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The Tenth Annual Views from the Avant-Garde
A Special Presentation of the 44th New York Film Festival
October 7, 8 & 15, 2006

Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith.

The world's premiere showcase for the latest in experimental film and video. New films by Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Nathaniel Dorsky, Bruce Conner along with many others. A program devoted to the work of Italy's Paulo Gioli. New preservation prints of classics by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr and Saul Levine.

Plus a special Views From the Avant-Garde event on October 15: the debut screening of Guy Maddin's silent feature Brand Upon The Brain! with live orchestral accompaniment and featuring Isabella Rossellini as The Narrator!

Admission: $10, $7 students(with valid photo ID) and $6 FSLC members (with valid ID); except for Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain!: $25 ($10 Student Rush with valid photo ID on day of show, limit 1 ticket per customer, subject to availability)

All Views From the Avant-Garde events including Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain! will take place at the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues on the plaza level.

For full program descriptions click on the pictures.

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  You Don't Bring Me Flowers

THE GREAT DIVIDE
Total running time: 111m
program includes:

Mirror World
Abigail Child, U.S., 2006; 12m
More Than Meets The Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
Scott Stark, U.S., 2006; 20m
Dangerous Supplement
Soon-Mi Yoo, Korea/U.S., 2006; 14 1/2m
The General Returns from One Place to Another
Michael Robinson, U.S., 2006; 11m
site specific_ROMA 04
Olivo Barbieri, Italy, 2004; 12m
Sahara Mojave
Leslie Thornton, U.S., 2006; 12m
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Michael Robinson, U.S., 2005; 8m
Liberte et patrie (Freedom and Homeland)
Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, Switzerland, 2002; 22m


 

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Sat Oct 7: 12:30


SAUL LEVINE: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
Saul Levine in person.
Restoration 16mm blows-ups of 8mm films by the National Film Preservation Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and BB Optics
Total running time: 58m
program includes:

Note to Patti
U.S., 1969; 8m
Note to Coleen
U.S., 1974; 5m
New Left Note
U.S., 1968-1982; 26m
The Big Stick/An Old Reel
U.S., 1967-1973; 17m
Note to Poli
U.S., 1982-83; 2m




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Sat Oct 7: 3:15


Vincent Grenier

...DISSOLVES INTO AIR
Total running time: 85m
program includes:

The Riddle of Lumen
Stan Brakhage, U.S., 1972; 13m Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences preservation print
Between Two Deaths
Wago Kreider, U.S., 2006; 6m
My Person in the Water
Leighton Pierce, U.S., 2006; 5 1/2m
Cat's Cradle
Stan Brakhage, U.S., 1959; 6m AMPAS preservation print
This and This
Vincent Grenier, U.S., 2006; 10 1/2m
Clear Blue Sky
Tomonari Nishikawa, U.S., 2006; 4m
0778 man.road.river
Marcellvs l, Brazil, 2004; 9m
Film for Invisible Ink case no. 71: Base-Plus-Fog
David Gatten, U.S., 2006; 10m
Song and Solitude
Nathaniel Dorsky, U.S., 2006; 21m




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Sat Oct 7: 5:30

Scorpio Rising

KENNETH ANGER
Kenneth Anger in person.
35mm blow-up restorations by UCLA, preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation
Total running time: 63m
program includes:

Fireworks
U.S., 1947; 15m
Rabbit's Moon
U.S.,1971; 16m
Scorpio Rising
U.S., 1963; 29m
Kustom Kar Kommandos
U.S.,1965; 3m




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Sat Oct 7: 8:15

Skogerson - Drive-Thru

ABOVE AND BELOW
Total running time: 97m
program includes:

Silk Ties
Jim Jennings, U.S., 2006; 9 1/2m
Crossings
Robert Fenz, U.S., 2006; 5m
Views from Home
Guy Sherwin, U.K., 2006; 12m
Block
Emily Richardson, U.K., 2006; 11m
site specific_LAS VEGAS 05
Olivo Barbieri, Canada/Italy, 2005; 12m
Pushcarts of eternity street
Ken Jacobs, U.S., 2006; 10m
This Is my Heart
Edson Barrus, Brazil/France, 2004; 1m
His Eye on the Sparrow
Bruce Conner, U.S., 2006; 4 1/2m
Threshold of Transience aka The Dike of Transience
Gulya Nemes, Hungary, 2005; 13m
Drive-Thru
Gretchen Skogerson, U.S., 2006;19 1/2m




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Sun Oct 8: 1




PAOLO GIOLI
Total running time: 101m
program includes:

Images Disturbed by an Intense Parasite (Immagini disturbate da un intenso parassita)
Italy, 1970; 45m
Traumatograph (Traumatografo)
Italy, 1973; 25m
The Perforated Operator (L’operatore perforato)
Italy, 1979; 10m
Quando l’occhio trema
Italy, 1989; 11m
Filmarilyn
Italy, 1992; 10m





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Sun Oct 8: 3:30



ERNIE GEHR
Total running time: 77m
program includes:

Serene Velocity
U.S., 1970; 23m 35mm blow-up MoMA preservation print
Table
U.S., 1976; 16m
The Morse Code Operator (Or The Monkey Wrench)
U.S., 2006; 23m
Before the Olympics
U.S., 2006; 15m




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Sun Oct 8: 6

Kerry Laitala - Orbit

MIND AND MATTER
Total running time: 131m
program includes:

Reel 4 (Fountain with Black Sculptures, Heavenly Curtains, Airplanes II, Daffodils in the River, St. Jacob's Tower, Water, Swings, Bulrushes)
Helga Fanderl, Germany/France, 2000-03; 21m
Nodes
Stan Brakhage, U.S., 1981; 3m AMPAS preservation print
Untitled#9
Greg Sharits, U.S., 1977; 10m Anthology Film Archives preservation print
Turbulant Blue
Luther Price, U.S., 2006; 10m
Everyday Bad Dream
Fred Worden, U.S., 2006; 6m
Black and White Trypps #2
Ben Russell, U.S., 2006; 8m
Orbit
Kerry Laitala, U.S., 2006; 8m
Light Work 1
Jennifer Reeves, U.S., 2006; 8m
Transit
Greg Sharits, U.S., 1970s; 20m Anthology Film Archives preservation print
Apparent Motion
Paul Sharits, U.S., 1975; 22m Anthology Film Archives preservation print
They Wakened Later, Simultaneously, Much Refreshed
Bruce McClure projection performance, U.S., 2006; 15m




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SUN Oct 8: 8:30

Guy Maddin - Brand upon the Brain!

BRAND UPON THE BRAIN
Guy Maddin, Canada, 2006; 95 min.
The debut screening of Guy Maddin's silent feature with live orchestral accompaniment and featuring Isabella Rossellini as The Narrator! A Views From the Avant-Garde special presentation on October 15 at 4pm & 8pm in the Walter Reade Theater. Tickets are $25 ~ available at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office and at tickets.filmlinc.com with a Visa or Mastercard, $1.25 surcharge per ticket. Please wait one business day after placing an online order to pick-up your tickets at the Alice Tully Hall Box Office.


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SUN Oct 15: 4 & 8




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