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F. F.'s 90 Second Quickie (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1579.ann Blind Date [Vox Populi & Goldilocks Gallery, Philadelphia] (Philadelphia, PA, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1580.ann Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: May 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1581.ann Team Vector + videofag : Queer Arcade Call for Submissions Now Open! (Toronto, Ontario, Canda; Deadline: June 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1582.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): ============================== * Experimental: Artifacts and Artificial Acts [April 27, Berkeley, California] * Stranger Collaborations, Organized By Jacqueline Goss [April 27, Brooklyn, New York] * Animation Freak-Out Night [April 27, Los Angeles, California] * Friendship State [April 27, New Orleans, LA] * Essential Cinema: Kenneth Anger Program [April 27, New York, New York] * Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 27, New York, New York] * Jeremy Rourke + Colburn + Klahr + Geiser + [April 27, San Francisco, California] * Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 27, Washington, DC] * Don't Be Cruel: videos By Dale Hoyt, Sun 4.28, 7pm [April 28, Brooklyn, NY] * Don't Be Crual, videos By Dale Hoyt [April 28, Brooklyn, New York] * Essential Cinema: Baillie/Crockwell Program [April 28, New York, New York] * Quick Billy [April 28, New York, New York] * Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 28, New York, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Lori Varga and Paul Baker [April 28, Oakland] * Psychic Sculpture [April 28, Sausalito] * Cabinets of Wonder: Films and Performance By Charlotte Pryce [April 29, Los Angeles, California] * Flaming Creatures - 50th Anniversary Program [April 29, New York, New York] * Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 29, New York, New York] * The Extravagant Shadows With David Gatten In Person -Special Nyff Reprise Screening [April 29, New York, New York] * The Extravagant Shadows With David Gatten In Person -Special Nyff Reprise Screening [April 29, New York, New York] * Object Worshipping: Notes On Claes Oldenburg's Films, Or the Ballad of the Turning Woman [April 30, Brooklyn, NY] * Out-Takes From the Life of A Happy Man [April 30, New York, New York] * Experimental: Artifacts and Artificial Acts [April 30, San Francisco, California] * Axwff Salutes Mm Serra &Amp; the Film-Makers Cooperative [May 1, New York, NY] * &Quot;That's A Wrap!&Quot; Film/Video Senior Show [May 2, Cambridge, MA] * Open Screen [May 2, Los Angeles, California] * Lili White's Experi-Doc Feature: Fool's Gold: California Roadtrip In An Election Year [May 2, New York, NY] * May the Road Rise To Meet You [May 2, Paris, France] * The Soft Escape: Films and videos By Michael Robinson [May 3, Chicago, IL] * Mady Schutzman's Dear Comrade [May 3, Los Angeles, California] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 3, New York, New York] * The Built World [May 3, Seattle, Washington] * No Man's Zone By Toshi Fujiwara [May 4, Los Angeles, California] * Peter Kubelka Program [May 4, New York, New York] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 4, New York, New York] * Millennium Film Journal No. 57 Publication Screening [May 4, New York, New York] * Megan Prelinger's Electronics and the Modern Century + [May 4, San Francisco, California] * Peter Kubelka Program [May 5, New York, New York] * Fragments of Kubelka [May 5, New York, New York] * Bay Area Cine Salon [May 5, San Francisco, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------ SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013 ------------------------ 4/27 Berkeley, California: San Francisco International Film Festival http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=54489~8781fb85-6bb2-474d-a97d-cec76d1b8c32&epguid=db9c7f13-edc8-489f-bc28-5aa111f9970e&; 8:45pm, Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way EXPERIMENTAL: ARTIFACTS AND ARTIFICIAL ACTS Nine recent experimental films look at troubling facts and surprising moments with beauty and inventiveness. Decaying ledgers, an ancient Turkish site and a petrified giant are among the artifacts excavated to reflect on our present times. A conversation between a president and an astronaut is unearthed, a disturbing speech is recreated, traces of a vanished culture are presented or invented. Presented in association with the Pacific Film Archive and the San Francisco Cinematheque. The Name Is Not the Thing Named: A visual and sonic journey that suggests the otherness of familiar encounters. (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2012, 11 min, Color/B&W) Artificial Persons: Historical moments are woven into a hypnotic exploration of truth and power. (Katherin McInnis, USA, 2012, 5 min, B&W) Soundtrack by Roger Winfield. A Few Extra Copies: An obsessive reenactment of R. Budd Dwyer's final speech is a haunting meditation on life's pressures and constraints. (Bobby Abate, USA, 2012, 9 min, Color) Pipe Dreams: Two moments in Syrian history 25 years apart speak to how authoritarian regimes protect their powerand their image. (Ali Cherri, Lebanon/France, 2012, 7 min, Color, In Arabic, with English subtitles) Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact: Animation is used to explore ideas of faith and intentionality behind drastic actions. (Karen Yasinsky, USA, 2013, 9 mins, Color/B&W) Verses: Decomposing ledgers found in an abandoned juvenile hall create startling Rorschach patterns. (James Sansing, USA, 2012, 4 mins, Color/B&W) This is a Cinema by the Bay Film. The Indeserian Tablets: The religion, stories and practices of a vanished culture are annotated in an imaginary ethnography. (Peter Rose, USA, 2012, 16 mins, Color) View from the Acropolis: Cultural appropriation is reexamined through a visit to an ancient site from which antiquities were taken. (Lonnie von Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, The Netherlands, 2012, 16 mins, B&W) Bloom: The arid Texas landscape of oil drilling yields a moment of beauty. (Scott Stark, 2012, 11 mins, Color/B&W) Music by Greg Headley 4/27 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) STRANGER COLLABORATIONS, ORGANIZED BY JACQUELINE GOSS featuring new works by Goss, Vanessa Haroutunian, Alexia Welch, Maxwell Paparella paired with others of their choosing. Admission $6 artists in attendance. For "Stranger Collaborations" these members of the Joanie4Jackie collective at Bard pair their works with a piece chosen from the J4J archive, drawing from a surfeit of images and sounds made by strangers to illustrate the personal and ineffable. The J4J collection was started by filmmaker Miranda July in the 1990′s and is now an international collection of over two hundred films and videos made by young women and girls and now housed at Bard College. More info www.microscopegallery.com.tel:347.925.1433, i...@microscopegallery.com. Nearest subway J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway. 4/27 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. ANIMATION FREAK-OUT NIGHT Won't you join Cosmo Segurson for an evening of strange and mind bending cartoons? Root beer floats will be served up as his collection of 16mm animation prints entertains you beyond belief. From the United States and around the world, some from the Film Center's own library, these cartoons are rare and well worth your attention. Tex Avery, The Fleischer Studios, and a couple of prints that he's not sure who made, will be shown. Did we mention Root Beer Floats? All works shown on 16mm! 4/27 New Orleans, LA: Zeitgeist http://www.zeitgeistinc.net/ 7:30pm, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. FRIENDSHIP STATE FRIENDSHIP STATE: Experimental Texas Films with visiting filmmakers Caroline Koebel & Lindsay Bloom. Featuring works by Lyndsay Bloom, Caroline Koebel, Jennifer Lane, Kelly Sears and Scott Stark . The Friendship State was originally conceived as a testament to the vitality of cinema art in Texas. Befuddling all the alienating preconceptions about my new state is the direct encounter of Texas from the inside; depth of familiarity takes presence. While I'm still dismayed horrified by the reality of the state's dominant politics, now I know from firsthand experience that there's also a whole lot of good in circulation. The motto of Texas is "friendship." In my time here, I have been sustained and inspired by the presence of a plethora of film and video artists. The Friendship State embraces the dialog between makers and comprises five directors, including me, from diverse points of Texaseach engaging select tactics to reveal, negate and ultimately transcend moving image boundaries. (Caroline Koebel, Austin) 4/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: KENNETH ANGER PROGRAM FIREWORKS (1947, 20 min, 35mm, b&w) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm) EAUX D'ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3 min, 16mm) SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 35mm) Poetry, psychodrama, and the occult meet in these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the American avant-garde film. Total running time: ca. 85 min. 4/27 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN by Jonas Mekas 2012, 68 min, video Share + Film Notes "A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis. It's a kind of autobiographical, diaristic poem, celebration of happiness and life. I consider myself a happy man." J.M. "In a film of amazing delicacy and poetic insight, Mekas celebrates the beauty of imperfect images " Amy Taubin "OUT-TAKES starts with Mekas alone at night while the city sleeps, editing his old films. As he looks back over his life he starts to talk, insisting that his life's work amounts to 'just images, some fragments of this world' that he will bring together for himself and a few friends. But as images of the people who brought joy into his life pass by, we realize that most of them are no longer alive. Mekas sees them again, but he is seeing them alone. As much as it is about his happy life, the film is also about emptiness, loss, and a longing for some sort of spiritual consolation. At one moment the cover of St John of the Cross's MEDITATIONS appears on screen. This is Mekas's long dark night of the soul." Richard Dorment, THE TELEGRAPH 4/27 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St JEREMY ROURKE + COLBURN + KLAHR + GEISER + Back by popular demand is the spirited person of Jeremy Rourke, conjuring musical complements to three extraordinary animations: the debut of his own Walk Long Inside Upon Your Land, the exquisite Mulching Emulsion, and Dave Fleischer's 1928 Koko Goes Ghosting. We honor the recently deceased Gerry Anderson with a section from Thunderbirds Are Go!, plus Philip Stapp's Tanguy-esque Picture in Your Mind (on 16mm). As to the new generation: Martha Colburn's Colony Collapse Disorder, Jodie Mack's August Song, Nina Paley's This Land Is Mine, Omer Gal's Sap, Janie Geiser's Lost Motion, and Lewis Klahr's Creased Robe Smile. Joel Schlemowitz kicks in a collage-homage to illustrator extraordinaire Ms. Dame Darcy 4/27 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 4:30, 6th Street & Constitution Avenue NW OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN Fleeting scenes and favorite moments, Out-Takes is composed of fragments not used in his earlier diary films, the genre that Jonas Mekas (now 90) made famous during his more than 50 years of filmmaking."Brief glimpses of family, my friends, girlfriends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis. It is a kind of autobiographical, diaristic poem, celebration of happiness and life. I consider myself a happy man." (Jonas Mekas, 2012, DigiBeta, 68 minutes) Reminiscences from Germany, writes Mekas, is "an attempt to provide an introduction to the German period of my life from 1944 to 1949. Using original photos taken by myself and my brother Adolfas, and footage from 1971 and 1993, I revisit Elmshorn, Flensburg, Wiesbaden, Mainz and Kassel where I spent five yearsfirst as a Forced Laborer in a war prisoners' camp, and later as a Displaced Person in displaced persons' camps. ---------------------- SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013 ---------------------- 4/28 Brooklyn, NY: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place DON'T BE CRUEL: VIDEOS BY DALE HOYT, SUN 4.28, 7PM Artist in person, admission $6 - Microscope welcomes San Francisco-based artist Dale Hoyt to present a night of videos during a rare visit to the East Coast. This screening is one we have been anticipating for over two years. For the occasion, Hoyt has selected a special program of works made primarily in the 80s including his "The Complete Diary of Anne Frank", which is in the permanent collection of MoMA and The Getty Museum. Most of the works have never before screened in New York. - Hoyt lived in the city from 1989 to 1992 and like the filmmakers of the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression film movements of the 70s & 80s Lower East Side, his works share a DIY aesthetic and reject the troupes of the previous avant garde generation. Hoyt was among the first of the underground/experimental/personal moving images makers using solely video (not film). - Hoyt's body of work also includes the mediums of painting, drawing and writing. In addition to his show at Microscope, the artist is in town to present a music video he directed for Annette Peacock's song young, as part of the current Blues for Smoke exhibition at the Whitney. - Dale Hoyt will introduce the evening and answer questions after the screening at Microscope. - - PROGRAM - Over My Dead Body, Dale Hoyt, 1983, video, color, mono, 15 minutes - The Complete Anne Frank, Dale Hoyt, 1985, video, color, sound, 37 minutes - Don't Be Cruel, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 2003, 12 minutes - Ringo Zapruder, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 4 minutes - - Who Shot MM, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 2:10 minutes - - Your World Dies Screaming, Dale Hoyt, video, color, sound, 1981, 5 minutes - Full program notes and additional info at www.microscopegallery.com 4/28 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) DON'T BE CRUAL, VIDEOS BY DALE HOYT admission $6 artist in attendance. San Francisco-based artist Dale Hoyt presents a night of videos during a rare visit to the East Coast. For the occasion, Hoyt has selected a special program of works made primarily in the 80s including his "The Complete Diary of Anne Frank", which is in the permanent collection of MoMA and The Getty Museum. Most of the works have never before screened in New York. Hoyt lived in the city from 1989 to 1992 and like the filmmakers of the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression film movements of the 70s & 80s Lower East Side, his works share a DIY aesthetic and reject the troupes of the previous avant garde generation. Hoyt was among the first of the underground/experimental/personal moving images makers using solely video. Hoyt's body of work also includes the mediums of painting, drawing and writing. In addition to his show at Microscope, the artist is in town to present a music video he directed for Annette Peacock's song young, as part of the current Blues for Smoke exhibition at the Whitney. Hoyt will introduce the evening and answer questions after the screening at Microscope. Program and additional info at www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. i...@microscopegallery.com. Nearest Suway: J/M/Z - Myrtle/Broadway 4/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BAILLIE/CROCKWELL PROGRAM Bruce Baillie MASS FOR THE DAKOTA SIOUX (1963-64, 20 min, 16mm, b&w) QUIXOTE (1964-65, 45 min, 16mm) CASTRO STREET (1966, 10 min, 16mm) ALL MY LIFE (1966, 3 min, 16mm) VALENTIN DE LAS SIERRAS (1968, 10 min, 16mm) Meditations on America by a filmmaker whom Willard van Dyke once called the most American of all contemporary filmmakers. Annette Michelson has referred to Bruce Baillie as one of the few American political filmmakers. Douglass Crockwell GLENS FALLS SEQUENCE (1964, 8 min, 16mm) "The basic idea was to paint continuing pictures on various layers with plastic paint, adding at times and removing at times, and to a certain extent these early attempts were successful." D.C. Total running time: ca. 100 min. 4/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue QUICK BILLY by Bruce Baillie 1971, 57 min, 16mm Bruce Baillie's journey through "the dark wood encountered in the middle of life's journey" (Dante), with references to Bardo Thodol. A major work from one of the great poets of cinema. 4/28 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN See notes for April 25, 8 pm. 4/28 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS LORI VARGA AND PAUL BAKER Bay Area native Lori Varga will present "Beyond the Frames of Light and Strange Sounds, Vol. 2" using 16mm and 8mm handmade collage films, experimental celluloid loops, 35mm slides and a live electronic sound collage made from old audio tape loop machines, magnetic card readers and analog cassette tapes. Paul Baker (Austin, Texas) and friends will also perform Analog Omega - a series of analog feedback loops of images and sounds utilizing VCR, TV and projector overlays, set to audio dronal and tonal experimental sound. 4/28 Sausalito: Headlands Center for the Arts http://www.headlands.org/event/spring-open-house-2/ 3pm sharp, Building 961, 944 Simmonds Road, Sausalito, CA 94965 PSYCHIC SCULPTURE Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson (Artists in Residence Spring 2013) present Psychic Sculpturea live collaboration of Super 8 film & sound. Free. ---------------------- MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 ---------------------- 4/29 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 CABINETS OF WONDER: FILMS AND PERFORMANCE BY CHARLOTTE PRYCE Charlotte Pryce's exquisitely detailed and evocatively structured short films suggest an alert daydreaming in which the documented and the imagined are juxtaposed. Her films offer fleeting illuminations that hover on the periphery of vision, calling into question the "mechanical eye" of the lens and the chemical composition of the celluloid. The films use 16mm "chrome" stocksnow-extinct reversal colorwhich are hand-processed and optically reprinted. "Like the items in a Cabinet of Wonder, my subjects are specimens of philosophical musing: rootless plants, mysterious insects and curious glasses," says Pryce. The program includes Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature, Discoveries on the Forest Floor, The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly, Curious Light, Looking Glass Insects, A Study in Natural Magic, and a live magic lantern show. | Jack H. Skirball Screening Series | $10 [students $8, CalArts $5] 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FLAMING CREATURES - 50TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM Boo-Hooray and Anthology present a very special evening commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of Jack Smith's FLAMING CREATURES. Featuring a double bill of Smith's underground masterpiece and Ken Jacobs's equally ground-breaking BLONDE COBRA (recreating the program presented on April 29, 1963 at the Bleecker Street Cinema), the program will also include some extraordinary surprises brought to you by Tony Conrad and the Boo-Hooray crew. Boo-Hooray is an exhibition space (at 265 Canal St) dedicated to 20th/21st-century counter-culture ephemera, photography, and book arts. For more info, visit: www.boo-hooray.com. Jack Smith FLAMING CREATURES 1963, 45 min, 16mm, b&w & Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 min, 16-to-35mm blow-up, b&w/color. Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support of The Film Foundation. 4/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN See notes for April 25, 8 pm. 4/29 New York, New York: Film Society of Lincoln Center http://www.filmlinc.com 7pm, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS WITH DAVID GATTEN IN PERSON -SPECIAL NYFF REPRISE SCREENING The Extravagant Shadows (USA, Format: DCP, color, sound 175 minutes) David Gatten, 2012 at the Francesca Beale Theater at 7:00pm on Monday April 29. For tickets and more information: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-extravagant-shadows Fourteen years in the making, David Gatten's first digital feature premiered at Views from the Avant-Garde during the 50th New York Film Festival in October and was ranked ninth in the Film Comment's critics poll of the "20 Best Undistributed Films of 2012." Join us for a special reprise screening with director David Gatten in person! "A love story in shifting colors, illusive light and sentimental songs from the year 1968. A movie about the movement of desire across the distances of geography and time. A meditation on the manner in which books, letters and other written or printed communications might both produce and mediate that distance. A shelf of books, an inventory of pigments. A question of language and a statement about time. Condensations upon several occasions." David Gatten 4/29 New York, New York: Film Society of Lincoln Center http://www.filmlinc.com 7pm, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 W 65th St THE EXTRAVAGANT SHADOWS WITH DAVID GATTEN IN PERSON -SPECIAL NYFF REPRISE SCREENING The Extravagant Shadows (USA, Format: DCP, color, sound 175 minutes) David Gatten, 2012 at the Francesca Beale Theater at 7:00pm on Monday April 29. For tickets and more information: http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-extravagant-shadows Fourteen years in the making, David Gatten's first digital feature premiered at Views from the Avant-Garde during the 50th New York Film Festival in October and was ranked ninth in the Film Comment's critics poll of the "20 Best Undistributed Films of 2012." Join us for a special reprise screening with director David Gatten in person! "A love story in shifting colors, illusive light and sentimental songs from the year 1968. A movie about the movement of desire across the distances of geography and time. A meditation on the manner in which books, letters and other written or printed communications might both produce and mediate that distance. A shelf of books, an inventory of pigments. A question of language and a statement about time. Condensations upon several occasions." David Gatten ----------------------- TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013 ----------------------- 4/30 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30, 155 Freeman Street OBJECT WORSHIPPING: NOTES ON CLAES OLDENBURG'S FILMS, OR THE BALLAD OF THE TURNING WOMAN A lecture by Branden W. Joseph - In 1969, armed with a recently-purchased 8mm movie camera, celebrated pop artist Claes Oldenburg shot a series of short films, most notably the prosaically (and provisionally) entitled Statue of Turning Woman Being Installed in Front of Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles. Likely screened publicly only once (if at all) in the context of the artist's 1969 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Oldenburg's thirteen-minute movie nonetheless represents a certain culmination to the little-known and little-investigated cinematic endeavors that he pursued throughout the decade. Drawing upon unpublished research from Oldenburg's studio archives, this illustrated lecture attempts to flesh out Oldenburg's cinematic interests and pursuitsincluding collaborations and interactions with filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, Ron Rice, John Jones, and George Manupellias they relate to his more well-known happenings, pop sculptures, and proposals for fantastic monuments (many of which will be on view in Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store, opening at MoMA on April 14). Only slightly better-known than Oldenburg's interest in film is the variety of sexually suggestive writings, drawings, and collages he produced in the mid-sixties, works that relate integrally to the production and significance of Turning Woman. When placed back into its proper context, Oldenburg's modest Turning Woman film emerges as a pivotal work within the development and transformation of his aesthetic at the turn of the decade. A screening of Turning Woman (on digital transfer), arranged by permission of the artist, will accompany the lecture. - Branden W. Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University and author of books on Tony Conrad (Zone, 2008), Anthony McCall (Steidl, 2005), and Robert Rauschenberg (MIT, 2003). His most recent book, The Roh and the Cooked: Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant in Europe (August Verlag, 2012) derives from a lecture originally delivered at Light Industry in 2009. - FREE - Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. 4/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN See notes for April 25, 8 pm. 4/30 San Francisco, California: San Francisco International Film Festival http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=54489~8781fb85-6bb2-474d-a97d-cec76d1b8c32&epguid=db9c7f13-edc8-489f-bc28-5aa111f9970e&; 7pm, New People CInema, 1746 Post (near Webster) in Japantown EXPERIMENTAL: ARTIFACTS AND ARTIFICIAL ACTS See Saturday, April 27 for details. ---------------------- WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 ---------------------- 5/1 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 7pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floo AXWFF SALUTES MM SERRA & THE FILM-MAKERS COOPERATIVE ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, Salutes MM Serra & the Film-Makers' Cooperative, Curated by Lili White - Wednesday May 1st, 2013 at 7:00pm - Film-Makers' Cooperative Charles S. Cohen Screening Room - Suggested Donation: $10 - - PROGRAM - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON\; Maya Deren - - The HOUSE of the GENTLE (excerpt)\; Lili White - - MILK AND GLASS\; Sarah Pucill - - BITCH BEAUTY\; MM Serra - - MISSING GREEN\; Joey Huertas aka Jane Public - #1\; Rie Sakaguchi-Nakaoka - - TIDES\; Amy Greenfield\; Camera: Hilary Harris - - FIREFLY\; Dariya Yalova\; Featuring Olga Alimanovic - - http://axwff.com, http://film-makerscoop.com --------------------- THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013 --------------------- 5/2 Cambridge, MA: Mass Art Film Society 6:30, Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square Building 1900 "THAT'S A WRAP!" FILM/VIDEO SENIOR SHOW "THAT'S A WRAP!" Come enjoy the Massart Film/Video class of 2013's final show at the Kendall Theater. - Show starts at 6:30pm, This is a FREE event and all are welcomed to come! 5/2 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. OPEN SCREEN Our cinematic free-for-all dares you to share your film with the feisty EPFC audience. Any genre! Any style! New, old, work-in-progress! First come, first screened; one film per filmmaker; 10-minute maximum. DVD, VHS, mini-DV, DV-CAM, Super 8, standard 8mm, 16mm. $5 5/2 New York, NY: New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/node/197516?lref=55%2Fcalendar 6pm, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza LILI WHITE'S EXPERI-DOC FEATURE: FOOL'S GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROADTRIP IN AN ELECTION YEAR Lili White will screen and discuss her film Fool's Gold: California Roadtrip in an Election Year (2012). 5/2 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema http://www.cjcinema.org/ 8:30, passage goublier, 41 rue du faubourg st martin, 75010 MAY THE ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU PROJECTIONS DE FILMS DE MOIRA TIERNEY TOURNÃS EN SUPER 8 DANS LES RUES DE LA NOUVELLE-ORLÃANS ET DE DUBLIN + PERFORMANCE LIVE DE MACADARA SMITH - - ENTRÃE LIBRE - PROGRAMME: - 20h30 > APÃRO, 21h00 > PERFORMANCE DE MACDARA SMITH, 21h30 > COURTS-MÃTRAGES DE MOIRA TIERNEY PERFORMANCE: Macdara Smith live : mélange de déclamations, de trompette et de réflexions sur les Renards, s'adaptant plus ou moins aux présences humaines et urbaines. - FILMS: Une sélection de courts-métrages tournés en Super-8mm par Moira Tierney à Dublin et en Nouvelle-Orléans, notamment "SHOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME" (filmé avec les Mardi Gras Indians en 2012) et "INVENT THE FUTURE" (clip avec le rappeur Truth Universal), mais aussi en avant-première mondiale le film THE SHINING EMERALD (WE HAVE MOVED)...et un clip youtube de la meilleure rappeuse irlandaise du moment : Tempermental Misselayneous, sur sa terre natale à Finglas, Dublin.http://www.cjcinema.org/ ------------------- FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013 ------------------- 5/3 Chicago, IL: The Nightingale 8pm, The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee THE SOFT ESCAPE: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON The NIGHTINGALE is delighted to host Michael Robinson in person to present a program of (mostly) recent film and video work along with a few incidental clips of inspiration and ephemera. Interested in both the texture of film grain and video artifact, Robinson's work plays with formal concerns, but move offer more than that .Robinson elegantly mines a collective nostalgia surrounding popular culture, often serving up brief bursts of transcendent emotionality embedded in our shared media consumption.Program Details: And We All Shine On (2006, 7min, 16) - These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (2010, 13min, dv) - Chiquitita and the Soft Escape (2003, 10min, 16) - Light Is Waiting (2007, 11min, dv) - If There Be Thorns (2009, 13.5min, dv) - Line Describing Your Mom (2011, 6min, dv) - Victory Over the Sun (2007, 12.5min, 16) - and others TBD - Michael Robinson (b.1981) is a film and video artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. 5/3 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. MADY SCHUTZMAN'S DEAR COMRADE Dear Comrade is a feature length, documentary essay film inspired by the creation of Llano del Rio (191418), one of California's most successful secular cooperative colonies. The film documents this collective enterprise through a tour of the California ruins, photos and recollections of local historians and residents, voices of former colonists, and scholars of California history. However, the primary focus of the film resides not so much in the past as in the musings, questions, courage, frustrations, fantasies, and labors of many before and after Llano who have assumed comparable struggles - to forego economic and political security to craft an alternative society. Through the intersection of stories, a seemingly traditional documentary film morphs into a montage of parallel universes, historical re-enactments, clownery, political commentary, and a palpable desirefailings and disappointments notwithstandingto give idealism and cooperation another try. Mady Schutzman is a writer, theatre artist, and filmmaker. She is a practitioner of the work of Augusto Boal and co-editor of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism (1994) and A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics (2006). Her creative non-fiction has been published in several journals including The Drama Review, Black Clock, and Theatre Topics. Her stageplay UPSET!a Brechtian comedy about Rodney King and the L.A. uprisingswon an Ovation Award in 2006. Dear Comrade is the first film that Mady has directed and produced. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts and USC. Screening followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Rebecca Baron and Adele Horne! 5/3 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA by Martina Kudláček 2012, 233 min, digital video U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! FILMMAKER AND KUBELKA IN PERSON! Presented with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; special thanks to Andreas Stadler & Hannah Liko. Having previously created fascinating documentary portraits of seminal avant-garde figures Maya Deren and Marie Menken, Martina Kudláček has turned her sights on Peter Kubelka, the legendary Austrian filmmaker, theorist, lecturer, and cook, not to mention AFA co-founder. And the result is her most ambitious film yet, an expansive yet focused 4-hour immersion in Kubelka's work, theories, personality, and sensibility. While Kubelka's radical and pioneering body of films is a highly condensed work of little more than an hour, his lectures are legendary for their extended length. In Kudláček's film these drawn-out presentations on 'what is cinema' and 'cooking as an art form' are frequently illuminated by archaeological objects from Kubelka's eclectic collection. He considers his ongoing collecting to be an expanded film practice that explores the evolution of humanity. Delving deeply into the numerous, incredibly varied, and yet gracefully integrated facets of Kubelka's life, FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA is both a vibrant portrait of a unique and legendary figure and a penetrating inquiry into his views on cinema, art, and experience. "Martina's film on Kubelka is the best film on any artist that I've ever seen. The trick she used was so simple and so difficult: she kept herself out of it. What she gave us is pure Kubelka." Jonas Mekas "Kudláček invites us to an intimate meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach, or equivalent, and speaking our language. Stan Brakhage of the conspicuous ego considered him the greatest filmmaker. I'm content when anyone hits their stride Oscar Micheaux! and he's surely the greatest Peter Kubelka we could have, he who taught us how damn interesting perfection could be." Ken Jacobs "How do you portray a Renaissance man? With the perseverance of a skilled Nature filmmaker, Kudláček observed Peter Kubelka for many years with her hand-held camera and gave him all the time in the world to expose us to his unfolding vision. As a result she presents a four-hour masterpiece about one of the most influential artists in film history and one of the most original thinkers and critics of our times." Peter Tscherkassky Both Martina Kudláček and Peter Kubelka will be here in person! Check http://fragmentsofkubelka.org/ 5/3 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum http://www.nwfilmforum.org 8:00PM, 1515 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 THE BUILT WORLD At the edge of Rio de Janeiro, the glittering monument to Brazil's rise in the world of global capitalism, stands another monument: a giant edifice, full of light. It's divided symmetrically down the middle. Doctors and technicians walk in and out of the same side every day, but nobody walks in the other. It's a ruin, an ambiguous space that could have been anything but was never occupied. A casually unlocked door in the hospital leads into the facility's collapsing mirror image, an enigma that directors Csekö and Urano explore in this mystery movie of societal proportions. --------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013 --------------------- 5/4 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. NO MAN'S ZONE BY TOSHI FUJIWARA The 40 year old nuclear power station on the coast of Fukushima went into crisis after being struck by the tsunami on March 11th 2011. Within 24 hours, evacuation order was proclaimed to the surrounding 20 km area. The new documentary by Toshi Fujiwara is a journey within this No Man's Zone and the surrounding regions around it where people continue to live, as well as a journey into time and history when the film encounters with the people who have or will be evacuated, those who have no choice but to continue to live nearby. No Man's Zone (2011) 104 minutes, video, color, Japanese/English. Filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara in person! 5/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm, b&w/color) ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm, b&w) SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min, 35mm, b&w/color) ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm, b&w) OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm) PAUSE (1977, 12 min, 16mm) POETRY AND TRUTH / DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT (2003, 13 min, 35mm) "Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker which is to say, simply: see his films! by all means/above all else etcetera." Stan Brakhage Total running time: ca. 65 min. 5/4 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/4 New York, New York: Millennium Film Journal / Workshop http://mfj-online.org 8:30 pm, Grahame Weinbren Studio, 119 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL NO. 57 PUBLICATION SCREENING Screening to celebrate the publication of Millennium Film Journal No. 57... Program consists of works discussed in the issue, including: Catherine Elwes: There is a Myth (UK,1984); Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel: I Am Micro (India, 2011); Noe Kidder: Kuíuipo (USA, 2013); Anna Marziano: The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some (Italy, 2011); Pat O'Neill: Ojo Calientes (USA, 2012); Jennifer Proctor: A Movie by Jen Proctor (USA 2010-12); and some 1970s single channel videos by Tony Oursler... Admission: $14.00 includes copy of MFJ 57; $8.00 admission only. 5/4 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St MEGAN PRELINGERS ELECTRONICS AND THE MODERN CENTURY + Archivist, author, and Prelinger Library principal, Megan Prelinger graces us again with an hr.-long W-i-P slideshow on the visualization of 20th Century electronic technology. Anticipating her forthcoming book, Megan has unearthed modernist artists who ushered in the Electronic Age with their visionary graphics, demonstrating that design and technology were mutual contextualizers in the mid-century modern era. After her fascinating show-and-tell, these post-war 16mm films also bear on tonight's theme: IBM's 1953 Piercing the Unknown, the supremely campy 1945 Principles of Electricity, Philco's 1967 Year 1999, and even a outrageous clip of Orson Welles in the seminal Future Shock. ------------------- SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013 ------------------- 5/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue PETER KUBELKA PROGRAM See notes for May 4, 5:15 pm. 5/5 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA See notes for May 3, 7 pm. 5/5 San Francisco, California: Lost Weekend Video 7 pm, 1034 Valencia Street BAY AREA CINE SALON Bay Area Cine Salon $6 EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. OLD and NEW. HISTORIC and AHISTORIC. The Bay Area Cine Salon presents contemporary works by local film-makers working with analogue film along side a selection of shorts celebrating Mayday and social justice. Come see works by Bruce Baillie, Robert Nelson, Charles Chadwick, Zach Van Joo, Zach Iannazzi, Nawneet Ranjan and Eric Stewart. 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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