TUESDAY APRIL 19 & WEDNESDAY APRIL 20: GETTY CENTER TONY CONRAD AND MICHAEL SNOW IN PERSON!
Tuesday April 19, 2005, 7:30 pm - Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Suspending Time: Sound and Image Tony Conrad and Michael Snow In Person!
Preeminent Structural filmmakers Conrad and Snow appear in person following a screening of their films to discuss how they have developed a cinematic language utilizing motion, space and light, and the tensions of the fixed frame. Getty Research Institute scholar in residence P. Adams Sitney will moderate the discussion. Free but reservations necessary. Go to www.getty.edu, then to Visiting Information, and look on the calendar.
Films to be screened: Michael Snow: WVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have the Time), See You Later/Au Revoir, The Living Room Tony Conrad: Duration
Wednesday April 20, 2005, 7:30 pm - Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Suspending Time: Sound and Image Tony Conrad and Michael Snow In Concert!
Filmmakers Michael Snow and Tony Conrad are also accomplished musicians. Snow has been developing his own improvisatory music, solo and in ensembles since the 1960's. Conrad's compositions are executed in a minimalist style. In conjunction with a screening of their film work, each will perform a solo concert exploring aspects of "spontaneous composition" and sonic environments. Free but reservations necessary. Go to www.getty.edu, then to Visiting Information, and look on the calendar.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 7pm: SHORT FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE, PART IV Bijou Theater, CalArts
The fourth in a decade-by-decade series presenting selected short films of the master avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage. This program includes several major films, including the found-footage Murder Psalm, powerful 35mm hand-painted mini-epic Dante Quartet, the abstract psycho-drama Unconscious London Strata, his rhapsodic study of animal movement The Loom, and more.
Films of the 80's: Murder Psalm (1981; 16') Unconscious London Strata (1982; 22') RR (1981; 8') Egyptian Series (1983; 17') The Dante Quartet (1987; 35mm; 8') (Part One, 71') Intermission The Loom (1986; 50') I・reaming (1988; 8', sound) (Part Two, 58')
The concluding Program V, Films of the 90's, is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, May 12. The program date and contents will be finalized by the third week of April. --------------------- THURSDAY APRIL 21 at the UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM: MICHAEL SNOW IN PERSON http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/calendar_full_Apr_2005.htm#day21 7:00 pm Hammer Lectures
The Work of Michael Snow by Michael Snow Since the '50's, Canadian artist Michael Snow has been working in visual arts, film, video, books, and sound installations. His work has garnered many awards and has been shown in major art museums and at film festivals around the world. In 1974, Snow formed the CCMC, a free music orchestra, which has toured internationally. In his lecture, the artist discusses various phases of his work using image and sound examples. ------------------------------- FRIDAY APRIL 22 at UCLA: Friday April 22 - UCLA Film and Television Archive ・James Bridges Theatre - 7:00 pm
MICHAEL SNOW "Rameau's Nephew By Diderot (Thanx To Dennis Young) By Wilma Schoen" (1974, 285 minutes, 16mm) Scripted and Directed by Michael Snow. Shot primarily in Toronto and New York by Snow, Keith Lock, Babette Mangolte, David York and others.
"Until Rameau's Nephew... no one has exhibited a film that deals so thoroughly with the range of perceptual problems elicited by the sound cinema." -- M. Keller, Chicago Film Centre
Co-sponsored by USC School of Cinema-Television and Cinematheque 108. Please note the change of location: this free screening will be at USC's Norris Theatre at 7:00 NOT at the Egyptian Theatre!
Featuring the films "Wavelength" (New Print!), "So Is This" (Winner of the LA Film Critics Association Award for Experimental Film of the Year for 1982) and "Standard Time. More details to come in my next email on Thursday. --------------------------- INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES
April 20th - 24th, 2005 ArcLight Cinemas, Hollywood