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The cinema is Jonas Mekas

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 17/04/2013 - 12:02
The cinema is Jonas Mekas
April 19-20 2013
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

"The real history of cinema is invisible history:
history of friends getting together, doing the thing they love."
~ Jonas Mekas, "Anti-100 Years of Cinema"

International House Philadelphia will conclude our yearlong retrospective The Cinema is Jonas Mekas by bringing the renowed director and his friends to the Ibrahim Theater for two days of talks, screenings, and Q&As. Such an event is particularly fitting considering the director's emphasis on documenting his life and the lives of his friends. Many of his films act as extended portraits of artists and the time from which they came, cinematic ruins that provide a stunning compendium for reflection and historical archiving.

Friday April 19 at 7pm: "Friends and Artists" screening with introduction + Q&A with Jonas Mekas
- Film Magazine of the Arts (Jonas Mekas, US, 1963, 16mm, color, 20 min.)
- Scenes of the Life of Andy Warhol (Jonas Mekas, US, 1990, 16mm, color, 36 min.)
- Street Songs (Jonas Mekas, France, 1983, 16mm, b/w, 11 min.)
- Zefiro Torna, or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Jonas Mekas, USA, 1992, 16mm, color, 35 min.)

Saturday April 20 at 2pm: Panel discussion: "My Friends! The Life and Work of Jonas Mekas" (Free admission!)
Panel discussion with Jonas Mekas, film critic Amy Taubin, French filmmaker Jackie Raynal and curator Ed Halter, moderated by curator/filmmaker Andrew Lampert.
This discussion will utilize expert panelists, each of whom has a different connection to Mekas’ life and work. They will share their perspectives on his film and video practice, the influence he has had on moving image culture and how he became the central figure in American independent film.

Saturday April 20 at 7pm: Selections from The 365 Days Project with introduction + Q&A with Jonas Mekas
(Jonas Mekas, US, 2007, digital, 137 min.)
This program features selections of the short digital films Mekas posted daily throughout 2007. Combining brand-new footage with older material unearthed and made public for the first time, The 365 Days Project was both a bold leap into the digital world for Mekas and a natural extension of the approach to cinema–small-scale, intimate, and direct–that he had been practicing in his diary films for decades.
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The Hole Picture

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 20/03/2011 - 18:07
The Hole Picture: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Erotics and Porn in Lesbian-Feminist Queer Cinema
A screening and talk featuring Barbara Hammer, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner
Saturday March 26th, screening 15h, panel 17:30h
Issue Project Room, At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY

The feminist reception and production of pornography has had a complicated trajectory, a discourse of representation often bound by the logic of the male gaze. The Hole Picture brings together a selection of socio-sexual films & videos by artists Barbara Hammer, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner that celebrate desire and redefine notions of queer sexuality and the lesbian body. Presenting a multigenerational overview of representation, this screening and panel discussion will focus on contemporary artistic practices which incorporate avant-garde visions of sexuality and erotics, dissecting the trope of pornography itself. Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by art historian Kelly Dennis, author of Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching.
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Light Reading Series 9: After Amerika

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 22/09/2009 - 05:16
Light Reading Series 9: After Amerika
Wednesday 30 September 2009, at 7pm
London Light Reading
3rd Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 0AG

In a Light Reading event in October 2007 the Berlin-based curator Marcel Schwierin conversed publicly with Tate Modern curator Stuart Comer on the image of the United States of America after the Iraq war. One outcome of this fruitful discussion was the Werkleitz Festival AMERIKA which happened in 2008 in Halle in East Germany.
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Call for Presentations: Transgressive Cinema Panel

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 22/09/2008 - 09:31
SW/TX PCA/ACA
Call for Presentations: Transgressive Cinema Panel
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2008
Online: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

The 30th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations
February 24–28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The
area chairs are seeking submissions for presentations on any aspect of
Exploitation/ Horror/ Experimental film, although papers that
explicitly engage with the concept of "transgression" are strongly
encouraged. This is the third year for this area, and we are hoping to
expand on the success of the previous two years in order to make SW/TX
PCA/ACA an important forum for scholarly discussion of these kinds of films.

This
year, we will also be continuing our well-received film
screening/discussion panel series. Last year, our focus was on James
Landis' 1963 film, The Sadist, starring Arch Hall, Jr. This year, we
will be screening Ruggero Deodato's notorious 1980 film, Cannibal
Holocaust.
If you are interested in participating in this roundtable discussion, please contact the area co-chairs.

If
societies are defined by the limits they place on personal behavior,
then acts of transgression are necessary to identify just where those
limits lie. Significantly, films that exist outside of the multiplex
mainstream often traffic in representations of such taboo breaking. In
other words, this panel is seeking presentations that look at films
that "push the envelope to the point of tearing it."

The types
of films and filmmaking that we are looking for are not limited to
traditional horror films, or even the many subgenres that can be
described as "exploitation." Transgressive themes are frequently
explored in experimental and arthouse cinema as well. Nevertheless, as
a general rule these films all share a penchant for content that
disturbs more than it placates. We encourage submissions to utilize a
wide variety of methodological approaches, from psychoanalysis to
reception studies.

Some filmmakers to consider:

Nick
Zedd/Richard Kern/Genesis P. O and Psychic TV/Matthew Barney/Herman
Nitsch/ Dwain Esper/H.G. Lewis/ Ruggero Deodato/Lucio Fulci/Dario
Argento/Andy Milligan/Kenneth Anger/George Kuchar/Curt McDowell/ Ken
Jacobs/Craig Baldwin/Georges Franju/ Bunuel/ Fellini/ Jörg Buttgereit/
Jan Svankmajer/Takashi Miike/ Abel Ferrara/ Tony Tenser/Pete Walker/
Monika Treut/Jane Campion/Alfred Hitchcock/David Cronenberg/Rob
Zombie/Peter Greenaway

These are only a FEW of the filmmakers one could look at; we strongly encourage papers that examine others as well.

Co-chairs:

Rob Weiner
Box 53841
Lubbock, TX 79453
rweiner5_at_cox.net

John Cline
2200 S. Pleasant Valley Rd. Apt 808
Austin, TX 78741
john-cline_at_mail.utexas.edu

Conference Rates: Professionals, $140; Graduate students $120; Spouse, partner $50

Information
about our areas of study, conference travel, lodging, and the
organization can be found on our regularly updated website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html

We
look forward to seeing you this winter in sunny Albuquerque where we
invite you to explore Route 66, local pueblos, hiking trails, museums,
the Sandia and Isleta casinos, area ski resorts, and nearby Santa Fe.

SW/TX PCA/ACA 2009 Conference
February 24-28, 2009
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Albuquerque, NM 87102
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