Film Love
curated by Andy Ditzler

The Film Love series provides access to great but rarely-screened films, and promotes awareness of the rich history of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking.

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UPCOMING SCREENINGS

If you would like notices about upcoming events, email us at info [at] frequentsmallmeals [dot] com.

OCTOBER 2010
The Atlanta Celebrates Photography Film series [dates and event information coming soon]

OCTOBER 2010
Mauricio Kagel: Film Music, Music Performance, Performance Film
presented at Georgia State University with Bent Frequency [date and time coming soon]

PRESS FOR FILM LOVE

"[Film Love] is a labor of love that has turned the singer-songwriter into a terrific curator and historian." - Atlanta Magazine, Best of 2009

"an inventive mix...Andy Ditzler has kept avant-garde cinema alive in Atlanta" - Art Papers

"Atlanta's best film series" - Creative Loafing, April 2009

"The best - and often the only - opportunity to see experimental films of all stripe, intelligently presented" - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"for those who really love the art of film- 'Film Love' may be reason enough to get off the couch, and experience moving pictures in a different light." - WABE-FM, Atlanta

"An Atlanta film culture treasure"  -- Creative Loafing, Best of Atlanta 2006
 

"In an age increasingly converting to DVDs and digital forms of exhibition, Ditzler valiantly performs, promotes and celebrates the art of film in its original form. Striving to make the avant-garde accessible, to cherish cinema history and to open the eyes of his audiences, Ditzler has his eyes on the prize." - Creative Loafing


PAST SCREENINGS


085 - 088> ANDY WARHOL #7: LONESOME COWBOYS IN ATLANTA (Eyedrum, Emory University, and Mixx Atlanta, March 25 - April 3, 2010)    press release

084> MARTIN SCORSESE: PORTRAIT FILMS (Eyedrum, February 26, 2010)    press release

083> MAURICIO KAGEL: Two-Man Orchestra (Eyedrum, February 18, 2010) part of Mauricio Kagel: Film Music, Music Performance, Performance Film

082> TWO EROTIC UNDERGROUND FILMS PART 2: Curt McDowell's Pornografollies (Eyedrum, February 13, 2010) (part of the first CinErotic Film Fest)

081> TWO EROTIC UNDERGROUND FILMS PART 1: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth (Eyedrum, February 12, 2010) (part of the first CinErotic Film Fest)

080> VITO ACCONCI: OPEN TO YOU (Eyedrum, January 29, 2010)    press release    curator's note

079> CHANTAL AKERMAN'S JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, BRUXELLES 1080 (Emory University / Atlanta Celebrates Photography, October 23, 2009)    press release

078> ANDY WARHOL #6: Blow Job and My Hustler (Midtown Art Cinema, October 8, 2009)     press release

077> ROGER BEEBE: FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS Artist in person (Eyedrum, September 5, 2009)    press release

076> PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE: Protest in Film and Video, 1961-2009 (The Museum of Design Atlanta, June 26, 2009)    press release

QUEER SAN FRANCISCO, 1970-1980
A two-part series, presented at Mondo Homo
075> THE COCKETTES: Midnight at the Palace (Eyedrum, May 24, 2009)   press release
074> BODIES: the Sexual Revolution on screen (Eyedrum, May 23, 2009)   press release

073> A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY (Eyedrum, May 10, 2009)
Vintage short films by artists and anthropologists on motherhood, from America to Bali    Press release

072> DARRIN MARTIN: Inside Out (Eyedrum, April 25, 2009) Press release

071> ANDY WARHOL 5: Poor Little Rich Girl (featuring Edie Sedgwick)
(Eyedrum, April 24, 2009) Press release

070> MARK STREET IN PERSON: Experiments in Urban Fascination and Alienation (Eyedrum, March 26, 2009)  Press release

CIVIL RIGHTS ON FILM: Rare films on African-American life, 1941-1967 (February 2009)
Program notes    series brochure    Creative Loafing review    Southern Voice review of program 4
069> Part 4: "My name is Jason Holliday..." (Emory University, February 28, 2009)
068> Part 3: The fierce urgency of now (Eyedrum, February 27, 2009)
067> Part 2: Inside the movement: cinema vérité and Civil Rights (Atlanta Cyclorama, February 21, 2009)
066> Part 1: Life, work and segregation in the south (Atlanta Cyclorama, February 20, 2009)

065> MINUTES TO GO: William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in the Beat Hotel (Eyedrum, January 30, 2009)    press release

SURREALIST CLASSICS, a two-part series co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
"a kind of two-night master class in surrealist cinema"  -- Creative Loafing
064> The Golden Age: the films of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (Eyedrum, November 14, 2008)
063> Surrealist Science: the world of Jean Painlevé (Eyedrum, November 15, 2008)

FILM AND SPIRIT, the Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2008 film series
062> FILM AND SPIRIT Part 3: Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss (Eyedrum, October 22, 2008)
061> FILM AND SPIRIT Part 2: Songs of Devotion: films by Nathaniel Dorsky (Eyedrum, October 15, 2008)
060> FILM AND SPIRIT Part 1: Blow-Up: Photography, Reality, and Time (Cinefest, September 27, 2008)

059> The Trick of Disaster  (Eyedrum, July 25, 2008)
A foray into the comedy of disaster, featuring Buster Keaton and Fischli and Weiss    press release

058> Tongues Untied: 20th Anniversary screening (Eyedrum, April 18, 2008)
featuring a tribute to Marlon Riggs and a screening of Nikolai Ursin's Behind Every Good Man    press release

THE WORLDS OF GEORGE KUCHAR
A three-night series devoted to the underground filmmaking legend
057> A Zest for Life: classic 1960s and 1970s films by the Kuchars (Eyedrum, March 21, 2008)
056> Stormy Weather: George Kuchar in the Elements (Emory University, March 20, 2008)
055> The Video Diaries of George Kuchar: an overview, presented by Gene Youngblood (Emory University, March 18, 2008)
Southern Voice review    Atlanta Journal-Constitution review (pdf)   Creative Loafing interview with George Kuchar

054> Tearoom: a document presented by William E. Jones (Eyedrum, February 22, 2008)  Creative Loafing review
press release    Creative Loafing interview with William E. Jones    Southern Voice review

053> Openings: Music and experimental film (Eyedrum, December 9, 2007)
An evening of short experimental films with live soundtracks by Atlanta musicians.    press release

052> Dead Flowers (Eyedrum, November 10, 2007)
two films on gardens, loss, seasons, and the passage of time

051> Film Love #51 (Eyedrum, November 3, 2007)
three films on childhood, memory and growing up, shown as part of the Frequent Small Meals festival

050> Music and experimental film (Eyedrum, November 2, 2007)
three films shown as part of the Frequent Small Meals festival

049> STILL/MOVING: still photography in the moving image  / Part Two: pictures worth a thousand words (Eyedrum, October 20, 2007)  press release     program notes

048> STILL/MOVING: still photography in the moving image  / Part One: Speed of Light (Eyedrum, October 17, 2007)  program notes

047> ART/SPACE: Artists in the public space (outdoor screening, beside the Davis Waldron gallery, Atlanta, September 29, 2007)    press release

046> How to Cope: Performance, Possession, Politics (Eyedrum, August 23, 2007)    press release

045> Summer of Love: Sex, Drugs, Rock, Art and Protest in the Counterculture circa 1967 (Eyedrum, July 21, 2007)     press release
Atlanta Journal-Constitution review    Creative Loafing review

044> A/V Geeks Greatest Hits (Eyedrum, Friday, July 6, 2007)    press release
Creative Loafing review      Skip Elsheimer profile

043> Our Folks: Poetic Documentaries About Family (Eyedrum, June 9, 2007)    press release

041, 042> Andy Warhol 3 and 4: Screen Tests and Portraits of Edie Sedgwick
(Eyedrum, May 4 and 5, 2007)    press release

040> Films by Robert Nelson and Gunvor Nelson: Collaborations and Friendships in the 1960s San Francisco Underground (Eyedrum, April 8, 2007)

039> Lynn Marie Kirby: Views from the center before and after Edison (Eyedrum, February 2007)    press release

038> Andy Warhol 2: Space (Eyedrum, January 27, 2007)   

037> Andy Warhol 1: Early Minimalist Films (Eyedrum, January 26, 2007)     program notes    Creative Loafing review     Indiewire review

036> A Lesson in Camp - guest curator Robert Coddington (FSM Lounge, January 2007)
a program of televised oddities from camp icons, accompanied by a showing of Nikolai Ursin's film "Behind Every Good Man" (1966) - one of the first films to feature an out gay African-American man

035> INFO DEMO: The Skin I'm In (Eyedrum, January 11, 2007)
Hollis Frampton's film Lemon shown as part of the long-running series at Eyedrum    program note

THEREFORE I LIVE: Home Movies, Personal Cinema, and the Avant-Garde (Eyedrum, October 2006)
This five-part series was the official film series for Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2006
034> Part 5: The Universal Truths
033> Part 4: Testament
032> Part 3: Here Now
031> Part 2: In the Garden of Film
030> Part 1: See the World

029> Robbie Land: Cine-Performance (Eyedrum, September 3, 2006)

028> Charlemagne Palestine: Filmworks (Eyedrum, September 2, 2006)

027> Carnivals of Ecstasy:
Tony Conrad and the New York Underground (Eyedrum, September 1, 2006)
"a night of hallucinatory, shamanistic, erotic, and hilariously decadent ecstasy" --Art Papers review, November/December 2006
Pitchfork review     Creative Loafing review

026> Warren Sonbert: Friendly Witness and Other Films (Eyedrum, July 13, 2006)    program notes    Deeper into Movies review

025> Nguyen Tan Hoang (Eyedrum, May 11, 2006)    program    review

024> Experimental Documentary  (Eyedrum, April 14, 2006)    program

023> Tony Conrad (Eyedrum, March 19, 2006)    program

022> The Films of Jim Trainor (Eyedrum, January 6, 2006)   program

AVAILABLE LIGHT: THE USE OF LIGHT IN ARTISTS' FILMS
A five-part series presented as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2005
021> Available Light 5: Refracted Light - Films by Stan Brakhage and Jim Davis (Eyedrum, November 2, 2005)    program

020> Available Light 4: Local Lightworks (Eyedrum, October 28, 2005)   
an evening of light-themed video works by Atlanta artists, curated by Shana Wood

019> Available Light 3: The Light Series (Eyedrum, October 19, 2005)    program notes

018> Available Light 2: On-Off (Eyedrum, October 12, 2005)    program

017> Available Light 1: Lighting the Space - Films by Gordon Matta-Clark and Anthony McCall (Eyedrum, October 7, 2005)    program notes

016> Kenneth Anger: Mouse Heaven and other works (Eyedrum, August 19, 2005)      program notes     review (1.1 Mb)

015> Chantal Akerman: From the Other Side (Eyedrum, May 26, 2005)

014> Act Up Fight Back: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS, part 2 (Emory University, April 1, 2005)  program

013> Act Up Fight Back: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS, part 1 (Eyedrum, March 30, 2005)  program notes

012> Gregg Bordowitz at Eyedrum (March 23, 2005)
The activist and videomaker introduced his video work Habit (2001).

011> NOW! Short Films on African-American Experience in the 1960s (Eyedrum, February 25, 2005)  program notes  review

010> Joseph Cornell (Eyedrum, January 20, 2005)    program notes    review

009> Protesting the Vietnam War, 1966 - 1971 (Eyedrum, October 2, 2004)     program notes    review

008> Word and Praxis: Gertrude Stein (Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, June 2004)
Stan Brakhage's Visions in Meditation #1 shown during an evening dedicated to the study of Gertrude Stein and her influence.

007> Karlheinz Stockhausen: Music and Film (75^th birthday concert at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, November 14, 2003)
Peter Moore's film Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes shown during a concert by Ensemble Sirius   program notes

006> An evening of Cameraless Film (Eyedrum, October 29, 2003)    program notes

005> Actionist Cinema (Eyedrum, August 14, 2003)    program notes

004> Beat Cinema 4: Portrait of Jason (Eyedrum, April 25, 2003)

003> Beat Cinema 3: Stan Brakhage (Eyedrum, March 28, 2003)    program notes

002> Beat Cinema 2: Christopher Maclaine (Eyedrum, February 28, 2003)    program notes

001> Beat Cinema 1: Pull My Daisy/This Song For Jack (Eyedrum, January 24, 2003)    program notes    review

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