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 5.0!), you can download it for free at www.apple.com/quicktime.

That's Scentertainment!!

SAT. 2/9: DAVID YONGE'S SMELL-O-VISION ! + 

OC opens its novel 2002 season with a novelty-film event! Get a whiff of this: From Vancouver comes David Yonge and his travelling Smell-O-Vision Experience, a cinematic survey of odorific scenes, with smells wafting to audience from behind-the-screen fans-flowers, fireworks, the smell of love(!), and more. For the inaugural celebration, we'll uncork an eye poppin' panoply of novelty music: William Shatner, Blelvis the Black Elvis, Blazin' Hazen, Ricky Ricardo, etc. PLUS: "Total Ass," 3-D treats, bizarre commercials, and a grand finale with KISS!

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Valentine's Day Soirée

SAT. 2/16: STEPHEN PARR'S THE SUBJECT IS SEX

Stephen Parr of Oddball Films presents a curious history of Sex in Cinema-an extraordinary personal romp through a 2+hrs. of erotica, porn, doc, industrial, and unintentional camp. The polymorphous program promises shorts straight and gay, old and new, film and video that includes Lilli St. Cyr, hillbilly porn, home-movies, cartoon smut, artists' sketches, commercials, trailers, educationals (How to Give an Enema), and hygiene-films (the 1952 Mated). PLUS: John Holmes, burlesque bits, Glen or Glenda clips, verité footage from porn sets, and oozing oodles more.

 

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Davis Does Dick

SAT. 2/23: ERIK DAVIS ON PHILIP K. DICK

For the anniversary of PKD's "Pink Light Epiphany," Erik (Techgnosis) Davis returns to OC for an illustrated tour through the life and work of this famously paranoid sci-fi visionary. The gnostic know-it-all riffs off copious clips from the many movies based on or inspired by Dick's writings, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Videodrome, Jacob's Ladder, The Matrix, and eXistenZ. Weaving together textual analysis and personal anecdote, Davis leads us through a dystopian future carnival of false identities, rebel androids, and bad drugs.

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WTC Tragedy


SAT. 3/2: UNDER GROUND ZERO

 

Curated by Caveh Zahedi and Jay Rosenblatt (in person), this program muses on the political and psychological implications of the Sept. 11th events. Among the many artists represented, we'll be premiering shorts by Barbara Hammer, Leighton Pierce, Lynne Sachs, Bart Weiss, Valerie Soe, Cathy Lee Crane & Sarah Lewison, Chel White, Dolissa Medina, Jeanne Finely & John Muse, and Andrea Torrice. The cinematic soul-searching is framed by the poli-sonics of DJ Pod, whose electronic mixes afford a critical antidote to the knee-jerk responses of the mass media.

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Japanese Cult Film

SAT. 3/9: PATRICK MACIAS' TOKYOSCOPE

Just back from neon nights in Shinjuku, here's the "Tiger on Beat" himself, Patrick Macias, leading our prowl through his new cult-study on Japanese exploitation genres. Mission-based yet world-famous, our gangly grindhouse guru shows clips and shares dirty secrets about this previously marginalized but tremendously influential area of Asian cinema. His focus is on the so-called "pink" or sexploitation chapter, flashing and slashing through a tsunami of erotic exotica, without spilling his sake!

 

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Subterranean Cinema

SAT. 3/16: SHERMAN'S BEATNIK "TO RE-EDIT THE WORLD" +

Drawing from four found boxes of '50s/'60s film shot by SF boheme Dion Vigne, David Sherman spins out a lost chapter of American Underground cinema. At the center of this San Francisco re-history is Vigne, a Beat character who we never see, but rather feel through the influences of his more sed contemporaries-Christopher Maclaine (Beat), Jordan Belson (Allures), Kenneth Anger (Invocation of My Demon Brother), the Whitney Brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, and Anton LaVey.

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Tijuana Techno


SAT. 3/23: MEXICAN ELECTRONICA + PEPITO

Here's an evening of new videos, live mixes, and musical performance from south (and north) of the Mexican frontera. The program features recent pieces by Checo Brown, Giancarlo Ruiz, Eamon Ore-Giron, La Mejor Vida Corporation, y más. On the pequeño ATA stage, José, Ana, & the Pepito posse spice it up with their performance-art-rock. Che cameo.

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Easter Surreals

SAT. 3/30: INCREDIBLE STRANGE RELIGIONS

Had your fill of overzealous piety and sanctimonious hypocrisy lately? How 'bout some time with a band of believers struggling against the terrifying events of the Great Tribulation (Image of the Beast)? Or a monomaniac who sees sixes in every movie (Secret Sixes)? Or kiddie Christianizing (Take to Heart)? Or Bob Tilton tirades or Mormon animation or Holy Ghost hysteria, for that matter? Or would you prefer Satanic rituals, Heaven's Gate gibberish cult deprogramming, for chrissake? Amen!

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Culture Jamming

SAT. 4/6: MCLEOD/MOORE'S MONEY FOR NOTHING + JAMS +

All the way in from Iowa, here's Kembrew McLeod with the Cali debut of his 50-min. Money for Nothing, a critique of the commercialization of popular music, narrated by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and featuring Michael Franti, Ani Difranco, Chuck D, Kathleen Hanna, et alia. The first hr. of the eve is a cavalcade of kick-ass cut-ups of corporate advertising, including new pieces from ®™ark, Paul Harvey Oswald, RRoom, Davy Force, Guerilla News Network, Animal Charm, Bryan Boyce, Mario Escobar, and Rev. Billy Talen. PLUS: McLeod's Mr. Rogers rave-up.

 

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Do it Yourself

SAT. 4/13: DEAN'S D.I.Y. OR DIE + BUTTHOLE SURFERS +

The Bay Area debut of Michael Dean's doc delves into the motivations of American indie artists, whose ingenious methods open up autonomous zones within the morass of mass-media mediocrity. Sharing insights are Ian MacKaye, Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Mike Watt, Lynn Breedlove, Jim Rose, Keith Knight, Jim Thirwell, and others. The call-to-arms is issued in person by D.I.Y. editor Miles Montalbano, whose Love and the Monster co-bills. PLUS: Lori Surfer's insider essay on the Butthole Surfers, topped off by Bill Daniel's 16mm paean to those same punk paragons.

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Pixel Visions

 

SAT. 4/20: GERRY FIALKA'S PXL THIS FESTIVAL

 

Zooming in from LA is OC soulmate Gerry Fialka with an all-new edition of pieces produced with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy camera. This 11th annual fest is battery-powered by the funky user-friendly energy of real-first-person cinema-and recorded on audiocassette! Sean Eno's Glink reclaims the ghostly nature of bodies, recorded in the basement of the WTC. Michael O'Reilly explores a Virgin Mary night-light in Written, Spoken, Sung, and Bryan Konesfky actually re-pixels his teenage Super-8 in an intertextual ode to low-tech. PLUS works by Ann Randolph, Betsy Kalin, Mark Hejnar, and many more.

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Low-Tech Hi-Jinx

SAT. 4/27: QUINTRON'S DRUM BUDDY + AHWESH + SNIDER +

Contrary uses of cheap popular electronic technology, turned to new ends: Marvel at the cheesiness of the Drum Buddy machine in this infomercial shot by Rick Delaup. Peggy Ahwesh's Biennial-bustin' computer-game gambol, She Puppet; Greta Snider's space-dog slide-show Heat Signatures; Bobby Abate's cyber-porn assemblage "...Hammer"; Grady Sain's 'puter-toon, The Teammates; Brett Simon's xeroxed Counterfeit Film; IAA's Contestational Robotics; Anon. Aktivists' Untitled #29.95; and documentation from the Surveillance Camera Players. PLUS: Steve Polta's live reel-to-reel spiel, and a rare peek at the Turkish Star Wars rip-off!

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Old Films, New Music

SAT. 5/4: GRAHAM CONNAH DOES HARRY SMITH +

Picking up our earlier Beatnik thread, Goldie-garnering jazzbo Graham Connah sets up his ensemble screen-side to interpret the way-out visual music of Harry Smith's Early Abstractions. Smith's cinematic genius is also made manifest in his ultra-rare Mirror Animation No.11, with recorded music of Thelonious Monk. Connah's combo opens the cabaret with cocktails and original compositions, before tipping us to a short and sweet medley of vintage jazz on film: Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Gerry Mulligan, Sun Ra, and numerous others. PLUS: Improv to period home-movies!

 

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Anti-Social Antics

SAT. 5/11: GIBBONS' SOCIOPATH + OURSLER'S ON OUR OWN +

In the first of a two-part suite on psychopathology, we are pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Joe Gibbon's Whitney-Biennial entry, Confessions of a Sociopath. The American Underground's raconteur par excellence works through past periods of his dysfunctional life, hilariously narrated through psychiatric reports, police records, and his personal Super-8 diaries. The 45-min. memoir is set up by two shoplifting industrials. Co-featured is Tony Oursler's On Our Own (with Gibbons), a dark comedy in which the pair are forced to cope with life outside the looney bin.

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Abject Flesh

SAT. 5/18: JAMES FOTOPOULOS' BACK AGAINST THE WALL +

Perhaps you've heard rumblings about a Chicago maker still in his '20s with as many films as years to his credit-including 4 features! Don't miss this first West Coast opportunity to witness his intense vision. Variously described as dark, ominous and oppressive, there's no doubt that the stark b/w long shots of his bare-bones mise en scène will succeed in delivering you into nightmare. JF's formally rigorous "...Wall" admits a bleak tale from the fringes of the Midwestern "lingerie modeling" underworld, and is preceded by 3 of his 16mm shorts, Growth, Drowning, and The Sun.

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Avant to Live

SAT. 5/25  NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

As always, our calendar is consummated with a provocative program of pieces that explore and explode the language of cinema. Among the vanguard are Martha Colburn's Helle-Skelle Vision, Rebecca Barten's Vito and Me, Greta Snider's Canoe Movie, Greg Serpa's Love Stinks, Jeremy Drummond's Spit, Steev Hise's Manifesto, David Lim's Flip Flap, and Melinda Stone's audience-interactive Poop or Berries? (35mm!). ALSO: Alfonso Alvarez, Louise Bourque, J.X. Williams, Kerry Laitala, Eric Salter, Thad Povey & the Scratch Film Junkies, and more tba.

 

   

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