| Welcome to the Fall 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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Sensuous Celluloid SAT.
9/15: XPERIMENTAL EROS + PORNORCHESTRA
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Daughter Knows Best
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| SWITCHED-ON GRIMM Guided by Christine Metropoulos and Mr. Sloumberfugex of Brutallo.com, we go over the river and down through the dense woods of the fabled imagination of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Our fantastic escapade is sonically paced by equally animated electronic musicians: Mad Hatter Hans Grusel falls down the rabbit’s hole with Alice in Wonderland, while the terrific (and sometimes terrifying) twosome Tarantism wreak havoc with Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes. With his eerie soundscapes, audio- and video-editing wizard Loachfillet wolfs down Little Red Riding Hood; KRoB lurks through the forest with Hansel and Gretel ; Bran(…)Pos rhapsodizes to Rapunzel; and deft soundscapist HeadBoggle crowns King Midas. *$8. Come in your favorite fairy-tale costume to receive a dollar discount!
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Cinema of Transgression
SAT. 10/6 : KILL YR IDOLS + Angelique Bosio’s energized doc Llik Your Idols showcases the Cinema of Transgression amidst NYC’s downtown punk scene of the early 80’s. The 69-min. survey features Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, Richard Hell, Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore, Jack Sargeant, Jarboe, and many others, plus clips of banned underground movies. ALSO fierce sets of shorts from Kern, Zedd, and Leg, and no-wave performances from the likes of James Chance, Judy Nylon, and Tuxedo Moon.
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| Double Vision SAT. 10/13: E X P A N D E D CINEMA SPECTACULAR
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Abstractions on Factions
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| Tales From The Crypt SAT. 10/27: EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR II
BOO! Our annual Halloween horror show boasts the debut of a program curated and introduced by Noel Lawrence: Body-parts of cinema past—silents, grind-house, giallos, Hitchcock, and Karloff—are exhumed, disemboweled, then stitched back together into shockingly new creations of frightful power and monstrous beauty, through fiendishly clever montage and sinister sound design. Featuring Bill Morrison’s Mesmerist (with music by Bill Frisell), Michelle Silva’s Amor Peligrosa, Wago Krieder’s Between 2 Deaths, J.X. Williams’ Psych-Burn, a Damon Packard blow-out, and legions more. Arrive early for free blood-red mulled wine amidst the mournful dirges of Douglas Katelus. Come in costume for tricks and treats! Cooked
up by the Kat’s meow, filmmaker Kerry Laitala stirs her cauldron
of cinemati
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Incredibly Strange Tech SAT. 11/3: CHICKEN JOHN + TESLA + UFOs + COX’ LED BY ZEPPELINS + Science is fiction! SFAI grad-made-good Lance Acord gives back to the City with the local premiere of Tripping the Light Electric, a half-hr. cinematic speculation on Nikola Tesla’s Colorado Springs Coil experiments. David Cox explores the up-and-down history of blimps, in both aviation and cinema, through a multimedia show-and-tell of 16mm film, video, PowerPoint, and floating screens. Jefree Anderson alerts us to late-breaking developments in flying-saucer engineering with his riveting lecture-demo, chock-full of eye-poppers. AND!: Mayoral candidate Chicken John Rinaldi honors us with a campaign appearance just three days before the election, demonstrating his carbon-negative truck, running on coffee grinds while nourishing a mobile flower garden!! A portion of the proceeds goes towards his campaign. PLUS the LIVE psychedelic oscillations of Low Speed Duplicating, Unarius, the UFO anime A Discoid Body in the Sky, and a sneak peek at Baldwin’s Mu. *$9.99
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SAT. 11/10: PRELINGERS' ECOLOGY OF LIBRARIES + PARR + Twin beacons of local enlightenment, Rick and Megan Shaw Prelinger propose a new model for understanding the importance of grassroots collecting and conserving in their multimedia performative essay. Through evocative photos, smart text-graphics, and an intricate double-helix spoken-word duet, the pair advances an urgent argument at this crucial juncture between analog and digital modes. ALSO advocating for a vernacular cultural stewardship, Stephen Parr of the SF Media Archive tips his hat to Raleigh’s A/V Geeks and Pittsburgh’s Orgone Archives in sharing a couple of clips from the new Home Movie Day album, consummated by the 1961 San Francisco in Cinemascope. PLUS Sarah Christman’s Dear Bill Gates, Scott Calonico’s Mondo Intro (exc.), and a section from Prelinger’s Panorama Ephemera, re-tracked by Gino Robair. Bring in your old books for pre-show potlatch, and expect to take some “new” old ones home with you!
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SAT. 11/17: ERIK DAVIS + ISIS AQUARIAN ON FATHER YOD AND THE SOURCE FAMILY Attendant upon the release of Process Media's fascinating volume on the storied SoCal commune, The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family, we welcome authors Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian, editor Jodi Wille, and ex-members of that Family in the flesh! The group grounds a 2 hr. audio-visual survey of the life and times of this seminal ‘60s/‘70s countercultural force in Los Angeles spirituality, music, and lifestyle (their famous restaurant The Source). Literally hundreds of slides, several family home movies and 70s cable access video clips, and numerous Ya Ho Wa 13 musical selections serve as springboards for anecdotes, discussion, and Q&A. OC fave Erik Davis, who wrote the book’s introduction, opens the show with prefatory remarks, framing the cult’s activity within his Visionary State cosmology. *$7.77
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| Tactical Interventions
SAT. 11/24: RADICAL JESTERS + BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE To kick off our 2-week suite on culture-jamming, here’s the premiere of Tim Jackson’s hour-plus celebration of contemporary cultural subversion, a playful parade of street performers, pranksters, and artist-provocateurs who use humor, surprise, and even confusion to agitate against American somnambulism. Their radical tales raise important questions about the media, advertising, public space, surveillance, feminism, and Situationism. Featured are Guerrilla Girls, Billboard Liberation Front, Rev. Billy, Ron English, Bread & Puppet Theater, and the Surveillance Camera Players. PLUS a riot of recent reality-hacking actions from Bryan Boyce, the Yes Men, Institute for Applied Autonomy, et al. Free toast and jam..
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SAT. 12/1: NEGATIVLAND’s OUR FAVORITE THINGS +
Comes now the launch of Negativland’s DVD/CD project, co-produced by Other Cinema Digital and Seeland Records. The albums were created in collaboration with 18 makers from all over the US (and one a cappella group from Detroit). Famous mixes like Gimme the Mermaid, No Business, Time Zones, Guns, Christianity Is Stupid, Drink It Up, Truth in Advertising, and U2: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For serve as audio ground for new visual collages from the likes of Tim Maloney, Harold Boihem, Mike Cousino, RRoom, and James Gladman. Some band members will be in attendance for a short LIVE performance on “boopers,” their homemade feedback oscillators. PLUS the debut of Kembrew McLeod’s Freedom of Expression, a critical doc on intellectual property issues in the contemporary corporate mediascape.*$7.
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SAT. 12/8: SAM GREEN + MARK BRECKE + JAMES HONG + BEN WOOD Our good neighbor Sam is eager to share his plans and progress on his long-form Esperanto-obsessed essay Universal Language. In his media-heavy lecture-demo, the erstwhile maker of Weather Underground and Rainbow Man, along with producer Carrie Lozano, anchor a 40-min. feedback session on the major talking-points of his utopia project, towards developing its salient issues and aesthetic concerns. Resonant with Sam’s theme of international cooperation, Brecke returns to home base after African photo assignments to launch his new book Darfur/Darfur and answer questions about facts on the ground and in world councils. Mr. Hong is circling back too, from Jerusalem, to premiere here his half-hr. political commentary, This Shall Be a Sign, on the architectural threat to the native Palestinian population. Ben Wood, by way of SFAI and MIT, also comes back to deliver a daring video-essay on the shameful erasure of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, engaging with Rivera’s family and former colleagues at the eventual site of Man at the Crossroads in Mexico City. *$7.
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SAT. 12/15: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Here’s an energized evening of new cinematic efforts that champion personal expression and radical form. Constituting the season’s most exploratory programming initiative—and with many of the makers in person—are Martha Colburn’s Don’t Kill the Weatherman, Jesse Lerner’s TSH, Kerry Laitala’s Phantogram, John Leaños’ Deadtime Stories: Mother Goose, Roger Deutsch’s Mario Makes a Movie, David Cox’ Dr. Yes, Vivian Wong’s Kill John Wayne, and Eli Marias/Amos Natkin’s Superstar. ALSO pieces by Yin-Ju Chen,David Marino, Sahar Alsawaf, Robbyn Leonard, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Ben Rivers, Gibbs Chapman, and others TBA. .
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