This week [March 16 - 24, 2013] in avant garde cinema
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SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San
Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Federation Square - Melbourne (Australia; Deadline: April 30, 2013)
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Somerville Open CInema (Somerville, MA 02143; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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Exuberant Politics (Iowa City, IA; Deadline: April 21, 2013)
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International Kontinent Photography Awards (TR; Deadline: June 01, 2013)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg,
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animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival
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Plug Projects: FPS (Kansas City, MO, USA; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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Hamburg Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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ImagineIndia International Film Festival (Madrid; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire (France; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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URBAN RANCH PROJECT (Facebook; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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Esperimental Documentaries (New York, NY; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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filmarmalade (london, united kingdom; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill,
MA, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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Termite TV (Baltimore, MD USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013)
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Termite TV (Philadelphia, PA USA; Deadline: March 29, 2013)
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MudasFest (Portugal; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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Familius Family International Fim Festival
(Provo, UT, USA; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: April 01, 2013)
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The White House Studio Project (Toronto, ON, Canada; Deadline: March 25, 2013)
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Con i minuti contati - International Short Film
Festival (Montefalco, Umbria, Italy; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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Video Art Festival Miden (Greece; Deadline: March 31, 2013)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas
(Marseilles, France; Deadline: April 15, 2013)
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Flamingo Film Festival (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA; Deadline: March 22, 2013)
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Somerville Open CInema (Somerville, MA 02143; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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Plug Projects: FPS (Kansas City, MO, USA; Deadline: April 05, 2013)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* 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: Quality Control [March 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Experimental Shorts Program At Atlanta Film
Festival [March 18, Atlanta, Georgia]
* "The Ghostly Elsewhere" videos/Films By
Lorenzo Gattorna, Mon 3/18, 7pm [March 18, Brooklyn, NY]
* The Ghostly Elsewhere ?New Works By Lorenzo
Gattorna [March 18, Brooklyn, New York]
* Early Monthly Segments #49 = Trinh Minh-Ha +
Michael Wallin [March 18, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Two Films By Marjorie Keller [March 19, Brooklyn, NY]
* Unlimited Subjectivity: the Written and Sung
Work of Duke and Battersby [March 19, Chicago, Illinois]
* Behindert [March 19, New York, New York]
* Jennifer Reeves: Exuberant Emulsions [March 20, New York, New York]
* Wavelengths: In the Blink of An Eye [March 21, Chicago, Illinois]
* Free Screening: Pettibon, Hamilton, Barney
and More... Art21 At Studio A. [March 21, Harrisburg, PA]
* Ken Ehrlich's La Huelga [March 21, Los Angeles, California]
* Ashley Bellouin / Rick Bahto [March 21, Oakland, CA]
* Made In Sf: Films By Barbara Hammer [March 21, San Francisco, California]
* New Works Salon [March 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Behindert [March 23, New York, New York]
* Sat. 3/23: Western Psycho-Geographies +
Jackie-O Motherfucker + [March 23, San Francisco, California]
* Sight Unseen Presents Ben Russell's Trypps #1-7 [March 24, Baltimore, MD]
* L.A. Filmforum Presents Parable By Jon Jost
[March 24, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Carriage Trade [March 24, New York, New York]
* 70 Letters [March 24, New York, New York]
* Grahame Weinbren "70 Letters" [March 24, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
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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.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013
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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)
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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013
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3/18
Atlanta, Georgia: Contraband Cinema
http://contrabandcinema.com/300/atlanta-film-festival-experimental-films-march-18-2013.html
9:30, Seven Stages
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS PROGRAM AT ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL
Come on down to the Atlanta Film Festival for this very special night of
experimental film, hosted by Contraband Cinema. Local, regional and
international filmmakers will be present to screen and discuss their
work in this 1 NIGHT ONLY event. Films by Georg Koszulinski, Matteo
Giovanelli, Christopher Harris, Evan Meaney, Walter Ungerer, Tianran
Duan, Joseph Ernst, Rachel Moore, Robbie Land, Eric Patrick, Daniel
Dietzel, Jillian Mayer & Lucas Leyva, and Kathryn Brillhart.
3/18
Brooklyn, NY: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle bwtn Brooklyn & Evergreen Aves)
"THE GHOSTLY ELSEWHERE" VIDEOS/FILMS BY LORENZO GATTORNA, MON 3/18, 7PM
Monday March 18, 7PM, The Ghostly Elsewhere, New works by Lorenzo
Gattorna, artist in attendance, admission $6 - Microscope Gallery
welcomes Lorenzo Gattorna back to New York and Microscope for an evening
of new and recent works by the now Baltimore-based artist, including his
latest film Sunrise Fires, a seven-minute exploration of destruction and
subsequent regrowth of wildfires almost two decades apart. The program
features works in which the artist strives to realize the convergence of
direct observation and speculative fiction. - - PROGRAM: - Where Other,
film transferred to video, color, sound, 12 min, 2011 - At Rest, film
transferred to video, black and white and color, silent, 5 min, 2012 -
Mountain Lying Down, film transferred to video, black and white and
color, sound, 3 min, 2012 - Marshy Place Across, film transferred to
video, black and white and color, sound, 4 min 30 sec, 2012 - Falling
Out, Parts One and Two, film transferred to video, black and white,
silent (part one), color, sound (part two), 20 min, 2006 2012 -
Sunrise Fires, film transferred to video, black and white and color,
sound, 7 min, 2013 - Lorenzo Gattorna is a filmmaker and programmer
originally from New York now residing in Baltimore. His short films have
screened in exhibitions associated with Baltimore City Paper, CCNY, The
Chicago Underground Film Festival, LMAKprojects, Maysles Cinema,
Spectacle Theater, UnionDocs and Views from the Avant-Garde at The New
York Film Festival. He has programmed screenings in NYC for Maysles
Cinema, Spectacle Theater and UnionDocs as well. Currently he is
programming, alongside fellow practitioners Meg Rorison and Kate Ewald,
a roaming monthly screening series in Baltimore called Sight Unseen
supported by the MICA Launch Artists in Baltimore Award. - Full program
and additional info: www.microscopegallery.com
3/18
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
THE GHOSTLY ELSEWHERE ?NEW WORKS BY LORENZO GATTORNA
Artist in attendance, admission $6. Microscope Gallery welcomes Lorenzo
Gattorna back to New York and Microscope for an evening of new and
recent works by the now Baltimore-based artist, including his latest
film "Sunrise Fires", a seven-minute exploration of destruction and
subsequent regrowth of wildfires almost two decades apart. The program
features works in which the artist strives to realize the convergence of
direct observation and speculative fiction. PROGRAM: "Where Other", film
transferred to video, color, sound, 12 min, 2011. "At Rest", film
transferred to video, black and white and color, silent, 5 min, 2012.
"Mountain Lying Down", film transferred to video, black and white and
color, sound, 3 min, 2012. "Marshy Place Across", film transferred to
video, black and white and color, sound, 4 min 30 sec, 2012. "Falling
Out, Parts One and Two", film transferred to video, black and white,
silent (part one), color, sound (part two), 20 min, 2006 2012.
"Sunrise Fires", film transferred to video, black and white and color,
sound, 7 min, 2013. Soundtrack by Ryan Marino. BIO: Lorenzo Gattorna is
a filmmaker and programmer originally from New York now residing in
Baltimore. His short films have screened in exhibitions associated with
Baltimore City Paper, CCNY, The Chicago Underground Film Festival,
LMAKprojects, Maysles Cinema, Spectacle Theater, UnionDocs and Views
from the Avant-Garde at The New York Film Festival. He has programmed
screenings in NYC for Maysles Cinema, Spectacle Theater and UnionDocs as
well. Currently he is programming, alongside fellow practitioners Meg
Rorison and Kate Ewald, a roaming monthly screening series in Baltimore
called Sight Unseen supported by the MICA Launch Artists in Baltimore
Award. Full program at: www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433.
Nearest subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L Morgan Ave or
Jefferson Street.
3/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments
http://earlymonthlysegments.org/
8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #49 = TRINH MINH-HA + MICHAEL WALLIN
We are thrilled to be celebrating our 4th anniversary with a pair of
visionary essay films from the 1980s that are rarely shown in their
original 16mm format, our raison d'etre, four years on! Trinh T.
Minh-ha's first film Reassemblage (shot in 1981 in Senegal) opens with
her voiceover "I do not intend to speak about, just speak nearby", which
frames her groundbreaking experimental "interrogation" that centres on
women in rural Senegal. Minh-ha proceeds to call much into question:
what is filming? what is the place of the filmmaker? what is or should
be an ethnographic documentary? We open with a short from 1988 by
Michael Wallin. Decodings is an indelible found footage film that
explores the possibilities of, and barriers to, intimate relationships
between men and was produced at the height of AIDS hysteria. Wallin
takes us to the Mojave Desert; the locker room with frolicking boys;
into storms with a man who drives with his dog into the centre of bad
weather; all set to a moving Shostakovich score. What is understood?
What is decoded? @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar 1214 Queen St West Monday
March 18, 2012 8:00 PM screening $5 suggested donation Early Monthly
Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert
Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation
found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate
MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde
films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone. In this relaxed context
with refreshing beverages and food available, we hope to encourage a
convivial atmosphere for engaged viewing and post-screening dialogue.
Thanks to CFMDC + Women Make Movies + Gladstone Hotel.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013
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3/19
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30, 155 Freeman Street
TWO FILMS BY MARJORIE KELLER
Writing in Artforum in 1981, Amy Taubin praised Marjorie Keller as
"perhaps the only major filmmaker that the American independent film has
produced since the end of the Sixties." At the time of her sudden death
in 1994 at age 43, she would leave behind twenty-seven 8mm and 16mm
films\; tonight, Light Industry presents two of her most important
works, Misconception and Daughters of Chaos. Built from small-gauge
diary footage, both films are at once lyrical and anti-romantic,
propelled by expressive editing and complex sound-image correspondence
while providing a subtle commentary on the representation of women.
3/19
Chicago, Illinois: White Light Cinema
http://www.whitelightcinema.com
7:00pm, The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
UNLIMITED SUBJECTIVITY: THE WRITTEN AND SUNG WORK OF DUKE AND BATTERSBY
The Nightingale and White Light Cinema Present *** Unlimited
Subjectivity: The Written and Sung Work of Duke and Battersby ***
Screening and Book Release *** With Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
in Person! *** Tuesday, March 19 7:00pm at the Nightingale (1084 N.
Milwaukee Ave.) *** Copies of Mike Hoolboom's (Ed.) new book, "The
Beauty is Relentless: The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper
Battersby," will be available for purchase. *** The Nightingale and
White Light Cinema are please to welcome Canadian artists and video
makers Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby to present a
mini-retrospective of their videos, including two Chicago premieres, and
to continue the launch of a new publication on their work. Many of Duke
and Battersby's videos include original songs, sung by Duke, and
tonight's program will feature Duke singing a number of these songs live
in accompaniment to the videos. *** "The literary post-punk short movies
of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been tearing up the
festival/gallery circuit for the past fifteen years with their blend of
bedroom pop, perverse animations and hopes for fame." (Mike Hoolboom)
*** "Often working with the disconnects between human and animal - and
their urge to reconcile the sterile mechanics of our world versus the
intuitive viscerality we keep buried within - their dark sense of humour
has yielded a slate of bizarre taxidermies, installations, videos and
sculpture, all tinged with a gutsy, mystical longing that's sweet,
sinister, hilarious and disturbing all at once." (Murray Whyte, Toronto
Star) *** Program Details: Bad Ideas for Paradise (2001, 20 min),
Perfect Nature World (2002, 4 min) - with live singing, Songs of Praise
for the Heart Beyond Cure (2006, 15 min), Beauty Plus Pity (2008, 14
min), The Beauty Is Relentless (2010, 4 min) - with live singing, and
Here is Everything (2013, 15 min) - with live singing. ***
dukeandbattersby.com /// whitelightcinema.com /// nightingaletheatre.org
*** $7-10 Suggested Donation
3/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
BEHINDERT
See notes for March 16, 7 pm.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013
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3/20
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7:00, The New School, Theresa Lang Student
Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
JENNIFER REEVES: EXUBERANT EMULSIONS
Millennium Film Workshop Personal Cinema Series at The New School
Presents: "Jennifer Reeves: Exuberant Emulsions" Wednesday, March 20,
7:00 p.m. Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor
Free and Open to the Public The second in a three-part series presenting
personal visions of cinema's potential as an artistic medium continues
with a screening of work by acclaimed filmmaker, Jennifer Reeves. Reeves
employs optical-printing and direct-on-film techniques to create
visually complex personal films that traverse vast domains of
intellectual, environmental, and sensual experience. The program will
include a retrospective of shorts and a rare screening of two
dual-projector works. The screening will be followed by a conversation
with Reeves and filmmakers Joel Schlemowitz and Kelly Spivey. Presented
by Millennium Film Workshop in partnership with The School of Media
Studies and The New School for Public Engagement. The Millennium Film
Workshop is a non-profit media arts center located on the Lower East
Side. Since 1965 it has promoted the exhibition, production and study of
avant-garde and alternative film, video and media art.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013
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3/21
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cateblog
6:00pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St.
WAVELENGTHS: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
Introduced by curator Andréa Picard. A compendium of works featured in
the Toronto International Film Festival's celebrated Wavelengths
program. Curated by Andréa Picard, who has headed the avant-garde
section since 2006, this screening features the Chicago premieres of
Nathaniel Dorsky's August and After (2012), Ernie Gehr's Auto-Collider
XV (2011) and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan's View from the
Acropolis(2012) as well as a 35mm restored print of Henri Storck's
Surrealist gem, Pour vos beaux yeux (1929). Andréa Picard (b. 1977,
Toronto, Canada) is a film curator and writer based in Toronto and
Paris. 1929-2012, multiple countries, multiple formats, ca 71 min +
discussion
3/21
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate Harrisburg
8pm, Studio A, 106 State St
FREE SCREENING: PETTIBON, HAMILTON, BARNEY AND MORE... ART21 AT STUDIO A.
SHORT DOCS from the ART21 series on: - ANN HAMILTON, RAYMOND PETTIBON,
CINDY SHERMAN, MATTHEW BARNEY, SALLY MANN, MIKE KELLEY - Date: Thursday
March 21st at 8:00pm, Venue/Location: STUDIO A, HARRISBURG - FREE
SCREENING OF ART21 DOCUMENTARIES! - THIS IS A FREE EVENT.
3/21
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
KEN EHRLICH'S LA HUELGA
La Huelga is an experimental documentary video that examines a student
strike at the largest public University in Mexico (UNAM) in 19992000,
by juxtaposing participant interviews with a lyrical portrait of the
campus architecture. The video highlights the buildings within the
central campus, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007,
and designed by Mexican modernists Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral.
Juan O' Gorman also created complex mosaics with pre-Hispanic
associations on the central library, and José David Alfaro Siqueiros
finished famous murals on the administration building. This unique
architectural space sets the stage for a series of in-depth interviews
with students, authors, activists, and politicians attempting to unravel
the complex legacy of Mexico's most contested contemporary student
movement. Ken Ehrlich is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the
material, social, and formal dimensions of the built environment. He has
exhibited internationally in a variety of media, including video,
sculpture, and photography. He is the editor of Art, Architecture,
Pedagogy: Experiments in Learning (viralnet.net, 2010), and coeditor
(with Brandon LaBelle) of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (2003);
Surface Tension: Supplement, No. 1 (2006); and What Remains Of A
Building Divided Into Equal Parts And Distributed for Reconfiguration:
Surface Tension, No. 2 (2009), published by Errant Bodies Press. He
currently teaches in the Department of Critical Studies at CalArts and
in the Department of Art at the University of California, Riverside.
3/21
Oakland, CA: Real Time & Space
7 pm, 125 10th Street Oakland, CA 94607
ASHLEY BELLOUIN / RICK BAHTO
Rick Bahto: Accretions (2012) for multiple 35mm projectors Accretions is
a variable performance work drawing on an expanding collection of over
fifteen hundred 35mm slides. For this performance, a selection of slides
will be projected in various configurations for an indeterminate
duration. Also, a performance by Ashley Bellouin, whose work explores
the alternating dichotomies, as well as the merging of sound art,
electroacoustic composition, and instrument building. She focuses on the
study of sonology, psychoacoustics, and the interaction between sound
and architecture. On Thursday Ashley will be performing with her
hand-made glass harmonica, shruti box, and electronics.
3/21
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
7pm, 151 Third Street
MADE IN SF: FILMS BY BARBARA HAMMER
Dyketactics, 1974, 16mm, 4 min. Nitrate Kisses, 1992, 16mm, 77 min.
Barbara Hammer is an experimental filmmaker best known for her
groundbreaking works in queer cinema. She first studied film at San
Francisco State University in the late 1960s, at around the same time
that she came out as a lesbian an act that motivated and informed her
approach to the medium during the second wave of feminism in the 1970s.
Hammer has directed more than 80 films from her 1970s works that
engage taboo subjects through performance, to her 1980s experiments with
perception, to her 1990s documentaries on queer history. Tonight we
present two films made by Hammer in San Francisco, chosen by Hammer
herself. Nitrate Kisses, her first feature, weaves striking images of
the sexual activities of four gay and lesbian couples with footage that
unearths the forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people.
Dyketactics is hailed as the first lesbian lovemaking film to be made by
a lesbian filmmaker a sensual, evocative montage of 110 images
selected for their representation of the sense of touch. In the words of
the filmmaker, "I wanted to make a lesbian commercial." Part of More
Than Just Queer: Luminaries Past and Present.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013
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3/23
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON
Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or recently
completed works in an informal screening with brief introductions by the
artists and time for discussion between each work. This month's artists
include Lisa Marr, an award-winning filmmaker, writer and musician,
Lisa's work has been performed and exhibited throughout the world. Also
on the program is a new work by Yelena Zhelezov, a Belarusian-Israeli
artist and director based in Los Angeles. Yelena's work investigates the
representation of body biological and social, and as such takes form of
video projection, participatory installation, and puppetry/object
performance. Yelena stages considerations of film, language, and
architecture that manage to be both whimsical and critically engaged.
She uses strategies of research, editing, and accidents in her practice.
Also a live performance by Jeremy Rourke, a self taught animator and
musician from San Francisco. He uses paper, paint, shadows, wood, glass,
photographs, charcoal, flowers, tape, pens, pencils, sticks and leaves
to piece together his animations, which are set to his own music.
3/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
BEHINDERT
See notes for March 16, 7 pm.
3/23
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St
SAT. 3/23: WESTERN PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHIES + JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER +
Ending our psycho-geo triptych with a focus on the American West: Four
premieres, all in fact, by women. Kathryn Ramey's 16mm West: What I Know
About Her retraces Elizabeth Crandall Perry's 19th Century expedition to
the Northwest. Her experimental approach rhymes with that of Marcy
Saude, whose Sangre de Cristo explores the rich cultural terrain around
that famous New Mexican range. Oregonian Vanessa Renwick arrives to
debut her Portland Meadows, a meticulously-observed essay on that
eponymous racetrack, and Brigid McCaffrey delivers AM/PM, a curious
engagement with a displaced gold miner. PLUS Bill Daniel's Texas City,
Greta Snider's Urine Man, and Steve McQueen's Bullitt production-short.
The Jackie-O quartet dialogues with multiple film projections, including
the banned section of David Wojnarowicz' Fire in My Belly. $7.
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SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013
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3/24
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
7:30, 12 W. North Avenue
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS BEN RUSSELL'S TRYPPS #1-7
Doors @ 7:30pm, Films @ 8pm. - All films shown on 16mm. - Sight Unseen
is happy to show the entirety of Ben Russell's TRYPPS series in
Baltimore for the first time. Ben has come and shown his films in
Baltimore several times over the last few years, and we're excited to
present a culmination of that work. - "Using a fabricated Old
English word as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly)
16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that
its title elicits physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a
phenomenological experience of the world. - Begun in 2005 in a somewhat
vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully
embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode
Island, the TRYPPS films quickly 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 a lá Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies
radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen
to enunciate a broader project of "psychedelic ethnography" a
practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards
understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end." -
Ben Russell - For more information on the individual TRYPPS
films and Ben Russell, please visit http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
- $5 General Admission
3/24
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 PARABLE BY JON JOST
Los Angeles premiere with filmmaker Jon Jost in person! PARABLE works
on a visual and visceral level for which a synoptic summary is
impossible. It is a reflection of The Time of Bush in America, a squalid
period of corruption equal to our country's worst, or, as if possible,
even the worst. The film tackles this era with a melange of genres
typical of our culture, a culture which distills in reality down to
cartoons and in which a trajectory from domestic melodrama leads
axiomatically to Abu Ghraib. PARABLE is history as farce, an American
tragedy limned by the Flintstones and Simpsons, where seriousness has
been subsumed by "reality TV," and the populace has been reduced to
zombie-like consumers busy eating themselves. Read Dennis Grunes' review
at http://www.jon-jost.com/work/parable2.html. Screening: Parable (2008,
Digital Video, Color, Sound, 72 min.), preceded by the LA Premiere of
the short film A Walk Through Waseda Garden! Tickets: $10 general, $6
students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card
in advance from Brown Paper Tickets or by cash or check at the door.
3/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CARRIAGE TRADE
by Warren Sonbert 1973 version, 61 min, 16mm "My magnum opus. Travels
over four continents in six years." W.S. "With CARRIAGE TRADE, Sonbert
began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers
of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the 'knee-jerk' reaction produced
by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own
style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as 'a jig-saw puzzle
of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.' This approach,
according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted
readings of the connections between shots through the spectator's
assimilation of 'the changing relations of the movement of objects, the
gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions,
rhythm, spacing, and density of images." Jon Gartenberg
3/24
New York, New York: Experimental Intermedia
http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/13/march13.shtml
9pm, 224 Center Street
70 LETTERS
I have been screening Letters as a continuing, unfolding work for about
6 years. It consists of an indeterminate number of films, each one
minute in duration, and connected--somehow--with a letter of
the alphabet. I see the work as a kind of container of and test-ground
for ideas: certainly ideas about cinema, both technical and conceptual,
but also another kind of idea, the externalization of an inner life,
inasmuch as that tired phrase describes anything. ---- * * * ---- For
each screening of the piece I remove some Letters and add others. In the
EI screening, there will be about 70 Letters, including some that are
quite personal and private, and some which I have never shown to anyone.
The subjects range from portraiture to still life, from musical to
memorial, from landscape to kitchen, from manic to depressive. ---- * *
* ---- Letters is a single work that constantly changes over the years,
shedding some parts and gaining others. There isn't and won't be a
definitive version of the piece--it is deliberately elusive,
impossible to pin down as a single object. The upper limit will be 100
Letters, if I make it that far--but the 100 Letters version will,
like any living creature, always be in the process of discarding some
cells while growing new ones.
3/24
New York, New York: Experimental Intermedia
http://www.experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/13/march13.shtml
9pm, 224 Center Street
GRAHAME WEINBREN "70 LETTERS"
I have been screening Letters as a continuing, unfolding work for about
6 years. It consists of an indeterminate number of films, each one
minute in duration, and connected--somehow--with a letter of
the alphabet. I see the work as a kind of container of and test-ground
for ideas: certainly ideas about cinema, both technical and conceptual,
but also another kind of idea, the externalization of an inner life,
inasmuch as that tired phrase describes anything. ---- * * * ---- For
each screening of the piece I remove some Letters and add others. In the
EI screening, there will be about 70 Letters, including some that are
quite personal and private, and some which I have never shown to anyone.
The subjects range from portraiture to still life, from musical to
memorial, from landscape to kitchen, from manic to depressive. ---- * *
* ---- Letters is a single work that constantly changes over the years,
shedding some parts and gaining others. There isn't and won't be a
definitive version of the piece--it is deliberately elusive,
impossible to pin down as a single object. The upper limit will be 100
Letters, if I make it that far--but the 100 Letters version will,
like any living creature, always be in the process of discarding some
cells while growing new ones.
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