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Welcome to the Fall 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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Guerilla Visuals SAT.
9/7:
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Save
Our Sign!
SAT.
9/14: 17 REASONS SIGN-RAISING +
CARLOS GUITARLOS + Urban archeologists from SF Historic Preservation Coalition and the SF Media Archive personally host this benefit to save the Mission's legendary 17 Reasons sign, illegally leveled last May. The celebratory mix of film, video, and live performance boasts Dorsky's eponymous city-symphony, Winiemko/Wyman's Enjoy, and Majano's Calle Chula. ALSO Bruno on the Musée Mecanique and Bartel on the Fox Theater, plus contributions from Jenny Olsen, Gibbs Chapman, Steve Yamane, and THEE Mission's musician Carlos Guitarlos! AND home movies, historical oddities, and Joe Goode's swan-song.
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Suburban
Dystopias
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Playing
Public Space
OC welcomes back erstwhile staffer Sarah (Fat of the Land) Lewison with the eagerly anticipated NorCal launch of the now-international A-Clips initiative: Situationist PSA's bumped from DV to 35mm for insertion into theatrical rotation. ALSO: Brad Vanderburg's metalhead-librarians Bloodhag, Matt McCormick's SFIFF award-winner on graffiti-removal, Kyle Henry's hit on the new Times Square, plus other creative "urban interventions" from Rev. Billy Talen, Rodney Ascher, Eric Saks, Patrick Nguyen, Archimedia, the Surveillance Camera Players, and the debut of Andy Cox's Will Work to Defeat Capitalism. At end, a session for those who want to kick-start an SF A-Clip project.
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Schiz Wiz SAT. 10/5: WESLEY WILLIS AS THE DADDY OF ROCK 'N'ROLL +
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Sampled
Silly SAT. 10/12: PEOPLE LIKE US + WOBBLY +
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Attack of Thee Psychedlic\ SAT. 10/19: ERIK DAVIS TRIPS OUT!
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Pantheistic Panorama SAT. 10/26: MODERN PAGANS Paragons of punk publishing, V Vale and Marian Wallace appear in the flesh with their recent volume on the modern pagan subculture. They'll do a live interview with one of the witches, and present Wallace's ½-hr. movie journal, that includes visits with Earth First's Darryl Cherney, Thorn Coyle, Morning Glory Ravenheart, Genesis P. Orridge, and many others. Charles Gatewood is also on-hand to showcase some of his video subjects. PLUS: George Kuchar's Spawn of the Pagan is heralded by a live fire ritual!
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SAT. 11/2: AVANT-HORROR BY COLBURN + LAITALA + SHERMAN + OC curator Noel Lawrence unveils a perverse program of torture-chamber-pieces that will consummate our Halloween week. Featured is Skelehellavision, the new, nude, and naughty shocker from our evil-spiritual cousin Martha Colburn. ALSO: David Sherman's Tuning The Sleeping Machine, a sublime reverie on the emulsified ghosts of cinema past. AND Kerry Laitala's gothic-optical Journey into the Unknown, a hand-made murder meditation. PLUS: Williams' own The Virgin Sacrifice, Rodney Ascher's Bride of Ozzy, clips from horror-film history, and free mulled wine. Come in costume!
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Expanded
Cinema Dueling/dueting projectionists Alfonso Alvarez and Thad Povey return with Rev. Screamin' Fingers to mount a new mixed media masterpiece, Nightsoil. Also "performing her projector" is Melinda Stone with her hand-cranked Fresh (35mm!). PLUS: J.X. Williams' vertiginous Mystery 3D Theatre, Pad McGlaughlin's triple-dimension joyride StereoScopophilia, enacting experiments in retinal rivalry. AND media-archeology diggins from Max Fleischer, Jordan Belson, Martha Colburn, Matt Day, Stephen Parr, Spike Jones, and others.
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Punishment
SAT. 11/16: WOBBLIES PAST AND PRISONS PRESENT
Two SF premieres on class power!! Travis Wilkerson's poetic film essay An Injury to One addresses the suppression of the International Workers of the World union through the lens of the infamous hanging of organizer Frank Little in Wilkerson's hometown, the Anaconda-run Butte, Montana. ALSO: Juliana Fredman/Jim Davis' Safety Orange, a 45-min. video discourse on the hypertrophy of the prison industry, a symptom, they argue, of a class-based police state. PLUS Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers/Christian Parenti's astute analysis of resource waste in consumer culture. |
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SAT. 11/23: JON MORITSUGU'S SCUMROCK + Frisco's
resident lord of Loser Chic has
entered the ATA building to personally
introduce not 1 but 2 shows (8:30
& 10) of his eagerly anticipated
Hi-8 feature! An epic that
sprawls across West Coast rock music
and underground movies, this no-budget
"dirty soap opera" dishes up broad
cultural burlesque reminiscent of
John Waters and the Brothers
Kuchar. With music from Mel
Davis, Toni Ann, J-Church, and
Casiotone for the Painfully
Alone, this punk melodrama pushes
drink specials during an opening
set by Sammy Davis & Joey
Heatherton. |
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SAT. 11/30: CULTURE-JAM + BILLBOARD LIBERATION FRONT + Jack Napier and the BLF in fact present us with a gift for their 25th anniversary: Two screenings (8:30 & 10) of Jill Sharpe's (tentatively in attendance) energized hour survey of anti-advertising pranksters, including Rev. Billy Talen, Toronto's Carly Stasko, and OC's very own Craig Baldwin. The evening's second show boasts the 25-min. WTO mockery The Horribly Stupid Stunt…, by the ®™ark-affiliated Yes Men, as well as Aron Ranen's Tow Truck Driver. Supporting both programs are new shorts by Bryan Boyce (World's Fair Film), Eric Saks, Negativland, Rroom, and Paul Harvey Oswald. Free toast and jam!
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SAT. 12/7: MOMOTARO +UN GA NAI (BAD LUCK) + On Pearl Harbor Day, editors from the U.S. office of Viz Com, Carl Horn and Kit Fox, frame a double-header on Japanese trauma, both physical and psychological, mid-century and fin de siècle. Jad Fair's Half-Japanese provides the original track for the West Coast premiere of Christophe Draeger and Martin Frei's Bad Luck, a 40-min. rumination on a nation agonized by the spectre of mass destruction-the subway-poisoning Aum Shinrikyo cult, earthquake simulations, Hiroshima, and other terrors. PLUS the very first long-form anime, produced by the Imperial Navy in the last year of WWII, to bolster national identification with the military effort. |
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SAT. 12/14: SACHS' FLAME+ BRECKE + SKOLLER + Ex-Mission denizen Lynne Sachs returns with her award-winning experimental doc on Vietnam-era war resisters, Investigation of a Flame. This timely revisitation with the Catonsville Nine (including the still-active Berrigan brothers) offers perspectives and possible strategies for conscientious objection to a U.S. military on permanent war status. ALSO: Mark Brecke's War As a Second Language, a video mix of original Super-8 footage, 35mm stills, and archival audio; Jeffrey Skoller's The Promise of Happiness, on Modernist social utopias; and Victoria Gamburg's (in person) portrait, Right Road Lost. |
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SAT. 12/21 NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS Closing the calendar year with an expansive group-show of new film, video, and performance works, mostly from Area makers, many in person: For the third time this season, Martha Colburn premieres a new film, added to other debuts from Alfonso Alvarez, Thad Povey, Matt McCormick, Animal Charm, J.X. Williams, Kerry Laitala, and Melinda Stone (with Naomi Uman). ALSO: Lori Surfer's Celluloid Deviant, Cheryl Park's Badass, and Natalija Vekic's Girl With the Pearl Suspended. PLUS recent pieces by McGuire, Barten, Abate, Davis, Miller, Polta, KPR, & Folstein's live music to his scratch-film, Hayes Valley High. |
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