This week [October 26 - November 3, 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: ===================== SCUFF- SCREW CITY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (Rockford, IL, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1636.ann VIDEOFOCUS 2014: INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKERS AND VIDEOARTISTS (Paris, France; Deadline: November 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1637.ann transmediale (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey; Deadline: November 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1638.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Stop & Go Made From Scratch (San Francisco; Deadline: November 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1587.ann Angular (Barcelona-Madrid, Spain; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1610.ann Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario; Deadline: November 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1613.ann MONO NO AWARE VII (Brooklyn, New York; Deadline: October 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1615.ann Experiments in Cinema v9.72 (Albuquerque, New Mexico; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1619.ann 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 Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: November 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1624.ann VIDEOFOCUS 2014: INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKERS AND VIDEOARTISTS (Paris, France; Deadline: November 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1637.ann transmediale (Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey; Deadline: November 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1638.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): ============================== * Spine Tingler! the William Castle Story + Divine's Monster Kids + [October 26, San Francisco, California] * The Realist [October 26, Victoria, BC, Canada] * World Day For Audiovisual Heritage: Surveillance [October 27, Brooklyn, New York] * Nightfall, By James Benning [October 27, Los Angeles, California] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents "Nighfall" Filmmaker James Benning In Person! [October 27, Los Angeles, California] * Jane Gillooly Suitcase of Love and Shame [October 28, Los Angeles, California] * Devin Fore On Eisenstein's the Old and the New [October 29, Brooklyn, NY] * Flaherty Nyc Program 3 [October 29, New York, New York] * The Films of Abigail Child (U.S., 19832013). In Person. [October 30, Berkeley, CA] * Phil Solomon At Massart Film Society [October 30, Boston, MA] * Pupf-Phew! An Animation Screening In Croatia and the U.S.A. In Honor of World Animation Day 2013 [October 30, San Francisco, California] * An Evening With Phil Solomon [October 31, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine [October 31, Chicago, Illinois] * The Big Lament [November 2, Helmsdale] * Spooky Cartoons and Ice Cream Sandwitches [November 2, Los Angeles, California] * Soda_jerk + Cox' Otherzone + Flying Saucer Drone + [November 2, San Francisco, California] * Bruce Baillie: Two Nights of 16mm Treasures [November 3, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. -------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2013 -------------------------- 10/26 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia St. SPINE TINGLER! THE WILLIAM CASTLE STORY + DIVINES MONSTER KIDS + Through the '50s and '60s, master showman Castle directed a series of horror films with outrageous audience-participation gimmicks, treating viewers to buzzing seats, flying skeletons, and luminescent ghosts. Jeffrey Schwarz' Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story is a riveting rags-to-riches tale of this exploitation legend. Our favorite cult-film monger Christian Divine personally sets the historical context: Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, Universal genre revivals, Aurora model kits, and TV-horror hosts. halloween hellabaloo 10/26 Victoria, BC, Canada: Antimatter Film Festival http://www.antimatter.ws/ 9pm, Deluge THE REALIST 48 Heads from the Merkurov Museum (after Kurt Kren): Anna Artaker | sixpackfilm.com | 4:20 | Austria | 2012 | W Cdn Premiere Working intensively with death masks made by the Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov (18811952), a student of Auguste Rodin, and referencing Kurt Kren's 48 Heads from the Szondi Test, Artaker translates these objects into various medial forms. The masks, from the Merkurov Museum in Gyumri, Armenia, represent an unusual and jarring "archive of faces," as the personalities from the fields of culture and politics which they represent constitute both progressive and totalitarian tendencies of the Soviet regime. The Mass Ornament: Patrick Tarrant | patricktarrant.com | 6:18 | UK | 2013 | Cdn Premiere Film theorist Siegfried Kracauer claimed that it was the marriage of cinema with the modern metropolis that revealed the movement of people around the city as an elaborate ornamental dance reminiscent of Busby Berkeley musicals. In this film the good folk of London are spied through the distorting eye of a telescopic mirror lens as they perform their well rehearsed routine to the tune of "I Only Have Eyes For You" from the musical Dames (Enright & Berkeley, 1934). Here, on the crowded avenue, in images never before seen, is the troupe recognised around the world, in the dance of the sugar, plums and dairy. The Realist: Scott Stark | scottstark.com | 40:00 | USA | 2013 | Cdn Premiere The Realist is an experimental and highly abstracted melodrama, a "doomed love story" 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. ------------------------ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013 ------------------------ 10/27 Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Historical Society and NYU wdavh.tumblr.com 1:00 pm, 128 Pierrepont Street WORLD DAY FOR AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE: SURVEILLANCE With the recent revelation of NSA's domestic spying, there has been increased interest in the issue of surveillance. From lighthearted celebrity stalking and a restored 16mm art-film premiere to Soviet-era CIA instructional films, never-before-screened film from occupied Tibet, and incriminating footage from Libya, the afternoon's surveillance-themed presentation for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will examine the cultural, political, and historical importance of the theme. Pieces include: World premiere of Beryl Sokoloff's "Les Girls" (recent NFPF funded preservation) in 16mm, Ann McGuire's "Joe Dimaggio 1,2,3," archival material from Tibetan Envoy mission to Chinese occupied Tibet, Texas police patrol car footage, and much more 10/27 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 NIGHTFALL, BY JAMES BENNING Los Angeles Filmforum presents James Benning's Nightfall, a "study of real-time light changing from day to night. It was filmed in a forest high up in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains." (James Benning). 10/27 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS "NIGHFALL" FILMMAKER JAMES BENNING IN PERSON! Filmmaker James Benning in person! Los Angeles Filmforum presents James Benning's Nightfall, a "study of real-time light changing from day to night. It was filmed in a forest high up in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains." (James Benning). Nightfall (2011, digital, color, sound, 98 min.) consists of a single 98-minute shot made at a high elevation in the woods in the west Sierras that begins in late afternoon as the sun is going down and ends in near blackness. Widely acclaimed for his great 16mm durational films about the American landscape, Benning has been making new work in digital HD since 2009. One of the possibilities of digital filming that he has reveled in is the extreme duration possible, an extension of his earlier film work in which shots were one minute or ten minutes long. Now with Nightfall, he invites the audience to slow down and observe the most basic elements of nature in a way that very few of us do. For more information: http://lafilmforum.org/schedule/fall-2013-schedule/nightfall/ Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/486833 or at the door ------------------------ MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013 ------------------------ 10/28 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 JANE GILLOOLY SUITCASE OF LOVE AND SHAME USA, 2013, HD, 70 min Guggenheim Fellow Jane Gillooly introduces her mesmerizing and original Suitcase of Love and Shame, a tender, erotic and heartbreaking collage woven from 60 hours of reel-to-reel audiotapes discovered in a suitcase purchased on eBay. In the 1960s, on the cusp of the sexual revolution, a Midwestern woman and her lover become reliant on recording devices to document and memorialize their adulterous affair. The tape recorder serves as a confidant, witness, and participantcreating a welcome ménage-à-trois. Voices give rise to a sad world, building "love and shame" little by little, as technological tools serve up a calm, continual hell. Jack H. Skirball Series. $10.00 [members $8.00] In person: Jane Gillooly ------------------------- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013 ------------------------- 10/29 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street DEVIN FORE ON EISENSTEIN'S THE OLD AND THE NEW Beyond the Shot, Behind the Scene: The Old and the New, A lecture by Devin Fore 10/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FLAHERTY NYC PROGRAM 3 THE PERMANENT DISSIDENT: ZELIMIR ZILNIK ZILNIK IN PERSON! This program focuses on the working methods of Yugoslavian Black Wave pioneer Zelimir Zilnik, from his early films, including BLACK FILM (1971) which focuses on homelessness and which sent him into exile in Germany, and INVENTORY (1975), one of the first films to note the plight of the migrant worker, through TITO AMONG THE SERBS FOR THE SECOND TIME (1994) and his 2010 feature film, THE OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM. BLACK FILM (1971, 14 min, 35mm) INVENTORY (1975, 9 min, 16mm) TITO AMONG THE SERBS FOR THE SECOND TIME (1994, 43 min) THE OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM (2010, 20-min excerpt) Total running time: ca. 95 min. --------------------------- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013 --------------------------- 10/30 Berkeley, CA: Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ 7:00pm, Durant Ave. THE FILMS OF ABIGAIL CHILD (U.S., 19832013). IN PERSON. Works spanning thirty years of the filmmaker's career, from 16mm to digital, that reveal Child's roots in language poetry, and feature her genre-jumping juxtapositions of public and private histories. (73 mins) 10/30 Boston, MA: MassArt Film Society http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/ 8pm, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 621 Huntington Avenue PHIL SOLOMON AT MASSART FILM SOCIETY PHIL SOLOMON at MASSART FILM SOCIETY - Program: As if We - 1980, 10 minutes, Silent, 18 f.p.s., Color, 16mm, From Academy Film Archive. New Restoration! - What's Out Tonight is Lost, 1983, 8 mins, Silent, 18 f.p.s., Color, 16mm, From Academy Film Archive. New Restoration! - Psalm I: "The Lateness of the Hour" - 1999, 10 mins, B&W, 16mm, From Academy Film Archive. New Restoration! - Corliss Avenue - 1973, 3 mins, super-8, Silent, Color, with Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon. - Crossroad (by Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon) - 2005, 5 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist. - From In Memoriam (Mark LaPore, 1952-2005) - Last Days In A Lonely Place, 2007, 22 mins, B&W, Digital video, From the artist - Still Raining, Still Dreaming, 2009, 12 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist - Psalm IV: "Valley of the Shadow" - 2013, 7 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artist - The Emblazoned Apparitions - 2013, 5 mins, Color, Digital video. 10/30 San Francisco, California: Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/cinema/october-30-2013 7:00 p.m., Pier 15 PUPF-PHEW! AN ANIMATION SCREENING IN CROATIA AND THE U.S.A. IN HONOR OF WORLD ANIMATION DAY 2013 Come to the Exploratorium October 30th to celebrate International Animation Day with amusing and inventive works from all around the world. Dice, graph paper, rolls of scotch tape, and even a couple of guys with crazy facial hair are fodder for stop-motion animation wizardry in the Pupf-Phew! program. Chicken eggs will dazzle you, a snarky dog will tickle your funny bone, and those pieces of cardboard that you put out for recycling . . . well, they're alive! Curated by Sarah Klein and David Kwan of Stop & Go and Croatian Cultural Exchange in partnership with Jasminka Bijelić Ljubić of the School for Animated Film (AF) in Čakovec, Croatia. Films include Pandora's Block (Abbey Luck and Sean Donnelly, USA, 2007), Papermation (Jen Stark, USA, 2005), Ankle Injuries (Yukfoo Studio, New Zealand, 2007), Eggs (Molly Schwartz, USA, 2005), Housecoat (Sarah Klein, USA, 2010), Dog Judo (Andrew Kelleher, United Kingdom, 2010), Black Cat (Students from AF Studio, Croatia, 2005), Beard Toupée (Reed Anderson and Daniel Davidson, USA, 2006), Lone Star (Sarah Klein and David Kwan, USA, 2013), Tape Generations (Johan Rijpma, Netherlands, 2011), Cardboard (Sjors Vervoort, Netherlands, 2009). -------------------------- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013 -------------------------- 10/31 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 6pm, 24 Quincy Street AN EVENING WITH PHIL SOLOMON Pioneering filmmaker Phil Solomon (b. 1954) will present and offer a close analysis of his fifty-six-minute epic tone poem, American Falls. Commissioned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. as a multimedia installation for the museum's grand Rotunda, American Falls was originally screened as a single channel triptych with surround sound. Inspired by Frederic Church's 1857 masterpiece Niagara and by Washington's monumental war memorials, American Falls explores the aspirations and struggles that lie at the heart of the American Dream. Solomon's resources for these images include Hollywood cinema, found footage, and documentary and fictionalized accounts of historical events. Solomon's innovative use of altered film emulsion transforms Niagara Falls into a metaphoric landscape, encouraging us to consider how a place can reflect the events that occur on its shores. Envisioning the currents of history as a collective dream, American Falls considers many of the questions inherent in our national identity, at a crucial moment in this country's passage. More than any other independent film or video I can think of from the past decade, American Falls invokes the specter of a nation whose present unraveling is all too rooted in its history. Tony Pipolo, Artforum Free Screening Phil Solomon in Person Thursday October 31 at 7pm American Falls US 2012, color, digital video, 56 min 10/31 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cate 6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St. JODIE MACK: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jodie Mack in person. Jodie Mack's handmade films are vibrant examinations of the decorative detritus that accumulates around us. With cast-off bits of wrapping paper, calico fabrics, and magazine clippings, she crafts exquisite stroboscopic abstractions and poignant fables of the pitfalls of modern materiality. The SAIC alumna returns to Chicago with a special show featuring four brand-new shorts, live songs, and the city's premiere of Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013). -------------------------- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 -------------------------- 11/2 Helmsdale: Timespan http://timespan.org.uk/thebiglamentprogrammeguide/ 10am - 8.30pm, Timespan THE BIG LAMENT Margaret Tait's groundbreaking film Caora Mor: The Big Sheep, 1966 is celebrated through a series of events between 30TH October and 2ND November. Timespan's Digital Artist Oliver Mezger has spent two years living in the far north of Scotland methodically filming the remote Highland villages of Helmsdale and Portgower. Now, in view of this year's Clearances Bicentenary, he sheds contemporary light on themes first addressed by Tait in her films, 45 years ago. He has assembled a unique group of musicians to perform a live soundtrack for a joint screening of Tait's film Caora Mor: The Big Sheep, 1966 and his film Air SgàrthFor the sake of Margaret Tait, 2013. Piper - Barnaby Brown, and Alex Neilson's vocal ensemble The Crying Lion [www.tremblingbells.com/the-crying-lion-death-shanties/]. Kirsty Gunn, Peter Todd, Barnaby Brown and George and Alexandra Stewart will highlight the connections between Tait and pibroch through four talks. 11/2 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St SPOOKY CARTOONS AND ICE CREAM SANDWITCHES $5 / Though it's 2 days after Halloween, we'll be keeping it kooky and very spooky at the Echo Park Film Center, with an evening of especially creepy cartoons. All dug up from the 16mm graveyard by our own Cosmo Segurson. He's betting that some of these odd and genuinely weird hand-drawn mini-masterpieces will delight, and/or give you nightmares. Ice Cream Sandwiches and Spooky Cartoons? Join us....if you dare!!! 11/2 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 992 Valencia St. SODA_JERK + COX' OTHERZONE + FLYING SAUCER DRONE + That dazzling Australian sister act, Soda_Jerk, teleports into our fantasy lab for the North American premiere of The Carousel, their double-projected séance fiction. Their tandem performance navigates a marvelous universe of sci-fi, mysticism, techno-horror, kung-fu, and zombie flicks towards the resurrection of the cinematic dead. ALSO out of OZ, David Cox' speculation on our tech-saturated near-future stars Stelarc in a morality tale on autonomy vs. corporate control. PLUS premieres from Caroline Koebel, Thorsten Fleisch, Shanna Maurizi, Pierre Conti, and Georg Koszulinski's multimedia ode to Frankenstein, an amped-up, hand-processed 16mm epic projected over Georg's own shuddering body. $7. X-perimental sci-fi ------------------------ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013 ------------------------ 11/3 Los Angeles, California: Redcat Theater 7pm, 631 W. 2ND Street BRUCE BAILLIE: TWO NIGHTS OF 16MM TREASURES Co-presented with Los Angeles Filmforum and Canyon Cinema Foundation Bruce Baillie is one of the great figures in American avant-garde filmmaking. Here I Am (10 min., 16mm, 1962) Bruce Baillie's lyrical portrait of an Oakland school for emotionally disturbed children regards the world of the classroom with open curiosity. Tung (5 min., 16mm, 1966) A sensuous tone poem, Tung is a portrait of a friend; sandy skin and flaxen hair in the early-morning light. All My Life (3 min., 16mm, 1966) Caspar, California. Old fence with red roses. These few things, a gradual pan and the voice of Ella Fitzgerald make All My Life, a major inspiration for Apichatpong Weerasethakul and numerous other filmmakers. "Flaming red and a tenement roughness: Ella Fitzgerald has been remarkably seized and set to film." - Richard Eder, New York Times Castro Street (9 min., 16mm, 1966) Coming of consciousness. Photographed in Richmond, California, Castro Street is a masterpiece of poetic cinema. The film was selected in 1992 for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry. Valentin de las Sierras (9 min., 16mm, 1968) Song of revolutionary hero Valentin sung by Jose Santollo Nasido en Santa Cruz de la Soledad; Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. Little Girl (10 min., 16mm, 1966) Premiere, preserved by the Academy Film Archive Mass For the Dakota Sioux (20 min., 16mm, 1964) A film Mass, dedicated to nobility and excellence. 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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