This week [July 13 - 22, 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: ============================ "Diluvi Privati. Film." by Andrea Vincenzi http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=515.ann "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: ===================== Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1608.ann Last 2013 Call for Artists (multidisciplinary) (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1609.ann Angular (Barcelona-Madrid, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1610.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 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 Kinofilm: Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, United Kingdom; Deadline: August 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1597.ann 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 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1608.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): ============================== * 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] * Experiments In Levitation: An Evening of Sound and Image Performances W/ John Davis & Paul Clipson / Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken / Rick Bahto / Jim Haynes [July 13, San Francisco, California] * 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] * Minimentals: video Screening & Interactive Performance By Denise Iris [July 15, Brooklyn, New York] * Su Friedrich, First Comes Love [July 15, New York, New York] * Ray L. Birdwhistell's Microcultural Incidents In Ten Zoos + Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon's the Ax Fight [July 16, Brooklyn, NY] * Variety With Director Bette Gordon In Attendance! [July 16, New York, New York] * Bruce Labruce At the Dl, Co-Presented By Fringe! Fest London. [July 17, New York, New York] * Lionel Soukaz, Le Sexe Des Anges and Rosa Von Praunheim, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse. [July 19, New York, New York] * Stan Brakhage: the Pittsburgh Documents. Werner Herzog In Person! [July 20, Los Angeles, California] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents L.A.: Erasure and the Modern City [July 21, Los Angeles, California] * Cherifa, Choice of Cherifa At Le Potage De Madame Zazouf [July 21, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- 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. 7/13 San Francisco, California: The Lab http://www.thelab.org/schedule/events/718-john-davis-in-collaboration-with-paul-clipson.html 8:00 pm, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA. 94103 EXPERIMENTS IN LEVITATION: AN EVENING OF SOUND AND IMAGE PERFORMANCES W/ JOHN DAVIS & PAUL CLIPSON / ASHLEY BELLOUIN & BEN BRACKEN / RICK BAHTO / JIM HAYNES John Davis is a California-based visual artist and musician. Combining a background in cultural anthropology and art, his current work builds on the transcendental qualities of experimental film, while expanding the relationship between moving image and sound through live performance, collaboration, experimentation and improvisation. Paul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and experimental film artist whose work involves projected installation and live collaborative performances with sound artists and musicians. His largely improvised, in-camera-edited Super 8mm films bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken make music with both traditional hand made instruments which exploit the natural overtones and sympathetic vibrations that highly redundant tuning systems generate. Minimal structures and simple harmonic relationships give rise to meditative washes of sound. Each composition is constructed by considering the personal experience of a physical site, the materials used in the construction of the instruments, and the interplay between the two. Their performances are a mixture of the imagined and real, of natural phenomena, and direct action. Rick Bahto is an artist working primarily with 8mm film, photography, sound, and performance currently living in Los Angeles. He has exhibited his work at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations. Jim Haynes is an artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that focuses on the metaphors and physical manifestations of corrosion as actualized through the still image, sound, and video. --------------------- 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. --------------------- MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013 --------------------- 7/15 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place Brooklyn, NY 11221 MINIMENTALS: VIDEO SCREENING & INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE BY DENISE IRIS Admission $6. We welcome Romanian born, New York-based artist Denise Iris to Microscope for a solo screening and interactive performance of her "Minimentals", a series of 1 minute digital films, or "autobiographical haikus" in which the artist transforms the everyday into the extraordinary, blurring the line between inner and outer, real and imagined worlds. For this occasion, Iris will present a selection, chosen with the participation of the audience, from the more than 60 of these works she has made since 2007. The live improvised event/artist talk, reaffirms the minimental ethos of spontaneity and openness. 7/15 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 8PM, The Wooly, 11 Barclay Street SU FRIEDRICH, FIRST COMES LOVE 16mm, B&W, 1991. Curated by Claire Barliant. First Comes Love consists of perfectly choreographed scenes of four wedding ceremonies accompanied by a complex medley of popular love songs. All seems to be going as it should until the couples reach the altar, when the celebratory atmosphere is interrupted for a surprising public service announcement. Then the song and dance continues until the happy couples depart, leaving behind a dwindling crowd and a few altar boys who carefully sweep up the rice that blankets the pavement like snow. The film doesn't attempt to defendor discreditthe institution of marriage. Instead, it reveals the many subtle emotions surrounding the event, and raises questions about how the double standard regarding marriage affects gay and straight couples. ---------------------- TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013 ---------------------- 7/16 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street RAY L. BIRDWHISTELL'S MICROCULTURAL INCIDENTS IN TEN ZOOS + TIMOTHY ASCH AND NAPOLEON CHAGNON'S THE AX FIGHT Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos, Ray L. Birdwhistell, digital projection, 1969, 34 mins, The Ax Fight, Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon, 16mm, 1975, 30 mins 7/16 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org 8PM, Tobacco Road | 355 West 41st Street VARIETY WITH DIRECTOR BETTE GORDON IN ATTENDANCE! Variety, Bette Gordon, 1983. Curated by Scott Ewalt. Variety is the Times Square cousin of Hardcore, or the feminist double feature to Taxi Driver and other Neon Noire. Sandy McLeod stars as a girl who takes a job at the ticket booth of the Variety theater and becomes lost in the subculture of desire. The theaters used were both the spectacular Pussycat theater formerly on 50th street and Broadway, and the Variety Photoplay recently raised from 3rd avenue and 13th street. Which along with the other beautiful treatments of neon reflections, really become the start of this film. Watch for cameos by Nan Goldin, Cookie Mueller, Spalding Gray and the voice of Usharbudh Arya. It was directed by Bette Gordon and co-written by feminist author Kathy Acker. ------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 ------------------------ 7/17 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 9PM, The DL, 95 Ludlow Street BRUCE LABRUCE AT THE DL, CO-PRESENTED BY FRINGE! FEST LONDON. Bruce LaBruce, Fringe! Fest Finger Fuck!, video, color, 2013. Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou. Clips, found online by film director Bruce LaBruce, "represent his usual obsessions and preoccupations: madness, music, homosexuality, revolution, dance, hysteria, feminism, and glamour." --------------------- FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013 --------------------- 7/19 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 7PM, Participant Inc, 253 East Houston Street LIONEL SOUKAZ, LE SEXE DES ANGES AND ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM, IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE. Lionel Soukaz, Le Sexe des Anges, 16mm on video, color, 1977, Rosa von Praunheim, It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, 1971, 16mm on video, color, sound. Lionel Soukaz begins his grand oeuvre, La Race d'Ep, pondering on how the apparition of photography, the capacity to capture fragments of reality without the idealization that painting entails, has impacted the possibility of homosexual living. These two filmmakers are landmarks of the aesthetic and political constitution of the queer militant artistic milieu they were immersed in. Their works however, contradict Soukaz' statement by exploring the aesthetic and compositional complexities that narrative and documentary cinema can achieve. Their films open up a space for dialogue, debate and confrontation, multiplying the images of homosexuality and working towards their viral proliferation in the world, inspiring the minds of generations of queer artists to come. "Notre trou de cul est revolutionnaire!" says the protagonist of Le Sexe des Anges, signifying the political implications of the homosexual desire. Both filmmakers managed, with an economy of means and using the subterfuges at hand in order to produce their films, to achieve works of both extreme intellectual rigor and arresting beauty. ----------------------- SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013 ----------------------- 7/20 Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu 7:30pm, Billy Wildelder Theater in Westwood Village STAN BRAKHAGE: THE PITTSBURGH DOCUMENTS. WERNER HERZOG IN PERSON! Without question one of cinema's most influential and prolific artists, Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) created a monumentally significant and expressive body of work that spanned 50 years and over 350 films. For five decades, Brakhage worked in a highly distinctive, individualistic vein, mining celluloid cinema and--at least in his hands--its seemingly limitless potential for the articulation of raw subjective experience and pre-linguistic vision. The Academy Film Archive has been actively preserving and restoring Brakhage's body of work since his collection was deposited there in 2004. In a career loaded with countless visionary works, Brakhage's The Pittsburgh Documents (often called The Pittsburgh Trilogy) are a trio of acknowledged masterworks, and represent a radical approach to the concept of a cinematic document (as opposed to documentary) rooted in subjective observation. By training his eyes and the film medium on three subjects he felt were elusive, inscrutable, even fearful in their universality, Brakhage sought to gain some empathic foothold--if not an understanding--in these realms of authority (police), illness (hospital) and death (morgue). This screening features the World Premiere of new preservations by the Academy Film Archive. UCLA and the Academy are honored to be joined by filmmaker Werner Herzog (schedule permitting), friend and admirer of Brakhage, to discuss The Pittsburgh Documents, cinematic truth and Brakhage the artist with Academy preservationist Mark Toscano. The Pittsburgh Documents--eyes (1971), Deus Ex (1971), The Act of Seeing with one's own eyes (1971)--were preserved by the Academy Film Archive with support from The Film Foundation. --------------------- SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013 --------------------- 7/21 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS L.A.: ERASURE AND THE MODERN CITY Filmmakers Kate Lain, Huckleberry Lain, 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. L.A.: Erasure and the Modern City, one of four screenings that L.A. Filmforum is hosting in association with Pacific Standard Time Presents Modern Architecture in L.A., looks at erasures and traces of the history, and the grid of the modern city. We bring back the marvelous film L.A.X. from 1980, with its timeless mediations on the creation of Los Angeles, while providing a marvelous look at a city that is partly lost. It's paired with two recent short films by Los Angeles-based makers Kate Lain and Huckleberry Lain (no relation) that also look at the erasures of the past, and the rewriting of elements. 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/419166 or at the door. Screening to include, subject to change, and not in this order: L.A.X., by Fabrice Ziolkowski (1980, 16mm, b&w, sound, 88 min.); PALIMPSEST, by Kate Lain (2011, super 8mm to digital, b&w, silent, 2.5 min.); ANTIQUITIES FOR THE QUEEN OF ANGELS, by Huckleberry Lain (2013, digital, color, sound, 10.5min.) 7/21 New York, New York: Dirty Looks NYC http://onlocation.dirtylooksnyc.org/ 7PM, Jack Chiles (Le Potage de Madame Zazouf), 481 Broadway, 4th Floor CHERIFA, CHOICE OF CHERIFA AT LE POTAGE DE MADAME ZAZOUF Cherifa, Choice of Cherifa, video, color, 1970 - 1983. Curated by Tiffany Malakooti. A sensitive selection of highly aestheticized Lesbian sex scenes culled from European softcore, erotica and horror films of the 1970s. Join Cherifa and Madame Zazouf for this radically un-radical, ultra-erotic, non-discursive viewing of womyn-on-womyn action; we've edited out all the menincluding the directors' gazesso you don't have to. 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