Pacific Film Archive Events
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april 9 - 13
tuesday - thursday, saturday: 7:30pm
friday: 7:00pm
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tuesday: Cinema for the Ear
An unusual evening - almost totally in the dark - reversing the movie theatre emphasis on visuals over sound, featuring a selection of audio art pieces by film and videomakers including Michel Chion, Ken Jacobs, Richard Lerman, Julie Murray, Nina Fonoroff, Peter Rose, and Stuart Sherman.Also featured will be a three-projector sound performance by the local trio Wet Gate.
wednesday: Siren Calls
An evening of unusual films and videotapes that rely heavily on soundtracks for their power by Matthew Arnold, Bruce Conner, Steven Dye, Edward Rankus, and Peter Rose. From the minimalist drone in Arnold's Piece Touchee, through the processed gibberish in Peter Rose's Babel, to the beat-laden score in Bruce Conner's Television Assasination, these works show that sound and image are not mutually exclusive.
The centerpiece of the program is a live performance by the Dactyls of Frygia who will accompany Dye's animated short King Midas using a variety of homemade instruments.
thursday: Ubiquitous Recording: Film Sound and Audio Arts to Mid-Century
Douglas Kahn, the co-editor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde will discuss the arguments begun in the '20's for the possibility of a new audiophonic art, provide an overview of what happened during these years, and offer an explanation of why things didn't happen. Audio examples will include Walter Ruttman's Weekend, John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 1 and musique concrete by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
friday: A Century of Sound For Motion Pictures
Robert Gitt (USA), Preservation Officer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, presents and illustrated talk on the history of sound for motion pictures, covering the past one hundred years from Edison cylinders to Dolby Stereo. Gitt's presentation is informative and entertaining both for professional and general audiences, and many fascinating film excerpts will be shown in this three hour lecture.saturday: Jazz Age Vitaphone Shorts
The Vitaphone, the first sound film technology to gain widespread acceptance, offered audiences the closest approximation possible to a live performance. Tonight's sampling of late twenties Vitaphone musical shorts, restored from the fragile original sound disks, features performers who had already established reputations in vaudeville, music halls, or as "opening acts" preceding feature films for the next thirty years (80 min). Presented by Robert Gitt (USA).Followed at 8:45pm by Paramount on Parade (U.S. 1930), the best of the revue-style musicals that helped launch sound films, with delightful numbers by Paramount's best talent of the decade, and beautifully restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with color tints and Technicolor sections (102 min).
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$5.50, $7 for double programs