This week [May 3 - 11, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Greenvoice video campaign (Geneva, Switzerland; Deadline: May 04, 2014)
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, North
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VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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SHORTini FILM FESTIVAL (Augusta, Italy; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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animateCOLOGNE (Cologne/Germany; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg,
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Ottawa Internaitonal Animation Festival (Ottawa,
ON, Canada; Deadline: May 18, 2014)
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landlocked film festival (iowa city; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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FCDEP - Festival des Cinemas Differents et
Experimentaux de Paris (Paris, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires; Deadline: May 05, 2014)
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The Picture Show (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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INSTA Media Festival (Knoxville, TN United States; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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Inte. Independent Film Festival (Rome, Italy; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES SCIENCES ET CINÉMAS
(RISC) INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(Marseille, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Greenvoice video campaign (Geneva, Switzerland; Deadline: May 04, 2014)
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, North
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VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San
Vito Lo Capo (TP), Sicily,; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Spcl Ntrst [May 3, Baltimore, MD]
* Burning Bungalows [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* In and Out of Afghanistan [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* Henry Hills: Rhythmic States [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Juan Manuel EchavarrÃ&Shy;A: Coping With violence, Defying
Oblivion [May 5, Los Angeles, CA]
* Juan Manuel EchavarríA Coping With violence,
Defying Oblivion [May 5, Los Angeles, California]
* The Estonian Artists Film Club Society Nyc [May 7, New York, New York]
* Selected 3 [May 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Show & Tell: Akosua Adoma Owusu [May 8, New York, New York]
* All the Days of the Year - Ungerer
Installation [May 9, Brattleboro, VT, USA]
* Movie Mike Presents Metropolis In 16mm [May 9, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 1 [May 9, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Breer Program 2 [May 9, New York, New York]
* Forbidden Symmetries [May 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Films of Shellie Fleming [May 10, Chicago, IL]
* New York's Hidden Noise - Stephen vitiello
&Amp; Alvin Lucier In Person! [May 10, New York, NY]
* Michel Auder Program 1 [May 10, New York, New York]
* Peter Snowdon's "The Uprising" + [May 10, San Francisco, California]
* Velvet of Night: Kerry Laitala In Person [May 11, Austin, TX]
* Michel Auder Program 2 [May 11, New York, New York]
* Michel Auder Program 3 [May 11, New York, New York]
* Notes & Sketches, Etc. [May 11, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Chris Pew [May 11, Oakland, CA]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014
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5/3
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8PM, The Crown, 1910 N Charles Street, 2nd FL
SPCL NTRST
[SPCL NTRST] wipe[s] the console with a soft, dry cloth. [Together they]
peel the white paper from the base of the [appropriated VHS footage in
order to] affix the base so the mark on [Music] are pointing at each
other. When affixing the base, [SPCL NTRST] make[s] sure that you so not
cover any of the lettering on the console. Do not touch [inadvertent
musicality] for about 30 to 60 minutes after affixing it to the console.
Doing so can cause the [exposed moments of emotion and subtext hidden
within the practical and impersonal] to come off. Do expect [Category:
Health] as well as [Category: Music]. For more information on SPCL
NTRST, please visit: http://www.spclntrst.com/
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
BURNING BUNGALOWS
$5 / Burning Bungalows brought new and unseen experimental film from Los
Angeles on the road last month, and after weeks on the road, the
filmmakers are bringing the program back home. With a handmade mix of
animation and live action on video, Super 8, 16mm and 35mm slides we're
covering all the bases for an eclectic hour and 20 minutes. The films
tend toward an ethereal conjuring of spirits with a dystopian punk
attitude. Program: Vulgarians 1, 2, 3 (2012, 16mm to digital) and
Arietta (2014, 16mm) by Cosmo Segurson, Waxing and Milking (2014, Super
8) and Them Oracles (2012, 16mm) by Alee Peoples; He Hates to be Second
(2008, digital) by Kelly Sears; Berm and Jup (2014, digital) by Abby
Banks; Artio and Belenus (2014, digital) by Nancy Jean Tucker; The
Temptation of St. Anthony (2012, Super 8 to digital) by John Cannizzaro;
Untitled: Varanasi (2014 35mm stills to video) by Lisa Marr & Paolo
Davanzo.
5/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
IN AND OUT OF AFGHANISTAN
The dearth of credible reporting on America's longest war should be a
point of shame to the corporate media that controls way too much of the
national bandwidth. Tonight we finally see some independent
perspectives, generated from both inside and out of the war zone,
including a sizeable chunk of Jon Gianvito's Far from Afghanistan, an
enlightened omnibus drawn from the States' most engage makers (Minda
Martin, Soon-Mi Yoo, Jon Jost, et al). ALSO delivering the news is
Kathleen Foster's 10 Years On, recapitulating Afghani and Pakistani
politics from the period of the Soviet occupation, and Paul Refsdal's
Taliban: Behind the Masks, affording us an extremely rare encounter with
the native resistance themselves.
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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2014
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5/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, the Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street
HENRY HILLS: RHYTHMIC STATES
Henry Hills in person! HENRY HILLS has been making dense, intensely
rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New
York's East Village, he has ongoing working relationships with the
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, and choreographer Sally
Silver. His films, with an eccentric humor, seek abstraction within
sharply-focused naturalistic imagery & the ethereal within the mundane,
promoting an active attentiveness through a relentlessly concentrated
montage.
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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014
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5/5
Los Angeles, CA: REDCAT
8:30pm, REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRíA: COPING WITH VIOLENCE, DEFYING
OBLIVION
Juan Manuel Echavarria: Coping with Violence, Defying Oblivion, May 5 -
A novelistâturnedâartist,
photographer and videomaker, Juan Manuel EchavarrÃa screens
two films in which peasants in his native Colombia devise original ways
of coping with entrenched everyday violencebloody conflict among
guerrillas, army, paramilitaries and drug traffickers that has persisted
for decades. In Bocas de Ceniza (Mouths of Ash,
2003â04, digital video, 18 min.), subjects look
directly to the camera and mourn the toll of violence in individually
created folk songs. The second documentary, Réquiem NN (2013,
digital video, 67 min.), takes place in the town of Puerto
BerrÃo on the Magdalena Riverfrom which local
residents regularly fish out the remains of victims of violence. Burying
the so-called "No Names" ("NNs"), the townspeople adopt the fallen as
their own: they give them names, invent personal histories, and decorate
and visit their tombs. - In person: Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado -
5/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRíA COPING WITH VIOLENCE, DEFYING OBLIVION
Réquiem NN 67 min, 2013, digital video Mejor Opera Prima Andina,
Documenta 2013, Caracas preceded by: Bocas de Ceniza (Mouths of Ash)
18:07 min, 20032004, digital video After the successful run of Réquiem
NN at MoMA, New York, this fall, artist/photographer/videomaker Juan
Manuel Echavarría is presenting two films in which the peasants of his
native Colombia design original ways of coping with the violence
conflict between guerrillas, the army, paramilitaries and drug
traffickers that has ravaged the country for three decades. In Bocas
de Ceniza peasants are singing mournful folk songs they have composed.
For Réquiem NN Echavarría took many trips to the town of Puerto Berrío
beginning in 2006. In the Magdalena River passing by, the villagers keep
fishing out the remains of victims of violence. Calling them No Names
(NNs), the locals have adopted them, bought them a tomb they decorate
and visit, given them a name and invented a history for each of them. In
person: Juan Manuel Echavarría, Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014
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5/7
New York, New York: Artprojx Cinema
http://www.artprojx.com/cinema
6pm, Estonia House, 243 E 34th St, New York, NY 10016
THE ESTONIAN ARTISTS FILM CLUB SOCIETY NYC
Artprojx Cinema and Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center
presents ... The Estonian Artists Film Club Society NYC-featuring
artists >>> Flo Kasearu, Marko Mäetamm, Ben Rivers and Ben Russell,
Ene-Liis Semper, Jaan Toomik >>> Wednesday May 7th, 2014. 6-9pm. Estonia
House, 243 E 34th St, New York, NY 10016. DJ Prince Rama and Black Jack.
A Frieze NY Week event. In association with Galerie Martin Janda, Kate
MacGarry Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery eve...@artprojx.com
contact: David Gryn http://www.artprojx.com
http://davidgryn.wordpress.com
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014
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5/8
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SELECTED 3
$5 / Selected 3 is a new collection of artists' film and video touring
the US in April and May 2014, following a successful tour of the
programme in the UK. Chosen by the artists shortlisted for the Film
London Jarman Award 2012, Selected brings together some of the best
emerging film and video artists from the UK in a diverse programme of
new artists' moving image. Shortlisted artists for the 2012 Film London
Jarman AwardBrad Butler & Karen Mirza; Aura Satz; Ben Rivers; Benedict
Drew; James Richards; Shezad Dawood; Nathaniel Mellors; Matt Stokes;
Marcus Coates and Jon Thomson & Alison Craigheadhave selected work by
up-and-coming, fresh filmmaking talent, to develop an invigorating new
programme of work. Artists in the Selected 3 programme include: Emma
Alonze, Sophie Beresford, Nicholas Brooks, Mat Fleming, Piotr
Krzymowski, Naheed Raza, Frances Scott, Daniel Shanken, Cheryl Simmons
and Edward Thomasson. Selected has been produced in partnership by
videoclub and Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), with
the aim of showcasing and celebrating some of the most innovative
emerging talent in artists' moving image. "It's never easy to keep
abreast of artists working in film, but here's a great way in for those
looking to explore." (The Guardian)
5/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
SHOW & TELL: AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU
Over the last several years, Akosua Adoma Owusu has emerged as one of
the most exciting new voices in experimental cinema, thanks to five
short films that combine an inspired and masterful utilization of
avant-garde film techniques with highly perceptive and penetrating
explorations of racial and cultural identity, both in Africa and the
U.S. Born in Virginia to Ghanaian parents, and a graduate of the
University of Virginia (where she was mentored by Kevin Jerome Everson)
and CalArts, Owusu is currently based in Ghana, where, in addition to
making films, she is striving to reinvigorate the country's film culture
by spearheading the efforts to save the Rex Cinema, an historic theater
in Accra, Ghana, which she hopes to transform into a multimedia arts
center (africasacountry.com/reimagining-ghanas-cinemaspace). Equally
attuned to African and African-American social contexts, Owusu is
intimately familiar with concepts of displacement, alienation, and
shifting senses of identity, all of which are reflected in her films.
Whether appropriating and re-combining found footage to comment on
cultural expectations and pressures, filming her own lyrical portraits
of people and places (Ghanaian hair salons in ME BRONI BA or an
abandoned swimming pool in Accra in DREXCIYA), or turning to narrative
filmmaking to create a work drawing on Ghanaian mythology (her most
recent film, the evocative and haunting KWAKU ANANSE), Owusu is an
artist of immense talents who is poised at the start of what promises to
be an extraordinary career. "Through my film making, I hope to open
audiences up to a new dialogue between the continents of Africa and
America; one that incorporates more than just stereotypes, but includes
both conventionalized and un-conventionalized discourses of race in its
service. By creating complex contradictions, I hope that new meaning can
emerge and be deposited into the universal consciousness. If I can do
this by creating an experience for the audience that enables them to
experience what it is like to find oneself, while being foreign in a
community, then perhaps I can help that new meaning come to light."
Akosua Adoma Owusu INTERMITTENT DELIGHT (2007, 5 min, digital) ME BRONI
BA (MY WHITE BABY) (2009, 22 min, digital) DREXCIYA (2010, 12 min,
digital) SPLIT ENDS, I FEEL WONDERFUL (2012, 5 min, digital) KWAKU
ANANSE (2013, 25 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 75 min
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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2014
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5/9
Brattleboro, VT, USA: Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
http://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2014/02/05/all-the-days-of-the-year/
5 PM, 10 Vernon Street
ALL THE DAYS OF THE YEAR - UNGERER INSTALLATION
This video installation by Walter Ungerer is a record of one year as
seen from Mount Battie, Maine. Every day for a year, 13 digital video
clips were recorded from a single location on a rock on a hill
overlooking the ocean. The camera would record for ten seconds then
pivot a few degrees counterclockwise and record for another ten seconds.
This process was repeated until the camera returned to its original
position, having recorded 13 ten-second clips describing a 360-degree
view. The process was repeated from the same location day after day
sometimes at sunrise, sometimes midday, sometimes at sunset, sometimes
at night. The resulting film is a record of the seasons; the changing
light, from dawn to evening and night; the changing weather, from bright
sun to fog to rain and snow. It is a record of the visitors that make a
pilgrimage to the vista that overlooks a small harbor, the Atlantic
coastal islands, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is not a story there is no
script, no actors, and no dialogue yet it conveys a story: humanity in
peaceful revelry of a place on earth. PLEASE NOTE INSTALLATION DATES:
May 10, 2014 through June 22, 2014
5/9
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://thepictureshow.org
7:30 pm, 226 Green Street
MOVIE MIKE PRESENTS METROPOLIS IN 16MM
Fritz Lang's ground-breaking 1927 science-fiction masterpiece, inspired
by his visit to New York and vision of our skyline. The great city, with
skyscrapers pierced by highways and topped by landing pads! The horrid
underground levels where the workers dwell and toil! Cinema's first
robot, created by a mad scientist! Class war between the workers and the
thinkers! One of the greatest silent films, it is wonderfully designed
and still exciting. Movie Mike shares his personal print of Metropolis
here at The Picture Show
5/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 min, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 min, 16mm) UN
MIRACLE (1954, 30 sec, 16mm-to-35mm, Made with Pontus Hulten) RECREATION
(1956, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2
min, 16mm-to-35mm) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm) LE
MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 min, 16mm-to-35mm) EYEWASH (1959, 3 min,
16mm-to-35mm) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
BLAZES (1961, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm) PAT'S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes,
16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)
69 (1969, 4.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) Total running time: ca. 70 min.
5/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT BREER PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program
were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
70 (1970, 5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) 77 (1970, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) FIST
FIGHT (1964, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 min, 16mm)
FUJI (1974, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON
(1981, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm) BANG (1986, 10 min, 16mm-to-35mm) Total
running time: ca. 60 min.
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2014
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5/10
Brooklyn, New York: the PICTURE show
http://thepictureshow.org
7:30 pm, 226 Green Street
FORBIDDEN SYMMETRIES
Forbidden Symmetries is a collaborative experimental feature film by
Dean Kavanagh, Maximilian Le Cain and Rouzbeh Rashidi. Each filmmaker
directs one of the three 'phases' in this oblique account of an invasion
that is, for all its hints at science fiction, more an invasion of the
viewers' consciousness through atmosphere and radical formal strategies
than a traditional narrative. An immersive work of unusual sensorial
intensity, Forbidden Symmetries is ultimately also a personal meditation
on cinema itself. Kavanagh, Le Cain and Rashidi are experimental
filmmakers based in Ireland. They are all members of Experimental Film
Society, an organization founded and run by Rashidi, and have worked
together as the Cinema Cyanide noise project. Forbidden Symmetries is
their most elaborate collaboration to date.
5/10
Chicago, IL: SAIC Film Video New Media and Animation
12:00pm, Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
THE FILMS OF SHELLIE FLEMING
SHE LOOKED FOR HERSELF IN THE MEMORY OF THE PICTURE: - Free - 1998-1999,
USA, 110 Minutes, 16MM Film prints Courtesy of SAIC's Flaxman Library. -
Fiercely intelligent, generous, and caring, the filmmaker and artist
Shellie Fleming touched hundreds with her life and work. When she passed
away this past December, she not only left behind a formidable legacy in
films, books, photographs, and installations, but also generations of
young artists who blossomed through her guidance. - Organized by SAIC's
Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in celebration of
Fleming's life and influence, the program gathers four of her best-known
films: Left-Handed Memories (1980), Private Property (public domain)
(1991), Devotio Moderna (1993), and the incomparable Life/Expectancy
(1999) once described by the filmmaker and curator Mike Hoolboom as
"ravishingâ¦unafraid to wear its heart and its
brain on its sleeve." Much like Fleming herself. - A reception for
attendees follows the screening.
5/10
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave.
NEW YORK'S HIDDEN NOISE - STEPHEN VITIELLO & ALVIN LUCIER IN PERSON!
STEPHEN VITIELLO & ALVIN LUCIER IN PERSON! - In 2011, Independent
Curators International (ICI) organized the sound exhibition WITH HIDDEN
NOISE featuring artists Andrea Parkins, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline
Oliveros, Steve Peters, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Michael J.
Schumacher, and the show's guest curator, multi-media artist Stephen
Vitiello. Having debuted at the Aspen Art Museum and subsequently
traveled to Monash University in Victoria, Australia, the exhibition
will be on view this spring and summer at New York's Wave Hill, The
University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and The Henry Art Gallery in
Seattle. On this occasion, a crucial moment for sound in art finally
entering art institutions, ICI joins Anthology to present a one night
event that explores the origins of experimental sound and the radical
ways artists have worked outside the mainstream. - Curated by Stephen
Vitiello and Alaina Claire Feldman, Exhibitions Manager at ICI, this
program features Michael Blackwood's ultra-rare documentary NEW MUSIC:
SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE, back-to-back with John Sanborn
and Kit Fitzgerald's re: SOUNDINGS. The evening concludes with a live
conversation between Vitiello and special guest Alvin Lucier! - Michael
Blackwood, NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE, 1971, 51
min, 16mm-to-digital, Arts documentarian Michael Blackwood has made
dozens of insightful portraits of artists since the mid-1960s, and this
particular film was made for and only broadcast on West German
television. Featuring a jaw-dropping array of notables (including John
Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Alvin
Lucier, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, among many others) this piece is,
in retrospect, an incredible time capsule from a seminal moment in the
development of sound art and truly new music. - John Sanborn & Kit
Fitzgerald, re: SOUNDINGS, 1983, 65 min, video, Sanborn and Fitzgerald
were proto-MTV video artists who brought a visual new-wave energy to the
frontiers of experimental music. Inspired by the exhibition SOUNDINGS at
the Neuberger Museum located at Purchase College, re: SOUNDINGS is a
highly energetic piece featuring appearances and sounds by John Cage,
Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, Liz Phillips, John Driscoll, Max Neuhaus,
Doug Hollis, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, and Laurie Anderson.
5/10
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MICHEL AUDER PROGRAM 1
This segment consists of shorter works made between 1971-2013. Through
varying formats and approaches, we experience the breadth of Auder's
work. Here Auder documents private environments, strangers, and himself
in the city. Set against a historical and political backdrop, he
addresses the widest reaches of human emotion: love, anxiety, violence,
irony, tragedy, and optimism. The interrelation of the public and
private is further explored as windows and televisions are contrasted
with candid domestic scenes. CHELSEA, MANHATTAN NYC 1989, edited 2008,
6.5 min, video MADE FOR DENISE 1977, 3 min, video 1981 REGAN 1981,
edited 2009, 4.5 min, video CONFESSION 1971, edited 2009, 3.5 min,
video, b&w THE VALERIE SOLANAS INCIDENT 1971, 4.5 min, video, b&w
SMOKING 1985, 2 min, video BROODING ANGELS 1988, 5 min, video, b&w/color
THE CONVERSATION 2003, 3.5 min, video 1971 BIRTH 1971, edited 1981, 6
min, video, b&w DAYTIME VERSION OF THE NIGHT 2013, 7 min, video MY LAST
BAG OF HEROIN (FOR REAL) 1986, edited 1993, 4 min, video MY LOVE 1980,
4.5 min, video BLIND SEX 1983, edited 2009, 5 min, video THE PLAGUE
(TAYLOR MEAD) 1984, edited 2009, 9.5 min, video THE TOWN 1990, edited
2009, 5 min, video Total running time: ca. 80 min.
5/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
PETER SNOWDON'S "THE UPRISING" +
The West Coast theatrical debut of Peter Snowdon's riveting feature on
the Arab Spring: Recalling Farocki's crowd-sourced mosaic on the '89
fall of the Romanian regime, Snowdon's thunderbolt is composed entirely
of amateur video and cell-phone reportage, spontaneously generated and
uploaded by the everyday citizens of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain,
Yemen, and Syria. Unfiltered images of protestors, brutal police
crackdowns, and destroyed cities demonstrate that the best way to
understand chaos is to be a part of it. In a bold, epoch-defining leap
forward in doc method, we see that technical breakthroughs are
integrally bound up with the actual process of political liberation;
media-literate populations empowered not only by a sharpened awareness
of their oppression, but also by the means by which they may record it,
transmit it, and propose to change it.
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SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014
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5/11
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
6:00pm, 29th Street Ballroom, 2906 Fruth Street
VELVET OF NIGHT: KERRY LAITALA IN PERSON
$8 / ERC Pass - The lustrous works of Kerry Laitala are journeys into
realms where buoyant spirits commingle with fiery forces of nature. From
the lush poetics of her early works such as Retrospectroscope and Secure
the Shadow, to her complex, often troubling investigations into the
relationship between consciousness, identity and the human body, to her
playful reveries on early cinema, to her most recent work, bridging
precinema technologies with digital renderings in eye-popping 3D
Chromadepth, Kerry's work revels in the magic of the moving image.
Working with equal dexterity in film, video, installation and live
performance, Kerry Laitala's work is a panchromatic celebration for the
eyes, ears, heart and psyche. PROGRAM: The Adventure Parade 5 min / 16mm
/ silent / 2000; Out of the Ether 11 min / 16mm / sound / 2003;
Retrospectroscope 16mm / silent / 1997; Hallowed 11 min / 16mm / sound /
2002; Secure the Shadow
'Ere the Substance Fade 9 min / 16mm / sound /
1997; Conquered 15 min / 16mm / sound / 2000; Spectrology 11 min / 16mm
/ sound / 2009; Velvet of Night 12 min / 16mm expanded cinema work /
sound on Ipod / 2012 Moving Image by Kerry Laitala, Sound by John Davis.
Details at www.ercatx.org.
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MICHEL AUDER PROGRAM 2
The fictional autobiography CHASING THE DRAGON presents a day in the
life of hero/anti-hero Eric Bogosian. Consisting of both personal
archive and directed scenes, the protagonist of this film functions as a
transparent proxy through which Auder explores his relationships, drug
abuse, and daily life in the 1980s East Village. TAYLOR MEAD "SPECIAL"
focuses on actor, poet, and Warhol superstar Taylor Mead. Comprised of
footage shot over 12 years, this work follows Mead's life in NYC,
capturing his many spontaneous performances and monologues. Much of this
footage has been recycled from Auder's 1976 cable access show THOR'S DAY
VIDEO. This work stands as a revealing portrait of Mead and an intimate
look at his and Auder's friendship. CHASING THE DRAGON 1971-87, edited
1987, 43.5 min, video, b&w/color & TAYLOR MEAD "SPECIAL" 1976-79, 43
min, video, b&w
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MICHEL AUDER PROGRAM 3
This program collects works made during the period Auder spent living
with Warhol Superstar Viva and their daughter Alex in the Chelsea Hotel.
By chronicling his life in Apt. 714, he introduces us to Nico, Patti
Smith, Gregory Corso, Harry Smith, Jean Pierre Léaud, Brigid Polk, and
Andy Warhol. In these moments we see how social life at the Chelsea
Hotel was a blend of performance, gossip, and cultural production.
COCKETTES 1971, edited 2002, 28 min, video, b&w THE MEETING OF GREGORY
CORSO CHELSEA H. 1970, edited 2014, 7 min, video, b&w CHILDREN PLAY
SLEEP CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 5 min, video, b&w HARRY SMITH
CALLS THE DALAI LAMA CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 4.5 min, video,
b&w JEAN PIERRE KALFON NUDE CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 1.5 min,
video, b&w CHELSEA GIRLS WITH ANDY WARHOL 1971-76 (EXCERPT: BRIGID, VIVA
& ANDY) edited 1994, 28.5 min, video, b&w VIVA AND 2 ARRESTED FOR
RESISTING POLICEMAN 1972, edited 2014, 6 min, video, b&w ANDY WARHOL
POLAROID VIVA CHELSEA HOTEL 1971, edited 2009, 3 min, video, b&w
CHELSEA CATS 1971, edited 2009, 7 min, video, b&w Total running time:
ca. 95 min.
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
NOTES & SKETCHES, ETC.
by Jonas Mekas 75-90 min, digital video Jonas Mekas is widely
acknowledged as the father of the 'diary film', and today he continues
to keep his video camera constantly at his side, recording his daily
experience with a peerlessly poetic eye. While he continues to produce
and release 'official' works from the footage he produces, he also
values this material precisely for its informal, unprocessed, unfinished
qualities. On each calendar we screen one program of Mekas's ongoing
video diaries, an opportunity to see his 'notes & sketches' in their
purest state. "This program is a continuation of the ongoing video notes
and sketches that I make with my video camera as I go through my life.
They are casual, and of little importance, with no pretentions to art,
cinema art or any art, but I feel an urge to share them with my
friends." J.M.
5/11
Oakland, CA: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8:00pm, TAC: Temescal Art Center, 511 48th Street
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS CHRIS PEW
Merging the dynamic and often polar worlds of science and art, Oakland
artist Chris Pew explores ideas of a complex cosmos and different
trajectories for the unobservable universe. Utilizing various digital
and analog techniques for motion and sound, these ideas are brought
together and presented in an abstract narrative. Chris Pew will be
presenting a 20-30 minute live performance based around fundamental
assumptions for building an abstract cosmology. Afterwords he will be
presenting a mix of previously shown and undisplayed video work.
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