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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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¡Que Viva México! SAT.
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SAT. 2/22: ANIMAL CHARM LIVE! Hot damn! The dubby duo from down-state is back in Frisco, set to shred some corporate video. Be-wigged and wigged-out as all get out, Rich Bott and Jim Fetterley rip and riff their way through the landfill of VHS detritus, in a decidedly merry send-up of infomercial culture. New single-channel work, including Change, Moving Day, Night Sky, and Computer Smarts precedes an extended scratch-video rave-up à la cabaret. PLUS Marc Moscato’s Compliance Culture, Grady Sain’s Banjo Gyro, and a Davy Force chick’n nugget!
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Flicker
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Mr. Cheek, the prime-mover of the nation-wide Flicker project, rolls into town with fifteen Super-8 films, all edited entirely in camera, and shown in their original 50-foot form (both film- and video-projected). From magical narratives to lawnmower-racing docs to a stop-motion animation version of Gulliver’s Travels, these ingenious pieces celebrate the promise of personal expression through friendly and accessible tech. With all their beauty, and all their mistakes, these simple and resonant works serve to remind us that Super 8 is alive and well.
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Old Films, New Music SAT. 3/15: HANS GRUSEL'S SOUNDS FOR SILENTS
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Films, New Music SAT. 3/22: STARK'S HOME MOVIES MEET THE AVANT-GARDE
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Latexploitation\ SAT. 3/29: BOYREAU'S CANDY VON DEWD + SIMULVISION
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CIA Secrecy SAT. 4/5: GNN VS. CIA + AGEE + SPECULATIVE ARCHIVE Two shots from Stephen Marshall of the Guerrilla News Network set the tone for this program on political espionage, ubiquitous surveillance, and psychological operations. Informed and formally elegant, these pieces pierce the dark heart of the cynical secret agenda of the CIA. Julia Meltzer and her Speculative Archive deliver a 40-min. documentary about the slippery status of historical documentation regarding Agency operations in the Soviet Union, Iran, and Chile. Jacqueline Salloum’s Interview mounts a Playboy interview with Philip Agee in the matrix of digitally reconfigured pin-up girls. PLUS: The Collegians’ revisionist Mondo Ford.
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SAT. 4/12: HOMELAND INSECURITY + Known for their riveting stage seminars that blend testimonials, music, and video, the White Ring sends a decidedly mixed message with their 20-min. Homeland Security performance. Other essays on this anti-war show are Angel Vasquez’ Change of Faith, Steev Hise’s American Business Adventures, Richard Mitchell’s WMD, Mark Boswell’s Agent Orange, and Phil Patiris’ prophetic Iraq Campaign. ALSO: Satirical scritti politti from Bryan Boyce, John Douglas, Eric Salter, Pad McLaughlin, and G.I. Joe parodies!
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Easter
Basketcases Kenneth Anger’s latest, The Man We Want to Hang, is a 15-min. evocation of British occult master Aleister Crowley. ALSO: Ascher/Garon’s Jack Chick-inspired Somebody Goofed, Eric Saks’ The Ark, Shawn Owens’ The Trial of Set, and Donald Wildmon’s The Disney Boycott, a Christian Fundamentalist attack on Walt for his gay-friendly ways! PLUS: Satanic rituals in The Occult, Rock ‘n’ Roll Sorcery (a demonstration of backward-masking in Led Zeppelin songs), Countdown to Armageddon, the Heaven’s Gate recruitment tape, clips from the Ormonds, and our old holy roller Secret Sixes, over flagons of free red wine. Amen!
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Hi-Jinx
SAT. 4/26: FIALKA'S PIXELVISION FEST
That mad McLuhan-ite with a glint in his eye and toy camera in his hand, Gerry Fialka pops in for another fine MESS (Media Ecology Super Session), as he takes the latest edition of his annual PXL THIS FEST on the national circuit. Featured this year are works by Eli Elliott, Michael Possert, Phil Chamberlain, Brian Konefsky, Victoria Gibson, Eugene Gonzalez, Stacy Craft, and Ellen Lake (on the Rubber Band Ball of Guerrero St. fame). Amongst Fialka’s humorous probes and Joycean rants, he’ll unspool his own doc on the camera’s inventor, James Wickstead, and a super-cool SF-shot TV commercial touting the kid- (and artist-) friendly pixelcam.
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SAT. 5/3: ANTI-GLOBALIZATION GUERILLAS
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SAT. 5/10: REBECCA BARTEN + VANESSA RENWICK A 2-woman show, plus Carolyn Cooley in performance! A founder of Total Mobile Home Microcinema who has built up a quirky cinema of small gestures both playful and intellectually complex, Rebecca Barten (in person) debuts her Johnson, a love-letter to a horse friend. ALSO her Angelpuke, Blind Blinks, Vivacissimo, & Bob and Bunuel. The program’s latter part proffers another premiere, Nine Is a Secret, by the prolific Portlander Vanessa (Richart) Renwick. This Northwest nature-lover reiterates our animal theme with Westward Ho, Mine, Crowdog, Stretcher, & Yodeling Lesson. Twisted mountain music from Cooley’s The Darklings sweetens the 8pm reception.
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SAT. 5/17 STEPHEN PARR'S SONIC ODDITIES Brimming with anecdotes and celluloid lore, the Mission’s wiliest raconteur emerges from his media archive with this idiosyncratic program. Parr introduces archival and contemporary shorts with bizarre soundtracks, including educational films (First Americans and Their Gods), commercials (General Motors’ Magic Ride), promotional films (New Sound Inventions), b/w Soundies, and jukebox Scopitones. Highlighting the evening are samples of “sonic chicanery” from today’s underground movie culture that aggressively problematize image/sound relations. |
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SAT. 5/24: LAWRENCE'S MEDICAL MADNESS In the second of a pair of guest-curated curios, here’s Noel Lawrence, back from last year’s Experiments in Terror tour. Included in this provocative mix of avant- (and derrière-) garde works dealing with dysfunctional and violated bodies, is the NorCal debut of Abel Klainbaum’s The History of Choking, a hilarious history of the Heimlich Maneuver, complete with instructional video excerpts and an interview with the good Dr. himself. PLUS Kerry Laitala’s triple-projection Breathing for Others, Igo Kantor’s cult classic Pain and Its Alleviation, Shock, Out of the Ether, and our U.S. Army fave, How to Give an Enema. Oh nurse!
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SAT. 5/31 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS The season is consummated with our semi-annual N.E.W. night, showcasing the latest leaps-forward by the Bay Area’s bravest makers. On the leading edge of the phalanx are Matt Day, Bijan Yashar, Matt McCormick, Gibbs Chapman, Eric Saks, & Aaron Coyes. ALSO: Melinda Stone/ Naomi Uman’s Developing Memory, Mark Street’s Guiding Fictions, Ann Steuernagel’s Skip, Lucas Morrison’s Accident, Kara Hearn’s Convergence, Kerry Laitala’s The Muse of Cinema (35mm!), Patrick Lichty’s A Wristful of Bits (with Holly Hughes), & Simon Tarr’s Sundog Verga Matrix (3D!). PLUS: Film Installations and performances from Eric Thiese, Robbyn Leonard, and KP Rosenthal.
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