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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: ============================ "Stuck in the 90's" by MWoods http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=511.ann ITEM FOR SALE: ============== Cinema Noise DVD http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=35.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1562.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies Portugal (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1584.ann Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: October 23, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1585.ann VIDEOHOLICA 2013 [OUT OF FOCUS!] OPEN CALL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1586.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 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 25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1554.ann SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San Vito Lo Capo (TP), Italy; Deadline: May 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1562.ann International Kontinent Photography Awards (TR; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1566.ann WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1567.ann animateCOLOGNE - Cologne Art & Animation Festival (Cologne/Germany; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1568.ann 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 The Winnipeg U. F. F.'s 90 Second Quickie (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1579.ann Blind Date [Vox Populi & Goldilocks Gallery, Philadelphia] (Philadelphia, PA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1580.ann Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1581.ann Team Vector + videofag : Queer Arcade Call for Submissions Now Open! (Toronto, Ontario, Canda; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1582.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): ============================== * No Man's Zone By Toshi Fujiwara [May 4, Los Angeles, California] * Peter Kubelka Program [May 4, New York, New York] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 4, New York, New York] * Millennium Film Journal No. 57 Publication Screening [May 4, New York, New York] * Megan Prelinger's Electronics and the Modern Century + [May 4, San Francisco, California] * Peter Kubelka Program [May 5, New York, New York] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 5, New York, New York] * Bay Area Cine Salon [May 5, San Francisco, California] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 7, New York, New York] * Pinhole Cinema and An Aesthetic of the Handmade [May 7, Rochester, New York] * Al Wong: Twin Peaks [May 7, San Francisco, California] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 8, New York, New York] * Magic Lantern Presents: Self-Obliteration [May 8, Providence, RI] * Focus Group: the Screening Room With Jonas Mekas [May 9, Austin, Tx] * Los Angeles Filmforum At Moca Presents: Time As Material [May 9, Los Angeles, California] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 9, New York, New York] * Shorts 4: New visions [May 9, San Francisco, California] * Sight Unseen @ videopolis - Thomas Dexter, Jeff Donaldson, & Greg St. Pierre [May 10, Baltimore] * The Decade You Spent A Decade Trying To Forget: Movies and Readings By Bill Brown [May 11, Los Angeles, California] * Super 8 Live and In Person With Katrina Del Mar & Stephanie Gray Short Filmic Portraits of People & Places" [May 11, New York, New York] * Christian Divine's Saturday Nite Drive-In Spectacular! [May 11, San Francisco, California] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents China Girls [May 12, Los Angeles, California] * Berlin - Symphony of A City (Live Score) [May 12, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. --------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013 --------------------- 5/4 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. NO MAN'S ZONE BY TOSHI FUJIWARA The 40 year old nuclear power station on the coast of Fukushima went into crisis after being struck by the tsunami on March 11th 2011. Within 24 hours, evacuation order was proclaimed to the surrounding 20 km area. The new documentary by Toshi Fujiwara is a journey within this No Man's Zone and the surrounding regions around it where people continue to live, as well as a journey into time and history when the film encounters with the people who have or will be evacuated, those who have no choice but to continue to live nearby. No Man's Zone (2011) 104 minutes, video, color, Japanese/English. Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara in person! 5/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm, b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min, 35mm, b&w/color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm, b&w) OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 min, 16mm) POETRY AND TRUTH / DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT (2003, 13 min, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker which is to say, simply: see his films! by all means/above all else etcetera." Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 65 min. 5/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/4 New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal / Workshop http://mfj-online.org 8:30 pm, Grahame Weinbren Studio, 119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 57 PUBLICATION SCREENING Screening to celebrate the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 57... Program consists of works discussed in the issue, including: Catherine Elwes: There is a Myth (UK,1984); Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel: I Am Micro (India, 2011); Noe Kidder: Kuíuipo (USA, 2013); Anna Marziano: The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some (Italy, 2011); Pat O'Neill: Ojo Calientes (USA, 2012); Jennifer Proctor: A Movie by Jen Proctor (USA 2010-12); and some 1970s single channel videos by Tony Oursler... Admission: $14.00 includes copy of MFJ 57; $8.00 admission only. 5/4 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St MEGAN PRELINGERS ELECTRONICS AND THE MODERN CENTURY + Archivist, author, and Prelinger Library principal, Megan Prelinger graces us again with an hr.-long W-i-P slideshow on the visualization of 20th Century electronic technology. Anticipating her forthcoming book, Megan has unearthed modernist artists who ushered in the Electronic Age with their visionary graphics, demonstrating that design and technology were mutual contextualizers in the mid-century modern era. After her fascinating show-and-tell, these post-war 16mm films also bear on tonight's theme: IBM's 1953 Piercing the Unknown, the supremely campy 1945 Principles of Electricity, Philco's 1967 Year 1999, and even a outrageous clip of Orson Welles in the seminal Future Shock. ------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013 ------------------- 5/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM See notes for May 4, 5:15 pm. 5/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/5 San Francisco, California: Lost Weekend Video 7 pm, 1034 Valencia Street BAY AREA CINE SALON Bay Area Cine Salon $6 EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. OLD and NEW. HISTORIC and AHISTORIC. The Bay Area Cine Salon presents contemporary works by local film-makers working with analogue film along side a selection of shorts celebrating Mayday and social justice. Come see works by Bruce Baillie, Robert Nelson, Charles Chadwick, Zach Van Joo, Zach Iannazzi, Nawneet Ranjan and Eric Stewart. -------------------- TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013 -------------------- 5/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/7 Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop http://www.vsw.org/ 7 pm, VSW Auditorium, 31 Prince Street PINHOLE CINEMA AND AN AESTHETIC OF THE HANDMADE Robert Schaller will discuss the aesthetic and social implications of handmade filmmaking practices as ways to engage both artmaking and the material world. The presentation will be part talk and part film show, illustrated by screenings of Robert's short handmade pinhole films, other handmade films, and related documentation. 5/7 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org Noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 p.m., SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater, 151 Third Street AL WONG: TWIN PEAKS Free Tuesday Program. SFMOMA Phyllis Wattis Theater. noon - 5:00 p.m., screenings begin on the hour. Al Wong, Twin Peaks, 1977, 16mm transferred to video, color, sound, 50 min. San Francisco native Al Wong recorded this meditative film over the course of a year. Taking the idea of the journey as its form, Wong's camera is set inside the car as he slowly drives the infinity loop road that winds around Twin Peaks in San Francisco at different times of the day. In one part the film image splits in half and becomes out of sync synthesizing Wong's interests in perception and the illusory nature of reality. A masterpiece of subtle shifts in light and tone, Twin Peaks was screened at SFMOMA in 1977. This title will be shown as continual loop over the course of the day, mirroring the structure of the film. Organized by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA. Museum and program admission are free. ---------------------- WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013 ---------------------- 5/8 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/8 Providence, RI: Magic Lantern http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/ 9:30, Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St. MAGIC LANTERN PRESENTS: SELF-OBLITERATION Curated by Seth Watter. May 8th, 2013, 9:30 PM. Cable Car Cinema & Café, Providence, RI. $5 admission. In 1965, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama began an installation series titled "Infinity Mirror Rooms." The viewer enters a space entirely made up of reflective surfaces, which indeed infinitely mirror one another in a dizzying mise-en-abîme. This impulse to dissolve the visitor in a play of pure color or shimmering light was carried over into Kusama's happenings, which took place in galleries, studios, or in public locations like Washington Square. They were variously advertised as "body festivals" or "anatomic explosions," and Kusama became notorious for covering her nude performers (like most everything else she touched) with painted polka dots to help erode the barriers of the individual self, body pressing against body in a drug- and music-filled delirium. When asked what the phrase "self-obliteration" meant, the aging and mentally ill artist replied: "By obliterating one's individual self, one returns to the infinite universe." Several of these relics from the psychedelic age were recorded by American filmmaker Jud Yalkut in collaboration with Kusama. The resulting work forms the centerpiece of this program, which explores the theme of self-obliteration throughout the history of avant-garde film and video. What is a body? Where does the body begin and end? And what are the aesthetic, spiritual, or political possibilities that might arise from its radical negation? Each work featured in SELF-OBLITERATION poses these questions in one shape or another. Dissolution and disfiguration are terrifying prospects, and the odd subgenre of "body horror" caters to a real and deep-seated human anxiety. Yet the spectacle of bodily breakdown continues to hold both filmmakers and viewers in its thrall, promising self-transcendence even if only in the form of, precisely, a self-obliteration. TRT: approx. 92 min. 16mm films & videos by: Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead, Ed Emshwiller, Carolyn Tennant, Takeshi Murata, Jud Yalkut & Yayoi Kusama, Oskar Fischinger, Valie Export, Jonas Mekas. More info @ https://www.facebook.com/events/121197484744501/ --------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 --------------------- 5/9 Austin, Tx: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 7pm, Art Building, 23rd and San Jacinto Streets FOCUS GROUP: THE SCREENING ROOM WITH JONAS MEKAS Join us for our final event featuring Robert Gardner's The Screening Room with the Visual Arts Center! In this episode, the Visual Arts Center will be showing Gardner's interview with legendary filmmaker and ciné-activist Jonas Mekas! Preceding the episode, ERC's Scott Stark will present a short talk and screen the second reel of Mekas' WALDEN: Diaries, Notes and Sketches. - Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (Reel #2) by Jonas Mekas, 40min / 16mm / sound / 1969 - Filmed in 1964-68. Edited in 1968-69. In Walden, he asserts that the images shown are "for myself and for a few others," suggesting an intimate circle of friends. This was in fact true, as Walden's first screening was an informal "first draft" version at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo. By showing details of his family life, and of outings and time spent with friends, Mekas extends an invitation to his viewer to partake in their beauty. [These images] are not much different from what you have seen or experienced," he says in As I Was Moving Ahead. "There is no big difference, no essential difference between you and me." To watch a Mekas film is to experience the intimacy of someone sharing his life with you. "Kreeping Kreplachs meet (Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, Tuli, Warhol, Barbara Rubin, etc)/ Hare Krishna walk\; autumn scenes\; Sitney's wedding\; New Year's Evening in Times Square\; Goofing on 42nd Street\; UPtown Party\; Velevet Underground\; Deep of Winter\; Naomi visits Ken & Flo Jacobs\; Amy stops for Coffee\; Coop Directors meet\; Dreams of Cocteau\; In Central Park' What Leslie saw thru the Coop window\; Olmsted Hike." J.M. - More info on the Visual Arts Center website: - Focus Group is a screening series centered on experimental film in its various formats, including but not limited to 16mm, 8mm, and digital video. 5/9 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00pm, MOCA Grand Avenues Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 South Grand Avenue LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM AT MOCA PRESENTS: TIME AS MATERIAL By the middle of last century, many artists stopped using their materials to represent something and instead focused in on the materials themselves: paint was only paint, metal only metal, etc. Likewise, artists working in cinema ceased trying to represent time and began to work with it directly. Through diverse means and subjects, each film in this program explores time as a material. From Andy Warhol's slow cinema, at once luscious and austere, to the crystalline precision of Ernie Gehr's formalism, this program of challenging and often surprisingly humorous works presents a new way of thinking about how cinema came to consider time itself. Screening: (program subject to change): Andy Warhol, Mario Banana (Nos. 1 and 2); Chieko Shiomi, fluxfilm #4, Disappearing Music for Face; Joyce Wieland, Sailboat; Richard Serra, Hand Catching Lead; Richard Serra, Hand Lead Fulcrum; Morgan Fisher, Phi Phenomenon; Hollis Frampton, Lemon; Morgan Fisher, Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm; Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California; Coleen Fitzgibbon, RESTORING THE APPEARANCE TO ORDER IN 12 MIN.; Ernie Gehr, Untitled TRT: 73.5 min Tickets: $12 general admission, $7 students with valid I.D., FREE for MOCA and Los Angeles Filmforum members; must present current membership card to claim free ticket. Tickets available at moca.org 5/9 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/9 San Francisco, California: San Francisco International Film Festival http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=54488~8781fb85-6bb2-474d-a97d-cec76d1b8c32&; 8:30, New People CInema, 1746 Post (near Webster) in Japantown SHORTS 4: NEW VISIONS The films in this contemplative, challenging and invigorating program of shorts vary wildly in their approaches, but share an ethos of expanding both audience expectations and the idea of what is possible to depict through the use of moving images and sound. These are beautiful, strange, charmed and sometimes confrontational films. All films are in competition for a Golden Gate Award. Conjuror's Box Like a funeral pyre paying respect to the demise of celluloid film, Laitala's film presents the sense of magic and illusion we are losing as an artistic medium fades into obscurity. (Kerry Laitala, USA, 2012, 5 min) This is a Cinema by the Bay film. Hex Suffice Cache Ten This film either presents video games, medical experimentation and an alien or two colliding and beginning to mutate into one another or it reveals the way that films are conceived intellectually before they are made. Or both. (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany, 2012, 12 min) Malody An atypical meal at a dank diner explodes to show a nested set within a set each seemingly operating independently in this mind-blowing effects piece. (Phillip Barker, Canada, 2012,13 min) More Real If there's something more real than this, we haven't seen it. Amidst an introduction to a video exhibition at the Minneapolis Museum of Art and SITE Santa Fe, there is an eruption of feelings and past regret. This is so real. (Jonn Herschend, USA, 2012, 9 min) This is a Cinema by the Bay film. Morning of Saint Anthony's Day Tradition says that on June 18th, lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular quatrains as a token of their love. Using this occasion, João Pedro Rodrigues (To Die Like a Man, SFIFF 2010), presents a mildly zombie-ish vision of slow social decay. (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal, 2012. 25 min) Salmon This journey against the current continuously evokes surprises. (Alfredo Covelli, Israel/Italy, 2012, 6 min) 3020 Laguna St. In Exitum Based on and shot in a site-specific art installation the film documents and explores the space and art created in a condemned home. (Ashley Rodholm, Joe Picard, USA, 2013, 9 min) This is a Cinema by the Bay film. -------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013 -------------------- 5/10 Baltimore: Sight Unseen http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ 9:00pm, The Metro Gallery | 1700 N. Charles St. SIGHT UNSEEN @ VIDEOPOLIS - THOMAS DEXTER, JEFF DONALDSON, & GREG ST. PIERRE Sight Unseen has teamed up with The Metro Gallery to present an evening of expanded cinema as part of the 2013 Videopolis festival featuring performances by Thomas Dexter, Jeff Donaldson, and Greg St. Pierre. - These three artists reconfigure analogue technologies to create their improvised live performances, often subverting the original functions of their chosen media. Through tearing apart technology, destroying film stock, and re-purposing hardware, these artists defy the conventional modes of how to use their equipment. This practice results in the creation of unique, aesthetically contemporary visuals, allowing the artists to refute the notion that their technologies are becoming obsolete while offering a vision for the media's future. - Thomas Dexter's SQUARE/GETS/THE/CIRCLE - An expanded cinema performance involving light-to-sound synthesis, a prepared projection surface, and the destruction of the film. - Jeff Donaldson a.k.a. noteNdo's INFINITE REGRESS - A real-time audiovisual improvisation generated with a Panasonic video mixer. For Infinite Regress, the video output signal is split into two signals: one signal is sent to an audio processing device and the other is, sent back into the video input of the Panasonic creating a feedback loop. - Audio and video are therefore perceived as an abstract continuum which is guided live. What one sees is what one hears and what one hears is what, one sees. - Greg St. Pierre - GSP's performance at Videopolis will involve his newest analogue video synthesizer and a composed experimental score. ---------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 ---------------------- 5/11 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. THE DECADE YOU SPENT A DECADE TRYING TO FORGET: MOVIES AND READINGS BY BILL BROWN Lonesome drifter of underground cinema Bill Brown will present the West Coast Premiere of his latest movie, Memorial Land, a documentary portrait of six people across the United States who built their own DIY 9/11 memorials. He will also screen a selection of recent work on 16mm, including Document and The Other Side, "a personal essay...imbued with magical landscapes and searing observations softly spoken during the director's cinematic trek along the United States-Mexican border" (-Lincoln Center Film Society). In addition to the films, Bill will be reading from the soon-to-be-released 15th issue of Dream Whip, his ongoing collection of stories about road trips, all-night bike rides, and bad coffee. Program: Memorial Land (2012) 28 minutes, 16mm & DV; Document (2011) 2 minutes, 16mm on DV; The Other Side (2006) 42 minutes, 16mm. Filmmaker Bill Brown in person! 5/11 New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 8 p.m., 66 E. 4th, Basement SUPER 8 LIVE AND IN PERSON WITH KATRINA DEL MAR & STEPHANIE GRAY SHORT FILMIC PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE & PLACES" Millennium presents an evening of super 8 works, screened on film by long-time film artists Katrina del Mar and Stephanie Gray. Whether through an iconography of the city, queerness, or grrl culture, both show an attention to photographic detail of a unique type that can only be captured with the intimacy of super 8 film, whether in black & white, color, handprocessed or edited in camera. Expect images of lesbian icons (both real and fictional), 90s grrl culture, mysterious portraits of the city and urban folk, and an overall eye for the hidden beauty of people and places that can often go unseen. All films will be projected on film. Gray will screen first, then a break, then del Mar. Katrina del Mar Program: Super 8 Portraits + Raw Reels del Mar will show a selection of a recent super 8 "portraits" series including an urban surfer, a dyke motorcycle racer, iconic lesbian writer Eileen Myles, and raw reels, some rarely seen on film, of her classic cult fave grrl gang movies of the late 90s. del Mar, both filmmaker and photographer, is perhaps best known for her decades-long work in video and photography, chronicling the reality and illusion of her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines; or within her girl gang movie world of strictly female population. Creating a family tree indebted equally to B-movies and diaristic photography, del Mar's defiantly queer photographs and videos are iconic alternatives to the cultural status quo, offering an exuberant, hyper-stylized sexuality, an unapologetic feminist voice, and often guerilla-style production tactics. To be screened: "Simon: Portrait of an Urban Surfer" (6 min, b&w, sound) Simon plays upright bass and surfs at Rockaway Beach. "Kara: Portrait of a Motorcycle Racer" (3 min, b&w, sound) Kara races a vintage triumph motorcycle on a flat track in upstate New York. "Eileen: Portrait of a Writer" (3 min, b&w, sound) Poet-novelist Eileen Myles writes and reads from a tiny notebook one late summer day in Wellfleet, Mass. Raw Reels (approx 25 min, b&w/color, no sound) When shooting Gang Girls 2000 in 1999, del Mar shot a roughly ten-to-one ratio of what wound up in the 25 minute final film. A reel or two will be chosen at random from the other 3.5 hours worth of pure late-90's eye candy: the hottest girls of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, pretending to be in our own version of Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Stephanie Gray: Queer Pop Culturing + City Portraits Filmmaker poet Gray will show a selection of urban portraits that show the puzzling unknown of the city in addition to a selection of her queer portraits (some subjective) of lesser (or more, if you know them) pop culture icons such as Kristy McNichol, Joan of Arc and Laverne & Shirley. Some films will be accompanied by live reading or experimental soundtracks. To be screened: "Magic Couldn't Save Magic Shoes" (7 min, color/b&w, 2011) Magic closed in '08 after being in biz since '79. No one did handwritten labels like them. When I finally had extra money to buy more Converse, which is mostly all I wear, thinking they'd still be around, even after I filmed it, it was gone. I shot this in Magic's last week. "Satanic Bible on Interlibrary Loan" (9 min, b/w, 2011) The title is a true situation that occurred when I was 15. I was an ardent metal head as a teen. A little while back, I was asked to write a poem for a poetry mag issue with the theme of the occult. The words and then the images, came together, and it all makes sense. "Kristy" (7 min, handprocessed b/w, sound, 2003) Digging deep to find Kristy, the only working class girl at a girls' summer camp in cult classic Little Darlings A faint recognizable 80s hit song is played with skips at the slowest speed. (She's out now, you know, right?) "Dear Joan" (3 min handprocessed b/w, live narration, 1999) A film letter to this heroine as the filmmaker laments the lack of public knowledge of Joan's real identity, ending in a hissyfit at the library. "Never Heard the Word Impossible" (7 min, sound, b/w, 2007) This work uses images from Laverne & Shirley remixed through video layers. What did the L really stand for? All sound is distorted from the theme song. "I Can't Stop Thinking About Eileen Myles' School of Fish Poem" (3 min, color, live narration, 2002) The filmmaker keeps hearing lines from the poem. The images are inspired visual thoughts of Eileen's poem. + one surprise super recent 3 min film! At Millennium 66 E 4th St (bet Bowery & 2nd Ave), Basement; Admission: $8/$5 Members By Contribution 5/11 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St CHRISTIAN DIVINES SATURDAY NITE DRIVE-IN SPECTACULAR! Cult-film expert Christian Divine trucks in with a cavalcade of clips about the uniquely American phenomenon of the Drive-In Movie. The final frontier of guerrilla showmanship, drive-ins exploited a lurid repertoire of Hollywood actioners and independent grindhouse fare. The activity was ritualized around the automobile, and the romance of expansive viewing under the stars was counterpointed by violence and copious sex on the super-wide screen (and in the back seats). Representative titles like Billy Jack, Smokey and the Bandit, Wild Angels, Blood Feast, Night Call Nurses, and Destroy All Monsters are organized into a prototypical Saturday-night al fresco experience, compressing years of film- and car-culture into Christian's wildly entertainingand obsessively researchedlecture-demo. -------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013 -------------------- 5/12 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. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS CHINA GIRLS As a follow-up to the marvelous Orphan Film Symposium, taking place May 10 & 11 at the Academy Film Archive, Filmforum hosts a show on the China girl, curated by our former associate programmer Genevieve Yue! The various faces of the "China girl", sometimes called a "China doll" or "girl head", have appeared in more films than any actress, though she is almost never seen, save for the fleeting glimpses an audience might catch at the end of a film reel. Screening: Film in Which There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc. by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), Standard Gauge by Morgan Fisher, China Girls by Michelle Silva, To the Happy Few by Thomas Draschan and Stella Friedrichs, MM by Timoleon Wilkins, Releasing Human Energies by Mark Toscano - TRT: 60 min. 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/371720 or at the door. 5/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BERLIN - SYMPHONY OF A CITY (LIVE SCORE) SPECIAL EVENT! 'BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY' WITH LIVE SCORE Karl Freund, Carl Mayer & Walter Ruttmann BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY / BERLIN, DIE SYMPHONIE DER GROSSTADT 1927, 65 min, 16mm. Special thanks to Kitty Cleary (MoMA). Tonight Anthology gives Edmund Meisel (the original composer of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN as well as BERLIN) the night off. Instead the visionary 'city symphony' Meisel co-created with Carl Mayer, Karl Freund, and Walter Ruttmann unspools alongside a live score commissioned by the Springville, NY Center for the Arts, and composed and performed by bass player, vocalist, and percussionist Sue Garner, drummer and percussionist Rick Brown, and guitar player and percussionist Bruce Bennett. Collectively the trio boasts recordings and performances with The Shams, Run On, The A-Bones, V-Effect, Angel Dean, Timber, Rattle, Fish And Roses, John Zorn, Guigou Chenevier, Andre Williams, and Hasil Adkins, for labels including Matador, Norton, Thrill Jockey, and Egon. The group hopes that the Manhattan debut performance of their score will musically tease out the similarities between the film's bygone Weimar Berlin and the lost Lower East Side of the performers' vanished youth. Ruttmann and company's seminal, groundbreaking film is a valentine to the 'new' Berlin of the late 1920s. Beginning at dawn and ending after midnight, it shows Berliners hard at work by day and possessed by the city's thriving nightlife. Essentially a feature-length montage, the film was heavily influenced by Soviet documentary experiments like Dziga Vertov's KINO-PRAVDA and was itself very influential in fostering the 'city symphony' genre and other documentary hybrid styles to come. This rare screening is not to be missed! Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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