OPTICKS
works by Liz Wendelbo
November 19 – December 13, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday November 19, 6-9PM

MICROSCOPE Gallery is pleased to present - as our 3rd exhibition – artist Liz Wendelbo in her first solo show Opticks.
The French/Norwegian Wendelbo is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily with photography and film and is a member of the analog electronic duo “Xeno & Oaklander.” Opticks features photographic prints, Polaroids, and works on paper related to Wendelbo’s new abstract 16mm film series 'Opticks XVIII, XIX, XX - Sets & Lights' - shown at the New Museum in October – which is also on display.

Wendelbo’s work has previously exhibited at Artist’s Space, Andrew Kreps Gallery, White Columns, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and others.
Opticks runs November 19 to December 13.
Opening reception, Friday November 19th 6-9PM.

Cork Film Centre: Pip Chodorov Talk
November 10th & 11th
Cork Film Centre
Civic Trust House, 50 Pope's Quay, Cork, Ireland

Experimental filmmaker and distributor Pip Chodorov, this year's guest of Corona Cork Film Festival and Cork Film Centre, will be giving a talk at CFC on Thursday, November 11th.

Pip Chodorov, one of contemporary experimental film's most renowned figues, will be attending Corona Cork Film Festival this year. In addition to being a filmmaker, the Paris-based Pip Chodorov is deeply involved in many aspects of experimental cinema. He is particularly noted for his championing of film-on-film, as opposed to digital formats. He has had much experience with co-operative, artist-run film labs; he is behind the prestigious Re:Voir (http://www.re-voir.com/) experimental film distribution label; he also founded the first gallery in the world devoted entirely to exhibiting experimental film (http://www.film-gallery.org/); he created the still thriving 'Frameworks' online experimental film discussion forum back in the mid-'90s...

In Cork, he will be showing his documentary, Free Radicals:A History of Experimental Film, a personal view of the subject featuring interviews with many of its giants. He will also be presenting a programme of great experimental shorts which he has curated.

In addition, Pip will be giving a talk at Cork Film Centre on the afternoon of Thursday November 11th, 3.30-5 pm, which will focus on working with the film (as opposed to video) medium in a DIY context, an area in which his expertise is internationally noted. This event is free and open to all, but places are limited so please book in advance. To reserve a place, please email info@corkfilmcentre.com

FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM. Nov 10, 8:30pm, Gate Cinema

Trailer: http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/video-et-podcast?vid=109

The greatest film-artists and film-poets of the 20th Century were free to explore and invent a radical new art form: the avant-garde, underground, experimental cinema. It was fun! It was exciting! It was crazy! But they soon found themselves in a no-man's-land: with no audience, no distribution, no funding, no film industry or art world to support them, they had to set up their own cinematheques, distribution networks and cooperatives, and these are still active today. A story of creativity, friendship, hardship, solidarity and cinema.

Starring: Hans Richter, Len Lye, Robert Breer, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, Stan Vanderbeek, Maurice Lemaître...
Music by Slink Moss.
Edited by Nicolas Sarkissian.
Directed by Pip Chodorov.
Produced by Ron Dyens and Aurélia Prévieu (Sacrebleu Productions).

SHORTS PROGRAMME. Nov 11, 8:30pm, Gate Cinema

- Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck, 1951 7'
- Hans Richter, Rhythmus 21, 1921 3'
- Oskar Fischinger, Allegretto, 1936 3'
- Maya Deren, A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1944 3'
- Stan Brakhage, Window Water Baby Moving, 1959 12'
- James Whitney, Lapis, 1966 9'
- Maurice Lemaitre, The Song of Rio Jim, 1978 6'
- Martin Arnold, piece touchée 1989 15'
- Jeff Scher, Yours, 1997 3'

Conversations at the Edge: Erie
Thursday, November 11, 18h
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State St.,Chicago, Illinois 60601
Kevin Jerome Everson in person!

Over the past thirteen years, Kevin Jerome Everson has crafted an exquisite—and prodigious—body of work on the working-class culture of African-Americans and people of African descent.  Combining documentary and fiction, Everson’s nearly 70 shorts and four features center on everyday tasks and gestures to unearth and illuminate the ordinary grace of daily life.  This evening, in conjunction with the Video Data Bank’s release of the 25-title DVD box set, Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson, the artist presents his acclaimed feature Erie (2010) along with a handful of new shorts. Unspooling in a series of hand-held, single-take shots filmed in the urban centers around the great lake, Erie captures the conversation of former General Motors workers as the plant is about to close; hospital employees carefully sorting and sterilizing surgical implements; and young performers krumping and rehearsing musical theater side-by-side, the camera moving between them in a kind of mash-up-en-scene and microcosm of the rich and multifaceted operation of the film as a whole.  Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010, USA, HDCAM video, ca. 90 min (plus discussion).

KEVIN JEROME EVERSON (1965, Mansfield, OH) has made four feature-length films and nearly seventy shorts.  He received an MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. His films and artwork have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; the Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; the American Academy of Rome, Italy; the Sundance Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Cinematexas; Ann Arbor Film Festival; and Chicago Underground Film Festival, among many others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, an American Academy Rome Prize, and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony.  He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Virginia and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Films Of Robert Banks & Bruce Checefsky
Sunday, November 21, 19h
Cleveland Cinematheque
11141 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1700, USA

Tonight we screen a program of short films by two of Cleveland’s foremost filmmakers, Robert Banks and Bruce Checefsky. These two men, whose films have been shown nationally and internationally at such venues as Anthology Film Archives, The Museum of Modern Art, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival (among many others), frequently collaborate with each other. But beyond that, they share a fascination with avant-garde cinema (easily seen in their own abstract film work), as well as a love for the aesthetic and physical properties of celluloid. (Both still shoot on film, and everything we will show tonight is on16mm or 35mm.) But each man is also a distinctive talent. Checefsky, whose day job is Director of the Reinberger Galleries at the Cleveland Institute of Art, works mostly in black-and-white, re-imagining classic Eastern European avant-garde films from the 1920s-40s that were either lost or destroyed, or perhaps only scripted or described but never filmed. His work tends to refined, elegant, classical. Banks’ movies, on the other hand, are riots of shots, sounds, colors, and camera angles, and are often scratched-on or painted-on. Themes include African-American life, the culture of beauty, and the media. Program includes Checefsky’s Pharmacy (2001), A Woman and Circles (2004), Moment Musical (2006), Tuareg (2008), and Béla (2009); and Banks’ MPG: Motion Picture Genocide (1997), Jaded (1998); Outlet (1999); Embryonic (1999); Goldfish and Sunflowers (1999); A.W.O.L. (2004); Faith ‘n’ Chaos (2004); He Namedrops the Spider (2010); and perhaps some new works and other surprises. Banks and Checefsky will answer audience questions after the screening. Total approx. 120