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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 FILM/VIDEO: NON-FEATURE: =========================== "Almost there" by Kim Collmer http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=newwork&readfile=526.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC USA; Deadline: March 01, 2014) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1626.ann Open City Cinema (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: October 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1627.ann Exuberant Politics (Iowa City, IA, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1628.ann 21st Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois, USA; Deadline: December 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1629.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== PCPC Arts Festival (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: September 30, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1576.ann Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI, USA; Deadline: October 19, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1590.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 LITTLE SCUZZY FILM FEST (Carbondale, IL, USA; Deadline: October 10, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1611.ann Experimental Documentaries (new york, NY; Deadline: October 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1612.ann RICHMOND RADICALS (Richmond, VA usa; Deadline: October 18, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1622.ann Plug Projects (Kansas City, MO. 64108; Deadline: October 01, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1623.ann Open City Cinema (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: October 15, 2013) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1627.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): ============================== * Stan Brakhage's the Art of vision [September 14, Austin, TX] * Amy Halpern's Falling Lessons [September 14, Los Angeles, California] * Google and the World Brain + Manning + Archimedia + [September 14, San Francisco, California] * I Wanted To See How I Lived, I Wanted To Love Myself and My Past. A Tribute To Anne Charlotte Robertson [September 15, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Heaven and Earth Magic [September 15, New York, New York] * Millennium Presents: Hellzapoppin' [September 15, New York, New York] * I Wanted To See How I Lived, I Wanted To Love Myself and My Past. A Tribute To Anne Charlotte Robertson [September 16, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * Films By Dominic Angerame Part ii [September 16, San Francisco, California] * 20 Years of Cuff At Spectacle [September 17, Brooklyn, NY] * Consuming Spirits (2012) By Chris Sullivan [September 17, Cambridge, Massachusetts] * The 8th Film-Maker's Coop Benefit Concert and Art Auction [September 17, New York, NY] * Stop & Go 3-D [September 18, Austin, TX] * Focus Group: Films and videos By Michael Robinson [September 19, Austin, TX] * An Evening With Ximena Cuevas [September 19, Chicago, Illinois] * Gems From the Archive [September 19, Los Angeles, California] * Frenkel Defects - Edition I : Process Reversal [September 20, Brooklyn, New York] * Noise Screening [September 20, New York, NY] * Takahiko iimura: Films and Performance [September 20, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ---------------------------- 9/14 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 1:00pm, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 320 E. 6th St. STAN BRAKHAGE'S THE ART OF VISION Experimental Response Cinema and the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz are excited to present a very special screening of Stan Brakhage's The Art of Vision! Rarely screened, The Art of Vision is Brakhage's longest work, in an oeuvre that spans over 300 films. Titled after Bach's The Art of the Fugue, The Art of Vision is a "full extension of the singularly visible themes" of Brakhage's own Dog Star Man. Newly restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, come see the film which the poet Robert Kelly said was "â¦a new continent of the eye's sway. Mind at the mercy of the eye at last." - The Art of Vision, 270 min / 16mm / silent / 1961-1965 - "The Art of Vision includes the complete Dog Star Man and is a full extension of the singularly visible themes of it. Inspired by that period of music in which the word symphonia was created and by the thought that the term, as then, was created to name the overlap and enmeshing of suites, this film presents the visual symphony that Dog Star Man can be seen as and also all the suites of which it is composed. But as it is a film, not work of music, the above suggests only one of the possible approaches to it. For instance, as "cinematographer," at source, means "writer of movement" certain poetic analogies might serve as well. The form is conditioned by the works of arts which have inspired Dog Star Man, its growth of form by the physiology and experiences (including experiences of art) of the man who made it. Finally it must be seen for what it is." Stan Brakhage 9/14 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) AMY HALPERN'S FALLING LESSONS Falling Lessons (1992). All the eye contact you can stand. "A healing film . All the people in the film seem naked." Ornette Coleman. 9/14 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, 993 Valencia St. GOOGLE AND THE WORLD BRAIN + MANNING + ARCHIMEDIA + Simultaneously amazed and daunted by the Orwellian effects of a wired matrix that's expanding at the speed of light, The World Brain exposes Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop it. In person, Archimedia (David Cox & Molly Hankwitz) demonstrate the history of Google Glass, from Steve Mann's sousveillance to an Augmented Reality that is becoming an integral part of today's urban experience. Linking these networks of knowledge to the military arena, Wikileaks:The Forgotten Man explores the netcentric politics of Bradley/Chelsea Manning's whistle-blowing. PLUS former San Franciscan Laura Poitras and ex-OC aide Jenny Perlin's leaked video of Manning's Fort Meade testimony. information wars -------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2013 -------------------------- 9/15 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, 24 Quincy Street I WANTED TO SEE HOW I LIVED, I WANTED TO LOVE MYSELF AND MY PAST. A TRIBUTE TO ANNE CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON Influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Ed Pincus and Carolee Schneemann, Anne Charlotte Robertson (1949 2012) was a Boston area Super 8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her work a mix of essay, performance and stop-motion animation. Anne completed her graduate degree at Massachusetts College of Art in the 1980s honing her filmmaking skills under the tutelage of Saul Levine. Diagnosed with various and changing mental disorders, Anne faced several breakdowns and mental hospitals experiences she documented and exorcised thoroughly through her films particularly within the annals of Five Year Diary (1981-1997), a project spanning nearly two decades. Though relentlessly intense and emotional, her films are not entirely bleak, for her bracing self-awareness and humor energize and bring a rare effulgence to the depths of her darkest moments. Anne boldly exposed her most intimate and obsessive inner dialogues from illness, breakdowns and longing for love to diets, cats and the minutia of existence. She also considered the filmmaking experience therapeutic and cited the process as helping cure her depression. Anne died of cancer September 15, 2012 leaving behind an archive of a life passionately examined, primarily through the rough warmth of Super 8. Most of her work was created on Super 8 sound film featuring a soundtrack on the film, with additional audio on cassette and narrated live by Anne, creating many layers of sound and story. The original materials have been digitally transferred and are presented here on DigiBeta. The Harvard Film Archive, home to the Anne Charlotte Robertson Collection, is honored to pay tribute, over the course of two evenings, to the vivid insights and imagination of a pioneer of experimental first-person cinema. Liz Coffey, HFA Film Conservator Apologies I apologize for everything; another exercise in self-therapy. Anne Charlotte Robertson US 1986, digital video, color, 17 min Talking to Myself Double-exposed self faces self, wrangling, complaining, trying to hear oneself think. ACR US 1985, digital video, color, 3 min Locomotion Overdoses, breakdown, and rage at system in a stylized mental hospital isolation room. ACR US 1981, digital video, color, 7 min Five Year Diary, Reel 22: A Short Affair and Going Crazy US 1982, digital video, color, 27 min Five Year Diary, Reel 23: A Breakdown and After the Mental Hospital US 1928, digital video, color, 27 min 9/15 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue HEAVEN AND EARTH MAGIC by Harry Smith 1950-61, 66 min, 16mm, b&w This screening is part of: JOHN ZORN SELECTS Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Cineric, Inc. The sound design on NO. 12 is hypnotic, brilliant, curious, fantastic, and this is one of my very favorite films of all time. After dozens of viewings, it's hard to decide which is more musical the soundtrack of sound effects or the images themselves. Magic indeed! & Chuck Jones THERE THEY GO-GO-GO! (1956, 7 min, 35mm) Carl Stalling worked on cartoon music for Warner Brothers for decades, creating some of the most original and experimental music of the mid-20th century. It is also the music of the American subconscious. Although he wrote brilliant scores for Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck cartoons, his scores for the Road Runner series are particularly powerful because they feature his work undisturbed by talking of any kind. I used to tape these off TV back in the 70s and transcribe them. A master of "Mickey Mousing" (following and illustrating the visual action), his scores take on a whole new level of meaning when separated from the images and have been a huge influence on my technique of jump-cutting with block forms, collaging different genres into a single composition, and using musical time in a new and revolutionary way where more traditional musical 'sense' takes a back seat to telling a story. Hilarious program music that changed my life. & Stephen Pouliot THE DREAMER THAT REMAINS (1974, 27 min, 35mm) Harry Partch was a major influence and a pioneer of the DIY aesthetic, creating his own tuning theories, his own instruments, and his own unique notational systems, as well as releasing his own music on his own label, Gate 5. Also a great cook who made rose petal jam, Partch is a hero who rightfully belongs in this series, and the music he composed for this mini documentary is gorgeous some of his very best! 9/15 New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop http://www.millenniumfilm.org/ 6:00, 119 Ingraham MILLENNIUM PRESENTS: HELLZAPOPPIN' Millennium Presents: Hellzapoppin' Headlining is Stopping the Show, the first Betty Boop creation to be given full credit as a "Betty Boop Cartoon" (previously Ms. Boop had only provided back-up in other features). Stopping the Show (1932, dir. Dave Fleischer, 8 min.) features Ms. Boop showing off her incredible vocal talents (including impressions of her inspiration Helen Kane, Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier) while of course exuding the characteristic sexual charm that highlighted her performances before the Production Code of 1934 got to her! Following Ms. Boop's show stopper, we will actually continue the show by taking a plunge into the underworld, or at least into questionable comedy, with Hellzapoppin' (1941, dir. H.C. Potter, 84 min.). Based on a successful 4th-wall-busting Broadway musical, Hellzapoppin' features stage actors Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, singer Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert (whose laugh inspired Daffy Duck's notable guffaw), tons of visual gags, and a much-talked-about Lindy Hop scene. Hellzapoppin' defied the odds when it was nominated for an Academy Award for the song "Pig Foot Pete" - mostly because that song was actually used in the Abbott & Costello film Keep 'Em Tryin', which also employed Martha Raye and the Hellzapoppin'songwriters Hellzapoppin'walked away Oscar-less that year, but its riffs and jabs live on! Location: Brooklyn Fireproof gallery 119 Ingraham (ground level near the cafe) 6pm $8 Suggested Donation -------------------------- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 -------------------------- 9/16 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa 7pm, 24 Quincy Street I WANTED TO SEE HOW I LIVED, I WANTED TO LOVE MYSELF AND MY PAST. A TRIBUTE TO ANNE CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON Subways Lightshow in public transit tunnels, patterns and flashes, screeching and bells. ACR US 1976, digital video, color, 13 min Going to Work Daily morning trudge and trolley through snow and ice; pigeons, other winter beauties. ACR US 1981, digital video, color, 7 min My Cat My Garden and 9/11 My adored cat Zouina died a week before the tragedy; a week after, my garden died. ACR US 2001, digital video, color, 6 min Five Year Diary, Reel 80 Emily Died (second edit) US 1994, digital video, color, 27 min Five Year Diary, Reel 81 Mourning Emily US 1995, digital video, color, 27 min 9/16 San Francisco, California: Emerald Tablet Gallery www.emtab.org 7PM, 80 Fresno Alley (off Grant in North Beach) FILMS BY DOMINIC ANGERAME PART II The Emerald Tablet presents the films of Dominic Angerame Part II. This is a benefit screening and a donation of $5 or more is requested (de riguer). Funds collected are to help with the travel expenses to Cuba where Dominic will present several screenings in December of experimental/avant garde films at the Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano. Film titles in this program will include the complete City Symphony Series and a sound version of The Soul of Things. For exact titles contact domi...@cinemod.net --------------------------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 --------------------------- 9/17 Brooklyn, NY: Chicago Underground Film Festival 8pm, Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd Street 20 YEARS OF CUFF AT SPECTACLE 20 YEARS OF CUFF, Chicago Underground Film Festival is the longest running underground film festival in the world. Founded the same year as the now defunct NYUFF, it remains a vibrant & evolving home for radically dissenting filmmaking, and the defining example for underground film events all over the world. This program brings together legendary shorts from the festival's first twenty years. - LINEUP & NOTES FROM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR BRYAN WENDORF: LIGHT FUSE GET AWAY Dir. Ivan Lerner, 1994, 17 min. MONDAY 9:02 AM Dir. Tyler Hubby, 1995, 11 min. CLIT-O-MATIC: THE ADVENTURES OF WHITE TRASH GIRL Dir. Jennifer Reeder, 1996, 8 min. DANCE HABIBI DANCE Dir. Usama Alshaibi, 1998, 3 min. MEAT FUCKER Dir. Shawn Durr, 1999, 32 min. THE BATS Dir. Jim Trainor, 1999, 8 min. THE PSYCHOTIC ODYSSEY OF RICHARD CHASE Dir. Carey Burtt , 1999, 6 min. THE FABULOUS STAINS: BEHIND THE MOVIE Dir. Sarah Jacobson & Sam Green, 2000, 11 min. WUSTENSPRINGMAUS Dir. Jim Finn, 2002, 3 min. AMERICA'S BIGGEST DICK Dir. Bryan Boyce, 2005, 4 min. HOLD ME NOW Dir. Michael Robinson 2008, 5 min. THE ETERNAL QUARTER INCH Dir. Jesse McLean, 2008, 9 min THIS IS MY SHOW Dir. Lori Felker, 2009, 15 min. THE STORY OF THE EYE Dir. Nicole Jefferson Asher, 2012, 12 min. 9/17 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Balagan http://www.balaganfilms.com 7:30pm, Brattle Theatre CONSUMING SPIRITS (2012) BY CHRIS SULLIVAN We are proud to present Chris Sullivan, in person, with the long-awaited animated feature, Consuming Spirits. Made over the course of nearly fifteen years and shot frame by frame on 16mm film (though presented on video), it is a strange, hypnotic journey into the small-town lives of Earl Gray, Gentian Violet, and Victor Blue -- "ugly characters [who] make up the most beautiful spectacle you've ever seen." (Huffington Post) 9/17 New York, NY: Filmmakers Co-op 7:00pm, Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette Street THE 8TH FILM-MAKER'S COOP BENEFIT CONCERT AND ART AUCTION The Film-Makers' Cooperative is pleased to announce our 8th Annual Music and Film Benefit at Santos Party House! Includes amazing art works for auction. - For this year's benefit, the Coop will feature a host of talented and renowned artists & musicians. - Music by: Philip Glass, Elliott Sharp, Optipus & ESP-TV, Jaded Lover, Liquid Blonde, Transgendered Jesus - Art works by: Tom Otterness, Carolee Schneemann, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jonas Mekas, Bradley Eros, Ken Jacobs, Takahiko Iimura, Molly Surno, Paul Sharits, MM Serra - & others! ----------------------------- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 ----------------------------- 9/18 Austin, TX: Woman And Their Work http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/ 7:00 p.m., 1710 Lavaca Street, Austin, TX 78701 STOP & GO 3-D Stop & Go 3-D features a new series of stop-motion animations by 27 contemporary visual artists and filmmakers from around the world. The program dramatically plays with our visual senses through the artist's use of strobing effects, afterimages, anaglyphic experiments, optical elements and three-dimensional spoofs. The animations in this program were chosen from a world-wide open call for submissions and by invitation. Four of the animations in the program require the audience to wear red/cyan-colored glasses to fully engage with the work. Filmmakers include Jeanne Stern, Sarah Klein, Santiago Caicedo de Roux, among others. www.stopandgoshow.com ---------------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 ---------------------------- 9/19 Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org 7 & 9pm, UT Art Building, Room 1.102 FOCUS GROUP: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY MICHAEL ROBINSON Experimental Response Cinema and Focus Group present an evening of recent film and video work by New York-based artist Michael Robinson. Blurring public and personal memory, while borrowing the formalism of structural film and the emotional cues of pop songs, Robinson's work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experiences and the fine line between nostalgia and contempt. Robinson will be in attendance for an introduction and post-screening Q&A during each presentation. - Michael Robinson is a film and video artist living and working in West Danby, New York. He received his BFA from Ithaca College in 2003 and MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007. His films and videos have screened internationally at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT Los Angeles, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Film Comment magazine listed him as one of the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000s. - PROGRAM ONE, 7pm | 71 min: - And We All Shine On (2006, 7:00, 16mm) - These Hammers Don't Hurt Us (2010, 12:45, DV) - The General Returns from One (2006, 10:45, DV) - Hold Me Now (2008, 5:00, DV) - Light is Waiting (2007, 11:20, DV) - If There Be Thorns (2009, 13:20, DV) - All Through the Night (2008, 4:20, DV) - Line Describing Your Mom (2011, 6:00, DV) - PROGRAM TWO, 9pm | 67 min: - Victory Over the Sun (2007, 12.30, 16mm) - Circle in the Sand (2012, 45:45, HD) - You Don't Bring Me Flowers (2005, 8:00, 16mm) 9/19 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cate 6:00 pm, Gene Siskel Film Center / 164 N. State St. AN EVENING WITH XIMENA CUEVAS Pioneering Mexican video artist Ximena Cuevas creates smart, playful works that mix performance, autobiography, and mass-media's excesses to explore national identity, celebrity star worship, and life's everyday melodramas. Organized in celebration of the Video Data Bank's release of Cuevas's retrospective box-set Half-Lies, the artist screens a selection of videos made over the past decade, including the 2010 experimental biography Marina Abramović, From Tuesday to Friday. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. 200310, Mexico, multiple formats, ca 75 min + discussion 9/19 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St (at Sunset) GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE $5 / Film collector Russell Harnden is back with another screening of Gems from the Archives a film series devoted to obscure and outdated ephemeral films drawn from his personal collection of cartoons, educational, and industrial films. A sampling of these wonderful films from the 40's, 50's, and 60's will be pulled from the vault and screened during an evening that's sure to stimulate your mind and make you chuckle at the same time. Join us and watch as a devoted wife helps her husband keep his job in The Boss Comes to Dinner, an army of germ-fighting troops are deployed to fight the evil enemy of venereal disease in V.D. Attack Plan, and see what happens when basic forklift safety tips and common sense are ignored in The Color of Danger. There will be many more great titles as well. Taken VERY seriously when these films were made, today they now serve as campy, nostalgic reminders of a simpler time. So be sure to join us for a fun and "educational" evening! -------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 -------------------------- 9/20 Brooklyn, New York: MONO NO AWARE https://www.facebook.com/events/611756465542971/ 7 PM , Microscope Gallery - 4 Charles Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11221 FRENKEL DEFECTS - EDITION I : PROCESS REVERSAL MONO NO AWARE & Microscope Gallery co-present :" Frenkel Defects - Edition I : Process Reversal" Frenkel Defects is an intermittent, mobile film program focusing on film works from among artist run film labs and film collectives. Edition I : Process Reversal focuses on the work made by members of ProcessReversal.org, Double Negative, HandMade FIlm Institute, and Cherry Kino. The screening will include works on film by the following artists: Sarah Biagini, Nicolas Rey, Andrew Busti, Taylor Dunne, Philipe Leonard, Martha Jurksaitis, Robert Schaller, & Kevin Rice. Kevin Rice will in attendance for Q & A after the screening and will be leading a workshop with MONO NO AWARE on Hand-made emulsion techniques September 22nd (http://mononoawarefilm.com/workshop/2013/09/handmade-emulsion-workshop/ ) Program notes below. Sarah Biagini and Philipe Leonard also in attendance. Edition I - Process Reversal: A short program of 16mm film works from the Process Reversal Collective and other artist-run film groups including l'Abominable (Paris, France) Cherry Kino (Leeds, UK), The Double Negative Collective (Montreal, PQ) and The Handmade Film Institute (Boulder, CO). Filmmakers including Sarah Biagini, Andrew Busti, Taylor Dunne, Martha Jurksaitis, Nicolas Rey, Kevin Rice, Robert Schaller & Philipe Leonard. FULL DETAILS here: http://mononoawarefilm.com/special-engagements/frenkel-defects/ 9/20 New York, NY: Standby Prog 7:00pm, 1 East 53rd Street, 10th floor NOISE SCREENING The Standby Program presents a FREE screening of NOISE by Zahra Partovi. - Noise is in search of that comforting noise of human industry, the sound of making things for good use, where harmonious music is heard in human noises, where we can dwell in inner peace in the presence of outer noise. - Zahra Partovi is a Tehran-born translator and filmmaker. She has authored fifteen publications of translations of Medieval Persian poetry and has collaborated with more than twenty visual artists as translator. Her writings have been published in limited-edition artist books by Vincent FitzGerald & Co. and are in the collections of major museums and libraries in the United States and Europe. Her films and installations have been shown at several art and film institutions in the United States. 9/20 New York, New York: Filmmakers Cooperative, New York http://www.film-makerscoop.com 7:30pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative 475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor New York, NY 10016 TAKAHIKO IIMURA: FILMS AND PERFORMANCE A rare event of film and performace of Takahiko iimura in two parts presents the works from the 1970s. Using mostly clear and black frames or a certain length of leaders, I try to conceptualize the very basic of film components: light and darkness in terms of time experience coincide with the sound often punctuated by scratching on the track. Part 1 Shutter(1971) 30min., Music:Keijiro Sato 2Minutes 46Seconds 16Frames(100Feet)(1973) 9min, b/w, Sound : Takahiko iimura 24Frames Per Second(1975) 11min.b/w,Sound : Takahiko iimura One Frame Duration(1977)　11min, b/w, Sound :Takahiko iimura Part 2 Film Performance, Circle And Square(1975-2013) approx.15min. Performance: Takahiko iimura SHUTTER marks a further step in Iimura's developing interest in formal concerns. Using two projector speeds and various camera speeds, he photographed the light thrown onto a screen by a projector with no film running through it. Because of the disparities between the speeds of the camera and projector shutters, the resulting footage, which he printed first in positive, then in negative, creates a series of flicker effects. -- Scott MacDonald, Afterimage,1978 The music composed by Keijiro Sato is synchronized with the pulsation of light from the projector attaching the mike in front of the lens (T.I) Both in terms of its examination of time and space, of light and darkness, of visuals and sounds; and in terms of its demands and potential rewards for an audience, 24 Frames Per Second is a quintessential Iimura film. The film alternates between one-second passages during which the viewer sees one of a seriesof fractions and [with] one-second segments of black and clear leader. -Scott MacDonald The performance of "Circle and Square" sets a big black loop film hung from the ceiling and the performer keeps punching a big hole at a time on the film frame catching the loop in the middle while projecting at the same time the ever increasing big holes on the screen(or a white wall) intermittently. The performance ends when the loop breaks down and projects a square frame only. (T.I) 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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