This week [July 6 - 14, 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: ===================== 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: ====================== 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 Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: July 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1583.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 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 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 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): ============================== * 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] * Taylor Mead's Ass [July 8, New York, New York] * Leah Gilliam's Apeshit + Wesley Barry's the Creation of the Humanoids [July 9, Brooklyn, New York] * Gay Cruising In Late 70s and Early 80s New York, Introduced By Colby Keller [July 9, New York, New York] * David Berezin, Never Again + Cast In Order of Appearance [July 10, New York, New York] * The Beaver Trilogy [July 10, San Francisco, California] * Los Angeles Filmforum At Moca Presents: This Is the City [July 11, Los Angeles, California] * Bill thelen, Nobody's Home [July 11, New York, New York] * Hardcore: the Films of Paul Schrader / July 12 - Aug 5 [July 12, Los Angeles, California] * Who Killed Teddy Bear [July 12, New York, New York] * Re-Inventing the Reel [July 12, San Francisco, California] * Dan Graham Presents Radley Metzger's the Lickerish Quartet [July 13, Brooklyn, NY] * Little Joe Presents: Anonymous, Builders, For Secret Venue. [July 13, New York, New York] * Constructions of Los Angeles [July 14, Los Angeles, California] * Lynda Benglis & Harry Dodge At Bgsqd [July 14, New York, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Beige [July 14, Oakland] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------- 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." -------------------- MONDAY, JULY 8, 2013 -------------------- 7/8 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 8:30PM, Museum of Modern Art (Sculpture Garden, exterior) | 11 West 53rd Street | RSVP at [email protected] TAYLOR MEADS ASS Taylor Mead's Ass, Andy Warhol, 1965. Curated by Bradford Nordeen. Taylor Mead's Ass was made as a playful response to a letter to the editor complaint in The Village Voice, which reduced Warhol's prior collaborations with the actor to "Taylor Mead's ass for two hours." The film features various everyday tools, such as books and carrots, vacuums and publicity glossies, coming into humorously close and awkward contact with Mead's bare buttocks for the film's entire running time. The screening also serves as a posthumous homage to Mead, who passed away in May. The screening will be the first in a series of collaborations between the Museum of Modern Art and Dirty Looks NYC, Dirty Looks at MoMA: Mining the Collection, which places queer film, video and performance from the MoMA Film permanent collection in unlikely spaces throughout the museum's two venues. Positioned within the museum's modernist sculpture garden setting, Warhol's witty retort will take on new, and humorously formal, properties. RSVP at [email protected] --------------------- TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2013 --------------------- 7/9 Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street LEAH GILLIAM'S APESHIT + WESLEY BARRY'S THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS Apeshit, Leah Gilliam, video, 1999, 7 mins - The Creation of the Humanoids, Wesley Barry, 16mm, 1962, 84 mins - No other effort from the golden age of spacesuit melodrama entranced the 60s avant-garde as deeply as Wesley Barry's The Creation of the Humanoids, a deadpan talkie set after worldwide nuclear war, in which a shrinking population of radiation-infected humans rely on an army of android servants to maintain their idyllic lifestyle. Andy Warhol called it his favorite movie\; Mike Kuchar parodied it in his robots-in-love featurette Sins of the Fleshapoids\; Susan Sontag used it to explore the theme of dehumanization in her essay "The Imagination of Disaster\;" and Robert Smithson dubbed it one of the "landmarks of Sci-fic," an example of 42nd Street fare that "induces a kind of âlow-budget' mysticism," keeping the viewer "in a perpetual trance." - Attempting high style on the cheap, Creation employs barebones sets, stilted dramatics, and an unforgettably gaudy, Forbidden Planet inspired design. Print of The Creation of the Humanoids courtesy of the Cosmic Hex Archive. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 7/9 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 9PM, Rock Bar, 185 Christopher Street GAY CRUISING IN LATE 70S AND EARLY 80S NEW YORK, INTRODUCED BY COLBY KELLER Ivan Galietti, Pompeii New York, Part 1: Pier Caresses, 16mm, color, 1982, Arch Brown, Pier Groups, 16mm on digital video, color,1979. Curated by Karl McCool. Colby Keller introduces an evening of films that capture the atmosphere, art and architecture, and cruising rituals of the Piers in late 70s and early 80s New York. Pompeii New York tracks the secretive rituals of men hunting for sex among the ruined buildings of the waterfront and features many of the central characters of the 80s art scene, including David Wojnarowicz, Phoebe Legere, Tina Aumont and Penny Arcade. Pier Groups, perhaps the best known film by Arch Brown, who died this past September, is a gay hardcore classic. In it, an engineer for an urban development company spends a day scouting the Piers, in preparation for their demolition, and stumbling upon anonymous sex at every turn. Together these films evoke the atmosphere of the Piers just before the crackdown on public sex spaces in the city. ------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 ------------------------ 7/10 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 7PM, limited loop, Kims Video & Music | 124 1st Avenue DAVID BEREZIN, NEVER AGAIN + CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE David Berezin, Never Again + Cast in Order of Appearance, 2012 Curated by David Everitt Howe. David Berezin's Never Again and Cast in Order of Appearance only appear to be found footage clips; rather, they're carefully shot, original video works that mimic cliché Hollywood narratives only to halt them entirely. Never Again's 80s-aping, campy title sequence never goes anywhere, while the latter video's delightfully absurd line of credits keeps repeating itself, hinting at a movie that never was and never will be. Evoking Gilles Deleuze's concept of "the-any-space-whatever," these sequences imply a movie without being one, and are open to many possible narratives and plot points that never actually materialize on screen but are rather fake mainstream movies perpetually deferred. 7/10 San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema 8pm, 16 Sherman St. THE BEAVER TRILOGY The Beaver Trilogy New Nothing Cinema 8pm ----------------------- THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 ----------------------- 7/11 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:00pm, MOCA Grand Avenues Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 South Grand Avenue LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM AT MOCA PRESENTS: THIS IS THE CITY Los Angeles is perhaps the most photographed, yet least understood city in the world. For all of the countless images, it is as though few people have actually seen the city well enough to depict it. Coinciding with A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California, Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA presents a program of recent films that break this mold, and in so doing document the changing landscape of the city in the 21st century. Thom Andersen, Alexandra Cuesta, and Clay Dean use poignant and at times even poetic images of buildings, immigrant neighborhoods, deteriorating signage, and readymade still lifes to give us a sense of place as well as the uncanny. Serving as an elegiac prologue to this recent efflorescence of observational cinema is Kent MacKenzie's heartbreaking Bunker Hill 1956, a rich documentary memorializing the site whose destruction preceded downtown's current incarnation as a corporate office block (and home to MOCA). Tickets: $12 general admission; $7 students with valid ID, free for MOCA and Los Angeles Filmforum members; must present current membership card to claim free tickets. available at http://moca.org/ or at the door. Info: 213/621-1745 or [email protected] Screening: Bunker Hill by Kent MacKenzie (1956, 16mm, black and white, sound, 18 min, print courtesy of USC), Despedida (Farewell) by Alexandra Cuesta (2013, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min), Not West of Western by Clay Dean (2011, 16mm, black and white, sound, 13.5 min), Get Out of the Car by Thom Andersen (2010, 16mm, color, sound, 35 min) 7/11 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 8:30PM, Le Petit Versailles, 346 East Houston Street (at Avenue C) BILL THELEN, NOBODYS HOME video, color, 2003. Curated by Sam Ashby. nobody's home features the found footage of Gregory Askins, a tenant of mine who passed away in 2003 from complications due to AIDS. Mr. Askins lived in my attic apartment with his beloved dog FiFi. During the last year of his life he never left the apartment and would not receive visitors. He would leave a list of the things he needed by sliding it under my door. After he died, I found this video along with artwork, a detailed diary and various ephemera after cleaning out his apartment. Sadly, no one claimed his belongings. Bill Thelen --------------------- FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2013 --------------------- 7/12 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) HARDCORE: THE FILMS OF PAUL SCHRADER / JULY 12 - AUG 5 UCLA Film & Television Archive presents the works of Paul Schrader with the director in person on August 4 & 5. "Hardcore: The Films of Paul Schrader" screens Friday, July 12 Monday, August 5 at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood Village. Highlights from the series include FREE admission to the double feature of WITCH HUNT (1994) AND TOUCH (1997) on July 29, as well as a special screening of Schrader's latest film, THE CANYONS (2013), on August 5 with the director in person! --------- FRIDAY, JULY 12 @ 7:30 PM AMERICAN GIGOLO (1980) Writer-director Paul Schrader channels multiple European influences (Bresson's Pickpocket by way of Bertolucci's The Conformist) into one of the most influential American films of the 1980s. Richard Gere's Los Angeles gigolo, Julian, thrives in a world of brief encounters and seductive surfaces--Schrader's camera glides effortlessly through spaces brilliantly rendered by visual consultant Ferdinando Scarfiotti and cinematographer John Bailey--until he becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. 35mm, color, 117 min. LIGHT SLEEPER (1992) Filmmaker Paul Schrader revisits the mean streets of New York he first assayed in his script for Taxi Driver through the eyes of another drifting voyeur, this time, John LeTour, a middle-aged drug courier (Willem Dafoe). Facing an uncertain future after his boss (Susan Sarandon) announces she's quitting the business, LeTour grows increasingly anxious in his search for some kind of mooringattempting to reconnect with his ex-lover (Dana Delany), pouring out his thoughts into journals, consulting a psychicuntil he stumbles upon a final, clarifying act. 35mm, color, 103 min. 7/12 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 7PM, Times Scare (formerly Show World) | 669 8th Avenue WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR Who Killed Teddy Bear, Joseph Cates, 1965. Curated by Scott Ewalt. Who Killed Teddy Bear by Joseph Cates comes on part-exploitation film part social document, presenting a lurid and faithful depiction of Wagner-era Times Square. It stars a physically transformed Sal Mineo in a beefcake role that he thought would revive his career and Elaine Stritch as a lesbian bar proprietor. The film, selected by guest curator Scott Ewalt (whose latest exhibition at Participant Inc reactivates the histories of the same Times Square spaces that the film so lovingly documents) is a time capsule of a bygone Times Square, with tons of on location shooting of what was then deemed the Minnesota Strip. 7/12 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia st RE-INVENTING THE REEL $6. In February of 2012 Elements of Image Making began as a workshop for the promotion of analogue film craft. It has become a monthly meet-up/hang-out/nerd-out connecting those with something to learn and those with something to teach. Operating non-hierarchically and without agenda, Elements of Image Making is a vagrant Lyceum transferring the alchemical secrets of the past via word of mouth to anyone seeking initiation into celluloid film-istry. As the industrial interests that historically sustained film production abandon us, we self organize and defy irrelevancy- keeping film where it belongs, in the underground. To celebrate Elements' one-year anniversary Re-Inventing the Reel presents a survey of celluloid interventions honoring filmmakers that pursue personal vision while pushing the constituent parts of the filmic apparatus to the point of catharsis and transformation. With films by Ben Popp, Abigail Severance, Will Bragger, Robert Schaller, Janis Crystal Lipzin, John Woods, Michael Morris, Tooth, Eric Stewart, Zach Van Joo and More. Screening preceded by Re-Animated Gifs, works made at Elements of Image Making and cake. Come early for a chance to win 100ft of 7285, one roll of the recently discontinued Ektachrome. Films so awesome, we're just giving it away!!!!!!!! ----------------------- SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 ----------------------- 7/13 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 3pm, 155 Freeman Street DAN GRAHAM PRESENTS RADLEY METZGER'S THE LICKERISH QUARTET Introduced by Dan Graham - Dan Graham presents The Lickerish Quartet, one of the greatest softcore films by American sexploitation auteur Radley Metzger. Dubbed an "erotic duet for four players" by Metzger, this lavish production tells the story of an aristocratic European familyfather, mother, and sondrawn into a series of sexual encounters with a mysterious woman. - "The erotic film assumes a certain self-consciousness on the spectator's part, a consciousness of him/herself as a person with a sexual desire. In a porno theater the spectator unconsciously desires to observe others in the audience brought to desire by their identification with the action. Thus the viewer may be brought out of the film to observe his/her neighbor's heavy breathing, aroused, embarrassed silences, while he/she is aware that the other person's âthoughts'/feelings are similar to his/her own. The observer identifies with the other spectator's desires. By the same token, the porno film is equally self-conscious, manifested in the actors' lack of total projection into their roles, a self-conscious directorial self-indulgence, lack of defined narrative. The film has a âbad conscience' as it seems aware that its âreality' is more about exploiting the spectator at the level of his guilty base desires (Puritan ethic) than in its filmic structure. These âexploited' but real sexual desires of the spectators at the porno film are shown to be false by the shoddiness of the imaginary film world with which they must identify to be sexually stimulated. But there is another sexual desire experienced by the film spectator. It is a result of his/her ego identifying with the film projection itself: the projector\; the invisible camera, which is, nevertheless, still identified with\; the screen upon which the illusionary world is projected\; the dark room where one sits semi-somnolent and semi-aware, isolated, but surrounded by the presence of othersthe situation producing immediate, voyeuristic pleasure much like that of a dream which can later be discarded and disavowed..." - Dan Graham, "Commentary/The Lickerish Quartet," 1979 - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 7/13 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ Evening, Check Dirty Looks Facebook or Twitter for venue update. LITTLE JOE PRESENTS: ANONYMOUS, BUILDERS, FOR SECRET VENUE. Digital video downloaded from xtube.com, color, sound. Curated by Sam Ashby. Shot on a hand-held video camera by an anonymous filmmaker at an unknown time (although some point in the 1990s or 2000s seems likely), Builders observes the workmen building a large apartment complex in an unspecified location, possibly in Russia. Seemingly shot over an extended period, the filmmaker coaxes a number of the men to expose themselves and masturbate for the camera. Placed in the voyeuristic position of the observer, we watch the furtive gestures and body language of the men who attempt to get the filmmaker to expose (more?) flesh in return. The exchange is never fulfilled, and we are left to imagine the gender of the scopophilic eye behind the camera. --------------------- SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013 --------------------- 7/14 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. CONSTRUCTIONS OF LOS ANGELES Filmmakers Laura Kraning, Baylis Glascock in person! More than most cities, Los Angeles is one that is thoroughly invested with the idea and practice of construction and reconstruction. It is the place where people go to reconstruct themselves, and it is a city whose built environment is always being constructed, torn down, and reformed, in space and meaning. Constructions of Los Angeles, one of four screenings that L.A. Filmforum is hosting in association with Pacific Standard Time Presents Modern Architecture in L.A., includes some very rare documents of old Los Angeles from that Academy Film Archive, a classic deconstruction of the Watts Towers by Baylis Glascock; and several new works exploring the mysteries of the built and lost past and present of Los Angeles, by filmmakers Laura Kraning, Stephen Connelly (from England), and Johann Lurf from Austria. Curated by Mark Toscano and Adam Hyman Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/419029 or at the door. Screening to include, subject to change, and not in this order: Home movie of the building of Los Angeles City Hall 1926, by Newcomb Condee & Family (1926, 16mm, b/w, silent, 7 min., courtesy of the Academy Film Archive); Home Movie of Hollywood Boulevard and Downtown Los Angeles, 1930, by Stanfield Family, (1930, 16mm, b/w, silent, 7 min., courtesy of the Academy Film Archive); Footage of Bunker Hill, ca. 1940, by Laure Lourié (ca. 1940, 16mm, b/w, silent, 7.5 min., courtesy of the Academy Film Archive); DEVIL'S GATE, by Laura Kraning (2011, HD, b/w, 20 min.); FILM EXERCISE NUMBER ONE, by Baylis Glascock (1962, 16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min.); RECONNAISSANCE, by Johann Lurf (2012, digital, color, silent, 5 min., West Coast Premiere!); ZABRISKIE POINT (REDACTED), by Stephen Connolly (2013, digital, color, sound, 27.5min., West Coast Premiere!) 7/14 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 7PM, Bureau of General Services Queer Division | 27 Orchard Street LYNDA BENGLIS & HARRY DODGE AT BGSQD The Amazing Bow Wow, Lynda Benglis, 1976. The Ass and the Lap Dog, Harry Dodge 2013. Curated by Karl McCool. An evening of fantastic queer narratives, spanning over three decades of video art practice, hosted by the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, the premier queer bookstore and event space in New York City. Made in 1976, The Amazing Bow Wow is the only fully narrative video Lynda Benglis produced and follows the adventures of a talking, intersexed dog (replete with giant fake male and female organs) used by Benglis and her partner in their carnival sideshow actuntil Benglis starts to fall for Bow Wow and things take a tragic turn. The Ass and the Lap Dog, from 2013, sees Harry Dodge attempting several on-camera interviews only to be bombarded with bizarre, insanely detailed descriptions of the videos his interviewees would like to make, to hilarious and hallucinatory effect. 7/14 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS BEIGE Beige is the collaborative project of filmmakers Kent Long and Vanessa O'Neill. Their work explores the transformations and dimensions of layered 16mm projection with live sound performance by Long. In this program they will be threading together several pieces created both individually and collaboratively. Works included are: The Waves (Long), an interpretation of water's eternal patterns of light and sound. Suspension (O'Neill), a toned and black-and-white reel, layered to create subtle shifts of hue and tone of abstracted seascape. Which Ceaselessly Float Up (Beige) and The Pass (Beige), the first two in a series of films ostensibly investigating the aesthetics of harnessing/control and the resultant opportunities for reflection. 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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