standpoint, Dwoskin's breakthrough here is prophetic. Anticipating the ongoing novelistic autobiography of Philippe Garrel's work since the 1980s, BEHINDERT plays a thrilling, almost vampiric game with the proximity of real-life experience to its fictive recreation especially as its principals are the actual former lovers!" Adrian Martin, FILM QUARTERLY 3/16 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St OLIVIA WYATTS STARING INTO THE SUN + MARK BRECKE + The second of our Foreign Correspondents sessions proffers the NorCal premiere of Olivia Wyatt's sublime ethnography, Staring Into the Sun. She penetrated deep into East African indigenous culture to retrieve this hr.-long album of Ethiopian tribal rites and musics, published by Sublime Frequencies. OC's old comrade Mark Brecke opens with a Report Back on conditions on the ground in Somalia and Kenya. Mark is spending some three years in the Horn of Africa, documenting the more urbanized history of Somalia's motion-picture industry. He discusses the colonial past and the current political crisis, with fragments from newsreels, video reportage, and even a slideshow of Somali postcards. $7. ---------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 ---------------------- 3/17 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 KEVIN JEROME EVERSON: QUALITY CONTROL Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson in person! Filmforum is delighted to host another visit from filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, with the West Coast Premiere of his feature Quality Control and the World Premiere of a new short film, Juneteenth Columbus, Mississippi. Filmed in the summer of 2010, in a dry cleaners facility in Pritchard, Alabama, near Mobile, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor. It is similar stylistically, in form and rhythm, to certain scenarios in Everson's award-winning and critically acclaimed previous films, including Erie (IFFR 2010) and in thematic concerns to several other short form works which follow the daily, quotidian tasks of workers in rest and in motion, including the factory routine captured in the short film A Week in the Hole (2001), which focused on an employee's adjustment to materials, time, space and personnel. 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/342968 or by cash or check at the door. Screening: Quality Control (USA, 2011, 71 minutes, 16mm. b&w, sound, English-language dialogue), Juneteenth Columbus, Mississippi (2013, 16mm, 2:10, color, silent) 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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