Personal Cinema Series - Tony Conrad
Saturday, March 27th 2010, 20-22h
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, New York, USA

Tony Conrad - filmmaker, video artist, musician/composer, teacher and writer, Tony Conrad returns to the Millennium with a wide ranging program of rarely seen (and never) seen works and performances created between 1973 and 2008. Conrad’s film The Flicker, is a notorious classic of the underground cinema of the 60s. Before that he created the soundtrack for Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures. In the 1970s, the premiere of his Yellow movies Exhibition was held at Millennium. The artist will be present to introduce and discuss the works shown.

Program:
- Putin’s gas station (3 min., 2003)
- Your friend (10 min., 2008),
- Boring film with bowed film - Boring film (14 min., 2008)
- Boring film (Performance work-1974)
- Sip twice sandry (1 min., 1983)
- Three audio pieces: And you will see, Goo goo, They called it (7.5 min., 1973-74)
- Teddy tells jokes (4 Min., 1980)
- Come on in (16 Min., 1986)
- Acropolis lecture (7 min., 2006)
- Enlightenment through experience: Interim semester at Albright College (5 min., 1973)
- Four pieces in collaboration with Joe Gibbons: The producer (13 min., 2005), Literature and revolution (3 min., 1985), On slavery (13 min., 2005), I was just leaving (13 min., 2005).

Admission: $8 / $6 members

Hammer! Making Movies Out Of Life And Sex
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Saturday 27 March 2010, at 4:15pm
BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
Tickets: £9.25 / £6.90 concessions

A Performance by Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer's pioneering lesbian art and activism have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde filmmakers and fans.

On the occasion of the UK launch of her memoir "HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Life and Sex", Hammer visits the LLGFF for a special reading and performance event. Using a treasure trove of archival images, costumes of lesbian fashion past, and clips from her provocative experimental films, many never before seen in London, Hammer will playfully mine four decades of queer life and art. From the bed-hopping and early films of the 1970s, to the development of a queer aesthetics in the 1980s, to the culture wars of the 1990s, and her recent struggle to survive cancer, she will go behind her immaculately crafted, taboo-breaking films to discuss her creative process and her personal experiences as a groundbreaking lesbian artist. (Kyle Stephan)

Barbara Hammer's new book will be available for purchase at a signing session following the performance.

Taka iimura and Haruyuki Suzuki: Experimental video / live music concert
Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:00pm $4.99
Exprimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street at Grand,
Third Floor, NY, Subway: Canal Street Station #6, 212 431 5127, 431 6430

Part one - videos by Iimura with electronic music by Suzuki:
- A Rock In The Light, 1985/2008, 18min.
- Eye For Eye, Ear For Ear, 1967-70/2008, 2 films, 25min.

"the best work of Iimura's middle period …a powerful record of a painful time and a warning about the future."- Scott MacDonald

Part two - solo performance by Suzuki.

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Taka iimura: Film Performance in Film
Friday, April 9, 2010 7:30pm Tel.: (212) 505-5181 $9
Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY Subway:2nd Ave.#F,V

“Film Performance in Film” (rather than “Performance Film”):
- Anma (TheMasseurs), 1963-2007, 20min., with Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Music:Tomomi Adachi
- Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity), 1972-1995, 7 films, 29min., with Takahiko iimura and Akiko iimura.
- Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing), 1981-2009, 2 films 23 min.

"Prodded by a succession of riddles, the videos are lined with humor” - Aaron Michael Kerner, San Francisco State University