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Enter your announcements (calls for entries, new work, screenings, jobs, items for sale, etc.) at: http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl ITEM FOR SALE: ============== RCA TP-66 http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=sale&readfile=31.ann NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: ===================== The 8 Fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1356.ann MONO NO AWARE V (Brooklyn, NY USA; Deadline: November 09, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1357.ann Cherry Kino, Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1358.ann 3rd Festival du film Merveilleux et Imaginaire (Paris FRANCE; Deadline: April 01, 2012) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1359.ann International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1360.ann Need a creative escape?ARTErra rural artistic residency (PT) LAST VACANCIES (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1361.ann The Journal of Short Film Volume 25 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: October 28, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1362.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: ====================== Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts (Erie PA USA; Deadline: September 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1316.ann Midnight Black Festival Of Darkness (Los Angeles CA USA; Deadline: October 08, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1317.ann Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: October 17, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1336.ann Colour Out of Space (Brighton, East Sussex, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1344.ann Damming Fluxus (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1345.ann Black Thorns in the Black Box (Chicago. IL USA; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1346.ann GLI.TC/H (US / Amsterdam / UK; Deadline: September 27, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1354.ann The 8 Fest (Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1356.ann Cherry Kino, Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK; Deadline: September 30, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1358.ann International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Deadline: October 01, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1360.ann Need a creative escape?ARTErra rural artistic residency (PT) LAST VACANCIES (Tondela, Portugal; Deadline: September 24, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1361.ann The Journal of Short Film Volume 25 (Columbus, Ohio USA; Deadline: October 28, 2011) http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls&readfile=1362.ann Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl Also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY): ============================== * Radical Light: Stories Untold [September 24, Boston, Massachusetts] * Essential Cinema: October [September 24, New York, New York] * The Holy Bunch [September 24, New York, New York] * Richard Kern Program 1 [September 24, New York, New York] * Basis of Make-Up [September 24, New York, New York] * Richard Kern Program 2 [September 24, New York, New York] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Le Corps-Matiere (1) [September 24, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - La Fuite Eperdue [September 24, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Jeux D'images (1) [September 24, Paris, France] * Hand-Made Animation [September 24, San Francisco, California] * Super 8 Films By Howard Guttenplan [September 25, Brooklyn, New York] * Vital Signs: videos By Dani Leventhal [September 25, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Old and New [September 25, New York, New York] * Heinz Emigholz Program [September 25, New York, New York] * Sense of Architecture [September 25, New York, New York] * Beatrice Gibson Program [September 25, New York, New York] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Depaysements (1) [September 25, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Rituels (1) [September 25, Paris, France] * Le Cjc De 1971 à 2011 : 40 Ans De Collectif ! - Points De Vue Polyphoniques (1) [September 25, Paris, France] * The Third Person, A Feature Film By Austin-Based Filmmaker Max Juren [September 26, Brooklyn, New York] * Chick Strand- SeñOra Con Flores/Woman With Flowers (1995/2011) [September 26, Los Angeles, California] * Films By Constantin Brancusi, 1923-1939 [September 27, New York, NY] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson [September 27, Palma] * Jerry Tartaglia (In-Person) [September 27, Reading, Pennsylvania] * Laura Parnes's Blood and Guts In High School [September 29, Chicago, Illinois] * Bruce Mcclure - Projection Performance: the Pump and Pipe Pingers Are Ideally Reconstructed [September 29, Granville, Ohio] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson | Manuel Carvalho [September 29, Lisbon, Portugal] * Free Screening - Field Notes: Processing the Idea of Nature In Los Angeles [September 29, Los Angeles, California] * Essential Cinema: Battleship Potemkin [September 29, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Strike [September 29, New York, New York] * Canyon Cinema Screening [September 29, San Francisco, California] * Bruce Mcclure - Ilustrated Lecture: More Light, and the Gloom of That Light More Gloom and the Light of That Gloom [September 30, Granville, Ohio] * Ivan the Terrible [September 30, New York, New York] * Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Paul Clipson [October 1, Essen, Germany] * Essential Cinema: Blood of A Poet [October 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Beauty and the Beast [October 1, New York, New York] * Essential Cinema: Orpheus [October 1, New York, New York] * An Intimate Evening With Bruce Baillie [October 1, San Francisco, CA] * United Nations [October 1, San Francisco, California] * The Testament of Orpheus [October 2, New York, New York] * Orpheus [October 2, New York, New York] * Beauty and the Beast [October 2, New York, New York] Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE. ---------------------------- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 ---------------------------- 9/24 Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson http://ArtsEmerson.org 8:15pm, 559 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111 RADICAL LIGHT: STORIES UNTOLD Film Curator Kathy Geritz in person. The satiric, sensual, and striking stories in this program represent some of the ways in which the tale can commingle with the telling to produce oddly original offspring. Featuring films by George Kuchar, James Broughton, Curt McDowell and Anne McGuire. Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area was curated by Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid (Pacific Film Archive) and Steve Anker (California Institute of the Arts). The tour is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol and the William H. Donner Foundations. 9/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 3:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OCTOBER by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1928, 143 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (OKTYABR) Eisenstein celebrates the baroque in OCTOBER, as opposed to the Greek classicism of POTEMKIN, disappointing contemporary audience expectations. "Intellectual cinema" starts here. 9/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE HOLY BUNCH 6:00 PM THE HOLY BUNCH / THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP I by Heinz Emigholz Share + Twitter Facebook URL Film Notes THE HOLY BUNCH / DER ZYNISCHE KÖRPER 1986-90, 89 minutes, 35mm. In reaction to the death of a friend, a group of artists begin to explore their collective past by perusing his notebooks and their own artistic creations. Complexly structured to shift between the past and present, scenes from life and scenes from a novel, THE HOLY BUNCH simultaneously constructs and deconstructs the role of art in the group's lives and its relationship to human spirit. & THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP I (1974-83, 20 minutes, 35mm, silent) The films in the BASIS OF MAKE-UP series constitute a compendium of Emigholz's drawings and writings. "[These films] are the center about which my feature films revolve. I imagine them as an intermezzo between the long films, the database as an interlude. The paradoxical nature of film is taken to an extreme: giving something that is taken away immediately." H.E. Total running time: ca. 115 minutes. 9/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 1 See notes for Sept. 23, 7 pm. 9/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BASIS OF MAKE-UP THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP II (1995-2000, 48 minutes, 35mm) THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP III (1996-2004, 26 minutes, 35mm) MISCELLANEA I (1988-2001, 20 minutes, 35mm) "MISCELLANEA is the name I gave to films that have forced themselves upon me wanting to be made during the course of my work on other films without a commission or funding debates. They are studies on 35mm film and HDV. The films are vessels for collections of film shots, footnotes, remarks, and references, to be regarded as vanguard and memory." H.E. Total running time: ca. 100 minutes. 9/24 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue RICHARD KERN PROGRAM 2 See notes for Sept. 23, 9 pm. 9/24 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=149 5:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - LE CORPS-MATIERE (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - LE CORPS-MATIERE Séance présentée par Sarah Darmon La figure humaine tisse des liens avec la matière argentique pour se confondre avec elle et disparaître dans des variations lumineuses. - "Outlaw" de Ann Steuernagel - "Empreinte" de Xavier Baert - "Pulsions" de Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof - "Ai (Love)" de Takahiko Iimura - "Allegoria" de Stéphane Marti - "Ink" de Sarah Darmon - "Petit Enfer" de Raphaël Sevet - "Element" de Amy Greenfield - "Rencontre avec Franck" de Isabelle Blanche - "Visages perdus" de Alain Mazars - "Rose" de Robert Todd - "J." de Alexandre Larose et Solomon Nagler - "Film (Knout)" de Deco Dawson - "En-corps" de Colas Ricard - "Hymen" de Carole Arcega http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=149 9/24 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou 8:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - LA FUITE EPERDUE LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - LA FUITE EPERDUE DES PHOTOGRAMMES Séance présentée par Pip Chodorov (sous réserve) Ces huit films questionnent notre rapport à l'illusion d'optique. La représentation mimétique et les figures qu'elle engendre dialoguent avec l'abstraction pour proposer un rapport au temps qui invite à la contemplation méditative. - "Mémoires filmiques" de Florence De Méredieu - "Voda" de Alexis Constantin - "Charlemagne 2 : Piltzer" de Pip Chodorov - "L'entre-deux" de Philippe Cote - "Autoportraits 1994-1998" de Olivier Fouchard - "Coming soon" de David Bart - "Incarnation (boy) Negative & Positive" de Tony Wu - "The Dante Quartet" de Stan Brakhage http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=150 9/24 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=148 2:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - JEUX D'IMAGES (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - JEUX D'IMAGES Séance présentée par Gérard Cairaschi Se jouer des images pour les déjouer. Les films et les vidéos qui composent ce programme ont en commun l'utilisation de dispositifs de prise de vues ou de montage qui jouent et se jouent d'images. Jeux d'optiques, jeux utilisant des dispositifs visuels, jeux de collages/montages qui combinent et questionnent les images, interrog ...ent notre perception, jouent des capacités du film à créer des rencontres inattendues, improbables, troublantes. - "Da Movies" de Sandy Ressler - "Una vita" de Dominique Noguez - "Série BB N°2 Blanblan/noir ou 'le savon noir'" de Carole Contant - "Janiceps" de Augustin Gimel - "Magia" de Gérard Cairaschi - "Maldoror" de Lucio Molinari et Daniel Alzate-Romero - "Black's Back" de Derek Woolfenden - "Au bord du lac" de Patrick Bokanowski - "Reconstitution" de Hélène Abram - "Et le cochon fut né" de Julius Ziz http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=148 9/24 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street HAND-MADE ANIMATION HELEN HILLS' THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION + JEREMY ROURKE + OC is honored to host the NorCal premiere of animator Helen Hills' last film, The Florestine Collection, a piece she was working on at the time of her death. Helen was of course much loved in the film community for her ingenious DIY aesthetic, advanced in her legendary book Recipes for Disaster. With friends like Alfonso Alvarez (in person), Helen's husband Paul Gailiunas was able to usher the half-hr. work to completion. ALSO a whole bouquet of other (mostly new) animation, including Jeremy Rourke in person, singing and playing guitar to his own shorts! PLUS Martha Colburn's Anti-Fracking; Kelly Sears' Cover Me, Alpha; Jim Trainor's The Bats; and Janie Geiser's Lost Motion. Come early for our season-opening reception with Jeremy's singing bowls, the Dream Machine, and free sangria! -------------------------- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 -------------------------- 9/25 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7pm, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) SUPER 8 FILMS BY HOWARD GUTTENPLAN Admission $6, Artist in person. We have invited filmmaker and Millennium Film Workshop Director Howard Guttenplan to screen his Super-8 films. He has selected a unique program of works that have not previously screened together including European Diary (silent, 3.5 min), New York City Diary, (silent, 15 min.) Spring Diary (NYC) (silent, 18 min.), Caracas Diary (sound, 18 min.) and another film still to be decided. These films were originally shot in the 70s and 80s, however Guttenplan continues to re-edit and rework the films even today. Program will be approx. 60 minutes. Howard Guttenplan is the long-time program director of the Millennium Film Workshop's Cinema Series. He is also a graphic designer, photographer and filmmaker. He has had one-person shows of his films at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque and at film centers and museums in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Zagreb, Toronto, Haifa and other cities. He has organized and toured with American avant-garde films in France, Germany and the Netherlands and has served on various international film panels and juries in Russian, Iran, Japan, Venezuela, and Croatia. " the short bursts of frames also take on an internal logic of their own, one that would dictate their appearing at the same pace if the artist had all the time in the world to shoot. The juxtaposition of striking patterns and colors gives the images a force and vitality which longer shots would destroy. In fact,the viewer is not even likely to recall that the film is composed primarily of static shots.So active are the transitions from one texture to another that one's impression is of extreme movement, however rarely something within the frame actually moves. " Scott Hammen in AFTERIMAGE on New York City Diary. J/M/Z Myrtle/Broadway. L Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street. B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop, right across from the gallery. Charles Place is a dead-end street. We are behind Little Skips Cafe.more info: www.microscopegallery.com. tel: 347.925.1433. 9/25 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30pm, The Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA 90026 VITAL SIGNS: VIDEOS BY DANI LEVENTHAL Dani Leventhal in person! We are delighted to host, for the first time in Los Angeles, the videos of Dani Leventhal, including two world premieres, Shayne's Rectangle and Tin Pressed! Whether peering into the folds of an elderly woman's neck, surveying sidewalk vendors in Budapest or the grooves of a chain-lock fence in upstate New York, or investigating the matted feathers and fur of the many animals Leventhal examines and sometimes dissects, her camera is inquisitive and ever-present, a companion as much as a tool in the artist's unyielding search for signs of life. Curated by Genevieve Yue. Screening: Draft 9 (2003), Show and Tell in the Land of Milk and Honey (2007), Hearts are Trump Again (2010), 54 Days This Winter 36 Days This Spring for 18 Minutes (2009), Shayne's Rectangle (2011), and Tin Pressed (2011). 9/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OLD AND NEW by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1929, 120 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (STAROYE I NOVOYE) Known also as THE GENERAL LINE, OLD AND NEW is one of Eisenstein's least-known films. With it, he developed and perfected his theories of "mise-en-cadre," using the montage of characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and "overtonal montage," bringing silent film to its zenith. 9/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:15 pm, 32 2nd Ave. HEINZ EMIGHOLZ PROGRAM TWO PROJECTS BY FREDERICK KIESLER / ZWEI PROJEKTE VON FRIEDRICH KIESLER (2006-09, 16 minutes, video) Explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (18901965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959), which is currently exhibited at the Kiesler Foundation in Vienna; and THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK, designed and built by Frederick Kiesler and Armand Bartos in Jerusalem (1959-65). MISCELLANEA II (1988-2001, 19 minutes, 35mm) MISCELLANEA III (1997-2004, 22 minutes, 35mm) Total running time: ca. 65 minutes. 9/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE by Heinz Emigholz 2005-09, 168 minutes, video This film showcases 42 contemporary architectural projects of Austrian origins. As an independent work, it emerged from the material for 57 short films that Emigholz produced for the traveling exhibition (of the same name) conceived in Graz. Unlike the exhibition, which grouped the architecture thematically, this new film assembles the project into a social reality in which modern buildings were constructed for all areas of life. 9/25 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 pm, 32 2nd Ave. BEATRICE GIBSON PROGRAM SEPTEMBER: BEATRICE GIBSON Filmmaker in person! Beatrice Gibson is a moving-image artist whose work skillfully employs strategies usually encountered in the world of avant-garde music. Her deep fascination with graphic notation, open scores, and other strategies of post-war composition is employed to fascinating effect in these two exciting and innovative works. A NECESSARY MUSIC, winner of the Tiger Award for best short at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2009, features the distinctive voice of composer Robert Ashley, while THE FUTURE'S GETTING OLD LIKE THE REST OF US includes an appearance by noted pianist John Tilbury, among other actors known to British TV viewers. Gibson's carefully chosen imagery and emphasis on spoken language have made her one of the most distinctive filmmakers on the festival circuit today. A NECESSARY MUSIC 2008, 28 minutes, HD Video. Music composed by Alex Waterman; narration by Robert Ashley. A NECESSARY MUSIC is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. Treating the medium of film as both a musical proposition and a proposal for collective production, A NECESSARY MUSIC employs the residents of New York's Roosevelt Island as its authors and actors, gathering together texts written by them and using them to construct a script for the film. Casting seventeen residents to enact these lines accompanied by a fictional narration taken from Adolfo Bioy Casares's 1941 science fiction novel THE INVENTION OF MOREL, the film deploys fiction as a tool to frame and activate its site. THE FUTURE'S GETTING OLD LIKE THE REST OF US 2010, 48 minutes, 16mm-to-HD Video. A 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV Play and set in an older people's care home. Part documentary, part fiction, the script for the film was a collaboration with writer and critic George Clark and was constructed from verbatim transcripts of a discussion group held over a period of five months with the residents of four of Camden's Care Homes. Taking B.S. Johnson's 1971 experimental novel HOUSE MOTHER NORMAL as its formal departure point and employing the structural logic of a score, the script is edited into a vertical structure, in which 8 voices or 8 monologues occur simultaneously. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. 9/25 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=151 2:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - DEPAYSEMENTS (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - DEPAYSEMENTS Séance présentée par Louis Dupont Du voyage fantastique à la promenade solitaire, l'entrelacement de corps et de voix à des décors ou des espaces participe souvent du paysage intérieur, d'un état d'âme. - "L'eau, l'air et les songes" de Cécile Ravel - "Sea travels" de Anita Thacher - "Memosium" de Louis Dupont - "Where did Maria go?" de Viviane Vagh - "Wolkengestalt" de Silvia Maglioni et Graeme Thomson - "Terrae" de Othello Vilgard - "Sleepers" de Stuart Pound - "Kokoro is for heart" de Philip Hoffman - "Mai" de Orlan Roy - "Dimanche" de Rodolphe Olcèse - "premier lieu : Venerque" de Damien Marguet http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=151 9/25 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=152 5:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - RITUELS (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - RITUELS Séance présentée par Marie Sochor et Damien Marguet Du geste quotidien à la cérémonie singulière, ces films questionnent la représentation féminine à travers le prisme de l'étrangeté. - "La femme rouge vomit ses mots" de Marie Sochor - "Sonja" de Maplo - "The Shape of the Gaze" de Maïa Cybelle Carpenter - "Autoportrait en 3'23" de Cécilia Rodriguez - "La Princesse est indisposée, elle ne reçoit personne" de Gabrielle Reiner - "Pandrogeny Manifesto" de Dionysos Andronis - "Boucle noire" de Denis Guéguin - "Appolénus" de Baptiste Lamy - "Rosée Nocturne" de Jean-Paul Noguès - "Day's night" de Catherine Corringer http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=152 9/25 Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=153 8:00pm, Cinéma 2 LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - POINTS DE VUE POLYPHONIQUES (1) LE CJC DE 1971 à 2011 : 40 ANS DE COLLECTIF ! - POINTS DE VUE POLYPHONIQUES Séance présentée par Laurence Rebouillon et Bernard Cerf Comment élaborer un travail sonore quand, par exemple, certaines pellicules comme la Super 8 sont muettes ou quand le travail en laboratoire artisanal ou le montage numérique supplante la prise de vue et induit une animation au rythme particulier ? Ces contraintes ou ces désirs incitent certains cinéastes à déjouer l'attente d'une narration linéaire classique pour proposer une expérience asynchrone entre image et son et créer ainsi des films qui échappent à toute perception dogmatique et univoque du monde qui nous entoure. - "Vestibule" de Ken Kobland - "My Room le Grand Canal" de Anne-Sophie Brabant et Pierre Gerbaux - "Pur fantôme" de Sébastien Durand - "Avril 99" de Bernard Cerf - "Le Sourire d'Alice" de Laurence Rebouillon http://www.cjcinema.org/pages/hors_les_murs.php?id_news=153 -------------------------- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 -------------------------- 9/26 Brooklyn, New York: Microscope Gallery http://www.microscopegallery.com 7PM, 4 Charles Place (at Myrtle btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Aves) THE THIRD PERSON, A FEATURE FILM BY AUSTIN-BASED FILMMAKER MAX JUREN Admission $6. Filmmaker in person. Microscope presents the NY premiere of Max Juren's debut feature The Third Person. The Austin-based artist started the US tour of his new film this summer from the legendary Dobie Theatre in Austin, a venue that only a few months ago closed its doors after more than 2 decades dedicated to art and independent films. Supported by a successful Kickstarter campaign, The Third Person is co-starred and co-written by Max and his girlfriend Michelle Devereux. To his father he left the difficult task of playing God. Arriving directly from a screening in Providence RI, Max will be in attendance to introduce the film, and will be available afterwards for a Q&A. Juren writes about the film: "Both Zeitman learns all kinds of things from internet videos. Painting, foreign languages, feats of strength, acting, cinematography and even religion! When he discovers from a video preacher that God is watching him and creating a movie of his life, Both puts all his research into production. He directs himself in a real-time movie written by his own pathetic happenstance and clichéd fantasies. Plagued by a short-attention-span God and fighting to make a beautiful internet actress his leading lady, Both will have to force the performance of a lifetime, in a role he was born to play. Unfortunately for him, his "life movie" isn't always a crowd pleaser." Max Juren is a video artist based out of Austin, Texas. His most recent work is concerned with the effect of visual media on the structure of human thought. Many of his materials are procured from the cast-offs of larger film productions on which he works in various art department positions. His works have been exhibited with Portland based Deep Leap Microcinema, at The Joanna in Houston, Domy and Mass Gallery in Austin as well as Austin's historic Dobie Theater. He is a contributing member of multi-media label Monofonus Press, on which his first collection of videos was released. The Third Person is his first feature length movie. Juren's work previously screened at Microscope in a group show "The Internet is a Terrible Place to Live" presented by Jesse Malmed last October.more info at www.microscopegallery.com. Tel: 347.925.1433.Charles Place is a dead-end street intersecting Myrtle Ave between Bushwick & Evergreen Aves. Nearest subway: J/MZ - Myrtle/Broadway. Other options: L - Morgan Ave or Jefferson Street, B54 Myrtle/Willoughby stop directly across from gallery. . 9/26 Los Angeles, California: Redcat http://www.redcat.org/ 8:30pm, 631 West 2nd St. CHICK STRAND- SEñORA CON FLORES/WOMAN WITH FLOWERS (1995/2011) World premiere When legendary filmmaker Chick Strand (19312009) passed away, she left behind an extraordinary catalogue of 16mm experimental work and five unfinished films. By 1995 she had completed the picture and sound editing for Señora con Flores/Woman with Flowers the intimate depiction of the ups and downs and the joys and travails of a Mexican flower seller. The needed post-production on Señora was recently performed under the supervision of the Academy Film Archive, fully respecting the artist's intentions. Rounding out the program is a selection of Strand's films restored by the Pacific Film Archive and the Academy Film Archive with the support of the National Film Preservation Foundation: They include Waterfall (1967), Mosori Monika (1971), Kristallnacht (1979), and Cartoon Le Mousse (1979). In person: Eric Strand (pending) Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud with Eric Strand, Betzy Bromberg and Mark Toscano. Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum as a precursor to its series Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 "Strand discovered an extraordinary sensuous lyricism, simultaneously wanton and disciplined." David E. James, The Most Typical Avant-Garde --------------------------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 --------------------------- 9/27 New York, NY: Light Industry http://www.lightindustry.org/ 7:00pm, 131 Bowery FILMS BY CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, 1923-1939 Couchsurfing (cont'd) Light Industry on the Bowery Films by Constantin Brancusi, 1923-1939 ...Presented by Phillipe-Alain Michaud Though Brancusi's work as a photographer is well-known, it was only very recently discovered that he was also active as a filmmaker. From 1923 onward, using a camera lent by Man Ray, he made films both in his studio and while traveling, including a trip to Romania in 1937 that documents the construction of the Endless Column. For tonight's event, curator Phillipe-Alain Michaud will present these works "exhibited here for the first time in North America" alongside a late film by Paul Sharits and discuss Brancusi's practice across film, photography, and sculpture, shedding new light on this crucial chapter in the history of modernism. Brancusi's Sculpture Ensemble at Tirgu Jiu Paul Sharits, 16mm, 1977/84, 21 mins This film is a "chronicle" of a visit I made in 1977 to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures: The Endless Column; The Gate of the Kiss; The Table of Silence; (and the lesser known Arcade of Pedestals, the modular system of stools which lead from the "Gate" to the "Table"). These works are in the small, rural town of Tirgu Jiu, not far from the village of Hobitza (where Brancusi was born and spent his childhood). These works are shown in photographs and discussed as totally autonomous "abstract" sculptures simply placed conveniently around the town; but, in fact, they are also parts of a larger and very specific environmental (and symbolic) motif. Their placement suggests a metaphysical continuum; they span the boundaries of the town and while aligned in a (virtual) straight line, all three cannot be seen from any single point of view, so there is a temporal unfolding as one moves through the town to experience the relationship. - PS Philippe-Alain Michaud is the Film Curator at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou and the author of Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion (Zone Books). Special thanks to Simone Subal for hosting us in her space, the soon-to-be home of Simone Subal Gallery. 9/27 Palma: CENTREMÀTIC 2011 http://centrematic.blogspot.com/2011/09/centrematic-2011.html 7pm, Centre de Cultura Sa Nostra Concepció, 12 (Palma), Mallorca JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON The super 8 films of Paul Clipson are multilayered explorations of light and movement, mostly edited in-camera, and often screened with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, one of his most distinguished and most frequent of musical collaborators. 9/27 Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers, Inc http://www.berksfilmmakers.org 7:30 pm, Albright College Center for the Arts JERRY TARTAGLIA (IN-PERSON) Internationally acclaimed filmmaker, writer, and co-founder of Berks Filmmakers, Jerry Tartaglia, will screen the first two parts of his controversial Live Film Projection "The Way of the World," a Queer cinematic call to anti-conformity and anti militarism. Viewer discretion advised. ---------------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 ---------------------------- 9/29 Chicago, Illinois: Conversations at the Edge http://www.saic.edu/cateblog 6pm, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street LAURA PARNESS BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL Laura Parnes in person! Laura Parnes's bracingly inventive, stylized films and videos operate at the intersection of narrative film and video art. This evening, Parnes will present her acclaimed feature, Blood and Guts in High School (2004-06). Distilled from Kathy Acker's subversive feminist novel of the same title, the film interweaves events surrounding the book's publication the Jonestown Massacre, Three Mile Island, the rise of Reagan Republicanism and the Moral Majority with interludes from the short, violent life of its pre-teen protagonist, Janie Smith. Parnes will also screen episodes from her new web series, County Down (ongoing). Building on the darkly comic spirit of Blood and Guts, County Down is set in a lavish gated community where parents suddenly prey upon their children. Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. Laura Parnes, 2004-11, USA, multiple formats, ca. 75 min plus discussion. 9/29 Granville, Ohio: Denison University Department of Cinema http://www.denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/pressreleases/cinema_mcclure_20110929.html 8:00 PM, Knapp Performance Space (basement of Knapp Hall, Denison University) BRUCE MCCLURE - PROJECTION PERFORMANCE: THE PUMP AND PIPE PINGERS ARE IDEALLY RECONSTRUCTED Visiting artist/filmmaker (he rejects both titles) Bruce McClure presents an evening of his internationally acclaimed works of 'live cinema:' light and sound, optical illusions, auditory hallucinations, and total sensory overload. Bruce McClure: In the 1990's 16 mm projectors were being relegated to a technological yard sale of hobby horses for aficionados of the quaintly obsolete. This hybrid of incandescent and mechanical paradigms delineated in a roomful of people with a screen, a P.A. system, some film and audio equipment is a deceptively simple machine. It is, however, a powerful tool to ensconce, escape, transpose, reflect, amplify, compress, deflect and obstruct. These are some of the operative verbs constantly under revision in the formal suite of reception. In an auditorium, sited within the arc of an audience, the 16 mm. projector is privileged as a part of an extra-ordinary nonlinear differential equation. Leaning into an enfilade of harmonically related, phase independent, sinusoidal inputs the projector signals to an inveterate pasture of nerve endings. Threaded with loops, film becomes only a technical substrate, a sprocketed analogue in service to the projector's engagement with neural images that hang between the gaps of the bio-synod. Bruce McClure's projection performances transfix film in headlights, flatten it and leave it behind as road kill. In this work the mimetic potentialities of the projector to tell a story through enactment and directness upsets the argentine cinematic picture palace shaking its walls and tearing fresh openings for light and ventilation. Projection performance, according to McClure's definition, "abandons the camera on the other side of the picture plane valorizing the latent hush of a theater populated by cooperation and darkened with expectancy creating a vantage point for aimless observation and drift of internal gyroscopes.' 9/29 Lisbon, Portugal: Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB) http://www.zedosbois.org/events/jefre-cantu-ledesma-paul-clipson-manuel-carvalho/ 10pm, Rua da Barroca, no 59 1200-049 JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA & PAUL CLIPSON | MANUEL CARVALHO Super 8mm color and black & white film collages of natural and urban environments, projected with densely layered guitar and synth drones. 9/29 Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ 8:00pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset Blvd.) FREE SCREENING - FIELD NOTES: PROCESSING THE IDEA OF NATURE IN LOS ANGELES Echo Park Film Center's September Artist in Residence, Kate Lain, will screen her new handprocessed Super 8 work, Field Notes: Processing the Idea of Nature in Los Angeles. For this project, Lain takes the concepts of biological field notes and artist sketches and extends those to film as she explores Los Angeles' relationship with nature. At the screening, Lain and those in attendance will embark on a short nature walk around EPFC's neighborhood and collaborate on short video sketch that will be screened that night. This is part of EPFC's new LA AIR Artist in Residence program. LA AIR invites local film and video makers to utilize EPFC resources in creating and premiering new work over a four-week period. Artists are provided with a modest materials stipend in addition to equipment access, technical and creative support, and work/exhibition space. 9/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN by Sergei Eisenstein With English intertitles, 1925, 74 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) Eisenstein's constructivist montage and rigid, super-structured plot share equal weight with a seemingly spontaneous, inflamed emotion. 9/29 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:45 pm, 32 2nd Ave. ESSENTIAL CINEMA: STRIKE by Sergei Eisenstein With Russian intertitles (English synopsis available), 1925, 106 minutes, 35mm, b&w, silent (STACHKA) Eisenstein's interest in the Freudian father complex drives this psychological scenario in which non-actors step forward to acknowledge the viewer, illustrating Eisenstein's desire to penetrate to the heart of cinema, sidestepping realism by "being real." Governmental restrictions made STRIKE the only completed film of a series intended to portray the road to revolution. 9/29 San Francisco, California: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org 7:00 p.m., Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA CANYON CINEMA SCREENING Canyon Cinema celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding by presenting the newly restored version of 'Quick Billy' by Bruce Baillie. Also presented will be a rare screening of Bruce Baillie's 35mm film entitledPieta. Bruce Baillie was instrumental in the early sixties as one of the founders of Canyon Cinema. Baillie introduces the program and will participate in a post-screening Q & A. Reception for ticket holders follows the screening. $10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students and seniors. -------------------------- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 -------------------------- 9/30 Granville, Ohio: Denison University Department of Cinema http://www.denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/pressreleases/cinema_mcclure_20110929.html 1:30 - 2:30 PM, Knapp Performance Space (basement of Knapp Hall, Denison University) BRUCE MCCLURE - ILUSTRATED LECTURE: MORE LIGHT, AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT MORE GLOOM AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM Visiting artist Bruce McClure demonstrates his unique film projection system and discusses his radical reinvention of cinema as a live performance art form. Free and open to the public. Bruce McClure: The motion picture camera and movie projector are positioned symmetrically about the film plane and mirrored as analogues in the dialectic between inside and out. Suppressed and neglected by filmmakers the metabolic dynamo consisting of an audience and the projective apparatus is essential to cinema and is a metaphor for the conversion of matter into energy and consciousness between living things. My cinematic paradigm radicalizes the film plane as a translucent boundary that cannot be crossed. In this illustrated lecture I propose to view the flattened camera realm abstractly by celebrating the spherical world gathered by humans accompanied by the music of the projector. In 1927 the fundamental measure of things by discrete picture frames was challenged by a continuous line read by the projector's optical sound system. Sound production, disassociated on film's surface, is synchronized with pictures by the projector and broadcast into a phenomenal space that are like those undiscoverable arctic regions where the needle indifferently respects all points of the horizon alike. 9/30 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Ave. IVAN THE TERRIBLE by Sergei Eisenstein In Russian with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1942-46, 194 minutes, 35mm, b&w and color (IVAN GROZNY) "The first time in history a man has committed suicide by cinema," quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned production, Ivan's opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects' lives a living hell a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin. ------------------------- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2011 ------------------------- 10/1 Essen, Germany: Denovali Swingfest Experimental Music Festival http://denovali.com/swingfest/?lineup 8:30pm, WeststadtHalle, Thea-Leymann-Str. 23 45127 JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA + PAUL CLIPSON This duo creates unique live performances with music and Super 8mm- largely improvised in-camera edited works, employing multiple exposures, dissolves and macro images, that bring to light subconscious preoccupations and unexpected visual forms. 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BLOOD OF A POET by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1930, 53 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE SANG D'UN POÈTE) "Adolescent angels wandering about, black boxers with perfect bodies taking flight, school-children in capes killing each other with snowballs, a mirror becomes a swimming pool, and the hallways of a furnished hotel turn into a labyrinth." Georges Sadoul 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1946, 93 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) With Jean Marais and Josette Day; score by Georges Auric. "[P]erhaps the most sensuously elegant of all filmed fairy tales. As a child escapes from everyday family life to the magic of a storybook, so, in the film, Beauty's farm, with its Vermeer simplicity, fades in intensity as we are caught up in the Gustave Dore extravagance of the Beast's enchanted landscape. Jean Marais is a magnificent beast." Pauline Kael 10/1 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ESSENTIAL CINEMA: ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with English subtitles, 1950, 95 minutes, 35mm, b&w (ORPHÉE) With Jean Marais. Orpheus and Eurydice, with Death waiting on the corner. Cocteau said, "Orpheus could only exist on the screen. A drama of the visible and the invisible, ORPHEUS's Death is like a spy who falls in love with the person being spied upon. The myth of immortality." 10/1 San Francisco, CA: Canyon Cinema http://www.canyoncinema.com 7:00pm, 145 Ninth Street AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH BRUCE BAILLIE Join us in celebration of Canyon Cinema's 50th anniversary this fall for a series screenings and events hosted at Ninth Street Cinema with a generous grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. August - December 2011 Canyon Cinema, one of the world's premier experimental film distribution centers is in the process of celebrating its 50th year anniversary. ...Undoubtedly, Canyon Cinema has become synonymous with Bay Area independent and experimental film. At present, Canyon Cinema has 320 members worldwide and distributes more than 3,200 films and hundreds of DVDs. As we have actively grown over the past fifty years, Canyon has chronicled the history of this unique genre. Join us this fall as we celebrate our anniversary and remember our shared lineage with the Bay Area experimental film scene through a series of screenings at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 7pm and a special program at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Third Street, San Francisco, CA An Intimate Evening with Bruce Baillie Please join us for a screening of a newly preserved work print of the HOLY SCROLLS Reel I as well as rare, never before seen "oddments from the Archives plus Roslyn Romance"--BB $7 general; $5 students and seniors 10/1 San Francisco, California: Other Cinema http://www.othercinema.com/ 8:30, ATA, 992 Valencia Street UNITED NATIONS SAM GREEN'S UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE + L'INTERNATIONALE + Our good man Sammy Green returns to Frisco with the world premiere of his half-hr. cine-essay on Esperanto, a language developed to be spoken by all the planet's peoples, and whose remaining adherents afford an inspiring face of utopianism. After Green's in-person intro, we look at two other internationalist pieces: Peter Miller's L'Internationale, a fascinatingand movinghistory of this famous "people's anthem," and Philip Stapp's artful animation Picture in Your Mind, an epic allegory on the human potential for war and peace. NOTE: BOOK POTLATCH! Bring in your used books to trade with others!! ----------------------- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011 ----------------------- 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 4:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS by Jean Cocteau In French with no subtitles (English synopsis available), 1959, 83 minutes, 35mm, b&w (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHÉE) To Cocteau, "poet" meant the creative artist, and the Orpheus of Greek mythology the god of the lyre, song and poetry was Cocteau's personal muse. For Cocteau the plight of the poet was an unending search for truth and immortality, a life of suffering and martyrdom during which the poet must experience many deaths." 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue ORPHEUS See program notes for October 1st. 10/2 New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue BEAUTY AND THE BEAST See program notes for October 1st. Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form at http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl The weekly listing is also available online at Flicker: http://www.hi-beam.net
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