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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: ===================== Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: October 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1590.ann 5th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt; Deadline: June 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1591.ann Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia; Deadline: June 28, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1592.ann Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal; Deadline: August 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1593.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 31 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 05, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1594.ann The 25th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: July 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1595.ann There Shall Be Popcorn (Dayton, Oh, USA; Deadline: February 05, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1596.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Cologne International Videoart Festival (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1526.ann CTF - Collective Trauma Film Collections (Cologne, Germany; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1528.ann 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 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 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 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 5th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo, Egypt; Deadline: June 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1591.ann Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, Australia; Deadline: June 28, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1592.ann Journal of Short Film Volume 31 (Columbus, Ohio, USA; Deadline: July 05, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1594.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): ============================== * Large-Scale: Experimental Films On 35mm [June 1, Austin, TX] * Nomadic Archive: Abraham Ravett Presents Two Works By Tom Joslin [June 1, Los Angeles, California] * Let Your Light Shine: Experimental Animations By Jodie Mack [June 1, Seattle, Washington] * Videoex Festival / Belgrad Historical - Radical Amateurism [June 1, Zurich] * Videoex Filmfestival / Juan River & Riojim (Live) [June 1, Zurich] * Videoex Festival / "Leviathan" By Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel [June 1, Zurich] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Oberhausen Short Film Festival Tour International Competition 2012 [June 2, Los Angeles, California] * Abigail Child: A Shape of Error Nyc Premiere [June 2, New York, NY] * Filmmakers Road Map With Georgia Hilton [June 2, New York, NY] * Videoex Filmfestival / "Le Fond De L'air Est Rouge" By Chris Marker [June 2, Zurich] * Videoex Filmfestival / International & Swiss Contest - Screening of the Winners [June 2, Zurich] * Silver and Dye: Personal Cinema and Diy Processing [June 3, New York, New York] * Remix [June 4, Seattle, Washington] * Another Experiment By Women Film Festival 2013 Initial Screening Event [June 5, New York, New York] * The Sprocket Society's Fifth Anniversalodeon [June 5, Seattle, Washington] * The Free Screen - Yang Fudong: An Estranged Paradise [June 5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * The Poetics of Unforgetting: Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin [June 6, London, England] * Open Screen [June 6, Los Angeles, California] * Introducing the Texas Punk Problem (Houston) [June 7, Houston, TX] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson + Le RÉVÉLateur [June 7, Montréal, Quebec] * Shifting Lives: Photographing the Immigrant Experience In Chinatown W/ Lynne Sachs and Annie Ling [June 8, Brooklyn, New York] * Kissed By the Sun: A Night of Films By Dagie Brundert [June 8, Los Angeles, California] * The Outré World of Rolf Forsberg [June 8, Los Angeles, California] * Psychic Sculptures [June 9, Brooklyn, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Josh Kit Clayton [June 9, Oakland] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2013 ---------------------- 6/1 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 1pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 6th St. LARGE-SCALE: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ON 35MM Experimental Response Cinema is excited to partner with the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz to present a rare screening of classic and contemporary experimental works made on that now-classic format of 35mm film! - Cabinets, windows and frames of reveries, hand-painted epics, radically reshaped and vital emulsions, and explorations of the primal elements of the medium are some of the themes that come forward in this diverse program. Featuring work by Christina Battle, Louise Bourque, Stan Brakhage, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Lawrence Jordan, Chris Kennedy, Peter Kubelka, Kerry Laitala, Pat O'Neill, and Peter Tscherkassky. Conjuror's Box by Kerry Laitala, 5min / 35mm / silent / 2011; Arnulf Rainer by Peter Kubelka, 7min / 35mm / sound / 1960; REALTIME by Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 5min / 35mm / sound / 2002; Three Hours, Fifteen Minutes Before the Hurricane by Christina Battle, 5min / 35mm / silent / 2006; Our Lady of the Sphere by Lawrence Jordan, 10min / 35mm / sound / 1969; Dream Work (for Man Ray) by Peter Tscherkassky, 11min / 35mm / sound / 2001; Jours en Fleurs by Louise Bourque, 4:30min / 35mm / sound / 2003; 16-18-4 by Tomonari Nishikawa, 2.5min / 35mm / silent / 2008; Jane's Window by Chris Kennedy, 11min / 35mm / silent / 2005; The Dante Quartet by Stan Brakhage, 8min / 35mm / silent / 1987; Horizontal Boundaries by Pat O'Neill, 23min / 35mm / sound / 2008. 6/1 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. NOMADIC ARCHIVE: ABRAHAM RAVETT PRESENTS TWO WORKS BY TOM JOSLIN Hampshire college alumna and EPFC staffer Eve LaFountain and her professor Abraham Ravett will present two of Tom Joslin's works: Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend from 1976, and the posthumously assembled work The Architecture of Mountains (2010). Ravett writes the following about the project: "Before he left for LA in 1981 to pursue a career in Hollywood, documentary filmmaker Tom Joslin completed an innovative and, to this day, historically significant film called Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976, 85 minutes, color, sound, 16mm). It was one of the first autobiographical, diary format films that addressed the issue of gay identity and coming out to one's family. It's a beautifully made film, formally inventive, and still resonates on many fronts." When Tom passed away from AIDS, he left all his video tapes from another autobiographical project he had been shooting in LA to a former student named Peter Friedman who in turn, found the resources to construct the much acclaimed film, Silverlake Life: the View from Here. Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on another film inspired by Jose Argüelles book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression. Shot in sync and MOS on 16mm, the footage reflects Tom's interest in perception, human consciousness, and signaled his evolving interest in fusing non-fiction, experimental and dramatic genres. All the original materials for this unfinished film were stored at the LA home of Ken Levin another former Hampshire College student who, along with several other students, worked with Tom on this project, which he called The Architecture of Mountains (62 minutes). Ravett asked Ken Levin if we could use the footage as part of a class project. For the last two years, a small group of students and Ravett have shaped the material into a 62 minute film that is based on Tom's production notes, conversations with Tom's former students about the Architecture of Mountains project, and the Argüelles text. The primary editor is Ben Balcom. The version which would be screened tonight "is an attempt to construct what Tom may have wanted to do with this material as well as our own engagement and fascination with this footage." Following the sceerning, Ravett will discuss the consequences of creating such a "nomadic archive," as he calls this project. (text from UnionDocs) ABRAHAM RAVETT IN ATTENDANCE! 6/1 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th Avenue LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATIONS BY JODIE MACK Jodie Mack's insightful, handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her film work explores the tension between form and meaning. 

Mack received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Films screening tonight include Dusty Stacks of Mom, which interweaves personal filmmaking, abstract animation and rock opera in an animated musical documentary. More information about this event, including a full program: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2668 6/1 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 16:15, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / BELGRAD HISTORICAL - RADICAL AMATEURISM A four-film screening curated by Aleksandra Sekulić and devoted to the Experimental Avant-garde Film scene in Belgrade between the 60s and 80s. Films by Sava Trifkovic, Ivko Sesic, Miroslav Bata Petrovic and Bojan Jovanovic. 6/1 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 21:30, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FILMFESTIVAL / JUAN RIVER & RIOJIM (LIVE) Wild Elektro-Sound, lo-fi singing and explosive colours in an extemporaneous 16 mm Film... a psychedelic penetration in the black and white world for a live performance in the night of the VIDEOEX Festival. 6/1 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 22:00, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FESTIVAL / "LEVIATHAN" BY LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR & VERENA PARAVEL A special screening of the recent acclaimed film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel. "The Leviathan" (2012) is a documentary movie and wordless experimental work shot in the North Atlantic, focused on the North American commercial fishing industry. -------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2013 -------------------- 6/2 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS THE OBERHAUSEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL TOUR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2012 The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen comes to Los Angeles. Oberhausen, Germany, hosts what is probably the world's leading festival for short films, and Filmforum is bringing two of their programs from 2012 to Los Angeles. In this program of selections from Oberhausen's International Competition, six documentary and experimental video works (for the most part) take a close look at human and animal behavior. What is fiction here, and what is documentary? The diversity of current international short film production is just waiting to be discovered in this program. Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at from Brown Paper Tickets (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/389209) and at the door. Screening: No estoy muerto, solo estoy dormido (I'm not dead, only asleep) by Juan S. Lopez Maas (2011, Netherlands, color, 25 min.), Snow Tapes by Mich'ael Zupraner (2011, Palestinian Territories, color, 14 min.), Ersatz by Elodie Pong (2011, Switzerland, France, color, 4 min.), Malody by Phillip Barker (2012, Canada, color, 12 min.), Hirvikuiskaaja (The Elk Whisperer) by Ilkka Rautio (2011, Finland, color, 19 min.), Café Regular, Cairo by Ritesh Batra (2011, Egypt, India, color, 11 min.) All the works in this program are Los Angeles premieres! 6/2 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3pm, 32 Second Avenue (@2nd Street) ABIGAIL CHILD: A SHAPE OF ERROR NYC PREMIERE A SHAPE OF ERROR, 2012, 70min, digital video - - www.abigailchild.com, www.ashapeoferror.com 6/2 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 2pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor FILMMAKERS ROAD MAP WITH GEORGIA HILTON The Filmmakers' Cooperative & Millennium Film Workshop present: - FILMMAKERS ROADMAP WORKSHOP (Part One) - High Production Value on a Microbudget - This 2-hour workshop with Georgia Hilton will help you: - *Develop your project Write scripts that won't force you to go on food stamps to feed your crew. - *Pre-Production How to use Storyboards and Animatics to save 25% of your time and money\; Equipment you'll really need (sometimes it's cheaper to rent the right stuff than going with "what you have")\; Initial crewing tips\; Managing costs on the set\; and Realistic budgeting. - *Production How to keep your crew and talent focused, on track, and on budget\; Things to look for to make Post a lot easier. - *Post-Production How to use sound to fix film mistakes\; How to use picture editing to fix sound problems\; ADR tricks\; Great sound on a low budget and why you should never discount sound. - *Money - How to make your film accessible and seen by more people\; Alternative distribution options. - Cost: $59, Sunday, June 2nd, 2013, 2pm-4PM - @ the Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475 Park Avenue South, Sixth Floor (at 32nd street) - Fee: $59 : Sign up now, space is limited! - Paypal Link: http://millenniumfilm.org/wp-content/themes/mill_theme3/filmmakers_roadm ap.php (Enroll by May 27) - - GEORGIA HILTON- MPE MPSE CAS, founder of Film Doctors and Hilton Media Management, is a Producer, director, and editor for Film and Broadcast. Ms Hilton is also a well known technology and business consultant for both media and technology fields. She has designed Broadcast Facilities, Recording Studios, Film Dub-stages, Data Centers, International Networks and Software/database systems. As a Media Consultant, she is a producer, director, editor, sound designer and re-recording engineer, with a remarkable background in film making. Georgia's expertise spans both the Art and Technology disciplines. Additionally, Ms Hilton is an approved Dolby and DTS content provider, delivering DTS, Dolby-E, Dolby-AC3, Digital delivery encoding services and QC for features & broadcast projects. She has a comprehensive credit list including broadcast, film and multimedia credits. - http://www.hiltonmediamanagement.com/ 6/2 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 15:00, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FILMFESTIVAL / "LE FOND DE L'AIR EST ROUGE" BY CHRIS MARKER Divided into two parts the first one focused on the emergence of leftist movements at the end of 60s, while the second one details the slow demise of the invigorated left in the following years "Le Fond de l'air est rouge" (1977) is a documentary film shot by Chris Marker before the Fall of the Wall and the end of the URSS and try to be an essay on the New Left its arise and its failure. 6/2 Zurich: Videoex http://www.videoex.ch/ 20:15, Kanonengasse 20 VIDEOEX FILMFESTIVAL / INTERNATIONAL & SWISS CONTEST - SCREENING OF THE WINNERS After a ten-day overall screening, the last night of the Videoex Festival will be the scenario for the prize-giving of the winners. The films of both the international and Swiss contests will be awarded and then projected in the space of the Cinema Z3. -------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013 -------------------- 6/3 New York, New York: Camera Club New York http://www.cameraclubny.org/classes.html 7-9pm, Camera Club New York, 336 West 37th Street, Suite 206 SILVER AND DYE: PERSONAL CINEMA AND DIY PROCESSING As film enters into its final days, we will honor that fact by reveling in the rich history, beauty and magic inherent in the medium itself. Often associated with large studios, labs, and production companies, filmmaking at its heart was only for the most ambitious artist. By necessity, its early practitioners were forced to simultaneously play engineer, scientist, and director; with labs often built into their own basements. As time went on, specialization and the film industry as we have come to know it emerged, but outside of that, all the while the amateur filmmaker has worked on, continuing to assume all the roles needed to realize his own vision. This is a hands-on class that will both look into the makers of DIY filmmaking, and go in-depth into the steps needed to hand-process your own film. This class is 4 sessions (3 two hour classes and one 5 hour processing workshop) with screenings, discussions, guest presenters, and film making lab time included. First 3 sessions: Mondays, June 3, June 10, & June 17 from 7-9pm. Final session: Sunday, June 23, noon-5pm (4 sessions) Cost: $250 ($225 CCNY members) Materials Fee: $50.00 This class is limited to 10 students. Kenneth Zoran Curwood is an artist and filmmaker from New York. As part of his practice, he takes apart old movie cameras and projectors, and re-purposes them to photograph movies one frame at a time (DIY optical printing). He then processes the film in home-made chemical mixtures. Curwood's works have been shown at Anthology Film Archives, Canada Gallery, Union Docs, Louis V E.S.P., Heliopolis Gallery, and many other venues. He graduated with a BA in sculpture from the School of the Visual Arts. To see his work, go to his vimeo site. --------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013 --------------------- 6/4 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th Avenue REMIX From the basements of samizdat film geeks to the more well lit purlieus ofThe Huffington Post, remix filmmaking has transitioned from oddball, obsessive tinkering to a central way our culture communicates. While its prevalence on sites like Funny or Die may give the impression remixing is a frat house gag, the form can contain a potent mix of the lyrical and the awe-ful, the sublime and the cloying, the progressive and regressive, the high and the low. Scratch video, mashups, culture jams, subtitle hacks, "uncreative" data, supercuts . . . tonight's selection of films will provide a range of historical and current examples, from art house classics to meme-generated, quasi-anonymous endeavors. Curated by Joe Milutis. Tickets: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2672 ----------------------- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013 ----------------------- 6/5 New York, New York: ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/ 7PM- 9 PM, Anthology Film Archives ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL 2013 INITIAL SCREENING EVENT ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL(AXW for short) GIVES WOMEN'S WORK A REAL TIME & SPACE IN NYC///// 2013's featured filmmaker COLEEN FITZGIBBON (http://coleenfitzgibbon.com) will present the World Premiere of her never before screened experimental movies and talk with us about her work. //////// WORKS TO BE SCREENED on JUNE 5, 2013 LAND of NOD by Coleen Fitzgibbon | TRICKS ARE FOR KIDDO by Rhayne Vermette | reddish brown and blueish green by Samantha Gurry | TOXIC PARK by Cinzia Sarto & Emita Frigato | DISPLACEMENT by Liliana Resnick | SHOULD I STAND AMID YOUR BREAKERS OR SHOULD I LIE WITH DEATH MY BRIDE by Marcy Saude | KORONA by Lena Ditte Nissen | CAMERA MEMORIA by Franziska Vogel | 18 (+2) BLINKS OF AN EYE by Anuradha Chandra | WAS BEING MOVED? by Ye Mimi | ROSE by Coleen Fitzgibbon | ////// FILMS BY THE FOLLOWING FILMMAKERS WILL BE SCREENED THROUGHOUT 2013 IN 4 ADDITIONAL SHOWS!: Yvette Granata | Whitney Johnston | Terra Long |Tejal Shah | Muriel Montini | Tara Nelson | Soda_Jerk | Olivia Ciummo |Mayye Zayed | Martyna Merkel |Margaret Rorison | MM Serra | Kathy Rugh | M. Kardinal | Lori Felker | Laura Heit | Kyoungju Kim | Jesse Russell Brooks with Alexzenia Davis | Cornelia Eichhorn | Claudia Siefen | Carolyn Radlo | Cade Bursell | Beth Portnoy | Beate Hecher | Angela Ferraiolo | Anabela Costa |Ana Rodríguez León | Amanda Belantara //////// FUNDRAISING at: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/another-experiment-by-women-film-festi val-2013 6/5 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 7pm & 9pm, 1515 12th Avenue THE SPROCKET SOCIETY'S FIFTH ANNIVERSALODEON A special double-bill of cinema treasures from the secret vaults of The Sprocket Society, in honor of their fifth anniversary. Featuring rare 16mm prints of movies spanning the history of movies: animation, silent film, comedy, documentary, music, experiments and more. An indoor version of the backyard movie parties from whence it sprang; a splendid time is guaranteed for all. Two completely different shows at 7pm & 9pm. . .each with short subjects and a feature. See one or both for the same price! Program and ticket information: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2719 6/5 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 7:00 PM , TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West THE FREE SCREEN - YANG FUDONG: AN ESTRANGED PARADISE FREE EVENT! In support of acclaimed visual artist Yang Fudong's new installation New Women commissioned by TIFF for the HSBC Gallery as a complement to the film programme A Century of Chinese Cinema The Free Screen is pleased to present the artist's first feature film, which, like his new work, reflects Yang's fascination with the nascent cinema culture of 1930s Shanghai. ---------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013 ---------------------- 6/6 London, England: Artprojx Cinema http://www.artprojx.com/cinema 7pm, Hackney Picturehouse THE POETICS OF UNFORGETTING: JUMANA MANNA, MICKALENE THOMAS, SUSANNA WALLIN Artprojx presents ... Jumana Manna, Mickalene Thomas, Susanna Wallin in The Poetics of Unforgetting at the Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE. Thursday 6th June 2013 from 7 to 8.30pm. >>> Artprojx Presents at Hackney Picturehouse is a new series of monthly screenings of artists film and video works. Launching with films by three brilliant young international contemporary artists, whose films will linger in your memory long after viewing. >>> Jumana Manna: Blessed Blessed Oblivion. Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother. Susanna Wallin: Marker & Echo Park. >>> Introduced by David Gryn, Artprojx. >>>Tickets on sale now £6/£5(concs): Call 0871 902 5734 or visit Hackney Picturehouse >>> http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Artprojx _Presents_The_Poetics_Of_Unforgetting/ >>> http://www.artprojx.com >>> http://davidgryn.wordpress.com >>> https://twitter.com/Artprojx >>> @Artprojx @ ArtprojxCinema @HackneyPH 6/6 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. OPEN SCREEN $5 / Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm. -------------------- FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013 -------------------- 6/7 Houston, TX: Gallery Homeland 7pm, 2327 1/2 Commerce St INTRODUCING THE TEXAS PUNK PROBLEM (HOUSTON) a benefit bash/pre-launch party for Bill Daniel's new project, The Texas Punk Problem, a book of photography and writing from the early 80s Texas punk scene. - film screening --- photo show --- DJ's --- live band --- dance party --- art sale - 2 day event: Friday, June 7th, doors 7:00, film screening* and discussion at 9:00, + DJ No Fun. - Saturday, June 8th, doors 7:00, film screening* and discussion at 9:00, live band: Hamamatsu Tom & Josh Wolf, then a punk-pop dance party until way late with guest DJs you will adore. - * film screening: Bill Daniel will be screening rare films from his archives, including clips of Sonic Youth playing in downtown Houston in 1986, the Butthole Surfers playing at the old Maceba Theater in Houston in 1986, and various other Texas-based music/film oddities. - The walls of the Homeland Gallery will feature Daniel's punk photography as well as mash-up of Texas punk ephemera including flyers, zines, record covers. Photo prints of Bill's work will be for sale to benefit the book project. - $5-25 sliding scale admission, and art sales to benefit The Texas Punk Problem book project. - www.thetexaspunkproblem.com 6/7 Montréal, Quebec: Suoni Per Il Popolo http://suoniperilpopolo.org/le-revelateur-jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-clipson/ 7:00pm, Musée dart contemporain de Montréal 185 Sainte-Catherine Ouest JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON + LE RÉVÉLATEUR Le Révélateur is Montreal-based electronic musician Roger Tellier-Craig and video artist Sabrina Ratté. Together they explore a common fascination for the combination of electronic image and sound, using a varying array of digital and analogue technologies. They have performed together in many different cities including San Francisco (On Land festival), Paris, Brooklyn, Mexico City (Mutek.Mx), Ottawa (Electric Fields festival), Barcelona (Micro Mutek), Lyon and Montreal (Mutek, Suoni Per il Popolo). Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson present a sound and Super 8mm performance. Their work has been presented at various galleries and festivals, including the New York Film Festival and the Cinematheque Francaise. Most recently they collaborated on a Headlands Center for the Arts residency in Marin, California. ---------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013 ---------------------- 6/8 Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30, 322 Union Ave. Williamsburg SHIFTING LIVES: PHOTOGRAPHING THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN CHINATOWN W/ LYNNE SACHS AND ANNIE LING At this event, Annie Ling will present a slideshow of her photographs, with an emphasis on 81 Bowery, a project that explores the domestic experiences of immigrants in NYC's Chinatown. Filmmaker Lynne Sachs will screen her hybrid documentary Your Day is My Night followed by a joint conversation. For years, Annie Ling has worked on getting beyond the streets into the residences of Chinese immigrants in an exclusive Chinatown community. This desire was sparked by a love for the people there and a concern for their stories left untold. Ling had been documenting tenement buildings throughout Chinatown, New York, when she came upon 81 Bowery a vestige of tenement flophouses inhabited today by Chinese immigrant laborers. 81 Bowery, one of the last standing lodging houses in New York City, has been home for more than a generation of immigrant laborers who work at construction sites and kitchens in Chinatown. Your Day is My Night 64 minutes | USA | 2013 | HD Video Chinese, English and Spanish with English subtitles In this hybrid documentary shot in New York, director Lynne Sachs utilizes the bed as both starting and focal point for inquiry into the personal and collective experiences of a household of immigrants living in a "shift-bed" apartment in Chinatown. Initially documented in Jacob Riis' controversial photography of the late 19th century, a shift-bed is a bed that is shared or rented in increments by people who are neither in the same family nor in a relationship. Since the advent of tenement housing in the Lower East Side, working class people have shared beds, making such spaces a definable and fundamental part of immigrant life. Over a century later, the shift-bed remains a necessity for many, triggered by socio-economic barriers embedded within the urban experience. In Sachs' film, seven characters ranging in age from 30 to 78 play themselves through autobiographical monologues, verité conversations and theatrical movement pieces. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals a collective history of Chinese immigrants in the United States. The intimate cinematography and sound design suggest dreams and memories of the performers, inviting the audience into a community often considered closed to non-Chinese speakers. Through it all, Your Day is My Night addresses issues around privacy, intimacy, belonging and the urban experience via the basic human need for a place to sleep. 6/8 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. KISSED BY THE SUN: A NIGHT OF FILMS BY DAGIE BRUNDERT We are honored, excited and just plain happy that one of our favorite filmmakers in the world is spending the month of June in Los Angeles as an EPFC Artist-in-Residence. Join for this very special evening of SUPER 8 Films that celebrate the beauty of life and living! Preceded by a WELCOME RECEPTION at 7PM that will entail delicious food, libations and joy for everyone! FILMMAKER DAGIE BRUNDERT in ATTENDANCE! 6/8 Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu 7:30 p.m., Billy Wilder Theater: 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) THE OUTRé WORLD OF ROLF FORSBERG UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program present SATURDAY, JUNE 8 @ 7:30 P.M. http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2013-06-08/outre-world-rolf-forsberg |THE OUTRÉ WORLD OF ROLF FORSBERG A true auteur of the often unjustly unsung genre of sponsored films, Rolf Forsberg has written and directed a number of highly stylized expressionistic shorts that defy simple description, including the controversial and acclaimed Parable (1964), which was named to the National Film Registry last year. While many of Forsberg's films were made on assignment for major religious organizations, his complex body of work is unexpectedly provocative, independent and experimental. Illustrating key influences, including Bergman and Fellini, Forsberg employs enigmatic symbolism and poetic lyricism to create vivid, nightmarish allegories situated between the spiritual and the secular, heaven and hell. UCLA Film & Television Archive is pleased to celebrate Rolf Forsberg's uniquely humanist canon with a selection of some of his most notable films and a conversation with the filmmaker himself.| PARABLE 1964 Dir. Rolf Forsberg, Tom Rook. Commissioned by the New York City Protestant Council of Churches for their 1964 World's Fair pavilion, Parable, with its European art house sensibilities, was highly controversial for daring to utilize allegory in depicting "Christ as a clown." Despite threats of violence and protests against the short, audiences and critics embraced the powerful work, with Newsweek proclaiming it "very probably the best film of the fair." 16mm, color, 20 min.| ANTKEEPER 1966 Filmmaker Rolf Forsberg's surrealistic allegory concerns an antkeeper that transforms his son into an ant in order to save an ant colony from self-destruction. Produced for the Lutheran Church in America, the experimental short showcases Forsberg's uniquely stylized vision as well as the pioneering macro-photography of noted nature cinematographer, Robert H. Crandall (The Living Desert). 16mm, color, 28 min.| ARK 1970 In this expressionistic precursor to the Sci-Fi classic Silent Running (1972), a modern day "Noah" cares for the last remnants of nature in a dystopian future. Produced for an independent production company, filmmaker Rolf Forsberg's prescient ecological warning was extremely successful in 16mm distribution to schools, churches and civic groups and enjoyed a brief, limited theatrical run in Los Angeles. 16mm, color, 19 min.| ONE FRIDAY 1973 Filmmaker Rolf Forsberg focuses his humanist lens on race relations in this provocative, independently produced short that was marketed as a classroom film intended to generate group discussion. As a toddler roams an unnamed idyllic suburbia, Forsberg juxtaposes the beauty of nature against the brutal violence wrought by armed combat between the races. An earnest call for peace and reconciliation and, viewed today, a problematic time capsule of white anxiety regarding black militancy in the post-Watts-rebellion era. 16mm, color, 14 min.| IN PERSON: Rolf Forsberg. -------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2013 -------------------- 6/9 Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org 7:30pm, 322 Union Ave. Williamsburg 11211 PSYCHIC SCULPTURES This evening features two sound performances by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Bill Kouligas accompanied by Super 8mm film projections by Paul Clipson and Rachelle Rahme. Shot and projected on Super 8 reversal, these original color and black and white films study figurative and abstract space, focusing on texture, color, and movement, sometimes within layers of dizzying in-camera edited montages. Much like a visual form of field recording, the films gather together landscapes vast and small, natural and artificial, to present a possible path into which one can interact with the lush, textural environments of Cantu-Lesma's and Kouligas's ambient/electronic soundscapes. Relying on counterpoint and coincidence, these sound and film performances merge sonic and cinematic processes to fuse together a unique sensory experience created by the eyes and ears of the audience. Presented with Control. 6/9 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8PM - 9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS JOSH KIT CLAYTON In conversation, concept, and repetition, "Afterimage" by Josh Kit Clayton is an abstraction of cinema based in the matter of thought. A social zoetrope, it is a study on the transmission and persistence of idea as language shaping the machinery of the mind. The juxtaposition of discontinuities gives way to the illusion of motion as a means of reconciling separateness. And a life after the fact. Duplication. Degradation. Dispersal. "Afterimage" will include a reading component and discussion along with other exercises in pairs and larger structures. 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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