Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:21:58 -0400
Subject: Pratt-Oct. calandar


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>From: Astria Suparak <asuparak-AT-PRATT.EDU>
>Subject:      Pratt-Oct. calandar
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>        <><><><><><><><><><><><>FILM  SERIES AT PRATT<><><><>.
>Pratt Institute of Art and Design*  OCT. 6, Wednesday 8:30 pm: FILM ABOUT
>A WOMAN WHO...  by Yvonne RAINER.   A meditation on ambivalence.  Includes
>music by  Philip CORNER.  This shaped and  structured film mirrors the
>complexities and difficulties with which we attempt  to communicate with
>one another: "It seems to say," observed one  viewer, "that speaking is
>like walking on volcanic silence." The film  uses interrupted or stylized
>action and stills and re-enactments from movies  such as Psycho and
>Pandora's Box.  Film about a Woman  Who... is cinematic syntax that isn't
>clothed in narrative continuity, but  speaks through naked image and text.
>"RAINER...learned to use the  cinema's magic and muscle to layer space and
>time in a completely  non-naturalistic way.... She has always been as
>committed to emotional  volatility and psychological meat-packing (topped
>with large doses of analysis)  as any character-driven filmmaker. But her
>mode is more athletic, pummeling the  viewer with associative motion
>picture collages made of language, cinematic  space, character (as
>analytic tool), and story (as accretion). In this sense,  Rainer's
>narrative style owes as much to Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and
>Buster Keaton as it does to Maya Deren and Michael Snow."-Thyrza  Nichols
>Goodeve, Art in America 1997  
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>OCT.12, Tuesday
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>7pm at the KNITTING FACTORY, Alterknit Theater. 74 Leonard St. (betw.
>B'way & Church). 212.219.3006. www.knittingfactory.com
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>9pm at Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, at Collective Unconscious.  145 Ludlow
>St. and Rivington. Brian Frye: 718.622.5360
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>BROKEN MUSIC: Misusing/altering  technology for the use of music. Or using
>musical instruments/equipment in  alternative ways.
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>2 videos by New York  sound artist and vinyl saboteur CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, one
>in homage to Jimi  Hendrix;  SONIC YOUTH performs a FLUXUS composition by
>GEORGE MACIUNAS:  "Piano Piece #13 (for NAM JUNE PAIK)"; Co-founder of The
>Kitchen and  Video Pioneer STEINA VASULKA's "demo tape on how to play
>video on the  violin"; Hanzel + Gretzel's video music project on techno
>voyeur SCANNER  (who accesses phone conversations with a scanner to use in
>his DJ performances  and recordings). "Human kind is just a 12-inch
>monitor."; A rare  screening of a film by Swiss electronics duo VOICE
>CRACK, including live footage  of them playing "cracked everyday
>electronics" .
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> OCT 20, Wednesday  8:30pm:     On: location. Films about places and
>site-specific actions, investigations  and de-constructions.  Gordon
>MATTA-CLARK  non-u-mentally cuts and carves through buildings in Paris; 
>The  effects of seasons and time on Berlin, San Francisco, and Austria are
>documented by Kurt KREN and Linda  CHRISTANELL (Austria); J. HOBERMAN
>(film critic from the Village Voice) goes "Up the Harlem  River, looking
>East.  Is the film the reflection of reality or the reality  of the
>reflection?"; Lush juxtaposed images of Standard Oil Refinery and a  red
>lumber company in Northern California as seen by Bruce  BAILLIE inspired
>by Eric Satie ("...a film in the form of a  street");  Margot NIEDERLAND's
>journey through the  architectural anomaly in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; and
>more by  Alan BERLINER and  Kurt EASTERWOOD.       OCT. 27, Wednesday,
>8:30pm:      PAINT IT BLACK An evening of dark films and videos >from New
>York, San Francisco, and Europe.  Optical printing and video manipulation
>create dense layers of nausea.  Meditations on media and culture, the use
>of technology for subversive purposes.  Dis-ease. Recent work by Matthias
>MUELLER,  The BUREAU of INVERSE TECHNOLOGY, Laura  PARNES, Eric HEIST,
>Mark TAYLOR,  Yvette BRACKMAN, and Aaron  SCOTT.     Coming up in
>November: John Baldessari, Hollis  Frampton, Peggy Ahwesh, Paul McCarthy,
>Mike Kelley, Fischli & Weiss,  Jennifer Reeder, Luther Price, Laura
>Parnes, Katherin Resetarits, and  more.    Wednesdays at 8:30pm in Pratt's
>Engineering bldg., rm. 371 unless otherwise  noted. G-train to
>Clinton-Washington; 379 Dekalb Ave., betw. Hall + Classon St.s
>information: Astria Suparak,  718.636.3422   
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