[Frameworks] This week (June 13-21, 2015) in avant garde cinema

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This week [June 13 - 21, 2015] in avant garde cinema

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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
2015 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY USA; Deadline: August 08, 2015)
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Winter Film Awards (New York NY USA; Deadline: December 01, 2015)
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PRIX CUBE 2016 (Paris, France; Deadline: September 14, 2015)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1797.ann
Maumee Film Festival (Maumee, Ohio USA; Deadline: July 26, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1798.ann

DEADLINES APPROACHING:
Coney Island Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: July 10, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1751.ann
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1752.ann
The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado US; Deadline: June 24, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1789.ann
Home Grown Shorts 3 (Boston, MA, USA; Deadline: July 01, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1791.ann
L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (Barcelona; Deadline: July 01, 2015)
  http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1797.ann

Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.

This week's programs (summary):
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015

6/13
Brooklyn, New York: Mexican Summer
http://www.mexicansummer.com/news/software-is-having-a-party/
8pm-late, Aviv, 496 Morgan Ave
NORTHSIDE FESTIVAL W/ SOUND & 16MM PERFORMANCE BY JEFRE CANTU LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON
Mexican Summer hosts a Northside Festival showcase at Aviv with sound performances by GABI, Thug Entrancer, Co La, Ben Zimmerman and a sound / 16mm film collaboration by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson.

6/13
Dallas, Texas: Oak Cliff Film Festival
9 PM, El Sibil Studio
THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD
The Wild World of Lydia Lunch (1983) 28 min A filmmaker follows his girlfriend around London with a camera featuring narration from a cassette tape she made for him to break-up the relationship. Thrust In Me (1984) 8 min starring Nick Zedd, Margot Damien, Don Houston. One of the Manhattan Love Suicides co-directed by Zedd and R. Kern with music by the Dream Syndicate. An erotic union of opposites. Police State (1987) 18 min, starring Zedd, Rockets Redglare, Flip Crowley, Willoughby Sharp. A black comedy about the abuse of power, exposing in all its ugliness, the callousness and corruption of the criminal justice system and its impact on those who don't conform to approved cultural stereotypes. "A nihilistic roller coaster ride through hell" - Joe Bob Briggs. Go to Hell (1986) , 6 min, Improvised Super-8 collaboration between Casandra Stark, David Rutsala and Zedd with music by the Swans. Why Do You Exist (1998) 11 min. A series of closeups of real urban "types" in which the camera is returned to its Edison-era status as a simple recording device. Featuring Brenda Bergman, Kembra Pfahler, Dr. Ducky DooLittle, Mike Diana, Little Annie. Tom Thumb (1999) 3 min. A 10 year old boy embarks on a "journey into fear" pursued by a faceless phantom holding a severed arm. PART TWO: TRIPLE PROJECTION FILMS. War Is Menstrual Envy excerpt (1992) 10 min with Annie Sprinkle, Kembra Pfahler, Ray. "Forbidden, maybe even evil, perverted, ungodly." - Jonas Mekas "It ain't for the squeamish." - The Public News, Houston. Whoregasm (1988) 11 min "If this film doesn't land him in jail, I don't know what will. The first print was already seized by the Canadian police back in May ('89), preventing it's inclusion into the Shock Art Festival in Montreal, and Zedd narrowly escaped arrest when he showed it in Tompkins Square Park the previous summer to an audience of winos and beggars who got so excited they performed a circle jerk in front of the bandshell." -Film Threat 18. Smiling Faces Tell Lies (1995) 11 min. Paintings 2009-11 (2011) 7 min Entities painted in oil, exhibited at the Microscope Gallery in NYC.

6/13
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
 http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave.
SUPER 8MM POETICS: THE FILMS OF STEPHANIE GRAY - NIGHT 2
NOTE: see long program description of night one for additional and full retrospective info. PROGRAM 2: "Recentness: What You thought You Knew/What You Knew You Thought"; With live sound performances by Rachael Guma! Films: BALLOONS TIED UP YOUR SKY (2012, 11 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); ALSO KNOWN AS (2011, 3 min, Super 8mm, with live reading); CAUGHT IN YOUR FLICKERING WEATHER (2011, 12 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); SATANIC BIBLE ON INTERLIBRARY LOAN (2011, 9 min, Super 8mm, with live reading); SEEING THRU BUFFALOS (2010, 12 min, Super 8mm, b&w/color, with live reading); WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW/WHAT YOU KNEW YOU THOUGHT (2014, 3 min, Super 8mm, live sound); DRESSES AND MOUNTAINS INTO WINDOWS (2014, 7 min, Super 8mm, b&w, with live reading); plus new film surprises! TRT: ca. 75 min

6/13
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
 http://www.nga.gov
2:30PM, West Building 6th Street and Constitution Ave NW
PHANTOM LIMB / A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR
In PHANTOM LIMB, Jay Rosenblatt, famed for his found-footage compilations, creates a deeply moving portrait of the death of his brother in a narrative arranged according to progressive stages of grief. (Jay Rosenblatt, 2005, 28 minutes). A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR is Barbara Hammer’s depiction of her own struggle to recover from ovarian cancer. Using both black and white and color film, superimpositions, negative images, live action, found footage, split-screen techniques, scrolling text, and poetic voiceover to articulate the fight toward remission, the film underscores her effort to focus on her art at the height of illness. (Barbara Hammer, 2009, 30 minutes) >> Part of the series "American Experiments in Narrative: 2000 � 2015"

SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2015

6/14
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
 http://www.uniondocs.org
7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK AT UNIONDOCS
Sunday, June 14, 2015. 7:30 pm, Suggested donation $12. Co-hosted by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Discussion following the screening with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolbl, Anthony Alessandrini, and Elizabeth Marcus. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask explores for the first time on film the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. Jean-Paul Sartre recognized Fanon as the figure "through whose voice the Third World finds and speaks for itself." This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity. Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director of such provocative films as Looking for Langston and Young Soul Rebels, integrates the facts of Fanon's brief but remarkably eventful life with his long and tortuous inner journey. Julien elegantly weaves together interviews with family members and friends, documentary footage, readings from Fanon's work and dramatizations of crucial moments in Fanon's life. Cultural critics Stuart Hall and Fran&ccediloise Verges position Fanon's work in his own time and draw out its implications for our own.

6/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
 http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30pm, 32 Second Ave.
SUPER 8MM POETICS: THE FILMS OF STEPHANIE GRAY - NIGHT 3 OF 3
NOTE: see long program description of night one for additional and full retrospective info. /// PROGRAM 3: "Too lateness: the vanishing new yawk city"; With Jeremy Slater performing sounds with selected silent films! Films: MORE BREAD FOREVER (2004, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); SOMEDAY BEHIND CONEY ISLAND (2006/11, 11 min, Super 8mm, b&w, with live reading; I BOUGHT THE LAST FOUR BAGELS AT JON VIE PASTRIES, NEW YEAR’S EVE, 2004 (2004, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); MAGIC COULDN’T SAVE MAGIC SHOES (2010, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w/color, live sound); STOREFRONTS BEFORE OTHER STOREFRONTS (2008, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, with live reading); IT’S NOT ROSES FOR FIVE ROSES PIZZA (2009, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); NO BLUE SKY FOR THE BLUE SKY DINER (2008, 3.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, with live reading); GERTEL’S GALORE LORE ORE (2007, 6.5 min, Super 8mm, b&w, live sound); YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO DISAPPEAR HELL’S KITCHEN AS CLINTON (2010, 17 min, Super 8mm, b&w/color, with live reading); TRT ca. 75 min

6/14
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
 http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
7:30-9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St.
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS LORI VARGA
Returning for a third, solo, one-woman show is Bay Area experimental filmmaker & analog lightshow artist, Lori Varga. The evening's program will feature four never-before-seen film and slideshow pieces, all accompanied by Varga's hand-assembled, abstract reel-to-reel and tape collage soundtracks. Evocative, eerie, odd soundscapes merge into ambient yet absurdist film and light play and the forgotten imagery of yesteryear becomes aglow again in an other wordly new view. Four Works by Lori Varga include “Where does a Squirrel REALLY Live?” (piece for two 16mm film projectors), “Jag ´Ar Fri” (piece for four 35mm slide projectors and tape recorder), “Memories of Shadows 023” (16mm film and super-8mm cartridge loop projector, dual machine and cassette tape), “Will NOT Go Gently Into That Good Night” (abstract, tonal, non-structural sound work for 16mm film projector and two overhead liquid projectors, reel-to-reel recorder, steel cooking pot lids & amplified voice thru toy vocoders).

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015

6/16
Seattle, Washington: EXcinema
 http://excinemaseattle.blogspot.com/2015/05/crossroads-evening-of-seattle-history.html
7pm, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
CROSSROADS: AN EVENING OF SEATTLE HISTORY IN CINEMA
How will the current shifts in population affect the personality of our home, Seattle? Part of the answer lies in our past. Join us on 16 June at NWFF for short films concerning: Jesse Bernstein’s rant on what was more important from the 80’s, indigenous histories, a great fire, frontier justice, an imploding stadium, a notorious bathhouse, a political victory for the people over the WTO. Works by Jon Behrens, Drew Christie, Salise Hughes, Britta Johnson, Georg Koszulinski, Reed O'Beirne, Tracy Rector, and more.

6/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
tiff.net/cinematheque
6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
A CASING SHELVED PRECEDED BY SIDE SEAT PAINTINGS SLIDES SOUND FILM
In 1970, Snow made two films that played off the standard promotional tool of the visual artist: the 35mm slide. Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Directed by Michael Snow (G) Part of A Casing Shelved preceded by Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Snow's audiovisual warping of a slide show of his own paintings creates a completely different relationship between the viewer and the artist's previous work. While preparing a large retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Snow became fascinated by the way in which slides and photos of his paintings became material in and of themselves. Further developing the idea of re-mediation that was central to his practice at the time, in Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Snow stages an artist lecture, accompanied by a slide show featuring Snow's paintings from 1955 to 1965, that he films from the worst seat in the house: the corner of the room. While the drastically acute angle transforms the slide into a trapezoid, Snow further distorts the experience by gradually slowing down and speeding up both the film and the soundtrack, changing the exposure of the image and the pitch of the sound. This audiovisual warping transforms the obscurely glimpsed projections of Snow's paintings into new visual objects, and creates a completely different relationship between the viewer and the artist's previous work. A Casing Shelved Directed by Michael Snow (G) Part of A Casing Shelved preceded by Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Snow's tape-recorded narration guides us around a large shelving unit in his studio, filled with supplies and the loose ends of in-progress projects, describing the history of the objects that we see. Snow has jokingly called A Casing Shelved his first 35mm film � annd so it is, although it consists of only a single 35mm slide projected from a slide carrousel. It is also the first of Snow's direct-address films, preceding So Is This by a dozen years and, perhaps, inspiring the use of narration in Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia) (which was also voiced by Snow), made the year after. Snow's tape-recorded narration guides us around a large shelving unit in his studio, filled with supplies and the loose ends of in-progress projects, describing the history of the objects that we see; as Federico Windhausen observes, "Snow's narration attempts to direct our eyes toward specific portions of the image, as if spectatorial vision could function in a manner analogous to camera vision."

6/16
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
tiff.net/cinematheque
6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
WYSIWYG: MICHAEL SNOW
Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film (dir. Michael Snow | Canada 1970 | 20 min. | 16mm) Followed by: A Casing Shelved (dir. Michael Snow | Canada 1970 | 45 min. | 35mm slide with audio accompaniment) In 1970, Snow made two films that played off the standard promotional tool of the visual artist: the 35mm slide. While preparing a large retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Snow became fascinated by the way in which slides and photos of his paintings became material in and of themselves. Further developing the idea of re-mediation that was central to his practice at the time, in Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film Snow stages an artist lecture, accompanied by a slide show featuring Snow’s paintings from 1955 to 1965, that he films from the worst seat in the house: the corner of the room. While the drastically acute angle transforms the slide into a trapezoid, Snow further distorts the experience by gradually slowing down and speeding up both the film and the soundtrack, changing the exposure of the image and the pitch of the sound. This audiovisual warping transforms the obscurely glimpsed projections of Snow’s paintings into new visual objects, and creates a completely different relationship between the viewer and the artist’s previous work. A similar principle is at work in A Casing Shelved, which Snow has jokingly called his first 35mm film. (And so it is, although it consists of only a single 35mm slide projected from a slide carrousel.) It is also the first of Snow’s direct-address films, preceding So Is This by a dozen years and, perhaps, inspiring the use of narration in Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) (which was also voiced by Snow), made the year after. Snow’s tape-recorded narration guides us around a large shelving unit in his studio, filled with supplies and the loose ends of in-progress projects, describing the history of the objects that we see; as Federico Windhausen observes, “Snow’s narration attempts to direct our eyes toward specific portions of the image, as if spectatorial vision could function in a manner analogous to camera vision.”

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015

6/17
New York, New York: Another Experiment by Women Film Festival
 http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/
7PM, Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
DANCING THROUGH
Can't get to NYC? This show will be streamed on AXWonline.com! SHE VANISHES- Sara Bonaventura; ITALY; 7.26; digi/ LIGHT DIVIDES THE SQUARE; Kimberly Burleigh; USA; 4:48; digi/ DORIAN; Rebecca Arndt; Choreography: Eva Perrotta & Sophie Bortolussi with Asli Bulbul; USA; 20.00; digi/ ANATOMY OF A POEM; Rebecca Ruige Xu; USA; 3.31; digi/ COMBTHROUGH; Tabita Rezaire; MOZAMBIQUE; 3.10; digi/ THREADBARE; Kristin Reeves; USA; 5.14; 16MM to digi/ TO MY LOVE; Leslie Wilson; USA; 3.10; digi/ MALDITA VOUGUE (BAD VOUGUE); Ju lia Portella & Melina Schleder BRAZIL; / GYRE-ATION; Beth Portnoy; USA; 6.48; Digi

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015

6/18
Los Angeles, California 90026: Echo Park Film Center
 http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00pm - 10:00pm, 1200 N Alvarado St
NOT SO STATIC - FILMS BY LORENZO GATTORNA AND FRIENDS
Echo Park Film Center is pleased to bring Baltimore-based filmmaker and programmer Lorenzo Gattorna to screen his films and those of subsequent influence. The selections sway between Gattorna's speculative surveys and haunting hybrids by his contemporaries. Seeming counterparts coalesce in polyvalent montage, i.e. analog and digital technologies, intuitive responses versus structuralist tendencies, singular and superimposed selves, parallel yet particular places as well as the direction of camera movement or even stasis thereof. Sharing a devotion to both estrangement and cognition, these artists attempt to elucidate each other by examining some postulated approximations of reality. They introduce a given set of changes - imaginary or inventive - into the common background of known facts, therefore creating an environment wherein the impressions of the viewers will reveal something about the inventions, the characters or both. Seeing is a kind of knowing fraught with seductive half-truths, misdirected fantasies and the consciousness that often a closer look only reveals greater distance. ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE! FEATURING: Mountain Lying Down Lorenzo Gattorna, 2012, 16mm to SD, b/w & color, sound, 3 minutes Badlands Eva Kolcze, 2013, s8mm/HD to HD, b/w, silent, 4 minutes Jones Falls Lorenzo Gattorna, 2014, 16mm to HD, b/w, sound, 10 minutes The Figure Carved Into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees Joana Pimenta, 2014, 16mm/HD to HD, color, sound, 16 minutes Marshy Place Across Lorenzo Gattorna, 2012, 16mm to SD, b/w & color, sound, 4.5 minutes A Set of Miniatures Jonathan Schwartz, 2014, 16mm, color, sound, 9 minutes Snowbirds Lorenzo Gattorna, 2015, 16mm to HD, color, sound, WIP Pan Anton Ginzburg, 2014, 16mm to HD, b/w, silent, 6 minutes $5 suggested donation

6/18
Paris, France: La Videoshop
 https://www.facebook.com/LaVideoshop
7pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
DEATH TO BLOCKBUSTER: SELECTIONS FROM A FANTASY VIDEO SHOP
JUNE 18 Grand Opening: 19h - 21h Death to Blockbuster: Selections >From A Fantasy Video Shop Trixy Sweetvittles Totally Tulip (2013, 3’00) Jody Mack Undertone Overture (2013, 10’30) Sasha Waters Freyer Burn Out The Day (2014, 4’00) Michael Gitlin Dust Studies (2010, 8’43) Michael Robinson The Dark, Krystle (2013, 9’34) Laida Lertxundi Utskor: Either/Or (2013, 7’30) Hong-An Truong Adaptation Fever, Part Four: Explosions in The Sky (Dien Ben Phu 1954) (2007, 3’21) Naomi Uman Removed (1999, 5’00) Julie Murray End Reel (2014, 7’00)

6/18
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
tiff.net/cinematheque
6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
ARTISTS TALK: DANIEL YOUNG & CHRISTIAN GIROUX WITH AXEL WIEDER
As their newly commissioned film installation Berlin 2012 / 1983 debuts in the HSBC Gallery, Daniel Young and Christian Giroux join curator and scholar Axel Wieder for this special Free Screen artists talk. As their newly commissioned film installation Berlin 2012 / 1983 debuts in the HSBC Gallery on June 12, Daniel Young and Christian Giroux join curator and scholar Axel Wieder, Director of Index � The Swedish Coontemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, for this special Free Screen artists talk. Young and Giroux will present a clip from the work, discuss its architectural context-in its juxtaposition of buildings constructed in contemporary Berlin with those erected during the era of the divided city-and screen their previous films Camera Tracking a Spiral Drawn Between the Two Curved Towers of Viljo Revell's Toronto City Hall (commissioned for Nuit Blanche in 2010) and Every Building, or Site, that a Building Permit was Issued for a New Building in Toronto in 2006 to reflect on their relationship to the new film. Presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Toronto.

6/18
Warsaw, Poland: Kino Lab
19:30, Czwartek
NOWE, AMERYKA SKIE FILMY EKSPERYMENTALNE - FLEXFEST
Za o ony w 2004 roku FlexFest (Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival) szybko sta si jednym z najwa niejszych - obok Chicago Underground czy Ann Arbor � festiwali eksperymentalnych, awanngardowych i niezale nych filmów w Ameryce Pó nocnej. Festiwal go ci takich artystów jak Su Friedrich, Craig Baldwin, Helga Fanderl, Leighton Pierce, Jackie Goss, Jim Trainor, Deborah Stratman, Vanessa Renwick, Naomi Uman, Jim Finn czy Sally Golding. Cho FlexFest co roku skupia si na prezentowaniu filmów z ca ego wiata, jednocze nie pozostaje gospodarzem rodzimej kinematografii eksperymentalnej. Filmy pokazywane w Kino.Lab to wybór najlepszych ameryka skich filmów pokazywanych na festiwalu, wed ug jego za o yciela i wieloletniego dyrektora: Rogera Beebe. Zobaczymy prace filmowców ju uznanych na ca ym wiecie jak Ben Russell czy Jodie Mack, filmy zdobywaj ce przez ostatnie lata coraz wi ksze uznanie na festiwalach (m.in. Mike Stoltza czy Jesse McLean) i tytu y nazywane arcydzie ami wspó czesnego eksperymentu (�TThe Realist” Scotta Starka). To filmy zró nicowane tematycznie i formalnie: od poklatkowych animacji (Jodie Mack), przez prace w ca o ci stworzone z fragmentów reality show (�Sowhhere only we know” Jesse McLean) i zniekszta conych materia ów archiwalnych (�Altitude Zero” Lauren Cook). czy je przynale na eksperymentowi bezkompromisowo , witalno i ekspansywno , które dominuj obecnie w rodowisku filmowców w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Cho twórcy ze Stanów s spadkobiercami mistrzów ameryka skiego eksperymentu, przegl d pokazuje jednocze nie jak niezale ne, odr bne i cz sto przepe nione dystansem do samych siebie pozostaj ich poszukiwania i dzie a.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

6/19
Paris, France: La Videoshop
 https://www.facebook.com/LaVideoshop
7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
LA VIDéOSHOP SCREENINGS: JODIE MACK + MICHAEL ROBINSON
19h30 | Jodie Mack 21h30 | Michael Robinson Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine New Fancy Foils (2013, 12’30), Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project (2013, 41’00), Glistening Thrills (2013, 8’00), et Let Your Light Shine (2013, 3’00, with 3D glasses). Michael Robinson Films Line Describing Your Mom (2011, 5’50), These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (2010, 12’50), The General Returns From One Place To Another (2006, 10’40), The Dark, Krystle (2013, 9’34), If There Be Thorns (2009, 13’20), et Light Is Waitings (2007, 11’20)

6/19
San Francisco, California: GAZE
 https://gazefilmseries.wordpress.com
8:00PM, Artists Television Access
OPEN CALL: PAST PERFECT � FUTURE TENSE
Open call for ffilmmakers & video artists Past Perfect � Future Tense Friday, June 19, 2015 GAZE � ATA San Francisco, CA GAZE film series invites filmmakers to submit short experimental, documentary and narrative works to the curated screening Past Perfect �� Future Tense at Artists’ Television Access on Friday, June 19th. A show dedicated to our relationship with time�looking into the paast, the present, and the future�contemplating our tumultuous cconnection to the clock and calendar. Seasons, cycles, phases, orbits and generations. How do we understand the longing Join us for an early celebration of the summer solstice, when Submissions / Deadlines: Visit gazefilmseries.wordpress.com and fill out the submission form by Monday, May 11, 2015. Notification that work has been included in the show will be sent by email on or before Friday, May 29. For more information or questions, please contact: [email protected]

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015

6/20
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
 http://www.microscopegallery.com
6pm, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, 2B
MES SEPT LIEUX (MY SEVEN PLACES)
Microscope is thrilled to welcome back independent Belgian film-maker Boris Lehman to New York to premiere his latest film "Mes Sept Lieux" (My Seven Places). / / / / The more than 5 hour long work, filmed by Lehman from 1999 to 2010 shows the artists returning to his seven previous homes to record old places and friends, remember and reflect upon his life from past to present. The work consists of 10 parts and incorporates fragments of the documentary, fiction, personal diary, and bed-side table notes within. Mes Sept Lieux (My Seven Places) was shot on 16mm film but exists only as a digital work. / / / / "Mes Sept Lieux (My Seven Places) starts at the moment I was evicted from several places which are dear to me. They served me well as homes, both as places for living and working. This was the start of my urban wandering, which would take me ten years � a journey of 300,000 kilomeeters � before returning just about to my starting point." - Boriss Lehman, June 2013 / / / / admission $6 - artist in person / / / / Lehman will be in attendance to introduce the film and available for a Q&A after the screening. / / / / MES SEPT LIEUX (My Seven Places) 16mm to digital, color, sound, 2013, 325 minutes a film by Boris Lehman script: Boris Lehman original music: Matthieu Ha, Phill Niblock photography: Antoine-Marie Meert editing: Ariane Mellet sound: Jacques Dapoz / / / / / _ Born in Lausanne in 1944 in a Jewish family, Lehman studied cinema at the National Film school INSAS in Brussels, from 1962 to 1966. He has made films for almost 50 years (five hundred films) most of which shot on 8 and 16mm and screened at prestigious film festivals, including Berlin, Rotterdam, Locarno, and New York. A large retrospective of his work was presented in 2003 at Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris. La Revue Belge du Cinéma has devoted its 13th issue to Boris Lehman, Cinema of Autobiography (1985). Among his films are: Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978), Symphony (1979), Silent as a Fish (1987), Looking for My Birthplace (1990), Babel/Letter to My Friends Who Stayed in Belgium (1983-1991), Life Lesson (1994), My Conversations on Film (1996), Earthen Man (1989), A For Adrienne (2000), Story of My Life as Told By My Photographs (2001), Trying to Describe Oneself (2005), The Last Supper (1995), Man Carrying (2003), Things that Connected Me with Beings (2008), Story of My Hair (2010), My Conversations on Film (1995-2012). His films on DVD are distributed by Re:voir.

6/20
Paris, France: La Videoshop
 https://www.facebook.com/LaVideoshop
7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS
JUNE 20 19h30 | Julie Murray + Jennet Thomas 21h30 | Geoffrey Lachassagne Cinéaste en personne / Filmmaker in attendance Julie Murray I Began To Wish�(2003, 5:00), Orchard (2004, 10:00), Linee of Apsides (2014, 10:00), Photogram / Frequency (WIP, 5:00), and Untitled (earth) (2015, 5:00) Using combinations of found and original footage, Julie Murray makes subtle and eloquent films that imbue banal images and everyday sounds with an other-worldly charge, a sense of mystery and menace. Murray’s increasingly sophisticated cutting style connects images using visual rhymes based on rhythm, gesture and morphology, until each person, animal or object becomes the dream or nightmare of another in a web of associations without beginning or end. (Chris Gehman). Jennet Thomas Return of the Black Tower (2007, 15:00) Return of the Black Tower (Retour de la Tour Noire) a été conçue comme une «réponse cinématique» au court film classique expérimental de John Smith, The Black Tower (1987). "Timbré, déroutant et étrangement drôle ... un examen elliptique et satirique de la croyance contemporaine, autant qu'il est sur le problème de l'art comme une expérience incommunicable et incommensurable.” (JJ Charlesworth) Jennet Thomas’ films conjure delirious parallel universes in everyday Britain’s most mundane corners. People shop in Sainsbury’s, watch daytime TV and eat packed lunches from Tupperware boxes. Yet in this Looking Glass world, what we take for granted is quickly turned inside out. Preachers, teachers and quasi-political pundits with bright yellow or purple skin harangue its denizens with songs and slide presentations; the beliefs and rules they champion are full of promise, but always obscure� (Skye Sherwin) Return of the Black Tower was conceived as a 'response' film to John Smith's 1987 classic short experimental film, The Black Tower. "Barmy, baffling and weirdly funny,... an elliptical, satirical examination of contemporary belief, as much as it is about the problem of art as an incommensurate, incommunicable experience." (JJ Charlesworth) Geoffrey Lachassagne > Cinéaste en personne / Filmmaker in attendance Une Autre Capture (2015, 50:00) Pierre Bergounioux is one of the major writers of our time. If his work is universal in scope, it also has its privileged territories: history and literature, memory and writing, childhood and Corrèze. Words, then, but also a body - gnarled, vibrant, Giacometti-esque- devoured by passions: Pierre collects with equal ferocity things and words to describe them: scrap metal, insects, everything. Six months ago, we visited the Plateau de Millevaches. I asked him to capture his favorite insects for us: a beetle, a butterfly, some hoplies ... We were there for ten days. It was June. The weather should have been good, and the insects swarming. But that would have been too nice, too easy. It wouldn’t have been the Plateau. It wouldn’t have been Pierre.

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2015

6/21
New York, New York: MONO NO AWARE
http://mononoawarefilm.com/workshop/2015/06/direct-filmmaking/
11 AM, 33 E 47th St, New York, NY
YOUR DIRECT FILM ANIMATION @ THE JAPAN SOCIETY
In this one day workshop participants will learn to manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of camera-less filmmaking techniques; painting, scratching, collage, and masking in order to create an experimental film on 16mm. This intensive workshop is designed to introduce, explore and master (on some level) the ability to articulate movement through the tactile gesturings of this beautiful cinematic language. The course will meet 11am, begin with a brief history of filmmakers using these methods along with their contemporaries. Then, after brief instruction, students will get their hands dirty almost immediately. The goal is to have each participant work with found footage and educational films on Japan to create a well developed direct film work that celebrates the visual culture of Japan. Films made in this workshop will screen as part of the experimental block of JAPAN CUTS. Participants will walk away with hands on experience of direct filmmaking, a finished film work, the knowledge to continue to work in this practice at home, and a list of venues to pursue for exhibition. All materials will be provided for. http://www.staging.japansociety.01.thirdwaveweb.com/event_detail?eid=1fe30e1c

6/21
Paris, France: La Videoshop
 https://www.facebook.com/LaVideoshop
7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS
19h30 | Lucy Raven China Town (2008, 51:30) 21h30 | François Daireaux Filmmaker in attendance China Town, 2009, photographic animation, 51:30min. China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in Nevada to a smelter in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to “be wired” and in turn, to be connected, in today’s global economic system, the video follows the detailed production process that transforms raw ore into copper wire�in this case, the literal diggiing of a hole to China�and the generation of waste and of power thaat grows in both countries as byproduct. Los sueños de Daireaux (55’, 2012) During the summer of 2010, François Daireaux left France to discover and experience the town of Daireaux in Argentina. Over the course of many days, he walked around Daireaux in order to film the town that bears his name. Over the course of many nights at the Hotel Daireaux, he had all manner of dreams.

6/21
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
 http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
MULTIPLE PERSUASIONS: FILMS AND PERFORMANCES BY LYRA HILL
An evening of short celluloid films and sonic performances by Chicago-based artist Lyra Hill. // These works indulge a sensual relationship to environment and rigorous attention to the alchemical capabilities of celluloid. Lyra’s 16mm films employ in-camera special effects techniques to complement their magical subject matter: divination, hallucination, death, fluid identity, female sexuality, and dumb jokes. Lyra will open the show with a new, musical performance. This is the west coast premier of Uzi’s Party, an experimental teen dramedy about a Ouija sleepover. This is the first time Lyra will present work in San Francisco, the city of her birth. // Lyra is an experimental filmmaker, cartoonist, and performer who specializes in creating immersive, psychedelic, and sometimes frightening environments for spellbound audiences. She founded and organized the performative-comix reading series Brain Frame between 2011 and 2014. She works as an educator and projectionist, and continues to exhibit and perform expanded interpretations of her artworks internationally. Lyra is particularly interested in blurring boundaries between mediums, experiencing things in person, unconscious drives, and the avant-garde.
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