This week [July 5 - 13, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE:
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"Chronic Condo Conformity Syndrome" by Neil Ira Needleman
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School of Art - University of Tennessee
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Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2014)
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Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, US; Deadline: July 11, 2014)
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Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC, Canada; Deadline: July 25, 2014)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: August 01, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Premiere- Kerry Laitala's Solar Furnace [July 5, Berkeley, CA]
* Special Affects: the Films of Lyra Hill [July 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Brakhage, Brakhage, Brakhage! Program 1:
Self & Other [July 6, San Francisco, California]
* Directors Lounge At Gallery On, Seoul / South Korea, C.A.R. Network iii,
the Innovative Art Fair, 9 July - 1 August 2014 [July 9, Seoul]
* Brakhage, Brakhage, Brakhage! Program 2:
Sound Films [July 10, San Francisco, California]
* Basement Media Fest (Baltimore) [July 11, Baltimore, MD]
* The Sound We See: An Echo Park City Symphony
[July 11, Los Angeles, California]
* Score. Between Image and Sound [July 11, Vigo]
* Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and
Expanded Cinema Art, Program 2 [July 12, Berkeley, CA]
* Origins [July 12, Washington, DC]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Elise Baldwin [July 13, Oakland]
* Brakhage, Brakhage, Brakhage! Program 3:
Hand-Painted Films [July 13, San Francisco, California]
* Sweet California [July 13, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014
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7/5
Berkeley, CA: Kala Institute
7:00pm, 2990 San Pablo Ave.
PREMIERE- KERRY LAITALA'S SOLAR FURNACE
Kerry Laitala is premiering a new expanded cinema work dual 16mm
projectors with LIVE sound by Benjamin Bracken and Ashley Bellouin
7/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SPECIAL AFFECTS: THE FILMS OF LYRA HILL
A screening of short films by the Chicago based artist Lyra Hill. Lyra,
who began the performative comix reading series, Brain Frame, in July of
2011, is an all-around-dynamo comix artist/curator, performer, painter,
bookmaker, printer and some how she also finds time to make films. This
selection of work, which recalls the avant-garde tradition of
psychodrama, employs a variety of in-camera special effects techniques.
With great rigor, Lyra's films exhibit a particular control over
filmmaking as craft, while illuminating the possibility of losing one's
self completely. A projector performance involving a tall chair (or
short ladder) will also be featured. Program: House Fuck (2010, 16mm),
The Mystic (2011, 16mm), Untitled (Times For) (2011, Super 9, with Ross
Meckfessel), Go Down (2012, digital projection and performance), Uzi's
Party (2014, work in progress, 16mm to digital file).
http://iamanartstudentwhatamidoing.blogspot.com/
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SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014
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7/6
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2pm, 3rd and Mission Streets
BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE! PROGRAM 1: SELF & OTHER
No filmmaker explored the possibilities of the moving image as deeply as
Stan Brakhage, yet his work is infrequently shown. His films pulse with
overwhelming light and energy, and require an engaged viewer. Brakhage
worked exclusively with celluloid film, and the beautiful, hand-crafted
quality of his art is a remarkable contrast to the digital-everything
style of today. Brakhage, who died in 2003, made nearly 400 films.
Though we can barely scratch the surface with just three programs, they
should serve as a solid introduction to the uninitiated, and offer many
surprises to viewers who are already familiar. We begin the series with
these rarely screened works, which consider how autobiography and
portraiture can be represented with motion pictures. Program includes
Star Garden, Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects, Short Films: 1976,
Nightmare Series, and Jane. (1974-86, 94 min, 16mm)
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014
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7/9
Seoul: Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
5 pm, Gallery On, B1 Young-chung Bd. 69
Sagan-dong Jongno-gu Seoul 110-190 Korea
DIRECTORS LOUNGE AT GALLERY ON, SEOUL / SOUTH KOREA, C.A.R. NETWORK III,
THE INNOVATIVE ART FAIR, 9 JULY - 1 AUGUST 2014
Directors Lounge, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary art and
media, presents selected single channel works at Gallery On, Seoul
during the C.A.R. Network III. The looped installations range from
classic short animation to gif-based online works and interactive
processing, giving a glimpse into new tendencies of motion-based media
art. List of video works: Sandra Becker01 DE Processing 2 min 2013 Erdal
Inci TR Taksim Spiral 0,8s 2013 / Pictogram 1,4s 2013 / Hieropolis
Amphitheatre 1,4s 2013 / Flood of Light 1,4s 2013 / Camondo Stairs 0,4s
2013 Hara Katsiki DE Starseed 2013 Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire
II Blindness 21 min 2013 Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert DE Mr.
Blackburn 40s 2014 (score: Darius Greene) World Premiere Alan Smithee
Are You Afraid Of
2013 Andre Werner DE Opening Robert Rauschenberg 6
min 37s 1990 read more:
http://directorslounge.tumblr.com/post/90190490797/directors-lounge-at-g
allery-on-seoul-south www.directorslounge.net www.galleryon.co.kr
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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014
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7/10
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
7:30pm, 3rd and Mission Streets
BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE! PROGRAM 2: SOUND FILMS
Though most of Brakhage's work is silent, he made many sound films. This
program presents a selection of early/mid experiments with sound: Blue
Moses, Fire of Waters, Scenes From Under Childhood, Part One, and The
Stars are Beautiful. (1962-74, 60 min, 16mm)
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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014
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7/11
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8PM, 2021 Maryland Avenue
BASEMENT MEDIA FEST (BALTIMORE)
SIGHT UNSEEN WELCOMES BACK BASEMENT MEDIA FEST FOR A SECOND SURVEY OF
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS WORKING WITH LO-DEF, LO-TECH, AND LO-FI MOTION PIX
TECHNIQUES. FOUNDED IN RESPONSE TO HI-RES COMMERCIAL MEDIA AND
CORPORATE-SPONSORED FILM FESTS, BASEMENT IS A CELEBRATION OF THE
MEDIATED EXPERIENCE AS AN AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE. EQUAL PARTS GLITCHD
DIGITAL VIDZ, FUZZY VHS, AND GRIMY 16MM FILM, WE'LL BE PRESENTING A MIXD
PROGRAM OF CELLULOID AND .MOVS. COME ENJOY SOME 100 YR OLD TECH IN A
STATE OF THE ART CONVERTED BODEGA THEATER. ///WARNING/// SUM OF THESE
MOVIES FEATURE FLICKERING LIGHT AND RAPIDLY CHANGING MOTION. MAY CAUSE
SEIZURES/MOTION SICKNESS. IF YOU HAVE TO SPEW, SPEW IN THIS. FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION ABOUT BASEMENT MEDIA FEST, PLEASE VISIT:
http://basementmediafest.com/
7/11
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
6pm9pm, main lawn of Echo Park Lake
THE SOUND WE SEE: AN ECHO PARK CITY SYMPHONY
The Lotus Festival, one of the signature cultural celebrations in the
City of Los Angeles, will return this summer to a newly renovated Echo
Park Lake and will feature the premiere of The Sound We See: An Echo
Park City Symphony, with live music arranged by Jon Almaraz. Exploring
the neighborhood over a 24 hour period, a multi-generational group of
filmmakers from the Echo Park Film Center famiglia documented the life,
rhythm, and movement of the city from their unique perspectives on 16mm.
The film was commissioned by the office of Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell
and Council District 13. The Lotus Festival was started in 1972 to
promote awareness of the contributions by Asian-Americans in our local
communities, and this year will honor the culture and traditions of the
Filipino community. Location: main lawn of Echo Park Lake. Free!
7/11
Vigo: MARCO. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo
www.marcovigo.com
July 11, 2014 - January 11, 2015, Príncipe 54 | 36202 Vigo, Spain
SCORE. BETWEEN IMAGE AND SOUND
SCORE is an exhibition project, which plays with different meanings of
the word score as a way to navigate through a range of film and video
works. With works by Meris Angioletti (IT, 1977), Martin Arnold (AT,
1959), Eugenia Balcells & Eugeni Bonet (ES, 1943/ES, 1954), Guy Ben Ner
(IL, 1969), Manon de Boer (NL, 1966), Tony Conrad (US, 1940), Keren
Cytter (IL, 1977), Anna Franceschini (IT, 1979), Douglas Gordon (UK,
1966), Ragnar Kjartansson (IS, 1976), Annika Larsson (SE, 1972),
Christian Marclay (US, 1955), Dora Maurer (HU, 1937), Jacopo Miliani
(IT, 1979), Lis Rhodes (BR, 1942), Manuel Saiz (ES, 1961), Diego Santomé
(ES, 1966), ZimmerFrei (IT, 2000). Curated by Sarra Brill and Anna
Cestelli Guidi. The departure point of this show is in response to an
increasing interest in sound within contemporary art. The relationship
between art and sound is not a new issue, but the rapidly growing number
of publications and exhibitions on sound in the recent years are
evidence of heightened attention to this media. This show seeks to
resituate this discussion in the context of film and video, observing
how artists address the relationship between moving images and sound.
The relationship of visual art to narrative, which has informed and
characterized so much film and video work in the last two decades, has
given way to an interest in the fourth-dimension: time. This shift may
help to explain the diffusion of sound practices today, giving the
concept of score a central role in many moving image works. The multiple
meanings of the word 'score' - score as cut or scratch or score as
musical score enable a juxtaposition of disparate artistic practices
which focus on the relationship of image and sound within the expansive
topic of cinema. The gesture of cut or scratch is present in many modes
of experimental film, where celluloid is physically manipulated, as well
as in the essential process of montage; whereas the structure of musical
score relates to our experience of cinema and understanding of
soundtrack: dialogue, sound and music. Contrary to the habit of
considering image and sound as "naturally given" or as an organic
entity, the works in the exhibition can be seen in light of what Michel
Chion calls the "audiovisual contract", in which both perceptions, the
visual and the acoustic, are continually being renegotiated. From
experimental film to conceptual treatment of cinema to works which are
attentive to the grammar of moving image and sound, SCORE presents a
series of installations, films and videos that circle back to these
issues. Through their affinities and differences, these works resonate
with each other constructing an unexpected geometry of relationships
which activates the exhibition space with projections and sound, culling
the potential of the architectural nature of MARCO's panopticon, where
seeing and hearing are fundamental.
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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2014
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7/12
Berkeley, CA: Kala Art Institute
7:00pm, 2990 San Pablo Ave.
GRAVITY SPELLS: BAY AREA NEW MUSIC AND EXPANDED CINEMA ART, PROGRAM 2
Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art, Program 2,
Saturday, July 12, 7-9pm - Kala Art Institute in partnership with the
San Francisco Cinematheque present Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music
and Expanded Cinema Art. - This series is curated and organized by Kala
Fellowship Artist John Davis - Admission is free with a suggested
donation of $5 â $20. - This is the secondin a four
part series taking place every Saturday evening in July. This unique
performance series celebrates the release of a limited edition hand-made
gatefold double LP of music paired with four DVD's of original film
featuring collaborations by: Craig Baldwin with Maggi Payne\; Paul
Clipson with Tashi Wada\; Lawrence Jordan with John Davis and Kerry
Laitala with Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken. The publication includes
a 50-page booklet of writing and images bound in a hand-made letterpress
cover. - Program 2 Participating Artists: Mark Wilson with Marielle
Jakobsons, Andy Puls, Keith Evans, Lawrence Jordan with John Davis -
Copies of the edition of 100 publication release will be available for
purchase at the four shows, or can be purchased online here:
http://bimodalpress.com/editions.html.
7/12
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2:30pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall
ORIGINS
From Vault to Screen: Canyon Cinema 16 mm: PROGRAM 1: Origins. Short,
lyrical films from Canyon's beginnings featuring work by the
organization's founding members, including Have You Thought of Talking
to the Director? (Bruce Baillie, 1962); Angel Blue Sweet Wings (Chick
Strand, 1966); My Name Is Oona (Gunvor Nelson, 1969); and Hot
Leatherette (Robert Nelson, 1967), among others. (Total running time
approximately 95 minutes)
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SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2014
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7/13
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS ELISE BALDWIN
Elise Baldwin is an intermedia performer and sound artist whose live
cinematic works center around themes of natural history, collective
memory and relationships between technology and the natural world. Using
custom software instruments, physical props and circuitry, she often
combines and manipulates original and archival recordings. She will be
performing The Philosophy of Storms, inspired by a fascination with
early American meteorology, storm watching and our cultural evolution
from a faith-based society to a scientific one and Theater of Plants, a
film that is microcosmic in scale yet expansively metaphoric in its
examination of time, growth and decay.
7/13
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2pm, 3rd and Mission Streets
BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE, BRAKHAGE! PROGRAM 3: HAND-PAINTED FILMS
Late in his life, Brakhage made a number of hand-painted films. These
are among his most glorious and extreme works, exploding with color and
movement. Program includes Autumnal, Earthen Aerie, Spring Cycle,
Shockingly Hot, Cloud Chamber, The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw
Jewels, Stately Mansions Did Decree, and Seasons [with Phil Solomon].
(1993-2002, 60 min, 16mm)
7/13
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall
SWEET CALIFORNIA
From Vault to Screen: Canyon Cinema 16 mm: PROGRAM 2: Sweet California .
"I'm definitely not interested in passing along intellectual information
about California. There's plenty of that everywhere. I'm trying to get
at some feeling state" Robert Nelson. A personal, intricate essay
about his home state, Tijuana to Hollywood via Death Valley is the first
half of Nelson's travelogue Suite California Stops & Passes (1976). It
is followed by other films about Californian culture and environment
including Hard Core Home Movie by Greta Snider (1989) on the '80s punk
scene in San Francisco; Pasadena Freeway Stills (Gary Beydler, 1974);
Degrees of Limitation (Scott Stark, 1982); and L.A. Carwash (Janis
Lipzin, 1975), among others. (Total running time approximately 100
minutes)
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