For 31 years now, the OC season is consummated with an energized evening of radical expression and form, with many of the makers in person. Spotlit is Brigid McCaffrey’s Bad Mama,Who Cares, a magisterial meditation on a SoCal desert outsider. ALSO showcased are Mission muse Linda Scobie’s BAD TERMZ (16mm) and Winnipeg warrrior Aaron Zeghers’ Everything Turns. PLUS premieres from Haverford allies Jeremy & Brendan Smyth (News from the Sun), Michael Betancourt (Beware of Boredom), and Kristin Cato (her live-canted/counted Three, Four, Five). ALSO Nazare Soares’ Trapped Between Frames, Kevin Gourvellec’s Lanquidity, Peter Lichter’s Non-Places, Mike Stolz’ With Pluses and Minuses, and new pieces from Bryan Boyce, Michael Trigilio, Jaco Van Der Merwe, and Andrew Norman Wilson! Free pencils.
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TRACE ELEMENTS: A program of seven films from India, Mexico, Portugal, Germany and the US
Guest programmed by David Dinnell and Adrianne Finelli
Featuring work by: Colectivo los ingrávidos (Mexico), Jem Cohen (USA), Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel (India), Elizabeth Lo & R.J. Lozada (USA), Clemens von Wedemeyer (Germany), Susanna Wallin (Sweden) and Tinne Zenner (Denmark), all Bay Area premieres.
Mothers in prison are visited by their longing children. The atrocity of war is enough to kill horses. In the middle of a stunning landscape lies a factory. The desert of humanity leaves scars on its motherland. An artist’s suffering can heal the wounds of others. Sometimes it takes a storm for people to huddle together. After death, space is reorganized and transformed.
Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia’s An Old Dog’s Diary (2015, 11 min) assembles a portrait of Indian avant-garde painter Francis Newton Souza, revealing the cultural conditions for his work and its eventual institutionalization. Coyolxauhqui (2016, 10 min) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, recasts the mythical destruction of the Aztec goddess in a searing evocation of femicide in the Mexican countryside. Clemens von Wedemeyer, in his essay film The Horses of a Cavalry Captain (2015, 10 min), draws upon amateur films shot during World War II by his grandfather, a Wermacht captain, in a sharp meditation on the horrors of war, subjugation, displacement and the parallels between horse breeding and Nazi ideology. Tinne Zenner’s Arrábida (2017, 14 min) depicts how time is embedded in matter through a study of a massive cement factory situated in the constructed landscape of a Portugese national park. Mother’s Day (2016, 8 min) by Elizabeth Lo and R.J. Lozada observes children on an annual bus trip to visit their mothers in prison. Susanna Wallin’s Two Clothespins in an Envelope (2015, 14 min) portrays a pair of brothers as they clear out their deceased mother’s house. Jem Cohen’s Helianthus Corner Blues (2013, 3 min) is a fleeting portrait of people taking shelter during a summer downpour in New York City.
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Mary Lattimore & Mellow Diamond
Janel Leppin is a cellist and composer who weaves diverse musical styles within her work. Through the tasteful application of electronics and extended technique, she effectively removes her instrument from its conventions of style. Her range is broad; including Japanese, Indian and Persian classical music, jazz, free improvisation, pop influences, the avant-garde and contemporary classical musical elements such as musique concrete and minimalism. Her love of Abdul Wadud and David Darling and SUNN (((O lend aggressive yet relaxing influences within her work. She has toured internationally for many years with various artists such as gothic Americana star Marissa Nadler, Kyp Malone of T.V. on the Radio and in her duo as Janel and Anthony as well as with her own work for her moniker, Mellow Diamond. She has added to recordings for many labels including Sub Pop, Touch, Editions Mego, Ideologic Organ, Cuneiform Records and Tzadik.
Mary Lattimore is a harpist living in Philadelphia. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects…. Her solo debut, “The Withdrawing Room”, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings.
Her most recent album, At The Dam, was released in March 2016 on Ghostly International.