This week [June 28 - July 6, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Visions - A Microfestival of the Uncanny [June 28, Brooklyn, New York]
* New Works Salon: Harrison, Lafountain,
Pescador, Syms [June 28, Los Angeles, California]
* Francophrenia (Or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), Directed By
Ian Olds & James Franco [June 28, Pesaro, Italy]
* A Shorts Trip Through Italy: Ideas of Order In Cinque Terre / Light Plate
/ Rhinoceros [June 28, Pesaro, Italy]
* Private Eye Productions Presents [June 28, San Francisco, California]
* Nhdocs: 4 Documentary Features From 4 Local
Filmmakers [June 29, New Haven, CT]
* Sovereign Vampire Squid videos By Australian
Artist Madison Bycroft [June 30, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents: Charles Henri Ford's Johnny
Minotaur [June 30, New York, NY]
* Johnny Minotaur [June 30, New York, New York]
* Hybrids {With Avant Ads} Curated By Bradley
Eros [July 3, Brooklyn, New York]
* Premiere- Kerry Laitala's Solar Furnace [July 5, Berkeley, CA]
* Special Affects: the Films of Lyra Hill [July 5, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2014
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6/28
Brooklyn, New York: The Picture Show
http://thepictureshow.org
8:00pm, 226 Green St.
VISIONS - A MICROFESTIVAL OF THE UNCANNY
Friday & Saturday, June 27th & 28th / 8PM / $5 The Picture Show, 226
Green Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 direct link:
http://thepictureshow.org/screens/2014june/visions thepictureshow.org
The third open call here at The Picture Show, "Visions" is a program
that spans two nights of films which locate the magic, the mythic, the
oneiric, and the existential, in the perceptual realm. From hand
processed celluloid animations of color and light, to video enactments
of people's revelations on the ritual drug ayahuasca, these works are an
aesthetic probing into the worlds of the spiritual and the self. This
evening's lineup includes: Robert Todd, Dan Browne, Ben Skea, Ajon
Srivardhana Kibreab, Ryan Dight, Christina Kolozsvary, Richard Ashrowan,
P�ter Lichter, and Mike Morris.
6/28
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
NEW WORKS SALON: HARRISON, LAFOUNTAIN, PESCADOR, SYMS
The New Works Salons series is a casual forum for the presentation and
discussion of new works in film and video, with local and visiting
artists in-person to introduce their work. Paul Pescador will show his
Yellow and Turquoise, the first piece of a five part film titled
Color/d. The film examines the subject of social and physical dependence
through four different story lines. Through the use of stop-motion
animation, dialogue and narrative, Yellow and Turquoise produces a
complex network of images and interactions about personal experience.
Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles,
California who grew up going to punk shows and watching lots of
television. Her work focuses on the way that identity and memory are
transformed by the shifting boundaries of business and culture. She will
be showing a Super 8 film commissioned by Echo Park Film Center in
celebration of our 12-year anniversary, titled L'Inventaire (2014, 3
minutes), along with an in-progress set of videos, Untitled (Lesson
1�5). Eve LaFountain will show her film Conversation Pieces: A Swan
Song. LaFountain's most ambitious film work to date maps her maternal
grandmother Louise's move into a senior citizen building and traces the
dismantling and inheritance of her life's collections. The tale
transitions from great love stories in World War II, followed by the
next generation involved in inter-racial marriage, then leading to the
child of Jewish and Native American mixed heritage who walks a fine line
blending cultures to establish her identity. As her mother says in the
film, this is how the world is changing. Conversation Pieces: A Swan
Song fluidly tells the story of one family's transitions throughout the
generations from the perspective of the women. This film will be shown
along with recent works by other artists to be announced on 16mm about
family, homecomings and reminisces. Vashti Harrison's Field Notes (2014,
16mm), is a visual and aural field guide to paranormal activities on the
island nation of Trinidad told through the voices of one family.
6/28
Pesaro, Italy: Pesaro Film Festival
http://www.pesarofilmfest.it/?lang=en
3 pm & 7:30 pm, Teatro Sperimentale
FRANCOPHRENIA (OR: DON'T KILL ME, I KNOW WHERE THE BABY IS), DIRECTED BY
IAN OLDS & JAMES FRANCO
Francophrenia (2012, 70 min, HDcam) directed by Ian Olds & James Franco.
Documentary filmmaker Ian Olds repurposes behind-the-scenes footage of
Hollywood star James Franco, who portrays a crazed performance artist on
the daytime soap General Hospital, and the result is a portrait steeped
in dark humor. "The project consisted of re-editing the footage shot by
Franco's team in such a way as to preserve its disturbing power and at
the time adapt it to the concept that our narrative idea wanted to
imposed upon it." (Ian Olds).--Part of the program, "A Panorama of
American Experimental Narratives in the New Millennium."
6/28
Pesaro, Italy: Pesaro Film Festival
http://www.pesarofilmfest.it/?lang=en
4:30 pm, Cinema Astra
A SHORTS TRIP THROUGH ITALY: IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE / LIGHT PLATE
/ RHINOCEROS
Ideas of Order in Cinque Terre (2005, 32 min, Digital Video) directed by
Ken Kobland. "In November of 2004 I was invited to spend a couple of
weeks in Cinque Terre. Lines, geometry and tones (both sound and color),
became for me the abstract power of the place. And this is what I tried
to relate in my film..." (Ken Kobland ). Light Plate (2012, 10 min,
35mm) directed by Josh Gibson. Beautifully filmed in b/w on 35mm stock
and then hand processed by the filmmaker, the film artfully blends the
natural landscape of Tuscany with the making of pasta by hand.
Rhinoceros (2012, 6 min, DCP) directed by Kevin Jerome Everson.
Rhinoceros involves Alessandro de' Medici making a passionate broadcast
to rally the people of Florence. Shot in the Villa Pietra in Florence in
the summer of 2012, the film resembles a television broadcast in the
last days of Muammar Gaddafi.--Part of the program, "A Panorama of
American Experimental Narratives in the New Millennium."
6/28
San Francisco, California: Private Eye Productions
7pm, 946A Greenwich Street
PRIVATE EYE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
The Third Man by Carol Reed starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten. 16mm
black and white print. Presented along with a rare 15 minute preview of
The Incredible Shrinking Man. Admission is free.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2014
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6/29
New Haven, CT: NH Docs
1pm, Whitney Humanities Center
NHDOCS: 4 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES FROM 4 LOCAL FILMMAKERS
What started as a casual conversation between four New Haven-based
filmmakers at the Big Sky Documentary Film festival in Missoula, Montana
has turned into reality with the first ever NHdocs Film Festival. -
Taking place on Sunday, June 29th on the tail end of the International
Festival of Arts & Ideas, this one-day event will screen four
feature documentaries. Admission is free. And there's even a barbecue
where patrons can rub elbows with the filmmakers. - "Since the demise of
FilmFest New Haven a decade ago," explains Gorman Bechard, one of the
founders , "there has been a desperate need for a film festival in town.
And while this might not completely film that need. At least it is a
start." - The films being screened include three Connecticut premieres.
The schedule runs as follows: - 1:00 The Hill - directed by Lisa Molomot
- a group of African-American neighbors fight to save their homes from
the wrecking ball when the City of New Haven proposes a huge new
construction project on their property. - 2:30 Errol Morris: A Lightning
Sketch produced & co-directed by Charles Musser CONNECTICUT PREMIERE
an intimate look at the famed documentary filmmaker and his films. -
4:00 Tatanka - directed by Jacob Bricca CONNECTICUT PREMIERE the
director confront the enigma that is his father, weaving a sweeping
story about the fate of American idealism and the thin line between
dreams and delusions. - 7:00 Every Everything: the music, life &
times of Grant Hart - directed by Gorman Bechard ââ¬â
CONNECTICUT PREMIERE a rocking portrait of Hüsker
Dü's legendary singer & drummer that presents a
wide-open window into the rock & roll lifestyle, the good, the bad,
and the very ugly. - There will also be a Q&A with each film's
director following each screening, and at 6:00 PM a barbecue with the
filmmakers.
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MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014
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6/30
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
SOVEREIGN VAMPIRE SQUID VIDEOS BY AUSTRALIAN ARTIST MADISON BYCROFT
artist in person. admission $6. Microscope Gallery presents the first
solo screening of works by Australian artist Madison Bycroft on the eve
of her departure from New York. Bycroft who works mainly with video,
performance, and sculpture employs an animist approach to existence in
the world, "rethinking what it means to be a person" and asking how
language or other representations serve to limit human perspective.
Compassion, empathy, and relationship to other are concerns of Bycroft
"in lieu of categorical and colonizing thought". Place and presence is
integral to Bycroft who performs in many of her works. The program
includes a selection of works made over the past two years, including
several completed during her recent residency at International Studio
and Curatorial Project (ISCP) here in New York this year. MADISON
BYCROFT (born 1987, Adelaide, South Australia) completed a Bachelor of
Visual Arts with first class honors at the University of South Australia
in 2012. Bycroft will be featured as one of 13 artists under 35 in the
upcoming exhibit "Primavera" at Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art this
September. Her work will also appear in the 2014 edition of safari, a
side festival to the Sydney Biennale. Bycroft is the recipient of the
2014 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships,
awarded for one year of study overseas in the visual arts to commence
this fall. www.microscopegallery.com, i...@microscopegallery.com, tel:
347.925.1433. Nearest subway J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway
6/30
New York, NY: Filmmakers Coop
http://www.film-makerscoop.com
7:30pm, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave.
THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE PRESENTS: CHARLES HENRI FORD'S JOHNNY
MINOTAUR
The Film-Makers' Cooperative Presents: Charles Henri Ford's Johnny
Minotaur - A Newly Preserved and Rare 16mm Screening at Anthology Film
Archives, 32 2nd Avenue (at E. 2nd St.) $10 General Admission/$8
Students & Seniors - "Surrealist poet and artist Charles Henri
Ford's 1971 film is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest,
intergenerational desire, pansexuality, and autoeroticism are a few of
the issues he grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery,
recitations of his diaries, and a philosophical debate featuring an
impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg,
Warren Sonbert, and Lynne Tillman. Unseen for over two decades, The New
American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative has restored
JOHNNY MINOTAUR and resuscitated this classic of forgotten, queer
cinema, which belongs alongside the films of Kenneth Anger, Derek
Jarman, and Jean Genet." Kyle Harris
6/30
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
JOHNNY MINOTAUR
by Charles Henri Ford 1971, 80 min, 16mm NEWLY PRESERVED! RARE
SCREENING! "Surrealist poet and artist Charles Henri Ford's 1971 film is
a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire,
pansexuality, and autoeroticism are a few of the issues he grapples with
through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries, and a
philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists
as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert, and Lynne Tillman.
Unseen for over two decades, The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The
Film-Makers' Cooperative has restored JOHNNY MINOTAUR and resuscitated
this classic of forgotten, queer cinema, which belongs alongside the
films of Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, and Jean Genet." �Kyle Harris
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THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014
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7/3
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7PM-8:30PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves)
HYBRIDS {WITH AVANT ADS} CURATED BY BRADLEY EROS
works by Oskar Fishinger, Walter Ruttmann, Len Lye, Peter Kubelka, Scott
Bartlett, Victoria Keddie & Scott Kiernan, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Gill
Arno, Jeannie Liotta, Lary 7, Aline Mare, and Bradley Eros admission $6
- Bradley Eros and other artists in person. In connection with his
current solo exhibition at the gallery "eau de cinema: constellations &
contradictions", Bradley Eros presents a special screening event of
historical and present day works, including several of his own
collaborative works. The program focuses on two concepts essential to
his exhibition: "Hybrids", those bridging the distinction or separation
between film and video, as a form of synaesthetic cinema that combines
elements of both, and "Avant Ads", or experimental films made as (often
subversive) advertisements, or (often failed) promotional films. The
"Hybrids" section features "OffOn", the pioneering work by Scott
Bartlett from 1968, including an examination into how it was made as
well as recent works from Victoria Keddie & Scott Kiernan (of ESP Lab),
Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Gill Arno, and Lary 7 as well as Eros' early
collaborations with Aline Mare (as Erotic Psyche) and with Jeanne Liotta
(as Mediamystics), and editing projects with Tim Geraghty. "Avant Ads"
includes classic avant-garde works made as or from TV commercials by
Oskar Fischinger, Walter Ruttmann, Peter Kubelka, and Len Lye, and Eros'
own contemporary anti-ads. BRADLEY EROS is a Brooklyn-based artist
working in multiple mediums. His works have exhibited and screened
extensively in the US and abroad including at The Whitney Biennial, The
Whitney Museum's series The American Century, MoMA, The Andy Warhol
Museum, MoMA PS1, Camden Arts Center (London), Anthology Film Archives,
Arsenal (Berlin), and The New York, London and Rotterdam Film Festivals.
Eros has worked for many years with the Filmmakers' Cooperative,
Anthology Film Archives, & was co-director of the Robert Beck Memorial
Cinema/Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema. i...@microscopegallery.com. tel:
347.925.1433. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Mrytle/Broadway.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014
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7/5
Berkeley, CA: Kala Institute
7:00pm, 2990 San Pablo Ave.
PREMIERE- KERRY LAITALA'S SOLAR FURNACE
Kerry Laitala is premiering a new expanded cinema work dual 16mm
projectors with LIVE sound by Benjamin Bracken and Ashley Bellouin
7/5
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
SPECIAL AFFECTS: THE FILMS OF LYRA HILL
A screening of short films by the Chicago based artist Lyra Hill. Lyra,
who began the performative comix reading series, Brain Frame, in July of
2011, is an all-around-dynamo comix artist/curator, performer, painter,
bookmaker, printer and some how she also finds time to make films. This
selection of work, which recalls the avant-garde tradition of
psychodrama, employs a variety of in-camera special effects techniques.
With great rigor, Lyra's films exhibit a particular control over
filmmaking as craft, while illuminating the possibility of losing one's
self completely. A projector performance involving a tall chair (or
short ladder) will also be featured. Program: House Fuck (2010, 16mm),
The Mystic (2011, 16mm), Untitled (Times For) (2011, Super 9, with Ross
Meckfessel), Go Down (2012, digital projection and performance), Uzi's
Party (2014, work in progress, 16mm to digital file).
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