Sunday, November 30, 2008

This Weekend at MBC: Sundance Best Director 2008, & "Que Viva Mexico" with DJ Maximus 3000!‏

"BALLAST" screenings FRI & SAT: 7:45pm & 9:35pm
“A STARTINGLY ASSURED, PITCH PERFECT FIRST FEATURE!”
—Manohla Dargis NY Times

PLUS>>SUN, 7:45pm:
"Silents Please!": Que Viva Mexico

With LIVE set by DJ Maximus 3000!













And...the November MBC photographic exhibition:

“The Frida Files” by LEO MATIZ

Leo Matiz (1917-1998) was born in Aracateca, Colombia, but was known internationally as a “citizen of the world”. The intense and stark compositional beauty of his photographs are world famous, particularly in some of the iconic portraits of our time, and especially in his immortal legendary portraits of Frida Kahlo. Matiz was a master at depicting the internal passions of his subjects, with graphic grace and sharp contrasting

elements defining their features. Like Sergei Eisenstein’s gorgeously photographed film Que Viva Mexico! (which screens November 30th as a companion piece and closing night event to this MBC exhibition, and is accompanied by the modernist electronic music of DJ Maximus 3000), the images of Leo Matiz capture history told through faces. These images are on display courtesy of Alejandra Matiz, the artist’s daughter. The photos are also for sale.



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NEWS at MBC!

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NOVEMBER 2008 at a Glance:

28,29: “New American Independents”: Lance Hammer Ballast

30: "SILENTS, Please!": Que Viva Mexico! with LIVE accompaniment!

DEC 04-07: ART BASEL Miami Beach at MBC!

(the rest of December coming next email!)









28 FRI, 29 SAT 7:45pm & 9:35pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

NEW AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: Lance Hammer

Miami Theatrical Premiere!

BEST DIRECTOR 2008 Sundance Film Festival!

Ballast

(Lance Hammer/USA/2008)




With Michael J. Smith Sr, JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail

BALLAST is one of those rare films that maximize the medium through an aesthetic of understatement. Every frame is deliberately and beautifully composed, every cut artfully and economically executed—not only to transmit a quietly gripping story but to reveal characters’ layered emotional experiences and the specific textures and sensations of their locales. In the

cold, winter light of a rural Mississippi Delta township, a man’s suicide radically transforms three characters’ lives and throws off-balance what has long been a static arrangement among them. With circumstances thrusting them into proximity, a subtle interdependence and common purpose emerge for Marlee and Lawrence as they navigate grief, test new waters, and tentatively move forward.

WINNER: Best Director & Excellence in Cinematography Sundance Film Festival

Film Society of Lincoln Center and Museum of Modern Art Directing Prize

Grand Jury Prize Buenes Aires Film Festival

FIPRECSI Prize: New York and Buenes Aires Film Festivals

“A STARTINGLY ASSURED, PITCH PERFECT FIRST FEATURE!”

—Manohla Dargis NY Times

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .

at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)





30 SUN 7:45pm:

“SILENTS...PLEASE!”

A special audio-visual experience

unlike you have ever seen before!

Featuring the LIVE electronic music styling of DJ Maximus 3000!

Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein/Mexico/Russia/1931)

The KINO restoration of a lost masterpiece of cinema




A blend of the ethnographic, the political, the scenic and the surreal, Qué Viva México! is nothing short of brilliant; a highly stylized (silent with limited subtitles) documentary on the people and volatile social climate of Mexico. It remains superior to the legion of films it strongly influenced: Orson Welles' It's All True, Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and the works of Sergio Leone. With sequences devoted to the Eden-like land of Tehuantepec, the savage majesty of the bullfight, the struggles of the noble peasant and the hypnotic imagery of the Day of the Dead, Qué Viva México! is a vivid tapestry of Mexican life which, thanks to Grigory Alexandrov and Nikita Orlov's careful restoration, takes its rightful place alongside Eisenstein's other legendary works.

Tonight the film is complemented and contrasted with the modern electrionic sounds of DJ Maximus 3000. The film will be followed by the closing night reception for the MBC LEO MATIZ Frida Kahlo exhibition. $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors





COMING SOON:

ART BASEL 2008 at MBC!

FOUR NIGHTS OF COMPLIMENTARY EVENTS






ART BASEL Miami Beach
(Dec 04-07)


DEC 04 THU: Opening Night Reception!

8:30-10pm: A Walk “Temps sur temps”

BERLIN 1993-1996 by LESLY HAMILTON

A photographic/audio-visual installation



“Before questioning, I found myself drawn to quite a bleak attraction when meandering between Postdammer Platz and Unter den Linden in Berlin: the "EST" underground stations reopened after twenty nine years in darkness. Mythical places, these were penciled-in on my map until then. High above the vast gloomy no-man's land was the big round Deutsche S-Bahn up on a pole at the entrance, and only the aroma of grilled "bockwurst" from the kiosk nearby uplifted the scene. I was engaged on a path leading to an obsessional quest about signs and tracks of time and the ephemeral traces of man, no doubt inspired by these surroundings where the burden of history had left its marks. It became my territory, without counting how often I would come back from Paris by night train, more often by bus. I remained attentive like the hunter waiting for prey, like the archaeologist seeking new pieces. The swift indifference or aloof respect of passers-by gave me the incentive to pursue with determination a long walk originally never planned.”

—Lesly Hamilton

All MBC Art Basel events are complimentary admission.



DEC 05 FRI:

7:30-8:30pm: A Walk “Temps sur temps”

8:30-11pm: CHINA: The Rising Tide

A film by ROBERT ADANTO, with ZHANG O




“Robert Adanto’s The Rising Tide shows the world how China’s contemporary artists are making sense of their crazy “brave new world”, the improbable mash-up of totalitarianism and capitalism gone wild. An often surprising and thought-provoking documentary, the featured artists throw down a collective glove to the rest of the world and declare their Sino-centric Renaissance. The rest of us better make an effort to grasp what their work is about, or get out of the way. An “eye-opener” in every sense of the word, if you are an artist, curator, or teacher be sure to catch this film.”—Mark Lynch, Host of “Inquiry” on WIC. The Rising Tide was shot in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in the summer of 2006 and completed in October of 2007 and was recently part of CHINA NOW in the United Kingdom, as part of Constant Stream: China 08 at the Royal College of Art in London, where it screened with a film by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke.

See two excerpts of the film HERE
The film will be followed by Q&A with director Robert Adanto

and artist Zhang O.

All MBC Art Basel events are complimentary admission.

This one has limited seating.



DEC 06 SAT:

7:30-8:30pm: A Walk “Temps sur temps”

8:30-9:30pm: Trance

A sound and video experience by PEARL GLUCK



Trance is a multimedia site specific installation which explores a neighborhood from the inside out. Using documentary video and found sound, Trance blurs the boundaries between insider and outsider, past and present, fitting in or being exiled. By partnering with local composers, Pearl Gluck creates a documentary visualscape made up of found images and sounds collected in the specific neighborhoods over the course of one week. Two of the Trance installations will be featured this evening: Trance: plac Z.ydowski, Krakow which visits what's left on the 200 year old once Jewish market square in Kazimierz, and Trance: Eldridge Street, New York, which visits the Lower East Side's interconnected and still separate Asian and Jewish communities. In the spirit of ambiguity and confusion, we will also feature another soundscape, a "soundwalk" through Hasidic Williamsburg hosted by Pearl Gluck. . .

with separate walks for men and women.

All MBC Art Basel events are complimentary admission.





9:40pm, 10:20pm, 11pm: Speaker Box

A performance in a transparent cube by BELAXIS BUIL (showtimes: 15 min. each)




The idea behind "Speaker Box" is to manipulate sound waves into becoming a source of energy or language. In this instance I become a foreign object which is contained within the parameters I know exist. I use the the sounds composed as music to entice the viewer into a mind trip of where I stand within my territory. The speakers that are placed around myself and facing the audience create "voice boxes", that ultimately become sound barriers and lost translations.

All MBC Art Basel events are complimentary admission.



07 SUN:

7:30-8:30pm: A Walk “Temps sur temps”

8:30-10pm: Parallax

A triptych screen projection by ROSALIND SCHNEIDER
1973 16mm 21 min. (transferred to digital format)
Concept, Camera, Editing: Rosalind Schneider
Score: Michael Dreyfuss
Choreography: Edith Stephen
Performance: The Edith Stephen Dance Company


Parallax is a dance film that explores the sensuous flow of the female and male body. Formal relationships achieve a visual extension in space through concave mirror reflection and the juxtaposition of three projections. The dancers separate and come together to abstract each other in strong compositional movement and rich color. Their bodies superimposed in black and white

negative and color create a surrealistic environment that defines the synchronous flow within the three screens.

Recipient of the 2008 Women’s Film Preservation Award Grant
"Parallax is at once invitingly sensual and conceptually arresting." -Alan M. Kriegsman, The Washington Post
"Pictorially similar to an enormous fresco, Parallax moves its characters through a dance without time and perhaps without end." Anna Canepa, -Art Workers Newsletter
"Parallax is like a Reubens or a Renoir, it is so explicitly voluptuous."
-Holly Beye, Woodstock Times
"It is a beautiful film." -Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice

All MBC Art Basel events are complimentary admission.



TICKETS:

FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

SILENTS...PLEASE! $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

Cine-IMPROV! $12 or $10 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

ART BASEL Miami Beach at MBC: Complimentary admission

Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings



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 ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!

512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com










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Temps sur temps Epilouge by Lesly Hamilton

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