From: konrad (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 10:43:53 PST
Thurs. Nov. 29, 8pm
Presented by The Poetry Center and kino21,
from the pages of Viz. Inter-Arts: EVENT
The Cabaret of Hybrid Vigor
Artists Television Access
992 Valencia at 21st St.
San Francisco
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=2650
http://www.kino21.org/
http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/
Live film narration by
o Maxine Chernoff/Paul Hoover to Point Blank (1967),
o Norma Cole/Mac McGinnes to Judex (1963),
Poetry films, two WORLD PREMIERES
o "Aliengnosis" by Robert Gluck/DeanSmith (new version)
o "no(h) - setting" by Leslie Scalapino/Konrad Steiner
Performances and event scores
o Tristan Tzara's THE ADMIRAL LOOKS FOR A HOUSE TO RENT
o several fluxus event scores will be enacted and
conducted by Dore Bowen, Roxi Hamilton and others
TBA (maybe YOU)
Projections
o Fluxfilms, and
o a video gem extracted from the American Poetry Archives
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December 3, 2007, 8 pm
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)
http://www.redcat.org/
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
THE CINEMA CABARET:
NEO-BENSHI LIVE FILM NARRATION
8:00 pm $15/$12/$8
"Neo-benshi at its best mashes up subversive written
scripts, deft acting, and acrobatic mind-eye
coordination."
-- Steve Dickison, The Poetry Center, SFSU
Poets from Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York
offer a fresh take on the Japanese tradition of
"benshi"-a writer or actor who provides live narration
and commentary alongside silent films. The neo-benshi
concept invites writers/performers to choose scenes
from well-known narrative features or TV shows, mute
the soundtrack, and re-inscribe the familiar images
with new meanings.
Featuring scenes from:
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Poison (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958)
Vive L'Amour (Ai qing wan sui, 1994)
Uzumaki (2000)
Minority Report (2002)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Satyricon (1969)
re-interpreted live from the stage by 8 solo benshi:
Nada Gordon, Roxi Power Hamilton, Jen Hofer,
Douglas Kearney, Eileen Myles, Jennifer Nellis,
Konrad Steiner and Stephanie Young
^Z
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