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Thanks, Nicky. -----Original Message----- From: Weekly Listing <weeklylist...@hi-beam.net> To: frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com Sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:51 Subject: [Frameworks] This week [August 16 - 24, 2014] in avant garde cinema This week [August 16 - 24, 2014] in avant garde cinemaTo subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go tohttp://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribeor send an email to weeklylist...@hi-beam.net.Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings,jobs, items for sale, etc.) at:http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.plNEW FILM/VIDEO: FEATURE:======================="What I Love About Concrete" by Katherine Dohan http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newworkf&readfile=141.annNEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:=====================the8fest (Toronto, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1718.ann22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL USA; Deadline: December 15, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1720.annBASEMENT Media Fest (NY, NY, USA; Deadline: December 31, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1721.annExperiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Deadline: November 01, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1722.annBig Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1723.annDEADLINES APPROACHING:=====================BELOIT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1691.annAlchemy Festival Touring Programme: Works from Scotland (Hawick, Scotland, UK; Deadline: September 01, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1708.annMADATAC (Madrid, SPAIN; Deadline: September 08, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1714.annAnchorage Museum of Art (Anchorage, AK United States; Deadline: September 01, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1717.ann2014 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 24, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1719.annBig Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1723.annTHIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):============================== * New Works Salon: Brookbank, Marin, Sweeney, Toscano [August 16, Los Angeles, California] * A Minor Cinema [August 16, Washington, DC] * Art World Crossover [August 17, Washington, DC] * Steve Cossman's Rituals of Restoration [August 18, Durham, NC] * George Kuchar's Secrets of the Shadow World [August 19, Brooklyn, NY] * Late Night With Carl Sagan By Shanna Maurizi [August 20, New York, New York] * Vinegar Syndrome! Selections From the Epfc Film Library [August 21, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Jean Genet/Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie Program [August 21, New York, New York] * Soundwave ((6)) (Sub)Mersion [August 21, San Francisco, California] * Essential Cinema: Une Simple Histoire [August 22, New York, New York] * San Francisco Beat Films of the 50's [August 22, San Francisco, California] * Recent videos By Suzy Poling [August 23, Los Angeles, California] * Archival Finds [August 23, Washington, DC] * Russell Etchen Presents An Breakpoint [August 24, Austin, TX] * Essential Cinema: Crockwell/Grant/Jacobs & Fleischner Program [August 24, New York, New York] * Sential Cinema: Jerome Hill Program [August 24, New York, New York]Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.-------------------------SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2014-------------------------8/16Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Centerhttp://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. NEW WORKS SALON: BROOKBANK, MARIN, SWEENEY, TOSCANO 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. Nora Sweeney will show her new film Sweet Oranges (2014, 16mm, 18.5 minutes): �Heading west from my house, I explore the back roads off of California State Route 126, finding small, historic towns, farms, and railway tracks nestled between mountains and orchards - a landscape that evokes a dream of California�s past. Along the way, I meet Jaime, Blanca, and Hugo, a group of orange pickers from Michoacan, Mexico, who share with me their songs, dreams, aspirations, and thoughts about work.� Ursula Brookbank will show Crystallography and the She World Archive: The principals of X-ray Crystallography used by biochemist Dorothy Hodgkin to study molecular structures applied to film projection. Ms. Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964 for confirming the molecular structure of insulin using X-ray Crystallography where a crystal is gradually rotated while being bombarded with X-rays producing refraction patterns and molecular data for study. For this salon, recently acquired 16mm film from the SHE WORLD ARCHIVE similarly becomes a light beam projected through gradually rotating crystals. Pablo Mar�n, in town from Buenos Aires, will show his brand new Angelus novus, and we'll have a selection of new items by Mark Toscano.8/16Washington, DC: National Gallery of Arthttp://www.nga.gov2:30pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall A MINOR CINEMA In response to the inaugural International Experimental Film Congress held in Toronto in 1989, film scholar Tom Gunning published the influential essay "Towards A Minor Cinema: Fonoroff, Herwitz, Ahwesh, Lapore, Klahr and Solomon." Focusing on the work of those young experimental filmmakers, Gunning argued that theirs was a practice that embraced the "outsider" status of personal cinema: "I believe that these filmmakers profoundly understand their place in film history and in the economic realities of film distribution and exhibition. These films assert no vision of conquest, make no claims to hegemony." Including The Secret Garden (Phil Solomon, 1988); The Sleepers (Mark Lapore, 1989); Department of the Interior (Nina Fonoroff, 1986); and Nocturne (Peggy Ahwesh, 1998), among other titles. (Total running time approximately 90 minutes)-----------------------SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014-----------------------8/17Washington, DC: National Gallery of Arthttp://www.nga.gov4pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall ART WORLD CROSSOVER The gallery space and the screen as exhibition sites are very often synonymous, as evidenced by this program of experimental films by artists lauded for their work in both the white cube and the black box. Titles include Scotch Tape (Jack Smith, 1959 1962); Standard Time (Michael Snow, 1967); Passage à l'acte (Martin Arnold, 1993); and . . . Remote . . . Remote . . . (VALIE EXPORT, 1973), among others. (Total running time approximately 95 minutes)-----------------------MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014-----------------------8/18Durham, NC: UNEXPOSEDwww.durhamunexposed.tumblr.com8pm, The Carrack Modern Art - 111 W Parrish St, Durham, NC STEVE COSSMAN'S RITUALS OF RESTORATION ++ FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE ++ Steve Cossman of Brooklyn's Mono No Aware will be joining us in Durham for UNEXPOSED's August screening featuring his program titled RITUALS OF RESTORATION. Steve will present six works--five of them on 16mm--for a total of 47 minutes. After the program, Steve will sit down with us for a 30 minute Q&A. Program info and bio below! UNEXPOSED is a monthly screening series with the purpose of establishing an ongoing presence of experimental film and video in the Durham community. Filmmakers always in attendance. [Curated by Brendan & Jeremy Smyth] PROGRAM: 'RITUALS OF RESTORATION' A program of moving image work by Steve Cossman Running time : 47 minutes The world, on both the micro and macro level, is constantly moving within a framework of units this irrepressible flux of time is the nexus of human experience and perception. Investigating the quantification of this motion through a reordering of various elements, I employ universally recognizable imagery within a patterned visual language. Often using time as a structure, the 'natural' rhythm of life is altered to create a resonating interval. This visual discord allows the viewer to reconsider established perceptual relationships. Materials for these works have been sourced from refuse and re-organized to speak to their own degradation. TUSSLEMUSCLE 5 min / 16mm color / optical sound / 2007-2009 Sound element by Earthen Sea (Jacob Long, Imminent Frequencies/Lover's Rock) CRUSHER 12 min / 16mm color / optical sound / 2010 Sound element by Daniel Caldas (ex. Black Eyes, Dischord Records) RELAY 12 min / Super 8mm color negative to DV / digital field recording sound / 2013 Sound performance element by Ei Wada, (Sony Music, Japan) CLIMBER 5 min / 16mm color / digital sound / 2013 Sound element by Ryan Marino (Remnants, Imminent Frequencies) RED CABBAGES 3 min / 16mm color / silent / 2013 WHITE ROUGHAGE 10 min / 16mm color / digital sound / 2013 Sound element by Jahiliyya fields (Matthew Morandi, L.I.E.S.) BIO: Steve Cossman is founder and director of Mono No Aware; a nonprofit cinema arts organization whose annual event exhibits the work of contemporary artists who incorporate live film projections and altered light as part of a performance, sculpture or installation. In 2010 the organization established a series of analog filmmaking workshops, and has grown to include in their activities an equipment rentals program and an in-person screening series entitled Connectivity Through Cinema. Steve's first major work on film, TUSSLEMUSCLE, earned him Kodak's Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at many festivals and institutions internationally. In 2013, he completed residencies at MoMA PS1's Expo 1 and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. He has been a visiting artist at Dartmouth, the New York Academy of Art, Yale, SAIC, and UPenn. Steve's newest work on film, W H I T E C A B B A G E (2011-2014), a collaboration with Jahiliyya Fields of L.I.E.S., had its U.S. premiere at Anthology Film Archives. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a director, curator, visual artist and member of the collective DecayNY, creating time-based works on film, video, and paper.------------------------TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014------------------------8/19Brooklyn, NY: Light Industryhttp://www.lightindustry.org/7:30pm, 155 Freeman St. GEORGE KUCHAR'S SECRETS OF THE SHADOW WORLD Presented with Primary Information - Secrets of the Shadow World, George Kuchar, 1998-99, video, 135 mins - "Kuchar's magnum opus" - Amy Taubin - "With a new millennium almost upon us, images of space aliens invading the marketplace and sleeping habits of consumers worldwide, this miniseries abducts the viewers into the universe of John A. Keel (via a video time-warp supplied by me with Rockefeller Foundation funding). It's a leisurely expedition through a maze of kitchens and cerebral convolutions in search of the mysteries behind the mundane (or vice versa!). Mr. Keel, an author and stage magician, has made a profound impact on the pop-culture we swim in. His research and books on the UFO enigma have ignited an explosive wild-fire of imaginative invocations such as the X-Files TV show and the Men in Black blockbuster movie. Yet you never hear about him and he never hears from the movie and television companies. In this video you see and hear him. You also see and hear a whole lot of other people and some animals. The whole show runs almost 2 hours and 20 minutes, but be sure to stay for part 3 as the UFO/Horror author, Whitley Strieber, teams up with my old star Donna Kerness to reveal exclusive revelations on the 'visitor' experience. See this video... then read their books and pray it's not true!" - GK - In conjunction with the publication of The George Kuchar Reader, edited by Andrew Lampert, Light Industry hosts a screening of Kuchar's tripartite Fortean epic Secrets of the Shadow World. The culmination of the artist's life-long fascination with paranormal phenomena, Secrets features spooky tales of the chupacabra, Sasquatch, flying saucers, and the death of film via a maelstrom of wipes, swirls, chromakey, and other instruments of lo-fi videographic excess, all set to an anachronistic soundtrack of syrupy mood music. And though the work's ostensible subject is extraterrestrial, its true focus is on the ultra-ordinary, the everyday interactions that Kuchar renders with incredible tenderness and withis ersatz stars shine brightest while eating a sandwich. Indeed, Keel offers a remark at one point about his own work that doubles as an apposite description of Kuchar's project: "The book is not about people from outer space. It's about people right here on earth." - Tickets - $7, available at door.--------------------------WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014--------------------------8/20New York, New York: Anthology Film Archiveshttp://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/6:30, 32 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003 LATE NIGHT WITH CARL SAGAN BY SHANNA MAURIZI TRT: 11m. Shot entirely on an iPhone with homemade props and frame-by-frame animation, Late Night with Carl Sagan is a restaging, a reimagining, and an insomniac response to Sagan's iconic 1980 series, Cosmos. Poetic, existential, hopeful, his series is a timeless prophecy on humanity's place in the universe. Sagan talks to the subject with an attitude best described as wonder, in a manner that is wholly different than the position taken towards science by contemporary entertainment. Viewed late at night on Netflix, it becomes a participatory conversation, drifting into tangent, hyperbole, speculation, and intervention.-------------------------THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014-------------------------8/21Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Centerhttp://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. VINEGAR SYNDROME! SELECTIONS FROM THE EPFC FILM LIBRARY A monthly grab bag of short educational and ephemeral films, plumbing the depths of EPFC's impressive 16mm library. For enthusiasts of found footage and collage films, it's a great way to learn what kinds of films are available at the Film Center--the weird, the cool, the good, the bad, the ugly. All films are selected purely by title around a specific theme, and we won't be previewing any films, so we'll be just as surprised as you guys... This month's theme: ANIMALSa compendium of odd-ball nature films about all things furry, feathered, scaly, and slimy. We'll be bringing an animal cracker icebox cake for your snacking pleasure. Casual viewing environmentfeel free to laugh, talk, and comment on the movies as we screen them. And we'll watch as many films as we can cram into a 90 minute screening session. Curated by Gina Napolitan and Beaux Mingus.8/21New York, New York: Anthology Film Archiveshttp://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JEAN GENET/ROBERT FRANK & ALFRED LESLIE PROGRAM Jean Genet UN CHANT D'AMOUR 1950, 26 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent. Jean Genet's poetic expression of male eroticism pitted against the confines of prison cells and a homophobic state a powerfully resonant work that explores individual freedom and the laws of desire. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie PULL MY DAISY 1959, 28 minutes, 35mm, b&w. A largely spontaneous experiment, arranged in 1959 by Robert Frank along with Alfred Leslie. They enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who offered in place of an original screenplay a stage play he'd never finished writing, "The Beat Generation." The plot is based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. They're raising a family and trying to fit in with their suburban neighbors, and one night they invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner. But Neal's Beat friends crash the party, and that Marx Brothers-like scenario is the closest thing the film has to a storyline. Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.8/21San Francisco, California: San Francisco Exploratoriumhttp://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/soundwave-6-sub-mersion-august-21-20147:00pm, Pier 15/Kanbar Forum in the Exploratorium (Embarcadero at Green St) San Francisco, CA 94111 SOUNDWAVE ((6)) (SUB)MERSION Sound & image performances by Pamela Z, Duo IN/S (John Davis and Collin McKelvey), and Ashley Bellouin & Paul Clipson, as part of the Soundwave Festival.-----------------------FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2014-----------------------8/22New York, New York: Anthology Film Archiveshttp://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE by Marcel Hanoun In French with projected English subtitles, 1958, 68 min, 16mm, b&w "Based on a true incident, the film chronicles the wanderings of a woman and child looking for work and lodging in Paris. This is the only plot, and Hanoun has little interest in embellishing it with background and motivation: he never even makes it clear, for example, whether the woman is the child's mother, guardian or companion. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE is, more than a narrative, a formal stylistic exercise so rigorously disciplined and understated that it makes the visual asceticism of Robert Bresson seem almost Fellini-esque by comparison." TIME8/22San Francisco, California: Art in Cinema (as known as North Beach Film Society)7 pm, 946 A Greenwich Street (Between Taylor and Jones) SAN FRANCISCO BEAT FILMS OF THE 50'S Select films by Kenneth Anger, Harry Smith, Chris MacClaine, Jane Conger Belson and others. Special screening of David Sherman's to Re-Edit the World documenting North Beach Beat Filmmakers and material from Dione Vigne.-------------------------SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014-------------------------8/23Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Centerhttp://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. RECENT VIDEOS BY SUZY POLING A screening of recent video work by Los Angeles-based artists and musician Suzy Poling. These new short pieces incorporate sonic resonances, technological interferences, transcendental procedures, natural phenomenon, ecological uniformity, regeneration and degeneration. Poling has had solos shows at Cal Poly University, Queen's Nails Projects, Disjecta, Krowswork, ZG Gallery and DNJ Gallery. Along with making art for exhibition, Poling is a freelance fashion photographer and makes abstract silkscreened clothing.8/23Washington, DC: National Gallery of Arthttp://www.nga.gov2:30pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall ARCHIVAL FINDS This program presents only the unique or unusual archival findings of very rarely screened 16 mm prints. Titles include In Marin County (Peter Hutton, 1970) and Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley, 1971), among others. (Total running time approximately 95 minutes)-----------------------SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014-----------------------8/24Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinemahttp://ercatx.org7:30pm, The Museum of Human Achievement RUSSELL ETCHEN PRESENTS AN BREAKPOINT AN BREAKPOINT - An evening of experimental, found and transgressive film - An event curated by Russell Etchen - An opportunity 1. MEMORIAL DAY 2000 - found footage edited by Carly Ptak, 22 min. (2000) - 2. THE URGENCY - video by Jacob Ciocci with music by Extreme Animals, 35 min. (2013) - 3. AIR CONDITIONING - by Giuseppe Andrews, 84 min. (2005)- 1. Found Memorial Day weekend home movie footage. - 2. "These files have been burning a hole on my hard drive for too longâI have been working/adding to/deleting parts of these videos for different formats, versions and contexts for almost 3 years! These videos can be considered video essays, music videos, works of abstract animation, or YouTube junk, depending on your perspective. From my perspective the entire 35-minute compilation is my most recent attempt at grappling with life in contemporary USA. I hope you will download and share. Thanks!" - http://www.jacobciocci.org/ - 3. "Latuga is a desperate woman living a desperate life. Divorced from fancy suit store owner Classe, she is forced to live in a small studio apartment and care for the couple's ex-heroin addict son Puzo. The boy, obsessed with a toy barbecue pit, is always on the verge of some horrific act. In order to earn money, Latuga services her ex-husband's needs. Most of the time, that means picking up a rifle and killing the homeless bums that hang out in front of his shop. At other instances, it's something far more perverted. Meanwhile, Frisco and his deformed brother Defetto avoid Latuga's gunfire while coming up with a plan to get off the street. The solution? Marry someone of means and get a free pass to a place with the ultimate in live-in luxuryâ¦air conditioning. Naturally, Frisco winds up wooing Latuga, and they are quickly wed. When Classe finds out about the situation, he's livid. Such anger sparks Puzo into an act of violence. Fate, however, has a different plan for all of them."8/24New York, New York: Anthology Film Archiveshttp://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CROCKWELL/GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM Douglass Crockwell THE LONG BODIES (1949, 6 min, 16mm) GLEN FALLS SEQUENCE (1964, 8 min, 16mm) "The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful." D.C. Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS (1941, 5 min, 16mm, silent) "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." D.G. STOP MOTION TESTS (1942, 3 min, 16mm, silent) A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE (1943, 3 min, 16mm, silent) "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and flicker. A research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena." William Moritz Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS (1959-63, 18 min, 16mm. With Jack Smith.) "Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old 78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics. Whimsy was our achievement, as well as breaking out of step." K.J. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 min, 16-to-35mm blow-up, b&w/color. With Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support of The Film Foundation. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-strictured and yet triumphing on one level over the situation with style - enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" K.J. Total running time: ca. 85 min.8/24New York, New York: Anthology Film Archiveshttp://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/8:00 pm, 32 2nd AvenueESSENTIAL CINEMA: JEROME HILL PROGRAM These 35mm prints are the result of a recent preservation project undertaken by the Museum of Modern Art. DEATH IN THE FORENOON (1934/66, 2 minutes, 35mm, color) CANARIES (1969, 4 minutes, 35mm, color) & FILM PORTRAIT 1971, 81 minutes, 35mm, color. A pioneering work in autobiographical cinema; masterfully combines actual and staged footage and painting over images. Filmmaker, painter, and composer Jerome Hill was descended from the famous railroad-building family and lived on the same street with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Here he re-creates wonderfully with old family footage the period and milieu of the American upper class at the beginning of this century. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.plThe weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net _______________________________________________FrameWorks mailing listFrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.comhttps://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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