The 2007 New York Film Festival that starts at the end of this month will hold the 11th edition of its section Views from the Avant Garde.
The festival's parallel section dedicated to "the frontiers of cinematic possibility" will be held at the Walter Reade Theater the weekend of October 5-6th. The programme features the latest works by Peter Hutton, Helga Fanderl, Ernie Gehr, Robert Beavers and a special homage to the recently deceased Mark LaPore.
Saturday October 6 - 12:15
FROM THE CANYONS TO THE STARS
- All That Rises Daichi Saito (with Malcolm Goldstein on violin) (Canada, 2007, 7 min.)
- The Coming Race Ben Rivers (U.K., 2005, 5 min.)
- Surging Sea of Humanity Ken Jacobs (USA, 2006, 10 min.)
- Black and White Trypps Number Three Ben Russell (USA, 2007, 11 min.)
- Energie! Thorsten Fleisch (Germany, 2007, 5 min.)
- North Shore Fred Worden (USA, 2007, 11 min.)
- Armoire Vincent Grenier (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- Finestra davanti ad un albero (dedicato a Fox Talbot) Paolo Gioli (Italy, 1989, 13 min.)
- Transit of Venus Nicky Hamlyn (U.K., 2006, 2 min.)
- Observando el Cielo Jeanne Liotta (USA, 2007, 17 min.)
(Total running time: 84 min.)
Saturday October 6 - 15:00
PETER HUTTON
- At Sea (USA, 2007, 60 min.)
Saturday October 6 - 17:00
UNENDING
- The Hyrcynium Wood Ben Rivers (U.K., 2007, 3 min.)
- Nymph Ken Jacobs, (USA, 2007, 2 min.)
- Anonimatografo Paolo Gioli (Italy, 1972, 26 min.)
- What the Water Said 4-6 David Gatten (USA, 2006-07, 17 min.)
- How to Conduct a Love Affair David Gatten (USA, 2007, 8 min.)
- Tziporah Abraham Ravett (USA, 2007, 7 min.)
- Phantom Luke Sieczek (USA, 2007, 6 min.)
In Memoriam Mark LaPore:
- Untitled (for David Gatten) Mark LaPore and Phil Solomon (USA, 2005, 5 min.)
- Rehearsals for Retirement Phil Solomon (USA, 2007, 10 min.)
- Last Days In A Lonely Place Phil Solomon (USA, 2007, 20 min.)
(Total running time: 104 min.)
Saturday October 6 - 19:30
KEN JACOBS & RICK REED
- Dreams That Money Can’t Buy Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance (USA, 2007)
- Capitalism: Child Labor Ken Jacobs (USA, 2006, 14 min.)
(Running time approx 60 min.)
Saturday October 6 - 21:15
STRANGER THAN A STRANGE LAND
- Warm Objects Peggy Ahwesh (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- Notes from a Bastard Child Fern Silva (USA/Portugal, 2007, 6 min.)
- The Mongrel Sister Luther Price (USA, 2007, 7 min.)
- Victory Over the Sun Michael Robinson (USA, 2007, 12 min.)
- Stranger Comes to Town Jacqueline Goss (USA, 2007, 28 min.)
- Light Is Waiting Michael Robinson (USA, 2007, 11 min.)
- SpaceDiscoOne Damon Packard (USA, 2007, 45 min.)
(Total running time: 112 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 12:30
HOUSE NEXT DOOR
- Old Dark House Ben Rivers (U.K., 2007, 4 min.)
- We the People Ben Rivers (U.K., 2007, 1 min.)
- Detroit Block Julie Murray (USA, 2007, 7 min.)
- Frontier Step Gretchen Skogerson (USA, 2007, 8 min.)
- Dedication Peggy Ahwesh (USA, 2007, 4 min.)
- House (single-screen version) Ben Rivers (U.K., 2007, 6 min.)
- Footnotes to a House of Love Laida Lertxundi (USA/Spain, 2007, 13 min.)
- Office Suite Robert Todd (USA, 2007, 14 min.)
- Prague Winter Jim Jennings (USA, 2007, 7 min.)
- Electricity Henry Hills (USA/Czech Republic, 2007, 7 min.)
- Recordando El Ayer Alexandra Cuesta (USA/Ecuador, 2007, 9 min.)
- Tahousse Olivier Fouchard & Mahine Rouhi (France, 2007, 31 min.)
(Total running time 111 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 14:30
HELGA FANDERL
Silent 16 mm. blow-ups from super 8
- Tombs (France, 2004, 3 min.)
- Broadway (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Drawing Cobblestones (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Gulf House (France, 2006, 2½m
- Leaden Waves (France, 2006, ½m
- Shadows on a Red Wall (France, 2006, 2 min.)
- Skating (France, 2004, 3 min.)
- Warrior’s Market (France, 2007, 2 min.)
- Louie (France, 2007, 1 min.)
- Glaciers (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Reflections (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Courtyard (France, 2006, 2 min.)
- Gray Heron (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Three Midtown Sketches (France, 2006, 2 min.)
- Tents on a Canal (France, 2006, 3 min.)
- Carps Swimming in Color (France, 2007, ½m
- Green Balloon (France, 2007, 1 min.)
- Carousel (France, 2006, 1 min.)
- Throwing the Net (France, 2006, ½m
- Under the Water Lilies (France 2005, 3 min.)
(Total running time: 42 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 16:00
ERNIE GEHR
- Shadow (USA, 2007, 9 min.)
- Cinematic Fertilizer 1 (USA, 2007, 5 min.)
- Cinematic Fertilizer 2 (USA, 2007, 8 min.)
- 10th Avenue (USA, 2007, 57 min.)
(Total running time 79 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 18:15
BITS AND PIECES (MAKE UP TO BREAK UP)
- Antigenic Drift Lewis Klahr (USA, 2007, 17 min.)
- Hide Matthius Müller & Christoph Girardet (USA, 2007, 5 min.)
- The Counter Girl Trilogy Courtney Hoskins (USA, 2006, 6 min.)
- Volto sorpreso al buio (Face Caught in the Dark) Paolo Gioli (Italy, 1995, 6 min.)
- Beirut Outtakes Peggy Ahwesh (USA, 2007, 7 min.)
- For Them Ending Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- For A Winter Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- Sunbeam Hunter Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- A Logic Sore Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- The Wedding Present Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- 40 years Jonathan Schwartz (USA, 2007, 3 min.)
- The Film of A Thousand and One Nights and A Night (Volume 1) Scott Puccio (USA, 2007, 26 min.)
- Hanky Panky January 1902 Ken Jacobs (USA, 2007, 1 min.)
- Recreation Robert Breer1 (USA, 1956, 1 min.) (35 mm. restoration preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts)
(Total running time 80 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 20:15
ROBERT BEAVERS
- Pitcher of Colored Light (USA/Switzerland, 2007, 23 min.)
- Eniaios IV “Nefeli Photos” reel 2 Gregory Markopoulos (Greece, 2004, 30 min.)
(Total running time 53 min.)
Sunday October 7 - 21:30
MEMORIES
- Respite Harun Farocki (40 min.)
- The Rabbit Hunters Pedro Costa (23 min.)
- Correspondences Eugène Green (39 min.)
- Jeonju International Film Festival Digital Project (South Korea, 2007, 102 min.)