| THEISE/CORCORAN + SNIDER + STARK + 99 HOOKER + |
| OC‘s semi-annual expanded cinema spectacular happens to coincide with the launch of Moments of Perception, Jim Shedden‘s book on experimental cinema in Canada, and so Mr. Shedden, just in from the Art Gallery of Ontario, will say a few words before the fireworks begin. Among the playlist are four(!) live film-performances, clustered around Eric Theise/Kevin Corcoran‘s Synesthete’s Atlas, real-time digital cartography with textural percussion and manipulated field recordings. Greta Snider and Derek Headboggle up the ante with Instructions from Ancestors, the world premiere of this live-tracked double-projection retinal-rivalry master-work from the much-loved SFSU prof, who spins her zine sensibility into avant stereoscopy. Fellow Bernal multi-projectionist Scott Stark also debuts a piece, Music in the Air, miraculously re-animating long-buried (in Stockton!) Kodachrome treasures through his ingenious propeller shutter. AND: National touring titan 99 Hooker mops the gallery floor with his over-loaded and over-amped Live-AV–even another Cali premiere!–Attention Surplus Disorder. PLUS: a supporting posse of interstitial zingers, boasting Amy Halpern‘s (RIP) Single Wing Turquoise Bird light show!! *$13 |
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Other Cinema: OPTRONICA1
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Other Cinema: TRICK OR TREAT
BLOXHAM’s HYPNOTIC TIME-REGRESSION + FLEXIDISC HORROR + MONSTER MASH-UP + 
On the second part of our Supernatural Suite we try (vainly) to make our Halloween show even more scary than everyday life! Showcased is the irresistible exploitation curiosity, The Bloxham Tapes, pseudo-science “demonstrations” of time-travel by a Welsh psychic who amazed UK viewers in the 70s. Bloxham hypnotizes people into experiencing events that happened centuries before their own birth! PLUS freaky horror digests that sync up with vinyl sheets on our turntable, King Kong’s Greatest Hits, and Gamera‘s too for that matter, and yes, Godzilla Does Disco. AND Rodney Ascher‘s The S from Hell, Arte Matu‘s Häxan/Nine Inch Nails re-mix, smoke machines, and an ultra-rare CCA mid-century costume party..so come in costume! (prizes and lotsa candy!!!).*$8 -
Other Cinema: MAGICK/CIRKUS GALA
DIEHL’s MISDIRECTIONS
Our Supernatural Suite opens with a mind-melting carnival ride, through both a rich legacy of the American circus subculture, and through the particular sideshow art of the sleight-of-hand magician. We celebrate the SF launch of Carl Diehl‘s utterly genius zine about his great-uncle Werner “Dorny” Dornfield. Carl sends in a custom video cut that draws from the chapbook itself, delving into Dorny‘s association with Harry Houdini, as well as a series of conversations with historians, performance artists, and magicians. ALSO: jaw-dropping contortionist footage, Kathleen Quillian‘s animation The Conjuror, and Craig Baldwin‘s live magic trick! As to the broader cultural phenomenon of the circus in the US, well, we DO have the very best material in the form of a 1949 16mm Technicolor, Circus Train. PLUS: vérité footage of the marvelous Bicentennial circus, also in luscious color. AND an excerpt from the recent miracle acquisition, Soviet Circus (if you can believe that!). *$8.88