September
9 ,
2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
New England Beat
Balagan begins the 9th season with the program of
recent shorts from the New Enlgand filmmakers: Robert
Todd, Alfred Guzzetti, Bob Harris, Saul Levine, Nancy
Andrews, Ann Steuernagel, Alice Cox.
September
23 , 2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Echoes from the Flaherty
Seminar - in
person – Margarita DeLaVega, executive
director of the Flaherty Seminar
This year, Flaherty Seminar (http://www.flahertyseminar.org)
– a one-week film viewing retreat spiced with
impassionate discussions among filmmakers, critics,
scholars, curators, librarians and students, celebrated
its 50th anniversary. This program is an eclectic
selection of shots presented at Flaherty by this year's
curator Susan Oxtoby. Among aritists and films featured
are: Bocas de Ceniza (Mouths of Ash) (2003-4)
by Juan Manuel Echavarria (Colombia), Journeys
(2003) by Vinayan Kodoth (India), Standard
Gauge (1984) by Morgan Fisher (US).
October
14 , 2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Filmmakers from
the West Coast: Matt McCormick in
person
Balagan welcomes Matt McCormick, a
Portland Oregon filmmaker who has made several award
winning short films. He is also the founder of Peripheral
Produce, an internationally recognized video distribution
label specializing in short experimental work, and
the director of the Portland Documentary and eXperimental
Film Festival, Portland’s premiere venue for
experimental, documentary, and otherwise obscure contemporary
cinema. Matt has had three films screen at the Sundance
Film Festival, and has received awards including Best
Short Film from the 45th San Francisco International
Film Fest,Best Short Film from the 2002 Ann Arbor
Film Festival and others. He has screened at such
venues as the Seattle Art Museum and the Lincoln Center,
and his film ‘The Subconscious Art of Graffiti
Removal’ was named as one of the ‘Top
10 Films of the 2002’ by both The Village Voice
and Art Forum magazine.
“In
the last few years, Matt McCormick has emerged as
one of our strongest independent filmmakers, doing
work that’s both ingenuous and humorously
absurd...” Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
October
20 , 2004,
Wednesday, 7:30PM
(reception at 7PM)
BIG BALAGAN 1: Peter
Kubelka: The Metaphoric Films
in person
and
October 21 , 2004,
Thursday, 6:30PM
BIG BALAGAN 2: Peter
Kubelka: The Metric Films
in person
Location: Museum
of Fine Arts (MFA), 640 Huntington Ave., Boston
Two screening/lectures with Peter Kubelka, one of
the most distinguished figures in the history of 20th
century avante-garde and independent filmmaking. His
films are an innovative demonstration of cinematic
possibilities. Moreover, as an artist or theoretician
he has also worked in architecture, literature, music,
painting and cuisine. He has been also a curator at
the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna that he founded
in 1964. His teaching on the topic of food preparation
as an art form at the Frankfurt School of Fine Arts
led to an extension of his title as Professor of Film
to that of Film and Cuisine. Over the past 40 years
he has lectured at museums, universities and institutions
throughout the world, and has been awarded the Austrian
State Prize for his life's work.
"Peter
Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium
– the world's greatest filmmaker which is
to say, simply: See his films! ...by all means/above
all else... "– Stan Brakhage
October
28, 2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Bushwacked II
In
the spirit of the upcoming elections, this program
of shorts reminds about the mishappenings of the last
four years under the Bush Administration as well as
draws parallels to the similar situations faced by
different people around the world. Among the artists
featured are: Reza Parsa, Bryan Boyce, The
Speculative Archive (a.k.a. Julia Meltzer & David
Thorne), Jino Choi and others.
November
9, 2004,
Tuesday, 7:30PM
BALAGAN at the Boston
Jewish Film Festival
November 18,
2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Magic
Lantern Presents: “The Re-Enactment Show”
Curated
by Ben Russell
Come on down for a night of re-interpretations as
we plumb the depths of what experimental film has
to offer in the time-honored tradition of the Re-Enactment.
Not only do we have the Civil War, but we’ve
got Indian street kids in Bollywood musicals, celluloid
visions torn from the funny pages, and remakes of
cinema classics and avant-garde masterpieces. - Ben
Russell
Featuring: I’m Bobby by Xav
Leplae (32:00, 35mm, 2003), Across
the Rappanahock by Brian
Frye (10:00, 16mm, 2003), Electrocute
Your Stars by Marie
Losier (8:00, 16mm, 2004), Passage
a L’Acte by Martin
Arnold (12:00, 16mm, 1993), Mary
Worth by Various Directors (15:00, 16mm,
2001)
December 2, 2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Fine Line: Art and Politics
December
16, 2004,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Experimental Feature in Focus I: "Baghdad
in no particular order" (2004) by Paul Chan
tentatively