CCA Film Events

MFA Screening

26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jewish Film Club

04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Children Must Laugh ( Mir Kumen On)

Dir. Aleksander Ford

1935, 63 min

Directed by Lodz native Aleksander Ford and financed by the Jewish Labor movement in Poland, Children Must Laugh is one of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II. This institutional film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which, noted for its modern and spacious facilities, stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.

The sanitarium's theme song, "Mir Kumen On (Here We Come)," punctuates the film with a sense of hope and accomplishment. The Bund's optimistic internationalism, exemplified by the children's endearing performances, permeates the film, creating powerful yet unintended ironies for post-Holocaust audiences.

Jewish Life In Cracow

Dir. Shaul & Yizak Goskind

1939, 10 min

Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, the Jewish Community Council, and several schools convey the vitality of this age-old Jewish community.

Jewish Life in Lwow
Dir. Shaul & Yizak Goskind
1938, 10 min

Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-and-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city nestled in a valley projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles ply its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building, the Old Ghetto, the softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple, the orthodox school, the Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital and the grave of the “Golden Rose”—filmed in warm, dappled light—and the Nowosci Theater.

A day in Warsaw
Dir. Shaul & Yizak Goskind
1938, 10 min

The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial “beehive” Nalewki Street, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II.

A Day in Warsaw juxtaposes Warsaw’s modern multi-storied buildings and broad streets with its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts, and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery, and other Jewish institutions—the community council, hospitals,schools, and synagogues. At film’s end, after Sabbath services, families pour into Krashinsky Park where children play and adults spiritedly debate the issues of the day.

Celluloid Jam: D.I.Y or DIE

17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dir. Michael W. Dean, 2002, USA
55 mins
Cert. 15

Micheal W. Dean has created a documentary portrait of two-dozen mavericks as they carry on the spirit of punk rock through all manners of art media.

The 55-minute movie is a celebration of the Underdog, and a fanfare to the common Independent American Artist. It’s a collaboration of portraits and profiles from a fascinating group of underground icons as well as overlooked unknowns working in various media including print, film, graphic art, performance art, and music. The two-dozen interviewees are true mavericks that operate outside of any “studio system”, are beholden to no one, and produce influential and quality art regardless of a pay.

Magic Lantern

17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

For The Magic Lantern's 2nd Birthday we’re delighted to present our selection of the best short films from Edinburgh Film Festival 2008, with an introduction by EIFF 2008 shorts programmer Matt Lloyd.

Post screening drinks, cake & set by Jack Valentine of Isoceles

Tickets £5/ £3 from CCA Box Office 0141 352 4900

Sick Sex dir. Justin Nowell USA/2007/ 12mins

Amanda has a fever. Ken is horny.

Sick Sexwas shot over the course of one exceptionally hot and sticky summer

day in Brooklyn, New York. The idea from the start had been to make something down and truly dirty – two actors, one light, an HD camera, a friend’s borrowed

apartment, and a single afternoon to get through twelve pages of script. Actors Amanda Gruss and Ken Forman were performing at the time in a play in the East Village

and so were already well acquainted and ready to step into their roles as a feverish, bedridden young woman and her priapic, caretaker boyfriend. Justin Nowell is a 2006 graduate of the New York University Film School, MFAprogram. His short films have played festivals worldwide. He received his AB from Harvard University in 1998, where he studied English and American

Literatures. He lives in New York City.

Alexandra dir. Radu Jude Romania/2007/26mins

Tavi, a man in his late thirties, discovers that Alexandra, his 4 years old daughter, is not calling him “Dad” anymore.

Radu Jude is an internationally acclaimed short filmmaker whose last short film The Tube With The Hat screened at the Glasgow Film Festival 2008 (programmed by The Magic Lantern). It’s gone on to win various accolades and screen at many major short film festivals including Telluride, Rotterdam, Tampere, San Francisco, Aspen, Oberhausen. The Magic Lantern strongly believes that Radu Jude is one to watch!

Son dir. Daniel Mulloy UK/ 2007/ 17mins

Son tells the story of an underground theatre Director and the possessive grip he holds over his female colleague, and her young son James. James' unhappy world unfolds in the confines of the theatre's vaults where soon reality and fiction become indistinguishable. Starring acclaimed actress Nathalie Press of My Summer Of Love and Red Road.

Daniel Mulloy studied fine art in London and New York, graduating in 2001. His first film, Dance Floor, won many accolades, including a BAFTA Cymru for Best Newcomer. Mulloy's second short, Sister, released in 2005, won another BAFTA and a slew of awards, including the ARTE Grand Prix in Hamburg and the Tamashi Award in Tokyo. Antonio's Breakfast premiered at Sundance in 2006 and has gained many awards at international festivals, including Mulloy’s third BAFTA win for Best Short Film. Dad premiered at Sundance in 2007 and has won another host of awards as well as being Nominated for the European Academy Award after winning the UIP in Krakow. Son was completed in June 2007 and since premiering in the US has begun to win awards including the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at Slamdance 2008 and the UK Film Council Award for Best British Short Film at 62^nd Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Plane Days dirs Benjamin Kracun & Ewan McNicol UK/ 2008/ 15mins

Old friends. Young friends. Lovers and loners.

They all wait, hoping, to see something they’ve never seen before.

Is it a Virgin? Thai? Singapore? American? They all could be another one for the book.

With a flask of tea or a bottle of wine to keep warm, every day is a new day around the perimeter fence at Heathrow.

Every day is a plane day.

Benjamin is currently based in London, he has shot commercials, viral and brand films for Nokia and MTV. He won a Kodak commercials award in 2007 and continues to work as a cinematographer and director. Ewan is a partner in a multi- disciplinary creative firm called Lucid Inc. where he has just completed a global stills and film campaign for Nokia, shot in India, China, Africa and the USA. He’s also developing film projects through Lucid Inc. Ewan has been nominated for a Scottish BAFTA, is a winner of a Royal Television Society award, an Association of Photographer’s award and has had his work exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in London.

Space Travel According To John. dirs Jamie Stone & Anders Jedenfors UK/2008/3

Mins

Funny, wise and gloriously eccentric 10 year old John reflects on the wonders of space travel. His insights into intergalactic exploration are magically brought to life using ‘sandimation’.

Winners of the McLaren Animation Award at EIFF 2008.

Plot Point dir. Nicolas Provost Belguim/ 2007/ 13mins

This is a land of New York cops, with its howling police cars, uniforms, ambulances, and crowded streets, which soon turns into the perfect scenery of a nation in fear. We are so familiar with the fiction film language that we can make reality completely disappear.

Prix Speciale de Jury, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival 2008

Nicolas Provost is a filmmaker and visual artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films are screened worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals and have earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals as among others The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, Cinevegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, The Locarno Film Festival,…

Running order tbc.

Approximately Infinite Universe: Film Programme

18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE
Film programme
Curator: Sami Sanpakkila

Total approximate running time: 80 minutes

Sami Sänpäkkilä
Tarbotstraat, super8, 2003, 0:51
Kubistisia kukkia liikkeessä, super8, 2003, 5:46
Kubistisia vittu saatana, super8, 2003, 4:45
91: 11-12, 16mm, 2004, 8:42
Islaja: Rohkaisulaulu, 16mm, 2006, 4:38
Surrealistin kaksi vasenta kättä, 16mm, 2005, 7:32
Kemialliset ystävät shreds, miniDV, 2008, 7:31
Tupakkarulla, miniDV, 2007, 1:49

Jonna Karanka
Pymathon: Mutilated by Midnight - 2008, mini-dv, 3:30
Jaakko ja Viivi - 2008, mini-dv, 2:30
Hertta lussu ässä: Norsun sydän - 2007, mini-dv, 04:15
Kemialliset Ystävät: Älyvaahtoa - 2007, mini-dv, 02:47
Erkki, Tomas ja Arttu - 2004, mini-dv, 01:40

Pasi "Sleeping" Myllymäki
(all in super8)
Omena 1976 / 1:32
Fire of Life, 1979, 3:33
Miten salaperäinen liftari poimii kolme kiveä, 1979, 1:08
Sleeping tv-versio, 1979, 1:25
Vedestä nousee ufo, 1979, 2:34
3000 autoa, 1980, 2:30
5 reikää selluloidissa, 1980, 2:05
Andalusialainen koirankoppi, 1980, 1:30
Asfalttibaletti, 1980, 0:52
Värityskirja. Nyt., 1980, 2:05
Ele, 1981, 2:30
Salamat iskevät kirkkaalta taivaalta, 1981, 0:20
SSU eli sano se ujosti, 1981, 3:33
Forssa-ilmiö, 1982, 1:24
Kuminen umpiauto 1982, 1:35
Maananalainen kaitaelokuva n:o 8, 1982, 2:45
Mustat alku- ja lopputekstit, 1982, 2:46

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sami Sänpäkkilä

Sami Sänpäkkilä (b. 1975) aka Es lives and works near the forests of Tampere, Finland. He is a musician, film-maker and the head of Fonal Records. Sami's fourth musical solo release is the “Sateenkaarisuudelma” double LP released by the Belgian (K-RAA-K)3 records on 1st November 2005.

Sami has created 25 short films and music videos which have been screened in various museums, art galleries and film festivals around the world. The films and the music are experimental moodscapes that explore the themes of melancholy, pathos and hope. As Es he has perfomed across North America and Europe at various festivals including Sonár, Subcurrent and Itsenäisyysyö at the famous B2 club in Moscow.

Pasi "Sleeping" Myllymäki

Working as a graphic designer for the Iittala glassworks, Pasi Myllymäki (b. 1950) was inspired by the do-it-yourself spirit of the punk movement to make short films of his own. Having no camera of his own, Myllymäki began collaborating with Risto Laakkonen, a DIY film-maker who did have an 8mm camera. Working at night, in the weekends and on holidays, the duo made altogether over 40 short films between 1976 and 1985. "Film should no longer be experienced as a dream. Until now, viewers could watch safely from a distance what was happening to the actors. Now the film will happen to the viewers. The age of direct cinema has begun,” Myllymäki wrote about his cinematic visions in the new-age Uuden ajan aura magazine in 1979. The short films of Myllymäki and Laakkonen were not screened at official events at the time, only at reviews by DIY film-makers and in new wave concerts. Myllymäki also published nine issues of an A6-size fanzine called Underground DIY Cinema (Maanalainen kaitaelokuva, 1979–1982). - Mika Taanila

Jonna Karanka

Jonna Karanka was born in Finland in 1978. She received her BA in Fine Art in 2001 and continued professional specialization studies in video art (2002) and color photography (2004). Currently living and working in Helsinki, Finland, her spectrum of work combines video, music, photography, painting and collage. She has performed live music (as Kuupuu) in Anthology Film Archives, WFMU radio station, Stockholm Culture House and her videos have been screened in Scandinavia House in NY, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, and various festivals in Europe.

Dance on Screen

25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

CCA presents Dance on Screen, a monthly film strand showcasing historical and contemporary dance works. An exciting line up of documentary, feature length and short dance films will tap into work by Scottish and international artists, as well as new commissions made for dance film festivals.

Running on the last Thursday of every month, the programme will explore a wide range of themes, looking at the work of dancers and choreographers working in collaboration with renowned directors, musicians, fashion designers, and visual artists. Look out for guest speakers, Q&As, critical debate and post-screening receptions.

September Line Up;

Camera/Movement (60min)

Camera/Movement

is a programme of artists’ single screen works in dance and moving image. It offers a historical and thematic overview of the use of camera in relation to dance movement, pinpointing key works that articulate the dynamics of space.

Curated by Helena Blaker, this screening programme was part of a larger collaboration between CAPTURE and Netherlands Media Art Institute. Following the completion of the CAPTURE project, this screening programme continues to be managed by Portland Green Cultural Projects.

Tickets available from CCA box office on 0141 352 4900.

Art Internship Opportunity

03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

CCA is offering a six-month arts internship commencing in January 2009.

The successful applicant would help contribute to the day to day running of the venue. It could also involve shadowing members of the staff, assisting with CCA events and exhibitions or carrying out specific projects on your own.

You must be available to work at least 1-2 days per week. Interviews for this Internship will be held in December.

To apply please email louise@cca-glasgow.com for an application form and complete and return to Louise Shelley by noon, Friday November 21 2008.

Arts Internship Role Description:
This role is designed to offer an intern insight and experience in art management and administration.

Duties of the Role
In addition to assisting and work-shadowing for events, the role may include assisting with:

general office duties such as opening and distributing daily mail, daily collection, stamping and postage of mail at end of day, receiving and distributing other deliveries
the display and distribution of publicity material and weekly press coverage
mailing out and delivering of flyers and other promotional material
sourcing and updating databases and mailing lists
the preparation and event management duties of CCA events
sourcing and arranging best value travel and accommodation arrangements for artists
attending regular CCA team meetings
any other reasonable duties as requested by the Office and Programme Assistant

Hours Worked
This is a volunteer role for 7 to 14 hours per week over 2 days. A regular weekly pattern to be agreed with the Office and Programme assistant.

Position in the Organisation
Reports to the Office and Programme assistant.

SalaryThis is an unpaid role. Complimentary passes to some CCA events may be provided.

Person Specification

Desirable:

Experience of working in an office environment
Experience of working with people

Essential:

An interest in the arts and arts administration
Knowledge of and experience working with Microsoft office.
A flexible approach to work
A helpful and positive disposition
Ability to work in a team and independently.
Time management skills
An understanding and commitment to equal opportunities

Please download the job description and application form on the left hand side.

Applications should be emailed to Louise Shelley, louise@cca-glasgow.com, by noon, Friday November 21 2008.

For further information, please contact louise@cca-glasgow.com or on 0141 352 4900.

Sin Dejar Huella (Maria Novaro, 2000)

04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Clashing the contexts of two woman – one of them Mexican, the other one Spanish – this is a critical portrait of contemporary Mexico, including sweatshops in the US border, drug dealers, migrating population and corrupted agents of the law.

Llamenme Mike (Alfredo Gurrola, 1979)

04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"This is just my favorite Mexican movie always!" Abraham Cruzvillegas

"A crooked cop who was sent to prison for stealing drugs and brutally beaten by his fellow inmates suffers a serious concussion that makes him believe he is the fictional protagonist from an American crime novel in this humorous action thriller from director Alfredo Gurrola. Upon awakening from his violent thrashing and assuming the persona of hard-boiled American detective "Mike", the incarcerated cop stages a daring escape from prison in hopes of eluding the communist group that he believes is hot on his trail." Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

White Palms (Feher tenyer)

05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dir. Szabolcs Hajdu
2006, feature film, 35mm, colour, 100 min.

After Miklós Dongó’s highly promising career as a gymnast is cut short by an injury, he arrives in Canada as a coach to rebuild his life. But because of his style and conditioning doubt arises as to whether or not he will be able to fit into this new world, and if he is up to the new challenges. First he has to face a past and background with which he is yet to come to terms – a joyless childhood spent within the walls of the gymnasium and the ghosts of the past.

www.whitepalmsmovie.com

Prizes:

Kaunas Film Festival 2007: Audience Award
Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2007: Main Prize of ‘Films from the Visegrád Countries’
Budapest Hungarian Film Week 2006: Best Director: Szabolcs Hajdu; Best Cinematography: András Nagy; Best Producer: Iván Angelusz, Gábor Kovács, Ágnes Pataki, Péter Reich; Best Editor: Péter Politzer; Gene Moskowitz Prize awarded by the foreign critics; People’s Choice via Internet
Essonne CINESSONNE 2006: Grand Prix
Istanbul Cinema & History Meeting 2006: Best Film
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006: Special Mention East of the West
Ljubljana International Film Festival 2006: FIPRESCI Award
Trencianske Teplice Art Film Festival 2006: Best Screenplay

Jewish Film Club: Would I lie to you

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Would I lie to you
The hit Jewish comedy that took French cinemas by storm.

Jobless, broke and down and out in Paris, Eddie Vuibert is going nowhere fast. When a local fabric seller comes to his aid in a street fight, he is mistaken for being Jewish and finds his whole world turned upside down. Given a job and a home, his life couldn't be better, but when he falls for the boss's daughter Sandra, will the lie catch up with him? Set among the Sephardi Jewish garment dealers of Paris, Gilou's film takes a comic look at religion, materialism, sexual indiscretions and male machismo. In France this film was the biggest ever box office hit for a native film.

Stopwatch

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology, in partnership with Arts Council England, have commissioned seven artists to make short films for the internet that explore ecological themes. The films have been made using a variety of techniques including hand drawn animation, Super 8 and text animation.

Atlantis
Christine Ödlund, 1’54”
The earth is covered in mould and fungi due to global warming. Extreme weather has forced man to take refuge under the sea surface.

Christine Ödlund is an artist and composer working in Stockholm, Sweden. She recently participated in Swedish outsiders: festival of experimental sounds and films at ICA, London and Changing Matters: The Resilience Art Exhibition at The Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.

d is for dodo
Jordan Baseman, 1’12”
d is for dodo is a nocturnal, single shot of an illuminated, urban, store-front sign that reads: Chez Dodo.

Jordan Baseman is currently the Reader in Time Based Media at Wimbledon College of Art and is also a Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. He has a long history of carrying out projects in collaboration with various public institutions such as Grizedale Arts, British School at Rome and the Wellcome Trust.

Damage Limitation
Phil Coy, 1’30”
A structuralist approach is applied to a Flash animation and the illustrative graphics of a public information film. The formal language gives way to lived experience.

Phil Coy’s work employs a range of mediums from video and photography to text-based and generative performance. Coy has recently exhibited at Ars Nova Museum, Finland, ICA, London and Cornerhouse Manchester.

Written and Directed by Phil Coy
Flash Production Consultant: Melissa Gates
Narration: Jane Munro
Music: Computational interpretation of James Tenney’s ‘For Ann (Rising)’, 1969, (Phil Coy)

I'M SUCKING ON A TAILPIPE IN SEOUL
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, 1’08”
A sushi dinner with friends during which they talk of other climates, other dishes.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is the Seoul-based yhchang.com. Its CEO is Young-hae Chang (South Korea), its CIO Marc Voge (USA).

Concept, text, animation, and original music soundtrack by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Commissioned by Animate Projects and RSA Arts & Ecology in association with Arts Council England

it’s like this.
a Wu-Pong clan project by Elodie Pong, 2’21”
it’s like this takes on the industrial wasteland, replacing the lost nature with artificial beautification.

Elodie Pong lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Occurrence, Montreal and Tokyo Wonder Site; screenings include Impakt in Utrecht, Aurora, Norwich, and Int.Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.

a Wu-Pong clan project by Elodie Pong
With Roger le Rat
Music: Christian Fischer
Camera: Simon Jaquemet
Editor: Rosa Albrecht
Production Manager: Karina Budliger
Thank you: Chantal Molleur, Georges Clemmer, Giuseppe Marelli Pneuhandel, Gelterkinden/BL, Norbert Toldo & Dampfmodellklub der Schweiz, Zürich-Grünau, Christian Davi, Thomas Thümena, Christof Neracher

Make it snow! make it snow! make it snow!
Manu Luksch, 1’12”
A short meditation on the manipulation of winter landscapes for tourism that points to their fragility and recalls the need for a holistic perspective.

Manu Luksch, is a filmmaker and founder of interdisciplinary arts production company ambientTV.NET. Her projects have been shown at many international venues including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Ars Electronica, Linz, NTT ICC, Tokyo and Witte de With, Rotterdam.

Idea and realisation: Manu Luksch
Soundtrack: Mukul Patel
Many thanks to: Matthias Rabanser and the Nicolussi family

Severed, The Deracinater and The Isle
Simon Woolham, 1’34”
The three short animations, Severed, a landscape in peril, coughing up its own blood, The Deracinater, a tree trying to communicate and uproot itself and The Isle, a whole landscape under threat, heighten the human impact and presence on our landscape, both social or ecological.

Simon Woolham has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows and has undertaken residencies at the National Glass Centre, the Museum of Garden History and Per Cent for Art in Ireland. In 2008, he was commissioned to create work for the Tatton Park Biennial.

Opium - Diary of A Mad Woman (Opium - Egy elmebeteg no naploja)

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Director: János Szász
2007, feature film, 35mm, colour, 108 minutes

József Brenner, a doctor working in a mental hospital, is also an author suffering from writer’s block. He begins a complex and ultimately sexual relationship with one of the woman patients, Gizella, who is also a compulsive and brilliant writer convinced that the devil has possessed her soul.

Before World War I, Brenner, a disciple of more liberal approaches to mental health, finds himself in a hospital that is more like some kind of medieval torture chamber.

The film is based on the autobiography of the Hungarian psychiatrist and writer Géza Csáth, (whose work provided the source for János Szász’s earlier award-winning The Witman Boys) and features outstanding performances from Ulrich Thomsen as Brenner and Kirsti Stubo as Gizella. Maybe it is this Scandinavian
input that reminds one of Ingmar Bergman, for this is classical filmmaking and a work of disturbing power. The film deservedly won four awards at this year’s Hungarian Film Week, including best direction and best cinematography (Tibor Mathé).

Prizes:

Fantasporto 2008 Directors’ Week Award: Best Actress: Kirsti Stubo; Best Film:János Szász
Hungarian Film Week 2007: “Gene Moskowitz” Critics Award: János Szász; Best Cinematographer: Tibor Máthé; Best Director: János Szász; Best Sound: István Sipos, Manuel Laval, Matthias Schwab
Moscow International Film Festival 2007: Silver St. George Best Actress: Kirsti Stubo

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with Guests: Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday)

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Introduced by Brian Morton, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra with guests Birgit Ulher (tpt) and Clayton Thomas (bs) present Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow and CCA.

Sound cinema changed forever the relationship between sound and image and this encounter between GIO and guests Birgit Ulher and Clayton Thomas both looks back to silent documentary images while lending a contemporary ear to the listening forum of improvised music. This collaboration paves the way for another extraordinary synaesthetic performance with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Scotland's most sincere new music ensemble.

Menschem am Sonntag/People on Sunday
Germany 1927. Dir. Robert Siodmak
with German and English intertitles.

Shot entirely on original locations in late 20s Berlin, this is the tale of five young Berliners spending a typical summer Sunday in the metropolis and in the surrounding countryside. Billed as a 'film without actors', each of the on-screen participants effectively played themselves and returned to their day jobs once production had concluded.

People on Sunday is the early collaboration of five young Berlin based filmmakers - Robert and Curt Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Edgar G Ulmer, Eugen Schuefftan and Fred Zinneman - who would all go on to great international success. Produced with little financial assistance it made film history as the avant garde precursor of poetic realism.

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
GIO is a network of listening made band-like by a playful consistency in their approach to large group free improvisation: an orchestra that is hospitable, monstrous, of undefined edges and truly defies categorisation. To listen to them becomes an ethical priority in the face of mute repetition; enjoy.
www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com

Clayton Thomas
Australian-born bassist Clayton Thomas, now based in Berlin, works in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music. He is also the founder of the NOW festival of improvised music and the leader o fthe 30 piece electro-acoustic ensemble The Splinter Orchestra.
www.myspace.com/doubleclayton

Birgit Ulher
Hamburg-based trumpeter Birgit Ulher has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music since the early eighties, establishing a distinguished grammar of intimate sounds beyond the open trumpet sound. Influenced by her training as a visual artist, she performs solo, with dancers, working ensembles, and one-off collaborations with musicians from around the world.
www.birgit-ulher.de

Pitcher of Coloured Light

22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This evening will provide a rare opportunity to see the extraordinary 16mm films of Beavers and other legendary figures of American independent cinema; dedicated to the task of finding new personal languages in film making.

Curated by Luke Fowler, the programme will feature work by Beavers, Aurand, Sonbert, Brakhage, Menken and Markopoulos, from 1962 – 2007.

Dance on Screen

27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

THE GREEN TABLE
Germany 2000, 37 mins., no dialogue. Dir. Thomas Grimm.
The ballet "The Green Table" by Kurt Jooss (1901 – 1979) is considered one of the masterworks of expressive dance and won First Prize at the Paris Concours international de chorégraphie. This studio performance by the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago was staged by the daughter of Kurt Jooss, Anna Markard, who meticulously reconstructed the work. Costumes and stage sets were adapted from the originals as designed for the world premiere in 1932.

THE TRIADIC BALLET
Germany 1970, 30 mins., no dialogue. Dir. Franz Schömbs.
A reconstruction of the experimental ballet which Oskar Schlemmer created in the early 1920s at the Bauhaus in Weimar and which was based on the idea of the magic figure three. Costumes, masks and form are modelled on originals but modern, almost weightless material is used that gives the strictly geometrical figures a floating grace.

Tickets available from CCA box office on 0141 352 4900.

Merry XXXmas from The Magic Lantern!

03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Magic Lantern presents a programme of short films that explore the representation of sex on screen. From seminal artists shorts, early erotic titillaters to more recent commissions from contemporary celebrated filmmakers: each of the films in this programme question the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually.

La Fessée à l'école
France, 1925, 5 mins
Naughty schoolgirls are punished by their teacher.

Moment
Stephen Dwoskin, UK, 1968 ,13 mins
One single continuous shot of a girl's face before, during and after orgasm.

Fuses
Carolee Schneemann, USA, 1964-67, 18 mins
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of sex between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch.

Balkan Erotic Epic
Maria Abramovic, 2005, 13 mins
Through eroticism the human attempts to make himself equal with the gods. In Balkan folklore, various explicit acts were performed for ‘higher’ purposes; to promote growth of crops, to heal a sick child and to protect against evil spirits.

Impaled
Larry Clark, USA, 2005, 38 mins
Celebrated American filmmaker of KIDS & BULLY explores the impact porn has on attitudes to sex by interviewing a range of porn enthusiasts and providing them the opportunity to act out their fantasies.

Un Chant D’Amour
Jean Genet, France,1950, 25 mins
Set in a French prison, this silent, poetic, and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire reveals the recurrent themes that unite Genet's work.

Sync
Marco Brambilla, Italy, 2005, 1 min
‘Sync’ is made up of sampled images from sex scenes in mainstream and adult films and explores the formulaic and often derivative approach to sex in cinema.

Design by ruth paxton

Thanks to Lux, BFI, Revolver & Destricted

Supported by Scottish Screen

www.themagiclantern.org

Transition, Transition, Transition

05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Camcorder Guerillas, Towards Transition Glasgow and the Scottish Climate Change Campaign present Transition, Transition, Transition - Climate Change: The Opportunity.

Transition presents the following films from around the world followed by speakers from climate campaigns and initiatives from across Scotland... and an open discussion about the issues raised in the films...

The first of a weekend of events to promote action on climate change.

'An introduction to Transition in Scotland'
By Precious Productions - 8 Minutes, Scotland 2008
This is a short video documenting the first ever Scottish Transition Gathering, which was held at the Big Tent Festival in Fife in July 2008.

Eat the Suburbs
By Tanya Curnow – 10 minutes; Australia
Eat The Suburbs is a short that offers a profile of the activist gardening movement as well as offering tips on how to start your own miniature organic farm. Eat The Suburbs received its world premiere at the 2007 Hot Docs International Film Festival.

Wake Up, Freak out – Then Get a Grip
It’s much, much later than you think
By Leo Murray – 11 minutes
This really isn’t about polar bears anymore. At this very moment, the fate of civilization itself hangs in the balance. An ingeniously clear and engaging animation about Climate Change, Wake Up, Freak out – Then Get a Grip explains why the next few years are the most important humanity has ever faced, or will ever face.
http://wakeupfreakout.org/

The Power of Community – How Cuba survived Peak Oil (extract)
By the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions
Cuba, an isolated island nation, rebuilt its quality of life following the collapse of cheap oil, supplied by the former Soviet Union. This fascinating and empowering film shows how communities pulled together, created solutions, and ultimately thrived in spite of their decreased dependence on imported energy.
www.powerofcommunity.org

Act on Climate Change - MARCH
Saturday 6 December - Assemble at 12.30pm at the Amphitheatre on Clyde Street. Rally at 2pm at Caledonian University followed by Glasgow's Radical Independent Book Fair, 12 - 8pm, STUC Centre, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NQ

Kill Your Timid Notion

06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A step across the border between sound & vision...

Kill Your Timid Notion is one of Europe's leading festivals of sound and image hosted in Dundee since 2003. This year we tour the festival to venues across the UK. Come and be inspired, enriched and confounded.

Featuring performances, screenings and events from Ken Jacobs, Keith Rowe, Bruce McClure, Paul Sharits…

Your eyes see what, 10 or 15 images a second? That’s 10Hz. Your ears can hear 15,000 Hz. Surely there must be something interesting in this incongruity?

KYTN is all about exploring the many different ways we navigate the borders, disparities and similarities between what we hear and what we see. It involves some of the great experimental artists, musicians and filmmakers of our time, and some of the not too distant future. It features film being developed as it’s projected, visual harmonics, jerry rigged 16mm projectors, movement without motion, and much more besides...

For full details of the programme, visit www.arika.org.uk

FILM PROGRAMME
Our film programmes navigate the multiple ways in which filmmakers and artists have addressed the dilemmas and possibilities of sound and image, from optical printing and syneasthesia, to complex discontinuities between what we see and what we hear. It’s not all just fancy theory: mostly it’s just incredible films, new ways of looking…

Location, Location, Location
Experience a sense of being in the world, in a specific space and time. Including Jeanne Liotta’s recordings of the ionosphere and Walter Ruttman’s radical 35mm precursor to musique concrète.

Word Associations
Discontinuity between narration, text and image. Including Manual Saiz’s employment of John Malkovich’s Spanish dubbing double and Peter Rose’s absurdly hilarious concrete poetry subtitling chaos.

About Face
Human subjects are the focus for sound and image construction. Including masterpieces of experimental film: Paul Sharits’ deeply empathetic interpretation of epilepsy and Peter Kubelka’s Webern inspired abstract portrait of Arnulf Rainer.

Sight and Synch
Sound and image slipping out of synch and into discord, including a very special version of Hollis Frampton’s masterful (nostalgia), with a live narration by Michael Snow at the London screening.

PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
Here’s the programme, we hope it’s unlike much you’ve seen before. Above all it’s an experience, especially for those who want to explore film beyond narrative cinema, sound beyond tunes and who want to be inspired, enriched or confounded by a night out...

Ken Jacobs & Eric La Casa
Ken Jacobs is the father of film-as-performance and one of the USA’s leading visual artists. His pulsing and intensely detailed Nervous Magic Lantern performances create flickering and abstract 3D tricks of the eye, which he calls ‘movement without motion’. It’s a celestial spectacle grounded by sound artist Eric La Casa’s manipulated recordings of everyday locations: lift shafts, ventilation ducts, car parks.

Andrew Lampert’s quasi-theatrical multiple-projector pieces deliver a kind of maverick dose of controlled chaos and play with the relationship between performers, art and audiences. Prepare to have your expectations confounded, to feel a little uneasy maybe, to laugh.

Bruce McClure turns projectors into instruments; he doesn’t project film, he misuses it. His bastardised 16mm projectors transform B&W loops into a thrumming riot of perceptual phenomenon in colour, motion and sound. Noise music for the eyes.

Paul Sharits’ incredible Shutter Interface is an expanded cinema piece which creates a series of machinegun bursts of chromatic relationships and visual harmonics in an overwhelming montage, intended as "a 3D metaphor of the space of the brain in an epileptic state, brought under control and harmonized."

Using eight projectors, Metamkine manipulate and combine beams of multiple images, glimpses of old films, abstract images, often developed, solarised and burnt as they pass through the projector, in the midst of an electro-acoustic sound field of tape loops, analogue synthesizers and amplified objects. What’s not to love?

Kjell Bjørgeengen, Keith Rowe & Philipp Waschmann create an immersive environment in which sound is looped through oscillators, violin, a radio, guitar pick-ups and specially constructed video amps to create dense flickering images and colours that strobe and confuse the eye. Not for the faint-hearted.

In Greg Pope’s Light Trap film loops are abraded with sandpaper and manhandled by gem polishing drills as they pass through projectors in each corner of the room. Out of a dark haze, shafts of lights emerge, as the emulsion is scratched from the surface of the film. Simultaneously, out of the black silence, noise and audible scratches bloom into a bright drone. It’s not really an installation, or like a normal performance, it’s just an experience of real beauty.

Credits:
We are Arika. We create some of the leading experimental music and film events in the UK. We’re touring KYTN because the people who put the most interesting stuff on in your city told us it’d go down real well there. Don’t let them down now!

A Contemporary Music Network tour produced by Arika and Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Media Partner: The Wire

For more info, clips, sound and images take a look at www.arika.org.uk

The New Ten Commandments

11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish Documentary Institute have gathered together some of the most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland today. Collectively, they have created the feature length documentary The New Ten Commandments.

United by a single theme – Human Rights in Scotland – the film communicates a variety of artistic visions whilst exploring the real life stories of those for whom the Universal Declaration has intimate meaning. With testimony of human rights abuses sitting alongside tales of human rights recognition, the film is both an emotionally powerful journey and an exercise in passionate filmmaking of the highest calibre.

Find out what you can do... www.everyhumanhasrights.org

Directors
Doug Aubrey, Sana Bilgrami, Mark Cousins, Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Anna Jones, Alice Nelson, David Graham Scott, Tilda Swinton and Irvine Welsh.

Composer: Jim Sutherland
Producers: Nick Higgins and Noe Mendelle
Executive Producers: Carole Sheridan and Ewan Angus