Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, New York, NY
Saturday December 17, 2011
8 p.m. | $10

FILMS INCLUDE:

“Amorous Interludes” (Ken Jacobs, 2007-2008)
Video, B/W & Color, Sound, 14 minutes
-A series of 7 shorts:
–His Favorite Wife, Improved or, The Virtue of Bad Reception
–Hanky Panky
–Alone At Last
–Love Story
–We Are Charming
–The Discovery
–Nymph

“Sacre Coeur” (Peter Cramer, 2001)
Video, Color, Sound, 8 minutes
-A haunting near death travelogue that descends in a spiral landscape tracing streets, subways and cemeteries of Paris.

“Oracle/Coracle” (Terry Ellis, 2009-2010)
Video, Color, Sound, 1 minute
-“A shallow ceramic bowl filled with rainwater foretells rough seas ahead.”

“Ghost Train” (Terry Ellis, 2009)
Video, B/W, Sound, 4 minutes
-“Are they ghosts, or are we? Two sounds–a sob, an echoing shout–are repeated at intervals throughout, together with short phrases taken from the soundtrack of the Pompeii sequence in Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (1954)”.

“Meet Me In Wichita” (Martha Colburn, 2006)
16mm transferred to Video, Color, Sound, 7 minutes
-An indictment of America’s dangerous foreign-policy naivete, this film is a play between fact, fiction, politics, fantasy, terror and morality. Using colorful cutout animation, this film features Osama Bin Laden (as several characters from the Wizard of Oz) and Dorothy in a battle of dark forces and faces of Evil.

“The Optic Melon” (David Baker, 2008)
Video, B/W, Sound, 8 minutes
-Strobic intermittercy and dilation as seen through the eye of a spinning watermelon. A derivation from Ken Jacob’s Star Spangled to Death.

“FM/TRCS” (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1974-2011)
16mm transferred to Video, Color, Sound, 11 minutes
-FM/TRCS is a study of image destruction and its subsequent effect on recognition and suggestion of new images. The film is a series of images and recorded sound of a woman getting dressed re-edited into short sequences and optically printed until the high contrast characteristics of the film refuses to carry the image.

“Night Sweat” (Siegried A. Fruhauf, 2008)
35mm transferred to Video, Color, Sound, 10 minutes
-The sky’s blue hanging above the black of a forest. Lightning flashes over a clearing. And the white ball of the moon with dark spots. These are the three suggestions that make Night Sweat an examination of a visual effect’s technical aspects.

“Peel” (Elle Burchill, 2004)
Video, Color, Sound, 4 minutes
-Peel are intimate cravings opened wide. When clichéd fantasy becomes grotesque reality. A woman, a banana, and a secret.

“Knickerbocker Glory” (Smith & Lowles, 2010)
Video, Color/Sound, 4 minutes
-”Footballers have become modern day archetypical gods, their fans their disciples. Here demystified of their god-like status the footballers and their fans become the spectators, cheering on an assortment of semi-naked men, the toppings of a ice cream sundae. The men sensually drenched in whipped cream, sprinkles and strawberry sauce, playfully brawl and caress one another’s bodies, a layer upon layer of sexual and hedonistic pleasure.” – Smith & Lowles 2010

John Cage Performs James Joyce by Takahiko Iimura
1985, DVD, b&w, sound, 15 min.
Sound by and with John Cage Document of a voice performance by John Cage who ‘reads’, ‘vocalizes’ and ‘whispers’ in three different manners his artificial language taken from ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ by James Joyce. Cage freely composed the letters according to a chance operation using the I-Ching.

Rental: $60 Sales: $100 Individual / $400 Institutional

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Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata by Takahiko Iimura
1963-1965, DVD, b&w, sound 33 min.
Music: Tomomi Adachi. The Black Butoh dance created by Tatsumi Hijikata is closer to the neo-dada movement taking over the provocative, cynical and absurd forms rather than the German expressionist dance usually connected. – Nicolas Villodre, curator of Cinematheque Francaise, Paris. Note: See the individual film description of ANNMA (THE MASSEUR) (1963) and ROSE COLOR DANCE (1963).

Rental: $50.00 Sale price: 70.00 individual / 240.00 institutional

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