Friday 1.19.07 -- Re: Documentary Week @ 16beaver (& other locales)

1. About This Friday 1.19.07 -- The Remake Show -- Magic Lantern Cinema @ 16beaver

2. About This Monday 1.22.07 -- Pasolini Pa* Palestine and Marcel Broodthaers Shorts @ Anthology Film Archives

3. About The Remake Show
4. About The Works in The Remake Show
5. About Pasolini Pa* Palestine

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1. About This Friday 1.19.07
The Remake Show -- Magic Lantern Cinema @ 16beaver

What: Film Screening
When: Friday 1.19.07
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: 7:30pm
Total Running Time: 91 minutes

FEATURED FILMS: What Farocki Taught by Jill Godmilow (30:00, video, 1998), Intervista by Anri Sala (26:00, video, 1998), Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screed #29 by Sharon Hayes (3:00, Video, 2003), Telegraph by Jesal Kapadia (3:30, video, 2005), That’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents by Speculative Archive (25:00, video, 2003), Notes by Jenny Perlin (3:20, 16mm, 2006).

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2. About This Monday 1.22.07 -- Pasolini Pa* Palestine and Marcel Broodthaers Shorts @ Anthology Film Archives

What: Film Screening
When: Monday 1.22.07
Time: 7:30 PM
Where: Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

This program is part of the exhibition IN THE POEM ABOUT LOVE YOU DON'T WRITE THE WORD LOVE curated by Tanya Leighton at Artistsspace this last fall.

Mondays from January 8 through February 12 at Anthology Film Archives located at 32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)

For showtimes, please visit , www.artistsspace.org or visit www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

This monday Ayreen Anastas PASOLINI PA* PALESTINE preceded by
Marcel Broodthaers shorts.

Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
Featured Films:Ayreen Anastas PASOLINI PA* PALESTINE (2005, 51 minutes, DVD, color, sound); Marcel Broodthaers LA PIPE (MAGRITTE) (1969, 3 minutes, 35mm, b&w); Marcel Broodthaers CECI NE SERAIT PAS UNE PIPE (UN FILM DU MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE) / THIS WOULDN'T BE A PIPE (1969-71, 2.5 minutes, 35mm, b&w); Marcel Broodthaers LA PIPE (GESTALT, ABBILDUNG, FIGUR, BILD) (1969-71, 4.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w w/blue tinting)

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3. About The Remake Show

Magic Lantern Presents “The Remake Show”
Friday the 19th of January at 7:30pm
at 16Beaver group at 16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor (see Directions below)

A little different than the classic re-dos, this collection of
contemporary videos explores the use of repetition in the production of documents and documentaries. These videos focus on the process of literal recollection and they call attention to the role that memory and media play in the re-presentation of history, illustrating how re-vision and re-voicing can produce spaces in which resonances between the past and the present can be made legible.

This evening is curated by Paige Sarlin and is part of a series of experimental film and video called Magic Lantern Cinema which was started in 2004 by Ben Russell and Carrie Collier. The curatorial staff has expanded since its inception to include Erika Balsom, Jo Dery, Mike Stolz, Paige and Ben. The series screens at the Cable Car Cinema in Providence Rhode Island every three weeks, but a few shows have traveled to Chicago on occasion. This will be the first instance of Magic Lantern Cinema in New York City and we hope to be able to bring some more thematic programs in the future. (for more info www.magiclanterncinema.org)

In connection with this screening, there will be a presentation and discussion on Tuesday January 23rd at 16Beaver as well, entitled "After: The Future and Uses of Documentary Practice" which will feature Heather Rogers and Naeem Mohaiemen.

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4. About The Works in The Remake Show

THE REMAKE SHOW, TRT: 90:50

FEATURING:

4.1 Jill Godmilow, What Farocki Taught, 1998, Video, Color, Sound, 30:00
4.2 Anri Sala, Intervista, 1998, Video, Color, 26:00
4.3 Sharon Hayes, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29, 2003, Video, Color, Sound, 3:00
4.4 Jesal Kapadia, Telegraph, 2005, Digital Video, Color, Sound, 3:30
4.5 Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne), It's Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents, 2003, Video, Color Sound, 25:00
4.6 Jenny Perlin, Notes, 2006, 16mm, B&W, Silent, 3:20

SYNOPSIS:

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4.1 Jill Godmilow, What Farocki Taught, 1998, Video, Color, Sound, 30:00

What Farocki Taught, is literally and stubbornly a remake—that is, a perfect replica in color and in English, of Harun Farocki's black and white, 1969 German language film, Inextinguishable Fire. Taking as its subject the political and formal strategies of Farocki's film about the development of Napalm B by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War, Godmilow's unabashedly perfect copy reopens Walter Benjamin's discussion of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. What Farocki Taught thus becomes an agit-prop challenge to the cinema verité documentary's representation of information, history, politics, and "real" human experience.
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4.2 Anri Sala, Intervista, 1998, Video, Color, 26:00

In the process of moving, Anri Sala, an Albanian art student, discovered a twenty-year-old 16mm newsreel film, containing images of a congress of the Albanian Communist Party. In the film a young woman, a leader of the Communist Youth Alliance, is seen making a speech, and later giving an interview. But Anri could not make out what she was saying, because the sound had been lost. This film traces Sala’s attempts to find the lost sound and what happens when he presents the synced footage to his mother, the woman depicted in the original film.

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4.3 Sharon Hayes, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29, 2003, Video, Color, Sound, 3:00

On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California by a radical political organization called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). From February to April 1974, the SLA and Patty Hearst made four audio-tapes in which she addresses her parents on the subject of her kidnapping, the SLA's ransom and the family and the FBI's actions during the ordeal. In the last tape, Hearst renames herself Tania and announces that she is joining the SLA in their struggle. From June 2001 to January 2002, Sharon Hayes performed a re-speaking of each of the four audio-tapes. In each instance, Hayes partially memorized the transcript of the audio-tape and spoke the text in front of an audience to whom she gave a transcript of the text. She asked them to correct her when she was wrong and to feed her a line when she needed it.

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4.4 Jesal Kapadia, Telegraph, 2005, Digital Video, Color, Sound, 3:30

Telegraph is a counter-documentary that depicts a letter of protest and complaint that was written by the sex-workers organization called DMSC (based in Calcutta, India). The letter was drafted in response to the global acclaim of the film Born Into Brothels and addressed to the editor of the local newspaper The Telegraph. Retrieved from the labyrinthine archives of the Internet, this letter is re-delivered to the video screen in an attempt to interrupt the process of communication and to
re-contextualize the letter for a different audience with a different kind of attention.

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4.5 Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne), It's Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents, 2003, Video, Color Sound, 25:00

It's Not My Memory of It is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. Mobilizing specific historical records, the tape addresses the expansion and intensification of secrecy practices in the current climate of heightened security. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance through shredded classified documents that were painstakingly reassembled by radical fundamentalist students in Iran in 1979. A CIA film -recorded in 1974 but unacknowledged until 1992 - documents the burial at sea of six Soviet sailors, in a ceremony which collapses Cold War antagonisms in a moment of death and honor. Images pertaining to a publicly acknowledged but top secret U.S. missile strike in Yemen in 2002 are the source of a concluding reflection on the role of documents in the constitution of the dynamic of knowing and not knowing. These records are punctuated by fragments of interviews with information management officials from various federal agencies, who distinguish between "real" and "protocol" secrets, explain what it means to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of records on a given subject, and clarify the process of separating
classified from unclassified information.

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4.6 Jenny Perlin, Notes, 2006, 16mm, B&W, Silent, 3:20

Harry Gold, codename “GOOSE,” was convicted in 1951 for passing secrets of the atom bomb from physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs to Soviet agents. The animations in this film are copies of Gold’s absentminded drawings, scribbled over drafts of his resume and cover letter to the Atlantic Refining Company, Personnel Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948.

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5. Ayreen Anastas, PasoliniPa*Palestine 2005, 51 min

Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini's trip to Palestine in his film "Seeking locations in Palestine for “the Gospel According to Matthew" in 1963. It adapts his script into a route map superimposed on the current Landscape, creating contradictions and breaks between the visual and the audible, the expected and the real. The video explores the question of repetition. For Heidegger Wiederholung ‘repetition, retrieval’, is one of the terms he uses for the appropriate attitude towards the past. ‘By the repetition of a basic problem we understand the disclosure of its original, so far hidden possibilities.’ The project ventures a conversation and a dialogue with Pasolini esp. his Poem for the Third World. Discutere, ‘to smash to pieces’ is the Latin source of dialogue, discussion. The work does not criticize Pasolini, but reveals unnoticed possibilities in his thought and works back to the ‘experiences’ that inspired it.
Pasolini Pa* Palestine was created in conjunction with the residency at Almamal Foundation in Jerusalem.