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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. |
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That's Scentertainment!! SAT.
2/9: DAVID YONGE'S SMELL-O-VISION
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Valentine's
Day Soirée
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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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WTC
Tragedy
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
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Subterranean
Cinema SAT. 3/16: SHERMAN'S BEATNIK "TO RE-EDIT THE WORLD" +
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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 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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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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