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  • Frenkel Defects

    TerminusA short program of 16mm film works from the Process Reversal Collective and other artist-run film groups including L’Abominable (Paris, France), The Double Negative Collective (Montreal, PQ), Cherry Kino (Leeds, UK) and The Handmade Film Institute (Boulder, CO). Filmmakers including Sarah Biagini, Andrew Busti, Taylor Dunne, Nicolas Rey, Kevin Rice, Robert Schaller, Martha Jurksaitis & Philippe Leonard.
    Program:

    Sucia – Robert Schaller (The Handmade Film Institute)

    Salt – Martha Jurkastis (Cherry Kino)

    I Swim Now – Sarah Biagini (Process Reversal)

    Terminus for You – Nicolas Rey (L’Abominable)

    At Hand – Andrew Busti (Process Reversal)

    Perceptual Subjectivity – Philippe Leonard (Double Negative Collective)

    Cornmother – Taylor Dunne (Process Reversal) 

    Peach – Martha Jurkastis (Cherry Kino)

    Sanctuary – Kevin Rice (Process Reversal)

  • THE BEAST IN HEAT- SPECIAL SCREENING

    The Beast In Heat is a horrifying melodrama of supernatural realism, set in modern-day San Francisco. The latest feature-length from local filmmaker, Anthony A. Russell documents the frustrations of a recently graduated fashion student as she struggles to adjust to a new city and fails to reconcile the disparity between herself and her new housemates. While delirium festers amidst her loneliness, she gradually becomes susceptible to the seductions of San Francisco’s most ruthless night stalker: a vorarephilic werewolf struggling with erectile dysfunction. As pent-up sexual rage swells, gruesome fetishes and sadistic ploys keep the beast at bay- but only until the next full moon!
    This special sneak preview will be accompanied by a short film from underground filmmaker, Mike Kuchar.

  • Casablanca Mon Amour

    Casablanca Mon Amour

    Shattuck Cinemas (Berkeley)
    Oct. 26, 2013 5:00 pm

    John Slattery / Narrative / Morocco, USA / 2012 / 77 mins / French with English subtitles

     

    Description

    Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines and occupy imaginations. Using movies as a road map between yesterday’s Hollywood and today’s Morocco, Casablanca Mon Amour offers a Moroccan perspective on the long and entwined relationship between Hollywood and The Arab/Muslim World. Casablanca Mon Amour offers more than a dry critique of the impact of media on culture. Instead, the film takes a human and humorous look at the effects Hollywood films have on people’s imaginations and affords Moroccan’s (our movie set ‘extras’) an opportunity to talk back—which they do in intelligent, witty and wildly ingenious ways. Casablanca Mon Amour uses the process of movie making as a way of turning the Great American Story on its head – and offering Hollywood and America a story about itself.

    Director’s Bio

    imagesProducer/director John Slattery began work in television as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco. While studying directing and cinematography at UCLA he received the Kenneth Macgowan Award, the Joseph Drown Award and the Edgar Brokaw Scholarship. He has collaborated with several producers, DP’s and organizations on short and feature films and TV shows. In 2004, Slattery founded Zween Works – a multidisciplinary film and video production house.

     

    Credits

    Cinematographer: Fara Akrami
    Producer/Screenwriter: John Slattery
    Editor: Michael Nouryeh
    Music: Malhun of Meknes