This week [May 24 - June 1, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: August 01, 2014)
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Columbus International Film + Video Festival
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz,
RheinlandPfalz, Germany; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
(Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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landlocked film festival (iowa city; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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FCDEP - Festival des Cinemas Differents et
Experimentaux de Paris (Paris, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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Inte. Independent Film Festival (Rome, Italy; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
(Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES SCIENCES ET CINÉMAS
(RISC) INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(Marseille, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, North
Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* I Always Said Yes: the Many Lives of Wakefield Poole Feature Documentary,
Free. [May 24, Harrisburg, PA]
* Projection Exceptionale: Jason Halprin [May 24, Montreuil, France]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 24, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [May 24, New York, New York]
* Michael Gendreau's "Discrepant Parataxis" +
Walter Funk's 3-D + [May 24, San Francisco, California]
* Sight Unseen Presents &Quot;Baltimore-Based&Quot;, Filmmakers In-Person
At the 16th Annual Artsfest Film Festival! [May 25, Harrisburg, PA]
* Ericka Beckman: Out of Hand [May 25, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Orpheus [May 25, New York, New York]
* Len Lye Program [May 25, New York, New York]
* Mike Kelley videos: Early Works & Day Is
Done [May 28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Abstract Short Films By Joyce Campbell,
Chick Strand and Nova Paul. [May 29, Los Angeles, California]
* Paul Clipson & FéLicia Atkinson: Sound/Film
Performance At videoex [May 29, Zurich]
* Handmade Bohemia: the Films of Helen Hill [May 31, Austin, TX]
* New Experimental Works [May 31, San Francisco, California]
* Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon [June 1, Lisbon]
* George Kuchar's Weather Diary 1 [June 1, Los Angeles, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2014
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5/24
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
11:00pm, Midtown Cinema, 250 Reilly Street
I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY,
FREE.
"After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive,
don't you think?" -ANDY WARHOL - "I Always Said Yes" is a portrait of
pioneering filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose careers as dancer,
choreographer, and director spanned the golden years of Broadway,
television, porno chic, and gay liberation. - An outspoken and
articulate artist in a turbulent, passionate time, Wakefield Poole
didn't think of himself as a pornographer. He was a filmmaker who used
his dance and theater background to create beautiful, erotic art films
that challenged the mind. Many agreed. To others, though, Poole just
made dirty movies. - TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkdHjRpCL4
- I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole tells the story
of this sometimes overlooked gay liberation and independent film making
pioneer. In an era when anyone making, promoting, or appearing in what
the US government considered "pornography" could be liable for
prosecution and jail time, Wakefield Poole was a remarkably open and
honest gay filmmaker. He also became internationally famous and his
movies screened for years as examples of films that could be artistic as
well as sexually explicit. - Filled with gorgeous archival footage,
excerpts from Poole's lushly photographed films, and entertaining and
illuminating interviews with Poole's contemporaries and colleagues, I
Always Said Yes is a story of artistic integrity and disappointment,
self-destruction, love, sex, fortitude, and musical comedy. - For more
information visit ialwayssaidyes.com - A free screening as part of the
16th Annual Artsfest Film Festival.
5/24
Montreuil, France: L'Etna
http://etna-cinema.net
21h, 71 rue Robspierre
PROJECTION EXCEPTIONALE: JASON HALPRIN
Creating a body of work in Experimental Documentary, Chicago-based
artist Jason Halprin utilizes diverse mediums including small gauge
film, hand-processing, optical printing, and archival video. He says:
"My work explores the way humans are affected by their immediate
surroundings, and how the shape of a location can impact social
interaction and culture. Though my cinematic journey has a strong
presence in urban environments, the open air is really where my artistic
heart lies. Cities and wilderness both open cerebral pathways that might
otherwise not be taken, and the movement between them has a profound
impact on my thought patterns. As for me, I am haunted by landscape."
Jason Halprin will be in attendance. For more information see:
https://www.facebook.com/events/769213593112147/
5/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes,
35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death
waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the
screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is
like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth
of immortality."
5/24
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET
See notes for May 23, 7:15 pm.
5/24
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
MICHAEL GENDREAU'S "DISCREPANT PARATAXIS" + WALTER FUNK'S 3-D +
Our second set of Live A/V action is anchored by Renaissance man Michael
Gendreau, a true pillar of the international experimental music scene.
With collaborator Lisa Seitz, he orchestrates an amazing assemblage of
antique transcription discs, phonographic cylinders, and mid-century
audio letters, wringing out the long-lost timbres and tonalities-not to
mention the linguistic content--of these "obsolete" media-archeological
artifacts. Popping open this Memory Palace is Walter Funk's Hologlyphic
Overscan, a volumetric display of floating 3-D visuals that reflect the
same spirit of resourcefulness, ingenuity, and the Marvelous. PLUS: Dan
Gunning's hand-cranked 78rpm discography, Thomas Edison's tin-foil
trickery, Warner Bros.' optical sound-tracking, and Craig Baldwin's
ChromaDepth-abetted Nth Dimension.
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SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014
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5/25
Harrisburg, PA: Moviate
http://www.moviate.org/
7:30pm, Midtown Cinema, 250 Reilly Street
SIGHT UNSEEN PRESENTS "BALTIMORE-BASED", FILMMAKERS IN-PERSON
AT THE 16TH ANNUAL ARTSFEST FILM FESTIVAL!
SUNDAY MAY 25th, Midtown Cinema, 7:30pm, FREE. - Sight Unseen presents
BALTIMORE-BASED - Programmed by Kate Ewald, Lorenzo Gattorna, and Meg
Rorison - BALTIMORE-BASED is a cross-section of artists currently making
work and living in Baltimore that continue the tradition and community
that preceded them. These artists have varying degrees of visibility
both in virtual spaces as well as traditional theatres and venues, with
work ranging from film to video, found to fabricated footage and the
material to the sublime.
5/25
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
ERICKA BECKMAN: OUT OF HAND
Los Angeles Filmforum is proud to present two screenings with the
genre-defying, highly original filmmaker Ericka Beckman. Described as a
key figure of the Pictures Generation, Beckman often uses games as
structuring devices in films and videos that combine minimalist and punk
aesthetics. As Amy Taubin writes: "Milking the Surrealist roots of Pop,
Beckman creates brightly colored, psychologically threatening, sexually
charged worlds in which her avatars are hurled to and fro, trapped
inside a game plan whose rules they desperately try to discern."
Tonight, Beckman's second Los Angeles screening presents a further
selection of films and a new digital video from her important and highly
original oeuvre, including Out of Hand (1980); You the Better (1983),
which nearly caused a riot at its premiere at The New York Film
Festival; as well her more recent work Hiatus (1999); and Tension
Building, a work in progress. Ericka Beckman in person!
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS
See notes for May 24, 7:15 pm.
5/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
LEN LYE PROGRAM
A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in
1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in
1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of
'scratch' or 'direct' filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark
patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film's surface. In works
such as FREE RADICALS, Lye explored the dynamic energy of abstract
images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired
rhythms. Several of Lye's films were made for clients including the
British Government Post Office and the Chrysler Corporation. Despite
their commercial nature, Lye tackled these projects with a playful sense
of experiment, retaining his trademark study of dynamic motion. This
program is presented to celebrate both Anthology's recent acquisition of
several Len Lye films (including three that are part of the Essential
Cinema collection), and the forthcoming exhibition, LEN LYE: MOTION
SKETCH, at The Drawing Center in Soho. On view from April 17-June 8,
MOTION SKETCH is the first survey of Lye's practice to be exhibited in
New York, and features an extensive selection of drawings, paintings,
photographic works, and films, revealing how the artist's concept of
'doodling' underpinned much of Lye's practice. For more info, visit
www.drawingcenter.org TUSALAVA (1929, 10 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) A
COLOUR BOX (1935, 3 min, 16mm) KALEIDOSCOPE (1935, 4 min, 16mm) TRADE
TATTOO (1937, 5 min, 16mm) COLOUR FLIGHT (1938, 4 min, 16mm) MUSICAL
POSTER NO. 1 (1940, 3 min, 16mm) COLOR CRY (1952, 3 min, 16mm) RHYTHM
(1957, 1 min, 16mm, b&w) FREE RADICALS (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm, b&w)
PARTICLES IN SPACE (1979, 4 min, 16mm, b&w) TAL FARLOW (1980, 1.5 min,
16mm, b&w) Total running time: ca. 50 min.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
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5/28
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
6 PM Early Works 8 PM Day Is Done, Jackman Hall,
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West
(McCaul St. entrance open @ 5:30)
MIKE KELLEY VIDEOS: EARLY WORKS & DAY IS DONE
$12, Members $10, Students $8 Co-presentation with Art Gallery of
Ontario For Tickets> www.ago.net/mike-kelley-videos American artist Mike
Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in
contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of
desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. His video projects,
often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon
and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with
irony and pop cultural debris. We are honoured to be presenting this
two-part programme with the Art Gallery of Ontario in association with
the exhibition Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower. The first
programme showcases video works that alternately carried through or
counterbalanced key concepts from Kelley's work in plastics and
performance art. In The Banana Man (1980 1983) and Superman Recites
Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999),
Kelley adopts fictional characters from childhood (the latter a mainstay
of American pop culture, the former a minor character on a daytime
children's show that Kelley himself never actually watched) as vessels
through which to explore the (re)construction of fictional identities
and the alienation wrought as a result of urban utopianism. These two
works bookend Fresh Acconci (1995), a highlight from Kelley's fruitful
collaborations with artist Paul McCarthy; here, the artists enlist a
group of models to reenact a selection of Vito Acconci's sparse black
and white video performances (Claim Excerpts,1971; Contacts, 1971; Focal
Point, 1971; Pryings, 1971; and Theme Song, 1973). Re-situating the
source work from New York City to a sunny California mansion, the site
of the reenactments draws deliberate correlations to the sheen of
mid-90s Hollywood and the seediness of the San Fernando Valley. The
second programme consists of Kelley's musical class-dismissed epic Day
is Done (Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions
#2-#32)(2005 2006), where stagings of extracurricular adolescent
rituals sourced from high school yearbooks are infiltrated by a motley
crew of American stereotypes and supernatural beings, the proceedings
overseen by none other than Satan himself. Influenced by Rudolph
Steiner's concept of the "total artwork", the video's transgressive
pageantry is not only replete with song, dance, and performance, but is
also inflected by Kelley's career-spanning explorations of perversion,
repression, and absurdity. The result is a Carnivalesque triumph
brimming with wrongness that's well worth playing hooky for! Programme:
6pm Banana Man (28:15, 1983) Fresh Acconci (45 min, 1995) Superman
Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
(7:19, 1999) 8pm Day is Done, (Extracurricular Activity Projective
Reconstructions #2-#32) (2005-2006, 169 min)
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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014
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5/29
Los Angeles, California: Downtown Independent Theater
http://flightdreams.brownpapertickets.com/
8pm , 251 S. Main St, Los Angeles, California 90012
ABSTRACT SHORT FILMS BY JOYCE CAMPBELL, CHICK STRAND AND NOVA PAUL.
Deeply layered sound and images, double exposures, juxtapositions, found
footage and trans-pacific currents. FLIGHT DREAM by Joyce Campbell
(NZ/LA). Premier with live score performed by PETER KOLOVOS. THIS IS NOT
DYING by NOVA PAUL (NZ) (U.S. Premier) Four 16MM shorts by CHICK STRAND:
WATERFALL(1967), KRISTALLNACHT (1979), BY THE LAKE (1986), ARTIFICIAL
PARADISE (1986)
5/29
Zurich: Videoex: Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich
http://www.videoex.ch/2014/en/programme-2014-paul-clipson-and-felicia-atkinson
9:30pm, Festivalzentrum Kunstraum Walcheturm,
Kanonengasse 20, 8004 Zürich, Switzerland
PAUL CLIPSON & FéLICIA ATKINSON: SOUND/FILM PERFORMANCE AT VIDEOEX
Sound & Super 8mm reversal film performance by Paul Clipson and Felicia
Atkinson.
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SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2014
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5/31
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
4:00pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 5th Street
HANDMADE BOHEMIA: THE FILMS OF HELEN HILL
Helen Hill's vibrant, humorous, handcrafted works use diverse techniques
including puppets, cel and stop-motion animation, live action, painting
and drawing. Her filmmaking combines a playful sense of participation
and community with a clear-eyed recognition of the somber rhythms of
death and rebirth. Film prints (courtesy of Harvard Film Archive)
include Mouseholes (1999), Madame Winger Makes a Film (2001) and The
Florestine Collection (2011) â completed posthumously
by her husband, Paul Gailiunas. - Join Experimental Response Cinema and
the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz for this very special evening, curated
by Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin (Now, Forager)! PROGRAM:
RAINDANCE 4 min / 16mm / sound / 1990; VESSEL 6:30min / 16mm / sound /
1992; WORLD'S SMALLEST FAIR 4:10 min / 16mm / sound / 1995; SCRATCH AND
CROW 4:30 min / 16mm / sound / 1995; TUNNEL OF LOVE 4:20 min / 16mm /
sound / 1996; YOUR NEW PIG IS DOWN THE ROAD 5 min / 16mm / silent /
1999; FILM FOR ROSIE 3 min / 16mm / sound / 2000; MOUSEHOLES 8 min /
16mm / sound / 1999; MADAME WINGER MAKES A FILM: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE
21ST CENTURY 10 min / 16mm / sound / 2001; BOHEMIAN TOWN 3:30 min / 16mm
/ sound / 2001; The Florestine Collection 44 min / 16mm / sound / 2011.
5/31
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS
Here's an energized evening of new cinema that champions personal
expression and radical form, with many of the makers in person! Featured
are Jeremy Rourke's "Good-bye Cole", Kelly Gallagher's "Pen Up the
Pigs", LJ Frezza's "Golden Eye", Robert Edmondson's "Too Still, Human",
James Samsing's "Forsaken", Geoff Johnston's "Amiri Baraka in Harlem",
Marcus Rosentrater's "Fire Piece", and Craig Baldwin's "Communique for
the Cube". PLUS new pieces from Sylvia Schedelbauer, Bryan Boyce,
Patrick Lichter, and the much-anticipated North American premiere of
James Hong's The Duck of Nature, The Duck of God. Come early for Linda
Scobie's Decked Out installation, free pencils, and artists' reception!
$7.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2014
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6/1
Lisbon: Do You Mean Architecture
http://www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com
21.00, Av. de Roma 100
ARQUITETURAS FILM FESTIVAL LISBON
Arquiteturas is proud to announce the second edition of the festival,
that will be held in September 2014 in Lisbon. Submissions are accepted
from 1st of March till 1st of June. Like last year the festival's focus
lies on strong narrative storytelling. An interdisciplinary and open
challenge, aiming to explore the relations between audiovisual
production and architectural practice. We are pleased to invite
directors, producers, students, architecture professionals and film
makers of all nationalities to send us movies that show a unique
perspective regarding the intersection of cinema and architecture:
documentaries or fiction, short or long, animation or experimental;
formal or informal, serious or funny; with awards from other festivals
or fresh out of the handy-cam. You will be contacted by July 15th if
your movie is selected (or not) for screening at the festival in
September. Fiil in the application on our website.
6/1
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
GEORGE KUCHARS WEATHER DIARY 1
Filmforum is thrilled to present the feature-length first entry in
George Kuchar's monumental Weather Diary series, which eventually
spanned six parts and a slew of related supplementary works. Like much
of Kuchar's diaristic work, Weather Diary 1 is an utterly characteristic
and deeply entertaining mix of the observational, the naked, the poetic,
the uncomfortable, and the hilarious. Shot almost entirely in camera on
Kuchar's visit to Oklahoma in search of dramatic weather phenomenon, the
video ultimately functions as a probing, idiosyncratic document of the
humor, morbidity, and humanity of a "Bronx boy's friendly, if somewhat
freaky, foray into Americana". For more event information:
www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238
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