Experimental Film Programs at Tribeca Film Festival, April 20 – May 1, 2011

Experimental Film Programs at Tribeca Film Festival, April 20 – May 1, 2011

Jon Gartenberg has programmed experimental and avant-garde films for the Tribeca Film Festival since 2003.   This year’s four programs consist of two new features, by Marie Losier and Bill Morrison, and two shorts programs, "Impressions of Memory" and special program celebrating the preservation work of the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).                              

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

[BALLA] 

Viewpoints

Feature Documentary,

2011, 70 min 

Directed by: Marie Losier 

Filmmaker and TFF alum Marie Losier, who has created engaging short films on avant-garde artists like George Kuchar and Guy Maddin, makes her feature documentary debut with a mesmerizing and deeply romantic love story between pioneering musician and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge and soul mate Lady Jaye. Breaking new ground in its depiction of gender identity,

 Ballad

 chronicles the physical and spiritual merging of two beings into one.

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Public Screenings

Mon, Apr 25, 7:00PM

AMC Loews Village 7 - 2

Wed, Apr 27, 9:00PM

SVA Theater 2 Beatrice

Thu, Apr 28, 3:00PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 7

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The Miners' Hymns

[MINER] 

Viewpoints

Feature Documentary

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2011, 52 min 

Directed by: Bill Morrison

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Experimental filmmaker and frequent TFF alum Bill Morrison combines newly shot aerial scenes that he filmed himself with historic found-footage images of the mining communities of Northeast England that he culled from the British national archives. Morrison creates a moving and formally elegant tribute to this vanished era of working-class life, enriched by an original score by avant-garde Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Public Screenings

Fri, Apr 22, 7:00PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 5

Mon, Apr 25, 7:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Thu, Apr 28, 12:45PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 8

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Shorts: Impressions of Memory

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Short Film Program

Program

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2011, 69 min  

These talented artists address, in both thematically and stylistically distinct ways, the manner in which images evoke memory. This is achieved through the use of text, the presence of previously filmed "found" footage, a scenic train ride bleeding into digital pixels, single frame printing devices, evocations of 9/11, a tribute to a deceased filmmaker, peripheral vision, recall of sleep via animation, seascape imagery folding back on itself in time, and bittersweet remembrances of now-extinct Kodachrome film stock.Read More

Public Screenings

Thu, Apr 21, 7:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Sun, Apr 24, 10:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 9

Fri, Apr 29, 2:30PM

Clearview Cinemas Chelsea 4

Sun, May 01, 11:00AM

Tribeca Cinemas Theater 1

Independent Women: 15 Years Of NYWIFT-Funded Film Preservation

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Tribeca Talks

Program

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2011, 84 min 

Dating from 1950 to 1984, these 11 short films contain experimental narratives, personal documentaries, and abstract animation from the likes of Mary Ellen Bute, Storm de Hirsch, Faith Hubley, and Marie Menken, as well as contemporary voices of living female artists. Asserting the contributions of women filmmakers in the canon of the American experimental avant-garde, this program also celebrates 15 years of direct financial support for preservation of historically under-recognized films by women through the Women's Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television. 

Special thanks to Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, Emily Hubley, The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, Cecile Starr, and the individual filmmakers for their participation. 

Tribeca Talks: Join us for a conversation with an eclectic group of women filmmakers who helped shape avant-garde cinema. Panelists to include: directors Liane Brandon, Lisa Crafts,Barbara Hammer, Jane Aaron, Bette Gordon, Caroline Mouris, as well as Bute films curator/collector Cecile Starr, animator Emily Hubley, and Tribeca's experimental film programmer Jon Gartenberg. Moderated by Drake Stutesman, Co-Chair of The Women's Film Preservation Fund and editor of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.Read More

Public Screenings

Sat, Apr 30, 7:00PM

SVA Theater 1 Silas

DZIGA VERTOV Subject of Retrospective @ MoMA, in collaboration with The Austrian Film Museum, Vienna

Dziga Vertov

April 15–June 4, 2011

The Museum of Modern Art                                                                                             11 West 53 Street  New York, NY 10019  

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Ukrainian poster for Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass. 1930 (poster 1931). USSR. Directed by Dziga Vertov

Of all the masters of Soviet cinema—most notably Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Grigori Aleksandrov—Dziga Vertov (né Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 1896–1954) is arguably the one whose still-radical experiments in image and sound, and enduring influence among an astonishing range of contemporary filmmakers and artists, from Jean-Luc Godard to Richard Serra to Steve McQueen, have yet to be fully appreciated or celebrated. MoMA’s retrospective, the most comprehensive ever assembled in the United States, seeks to redress this with an extensive selection of Vertov’s silent films, sound features, and related work by collaborators and rivals in what he called his “factory of facts.” International Vertov scholars, artists, and filmmakers including William Kentridge, Peter Kubelka, Guy Maddin, and Michael Nyman will offer a contemporary perspective on Vertov’s work and legacy by introducing screenings and participating in a panel discussion on May 7. 

The exhibition opens on April 15 with the U.S. premiere of Man with a Movie Camera (1929), newly restored in its original full-frame version by the EYE Institute Netherlands and with live musical accompaniment by Dennis James & Filmharmonia Ensemble. A breathtaking and often startlingly funny vision of cosmopolitan life in Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa, Man with a Movie Camera remains among the most dynamic, and imitated, city symphonies in film history. Also featured are 11 programs of Vertov’s silent films, drawn primarily from the Austrian Film Museum’s unparalleled collection, including the premieres of fourteen Kino-Week films from 1918–19, and, for the first time together, all of his extant Kino-Pravda films from 1922–25, several of which are famous for Vertov and Aleksandr Rodchenko’s ingenious experiments in graphic design. 

The exhibition continues with such masterworks as Stride, Soviet!(1926), A Sixth Part of the World (1926), The Eleventh Year (1928),Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930), Three Songs of Lenin (1935/38), and other sound films. Films by Vertov’s brothers, Mikhail and Boris Kaufman, as well as films by Joris Ivens and Albrecht Viktor Blum, are also presented. Among the exhibition’s many rediscoveries is the work of certain largely forgotten women filmmakers of the Soviet avant-garde, including Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov’s editor and wife, and Esfir Shub, who pioneered “found footage” cinema and was instrumental in the development of dialectical montage. Vertov’s exhilarating body of work must be seen not as a succession of individual films, but as one continuously evolving movie; “free of the limits of time and space,” he wrote, it would lead to “a fresh perception of the world” and a revolutionary passage from the Old to the New. 

All films directed by Vertov, except where noted, and with simultaneous English translation or electronic subtitles. Screening descriptions adapted from texts by Yuri Tsivian and others, principally from the 23rd Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue.

Organized by Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin Professor at The University of Chicago, and Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, in close collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna. Organized in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. 

The exhibition is made possible by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

DZIGA VERTOV Available on DVD for INSTITUTIONAL SALES

     ENTUZIAZM

      (1930)                   2-Disc Set

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     A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD /

     THE ELEVENTH YEAR

      (1926/1928)2-Disc Set

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Two Anthologies of Spanish Cinema Now Available for North American Institutional Sales

SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN (1903-1912):

EL CINE DE LA FANTASIA

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  DEL ÉXTASIS AL ARREBATO   

  (FROM ECSTASY TO RAPTURE): A JOURNEY

  THROUGH SPANISH EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA

   2-Disc Set

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Jon Gartenberg as Guest Panelist for the 15th International Saguenay Short Film Festival

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT FILMS

: My films shown everywhere

Saturday march 12th > 10 h 30 à 12 h > Café Cambio

The distribution of short films

As a much-expected rendezvous which gathers buyers and programming officers from Europe and the United States around a same table, this workshop provides directors with the necessary tools for making their films travel around. It is an unparalleled opportunity to have an access to professionals who reveal their trade’s inner workings. A privileged encounter which allows you to ask questions and establish first contacts.

Discussion leader

Maxence Bradley acts as independent producer and consultant for various firms. He notably participated in the production and distribution of the film Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve and presently works as executive producer for Pedro Pires and Robert Lepage’s next feature film, inspired from the theatre play Lipsynch.

Panellists

Christophe Taudière – Programming counselor to France Télévisions and responsible of "Histoires Courtes" on France 2

Augusti Argelich Girones – Buyer and programmer, TV3 televisio de Catalunya, Spain

Jon Gartenberg – Experimental films programmer, Tribeca Film Festival, USA

Todd Luoto – Short films programmer, Sundance Festival, USA

Florence Keller – Buyer, Régie TV Cable - Agence du court métrage, France

Laurent Guerrier – Buying responsible and international selection comitee member, Clermont-Ferrand’s international short film festival, France

Michael Pilz Honored at 2011 Berlin Film Festival with Screening of HIMMEL UND ERDE

Himmel und Erde

Heaven and Earth

Austria, 1979-1982, 285 min

German

    Director: Michael Pilz

    Section: Forum

    Screenings at the festival

    Fri       Feb 11  11:00    CineStar 8 (E)

    Thu     Feb 17  20:00    Kino Arsenal 1 (E)

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Download Festival Catalogue, PDF

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    Michael Pilz’s epic two-part                 

    documentary tells of life in a                        

    mountain village in the Aust

rian 

    state of Styria. "Give it a chance

    and this film will soon draw you into     

    its own cosmos; it can be counted

    among those works that teach you

    to see and hear things in a

    completely new way."

    (Ulrich Gregor, Forum 1983) 

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"Take what is before you as it is and do not wish it to be different, simply

exist." This motto from the Chinese poet Lao-tzu precedes the film and is

programmatic for Michael Pilz’s open concept, devoid as it is of a

sociological motive. His almost five-hour-long cinematic essay was a

milestone in the making of independent documentary films. And even

today it is still extraordinary owing to its aesthetic waywardness and its free

form – a mixture of compassionate observation, the self-reflective

disclosure of the filmmaker’s presence and procedures, the contrapuntal

use of sound and comments in the form of off-screen texts from sources as

far-ranging as Lao-tzu to the Bible to Stanislaw Lem. The film shows the

process of plowing on steep slopes as a concerted effort by man and

beast. Pilz asks a farmer where he would prefer to stand for a shot. Himmel

und Erde is both a historic document and modern cinema at the same time.

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Michael Pilz's HIMMEL UND ERDE

Available on DVD for INSTITUTIONAL SALE

    HIMMEL UND ERDE (HEAVEN AND EARTH)

     (1979 - 1982)      2-Disc Set

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