May 2004 Doings
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Listening

  • Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble @ HotHouse
  • Mwata Bowden's Sound Spectrum @ HotHouse
  • Dave Rempis Quartet @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang @ HotHouse
  • Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Roebke & Frank Rosaly @ UofC Film Studies Center (accompanying Kenji Mizoguchi's The Water Magician)
       
  • Atomic - Boom, Boom (Jazzland Acoustic)
  • John J. Becker [Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra] - "Concerto Arabesque" et al (Koch)
  • Paul Bley - In Haarlem (Tokuma Japan)
  • John Fahey - Days Have Gone By (Takoma)
  • Milt Hinton - East Coast Jazz/5 (Bethlehem)
  • Sonny Rollins - The Sound of Sonny (Contemporary)
  • Dmitry Shostakovich [Emerson String Quartet] - Complete String Quartets, disc 1 (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Fats Waller - The Complete Thomas "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm vol. 11 1939/40 (King Jazz)
  • various artists - Guinea: Kpelle Music (Inedit)
  • various artists - Music from Corsica (Auvidis)

Reading

  • About Looking - John Berger
  • Cassavetes on Cassavetes - Ray Carney
  • American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-National Context - ed. Richard O. Curry & Lawrence B. Goodheart
  • The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture - ed. Hal Foster
  • Selected Writings - La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela

Watching

  • Cecil Taylor: All the Notes [video] - Christopher Felver (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Sonic Youth's Making the Nature Scene [video] - Christopher Felver (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch (Music Box)
  • The Saddest Music in the World - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
  • S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine - Rithy Panh (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • MC5 * A True Testimonial - David C. Thomas (can't say)
  • The Return - Andrey Zvyagintsev (Music Box)
       
  • Persona - Ingmar Bergman (Block Cinema)
  • Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci (Doc Films)
  • Ganja and Hess - Bill Gunn (Block Cinema)
  • The Big Sky - Howard Hawks (Block Cinema)
  • Red River - Howard Hawks (Block Cinema)
  • The Water Magician - Kenji Mizoguchi (UofC Film Studies Center)
  • The Foul King - Song Kang-ho (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Heart of Spain [short] - Herbert Kline (Doc Films)
  • Lights Out in Europe [short] - Herbert Kline & Alexander Hackenschmied [aka Alexander Hammid] (Doc Films)
  • The Forgotten Village - Herbert Kline & Alexander Hackenschmied [aka Alexander Hammid] (Doc Films)
  • "Chicago Filmmakers at 30 - Selections from the First Decade" (Chicago Filmmakers):
    • Scratchman - Heather McAdams
    • Zip Tone Cat Tune - Bill Brand
    • Lie Back and Enjoy It - JoAnn Elam
    • What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? - Kartemquin Films
    • Once Upon a Time - Kevin Dole
    • A Prepared Text - Dana Hodgdon
    • Edge Forces - Bruce Wood
    • Jerry's - Tom Palazzolo
    • DL #2 (Disintigration Line #2) - Lawrence Janiak
    • Sarah and Norman - Adele Friedman
  • "Selections from the 23rd Annual Black Maria Film & Video Festival" [videos] (UofC Film Studies Center)
    • A Private Happiness - Leighton Pierce
    • Cubica - M. Ash
    • Zeno’s Paradox - Robert Arnold
    • Three Vignette Suite - Kevin Everson
    • ID - Mara Mattuschka
    • Confessions of a Sociopath - Joe Gibbons
    • Overpass - Alan Price
    • Five AM - Michael Van Bakel
    • N-Judah - Sam Green
    • Free Spectra - Seokhan Ryu
    • Buildings + Grounds - Ken Kobland
  • Persona - Ingmar Bergman (DVD)