Part 2 of 2: This week [February 18 - 26, 2012] in avant garde cinema ------------------------- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012 -------------------------
2/24 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://www.hi-beam.net/erc 7pm, Arthouse at the Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave. FILMS AND VIDEOS BY JEANNE LIOTTA Description New York artist Jeanne Liotta will be in-person to presentsa selection of various works in 16mm film and digital video in which appear transmissions of energetic and material subjects such as landscape, abstraction, the historical archive, science, natural philosophy, and the virtual sublim...e. Playful, chaotic, and intuitive miniature essays into the transitory perceptions of time and space sometimes called reality. Works include: Sweet Dreams, Sutro, What Makes Day and Night, Science's Ten Most Beautiful Experiments: #2 Galileo's, Eclipse, Observando el Cielo, Hymn to the Void, and others tba... 2/24 Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art http://www.nelson-atkins.org 7:00 p.m., Atkins Auditorium, NAMA, 4525 Oak Street ELECTROMEDIASCOPE "Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination." Gilles Deleuze elucidates an understanding of modern cinema as a conceptual practice contiguous with contemporary art in his book Cinema 2: The Time-Image. In the process he discusses modern political cinema and imagined communities and suggests that when considering the new basis on which they are founded in the third world and for minorities, art, and especially cinematographic art, must take part in a task that is "not that of addressing a people, which is presupposed already there, but of contributing to the invention of a people." Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination exemplifies this process through diverse examples of aesthetic, sociocultural and political works that address aspects of imaginable worlds. They tell strange and beautiful stories through visual and audible means that are reverberating with geopolitical realities while bringing to life a missing past. Cinema plays an important role in contemporary art where its unique development of images of thought cause us to rethink notions of the experimental within the context of the emerging global cinema's emphasis on visual and media literacy, a tactile - sensory form of editing and imagistic use of sound. This work shares more with the connotative syntax of oral histories, poetry, performances and ritual traditions than with many established forms of western cinema that are more often grounded in textual literacy and a denotative narrative flow. The works in Alien Contact and Cultural Imagination take us out of our world of habitual experience as John Cage suggested and establish alternative ways of experiencing the past and imagining the future. These works extend media literacy to emphasize a greater intensity of visual and audible world sensations that are already known in the performance, song and storytelling of other cultures. They not only share and re-imagine older culturally specific myths of origin, sense of place and transformative identity, but invent new stories and parables that address current geophysical realities for a global world that is reconnecting through virtual contact. Myth and storytelling of third world cultures meet the science fiction, technology and cinematic subcultures of the developed world. This emerging cultural imaginary is not a utopia. The storytelling, myths and fables re-imagine an expanding present with past and future folds. We can see, feel and empathize with these inhabitants of other worlds and perhaps understand them in the context of our present culture with its disasters, suspicions of the alien other and the guarded stasis of citizens who have lost alien sensibilities and sensitivities. Artists are reawakening historical moments of alien contact by rethinking the past, subverting the present and subjectifying the future. Their new visual mythmaking and storytelling are contributing to the invention of a future where memes leak out and pollinate broader shared aspects of culture, and in the process enable global cultural exchange. Patrick Clancy. Cauleen Smith In Person. Artist Cauleen Smith presents and discusses her new work including Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing, a series of films reenacting Land Art and recent but buried collective memories. "Remote Viewing: Process Sculpture Film #1," Cauleen Smith (US), 2010, 15:40 min., digital video shown on DVD. "The Grid: Process Sculpture Film #2," Cauleen Smith (US), 2010, 15:40 min., digital video shown on DVD. "The Vanishing," Cauleen Smith (US), 2010, 8 min., digital video shown on DVD. "The Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band Project," Cauleen Smith (US), work in progress, multimedia. This program began on Feb. 10, continued on Feb. 17 and concludes tonight. 2/24 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset) LA AIR: INSTEREO LA AIR is a new artist-in-residence program that invites Los Angeles filmmakers to utilize EPFC resources in creating a new work over a four-week period. INSTEREO, the empathic image exchange between Ursula Brookbank and Christine Alicino, presents their latest collaboration realized with the support of the LA Air Artist-in-Residence program at EPFC. Over the past lunar year moving images were exchanged every seven days and at year's end arranged into a film/video projection occupying the realm of their correspondences. The evening includes a screening of short films selected by INSTEREO from the collection of EPFC. FREE! 2/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN KOBLAND PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 1: VESTIBULE (in 3 episodes) (1978, 24 minutes, 16mm) 16mm original in various (3) modes of optical re-photography. I think of this as my first 'real' film. 'Real' for me in the sense that it combines ruminations (philosophical and otherwise), fantasies, memories and the landscape of the city; a field of play I've never left. FRAME (1975, 10 minutes, 16mm) A first experiment using optical re-photography. I was trying to re-produce the experience of the drive, the movement forwards and back, simultaneously and at the same time to portray the haunted, desolate beauty of those empty summer cabins at the edge of the sea. ARISE! WALK DOG EAT DONUT (1999, 20 minutes, video) A reflection on the daily grind, accompanied by an old Russian melody loosely translated and interpreted 4 or 5 different ways and a return visit to the landscape of FRAME, 25 years later. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS (2003, 45 minutes, video) 5 texts/5 landscapes/5 monologues: Whitman/Ozu, the Dharma/Fellini, Bergman/Tarkovsky, DeLillo/Mann and Chekhov the city as theater, a desert ruin, meat and pulp a mish-mash and mis-read the unreliable translator and the landscapes we dream in FLUSHED-AT-ONCE (2002, 45 seconds, video) A short remembrance a project created for an exhibition in commemoration of the events of Sept. 11. Total running time: ca. 105 minutes. --------------------------- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012 --------------------------- 2/25 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8pm - 10pm, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA. 90026 (phone (213) 484 - 8846) $5 at the door MI_LOSANGELES2012: GUTTURAL! An inspiring and fun night of video art screenings at the Echo Park Film Center curated by Alysse Stepanian of Manipulated image will include selections from MI's video archives (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne of Germany, Martin Back of Texas, Paulo R. C. Barros of Brazil, Niclas Hallberg and Stina Pehrsdotter of Sweden, Hey-Yeun Jang of New York), and a body of work by RKDB, an Oakland-based artist who will be present for a discussion. It is not necessarily the "strange" quality of the sound that makes some of these works guttural, but the restless audacity of the artists in breaching the boundaries of the agreeable, the proper, and the familiar. 2/25 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N Alvarado St (at Sunset) MANIPULATED IMAGE PRESENTS GUTTURAL! (merriam-webster.com: Guttural... marked by utterance that is strange, unpleasant, or disagreeable) There is an unbridled energy and natural rawness to Martin Back's video, in which he uses his mouth, a contact mic and a webcam to create a raucous performance. Paulo Barros's percolating geometric abstractions are inhibited only by their forced rectangular enclosures. Hey-Yeun Jang's work penetrates the "in-between," the deep cracks that are left unexplored in familiar realities. Niclas Hallberg and his collaborator Stina Pehrsdotter give voice to those who have come to feel shame in a civilization that has alphabetized and codified proper conduct. Wilfried Agricola de Cologne's videos are both visually and viscerally penetrating, and his clear observations are potent and commanding. It is not necessarily the "strange" quality of the sound that makes some of these works guttural, but the restless audacity of the artists in breeching the boundaries of the agreeable, the proper, and the familiar. Curated by Alysse Stepanian, with guest curator (TBA). The screening will include the following selections from MI's video archives and a short compilation of videos selected by a guest curator. In addition, a Los Angeles artist will be at the screening for a presentation and discussion (names TBA). $5 Project site: http://manipulatedimage.com/LosAngeles2012.html 2/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue SERRA & BELL/JONAS PROGRAM Richard Serra & Robert Bell PRISONER'S DILEMMA 1974, 40 minutes, video. This rare Richard Serra video uses the concept of 'The Prisoner's Dilemma' from game theory as a video experiment to, in Serra's words, "expose the format of commercial TV." The video features Spalding Gray, Richard Schechner, Kathryn Bigelow, Leo Castelli, and Bruce Boice, among others. & Joan Jonas DOUBLE LUNAR DOGS (1984, 24 minutes, video) With Spalding Gray and Joan Jonas. Inspired by the science fiction story "Universe" by Robert Heinlein, this is an Orwellian vision of post-apocalyptic survival aboard a drifting spaceship whose timeless travelers have forgotten the purpose of their mission. To recapture memory and create a continuum between their unknown origin and uncertain destination, the characters in this disjointed, philosophical narrative play metaphorical games with words and archetypal objects. 2/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN KOBLAND PROGRAM 2 PROGRAM 2: THE SHANGHAIED TEXT (1996, 30 minutes, video) Archival footage and the Montana landscape entangled Excerpts from films by Dovzhenko and Vertov with a musical score from Turandot. A mixed-brew of ecstatic tropes and heroic vistas 16mm film footage processed in an early D-1 Video post-production studio in Montbeliard, France. THE TOY SUN (2011, 32 minutes, video) More ruins, time, and memory buildings come and go, like everything else. A text based on Eliot's "Four Quartets" an old man's ramble a moving picture book, illustrated with landscapes (from earlier films). IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE (2005, 32 minutes, video) Cinque Terre is a string of towns along Italy's North coast. An overwhelmingly beautiful place, extraordinary color, light and geometry. Of particular note is the train line which links the towns. It moves like a needle and thread through the mountains its patterns and lines connect back to earlier Wooster Group rehearsals, which now form an outline of landscape. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. 2/25 Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema http://www.cjcinema.org/ 8:30pm, La Péniche Cinéma, Parc de La Villette, 69 bld Mac Donald 75019, Paris, France DUO DES MOTS DUO DES MOTS : carte blanche au Collectif Jeune Cinéma à la Péniche Cinéma - Entrée libre - Séance présentée par Julia Gouin, administratrice, et Laurence Rebouillon, présidente du CJC, en présence des cinéastes. - Musique, parole, voix, commentaire critique ou sportif, la bande son des films de ce soir, réalisés en tandem ou par un collectif, dialogue toujours avec autrui, l'être aimé, son partenaire ou un auditoire. Ãcho à cette similitude de rencontre, l'image est parfois dédoublée pour créer une comparaison de gestes et attitudes lors d'un match de football mémorable ou orchestrer le partage du verbe pour dire d'où l'on parle et prendre place. - PROGRAMME - - TRESORS de Orlan Roy, vidéo, France, 2012, 20' - EN AVANT-PREMIERE. Qu'est ce qu'on peut voir de notre désert intérieur ? Des musiciens, danseurs et comédiens, solitaires et pourtant peuplés d'une histoire commune. Les corps sont traversés de personnages, de voyages imaginaires et des archives de notre collectif. Tourné à Plélo, Bretagne, chez Maitre Jacques. Avec MORIARTY, CIE LES CANARDS SOUS LA PLUIE & la CIE NAGARYTHE. - - DANS LE VILLAGE de Laurence Rebouillon & Patricia Godal, vidéo, France, 2008, 5'30, Voyage amoureux dans les hauteurs d'une île et quelques vaches. - - 19, ESPIRITU SANTO (ANDALUCIA) de Philippe Cote, vidéo, France, 2010, 24' - Voix : Violeta Salvatierra. - A l'origine, il y avait les mots que tu m'as écrits pour initier les images à faire, loin d'ici, seul, là-bas à Séville et en Andalousie. - Puis, après un premier montage silencieux... : « J'ai eu envie (c'est la première fois que cela m'arrive devant un de tes films) d'entendre des voix. Je songeais malgré moi à un montage sonore, fait de longues plages de silence alternées de quelques moments de voix, de mots, et peut-être un peu de son, des bruissements. Il m'a paru que cette façon de sonoriser le film donnerait une présence (des présences) dont la fonction serait surtout d'inviter à écouter les images. Cela donnerait aussi plus d'altérité à l'objet... » - Le film trouvait alors sa forme définitive, essai intime et partagé entre ta voix, des choix de poèmes lus, à écouter, et mes images. (Philippe Cote) - - REFAIT du Collectif Pied la Biche, vidéo, France, 2009, 16' - Les 15 dernières minutes du match de coupe du monde France-Allemagne en 1982 à Séville. Tournées par Pied la Biche dans Villeurbanne (69, Fr). Chaque scène est reconstituée avec précision : joueurs, positions, gestes. - La bande son est un mélange des commentaires originaux et de paroles de spectateurs présents durant le tournage. - - LE GROUPE MANOUCHIAN VIT ETERNELLEMENT. AMEN. GUEDIGUIAN N'EST PAS MORT POUR LA FRANCE. LUTTE OUVERTE AUX LACHES ET AUX TRAITRES EN TOUT GENRE de Pierre Merejkowsky & David Bensaïd, vidéo, France, 2010, 29' - Le groupe Manouchian vit éternellement. Amen. Guédiguian n'est pas mort pour la France. Lutte ouverte aux lâches et aux traitres en tout genre. 2/25 San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access http://www.atasite.org/ 8pm, 992 Valencia Street MAD DANCE Mad Dance is a new showcase for films & videos that explore radical visions for madness in a culture that pathologizes difference. Tonight's inaugural screening features three works that navigate the psycho-geography of the personal and the political: The Accursed Mazurka by Nina Fonoroff; Crooked Beauty by Ken Paul Rosenthal; and Lethe by Lewis Klahr. More details at: http://www.atasite.org/2012/02/mad-dance/ 2/25 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 2:30, East Building Concourse, Auditorium HOW MUCH MOVEMENT DOES THE IMAGE NEED? Gusztáv Hámos, Katja Pratschke, Thomas Tode in person. The appearance of a still photograph in a cinematographic context often arouses an element of surprise for the viewer. This program presents films that question the nature of the image as well as its relationship to other forms with works by Chris Marker (La Jetée, 1962), Sergei Eisenstein (Beshin Meadow, 1935 / 1967), Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte (The Fishmarket and the Fish, 1968), and Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos (Transposed Bodies, 2002). (95 minutes) ------------------------- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012 ------------------------- 2/26 Atlanta, Georgia: Contraband Cinema http://contrabandcinema.com 7:30pm, Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce De Leon Avenue SKIP THE OSCARS Scheduled to conflict with the broadcast of the 2012 Academy Awards, Contraband Cinema is proud to bring you an evening of anti-hollywood, anti-copyright illegal art. Made entirely of cut-up studio productions, Hollywood Burn is an epic manifesto against the corporate control of cultural history brought to us by Soda_Jerk! PLUS! short films by local culture jammers Adam Bruneau, Anna Spence and Bland Hack (Jamie Hawkins-Gaar and Julian Modugno). $6. All proceeds go to the Plaza Theatre Foundation. 2/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue MINUS ZERO by Michael Oblowitz 1979, 50 minutes, 16mm With Rosemary Hochschild, Ron Vawter, Will Patton, and Eric Mitchell. A psycho noir shot in high-contrast black-and-white where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide. "It promised pleasure and delivered death nothing ever happened to her class there was no reason to feel nervous even in the heart of New York you push the fourth button and arrive at the fourth floor she was one more person in personville was one more person too many " 2/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KING BLANK by Michael Oblowitz 1983, 71 minutes, 16mm-to-video This screening is part of: THE WOOSTER GROUP AT LARGE With Ron Vawter, Rosemary Hochschild, Will Patton, and Gary Indiana. A sour-spirited foul-mouthed epic of ennui, BLANK is a prescient classic by No-Wave filmmaker Oblowitz. Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychotic delusion and his immigrant wife. Great character bits include Ron Vawter forcing Gary Indiana to give him a blowjob in the bathroom. "A cinephiliac achievement in which the pathology of male sexuality insists to the point of nausea." Claire Johnston 2/26 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue KEN KOBLAND PROGRAM 3 PROGRAM 3: FOTO-ROMAN (1992, 26 minutes, video) The text is composed of excerpts of a novel, QUEER AND ALONE, by Jim Strahs (who also plays the John Doe here.) The voice-over is by Vito Acconci. It's a travelogue of sorts or a daydream, by a very odd, somewhat unreliable narrator. LANDSCAPE AND DESIRE (1980, 40 minutes, 16mm) A (mostly) bus 'tour' of the American landscape. But this is the old un-franchised one. Small-town hotels, bus depot waiting rooms, and the endless plains and sky. A scrapbook of the banal and un-dramatic. Now it feels like a souvenir from a more modest world. Photographed in Super-8 and re-printed onto 16mm. END CREDITS (1994, 7 minutes, video) Made as the end-credit sequence for a film of Ron Vawter's performance piece, ROY COHN/JACK SMITH, directed by Jill Godmilow. Ron was an extraordinary performer and actor. The two men he portrays were gay men, at infinitely opposite ends of the spectrum, social, artistic, and human. PIECE FOR SPALD (2004, 7 minutes, video) An audio-mix, no image scraps of Spalding Gray's comments, from here and there Assembled as part of a memorial for the storyteller and old friend, who lost himself in New York harbor in January of 2004. Total running time: ca. 85 minutes. 2/26 Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov 4:30, East Building Concourse, Auditorium RECALL AND MEMORY Gusztáv Hámos, Katja Pratschke, Thomas Tode in person. "That-has-been," wrote Roland Barthes; photography stands for something that has happened. Film, in contrast, always unfolds in the here and now and can be seen as a container for memory. Featuring films by Thierry Knauff (Le Sphinx, 1985), Agnès Varda (Ulysse, 1982), Jerzy Ziarnik (Gestapoman Schmidt, 1964), Franz Winzentsen (The Fitting 1938, 1985), Helke Misselwitz (Pictures from a Family Album, 1985), and Janet Riedel, Katja Pratschke, and Gusztáv Hámos (Fiasko, 2010), this program investigates these functions in the context of personal and historical memory. (93 minutes) 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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