This week [September 27 - October 5, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Slamdance Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: October 09, 2014)
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Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, NJ, USA; Deadline: October 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* ERCATXIII [September 27, Austin, TX]
* New Works Salon [September 27, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: George and Mike Kuchar
Program [September 27, New York, New York]
* Sound/Film Performance For Out With the Tide
Opening [September 27, Pacifica]
* Martinez Autumn Sun + the Uprising + Black
Bloc/Street Fightin [September 27, San Francisco, California]
* Daredevils [September 27, Washington, DC]
* Film As Film: the Cinema of Gregory Markopoulos [September 28, 02138]
* Optical Poetry An Oskar Fischinger
Retrospective [September 28, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Essential Cinema: Owen Land Program [September 28, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Christopher Maclaine
Program [September 28, New York, New York]
* Seeing Sound A Mary Ellen Bute
Retrospective [September 29, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* The Fall of Communism As Seen In Gay Pornography + Tribulation 99: Alien
Anomalies Under America [September 30, Brooklyn, New York 11222]
* Neil Henderson / John James / Nick Collins [October 1, London, England]
* Queer Witches Unite! Jaha+Lou: the Autumnal
Equinox Pentacle Tour [October 1, Tucson]
* Carlos Motta: the Nefandus Trilogy [October 2, Chicago, Illinois]
* Prelinger's Yesterday and Tomorrow In
Detroit/Psycho-Geography [October 4, San Francisco, California]
* Experimental Films of the 40s and 50s In San
Francisco and New York City [October 4, San Francisco, California]
* Botanicollage Workshop [October 4, Seattle, Washington]
* Film As Film: the Cinema of Gregory Markopoulos [October 5, 02138]
* The Cinema Cabaret: Re-Takes On North
American History [October 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Collaborating With Nature Screening [October 5, Seattle, Washington]
* Neue-Noise! A Night of Experimental Sound & vision [October 5, Tucson]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
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9/27
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
8:00pm, Mass Gallery, 507 Calles St.
ERCATX III
Free! - Experimental Response Cinema is excited to present its third
showcase/salon of Austin based moving image artists! Taking the form of
a curated open-screening, this is an annual moment where we invite
artists to show their recent projects. This years edition features work
by Henna Chou & Wiley Wiggins, Bug Davidson, Raul De Lara, Jarrett
Hayman, Sarah Hill, Barna Kantor, Tom Rosenberg, Ekrem Serdar, Jeanne
Stern, Rachel Stuckey, Scott Stark and Dan Stuyck.
9/27
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. Thom Andersen will show his
new work The Tony Longo Trilogy. Dana Berman Duff will show her film
Catalogue, a silent 16mm black-and-white film that considers the time it
takes to look at desirable objects, in this case, those presented in a
successful furniture company's catalogue of knock-off designer pieces
photographed in staged rooms to imitate the style of film noir. Luciano
Piazza will show Windows by Night, which can be understood as a visual
essay on the mass phenomenon of loneliness, or, alternatively, as no
more than the life of neighbors moving through their natural urban
habitat: apartments. It explores the cinematic qualities of the city's
windows, seeing them as small screens from which a performance, both
intimate and public, is woven into a modular narrative. The protagonists
of these images are acting under their own direction, possibly oblivious
to the fact that there is another director recording them. Windows by
Night was recorded in its entirety from windows found in Buenos Aires,
New York, Caracas, Chicago, London and Rome. Plus other artists TBA! And
in our store-front window, artist Reza Monahan will install his
three-channel video work Swollen Birth Switch, of which Joseph Mattson,
author of Eat The Sun writes, "The iris pops as the rear-end bleeds, the
retina smokes the anadromous dream, but you just can't go back you can't
go back you can't back: the vagina and the whipping are one-way tunnels
when you're Switched at Birth, Swelling/Swollen Birth Switch become the
itch forever unscratched and telling, sharp, bug light at birth if the
light cuts right..."
9/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: GEORGE AND MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM
All films preserved by Anthology with support from the National Film
Preservation Foundation. THE NAKED AND THE NUDE (1957, 36 min,
8mm-to-16mm blow-up, sound on CD) The oldest surviving Kuchar mini-epic,
this patriotic WWII period piece (made by high schoolers) chronicles the
desires and destinies of carnal appetites on the front line.
"Big
Rousing
Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a
Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner sing
the title song. You'll come out whistling from both ends." G.K. PUSSY
ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up, sound on CD) "It
glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men
and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into
maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for
young and old to enjoy." G.K. BORN OF THE WIND (1962, 24 min,
8mm-to-16mm) Preserved by Anthology through the Avant-Garde Masters
program funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the National
Film Preservation Foundation. Special thanks to Cineric, Inc. "A tender
and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has
restored to life
2,000 years as a mummy couldn't quench her thirst for
love!" G.K. TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN (1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up,
sound on CD) Mike's cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians
caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. Total running
time: ca. 95 min.
9/27
Pacifica: Rausch St. by the Sea
After dusk, 183 Hilton Way, Pacifica, CA. 94044
SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCE FOR OUT WITH THE TIDE OPENING
Collin McKelvey and Paul Clipson present a sound/16mm film performance
as part of the 30-hour opening of OUT WITH THE TIDE, a group show
curated by Alexander Cheeves. Artists include: Alexander Cheves, Joshua
Churchill, Paul Clipson, Alex Dangles, Ted Foley, Maggie Haas, Kelly
Lynn Jones, Hillary Kantmann, Walter Logue, Colin McKelvey, and Brooke
Valentine. The opening runs from noon Saturday, September 27th until 6pm
on the Sunday the 28th. The 25 min. sound/film performance is at dusk on
Saturday.
9/27
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MARTINEZ AUTUMN SUN + THE UPRISING + BLACK BLOC/STREET FIGHTIN
Morally uncompromised and masterly in doc technique, here in person is
local hero David Martinez with his award-winning diary of Oakland's
Occupy movement. In the works for years, David's compelling chronicle,
here in its West Coast premiere(!), is a riveting half-hour
re-visitation with the many faces and powerful forces of that epochal
moment in East Bay activism. CO-BILLED: Back by popular demand is The
Uprising, Peter Snowdon's cathartic compendium of Arab Spring footage,
painstakingly compiled from amateur-video and cell-phone verité posted
online! This crowd-sourced thunderbolt has shaken awake audiences around
the world in a moving demonstration of how personal communications
technology has impacted both journalism and political history itself.
ALSO: Franklin Lopez's primer on Black Bloc tactics, Doug Katelus'
Bronson/Zuckerberg mash-up, and Kelly Gallagher's musical animation for
The Coup.
9/27
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2;30pm, between 3rd and 9th Streets NW along Constitution Avenue NW
DAREDEVILS
Baltimore-based artist Stephanie Barber's first feature is the
experimental narrative of a young writer who interviews an established
artist and continues to feel reverberations from their discussion
throughout the day. "What's set up to seem like a brief opening scene
slowly reveals itself as the main event. The easy cinematic corollary
here is My Dinner with Andre: two people sliding into the comfort of a
place of focused non-action, a location for the transmittal of intellect
and experience, a space to lengthen the second before elation goes
south. . . . The artist has to go, allowing the details of exterior life
to come into relief" Rachel Rakes. (Stephanie Barber, 2013, 83
minutes)
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
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9/28
02138: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
4:30pm, 24 Quincy Street
FILM AS FILM: THE CINEMA OF GREGORY MARKOPOULOS
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos is an
indispensable new publication which brings together over 90 different
texts written by the filmmaker between 1950 and 1992. In these essays,
Markopoulos chronicles the burgeoning New American Cinema scene and
responds to auteurs such as Dreyer, Bresson and Mitzoguchi. He also
writes in detail on the genesis of his own films and the early work of
Robert Beavers. The most individualistic and poetic texts are devoted to
his aspirations for the medium of film, and the speculative project of
Temenos. To celebrate the publication, a discussion between its editor
Mark Webber, the scholar P. Adams Sitney and filmmaker Robert Beavers
will follow the screening of Gammelion, Markopoulos' elegant film of the
castle of Roccasinibalda, which employs an intricate system of fades to
extend five minutes of footage to an hour of viewing time. This
inventive technique, in which brief images appear amongst measures of
black and clear frames, was a crucial step towards the structure his
monumental, final work. Eniaios is represented in the season by
Hagiographia II, in which the filmmaker returns to his Hellenic roots to
film the Byzantine city of Mistra in the Peloponnese, and by Genius (a
version of Faust featuring David Hockney, Leonore Fini, Daniel Henry
Kahnweiler) and his 1975 portrait of the artists Gilbert and George. The
Harvard Film Archive presents six evenings of films with special guests
from September 19 through October 5. Genius Switzerland 1970, 16mm,
color, silent, 60 min Gilbert and George Switzerland 1975, 16mm, silent,
12 min
9/28
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
OPTICAL POETRY AN OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE
Presented in association with Center for Visual Music Decades before
computer graphics, before music videos, even before Fantasia (the 1940
version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger
(1900 - 1967), master of 'absolute' or nonobjective filmmaking. He was
cinema's Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920's in Germany,
created exquisite 'visual music' using geometric patterns and shapes
choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz. John Canemaker, New
York Times Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th
century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of
that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open
abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time.
Biographer William Moritz Introduction by Cindy Keefer [Spirals]
Germany c.1926, 35mm, b/w, silent, 3 min [Walking from Munich to Berlin]
Germany 1927, 35mm, b/w, silent, 3 min* Spiritual Constructions Germany
c.1927, 35mm, b/w, silent, 7 min * Studie Nr. 2 Germany c. 1930, 35mm,
b/w, silent, 2 min* Studie Nr. 5 Music: "I've Never Seen a Smile Like
Yours" Germany 1930, 35mm, b/w, sound, 3:15 min Studie Nr. 6 Music:
Jacinto Guerrero, "Los Verderones" Germany 1930, 35mm, b/w, sound, 2.5
min* Studie Nr. 7 Music: "Hungarian Dance no. 5," Johannes Brahms
Germany 1931, 35mm, b/w, sound, 2.5 min Studie Nr. 8 Music: "The
Sorcerer's Apprentice," Paul Dukas Germany 1931, 35mm, b/w, sound, 5 min
Coloratura Germany 1932, 35mm, b/w, sound, 2.5 min* Kreise (Circles)
(Tolirag Ad Version) Germany 1933-34, 35mm, color, sound, 2 min*
Muratti Greift Ein (Muratti Marches On) Music: Excerpts from Josef
Bayer's "Die Puppenfee" Germany 1934, 35mm, color, sound, 3 min* Muratti
Privat Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Germany 1935, 35mm, b/w, sound, 3
min* Komposition in Blau (Composition in Blue) Music: "Merry Wives of
Windsor Overture," Otto Nicolai Germany 1935, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min*
Allegretto (early version) Music: "Radio Dynamics," Ralph Rainger US
1936, 35mm, color, sound, 2.5 min* Allegretto (late version) Music:
"Radio Dynamics," Ralph Rainger US 1936-43, 35mm, color, sound, 2.5 min
Radio Dynamics US 1942, 35mm, color, silent, 4 min An American March
Music: "Stars and Stripes Forever," John Philip Sousa US 1941, 35mm,
color, sound, 3 min* Motion Painting No. 1 Music: "Brandenburg Concerto
no. 3," Johann Sebastian Bach US 1947, 35mm, color, sound, 11 min*
9/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OWEN LAND PROGRAM
"His remarkable faculty is as maker of images.... [T]he images he
photographs are among the most radical, super-real and haunting images
the cinema has ever given us." P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM EARLY
FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW (ca. 1961-62, ca. 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up.
Preserved by Anthology with support from Cineric, Inc.) These films are
not part of the Essential Cinema. According to Jonas Mekas, Landow used
to show these films along with FLEMING FALOON at early screenings before
he pulled them from his repertoire. FLEMING FALOON (1963, 6 min, 16mm)
FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT
PARTICLES, ETC. (1965/66, 5 min, 16mm, silent) DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO
FOLLIES (1967, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE
SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER (1968, 9 min, 16mm, b&w) INSTITUTIONAL
QUALITY (1969, 5 min, 16mm) REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (1970, 5 min,
16mm) WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (1972, 13 min, 16mm) THANK YOU
JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT (1973, 6 min, 16mm) Total running time:
ca. 80 min.
9/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE PROGRAM
"The few facts that are known about Maclaine are, at best, sketchy. He
was a published poet, a sort of down and out San Francisco bohemian who
later became one of the psychic casualties of that scene. His last years
were spent at Sunnyacres, a state mental hospital in Fairfield,
California. These films, along with Ron Rice's, are clearly the most
significant work to come out of the beat period." J.J. Murphy All films
preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE MAN WHO INVENTED GOLD (1957,
14 min, 16mm) BEAT (1958, 6 min, 16mm) SCOTCH HOP (1959, 5.5 min, 16mm)
THE END (1953, 35 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 65 min.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
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9/29
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
SEEING SOUND A MARY ELLEN BUTE RETROSPECTIVE
Presented in association with Center for Visual Music Some of Mary Ellen
Bute's pioneering early abstract films were shown at Radio City Music
Hall in the 1930s and often screened before Hollywood features or even
at RCA Victor sales conventions, possibly making her one of the most
widely-seen avant garde filmmakers in the US at the time according to
film historian Cecile Starr. Usually working on 35mm, Bute refered to
some of her films as "Seeing Sound" and this retrospective includes
those dynamic works in addition to all of her other short abstract
films, including some which are rarely screened. The Harvard Film
Archive welcomes curator/archivist Cindy Keefer from the Center for
Visual Music to introduce Bute's innovative, exuberant work. Prints from
the Cecile Starr Collection at the Center for Visual Music. Introduction
by Cindy Keefer Rhythm in Light US 1934, 16mm, b/w, 5 min Synchromy No.
2 US 1935, 16mm, b/w, 5 min Dada US 1936, 16mm, b/w, 3 min Parabola US
1937, 16mm, b/w, 9 min Escape US 1937, 16mm, color, 5 min Spook Sport US
1939, 16mm, color, 8 min Tarantella US 1940, 16mm, color, 5 min Polka
Graph US 1947, 16mm, color, 5 min Color Rhapsody US 1948, 16mm, color, 6
min Imagination US 1948, 16mm, color, 3 min New Sensations in Sound US
1949, 16mm, color, 3 min Pastorale US 1950, 16mm, color, 9 min Mood
Contrasts US 1953, 16mm, color, 7 min Abstronic US 1952, digital video,
color, 7 min
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
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9/30
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman St
THE FALL OF COMMUNISM AS SEEN IN GAY PORNOGRAPHY + TRIBULATION 99: ALIEN
ANOMALIES UNDER AMERICA
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography, William E. Jones,
1998, video, 19 mins Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America,
Craig Baldwin, 1991, 16mm, 48 mins Tonight's program brings together two
artists who have significantly advanced the practices of cinematic
appropriation, moving forward a tradition that stretches from the
pioneering efforts of Esfir Shub and Joseph Cornell, through the
found-footage works of Bruce Conner and Peter Roehr, to the internet
assemblages of our own day. In these two pieces, William E. Jones and
Craig Baldwin both excise forgotten fragments of visual culture to
contend, in very different ways, with the geopolitical upheavals of the
Cold War and its aftermath, taking seriously the aesthetic possibilities
contained within otherwise disposable media.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2014
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10/1
London, England: CONTACT
http://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/
7pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, E2 9EG
NEIL HENDERSON / JOHN JAMES / NICK COLLINS
CONTACT is a new series of screening events presenting a range of
filmmakers' work and associations across different practices and art
forms. The first programme in the series explores the documentation,
depiction and experience of the landscape and the close at hand in the
films of Neil Henderson and Nick Collins and the poetry of John James.
See -
http://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/#!neil-henderson-john-james-nick-coll
ins/c1bf2 - for details.
10/1
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
QUEER WITCHES UNITE! JAHA+LOU: THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX PENTACLE TOUR
A Ritual Group Sound Healing Session & Art Installation Write the
artists, "JAHA+LOU is a collaboration between two queer witch
priestesses who weave sound, textile, and sacred art installation to
facilitate a group healing. A sacred weaving using a handmade loom,
takes place throughout the ritual, connecting our intentions with the
collective, the earth and all that is."
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
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10/2
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60601
CARLOS MOTTA: THE NEFANDUS TRILOGY
Carlos Motta in person! Carlos Motta's practice draws upon various
political histories in an attempt to articulate counter narratives that
recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Composed of
the three films Nefandus, Shipwreck (Naufragios) and The Defeated (La
visión de los vencidos) his 2013 Nefandus Trilogy is a haunting
examination of pre-Hispanic homoeroticism and its brutal stigmatization
during Europe's colonization of the Americas. Motta accompanies the
trilogy with excerpts from his ongoing Democracy Cycle, including We Who
Feel Differently (2011), a database documentary that addresses critical
issues of contemporary queer culture, and Gender Talents (in-progress),
a multiplatform documentary on international trans and intersex
activism. 201114, Colombia/Guatemala/India/Norway/Portugal/South
Korea/USA, multiple formats, ca 60 min + discussion In English, Spanish,
Kogi, Norwegian, and Korean with English subtitles. CATE is FREE to SAIC
students with a valid student ID $11 General Public $6 Film Center
members $7 Students $5 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of
Chicago staff
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014
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10/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
PRELINGERS YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW IN DETROIT/PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY
One of the delightfully enlightened sensibilities behind the
world-changing Internet Archive, Rick Prelinger has invented a novel
form of cinema in his audience-narrated Collective Memory events. Many
are surely familiar with the dozen-plus he's already presented, lovingly
woven from rescued home movies of our own San Francisco. But Rick also
has a history with Detroit, and tonight we actively participate in the
West Coast premiere of his latest exploration of that Motor City. Mixing
amateur footage with industrial films, traversing work and leisure
cultures, and montaging material from both Black and White communities,
his program counters the "ruin porn" stereotypes of today's Detroit with
rich images of a vibrant multi-cultural city. Come early for Michigan
camaraderie, ambient cityscapes, and refreshments at the reception for
Mr. Prelinger. $8.
10/4
San Francisco, California: Art in Cinema
not available
7PM, 946 A Greenwich Street (Between Taylor and Jones)
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF THE 40S AND 50S IN SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK CITY
Films include work of Harry Smith, Shirley Clarke, Willard Maas, Marie
Menkin, Chester Kessler and others. Admission is free bring something to
share with others.
10/4
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
11 AM, 1515 12th Avenue
BOTANICOLLAGE WORKSHOP
Filmmaker Caryn Cline will offer a handmade 16mm film workshop for all
ages at the Northwest Film Forum on Saturday, Oct. 4th from 11 AM-4 PM.
Working with local botanicals and 16mm film leader, students will
collaborate on a direct animation film using the botanicollage technique
that has been a part of Cline's filmmaking practice for several years.
No previous experience with film or animation is required. The
willingness to experiment and make mistakes is helpful. The students'
work will be screened the following afternoon at Northwest Film Forum as
part of a program called "Collaborating with Nature," which was
co-curated by Cline and Portland State University professor and media
artist Julie Perini.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2014
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10/5
02138: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
FILM AS FILM: THE CINEMA OF GREGORY MARKOPOULOS
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos is an
indispensable new publication which brings together over 90 different
texts written by the filmmaker between 1950 and 1992. In these essays,
Markopoulos chronicles the burgeoning New American Cinema scene and
responds to auteurs such as Dreyer, Bresson and Mitzoguchi. He also
writes in detail on the genesis of his own films and the early work of
Robert Beavers. The most individualistic and poetic texts are devoted to
his aspirations for the medium of film, and the speculative project of
Temenos. To celebrate the publication, a discussion between its editor
Mark Webber, the scholar P. Adams Sitney and filmmaker Robert Beavers
will follow the screening of Gammelion, Markopoulos' elegant film of the
castle of Roccasinibalda, which employs an intricate system of fades to
extend five minutes of footage to an hour of viewing time. This
inventive technique, in which brief images appear amongst measures of
black and clear frames, was a crucial step towards the structure his
monumental, final work. Eniaios is represented in the season by
Hagiographia II, in which the filmmaker returns to his Hellenic roots to
film the Byzantine city of Mistra in the Peloponnese, and by Genius (a
version of Faust featuring David Hockney, Leonore Fini, Daniel Henry
Kahnweiler) and his 1975 portrait of the artists Gilbert and George. The
Harvard Film Archive presents six evenings of films with special guests
from September 19 through October 5. Hagiographia II (second version)
Switzerland 1970, 16mm, color, silent, 60 min
10/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street
THE CINEMA CABARET: RE-TAKES ON NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
Tonight ten poet-performers take on the movies by writing scripts that
re-tell scenes from seven feature films, using them to repackage aspects
of the history of our continent. Sometimes called "movie telling" or
"neo-benshi" or glossed as performance art, the seven pieces tonight
will take scenes from different feature films and torque them with
sometimes comic, critical, or poetic interpretations, all relating in
some way to the history, or alternate history, of North America. Short
scenes from Robocop, Gravity, The Sound of Music, Chinatown and others
will be retold by Neelanjana Banerjee, Robin Sukhadia, Jen Hofer,
Douglas Kearney, Nicole McJamerson, Janice Lee, Tatiana
Luboviski-Acosta, Jen Nellis, Konrad Steiner, and Jackie Wang. Tickets:
$10 general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Tickets available in advance at http://bpt.me/869109
10/5
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
4 PM, 1515 12th Avenue
COLLABORATING WITH NATURE SCREENING
"Collaborating with Nature," a series of short films co-curated by Caryn
Cline and Julie Perini, will screen at Northwest Film Forum. Presented
at festivals and venues in Portland, Oregon, Tucson, Arizona, and
Albuquerque, New Mexico before coming to Seattle, "Collaborating with
Nature" showcases a variety of natural, organic techniques filmmakers
use to alter, expose and/or process film. Artists in the program include
local filmmakers Caryn Cline, Devon Damonte and Ruth Hayes, who will
attend, along with Colorado-based filmmaker Eric Stewart. Others in the
program include Dorothea Breamer, Dagie Brundert, Cade Bursell, Lori
Felker, Melissa Friedling, Eva Kolzce, Christine Lucy Latimer, Robbie
Land, Julie Perini, Jeremy Rendina, Ken Paul Rosenthal and Steve
Woloshen. Students from Cline's botanicollage workhsop from the previous
day will have their work screened as well (see the entry for Oct. 4).
Olympia-based filmmaker Damonte will close the program with a live 16mm
projector performance. Dr. Johanna Gosse, a historian of art, film and
media, will provide a brief introduction to the program. There will be a
Q & A with the filmmakers after the program.
10/5
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
NEUE-NOISE! A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL SOUND & VISION
A night of experimental sound & vision Part of Exploded View's
continuing series of sound art and noise events. Tonight's show, curated
by Dave Wright, features electro-acoustic experimental noise with Vox
Barbara from San Francisco and locals Skincage, G and Not Breathing.
Video experiments and projections from Adam Cooper-Tehran and
Falcotronik. Bring earplugs!
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