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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 5.0!), you can download it for free at www.apple.com/quicktime. |
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Machines of Mayhem! SAT.
9/8: SRL'S PATHOLOGICAL AMUSEMENTS
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Desire
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SAT.
9/15: FAROCKI'S SEEING CONVICTS
+ JULY'S AMATEURIST + Harun Farocki's I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts critiques the proliferation of technological devices that monitor prisoners. ALSO: Other short works on surveillance by Miranda July, Aron Ranen, Geoff Johnston, and the Surveillance Camera Players. The program's "flipside" tips us to the libidinal charge behind the voyeuristic impulse, with Eric Saks' Cappy Peeper trailer, Wendy Fong's Surreptitious Transference, and Stephen "Oddball" Parr's Capp Street Sting. Scott Stark's Angel Beach re-animates, in pseudo 3-D!, found bikini peeks. PLUS Patrick Macias' live, amplified cellphone scanning!
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Album
Obsessions
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Zine
Release
Opening a three-week suite of zine-based shows is this release party for Iggy's guttersnipe journal. With an unapologetic skid-row aesthetic, this brave and hilariously handwritten rag has lifted spirits and shared survival tips in the face of City Hall's downtown "street-cleaning" campaigns. On the bill are films and photos by Crusty, Ivy McClelland, RG Goudy, plus readings from contributors, live street performers and musicians, 99¢ beers, and of course, free (turd-less) donuts!
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Bad Attitude SAT. 10/6: PROCESSED WORLD'S 20TH BIRTHDAY BASH
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Musical
Subcultures SAT. 10/13: RUSS FORSTER'S 8-TRACK WAKE + TRIBUTARY
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Détournement
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Call of Cthulhu SAT. 10/27: ERIK DAVIS ON H.P. LOVECRAFT For our annual Halloween horror show, we host renowned cultural critic Erik (Techgnosis) Davis, who conjures up fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft, the consummate blood-curdler. As Professor of Film Studies and Folklore from Miskatonic U., Davis unearths an occult text, admitting us into a spine-tingling dimension of unspeakable creatures. With copious clips from movies like Necronomicon, Dunwich Horror, From Beyond, and Re-Animator, the lecture may invoke an undead entity amongst the audience itself! Dress in costume for seasonal spirits & paintings by Peggy Nelson.
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Viva Las Vegas SAT. 11/3: EL VEZ, EL REY DE ROCK 'N' ROLL + PEPITO + IBARRA + In its debut, Marjorie Chodorov's hr.-plus El Rey propels us through the world of Robert Lopez, the Mexican Elvis. Changing from sequined sombrero to gold lamé rip-away pants, the pompadour-sporting impersonator manages allusions to Che, the Zapatistas, and U.F.W.O.C. between Spangilicized Presley classics. PLUS the Mission's own Mexi-Cali camp-añeros, Pepito (José, Ana, y Atole), with a short set of their own punk rock en español and their live translation of an ultra-rare pachuco musical. ALSO Cristina Ibarra's Dirty Laundry, Mambo, & Tequila shots!
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Old
Films, New Music Everyone's favorite lo-tech tinkerer is here in person with the premiere of his 20-min. Examination of Exhibits, an incredibly clever cut-up of mid-century educational clunkers. PLUS: Two earlier celluloid collages by Mr. Gibbs, two by Steven Dye, and a new beaut, Be Like Them, by Scratch Film Junkie Thad Povey. ALSO: Lisa Hayes' Women Are Not Little Men, Natasha Spencer's House She Flew In On, Vicki Bennett's Fistful of Knuckles, & Charleton Heston's Planet of the President.
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Accompaniment
SAT. 11/17: DACTYLS OF PHRYGIA PLAY THE FILMS OF STEVEN DYE
The East Bay's most beloved band of homemade instrumentalists tweets, tweaks, honks, and skronks on long horns and hoses in whimsical cadenzas and kinetic-sculptural scherzos. The ensemble parades, shadow-puppets, and provides inspired soundtracks to the animated works of member Steven Dye, including Subtle Flight of Birds, Brief Candle, and King Midas. They also accompany the very early animations of Emile Cohl and Thomas Edison. Their multi-projector collaboration, Cue-Track, furnishes instruments for audience participation!
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Outsider Art SAT. 11/24: E. SPIRO'S ATOMIC ED + V. RENWICK'S RICHART + A treasure trove of obsessive kooks and characters who relentlessly collect and personalize industrial junk into marvelous and sublime works of sculpture: In its NorCal premiere, Ellen Spiro's Atomic Ed and the Black Hole portrays the packrat who sells off the "atomic waste" from the Los Alamos nuke lab. Vanessa Renwick's RichArt drops in on a middle-aged folk-artist whose non-stop object-making has produced a backyard wonderland. Scott Becker's Paradox finds Stu Buehler buried under his own garage-assemblage. Harrod Blank pitches his Leonard Knight/Salvation Mountain project.
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Secret Polit-Burger SAT. 12/1: MARK BOSWELL'S NOVA-KINO 2001 REPORTER In the tradition of Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Conner, and Doris Wishman, Boswell hard-sells a product and a program that plays fast and loose with political history, towards a 21st-century critique of leisure, tourism, and the Spectacle. Imagined as a post-Soviet agit-prop trade-show, the Florida-born professional flâneur finds footage, juggles gauges, mounts multiple projectors, and re-stages epic ideological battles as post-millenial Conceptual Art. This career retro includes Subversion Agency, Galaxie 500, Kultkino, Memory Corporation, Liquidation of the Wild West, and his wet-from-the-lab Caddies and Madness.
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Media Pranks SAT. 12/8: BREER + GIBBONS + AHWESH + LEVEQUE + Jim Browne of NYC's People's Cinema has programmed this provocative group show of transgressive film (and video) from East Coast satirists. Joe Gibbons goofs on Melville in Emily Breer's mirthful Moby Richard, Peggy Ahwesh's 73 Suspect Words uses language as an ideological probe, Les LeVeque's 2 Spellbound seizes on Hitchcock, Reynolds/Jolley's Drowning Room re-situates bourgeois behavior, and Bob Dylan serves as foil to the cheek of Soy Bomb. PLUS: M.M. Serra's For the Girls, Burtt's Mind Control Made Easy, Murphy/Easley's Tilton in Tongues, et alia.
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Super 8-plus SAT. 12/15: THE POLYESTER PRINCE ROAD SHOW The second of our guest-curated shows constitutes a veritable carnival of small formats, live music, and sing-a-longs. Taking up the legacy of the legendary Super Super 8 traveling fest, filmmaker Paolo Davanzo rolls his circus into the City, chock-full of choice shorts selected from around the globe. Among the handcrafted curios are Martha Colburn's Spiders in Love, Greta Snider's Portland, Matt McCormick's Vyrotonin Decision, K.P. Rosenthal's Blackbirds, Matt Hulse's Director's Cut, Shinji Kitagawa's Colorful Train, Kelly Spivey's Fruitcake, Dagie Brundert's 6 Astronauts, Arturo Bandini's Troppo Bella, and more.
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Avant to Live SAT. 12/22 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS As always, the calendar is consummated with our semi-annual N.E.W. night, a program that promises new perspectives on film poetics. Here are Rebecca Barten's Scents, Miya Masaoka's Solitary Bee, Rodney Ascher's Sparklehorse, Cade Bursell's Skate, Kerry Laitala's Hallowed, Sandra Gibson's Tablecloth, Glen Springer's Hollowmen, Patrick Nguyen's Biker Dave, Bryan Boyce's State of the Union, Alfonso Alvarez's Calling All Cars, & the West Coast premiere of Matt McCormick's Going to the Ocean. AND recent pieces from Frances Nkara, James Hong, Mark Brecke, Kent Lambert, Steve Polta, Te-shun Tseng, David Duhig, Justin Baumrucker, Lori Surfer, & J.X. Williams. |
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