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Colors: Contemporary Experimental Films From France (#anchor10) [May 17,
Austin, Texas]
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
Projections at the New York Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: June
16, 2017)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
Admissions Seminar for Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media (MFACM) & Master
of Arts in Creative Media (MACM) (Hong Kong; Deadline: May 31, 2017)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb; Deadline: May 31, 2017)
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Peripheral ARTeries, Biennial Edition 2017 (London, United Kingdom; Deadline:
May 25, 2017)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2017)
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Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC) (Marseille; Deadline: June
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Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison; Deadline: June 15, 2017)
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Off the Wall (Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Deadline: June 15, 2017)
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Projections at the New York Film Festival (New York, NY, USA; Deadline: June
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.
This week's programs (summary):
* Ec: Dog Star Man (#anchor1) [May 13, New York, NY]
* Ec: Stan Brakhage Pgm 3 (#anchor2) [May 13, New York, NY]
* May13: Jeremy Rourke + Tommy Becker + Lydia Greer (#anchor3) [May 13, San
Francisco, California]
* Performance // Poetics : the Third Thing : ivy Johnson and Kate Robinson
(#anchor4) [May 13, Tucson, AZ]
* Gravity Hill Newsreels: 12 Short Observations About Occupy Wall Street
(#anchor5) [May 14, Cambridge]
* Ec: the Art of vision (#anchor6) [May 14, New York, NY]
* Surabhi Saraf & Dorothy Santos With Shinichi Iova-Koga (#anchor7) [May 14,
Oakland, CA]
* Mother's Day At Ata (#anchor8) [May 14, San Francisco, California 94110]
* Ec: Stan Brakhage Pgm 4 (#anchor9) [May 15, New York, NY]
* Colors: Contemporary Experimental Films From France (#anchor10) [May 17,
Austin, Texas]
* Newfilmmakers (#anchor11) [May 17, New York, NY]
* Ec: Stan Brakhage Pgm 5 (#anchor12) [May 17, New York, NY]
* Master Class With ŽElimir ŽIlnik (#anchor13) [May 17, Rochester, NY]
* Ec: Stan Brakhage Pgm 6 (#anchor14) [May 18, New York, NY]
* Happiness Avenue (#anchor15) [May 19, Cambridge]
* Fracto - A Weekend of Experimental Film Screenings (#anchor16) [May 20, 10119
Berlin, Germany]
* Saint Terrorism (#anchor17) [May 20, Cambridge]
* ŽElimir ŽIlnik: Short Films Pgm (#anchor18) [May 20, New York, NY]
* Ec: the Pittsburgh Trilogy (#anchor19) [May 20, New York, NY]
* May20: Davenport/Gold: the Negativland Story (#anchor20) [May 20, San
Francisco, California]
* Hachimiri Madness! Japanese Independents From the Punk Years (#anchor21) [May
21, Cambridge]
* Ec: the Text of Light (#anchor22) [May 21, New York, NY]
* Clouded vision: the Films of Yo Ota (#anchor23) [May 21, New York, NY]
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017
5/13
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: DOG STAR MAN
by Stan Brakhage. A masterwork in which all of Brakhage's techniques achieve a
complex synthesis to produce one of cinema's supreme epic poems. "The film
breathes and is an organic and surging thing… it is a colossal lyrical
adventure-dance of image in every variation of color." -Michael McClure,
ARTFORUM
5/13
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 3
Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent. LOVING (1956, 4 min, 16mm) PASHT
(1965, 5 min, 16mm) THREE FILMS: BLUEWHITE, BLOOD'S TONE, VEIN (1965, 10 min,
16mm) FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN
AND THE MOTH (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 55 min.
5/13
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MAY13: JEREMY ROURKE + TOMMY BECKER + LYDIA GREER
Our 3rd LIVE CINEMA show unveils a brave new genre in the making! In I’ll Be
Around, Rourke carts out his ongoing stop-motion chronicle of our very own
venue, ATA Gallery! Jeremy integrates animated Valencia-address vignettes into
an irresistible litany of his live soundtracks…and stage antics! AND local
light Tommy Becker brings in his own set of eye-popping performance cinema: The
world premiere of his Flower Shop suite is powered by Tommy’s own voice,
keyboards, and video graphics, towards a probing of the poetic symbolism of the
flower (complete with 16mm instructionals!). Facing West Shadow Opera’s Lydia
Greer also debuts a new animation, her 10-min. Hallucinations, accompanied by
soprano soloist Shauna Fallihee. Peppering this party of pixilated pics and
animated lips are thematic trix from Len Lye, Steve Woloshen, and the Mirror
Man…and slo-mo Larynx action!*$8.88
5/13
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View Microcinema
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7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
PERFORMANCE // POETICS : THE THIRD THING : IVY JOHNSON AND KATE ROBINSON
The Third Thing is a performative collaboration between Bay Area poets Ivy
Johnson and Kate Robinson. They deploy still and moving images, live
performance, and poetry to create multi-media collages in the service of an
ecstatic feminist agenda.
SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2017
5/14
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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7pm, 24 Quincy Street
GRAVITY HILL NEWSREELS: 12 SHORT OBSERVATIONS ABOUT OCCUPY WALL STREET
As a natural outgrowth of his ongoing project filming life on the streets of
New York and reflecting on the politics of such public spaces, Cohen started
making frequent trips to the Occupy Wall Street home base in Zucotti Park in
October and November of 2011. Some of the twelve short films he shot there
include moments of daily life in the base camp, some document meetings and
marches, and some capture police raids and the dismantling of the encampment.
Directed by Jem Cohen. US 2012, digital video, color, 64 min Birth of a Nation
Cohen's newest film features the crowds on the streets of Washington, D.C. on
January 20 and 21 of this year, both the inauguration and the protests.
Directed by Jem Cohen US 2017, digital video, color, 9 min
5/14
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: THE ART OF VISION
by Stan Brakhage. "Includes the complete DOG STAR MAN and a full extension of
the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which
the word 'symphonia' was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was
created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the
visual symphony that DOG STAR MAN can be seen as and also all the suites of
which it is composed. But as it is a film, and a work of music, the above
suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as
'cinematographer,' at source, means 'writer of movement,' certain poetic
analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of art
which have inspired DOG STAR MAN, its growth of form by the physiology and
experiences (including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally, it
must be seen for what it is." -S.B.
5/14
Oakland, CA: Shapeshifters Cinema
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8pm, 511 48th St. (@ Telegraph Ave)
SURABHI SARAF & DOROTHY SANTOS WITH SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA
Working with sound composition, poetry, and moving image, "Body in Transit" by
Surabhi Saraf and Dorothy Santos (featuring movement by Shinichi Iova-Koga),
explores the ways in which the human body travels through physical and imagined
spaces. With the current political and cultural climate within the United
States, as countless individuals grapple with the imposed immigration ban, the
piece presents the anxiety and disorientation of displacement through transit
and forced migration. Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer, and performer
based in San Francisco. Dorothy R. Santos is a Filipina-American writer,
editor, curator, and educator whose research interests include new media and
digital art, activism, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology.
5/14
San Francisco, California 94110: Artists Television Access
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8pm, 992 Valencia St
MOTHER'S DAY AT ATA
Come laugh, cry, and celebrate Mother’s Day at ATA with 4 short films.
Presented in partnership with ATA and Canyon Cinema, with shorts by: Matthias
Muller, Stephanie Beroes, Abraham Ravett, and George Kuchar. Matthias Muller –
Alpsee 16mm, 15 minutes, 1994 “Along with the world’s great cineaste – from
Meliès to Chris Marker – Müller shares the desire to vanish. The filmmaker
remains invisible, his location unfixed. He makes biographical cinema, but uses
found material, material by others. Thus, ALPSEE, a film about Müller’s
childhood in the 1960s, takes you directly to Mars.” – Fritz Göttler,
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 2001 Stephanie Beroes – Recital 16mm, 20 minutes,
1978 This is an experimental film with several experimental concerns, but
mainly attempts to explore relationships between text and image. The text is a
series of love letters and the theme is to objectify adolescent romantic love.
The image centers on a typical romantic scene, a woman seated in a landscape
reading a love letter. RECITAL is structured as a stream-of-consciousness
narrative, and is feminist in the sense that there is a chorus of women’s
voices telling a feminine perspective of a part of every woman’s social
conditioning. Abraham Ravett – The March 16mm, 25 minutes, 1999 Utilizing a
series of conversations conducted over a thirteen year period between the
filmmaker and his mother, THE MARCH details one woman’s recollections of the
1945 ‘Death March’ from Auschwitz. George Kuchar – Creeping Crimson Video, 13
minutes, 1987 George visits his mother in the hospital on Halloween and
contemplates the autumn colors.
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017
5/15
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 4
ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT (1958, 40 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives.) CAT'S CRADLE (1959, 6 min, 16mm) SIRIUS REMEMBERED (1959, 12 min,
16mm) THE DEAD (1960, 11 min, 16mm) THIGH LINE LYRE TRIANGULAR (1961, 9 min,
16mm) MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) BLUE
MOSES (1963, 11 min, 16mm, b&w, sound) With ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT, Brakhage
leaves psychodrama and enters the "closed-eye vision" period. This program also
contains a unique example of a film made without a camera, MOTHLIGHT, and one
of Brakhage's few sound (and 'acted') films, BLUE MOSES. Total running time:
ca. 95 min.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017
5/17
Austin, Texas: Experimental Response Cinema
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8 PM PDT, The Museum of Human Achievement
COLORS: CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM FRANCE
Experimental Response Cinema is thrilled to present an evening of contemporary
experimental films and videos from France. The program includes works by Cecile
Fontaine, Rose Lowder and many others. Filmmaker and curator Emmanuel Lefrant
will be in person to introduce the films. This is a rare chance to see
contemporary French work on original 16mm and digital video. Suggested
donation: $7 general / $5 students seniors APRÈS LE FEU, by Jacques PERCONTE,
2010 / Fichier sur clé USB / color / son / 25 ips / 7' 00. AU BORD DU LAC, by
Patrick BOKANOWSKI, 1993 / 16 mm / color / son / 24 ips / 6' 00". BOUQUETS
1-10, by Rose LOWDER, 1994-1995 / 16 mm / color / sil / 24 ips / 11' 33. I
DON'T THINK I CAN SEE AN ISLAND, by BECKS Christopher & LEFRANT Emmanuel, 2016
/ Fichier sur serveur / color / son / 25 ips / 4' 10. JAPON SERIES, by Cécile
FONTAINE, 1991 / 16 mm / color / son / 18 ips / 7' 00. K (EXIL), by Frédérique
DEVAUX, 2008 / 16 mm / color / son / 24 ips / 9' 00. PARTIES VISIBLE
ET INVISIBLE D'UN ENSEMBLE SOUS TENSION, by Emmanuel LEFRANT, 2009 / 16 mm /
color / son / 24 ips / 7' 00. PAYS DÉVASTÉ, LE, by Emmanuel LEFRANT, 2015 /
Fichier sur clé USB / color / son / 24 ips / 11' 30. VOILIERS ET COQUELICOTS,
by Rose LOWDER, 2001 / 16 mm / color / sil / 18 ou 24 ips / 2' 00. Durée totale
de la programmation : 65' 13
5/17
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
NEWFILMMAKERS
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5/17
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 5
All films are silent. THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA 1970, 29 min, 16mm THE MACHINE OF
EDEN 1970, 11 min, 16mm SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL 1970, 7 min, 16mm.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. ANGELS' 1971, 2 min, 16mm DOOR 1971, 4
min, 16mm WESTERN HISTORY 1971, 8 min, 16mm THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM 1971, 8 min,
16mm Total running time: ca. 75 min.
5/17
Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop
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6-8 pm, Visual Studies Workshop
MASTER CLASS WITH ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK
Visual Studies Workshop is pleased to announce a Master Class with filmmaker
Želimir Žilnik on Wednesday, May 17, from 6-8 p.m. This evening workshop will
focus on engaged filmmaking practices in politically challenging times, guided
by a renowned documentary filmmaker whose work spans several decades,
technologies and political and social movements. The workshop will include an
overview of Žilnik’s work, and a discussion of his unique strategies for
confronting politically-charged subjects, navigating censorship and utilizing
scarce resources to create truly independent media. Audiences interested in a
deeper, more direct engagement with the production and proliferation of
independent media are welcome to attend. Class size is limited, please register
by May 10th. Registration fee: $15 Visit VSW.org to resister. With support from
the College at Brockport SUNY MFA program at VSW. Special thanks to Jurij
Meden, George Eastman Museum.
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2017
5/18
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: STAN BRAKHAGE PGM 6
THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER 1970, 35 min, 16mm SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A
VIEW 1971, 4 min, 16mm, b&w. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. THE SHORES
OF PHOS: A FABLE 1972, 10 min, 16mm THE WOLD-SHADOW 1972, 3 min, 16mm THE
RIDDLE OF LUMEN 1972, 14 min, 16mm SINCERITY: REEL NO. 1 1973, 27 min, 16mm
Total running time: ca. 95 min.
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017
5/19
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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9pm, 24 Quincy Street
HAPPINESS AVENUE
A full-frontal attack on mid-1980s conservative Japan, Happiness Avenue
features a rowdy cast (including Sion Sono) wreaking havoc on the town of
Shizuoka. Kicking off with its countermodel—a disciplined right-wing group
lined up and demanding the return of the Kuril Islands from the Soviet
Union—Katsuyuki Hirano and his group counter with only loosely organized
anarchy. Straddling the line between documentary, street performance art and
juvenile provocations, the film culminates in an exploration of the town’s
sewage system that becomes a health hazard for its participants. Nominally
based on a manga by Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo, the film has no obvious
relation to its supposed source material. Hirano continued into one of the more
unconventional careers of Pia award-winning directors. Rather than enter
mainstream filmmaking, he became notorious for shooting highly experimental
pornography for the video circuit, as well as documentaries about his bicycle
tours that
showed widely at international film festivals, among them Yumika (1997) with
his on-and-off lover, adult video star Yumika Hayashi. Directed by Katsuyuki
Hirano Japan 1986, DCP, color, 126 min. Japanese with English subtitles
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2017
5/20
10119 Berlin, Germany: ACUD MACHT NEU
19:00, Veteranenstrase 21
FRACTO - A WEEKEND OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM SCREENINGS
Fracto 2017 is the first edition of a new annual Experimental Film Festival
which will be held on May 20st/21th at ACUD Cinema & Studio. Out of more than
800 submissions a highly international program of 41 works was selected,
including a great number of world, international and german premieres. This
year's special program focuses on the Berlin-based artists Anouk De Clercq,
James Edmonds and OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden& Juan David Gonzalez) with
screenings, a Live Cinema Performance and artist talks moderated by our guest
from Milan Tommaso Isabella. Please visit our website for the detailed program:
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PROGRAMM Please note that we will start sharp! SATURDAY MAY 20TH ACUD CINEMA
19:00h: Opening 19:15-19:40h: Program 1 / The Two Sights, Katherin McInnis /
End of Perspective, Anton Ginzburg 19:40-20:10h: Program 2 / Summer Echo, Brian
Virostek / ¡PÃFIES!, Ignacio Tamarit / Expo, my dirty attic, Allan Brown /
Granular Film - Beirut, Charles-André Coderre
Break: 10min 20:20-21:00h: Program 3 / Aura of Uncertainty, Ryan Marino / Half
Human, Half Vapor, Mike Stoltz / Answer print, Mónica Savirón / River in
Castle, Sandy Ding / Out There In The Dark, Gregg Biermann / The Tragic Bulb,
Guillaume Vallée / Black, Anouk De Clrercq ACUD STUDIO - »BERLIN-BASED« 21:30h:
ANOUK DE CLERCQ screenings + artist talk moderated by Tommaso Isabella JAMES
EDMONDS screenings 22:30: OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez
Monroy) dual 16mm projector performance + artist talk moderated by Tommaso
Isabella SUNDAY MAY 21ST ACUD CINEMA 19:00-19:45h: Program 4 / An Aviation
field, Joana Pimenta / Colossal Cave, Graeme Arnfield / STELLA 50.4N1.5E, Elsa
Brès Break: 10min 19:55-20:35h: Program 5 / Three Enchantments, Jon Lazam /
Burning mountains that spew flame, Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón / quatic
menac, Susu Laroche / Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves, Ralitsa Doncheva Break:
10min 20:45-21:25h: Program 6 / Confident, Miguel Seabra Lopes & Karen
Akerman / Where is Eva Hipsey?, Orla Mc Hardy / Exclusion Zone, Alexander
Isaenko / RECKONING 4, Kent Lambert Break: 10min 21:35-22:10h: Program 7 /
Monica's Fetish: An experiment in video-suture, Rodrigo Faustini /
Post-Panoptic Gazing, Michael Woods / Screen Test 1 (self-portrait), Scott
Fitzpatrick / Scherzo, Fabio Scacchioli & Vincenzo Core / The Garden of
Delight, Michael Fleming Break: 10min 22:20-23:05h: Program 8 / Ten Mornings
Ten Evenings and One Horizon, Tomonari Nishikawa / Everything turns…, Aaron
Zeghers / Arrábida, Tinne Zenner / Maps to the In-Between, Katya Yakubov
23:05-23:45h: Program 9 / A Century Plant in Bloom, Ross Meckfessel / Impulse
Fever, Jake Davidson / The seaweed in your hair, Daphné Hérétakis /
reflections, departs, Ian Menoyot // ABOUT This year's program examines today's
perceptual landscape and reconfigurations of audiovisual media and technologies
beyond mere categories of newness and obsolescence, documentary, fictional,
poetic, latent or
evident imagery. // SA 20.5 + SO 21.5 // 19H ACUD STUDIO+CINEMA // SCREENINGS
FRACTO a weekend of experimental film screenings
5/20
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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9pm, 24 Quincy Street
SAINT TERRORISM
Saint Terrorism is an outsider fantasy, a vision of destructive life on the
margins of early 1980s Japan. Yamamoto’s second jishu film shows the roots that
blossomed into one of the great idiosyncratic talents of contemporary Japanese
cinema, and one of the filmmakers who has stayed the most true to his jishu
film origins. Here, he presents a collage of interwoven stories, lethally held
together by a young woman who shoots people at random but later is convinced to
switch to poison by a new compatriot. With a large and fearless cast, the film
explores questions of sexuality and death in a contemporary Tokyo with dead
bodies surreally hurtling from the sky just as the country itself is hurtling
towards the hyper-affluent 1980s bubble era. Three years later, Yamamoto’s film
Carnival in the Night created a sensation at the Berlin International Film
Festival, making him a household name in Japan and on the international film
festival circuit. Directed by Masashi Yamamoto. Japan
1980, DCP, color, 127 min. Japanese with English subtitles
5/20
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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4:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK: SHORT FILMS PGM
Among the classics of the Black Wave movement, Zilnik's early short films find
him developing what would become his trademark style. Blending documentary and
fiction with a corresponding aesthetic boldness and directness, he zeroes in on
political issues deemed socially unacceptable and declared taboo by the
government. NEWSREEL ON VILLAGE YOUTH, IN WINTER / ŽURNAL O OMLADINI NA SELU,
ZIMI (1967, 15 min, 35mm, b&w) LITTLE PIONEERS / PIONIRI MALENI MI SMO VOJSKA
PRAVA, SVAKOG DANA NI?EMO KO ZELENA TRAVA (1968, 18 min, 35mm, b&w) JUNE
TURMOIL / LIPANJSKA GIBANJA (1969, 10 min, 35mm-to-video, b&w) BLACK FILM /
CRNI FILM (1971, 14 min, 16mm-to-35mm, b&w, b&w) INVENTORY / INVENTUR -
METZSTRASSE 11 (1975, 9 min, 16mm-to-video) Total running time: ca. 70 min.
5/20
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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5:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: THE PITTSBURGH TRILOGY
by Stan BrakhageShare +Twitter. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. EYES
(1970, 36 min, 16mm, silent) "After wishing for years to be given the
opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times -
some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns
into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I
was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the
final several days of September 1970." -Stan Brakhage DEUS EX (1971, 34 min,
16mm, silent) "I have been many times very ill in hospitals; and I drew on all
that experience while making DEUS EX in West Penn. Hospital of Pittsburgh; but
I was especially inspired by the memory of one incident in an emergency room of
San Francisco's Mission District: while waiting for medical help, I had held
myself together by reading an April-May 1965 issue of 'Poetry Magazine': and
the following lines from Charles Olson's 'Cole's Island' had
especially centered the experience, 'touchstone' of DEUS EX, for me: Charles
begins the poem with the statement 'I met Death -' And then: 'He didn't bother
me, or say anything. Which is / not surprising, a person might not, in the
circumstances; / or at most a nod or something. Or they would. But they
wouldn't, / or you wouldn't think to either, / it was Death. And / He certainly
was, the moment I saw him.'" -Stan Brakhage THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN
EYES (1971, 32 min, 16mm, silent) "Brakhage, entering, with his camera, one of
the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a
place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no
one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of
the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes." -Hollis Frampton
Total running time: ca. 105 min.
5/20
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MAY20: DAVENPORT/GOLD: THE NEGATIVLAND STORY
>From William (Unsound) Davenport and Leah Gold, here’s a provocative new doc
>on one of the Bay Area’s most notorious bands. Mixing original sounds with
>audio taken from corporately owned culture and the world around them,
>Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces to make them say things
>different from the original intention. They’ve earned the title “fathers of
>culture-jamming” for their hilarious critiques of the mass media and American
>consumer culture in general. And, through their quotation/collage practice,
>they’ve stimulated widespread discussion, even change, in intellectual
>property law, opening up wider spaces in the Commons for artists, musicians,
>and documentarians. Despite lawsuits and three tragic deaths, the band still
>survives—regularly broadcasts and tours--after 37 years!
SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017
5/21
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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7pm, 24 Quincy Street
HACHIMIRI MADNESS! JAPANESE INDEPENDENTS FROM THE PUNK YEARS
The Rain Women (Ame Onna) A spirited, magically inventive and charming film
full of large dashes of French New Wave quirkiness, and winner of 1990’s Pia
Film Festival grand prize, The Rain Women set the stage for Shinobu Yaguchi ’s
later career in offbeat comedies such as Waterboys and Swing Girls. In the
first part of the film, two young women live together and create their own
eccentric adventures, transforming their (always rainy) everyday environment
into an enchanted playground, full of pop-musical sequences and synchronized
tooth brushing performances. As the second half of the film shifts to both
deeper psychological themes and a more meta-filmic playfulness, Yaguchi
develops a bewitchingly melancholic atmosphere of unpredictability. Often
compared to Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating, the film is a fascinating
example of the exploration of the lines between filmic reality and filmic
fiction—a signature jishu film obsession. Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi Japan
1990,
DCP, color, 72 min. Japanese with English subtitles UNK In UNK, the son of
legendary manga and anime artist Osamu Tezuka created one of the loveliest odes
to both special effects cinema and the handmade 8mm aesthetic. As a young woman
navigates the city, strange things begin to happen—leading her into a journey
that is part science fiction and part fantasy, full of references to magical
moments in cinema’s past. Directed by Macoto Tezuka Japan 1979, DCP, color, 15
min. Japanese with English subtitles
5/21
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: THE TEXT OF LIGHT
by Stan Brakhage. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives. "All that is, is
light." -Johannes Scotus Erigena "[Brakhage shot] THE TEXT OF LIGHT in
(through) a large crystal ashtray. This magnificent film - a slow montage of
iridescent splays of light and shifting landscapes of sheer color, which
acknowledges debts to Turner and American Romantic landscape painters as well
as to James Davis, the pioneer film-maker of light projections - is the
culmination of Brakhage's exploration of anamorphosis." -P. Adams Sitney,
VISIONARY FILM
5/21
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
CLOUDED VISION: THE FILMS OF YO OTA
"Clouded Vision" is a program of short films by the Japanese filmmaker, Yo Ota.
A former student of Peter Kubelka, Ota has been working in experimental film
since the late 1970s. His films center on the exploration of time and space,
employing diverse technical effects to trouble the moving image's presumed
realism and create alternative spatio-temporal forms.
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