Screening Roundup Week of Dec 1

I got behind the schedule for a couple of weeks, but the weekly roundup is back, and it's a busy week in Philadelphia.

Showing this week
Monday, December 1 – Sunday, December 7

The International House
Mon Dec 1 7:00pm 25 to Life (Mike L. Brown) 2014. 81m.
Tues Dec 2 7:00pm Your Day is My Night (Lynne Sachs) 2013. 64m. digital. Director in person.
Wed Dec 3 7:00pm Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet) 1950. 26m. 16mm / Jean Genet in Chicago
(Frédéric Moffet) 2006. 26m. video.

New Authors of Italian Cinema series
Thurs Dec 4 5:30pm Border (Alessio Cremonini) 2013. 95m. DCP.
Thurs Dec 4 8:00pm Blame Freud (Tutta Colpa di Freud) (Paolo Genovese) 2014. 120m. DCP.
Fri Dec 5 5:30pm Up to the World (Il Mondo Fino in Fondo) (Alessandro Lunardelli) 2013. 95 m.  DCP.
Fri Dec 5 8:00pm House of Shadows (Controra) (Rossella De Venuto) 2014. 85 m. DCP.
Sat Dec 6 5:30pm Remember Me? (Ti Ricordi di Me?)  Rolando Ravello) 2014. 91m. Blu-Ray.
Sat Dec 6 8:00pm Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano) (Paolo Virzì) 2014. 111 m
Sun Dec 7 5:30pm The Medicines Seller (Il Venditori di Medicine) (Antonio Morabito) 2013. 103 m. DCP.
Sun Dec 7 8:00pm  I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Smetto Quando Voglio) (Sydney Sibilia) 2014. 110 m. Blu-Ray.

Roxy Theater (Philadelphia Film Society)
Special Star Trek series - all screenings on 35mm
Fri Dec 5 8:00pm Star Trek: The Motion Picture 
Sat Dec 6 8:00pm Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 

Sun Dec 7 8:00pm Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 

Mon Dec 8 8:00pm Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 

Tues Dec 9 8:00pm Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 

Wed Dec 10 8:00pm Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

County Theater
Wed Dec 3 7:30pm The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock) 1938. 96m. DCP.

Ambler Theater
Thurs Dec 4 7:30pm The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock) 1938. 96m. DCP.

Sat Dec 6 10:30am Muppets Christmas Carol (Brian Henson) 1992. 85m. 

Colonial Theatre
Sun Dec 7 2:00pm Scrooged (Richard Donner) 1988. 101m. DCP.

Cinemark University City Penn
Sun Dec 7 2:00pm A Christmas Carol (Edwin L. Marin) 1938. 69m. DCP / Christmas in Connecticut (Peter Godfrey) 1945. 102m. DCP.

Lynne Sachs: Your Day is My Night

Milcho Manchevski in person

A mini Macedonian film festival will take place next Saturday on Temple's campus. Admission is free.

two films directed by Milcho Manchevski: 

Before the Rain (1994) 

and Mothers (2011) 

Milcho Manchevski is a Macedonian director, writer, photographer, and an artist. He is well known for directing feature films such as Dust, Shadows, Mothers, and the Oscar nominated Before the Rain.

The director will be present and for a Q&A session after each film.

the Reel Cinema, 

basement in Temple's Student Center

13th and Montgomery

cosponsored by Temple Slavic Association and Film and Media Arts department

Peter Greenaway at Slought

Penn Cinema Studies presents

Peter Greenaway in person

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

5:00pm & 8:00 pm
at the Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street
Screening: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Rembrandt's J'accuse

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

6:00pm

University of Pennsylvania, B1 Meyerson Hall

Lecture: "Cinema is Dead, Long Live Cinema"

Thursday, April 12, 2012

6:30pm
at the Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street
Conversation with Jean-Michel Rabaté and Alan Singer: "Golitzius and the Pelican Company"

Scribe events with Kevin Jerome Everson

This Wednesday, Scribe is bring Kevin Jerome Everson to the International House to screen his work Erie, a series of one-take black and white 16mm shots filmed near Lake Erie. Thematically the work connects the Great Migration to the contemporary experience of African-Americans.

Having seen some of Everson's work, I can recommend it for its formal rigor and an evocative approach to experimental narrative.

Full Exposure: An Evening with Kevin Jerome Everson:

Erie

Sep 21, 07:00 PM at the International House
Presented as part of Scribe Video Center’s Producers’ Forum series.

Q+A with Kevin Jerome Everson following the film.

Reception/Presentation:

"Materials, Process, Procedure and Subject"

Sep 22, 07:00 PM at Scribe Video Center (6PM reception)

Admission: $15. Free for Scribe, PIFVA and Reelblack members, Temple and University of Penn students, faculty and staff. (Everson in person)

In this special topic lecture, Everson discusses how he creates his works that document and reflect on the "gestures or tasks caused by certain conditions in the lives of working class African Americans." Everson will screen a selection of his recent short films. Films courtesy of the artist and Picture Palace Pictures.

(Erie still: Video Data Bank)

Ed Halter at Temple

The Visiting Filmmakers series continues at Temple, with a speaker known more for his curatorial work. Ed Halter is curator of the New York Underground Film Festival and founder and director of Light Industry, a venus of film and electronic art in Brooklyn.

The event takes place tomorrow, Wednesday, March 23, and starts at 5:15 in Temple's Annenberg Hall (13th and Norris), room 3.

Cheryl Dunye at Swarthmore

This, Friday, filmmaker Cheryl Dunye will be at Swarthmore in person with her latest feature film The Owls.

Friday, March 25
7pm
Science Center 101
Swarthmore College

Opening the 2011 Queer and Trans Conference, “Queer Futures”

Written by Dunye, the Philadelphia-raised director of such acclaimed films as The Watermelon Woman and Stranger Inside, and novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman, The Owls reunites the stars of the lesbian classic Go Fish in a humorous generational anthem for “Older, Wiser Lesbians.” Raised in the shadow of “pathological lesbian” films like The Fox, The Children’s Hour and The Killing of Sister George, these women embraced the utopian vision of a Lesbian Nation. Now, approaching middle age, they are caught between a mainstream culture that still has no place for them, and a younger generation of queers who are indifferent to their contributions. In this low-budget, collectively produced film, Dunye returns to the signature style of her “Dunye-mentaries”--hybrids of fiction and interview footage capturing lesbian communities in all their intrigue. Murder! Infidelity! Dinner parties! The Owls premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was produced by feminist film scholar and video activist Alexandra Juhasz.

Scribe screenings at I-House

The International House continues to host screenings by the Scribe Video Center.

Tonight, March 15, they will be showing Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968 (dir. Bestor Cram and Judy Richardson, US, 2009, video, 57 mins). Director Judy Richardson will be there in person.

"On February 8, 1968, eight seconds of police gunfire left three young men dying and at least 27 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, SC. All of the police were white and all of the students African-American. This powerful yet disturbing documentary film explores the eye-witness accounts of student protesters and police officer participants."

Tuesday, April 5 they will screen When the Spirits Dance Mambo (dir. Dr Marta Moreno Vega and Robert Shepard, US, 2002, video, 90 mins). Director Robert Shepard will be there in person.

"Tracing the role of sacred African thought and practices in the formation of Cuban society, culture and music, Cuando los Espíritus Bailan Mambo (When the Spirits Dance Mambo) is a tribute to the spiritual energy that traveled from West Africa to Cuba and New York."

Both screenings begin at 7:00pm.

Director Alison Kobayashi in person

At the International House tomorrow, Feb. 24, 7:00pm, performance and video artist Alison Kobayashi will be presenting her work.

Kobayashi’s pieces address the migration of desires, alongside the transmission of ideas and memory across distances and time. In other words, the works function as mediation through migration. Kobayashi is captivated by found objects that contain traces of private experiences.

Films with artist's notes below.

Dan Carter
dir. Alison Kobayashi, 2006, Canada, video, 15 mins, color
Dan Carter donated his answering machine to a secondhand store. Dan Carter did not remove the cassette tape. So I took it. This film is based on the messages.

From: Alex To: Alex
dir. Alison Kobayashi, 200,6 Canada , video, 6 mins, color
In the fall of 2003 I found a letter on the Winston Churchill Blvd QEW overpass. It was labeled From: Alex To: Alex. This is a film based on the contents of that letter.

DO GOOD
dir. Alison Kobayashi, 2009, Canada, video, 11 mins, color
I catalogued my family’s home video collection. I came across videos of my sister and I in Brownie and Girl Guide ceremonies. It made me want to DO GOOD. It made me want to invite others to DO GOOD too. Five Brownies created new badges. Each Brownie made a video that ex¬plained what was required to earn her badge. You are invited to participate in DO GOOD.

PERIOD 4L
dir. Alison Kobayashi, 2011, Canada , video, work in process, color
John Massier found a letter at a bus stop outside of Dickie’s Dounuts in Buffalo, New York. He gave me the letter.

Pleasure Dome
dir. Alison Kobayashi, 2010, Canada, video, 12 mins, color
Very little is publicly known about what is inside Pleasure Dome. We sought to learn more about Pleasure Dome by closely examining its characters. The goal was to create an objective look at a very singular place. This video is a sample of those findings.

Visiting Filmmaker: Kathryn Ramey

Fall (Kathryn Ramey, 2006)

As part of the Visiting Filmmaker Series sponsored by Temple's Film and Media Arts department, filmmaker Kathryn Ramey will be discussing her work, which uses experimental film techniques to address anthropological and socio-cultural research.

The event starts at 5:15 in Temple's Annenberg Hall (13th and Norris), room 3.

Sam Green at Temple

Weather permitting, this Wednesday evening (Feb. 2) documentary filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground, Utopia in Four Movements) will be presenting and discussing his work at Temple University's Film and Media Arts department. The event starts at 5:15 in Temple's Annenberg Hall (13th and Norris), room 3.

This is the first in a series of visiting filmmakers, so stay tuned for future announcements.

Ulrike Ottinger

Next Tuesday, October 19, the Slought Foundation is hosting a day-long retrospective of Ulrike Ottinger's work. Ottinger's work has ranged from narrative work on the more avant-garde side of the New German Cinema to experimental documentaries, including the 8- hour Taiga, about Mongolia (see this NYT review). Even including the couple of films to be distributed by Women Make Movies to educational and repertory audiences, very little of Ottinger's work has been available in the US.

I do wish for a proper theatrical screening of some of it, but short of that, gallery exhibitions like at the Slought may be the only way to watch it easily. They will have simulatenous video projection of her longer works throughout the day (9am-5pm): Twelve Chairs (198 minutes, 2004), The Korean Wedding Chest (82 minutes, 2008), Taiga: A Journey to Northern Mongolia (501 minutes, 1991/2), and Exil Shanghai (275 minutes, 1997)

From 5-7pm, there will be an evening screening of Still Moving (29 minutes, 2009) and Prater (104 minutes, 2007).

The main event (7-8:30pm), is a presentation by Ottinger herself, followed by public conversation with Kaja Silverman (University of Pennsylvania), Patricia White (Swarthmore College), and Homay King (Bryn Mawr College), moderated by Nora Alter (Temple University).