NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern Art
Always a highlight of the repertory year, To Save and Project presents the best in restored cinema, this weekend including Luis Buñuel and Tod Browning; a Guillermo del Toro retrospective brings 35mm prints of his features and inspirations.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on awards-snubbed films begins with Chaplin, Ray, and Hawks; the director’s cut of Donnie Darko plays on Friday.
Film Forum
A Preston Sturges retrospective has begun, while The Conformist screens in a new 4K restoration; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock plays this Sunday on 35mm.
Japan Society
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama screens in a 4K restoration on Friday night.
Roxy Cinema
Lost Highway plays on 35mm Friday and Saturday; “City Dudes” returns Saturday night; Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn’s The Deadman screens on Sunday.
Metrograph
A series...
Museum of Modern Art
Always a highlight of the repertory year, To Save and Project presents the best in restored cinema, this weekend including Luis Buñuel and Tod Browning; a Guillermo del Toro retrospective brings 35mm prints of his features and inspirations.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on awards-snubbed films begins with Chaplin, Ray, and Hawks; the director’s cut of Donnie Darko plays on Friday.
Film Forum
A Preston Sturges retrospective has begun, while The Conformist screens in a new 4K restoration; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock plays this Sunday on 35mm.
Japan Society
Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama screens in a 4K restoration on Friday night.
Roxy Cinema
Lost Highway plays on 35mm Friday and Saturday; “City Dudes” returns Saturday night; Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn’s The Deadman screens on Sunday.
Metrograph
A series...
- 1/20/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Showing Up (2022).Sometimes, nothing happens: nothing happens but waiting, saving and making do in the meantime. How do we make stories from these passages of time? Kelly Reichardt not only directs such stories but has also lived them—because sometimes, as a woman filmmaker, as many as twelve years pass by between making a first feature and making a second one. Between River of Grass (1994) and Old Joy (2006), Reichardt tried to make experimental films and turned to teaching. Since Old Joy, she has managed to make six features, most of which are shot in the Pacific Northwest and most of which focus, fittingly, on the day-to-day efforts of ordinary people—to fix their car, to find their dog or to find water, to make a living.Perhaps passages of time like that between River of Grass and Old Joy make a gatherer of the woman filmmaker. Speaking to critics and...
- 10/4/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsmmxx.Cristi Puiu's latest project, titled Mmxx, is currently in post-production. The film is one of the selections of FIDLab, FIDMarseille's program for works-in-progress, due to take place next month. The film will run 2 hours and 40 minutes, according to FIDMarseille's project page, and will follow “the wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”Aki Kaurismäki has formally announced what will be his 19th feature. Dead Leaves, which will be shot by Kaurismäki's regular cinematographer Timo Salminen and feature popular Finnish actors Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, will premiere sometime in 2023. Little has been revealed about the film, but when asked about it, Kaurismäki said that “tragicomedy seems to be my genre."Later this year, Isabel Sandoval will begin production on Tropical Gothic, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2019 feature Lingua Franca.
- 6/17/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDario Argento's Dark GlassesFollowing his appearance in Gaspar Noé's Vortex, Dario Argento returns to directing with Dark Glasses, his first feature since Dracula 3D (2012). Starring Asia Argento and Andrea Zhang, the thriller follows a serial killer, a blind sex worker, and a 10-year-old Chinese boy in Rome's Chinese community. John Woo is also set to make a return to Hollywood with Silent Night, a "no dialogue" action film about a father (played by Joel Kinnaman) who seeks to avenge his son's death. Film Labs, a "worldwide network of artist-run film laboratories," now has a new website! The website includes more than 500 films made at artist-run film labs from Vancouver to South Korea, as well as technical resources and distribution information. Dancer, choreographer, theatrical director, and filmmaker Wakefield Poole has died. A pioneer of the gay pornography industry,...
- 11/3/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo on the set of Pierrot Le Fou (1965). Jean-Paul Belmondo has died, leaving behind six decades of films that started with his breakout role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960). In his tribute to the iconic actor, critic Richard Brody describes Belmondo as the "height of cool [...] an icon of a cinema to which he didn't belong." The world has also been shocked by the death of the singular actor Michael K. Williams. Known to many as Omar Little from The Wire, Williams also worked with auteurs like Paul Thomas Anderson, Ava Duvernay, Martin Scorsese, and Steve McQueen. As his The Wire co-star Wendall Pierce says, Williams gave "voice to the human condition."Mondo is kicking off its Mondo x Death Waltz 10th Anniversary celebration with a deluxe reissue of...
- 9/10/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Madeleine Lim's Sambal Belacan (1997)After two decades of censorship by the Singapore government, Madeleine Lim's 1997 film Sambal Belacan will be screened in Singapore. The film, "a personal, intertextual, and poetic document about three Southeast Asian lesbians who discuss the social and political climate of Singapore," has previously only been shown in underground viewings. Meanwhile, The Meg 2 has found its director: Ben Wheatley, whose adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca recently debuted on Netflix. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Carlo Mirabella-Davis's thriller Swallow, which follows a pregnant housewife's stomach-churning struggle for bodily autonomy. This Halloween, watch the film on Mubi. Béla Tarr's 1988 film Damnation has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by the Hungarian National Film Institute. Co-written by frequent collaborator László Krasznahorkai, the film...
- 10/28/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSCitizen Kane.After an extended sojourn from filmmaking with canceled productions and the Netflix show Mindhunter, David Fincher has finally locked his next film. Derived from a screenplay written by his father (!), it concerns Citizen Kane's co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, to be played by Gary Oldman and photographed in black and white (!!!).Greta Gerwig will be co-writing a live-action Barbie—yes, the Barbie—movie with Noah Baumbach. The film will star Margot Robbie as the titular doll. Recommended VIEWINGThe long-awaited trailer for Inventing the Future, by Isiah Medina—whose films Semi-Auto Colours, 88:88, and Idizwadidiz previously screened on Mubi. The film is an adaptation of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams.The Museum of Modern Art launches its first "online film exhibition highlighting NYC shorts from...
- 7/17/2019
- MUBI
Where can you find films from directors like Chantal Akerman and Ida Lupino, paired off with masterworks from the likes of Jackie Chan and Rainer Werner Fassbinder? No, I’m not talking about your local library, instead that just happens to be four of the names attached to this year’s edition of To Save And Project, MoMA’s long running festival of newly preserved motion pictures.
Now in its 15th and arguably one of its strongest season, To Save and Project returns with a lineup that spans genres, decades and subjects. Running January 18-February 1, the festival focuses on newly restored films, with restorations come from MoMA themselves all the way to major studios like Paramount. Split between two theaters and running just about half a month, this lineup is dense and features some truly startling discoveries.
One of those discoveries comes from The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project...
Now in its 15th and arguably one of its strongest season, To Save and Project returns with a lineup that spans genres, decades and subjects. Running January 18-February 1, the festival focuses on newly restored films, with restorations come from MoMA themselves all the way to major studios like Paramount. Split between two theaters and running just about half a month, this lineup is dense and features some truly startling discoveries.
One of those discoveries comes from The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project...
- 1/19/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
This is the fourth and final entry in a series of articles on the Experimental Film Coalition. You can begin with Part One here.
In addition to screening films in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois, the Experimental Film Coalition published two different periodicals in support of experimental filmmaking and filmmakers.
The Underground Film Journal has, so far, not had a chance to acquire copies of either of the Coalition’s periodicals and we have found discrepancies in their publication order online. Despite this, we believe that the Coalition first published a newsletter named Workprint that was then followed by a journal named Lightstruck.
The Anthology Film Archives, which may hold the largest collection of printed matter on film anywhere, states on their website that their library includes the “Efc Newsletter, formerly Light Struck” and gives publication dates of 1980-1989. However, there is plenty of evidence that “Light Struck” is actually...
In addition to screening films in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois, the Experimental Film Coalition published two different periodicals in support of experimental filmmaking and filmmakers.
The Underground Film Journal has, so far, not had a chance to acquire copies of either of the Coalition’s periodicals and we have found discrepancies in their publication order online. Despite this, we believe that the Coalition first published a newsletter named Workprint that was then followed by a journal named Lightstruck.
The Anthology Film Archives, which may hold the largest collection of printed matter on film anywhere, states on their website that their library includes the “Efc Newsletter, formerly Light Struck” and gives publication dates of 1980-1989. However, there is plenty of evidence that “Light Struck” is actually...
- 1/15/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The New STYLEThis is the second year that the New York Film Festival has presented Projections, its extensive showcase of experimental film and video that for years had been called Views From the Avant-Garde. The name change (or "rebranding," in the parlance of our ugly times) corresponded, of course, to the departure of longtime programmer Mark McElhatten. Under his stewardship, Views became one of the premiere experimental film festivals in the world, a long weekend of high caliber dispatches from established masters, alongside bracing discoveries by up-and-coming makers whose work somehow caught Mark's eye. His programming partner, Film Comment's Gavin Smith, often brought along selections that complemented Mark's, even as they were out of his usual bailiwick.The Views era was not without its dissenters. Some complained that McElhatten rounded up the usual suspects year after year, sometimes without regard to the relative quality of their latest offerings. Others, most prominently Su Friedrich,...
- 10/2/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
The Royal RoadAttending the Ann Arbor Film Festival is a bit like stepping into a parallel universe. Here, dialogue and narrative lie on the margins, while abstract animation and ethnographic documentary take center stage. Absent are movie stars, paparazzi, and bidding wars; here, a “big name” is someone like Peggy Ahwesh or Lewis Klahr. It’s as if this one week in March at the historic Michigan Theater, just a couple blocks away from the University of Michigan campus, had been carved out of normal space-time and given over to the love of film as an art.At the Aaff, assumptions about 21st century moviegoing don’t necessarily hold water. Slates of short films dominate the festival’s schedule, and even the occasional feature tends to be paired with a short or two. Digital projection is hardly the default, and the sheer diversity of formats makes each program an object...
- 4/17/2015
- by Andreas Stoehr
- MUBI
The Ann Arbor Film Festival celebrates its epic 53rd annual edition on March 24-29 with a colossal selection of experimental short films and features.
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
Feature film highlights include the documentary Speculation Nation by regular collaborators Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, which examines the recent Spanish housing crisis; a new ethnographic doc by Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, which plunges deep into the culture of South Africa; and Jenni Olson’s grand California study The Royal Road.
Short film highlights include the much anticipated new film by Jennifer Reeder, Blood Below the Skin, a narrative following a week in the dramatic and romantic lives of three teenage girls; a new music video by Mike Olenick called Beautiful Things with music by The Wet Things; new animations by Don Hertzfeldt, World of Tomorrow, and Lewis Klahr, Mars Garden; plus new experimental work by Vanessa Renwick, Peggy Ahwesh and Zachary Epcar.
Special...
- 3/24/2015
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Quite a few special events are happening this weekend for Valentine's Day that don't include the supposedly kinky sex of Fifty Shades Of Grey. Tonight at the Marchesa, the Austin Film Society is having a special premiere screening of 5 to 7. The movie stars Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) and Berenice Marlohe (Skyfall). If you'd rather go for classic romances on Saturday, Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane is having a Gone With The Wind feast and Ritz is having a Casablanca feast. If you're a single women or gay man, you may prefer a Valentine's Day screening of Magic Mike at Alamo Lakeline. For that movie, the Alamo's typical "Don't Talk" rules are suspended and specialty cocktails are on the menu for a real free-for-all.
If you're completely twisted, then Alamo South Lamar has you covered too. They're teaming up with Chiller and Mondo for a Cannibal Holocaust screening on Saturday late night.
- 2/13/2015
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Hosted by Open City Cinema, the 2nd annual Winnipeg Underground Film Festival will be a raucous three-day celebration of fantastic avant-garde and experimental short films and videos from around the world. This year’s edition will run on June 27-29.
The fest opens on June 27 at 7:00 p.m. with a unique bang of an idea: “The 90 Second.” This is a program super-duper short films collected from all over the world, from right in the fest’s hometown of Winnipeg to Auckland to Chicago to London and numerous points in between.
Another one of the fest’s main highlights is a two-part celebration of the work of prolific Canadian film artist Mike Hoolboom. Two programs of two short films each will be featured. The first runs on June 28 at 3:30 p.m. with the films Frank’s Cock and Tom; and the second will close the fest on June 28 at 8:00 p.
The fest opens on June 27 at 7:00 p.m. with a unique bang of an idea: “The 90 Second.” This is a program super-duper short films collected from all over the world, from right in the fest’s hometown of Winnipeg to Auckland to Chicago to London and numerous points in between.
Another one of the fest’s main highlights is a two-part celebration of the work of prolific Canadian film artist Mike Hoolboom. Two programs of two short films each will be featured. The first runs on June 28 at 3:30 p.m. with the films Frank’s Cock and Tom; and the second will close the fest on June 28 at 8:00 p.
- 6/18/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Interior and exterior spaces are transformed into mystical places in Peggy Ahwesh‘s lyrical meditation of an experimental short film, Bethlehem.
While the film is mostly about general states of being, she does manage to tie in two actual Bethlehems: The most famous one in Jerusalem and the other one in mid-east Pennsylvania, which is Ahwesh’s home state.
Ahwesh also alternates between inside and outside spaces, as well as between populated locations and people-less ones, giving all the same mythic quality through, obviously, the lyrical score, but also how the mostly non-moving camera soaks in its subjects through obtuse angles and framing. Many shots, particularly of Ahwesh’s human subjects, are from below or in intense close-up, granting them an element of grandeur even though they are occupying fairly mundane spaces.
While the film has an epic quality to it, Ahwesh describes it as having a very personal basis:...
While the film is mostly about general states of being, she does manage to tie in two actual Bethlehems: The most famous one in Jerusalem and the other one in mid-east Pennsylvania, which is Ahwesh’s home state.
Ahwesh also alternates between inside and outside spaces, as well as between populated locations and people-less ones, giving all the same mythic quality through, obviously, the lyrical score, but also how the mostly non-moving camera soaks in its subjects through obtuse angles and framing. Many shots, particularly of Ahwesh’s human subjects, are from below or in intense close-up, granting them an element of grandeur even though they are occupying fairly mundane spaces.
While the film has an epic quality to it, Ahwesh describes it as having a very personal basis:...
- 6/14/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Chicago – The characters in a Lynn Shelton movie live relatively content lives until an unexpected event ruptures their sense of self. A self-absorbed writer awakens to the fact that he’s been a terrible friend in “My Effortless Brilliance.” Two heterosexual buddies test the boundaries of their relationship by attempting to film a porno together in “Humpday.”
In Shelton’s latest film, “You Sister’s Sister,” three close friends threaten to destroy their close bond when the truth proves to be difficult to accept. As in “Brilliance,” “Sister” takes place in a remote location. Jack (Mark Duplass) is still reeling from the death of his brother when he’s invited by his best friend, Iris (Emily Blunt), to stay at her family’s remote cabin. There he meets Iris’ half-sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), a lesbian who isn’t above experimenting beyond her sexual boundaries, especially after a few drinks.
Just...
In Shelton’s latest film, “You Sister’s Sister,” three close friends threaten to destroy their close bond when the truth proves to be difficult to accept. As in “Brilliance,” “Sister” takes place in a remote location. Jack (Mark Duplass) is still reeling from the death of his brother when he’s invited by his best friend, Iris (Emily Blunt), to stay at her family’s remote cabin. There he meets Iris’ half-sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), a lesbian who isn’t above experimenting beyond her sexual boundaries, especially after a few drinks.
Just...
- 6/11/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Entering into its third year, Crossroads is the San Francisco Cinematheque‘s celebration of the best modern avant-garde and experimental film. Curated by Cinematheque Artistic Director Steve Polta, it will run on May 18-20 at the Victoria Theatre at 2961 16th Street (at Mission).
Some of the special programs this year include a tribute and retrospective to Cinematheque co-founder Chick Strand featuring three of her experimental works, Kristallnacht (1979), Soft Fiction (1979) and Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966); plus, a screening of the complete works (so far) of young filmmaker Laida Lerxtundi, whose work explores “how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance;” as well as a program of live expanded cinema performances by Kerry Laitala, Greg Pope and Gerritt Wittmer & Paul Knowles.
The rest of the fest consists of screening blocks of short experimental films, including Ken Jacob‘s latest, Seeking the Monkey King, plus new work by Jesse McLean, Paul Clipson,...
Some of the special programs this year include a tribute and retrospective to Cinematheque co-founder Chick Strand featuring three of her experimental works, Kristallnacht (1979), Soft Fiction (1979) and Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966); plus, a screening of the complete works (so far) of young filmmaker Laida Lerxtundi, whose work explores “how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance;” as well as a program of live expanded cinema performances by Kerry Laitala, Greg Pope and Gerritt Wittmer & Paul Knowles.
The rest of the fest consists of screening blocks of short experimental films, including Ken Jacob‘s latest, Seeking the Monkey King, plus new work by Jesse McLean, Paul Clipson,...
- 5/15/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 8th annual Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, or Flex Fest, is one of their curated editions, featuring the work of three major avant-garde and experimental filmmakers and their influences over the course of three nights on Feb. 18-20 in Gainesville, Fl. Flex’s honorees this year are: Su Friedrich, Steve Reinke and Sam Green.
The work and influences of Su Friedrich will take to the screen on the first night at the Top Secret Space at 24 N. Main St. The event will begin with two films and one video that cover the span of Friedrich’s career, from 1981 to 2005. Over the past nearly35 years, Friedrich has been one of the leading figures in the feminist avant-garde, combining elements of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking in her work.
One of the films that Friedrich will screen is her seminal, autobiographical Sink or Swim, a compilation of 26 short films that chronicle...
The work and influences of Su Friedrich will take to the screen on the first night at the Top Secret Space at 24 N. Main St. The event will begin with two films and one video that cover the span of Friedrich’s career, from 1981 to 2005. Over the past nearly35 years, Friedrich has been one of the leading figures in the feminist avant-garde, combining elements of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking in her work.
One of the films that Friedrich will screen is her seminal, autobiographical Sink or Swim, a compilation of 26 short films that chronicle...
- 2/13/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
A revealing new season of films at the Ica looks at the links between religion and revolt
Do the roots of the Arab spring lie in cinema? The question seems absurd: surely kleptocratic dictatorship, youth unemployment and grain prices all played a more important part. Iranian film scholar Hamid Dabashi disagrees: "If you want to understand the emotive universe from which the Arab spring arose, cinema is a good place to start. Look at a film like Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention: there the director spits out an apricot pit at an Israeli tank and blows it up. The scene is both fantasy and prophecy."
Dabashi will be speaking this month at Winds of Change, a series of talks and screenings at the Ica in London showcasing films from across the Muslim world; it hopes to explore the rich, sometimes fraught relationship between religion and civic society. Özer Kiziltan's...
Do the roots of the Arab spring lie in cinema? The question seems absurd: surely kleptocratic dictatorship, youth unemployment and grain prices all played a more important part. Iranian film scholar Hamid Dabashi disagrees: "If you want to understand the emotive universe from which the Arab spring arose, cinema is a good place to start. Look at a film like Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention: there the director spits out an apricot pit at an Israeli tank and blows it up. The scene is both fantasy and prophecy."
Dabashi will be speaking this month at Winds of Change, a series of talks and screenings at the Ica in London showcasing films from across the Muslim world; it hopes to explore the rich, sometimes fraught relationship between religion and civic society. Özer Kiziltan's...
- 9/20/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Big announcement from the Zurich Film Festival yesterday: "Director Roman Polanski will attend the upcoming 7th Zurich Film Festival to accept the lifetime achievement award that was intended for him two years ago, to honor his outstanding career achievements as a filmmaker. The World Premiere of a full-length nonfiction film will follow the tribute ceremony. Details regarding the film and the world premiere will not be released before the official screening on Sept 27."
You have to wonder what subject that nonfiction film will be addressing. Meantime, MoMA's Polanski retrospective reels on through September 30 and I've been posting updates on it in the entry for Carnage. Earlier: "Polanski Season," now updated with Criterion's "Three Reasons" for Cul-de-sac (1966).
On view at Microscope Gallery in New York through October 2: Independence Returns, with work by Peggy Ahwesh, Michel Auder, Agnes Bolt, Martha Colburn, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Bradley Eros, James Fotopoulos, Su Friedrich, Andrew Lampert,...
You have to wonder what subject that nonfiction film will be addressing. Meantime, MoMA's Polanski retrospective reels on through September 30 and I've been posting updates on it in the entry for Carnage. Earlier: "Polanski Season," now updated with Criterion's "Three Reasons" for Cul-de-sac (1966).
On view at Microscope Gallery in New York through October 2: Independence Returns, with work by Peggy Ahwesh, Michel Auder, Agnes Bolt, Martha Colburn, Raul Vincent Enriquez, Bradley Eros, James Fotopoulos, Su Friedrich, Andrew Lampert,...
- 9/16/2011
- MUBI
This week’s Must Read: The Brooklyn Rail offers up a eulogy for Adolfas Mekas by gathering comments from the likes of P. Adams Sitney, Peggy Ahwesh, Ken Jacobs and other colleagues/contemporaries. Mekas passed away in May.The Guardian got a rare interview with Jean-Luc Godard who has declared that we are all auteurs now. Good.If you hadn’t heard, structural film pioneer Owen Land passed away last month, but news of his passing only came late last week. I think Lux has the best, most detailed obit for him. Although, the Office Baroque Gallery has a very passionate one — and I think initial word of Land’s death came from them.More Land: Making Light of It posts a scan of an interview with him conducted by P. Adams Sitney from Film Culture. (I actually happen to own two issues of Film Culture, one of which includes this great interview.
- 7/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Feb. 14
7:30 p.m.
Anthology Film Archives
2nd Ave at 2nd St.
NYC, NY
Hosted by: Flaherty Seminar
If it’s Valentine’s Day, that means it’s time for only one thing: A night of romantic experimental films! For February, the monthly Flaherty Seminar screenings at the Anthology Film Archives is dedicated to all things love; including brand new videos by Jacqueline Goss and Peggy Ahwesh, and a classic, rare documentary by Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter from 1971.
This event will be moderated by programmer and filmmaker Penny Lane. (Who does not have a film in the lineup herself.) Lane will also host a post-screening Q&A with several of the filmmakers who will be in attendance.
Some of the highlights include the full 28-minute cut-out animated musical Yard Work Is Hard Work by Jodie Mack. You can watch a toe-tapping, exuberant excerpt from this film below. Plus, Honeymoon...
7:30 p.m.
Anthology Film Archives
2nd Ave at 2nd St.
NYC, NY
Hosted by: Flaherty Seminar
If it’s Valentine’s Day, that means it’s time for only one thing: A night of romantic experimental films! For February, the monthly Flaherty Seminar screenings at the Anthology Film Archives is dedicated to all things love; including brand new videos by Jacqueline Goss and Peggy Ahwesh, and a classic, rare documentary by Tony Ganz and Rhody Streeter from 1971.
This event will be moderated by programmer and filmmaker Penny Lane. (Who does not have a film in the lineup herself.) Lane will also host a post-screening Q&A with several of the filmmakers who will be in attendance.
Some of the highlights include the full 28-minute cut-out animated musical Yard Work Is Hard Work by Jodie Mack. You can watch a toe-tapping, exuberant excerpt from this film below. Plus, Honeymoon...
- 2/12/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The Wexner Center continues its patronage of avant-garde cinema with tonight’s program, A Map of the New Lands. Described by the institution as “a diverse collection of short experimental films that discover new landscapes (whether geographical, emotional, domestic, or indefinable),” the program will showcase select works from a diverse range of talents, from established visionaries (like Chris Marker and Peggy Ahwesh) to emerging auteurs (including Ben Rivers and Columbus artist Stacie Sells).Also offered in this line-up is a wide variety of textures, sensory impressions,...
- 10/21/2010
- by Jason Younkman, Columbus Art Film Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed
England's northernmost town exploits its tourist-friendly heritage for this imaginative festival, with a trail of film-based artworks commissioned for local landmarks as well as regular cinema screenings. The theme is Stagings, which means all manner of film-related art based around ideas of performance. So you'll find dance in the 14th-century Coxon's Tower and animation in the town hall prison cells, while film artist Guy Sherwin presents his ingenious projected pieces in the Holy Trinity Church. The screenings are also performance-themed, ranging from The Keystone Cut Ups, a live event colliding music, silent comedy and early avant garde cinema, to Malaysian drama Karaoke (you can guess what it's about), a Finnish rugby mockumentary and the Marx brothers' A Night At The Opera.
Various venues, Wed to 19 Sep, berwickfilm-artsfest.com
The Scoop Film Season, London
The holidays are over, the kids are back to school...
England's northernmost town exploits its tourist-friendly heritage for this imaginative festival, with a trail of film-based artworks commissioned for local landmarks as well as regular cinema screenings. The theme is Stagings, which means all manner of film-related art based around ideas of performance. So you'll find dance in the 14th-century Coxon's Tower and animation in the town hall prison cells, while film artist Guy Sherwin presents his ingenious projected pieces in the Holy Trinity Church. The screenings are also performance-themed, ranging from The Keystone Cut Ups, a live event colliding music, silent comedy and early avant garde cinema, to Malaysian drama Karaoke (you can guess what it's about), a Finnish rugby mockumentary and the Marx brothers' A Night At The Opera.
Various venues, Wed to 19 Sep, berwickfilm-artsfest.com
The Scoop Film Season, London
The holidays are over, the kids are back to school...
- 9/10/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
And on the eighth day, God created virtual reality. Take a trip to a brave unreal world in Peggy Ahwesh‘s ode to primitive virtual reality, The Third Body. Combining some sort of minimalist Adam & Eve recreation with promotional footage of people wearing giant Vr glasses on their head looking at blocky CGI graphics with awe and wonder, Ahwesh casts humans as the new gods — and creating a world that looks really, really ugly. (This film isn’t quite Nsfw, but the partial nudity may cause co-workers to look at you funny.)
My favorite part of this film is just the simple shots of a beige virtual reality living room while Morton Feldman‘s ominous soundtrack drones on. Set some good, creepy music to make any visuals seem disturbing. Actually, it was driving me nuts thinking the soundtrack was borrowed from some horror movie I couldn’t place, but I...
My favorite part of this film is just the simple shots of a beige virtual reality living room while Morton Feldman‘s ominous soundtrack drones on. Set some good, creepy music to make any visuals seem disturbing. Actually, it was driving me nuts thinking the soundtrack was borrowed from some horror movie I couldn’t place, but I...
- 9/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
May 15
8:00 p.m.
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St.
New York, New York 10003
Hosted by: Millennium Film Journal
To celebrate the publication of the 52nd issue of the Millenium Film Journal, which has the theme “presence,” there will be a screening of classic and modern underground films that have been curated by Jessica Ruffin & Grahame Weinbren. The full lineup of films is below.
From the Journal’s Introduction: “Presence emphasizes the primacy of experience over analysis.” Articles in this issue are by Cathy Caplan, Roberta Friedman, Terry Flaxton, A. L. Rees, Jeremy Menzies; and a tribute to Chick Strand written by Pat O’Neill.
Suitably, there will be two films by Chick Strand, as well as Peggy Ahwesh’s classic porno-manipulation The Color of Love, Martha Colburn’s latest animated whirlwind Myth Labs; and work by Abigail Child, Phil Solomon and more:
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966), dir. Chick Strand
Anselmo (1967), dir.
8:00 p.m.
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th St.
New York, New York 10003
Hosted by: Millennium Film Journal
To celebrate the publication of the 52nd issue of the Millenium Film Journal, which has the theme “presence,” there will be a screening of classic and modern underground films that have been curated by Jessica Ruffin & Grahame Weinbren. The full lineup of films is below.
From the Journal’s Introduction: “Presence emphasizes the primacy of experience over analysis.” Articles in this issue are by Cathy Caplan, Roberta Friedman, Terry Flaxton, A. L. Rees, Jeremy Menzies; and a tribute to Chick Strand written by Pat O’Neill.
Suitably, there will be two films by Chick Strand, as well as Peggy Ahwesh’s classic porno-manipulation The Color of Love, Martha Colburn’s latest animated whirlwind Myth Labs; and work by Abigail Child, Phil Solomon and more:
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966), dir. Chick Strand
Anselmo (1967), dir.
- 5/11/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The second annual Migrating Forms experimental media festival will descend on the Anthology Film Archives in NYC on May 14-23 featuring the world’s greatest experimental videos, cultural documentaries, some that are a little of both; plus, several filmmaker retrospectives, some classic films and the endearingly popular Tube Time! video tournament.
Migrating Forms is such an entirely different beast than its predecessor, the New York Underground Film Festival, that we don’t have to keep saying this new event arose from the Nyuff’s ashes, do we? Ok, we’ll just say that one more time. Next year we won’t mention it because, even in it’s first year, Migrating Forms proved itself to be a completely unique arena in the field of experimental media making.
A couple of highlights from the lineup below: The new feature film by cultural explorer Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie, which captures life in...
Migrating Forms is such an entirely different beast than its predecessor, the New York Underground Film Festival, that we don’t have to keep saying this new event arose from the Nyuff’s ashes, do we? Ok, we’ll just say that one more time. Next year we won’t mention it because, even in it’s first year, Migrating Forms proved itself to be a completely unique arena in the field of experimental media making.
A couple of highlights from the lineup below: The new feature film by cultural explorer Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie, which captures life in...
- 5/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
"Arousal" is the theme of the new, fourth issue of World Picture, featuring a multi-media piece and a 9½-minute film, The Color of Love (1994; image above), by Peggy Ahwesh as well as Elena Gorfinkel's essay on the work; five films by Ken Jacobs accompanied by a brief must-read essay, "About Myself"; four unpublished poems by Maya Deren; Sam Cooper on, among other things, sex and the Situationists; Rosalind Galt on Maria Beatty; Michael Lawrence on Adam and Eve on screen; editor John David Rhodes on cinematic desire; Domietta Torlasco's "Notes for a Phenomenology of Narcissism" (with clips); and James Mensch, Kelly Oliver, Nicole M Rizzuto and Meghan Sutherland on the nature of arousal.
- 4/29/2010
- MUBI
Art Radio International renegotiated the terms of its lease of the Clocktower Gallery with MoMA recently, consequently serving subleasers The Film-Maker’s Co-op (Fmc) with an eviction notice. Founded nearly 50 years ago, Fmc is one of the longest-running distributors of experimental and independent film in the world, its offices operating in the same building since 2000. The organization houses thousands of 16mm prints, many of them unique and irreplaceable including those by Stan Brakhage, Paul Sharits, Carolee Schneeman, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Jennifer Reeves, Jack Smith, Ken Jacobs, Peggy Ahwesh, Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow, Maya Deren, Marie Menken, Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Martha Colburn, Leslie Thornton, and literally hundreds of other artists, as well as an invaluable paper archive of letters, program notes and other materials. According ...
- 2/5/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Art Radio International renegotiated the terms of its lease of the Clocktower Gallery with MoMA recently, consequently serving subleasers The Film-Maker’s Co-op (Fmc) with an eviction notice. Founded nearly 50 years ago, Fmc is one of the longest-running distributors of experimental and independent film in the world, its offices operating in the same building since 2000. The organization houses thousands of 16mm prints, many of them unique and irreplaceable including those by Stan Brakhage, Paul Sharits, Carolee Schneeman, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Jennifer Reeves, Jack Smith, Ken Jacobs, Peggy Ahwesh, Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow, Maya Deren, Marie Menken, Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Martha Colburn, Leslie Thornton, and literally hundreds of other artists, as well as an invaluable paper archive of letters, program notes and other materials. According ...
- 2/5/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
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