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Welcome to the Spring Schedule for Other Cinema. We have a exciting lineup of new cinema initiatives 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, you can download it for free at www.apple.com/quicktime. |
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Outsourcing Torture SAT.
2/11: CIA TORTURE TAXI + KIDNAPPING AMERICAN STYLE
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Manson
and Mayhem
Kier-la Janisse, the notorious force behind Vancouver’s Cinemuerte Festival, has now compiled a metalhead’s wet dream of music clips and news reports surrounding the bizarre events in Norway’s Black Metal scene. Homicide, suicide, and burning churches all figure in this tragic story of an unholy war within this dark musical subculture. The first part of this diabolical double bill is Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, John Roecker’s puppet-animated musical of the Manson murders, voiced by a legion of punk-rock icons, including X’s John Doe, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, and Italian horror diva Asia Argento. Please note special show times and admission: LFDF at 8pm; Metal Storm at 9:45pm. $6.66 for one show; $9.99 for both.
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Retinal
Rivalry The queen of all things DIY, Snider brings her enlightened 3-D documentary initiative to our microcinema environment. Yes, that’s right, with the help of Pad McGlaughlin’s View-Master projector (!), the whole audience can marvel at the eye-popping imagery of neighborhood personalities and places. Johunna Grayson, Lee Krist, and Erick Lyle also provide their hand-processed perspectives. And McGlaughlin shares his precious historical insights on the 19th century Stereo View formats, which will be made available to the assembled throng. Bring your own View-Master “reel” to project on to the big screen, whilst Telescape invokes the gods of stereoscopy for a truly carnivalesque carpet ride. Free popcorn!
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Sonic
Assemblage
SAT. 3/4: ARTHUR LIPSETT REVIVAL
We’re honored to present an extremely rare program of films by legendary Canadian collagist Arthur Lipsett, the found-footage essayist of the ‘50s and ‘60s who tragically took his own life before his legacy could be secured. The LA-based Global A group (Johannes and Lars Auvinen) jet up for an in-person launch of their painstaking preservation of the Lipsett catalogue core, seriously at-risk with the crumbling of the Canadian National Film Board stewardship. Re-mastering in Berlin’s best sound studios, they have gone to the extraordinary measure of making vinyl pressings of the soundtracks to 21-87; Very Nice,Very Nice; A Trip Down Memory Lane; and Free Fall. The Brothers Auvinen will play turntable selections before these titles receive the very best digital projection from our gallery’s newly-acquired unit; the collectible records will be available during the show. After intermission, Lipsett’s half-hr. Fluxes is screened in its original 16mm format.
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Cameras on Catastrophe SAT. 3/11: BRECKE ON DARFUR + DANIEL ON NEW ORLEANS In
this benefit for Doctors Without Borders, we will enjoy
an audience with two globe-trotting troopers who have risked life and
lens to capture images from the sites of two recent (and ongoing) human
disasters. Mark Brecke presents his They
Turned Our Desert Into Fire, which details his Washington,
DC photo tour to expose the genocide in Sudan.
Supporting this lively look at a photog’s quest for political education
is Phil Cox’ frontline doc Darfur’s
Dirty War. Opening the evening is our favorite roving reporter,
Bill Daniel, with shocking visual testimony on the
apocalyptic post-Katrina conditions in New
Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Special admission: $6–$20.
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Lil'
Hitler from Halliburton
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Poetry Of The Cobblestones SAT. 3/25: CHRIS MARKER'S CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT +
In
the second session of our two-week suite on War and Peace,
here’s the latest from master French film essayist
Chris Marker. Shot on the streets of Paris over the
course of mounting European resistance to American
imperial aims, this hour-long lyric plays out Marker’s
very personal fascination with the enigmatic appearance of the cat,
in this case appearing on the walls and placards of French anti-war
activists. This preview screening is facilitated by a live translation
by Colleen Silva. Supporting the main feature is an
ensemble of short subjects that also address this global horror-show
through artists’ eyes, including poignant pieces by Jacob
Bricca, James Schneider, and Edouard
Salier. Free red wine.
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Art Against Apartheid SAT. 4/1: BREAK THE SILENCE ON PALESTINE Break the Silence, a collective of women muralists in support of Palestinian autonomy, have made numerous trips to the Middle East, most recently for mural projects in both Gaza and the West Bank. Their solidarity work also includes partnering with youth and feminist groups, as well as providing trauma relief through the Palestinian Counseling Center. Now, Susan Greene and Sara Kershnar have returned to narrate slides and share a revelatory video on the devastating impact of the Israeli Apartheid Wall. After the presentation, there will be an extended Q & A over refreshments and regional music.
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SAT. 4/8: GERRY FIALKA'S PXL THIS 15 As is our wont, OC hosts the latest iteration of Gerry Fialka’s plucky low-tech fest. The Pixelvision camera, in case you didn’t know, is a plastic toy that records picture and sound on an audiocassette. It failed in the marketplace in the ‘80s, but in the decades since, electronic folk artists have embraced the minimal B&W aesthetic, creating a quirky new subculture within the field of personal cinema. This year’s edition features Bryan Konefsky’s Beautiful Dreamer, Eli Elliott’s One, and Robert Dobb’s TV Ain’t No Tactile, among a host of others…though the highlight may end up being Gerry’s legendary introduction, trading on lofty McLuhanisms, Joycean run-ons, and goofy puns.
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SAT. 4/15: DARWIN VS. THE CREATIONISTS It is certainly too bad when our academic institutions are threatened by retrograde superstition…as if some forces in our society were afraid to accept the fact that humans are also part of the animal kingdom. Around the time of the Scopes trial, Max Fleischer turned his considerable talents from Betty Boop and Popeye to advancing an enlightened view of human development. Here’s the premiere revival of his legendary 1923 masterwork, Evolution, a courageous cinematic initiative, that in fact includes stop-motion dinosaur footage from Willis O’Brien, projected in gloriously tinted 16mm, with musical accompaniment by David Cox! We open with a newsreel from that infamous “Monkey Trial,” plus a Joseph Campbell clip on genesis myths and—believe it or not—a crackpot Fundamentalist screed, The Evolution Conspiracy. PLUS a collection-plate of assorted religious anomalies, including Pat Robertson, Satanic backward-masking, and a sneak peek at Wandering Eye’s new doc on Christian wrestling, Taking Satan to the Mat!! A portion of the proceeds goes to the ACLU.
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SAT. 4/22: PRANKS AND INTERVENTIONS In the first of a pair of culture-jamming gigs, we host three incendiary media miscreants and a mixed bag of new (and old) tricks. In a mid-career retrospective of the Keatonesque Tom Borden, we witness his gutsy, occasionally scatological performances, spanners in the works of the commercial machine. Also slated is the Metavid project, a 30-min. show n’ tell by Michael Dale and Aphid, who have managed to hack the C-SPAN closed-caption window, inputting critical info on featured Congressmen in real-time. The jam-boree kicks off with a set of inspired and inspiring guerrilla tactical jokes from the Yes Men, the Biotic Baking Brigade, a Boston Tea Party-crasher, and prankster godfather Joey Skaggs. Broadcast live by Neighborhood Public Radio.
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SAT. 4/29: BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT PRESENTS POPAGANDA
In the second installment of our Pranks series,
the BLF, those storied stalwarts of late-night billboard
alteration, surface in our gallery—merry, masked, and Mayday-mobilized,
to introduce Pedro Carvajal’s POPaganda.
Pedro’s hr-plus doc focuses on the antics of painter
Ron English, a modern-day Robin Hood
of Madison Ave., who renders an alternative universe
of advertising subversion. Shepard Fairey, Daniel
Johnston, and the Dandy Warhols also have
a hand in the production. PLUS Craig Baldwin’s history of billboard
hits, Bryan Boyce’s latest celebrity defenestration,
and a preview of Negativland’s upcoming DVD.
Free toast and grape jam (and grape wine)!
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SAT. 5/6: ECC AND BRAN FLAKES DO THEREOKE+ tradeMARK of the Evolution Control Committee and Otis Fodder of the Bran Flakes team up to tell us all about the Theremin, that cult-classic electronic instrument with the ethereal sci-fi sound. After some curious history and expert demonstration, audience members will be invited up to try their hand on the device in time to a pop backing-track, à la karaoke. The two experimental musicians also take turns spinning the most absolutely absurd artifacts in their vast vinyl collections. AND: Believe it or not, we’re encouraging attendees to bring mobile phones for Kristin Cato’s interactive cell-phone symphony! PLUS a feast for eye and ear on the big screen, with glimpses of Spike Jones, Gene Simmons, and the Punk Rock Orchestra. Bonus: The mighty Optigan! $6.
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SAT. 5/13: COUNTER-CORP KICKS KORPORATE ASS! We are heartened by a kindred project here in the ‘hood, the (hopefully) annual weekend presentation of films and panels that take the corporations to task, the CounterCorp Festival! Come on down for a drink and a snack in this screening-room reception that serves to launch this ambitious undertaking. Fest director John Wilner—with special guests—share their visions for an engaged and critical citizenry before busting open a vault of corporate-identity promos. Among the jaw-droppers are IBM’s early-computer chronology Piercing the Unknown, Delco’s That’s the Way It Is, Philco/Ford’s Year 1999, General Motors’ Our American Crossroads, Oscar Mayer’s Because We Care, Coronet’s What Is Capitalism?, and Hilton’s Hotel Ethos, among other Amerikan Korporate Kamp. PLUS a special treat from Rick Prelinger’s ephemeral film collection. $5–$20.
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SAT. 5/20: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Comes now an energized exhibition of new efforts that champion personal expression and radical cinematic form. Constituting the season’s most exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in person—are Vanessa Renwick’s God Bless America, Nomi Talisman’s David & Hazel, Jeanne Liotta’s Hephaestus of the Airshaft, Robbyn Leonard’s Limerance, John Rroom’s Boyband Mayhem, Enid Blader’s Love Diaries, David Cox’ Veromo, Kerry Laitala’s Orbit, and James Hong / Yin-Ju Chen’s Suprematist Kapital. AND: Damon Packard, Michelle Silva, Katherin McGinnis, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Ben Folstein, et al.
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SAT. 5/27: COSTABILE + BOYCE + DAV IS The Bay Area is especially blessed with an emerging generation of sound artists who work with hacked and hot-rodded computer applications towards the creation of an entirely new kind of audiovisual performance—a real-time electronic cinema that is ingenious and refreshing. Here are three young wizards emerging from the SFAI nexus: Sue Costabile manipulates objects and images in an exquisitely abstract dance of color and form; Nate Boyce takes a more aggressive approach to sound and image editing via a dangerous Jitter habit; and John Davis undresses a film projector with Piezo mics and handheld lenswork in a sublimely kinesthetic cine-poem. $6.
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