This week [October 4 - 12, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Poprally: Bill Morrison W Dj Olive:
De-Compositions [October 4, New York, New York 10019]
* Prelinger's Yesterday and Tomorrow In
Detroit/Psycho-Geography [October 4, San Francisco, California]
* Experimental Films of the 40s and 50s In San
Francisco and New York City [October 4, San Francisco, California]
* Botanicollage Workshop [October 4, Seattle, Washington]
* Film As Film: the Cinema of Gregory Markopoulos [October 5, 02138]
* The Cinema Cabaret: Re-Takes On North
American History [October 5, Los Angeles, California]
* Collaborating With Nature Screening [October 5, Seattle, Washington]
* Neue-Noise! A Night of Experimental Sound & vision [October 5, Tucson]
* Jodie Mack: Fabri-Flickers [October 6, Houston, Texas]
* 'way' - A Film By Konrad Steiner and Leslie
Scalapino [October 6, Los Angeles, California 90012]
* Flaherty Nyc: Rebecca Baron & Doug Goodwin
Program [October 6, New York, New York]
* Kenneth Anger'S Puce Moment + Alla
Nazimova'S Salomé [October 7, Brooklyn, New York 11222]
* Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine [October 7, Houston, TX]
* David Finkelstein's Suggestive Gestures
[October 7, San Francisco, California]
* Let Your Light Shine: Jodie Mack In Person! [October 8, Austin, Texas]
* Sight Unseen & Station North Present To the
Moon [October 8, Baltimore, MD]
* Festival Du Nouveau CinéMa - MontréAl [October 8, Montréal]
* Andrew Lampert: Tables Turned [October 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Amazing Handmade Films From Australia
Filmmaker Richard Tuohy In Person [October 9, Tucson]
* Autour De L'Art Des Bruits De Luigi Russolo (Headwar + EugÃNe Deslaw
+ Jean PainlevÃ) [October 11, 93100 Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France]
* Optronica1: Davis/Tooth + Darr +
Rourke/Electric! Electric! [October 11, San Francisco, California]
* Richard Tuohy: Hand-Crafted Cinema [October 12, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Walden [October 12, New York, New York]
* Iris Barry Program [October 12, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Cyrus Tabar [October 12, Oakland]
* Performance video and Colored Gloves! Gary Setzer & Tommy Becker In
Person [October 12, Tucson]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014
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10/4
New York, New York 10019: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
7:00pm - 10:00pm, 11 West 53 St
POPRALLY: BILL MORRISON W DJ OLIVE: DE-COMPOSITIONS
As a teaser for the upcoming film exhibition Bill Morrison:
Compositions, PopRally invites you to a live collaborative performance
by Bill Morrison and DJ Olive. Morrison will project a selection of
clips from his archive-including excerpts from his films as well as
previously unscreened sequences- while DJ Olive simultaneously creates a
live soundtrack. Tickets ($25; $23 members) Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Performance starts at 8:00 p.m. Admission includes performance, DJ set
by DJ Le Chev, and cocktail reception.
10/4
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
PRELINGERS YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW IN DETROIT/PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHY
One of the delightfully enlightened sensibilities behind the
world-changing Internet Archive, Rick Prelinger has invented a novel
form of cinema in his audience-narrated Collective Memory events. Many
are surely familiar with the dozen-plus he's already presented, lovingly
woven from rescued home movies of our own San Francisco. But Rick also
has a history with Detroit, and tonight we actively participate in the
West Coast premiere of his latest exploration of that Motor City. Mixing
amateur footage with industrial films, traversing work and leisure
cultures, and montaging material from both Black and White communities,
his program counters the "ruin porn" stereotypes of today's Detroit with
rich images of a vibrant multi-cultural city. Come early for Michigan
camaraderie, ambient cityscapes, and refreshments at the reception for
Mr. Prelinger. $8.
10/4
San Francisco, California: Art in Cinema
not available
7PM, 946 A Greenwich Street (Between Taylor and Jones)
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS OF THE 40S AND 50S IN SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK CITY
Films include work of Harry Smith, Shirley Clarke, Willard Maas, Marie
Menkin, Chester Kessler and others. Admission is free bring something to
share with others.
10/4
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
11 AM, 1515 12th Avenue
BOTANICOLLAGE WORKSHOP
Filmmaker Caryn Cline will offer a handmade 16mm film workshop for all
ages at the Northwest Film Forum on Saturday, Oct. 4th from 11 AM-4 PM.
Working with local botanicals and 16mm film leader, students will
collaborate on a direct animation film using the botanicollage technique
that has been a part of Cline's filmmaking practice for several years.
No previous experience with film or animation is required. The
willingness to experiment and make mistakes is helpful. The students'
work will be screened the following afternoon at Northwest Film Forum as
part of a program called "Collaborating with Nature," which was
co-curated by Cline and Portland State University professor and media
artist Julie Perini.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2014
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10/5
02138: Harvard Film Archive
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
7pm, 24 Quincy Street
FILM AS FILM: THE CINEMA OF GREGORY MARKOPOULOS
Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos is an
indispensable new publication which brings together over 90 different
texts written by the filmmaker between 1950 and 1992. In these essays,
Markopoulos chronicles the burgeoning New American Cinema scene and
responds to auteurs such as Dreyer, Bresson and Mitzoguchi. He also
writes in detail on the genesis of his own films and the early work of
Robert Beavers. The most individualistic and poetic texts are devoted to
his aspirations for the medium of film, and the speculative project of
Temenos. To celebrate the publication, a discussion between its editor
Mark Webber, the scholar P. Adams Sitney and filmmaker Robert Beavers
will follow the screening of Gammelion, Markopoulos' elegant film of the
castle of Roccasinibalda, which employs an intricate system of fades to
extend five minutes of footage to an hour of viewing time. This
inventive technique, in which brief images appear amongst measures of
black and clear frames, was a crucial step towards the structure his
monumental, final work. Eniaios is represented in the season by
Hagiographia II, in which the filmmaker returns to his Hellenic roots to
film the Byzantine city of Mistra in the Peloponnese, and by Genius (a
version of Faust featuring David Hockney, Leonore Fini, Daniel Henry
Kahnweiler) and his 1975 portrait of the artists Gilbert and George. The
Harvard Film Archive presents six evenings of films with special guests
from September 19 through October 5. Hagiographia II (second version)
Switzerland 1970, 16mm, color, silent, 60 min
10/5
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street
THE CINEMA CABARET: RE-TAKES ON NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
Tonight ten poet-performers take on the movies by writing scripts that
re-tell scenes from seven feature films, using them to repackage aspects
of the history of our continent. Sometimes called "movie telling" or
"neo-benshi" or glossed as performance art, the seven pieces tonight
will take scenes from different feature films and torque them with
sometimes comic, critical, or poetic interpretations, all relating in
some way to the history, or alternate history, of North America. Short
scenes from Robocop, Gravity, The Sound of Music, Chinatown and others
will be retold by Neelanjana Banerjee, Robin Sukhadia, Jen Hofer,
Douglas Kearney, Nicole McJamerson, Janice Lee, Tatiana
Luboviski-Acosta, Jen Nellis, Konrad Steiner, and Jackie Wang. Tickets:
$10 general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Tickets available in advance at http://bpt.me/869109
10/5
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
4 PM, 1515 12th Avenue
COLLABORATING WITH NATURE SCREENING
"Collaborating with Nature," a series of short films co-curated by Caryn
Cline and Julie Perini, will screen at Northwest Film Forum. Presented
at festivals and venues in Portland, Oregon, Tucson, Arizona, and
Albuquerque, New Mexico before coming to Seattle, "Collaborating with
Nature" showcases a variety of natural, organic techniques filmmakers
use to alter, expose and/or process film. Artists in the program include
local filmmakers Caryn Cline, Devon Damonte and Ruth Hayes, who will
attend, along with Colorado-based filmmaker Eric Stewart. Others in the
program include Dorothea Breamer, Dagie Brundert, Cade Bursell, Lori
Felker, Melissa Friedling, Eva Kolzce, Christine Lucy Latimer, Robbie
Land, Julie Perini, Jeremy Rendina, Ken Paul Rosenthal and Steve
Woloshen. Students from Cline's botanicollage workhsop from the previous
day will have their work screened as well (see the entry for Oct. 4).
Olympia-based filmmaker Damonte will close the program with a live 16mm
projector performance. Dr. Johanna Gosse, a historian of art, film and
media, will provide a brief introduction to the program. There will be a
Q & A with the filmmakers after the program.
10/5
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
NEUE-NOISE! A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL SOUND & VISION
A night of experimental sound & vision Part of Exploded View's
continuing series of sound art and noise events. Tonight's show, curated
by Dave Wright, features electro-acoustic experimental noise with Vox
Barbara from San Francisco and locals Skincage, G and Not Breathing.
Video experiments and projections from Adam Cooper-Tehran and
Falcotronik. Bring earplugs!
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014
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10/6
Houston, Texas: Blaffer Onscreen
http://www.blafferartmuseum.org/
7pm, UH College of Architecture Auditorium
JODIE MACK: FABRI-FLICKERS
Experimental animator Jodie Mack brings a new vocabulary to avant-garde
cinema. Although she builds on earlier models of stop-motion and
abstract filmmaking, her work draws heavily on vernacular sources:
weaving, quilt-making, gift-wrap, even grade-school craft time. Mack
combines "avant" with "pop" in a way that instills a sense of whimsy and
wonder all too rare in the experimental film world. At the same time,
her films are meticulously constructed formal gems, playful and rigorous
all at once. Mack will show a selection of her fabric and material based
films, including Let Your Light Shine (3D), Glistening Thrills, and New
Fancy Foils. Free admission; seating first come first serve. She will
also present her Pink Floyd-based performance work, Dusty Stacks of Mom,
along with other films at Aurora Picture Show on Tuesday, October 7.
10/6
Los Angeles, California 90012: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8:30pm in PDT, 631 W 2nd St
'WAY' - A FILM BY KONRAD STEINER AND LESLIE SCALAPINO
the LA premiere screening 'way' (in 35mm color/sound from 16mm, PAL
video, internet samples and CGI, 68min., 2012) image and montage: konrad
steiner (in person) text and voice: leslie scalapino The six parts of
Scalapino's epic reading on the soundtrack of her long poem, 'way,' are
braided by Steiner in changing styles with montage from various sources:
a kaleidoscopic play of street and saloon micro-events in dot-com
boomtown SF, a datamosh of a Fred Astaire dance number, internet leaked
footage from the US led Iraq war, and other visual samples. Beyond a
setting or interpretation of the poem, the result is a series of
shifting relations of word, image, thought and gesture, where infinitely
contingent, qualified, politicized & autonomous objects inhabit a
world in which, to reference David Bohm's words from the epigraph of the
book, "no such a thing can even remain identical with itself, as
time passes."
10/6
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
FLAHERTY NYC: REBECCA BARON & DOUG GOODWIN PROGRAM
This screening is part of: FLAHERTY NYC PRESENTS: SYSTEMS AND LAYERS
Film Notes A program of films by Los Angeles-based artists Rebecca Baron
and Doug Goodwin, with both in attendance. Baron's films explore the
construction of history, with a particular interest in still photography
and its relationship to the moving image; Goodwin's work investigates
the mechanisms by which language and other technologies mediate our
perception of reality. They will be presenting pieces from their
collaborative series LOSSLESS, which "explores the possibilities of the
transformation and distortion of images and ultimately the creation of
new ones within the digital realm," as well as Baron's most recent film,
DETOUR DE FORCE (2014, 30 min), which presents the world of
"thoughtographer" Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the
mid-1960s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014
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10/7
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
7:30pm, 155 Freeman St
KENNETH ANGER'S PUCE MOMENT + ALLA NAZIMOVA'S SALOMé
Puce Moment, Kenneth Anger, 1949, 16mm, 6 mins Salomé, Alla
Nazimova, 1923, 16mm, 37 mins
10/7
Houston, TX: Aurora Picture Show
http://www.aurorapictureshow.org
7pm, 2442 Bartlett Street
JODIE MACK: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE
Jodie Mack brings a collection of playful and thoughtful films that
investigate the formal principles of abstract cinema while maturing an
interest in found materials, evolving modes of production, forms of
labor, and the role of decoration in daily life. "Considered [a]
breakout star of the avant-garde (Fandor)," Mack's tactile work skirts
the edges between animation, collage, autobiography and music video. On
Tuesday, October 7 at 7PM, Mack will host "Let Your Light Shine," a
program she describes as a "travel play variety roadshow" at Aurora
Picture Show. The night includes an opening act of films, a rock show
style live cinema headliner inspired by Pink Floyd, and concludes with a
film encore showcasing a stroboscopic collection of 16mm.
10/7
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8 pm, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110,
DAVID FINKELSTEINS SUGGESTIVE GESTURES
Traveling along the path of a labyrinth, the viewer passes through a
series of extremely diverse landscapes, which are created through lush
animation, evocative orchestral music, and rich dialog, in which words
are used as much for rhythm and texture as they are for meaning. A man
and woman guide us on this trip, taking us past gently falling Mondrian
paintings, violent car crashes and bombing raids, and a pair of dancing,
multicolored boxes, among many other settings. Based on an improvised
performance, 'Suggestive Gestures' leads us gradually and indirectly
towards a mysterious animal, hiding in the center of the maze. Director
David Finkelstein characterizes his film as a 'landscape.' Words,
images, and music are all used to evoke a series of changing textures
and an evolving inner landscape, which the viewer is free to enjoy in
the same way one enjoys a captivating view: by savoring the spatial and
color relationships, and becoming immersed in the mood and emotional
flavor of each scene, without necessarily expecting the experience to
make statements or tell a story. The words, all improvised by
Finkelstein and actress Cassie Terman, become physical objects in the
scene, where they literally create the landscape and generate the
volatile, changing moods of the piece. 'Gertrude Stein was the first one
to suggest that language could be used to create a landscape, rather
than tell a story,' says Finkelstein, 'and her idea is still proving to
be a fruitful way to make performances and films.' The evening also
includes a short by Antero Alli.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014
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10/8
Austin, Texas: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
7:00pm, Alamo Ritz, 320 E 6th St
LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: JODIE MACK IN PERSON!
Experimental Response Cinema, in collaboration with the Blaffer Art
Museum and the Aurora Picture Show, is excited to present the acclaimed
program that's touring the nation! Featuring a live performance by Jodie
Mack of Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project! "As far as
arriving on a national scene, Jodie Mack must be considered 2013's
breakout star of the avant-garde. With no less than five new works
premiering this calendar year alone, the infectiously animated Mack
makes films of equally enchanting, hand-crafted care. Combining elements
analog animation, stop-motion miscellany, performance art physicality,
and rock opera histrionics, the forty-five-minute Dusty Stacks of Mom:
The Poster Project, serenaded by Mack's live vocal re-imagining of Pink
Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, is not only the young filmmaker's most
ambitious project to date, but also a monument to familial economics and
a dizzying in-person A/V experience in its own right." - Jordan
Cronk, Fandor "This collection of films investigates the formal
principles of abstract cinema while maturing an interest in found
materials, evolving modes of production, forms of labor, and the role of
decoration in daily life. Prodding at hierarchies of aesthetic value and
the tension between high and low, these works question the role of
abstract animation in a post-psychedelic climate. Merch tables meet
museum gift stores. The sublime meets Sublime the band. Rippling head
shop tie dyes and dollar store gift bags form ebullient spectacles from
resurrected dead capital and banal everyday objects. These stroboscopic
eulogies - celebrating the spectrum of abstraction from transcendent
visual experiences to science kit optical fascinations - force a
proscenium collision of the arena rock show, the planetarium light
performance, and the cinema." - Jodie Mack
10/8
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/
8pm, Station North Ynot Lot (4 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201)
SIGHT UNSEEN & STATION NORTH PRESENT TO THE MOON
Sight Unseen collaborates for a second time in 2014 with Station North,
supported in part by the T. Rowe Price Foundation, to present a
cinematic celebration on the 45th anniversary of the Moon landing. These
moving titles focus upon the Moon through a myriad of illuminating forms
and stellar techniques that feature digital collage, glitch technology,
hand-processing, in-camera edits, long-exposure, optical printing,
single-frame animation and found footage. The group program will take
place in the great outdoors at the Station North Ynot Lot on the evening
of the next full moon! Not only that, but there will be a lunar eclipse
that same morning! The forthcoming definitions of or related to the
Moon, featured in Celestial Object by Ben Balcom, are confronted and
contemplated by these artists through acoustic experimentation, chemical
treatment, light alteration and time manipulation made possible within
the cinematic realm. 1. The natural satellite of earth; a secondary
planet that orbits around the earth, visible especially at night. 2. Its
recurring phases have caused the moon to be taken as the type of
something changeable or fickle. 3. To ask (also cry, wish, etc.) for the
moon: to demand or wish for the unattainable. 4. In the sublunary
sphere; on earth. 5. In the superlunary sphere; beyond human knowledge.
Featuring films/videos by Miguel Mariño, Ben Balcom, Michael Betancourt,
John Woods, Malena Szlam, Cassandra C. Jones, Shambhavi Kaul, Margaret
Rorison & Jeanne Liotta. STATION NORTH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT:
http://www.stationnorth.org/. T. ROWE PRICE FOUNDATION:
https://troweprice.com/.
10/8
Montréal: Festival du nouveau cinéma
www.nouveaucinema.ca
All day (-->Oct. 19th), 3805 Boulevard Saint
Laurent - Montréal (QC) - H2W 1X9 - CANADA
FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINéMA - MONTRéAL
A major event on the Canadian cinema scene for 43 years now, the
Festival du nouveau cinéma has proven its ability to continually adapt
to the most avant-garde audiovisual practices in the field. During
eleven days of festival : over 300 films (feature and short films) by
directors from Québec, Canada and abroad, installations, performances,
transmedia projects, cocktails, parties, conferences, and encounters are
offered to the audience. Don't miss the Festival's 43rd edition next
fall, October 8 to 19, 2014! www.nouveaucinema.ca
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014
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10/9
Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge
http://www.saic.edu/cate
18:00, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, Chicago, Illinois 60601
ANDREW LAMPERT: TABLES TURNED
Andrew Lampert in person! Artist, archivist, and curator Andrew Lampert
is known for his mischievous live media performances and hilarious short
films and videos, many of which cheekily turn "cinema" on its head.
Lampert uses improvisation, unusual projector placement, and sets of
game-like instructions to explore (and exploit) the dynamic
relationships between projector, projectionist, audience, and screen.
For CATE, Lampert turns his attention to the Gene Siskel Film Center in
a site-specific performance created especially for the evening. The
performance is accompanied by a series of Lampert's shorts, including El
Adios Largos (2013), an inspired reconstruction of Robert Altman's 1973
feature The Long Goodbye from imperfect source material. 201314, USA,
multiple formats + live performance, ca 70 min + discussion. CATE is
FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID $11 General Public $6 Film
Center members $7 Students $5 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute
of Chicago staff
10/9
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
AMAZING HANDMADE FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA FILMMAKER RICHARD TUOHY IN PERSON
Richard Tuohy's handcrafted 16mm films use captivating visual
manipulations to sculpt an activated and reanimated reality which
collectively represent a distinctively live cinematic experience. More
visual then cerebral, these pictures move, and with an energy unique to
film. While covering a range of techniques, strategies and visual
themes, they each share the same tenacious unfolding of a set of
abstract possibilities from out of singular visual ideas. This program
presents eight hand-processed and DIY printed 16mm film works from the
Tuohy's recent output. The films, though diverse, are all highly
abstract and tightly structured and share a fascination with the visual
possibilities of basic traditional film technology.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014
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10/11
93100 Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France: FESTIVAL
DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS
8:00pm, 7 rue richard lenoir
AUTOUR DE L'ART DES BRUITS DE LUIGI RUSSOLO (HEADWAR + EUGÃNE DESLAW
+ JEAN PAINLEVÃ)
HORS LES MURS#1 DU FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS
(11>26/10/14) en partenariat avec les Instants Chavirés
Montreuil {CINÉ-CONCERT + PROJECTION + CONCERT D'HEADWAR} En 1913,
le futuriste Luigi Russolo écrivait un manifeste intitulé
L'ART DES BRUITS dans lequel il théorisait l'emploi du bruit dans
le domaine musical. Durant son séjour parisien, dans les
années 1920, Luigi Russolo accompagnait avec ses machines sonores
les projections des films d'Eugène Deslaw et de Jean
Painlevé. Cette soirée spéciale autour de cette
ouvrage offrira une nouvelle sonorisation de deux films de ces deux
auteurs avec un ciné-concert du groupe de rock bruitiste
acharné, auteur de marasmes mélodiques et de musiques
immédiates : Headwar. Le ciné-concert sera suivi d'une
projection de films expérimentaux contemporains (Takeshi Ito,
Bertran Berrenger, Jean-Jacques Uhl, Fabien Rennet, François
Rabet, Boris du Boullay...) et d'une improvisation musicale du groupe.
à PROPOS DE HEADWAR: jason et nico, fans de la scène
punk new-yorkaise des années 80, forment christophory en 1996
puis rencontrent Krine (co-fondatrice quelques années plus
tôt de Mamafaca). Le groupe deviendra alors Headwar et s'enrichira
de nouveaux batteurs et d'une pointe de sonorité saturé.
Ne revendiquant aucun style particulier, le groupe prend aussi bien dans
ses multiples influences musicales (de Sonic Youth à Suicide) que
dans ses délires improvisés. ***** PROGRAMME:
CINÉ-CONCERT DU GROUPE HEADWAR SUR: LA MARCHE DES MACHINES,
Eugène Deslaw, France, 1928 , 9' Avec ce film, Eugène
Deslaw tenta de réaliser une symphonie à la gloire du
monde moderne et de ses plus fidèles représentants: les
machines et leurs pistons, rouages, mécanismes
d'entraînement etc. Une illustration de la quête
moderniste et de sa valorisation de la poétique de la machine. La
prise de vues fut effectuée par Boris Kauffman. Ã
l'origine le film était sonorisé avec une musique de Luigi
Russolo. MATHUSALEM, Jean Painlevé, France, 1926, 7' Cinq
séquences filmées, projetées à l'origine,
pendant la pièce de théâtre
surréaliste d'Ivan Goll, avec notamment Antonin Artaud. +
Projection de courts-métrages expérimentaux contemporains
+ Concert d'HEADWAR
10/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
OPTRONICA1: DAVIS/TOOTH + DARR + ROURKE/ELECTRIC! ELECTRIC!
Cresting the new wave of expanded cinema, the Bay Area is discovering
new correspondences between the audio and the visual realms. Intermedia
pioneers John Davis and Sweet Tooth manage to create a third voice from
the sum of two disciplines--old Soviet newsreels and hand-patched analog
synthesizer--in the world premiere of their Spontaneous Order. Brian
Darr also brings his own synth, and gongs and ratchets, to conjure up
marvelous soundtracks to silent filmsMack Sennett's frolic of Fatty
Arbuckle at our own 1915 World's Fair and Sadistic Seaweed, a feral
homage to the Musee Mechanique, just a short swim away from Treasure
Island! Current artist-in-resident at the SF Dump, Jeremy Rourke
compresses a garbage-truck's worth of Frisco effluvia into a wildly
inspired live-musical animation, A Way of Falling. PLUS Len Lye, Mary
Ellen Bute, and Dan Gunning on Flexi-Discs (and free 78rpm records!).
$7.77.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014
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10/12
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
RICHARD TUOHY: HAND-CRAFTED CINEMA
Filmmaker Richard Tuohy comes through Los Angeles on tour from
Australia. His hand-made films investigate the range of visual
possibilities found in careful celluloid manipulation. Essential to see
in person, projected on a screen, his films take you close into natural
objects. His latest series, working in interference patterns will
captivate your mind with their psychedelic explorations. Tickets: $10
general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum
members. Tickets available in advance at http://bpt.me/874151
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: WALDEN
by Jonas Mekas 1969, 180 min, 16mm New print by Cinema Arts Inc. Special
thanks to Michael Kolvek, Fran Bowen (Trackwise), and Pip Laurenson
(Tate Museum). Filmed 1964-68; edited 1968-69. "Since 1950 I have been
keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and
reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York,
seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten
seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shot nothing. When one writes
diaries, it's a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at
your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is
to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you
get it now, or you don't get it at all." J.M. "I make home movies
therefore I live. I live therefore I make home movies." from the
soundtrack
10/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
IRIS BARRY PROGRAM
This year saw the publication of Bob Sitton's invaluable new book, LADY
IN THE DARK: IRIS BARRY AND THE ART OF FILM (Columbia University Press,
2014), which illuminates the life and work of a crucial if largely
forgotten film cultural figure Iris Barry, the co-founder and initial
curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Department. For this program,
Sitton will give a special lecture that will show how the conflict
between Barry and Maya Deren facilitated the birth of the New American
Cinema movement. Deren's 1945 application for a Rockefeller grant to
support her work was rejected outright by Barry, resulting in Deren's
rental of the Provincetown Playhouse for showings of her films in 1946.
Among those inspired by Deren's screenings were the founders of such
alternative organizations as the New American Cinema Group, Cinema 16,
and, later on, the Filmmakers' Cinematheque. Sitton examines the
aesthetic differences between Barry and Deren, and explains how Barry's
narrative-based aesthetic led to her antipathy toward Deren's work.
Sitton's lecture will be followed by a screening of Deren's AT LAND
(1944, 14 min, 16mm, b&w).
10/12
Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8-9PM, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS CYRUS TABAR
Cyrus Tabar is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with motion
picture and sound. He often blends a multitude of formats from 16mm
found footage and digital processing to tape based musical compositions
and live manipulated field recordings. Science fiction novels often
influence his work, which often revolves around near-future space
exploration, planetary phenomena, and time travel. With a background in
immersive installation art using pure light and sound as formal mediums,
Cyrus blends the experiential nature of installation with the temporal
facet of performance. He will be performing past works Tempus Fluxus,
Optica, The Spider and The Fly, and Terraforma in addition to his latest
piece made exclusively for Shapeshifters dealing with lost identity and
the path to redefine it.
10/12
Tucson: Exploded View
http://explodedviewgallery.org
7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
PERFORMANCE VIDEO AND COLORED GLOVES! GARY SETZER & TOMMY BECKER IN
PERSON
Interdisciplinary artist, Gary Setzer opens his archives and shares a
selection of single-channel videos reaching back to the turn of the
century. Equal parts Sesame Street and process-oriented art, Setzer
playfully blurs the distinction between these two languagesthe
aggressively tamed palette of an audience-friendly educational
experience and the less accessible lineage of the avant-garde. For Tommy
Becker, this evening's show will explore and celebrate the dynamics of
the high school landscape and complexities of relationships. Within
these two themes, the role of color in art history, the vitality of
lemons as educational inquiry and the ebb and flow in our interpersonal
lives will be introduced through PowerPoint and celebrated in song.
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