Sangre de Cristo at Rotterdam
Sangre de Cristo will be screening at the Interntional Film Festival Rotterdam taking place January 25- February 5. Here is the schedule.
This Kind of Town will screen at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA on December 2 as part of a program curated by Charles Chadwick.
Class Pyramid
I participated in a performance by Robby Herbst at Occupy LA that created human pyramids visualizing the capitalist system (based on this IWW poster).
Sangre de Cristo will be screening as part of Torino Film Festival’s Festa Mobile: Paesaggio Con Figure section. Check out the schedule here.
Studies & Observations no. 2
Transubstantiation: Rituals, Transformations and Appropriations program curated by Marcy Saude and Mark Toscano (in person)
Using varied techniques including optical manipulation, observation and documentation, and appropriation of found footage and materials, the filmmakers in this program work with film as a transformative tool that’s both mystical and mundane. Michael J. Fox is transformed into a totemic stand-in for a woman who survived three shipwrecks. Text and nearly invisible artifacts are transmuted into bleeding abstractions via photocopying. The stuff of a day job at a make-up counter becomes raw material for an exploration of refracted light and color. A ceremony involving the gift of a tuba is recreated; the ritualistic aspects of drug use are explored in order to create alternatives; and Jesus Christ dies, rises, and ascends to heaven.
All films will be projected on 16mm and will include work by Chick Strand, David Lebrun, Peter Rose, Daina Krumins, Alexander Stewart, Courtney Hoskins, Carolyn Faber, Sarah Biagini, and Elwood Decker.
Screening organized by the Studies and Observations Group, co-presented by the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
still from I Swim Now, Sarah Biagini 2010
Occupy Super 8 Collective
Organizing friends and comrades around the country to make a collective Super 8/ 16mm film documenting various Occupations:
http://occupysuper8collective.org/
San Francisco: ATA Screening September 23
Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco is hosting a screening of my films on September 23, and I’ll be there to present them.
Films from Four Mountain Ranges by Marcy Saude
Recent experimental documentary shorts investigating marginal histories embedded in the landscape. Fragmented tales of outlaws, back-to-the-landers, farmers, and most of all- mountains. Former gold rush boom towns; serial killers in Santa Cruz, California; anabaptist folk medicine as performance art; anarchists and Comanche re-enactors; a rural festival of antique farming technology; quiet looks at counterculture architecture; lots of mountain-gazing in the Rockies, the Sangre de Cristos, Southern Appalachia and the California Redwoods; and attempts to push against the edges of non-fiction form. Approximate program running time: 70 minutes.
still from Sangre de Cristo, 16mm transferred to HD, 00:26:00, 2011
I will be giving an illustrated lecture, George Van Tassel, at Inquiry Toward the Practice of Secular Magic, an evening of art and live cinema at pixel + frequency gallery in Los Angeles at 9pm on Friday and Saturday, August 26 and 27.
About George Van Tassel (the lecture): The life and work of a California eccentric becomes a node for topics such as UFO contactees, magnetic vortices, cell rejuvenation, sacred geometry, visionary architecture, desert mysteries, and pulp paperbacks. A lecture with photos, video, narration and sound.
Highlights from EMAF
Images programmer Kate MacKay shares some of the highlights from EMAF in Osnabrück, Germany, including The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel:
Sower Arepo at Artsfest
The Sower Arepo as Works a Wheel plays Sunday, May 29 at Artsfest Film Festival in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
