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21st Century Limited
Experimental Films 2000-2009
July 11, 18 & 25
Presented by Views from the Avant-Garde and Film Comment

Drawn from Film Comment’s best-of-the-decade poll, six programs showcase some of the most memorable experimental works from the first decade of the 21st century. Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience beautiful, provocative, and poetic works by masterful artists, new and old.


Double Feature Package only $20!
$14 Seniors & Students/ $12 Members
• Sunday, July 25: 6:30pm & 9:15pm > Buy now!

These programs feature works selected from the May/June 2010 Film Comment poll “A Decade in the Dark—Avant-Garde Film and Video 2000-2009.” See the results of the poll >>



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$12 General Public
$8 Seniors & Students
$7 Members

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Sunday July 11

Scene Photo PROGRAM ONE:
PICTURES OF QUIET LIGHT
TRT: 83m/ 6:30pm

In person: David Gatten


Song and Solitude Nathaniel Dorsky, 2005/6, 21m
The Great Art of Knowing David Gatten, 2004, 37m
Pitcher of Colored Light Robert Beavers, 2007, U.S./Switzerland, 25m
1. A song of the earth and departure in the heart of dusk.
2. Breaking ground, a broken heart, and the foundations of higher learning. The ghosts that lie between whispering pages.
3. Facing home, and the most familiar face, twilight returns.

 


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Sun July 11: 6:30
Scene Photo PROGRAM TWO:
BREAKING THE WAVES
TRT: 129m/8:30pm

In person: Jeanne Liotta

Observando el cielo Jeanne Liotta, 2007, 19m
At Sea Peter Hutton, 2004-07, U.S./South Korea/Bangladesh, 60m
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him Stan Brakhage, 2000, Canada/U.S., 50m
1. Liotta’s Night Watch. Radio Waves and Constellations. When you wish upon a star, the skies rise and shine.
2. Former Merchant Marine Hutton follows the life of a sea vessel from the cradle to the grave.
3. Brakhage returns to his wife’s childhood haunts, reading the ocean for signs of life, a submerged biography written in the waves, silently told in tidal passages.

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Sun July 11: 8:30



Sunday July 18

Scene Photo PROGRAM THREE:
I'LL KEEP IT WITH MINE
TRT: 95m/6:30pm
She Puppet Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, 17m
Nest of Tens Miranda July, 2000, 27m
Poetry and Truth Peter Kubelka, 2003, Austria, 13m
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine Peter Tscherkassky, 2005, Austria, 17m
The General Returns From One Place to Another Michael Robinson, 2006, 11m
Rehearsals for Retirement Phil Solomon, 2007, 10m
Thunder in the distance, mystery in the air we breathe.
1. Lara Croft walks through a field of fire.
2. Venus flytraps of the quotidian.
3. Living waxworks advertising the accursed eternities of household nirvanas.
4. A descent into the Western Lands—Spaghetti Hades.
5. Frank O’Hara meets the Hollies.
6. In the hidden margins of Grand Theft Auto, past the landscapes of mayhem, beyond the valley of Death, a human chrysalis sheds its skin and plunges into the next world without a final goodbye.




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Sun July 18: 6:30

Scene Photo PROGRAM FOUR:
SOME VELVET MORNING
TRT: 80m/8:45pm

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis Daichi Saito, 2009, Canada, 10m
Easter Morning Bruce Conner, 2008, 10m
False Aging Lewis Klahr, 2008, 14.5m
Black and White Trypps Number Three Ben Russell, 2007, 12m
Light Work I Jennifer Reeves, 2006, 8m
Lumphini 2552 Tomanari Nishikawa, Japan, 2009, 2.5m
Horizontal Boundaries Pat O’Neill, 2008, 23m
Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Transcendence and Transport. Taking the less beaten path, music provides the backbeat and opens up the gates. Music by Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Riley, Jefferson Airplane, Lightning Bolt, Anthony Burr, and Carl Stone, among others.

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Sun July 18: 8:45


Sunday July 25

Scene Photo PROGRAM FIVE:
LIBERTY OR DEATH
TRT: 95/6:30pm
Ah Liberty! Ben Rivers, 2008, U.K., 19m
Footnotes to A House of Love Laida Lertxundi, 2007, 13m
The Fourth Watch Janie Geiser, 2000, 10m
An Injury to One Travis Wilkerson, 2002, 53m
1. Anarchy in the U.K. Scavengers in an untamed settlement. Born Free – Live Wild.
2. A heart with no vacancy, a house without walls.
3. A spectral haunting just before daybreak, in dappled sunlight and the blue moiré of the cathode ray.
4. Speaking the unspoken truth, revisiting the scene of a crime.




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Sun July 25: 6:30
Scene Photo PROGRAM SIX:
CONFIDENTIAL
TRT: 87m/9:15pm
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009, Thailand, 18m
Tabula Rasa Vincent Grenier, 1993-2004, Canada, 7m
Dwarfs the Sea Stephanie Barber, 2007, 5m
Let Me Count the Ways 10...9...8...7...6...Leslie Thornton, 2004, 22m
Great Man and Cinema Jim Finn, 2009, 4m
Second and Lee Kevin Everson, 2008, 3m
Something Else Kevin Everson 2007, 3m
It’s Not My Memory of It – Three Related Documents The Speculative Archive, 2003, 25m
Porous boundaries of identity, spirits of place. On the record, off the radar, registered as ephemeral or indestructible. History can be invisible, apparitional, stealthy, manufactured, planted, bronzed. File or misfile under: Confidential or Public Record.









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Sun July 25: 9:15

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