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Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl NEW FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: "no more tears" by zakir khan http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=495.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== PollyGrind Underground Film Festival of Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV, USA; Deadline: August 13, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1419.ann International Video Art Festival NOW&AFTER12 (Moscow, Russia; Deadline: April 25, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1420.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 13, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1421.ann Rural Artistic Residencies (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: March 15, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1422.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== 3rd Festival du film Merveilleux et Imaginaire (Paris FRANCE; Deadline: April 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1359.ann Wimbledon SHORTS (Wimbledon; Deadline: March 31, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1387.ann Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI USA; Deadline: March 30, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1395.ann Somerville Open Cinema (Somerville, MA, USA; Deadline: April 05, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1410.ann Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 13, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1421.ann Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl Also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY): ============================== * From Maclaren To Woloshen [March 17, Lille, France] * Facts For Fiction [March 17, New York, New York] * Invocation of Bliss [March 17, New York, New York] * Heaven and Earth [March 17, New York, New York] * Prelinger's Learning With the Lights off + the Fillingers + [March 17, San Francisco, California] * Jon Jost's Swimming In Nebraska [March 18, Los Angeles, California] * Heaven and Earth [March 18, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Harry Smith Program [March 18, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Heaven and Earth Magic [March 18, New York, New York] * Pieces of Dreams [March 18, New York, New York] * Gwenyambira Simon Mashoko [March 19, New York, New York] * #37 = Monday 3/19/2012 = 3rd Anniversary = Gordon Matta-Clark [March 19, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Indian Diary [March 20, New York, New York] * George Kuchar (1942-2010) Memorial Screening [March 20, Reading, Pennsylvania] * Experimental Memoria [March 20, Seattle, Washington] * Courtisane Festival 2012 (21-25 March 2012) [March 21, Ghent, Belgium] * Siberian Diary [March 21, New York, New York] * The Free Screen: Jan Peacock: Using Clouds For Words [March 21, Toronto, Ontario, Canada] * Daniel Eisenberg- the Unstable Object [March 22, Los Angeles, California] * New Works Salon [March 22, Los Angeles, California] * Yemen Travelogue [March 22, New York, New York] * Save Kusf Benefit Featuring Ralph Carney and Melodious Animations [March 22, San Francisco, California] * Panorama [March 22, San Francisco, California] * The Heretics [March 23, Boston, Massachusetts] * Black Thorns In the Black Box [March 23, Chicago, Illinois] * Rose and Jasmine [March 23, New York, New York] * Roman Diary [March 23, New York, New York] * Experimenta India [March 23, San Francisco, California] * Essential Cinema: Rice/Richter/Sharits Program [March 24, New York, New York] * Ron Rice Program [March 24, New York, New York] * The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man [March 24, New York, New York] * Herold + Jacobson + Losier + Mcguire + [March 24, San Francisco, California] * Essential Cinema: Sharits Program [March 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Jack Smith Program [March 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Wavelength [March 25, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Back and Forth [March 25, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 ------------------------ 3/17 Lille, France: scratchatopia http://scratchatopia.tumblr.com/ 8:00 pm , - L'hybride 18 rue Gosselet, Lille FROM MACLAREN TO WOLOSHEN It is my please to invite you a wonderful event organized and curated by the Quebec Producer, Marcel Jean as part of the 2012 Fete L'anim Animation Festival in Lille, France. This special program highlights abstract/musical films from its' pioneer, Norman MacLaren to Steven Woloshen. "Un trajet qui va de Norman McLaren, pionnier de la gravure et du dessin sur pellicule, à Steven Woloshen, qui perpétue aujourd'hui la tradition de l'animation sans caméra. Sur ce chemin rempli de surprises, quelques rencontres avec les principales figures du cinéma d'animation expérimental au Québec". En présence du réalisateur Steven Woloshen et du programmateur Marcel Jean. Durée du programme : 1h The Program; Free Jafar Panahi Project Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2012 / 1 min Un appel à la libération du cinéaste iranien Jafar Panahi. Caprice en couleurs Norman McLaren et Evelyn Lambart / Canada / 1949 / 8 min Le trio jazz Oscar Peterson interprète quelques pièces de son répertoire, alors que les cinéastes transcrivent ces sons avec, comme seuls guides, leur talent et leur libre imagination. Cameras Take Five Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2003 / 3 min « J'ai commencé ce film comme à mon habitude, c'est-à-dire que je n'ai préparé aucun récit, ni personnage ou chapitre avant de commencer cette animation. Bien que Take Five soit un standard du jazz, je le trouve plutôt structuré à la façon d'un air pop. Au final, une structure filmique plus narrative a fait son apparition. » Blinkity Blank Norman McLaren / Canada / 1955 / 5 min Court métrage expérimental explorant les possibilités de l'animation par intermittence et des images spasmodiques. Norman McLaren joue avec les lois de la persistance rétinienne dans une uvre de pure imagination faisant penser tantôt à un feu d'artifice très nourri, puis ensuite à un dessin lent à se former et dont on ne perçoit que des touches rapides et éphémères. Snip Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2004 / 2 min « Ce film a été fait dans les semaines précédant la naissance de mon premier enfant. Je voulais faire un film rapide et coloré auquel réagirait un très jeune enfant. J'allais être en mesure de constater, dans les années qui allaient suivre, si c'était réussi ou pas. » cNote Christopher Hinton / Canada / 2004 / 7 min Bru Ha Ha ! Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2002 / 2 min Le cinéaste renoue avec sa sensibilité dadaïste dans ce film inspiré d'une musique d'Erik Satie. Un commentaire bruyant et surexcité sur les relations inhumaines. Mamori Karl Lemieux / Canada / 2010 / 7 min Rivière au tonnerre Pierre Hébert / Canada / 2011 / 7 min The Curse of the Voodoo Child Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2005 / 4 min Sexe, naissance, feu et empreintes digitales. Le jeu de la passion et les événements entourant la conception, tout cela menant au chaos. McLaren's Negatives Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre / Canada / 2006 / 10 min Playtime Steven Woloshen / Canada / 2009 / 3 min Le peintre Jock MacDonald touchait à deux mondes : la figuration et l'abstraction. Un hommage à son dévouement, à son esprit et à ses sujets exceptionnels, réels ou imaginaires. For Further information please check: http://www.fete-anim.com/fr/programme/thema-quebec/de-mclaren-a-woloshen .html 3/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FACTS FOR FICTION by Michael Pilz 1996, 69 minutes, video Pilz drives through NYC with a very unusual taxi driver: filmmaker, one-time Fluxus artist, and Anthology associate Jeff Perkins. Sitting by his side, high-8 camera in hand, Pilz documents Perkins's observations and interactions as they glide through the night. 3/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue INVOCATION OF BLISS by Michael Pilz 2009, 92 minutes, video No dialogue. "In May, 2006 I traveled around Iran, a small camera always close at hand, and experienced some of the most memorable 'magical moments' of my life. I edited this succession of images and made it last 18 minutes. Then I added five duplicates of the resulting footage and inserted an additional close-up between them, which shows Arabic calligraphy of one of Hafez's most famous poems that is inscribed on his tomb." M.P 3/17 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HEAVEN AND EARTH 1979/82, 297 minutes, 16mm-to-35mm (HIMMEL UND ERDE) In German with English subtitles. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum. An epic documentary, in two parts, about life in the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna. The film is a documentary in the best sense of the word a meditation on time, on nature and the struggles of man, as well as a record of a lifestyle ceasing to exist. "[A] fascinating portrait of a mountain village fighting to survive against the powers of nature as well as against economic pressures from outside. A profound reflection on the meaning of life and work, the necessity for relationships and the definite character of our world. Slow and lengthy, this film stands out for its beauty and poetry." 14th Festival International de Cinéma, Nyon, Switzerland "If you let it happen, the film will pull you into its cosmos; it is one of those works that teaches you to see and listen again." Ulrich Gregor 3/17 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street PRELINGERS LEARNING WITH THE LIGHTS OFF + THE FILLINGERS + Celebrating the book-release of Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States, Rick Prelinger hosts a smörgåsbord of exemplars from the golden age of educational filmmaking. Made for American classrooms, these mid-century shorts are both artful and banal, timely and dated, stimulating and campy. Preceded by the NorCal premiere of the pithy Re-Presenting Prelinger, Rick's PowerPoint highlights Jam Handy, the acknowledged master of the genre. He also focuses on the sinister scare tactics of Sid Davis in a 10-min. clip from Ken Smith's Sidvision, and with a 16mm excerpt of Davis' Dangerous Strangers. In fact, there's over an hour of sublimely ridiculous celluloid, with Carol Ballard's Pigs, Daddy's Girl, We Live in a Trailer, The Day I Died, a Science in Action fragment, and Skip (AV Geeks) Elsheimer's Vandalism pick. PLUS Paul and Glenda Fillinger, here in person after a career in the ed-film business, to share a pair of their extraordinary pieces. Free toast and jam! $7.77. ---------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012 ---------------------- 3/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm (doors open 7, box office opens 6:30), Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. JON JOST'S SWIMMING IN NEBRASKA After two nights of his films made in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Filmforum hosts Jon Jost with the United States premiere of a new digital video work, Swimming in Nebraska. Continuing the examination of place and mood found in the earlier works, Jost has fully embraced the medium of digital technology in his work of the past decade. His recent films are rigorous and beautiful, often abstract, and yet immersed in the real world. Swimming in Nebraska continues Jost's ongoing challenges to the assumptions of American mass media while embracing the possibilities of artistic practice and meditation. Renowned filmmaker Jon Jost in person! Tickets $10 general, $6 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members. Available online at Brown Paper Tickets (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233200) 3/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 2:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HEAVEN AND EARTH See notes for March 17, 6 pm. 3/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HARRY SMITH PROGRAM HARRY SMITH EARLY ABSTRACTIONS (1941-57, 23 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. MIRROR ANIMATIONS (extended 1979 version, 11 minutes, 35mm) NEW PRINT! LATE SUPERIMPOSITIONS (1964, 28 minutes, 16mm) OZ, THE TIN WOODMAN'S DREAM (1967, 15 minutes, 35mm) "My cinematic excreta is of four varieties: batiked animations made directly on film between 1939 and 1946; optically printed non-objective studies composed around 1950; semi-realistic animated collages made as part of my alchemical labors of 1957 to 1962; and chronologically super-imposed photographs of actualities formed since the latter year. All these works have been organized in specific patterns derived from the interlocking beats of the respiration, the heart and the EEG Alpha component and should be observed together in order, or not at all, for they are valuable works, works that will forever abide they made me gray." Harry Smith Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. 3/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC by Harry Smith 1950-61, 66 minutes, 16mm, b&w Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Cineric, Inc. "NO. 12 can be seen as one momentcertainly the most elaborately crafted momentof the single alchemical film which is Harry Smith's life work. In its seriousness, its austerity, it is one of the strangest and most fascinating landmarks in the history of cinema. Its elaborately constructed soundtrack in which the sounds of various figures are systematically displaced onto other images reflects Smith's abiding concern with auditory effects." P. Adams Sitney 3/18 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PIECES OF DREAMS PIECES OF DREAMS 2000, 55 minutes, video. "Pilz observes the theater director Jack Garfein preparing a Beckett piece ("Ohio Impromptu") in his hotel room. The room is filled with dialogue and concentration, the manic repetitions of a single text fragment gives way to long passages of tense silence. For a while Pilz appears in the picture himself and becomes an impresario part of the act in a chamber theatre formation in that the documentary almost takes on fictional characteristics." Mark Stöhr, SCHNITT DAS FILMMAGAZIN & WINDOWS, DOGS AND HORSES 2006, 40 minutes, video. In German with English subtitles. "This very personal film is based on material that Michael Pilz shot over a decade, starting in 1994, in various locations around the world, including Africa, southern India, Turkey, and Cuba. The director combines shots to form a subjectively authentic unit, which draws on the non-linear and dispersed thought processes and imagination of the human mind." Petr Kubica, INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL JIHLAVA ---------------------- MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 ---------------------- 3/19 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue GWENYAMBIRA SIMON MASHOKO by Michael Pilz 2002, 210, video In English and Shona; intentionally unsubtitled. In the summer of 1997, Pilz, along with composer Klaus Hollinetz and photographer Werner Puntigam, visited the African musician Simon Mashoko (Gwenyambira), a virtuoso mbira player and a catechist of the Roman Catholic Church who lived in seclusion in the south of Zimbabwe. Five years later, the unforgettable experience resulted in a multimedia installation that attempted to transcend geographic borders as well as the borders between the individual arts. Pilz's film captures the mystery of an ordinary day, the interior of music, the creation of play, faith, and imperceptible dance. 3/19 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Early Monthly Segments http://earlymonthlysegments.org/ 7:30pm, Gladstone Hotel, Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West #37 = MONDAY 3/19/2012 = 3RD ANNIVERSARY = GORDON MATTA-CLARK We're excited to celebrate three years of programming with a special program devoted to the films of Gordon Matta-Clark. Our longtime fans may have spotted a brief glimpse of Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect in the first film we showed in March 2009: Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare. Tonight brings us full-circle, if you will. Like his peer Robert Smithson, who also died too young, Matta-Clark's films bring his ideas, performances and anti-architecture antics to vivid life in a way that moves beyond mere documentation. Diagrams, writings and photographs of his work have long preserved him as a pivot point in late 20th century contemporary art, but there's nothing quite like watching the vertiginous lengths Matta-Clark goes to realize his cuttings in luminous live actionwatching him hang from ropes as he carves large openings into the walls of Pier 52 is as heart-stopping as it is gorgeous. Tonight features a quartet that surveys the range of Matta-Clark's filmic output. Tree Dance documents an early performance inspired by spring fertility rituals, with Matta-Clark moving through a series of cocoons, ladders and ropes hung throughout a very large tree in Poughkeepsie, New York. City Slivers slices up the New York cityscape in-camera, as he creates a series of super-impositions using the city's dark cavernous streets as mattes. Day's End documents one of Matta-Clark's famous cuttings, the above mentioned Pier 52, which he cunningly transformed from a dark warehouse into an "indoor park"much to the chagrin of both the Port Authority and those that used the dark corners as a cruising spot. Finally, Fresh Kill features Matta-Clark driving his old truck, christened Herman Meydag, to the Fresh Kills dump to be demolished by a bulldozer. Seeing these films again reminds us of the milieu of which Matta-Clark was a partone is reminded of Bas Jan Ader, Anthony McCall and John Chamberlain, to name just a fewbut also of the fervent influence his work still can have on our conceptions of the built landscape in which we live. Programme: City Slivers, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1976, 16mm, USA, 15 min. silent Tree Dance, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1971, Super 8 on 16mm, USA, 10 min. silent Fresh Kill, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1972, 16mm, USA, 13 min. Day's End, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975, Super 8 on 16mm, USA, 23 min. silent ----------------------- TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012 ----------------------- 3/20 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue INDIAN DIARY by Michael Pilz 2000, 168 minutes, video In English and Malayalam; intentionally unsubtitled. Without recourse to off-screen commentary or 'staged' conversations, Pilz creates the chronology of his stay in India and his medical treatment there in INDIAN DIARY: one recognizes the same people and places, participates in everyday life and excursions, and at some point the radio croaks "What a difference a day makes." 3/20 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 p.m., Albright College Center for the Arts GEORGE KUCHAR (1942-2010) MEMORIAL SCREENING While I'm Naked (1966, 16mm, 17min.) which in 2000 was voted one of the 100 best films of the 20th century by the Village Voice Critics Poll. Tonight's selections were made by George's twin brother, Mike. The brothers Kuchar often visited Berks Filmmakers presenting some of the most memorable and beloved shows to light our screen. "George Kuchar was one of the most creative, original, and influential filmmakers of our time . Often collaborating with his twin brother, Mike, George started making films as a Bronx teenager, and the brothers' early films already show the ingenuity, exuberance, and do-it-yourself charm that would pervade scores of their subsequent films . In his films, Kuchar is always poking fun and always having a good time, in an apparently sweet and charmingly self-deprecating way. Yet this court jester of avant-garde cinema had a sardonic edge that was as sharp as an editor's blade. His vision bubbled out of the cauldron of his gay, Catholic, working-class childhood. This led to his lifelong tango with the high, and often dry, seriousness of the art world . Kuchar stayed true to his American vernacular instincts throughout his life. The body of work he produced, now archived at Harvard, is a testimony to the power, and importance, of film done without the hindrance of large-scale production."- Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee, The Brooklyn Rail 3/20 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8pm, 1515 12th ave EXPERIMENTAL MEMORIA This special series commemorates the work of three notable experimental and underground filmmakers who left us in 2011. Films screen in their original 16mm format. Features the work of George Kuchar, Robert Breer and Adolfas Meekas. Full schedule online at nwfilmforum.org. ------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 ------------------------- 3/21 Ghent, Belgium: COURTisane http://www.courtisane.be/ 20:30, KASKCinema, Sphinx, Vooruit & KASK KUNSTTOREN COURTISANE FESTIVAL 2012 (21-25 MARCH 2012) Courtisane presents its annual selection of cutting-edge cinema, bringing together recent film and video by artists and filmmakers who open up new directions in the expanded field of contemporary moving image practice. OPENING NIGHT : Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure (Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder with Olivia Block). COMPETITION : new works by Ute Aurand, Bonnie Begusch, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Mati Diop, Fabian Euresti, Janie Geiser, Beatrice Gibson, Kwon Hayoun, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Laida Lertxundi, Rose Lowder, Gary Mairs, Valérie Massadian, Pavel Medvedev, Nicolás Pereda, Charlotte Pryce, Alina Rudnitskaya, Jani Ruscica and Isabelle Tollenaere. PROFILES : Gabriel Abrantes, George Kuchar, Naomi Uman, Sung-A Yoon. ARTISTS IN FOCUS : Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Philippe Grandrieux, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell. Guest programme: MEDIA CITY This is Then Now and Here. Canadian Films from the Collection of the CFMDC (19671979) curated by Jeremy Rigsby and Oona Mosna. REVERBERANCES : Robert Fenz/Robert Garder, José Filipe Costa/ Thomas Harlan, Eric Baudelaire&Philippe Grandrieux/Masao Adachi. + Children's programme, workshops, installations, concerts (Robert Lowe, Jake Williams, Stellar OM Source), and much more ! 3/21 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SIBERIAN DIARY by Michael Pilz In Dutch and Russian with English subtitles, 2003, 140 minutes, video In English, Russian, Dutch, and German with English subtitles. "[A documentary about the] inhabitants of a small village called Apanas, who are covered with snow and cut off from the rest of the world for six months a year. The harsh climate dictates the tone of the film, as if the geographical location itself contributed to its radical aesthetics. Pilz regards a film as a tool for mutual understanding within the memory of history and culture." Petr Kubica, INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL JIHLAVA 3/21 Toronto, Ontario, Canada: TIFF Bell Lightbox http://www.tiff.net 7:00pm, 350 King Street West THE FREE SCREEN: JAN PEACOCK: USING CLOUDS FOR WORDS "Video is where I can work with shapes of time-language events, sound events, image events-building a space that seems recognizable to us because it's television, because people spend so much time looking at that box." Jan Peacock Jan Peacock is one of Canada's most important video artists, as her honouring by this year's Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts attests. Through both her thirty-year practice and her long-time role as a teacher of Intermedia at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Peacock has influenced and guided successive generations of artists in their explorations of the video medium. She is a pioneer of video installation in Canada (many of the works being shown in this programme are single-channel "versions" of installations usually involving multiple screens) and often conceives of her work as open texts, allowing the medium's memory-like permeability to allow for future revision, addition and reflection.This programme is a short survey of selections from Peacock's oeuvre of over twenty video works and installations. Her early video, California Freeze-Out, made while a graduate student at UC San Diego and included in the influential California Video show curated by Kathy Rae Huffman for the1980 Paris Biennial, sets the stage for many of Peacock's concerns. In it, and in many subsequent videos, we find the emotional immeasurability of distance looking longingly at the space between here and there and the importance of touch: the artist's hands are a common subject and motif in her work, which heightens the sense of tactility in the video image. Her videos also frequently address the importance of memory, especially in relationship to the fragility of life. Wallace & Theresa memorializes her friend Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, an artist and writer whose life was cut brutally short, and (Bliss) (Dread) is an important piece that was made during the maelstrom of the AIDS epidemic. Featured works: Bystander (Canada 2009, 1.5 min., video) California Freeze-Out (Canada 1980, 16.5 min., video This Walk, These Steps (Canada 1995, 5 min., video) Wallace & Theresa (Canada 1985, 8.5 min., video) therethere (Canada 2009, 6 min., video) Reader by the Window (Canada 1993, 16 min., video) Current Details (Canada 2003 - ongoing, variable duration, video) (Bliss) (Dread) The Road Rises to Meet You (Canada 1987, 6.5 min., video) Soaring with Dogs (Canada 2008 - ongoing, variable duration, video) Screening preceded by a looped version of touch 1.0 (2012) ------------------------ THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 ------------------------ 3/22 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 DANIEL EISENBERG- THE UNSTABLE OBJECT What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common? Daniel Eisenberg's (Persistence, Something More Than Night) latest film, The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on contemporary models of production. Interested in the ways "things" affect both producer and consumer, Eisenberg travels to a Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany, where individualized cars are hand-built by high-tech specialists; to Chicago Lighthouse Industries, where blind workers produce wall clocks for government offices; and to a deafening cymbal factory in Istanbul, Turkey, where sought-after cymbals are cast and hammered by hand, exactly as they were 400 years ago. Through sequences sympathetic to each site and subject that highlight the senses of sight, sound, and touch, The Unstable Object quietly probes the relationships our global economy creates among individuals around the world. In person: Daniel Eisenberg.Jack H. Skirball Screening Series. Tickets $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] 3/22 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) NEW WORKS SALON Several local artists will present new in-progress or recently completed works. Sean Batton and Kelsey Brain will present a 16mm film comprising footage of Occupy Los Angeles's two-month encampment at City Hall. Marcy Saude presents her in-progress Alternative Strategies #1, in which Filmmaker Robert Nelson talks about the house he and William Wiley built by hand in rural Mendocino County. Mark Toscano will present two recent 16mm films, Rating Dogs on a Scale of 1 to 10 (2011) and Demonstration (2012). Also, Rick Bahto will present sketches towards a documentary on the composer Mark So, Pablo Valencia will project a collection of Super 8 miniatures, and Hayley Elliott will present a developing cut of hand-processed Super 8 film. 3/22 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue YEMEN TRAVELOGUE by Michael Pilz 2008, 160 minutes, video In English and Arabic; intentionally unsubtitled. "In April 2006, my friend and I flew to Sana'a, the capital of the Republic of Yemen, and traveled to Shibam, the legendary mud-brick skyscraper city, the ancient 'Manhattan of the Desert'. As usual, I filmed whatever caught my eye. It's a very personal travel journal, and despite these enchanting sites, it lets you forget about where you are. A film for meditation." M.P. 3/22 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 8pm, 275 Capp Street SAVE KUSF BENEFIT FEATURING RALPH CARNEY AND MELODIOUS ANIMATIONS Oddball Films hosts a benefit for Save KUSF featuring the great Ralph Carney & Guests live on the Cinestage! Mr. Carney is a jazz multi-instrumentalist/horn player who has spent the better part of the last 2 decades criss-crossing the world, on stage and in studios with the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Elvis Costello to name only a few. Plus! A selection of the finest animation films with the jazziest soundtracks in the Oddball Films collection including Dave Fleischer's Minnie The Moocher (1932) featuring Betty Boop, Bimbo and the music of Cab Calloway and His Orchestra; legendary animators Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert's vibrant Begone Dull Care (1949) with the music of the Oscar Peterson Trio; principal animator on Yellow Submarine Paul Dreissen's Cat's Cradle (1974) and much more! Admission: $10 - $15 sliding scale. Limited Seating RSVP to programm...@oddballfilm.com 3/22 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7 p.m., 151 Third Street PANORAMA Phyllis Wattis Theater 7:00 p.m. Organized by Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA Assistant Curator of Media Arts, in conjunction with Fifty Years of Bay Area Arts: The SECA Awards, this screening brings together short contemporary and historic film and video works by artists affiliated with either SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Award (1973-98) series or its ongoing SECA Art Award program. It features a variety of approaches to the urban environment as well as animated representations of natural landscape. Mel Henderson (with Joe Hawley and Alfred Young), Yellow Cabs, 1969, 16mm transfer to video, 7.5 min. Will Rogan, Sweeter as the years roll by (part 3), 2003, video, color, sound, 1.4 min. Michael Rudnick, Panorama, 1982, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min. D-L Alvarez, Sentry, 2007, video, b&w, sound, 4:36 min. William Allan (with Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson), Fishing for Asian Carp, 1966, 16mm, color, sound, 2.5 min. Kota Ezawa, Home Video 2, 2010, video, color, sound, 5:57 min. Shaun O'Dell, Silent Tree Liftoff, 2003, video, color, silent, 2 min. Sky-David (aka Dennis Pies), Sonoma, 197477, 16mm, color, sound, 6:12 min. Desirée Holman, Troglodyte, 2005, video, color, sound, 7 min. $5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). ---------------------- FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 ---------------------- 3/23 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 8:15pm, 559 Washington Street THE HERETICS Award-winning New England video artist and Hampshire College Professor Joan Braderman tells the exhilarating inside story of the seminal New York feminist art collective and reconnects with members including writer/critic Lucy Lippard. DIRECTOR IN PERSON! 3/23 Chicago, Illinois: The Nightingale 7:00, The NIGHTINGALE, 1084 N. Milwaukee BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX Friday, March 23rd, 2012, 7:00 pm, $7-10, BLACK THORNS IN THE BLACK BOX, Curated by Amelia Ishmael & Bryan Wendorf - Black Thorns in the Black Box is a touring screening of experimental film and video by eleven contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark, and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Its screening in Chicago coincides with the gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White Cubeon view March 16 through April 14 at Western Exhibitions. (http://westernexhibitions.com/current/2012/2a_Black_Thorns/) - Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). This screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three partsthe underground, the earth, and the heavensaccording to the three branches of Medieval concepts of musicmusica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalisto explore how Black Metal has permeated all known spheres of creation. - Amelia Ishmael is an artist whose practice includes critiquing, historicising, teaching, and curating other artists' practices. Her current projects include the traveling art exhibition "Black Thorns in the White Cube" (currently on view at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO) and co-editing and curating pages for the academic journal Helvete. She studied studio art and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has published articles on contemporary art with The WIRE, Art21.com, ArtSlant Chicago, and Art Papers. 3/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ROSE AND JASMINE by Michael Pilz 2010, 106 minutes, video No dialogue. A cinematic poem based on the director's journeys in Iran from 2006-07. By patiently and gently observing both people and place, Pilz collects images and sounds of ravishing beauty. "In ancient China before an artist began to paint anything a tree, for instance he would sit down in front of it for days, months, years, it didn't matter how long, until he was the tree. He did not identify himself with the tree but he was the tree and in that state only could he paint." M.P. 3/23 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ROMAN DIARY by Michael Pilz 2011, 124 minutes, video Share + Film Notes No dialogue. "I see that I see." Heraklit "Like all my previous films since HEAVEN AND EARTH (1982), ROMAN DIARY is in a way a tantric exercise or meditation, as defined by one of the oldest tantric texts, the Vijnana Bhairava. If you watch a film in order to 'learn' something, then this film is not for you. But if you want to test out what it is possible to experience through film, then this is the right medium for you. Using techniques such as extreme slow motion and irrational, poetic contrast, it is a tool you can use to center yourself, for it speaks more to the heart than the head." Michael Pilz, Puttaparthi, Andra Pradesh, India, 15 December, 2011. 3/23 San Francisco, California: Oddball Films http://www.oddballfilm.com 7:30pm, 275 Capp Street EXPERIMENTA INDIA Oddball Films, in association with San Francisco Cinematheque and 3rd i Films, is proud to present EXPERIMENTA India. What are possible cinematic entry points to addressing the context of experimental filmmaking in India? From experiments in animation, found footage and stylised montage in the late 60's and early 70's to the most recent innovations in experimental narrative, this selection of films and videos, never before seen in the Bay Area, offer a peek into the aesthetic and socio-political complexities of experimental filmmaking in India. Festival Director Shai Heredia of EXPERIMENTA India will be present to introduce these programs. Shai Heredia is a filmmaker and curator. In 2003, she founded Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. She has curated experimental film programs for major film and art venues around the globe, including the Tate Modern, Berlinale Film Festival, and the Images Festival in Toronto. Her latest film, 'I Am Micro', co-directed with Shumona Goel, has screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Images Festival. 'I am Micro' is currently screening as part of the exhibition 'Being Singular Plural' at the Guggenheim Museum NYC (March 2June 6, 2012). Admission: $10* - Limited Seating RSVP to programm...@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117 *Note early start time. The price of a single admission ticket allows access to both shows. They will run back to back with a 15min intermission. Total run time for both programs is 125min. ------------------------ SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012 ------------------------ 3/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: RICE/RICHTER/SHARITS PROGRAM Ron Rice CHUMLUM (1964, 23 minutes, 16mm) With Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Gerard Malanga. "One of the underground's best and most influential films." Peter Gidal Hans Richter RHYTHMUS 21 (1921, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting opposites." Standish Lawder EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968, 36 minutes, 16mm) Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay." P.S. "In essence there are only three flicker films of importance, ARNULF RAINER, THE FLICKER, and N:O:T:H:I:N:G In terms of the subject we have discussed here, it is Sharits' N:O:T:H:I:N:G that opens the field for the structural film with a flicker base." P. Adams Sitney T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm) Newly preserved print! Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on the soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala. "Merges violence with purity." P. Adams Sitney "Surrealist tour de force." Parker Tyler Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 3/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue RON RICE PROGRAM SENSELESS 1962, 28 minutes, 16mm. "Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico.... Highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal development of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction." David Brooks THE FLOWER THIEF 1960, 59 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Starring Taylor Mead. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "In the old Hollywood movie days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of ideas failed (writers, directors), was called upon to 'cook up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. THE FLOWER THIEF has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed in the field of stunt." R.R. Total running time: ca. 90 minutes. 3/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MEETS THE ATOM MAN by Ron Rice The film describes, poetically, a way of living. The film is a protest which is violent, childish, and sincere a protest against an industrial world based on the cycle of production and consumption." Alberto Moravia, L'ESSPRESSO 3/24 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street HEROLD + JACOBSON + LOSIER + MCGUIRE + Honoring Int'l Women's Month, here's new work by and about women, with mistress of ceremonies/celebrity DJ Anne McGuire! Kara Herold's spoken-word performance Warrior Three gives voice to her dilemma as an A/V tech whose work supports her experimental filmmaking, but is at odds with both her second-wave feminist Mom and her Zen abbot. A recipient of the Sarah Jacobson Grant, Marie Losier's Electrocute Your Stars, in its West Coast theatrical premiere, is a precious peek at sorely-missed underground maestro George Kuchar. Also lost to cancer, Jacobson herself is represented by her Fabulous Stains , a behind-the-scenes explication of that cult movie's radical potential, made with Sam Green. The program closes on an apocalyptic, even reactionary note with Dominic Gagnon's Pieces and Love All to Hell, the second in his infamous trilogy of banned YouTube screedsin this case, all by women. ALSO Stunt Double by Julie Wyman, Teaserama by Sietske Tjallingii, protestations by proto-Libber Susan B. Anthony(!), and delicious sangria. $7. ---------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012 ---------------------- 3/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: SHARITS PROGRAM by Paul Sharits 1968-70, 41 minutes, 16mm S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "A conceptual lap dissolve from 'water currents' to 'film strip currents'/Dedicated to my son Christopher." P.S. "Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really recognized." Michael Snow 3/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JACK SMITH PROGRAM Jack Smith SCOTCH TAPE 1962, 3 minutes. Junkyard musical. FLAMING CREATURES 1963, 45 minutes, 16mm, b/w, sound. "FLAMING CREATURES graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers." - FILM CULTURE 3/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WAVELENGTH by Michael Snow 1967, 45 minutes, 16mm "WAVELENGTH is without precedent in the purity of its confrontation with the essence of cinema: the relationships between illusion and fact, space and time, subject and object. It is the first post-Warhol, post-Minimal movie; one of the few films to engage those higher conceptual orders which occupy modern painting and sculpture. It has rightly been described as a 'triumph of contemplative cinema.'" Gene Youngblood, L.A. FREE PRESS, 1968 3/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BACK AND FORTH by Michael Snow 1969, 52 minutes, 16mm "...This neat, finely tuned, hypersensitive film examines the outside and inside of a banal prefab classroom, stares at an asymmetrical space so undistinguished that it's hard to believe the whole movie is confined to it, and has this neckjerking camera gimmick which hits a wooden stop arm at each end of its swing. Basically it's a perpetual motion film which ingeniously builds a sculptural effect by insisting on time-motion to the point where the camera's swinging arcs and white wall field assume the hardness, the dimensions of a concrete beam. "In such a hard, drilling work, the wooden clap sounds are a terrific invention, and, as much as any single element, create the sculpture. Seeming to thrust the image outward off the screen, these clap effects are timed like a metronome, sometimes occuring with torrential frequency." Manny Farber, ARTFORUM, 1970 Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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