<http://www.hi-beam.net/> <http://www.hi-beam.net/index.html> This week [July 6 - 14, 2019] in avant garde cinema Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl> . To receive the weekly listing via email: Subscribe <http://eepurl.com/ba_wZf> . link to screening <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/whats_parse.pl#link to screening> Events are sorted alphabetically BY CITY within each DATE. This week's programs (summary): * Ridm X Undo: Caroline Monnet [July 11, Brooklyn, NY United States] * Show and Tell: and Magics: Films By Josh B Mabe [July 13, New York, NY] * Ec: James Broughton, Pgm 1 [July 13, New York, NY] * Gariné Torossian: More Than Strictly visible Things [July 14, Los Angeles, California] * Ec: James Broughton, Pgm 2 [July 14, New York, NY] * Ec: James Broughton, Pgm 3 [July 14, New York, NY] * Shapeshifters Cinema Presents Kerry Laitala and the Atchleys [July 14, Oakland] THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 7/11 Brooklyn, NY United States: UnionDocs http://www.uniondocs.org 7:00 PM, 322 Union Ave RIDM X UNDO: CAROLINE MONNET We are thrilled to welcome RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Film Festival) back for two nights this July to take over UnionDocs with work from multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet! This year we’re teaming up to present a program of short works: (AUTO)PORTRAITS, DOCUMENTS, FICTIONS, EXPLORATIONS and a masterclass that will take us on a deep dive into Monnet’s work. Both nights will include a post-program reception where local filmmakers can meet folks from RIDM. FULL TWO-DAY SCHEDULE BELOW, more details TBA! Short work screening (followed by drinks in the UnionDocs backyard) Thursday, July 11 – 7:30PM - 11:30PM Including a variety of NYC premieres, this program of short work showcases Monnet’s sharp examinations of indigenous cultural identity and histories. Stick around after the screening to get to know more about RIDM, meet the team, hang out in our backyard and enjoy complimentary craft beers courtesy of Le Trou du diable, and Dieu du ciel. Masterclass (followed by Discussion + BBQ) Friday, July 12 – 7:30PM - 11:30PM Minimalism and Abstraction: Identity through Bicultural History Join Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet for a masterclass exploring her process of continual experimentation. Though this program is complimented by her presence in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and an Arsenal Contemporary show opening July 9, her international exhibition history is one with few instances in New York. Monnet examines bicultural living and the beautifully intricate limbo of indigenous peoples today. Known for a minimalistic yet emotionally charged style, she often works with industrial materials, creating hybrid forms situated between the vocabulary of traditional visual cultures and modernist abstraction. Stick around after the screening for a discussion and BBQ in our backyard, with the change to get to know more about RIDM, UnionDocs and Caroline Monnet! SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 7/13 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue SHOW AND TELL: AND MAGICS: FILMS BY JOSH B MABE Chicago-based librarian, filmmaker, and programmer Josh B Mabe will present a selection of the films and videos he's created over the past decade, as well as some new works in progress. A fixture of the Chicago independent film scene - he was formerly the Program Director of Chicago Filmmakers and Programmer for the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, and has presented programs at numerous Chicago venues including Gallery 400 Links Hall, the University of Chicago, and more - Mabe has screened his own work at the New York Film Festival, Images Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. His primarily 16mm and often refreshingly micro-scale films (many of them no more than one minute long) tend to comprise lyrical, poetic glimpses of places, or evocations of fleeting sensations or moods, while surprising incursions of music, found footage, or even animation suddenly complicate one's sense of his influences and sensibility. "But to the end of time certain places of the world remain defined for him as the place where those sensations were; and his only possible answer to the question where anything is will be to say 'there,' and to name some sensation or other like those first ones, which shall identify the spot. Space means but the aggregate of all our possible sensations." -William James TO ANOTHER (2010, 1 min, 16mm) A tiny film. Richlands, VA & Rock Hill, SC. MEASURES KINDLING (2012, 1min, 16mm) A fire. A figure. A flash. Rock Hill, SC. PASTORAL (2008, 2 min, 16mm) Altering landscape. Cheeky. Chicago, IL. TO QUIT, TO QUIET & TO MARK THE SHAPE (2011, 7 min, 16mm) Two Christmastime films. Two sides of the mountain. Richlands, VA. ADDY CHOO (2013, 2 min, 16mm) Flipcam, cross-processed Kodachrome, old animations. Big Creek, VA. SMART CHICKENS, RICKETY WORLD (2014, 8 min, 16mm) Junkyard cows and animators hands. Title lifted from Charles Simic. Chicago, IL & Chicago Heights, IL. AND MAGICS (2016, 5 min, digital) Library Art. Chicago Heights, IL. THE DEVIL AND THEMSELVES (2008, 37 min, 16mm) + more 7/13 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: JAMES BROUGHTON, PGM 1 THE POTTED PSALM (1946, 18.5 min, 16mm. Co-directed by Sidney Peterson.) MOTHER'S DAY (1948, 22 min, 16mm) FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (1951, 15 min, 16mm) LOONY TOM, THE HAPPY LOVER (1951, 10 min, 16mm) Four films by an American avant-garde film pioneer. His films are celebrations of the joy of living. If there is such a thing as American Zen, Broughton is the master of it. "For Broughton, making films did not make him less of a poet; it made him more of a poet. Like Jean Cocteau, Broughton insisted that poetry was not limited to 'verse,' and that it was the most precise word to describe his activities. […] His 'filmic passion' led him not to commercial cinema…but to a 'life of vision' in which he might experience 'a poetry that would reveal on a large screen what my feelings looked like.'" -Jack Foley, FULL, FRONTAL MYSTERY: THE FILMS OF JAMES BROUGHTON Total running time: ca. 70 min. SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 7/14 Los Angeles, California: Filmforum http://www.lafilmforum.org/ 7:30 pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. GARINé TOROSSIAN: MORE THAN STRICTLY VISIBLE THINGS Gariné Torossian in person! 16mm films screening on film! Filmforum welcomes Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Gariné Torossian for her first Los Angeles screening with her beautiful animation and experimental films. Torossian has a varied and extensive filmography stretching over 25 years. Working originally in rich hand-manipulated 16mm to explore Armenian identity and tradition, she has added other film approaches and explorations to investigate personal identity, memory, the subconscious, and the legacy of past imagery. One film, Shadowy Encounters, specifically pays tribute to the Brothers Quay, while her most recent work, An Inventory of Some Strictly Visible Things, utilizes live-action photography and a series of staged moments. Her feature documentary Stone, Time, Touch (which we won’t have time to screen) won best documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2007. Tickets: $10 general; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum Members. Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at https://torossian.bpt.me or at the door. 7/14 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 5:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: JAMES BROUGHTON, PGM 2 THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1953, 38 min, 35mm, b&w) THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm) NUPTIAE (1969, 14 min, 16mm) "Broughton was and is a poet, sometimes a dramatist. Yet whatever the mode, his style is remarkably consistent: urbane and witty with the persona of the naïve, or the simpleton, or the child. Like the poems, the films record the basic rites of passage, the search for love, the primal relationships, with ironic insight: there are parents who are children, a rube who's really the artist, a loony wise man." -P. Adams Sitne Total running time: ca. 75 min. 7/14 New York, NY: Anthology Film Archives http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/ 7:30 PM, 32 Second Avenue EC: JAMES BROUGHTON, PGM 3 THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm) "A lovely, poetic, humorous, and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting, and lying down." -John Wasserman, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THIS IS IT (1971, 10 min, 16mm) "Broughton's creation myth, THIS IS IT, places a 2-year-old Adam and a bright apple-red balloon in a backyard garden of Eden, and works a small miracle of the ordinary. And since that miracle is what the film is about, he achieves a kind of casual perfection in matching means and ends." -Roger Greenspun, NEW YORK TIMES TESTAMENT (1974, 20 min, 16mm) "TESTAMENT is James Broughton's exquisite self-portrait. […] A plethora of rich personal symbols is woven throughout the film, tied together by verbal games, Zen poems, anecdotes, songs, a child's prayer, dreams and visions." -Karen Cooper Total running time: ca. 65 min. 7/14 Oakland: Shapeshifters Cinema http://shapeshifterscinema.com/ 7:30-10PM, Temescal Art Center, 511 48th St. SHAPESHIFTERS CINEMA PRESENTS KERRY LAITALA AND THE ATCHLEYS "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.” -- quote popularized by Mark Twain. Creation and destruction. Grandiosity and hubris. Glory and the Abyss. These are some of the themes explored in recent collaborations in moving image and sound by Kerry Laitala and The Atchleys. Media archaeologist and 16mm projector performance spellbinder Laitala will present new and resuscitated imagery, with composer / improviser / experimental musicians The Atchleys providing live audio accompaniment. The light and sound display will be sequenced to cycle through elemental orbs, leaving viewers draped in a colorful cloak of decay, rebirth and contemplation. Pieces will include "Figments in Film #1" and "Ghost Town". _____ Let us know about your alternative film/video event! Enter your event announcements by going to the Flicker Weekly Listing Form <http://www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/thisweek.pl> . To receive the weekly listing via email, send a message to Subscribe <http://eepurl.com/ba_wZf> . <http://www.hi-beam.net/>
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