This week [June 22 - 30, 2013] in avant garde cinema To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go to http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribe or send an email to [email protected].
Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl JOB AVAILABLE: Canyon Cinema Foundation http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=jobs&readfile=1.ann NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: "The Bug" by Alexe Lupea http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=513.ann "Subterrenean Projection" by Charles Chadwick http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=514.ann SERVICES: Composing for Multimedia http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=services&readfile=114.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== The 8 Fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1601.ann Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1602.ann Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver; Deadline: August 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1603.ann now what: an open call (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1604.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 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 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: July 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1583.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 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 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 now what: an open call (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: July 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1604.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): ============================== * Former Selves: the Animations of Leslie Supnet [June 22, Brooklyn, New York] * Ben vida / Helm / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [June 22, Brooklyn, New York] * Armchair Adventures [June 22, Los Angeles, California] * Driven (With Katha Washburn) [June 22, New York, New York] * Ambient Occlusion: Group Show Featuring Ben Aqua, Daniel Leyva, Colin Self & Manuel Solano [June 22, New York, New York] * Basement Media Fest [June 23, Brooklyn, New York] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents the Oberhausen Short Film Festival Tour Artist Film & video 2012 [June 23, Los Angeles, California] * Auto-Shorts Program [June 23, New York, New York] * Community Action Center By A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, [June 24, Fire Island, NY] * Early Monthly Segments #52 = Hein + Hein + Brakhage + Solomon [June 24, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Three Films By James Scott [June 25, Light Industry] * Deep Leap Way Stations [June 26, Chicago, Illinois] * Jonesy [June 26, New York, New York] * Carl Marzani and Union Films, 1946-1953 [June 27, Light Industry] * La Air: Erich Burci [June 27, Los Angeles, California] * Show & Tell: Seoungho Cho Program [June 27, New York, New York] * Sight Unseen Presents Out there, Over Time [June 28, Baltimore] * The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents "Double Your Pleasure" : 16mm Films By Jennifer Reeves and Mm Serra [June 28, Brooklyn, NY] * Naked Eye Cinema Program [June 28, New York, New York] * Last Address By Ira Sachs Followed By Tribute Walk [June 28, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [June 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [June 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 1 [June 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 2 [June 29, New York, New York] * Visiting This World: Films By Paul Clipson & Sound/Film Performance With Marielle Jakobsons [June 29, San Francisco] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Flaherty On the Road: Family Affairs [June 30, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 1 [June 30, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Joseph Cornell Program 2 [June 30, New York, New York] * Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions At the Stonewall Inn [June 30, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013 ----------------------- 6/22 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7 pm, 4 Charles Place FORMER SELVES: THE ANIMATIONS OF LESLIE SUPNET Microscope Gallery welcomes Leslie Supnet in the U.S. solo screening debut of her animated works. Since 2007, Supnet has used whimsical and often surreal imagery to explore themes of sincerity, identity, race, death, and the multiplicity of human emotion. She does this with hand-made paper-cut puppets, computer software, and a second-hand MegaPixel camera found at a thrift store. While often melancholic, Supnet's animations are not without a sense of humour. 6/22 Brooklyn, New York: PAN_ACT Festival at Issue Project Room http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/ben-vida-helm-jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-clipson 8pm, 22 Boerum Place, Ground floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 BEN VIDA / HELM / JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON This evening of sound performances by 2013 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Ben Vida and London-based sound artist Helm, includes a sound/Super 8mm film performance by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson. Cantu-Ledesma and Clipson have collaborated for over 10 years on live sound / film performances and installations. Their work is intuitive and focuses on a spontaneous coming together of the two mediums. They have performed nationally and internationally at the New York Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, 25FPS in Zagreb, SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & The San Francisco Exploratorium. They were Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the Spring of 2013. 6/22 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES $5 / Cosmo Segurson and John Cannizzaro return to Echo Park Film Center for an all-new episode of Armchair Adventures. Presenting a new program of amazing, bizarre, surreal, and wonderful animation from around the globe in glorious 16mm from the archives of Smokehouse Films. Including films by Norman McLaren, Ladislas Starevich, Jiri Trnka, and the late, great Ray Harryhausen; come watch magical insects, frogs, horses, angels, and more dance across the screen from the far corners of the globe. All works projected on 16mm! Curators and refreshments will be present. 6/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue DRIVEN (WITH KATHA WASHBURN) by Saul Levine 2008, 82 min, video This screening is part of: AUTO-CINEMA "In his ongoing series DRIVEN Levine rides in the front seat of an automobile while one of his friends talks about his or her life for 82 minutes (the maximum length of a single take using his digital camera). [ ] Levine's low-key mode of inquiry and his genuine passion for listening have an infectious power." P. Adams Sitney, ARTFORUM In this installment of his ongoing DRIVEN series, Levine shares a ride and an extended conversation with his charismatic friend Katha Washburn, who shares stories about her experiences pursuing an acting career in NYC, her job as an administrative assistant at MIT, and her night school classes at Mass Art. 6/22 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 10PM - 4AM, Eastern Bloc | 505 East 6th Street AMBIENT OCCLUSION: GROUP SHOW FEATURING BEN AQUA, DANIEL LEYVA, COLIN SELF & MANUEL SOLANO Curated by Brian Droitcour. What does a screen do in a gay bar? It's for showing porn, for corny match or trivia games, for karaoke and music videosit introduces something to talk about, something to do. When phones got smart and everyone brought their own screens to bars some people started fretting about the gay bar's futurewhy go out when you can hook up with an app? Bars are one way of building communities, networks are anotherand they've created ways of connecting that bars never imagined, with a variety of spaces for flourishing subcultures and individual performance. Yet these haven't made bars obsolete; in fact, they often operate in tandem. "Ambient Occlusion" revisits the concept of queer spaces at the heart of Dirty Looks: On Location. It's a program of four works by young artists who are interested in queer spaces both in cities and online, who explore the points where these spaces overlap and collide by looking at the roles of drag and dance music in community formation, porn's effects of identification and alienation, and the digital ephemera of queer subcultures. --------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2013 --------------------- 6/23 Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle Theater http://www.spectacletheater.com/basement-media-fest/ 7:30PM, 124 South 3rd Street BASEMENT MEDIA FEST 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 Mike Morris 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 6/23 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 ARTIST FILM & VIDEO 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. North America, Kenya, Singapore: the artists represented in this year's Artist Film & Video program spirit us away down their very own personal paths leading to distant climes both real and imaginary. In the process, the award-winning and by all means political films provide insights into the current state of international media art. For more about the screening, visit http://lafilmforum.org Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper Tickets (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/389893) and at the door. Screening: The Sweetness of Mother's Hair by Jana Debus (2011, Germany, color, 18 min.), Applied Theories of Expanding Minds by Lena Bergendahl, Jennifer Rainsford and Rut Karin Zettergren (2011, Sweden, Kenya, color, 33 min.), Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2011, Germany, black and white, 10 min.), Jalan Jati by Lucy Davis (2012, Singapore, color, 23 min.) 6/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue AUTO-SHORTS PROGRAM Alfred Leslie & Frank O'Hara THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT 1964, 39 min, 16mm, b&w Filmed in one continuous take from the back seat of a convertible driving in lower Manhattan, this film's thrice-repeated footage features magnificent subtitles by Frank O'Hara that first appear as a 'translation' of the white wife character's double-talk Danish monologue and then as the unspoken thoughts of her black doctor husband. Bette Gordon & James Benning THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1975, 27 min, 16mm. Preserved with support from The National Film Preservation Foundation.) A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from New York to Los Angeles. Morgan Fisher TURNING OVER (1975, 13 min, video, b&w. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.) In this deadpan video, Fisher drives around San Francisco as his odometer approaches 100,000 miles, marking the momentousness of the event with a hilariously sustained monologue to the camera. Paul Kos & Marlene Kos LIGHTNING (1976, 1.5 min, video, b&w) "When I look for the lightning, it never strikes. When I look away, it does." Filmed inside a car, this tape focuses on observation of natural phenomena, presenting the obverse of the "If a tree falls in the woods " conundrum. Andrew T. Betzer IVAN RUNS SOME ERRANDS, RUNS AMOK (2004, 14 min, 35mm) Ivan, a stranger in a strange land, steals a car with a child in the backseat. He fulfills his domestic urges and then disappears into the night. Total running time: ca. 100 min. --------------------- MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013 --------------------- 6/24 Fire Island, NY: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 7PM, Cherry Grove Community House COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER BY A.K. BURNS AND A.L. STEINER, Fire Island Artist Residency presents: A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, Community Action Center, 2010. Curated by Bradford Nordeen. A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner fashioned their feature-length socio-sexual opus inspired by many of the canonic porn films from the 1970s, (L.A. Plays Itself or Boys in the Sand). Working collaboratively within a creative circle that included fellow performance artists and musicians, the title is a free-wheeling cavalcade of queer sexuality and parodic porn set-ups offering new spins on standards like the car wash, the pizza delivery "guy" or street cruising. The artists also maintain numerous rules for the work's exhibition, not least of which is the requirement that the title be shown in a public or communal space, amidst a body of people subverting the private and consumerist aspects of contemporary pornography. 6/24 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #52 = HEIN + HEIN + BRAKHAGE + SOLOMON Material Action! Wilhelm + Birgit Hein + Brakhage + Solomon "get me out of practice / habitual foaming / As fast as the eye can bear / to see grain flips its / trigger melt down tender / under eyelids' trance" - Lee Ann Brown, from Dark Writing Through Elementary Phrases for Stan Brakhage, Phil Solomon, and Tom who drove Cologne-based filmmakers Wilhelm and Birgit Hein were the flashpoint of German underground film in the 1970s. They founded and ran X SCREEN in 1968, where they showed porno films three nights a week to fund their underground screenings on the weekends. With a very outward gaze, they brought filmmakers like Jack Smith, Malcom LeGrice and Kurt Kren through their local cinema and their two programming stints at Dokumenta. As the centre-point between the Viennese and English avant-gardes, their own collaborative work showcased an admixture of bothan aggressive transgressiveness and a structural materialist focus on film as object. We're very excited to show a rare, imported copy of Rohfilm (Raw Film), their 1968 masterpiece. Collaged from fragments of autoportraiture and foraged footage and propelled by Christian Michelis' aggressive proto-noise soundtrack, Rohfilm is a visceral and relentless manifesto on film's pure physicality. Elementary Phrases, the first of three collaborations between Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, celebrates the physical in a strikingly different way. Composed of Brakhage's unique hand-painted film frames step-printed on Solomon's optical printer, Elementary Phrases expands on Brakhage's cascading handmade imagery by building extended patterns and rhythms out of loops of frames. Solomon's own photographic imagery mixes in with Brakhage's paint strokes, creating figurative counterpoints that build on the very musical structure the two artists develop through the collaborative printing process. Programme: Rohfilm, Wilhelm + Birgit Hein, 1968, Germany, 16mm, 22 min Elementary Phrases, Stan Brakhage + Phil Solomon, USA, 1994, 16mm, 38 min silent @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar | 1214 Queen St West Monday June 24, 2013 | 8:00 PM screening | $5-10 suggested donation Thanks to Arsenal Berlin, CFMDC and The Gladstone Hotel ---------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013 ---------------------- 6/25 Light Industry: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, Light Industry THREE FILMS BY JAMES SCOTT Curated by Jesse Pires - Love's Presentation, James Scott, 16mm, 27 mins, Richard Hamilton, James Scott, 16mm, 25 mins, The Great Ice Cream Robbery, James Scott, 16mm double projection, 40 mins - The son of pioneering British abstractionist William Scott, James Scott studied painting and theater design at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1960s, but while there quickly transitioned into making films. In his early twenties, he directed several notable short works, helmed an unfinished feature produced by Tony Richardson, and shot a suite of candle-lit color tests for Richardson's Tom Jones (1963). ------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013 ------------------------ 6/26 Chicago, Illinois: Deep Leap Microcinema / Nightingale Cinema http://www.deepleap.net 8:00, 1084 N. Milwaukee DEEP LEAP WAY STATIONS DEEP LEAP MICROCINEMA WAY STATIONS | The Nightingale Cinema / 1084 N. Milwaukee / Chicago, IL | June 26, 2013 8 pm / $7-10 sliding scale | The space betweens: Tool Time times ten times time, two-tiered translation, hyperspace hypnospace, hot air balloons, Kurt Kren, the trees, the audition, the proscenium wings, smoke on the water, the stars singing back. A program for, of and by the pore-explorers seeking what's between the seen and what meaning can be gleaned from the synaptic. Sites of transition and transposition reveal that the heat is often in the imaginative distance between the nameable. These artistswhose work has shown cumulatively in contexts like the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, Rotterdam and the Deep Leap Microcinemaeach evince a fascination with these nether spaces that is distinct in its method and aims, but work together and apart as friendly bedfellows. The hope is that the spaces between the worksthe small ways large files bristle up against each other in the darkness of the cinemaopen up the meanings and feelings of their borders. Works by: Mary Helena Clark, Claire L. Evans and Mike Merrill, Deborah Stratman, Clint Enns, Christine Negus, Duane Linkalter, Fern Silva, Chris Rice and a performance by Alejandro T. Acierto. Curated by Jesse Malmed. 6/26 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 10PM - 4AM, continuous loop, The Phoenix | 447 East 13th Street JONESY Jonesy, Various Titles, digital video, color, 2008 - 2011. Curated by David Everitt Howe. Animating found and repurposed photographs, Jonesy's experimental shorts explore homosexual desire, aesthetic experience, and the passing of time with a plethora of literary and artistic references; Poised and in the Throes (2008) pays homage to Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and Fassbinder's Querelle through stop-motion animation of a sea-side scene; a hazy recollection of the filmmaker's weekend with pornstar Andy Mantegna comprises the subject of Beauty Must Suffer (2011), which features glossy magazine photographs of well-built Mantegna, cut up and criss-crossed to form kaleidoscopic patterns. In these and other short films, tropes of masculinity are both idealized and deconstructed. ----------------------- THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013 ----------------------- 6/27 Light Industry: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, Light Industry CARL MARZANI AND UNION FILMS, 1946-1953 Curated by Charles Musser - Received wisdom is that left-wing documentary filmmaking in the United States ended with the ill-timed release of Leo Hurwtiz and Paul Strand's Native Land (1942)not to be renewed until the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Nothing could be further from the truth. Union Films was a radical, New York-based film collective that made over two dozen non-fiction films between 1946 and 1953. Its impresario, Carl Marzani, would ultimately spend three years in jail for his first anti-business motion picture, Deadline for Action (1946). Fighting back at every step, he twice took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, only to lose the decision by one vote. When not in the courts, he was making films. - Tonight's program of Union Films productions begins with Our Union (1947), made for and about the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE), which funded many of the collective's achievements. The Investigators (1948) captures a remarkable piece of street theater featuring actor Hershel Benardi, who would later be blacklisted, and written by Abel Meeropol, best known today for penning the lyrics and music for Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." Many Union Films efforts were concerned with winning elections. This includes People's Congressman (1948), a campaign film for Vito Marcantonio, who ran on the American Labor Party ticket in East Harlemand won. It is narrated by Paul Robeson, who appears briefly in the film. Marzani and his collaborator, director Max Glandbard, also made campaign films for Presidential candidate Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party. A People's Convention (1948) celebrates the "New Party" convention in Philadelphia, and provides glimpses of Wallace, Robeson, and the young Pete Seeger. - The most daring and accomplished organization producing leftist documentaries in the United States during the immediate post-World War II era, Union Films has gone unmentioned in every general history of documentary as well as various accounts of left-wing filmmaking. Hopefully this, the first retrospective program devoted solely to the motion picture achievements of Union Films, will contribute to a new appreciation and a new historiography. 6/27 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. LA AIR: ERICH BURCI LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. Erich Burci will present works from his Re-edit series, including his residency project titled Deconstructable. Using educational and other selected 16mm found footage, the artist attempts to reject their original narrative by skewing sound bites to create a non-sensical narrative visual essay. Two projectors are used to layer multiple images on top of each other to deform any image from its original sense. By breaking down the material in this fashion, the artist explores how the deconstruction of old ideas can be ultimately be used to express new visual structures.Other works include Butch Travesty (16mm & 8mm), which leads the viewer on a subtle and nostalgic trip into a city that is ever changing; Farewell to Lucy (16mm), inspired by Matisse, the piece explores camera movement and the connection between two models: a woman and a fish; and Island Woman (16mm), inspired by Cuban avant-garde photography, the work creates dynamic compositions through the use of zooms and hand-painted film material. Free event! 6/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: SEOUNGHO CHO PROGRAM "Lyrical and visually striking, the video works of Korean artist Seoungho Cho are distinguished by a unique confluence of complex image processing and sound collage. Resonating with a highly metaphorical sensibility, Cho's single-channel tapes and installations are formalist, almost painterly explorations of subjectivity and the subconscious. The urban landscapes that Cho often depicts move with a continuous fluidity, shifting from dreamlike abstractions of light to fleeting reflections of the city. Figures, cars, and trains are mirrored and diffused through one another, silhouetted with a haunting anonymity that is echoed in the poetic texts and soundscapes that accompany each piece. These often tense meditations focus on the nature and cost of isolation and loneliness while integrating into a culture, landscape and language other than one's own." ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX All works made and presented on digital video. 1/1 (2001, 4 min, b&w/color) orange factory (2002, 11.5 min) UNTITLED (2004, 12.5 min) SHOW YOUR TONGUE (2005, 5.5 min) BUOY (2008, 7 min) BUTTERFLY (2008, 11 min) SHIFTED HORIZON (2009, 6 min) BLUE DESERT (2011, 12 min) STONED (2012, 11.5 min) Total running time: ca. 85 min. --------------------- FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013 --------------------- 6/28 Baltimore: Sight Unseen http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/ 9:00pm, Current Gallery | 421 N. Howard St. SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS OUT THERE, OVER TIME Sight Unseen presents Out There, Over Time, a group program featuring perceptive explorations affected by meditation upon the ephemeral and mystification of the experiential. The represented artists transform conventional notions of direct observation through composed intricacies of space, subtle intimations of story, or treated investigations of stock. These reframed, real-time reflections of the outside world simultaneously imagine movements removed from empirical consequence and embrace symbolic, textural strata embedded in the everyday. Out There, Over Time reinvigorates the time-honored landscape tradition traversing fixed positions, archival appropriations, nostalgia, poetic atmospheres, and mythological ethnographic hybrids toward insightful destinations for documented and dreamt-of sites. Screened in Current Gallery's back courtyard. Including films and videos by: Christina Battle, Vincent Grenier, Peter Hutton, Shambhavi Kaul, Laura Kraning, Johann Lurf, Ryan Marino, Jeremy Moss, Pat O'Neill, Fern Silva, & Robert Todd. $5-10 sliding admission, with half the proceeds going toward rebuilding Open Space Gallery (www.openspacebaltimore.com). For more information on the works, artists, and the Sight Unseen screening series, please visit: www.sightunseenbaltimore.com 6/28 Brooklyn, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 8pm, Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd Street THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE PRESENTS "DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE" : 16MM FILMS BY JENNIFER REEVES AND MM SERRA The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents "Double Your Pleasure" : 16mm Films by Jennifer Reeves and MM Serra - THE GIRL'S NERVY, by Jennifer Reeves, 1995 - SOI MEME, by MM Serra, 1995 - DARLING INTERNATIONAL, by Jennifer Reeves & MM Serra, 1999 - FEAR OF BLUSHING, by Jennifer Reeves, 2001 - DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE, by MM Serra (sound by and starring Jennifer Reeves), 2002 - Runtime: 43 minutes. Artists in attendance! - Jennifer Reeves is a New York-based filmmaker working primarily on 16mm film. Reeves was named one of the "Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50" in the film journal Cinema Scope in the spring of 2012. MM Serra is an experimental film/videomaker, curator, author, and Executive Director of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest distributor of independent media. 6/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue NAKED EYE CINEMA PROGRAM Featuring appearances and production work by Gordon Stokes Kurtti. Curated by Jack Waters. Filmmakers in person! Gordon Stokes Kurtti (1960-87) was an American artist, writer, illustrator, and performer, and a seminal figure in the early East Village art scene of NYC. Gordon was an early collaborator on many experimental film works by Carl George, Jack Waters, Bradley Eros, Leslie Lowe, and Brad & Brian Taylor. He was a close companion and a frequent collaborator on the early performance and installation works of Kembra Pfahler. Kurtti, like most of his art friends, wore many hats from cameraman to set designer to lead actor. The preferred medium was Super-8mm film, easily cut and edited on a kitchen table. Budgets rarely exceeded a few hundred dollars and screenings were organized through Naked Eye Cinema, then an extension of the film program at ABC No Rio, and now an archival section of Allied Productions, Inc. An exhibition celebrating Kurtti's life and work will take place at Participant Inc (253 East Houston St.) from June 2-July 14; for more info visit: participantinc.org. Gordon Kurtti's life and work are the subject of an archival, preservation, and distribution project by Allied Productions, made possible by the generous support of Mary Jo and Ted Shen. Carl Michael George LA BELLE FLEUR (1985, 13 min, Super-8mm) An homage to the silent movie era starring Gordon "Theda Bara" Kurtti giving major face and attitude to on set rivals Peter "Geish" Cramer and Jack "the blond bitch" Waters. Image and sound synthesis with non-narrative character relationships bordered by the filmmaker's painted scroll depicting the creative spurt. Original music by Samoa and Barry Frier. Carl Michael George THE LOST 40 DAYS (1986, 14 min, Super-8mm) With Kembra Pfahler, Valerie Caris, Gordon Kurtti, Samoa, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer, Brad Taylor, Brian Taylor, Adrian Saich, Philly, Lorraine Lamont, and baby Amy. Art direction and costume design by Gordon Stokes Kurtti. Dreams, myths, legends, eroticism, and nightmares all combine in these episodic fragments including THE SIX-ARMED SHIVA, THE PRECIPICE AND THE CITY OF GOLD, THE BULLFIGHT and THE QUEEN OF EVERY HIVE. Note: Tonight's screening marks the premiere of a new 16mm sound print blown-up from the Super-8mm original and made possible by support from Allied Productions and the National Film Preservation Foundation. THE LOST 40 DAYS is now in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and Anthology Film Archives. Peter Cramer PENNY CANDY (1985, 7 min, video) Fun with Gordon Kurtti. With Jack Waters and Peter Cramer behind the camera. YooHoo, Boys!! Oh Boys!! Laying eggs in a fur lined bathtub, and making terracotta madeleines with copper instead of jam. Jack Waters BRAINS BY REVLON (1986, 18 min, 16mm) With Eve Teitlebaum, Sherrie Saunders, Bobbie Fultz, Gordon Kurtti, Richard Hofmann, Brian Taylor, Brad Taylor, Valerie Caris, and Samoa. An East Village caterwaul inspired by the book A HISTORY OF EUROPE by the Belgian historian Henri Perine and George Cukor's film direction of the Clair Boothe Luce play THE WOMEN. Bradley Eros/Erotic Psyche HYSTÉRY (1985, 11 min, Super-8mm) With Kembra Pfahler, Bradley Eros, Jack Waters, Sharon Gannon, Carl George, Gordon Kurtti, and Brad Taylor. Soundtrack: Einsterzende Neubauten & Psychic TV. A transmutation of mystery/history/hysteria, where sex and sacrifice mix with death and voyeurism. Creatures of myth-taken identity in the laboratory of hystery: 1) intoxicating media, 2) the tenderness of wolves. The dream/play of Hypnos and Thanatos. Total running time: ca. 70 min. 6/28 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org TBA (RSVP required), IFC Center | 323 6th Avenue LAST ADDRESS BY IRA SACHS FOLLOWED BY TRIBUTE WALK RSVP at [email protected] Ira Sachs, Last Address, 2010 and tribute walk with readings. Curated by Alex Fialho. Ira Sachs' Last Address is a subtle, poetic meditation on the loss that the AIDS epidemic ravaged on the queer arts community in New York City. The film consists of a stream of scenic street views of the last residential addresses where twenty-eight celebrated gay artists and filmmakers lived in New York City before they passed away as a result of AIDS-related complications. Birds chirp, bikers pass, and taxis honk in Sachs' exterior shots in front of the former haunts of LGBT creatives; despite the filming of this elegiac tribute, NYC life seems to proceed as usual, a contrast that speaks to the sense of loss on which Last Address meditates. In Last Address, Sachs intimately links the inextricable social and sexual histories of New York City's creative scenes through a site-specific awareness of the deeply historical and queer nature of our everyday environment. Though these may be the last addresses where each artist lived, the life of their work continues to address, inspire, and live with a new generation today. After the screening, a Last Address tribute walk will visit the last addresses of six of these artists: Cooke Mueller (285 Bleecker Street), Keith Haring (542 La Guardia Place), David Wojnarowicz and Peter Hujar (189 2nd Avenue), Robert Mapplethorpe (35 W 23rd Street), and Felix Gonzalez-Torres (London Terrace, 405-465 W. 23rd Street). Readings from the journals and personal writings of the artists will pay tribute at each stop along the way. ----------------------- SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2013 ----------------------- 6/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1 FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (1951, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 min, 35mm, b&w) THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) HIGH KUKUS (1974, 3 min, 16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total running time: ca. 80 min. 6/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2 THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45 min, 16mm) TESTAMENT (1974, 20 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 100 min. 6/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1 With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 min, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 min, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 sec, 35mm, Made with Pontus Hulten) RECREATION (1956, 1.5 min, 35mm) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2 min, 35mm) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 min, 35mm) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 min, 35mm) EYEWASH (1959, 3 min, 35mm) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 min, 35mm) BLAZES (1961, 3 min, 35mm) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 min, 35mm) 69 (1969, 4.5 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 70 min. 6/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2 With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. 70 (1970, 5 min, 35mm) 77 (1970, 6.5 min, 35mm) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 min, 35mm) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 min, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 min, 35mm) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 min, 35mm) BANG (1986, 10 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 60 min. 6/29 San Francisco: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA. 94110 $6-10 VISITING THIS WORLD: FILMS BY PAUL CLIPSON & SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCE WITH MARIELLE JAKOBSONS This evening of recent films by San Francisco-based Paul Clipson will present works on Super 8mm, made in collaboration with a variety of musicians and sound artists. The program will include THE CRYSTAL TEXT (2012) with Young Moon (Trevor Montgomery), DIFFICULT LOVES (2013) with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, ABSTEIGEND (2012) with Painted Caves (Evan Caminiti), ORIGIN (2012) with Che Chen, LANDSCAPE DISSOLVES (2012) with Alex Cobb, VOID REDUX (2013) with Barn Owl, and SPEAKING CORPSE (2012) with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. The event will also showcase a live sound/film performance by Clipson and Marielle Jakobsons. --------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2013 --------------------- 6/30 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS FLAHERTY ON THE ROAD: FAMILY AFFAIRS Filmmaker Minda Martin in person! The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar is the longest continuously running film event in North America. The Flaherty is excited to announce the 2012 Flaherty on the Road series, comprised of four programs of innovative, groundbreaking, and provocative nonfiction film selected from the 2012 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, called Open Wounds, curated by Josexto Cerdán. Filmforum bring you program 3, called "Family Affairs, featuring two films dealing with families in different ways. We're delighted to have with us filmmaker (and former Filmforum intern) Minda Martin, maker of Free Land, for its Los Angeles premiere! Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available at Brown Paper Tickets (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/393578) and at the door. Screening: FAMILY NIGHTMARE, by Dustin Guy Defa (2011, DigiBeta to QT, 10 min), FREE LAND, by Minda Martin (2009, QT, 63 min) Both of the works in this program are Los Angeles premieres! 6/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 1 Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. ROSE HOBART (1939, 20 min, 16mm, sound) COTILLION (1940s-1969, 8 min, 16mm, b&w) THE MIDNIGHT PARTY (1940s-1968, 3.5 min, 16mm, b&w) THE CHILDREN'S PARTY (1940s-1968, 8 min, 16mm) CENTURIES OF JUNE (1955, 10 min, 16mm) AVIARY (1955, 11 min, 16mm, b&w) GNIR REDNOW (1955, 5 min, 16mm, photographed by Stan Brakhage) NYMPHLIGHT (1957, 8 min, 16mm) A LEGEND FOR FOUNTAINS (1957/65, 17 min, 16mm, b&w) ANGEL (1957, 3 min, 16mm) The poet of magic realities. Pioneer of recycled (found) images. ROSE HOBART and the Trilogy (COTILLION, MIDNIGHT PARTY & CHILDREN'S PARTY) are some of the earliest collage films created. The others were directed by Cornell (and photographed by Stan Brakhage and Rudy Burckhardt among others) at some of his favorite locations. Total running time: ca. 105 min 6/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JOSEPH CORNELL PROGRAM 2 All films are silent. BOYS' GAMES (1957, 5 min, 16mm) BOOKSTALLS (ca. late-1930s, 11 min, 16mm) BY NIGHT WITH TORCH AND SPEAR (ca. 1940s, 9 min, 16mm) NEW YORKROMEBARCELONABRUSSELS (ca. 1940s, 10 min, 16mm) VAUDEVILLE DE-LUXE (ca. 1940s, 12 min, 16mm) MULBERRY STREET (ca. 1957, 9 min, 16mm, b&w, with Rudy Burckhardt) JOANNE, UNION SQUARE (1955, 8 min, 16mm, with Rudy Burckhardt) CLOCHES À TRAVERS LES FEUILLES (ca. 1957, 4 min, 16mm) CHILDREN (ca. 1957, 8 min, 16mm) Rare Cornell; more magic cinema from the master collagist. Variations of films made by Cornell, plus collage films discovered by archivists after his death. Total running time: ca. 85 min. 6/30 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 9PM, Stonewall Inn | 53 Christopher Street RASHAAD NEWSOME: SHADE COMPOSITIONS AT THE STONEWALL INN Rashaad Newsome, Shade Compositions, 2012. Curated by Alex Fialho. Rashaad Newsome's performance Shade Compositions builds from a chorus of subtle snaps, scoffs and throwing shade into a crescendo of outbursts of "Wut" in the multiple (body) languages of its performers. The swishy sounds and exaggerated movements of Newsome's performancethe teeth sucking, huffing and puffing, hair flips and mmhmmsderive from vernacular gestures made on street corners and subway stops. Acting as conductor to this symphony of shade, Newsome samples the sassy sounds of his performers in real-time and loops them into a repetitive choreographed score via a rigged Nintendo Wii controller. Shade Compositions has been performed widely (MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Glassbox Gallery Paris) and Newsome's 2012 iteration for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Stage Presence exhibition was billed as the "grand finale" of the museum's atrium before its long-term renovation project. Newsome's multivocal and multifocal ode to queer and women of color communities was quite the emphatic send-off. 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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