This week [November 22 - 30, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Suggestive Gestures: David Finkelstein (And
Jeanne Stern) In Person [November 22, Austin, Texas]
* Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
[November 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Mark Brecke's Somalia In the Picture +
Framed/A Civil Africa [November 22, San Francisco, California]
* Jesse Mclean: the Message Is the Medium
[November 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 1 [November 23, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Marie Menken Program 2 [November 23, New York, New York]
* Jon Behrens: Exquisite Celluloid [November 23, Tucson]
* Screens: videos By Filipe Afonso [November 24, Brooklyn, New York]
* Plastic History: Independent and Experimental Filmmaking In the Age of
Acetate, A Program of Films Selected By Tyler Turkle (Canyon Salon Nov
2014) [November 24, San Francisco, California 94103]
* A Thanksgiving Prayer: William S. Burroughs At 100 [November 26, Tucson]
* Sweet Work: Sugar and Power [November 28, San Francisco, California]
* Essential Cinema: Robert Nelson Program [November 29, New York, New York]
* Berman's Ballad of George Van Tassel + Nerburn's In the Shadow of Paul
Bunyan/No-Thanks-Giving [November 29, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014
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11/22
Austin, Texas: The Museum of Human Achievement
http://ercatx.org
7:30pm, MOHA, 3600 Lyons St.
SUGGESTIVE GESTURES: DAVID FINKELSTEIN (AND JEANNE STERN) IN PERSON
"A poet's journey though corridors of liquid geometry where words float
and echoes are visual; where portals open onto morphing gardens with
unlimited horizons." - Mike Kuchar "The interaction between your
visions, the music (fantastical), and the wandering improvisers - a 21st
century Dante and Beatrice adrift in the shifting rising falling
swirling cacophony of the Collective Unconscious - achieve a sly
sophistication of rhythmic cohesion as startling as it is graceful." -
Antero Alli Experimental Response Cinema and the Museum of Human
Achievement is excited to screen SUGGESTIVE GESTURES, with NYC-based
filmmaker David Finkelstein in-person! Suggestive Gestures by David
Finkelstein 75 min / digital / sound / 2013 Traveling along the path of
a labyrinth, the viewer passes through a series of extremely diverse
landscapes, which are created through lush animation, evocative
orchestral music, and rich dialog, in which words are used as much for
rhythm and texture as they are for meaning. A man and woman guide us on
this trip, taking us past gently falling Mondrian paintings, violent car
crashes and bombing raids, and a pair of dancing, multicolored boxes,
among many other settings. Based on an improvised performance,
SUGGESTIVE GESTURES leads us gradually and indirectly towards a
mysterious animal, hiding in the center of the maze. Also featured: "The
Oracle of Ambrosia," a new short video by Austin artist Jeanne Stern.
11/22
Brooklyn, New York: Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
http://www.eyeworksfestival.com
5:00 & 8:00, Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St.
EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION
The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation returns to Pioneer Works
for the second year on Saturday, November 22. The Chicago-based festival
will screen two programs of classic and contemporary short animation
work, including a live performance using 16mm and modular synthesizer
from Brooklyn filmmaker Rose Kallal. Blending an appreciation of
classical animation with the sensibilities of avant-garde cinema and the
visual culture of alternative comics, the Eyeworks programs showcase
abstract animation, surreal narratives, and unconventional character
animation. Festival directors Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart will
introduce the festival in person, with work screened on 16mm and video.
PROGRAM 1 Nicole Hewitt, In/Dividu, 1998; Robert Breer, 69, 1968; Sarina
Nihei, Trifling Habits, 2013; Karolina Glusiec, Velocity, 2013; Laszlo
Csaki, Days That Were Filled With Sense by Fear, 2002-03; Nick Butcher,
Sidewalk, 2014; Daniel Barrow, Advanced Search Terms, 2012-13; Sandra
Desmazieres, Sans Queue Ni Tete, 2001; Allison Schulnick, Eager, 2014;
Larry Cuba, 3/78, 1978; Chris Sullivan, The Beholder, 1983; Neil Taylor,
Copy Copy, 1999; Joung Yumi, Love Games, 2013. PROGRAM 2 Georges
Schwizgebel, Jeu, 2006; Yoriko Mizushiri, Snow Hut, 2014; Jake Fried,
Headspace, 2014; Eri Kawaguchi, Flower and Steam, 2013; Joshua Mosley,
Jeu de Paume, 2014; Florence Miailhe, Hammam, 1992; Johan Rijpma,
Descent, 2014; Zeitguised, Birds, 2014; Marjorie Caup, Transhumance,
2012; Hoji Tsuchiya, Black Long Skirt, 2010; John Whitney Jr, Terminal
Self, 1971; Doris Chase, Circles I, 1971; Rose Kallal, performance with
multiple 16mm projection and modular synthesizer, approx. 20 mins.
11/22
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
MARK BRECKES SOMALIA IN THE PICTURE + FRAMED/A CIVIL AFRICA
Photo-essay vet of non-fiction projects in Palestine, Rwanda, and Sudan,
our much-missed colleague Mark Brecke is back after two years in the
Horn of Africa with fascinating material to screen, as both
art-photographic stills and motion-picture rushes. After a tireless
campaign of research and discovery in Kenya and two daring trips to
Mogadishu, Brecke returns unscathed to our balmy salon to live-narrate a
powerful hour of lost regional film culture and his own committed quest
for its recovery and appreciation. ALSO: UCB's Cassandra Herrman and
Kathryn Mathers' W-i-P Framed, an enlightened inquiry into received
ideas about African identity and agency. Filmmakers in person for
mid-production discussion about "victim" stereotypes and the selling of
suffering seen in the West. Come early for long-lost artists' reception.
$7.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014
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11/23
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
JESSE MCLEAN: THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
Filmforum is thrilled to host Iowa-based filmmaker Jesse McLean for her
first solo screening in Los Angeles. McLean's work explores the
complexities of mediated human behavior and interaction as well as the
confounding, often exaggerated emotions that accompany these
experiences. Employing appropriated home movies, internet videos,
television shows, and archival materials, McLean redefines our
interchange with various forms of media. Through expert use of collage,
each of McLean's videos subtly question viewers' associations with the
information we consume daily while reimagining a world in which everyday
media tropes are hijacked and transformed. Join us for a survey of
McLean's work wrought with emotional twists and turns, querying our
relationships to each other, to ourselves, and to the mediated material
world that defines us. Tickets: $10 general admission; $6 students (with
ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Tickets available in advance
at: http://bpt.me/906810
11/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 1
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. VISUAL VARIATIONS ON
NOGUCHI (1955, 4 min, 16mm, b&w) HURRY! HURRY! (1957, 3 min, 16mm)
GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 min, 16mm) DWIGHTIANA (1959, 3 min, 16mm.
Score by Teiji Ito.) BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1961, 5 min, 16mm)
NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent) MOOD MONDRIAN (1961, 7 min,
16mm, silent) EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent) ANDY
WARHOL (1965, 22 min, 16mm) Marie Menken represents the lyrical
sensibility in the American avant-garde film. She manages to get the
maximum visual intensity from minimally photogenic subjects. Her usage
of single-frame and her poetic attitude and purity had a strong
influence on many filmmakers of the sixties. Total running time: ca. 70
min.
11/23
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: MARIE MENKEN PROGRAM 2
All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. WRESTLING (1964, 8 min,
16mm, b&w, silent) MOONPLAY (1962, 5 min, 16mm, b&w) DRIPS IN STRIPS
(1961, 3 min, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent)
LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) SIDEWALKS (1966, 7 min, 16mm,
b&w, silent) EXCURSION (1968, 5 min, 16mm) WATTS WITH EGGS (1967, 12
min, 16mm, silent) ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 min, 16mm) Marie
Menken represents the lyrical sensibility in the American avant-garde
film. She manages to get the maximum visual intensity from minimally
photogenic subjects. Her usage of single-frame and her poetic attitude
and purity had a strong influence on many filmmakers of the sixties.
Total running time: ca. 70 min.
11/23
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
JON BEHRENS: EXQUISITE CELLULOID
Filmmaker Jon Behrens in person. For more than 30 years Jon Behrens has
worked as a film artist. Since the age of 16, Behrens has made well over
100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from
documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film
experiments in which the celluloid film stock itself has been
manipulated. Behrens has ceaselessly realized a practice of creating
visually stunning films that combine painterly concerns with acute
photographic observations. Behrens brings a new selection of recent 16mm
films & videos to EV tonight.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014
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11/24
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7.30pm, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, 2B
SCREENS: VIDEOS BY FILIPE AFONSO
Microscope welcomes Filipe Afonso, Paris-based artist and film
programmer at Collectif Jeune Cinema, to the gallery for a screening of
his new and recent video works. The 6 videos in the program, all
completed between 2012 and 2014, offer personal reflection and
observations of the act of watching itself in a society increasingly
populated by alternative realms accessible through digital screens -
from present TV, to arcade video games, phones, computer-based slide
shows and timelines. Looking more closely at what is already in plain
sight, Afonso shows individuals absorbed in their daily consumption and
interaction with these rectangular flows of images - including himself -
and seems to propose rewriting Descartes' paradigm as "I watch,
therefore I am". /// _ FILIPE AFONSO (b. 1985, Portugal) studied Cinema
in Lisbon and Prague and completed a master's in New Media Studies at
FCSH-UNL (Lisbon). His work has shown at Anthology Film Archives,
Microscope Gallery, Kassel Dokfest, Experiments In Cinema, Indielisboa,
Artists Television Access, Urban Research / Directors Lounge, Platoon
Kunsthalle, Armory Center For The Arts, Sonic Circuits, and others. He
has worked as a programmer for Collectif Jeune Cinéma and the Centre
Pompidou, among others.
11/24
San Francisco, California 94103: Canyon Cinema
http://www.canyoncinema.com
7:00pm, New Nothing, 16 Sherman St
PLASTIC HISTORY: INDEPENDENT AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING IN THE AGE OF
ACETATE, A PROGRAM OF FILMS SELECTED BY TYLER TURKLE (CANYON SALON NOV
2014)
Please join Canyon Cinema on the evening of November 24th, 2014 at New
Nothing Cinema for the next installment of our Fall 2014 Salon series.
This month, filmmaker Tyler Turkle will present a program of films from
the Canyon Cinema catalog made in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Regarding this
program, Turkle writes: "The films chosen represent a variety of
ideas and take on numerous forms, from a home movie to a candid
interview to the amusing street actions of a merry band of pranksters.
However, all of these films stand as a partial historical record of the
imaginative and adventurous use of the most "plastic medium"
of them all. This screening includes Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) |
Kenneth Anger | 3.5 minutes | Color | Sound Oh Dem Watermelons (1965) |
Robert Nelson | 11 minutes | Color | Sound Doggie Diner and Return of
Doggie Diner (1969) | Leonard Lipton | 7 minutes | Color | Sound My Name
is Oona (1969) | Gunvor Nelson | 10 minutes | B&W | Sound Visit to
Indiana (1970) | Curt McDowell | 10 minutes | Color | Sound Akbar (1970)
| Richard Myers | 16 minutes | Color | Sound Songs for Swinging Larvae
(1981) | Ralph Records, aka Cryptic Corporation | 6 minutes | Color |
Sound
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014
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11/26
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AT 100
An evening dedicated to the life, work and legacy of William S.
Burroughs on the 2014 anniversary of his 100th birthday. Burroughs prose
and spoken word recordings - visionary, incendiary and hallucinogenic -
have been both widely influential and alarmingly prescient. Notorious
early works Junkie and Naked Lunch were just the tip of a very deep body
of outrageous work spanning several decades. Burroughs is paid tribute
to in film, recordings, spoken word, remembrances and more, including
excerpts from his filmic collaborations with Brion Gysin, Robert Frank
and Gus Van Sant. This special event starts early and goes until we're
done.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014
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11/28
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
7:30pm, Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street (at 21st Street)
SWEET WORK: SUGAR AND POWER
Once producing half of the nation's sugar, the Domino Sugar Refinery was
a paragon of industrialism in South Williamsburg. Reprising a screening
originally presented at Williamsburg's UnionDocs in July 2014, this
program presents a trio of films which examine labor history and issues
of power, using this iconic factory as a lens. DOMINO SUGAR1989, filmed
by Domino employee Kenny Malcom in 1989 and recently edited by Anthony
Simon and Michael Vass, is "a time capsule of home video vignettes from
1989 filmed by a Domino Sugar employee that illuminates the diversity of
the Domino workforce and the empowerment they felt at the time. Featured
is a picket line in front of the Domino site, [and] a union meeting
dispute between the Domino workers and the ILA Union organizers."
Animator Sarah Jane Lapp's SWEETFACE (20002013) is a "personal essay
film which uses sugar production as a point of departure to explore a
variety of relational moments that involve soft power, gratitude and
love. The film evolved from the filmmaker's hand-production of about
1,000 sugar packets, the majority of which she gave as gifts to workers
at the Domino Sugar Refinery during their twenty-month strike in the
early 2000s." Finally, Anthony Simon's own THIRD SHIFT (2014; part of
the expansive Living Los Sures documentary project) tours the now
desolate and destroyed factory building and presents intimate oral
history accounts by Domino Sugar workers living blocks away from the now
closed refinery, reflecting on their past experiences as employees and
their future as residents in a rapidly changing neighborhood. Live music
sets by psycho-blues-noise trip Skyjelly closes the evening. Sarah Jane
Lapp in person. Admission: $10 general/ $5 members
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2014
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11/29
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ROBERT NELSON PROGRAM
THE GREAT BLONDINO (1967, 42 min, 16mm. Newly preserved print; thanks to
the Academy Film Archive!) "The original Blondino was a 19th-century
tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a
wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those
who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape
of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is
the end." MUSEUM OF MODERN ART "It is
difficult to get at the rich
visual texture that is the film's most striking attribute. Long
stretches are concerned with Blondino's visions, dreams, and dreams
within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery.
Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated
newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special
effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive." J. Hoberman,
"A Filmmakers Filming Monograph" & BLEU SHUT (1970, 33 min, 16mm. Newly
preserved print; thanks to the Academy Film Archive!) "Boat-name
quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry
whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate
embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer
and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's
happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." Leo Regan
Total running time: ca. 80 min.
11/29
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
BERMANS BALLAD OF GEORGE VAN TASSEL + NERBURNS IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL
BUNYAN/NO-THANKS-GIVING
Jonathan Berman, famous for his astute inquiry into the 60/70s NorCal
sub-culture of Commune, slips into a personal narrative mode with this
decidedly psychedelic account, whilst retaining his focus on the
ultra-rich history of groups who have expanded "California" sensibility
through outsider visions, beliefs, and lifestyles. The deft
documentarian trucks all the way here from LA for a sneak preview of his
fascinating feature on Van Tassel's imaginative cosmology, his immersive
montage abducting us into the marvelous polyverse of Giant Rock, flying
saucers, and desert-dome time-machine The Integraton. ALSO:
Long-striding cross-country for his own world premiere is Nik Nerburn
with his myth-busting critical essay on another larger-than-life
American hero, Living in the Shadow of Paul Bunyan. Free zines,
tofurkey, hosted bar. $7.
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