| 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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Cut-Out Angst SAT.
9/16: ANXIOUS ANIMATION RELEASE PARTY
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Telling
Topographies
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States It’s no surprise that California's spiritual landscape is as diverse as its natural surroundings. Acclaimed cultural critic Erik Davis’ 45-min. slideshow, The Visionary State, weaves voice and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness, from neo-paganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism. Davis brings together the immigrant and homegrown religious influences, part of the region's character from its earliest days, drawing connections between seemingly unlike traditions and celebrating the diversity of California's spiritual composition. Michael Rauner's evocative photographs depict the sites and structures where these traditions have taken root and flourished. PLUS Aron Ranen’s peripatetic journey to discover the secret history of psychedelics, with appearances by Ram Dass, Paul Krassner, and MK-ULTRA experts (and victims). |
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Lampoons
and Eye-tunes
SAT. 10/7: BRYAN BOYCE'S CULT JAMS + MUSIC VIDEOS + San Francisco-based videomaker Bryan Boyce finds equal inspiration in the absurdity of American politics and the expansive visual possibilities of music. In this, his first major retrospective, he introduces a playful portfolio of shorts celebrating the darkly comic antics of the conservative media circus, as well as the ways in which music can act as a sounding board for explorations of the image. In addition to several premieres, the program features the Dick Cheney-Scarface mash-up, America’s Biggest Dick, George Bush’s invasion of Teletubby-land in State of the Union, and energized compositions featuring the music of Tin Hat Trio, 20-Minute Loop, and Jondi & Spesh. BONUS ATTRACTION! Doors open at 8pm for this pop tartist’s reception AND the concurrent launch of the new DVD, Golden Digest, from kindred found-video pranksters Animal Charm!
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| The Psychedelic Pixel SAT. 10/14: BOYCE + PENUELA + PAPERRAD + FORCEFIELD In
two blocks of eye-poppin’ cathode-fucks, OC has
invited the Bay Area’s leading exponents of exploratory
image-processing. Anchoring the program is mash-up superhero Nate
Boyce, an avatar of the analog video synthesizer. In the hour
ramping up to his live A/V performance, Nate
shares his early influences from the ‘60s, ‘70s,
and ‘80s: Paul Sharits, Stan Vanderbeek,
Tom Dewitt, Ernie Gusello, Vivica Sorensen, Ed Emschwiller, Takeshi
Murata, the Vasulkas, and more. For the half-hr.
set following intermission, the promising progenitor of Television
for Ghosts, Shalo Peñuela, similarly
embeds his own work within a field of contemporary cyberdelic practitioners:
PaperRad, Forcefield, Johnny Rogers, and others. Psychonauts
prepare for retinal overload with our gallery’s new video projector!
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War-Gaming
In The New World Order |
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| Fright Night! SAT. 10/28: LAITALA'S HALLOWEENSPOOKTACULAR
Cooked up by the Kat’s meow, filmmaker Kerry Laitala stirs her cauldron of cinematic treats to offer a spine-tingling spook frolic of scary shorts in our annual celebration of All-Hallow’s Eve. Those who dare to enter our haunted house will be delightfully frightened by the Mistress Kat’s eerie ambience of vintage sound-effects vinyl, whilst a phantasmagoria of lurid 16mm imagery dances devilishly across our screen. Sorceress’ apprentice Katherin McGinnis slithers through the assembled Guignol enthusiasts with a litany of horror shorts, including Mary Ellen Bute’s Spook Sports, Clifton Childree’s She Sank on Shallow Bank, David Cox’ Dr. Yes, Scott Beach’s World of Wax, excerpts from the Addams Family, Psychorama, and the jaw-dropping slow-mo driver’s-ed grotesque, The Day I Died. After a few of the Kat’s own gothic film-poems, the show grinds to a gruesome end with the climactic reel of Robert Gaffney’s Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster. Mulled wine for all souls! Cooked
up by the Kat’s meow, filmmaker Kerry Laitala stirs her cauldron
of cinemati
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Sublime Frequencies SAT. 11/4: SUMATRAN FOLK CINEMA + MOROCCO: MUSICAL BROTHERHOODS Alan Bishop and Mark Gergis introduce two of the newer titles in the Sublime Frequencies catalogue, a refreshing hybrid of ethnography, travelogue, and field recordings, made possible with lightweight cameras and increased access to indigenous cultures. The hr-long Sumatran collage constitutes a cultural kaleidoscope of the sounds and images from that Indonesian island. Minang orchestras, Dangdut rock music, regional television, and night market scenes share space with a segment of pre-tsunami Bandah Aceh, recorded by David Martinez. Hisham Mayet’s hr.-long Morocco: Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway affords an assortment of musical dramas, live and unfiltered, on the home turf of the world’s most dynamic string/drum specialists…ecstatic performances for string aficionados of electric ouds, banjos, mandolins, and the gnawa sentir. Come early, meet the makers, and immerse yourself in a sumptuous, transporting music and food mix. |
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SAT. 11/11: SNIDER'S 3-D DIMENSIONAL BODIES + KRIST + Greta Snider circles back to our gallery with a compelling new mode of documentary: Stereoscopic portraits of individuals talking intimately about their own bodies. In collaboration with Johunna Grayson, these revealing personal profiles invite us into an unprecedented encounter with private choices about gender, sexuality, and modification, guided by the subjects’ own voices. ALSO on the program is the live-cinema performance of Lee Krist, hand-cranking his hand-processed 35mm motion pictures, towards an enhanced sensuality of the photochemical craft. The evening opens with an expansive survey of Snider’s experimental landscape slides, DIY-developed through an exquisite aesthetic of alchemical poetry.
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SAT. 11/18: SKOLLER ON HONG + BLOCKADE + UCB film critic Jeffrey Skoller, personally explicates the major insights of his new book Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. He mobilizes critical concepts to frame a discussion about four movies—all premieres!—that narrate mid-20th century history through novel cinematic forms. Defending his 20-min. The De-Nazification of MH, James Hong will touch on issues of historical revisionism and political agency. Visiting from Berlin, Sylvia Schedelbauer also demonstrates, in her own way, a decidedly personal approach to historiography in the instance of her Memories, a stark encounter with her own family’s post-war story. Hito Steyerl’s November traces the radical passage of feminist filmmaker to Kurdish martyr. Grounding the program is Sergei Loznitza’s truly chilling Blockade, a 50-min. war-footage compilation from the siege of Leningrad, uncannily materialized as living experience through a tour-de-force Foley strategy.
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Island SAT. 11/25: KAIJU! GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK!! A mutant subculture growing out of post-war Japanese monster movies has finally taken hold in America —with a vengeance! Our wise-crackin’ expert on Japanese popular culture Patrick (“Tiger on Beat”) Macias faces off with Australian enthusiast David Cox in a clip-happy celebration of this bizarre rubber fetish. Macias, in town to tout his new tome Otaku in U.S.A., comes fully loaded with over two hours of carefully selected battle scenes, to flood the imaginations of the most spectacle-craving kaijuphiles. Certainly the figure of Godzilla is a featured topic—including his legendary 1954 debut—but this discourse on colossal creatures additionally covers Mothra, Gamera, Gigan, Rodan, Hedorah, King Ghidora, and legions more. As a special bonus, Macias smuggles in the shiny new Ultraman box-set, sharing favorite moments of hilarity and destruction between shots of sake at the geisha bar.
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SAT. 12/2: PRELINGER'S INDUSTRIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FILMS: A FIELD GUIDE
Indubitably the world’s leading expert on industrial films, Mr.
Rick Prelinger graces our gallery once again with selections
from this new encyclopedia published by the National Film Preservation
Foundation. Drawing from a life spent slaving in the archives,
Rick’s commentary provides fascinating historical
context for these magnificent educational-film artifacts. Projected
in both video and 16mm, his program
does justice to this relatively new branch of film archaeology, while
also providing for a richly engaging cinema experience. Among the recovered
specimens are Your Name Here; Why Not Live?; A Is for Atom;
Once Upon a Honeymoon; and Ask Me, Don’t
Tell Me. PLUS Megan Prelinger-Shaw’s Cabinet of Curiosities. |
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SAT. 12/9: ALFONSO ALVAREZ + OVERDUB CLUB + SCRATCH FILM JUNKIES With their hand-printed, toned, and processed direct-animation images from both camera and trash bin, cinemagicians Thad Povey and recent Phelan awardee Alfonso Alvarez bring back their wall of 16mm projections, this time with an expanded Overdub Club line-up: Suki O’Kane on vibes and drums joins Lucio Menegon with his electric six-string sonics and loops. The opening set showcases the work of Bay Area stalwart Alvarez, whose award is certainly warranted by decades of optically-printed cine-poetry. PLUS the newest from the SFJ collective, To the Beat. Note special admission: $6. |
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SAT. 12/16: NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS For our semi-annual N.E.W. night, we’re cookin’ up a visual feast of film and video delicacies, with many of the chefs here in our kitchen! Among the artistes servin’ up the eye candy, and offerin’ food for thought, are Yin-Ju Chen, Matt Day, Enid Blader, and Vanessa Renwick. ALSO David Cox’ To-get-her, Vicki Bennett’s Remote Controller, Kyle Silfer’s Pellucid World, Diane Nerwin’s FUH2, and others TBA. The evening—and season itself—climaxes with Damon Packard’s half-hr. comedy-of-errors Lost in the Thinking. PLUS plenty of holiday goodies! |
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