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The Ninth Annual Views from the Avant-Garde

A Special Presentation of the 43rd New York Film Festival
Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2


Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin Smith.

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Program 1: STRAUB-HUILLET

A Trip to the Louvre (Une Visite au Louvre x 2)
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet (France, 2004, 47m & 48m)
Total Runtime: 95m




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Sat Oct 1: 10:00 AM


Program 2: THE DAILY PLANET (Unearthed)

The Space Between Karen Mirza & Brad Butler (U.K., 2005, 12m)
Predictions Katherin McInnis (U.S., 2005, 1m)
Total Power – Dead Dead Dead Stephanie Barber (U.S., 2005, 3m)
Let Me Count the Ways, Minus 6 Leslie Thornton (U.S., 2005, 1m)
The Girl Who Lost Her Head (fragment) Michele Smith (U.S., 2005, 14m)
Eclipse Jeanne Liotta (U.S., 2005, 4m)
Detroit Park Julie Murray (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Krypton Is Doomed Ken Jacobs (U.S., 2005, 34m)
Blue Pole(s) Fred Worden (U.S., 2005, 20m). Music by Tom Hamilton.
Total Runtime: 99m (above image from Eclipse)




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Sat Oct 1: 12:00 NOON
   

Program 3: DAVID GATTEN’S SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE: A True Account In Nine Parts

Secret History of the Dividing Line (2002, 20m)
The Great Art of Knowing (2004, 37m)
Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing (1999, 26m)
The Enjoyment of Reading, Lost & Found (2001, 14m)
Total Runtime: 97m plus discussion (above image from The Great Art of Knowing)


 

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Sat Oct 1: 2:15 PM


Program 4: THE TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATORY

And I Make Short Films S.N.S. Sastry (India, 1968, 16m)
Made in Chinatown Jim Jennings (U.S., 2005, 12m)
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince – Leeds Bridge Ken Jacobs (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Kosmos Thorsten Fleisch (Germany, 2005, 5m)
Here Fred Worden (U.S., 2005, 11m)
The Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 1995, 23m)
September Song Luther Price (U.S., 2005, 4m)
Kolkata Mark LaPore (U.S./India 2005, 35m)
Total Runtime: 116m (above image from Here)




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Sat Oct 1: 5:30 PM
Program 5: WARHOL’S BLUE MOVIE with special guest Viva
Blue Movie Andy Warhol (U.S., 1968, color, sound, 133m)
Directed, photographed, and produced by Andy Warhol.  Executive producer: Paul Morrissey.  Sound: Jed Johnson.  With Viva and Louis Waldon.
Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Blue Movie © 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute, all rights reserved. 


Blue Movie opened in July 1969 at the Garrick Theater in New York. It recouped its cost immediately but within 10 days the theater was raided and the film seized. Blue Movie remains the only preserved Warhol film that has been prohibited from screening. Tonight it receives a new “premiere” in a special presentation with Warhol Superstar Viva.


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Sat Oct 1: 8:30 PM


Program 6: ALLEN ROSS’S GRANDFATHER TRILOGY

New preservation prints.
Papa, Thanksgiving 1979 & Buriels (U.S., 1979-81, 65m)
The Grandfather Trilogy was preserved by Chicago Filmmakers, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Preservation work done by Bill Brand (BB Optics). Project coordination by archivist Carolyn Faber and Chicago Filmmakers' Executive Director Brenda Webb.
Total Runtime: 65m (above image from Papa)





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Sun Oct 2: 12:30 PM


Program 7: LARRY GOTTHEIM

New preservation prints.
Blues (U.S., 1969, 8m)
Fog Line (1970, 10m)
Doorway (1970, 7m)
Barn Rushes (1971, 34m)
New prints preserved by the Donnell Media Center – NY Public Library awarded The Avant-Garde Masters grant funded by the Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
plus

The Opening (2005, 15m) (Excerpt from Chants and Dances for Hand, work in progress)
Your Television Traveler (1991, 17m)
Total Runtime: 91m plus discussion (above image from Fogline)




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Sun Oct 2: 2:30 PM


Program 8: MANUAL OVERRIDE (“Slip Inside This House”)

Windows Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 1999,12m)
Elsewhere Luke Sieczek (U.S., 2005, 6m)
Sylvania Bobby Abate (U.S., 2005, 11m)
Not Nine Gail Vachon (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Catalog Stephanie Barber (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Ruby Skin Eve Heller (U.S., 2005, 5m)
Driven Scott Stark (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Nice Biscotts # 2 Luther Price (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Same Day Nice Biscotts Luther Price (U.S., 2005, 5m)
A Time to Die Joe Gibbons (U.S., 2005, 8m)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine Peter Tscherkassky (Austria, 2005, 17m)
Total Runtime: 104m (above image from Elsewhere)




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Sun Oct 2: 5:30 PM


Program 9: SHADOWHUNGER

Los Caudales Timoleon Wilkins (U.S., 2005, 17m)
Pan of the Landscape Christopher Becks (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Market Street Tomonari Nishikawa (U.S., 2005, 5m)
c: won eyed jail Kelly Egan (U.S./Canada, 2005, 3m)
North Southernly Vincent Grenier (U.S., 2005, 6.5m)
Doppelgänger Joe Gibbons (U.S., 2005, 10m)
Hinterlands (Open shadow) Brian Short (U.S., 2005, 3m)
Shadows Choose Their Horrors Jennifer Reeves (U.S., 2005, 31m)
Total Runtime: 79m (above image from Shadows Choose Their Horrors)




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Sun Oct 2: 8:00 PM


Program 10: HEINZ EMIGHOLZ

The Basis of Make-Up III (Germany, 1996-2004, 22m)
Miscellanea III (1997-2004, 26m)
D’Annunzio’s Cave (2002-05, 45m)
The Heinz Emigholz program is supported by the Goethe-Institut New York's Film Archive.
Total Runtime: 93m (above image from D’Annunzio’s Cave)


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Sun Oct 2: 10:00 PM