Saturday, June 21, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7-$10
A program selected by Nao Nakazawa who will be be joined by CARA ROSE DE FABIO, PAUL CLIPSON, REVOR MONTGOMERY, JOHN DAVIS, and TOOTH, all presenting experimental works that incorporate live elements such as music and performance art.
Nao Nakazawa – Originally hailing from Nagano, Japan, Nakazawa moved to California in 1996 to study film. First earning a BA in film & digital media from UC Santa Cruz, and later a MFA in cinema from SF State University, Nakazawa has spent more than a decade working on film and television productions throughout the Bay Area. When not paying the bills, Nakazawa has been devoted to making his own films of many genres, including experimental works that feature live music and elements of audience interaction. Now, like many artists without citizenship, Nakazawa is faced with leaving the country and has scheduled one final show in his adopted home. Nakazawa will be premiering his latest work, co-directed with Bay Area performance artist CARA ROSE DE FABIO (who will be performing live. Nakazawa will also screen the experimental documentary MERZBAU: A PORTRAIT OF KURT SCHWITTERS, a multi-screen projection piece.
Paul Clipson – Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining dTensely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. Clipson will be collaborating with musician TREVOR MONTGOMERY. Montgomery may be found under the musical guises of: Young Moon, Isidore Ducasse , Lazarus, Believer, Moholy Nagy, Tarentel, and the Drift. Hailing from San Francisco delving in espresso, mosaics , and Asana. He cites film, love, and romanticism as his calling to the making of sound.
Tooth and John Davis – Oakland artists Tooth and John Davis will collaboratively share a two-channel film and sound performance, exploring the possibilities of creative exchange. John Davis is a California-based visual artist and musician. Combining a background in cultural anthropology and art, his current work builds on the transcendental qualities of experimental film, while expanding the relationship between moving image and sound through live performance, collaboration, experimentation and improvisation.