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.

Baghdad By The Bay

SAT. 9/6: CHOMSKY/WHY WAR? + WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE


Stop the war already! Whispered Media’s We Interrupt This Empire rings in the season with a rousing call to protest, reflecting the mass movement in our own streets over the past months. Co-billed is the debut of Norman Thomas’ Why War?, an historical review of the global stakes, with commentary from Noam Chomsky, Tony Benn, and Tariq Ali. PLUS short reports from Mark Liiv, Jino Choi, Jackie Salloum, Paper Tiger TV, and a personal appearance by Jeff Grubler and his genius guerrilla-theater project. We’ll be taking whacks at a Bush piñata while DJ Pod drops the needle on the NinjaTunes.

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Reclaiming Public Space

SAT 9/13: CENTER FOR TACTICAL MAGIC

This superbrilliant collaborative project represents the next step forward towards the revolution of everyday life. Dedicated to the coalescence of art, magic, technology and activism, three of the Center’s agents use slides, videos, and computer platforms in an experimental lecture mode to discuss current creative efforts: Aaron Gach on the fusion of magic and surveillance hardware (The Smokey Hill River Outpost), Trevor Paglen on the speculative geography of prison landscapes (Listening to Pelican Bay), and Robby Herbst on the initiation rites in the cult of revolution (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest). PLUS assorted critical interventions, including Re-Tag, Rev. Billy Talen, and the Stop-Shopping Tour in-store performance documentation.

 

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Dead Media

SAT. 9/20: OBSOLETE + WOBBLY + (OS) +

In the first instance of a seasonal thematic thread of experimental-audio programming, the gallery is given over to three live acts that re-work dead media into surprisingly novel hybrids of music, noise, voice, and of course, motion pictures. The evening is anchored by Xopher (Tipsy) Davidson, David Kwan and Michael (Crawling with Tarts) Gendreau, who pick the flesh off the bones of sublimely ridiculous science films of the mid-20th century. The artist known as Wobbly is showcased in the program’s first half, also serving up new sonic interpretations to marvelous media-archaeological finds. Opening, Steve Polta (OS), generates complex permutations with that lovable analog mode known as the tape loop. PLUS Steev Hise’s Detritus Manifesto, Carl Diehl’s Rock Robot, Spike Jones’ dada ditty, and a ‘60’s experimental-music educational.

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Presti-digitation

 

SAT. 9/27: INVISIBLE OBJECTS + BOYCE + LEVEQUE +

 

The second iteration of our exploratory audiovisual initiative aims to investigate the aesthetics of digital production and performance. Headlining are the exquisitely crafted image/sound amalgams of Invisible Objects: laptop, guitar, turntable-and puppets! -in live interaction with computer-graphic collages. Local hero Bryan Boyce debuts a new cut-up, NYC digital wizard Les LeVeque additionally delivers a new piece or two, and Oakland’s Nomi Talisman exhibits her ingenious approach to “digital cinema”-scanning multiple strips of 16mm celluloid to set up new montage relations across their surfaces. ALSO: Animal Charm, Davy Force, Katherin McGinnis, Kembrew McLeod, Ann Steuernagel, Natasha Spencer, and Eric Saks’ infamous viral animation.

 

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Life As An Advertisement

SAT. 10/4: VALUE-ADDED CINEMA + THE AD AND THE ID +

If you can take it, here’s the hideously cynical face of “capitalist branding,” embedded in commercial cinema and across public media. Steve Seid and Peter Conheim’s VAC is an outrageous 45-min. compendium of Hollywood screen-space that was pre-sold to corporate marketers. Harold Boihem’s A & I is a mind-boggling survey of manipulative symbols folded into advertising imagery at an even deeper level-the subliminal. From Rick Prelinger’s collection, Your Name Here is an old-school “how to” on industrial self-promotion. PLUS short anti-ads from James Schneider, Negativland, RRoom and Paul Harvey Oswald, countering our pre-show review of 40 years of commodity fetishism.

 

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Gender Fuck

SAT. 10/11: CECILIA DOUGHERTY’S GONE + GRAPEFRUIT

In from Ireland, this prolific video artist returns to her old haunts to unveil both a SF premiere and a cult favorite. Gone, a double video-projector piece, is inspired by an episode of An American Family, the landmark ‘70s verité series about the Loud Family. Filial tensions and gender positions become complicated when the mother’s visit to Lance’s Chelsea Hotel digs meets with disaster. The Gone soundtrack features music by Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning, of Le Tigre. In Dougherty’s Warholian Grapefruit (‘89), Susie Bright plays John Lennon in a queer revision of the modern Lennon-Ono myth.

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Amped-up Imagery \

SAT. 10/18: OVERDUB CLUB + RAY HARMON +


The multi-projector Hydra beast known as the Overdub Club rears its many heads for a show of new and old work, live and filmic guests, subtle and robust rhythms. Nightsoil is their open-form expanded cinema piece, with 16mm film produced by Thad Povey and Alfonso Alvarez, and music performed by Mark De Gli Antoni (Soul Coughing) and Lucio Menegon (Rev. Screaming Fingers). Images manipulated via ray-o-gram, hand-processing, and toning techniques make for a marvelous kaleidoscope of colors and effects. Opening the show is Ray Harmon, on tour with his trunk of slashed-and-scratched celluloid material and hot-rodded Super-8 projectors, which serve as source for a big-screen live-video projection.

 

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Duck and Cover

SAT. 10/25: JACK STEVENSON’S U.S. WAR PROPAGANDA REVIEW

A 16mm retrospective of American military propaganda in the post-WWII period, with renewed relevance in the current atmosphere! The two 15-minute films, Our Job in Germany (‘45) and Your Job in Japan (‘46), by the Frank Capra film unit, are aimed at American Occupation forces. Classic examples of ‘50s & ‘60s political paranoia, Survival Under Atomic Attack and the cult gem Red Nightmare, narrated by Jack Webb, are also annotated by the master raconteur. PLUS Japanese Relocation, Army Medicine in Vietnam, and, on video, a few examples of contemporary war-mongering.

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Monster Mash

SAT. 11/1: EPIC [ABRIDGED] + BAVA’S PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES +

The plucky players of the local ensemble Epic resurrect Super-8 digests of horror titles Dracula and I Was a Teenage Werewolf through their live musical re-interpretation of the narrative highlights. These ingenious inter-media artists open the program for that most shocking and awe-inspiring grandfather of giallo, Mario Bava. His Planet... (on 16mm!), details a deliriously atmospheric excursion to an extra-terrestrial world haunted by restless spectres. A precursor to Alien, witness Barry Sullivan emerge from the colored fog in his ultra-stylized black-leather spacesuit! ALSO: A trick-or-treat bag of Halloween clips, including a 3-D thrill-ride, to mull with our free wine and pumpkin pie. Come in costume!

 

 

Hard-Broiled Havana

SAT.11/8: MARK BOSWELL’S THE SUBVERSION AGENCY +

Our good ol’ boy Boswell gate-crashes his golf cart into our gallery to tee-off on the West-Coast opening of his long-awaited experimental feature. The ex-Florida caddy comes to us after years of vagabonding and a rewarding tenure at the SFAI’s New Genres Dept., and his savvy sense of political irony is evident in this speculative thriller and Situationist critique. In his intriguing allegory of international espionage, our spy guy enters a fictional zone of ideological corruption and moral slippage. PLUS a period report on the Miami Mafia-CIA connection, and, in a clip from Che!, Jack Palance as Fidel!

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Old Films, New Re-mixes

 

SAT. 11/15: PEOPLE LIKE US + A/V DE-COMPOSITIONS

 

With her wicked smash-and-grab aesthetic, Vicki Bennett of P.L.U. returns to our stage with a decidedly sardonic avant-pop performance. In 11 collage albums, she has re-cut audio oddities into surreal soundscapes that lampoon pop-cultural banalities through a misfiring loop of reference and repetition. Bennett’s live digital mix accompanies a marvelously crafted cut ‘n’ paste picture-track, suggesting new narrative forms for the laptop flapper. PLUS “virtual duets” by Russ Forster (Eva Braun), Bryan Konefsky (William Burroughs), Hans Grüsel (Frank Caldwell), and Anne McGuire (Johnny Cash!).

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Creatio Ex Nihilo

SAT. 11/22: JAMES HONG’S SPEAR OF DESTINY +

Behold the Asian! Here’s James Hong, in the flesh, at this benefit sneak-preview of his much anticipated masterwork. In order to provide a platform befitting this extraordinary occasion, OC occupies the Little Roxie, down the street at 16th and Valencia. A 3-act metaphysical treatment of a millennial SF in the wake of the execrable dot-com explosion, a no-budget version of Wagner’s Ring after the death of God and the darkening of the world, an anti-hero as hero, an anti-narrative with a narrative, an insane after-school special for the incorrigible, The Spear of Destiny is a film for everyone and no one.

SPECIAL PLACE AND TIME: LITTLE ROXIE THEATER, 3125 16TH ST. @ 7:30 & 9:30 PM, $7-$10

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Voice Over

SAT. 11/29: NEO-BENSHI

The ancient art of the benshi, or film narrator, was cultivated in Japan and Korea during the silent film era. This update, guest-curated by Konrad Steiner, proposes to resurrect, decode, re-tell, amplify, or otherwise undermine films that in fact already tell a story. Six writers and filmmakers re-interpret chosen scenes from the microphone beneath the screen. Part Wizard of Oz, part Mystery Science Theater, and part hecklers, they present their versions of genres we know and love, from ‘50s melodrama to documentaries to porn. Featured readers: Brent Cunningham, Roxi Hamilton, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Scott Stark, Suzanne Stein, and Melinda Stone. PLUS a surprise sing-along.

 

Performative Cinema

SAT. 12/6: MASSETT’S BEAM + WETGATE + RECODER + LONG +

A cautionary against the dictatorship of the mall platters, Tim Massett champions the projectionist as an active creative agent and endangered species. Included in his doc’s world debut are clips of Chicago’s James Bond, Austin’s Luke Savisky, Havana arc-operators, performance footage from past OC Projectorama shows, AND documentation of WetGate, who also appear live tonight! Peter Conheim, Steven Dye, and Owen O’Toole play 16mm loops on their Graflexes as cinema concrete compositions. ALSO “performing the projector” is the wünderkind from El Sobrante (and NYC), Luis Recoder. PLUS Kent Long’s double-projection, and an Osram bulb ad.

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Texture of the Gesture

SAT. 12/13: DIRECT ANIMATION FROM DAMONTE + ROSENTHAL + SOLOMON + REEVES +

Hail, hail the Homemade! The 4th Texture of the Gesture program of hand-made film returns to regale your retinas with seminal alchemical cinema; images baked and flaked, strained and inflamed by digits of decidedly non-digital flesh and blood. Featured artists include: Phil Solomon, Jenn Reeves, Luis Recoder, Sandra Gibson, Devon Damonte, & Ken Paul Rosenthal. WHAT’S MORE: We’re conducting an 8-hour Direct Film Manipulation Workshop prior to the show! Contact kenpaulrosenthal@hotmail.com to register

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Avant to Live

SAT. 12/20  NEW EXPERIMENTAL WORKS

The season is consummated with our semi-annual N.E.W. night. On the leading edge of the film phalanx are Martha Colburn’s Secrets of Mexuality, David Duhig’s Rhythm Changes, Melinda Stone’s Olvidados, Iggy Scam’s Nostalgia, Roger Beebe’s Famous Irish Americans, Yin-Ju Chen’s The Heat, and Potter-Belmar Lab’s Two Boys Brawling. PLUS new pieces from: Animal Charm, Aaron Valdez, Angela Reginato, Sandra Gibson, Andrea Ferreyra, and Gabriel Acevedo. Doors open at 8 for the artists’ reception, with a special live-projection performance by Sue Costabile.

 

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