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November 2011
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October 2011
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mm-cc 07.03.11, Charlie Visnic mm-cc.org
Oct 6th
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August 2011
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Aug 5th
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July 2011
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Jul 25th
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Remedial Reading Comprehension (1970), dir. Owen Land
Jul 24th
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Jul 11th
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Smoking (1966), dir. Joe Jones Slow-motion smoke is always a pleasure. eai.org
Jul 8th
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June 2011
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Rubber City Noise: Black Unicorn scores Man Ray’s 1926 cinépoéme Emak-Bakia. Audio recorded during live performance at Cinesthetica, Joseph Saxton Gallery in Canton, Ohio on April 16, 2011.
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May 2011
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May 19th
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May 12th
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Matana Roberts channeling her Coin Coin project through the empty streets of Montréal at 5 a.m., summer 2010. Images filmed and edited on Super8 by Radwan Moumneh. Sound recorded and edited by Radwan Moumneh. cstrecords.com
May 6th
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April 2011
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Apr 26th
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Population Explosion (1968), dir. Pierre Hébert A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world, featuring music by Ornette Coleman. Self taugh, strongly influenced by animation film makers Norman McLaren and Len Lye, Hébert directed his first films independently while he was still studying Anthropology at the University of Montreal. pierrehebert.com
Apr 23rd
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Apr 19th
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Fan trailer for I Was A Teenage Serial Killer (1993), dir. Sarah Jacobson An underground, no-budget short film that follows a 19-year-old woman who sets out to kill the sexist men she encounters. The film was made by Sarah Jacobson (“The Queen of Underground Film”) under the guidance of George Kuchar. Jacobson passed away in 2004 from endometrial cancer. dlib.nyu.edu
Apr 19th
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Puce Moment (1949), dir. Kenneth Anger “A lavishly colored evocation of the Hollywood now gone, shown through an afternoon in the milieu of a 1920s star.” kennethanger.org
Apr 13th
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Comingled Containers (1996), dir. Stan Brakhage
Apr 9th
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Whoa Whoa Studio (for Courbet) (2000), dir. Cheryl Donegan “These works form a capstone to concerns that have been in my work since I began to make video — the artist’s studio as theatre, the self-conscious/self-reflexive gesture that unites performance and painting, creation unraveled. The space for painting/performance is very shallow - a makeshift set, the television screen,...
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March 2011
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One (1966), dir. Yoko Ono
Mar 27th
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Ilha das Flores (1989), dir. Jorge Furtado A clever perspective on the horrors of capitalism and human nature. reverseshot.com
Mar 27th
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38/79: Sentimental Punk (1979), dir. Kurt Kren “It was in San Francisco at a punk festival. I was already high and the air was so thick in the rooms that you could cut it with a knife. I had a photograph camera with me; I stood in a corner of the entrance hall and took 36 pictures on slide film. At home I put the slides into a slide projector. I took out the lens and filmed the slides by filming...
Mar 27th
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Hand Movie (1966), dir. Yvonne Rainer
Mar 27th
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Breakaway (1966), dir. Bruce Conner Toni Basil dances to her own soundtrack, gradually removing various articles of clothing against a pitch black backdrop. The cutting in this film is enthralling in its rapidity. sfmoma.org
Mar 27th
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