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This week's programs (summary): * Show and Tell: Johann Lurf <> [September 8, New York, NY] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Ellie Vanderlip <> [September 9, Oakland] * Afterimage: Collage Animations By Kelly Sears <> [September 12, Berkeley, California] * Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes <> [September 13, Los Angeles, California] * #Memoryoftheuniverse | Bayesian Poisoning <> [September 15, Los Angeles, California] * Lux Salon: Sky Hopinka <> [September 16, London, England] * Half A Life (Mourir À Trente Ans) By Romain Goupil <> [September 16, Los Angeles, California] * Cc38 - Local Show: Curator's Potluck <> [September 16, Minneapolis, Minnesota] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 9/8 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0568fdef69&e=f36020cad0> 8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue SHOW AND TELL: JOHANN LURF On the occasion of our NYC premiere screenings of his magisterial, conceptually rich feature-length film, ★ (screening from September 7-9; click here for more details), we're overjoyed to host Austrian artist and experimental filmmaker Johann Lurf for this comprehensive program of his earlier work. Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he studied under Harun Farocki, Lurf makes both films and installations. Moving freely between found-footage works and films he shoots himself, Lurf displays a profound sensitivity to the layered histories and meanings that are manifest in particular places or structures, to the revelations that can emerge from preexisting imagery, and to the properties and potentialities of his chosen media (whether film or digital video). "In the hands of Johann Lurf cinema resembles a finely tuned instrument resonating at various frequencies: analog and digital, physically overwhelming and contemplative, shot with the artist's own camera and compiled from found footage. Irreducible to a single stylistic direction, Lurf's works defy simple classification and speak to the multitude of possibilities in both making and reflecting on cinema. What ties them together is a close examination of the world and its transformation into images, a formal earnestness stripped down to the bare essentials, and a pinch of mischief shining through." -Alejandro Bachmann, AUSTRIAN FILM MUSEUM Presented with generous support from the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; special thanks to Christine Moser & Arianna Fleur Kronreif. (UNTITLED) (2003, 3 min, digital) PAN (2005, 1 min, digital) VERTIGO RUSH (2007, 19 min, digital) 12 EXPLOSIONS (2008, 6 min, digital) THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG (2009, 3 min, 35mm) ENDEAVOUR (2010, 16 min, digital) A TO A (2011, 5 min, 35mm) RECONNAISSANCE (2012, 5 min, digital, silent) PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID (2013, 5 min, 16mm, silent) TWELVE TALES TOLD (2014, 4 min, 35mm) EMBARGO (2014, 10 min, digital) CAPITAL CUBA (2015, 12 min, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 95 min. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 9/9 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=979a7d8de3&e=f36020cad0> 7:30-10PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St. Oakland, CA SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS ELLIE VANDERLIP San Francisco-based filmmaker Ellie Vanderlip takes the stage for her inaugural Shapeshifters screening with an audio-visual exploration of water—a program in four parts and four mediums. Pieces made by way of digital stop-motion animation, 16mm double projection, Super-8, and 16mm hand-bleaching and direct animation will capture the liquid's various textures and movements and examine the unifying force of water on all living beings. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 9/12 Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=4a42651bde&e=f36020cad0> 7pm, 2155 Center Street AFTERIMAGE: COLLAGE ANIMATIONS BY KELLY SEARS In Conversation Kelly Sears, Rick Prelinger. Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and professor at UC Santa Cruz. Kelly Sears creates her moody, eerie animations by cutting up and collaging materials ranging from first aid handbooks and high school yearbooks to military newsreels and exercise tapes. Turning the original content on edge through juxtaposition and written texts, voiceovers, and soundscapes, Sears’s animations plumb the dark, anxious underside of our times, drawing on the logic of conspiracy theories, fever dreams, and poetry, drifting between fiction and history. Sears says, “I like working with things that are outdated or cast off as a way of reinvigorating the material and making it resonate in today’s cultural climate.” The result is, in Craig Baldwin’s words, “witty, savvy, ironic, poetic, exhilarating, even cosmic.” THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 9/13 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=417badf119&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 pm, MOCA Grand Ave Ahmanson Theatre, 250 S. Grand Ave. DECONSTRUCTING PORTRAITURE: EMBODIED LANDSCAPES Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes presents film and video works that employ portraiture in their formally-varied visual odes to femme embodiment and its subversive potential to evade surveillance, mourn, and heal. The works in this program take as their subjects those that reside between visibility and invisibility. In this liminal space, these bodies become landscapes - sites of social and political contention. These works by Sophia Nahli Allison, Michelle Dizon, Sondra Perry, and Zina Saro-Wiwa masterfully employ moving portraiture to both contend with troubling realities and gesture towards the triumph of memory and representation. Curated by Jheanelle Brown. Tickets: $15 general; $10 for seniors; $8 for students with ID; free for Filmforum and MOCA members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3504027 or at the door. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 9/15 Los Angeles, California: Coaxial Arts Foundation 8pm-11:59pm, 1815 S Main St #MEMORYOFTHEUNIVERSE | BAYESIAN POISONING Long-time collaborators, Alysse Stepanian and Philip Mantione will perform together in a new work that incorporates Mantione’s music, Stepanian’s 3D animations and her critical analysis of American culture and politics. Mantione’s live electronics, processed guitar and music incorporate samples of vocalist, Jan Opalach and found text culled from instances of Bayesian Poisoning, a method used to undermine spam filtering. In Stepanian’s 3D animations, a mythopoeic cowwoman that embodies the memory of the universe, surveys the destructive human legacy from a posthuman world. Stepanian will perform with poetic messages juxtaposed with political and personal memes that dance on the screen to the rhythm of Mantione’s music. This performance alludes to selective memory in constructing historical narratives, and suggests an optimism that something positive can emerge from the chaos and the often-malevolent mien of humanity. Artist and writer Kelly Blunt writes, “[the videos] document the transformation of a Nietzschean female ‘Übermensch’ manifested as the mythopoeic MOTU…She is ready to confront the conscience of the universe itself, and ultimately, to heal it”. There will be musical performances also by Black Artiodactyls, Jay Howard (Circuit Wound), LoopGoat. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/294945824644809/ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2018 9/16 London, England: Lux Salon http://www.lux.org.uk <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=55900cff61&e=f36020cad0> 6pm, Waterlow Park Centre LUX SALON: SKY HOPINKA We are delighted to present the first London screening of Sky Hopinka’s work. Hopinka is an Indigenous American artist and activist whose poetic and visually complex moving image works explore personal positions of homeland and landscape, the precarity of indigenous languages and the notion of language as a container of culture. Language occupies a central place in his work, which is largely concerned with issues of language preservation and transmission. Hopinka, who is fluent in Chinuk Wawa and active teaching it, has contributed to its revival the Pacific Northwest. “Sky Hopinka’s film work scrutinizes the layered structure of identity in relation to homeland, landscape and language. Like puzzles, his films are constructed with fragmented and superimposed images. Watching them is like experiencing memories inside of a dream, their fragments recomposed without any particular order by the unconscious. This does not make the result less truthful; quite the opposite, it is more real than ever.” (Almudena Escobar López: Afterimage) wawa (2014, 6 min) Featuring speakers of chinuk wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, Wawa begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history. Kunįkaga Remembers Red Banks, Kunīkaga Remembers the Welcome Song (20114, 9 min) The video traverses the history and the memory of a place shared by both the Hočąk and the settler. Red Banks, a pre-contact Hočąk village site near present day Green Bay, WI was also the site of Jean Nicolet’s landing, who in 1634 was the first European in present day Wisconsin. Images and text are used to explore this space alongside my grandmother’s recollections. Each serve as representations of personal and shared memory, as well as representations of practices and processes of remembrance, from the Hočąk creation story, to Jean Nicolet’s landing, to the present. Jáaji Approx. (2015, 7min) Logging and approximating a relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings, of recollections and of songs, new and traditional, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect. Jáaji is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language. Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (2017, 13min) The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” - such as the historical and the present and the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa, the Chinookan creole, chinuk wawa. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act, and the empowerment of shared utility. Dislocation Blues (2017, 17 min) An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become. Fainting Spells (2018, 11 min) Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted. 9/16 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8e8d375480&e=f36020cad0> 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. HALF A LIFE (MOURIR À TRENTE ANS) BY ROMAIN GOUPIL Half a Life (Mourir À Trente Ans) by Romain Goupil (1968: Visions of Possibilities, part 8) Perhaps the best film about the May 1968 left-wing uprising in Paris (and its dispiriting aftermath), Romain Goupil’s autobiographical documentary draws upon his own ample you-are-there film footage, shot over 12 years as events unfolded. Goupil intercuts this old footage with newer material to pay tribute to his friend and fellow revolutionary Michel Recanati, a militant leader who went missing and eventually committed suicide. This winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival is undistributed in the U.S., so don’t miss seeing it in a DCP from France that is temporarily in North America. Rarely seen in the United States, Romain Goupil’s documentary chronicles his and his friends’ firsthand experiences as militant, teenage Trotskyites in 1960s France during the heyday of French student movements that culminated with the events of May 1968. Tickets: $10 general; $6 for students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://halfallife.bpt.me or at the door. 9/16 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cellular Cinema http://cellularcinema.org <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8f9891f875&e=f36020cad0> 7pm, Bryant Lake Bowl Theater CC38 - LOCAL SHOW: CURATOR'S POTLUCK For our 38th screening, and celebrating our fourth anniversary, Cellular Cinema has invited ten Minnesota-based curators of experimental film and video to each bring one work to contribute to the program! They’ll be choosing a personal favorite that they’ve seen and/or programmed in their community in the past year. Like a potluck supper, no-one knows exactly what anyone else is bringing, or how all the dishes will go together – but it’s bound to be interesting and delicious! Potluck-ers include Maret Polzine, Valérie Deus, Chelsea Alden Parker, Allen Killian-Moore, Richard Wiebe, John Akre, Ruth Hodgins, Michelle Baroody, Trevor Adams and Cameron Gainer! _____ Let us know about your alternative film/video event! Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=a667baf616&e=f36020cad0> . To receive the weekly listing via email, send a message to Subscribe <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=ef790244f2&e=f36020cad0> . <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=d0d9c39ca5&e=f36020cad0>
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