This week [August 10 - 18, 2013] in avant garde cinema To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly listing, go to http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/mailto.pl?mailto=subscribe or send an email to weeklylist...@hi-beam.net.
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 CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 25, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1618.ann Experiments in Cinema v9.72 (Albuquerque, New Mexico; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1619.ann Punto y Raya Festival (Barcelona, Spain; Deadline: October 28, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1620.ann Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deadline: November 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1621.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Kinofilm: Manchester International Short Film Festival (Manchester, United Kingdom; Deadline: August 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1597.ann danubeVIDEOARTfestival (Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1599.ann Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (Innsbruck, Austria; Deadline: August 31, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1600.ann The 8 Fest Small-Gauge Film Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1601.ann Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival (Chicago, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1602.ann ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residencies Portugal (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1607.ann Last 2013 Call for Artists (multidisciplinary) (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1609.ann 13 at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: August 16, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1616.ann Artisans at Work (Toronto; Deadline: August 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1617.ann Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 25, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1618.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): ============================== * Rolls (1971) By Robert Huot [August 10, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Zvenigora [August 10, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: the Parson's Widow [August 10, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Vampyr [August 10, New York, New York] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Who Killed Cock Robin? [August 11, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Day of Wrath [August 11, New York, New York] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Kadet Kuhne [August 11, Oakland] * Essential Cinema: the Passion of Joan of Arc [August 12, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Ordet [August 13, New York, New York] * Stop It You're Killing Me! [August 14, New York, NY] * Barbara Hammer's Audience + Cecilia Dougherty's Gay Tape: Butch and Femme [August 15, Brooklyn, NY] * Dutch Absurdism [August 15, Los Angeles, California] * Stein Times--Moving Image Poetics= Screening Event! [August 16, Brooklyn, NY] * Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Far From Afghanistan (Los Angeles Premiere!) [August 18, Los Angeles, California] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ------------------------- SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2013 ------------------------- 8/10 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St ROLLS (1971) BY ROBERT HUOT $5 / Painter, filmmaker, and dairy farmer Robert Huot made a series of landmark diary pieces beginning in 1970, spanning different media (including painting) throughout the decade, but ROLLS (1971) stands as one of his very greatest. Hailed by critic Scott MacDonald as an astonishing work that was "unlike any I'd seen to that point, an aggressively personal film shot with formal rigor and elegance and organized into an ingenious structure," ROLLS (1971) is extremely rarely seen, and a major work of the American personal film movement. Rolls (1971) by Robert Huot, 1971, 16mm, b/w & color, silent, 97 minutes. We will be screening Huot's personal 16mm print. No one under 18 admitted. 8/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ZVENIGORA by Alexandr Dovzhenko No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928, 96 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent Dovzhenko's second film, attacked by Soviet critics for being so beautifully rendered as to actually lessen its political impact, remains today a "cinematic poem" as the director named it. Episodic, folkloric, and allegorical, it is a mythic search for hidden treasure by two brothers. Dovzhenko wrote: "I did not so much make the picture as sing it out like a songbird." 8/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PARSON'S WIDOW by Carl Th. Dreyer No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1921, 78 min, 35mm, b&w, silent (PRASTANKAN) A lyrical, early Dreyer comedy. A young parson wins a plum parish in 17th century Norway, but is obliged to marry the widow of his deceased predecessor and pretend his attractive young fiancée is his sister. The master's touch is evident in the close-ups of the pastor's would-be rivals and parishioners and a slow pan presaging the 360-degree views of VAMPYR. 8/10 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: VAMPYR by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1931-32, 70 min, 35mm, b&w "Imagine that we are sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR." Carl Dreyer ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2013 ----------------------- 8/11 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson in person! "Travis Wilkerson's first feature, following up on the lyrical agitprop of his Butte, Montana documentary AN INJURY TO ONE, portrays the life of a rootless teenager in the same dead-end town: shoplifting, hanging out in abandoned mines, grappling with the decline of employment prospects and labor movements. A bold and unfashionable film in every sense, not least its earnest political stand." Dennis Lim -- Top 10 Overlooked Sundance Films Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/434788 or by cash or check at the door. Event website: http://lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-2013-schedule/who-killed-cock-rob in/ Screening: National Archive Vol. 1 (2001, color, sound, 15 min), Who Killed Cock Robin (2005/2010, color, sound, 70 min. first screening since 2005!) 8/11 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: DAY OF WRATH by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with English subtitles, 1943, 100 min, 35mm, b&w (VREDENS DAG) "Carl Dreyer's art begins to unfold at the point where most other directors give up. Witchcraft and martyrdom are his themes but his witches don't ride broomsticks, they ride the erotic fears of their persecutors. It is a world that suggests a dreadful fusion of Hawthorne and Kafka." Pauline Kael 8/11 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 8-9PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St, Oakland, CA SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS KADET KUHNE Kadet will be premiering "Quantum Tunneling," a new video piece about penetrating barriers, along with her videos "Rebound" and "Fight or Flight." In addition to scoring these works live, she will score to a premiere screening of a Super 8 film short by Paul Clipson, and video shorts "In Motion" by Alba G. Corral (based in Spain) and "Unseen Sync" by Krystof Pesek (based in Bohemia) who both use Processing software to generate their images. Hilary Reed and Suki O'Kane will be joining as collaborating musicians. ----------------------- MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013 ----------------------- 8/12 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC by Carl Th. Dreyer No English intertitles (English synopsis available), 1927-28, 98 min, 35mm, b&w, silent (LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC) A work that exemplifies Dreyer's philosophy: simplicity is the most complex idea of all. Although renowned for its spare acts, lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots, Dreyer's masterpiece reveals the natural complexity of an un-retouched face (often existing alone, filling up the frame) and a landscape of history as individual as the lines on that face. Made in 1927-28, it continues to haunt the cinema, looking more and more avant-garde as the years go by. ------------------------ TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 ------------------------ 8/13 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORDET by Carl Th. Dreyer In Danish with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1955, 132 min, 35mm, b&w (THE WORD) An existential morality essay by the master of the long take, in which a man who believes he is Jesus Christ soon begins to convince those around him. Based on the play by Kaj Munk, ORDET is a meditation on faith and fanaticism. -------------------------- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013 -------------------------- 8/14 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 7:30pm, 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor STOP IT YOU'RE KILLING ME! This program will feature underseen 16mm shorts from FMC's collection. Playful, satirical, darkly comedic & silly, all the films have a sense of humor. - Featuring the work of Yvonne Andersen, Sara Kathryn Arledge, Emily Breer, Martha Colburn, Cyndi Haas, Abbie Herrick, Sharon Sandusky and more! - $10 (suggested) donation to benefit the FMC. - Programmed by Katie Bradshaw. ------------------------- THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013 ------------------------- 8/15 Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:30pm, 155 Freeman Street BARBARA HAMMER'S AUDIENCE + CECILIA DOUGHERTY'S GAY TAPE: BUTCH AND FEMME Audience, Barbara Hammer, 16mm, 1982, 33 mins, Gay Tape: Butch and Femme, Cecilia Dougherty, video, 1985, 27 mins - Light Industry presents a double-bill of sapphic autoethnography from the 1980s, featuring work by pioneering lesbian artists Barbara Hammer and Cecilia Dougherty. - Barbara Hammer's Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director's prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer's work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Instead, it comes closer to the original ideal of cinéma vérité as seen in Chronicle of a Summer\; informed by the consciousness-raising groups of the feminist movement, the artist herself acts as a catalyst for discussion, rather than fly-on-the-wall observer. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity\; the London crowd more reserved and tentative\; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure in lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation. - Cecilia Dougherty's first video, made while she was a student at Berkeley, Gay Tape: Butch and Femme applies "a little fine-tuning" to the question of representation, honing in on the subjective particularities of the butch-femme dynamic as experienced by members of Dougherty's local Bay Area dating pool. 8/15 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St DUTCH ABSURDISM The proximity of the famous Keystone studios to the Echo Park Film Center inspired Dutch experimental filmmaker Karel Doing to select a historical program of short experimental films from the Netherlnads. The rough physical action and gags typical of the early Keystone films may have inspired some of the Dutch filmmakers. Their biting absurdism is often used as a critical tool towards small mindedness and false moralism. Be prepared for some unsettling works of art. Program includes Tulips by Wim van der Linden, Tarting Over by Paul de Nooijer, El Cardenalby Henri Plaat, Oot Oak Aas by Paul de Mol, De Blikvanger (The Eyecatcher) by Frederieke Jochems, Living by Frans Zwartjes, Touring Holland by Bicycle by Paul de Nooijer, Kano (Rood) [Canoe (Red)] by Jeroen Eisinga, and Backward by Erik Wesselo. All works on 16mm. ----------------------- FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2013 ----------------------- 8/16 Brooklyn, NY: GRIDSPACE 8pm, Rogers Avenue, between Park and Sterling in northern Crown Heights. Take the 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Franklin STEIN TIMES--MOVING IMAGE POETICS= SCREENING EVENT! Jeanne Liotta presents: please join us friday aug 16 at GRIDSPACE for an evening of collaborative video /poetry works!! In celebration of my STEIN TIMES window project , which can also be followed here http://yetdish.blogspot.com/ ----------------------- SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2013 ----------------------- 8/18 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. LOS ANGELES FILMFORUM PRESENTS FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN (LOS ANGELES PREMIERE!) Filmmakers Minda Martin and Travis Wilkerson in person! Filmforum is delighted to host the Los Angeles premiere of a remarkable omnibus film from five extraordinary filmmakers and a collective of young Afghan media journalists. FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN forms a mosaic of cinematic approaches to take a critical look at the longest overseas war in U.S. history. Inspired by the 1967 collaborative film LOIN DU VIETNAM (Far from Vietnam), FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN likewise unites a variety of filmmakers, cinematographers, editors and technicians in the international effort to redirect U.S. policy away from military and political intervention toward true humanitarian and developmental care-giving as invited. Event website: http://lafilmforum.org/schedule/summer-2013-schedule/far-from-afghanista n/ Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/434805 or by cash or check at the door. FAR FROM AFGHANISTAN (2012, US/Afghanistan, color, sound, 129 min.) A film by John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, and Travis Wilkerson In collaboration with Afghan Voices 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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