<http://www.hi-beam.net/now.gif> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=31f6072891&e=f36020cad0> <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=677fb2c34e&e=f36020cad0> This week [January 26 - February 3, 2019] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=b985f015c7&e=f36020cad0> . To receive the weekly listing via email: Subscribe <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1e7c844b9e&e=f36020cad0> . <https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/jonasmekas.jpg> R.I.P. Jonas <https://1wbs5o3gs4r83huhze5rq9nj-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/wonder_1.jpg> Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? <> [January 31, Brooklyn, NY United States] <https://i0.wp.com/www.ercatx.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/stark-epiphanists-01.jpg> More Than Meets the Eye: the Cine-Puzzles of Scott Stark <> [February 3, Austin, TX United States] NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES: UNCG International SUSTAINABILITY SHORTS FILM COMPETITIO (Greensboro, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=d5e249b8f8&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2016.ann Far Out Film Festival (Nashvlle, TN; Deadline: April 20, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=17ceee22a3&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2017.ann 9th Cairo Video Festival (Egypt; Deadline: March 20, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=481e4148d2&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2018.ann DEADLINES APPROACHING: FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter (Berlin, Germany; Deadline: February 01, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=0a1c5d36be&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=1998.ann Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (NY NY; Deadline: February 15, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=42f2c40233&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2009.ann Moviate Underground Film Festival (Harrisburg, PA, USA; Deadline: February 02, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=4331efec13&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2011.ann Winnipeg Underground FIlm Festival (Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Deadline: March 01, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=f6b4e7bb1a&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2013.ann NOFLASH Video Show (New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Deadline: February 01, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=e15d64999f&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2014.ann UNCG International SUSTAINABILITY SHORTS FILM COMPETITIO (Greensboro, USA; Deadline: February 15, 2019) http://hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/ann.pl?type=calls <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=bdec1474f3&e=f36020cad0> &readfile=2016.ann Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE. This week's programs (summary): * Ec: Marie Menken <> [January 26, New York, NY] * The Early Films of Penny Slinger <> [January 26, New York, NY] * Ec: Robert Nelson <> [January 26, New York, NY] * Organized Activities <> [January 27, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Pat O’Neill: Where the Chocolate Mountains <> [January 27, Los Angeles, California] * Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? <> [January 31, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Ec: Sidney Peterson <> [January 31, New York, NY] * More Than Meets the Eye: the Cine-Puzzles of Scott Stark <> [February 3, Austin, TX United States] * Ec: O'Neill / Richter / Sharits <> [February 3, New York, NY] SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2019 1/26 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=d1f9a8eb21&e=f36020cad0> 6:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: MARIE MENKEN All films preserved by Anthology Film Archives. GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957, 5 min, 16mm) NOTEBOOK (1962-63, 10 min, 16mm, silent) ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961, 4 min, 16mm) EYE MUSIC IN RED MAJOR (1961, 4 min, 16mm, silent) GO! GO! GO! (1962-64, 12 min, 16mm, silent) LIGHTS (1964-66, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, silent) ANDY WARHOL (1965, 17 min, 16mm) "Marie Menken pioneered the radical transformation of the handheld, somatic camera into a formal matrix that would underpin an entire work in the films she made between 1945 and 1965. […] The extraordinary cinematic style that I have been calling Menken's somatic camera has been her most influential gift to the American avant-garde cinema. It is an embodiment of the Emersonian invention of a pictorial air, the spiritual emancipation automatically brought about by 'certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position.' It is also analogous to the equally Emersonian somatic theory of poesis Charles Olson was developing at nearly the same time: his emphasis on breath and proprioception corresponds to Menken's identification of the camera with her body in motion and her cultivation of the respiratory and nervous agitation of the handheld camera even in its quietest moments." -P. Adams Sitney, EYES UPSIDE DOWN Total running time: ca. 65 min. 1/26 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=5a8591eeb1&e=f36020cad0> 6:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue THE EARLY FILMS OF PENNY SLINGER Penny Slinger (b. 1947, London) is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been exploring the connection between eroticism, mysticism, feminism, and art for over fifty years. During her studies at the Chelsea College of Art in late 1960s London, Slinger became interested in the world of dreams and myths, which deeply influenced her own practice, mining Surrealist imagery to plumb the depths of the feminine psyche and subconscious. This led her to discover the toolkit of Tantra and to examine and express the more liberated realms of superconsciousness. Using a range of media including photographic collage, 16mm film, and sculpture, Slinger's lexicon of symbols examines how a woman is seen and how she sees herself - woman as goddess, woman as object of desire, and other lenses. In these works Slinger presents the body (often her own) and its parts as vehicles for expressing states of consciousness. Her bodies are not passive, but instead actively investigate all aspects of the psychological and sensual worlds of the awakening feminine. In these ways Slinger boldly unveils the taboo, the transgressive, the sacred, and the profane. PENNY SLINGER IN PERSON! The first four titles presented here are short films created by Slinger in 1969, some directly related to her thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art. Incorporating her visual art and other projects of that time - drawings, sculpture, installation, and performance - these short works explore the young artist's burgeoning interests in dreams, myths, the feminine psyche, and the patriarchal consumption of the female form. Shot in a derelict mansion in Northamptonshire, LILFORD HALL is a collaboration with filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring Slinger and Suzanka Fraey. Never finished, the uncut footage documents the artists experimenting with themes of the unconscious and the metaphysical, imagery that would later serve as material for the hauntingly surreal series of collages in Slinger's seminal publication, "An Exorcism" (1977). Slinger stated of this series, "the images and accompanying captions present a record of the 'unraveling' of the Self from dualistic limitations and the projections of others. It sets an example for psychic confrontation and transformation." 1969 EXHIBIT (1969, 3.5 min, 16mm-to-digital, silent) MOUTHS AND MASKS (1969, 5 min, 16mm-to-digital, silent) STAIRS, TUNNELS AND MIRRORS (1969, 11 min, 16mm-to-digital, silent) MAX ERNST, UNE SEMAINE DE BONTE (1969, 12.5 min, 16mm-to-digital, silent) LILFORD HALL (1969, ca. 30-min excerpt, 16mm-to-digital, silent) Total running time: ca. 65 min. 1/26 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1479c80860&e=f36020cad0> 8:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: ROBERT NELSON THE GREAT BLONDINO (1967, 42 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks to the Academy Film Archive.) "The original Blondino was a 19th-century tightrope artist who among other feats crossed Niagara Falls trundling a wheelbarrow. In this film, Nelson sees Blondino as a metaphor for those who still try. Too subtle to be allegorical, the picture is in the shape of a quixotic search in which the goal is the journey and the means is the end." -MUSEUM OF MODERN ART "It is…difficult to get at the rich visual texture that is the film's most striking attribute. Long stretches are concerned with Blondino's visions, dreams, and dreams within dreams. The film unfolds in brief recurring patterns of imagery. Even the more straightforward sections are dense with interpolated newsreel and TV commercial footage, visual gags, and homemade special effects. The net effect is funny, seamless, and elusive." -J. Hoberman, "A Filmmakers Filming Monograph" & BLEU SHUT (1970, 33 min, 16mm. Preservation print, with thanks to the Academy Film Archive.) "Boat-name quizzes, dogs, cuts from Dreyer's JOAN OF ARC in montage with a sultry whore, a car running up a ramp and crashing, pornography, a passionate embrace by a thirties hero and heroine; all somehow implicating Dreyer and Joan in the perverse synthesis of sex and technology. What's happening here? Basically Nelson is leaving things unsaid." -Leo Regan Total running time: ca. 80 min. SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2019 1/27 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=eb9878d9c3&e=f36020cad0> 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES We’re thrilled to welcome filmmaker Nellie Kluz all the way from the Windy City to present ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES, a program comprised almost entirely of NYC Premieres of her short documentary works. Vadim Rizov praised her documentary style in Filmmaker Magazine with the observation that ”Kluz’s inquisitive eye captures glimpses of often kitschy or strange events without abandoning well-meaning curiosity.” She has been a Flaherty Seminar Fellowship, and was the recipient of the Princess Grace Film Award and a Rooftop Films Short Film Grant, and as well as named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s recent “25 Faces of Independent Film”. This program of her short videos explores collective belief systems and fantasies, and the infrastructures that support them. They look for loopholes: in the flow of time; the economic grind; and prosaic reality. Emphasizing personal contact and experiential knowledge, these works come out of open-ended encounters with various kinds of believers and myth-makers. In these films, Kluz considers the appeal of ritualized spaces and contact zones for people with competing ideologies. The camera pays close attention to the textures of faces, voices, and surfaces, using observational documentary approaches to carefully grasp and re-arrange details. Kluz will be in attendance and in conversation with collaborator LJ Frezza following the program. ------------ PROGRAM ------------ MUST SEE Nellie Kluz, 2016, 13 min., digital. All over America, rain or shine, pilgrims journey together. ALL THE WITCHES Nellie Kluz, 2015, 4.5 min., digital Witches, cinematographers and other members of the crew pass a night together in the woods. GOLD PARTY Nellie Kluz, 2013, 16 min Gold is a commodity that thrives in uncertain economic climates. There’s a harvest every day as scrap dealers comb through excess metal from flusher times, buying up discarded gold to re-sell to refineries. VIDEO FOR DEREK Nellie Kluz, 2015, 2 min The Real Story SERPENTS AND DOVES Nellie Kluz, 2018, 30 min Behind the scenes at a Christian passion play staged in the Ozark mountains. A dramatization of the last days and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the play is a decades-long evangelizing project, tourist attraction, and spectacle – part religious ritual, part community theater. In a space where associations are swirling, the cast and crew speak about their experiences, memories, and fears. runtime: 94 min. 1/27 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=c9dbd75463&e=f36020cad0> 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. PAT O’NEILL: WHERE THE CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS Pat O’Neill in person! Filmforum is delighted to host a return screening of Pat O’Neill’s latest film, Where the Chocolate Mountains, which has only played once before in Los Angeles. “A tour de force of digital art, Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015, 55 min.) is a major new opus from Pat O’Neill, one of the all-time guiding lights of the Los Angeles avant-garde, whose pioneering use of the optical printer marked a creative breakthrough in composite image-making in cinema. Continuing in the vein of his renowned 35mm epics Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996) and Decay of Fiction (2002), the founding CalArts faculty member combines haunting cinematography of the Chocolate Mountains along the border between California and Arizona—long used as a bombing range by the military—with footage shot in L.A., Mexico and Prague, intimate self-portraits, and recurring graphic motifs to create irrepressible, stunningly detailed streams of multilayered sight and sound.” – Steve Anker, REDCAT Tickets: $10 general; $6 for students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://chocolatemountains.bpt.me or at the door. For more information: www.lafilmforum.org <http://www.lafilmforum.org> or 323-377-7238. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 1/31 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=8be364110b&e=f36020cad0> 7:30 PM, 322 Union Ave DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN? We’re thrilled to welcome Travis Wilkerson to do a “part séance, part detective story, part horror story, and 100 percent American story”(Sundance Institute) live documentary performance of Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? “In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it.” So begins his latest which takes us on a journey through the American south to uncover the truth behind a horrific incident and the societal mores that allowed it to happen. Acting as a live narrator and guide, Wilkerson will be here in person to spin this strange, frightening tale that blends the personal and political poetically and impactfully. Incorporating a wide set of cultural references including scenes from To Kill a Mockingbird, the music of Janelle Monáe and Phil Ochs, and the story of Rosa Parks’ investigation into the Recy Taylor case, as well as personal family history, Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? is a gripping investigation into our collective past and its echoes into the present day. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? 90 min., 2017. 1/31 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=81fd1f90ae&e=f36020cad0> 7:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: SIDNEY PETERSON THE POTTED PSALM and THE PETRIFIED DOG have been preserved by Anthology Film Archives through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation. MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR and THE LEAD SHOES have been preserved by Anthology with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. THE POTTED PSALM (1946, 19 min, 16mm) THE PETRIFIED DOG (1948, 19 min, 16mm) MR. FRENHOFFER AND THE MINOTAUR (1949, 21 min, 16mm) THE LEAD SHOES (1949, 17 min, 16mm) "These images are meant to play not on our rational senses, but on the infinite universe of ambiguity within us." -Sidney Peterson Total running time: ca. 80 min. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2019 2/3 Austin, TX United States: Experimental Response Cinema http://ercatx.org <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=d1021ad91a&e=f36020cad0> 4:00 PM, AFS Cinema, 6406 N IH-35 Suite 3100 MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE CINE-PUZZLES OF SCOTT STARK Filmmaker Scott Stark in attendance. In a bittersweet milestone, AFS and Experimental Response Cinema present a retrospective program of the work of film/video/performance/installation artist Scott Stark in a farewell Austin screening before he relocates to the Bay Area. Topping the bill is Chapter One of his AFS-funded Love and the Epiphanists (2018, 35mm+, 30 mins.). Part 35mm film projection, part performance, part history lesson, part political rant, LatE is an ongoing found-film project sourced from Stark’s vast collection of 35mm Hollywood movie trailers, using a hand-made contact printing process that allows him to repeat, reorder, reverse, double-expose, stain, misalign, twist and otherwise strangle the images. The result is a chaotic narrative and love story set against a future time known as the Epiphany – the moment in history when the effects of climate change became irreversible and undeniable. Preceding this 30 min. cine-performance are three earlier works: Is it true what they say, 2015, HD video, 9 mins. Made for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image for "Mess With Texas" 2015, Is it true what they say uses archival films from "itinerant" filmmakers who traveled the south in the 1930s through the 1950s; the footage is re-ordered and re-presented as ghostly apparitions in modern urban Texas settings. Angel Beach, 2001, 16mm, silent, 18 mins. Anonymous, found 3D still photographs of bikini-clad women from the early 1970s are compressed into a two-dimensional cinematic space, triggering an exuberant visual dance and revealing a troubling and elegiac voyeurism. More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda, 2006, digital video, 20 mins. Stark “remakes” one of actress-turned-activist-turned-exercise-queen Jane Fonda’s 1980s exercise videos with himself as the performer, meanwhile chronicling the remaking of a celebrity activist and the cultural shifts that allowed it to happen. 2/3 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=7f8b4886d9&e=f36020cad0> 5:00 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: O'NEILL / RICHTER / SHARITS Pat O'Neill SAUGUS SERIES (1974, 19 min, 16mm) New print! SAUGUS SERIES is actually seven short films, one-and-a-half to six minutes long, united by a common soundtrack. Each is an evolving "still life" made up of meticulously assembled but spatially contradictory elements. Hans Richter RHYTHMUS 21 (1921, 3 min, 35mm, b&w, silent) "Its content is essentially rhythm, the formal vocabulary is elemental geometry, and the structural principle is counterpoint of contrasting opposites." -Standish Lawder TWO PENNY MAGIC / ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER (1929, 2 min, 16mm, b&w) Produced as a commercial for a German illustrated magazine, this film is an experiment with visual rhymes. EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929, 9 min, 16mm, b&w) "Richter's unique and fascinating view of magic and cruelty in a carnival side-show." -Cecile Starr Paul Sharits N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.) "Based in part on the Tibetan Mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas/a journey toward the center of pure consciousness (Dharma-Dhatu Wisdom)/space and motion generated rather than illustrated/time-color energy create virtual shape/in negative time, growth is inverse decay." -Paul Sharits T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.) "Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on the soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala." -Paul Sharits Total running time: ca. 85 min. _____ Let us know about your alternative film/video event! Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <https://hi-beam.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e4e99825c1d97f8de6eaffad3&id=1bc305fa30&e=f36020cad0> . 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