Author: Fara

Featuring: MCLAUGHLIN + T.JOHNSON + SCOTT
Description: Our annual Media-Archeology Dig celebrates a robust range of distinct–even peculiar–art practices, still thriving on the so-called “margins”. Headlining is 35mm stereoscopic maestro Pad McLaughlin, with dual-projector works both old and new, including the world premiere of Binocular Disparities! AND: Tree-of-knowledge Tim Johnson takes apart the mythic Amiga Toaster to reveal missing links between generations of electronic graphics. Also surfing our wave of obsolescence, analog champ Jake Scott drops the needle on Flexidiscs, to sync the plastic sheets’ soundtracks to S8 Frankenstein digests! PLUS bits and bytes of Variophones, Vocoders, the Cox Optigan, and free 35mm filmstrips! $9.99  

 WASTEDLAND + BATMAN CULT/YOUTUBER +

On this irrepressibly pagan Halloween eve, creature spirits crawl up to the surface of the skin–so come in costume! Featured is outsider Andrew H. Shirley‘s picaresque Wastedland2, on a trio of animal-costumed graffiti artists who, by animal instinct, migrate from one dystopia to the next, tagging the walls as they inquire into selfhood! Co-hit is Youtube ruler Ernest Ramon‘s “critical-paranoiac” conspiracy-rant on Batman‘s origins, Dark Night Rising. PLUS the epic 16mm ending of Toho‘s 60s Turtle-Monster, Gamera the Invincible. ALSO other Godzilla goofs, a King Kong cameo, and a rare 16mm peek at the ’65 animal-costumer Bremen Town Musicians! Tricky treats amidst scary smoke machines!! $6.66

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION IS $6.66

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.

ROURKE + D.JOHNSON + LIPMAN’s OWLS +

An ornithologist‘s dream show! Lovers of birds demonstrate the pleasures of attending to our feathered friends, in all their beauty and odd behavior. Master pixillator Jeremy Rourke lets fly a animation/performance, Birds and Movements, as well as his earlier Jazzy Birds and Ashland Birds. Complementing his stop-and-go motion is Dan Johnson‘s video update on the California Condors of nearby Pinnacles Peaks, an intimate account of their precarity he calls TheLost Crowd. AND conservationist Mark Lipman offers a delightfully detailed diary of the now-famous Glen Canyon owlettes. PLUS Jake Scott/Mitch Stallman’s flute/shadow-play on Murmurations, Penny Lane’s The Commoners, Lauren DeFilippo‘s post-Hitchcockian Life of Birds, and Disney’s It’s Tuff Being a Bird!

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION $8.88

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.