This week [July 12 - 18, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Gravity Spells: Bay Area New Music and
Expanded Cinema Art, Program 2 [July 12, Berkeley, CA]
* Marie Losier & Friends - A Reunion Screening [July 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Origins [July 12, Washington, DC]
* Under the Underground: the M.U.F.F. Salon
Des RefuséS [July 13, Brooklyn, New York]
* 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]
* New Works Salon [July 17, Los Angeles, California]
* Films By Moira Tierney Permutations, Ends &Amp; Odds For Your
Consideration *2 Night Event!* [July 17, New York, NY]
* Off the Screen: Madison Brookshireselected
Works [July 17, San Francisco, CA]
* Weirdo Animation & Root Beer Floats [July 18, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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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
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
http://thepictureshow.org
8:00pm, 226 Green St.
MARIE LOSIER & FRIENDS - A REUNION SCREENING
Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier
invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of
experimental short works to celebrate her return. The evening includes:
Marie Losier, PEACHES + JESPER JUST, and HERMAPHRODITE. Also featuring
Joel Schlemowitz, IN SPRINGTIME; Peggy Ahwesh, COLLECTIONS; Jeanne
Liotta, PROPERTY; Jonathan Caouette, DES TICS ET DES TOCS; Moira
Tierney, YOU STILL BELONG; Dima Dubson, WORK-IN-PROGRESS; Bradley Eros,
EAU DE CINEMA {an avant ad} and SEANCE (the trailer); Rachael & Gabriel
Guma, \VENICE/ /FLORENCE\ |ROME|. $5 gets you a night of surprises!
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
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
http://thepictureshow.org
1:00pm - 1:00am, 226 Green St.
UNDER THE UNDERGROUND: THE M.U.F.F. SALON DES REFUSéS
The Picture Show presents Under the Underground: the M.U.F.F. Salon des
Refusés. This is a marathon screening in which no one who was rejected
from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this year is denied screen
time for at least one of their works. Admission is FREE for the entire 9
hours of films. Here we stand, here we screen. What was once a solitary
experience of rejection has become, through a funny faux pas, a building
of community. A few months ago I received another rejection from a film
festival via email. This particular letter, from the Milwaukee
Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.), like most of the others, was a
generic stock-email. The kind whose cut-copy-paste, all-too-familiar
template phrasing made one's heart preemptively sink, not having read
the lines we've all read too many times, but already knowing what they
will say. But there is the funny bit to the otherwise-familiar story. To
read this email, I had to scroll
and scroll
and scroll
down what
seemed to be over a hundred CC'd email names that were listed in the
same message. Here for all to see, in a list for all to see, were my
peers, my mentors, my friends, those whose work I've seen and loved, or
was just becoming familiar with. Here, in CC list form, was a group of
like-minded people, all getting rejected from the same festival. In a
slightly impulsive and facetious moment, I REPLIED ALL (except of
course, deleting the sender's email from this list) and suggested, for
all of us who weren't given the courtesy of a BCC private rejection, to
screen the works here at The Picture Show. This sparked off an
email-thread of filmmakers writing and responding to each other. The
thread became, as Anna Swanson would later write: "what community looks
like." Featuring films by Josh Weissbah, Kathryn Ramey, Neil Needleman,
Peter Wareing, NERZ-KG, Andrea Marquez, and many, many more.
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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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014
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7/17
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON
The New Works Salons series is a casual forum for the presentation and
discussion of new works in film and video, with local and visiting
artists in-person to introduce their work. Geoffrey Sexton is an
abstract painter, musician and filmmaker. Geoffrey explores video with
an emphasis on textures and individualistic video frames, thus honing a
signature feel and movement to the frames of his videos. His videos
offer a transcendence in the abstract, urging viewers to feel free to be
led by their less categorical consciousness. Geoffrey's work has
increasingly integrated his illuminated, water-based paintings, by means
such as portioning them into macro sectioned image sequences. Tempe Hale
will show Pick Up the Stick, a documentary short inspired by footage
shot on a road trip in which my brother suffers a mental breakdown. The
film is a mix of original road trip footage, interviews and
improvisation, which explores de-personalization and dramatizes our
collective memory. Audrey Wolski is an image-maker based in Montréal,
who enjoys making their own films, often opting for abstraction and
small-scale production methods as well as working cinematography for
narrative fictions. The contrast between analog and digital
moving-images is a concern: both methods are thus mixed, in an attempt
to create dissonant dialogue. They will show two works,
Tramage/rhodopsine, a reflective portrait of our changing psyche caused
by the digital age, and Germe, a brief exploration of the 2012 Quebec
student strike using artisanal moving-image techniques such as
rephotography and hand painting to communicate intimacies within a
larger political context as well as the changing nature of memory.
Walter Vargas will show his new 16mm film Full House sans the cast, a
reexamination of a house and what is home; uncles included.
7/17
New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op
7:30pm, 475 Park Ave S.
FILMS BY MOIRA TIERNEY PERMUTATIONS, ENDS & ODDS FOR YOUR
CONSIDERATION *2 NIGHT EVENT!*
*2 Night Event!* - Thursday, July 17 & 24, 7:30, Film-Makers'
Cooperative, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Foor (at 32nd St.) $10 Suggested
Donation - - The Coop will present two programs of films by Moira
Tierney, including old, new and hot-off-the-press work, all shot and
most screened in Super 8mm and 16mm, with a small sampling of work by
Solus Collective alumni. - Moira Tierney studied at University College
Dublin and l'Ecole Nationale d'Arts de Cergy-Paris. Her films are
distributed by Third World Newsreel and the Film-Makers Cooperative in
New York and the Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris. She is also co-founder
of the Irish film collective SOLUS. - Organized by Tanya Small -
7/17
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, The Exploratorium, Pier 15
OFF THE SCREEN: MADISON BROOKSHIRESELECTED WORKS
Los Angeles-based film artist Madison Brookshire presents an extended
program of his cinematic works, concluding with his ambitious,
cameraless Color Series. Exploring the tactile elements of the cinematic
experience, Brookshire's films often feature light play that, while
seemingly simple, produces complex, unexpected physical reactions
through experiments with framing and duration. - The first half of the
program will present three shorter works: Veils, Passage, and Five
Lines. Following a short Q&A, Brookshire will introduce Color
Series*. - Featuring: Five Lines (2012, 16 minutes, digital video and
live musical performance) - A spot of sunlight moves over five
hand-drawn lines, transforming the screen into a subtly shifting musical
score. Five Lines will feature a live score performed by Ben Bracken,
Madison Brookshire, Ezra Buchla, Heather Lockie and Laura Steenberge. -
- Veils (Part 1) (2013, 15 minutes, 16mm) - A handmade, paint-soaked
film allows evaporation, dust, crystallization, mold, and more to inform
the image. Stained with pigment and saturated with time, the result is a
turbulent palimpsest with many layers and textures visible at once, each
moving with its own rhythm. - Passage (2011, 13 minutes, with Tashi
Wada\; two 16mm films, overlapping double projection) - Symmetrical 16mm
films overlap to produce colors, sounds and structures not found in
either individual film, inviting viewers to engage multiple modes of
time and attention. - Color Series (2010, 74 minutes, 16mm, silent) "A
series of six films that form one work. Each film fades between colors.
They are made without a camera, using only the lights of the printing
process at the lab. The fades are slow enough that they engage the
viewer in a dialogue about the border between the work and his or her
own perception of it. The subject of the work is duration and color is
the medium through which we experience it. The converse is also true:
the subject is color and duration is the medium. The effect is a direct
experience of time and vision." MB - *Color Series will begin at
approximately 8pm. - Madison Brookshire is a Los Angeles-based artist
and filmmaker. He frequently collaborates with musicians and composers,
such as Tashi Wada and Mark So. He has screened his work at the Toronto
International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, International
Film Festival Rotterdam, Migrating Forms, Los Angeles Filmforum, REDCAT,
and the Hammer Museum. - LINKS,
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/off-the-screen-madison-brookshi
re-selected-works/ -
http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/madison-brookshire-july-17-2
014, http://madisonbrookshire.com -
https://www.facebook.com/events/751908388165721/
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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014
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7/18
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
WEIRDO ANIMATION & ROOT BEER FLOATS
Enjoy a summer night with Ice Cold Root Beer Floats and strange
animation from around the world! Czech stop motion novelties! American
hand drawn wonders from the 1930's! Macabre rarities from Poland! And
more! Join filmmakers Cosmo Segurson and John Cannizzaro as they share
the best and strangest cartoons from their own collections, with some
unusual findings from right here in the Film Center's 16mm library.
Bring the kids, or better yet, get a babysitter and make a night of it!
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