This week [October 11 - 19, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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We Have Never Been Modern: An Experimental Film
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach,
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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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* Autour De L'Art Des Bruits De Luigi Russolo (Headwar + EugÃNe Deslaw
+ Jean PainlevÃ) [October 11, 93100 Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France]
* Optronica1: Davis/Tooth + Darr +
Rourke/Electric! Electric! [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* Andean-Garde: Experimental Documentation In
the andes (1963-2014) [October 12, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Richard Tuohy: Hand-Crafted Cinema [October 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Walden [October 12, New York, New York]
* Iris Barry Program [October 12, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Cyrus Tabar [October 12, Oakland]
* Performance video and Colored Gloves! Gary Setzer & Tommy Becker In
Person [October 12, Tucson]
* Daredevils [October 13, New York, New York]
* Daredevils [October 14, New York, New York]
* Liberte De Parole [October 15, 75005 Paris, France]
* Live video Transformation Hex! Qalhexico:
video Performance [October 15, Tucson]
* An Evening With John Smith [October 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Mike Kuchar Program 1 [October 17, New York, New York]
* Mike Kuchar Program 2 [October 17, New York, New York]
* Home Movie Day! [October 18, Austin, Texas 78702]
* A Minor Cinema [October 18, Austin, Texas 78702]
* Home Movie Day Boston - Room B04 [October 18, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Essential Cinema: Reminisces of A Journey To
Lithuania [October 18, New York, New York]
* Mike Kuchar Program 3 [October 18, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Richard Tuohy Program [October 18, New York, New York]
* A Criminal Account of Pleasure: the George
Kuchar Reader [October 18, San Francisco, California]
* Optronica2: Geduldig/Moon +
Baldwin/Dumptruck + Becker/Electronic Cabaret
[October 18, San Francisco, California]
* CinÉ-Concert: La Princesse Aux HuÎTres Et L'atelier Des Sons (Et Autres
PÉPites) [October 19, 75018 Paris, France]
* Makino Takashi: Entering A Noisy Cosmos
[October 19, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: La Region Centrale [October 19, New York, New York]
* Show & Tell: Richard Tuohy Program 2 [October 19, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014
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10/11
93100 Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France: FESTIVAL
DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS
8:00pm, 7 rue richard lenoir
AUTOUR DE L'ART DES BRUITS DE LUIGI RUSSOLO (HEADWAR + EUGÃNE DESLAW
+ JEAN PAINLEVÃ)
HORS LES MURS#1 DU FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS
(11>26/10/14) en partenariat avec les Instants Chavirés
Montreuil {CINÉ-CONCERT + PROJECTION + CONCERT D'HEADWAR} En 1913,
le futuriste Luigi Russolo écrivait un manifeste intitulé
L'ART DES BRUITS dans lequel il théorisait l'emploi du bruit dans
le domaine musical. Durant son séjour parisien, dans les
années 1920, Luigi Russolo accompagnait avec ses machines sonores
les projections des films d'Eugène Deslaw et de Jean
Painlevé. Cette soirée spéciale autour de cette
ouvrage offrira une nouvelle sonorisation de deux films de ces deux
auteurs avec un ciné-concert du groupe de rock bruitiste
acharné, auteur de marasmes mélodiques et de musiques
immédiates : Headwar. Le ciné-concert sera suivi d'une
projection de films expérimentaux contemporains (Takeshi Ito,
Bertran Berrenger, Jean-Jacques Uhl, Fabien Rennet, François
Rabet, Boris du Boullay...) et d'une improvisation musicale du groupe.
à PROPOS DE HEADWAR: jason et nico, fans de la scène
punk new-yorkaise des années 80, forment christophory en 1996
puis rencontrent Krine (co-fondatrice quelques années plus
tôt de Mamafaca). Le groupe deviendra alors Headwar et s'enrichira
de nouveaux batteurs et d'une pointe de sonorité saturé.
Ne revendiquant aucun style particulier, le groupe prend aussi bien dans
ses multiples influences musicales (de Sonic Youth à Suicide) que
dans ses délires improvisés. ***** PROGRAMME:
CINÉ-CONCERT DU GROUPE HEADWAR SUR: LA MARCHE DES MACHINES,
Eugène Deslaw, France, 1928 , 9' Avec ce film, Eugène
Deslaw tenta de réaliser une symphonie à la gloire du
monde moderne et de ses plus fidèles représentants: les
machines et leurs pistons, rouages, mécanismes
d'entraînement etc. Une illustration de la quête
moderniste et de sa valorisation de la poétique de la machine. La
prise de vues fut effectuée par Boris Kauffman. Ã
l'origine le film était sonorisé avec une musique de Luigi
Russolo. MATHUSALEM, Jean Painlevé, France, 1926, 7' Cinq
séquences filmées, projetées à l'origine,
pendant la pièce de théâtre
surréaliste d'Ivan Goll, avec notamment Antonin Artaud. +
Projection de courts-métrages expérimentaux contemporains
+ Concert d'HEADWAR
10/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OPTRONICA1: DAVIS/TOOTH + DARR + ROURKE/ELECTRIC! ELECTRIC!
Cresting the new wave of expanded cinema, the Bay Area is discovering
new correspondences between the audio and the visual realms. Intermedia
pioneers John Davis and Sweet Tooth manage to create a third voice from
the sum of two disciplines--old Soviet newsreels and hand-patched analog
synthesizer--in the world premiere of their Spontaneous Order. Brian
Darr also brings his own synth, and gongs and ratchets, to conjure up
marvelous soundtracks to silent filmsMack Sennett's frolic of Fatty
Arbuckle at our own 1915 World's Fair and Sadistic Seaweed, a feral
homage to the Musee Mechanique, just a short swim away from Treasure
Island! Current artist-in-resident at the SF Dump, Jeremy Rourke
compresses a garbage-truck's worth of Frisco effluvia into a wildly
inspired live-musical animation, A Way of Falling. PLUS Len Lye, Mary
Ellen Bute, and Dan Gunning on Flexi-Discs (and free 78rpm records!).
$7.77.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014
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10/12
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
ANDEAN-GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE ANDES (1963-2014)
Sunday, October 12th 2014 at 7:30pm. $9 Co-presented by Tiempo Libre
& Cinema Tropical These Andean non-fiction shorts capture the core
of the transformation this region and its people have experienced, from
1963 to the present. These changes are reflected in the cinematic
language of each filmmaker, going from the dialectical montage by
Sanjinés and Robles Godoy to the multi-format mosaic by Hilari
and VÃlchez. The works include critical reflections about
representing the other and the unifying role of the media to form a
community, but also the power of cinema to shake the static politics of
a country and to transcend the verbal limitations of communication
between cultures. Works presented: + Solo puedo mostrarte el color / I
can only show you the color Dir. Fernando Vilchez 25 min -
Perú - 2014 In the high plateau of the Peruvian jungle, a
mining company forces their way into the depths of the forest to search
for mineral resources. Known for their fearlessness, the Awajun people
stand up to the invaders. But in the fight for their land they are
brutally struck down by the government. Violence breeds
counter-violence. A video workshop is the way of follow the trail of
violence. Short film premiered at Berlinale's official competition of
2014. + Adelante / Forward Dir. Miguel Hilari (Bolivia) 7 min - Bolivia
- 2014 Energy in a time and space. An exploration of the relationship
between dance and ritual. Hilari's first documentary feature "The
Corral and the Wind" premiered at Cinema du Reel 2014 and won best
film at FIDOCS in Chile. + Los abducidos / The Abducted Dir. Juan Daniel
F. Molero 11 min - Perú - 2011 An unkown man with a camera
invades a hermetic native village in the middle of the Peruvian jungle,
when suddenly strange disappearances start happening in this
ethnographical sci-fi film. Molero's first feature, Reminiscencias
(2010), screened at MoMA's Modern Mondays, Rotterdam and FIDMarseille. +
Enterprisse Dir. Kiro Russo 9 min - Bolivia - 2010 The man, the city,
the machine. Once he's up in the Enterprisse, he has to follow the
instructions. Russo's next short film, Juku, premiered at Sundance 2012.
+ Radio Belén Dir. Gianfranco Annichini 11 min -
Perú -1983 Located in the middle of a market and a port on
the Amazon jungle, a poor radio station can only broadcast through
speakers. The filmmaker reduces his commentary to a few final shots, the
rest is from the voice of the people. + VÃa Satélite:
En vivo y en directo / Via Satellite: live Dir. Armando Robles Godoy 10
min - Perú - 1973 Five radial narrations of the same soccer
match of the Peruvian national team juxtaposed with a suggestive montage
of empty streets and emblematic monuments of the country's capital city,
Lima. Robles Godoy is Peru's first and main auteur but still
undiscovered for international audiences. His films, like The Green Wall
(1970), are a mysterious combination of lyrical images and fragmented
structures. + Revolución / Revolution Dir. Jorge Sanjinés 9
min - Bolivia - 1963 Made out of fragments of footage filmed while
making propaganda documentaries for the state lottery, and edited
according to theoretical precepts of Soviet montage, Revolución
could be considered Bolivia's first experimental film. In addition to
using cinema to resist dictatorships and American imperialism, Jorge
Sanjinés was also one of the first to theorize the representation
of non-Western subjectivities in cinema. Curated by Juan Daniel F.
Molero
10/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
RICHARD TUOHY: HAND-CRAFTED CINEMA
Filmmaker Richard Tuohy comes through Los Angeles on tour from
Australia. His hand-made films investigate the range of visual
possibilities found in careful celluloid manipulation. Essential to see
in person, projected on a screen, his films take you close into natural
objects. His latest series, working in interference patterns will
captivate your mind with their psychedelic explorations. Tickets: $10
general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Tickets available in advance at http://bpt.me/874151
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WALDEN
by Jonas Mekas 1969, 180 min, 16mm New print by Cinema Arts Inc. Special
thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran Bowen (Trackwise), and Pip Laurenson
(Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I have been
keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and
reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York,
seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten
seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes
diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at
your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is
to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you
get it now, or you don't get it at all." J.M. "I make home movies
therefore I live. I live therefore I make home movies." from the
soundtrack
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
IRIS BARRY PROGRAM
This year saw the publication of Bob Sitton's invaluable new book, LADY
IN THE DARK: IRIS BARRY AND THE ART OF FILM (Columbia University Press,
2014), which illuminates the life and work of a crucial if largely
forgotten film cultural figure Iris Barry, the co-founder and initial
curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Department. For this program,
Sitton will give a special lecture that will show how the conflict
between Barry and Maya Deren facilitated the birth of the New American
Cinema movement. Deren's 1945 application for a Rockefeller grant to
support her work was rejected outright by Barry, resulting in Deren's
rental of the Provincetown Playhouse for showings of her films in 1946.
Among those inspired by Deren's screenings were the founders of such
alternative organizations as the New American Cinema Group, Cinema 16,
and, later on, the Filmmakers' Cinematheque. Sitton examines the
aesthetic differences between Barry and Deren, and explains how Barry's
narrative-based aesthetic led to her antipathy toward Deren's work.
Sitton's lecture will be followed by a screening of Deren's AT LAND
(1944, 14 min, 16mm, b&w).
10/12
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS CYRUS TABAR
Cyrus Tabar is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with motion
picture and sound. He often blends a multitude of formats from 16mm
found footage and digital processing to tape based musical compositions
and live manipulated field recordings. Science fiction novels often
influence his work, which often revolves around near-future space
exploration, planetary phenomena, and time travel. With a background in
immersive installation art using pure light and sound as formal mediums,
Cyrus blends the experiential nature of installation with the temporal
facet of performance. He will be performing past works Tempus Fluxus,
Optica, The Spider and The Fly, and Terraforma in addition to his latest
piece made exclusively for Shapeshifters dealing with lost identity and
the path to redefine it.
10/12
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
PERFORMANCE VIDEO AND COLORED GLOVES! GARY SETZER & TOMMY BECKER IN
PERSON
Interdisciplinary artist, Gary Setzer opens his archives and shares a
selection of single-channel videos reaching back to the turn of the
century. Equal parts Sesame Street and process-oriented art, Setzer
playfully blurs the distinction between these two languagesthe
aggressively tamed palette of an audience-friendly educational
experience and the less accessible lineage of the avant-garde. For Tommy
Becker, this evening's show will explore and celebrate the dynamics of
the high school landscape and complexities of relationships. Within
these two themes, the role of color in art history, the vitality of
lemons as educational inquiry and the ebb and flow in our interpersonal
lives will be introduced through PowerPoint and celebrated in song.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014
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10/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
DAREDEVILS
by Stephanie Barber 2013, 85 min, HD Share + Film Notes Baltimore-based
multi-media artist Stephanie Barber, who presented two programs of her
deceptively simple, intellectually challenging, yet often delightfully
absurdist short films and videos at Anthology in 2010, returns for two
screenings of her first feature-length piece, DAREDEVILS. Barber's work
is truly like no one else's, with each film and video enacting
fascinating experiments with structure, embarking on in-depth
explorations of language and image, and registering delicate, elusive
emotional states. With DAREDEVILS Barber extends these qualities into
feature-length form with great confidence and grace. Sitting gently
between video art, narrative, and poetic essay, it centers on a writer
as she interviews a well-known artist and feels the reverberations of
their discussion throughout her day. Visually spare, still and verbose,
the video encompasses three embodiments of language a dialogue, two
monologues, and a song. Starring KimSu Theiler, Flora Coker, and Adam
Robinson and featuring the voices of Susan Howe and Jenny Graf,
DAREDEVILS constructs a metaphor of an artist's life and work as
daredevilry. It reflects the rising action, climax, and denouement that
structure most classical narratives, but here these movements are
sculpted, not by cause and effect, but by the subtle movements to and
from understanding that are inherent in conversation. Bubbles of
intimacy are blown and popped, begin to be blown again. Like all of
Barber's work, DAREDEVILS resists classification as it guides us into
intellectual and emotional territory to which few films are able (or
care) to penetrate. "[T]he holes she pokes in language suggest that
birth makes us all daredevils jumping out of airplanes. Language is
merely the parachute of meaning we cling to in efforts to make sense of
the world as it rushes by. And we reach for the ripcord when we talk to
each other, hoping the inevitable landing is soft and gentle rather than
the abrupt stop we know is rushing toward us all too quickly." Bret
McCabe, BMOREART
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2014
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10/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
DAREDEVILS
See notes for Oct. 13, 7:30 pm.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
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10/15
75005 Paris, France: Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris
8:30pm, 42 Rue Galande
LIBERTE DE PAROLE
HORS LES MURS#3 du 16E FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS en
partenariat avec l'association BRAQUAGE. De la parole chargée de sens à
une parole de plus en plus fragmentaire, éparpillée, ludique et proche
d'une forme de danse fuyante et primitive, cette séance, à travers une
sélection de courts-métrages, invitera à un voyage au bout de la voix et
des formes de liberté qu'elle apporte.
10/15
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7, 197 E Toole Ave
LIVE VIDEO TRANSFORMATION HEX! QALHEXICO: VIDEO PERFORMANCE
QALHEXICO presents "Da'ath I," an audio-visual spell cast against the
Worldwide Mad Deadly Gangster Gods of War & Industry. The ceremonial
performance is a live mix of drone music & esoteric video projections.
Invoked by members Samantha Angiulo, R.A Sanchez, Heather Gray, and Adam
Cooper-Terán. QALHEXICO is a coven of drone occultists from Tucson and
Phoenix engaged in psychic battle against the Worldwide Mad Deadly
Gangster Gods of War & Industry. The second portion of the evening, EV
presents a stunning feature length film on utopian society, ecology and
Black Metal.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014
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10/16
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60601
AN EVENING WITH JOHN SMITH
John Smith in person! In his playful and thought-provoking short films
and videos, UK filmmaker John Smith explores the language of cinema and
reflects on the image's role in politics, war, and the global economy.
The 2013 Jarman Award winner presents a selection from across his
40-year career, including the seminal The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), an
absurdist fantasy applied to the banal setting of a busy London street;
Throwing Stones (2004), a personal and political meditation on ongoing
conflicts in the Middle East; Dad's Stick (2012), a surprising personal
history; and the Chicago premiere of Dark Light (2014), among others.
Presented in collaboration with the Video Data Bank, Northwestern
University's Department of Art Theory and Practice, Mary and Leigh Block
Museum of Art, and the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center.
Smith presents his work at the Block Museum of Art on Wednesday, October
15 and at the Logan Center for the Arts on Friday, October 17.
19762014, UK/Cyprus/Switzerland, multiple formats, ca 76 min +
discussion. 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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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014
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10/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 1
UP TO DATE & OUT OF THIS WORLD WITH MIKE KUCHAR! He's back! Yes,
one-time NYC denizen Mike Kuchar makes an all-too-rare hometown
appearance and return visit to Anthology. Beloved for the films he made
in tandem with twin brother, George, as well as for his own over-the-top
underground masterpieces, Mike is a prolific creator of moving images
the likes of which you cannot imagine or even dream of. Kuchar's work
demonstrates a campy romantic eye and rapturous ear that is as indebted
to lyrical poetry as it is to ecstatic imagery. Rather than rest on his
voluminous back catalog, the videos that Mike has been making the last
few years are undoubtedly amongst the strongest works in a career that
began nearly 60 years ago. Our series feature two programs chock-full of
recent videos made both on his own and with his lucky students at the
San Francisco Art Institute. Prepare yourself for a tangled web of
angels, devils, beefcake, cheesecake, intrigue, reality, mythology, and
so much more. As a special bonus, we are including a program of
wonderfully warped and incredibly rare films that Mike made with his Art
Institute class back in his 16mm production days in the 1970s. Anthology
recently scanned these films from the only existing prints, and you will
be glad that we did. Ingenious, outrageous, and impossible to see until
now, they are proof positive of Mike's distinct genius. Co-presented by
MIX NYC, producer of the NY Queer Experimental Film Festival
(www.mixnyc.org). PROGRAM 1: SOUL SEARCHERS (2014, 9 min, digital)
GENERATION Z (2014, 8 min, digital) NONSENSICAL (2014, 10 min, digital)
NIGHTFALL (2013, 12 min, digital) THE SPIDER'S PARLOR (2014, 42 min,
digital) Total running time: ca. 85 min.
10/17
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: ADAM'S APPLE (2014, 10 min, digital) LOST BLUES (2014, 8 min,
digital) SUMMER SINS (2014, 11 min, digital) CHROMATIC EFFUSION (2014,
10 min, digital) DEVIL'S DEN (2013, 27 min, digital) CHASING SHADOWS
(2013, 10 min, digital) Total running time: ca. 80 min.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2014
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10/18
Austin, Texas 78702: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
4:00pm - 6:00pm, UT Austin, Doty Fine Arts Building
HOME MOVIE DAY!
Everyone is welcome to bring their home movies on any of the following
formats: 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD. If you don't know the
format of your film, bring it in and we'll see what it is! Note that we
will limit DVD and VHS Home Movies to 5-10 minutes. While seats will be
available, audience members are encouraged to bring pillows and blankets
to lie down on! Dig out your flicks and join Experimental Response
Cinema, MASS Gallery, and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image for the
2014 edition of Home Movie Day! Bring your pillows, bring your blankets,
and let's turn MASS Gallery into a living room!
10/18
Austin, Texas 78702: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7:00pm, UT Austin, Doty Fine Arts Building
A MINOR CINEMA
"These films assert no vision of conquest, make no claims to hegemony. A
minor cinema reshapes our image of the avant-garde, moving away from its
image of shock troop battalions." - Tom Gunning The late 80s are a much
discussed period in experimental film history: Fred Camper had published
his controversial essay "The End of Avant-Garde Film", and the
contentious reception of the 1989 International Experimental Film
Congress in Toronto brought a number of simmering issues to the fore. In
response to these developments, Tom Gunning wrote "Towards a Minor
Cinema: Fonoroff, Herwitz, Ahwesh, LaPore, Klahr, and Solomon", where
the film scholar saw a fresh proclivity among a group of filmmakers,
many of them associated with the Massachusetts College of Art and
Design. Citing a shift from the dominant modes of structural film and
the new narrative, a use of small-gauge film in the age of analog video,
and a celebration of "marginal identity, fashioning from it a
revolutionary consciousness", Gunning articulated a stance that
continues to inspire moving image artists today. In honor of Home Movie
Day, Experimental Response Cinema is excited to present a screening
inspired by Gunning's article, including several works on their original
Super 8mm formats. Featuring films by Peggy Ahwesh, Nina Fonoroff, Peter
Herwitz, Lewis Klahr, Saul Levine, Phil Solomon, and a brand-new print
of Mark LaPore's Five Bad Elements, recently restored by the Academy of
Motion Pictures and Sciences. Copies of Tom Gunning's article will also
be available at the screening. Film prints courtesy of Canyon Cinema and
the artists. Programmed by Ekrem Serdar.
10/18
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
12pm - 3pm, 24 Quincy Street
HOME MOVIE DAY BOSTON - ROOM B04
"There's no such thing as a bad home movie. These mini-underground
opuses are revealing, scary, joyous, always flawed, filled with
accidental art and shout out from attics and closets all over the world
to be seen again. Home Movie Day is an orgy of self-discovery, a chance
for family memories to suddenly become show business. If you've got one,
whip it out and show it now." John Waters For more than a decade, film
archivists and the public have been convening in small spaces all over
the globe and gathering around flickering images of times of yore.
Grandmothers and babies, now since gone or grown, smile and wave to the
camera-person as new audiences watch them through the magical time
machine of cinema. Vacations! Parties! Amateur theatricals! There is
always something interesting and funny to watch. We hope you will join
us for this year's event. Formats accepted: 8mm, super 8, 16mm, VHS,
DVD, digital files (playable via laptop) Films will be inspected by
archivists for damage prior to projection, so we encourage you to
drop-off your films in the days before the event at the Harvard Film
Archive offices.
10/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: REMINISCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
by Jonas Mekas 1971-72, 82 min, 16mm-to-35mm blow-up Preserved by
Anthology Film Archives with support from The Film Foundation. Special
thanks to Cineric, Inc., and Trackwise. "The film consists of four
parts. The first part contains some footage from my first years in
America, 1949-52. The second part was shot in August 1971 in Lithuania.
The third part is in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, where I spent eight months
in a forced labor camp. The fourth part is in Vienna (1971) with Peter
Kubelka, Nitsch, Annette Michelson, Ken Jacobs, etc. The film deals with
home, memory, and culture." J.M.
10/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MIKE KUCHAR PROGRAM 3
ABODE OF THE SNOW (1970, 10 min, 16mm-to-digital) BLOODSUCKER (1975, 21
min, 16mm-to-digital) ISLE OF THE SLEEPING SOULS (1979, 21 min,
16mm-to-digital) THE PASSIONS (1977, 29 min, 16mm-to-digital) Total
running time: ca. 85 min.
10/18
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
SHOW & TELL: RICHARD TUOHY PROGRAM
As commercial production of Super 8mm and 16mm film marches inexorably
towards extinction, and small-scale, independent labs proliferate to
fill the vacuum, Richard Tuohy has emerged as one of the prime
standard-bearers of small-gauge filmmaking. The founder of nanolab, the
only artist-run, small-gauge lab in Australia; the Artist Film Workshop,
which hosts open screenings and workshops; and the Australian
International Experimental Film Festival, all in Melbourne, Tuohy has
worked tirelessly to keep the medium and its traditions alive. By no
means the least of his accomplishments are the hand-crafted and visually
astonishing short films he's been creating since the late 1980s.
Demonstrating his unceasing experimentation with and mastery of camera,
processing, and projection techniques (from single-frame and
multiple-exposure photography to alternative chemical processes,
camera-less filmmaking, and beyond), these works embody his fascination
with the mechanics of the medium, and his ability to transmute that
fascination into films of overwhelming rhythmic and visual beauty. These
two programs feature a selection of his work from the past ten years,
illustrating both Tuohy's resourcefulness and versatility and the
inexhaustible, ever-surprising potential of Super-8mm and 16mm.
Manipulations in camera, printer, processing, and projection sculpt an
activated and reanimated reality. From the camera: a single frame
'landscape dance' investigates the bark of a woodland tree, the
Australian desert supplies bare horizontals for a play of lines, and the
towering Chicago skyline is the subject of an experiment in interference
patterns. The contact printer breathes high-contrast multi-colored life
back into black and white footage of a dead Tasmanian forest. Processing
interventions electrify Seoul. The projector itself creates movement and
sound in FLYSCREEN and SCREEN TONE, two camera-less 'photogram' films
with direct optical sound. IRON-WOOD (2009, 7 min, 16mm, b&w) FLYSCREEN
(2010, 8 min, 16mm, b&w) SEOUL ELECTRIC (2012, 7 min, 16mm) TASMANIAN
SPLINTERING (2010, 14 min, 16mm) BLUE LINE CHICAGO (2014, 10 min, 16mm)
HORIZONTALS (2010, 11 min, triple projection 16mm) SCREEN TONE (2012, 16
min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min.
10/18
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
A CRIMINAL ACCOUNT OF PLEASURE: THE GEORGE KUCHAR READER
Bay Area treasure George Kucharsorely missed since his untimely death
in 2011is celebrated worldwide for his wild and wooly lo-budget
melodramas and voluminous meandering video diaries. To know George was
to love George, and to be ever warped by his inspiring irreverence and
sardonic wit. San Francisco Cinematheque celebrates Primary
Information's publication of The George Kuchar Reader, an expansive
340-page compendium of the legendary raconteur's writings, ramblings,
recommendation letters, scripts, UFO visitation narratives and more. The
book's editor (and Anthology Film Archives' Curator of Collections)
Andrew Lampert appears in person to read excerpts and discuss this
legend. The program will include a screening of Kuchar's 16mm Corruption
of the Damned and video The Exiled Files of Eddie Gray.
10/18
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OPTRONICA2: GEDULDIG/MOON + BALDWIN/DUMPTRUCK + BECKER/ELECTRONIC CABARET
OC hosts the NorCal return of Bruce Geduldig of Tuxedo Moon! Bruce packs
the last half of the program with a plethora of rarely-and never-seen TM
material, including Ghost Sonata and the North American premiere of
Tapeman. ALSO sublime Super8-sourced performance-visuals from Cell Life,
Frankie and Johnny, and Bound Feet. Opening, Tommy Becker moves
effortlessly between keyboards and computers in his new media
confessionals, Lemons and Primary Colors. Craig Baldwin and Sam
DUMPTRUCK Manera conspire to fuse and confuse the senses in the SF debut
of their 3-D Nth Dimension. PLUS: Gesture Piece Vicki (People Like Us)
Bennett's marvelous trans-cinema montage, sound-tracked by 7 sonic
maestros (incl. Matmos, Wobbly, and Jason Willett). AND Negativland's
Booper, Soviet Theremin, and the Dream Machine. $7.77.
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10/19
75018 Paris, France: eacute;mas Différents et expérimentaux de Paris
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8:00pm, 72 Rue Riquet
CINÉ-CONCERT: LA PRINCESSE AUX HUÎTRES ET L'ATELIER DES SONS (ET AUTRES
PÉPITES)
HORS LES MURS#4 du Festival des Cinémas Différents et
expérimentaux de Paris (11>26/10/14) en partenariat avec
Kino Club et Curry Vavart Performance musicale de L'ATELIER DES SONS
à partir des textures sonores des éléments de
structures Baschet pour accompagner le chef d'Åuvre loufoque
du cinéma muet allemand, LA PRINCESSE AUX HUÃTRES
(1919) d'Ernst Lubitsch ! Des extraits de long métrages et des
films d'animation inaugureront la séance : la
célèbre ouverture de La Poupée (Die Puppe, 1919
d'Ernst Lubitsch) où l'on voit le metteur en scène
lui-même installer la maquette d'un décor avant qu'il ne
prenne vie⦠Les deux grands moments
chorégraphiques et musicaux du film Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
de Mervyn LeRoy par le génial Busby Berkeley (« The Shadow
Waltz » et « Remember My Forgotten Man »). La
séquence « Le Ballet du rêve », extraite de
Yolanda et le voleur (1945) de Vincente Minnelli, convoque les
influences surréalistes du cinéaste : Salvador Dali, Max
Ernst, mais aussi Wolfgang Paalen et Paul Delvaux tandis que la
proposition sonore graduelle, puis musicale construite comme une sorte
de Boléro, enivre encore aujourd'hui⦠Un
dessin animé de Tex Avery, Page Miss Glory (1936) dans une
facture art déco fait mouche dans la carrière du
cartooniste qui, pourtant fidèle à lui-même, ne
manque pas de « parodier un monde harmonieux qui représente
le consensus du bon goût à l'américaine et
dont les codes immuables stimulent son sens de l'effraction. »
(Robert Benayoun, Le mystère Tex Avery). Et enfin, Hra Bublinek
(Bubbles Game, 1936) de Karel Dodal et Irena Dodalova. Il fut un temps
où certaines publicités étaient
littéralement des films expérimentaux aux propositions
formelles et abstraites étonnantes ! Il s'agit ici d'une
publicité tchèque pour du savon à la
térébenthine influencée par les
expérimentations animées de Oskar
Fischinger⦠Séance programmée et
présentée par Derek Woolfenden.` -\-\-\-\ TARIF :
participation libre ! le programme du FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS
DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS : www.cjcinema.org
10/19
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, 6712 Hollywood Blvd
MAKINO TAKASHI: ENTERING A NOISY COSMOS
Makino Takashi in person from Japan! Among Japan's most prolific and
adventurous filmmakers, Takashi Makino is known for hallucinatory,
non-linear films that harness techniques from the twin media of film and
video, treating both image and sound with equal importance. Tonight he
presents Space Noise 3D, an immersive live cinema work for 16mm and
video projectors, live soundtrack, and 3D glasses, giving a physical
presence to the images beyond the screen.
10/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: LA REGION CENTRALE
by Michael Snow 1971, 180 min, 16mm Made over the course of five days on
a deserted mountaintop in North Quebec. During the shooting, the
vertical and horizontal alignment as well as the tracking speed were all
determined by the camera's settings. Anchored to a tripod, the camera
turned a complete 360 degrees, craned itself skyward, and circled in all
directions. Because of the unconventional camera movement, the result
was more than merely a film that documented the film location's
landscape. Surpassing that, this became a film expressing as its themes
the cosmic relationships of space and time. "An extraordinary cinematic
monument. [Snow] catapults us into the heart of a world before speech,
before arbitrarily composed meanings, even subject. He forces us to
rethink not only cinema, but our universe." Louis Marcorelles, LE MONDE
"An unimaginable film, literally like nothing you have ever seen
before." John W. Locke, ARTFORUM
10/19
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
SHOW & TELL: RICHARD TUOHY PROGRAM 2
MALLEE STRETCHING (2007, 13 min, Super 8mm) FORBIDDEN FRUIT (2006, 6
min, Super 8mm) TREE LINES (2009, 7 min, 16mm, b&w) GINZA STRIP (2014, 9
min, 16mm) ETIENNE'S HAND (2011, 13 min, 16mm, b&w) EUCALYPTUS
INTOXICATION (2008, 7 min, 16mm) DOT MATRIX (2013, 16 min, double
projection 16mm, b&w) Total running time: ca. 75 min.
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