MARK BOSWELL’s LOST AND FOUND BUREAU + JOHN DAVIS’ LISTEN! SUN AND STARS + ALEX MILLER’s INCUBATE +
Our second Archive Fever set serves as a ‘release’ of ultra-rare photo-chemical silver prints (here screened on film and video) from those legendary Soviet movie labs! Spotlit are two prodigal makers who in fact traveled to Tajikistan (!) to both restore and re-use the redoubtable 16mm archives that were left in limbo after the withdrawal of Soviet agency. These masters of re-mediation each returned with a satchel of odd educational propaganda items marginalized in the New Order, and we’ll enjoy the aesthetic rewards of these Cold War artifacts tonight! Mark Boswell world-premieres Lost and Found Bureau of Tajikistan, and John Davis marries mod-synth tracks to Listen! and Stories of the Solar System. Supporting is a truck-load of similarly exotic kino curiosities, both in archival and remixed versions: Thanks to Keith Sanborn, the West Coast debut of Esfir Shub‘s old-school Stalin ode With Heart Felt Sincerity (exc.), Alexander Miller‘s fest-fave Incubate, Stefan Rusu‘s wry JERES, and the graphic industrial-orgy that is the 1939 Glimpses of Soviet Science. A final title, D.I. Yashin Revival of Organisms is placed last on the bill for those who prefer the Life Sciences to be demonstrated in less mechanistic ways. Vodka shots and Moscow on 16mm! $12
