Sunday April 25, 2010, 7:00 pm

At the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard (at Westwood)

Los Angeles Filmforum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present

Intersections: Poetry/Film (Part 2)

**NOTE THE CHANGE IN PRICE, DATE, TIME AND LOCATION**

Innovative filmmakers searching for new cinematic forms have frequently turned to poetry as a source of inspiration and to poets themselves as collaborators. In the 1960s and 70s, in particular, especially with respect to the Beat poets, it became clear that poetry and avant-garde film, both together and in parallel, had achieved a major evolution of visual and written language which continues to fuel popular and artistic culture today. As the UCLA campus welcomes the 2010 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Archive presents two nights of films exploring the intersection of mid-century poets and filmmakers and the casual, humorous and often rigorous cross-pollinization between these artists of the page and screen.  Part 1 of this event will be held the preceding evening, Saturday April 24th.

Tonight we are screening:

Visions of a City by Larry Jordan (1957-1978, 16mm, b/w, 8 min.)
A light and rhythmic portrait of Michael McClure in San Francisco in 1957; the poet's face seemingly trapped on the glazed, mirrored surfaces of the city.

Adventures of Jimmy by James Broughton (1950, 16mm, b/w, 11 min.)
Semi-autobiographical, this early work is a satiric version of the Hero Quest, about a naive country boy's search for his ideal Love in the big city (San Francisco). Broughton himself enacts bewildered Jimmy. 

The Water Circle by James Broughton (1975, 16mm, color, 3 min.) An homage to Lao-Tzu, this is a rollicking joyful poem that celebrates the movement of the waterways of the world, set to music by Corelli and read by the poet. 

In Between by Stan Brakhage (1955, 16mm, color, 10 min.)

Straddling the line between surrealism and portraiture, In Between is Brakhage's first color film and was shot while staying with painter Jess Collins and his lover, poet Robert Duncan. Music by John Cage.

Kino Da! by Henry Hills (1981, 16mm, b/w, 4 min.)
North Beach café poet Jack Hirschman and his frenetic, fragmented rendition of a poem in the manner of the Russian Futurists.

Notes on the Port of Saint Francis by Frank Stauffacher (1952, 16mm, b/w, 22 min.)

Experimental film pioneer Stauffacher weaves delightful street scenes of mid-century San Francisco to Robert Louis Stevenson's "San Francisco: A Modern Cosmopolis" (1883), read by Vincent Price.

Geography of the Body by Willard Maas (1943, 16mm, b/w, 7 min.)

An ambiguous, tongue-in-cheek odyssey through the jungles, mountains and deserts of the human body (in extreme magnification) with commentary by the British poet, George Barker.

Program curated by Timoleon Wilkins.

Tickets $10.  Anyone with a Filmforum membership card receives two tickets for the price of one to either of these screenings, only available at the door, not in advance.  Advance purchase and full notes can be found here.

The Hammer Museum is located at the northeast corner of Westwood and Wilshire Boulevards in Westwood Village, 3 blocks east of the 405 freeway's Wilshire Boulevard exit.  Parking at the Museum is $3; entrance on Westwood Blvd.

This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Additional support is generously provided by the American Cinematheque.