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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 LOOKING FOR SUPPORT: =================== http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=funding&readfile=21.ann NEW FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE: ======================= "Love Thing" by Mike Mannetta http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=138.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== 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 Kinofilm: Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, United Kingdom; Deadline: August 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1597.ann INFRARED 4: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1598.ann danubeVIDEOARTfestival (Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1599.ann Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1600.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 Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 12, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1560.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 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 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 INFRARED 4: New Visions from the Queer Underground (Seattle, WA USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1598.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): ============================== * 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] * Open Screen #2 At Microscope Gallery [June 10, Brooklyn, New York] * Kino Exposed [June 10, Manchester] * Peter Hutton Presents Johan Van Der Keuken's the White Castle [June 11, Brooklyn, NY] * The Invisible Forest [June 12, Seattle, Washington] * Erc Atx! Local Austin Filmmakers, Programs 1 and 2 [June 13, Austin, TX] * Michael Morris In Person [June 13, Austin, TX] * Around Crab Orchard By Sarah Kanouse [June 13, Los Angeles, California] * Interpretations On 16mm Performances [June 13, New York, NY] * Oddball Films Presents Watch What You Eat [June 13, San Francisco, California] * Dreambody/Earthbody [June 13, Seattle, Washington] * The Free Screen - the Imagined Film: Narcisa Hirsch and Michael Snow In Dialogue [June 13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Learn Your Lesson...About Sex: Shockucational Contraceptives [June 14, San Francisco, California] * Basement Media Festival [June 15, Brooklyn, New York] * New Works Salon [June 15, Los Angeles, California] * The Free Screen - Narcisa Hirsch: Filmic Passages [June 15, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- 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. --------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 --------------------- 6/10 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) OPEN SCREEN #2 AT MICROSCOPE GALLERY free with film & video, otherwise $6. Microscope Gallery resurrects our Opening Screening night! We invite anyone to bring a work to screen, from first time makers to those artists who have previously exhibited works here. We will screen works in the following formats: Video DVD or a Quicktime file on a flash drive, Film 16 mm or Super 8 (w/ advance notice). Under 15 minutes is preferred. The night will continue until the last work is screened. For questions or to give us a heads up that you will attend (with or without a work) please contact: [email protected] No pre-registration is required. Tel: 347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway, L Myrtle Ave or Jefferson Street. B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop. 6/10 Manchester: KINOFILM: Manchester International Short Film Festival www.kinofilm.org.uk 6pm and 8pm, Three Minute Theatre KINO EXPOSED Kinofilm presents its first student and young people film festival for three days only. Open to short films by students and people between the ages of 16 - 28. UK and International sections of the festival with award catagories. The event takes place in the evenings only with screenings at 6pm and 8pm at the Three Minute Theatre, Oldham Street, Manchester. For details see our facebook page for Kino Exposed. ---------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013 ---------------------- 6/11 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street PETER HUTTON PRESENTS JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN'S THE WHITE CASTLE The White Castle (Het Witte Kasteel) - Johan van der Keuken, 16mm, 1973, 76 mins, Introduced by Peter Hutton - A tour de force of dialectical editing, Johan van der Keuken's The White Castle forms the middle segment of his "North-South Triptych" of documentaries. In this chapter, van der Keuken trains his camera on three different locales: the Spanish island of Formentara, a rural enclave in the process of becoming a tourist destination\; African-American neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio, where younger generations are facing poverty by embracing new forms of political organizing\; and two factories in The Netherlands, one of which becomes occupied by its workers. While these three sites at first seem disparate, and their inhabitants isolated from one another, van der Keuken reveals connections among them through a complex rhyming and repetition of images. Spanish peasants slaughtering sheep and kneading bread, young Ohioans discussing police oppression, and factory workers methodically producing car upholstery all become part of a larger system, in which the flow of capital necessitates the creation of a kind of Third World inside the West itself. A White Castle restaurant comes to serve as an ominous symbol for both the racial divisions within America and the assembly-line logic of production that determines the structure of lives worldwide. - "In The White Castle two themes are central: the idea of a vast conveyor-belt that runs throughout the world and the idea of democratization going on in smaller communities. The teenagers from the slums of Columbus form this kind of community, one that's searching for its own values. The images, grouped around these two themes, are about social fragmentation and isolation, which is caused by an unequal distribution of capital and knowledge, and which leads to the formation of ghettos, in which people live as the refuse of effects of supply and demand....The pattern shattering in The White Castle comes to expression through the form itself. Almost every moment gets lifted out of its everyday context and transferred into other contexts. Certain images emerge over and over again, with varying meanings. This way there's no storyline developing with a beginning and ending, but a whole that constantly keeps on moving." - Johan van der Keuken - ------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 ------------------------ 6/12 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th Avenue THE INVISIBLE FOREST Antero Alli's The Invisible Forest is a surrealistic trip through the internal landscape of one man's subconscious to a place beyond belief, beyond words and beyond the mind itself to. Alex, an experimental theater director (Antero Alli), brings his troupe to a forest to perform his vision of French Surrealist Antonin Artaud's magic theatre of ghosts, gods, and demons. During their "paratheatrical experiment," Alex is haunted by a recurring nightmare where Artaud appears and mocks his ambitions. With his sanity pushed to its outer limits, Alex visits a psychotherapist who suggests hypnotic regression to remedy his problem. Written and directed by Antero Alli with text also by William Shakespeare and Antonin Artaud. Director in attendance! Tickets at: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2678 ----------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013 ----------------------- 6/13 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 4-6pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road ERC ATX! LOCAL AUSTIN FILMMAKERS, PROGRAMS 1 AND 2 In Experimental Response Cinema's final programs of the Spring 2013 season, we present two programs of works by local film and video artists, including Rachel Stuckey, Caroline Koebel, Paul Gansky, Scott Stark, David Bartner, Lyndsay Bloom, Metrah Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar, Patrick Marshall, Jarrett Hayman, Nathan Duncan and Kirsty Hughan. Works shown in 16mm, Super-8, and digital video, as well as a live audience collaboration where audience members are invited to make noise with pots and pans. Part of the New Media and Sound Summit at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, three days of avant garde sound, music and images. 6/13 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 6:30pm, Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road MICHAEL MORRIS IN PERSON ERC's final show of the Spring 2013 is an in-person program of work by Dallas, TX artist and educator Michael Morris. "My recent work has moved toward two not-completely separate points of focus: essayistic works in film and video that mine accumulations of meaning attached to objects, sites, and experiences; and performative works that initiate hybrid situations where an act of interpretation occurs between technologies to question the evolving understanding of cinematic reception." - M.M. Part of the New Music and Sound Summit at Salvage Vanguard Theater, three days of avant garde music, sound and images. 6/13 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. AROUND CRAB ORCHARD BY SARAH KANOUSE $5 / Crab Orchard calls itself a unique place to experience nature. As the only wildlife refuge in the United States whose mission includes industry and agriculture alongside conservation and recreation, Crab Orchard claims a harmonious balance between past and present, nature and culture. Assembled from documents, found footage, and conversations with activists, writers, and local residents, Around Crab Orchard questions the ideal of natural harmony while meditating on the persistence of history, the creation of knowledge, the limits of representation, and the commonplace of environmental hazard. Around Crab Orchard ultimately argues for forms of storytelling, image-making, and action that respond to the full complexity of the social and ecological landscape. For more information visit: www.readysubjects.org/aco Filmmaker Sarah Kanouse in person! 6/13 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 7:30pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor INTERPRETATIONS ON 16MM PERFORMANCES The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents: - INTERPRETATIONS ON 16MM PERFORMANCE: - Come Explore the Cinematic Visions of Performance in the work of Howard Lester, Carolee Schneeman, Jud Yalkut and More! - Thursday June 13th // 7:30pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor (@32nd St.) - Curated by Linda Fenstermaker - Suggested Donation: $10 - www.film-makerscoop.com - The Film-Makers' Cooperative is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. 6/13 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8 PM, 275 Capp St. ODDBALL FILMS PRESENTS WATCH WHAT YOU EAT Oddball Films presents Watch What You Eat, a program of witty and thought-provoking short films that will make you rethink your next meal. The program features the Oddball Premiere of a new short documentary The Trouble with Bread (2013) chronicling filmmaker Maggie Biedelman's quest to uncover the truth behind the new epidemic of gluten intolerance. Our neighbors to the North try to uncover a mystery, the Mystery in the Kitchen (1958) with the housewife's guide to proper family nutrition. Comedian Marshall Efron hits us with a double dose of food truths as he mixes up a pie out of chemicals in Chemical Feast (1973) and gives us the lowdown on your breakfast "foods" in The Sugar Cereal Imitation Orange Breakfast (1973). Creepy little boys and girls sing about the foods they'd like to eat in The Eating, Feel Good Movie (1974). Visit a commune farm and a local market to learn about Surviving the Chemical Feast (1975). With vintage commercials and more surprises to sink your teeth into! Date: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at 8:00PM Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected] Featuring: The Trouble With Bread (Color, 2013, Maggie Beidelman) This short documentary takes us on a journey with the filmmaker as she hunts to find the answers to her apparent gluten intolerance: what could have possibly changed in the last couple of generations that so many people have been complaining of not being able to eat wheat? Maggie Beidelman takes us from farm to mill to bakery, with some surprising findings about the nature of the modern wheat industry. We're far beyond the 10,000-year-old flour-water-salt recipe, folks. Modern bread is not what you think. Mystery in the Kitchen (Color, 1958) Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this soft-boiled film aimed at housewives uses satire and humor to teach proper nutrition and good eating habits by pointing out the subtle poisons you may be subjecting your family to. Beautiful color mid-century domestic scenes from our neighbors to the North. The Sugar Cereal Imitation Orange Breakfast (Color, 1973) As explained by the film can insert: "Comedian Marshall Efron, in boy's cap and sweater gives some inside tips to other kids on how to manipulate Mom into buying those television advertised, heavily frosted, super-sugar, breakfast cereals- which unfortunately are low in nutrition and bad for the teeth. Then, turning his humor to a display of imitation orange juice products, Effron examines brand name concentrates, liquids and powders which variously contain water, sugar, chemicals, additives, and sometimes orange juice!" Chemical Feast (Color, 1973) Join our host Marshall Efron again in another satirical look at today's (or the 1970s) modern foods. Chef Effron cooks up a big 'ol meal of slop based on the ingredients found in some common pre-packaged, heavily processed miracle 'foods'. The Eating, Feel Good Movie (Color, 1974) A musical laugh riot. Children dressed in their Sunday best have a sepia-toned tea party and begin to sing about the food groups over enticing shots of vintage food. One boy sings longily over a meaty montage "I'd like a roast or a chop or a steak or a stew so I'll have big strong muscles and I'll grow right too." A creepy campy masterpiece! Food: Surviving the Chemical Feast (Color, 1975) From the Coping With Tomorrow series, this film takes us on a journey through the daunting world of processed foods to a greener pasture where hippies browse the natural foods store and buy grains in bulk. Visit the commune farm (cultivated by shoeless long-hairs and naked babies, of course) and take a tour of the local market to see just what it is you're buying when you pick up that cucumber and snap off a bite. Directed by Peter Thurling. 6/13 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th Avenue DREAMBODY/EARTHBODY Since 1977, underground filmmaker Antero Alli has been developing a medium of "paratheatre," inspired by the late Polish visionary of theater, Jerzy Grotowski. Alli's paratheatre is a highly visceral process that incorporates physical theatre, Zazen meditation, modern dance and vocalization to gain access to the internal landscape. For this "dreambody/earthbody" ritual, Alli trained a group of seven in paratheatre methods to execute a ritual choreography, using movements recalled from their nocturnal dreams. The result is a rare and haunting glimpse into a microculture of asocial group ritual dynamics, normally performed in total privacy. The group also demonstrates a series of paratheatre techniques accompanied by Alli's narrative of his unique creative process. The film also features participant interviews, dramatic re-enactments of the director's own dreams, and a lush musical score by Antero's wife, composer/singer, Sylvi Alli. Seattle premiere! Director in attendance! More info and tickets: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/2679 6/13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West THE FREE SCREEN - THE IMAGINED FILM: NARCISA HIRSCH AND MICHAEL SNOW IN DIALOGUE FREE EVENT! Narcisa Hirsch and Michael Snow join us for an onstage discussion following the screening of Snow's A Casing Shelved and Hirsch's Taller (Workshop), which Hirsch made in response to Snow's film despite the fact that she had only ever heard about it. --------------------- FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013 --------------------- 6/14 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8 PM, 275 Capp St. LEARN YOUR LESSON...ABOUT SEX: SHOCKUCATIONAL CONTRACEPTIVES Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Learn Your Lesson...About Sex - Shockucational Contraceptives, the fourth in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and camptastic shockucational films and TV specials of the collection. This time, it's all about sex and its potentially devastating aftermath. Peter Sellers lends his voice to an animated father struggling to educate his child in the Birds, Bees and Storks (1965). Di$ney brings us another cartoon, the disturbingly knee-slapping VD: Attack Plan (1972) featuring a syphilitic army sergeant directing his VD troops into battle against stupid humans. The Canadians bring us a melodramatic account of Teenage Pregnancy (1971). You better watch out for Herpes: The New Sexual Epidemic (1981) and all the problems that come with it. One girl's got a dirty little secret in the hilarious Innocent Party (1959). Sex and speed will kill you in The Last Prom(1973). And since not all lessons about sex are bad, we'll also be learning How to Undress for Your Husband (1940s) with Mrs. John Barrymore. And much more including an excerpt from the twisted doctor's training film Sex and The Professional, the intro to a couple's film on better fellatio, the vintage Army VD training film Sex Hygiene (1941) for the early birds, and even more surprises! Date: Friday, June 14th, 2013 at 8:00pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to [email protected] or (415) 558-8117 Featuring: VD: Attack Plan (1972, color) "Yes, it's true. Walt D*sney Productions has made a significant contribution to the war against VD. "VD Attack Plan" A fully animated Walt D*sney 16mm motion picture." states the brochure accompanying this 16mm educational film. VD Attack Plan had some forward thinking and enlightening approaches (not just for D*sney but everyone else producing this type of film in 1973) to the subject of sexually transmitted diseases including promotion of condoms (instead of abstinence) and the fact that VD can be spread through same sex couplings. This "war against disease " film doesn't miss a beat-even showcasing some of the graphic effects of the disease in action. In brilliant Technicolor, just like you'd want it to be. Birds, Bees and Storks (1965, color) A father sets out to explain the facts of life to his son, but becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his explanations are so vague as to be incomprehensible. Inspired by Gerard Hoffnung's 1960 book of the same name, this is a delightful and all too familiar study of the embarrassed middle-aged British male, as a father attempts to explain the facts of life to his son but ends up delivering a monologue so packed with euphemisms about birds, bees and butterflies that it ends up being totally incoherent. Produced by the esteemed Halas & Batchelor Animation Studio, the visual style (inspired directly by Hoffnung's drawings) is simple in the extreme - for much of the film, we just watch the father squirming and blushing in his chair, which focuses our attention both on Peter Sellers' monologue and director John Halas' subtle visual characterization, all nervous tics and fidgeting. Herpes: The New Sexual Epidemic (Color, 1981) "Oh no, Kathy! Did you tell David?" Join three people on their painful, and itchy journeys with the simplex. One is a young woman in the thralls of love, but a prison of shame. One is an expectant mother, ready to give the gift of life, not herpes. And the last is a sailor, infected from exotic ports of call, but hoping to dock in his beloveds harbor. Feel the pain, then, learn the facts about the "new" epidemic The Last Prom (Color, 1973) Pristine print of this all-time classic scare film. Shot in 1973, but looks and sounds like the late 1950's as these hot-blooded teens live and drive too fast: sex=death. So good it was remade in 1980 (replacing the necking and bad driving with dui). Teenage Pregnancy (Color, 1971) No one can bring you the melodrama of teen pregnancy quite like the Canadians. This campy morsel features a lot of worry, disappointment, facts and good old-fashioned overacting. Like a lost Degrassi episode, the touching story of 16 year-old Betty's life will bring you to tears of laughter! The Innocent Party (Color, 1959) The guilt-tripped noir-like shocker about a "dirty" girl and her hidden secret- VD! See what happens when she "gifts' her boyfriend with it! A cool beatnik-jazz soundtrack highlights highlights this sordid tale produced by the Kansas State Board of Health! How to Undress in Front of Your Husband (1940s) An exercise in exhibitionism starring Mrs. John Barrymore (!) wife of the famed Hollywood legend. For The Early Birds: Sex Hygiene (B&W, 1941) "Most men know less about their own bodies than they do about automobiles" admonishes the doctor that's about to take one army base of whore-mongering recruits and teach them the disgusting truth of what awaits them after trifling with "contaminated women." This classic VD film was produced in WWII by the War Department in collaboration with the Surgeon General and through epic, Star Wars-length written prologues, and graphic footage of chancres and blisters, it sought to keep our troops in fighting shape, with lessons we can still stand to learn today. ----------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013 ----------------------- 6/15 Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle Theater http://www.spectacletheater.com/basement-media-fest/ 7:30PM, 124 South 3rd Street BASEMENT MEDIA FESTIVAL The BASEMENT Media Fest is a survey of contemporary artists working with lo-def, lo-tech, and lo-fi motion pix techniques. Founded in response to the commercial race for hi-res and true-to-life IMG quality, BASEMENT is a celebration of the mediated experience as an aesthetic experience. Equal parts glitchd digital vidz, fuzzy VHS, and grimy 16mm film, this year's screening ought to plaza any connoisseur of experimental .MOVs. Artist Clint Enns will be in attendance. Spectacle is a community screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, established and staffed entirely by volunteers. Our programming encompasses overlooked works, offbeat gems, contemporary art, political polemics, live performance and more. Shows are $5 6/15 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. NEW WORKS SALON $5 / Mike Stoltz will project two 16mm films: his recent Pluses and Minuses"Real morning with pluses and minuses, my symbols for truth." D. Boon, and the in-progress Half Human Half Vapor, a collection of artifacts left by Lewis Vandercar, Floridian sculptor and warlock. Rick Bahto will project the camera original Super 8 films of two works made to accompany songs by Julia HolterFinale from her album Tragedy and World from her upcoming release Loud City Song. Sarah Rara will show an excerpt from her in-progress 16mm film Ukiah, which examines the goings-on during a gathering of artists and builders at a ranch in Ukiah, California. The film gathers together an array of materials from plant studies and landscapes to the activities of artists surrounding the building of a house to serve as a center for learning and think tank for the upcoming exhibition The Possible curated by David Wilson at the Berkeley Art Museum. Silkscreened onto the film are landscapes drawn by David Wilson, as well as notes and haikus assembled by the group during the gathering. The film serves as a document of the place, the people, and the process of making an exhibition. Other artists TBA! 6/15 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF http://tiff.net 2:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West THE FREE SCREEN - NARCISA HIRSCH: FILMIC PASSAGES FREE EVENT! On the second night of our retrospective, Narcisa Hirsch introduces and discusses a diverse selection of her short work. 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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