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to celebrating and illuminating the vitality and diversity of the City of Houston
by presenting a festival of innovative cinema, mixed-media performances, new
media, and installations to promote Houston’s economic development, enrich the
film and arts environment, and foster cross-cultural understanding.
BOARD MEMBERS
HONORARY BOARD
Bill White
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Introduction to the Program
Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director
Earlier this year, a great film programmer, Amos Vogel, passed away.
Vogel founded Cinema 16, New York’s pioneering film society, and
co-founded the 50-year-old New York Film Festival, through which
so many classic films have been introduced to the U.S. I was Amos’
teaching assistant for two years, and am one of many film programmers
he influenced profoundly.
“Cinema 16” was named by Vogel after 16mm film, the smaller and more
affordable gauge of film that enabled independent filmmakers to make
movies without the resources of a major studio behind them. John Cassavetes
is the best-known figure to utilize 16mm to make a feature-length film,
Shadows, which many credit as the urtext of the American indie feature
movement (Linklater, Jarmusch, Tarantino, Soderbergh, etc.). But in that
lineage of boy heroes, the missing person is the pioneer who launched the
“American New Wave” movement of independent features in the 60s
alongside Cassavetes – Shirley Clarke. Two of Clarke’s independent
features (The Connection and Ornette: Made in America) are in our program,
presented by the invaluable distributors – Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of
Milestone Films – who have devoted the past few years to recovering and
restoring the lost films of Shirley Clarke.
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Doros and Heller’s lecture on their “Project Shirley,” accompanied by two
of Clarke’s 16mm short films, will be presented in our newest screening
room, sited at 4411 Montrose. Its name, in homage to Vogel, is Cinema
16. The screenings we have planned there November 8-11 are mostly in
16mm, the medium that used to be, before Digital Video, the primary
medium of truly independent, experimental filmmakers like Clarke. That is,
the filmmakers who will present their 16mm films to our audiences (J. J.
Murphy, Stacey Steers, Phil Solomon, and Vanessa Renwick), directed,
filmed, edited, and animated their films largely on their own, like painters
or poets working with their art forms. J.J. Murphy, who made his classic
16mm structural film, Print Generation, here in Houston in the early ‘70s,
will present that film on November 11 and will also screen rare 16mm
films by Andy Warhol on November 8 (Murphy is author of the recently
published The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol). The
Cinema 16 series, in fact, kicks off with a “Warhol Walk” from The Andy
Monument in front of the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston to Murphy’s
“Rare Warhol” program at 4411 Montrose.
16mm happens to be in the midst of a revival among young artists;
many are not ready to let the granular beauty and physical materiality
of film be destroyed by the digital. Watch what Phil Solomon does with
film’s chemical particles at his Cinema 16 screening and in his American
Falls installation downstairs at 4411 Montrose, and you’ll see what I
mean. That downstairs space is part of Cinema on the Verge, a mindblowing gallery of interactive, sculptural media art installations by many
of the same artists featured in Cinema 16 screenings. At 4411, you
will be able to float underneath Vanessa Renwick’s Medusa Smack
jellyfish screen, play with the interactive animations by Stacey Steers,
George Griffin, and Joanna Priestley, and watch two computer terminals
arguing in The Light Surgeons’ Dialog. At the Cinema on the Verge
satellite sites, Project Row Houses and Aurora Picture Show, you can see
two more remarkable installations by the eminent artists Chris Johnson
and Eve Sussman.
What excited Amos Vogel about 16mm was its potential for democratizing
both the cinematic depiction of individuals and communities and the
accessibility of filmmaking tools. For those of us still working under Vogel’s
inspiring influence, this democratizing mission is a huge part of what
drives us. And democratizing is something film production still needs,
as evidenced by the premature burial of Shirley Clarke’s memory,
which the Milestone folks and our programming this year are attempting
to exhume. That Clarke’s gender has a lot to do with her sidelining can’t
be empirically proven, though the following facts can be: 1) Women
accounted for 5% of directors of 2011’s 250 top features; 2) They account
for 4% of the cinematographers, 14% of writers, and 20% of the editors
working on these films. These statistics come from the website of Women
Make Movies, the media arts organization founded in 1972 “to address the
under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry.”
This year, we are celebrating Women Make Movies’ 40th anniversary,
in collaboration with Women in Film and Television Houston, by presenting
four programs of their films. Two of these will be presented by one
of WMM’s, and the world’s, most important documentary filmmakers —
fresh from her recent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art —
Lourdes Portillo.
Our emphasis on women filmmakers this year, which goes deeper than
I can summarize in this short introduction, is reflected in the bracketing
of our program by opening and closing night films by women directors.
Twice Academy Award ®-nominated director Liz Garbus will walk the
red carpet on opening night to present her newest feature, Love, Marilyn;
the film is a powerful, feminist reappraisal of the popular image of
Marilyn Monroe, in which Garbus is joined by many famous actresses
who re-enact Monroe’s recently unearthed letters and diaries. On closing
night, we will bring Lisa Immordino Vreeland to present her documentary
on her husband’s legendary grandmother, the enormously influential
force in fashion and publishing, Diana Vreeland.
While I’ve been highlighting emphases that are new to this year’s festival,
I should turn now to what remains consistent in our fourth year. The heart
of our programming is my selection of the best new films by and about
visual, performing, and literary artists. Mentioning Beauty is Embarrassing
(with guest artist Wayne White), Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp and
United in Anger: A History of Act Up with their directors, Jorge Hinojosa
and Jim Hubbard, just skims the surface of our selections; delve into the
catalogue or website to take in the whole feast. Speaking of which, I’m
particularly happy that this year’s program includes our first film on the
culinary arts, which is also a film about music: Mugaritz BSO.
Special attention to the works of Texas filmmakers has always characterized
our programming, and that’s no less true this year, with Trash Dance, Big
Boy, Pictures of Superheroes, Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film, and
Texas Filmmakers Showcase. Last year, we began to complement the local
by broadening our global selections. That direction continues this year
with a particular emphasis on Asia, including the multiple Hong Kong
Academy Award®-winning film, A Simple Life, brought by its producer
and co-screenwriter, Roger Lee; Tatsumi, KanZeOn, and the live music
and cinema performance of SuperEverything* by The Light Surgeons with
Ng Chor Guan. The focus on Asia reflects the arrival of one of our newest
partners, Houston’s magnificent new Asia Society Texas Center. Featuring
live performance with films is another one of our familiar habits, continued
by The Light Surgeons and by Lincoln Mayorga, who will accompany his
A Suitcase Full of Chocolate: The Life of Pianist Sofia Cosma with a short
piano recital.
Finally, every year, we have honored legendary talents like Tilda Swinton,
Isabella Rossellini, and John Turturro, whose interests reflect our own in
a wide range of art forms. Coming this year to receive the Levantine
Cinema Arts Award is Robert Redford, whose Sundance Institute supports
not just independent filmmakers, but also adventurous visual artists, composers,
and playwrights. Most of all, Sundance has built on Shirley Clarke and
John Cassavetes’ legacy and done more than any other institution to
democratize feature filmmaking in this country, a mission we are proud
to honor and share.
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HOW TO FEST
Tickets
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Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM MON–FRI
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2012 VENUES
SINGLE TICKET PRICES
GENERAL STUDENTS AND
SENIORS (WITH ID)
Regular Screenings
$12
Matinee Screenings
$10
Premiere Screenings
$15
Asia Society Texas Center Screening
Opening Night Screening and Party
$25
$22
Cinema Arts Celebration
$15
$10
Cinema on the Verge
$5
$4
Cinema 16
$7
$6
$12
HOW TO FEST
(includes Cinema on the Verge)
(single entry)
(includes Cinema on the Verge)
$10
$8
$13
$10
Festival Passes
Passes include membership privileges and special Festival benefits — more information at
www.cinemartsociety.org.
All Access
Weekend$250
$1,000
One-Day$100
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”I have been able to make (some) films that were important to my soul. That's lucky in an industry that
is business first and art second. Art is only accepted when it makes money. To make certain movies
close to your heart, you have to hold down the cost, work at least twice as hard, and make sacrifices
along the way. But it's worth it because doing what you believe in makes a huge difference.”
– Robert Redford
It has been evident for a long time that Robert Redford’s fame as a movie actor, star of such classics as
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and Out of Africa, was merely the springboard for his
even greater contributions to our culture as the founder of the Sundance Group and director of
ambitious motion pictures. Redford’s movies, including Ordinary People, Quiz Show, and A River Runs
Through It, have been consistently inspiring, intelligent, and important. The Sundance Institute, with its
annual Film Festival in Park City and Directors Labs for aspiring filmmakers, has had a profound impact
on the rise of independent feature filmmaking in the United States. The Institute supports not only
independent filmmakers challenging the commercial mainstream, but also innovative artists in theater,
music, and the visual arts.
As a film director, Redford burst out of the gate in 1980 with Ordinary People, winning a Directors
Guild of America Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award® for Best Director for this
shattering family drama. He went on to both direct and produce The Milagro Beanfield War and A River
Runs Through It, for which he received a Best Director Golden Globe nomination. He earned Oscar®
nominations for Best Picture and Best Director in 1995 for helming Quiz Show and two Golden Globe
nominations (Best Film - Drama and Best Director) for The Horse Whisperer in 1998. He went on to direct
and produce The Legend of Bagger Vance in 2000, Lions for Lambs in 2007, and The Conspirator
in 2010. He recently starred in and directed The Company You Keep, which had its world premiere at
the 69th Venice International Film Festival and will be distributed in 2013 by Sony Pictures Classics.
It is significant that the movies Redford is most proud of are not the career-defining ones, but smaller,
heartfelt projects like Ordinary People, Quiz Show, Jeremiah Johnson, and A River Runs Through It.
Reflecting on his movie career, Redford says, his passion is to make films of substance and social/
cultural relevance, as well as to encourage others to express themselves through the arts. With that in
mind, a large part of his life is his Sundance Institute (named for the outlaw he played in Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid), which he founded in 1981. The Sundance Institute is dedicated to the support
and development of emerging screenwriters and visionary directors, and to the national and international
exhibition of new independent cinema. The Institute’s highly acclaimed Screenwriting, Directing,
Playwriting and Producing Labs take place at the Sundance Resort founded by Redford in 1969 in
Provo, Utah. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development
programs, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born Into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Amreeka,
An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza, and Angels in America. The Institute is part
of Redford’s Sundance Group, which also includes The Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Catalog,
Sundance Channel, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Resort, and the Redford Center.
FRIday, Nov 9, 7:00 PM
Sundance Cinemas
Conversation with
Robert Redford
For these accomplishments, Robert Redford is being honored this year with the Levantine Cinema
Arts Award, which recognizes a leading actor, director, or other creative artist who has stretched the
boundaries of cinematic expression throughout an illustrious career. The Levantine Cinema Arts
Award is sponsored by Levantine Films, an independent motion picture development, financing and
production company, aiming to promote understanding and inspire dialogue across cultures, captivating
audiences and challenging stereotypes through the power of great storytelling. Levantine Films produced
Amreeka, a film that benefitted from the Sundance Institute’s support.
Moderated by Ernie Manouse
“Robert Redford is perfect for the Levantine Cinema Arts Award. Over a career spanning 50 years, he
has stretched boundaries and perceptions everywhere. He is a man who stands for social responsibility
and political engagement and an artist who staunchly supports uncompromised creative expression.”
- Levantine Films President and Creative Director Hisham Bizri
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Roger Lee
A Simple Life
Sunday, Nov 11, 1:00 PM, MFAH
Roger Lee is a veteran film producer in Hong Kong. While producing A Summer Snow with director Ann Hui, Lee told her
about the story of his lifelong relationship with his childhood nanny, Chung Chun-tao. With Hui’s encouragement, Lee developed a screenplay with co-writer Susan Chan. Hui went on to direct A Simple Life with Hong Kong superstars Andy Lau
and Deanie Ip, and the film swept all the top awards at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Screenplay and
Best Film.
Wayne White
Beauty is Embarrassing
Thursday, Nov 8, 6:15 PM, Sundance Cinemas
Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. In 1986, Wayne became
a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and his work was awarded three Emmys. He also worked in
the music video industry as an art director for seminal music videos, including The Smashing Pumpkins’ Tonight, Tonight
and Peter Gabriel’s Big Time. More recently Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and
public works that have been shown all over the world, including the Rice Gallery. His most successful works have been the
world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions.
Neil Cantwell
Trash Dance
KanZeOn
Thursday, Nov 8, 11:00 AM and FRIDAY, NOV 9, 2:30 PM,
Sundance Cinemas
Neil Cantwell has studied philosophy and music. He currently works as an Officer for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange at The Japan Foundation London Office and has ongoing status as Foreign Research Fellow at Shuchiin University,
Kyoto. Cantwell is a musician whose performances and studies with Japanese instrumentalists and his insights into the role of
sound in Japanese Buddhism led to the production of the film KanZeOn. Cantwell is interested in sample-based music and
will remix music from the KanZeOn soundtrack during the HCAS Cinema Arts Celebration.
Andrew Garrison is an independent filmmaker based in Austin, Texas,
who works in both documentary and fiction. His past films include the
documentary feature Third Ward TX (2007) and the narrative triptych The
Wilgus Stories (2000), both of which premiered at SXSW and aired on
PBS. Garrison’s work has earned him Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEA, and
AFI Fellowships, and his films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, and the
New York Film Festival.
Saturday, Nov 10, 3:00 PM, Sundance Cinemas
Jim Hubbard
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. His films have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and a number of Lesbian and
Gay Film Festivals, including Newfest in New York and Frameline in San Francisco. His film Memento Mori won the URSULA
prize for Best Short Film at the Hamburg Film Festival in 1995. He co-founded MIX NYC, the New York Queer Experimental
Film Festival, now in its 25th year. Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the AIDS Activist
Videotape Collection at the New York Public Library. Hubbard’s visit is hosted by the University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum.
Jorge Hinojosa
Allison Orr was named Best Choreographer of 2003 and 2008 by the
Austin Critics Table. Her most recent large-scale work, The Trash Project,
was named the #1 Arts Event of 2009 by the Austin American-Statesman, the
#1 Dance Event by the Austin Chronicle and was awarded Most Outstanding
Dance Concert of 2009 by the Austin Critics Table. Her work has been
funded by the City of Austin, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Austin Community Foundation, and
the City of Venice, Italy.
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
Hanly Banks
Jorge Hinojosa produced and directed Iceberg Slim, whose executive producer is Ice-T. Hinojosa has been managing every
facet of Ice-T's career for the last 28 years. In December 2010, they formed Final Level Entertainment and created and produced a TV series for the A&E Network called The Peacemaker, focused on efforts to bring peace to gangs at war with each
other. Their next project was the documentary The Art of Rap (2012), for which Jorge was the executive producer. Jorge is
currently the executive producer of the E! TV series Ice Loves Coco. When Ice-T gave Hinojosa Iceberg Slim’s book 28 years
ago, “He told me that he had been reading these books since he was in high school and that Iceberg (aka Robert Beck) was
the biggest influence on his style, mannerism, and his music. In fact, Ice got his name from Iceberg Slim because as a teenager he quoted the author so much. So I read the book, and my mind was blown.”
FISHER STEVENS
STAND UP GUYS
As an actor, Fisher Stevens has appeared in over 40 stage productions and over 60 film and television programs. In
1986, Stevens co-founded the downtown NY theater company Naked Angels, still active, whose original members
included Marisa Tomei, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rob Morrow. He also co-founded GreeneStreetFilms in 1996, and
produced and co-produced over 15 films including the Academy Award® nominated film In The Bedroom and A Prairie
Home Companion. The Cove, which Stevens produced about the dolphin slaughter in Japan, was nominated for an
Academy Award® for Best Feature Documentary. Additionally, Stephens co-directed the documentary Crazy Love that
won the 2006 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 7:00PM, MFAH
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion and art for the past 25 years. She started her career
in fashion as the Director of Public Relations for Polo Ralph Lauren in Italy and quickly moved on to launch two fashion
companies, Pratico, a sportswearline for women, and Mago, a cashmere knitwear collection of her own design. Lisa has
been consultant to various Italian fashion houses. She is married to Alexander Vreeland, the grandson of Diana Vreeland.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel is her first film.
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Andrew Garrison and
Allison Orr
Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film
Hanly Banks is an American documentarian, college graduate, Bokonist.
She enjoys good jokes, bad karaoke, and plans to retire somewhere in
the Southwest.
Thomas Hackett
Big Boy
Saturday, Nov 10, 11:00 AM, Sundance Cinemas
Thomas Hackett began his career as a journalist writing long form
features for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling
Stone, and Sports Illustrated. In 2006, he published his first book,
Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling. A graduate of
the USC School of Cinema-Television, Hackett has recently returned to
filmmaking, making documentaries, writing feature screenplays, and
directing the award-winning Big Boy. His upcoming second feature is
Chloe & Claire at Sixes & Sevens.
Don Swaynos
Pictures of Superheroes
Sunday, Nov 11, 7:00 PM, Sundance Cinemas
Don Swaynos is a filmmaker living in Austin, Texas. He has written, directed,
produced, and edited award-winning films, commercials, and music videos
prior to completing his first narrative feature, Pictures of Superheroes. As
a producer, Don has worked on a variety of projects, including the feature
length comedy Cinema Six, the award-winning puppet-musical The Ballad
of Friday and June, and the feature length documentary American Widow
Project, a recipient of a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund Grant.
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MILESTONE FILMS' "PROJECT SHIRLEY"
with Milestone founders Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
In addition to Women Make Movies, another significant independent distribution company, Milestone Films, is sending its two founders, Dennis
Doros and Amy Heller, to HCAF 2012 to discuss Project Shirley, its campaign to restore and re-release the films of late, great American film
director Shirley Clarke.
Amy Heller and Dennis Doros started Milestone in 1990 out of their New York City one-room apartment. The company has since gained an
international reputation for releasing classic cinema masterpieces, groundbreaking documentaries and American independent features such
as Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles, Lionel Rogosin’s On the Bowery, and Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba. Doros and
Heller will present Clarke’s The Connection and Ornette: Made in America, which highlights the life of Texas-born jazz great Ornette Coleman.
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES 40th ANNIVERSARY
featuring special guest Lourdes Portillo
Founded 40 years ago as a nonprofit collective, Women Make Movies (WMM) has grown into an industry-leading media arts organization and
distributor, helping women directors and producers realize their dreams. The Houston Cinema Arts Festival’s screening of four Women Make
Movies programs is one of 40 international events scheduled this year to celebrate the anniversary.
Established in 1972 to address the under-representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a
multicultural, multiracial, nonprofit media arts organization that facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent
films and videotapes by and about women. As the leading distributor of women’s films and videotapes in North America, Women Make Movies
works with organizations and institutions that utilize noncommercial, educational media in their programs. The collection of more than 500
titles includes documentary, experimental, animation, dramatic and mixed-genre work. Women Make Movies also offers a unique Production
Assistance Program that provides fiscal sponsorship, low-cost media workshops and information services to independent media artists.
Going Up the Stairs: Portrait of an Unlikely Iranian Artist
Poetry of Resilience and
The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima
Born October 2, 1919, in New York City, Shirley Clarke danced into the world of art in her teens, studying with such
innovative choreographers as Martha Graham, Hanya Holm and Doris Humphrey. After marrying and having
a daughter, Clarke turned her talents to cinema, becoming an esteemed filmmaker at a time when few women
worked in the field. Her early shorts reflected her lifelong love of dance along with a growing mastery of the new
medium. For her first feature, Clarke took on an acclaimed and controversial stage play by Jack Gelber and the
Living Theater. Her adaptation of The Connection (1961) won praise for its graphic, unglamorous depiction of
drug use and remarkable jazz score (performed by, among others, Freddie Redd and Jackie McLean). However,
it embroiled Clarke in a two-year censorship battle, which she ultimately won.
SUNDANCE 5 | SUN NOV 11 | 3:45 PM
Going Up the Stairs
Ornette: Made in America
Shirley Clarke
SUNDANCE 5 | SAT NOV 10 | 1:00 PM
The Poerty Deal
The Connection
My McQueen
Corpus
Featured Artist
LOURDES PORTILLO
Mexico-born and Chicana-identified, Lourdes Portillo is an award-winning writer, director and producer of films focused on the
search for Latino identity. She has worked in a rich range of cinematic forms, from television documentary to satirical video-film
collage. Portillo’s Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a 1986 co-production with Argentine director Susana Blaustein
Muñoz, documented the actions of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women who gather weekly at the Plaza
de Mayo in Buenos Aires to remember their children that were murdered or “disappeared” by the military regime. This film earned
a nomination for the Academy’s Best Documentary in 1985, and received 20 other awards internationally. Portillo’s films have
also been awarded the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize; the International Documentary Association’s Distinguished Documentary Award;
the Néstor Almendros Human Rights Prize; and the San Francisco Film Festival Golden Spire Award.
Al Más Allá and My McQueen
SUNDANCE 5 | THUR NOV 8 | 9:30 PM | Q&A
After The Connection, Clarke made The Cool World (1964) and Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
(1963), which won the Oscar® for Best Documentary. Clarke’s fourth feature, Portrait of Jason (1967), was created
from a single, 12-hour interview with Jason Holliday, a gay African-American hustler and aspiring nightclub
performer. The film was a revelation and remains one of the most respected LGBT films. Doros and Heller will
give special emphasis to their current work, restoring Portrait of Jason, in a presentation on Fri., Nov 9, titled
“Where’s Shirley?”
Clarke’s fifth and final feature, which will be shown at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Ornette: Made in
America (1985), is a portrait of the eccentric musical genius from Fort Worth, Texas, Ornette Coleman. In Ornette,
Clarke found herself on the cutting edge of filmmaking again as she weaved documentary footage, video art,
music videos and architecture into a vibrant collage that mirrored Coleman’s groundbreaking jazz. It was her
swan song, as Clarke then retired, dying of a stroke in Boston in 1997.
The Connection
“Where’s Shirley?” presentation by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
CINEMA 16 | FRI NOV 9 | 1:00 PM | Q&A
Ornette: Made in America
SUNDANCE 6 | SAT NOV 10 | 6:30 PM | Q&A
CORPUS: A HOME MOVIE ABOUT SELENA with
Conversations with Intellectuals about Selena
SUNDANCE 6 | FRI NOV 9 | 3:00 PM | Q&A
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MEDUSA SMACK
by Vanessa Renwick
“The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of
it is occupied by jellyfish and things.” —Haruki Murakami
Encounters with interactive sound sculptures and video installations at Festival Headquarters (4411 Montrose)
and in various festival venues.
In Medusa Smack, viewers lie on soft pillows beneath a large jellyfishshaped screen on which images of Pacific sea nettles and moon jellyfish
in an aquarium are projected. Accompanying the video is a haunting,
meditative soundtrack composed and performed by Tara Jane O’Neil. The
score includes sounds recorded by Harry Bertoia on his own Sonambient
sound sculptures as well as a recording O’Neil made of Athanasius
Kircher’s Bell Wheel at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Graham
Bell described the experience as being akin to “the work of Pipilotti Rist
combined with a waking dream at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.” The video
has been screened at the Centre Pompidou, and the installation premiered
at the Portland2012 Biennial of Contemporary Art.
Vanessa Renwick is founder and janitor of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass,
living in Portland, Oregon. Working in experimental and poetic documentary
forms, her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships
between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. She is a naturalist,
born, not made: a true barefoot, cinematic rabble-rouser, of grand physique,
calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.
AMERICAN FALLS
by Phil Solomon
American Falls is a new multimedia installation by acclaimed experimental
filmmaker Phil Solomon, originally commissioned by the Corcoran Museum
in Washington, D.C.
Inspired by Frederic Edwin Church’s 1857 masterpiece Niagara, American
Falls explores the aspirations and struggles that lie at the heart of the
American Dream. Three digital projections depict Niagara Falls cascading
down the walls. Gradually, scenes ranging from everyday life to major
figures and events that shaped American history dissolve in and out of
the waters. Solomon’s resources for these images include Hollywood
cinema, found footage and documentary accounts of historical events.
Solomon’s innovative use of altered film emulsion transforms Niagara
Falls into a metaphoric landscape. Envisioning the currents of history as
a collective dream, American Falls considers many of the questions inherent
in our national identity.
Phil Solomon’s films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the
New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and
at many other prestigious national and international venues. He has won a
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1993) as well as grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Capital Foundation. His films are
included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute
of Chicago, among many other institutions.
Dialog
DIALOG
by The Light Surgeons
Dialog is an art installation by Christopher Thomas Allen, founder and
director of The Light Surgeons. Originally created as part of the Articulated
Exhibition at London’s OXO Tower in 2006, it has since toured internationally
to major galleries and art biennales.
In the installation a series of arguments and word association games are
taking place between two computer terminals that are placed inside an
ordinary office space setting. The original audio recordings were made
during a series of debates that Allen held in London, and the images that
appear on the computer screens have been selected using an Internet
search engine in relation to each word spoken.
The images form a visual cacophony and create a surreal narrative of
their own, abstracting the disembodied speakers. Life is breathed into the
inanimate computers, conveying the influence of technology on language
in our information-saturated culture.
American Falls
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The Light Surgeons’ work spans many diverse mediums: print, photography,
motion graphics, short films, exhibitions and installations. Over the past
10 years they have helped pioneer new forms of cross-platform practice,
particularly with their audiovisual performances, expanded cinema projects
and installations. Their work is exhibited at art museums and film festivals
internationally.
Medusa Smack
NIGHT HUNTER HOUSE
by Stacey Steers
“Night Hunter House” by Stacey Steers is an installation piece built to
accompany the animated film Night Hunter, composed of more than 4,000
collages Steers completed over a four-year period. From the outside, the
“dollhouse” is dark and Victorian in style. The rooms of the dollhouse are
elaborate, filled with miniature furniture, tiny light fixtures, antique lace, bird
eggs and, in each room, a small video screen playing a different loop from
the film. The film incorporates images of silent film star Lillian Gish in
Broken Blossoms and other silent classics, placing her in a nightmare
world filled with snakes, giant moths and pulsating eggs. The 16-minute
film will also be shown in the gallery.
Stacey Steers lives in Boulder, Colo., where she is on the faculty of the film
studies program at the University of Colorado. Her animated films have
been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, “New Directors/New Films” (the
Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) and at numerous
other festivals worldwide, winning national and international awards. She is
the recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital grant. In addition, she received a major
grant from the American Film Institute and has been awarded residencies at
Harvard University, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
Viewmaster
VIEWMASTER
a digital mutoscope by George Griffin
With Viewmaster, George Griffin has created a new digital context for his
classic 1976 animation that riffed on Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th-century
motion studies. In Griffin’s conceptually concise work, eight characters,
including a naked man, a naked woman, an anthropomorphic blob and a
stick-figure restaurant waiter are rendered in discrete drawings. The characters appear to continuously run in place and simultaneously chase after
one another. The digital mutoscope ironically presents a computer animation
in a 19th-century format.
George Griffin, who lives and works in New York, has been a professional
animator since 1968. Griffin’s irreverent and self-referential animations feature
series of vignettes that combine drawing, film, and photography. Griffin’s
work has been shown at museums such as the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and
the Museum of Modern Art. His films have also been shown at international
film festivals such as the Tribeca Film Festival, New York; the Cannes Film
Festival; and the Strasbourg International Film Festival.
Night Hunter House
Clam Bake
CLAM BAKE
by Joanna Priestley
Acclaimed independent filmmaker Joanna Priestley (the “queen of independent
animation,” according to Bill Plympton) created 60 animation sequences for
this interactive work. It starts with a group of static turquoise clams, olive figure
eights and a vermillion ball. As the participant opens the compositions,
pointed twangers, zoetropes and other surprises appear, all of which lead to
a wonderful animation at the end. Composer Seth Norman (Triage) created
a rich score for Clam Bake, which escalates as elements come to life. The
work is being distributed through the Apple App Store.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Joanna Priestley has produced and directed
24 films that have won awards at film festivals all over the world, including
the New York, Sundance and Telluride film festivals, among many others. In
addition to her festival screenings and retrospectives at venues such as
MoMA (New York City), REDCAT (Los Angeles) and the Pacific Film Archive
(Berkeley), her work has screened on both PBS and the BBC. Priestley has also
created animation for everything from Sesame Street to music videos for Tears
for Fears (“Sowing the Seeds of Love”) and Joni Mitchell (“Good Friends”).
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Print Generation
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
by Eve Sussman
Aurora Picture Show (2442 Bartlett)
FRIDAY, NOV 9, 6:00–9:00 PM (with artist’s talk and Q&A at 7:30)
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOV 10–11, 12:00–4:00 PM
This site will feature the glorious 16mm films of Andy Warhol, Phil Solomon,
Stan Brakhage, Stacey Steers, Vanessa Renwick and J. J. Murphy.
See catalogue for details on each program.
RARE WARHOL
THURS, NOV 8, 5:30 PM
preceded by a "Warhol Walk" from
"The Andy Monument" at CAMH at 4:45 PM!
Trojan Sun
Presented by J. J. Murphy
WHERE'S SHIRLEY?
FRI, NOV 9, 1:00 PM
A lecture-presentation by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
STACEY STEERS:
NIGHT HUNTER AND OTHER ANIMATIONS
FRI, NOV 9, 3:00 PM
PHIL SOLOMON:
COLLABORATIONS WITH STAN BRAKHAGE
Night Hunter
FRI, NOV 9, 5:00 PM
MEET THE MAKERS:
CINEMA ON THE VERGE PANEL
SAT, NOV 10, 11:00 AM
This film follows the observations and surveillance of the central protagonist, a geophysicist named Holz (Jeff Wood), stuck in a 1970s-looking
metropolis operated by the New Method Oil Well Cementing Co. Pushing
the envelope of cinematic form, this experimental film noir is edited live in
real time by a custom-programmed computer they call the “serendipity
machine.” whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir delivers a changing narrative
— culled from 3,000 clips, 80 voiceovers and 150 pieces of music —
that runs forever and never plays the same way twice. The unexpected
juxtapositions create a sense of suspense alluding to a story that the
viewer composes.
Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker who works independently and collectively with Rufus Corporation, an ad hoc “think tank” of
performers, artists, musicians, writers and programmers who collaborate
on films and artworks. Sussman and the company have created 89 Seconds
at Alcázar, The Rape of the Sabine Women, Yuri’s Office and
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir. Sussman and Rufus Corporation’s work has
been exhibited at the Reina Sofia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
IFC Center, Moscow International Film Festival, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other museums,
nonprofit art spaces and festivals internationally.
Join the Cinema on the Verge installation artists and filmmakers for a
conversation on experimental filmmaking today—differences between
theatrical and installation presentation and digital and 16mm formats.
VANESSA RENWICK:
THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF KICK ASS
Stan Brakhage
THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON
SAT, NOV 10, 4:00 PM
Meet the Makers:
Music and Film
SUN, NOV 11, 11:00 AM
whiteonewhite:algorithmicnoir
THE 16MM FILMS OF J. J. MURPHY
SUN, NOV 11, 2:00 pM
25TH DALLAS VIDEOFEST
ANIMATION SHOW
SUN, NOV 11, 4:15 PM
with Bart Weiss
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Rare Warhol
Question Bridge: Black Males
by Chris Johnson, Bayeté Ross Smith,
Hank Willis Thomas and Kamal Sinclair
Project Row Houses (Oct. 13–March 3),
with artist’s talk by Chris Johnson
FRIDAY, NOV 9, 1:00 PM
Question Bridge: Black Males is a project that critically explores
challenging issues within the black male community by instigating a
transmedia conversation among black men across the geographic,
economic, generational, educational and social strata of American society.
Question Bridge provides a safe setting for necessary, honest expression
and healing dialogue on themes that divide, unite and puzzle black males
in the United States. As part of Project Row Houses’ Round 37, Question
Bridge will occupy two houses, with the nationally acclaimed multimedia
installation reconfigured especially for the Project Row Houses venue.
Question Bridge has been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival, the
Brooklyn Museum and other museums and galleries, and via interactive
website, a mobile app, geolocative interactive hotspots, gallery kiosks,
live events and dialogues, and there is a Question Bridge curriculum for
high schools.
SAT, NOV 10, 1:30 PM
REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
Question Bridge
Chris Johnson originated the Question Bridge concept with a 1996 video
installation he created for the Museum of Photographic Arts and the
Malcolm X library in San Diego, Calif. Johnson is a photographic and
video artist, writer, curator and arts administrator. He wrote The Practical
Zone System for Film and Digital Photography, currently in its fifth edition.
He is a full professor of photography at the California College of the Arts
and served as president of the San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, chair
of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Commission and director of the Mother Jones
International Fund for Documentary Photography.
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SUPEREVERYTHING*
A live multimedia performance by The Light Surgeons with Ng Chor Guan
at the Asia Society, cosponsored with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOV 9–10, 7:30 PM
Each morning, November 8-11, festival guest artists and speakers will gather for lively conversations on how films of quality
manage to get made and seen and other topics of mutual, passionate interest. For the first two days, a variety of festival guests
will meet at the Grove Restaurant for Morning Coffee, sharing behind-the-scenes stories – along with coffee and pastries – with
audience members. On November 10 and 11, two panels of music documentarians and experimental media artists will get
together in the Cinema 16 screening room for focused discussions on their areas of filmmaking.
The weekend sessions are cosponsored with the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP). SWAMP promotes the creation
and appreciation of film, video and new media by providing independent makers with opportunities for professional development
and education, screenings, Texas PBS television broadcast, and a variety of other programs.
Meet The Makers: Morning Coffee
Nov 8, 8:00 – 9:30 AM, The Grove Restaurant
With multiple projections and a variety of media, SuperEverything* layers stunning
documentary footage and motion graphics with an original, live electronic
musical score. Filmed on location across Peninsular Malaysia and drawing on
the collaborative contributions of cutting-edge Malaysian artists (including visual
artist Fauzi Yusoff, composer Ng Chor Guan, and the Hands Percussion ensemble),
SuperEverything* weaves a poetic, audiovisual tapestry exploring both Malaysian
culture and larger themes of identity, ritual and place.
The Light Surgeons is a collective of pioneering multimedia artists founded in 1995 by
creative director Christopher Thomas Allen, based in East London. The collective now
functions as a media arts production company that develops new work in a diverse range
of mediums: print, photography, motion graphics, digital film production, exhibitions,
installations and groundbreaking live audiovisual performances. The group is best known
for their live cinema performances, in which they combine VJing with a narrative and original music to create fragmented, documentary-based performances.
The Light Surgeons’ work is exhibited at art museums and film festivals internationally.
An eclectic mix of filmmakers, artists, and distributors participating in this year’s festival will chat about the films they have brought to
Houston, sharing their experiences and life lessons with each other and the audience, waking up to another lively festival day. Free
continental breakfast and coffee provided.
Recently, The Light Surgeons have based their live cinema performances on specific locations, such as the 2007 EMPAC commission of “True Fictions” based
on Troy, NY, and “LDN-REDUX,” a 2011 multichannel performance that explores the landscape and architecture of London. As part of their residency at the
Mitchell Center, Christopher Thomas Allen and Tim Cowie will explore the theme of energy, in anticipation of a future new Houston-based commission.
Meet the Makers: Cinema On The Verge
Ng Chor Guan started his career as professional music composer during his years in London and gained attention for his work’s excellent integration of the classical
and the contemporary. His diverse professional credits include music for concerts, film, theatre, dance (including dance videos), exhibitions, and multimedia.
His music has been performed in a wide variety of styles, including orchestral, choral, chamber and electronic music. Chor Guan was invited to compose for the
Nov 10, 11:00 AM, Cinema 16 at 4411 Montrose
Participants: Phil Solomon, Stacey Steers, J. J. Murphy, The
Moderator: HCAS Artistic Director Richard Herskowitz
Light Surgeons, Vanessa Renwick, Chris Johnson
The artists involved in this year’s “Cinema on the Verge” installations and screenings will gather to talk about their regard for 16mm film
in the past and present, the gains and losses provided by digital formats as well as their opinions on galleries versus movie theaters as
sites for media experimentation.
Meet the Makers: Music And Film
Nov 11, 11:00 AM, Cinema 16 at 4411 Montrose
Participants: Lincoln Mayorga, Jorge Hinojosa, Neil Cantwell,
Moderator: Jim Barham (director, "For the Sake of the Song")
Hanly Banks
A diverse group of documentary filmmakers who have films in the 2012 HCAF program and current releases about classical, indie
rock, Japanese Buddhist, and rap music will discuss what their experiences have taught them about the symbiotic relationship between
cinema and music.
multimedia dance production A Deer of Nine Colors at the Silk Road Hong Kong Arts Festival 2009. He has also self-produced 11 albums.
A SUITCASE FULL OF CHOCOLATE: THE LIFE OF PIANIST SOFIA COSMA
With a piano performance by director Lincoln Mayorga
THURS, NOV 8, 7:00 PM Museum of Fine Arts Houston Brown Auditorium
Lincoln Mayorga’s documentary recounts the life of Russian-Jewish pianist Sofia
Cosma (1914–2011), Mayorga’s close friend for more than 30 years. A modest
woman of great personal character and the ultimate survivor, Cosma began her
brilliant career as a prize winner in the Viennese International Piano Competition
of 1933. She was on the brink of a major career when she was forced to flee the
Austrian Anschluss because of her Russian-Jewish heritage. Cosma returned to
her home in Latvia, but was arrested during Stalin’s own brutal pogrom and
sent to a Soviet labor camp. Ultimately, Cosma defected from the USSR to the
U.S. to gain greater freedom to pursue the long-delayed career she wanted and
deserved, and even returned triumphantly to Moscow to perform with the Moscow
Philharmonic in 1990.
A concert pianist himself, Mayorga will add to the documentary by playing
several works key to Cosma’s career, including selections by Chopin, Rachmaninoff
and Brahms. He will talk about the Russian pianists and their tradition, and the genesis of the film.
Lincoln Mayorga, a former staff pianist for Walt Disney Studios, contributed to the soundtracks of such motion pictures as Chinatown, Pete’s Dragon, The
Competition, The Rose and Ragtime, to name a few. As pianist, arranger, and conductor, Mayorga made many recordings with such artists as Johnny Mathis,
Barbra Streisand, Mel Tormé, Phil Ochs, Frank Zappa, and Quincy Jones. His performing collaborations have been with such musicians as Itzhak Perlman,
Richard Stoltzman, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gerard Schwarz, and many distinguished American orchestras. The Moscow Philharmonic invited him to perform
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Variations on “I Got Rhythm” in its first concert devoted to American music.
Hanly Banks
Stacey Steers
The Light Surgeons
Vanessa Renwick
Lincoln Mayorga
Jorge Hinojosa
“The eminent pianist and teacher Karl Ulrich Schnabel claimed few pianists could play classical and nonclassical styles equally well, with one exception: the
wonderfully named Lincoln Mayorga.”—Jed Distler, The Gramophone
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Saturday, November 10, 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM
300 Main Street
(across the street from Hotel Icon)
We hope to see you after the movies when Houston Cinema Arts Society members,
sponsors and guest artists gather for fun, food, DJ, dancing, libations and more sponsored
by CultureMap and Houston Modern Luxury Magazine.
Free to all Houston Cinema Arts Festival pass holders (must be wearing badge). Tickets for
non-members are available for purchase online or at the door.
Check www.cinemartsociety.org for full details.
LOVE, MARILYN
WITH DIRECTOR LIZ GARBUS
Wednesday, November 7, 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
THE Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
5:15 PM Red Carpet arrivals
6:30 PM Early arrival priority seating for All Access Pass holders
7:00 PM Screening of Love, Marilyn and Q&A with director Liz Garbus
9:00 – 11:00 PM Afterparty in the MFAH main foyer with music by Anthony Caceres
Delicacies provided by Whole Foods Market
Academy Award®–nominated director Liz Garbus draws upon never-beforeseen personal correspondence, diary entries, and letters to reveal an unknown
Marilyn Monroe. Garbus works with acclaimed actors, including Elizabeth
Banks, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood, who
each appear on screen to enact Marilyn’s words. Rare outtakes, home movies,
and photos complement the words to create a three-dimensional portrait of
Marilyn Monroe as a savvy and adventurous artist.
LIZ GARBUS
One of the most prolific American documentary filmmakers working today, Liz Garbus
has produced documentaries on a wide array of subjects including the US criminal
& juvenile justice system, the death penalty, the entertainment industry, marriage,
prostitution, teenagers living on society's fringes and the Holocaust. Garbus was
first nominated for an Academy Award® in 1998 for her film about prison life in
America, The Farm: Angola, USA, made in collaboration with Jonathan Stack. In 2011,
Garbus was nominated for her second Academy Award® for the Documentary short
Killing in the Name, which she produced with partner Rory Kennedy. Her 2011 hit,
Bobby Fischer Against the World, which opened the Premiere Documentary Section of
the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on HBO that June. Her directing
credits include The Execution of Wanda Jean (Sundance & HBO, 2002), Girlhood
(2003), The Nazi Officer’s Wife (A&E, 2003) Coma (HBO, 2007), Shouting Fire: Stories
from the Edge of Free Speech (Sundance & HBO, 2009), and There’s Something Wrong
with Aunt Diane (HBO, 2011).
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Free outdoor screening of An American in Paris
Special Skype welcome by Patricia Ward Kelly!
Sunday, November 11, 6:45 PM Free!
Come join us for a screening of An American in Paris in celebration of
Gene Kelly’s 100th birthday at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
Born on August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gene Kelly
transformed the American film musical with his athletic style and classical
ballet technique. A creative film director as well as actor, he combined
solo dancing, mass movement, and imaginative camera angles to create
unusually cinematic movie musicals. Kelly is best known for his directing,
acting, and umbrella dancing in Singin’ in the Rain, but the 1952
An American in Paris is as great a triumph. The film, which Kelly
starred in and choreographed, won Academy Awards® for Best Picture,
Screenplay, Musical Score, Costume Design, Cinematography, and
Art Direction.
Gene Kelly’s wife, Patricia Ward Kelly, will greet Houstonians and
introduce the film by Skype from her home in Los Angeles. Ms. Kelly
is a film historian and journalist who met Kelly in 1985, when she was
invited to write his memoirs, a job for which she recorded his words
nearly every day for over ten years, until his death in 1996. Currently,
she serves as Trustee of The Gene Kelly Image Trust and Creative Director
of ”Gene Kelly: The Legacy,” a corporation established to commemorate
Kelly’s centenary worldwide. She lives in Los Angeles and is completing
the book about her late husband.
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SUNDANCE 6
SUNDANCE 5
Wednesday
November 7
5:15 PM
RED CARPET ARRIVALS
7:00 PM
43 LOVE, MARILYN
WITH LIZ GARBUS
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
OPENING PARTY AT THE MFAH
THURSDAY
November 8
8:00 AM
11:00 AM
MEET THE MAKERS:
1 TRASH DANCE
MORNING COFFEE
With Andrew Garrison, ALLISON Orr,
Don Anderson
The Grove
1:00 PM
3 OCEAN
2:00 PM
4:45 PM
WARHOL WALK
3:30 PM
40 TATSUMI
18 IN BED WITH ULYSSES
Meet at CAMH Andy Monument, walk to
Rare Warhol show at Cinema 16!
7:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:15 PM
5 RARE WARHOL
6 BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING
with J. J. Murphy
4 A SUITCASE FULL
9:15 PM
OF CHOCOLATE
9:30 PM
8 THE CONNECTION
With Lincoln Mayorga
2 AL MÁS ALLÁ and MY McQUEEN
with Dennis Doros AND AMY HELLER
FRIDAY
November 9
6:30 PM
17 The Sapphires
with Wayne White
with Lourdes Portillo
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
CHRIS JOHNSON:
ARTIST'S TALK ON QUESTION BRIDGE
Project Row Houses
1:00 PM
28 WHERE'S SHIRLEY?
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
15 SUPEREVERYTHING*
with The Light Surgeons
7:30 PM
7 Caesar Must Die
with Eve Sussman
AURORA PICTURE SHOW
3:00 PM
11 NIGHT HUNTER AND
OTHER ANIMATIONS
5:00 PM
12 PHIL SOLOMON:
COLLABORATIONS WITH
STAN BRAKHAGE
SATURDAY
November 10
THE VERGE ARTISTS
1:30 PM
20 VANESSA RENWICK: THE
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF KICK ASS
4:00 PM
23 REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMOn
with The Light Surgeons
13 CORPUS and CONVERSATIONS WITH
INTELLECTUALS ABOUT SELENA
7:00 PM
7:15 PM
39 CONVERSATION WITH
41 A Late Quartet
ROBERT REDFORD
9:45 PM
16 Violeta Went to Heaven
11:00 AM
19 BIG BOY
with Thomas Hackett, Dawnica Mathis,
Willie Rockefeller
2:00 PM
21 UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY
OF ACT UP
7:30 PM
6:45 PM
44 Stand Up Guys
with Fisher Stevens
36 ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP
with Jorge Hinojosa
CINEMA ARTS CELEBRATION
SUNDAY
November 11
300 Main Street
11:00 AM
34 A Simple Life
with Roger Lee
2:00 PM
9 THE 16MM FILMS OF J. J. MURPHY
32 BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN
With Lisa Immordino Vreeland
THE POETRY DEAL
31 25TH DALLAS VideoFest
6:45 PM
35 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Miller Outdoor Theatre
3:45 PM
29 POETRY OF RESILIENCE and
4:15 PM
4:30 PM
45 DIANA VREELAND:
THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL
1:00 PM
17 The Sapphires
2:00 PM
with J. J. Murphy
7:00 PM
9:45 PM
27 APOCALYPSE: A BILL
CALLAHAN TOUR FILM
with Hanly Banks
Meet the Makers: Music and Film
1:00 PM
30 MUGARITZ BSO
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22 KANZEON
WITH Neil Cantwell
6:30 PM
26 ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
9:15 PM
10:00 PM
1:00 PM
33 GOING UP THE STAIRS: PORTRAIT
OF AN UNLIKELY IRANIAN ARTIST
3:00 PM
with Jim Hubbard, Dean Daderko, Jenni Sorkin
with Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
25 Silver Linings Playbook
With Andrew Garrison, ALLISON Orr,
Don Anderson
with Lourdes Portillo
9:10 PM
11:00 AM
7:30 PM
2:30 PM
1 TRASH DANCE
3:00 PM
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Meet the Makers: CINEMA ON
15 SUPEREVERYTHING*
with Alfred Cervantes
with Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
WITH STACEY STEERS
14 whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
37 Texas Filmmakers Showcase
10 LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING)
ANIMATION SHOW
WITH BART WEISS
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
24 QUARTET
38 Pictures of Superheroes
with Don Swaynos and John Merriman
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1 TRASH DANCE
With director Andrew Garrison, choreographer
Allison Orr, and crane operator Don Anderson
SUNDANCE 6 | THUR NOV 8 | 11:00 AM | Q&A
SUNDANCE 5 | Fri NOV 9 | 2:30 PM | Q&A
Shot in Austin, Texas, Trash Dance shadows choreographer Allison Orr as
she creates an unforgettable performance piece with garbage trucks and
the men and women who pick up our trash.
Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Garrison travels with Orr as she joins
city sanitation workers on their daily routes to listen, learn and ultimately
convince them to collaborate in a unique dance performance. Hard working, often carrying a second job, their stories are moving, engaging and
sincere. After months of rehearsal, two dozen trash collectors and their
trucks perform an extraordinary spectacle. On an abandoned airport
runway, thousands of people arrive to see how in the world a garbage
truck can dance. Garrison creates an inspiring, beautiful film detailing
Orr’s innovative efforts to create a truly unique choreographic work.
The Austin American-Statesman notes, “With national discussions swirling
around the one-percent versus the 99-percent, Garrison’s thoughtful, eloquent
documentary illuminates the reality that all work matters and has dignity,
no matter the invisibility of the labor.” The film won the Audience Award
at the Silverdocs and Full Frame Documentary Film Festivals and Special
Jury Recognition at SXSW.
Andrew Garrison is an independent filmmaker based in Austin, Texas,
who works in both documentary and fiction. His past films include the
documentary feature Third Ward TX (2007) and the narrative triptych The
Wilgus Stories (2000), both of which premiered at SXSW and aired on
PBS. Garrison’s work has earned him Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEA and
AFI Fellowships, and his films have screened at Sundance, SXSW and the
New York Film Festival.
Allison Orr was named Best Choreographer of 2003 and 2008 by the
Austin Critics Table. Her most recent large-scale work, The Trash Project,
was named the #1 Arts Event of 2009 by the Austin American-Statesman,
the #1 Dance Event by the Austin Chronicle, and was awarded Most
Outstanding Dance Concert of 2009 by the Austin Critics Table. Her work
has been funded by the City of Austin, the Texas Commission on the Arts,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Austin Community Foundation,
and the City of Venice, Italy.
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MY MCQUEEN
With director Lourdes Portillo
After absconding with illegal drugs that wash ashore on the Mayan
coast, three Mexican fishermen sell the drugs to the corrupt local police.
Their lucrative transgression, however, carries a particular burden and
an ominous warning: “Whatever comes from the ocean, must return to
the ocean.”
To investigate this tumultuous and transformative moment in Mexico,
director Lourdes Portillo humorously employs a fictional crew led by a vain
and blindly arrogant documentary filmmaker, played by famed Mexican
actress Ofelia Medina. Portillo, previously threatened by drug traffickers
for her unflinching investigation of the disappearances of young Mexican
women in her film Señorita Extraviada, uses this self-reflexive device both
to protect herself and her crew during the shoot and to make fun of the
heroic status bestowed on contemporary documentary filmmakers.
Robert Avila of SF360 says, “Al Más Allá … advances the filmmaker’s selfaware and searching style in an ostensibly playful yet subtle and far-reaching
43-minute investigation.”
This film will be shown with My McQueen (2004, 20 min.), in which Portillo
unravels the influence of Steve McQueen, his silent character in Bullitt (1968),
masculinity, the city of San Francisco and ethnicity. It is a witty, exciting work
and a reflection on filmmaking itself.
USA, 2008
Director: Lourdes Portillo
Screenwriter: Lourdes Portillo
Cinematographer: Kyle Kibbe and Antonio Scarlata
Composer: Todd Boekelheide
Editor: Vivien Hillgrove Gilliam
Cast: Ofelia Medina
Running Time: 62 min
3 OCEAN
SUNDANCE 5 | THUR NOV 8 | 1:00 PM
Mercier “Merce” Cunningham was an acclaimed American dancer
and choreographer who, during his legendary career, had a profound
influence on modern dance. Less than a year before Cunningham’s death
at 90, he traveled with his company to the bottom of the granite Rainbow
Quarry in Waite Park, Minnesota, for the final performance of his magnum
opus, Ocean. Shot in the round and accompanied by a 150-member
orchestra with musicians from the St. Cloud Symphony and the College
of St. Benedict, the performance was filmed by director and visual artist
Charles Atlas.
Atlas’ film opens by setting the stage for the performance. Crews work
to transform the quarry, each job and action creating a rhythm and an
anticipation of the unforgettable event to come. The lion’s share of the film
faithfully documents the 90-minute performance, bursting with extraordinary
choreography and Atlas’ unique and multiple viewpoints.
Alastair Macaulay for the New York Times notes, “One of the most disarming
effects in Mr. Atlas’s Ocean is that at times the picture suddenly splits,
vertically, into two images. Sometimes the division between right and left
is just a minimal difference of angle and level, as if the view had suddenly
been changed by a geological rift.”
Ocean is one of Cunningham’s most ambitious and visually arresting
works. Atlas collaborated with Cunningham on multiple films through
the choreographer’s 60-year career, each piece standing as a vital and
imaginative interpretation of Cunningham’s important works.
USA, 2011
Director: Charles Atlas
Composer: David Tudor and Andrew Culver
Running time: 100 min.
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CHOCOLATE
With piano performance by director
Lincoln Mayorga
MFAH | THUR NOV 8 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
When Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, a young prize-winning Jewish pianist
was forced to abandon her musical studies in Vienna and return to her
home in Latvia. There she was arrested and sent to a Soviet labor camp,
where she endured seven years of hunger and cold.
Thirty years in the making, A Suitcase Full of Chocolate recounts the
extraordinary story of Sofia Cosma, a brilliant pianist whose career was
suppressed by the Nazis and later by the Soviets. Against incomprehensible
odds, Cosma survived World War II and became a renowned musician
and teacher, as well as a devoted mother.
Director Mayorga began filming his documentary in 1980 at the time of
Cosma’s defection from Romania to the United States. His inspiring portrait
presents a lesson in freedom, artistry and humanity. Through incredible
adversity, this musician made music at the highest level, cared for her
family and kept her keen sense of humor.
Lincoln Mayorga is a noted studio musician in Hollywood, a classical concert
pianist and an arranger and conductor for Phil Ochs, Frank Zappa and
many other notable musicians. Mayorga will add to the documentary by
playing several works key to Cosma’s career, including selections by Chopin,
Rachmaninoff, and Brahms. He will talk about the Russian pianists and their
tradition, and the genesis of the film.
USA, 2011
Director: Lincoln Mayorga
USA, 2012
Director: Andrew Garrison
Cinematographer: Andrew Garrison
Composer: Graham Reynolds
Editor: Angela Pires
Cast: Virginia Alexander, Don Anderson, Lee Houston, Ivory Jackson Jr.,
Orange Jefferson, Allison Orr, Anthony Phillips, Don Anderson
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5 RARE WARHOL
Presented by J. J. Murphy
CINEMA 16 | THUR NOV 8 | 5:30 PM | Q&A
J. J. Murphy, author of The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy
Warhol (2012, University of California Press), will introduce and discuss
two rarely screened 16mm films by Andy Warhol. Warhol, one of the 20th
century’s major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds
of films, many of them — Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and
Blue Movie — seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of
American cinema. In his comprehensive study of Warhol’s films, Murphy’s
close readings of the films illuminate Warhol’s brilliant collaborations
with writers, performers, other artists and filmmakers. The book further
demonstrates how Warhol’s use of the camera transformed the events
being filmed and how his own unique brand of psychodrama created
dramatic tension within the works.
––Bufferin (1966, 33 min.)
In this multilayered portrait by Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga reads
poems and diaries in which the well-known pain reliever replaces the
names of actual participants. As a result, the viewer is forced to listen
carefully to clues to decipher the names and context of Malanga’s
gossipy revelations about various people, including the Pop artist.
––The Velvet Underground in Boston (1967, 33 min.)
The Velvet Underground in Boston, which Warhol shot during a concert
at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques —
sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that
create single-frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flashbulbs
going off — that mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding
Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide
shows, multiscreen projections, liberal use of amphetamines and overpowering sound of The Velvet Underground.
Before tonight's program, you can participate in the Warhol Walk up
Montrose Avenue. Gather at 4:45 PM outside of the Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston (CAMH), where CAMH director Bill Arning will talk
about Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument, which is on temporary loan
to CAMH. Viewers will then march up Montrose to the Cinema on the
Verge gallery and Cinema 16 Screening Room at 4411 Montrose, where
Rare Warhol will begin at 5:30 PM.
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6 BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING
With Wayne White
Part biography, part live performance, Beauty Is Embarrassing tells the
irreverent and inspiring story of visual artist and raconteur Wayne White.
White began his career in New York as a cartoonist, where he quickly
found success as one of the creators of Pee-wee’s Playhouse. He went on
to design and animate for children’s shows such as Beakman’s World and
music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins and Peter Gabriel.
From there, White’s career stalled. He couldn’t find satisfying work and
floundered for a decade, mostly painting in his basement workshop. It
wasn’t until the mid-2000s that one of his paintings caught the eye of
the Los Angeles art world, and his new career was born. White’s word
paintings, featuring pithy and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted
onto vintage landscape paintings, have made him a darling of collectors.
White had a well-received show at the Rice Gallery in Houston in 2009.
Berkeley’s film is a tribute to White’s great sense of humor, creativity and
general sense of adventure. Los Angeles Magazine’s critic wrote: “This
movie ought to be required viewing, not just for Oscar® voters but for every
aspiring artist wondering how to build a life doing what they love. Beauty
is Embarrassing isn’t simply a testament to the talents of Wayne White; it’s
a snapshot of the ways in which creativity and the business of daily living
can be inseparably fused.”
Spread the word: Beauty is Embarrassing is coming to 14 Pews starting
November 19!
USA, 2012
Director: Neil Berkeley
Cinematographer: Neil Berkeley, Chris Bradley
Screenwriter: Chris Bradley, Kevin Klauber and Neil Berkeley
Editor: Chris Bradley
Composer: Tim Rutili
Cast: Wayne White, Matt Groening, Paul Reubens, Todd Oldham, Mimi Pond
7 CAESAR MUST DIE
MFAH | FRI NOV 9 | 7:30 PM
Winner of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear, Caesar Must Die is the latest offering from Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Inventive and beautifully composed, the film centers on a prison production of William Shakespeare’s
Julius Caesar.
Like many films of its kind, we journey from auditions to rehearsals to the
actual performance on stage. What sets the cast of this play apart, however, is that it consists entirely of inmates from Rebibbia Prison in Rome.
The actors are all criminals convicted of murder, drug trafficking and other
serious crimes.
Shakespeare’s themes of power, loyalty, betrayal, honor and revenge
infuse the play, but also the film. The complex connection between life and
art is ever present, and as the inmates get deeper into the production, they
begin to recognize personal failures and successes, bringing new meaning
to many of their lives.
Described as “humane, intelligent and affecting” by Time Out London,
Caesar Must Die is considered one of the Tavianis’ most significant films to
date. The brothers have created a captivating work, resonant with tragedy
and triumph.
Italy, 2012
Director: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
Cinematographer: Simone Zampagni
Screenwriter: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
Editor: Roberto Perpignani
Composer: Giuliano Taviani and Carmelo Travia
Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri
8 THE CONNECTION
With Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
Shirley Clarke’s groundbreaking film The Connection is one of the most
important and fascinating films of the American independent feature film
movement. Created by a woman director, at a time when they were in very
short supply, Shirley Clarke’s film shattered stereotypes in just about every
conceivable way — and yet the film remained unseen for many years.
Clarke’s first feature, The Connection, is based on the controversial play by
Jack Gelber, performed by The Living Theatre. A play within a play within
a jazz concert, it portrays a group of drug addicts, some of them jazz
musicians, waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection.
A producer and a writer, meanwhile, enter their lives to study them and
write a play about them. Clarke changed the character of Jim Dunn from
stage producer to a young, preppy filmmaker out to make a name for
himself by documenting the “scene.” With this character, Clarke added a
level of humor by poking fun at the new cinéma vérité movement.
A hit at Cannes, the film was promptly banned by government censor
boards for indecent language, and a struggle ensued to have it theatrically
screened in the United States. Receiving its theatrical run an untimely
two years later, it failed at the box office. The film, however, remains an
essential work among filmmakers today.
Arthur Ornitz’s black-and-white cinematography sparkles on the screen,
and the performances of Freddie Redd and saxophone legend Jackie
McLean sound impeccable in the new UCLA restoration.
USA, 1961
Director: Shirley Clarke
Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz
Screenwriter: Jack Gelber
Editor: Shirley Clarke
Composer: Freddie Redd
Cast: Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow, Jerome Raphael
co-presenting Partner: Rice Gallery
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9 THE 16MM FILMS OF
J. J. MURPHY
with J. J. Murphy
CINEMA 16 | SUN NOV 11 | 2:00 PM | Q&A
J. J. Murphy is now a well-regarded critic and scholar of independent
film, having published two books, Me and You and Memento and Fargo:
How Independent Screenplays Work and The Black Hole of the Camera:
The Films of Andy Warhol, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. However, in
the 1970s, he was best known as a creator of experimental films, including
Print Generation, which won a major prize at the International Experimental
Film Competition in Belgium in 1975. What is less well known is that
this classic structural film was constructed in Houston, while Murphy was
teaching at the University of St. Thomas. Murphy will present two of his
classic films, both meticulously restored by the Academy Film Archive.
––Sky Blue Water Light Sign (1972, 9 min.)
“Sky Blue Water Light Sign is best seen in total innocence. My guess is
that if one knows what he or she is looking at before seeing this little
film, half of its excitement and a good deal of its meaning disappear.
Seen in total innocence, though (and maybe I’m exaggerating the
importance of this), Sky Blue Water is a wonder. With Gottheim’s Blues
and Frampton’s Lemon (for Robert Huot), it is one of the happiest, most
uplifting short films I’ve ever seen.” — Scott MacDonald
––Print Generation (1973–74, 16mm color/sound 50 min.)
Print Generation is J. J. Murphy’s seminal exploration of film and memory.
Taking one minute of footage and reprinting it 50 times, Murphy pushed
the limits of film’s materiality, radically transforming the image to create
a profound journey from abstraction to representation and back again.
Print Generation harnesses image and sound deterioration to elegantly
address the intricacies of perception, memory and time. In the Berkeley
Barb at the time of the film’s release, reviewer Mike Reynolds wrote,
“Print Generation is a masterfully accomplished film. With it, Murphy
sums up concerns that have marked independent filmmaking since the
late Sixties: intrinsic film structure and personal diary.”
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10 LE TABLEAU
(THE PAINTING)
SUNDANCE 5 | FRI NOV 9 | 11:00 AM
A visual feast suitable for all ages, Le Tableau is an animated tale in which
characters from an unfinished painting go in search of their creator and
their true colors.
In this inventive and beautifully crafted film, the Halfies (characters left
unfinished) find themselves at odds with the Alldunns (completed figures
who claim superiority) and Sketchies (charcoal outlines). Chastised for
her forbidden love for an Alldunn and shamed by her unadorned face,
Halfie Claire runs away into the forest. Her beloved Ramo and best friend
Lola journey after her, arriving finally at the very edge of the painting —
where they tumble through the canvas and into the Painter’s studio. The
abandoned workspace is strewn with paintings, each containing its own
animated world — and in a feast for both the eyes and imagination, they
explore first one picture and then another, attempting to discover just what
the Painter has in mind for all his creations.
A truly poetic work by 74-year-old master animator Jean-François Laguionie, Le Tableau operates on multiple levels, exploring themes of intolerance,
mystery and self-discovery while enchanting the eyes with visual artistry.
Variety writes: “[This] consistently enjoyable, inventive and beautifully
crafted tale is a color riot suitable for all ages … Each painting is rendered
in its own unique style, going back to the work of Matisse, Pierre Bonnard
and Andre Derain, with Laguionie playing throughout with depth (often
created using overlapping surfaces instead of light). Vivid colors, often
applied with visible brushstrokes, and inventive decors are a constant feast
for the eyes.”
Comment: A painted nude in the studio comes to life and becomes a
talking character.
France, Belgium, 2011
Director: Jean-François Laguionie
Screenwriter: Jean-François Laguionie and Anik Leray
Editor: Emmanuel de Miranda
Composer: Pascal Le Pennec
Cast: Thierry Jahn, Jessica Monceau, Julien Bouanich, Céline RONTÉ
11 STACEY STEERS:
NIGHT HUNTER AND OTHER
ANIMATIONS
with animator Stacey Steers
Stacey Steers will present a program of her animated films and will guide
viewers on a tour of her new installation piece, Night Hunter House, built
to accompany the artist’s animated film Night Hunter, which is on view in
the “Cinema on the Verge” gallery at 4411 Montrose. Night Hunter
(2011, 16 min.) comprises cut-up and reassembled 18th- and 19th-century
engraved book illustrations depicting dense forests and brooding interiors,
and resurrects silent film star Lillian Gish, who sews and cooks but also
contends with giant worms, swarming moths, and a menacing snake.
The film took Steers four years to make and has been screened at the
Sundance, Telluride and AFI film festivals. Steers will also present her earlier
collage films Phantom Canyon (2006, 10 min.). Additionally, she will present
on 16mm her film Totem (1999, 11 min.) which, unfolding like a dream,
explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Narrated by
Stan Brakhage, Watunna (1990, 24 min.) takes off from the creation
myths of the Yekuana Indians of Venezuela and provides a transparent
look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from
their experience.
Stacey Steers’ films are created from thousands of handmade works on
paper, whether collages or individually painted drawings. Her process
is both labor intensive and intuitive. She spends several years creating
artwork for each film, typically eight distinct, unique images for every
second of animation. After earning her advanced animation certificate
from the Zagreb Film Studio in Croatia, Stacey Steers acquired her
BFA degree in fine arts and film from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Her animations have screened at numerous film festivals and art venues,
including New Directors New Films in New York City and the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Steers is also a recipient of a 2012
Creative Capital grant.
12 PHIL SOLOMON:
COLLABORATIONS WITH
STAN BRAKHAGE
with Phil Solomon
Phil Solomon, one of the very few artists to have (visually) collaborated
with legendary avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003), will
present a very special evening of their work together, featuring Seasons…,
Elementary Phrases and Concrescence. Solomon will analyze sections of
Seasons... frame by frame, and show home movies — excerpts from the
Brakhage Sunday salons — and offer some rare surprises in celebration
of what would have been Brakhage’s 80th birthday in January of 2013.
“At some point in the future, when authoritative histories of twentiethcentury art begin to be written with the wise judgment that only distance
from the present time can confer, I believe that Stan Brakhage will loom
not only as one of the very greatest of filmmakers but as one of the major
figures in all the arts. The sheer virtuosity of his work, the sensual beauty
of his films’ shapes and colors and textures, his creation of a unique and
complex kind of visual music (most of his films are silent because the music
comes from the screen), his appeal to the viewer as individual rather than
as a member of a crowd, the ecstatic unpredictability of his spaces and
rhythms, all assure the monumental importance of his close to 400 films,
both individually and as a body of work,” from “Stan Brakhage: A Brief
Introduction” at www.fredcamper.com.
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13 CORPUS: A HOME
MOVIE ABOUT SELENA
With director Lourdes Portillo
Perceptive and compassionate, Portillo’s tribute to Tejana superstar Selena
emphasizes her transformation from a popular entertainer into a Chicana
cultural icon turned modern-day saint. Murdered at the age of 23 by the
president of her fan club, Selena’s fame endures today. Authentic home
videos, news stories, concert footage and music videos are interspersed
with commentary from her father, her sister, Latina intellectuals and ordinary people from her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, all exploring and
affirming the singer’s lasting influence.
“Corpus traces Selena’s life from a Latina feminist perspective… Portillo’s
film makes astute and sometimes pointed observations about celebrity,
class, beauty, fame, and culture,” notes Belena Acosta of the Austin Chronicle.
Shown with Corpus is Conversations with Intellectuals about Selena (1999,
58 min.). An outrageous and lively exchange among leading Chicana
intellectuals who debate the value of Tejana icon Selena’s status as a role
model, the film offers a fresh look at the voice and image of this uniquely
enduring Mexican-American icon.
USA, 1999
Director: Lourdes Portillo
14 whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
With director Eve Sussman
AURORA PICTURE SHOW | FRI NOV 9 | 6:00 – 9:00 PM
with artist talk at 7:30 PM
Pushing the envelope of cinematic form, this experimental film noir is
edited live in real time by a custom-programmed computer they call the
“serendipity machine.” whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir delivers a changing
narrative — culled from 3,000 clips, 80 voiceovers and 150 pieces
of music — that runs forever and never plays the same way twice. The
unexpected juxtapositions create a sense of suspense, alluding to a story
that the viewer composes.
The film follows the observations and surveillance of the central protagonist,
a geophysicist named Holz (Jeff Wood), stuck in a 1970s-looking metropolis
operated by the New Method Oil Well Cementing Co. Voiceovers and
dialogues forge the implied narrative — wire-tapped telephone conversations,
reel-to-reel tapes, snippets of a job interview between Holz and his
employer and a mysterious woman referred to simply as “Dispatch.” It
becomes evident that the character is controlled by the city and the factory
he is working in, as the course of the story is controlled by the machine that
edits the film.
whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir — inspired by the Russian Suprematist quests
for transcendence, pure space and artistic higher ground — was created
with a small crew, one American actor and local actors hired en route.
Filmed over two years, the artists journeyed through Central Asia, ending
up in a 50-year-old utopian town. The fictional location is named — in a
nod to Alphaville — City-A.
Artist Eve Sussman will interrupt the film at 7:30 PM to discuss and take
questions about her project, after which the endless film will resume until
9:00 PM. There will be additional viewing times to experience the film
installation at the Aurora Picture Show (2442 Bartlett) on Saturday and
Sunday, Nov 10 and 11, 12:00 – 4:00 PM.
15 SUPEREVERYTHING*
Live performance by The Light Surgeons with
musician Ng Chor Guan
ASIA SOCIETY | FRI AND SAT, NOV 9–10 | 7:30 PM
Multisensory, dazzling and explosive, SuperEverything* is the latest live
cinema performance project by The Light Surgeons, a UK-based art
collective, exploring the relationship between identity, ritual and place. The
project explores these universal themes using a combination of observational
documentary footage, motion graphics, creative programming and original
music production to create a poetic audiovisual tapestry that forms a rich,
kaleidoscopic view of the cultural landscape of Malaysia. The project was
filmed on location across Peninsular Malaysia and brings together a collection
of Malaysia’s cutting-edge musical and visual artists, including musician
Ng Chor Guan, who will perform live at this performance.
SuperEverything* explores who we are as human beings and how our
complex identities are connected to our everyday environments through a
multitude of rituals. It is a journey through Malaysia’s past to understand
our shared present.
Founded in 1995 by artist and filmmaker Christopher Thomas Allen, The Light
Surgeons is a pioneering multimedia production company that continues
to redefine multimedia artistry with its audiovisual performances, cinema
projects and installations.
Creative Director: Christopher Thomas Allen
Leading Artists: Christopher Thomas Allen and Tim Cowie
Camera: Christopher Thomas Allen, Tim Cowie, Fauzi Yusoff, Fariz Hanapiah
Editing and Post-Production: Christopher Thomas Allen, Tim Cowie, Fauzi
Yusoff, Fariz Hanapiah, Jai Rafferty, Helen Omand
16 VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN
sundance 5 | FRI NOV 9 | 9:45 PM
Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize at this year’s
festival, Andrés Wood’s unconventional biopic about famed Chilean folk
singer Violeta Parra captures the passion, the contradiction and the talent
of her extraordinary life. Born in 1917, Violeta grew up an impoverished
child with an alcoholic father in southern Chile. As a young woman she
traveled with a musical troupe, learning and performing traditional songs
from around the country. She eventually moved to Europe with a lover,
where she furthered her musical style and became an accomplished painter
as well, selected to exhibit her paintings in the Louvre.
Wood’s portrait pushes past traditional biopics with an impressionistic
structure highlighting all the major moments in Parra’s life. We see her as
a child, in Paris as a young woman in love, performing and refining her
folk style throughout Chile, and we glimpse her tumultuous private life.
Francisca Gavilán delivers a revelatory performance as Violeta, but music
is perhaps the real star of Wood’s film. Violeta’s indelible songs infuse
each frame, expressing a deep love of country and a consistent political
message against social injustice.
Chile, Argentina, Brazil, 2011
Director: Andrés Wood
Cinematographer: Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
Screenwriter: Eliseo Altunaga
Editor: Andrea Chignoli
Composer: Violeta Parra
Cast: Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Christian Quevedo
USA, 2011
Director: Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation
Cinematographer: Sergei Franklin, Angela Christlieb
Screenwriter: Eve Sussman, Kevin Messman, Jeff Wood
Editor: Kevin Messman
Composer: Algis Kizys, Colleen Burke, Matthew Smith, Volkmar Klien,
Lumendog
Cast: Jeff Wood, Marina Federenko
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17 THE SAPPHIRES
A combination of comedy, heart and romance with an unbeatable soul
music soundtrack, cheered by festival audiences in Cannes and Toronto,
The Sapphires follows a quartet of young, talented singers from a remote
Aboriginal mission who are plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes. It is 1968 and a new world of friendship,
love, war and music explodes for the girls as they grasp the chance of a
lifetime — entertaining the troops in Vietnam.
The Sapphires is an adaptation of the hugely successful Australian stage
musical of the same name, and is inspired by the remarkable true story
of writer Tony Briggs’ mother and her family. The four Sapphires are
irresistibly played by AFI Award–winner Deborah Mailman, Australian
pop sensation Jessica Mauboy and newcomers Miranda Tapsell and Shari
Sebbens. Bridesmaids actor Chris O’Dowd, as their manager, delivers a
tour de force comic performance that is at once incredibly funny, likeable
and genuine.
The 10-minute standing ovation this film received at Cannes began the
international stampede that is likely to sweep the U.S. when the Weinstein
Company opens the film here this winter.
Australia, 2012
Director: Wayne Blair
Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton
Screenwriter: Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson
Editor: Dany Cooper
Composer: Cezary Skubiszewski
Cast: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens,
Miranda Tapsell
18 IN BED WITH ULYSSES
In Bed With Ulysses details the provocative story of how James Joyce’s
novel Ulysses, widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction,
came into existence. Revisiting the toll it took on its author and his family
and the shockwaves it caused around the world, the documentary expertly
explores one of the loftiest of literary achievements.
With insightful interviews from Irish novelist Edna O’Brien and IrishAmerican novelist and National Book Award winner Colum McCann,
In Bed With Ulysses reveals the dramatic human story behind the novel’s
origins. The film examines many of the people and places involved in the
novel’s creation, but also visits with notorious characters from the narrative
itself, including Molly Bloom, played by Kathleen Chalfant, grand dame of the
New York stage (Angels in America, Wit). Six male actors play different
versions of Molly’s husband, the lonely and loving Leopold Bloom.
The filmmakers succeed in revealing how astonishingly accessible and
amusing the language of the novel is and how it is a work to be enjoyed
by all. The New York Times notes, “The movie lets fresh air into Ulysses like
a gust from the Irish Sea.”
USA, 2012
Director: Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna
Cinematographer: Michael Berz, Marc Dagenaar, Scott Sinkler
Screenwriter: Alan Adelson
Editor: Kate Taverna
Composer: Ilir Bajri, Mark De Gli Antoni, Joel Goodman, Dave Soldier
Cast: Michael Barsanti, Sylvia Beach, Allyn Burrows, Kathleen Chalfant
co-presenting Partner: Inprint
19 BIG BOY
WITH DIRECTOR THOMAS HACKETT, PRODUCER
WILLIE ROCKEFELLER, AND ACTRESS DAWNICA MARTIN
SUNDANCE 6 | SAT NOV 10 | 11:00 AM | Q&A
Winner of First Prize at the Athens International Film Festival, Thomas
Hackett’s Austin production Big Boy tells the sometimes funny, sometimes
painful story of what happens to a family and to lifelong friendships when
a divorced mother joins her son’s struggling rock band.
Big Boy is a coming-of-age story; only here the person coming of age is a
46-year-old divorced mother. Holly Grace doesn’t realize just how empty
her life has become until she gets lured into singing in her son’s garage
band. Her 22-year-old son David isn’t thrilled with the idea of being
the enabler of his mother’s self-discovery, not to mention her romantic
dalliance with his best friend. But David has his own growing up to do.
Still living at home, he has thrown everything he has into being the next
Kurt Cobain. While his mother struggles to embrace her talent, long-buried
resentments in their relationship come to the surface.
The film features music by talented local Austin singer/songwriter Hilary
York, whose style sets the tone of the film. Playing the character of Holly,
York is a natural: her voice is bluesy, suggestive of hard-earned wisdom.
As she gets over a husband who left her for a younger woman, Holly is
transformed when she sings.
USA, 2012
Director: Thomas Hackett
Screenwriter: Thomas Hackett
Music: Hilary York
Cast: Will Brittain, Chris Doubek, Jordan Jones, Hilary York, Dawnica Martin
20 VANESSA RENWICK:
THE OREGON DEPARTMENT
OF KICK ASS
Cinema 16 | SAT NOV 10 | 1:30 PM | Q&A
Vanessa Renwick has been self-producing films and videos in her own
indomitable style since the early 1980s. Her DIY aesthetic can present a
challenge to an indie film scene that sometimes seems to care more about
slickness and commercial success than originality of spirit. The Oregon
Department of Kick Ass is an eclectic sampling of her very best work,
spanning more than 20 years. It will be fast and aggressive, slow and
contemplative, hard to pin down — and harder to forget.
––Britton, South Dakota (2003, 9 min.)
Ivan Besse was the Strand movie theater manager in Britton, South Dakota, during the Depression. He had a 16mm camera and went about
town shooting people at their various activities during the day.
––Toxic Shock (1983, 16mm, 3 min.)
Renwick’s experimental response to sweating out near death with Toxic
Shock Syndrome.
––Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal (2005, 6 min.)
A mesmerizing stare with a hypnotic score at the most efficient grain
terminal at the port of Vancouver, B.C.
––Portrait #2: Trojan (2006, 5 min.)
A monumental nuclear power plant tower is imploded and Renwick
calmly documents its demise. Stunning to watch and perfectly blunt.
––Portrait #3: House of Sound (2009, 11 min.)
Circling the empty corner where a historic Portland record store once
stood among a strip of black jazz clubs, Portrait #3: House of Sound
is a testimonial to a community and cultural space recently demolished.
––Richart (2001, 23 min.)
A tour through the mind of obsessive collagist and front yard artist
Richard Tracy.
––SF HITCH (1981/2012, 5 min.)
Renwick and her wolf dog, Zeb, set off hitching in the early 80's
from Chicago to SF to check out the scene. They met some beats and
some freaks.
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21 UNITED IN ANGER:
A HISTORY OF ACT UP
With director Jim Hubbard
United in Anger is the first feature-length documentary about ACT UP (the
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), founded in New York City in 1987.
Using documentary and archival footage, it recounts how a small group
of men and women of all races and classes came together to change the
world and save each other’s lives. The film follows the planning and execution of exhilarating demonstrations and other major actions that forced the
U.S. government and mainstream media to recognize and respond to the
AIDS crisis. United in Anger reveals the group’s complex culture by documenting its meetings, affinity groups and approaches to civil disobedience,
where sustained activism mingles with profound grief and the incredible
energy of ACT UP.
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP grew out of the ACT UP Oral History
Project, an ongoing collection of more than 100 interviews with surviving
members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in New York, led by the
film’s producers, Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman.
Guest director Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. His films
have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art; the Berlin Film Festival;
the London Film Festival; the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival; and the
New York, San Francisco and many other lesbian and gay film festivals.
His film Memento Mori won the URSULA for Best Short Film at the Hamburg
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995. With Sarah Schulman, he co-founded
MIX: NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival.
The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Jim Hubbard,
United in Anger director and co-producer; Jenni Sorkin, University of
Houston assistant professor of art history; and Dean Daderko, curator at the
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
United in Anger is presented in conjunction with the Tony Feher exhibition at the
Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, on view through March 17, 2013.
USA, 2012
Director: Jim Hubbard
Cinematographer: James Wentzy
Screenwriter: Ali Cotterill, Jim Hubbard
Editor: Ali Cotterill
Cast: Ann Northrop, Eric Sawyer, Ron Goldberg, Tom Kalin, Peter Staley
22 KANZEON
With director Neil Cantwell
Both a documentary and a spiritual experience, KanZeOn explores sound
in relation to Japanese Buddhism and guides the viewer into a world of
ancient spiritual rituals and astonishing musical sensations.
The title of the film is taken from the Japanese name for the bodhisattva of
compassion, Kannon, which literally translates as “she who hears the cries of
the world.” The film focuses on three individuals: Akinobu Tatsumi, a young
Buddhist priest who moonlights as a DJ; Eri Fujii, a woman masterful in the
ancient Chinese bamboo instrument called “the sho”; and Akihiro Iitomi, a
Noh theatre and kotsuzumi performer who loves jazz. As these individuals
express their musical and spiritual beliefs, the connection between spirituality
and sound, apparent throughout the film, is reaffirmed.
Directed by Neil Cantwell and Tim Grabham, KanZeOn has enjoyed a
successful run at a variety of international festivals. The film is bold, inventive
and an amazing audiovisual exploration of spirituality. It maintains an air
of meditation throughout and challenges audiences to be curious about the
connections between art, space, nature, sound and tradition.
Japan, United Kingdom, 2011
Director: Neil Cantwell, Tim Grabham
Cinematographer: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell, Tom Swindell
Editor: Tim Grabham
Cast: Fujii Eri, Iitomi Akihiro, Tatsumi Akinobu
23 REMAINS TO BE SEEN:
THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON
with Michael Sicinski and Phil Solomon
CINEMA 16 | SAT NOV 10 | 4:00 PM | Q&A
Houston-based film critic Michael Sicinski has selected this program of
16mm films and digital videos by the great experimental film artist Phil
Solomon, who will join Sicinski for the screening and a conversation about
his work. Following the program, join Sicinski and Solomon downstairs at
4411 Montrose for an introduction to Solomon’s three-screen masterpiece,
American Falls.
––The Passage of the Bride (1978, 8 min.)
––What’s Out Tonight Is Lost (1983, 8 min.)
––The Secret Garden (1988, 20 min.)
––Remains to Be Seen (1989, 17 min.)
––Psalm 1: The Lateness of the Hour (2001, 10 min.)
––Rehearsals for Retirement (2007, 10 min.)
In A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, Scott
MacDonald writes: “Solomon has explored the literal substance of film
imagery with the optical printer, learning to tease emotional resonance
frame by frame from the found materials he works on by means of a wide
variety of optical and chemical manipulations. The resulting films can
easily be read as elegies for the lives originally encoded on the celluloid,
and for cinema itself… In Remains to Be Seen, the most pervasive metaphor is of a person in an operating room: the sights and sounds of the
operating room are motifs that suggest the precariousness both of the
person being operated on and, by implication, of the film image and cinema
itself: it ‘remains to be seen’ how long ‘the patient’ will survive.”
And David Bordwell expresses his admiration for the filmmaker’s technique
this way: “Solomon’s classics are unabashedly beautiful. The Secret Garden
(1988) draws on children’s literature and film to present a dazzling image
of paradise. James Cameron’s Avatar gives us glowing branches, but with
the bland sheen of a Doré illustration. Who wouldn’t prefer Solomon’s
radiant, evocative forest, created through optical printing distorted by
lens aberrations?”
24 QUARTET
Two-time Academy Award® winner Dustin Hoffman steps behind the camera
for the first time with this charming and humorous film centering on a retirement home for opera singers and musicians. Set in the English countryside
at Beecham House retirement home, Quartet gracefully explores the theme
of aging with the help of a stellar and lively cast including Maggie Smith,
Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins.
The story focuses on a concert, held every year at Beecham House, to
celebrate Verdi’s birthday and raise funds for the home. Jean (Maggie
Smith), who used to be married to Reggie (Tom Courtenay), has fallen on
hard times and is a new member of the retirement community. Her arrival
disrupts the equilibrium and it’s not long until years-old grievances emerge
and rivalries resurface. Jean acts like a diva and refuses to sing at the
concert. Still, the show must go on.
Resonant with witty banter and enchanting music, Hoffman’s auspicious debut
is a love letter to opera and aging and the graceful meshing of the two.
In preparing her review for the Los Angeles Times, Nicole Sperling relates
learning that “Hoffman developed his admiration for opera singers during
his early days in New York, when he was living with Robert Duvall. Duvall’s
brother sang opera, and Hoffman met all his friends. ’They are extraordinary
people. They don’t achieve a maturity in their work until 40 and there is only
a short time until they can’t hit the high notes. They are like athletes. I have
such respect for them,’ Hoffman said.”
USA, 2012
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Cinematographer: John de Borman
Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood
Editor: Barney Pilling
Composer: Dario Marianelli
Cast: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins,
Michael Gambon
co-presenting Partner: Blaffer Gallery
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25 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
MFAH | SAT NOV 10 | 7:30 PM
Based on Matthew Quick’s novel, Silver Linings Playbook is a smart and
hilarious offering from the unconventional and talented David O. Russell,
director of Three Kings and The Fighter.
In the film, Pat, played with sincerity and nuance by Bradley Cooper, suffers
a personal and professional meltdown, landing him in a state mental
institution for eight months. Released and living back at his parents’ home
without a job, wife or life, he starts over with their help and that of an attractive
yet very strange neighbor, played brilliantly by Jennifer Lawrence.
Already being hailed for multiple Oscar®-worthy performances, the film won
the People’s Choice Award at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
David O. Russell has once again created an awkward, heartfelt and daring
world where his characters can shine. He draws great performances from
his stars, according to the Hollywood Reporter: “Cooper brings enormous
heart to a role that easily might have veered toward the abrasive, and
Lawrence shows off natural comic chops that we haven’t seen much from
her. There’s self-exposure and risk in both these actors’ work here, which
makes for rewarding comedy.”
USA, 2012
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Masanobu Takayanagi
Screenwriter: David O. Russell
Editor: Jay Cassidy
Composer: Danny Elfman
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Jacki
Weaver, Chris Tucker
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26 ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
With Dennis Doros and Amy Heller
Gorgeously restored, Shirley Clarke’s documentary profiles legendary
jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman. Of Coleman, Slant Magazine says,
“He didn’t unshackle jazz so much as crack it open and squeeze the yolk
(African swing rhythms), the white (Delta blues inflection), and the shell
(bandstand instrumentation) through his fist.” Clarke’s atypical biography
captures this masterful stylist and truly singular artist with a radical
approach. Clarke wove documentary footage, video art, music videos
and architecture into a vibrant collage that mirrored Coleman’s groundbreaking jazz.
With commentary from family, fans and friends, including William S.
Burroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Palmer and Coleman’s son, Denardo,
the film provides insight into the renowned and toweringly innovative artist.
Clarke vibrantly re-creates Coleman’s birthplace, Fort Worth, Texas, to
which he returned to perform his Skies of America symphony with his
electric Prime Time group.
Shirley Clarke, one of the key figures in the American independent film
movement, also directed The Connection (1961), The Cool World (1963)
and Portrait of Jason (1967). Witnessing Milestone’s restored print of
Ornette, film critic J. Hoberman called the film “something of a revelation,
a summarizing work that draws on virtually everything the pioneering
independent made before.”
USA, 1985
Director: Shirley Clarke
Cinematographer: Edward Lachman
Editor: Shirley Clarke
Composer: Ornette Coleman
Cast: Ornette Coleman, Demon Marshall, Eugene Tatum
27 APOCALYPSE:
A BILL CALLAHAN TOUR FILM
With director Hanly Banks
A collection of live performances and a glimpse of the road from Bill
Callahan’s American leg of the 2011 Apocalypse tour, Austin-based Hanly
Banks’ experimental documentary captures the underground creativity of
the 46-year-old artist, overcoming, somehow, his legendary evasiveness.
For two weeks, Banks explored the shifting landscape as she traveled
through California, the Midwest and back to New York in a tapestry of
footage from the road and the concert halls. The results are mesmerizing
performances by the elusive and magnetic Callahan captured onstage,
coupled with evocative images of the contemporary American landscape. Unconventional and engaging, this portrait of the enigmatic
singer is a unique experience for lifelong fans as well as newcomers to
Callahan’s music.
Callahan, a singer-songwriter and guitarist, began working in the lo-fi
genre of underground rock, with homemade albums recorded on four-track
tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City.
His most recent album, Apocalypse, was released in April 2011 to highly
favorable reviews.
USA, 2012
Director: Hanly Banks
Cinematographer: Hanly Banks, Smokey Nelson
Editor: Hanly Banks
Composer: Bill “Smog” Callahan
Cast: Bill “Smog” Callahan
28 WHERE’S SHIRLEY?
A lecture-presentation by Dennis Doros and
Amy Heller
Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, the founders of Milestone Films, will deliver
a presentation with films, images and artifacts documenting their archival
and film-distribution project, “Project Shirley.”
Born October 2, 1919, in New York, Shirley Clarke danced into the
world of art in her teens, studying with such innovative choreographers
as Martha Graham, Hanya Holm and Doris Humphrey. After marrying
and having a daughter, Clarke turned her talents to cinema, becoming
an esteemed filmmaker at a time when few women worked in the field.
Her early shorts reflected her lifelong love of dance along with a growing
mastery of the new medium. Two of these, Dance in the Sun (1953, 6 min.)
and Bridges-Go-Round (1958, 7 min.), will be presented in 16mm as part
of this program.
Doros and Heller will talk about their work as archivists and distributors,
and about this year’s release of the two Shirley Clarke feature films screening in our festival, The Connection and Ornette: Made in America. They
will give special attention, however, to their current work preparing the
re-release of Shirley Clarke’s masterpiece. Premiered in 1967, Portrait of
Jason was one of the first great films of gay cinema and one of the finest
documentaries of postwar America. It was a cinéma vérité portrait of one
Jason Holliday — an African-American hustler, cabaret performer and
standup comic. In one filmed interview that lasted the entire night, Jason
revealed, with humor, tears and much drama, a life previously unseen and
unimagined by movie audiences. When Clarke died in 1997, the film and
its reputation languished while the original film materials disappeared.
Doros and Heller will tell the story of Milestone’s search for the original film
materials to Portrait of Jason. It took an early morning revelation based on
a mathematical equation before the best material was finally discovered —
reels that were mislabeled and disregarded for decades.
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31 DALLAS VIDEOFEST
ANIMATION SHOW
With VideoFest director Bart Weiss
CINEMA 16 | SUN NOV 11 | 4:15 PM | Q&A
29 POETRY OF
RESILIENCE
Poetry of Resilience is a stirring documentary about six poets who survived
some of the worst political atrocities of the 20th century: Hiroshima, the
Holocaust, China’s cultural revolution, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq, the
Rwandan genocide and the Iranian revolution. As we follow these survivors,
we learn that they write not only to bear witness to the past but also to
examine internal wounds left by the atrocities they have beheld. For all,
poetry is the gift that restores.
Laura Hope-Gill, poet and director of Asheville Wordfest notes, “The featured
poets illustrate, each in a mystifyingly heart-centered honesty, that poetry
needs neither apology nor defense. It simply lives within each of us carrying
us through our deaths back and back into life again.”
Artful and engaging, Esson’s film takes us to memorial sites in Poland,
Rwanda and Hiroshima, to New York City’s Chinatown and the boardwalks of Venice Beach. In each locale, we witness the contrast between
the voyages back to the poets’ home countries with their experiences of
immigration and exile.
Shown with Melanie La Rosa’s The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima
(2011, 27 min.), an impressionistic documentary about the legendary
Beat Generation poet. It tells a story of rebellion and artistic integrity
through the life of this significant poet, prose writer, playwright, teacher
and revolutionary activist.
Both of these films are recent additions to the Women Make Movies catalogue
of films, and part of our 40th anniversary tribute to the distributor.
USA, Canada, Japan, Iraq, Poland, Rwanda
Director: Katja Esson
Cinematographer: Ferne Pearlstein, Martina Radwan, Caspar Stracke
Screenwriter: Katja Esson
Editor: Susanne Schiebler
Composer: Eric V. Hachikian
co-presenting Partner: inprint
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30 MUGARITZ BSO
MFAH | SUN NOV 11 | 4:30 PM
Mugaritz restaurant in Errenteria, Spain, was voted the fourth best in the
world by Restaurant magazine in 2008. Its chef, Andoni Luis Aduriz, has
a self-described “techno-emotional” approach to cuisine. Over the past
three years, musician Felipe Ugarte has studied Aduriz’s culinary formulas.
Ugarte transforms his thorough knowledge about the history, technique,
philosophy, ingredients and presentation of each dish into a song that
reflects those same aspirations through music. The results are captured in
this stunning film exploring the avant-garde in both fields.
Director Juantxo Sardón documented the project in its entirety, from the
preparation of dishes and trips in search of melodies to studio recordings.
The result is a beautifully photographed exploration of the creative processes
behind gastronomy and their transformation into the field of musical creation,
which takes full advantage of the rich variety of color and textures that
both worlds offer.
The journey starts in Mugaritz, where chef Andoni Luis Aduriz and musician
Felipe Ugarte meet to discuss the philosophy, form and ingredients of the
dishes at Mugaritz. Ugarte’s desire to produce a sonorous world that is
faithful to each dish leads him to search for soundscapes in the mountains
of Gipuzkoa, in the pastures of Extremadura, and in the Galician Sea.
Sardón’s camera follows Ugarte as he rounds up and records exceptional
musicians and unusual instruments from around the world, and we hear the
results as the food is prepared. Then, we dream about a trip to Spain…
Spain, 2011
Director: Felipe Ugarte, Juantxo Sardón
Cinematographer: Juantxo Sardón
Editor: Iñigo Kintana
Cast: Andoni Aduriz
The Dallas VideoFest is celebrating 25 years of promoting great films
and filmmakers, providing education, and creating an environment that
showcases Dallas' interest and support of film. VideoFest director Bart
Weiss will host a special presentation of great Animated Shorts from this
year's festival, with a particular emphasis on VideoFest favorite (and 2010
HCAF guest) Bill Plympton.
––Notes on Biology (5:39) by Ornana Films
An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment.
––and/or (5:25) by Emily Hubley
An artist struggles to navigate the territory between despair and epiphany,
and calls upon inner and outer muses. Sound by Yo La Tengo, voiced by
Kevin Corrigan and Tiprin Mandalay.
––Flawed (12:35) by Andrea Dorfman
Dorfman examines the conflicting feelings that arise when she strikes up
a romance with a plastic surgeon.
––Princesse (11:19) by Frédérick Tremblay
A man brings a second woman to his home…
––Synchronize (2:49) by Elise The
Synchronize takes viewers through the dream of a video store clerk
whose vision is formed by the movies he sees and hears.
––White Out (3:01) by Jeff Scher
Composed of approximately 2,250 watercolor paintings on paper, this
film evokes pure motion in relation to a snowy winter landscape.
––The Flying House (8:31) by Winsor McCay, edited by Bill Plympton
Winsor McCay's 1921 classic was restored and updated by Bill Plympton
in 2011. The Flying House follows a woman's dream about escaping
foreclosure by taking to the skies with her husband – using their own
house as a vehicle.
––Guard Dog Global Jam (5:28) by Bill Plympton
Dozens of animators from around the world contributed a few seconds
each to re-create Bill Plympton’s original Guard Dog short shot-by-shot
in their personal styles.
––Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (5:44) by Bill Plympton
Narrated by Ingrid Pitt herself, this animated short depicts the miraculous
escape of an 8-year-old Jewish girl from a concentration camp during
World War II. Beyond the Forrest is a cross-generational collaboration
between Oscar® Nominee Bill Plympton and 10-year-old first-time animator
Perry Chen, who also contributed a scene to Guard Dog Global Jam.
32 BERT STERN:
ORIGINAL MADMAN
In this unconventional documentary, the famed photographer Bert Stern
reveals himself for the first time. Filmmaker Shannah Laumeister uncovers
not only Stern’s tumultuous private and professional life but also explores
their own long-term relationship. Along with Irving Penn and Richard
Avedon, Stern minted the concept of “photographer” as a star in his own
right. The film is a story of self-creation: rise, fall and reinvention. It explores
creativity, celebrity and desire through the eyes of a man who almost got
everything he wanted.
Stern’s meteoric career began in the mailroom at Look magazine, where
he formed a close relationship with a young staff photographer, Stanley
Kubrick. Stern would later photograph the iconic image of Sue Lyon as
Kubrick’s Lolita, dressing Lyon with heart-shaped glasses he found in a
convenience store the day of the shoot. The launch of Stern’s career and
the golden age of advertising would coincide. Stern’s “Driest of the Dry”
campaign for Smirnoff would end up selling more vodka than Smirnoff
dreamed, making America for the first time a vodka-drinking country, and
Stern a very successful photographer at the age of 25.
Sought after by Madison Avenue, Hollywood and the international fashion
scene, Stern was at the heart of what George Lois would call the “creative
evolution.” He filmed what many consider the best jazz film ever made,
Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Photographing what seemed like all the world’s
most beautiful women, including Jean Shrimpton, Suzie Parker, Audrey
Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Liz Taylor and the famous last photographs
of Marilyn Monroe, the Brooklyn native was living a dream.
USA, 2011
Director: Shannah Laumeister
Cinematographer: Tony Hardmon and Shannah Laumeister
Screenwriter: Shannah Laumeister
Editor: Danny Bresnik, Piri Miller, Jeff Werner
Composer: Jeff Eden Fair, Starr Parodi
Cast: Bert Stern, Louis Armstrong, Brigitte Bardot, Zak Barnett, Drew Barrymore, Chuck Berry
co-presenting Partner: FOTOFEST
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33 GOING UP THE STAIRS:
PORTRAIT OF AN UNLIKELY
IRANIAN ARTIST
SUNDANCE 5 | SAT NOV 10 | 1:00 PM
Warm, revealing and surprisingly funny, Going Up the Stairs: Portrait of
an Unlikely Iranian Artist from Women Make Movies shows us that true
talent refuses to be stifled and that formal training is not a requirement for
producing great art.
Akram, an illiterate 50-year-old Iranian woman, became a painter unexpectedly when her young grandson asked her to work on a drawing. This simple
act tapped into an explosion of powerful, primitive and colorful paintings,
which Akram hid under the carpet from possibly disapproving eyes. When
she finally tells her Western-educated children about her work, they arrange
for her to have an exhibition in Paris. For Akram to attend the show, however,
she must obtain permission from her husband, Heydar, a man she married
when she was 8 and he was in his 30s. Basil Tsiokos in What (Not) to Doc
says, “The film has a lightness and sense of humor rather than the dark,
oppressive tone that one might expect from the inequality evident in
Akram’s traditional conservative marriage — the colorful banter between
the couple is especially revealing, speaking of a love gained begrudgingly
over time.”
Iran, 2011
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Cinematographer: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Screenwriter: Reza Mohammadi Noori and Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Editor: Farahnaz Sharifi, Shahrooz Tavakol
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34 A SIMPLE LIFE
With co-screenwriter and producer Roger Lee
MFAH | SUN NOV 11 | 1:00 PM | Q&A
Winner of the five top Hong Kong Film Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Actress,
Director and Screenplay), A Simple Life is the latest offering from veteran
director Ann Hui. Moving and heartfelt, the film centers on the bond
between servant Ah Tao (Deanie Ip), who has served the Leung family for
more than sixty years, and film producer Roger (Andy Lau), the only Leung
family member still living in Hong Kong. When Ah Tao’s health begins
to fail, she leaves Roger, not wanting to be a burden. Roger finds her,
however, and refuses to leave her life, as their relationship is transformed.
Based on actual people and events, the script is a wry and sincere
examination of the ties that bind lifelong caregivers to their wards and
how these relationships often become, in effect, mother/son bonds.
Bursting with cameos from Hong Kong’s film world, including martial arts
legends Tsui Hark and Sammo Hung, A Simple Life is a beautifully realized
film filled with humor and striking cinematography.
This is the first produced screenplay by eminent Hong Kong producer
Roger Lee, who based the story on his own life and will be traveling to
Houston for our Texas premiere. Director Ann Hui is one of the most
critically acclaimed filmmakers among the Hong Kong New Wave, and
who had partnered before with Lee on the film Summer Snow. A Simple
Life was Hong Kong’s official selection for the Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award®, and Deanie Ip won Best Actress Award at the Venice
International Film Festival.
Hong Kong, 2011
Director: Ann Hui
Cinematographer: Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Screenwriter: Susan Chan, Yan-lam Lee
Editor: Chi-Leung Kwong and Manda Wai
Composer: Wing-fai Law
Cast: Andy Lau, Deanie IP, Lawrence Ah Mon
35 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
MILLER OUTDOOR | SUN NOV 11 | 6:45 PM
Come join us for a screening in celebration of Gene Kelly’s 100th birthday
at Miller Outdoor Theatre. In 1952, An American in Paris, which Kelly
starred in and choreographed, won Academy Awards® for Best Picture,
Screenplay, Musical Score, Costume Design, Cinematography, and Art
Direction. The same year, Kelly received an Honorary Award (his only
Oscar®) for ”his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and
specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.”
An American in Paris is filled with music and lyrics composed by George
and Ira Gershwin, including “I Got Rhythm” and “’S Wonderful.” The film’s
legendary climax is a 16-minute ballet danced by Gene Kelly and Leslie
Caron to George Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral composition, “An American
in Paris.” Kelly, noted for his athletic style of dancing, is widely credited for
making ballet commercially appealing to Hollywood movie audiences.
Kelly plays Jerry Mulligan, an American World War II veteran living in
Paris and trying to succeed as a painter. He is the kept man of society
woman Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), the best friend of struggling concert pianist
Adam (Oscar Levant), and the suitor of Lise (Leslie Caron, in her screen debut),
who is unfortunately engaged to Henri (Georges Guétary). In such a difficult
situation, one’s best recourse is to sing and dance, in glorious color.
USA, 1951
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Arthur Freed
Cinematographer: Alfred Gilks and John Alton
Screenwriter: Alan Jay Lerner
Editor: Adrienne Fazan
Composer: George and Ira Gershwin
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch
36 ICEBERG SLIM:
PORTRAIT OF A PIMP
with Jorge Hinojosa
This documentary examines the legendary life of Iceberg Slim, notorious
pimp and author of 7 ground-breaking books. Iceberg Slim (1918-1992),
born Robert Maupin, was the first black author to write about the dynamics
of inner-city street life, specifically his 35+ year involvement in pimping
and crime. Born into abject poverty in Chicago near the end of the First
World War, Iceberg’s early life was fraught with physical and mental
abuse and a temptation and fascination with crime.
At the early age of 6, Slim first became enamored with street life: “My
mother had a beauty shop and she catered to a colony of black hookers
and pimps. I wanted to become a pimp so I could have all those beautiful
clothes, diamonds and women, that’s how I got street poisoned.“
The film chronicles how Iceberg’s troubled childhood contributed to a life
of crime on the streets. As the painful story unfolds, Iceberg Slim reinvents
himself. His transformation from pimp to author makes him an inspiration
to many well-known and respected artists. Insightful interviews with famous
artists, including Chris Rock, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, and Quincy Jones,
scholars, friends and family members combined with old photos, artifacts,
and archival footage create a riveting tapestry as colorful as the subject
himself. The authentic, unfiltered, autobiographical work of Iceberg Slim is
considered to be the genesis of Blaxploitation films and Gangster rap, and
it continues to influence artists today.
USA, 2012
Director: Jorge Hinojosa
Cinematographer: Kelly Jones
Editor: Danny Bresnik
Cast: Ice-T, Chris Rock, Snoop Dogg, Quincy Jones, Henry Rollins
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37 TEXAS FILMMAKERS
SHOWCASE
with Alfred Cervantes
The Texas Filmmakers Showcase is a special screening event organized
by the Houston Film Commission, consisting of the best Texas short films and
videos. Each year, the program is presented to executives in the Hollywood
film community, with subsequent screenings around Texas. The selection
committee is a cross-section of film industry professionals from outside the
state of Texas.
––Cinnamon (15:02 min.)
by Timothy Edwards - Austin, Texas
Theodore must grant his grandfather’s last wish the night before his
grandmother’s funeral. Single for the first time in 65 years, the old man
wants the company of a young woman.
––Into The South (25:11 min.)
by Micah Robert Barber - Austin, Texas
Jaris lost his black mom and is being raised by his emotionally distant
white dad. When he travels to the Deep South to be with his dying
grandmother, he may lose the one person who still cares about him.
––Mentiroso (9:33 min.)
by Will Shipley - San Antonio, Texas
A young boy (Maurico) gets himself in over his head when he claims
to have seen Maricela, the most beautiful girl in a small Mexican town,
naked. Now he has to prove it to his peers or be beaten up for being a
liar. This is a coming-of-age period piece completely in Spanish.
––Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise (7:31 min.)
by Kelly Sears - Galveston, Texas
An animated horror film constructed from the candid photos and handwritten messages from discarded high school yearbooks.
––The Order of Things (13:02 min.)
by Chris Spisak - Houston, Texas
Having been dragged in for questioning after a physical altercation
with his girlfriend, Sebastian Kelly soon finds that more is riding on his
answers than he possibly could have imagined.
––The Whale (13:30 min.)
by Jaime Chapin - Denton, Texas
A young boy lives an ephemeral fantasy in his attempt to escape the
cycle of paternal abuse.
38 PICTURES OF
SUPERHEROES
with director Don Swaynos and
actor John Merriman
SUNDANCE 5 | SUN NOV 11 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
Pictures of Superheroes is the debut feature comedy by Austin-based
filmmaker Don Swaynos, who previously has directed numerous music
videos, short films and documentaries. One of Swaynos’ short films,
Six hundred and Forty-One Slates, made on the set of Swaynos’ recent
production, Cinema Six, will be screened before the feature.
Marie (Kerri Lendo) is hired as a maid by businessman Eric (Shannon
McCormick) who also asks her to pretend to be his wife to impress his clients.
While cleaning his home, Marie becomes close to Joe (John Merriman), an
aspiring superhero artist who also lives in Eric’s house, although unbeknownst
to Eric.
The film received its world premiere in October at the Austin Film Festival.
Its producer, Kelly Williams, is a significant force in low-budget feature
filmmaking in Austin. Williams commented on this film’s production: “We
called in favors and were lucky enough to pull in some of Austin's best comic
talent. Don's story lives in an odd, absurd world and fortunately our three
lead actors -- Kerri Lendo, Shannon McCormick and John Merriman —
knew how to fit in that world nicely.” According to Swaynos, there wasn‘t
a large amount of improvisation, but ”a lot of my favorite lines from the
film are things that were said on the fly”.
USA, 2012
Director: Don Swaynos
Screenwriter: Don Swaynos
Editor: Don Swaynos
Producer: Kelly Williams, Don Swaynos, Tate English
Cinematographer: Nathan Smith
Cast: Kerri Lendo, Shannon McCormick, John Merriman, Byron Brown
39 Conversation with
Robert Redford
SUNDANCE 6 | FRI NOV 9 | 7:00 PM
Robert Redford, renowned actor, film director, environmentalist, and founder
of the Sundance Institute, will participate in a 90-minute conversation with
Emmy award-winning PBS TV show host Ernie Manouse. They will discuss
two aspects of Redford’s multi-faceted career — his creative work as a
film director and as the Founder and President of the Sundance Institute.
In addition, Redford will receive the Levantine Cinema Arts Award, honoring
his artistic achievements.
Ernie Manouse joined Houston PBS in 1996, and as an anchor and
producer, he has garnered three Emmy Awards, five Katie Awards, a
Houston Press Club Lone Star Award, Viewer’s Choice recognition from
multiple local and regional publications, and the title of “Ultimate Interviewer”
from the Houston Chronicle. InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse, an Emmynominated and nationally broadcast interview series, will enter its eleventh
season in October 2012.
The Levantine Cinema Arts Award is sponsored by Levantine Films, an
independent motion picture development, financing and production
company aiming to promote understanding and inspire dialogue across
cultures, captivating audiences and challenging stereotypes through the
power of great storytelling.
40 TATSUMI
This animated telling of life and work of Japanese comic-book artist Yoshihiro
Tatsumi, author of the internationally acclaimed graphic novel, A Drifting Life,
interweaves adaptations of five of his manga stories with autobiographical
segments narrated by Tatsumi himself.
In post-war occupied Japan, young Tatsumi's passion for comics eventually
becomes a means of supporting his poor family. Already published as a
teenager, talented Tatsumi finds even greater inspiration after meeting his
idol, the world famous animator Osamu Tezuka. Despite his steady success,
Tatsumi is artistically dissatisfied with making comics for children with cute and
whimsical tales and drawings. Eventually he re-invents the art of manga by
launching an alternative genre for adults, which he coins gekiga (dramatic
pictures). Realistic and disquieting, Tatsumi's work begins to grapple with the
darker aspects of life in the rapidly changing post-war Japan with stories that
are perverse, shocking and darkly comical.
Tatsumi, shown in Japanese with English subtitles, was directed by one of
Singapore’s most acclaimed directors, Eric Khoo, creator of several live action
features, including Mee Pok Man (1995) and Be With Me (2005). An official
selection at Cannes, Tatsumi also won the Asian Film Award at the 2011
Tokyo International Film Festival. Maggie Lee of the Hollywood Reporter
called the film a “fascinating and ultimately moving tribute to a seminal comic
artist's dark, disquieting but powerful works...Each story delivers a punch with
a twist that is either full of pathos or bathos.”
Singapore, 2011
Director: Eric Khoo
Screenwriter: Eric Khoo
Editor: Taufik RAMADHAN
Composer: Christopher Khoo, Christine Sham
Cast: Tetsuya Bessho, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
––Z & Beau (12:49 min.)
by Carlyn Hudson - Austin, Texas
A couple on the lam avoids traditional society until a mysterious stranger
appears and ruins everything.
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41 A LATE QUARTET
An amazing ensemble of actors – Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour
Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ivanir – brings vivid life to Yaron
Zilberman’s drama about a world-renowned string quartet whose 25th
anniversary unleashes a tidal wave of repressed feelings and resentments.
When their beloved cellist, Peter Mitchell (Walken), is diagnosed with
Parkinson’s Disease and announces he wishes to make the upcoming
season his last, his three colleagues find themselves at a crossroad. Robert
Gelbart (Hoffman), the quartet’s second violinist, announces his desire
to alternate chairs with first violinist Daniel Lerner (Ivanir), after years of
sacrifice and peacemaking for the benefit of the group. When Robert’s
wife, violist Juliette Gelbart (Keener), is unable to support her husband,
their marriage is strained with a palpable tension that they can no longer
ignore. Tossed into the maelstrom is their daughter Alexandra (Imogen
Poots), a talented violinist in her own right. Like her father, she too decides
to act on her desires.
As the string quartet prepares to play Beethoven’s Opus 131 for what might
be the members’ last concert together, the seven movements of the piece
echo their own tumultuous journey. Christopher Walken, in an unusually
subdued dramatic role, gives a subtle and wonderful performance. All the
actors are terrific, but the rising star Imogen Poots is a particular standout.
Israeli-born director Yaron Zilberman made the documentary feature
Watermarks; this is his first narrative feature, and he handles the job without
a misstep.
USA, 2012
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Screenwriter: Seth Grossman, Yaron Zilberman
Editor: Yuval Shar
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Cast: Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Imogen Poots, Catherine
Keener, Wallace Shawn, Mark Ivanir, Anne Sofie von Otter
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42 CASTING BY
Casting By puts the spotlight on an unsung creative force in feature filmmaking — the casting director — revealing the key role this figure has
played in the last half century of Hollywood history. The film marshals
powerful evidence, through film clips and interviews with a stunning array
of movie actors who testify passionately on her behalf, that one particular
casting director, Marion Dougherty, had an unprecedented impact on the New
Hollywood. With exquisite taste and gut instincts, she promoted a new kind
of leading man and lady for film and television (actors like James Dean,
Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler, Robert Duvall, and Gene Hackman), driving a
final nail in the coffin of the old studio system and its traditional typecasting.
The film explores the history of the casting profession and its other leading
professionals, including Dougherty’s influential contemporary Lynn Stalmaster
and the many women, including Juliet Taylor, who learned at Dougherty’s
feet. Through an investigation of the Hollywood power dynamics that continue
to belittle their work, this film seeks to grant casting directors the credit they
have long been denied.
USA, 2012
Director: Tom Donahue
Cinematographer: Peter Bolte
Editor: Jill Schweitzer
Composer: Leigh Roberts
Cast: Marion Dougherty, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Clint
Eastwood, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Jeff Bridges, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro,
Diane Lane, Jon Voight, Bette Midler, John Travolta
43 LOVE, MARILYN
With director Liz Garbus
MFAH | WED NOV 7 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
44 Stand Up Guys
With director Fisher Stevens
Academy Award®–nominated director Liz Garbus draws upon never-beforeseen personal correspondence, diary entries, and letters to reveal an unknown
Marilyn Monroe. The Monroe who emerges, writes Entertainment Weekly
critic Owen Gleiberman, is “not the walking sex bomb, or the dysfunctionally
insecure child-woman, either (though she could, on occasions, be both),
but a dauntingly complex woman who was far more ambitious than she’s
commonly given credit for, who rigorously achieved everything that she did.”
Cinema Arts Festival Houston has featured films about all kinds of artists, but
never before this kind. Hilarious and featuring exceptional performances
from a star-studded cast, Stand Up Guys tells the story of two old con artists
reuniting for one last hurrah. Val (Al Pacino) is released from prison after
serving twenty-eight years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal
associates. His best friend Doc (Christopher Walken) is there to pick him
up, and the two soon reteam with another old pal, Hirsch (Alan Arkin).
Garbus works with acclaimed actors who perform Marilyn’s own words,
bringing out multiple aspects of her character and personality. Elizabeth
Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor,
Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood each appear on
screen to enact Marilyn’s words. Male actors perform the observations of
men she fascinated, including Truman Capote (Adrien Brody), Elia Kazan
(Jeremy Piven), and Norman Mailer (Ben Foster). The remarkable range of
Monroe’s self-awareness, ambition, and intelligence, and the complexity
of her personality come to life through the diversity of interpretations that
Garbus weaves together. At the same time, the over-mythologized Marilyn
is re-anchored as a human being by the unfamiliar outtakes, home movies,
photos, and interviews the filmmaker has unearthed. Through an adventurous
expansion of traditional documentary form, Love, Marilyn brings Marilyn
Monroe back to life.
Despite their age, their capacity for mayhem is still very much alive and
kicking - bullets fly as the guys make an amusingly valiant effort to compensate
for the decades of crime, drugs and sex they’ve missed. But one of the friends
is keeping a dangerous secret: he’s been put in an impossible quandary by
a former mob boss, and time to find a way out is running short.
USA, 2012
Director: Liz Garbus
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Producer: Stanley Buchthal, Amy Hobby
Editor: Azin Samari
Composer: Philip Sheppard
Cast: Marisa Tomei, Uma Thurman, Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, Adrien Brody,
Viola Davis, Paul Giamatti, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor, Evan Rachel Wood
With a lively script by Noah Haidle, Director Fisher Stevens deftly crafts a
sharp yet sobering comedy about old friends navigating their remaining
wise-guy years together. The film also features two original songs by Jon Bon
Jovi. A notable actor, director and writer, Fisher Stevens co-directed the
acclaimed documentary Crazy Love and has directed multiple short films.
USA, 2012
Director: Fisher Stevens
Cinematographer: Michael Grady
Screenwriter: Noah Haidle
Editor: Mark Livolsi
Composer: Lyle Workman
Cast: Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Mark
Magolis, Lucy Punch
Running time: 95 mins
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Films in Alphabetical Order
45 DIANA VREELAND:
THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL
With Lisa Immordino Vreeland
MFAH | SUN NOV 11 | 7:00 PM | Q&A
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel is an intimate portrait and a vibrant
celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century,
an enduring icon whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty,
art, publishing, and culture forever. During Diana Vreeland’s fifty-year
reign as the “Empress of Fashion,” she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie
Onassis, and established countless trends that have withstood the test of
time. She was the fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar where she worked
for twenty-five years before becoming editor-in-chief of Vogue, followed by a
remarkable stint at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute,
where she helped popularize its historical collections.
The story of Diana Vreeland illustrates the evolution of women into roles
of power and prominence throughout the 20th century. The movie follows
its subject through some of the century's greatest historical and cultural
eras, including Paris’ Belle Époque, New York in the roaring twenties,
and London in the swinging sixties. It also spans such historical events
as the great wars, the flights of Lindbergh, the romance of Wallis and
Windsor, the Kennedy inauguration, the freewheeling spirit of the
1960's youthquake, and the advent of countless fashion revolutions
from the bikini to the blue jean.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland fell in love with Diana Vreeland as a young
college student, mesmerized by her pages in Harper’s Bazaar and
Vogue. Later, she fell in love with her grandson and became a member
of the Vreeland family. Following the screening, Ms. Vreeland will
engage in conversation with a great friend of Diana Vreeland and
HCAF, Lynn Wyatt.
USA, 2012
Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Cinematographer: Cristobal Zanartu
Editor: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frederic Tcheng
Composer: David Majzlin
Cast: Diana Vreeland
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16MM FILMS OF J J MURPHY, THE AL MÁS ALLÁ and MY MCQUEEN AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN APOCALYPSE: A BILL CALLAHAN TOUR FILM BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MADMAN BIG BOY
CAESAR MUST DIE
CASTING BY CONNECTION, THE Conversation with Robert Redford
CORPUS: A HOME MOVIE ABOUT SELENA
DALLAS VIDEOFEST ANIMATION SHOW DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVel
GOING UP THE STAIRS: PORTRAIT OF AN U
NLIKELY IRANIAN ARTIST
ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP
IN BED WITH ULYSSES
KANZEON LATE QUARTET, A
LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING) LOVE, MARILYN
MUGARITZ BSO
OCEAN
ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
PHIL SOLOMON: COLLABORATIONS
WITH STAN BRAKHAGE
PICTURES OF SUPERHEROES
POETRY OF RESILIENCE QUARTET
RARE WARHOL REMAINS TO BE SEEN: THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON
SAPPHIRES, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
SIMPLE LIFE, A STACEY STEERS: NIGHT HUNTER AND OTHER ANIMATIONS
Stand Up Guys SUITCASE FULL OF CHOCOLATE, A
SUPEREVERYTHING* TATSUMI
TEXAS FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE
TRASH DANCE
UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP
VANESSA RENWICK: THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF KICK ASS
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN
WHERE’S SHIRLEY?
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and have the opportunity to talk to writers, directors, choreographers and more to learn about careers
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