Welcome to the Spring 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.
SAT. 4/29 STONE + SARAF + SNIDER ON OUTSIDER ART Melinda Stone's whirlwind tour of roadside attractions, Visionary Environments and Amateur Adventures introduces us to the inspired artists behind these idiosyncratic sites. With music by Beth Custer, who also opens our show. Irving Saraf and Allie Light's Grandma's Bottle Village is a loving 16mm look at the obsessive glass edifices of T. Prisbrey. Greta Snider's outrageous Urine Man. Doors open at 8pm $5
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SAT. 5/6 ZAHEDI'S A LITTLE STIFF + I DON'T HATE LAS VEGAS A true character both in and out of films, Caveh Zahedi takes the ATA stage to introduce and answer questions about his award-winning 16mm films: A Little Stiff, a comedic drama on infatuation, and I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore, a nervy verité of his family's Ecstasy trip down Vegas way. A straight-up mind-fuck of a movie! Show starts at 8:30 pm, admission is $5.
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SAT. 5/13 FREEMAN / CAMMELL'S THE TOUCHABLES Who needs Austin Powers? Tonight it's the very rare revival of Robert Freeman's The Touchables, the "Zabriskie Point" of 16mm exploitation films. Four mod girls kidnap their favorite pop star and keep him under wraps in their big shaggin' bubble. Donald Cammell scripted this swingin' psychedelia of polymorphous perversity in '68. Show starts at 8:30 pm, admission is $5. |
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SAT. 5/20 PRESENTING MR. RODNEY ASCHER! This wünderkind media whiz buzz-bombs our gallery with Alfred, Safety Man, Buddah Bar, Somebody Goofed, A True History of Crime, and an excerpt from his W-I-P The Collectors, then introduces True Purpose Research's A Cold-Blooded Look at Your Last 60 Trillion Years, based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard. PLUS shorts from Ascher's pals Garon, Henry, Porsia. Show starts at 8:30 pm, admission is $5. |
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SAT. 5/27 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Our calendar is consummated by our semi-annual N.E.W. night, featuring Jay Rosenblatt, Phil Patiris, Alex Rivera, Matt McCormick, Lynne Sachs, Mark Street, Lori Surfer, K.C. Smith, James Schneider, Daniel Gorrell, Kurt Keppeler, Bryan Boyce, Pablo Leighton, John Douglas, Louise Bourque, Animal Charm, Noel Lawrence. Show starts at 8:30 pm, admission is $5. |