"Smother this, New Mexico!"

[Basement Films]

A Basement Films hosted event with local music opening the night,
OUR YEARS WITH LIGHT

Unessential Cinema presents:

SMOTHER THIS, NEW MEXICO! (¡SOFOCAR ESTE, NEW MEXICO!)
WHERE: STOVE, 112 Morningside NE (between Central & Copper)
WHEN: Friday August 29 @ 8pm
HOW MUCH: Only $5

From the vast basement and back alley of New York City’s Anthology
Film Archives comes this panoramic journey through the very bowels of
one of America’s foremost film dumping grounds. Founded in 1968 by
critic and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Anthology is an international center
for the preservation, promotion and presentation of experimental,
independent and avant-garde cinema. While Anthology has preserved
hundreds of rare and classic films, very few know about the literally
thousands of long unseen gems and incomplete productions that have
been collected from trash cans, widowers, deceased laboratories and
total weirdos. Please come join Basement Films alumni Emily Davis and
Anthology dude Andrew Lampert for an evening-length tour of unearthed
reels from our world-renowned basement.

Possible titles may include:
- F**d-up Food
- Student Film Trilogy
- Unknown
- Child With Goat
- Random Surgery
- Hellish Hippie Wedding
- 33 YoYo Tricks
- Orgy At Grandma¹s House
- Double Projection Theater
- And much, much more

Founded in 1968 by filmmaker Jonas Mekas, New York City¹s Anthology
Film Archives is a not-for-profit cinema museum dedicated to the
preservation, promotion and projection of experimental, avant-garde
film and video. Anthology¹s collection contains more than 20,000
films, 5,000 videos and a library containing more than one million
documents. Anthology also operates a 2-screen theater that presents
more than 900 programs annually. To date, Anthology has preserved more
than 700 rare and unique films and continues to do so at a rate of
25-30 titles per year. In addition to these acknowledged masterpieces,
Anthology has a heaping collection of unfinished, unknown, unwanted
and unnecessary films that have been forgotten by both their makers
and time itself. This collection is known as The Unessential Cinema.

As previously mentioned, Andrew Lampert & Emily Davis from the
Anthology Archiving Department will be in person for talk and Q&A!

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/basement-films/web/smother-this-new-mexico?hl=en
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.