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The Twelfth Annual Views from the Avant-Garde
A Special Showcase of the 46th New York Film Festival
October 3 - 5, 2008

Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith

“Views from the Avant-Garde, has become, for aficionados of experimental cinema, a tradition in its own right...There is brilliantly challenging new work of course – in particular in shorts gathered under the rubrics Time of the Signs and still wave – but an elegiac tone predominates....[Bruce Conner's work is] a reminder that the boundaries among collapse, sculpture, cinema and poetry are fungible and porous, and also that this country has occasionally produced artists whose imaginations defy limitation and convention with startling ease....[In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni is] an exclusive but nonetheless heartfelt memoir of lost aesthetic passion and political commitment...[RR is] a study in cinematic geometry that also evokes the mythology and history of the American continent. Occasionally, under the clacking of the wheels and the roar of engines, you hear what must be a car radio, and what you hear – a famous speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Woody Guthrie song, a baseball game – strenghens the sentimental tug of what you see. Which is one magnificent, old, perhaps obsolescent technology – film – paying tribute to another.” - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Views from the Avant-Garde programs will take place in the Walter Reade Theater (unreserved seating), Lincoln Center, 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue on the upper level

Tickets are on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office & online. To purchase tickets online click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets. Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online.

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Admission*:
$11 public
$8 senior (62+)
$7 Film Society member & student (with valid photo ID)
*Except where otherwise noted.

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NYFF Complete Schedule:
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GUY DEBORD
Total Runtime: 100m
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
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Fri Oct 3: 6:30 *
*Admission: $16 (unreserved)
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THE WARMTH OF THE SUN
Total Runtime: 102˝m
Dove Coup Ben Rivers | Whispers Ernie Gehr | Les Chaises Vincent Grenier | Obar Taylor Dunne | After Writing Mary Helena Clark | Origins of the Species Ben Rivers
| Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter [diminished by 1,794] David Gatten | ELEMENTs Julie Murray | False Friends Sylvia Schedelbauer | Hold Me Now Michael Robinson | And the Sun Flowers Mary Helena Clark | False Aging Lewis Klahr
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Sat Oct 4: 12




ANDREW NOREN
Total Runtime: 101m
Aberration of Starlight
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Sat Oct 4: 3:30



NATHANIEL DORSKY
Total Runtime: approx. 70m
Winter | Sarabande
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Sat Oct 4: 6:30



BRUCE CONNER TRIBUTE
Total Runtime: 79˝m
A MOVIE | THE WHITE ROSE | BREAKAWAY | VIVIAN | TEN SECOND FILM | REPORT | LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS | TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND | VALSE TRISTE | EASTER MORNING
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Sat Oct 4: 8:45




TIME OF THE SIGNS
Total Runtime: 84m
1859 Fred Worden | Train of Thought Jim Jennings | New York Lantern Ernie Gehr | After Marks Fern Silva | Nocturne [Avenue A, no lens] Joel Schlemowitz | Novel City Leslie Thornton | Trypps #5 (Dubai) Ben Russell | Today! (excerpts #28, #19) Jessie Stead & David Gatten | Ah Liberty! Ben Rivers
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Sun Oct 5: 12



CRAIG BALDWIN
Total Runtime: 122˝m
The Diptherians Episode Two: The Rhythm That Forgets Itself Lewis Klahr | Tattoo Step Michael Maryniuk | Mock up on Mu Craig Baldwin
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Sun Oct 5: 3



still wave
Total Runtime: 108m
America is Waiting Bruce Conner | Dig Robert Todd | Right Scott Stark | 16-18-4 Tomonari Nishikawa | The Acrobat Chris Kennedy | Nightparking Gretchen Skogerson | The Scenic Route Ken Jacobs| Phantogram Kerry Laitala | When Worlds Collude Fred Worden | Horizontal Boundaries Pat O’Neill
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Sun Oct 5: 6



JAMES BENNING
Total Runtime: 112m
RR
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Sun Oct 5: 9

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