This week [August 23 - 31, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2014)
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FLEXFest (Gainesville, FL, USA; Deadline: October 25, 2014)
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Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA; Deadline: September 19, 2014)
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BELOIT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: August 31, 2014)
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Alchemy Festival Touring Programme: Works from
Scotland (Hawick, Scotland, UK; Deadline: September 01, 2014)
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MADATAC (Madrid, SPAIN; Deadline: September 08, 2014)
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Anchorage Museum of Art (Anchorage, AK United
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2014 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving
Image (Johnson City, NY, USA; Deadline: August 24, 2014)
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Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: September 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Recent videos By Suzy Poling [August 23, Los Angeles, California]
* Archival Finds [August 23, Washington, DC]
* Russell Etchen Presents An Breakpoint [August 24, Austin, TX]
* Essential Cinema: Crockwell/Grant/Jacobs &
Fleischner Program [August 24, New York, New York]
* Sential Cinema: Jerome Hill Program [August 24, New York, New York]
* Maya Deren's A Study In Choreography For Camera + Sharon Lockhart's
Goshogaoka [August 26, Brooklyn, NY]
* La Air: Alee Peoples [August 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
[August 28, New York, New York]
* The Message Is Medium (At Best) ... A
Yearning For Learning [August 30, Los Angeles, California]
* Revitalization [August 30, Washington, DC]
* Filmmobile Presents: Film Farm 20th
Anniversary Show [August 31, Los Angeles, California]
* Metamorphasis [August 31, Washington, DC]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014
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8/23
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
RECENT VIDEOS BY SUZY POLING
A screening of recent video work by Los Angeles-based artists and
musician Suzy Poling. These new short pieces incorporate sonic
resonances, technological interferences, transcendental procedures,
natural phenomenon, ecological uniformity, regeneration and
degeneration. Poling has had solos shows at Cal Poly University, Queen's
Nails Projects, Disjecta, Krowswork, ZG Gallery and DNJ Gallery. Along
with making art for exhibition, Poling is a freelance fashion
photographer and makes abstract silkscreened clothing.
8/23
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2:30pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall
ARCHIVAL FINDS
This program presents only the unique or unusual archival findings of
very rarely screened 16 mm prints. Titles include In Marin County (Peter
Hutton, 1970) and Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (Gunvor Nelson and
Dorothy Wiley, 1971), among others. (Total running time approximately 95
minutes)
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014
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8/24
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7:30pm, The Museum of Human Achievement
RUSSELL ETCHEN PRESENTS AN BREAKPOINT
AN BREAKPOINT - An evening of experimental, found and transgressive film
- An event curated by Russell Etchen - An opportunity 1. MEMORIAL DAY
2000 - found footage edited by Carly Ptak, 22 min. (2000) - 2. THE
URGENCY - video by Jacob Ciocci with music by Extreme Animals, 35 min.
(2013) - 3. AIR CONDITIONING - by Giuseppe Andrews, 84 min. (2005)- 1.
Found Memorial Day weekend home movie footage. - 2. "These files
have been burning a hole on my hard drive for too
longâI have been working/adding to/deleting parts of
these videos for different formats, versions and contexts for almost 3
years! These videos can be considered video essays, music videos, works
of abstract animation, or YouTube junk, depending on your perspective.
From my perspective the entire 35-minute compilation is my most recent
attempt at grappling with life in contemporary USA. I hope you will
download and share. Thanks!" - http://www.jacobciocci.org/ - 3.
"Latuga is a desperate woman living a desperate life. Divorced from
fancy suit store owner Classe, she is forced to live in a small studio
apartment and care for the couple's ex-heroin addict son Puzo. The boy,
obsessed with a toy barbecue pit, is always on the verge of some
horrific act. In order to earn money, Latuga services her ex-husband's
needs. Most of the time, that means picking up a rifle and killing the
homeless bums that hang out in front of his shop. At other instances,
it's something far more perverted. Meanwhile, Frisco and his deformed
brother Defetto avoid Latuga's gunfire while coming up with a plan to
get off the street. The solution? Marry someone of means and get a free
pass to a place with the ultimate in live-in
luxuryâ¦air conditioning. Naturally, Frisco winds up
wooing Latuga, and they are quickly wed. When Classe finds out about the
situation, he's livid. Such anger sparks Puzo into an act of violence.
Fate, however, has a different plan for all of them."
8/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CROCKWELL/GRANT/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Douglass Crockwell THE LONG BODIES (1949, 6 min, 16mm) GLEN 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. Dwinell Grant COMPOSITION #2 CONTRATHEMIS (1941, 5
min, 16mm, silent) "An attempt to develop visual abstract themes and to
counterpoint them in a planned, formal composition." D.G. STOP MOTION
TESTS (1942, 3 min, 16mm, silent) A self-portrait. COLOR SEQUENCE (1943,
3 min, 16mm, silent) "Pure solid-color frames which fade, mutate and
flicker. A research into color rhythms and perceptual phenomena."
William Moritz Ken Jacobs LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS (1959-63, 18 min,
16mm. With Jack Smith.) "Material was cut in as it came out of the
camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on
old 78s. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and an art
where suffering was acknowledged but not trivialized with dramatics.
Whimsy was our achievement, as well as breaking out of step." K.J. Ken
Jacobs & Bob Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 min, 16-to-35mm
blow-up, b&w/color. With Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the
generous support of The Film Foundation. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic
narrative no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time
for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a
man of imagination suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation
and consumed with American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying,
guilt-strictured and yet triumphing on one level over the situation
with style
enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to
dismiss us with a regal 'screw off.'" K.J. Total running time: ca. 85
min.
8/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SENTIAL CINEMA: JEROME HILL PROGRAM
These 35mm prints are the result of a recent preservation project
undertaken by the Museum of Modern Art. DEATH IN THE FORENOON (1934/66,
2 minutes, 35mm, color) CANARIES (1969, 4 minutes, 35mm, color) & FILM
PORTRAIT 1971, 81 minutes, 35mm, color. A pioneering work in
autobiographical cinema; masterfully combines actual and staged footage
and painting over images. Filmmaker, painter, and composer Jerome Hill
was descended from the famous railroad-building family and lived on the
same street with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Here he re-creates wonderfully
with old family footage the period and milieu of the American upper
class at the beginning of this century. Total running time: ca. 90
minutes.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2014
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8/26
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman St.
MAYA DEREN'S A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA + SHARON LOCKHART'S
GOSHOGAOKA
A Study in Choreography for Camera, Maya Deren, 1945, 16mm, 3 mins,
Goshogaoka, Sharon Lockhart, 1997, 16mm, 63 mins - "The space of the
field, the ritual temple and the theater stage have been, historically,
a place within which dancers moved," Maya Deren wrote in a 1960 program
note on her films. "But cinema provides a different order of space, is
able to create a different kind of time, can even cause the human body
to perform inhuman movement. These choreographies for camera are not
dances recorded by the camera, they are dances choreographed for and
performed by the camera and human beings together." Made with dancer
Talley Beatty, A Study in Choreography for Camera presents a supreme
distillation of Deren's theory. In the brief but potent film, Deren
shows Beatty pirouetting and leaping through impossible
geographiesa forest, a living room, among statuary at the
Methis movements heightened and in some cases elongated by Deren's
vividly mobile camera and percussive montage. "Together," Deren
described, "the dancer and the space perform a dance which cannot exist
but on film." - Yet, as demonstrated in Sharon Lockhart's debut feature
Goshogaoka, there can also be a choreographic dimension to the fixed
camera and the extended take. In 1996, Lockhart decided to make a film
while on a residency in a suburb of Tokyo. "I was well aware of the
problems of filming in another culture and had had begun to think about
the way ethnographic film works within an art context," she told scholar
Scott MacDonald in a later interview. Lockhart ultimately found the
setting for her piece while cycling past a gymnasium: "I went in to
look, and there it was: a gym with a stage with a red curtain at one
end, and girls playing basketball. I thought, âTheater
and documentary, an American sport in Japanthis is perfect.' It
just clicked. I immediately realized the potential of the raised stage
and how it mirrored the cinema space, and how it would be a constant
reminder of staging and fiction." Lockhart then worked with a local high
school girls' basketball team and choreographer Stephen Galloway to
transform the students' everyday warm-up exercises into a mesmerizing
set of visual patterns, exacting and elegant in their design yet
humanizing in the subtle imperfections of their execution. Across six
10-minute shots, each static and unbroken, the team's preparation for a
game becomes an aesthetic end in itself, a performance just outside the
theatrical proscenium, punctuated by soft counting-out chants and the
echoing thumps of synchronized footsteps. Here the emphasis lays not on
the expressive potential of camera movement and editing, but rather on
the relationship between a subject and its framing, both in time and
space. As with Deren, this too is a dance which cannot exist but on
film.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014
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8/28
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
LA AIR: ALEE PEOPLES
LA AIR is an artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles
filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a
four-week period. This month's resident is Alee Peoples. She describes
her project: "In continuing my work with boiling down words into symbols
I am using the 'unslit' 4-frame format of double 8 film to translate the
lyrics of a recognizable pop song into pictures. Hand-drawn images and
letters will stand in for words and phonetic puns that will project
along to the rhythm of an absent song. My interest in text and symbols
has led me to create posters, sculptures and public installations based
around the cognitive moment of understanding. Usually this part of my
art practice does not overlap with my experimental films so I'm always
pumped when they do decide to hold hands. Come see if you can figure out
what song you're looking at!" The evening will include a reception for
the artist. Free event!
8/28
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON
by Ken Jacobs 1969, 115 minutes, 16mm An absolute masterpiece from one
of the most inspiring innovators of modern cinema. "Original 1905 film
shot and probably directed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer, rescued via a paper
print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress. It is
most reverently examined here, absolutely loved, with a new movie,
almost as a side effect, coming into being." K.J.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2014
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8/30
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
THE MESSAGE IS MEDIUM (AT BEST) ... A YEARNING FOR LEARNING
Delving deep into dark recesses of the vaults of Smokehouse Films,
archivist/filmmaker John Cannizzaro together with actor/singer/writer
Gia Mora have gathered together a mind-popping, eye-blowing spectacle of
campy educationals, bizarre documentaries, and just plain WACKY films
for your entertainment and learning pleasure. Come laugh, cry, scream,
act, and interact with these rare and remarkable gemsall projected on
glorious 16mm filmjust like when you were in school. Class
participation is a must! Refreshments and recess will be provided.
8/30
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
2pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall
REVITALIZATION
The decade of the 1990s was important for Canyon Cinema. A new
generation of artists' works in 16 mm film resulted in a dynamic
resurgence of film art and exhibition during that time. Moving into the
new millennium, this program features films by Eve Heller, David Gatten,
Naomi Uman, Tomonari Nishikawa, and others. (Total running time
approximately 90 minutes)
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2014
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8/31
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, Corner of Echo Park Ave. & Park Ave.
FILMMOBILE PRESENTS: FILM FARM 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
For 20 years The Independent Imaging Retreat or `Film Farm' has been
developing a hands-on, artisanal approach to filmmaking that is far
removed from the costly, hierarchical and inaccessible industrial model.
Each summer it brings to Mount Forest Ontario a small group of
interested filmmakers some novices and some highly experienced for
an intensive week of shooting, hand-processing, tinting/toning, watching
and editing film -- most of the action taking place in and around an old
barn on the Normanby Township property, in rural Ontario. The Film Farm
L.A. 20th Anniversary Show includes early and recent films (16mm and
digital), and concentrates its light on those `film farmers' who have
graced the west coast scene with their exquisite, playful and committed
works on celluloid. As such we will be screening such works as Helen
Hill's sweet present to husband Paul, Your New Pig is Down the Road
(1999), Trixy Sweetvittles infamously camp Mermaids and Pickles (1999)
and Maia Cybelle Carpenter's sensitive study of women at work at the
`Film Farm', Working Portraits(2005). The program also contains
wonderfully diverse works by Chris Chong, Clint Enns, Lisa Marr, Pouyan
Jafarizadeh, Deirdre Logue, John Porter, Brenda Longfellow, Lillah Halla
and Jennifer Reeves. Philip Hoffman FREE EVENT! PHIL HOFFMAN AND FILM
FARM FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE! LOCATION: ECHO PARK, CORNER OF ECHO PARK
AVE and PARK AVE., LA 90026.
8/31
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
4pm, National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets, West Building Lecture Hall
METAMORPHASIS
A glimpse into newer films by artists whose work has been the bedrock of
Canyon Cinema as well as of filmmakers working in their influential
lineage. The program includes Sources (Rose Lowder, 2012); Entr'acte
(Lawrence Jordan, 2013); and Little Girl (1966/2013) by Bruce Baillie.
(Total running time approximately 90 minutes)
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