This week [November 29 - December 13, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago,
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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Hawick,
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Essential Cinema: Robert Nelson Program [November 29, New York, New York]
* Berman's Ballad of George Van Tassel + Nerburn's In the Shadow of Paul
Bunyan/No-Thanks-Giving [November 29, San Francisco, California]
* Mono No Aware viii - Program I [December 5, Brooklyn, New York]
* 7th Annual 1:1 Super 8 Cinema SoiréE [December 5, Ft. Lauderdale, FL]
* Mono No Aware viii - Program ii [December 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* La Caca Colectiva /Califa
Imagination [December 6, San Francisco, California]
* Dreams Less Sweet [December 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Andy Warhol's Emipre [December 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Yvonne Rainer's Journeys From Berlin/1971 [December 9, Austin, TX]
* Exquisite Corpse Cinema [December 9, Seattle, Washington]
* Dachau 1974: Conservation In Collaboration
With the Artist [December 11, New York, New York]
* Space Material, Immaterial Place: Films By
Jeremy Moss [December 13, Baltimore, Maryland 21202]
* The Texas Kick-Ass Sampler/Best Western
[December 13, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2014
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11/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM
THE GREAT BLONDINO (1967, 42 min, 16mm. Newly preserved print; thanks to
the Academy Film Archive!) "The original Blondino was a 19th-century
tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a
wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those
who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape
of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is
the end." MUSEUM OF MODERN ART "It is
difficult to get at the rich
visual texture that is the film's most striking attribute. Long
stretches are concerned with Blondino's visions, dreams, and dreams
within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery.
Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated
newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special
effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive." J. Hoberman,
"A Filmmakers Filming Monograph" & BLEU SHUT (1970, 33 min, 16mm. Newly
preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive!) "Boat-name
quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry
whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate
embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer
and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's
happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." Leo Regan
Total running time: ca. 80 min.
11/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
BERMANS BALLAD OF GEORGE VAN TASSEL + NERBURNS IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL
BUNYAN/NO-THANKS-GIVING
Jonathan Berman, famous for his astute inquiry into the 60/70s NorCal
sub-culture of Commune, slips into a personal narrative mode with this
decidedly psychedelic account, whilst retaining his focus on the
ultra-rich history of groups who have expanded "California" sensibility
through outsider visions, beliefs, and lifestyles. The deft
documentarian trucks all the way here from LA for a sneak preview of his
fascinating feature on Van Tassel's imaginative cosmology, his immersive
montage abducting us into the marvelous polyverse of Giant Rock, flying
saucers, and desert-dome time-machine The Integraton. ALSO:
Long-striding cross-country for his own world premiere is Nik Nerburn
with his myth-busting critical essay on another larger-than-life
American hero, Living in the Shadow of Paul Bunyan. Free zines,
tofurkey, hosted bar. $7.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014
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12/5
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://mononoawarefilm.com/event/mna-2014/
8 PM, 1115 Flushing Ave
MONO NO AWARE VIII - PROGRAM I
MONO NO AWARE is an annual international exhibition of sculpture,
installation, expanded cinema and performance art that incorporates the
moving image on film or altered light. Program I presenting artists
include: Emmanuelle Nègre (Nice, France), Anna Scime (Buffalo, New
York), Layne Hinton (Toronto, Canada), Lachlan Turczan (Providence,
Rhode Island), Emilie Lundstrøm (Brooklyn, New York), Hunter Simpson
(Brooklyn, New York), Charlotte Taylor (Flat Rock, North Carolina),
Robert Edmondson (Sacramento, California), Tomonari Nishikawa (Vestal,
New York), Jeremy Young, Jesse Perlstein and Ian Temple as Sontag Shogun
(Brooklyn, New York), John Klacsmann (Brooklyn, New York), Walter
Forsberg (Washington, DC) Plus DJ Stewey Decimal System & David Ellis
(NYC) FREE TO ATTEND
12/5
Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée
https://www.facebook.com/1to1Super8CinemaSoiree
7PM, 810 NE 4th Ave. 33304
7TH ANNUAL 1:1 SUPER 8 CINEMA SOIRéE
Established in 2006, the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée is an annual South
Florida event celebrating the use of super 8 film. Local filmmakers and
artists gleefully take part in this annual event, loading their cameras
with 3m20s of film, nervously creating their masterpieces. The 1:1 Super
8 Cinema Soirée is distinct in that none of the films are viewed by the
filmmakers before the screening. Participants are not allowed to preview
or edit their films. No matter what imperfections, happy accidents, or
planned technical attributes occur. What's shot in-camera is what's
shown. There is no opportunity to make changes. Each participant gets
one chance, one reel, and one take, premiering the films at a one night
collective screening. Sound is done separately, most often designed,
edited, and mixed after filming. It's played back live at the screening
as a type of dual-sync-system. Other sound options for participants
include projecting the film silent or adding live audio, which adds a
performative element. 2014 Participants: Bryan Adams, Ally Abrams,
Jennipher Aquino, Collin Bernard, Anthony Bottley, Dylan Bouscher, Ryan
Chavez, Zoila Clark, Cory Cohen, Lisa Danker, Aurielle Eady, Shane
Eason, Eric Fuhrmann, Camilo Mejia, Christina Mendenhall, Monica
McGivern, David Nicholson-Fajardo, Matthew Perez, David Petroski, Lauren
Potts, Maria Rivera, Nick Sacci, Johnny Solano, Derek Taylor, Thomas
Valdivieso, Ricardo Veliz. *Participants are not finalized and subject
to change.*
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014
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12/6
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://mononoawarefilm.com/event/mna-2014/
8 PM, 1115 Flushing Ave
MONO NO AWARE VIII - PROGRAM II
MONO NO AWARE is an annual exhibition of expanded cinema, sculpture,
installation and performance art incorporating the moving image on film
or through altered light projections. PROGRAM II presenting artists
include: Tara Merenda Nelson and Gordon Nelson (Rochester, New York),
Lívia Santos (Brooklyn, New York), Andrei Moyssiadis (São Paulo, Brazil)
as Dream Seed Group, Scott Fitzpatrick (Winnipeg, Canada), Sam Hoolihan
(Minneapolis, Minnesota), John Marks (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Brian Oh
(Brooklyn, New York), Maya Kuroki (Montreal, Canada), Krittin
Patkuldilok (Bangkok, Thailand), Hoshika Tachibana (Tokyo, Japan),
Gabriela Gyorgeva (Brooklyn, New York), Alexandra Kocheva (Brooklyn, New
York), Patrick Scanlon (Brooklyn, New York), Kyle Corea (Brooklyn, New
York), Stone Dow (Brooklyn, New York), Clint Hartzell (Camden, Maine),
Joel Schlemowitz (Brooklyn, New York), Michael A Morris (Dallas, Texas)
PLUS DJ Sal Prinicpato (Liquid Liquid) and Matthew Morandi (L.I.E.S.)
FREE TO ATTEND.
12/6
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
LA CACA COLECTIVA /CALIFA IMAGINATION
This feisty trio of Latina makers is so named because they give a shit!
And in the second of our 3-part Best Western suite, Dolissa Medina, Vero
Majano, and Angela Reginato parlay their shared interest in archival
films, personal memory, and collective consciousness into a provocative
program that showcases the work of each. Medina in fact flies in from
Berlin to world-premiere her magnum opus The Crow Furnace, a half-hour
collage narrative about displacement and loss in San Francisco. Majano
enacts an embodied performance with rare 16mm footage of the Mission
District in the 70s, bearing specifically on the Los Siete murder case
that so rallied the local community. Reginato unspools her lovely memoir
Polvo, which explores the omnivorous process of memory-formation,
centered on a real-life "disappearance". Come early for Angela's
Portrait loops, festive tequila toasts, and quite possibly a piñata. $7.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014
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12/7
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
http://thepictureshow.org
6pm, 226 Green Street
DREAMS LESS SWEET
Psychic TV was founded in 1981 by Genesis P-Orridge following the
break-up of the pioneering industrial group, Throbbing Gristle. From the
outset, as the band name indicates, the concept for the new group
focused heavily on video. In interviews, Genesis proclaimed, "Psychic TV
is a video group who does music, unlike a music group which makes music
videos." Revisiting this agenda, Psychic TV invited 47 artists to create
a collective film set to the group's acclaimed second album, Dreams Less
Sweet, in a process drawing from the cut-up technique originated by
Genesis' friends and mentors Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, as well
as the VHS networking practiced by the Temple of Psychic Youth in the
1980s. The resulting work captures the reverberations of the group's
original obsessions, the return of the repressed. 2013, digital
projection, color, 47 minutes
12/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
12:00 noon, MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Avenue
ANDY WARHOL'S EMIPRE
In conjunction with the exhibition, Andy Warhol: Shadows, MOCA Sunday
Studio and Los Angeles Filmforum are proud to present Empire (1964),
Warhol's minimalist 16mm masterpiece, in its entirety. Celebrating its
50th anniversary, this monumental achievement allows one, as Warhol
said, "to see time go by." A reception will follow the screening at
7:30PM.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014
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12/9
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E. 6th Stree
YVONNE RAINER'S JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971
Experimental Response Cinema presents this now-classic film by legendary
dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Centering around a
series of psychoanalysis sessions (with film scholar Annette Michelson
as "the patient"), Rainer's film investigates topics of terrorism,
radicalism, and rehabilitation. Programmed by Ekrem Serdar.
12/9
Seattle, Washington: Emerald Reels
http://www.emeraldreels.com/satellites.htm
7:00 pm, 1403 NE 50th St., Seattle, WA 98105
EXQUISITE CORPSE CINEMA
Join us on December 9th for EX#3: EXquisite Corpse Cinema - premiering
an international collaborative film made in surrealist "Exquisite
Corpse" form. Thirteen filmmakers were given separate instructions for
images to start and end their film sections. Their last image will
randomly connect with the matching starting image from another filmmaker
to create an unconsciously-collaborative feature film. EXquisite Corpse
Cinema takes you on a wild ride through the creative consciousness of
filmmakers from Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Kaupo, Baton Rouge,
Ruma (Serbia), and Newcastle (UK). Filmmakers include Gretchen Burger,
Caryn Cline, Salise Hughes, Reed O'Beirne, Eric Ostrowski, Arto Polus,
Ben Popp, Kathleen Quillian, Kelly Sears, Andy Spletzer, Vorky Tim,
Dustin Zemel, and Robert Zverina. EXcinema is a quarterly screening
series that highlights works that fall between the cracks of traditional
cinema. The series aims to provide a meeting place for filmmakers and
audiences who want to experience and discuss the best of the outer
limits of cinema.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014
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12/11
New York, New York: Independent Media Arts Preservation
http://www.imappreserve.org
6:30, Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU -
Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
DACHAU 1974: CONSERVATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ARTIST
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) Presents "Dachau 1974":
Conservation in Collaboration With the Artist, Beryl Korot Date:
December 11, 2014 Time: Reception at 6:00 PM; Program at 6:30 PM
Location: Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University
Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South *** Admission is free, but
seating is limited, If you plan to attend, we ask that you RSVP to
Andrew Ingall, IMAP's Executive Director, at i...@imappreserve.org ****
Panelists: Beryl Korot, artist; Maurice Schechter, Chief Engineer, DuArt
Film and Video; Erik Pill, Consulting Engineer, DuArt Film and Video;
Moderator:Jeff Martin, Consulting Conservator, Kramlich Collection/New
Art Trust ON DECEMBER 11 2014, Independent Media Arts Preservation
(IMAP) will present a panel discussion about a collaborative project to
restore Beryl Korot's seminal video installation, "Dachau 1974." Earlier
this year, the Kramlich Collection and the New Art trust undertook a
complete restoration of the work prior to its installation at Tate
Modern and Art Basel. "Dachau 1974" is a multi-screen video installation
that interweaves images and sounds of the WWII concentration camp as it
stood in 1974 with blank video. Korot has said, "I was taking very
loaded material [and letting] formal elements be as strong. That was the
only way that I felt I wanted to confront this very painful and
unspeakable material
The only way to talk about it would be through the
silence of structure." Artist Peter Campus wrote, in 2014, "When 'Dachau
1974' first came out, it was obvious to me and everyone else that it was
a masterpiece." The restoration project was carried out at Du Art Film &
Video under the supervision of Chief Engineer Maurice Schechter and
Kramlich Collection Consulting Conservator Jeff Martin, with direct
involvement and guidance by Beryl Korot. Korot, Schechter, and
Consulting Engineer Erik Piil will discuss the complex process of
translating a 1974 analog video workutilizing a combination of the
artist's original 1" type EV edit masters and 1/2" open reel exhibition
copiesto 2014 technology, while respecting the original properties of
the analog technology, and maintaining the artist's vision. The panel
will be moderated by Jeff Martin. Independent Media Arts Preservation
(IMAP) serves the caretakers of media collections by providing
information resources to help preserve our cultural heritage. IMAP
offers innovative solutions through information sharing, continuing
education and networking opportunities. For more information:
www.imappreserve.org
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2014
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12/13
Baltimore, Maryland 21202: Terrault Contemporary
http://www.side-on.com.au
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 1515 Guilford Ave
SPACE MATERIAL, IMMATERIAL PLACE: FILMS BY JEREMY MOSS
Filmmaker in attendance! Filmmaker Jeremy Moss, whose work has screened
around the globe from the Crossroads Film Festival in San Francisco to
the Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival in
Indonesia, brings a 60-minute program of recent moving image work. In
the summer of 2011, Moss began expanding beyond his narrative training
to fully explore lyrical and structural tendencies, creating the Super8
surrealist documentary THOSE INESCAPABLE SLIVERS OF CELLULOID, the
abstract hand-made 16mm films produced at the Independent Imaging
Retreat, THE SIGHT and CICATRIX, the dance for camera pieces in
collaboration with choreographer Pamela Vail, (UN)TETHERED, CHROMA, and
THAT DIZZYING CREST, and the essay film in collaboration with writer
Erik Anderson, THE BLUE RECORD. As a program, these works cohesively
embody an immersive optical and sonic experience revealing cinema's
capacity for both meditative expression and the rigors of collaboration.
PROGRAM The Blue Record (2013, 16mm to digital video, 17 min) Cicatrix
(2014, 16mm to digital video, 7 min) (un)tethered (2014, digital video,
10 min) Those Inescapable Slivers of Celluloid (2011, Super8 to digital
video, 7 min) Chroma (2012, digital video, 4 min) That Dizzying Crest
(2013, 16mm to digital video, 11 min) The Sight (2012, 16mm to digital
video, 4 min)
12/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
THE TEXAS KICK-ASS SAMPLER/BEST WESTERN
Experimental Response Cinema, our boot-strapping sister salon in Austin,
Pony-Expresses in a program of Texas' best personal-cinema pieces to our
plucky Pacific venue in the spirit of regional reciprocity. Featured is
Mutable Commute, a live performance by the Mission's prodigal son Scott
Stark and his Optic Flare collaborator Allison Leigh Holt, a multi-VHS
musing on America's plunge and plunder post-9/11. PLUS even another
risky projection-performance by co-founder Ekrem Serdar, and singular
cine-poems by ERC exponents Caroline Koebel, Rachel Stuckey, Lyndsay
Bloom, Jarrett Hayman, et alia. AND a very special cameo by OC's
favorite Southwest transient-artist, Bill Daniel, with his
analog-artifacting desert testament, Tumbleweed Talk. Come early for
frito pies and cowboy Soundies
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