MAKING LIGHT OF IT: Views from the Avant-Garde 2011

The cinematic wonderland that is Views From the Avant-Garde is back in it's 15th edition this year, shaped as always by the sensitive and discerning hands of Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith. The eye-popping schedule is as follows..

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VIEWS 2011 15TH EDITION

Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith

Friday October 7

(The Return by Nathaniel Dorsky)

FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER

12:30pm

1. The Soul and the Stem

Señora con Flores / Woman with Flowers

Chick Strand, U.S./Mexico 1995/2011, 15m (preservation print from the Academy Film Archives)

Jan Villa

Natasha Mendonca, India/U.S., 2010, 20m

The Sole of the Foot

Robert Fenz, U.S/Germany 2011, 34m

Correspondence

Robert Fenz, U.S./Germany 2011, 30m

Total running time: 99m

3:15pm

2. Ben Rivers

Sack Barrow

U.K., 2011, 21m

Slow Action

U.K., 2010, 45m

Total running time: 66m

5:45pm

3. Bitches Brew

Posthaste Perennial Pattern

Jodie Mack, U.S., 2010, 3m 38s

Babobilicons

Daina Krumins, U.S., 1982, 16m (new 35mm preservation by the Academy Film Archive)

You Are Now Running On Reserve Battery Power

Jessie Stead, U.S., 2011, 11m

Hull

Tara Merenda Nelson, U.S., 2011, 7m 32s

from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds:

Telephone Call

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 1m

Billy and the Magician

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 3m 18s

Little Kitten

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 42s

Zero Buoyancy

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 4m 53s

Romance Novels

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 1m 4s

A Party Record Packed with Sex and Sadness

Bobby Abate, U.S., 2011, 10m 11s

Praxis 8 – 12 Scenes

Dietmar Brehm, Austria, 2010, 25m

Taste Test

Andrew Lampert, U.S., 2011, 2m 30s

Bitch-Beauty

MM Serra, U.S., 2011, 7m

Total running time: 107m

8:45pm

4. Ladders and Tracks

Berlin Tracks 18h00-20h00

Shiloh Cinquemani, U.S./Germany, 2011, 2m 7s

(k)now (t)here

Hey–Yeun Jang, U.S., 2011, 8m 50s

Subway

Angela Ferraiolo, U.S., 2011, 7m 40s

Village, silenced

Deborah Stratman, U.S., 2011, 4m 56s

Snakes and Ladders

Katherin McInnis, U.S., 2011, 3m

Longhorn Tremolo

Scott Stark, U.S., 2010, 16m

Land Fill

Jennifer Reeves, U.S., 2011, 8m 52s

Barren

Katherin McInnis, U.S., 2010, 2m

Back View

Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 17m

The Toy Sun

Ken Kobland, U.S., 2011, 33m

Total running time: 104m

WALTER READE THEATER

1:00pm

5. OpenEndedGroup

Upending

U.S., 2011, 65m (digital 3-D)

3:30pm

6. Ken Jacobs:

SEEKING THE MONKEY KING

U.S., 2011, 40m

5:30pm

7. Ernie Gehr

Crystal Palace

U.S., 2002-11, 28m

Thank You For Visiting

U.S., 2010, 12m

Mist

U.S., 2010, 9m

ABRACADABRA

U.S., 2009, 39m

Total running time: 88m

8:30pm

8. George Kuchar

Lingo of the Lost

U.S., 2010, 37m 45s

Empire of Evil

U.S., 2011, 50m

Total running time: 87m

Saturday October 8

FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER

11:15am

9. Cabinet of Curiosities

Between Gold

Jonathan Schwartz, U.S., 2011, 10m 42s

Tin Pressed

Dani Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 6m 23s

Fifteen an Hour

Kevin Jerome Everson, U.S., 2011, 6m

Tableaux Vivants

Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2011, 10m 20s

Curious Light

Charlotte Pryce, U.S., 2011, 4m 12s

Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances

Samantha Rebello, U.K., 2010, 22m

The Matter Propounded, of its Possibility or Impossibility, treated in four Parts

David Gatten, U.S., 2011, 13m

from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

Miniatures

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 2m

Degas

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 58s

The Eclipse

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 33s

ransom notes

Kelly Egan, Canada, 2011, 4m

Conjuror’s Box

Kerry Laitala, U.S., 2011, 4m

Total running time: 82m

1:45pm

10. Looking Through a Glass Onion

Passage Upon the Plume

Fern Silva, U.S., 2011, 6m 46s

Shayne’s Rectangle

Dani Leventhal, U.S., 2011, 5m 4s

Line Describing Your Mom

Michael Robinson, U.S., 2011, 5m 50s

Gossip

Bobby Abate, U.S., 2011, 8m 19s

from Jhana and the Rats of James Olds

Tatum’s Ghost

Stephanie Barber, U.S., 2011, 3m 45s

The Death of the Gorilla

Peter Mays, U.S., 1966, 16m (new restoration by the Academy Film Archive)

By foot-candle light

Mary Helena Clark, U.S., 2011, 9m

A LAX RIDDLE UNIT

Laida Lertxundi, Spain, 2011, 9m

Sounding Glass

Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2011, 7m

The Evil Eyes

Bobby Abate, U.S., 2010, 18m

Total running time: 89m

4:15pm

11. Betzy Bromberg

Voluptuous Sleep

U.S., 2011, 95m

7:15pm

12. Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky

Words of Mercury

Jerome Hiler, U.S., 2011, 25m

The Return

Nathaniel Dorsky, U.S., 2011, 27m

Total running time: 54m

9:30pm

13. John Zorn: A Film in 15 Scenes

15 scenes: 254 shots

Gobolux, U.S., 2011, 15m

Well Then There Now

Lewis Klahr, U.S., 2011, 19m 30s

Bare Room

Joey Izzo, U.S., 2011, 31m 33s

arcana

Henry Hills, U.S./Austria, 2011, 33m

Total Running Time: 97m

WALTER READE THEATER

11:00am

14. Jean-Marie Straub

Lothringen!

co-directed with Danièle Huillet

France, 1994, 20m

Un héritier

France/South Korea, 2011, 20m

L’Inconsolable

France, 2011, 15m

Schakale und Araber

Switzerland, 2011, 11m

Total running time: 66m

1:15pm

15. Klaus Wyborny

Studies for the Decay of the West

Germany, 2010, 80m

4:00pm

16. Daniel Eisenberg: The Unstable Object

Less and Less / Toujours moins

Luc Moullet, France, 2010, 14m

The Unstable Object

U.S./Germany/Turkey, 2011, 69m

With

Total running time: 83m

6:45pm

17. Kevin Jerome Everson

Quality Control

U.S., 2011, 70m 42s

The Prichard

U.S., 2011, 11m 18s

Total running time: 82m

9:45pm

8. George Kuchar

see Friday October 7, 8:30pm, Walter Reade

Sunday October 9

FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER

12 noon

1. The Soul and the Stem

see Friday October 7, 12:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater

2:45pm

12. Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky

see Saturday October 8, 7:15pm, Francesca Beale Theater

5:30pm

13. Ladders and Tracks

see Friday October 7, 8:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater

8:15pm

18. The Red and The Black

River Rites

Ben Russell, U.S./Suriname, 2011, 11m 30s

Shadow, Seed, Spagyric

David Baker, U.S., 2011, 5m 12s

Peril of the Antilles

Fern Silva, U.S., 2011, 5.51m

A Preface to Red

Jonathan Schwartz, U.S./Turkey, 2010, 6m

Protocol

Lina Rodriguez, Canada/Colombia

2011, 1m 15s

Imperceptihole

Lori Felker & Robert Todd, U.S., 2011, 14m 37s

Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: I WANT TO PAINT IT BLACK

Saul Levine, U.S., 2011, 12m

Third Law: N Kedzie Blvd.

Mike Gibisser, U.S., 2011, 7m 10s

Slow Burn

Jesse Cain, U.S., 2011, 19m 46s

Total running time: 86m

WALTER READE THEATER

1:00pm

19. Virgin Springs

Baptismal Sticks and Stones

April Simmons, U.S., 2011, 6m 50s

Devils Gate

Laura Kraning, U.S., 2011, 20m

Twice Removed

Leslie Thornton, U.S., 2011, 11m

Ricky

Janie Geiser, U.S., 2011, 11m

Silent Springs

Erin Espelie, U.S., 2011, 12m 57s

Gazette

Eliénore de Montesquiou, Russia/Estonia, 2009, 4m 12s

Kudzu Vine

Josh Gibson, U.S., 2011, 19.52m

Total running time: 86m

3:30pm

20. Lewis Klahr

The Pettifogger

U.S., 2011, 65m

6:00pm

4. John Zorn: A Film in 15 Scenes

see Saturday October 8, 9:30pm, Francesca Beale Theater

9:00pm

21. James Benning

Twenty Cigarettes

U.S., 2011, 99m

Monday October 10

FRANCESCA BEALE THEATER

11:00am

9. Cabinet of Curiosities

see Saturday October 8, 11.15am, Francesca Beale Theater

1:30pm

22. Aurand/Muñoz/Sami

Villatalla

Jeannette Muñoz, Switzerland/Chile/Italy, 2011, 21m 59s

A Year / Ein Jahr

Renate Sami, Germany, 2011, 12m

Young Pines / Junge Tiefern

Ute Aurand, Germany/Japan, 2011, 43m

Total running time: 76m

3:45pm

10. Looking Through a Glass Onion

see Saturday October 8, 1.45pm, Francesca Beale Theater

6:30pm

23. Paul Clipson Super 8 performance

Chorus

U.S., 2009/2011, 8 min

Compound Eyes No. 1-5

U.S., 2011, 27min

Light from the Mesa

U.S., 2010, 7m

Chorus

U.S., 2009/2011, 8m (16mm version)

Morphologies

U.S., 2011, 20m

Total running time: 70m

8:45pm

3. Bitches Brew

see Friday October 7, 5:45pm, Francesca Beale Theater

WALTER READE THEATER

11:30pm

14. Jean-Marie Straub

see Saturday October 8, 11:00pm, Walter Reade Theater

1:45pm

6. Ken Jacobs

see Friday October 7, 3:30pm, Walter Reade Theater

3:00pm

20. Lewis Klahr

see Sunday October 9, 2:30pm, Walter Reade Theater

5:00pm

19. Virgin Springs

see Sunday October 9, 1:00pm, Walter Reade Theater

7:30pm

24. Ben Rivers: Two Days At Sea

U.K., 2011, 86m

Elinor Bunin Munroe amphitheatre

Premieres presented on the Film Center’s Panasonic 152-inch 4K plasma screen

Daily Friday October 7-10

Open to the general public, with no admission charge

All the work will be repeated across the four days in groupings and individual rotations several times a day.

Confirmed:

John Krieg Exiting the Falk Corporation in 1971

James Benning, U.S, 2011, 71m

Soft Palate

Martin Arnold, Austria, 2010, 3m 10s

Self Control

Martin Arnold, Austria, 2011, 1m 56s,

Picture Taking

Ernie Gehr, U.S., 2011, 9m 30s

Armoire (Four Parts)

Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2007-2011, 9m 5s

TBD

Dani Leventhal

Traders Leaving the Exchange, A Guard and the Street

Les Leveque, U.S., 2011, 15m

from The Binocular Series

Leslie Thornton, U.S., 2011

(The Toy Sun by Ken Kobland)

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MAKING LIGHT OF IT

Views from the Avant-Garde 2011

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