Welcome to the Fall Schedule for Other Cinema. We have a ton of neat stuff this season and we hope you will come often. A number of the films we are showing have video clips available for preview in Quicktime format. These clips are indicated by a projector icon in the applicable sections. If you don't have the Quicktime plug-in (version 4.0!), you can download it for free at www.apple.com/quicktime.
Cult Explosion! \ SAT. 9/2 INCREDIBLY STRANGE RELIGION!? Headlining this year’s survey of bizarre belief-systems is Mark Hejnar’s TV Ministry, a profile of an Illinois cult that worships television as God. ALSO Ascher/Garon’s wicked Somebody Goofed, and Pat Robertson/ 700 Club’s hit on Burning Man. PLUS L. Ron Hubbard, Werner Erhardt, Bob Tilton, Christian Scientists, Mormons, Freemasons, and Heaven’s Gate. AND free blood-red wine for this special holiday Mass. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Video Remix SAT. 9/9 LIVE/DEAD MEDIA MELEE: ANIMAL CHARM VS. UNU Mixing for a live audience, Animal Charm use consumer-grade equipment to rip apart thrift store video, late-night T.V., and corporate promos, ironizing the images with a soundtrack of salvaged samples and degraded Casiotones. An absurdist essay of media deconstruction, this live cabaret in the Bay also includes new single-channel tapes and reanimated dead media from the master trash compactor, Unu. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
Dead Media Redux SAT. 9/16 PROJECT-O-RAMA: WETGATE + FILMSTRIPS +W America’s most marvelous 16mm projector performance ensemble returns triumphantly to OC! Peter Conheim, Steve Dye, and Owen O’Toole premiere two new pieces in a 30-plus min. tour-de-force, after Molli Simon’s mixed-media opener Electric City. Post-intermission is an hour-long orgy of awesome new “filmstripism,” with works by Konicek, Fieber, Orgone, and cONVENIENCE. Polta, Saks, Grux on Optigan. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Disney’s World? SAT. 9/23 DECONSTRUCTING/DESTRUCTING DISNEY Emceed by Dr. Nic Sammond, this program dares to decimate the cryogenic corpse of Uncle Walt, dissecting the bowels of the Executive Producer (ex officio) of American Childhood. Includes the infamous White Wilderness lemming snuff film, Disneyland propaganda, Pat Tierney’s Disnotopia, Ruben Ortiz’ Macho Mouse, cONVENIENCE’s Diszy Spots, etc. AND Rev. Billy’s (Talen) Disney Store bum-rushing. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
Media Archaeology SAT. 9/30 THEE A/V GEEK HIMSELF, SKIP ELSHEIMER Sailing in from Chapel Hill is America’s most knowledgeable enthusiast of 16mm mid-century industrial detritus. Skipper is on deck with dozens of spools of transcendental banality, sublimely ridiculous artifacts from the educational-media netherworld. Picked from a personal collection of over 10,000 titles, Skip escorts us with wit and good cheer through three 3/4-hr. thematic blocks: Cartoon Propaganda; Schoolhouse Shock; Huh? Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Beautiful Loser SAT. 10/7 INTRODUCING LEONARD COHEN + OUTSIDER SOUNDS We are honored to present the premiere revival of this ultra-rare 1965 b/w film doc on the legendary melancholic minstrel (with free wine to drown your tears in). ALSO, other musical oddities, including: Cash, Gaillard, Roach, Jones, Prima/Smith, and a set of Negativland videos! Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
Street Pieces SAT. 10/14 ABIGAIL CHILD PRESENTS B/SIDE + GAME + MUTINY Co-sponsored by the SF Cinematheque, this visit by the maven of Manhattan experimentalism affords an introduction to this writer, educator, and multiple award-winner, who explores the cinematic spaces between documentary and avant-garde. B/Side portays a woman’s struggle with homelessness, while Game deals with hookers, pimps, and power games. Mutiny parlays verité footage of women’s gestures into percussive play. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Heavy Metal Delusions SAT. 10/21 BELGUM’S DRIVER 23 + KRULIK’S H.M. PARKING LOT + Selected for the Whitney Biennial, here’s a 70-min. slice-o-life of Midwest rock-n-roll wannabe Dan Cleveland, a Prozac-powered dinosaur with a double-necked guitar inscribed with the name of his band, Dark Horse. Jaws will drop at the NorCal debut of this hilarious yet sympathetic portrait, the last word on the obsessed-loser aesthetic. AND a 30-min. set of both arena-headbanger and cable-access damage from Jeff Krulik. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
Trick-or-Freak SAT. 10/28 AL ADAMSON’S PSYCHO-A-GO-GO + THE MASK IN 3-D AKA Fiend With the Synthetic Brain and Blood of Ghastly Horror, this “amazingly incoherent mess” about evil tech features John Carradine, Tommy Kirk, Regina Carrol, and music by the Vendells. Opening the evening is an early ‘60s b/w kinescope, Walter Cronkite’s UFO: Friend or Foe?, The Mask in 3-D (glasses provided), excerpts from four Godzilla movies, The Gorgon on S-8 Sound, and free cookies, cordials, costumes. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Old Films, New Music SAT. 11/4 PINK FLOYD/FLEMING’S DARK SIDE OF OZ + For back-to-back Halloween hellaciousness: The “far-out” genre-crossing experiment that has attained the status of urban myth. Wonder at the sheer number of coincidental? synchronicities when P.F.’s psychedelic concept album is synched to the classic ’39 musical The Wizard of Oz. AND Owen O’Toole’s new score for Buñuel/Dali’s Un Chien Andalou; Lori Surfer’s live theremin track for Richter’s Ghosts Before Breakfast.
Hand-made Films SAT. 11/11 THAD POVEY & THE SCRATCH FILM JUNKIES + For over 15 years, the Mission’s most amazing cinematic alchemist has continuously manipulated a mixture of formats, found footage, optical printing, and bold direct-animation techniques like scratching, bleaching, painting, and appliqué. This beacon’s luminescent energy has phototropically set off a weekly “jam session” where celluloid fanatics muck emulsion to their hearts’ content. PLUS musician Mark Growden.
	DV (Devil’s) Advocate SAT. 11/18 JON JOST’S SIX EASY PIECES + DR. MONIZ How will digital tech inform the future of cinema? After an absence of too many years, here’s the exclusive SF debut of Jost’s DV essay, Six Easy Pieces, short sketches shot over the course of his European sojourns that investigate the spaces, both physical and formal, between motion pictures, still photography, and painting. Jost’s studies constitute a lovely argument for a computer route to the sublime. PLUS: Portugese father of lobotomy.
Turf Wars SAT. 11/25 URBAN BLOCK: CONTESTED TERRITORIES In the first of a 3-part suite on New Urbanism, those plucky pro-situ provocateurs Andy Cox and Gabriel Guzman unleash Together We Can Defeat Capitalism, a compendium of street-art (and BART) actions against the nouveau riche. PLUS Kavanaugh’s Defend, Hall/Rhodes’ Lilli Ann, Leshne’s Realtors, Keating’s Ballad, and Whispered Media’s Economic Boom trailer. ALSO: B.I.T., Circus of Resistance, & DJ Pod. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
	Electric Avenue SAT. 12/2 CITIES OF THE FUTURE: 2001 Re-Visiting Artists David Cox and Molly Hankwitz are Australia-based but ever-adrift in the slipstream of global cyber-culture. As Archimedia, they deploy a po-mo mix of utopian models, urban theory, visionary architecture, and public sculpture to argue for a new fusion of technology, media, art, design, signage, and leisure within tomorrow’s metropolis. Their thoughts rocket through a glorious galaxy of science-fiction cinema. Click Here for Quicktime Preview!
Underground Initiatives SAT. 12/9 RECLAIMING THE CITY: ARTISTS’ INTERVENTIONS G Concluding the Urban Block is this program of media-artwork on creative actions and autonomous subcultures. In-person presentations are provided by our Portland compadres, Matt McCormick and Vanessa Renwick, with works about the walls and ways of the city. PLUS the premiere of Greta Snider’s The Magic Radio, Kara Herold’s Grrlyshow, Jesse Drew ’s Short Circuits, Bruno/Green’s Pie Fight ’69, and more.
Avant to Live SAT. 12/16 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Our semi-annual N.E.W. night features Bryan Boyce’s Election Collectibles, Sandra Gibson’s Edgeways, Lori Surfer’s Memoir Fantastique, Steve Polta’s Gratuity, J. X. Williams’ Satan Claus, Melinda Stone’s Unknown Quantity, Greg Serpa’s Hero, and Kerry Laitala’s Uncle Ernie’s Home Movies. PLUS James Hong, Al Alvarez, Matt Day, Lori Damiano, Jamie Mirabella, and others tba.
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