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.

Guerilla Visuals

SAT. 9/7: LOST FILM FEST

Scott Beibin of Philadelphia’s travelling LOST FILM FEST rolls into town with a wagon full of punkish shorts and sub-cultural docs, many in their Bay Area debut. Among the featured titles are The Sean Connery Golf Project (on script-tampering pranksters), Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography, the Situationist musical Gigi from 9-5; and the Canadian howler Punk Rock Archives. PLUS others TBA. Doors at 8 for season inauguration.

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Save Our Sign!

SAT. 9/14: 17 REASONS SIGN-RAISING + CARLOS GUITARLOS +

Urban archeologists from SF Historic Preservation Coalition and the SF Media Archive personally host this benefit to save the Mission's legendary 17 Reasons sign, illegally leveled last May. The celebratory mix of film, video, and live performance boasts Dorsky's eponymous city-symphony, Winiemko/Wyman's Enjoy, and Majano's Calle Chula. ALSO Bruno on the Musée Mecanique and Bartel on the Fox Theater, plus contributions from Jenny Olsen, Gibbs Chapman, Steve Yamane, and THEE Mission's musician Carlos Guitarlos! AND home movies, historical oddities, and Joe Goode's swan-song.

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Suburban Dystopias

SAT. 9/21: SCOTT'S CUL DE SAC + STRATMAN +

In the second part of our Urban-Ism series, here's Garrett Scott with his riveting report on the San Diego stolen-tank rampage, subtitled A Suburban War Story. The chilling video details the decline of the SoCal defense industry, the despair, demographic decay, and crystal-meth dependency. ALSO Deborah Stratman's masterful 16mm meditation on "secure" gated communities, In Order Not To Be Here.

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Playing Public Space

SAT. 9/28: LEWISON'S A-CLIPS + BLOODHAG +

OC welcomes back erstwhile staffer Sarah (Fat of the Land) Lewison with the eagerly anticipated NorCal launch of the now-international A-Clips initiative: Situationist PSA's bumped from DV to 35mm for insertion into theatrical rotation. ALSO: Brad Vanderburg's metalhead-librarians Bloodhag, Matt McCormick's SFIFF award-winner on graffiti-removal, Kyle Henry's hit on the new Times Square, plus other creative "urban interventions" from Rev. Billy Talen, Rodney Ascher, Eric Saks, Patrick Nguyen, Archimedia, the Surveillance Camera Players, and the debut of Andy Cox's Will Work to Defeat Capitalism. At end, a session for those who want to kick-start an SF A-Clip project.

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Schiz Wiz

SAT. 10/5: WESLEY WILLIS AS THE DADDY OF ROCK 'N'ROLL +

Daniel Bitton's hr.-long visit with the eccentric schizophrenic Willis is an hilariously edgy hell ride over the shoulder of a cult musician whose every obscene utterance bears the uncanny mark of an idiot savant. The hand-held doc follows the self-proclaimed punk rocker from the street, onto a bus, into a recording session, and finally into a performance venue. PLUS: Jim Haverkamp/Brett Ingram's jaw dropping jaunt, Armor of God, with Irving, a born-again noise maker, Jensen/Thelan's … My Miserable Fucked Up Life, on Guitarlos, et alians.

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Sampled Silly

SAT. 10/12: PEOPLE LIKE US + WOBBLY +

On the SF stop of her national tour, Ms. Vicki Bennett of P.L.U. graces our stage with her smash-and-grab aesthetic. In 10 collage albums she has re-cut audio oddities into surreal soundscapes that lampoon pop-cultural banalities through a misfiring loop of reference and repetition. Bennett's live digital mix accompanies a marvelously crafted cut 'n' paste picture-track, suggesting new narrative forms for the laptop flapper. PLUS local experimentalist Wobbly drops by for a dynamic duet in the show's first half, following clips from Clara Rockmore, Kraftwerk, Negativland, and others.

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Attack of Thee Psychedlic\

SAT. 10/19: ERIK DAVIS TRIPS OUT!

Both psychedelics and film are virtual technologies of the moving image. Some trippers can't get enough of their "eyelid movies" while filmmakers have long attempted to translate psychedelic visuals (and, less literally, psychedelic experience) into celluloid through special effects, animation, and montage. Come join fringe scholar Erik Davis for an evening of trip sequences and psychedelic imagery culled from cult films, experimental cinema, propaganda, and mainstream cheese. Kool-aid provided.

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Pantheistic Panorama

SAT. 10/26: MODERN PAGANS

Paragons of punk publishing, V Vale and Marian Wallace appear in the flesh with their recent volume on the modern pagan subculture. They'll do a live interview with one of the witches, and present Wallace's ½-hr. movie journal, that includes visits with Earth First's Darryl Cherney, Thorn Coyle, Morning Glory Ravenheart, Genesis P. Orridge, and many others. Charles Gatewood is also on-hand to showcase some of his video subjects. PLUS: George Kuchar's Spawn of the Pagan is heralded by a live fire ritual!

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Experiments in Terror

SAT. 11/2: AVANT-HORROR BY COLBURN + LAITALA + SHERMAN +

OC curator Noel Lawrence unveils a perverse program of torture-chamber-pieces that will consummate our Halloween week. Featured is Skelehellavision, the new, nude, and naughty shocker from our evil-spiritual cousin Martha Colburn. ALSO: David Sherman's Tuning The Sleeping Machine, a sublime reverie on the emulsified ghosts of cinema past. AND Kerry Laitala's gothic-optical Journey into the Unknown, a hand-made murder meditation. PLUS: Williams' own The Virgin Sacrifice, Rodney Ascher's Bride of Ozzy, clips from horror-film history, and free mulled wine. Come in costume!

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Expanded Cinema

SAT. 11/9: ALVAREZ-POVEY + STONE + 3-D +

Dueling/dueting projectionists Alfonso Alvarez and Thad Povey return with Rev. Screamin' Fingers to mount a new mixed media masterpiece, Nightsoil. Also "performing her projector" is Melinda Stone with her hand-cranked Fresh (35mm!). PLUS: J.X. Williams' vertiginous Mystery 3D Theatre, Pad McGlaughlin's triple-dimension joyride StereoScopophilia, enacting experiments in retinal rivalry. AND media-archeology diggins from Max Fleischer, Jordan Belson, Martha Colburn, Matt Day, Stephen Parr, Spike Jones, and others.

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Capitalist Punishment

SAT. 11/16: WOBBLIES PAST AND PRISONS PRESENT

Two SF premieres on class power!! Travis Wilkerson's poetic film essay An Injury to One addresses the suppression of the International Workers of the World union through the lens of the infamous hanging of organizer Frank Little in Wilkerson's hometown, the Anaconda-run Butte, Montana. ALSO: Juliana Fredman/Jim Davis' Safety Orange, a 45-min. video discourse on the hypertrophy of the prison industry, a symptom, they argue, of a class-based police state. PLUS Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers/Christian Parenti's astute analysis of resource waste in consumer culture.

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Low-Tech Low-Life

SAT. 11/23: JON MORITSUGU'S SCUMROCK +

Frisco's resident lord of Loser Chic has entered the ATA building to personally introduce not 1 but 2 shows (8:30 & 10) of his eagerly anticipated Hi-8 feature! An epic that sprawls across West Coast rock music and underground movies, this no-budget "dirty soap opera" dishes up broad cultural burlesque reminiscent of John Waters and the Brothers Kuchar. With music from Mel Davis, Toni Ann, J-Church, and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, this punk melodrama pushes drink specials during an opening set by Sammy Davis & Joey Heatherton.

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Hijacking Commercial Culture

SAT. 11/30: CULTURE-JAM + BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT +

Jack Napier and the BLF in fact present us with a gift for their 25th anniversary: Two screenings (8:30 & 10) of Jill Sharpe's (tentatively in attendance) energized hour survey of anti-advertising pranksters, including Rev. Billy Talen, Toronto's Carly Stasko, and OC's very own Craig Baldwin. The evening's second show boasts the 25-min. WTO mockery The Horribly Stupid Stunt…, by the ®™ark-affiliated Yes Men, as well as Aron Ranen's Tow Truck Driver. Supporting both programs are new shorts by Bryan Boyce (World's Fair Film), Eric Saks, Negativland, Rroom, and Paul Harvey Oswald. Free toast and jam!

Japanese Disasters

SAT. 12/7: MOMOTARO +UN GA NAI (BAD LUCK) +

On Pearl Harbor Day, editors from the U.S. office of Viz Com, Carl Horn and Kit Fox, frame a double-header on Japanese trauma, both physical and psychological, mid-century and fin de siècle. Jad Fair's Half-Japanese provides the original track for the West Coast premiere of Christophe Draeger and Martin Frei's Bad Luck, a 40-min. rumination on a nation agonized by the spectre of mass destruction-the subway-poisoning Aum Shinrikyo cult, earthquake simulations, Hiroshima, and other terrors. PLUS the very first long-form anime, produced by the Imperial Navy in the last year of WWII, to bolster national identification with the military effort.

Viet Verités

SAT. 12/14: SACHS' FLAME+ BRECKE + SKOLLER +

Ex-Mission denizen Lynne Sachs returns with her award-winning experimental doc on Vietnam-era war resisters, Investigation of a Flame. This timely revisitation with the Catonsville Nine (including the still-active Berrigan brothers) offers perspectives and possible strategies for conscientious objection to a U.S. military on permanent war status. ALSO: Mark Brecke's War As a Second Language, a video mix of original Super-8 footage, 35mm stills, and archival audio; Jeffrey Skoller's The Promise of Happiness, on Modernist social utopias; and Victoria Gamburg's (in person) portrait, Right Road Lost.

Avant to Live

SAT. 12/21 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

Closing the calendar year with an expansive group-show of new film, video, and performance works, mostly from Area makers, many in person: For the third time this season, Martha Colburn premieres a new film, added to other debuts from Alfonso Alvarez, Thad Povey, Matt McCormick, Animal Charm, J.X. Williams, Kerry Laitala, and Melinda Stone (with Naomi Uman). ALSO: Lori Surfer's Celluloid Deviant, Cheryl Park's Badass, and Natalija Vekic's Girl With the Pearl Suspended. PLUS recent pieces by McGuire, Barten, Abate, Davis, Miller, Polta, KPR, & Folstein's live music to his scratch-film, Hayes Valley High.

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