This week [March 5 - 12, 2000] in avant garde cinema
Scott Stark
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SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2000
3/5
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
REPRESENTING REALITY
5:30pm: Artists in person. Curated by Minette Hillyer and Carrie Panzer.
Students speak with a myriad of confessional, oppositional, comic voices,
leaving far behind any notion of a single, authorial voice within
documentary film. In a year dominated by media sensationalism, many of UC
Berkeley's 1999 student filmmakers utilized the cinematic medium to both
positively exploit and speak against the power of the moving image. ON
STRIKE! ETHNIC STUDIES 1969-1999 (Irum Shiekh, 1999) documents the historic
struggle to maintain the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of
California and focuses on the student perspective of the highly publicized
hunger strike that occurred during the spring of 1999. (C)(TM) (Nathan
Gunn, 1999) provides an exposé on the effects of MTV, violence in the
media, and a contemporaneous view of the events at Columbine High School. I
OF MOTION...US OF MOVEMENT (Vivian Lin, Brooke Ashe, January Cano, Eli
Jacobs-Fantauzzi, 1999) explores the elements of hip-hop and the pioneering
women who are proving that they are talented in this male-dominated
subculture. TELLING IT (Sara Pellegrini, 1999) explores home video making
and the role of the father as "chief documentarian" in the chronicles of
family history. Also screening are: THE WILL TO MOVE (Jennifer Houst, Laura
Merians, 1999); GORDON BOWERS, KOREAN FILM SUPERSTAR (David Gottlieb,
1999); and DOCUMENTARY COCKTAIL (Erik Cho, 1999). The program title is
taken from Bill Nichols's book REPRESENTING REALITY. The Pacific Film
Archive is located at 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. For more information,
call (510) 642-5249.
3/5
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado-Boulder
SUNDAY EVENING WITH BRAKHAGE
7:30pm: Each Sunday evening Stan Brakhage is host for a gathering of
friends and film buffs to view films and videotapes from his incredible
collection. Often viewers will see a world premiere of the latest Brakhage
film. Most evenings those in attendance stay after the showing to talk
about a wide variety of subjects with Stan. These gatherings are held in
room N141 of the Fine Arts building on the Boulder Campus of the University
of Colorado. All are encouraged to attend and the showings are free.
3/5
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/
BEN SHAHN'S CINEMATIC WORLD: AVANT-GARDE PROGRAM
4pm: The exhibition "Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern
Times," at the the Arthur M. Sackler Museum through April 30, 2000, is the
occasion for the presentation of two film programs that evoke the film
culture of the 1930s and the particular passions of Ben Shahn, a lifelong
cinéphile who called film the "master medium," believing that it appealed
to all the senses. This program focuses on what film archivist
Jan-Christopher Horak has called the "Lovers of Cinema," the first
generation of American avant-gardists who entered film as independents and
worked to further the cause of film art. The program will be introduced by
Jenna Webster, curatorial assistant, Department of Photographs, Fogg Art
Museum. Films will inlcude MANHATTA (Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler,
1921), PANTHER WOMAN OF THE NEEDLE TRADES (Ralph Steiner, 1931), PIE IN THE
SKY (Ralph Steiner and the Members of the Group Theater, 1934), SKYSCRAPERS
(Robert Florey, 1929), A BRONX MORNING (Jay Leyda, 1931) and MR.
MOTORBOAT'S LAST STRAND (Theodore Huff and John A. Flory, 1933). This
screening will take place at the Archive, the Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge. For more information, call the
Archive at (617) 495-4700.
3/5
Chicago, Illinois: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://www1.artic.edu/saic/art/filmcntr/
THE BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
1pm: Black Maria (launching its 19th year) has become the premiere
traveling showcase for independent film, especially experimental film and
video. Tonight's program, selected and presented by John Columbus, will
feature short experimental films and videos. Festival jurors this year were
David Callahan, Kathy High, Jytte Jensen, Mark McElhatten and Ana Ramos.
This screening will take place at the Film Center for The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, Columbus Drive at Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL. For
more information, call (312) 345-3588.
3/5
London, England: The Lux
http://www.lea.org.uk/home_frm.html
WALK
WALK, by Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin, is a digital video installation
featuring Fleeting visions of a journey by foot between dusk and nightfall
along a London canal. A one hour take, there and back. This installation is
in the Lux Centre Foyer, 2-4 Hoxton Square, London N1 6NU, and will be on
display from March 1 to April 2. For more information, call the Lux Centre
for Film, Video and Digital Arts at 020 7684 0200.
3/5
New York, New York: La Vista Downtown Cinema Club
http://www.nationalprojects.com/lavista/index.html
MUSIC, DANCE, OTHER
7:30pm: An evening of short films. REBEKKA GOES DOWN THE SLIDE (1985): With
the liberating accompaniment of Pete Seeger, a young girl describes her
first solo flight (down slide) for an audience expecting apprehension,
tragedy, celebration, and maternal affiliation. It's in there. CONCERTO
GROSSO MODO (1985): A combination of live-action and cell animation in this
musical journey. TRUMAN (1990): Gym class is the setting of a heart
wrenching tale. How under-developed is your upper body? DINOSAURS, THE
TERRIBLE LIZARDS (1986): The masters of yesteryear depicted in an animation
of 3-D models. They are still roaming the walls of this great city! All of
your favorites are here, and it's not in slide form. ANTIWAR PROTEST
(1969): From the Protest Series by Archives Unlimited. Presents American
protests against World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and
explores how these affected all members of society. A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY
FOR CAMERA (1945): Maya Deren's pas de deux for camera and dancer (Talley
Beatty). Deren no longer documents dance, but makes a film of dance. WAIT
(1968): Ernie Gehr employs gesture, position (instead of motion), and light
to portray the interaction of two people in a room. COVERT ACTION (1984):
Part of Abigail Child's series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? Engaging the
erotic gesture, "the result [in Child's words] is a narrative developed by
its periphery, a story like rumor: impossible to trace, disturbing,
explosive." FILM WITH THREE DANCERS (1970): Ed Emshwiller, known for his
earlier experiments combining dance and film, captures the movement of
three dancers (Carolyn Carlson, Emery Hermans, and Bob Beswick) in
stylized, naturalistic and abstract images. La Vista is located at 303 East
8th Street, New York City, and admission is free.
3/5
New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop
http://www.sirius.com/~sstark/org/mill/mill.html
THE BEMUSED TOURIST: FILMS BY ARTHUR AND CORINNE CANTRILL
8pm: Australian filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill will introduce a
program of Super 8 Kodachrome films shot in Bali and Java, Indonesia. AGUNG
GIVES IVOR A HAIRCUT: the haircut given in a Yogyakarta courtyard garden;
an island of quiet and green: palms and fruit trees, with the soundtrack
indicating great unseen human activity pressing in on all sides. THE
BEMUSED TOURIST: BOGOR TO BANDUNG: from old Bandung's decaying colonial
buildings where traditional ways intersect with modern life, we join
Indonesian tourists on a pilgrimage to a scenic place in the nearby
mountains. THE PAUSE BETWEEN FRAMES: single-frame impressions of details,
textures, colours, forms, around Ubud, in Bali, and finishing on the
stillness of a lotus pond. The pauses or intervals of time between shooting
each frame have evaporated. WALKING TO YEH PELU: a walk from Ubud, Bali,
through a rural setting, past temple sites, rice terraces flowing with
water, to an ancient religious site with an unusually powerful emanation of
some early, authentic, spiritual meaning. DAYS IN UBUD: Balinese people at
work in the rice fields, building, repairing temples, doing road works,
working in the markets, and participating in a religious ceremony and
procession. RAMAYANA/LEGONG: traditional Balinese dance-drama filmed with
time exposures on each frame, yielding magical traces of golden light from
the dancers. JALAN RAYA, UBUD: which speaks of the impact on traditional
life in a Balinese village by tourism and traffic, with repeated shots of
the main street, single-frame impressions, and views from a street-side
café. Millennium is located at 66 East 4th Street, New York City. For more
information, call (212) 673-0090.
3/5
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
WORD TO IMAGE: CINEMA INSPIRED BY POEMS
7:30pm: Curated and presented by Konrad Steiner. Tonight's is the first in
a series of programs presenting films inspired by and addressing poetry.
Steiner: "These works were chosen to exemplify various techniques of
marrying two arts: Cinema and Poetry. Poetry, the art of utterance, and
cinema, the art of showing, don't easily make a good couple. But these
artists have taken up the challenge by responding to the spirit and the
letter of the poet, creating original cinematic writing. Cinema and
language meet head on, not unified as in conventional film, but remaining
distinct and dancing, stepping on toes, wooing each other with the charms
of mouth and eye and mind." Works include: SONGS OF DEGREES: WITH A
VALENTINE and AS TO HOW MUCH by Peter Herwitz; UNDER A BROAD GRAY SKY by
Thad Povey; WATERWORX by Rick Hancox; VIDEO HAIKAI by Marcus Nascimento;
WHAT HAPPENED TO KEROUAC (Excerpt) by Nathaniel Dorsky; Abigail Child's
PREFACES; Henry Hills' KINO DA!; Martha Colburn's WHAT'S ON; Jim Flannery's
PHOTOHELIOGRAPH; and Stan Brakhage's FIRST HYMN TO THE NIGHT: NOVALIS. This
event will take place at the San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut
Street, San Francisco. For more information, call the Cinematheque at (415)
558-8129.
3/5
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
SURREAL ANIMATION
8:30pm: From the private and very rare collection of San Francisco
animation guru Karl Cohen comes this collection of inspired and inventive
classic animation of the most surreal kind. Included among this tremendous
collection are stunning works by the giants of animation including Tex
Avery, Max Fleischer, Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones. A startling,
incongruous, nutty mix that rivals Dali himself. Don't miss! This screening
is at the Blinding Light, 36 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada; for more
information, call (604) 878-3366.
3/5
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.billburg.com/ocularis/
TWO OR THREE THINGS BUT NOTHING FOR SURE AND ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL
7 and 9:30pm: A screening of Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio's TWO
OR THREE THINGS BUT NOTHING FOR SURE (1996), followed by ALI: FEAR EATS THE
SOUL (R.W. Fassbinder, 1974). Ocularis is at Galapagos Art and Performance
Space, 70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent Avenues) in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For more information, call (718) 388-8713.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2000
3/6
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado-Boulder
THE BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
7:30pm: Black Maria (launching its 19th year) has become the premiere
traveling showcase for independent film, especially experimental film and
video. Tonight's program, selected and presented by John Columbus, will
feature short experimental films and videos. Festival jurors this year were
David Callahan, Kathy High, Jytte Jensen, Mark McElhatten and Ana Ramos.
This event will take place at the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Auditorium of the
University of Colorado in Boulder. For more information, call (303)
492-1531.
3/6
Minneapolis, Minnesota: City Club Cinema
http://www.nationalprojects.com/cityclub/index.html
AN EVENING WITH THE NATIONAL PROJECTS EXPLORERS CLUB
8pm: "Te Pito O Te Henua": Journey to the Navel of the World! Join the
National Projects Explorers Club as we journey through an evening of pure
cinematic excitement. We'll navigate precarious waterways with Lewis and
Clark, sink into the beautiful blue off the Island of Palau, and top off
our evening by constructing a balsa raft and sailing it across the South
Pacific to demonstrate the possibility of aboriginal South American voyages
to obscure Oceanic islands. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to swap
survival stories, compare compasses, check your maps, and sign on for the
expedition of a lifetime. We will journey to the navel of the world! The
City Club Cinema is located at Grumpy's Bar and Grill, 1111 Washington
Avenue S.E, Minneapolis.
3/6
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art/Cineprobe
http://www.sirius.com/%7Esstark/org/moma/moma.html
THE FILMS OF ARTHUR AND CORINNE CANTRILL
6pm: This forum with independent and/ or avant-garde filmmakers is in its
thirty-second season. The series introduces audiences to short films
spanning several years of an artist's work, or presents the artist's most
recent films. Australian filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill will
introduce a program including: MYSELF WHEN FOURTEEN a rotoscope/optical
printer analysis of movement in footage shot 20 years previously, which is
also an investigation of the ways the human face is read and recognised.
Also a series of 3-colour separation films filmed on regular and hi-con B&W
negative and printed onto Eastmancolor stock, generating highly saturated
plays of "out of gamut" colour. They are CITY OF CHROMATIC INTENSITY (will
colour exist when there is no one left to see it?), GARDEN OF CHROMATIC
DISTURBANCE (does colour exist where there is no light?), IVOR PAINTS ARF
ARF, and CITY OF CHROMATIC DISSOLUTION. Other films are a series of single
frame articulations, shot on Super 8 and enlarged to 16mm, such as AIREY'S
INLET: a discontinuous frame-by-frame film of a coastal scene intercut with
a painting of the same landscape, ARTICULATED IMAGE: a discontinuous
frame-by-frame film of a banana palm lit by a decorative lead-light window,
"articulated" by inter-shot black frames, and ILLUMINATIONS OF THE MUNDANE:
brief, ambiguous details of obliquely lit objects and patches of textured
light, with wind-blown shadows, in the house and garden. This screening
will take place at the Titus 2 Theater, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West
53 Street, New York City. For more information, call (212) 708-9400.
3/6
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.billburg.com/ocularis/
DOCUMENTARY FROM THE VAULT: CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (CHRONIQUE D'UN ÉTÉ )
8:30pm: Alluding to Vertov, sociologist Edgar Morin first coined the term
cinema verité in reference to this ground-breaking film, made with
ethnographic storyteller Jean Rouch. CHRONICLE was shot in Paris one year
before the end of the Algerian War with one of the first sync-sound
cameras. Rouch's "catalytic" camera provokes its subjects to reveal
intimacies and truths, ennui and struggle as they "perform" their lives. A
remarkable experiment with film and reality. Ocularis is at Galapagos Art
and Performance Space, 70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent Avenues)
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For more information, call (718) 388-8713.
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2000
3/7
Amherst, Massachusetts: Hampshire College
http://www.hampshire.edu/localhome.shtml
CHROMATIC ARTICULATION: FILMS BY ARTHUR AND CORINNE CANTRILL
7.30 pm: Australian filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill will introduce a
program including: MYSELF WHEN FOURTEEN, CITY OF CHROMATIC INTENSITY,
GARDEN OF CHROMATIC DISTURBANCE, IVOR PAINTS ARF ARF, CITY OF CHROMATIC
DISSOLUTION, AIREY'S INLET, ARTICULATED IMAGE and ILLUMINATIONS OF THE
MUNDANE. (For information on these films, see the MoMA/Cineprobe
description for March 6.) All are encouraged to attend and the showing is
free. For more information, contact Abraham Ravett at at
ara...@hampshire.edu.
3/7
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
FRENCH AVANT-GARDE SHORTS
7:30pm: Joel Adlen on Piano. Tonight's program of French avant-garde films
includes both classics and oddities. In Eugène Deslaw's MONTPARNASSE
(1930), colorful Paris locales are beautifully and rhythmically brought to
life. PACIFIC 231 (1949/59) by Jean Mitry, film historian and cofounder of
the Cinémathèque Française, is an elegant interpretation of the music of
Arthur Honnegger via the dynamism of an express train. Dimitri Kirsanoff's
two shorts LA FONTAINE D'ARÉTHUSE (1935) and JEUNE FILLE AU JARDIN (1935),
both shot by Boris Kaufmann, are examples of his cinephonies featuring
music, nature, and dance. The delightful and influential FAITS DIVERS
(1923) by Claude Autant-Lara is a whimsical, lively portrait of a ménage à
trois. Its innovative approach includes use of upside-down images, multiple
exposures, and slow motion. Plus a trailer for film bad-boy Isidore Isou's
TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D'ÉTERNITÉ (1952). The Pacific Film Archive is located at
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. For more information, call (510) 642-5249.
3/7
Ithaca, New York: Cornell Cinema
http://www-cinema.slife.cornell.edu/
MARGARET MEAD PROGRAM 1: BATTU'S BIOSCOPE AND THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON
7:30pm: Screenings of two films. BATTU'S BIOSCOPE (Andrzej Fidyk, 1998):
Mr. Battu's passion for film takes him out of the projection booth and onto
the road as he travels with his assistant to remote villages throughout his
native India, introducing "Bollywood" melodramas to those who have never
before seen moving pictures. On the way, he searches for his kidnapped wife
who, as one character says, "...in a film Battu would have been able to
save...but this is real life, where happy endings and heroes are hard to
come by." A sometimes hilarious and startling story of first-contact. THE
COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON (Christopher Walker, 1999): Futuristic technology
meets traditional practice, and globalized knowledge meets local knowledge
when NASA and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association
provide information to the Fulani nomads of Mali about where to move their
herds during one of the most severe droughts in recorded history. Multiple
voices, including scientists from NASA, a German environmental advocate and
herders, argue the merits of such technology and the critical questions it
raises about who should profit from it and what its larger impact is on the
environment and culture. This screening will be held in Center for Theatre
Arts, just outside the entrance to the Cornell campus on College Avenue,
Ithaca. For more information, call (607) 255-3522.
3/7
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sirius.com/%7Esstark/org/moma/moma.html
A DOUBLE HUBLEY EVENING
6pm: The Hubley Studio has been producing sophisticated and cutting-edge
animated films since the mid-1950s. Since the death of John Hubley in 1977,
Faith Hubley has been making personal films that reflect both superb
production and moral purpose. Tonight's program includes five of her works
(AFRICA [1998], BEYOND THE SHADOW PLACE [1997], SEERS AND CLOWNS [1994],
TENDER GAME [with John Hubley, 1958] and TIME OF THE ANGELS [1987]) and the
premiere of WITCH MADNESS (2000), a forceful, feminist study of history.
Two works by Emily Hubley, her brand new PIGEON WITHIN (1999) and HER
GRANDMOTHER'S GIFT (1994), are also screened. This event will take place at
the Titus 2 Theater, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York
City. For more information, call (212) 708-9400.
3/7
New York, New York: Robert Beck Memorial Cinema
http://www.crosswinds.net/~rbmc
TRIBUTE TO PIERRE CLEMENTI (9/28/1942-12/28/1999)
9pm: In honor and fond memory of the recently deceased Pierre Clementi, the
RBMC presents NECROPOLIS (1970) directed by Franco Brocani. James Dean's
sallow-faced evil twin, Clementi was the fly on the nose of many artful
European productions: his ravishing of Catherine Deneuve in Bunuel's BELLE
DE JOUR and Doppelganger double-up in Bertolucci's PARTNER stand out in my
mind, anyway. One of Clementi's lesser known, but no less fascinating
efforts, NECROPOLIS somehow seems an apropos eulogy for a rather morbid
fellow. Admission is $5. This program will take place at Collective
Unconscious 145 Ludlow Street, New York City. For more information, contact
Brian Frye at frye...@redconnect.net or (718)622-5360.
3/7
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks
http://www.elecsp.com/bfminc/bfminc.htm
AU HASARD BALTHASAR
8pm: A screening of AU HASARD BALTHASAR (Robert Bresson, 1966). Arguably
the greatest masterpiece by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. In
this allegorical work, Balthazar the donkey is sold to a series of harsh
masters who inflict various instruments of torture: whips, bottles and
flames upon his skin. "… the heart-breakingly ridiculous AU HASARD
BALTHASAR: a movie that transforms the death of a donkey into the most
tragic and sublime cinematic passage I know." J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE.
Bresson died this past December. This event will be held in Klein Hall, the
Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania. For more
information, contact administrative director Jerry Orr at
yea...@ix.netcom.com or call (610) 921-7713.
3/7
Seattle, Washington: 911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org/
IRISH REELS FESTIVAL: DAY 1
6pm: Opening night of the Irish Reels Festival; 911 is delighted to
introduce to you some new Irish filmmakers and to share with you a
wonderful collection of refreshing and exciting works. The opening night
reception will begin at 6pm with food and bar hosted by Guinness. At 7pm,
Nelson Hume's feature SUNBURN, an exuberant look at a group of Irish
students on a summer employment programme in Montauk, Long Island. Director
Hume will attend, and SUNBURN will be shown with the shorts BLESSED FRUIT
by Orla Walsh and DREAM KITCHEN by Barry Dignam. These events will be held
at the Seattle Art Museum 100 University Street, Seattle. For more
information, call 911 Media Arts Center at (206) 682-6552.
3/7
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Artword Theatre and Gallery
http://www.artword.net/
SMACK
7:30pm: The premiere of Steve Sanguedolce's new film SMACK. This premiere
will be held at Artword Theatre and Gallery, 75 Portland Street, Toronto.
For more information, e-mail art...@interlog.com or call (416) 408-1146.
3/7
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
HUSH GRRLS HUSH
8:30pm: HUSH GRRLS HUSH is a premier exhibit of multidisciplinary works by
Vancouver's emerging dance, video, music, circus and spoken word artists in
celebration of International Women's Day. Through creative expression,
these women observe, dissect and reconstruct the power of voice and
voicelessness. On the jam-packed bill tonight are SLAM, a
collaboration-expression-compression for women giving
definition-motivation, rising out of opression with Gabrielle Martin, Ariel
Smith, Hayley Sinclair, Lora McElhinney and Cider; ART AND REVOLUTION
explores the violence of being the only woman in the Stoltmann peace camp
when it was ravaged and burnt to the ground by loggers. Roar. Crack. No
Ceremony. Bleeding-Rivers run red (with Bernadette Wykks and Sharai); NO
MOVES is a visual mourning for the Women's March at the anti WTO protests
by Amey Kazymerchyk. Plus: Omnibus-style shorts exploring the
interconnectedness of violence and silence by Sara Kendall, Hayley
Sinclair, Sonya Bootheoyd and Velveeta Krisp; and THE NIGHT, a singular
fluid live performance looped and linked with sound samples of sonic
illusions compiled and mixed by Suez Holland. This screening is at the
Blinding Light, 36 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada; for more
information, call (604) 878-3366.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2000
3/8
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
NAS CORRENTES DE LUZ DA RIA FORMOSA
7:30pm: Steve Seid: "Known for his stubbornly independent and regionally
attuned films such as ALL THE VERMEERS IN NEW YORK, SURE FIRE, and PLAIN
TALK AND COMMON SENSE, Jon Jost has of late engaged the guerrilla
flexibility of digital video. He has completed two large electronic works,
LONDON BRIEF (1999), a portrait of the heavily mediated public spaces of
London, and tonight's selection, NAS CORRENTES DE LUZ DA RIA FORMOSA
(1998). Spending several months along Portugal's Algarve Coast, Jost
recorded the life of a fishing village, capturing a sense of the place
through somnolent but poetic rhythms and sensual, painterly images. This is
a meditative work that relies on the viewer's own activated involvement
with the almost abstracted image track. Boats rocking in the harbor,
whitewashed abodes and cobbled streets, a thatched marketplace, seasonal
festivals and impromptu gatherings, the comings and goings of merchants:
Jost toys with the mundane pictorial, often softening the focus or washing
out the image in the glare of Mediterranean sunlight. The result is a
strangely unfinished landscape, low-res and yearning for completion-a
primal world of color and light before the eye was civilized." The Pacific
Film Archive is located at 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. For more
information, call (510) 642-5249.
3/8
Brooklyn, New York: Pratt Film Series
http://www.pratt.edu/prattfilms/news
MIRANDA JULY IN PERSON
8:30pm: Multi-media performer and video artist Miranda July (Portland, OR)
will present her new video and new selections from Big Miss Moviola, the
movie distribution network for independent lady moviemakers in her 2nd
visit to Pratt f/v Series. NEST OF TENS is comprised of four alternating
stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control derived from
intuitive sources. Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate
control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters and their own bodies.
Pratt Institute, Engineering Building (Dekalb Avenue, between Hall and
Classon Streets), Room 371, Brooklyn. For more information, contact Astria
Suparak at Asup...@pratt.edu or at (718) 636-3422.
3/8
Buffalo, New York: Squeaky Wheel
http://www.squeaky.org/
OPEN SCREENING
8pm: Every second Wednesday of the month, we host the popular Open
Screening, a monthly opportunity for artists and independent producers to
screen new works and works-in-progress. Open screenings provide a unique
forum for makers to seek advice, feedback and criticism from a diverse and
interested audience of peers. This event will take place in Squeaky Wheel's
Sandra Fisher Kitaj Cinema 2000, 175 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York.
Admission is $4. For more information, call (716) 884- 7172.
3/8
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Film Archive
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/
FILM PORTRAIT AND JLG/JLG
9pm: He earned an Academy Award for his film portrait of Albert Schweitzer,
but in his finest work, the innovative FILM PORTRAIT (1970), Jerome Hill
(1905–1972) became his own subject. The son of an enormously wealthy
Minnesota family (his father, James J. Hill, built the Great Northern
Railway Company), Jerome eschewed business for the arts. He was a gifted
painter, a successful documentary director, and a major supporter of the
film avant-garde. (Three decades after his death, a foundation bearing his
name continues the philanthropic work he began on behalf of young artists.)
His great summary work presents us with singular entry into a life worthy
of a Henry James novel, utilizing the rich array of techniques that defined
the American experimental cinema. As critic and filmmaker Jonas Mekas
notes: "Since the period dealt with in this film coincides with the
development of Cinema as a Young Art, and the development of the
Avant-garde Film as a form of cinema, Film Portrait becomes also a film
about the art of cinema." Screening with JLG/JLG (1994): As Godard once
remarked, "The cinema is an x-ray machine in which one photographs one's
own disease." In his moving self-portrait, we discover that the disease has
a name: cinephilia. Made on the cusp of the centennial of the cinema and
the director reaching his mid-sixties, JLG/JLG captures the complexity and
brilliance of Godard's work in film as it touches on a multitude of
concerns, from memory and painting to the Swiss Alps, money, and tennis.
This screening will take place at the Archive, the Carpenter Center for the
Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge. For more information, call the
Archive at (617) 495-4700.
3/8
Charlottesville, Virginia: The Virginia Film Festival
THE BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
7pm: Black Maria (launching its 19th year) has become the premiere
traveling showcase for independent film, especially experimental film and
video. Tonight's program, selected and presented by John Columbus, will
feature short experimental films and videos. Festival jurors this year were
David Callahan, Kathy High, Jytte Jensen, Mark McElhatten and Ana Ramos.
This event will take place at the Vinegar Hill Theater, 220 W. Market
Street, Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information, call (804)
982-5277.
3/8
Chicago, Illinois: Eye and Ear Clinic
THREE FILMS BY ERNIE GEHR
4:30pm: Screenings of STILL (1971), TABLE (1976) and UNTITLED (1977). This
event will be held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Screening
Room 1311, 13th Floor, 112 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. For more
information, contact Kenny Eisenstein at (312) 345-3588.
3/8
Ithaca, New York: Cornell Cinema
http://www-cinema.slife.cornell.edu/
U &I DOT COM AND MINERVA'S MACHINE
7:15pm: A screening of two films. MINERVA'S MACHINE (Karen Frenkel, 1995)
is a documentary that celebrates the history of women in computing and
profiles a diverse group of successful women in the field today. The video
also examines the surprising finding that women began leaving academic
computing in the mid-80s, and explores why there are fewer women in
computing than men. Experts discuss the different responses that boys and
girls have to computers and video games, which are often a child's first
exposure to computers. It will be preceded by Branda Miller's U &I dOt cOM,
an experimental narrative/documentary hybrid about Zoey, a teenage girl who
negotiates her identity in cyberspace. This screening will be held at the
Willard Straight Theater on Cornell's campus, Ithaca. For more information,
call (607) 255-3522.
3/8
New York, New York: Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org
PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO, 1965-1974: PROGRAM 1
7pm: In conjunction with the exhibition THE WORLDS OF NAM JUNE PAIK
(February 11-April 26), the Film and Media Arts Program at the Guggenheim
Museum will present PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO, 1965-1974, from
March 8 through March 25, 2000. The six-part film and video series
highlights the artist's single-channel videotapes and films within the
context of the cinematic avant-garde. Tonight's program will be introduced
by John G. Hanhardt and will include: DIGITAL EXPERIMENTS AT BELL LABS (Nam
June Paik, ca.1966); THE LEAP (Tom DeWitt, 1968); OFFON (Scott Bartlett,
1968); VIDEO COMMUNE (BEATLES BEGINNING TO END) (Paik, 1970); THREE
TRANSITIONS (Peter Campus, 1973); and VOCABULARY (Woody Vasulka, 1973). All
films are shown in the Peter B. Lewis Theater at The Sackler Center for
Arts Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at
89th street), New York City. For more information, please call (212)
360-4321.
3/8
New York, New York: New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
OPENING NIGHT: MONKEY VS. ROBOT AND BORN TO LOSE
7:30pm: Screenings of Nathan Pommer's MONKEY VS. ROBOT!! ("Monkey hate
technology. Robot hate Monkey.") and Lech Kowalski's BORN TO LOSE (THE LAST
ROCK AND ROLL MOVIE), an insider's look at the life of rock legend Johnny
Thunders. Kowalski, known worldwide for his seminal Sex Pistols doc D.O.A.,
will be on hand to present this never-before-seen final cut of the film.
Beginning in 1981, when he first filmed Thunders, Kowalski recorded his
performances numerous times on formats ranging from 16mm to black-and-white
video. BORN TO LOSE combines these with rare footage of the New York punk
scene and interviews with Thunders' friends, family and fellow performers
Dee Dee Ramone, Wayne Kramer and Sylvain Sylvain. Festival screenings take
place at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street,
New York City. For more information, call the festival hotline at (212)
252-3845.
3/8
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KYLE DECAMP: OUT OF BREATH
8pm: Jean Seberg (1938-79): Female cultural sacrifice or author of her own
existence? In OUT OF BREATH performer Kyle deCamp delves into the elusive
life of American actress Jean Seberg to explore contemporary issues of
private life and public persona. Discovered at age 17 by Otto Preminger for
SAINT JOAN, Seberg was elevated to an icon of French new wave cinema in
Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHLESS. From famous American-in-Paris actor to Black
Panther party-supporter harassed by the FBI, Seberg's world is re-animated
in a melange of verbatim texts and projected video images culled from her
films, media quotes, FBI transcripts, and biographer's opinions. A haunting
performance that resurrects Seberg's contradictory voice as it emerges,
matures, reflects, and tragically dies. There will be a post-performance
discussion with deCamp tonight. The Kitchen is located at 512 West 19th
Street, New York City. For more information, call (212) 255-5793.
3/8
Seattle, Washington: 911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org/
IRISH REELS FESTIVAL: DAY 2
7pm: Tonight's screening includes Kevin Liddy's short A SOLDIER'S SONG and
Lance Hool's feature ONE MAN'S HERO, the poignant story of Los San
Patricios (the St. Patrick's Battalion), a group of Irish soldiers who
deserted the US army and fought for Mexico against their adopted country in
the war of 1846/8. This screening will be held at the Seattle Art Museum
100 University Street, Seattle. For more information, call 911 Media Arts
Center at (206) 682-6552.
3/8
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
FEMALE GAZE
8:30pm: Curators Linda Desormeaux and Rena Del Pieve Gobbi have compiled an
evening of astounding film and video that portrays the world through the
eyes of up and coming local women filmakers working outside the mainstream.
Allana Murray confronts the issues of gender in sexuality; Heather Emery
shows the male response to the power and intent of the female mind; Layda
Gongora attacks the traditional male gaze through the use of feedback,
abstraction, and fragmentation of the female body; Karen Duthie portrays
the intensity of the forces which attempt to create/mold female gender
identity; Rena Del Pieve Gobbi speaks of the use of the female form in
advertising and technology; Sonia Bridge portrays memory and war through
pictoral reference to stories from her Grandfather; Stephanie Stephens
deals with issues surrounding domestic violence, and control after a
mothers death; plus others! After the show there will be time for a
discussion period. This screening is at the Blinding Light, 36 Powell
Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada; for more information, call (604) 878-3366.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2000
3/9
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html
FREE SCREENING: FIVE ANIMATIONS
6pm: Rub elbows with the culturally curious, and take in an intriguing
blend of films and speakers. Tonight: five animations from the Ruben
Collection by women directors. This screening will take place at the
Lecture Room Walker Art Center Auditorium, at the corner of Vineland Place
and Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. For more information,
call (612) 375-7622.
3/9
New York, New York: Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org
PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO, 1965-1974: PROGRAM 2
7pm: Screenings of P+A-I(K) (Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, 1966) and
9/23/69 EXPERIMENT WITH DAVID ATWOOD (Paik, 1969). All films are shown in
the Peter B. Lewis Theater at The Sackler Center for Arts Education at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th street), New York
City. For more information, please call (212) 360-4321.
3/9
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sirius.com/%7Esstark/org/moma/moma.html
BIG AS LIFE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF 8MM FILMS
6pm: CRACKS BETWEEN THE STONES (Janis Crystal Lipzin, 1999), SEASONAL
FORCES, PART 1 (Lipzin, 1996) and TREPANATIONS (Lipzin, 1983). San
Francisco-based Lipzin has been one of Super 8's most passionate American
advocates for more than twenty-five years. Active as critic, curator, and
teacher (she has been instrumental in forming the new San Francisco Art
Institute 8mm Film Festival), Lipzin's own films combine a sharp eye for
cultural observation and social critique as revealed through the
personalizing small-gauge camera. Tonight's selection features the premiere
of her newest film, CRACKS BETWEEN THE STONES, which uses material
collected over a ten-year period at Amerindian sites, urban sites, and
Stonehenge, as well as TREPANATIONS, a droll portrait of personal
gender-based obsession in modern suburban America; SEASONAL FORCES, PART 1,
a diaristic portrait of rural life critiquing human intervention in nature;
and selected early films. Program screenings are held in The Time Warner
Screening Room, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City.
Seating is limited to fifty; admission is free after 5:30. For more
information, call (212) 708-9400.
3/9
New York, New York: New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
DAY 2
At 5:45pm: Richard Rowley and Jacqui Soohen's documentary BLACK AND GOLD:
THE LATIN KING AND QUEEN NATION. At 6:15pm: Gordon Eriksen's THE LOVE
MACHINE (a mock-doc feature about love, sex, the Internet and sex) and The
Video Aktivists' UNTITLED #29.95, a video about video, and about who
controls art, in the age of high-priced video art stars like Matthew Barney
and Alex Bag. At 7:30pm: Christopher Wilcha's documentary THE TARGET SHOOTS
FIRST. At 8pm: SEX ON THE FRITZ: PERFORMANCE ANXIETY, curated by Astria
Suparak, Program Director of the Pratt Film/Video Series. Dis-ease and
uncomfort within desire explored through techniques such as hand-painting,
scratching, manipulated found footage (and pornography), stop-motion
animation, and optical printing. Sexual development in the age of the
spectacle. Some of the artists will be in attendance! Works include: WSNO,
an audio composition by Miranda July; Laura Parnes' PERFORMANCE; Matt
McCormick's SINCERELY, JOE P. BEAR; Stephanie Barber's PORNFILM; Jennifer
Reeder's LULLABY; and Laura Parnes' TALENT SHOW. At 8pm: Music for Airports
at Thread Waxing Space, 476 Broadway. Sink into soothing video environment
with the US premiere of Frank Scheffer's video installation MUSIC FOR
AIRPORTS, created for the Bang on a Can orchestration of Brian Eno's
seminal composition. Also screening: SONIC ACTS and SONIC IMAGES, two
collections that explore the intersection of cinema and electronic
composition. At 9:15pm: Tom Patterson's FRUSTRATION and Heather Rose
Dominic's THE SHIELD AROUND THE K, a profile of the birth and growth of
influential Olympia-based punk rock DIY record label K Records. At 9:45pm:
AMERICAN BOOTY, featuring: Robert Arnold's MORPHOLOGY OF DESIRE; Tim
Vierling's THE WARHAUL; Tomo Shono-no's PORNO INVADERS GAME; Jennifer and
Amber Cluck's PIGSKIN ORGASM; Theresa Dillon's PRINCESS 2000: WHERE DID ALL
THE LOVE GO?; Jesse Brown's THE BIRTH OF CENTURY SAM; Usama Alshaibi's
DANCE HABIBI DANCE; Bob Judd's JESSE HELMS IS CLEANING UP AMERICA; Noel
Dowd's HELLO KITTY; and Ethan Minsker's THE BUSINESSMAN. At 11pm: Katya
Bankowsky's documentary SHADOW BOXERS , a tough, swift, exhilarating look
at the burgeoning world of female boxing. At 11:30pm: Brian Tane's DICKHEAD
and Shane Hawks' atmospheric horror film EYES TO HEAVEN. Festival
screenings take place at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at
Second Street, New York City. For more information, call the festival
hotline at (212) 252-3845.
3/9
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KYLE DECAMP: OUT OF BREATH
10pm: Jean Seberg (1938-79): Female cultural sacrifice or author of her own
existence? In OUT OF BREATH performer Kyle deCamp delves into the elusive
life of American actress Jean Seberg to explore contemporary issues of
private life and public persona. For more details, see March 8.
3/9
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KEVIN JAMES: THE PORTRAITS PROJECT
8pm: Composer Kevin James returns to The Kitchen with new selections from
THE PORTRAITS PROJECT, a moving and provocative large-scale composition
giving voice to New York City's homeless community. Scored for tape and an
eclectic mix of soloists and chamber ensembles, THE PORTRAITS PROJECT
blends songs, musings, and reflections of the homeless with video
projections and dramatic staging to create a continuous collage
illuminating the tensions inherent to the condition of homelessness. THE
PORTRAITS PROJECT, commissioned by the Coalition for the Homeless, is based
on over 700 interviews James conducted on the streets of New York. The
Kitchen is located at 512 West 19th Street, New York City. For more
information, call (212) 255-5793.
3/9
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
SEEING HAITI THROUGH LAFANMI SELAVI
7:30pm: Lee Flynn and Caitlin Manning in person. Producer/Director Lee
Flynn and Co-Director/Cinematographer Caitlin Manning present the premier
of their new documentary shot in Haiti in 1998 and 1999. LAFANMI SELAVI
(THE FAMILY IS LIFE) is a center for street children started by former
President Aristide in the capital, Port-au-Prince. As five children tell of
their lives on the streets, a narrative emerges of their personal voyages
from the streets to the center where they have found shelter and often new
hope. Using interviews and footage shot in Port-au-Prince, Aristide's home
and in rural areas, the children, their teachers and Aristide tell a moving
story of the complexities of living in a country deeply affected by
colonization, military rule, and global economy. This beautifully filmed
documentary shows Haiti and its people living in a culture of resistance
and hope, a perspective rarely explored by the media. This event will take
place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San
Francisco For more information, call the Cinematheque at (415) 558-8129.
3/9
San Francisco, California: Film Arts Foundation
http://www.filmarts.org/
FIRST PERSON PLURAL
7pm: In 1966, at the age of nine, Deann Borshay came to the United States
from South Korea as one of tens of thousands of children adopted by white
American families after the Korean War. Her adoptive family had been told
she was an orphan named Cha Jung Hee, with whom they had developed a slight
relationship through letters via the Foster Parent's Plan. She was, in
fact, a look-alike replacement named Kang Ok Jin, sent when the other
girl's mother abruptly changed her mind. Borshay's debut film is a personal
documentary exploring the complicated landscape of assimilation, adoption,
cultural difference, American attitudes and mistaken identity. Drawing upon
original and archival material, the film traverses a difficult and intimate
terrain. Borshay's struggle to confront the secrets of her childhood and
reconcile the demands of two families, two cultures and two nations reveals
a poignant story about loss and finding a new way home. This event will
take place at the Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post Street, San Francisco. For more
information, call the Film Arts Foundation at (415) 552-8760.
3/9
San Jose, California: Cine16
http://www.cine16.com/
GLASSWORKS
7pm: Tonight, we offer a series of films made on the subject of glass.
GLASSMAKERS OF HERAT (Elliott Erwitt, 1979): This well-known still
photographer provides a fascinating look at some of the oldest glassworks
in existence in this film, featuring an Afghan family still making glass by
crushing rock and vegetation, and blending them to make blue glass. GENII
OF THE GLASS (Robert Haber, 1978): Muhamad Gazazz, glassmaker of Jerusalem,
recycles auto gears for molds, old motor oil to fire his stove, old dirty
bottles for glass, and let nothing go to waste, using the glass furnace to
heat his food as well. Our print has been damaged by an intrusive green
line, proving that ciné16 adopts the Gazazz philosophy as well... GLASS
(Bert Haanstra, 1965): In perhaps the most famous documentary to come out
of Holland, a hand-blower smoking a churchwarden represents the lasting
quality of blown glass against the uniformity of the machine-made variety.
As if that weren't enough, it's all to the tune of a neat Dutch jazz
soundtrack with Theo Loevendie with the Quintete Piw Jacobs. ONE HUNDRED
WATTS 120 VOLTS (Carson Davidson, 1977): Everybody loves this one,
involving the mechanized production of Duro-Test light bulbs. MIRACLE OF
GLASS (Wilhelm Nassan and John Durst, 1975?): A history of glass. Cine 16
is held at the Agenda Restaurant and Lounge, 399 South First Street, San
Jose, California, and admission is free.
3/9
Seattle, Washington: 911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org/
IRISH REELS FESTIVAL: DAY 3
7pm: SHORT REELS I, including Hugh Farley's LAST MANGO IN DUBLIN and HALF
FULL, HALF EMPTY, Jason Forde's LOVER'S LEAP, Robert Taylor's THE FARMER'S
WIFE, Kirsten Sheridan's THE CASE OF MAJELLA MCGINTY and Maeve Murphy's
SALVAGE. At 9pm: Pat Comer's documentary A YEAR 'TIL SUNDAY. On Sunday, the
27th of September, 1998, the Galway Gaelic Football Team put a stop to a
famine that had lasted over three decades. In a thrilling encounter in
Croke Park, Galway beat Kildare and were crowned 1998 All-Ireland
Champions. These screenings will be held at 911 Media Arts Center, 117 Yale
Ave N., Seattle; for more information, call (206) 682-6552.
3/9
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://home.ican.net/~pdome/
CHROMATIC ARTICULATION: FILMS BY ARTHUR AND CORINNE CANTRILL
7.30 pm: Australian filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill will introduce a
program including: MYSELF WHEN FOURTEEN, CITY OF CHROMATIC INTENSITY,
GARDEN OF CHROMATIC DISTURBANCE, IVOR PAINTS ARF ARF, CITY OF CHROMATIC
DISSOLUTION, AIREY'S INLET, ARTICULATED IMAGE and ILLUMINATIONS OF THE
MUNDANE. (For information on these films, see the MoMA/Cineprobe
description for March 6.) This event will take place at Cinecycle, 129
Spadina Avenue, Toronto. For more information, contact Pleasure Dome's
program coordinator Tom Taylor at pd...@ican.net or (416) 656-5577.
3/9
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
THE JOHNNY LEGEND PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL: WRESTLING WITH ANDY KAUFMANN
Film-maker, writer, wrestling manager, actor, archivist and auteur Johnny
Legend appears in person to introduce every show with his own unique link
to the films being screened! At 7:30pm: MY BREAKFAST WITH BLASSIE by Johnny
Legend: For his bone-dry satire of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE and his final
masterpiece, Andy Kauffman had breakfast at a greasy spoon with the
self-proclaimed "King of Men," professional wrestler Freddie Blassie. This
is the film that introduced Kauffman to Legend's sister Lynn Margulies who
is played by Courtney Love in the film MAN ON THE MOON. Legend also has a
role in that Hollywood flick and will talk about the whole experience and
more tonight. Plus rare Kauffman shorts highlighting his stage appearances
on David Letterman and elsewhere! At 9:30pm: I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD by Lynn
Margulies: Andy Kauffman at his most brilliant, as he attempts to become a
professional wrestler but agrees to only wrestle women. Unedited version
not seen on television! Plus: rare footage of Andy Kauffman from Lynne
Margulies' own collection! This screening is at the Blinding Light, 36
Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada; for more information, call (604)
878-3366.
3/9
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum
THE BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
8pm: Black Maria (launching its 19th year) has become the premiere
traveling showcase for independent film, especially experimental film and
video. Tonight's program, selected and presented by John Columbus, will
feature short experimental films and videos. Festival jurors this year were
David Callahan, Kathy High, Jytte Jensen, Mark McElhatten and Ana Ramos.
This event will take place at the Hirshhorn Museum of the Smithsonian
Institution, Independence Ave. At 8th St. S.W., Washington, DC. For more
information, call (202) 357-3280.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2000
3/10
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html
WALKER AFTER HOURS: DIRECTOR'S CUT: JANIE GEISER
7pm: Join us for a unique night of moving images, pulsing rhythms, and the
Martini of the Month: The Dolly Grip. The special screening for this event
highlights the work of animator Janie Geiser, whose films mix collage,
double exposure, and stop-action photography to evoke memories and
forgotten languages. The program includes THE RED BOOK (1994); THE SECRET
STORY (1996); IMMER ZU (1997); and LOST MOTION (1999). This screening will
take place at the Lecture Room Walker Art Center Auditorium, at the corner
of Vineland Place and Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. For
more information, call (612) 375-7622.
3/10
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sirius.com/%7Esstark/org/moma/moma.html
SOME SHORT FILMS FROM MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH AVANT-GARDE
3pm: Screenings of the following: FAITS DIVERS (Claude Autant-Lara, 1923),
JEUNE FILLE AU JARDIN (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1935), LA FONTAINE D'ARETUSE
(Kirsanoff, 1935), MONTPARNASSE (Eugène Deslaw, 1930), PACIFIC 231 (Jean
Mitry, 1949) and the trailer to TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITÉ (THE TREATISE
OF FOAMING-AT-THE-MOUTH AND ETERNITY, Isidore Isou, 1952). This event will
take place at the Titus 2 Theater, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53
Street, New York City. For more information, call (212) 708-9400.
3/10
New York, New York: New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
DAY 3
At 5:45pm: Todd Verow's A SUDDEN LOSS OF GRAVITY: New wave teens escape
small town lives, Bangor, Maine 1984. At 6:15pm: Reed Paget's AMERIKAN
PASSPORT, a globe-trotting epic documentary which chronicles the scrappy
young filmmaker's shoestring odyssey through twelve warzones and across
five continents; shown with Theo Angell's "- - - -," a pink and purple
pulsating wonderwall of sensuous and fleshy video textures. At 7:30pm:
Videomaker and lady-made-movie-lady extraordinaire Miranda July jets into
town to present the US premiere of her latest tape, NEST OF TENS, and
selections from the latest Big Miss Moviola Co-Star Tape, I SAW BONES,
curated by Rita Gonzalez, also in attendance. Works include: Naomi Uman's
REMOVED; Semefo's BATHING THE BABY; Eva S. Aridjis' documentary TAXIDERMY:
THE ART OF IMITATING LIFE; and Kate Haug's DEEP CREEP. Plus: an "audience
interactive video experience" and a "secret surprise." At 8pm: REALITY
STYLING, including: Jonathan Green's SUNDAY 10:42AM; Dennis Karsten's
KINGDOM OF POET O; Jason Blalock's HIGH ROCKS; and Julie Morrison's THE
MAGNIFICENT ANDERSONS. At 9:15pm: SKATE OR DIE HARDER! New directions in
skateboard cinema curated by Helen Stickler, featuring: Rick Charnoski's
SKATOPIA; Tara Cooper's LIVE AND LET RIDE; Tobin Yelland's THORN AND TOAD;
and Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski's FRUIT OF THE VINE. At 9:45pm: SQUARE
PEG, ROUND EYE, including: Enda Hughes's COMM RAID ON THE POTEMKIN; Scott
Beveridge's QUIVER; Relah Eckstein's LUCY'S DREAM; James Schneider's MEDIAN
STRIP; Carl Wiedermann's A PRIMER FOR DENTAL EXTRACTION; Jeff Warrington's
THE FLOCCULUS; and Naoko Nozawa's MONK FISH DREAM. At 11pm: LIQUID SKY
(Slava Tsukerman, 1982): Filled with synthesized rock, pink neon, day-glo
birdlike hairstyles, robotic dancing, bizarre old-school video effects and
angular drugged-out androgyny, LIQUID SKY may be the definitive vision of
our then-edgy East Village in the early 80s. Director Slava Tsuckerman and
co-writer/actor Nina Kerova in attendance. At 11:30pm: RAW AND READY,
including: Carey Burtt's THE DEATH OF SEX; Nick Zedd's ECSTASY IN ENTROPY;
Gritt Uldall-Jessen's FEMMINIST FATALES; Andrej Velikanova and Julia
Velikanova's SOME LIKE IT WITHOUT SUGAR, LANGUAGE SIGN DUALITY IS
ASYMMETRICAL and TERMINATOR III; Mark Hejnar's JEFF; and Shawn Durr's MEAT
FUCKER. Festival screenings take place at the Anthology Film Archives, 32
Second Avenue at Second Street, New York City. For more information, call
the festival hotline at (212) 252-3845.
3/10
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KEVIN JAMES: THE PORTRAITS PROJECT
8pm: Composer Kevin James returns to The Kitchen with new selections from
THE PORTRAITS PROJECT, a moving and provocative large-scale composition
giving voice to New York City's homeless community. For more details, see
March 9.
3/10
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KYLE DECAMP: OUT OF BREATH
10pm: Jean Seberg (1938-79): Female cultural sacrifice or author of her own
existence? In OUT OF BREATH performer Kyle deCamp delves into the elusive
life of American actress Jean Seberg to explore contemporary issues of
private life and public persona. For more details, see March 8.
3/10
Seattle, Washington: 911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org/
IRISH REELS FESTIVAL: DAY 4
7 and 9pm: Liam O' Mochain's feature THE BOOK THAT WROTE ITSELF. Vincent
Macken believes he has written the best post-modern novel ever, The
Daughter of Conn, a Celtic quest saga set somewhere in Ireland 200 years
ago. Vincent overhears literary agents ridiculing his piece of literature
and vows to prove to his detractors that the story is a feasible one in any
time. Liam Ó Móchain will be available for post-screening discussion and
Q&A. Shown with Jason Forde's short LOVER'S LEAP. These screenings will be
held at the Seattle Art Museum 100 University Street, Seattle. For more
information, call 911 Media Arts Center at (206) 682-6552.
3/10
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
THE JOHNNY LEGEND PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL: WRESTLING WITH ANDY KAUFMANN
At 7:30pm: A screening of MY BREAKFAST WITH BLASSIE by Johnny Legend. At
9:30pm: A screening of I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD by Lynn Margulies. For more
details, see March 9.
3/10
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum
THE BLACK MARIA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
8pm: Black Maria comes to the Hirshhorn Museum of the Smithsonian
Institution. For more details, see March 9.
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2000
3/11
Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls
http://www.hallwalls.org
CINEMATIC CESSPOOL: KEVIN HEFFERNAN, PINK FLAMINGOS AND DIVINE TRASH
7:30pm: The second installment of the Cinematic Cesspool film series will
feature a presentation by Kevin Heffernan, trash film scholar, writer and
raconteur. The evening will include screenings of PINK FLAMINGOS (John
Waters, 1972) and DIVINE TRASH (1997), a film about the making of John
Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS that Heffernan associate-produced and co-wrote.
Hallwalls is located at 700 Main Street, Buffalo. For more information,
call (716) 835-7362.
3/11
New York, New York: Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org
PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO, 1965-1974: PROGRAM 1
3pm: Program 1 of the Guggenheim's PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO,
1965-1974 schedule. For more details, see March 8.
3/11
New York, New York: Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org
PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO, 1965-1974: PROGRAM 2
7pm: Program 1 of the Guggenheim's PAIK AND THE WORLDS OF FILM AND VIDEO,
1965-1974 schedule. For more details, see March 9.
3/11
New York, New York: New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
DAY 4
At noon: THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC, a panel discussion on music rights for
independent filmmakers. At 1:15pm: RAW AND READY, including: Carey Burtt's
THE DEATH OF SEX; Nick Zedd's ECSTASY IN ENTROPY; Gritt Uldall-Jessen's
FEMMINIST FATALES; Andrej Velikanova and Julia Velikanova's SOME LIKE IT
WITHOUT SUGAR, LANGUAGE SIGN DUALITY IS ASYMMETRICAL and TERMINATOR III;
Mark Hejnar's JEFF; and Shawn Durr's MEAT FUCKER. At 2:15pm: Frank Pavich's
N.Y.H.C.: Hardcore, an offshoot of punk rock, can't be found on the radio
or on MTV. This is the rawest and realest thing out there. And here it is,
N.Y.H.C., a fair and non-exploitive look at this underground phenomenon.
2:45pm: AMERICAN BOOTY, featuring: Robert Arnold's MORPHOLOGY OF DESIRE;
Tim Vierling's THE WARHAUL; Tomo Shono-no's PORNO INVADERS GAME; Jennifer
and Amber Cluck's PIGSKIN ORGASM; Theresa Dillon's PRINCESS 2000: WHERE DID
ALL THE LOVE GO?; Jesse Brown's THE BIRTH OF CENTURY SAM; Usama Alshaibi's
DANCE HABIBI DANCE; Bob Judd's JESSE HELMS IS CLEANING UP AMERICA; Noel
Dowd's HELLO KITTY; and Ethan Minsker's THE BUSINESSMAN. At 4pm: James
Fotopoulos' TWO CATS and MIGRATING FORMS: the downbeat, stripped-down tale
of a worn-out man and a slatternly woman engaging in a tense, tawdry affair
beneath the all-seeing gaze of the man's silent cat. At 4:30pm: FIST OF THE
MONKEY GODS, including: Greg Pak's THE PENNY MARSHALL PROJECT; Alex Cohn's
THE LITTLEST CIRCUS; Jamie Ruddy's BORED TO PIECES; Robert Kennedy's HI I'M
STEVE; Alex Turner's CHUCK; and Danny Plotnick's SWINGERS' SERENADE. At
5:45pm: Jasmine Dellal's AMERICAN GYPSY, the first cinematic foray into the
true world of the Gypsies, its complex history, and the story of one Romani
family who chose to break the silence of a thousand-year tradition. At
6:15pm: VISION QUEST, including: Seth Price's RECITALC; Louise Bourque's
FISSURES; Matt McCormick's THE VYRONTONIN DECISION; Francois Miron's THE
QUEST; Deco Dawson's FILM(KNOUT); Jeff Scher's GRAND CENTRAL; and Matthew
Harrison's WRIST. At 7:30pm: Jason Rosette's documentary BOOKWARS, a
remarkable feature film that chronicles their lives and loves and their
unique perspectives on life. At 8pm: THE LOOK OF WOW, including Paul Kell
and Faisal Lutchmedial's DO NOT RUIN YOUR CREDIT; Vernon Chatman's
MUCKAFURGASON: DREAMING ON A CLOUD; Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky's LEE
HAZLEWOOD IN NEW YORK; Brendan Conway's THE BRADY LUNCH; Richard Morbid's
DUTY NICKELS; and Randy Bell and Justin Rice's LOOK BACK, DON'T LOOK BACK.
At 9:15pm: THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, including: Bill Plympton's SURPRISE
CINEMA; Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Claire E. Rojas' THE MANIPULATORS; Marcel
DeJure's BLOW ME; Bryan Boyce's SPECIAL REPORT; Jeff Krulik's OBSESSED WITH
JEWS; and Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins' DEEP AFRICA. At 9:45pm: SMELLS
LIKE TASTY, including: Martha Colburn's SPIDERS IN LOVE AN ARACHNOGASMIC
MUSICAL; John Tagamolila's TIM AND ANDY FIGHT AND THEN GO BOWLING; Robert
Banks' EMBRYONIC; Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley's THE DROWNING ROOM;
Kathleen Hanna and Sadie Benning's AEROBICIDE; Xan Price's NITWIT
PREDELICK; Animal Charm's TARGET and PRESERVE YOUR ESTATE; and David
Wilson's MAGIC CITY. At 11pm: William E. Jones' FLUFF and Charles
Brousseau-Fisher's FROZEN HOT, one truly astouding and unforgettable
cinematic experience. At 11:30pm: Bob Ray's ROCK OPERA, a THC-reeking
tale-tale set in the underground music scene of Austin, Texas. Festival
screenings take place at the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at
Second Street, New York City. For more information, call the festival
hotline at (212) 252-3845.
3/11
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KEVIN JAMES: THE PORTRAITS PROJECT
8pm: Composer Kevin James returns to The Kitchen with new selections from
THE PORTRAITS PROJECT, a moving and provocative large-scale composition
giving voice to New York City's homeless community. For more details, see
March 9.
3/11
New York, New York: The Kitchen
http://www.thekitchen.org
KYLE DECAMP: OUT OF BREATH
10pm: Jean Seberg (1938-79): Female cultural sacrifice or author of her own
existence? In OUT OF BREATH performer Kyle deCamp delves into the elusive
life of American actress Jean Seberg to explore contemporary issues of
private life and public persona. For more details, see March 8.
3/11
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
PLATO AND TZARA À LA FILMSTRIP + LO-TECH
8:30pm: Believe it or not, Edgar Um and J. Fox of Pittsburgh's Future
Illogical Association have created 35mm filmstrip versions of 2 theatre
classics, Plato's SYMPOSIUM and Tzara's THE FIRST CELESTIAL ADVENTURE OF
MR. ANTI-PYRINE, FIRE-EXTINGUISHER, with music from members of Orgone. PLUS
Lori Surfer and other dead-media artists, LORAX, and historical
street-action footage. This screening will take place at Artists'
Television Access, 992 Valencia, San Francisco; for more information, call
(415) 824-3890.
3/11
Seattle, Washington: 911 Media Arts Center
http://www.911media.org/
IRISH REELS FESTIVAL: FINAL DAY
4pm: SHORT REELS II, including Barry Dignam's DREAM KITCHEN, Frankie
McCafferty's FLUSH, Audrey O'Reilly's IN LOVING MEMORY, James T. Donnelly's
MORTICE, Enda Hughes' COMM RAID ON THE POTEMKIN and ELSEWHERE, and Declan
Recks' BIG SWINGER. At 8pm: Sinead O'Brien's documentary LUKE, a portrait
of a complex, charismatic man, Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, for whom music
went in hand with political consciousness. Introduced by local Irish
traditional musician Conor Byrne. Shown with Audrey O'Reilly's IN LOVING
MEMORY and Kirsten Sheridan's THE CASE OF MAJELLA MCGINTY. After final
screening: Closing night party at Tir na N-Og. The above screenings will be
held at the Seattle Art Museum 100 University Street, Seattle. For more
information, call 911 Media Arts Center at (206) 682-6552.
3/11
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
THE JOHNNY LEGEND PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL: DRUGS AND ROCK'N'ROLL
Film-maker, writer, wrestling manager, actor, archivist and auteur Johnny
Legend appears in person to introduce every show with his own unique link
to the films being screened! At 7:30pm: THE T.A.M.I SHOW with rare missing
footage! The ultimate rock n' roll movie produced in Electrovision and
presented here in a pristine 16mm print. An all-star show featuring Gerry
and the Pacemakers, Chuck Berry, hosts Jan and Dean, Lesley Gore ("It's My
Party"), and Motown greats Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and
The Supremes. The Rolling Stones and an insane James Brown performance
round out this ultra-rare classic of live music film. Tonight will also
feature the long unavailable original Beach Boys footage on video which was
originally cut out, reunited with the film for the first time! Plus:
TEENAGE CRUSADES, A '60s right-wing religious teen hysteria short, and a
rare WHERE THE ACTION IS episode! At 9:30pm: HELL, AMERICAN STYLE. A
bizarre mix of shorts including the story of starry-eyed girls coming to
Hollywood in the early '50s and ending up in bondage and sleaze; THE BIG
ROD, a classic early '50s hot rod psycho DRAGNET episode; OZZIE'S GIRLS,
the never-televised pilot for the astounding series starring Ozzie and
Harriet in which the Nelsons replace David and Ricky with two hip black and
white college chicks; and Sonny Bono's MARIJUANA which was shown in schools
and community centers in the '60s (which Legend naturally attended). Plus:
TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT: Don't miss this rare chance to see the only
existing copy of the Timothy Leary classic! This screening is at the
Blinding Light, 36 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada; for more
information, call (604) 878-3366.
SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2000
3/12
Atlanta, Georgia: Image Film and Video Center
http://www.imagefv.org/
IT'S PSYCHOTRONIC! THE BEST OF MICROCINEFEST
8pm: Skizz Cyzyk, founder and director of MicroCineFest, held each fall in
Baltimore, will be on hand to present the best of this annual underground
festival showcasing ambitious, low-budget, DIY, films and videos from all
over the world. Films include: Jay Edwards' PROJECT: TIKI PUKA PUKA, a
sci-fi spoof about a routine space mission commandeered by a mad scientist
who convinces the crew to go to a tropical planet inhabited by
scantily-clad women and monsters; Todd Rohal's KNUCKLEFACE JONES, about a
hapless trombone player becomes a new kind of folk hero; Geoff Marslett's
MONKEY VS. ROBOT, a way-cool animated music; and Cyzyk's own 4 FILMS IN
FIVE MINUTES: A TRILOGY. All seats $3. This event will be held at The Earl,
448 Flat Shoals Avenue in East Atlanta. For more information, call the
Center at (404) 352-4225.
3/12
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
EXPERIMENTAL WORKS @ BERKELEY
5:30pm: Artists in person. Curated by Maryam Kashani and Jesse Rankin.
Tonight's program reveals the possibilities of film and video as explored
by Berkeley students from numerous disciplines. Selected from works
completed in Film (Avant-Garde Cinema and the Language of Cinema), Art
Practice, and Visual Studies classes, these films and videos engage the
technologies of their respective mediums, challenging the traditional
representations of film, photography, video, and sound. The ongoing
dialogue regarding film and form encounters modern elements in the
creations of these young directors. The ever-presence of technology and
digital media in today's society does not go unnoticed as this program of
student works juxtaposes turntables and photographs (THIS IS NOT A MOVIE by
Laurie Thomas), color and spirituality (FRINGE by Roxanne MacNeil), and
found footage and science (INFECTED MEMORY by Jesse Watt). Experimenting
with production and presentation, documentation and recreation, and sound
and visual aesthetics, these student artists explore the difficulties and
the treasures of these representational modes. A program handout with full
listings of films and videos to be shown will be available on the evening
of the program. The Pacific Film Archive is located at 2575 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley. For more information, call (510) 642-5249.
3/12
Berkeley, California: Pacific Film Archive
http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/
WOMEN IN THE AVANT-GARDE: MUSIDORA AND GERMAINE KRULL
3:30pm: Bruce Loeb on piano. Musidora, the actress we know as Irma Vep in
LES VAMPIRES, spoofs her own celebrity and femme fatalism in LA TERRE DES
TAUREAUX (LAND OF THE BULLS, 1924), which she directed. More a delightful
excercise in self-reflexivity than narcissism, the film has the star as
filmmaker/adventurer journeying to Andalusia to watch the bulls (from a
respectful distance) and the bullfighters, scouting for a star for her
movie. Germaine Krull, the intriguing French photographer whose work is
currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, made two short
films: SIX POUR DIX FRANCS (1930) and IL PARTIT POUR UN LONG VOYAGE (1932).
SIX FOR TEN FRANCS is the ad of an itinerant photographer who lands a most
difficult gig-photographing a bride and groom in a hilly village fraught
with perils, while the wedding guests patiently wait. The film is at once
starkly photographic and comic in a René Clair vein. IL PARTIT tells of a
young boy's dream of travel, embodied in a barge on which he longs to stow
away; he finally gives up everything (that is, homework) to do so.
Exercises in visual storytelling, both films are strikingly beautiful as
befits this photographer. The Pacific Film Archive is located at 2575
Bancroft Way, Berkeley. For more information, call (510) 642-5249.
3/12
Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado-Boulder
SUNDAY EVENING WITH BRAKHAGE
7:30pm: Each Sunday evening Stan Brakhage is host for a gathering of
friends and film buffs to view films and videotapes from his incredible
collection. For more information, see March 5.
3/12
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sirius.com/%7Esstark/org/moma/moma.html
SOME SHORT FILMS FROM MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH AVANT-GARDE
5pm: A program of early French avant-garde shorts, directed by Kirsanoff,
Mitry, Isou and others. For more details, see March 10.
3/12
New York, New York: New York Underground Film Festival
http://www.nyuff.com
DAY 5
At noon: WHAT THE FUCK'S UP WITH THIS ONLINE SHIT?, a panel discussion on
online exhibition and distribution of independent film. At 2:15pm: SONIC
FRAGMENTS: THE POETICS OF DIGITAL FRAGMENTATION by Ian Kerkhof, Frank
Scheffer, Micha Klein, Alexander Oey, Miriam Kruishoop, Rob Schroder and
Joost Rekveld. Producer Frank Scheffer assembled a group of artists from
diverse backgrounds (experimental, feature and documentary filmmaking, TV
production, graphic design, fine art and veejaying) to re-mix and
re-assemble a pair of earlier video works. At 2:45 Justin Mitchell's SONGS
FOR CASSAVETES, a document of the underground bands making music in the
wake of the alternative media explosion of the early nineties. At 4pm:
Philipp Virus: Digital Hardcore Retrospective (1994-1999). Director in
attendance. To say that Philipp Virus simply "makes music videos" is like
saying that Charles Manson "had a magnetic personality." Longtime
collaborator with Alec Empire, Atari Teenage Riot and other Digital
Hardcore artists, this crafty young Kraut has a killer knack for mixing and
warping his images into both relentless pixel-driven blitzkriegs and soft
electro-atmospheric visual environments. At 4:30pm: CHEAP US BEAUTIFUL,
including: Hayley Downs' COLESLAW WRESTLING; Savin Yeatman-Eiffel's SQUAT;
David Schmoeller's PLEASE KILL MR. KINSKI; Nina Rota's WHO NEEDS HOLLYWOOD!
THE STORY OF VIDEO PIONEER JOHN DOOR AND EZTV; and Meg Hanna's SURFACE
2043. 5:45pm: Todd Verow's ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN: Antimatter (Philly) is
the queen of nothing, the ruler of nowhere, but can you put her up for the
night? Drifting through the Lower East Side like the death-rattle echoes of
rock and roll, she's on a desperate, desolate mission to get her band
together and finally conquer something, anything. 6:15pm: Andrew Lampert
and Moira Tierney's TIGER ME BOLLIX, Jennet Thomas's 4 WAYS HE TRIED TO
TELL YOU and Deborah Stratman's THE BLVD, a documentary about lifestyle of
street drag racing in Chicago. At 7:30pm: Jeff Krulik presents THE SCOTT
AND GARY SHOW, an ahead-of-its time NYC public access spectacle. At 8pm:
Robert Stoetzel's STANDARD INDUSTRY and Craig Baldwin's SPECTRES OF THE
SPECTRUM, a futuristic fantasy found-footage narrative involving time
travel, millennial apocalypse, psychic warfare and space
travel-via-Airstream-trailer. At 9:15pm: Esther Bell's GODASS, a dark
coming-of-age comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a
girl's problems. Bob Ray's ROCK OPERA, a THC-reeking tale-tale set in the
underground music scene of Austin, Texas. Festival screenings take place at
the Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street, New York
City. For more information, call the festival hotline at (212) 252-3845.
3/12
San Francisco, California: San Francisco Cinematheque
http://www.sfcinematheque.org
FROM CINE-POVERA TO CINE-SPOLVERARE: SOUND FILM PROPOSITIONS
7:30pm: Luis A. Recoder and Bruce McClure in person. In the in-between of
the instants that constitute the movies, Recoder and McClure have chosen to
demonstrate that the experience of both the optical and audio surface of
the sound film stubbornly defies the project of limits. The shutter
blankets the room in darkness, but vision persists; the ear, meanwhile, is
served an uninterrupted stream of energy. The evening's program is
presented as a series of "propositions," a form adopted by Recoder for his
screening, CINE-POVERA. McClure's CINE-SPOLVERARE suggests the reprise of,
or return to, themes of the recent past, dusty, but not totally jejune.
Like a taffy pull, they seek to transform the material from a "somewhat
sticky, side-whiskered affair to a glistening crystal ribbon" composed of
stripes of different colors. Recoder and McClure propose a series of sound
film documents including: SILVER RECOVERY; VARIABLE DENSITY; and BRUCE
MCCLURE (by Recoder) and SUPERINCUMBENT #1; HOMUNCULUS; and LUIS A. RECODER
(by McClure). This event will take place at the San Francisco Art
Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco. For more information, call
the Cinematheque at (415) 558-8129.
3/12
Vancouver, British Columbia: Blinding Light
http://www.blindinglight.com/
THE JOHNNY LEGEND PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL: DRUGS AND ROCK'N'ROLL
At 7:30pm: A screening of THE T.A.M.I SHOW and assorted shorts. At 9:30pm:
A bizarre mix of shorts, including THE BIG ROD and TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP
OUT. For more details, see March 11.
3/12
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York: Ocularis
http://www.billburg.com/ocularis/
LAST MANGO IN DUBLIN AND THE GENERAL
7 and 9:30pm: A screening of LAST MANGO IN DUBLIN (Hugh Farley, 1999),
followed by THE GENERAL (John Boorman, 1998). Ocularis is at Galapagos Art
and Performance Space, 70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent Avenues)
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For more information, call (718) 388-8713.
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