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Feb 26, 2009, 9:30:09 PM2/26/09
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WHAT: OTHER CINEMA DVD WARMUP - a collaboration between BASEMENT
FILMS, THE GUILD CINEMA & Bryan Konefsky's EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA 4.2.
A series of engaging, lively, provocative & darn interesting movies (9
flicks in 3 weekends!) that range from sub-cultured minded
documentaries to inventive experimental pieces that are a part of a
pre-show event leading up to the OTHER CINEMA BLOWOUT with underground
filmmaker Craig Baldwin in person. NOTE: dvds of the movies will be
for sale at all the screenings
March 7: NEGATIVLAND: OUR FAVORITE THINGS
March 8: SONIC OUTLAWS
March 13: EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1
March 14: THE 70s DIMENSION & EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
March 15: SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT
March 21: TRIBULATION 99 & RAINBOW MAN
March 22: AFRO PROMO
(Full descriptions & showtimes of the individual films at the end of
this email)
OTHER CINEMA (visit their website at www.othercinema.com), a huge
influence on Albuquerque experimental film group Basement Films, is a
long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in
San Francisco's Mission District. They are inspired and sustained by
the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay
and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like
"orphan" industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation,
as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus
reality and the sterility of museum culture.
Whether avant-garde or engagé, the emphasis is on the radical
subjectivities and sub-cultural sensibilities that find expression in
what used to be called "underground cinema".
Their calendars are curated on a semi-annual basis, mostly comprised
of polymorphous group shows--several pieces, in different moving-image
and intermedia formats--organized around a common theme. Almost always
the artist herself appears in person, bringing new work to a energized
microcinema audience opting for the provocative images and ideas only
available in a non-commercial and non-academic salon environment.
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin, with a whole lotta help from
ATA Gallery, Steve Polta, Christine Metropoulos, and others in a core
collective whose commitment has created a space for contemporary
cinematic expression and exchange.
WHERE: GUILD CINEMA 3405 Central NE in the Nob Hill area (2 blocks
west of Carlisle)
HOW MUCH: Only $5 for the afternoon shows, $7 for any evening shows
(for the EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1 & 2 screenings) CASH ONLY!
SPONSOR INFO:
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA: For the past two decades media archeologist
Bryan Konefsky has traveled to the far reaches of the globe collecting
unusual examples of visionary cinema and un-dependent moving image
art. In a very rare public appearance, Bryan Konefsky will share
highlights of his historic media findings with Albuquerque and the
world!! You will be shocked and amazed by cinema produced for less
than $1,000! Marvel at movies that do not feature Tom Cruise or Coca
Cola! Witness film artists who have the audacity to thumb their noses
at Hollywood’s silver screen! Do not miss this program of scandalously
produced short, non-narrative films that do not depend on pyrotechnic
effects or crane shots to tell their stories! An annual international
film & video festival of the un-typical right here in Albuquerque!
BASEMENT FILMS: A non-profit local arts organization whose mission is
to support artists creating under-represented film & video, provide
alternative cinematic experiences for the public, and facilitate
community awareness and dialogue about experimental & under-
represented cinema. Visit www.basementfilms.org .
GUILD CINEMA: Albuquerque's oldest still-running movie theater & its
only single screen independently, locally-owned, year round movie
house showing eclectic cinema (ranging from social/political
documentaries, locally made movies, older repertory cinema,
independent flicks, foreign international cinema to cult & drive in
classics, psychotronic movies, etc. ) 7 days a week. Visit www.guildcinema.com
.
THE ENTIRE FULL LINE-UP
OTHER CINEMA DVD WARMUP BEGINS!
MARCH 7 (SATURDAY): 2pm ONLY
NEGATIVLAND: OUR FAVORITE THINGS
OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-
up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest
hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-
the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the
USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a
collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into
the world of film and video. What emerges is a darkly cracked look at
21st century America, juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power,
weapons, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual
property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon
characters, cleaning products and Jesus. This Albuquerque premiere
screening will be an approx. 90 minutes compilation.
MARCH 8 (SUNDAY): 2pm ONLY
SONIC OUTLAWS
Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and
Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon
the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from
the history of rock music. Craig "Tribulation 99" Baldwin follows this
and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary
arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay
surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of
an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape."Gleefully
Anarchic!" - Janet Maslin, New York Times. "Baldwin conceptualizes
history as a lurid exploitation flick" - J. Hoberman, Village Voice
MARCH 13 (FRIDAY): 11pm
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1
As if by some irresistible compulsion to witness the mortification of
the flesh, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR perversely unearths a celluloid
sarcophagus of horrible, horrible beauty...a phantasmagoria of the
uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre...
Includes:
"Outer Space - Peter Tscherkassky
"Tuning The Sleeping Machine" - David Sherman
"Ursula" - Lloyd M. Williams
"Dawn of An Evil Millennium" - Damon Packard
"Journey Into The Unknown" - Kerry Laitala
"The Virgin Sacrifice" - J.X. Williams
MARCH 14 (SATURDAY): 2pm
THE 70'S DIMENSION
What The 70s Really Looked Like - Curated by Matt McCormick and Morgan
Currie - Time Warp! Here's a media-archaeological treasure trove of
16mm commercials, PSA’s, and TV ephemera from that delirious decade of
polyester and smiley faces. From the classic iconography of the
Marlboro Man to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour
Stretchers", this outrageously retro review of candy-colored clips
offers more than campy fun. In fact, it allows us precious insight
into a lost, impossibly innocent world of fondly remembered
looks,styles, and attitudes, from way back in the good
ol' 20th Century.
MARCH 14 (SATURDAY): 11pm
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
Using crazed camerawork, mesmerizing mise-en-scene, and the alchemy of
experimental technique, a new generation of cine-spooks apply
aesthetic shocks to the rotten corpse of genre convention, re-
animating it into a very contemporary order of horror film — graphic,
ironic, poetic...undead!
Featuring:The Mesmerist - Bill Morrison (with music by Bill Frisell)
The Early 70s Horror Trailer - Damon Packard
Psych-Burn - J.X. Williams
Between 2 Deaths - Wago Kreider
Amor Peligrosa - Michelle Silva
Hold My Scissors - Usama Alshaib
iOpus 5 - Lloyd M. Williams
The Fear - Angel Nieves
She Sank on Shallow Bank - Clifton Childree & Nikki Rollason
MARCH 15 (SUNDAY): 2pm
SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT
A chronicling of a 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. in search of
“trackers” – fanatical collectors of 8-Track tapes, those funky clunky
pre-recorded plastic cartridges from the 70s. Russ Forster and Dan
Sutherland capture over 20 interviews, brimming with reminiscences,
rants, political diatribes, fantasies, fix-it tips, sales pitches, and
everything else that defines the skeptical yet inquisitive mind of the
8-Track enthusiast. More than a film about pop-music nostalgia, it
serves as a statement of outrage from a population of consumers who
are tired of being told what to consume.
MARCH 21 (SATURDAY): 2pm
TRIBULATION 99 and RAINBOW MAN
A delirious vortex of hard truths, deadpan irony, and archival mash-
ups – industrials, graphs, cartoons, movies from Hollywood B to
Mexican Z – Craig Baldwin's TRIBULATION 99 constructs a truly perverse
vision of American imperialism. Rounding out this short feature bill
of apocalyptic paranoi will be Weather Underground Sam Green's RAINBOW
MAN - Rollen Frederick Stewart who achieved notoriety during the late
70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting
events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later - after
he became a born-again Christian - he added a sign reading "John
3:16". "More than an exploration of one life, The Rainbow Man is a
parable about alienation, the media, and the meaninglessness that
often defines American life."
- Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival
MARCH 22 (SUNDAY): 2pm
AFRO PROMO
Beyond mere camp, these marvelously condensed gems crystallize a range
of African-American identities and personalities, tracking the
meteoric careers of Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee
Williams, Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, et al, through their bold
performances in movies both hugely popular and practically
forgotten .Be careful or you just might learn something. “A sometimes
funny, sometimes frightening look at Tinseltown’s presentation of
Blacks.” – Edward Marguiles, Movieline
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/basement-films/web/other-cinema-dvd-warmup?hl=en
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.
FILMS, THE GUILD CINEMA & Bryan Konefsky's EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA 4.2.
A series of engaging, lively, provocative & darn interesting movies (9
flicks in 3 weekends!) that range from sub-cultured minded
documentaries to inventive experimental pieces that are a part of a
pre-show event leading up to the OTHER CINEMA BLOWOUT with underground
filmmaker Craig Baldwin in person. NOTE: dvds of the movies will be
for sale at all the screenings
March 7: NEGATIVLAND: OUR FAVORITE THINGS
March 8: SONIC OUTLAWS
March 13: EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1
March 14: THE 70s DIMENSION & EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
March 15: SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT
March 21: TRIBULATION 99 & RAINBOW MAN
March 22: AFRO PROMO
(Full descriptions & showtimes of the individual films at the end of
this email)
OTHER CINEMA (visit their website at www.othercinema.com), a huge
influence on Albuquerque experimental film group Basement Films, is a
long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in
San Francisco's Mission District. They are inspired and sustained by
the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay
and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like
"orphan" industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation,
as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus
reality and the sterility of museum culture.
Whether avant-garde or engagé, the emphasis is on the radical
subjectivities and sub-cultural sensibilities that find expression in
what used to be called "underground cinema".
Their calendars are curated on a semi-annual basis, mostly comprised
of polymorphous group shows--several pieces, in different moving-image
and intermedia formats--organized around a common theme. Almost always
the artist herself appears in person, bringing new work to a energized
microcinema audience opting for the provocative images and ideas only
available in a non-commercial and non-academic salon environment.
Conceived and stewarded by Craig Baldwin, with a whole lotta help from
ATA Gallery, Steve Polta, Christine Metropoulos, and others in a core
collective whose commitment has created a space for contemporary
cinematic expression and exchange.
WHERE: GUILD CINEMA 3405 Central NE in the Nob Hill area (2 blocks
west of Carlisle)
HOW MUCH: Only $5 for the afternoon shows, $7 for any evening shows
(for the EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1 & 2 screenings) CASH ONLY!
SPONSOR INFO:
EXPERIMENTS IN CINEMA: For the past two decades media archeologist
Bryan Konefsky has traveled to the far reaches of the globe collecting
unusual examples of visionary cinema and un-dependent moving image
art. In a very rare public appearance, Bryan Konefsky will share
highlights of his historic media findings with Albuquerque and the
world!! You will be shocked and amazed by cinema produced for less
than $1,000! Marvel at movies that do not feature Tom Cruise or Coca
Cola! Witness film artists who have the audacity to thumb their noses
at Hollywood’s silver screen! Do not miss this program of scandalously
produced short, non-narrative films that do not depend on pyrotechnic
effects or crane shots to tell their stories! An annual international
film & video festival of the un-typical right here in Albuquerque!
BASEMENT FILMS: A non-profit local arts organization whose mission is
to support artists creating under-represented film & video, provide
alternative cinematic experiences for the public, and facilitate
community awareness and dialogue about experimental & under-
represented cinema. Visit www.basementfilms.org .
GUILD CINEMA: Albuquerque's oldest still-running movie theater & its
only single screen independently, locally-owned, year round movie
house showing eclectic cinema (ranging from social/political
documentaries, locally made movies, older repertory cinema,
independent flicks, foreign international cinema to cult & drive in
classics, psychotronic movies, etc. ) 7 days a week. Visit www.guildcinema.com
.
THE ENTIRE FULL LINE-UP
OTHER CINEMA DVD WARMUP BEGINS!
MARCH 7 (SATURDAY): 2pm ONLY
NEGATIVLAND: OUR FAVORITE THINGS
OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a new DVD/CD release from reigning Kulture Kut-
up Kings Negativland. Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest
hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-
the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the
USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), OUR FAVORITE THINGS is a
collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into
the world of film and video. What emerges is a darkly cracked look at
21st century America, juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power,
weapons, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual
property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon
characters, cleaning products and Jesus. This Albuquerque premiere
screening will be an approx. 90 minutes compilation.
MARCH 8 (SUNDAY): 2pm ONLY
SONIC OUTLAWS
Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and
Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon
the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from
the history of rock music. Craig "Tribulation 99" Baldwin follows this
and other intellectual property controversies across the contemporary
arts scene. Playful and ironic, his cut-and-paste collage-essay
surveys the prospects for an "electronic folk culture" in the midst of
an increasingly commodified corporate media landscape."Gleefully
Anarchic!" - Janet Maslin, New York Times. "Baldwin conceptualizes
history as a lurid exploitation flick" - J. Hoberman, Village Voice
MARCH 13 (FRIDAY): 11pm
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 1
As if by some irresistible compulsion to witness the mortification of
the flesh, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR perversely unearths a celluloid
sarcophagus of horrible, horrible beauty...a phantasmagoria of the
uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre...
Includes:
"Outer Space - Peter Tscherkassky
"Tuning The Sleeping Machine" - David Sherman
"Ursula" - Lloyd M. Williams
"Dawn of An Evil Millennium" - Damon Packard
"Journey Into The Unknown" - Kerry Laitala
"The Virgin Sacrifice" - J.X. Williams
MARCH 14 (SATURDAY): 2pm
THE 70'S DIMENSION
What The 70s Really Looked Like - Curated by Matt McCormick and Morgan
Currie - Time Warp! Here's a media-archaeological treasure trove of
16mm commercials, PSA’s, and TV ephemera from that delirious decade of
polyester and smiley faces. From the classic iconography of the
Marlboro Man to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour
Stretchers", this outrageously retro review of candy-colored clips
offers more than campy fun. In fact, it allows us precious insight
into a lost, impossibly innocent world of fondly remembered
looks,styles, and attitudes, from way back in the good
ol' 20th Century.
MARCH 14 (SATURDAY): 11pm
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
Using crazed camerawork, mesmerizing mise-en-scene, and the alchemy of
experimental technique, a new generation of cine-spooks apply
aesthetic shocks to the rotten corpse of genre convention, re-
animating it into a very contemporary order of horror film — graphic,
ironic, poetic...undead!
Featuring:The Mesmerist - Bill Morrison (with music by Bill Frisell)
The Early 70s Horror Trailer - Damon Packard
Psych-Burn - J.X. Williams
Between 2 Deaths - Wago Kreider
Amor Peligrosa - Michelle Silva
Hold My Scissors - Usama Alshaib
iOpus 5 - Lloyd M. Williams
The Fear - Angel Nieves
She Sank on Shallow Bank - Clifton Childree & Nikki Rollason
MARCH 15 (SUNDAY): 2pm
SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT
A chronicling of a 10,000 mile journey around the U.S. in search of
“trackers” – fanatical collectors of 8-Track tapes, those funky clunky
pre-recorded plastic cartridges from the 70s. Russ Forster and Dan
Sutherland capture over 20 interviews, brimming with reminiscences,
rants, political diatribes, fantasies, fix-it tips, sales pitches, and
everything else that defines the skeptical yet inquisitive mind of the
8-Track enthusiast. More than a film about pop-music nostalgia, it
serves as a statement of outrage from a population of consumers who
are tired of being told what to consume.
MARCH 21 (SATURDAY): 2pm
TRIBULATION 99 and RAINBOW MAN
A delirious vortex of hard truths, deadpan irony, and archival mash-
ups – industrials, graphs, cartoons, movies from Hollywood B to
Mexican Z – Craig Baldwin's TRIBULATION 99 constructs a truly perverse
vision of American imperialism. Rounding out this short feature bill
of apocalyptic paranoi will be Weather Underground Sam Green's RAINBOW
MAN - Rollen Frederick Stewart who achieved notoriety during the late
70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting
events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later - after
he became a born-again Christian - he added a sign reading "John
3:16". "More than an exploration of one life, The Rainbow Man is a
parable about alienation, the media, and the meaninglessness that
often defines American life."
- Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival
MARCH 22 (SUNDAY): 2pm
AFRO PROMO
Beyond mere camp, these marvelously condensed gems crystallize a range
of African-American identities and personalities, tracking the
meteoric careers of Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee
Williams, Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, et al, through their bold
performances in movies both hugely popular and practically
forgotten .Be careful or you just might learn something. “A sometimes
funny, sometimes frightening look at Tinseltown’s presentation of
Blacks.” – Edward Marguiles, Movieline
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/basement-films/web/other-cinema-dvd-warmup?hl=en
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.
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