This week [June 29 - July 7, 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: ===================== 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 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - Residencies (Ettrick, Scotland; Deadline: July 20, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1605.ann Greentopia | FILM (Rochester, NY, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1606.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies Portugal (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1607.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 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 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 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 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival - Residencies (Ettrick, Scotland; Deadline: July 20, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1605.ann Greentopia | FILM (Rochester, NY, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1606.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): ============================== * 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] * Manipulated Image Sunday Night Screenings Inaugural Event [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] * Nowhere Else ID Rather Be: videos By Julie Perini [July 1, Brooklyn, New York] * Dirty Looks: On Location | Narcissister Opening Night [July 1, Brooklyn, New York] * Anthony Mccall and andrew Tyndall's Argument [July 2, Brooklyn, NY] * Lizzie Borden, Born In Flames [July 3, New York, New York] * Myra Breckinridge On the 4th of July [July 4, New York, New York] * Ken Jacobs, Star Spangled To Death [July 5, Brooklyn, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [July 5, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [July 5, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [July 5, New York, New York] * The Back Row With Introduction By Samuel R. Delany [July 6, Brooklyn, New York] * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [July 6, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [July 6, New York, New York] * Vika Kirchenbauer, Marit ÖStberg and Hanna Bergfors' Films At Abrons Arts Center! [July 7, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [July 7, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: the Testament of Orpheus [July 7, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- 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 Los Angeles, California: Coagula Curatorial http://coagulacuratorial.com/html 7:30pm - 9:30pm, 977 Chung King Road MANIPULATED IMAGE SUNDAY NIGHT SCREENINGS INAUGURAL EVENT Mat Gleason of Coagula Curatorial and Alysse Stepanian of Manipulated Image have partnered to bring together video artists from around the globe for Sunday Night Screenings and multimedia events in downtown, Los Angeles. This inaugural event curated by Stepanian features video art set to music. Participating artists include: Dorian Wood, WIFE, Kathy Rose, Joe Merrell, Christine Schiavo, Payam Mofidi and Stepanian. Join us for a night of surreal inspiration, conversations with the artists, drinks and dance! See details on project page: http://manipulatedimage.com/MI22_Coagula1.html 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. -------------------- MONDAY, JULY 1, 2013 -------------------- 7/1 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7 pm, 4 Charles Place NOWHERE ELSE ID RATHER BE: VIDEOS BY JULIE PERINI It's summer and people are on the move. This week Oregon-based filmmaker Julie Perini joins us to present a program of video works completed between 2007 and 2013. Perini's work often explores the areas between fact and fiction, staged and improvised, political and personal. Blending techniques from performance and filmmaking, Perini searches for moments of heightened awareness and new understandings of herself as a subject experiencing multiple identities at any given time. $6 7/1 Brooklyn, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 7PM - 12 AM, The Spectrum, 59 Montrose Avenue DIRTY LOOKS: ON LOCATION | NARCISSISTER OPENING NIGHT Narcissister, A Body of Work, 2008 - 2013, video and live performance. Curated by Bradford Nordeen. Narcissister has amassed a diverse revenue of venues (MoMA, Abrons Arts Center, America's Got Talent) in her 20 plus years working in contemporary dance and performance. This screening will be the first to survey the artist's video works and will be followed by a performance. The Spectrum, a former residential dance studio-cum-queer community arts space, being the initial point of inspiration for the eveningwhich emerged from a late night dialogue between the artist and curator Bradford Nordeen, in that very locale. Click Here for More Details --------------------- TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 --------------------- 7/2 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street ANTHONY MCCALL AND ANDREW TYNDALL'S ARGUMENT Argument, Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall, HD restoration of 16mm film, 1978, 84 mins - Argument has been described by its makers as "a film of intervention." Partially inspired by Godard and Gorin's Letter to Jane, it is an essay film built around images of men's fashion ads from an issue of the New York Times Magazine, with text and narration that offer a variety of critiques of the independent filmmaking of its time. Most centrally, it raises the question of how an effective form of political cinema could emerge at a moment when filmmakers were divided between two seemingly incommensurate tendencies: on one hand, the desire to promote the views of the left to as wide an audience as possible through the vehicle of mass-produced, Hollywood-style narratives\; and on the other, the avant-gardist insistence that a truly radical practice must reject conventional form in favor of a deeper investigation of both perception and representation. - To this end, early screenings of Argument in London and New York were held workshop-style, with select groups of audience members chosen from the local communities of filmmakers and artists. Every attendee was given a 25-page publication prior to the event, with notes on McCall and Tyndall's own working statements for the film\; the screenings were each followed by a discussion among the members of the audience and the filmmakers. - "Filmmakers, critics and audiences have reached an impasse in the past few years over the questions of how to develop a radical film practice and what constitutes a political cinema," the invitation to Argument's screening at The Collective for Living Cinema read. "The film Argument...has been made in order to provide a text so that this question can be examined and articulated more clearly. The film has been made to engage those very problems that filmmakers are confronting economically, aesthetically, theoretically and politically. Because of these concerns the purpose of the film is not merely to be screened and seen, but rather to provide a context out of which a discourse can be created. The filmmakers of Argument made the film to be seen by an audience of their peers, an audience which is no less privileged, committed or knowledgeable about the issues to be discussed than the filmmakers themselves. The film was designed to be shown in a seminar/workshop situation, in which the film would be no more than an element in a larger âargument.'" - Tonight's screening will be followed by a discussion with McCall and Tyndall about Argument. - A limited number of copies of LUX's reprint of the original Argument publication will be available at the event. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. ----------------------- WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 ----------------------- 7/3 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 8PM, Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street LIZZIE BORDEN, BORN IN FLAMES Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, 35mm on DVD, color, 1983. Curated by Claire Barliant. Set in the near future, when America is celebrating its tenth anniversary as a socialist state, there are murmurs of social and political unrest as sexism and racism appear to be back on the rise. Various women's groups join forces to resist unfair treatment and abuse, ultimately forming the Women's Army, a vigilante force to protect women on the street and fight the powers that be. After a key activist is killed under mysterious circumstances, New York City's female-run underground media rises up to make sure the people know the truth about her death. Eric Bogosian and Kathryn Bigelow each made their screen debuts in Born in Flames, with minor supporting rolesthe former as a technician at a television studio, and the latter as an editorial intern. Click Here for More Details ---------------------- THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2013 ---------------------- 7/4 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 7PM, B Bar & Grill | 40 East 4th Street MYRA BRECKINRIDGE ON THE 4TH OF JULY Myra Breckinridge, Michael Sarne, 1970. Curated by Tiffany Malakooti. Gore Vidal's best-selling satiric novel gets an inarguably unique screen treatment in this off-center psychosexual farce. Fussy film buff Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) goes to Europe and gets a sex-change operation from a slovenly chain-smoking doctor (John Carradine) and returns to the United States as the glamorous and willful Myra Breckinridge (Raquel Welch). Myra appears at the door of former cowboy star-turned-acting school entrepreneur Buck Loner (John Huston), who also happened to be Myron's uncle; Myra insists she's Myron's widow and demands her fair share of Loner's inheritance to her late husband. Loner, suspicious of the appearance of Myron's bride, tries to find a way out of giving her any of his money, while giving Myra a job in his acting school to keep her busy. Myra's new career allows her to make the acquaintance of Leticia Van Allen (Mae West), an aging sexpot and talent agent who represents "leading men only." Through Leticia, Myra meets alpha-male aspiring star Rusty Godowsky (Roger Herren) and his naïve girlfriend Mary Ann Pringle (Farrah Fawcett); as part of her own bid to ferment sexual anarchy, Myra attempts to introduce Mary Ann to the pleasures of lesbianism, while forcibly expanding Rusty's sexual boundaries. In the midst of the action, director Michael Sarne uses clips from dozens of vintage Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s as a comic counterpoint to the story. Both Gore Vidal and Rex Reed expressed their dissatisfaction with Myra Breckinridge after the film hit theaters, though Vidal has also claimed not have seen the finished product; the film has gone on to develop a devoted cult following. -------------------- FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2013 -------------------- 7/5 Brooklyn, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 3PM - 11PM, Spectacle, 124 South 3rd Street KEN JACOBS, STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH Digital video on DVD, 1956 - 1960/2003 - 2004. Curated by David Everitt Howe. Touted by filmmaker Jonas Mekas to be the "greatest found-footage film", Ken Jacobs' epic and startlingly original Star Spangled to Death is a sweeping, manic, and often revelatory seven-hour critique of American cultural values, military might, and racist history. Fifty years in the making, Jacobs' greedy, dystopic America is soon through appropriated movie sequencessuch as a Warner short for the NRA and old Mickey Mouse cartoonsand filmed footage, including famous shots of a young Jack Smith galavanting around St. Marks Place and the Bowery with brooms and a paper bag mask. Such scenes anticipate Smith's Flaming Creatures with its use of mirrors, scrims, and other tools. Star Spangled to Death is, in Jacobs' words, "a social critique picturing a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict." 7/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See notes for Jul. 5, 9 pm. 7/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE SANG D'UN POÈTE) "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." Georges Sadoul 7/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1946, 93 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score by Georges Auric. "[P]erhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday family life to the magic of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm, with its Vermeer simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in the Gustave Dore extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. Jean Marais is a magnificent beast." Pauline Kael ---------------------- SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2013 ---------------------- 7/6 Brooklyn, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 9PM, THE DEUCE at Videology | 308 Bedford Avenue THE BACK ROW WITH INTRODUCTION BY SAMUEL R. DELANY The Back Row, Jerry Douglas, 1973 Introduced by Samuel R. Delany. Curated by Karl McCool. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue author Samuel R. Delany introduces pioneering gay hardcore classic The Back Row, starring the original gay porn superstar, Casey Donovan. A veritable travelogue of pre-Disneyfication Times Square, The Back Row is a sexually explicit takeoff on Midnight Cowboy, following the adventures of a naïve young cowboy, fresh off the bus from Montana, as he takes a walk on the wild side in sleazy New York City. In 1972, making a porn movie was still a potentially illegal act and director Jerry Douglas and his cast further risked arrest by shooting theirs on location, even filming a porn scene on an almost empty subway car. (There was that one drunk, who staggered into view and promptly passed out during the shoot.) The Back Row takes viewers on a fabulously seedy tour of the grimy New York of old, accompanying our cowboy hero from his arrival at Port Authority, through smut-filled Times Square, and on to legendary gay porn palace, the Eros Theatre, with an excursion to the original, pre-"Sex and the City" Pleasure Chest along the way. All set to a truly bizarre soundtrack, that must be heard to be believed. 7/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET See notes for Jul. 5, 7:30 pm. 7/6 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of immortality." -------------------- SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2013 -------------------- 7/7 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 7:30PM, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street VIKA KIRCHENBAUER, MARIT ÖSTBERG AND HANNA BERGFORS' FILMS AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER! Vika Kirchenbauer, Like Rats Living a Sinking Ship, HD video, 2012, Hanna Bergfors, Doska Frank, HD video, 2011, Marit Östberg, Share, HD video, 2010. Curated by Clara López Menéndez. Bergfors, Kirchenbauer and Östberg are three very different filmmakers cohabiting a shared set of coordinates: a vibrant and politically committed queer community in Berlin. Their concerns and aesthetic leanings have proved to be very different, engaging themselves in practices that, however, are all invested in the expression of a profound sense of non-conformity. Perhaps discontent and angry with society's pressure on gender identitarian decisionsLike Rats Living a Sinking Shipor rather puzzled by the velocity and sophistication with which cultural production, and even critical discourse gets commodifiedDoska Frankmaybe simply exploring other possibilities to perform gender, sexuality and homosociabilityShare, these filmmakers are capturing a intense moment of queer creativity, which heavily relies on a network of inter-actors that make possible these self-organized productions. 7/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS See notes for Jul. 6, 8 pm. 7/7 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology the god of the lyre, song and poetry was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many deaths." 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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