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Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2015)
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Multidisciplinary residency art call (Tondela,Viseu,Portugal; Deadline:
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This week's programs (summary):
* Mark Street's (Re) Taking of Pelham, 1, 2, 3 (X3) (#anchor1) [January 24,
Brooklyn, New York]
* James Benning &Amp; Peter Hutton: Nature Is A Discipline (#anchor2) [January
24, New York, New York 10002]
* Films For One To Eight Projectors: Roger Beebe In Person (#anchor3) [January
25, Austin, Texas 78701]
* Forest of Bliss: A Tribute To Robert Gardner (#anchor4) [January 25, Los
Angeles, California]
* The New England Home Movie Tour - Austin Edition (#anchor5) [January 26,
Austin, TX]
* The New England Home Movie Tour (#anchor6) [January 26, Austin, Texas 78702]
* Dallas Medianale Presents Roger Beebe: Recycled Cinema (#anchor7) [January
26, Dallas, Texas 75226]
* Workers Film and Photo League + Busby Berkeley (#anchor8) [January 27,
Brooklyn, New York 11222]
* The New England Home Movie Tour - Marfa Edition (#anchor9) [January 27,
Marfa, TX]
* Experimental Documentaries (#anchor10) [January 27, New York, New York]
* Wie Man Sieht (As You See) In Memory of Filmmaker Harun Farocki Screening 3:
videogramme Einer Revolution (Videograms of A Revolution) (#anchor11) [January
28, Los Angeles, California]
* The 8th Annual 8 Fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (#anchor12) [January 30,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Anthromentaries Four With Steve Wetzel At Uniondocs (Nyc Premiere)
(#anchor13) [January 31, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* The New England Home Movie Tour - Denver Edition (#anchor14) [January 31,
Denver, CO]
* Solitude & Escape: Marvelous Movies With Amir George (#anchor15) [January 31,
Los Angeles, California]
* Landscape Verses: An Evening of Live Film & Sound (#anchor16) [January 31,
San Francisco, California]
* Field Niggas and Khamaica With Khalik Allah and Fab Five Freddy At Uniondocs
(#anchor17) [February 1, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Joe Gibbons: Confessions of A Sociopath (#anchor18) [February 1, Los Angeles,
California]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2015
1/24
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
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7 PM, 226 Green Street
MARK STREET'S (RE) TAKING OF PELHAM, 1, 2, 3 (X3)
With a live score performance from Bradford Reed and Geoff Gersh, this video &
sound performance involves the side by side projection of three narrative films
of the same title (made in 1974, 1998 and 2009). During the performance the
sound will be mixed from each of the three films so that details are brought to
the fore from each of the narratives. Live musicians improvise to the film(s)
and mixed sound. Screened and compared in real time as a triptych, the original
thriller and its two remakes reflect varying sorts of cultural anxieties, and
views of the city. Walter Matthau’s (1974) hero is long suffering and wry in
the face of a city covered in graffiti, while Denzel Washington (2009) inhabits
a slick and sanitized metropolis.
1/24
New York, New York 10002: Miguel Abreu Gallery
6:00pm - 8:00pm, 36 Orchard St
JAMES BENNING & PETER HUTTON: NATURE IS A DISCIPLINE
James Benning & Peter Hutton Nature is a Discipline: Curated by Ed Halter.
Dates: January 24 - March 8, 2015; Reception: Saturday, January 24, 6 - 8PM.
Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on Saturday, January
24, of Nature is a Discipline, an exhibition of film and video works by James
Benning and Peter Hutton. This will be the first exhibition by either artist at
the gallery.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2015
1/25
Austin, Texas 78701: Experimental Response Cinema
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FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS: ROGER BEEBE IN PERSON
Filmmaker/curator/ professor Roger Beebe returns to Austin in January 2015 with
a touring program of his multiple-projector performances that takes him to
three corners of North America with an additional stop off in the Antipodes
(Australia/New Zealand). The tour features several of his best-known projector
performances (including the six-projector show-stopping space jam Last Light of
a Dying Star) alongside recent award-winning work in single-channel HD video as
well as the premiere of his latest multi-projector mayhem, SOUND FILM. These
works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying
(Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)) and the secret logic of
the book of Genesis ("Beginnings") to Las Vegas suicides (Money Changes
Everything) and companies jockeying to be at the start of the phone book (AAAAA
Motion Picture). "[Beebe's films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of
Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all
photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the
banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America." -David Fellerath, The
Independent Weekly "Beebe's films are both erudite and punk, lo-fi yet
high-brow shorts that wrestle with a disfigured, contemporary American
landscape." -Wyatt Williams, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
1/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
FOREST OF BLISS: A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT GARDNER
Join us as we pay tribute to the late filmmaker Robert Gardner, who died in
2014. Filmmaker Robert Fenz and anthropologist Nancy Lutkehaus share their
thoughts on Gardner's complicated and vital legacy, and together we'll watch
his early film, Mark Tobey, and his acknowledged masterpiece, Forest of Bliss.
Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2015
1/26
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
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8pm, 2213 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, TX 78702
THE NEW ENGLAND HOME MOVIE TOUR - AUSTIN EDITION
The New England Home Movie Tour features handmade and homemade poetic film
works from the northeast that celebrate the tactility and intimacy of
celluloid-based moving images. As the commercial film industry forces us to
embrace digital moving images and the planned obsolescence of the means to
produce and distribute those products, this film tour aims to share films that
embrace the contemporary DIY strategies, politics, and aesthetics of an
enduring, artisanal, and personal approach to filmmaking. This traveling
program carries with it more than 30 16mm works and 120 35mm slides that will
ensure a uniquely arranged program at each stop along its way. With works by
Luther Price, Jodie Mack, Robert Todd, Jonathan Schwartz, Jo Dery, Warren
Cockerham, and Colin Brant.
1/26
Austin, Texas 78702: Experimental Response Cinema
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8:00pm, grayDUCK Gallery, 2213 E Cesar Chavez St
THE NEW ENGLAND HOME MOVIE TOUR
Filmmaker + Curator Warren Cockerham in Person! The New England Home Movie Tour
features handmade and homemade poetic film works from the northeast that
celebrate the tactility and intimacy of celluloid-based moving images. As the
commercial film industry forces us to embrace digital moving images and the
planned obsolescence of the means to produce and distribute those products,
this film tour aims to share films that embrace the contemporary DIY
strategies, politics, and aesthetics of an enduring, artisanal, and personal
approach to filmmaking. This traveling program carries with it more than 30
16mm works and 120 35mm slides that will ensure a uniquely arranged program at
each stop along its way. With works by Luther Price, Jodie Mack, Robert Todd,
Jonathan Schwartz, Jo Dery, Warren Cockerham, and Colin Brant. Full program:
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Dallas, Texas 75226: CentralTrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency
7:30pm, 800 Exposition Ave
DALLAS MEDIANALE PRESENTS ROGER BEEBE: RECYCLED CINEMA
The Dallas Medianale is proud to host touring artist Roger Beebe at Centraltrak
on Monday the 26th of January as part of our program!Best known perhaps for his
multiple-projector performances, filmmaker/curator/ professor Roger Beebe
returns to the road in January 2015 for a four-month tour that takes him to
three corners of North America with an additional stop off in the Antipodes
(Australia/New Zealand). While this tour does feature several of his best-known
projector performances (including the six-projector show-stopping space jam
"Last Light of a Dying Star"), it places those works in the context of a
broader practice of appropriation of educational/industrial/ mass cultural
imagery. These works cover a range of topics from black athletes with Irish
surnames ("Famous Irish Americans") and the secret logic of the book of Genesis
("Beginnings") to Las Vegas suicides ("Money Changes Everything") and companies
jockeying to be at the start of the phone book ("AAAAA Motion
Picture"). The program also includes his most recent video, "Historia
Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes), Part II: The Crying Game," (award
winner at a number of festivals including Chicago Underground, IC Docs, and
Milwaukee Underground), which explores the forbidden pleasures of male tears.
"[Beebe's films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank,
Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose
Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial
America." David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015
1/27
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
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7:00pm, 155 Freeman St
WORKERS FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE + BUSBY BERKELEY
The National Hunger March 1931, Film and Photo League, 1931, 16mm, 11 mins
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre, Film and Photo League, 1932,
16mm, 7 mins America Today / The World in Review, Film and Photo League,
1932-34, 16mm, 11 mins Bonus March 1932, Film and Photo League, 1932, 16mm, 12
mins Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn Le Roy, with musical sequences directed by
Busby Berkeley, 1933, 16mm, 97 mins "A working class cinema for America" A
cinema reflecting the struggles and growth of the revolutionary proletariat of
the United States.
1/27
Marfa, TX: Marfa Book Company - The Lumberyard
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8pm, 105 South Highland Avenue, Marfa, TX 79843
THE NEW ENGLAND HOME MOVIE TOUR - MARFA EDITION
The New England Home Movie Tour features handmade and homemade poetic film
works from the northeast that celebrate the tactility and intimacy of
celluloid-based moving images. As the commercial film industry forces us to
embrace digital moving images and the planned obsolescence of the means to
produce and distribute those products, this film tour aims to share films that
embrace the contemporary DIY strategies, politics, and aesthetics of an
enduring, artisanal, and personal approach to filmmaking. This traveling
program carries with it more than 30 16mm works and 120 35mm slides that will
ensure a uniquely arranged program at each stop along its way. With works by
Luther Price, Jodie Mack, Robert Todd, Jonathan Schwartz, Jo Dery, Warren
Cockerham, and Colin Brant.
1/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 pm, 32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street
EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES
Curated by Tova Beck-Friedman: films and videos about "place" whether rural,
urban, historic and/or contemporary. Chris Bravo, IN HABITAT, shot at various
sites of the Occupation movement in 2012, including Zuccotti park, Wall St, and
on Occupied farm sites in upstate NY, this video is a response to the political
interpretations of occupation, and investigates the intersections of different
forms of occupation; Ann Deborah Levy, ON THE TRAIN TO KUTNA HORA…AND BACK,
images of the Czech countryside, shot from train windows with a point-and-shoot
camera, are transformed by changing weather and light and when overlaid by
reflections at sunset; Ann Deborah Levy, SPECTATOR(S), caught by another
“spectator’s” camera, visitors observe, enjoy, or ignore their surroundings —
one of the world’s most infamous, yet beloved structures — as the memory of the
spectators of antiquity casts a shadow; Ann Deborah Levy, RAIN PAINTING,
raindrops, striking the car windows, “paint” the landscape
beyond in a variety of textures and moods as the camera documents three
realities: the landscape outside, rain patterns on the window surface, and the
space inside the car; Chris Lynn, SHIPS PASSING ON THE HUANGPU RIVER, images of
ships recorded in the same location in Shanghai at different time periods from
2008 to 2013 drift in and out of the frame towards their unknown destination;
Chris Lynn, AFTERNOON AT JIMING TEMPLE, an audiovisual document of an afternoon
spent in a Buddhist temple in Nanjing, China where rhythm, light, and sound
create a contemplative mood during high summer; and Leandro Listorti,
MONTEVIDEO, the capital of Uruguay reveals, briefly, its characteristic of a
Doppelgänger City: a single place cut in two spaces where two pairs of
creatures explore the limits of the travelogue. Tickets are $6.00 at the door.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015
1/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100
WIE MAN SIEHT (AS YOU SEE) IN MEMORY OF FILMMAKER HARUN FAROCKI SCREENING 3:
VIDEOGRAMME EINER REVOLUTION (VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION)
Harun Farocki – the director whose perspicacious cinematic essays analyzed the
new media world – died in July 2014. With his radical way of looking at things
Farocki strove to endow images with their own form of self-will, to expose
their political and cultural coding. Farocki lived and worked in Berlin as a
filmmaker, artist and writer. His essay and observational films question the
production and perception of images, decoding film as a medium and examining
how audiovisual culture is related to history, politics, technology and war.
Tonight: Videogramme einer Revolution (Videograms of a Revolution) (Dir. Harun
Farocki & Andrei Ujica, 1992, 106 min. color and b/w.Romanian, English and
German with English subtitles, Digital.) All films in this series are in German
with English Subtitles, unless otherwise noted. For more event information:
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015
1/30
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: the8fest
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7:00 PM, Polish Combatants Hall 206 Beverley St.
THE 8TH ANNUAL 8 FEST SMALL-GAUGE FILM FESTIVAL
8 Fest 2015 programmes Friday January 30 – Sunday February 1 THE CYCLOTROPE
CIRCUS installation by Jacquelyn Hébert, Megan Turnbull, and Nathalie Coulson
Friday January 30 7 PM Tastes Sweet First, Seizure Second three Super 8 films
by Japanese artist Stom Sogo (1975-2012), 9 PM Canadiana a survey of
small-gauge films from “The North”, curated by Clayton Windatt (North Bay,
Ontario) 11 PM Bagerooo, eight! Part One – a survey of recent films Saturday
January 31 1-4 PM Introduction to Super 8 Camera Workshop Conducted by John
Porter (Preregistration required, see page…) 7 PM The Art Of Simply Seeing:
Spotlight On The Films Of David Anderson 9 PM Cut Paste and Animate New works
in animation and collage 11 PM A New Place to Dwell projected small-gauge films
with live musical accompaniment Sunday February 1 2PM Artist’s Talk with
Clayton Windatt 7PM Clarksburg, A Family Story – a presentation by Home Movie
History project 9PM Bagerooo, eight! Part Two – a survey of recent films.
Cyclotrope Circus Jacquelyn Hebert, Megan Turnbull & Nathalie Coulson 2013
zoetrope installation Stom Sogo "Tastes Sweet First, Seizure Second" "Sogo's
films are powerful and utterly unique works of sublime transportation and
oblivion, not easily forgotten." -- Ed Halter Moving-image artist Stom Sogo
(1975 – 2012) was born in Osaka, Japan and moved to the United States in 1992.
He was a devoted experimental filmmaker who constantly renewed and manipulated
his work across many media. His innovative, abstract investigations were always
deeply personal and amazingly energetic. His untimely death in 2012 has
resonated throughout the world and on the occasion of the 8th edition of the 8
fest, we will celebrate his legacy with an intimate selection of some of his
Super-8 films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. "[A] movie's reality should
be as nasty and fucked up as possible, so we want to get the fuck out of the
theatre and hope for something better in life...I try not to have
a message or even word in my movie. But I usually have some sick stories behind
each of the movies. Those are just mental eye candy that it tastes sweet first,
seizure second." -Stom Sogo Programme: I Smell You, 2000, USA/Japan, 11
minutes, B&W, Super-8mm, silent Slow Death, 2000, USA/Japan, 16 minutes, B&W,
Super-8mm, sound on CD Carrie at Still, 1998, Japan/USA, 28 minutes,
B&W/colour, Super-8mm, sound on CD Canadiana programme (sponsored by FADO –
logo needed. See Circles of Confusion in 2014 catalogue) Insert introduction,
programme, and select images. They are all in PDF format and I can’t paste them
into this document. Please refer to attached PDF. Thank you. Pages Bagerooo One
Programme Notes 8 Fest 2015 Estera: Mat (Part 1) Alexandra Gelis 2014 Super 8 2
projector sound 3 min. Fragments # 4 Pedro Ferreira 2014 Super 8 sound 10 min.
L'Inventaire Martine Syms 2014 Super 8 sound 2:34 tidal bored II Ilse Kramer
2014 Super 8 silent 3 min. Jacumba Song Baba Hillman 2013
Super 8 on 16mm sound 2:46 Off-Sales Aaron Zeghers, Clint Enns & Leslie Supnet
2014 Super 8 sound 5 min. Gathering Zoe Heyn-Jones 2014 Super 8 sound 3:23
Cecil Emmalyne Laurin 2013 Super 8 silent 2 min. Vision Quest Karl Reinsalu
2014 Super 8 sound 4 min. Mountains and Dresses into Windows Stephanie Gray
2014 Super 8, b/w, live accompaniment by Jonathan Culp 6.5 min, Marine Stadium
Glimpses Lisa Danker 2014 Super 8 sound 2:45 Rands Lucas Martin 2013 Super 8
sound 3:45 Lament Nisha Platzer 2013 regular 8mm sound 4 min. The Game Cynthia
Naggar 2013 Super 8 sound 2:43 Listen, Try Not To Dwell on That Idea, Please
Benjamin Ramirez Perez 2013 Super 8 sound 6 min. Meditation on Peace Keith Lock
2014 Super 8 silent 3 min. Jump Elwood Jimmy 2014 Super 8 3 min. Sponsored by
Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre Introduction to Super 8 Camera
Operating Workshop Saturday January 31 1-4 PM Introduction to Super 8 Camera
Operating Workshop taught by John Porter Capacity 10 • Space is
limited; please register in advance by email (pending availability, sign-up
will also be offered during the festival on Jan.30). • Please email us at
the8f...@gmail.com with your name and phone number and “WORKSHOP” in the
subject line. Please note that there is a $ 25.00 fee for participation In this
workshop, local Super 8 filmmaker John Porter will provide an introduction to
Super 8 camera operation. You’ll get hands-on practice loading and operating
the camera, such as setting exposure, focusing, animating and other special
effects. Learn to shoot while standing, moving or remotely. Get information on
where to buy and process film, and how to shop for equipment. John will project
some of his many films as examples. Each participant will be able to shoot some
film during the workshop, which will then be posted online. Beginners and
experienced filmmakers will find this workshop informative and inspiring. The
Art of Simply Seeing: Spotlight on the Films of David Anderson
Curated by Milada Kovacova Programming small-gauge film is like going on an
archeological dig. Sometimes, movies are uncovered that fortunately haven’t
been lost or dumped. David Anderson was active for two decades; starting off as
a visual artist, he began making movies then ceased once he returned to
painting and drawing. As David puts it, “Before beginning to record I had no
idea of the succession of events or how the film would conclude, my only plan
being to respond to what was happening around me.” His meditations on the
everyday reflect back to the audience as fresh perspectives of the familiar.
“There is an intent to record and reveal from this context of the everyday with
the draughtsman's eye for gesture, contrast and composition. Through a play
with rhythm, repetition and highlighting, aspects of that reality are
intensified.” Definitely, this is a must see as one of Toronto’s hidden
treasures reflecting back on the city’s architecture, urban history and
planning.
TEPERMAN 1974 8mm silent 7 min. TERMINAL 1974 Super 8 silent 3 min.
MR.
SIGNMAN, MAKE ME A SIGN 1977-78 Super 8 silent 22 min.
BERLIN 1983 Super 8
silent 3 min. KINGSTON BY BUS 1975 8mm silent 7 min.
PARKDALE 1983 Super 8
silent 3 min.
LIBERTY STREET 1979-2014 Super 8 sound 20 min.
David Anderson
is a visual artist living in Toronto who has worked in various media including
painting, drawing, photocopy and film. He has produced one-of-a-kind books and
in 1977 won a Juno Award for best album cover design. He was a member of the
Funnel Film Collective and exhibited work with the ChromaZone Collective, and
at YYZ Artists’ Outlet and Edward Day Gallery, among others. Currently, Dave
plays shinny, paints houses and practices life drawing. Sponsored by LIFT Cut
Paste Animate A co-presentation with Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) For
our 2015 edition, the8fest decided to echo its 2012 programme Adventures in
Animationland. Cut Paste Animate focuses on animation and
collage ─ bringing life to still images, playing with what can only be
represented by abstracting shapes and bodies or using hands and eyes to explore
tensions between what is static and what must be kinetic. In addition to works
received as submissions, the8fest has commissioned new animated works by visual
artists already conversant with film and visual artists whose bodies of work
have seriously implied sequences of moving pictures. Laugh Anna Cassady 2013
Super 8 silent 2.5 min. Buddha's Daydream Rich Fedorchak 2011 Super 8 sound
4:39 Hungry Bones Berny Hi & Chrystene Ells 2014 Super 8 sound 3:20 Spinning
Light Kayako Oki 2014 Super 8 sound 3.5 min. Interstices Kyle Whitehead & Linda
Rae Dornan 2014 Super 8 Sound 3:51 Ghosts Mark Connery 2014 super 8 silent 3
min. Townhomes Scare Me Benjamin Edelberg 2014 Super 8 silent 3 min. What do
you do? Amy Lockhart 2014 Super 8 3 min. Blueprint Lisa Myers 2014 Super 8
sound 3 min. Second Sun Leslie Supnet 2014 Super 8 sound 3 min.
Film on Film Madi Piller 2014 super 8 live sound 3 min. New Place To Dwell a
co-presentation with Wavelength Music Art Projects It has been suggested by
many that all art forms (not only the cinema) aspire to music. But surely music
aspires to other art forms as well. I think of visual arts painting and
especially sculpture. Music and film have had such a symbiotic history since so
much music suggests both lighting and narrative while the cinema is so about
the rhythms of shooting tracking and (above) all editing. The8fest has
previously worked with live accompanists to specific films but has never hosted
an entire programme with live musicians playing both on top of and around
projected films. Well, it’s about time, then. Let us now enter into a fresh new
place to dwell. Wavelength Music is a curated concert series designed to
champion creativity, co-operation and collaboration in the underground music
scene. Established in 2000, we are a non-profit arts organization that
puts artists and the community first. A cornerstone of the Toronto music scene,
Wavelength has championed literally thousands of emerging artists during its
decade-plus run.
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Fresh Snow freshsnow.bandcamp.com is not music. Music died so that Fresh Snow
could live. As music ascended toward the light, Fresh Snow fell down to earth.
They passed each other in a corridor of indescribable beauty. They were given a
message and strict instructions on how to deliver it to you. They had no pen or
paper with which to write it down. Luckily it was simple: “I love you. Don’t be
afraid. All is forgiven.” Mimico are a band from Toronto comprised of Ben
Oginz, Jeremiah Knight and Nick Kervin. Named for a Toronto suburb, the group
traffic in an expansive brand of synth driven post-punk. The band formed in
Toronto 2011, and have built a reputation with sterling live performances,
opening for White Fence, Comet Control and Pop. 1280 among others, and have
found a
home in the city’s experimental scene alongside like-minded locals like, Zacht
Automat, Fresh Snow and Not The Wind, Not The Flag. They have released a steady
stream of singles over the last couple of years along with a self-titled
cassette LP on Reel Cod Records in May of 2013, and a split 7” with Fresh Snow
in November of 2014 to be followed by their LP, Incantations, in January of
2015.
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Jonathan Culp is a Canadian underground filmmaker, whose work includes
found-footage collage, Super 8, and activist documentary as well as narrative
projects. Culp’s work is typified by its confrontational tone, rhythmic
counterpoint of sound and image elements, and acidic references to mass media.
Long active in the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), in 1997
Culp helped found the Toronto Video Activist Collective (TVAC);[1] he was
injured by riot police while documenting protests at the 2001 Quebec City
Protests. Along with Siue Moffat, he also
initiated the Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show, which has screened eclectic
programs of underground video in alternative venues across Canada. He has
written about film and filmmaking for Broken Pencil, Clamor and Canadian
Dimension magazines. Artists’ Talk with Clayton Windatt ( curator of Canadiana
programme ) Home Movie History Project presentation Clarksburg films — 1932 to
1961 The birth of small-gauge film happened in 1932 when the 8mm format was
introduced. For the first time at the 8 fest we present films from the very
beginning of the small-gauge era. A large, prosperous Buffalo family began
filming in 1932. Clarksburg is in the countryside south of Buffalo and the
location of much of the early footage in the collection. Initially the films
depict the seemingly carefree leisure of a family unaffected by the Depression
— at their Clarksburg garden and farm cottage, or aboard one of the small
cruise ships of the period. As the years pass, a more complex portrait of the
family emerges — a less well-heeled younger generation who prefer casual house
parties and backyard drinks, the family's Catholic faith, seen through the pomp
of pre-Vatican II rites and festivities, and a tantalizing glimpse of a family
business which was not afraid to get its hands messy. In 1936 colour was
introduced for small-gauge with Kodachrome film stock. Once again, the family
began shooting with this new innovation in its very first year, capturing in
dreamy dappled colours a women's college graduation. Through to the 50s and 60s
they used both black & white and Kodachrome to film their seasonal calendar of
events, including summer furloughs on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. Much of
the key cultural changes of the 20th century are reflected in the evolution of
daily family life pictured in this collection. These changes parallel, the
birth and evolution of small-gauge film technology, and the development of the
home movie canon itself. Bagerooo, eight Part Two –
sponsored by Trinity Square Video Go Pop! (Geht Pop!) Eric Hill 2014 Super 8
live sound 3:20 What I Want, What I Have E.Hearte 2013 Super 8 silent 2:25
Dramamine Alan Gerlach 2012 Super 8 silent 2:13 Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Frank Biesendorfer 2014 Regular 8mm silent 4 min. Invocations of Uzi Ross
Mackfessel 2014 Super 8 sound 4.5 min. Not Just Black and White Lisa G. 2013
Super 8 on 16mm sound 6:36 Grizzly Craig Orrett 2013 Super 8 sound 2 min.
Wives’Tale Amber Goodwyn 2013 Super 8 sound 3 min. Summer Song Clint Enns 2014
Super 8 silent 5 min. The Hunter Hunted Mike Rollo 2013 Super 8 silent 3:20
Waxing and Milking Alee Peoples 2014 Super 8 sound 9 min. Sacred Bloom
Guillaume Vallee & Andree Anne Roussel 2014 Super 8 silent 1:16 Mototanaka
Dérive Michael Lyons 2014 Super 8 silent 3:20 Pulsars E Quasars Paul Clipson
2014 Super 8 sound 5 min. Gone Fishing Lisa Neighbour 2014 Super 8 silent 3
min. Basement Tapes Two Blaine Speigel 2014 Super 8 sound 4.5 min. Christine
Lucy
Latimer Still Feeling Blue About Colour Separation Sponsored by Trinity Square
Video
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015
1/31
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
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7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
ANTHROMENTARIES FOUR WITH STEVE WETZEL AT UNIONDOCS (NYC PREMIERE)
Saturday, January 31st 2015. 7:30pm. $9 A screening and reading with filmmaker
Steve Wetzel Discussion with Steve Wetzel and Pacho Velez. Steve Wetzel will be
exhibiting several videos never seen in New York. In fact this group of works
has never been seen much outside the Midwest. Each is inspired in its own way
by observational documentary, ethnographic film and video, and the rich and
hugely diverse body of experimental time-based art. In addition Steve will read
a few passages from two of his short collections of writings published by the
Green Gallery Press (Occasional Performances and Wayward Writings, 2010, and
[Pause], 2014). The forms and subjects addressed in the writings range from
essays and lectures on love, public space and mentorship, to email
correspondences and interviews about teaching and art practice. Both texts will
be available for purchase at the screening. Steve Wetzel will be joined by
filmmaker Pacho Velez for a conversation following the screening.
On Tuesday, February 3 at 7pm, Steve Wetzel will be part of the Flaherty NYC
Winter/Spring 2015 program at Anthology Film Archives programmed by Sierra
Pettengill & Pacho Velez. http:// flahertyseminar.org/ flaherty-nyc/
flaherty-winterspring-2015/ Program: Men's Hockey, Steve Wetzel, USA, 2003, 28
min. Men's Hockey is a glimpse at a privileged and intimate space where men
prepare for competition with each other. The video, the anthromentary, is
recorded in a direct observational style that reveals the texture, complexity
and everydayness of a single day inside the locker room of a professional
hockey team in Rockford, IL. Detroit Film Center, Detroit, MI Wisconsin
International Film Festival, Madison, WI The First Shot is Silent (Kaszube's
Park), Steve Wetzel, 2010, 14 min. The First Shot is Silent is about the
commemoration of a once-thriving migrant fishing village in Milwaukee, now
bulldozed into an industrial corridor. As with all progress, many experience
its opposite:
reversal into disappearance. The memorial attempts to preserve the idea and
memory of the Kaszubes, and is a physical marker that conjures the realness of
geography and the actual bodies that once animated it. It feels like a weak
apology to me. Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA The Nightingale Theater,
Chicago, IL Kid Beat Box: Twenty-two Tapes, Edit Nine, Steve Wetzel, USA, 2009,
9 min.
1/31
Denver, CO: Glob
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8:30pm, 3551 Brighton Blvd. Denver, CO 80216
THE NEW ENGLAND HOME MOVIE TOUR - DENVER EDITION
The New England Home Movie Tour features handmade and homemade poetic film
works from the northeast that celebrate the tactility and intimacy of
celluloid-based moving images. As the commercial film industry forces us to
embrace digital moving images and the planned obsolescence of the means to
produce and distribute those products, this film tour aims to share films that
embrace the contemporary DIY strategies, politics, and aesthetics of an
enduring, artisanal, and personal approach to filmmaking. This traveling
program carries with it more than 30 16mm works and 120 35mm slides that will
ensure a uniquely arranged program at each stop along its way. With works by
Luther Price, Jodie Mack, Robert Todd, Jonathan Schwartz, Jo Dery, Warren
Cockerham, and Colin Brant.
1/31
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
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SOLITUDE & ESCAPE: MARVELOUS MOVIES WITH AMIR GEORGE
In conjunction with EPFC's monthly online series Marvelous Movie Mondays, Amir
George will be at EPFC to present a program of moving-image works centered
around solitude and escape, as well as a selection of his own pieces. Amir is
guest curating EPFC’s Marvelous Movie Mondays for the month of January and will
center the January 31 show around the works he is highlighting on EPFC's
Facebook page over the course of the month and will also screen new and
in-progress works of his own. Amir is a motion picture artist and film curator
from Chicago. He is the founder of Cinema Culture, a grassroots film
programming organization, and is also the co-curator of Black Radical
Imagination, a touring experimental short film program. FILMMAKER/CURATOR IN
ATTENDANCE!
1/31
San Francisco, California: The Lab
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8pm, 2948 16th Street
LANDSCAPE VERSES: AN EVENING OF LIVE FILM & SOUND
The Lab presents an evening of live music and 16mm film projection performances
featuring Bay Area artists Beige (Vanessa O'Neill and Kent Long), Marielle
Jakobsons, Tooth, John Davis and Paul Clipson. This program presents unique and
intense collisions of sound and image in three performances, that chart the
dynamic trajectories of "visual music" in its many transcendental forms.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015
2/1
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
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FIELD NIGGAS AND KHAMAICA WITH KHALIK ALLAH AND FAB FIVE FREDDY AT UNIONDOCS
Sunday, February 1st, 2015. 7:30pm. $9 Discussion to follow with photographer
and filmmaker Khalik Allah and hip hop pioneer, visual artist and filmmaker,
Fab 5 Freddy. Field Niggas, 2014 USA, HD, 60min Field Niggas is a stark
portrayal of the inner city struggle. It depicts an elusive beauty that so
often goes unnoticed. Shot entirely at nighttime on the corner of 125th and
Lexington avenue in Harlem, Khalik Allah's camera encompasses, and richly
depicts, the mental, physical and spiritual struggle of 125th and Lexington
Avenue's most exhausted and depressed inhabitants. Field Niggas, taking it's
name from Malcolm X's famous lecture, "Message to the Grassroots," takes us
into a world that most of us would choose to avoid. Khalik's objective is to
shine light on fear, dispel it, and prove that love exist everywhere no matter
how much it's presence has been obscured by poverty, addiction and pain.
Ultimately Field Niggas is a hauntingly honest, rich depiction of the poor.
Khamaica, Jamica, 2014 HD, 15min Jamaica, The "Old Country," the "Mother
country." Growing up, Khalik Allah's friends would often say "I'm going down
south for the summer, referring to Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, etc. For Khalik
"down south" was Jamaica. Khamaica, the visual essay along with a short film
(watch below), is a "Prodigal Son" experience depicting a man returning to the
doorstep of his father's house, which for Khalik, is a monastery of sorts.
Khamaica is intended to baptize the viewer, remind the viewer, and recalibrate
our human sensibilities which this fast paced world would prefer to be kept
dormant.
2/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100
JOE GIBBONS: CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH
The experimental film world was blown away (“shocked” is not the right word,
really) by the news just this month that acclaimed and singular filmmaker Joe
Gibbons had been arrested for robbing a pair of northeastern banks. Not only
that, but the only weapon he had employed in doing so was one with which he had
extensive familiarity: a video camera, almost certainly documenting the
robberies for inclusion in an in-progress work. The New York Post, in their
condescending coverage of Gibbons’ apprehension (“Bank Robber Appears to be
Screwball Former Professor”), referred to his “art” and his identity as a
“visual artist” exactly like that - in quote marks. Well, to hell with the New
York Post and to hell with the banks, Joe Gibbons is not only an artist, but a
truly great artist, one who has for decades blended autobiography and fantasy
into a richly confessional, bitingly hilarious, unparalleled first-person
media/dream-fulfillment. The “Joe” in Gibbons’ films is not simply Joe
Gibbons, and the already blurry distinction between his movie identity and
real-guy Joe is smeared out of proportion and recognition the more of his work
you see. He pushes deep, carefully hidden buttons of shame, hilarity,
discomfort, and incredulity within us as his
viewers/friends/victims/confidants, unpacking his neuroses and pretensions like
a weird-smelling, slightly overstuffed carry-on bag being disallowed on the
plane. Ultimately Joe Gibbons is the underworld king of the filmic
first-person; there are scant few pretenders to his throne - no one even wants
to try or would know where to begin. (Mark Toscano) For this screening,
Filmforum is grateful to share Gibbons’ semi(?)-autobiographical masterwork
Confessions of a Sociopath (2001- ) and other items to be determined. Joe is
currently in a New York jail cell, but his honorarium for this program will be
placed in a support fund being set up by his friends while he’s temporarily
indisposed. For more event information:
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