Dec/Jan 2006 Film

 

 

Expanded Cinema

SAT. 12/9: ALFONSO ALVAREZ + OVERDUB CLUB + SCRATCH FILM JUNKIES at ATA

With their hand-printed, toned, and processed direct-animation images from both camera and trash bin, cinemagicians Thad Povey and recent Phelan awardee Alfonso Alvarez bring back their wall of 16mm projections, this time with an expanded Overdub Club line-up: Suki O’Kane on vibes and drums joins Lucio Menegon with his electric six-string sonics and loops. The opening set showcases the work of Bay Area stalwart Alvarez, whose award is certainly warranted by decades of optically-printed cine-poetry. PLUS the newest from the SFJ collective, To the Beat. Note special admission: $6.

 

Matthew Barney  at ROXIE
:No Restraint

MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT is a new documentary one of the most adventurous artists of the past half century. Using the production of his most recent artistic endeavor, Director Alison Chernick gives us a rare glimpse at Barney's creative process as he plowed the waters off the coast of Japan aboard a whaling ship to film his most ambitious project yet, DRAWING RESTRAINT 9, starring himself and his partner Bjork. Chernick also charts the rise of Matthew in the art world with interviews with Barney, Björk, The New York Times Art Critic Michael Kimmelman and gallerist Barbara Gladstone among many others. Using footage of his earlier projects including his landmark THE CREMASTER CYCLE, Chernick not only gives us a fascinating protrait of a brilliant career but answers a lot of questions about the nature of Barney's work. Directed & Produced by Alison Chernick. With Matthew Barney & Bjork. 2005. Not Rated. Running time: 72 minutes. Show times; Nightly at 6:20, 8:00 & 9:30. Additional Saturday, Sunday & matinees at (2:30) & 4:30.

 

³Mindbenders²
Rare Sights and Sounds of the Psychedelic Sixties
Screens at Oddball Films
Special guest appearance by Norman ³Spirit in the Sky² Greenbaum

 

On Saturday, December 16th Oddball Films presents ³Mindbenders: Rare Sights
and Sounds of the Psychedelic Sixties² featuring performances by 60s musical
pioneers, drug scare films and rare never-before seen gems from the 60s
including the Jefferson Airplane in Golden Gate Park, the Fillmore East and
rare home movies. Showtime is 8:00PM sharp. Admission is $10.00 (Limited
Seating) RSVP Only to: info@oddballfilm.com or 415.558.8117.
³Mindbenders²: Rare Sights and Sounds from the Psychedelic Sixties²
features a wide array of musical performances, drug scare films, commercials
and rare, never-before-seen home movie and found footage clips from the era
all presented in 16mm film.

Musical performances include groups such as the Bay Area¹s Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker singing ³She Came in Through the Bathroom
Window²,  the over-the-top crooning of Three Dog Night, Melanie (of
Woodstock fame) singing ³Candles in the Rain², Norman Greenbaum performing
his classic ³ Spirit in the Sky with light show backing, Frigid Pink
performing ³House of the Rising Sun² no hit wonders Mephistopheles, and
clips from ³Zachariah², the first Psychedelic Western, starring Country Joe
and the Fish, Doug Kershaw, the James Gang(With Joe Walsh) and Elvin
Jones(!).

³Zachariah² is a way-out and weird, low budget, high concept Siddartha meets
the Wild West gay themed rock Western. ³Zachariah also featured then
pretty-boy Don Johnson and  John Rubenstein, son of famed conductor Arthur
Rubenstein.

The sixties were rife with experimental and eclectic cinematic styles and
documentarian Charles Braverman¹s kinetic montage short ³Braverman¹s
Condensed Cream of the Beatles² exemplifies the hyper reality of the era.
No psychedelic screening would be complete without a drug scare film and
tonight we will, in the spirit of spontaneity screen one of these fine
films: ³LSD: Trip of Trap², ³LSD-25², Danger: LSD², or ³LSD: Insight or
Insanity².

The sixties were an free wheeling time in cinema culture and film debris
from that era is all around us, still being tossed into trash cans and dug
out of dingy basements by obsessive collectors. Tonight we¹ll showcase some
of our rarest finds, including  a home movie of the Jefferson Airplane in
Golden Gate Park, the world¹s most psychedelic Levis commercial and B-roll
of NYC¹s Fillmore East.
 
PLUS! A special guest appearance by musician and song writer Norman
Greenbaum who wrote and recorded ³Sprit in the Sky², the classic 60s guitar
hit produced by Erick Jacobsen. CDs and memorabilia will also be available.
For further info visit: http://www.spiritinthesky.com/about.html

 

 

 

 

A little too Direct: 15 student directors have their way Friday, December 15, 2006. 7PM $3-$5 at ATA

Come and celebrate new work from the film department of City College

Works by:
Rich Wells
Jeff Crispi
Chris Villareal
Laura J. Lukitsch
Ben Schofield
Brandon Wilson
John Howard
Kathleen McNamara
Ryoji Kajikawa
Diane J. Vallecillo
Scot Schneider
Benny Ortega
William Smith
Cornelius Wilson
Olesya Karpova

Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110,                 (415) 824-3890