Miami Beach Cinemateque - Dec 2007 schedule

DECEMBER at MBC...

T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The on-going film festival where you don't just watch films, you experience them!
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



DECEMBER at A Glance:

"INTERCLUB at Miami Beach Cinematheque" ART BASEL weekend (THU 06-SUN 09)

"The Experiments of Andy WARHOL" (SUN 09, FRI 14, 21, 28)

From the collection of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Independent LENS: Mapping Stem Cell Research (WED 13)

PREVIEW of the Miami Beach Puerto Rican Film Festival (SAT 15-MON 17)

Cannes Palm d'Or 2006: The Wind That Shakes The Barley (SAT 22)

"Cine-IMPROV" is back! (SAT 29)

"DOCUSPAIN" Balseros (SUN 30)



Art Basel Weekend 2007:



"INTERCLUB at MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE"



06–09 DECEMBER

Screenings, performances, and film/video installations all weekend long.


ARTISTS: David Adamo, Adora, Michel Auder, Olaf Breuning, Salvador Dalí,

Theodore Fivel, Sylvie Fleury, Rainer Ganahl, Anthony Holbrooke, Hrafnhildur

Arnardóttir, Los Super Elegantes, Maripol, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik,

Michael Portnoy, David Rohn, Aïda Ruilova, Thordis Adalsteinsdóttir, Agathe

Snow, Mai Ueda, Ultra Violet, Marianne Vitale, Andy Warhol, Vita Zaman



Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis and Marianne Vitale with Dana Keith, Director of

Miami Beach Cinematheque. Produced by Future Audience and Miami Beach Cinematheque.



06 THU:

7pm: SCREENING: Andrew Lambert: Benetton, multi-channel video installation.

Lost and found footage, some models, some colors, from commerce to magic . . .



9 pm: VIDEO COMPILATION: screened every night in different constellations.

Extremities of poetic exercise including post-Invasionista Icelandic sheep, religious

mumbo jumbo, Greek kitsch, bicycle quartering, Salvador Dalí's rope tease, walking

the Wakhan, Mama & Nam's piano destructions, OK KO detritus, vampire ombre de

la France...Artists: David Adamo, Olaf Breuning, Salvador Dalí, Theodore Fivel, Sylvie

Fleury, Rainer Ganahl, Anthony Holbrooke, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Invasionstas, Los Super

Elegantes, Maripol, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, Michael Portnoy, Aïda Ruilova, Sakanama,

Thordis Adalsteinsdóttir, Agathe Snow, Mai Ueda, Marianne Vitale, Vita Zaman



07 FRI:

7pm: PERFORMANCE. Mai Ueda:

A Family Dinner in a Parallel Universe (by invitation only)



9pm: PREMIERE SCREENING: The Last Supper (1972)

by Ultra Violet, camera Steina Vasulka. Uncut documentation of a performance

at The Kitchen featuring white noise, female evangelists, black and white snow,

dances and food in a time capsule . . .

with special guest Ultra Violet





photo: Ultra Violet in The Last Supper (1972)

© Ultra Violet all rights reserved.



10pm: VIDEO COMPILATION (see list of artists above)



11pm: OFFICIAL "INTERCLUB" AFTERPARTY at B.E.D

with special guest Ultra Violet

and midnight performance by David Rohn and Adora

featuring complimentary cocktails by Flor de Caña

(929 Washington Ave, within walking distance from MBC)



08 SAT:

7pm: SCREENING: Michel Auder: Cleopatra (1970).

The best kept secret in New York, a cult film never released by the producers.

Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman and

Gerard Melanga in New York and Rome. . .



9pm: SCREENING: Portnoy & Vitale: Chethwith Murosian &

Jable Thrane's new storm porn film maudit (Title Bound in Customs)

starring D-list playbunnies with live bologna sandwiches and Taiko drum

accompaniment. Now, here and straight from the editing room . . .



10pm: VIDEO COMPILATION (see list of artists above)



09 SUN:

6& 9pm: VIDEO COMPILATION (see list of artist above)



8pm: “The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”

MBC December Retrospective opening night!

(Retrospective continues Dec 14, 21, and 28)

From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...



photo: Andy Warhol Motion Pictures book cover
© published by KW Berlin,
in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art
available for purchase at MBC!



The legacy of Andy Warhol has been a centerpiece of our exposure to American pop

culture for decades, however, his work in the medium of film is less known and rarely

available for public view. In the early 1970’s Warhol withdrew his films from authorized

distribution, so the prolific five year period of his experimental work in film (1963-1967)

is less famous than his silk-screens and works in other disciplines. Thanks to the safekeeping

by the Museum of Modern Art in New York of the Andy Warhol Foundation donation

of the original 16mm film elements, and the transfer to digital by the Andy Warhol Museum,

Pittsburg, with the retention of the original sixteen frames per second running speeds of the

earliest silent works, the films are making a world tour in select museums and cinematheques.



Blow Job (Andy Warhol/1964)

16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)

41 min. 16 frames per second. Black and white

Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Contribution: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

In terms of audacity, this is the most provocative of all the “filmed canvases” in the

early Warhol filmmaking oeuvre, presented as a slap in the face to 1960’s censorship.

As a pure example of minimalist selective view, it leaves much to the imagination,

and concentrates on “subplot” (facial expressions), rather than “main action”.

Complimentary screening during “INTERCLUB at Miami Beach Cinematheque”

"It is a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience and it is not to be missed."
--Senses of Cinema



13 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2007-2008

Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries

before they air on PBS...Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI



Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita

(Maria Finitzo/2007)

Some consider stem cell research the Holy

Grail of regenerative medicine. Others view the idea as morally wrong. But

what would you do if your child became paralyzed from the waist down and you

had access to the research that might allow them to walk again one day? These

are questions our society continues to grapple with. Follow a respected neurologist

into the unknown territory of stem cell research.

WINNER: “The Gold Hugo” and Award of Excellence Chicago Int’l Film Festival

Sundance Institute and Christopher Reeve Paralysis Fund grants

for excellence in documentary filmmaking

Complimentary Screening (donations always welcome!)



14 FRI 8:30pm:

“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”

From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...

Vinyl (Andy Warhol/1965)

16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)

Black and white, sound, 67 minutes

Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

With Gerard Malanga, J.D. MacDermott, and “extras” Ondine and Edie Sedgwick

Music by Velvet Underground

The first Warhol film to be based (very loosely) on a novel, $3000 was forked over

to have the rights to use Anthony Burgess’s “Clockwork Orange” as a platform,

years before the Kubrick version. Vinyl is a featurette with two continuous 33 minute

reels roughly based on the bad boy Alex character. With several other 1965 featurettes,

it introduced and set the stardom of Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, and other budding

"superstars”. It is also the most dramatic and “painterly” of the featurettes, a chiaroscuro

set piece in a claustrophobic space, allowing simple gestures to be magnified.

No-where to run, no-where to hide... “the Gerard Malanga whip dance”



A PREVIEW of the upcoming

Puerto Rican Film Festival of Miami Beach

Presented with Latin Cinema Showcase

PUERTO RICO—films based on true stories

A Female Puerto Rican Filmmaker's Perspective

The films of FLORA PEREZ-GARAY

15 SAT, 8:30pm: Bala Perdida (Stray Bullet)

In Spanish with English subtitles.



Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Raul Marchand Sanchez (2003)

With Marisol Calero, Sharon Riley, Danny Rivera, Rey Pascual

Two youths are filled with musical talents and dreams and hopes for the

future. They practice diligently for the upcoming Christmas concert.

Their innocence, zeal for life, and friendship are overshadowed by the social

and economic issues of Puerto Rico. Bala Perdida, based on a true story,

will leave a chilling feeling in your bones with a tragic conclusion.

16 SUN, 8:30pm: El Cuerpo Del Delito

(Body of Evidence) In Spanish with English subtitles.



Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Raul Marchand Sanchez (2005)

With Marisol Calero, Sharon Riley, Danny Rivera, Rey Pascual

El Cuerpo Del Delito is the shocking and compelling true story of two women.

Together united by destiny and tragedy they find strength in each other to reach

their purpose of catching the criminals who committed the brutal crimes.

Their story presents the extremes to which a violent lover is capable of reaching

when rejected.

17 MON, 8:30pm: Fuego en Alma (Fire in the Soul)

In Spanish with English subtitles.



Written by: Flora Pérez- Garay Directed by: Abdiel Colberg

With Hijo Braulio Castillo, Idalia Perez Gary, Rey Pascual, Julian Gil

Reflecting the closeness of Puerto-Ricans in New York with those on

the island, three stories among couples are set on the island and combined

to cast emotions of passion, jealousy, doubt and infidelity- couples that are

burned by sudden and unexpected feelings and are pushed to make the decision

that will change their lives, forever influenced by the events of September 11.




21 FRI 8:30pm:

“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”

From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...

The Nude Restaurant (Andy Warhol/1967)

16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)

Color, sound, 99 minutes

Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

With Viva, Billy Name, Allen Midgette, Electro Banana, Taylor Mead,

Ingrid Superstar, Jullian Burroughs, Rod LaRod

The restaurant Max’s Kansas City was the most frequented place of the day in

New York City for the culturati, celebrities, and the glitterati that surrounded them,

with everyone from Dali, Duchamp, and Tennessee Williams, to Jim Morrison

dropping in. So in October of 1967, at the finale of the “Summer of Love”, with

Vietnam on the minds of even the most jaded Warhol “superstars” a group was

filmed on location at the restaurant, nick-named appropriately “The Mad Hatter”.

Highlighted by a rambling monologue by Viva, the “Jane Fonda of Alternative

Cinema”, it is a time capsule document of the period and the phenomena of

sexploitation amidst puritan Americana.



22 SAT 8:30pm: Cannes Palm d’Or 2006:

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach/UK/2006)



With Cillian Murphy, Padriac Delaney, Liam Cunningham

One of the United Kingdom’s best and fiercely independent realist filmmakers,

Ken Loach, who has relentlessly and continuously brought the plights of the

contemporary working English, Scottish, and Irish to our attention, brings us

a mesmerizing account of one of the pivotal roots to their story, and finally wins

the Cannes Film Festival’s main prize, the Palm d’Or, in doing so. Ireland 1920:

workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerilla armies to face

the ruthless “Black and Tan” squads that are being shipped from Britain to block

Ireland’s bid for independence. But despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts

and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another

as sworn enemies, putting their loyalties to the ultimate test.

WINNER: Palm d’Or Cannes Film Festival

Irish Film and Television Awards Best Film, Audience Award

European Film Awards Best Cinematography



28 FRI 8:30pm:

“The Experiments of Andy WARHOL”

From the collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

MBC offers opportunities to see rare official screenings...




photo:

Andy Warhol

Lonesome Cowboys, 1967-68

16mm film, color, sound, 109 minutes

© 2007 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA,

a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

Lonesome Cowboys (Andy Warhol/1964)

16mm film transferred to digital files (dvd)

Color, sound, 109 minutes

Collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

With Joe Dallesandro, Viva, Taylor Mead, Louis Waldon, Julian Burroughs

The original gay cowboy movie was one of the first Warhol attempts at a

commercial distribution, running for months in art houses in Los Angeles and

San Francisco. Lonesome Cowboys was the beginning of a new direction,

helmed by Paul Morrissey, who had been the manager of the Warhol “empire”

and “factory”. Originally conceived as a western version of Romeo and Juliet

(“Ramona and Julian”), it was filmed on location in Arizona, where the locals

were shocked and confused by the notorious filmmakers and cast.

"Get Ultra Violet for the part! I QUIT!"—Viva

WINNER: Best Film San Francisco Film Festival



29 SAT 9pm: "Cine-IMPROV" is back!

A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!



Miami’s hottest improv actors Michael Murray and Sasha Weisfeld

welcome some of South Florida’s best improvisers... to perform unscripted

theater based on your suggestions, in the art of “long form improv," rather

than the typical comedy you see at the clubs and on TV. Including film dubbing,

the "Armando Diaz Experience," and a live improvised "movie" based on the

life experiences of one of our audience members, with stylistic parody, edits,

comedic characters, and other scenic devices. Also featuring a special

improvised musical interlude" by the incomparable Sasha Weisfeld!

This month’s theme: WARHOL!



30 SUN 8pm: “DOCUSPAIN”

Award winning, provocative documentaries in Spanish,

produced with Spanish support...once a month at MBC!

Presented by MAHOU, and PRAGDA Barcelona/New York,

with support from the Embassy of Spain, the Spain Foreign Cultural

Corporation, the International Documentary Association,

and Tapas y Tintos restaurant.

Balseros (Charles Bosch and Joseph M. Domenech/Spain/2002)

In summer 1994,

more than 50,000 Cubans took to the sea in a motley array of rafts and

floating junk in an attempt to reach the Florida shores. Shot with an

intense sense of both immediacy and intimacy, Balseros dives in to the

difficulties of pursuing the ’American Dream’.



Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at Tapas y Tintos,

featuring LIVE Flamenco, complimentary tapas and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!



T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
512 Española Way at Plaza de España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com



Ordinary

movies?

NEVER!



FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members & Students

"INTERCLUB at MBC" and "Independent LENS" complimentary

"Cine-IMPROV" $12 and $10 MBC Members and Students

December exhibition complimentary and viewable before and after screenings.

Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings



COMING SOON!

A followup to Francis Ford Coppola's Miami Beach visit...

MBC invites you to a complimentary screening of:

Youth Without Youth, his latest film!

Tuesday, January 08, at the Colony Theater. Limited seats available.

Tickets must be picked up at any MBC screening, starting date TBA!