This week [August 17 - 25, 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 NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Punto y Raya Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: October 28, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1620.ann Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1621.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== danubeVIDEOARTfestival (Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1599.ann Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1600.ann 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 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 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 Artisans at Work (Toronto; Deadline: August 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1617.ann Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 25, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1618.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): ============================== * Millennium Open House and Screening [August 18, Brooklyn, New York] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Far From Afghanistan (Los Angeles Premiere!) [August 18, Los Angeles, California] * Early Monthly Segments #54 = Deborah Stratman's "O'er the Land" [August 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * The Counter Cinema of Ken Jacobs [August 21, New York, New York] * Karel Doing: City Symphonies [August 22, Los Angeles, California] * the Poetic Films of James Franco: A Special Film Coop Benefit For River Phoenix's Birthday [August 23, New York, New York] * Re-Inventing the Reel [August 24, Los Angeles, California] * Gaze Film Series #5: Transgressions [August 24, San Francisco, CA] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2013 ----------------------- 8/18 Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 6pm, 119 Ingraham, Suite #416 MILLENNIUM OPEN HOUSE AND SCREENING Open House & Multi-projection performance by Optipus! Sunday, August 18th, 2013 Come enjoy our new digs at Brooklyn Fire Proof from 6-8pm! See our new film production facilities! Enjoy refreshments! Learn about upcoming workshops, events & volunteer opportunities! Thrill to a performance by multi-media collective Optipus at 8pm! Please note the open house will take place in our new space Suite #416 from 6-8pm. The screening will start at 9pm in the gallery of Brooklyn Fireproof near the cafe. 8/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN (LOS ANGELES PREMIERE!) Filmmakers Minda Martin and Travis Wilkerson in person! Filmforum is delighted to host the Los Angeles premiere of a remarkable omnibus film from five extraordinary filmmakers and a collective of young Afghan media journalists. FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN forms a mosaic of cinematic approaches to take a critical look at the longest overseas war in U.S. history. Inspired by the 1967 collaborative film LOIN DU VIETNAM (Far from Vietnam), FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN likewise unites a variety of filmmakers, cinematographers, editors and technicians in the international effort to redirect U.S. policy away from military and political intervention toward true humanitarian and developmental care-giving as invited. Event website: http://lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-2013-schedule/far-from-afghanista n/ 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/434805 or by cash or check at the door. FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN (2012, US/Afghanistan, color, sound, 129 min.) A film by John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, and Travis Wilkerson In collaboration with Afghan Voices ----------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013 ----------------------- 8/19 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 8:00 PM, Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #54 = DEBORAH STRATMAN'S "O'ER THE LAND" Early Monthly Segments is pleased to present Chicago artist Deborah Stratman's "O'er the Land" (2009), an illuminating reflection on the state of her nation. The film hinges on the account of the 48,000-foot descent of pilot Col. William Rankin who was forced to eject himself from his F8U fighter jet during a 1959 test flight. Storm buffeted, without a pressurized flight suit and held aloft in the air currents for a seeming eternity, Rankin miraculously survived to tell the tale. 50 years later Stratman shows us an America still at war and arguably in free fall, obsessed with its permeable borders, bodies and the technologies of destruction. Including documentation of border guards and civil war reenactors, football players and flamethrowers, the film deftly depicts the spectacular intersection of landscape and leisure with masculinity, militarism and manifest destiny. Programme: O'er The Land, Deborah Stratman, 2009, 16mm film, 52 minutes, sound + SHORT FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED! @ Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar 1214 Queen St West Monday August 19, 2013 8:00 PM screening $5-10 suggested donation Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film. Programmed by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay this series features historical and contemporary avant-garde films in a salon-like setting at the Gladstone Art Bar. Thanks to The Gladstone Hotel. Website= http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ -------------------------- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013 -------------------------- 8/21 New York, New York: The New York Film-Makers' Cooperative www.film-makerscoop.com 9:30PM, Soho House 9-35 Ninth Avenue THE COUNTER CINEMA OF KEN JACOBS Limited space, by reservation only: [email protected] Films include: "Disorient Express", "Jack Smith Tumbling" (from "Two Wrenching Departures") and "The Green Wave" "When 2D films are designed to excite 3D seeing, a seemingly manic vibration may condition the action, resulting in truly impossible sights. But then, how bizarre is the premise of a 2-dimensional scene, anyway? It wasn't my idea to flatten the visible world to a single insubstantial plane. Now look what happens to the tobacco storefront when Jack does his prolonged dance in front of it. And what of the sanctity of the movie rectangle, now forced to come onscreen and do these twisty movements in depth when it was promised quiet retirement to the sidelines forever?" KJ, Organized by MM Serra in collaboration with Soho House. ------------------------- THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 ------------------------- 8/22 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St KAREL DOING: CITY SYMPHONIES The films, performances and installations of Karel Doing deal with elusive subjects such as music, rhythm, poetry, death, history and memory. He works together with composers, musicians, performers, and dancers. His films relate to the experimental film tradition and beyond. He combines documentary techniques, found footage, and visual story telling resulting in a style of his own. Recurring themes in his work are: the relation between the cinematic image and music, the city as an organism, intercultural dialogue, and motion picture film as a material with a specific expression and vocabulary. He lives and works in London and Rotterdam. For this program he presents three of his city symphony works. Images of a moving city (2001, 35mm on video) is a documentary poem about the city of Rotterdam, observing the people, roads, and buildings that jointly determine the atmosphere of a continually changing multicultural city. Liquidator (2010, 35mm on video) uses an optical printer to transform a badly deteriorated print of Willy Mullens commercial city branding film Haarlem from 1922. Palindrome Series (2013, 16mm double projection) is a series of 5 short palindrome films made at no.w.here lab in London, using a black and white processing machine, a step printer, and ostensible useless materials (paper cut-outs, artificial hair, discarded negatives, old newspapers). Karel Doing is EPFC's August international artist-in-residence! ----------------------- FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 ----------------------- 8/23 New York, New York: The New York Film-Makers' Cooperative www.film-makerscoop.com 7:30PM, The Film-Makers' Coop 475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor THE POETIC FILMS OF JAMES FRANCO: A SPECIAL FILM COOP BENEFIT FOR RIVER PHOENIX'S BIRTHDAY Join the Coop in celebrating the life of River Phoenix through the cinematic visions of James Franco. This program includes the films: My Own Private River (in conjunction with Gus Van Sant) and other shorts. Including vegan cupcakes! ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013 ------------------------- 8/24 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St RE-INVENTING THE REEL $5 / 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, Eric Stewart, Zach Van Joo and more! Screening preceded by Re-Animated Gifs and works made at Elements of Image Making. 8/24 San Francisco, CA: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia GAZE FILM SERIES #5: TRANSGRESSIONS Weird things happen when you violate the boundaries. You might spring a leak, piss off the feds, undergo a state change or disappear completely. Join GAZE for a night of local and international film and video that crosses the line in one way or another. Featuring girl gangs, celebrity assassinations, political voicemail, and Winona Ryder. It's all good... until it isn't. - Featuring: Dolissa Medina - The Moon Song of Assassination - Sonia Gonzalez - Desperately Seeking Stagg Girls, Sable Elyse Smith - Untitled: Self Portrait 5786, Hannah Piper Burns - The Post-Feminist Dissonance Project, Adla Isanovic - Images Within Us, Nooshin Rostami - The Prayer, Jessica Bardsley - The Blazing World 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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