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Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: ============================ "Miss Candace Hilligoss' flickering halo" by Fabio Scacchioli http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=509.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Columbus International Film + Video Festival (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1570.ann LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FESTIVAL (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: April 20, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1571.ann Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1572.ann Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: May 17, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1573.ann Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1574.ann Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1575.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Esperimental Documentaries (New York, NY; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1522.ann twin rivers media festival (Asheville, NC USA; Deadline: May 06, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1535.ann Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1539.ann Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1547.ann Con i minuti contati - International Short Film Festival (Montefalco, Umbria, Italy; Deadline: April 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1553.ann Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2013 Call for Entries (UK; Deadline: May 03, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1556.ann Mumbai Women's International Film Festival (Mumbai,India; Deadline: April 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1558.ann 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 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 Exuberant Politics (Iowa City, IA; Deadline: April 21, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1565.ann LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FESTIVAL (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: April 20, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1571.ann Regent Park Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1574.ann Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1575.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): ============================== * 13 Lakes: Recent Films of James Benning [April 6, Austin, TX] * Ten Skies: Recent Films of James Benning [April 6, Austin, TX] * Ria Live Cinema (Aka Our Eye Aye = Ria = Resonant Interval Algorythmns) [April 6, Los Angeles, California] * Stom Sogo Program 3 [April 6, New York, New York] * Stom Sogo Program 4 [April 6, New York, New York] * Doug Harvey's Pataphysical Interrogation Techniques [April 6, San Francisco, California] * Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * The War: Recent Films of James Benning [April 7, Austin, TX] * L.A. Filmforum Presents Leighton Pierce: Familial Time Defamiliarized [April 7, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Valentin/Vigo Program [April 7, New York, New York] * Stom Sogo Program 5 [April 7, New York, New York] * Stom Sogo Program 6 [April 7, New York, New York] * Realisms: New Work By Scott Stark [April 7, San Francisco, California] * Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Brave New World: the Films of Barbara Hammer [April 7, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Stemple Pass: Recent Films By James Benning [April 8, Austin, TX] * Dirty Handed Cinema: Handmade 16mm Films By Richard Tuohy [April 8, Brooklyn, New York] * Experiences In Transformative Time: New Work By Leighton Pierce [April 8, Los Angeles, California] * Walter Ungerer [April 8, Portland] * Four X Dorsky [April 10, Austin, Tx] * Alison S. M. Kobayashi: videos, Performances, and Other Works [April 10, Boston] * Luc Sante Presents Nicole VÉDrÈS's Paris 1900 [April 10, Brooklyn, NY] * Nightworks - Film, video and Performance Event [April 10, London, England] * The Last Words of Dutch Schultz [April 10, New York, New York] * We Are Winning, Don't Forget: Short Works By Jean-Gabriel PéRiot [April 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] * Leviathan [April 10, Providence, RI] * Floating Energy: the Films of Nathaniel Dorsky [April 10, Seattle, Washington] * <B>An Evening With Rosa Barba</B> [April 11, Chicago, Illinois] * Walter Ungerer, Selected Films [April 11, Hallowell, ME 04347] * Walter Ungerer, Selected Films [April 11, Hallowell, ME 04347] * "A Noisy Delivery" By Gx Jupitter-Larsen (World Premiere Screening) [April 11, Leeds, United Kingdom] * Dana Duff's the Gringas [April 11, Los Angeles, California] * Show & Tell: Hannah SchüPbach [April 11, New York, New York] * Opening Night! Tim Hecker + Robert Todd Wsg Slowpitch [April 11, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Too Much Information: Uic Bfa thesis Show [April 12, Chicago, IL] * .Black~Ssstatic_dark~Fuzzz_doom~Glitch. [April 12, Chicago, Illinois] * Electromediascope [April 12, Kansas City, Missouri] * Consuming Spirits In La, At Cinefamily, Prsented By Animation Breakdown and Cinefamily [April 12, Los Angeles, CA] * Films &Amp; videos By Janis Crystal Lipzin &Amp; Alee Peoples [April 12, Los Angeles, CA] * Janis Crystal Lipzin & Alee Peoples [April 12, Los Angeles, California] * Althea Thauberger: A Memory Lasts Forever [April 12, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * L.A. Filmforum, Free Form Film Festival, and video Data Bank Present Point and Shoot: videos By George Kuchar (A Celebration) [April 13, Los Angeles, California] * Marc Olmsted & the Job + Russ Forster + the Octoplayer + [April 13, San Francisco, California] * Mmnemonic Dvices - Recent Toronto Film/Video [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Jean-Marie Teno's Leaf In the Wind [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * All That Is Solid - Shorts Program [April 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * L.A. Filmforum, Free Form Film Festival, and video Data Bank Present Starbound: New videos By Mike Kuchar [April 14, Los Angeles, California] * Cleopatra [April 14, New York, New York] * Sleight of Hand - Shorts Program [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * John Torres's Lukas Nino (Lukas the Strange) [April 14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013 ----------------------- 4/6 Austin, TX: Austin Film Society http://www.austinfilm.org/ 11am, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th) 13 LAKES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING James Benning is one of the world's most significant and groundbreaking avant-garde filmmakers. Beginning the early 1970s, he began his exploration of the American landscape on film, while introducing rigorous formal structures and experiments with sound and image. In these, his recent films, made between 2004 and 2012, a range of Benning's longtime interests and greatest gifts come to light: his working class roots and political activism (the war) and his interest in places, history and cinematic time (STEMPLE PASS, 13 LAKES and TEN SKIES). 13 Lakes: Benning's attraction to landscapes, form and studying place over time coalesces in this astonishingly rich, minimalist work which consists of long takes of thirteen US lakes. While formal in structure, a narrative emerges; artist Martin Beck wrote of the film "13 Lakes tells the story about a landscape, its virginity, and its culturalization." Presented in 16mm. 4/6 Austin, TX: Austin Film Society http://www.austinfilm.org/ 2pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E 6th) TEN SKIES: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING The companion piece to 13 LAKES, TEN SKIES documents a series of skyscapes in California. James Benning described it as an anti-war film, "about the antithesis of war, [about] the kind of beauty we are destroying." The films have been heralded as cinematic masterpieces by cinephiles and critics alike. Presented in 16mm. 4/6 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. RIA LIVE CINEMA (AKA OUR EYE AYE = RIA = RESONANT INTERVAL ALGORYTHMNS) Video artists-Social engineers Will Erokan, Gerry Fialka, John Cannizzaro & poets, dancers, musicians = LIVE CINEMA probing the filmed close-up on the human eye, as seen in Un Chien Andalou, Man With The Movie Camera, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, and Blade Runner. Delve deep into the reel motives and consequences of the Ludovico treatment from A Clockwork Orange, which originated in the novel by Anthony Burgess, who was directly influenced by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The Wake turns the eye into an ear via Finneganese (language about language): "Television kills telephony in Brothers' broil. Our eyes demand their turn. Let them be seen." and "what can't be coded can be decoded if an ear aye seize what no eye ere grieved fore." Experience the RIA "live cinema" immersion into post-hypnotic hyper-maximum stimulation triggering McLuhan's Menippean satirized Gesamtkunstwerk. Peter Greenaway presaged the complex clairvoyance of Erokan's birth on September 30, 1983 by declaring "Cinema's death date was 31 September 1983, when the remote-control zapper was introduced to the living room, because now cinema has to be interactive, multi-media art." The retrocausality of this non-existent date renders an effects-precede-causes half-truth. "A half truth is still alot of a truth" McLuhan. Explore & re-explore the sensory simultaneity of integral awareness (IA being the flip of AI - artificial intelligence) in passing through the vanishing point when seeing oneself both as oneself and as the other. It may be the death and rebirth of agraRIAn, AlgeRIA, antiquaRIAn, appropRIAtion, AquaRIAn, barbaRIAn, & AbdeRIAn laughter, which comes from rustic simpletons who would laugh at anything or anyone they did not understand. RIA is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. This evokes the Wake and Frank Zappa's "The ocean is the ultimate solution." "But that the white eye-lid of the screen reflect its proper light, the Universe would go up in flames" - Luis Bunuel. 4/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STOM SOGO PROGRAM 3 This program contains a healthy sampling from Sogo's massive 9-reel, nearly 300 minute cycle of Super-8 diary films, which he titled I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET. Dated 1995 but likely spanning a few years, this series contains footage shot while still a student at SVA, images captured on the streets, and at home featuring friends and strangers in the flow of life. Sogo rarely screened his intricately detailed, exquisitely photographed diaries in public, but when he did they left a lasting impression on all those who saw them. Dizzying in their breakneck speed, these works demonstrate Sogo's incredible eye and preternatural ability to compose in-camera. Total running time: ca. 80 min. 4/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STOM SOGO PROGRAM 4 PERIODICAL EFFECT (2001, 9.5 min, video) SPACE CAT (1999, 20 min, Super-8mm) PROBLEM IS YOU (2002, 27 min, Super-8mm) JERK (2007, 24 min, video) Total running time: ca. 85 min. 4/6 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St DOUG HARVEY'S PATAPHYSICAL INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES Second in our Secret Agents suite, LA Weekly critic Doug Harvey zooms in, also with a book-launch-in fact, a party, to celebrate his anthology of sublimely ridiculous rants and paranoid analyses. His crackpot-genius PITA compendium gleefully crosses conspiracy theory with avant-garde literature. Doug's readings address absurd art pranks and mistranslation: Averty's Ubu Roi, Turkish Star Wars, Benny Lava's mis-subtitled music videos and Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99 ( 16mm excerpt). PLUS an inquiry into the "Rock Books" of uber-fabulist Richard Shaver, detailing the Alphabet of the Ancients. Free beer. $6.66 4/6 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 1:00pm, 350 King Street West BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER Dyketactics. This programme of short films focuses on a period when Barbara Hammer, residing in the Bay Area and newly out, began to explore her new identities as both lesbian and filmmaker. 4/6 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 7:00pm, 350 King Street West BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER Nitrate Kisses w/ Schizy. Barbara Hammer's first feature-length film is a taboo-busting provocation, a politically charged polemic and a rapturous visual ode to the sensual pleasures of love and intimacy. --------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013 --------------------- 4/7 Austin, TX: Austin Film Society http://www.austinfilm.org/ 5pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St) THE WAR: RECENT FILMS OF JAMES BENNING Russian art group Voina and outspoken punk band Pussy Riot are some of the activists documented in this film, which surveys some of the biggest activism happenings staged against the autocratic powers that be. Presented digitally. 4/7 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 LEIGHTON PIERCE: FAMILIAL TIME DEFAMILIARIZED Filmmaker Leighton Pierce in person! Filmforum is delighted to host artist Leighton Pierce, here from New York, for the first of two different screenings in Los Angeles. Pierce is one of the leading practitioners of experimental film and video in the United States today, and hasn't screened in Los Angeles in a number of years. He is presenting a range of his work. Freed from the constraints of traditional narrative, it is that process of creating an image in the mind of the viewer--the psychological filling-in of the imagined space, not the actual photograph of a space--that Pierce engages. Through the use of rich cascading imagery against the counterpoint of the soundtrack, Pierce disintegrates the film plane, allowing viewers to embody the perceptions of the video solidly within themselves. This video encourages a different kind of viewing and listeningone in which listening and looking inward matters as much as looking outward. Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/358056 or at the door. Screening: Thursday (1990, 16mm, 4.5 min), Glass (1998, 16mm, 7 min), Wood (1980, SD video, 8 min), The Back Steps (1981, SD video, 5 min), Water Seeking its Level (2002, SD video, 4 min), Evaporation (2002, SD video, 11 min), Viscera (2004-5, SD video, 11 min), Sitting (2010, HD video, 4 min), Orphan on Halloween (2012, HD video, 2012, 3 min), River Trees (2011, video, silent, 3 min), Retrograde Premonition, (2010, video, 5 min), Works in Progress (~7 min) 4/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VALENTIN/VIGO PROGRAM Karl Valentin CONFIRMATION DAY / DER FIRMLING 1934, 23 min, 35mm, b&w. In German with no subtitles; English synopsis available. A father and son, celebrating the son's confirmation, go to a fancy restaurant and drink all day. They want to order Emmentaler cheese, but can only find Affentaler wine on the menu. How did the Affentaler, which they think is cheese, get into the bottle? They keep on drinking away, attracting attention and causing more and more confusion. "Valentin plays a drunken father treating his giggly young son to lunch, and the inspired muddle he creates out of a table, two chairs, an umbrella, and a watch chain rivals some of Laurel and Hardy's best moments." J.R. Jones, CHICAGO READER & Jean Vigo ZERO FOR CONDUCT / ZÉRO DE CONDUITE 1935, 44 min, 35mm, b&w. In French with no subtitles; English synopsis available. An eloquent parable of freedom versus authority, Vigo's film is set at a boys' boarding school and undoubtedly echoes Vigo's own unhappy experiences as a child. Under the pressure of various civic groups the film was removed from screens several months after its release in 1933. It was branded "anti-French" by censors and was not shown again in Paris until 1945. Total running time: ca. 70 min. 4/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STOM SOGO PROGRAM 5 MONKEY 2 (1996, 20 min, Super-8mm) REPEAT (2006, 9.5 min, video) C FOR CIAS (2008, 11 min, video) TRI (2004, 9 min, video) I SMELL YOU (2000, 10 min, Super-8mm) And other works Total running time: ca. 75 min. 4/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue STOM SOGO PROGRAM 6 PASSPORT REVIEW (2004, 21 min, video) SYNC-UP ELEMENT (2007, 23 min, video) LOUISE GILMORE AND FUTURE (2008, 13 min, video) And other works Total running time: ca. 75 min. 4/7 San Francisco, California: Crossroads Film Festival 5:30, 2961 16th Street REALISMS: NEW WORK BY SCOTT STARK Working systematically across his career in virtually all film formats (including analog and digital video, installation and multi-projector performance), Scott Stark has produced more than sixty films and videos since 1980. Abounding with a prowling visuality, an astonishing sense of sound/image synthesis and an acute appreciation for filmic physicality, the cinema of Scott Stark exists ecstatically at the points of collision of between cinematic structure (self-imposed limitations) and the invasive and exhilarating chaos of the so-called real world, a world which is always seeping in between his frames. Frequently incorporating wry considerations of work, leisure time, personal performativity and representation while simultaneously playing with viewers' expectations of narrativity and conventional cinematic processes, Stark's amazingly diverse body of film/video work embodies sometimes bemused, sometimes critical considerations of life as it passes. The daily commute, the corporate cubicle, shopping malls, beaches and hotel hallwaysall these and more have provided backdrops for Stark's eager examinations and stately considerations of the daily rituals and day-to-day roles of humans living in the world, resulting in a body of work as humorous and socially engaging as it is exhilaratingly experiential. On the occasion of the his completion of The Realist a major new work, literally years in the making Cinematheque celebrates Scott Stark in CROSSROADS 2013 with this sampler program of three recent works (Compressive/Percussive, Longhorn Tremolo), plus a wonderful lost oddity by Fernand Léger. (Steve Polta) 4/7 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 4:30pm, 350 King Street West BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER Resisting Death. "Freedom is riding my horse on a trail exploring the unknown or seeing with the eyes that rebirth from cancer has given me, as the world becomes new again." Barbara Hammer 4/7 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 7:15pm, 350 King Street West BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE FILMS OF BARBARA HAMMER Generations. This programme highlights Barbara Hammer's influence on a younger generation of queer filmmakers, as well as paying tribute to one of her own primary influences, the legendary Maya Deren. --------------------- MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013 --------------------- 4/8 Austin, TX: Austin Film Society http://www.austinfilm.org/ 7pm, AFS Screening Room (1901 E 51st St) STEMPLE PASS: RECENT FILMS BY JAMES BENNING Static shots of Benning's northern California cabin make up one of several Benning films exploring isolation in nature. In this, the experience of Waldenesque imagery contrasts with the voiceover writings of Ted Kaczynski. Presented digitally. 4/8 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) DIRTY HANDED CINEMA: HANDMADE 16MM FILMS BY RICHARD TUOHY A rare screening of new and recent hand-made 16mm films by Richard Tuohy on tour in the US from his native Australia. The six films in the program were hand processed and printed by the artist on a salvaged 16mm contact printer using techniques developed through his experimentation with the salvaged film lab equipment. Tuohy is part a burgeoning artist-run film lab movement, which utilizes recovered technological left-overs from film industry as it sheds much of its traditional machinery. Tuohy says he sees the change is an opportunity a kind of liberation for the filmmaker allowing experimentation in areas that previously were too often a costly mystery kept in the hands of professional. Richard Tuohy is one of the most active experimental film artists currently working on celluloid in Australia. His film 'Iron-Wood' won first prize (ex aequo) at 'Abstracta 2009' experimental film festival in Rome. He runs Nanolab in Australia the specialist small gauge film processing laboratory. He is also a founding director of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival. Tuohy's films have screened at fRotterdam International, Ann Arbour, Media Cityl, European Media Art Festival, FLEXFest , Onion City Film Festival, Abstracta, EXiS (Seol) and KLEX festival among others. Program and other info: www.mciroscopegallery.com. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. Other options L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. te: 347.925.1433. 4/8 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 EXPERIENCES IN TRANSFORMATIVE TIME: NEW WORK BY LEIGHTON PIERCE Leighton Pierce's cinema transforms ordinary sounds and visual impressions into ecstatic experiences filled with new kinds of movements and sensory rediscoveries of the world. Often hovering between definition and abstraction, and between gestural implication and narrative meaning, his musical eye and ear find beauty and magic in everyday places and situations. Pierce's work has been shown widely at festivals and museums, and this screening features two early 16mm films along with nine recent digital pieces, including Viscera, described by filmmaker Jon Jost as "an astonishing piece on the recreation of a presence through remnants of their being, memories of their gestures, as molded in the impressionistic contours of light. A film built upon cascading refractions. The film dissolves in the memory as one watches it " | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] 4/8 Portland: Maine Public Broadcasting Network 12:30 AM, Maine Public Television Channel 10 WALTER UNGERER A program about media artist Walter Ungerer will be aired on MPBN (Maine Public Broadcasting Network) on March 28, 10:30 PM, on March 30, 11:30 AM, and again on April 8, 12:30 AM. The program is comprised of first a short documentary about Ungerer, and then his recent film PARVA SED APTA MIHI. The documentary was produced by students of the College of the Atlantic media production program under the supervision of two of the school's media instructors, David Camlin and Petra Simmons. Hannah Piper Burns of the Experimental Film Festival, Portland, Oregon writing about PARVA SED APTA MIHI describes the film this way, "In a surreal and psychedelic atmosphere the film deals with life, freedom, and transcendence of limitations". PARVA SED APTA MIHI uses the short form, and is representative of Ungerer's layering style of building visual sequences. For years he was noted for using the long form (films over 75 minutes) shooting narrative films with concern for static shots devoid of any camera movement but with careful concern for composition, suggesting a painterly quality. This is no surprise since Ungerer studied fine and graphic arts at Pratt Institute in the 1950s. His willingness to begin to embrace the computer in the 1990s is a change thought by some to be brought about by the escalating costs of producing a film. To focus on the visual qualities of Ungerer's films without mentioning the ethereal, meditative tones they eschew, is to miss the most important part of his work, the ability to take the viewer to another realm, another space, as Hannah Piper Burns describes it, "In a surreal and psychedelic atmosphere the film deals with life, freedom, and transcendence of limitations". ------------------------- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013 ------------------------- 4/10 Austin, Tx: The Mad Stork Cinema 9pm, ROOM: STUDIO 4D, Building CMD, UT FOUR X DORSKY Nathaniel Dorsky, born in New York City in 1943, is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He has resided in San Francisco since 1971. - "In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry." Nathaniel Dorsky - - Compline, 18.5min / 16mm / silent / 2009, Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond farewell to this noble emulsion. (ND) - Pastourelle, 16.5min / 16mm / silent / 2010, A pastourelle and an aubade are two different forms of courtship songs from the Troubadour tradition. In this case, the film Pastourelle, a sister film to Aubade, is in the more tumultuous key of spring. (ND) - August and After, 18.5min / 16mm / silent / 2012, After a lifetime, two mutual friends, George Kuchar and Carla Liss, passed away during the same period of time. (ND) - April, 26min / 16mm / silent / 2012, Following a period of trauma and grief, the world around me once again declared itself in the form of one of the loveliest springs I can ever remember in San Francisco. April is intended as a companion piece for August and After, and is partly funded by a gift from Carla Liss. (ND) 4/10 Boston: Massachusetts College of Art http://emulsionalchemy.org 8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue ALISON S. M. KOBAYASHI: VIDEOS, PERFORMANCES, AND OTHER WORKS MASSART FILM SOCIETY presents - ALISON S. M. KOBAYASHI, filmmaker in person! - BIO// - Alison S. M. Kobayashi is a visual artist working in video, performance, installation and drawing. She was born and raised in Mississauga, Canada and is currently based in Brooklyn. - Her interest in found narratives resulted in two video works, From Alex To Alex and Dan Carter. Finding a lost letter in the first case, and a discarded answering machine tape in the second, Kobayashi imagines identities for each person mentioned in the narrative and then performs all the roles herself. In 2006 she won the TSV Artistic Vision Award for Best Local Short Film at the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival and in 2007 was awarded the Mississauga Arts Award for Best Emerging Artist. Her films have been shown in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Hong Kong. - www.asmk.ca - MASSART FILM SOCIETY, Programmed by Saul Levine, FILM SOCIETY is a screening class for MassArt film students open to those who are interested. We hope to provide access to films and videos not often shown at other venues. - Enter to MASSART through the South Building, Admissions on Huntington Ave. FILM SOCIETY shows are held in Screening Rm 1 in East Hall in the FILM Department at 8pm. Suggested donation is $4 at the door and free to MassArt community with their ID. Donations are used to give visiting artist something for their expenses of coming to show their work. - - Massachusetts College of Art, Film Department Screening RM 1. 621 Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115. - http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 4/10 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street LUC SANTE PRESENTS NICOLE V&EACUTE;DR&EGRAVE;S'S PARIS 1900 Paris 1900, Nicole Védrès, 16mm, 1947, 74 mins, Introduced by Luc Sante - Nicole Védrès's film Paris 1900 is an attempt to render the whole of a time and place by compiling and organizing hundreds of excerpts taken from newsreels and fiction films of the period. To us today this mode of operation is unexceptional, a standby of television programming, but in 1947, when Védrès made her picture, there was really only one major precedent, Esfir Shub's groundbreaking 1927 Fall of the Romanov Dynasty. The range of Védrès's film is enormous, with clips of such figures as La Belle Otero, Willy and Colette, Buffalo Bill, Guillaume Apollinaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Gabriele d'Annunzio, and the very young Maurice Chevalier, and rare footage of such events as the 1910 Paris flood and the police's war against the anarchist Bonnot Gang. Fashion, sports, dandies, duels, the grand gesture, feminism, railway strikes, soup kitchens, and tragicomic attempts at manned flight take their place in the sweeping narrative. From a lighthearted beginning at the dawn of the century, accentuated by popular melodies, clips from Méliès pictures, and Monty Wooley's orotund English-language narration, the mood gradually darkens, inexorably leading to August 1914 and the abrupt termination of a way of life. - Nicole Védrès, née Cahen (1911-1965) was a significant figure in the postwar bohemian scene around St.-Germain-des-Prés. She wrote seven novels and eleven works of nonfiction and made four films, of which Paris 1900 was the first. Chris Marker, who quoted from this movie in two of his own works, also credited Védrès with originating the essay-film in her second picture, Life Begins Tomorrow (1949). The idea for the movie was hatched by its executive producer, Pierre Braunberger, who produced Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s and those of Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Resnais, and Jean Rouch in the 1960s. - LS - Luc Sante has written about urban life, popular culture, photography, crime, and social history for thirty years. His books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and the forthcoming La Canaille: Paris and Its Rabble. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College, and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 4/10 London, England: NIGHTWORKS http://www.fieldworkrca.wordpress.com/nightworks 7pm - 9pm, TESTBED1, 33 Parkgate Street, Battersea, London, SW11 4NP NIGHTWORKS - FILM, VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE EVENT Nightworks is a film and video installation and performance event, including artists, filmmakers and tutors, mainly from the Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art. This one night event offers a dynamic engagement with the location and audience, featuring new and existing work, some made specifically for TESTBED1, a former Victorian dairy. The programme includes new site-specific work by Simon Payne; the first UK screening of 'Three Windsor Films (from Seven Windsor Films)', new work by Nicky Hamlyn and an extended version of 'Candle' by Neil Henderson. Plus film and video installations and performances by; Suky Best, Ian Wiblin, Jennifer Nightingale, Cathy Rogers, Laura Wilson, Deniz Johns, Amy Dickson, Karolina Raczynski, Maria Anastassiou and Gareth Polmeer. Doors open at 7.00pm, Performances start at 7.30pm - 9.00pm. Bar available. Find out more about the artists and filmmakers involved at http://www.fieldworkrca.wordpress.com/nightworks 4/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Theater, 32 2nd Avenue THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ This program features a film by Richard Sylvarnes with live musical accompaniment by the band Zerø Times Everything. The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is a feature film based on the delirious death-bed ramblings of the gangster who died following a shooting in Newark, NJ in 1935. The film incorporates found footage including travelogues, FBI training films, silent-era films, newsreels, commercials, and more and features the actor, filmmaker and playwright DJ Mendel and NY Mets broadcaster Alex Anthony. Zerø Times Everything is Pietro Russino on Electric and Loop Guitar, Tony Geballe on Electric Guitar, and Richard Sylvarnes on Synthesizer, Kaoss Pads, and Possible Guitar. 4/10 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: International House Philadelphia http://ihousephilly.org/events/full-exposurewe-are-winning-dont-forget-short-works-by-jean-gabriel-periot/ 7:00PM, 3701 Chestnut Street WE ARE WINNING, DON'T FORGET: SHORT WORKS BY JEAN-GABRIEL PéRIOT Introduction and Q&A with Jean-Gabriel Périot Jean-Gabriel Périot, born in France in 1974, has over the past fifteen years perfected an innovative filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Moving image and photographic archives make up the raw material of his shorts, which are edited to create an impressionistic story or narrative, typically aided by compelling soundtracks. Periot's work is distinguished for its intense, emotional approach to contemporary and historic political themes. Despite the labor-intensive process of compiling a film via multiple edited images, Périot has made numerous short films using digital video and/or film that reside within combined documentary/essay, animation, and experimental genres. His works have been honored with many prizes and shown worldwide in numerous festivals, institutions, and cinemas. This event is Périot's first travel to the US. Sally Berger, Department of Film, MoMA All works screened in HD video, in French with English subtitles Nijuman no borei (200,000 Phantoms) 2007, 10 mins. The Devil 2012, 7 mins. Undo 2005, 10 mins. We Are Winning, Don't Forget 2004, 7 mins. The Barbarians 2010, 5 mins. Even If She Had Been A Criminal 2006, 10 mins. #67 2012, 2 mins. Before I Was Sad 2012, 4 mins. Between Dogs and Wolves 2008, 28 mins. Total running time: 83 minutes Périot's first travel to the US begins at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of Modern Mondays, organized for the Museum by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, The Department of Film, MoMA. This national tour We Are Winning, Don't Forget is organized by Amélie Garin-Davet and Steve Holmgren, and is presented with support from UnionDocs and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Museum of Modern Art. Special Thanks to VTape, film Re-distribution, Heure Exquise, Light Cone, Envie de Tempête, Local Films and Sacrebleu Production. 4/10 Providence, RI: Magic Lantern http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/ 7:00 PM, Cable Car Cinema & Cafe, 204 S. Main St LEVIATHAN Magic Lantern Presents: LEVIATHAN: A Film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel. A groundbreaking, immersive portrait of New England's contemporary commercial fishing industry that has been lauded as "the best horror film of the year," "an action movie par excellence," and a "spectacular optic-aural overload whose aim [is] to knock us off our bearings..." Made by Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Véréna Paravel (Foreign Parts), Leviathan follows a hulking groundfish trawler on a weeks-long fishing expedition through the murky black waters off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts a city that once inspired Melville's Moby Dick, and which is currently the country's largest fishing port. What results is not a detached, observational report about fishing, but a profoundly vivid "shared anthropology" (Paravel), or a multi-perspective record of the commercial fishing world that speaks not only to the realities of the fishermen it depicts, but also to those of the fish they catch, the ship they inhabit, the birds that follow in their wake, and ultimately, the sea itself. Almost entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, Leviathan is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavors. /// TRT 87 min /// Admission: $7 4/10 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8PM, 1515 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 FLOATING ENERGY: THE FILMS OF NATHANIEL DORSKY Shooting almost exclusively in 16mm and found with a Bolex by his side, Nathaniel Dorsky is one of a rare breed of filmmakers whose work can be classified as essential viewing. Dorsky creates immersive, rhythmical worlds with his visually handsome films, as he isolates an elemental profundity in his medium. Always without sound and grounded in a penetrating understanding of film form, Dorsky renders the prosaic a poetic experience, drawing attention to vitality in the ordinary. While delivering emotionally meditative work, Dorsky edits nature, light, and figure to create an utterly sensual cinema. Join us for two evenings of Mr. Dorsky's films, curated by the artist himself. "If we do relinquish control, we suddenly see a hidden world, one that has existed all along right in front of us. In a flash, the uncanny presence of the poetic and vibrant world, ripe with mystery, stands before us." Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema "There is the world that we see, and then there is the world that artists like Mr. Dorsky see and generously share." Manohla Dargis, New York Times (continued in next email)
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