Part 2 of 2: This week [April 6 - 14, 2013] in avant garde cinema ------------------------ THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013 ------------------------
4/11 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St. AN EVENING WITH ROSA BARBA An evening with German-Italian artist Rosa Barba, whose work takes shape through books, sculptural film-based installations, and short films. Often set in monumental landscapesthe Red Zone around Mount Vesuvius, military test sites in the Mojave Desert, an island adrift in the Baltic Seaher films combine documentary, performance, and science fiction to examine surreal confrontations between nature, humans, and their technologies. Presented in collaboration with SAIC's Visiting Artists Program and the Video Data Bank. Rosa Barba (b. 1972, Agrigento, Italy) currently lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited in film festivals, art biennales, art museums, and galleries worldwide. Barba is the recipient of numerous international prizes, including the Nam June Paik Award (2010). 2007-11, Italy/Netherlands/Sweden/USA, multiple formats, ca 70 min + discussion 4/11 Hallowell, ME 04347: Kennebec Valley Art Association www.harlowgallery.org 7:00 PM, Maine Public Television Channel 10 WALTER UNGERER, SELECTED FILMS On Thursday, April 11, 2013, the Harlow Gallery will host a program of recent short films by renowned filmmaker Walter Ungerer. In the 1950s 60s he was a fixture in The Village art community and underground film scene in New York City, which included such names as Ed Emshwiller, Bob Lowe, Jonas Mekas, Tony Montanaro, and Stan Vanderbeek. His work spans fifty years of filmmaking, from his cinema verité documentaries (THE TASMANIAN DEVIL, KEEPING THINGS WHOLE), to narrative films (THE ANIMAL, THE WINTER THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SNOW), to more recent DSLR computer generated works (KINGSBURY BEACH, BLUE PARROT, MONARDA, and PARVA SED APTA MIHI). Ungerer learned his basic filmmaking skills working on various productions: THE COOL WORLD, a theatrical film directed by Shirley Clarke; and FREEDOM FOR THY PEOPLE, a United Church of Christ documentary shot in Nigeria. He produced his own experimental films MEET ME, JESUS and A LION'S TALE soon after. Then came the OOBIELAND films, which gave him wide recognition. The Museum of Modern Art included UBI EST TERRAM OOBIAE? Part Two of OOBIELAND, in a program that toured the world for one year, representing experimental filmmaking in the United States. In the next few years the OOBIELAND films (there are five parts), received awards at such experimental film festivals as Ann Arbor, Foothill, Bellevue, and Baltimore. In 1969 Ungerer left New York for Vermont and a job teaching filmmaking at Goddard College. He tapped into resources at the college, namely personnel for cast and crew (including BREAD AND PUPPET THEATRE) for the longer narrative films he was beginning to produce. For thirty-three years he lived in Vermont creating feature length experimental narrative films: THE ANIMAL, THE HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS, THE WINTER THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SNOW and LEAVING THE HARBOR; always using the talents of local actors. In the late twentieth century several factors changed Ungerer's way of working. He was no longer able to find funding for his projects, though he was the recipient of national and regional awards: American Film Institute filmmaker grant, National Endowment on the Arts grant, National Endowment of the Humanities grant, and several Vermont Council on the Arts grants. The world was beginning to accept video as an alternative to film. Lack of funding and a curiosity about the creative potential for video and the computer, was the incentive for Ungerer to shift from film to video, and from the Moviola or Steenbeck film editing machines to the Amiga computer and non-linear editing. What occurred with this shift was a change in the look and duration of the projects that Ungerer began to create. They became much shorter in length from the 75 to 90 minute narrative films, to the 5 to 15 minute computer generated works. It was a move from the long form to the short form, much like the difference between prose and poetry in literature. The projects were also more frequently produced. Ungerer moved to Maine in 2003. His methods are now different, methods he began to accept at the end of the twentieth century, working on computer editing systems and shooting with digital cameras. Nonetheless he still relies on an intuitive approach to decision making with a predilection for the themes of nature, earth, the unknown and unknowable. Please note: Q&A with Walter Ungerer at the end of the showing. 4/11 Hallowell, ME 04347: Harlow Gallery www.harlowgallery.org 7:00 PM, Harlow Gallery, 160 Water Street, Hallowell, ME 04347 WALTER UNGERER, SELECTED FILMS The public is invited to the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street in downtown Hallowell for a FREE screening of short films by Walter Ungerer on Thursday April 11th at 7:00pm. Five films will be screened: MONARDA, KINGSBURY BEACH, CLOUDS, PARVA SED APTA MIHI, and MAUVAIS GARÇON. These are more recent works (1999-2012) all using the computer extensively. Ungerer has been a media artist for almost fifty years, beginning his career in New York City, then spending the next thirty five years in Vermont, and for the past ten years living in Maine. His work has been shown at venues throughout the world including MoMA, NY; Tate Britain; Everson; WDR-TV; RAI-TV; Lichtmess, Hamburg; Factory Art, Berlin; Village Vanguard, NY; Gate Theater; and LA Film Forum to mention a few. His films have won awards at Ann Arbor, Athens, Black Maria, Foothill, Halifax, Montreal, Syracuse, Big Muddy, Antimatter and others. The screening will be followed with a brief Q & A. Ungerer will be in attendance. 4/11 Leeds, United Kingdom: Limerent Objects http://limerentobjects.tumblr.com/ 20:00, Wharf Chambers, 23 Wharf St, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 7EQ, United Kingdom "A NOISY DELIVERY" BY GX JUPITTER-LARSEN (WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING) Limerent Objects is proud to present A Noisy Delivery by GX Jupitter-Larsen (2013, 60 minutes) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////// Six years in the making and shot around the world from Hollywood to Switzerland to the Arctic circle in Norway, A Noisy Delivery is the first feature length work in a long line of experimental film and video projects written and directed by the multimedia artist GX Jupitter-Larsen. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Synopsis: A couple were going to get together after the girlfriend had dropped off her package, but the boyfriend will have to keep waiting. Everyone, it seems, was at the post office for philosophy instead of postage. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////// Starring: Tim Bennett-Huxtable, Jessica King, Dave Phillips, amk, Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant), Mike Dando (Con-Dom), Christopher Dennis (Confessions of a Superhero), Edward J. Giles, Geoff Brandin, and Sergio Messina. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Free entry with small donations welcomed. Doors open at 19:45, event starts at 20:00 and ends before 22:00. An introduction by the organiser and a selection of related short films and trailers will precede the main feature. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////// Special thanks to GX Jupitter-Larsen for making this event possible. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ *Wharf Chambers Co-operative Club is a members' club, and you need to be a member, or a guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.* //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////// Facebook event here. 4/11 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. DANA DUFF'S THE GRINGAS The Gringas is an unconventional documentary about the family of a teenaged American-German girl growing up in rural Mexico set around the planning of her quinceañera and its aftermath. Shot and edited by the artist Dana Duff, The Gringas is a portrait of five years in the lives of her friends, American and German expatriates. These Pagan hippies live in an old school bus permanently parked in the middle of nowhere, overlooking the dirt fields of Mexico. Lena is the 15-year-old daughter who can move fluidly in either urban Los Angeles or rural Mexico, seemingly comfortable in her identity as a Mexican country girl, yet she belongs neither here nor there. The story expands to encompass the lives of her parents and her fiancé and the question of her future becomes a series of love letters between Mexico and "Norte America." Dana Duff lives and works primarily in Los Angeles and Mexico. She's exhibited her object works in a number of solo shows, including Max Protech Gallery (NYC), New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC). Her moving image works in small format film and video have been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva, and other programs. Dana Duff in person! 4/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: HANNAH SCHüPBACH In April, we welcome back Swiss artist and filmmaker Hannes Schüpbach, who last made an appearance at Anthology in 2001. For this program, Schüpbach will present a recently-completed trilogy entitled SPIN/VERSO/CONTOUR. Comprised of three lovely and crystalline silent 16mm films, the trilogy emphasizes the corporeal act of vision and revision, conjuring a dreamlike state that plays on the viewer's memory by means of repetition and subtle rhythmical shifts. Schüpbach has completed nine films since 1999, but he was incorporating cinematographic elements into his installations and serial paintings prior to that. His work was the subject of the exhibition 'Stills and Movies' at Kunsthalle Basel in 2009, which highlighted the conceptual interconnections between his installations, performances, and films, all of which involve movement and unfold through memory. "Just like the delicate constructions that form his paintings, [Schüpbach's] film images are transformed into a graceful experiment in vision one that wavers between the material and the immaterial." Andréa Picard, CINEMA SCOPE The presence of the artist has been made possible by a grant from SWISS FILMS, The Arts Council of Switzerland. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Schüpbach and Vincent Katz (poet; editor of VANITAS). SPIN/VERSO/CONTOUR 2011, 41 min, 16mm, silent 4/11 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 8:00, St Anne's Church, 270 Gladstone Avenue OPENING NIGHT! TIM HECKER + ROBERT TODD WSG SLOWPITCH Prolific, precise and profound, Robert Todd will provide the perfect visual complement to Tim Hecker's emotive aural intersection of noise, dissonance and melody at our 2013 Opening Night Gala. Since 2001, Montreal-based Tim Hecker has been not so quietly deconstructing contemporary electronic music from its techno/house foundations into something more elemental and visceral. As the New York Times put it, he plays "foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow-moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole." Having made over 60 films over the past two decades, Robert Todd has a mastery of 16mm filmmaking that eschews categorization. As effective with the clarity and efficiency of the documentary form as he is with the mysterious shapes and shadows of the lyrical mode, Todd records the world with a sympathetic eye. Feathers and fields, stones and skin are rendered with sculptural accuracy, emerging from darkness into light, from focus to blur, refreshing and refining our own sense of vision. From prisons to playgrounds, streetscapes to landscapes, interiors to underbrush, there seems to be no place or object that resists transformation through the deft manipulations of Robert Todd's lens. Using a turntable, percussion sequencer and effects/looping device, SlowPitch will open the festival with a heavy dose of crackly textures and mesmerizing drones to create lush audio landscapes and euphoric rhythms. SlowPitch will be presenting the Toronto debut of a live audiovisual piece titled Emoralis, a collection of moving images of transforming snails, his unique sound pairing seamlessly with the fluid movements of these fantastic creatures. The project is a collaboration with video artist Wifihifiscifi and is in support of his album of the same name forthcoming on Montreal/Swiss label Phonosaurus Records. ---------------------- FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 ---------------------- 4/12 Chicago, IL: UIC Art and Design Hall 5pm, UIC Art and Design Hall TOO MUCH INFORMATION: UIC BFA THESIS SHOW Too Much Information features the work of the 2013 UIC BFA class (all 53 of them). - Opening Reception will take place Friday April 12 from 5pm-9pm on the 5th floor Great Space Gallery with video screenings in the 3rd floor screening room (#3226) of the UIC Art and Design Hall (400 S. Peoria St.) - 4/12 Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale http://nightingaletheatre.org/ 8pm, 1084 N. Milwaukee .BLACK~SSSTATIC_DARK~FUZZZ_DOOM~GLITCH. I have brought you here that you might have the best possible view of the scene of that event I mentioned--and to tell you the whole story with the spot just under your eye. -E.A. Poe .blacK~SSStaTic_darK~fuZZZ_dOOm~glitCH. is a screening program inspired by storms and digital sorcery or, more pointedly, it is an assemblage of lights and sounds to elicit a chaotic vortex of smudgy black charcoal that is streaked with freezing water, painted on celluloid, stained by sea creatures, hexed through new media, and entranced by guitar riffs. Artists included are Aldo Tambellini, Cultus Sabbati, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, jonCates, mojo (for Aluk Todolo), Reto Mäder and Daniel Steffen (for Ural Umbo), Alexander Stewart, and Semiconductor. This Chicago screening will also include an additional chapter, with video by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder and sound by Olivia Block. .blacK~SSStaTic_darK~fuZZZ_dOOm~glitCH. was curated by Amelia Ishmael by invitation for Nitehawk Cinema's Artist Film Club in Brooklyn, NY, where it premiered on January 24, 2013. Admission: $7-10 sliding scale 4/12 Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art http://www.nelson-atkins.org 7:00 p.m., 4525 Oak Street ELECTROMEDIASCOPE It is with mixed feelings that we present our 20th anniversary and final Electromediascope program titled "The End" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art this April 12, 19 and 26, 2013. On April 12 we are exited to have composer, musician and sound artist Laetitia Sonami and visual artist SUE-C here in person to kick-off the celebration with a presentation of "Sheepwoman," a collaborative live cinema and sound performance constructed real time on stage. Sonami will also perform "Tunnel of Love," a world premiere sound installation by Paul DeMarinis and her own electronic sound work and world premiere, "Birds without Feet cannot Land." See www.sonami.net and www.sheepwoman.com. On April 19 we will present the feature length Inuit film "Before Tomorrow." We end the series on April 26 with a selection of short works by Anri Sala, William Kentridge, Peggy Ahwesh, Guy Maddin, Robin Rhode, Jesper Just, Jem Cohen & Luc Sante and Les LeVeque. To commemorate this milestone event, we have compiled a listing of all the works we have shown over the years, and the Museum has published it a small catalog, "Electromediascope 20th Anniversary." Copies are available for $15.95 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum Store. You may order online at museumstore.nelson-atkins.org, or call 816-751-1242. We feel very privileged to have been able to curate and present such a wide variety of films, videos and new media artworks by more than 350 artists from 53 different countries of origin. Electromediascope has had a great 20-year run at the Nelson-Atkins, and now we are excited by the prospect of redirectaing our time and energy back into our own artwork and writing. --Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer 4/12 Los Angeles, CA: Consuming Spirits http://www.cinefamily.org/films/animation-breakdown-presents-consuming-spirits/#animation-breakdown-presents-consuming-spirits-412-800pm 8:00, 611 North Fairfax Avenue CONSUMING SPIRITS IN LA, AT CINEFAMILY, PRSENTED BY ANIMATION BREAKDOWN AND CINEFAMILY See URL for details. 4/12 Los Angeles, CA: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8:00, 1200 N. Alvarado Street FILMS & VIDEOS BY JANIS CRYSTAL LIPZIN & ALEE PEOPLES Films/videos that question truth, history, and place in the fact-based arena 4/12 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. JANIS CRYSTAL LIPZIN & ALEE PEOPLES This program brings together two artists whose works draw upon and play with the conventions of documentary, ethnographic, reportage, and other forms of fact-based filmmaking. Bay Area-based Janis Crystal Lipzin will screen Cracks Between the Stones, which asks viewers to reconsider expert speculation about past history, combining imagery of ancient and contemporary architectural sites with sound constructed from a variety of sources, ranging from Navajo radio broadcasts to a slide lecture delivered by a Park Ranger at Mesa Verde National Park. Her film Other Reckless Things was made in response to a newspaper account of a self-inflicted Caesarian section performed with a penknife, and looks at the hospital birth of twin babies of a personal friend of the artist, accompanied by a soundtrack composed and performed by Ellen Zweig. Lipzin will also show The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, and her recent Micro-celluloid Incidents in Four Santas. Los Angeles-based Alee Peoples will show Lonelyville and The Root That Ate Roger Williams, both exploring the influence of the past on the present in Providence, RI. Lonelyville centers on a walking tour narrating the local effects of the recent real estate market crash, while The Root That Ate Roger Williams is a dual documentary of what happened to the remains of Providence's founder and champion of free religion as well as a club based on the actual folklore of the root. Peoples will also show Boys of Summer and a brand new print of her recent Them Oracles. Lipzin and Peoples both in person! 4/12 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 6:30 , Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) ALTHEA THAUBERGER: A MEMORY LASTS FOREVER Our 2013 Canadian Artist Spotlight features the work of Vancouver-based Althea Thauberger. Often addressing concepts and themes concerning nature and its representation in popular culture, Thauberger also experiments with atypical forms of performance, improvisation and models of documentation. Working in both film and photography, her works feature the monumental and mannered formality of classical genre painting while addressing present-day issues in a hyper-realist style. Often working with specifically defined communities or social groups - soldiers, teenage girls and tree-planters, among others- she works together with her subjects to develop performances that provide opportunities for self-presentation in relation to social structures. Her documentation of these collaborations results in a startling slippage between drama and documentary, between the real and the fake, simultaneously distancing viewers and enticing them into an intricate web of reference and representation. ------------------------ SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013 ------------------------ 4/13 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, FREE FORM FILM FESTIVAL, AND VIDEO DATA BANK PRESENT POINT AND SHOOT: VIDEOS BY GEORGE KUCHAR (A CELEBRATION) With Mike Kuchar, Free Form Film Festival Curator Ryan Wylie, and Video Data Bank Collection Manager Tom Colley in person! Note the change in day! Filmforum pays tribute to the late great George Kuchar with an evening of his video work. While his decades of films are most often screened, George played and made remarkable works on video for many years, most notably his Weather Diary series, but also much more. This program was curated by Abina Manning of Video Data Bank, which distributes videos by the Kuchar Brothers. Quite a few are probably Los Angeles premieres! We're delighted to partner with the Free Form Film Festival this weekend, and are really honored to have Mike Kuchar in person for both evenings as well. We also have, from VDB, Tom Colley, who has been overseeing the preservation work on the videos. We'll be screening new works by Mike Kuchar on Sunday night. 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/363820 or at the door. Screening: [all video, 4:3] Point 'n Shoot (1989, 5:08), Route 666 (1994, 7:51), Season of Sorrow (1996, 12:23), Uncle Evil (1996, 7:02), Honey Bunnies On Ice (2001, 7:00) total running time 76 min. 4/13 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St MARC OLMSTED & THE JOB + RUSS FORSTER + THE OCTOPLAYER + Beat-punk poet Marc Olmsted celebrates the literary impulse in the media arts with his kit bag of books, movies, and musical instruments. Eclectic combo The Job creates rhythmic support for his spoken word. PLUS Olmsted films Burroughs on Bowery, American Mutant, and a section from his new one, The Count. Guest emcee Ben Woodas Eadweard Muybridgeopens with a Magic Lantern vignette, Russ Forster riffs on 16rpm and 78rpm in his Revolutions Per Minute, Thad Povey and Mark Taylor demo their 8-tiered turntable, and a Quintron clip showcases his photo-electric disco device. PLUS Will Erokan, Jorge Lorenzo, and David Cox on Optigan. 4/13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 10:30 , Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) MMNEMONIC DVICES - RECENT TORONTO FILM/VIDEO Guest curated by: Blake Williams, Julian Carrington, Nick Benidt Spirits and phantasms, chapels and pontiffs, celluloid and binaries - the works in this program summon, explore and organize memory as a means for better absorbing the present and portending the future. WORKS BY: Leslie Supnet, Yi Cui, Mani Mazinani, Karen Henderson, Ariana Andrei, Stephen Broomer, Joe Hambleton, Cameron Moneo, Christine Lucy Latimer, Clint Enns, John Creson + Adam Rosen, Albert Wisco. 4/13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 6:00, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) JEAN-MARIE TENO'S LEAF IN THE WIND Reflecting on the perpetuation of history's traumas, Jean-Marie Teno's latest film continues his ongoing project of documenting the impact of colonial and postcolonial politics on the lives of the people in his native Cameroon. Leaf in the Wind is both a reclaiming of forgotten chapters of Cameroonian history and a foray into the personal stories and broken lives behind the history. Ernest Ouandie was a freedom fighter for Cameroonian independence who was executed in 1971 by Cameroonian authorities, leaving behind a daughter he never met. Teno met Ernestine Ouandie in 2004 and she told him her story: the struggle of being an orphan, shunned by her mother, living with and working hard for her unsympathetic extended family to survive, and eventually growing up to search for information about her late father. Having no immediate plans for the material, Teno put the remarkable interview aside, but six years later, while researching another project, Teno learned that in 2009 Ernestine had chosen to end her own life, leaving her three children and husband behind. Reopening the Ouandie archives, Teno seeks to restore his memory as inspired by the account of his daughter. The film is a testament to her and to her father, and her voice and her words are a questioning cri de coeur, making us reconsider the role of the hero in history. Teno's film invites us to ponder the price of freedom, and to ask ourselves if commitment to a cause is noble, or if self-sacrifice is ultimately a supreme form of selfishness, made at the cost of the lives of those left behind. SCREENING WITH: Next Week (Guy Wouete) and Fleur de Lys (Michèle Magema) 4/13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 8:00, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) ALL THAT IS SOLID - SHORTS PROGRAM Time passes. Meanwhile, humans struggle against inevitable destruction and decay, creating, collecting, preserving, transforming and documenting the world around us. The works in this program outline a variety of approaches to ephemerality, the ways in which we resist it, who decides what will be saved and what will be discarded. Films/videos: Un film inédit (Gordon Webber), Museum of the Imagination (Amit Dutta), Quartet For the End of Time (Deanna Erdmann), A Third Version of the Imaginary (Benjamin Tiven), 48 Heads from Merkurov Museum (after Kurt Kren) (Anna Artaker), In My Room (Chance Taylor) and The Invisible World (Jesse McLean). ---------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013 ---------------------- 4/14 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, FREE FORM FILM FESTIVAL, AND VIDEO DATA BANK PRESENT STARBOUND: NEW VIDEOS BY MIKE KUCHAR With Mike Kuchar, Free Form Film festival Curator Ryan Wylie, and Video Data Bank Collection Manager Tom Colley in person! Mike Kuchar returns to Filmforum with new video works. Mixing the romantic yearnings of poetic souls, strapping young men, and the eloquent and peculiar fascination that he has for aliens and architecture, Mike Kuchar continues to produce his own unique brand of video art. Join us for a very special evening, which will probably include a couple of Mike's actors as well. We're delighted to partner with the Free Form Film Festival this weekend, and are really honored to have Mike Kuchar in person for both evenings as well. We also have, from VDB, Tom Colley, who has been overseeing the preservation work on the Kuchar videos. 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/363823 or at the door. Screening (subject to change): Echo's Garden (2010, DV video, color, stereo, 4:3, 11 min), Dumped (2009, DV video, color, stereo, 4:3, 10:20), Animal (2009, DV video, color, stereo, 4:3, 16:38), The Stone Boy (2011, DV video, color, stereo, 16:9, 6 min), Midnight Suite (2011, DV video, color, stereo, 16:9, 6 min), Starbound (2012, DV video, color, stereo, 16:9, 47 min) Total running time 97 min. 4/14 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue CLEOPATRA Michel Auder CLEOPATRA 1970, 155 min, 35mm-to-video Ostensibly set in Egypt but actually filmed in (dead-ringer) upstate New York, as well as on the hallowed Cinecittà soundstage in Italy, the production of Auder's CLEOPATRA was troubled in ways not too dissimilar to the Joseph Mankiewicz film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton that it parodies. Both movies ran into budget troubles, but in Auder's case he got into a fight with the producers and the film was never properly released, or edited. Starring regular Warhol mouthpiece Viva as you-know-who, and her regular Factory co-star Louis Waldon in the role of Caesar, this rambling underground epic takes place on snow-mobiles, in a hotel room that substitutes for a palace, and on the streets of Rome. Taylor appears in the superstar-studded ensemble alongside Nico, Gerard Malanga, and Ondine. The culminating orgy scene is, well, a must-see. 4/14 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 6:30, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) SLEIGHT OF HAND - SHORTS PROGRAM From its very beginnings, film was used to document spectacular sights and significant events. At the same time, other filmmakers sought to explore its unique properties to create magic and mystery, to amuse, amaze and confound. The films here hark back to the early cinema of the Lumières, Edison and Méliès, in their wonder at the medium and its possibilities for recording the phenomena around them. WORKS BY: Bjoern Kaemmerer, Peter Miller, Brian Virostek, Fern Silva, Mark Loeser, Kevin Jerome Everson, Simon Queheillard and JB Mabe. 4/14 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Images Festival http://www.imagesfestival.com/ 9:00 , Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W (McCaul entrance) JOHN TORRES'S LUKAS NINO (LUKAS THE STRANGE) A young girl narrates the story of a missing actress, a missing local man and all the ensuing excitement and disruption that occur when a film crew comes to town to shoot a movie. All the inhabitants, young and old, hope to get a part in the production and spend their days rehearsing, auditioning and talking about the movie. In the midst of it all, 13-year-old Lukas is confronted by the disappearance of his father, who is rumoured to be a tikbalang half man, half horse. Wandering through the village, Lukas wonders what his father's condition means for him and what special powers he might have inherited. Will he be able to run faster, jump higher? Can it be that flexing his muscles will cause the light of day suddenly to dim? Torres drops the viewer into the action after the story has already commenced, and the resulting dreamlike disorientation is augmented by the beauty of his images. Shot with 35mm film and featuring analogue as well as digital video imagery, Lukas nino is also a love letter to the compelling power of moving images. Torres has an eye for detail and the film is exceptionally beautiful to watch. From chiaroscuro interiors to sun-bleached roadways to erotic black-and-white analogue video, the texture of the work tells its own story. Torres knows and shows us how movies and all that surrounds them can engage, amuse and entertain or sometimes seduce and change a life forever. 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