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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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Stop & Go Made From Scratch (San Francisco; Deadline: November 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1587.ann VIDEOFOCUS14 Review (Italy; Deadline: June 03, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1588.ann Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1589.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== VIDEOHOLICA 2013 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1557.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 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 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 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 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 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 VIDEOFOCUS14 Review (Italy; Deadline: June 03, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1588.ann Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1589.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): ============================== * KüçüK Sinemalar! Experimental Cinema From Turkey [May 18, Austin, TX] * Axwff Salutes Mm Serra &Amp; the Ny Filmmakers Co-Op [May 18, Filmmakers Co-op] * The Dream Machine: A Living Room Screening With Phil Solomon! [May 18, Los Angeles, California] * Up To the BorderA Personal view About the Berlin Wall [May 18, Los Angeles, California] * Experimental Films of Coleman Miller [May 18, Minneapolis, MN] * Small Lies &Amp; Big Truths -- Shelly Silver At Anthology Film Archives [May 18, New York, NY] * Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program [May 18, New York, New York] * Show & Tell: Shelly Silver Program 2 [May 18, New York, New York] * Show & Tell: Shelly Silver Program 3 [May 18, New York, New York] * Bill Brown's Book Launch and Retrospective [May 18, San Francisco, California] * Michael Klier's Der Riese [The Giant] [May 19, Chicago, IL] * Simply Because You're Near Me: Films By Phil Solomon [May 19, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 2 [May 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Dog Star Man [May 19, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Songs 1-14 [May 19, New York, New York] * The Elegiac visions of Phil Solomon [May 20, Los Angeles, California] * Dash Shaw + Bobby's Girl [May 21, Brooklyn, NY] * Two Films By Charles Dekeukeleire [May 23, Brooklyn, NY] * King Lavra: A Micro-Opera With Live video By Sheri Wills [May 23, Brooklyn, New York] * Pxl This 22 [May 23, Los Angeles, California] * Walter Ungerer/ Recent Short Films [May 23, Portland] * Ken Jacobs Program 1 [May 24, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs Program 2 [May 24, New York, New York] * Animator/Filmmaker Emily Hubley In-Person [May 25, Harrisburg, PA] * Essential Cinema: Stan Brakhage Program 3 [May 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Text of Light [May 25, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs Program 3 [May 25, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs Program 4 [May 25, New York, New York] * New Experimental Works [May 25, San Francisco, California] * Videoex Festival / Chris Marker: Short Films & La JetéE [May 25, Zurich] * Videoex Festival / the Short Films By David Lynch [May 25, Zurich] * Essential Cinema: Brakhage Pittsburgh Trilogy [May 26, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs Program 5 [May 26, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs Program 6 [May 26, New York, New York] * Videoex Festival / "Ici Et Ailleurs" By Jean-Luc Godard [May 26, Zurich] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013 ---------------------- 5/18 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 7pm, AMOA-Arthouse, 701 Congress Ave. KüçüK SINEMALAR! EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA FROM TURKEY Experimental Response Cinema and AMOA-ArtHouse are proud to present this screening featuring a number of vital and contemporary works from Turkey! Hot off the heels from a showing at Albuquerque's Experiments in Cinema, this program is programmed by ERC's Ekrem Serdar, who will present the screening. Republic Day by Can Eskinazi 4.25min / digital / sound / 2010 A Preface to Red by Jonathan Schwartz 6min / 16mm / sound / 2010 A single recording, recorded in a tunnel that one passes through after exiting a boat taking you from one continent to another, where people are selling bright colored toys and bright white sneakers. for the brief variations in the movement on the peripheryJonathan Schwartz océanéant by Yoel Meranda 2.25min / digital / silent / 2009 "Yoel Meranda indulges a fascination with color in his extraordinary abstraction océanéant : fields of translucent reds gather upon themselves until they seem to congeal into something with mass, weight, and texture." Fred Camper Peeling by Eytan İpeker 6min / digital / silent / 2011 Neyse Halin by Mustafa Uzuner 5.43min / digital / sound / 2007 diagonal by Yoel Meranda 0.56min / digital / silent / 2009 Moscow Diaries, Part 2 Statues by Can Eskinazi 2.46min / digital / sound / 2011 A mystery thriller featuring a rather unusual Russian cabdriver. Oğlun Burada (Your Son is Here) by Deniz Tortum 3.26min / digital / sound / 2012 My parents' wedding anniversary in Istanbul seen through my room in Brooklyn. Material Ghost by Mustafa Uzuner 2.31min / digital / silent / 2010 Shot on an old SONY HDV camera usıng a macro lens converter. Highway Screening by Yoel Meranda 2.07min / digital / silent / 2010 Silent video shot in İzmir while travelling from Urla to downtown (and back, at night) by car. Thanks goes to Can and the Eskinazi family for the wonderful hospitality. Do not watch this if you have photosensitive epilepsy. Siamese by Eytan İpeker 4.37min / digital / silent / 2011 A video that winks back at its audience Eytan Ipeker Bu Sahilde (On this Coast) by Zeynep Dadak & Merve Kayan 21.47min / 16mm / sound / 2010 Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) is a short essay film on the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a small coastal town on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, the fantastical counterpart to winter. 5/18 Filmmakers Co-op: Filmmakers Co-op 7pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floo AXWFF SALUTES MM SERRA & THE NY FILMMAKERS CO-OP ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, Salutes MM Serra & the NY Filmmakers Co-OP, Curated by Lili White - Screenings at the Film-Makers' Cooperative's, Charles S. Cohen Educational Screening Room - Wednesday May 1st, 2013 at 7:00pm - Admission $10 - Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016, Ph. 212-267-5665 - - PROGRAM NOTES - TRT: 78 minutes - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON\; Maya Deren - - The HOUSE of the GENTLE (excerpt)\; Lili White - - MILK AND GLASS\; Sarah Pucill - - BITCH BEAUTY\; MM Serra - - MISSING GREEN\; Joey Huertas aka Jane Public - #1\; Rie Sakaguchi-Nakaoka - - TIDES\; Amy Greenfield\; Camera: Hilary Harris - - FIREFLY\; Dariya Yalova\; Featuring Olga Alimanovic - - http://axwff.com, http://film-makerscoop.com/ 5/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 8:00 pm, Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street (at Hoover), Los Angeles CA 90007 THE DREAM MACHINE: A LIVING ROOM SCREENING WITH PHIL SOLOMON! Phil Solomon relocates his dream machine to the marvelous Velaslavasay Panorama for the sort of informal living room screening that we all dream of. It's a night for rare super8mm films, even two that were never released, and a few joyful larks. Plus the Panorama's garden welcomes everyone for the post-show conviviality. Including Nocturne 3 (The Dream Machine) (1976, super-8, silent, 8 minutes), Nocturne 4 (1980, color, super-8, 10 minutes), The Passage of the Bride (1978, 16mm silent, 6 min.), As If We (1980, color, silent, 16mm, 15 minutes) Los Angeles Premiere!, Remains to be Seen (1989, Super-8mm, 17 min), The Exquisite Hour (1989, Super 8mm, 14 min.), and more! 5/18 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. UP TO THE BORDERA PERSONAL VIEW ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL Sunday, August 13th 1961, the government of the German Democratic Republic lays the foundation stone for the "ugliest monument in the world". A whole city is in a state of shock. At first the "atrocious century-construction" is watched in disbelief. Then people start pulling their 8mm-cameras out of their cupboards to capture the images of the events. On the basis of these extraordinary, widely unknown recordings and found footage, Claus Oppermann und Gerald Grote's first feature film tells many impressive but forgotten stories about the rise of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to its fall in 1989, about the division of Germany and a bloody borderline through the middle of Europe. Claus Oppermann works as a camera operator, author, director and editor for cinema, TV, and advertising productions. Gerald Grote is primarily active as a graphic designer. He worked as a talk show host before becoming the editor-in-chief of a regional magazine, and is also active as an author and filmmaker. Bis an DIE GRENZEder private Blick auf die Mauer, dir. Claus Oppermann and Gerald Grote, 95 minutes, Blu-ray, 2012. Presented by Villa Aurora. 5/18 Minneapolis, MN: Casket Cinema 7pm, 681 17th Ave. NE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF COLEMAN MILLER Dear Friends of Casket Cinema, - Casket Cinema wraps up its 5th season with an Art-A-Whirl showcase of the Experimental Films of Coleman Miller on Saturday May 18th at 7pm. Miller is a film and video artist who works in the experimental genre. His work dynamically celebrates the self-referential by displaying sprocket holes, frame lines and aesthetic debris. His characters break down the 4th wall and recognizing they are, indeed, in a film. Miller worked for many years as a film printer at San Francisco's Monaco Lab where he conjured and refined numerous and resourceful printing techniques on the various continuous contact printers there. His work has shown at Rotterdam, Sundance, Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Mill Valley, OtherCinema and many other venues. He has been awarded the Jerome, McKnight and Film Arts Foundation grants. - We will be playing: - Fixated Whereabouts 1983 16mm ~6 min, Kirk We Hardly Knew Ya 1996 16mm ~ 14 min, Step Off a Ten Foot Platform With Your Clothes On 1990 16mm ~6 min, Sideways 1993 16mm ~ 3 min - Heaven 2006 digital ~4 min, New York Minute 2011 digital 4 min, Frank & Paula 2010 digital ~4 min, Take the L 2009 digital ~ 3 min, Uso Justo 2005 digital 22 min - Running time is around 1 hour. - This is a special Saturday evening show. The director will be present. Films will be playing on video and 16mm. Donation is $10. - Special guests will be the filmmaker, Coleman Miller and will be joined with Casket Cinema co-founder/host Mark Wojahn. 5/18 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6pm, 32 Second Avenue (@2nd Street) SMALL LIES & BIG TRUTHS -- SHELLY SILVER AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES SATURDAY NIGHT PROGRAMS - Saturday May 18 at 6:00 PM, The Houses that Are Left (1992) & Meet The People (1986) - Saturday May 18 at 8:00 PM, Former East/Former West (1994) - http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40782, www.shellysilver.com - "Silver has been making films since 1980. She works with actors and non-actors alike, and has interviewed extensively on the streets of Berlin, Tokyo, New York\; she has a writer's ear for the idiosyncrasies of unrehearsed speech, and a painterly eye for real-world color. Monologue, voiceover, and onscreen text interweave in her collaged narratives, and the oneiric precision of her editing allows the long take to shatter into split screens, to fold in time to repeat itself from other angles, or to speed into jump cuts, almost without the audience being aware that anything radical has occurred. This visual and verbal fluidity, in which points of view shift constantly into each otherso that no lulling cinematic suture ever captures us, but no traumatic rupture shocks us eithercorrelates to Silver's vision of what it means to be a person in a city in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first. For Silver, living in the existential apartment-house with fellow citizens means looking out the window, scoping on the street, eavesdropping, quoting, meeting strangers and having awkward, excited, unexpectedly candid talks. To look, and to let oneself be seen, is to feel the Other present everywhere, becoming and failing to become the self, and it is not a nightmare. It's a pleasure -- and like all pleasures tinged with ambiguity, with risk." From In the Neighboring Rooms, Frances Richard 5/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM DESISTFILM (1954, 7 min, 16mm, sound) REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12 min, 16mm, sound) THE WONDER RING (1955, 4 min, 16mm) FLESH OF MORNING (1956, 25 min, 16mm) DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE (1957, 8 min, 16mm) WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 min, 16mm) Films made during the early, "psychodramatic" period of one of modern cinema's greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. Total running time: ca. 75 minutes. 5/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: SHELLY SILVER PROGRAM 2 The Houses that are Left 1991, 52 min, digital video A story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder, and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead. Truth and fiction are blurred as the dead communicate with the living and real people are interviewed by fictional characters. "Structured as a sort of post-modern mystery story (that encompasses everything from murder to market research, from sexuality to the supernatural), 'The Houses that are Left' constructs a shifting narrative framework in which not only its characters but also the viewer is constantly having to sift out what is fiction from what is truth to finally arrive at its powerful and perceptive dissection of modern America: anxious, narcissistic, consumed by media images." Steven Bode, LONDON FILM FESTIVAL Meet the People 1986, 15 min, digital video "The fictions of the self overtly concern Silver in her tour-de-force 'Meet The People'. In video verite style, she swiftly intercuts what appear to be her interviews of 14 individuals representing contemporary New York types: a cabby, a waitress, a housewife, a stripper, an Italian construction worker, a black army officer. At the end the credits reveal that all 14 are actors and all were apparently reading Silver's script . Silver wittily questions the very idea of the authentic ultimately she implies, 'personal truth' is a momentary and collaborative invention, a triborough bridge between actor, author-director, and audience on TV and on the street." Anne Hoy, Curator, INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY 5/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: SHELLY SILVER PROGRAM 3 PROGRAM 3 FORMER EAST/FORMER WEST 1994, 62 min, digital video Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, this is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it meant to be German at that particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience. Silver questions the very notion of a shared language, focusing on changing definitions of words for political and economic systems democracy, freedom, capitalism, socialism as well as words used to describe nations and identity nationality, Germany, history, foreigners, home. 5/18 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St BILL BROWNS BOOK LAUNCH AND RETROSPECTIVE Mr. Brown delights us with his personal appearance, in from North Carolina with a charming "how-to" volume, Action!. The artist-author reads from this self-illustrated guide to film- and video-making, and also from the latest issue of his beloved travel 'zine, Dream Whip. Bill then introduces an inspiring mid-career overview of his personal documentaries, headlined by the West Coast premiere of Memorial Land, a careful consideration of architectural sites honoring the 9/11 dead. ALSO: Chicago Corner, Confederation Park, Mountain State, and Bill's recent Document, a laser-printer-to-16mm rendering of a redacted CIA text. Q&A, toast and jam, and books available! -------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 -------------------- 5/19 Chicago, IL: White Light Cinema http://www.whitelightcinema.com 7:30, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee MICHAEL KLIER'S DER RIESE [THE GIANT] White Light Cinema and The Nightingale Present - Michael Klier's DER RIESE [THE GIANT] - A Prescient 1983 German Film Essay on Surveillance - Sunday, May 19 7:30pm, At the Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.) - - Der Riese [The Giant] - Michael Klier (1983, 82 min, Video on DVD, West Germany) - "Comprised entirely of material generated by surveillance cameras, Der Riese is a rhapsodic but ominous work depicting the world with a cold mechanical spirit. That nothing can escape the chill stare of surveillance is only the starting point of Klier's tape. People come and go in public places-parks, department stores, banks, airports-like lifeless ciphers, unaware of the authoritarian stare of the camera. The flattened field of vision, black-and-white imagery, and sterile quality of the technology make the inhabitants of Der Riese emptied shadows. They are the signs of life\; truly signs, not the flesh rendered in two dimensions. Lyrically constructed sequences unfold to the strains of Mahler and Wagner, adding an almost heroic mood to much of this dark work. But this is where Der Riese excels-footage seemingly impervious to meaning here acquires the energy of high drama. Even the unblinking eye of the surveillance camera can be foiled." (Steve Seid, Pacific Film Archive) 5/19 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE NEAR ME: FILMS BY PHIL SOLOMON In our second night with Phil Solomon in person, Solomon brings an array of 16mm classics from throughout his career, and presents the world premiere of a new work! Nocturne (1980/89, 16mm, 10 min.), The Secret Garden (1988, 16mm, 23 min.), Seasons... by Phil Solomon and Stan Brakhage (2002, 16mm, 15 minutes), The Snowman (1995, 16mm, 8 min.), Psalm II: "Walking Distance" (1999, 23 min.), and Simply Because You're Near Me (2013, color, sound, HD video, 12 minutes) World Premiere! 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/375330 or at the door. 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 2 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT (1958, 40 min, 16mm) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 min, 16mm) SIRIUS REMEMBERED (1959, 12 min, 16mm) THE DEAD (1960, 11 min, 16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 min, 16mm) BLUE MOSES (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT, Brakhage leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period. This program also contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films, BLUE MOSES. Total running time: ca. 90 min. 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DOG STAR MAN by Stan Brakhage 1961-64, 74 min, 16mm A masterwork in which all of Brakhage's techniques achieve a complex synthesis to produce one of cinema's supreme epic poems. "The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color." Michael McClure, ARTFORUM 5/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SONGS 1-14 by Stan Brakhage 1964-65, ca. 53 min, 16mm "SONG 1: Portrait of a lady. SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind's movement in remembering. SONG 4: Three girls playing with a ball. Hand painted. SONG 5: A childbirth song. SONG 6: The painted veil via moth-death. SONG 7: San Francisco. SONG 8: Sea creatures. SONG 9: Wedding source and substance. SONG 10: Sitting around. SONG 11: Fires, windows, an insect, a lyre of rain scratches. SONG 12: Verticals and shadows caught in glass traps. SONG 13: A travel song of scenes and horizontals. SONG 14: Molds, paints and crystals." S.B. -------------------- MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013 -------------------- 5/20 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 THE ELEGIAC VISIONS OF PHIL SOLOMON Since 1975, Phil Solomon has been making films that magically penetrate the surface of images and reveal depths of new poetic meaning. Solomon's 16mm films imbue prerecorded imagery with fantastical sensual and dimensional qualities. His recent work extends these concerns into the digital realm, creating haunting landscapes that reawaken the mysteries of life and death, and of physical reality and alternative states. Solomon presents two masterful films, What's Out Tonight is Lost (1983) and Psalm I: "The Lateness of the Hour" (1999), and four digital works, Innocence and Despair (2002), his tribute to 9/11, and In Memoriam (200509), a trilogy in memory of filmmaker Mark LaPore that mystically transforms backgrounds from the video game series Grand Theft Auto. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] --------------------- TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 --------------------- 5/21 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street DASH SHAW + BOBBY'S GIRL "A former student of the genius artist-seer-cartoonist Gary Panter, Dash, it's fair to say, is something of a genius as well." - Chris Ware - "I have seen the future of comics and its name is Dash Shaw." - David Mazzucchelli - With books like Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and his latest, New School, the young cartoonist Dash Shaw is responsible for some of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic comics being made today. His dynamic serial forms feature elaborately layered panels and off-kilter figuration, betraying a remarkable confluence of styles and strategies, at times recalling everything from Sigmar Polke to manga. Recently, in anticipation of a feature-length project, he has also begun to produce a similarly variegated body of animation, which includes music video, the melancholy droid-drama The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century, A.D., and a biography that covers a chapter in the life of Dada doyenne Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. He's also crafted cinematic permutations of his own comics, as well as adaptations of game shows and reality tv that marry their source materials' original audio tracks with a series of static illustrations to uncanny effectWheel of Fortune never seemed so heartbreaking, or so strange. Tonight, he'll present a selection of his experiments with moving images at Light Industry. Rounding out the lineup is a film chosen by Shaw that he finds resonant with the concerns of his particular hand-drawn animation techniques: Bobby's Girl, an 80s anime rarity about a teenage biker, his pen pal, and his death drive. - Followed by a conversation with Shaw. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. ---------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013 ---------------------- 5/23 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street TWO FILMS BY CHARLES DEKEUKELEIRE Impatience, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1928, 27 mins, Histoire de détective, Charles Dekeukeleire, 16mm, 1929, 37 mins - An unjustly overlooked figure of the European avant-garde, Belgian filmmaker Charles Dekeukeleire made only four experimental works in the 1920s. Two of themImpatience and Histoire de détectiveare nothing less than hidden masterpieces of the era, though they reportedly baffled audiences in their own day. In this pair of films, Dekeukeleire proposes an enigmatic disassembling of silent cinema's constitutive logics, presaging the concerns of structural film by many decades and dramatically upending conventions of narrative form. - Impatience is built around what Dekeukeleire called the four "characters" of the film, introduced in a title card as The Mountain, The Motorcycle, The Woman, and Abstract Blocks. Each element appears in a succession of discrete, repeated shots, their relationship suggested exclusively via montage, yet never granting the viewer the climactic payoff of fiction they at first appear to promise. The evocation of speed and a vertiginous cinematography seem in tune with the loopier elements of the 20s avant-garde, but ultimately Impatience feels less allied to contemporaneous experiments such as Ballet mécanique and more like a forgotten ancestor to the internal-combustion erotics of Kustom Kar Kommandos. - If Impatience suggests a foray into pure cinema by stressing the primacy of phenomenological experience, Histoire de détective overturns this very project through its deployment of a film-within-a-film that constitutes a failure of optical investigation. The story concerns Mme. Jonathan, who hires T, a detective, to trail her neurasthenic husband around Belgium and Luxembourg. T uses a motion-picture camera to follow M. Jonathan, and most of Histoire is taken up with T's shaky, idiosyncratic footage of street scenes and local architecture. Providing few clues of their own, T's digressive shots are interrupted by elaborately designed intertitles that bear almost all of the narrative information of the film. This distended structure plays with the tropes of the crime serial, but almost sadistically denies the viewer any of the genre's expected visual pleasures in favor of less obvious effects. "My greatest concern," Dekeukeleire once noted, "is to make the camera's lens live like the eye, like a glance...conditioned by the inner life." - Impatience and Histoire de détective will be screened on unsubtitled 16mm prints courtesy of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium. For tonight's event, the intertitles will be translated live by Luc Sante. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 5/23 Brooklyn, New York: Roulette http://roulette.org/events/sheri-willis-wkhorikos-king-lavra/ 8:00PM, 509 Atlantic Ave (On the corner of Atlantic & 3rd Aves) DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN KING LAVRA: A MICRO-OPERA WITH LIVE VIDEO BY SHERI WILLS King Lavra is a micro-opera by Czech composer, Jan Jirásek, with live video by Sheri Wills, and performed by KHORIKOS. Based on an old folk tale, King Lavra is a very contemporary re-telling of secrets concealed and revealed: a psychological story of an individual hiding a silent shame and a political one of the people's need to know the true nature of their leaders. 5/23 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. PXL THIS 22 PXL THIS 22, the 22nd annual toy camera film festival featuring Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder and the second oldest film festival in LA, celebrates visionary moving image artists from 4-years-olds to professionals. All genres are here: avant-garde, comedy, documentary, abstract, music, art, narrative & films words cannot describe. "PXL is the ultimate people's video." - J. Hoberman. "If movies offer an escape from everyday life, Pixelvision is the Houdini of the film world." - SF Weekly. Director Gerry Fialka will be present for discussion! 5/23 Portland: St. Lawrence Arts Center 7:00 PM, 76 Congress Street WALTER UNGERER/ RECENT SHORT FILMS Please note: This is the re-scheduling of a previous engagement from April 23 to May 23 On Thursday, May 23rd, St. Lawrence Arts will present a program of his recent short films including GREEN EYE (Atlanta Film Festival) and MONARDA (Strand Theater and Farnsworth Museum collaboration). There will be a Q & A at the conclusion of the program. Walter Ungerer is a longtime filmmaker and artist of international reputation, beginning with the underground film scene in NYC in the early 1960s, continuing through to the 21st century in Maine. Ungerer's works have been shown at festivals and competitions throughout the world including Florence, Tours, Athens, Hong Kong, Houston, Tate, UK and MoMA, NY. Two of Ungerer's films with recent success on the international festival circuit are PARVA SED APTA MIHI (Factory Art, Berlin, Germany Alchemy Festival, Scotland; Experimental Film Festival, Oregon) and GREEN EYE (Atlanta Film Festival) Ungerer uses the short form, another term for short film. His method of working can be described as layering or building visual sequences one on top of the next. 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, a surreal atmosphere where, as Hannah Piper Burns, co-director of the Experimental Film Festival, Oregon describes it, " the film deals with life, freedom, and transcendence of limitations". -------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 -------------------- 5/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 1 ORCHARD STREET (1955, 12 min, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation.) ARTIE AND MARTY ROSENBLATT'S BABY PICTURES (1963, 4 min, 8mm, sound on tape) AIRSHAFT (1967, 4 min, 16mm) JERRY TAKES A BACK SEAT, THEN PASSES OUT OF THE PICTURE (1975, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up) THE WINTER FOOTAGE (1964, 50 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up) Total running time: ca. 90 min. 5/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 2 THE WHIRLED (1956-63 [compiled in early 1990s], 19 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) BAUD'LARIAN CAPERS (A MUSICAL WITH NAZIS AND JEWS) (1963, 25 min, 16mm) BOB FLEISCHNER DYING (2009, 3 min, digital video) HOT DOGS AT THE MET (2009, 10 min, digital video) LISA AND JOEY IN CONNECTICUT, JANUARY '65: "YOU'VE COME BACK!" "YOU'RE STILL HERE!" (1965, 18 min, 8mm-to-16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min. ---------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 ---------------------- 5/25 Harrisburg, PA: Moviate http://www.moviate.org/ 2:00pm, 612 N Front St., ANIMATOR/FILMMAKER EMILY HUBLEY IN-PERSON part of THE 15th Annual ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL: EMILY HUBLEY (animator/filmmaker) IN-PERSON - ANIMATOR for the film "HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH" and videos for Yo La Tengo, The Db's and more! - Ms. Hubley has been making animated shorts since 1980. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Her newest short, and/or extends this to the perspective of a male artist, who debates his inner/outer muse. and/or screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, animation festivals in Poland and Hiroshima and this year's Black Maria Film Festival. EMILY will present TWO PROGRAMS mixing her films with those of her parents, animators John and Faith Hubley. - Oscar Nominated Short by John and Faith Hubley, http://youtu.be/cit6iUEEdyo - 2PM - Program 1 "ALL AGES AFTERNOON" 88 minutes. - With 3 films by Faith Hubley, 3 films by Emily Hubley, and 4 films by John and Faith Hubley. - Adventures of an *(John and Faith 1956) 10m - Hello(Faith 1984) 9.5m - Moonbird(John & Faith 1959) 10m - Time of the Angels(Faith 1987) 10m - Cockaboody(John & Faith 1973) 8.5m - The Tower(Georgia & Emily 1984) 11.5m - Urbanissimo(John & Faith 1967) 6m - Enough(Emily 1992) 4.5m - Tall Time Tales(Faith 1992) 8m - One Self: Fish/Girl(Emily 1997) 10m - and - 4PM, Program 2 "PRE-EVENING ADULT FRIENDLY" 89 minutes. - With 2 films by Faith Hubley, 4 films by Emily Hubley, and 4 films by John and Faith Hubley. - Date w Dizzy(John & Faith 1960) 10m - The Hole(John & Faith 1962) 15m - Pigeon Within(Emily 2000) 4.5m - Eggs(John & Faith 1970) 6m - Her Grandmother's Gift(Emily 1995) 6m - Witch Madness(Faith 1999) 8.5 - Zuckerkandl(John & Faith 1969) 15m - Set Set Spike(Emily 2003) 6m - Tender Game(John & Faith 1958) 6m - Northern Ice Golden Sun(Faith 2001) 6.5 - and/or (Emily 2012) 5.5m - at the Civic Club of Harrisburg. - FREE 5/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STAN BRAKHAGE PROGRAM 3 All films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 min, 16mm) PASHT (1965, 5 min, 16mm) FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH (1968, 19 min, 16mm) THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29 min, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 min, 16mm) SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 min, 16mm, b&w) THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 min, 16mm) A selection from some of Brakhage's most densely mysterious works. Total running time: ca. 95 min. 5/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TEXT OF LIGHT by Stan Brakhage 1974, 67 min, 16mm Brakhage's tour-de-force exploration of refracted light in an ashtray. "All that is, is light." Dun Scotus Erigena 5/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 3 THE DOCTOR'S DREAM (1978, 23 min, 16mm) PERFECT FILM (1985, 22 min, 16mm) WHAT HAPPENED ON 23RD STREET IN 1901 (2009, 14 min, digital video) THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY (2006, 11 min, digital video) Total running time: ca. 75 min. 5/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 4 GLOBE (1969, 22 min, 16mm, Pulfrich 3D) INSISTENT CLAMOR (2005, 22 min, digital video) BRAIN OPERATIONS (2009, 22 min, digital video) MAKE LIGHT ON FILM (1995, 15 min, 16mm, Pulfrich 3D) Total running time: ca. 85 min. 5/25 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Here's an energized evening of new cinema that champions personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season's most exploratory programming initiativeand with many of the makers in personare Salise Hughes' Charade, Kelly Sears' The Rancher, Brook Hinton's Slow Force Glimpse, Pablo Marin's Denkbuilder, Heidi Phillips' Art Composition, David Cox' Do Others, and Daniel Corona's Bedroom. PLUS recent pieces by Anne McGuire, Jeanne Finley, Linda Scobie, Bryan Boyce, Doug Katelus, and a new movie by Miles Votek, Zander Mackie, and Ben Fash. Lana Voronina delivers the deathblow with her New World Order Rave Mom performance. Come early for artists' reception, free pencils, and the Dream Machine! 5/25 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 20:15, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / CHRIS MARKER: SHORT FILMS & LA JETéE The 1962 French science fiction featurette "La Jetée" is considered as one of the masterpieces of Chris Marker's experimental practice. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel which has inspired a long list of filmmakers during the last decades. For the opening night of the Videoex Festival a sequence of short films by Chris Marker - including "La Jetée" - will be projected in the space of the Cinema Z3. 5/25 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 22:00, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / THE SHORT FILMS BY DAVID LYNCH Filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, visual artist, musician and actor, David Lynch is worldwide known expecially for his surrealist films, which are developed in a unique cinematic style, characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The end of the first day of the Videoex Festival is dedicated to the projection in series of selected short films by the American multifaceted director. -------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2013 -------------------- 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BRAKHAGE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY EYES 1970, 36 min, 16mm, silent. "After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970." S.B. & DEUS EX 1971, 34 min, 16mm, silent. "I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all that experience while making DEUS EX in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room of San Francisco's Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and the following lines from Charles Olson's 'Cole's Island' had especially centered the experience, 'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles begins the poem with the statement 'I met Death ' And then: 'He didn't bother me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And / He certainly was, the moment I saw him.'" S.B. & THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES 1971, 32 min, 16mm, silent. " Brakhage, entering, with his camera, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of others." Hollis Frampton Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 5 AMERICA AT WAR (2011, 30 min, digital video, anaglyph 3D) ANOTHER OCCUPATION (2011, 15 min, digital video) SEEKING THE MONKEY KING (2011, 40 min, digital video) Total running time: ca. 90 min. 5/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN JACOBS PROGRAM 6 KEATON'S COPS (1991, 23 min, 16mm) HIS FAVORITE WIFE IMPROVED (OR THE VIRTUE OF BAD RECEPTION) (2008, 2 min, digital video) WE ARE CHARMING (2007, 1 min, digital video) HANKY PANKY JANUARY 1902 (2007, 1 min, digital video) NYMPH (2007, 2 min, digital video) ALONE AT LAST (2008, 2 min, digital video) THE DISCOVERY (2008, 5 min, digital video) LOVE STORY (2008, 3 min, digital video) DISORIENT EXPRESS (1996, 30 min, 35mm) Total running time: 75 min. 5/26 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 18:15, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / "ICI ET AILLEURS" BY JEAN-LUC GODARD As a first step of "For ever Godard!", a short survey inside the film practice of the Swiss-French director Jean-Luc Godard shown during the Videoex Festival, one of his most controversial films will be projected in the Cinema Z3. "Ici et ailleurs", produced in 1976 by using footage from "Jusqu'à la victoire" (a 1970 pro-Palestinian film made by Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin), marks the beginning of Godard's transitional period, which found him experimenting with video and moving from political polemics to an examination of the way people perceive themselves and others. 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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