Views from the Avant-Garde 2009

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night side (Rebecca Meyers, 2009)The NYFF's experimental film strand, 'Views from the Avant-Garde' that will be held next October 2-4 in the Walter Reade Theater reaches its 13th edition with eleven programmes of experimental film and video.
Among the many highlights of the festival, a tribute to the figure of Chick Strand, a reconstruction of Passolini's found-footage essay film La Rabbia and new works by Phil Solomon, Peggy Ahwesh, Lewis Klahr, Michael Robinson, Deborah Stratman, Lynne Sachs, David Gatten, Harun Farocki,Leslie Thornton, Ernie Gehr and many others.
Curated by Mark McElhatten & Gavin Smith.

The Walter Reade Theater
Lincoln Center. 65th and Broadway
Manhattan, New York,

Friday, October 2

Program 1: 6:30pm
- La Rabbia di Pasolini (Pier Paolo Pasolini & Giuseppe Bertolucci, Italy, 2008, 83m)

Saturday, October 3:

Program 2: 12pm
- Horizon Line (Katherin McInnis, USA, 2009, 1m)
- Scene 32 (Shambhavi Kaul, USA/India, 2009, 5m)
- What Part of the Earth Is Inhabited (after Pliny the Elder) (Erin Espelie, USA, 2009, 7m)
- night side (Rebecca Meyers, USA, 2009, 4.28m)
- dwarfs the sea (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2007, 5m)
- Journal and Remarks (David Gatten, USA, 2009, 15m)
- A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2009, 17.40m)
- ((((( ))))) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2009, 9m)
- Trypps #6 (Malobi) (Ben Russell, USA/Suriname, 2008, 12m)
- I Know Where I’m Going (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2009, 29m)

Program 3: 3pm
A Tribute to Chick Strand (1931-2009)
- Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966, 4m)
- Cartoon Le Mousse (1979, 15m)
- Kristallnacht (1979, 7m)
- Loose Ends (1979, 25m)
- Fake Fruit Factory (1986, 22m)

Program 4: 5:00pm
- Sarah Ann (Pim Zwier, Netherlands/UK, 2008, 10m)
- Riff (Lis Rhodes, U.K., 2004, 18m)
- O’er the Land (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2009, 52m)

Program 5: 7pm
- In Comparison (Harun Farocki, Germany, 2009, 61m)
- Scrap Vessel (Jason Byrne, USA, 2009, 51m)

Program 6: 9:30pm
- Puccini Conservato (Michael Snow, Canada/Italy, 2009, 9.40m)
- Bethlehem (Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 2009, 8m)
- My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, Spain/USA, 2009, 4m)
- If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson, USA, 2009, 12m)
- Wednesday Morning Two A.M. (Lewis Klahr, USA, 2009, 6.30m)
- excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2009, 19m)
- Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon, USA, 2009, 15m)


Sunday, October 4:

Program 7: 12:30pm
- The Three Ravens (Bobby Abate, USA, 2009, 10m)
- My Way 1 (Amie Siegel, USA, 2009, 9.25m)
- I Miss (Annie Dorsen, USA, 2009, 7m)
- (If I Can Sing a Song About) Ligatures (Abigail Child, USA, 2009, 5m)
- the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2008, 11m)
- non-Aryan (Abraham Ravett, USA, 2009, 12m)
- I volti dell’Anonimo (Paolo Gioli Italy, 2009, 10.38m)
- Vineland (Laura Kraning, USA, 2009, 10m)
- The Diamond (Descartes’ Daughter) (Emily Wardill, U.K., 2008, 10.23m)
- Contre-jour (Christophe Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany, 2009, 10m)

Program 8: 3pm
- The Last Happy Day (Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 38m)
- Nothing is Over Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008, 17m)
- The Exception and the Rule (Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, U.K./India/Pakistan, 37m)

Program 9: 5:30pm
- Holy Woods (Cécile Fontaine, France, 2008, 8m)
- Sahara Mosaic (Fern Silva, USA, 2009, 10m)
- way fare (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2009, 10m)
- Lumphini 2552 (Tomonari Nishikawa, Thailand/Japan, 2009, 2.30m)
- Chromatic Frenzy (in Chromavision 3-D) (Kerry Laitala, USA, 2009, 6m)
- Vibration (Jack Bond & Jane Arden, U.K., 1974, 36m)

Program 10: 7:45pm
- Postcard #3: Niagara Rises (Carolyn Faber, USA, 2009, 3m)
- Sphinx on the Seine (Paul Clipson, USA, 2008, 9m)
- Piensa En Mí (Alexandra Cuesta, USA/Ecuador, 2009, 15.03m)
- Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn, U.K., 2007, 8m)
- H(i)J (Guillaume Cailleau, Germany, 2009, 6m)
- The Universe (Barry Gerson, USA, 2009, 7m)
- Straight Lines (Vincent Grenier, USA, 2009, 4.41m)
- Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2009, 39m)

Program 11: 9:45pm
- Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito, Canada, 2009, 10m)
- Parallax (Christopher Becks, Canada/France/Yemen/Bangladesh, 2009, 6.40m)
- Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark, USA, 2009, 6m)
- Physical Changes (David Dinnell, USA, 2009, 36m)
- Wound Footage (Thorsten Fleisch, Germany, 2009, 6m)
- Cong In Our Gregational Pom-Poms (Bruce McClure, USA, 2009, 20m)

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