Its that time again! Periwinkle Cinema presents our 7th annual June Spectacular! Come join us Wednesday June 21st to celebrate the first night of summer. A fun filled night of shorts, music videos and more from local filmmakers and our national and international community. As always along with our show we have free popcorn, door prizes and much queerness to kick the start off of pride week.
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Periwinkle Cinema: 7th annual June Spectacular!
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Head Games
Live from NYC, A/V artist Eric Barry Drasin will present “Head Games” an interactive performance using a head-mounted camera and wireless controllers.Headgames:
Headgames is a Diggers performance involving the negotiation of a relationship between the body, a head-mounted camera and projected screen. Using a series of specific choreographic arrangements, the performer initiates different states of balance in the signal.
The image is processed through a custom software system which is controlled by two handheld wireless sensors. The image is then sonified, enabling the body to connect to the mediated image and initiate a dialogue.
Based on (artist) Paul Ryan’s technique of “threeing” the Headgames score represents different relational positions that one can take when mediating conflict. The form of these positions resembles a circuit, or a system of interrelated processes. Each position allows the participant to relate to the content of a message in nested arrangements of observation that allows for a behavioral feedback circuit to occur.
Through this feedback circuit, the signal is extended into the environment through light and sound. It becomes something that can be given form and sculpted through movement. Through this embodied choreography of signal, the internal psychic space of the performer becomes immediately externalized and the process of finding balance can be enhanced and made observable.
Eric Barry Drasin is a Visual Artist, Musician and Curator working at the intersection of Digital Media, Installation and Real-time Synesthetic Audio-visual Performance. He investigates ideas of Network, Community and Score through interactive performance environments, public interventions, impossible gestures, games, and abject failure.Influenced by Improvised Music, Early Electronic Art, Esoteric Philosophies, Alternative Psychotherapeutic Modalities, Fluxus, and Radical Community Organizing, Eric creates systems and environments where digital media and performance embody notions of utopian collectivity and where space is operated upon as a compositional score.
WithA/V artists:Andy PulsMalic AmaliaKit YoungSound Artists:Fistortion: (raging free metal)Brian Pedersen-saxJay Korber-drumsGreg Gorlen-electronicsPaul Costuros-cello -
GAZE: Frame by Haunted Frame – a Screening of Animated Experiments
From microscopic intimacy to historical urgency, GAZE is excited to present our third “all-animation” screening. Join us for an evening of screenings that include meditations on bio-mechanical abstraction, spatial memory, the mythopoeic, as well as personal and political explorations in movement.Featuring:
1) REGAL by Karissa Hahn (2:15 minutes, 2015) Torrented/pirated (digital) images as found footage, printed from a household printer onto 16mm clear film. Such as the loading dial, REGAL aims to circulate and find its way back to the screen. Take this proxy and see that the ghost has become tangible. Informed largely by: Hito Steyerl’s “In Defense of the Poor Image”
2) THE OLD MAN AND THE PEARS by Jing Sun (5:01 minutes, 2016)
A weak and hungry old man begs for a pear from a fruit peddler, but the peddler refuses and rejects him. A little boy bravely steps forward and spends his last coin to buy a pear for the old man. Finally, a magical form of justice emerges from the ground.
3) KATAGAMI by Michael Lyons (3:15 minutes, 2016)
Stop-motion animation made by photographing and rephotographing antique kimono resist-dyeing stencils in positive and negative. Spatial shifts and variations in the repeating pattern elements generate apparent motion. Photographed on Super 8 and developed in Matchanal (Uji powdered green tea, Vitamin C, Washing Soda).
4) CHALK TRACE by Esther Johnson (2:39 minutes, 2013)
As a child in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his home in Chadderton. Chalk Trace commemorates and reanimates his graffiti journey through a now much-changed network of streets. The film was photographed in the original streets of Oldham as they stand today – over 60 years after Ron’s original graffiti.
5) WE R THE MOLD by Dawn George (7:00 minutes, 2016)
Up close, mold is an intricate mass of branching filaments and delicate fruiting bodies creating a colourful connected web. When viewed from a distance, mold loses its complexities and a more destructive nature is realized… much like the world we live in.
6) IN HER OWN PATTERN by Irina Haugane (1:01 minutes, 2015)
The video is a study of a fly, who flies in an open space, yet stays in a very small area. The pattern of the fly is animated with a semi-transparent line, which varies in thickness according to the speed of its movements. This video-work contemplates relative time by drawing a paralell between the life of a fly and man.
7) LATEX by Pamela Guest (1:02 minutes, 2016)
A short non narrative film that explores clear, material, plastic and it’s relation to a living human being.
8) INTANGIBLE BODY by Emelie Mahdavian (2:45 minutes, 2016)
This experimental film explores censorship of Iranian women’s dance performance and what constitutes a woman’s ”body” in the digital age. Given that women “dancing” in public is illegal in Iran today — and even animated movies are censored — we set out to play with the edge of what constitutes a body, a dance, or an Iranian woman.
9) “MORE DANGEROUS THAN A THOUSAND RIOTERS” by Kelly Gallagher (6:19 minutes, 2016)
An experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.
10) UNIVERSAL MECHANISM by Caroline Blais (1:00 minutes, 2016)
As the Earth rotates slowly, various forces of nature, mechanical movements, and human trajectories occur simultaneously.
11) SHE COLLAGE by Kate Lain (9:55 minutes, 2015)
She Collage is part response to the work of Southern California–based collage artist Terry Braunstein, part reflection on the practice of art-making. Like Braunstein’s art, the film is itself a collage—in this case, frame-by-frame hand-manipulated images of Braunstein, paper cutout stopmotion animation, archival footage, and an assemblage of sounds.
12) COPPER PERFORATION LOOP TRIPTYCH by Ruth Hayes (3:21 minutes, 2016)
Iterations of Copper Perforation Loop, an original length of direct animation created by scraping emulsion off of 16mm black leader against a 5” diameter circular disc of perforated copper. The Triptych includes the original loop, and hand processed contact prints, one of which was printed onto Liquid Light coated clear leader.
13) FROM THE DIZZINESS OF FREEDOM: THE PHILOSOPHY VESSEL by Melissa Ferrari (7:16 minutes, 2016)
Across cultures, the labyrinth and the maze have played significant roles in the history, spirituality, mythology and entertainment of human society. By tracing their contexts and concepts across cultures, we can view mazes and labyrinths as philosophical architecture that embodies the history of human meaning and metaphysical thought. This film is a visualization of the strategies that people incorporate to find meaning in their lives inspired by the mythology and functions of mazes and labyrinths throughout history.
14) RESUSCITATION by Hannah Raye White (5:24 minutes, 2016)
The act of becoming is never as expected, but it is fundamental to the experience of being.
15) BOTANICOLLAGE ON FRISCO BAY by Caryn Cline (3:46 minutes, 2017)
GAZE is a film series based out of Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco that prioritizes work by Women, Trans, Genderqueer, and Non-binary artists. GAZE promotes a feminist artistic expression and creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium. We are one of the many bay-area platforms that showcases independent cinema.We look for original work that might be considered surreal, experimental, political, abstract, narrative, personal, documentary, or an other genre