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Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl ITEM FOR SALE: ============== Experiments in Cinema fundraising DVD collections http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=36.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== RICHMOND RADICALS (Richmond, VA usa; Deadline: October 18, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1622.ann Plug Projects (Kansas City, MO. 64108; Deadline: October 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1623.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 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): ============================== * Houston Is So Hot! [August 24, Houston, TX] * Re-Inventing the Reel [August 24, Los Angeles, California] * Gaze Film Series #5: Transgressions [August 24, San Francisco, CA] * Ralph White and Bozo Texino [August 25, Austin, TX] * Expanded Architecture At the Rocks - Call For Proposals + Papers [August 26, Sydney, Australia] * Aleksandr Medvedkin's New Moscow [August 27, Brooklyn, NY] * The Uncle Floyd Show [August 28, San Francisco, California] * Animation Freak-Out Night [August 29, Los Angeles, California] * Show & Tell: Michael H. Shamberg Program [August 29, New York, New York] * Lacey/Keen Program 1 [August 30, New York, New York] * Lacey/Keen Program 2 [August 30, New York, New York] * Highlights From the Venice Beach Biennial [August 31, Los Angeles, California] * Lacey/Keen Program 2 [August 31, New York, New York] * Lacey/Keen Program 1 [August 31, New York, New York] * Manipulated Image Sunday Night videos & Performances @ Coagula Curatorial [September 1, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2013 ------------------------- 8/24 Houston, TX: Aurora Picture Show http://www.aurorapictureshow.org 7:30pm, 2442 Bartlett Street HOUSTON IS SO HOT! Houston Is So Hot! - Saturday, August 24, 7:30PM - Location: Aurora Picture Show, 2442 Bartlett, Aurora Members Free, Non-Members $10 - Houston's diverse cultural landscape is ripe for the pickin' and that is just what we are going to do for the hot month of August! This screening will feature local artists and filmmakers exploring all genres of video and film. Cool off with a local brew in our air conditioning and enjoy some hot shorts. Filmmakers include Ivete Lucas, Tish Stringer, Bill Daniels, Chris Nelson, Alex Luster, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, Madsen Minax and others. 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 ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013 ----------------------- 8/25 Austin, TX: Bill Daniel 8:30pm, the Owl, 1522 E. 12th RALPH WHITE AND BOZO TEXINO First, a set by Ralph E White, - then a screening of Who is Bozo Texino?, - then a 16mm found film/projection improv jam with Ralph creating instantaneous soundtracks for "deep industrial" found films from the mobile film archive of Bill Daniel. - Five bucks how about. Starts on time at 8:30. ----------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 ----------------------- 8/26 Sydney, Australia: Expanded Architecture http://expandedarchitecture.com 5pm, The Rocks Sydney EXPANDED ARCHITECTURE AT THE ROCKS - CALL FOR PROPOSALS + PAPERS In 2013 Expanded Architecture at The Rocks is offering collaborative teams of spatial art practitioners (artists and architects) a month long residency in a Rocks Pop-Up Space, culminating in an exhibition, catalogue and symposium to be held during the last weekend of Sydney Architecture Festival. The Rocks Pop-up is an initiative of Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority to find creative uses for temporarily vacant buildings, attracting new visitors to Sydney's historic heart. The 2013 Sydney Architecture Festival celebrates Your City/Your Community through the built environment, encouraging the public to engage with their surroundings on a more intimate level. The Expanded Architecture at The Rocks call out is in two sections: SITE SPECIFIC CREATIVE WORK The first call out is for proposals of collaborative works by spatial art practitioners that reflect upon the surrounding urban environment of The Rocks. These are to respond to the concept of Reverse Projections, which is the idea of re-constructing multifarious aspects of The Rocks back inside of The Rocks Pop-Up Space through site-specific works. These can be comprised of physical built installation, moving image projection, and performance. As the exact Rocks Pop-Up location is yet to be allocated, we ask that proposals respond to the wider urban fabric of The Rocks, in an exploration of how it can be drawn inward. Works will be selected upon their potential for direct interaction and involvement with people working in the area, residents, tourists, visitors to The Rocks and general passers-by. The selected teams will have the month long residency to create the works, starting 13th October. Final results will be exhibited on the final weekend of Sydney Architecture Festival 8th-9th November. At least one member of each collaborative team must be able to occupy the artist residency for a minimum of Wed-Sun 10am-5pm, for the residency to be awarded. Please submit your Site Specific Creative Work Proposal in the form of a 500 word description (plus images), a separate short bio (250 words) of all members of the team and a logistics list for our information to [email protected] by 26th August 2013. Please ensure your logistics list includes any assistance that is required in sourcing materials/equipment and which members of the collaborative team will be in residence at the Rocks Pop-Up for the minimum time slots of Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. The Site Specific Creative Works will be selected by an Advisory Board and the Curators. The description, team bio and images of proposals that are accepted will be published on the Expanded Architecture website (www.expandedarchitecture.com). The final results of the works will be published in the Expanded Architecture at The Rocks Exhibition Catalogue. Please name your PDF: Work_Title_EA_Rocks. ACADEMIC PAPERS The second call out is for academic papers of 2500 words for inclusion in the exhibition catalogue and potential presentation at the Symposium held on 9th November, the final weekend of the Sydney Architecture Festival. Expanded Architecture at The Rocks invites critical investigations of theoretical and historical content from academics, as well as practice-oriented contributions from content providers such as architects, artists and curators, that reflect upon concept of Reverse Projections and the potential for aspects of an urban environment, to be re-presented and re-constructed through site-specific engagement. These papers may be based upon the proposal for site-specific works, or can be stand alone papers from peoples not submitting proposals for site-specific works. The papers can be from peoples that may or may not be able to be present for the conference, in which case the papers may be selected for inclusion in the catalogue only. Please send a 500-word abstract and a short separate CV indicating if you are able to attend the symposium to [email protected] by 26th August 2013. Abstracts, if accepted, will be published on the Expanded Architecture website (www.expandedarchitecture.com). Full papers, if accepted, will be published in the Expanded Architecture at The Rocks Exhibition Catalogue. To facilitate double-blind reviewing, no references to the author, institution or any other form of identification may be included in the paper itself. Please name your abstract / paper: Paper_Title_EA_Rocks. IMPORTANT DATES Call for Proposals for Site Specific Works / Abstracts: Deadline Monday 26th August 5pm AEST Selections Announced Monday 9th September Artist Residency Begins Sunday 13th October Full 2500 Paper Monday 14th October Exhibition Opening Friday 8th November Symposium Saturday 9th November Curators of Expanded Architecture at The Rocks are Sarah Breen Lovett and Dr Claudia Perren. www.expandedarchitecture.com Supporters of Expanded Architecture are: The University of Sydney, The Rocks Pop-Up, and Sydney Architecture Festival. ------------------------ TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 ------------------------ 8/27 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN'S NEW MOSCOW Introduced by Juliet Koss - The New Moscow, Aleksandr Medvedkin, digital projection, 1938, 80 mins - Made in 1938 and removed from circulation by the censors before its scheduled release date in January 1939, The New Moscow (ÃÂþòðàÃÅþÃÂúòð / Novaya Moskva) is one of dozens of films made by Aleksandr Medvedkin (1900-1989) over the course of an extraordinary career spanning more than six decades of Soviet cinema. Following on the success of his best-known feature film, Happiness (áÃâ¡Ã°ÃÂÃâà ;Åõ / Schast'e, 1934), and produced at the height of the Purges, The New Moscow tells the story of Alyosha, a young engineer who travels 3,000 miles from his village home to develop and eventually exhibit his "living model of Moscow," a miraculous three-dimensional time-lapse revelation of the gleaming Soviet future. Filmed only three years after the unveiling of the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow, both Alyosha's "living model" and The New Moscow more generally deftly manipulate documentary footage of the city's latest architectural projects. As Medvedkin put it in a 1985 interview, "cinema can be a very real weapon in the battle for construction." -------------------------- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2013 -------------------------- 8/28 San Francisco, California: New Nothing Cinema 8pm, 3 Liberty Street THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW NEW NOTHING CINEMA WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28TH "THE UNCLE FLOYD SHOW" An evening of experimental film and live performance based around the works of Pink Floyd. featuring imagery and live performances by, Sam Manera Doug Katelus and Randylee Sutherland followed by the epic Jodie Mack film "Dusty Stacks of Mom" pre-show music by V.Vale on Hammond Organ ------------------------- THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013 ------------------------- 8/29 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St ANIMATION FREAK-OUT NIGHT $5 / Won't you join Cosmo Segurson for an evening of strange and mind bending cartoons? Root beer floats will be served up as his collection of 16mm animation prints entertains you beyond belief. From the United States and around the world, some from the Film Center's own library, these cartoons are rare and well worth your attention. Did we mention Root Beer Floats? 8/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: MICHAEL H. SHAMBERG PROGRAM MICHAEL H. SHAMBERG � TURTLE, AN ANARCHIC SALON Though perhaps best known for his work as a producer of music videos � in particular for his work with Patti Smith, R.E.M., and above all New Order, and with directors such as Robert Frank, Robert Breer, Kathryn Bigelow, Katherine Dieckmann, and Jonathan Demme � Michael H. Shamberg's career is astonishingly multi-faceted and category-defying. In addition to directing his own highly personal and provocative short films and a unique and formally adventurous feature, Shamberg presides over a profoundly ambitious, ongoing, interdisciplinary virtual salon entitled 'turtle', described as "an open and chaotic network of diverse but interconnecting ideas, people, projects, events, and venues." Though this evening will focus on Shamberg's own films (including SOUVENIR, a collaboration with actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Cristina Ricci, cinematographer James Herbert, and filmmaker Chris Marker), it is presented under the umbrella of 'turtle', and is sure to involve a stimulating and unpredictable dialogue between Shamberg, special guests, and audience members. Cinematographer James Herbert will join Shamberg in person! Special thanks to Tom Jarmusch. P.S. BEIRUT � CHAPTERS 1 + 2 2012, 26 min, digital video "Shamberg is a legendary producer of music videos [as well as] a filmmaker and impresario who's been struggling valiantly to keep connecting since being afflicted with mitochondrial disease. This fragile and intense film concerns his own corporeal civil war, bombings in Lebanon, Romanesque churches, and life trying to make sense of itself. Music by Markus Acher of The Notwist, Electrelane, and New Order." �VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOUVENIR 1998, 78 min, 35mm. With Adam Hann-Byrd, Kristin Scott Thomas, Melvil Poupaud, Stanton Miranda, and the voices of Hugues Quester and Christina Ricci; cinematography by James Herbert; computer graphics by Irit Batsry and Chris Marker. "SOUVENIR is the adventure � in many voices � of Orlando (Miranda), an American woman in Paris. The film explores how memory, history, environment, chance, and displacement contribute to senses of ourselves and our place in the world. The rich, multi-layered narrative recollects and reconstructs Orlando's past relations with her family, and their indelible mark on her life. Mixing film, video and digital (computer graphics by Chris Marker), SOUVENIR proudly reflects the influence of groundbreaking filmmakers like Godard and Marker." �CORNERHOUSE Plus, a selection of Shamberg's music videos! ----------------------- FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 ----------------------- 8/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LACEY/KEEN PROGRAM 1 John Sewell HEAD IN SHADOW (1951, 19 min, 16mm-to-digital video) Something of a precursor to the Free Cinema films of the mid-50s, HEAD IN SHADOW tells the eerie, bleak, poetic story of a blind man (Lacey) and his journey through the bomb-damaged streets of post-war London. The handheld camera work and fragmented editing help to support the feelings of disruption and alienation that pervade this highly distinctive black-and-white 'trance' film. John Sewell AGIB AND AGAB (1953, 29 min, 16mm-to-digital video) Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks forward to FLAMING CREATURES and other underground movies from the 60s that merge lush fantasy with grimy reality. Art director Bruce Lacey stars as the ghoulish witch doctor who brings a dead body back to life. John Sewell EVERYBODY'S NOBODY (1960, 18 min, 16mm-to-digital video) Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. � a "synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron" � this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, 'ideal home'-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache. Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce KISSING FILM (1967, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm) This distinctly visceral, insistent film presents two French kisses in tight close-up (with a cream bun and an orange segment also drawn into the proceedings) and was originally screened in the basement of Better Books, a key venue for 60s underground art happenings and the birthplace of the London Filmmakers' Co-operative. Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce HOW TO HAVE A BATH (1971, 5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) Lacey and his wife and collaborator Jill Bruce instruct the viewer on the finer points of washing, intimately demonstrating the importance of each and every step. A warm, domestic, lo-fi revival of the wartime public information film. Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce HEADS, BODIES AND LEGS (1973, 2 min, 16mm-to-35mm) Originally presented in a sci-fi themed experimental theatrical production, this animated version of the exquisite corpse game grows increasingly grotesque and bizarre as limbs and bodies multiply and fuse in ever more unusual combinations. Bruce Lacey & Jill Bruce DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1975, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm) A poetic, sexual fusion of its two directors, here nude, that uses the very mechanics of filmmaking technology to extend and comment on the relationship between man and machine. Eerie and beautiful, it is accompanied by an ambient electronic score composed by Lacey. Total running time: ca. 90 min. 8/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LACEY/KEEN PROGRAM 2 The Lacey Family THE LACEY RITUALS 1973, 63 min, 16mm-to-35mm From young children to fully-grown adults, everyone in the Lacey family took turns operating the camera and presenting a daily ritual in this highly unusual, consistently entertaining, experimental home movie. Events and rituals unfold in real time, creating tension, drama, anarchy and humor. Mishaps, mistakes, and re-takes are all included. & Jeff Keen WHITE DUST 1970-72, 33 min, 16mm-to-35mm Named after the Bela Lugosi horror film, WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) � according to Keen, 'probably the most beautiful film ever made' � and the romantic comedy, RED DUST (1932), WHITE DUST follows friends and family of Keen while they explore the archetypal characters of Hollywood and myth. These unresolved episodes, constructed from discrete 100-foot film lengths and cut with dramatic library music, look back to American film serials. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2013 ------------------------- 8/31 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE VENICE BEACH BIENNIAL $5 / Celebrate the end of summer with a program of highlights from the Venice Beach Biennial. Including the films of AnitRa Menning, Isabell Spengler, Haruko Tanaka and others. Full program to be announced, curated by Kate Brown and Monique van Genderen. 8/31 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LACEY/KEEN PROGRAM 2 See notes for Aug. 30, 9:15 pm. 8/31 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue LACEY/KEEN PROGRAM 1 See notes for Aug. 30, 7:15 pm. ------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 ------------------------- 9/1 Los Angeles, California: Coagula Curatorial http://manipulatedimage.com/MI23_Coagula_artscreen.html 7:00pm - 9:00pm, 977 Chung King Road, Los Angeles CA 90012 MANIPULATED IMAGE SUNDAY NIGHT VIDEOS & PERFORMANCES @ COAGULA CURATORIAL Manipulated Image in partnership with Coagula Curatorial presents "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" videoart curated by Alysse Stepanian, and "Trial & Error" curated by MI's Swedish partners, Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson of art:screen - 1 hour of videos by 20 artists from 7 countries. Los Angeles-based artists, Gelare Khoshgozaran and Christy Roberts will also be presenting new performances created for this event. Join us for a night of video screenings, performances, socialization and free beer - a LABOR DAY WEEKEND SPECIAL! 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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