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Passages 1 - Jem Cohen In Person (#anchor1) [April 8, Cambridge]
NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
4th Annual Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 15,
2017)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Deadline: June 01, 2017)
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
Fracto (Berlin; Deadline: April 20, 2017)
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Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) (Ithaca, NY, USA; Deadline:
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4th Annual Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA; Deadline: April 15,
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Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE.
This week's programs (summary):
* Passages 1 - Jem Cohen In Person (#anchor1) [April 8, Cambridge]
* Show &Amp; Tell: Shambhavi Kaul (#anchor2) [April 8, New York, NY]
* April8: Abigail Child's Acts and Intermissions (#anchor3) [April 8, San
Francisco, California]
* Museum Hours (#anchor4) [April 9, Cambridge]
* Tony Conrad Tribute: Program 1 (#anchor5) [April 9, New York, NY]
* Tony Conrad Tribute: Program 2 (#anchor6) [April 9, New York, NY]
* Ec: Kenneth Anger Pgm (#anchor7) [April 9, New York, NY]
* Yes: Joseph Moore/Josh Sender (#anchor8) [April 10, Brooklyn, New York]
* Between Categories: Researching Film Maker and Poet Margaret Tait (#anchor9)
[April 10, London, England]
* Flaherty Nyc Presents: Broken Senses: Program 5: Tracing Touch (#anchor10)
[April 10, New York, NY]
* Craig Owens: An Interview (#anchor11) [April 11, Brooklyn, New York 11222]
* Mca Screen: Jesse Malmed's Untitled (Just Kidding) (#anchor12) [April 11,
Chicago, Illinois]
* Newfilmmakers (#anchor13) [April 11, New York, NY]
* Infinity Land Press Book Launch &Amp; Multimedia Event (#anchor14) [April 11,
WC1N 1JD London, United Kingdom]
* Patrick Mcguinn's Desert Rock Opera Valpurnis:Saturan and Live Pop Music!
(#anchor15) [April 12, Tucson, AZ]
* Passages 2 (#anchor16) [April 14, Cambridge]
* The Illinois Parables (2016) (#anchor17) [April 14, Rochester, NY]
* Alternative Factoids (#anchor18) [April 14, San Francisco, California 94107]
* Counting (#anchor19) [April 15, Cambridge]
* The Sky Trembles and the Land Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
(#anchor20) [April 15, New York, NY]
* April15: Incredibly Strange Music (#anchor21) [April 15, San Francisco,
California]
* The Sky Trembles and the Land Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
(#anchor22) [April 16, New York, NY]
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017
4/8
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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7pm, 24 Quincy Street
PASSAGES 1 - JEM COHEN IN PERSON
Cohen finds endless mystery in the real world: on city streets, throughout
museums, inside busses on foggy, anonymous highways. Transformed by his camera,
some music and some text, these real places become transformed into passages
towards a more mystic side of life. The Passage Clock (For Walter Benjamin) US
2008, digital video (orig. 16mm), b/w, 10 min Amber City US 1999, digital video
(orig. 16mm), color, 48 min Blessed Are the Dreams of Men US 2006, digital
video (orig. 16mm), color, 9 min Long for the City US 2008, digital video
(orig. Super 8), b/w, 9 min
4/8
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
SHOW & TELL: SHAMBHAVI KAUL
Born in Jodhpur, India, Shambhavi Kaul lives in the U.S. where she teaches
filmmaking at Duke University. As skillful with found footage as with her own
gorgeous landscape cinematography and hand-processed 16mm, Kaul's films are
marked by a distinctly pensive but playful character. Kaul's cinematic
constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive non-places. They present to us
other worlds - our natural world becomes surreal, familiar set pieces and
settings in found-footage films are revealed to be hollow and eerie, hints of
narrative threads appear and recede. Described as creating "zones of
compression and dispersion," her work utilizes strategies of montage and
recirculation, inviting an affective response while simultaneously measuring
our capacity to know what we encounter. The tensions between the expected and
the unknown are in turn disorienting and meditative. Kaul asks the viewer both
to look deeply and differently, but to also question our perception of and
response
to these mysteries.
4/8
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
APRIL8: ABIGAIL CHILD'S ACTS AND INTERMISSIONS
Comes now the West Coast premiere of Child’s marvelous re-mediation of the life
and work of Emma Goldman, arguably the mother of American Anarchism. Abby is
out here from NYC with her hour-long collage-essay, charging the discussion
with her enlightened aesthetic of poetry, the archive, and experimental
montage. As the Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Goldman’s life is seen as an
ongoing negotiation of revolutionary purity and personal freedom, a complexity
that Child mirrors in her own formal strategies. She layers multiple fragments
of Emma’s liberatory legacy--from archive, from re-enactment, and from
observational cinema--her speculative play with the revolutionary ideas
extending to the present moment of feminist revolt! Opening: The Future Is
Behind You (20 min.), a John Zorn-scored cine-poem which also celebrates
Child’s insatiable visual curiosity in the endlessly generative integration of
past and present 16mm sources.*$8
SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017
4/9
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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7pm, 24 Quincy Street
MUSEUM HOURS
Johann, a guard in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, meets Anne, who has
traveled from Canada to be with her comatose cousin. Within this alienated
atmosphere, the two strangers—portrayed by non actor Bobby Sommer with singer
and occasional actress Mary Margaret O’Hara—connect through art and jokes and
their unique paths. Unusual entities among cinematic characters, they remain
somewhat mysterious to each other and to the audience, and unlike the standard
Hollywood fate, their fate is not a romantic one. The romance in Musuem Hours
instead emerges in its luxurious philosophical meanderings and in the gently
guided exploration of public spaces and private interactions. Cohen opens the
narrative up even further by traversing time through the shared experience of
art; in particular, that of Pieter Brue gel, whose works also tend to lack a
distinct center and, in fact, draw the eye to the more inglorious elements.
Rather than elite or esoteric diversions, both Brue gel’s
paintings and Cohen’s experimental film draw the eye back down to Earth to the
mysterious, awkward pleasures of our uncelebrated, mortal pursuits. Directed by
Jem Cohen. With Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits Austria/US
2013, DCP, color, 106 min. English and German with English subtitles
4/9
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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3:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
TONY CONRAD TRIBUTE: PROGRAM 1
To celebrate the legacy and spirit of Tony Conrad, a group of his friends and
supporters have organized numerous events to take place throughout the city
during March and April. These events will include a memorial at the Clemente
Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on April 8, and performances at
ISSUE Project Room on April 7 (featuring Henry Flynt, Dan Conrad, and Lary 7);
at the Knockdown Center in Queens on April 8 (with David Grubbs & Eli Keszler,
Das Audit, and Mary Jordan); and at (Le) Poisson Rouge on April 9 (with
Charlemagne Palestine, Rhys Chatham, C. Spencer Yeh, and HEVM). For more
information visit:
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Here at Anthology we'll be participating by presenting two screenings on the
afternoon of Sunday, April 9: one featuring Conrad's seminal THE FLICKER,
supplemented with two later 16mm films, STRAIGHT AND NARROW and FILM FEEDBACK;
and a second program highlighting some of Conrad's rarely-screened and utterly
unique later video
works. Special thanks to Carol Greene, Andrew Lampert, Jay Sanders, and Paige
Sarlin. PROGRAM 1: THE FLICKER (1966, 30 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film
Archives with funding provided by The National Film Preservation Foundation.)
Conrad's instantly notorious and deservedly canonical filmmaking debut. As
astounding and intense an experience today as it was in the mid-1960s, the film
is composed of mathematically arranged alternating white and black frames and a
mechanical sounding synthesized soundtrack. STRAIGHT AND NARROW (1970, 10 min,
16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with funding provided by
The National Film Preservation Foundation.) A study in subjective color and
visual rhythm. Although it is printed on black-and-white film, the hypnotic
pacing of the images will cause viewers to experience a programmed gamut of
hallucinatory color effects. FILM FEEDBACK (1974, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, sound.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with funding
provided by The National Film Preservation Foundation.) "Made with a
film-feedback team which I directed at Antioch College. Negative image is shot
from a small rear-projection screen, the film comes out of the camera
continuously (in the dark room) and is immediately processed, dried, and
projected on the screen by the team. What are the qualities of film that may be
made visible through feedback?" -T.C. Total running time: ca. 60 min.
4/9
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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4:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
TONY CONRAD TRIBUTE: PROGRAM 2
To celebrate the legacy and spirit of Tony Conrad, a group of his friends and
supporters have organized numerous events to take place throughout the city
during March and April. These events will include a memorial at the Clemente
Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on April 8, and performances at
ISSUE Project Room on April 7 (featuring Henry Flynt, Dan Conrad, and Lary 7);
at the Knockdown Center in Queens on April 8 (with David Grubbs & Eli Keszler,
Das Audit, and Mary Jordan); and at (Le) Poisson Rouge on April 9 (with
Charlemagne Palestine, Rhys Chatham, C. Spencer Yeh, and HEVM). For more
information visit:
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Here at Anthology we'll be participating by presenting two screenings on the
afternoon of Sunday, April 9: one featuring Conrad's seminal THE FLICKER,
supplemented with two later 16mm films, STRAIGHT AND NARROW and FILM FEEDBACK;
and a second program highlighting some of Conrad's rarely-screened and utterly
unique later video
works. Special thanks to Carol Greene, Andrew Lampert, Jay Sanders, and Paige
Sarlin. PROGRAM 2: This wide-ranging program includes rare videos that Conrad
only showed during his highly memorable in-person appearances. He never
properly distributed his videos, which meant that you might see one once and
then never again. If you're only familiar with Conrad's structurally and
materially minded 16mm films of the 1960s-70s, this program will reveal a
radically different, seriously playful side of Conrad's personality. The
enormously entertaining titles listed below will be supplemented with other
vintage video works as well as documentation of Conrad's riotous performances
from the 1970s and 80s. I'VE NEVER BEEN… (2003/11, 4 min, video) LOOKERS
(1984, 4-min excerpt, video) HEIGHT 100 (1983, 10 min, video) SCANTY CLAUS
(2002, 7 min, video) WEAK BODIES AND STRONG WILLS (1986, 5 min, 16mm-to-video)
IN SANTA FE WITH TONY CONRAD AND STEINA VASULKA (2004/11, 4 min, video)
Additional
works to be announced. Total running time: ca. 80 min.
4/9
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:15 PM, 32 Second Avenue
EC: KENNETH ANGER PGM
FIREWORKS (1947, 15 min, 35mm, b&w) RABBIT'S MOON (1950-70, 15 min, 35mm) EAUX
D'ARTIFICE (1953, 13 min, 16mm) KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965, 3 min, 16mm)
SCORPIO RISING (1963, 30 min, 16mm) Poetry, psychodrama, and the occult meet in
these timeless works by one of the pioneers of the American avant-garde film.
Total running time: ca. 80 min.
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017
4/10
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
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7:30, 1329 Willoughby Ave, 2B, 11237
YES: JOSEPH MOORE/JOSH SENDER
Artists in person for Q&A. A screening evening of works by Josh Sender and
Joseph Moore as part of our emerging artist series YES. The program features
works entirely made using the tools and content offered by the internet. Among
Joseph Moore’s videos are those composed from 24-hour screen captures from
unsecured webcam feeds, with content including animals, private homes and other
subjects shot with time lapse. In Josh Sender’s works the mouse cursor scrolls
and clicks through constantly rearranged pages containing open source
3D-scanned objects borrowed from major institutions, as well as randomly
layered digital paintings, distorted empty art gallery spaces, and photographs
generated by picking fragments from the first listed images on a Wikipedia
listing. General Admission $8, Students w/ ID & Members $6. Further info:
www.microscopegallery.com, tel: 347.925.1433, i...@microscopegallery.com.
Jefferson St L (exit Starr Street).
4/10
London, England: BFI Southbank
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6.30pm., BFI Reuben Library. BFI Southbank. SE1 8XT.
BETWEEN CATEGORIES: RESEARCHING FILM MAKER AND POET MARGARET TAIT
Described by novelist Ali Smith as “A pioneer. A modernist. A far sight. A
first voice. An original. A maker.” (The Margaret Tait Years) Margaret Tait’s
work includes the short portrait on 16mm film of her mother A Portrait of Ga
(1952) and the BFI backed feature film Blue Black Permanent (1992). In this
first of four library events discussing the relationship between British
artists’ film and archival research, the author of Between Categories The Films
of Margaret Tait: Portraits, Poetry, Sound and Place (Peter Lang), talks about
her research into this unique artist, whose work includes film, poetry and
stories. Dr Neely spent over 10 years in archives, libraries and collections
from London to Orkney (Tait’s birthplace), is Senior Lecturer at the University
of Stirling and has presented Tait’s work around the world.
4/10
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
FLAHERTY NYC PRESENTS: BROKEN SENSES: PROGRAM 5: TRACING TOUCH
Eric Stewart in person and Jorge León via Skype!This transcendental program is
a tribute to the fragility and grace of the human condition. Between reality
and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit, the films
address the life-affirming possibilities of communal artistic activity and
sensorial encounters, inviting us to participate in a visual record of mourning
substantiated in celluloid. Jorge Leon: BEFORE WE GO (2014, 82 min, digital. In
English and French with English subtitles.) Eric Stewart: WAKE (2014, 8 min,
35mm-to-16mm)Total running time: ca. 95 min. Please note, due to inclement
weather, the screening on Tuesday, March 14th has been cancelled. The program
has been re-scheduled for Monday, April 10th at 7:00pm.
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017
4/11
Brooklyn, New York 11222: Light Industry
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7:30pm, 155 Freeman St
CRAIG OWENS: AN INTERVIEW
Craig Owens: An Interview, Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, video, 1984, 80
mins "It is precisely at the legislative frontier between what can be
represented and what cannot that the postmodernist operation is being
staged-not in order to transcend representation, but in order to expose that
system of power that authorizes certain representations while blocking,
prohibiting or invalidating others." - Craig Owens, "The Discourse of Others:
Feminists and Postmodernism" (1983)
4/11
Chicago, Illinois: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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6 pm, 220 E Chicago
MCA SCREEN: JESSE MALMED'S UNTITLED (JUST KIDDING)
Jesse Malmed presents a suite of videos and performances, including new works
made specifically for the event. Malmed's moving-image works channel and
channel surf the lines between conceptual comedy, dizzying illogics, the poetic
plu-future, and sustainable sourcing, to animate the cinema space with live
gestures. The sights to be seen include: a sitcommune, an actorless play, the
permeability of the screen, and new letters.
4/11
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue
NEWFILMMAKERS
For full program listings, visit www.newfilmmakers.com.
4/11
WC1N 1JD London, United Kingdom: The Horse Hospital
7:30pm, Colonnade
INFINITY LAND PRESS BOOK LAUNCH & MULTIMEDIA EVENT
Infinity Land Press presents: DARKLEAKS - THE RIPPER GENOME by Jeremy Reed &
Martin Bladh BOOK LAUNCH + MULTIMEDIA EVENT: Tues 11th April, 7:30pm
EXHIBITION: Weds 12th to Weds 19th April, 12 - 6pm The book launch will be
accompanied by readings from both authors, a sound installation by Karolina
Urbaniak and an exhibition of Martin Bladh's collages which will run till
Wednesday 19th April. Free wine for all guests and a special price for the
standard and collector's editions of the book. £5 on the doors to support
Horse Hospital. Darkleaks - The Ripper Genome is a unique collaboration between
Jeremy Reed and Martin Bladh that revisits the Jack the Ripper case from a
brave new angle. Reed and Bladh are preoccupied less with who Jack the Ripper
was than with who he became, his compulsions genetically scrambled into
amalgams of hardwired obsession that re-manifest themselves in the figures of
Ballard, Burroughs, Bacon, Peter Christopherson and Valerie Solanas, as though
history
were being driven on by the haywire velocity of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music,
backfiring for a few instants into the poetry of Baudelaire but always
centrifuged into the contemporary moment. The figure of Jack the Ripper
disintegrates into multiple entities of obsessional creativity and murderous
fixations, across London's wastelanded, scorchearthed streets, only navigable
via the blood-spurted vectors emitted from that multiplied figure's victims.
Infinitylandpress.com martinbladh.com jeremyreed.co.uk karolinaurbaniak.com
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017
4/12
Tucson, AZ: Exploded View Microcinema
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7:30, 197 E Toole Ave
PATRICK MCGUINN’S DESERT ROCK OPERA VALPURNIS:SATURAN AND LIVE POP MUSIC!
(Patrick McGuinn in person) 'Valpurnis: SatURan' (2017, 60 min. Color)
Bellowing from the mind of creator Christ Opherstein, this surreal Desert Rock
Opera (filmed in Tucson) hurls its politics and religion in your face along
with the acid anger of those disenfranchised by society. Judas has sold Jesus
to the Romans, and during the Last Supper, reflections of identity, guilt,
entitlement and outrage, Judas' ten songs take the audience hostage for a
bumpy, blindfolded ride in the back of an open jeep. Gentle Jesus in various
manifestations counters the rage with somber songs of resignation. Opening the
filmed Opus is a pre-movie live 30 minute set of distinctly different pop
songs, amounting to a highly unusual night of music assault. Brace yourself for
the blood of Christ! Afterwards, join cast, crew & director for a Q&A
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 2017
4/14
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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7pm, 24 Quincy Street
PASSAGES 2
Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo Spain 2010, digital video (orig. 16mm), color, 12
min. French with English subtitles Bury Me Not US 2016, digital video, color,
10 min World Without End (No Reported Incidents) Quite close to London, but a
million miles away, Southend-on-Sea is a town along the Thames estuary. I was
invited by an arts group there to make a portrait of the region. The film is of
everyday streets, weathers, birds, and of course, water, mud, and sky. It is
also of people. I made a series of almost random interviews with locals—not my
usual approach for a landscape or city film—but I became fascinated by the
musicality of the speech, the depths and specificity of knowledge, the odd
revelations. Are these people fully representative of the area? Not at all. As
is usual in my work, I embraced the chance encounter and rejected the very idea
of the definitive. What I discovered is that the estuary and its insistent
tides brought in not only nature and history, but
prize-winning Indian curries, an encyclopedic universe of hats, and a nearly
lost world of proto-punk music. – Jem Cohen US 2016, DCP, color, 57 min
4/14
Rochester, NY: George Eastman House
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7:30pm, 900 East Avenue
THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (2016)
An experimental documentary made up of regional vignettes about faith, force,
technology, and exodus. The film uses reenactment, archival footage,
observational shooting, intertitles, and voiceover to tell its stories, and it
is an extension of Deborah Stratman's previous works in which she questions
foundational American tenets. Discussion with filmmaker Deborah Stratman will
follow the screening.
4/14
San Francisco, California 94107: Canyon Cinema
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8pm, 1275 Minnesota St
ALTERNATIVE FACTOIDS
Fake Newsroom, Canyon Cinema Foundation, and Minnesota Street Project present
ALTERNATIVE FACTOIDS, an hour-long program of short 16mm films from the
collection of Canyon Cinema that question the veracity of cinematic images. The
program is curated by Antonella Bonfanti and Jeff Lambert and introduced by
Fake Newsroom editor Jason Fulford. Full Program: "What’s Wrong With This
Picture? 1" Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), US 1971, 16mm, b/w &
color, 5 min. "Big Story" Nina Fonoroff, US 1984, 16mm, color, 10min "What’s
Wrong With This Picture? 2" Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), US
1972, 16mm, b/w & color, 7 min. "The Black Tower" John Smith, UK 1987, 16mm,
color, 24min.
SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017
4/15
Cambridge: Harvard Film Archive
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9pm, 24 Quincy Street
COUNTING
Referring to Counting’s poetic, essay style as “life-drawing,” Cohen composes a
meditative multi-city symphony from the layers of matter—dark and light—created
and destroyed by civilization and its corporations. Primarily traversing public
spaces, Cohen documents the intimacy of the communal, the occupation of the
private, and all of the ambiguous realms in between during trips to cities like
London, Sharjah, Moscow, Porto, St. Petersburg, New York and Istanbul.
Originating from his reaction to the death of Chris Marker, Cohen captures,
with his own system of categorization and rhythm, the many layers of
information that coalesce in modern urban centers . As events in his personal
life eventually seep through and emotionally tone the landscape, Cohen’s open
structure filters just enough, allowing for the audience to make their own
narratives from his collection of observations and reflections. Directed by Jem
Cohen US 2015, DCP, color, 111 min
4/15
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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4:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE LAND IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS
by Ben Rivers. Ben Rivers's deeply unsettling yet visually and texturally
exquisite film was shot during the filming of MIMOSAS, and features Oliver Laxe
himself in the central role. Part documentary, part fable, it is a reimagining
of Paul Bowles's brutal short story, "A Distant Episode" (1947). Like MIMOSAS,
it was filmed on 16mm, against the backdrop of the Atlas Mountains and the
desert sands of the Moroccan Sahara, where Laxe is seen at work on his film.
Soon though, this version of Laxe abandons his set and his crew, and begins to
take on the role of Bowles's protagonist, a professor of linguistics travelling
through Morocco in the late 1940s who suffers a rapid descent into misadventure
and madness. Standing in strange relation to MIMOSAS, THE SKY TREMBLES displays
its own set of thematic concerns and a radically different rhythm and texture.
And yet, both films share a dreamlike trajectory, a sense of parallel realities
bleeding into each other, and a sometimes
terrifying vision of violence as an immutable feature of the landscape.
4/15
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
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8:30 PM, 992 Valencia St.
APRIL15: INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC
An *expanded* version of the 16mm show that sold out the Roxie a couple months
ago, this cult-music compilation - in addition to that mountain of sublimely
ridiculous performance - in fact doubles down on its fanboy gambit, topping it
with 3 sonic circus rings of particular interest: Mid-Century Anomalies, Black
Music of the ‘70s, and Experimental Turntablsm. And amongst all the sideshows,
the Retro, the Camp, there’s still some hearty Avant-Garde—Sun Ra, Harry
Partch, a 24-year-old Michael Tilson Thomas on prepared piano! AND Marie Osmond
reciting Schwitters, George Clinton hailing the Mothership, the Dead Boys at
CBGB's!! PLUS Spike Jones, Liberace, Tiny Tim, Village People, Heino, Cpt.
Beefheart, the Residents, Christian Marclay, Hawaiian exotica, Soundies,
Scopitones, tons more…and beer for a buck!
SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017
4/16
New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives
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4:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE LAND IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS
see 4/15 for details.
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