JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ

SCREENINGS

Teslamania

Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Victoria, British Columbia.
7PM - Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Two camera rolls shot at the Collective Unconscious during a performance of "Teslamania" featuring Gecko Saccomanno and Tesla Coil Engineer Jamie Mereness. The film's visual effects, double exposures, and refracted images, were all done in camera, just as we see them here.

On the soundtrack Gecko provides various "Tesla tidbits," including Tesla's scheme to provide free electricity transmitted through the air, anecdotes about the Collective's Tesla Coil performances, "Tesla cooking," and a list of the inventor Nikola Tesla's many exotic phobias.





12th annual Views from the Avant-Garde
New York Film Festival
Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY

Sunday October 5, 2008 - 12noon

Program 6: Time of the Signs

1859 Fred Worden, 2008, US; 11m (digital, color/silent)

Train of Thought Jim Jennings, 2008, US; 8m (16mm, b&w/silent)

New York Lantern Ernie Gehr, 2008, US; 15m (digital color & b&w/sound)

After Marks Fern Silva, 2008, US/India; 7m (16mm to digital, color/sound)

Nocturne [Avenue A, no lens] Joel Schlemowitz, 2008, US; 3m (16mm, color/sound)

Novel City Leslie Thornton, 2008, US; 8m (digital, color/sound)

Trypps #5 (Dubai) Ben Russell, 2008, US/United Arab Emirates; 3m (16mm, color/silent)

TODAY! #28 untitled & TODAY! #19 Mystique Lounge Jessie Stead & David Gatten, 2008, US; 10m (digital, color/sound)

Ah Liberty! Ben Rivers 2008, UK; 19m (16mm widescreen transferred to digital, b&w/sound)

Total running time: 84m


Nocturne [Avenue A, no lens]
(2008) 16mm, 3 minutes, color, sound

A camera roll stroll down Avenue A, New York City, shot without a lens. The specificity of time and place (especially that this is an "East Village film") a partly ironic directive through which we can lens this little work, that might otherwise be lensed by us as non-representational cinema. A nocturne. Dashed off as a mere unedited camera-roll, a filmic "flinging of a pot of paint in the public's face," as has been said of some other nocturnes. And lastly, serving as a little saturnine invocation of the filmic flaneur.





Red Hook Cine Soiree!
featuring sandwiches! dream machines! and falling rocks!

Saturday
October 18, 2008
2PM

BWAC
499 Van Brunt Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn

Screening room is on the first floor,
accessible to all.
http://www.bwac.org/directions

Guest Programmer Joel Schlemowitz presents...

Visions! Visions of color and visions of light and visions of reflections of sky and water. Transcendent visions. Inner visions and outer visions. A vision of the vision of vision of the vision. And visions of sandwiches.

Cine Soiree! A microcosmic-extravaganza-Saturday-afternoon-ocular-sojourn of experimental and underground films.

It will chill and thrill and delight even if no one is realistically going to show up to a screening taking place on a lovely autumnal Saturday afternoon. Audience? Feh! We don't need you! We shall revel in these cinematic pleasures with or without you. . . um, er, but please do come and join us!

As always, red wine and soft cheese. And 78s of Borodin's Polovetzian dances played on the Victrola!!!





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