Artists' Television Access

Other Cinema; ARCHIVE FEVER1: CULT(S)

Saturday, November 24, 2018, 8:30 pm, $7

MICRO-ARCHIVES/ ANOMALIES + JOE DANTE’s MOVIE ORGY

With Civil Defense crackers on offer, this Atomic Age retro-romp sets off a feisty trifecta on the high stakes and high art of Motion Picture Archiving, with tonight’s celebration of Collectors and Collectionsoscillating between behind-the-scenes and in-front-of-screens. Our favorite four human-scale “folk archives” share both their anomalous sources and their masterful re-mixes, including several on 16mmAdam Dziesinski remembers Oddball Films(Stephen Parr RIP) with his 275 Capp StreetAlbuquerque’s Basement Filmsbrag about their post-War industrials buttressing a CD fallout shelter, parlaying a remix by Kamila Kuc, North Carolina’s Skip the AV Geek Elsheimer fills halls with sublimely ridiculous “orphans”; and Alessia Cecchet (in person) unveils her own WWW {the whale who wasn’t} collage coming out of the Internet Archive, based in our own Richmond district! ALL FOLLOWED by the most famous 16mm compendium in film history, Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy!! Tho the reels were once rumored to top 7 hours, it’s a much later cut screened here (and off video), but we promise to show more than half of this irresistible Olympian assembly of monsters, sci-fi, and Trash that Dante spliced together as a late-60s grad student


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