LERNER/HARRIS’ DOC ON PURIFOY’s DESERT ART-PARK
Here’s the premiere of prolific documentarian Jesse Lerner‘s marvelous exploration of Noah Purifoy‘s legendary sculpture-park in the desert around Joshua Tree. Jesse flies up from his Pitzer College duties to introduce this feature work, The Fragmentations Only Mean…,made with Sara Harris, that celebrates the storied career of this African-American assemblage artist from Watts, who retired from the California Arts Council in 1986, to spend the last 18 years of his life creating over 100 uncanny junk-sculptures in the high desert. Opening is a handful of shorts and performances about the SoCal landscape: Mission visionaries Bivoulab, with their immersive Virtual Reality piece Re-Turn to Zabrinski, Kelly Sears‘ Maximum Umbra, Laura Gabbert‘s Monument/Friendship Park, on the border wall, and Yash Pathak‘s live musical recitation to the Coast Daylight, the most beautiful train-trip in the US (SF to LA
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Other Cinema: PYSCHO-GEO2; SoCAL
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Home Movie Day
Join Movette for Home Movie Day at ATA
Movette will be closed Saturday, 10/15/2022 to participate in Home Movie Day at Artists’ Television Access: 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
- 1:00pm to 2:30pm: Bring your films for projection
- 2:00pm to 4:00pm: Home Movie Screening including:
- 8mm Kodachrome circa 1962: Victory Plaza Apartments with Live Musical Accompaniment by Matt Robidoux!
- 9.5mm Film Projection!!! Grand Tour youth bicycle club home movie from 1930s England
Sick of the News? Dive back into the 20th Century at Home Movie Day!
Home Movie Day (established 2002) is a world-wide celebration of amateur films and filmmaking where you are invited to share films from your family with your community.
Bring your own 16mm, Regular-8mm, and Super 8mm films between 1:00 and 2:30 p.m. to be included in the program. All films will be inspected and prepped for safe projection before being loaded onto our well maintained projectors, so if you would like to see your films up on the big screen bring them early. If you aren’t able to get to ATA early on Saturday 10/15, but want to see your film at the screening, you can make an appointment to drop off one or two reels at Movette from 09/25/2022 through 10/14/2022, but they must be picked up at ATA on 10/15/2022 by 4pm.
Additional Reading
Here are some titles that we love to turn to at Movette.
- “Home Movies: A History of the American Industry, 1897-1979” by Alan D. Kattelle
- “Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film” by Patricia R. Zimmermann
- “Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in History and Memory” by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmerann
- “Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Movie-Making 1923-1960” by Charles Tepperman
- “amateur filmmaking: the home movie, the archive, the web” edited by Laura Rascaroli and Gwenda Young with Barry Monahan
- “ACL Movie Book: A Guide to Making Better Movies” – Amateur Cinema League
Links
Here are some useful web resources for home movie interests.
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Other Cinema: PSYCHO-GEO 1; SAN FRANCISKINO!
JOHN LAW + SOAPBOX DERBY + PEOPLE’s PARK +
The Bay Area‘s radical curiosity about both its natural and built environments is celebrated in this rollicking program of brave inquires and discovery! Heading the bill is Cacophony conspirator John Law‘s The Known Unknown, finally revealing some secrets of urban exploration in the Bay Area and beyond.–fascinating details on his many forays into the City’s off-limits areas. John‘s 45-min show n’ tell covers not only the sewers but bridge expeditions as well, with lots of forbidden footage from impossible angles. Supporting his oral history are reports on the Wharf, Playland, People’s Park (via Anthony Buchanan), and even last spring’s already-legendary MOMA Soapbox Derby (Gregory Gavin and Jake Scott). PLUS: Ellie Vanderlip‘s faux report on the disappearance of public water fountains, Jeremy Rourke‘s What Is ATA?, Steve McQueen‘s Bullitt promo (paired with Simon Cox‘ Sideshow), 16mm of the Niners in the ‘82 Superbowl, and free postcards of course. *$11