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  • Dirty Looks: Warren Sonbert/Tom Chomont

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    Amphetamine (Warren Sonbert, 1966)Dirty Looks: Warren Sonbert/Tom Chomont
    Wednesday, April 25, 20:30-22:30h
    Judson Memorial Church
    55 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
    $7 suggested donation

    Dirty Looks is thrilled to present the work of Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont, two key figures in queer and underground film. From the late sixties until their untimely deaths (in 1995 and 2010, respectively) Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont made some of the most innovative and thrilling film and video diaries around. Documenting queer experience from wild sixties drug cultures to the regressive, Reaganite years of the early AIDS crisis, these lyrical works delve into the quotidian, showcasing explicit drug use, S&M rituals, kittens at play, hardcore sexuality, and Grace Jones.

    Sonbert codirected his first film, Amphetamine, with Wendy Appel, while still a teenager. At the time of its release in 1967, the Village Voice praised Amphetamine as "a heart-stopping film … completely symptomatic of the filmmaking revolution." An ecstatic ode to queer sex and drugs, its two boys shooting up and kissing to a Supremes soundtrack, Amphetamine marked the arrival of Sonbert on the underground film scene. Divided Loyalties showcases the brilliant camera work and rapid editing Sonbert is famous for, leading Amy Taubin to praise it as his "most complex and richest film to date," upon its release. Honor and Obey questions all forms of male-dominated authority, military, religious, familial.

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  • Taller de apropiación fílmica en 16 mm

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    Escultura fílmica, Nº3 (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2012)Taller de apropiación fílmica en 16 mm
    Introducción teórica al cine de metraje encontrado, con posterior actividad práctica en 16 mm.
    19 y 20 de mayo de 2012
    Circuit Torçat, C/ Terol 8 bajos 2, 08012 Barcelona

    Impartido por Alberto Cabrera Bernal y Albert Alcoz.

    Dirigido a cualquier persona interesada en el cine de apropiación y en el manipulado del soporte cinematográfico en diversos formatos, Súper 8, 16 mm y 35 mm. Contextualización histórica y conceptual de dichas prácticas. Aproximación al trabajo de cineastas dentro de la disciplina con proyecciones escogidas. Actividad de los alumnos desarrollada en 16 mm y exhibición de los resultados.

    Módulo teórico:
    Introducción al 16 mm. Breve recorrido histórico del formato en el cine de vanguardia, el cine underground y el cine experimental internacional más reciente. Explicaciones de tendencias cinematográficas, cineastas y técnicas fílmicas vinculadas al desmontaje del found footage y a la fisicidad del cine matérico. Acercamiento al cine de metraje encontrado de vocación estructural. Visionados y explicaciones de trabajos fílmicos de realizadores como Hollis Frampton, Thomas Draschan, Jennifer Reeves y otros.

    Módulo práctico:
    Realización de una pieza colectiva en 16mm a base de fragmentos breves editados bajo consideraciones sistemáticas, manipulados físicamente, atendiendo a cuestiones plásticas herederas del collage. Se terminará también el módulo enseñando el rollo original de alguno de los trabajos de los profesores.

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  • TIE at the ICA

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    Whole Note by Saul LevineTIE at the ICA
    Sunday, April 1, 2012, 16h
    The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
    100 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210

    Curated by Christopher May

    Based in Denver, Colorado, this renowned festival presents innovative and poetic celluloid-based films by experimental artists from around the world. The screenings are highlighted by works from filmmakers Jonathan Schwartz, Saul Levine, Luther Price, Tara Nelson, Gordon Nelson, Paul Turano, Luis Arnias, Sheri Wills and Frankie Symonds who join TIE curator Christopher May for a postscreening discussion.

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  • An evening with Abraham Ravett

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    The Visit (Abraham Ravett, 2003)An evening with Abraham Ravett
    Tuesday April 3rd, 19h
    Mount Holyoke College's Art Building, room 320
    50 College Street • South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075

    A selection of films by American filmmaker Abraham Ravett.

    Programme;

    - A Calming Breeze (1984, 17 min., color, silent, 16mm)
    A look at my son's birth and the rite of circumcision.
    - Toncia (1986, 13 min., color, sound, 16mm)
    In one continuous, twelve minute take, the filmmaker talks with his mother about her daughter who was killed in Auschwitz.
    - Jack Haber (1987, 15 min., b&w, silent, 16mm)
    Jack Haber is a film about unheralded lives. Utilizing film material found and purchased in an antique shop, the filmmaker speculates on the life of one, Jack Haber.
    - The Visit (2003, 8 min., 16mm, silent)
    A child's awakening.
    - Tziporah (2007, 7 min, silent, 16mm)
    Tziporah is the Hebrew word for bird. This is another cinematic response to grief and loss.

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  • Atelier Impopulaire #2: Morgan Fisher

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    Morgan FisherAtelier Impopulaire #2: Morgan Fisher
    Morgan Fisher: Screening
    Saturday March 31 2012, 20.30h
    O’ via pastrengo 12, milano isola
    Morgan Fisher: Lectio Magistralis Abstraction in Film
    MA Film & New Media NABA | Monday April 2 2012, h.16.00-18.00
    PhD School in Communiccation & New Technologies IULM | Tuesday April 3 2012, h. 11.00-13.00

    For its second installment, Atelier Impopulaire presents a selection of the work by filmmaker and visual artist Morgan Fisher , followed by a series of lectures on the theme Cinema/Abstraction. Curated by Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi.

    Programme:
    - Documentary Footage, 1968, 11’
    - Production Stills, 1970, 11’
    - Picture and Sound Rushes, 1973, 11’
    - The Wilkinson Household Fire Alarm, 1973, 1’30’’
    - Cue Rolls, 1974, 5’30’’
    - Projection Instructions, 1976, 4’
    - Standard Gauge, 1984, 35’
    - Turning Over, 1975, 15’
    - Protective Coloration, 1979, 13’
    - ( ), 2003, 21’

    Atelier Impopulaire is a contamination of research practices, editorial and site-specific curatorship that arises from direct collaboration with the artists. In its first phase, Atelier Impopulaire will focus on the study and reinterpretation of Structural Cinema, Avant-garde, Performative and Expanded, to address cross-cultural path on the film device in its experimental forms, through a program that includes performances and screenings of artists and filmmakers of different generations: Bruce McClure, Morgan Fisher and Ben Russell.

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  • PLAY Festival 2012. Direct cinema

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    Sally GoldingPLAY Festival 2012. Direct cinema
    March 29-31, 22h
    La Casa Encendida, Ronda Valencia, 2 28012 Madrid

    The PLAY Festival brings together visual artists working directly with the projected image and that transform cinema into a performing art. Sally Golding combines performance with projections over his body creating images of phantasmagoria between science and superstition. Takashi Makino acts as a musician accompanying his own films, stunning abstract landscapes made from a very careful work using high-definition pictures. In Anharmonium a laser beam is reflected in a liquid sensitive to minor variations in sound, and space lights in line with the quadrophonic soundtrack. La Chambre Des Machines incorporates the Intonarumoris, sound machines, invented by the Italian Futurists in the early twentieth century. Sculpture combines electronic music with traditional animation zoetrope, disk-based images that turn on themselves, creating movement. Martha Colburn will project her multiple reels of film and slides and manually animate her drawings with the music of saxophonist Hayden Chisholm and composer Juan Felipe Waller.

    Update: Today's session (March 29th) has been cancelled and postponed due to the general strike in Spain.

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  • Other Cinema presents Re-Tracked Animation

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    RE-TRACKED ANIMATION: JEREMY ROURKE + THOMAS CARNACKI + QUAY / STOCKHAUSEN +
    Saturday, March 31, 2012, 20:30h
    Other Cinema @ Artists' Television Access
    992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
     
    ATA Gallery's flagship exhibition series OTHER CINEMA, in the second iteration of its OptrOnica series, presents two live acts and several pre-recordings towards an appreciation of creative soundtracking.

    Mr. Jeremy Rourke juggles guitar, voice, and singing bowls in a refreshing accompaniment to his own charming pixillations, including Rollinsville, Honey the Moon, Snow and Buffalo in SF, Eyes Hearing Stars, and more!

    Greg Scharpen’s experimental ensemble Thomas Carnacki enlists Jim Kaiser, Jesse Burson, and Gregory Hagan in performing new audiotracks to Jan Svankmajer’s Poe-penned House of Usher (live vox by Dean Santomieri), and Ladislas Starewicz’ marvelous The Mascot.

    PLUS Karlheinz Stockhausen’s composition for the BrothersQuay In Absentia, musical cartoons, and free vinyl!

    Doors open at 8:00pm; Show at 8:30pm. Admission: $7.77.

    Jeremy Rourke: http://www.jeremyrourke.com/
    Thomas Carnacki: http://www.myspace.com/thomascarnacki

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  • The 50th Ann Arbor FIlm Festival

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    50th AAFFThe veteran Ann Arbor Film Festival reaches its 50th edition (March 27-April 1) and they have set to celebrate it with an impressive programme of over 200 experimental and independent films, artist talks, round tables... Among the many highlights, the special presence of Bruce Baillie, who is the protagonist of a three-programme retrospecive, including the screening of a newly-restored copy of Quick Billy; a programme of LGBT films selected by Barbara Hammer and monographical programmes dedicated to the films of Robert Nelson, Paul Clipson, Omar Amiralay and Phil solomon. This year's jurors, Peter Rose, Michael Robinson and Kathy Geritz will also present a programme of their works (or, in the case of Geritz, a programme curated by her with films screened over the AAFF's 50 years of history). The AAFF as always will also serve as a meeting point with many filmmakers in attendance, including (apart from those rpeviously named) Craig Baldwin, Leighton Pierce, Tomonari Nishikawa, Irina Leimbacher, Scott MacDonald, Mark Toscano and many others.

    The AAFF also recently published the fourth volume in its annual compilation series with a selection of films from its 49th edition, available at their store.

    Click on the link to see the AAFF's extensive full programme.

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  • Close-Up: Józef Robakowski – The Energy Manifesto!

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    From My Window (Józef Robakowski, 2000)Close-Up: Józef Robakowski – The Energy Manifesto!
    Tuesday March 27th, 20h
    Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
    42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

    Followed by Q&A with the artist

    Józef Robakowski is one of the most famous Polish artists and filmmakers associated with the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s. As founder and initiator of various independent film groups and art associations, Robakowski was extremely active in developing a strong independent film scene in Poland. His works are characterized by a marked tendency to transgress various genres and media. Robakowski has been and continues to be reviewed in a fine arts context, as well as within the classical film genre (film festivals and program cinema). His multifarious use of diverse media – photography, video, film, paper works, mechanical picture production, Expanded Cinema, TV broadcast, installation, performance, etc. – contains, on the one hand, a meta-discourse about the guidelines of “reality,” and on the other, a subjective perspective, which is included as “pure” reality appropriation in his (short) films. Robakowski has also contributed to this discourse in various theoretical texts.

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