MIA presents, Favorites from AXWFF A selection of favorites from the Another Exchange by Women Film Festival, NYC

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MIA presents, Favorites from AXWFF

A selection of favorites from the Another Exchange by Women Film Festival, NYC

On November 28th the MIA screening series will present a selection of fifteen Favorites from Another Exchange by Women Film Festival curated by the festival's director, Lili White. The Another Exchange by Women Film Festival (AXWFF) screens the work of women experimental filmmakers at the Anthology Film Archives in New York, NY.

Alessandra Cianelli, a native of Naples where the octopus plays a central role, tells the Story of the Octopus with a Heart-Shaped Head (2009). A travel show taking the audience to a non-space, Lori Felker & Robert Todd explore the duality of place in The Mirrored Curtain (2011). Angela Ferraiolo's Subway (2011) is an generative montage, assembled by a computer using a variety of algorithms to create the final result. In You Can See the Sun in Late December (2010) Sasha Waters Freyer films evidence of absence, presence and maternity in cold winter light. Matoula Eolou Gekko's This Is A Test Reel (2010) is a series of portraits of strangers on the streets of Athens holding up captions the artist had pre-prepared which unfold the artist's reaction to the financial crisis. Using a home-made optical printing technique, Noe Kidder experiments with abstracting the image and her own experience of loss in Paradise (2007). A repetition of images in equally timed segments lull and seduce in Sally Grizzell Larson's Axiom (2010). Ana Rodríguez León takes the audience on a trip from the past to the future in Bell & Howell 2146 XL (2011). Xmas in the suburbs is juxtaposed with a line from To Kill A Mockingbird, "There are a lot of ugly things in the world. I wish I could protect you from them." in Kelly Oliver's The Borough (2010). Through superimposed and repeated motifs, Liliana Resnick's INSiDE OUT (2011) shows how a cycle of violence empowers a man by destroying a woman. Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya Street-Sachs in Same Stream Twice (2011). Una Sporca Vacanza (Dirty Vacation) (2005) by Cinzia Sarto joins imagery both documentary and digital to depict humans on vacation, indifferent to the reality surrounding them. Rebecca Louise Tiernan's One Mississippi is a psycho-narrative of four girls playing skipping rhymes in a barren field with a lonesome Scarecrow. A homage to motherhood, Lili White's 8 Happinesses in 8 Minutes at the Park (2011) spends a few minutes of time in a shared space with different species. The mother-daughter collaboration, C & A Projects (Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone) investigate the state of the world in a stop motion animation, and this forest will be a desert (2010) - it's all about plastic, panic and paradise.

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The MIA(Moving Image Art) series began in June of 2012, founded by video artist Alanna Simone to promote the work of artists who use the moving image. Every 4th Friday the MIA series screens video art, experimental films, performance art, essay films and animation from local and international artists at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103. Each program is organized around a theme and  screenings usually last a little over an hour. A donation of $5 is suggested. If you'd like more information about MIA screenings, please visit the series' website http://MIAscreen.com or send an email to: newsletter@MIAscreen.com

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This month's MIA event, Favorites from AXWFF starts at 7PM on December 28th, 2012 at the Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103. Please visit the series' website http://MIAscreen.com or send questions to: newsletter@MIAscreen.com

Orange Red Translucent Waxy Chalcedony Necklace with Orange Nepalese Handmade Beads

Autumn Mood Necklace with Malaysian Yellow Gold Jade, Red Jasper, Brick Stone and Brass Fluted Spacers

Something I am proud of

Autumn Mood Necklace with rare Malaysian Yellow Gold Jade, 

Red Jasper, Brick Stone and Brass Fluted Spacers on Etsy

Beautiful stuff from Etsy

from ArtOfAllKinds

OmSaha 

from MOUNTAINPOODLE

from TheSpiralRiver
 
from KLFexpressions

from lavajewelry

Hemp Jewelry

Tutorial:
http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/5147/jewelry-with-a-twist-how-to-make-hemp-jewelry 
http://www.beadage.net/hemp/index.shtml
Looks very very nice, simple and beautiful in a rustic primitive way:

Exploring Ebay and Etsy

I decided to open my own shop on Etsy to sell beaded necklaces and sometimes paintings. I love beading and finally gave way to my old passion and bought some beads, spacers, pendants, and clasps.

Besides, i learned many interesting things about beading like conditioning threat, making bracelets on a loom and how to construct one, about treated turquoise, about tribal Afghani necklaces, hand made beads from Elsha Limbu, pendants from neolithic China period called Hongshan, about buchonon and the difference between brass, copper and bronze, because most of them are just zinc alloy. I learned about silver plate and gold filled, solid copper, colors of agate, jasper, jade, and many other interesting facts and tricks.

Will be posting pix soon.

Stabilized Turquoise http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-stabilized-turquoise.htm http://theturquoisechick.com/stabilized_turquoise_facts.htm



Chalk Turquoise

http://www.luckygemstones.com/turq_informed_buyer.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-chalk-turquoise.htm

Abstraction: Experiment

- it took me 10 min to compile this beautiful footage from galleries, Chelsea pier, Marine Park, and other places.

Gothic Girl with a Borken Doll

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Films that I watched in August - September 2012

1. Ai Wei Wei (at IFC)
2. Dreams of a Life (IFC)
3. Richard on Leacock (IFC)
4. Acid Eaters
5. The Holy Mountain
6. В одиночку через Тихий Океан
7. Symbol (2010) by Isao Yamada
8. Horror of a Deformed Man or Horrors of Malformed Men by Teruo Ishii
9. Terrifying Girls Highschool-Kyofu joshikoko: Boko rinchi kyoshits (1973)
10. Battle Royale
11. Тайное действо за стенами/Affairs Within Walls(1965) Koji Wakamatsu
12. Trap (French at Moma, 1939)
13. Tetsuo the Iron Man (1989)
14. Love - Zero = Infinity Iyarashii hitozuma: nureru (1994)
15. Funeral Procession of Roses (1969)
16. POV: A Cursed Film (2012, Japan)
17. Street of Shame (1959) by Mizoguchi
18. Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi
19. Strange Circus/Kimyô na sâkasu (2005)
20. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (IFC)
21. Digital Dharma (IFC)
22. Garden in the Sea (IFC)
23. Fashion Hell
24. Pinocchio 964 (1991)
25. Время Террора (1969) Koji Wakamatsu

26. 12 Monkeys (inspired by La Jetee but so much worse)
27. La Jetee
28. Pelts (horror)
29. The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1970) Koji Wakamatsu

30. Sansho the Bailiff by Kengi Mizoguchi
31. Mr. Thank You (1936) Arigatô-san by Hiroshi Shimizu
32. Street of Shame (1956) Akasen chitai by Kenji Mizoguchi
33. The last man on Earth.
34. Rubbers Lover


Links
http://nextprojection.com/2012/03/07/love-will-tear-us-apart-the-woman-who-wanted-to-die-1970/
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/pre-1980/la-jetee/
http://www.strangethings.nu/bildsidor/terrifyinggirlshighschool.htm
http://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/keyword/Norifumi+Suzuki.html
http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-soul-odyssey.html
http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Category:Surreal/Experimental
See the links http://unseen-cinema.com/
http://esotika.blogspot.com/2007/10/living-frans-zwartjes-1971.html
http://esotika.blogspot.com/2007/07/alphabetical-index-of-titles_01.html
Murakami effect http://musingsofamaiden.blogspot.com/

Shuji Terayama

Butterfly (1974)


Laura (1974)


Emperor Tomato Ketchup, トマトケッチャップ皇帝 (1971)


http://films.imhonet.ru/element/1116095/movie-online/
http://www.kinopoisk.ru/picture/1020676/
http://kinozon.tv/kadry/8346
http://artmage.ru/26-tomatnyy-ketchup-imperatora-emperor-tomato-ketchup-1971.html

Cereal Killer -- Hillarious!!!

Cereal Killer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhVAJOHgQo


Huge Guns (with Smosh!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6CXAaI1OAo

Chin Chih Yang "Kill Me or Change"

That was weird and dangerous performance. I felt scared watching the thousands of empty cans falling on the artist's head. He seemed like a really daring and fearless person. I'd love to see more of his performances.



Read more: Chin Chih Yang Artist Performance: Kill Me or Change.

Hans Richter, Herman G. Weinberg, Lewis Jacobs - black and white shorts from 1930's

Ghosts for Breakfast (1927, Hans Richter)


Autumn Fire (1931, Herman G. Weinberg)


Footnote to Fact (1933, Lewis Jacobs)


Coney Island at Night (1905)

Toshio Matsumoto is a Genius

Toshio Matsumoto | For The Damaged Right Eye



Bara no sôretsu / Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969 (Ending)

By giving out free books google collects banking info

I tried to download free books from books.google and got this msg:

Do you even need to have credit or debit card to read free books? Obviously you do.

Another thing: I tried to install iBooks on my iPad and was prompted to verify my billing info. When I clicked "yes" I got a popup with all info about my credit card such as my name, address, card # and security code that I have never ever used on this iPad or any apple devise before -- how did they collect these data???

The only thing that I did was to pay my credit card bill from my iPad -- was it enough to collect all my credit card info?? is it even legal?

Films that I watched in July 2012

1. Cobra Woman (1944)
2. It's not a Dream (2011)
3. Wonder Woman
4. Sindbad the Sailor
5. It Came from Kuchar
6. Solaris by A. Tarkovsky
7. Aftermath by Nacho Cerda
8. Genesis by Nach Cerda
9. Poultrygeist by Troma
10. Plan 9 from Outer Space
11. Udon (Japan)
12. Do snuff movies really exist? (doc)
13. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
14. The Toxic Avenger by Troma
15. Little Girls Lost (1983)
16. Тени забытых предков Параджанов
17. Dementia 13
18. Papilio Buddha (2012) by Jayan Cherian
19. Записки Велосипедиста (Japan, 2004)
20. Под сенью цветущих вишен (Japan, )
21. Под стук трамвайных колес / Dô desu ka den (Japan, 1970)

My Dirty Looks, July 2012

Dirty Looks is celebrating queer culture by hosting free screening all over the city every day in July - Dirty Looks | ON LOCATION. I was lucky to visit some of them:

Cobra Woman by Robert Siodmak and
Jungle Island by Jack Smith at Abrons Art Center
and
This Is Not A Dream by Gavin Butt & Ben Walters at The Kitchen (A new documentary, highlighting artists use of video as a platform for broadcast and world creation. Featuring Dickie Beau, Dara Birnbaum, Nao Bustamante, Vaginal Davis, and the Divine David.)

Totaly enjoyed the screenings (and the one that i saw before) and feel sorry i havent visited more of them.

Just found my pix on their FB page:

from the last screening

Footage + animation + collage

Lately I grew fascinated with a new (to me) technique of combining video and graphics and creating a collage with scanned cutouts, documentary footage, internet images and drawn animation. Yesterday i spent two hours working on a super cool animation done with Adobe After Effects. The computer crashed just on time, and of course i failed to click the "save" button before the crash. However, I learned lots of functions and tricks of this new AE version -- i havent used it for 5 years.

Here is a few inspiring videos:

Media in Motion

Fish Soup from cuccumberass on Vimeo.

Angel Rose

THE GREEN CARNATION from Angel Rose on Vimeo.

I am also inspired by the Control Master by Veer and Run Wrake featuring CSA images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOatK0FAqQ

License To Pimp, documentary by Hima B.

Sex and Judgment, article from Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/license-to-pimp-san-francisco_n_1669874.html?utm_hp_ref=san-francisco

License To Pimp on Kickstarter -- 5 days left!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/himab/license-to-pimp-documentary

Toshio Matsumoto

http://www.yidff.jp/docbox/9/box9-2-e.html
http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Matsumoto
http://www.eai.org/artistTitles.htm?id=13101
http://www.ubu.com/film/matsumoto.html

Went to Chelsea galleries...

From Yayoi Kusama's Orgy at Susan Inglett gallery:

and Screw by Al Goldstein

...and more fun staff from Carolina Nitsch and Meulensteen galleries

Awesome: Distant portraits by Amy Adams

Distant portraits by Amy Adams are the photographs of people waiting on the subway platform taken at night from artist's bedroom window!!!!

http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/artists/20474

So much in common...

Funeral Procession of Roses/薔薇の葬列 Bara no Sōretsu (1969) by Toshio Matsumoto



Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky)(1966) by Věra Chytilová
Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave by Michael Koresky
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2269-eclipse-series-32-pearls-of-the-czech-new-wave



House (ハウス Hausu) (1977) by Nobuhiko Obayashi

E.S.P. LAB + FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY = ONE NIGHT OF SYNTHESIS

One very noisy night @ Vaudeville Park, 07/08/2012
https://www.facebook.com/events/435027609852214/

The Art of the Sink

Yayoi Kusama's re-invention of the dots and x-mas lights

Yayoi Kusama's exhibit will open at the Witney museum on July 12, 2012.

Yayoi Kusama reinvented the very basic forms and concepts -- the dots, the colors, sticking out objects, potato, daikon, infinite space, nudeness and christmas lights. How many performances and videos can be created using the Fireflies room!

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama/
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/FirefliesOnTheWater/

Infinite space with fireflies/xmas lights reflected in the mirrors and water: