Waiting and Wanting
Short films and videos presented
by guest curator Karyn Sandlos


program:
Moohead by Deirdre Logue (1 min./Canada/16mm/video/1999)
W.C. by Ana Mazhari (8 min./Colombia/video/2001)
Contemporary Artist by Ximena Cuevas (5 min./Mexico,USA/video/1999)
Anal Masturbation and Object Loss by Steve Reinke (6 min./Canada/video/2002)
Family Outing by Mark Bradley (5.5 min/Canada/16mm/2001)
Her Glacial Speed by Eve Heller (5.5 min./USA/16mm/2001)
Weighing...and Wanting by William Kentridge (6.5 min./South Africa/video/1997)
Red Buffalo Skydive by Judith Norris (3.5 min./Canada/video/2001)
Christian Porn by Roy Mitchell (6 min./Canada/video/2000)
Cinema and Visual Pleasure by Annie MacDonell (9 min./Canada, France/16mm/2001)

Guest curator Karyn Sandlos is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Education at York University, a curator, writer and independent filmmaker. She is the co-editor (with Mike Hoolboom) of the volume of writings on autobiographical artists' film and video, Landscape with Shipwreck: First-Person Cinema and the Films of Phillip Hoffman (2001). She is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Images Festival, and a former member of the Toronto programming collective Pleasure Dome. The Waitingƒand Wanting tour will visit six venues in 2004-06: The Agnes Etherington Center (Kingston); Available Light Screening Collective (Ottawa); The Film Pool (Regina); Video Pool (Winnipeg); The Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax); and Hallwalls (Buffalo).

YO LA TENGO
PERFORMS THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

LIVE AT SHEA'S, 646 Main Street, Buffalo NY
$18/$23 members/general

"One of rock's last true visionary bands." — USA Today

Buy a limited edition poster of this event!



Experimental musicians and indie-rock favorites Yo La Tengo will perform their instrumental program The Sounds of Science live to the 35mm films of French filmmaker Jean Painlevé in Buffalo this summer. This one-time only event will take place at Shea's on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 8 pm, and is co-presented by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Shea's Performing Arts Center, and co-sponsored by the Buffalo Museum of Science.

This is Yo La Tengo's first visit and performance in Buffalo. On July 13, immediately following their appearance at Shea's, Yo La Tengo will present The Sounds of Science in Prospect Park, Brooklyn during the annual Celebrate Brooklyn festival.

Yo La Tengo's musical interests range from low-key melodic pop songs to all out, roiling feedback extravaganzas and everything in between. Formed in 1984 by duo Ira Kaplan (guitars/vocals/keyboards) and Georgia Hubley (drums/vocals), Yo La Tengo invited James McNew (bass and more) to join in the early 90s. Over the years, the three-person group has collaborated with a plethora of musicians from all over the musical map, including Ray Davies, Jad Fair, Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Innes, William Parker, and members of the Sun Ra Arkestra. They have over 18 CD releases to their name on Matador Records and have played all over the world, most recently in Spain and Italy. You can also hear Yo La Tengo's work on the scores of recent indie films Game 6 and Junebug.

Originally debuted in 2001 at the San Francisco Film Festival, The Sounds of Science program includes eight short 35mm films by French experimental and documentary filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Their individual titles give a hint as to their content: The Sea Horse; Shrimp Stories; The Love Life of the Octopus; How Some Jellyfish Are Born; Liquid Crystals; Sea Urchins; Acera or The Witches' Dance; and Hyas and Stenorynchus. These exquisite and rarely seen films offer windows onto the undersea exploits of various inhabitants, giving the group a chance to musically explore the beautiful and often surprising images.

A poetic pioneer of science films, Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) captured a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorse, octopi, and liquid crystals. Painlevé made more than 200 films in collaboration with his life-partner, Genevieve Hamon—most of them in bug-eyed wonderment at the curiosities of natural history.

In 2001, Yo La Tengo released The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, a 78 minute CD of the score they arranged specifically for these eight, rarely seen film gems.

This special event marks the first-time collaboration of local organizations Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Shea's Performing Arts Center, and the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Tickets for the event are $18 for Hallwalls and Buffalo Museum of Science members and SheaÍs subscribers, and $23 general admission. To purchase tickets, call Ticketmaster at (716) 852-5000, in Canada, call (416) 870-8000; go to the Shea's Ticket Office, 650 Main St.; or visit www.sheas.org. For information, call the Shea's Box Office at (716) 847-0850. For member discount ID please contact your organization's development office.

Western New York Documentary-Makers Meeting

WNY Doc Consortium presents an informal networking event for WNY Doc Makers on July 27 at 7pm at the new Hallwalls space, 341 Delaware Ave, Buffalo. Open to anyone working in the non-fiction motion picture field. Students are welcome.

Meet your peers. Discuss your work. Find crew. Bring a work-in-progress clip for feedback. Please limit your clip to seven minutes so we have time for everyone. Admission is free.

Anyone interested in helping organize the event please contact Seth Wochensky 716-592-0151 or info@highwayendfilms.com, or Joanna Raczynska, 716-854-1694 or

Buffalo Infringement Festival
www.infringebuffalo.org

Sunday, July 30th 8:00-9:15pm
Wednesday, August 2nd, 8- 9:15pm
Ask Her to Dance
www.askhertodance.blogspot.com
A travelog/musical shot in Thailand, featuring cross-country trains and island boat trips. Presented by Brian Griffo

Thursday, August 3rd
8-9pm: Human Trails (www.ccr.buffalo.edu/anstey/VDRAMA/HUMAN)
Human Trials mixes virtual reality, live actors and audience participation in a public/private, embodied/disembodied multi-screen performance. Presented by Josephine Anstey

Friday, August 4th
6-8pm: Virtual Reality Subfest (resumbrae.com/if06)
A collection of performance and/or interactive art works in digital virtual worlds. Presented by Dave Pape
8-9pm: Human Trails

Saturday, August 5th
2-4pm: Virtual Reality Subfest
4-5pm: Human Trails
5-6pm: Virtual Reality Subfest
6-7pm: Human Trails

Sunday, August 6th
4-6pm: Virtual Reality Subfest
6-7pm: Human Trails