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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.
This week's programs (summary):
* Shorts After the Flaherty Seminar At Uniondocs (#anchor1) [June 20, Brooklyn,
New York 11211]
* Mes Sept Lieux (My Seven Places) (#anchor2) [June 20, Brooklyn, New York]
* La videoshop Screenings (#anchor3) [June 20, Paris, France]
* Concerning violence: Nine Scenes From the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense At
Uniondocs (#anchor4) [June 21, Brooklyn, New York 11211]
* Your Direct Film Animation @ the Japan Society (#anchor5) [June 21, New York,
New York]
* La videoshop Screenings (#anchor6) [June 21, Paris, France]
* Multiple Persuasions: Films and Performances By Lyra Hill (#anchor7) [June
21, San Francisco, California]
* La videoshop Screenings (#anchor8) [June 22, Paris, France]
* Videoshop Screenings: Sarah Christman + Jesse Mclean (#anchor9) [June 23,
Paris, France]
* La videoshop Screenings: Bill Daniel + Jackie Goss (#anchor10) [June 24,
Paris, France]
* Directors Lounge Screening - Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart - Mountain Time
(#anchor11) [June 25, Berlin, Germany]
* Videoshop Screenings: the Future Is Now: A Program Curated By Hong An Truong
(#anchor12) [June 25, Paris, France]
* Twilight Made Manifest: the Films of Phil Solomon (#anchor13) [June 25,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* South, Preceded By An Illustrated Lecture By Charles Hood (#anchor14) [June
26, Los Angeles, California]
* Projection Instructions: An Evening of Expanded Cinema (#anchor15) [June 26,
New York, New York 10016]
* Videoshop Screenings: Mary Billyou + CéCile Tourneur (#anchor16) [June 26,
Paris, France]
* Past Perfect Future Tense (#anchor17) [June 26, San Francisco, California
94110]
* Out of the Dark (#anchor18) [June 27, Berlin, Germany]
* Fol Sunar: Amerikan Deneysel Sineması'ndan SeçKiler (#anchor19) [June 27,
Istanbul, Turkey]
* Headboggle / Aurora Crispin / Jenny Yang / Paul Clipson (#anchor20) [June 27,
Oakland]
* Videoshop Screenings: Shambhavi Kaul + Brent Coughenour + Rebecca Baron
(#anchor21) [June 27, Paris, France]
* Spin Tactics (#anchor22) [June 27, San Francisco, California]
* Twilight Made Manifest: the Films of Phil Solomon: the Twilight Psalms
(#anchor23) [June 27, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Connectivity Through Cinema Presents "Tear It Up, Son!" the Films of Ross
Nugent - In Person - (#anchor24) [June 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* Forward To Distant Times: New visions of the West (#anchor25) [June 28, Los
Angeles, California]
* La videoshop Screenings: Jp Sniadecki + Jay Rosenblatt + Caveh Zahedi
(#anchor26) [June 28, Paris, France]
* Twilight Made Manifest: the Films of Phil Solomon: In Memoriam (#anchor27)
[June 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
6/20
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
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2:00pm, 322 Union Ave
SHORTS AFTER THE FLAHERTY SEMINAR AT UNIONDOCS
Saturday, June 20th at 2pm. $9. A selection of shorts by guest filmmakers from
the Flaherty Seminar. Following the Flaherty tradition, guests of this program
will not be announced until after the seminar has begun. However, two very
accomplished artists will be in attendance for a discussion following the
screening. Event followed by reception in backyard with drinks.
6/20
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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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 kilometers — before returning
just about to my starting point." - Boris 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
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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), Line 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
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
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7:30pm, 322 Union Ave
CONCERNING VIOLENCE: NINE SCENES FROM THE ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC SELF-DEFENSE AT
UNIONDOCS
Sunday, June 21, 2015. 7:30 pm. Suggested Donation $12. Co-hosted by the
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Discussion following the screening with
Anjuli Raza Kolb, Anthony Alessandrini and Ajay Singh Chaudhary Concerning
Violence (2014) is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring
moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an
exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz
Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon's landmark book, written over 50 years
ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the
neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against
it. In the middle of the Cold War, radical Swedish filmmakers set out to
capture the anti-imperialist liberation movements in Africa first hand. With
their 16mm footage, found in the Swedish Television archives, filmmaker Go?ran
Hugo Olsson create[s] a visual narrative from Africa - images of the pursuit of
freedom, the Cold War and Sweden. Swedish filmmakers, with their sense of
solidarity with anti-imperial and socialist struggles around the world at the
time, created images and stories which still resonate today, and can change and
deepen our impression of the globalized world we live in.
6/21
New York, New York: MONO NO AWARE
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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.
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6/21
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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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 digging of a hole to China—and the generation of waste and of power
that 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
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8pm, 992 Valencia Street
MULTIPLE PERSUASIONS: FILMS AND PERFORMANCES BY LYRA HILL
UPAn 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 ofUzi’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. Program: Somewhere (2015, 10min, sound performance) House Fuck
(2010, 6min, 16mm) The Mystic (2011, 8min, 16mm) Go Down (2012, 20min, digital
video and performance) Uzi’s Party (2015, 30min, 16mm on video)
MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015
6/22
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS
19h30 | Danièle Wilmouth 21h30 | Marie Regan > Cinéaste en personne / Filmmaker
in attendance Danièle Wilmouth La Vidéoshop presents four films by the
award-winning artist Danièle Wilmouth, whose ‘un-disciplined’ body of work
embraces hybrids of performance art, dance, music, installation and cinema.
Exploiting the shifting hierarchies between live art and screen space, the
program includes her early 16mm Japanese Butoh film, Curtain of Eyes (1997,
13:00); ROUND (2002, 11:00) a study on the ethics of digital replication; A
Heretic’s Primer on Love & Exertion (2007, 26:00) a gender bending vaudevillian
circus; and FANFARE for MARCHING BAND (2012, 16:00) a impassioned staging of
musical ‘Actions for Joy’ at inappropriate locations around the city of
Chicago. Marie Regan > Filmmaker in attendance Cowboy Song (2011, 56:00)
Westerns have helped America define itself—stories of men and violence set
along an imagined frontier. Cowboy Song, a personal doc about brain damage,
masculinity and the ‘Western’ uses the filmmaker’s family’s found footage, and
interstitial footage from Westerns to unpack the relationship between aging
brothers, one who suffered brain damage as an infant, cannot speak but seems to
love cowboy songs, and the older brother who takes over his care, singing these
songs (poorly) as a way to connect. It’s a film that asks questions about
masculinity and the importance of culture (and its reframing) even at the
margins. Cowboy Song will be preceded by clips from early silent and singing
cowboys - including French ones.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015
6/23
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: SARAH CHRISTMAN + JESSE MCLEAN
19h30 | Sarah Christman 21h30 | Jesse McLean As Above, So Below : Three films
by Sarah J. Christman Since 2006, Sarah J. Christman has made “a series of
superbly crafted and thoughtful essay films on the zones where humankind
manipulates nature in unexpected ways, affecting our memories, daydreams,
personal histories, and perceptions of the world” (Adam Hyman, Los Angeles
Filmforum.) In films that defy easy categorization, Christman records both
routine and remarkable events, revealing new worlds that have been hiding in
plain sight. The 80 minute program will include: Gowanus Canal (2013, 7:00)
Just below the surface of one of the most contaminated urban waterways in the
United States, microorganisms thrive amidst the toxic waste. Broad Channel
(2010, 17:00) Over the course of four seasons, the nuances of everyday activity
are examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline in New York City's
Jamaica Bay. As Above, So Below (2012, 50:00) This film intimately examines
various transmutations, both microscopic and massive, that reshape matter and
its meanings. What separates the permanent from the impermanent, the things we
discard from those we preserve? 7285 (2015, 6:00) Coda for a film stock. Jesse
McLean Jesse McLean is a media artist utilizing collage both aesthetically and
conceptually. Her video work employs highly recognizable appropriated material
alongside more elusive sources and material generated by the artist. Motivated
by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, her work is
concerned with both the power and the failure of the mediated experience to
bring people together. Recent videos put pressure not only on the relationships
that develop between viewer and subject, but also on the ways emotions are
lived in an age of mediated experience. Jesse has presented her work at
museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the Mumok Cinema in
Vienna, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Views from the
Avant Garde at the New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Kassel Dokfest, Impakt, and
the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. Videos in this program include: The
Eternal Quarter Inch (2008, 9:00) Dipping between ecstasy and despair,
transcendence and absurdity, this movie journeys to a hidden space where you
can lose your way, lose yourself in the moment, lose your faith in a belief
system. Somewhere Only We Know (2009, 5:00) What can a face reveal? Balanced
between composure and collapse, individuals anxiously await their fate. The
Invisible World (2012, 20:15) A deceased hoarder, reconstituted through
technology, recounts a difficult childhood as inhabitants of a virtual world
struggle to reconcile materialistic tendencies. A scientist leads an effort to
understand the passage of time, but the data is unreliable. The question
remains, what happens to our things after we are gone? The Burning Blue (2009,
9:15) A video that observes the thrill, terror and boredom found in watching
mass spectacles and the unexpected loneliness when you miss them.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015
6/24
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: BILL DANIEL + JACKIE GOSS
19h30 | Bill Daniel 21h30 | Jackie Goss Bill Daniel Who Is Bozo Texino? (2005,
56:00) Who Is Bozo Texino? is a great American movie, and its greatness is tied
up very closely with its American-ness. With this brilliant experimental
documentary, self-styled hobo filmmaker Daniel places himself firmly in the
boot prints of Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie--a fine,
long tradition of American artists who look for their inspiration to the
marginal, the underclass, the vagabond and the outcast. Nominally a chronicle/
survey/ history of boxcar graffiti (a tradition as old as the railroad itself)
and the men who create it, Who Is Bozo Texino? soon transcends its narrow
subject-matter to become a gloriously rough-edged elegy for an America which is
being swept away before our eyes… Indeed, in less than an hour Daniel manages
to say more about life, art, America and the simple joy of filmmaking than most
directors manage in decades. (Neil Young) Jackie Goss The
Observers (2011, 69:00) The land and sky of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire form
a varying frame for two climatologists as they go about the solitary and
steadfast work of measuring and recording the weather. Based in part on the
Nathaniel Hawthorne story “The Great Carbuncle,” this film features the extreme
and surprising beauty of the windiest mountain in the world. (Cornell Cinema)
Jackie Goss makes movies and web-based works that explore how political,
cultural, and scientific systems change the ways we think about ourselves. For
the last few years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within
the genre of the animated documentary. A native of New Hampshire, she teaches
in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley
of New York.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015
6/25
Berlin, Germany: Directors Lounge
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21:00, Z-Bar, Bergstrasse 2, 10115 Berlin, Germany
DIRECTORS LOUNGE SCREENING - TAYLOR DUNNE AND ERIC STEWART - MOUNTAIN TIME
Mountain Time - Films from the Interior of North America °*-*° Taylor Dunne and
Eric Stewart are artists currently living in Colorado (USA). They share an
affinity for 16mm filmmaking, they use photochemical processes as a means to
explore the interconnectedness of time, history and the landscape. They are
currently collaborating on a film investigating the history of uranium mining
and nuclear weapons testing in the American Southwest. °*-*° The program
comprises camera-less films and personal documentaries. They try to connect
personal experiences with some parts of the North American landscape, history
and nature. All shot in 16mm, it seems they have a mission for simplicity but
also for the complications of Native American heritage. The two filmmakers are
currently touring Europe with this program, and giving classes for chemical
manipulations of analogue film. °*-*° Furthermore, on June 24 & 25, Taylor
Dunne and Eric Stewart will teach the workshop LIFT OFF: An Emulsion
Lift Workshop at LaborBerlin. Please contact LaborBerlin if interested. °*-*°
The artists will be available for Q&A. Curated be Klaus W. Eisenlohr °*-*°
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Paris, France: La Videoshop
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VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: THE FUTURE IS NOW: A PROGRAM CURATED BY HONG AN TRUONG
The Future is Now: A Program Curated by Hong An Truong 19h30 | Part I 21h30 |
Part II How do we resist speculations about the inevitability of modernity and
the West as its inescapable center? The Future is Now, curated by Hong-An
Truong, gathers together a wide range of video and cinematic practices to
highlight the multiplicities and dispersed centers of modernity, considering
representations of the city as a strategy of resistance. From legacies of
colonialism and the U.S.’s military industrial complex in the Philippines to
the construction of a national identity in Mexico, to the construction of the
world’s largest power station in China, together the works in this screening
approach the dilemmas and complexities of modernity from a transcultural and
transnational perspective by defamiliarizing our notion of the past, present,
and future. The program includes: Cuidad Moderna (6:20, 2004) by Terence Gower
Flotsam Jetsam (29:45, 2007) by Patty Chang & David Kelley,
Perpetual Peace (2012) by Michelle Dizon, Waltz of the Machine Equestrians
(3:00, 2013) by UuDam Nguyen, and Fractal Scapes by Emeka Ogboh.
6/25
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
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6:30pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
TWILIGHT MADE MANIFEST: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON
Early Work and Collaborations Solomon's early work in the 1980s marked a move
away from the avant-garde's preoccupation with psychodrama, conceptualism and
politics to a more expressive lyricism of image and montage. Introduction by
Phil Solomon. From its very beginning in the early 1980s, Solomon's work
displayed a distinctive style that garnered attention. Tom Gunning grouped
Solomon with some of his contemporaries (including Lewis Klahr, Peggy Ahwesh,
and Mark LaPore) in an essay titled "Towards a Minor Cinema," which
acknowledged these artists' turn away from the romantic ego of psychodrama (à
la Stan Brakhage), the conceptualism of structural film (à la Michael Snow),
and the political theory of New Narrative (à la Yvonne Rainer) to a more
expressive lyricism of image and montage. Solomon's reanimation of found
footage was central to this break; in particular, The Secret Garden (which
Gunning describes as a "sensual festival of color") demonstrated how an artist
could
harvest footage from unlikely sources (here, the 1949 Hollywood film of the
title, as well as The Wizard of Oz) in order to create a new form of
storytelling. This preternatural blend of imagery finds earlier precedents in
What's Out Tonight is Lost (recently restored by the Academy Film Archive) and
the moving The Exquisite Hour. While Gunning's essay located Solomon on the
other side of a generational divide from his experimental-film forebears, a
teaching appointment in Boulder, Colorado found Solomon lecturing alongside
Brakhage. Solomon's technical assistance to the older artist in optically
printing Brakhage's hand-painted work quickly led to a fruitful collaboration,
and the two subsequently worked on a few film projects together, including one
of Brakhage's last works, the beautiful and evocative Seasons... . What's Out
Tonight is Lost (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1983 \ 8 min. \ 16mm) Crossroad (dirs.
Phil Solomon & Mark LaPore \ USA 2005 \ 5 min. \ video) The Exquisite
Hour (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1989/1994 \ 14 min. \ Super 8 on 16mm) The Secret
Garden (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1988 \ 17 min. \ 16mm) Seasons... (dirs. Phil
Solomon & Stan Brakhage \ USA 2002 \ 18 min. \ 16mm) The Snowman (dir. Phil
Solomon \ USA 1995 \ 8 min. \ 16mm)
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015
6/26
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 W. 24th St
SOUTH, PRECEDED BY AN ILLUSTRATED LECTURE BY CHARLES HOOD
The Velaslavasay Panorama & Los Angeles Filmforum Present Mush! To The Movies!
: A Polar Film Club – South, preceded by an Illustrated Lecture by Charles Hood
Friday June 26, 2015, 7:30 pm At The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 W. 24th St.
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[email protected] South (UK, 1919, 81 min.) Restored Digital Projection
Directed by Sir Ernest Shackleton & Frank Hurley Silent with score Restored by
the British Film Institute, this is the original film recounting one of the
most revered expeditions in history - the 1914 journey of the Endurance and its
crew to cross the Antarctic continent via the South Pole, led by legendary
explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Frank Hurley was hired to document the trip and
in doing so created a remarkable, meditative film on the awe of nature and the
struggle of man to journey through its harshest climate.
Preceded By: The Artists, Writers, Photographers, Scuba Divers, German
Directors, and Visiting Astronauts of NSF's Antarctica Program - An Illustrated
Lecture by Charles Hood
6/26
New York, New York 10016: Filmmakers Co-op
7:30pm, 475 Park Ave South 6th Floor
PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS: AN EVENING OF EXPANDED CINEMA
FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE & MICROSCOPE GALLERY PRESENTS: PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS
AN EVENING OF EXPANDED CINEMA Friday, June 26th, 2015 Microscope Gallery 1329
Willoughby Avenue, #2B Brooklyn, NY 11237 7:30 PM Admission $10 Curated by Josh
Guilford Projection Instructions is a modular program of 16mm films from the
collection of the Film-Makers' Cooperative. The works in this program involve
special instructions to the projectionist that reconfigure the traditional
architecture between projector, spectator, and screen, incorporating multiple
projections, specially designed equipment, and live audio-visual manipulation
to underscore the performative dimension of cinematic exhibition. In this
version of the program, produced collaboratively by Microscope and the Film
Coop, dual-projection films by Jennifer Reeves, Paul Sharits, and Rose Lowder
will be presented alongside Malcolm Le Grice's Castle One (The Light Bulb
Film), which involves a flickering light bulb hung within the
exhibition space, and Guy Sherwin's Railings, a silent speed optical sound film
designed to be screened with the projector lying on its side. Each of the
dual-projection films will be presented in a different configuration: one with
two images projected side-by-side; one with partially overlapped images; and
one with two images fully superimposed. The instructions that accompany these
films are highly varied, ranging from carefully ordered performance scripts and
visual diagrams to statements emphasizing flexibility, contingency, and
improvisation. Yet each film approaches projection as a malleable form, an area
of artistic work that is radically open to creative intervention. Featuring: -
Jennifer Reeves, "Light Work Mood Disorder" 2007, dual projection, color, sound
on CD, 26 min - Paul Sharits, "Shutter Interface" 1975, dual projection, color,
sound, 25 min - Rose Lowder, "Retour D'un Repere" 1979, dual projection, color,
silent, 17.5 min - Malcolm Le Grice, "Castle One
(The Light Bulb Film)" 1966, black and white, sound, 17.25 min - Guy Sherwin,
"Railings" 1977, black and white, sound, 18fps, 9 min TRT ca. 95 min.
6/26
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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7:30pm, 40 Rue Quincampoix
VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: MARY BILLYOU + CéCILE TOURNEUR
19h30 | Mary Billyou 21h30 | Cécile Tourneur, Curator in attendance A Murderous
Desert of Houses: A Program Curated by Mary Billyou Consent, an essential prop
of neoliberal economics, has produced, along with suburban development,
collective melancholia and institutional racism. How does the legacy of
separatism affect current ideas of difference? The films in this program guide
us through genteel and marginal worlds, both imaginary and real, within and
without community gates, where questions linger amongst the sameness. (MB) Mary
Billyou Idyll (2014, 16mm and digital video, 6:00) Fewer families were born,
lived, and died in the same place. People, especially young ones, were ready
for a new life, as far removed from the old one as possible. Living space was
much smaller and there were few, if any, servants. Many wives were working
outside the home and leisure was not to be spent doing housework, but in being
out of doors as much as possible. Emphasis was on informal living
and informal entertaining. Peggy Ahwesh Lessons of War (2015, digital video,
6:00) Five chronological narratives of the recent wars on Gaza. Emotions are
tempered by remote control, satellites, targeted bombings, and total
abstraction of landscape into basic geometric shapes. Remarkable for the sudden
totality that sync points make, Ahwesh directs us to two significant moments,
both involving the stakes of documenting reality under repressive regimes.
Redmond Entwistle Skein (2007, digital video, 35:00) Ostensibly a portrait of
New York, Skein was filmed on the peripheries of the city: along a route
through the New Jersey suburbs. An interviewer asks residents how they think of
their home district in relation to Manhattan – which they prefer, how they
compare – and various visions of the city and sense of distance from it emerge.
– Melissa Gronlund Cécile Tourneur : Portraits / Autoportraits / Hommages What
part of ourselves do we put in the portrait of another? What mirror
do we hold up to the viewer when we create a self-portrait? How deeply do we
implicate ourselves in the homage we make to those we admire? These are the
questions that underlie this program of work. Each film approaches these
questions in its own singular fashion, proposing hypotheses rather than giving
definitive answers. These films are built on intimacy, faults, and stirrings;
they explore the presentation of the self, the other, or the alter ego, real or
imagined, that is the projection of a life and a lifetime of experiences. Sami
Trabelsi - Portrait (11:11) Vincent Roux - Arnold Pasquier (4:50) Christelle
Lheureux - Julien Loustau (6:45) Raphaël Gianelli-Meriano - A Night Without The
Pope (6:35) Paulina Egle Pukyte - A Girl With Pears (5:30) Vincent Dieutre -
EA2 (2ème Exercice d'admiration : Jean Eustache) (21:00)
6/26
San Francisco, California 94110: Artists Television Access
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7:30pm, 992 Valencia St
PAST PERFECT FUTURE TENSE
- GAZE's 10th screening - A show dedicated to our relationship with
time-looking into the past, the present, and the future-contemplating our
tumultuous connection to the clock and calendar. Seasons, cycles, phases,
orbits and generations. How do we understand the longing for things that are
gone or¬ our desire to rewrite the past? What can we make of our anxiety of
the unknown or the anticipation of things yet to be? Join us for an early
celebration of the summer solstice, when the days are longest and the nights
are shortest.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015
6/27
Berlin, Germany: Colorado Filmmuseum
6:00pm, Atelier Ebersstr., Ebersstr. 80 (Hinterhof) D-10827
OUT OF THE DARK
An Evening of Film, Object & Food. Thomas Draschan, Eva Heldman, Uwe Buhrdorf,
Sylvia Schedelbauer, Frank Biesendorfer, Thomas Seideman, Heather Allen, Margit
Seiler, Stefanie Mayer, Micki Tschur.
6/27
Istanbul, Turkey: Yeşilçam Sineması
7:00pm, İmam Adnan Sokağı No:8
FOL SUNAR: AMERIKAN DENEYSEL SINEMASı'NDAN SEçKILER
FLEXfest Greatest Hits, Amerikalı deneysel sinemacı ve film programcısı Roger
Beebe'nin programladığı ve Avrupa'nın çeşitli yerlerinde gösterimini
gerçekleştirdiği bir seçkidir. Bu seçki, Amerikan Deneysel Sineması'nın son 11
yılında kendisine yer edinmiş önemli işlerden oluşmaktadır. Fol Sinema
Topluluğu, eşsiz bir deneyim sunan bu programı, Varşova'dan hemen sonra,
Paris'teki gösterimden de bir gün önce Roger Beebe'nin katılımı ile İstanbul'da
Beyoğlu'ndaki Yeşilçam Sineması'nda seyirciler ile buluşturacak. 27 Haziran
akşamı gerçekleşecek bu özel gösterimdeki filmlerin bazıları orjinal formatı
olan 16mm'den gösterilecektir. With Pluses and Minuses: (Yön. Mike Stoltz /
2013 / 16mm / 5'). Light from the Mesa: (Yön. Paul Clipson / 2010 / Super 8mm /
6’). Quiero Ver: (Yön. Adele Horne / 2008 / 16mm / 6’). Altitude Zero: (Yön.
Lauren Cook / 2004 / 16mm / 5’). Handful of Dust: (Yön. Hope Tucker / 2013 /
9’). River Rites: (Yön. Ben Russell / 2011 /
16mm / 11’ 30’’). Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside: (Yön. Jodie Mack / 2010
/ 16mm / 4’ 30’’). Beaver Skull Magick: (Yön. Steve Reinke / 2010 / 6’).
Somewhere Only We Know: (Yön. Jesse McLean / 2009 / 5’). The Realist: (Yön.
Scott Stark / 2013 / HD Video / 36’).
6/27
Oakland: LAND AND SEA
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5-9pm, 5428 San Pablo, Oakland
HEADBOGGLE / AURORA CRISPIN / JENNY YANG / PAUL CLIPSON
Three sound/music performances featuring Headboggle, Aurora Crispin, and Jenny
Yang with Super 8mm and 16mm films by Paul Clipson.
6/27
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: SHAMBHAVI KAUL + BRENT COUGHENOUR + REBECCA BARON
19:30h | Shambhavi Kaul + Brent Coughenour 21:30h | Rebecca Baron Shambhavi
Kaul Shambhavi Kaul's cinematic constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive
non-places. Described as creating “zones of compression and dispersion,” her
work utilizes strategies of montage and recirculation, inviting an affective
response while simultaneously measuring our capacity to know what we encounter.
Shambhavi Kaul was born in Jodhpur, India and currently lives in India and
North Carolina, USA. She has exhibited her work worldwide at venues such as the
Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, The New York Film Festival,
the London Film Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. This
evening of work will include her recent film, Night Noon (2014, 12:00), shot in
the desert landscapes of Baja California, as well as Mount Song (2013, 9:00)
and 21 Chitrakoot (2012, 9:00) Time's Arrow: Videos by Brent Coughenour A
program of video experiments that incorporate sounds and
images from popular media, the internet, and a range of archives, both known
and obscure, to consider the idea of time: the inaccessible past and the
unknowable future. Work includes: In Search of Lost Time (2011, 3:30), nPNBIbK
(2011, 24:00), Work in Progress (2011, 13:00), Video Proposal for a Film to be
Titled "Yearbook" (2011, 365 sec.), and Elegy for the Living as Sung by the
Dying, Part 1-3 (2011, 13:00). (Dis)Appearances : Films Curated by Rebecca
Baron Rebecca Baron Detour de Force (30:00) Detour de Force presents the world
of thoughtographer Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the
mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Constructed from
16mm documentation of Serios’s sessions and audio recordings of Serios speaking
with Dr. Jule Eisenbud, the Denver psychiatrist who championed his abilities,
the film is more ethnography than biography, portraying the social and
scientific environments in which Serios thrived. The film enjoys a
rich sound environment by Ernst Karel, Kyle Bruckmann, and Guiseppe Ielasi.
Gaëlle Cintré Zone Blanche (2014, 22:00) Suffering from an acute intolerance to
electromagnetic fields caused by cell phones and Wi-Fi, among other things,
four women are forced to survive on the margins of the world. In the mountains,
looking for a subterranean refuge, the daily life of these
‘electro-hyper-sensitives’ oscillates between a return to a primitive way of
life and a science-fiction post-apocalyptic existence. Unable to endure
proximity to electrical current or even batteries, they must be approached with
a mechanical camera… A film without electricity. Abigail Han Untitled (2015,
2:00) A short meditation on the ontology of the photograph and its relationship
to the moving image. Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin Lossless 3 (2009, 10:00)
Removing keyframes from a digital version of John Ford's The Searchers, Baron
and Goodwin attack the film's temporal structuring to render a kinetic
“painted desert” of the West. (Braxton Soderman)
6/27
San Francisco, California: Peephole Cinema
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June 27-Aug 9, 280 Orange Alley (off of Valencia and 26th)
SPIN TACTICS
Three artists repurpose vinyl records and perform with turntables to make
moving images. Work by Elise Baldwin, Gilbert Hsiao and Katie Turnbull. The
cinema is open and vvailable to the Public 24/7
6/27
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
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1pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
TWILIGHT MADE MANIFEST: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON: THE TWILIGHT PSALMS
Its name a play on that of The Twilight Zone, the ongoing Twilight Psalms is
the centrepiece of Solomon's oeuvre. Introduction by Phil Solomon. Its name a
play on that of The Twilight Zone (and with each of its individual installments
adopting the title of an episode from the television series), the ongoing
Twilight Psalms is the centrepiece of Solomon's oeuvre. Emulating the creeping
unease of its almost-namesake and evoking a plaintive millennial regret, this
series of films goes beyond personal narrative to address the failings of
history, looking back at the pains (and horrors) of the twentieth century and
directing a so-called "minor" cinema towards grander gestures and a more
expansive conceptual ambition. The Psalms also showcases some of Solomon's most
stunning employments of optical printing, particularly in the two central films
Walking Distance (which uses footage of Harry Houdini to evoke the physical
difficulty of escape) and Night of the Meek (which links
imagery from Paul Wegener's The Golem and James Whale's Frankenstein to the
industrial-scale pogrom of the Holocaust); the bronzed and embossed figures in
the former and the black-and-white decay of the latter are some of the most
visually compelling images created during the century's turn. Our screening of
The Twilight Psalms is preceded by Stan Brakhage's First Hymn to the Night -
Novalis, which was made in the period immediately preceding his collaborations
with Solomon. First Hymn to the Night – Novalis (dir. Stan Brakhage \ USA 1994
\ 3 min. \ 16mm) Psalm I: "The Lateness of the Hour" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA
1999 \ 10 min. \ 16mm) Psalm II: "Walking Distance" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA
1999 \ 23 min. \ 16mm) Psalm III: "Night of the Meek" (dir. Phil Solomon \ USA
2002 \ 23 min. \ 16mm) Psalm IV: "Valley of the Shadow" (dir. Phil Solomon \
USA 2013 \ 8 min. \ video)
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2015
6/28
Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE
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7 PM , 361 Manhattan Avenue
CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS "TEAR IT UP, SON!" THE FILMS OF ROSS
NUGENT - IN PERSON -
Join us for an intimate screening presentation with artist and filmmaker Ross
Nugent (Pittsburgh, PA.) Ross Nugent returns to New York for an intimate night
of moving images and conversation. This program will present a selection of
films shot on 16mm over the last 7 years including his most recent film Steel
Mill Rolling, a document of a functioning steel mill in Western Pennsylvania
where the filmmaker's family has worked for nearly 100 years. Though the artist
is an “Emulsion enthusiast” digital video interludes (unlisted) will help give
greater context to the working artist. Screening program includes: Hopper
Repair 2010 (16mm, 4.5 minutes, color, sound), Tear it up, Son! 2011 (Super-16
transferred to HD, 9 min, b/w, sound), Steel Mill Rolling 2014 (16mm, 12 min,
color, sound), Whatever It Takes, work-in-progress, (16mm X 2 and HD video, 10
min, sound, live performance) Spillway Study/Carpe Diez 2009, (16mm X 3, 8 min,
b/w + color gels, live performance) Total running
time: 52 minutes on-screen, 60 minutes Additional time for discussion / Q & A
with the artist : The CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA series presents the work of
artists, film-makers and curators who are traveling or presenting special
interactive programs in-person. We engage the community by showing work with a
focus on post-screening discussion and audience participation. This event is
sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council
(BAC).,br>
6/28
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.,
FORWARD TO DISTANT TIMES: NEW VISIONS OF THE WEST
Sunday June 28, 2015, 7:30 pm Los Angeles Filmforum presents Forward to Distant
Times: New Visions of the West At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712
Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 NOTE: Amy Halpern, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain,
Kate Lain, LeeAnn Schmidy, and Penelope Uribe-Abee in person! Los Angeles
Filmforum is proud to present “Forward to Distant Times,” a program of
extraordinary experimental examinations of the history, mythology and landscape
of the American west. Drawing on diverse traditions ranging from the city
symphony to the film diary, the filmmakers featured in tonight’s program look
at the western United States with fresh eyes, examining the visual residue of
history, the iconography of the west and the continuing impact of
redevelopment. Screening: Cuentos, by Penelope Uribe-Abee( 2015, video, color,
sound, 7 min., World Premiere!); Palm Down, by Amy Halpern (2010, 16mm, color,
silent, 6 min.); The Wash, by Lee Anne Schmitt and Lee Lynch, 2005, Super
8 transferred to digital, color, sound, 20 min.); Field Notes: Tree 1, by Kate
Lain (Super 8 transferred to digital, b&w, sound, 3:28 min.); Piensa en Mi, by
Alexandra Cuesta (2009, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min.); From Sea to See, by Eve
Lauryn LaFountain (2014, Super 8 transferred to video, color, sound, 8:23 min.
World Premiere!) Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at
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6/28
Paris, France: La Videoshop
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LA VIDEOSHOP SCREENINGS: JP SNIADECKI + JAY ROSENBLATT + CAVEH ZAHEDI
19h30 | J.P. Sniadecki 21h30 | Jay Rosenblatt + Caveh Zahedi J.P. Sniadecki
Yumen (2013, 65:00) Directed by Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao, J. P. Sniadecki. This
highly experimental twist on the ethnographic documentary visits the town of
Yumen, in China’s northwest Gansu province, a once-thriving, oil-rich community
in the 1980s that has been left depleted and derelict. Strikingly shot on film,
Yumen tells the story of this ghost town through a series of wandering
characters and inventive vignettes in which even the spirit of Bruce
Springsteen is summoned to comment on a world in ruins. A collaboration between
Chinese and American filmmakers, Yumen pushes the boundaries of the documentary
aesthetic in depicting China’s past and present. (MOMA) Jay Rosenblatt Short of
Breath (1990, 10:00) A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards
trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A
doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother's depression. Short
of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide.
It's like a punch in the stomach. (JR) Caveh Zahedi The Sheik and I (2012,
74:00) Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of
"art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I Am A Sex
Addict) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun
of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides
to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself and gleefully
presses every culturally sensitive button he can find. But his court jester
antics fails to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned for blasphemy and he is
threatened with arrest if he returns to Sharjah.
6/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF
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8pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West
TWILIGHT MADE MANIFEST: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON: IN MEMORIAM
Made in response to the death of Solomon's lifelong friend Mark LaPore, the In
Memoriam trilogy uses the dystopic hinterlands of Grand Theft Auto to find
uncannily affecting landscapes that speak to loss, solitude, and departure.
Introduction by Phil Solomon. "Do you think the end of the world will come at
night time?" "Uh-uh. At dawn." —Rebel Without a Cause One of Solomon's earliest
films, Nocturne uses time exposure to capture the lightplay of darkest night.
The lights and shadows of the neighbourhood around Solomon's home are blended
with footage of air raids from World War II, creating a disturbing yet
compelling vision of suburban anxiety and the historical memories that haunt
the night. This nocturnal unease returns in the In Memoriam trilogy — made in
response to the death of Solomon's lifelong friend Mark LaPore — where Solomon
guides us through the dystopic hinterlands of Grand Theft Auto to find
uncannily affecting landscapes that speak to loss, solitude, and
departure. The programme concludes with one of Solomon's most stunning films,
Remains to Be Seen, a memorial to the artist's mother that chemically
transforms found images (of a ghostly cyclist, surgeons around an operating
table, and others) to create haunting visions of a life once lived. Nocturne
(dir. Phil Solomon \ USA 1980 \ 8 min. \ 16mm) Rehearsals for Retirement (dir.
Phil Solomon \ USA 2007 \ 11 min. \ video) Last Days in a Lonely Place (dir.
Phil Solomon \ USA 2007 \ 20 min. \ video) Still Raining, Still Dreaming (dir.
Phil Solomon \ USA 2008 \ 12 min. \ video) Remains to Be Seen (dir. Phil
Solomon \ USA 1989/1994 \ 18 min. \ Super 8 on 16mm)
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