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Australia; Deadline: October 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1630.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): ============================== * "Frm Found Footage To Lyrica Film" Films By Albert Alcoz (Filmmaker In Person) [October 12, Brooklyn, New York] * Communion By Nina Danino [October 12, London, England] * Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Aesthetics of the Sixties Reflections On La VéRité [October 12, Los Angeles, California] * Ackerman's Widely Unknown + Daniel + Swoon + English + [October 12, San Francisco, California] * Our Nixon [October 12, Tucson ] * The Space In Back of You, Featuring Suzushi Hanayagi and Robert Wilson [October 13, Los Angeles, California] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents "The Space In Back of You," Featuring Suzushi Hanayagi and Robert Wilson - Los Angeles Premiere! [October 13, Los Angeles, California] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Craig Baldwin [October 13, Oakland] * Kinoclub SpÉCial Found Footage [October 13, Paris, France] * Into the Third Dimension With Zoe Beloff [October 14, Brooklyn, New York] * Let Your Light Shine: Handmade Films By Jodie Mack [October 14, Los Angeles, California] * Sukhdev Sandhu Presents Anand Patwardhan's Bombay: Our City [October 15, Brooklyn, NY] * Lin + Lam At the Film-Maker's Cooperative [October 15, New York, NY] * Flaherty Nyc Program 2 [October 15, New York, New York] * Temporary Ocean (In Light and Sound) [October 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Ghost Anthology: A History of Argentine Experimental Film [October 17, Chicago, Illinois] * David Rimmer's Al Neil / A Portrait [October 17, Los Angeles, California] * 16 Mm Film Screening: Where You Had Been. 6 Film By Nick Collins, Margaret Tait and Peter Todd. [October 17, Milton Keynes.] * Show & Tell: Jesse Mclean [October 17, New York, New York] * Les Rituels Du DÉSir-Plaisir // Films Super 8mm D'andrÉ Almuro [October 17, Paris, France] * Competition International #1: Scott Stark's the Realist and Other Films [October 17, Paris, France] * Platonic: Dani Leventhal In Person! [October 17, Syracuse] * Transient visions: Festival of the Moving Image [October 18, Johnson City ] * Fields and Frames: Scott Stark, Stephen Suitcliffe, Sebastian Buerkner [October 18, London, England] * Films By Derek Boshier [October 19, Brooklyn, NY] * Home Movie Day: Brooklyn! [October 19, Brooklyn, New York] * An Evening With Tommy Turner [October 19, Brooklyn, New York] * Urban/Rural Landscapes 7th Edition [October 19, Greenbelt] * New Works Salon Xv [October 19, Los Angeles, California] * Rodney Ascher's Room 237 + Mystic-Subliminal Mega-Mix [October 19, San Francisco, California] * American Gothic: Night of the Hunter In 16mm Film! [October 19, Tucson ] * Happiness Is A Warm Projector: Select Work From Experiments In Cinema [October 20, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2013 -------------------------- 10/12 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Bushwick btwn Mytrle & Evergreen "FRM FOUND FOOTAGE TO LYRICA FILM" FILMS BY ALBERT ALCOZ (FILMMAKER IN PERSON) admission $6. Microscope welcomes Spanish filmmaker Albert Alcoz to the gallery for the first time in person for a solo screening of his new and recent film works including manipulated found footage works and original Super 8mm. Alcoz's appropriations a B-movie Sci-Fi feature, home movies, a series of soda ads, and a classic World War II documentary have been transformed in format and material, with several involving chemical dissolutions to distort the original photographic textures. The artist's original Super 8 films (all shot in camera, some in color and others in b&w, and often with multiple exposures) offer silent impressions and accelerations of the cities and natural environments around him. PROGRAM DETAILS available at www.microscopegallery.com. --Albert Alcoz is a filmmaker, teacher, curator and writer of experimental cinema from Barcelona, Spain. Since 2005 he has made films in Super 8mm, 16mm and video. His works have screened at film festivals including EXiS (Seoul, Korea) and film centers like the Anthology Film Archives (New York, United States). His work is distributed by HAMACA. He writes the Visionary Film website on avant-garde cinema and current experimental cinema. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and DEA in Creation Theory, Analysis and Information Film from the University Pompeu Fabra. His doctoral research focuses on international experimental cinema. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. Other options: L Morgan Ave. teL 347.925.1433. 10/12 London, England: Artprojx Cinema http://www.artprojx.com/cinema 12-6pm, Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, Hampstead, NW3 1DN COMMUNION BY NINA DANINO Artprojx Cinema presents...COMMUNION by Nina Danino. 35mm, 10 mins (2010) a film installation at: Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1DN. 12-23 October 2013. Screening time 12 noon 6pm (except Sundays 1- 6pm). *>>>>* Communion by Nina Danino is a portrait of a young girl filmed by cinematographer Billy Williams BSC, creating a silent, translucent image, which draws on the paradox between beauty as iconic, secular glamour and as religious interiority. *>>>>* "Art, Cinema and the Soul" a discussion with Nina Danino, Sarah Cooper, Ewan King and other speakers. Heath Street Baptist Church, London. Tuesday 22 October, 6.30 8pm followed by drinks. *>>>>* Supported using public funding by the Arts Council England. *>>>>* Transport to Heath Street Baptist Church: Underground: Northern Line (Edgware Branch) to Hampstead. Bus Routes: N5, 603, 268, 46. *>>>>* For more information on this project contact: David Gryn, Artprojx [email protected] +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com & http://davidgryn.wordpress.com 10/12 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 6:00pm, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE SIXTIES REFLECTIONS ON LA VéRITé France, 1960, 35mm, 124 min. Program Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum and Bérénice Reynaud In conversation with the joint exhibitions La Fin de la Nuit at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and The End of the Night at LACE in Los Angeles, this panel discussion on the controversial French auteur Henri-Georges Clouzot and his contribution to the aesthetics of the 1960s centers around a screening of his intriguing film, La Vérité (1960 Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film). A showcase for the alluring physical presence of the biggest French star of the time, Brigitte Bardotwho transforms from pouting sex kitten to grand tragedienneLa Vérité is loosely inspired by a notorious "crime of passion" case. With his stern and masterful direction of Bardot, Clouzot creates another unforgettable, yet contradictory, sexual icon for the Swinging Sixties. Jack H. Skirball Series. $10.00 [members $8.00] In person: Martha Kirszenbaum, Bérénice Reynaud, Janet Bergstrom, William E. Jones, and Christine Wertheim 10/12 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia St. ACKERMANS WIDELY UNKNOWN + DANIEL + SWOON + ENGLISH + Behind-the-scenes NYC "break-through" of the now-famous Mission School movement, Josh Ackerman's hr-long doc chronicles that historic Deitch Gallery exhibition acknowledging the tragic death of Margaret Kilgallen. Composed of installation views, opening scenes, and thoughtful interviews with Barry (Twist) McGee, Chris Johanson, Clare Rojas, and Alicia McCarthy, this seminal material, mostly shot by Josh's artist-father, Ralph (with help from Vanessa Renwick), took years to finally gel, after Ralph's own untimely death. Tonight Bill Daniel appears in person (with McGee and McCarthy tentatively slated) to personalize our regional aesthetic. PLUS cameos of other street artists, including Swoon, Futura, Doze Green, and Ron English. mission school 10/12 Tucson : EXPLODED VIEW gallery/microcinema http://explodedviewgallery.org 7:30, 197 E Toole Ave OUR NIXON with Q & A with producer Brian Frye via Skype Exploded View is proud to present the Tucson premiere of the raved about new documentary by Penny Lane and Brian Frye, OUR NIXON. Throughout Richard Nixon's presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super-8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they'd all be in prison. OUR NIXON is an all-archival documentary presenting those home movies for the first time, along with other rare footage, creating an intimate and complex portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen before. ------------------------ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2013 ------------------------ 10/13 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 THE SPACE IN BACK OF YOU, FEATURING SUZUSHI HANAYAGI AND ROBERT WILSON In conjunction with LA Opera's presentation of Einstein on the Beach, Filmforum presents the Los Angeles Premiere of this poignant documentary, which explores one key influence on Wilson's art the innovative, radical Japanese dancer and choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi. After losing touch and then finding her suffering from Alzheimer's, Wilson creates a tribute to their artistic partnershipthe final collaboration between a great teacher and her renowned student. Rutkowski's film is a moving exploration of Hanayagi's significance and the production of this work. Los Angeles Premiere! Simone Forti in person (schedule permitting)! 10/13 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS "THE SPACE IN BACK OF YOU," FEATURING SUZUSHI HANAYAGI AND ROBERT WILSON - LOS ANGELES PREMIERE! Simone Forti in person (schedule permitting)! In conjunction with LA Opera's presentation of Einstein on the Beach, Filmforum presents the Los Angeles Premiere of this poignant documentary, which explores one key influence on Wilson's art the innovative, radical Japanese dancer and choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi. After losing touch and then finding her suffering from Alzheimer's, Wilson creates a tribute to their artistic partnershipthe final collaboration between a great teacher and her renowned student. Rutkowski's film is a moving exploration of Hanayagi's significance and the production of this work. The Space in Back of You by Richard Rutkowski (2011, digital, color, 65 min) Featuring Suzushi Hanayagi, Robert Wilson, Simone Forti, Anna Halperin 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/485182 or at the door. 10/13 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8PM - 9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS CRAIG BALDWIN Craig Baldwin is a filmmaker, curator and educator whose interests lie in archival retrieval and recombinatory forms of cinema, performance, and installation. Baldwin's suite of live-cinema pieces will employ/deploy an array of 16mm projectors, putting into play the accidental synchronicites of archival/found picture and sound towards an exploration of the fleeting, ephemeral, and ambivalent poetry of representation and reality. 10/13 Paris, France: KinoClub 7:30pm, 72 rue riquet KINOCLUB SPÉCIAL FOUND FOOTAGE « à partir d'un moment, je me suis rendu compte que j'aimais tant les films que je voulais qu'ils m'appartiennent. » Quentin Tarantino - C'est encore une édition spéciale que le KinoClub vous à mijoté pour ce dimanche 13 octobre ! - Cette programmation prend place dans le 15ème festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris, organisé depuis 1999 par le Collectif Jeune Cinéma (http://www.cjcinema.org/) - Le found footage que défendra le Kino Club dans cette séance exceptionnelle au Shakirail voudrait témoigner de la richesse critique, formelle et plastique de cet artisanat finalement mal représenté et mal défendu. - Du cinéma de fiction au cinéma expérimental, le found footage est un sous-genre représentatif de nos sociétés actuelles que les évènements du World Trade Center sont venus d'une certaine manière exploser ! Ses pratiques peuvent être tour à tour associés au « remixage » (écho musical), au « recyclage » (écho écolo), au « remploi » (écho économique). - Les films de found footage montrés au Shakirail participent donc d'une sélection - « insurrective » qui, je l'espère, rendra visible un sous-genre expérimental bien plus passionnant et subversif qu'on nous a laissé paraître jusqu'ici. ------------------------ MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013 ------------------------ 10/14 Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle Theater http://www.spectacletheater.com/ 8pm, 124 S. 3rd St. INTO THE THIRD DIMENSION WITH ZOE BELOFF One night only! Director Zoe Beloff in attendance! Spectacle is proud to welcome back Zoe Beloff, whose Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society Dream Films combined found footage, early Freudian analysis and the history of Coney Island into a series of films by turns hilarious, poignant and mysterious. She returns with further journeys into possession, hysteria and the virtual with two 16mm films in 3D! Rarely seen in this format, this is an opportunity to experience these films as originally intended, an opportunity not to miss. CHARMING AUGUSTINE, 2005 Stereoscopic 16mm B/W, 40 min. Beloff's works regularly combine historical research and flights of imagination, both of which play into Charming Augustine, an exploration of the effect the invention of motion pictures had on psychology. Augustine, an inmate at the Parisian asylum the Salpetriere, suffers from hysterical attacks of a very theatrical nature. Over the course of the film, what begins as a medical document of a patient's attacks changes into a subjective examination of her own experience as she becomes the "star" of the film at a time when notions of how cinema works had yet to be codified, finally concluding with her removing herself from the role she had created. Utilizing the stereoscope format similar to daguerreotype images, the viewer looks into a world where Sarah Bernhardt, D.W. Griffith and Eadweard Muybridge find connections in ways we in the 21st century might not otherwise find. SHADOW LAND OR LIGHT FROM THE OTHER SIDE, 2000 Stereoscopic 16mm B/W, 32 min. Inspired by Elizabeth d'Esperance's autobiography, this investigation of spiritualism, projection (in multiple senses) and the virtual looks at how subjective notions of insanity can be. It's also a look at the parallels between early cinema and stage magic, as "spook shows" incorporated lenses and projections to create the illusion of spirits interacting with the living. A young girl conjures imaginary friends, finding companionship until she is declared mad, later discovering her madness has a home in the vast spiritualist movement of the late 19th century. Compiled from magic lantern slides, stereoscopic recreations of documentary films and glass negatives, Shadow Land examines the female medium from both the passive sense (in that women were considered ideal subjects for possession due to their "docile" nature) and active, even transgressive sense (much of spiritualism connected with sexuality in ways terrifying to Victorian sensibilities). 10/14 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: HANDMADE FILMS BY JODIE MACK Combining formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation, Jodie Mack's handmade films explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Questioning decoration in daily life, Mack brings overlooked and wasted objects to vivid cinematic life. Mack will present Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013), her most ambitious project to date, in addition to several recent films. Dusty Stacks... is a 40-minute stop-motion animation that pays homage to her mother's defunct poster shop and offers a whirlwind visual tour of pop music with a live, karaoke-style accompaniment that uses a popular rock album as a backdrop to her own lyrics. Vibrant and unpredictable, Mack's tactile work skirts the edges between animation, collage, autobiography and music video. Jack H. Skirball Series. $10.00 [members $8.00] In person: Jodie Mack ------------------------- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2013 ------------------------- 10/15 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street SUKHDEV SANDHU PRESENTS ANAND PATWARDHAN'S BOMBAY: OUR CITY Bombay: Our City, Anand Patwardhan, 16mm, 1985, 75 mins, Introduced by Sukhdev Sandhu - A homeless Indian woman, underfed baby slung across her shoulder, is being asked to describe her life in the slums of Bombay. She talks with furious eloquence about dispossession, about social deletion, about the scorn and indifference she and four million other laborers, servants, and itinerants face on a daily basis. Then, without fear or rancour, she turns to the man interviewing her: "You record our voices for your tape, but can you do anything for us?" Later on she will be more provocative: "You just want to earn a name taking photographs\; what else can you do?" - Almost immediately upon its release, Anand Patwardhan's Bombay: Our City was hailed as one of the most important Indian documentaries ever made. A passionate critique of the amnesia and amorality of Bombay's middle classes, it juxtaposes the lush topographies they inhabit with the cruelties and deprivations faced by hutment dwellers, offers a loudspeaker to the lampooning lyricism and street-theater poetry of the city's untouchables, and asks uncomfortable questions about the ethics and aesthetic strategies of independent filmmakers who would use the camera as a weapon of social change. - SS - Anand Patwardhan (b. 1950) is widely regarded as the godfather of independent Indian documentary. His films, from Waves of Revolution (1974) about popular uprisings in the state of Bihar to his epic Jai Bhim Comrade (2012), represent militant cinema at its most probing and melodious. In recent years they have been the subject of a growing number of retrospectives, including one, this past summer, at Tate Modern. - Sukhdev Sandhu is an author and prize-winning film writer who makes radio documentaries for the BBC and runs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University. His work has also appeared in publications such as Frieze, The Wire, Bidoun, Sight and Sound, London Review of Books. - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 10/15 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 7:30pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor LIN + LAM AT THE FILM-MAKER'S COOPERATIVE Artist-collaborators Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam) will be in person for a program of films interrogating the role of the image and the archive in history, memory and performance. - Program: Unidentified Vietnam No. 18, (2013), 16mm, color, 30 min. - Mizu Shobai (Water Business), (1993), 16mm, color, 12 min. - No Power To Push Up the Sky, (2001), video, color, 23 min. - Dark Meat or White Meat?, (2006), video, 15 min. - Programmed by Corynn Loebs - www.linpluslam.com, www.film-makerscoop.com 10/15 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FLAHERTY NYC PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2 FALSEHOOD AND NONRECONCILIATION: UNDOING HISTORIES "The unknown knowns " Donald Rumsfeld In directly challenging the by-now naturalized linkage between truth and reconciliation that human rights advocates have understandably put in place, these conceptually revisionist films attempt to liberate concealed or lost potentials of history. What we think we know about Brecht and the House Unamerican Activities Committee, the tragically entwined histories of South Korea and Vietnam, and Dow Chemical's development of napalm are all strikingly replayed to vastly different affect and effect in these films. Soon-Mi Yoo SSKIM: TALKING TO THE DEAD (USA/Korea, 2004, 35 min) Jill Godmilow WHAT FAROCKI TAUGHT (USA, 1997, 30 min, 16mm) Per-Oskar Leu CRISIS & CRITIQUE (Norway, 2012, 28 min) Total running time: 98 min. Speakers: Per-Oskar Leu, Soon Mi-Yoo & Jill Godmilow. -------------------------- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 -------------------------- 10/17 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan Films http://www.balaganfilms.com 7:30pm, Brattle Theatre TEMPORARY OCEAN (IN LIGHT AND SOUND) An undulating cine-installation where flicker films give way to experiments with audio-visual feedback, optical soundtracks, and the materiality of light and sound. Aleatory and programmed images emerge on-screen from an evolving field of color and movement in a room swelling with reflected waves and strangely affective resonances. With film and video works by Paul Sharits, Billy Roisz, Mike Stoltz, Donna Cameron, Guy Sherwin, and Beverly and Tony Conrad, and a live performance by Shawn Greenlee. Curated by Josh Guilford of Magic Lantern Cinema. 10/17 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cate 6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St. GHOST ANTHOLOGY: A HISTORY OF ARGENTINE EXPERIMENTAL FILM Curator Pablo Marín in person. Organized by Buenos Aires-based filmmaker and curator Pablo Marín, Ghost Anthology charts an eye-opening course through the last 40 years of Argentina's rugged experimental film history, showcasing a collection of films rarely exhibited in the US. Included here are films by such pivotal makers as Narcisa Hirsch, Horacio Vallereggio, Jorge Honik, Gabriel Romano, and Claudio Caldini, as well as contemporary artists Sergio Subero, and Pablo Mazzolo, among others. 19762013, Argentina, Super-8mm, ca 75 min + discussion 10/17 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) DAVID RIMMER'S AL NEIL / A PORTRAIT $5 / Mark Toscano presents a rare 16mm screening of Canadian experimental filmmaker David Rimmer's riveting, unsurpassed portrait of an utterly unique musical and cultural genius, the avant-garde pianist and poet Al Neil. Al Neil / A Portrait is more than a documentary profile of a man engaged in a life and death struggle with his genius and his obsessions. And while the narrative thread is centered around pathos, the film represents a coming-to-terms with what these generalizations really mean ... The many personas of Al Neil: the private, intoxicated and poetic man; the public performer and musician; and the family outcast. Rimmer's integration of these levels is masterful." (Al Razutis) Program will include other short films to be determined. 10/17 Milton Keynes.: MK Gallery. http://www.mkgallery.org 7.00pm., MK Gallery, MK9 3QA. 16 MM FILM SCREENING: WHERE YOU HAD BEEN. 6 FILM BY NICK COLLINS, MARGARET TAIT AND PETER TODD. Co-curated with Adam Pugh. The artists in this programme are brought together by ways of looking, and a sense of deep engagement with quotidian, domestic spaces. But the familiarity of the home and the garden, the heart of the domestic, do not invoke a reductive or banal vision: rather than a narrowing, the artists' enquiry, rooted in the familiar, signifies a distillation, a quest for the essence of things. This essence may be sought, of course, in an unpeopled wilderness, but the risks of losing one's way and, ironically, seeking to impose a reductivist or civilising mantle to contain the uncontainable are great. Here, it is precisely the strict parameters of the bounded spaces, the mediated worlds that lend both a rigour and watchfulness to the artists' work. This programme was previously screened at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich in 2012. 10/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SHOW & TELL: JESSE MCLEAN Jesse McLean (b. 1975, Philadelphia, PA) is an internationally exhibited media artist and educator who is interested in both the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring people together. She is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, and her pieces often ask the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant. Her videos are incredibly varied and generally employ recognizable and obscure found footage in the most unexpected of ways. Writing about her work for CINEMA SCOPE, Tom McCormack astutely comments that, "McLean's films expertly and violently toggle between outrageous, air-quoted self-doubt and outpourings of urgent, unnerving emotion." Following tonight's screening, McLean will be here in person for a dialogue with Rachael Rakes, Film Co-Editor of THE BROOKLYN RAIL. This evening is being presented in tandem with McLean's exhibit, STARS, THEY'RE JUST LIKE US, on view at Interstate Projects from September 7-October 20, 2013. For more info, please visit www.interstateprojects.com. REMOTE (2011, 11.5 min, HD video) In this collage video, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. THE INVISIBLE WORLD (2012, 20 min, HD video) The rapidly arriving future portends an intangible new world of virtual experiences. How will we relate our materialist tendencies in this new world of immateriality? THE ETERNAL QUARTER INCH (2008, 9 min, video) Dipping between ecstasy and despair, transcendence and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you can lose your way, lose yourself in the moment, lose your faith in a belief system. An exhausted and expectant crowd waits on this narrow span. It is not a wide stretch, but it can last forever. SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (2009, 6 min, video) What can a face reveal? Balanced between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate. THE BURNING BLUE (2009, 9 min, video) Observes the thrill, terror, and boredom found in watching mass spectacles and the unexpected loneliness when you miss them. MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS (2010, 21 min, video) Examines the mythologies found in fan culture, from longing to obsession to psychic connections. Total running time: ca. 85 min. 10/17 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinéma 4pm, Le Forum des images, 2 rue du cinéma / Forum des Halles LES RITUELS DU DÉSIR-PLAISIR // FILMS SUPER 8MM D'ANDRÉ ALMURO Le CJC programme une séance spéciale consacrée au sulfureux André Almuro au sein du Festival Chéries-Chéris ! Projection exceptionnelle en super 8mm (lampe xénon) des copies uniques de ses films. 10/17 Paris, France: Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/festival_edition.php?id_prog=375 6pm, Les Voûtes COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL #1: SCOTT STARK'S THE REALIST AND OTHER FILMS Séléction de vidéos et de films réalisés en 2012 et 2013. Programme : QUOUSQUE EADEM? (or a self portrait) (2012), de Tzuan Wu. Between Regularity and Irregularity (2012), de Masahiro Tsutani. Hannah (2013), de Antoine Ledroit. Cape Cornwall Calling / All the White Horses (2013), de Mark Jenkin. fora (Outside) (2012), de Marc Capdevilla. Rehearsal (2012), de Kim Kielhofner. Voodoo in the afternoon (2013), de Cristine Brache, Piotr Bockowski. Realist (2013), de Scott Stark. 10/17 Syracuse: Urban Video Project (UVP) http://www.urbanvideoproject.com/ 6:30pm, Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison Street PLATONIC: DANI LEVENTHAL IN PERSON! Urban Video Project artist-in-residence, Dani Leventhal will give an artist talk on Oct. 17 in conjunction with the exhibition (Sep. 12 - Oct. 26) of a special cut of her latest piece, Platonic at UVP Everson. Leventhal will screen the "uncut" version of Platonic -fresh from its premiere at Views in NYC- as well as other recent works. The talk begins at 6:30pm in the Everson's Hosmer auditorium and will be followed by a reception on the plaza. All UVP events are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ------------------------ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013 ------------------------ 10/18 Johnson City : Transient Visions http://www.transientvisions.org/ 7pm, 138 Baldwin St. TRANSIENT VISIONS: FESTIVAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image celebrates the cutting edge art of moving image through screenings, exhibitions, performances, and other festival events, providing a cultural experience that enriches the local community. The Festival works as a venue to meet artists in this region and beyond, exchanging and sharing ideas, while developing mutual relationship. 10/18 London, England: London Film Festival https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=fields-and-frames 3:45pm, BFI Southbank, NFT3 FIELDS AND FRAMES: SCOTT STARK, STEPHEN SUITCLIFFE, SEBASTIAN BUERKNER Three experiments in cinematic space. Outwork: Director Stephen Sutcliffe, UK 2013, 24 mins A filmic collage inspired by micro-sociologist Erving Goffman's book Frame Analysis, which explores how conclusions drawn from interactions shift dramatically due to changes in their framing contexts. The Realist: Director Scott Stark, USA 2013, 40 mins. A highly abstracted melodrama storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department-store mannequins and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows. The Chimera of M: Director Sebastian Buerkner, UK 2013, 24 mins. Entering the unfamiliar virtual space of a 3D, stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist. -------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013 -------------------------- 10/19 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street FILMS BY DEREK BOSHIER Curated by Alex Kitnick - Derek Boshier began his career as one of London's key Pop artists. In 1962, fresh out of art school, he appeared in Ken Russell's BBC documentary Pop Goes the Easel alongside Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, and Peter Philips, which codified the foursome as the cutting edge of Pop Art's cool, playful sensibility. 10/19 Brooklyn, New York: Home Movie Day http://homemovieday.com/brooklyn.html 11am-4pm, Bat Haus / 279 Starr St. HOME MOVIE DAY: BROOKLYN! Do you have reels of home movies sitting around your closet? Now is your chance to see them in their full glory projected on original equipment! Home Movie Day is an annual celebration providing communities throughout the world the opportunity to watch their old home movies in a public setting. Just bring your film and our experts will inspect, clean and repair your 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm reels for projection. Film and media archivists will be present to answer any questions. No home movies? No problem! Come out to watch home movies from your friends and neighbors, and win prizes playing Home Movie Bingo! Home Movie Day is free and open to the public! Se habla espanol / Мы говорим русский язык! 10/19 Brooklyn, New York: Spectacle http://www.spectacletheater.com/ 7:00 and 9:30 pm, Spectacle, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 AN EVENING WITH TOMMY TURNER Spectacle is pleased to welcome Tommy Turner for a very special screening of Super 8 and 16mm works made in the mid-1980's and the Brooklyn premiere of his latest video, THE BLACK KNIGHTS OF SKILLMAN. ////////// An artist working in print, performance, photography, and film, Turner is considered a key figure of Downtown No Wave Cinema. The New York native rose to prominence through his zine Redrum and collaborations, both in front of and behind the camera, with David Wojnarowicz and Richard Kern. In the mid-1980's, Turner directed a number of arresting small gauge films that have in the intervening years only gained the ability to inspire shock, awe, revulsion, and depending on the audience member's orientation deeply satisfying laughter. In a cinematic oeuvre running approximately feature length, his subject matter has touched upon Satanism, family dysfunction, heresy, taxidermy, addiction, dismemberment, dumbshit rock 'n' roll, arcane mysticism, torture, Evangelicism, murder, and misspent teenhood, all rendered in sadistically graphic detail that verges between clinical detachment and sardonic irreverence. ////////// Among them is WHERE EVIL DWELLS (Super 8-to-16mm, 1986, 31 min.), co-directed with Wojnarowicz. The pair of friends became fixated on the recent story of Ricky Kasso, teenage heavy metal fan and self-described "Acid King" of Northport, Long Island, who became the subject of media hysteria when he committed the pseudo-ritual-satanic murder of a fellow teen in the woods while wearing an AC/DC t-shirt. Shooting off a script based on interviews with Kasso's friends, the pair ultimately edited their footage into a 30-minute "trailer" that represents an anarchic, assaultive, and wildly expressionistic take on what Wojnarowicz described as "the imposed Hell of the suburbs." It's complemented by a spectacular title song by Wiseblood (a collaboration between Roli Mosimann of Swans and J.G. Thirlwell of Foetus) and distorted hard rock radio jams. ////////// In the unsettling, absurdist SIMONLAND (Super 8, 1984, 11 min.), made with Richard Kern, a televangelist leads his studio audience and isolated viewers through a psychotic game of Simon Says with grotesque results. THE MAGICIAN (Super 8-to-DVD, 1998, 9 min.), shot with Rick Rodine, features a chaotic melange of documentary, performance, and found footage to riff on the destruction of elements fire, water, air, and earth. ////////// The program culimates in the Brooklyn premiere of THE BLACK KNIGHTS OF SKILLMAN, an HD experimental narrative shot on location at Flynn's Garden Inn, a neighborhood pub in Sunnyside, Queens, located around the corner from Turner's current residence. Cast with a colorful selection of roughneck regulars and freaks, SKILLMAN is an off-the-wall, gory gangster fantasy that is as much a neighborhood portrait as a journey into Hell. Having more in common with Blood Feast than Cheers, SKILLMAN has the feel of a collaborative effort while maintaining Turner's distinctive signature. 10/19 Greenbelt: Utopia Film Festival http://http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/ 6pm, Greenbelt Municipal Building, 25 Crescent Road, Greenbelt, MD URBAN/RURAL LANDSCAPES 7TH EDITION A collection of diverse landscape films from around the world. Filmmakers include: Chris H. Lynn, Nick Collins, Malia Murray, Matt McCormick, Lorenzo Gattorna, Bernd Luetzeler, and Hope Tucker 10/19 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset) NEW WORKS SALON XV $5 / Several local and visiting artists will present in-progress or recently completed works in an informal screening with brief introductions by the artists and time for discussion between each work. Clay Dean will show Field Theory, a recently completed video, along with a rarely screened 16mm film Optic Glyph. The pairing of these pieces looks to explore ideas around the physicality of working with and perceiving these mediums. John Wiese will be showing several new pieces in-progress. Karen Adelman will show a pair of new videos selected from her exhibit La Bulla y Restos, the culmination of a year-long project in Los Angeles and Colombia. Jackson McCoy will also show one or more new 16mm films. 10/19 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia St. RODNEY ASCHERS ROOM 237 + MYSTIC-SUBLIMINAL MEGA-MIX Former Mission denizen Ascher returns to the freak zone with two works driven by media conspiracies. His collage-essay feature on the signs, symbols, and confessions embedded within Stanley Kubrick's 1980 classic The Shiningseen through the eyes of five very different viewersdives into the myriad theories behind this infamous adaptation of Stephen King's psychological horror. But trumping Rodney's cross-over Rorschach is the world premiere of his truly underground Mega-Mix, an obsessively researched compilation especially crafted for OC audiences. Discover the secret agendas of our leading Pop Divas (and their puppet-masters) by decoding the cryptic secrets hidden in plain sight within Hollywood blockbusters! paranoid thinking 10/19 Tucson : EXPLODED VIEW gallery/microcinema http://explodedviewgallery.org 7:30, 197 E Toole Ave AMERICAN GOTHIC: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER IN 16MM FILM! w/ opening acoustic set by Jess Matsen (Dream Sick)! The Night of the Hunter was legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark American Gothic realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of unforgettable farm kids and a pious old lady (silent movie star Lillian Gish), and "evil" in the hands of a posturing psychopath (the mesmerizing Robert Mitchum). ------------------------ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013 ------------------------ 10/20 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 HAPPINESS IS A WARM PROJECTOR: SELECT WORK FROM EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA Los Angeles Premieres! Bryan Konefsky, curator, in person. Happiness is a Warm Projector is a program of select works from the first 8 years of Experiments in Cinema film festival. EIC is an annual celebration of all things cinematic produced by Basement Films in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 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