Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • Other Cinema; OPTRONICA2: DARK SYNTH (HANS GRUSEL/BRUTALLO + BECKER + HAUNTED BUCHLA +)

    Back by popular demand, Hans Grusel’sKrankenkabinet now attempts an even darker theme than the Aztec mummies, with their appreciation/appropriation of cultauteurs Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go to Hell, A Night to Dismember) and Jack Hill(Spider Baby, Mondo Keyhole)…as artfully re-mixed by Brutallo, and as part of this season’s Trash thread. Local electronic ace Thomas Dimuzio graces out gallery (maybe for the first time ever!) to boast to the world of the wonders of the Buchla synthesizerconceived and produced right here in Berkeley by Don Buchla, another Bay Area arts visionary recently passed. Thomas is teaming up with Oakland optical whiz Lori Varga in their 20-min. A Sudden, Haunting Pulse Beneath the Concrete. Lori’s four projectors mock up a motion picture miasma of beautiful desolation among urban decay. Opening, Tommy Beckercontinues to pioneer new modes of live-music-video performance, trotting out Stars White in a Blue Field, plus 3 more of his repertoire. Lillian Schwartz’ analog videos serve as stereoscopic interstices between the acts; come early for Sara Bonaventura, 35mm filmstrips and Pocket Monsters. *$9.99

  • Betzy Bromberg’s a Darkness Swallowed & Coni Beeson’s Firefly

    Co-presented with Canyon Cinema

    a Darkness Swallowed
    Betzy Bromberg  2005  78min  16mm

    “When a Darkness Swallowed opens on some old photographs, it seems to be one kind of film, a personal work exploring memory, perhaps focusing on the child depicted in one of the photos, absent from the other. But very quickly it shifts to something unexpected, something uncategorizable. Beautiful abstract images fill the screen as we delve into a brooding, sensuous world, which critic Holly Willis describes as “dipping below the rational world to mine the seemingly infinite layers of the past stored within the fleshy entrails, chalky bones, sinewy spider webs and gnarled ligaments of both the body and the earth.” It is a landscape that suggests the murky process of searching, remembering, or grieving, and, as the title suggests, it takes us in. Willis writes, “[Bromberg’s] films are effusive spaces of creation and inquiry, where she finds herself in the world and makes the chaotic inequity of loss and despair somehow bearable. And even beautiful.”
    Kathy Geritz

    Firefly
    Coni Beeson  1974  5min  16mm
    with Carrie Mae Weems

    Canyon Cinema’s co-presentation of this event is made possible through the generous support of the George Lucas Family Foundation, the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts Program

  • Periwinkle Cinema

    This November Periwinkle Cinema presents our yearly all Trans/Gender Queer/Gender Non-Conforming/Gender Fluid/ Agender screening. We are here and we won’t be erased. We shall continue to fight to build our future and give voice to those most silenced. Come be with us to experience this program, celebrate who we are, be with community. As always there will be free popcorn and fun door prizes.Submissions
    accepted until Nov 10th via our facebook page send us a link or submit@periwinklecinema.com