Underground Film Links: July 17, 2011
By Mike Everleth ⋅ July 17, 2011
This week’s Must Read: The Brooklyn Rail offers up a eulogy for Adolfas Mekas by gathering comments from the likes of P. Adams Sitney, Peggy Ahwesh, Ken Jacobs and other colleagues/contemporaries . Mekas passed away in May.
The Guardian got a rare interview with Jean-Luc Godard who has declared that we are all auteurs now . Good.
If you hadn’t heard, structural film pioneer Owen Land passed away last month, but news of his passing only came late last week. I think LUX has the best, most detailed obit for him . Although, the Office Baroque Gallery has a very passionate one — and I think initial word of Land’s death came from them.
More Land: Making Light of It posts a scan of an interview with him conducted by P. Adams Sitney from Film Culture . (I actually happen to own two issues of Film Culture , one of which includes this great interview.)
The Perth Revelation International Film Festival is in full swing right now. Out in Perth has a round-up of some of the queer-themed movies at the fest , including The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and Bear Nation .
Also at RevFest is the record shop documentary Sound It Out , which was reviewed on Cult Projections .
Waco’s NPR radio station, KWBU, interviewed local filmmaker Chris Hansen regarding his production of Where We Started . Plus, the film is now going into post-production .
Also on NPR — national version, I guess — a review of a Stan Vanderbeek retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX.
Just learned this week that Montreal filmmaker François Miron is making a documentary about Paul Sharits. You can learn more about the project on the Sharits archive website .
Yoel Meranda highlights some sections from underground filmmaking pioneer Sidney Peterson’s 1980 book The Dark of the Screen .
Salise Hughes is putting it out there that she wants to direct music videos . So, if you’re a band, contact her! (P.S. The video she refers to in her article is here .)
Journalist Kenton Smith investigates what makes Winnipeg’s Ultrasonic Film radio program so popular.
Bill Plympton had a nightmarish retrospective in Moscow recently . Oy vey.
I’m not posting donna k.’s summer reading list just because she gives Underground Film Press a nice plug. Ok, well, maybe a little.
In England in September, the Institute of Contemporary Arts is going to hold a major Jack Smith retrospective. LUX previews the show and gives some good Smith background . Close-Up Film also writes about the upcoming show .
Alex Ross Perry’s Impolex is screening in Brooklyn this week and A.O. Scott reviewed it for the New York Times . I don’t quite get the conclusion of the review, though.
Alessandro Cima is creeped out by a 1957 advertisement/documentary for Redbook about suburban migration .
Cinemad’s 2nd interview podcast is now up, this one conducted with Aza Jacobs .
Bob Moricz has launched his own podcast. First up, a two-part discussion on the cheezy ’80s cult classic Flash Gordon .
Electric Sheep analyzes the 1981 Australian mega-flop The Survivor .
SnuffBox Films clues us in to an HTML5 video programming competition that sounds like fun for crafty online artists.