Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Other Cinema: OPTRONICA3

    BECKER + WOOD + COX +


    Final Optrnica(#3) for this Fall boasts FOUR Live A/V acts!! Local light Tommy Becker makes his Autumn calendar debut with his long-awaited Mirror Neuron, celebrating human neurology through musically driven collage visuals. David Cox John Smalley, and Ania Samborska up the ante with their radiant re-consideration of Bauhaus meister Moholy-Nagy‘s Light-Space Modulator Art-world coup, practically initiating the category of “Kinetic Sculpture”…and Cox‘ exquisite mini-operetta manages to re-activating those oh-so-Modernist moves! With vivid history bursting out of every frame—and in conjunction with SF’s Western Neighborhoods group—Ben Wood brings his projection-art chronology of the now-in-limbo Cliff House! AND Jake Scott conjures up a playful hybrid of gamelan, Moog, and 16mm film in his multi-media assemblage How to Build a Boat.PLUS ex-Haight/now-Montreal Francois Miron‘s re-mastered Evil Surprise—an optically-printed party for the retina, Critter‘s KA loop-installation, and Gilbert (Shapeshifters) Guerrero‘s Barbary Fig beer, specially crafted-brewed!..and oh yes, come early for David Cox‘ Drone Alone aerial stunt! $9.99

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  • Other Cinema: PILLARS OF PUNK CULTURE

    V.VALE AND MARIAN WALLACE

    We’re honored to host the hardcore of SF’s RE/Search publishing project, V. Vale and Marian Wallace, for an evening of rare—and new–underground films, videos, and books! Marian introduces 8 of her experimental shorts, including Project Y (offering glimpses of Kurt Kren at the legendary SOMA punk venue A-Hole Gallery), Drowned World (her JG Ballard riff), plus Words of Wisdom and Human Condition (“cut-up” homages to William S. Burroughs). Complementing her post-Beat cinema is Search & Destroy, Vale‘s copiously illustrated lecture-demo on punk publishing. Plus his—and Jerry Casale‘s–”classical” interpretation of DEVO‘s Mongoloid, and the premiere of a hybrid live-music performance—with Josephine Torio on vocals, Vale on mod synth, and all new visuals—providing the evening’s climax…with RE/Search books on display, including brand new hardback re-issues of both Burroughs and Ballard! $9

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  • Other cinema: NO-THANKS GIVING

     NEW RED ORDER

    As is our custom this time of year, OC flips the traditional Turkey Day celebration of white-settler survivalists back into an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of the land being colonized. This year’s program of Native American media-art is given over to a feisty collective of young makers who’ve made quite an international splash (ArtForum, NYTimes, London Times) with their non-stop stream of critical works–shorts, features, and installations–that take oppositional positions on a wide range of aboriginal issues…and in ways both comic and apocalyptic. Principals Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil (Ojibway) and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) presented here in person to a sold-out crowd two years ago, but this time will be sending in a quiver of indigenous essays from the shooting-set of their in-production Nosferasta…including a sneak peek of that same project! Amongst the many other titles are Culture Capture, Violence of a Civilization, plus trailers for both Empty Metal and INAATE/SE/.

     DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION IS $8

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