NYFF51: Views from the Avant-Garde
Our popular yearly touchstone for experimental film returns with 45 programs in glorious Super-8, 16mm and 35mm film and HD formats. Many familiar faces have returned and this year's slate feature 45 new artists as well as several mini-retrospectives of artists including, Aura Satz, Lois Patiño, Sandro Aguilar, and Jean-Paul Kelly. Views will also offer special tributes to the late Stom Sogo and Anne Robertson, whose work is a testimony to the power of a cinema that is fearless, confidential and inextinguishable. Curated by Mark McElhatten
Program 1: Stephanie Barber – Daredevils
Daredevils Stephanie Barber, USA, 2013, 1:25min
starring KimSu Theiler, Flora Coker and featuring the voices of Susan Howe and Jenny Graf.
Program 2: Travis Wilkerson – Los Angeles Red Squad
Los Angeles Red Squad: The Communist Situation in California (Travis Wilkerson, USA, 2013, 70m)
Screening with:
Redemption (Miguel Gomes, Portugal/France/Germany/Italy 2013, 26m)
Program 3: Lois Patiño – Costa da Morte
“Upon entering men in landscape and landscape in men, the eternal life of Galicia was created.” (Castelao)
Costa da Morte is a region in Galicia (Spain), which was considered as the end of the world during the Roman period. Its dramatic name…
Program 4: Chris Marker – Description of a Struggle
Screening with Redemption (Miguel Gomes, Portugal/France/Germany/Italy, 2013, 26m)
Program 5: Raúl Ruiz – Life is A Dream
Mémoire des apparences (Life is Dream) (Raúl Ruiz, France, 1987, 100m)
Program 6: Solar Radios, Fire from the Sun
With Pluses and Minuses (Mike Stoltz, USA, 2013, 5m)
The Starry Messenger (Marika Borgeson, USA, 2013, 15m)
Palindrome (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1969, 22m)
Radio Adios (Henry Hills, USA,1982, 10.5m)
Neuron (Robert Russett, USA, 1972, 7m)
Primary Stimulus (Robert Russett, USA, 1977/1980, 8m)
Tessitura Calda (Paolo Gioli, Italy, 2013, 7.5m)
Screen Tone (Richard Touhy, Australia, 2012, 16m)
Program 7: Sandro Aguilar – Dive: Approach and Exit
Dive: Approach and Exit (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2013, 12m)
Signs of Stillness out of Meaningless Things (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2012, 28m)
Remains (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2010, 18m)
Mercurio (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2010, 18m)
Arquivo (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2007, 19m)
Voodoo (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2010, 30m)
Program 8: Anne Charlotte Robertson
I Wanted to See How I Lived, I Wanted to Love Myself and My Past (1976-1996)
Depression (Focus Please) (USA, 1984, 3m)
Locomotion (USA, 1981, 7m)
Apologies (USA, 1990, 17m)
My Cat, My Garden and 9/11 (USA, 2001, 6m)
Five Year Diary reel 1 Nov. 3 - Dec. 13, 1981: The Beginning - Thanksgiving (USA, 1981, 25m)
Five Year Diary reel 2 - Dec. 13 - 22, 1981: Definitions of Fat and Thin (USA, 1982, 29m)
This program is presented with The Harvard Film Archive and HFA Film Conservator Liz Coffey from materials preserved in the Harvard Film Archive.
Program 9: Landscapes in the Shadow of Time
Views from the Acropolis (Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, Netherlands/Turkey, 2012, 14:58m)
Paisaje-Duración Duration Rocas (Landscape Rocks) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2011, 4:19m)
Montaña en sombra
(Mountain in shadow) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2012, 13:54m)
Nile Perch (35mm version) (Josh Gibson, USA/Uganda, 2013, 16:47m)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013 USA/Ethiopa, 46m)
Program 10: Super-8 Short Fuse Incandescence
Blind Alley Augury (Daichi Saito, Canada, 2:05m)
Green Fuse (Daichi Saito, Canada, 3:11m)
Field of View #1 (Daichi Saito, Canada, 3:16m)
Javi (Malena Szlam, Canada, 2011, 2:42m).
Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam, Canada, 2013, 4m, 16mm)
The Quilpo Dreams of Waterfalls/El Quilpo Sueña Cataratas (Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina, 2012, 11m)
Conjectures/Conjeturas (Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina, 2013, 3:30m)
Photooxidation/Fotooxidación (Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina, 2013, 7m)
Void Redux (Paul Clipson, USA, 2013, 6.5m)
Difficult Loves (Paul Clipson, USA, 2013, 3.5m)
Speaking Corpse (Paul Clipson, USA, 2012, 7.5m)
Carrie at Still (Stom Sogo, USA/Japan 1998, 27m)
Program 11: One Secret Destroys Everything
Dad’s Stick (John Smith, GB, 2013, 6m)
The Invisible World (Jesse McLean, USA, 2012, 20:15m)
Lyrica (Shana Moulton, USA, 2012, 4:53m)
The Dark, Krystle (Michael Robinson, USA, 2013, 8m)
Mount Song (Shambhavi Kaul, USA/India, 2013, 8:49m)
Property (Jeanne Liotta, USA, 2013, 3:28m)
Ojo Caliente (Pat O’Neill, USA, 2012, 4m)
Dirty Code (Bobby Abate, USA, 2013, 5m)
Black Powder, White Smoke (Sarah Halpern, USA, 2:05m)
Life is an Opinion, Fire a Fact (Karen Yasinsky, USA, 2012, 9m)
Greystone (Kerry Tribe, USA, 2012, 29m)
Program 12: Luther Price – Tears of a Clown
Jellyfish Sandwich (Luther Price, USA, 1994, 17m)
Clown (Luther Price, USA, 1991/2002, 32m)
Program 13: Jodie Mack – Let Your Light Shine
Undertone Overture (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 10:30m)
New Fancy Foils (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 12m)
Dusty Stacks of Mom (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 41m)
Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 8m)
Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013, 2:45m)
Program 14: Kevin Jerome Everson
The Island of St. Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 2013, 70m)
screening with: Rhinoceros (Kevin Jerome Everson,USA, 2013, 7m)
Program 15: Voices perish (coloring the darkening glow)
Strawberries in the Summertime (Jennifer Reeves, USA, 2013, 15m)
Luna (Snow) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 2:21m)
Onomatopoeic Alphabet (Aura Satz, UK, 2010, 7m)
Doorway for Nathalie Kalmus (Aura Satz, UK, 2013, 9m)
Paisaje-Duración Trigal (Duration Landscape Cornfield) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2010, 2:57m)
Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow (Phil Solomon, USA, 2013, 7:31m)
All or Nothing (Fred Worden, USA, 2013, 8m)
Half Life (April Simmons, USA, 2013, 6:04m)
Luna (Heaven) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 12m)
Remanence IV (Josh Bonnetta, USA, 2013, 54s)
Bedtime Story (Esther Shatavsky, USA, 1981, 5.5m)
Weissfilm (Wilhelm and Birgit Hein, Germany, 1977, 5m)
Splice 181 to Splice 243 of Spicefilm, 2013, Homage to Birgit and Wilhelm Hein's Weissfilm, 1977 (Florian Zeyfang, Germany, 2013, 5m)
Creme 21 (Eve Heller, Austria, 2013, 11m)
Ten Notes on A Summer Day (Mike Stoltz, USA, 2012, 4.5m)
The Sea Seeks Its Own Level (Erin Espelie, USA, 2013, 5:04m)
NOTE: Philosophers Walk on the Sublime (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 12m) will only be included on repeat program on Oct 5 11:30am
Program 16: L’Age D’Or
Tender Feet (Fern Silva, USA, 2013, 10m)
45 7 Broadway (Tomonari Nishikawa, USA/Japan, 2013, 6m)
Blue (Shiloh Cinquemani, Germany, 2013, 3:02m)
Sea Series 12, 13, 14 (John Price, Canada, 2013, 7:30m)
Despedida (Farewell) Alexandra Cuesta, USA, 2013, 9:36m)
Bat El Drinking Water and Other Signs (Jonathan Schwartz, USA/Israel, 2013, 9:59m)
Utskor: Either/Or (Laida Lertxundi, Norway/Spain/USA, 2013, 7:30m)
Gowanus Canal (Sarah J. Christman, USA, 2013, 7m)
High Water (Pawel Wojtasik, USA, 2013, 9:23m)
A Idade de Pedra/The Age of Stone (Ana Vaz, Brazil, 2013, 28:57m)
Program 17: Being Here (found in silence, heard within sight)
Narcissi (Shiloh Cinquemani, Germany, 2012, 3m)
Listening to the Space in My Room (Robert Beavers, Germany/USA, 2013, 19m)
Lost and Found (Jim Jennings, USA, 5m)
Susan + Lisbeth (Ute Aurand, Germany, 2013, 10m)
to be here (Ute Aurand, Germany/USA, 2013, 38:06m)
Program 18: Precarious Light in Calm Frequencies
Balga (Lichun Tseng, Netherlands, 2012, 4:26m)
Natura Obscura (Paolo Gioli, Italy, 7:50m)
Orchard.5 (Hey-Yeun Jang, USA, 2013, 4m)
Late Summer (Barry Gerson, USA, 2013, 11m)
Lost Our Lease (Jim Jennings, USA, 2013, 10m)
February (Inhan Cho, South Korea, 2011, 4:25m)
Watercolor (Fall Creek) (Vincent Grenier, USA, 2013, 12:15m)
Flow (Lichun Tseng, Netherlands, 2013, 16m)
Falling Notes Unleaving (Saul Levine, USA, 2013, 12m)
Threshold (Robert Todd, USA, 2013, 19m)
Exterior Extended (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 2013, 9m)
Program 19: Stom Sogo: Eijanaika – Broken Image, Unprotected Joy
Around the World (aka Speedy Speedy California Sky, Stom Sogo, 103m)
Diaries (Stom Sogo)
Program 20: Momentary Light and Seasonal Songs – The Films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
Song (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 2013, 18.5m)
Spring (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 2013, 23m)
Misplacement (Jerome Hiler, USA, 2013, 21m)
Program 21: Two Weeks in Another Time – Transfigured and Immersive Ethnographies
Magic Mushroom Mountain Movie (Manuel De Landa, Mexico/USA, 1973-1980, 15m)
Brébeuf (Stephen Broomer,
Canada, 2013, 10:32m)
Kolkata (Mark Lapore, USA/India, 2005, 35m)
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (Ben Russell, USA/France/Vanuatu, 2013, 20m)
Natpwe, the feast of the spirits (Jean Dubrel and Tiane Doan Na Champassak, France/Burma, 2012, 31m)
Program 22: Lullabies and Alarms
Cars and Killers (Gretchen Skogerson, USA, 2013, 2m)
Platonic (Dani Leventhal, USA, 2013, 21 m)
Elsa merdelamerdelamer (Abigail Child, USA, 2013, 3:30m)
vis à vis (Abigail Child, USA, 2013, 25m)
<em>After Hours (Karen Yasinsky, USA, 2013, 14:40m)
El adios largos (Andrew Lampert, USA, 2013, 10m)
Rode Molen (Esther Urlus, Netherlands, 2013, 4m)
Seoul Electric (Richard Tuohy, South Korea, 2012, 7:29m)
Las Variaciones Schwitters (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, Spain, 2012, 6m)
Slackness Princess (Sara Grace Nesin, USA, 2013, 3:57m)
Scattered in the Wind (Lori Felker,USA, 2013, 5:32m)
P.S. When You’re About to Die (Stom Sogo, USA/Japan, 2003, 12m)
Program 25: (a noisy distance of None will be returned if, and only if, the ghost is captured)
Home Movies Gaza (Basma Alsharif, Palestinian Territories, 2013, 24m)
The Fold (Leslie Thornton, 2013, 4m)
Every Filter In Final Cut Pro (Lisa McCarty, USA, 2013, 9:55m)
Immortal, Suspended (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2013, 5m)
Sound Seam (Aura Satz, UK, 2010, 14:04m)
Binocular; Zebra 2 (Leslie Thornton, 2013, 2m)
Movement in Squares (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada, 2013,12:37m)
Figure –ground (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada, 2013, 4:47m)
Service of the Goods (Jean-Paul Kelly, Canada, 2013, 29:10m)
Program 26: Written on the Wind
murmurations (Rebecca Meyers, USA, 2013, 5:40m)
Aviary (Katherin McInnis, 2013, 5:00m)
verses (James Sansing, USA, 2012, 4m)
Experiments in Buoyancy (Calum Walter, USA, 2013, 4:30m)
Handful of Dust (Hope Tucker, USA, 2013, 8:46m)
Burrow- Cams (Sam Easterson, USA, 2012, 3m)
True-Life Adventure I (Erin Espelie, USA, 2012, 5m)
True-Life Adventure II (Erin Espelie, USA, 2013, 5m)
True-Life Adventure III (Erin Espelie, USA, 2013, 6m)
Looking Glass Insects (Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2013, 4:02m)
A Study in Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce, USA, 2013, 3:28m)
Animals Moving to the Sound of Drums (Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2013, 8m)
Painter and Ball 4-14 (Pat O’Neill, USA, 2011, 10m)
After Creation After Icebergs (Mary Beth Reed, 2013, 16mm, 2:26m)
Program 27: Robert Nelson
Miracle of the Overlook: A Second Chance for Second Sight, Wonders that Pass Us By Seldom Return, Returning to Suite California
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 1: Tijuana to Hollywood Via Death Valley (Robert Nelson, USA, 1976, 46m)
Suite California Stops & Passes Part 2: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevadas & Back Again (Robert Nelson, USA, 1978, 48m)
This program is co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Preservationist Mark Toscano will be present. Restored Prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Program 28: Ernie Gehr – Living Next Door to Magic
Photographic Phantoms (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2013, 26m)
Winter Morning (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2013, 18m)
The Quiet Car (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2013, 18m)
Auto-Collider XVIII (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2013, 13m)
Brooklyn Series (Ernie Gehr, USA, 2013, 8m)
Program 29: Luther Price – Light Fractures
Light Fractures (Luther Price, USA, 2013)
Home (Luther Price, USA, 1999, 13m)
Recitations (Luther Price, USA, 1999, 10m)
Program 30: Scott Stark – The Realist
Etienne’s Hand (Richard Touhy, Australia, 2011, 12:34m)
Poetry and Truth (Dichtung und Wahrheit) (Peter Kubelka, 2003, 13m)
A Serpente (Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, 2005, 15m)
The Realist (Scott Stark, USA, 2013, 40m)
Program 33: Stan Brakhage
Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage, USA, 1958, 40m)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, USA, 1959, 12m)
The Dead (Stan Brakhage, USA, 1960, 11m)
This program is co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Preservationist Mark Toscano will be present. 2012/2013 Preservation prints courtesy of The Academy Film Archive restored by the Academy with the support of the Film Foundation.
Program 34: Nathaniel Dorsky – In a Silent Way (Part 2)
Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 2) (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 2005-6, 30m)
Ariel (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 1983, 16m)
Program A: Patricia Thornley
World Premiere!
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
This Is Us: Don’t Cry For Me, (Patricia Thornley, USA, 2013, 48m)
Kriminalistik (Janie Geiser, USA, 2013, 3m)
Program B: Rumstick Road
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
The Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road (Ken Kobland and Elizabeth LeCompte, USA, 2013, 77m)
Program C: Jim Finn
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
Encounters With Your Inner Trotsky Child (Jim Finn, USA, 2013, 21.5m)
Christmas with Chávez (Jim Finn, Argentina, USA/Venezula, 2013, 2m)
Program D: Leslie Thornton
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
Luna (Trance) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 12m)
Binocular: Zebra 2 (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 2:45m)
Binocular: Bees (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 6m)
Binocular: Mandarin Duck (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 2:59m)
Little Balls of Air (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 5m)
Program E: Anne Charlotte Robertson from the 5 Year Diary
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
Diary #9, #22, #23, #31, #80, #81
Program F: John Price
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
The Scared and the Profane (John Price)
Program G: Lois Patiño – Distance/Duration/Vibration
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
Duration, Landscape Road (Lois Patiño, 2012)
Duration, Landscape Rocks (Lois Patiño, 2011)
Distance –Landscape, Football Field (Lois Patiño, 2011)
Into Earth’s Vibration (Lois Patiño, 2011)
Into Water’s Vibration (Lois Patiño, 2012)
Mountain in shadow (Lois Patiño, 2012)
Program H: Ernie Gehr and Cinthia Marcelle
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
As If (Ernie Gehr, 2013)
Automóvel (Cinthia Marcelle, 2012)
Program I: Aura Satz
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
Onomatopoeic Alphabet (Aura Satz, 2010)
Sound Seam (Aura Satz, 2010)
Vocal Flame (Aura Satz, 2012)
Oramics: Atlantis Anew (Aura Satz, 2011)
Doorway for Natalie Kalmus (Aura Satz, 2013)
Program J: Talena Sanders
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
The Relief Mining Company (Talena Sanders)
Program K: Stom Sogo
Free and open to the public! Seating is on a space-available basis.
The Mystery Album (Stom Sogo)
