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Anniversary
Tour Show:
TIE, The International Experimental Cinema
Exposition, marks more than 500 films screened since its inception
in Telluride, Colorado. TIE's traveling showcase remains true to
its dedication: celluloid works in their true format, from the latest
contemporary works to archival films from the rich history of experimental
cinema. The tour is a collection of highlights from the past six
years of TIE’s expositions and festivals. The varying programs
exhibit at a limited number of venues in North America and abroad.
TIE Director, Christopher May, appears in-person.
Friday, October 7, 2005
Traverse City, Michigan, Cinema Curiosa
Doors at 7:30PM, Show at 8:00PM
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A
Fall Trip Home
Nathaniel Dorsky
"Forgetting its 'psychological plot' this film is a
fine exponent of the intrinsic magical power of cinema. Its images,
which evolve in a rather unmagical sober suburb, are continually
transcended and manipulated into a kind of epic haiku of superimpositions
and textural weavings." - Jerry Hiler
[11 min 1964 USA 16mm]
The
Dante Quartet
Stan Brakhage
This hand-painted work six years in-the-making (37 in the studying
of The Divine Comedy) demonstrates the earthly conditions of "Hell,"
"Purgatory" (or Transition) and "Heaven" (or
"existence is song," which is the closest I'd presume
upon heaven from my experience) as well as the mainspring of/from
"Hell" (HELL SPIT FLEXION) in four parts which are inspired
by the closed-eye or hypnagogic vision created by those emotional
states. Originally painted on IMAX and Cinemascope 70mm and 35mm,
these paint-laden rolls have been carefully rephotographed and translated
to 35mm and 16mm compilations by Dan Yanosky of Western Cine.
[8 min 1987 USA 16mm]
Arnulf
Rainer
Peter Kubelka
”The images can no more be 'turned off' by the closing of
eyes than can the soundtrack thereof it (for it is composed entirely
of white frame rhythming thru black inter-spaces and of such an
intensity as to create its pattern straight thru closed eyelids)
so that the whole 'mix' of the audio-visual experience is clearly
'in the head,' so to speak: and if one looks at it openly, one can
see one's own eye cells as if projected onto the screen and can
watch one's optic physiology activated by the sound track in what
is, surely, the most basic Dance of Life of all (for the sounds
of the film do resemble and, thus, prompt the inner-ear's hearing
of its own pulse output at intake of sound). "These films must,
very truly, be seen and very truly seen and heard to be believed!"
- Stan Brakhage
[7 min 1958-1960 Austria 16mm]
To
the Happy Few
Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs
"A punchy, satirical ride that mixed food, sex, and violence
in perverse Kuleshevian suggestions, all with great comedic timing.
A great example of film giving birth to itself in hybrid, mutated
forms." -Genevieve Yue
[4 min 2003 Austria / Germany 16mm]
On
Your Own
Jim Otis
"Into my hands fell a 20-minute exhortation to find the right
job after high school. Struck by its fierce redundancy, undertook
a distillation, editing the optical track, aiming for conversational
cadence, choosing image only when silent."
[2 min 1981 USA 16mm]
Alone.
Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Martin Arnold
"Arnold's campaign of deconstruction of classic Hollywood
film codes finally turns to film music. The process links in with
the other two films. The family scenes, which in the original last
only seconds and are not particularly notable, are surgically sectioned
into single frames. Using repetition of these 'single cells' and
a new rhythm - a kind of cloning procedure - Arnold then creates
an inflated, monstrous doppelgÉnger of the original cuts
lasting many minutes. The hidden message of sex and violence is
turned inside out to the point where it simply crackles." -
Dirk Schaefer
[15 min 1998 USA 16mm]
Puce
Moment
Kenneth Anger
"A lavishly colored evocation of the Hollywood now gone, as
shown through an afternoon in the milieu of a 1920s film star.
[7 min 1949 USA 16mm]
Desistfilm
Stan
Brakhage
Internationally acclaimed as the classic of its genre. The camera
joins a drunken adolescent party and participates in the expression
of desire and frustration. "The best film in the 1950s; breathtaking
camera work; entire cinematic conception and execution is brilliant."
- Willard Maas
[7 min 1954 USA 16mm]
The
Man Who Invented Gold
Christopher
MacLaine
"A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings
are clearly film wise (gold beingdiscovered cinematically in each
sequence of mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery
is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic
perfection." --Stan Brakhage
[14 min 1957 USA 16mm]
Ablution
Eric Patrick
Ablution
is a film ritual that observes dissociation. It is divided into
three vignettes, each with its own distinct structure. In The
Fleeting, a man who becomes dissociated with temporal reality
gets lodged in a world that is moving much too fast for him. His
experience of his life becomes the fleeting images of days transpiring
in seconds. It is shot as a traditional cinematic narrative space.
Incantation is a shamanistic chant--a dance that exists
to provide a catalyst for change.
Dissociation
becomes deconstruction. If the first section is an objective view
of an elusive narrative, the second would be a subjective metaphor
of an internal state. The final piece to the film (A Hundred
Foot Day) is a continuous sequence of a day transpiring with
the man back on his front porch where the film started. Shot as
an uncut proscenium arch in the theatre, A Hundred Foot Day
is the length of the day shot onto a hundred foot length of film.
As a whole, the Ablution, or the cleansing, is a look into the magical,
if not somewhat uncertain, places that each of us pass through at
select times in our lives. Metaphorically, the entire piece traces
the Hero's journey of departure, initiation, and return through
a narrative that disintegrates into a totally subjective space.
While the Hero's journey is a classic tale, the cinematic structures
of the three vignettes leave trap doors and secret passageways throughout
the film for individual interpretation. Ablution is a relic--aveiled
glimpse at an emotional state.
[13 min 2001 USA 16mm]
All
My Life
Bruce Baillie
Caspar, California, old fence with red roses.
[3 min 1966 USA 16mm]
Program
curated by TIE Director, Christopher May
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