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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Heather's Short Shorts: Rockabilly, Bluegrass and Honky-Tonk Hits [May 3, Chicago, Illinois]
* Calarts Film/Video Showcase, Film and video Showcase [May 3, Los Angeles, California]
* Skoller's Promise of Happiness [May 3, San Francisco, California]
* Rare Classics: Essential visual Music [May 4, Brisbane, Australia]
* Filmforum Presents Southern California video Artists, Part 2: Bruce &
Norman Yonemoto [May 4, Los Angeles, California]
* Mania Akbari, 10 + 4 (Dah Be Alaveh Chabar) [May 5, Los Angeles, California]
* All That Heaven Allows [May 6, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Action News [May 7, Brooklyn, New York]
* Fortune [May 7, Roswell, NM]
* The Rock & Roll Picture Show [May 8, Columbus, Ohio]
* Diversions: A Festival of Experimental Film and video [May 8, Edinburgh, Scotland]
* Berks Area Film & video Show: Makers In Person [May 8, Reading, Pennsylvania]
* Oko Jumu: Bulbs, Stark, Grzinich [May 9, Austin, TX]
* South Asian Shorts Program [May 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* Carbuncle Back By Popular Demand [May 9, Echo Park]
* "Wooden Nickels and 2-Dollar Bills" An Evening of Lies, Falsehoods and
Phonies [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* “Chicano: Brown and Proud” Screens At Oddball Films [May 9, San Francisco, California]
* Fortune [May 10, Albuquerque, NM]
* Dyke Delicious Series 5: Invisible Women (In Front of and Behind the
Camera) [May 10, Chicago, Illinois]
* Carbuncle Back By Popular Demand [May 10, Echo Park]
* Jesse Lerner's F Is For Phony [May 10, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008
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5/3
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
HEATHER’S SHORT SHORTS: ROCKABILLY, BLUEGRASS AND HONKY-TONK HITS
Curated and Hosted by Heather McAdams "Being a die-hard country music
fan and an avid 16mm film collector, it only made sense that I would
begin to seek out the legends of honky-tonk on 16mm film. In addition to
finding a few classic Snader Soundies, I have been able to collect some
of the most amazing songs from vintage Television Shows like Ranch
Party, The Country Show and Country Caravan, as well as extracting songs
from country music feature films such as The Road To Nashville and Las
Vegas Hillbillies. On this special night I am very excited to share the
very best of my collection, all projected on 16mm film for maximum
viewing pleasure! This evening's lineup is star studded and includes:
Johnny Cash + the Tennessee Two, The Collins Kids, The Stonemans, Wanda
Jackson, George Jones, Stringbean, Bob Wills, Hank Snow, Whispering Bill
Anderson, Carl Perkins, Porter Wagoner, The Osborne Brothers, Bill
Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Justin Tubb, Johnny + Jack and more! Get ready for
bumper-to-bumper entertainment as this will truly be as close as you get
to experiencing what it was like to see these legends of country in
person, many of whom are now deceased. Grab your boots and bring your
friends!" –Heather McAdams Curator Heather McAdams and her hillbilly
husband Chris Ligon will be present to introduce the show and answer any
of your questions.
5/3
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASE, FILM AND VIDEO SHOWCASE
The School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of new live-action
works by students in the Program in Film and Video and the Film
Directing Program. Free admission
5/3
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
SKOLLER'S PROMISE OF HAPPINESS
In conjunction with thousands of other tributes across the globe, our
homage to the revolutionary fervor of 40 years ago is here focused on
the Vietnamese War of Liberation. Jeffrey Skoller's 35-min. meditation
on the Southeast Asian nation four decades after the Tet Offensive
affords a complex sense of the Revolution's success. In person, Skoller
unfolds his themes of utopia, democracy, and disappointment, in
thoughtful opening remarks and engaged Q&A. Rhapsodizing on similar
issues of national independence, but in dramatic stylistic contrast,
Santiago Alvarez's half-hr. 79 Springtimes of Ho Chi Minh is an
acknowledged masterwork of Cuban cinema that advances anti-imperialist
solidarity ever so artfully. Supporting this pair of poetic political
essays are a passel of topical shorts: the U.S. Army's Know Your Enemy,
Mark Brecke's War as a Second Language (trailer), Bill Daniel/Warren
Haack's SSSS, and Travis Wilkerson's National Archives.
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SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2008
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5/4
Brisbane, Australia: Australian Cinematheque
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/cinematheque/current_programs/visual_music
3 pm, Australian Cinematheque, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art
RARE CLASSICS: ESSENTIAL VISUAL MUSIC
From German pioneers to light show psychedelia to experimental animation
classics — rare films and preserved prints from the Center for Visual
Music archive. Premiere of new CVM Program, all 16mm unless noted. Oskar
Fischinger, R-1 ein Formspiel, c.1926–1933 (single panel version); Tanz
der Farben (Dance of the Colours), Hans Fischinger, 1939; Dockum
Mobilcolor Performance at the Guggenheim, Charles Dockum, 1952 (with
assistance of Ted Nemeth and Mary Ellen Bute); Demonstration of
Mobilcolor Projector and Performance Films, both by Charles Dockum,
1966; Early Abstractions, Film No. 3, Harry Smith, 1949; Muntz TV
Commercial, Oskar Fischinger, 1952; Mood Contrasts, Mary Ellen Bute,
1953; Cibernetik 5.3, John Stehura, 1960–65, on PAL DVD; Turn, Turn,
Turn, Jud Yalkut, 1966; Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show Film,
1971, Film Document of Light Show Performance by Peter Mays, Jeffrey
Perkins, Michael Scroggins, Jon Greene, Larry Janss and Rol Murrow,
including film footage by David Lebrun, Pat O'Neill and John Stehura;
Tanka, David Lebrun, 1976; Celebration, Jules Engel, 1978; 3 Arctic
Flowers, Jules Engel, 1978; Mobiles, Jules Engel, 1978. Program curated
and provided by Center for Visual Music. All films from the collection
of CVM, many preserved with support from The National Film Preservation
Foundation. Thanks to the Fischinger Archive, Cecile Starr and The
Women's Independent Film Exchange, Anthology Film Archives and the
individual filmmakers and estates. Screened as part of the Australian
Cinematheque's Visual Music series, March-June 2008.
5/4
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00 pm, Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas
FILMFORUM PRESENTS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VIDEO ARTISTS, PART 2: BRUCE &
NORMAN YONEMOTO
In conjunction with the Getty's California video exhibition, Filmforum
highlights the work of video makers whose work cries out for more
exhibition – significant pieces by fine artists of their media. Tonight,
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto present work from the 1980s to 2007, including
Vault (1984), Blinky (1988), Kappa (1986), Sounds Like the Sound of
Music (2005), Papa (2006). General admission $9, students/seniors $6,
free for Filmforum members. http://lafilmforum.wordpress.com. The
Egyptian Theatre has a validation stamp for the Hollywood & Highland
complex. Park 4 hours for $2 with validation.
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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008
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5/5
Los Angeles, California: Redcat
http://www.redcat.org/
8pm, 631 W. 2nd St
MANIA AKBARI, 10 + 4 (DAH BE ALAVEH CHABAR)
West Coast premiere Iran, 2007, 77 min., Beta SP After casting painter
and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his
groundbreaking Ten (2002), and then witnessing her outstanding debut as
a feature film director in 20 Fingers (2004), Abbas Kiarostami urged
Akbari to direct a sequel to Ten. In Dah be alaveh Chahar (10 + 4),
though, circumstances are different: Mania is fighting cancer. She has
undergone surgery; she has lost her hair following chemotherapy and no
longer wears the compulsory headscarf; and sometimes she is too weak to
drive. So the camera follows her to record conversations with friends
and family in different spaces, from a gondola to a hospital bed.
Treading an elegant line between documentary and fiction, Akbari takes a
daring look at complex social situations that arise in the face of
mortality—and emerges with a new zest for life.
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TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2008
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5/6
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS
All that Heaven Allows (1955, 89 min.) by DOUGLAS SIRK. one of the most
inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Hollywood…. The story
(which Rainer Werner Fassbinder remade as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)
concerns a romance between "A masterpiece (1955) by a middle-aged,
middle-class widow (Jane Wyman) and a brawny young gardener (Rock
Hudson)--the stuff of a standard weepie, you might think, until Sirk's
camera begins to draw a deeply disturbing, deeply compassionate portrait
of a woman trapped by stifling moral and social codes. Sirk's meaning is
conveyed almost entirely by his mise-en-scene--a world of glistening,
treacherous surfaces, of objects that take on a terrifying life of their
own; he is one of those rare filmmakers who insist that you read the
image." -Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2008
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5/7
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
ACTION NEWS
Light Industry interrupts its regularly scheduled programming to host
Action News. Presented by Small Change, this special screening of
experimental film and video from Philadelphia, plus a live performance
or two, features work by Sarah Christman, Dave Dunn, Ted Passon, Mark
Price, Michael Robinson, Ryan Trecartin, Chris Ward, and Andrew Jeffrey
Wright. Tommy Chat Just Emailed Me Ryan Trecartin, video, 2006, 7 mins
Trecartin's fantastical video narratives seem to be conjured from a
fever dream. Collaborating with an ensemble cast of family and friends,
the 26 year old Trecartin merges sophisticated digital manipulations
with footage from the Internet and pop culture, animations, and wildly
stylized sets and performances. Hairdryers/Blue Pumpkins Chris Ward,
video, 2008, 4 mins Lost souls lead viewers to hidden places that only
starlight children can navigate. Private Dance Movie Chris Ward, video,
2008, 4 mins Metaphysical workout video with found footage echto-grams.
Dear Bill Gates Sarah Christman, 16mm/video, 2006, 17 mins A simple
correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the
ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and
archival film, video and images from the internet, Dear Bill Gates draws
unexpected connections among mining, memory, and Microsoft. Ich Bin Ein
Manipulator Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Clare E. Rojas, 16mm, 2003, 6 mins
Fashion magazines are improved with the help of white-out and magic
markers in this sequel to the original Manipulators. White Bear, Brown
Tail Andrew Jeffrey Wright, video, 2001, 1 min An animation about what's
inside us all. Light Is Waiting Michael Robinson, video, 2007, 11 mins A
very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the
inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea.
Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy
neither can survive. Throws David Dunn, video, 2006, 3 mins Made using a
CVS disposable video camera. Tree David Dunn, video, 2005, 5 mins Every
fall since 2002 I have shot video in the tree outside of my parent's
house. This is footage from 2005. Dopeness Ted Passon, video, 2007, 2
mins Music video for Philly rap group Plastic Little, featuring MC
Nobody's Child (aka Kurt Hunte) as a pop-locking doctor who makes his
rounds amidst dancing nurses and patients. Finger Bangin Ted Passon,
video, 2005, 6 mins This music video for the Philly-based pop-dance band
Sweatheart, stars Andrew Jeffrey Wright as a dedicated high school
teacher trying to teach his students about finger banging. "Remember,
God gave some of us wangs, but he gave all of us fingers." Space 1026
Ted Passon, Super-8/16mm, 2007, 21 mins A portrait of a community of
artists and the building in Philadelphia that anchors them together.
Comprised of over ten years worth of documentation this short (with
plans to be eventually not as short) examines the challenges and
successes of artists with little resources trying to create a work space
that would later unexpectedly flourish into a community space. Followed
by a performance by Cars Will Burn, a mountain of noise and light
constructed and harnessed by Mark Price.
5/7
Roswell, NM: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8pm?, Roswell Artist In Residence program
FORTUNE
What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What do we
need to know about the present? Live cinema performers, Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more, on tour stops throughout the
U.S. Southwest and West Coast in May 2008. Traveling by train, this pair
of itinerant fortune-tellers will probe the collective subconscious of
audiences from Albuquerque to Seattle, and on many stops in between.
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern
show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a
collective fortune-telling experience, and presenting the results in
music, sound and moving image. The Fortune tour is made possible in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008
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5/8
Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts
http://www.wexarts.org
7 pm, 1871 N. High St.
THE ROCK & ROLL PICTURE SHOW
Since the release of Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING in 1963, rock music
has been an important influence on some of the key avant-garde
filmmakers of our age. By marrying preexisting songs with radical
experiments in imagery or narrative without subordinating the importance
of either element, these artists of the moving image were able to travel
far beyond traditional notions of the promotional music video. Tonight's
program includes --- ------- (Thom Andersen & Malcolm Brodwick,
1966-67), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE (Ben Russell, 2007),
FRIENDLY WITNESS (Warren Sonbert, 1989), SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger,
1963), THE STAIRWAY AT ST. PAUL'S (Jeroen Offerman, 2003), TULIPA (Karo
Goldt, 2008), TWO HOURS TO ZERO (Lewis Klahr, 2004) and more! (app. 100
mins., 35mm, 16mm, video)
5/8
Edinburgh, Scotland: Diversions Film Festival
http://www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk
6pm , Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road
DIVERSIONS: A FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO
Edinburgh's first festival of experimental film and video. 8-11 May
2008. Over fifty short, medium and feature-length films. Historical
classics plus new works from Britian, France, Finland and the US.
Special guests PETER ROSE, Frédérique Devaux, Pip Chodorov, Sami van
Ingen, Al Rees, David Curtis. Special focus on May '68 and New York.
5/8
Reading, Pennsylvania: Berks Filmmakers.Inc
http://www.berksfilmmakers.org
7:30, Abright College
BERKS AREA FILM & VIDEO SHOW: MAKERS IN PERSON
Recent works in various moving-image media by regional film/video
artists and students. Makers will be present to introduce their work.
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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008
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5/9
Austin, TX: Oko Jumu
http://www.hi-beam.net/okojumu
9pm, Ballet Austin, 501 W. 3rd St. & San Antonio
OKO JUMU: BULBS, STARK, GRZINICH
A trio of avant garde film, music and performance artists will present
their work in a lively and provocative evening of sight and sound in
Austin's first-ever Oko Jumu show. The phrase Oko Jumu, pulled from
Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With A Thousand Faces, is the name that
the Andamanese call a person that has either come near death, spent time
alone in the jungle to talk with spirits, or talked to spirits in a
dream. Performances will include: Bulbs. This two-person band, comprised
of beating-around-the-bush drummer William Sabiston and ultra-processed
guitar jabber Jon Almaraz, plays infective, minimalist rhythms against
seductively disorienting melodies. Website: www.aphidtrip.com. Scott
Stark. The prolific Austin-based film and video artist, who recently
presented his work in the Austin Film Society's Avant Cinema series,
will present W, a super-8mm film using three projectors side-by-side to
create a mesmerizing triptych of abstract shapes and sensual sounds.
Parental discretion advised (brief strong language). Website:
www.scottstark.com. Tom Grzinich. The enigmatic Austin sound artist will
build a thrashing soundscape of droning audio, leave the theater to
smash a car, and return to make "piano soup."
5/9
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:00 pm, 5243 N. Clark St.
SOUTH ASIAN SHORTS PROGRAM
Co-presented by 3rd I From art-house classics to documentary films, from
innovative and experimental visions to next-level Bollywood: 3rd I is
committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through
independent film. The group, who's national chapter is based out of San
Francisco, showcases films from and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, the Maldives and the global South Asian
Diaspora. On this evening, 3rd I will present a collection of South
Asian shorts.
5/9
Echo Park: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
CARBUNCLE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Due to the sold out screenings and overwhelmingly positive response to
CARBUNCLE at the Echo Park Film Center, 6 more screenings have been
added: FRIDAY, MAY 2 at 8pm (Sponsored by Rachel Cottam) SATURDAY, MAY 3
at 8pm (Sponsored by Alison Cardoso) FRIDAY, MAY 9 at 8pm (Sponsored by
Jamie Garza) SATURDAY, MAY 10 at 8pm (Sponsored by Sharon & Anthony
Garza) FRIDAY, JUNE 6 at 8pm (Sponsored by Jim Eshom) SATURDAY, JUNE 7
at 8:00pm (Sponsored by Kent Hatch) Echo Park Film Center 1200 N.
Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd) Los Angeles, CA 90026
www.echoparkfilmcen ter.org Suggested Donation: $7 CARBUNCLE, a mobile
home drama with a disabling sense of humor, concerns a director with
Asperger's Syndrome making a movie about a mentally challenged woman who
is manipulated by her alcoholic social worker. ***SPONSOR A SCREENING!**
* For $150 you can sponsor a screening of CARBUNCLE. All net profits
(after you've recouped your initial $150 from box office receipts) will
be split 50/50 between you and Misfit Films, Inc. ***Check out video of
the director and cast during the Q&A session after the North American
Premiere of CARBUNCLE: www.carbuncleMOVIE. com*** www.carbuncleMOVIE.
com www.misfitFILMS. com
5/9
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
10:00PM, 275 Capp Street
"WOODEN NICKELS AND 2-DOLLAR BILLS" AN EVENING OF LIES, FALSEHOODS AND
PHONIES
(Short read) "Wooden Nickels and 2-Dollar Bills" An Evening of Lies,
Falsehoods and Phonies Screens at Oddball Films Event: "Wooden Nickels
and 2-Dollar Bills", An Evening of Lies, Phonies and Falsehoods with
visiting filmmaker Jesse Lerner. The program includes 16mmm shorts such
as "False Witness" reconstructing the false "proof" that the Lost Tribes
of Israel had settled the Americas. Also featured is the famous
anthropological hoax, the discovery of the Tasaday, documented in "A
Message from the Stone Age and "Van Meegeren's Faked Vermeers", the 1948
film telling the story of the Dutch forger of old masters. Also featured
with be footage of "Bigfoot" and excepts from "Monsters Mysteries or
Myths", narrated by Rod Serling featuring an investigation of the Loch
Ness Monster. Date: Friday, May 9th at 10:00PM. Venue: Oddball Films,
275 Capp St. San Francisco (Off Mission between 17th and 18th)
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or
email suppressed
(Detailed read) With LA Curator Jesse Lerner in Person! "Wooden Nickels
and 2-Dollar Bills" An Evening of Lies, Falsehoods and Phonies Screens
at Oddball Films "Wooden Nickels and 2-Dollar Bills", An Evening of
Lies, Phonies and Falsehoods with Los Angels filmmaker and author ("F is
For Phony") Jesse Lerner screens Friday, May 9th at 10:00PM at Oddball
Films, 275 Capp St in San Francisco. Admission is $10.00. Seating is
limited so RSVPs are essential. RSVP to: Info!@oddballfilm.com or
415-558-8117. Wooden Nickels and 2-Dollar Bills" includes 16mmm short
subjects such as "False Witness" (from the series "The Ohio Story,"
produced by the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, in the 1950s), a television
drama made for local broadcast reconstructing the story of David Wyrick,
whose excavations of Native American mounds in Ohio yielded "proof" of
Lord Kingsborough's theory that the Lost Tribes of Israel had settled
the Americas. Another famous anthropological hoax, the discovery of the
Tasaday, is documented in "A Message from the Stone Age" by John Nance.
(1983) The journalist Nance unwittingly made a fake documentary when he
was duped by the Tasaday ruse, the "discovery" in 1971 of an isolated
tribe in an remote part of the Philippines, thought to be living with
Stone Age technologies. To this day Nance and some others insist that
the only hoax is the accusation of a hoax. Also screening will be "Van
Meegeren's Faked Vermeers" by Jan Botermans and G.A. Magnel, (1948)
which tells the story of the Dutch forger of old masters, arrested and
put on trial as a Nazi collaborator. A curious anomaly made to sell "Sun
Healing: The Ultra Violet Way With Life Lite" (1940s) showcases the
phony ultra violet lite that supposedly cures everything from Impetigo
to Psoriasas all with the flash of an iron shaped device. Also screening
will be the Crypto-zoological doc clip exploring the Loch Ness Monster
"Monsters Mysteries or Myths", (1974) one of the highest-rated
television documentaries ever broadcast and narrated by Rod "Twilight
Zone") Serling. Finally not-to-be-missed are be clips of the
world-famous Patterson film of Bigfoot (1967) plus more phony documents
and ersatz evidence About Filmmaker/Author Jesser Lerner Jesse Lerner is
a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles, California. His
documentaries include "Frontierland" (with Ruben Ortiz Torres), about
cultural exchanges and hybrity on the border between Mexico and the
United States, "Ruins," on the history of Mesoamerican archeology, and
"The American Egypt," and the short films "Magnavoz" and "Natives" (with
Scott Sterling). His books include "F is for Phony" (with Alexandra
Juhasz), a survey of fake documentaries, "The Shock of Modernity," and
"The Mexperimental Cinema" (with Rita Gonzalez).
5/9
San Francisco, California: Oddball Films
http://www.oddballfilm.com
8:00PM Sharp, 275 Capp Street
“CHICANO: BROWN AND PROUD” SCREENS AT ODDBALL FILMS
(Short read) Event: "Chicano: Brown and Proud", a program of early
landmark Chicano films featuring playwright/director Luis Valdez's 1972
satire "Los Vendidos" (The Sell-Outs), Jesus Salvador Trevino's
pioneering "Yo Soy Chicano", plus candy colored San Francisco Low Riders
and other bronze rarities. Date: Friday, May 9th at 8:00PM. Venue:
Oddball Films, 275 Capp St. San Francisco (Off Mission between 17th and
18th) Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or
email suppressed
(Detailed read) "Chicano: Brown and Proud" Screens at Oddball Films In a
slightly belated commemoration of the Cinco de Mayo, Oddball Films in
collaboration with Jesse Lerner's Los Angeles-based documentary
production outfit, The American Egypt, present a program of landmark
early Chicano films. Tonight's line-up includes "Los Vendidos" (1972), a
cutting satire from El Teatro Campasino founder Luis Valdez, and Jesús
Salvador Treviño's pioneering documentary "Yo Soy Chicano" (1972). In
addition we'll screen little known films of the Bracero program, clips
of delirious candy-colored, San Francisco metal-flake lowriders, 16mm
images of Concheros from East Los Angeles, and a host of other rarities
of the bronze screen. "Brown and Proud" takes place on Friday, May 9th
at 8:00PM at Oddball Films, 275 Capp St, San Francisco. Admission is
$10.00, limited seating RSVP Only to: email suppressed or
415-558-8117. "Los Vendidos" documents a one-act play by Chicano
playwright Luis Valdez, a founding member of El Teatro Campesino. He
wrote it in 1967, and it was first performed at the Brown Beret junta in
Elysian Park, East Los Angeles addressing a young urban Chicano audience
concerned with sociopolitical issues. Adapting themes previously
employed--such as the praise of in--group solidarity and the
denunciation of personal success when it entails materialism and
cultural disloyalty--the satiric target focuses on the stereotypical
images of Chicanos. The characters include Honest Sancho, the unnamed
Secretary, the Farmworker, the Pachuco, the Revolucionario, and the
Mexican-American. In the action of the play, the Secretary, named only
Miss Jimenez (pronounced: JIM-enez), visits Honest Sancho's Used Mexican
Lot and Mexican Curio Shop to purchase a robot. She is from Governor
Ronald Reagan's office, and needs "a Mexican type" for the
administration. Don't miss this hilarious and barbed treatise on Chicano
civil rights. In Jesús Salvador Treviño's ground-breaking, stylistic "Yo
Soy Chicano" the Chicano experience--from its roots in pre-Columbian
history to the present--is dramatically portrayed by actors who recreate
key cultural events and portray individuals in Mexican history and
through interviewing Chicano leaders. In 1972 Mexican-Americans, who
then composed 5 per cent of the United State population and twenty per
cent of all Vietnam casualties, had been subjected to racism and
exploitation throughout their history. In this first nationally
televised broadcast documentary about Chicanos, solutions to this
oppression are discussed in interviews with famed activist Dolores
Huerta (United Farm Workers), Reies Lopez Tijerina (Federal Alliance of
Free States), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzles (Crusade for Justice) and Jose
Angel Gutierrez (La Raza Unida). About Filmmaker/Curator Jesse Lerner
Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles, California.
His documentaries include "Frontierland" (with Ruben OrtizTorres), about
cultural exchanges and hybrity on the border between Mexico and the
United States, "Ruins," on the history of Mesoamerican archeology, and
"The American Egypt," and the short films "Magnavoz" and "Natives" (with
Scott Sterling). His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Sydney
Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los
Angeles International Film Festival, and other festivals and museums
internationally. His books include "F is for Phony" (with Alexandra
Juhasz), a survey of fake documentaries, "The Shock of Modernity," and
"The Mexperimental Cinema" (with Rita Gonzalez).
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SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2008
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5/10
Albuquerque, NM: Potter-Belmar Labs
http://potterbelmar.org/now
8pm, Verb Collective
FORTUNE
What does the future hold? What follows us from the past? What do we
need to know about the present? Live cinema performers, Potter-Belmar
Labs, will answer these questions and more, on tour stops throughout the
U.S. Southwest and West Coast in May 2008. Traveling by train, this pair
of itinerant fortune-tellers will probe the collective subconscious of
audiences from Albuquerque to Seattle, and on many stops in between.
Potter-Belmar Labs brings the ancient tradition of the magic lantern
show to the 21st Century, inviting the audience to participate in a
collective fortune-telling experience, and presenting the results in
music, sound and moving image. The Fortune tour is made possible in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.
5/10
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
7:00 Social Hr., 8:00 Screening, 5243 N. Clark St.
DYKE DELICIOUS SERIES 5: INVISIBLE WOMEN (IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE
CAMERA)
Co-presented by Black Cat Productions Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members
(includes social hour and screening) Lip (directed by Tracey Moffatt and
Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., USA): It is Hollywood's favorite role for
black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or
flippantly dismissive, the performers who play them steal every scene
they are in, and Tracy Moffatt's entertaining video collage reveals the
narrow margin Hollywood has allowed black actresses to shine in. But
shine they do. "Giving lip" is proven an art form in these scenes from
1930's cinema to present-day movies featuring a remarkable roster of
undervalued actresses and their more celebrated white costars. Women Who
Made the Movies (directed by Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon, 1992,
55 min., USA): Recounting the history of women in Hollywood, after you
watch this documentary you will be renting many of the wonderful films
these ladies created. From femme director Ida Lupino to butch Dorothy
Arzner, mark our words you will be making a list of their films to
watch.
5/10
Echo Park: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8:00 PM, 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
CARBUNCLE BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
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5/10
San Francisco, California: Other Cinema
http://www.othercinema.com/
8:30, 992 Valencia Street
JESSE LERNER'S F IS FOR PHONY
Jesse is here in person to introduce his (and Alexandra Juhasz') new
anthology, subtitled Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing.
Pseudo-documentary, mockumentary, disinformation, speculative essay, and
avant-garde attack on journalistic orthodoxy, these genres have long and
fascinating histories; this book-and this evening-undertake a scholarly
AND comic appreciation of this transgressive cinematic strain. Lerner
holds forth before, between, and after excerpts of Spanish-American War
newsreels, Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread, Elizabeth Subrin's Shulie,
Mitchell Block's No Lies, William Karel's Dark Side of the Moon, and
Jesse's own Ruins. Come early for artist's reception, to browse the book
and to get a signed copy from this Squire of Skeptical Inquiry.
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