This week [May 11 - 18, 2014] in avant garde cinema
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"Meat Cycle" by Joseph Christiana
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Experimental Filmmaking Course
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, North
Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San
Vito Lo Capo (TP), Sicily,; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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Festival of (In)appropriation (Los Angeles, CA; Deadline: August 01, 2014)
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Lone Star Film Festival (Fort Worth, Tx, USA; Deadline: August 16, 2014)
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L'Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film
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DEADLINES APPROACHING:
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3rd Intervideo Talent Award (Mainz,
RheinlandPfalz, Germany; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
(Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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25 FPS Festival (Zagreb, Croatia; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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SHORTini FILM FESTIVAL (Augusta, Italy; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Ottawa Internaitonal Animation Festival (Ottawa,
ON, Canada; Deadline: May 18, 2014)
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landlocked film festival (iowa city; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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FCDEP - Festival des Cinemas Differents et
Experimentaux de Paris (Paris, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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The Picture Show (Brooklyn, NY, USA; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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INSTA Media Festival (Knoxville, TN United States; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
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Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, Québec, Canada; Deadline: June 15, 2014)
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Inte. Independent Film Festival (Rome, Italy; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival
(Varna, Bulgaria; Deadline: June 01, 2014)
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RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES SCIENCES ET CINÉMAS
(RISC) INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & FILM FESTIVAL
(Marseille, France; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, North
Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: May 31, 2014)
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VI SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (San
Vito Lo Capo (TP), Sicily,; Deadline: May 15, 2014)
http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1702.ann
THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Velvet of Night: Kerry Laitala In Person [May 11, Austin, TX]
* Michel Auder Program 2 [May 11, New York, New York]
* Michel Auder Program 3 [May 11, New York, New York]
* Notes & Sketches, Etc. [May 11, New York, New York]
* Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Chris Pew [May 11, Oakland, CA]
* Accumulations: Films By Alexander Stewart [May 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Tangled and Farm Works By Maximilian Le Cain
and vicky Langan [May 12, Brooklyn, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 1 [May 12, New York, New York]
* Essential Cinema: James Broughton Program 2 [May 12, New York, New York]
* All Circuits On: Douglas Davis & Paul Ryan [May 14, New York, New York]
* 6th Festival Screening Body Hot Trt: 58
Minutes [May 14, New York, New York]
* Films of Anne Charlotte Robertson [May 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Essential Cinema: Clair/Picabia/BuñUel/Dali
Program [May 15, New York, New York]
* Desire(E): We Are Not Really Interested In the Restrained Sexuality of
Our Shrinks [May 15, Paris, France]
* Walter Ungerer With His Films - May 16 & 17 [May 16, Brattleboro, VT, USA]
* Cinema Babylon [May 16, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Evidence of Film: New Works By Brian L.
Frye [May 17, Brooklyn, New York]
* Headboggle + Tommy Becker + vision Nocturna
[May 17, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014
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5/11
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://ercatx.org
6:00pm, 29th Street Ballroom, 2906 Fruth Street
VELVET OF NIGHT: KERRY LAITALA IN PERSON
$8 / ERC Pass - The lustrous works of Kerry Laitala are journeys into
realms where buoyant spirits commingle with fiery forces of nature. From
the lush poetics of her early works such as Retrospectroscope and Secure
the Shadow, to her complex, often troubling investigations into the
relationship between consciousness, identity and the human body, to her
playful reveries on early cinema, to her most recent work, bridging
precinema technologies with digital renderings in eye-popping 3D
Chromadepth, Kerry's work revels in the magic of the moving image.
Working with equal dexterity in film, video, installation and live
performance, Kerry Laitala's work is a panchromatic celebration for the
eyes, ears, heart and psyche. PROGRAM: The Adventure Parade 5 min / 16mm
/ silent / 2000; Out of the Ether 11 min / 16mm / sound / 2003;
Retrospectroscope 16mm / silent / 1997; Hallowed 11 min / 16mm / sound /
2002; Secure the Shadow
'Ere the Substance Fade 9 min / 16mm / sound /
1997; Conquered 15 min / 16mm / sound / 2000; Spectrology 11 min / 16mm
/ sound / 2009; Velvet of Night 12 min / 16mm expanded cinema work /
sound on Ipod / 2012 Moving Image by Kerry Laitala, Sound by John Davis.
Details at www.ercatx.org.
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
3:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MICHEL AUDER PROGRAM 2
The fictional autobiography CHASING THE DRAGON presents a day in the
life of hero/anti-hero Eric Bogosian. Consisting of both personal
archive and directed scenes, the protagonist of this film functions as a
transparent proxy through which Auder explores his relationships, drug
abuse, and daily life in the 1980s East Village. TAYLOR MEAD "SPECIAL"
focuses on actor, poet, and Warhol superstar Taylor Mead. Comprised of
footage shot over 12 years, this work follows Mead's life in NYC,
capturing his many spontaneous performances and monologues. Much of this
footage has been recycled from Auder's 1976 cable access show THOR'S DAY
VIDEO. This work stands as a revealing portrait of Mead and an intimate
look at his and Auder's friendship. CHASING THE DRAGON 1971-87, edited
1987, 43.5 min, video, b&w/color & TAYLOR MEAD "SPECIAL" 1976-79, 43
min, video, b&w
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
MICHEL AUDER PROGRAM 3
This program collects works made during the period Auder spent living
with Warhol Superstar Viva and their daughter Alex in the Chelsea Hotel.
By chronicling his life in Apt. 714, he introduces us to Nico, Patti
Smith, Gregory Corso, Harry Smith, Jean Pierre Léaud, Brigid Polk, and
Andy Warhol. In these moments we see how social life at the Chelsea
Hotel was a blend of performance, gossip, and cultural production.
COCKETTES 1971, edited 2002, 28 min, video, b&w THE MEETING OF GREGORY
CORSO CHELSEA H. 1970, edited 2014, 7 min, video, b&w CHILDREN PLAY
SLEEP CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 5 min, video, b&w HARRY SMITH
CALLS THE DALAI LAMA CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 4.5 min, video,
b&w JEAN PIERRE KALFON NUDE CHELSEA HOTEL 1972, edited 2009, 1.5 min,
video, b&w CHELSEA GIRLS WITH ANDY WARHOL 1971-76 (EXCERPT: BRIGID, VIVA
& ANDY) edited 1994, 28.5 min, video, b&w VIVA AND 2 ARRESTED FOR
RESISTING POLICEMAN 1972, edited 2014, 6 min, video, b&w ANDY WARHOL
POLAROID VIVA CHELSEA HOTEL 1971, edited 2009, 3 min, video, b&w
CHELSEA CATS 1971, edited 2009, 7 min, video, b&w Total running time:
ca. 95 min.
5/11
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
NOTES & SKETCHES, ETC.
by Jonas Mekas 75-90 min, digital video Jonas Mekas is widely
acknowledged as the father of the 'diary film', and today he continues
to keep his video camera constantly at his side, recording his daily
experience with a peerlessly poetic eye. While he continues to produce
and release 'official' works from the footage he produces, he also
values this material precisely for its informal, unprocessed, unfinished
qualities. On each calendar we screen one program of Mekas's ongoing
video diaries, an opportunity to see his 'notes & sketches' in their
purest state. "This program is a continuation of the ongoing video notes
and sketches that I make with my video camera as I go through my life.
They are casual, and of little importance, with no pretentions to art,
cinema art or any art, but I feel an urge to share them with my
friends." J.M.
5/11
Oakland, CA: Shapeshifters Cinema
http://shapeshifterscinema.com/
8:00pm, TAC: Temescal Art Center, 511 48th Street
SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS CHRIS PEW
Merging the dynamic and often polar worlds of science and art, Oakland
artist Chris Pew explores ideas of a complex cosmos and different
trajectories for the unobservable universe. Utilizing various digital
and analog techniques for motion and sound, these ideas are brought
together and presented in an abstract narrative. Chris Pew will be
presenting a 20-30 minute live performance based around fundamental
assumptions for building an abstract cosmology. Afterwords he will be
presenting a mix of previously shown and undisplayed video work.
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MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014
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5/12
Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7:00 PM, 119 Ingraham located in Brooklyn Fireproof gallery
ACCUMULATIONS: FILMS BY ALEXANDER STEWART
Millennium Film Workshop presents a program of films by Chicago artist
and filmmaker Alexander Stewart. Representing nine years of work, this
program demonstrates Stewart's ongoing interests in abstract animation
and experimental film. The films collectively reveal a fascination with
gradual accumulation of marks and movements; with self-imposed
challenges and limitations; and with the legacies of structural film and
psychedelic cinema. Included in the lineup is his 2005 film Errata, an
abstract animation made using photocopiers; Crux Film, an animation made
with his frequent collaborator Lilli Carré; and the New York premiere of
Fort Morgan, a six-years-in-the-making piece exploring a star-shaped
brick fort near Stewart's hometown on the Alabama Gulf Coast. Also
featured in the program are several projects representing Stewart's
recent work with musicians: What I Want, a found-footage film with a
score by Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake), and music videos for Chicago
bands Disappears and Acteurs. BIO: Alexander Stewart is an artist and
filmmaker living in Chicago. His short films have been screened in
festivals internationally, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the
Tribeca Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and
ImageForum in Japan. In 2010 he co-founded the Eyeworks Festival of
Experimental Animation, an annual festival he directs with Lilli Carré.
He teaches animation at DePaul University in Chicago. PROGRAM: Errata,
2005, 6:00, 16mm. Crux Film, 2013, 5:07, HD. Collaboration with Lilli
Carré.? 100 Foot Pull, 2010, 2:45, 16mm 100 Foot Ride, 2010, 2:45,
16mm 4000 Frame Throw (Pitchin' Machine), 2011, 2:45, 16mm The Battle of
the Stand-Stills, 2010, 15:45, HD? Disappears, Power, music video.
2013, 4:15, HD Acteurs, Cloud Generating, music video. 2013, 4:07, 16mm
on HD What I Want, 2013, 6:25, NTSC. Sound by Sam Prekop.? Very
Similar To, 2009, 2:45, 16mm. Collaboration with Peter Miller. Fort
Morgan, 2014, 22:00, 16mm on HD.? Peacock, 2014, 5:00, 16mm on HD.
Sound by Jeremy Lemos.? 16mm and video, approx. 75 mins.
5/12
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btw Bushwick & Evergreen)
TANGLED AND FARM WORKS BY MAXIMILIAN LE CAIN AND VICKY LANGAN
admission $6 artists in person (visiting from Ireland).The evening
includes a selection of short videos made during the last four years,
half by Le Cain as a solo artist and the other half as collaborations
with Langan. Since 2010, the two have been working together in a
creative audio-visual partnership built on the relationship between
"Langan's magnetic, often troublingly intense presence as a performer
and Le Cain's jarring disruptive visual rhythms." MAXIMILIAN LE CAINis
an experimental filmmaker based in Cork, Ireland. He frequently works in
partnership with sound/performance artist Vicky Langan, and collaborates
with Esperanza Collado on the multidisciplinary art project Operation
Rewrite. He is a member of the Experimental Film Society collective and
the Cinema Cyanide noise project. He is also a film programmer and
critic. He was film curator for "Black Sun", Cork's regular experimental
music/film event, and is editor of Cork Film Centre's online
experimental film journal Experimental Conversations. VICKY LANGAN (born
1986) is an Irish artist whose practice operates across several often
overlapping fields, chiefly live art, sound, and experimental film. Also
a curator, she is known for "Black Sun", a regular weirdo/outer limits
music/film night that took place in Cork and through which she brought
many renowned makers of strange sounds from around the world to play in
Ireland for the first time. FULL PROGRAM and other info at
www.microscopegallery.com. t: 347.925.1433, i...@microscopegallery.com.
Nearest subway J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway.
5/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 1
FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (1951, 15 min, 16mm, b&w) THE PLEASURE GARDEN
(1953, 38 min, 35mm, b&w) THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) Three films by an
American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy
of living. If there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the
master of it. Total running time: ca. 80 min.
5/12
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JAMES BROUGHTON PROGRAM 2
THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm) DREAMWOOD (1972, 45 min, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 80 min.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014
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5/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave.
ALL CIRCUITS ON: DOUGLAS DAVIS & PAUL RYAN
Anthology and our close colleague Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) once
again fire-up our occasional series ALL CIRCUITS ON to pay homage to
recently departed media artists and theorists Douglas Davis and Paul
Ryan, both of whom were major figures in the Marshall McLuhan-influenced
dawn of video and personal television that ALL CIRCUITS ON was created
to celebrate. Paul Ryan spent four-and-a-half years studying in a
Catholic monastic order before going on to work with McLuhan from
1967-68, launching his own focus on the impact of media and
communications systems on human experience. What Ryan recognized was not
just the rise of video as a new medium or technology, but the dawn of a
new electronic culture. A founding member of the early video collective
Raindance, Ryan authored seminal texts on video, including articles for
the landmark journal RADICAL SOFTWARE (1970-74), and the book
CYBERNETICS OF THE SACRED (1974). Douglas Davis was architecture and art
critic for Newsweek magazine from 1969-88. His often hysterical and
visionary videos directly engaged with the development of interactive
technologies. He joined Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys in 1977 for the
first live international satellite telecast by artists, transmitted from
Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany. In 1994, he was commissioned by the
Lehman College/CUNY Art Gallery to create a participatory project for
the World Wide Web, an early and significant net art piece entitled THE
WORLD'S FIRST COLLABORATIVE SENTENCE. This program brings together
significant works from each artist along with selected readings from
their classic writings by special guests. PAUL RYAN: Ira Schneider
Excerpt from TV AS A CREATIVE MEDIUM 1969-84, 12 min, video, b&w
Raindance PROTO MEDIA PRIMER 1971, 16 min, video, b&w Raindance Excerpt
from THE RAYS 1970, 23 min, video, b&w This selection, beginning with an
early installation in Howard Wise's landmark exhibition TV AS A CREATIVE
MEDIUM a video confessional for visitors that personalized their
relationship to television surveys Paul Ryan's use of video as a tool
for dynamic communication. His PROTO MEDIA PRIMER for the collective
Raindance, which includes a meta-critique of a store's closed-circuit
surveillance system, or the playful beach scene captured in THE RAYS, in
which the collective passes their video camera around "like a joint"
while theorizing on the nature of television, are poignant testaments to
his vision of a more participatory media culture. DOUGLAS DAVIS: Douglas
Davis POST-VIDEO 1981, 29 min, video POST-VIDEO is an anthology of the
video, film, and performance works produced by Davis from 1976-80, with
commentary by John Hanhardt, who was then Curator of Film and Video at
the Whitney Museum of American Art. In Hanhardt's analysis, this work
centers on "the appropriation of satellite communication technologies to
create aesthetic texts," as well as the artistic exploration of "the
true communication potential and resources of global communication."
Excerpts include SEVEN THOUGHTS (1976), a satellite radio piece in the
Houston Astrodome; THE LAST NINE MINUTES (1977), a satellite performance
in which Davis attempts to break down the barrier between artist and
viewer; HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO YOUR TELEVISION SET (1979), an interactive
performance piece; FOUR PLACES TWO FIGURES ONE GHOST (1977), in which
two performances were created simultaneously for telecast and for the
Whitney Museum; and two films, SILVER SCREEN (1979) and POST MODERN
TIMES (1980).
5/14
New York, New York: ANOTHER EXPERIMENT BY WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL Screening
http://anotherexperimentbywomenfilmfestival.com/
7:30 PM, anthology film archives
6TH FESTIVAL SCREENING BODY HOT TRT: 58 MINUTES
ASTRONOMY DOMINE; Ellen Sylvarnes; digi; TRT: 2.18 heartbeat; Ursula
Sommer; USA; 16MM to digi; TRT: 5.00 UPBEAT NOTHING-NESS; Leila
Jarman; USA/Germany; digi; TRT: 3:14 CINAMNESIA; Nicola Walkerden;
Australia 16mm to digi; TRT: 5.09 I SNAKE-FOOT; Lili White; digi; TRT:
5.18 ISTEN BÁRÁNYA| / AGNUS DEI; Reka Szucs; Hungary; 8MM & SUPER8 to
digi; TRT: 10:36 INVERSION; Linda Fenstermaker; 16mm to digi; TRT:
13.00 VED'MA; Cornelia Eichhorn; digi; TRT: 14.00
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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014
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5/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St.
FILMS OF ANNE CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON
$5 / Influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Ed Pincus and Carolee
Schneemann, Anne Charlotte Robertson (19492012) was a Boston area Super
8 filmmaker who examined and shared her life through her worka mix of
essay, performance and stop-motion animation. Anne completed her
graduate degree at Massachusetts College of Art in the 1980shoning her
filmmaking skills under the tutelage of Saul Levine. Diagnosed with
various and changing mental disorders, Anne faced several breakdowns and
mental hospitalsexperiences she documented and exorcised thoroughly
through her filmsparticularly within the annals of Five Year Diary
(19811997), 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 dialoguesfrom 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. Program: Reel 1: The
Beginning, Thanksgiving; Reel 22: A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy
(1982); Apologies (19831990); My Cat My Garden and 9/11 (2011).
5/15
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm , 32 2nd Ave.
ESSENTIAL CINEMA: CLAIR/PICABIA/BUñUEL/DALI PROGRAM
René Clair & Francis Picabia ENTR'ACTE (1924, 22 min, 35mm, b&w) A
masterpiece of Dada and a feat of cinema magic. Made as intermission
entertainment for the Ballet Suédois from an impromptu scene by Francis
Picabia. Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1928, 22 min,
35mm, b&w) Twenty-two minutes of pure, scandalous dream-imagery, a
stream of images from which anything that could be given a rational
meaning was rigorously excluded. It's still the unsurpassed masterpiece
of the surrealist cinema. Luis Buñuel LAND WITHOUT BREAD / LAS HURDES:
TIERRA SIN PAN (1932, 28 min, 35mm, b&w. With English narration.) "A
documentary describing, matter-of-factly, a region of Spain so ravaged
by epidemic poverty that there our worst fantasies find their objective
correlative." Raymond Durgnat Total running time: ca. 75 min.
5/15
Paris, France: Collectif Jeune Cinema
http://www.cjcinema.org/
8:30pm, 34, rue Daubenton
DESIRE(E): WE ARE NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN THE RESTRAINED SEXUALITY OF
OUR SHRINKS
avec des films de Solomon Nagler (Canada), Kunihiko Nakagawa (Japon),
Patrice Enard (France), Zapruder Filmmakers group (Italie), Alice
Colomer Kang (Chine/France), Justine Pluvinage (France) -
"Voilà, maintenant la chair est encore intacte : la toison
noire et le ventre blanc, la courbe molle des hanches, la taille
étroite et les seins nacrés qui se soulèvent au
gré d'une respiration rapide, dont maintenant le rythme se
précipite encore. Toi tout contre elle, un genou en terre, tu te
penches davantage. La tête aux longs cheveux bouclés, qui
seule a conservé quelque liberté de mouvement, s'agite, se
débat, la bouche de la fille s'ouvre et se tord, tandis que la
chair cède, le sang jaillit sur la peau tendre, tendue, les yeux
noirs s'agrandissent de façon démesurée, la bouche
s'ouvre plus encore, la tête va de droite et de gauche, avec
violence, une dernière fois, puis plus doucement, pour à
la fin retomber en arrière et s'immobiliser dans la masse des
cheveux noirs" (A. Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie).
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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014
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5/16
Brattleboro, VT, USA: Center for Digital Art
www.centerfordigitalart.com
7 PM, 74 Cotton Mill Hill
WALTER UNGERER WITH HIS FILMS - MAY 16 & 17
Walter Ungerer will be present with two days of his work, recent and
early films including THE SYRACUSE TAPES, A WARM DAY COMES AFTER A COLD
WINTER, KINGSBURY BEACH and UBI EST TERRAM OOBIAE?. The selection
includes older 16mm films, but not the long form narrative films he
produced when living in Vermont: THE ANIMAL, THE HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS,
THE WINTER THERE WAS VERY LITTLE SNOW, and LEAVING THE HARBOR. Though
Ungerer continues to tour with his films, this is an opportunity to see
a considerate selection of films from a 50 year career of a filmmaker
originally connected with the New York Underground.
5/16
Brooklyn, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/
7:00 PM, 119 Ingraham Street
CINEMA BABYLON
Please join us at Millennium Film Workshop for a Friday program of
emerging filmmakers experimenting with narrative form. //// With work
by: Rachel Maclean, Stephen Quinlan, Michael Bucuzzo, Lindsay Denniberg,
Cate Giordano, Gina Marie Napolitan, Christina Kolozsvary, //// (Four
filmmakers in attendance) //// Part of a larger traveling screening
series, Cinema Babylon will tour in venues across the US this coming
Fall to share the work with like-minded film communities. ////
Programmed by surrealux.com //// Millennium is located at Brooklyn
Fireproof Cafe, 119 Ingraham Street in Brooklyn, NY off the Morgan Ave
Stop on the L line.
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SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2014
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5/17
Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery
http://www.microscopegallery.com
7pm (d, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btw Bushwick & Evergreen)
THE EVIDENCE OF FILM: NEW WORKS BY BRIAN L. FRYE
Admission $6, artist in person. Microscope welcomes Brian L. Frye back
to the gallery for "The Evidence of the Film", a rare solo screening of
new works. In this program, Frye presents three new films, each using
archival evidentiary footage from separate court cases. In two of the
works, the material had been previously used as a kind of 'objective'
source of information to support specific claims during court
proceedings. They are offered as a truth, an omnipresent judge. But what
can be the true value of film in these cases? What does it tell us and
what is left out? Is it, indeed, objective, or does there enter an
element of performance, a point of view? And if so, whose and in what
context? In the third work, Frye uses images from the 1961 trial of Nazi
SS Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Here, Frye has
manipulated the footage through multiple rephotographing. Brian L. Frye
is a filmmaker, writer, and professor of law. His films explore
relationships between history, society, and cinema through archival and
amateur images. Fyre's films have been shown by The Whitney Museum, New
York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, New York Underground Film
Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Warhol Museum, Media
City and Images Festival. His films are in the permanent collection of
The Whitney Museum. His writing on film has appeared in October, The New
Republic, Film Comment and the Village Voice. A Professor of Law at the
University of Kentucky, his legal scholarship concerns interactions
between the law and the arts, focusing on issues relating to nonprofit
organizations and intellectual property. Brian is a Creative Capital
grantee and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of
Independent Film" in 2012. Full program and additional info:
www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433,
i...@microscopegallery.com. Nearest Subway: J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway.
5/17
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30pm, 992 Valencia Street
HEADBOGGLE + TOMMY BECKER + VISION NOCTURNA
Celebrating the resonances between contemporary video and sound art,
this program proffers a party platter of creative projects that work the
edge between disciplines. Headlining: the histrionic antics of Derek G,
AKA Head-boggle. Derek's analog synth compositions follow those of Tommy
Becker, back by popular demand with two new pieces: Song for the Pain
Body and Song for the Discarded. Initiating tonight's electronic
synesthesia are the moody soundscapes of Everrett Thompson and Nico
Cevallos of Vision Nocturna. Bridging the live acts are choice
selections from the brand-new I Dream of Wires, detailing the
present-day revival of the modular synthesizer. PLUS Delia Derbyshire,
Bruce Haack, Auroratone, and Painleve's Sex Life of an Octopus. $7.
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