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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival San Vito Lo Capo (San Vito lo Capo,
Italy; Deadline: April 30, 2015)
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ART Habens International Call for Artists 5th Edition 2015 (London, United
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Proceso de Error, International Experimental Video Festival (Valparaíso, Chile;
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FLEFF (Ithaca, NY, USA; Deadline: May 01, 2015)
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Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: April 11,
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CINECITY Architectural Film Project (Australia; Deadline: March 25, 2015)
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CineSpace (Houston, TX, USA; Deadline: July 31, 2015)
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The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado US; Deadline: May
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
Magmart Festival 9th Edition (2014-15) (Naples, Italy; Deadline: March 31, 2015)
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INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART REVIEW THE 03 (Krakow, Poland; Deadline: April 01, 2015)
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Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Deadline: March 31,
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Art in the Dark @ Isadore gallery (Lancaster, PA USA; Deadline: April 01, 2015)
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Khôra Residency, Syros Intl. Film Festival (Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece;
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Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (Haverhill, MA, USA; Deadline: April 11,
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CINECITY Architectural Film Project (Australia; Deadline: March 25, 2015)
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.
This week's programs (summary):
* "Burchkardt Films" Presented By Norte Maar & Microscope Gallery (#anchor1)
[March 21, Brooklyn, New York]
* A Cocktail of Mistakes, Or A Mistake of Cocktails: the (Notorious) Legend of
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema In 2 Or 3 Easy Lessons (#anchor2) [March 21,
Brooklyn, New York]
* Show & Tell: Sylvia Schedelbauer (#anchor3) [March 21, New York, New York]
* Becker + Darr + Storm Chaser + Octoplayer + (#anchor4) [March 21, San
Francisco, California]
* Terrible Resonance: A Live Podcast About Subversive Sound, Earthquakes,
Ghosts, Outer Space, Sonic Weaponry, and Whales (#anchor5) [March 22, Brooklyn,
New York 11211]
* Gregory J. Markopoulos: Film As Film - the Illiac Passion (#anchor6) [March
22, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 (#anchor7) [March 22, New York,
New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 (#anchor8) [March 22, New York,
New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Roger Beebe (#anchor9) [March 22, Oakland]
* Abigail Child's Mayhem and Leslie Thornton's Adynata (#anchor10) [March 24,
Brooklyn, New York]
* A Spell To Ward off the Darkness (#anchor11) [March 25, Austin, Texas 78701]
* "We're Part of the Landscape," Another Experiment By Women Film Festival, 4th
Season (#anchor12) [March 25, New York, New York]
* Another Experiment By Women Film Festival Screening (#anchor13) [March 25,
New York, New York]
* Soon-Mi Yoo: Songs From the North (#anchor14) [March 26, Chicago, Illinois]
* Habitat: Experimental visions of Montreal (#anchor15) [March 26, Montreal,
Quebec H2T1R5]
* Essential Cinema: Clair/Picabia/Bunuel/Dali Program (#anchor16) [March 26,
New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits Program 1 (#anchor17) [March 27, New York, New York]
* Animation and Earthworks; Eyeworks and Errata: Films By Alexander Stewart
(#anchor18) [March 27, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: L'age D'or (#anchor19) [March 28, New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits Program 2 (#anchor20) [March 28, New York, New York]
* Cyrus Tabar + Schedelbauer + Baldwin + (#anchor21) [March 28, San Francisco,
California]
* Ornette: Made In America (#anchor22) [March 29, Cambridge, Massachusetts]
* Paul Sharits Program 3 (#anchor23) [March 29, New York, New York]
* Paul Sharits Program 4 (#anchor24) [March 29, New York, New York]
* Film: English Language Version of Guy Debord's In Girim Imus Nocte Et
Consumimir Igni (#anchor25) [March 29, Oakland, California 94609]
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015
3/21
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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7:30, 1329 Willoughby Ave, 2b
"BURCHKARDT FILMS" PRESENTED BY NORTE MAAR & MICROSCOPE GALLERY
admission $6. Jacob Burkhardt in person. Microscope Gallery collaborates with
Norte Maar to present an evening of films and videos celebrating artist and
writer Edith Schloss, who died in 2011 at the age of 92. Works include the
47-minute “A Guided Tour of Edith’s Apartment” (2010) by filmmaker Jacob
Burckhardt, who is also Schloss’ son, in which the then 90-year old artist
leads a tour of her apartment in Rome – a city in which she lived since the
early 60s – discussing her art and other work, art history, and mythology. Two
short and poetic black & white 16mm films “Verona” (1955) and “Roma” (2004) by
Rudy Burckhardt and Jacob Burkhardt respectively were shot nearly 60 years
apart. And the evening features the world premiere of Jacob Burckhardt’s "Happy
Holi" (2014) capturing a vibrant dance party celebrating the Hindu Holi
festival of colors in Sri Lanka.-- PROGRAM:HAPPY HOLI
by Jacob Burckhardt,
digital video, 2015, 24 minutes (English and Sinhala with subtitles) ROMA
by Jacob Burckhardt, b/w 16mm, 2004, 11 minutes A GUIDED TOUR OF EDITH’S
APARTMENT
by Jacob Burckhardt, digital video, 2010, 47 minutes VERONA
by Rudy
Burckhardt, b/w 16mm, 1955, 8 minutes Full program notes
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. Note we are now located at the
Jefferson L (exit Starr St.)
3/21
Brooklyn, New York: UnionDocs
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7:30, 322 Union Ave.
A COCKTAIL OF MISTAKES, OR A MISTAKE OF COCKTAILS: THE (NOTORIOUS) LEGEND OF
ROBERT BECK MEMORIAL CINEMA IN 2 OR 3 EASY LESSONS
Every Tuesday night for more than a hex of years, the Robert Beck Memorial
Cinema illuminated the snowy-white screen of the Collective Unconscious on
Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Initiated by Brian Frye & immediately joined by
Bradley Eros, both shared the core curating frenzy of this no-budget operation,
managing to produce over 300 programs and exhibiting more than a thousand
artists. When Frye left, it relocated & regrouped, mutating into Roberta Beck
Mercurial Cinema at Participant Inc’s gallery just around the corner, for a
year, with a team of at least six, but primarily & irrepressibly Eros & Joel
Schlemowitz. It later became a restless, nomadic cinema, mushrooming & mutating
in myriad incarnations, most notoriously at Issue Project Room on the Gowanus
Canal in Brooklyn, both indoors and out. Lastly, it explored more artworld and
musical contexts, transforming the field of experimental film, as both quixotic
and quicksilver. For this event, Brian Frye and Bradley Eros
(& special guests) will present: 1.) A little (apocryphal) history, with a few
“essential” films and videos, including a slide show of posters, programs, &
calendars, and an exhibition of original posters & flyers. + a Q&A with Jon
Dieringer (Spectacle / Screen Slate) & Elle Burchill (Microscope Gallery) 2.) A
peformance/’recreation’ of the infamous Mistakes (everything you can do wrong)
show, enacting a multitude of projection failures & inspired screw-ups, with
guest projectionists Lary 7 and Joel Schlemowitz (from the original fiasco) and
other ‘professional(?) pitch-hitters’ from Anthology, etc. 3.) An attempt at
the unsuccessful Cocktail Cinema event, with related films and drinks, pairing
libations & clips in a drunken mixture of free associations, perhaps
overlapping, since cocktails can produce even better mistakes... Including
these works: - The Legend of Robert Beck / Sanitarium Cinema (Brian Frye &
Bradley Eros / Bradley Eros & Maria Losier, 1999, DVD, 3 min / 7
min.) The history told & enacted. - Robert Beck is Alive & Well & Living in NYC
(Brian Frye with Stuart Sherman, 2000, 16mm, 4 min.) The myth performed. - burn
(or, The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) (Bradley Eros, 2004, DVD, 5 min.) An
accident of modulated destruction; an offshoot of the original “Mistakes” show.
- Punch n’ Judy Santa (double projection) (found films – Eros/Frye
intervention, 2000, 16mm, 10 min.) An RBMC fave. - X times X (Bradley Eros,
1998, R-8mm/16mm, 4 min.) The X-rated X-ray film, a subterranean science
experiment. - Other influences & inspirations Pirated works, stolen gems &
archival mold.
3/21
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SHOW & TELL: SYLVIA SCHEDELBAUER
A moving image artist whose work travels from the personal to the infinite,
Sylvia Schedelbauer has made a major impact on the international film festival
scene over the last decade. Employing archival materials with an associative
ingenuity and uncommon approach that differentiates her from other found
footage filmmakers, she has created a suite of lyrical shorts that are
genuinely powerful and never less than transfixing. Whether unearthing family
secrets in MEMORIES or creating total body audio and visual adventures in more
recent pieces like SOUNDING GLASS and SEA OF VAPORS, Schedelbauer creates works
that address consciousness, memory, and perspective in entirely fresh ways.
These themes emerge explicitly in some films, while in others they’re embedded
in particularly evocative, multi-faceted orchestrations that have begun, in her
most recent work, to reach towards the mythic. This program represents
Schedelbauer’s first solo screening in New York City following multiple
screenings at the New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival,
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, London Film Festival, Robert
Flaherty International Film Seminar, and Stan Brakhage Symposium. MEMORIES
(2004, 19 min, digital) A woman grows up during the bubble economy in Japan.
Why did her parents never speak about the past? Using a box full of photos
found in her family archive, Schedelbauer tries to construct one version of a
family history. REMOTE INTIMACY (2007-08, 14.5 min, 16mm-to-digital, color/b&w)
Stream of consciousness with fictitious and found stories and a personal
reference. FALSE FRIENDS (2007, 5 min, 16mm-to-digital, b&w) A montage of
mid-century found footage: mysterious strands are obsessively braided to create
a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection. WAY
FARE (2009, 6.5 min, 16mm-to-digital) A layered tone poem of found images and
woven soundscapes renders a shifting psychogram; a nomadic passage
across spaces in and out of time. SOUNDING GLASS (2011, 10 min, Super 8mm &
16mm-to-digital, b&w) A man in a forest is subject to a flood of impressions;
rhythmic waves of images and sounds give form to his introspection. SEA OF
VAPORS (2014, 15 min, digital, color/b&w) A cascade of images cut frame by
frame flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle. Total running time: ca. 75 min.
3/21
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30, 992 Valencia
BECKER + DARR + STORM CHASER + OCTOPLAYER +
Opening OC’s semi-annual celebration of Live A/V is the now legendary
Octoplayer, Thad Povey and Mark Taylor’s marvelous 8-tiered turntable, that all
are invited to try! Isaac Sherman on synths and Linda Scobie on video
projections carry on that spirit of possibility in their intermedia Storm
Chaser project, in its SF debut! Brian Darr also conjures from his analog rig
transporting tracks to Paul Leni’s Rebus and Curtis Harrington’s House of
Usher. Multimedia master Tommy Becker parlays his wry observations into
incantatory vocals and big-screen visuals. PLUS Anne McGuire/Karla Milosevich,
Ian Helliwell’s Cinematechnique and a mid-20s Michael Tilton Thomas plucking a
prepared piano! $7.
SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2015
3/22
Brooklyn, New York 11211: UnionDocs
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9:30pm, 322 Union Ave
TERRIBLE RESONANCE: A LIVE PODCAST ABOUT SUBVERSIVE SOUND, EARTHQUAKES, GHOSTS,
OUTER SPACE, SONIC WEAPONRY, AND WHALES
HERE BE MONSTERS at UNIONDOCS: A live episode of Jeff Emtman's podcast with
musician Joe Morgan. Sunday, March 22nd, 2015. $9 7:30p - SOLD OUT! 9:30p -
Just a few tickets available. Terrible Resonance is a journey from 0-20hz,
telling stories from the well-studied rumbles of Earth's crust, songs of whales
and elephants, and resonant points in the human body to the areas of the
unknown that lead to wild speculation: hauntings, the "brown" note, spontaneous
orgasm and not-so-secret weapons programs from the Pentagon. The show runs
roughly 90 minutes and includes a live infrasound demonstration from
Brooklyn-based musician Joe Morgan. Earplugs will be provided. Children and
service animals should use extra precaution during this portion of the show.
3/22
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
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7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.,
GREGORY J. MARKOPOULOS: FILM AS FILM - THE ILLIAC PASSION
Gregory J. Markopoulos was one of the most original filmmakers to emerge in
post-war American cinema. His films, which often translated literary or
mythological sources to a contemporary context, are celebrated for their
extraordinary creativity, the sensuous use of color and innovations in
cinematic form. A contemporary of Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger and Jonas Mekas,
Markopoulos was amongst those at the forefront of a generation that liberated
cinema by developing new modes of expression. Having made his first 16mm film
(Psyche) in 1947, he went on to produce several key works of the avant-garde
such as Twice a Man (1963) and The Illiac Passion (1964-67). This screening of
The Iliac Passion is the first known to be presented in Los Angeles in decades.
The cast includes Jack Smith, Taylor Mead, Beverly Grant, Gregory Battcock,
Gerard Malanga, and Andy Warhol. This rare opportunity to experience the work
of a true pioneer of independent filmmaking celebrates the publication of
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos (The Visible
Press, 2004), which gathers together almost 100 texts written by the filmmaker
between 1950 and 1992. www.thevisiblepress.com Tickets: $10 general, $6
students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in
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3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (1951, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38
min, 35mm, b&w) THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Three films by an American
avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy of living. If
there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the master of it. Total
running time: ca. 80 min.
3/22
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45 min, 16mm) Total
running time: ca. 80 min.
3/22
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
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7:30-9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St.
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS ROGER BEEBE
Filmmaker/curator/professor Roger Beebe will be making a special stop through
Oakland to share his currently-touring program of multiple-projector
performances featuring 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”). New arrangements of Cody Hennesy’s soundtracks for
“AAAAA Motion Picture”, “tour/TOWER”, and “Can’t Stop” will be performed live!
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015
3/24
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
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7:30PM, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
ABIGAIL CHILD'S MAYHEM AND LESLIE THORNTON'S ADYNATA
Mis en scène meets Montage meets Surrealism meets Noir meets Multiple Mises en
scène. "In both the writing and the films one feels Child cooking the material,
exposing them to pressures that break up the genre associations we have with
them, but in no way simply abstracting them. A film like Mayhem seems amazingly
"dirty" to me -- in the best sense." —Tom Gunning. Foreward to THIS IS CALLED
MOVING: A CRITICAL POETICS OF FILM. Tickets - $7, available at door. Please
note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015
3/25
Austin, Texas 78701: Experimental Response Cinema
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A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
A SPELL follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments
in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person
collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness
of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a
black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an
optimism of the darkest sort, A SPELL is a radical proposition for the
existence of utopia in the present. Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best
known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead
role, A SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - it is at once a
document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence
that sees the cinema as a site for transformation. Directed by Ben Rivers & Ben
Russell. Programmed by Tommy Swenson.
3/25
New York, New York: Another Experiment by Women Film Festival
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6:00PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street
"WE'RE PART OF THE LANDSCAPE," ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, 4TH
SEASON
WE’RE PART of the LANDSCAPE Curated by Lili White TRT: 56 minutes featured
works: LANDSCAPE_1 LANDSCAPE_2.0; Rrose Present (Spain; 2012) ON THE TRAIN TO
KUTNÁ HORA…AND BACK; Ann Deborah Levy (USA; 2014) DANUBE TREASURES; Ada
Kobusiewicz (Serbia/Austria; 2013) GELOST (solved); Stefanie Weberhofer
(Austria; 2014) LUDWIG’s TAPE; Claudia Siefen (Austria; 2014) STRAY; Chairun
Nissa (Indonesia; 2012) BORDERLINES; Jessica Ann (USA; 2011) LOST IN A GLASS OF
WATER; Cinzia Sarto (Italy; 2013)
3/25
New York, New York: ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL
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6 PM, Anthology Film Archives
ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING
OUR 4th SEASON BEGINS with: FROM THE ROAD; TRT:60 min; Curated by Lili White;
Filmmaker, Elizabeth Henry and special guest, Toni Gault, will attend; WORKS
FEATURED:The Cheerwine Trail- Claire Bennett; Fledgling- Elizabeth Henry & Tony
Gault; Bring with You a Heart- Elizabeth Henry; on the road (be fekret hastam)-
Naz Shahrokh; Something Like Whales; Nora Sweeney (will be screened in 16MM);
Susan’s Horses- Elizabeth Henry; Out of Green Stuff Woven- Elizabeth Henry;
Can't make it to the show? This show will be streamed on AXWonline.com!
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015
3/26
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
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18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State
SOON-MI YOO: SONGS FROM THE NORTH
South Korea–born and Cambridge-based artist Soon-Mi Yoo’s debut feature is a
nuanced look at political ideology and everyday life in North Korea. Winner of
the prestigious Golden Leopard for Best First Feature at the 2014 Locarno Film
Festival, the film interweaves biography (Yoo’s father fought in the war and
many of his left-leaning friends abandoned South Korea for the North[AB1] ),
footage shot on three visits to the country, popular television spectacles,
cinema, and song. Curator Andrea Picard writes, “Yoo ventures into uncharted
territory as she attempts to understand the psychology and popular imagery of
the North Korean people on their own terms, the fissures between daily life and
its propagandistic representation, and the ideology of absolute devotion to the
ruler who continues to drive the nation towards its uncertain future.” In
English and Korean with English subtitles. 2014, US/South Korea/Portugal, DCP,
72 min + discussion. Soon-Mi Yoo (1962, Seoul, South
Korea) works with photography, film, and text to explore marginalized
histories. Her films have been exhibited at festivals internationally,
including Oberhausen, Pompidou Center, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam
International Film Festival, and Seattle International Film Festival, and her
photography has shown across the US, including the International Center of
Photography, New York and Boston Center for the Arts. Yoo is a recipient of the
Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowship, a fellowship from the American
Photography Institute, and the National Asian American Telecommunications
Association Grant. She received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts
College of Arts, where she is currently on faculty.
3/26
Montreal, Quebec H2T1R5: La Sala Rossa
8:00pm, 4848 boul. Saint-Laurent
HABITAT: EXPERIMENTAL VISIONS OF MONTREAL
Screening and Social Event for SCMS HABITAT: Experimental Visions of Montreal
Curated by Leo Goldsmith & Brett Kashmere for SCMS 2015 This screening gathers
together six decades of artists' films that collectively refract the diverse
nature of Montreal's unique urban environment. From distinctive architectural
markers like Habitat '67, Parc du Mont-Royal and Place Ville Marie to anonymous
snowscapes, moon plays, and back alley explorations, these works compose a
fluid, unfixed cinematic city that is at once dystopic and utopic, eerily empty
and actively engaged, brutish and brimming with life. Films by: Julian Biggs,
Alexandre Larose, Arthur Lipsett, Daïchi Saïto, Michael Snow, Malena Szlam,
and more.
3/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLAIR/PICABIA/BUNUEL/DALI PROGRAM
René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR’ACTE (1924, 22 min, 35mm, b&w) A masterpiece
of Dada and a feat of cinema magic. Made as intermission entertainment for the
Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scene by Francis Picabia. Luis Buñuel &
Salvador Dalí UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1928, 22 min, 35mm, b&w) Twenty-two minutes of
pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a stream of images from which anything that
could be given a rational meaning was rigorously excluded. It’s still the
unsurpassed masterpiece of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel LAND WITHOUT
BREAD / LAS HURDES: TIERRA SIN PAN (1932, 28 min, 35mm, b&w. With English
narration.) “A documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so
ravaged by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective
correlative.” –Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 75 min.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015
3/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM 1
PAUL SHARITS – RECENT PRESERVATIONS! These shows celebrate Anthology’s brand
new preservations of multiple works by pioneering filmmaker and early
installation artist Paul Sharits. The last several years have seen a resurgence
in interest in Sharits and his work, including multiple exhibitions in NYC at
Greene Naftali Gallery and a recent retrospective at Fridericianum in Kassel.
While a handful of his films screen every year in our Essential Cinema series,
the rarely-presented titles included here represent our latest restoration
efforts as we continue soldiering through the Sharits collection, which
contains camera originals and the best existing materials for his substantial
body of work. Sharits’s didactic and deeply fascinating ANALYTICAL STUDIES
series represents an attempt to document and deconstruct his rigorous work for
viewers. These rank as some of his most intense films, which is saying quite a
lot if you are familiar with his color flicker aesthetic. DREAM
DISPLACEMENT is known primarily as a 4-screen ‘locational’ installation, but it
also exists as a double-projection expanded cinema work, and will be screened
here in that form. VERTICAL CONTIGUITY, another double-projection piece, is a
film that he never put into proper distribution. WORD MOVIE and PIECE
MANDALA/END WAR, two more widely-seen classics from his early Fluxus days, will
be presented alongside videos made in the 1980s. FIGMENT I: FLUXGLAM VOYAGE IN
SEARCH OF THE REAL MACIUNAS is essentially a transfer of very revealing home
movies shot in the 1970s and 80s on Super 8, while the assaultive RAPTURE is
guaranteed to be like nothing that you have ever seen. It ranks as a true must
see. All films and videos preserved by Anthology Film Archives. Special thanks
to the Estate of Paul Sharits, The Film Foundation, the National Film
Preservation Foundation, Greene Naftali Gallery, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
and Chris Hughes & Laura Major (Colorlab), Michael Kolvek
(Cinema Arts), and Simon Lund (Cineric). PROGRAM 1: COLOR SOUND FRAMES (1974,
26 min, 16mm) RAPTURE (1987, 20 min, video. Digitized by Anthology Film
Archives.) ANALYTICAL STUDIES I: THE FILM FRAME (1971-76, 24 min, 16mm) Total
running time: ca. 75 min.
3/27
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
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7:30pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st Street)
ANIMATION AND EARTHWORKS; EYEWORKS AND ERRATA: FILMS BY ALEXANDER STEWART
The films of Chicago-based filmmaker/graphic artist (and co-director of
Chicago’s Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation) Alexander Stewart are
variously energetic and animated and oddly geological. They flirt with the
legacies of structural film and psychedelic cinema while adding significantly
to the obscure traditions of the hand-drawn animation and
film-as-abstract-graphic-art. Revealing an obsessive fascination with gradual
accumulation of marks and movements and with self-imposed challenges and
limitations, Stewart’s films press against their own boundaries and reveal
glistening grace under pressure. This screening presents Stewart’s collective
works (2006–2014) including: ERRATA, an abstract animation made using
photocopiers; CRUX FILM (with Lilli Carré), an animation focusing on balance
and attempts at stasis; two pieces representing Stewart’s recent work with
musicians—WHAT I WANT—(score by Sam Prekop of The Sea and Cake) and POWER (a
music video for Chicago
band Disappears) and FORT MORGAN, a complex and sprawling dream work which
transforms the titular structure—a star-shaped brick fort near Stewart’s
hometown on the Alabama Gulf Coast—into a mysterious work of outsider earth
art. THE BATTLE OF THE STAND-STILLS, 100 FOOT PULL, 4000 FRAME THROW (PITCHIN’
MACHINE), PEACOCK, VERY SIMILAR TO (with Peter Miller) and CRUSTS also screen.
Limited edition DVDs available at the screening! Alexander Stewart in person
[$10 general/$5 members]
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015
3/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: L'AGE D'OR
by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí In French with English subtitles, 1930, 73
min, 35mm, b&w Conventional attempts at plot synopsis wither in the face of
L’ÂGE D’OR. In Buñuel’s words, “The story is a sequence of moral and surrealist
aesthetics. The sexual instinct and the sense of death form the substance of
the film. It is a romantic film performed in full surrealistic frenzy.”
3/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM 2
PROGRAM 2: DREAM DISPLACEMENT (1976, 25 min, double 16mm projection) Special
thanks to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY ANALYTICAL STUDIES II:
UN-FRAMED LINES (1971-76, 30 min, 16mm) AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY (1972-73, 20 min,
16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 min.
3/28
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30, 992 Valencia
CYRUS TABAR + SCHEDELBAUER + BALDWIN +
Launching Canyon Cinemazine #3: Sound (with flexidisc filled with
soundtracks!), our second synesthesia session sports Renaissance man Tabar
performing a primo selection of his audiovisual originals, working between
keyboard and screen, analog and digital. Sylvia Schedelbauer is represented by
her tour-de-force Sea of Vapors (in fact shot by Tabar!), a transcendent
flicker-film that activates a euphoric figment-rich region between memory and
imagination. AND in Hot Pickled Capers, Craig Baldwin unspools a pair of
hardly/oddly compatible 16mm reels, mixing and mashing up some Sixties
international atomic-espionage. PLUS Moog Promos, Soviet Theremins, Dream
Machines, and more! $7.
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015
3/29
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
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5pm, 24 Quincy Street
ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
Clarke’s free-associating, layered approach to her portrait of the legendary
free jazz icon mischievously reflects the multidimensional fabric of Ornette
Coleman’s inventive, radical approach to jazz. Initially dropping the project
of filming Coleman in the Sixties, Clarke resumed production in the Eighties at
the urging of producer Kathelin Hoffman, in part to document the inaugural
concert of a new performing arts center opening in Coleman’s hometown of Fort
Worth, Texas. Clarke magically and unpredictably blends dramatization, video
collage and rhythmic editing techniques with interviews and concert footage, to
craft an energetic and otherworldly journey through the cosmos of Ornette
Coleman. Featuring appearances by fellow creative eccentrics like William
Burroughs and Brion Gysin while conjuring the philosophies of Buckminster
Fuller, Clarke’s biography dreamily sketches out the transcendental orbit
Coleman has always followed while tenderly tethered to his humble
beginnings in a Fort Worth ghetto. Directed by Shirley Clarke US 1984, 35mm,
color & b/w, 77 min Preceded by Bridges-Go-Round Directed by Shirley Clarke US
1958, 16mm, color, 4 min. Score by Louis and Bebe Barron
3/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM 3
PROGRAM 3: VERTICAL CONTIGUITY (1974, 15 min, double 16mm projection) WORD
MOVIE (FLUXFILM 29) (1966, 4 min, 16mm) PIECE MANDALA/END WAR (1966, 5 min,
16mm) ANALYTICAL STUDIES III: COLOR FRAME PASSAGES (1973-74, 21 min, 16mm)
ANALYTICAL STUDIES IV: BLANK COLOR FRAMES (1975-76 15 min, 16mm) ANALYTICAL
STUDIES III and IV preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde
Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National
Film Preservation Foundation. Total running time: ca. 65 min.
3/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
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8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SHARITS PROGRAM 4
PROGRAM 4: FIGMENT I: FLUXGLAM VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF THE REAL MACIUNAS (1977-86,
104 min, Super 8mm-to-video. Digitized by Anthology Film Archives.)
3/29
Oakland, California 94609: The Omni
7:00pm - 10:00pm, 4799 Shattuck Ave
FILM: ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION OF GUY DEBORD'S IN GIRIM IMUS NOCTE ET
CONSUMIMIR IGNI
"IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI" Sunday, March 29, 7:00 p.m. Omni
Building, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland.
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Suggested donation $5-$10, but no one will be turned away. All proceeds will
go to support the Omni Oakland Commons. Guy Debord (1931-Â1994) was the most
influential figure in the Situationist International, the notorious subversive
group that played a key role in provoking the May 1968 revolt in France. The
title of Debord's sixth and final film "In Girim Imus Nocte et Consumimir Igni"
(1978) is a Latin palindrome you can look up the meaning of. The film is at
once an autobiographical reflection and a scathing denunciation of the
ever-increasing moral and material degradation of modern capitalist society.
Many people consider it to be his masterpiece. All of his films are brilliant
in their diverse ways, but in this astonishing summation of his life and work
he really pulls out all the stops. As with "The Society of the Spectacle"
filmmaker
Konrad Steiner took the original French film and produced an English overdubbed
version with the superlative translation of the film script by Bay Area author
/ translator Ken Knabb expertly interpreted on the sound track by artist /
scholar Dore Bowen. Ripped DVD clips from the quoted films (which in Debord's
film were in French) have been re-rendered into English using subtitles and the
original English soundtracks. This version is meant to allow more people to
appreciate the complex interplay between montage, image and language which make
up Debord's reflections on life and his panegyric to a revolutionary era. The
film serves as a companion piece to "The Society of the Spectacle" (screened on
March 7th). While the earlier film suggests that, in order to change the world,
theory must be learned and discarded in favor of specific historical actions,
the present one goes further to insist that an avant garde acts only to be
sacrificed for that change, rather than to survive
and administer it. If you think of Debord as a dry theoretician, your
impression might be changed by watching this film. Ken will introduce the film,
and he and Konrad and Dore will be on hand for discussion afterwards.
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