This week [November 1 - 9, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* The Double Dream of Fall: Films & videos By Paul Clipson and Konrad
Steiner [November 1, Los Angeles, California]
* Godzilla On Monster Island + Christian
Divine/Creature Feature [November 1, San Francisco, California]
* Bill Mackey's Regret and Rationalization [November 1, Tucson]
* 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm Tour
[November 2, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Melika Bass: Mysterious Gestures [November 2, Los Angeles, California]
* Contact: Samantha Rebello / Jennifer Nightingale / Simon Payne / Peter
Gidal and Alvin Lucier's Opera With Objects
Performed By Tim Parkinson [November 3, London, England]
* Sergei Lozintsa Program [November 3, New York, New York]
* Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer & Katterwaul !!! [November 3, Tucson]
* Sight Unseen Presents Entanglements: Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder W/ Max
Eilbacher [November 4, Baltimore, MD]
* Lo-Fi Film Festival [November 5, Tucson]
* The X-Ray of Civilization: Films By Tom Rubnitz, David Wojnarowicz, and
Tommy Turner [November 6, Chicago, Illinois]
* Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: the Chelsea
Girls [November 6, San Francisco, California]
* Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out
(Program 1) [November 7, New York, New York 10003]
* Irma Vep, the Last Breath [November 7, New York, New York 10014]
* Mary Woronov, Warhol Superstar: Hedy Feat.
Mary Woronov In Person [November 7, San Francisco, California]
* Man With A Movie Camera With Live Musical
Score By Jimmy Carr! [November 7, Tucson]
* Bjork's Biophilia Live [November 7, Tucson]
* Stop & Go Animation Screening [November 8, Boise]
* Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out
(Program 2) [November 8, New York, New York 10003]
* Scott Stark: More Than One Way To Find Out:
Program 3 [November 8, New York, New York]
* Moon Fails + virtual Boys + Transformers
Pre-Make/Low-Fi Sci-Fi [November 8, San Francisco, California]
* Sight Unseen Presents Jesse Malmed: Untitled
(Just Kidding) [November 9, Baltimore, MD]
* Show & Tell: vincent Grenier Program 1 [November 9, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2014
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11/1
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8pm, 1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, California 90026
THE DOUBLE DREAM OF FALL: FILMS & VIDEOS BY PAUL CLIPSON AND KONRAD
STEINER
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco filmmaker whose works have been
exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such
festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and
the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His largely improvised,
in-camera-edited experiments include projected installation and live
collaborative performances with sound artists and musicians. Andrew
Scott is a New Zealand born Los Angeles based musician, artist & writer.
He is the co-founder of experimental vinyl label Emerald Cocoon. His
music treads the boundary between intensely physical spontaneous sound
actions and minimal ecstatic stasis. Konrad Steiner is a San
Francisco-based filmmaker who often works with poets and musicians to
create live cinema. He was seen in LA in October performing neo-benshi
(live film narration) with other poets and film artists at Los Angeles
Filmforum and at REDCAT screening his feature length poetry/film
collaboration with Leslie Scalapino. G. Matthew Mapes is a musician,
poet, and rabbit wrangler, who lives and works in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
He records music under the monikers Visceralum and HERMIT and has
published poetry in Cellar Roots, Sex In the Library, Nerve Lantern, and
Red Fez. He is a founding member of Temporal Arts Collective. Program
includes Trajections (2014) by Paul Clipson with soundtrack by Tashi
Wada, From the Mouth (2013) by Konrad Steiner; a sound/16mm film live
performance by Andrew Scott and Paul Clipson featuring sonic and visual
mutli-layered delvings into dreamscapes, nightmares, visions, and
reveries; Western Hallowmas (2014) a live visual improvisation to
recorded audio by Konrad Steiner and G. Matthew Mapes.
11/1
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8 PM, 992 Valencia St.
GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND + CHRISTIAN DIVINE/CREATURE FEATURE
For this kaiju-crazed Halloween weekend in Godzilla's 60th anniversary
year, we're unspooling a 16mm print of the most monster-dense of all the
Godzilla titles! AND we're running the optical soundtrack through a
sub-woofer for maximum mayhem!! This celluloid spectacular is considered
the second-to-weirdest of the Goji filmography, with a kid's theme park
as the main location, ludicrous human anti-heroes, and the only instance
of the lovable behemoth talking! Introducing this sublimely ridiculous
rarity is the one-and-only Christian Divine, our residentyet world
famousexpert on all films cult. Christian drops knowledge as heavy as
Godzilla himself in an amazing amalgam of anecdote and analysis,
following spooky cameos from Bigfoot and The Addams Family, and campy
kaiju commercials. Free trick-or-treats and hot sake for Kevin Garcia
and his obsessively collected action-figures. *8PM.
11/1
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
6:00, 197 E Toole Ave
BILL MACKEYS REGRET AND RATIONALIZATION
Regret and Rationalization is a piece that uses sound, text, drawing,
photography, and video to explore and portray the human aptitude to
regret and rationalize at the individual and community level.
Individually, we process this loop of regret and rationalization as we
travel through the landscape (what else is there to do as we drive our
cars, ride our bicycles, or take the trolley?). Collectively, the
stories, policies and the subsequent built environment are supported by
a public process of regret and rationalization. Bill Mackey is the
principal at Worker, Inc., a company that specializes in the production
of architecture, exhibits, pamphlets, books, artworks and other
ephemera. His main objective is to explore the psychological, cultural,
physical, and political connections humans have to the physical
landscape.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2014
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11/2
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
52ND ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL 16MM TOUR
The 52 AAFF 16mm Tour Program features 14 new films from Denmark,
Argentina, Canada, Germany, and the United States including murmurations
by Rebecca Meyers (52 AAFF Best Cinematography Award);Will o' the Wisp
by Andrew Kim (52 AAFF Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker)
and Charlotte Pryce's A Study in Natural Magic (52 AAFF Stan Brakhage
Film at Wit's End Award). Six films in the program received their world
premieres at the 52nd AAFF including Tacoma by Courtney Krantz; Fresno
by Leandro Listorti; Sleeping District by Tinne Zenner; Certain Things
by Mark Toscano; Square Dance, Los Angeles County, California, 2013 by
SÃlvia das Fadas; and Burn Out the Day by Sasha Waters
Freyer. Full program The Handeye (Bone Ghosts: Anja Dornieden and Juan
David Gonzalez Monroy) Berlin, Germany | 2012 | 7 min With Pluses and
Minuses(Mike Stoltz) Los Angeles, CA | 2013 | 5 min Lunar Almanac
(Malena Szlam) Montreal, Canada | 2013 | 4 min murmurations (Rebecca
Meyers) Lewisburg, PA | 2013 | 6 min Tacoma (Courtney Krantz) Brooklyn,
NY | 2013 | 6.5min Fresno (Leandro Listorti) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2014 | 3 min Will o' the Wisp (Andrew Kim) Los Angeles, CA | 2013 |
23.5min Sleeping District (Tinne Zenner) Copenhagen, Denmark | 2014 | 11
min Light Year (Paul Clipson) San Francisco, CA | 2013 | 10 min Certain
Things (Mark Toscano) Los Angeles, CA | 2014 | 4 min Square Dance, Los
Angeles County, California, 2013 (Silvia das Fadas) Los Angeles, CA |
2013 | 9 min Burn Out the Day (Sasha Waters Freyer) Richmond, VA | 2014
| 4 min A Study in Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce) Los Angeles, CA |
2013 | 3 min Photooxidation (Pablo Mazzolo) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2013 | 13 min
11/2
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
MELIKA BASS: MYSTERIOUS GESTURES
We welcome noted filmmaker Melika Bass from Chicago for her first solo
show in Los Angeles. Bass presents the Los Angeles premieres of a pair
of beautifully shot (on 16mm) and performed representational dramas,
deliberately-paced, with finely noted details of objects and sounds, and
narratives elusive and possibly allusive. Shoals and Waking Things are
superb expressions of mood, wrought with portents of danger and disaster
never seen. Each film investigates the rhythms and routines of an
isolated small group of people, following a spiritual or cult-based
practice. They are almost timeless portraits, with indications of being
set in an unclear past, but Shoals also implies spaces of a potential
present, and Waking Things that of a potential future. Come see Bass's
unique explorations of the possibilities of short film art. Capped by a
dance film directed by Bass commissioned by Sigur Rós for their Valtari
Mystery Film Experiment. Tickets available in advance at
http://bpt.me/903589
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2014
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11/3
London, England: CONTACT
http://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/
7:30, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, E2 9EG
CONTACT: SAMANTHA REBELLO / JENNIFER NIGHTINGALE / SIMON PAYNE / PETER
GIDAL AND ALVIN LUCIER'S OPERA WITH OBJECTS PERFORMED BY TIM PARKINSON
CONTACT is a new series of screening events presenting a range of
filmmakers' work and associations across different practices and art
forms. The second programme in the series involves ways of looking at,
and listening to, objects, surfaces and resonant sounds on the cusp of
recognition in Samantha Rebello's The Object Which Thinks Us (2007),
recent pinhole films by Jennifer Nightingale - West Window / East Window
(2013) and Rectangle Window / Arch Window (2013) - the new film Not Far
At All (2014) by Peter Gidal, Cut Out (2013) and Not And Or (2014) by
Simon Payne, and the composer Alvin Lucier's Opera With Objects
performed by Tim Parkinson.
11/3
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SERGEI LOZINTSA PROGRAM
A program of short films by Sergei Loznitsa, who will be here in person.
One of Russia's most renowned documentary filmmakers, Loznitsa has been
documenting the changes taking place in his country since the collapse
of the Soviet Union. Loznitsa's films "are poetic meditations on
relationships between spaces, persons, bodies, and machines; shrewd
observations of movement and stillness, change and circularity, and the
relationship between surface and substance; they are compelling
reflections on the artifices of film and photography; and they discourse
both elegiacally and ironically with Soviet film from Dziga Vertov and
Sergei Eisenstein to Andrei Tarkovsky and Alexander Sokurov" (Slavic
Review). SPEAKER: Sergei Loznitsa
11/3
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER & KATTERWAUL !!!
On Feb. 21, 2012, members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
donning their colorful trademark balaclavas, participated in a 40-second
"punk prayer protest" on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Savior
Cathedral before being detained. Arrested and tried for trespassing,
wearing "inappropriate" sleeveless dresses and disrupting social order,
Nadia, Masha and Katia were accused of religious hatred in a trial that
reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian
society. Filmed over the course of six months by directors Mike Lerner
and Maxim Pozdorovkin, PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER highlights the forces
that transformed these women from playful political activists to
modern-day icons, exposing the state of Russian justice in the modern
era. Opening the show, and keeping the riot real, is Brittany Katter's
fierce & uncompromising band, Katterwaul!
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014
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11/4
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7pm, Gallery CA (440 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, MD 21202)
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS ENTANGLEMENTS: SANDRA GIBSON & LUIS RECODER W/ MAX
EILBACHER
ENTANGLEMENTS (2009-2014) Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder: Multiple 16mm
projection performance; black & white, mixed media; optical soundtrack
processed live by local guest artist, Max Eilbacher; approx. 60 minutes.
DESCRIPTION: Entanglements is a projection performance conceived as an
open invitation for sound artists to process the optical soundtracks
from an array of handcrafted 16mm film loops. The artist is completely
free to interpret the soundtracks in any way they see fit. Previous
performances have included the following sound artists, musicians, and
composers: Ben Owen, Adam Sonderberg, Caleb Smith, and Claudio
Rocchetti. BIOS: Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder stage the scene of film
as orphaned object through the temporal labor of moving image
installation. Collaborators since 2000, Gibson and Recoder unite the
rich traditions of the experimental film, particularly its structuralist
and materialist strands, and the multi-modal sensibility of expanded
cinema that emerged in the 1960s, in which the moving image was woven
into the labile space of performance, sound and audience interaction.
Their larger body of work explores this interstice between avant-garde
film practice and the incorporation of moving images and time-based
media into the museum and art gallery. Gibson and Recoder have exhibited
internationally at numerous museums, galleries, and film festivals.
Gibson and Recoder live and work in New York. Max Eilbacher is a sound
and video artist from Baltimore, Maryland. SIGHT UNSEEN,
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/. GALLERY CA, http://galleryca.org/.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014
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11/5
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
LO-FI FILM FESTIVAL
with opening set by Prabjit Virdee The Lo-Fi Film Festival, which is
produced by Basement Media (Chicago), is a survey of contemporary
artists working with low definition, low technology, and low fidelity
motion picture techniques. LFFF is a celebration of the signal to noise
ratio that underlies all media- of #fuzzy, #glitchy, + #grimy. Expect a
fantastic opening set by local musical polymath Prabjit Virdee (Mute
Swan, Union Pacific) setting the stage for a scratchy evening of lo-fi
sonic & visual kulture!
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014
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11/6
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60601
THE X-RAY OF CIVILIZATION: FILMS BY TOM RUBNITZ, DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, AND
TOMMY TURNER
Introduced by Marvin J. Taylor, Director of Fales Library and Special
Collections, New York University and founder of the Downtown collection.
The Culture Wars and devastation of the AIDS epidemic contributed to a
cultural scene in 1980s New York that crackled with tension and ached
with sadness. Against this background, artists Tom Rubnitz, David
Wojnarowicz, and Tommy Turner transformed mass media's detritus into
transgressive responses to the socio-political order. From the sprawling
suburbs in Where Evil Dwells (Turner/Wojnarowicz, 1985) to America's
status as a global military power in Listen to This
(Rubnitz/Wojnarowicz, 1992) and A Fire In My Belly (Wojnarowicz, 1985)
to Hollywood itself in Psykho III The Musical (Rubnitz, 1985), the three
artists scrutinized and scathingly satirized mainstream American
iconography. 198592, USA, multiple formats, ca 85 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
11/6
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:00pm, Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street
MARY WORONOV, WARHOL SUPERSTAR: THE CHELSEA GIRLS
At the majestic Castro Theatre we present The Chelsea Girls, Andy
Warhol's sprawling parody of the Hollywood melodrama. Inspired by
wide-screen cinema, this enormous double-projected camp classic
simultaneously screens scenes from the decadent and desperate downtown
lives of Warhol's art world entourage, in garish color and gritty black
and white. Mary Woronov appears in her debut role as Hanoi Hannah,
interrogating a humiliated cast of captured GI Joes (portrayed by Ultra
Violet and International Velvet) with other outrageously improvised
"performances" by Nico, Eric Emerson, Brigid Polk, filmmaker Marie
Menken and the one and only Pope Ondine. Soundtrack features a rare live
recording of the Velvet Underground. 16mm film, black & white and color,
sound, 204 minutes in double screen. Admission is $15 general and $12
for Cinematheque, Frameline, and SFMOMA members. The box office is cash
only.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2014
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11/7
New York, New York 10003: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave (@2nd Street)
SCOTT STARK: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (PROGRAM 1)
First of three programs. Working and living between San Francisco and
Austin, TX, Scott Stark has built up an unparalleled body of films and
videos over the last 35 years. Armed with a sly and dry sense of humor,
as well as an array of technical and conceptual strategies, each of
Stark's works is reliably unlike the one that preceded it. While many
filmmakers labeled 'experimental' reject that term because it suggests
they don't have any control of their process or end result, Stark has
said, "I'm very interested in accidents, imperfection, random
events, things happening that I never could predict. I like to set up a
situation, give it some parameters, and see what happens. I never liked
the idea of creating a 'message'; I like it when things happen beyond my
control, things that surprise me and create meanings I never would have
thought of." Stark is one of our most notable Super 8 artists, and
the films he produced in the 1980s and 1990s exploited the possibilities
and transcended the limitations of this small, often handheld medium.
His singular work in video is equally rich and distinctly exploratory.
For this series we present two programs of newly digitized Super 8 works
from Stark's voluminous back catalog along with a show of new and recent
pieces, including the 16mm double projection film NOCTURNAL SYMMETRIES
and the widely-celebrated, completely transfixing digital video THE
REALIST. All of the films and videos in Programs 1 & 2 have been
digitized by Anthology Film Archives with generous support from The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. PROGRAM 1: CRAZY (1987, 3 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); TEXTURALE (1984, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
PROBABILITY (1985, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); SPLITTING YOU SPLITTING
ME STILL (1988, 5 min, 8mm-to-digital); LOW RESOLUTION TV (1986, 8 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); HOME '84 (1984, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
EPISTOMY (1990, 12 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); ARCHIMEDES' SCREW (1996,
15 min, video); POSERS (2000, 12 min, video). Total running time: ca. 80
min. Program 2: Nov. 8, 6pm. Program 3: Nov. 8, 8:30pm.
11/7
New York, New York 10014: Filmmakers Coop
http://www.film-makerscoop.com
9:00pm, 29 9th Ave # 35
IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH
IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH Directed by Michelle Handelman Friday,
November 7th, 2014 at 9:00pm Soho House 29 Ninth Ave New York, NY
Admission: Free (RSVP Required by E-Mail Only: filmmakersc...@gmail.com)
Based on the silent film character Irma Vep from the film Les Vampires
(1915) and the life of the actress who portrayed her, Musidora. IRMA
VEP, THE LAST BREATH explores the shadow side of society-examining the
criminal mind and the anxiety of lives lived undercover. Irma Vep and
Musidora are played by Zackary Drucker and Jack Doroshow (aka Mother
Flawless Sabrina), two artists whose personal relationship documents a
trans-generational evolution of gender. By mirroring Drucker and
Doroshow's relationship with that of Irma Vep and Musidora's,
Handelman's film interweaves the biographies of its characters with
those of it performers, as well as Handelman's own experience of living
life undercover. In this conflation of past and present lives, Handelman
creates a visually stark and multi-layered narrative. Presented by
Film-Makers' Cooperative Introduction and Q&A with Michelle
Handelman Organized by MM Serra
11/7
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
8:00pm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
MARY WORONOV, WARHOL SUPERSTAR: HEDY FEAT. MARY WORONOV IN PERSON
In 1966, screen legend Hedy Lamarr was arrested in Los Angeles for
shoplifting $21.48 worth of laxative tablets and eye drops. That same
year, Andy Warhol, screenwriter Ronald Tavel and an amazing ensemble
cast created the 66-minute HEDY, a camp reenactment, including arrest,
interrogation, trial, execution and plastic surgical transformation.
Representing the pinnacle of Warhol's "superstar" phase of
filmmaking, HEDY features the gloriously oblivious Mario Montez in the
starring role with the Mary Woronov as the fabulously antagonistic
sadomasochistic store detective. Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith, Ingrid
Superstar and Ronald Tavel also appear. Soundtrack composed by John Cale
and Lou Reed. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $6 for
Cinematheque members.
11/7
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA WITH LIVE MUSICAL SCORE BY JIMMY CARR!
Jimmy Carr & friends present a live score to Dziga Vertov's masterwork
Man With A Movie Camera. Recently voted the most important non-fiction
film ever made by Sight & Sound Magazine, Man With A Movie Camera shows
24 hours in a single day of a Russian city. It took Vertov four years to
film this day, and he worked in three cities: Moscow, Kiev and Odessa.
His wife Yelizaveta Svilova supervised the editing from about 1,775
separate shots and the cinematography was by his brother, Mikhail
Kaufman. Vertov felt film was locked into the tradition of stage plays,
and it was time to discover a new style that was specifically
cinematic-movies should move with the speed of our minds when one is
free-associating, or with the speed of a passionate musical composition.
Multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Jimmy Carr brings his captivating
musical machine-age musings to the live scoring of this endlessly
fascinating film!
11/7
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
BJORKS BIOPHILIA LIVE
Exclusive Event $10 admission (no reservations
.line up early
only 40
available seats!) Exploded View is one of several hundred art spaces
around the world (Sarajevo, Prague, Tokyo, Warsaw and Istanbul etc...)
that have been chosen to premiere Bjork's astonishing new multimedia
concert film, BIOPHILIA LIVE. Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland's film
captures the human element of Björk's multi-disciplinary multimedia
project: Biophilia. Recorded live at Björk's show at London's Alexandra
Palace in 2013, the film features Björk and her band performing every
song on Biophilia and more using a broad variety of instruments - some
digital, some traditional and some completely unclassifiable. The film
has already been hailed as a captivating record of an artist in full
command of her idiosyncratic powers. "There are not many artists who can
combine the lifecycle of a jellyfish with a breakbeat and make it work.
But this is an extraordinary piece, perhaps more an opera, where Björk
and drummer Manu Delago are at their virtuosic best. It's utterly
bonkers yet moving especially a strange love song set to a mutating
virus. "?- The Guardian
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014
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11/8
Boise: The Flicks
http://www.theflicksboise.com/
12:30 p.m., 646 Fulton Street
STOP & GO ANIMATION SCREENING
Stop-motion animations by visual artists and filmmakers. Today's
screening will feature two collections. Stop & Go Made From Scratch a
food, horticulture and crafting collection and Stop & Go 3-D an optical
and geometric set of animations.
11/8
New York, New York 10003: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6pm, 32 Second Ave (@2nd Street)
SCOTT STARK: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (PROGRAM 2)
Second of three programs. See Nov. 7 for details. All of the films and
videos in Programs 1 & 2 have been digitized by Anthology Film
Archives with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts. PROGRAM 2: PROGRAM 2: 11/9/85/LAS/VEGAS/NV (1985, 6 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); RESCISSION (1980, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
DETECTOR (1987, 5 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); TIE FILM (1985, 3 min,
Super 8mm-to-digital); LANGUAGE (1984, 6 min, Super 8mm-to-digital);
URBAN ARCHEOLOGY #1 (1982, 11 min, Super 8mm-to-digital); UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS (1993, 30 min, Super 8mm-to-digital). Total running time: ca. 75
min.
11/8
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCOTT STARK: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO FIND OUT: PROGRAM 3
PROGRAM 3: ONE WAY TO FIND OUT (2012, 7 min, 35mm) TRACES (2012, 7 min,
35mm) NOCTURNAL SYMMETRIES (2014, 11 min, double 16mm projection. Sound
by Allison Leigh Holt.) THE REALIST (2013, 40 min, digital) Total
running time: ca. 70 min.
11/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MOON FAILS + VIRTUAL BOYS + TRANSFORMERS PRE-MAKE/LOW-FI SCI-FI
The second of our Genre-X sessions is on failed or corrupt initiatives
into new technologies, and the fabulous mise-en-scenes that result.
David Cox' lofty Soviet Moon Fails is in fact a latter-day operetta
about the doomed Soviet lunar-landing program, with orchestration, twin
screens, and John Smalley as lead baritone! CO-BILLED: Kevin B. Lee's
Transformers: The Pre-Make, a genius digital deconstruction of
blockbuster-fandom-via-social-media. ALSO: Andre Perkoski's Virtual Boys
on the new trend of consumer VR headsets, the third of the 20-min.
premieres above. PLUS: Shanna Maurizi in person with her Late Night with
Carl Sagan, Soda_Jerk's new cyber-feminist Undaddy Mainframe, Aaron
Zeghers' Conspiracy, Megan Prelinger's Rockets of Yesterday, Jordan
Belson's space oddity, and The Number Stations Mystery! Mini-heli in the
house!! $6.66.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014
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11/9
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
7pm, Terrault Contemporary (1515 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202)
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS JESSE MALMED: UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING)
Drawing on the history of avant-garde moving image culture, conceptual
poetics, ecstatic improvisation, dense wordplay and humor, Jesse makes
art using moving images, text, performance, installation and the
overlaps and gaps thereof. These works are conceptually engaged,
language-intensive and visually mesmerizing. Through deliberate
mistranslation and the strategic denaturing of languages and codes,
Jesse revels in and revealing their extra-communicative potential as
sound, as image, as object, and shift audiences' concepts of the show,
of the cinema. Artist in attendance! PROGRAM: THIMBLERIG (2012), 11ish
minutes, color, sound, video. CONQUE (2013), 8 minutes or so, color,
sound, video, flashlight. SUPERNYM (2013) a little shy of 13 minutes,
color, sound, video. GOTH MOVIE (CHEMIROCHA) (2013), 2:36, color, sound,
Super-8 on video. WREADING (2012), 18 minutes or so, color, sound,
video. IN3DIA (2007), 3 minutes, color, sound, video. DO VOICES (2013),
15 minutes, color, sound, video + performance. BIOGRAPHY:
http://www.jessemalmed.net/. TERRAULT CONTEMPORARY:
http://www.terraultcontemporary.com/
11/9
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: VINCENT GRENIER PROGRAM 1
A professor at Binghamton University and native of Quebec City, Canada
who has been living in the US since the early 1970s, Vincent Grenier has
been a constant presence in festivals and experimental moving image
venues for nearly 40 years. Avant-garde but in many ways also remarkably
classical, Grenier is fascinated by those aspects of our daily
environment that are most easily overlooked. He is concerned with light
and space as much as he is invested in form, finding in each of his
works a new way to address and extend his chosen medium, whether it be
film, video, or installation. Grenier was the subject of a 1992
retrospective at Anthology, but it's high time to catch up with his
recent work, as well as to revisit some key 16mm films from the 70s and
80s. These programs mix new with old in an attempt to understand the
continuities and discrepancies that make his work so consistently
surprising. "Ithaca-based filmmaker Vincent Grenier is a master of
quiet, delicate forms, gradual transitions, and wry misdirection.
Working primarily in digital media for several decades now, Grenier
explores the capacity of video to alter our perception of landscape and
the natural world, particularly our uncertain place within it. His work
belies any assumptions about the 'coldness' of post-cinematic images; he
is a true poet of the medium." Michael Sicinski "My work eschews the
deductive straight lines of arguments, specific judgments and
conclusions. Rather, the cinematic, as figured in my body of work, is
not located as a fixed and static object, but as an opening for
transformative possibilities. Evoking the juxtapositions of the Zen
Buddhist koan, my work shakes the patina of the everyday into a humorous
and poetic awareness of the present." Vincent Grenier PROGRAM 1: TABULA
RASA (1993-2004, 7.5 min, video) LES CHAISES (2008, 9 min, digital)
COLOR STUDY (2000, 4.5 min, video) SURFACE TENSION II (1995, 4 min,
video, silent) MEND (1979, 5 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) INTERIEUR INTERIORS
(to AK) (1978, 15 min, 16mm, silent) ARMOIRE / PROLOGUE & CODA (2007, 5
min, digital) TABLEAUX VIVANTS (FIRST TWO) (2011, 10.5 min, digital,
silent) DE-ICING (2014, 8 min, digital) WATERCOLOR (2013, 12.5 min,
digital) Total running time: ca. 85 min.
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