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In conjunction with our residency at the Serpentine Gallery’s Centre for Possible Studies, the Bidoun Library is presenting a program of two films drawn from our collaboration with the online archive UbuWeb this Wednesday, June 8.
The program will be introduced by Masoud Golsorkhi, editor of Tank magazine.
Wednesday June 8, 2011
7-9pm
Free!
Centre for Possible Studies
64 Seymour Street
London W1H 5BW
Bahman Maghsoudlou
Ardeshir Mohasses & His Caricatures
1972
20 min
A short documentary about Ardeshir Mohasses (1938-2008) featuring rare footage of the Iranian artist in his studio in Iran before his self-imposed exile to New York, which was to last over thirty years. Mohasses’ anti-Shah and anti-Islamic Republic cartoons used settings and costumes of the Qajar dynasty (1794 to 1925) — a misdirection that fooled no one. The film features commentary from Iranian intellectuals of the time, including Houshang Taheri, Javad Mojabi, and Fereidoun Gilani. Mohasses, a man of few words, is noticeably mute throughout.
Kamran Shirdel
The Night It Rained
1967
35min
In northern Iran, a schoolboy from a village near Gorgan is said to have discovered that the railway had been washed away by a flood. When he saw the approaching train — so the story goes — he set fire to his jacket, ran toward the train, and averted a serious and fatal accident. Kamran Shirdel’s film The Night it Rained does not concentrate on the heroic deed promulgated in the newspapers, but on a caricature of social and subtle political behavior — the way in which witnesses and officials manage to insert themselves into the events. Shirdel uses newspaper articles and interviews with railway employees, the governor, the chief of police, the village teacher and pupils — each of whom tell a different version of the event. In the end, they all contradict one another, while the group of possible or self-appointed heroes constantly grows. With his cinematic sleights of hand, Shirdel paints a bittersweet picture of an Iranian society in which truth, rumor, and lie can no longer be distinguished.
Tiffany· 06/07/11
Matt Anderson has released a new extended trailer for his documentary, Fall & Winter.
He has also started a Kickstarter page to raise funds to complete the film here.
Please check it out and support this important, powerful film.
BLVCK EYE: A five-part film series presented by BLVCK AMERICA
Part 1: Curated by Bidoun. Montage of off-kilter Iranian films followed by virtual dance lessons from Mohammad Khordadian.
Sunday, January 30th at 7pm
Liberty Hall at Ace Hotel
New York
Free!
Related: Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image
Tiffany· 01/26/11 
a film by Matt Anderson
‘Fall & Winter’ is a documentary that explores the origins of our global crisis in order to better understand the catastrophic transition we have now entered. This film presents the ideas and experience of a wide range of people dedicated to confronting this crisis head on. The result is an analysis of our failing institutions and culture so we may be equipped to handle drastic collapse and foster a vital, fundamental rebirth in the way we live on this planet.
CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII BOOK RELEASE
Sunday, Dec. 5, 7pm
Mandrake
Featuring music by Dallas Acid
and films by Matt Anderson.
Amazing footage of The Red Krayola with Art & Language from 1976. More info about the events depicted here.
Adam· 11/21/10 
HITO STEYERL & GEORGE BAKER
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
LACMA Brown Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Berlin-based artist Hito Steyerl’s practice as a filmmaker and theorist presents some of the most challenging and thought provoking observations on documentary and image production today. Join Steyerl for an overview of her work followed by a conversation with art historian George Baker, Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA. A related program of Steyerl’s videos will also be screened at CalArts on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The event is free. No tickets required. Mark· 10/05/10
Houston
Saturday 9/18
8pm
featuring Focus Group
new video work by Make Believe
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller
Curated by
Keegan McHargue
as part of
Man Burning
September 11–24
Saturday, September 11: Glasser
Friday, September 17: Houston
Friday, September 24: Yemenwed
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New York Times obit.
NEW WORK BY
JON SANTOS FOR
COMMON SPACE
SCREENING PARTY
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AUGUST 12, 2010
10:30 PM- ONWARDS
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Owen Luder’s Brutalist Trinity Square car park in Gateshead, made famous in the film Get Carter (1971) is undergoing demolition. Owen Hatherly offers his thoughts in The Guardian.
Experimental Film in a Museum Context: MATERIAL
Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 pm
LACMA
Brown Auditorium
Free, tickets required, available one hour prior to the program
The final discussion in the three-part series, MATERIAL will consider the physical conditions of film pertaining to issues of preservation, digitization, process, and nostalgia. Participants include Morgan Fisher, artist, Mark Toscano, filmmaker and film preservationist, and Jennifer West, artist. The conversation will be moderated by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator, Contemporary Art Department, and Alex Klein, Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The event is co-organized by the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Contemporary Art Department and is supported by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund.
Image: Jennifer West, Naked Deep Creek Hot Springs Film (16mm film neg soaked in lithium hot springs water, Jack Daniels and pot - exposed with flashlights - skinnydipping by Karen Liebowitz, Benjamon Britton & Jwest), 2008.
Mark· 05/04/10 
Fillip’s Spring 2010 issue, no. 11, features Lawrence Rinder on painting and politics, Keith Bormuth on Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle, and Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda in conversation with Danish curator Jacob Fabricius. Other long form reviews and essays are provided by Liz Park, Renato Rodrigues da Silva, and Arni Haraldsson, amongst others.
The issue also features Dear Silvia…July 2009, an artist pamphlet by Silvia Kolbowski that compliments the artist’s audio work of the same name commissioned by Fillip for the Living Clay Art Writing Readings series at Whitechapel, London, last Fall.
Launch Event:
Vancouver April 28, 7pm: Organized in conjunction with a talk on Paul McCarthy by John C. Welchman, Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, co-presented with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. The event is being held at 3092 Fraser Street at 7pm, with a reception to follow.
Fillip 11
120 pages
17 × 24.5cm
Paper: Munken Print White
Edition: 2000
Available at Textfield, Inc.
Keith· 04/26/10
Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.
Sandy· 02/16/101940s Studio Organization, 20th Century Fox.
The following diagrams outline the structure of the 20th Century Fox film studio in the 1940s. The charts detail everything from the highest to the most menial of positions at the studio, from the catering through the legal department. They appear in approximately the same order as they appeared in the book they were scanned from.
Sun· 12/31/09 
Bidoun and Anthology Film Archives present an encore screening of Ben Hayeem’s unmissable, unfathomable wonder. Born and raised in Bombay, Hayeem (1933-2004) made a number of well-regarded films and was close with experimental film pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early in his career he joined the Living Theater group in New York and became the only Indian Jew to play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a Brecht play. This comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him down the path to the rather incredible and risque happenings in The Black Banana.
The original promotional notes inform us that, “In this zany, ribald Middle Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt against the parental and conventional authority, represented by old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and Texans…Despite its message of peace and good will between Jew and Arab, The Black Banana has the distinction of being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board.”
The Black Banana will be preceeded by Ben Hayeem short films:
Papillote (1964, 10.5 minutes, 16mm)
Flora (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm)
Tuesday, December 22 at 8:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
(This movie absolutely blew my mind, I cannot recommend it enough. DO NOT MISS!)
Tiffany· 12/15/09 
EVERYTHING, NOTHING, SOMETHING, ALWAYS (WALLA!)
a project by Emily Mast for Performa 09
548 West 22nd St
New York, NY
Ground Floor
Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12
stop in anytime between 6–9 pm
FREE
While ostensibly fulfilling and bringing to a close the initial aesthetic criteria he created during the rise of the French New Wave in the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard shifts his gaze more intently onto the climate of design and branding in his 1967 film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her. Whereas Godard’s dozen or so films in the early 1960s interrogated the impressions from the dominance of the Hollywood image onto cultural consciousness, the meat of 2 or 3 Things is branding, identity, and the rise of the corporate spirit.
Keith· 09/25/09 
Abdellah Taïa +
An American In Tangier, Mohamed Ulad, 1993, 27 mins
Chronicles/Morocco, Michel Auder, 1971-71, 26 mins
Morocco 1972: The Real Chronicles with Viva, Michel Auder, 2002, 36 mins
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Light Industry, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $7
More information here
Tiffany· 09/24/09
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028
Sunday, September 20, 7:30pm
Barry Lyndon, 1975, Warner Bros., 183 min.
Winner of four Academy Awards, including one for John Alcott’s marvelous cinematography (the all-candlelit interiors must be seen to be believed), BARRY LYNDON stars Ryan O’Neal as Thackeray’s flawed 18th-century soldier of fortune, struggling to find his place in a rigidly structured social hierarchy. Kubrick re-creates a bygone romantic era with a bittersweet wistfulness and a wealth of nuance and realistic detail. With Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger.