Loring-Greenough Film

new Boston film/video/animation group

2010-07-06T20:03:00.000-04:00

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Announcements of the Loring-Greenough Film screenings, which are on summer break, will be moving to Radon Lake in September.

coming back in September

2010-06-04T01:26:00.000-04:00

If you don't know already, we are taking a break for the summer. There are tons of awesome film events happening soon in JP, and if you want to know about them, friend us on Facebook or write to tvoinomer (at) gmail (dot) com. See you at the Loring-Greenough on September 21st!

End of Season poster

2010-05-16T16:31:00.003-04:00

MAY 18th: LAST SHOW of the SEASON

2010-05-10T16:14:00.006-04:00

Our ninth screening will also be the last at the Loring-Greenough House, with a possibility of starting back up in September. Watch this space and Facebook (ugh!) for updates on the series.

Doors open at 7, show starts around 7:30. See you there!

Rob Todd -- GROUNDPLAY
2009, 12 minutes, 16mm

In Groundplay, Robert Todd uses his 16mm camera as a microscope, nosing about in a world on a different scale. The sensitive instrument does not perceive objects, but dives into the empty spaces between them. The focus shifts to a new world filled with structures, grit and dust barely perceptible to the naked eye.
(from Rotterdam)

Kyle Glowacky -- IOKA
2010, 20 minutes, 16mm
IOKA is a portrait of Exeter, New Hampshire's historic 1915 movie house. It recently closed down in 2008 due to the strict state fire codes and the need for upgrades, economic recession and lack of patronage.

Ethan Feldbau -- PLASTIC
2008, 18 minutes, 16mm

The poetic fable of a neglected special education student, who spends his adolescence reshaping himself to be more like the bullies of his youth.

Mariya Nikiforova -- WARD'S POND
2009, 10 minutes, 16mm
In the spirit of Robert Smithson and James Benning, 'Ward's Pond' is a film-poem dedicated to a location in Jamaica Plain, MA. A glacial kettle hole that belonged to the Ward family farm in the 1600s, the pond and its surroundings were transformed into a park by Frederick Law Olmsted at the turn of the twentieth century. Today, overshadowed by a high-rise apartment building, Ward's Pond continues its quiet existence. The film captures several moments over the course of nearly a year in its life.

Stefan Grabowski -- JOHNNY KILRAPER and the ARBITER of SILENCE
2009, 20 minutes, shot on 16mm and projected on video

Existentially lost, alcoholic ex-detective, Johnny Kilraper, must overcome his own self-loathing in order to stop international crime lord Klaus 'the Grouse' Richter from receiving a mystical jewel known as 'the Arbiter of Silence.'

APR 20th: ANIMATION!

2010-04-13T20:40:00.004-04:00

For our eighth screening the Loring-Greenough House presents a program of fantastic locally-made animation!! Come by around 7 pm for cookies and refreshments, and the screening will begin, as usual, sometime around 7:30.

All works will be shown on video with the exception of Dan Sousa's The Minotaur (16mm).

Here is our sweet line-up...

D A N I E L R O W E, a MassArt grad and professor who can be found at daniel-rowe.blogspot.com.

Travis

2010, 4:15

S T E V E S U B O T N I C K, a MassArt professor who has recently screened at the London Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Festival Sequence Court-Metrage (France), and many others. stevensubotnick.com

Hairyman

1998, 3:16
A stream-of-consciousness fable based on a folktale from Southern U.S.

Glass Crow

2004, 6:20
A meditation on the Defenstration of Prague -- the spark that ignited the Thirty Years' War.

Jelly Fishers

2009, 6:58
A family of mole-creatures is saved by the generosity of jellyfish.

M A T T H E W N E W M A N - L O N G, aka Mount Emult, "a film/video maker/destroyer, musician/magician, father/afterfather, performance/performer/installer, comic/doodle/psychedelic collager." http://vimeo.com/mountemult

And What We Move Is Dead

13:43, 16mm/DV Collage
Paper, paint, fly, photocopier, blood, ink, art books can't really teach you, gore, owl fangs, acts in war can't be explained away by "context."

year of his birth, diaries and animation

11 min, DV Collage/collab animation/Birth

A L A N J E N N I N G S, a MassArt grad who has screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Running in Darkness

2007, 2:15
paint on glass

A M Y K R A V I T Z, a RISD professor who can be found at amykravitz.com

River Lethe

1985, 7 min
A non-narrative and abstract visual poem in five parts. Its title refers to the underworld river of forgetfulness. The drawings are created from non-traditional animation media including rubbed and erased graphite, pigment, and aluminum powders to make an animate surface of unusual richness.

R U T H L I N G F O R D, a Harvard professor who "is known for making 'feelbad films' which use the seductive medium of animation to draw the audience in and take them to uncomfortable places."

Little Deaths

2010, 12 min
A work that uses documentary techniques to attempt to describe an orgasm.

D A N S O U S A, a co-founder of Handcrankedfilm and RISD professor whose work can be seen at danielsousa.com

The Windmill

2007, 1:21

Drift

2009, 1:49

The Minotaur

1999, 8 min, 16mm
A loose interpretation of the Minoan myth, as seen through the monster's point of view. Will be shown in 16mm!

...with the possibility of a couple surprise additions!

after the rainy spell a week or two ago

2010-03-28T14:03:00.002-04:00

MARCH 16th: PAUL TURANO and MATT McWILLIAMS

2010-03-09T19:05:00.009-05:00

For our seventh (!!!) screening we are happy to present the films of Roslindale-based filmmaker Paul Turano and his former student at Emerson, Matt McWilliams. Join us for drinks and snacks around 7 pm; screening begins at 7:30. If you can, please support our venue with a $4 donation.

BIOS

Paul Turano has independently produced numerous award-wining experimental films and videos over the last 15+ years. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad at museums, micro-cinemas, alternative venues, colleges and universities and has been shown at festivals throughout North America including the Black Maria, Athens International, Hartford International, FLEX FEST Florida Experimental, and the New England Film and Video festivals. His recent digital video "I Covered My Eyes" screened this past summer at the Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and in Australia at the Sydney Underground Film Festival. Based in Boston, his films have been shown at the Harvard Film Archive, the Coolidge Corner Theater, the Embassy Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of a Media Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Moving Image Fund Grant from the LEF Foundation and has been an Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College since the fall of 2007. www.paulturano.com

Matt McWilliams is a graduate of Emerson College who is currently making and screening films here in Jamaica Plain and around New England.

PROGRAM

M A T T M c W I L L I A M S

Sons and Cattle, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min, 2009

Sketches for Sons and Cattle, super8, color, silent, 5 min
Untitled (co-created with Eileen Richardson), 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min
Counter, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min

Harboring, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min
Making Space, 16mm, color, 3 min

P A U L T U R A N O

Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt. #2, 16mm, color, sound, 18 min, 2004
Edited in 2003 from footage shot in the summer and fall 2001, Porch Film: 76 Day St. Apt #2 is part of a series of autobiographical films that examine the role of mediated experience and the influence and integration of the public and private spheres in the construction of an individual’s identity and memory. This domestic portrait of a summer and early fall on a back porch is emotionally tempered by a medley of music creating a kind of narrative arc over the transitions of a romantic relationship and the passing seasons.

Windows onto Montebello Road, 16mm, color, sound, 21 min, 2009
Edited from footage shot in 1998, Windows onto Montebello Rd. uses a poetic approach towards personal domestic space, searching for calm and serene moments of contemplation. The sounds of the public sphere, represented by contemporaneous radio news broadcasts, provide an auditory counterpoint.

photos from Chris May screening

2010-02-20T10:30:00.000-05:00

FEBRUARY 16th: FILM ( PARKOUR) BY CHRISTOPHER MAY

2010-02-07T17:13:00.007-05:00

Christopher May's 16mm and Super-8 film work currently explores sensually visceral qualities of cinema and their topographical relationships with sub-cultural landscapes. His films have screened at Yale University, the Austrian Film Museum, and MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.
Christopher is the founder of The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, a traveling film festival that will be visiting the ICA on February 20th.

(Note the unusual screening time of 8 pm. Doors open at 7:30.)

PROGRAM:

Super-8 and 16mm experimental cinema featuring organic and intimate, life portraits of traceurs. (Christopher May, 2008-2010, Argentina/Austria/U.S.A.)

1. "Deserted" (triple super-8 projection, sound, 14 min., USA/Austria/Argentina, 2008-2010)
"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
- Jorge Luis Borges

2. "Flo" (single-image super-8 projection, silent, 4.min., Austria, 2009)
Slo portrait of Florian Hatwagner featuring: ...dirt...spit...shoes...dirt...hands...smiling face...

3. "Vienna" (triple super-8 projection, sound, 4 min., Austria, 2009-2010)
Portrait of traceurs in their favorite places.

4. "Buenos Aires" (triple super-8 projection, sound/silent, 26 min., Argentina, 2008)
Premiered at MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

5. "Colorado Springs" (double 16mm projection, sound, 15 min., USA, 2008-2009)
pop...smile...run...jump...melody...chill...rain...sun...color! Filmed with an old military Bell + Howell 16mm camera. Featuring Jimmy & Dan / Pedro, Bryan, Chris

QUOTES:

“... folky but experimental tinge, paid off well - both images and sound, projector and instrument shared a rawness that matched perfectly and gave the personalities onscreen an added layer of meaning which at times was warm, funny, odd, contrasting, insightful...”
-Sam Natch, Buenos Aires, argentina

"We know that this is the first time in history that this type of Parkour material makes it into film; and this project does an incredible job at highlighting the deepest values that move our lives, leaving behind all superficiality."
-Walter Bongard, founder PKA, Asociación Argentina de Le Parkour

"Triumphant!...capturing traceurs in their element, playing and human, rather than objects of advertisement ....a slight undercurrent of sensuous intimacy.. the lens found and lingered on the traceurs' genuine smiles, the tip of the ear or the playfulness in both movement and pause."
- Michelle Duer, writer

JANUARY 19th: KATHRYN RAMEY and JONATHAN SCHWARTZ

2010-01-02T18:22:00.026-05:00

Kathryn Ramey's films are inspired by the avant-garde filmmaking tradition, ethnographic research, celluloid manipulation and personal inquiry, resulting in a unique and acclaimed body of work. Kathryn teaches film, animation and film history at Emerson College in Boston.

Jonathan Schwartz is a filmmaker and sound designer who currently teaches film studies at Keene State College in Keene, NH. His travelogue film Nothing Is Over Nothing has screened at numerous festivals, including Views from the Avant-Garde (NY), TIE, ICE (Iowa City), EXiS (Seoul)...

PROGRAM:

Jonathan Schwartz
Nothing Is Over Nothing, 16mm, 17mins

Kathryn Ramey
The Passenger, 16mm, 17mins
Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION, 16mm, 33mins

(Nothing Is Over Nothing)

(Yanqui WALKER)

(The Passenger)

"Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION is an experimental documentary about a, now obscure, American expansionist and military dictator, William Walker who, through military force and coercion, became president of Nicaragua in 1856. The film blends found footage, documentary photography, ethnographic inquiry and personal travelogue with experimental film techniques such as hand-processing, optical printing and hand conducted time-lapse to detour and derail the various approaches to history making that have been applied to this story. Yanqui WALKER as a contemporary work of film art, not only tells us something about history and how it connects to current political, social and economic situations but also how art and poetry can be a means to subvert and transcend even the most oppressive of narratives.

"In an effort to simultaneously recover history and question the ability to objectively report it, the film blends educational films, images from my travel to those countries central to the narrative, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras as well as marching music from the time and first person plural narration regarding the events depicted in the film. Text on screen takes on multiple roles, sometimes translating location sound, sometimes contradicting or augmenting the voiceover or image and sometimes giving a Spanish translation of English spoken words. A “reading film” on William Walker created in an education program at Harvard university in the 1930’s helps to provide one historical perspective on the story while two different films, one from the 1950’s and one from the 1970’s on the economy and culture of Central America also contextualize the region and American conceptions of it. Educational films are also used to engage Walker’s history with the economic, social and political themes of “manifest destiny” or territorial expansionism in the United States as well as the tensions leading up to the American Civil War. All of these “voices” blend to create a rich multi-vocality that not only calls attention to the constructedness of history but to the perspectives, personal, academic, cultural, that we use to try to approach and represent it." (K. Ramey)

Architecture of the Sun photos

2009-12-16T00:18:00.011-05:00

DECEMBER 15th: ARCHITECTURE OF THE SUN

2009-12-08T01:44:00.007-05:00

"A common affinity for scientific-nostalgic-hallucinatory-mystical-types of sounds, feelings, & imagery leads the way for this group. A collage of electronic-analog sounds respond to sequential images while projections are modified by hand with filters, focus & prisms in response to psychedelic sound. Depending on strategy, but mostly telepathy & synchronicity, the performance unfolds … strange at times, capricious, and surprising to both performers and the audience."

- from Mono No Aware

Architecture of the Sun is a live projection duo composed of Brittany Gravely and Jenn Pipp, who met while studying at SMFA and currently live in Boston. They will be joined by long-time musical collaborators, the Glass Shivers. You can sample the latter's sound on their myspace.

Opening the show will be a film loop by Matt McWilliams and Julianna Schley. Julianna is also the reason there will be birthday cake!!