Alternative Visions
November 6, 2007 - December 4, 2007
Our ongoing Tuesday-night avant-garde showcase.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
7:30 p.m. Dog Star Man
Stan Brakhage’s epic drama of the creation of the universe uses multiple superimposition, colored filters, distorting lenses, and painting-on-film to articulate themes of man and environment, the personal and general, seeing and perceiving. “A colossal lyrical adventure dance of image in every variation of color.”—Michael McClure
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
7:30 p.m. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The repetitive domestic routines of a bourgeois widow become a source of Hitchcockian suspense in Chantal Akerman’s classic. A tight, engrossing, and exhilarating experiment with a new kind of “melodrama,” and a masterful integration of the commercial feature with the avant-garde film.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
7:30 p.m. Film and Video at CCA: Relational Aesthetics
Artists in Person. We celebrate the centennial of the California College of the Arts with this program of film and video by the illustrious graduates and faculty of its Media Arts Department.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
7:30 p.m. Film and Video at CCA: Performative, Gestural, Collaborative Work
Artists in Person. More works from the CCA community of media makers highlight the school’s history of mixing narrative, documentary, and experimental genres in screen-based, live performance work and sculptural media installation.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
7:30 p.m. Xperimental Eros
Introduced by Noel Lawrence. Short films that experiment with eros in all the ways porn can’t. Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Thomas Draschan and Stella Friedrichs, Lewis Klahr, Julia Ostertag, Oscar Perez, Mark Street, Tom Palazzolo, Jeff Krulik, Naomi Uman, and J. X. Williams.
Curated by Kathy Geritz.
Tuesday programs during the fall semester are presented in conjunction with the UC Berkeley course Avant-Garde Film, taught by Marilyn Fabe.
