October
4, 2007,
Thursday, 7:00PM at the ICA Boston
Balagan and ICA Boston present 
Czech Dream by Filip Remunda
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October
13, 2007,
Saturday, 7:30PM at Carpenter Center Harvard University * 24 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Balagan and Mass Art Film Society present FREE SHOW!
With special guests Coleen Fitzgibbon, Saul Levine, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder in attendance
Coleen Fitzgibbon was active as an experimental film and video artist under the pseudonym "Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years 1973-1980. Fitzgibbon was a student of Owen Land (aka "George Landow") and Stan Brakhage during her years as a film/video student at Art Institute of Chicago (1971-73). Later she attended the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program under Ron Clark (1973-74), studying with international artists such as Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Donald Judd, and Dennis Oppenheim. Between the years 1973-1976 Fitzgibbon made some of her most rigorous experimental work to date on 16mm and super 8 film screening at numerous international film festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop in New York.
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November 8, 2007,
Thursday, 7:30PM Screening Room @ Coolidge Corner Theatre
Film as a
Subversive Art - Part IV
(introduced
by John Gianvito)
Round
four of films from the book "Film as a Subversive
Art" written in 1974 by Amos Vogel, the founder
of the Cinema 16 in New York, New York Film Festival
and Lincoln Center Film Department. The program features
"Our
Lady of the Turks" by the late Italian avant-garde theater director,
actor, and filmmaker Carmelo Bene.
"...the most hallucinatory and original masterpiece
yet created by Bene; an explosion of neo-expressionism
(with surrealist overtones) unequaled on the contemporary
screen. Inspired exasperated madness of this possessed
moralist carries him beyond rage into black humor
and grotesque, burlesque, aimed at the dead weight
of a reactionary cultural matrix". - Amos
Vogel
April 21, 2007, Saturday, MIDNIGHT! in Moviehouse II at Coolidge Corner Theatre
REMINISCENCE /RECONNAISSANCE - (curated by Lisa Kletjian) Please note Time
In this short film program, elements of personal documentary, experimental narrative, and lyrical filmmaking are used in an attempt to understand individual pasts. These films were created with a subconscious mission: to pull visual memory from mind into matter.
April 25- 30 IFFB (Balagan co-sponsored shorts program) TBA
Independent Film Festival of Boston