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Documentary feature · 2010-2014

VOICE (dir. IJ. Biermann) follows the Norwegian musician/ composer/ sound artist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje through the seasons all over Europe, presenting the variety and universalism of her work. Performances, sound recordings, and intimate personal scenes are composed into a complex portrait of an uncompromising artist challenged between conflicting poles of family and vocation. On several levels, a film about an individual’s voice whose vigor and enthusiasm are increasingly passed on to the viewer.

with Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Frode Haltli, Joëlle Léandre, Kathy Hinde, Stephen O’Malley, Arve Henriksen, Garth Knox, SPUNK, Kristin Andersen, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Else Olsen Storesund, Håvard Skaset, Guro Skumsnes Moe, members of Trondheim Sinfonietta,Sylvie Courvoisier, Ikue Mori, Alessandro Olla, Pekka Kuusisto, Dima Slobodeniouk, Avanti! and others

Thee pre-eminent raconteur on all things Trickster, John Law (AKA Jack Napier) instigates a laff-riot of public put-ons and sub-cult capers that carries on the momentum from the recent Joey Skaggs biopic. In fact, a couple of classic Skaggs gags are in John’s video mix tonight, but not before the spoofing scene is set with nods to Duchamp/Dada, the Situationists, the Diggers, the Yippies, Alan Abel, et al. In SF, pranksters were certainly set free with the infamous Suicide Club and its more broad-based offspring, the Cacophony Society—in fact the subject of John’s book and the inspiration for “Fight Club”! ALSO: John’s own gang the Billboard Liberation Front, Agent Apple the pie-throwing Avenger, the Guerrilla Girls, Gay Shame, SubGenius, Militant Librarians, Banksy, Barbie Liberation Organization, Yes Men, and culture-jammers galore…even streakers! PLUS our bank-robbing film-maker Joe Gibbons!!

reality hacking

Curated by Mike Kuchar (in person)

George Kuchar was perhaps the most prolific and influential underground filmmaker . With his twin brother, Mike — and later, alone — Kuchar made some of the earliest films in the 1960s explosion of experimental movies.

The exuberant auteur of the no-budget film had made nearly 220 movies and videos since the 1950s, and his reach spilled over into the mainstream. The Kuchars influenced many filmmakers and taught for 30 years in San Francisco Art Institute.

Program:

1. Cattle Mutations

2. Eclipse of the Sun Virgin

3. Forever and Always

4. Yolanda