DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Volume three in Kino’s Avant-Garde series includes some rare titles from Eastman House, among them Alberto Cavalcanti’s amazing anticipation of Godardian political montage, “Rien que les heures,” while Icarus offers Martina Kudlacek’s 2006 documentary “Notes on Marie Menken” (which includes three Menken films) and Microcinema comes up with an elaborately produced...
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Charles Theater, 193 Avenue B, NYC. Chuck Workman - 2009 Calliope Films For some viewers, Visionaries might serve as an introduction to the film that has been labeled underground, avant-garde, and briefly, New American Cinema. For myself, the...
Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Nov. 9 8:30 p.m. REDCAT Theater 631 W. 2nd St. Los Angeles, CA Hosted by: REDCAT Village Voice film critic and film historian J. Hoberman is the world’s foremost authority on the 1963 underground film classic Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith. Preceding a screening of the film, Hoberman will discuss the film’s creative origins and the charges of obscenity it [...]
Autopia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
*Twenty years, that’s a good long time. For instance, the entire period Poland spent under Communism was only 45 years. *If history ended in 1989, there are now 20 year old adults around who were born after the end of history and can probably kick the ass of any Marxists or any elderly [...]
Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Nov. 5: Mike Kuchar will appear in person to present two lineups of his recent short films, including Ephemeral Seizure and Tarnished Utopia.
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
At Anthology Film Archives . Here's the program: "Jonas Mekas A LETTER TO PENNY ARCADE (2001, 15 minutes, video) SELFPORTRAIT (1970, 20 minutes, video) WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN (1950/2003, 15 minutes, video) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO CARRIED HIS MEMORY IN HIS EYES (2000, 50 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 105 minutes." :: Upcoming Showings: Friday Oct 30 8:00 PM :: More here .
Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Oct. 30: To celebrate his 60th anniversary of living in NYC, influential filmmaker Jonas Mekas will screen a selection of diary videos, 1970-2003.
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Tomorrow night at Northwest Film Forum, the Sprocket Society presents FOCAL POINTS: Documentary Shorts of 1969 , as part of the year-long 69 series. The program screens (just this once!) at 8 pm. A full list of films is after the jump. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
~~ululations~~ (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
This Friday, October 9, 7:00 pm — The Way of the Word Poetry Extravaganza curated by Bob Holman, Suzanne Fiol, and Kenneth Goldsmith ISSUE PROJECT ROOM At the Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718-330-0313 featuring the amazing poets: Bob Holman Ken Goldsmith Jonas Mekas Anne Waldman Judith Malina Abiodoun Oyewole (of the Last Poets) Hettie Jones Jeff...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
It's not a memorial--that will come later, and in high style--but the Issue Project Room is holding a benefit tomorrow night for its future space at 110 Livingston Street. Honor Suzanne Fio...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
George and Mike Kuchar thrilled 1060s New York with their DIY B movies, inspiring everyone from Andy Warhol to George Lucas If directors were ranked according to the greatness of their films' titles, brothers George and Mike Kuchar would instantly be inducted into the pantheon of gods. Together and separately since the late 1950s, these mainstays of the early 1960s New York underground film movement...
PORT (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Still from "MY CHINA NOW" In conjunction with the upcoming China Design Now exhibition (lots more on that later), the NW Film Center presents Lens on China , a film series that "explores the perspectives of Chinese and western filmmakers whose works reflect on the broad currents of contemporary change in Chinese society. As China's past and future collide, the works by these media artists...
LimitedHype (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Starting this week, the Los Angeles Bicycle Film Festival celebrates its 6th anniversary. The festival’s purpose is to showcase and bring forward the bicycle in all forms and styles through art, film, music and performance. This year the festival indie rockers Deerhunter and an art show featuring artists such as Aiko, I Love Dust and [...]
Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
VILNIUS - Vilnius can have its Guggenheim Museum despite the current economic crisis, say Vilnius municipality officials. On August 5, a discussion named ‘Guggenheim – an unavoidable good'’ was held in news agency ELTA’s offices. Vilnius’s vice mayor Gintautas Babravicius, and some representatives o...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
This is rad [via Harmony-Korine.com] Harmony Korine is one of 42 contributors to the project ONEDREAMRUSH, a creation of the New Zealand vodka company 42Below that invites various individuals to create 42-second videos exploring dreams. Other contributors to ONEDREAMRUSH include Kenneth Anger, David Lynch, Leos Carax, Larry Clark, Jonas Mekas, and Gaspar Noe. In time all [...]
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